{"id": "enwiki-00090795-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Delaware State Hornets football team\nThe 1970 Delaware State Hornets football team represented Delaware State College\u2014now known as Delaware State University\u2014as a member of the Northern Division of the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) in the 1970 NCAA College Division football season. Led by fourth-year head coach Arnold Jeter, the Hornets compiled an overall record of 6\u20132 and a mark of 4\u20131 in conference play, placing third in the CIAA's Northern Division. This was Delaware State\u2019s final season competing in the CIAA, as they moved to the newly-formed Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) in 1971. Following the season, running back Steve Davis was selected with the 60th pick in the 1971 NFL Draft, becoming the first Hornet to be selected in an NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 787]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090796-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Democratic Republic of the Congo parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections were held in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on 15 November 1970. They were the first parliamentary elections held since Joseph Mobutu seized power in a coup five years earlier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090796-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Democratic Republic of the Congo parliamentary election\nVoters were presented with a single list from President Mobutu's party, the Popular Movement of the Revolution (MPR). They only had the choice of voting \"yes\" or \"no\" to the list of 420 candidates for the National Assembly, who had been chosen from 2,500 applicants at the MPR's congress on 19 September 1970. Although a constitution enacted earlier that year allowed for the existence of a second party, the MPR was the only party allowed to put up candidates. Presidential elections had been held earlier in the month under similar conditions, with voters only having the option of voting \"yes\" or \"no\" to Mobutu's candidacy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 688]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090796-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Democratic Republic of the Congo parliamentary election\nOver 99% of those casting valid votes approved the MPR list. However, the MPR list received considerably less support than Mobutu had received in the presidential election. Whilst only 157 people voted to reject Mobutu's candidacy out of over 10.1 million votes cast, 72,300 people rejected the MPR list, while another 91,000 cast blank or spoiled ballots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090796-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Democratic Republic of the Congo parliamentary election\nA month after the elections, the MPR was formally declared the only party legally permitted to function in the country. with Law 70-001 of 23 December 1970 amending the text of article 4 of the constitution to state that \"The Popular Movement of the Revolution is the sole political party of the Republic\" (Le Mouvement populaire de la r\u00e9volution est le seul parti politique de la R\u00e9publique.). However, the country had effectively been a single-party state since the MPR's formation in 1967. The country was renamed Zaire a year later, and the MPR remained the only legal party until 1990.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 651]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090797-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Democratic Republic of the Congo presidential election\nPresidential elections were held in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on 1 November 1970. The only candidate was Joseph Mobutu, who had taken power in a military coup five years earlier. The elections took the format of a \"yes\" or \"no\" vote for Mobutu's candidacy. According to official figures, Mobutu was confirmed in office with near-unanimous support, with only 157 \"no\" votes out of over 10.1 million total votes cast. Mobutu also received around 30,000 more \"yes\" votes than the number of registered voters, even though voting was not compulsory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090797-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Democratic Republic of the Congo presidential election, Background\nFollowing the promulgation of a new constitution after a referendum in 1964, general elections were held in the newly renamed Democratic Republic of the Congo in March and April in 1965. The elections were won by the Congolese National Convention, led by former secessionist leader Moise Tshombe, which took 122 of the 177 seats. However, President Joseph Kasa-Vubu later dismissed Tshombe and appointed \u00c9variste Kimba Prime Minister instead. In a vote in parliament on 14 November, Kimba failed to have his government approved. However, Kasa-Vubu reappointed him as Prime Minister the following day. Ten days later, army commander Mobutu led a military coup and installed himself as President, banning all political activity for at least five years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 71], "content_span": [72, 822]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090797-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Democratic Republic of the Congo presidential election, Background\nOn 20 May 1967 Mobutu formed the Popular Movement of the Revolution as his political vehicle. In June 1967 a new constitution was drawn up, establishing a unitary state with a strong executive presidential system and unicameral parliament. It also limited the number of political parties to two, and enfranchised women. It was approved by a referendum in which 97.8% of voters voted for it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 71], "content_span": [72, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090797-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Democratic Republic of the Congo presidential election, Background\nFollowing a census in early 1970, presidential elections were organised for 1 November. The date was set so that Mobutu would have passed his fortieth birthday by the time the elections occurred, as the constitution stated that candidates must be at least forty years old.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 71], "content_span": [72, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090797-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Democratic Republic of the Congo presidential election, Results\nAlthough the constitution allowed for the existence of a second party, the MPR was the only party allowed to nominate candidates. As a result, Mobutu ran unopposed, with the election taking the form of a referendum on whether to confirm him in office. Voting was not secret; voters had the choice of casting a green ballot paper for a \"yes\" vote, or a red paper for a \"no\" vote. There was considerable public pressure to endorse Mobutu's candidacy; a \"yes\" vote was deemed a vote for hope, while a \"no\" vote was deemed a vote for chaos, anarchy and foreign ideologies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 68], "content_span": [69, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090797-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Democratic Republic of the Congo presidential election, Results\nThe published results showed only 157 'no' votes, with 10,131,669 voting in favour. The total number of votes (10,131,826) was almost 30,500 more than the number of registered voters (10,101,330).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 68], "content_span": [69, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090797-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 Democratic Republic of the Congo presidential election, Aftermath\nParliamentary elections were held on 15 November in a similar fashion; the MPR was the only party allowed to nominate candidates, and official results showed the MPR list was approved by over 99% of the voters. Soon afterwards, the MPR was formally declared to be the sole legal party, though the country had effectively been a one-party state since the MPR's formation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 70], "content_span": [71, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090797-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 Democratic Republic of the Congo presidential election, Aftermath\nThe country was renamed Zaire the following year, and Mobutu changed his name to Mobutu Sese Seko in 1972. He continued to rule the country as president until being overthrown in 1997.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 70], "content_span": [71, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090798-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Denver Broncos season\nThe 1970 Denver Broncos season was the team's 11th season in professional football and first in the National Football League (NFL) after the merger. Led by fourth-year head coach and general manager Lou Saban, the Broncos posted a record of five wins, eight losses, and one tie, the same as the previous season, and were last in the new four-team AFC West division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090798-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Denver Broncos season\nDenver won four of its first five games, but then had only one win and one tie in the final nine games. Running back Floyd Little became the first player to lead his conference in rushing for a last place team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090798-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Standings\nNote: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 53], "content_span": [54, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090799-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Detroit Lions season\nThe 1970 Detroit Lions season was the 41st season in franchise history. With a record of 10\u20134, the Lions finished in second place in the NFC Central and qualified for the playoffs for the first time since their championship season in 1957 (the Lions played in three post-season, runner-up bowl games in 1960, 1961, and 1962 and won all three). The Lions fell 5\u20130 to the Dallas Cowboys in the lowest scoring game in NFL playoff history. One unusual loss during the regular season was to the New Orleans Saints on Week 8. The Lions had a 17\u201316 lead with only 2 seconds left, but Saints kicker Tom Dempsey booted a then-record 63-yard field goal as time expired to give the Saints a 19\u201317 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 716]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090799-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Detroit Lions season, Regular season, Standings\nNote: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 52], "content_span": [53, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090800-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Detroit Tigers season\nThe 1970 Detroit Tigers season was a season in American baseball. The team finished fourth in the American League East with a record of 79\u201383, 29 games behind the Baltimore Orioles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090800-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 71], "content_span": [72, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090800-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090800-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 69], "content_span": [70, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090800-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 66], "content_span": [67, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090800-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 67], "content_span": [68, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090801-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Dissolution Honours\nThe 1970 Dissolution Honours List was issued on 2 June 1970 to mark the dissolution of the United Kingdom parliament prior to the 1970 general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090801-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Dissolution Honours\nThe recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090802-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Dominican Republic Census\nThe Fifth National Census of Population of the Dominican Republic was taken in 9-10 January 1970, during the presidency of Joaqu\u00edn Balaguer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090802-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Dominican Republic Census\nThis census collected information aspects of sex, occupation, age, fertility, religion, marital status, nationality, literacy, ability to vote and housing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090802-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Dominican Republic Census\nUnlike all previous censuses, no information regarding race was collected. This census was made over two days instead of one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090803-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Dominican Republic general election\nGeneral elections were held in the Dominican Republic on 16 May 1970. The main opposition party, the Dominican Revolutionary Party, did not contest the election, leaving only the ruling Reformist Party and some right-wing and centre-right parties. Incumbent Joaqu\u00edn Balaguer won the presidential election, whilst his Reformist Party won the Congressional elections. Voter turnout was 63.5%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090804-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Dominican general election\nGeneral elections were held in Dominica on 26 October 1970. Prior to the elections, the ruling Dominica Labour Party split, with a faction led by Prime Minister Edward Oliver LeBlanc contesting the elections as the 'LeBlanc Labour Party' and the other faction contesting under the DLP name and led by N.A.N. Ducreay. The LeBlanc faction won 8 of the 11 seats. Voter turnout was 81.6%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090805-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Drexel Dragons football team\nThe 1970 Drexel Dragons football team represented the Drexel University as an independent during the 1970 NCAA College Division football season. Sterling Brown was the team's head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090806-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Duke Blue Devils football team\nThe 1970 Duke Blue Devils football team represented Duke University during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090807-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Dutch Grand Prix\nThe 1970 Dutch Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Zandvoort on June 21, 1970. It was race 5 of 13 in both the 1970 World Championship of Drivers and the 1970 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers. This race was held the same day as the 1970 FIFA World Cup Final in Mexico City, Mexico, but that event took place later in the day from this Grand Prix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090807-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Dutch Grand Prix\nThe race was won by Lotus-Ford driver Jochen Rindt in his new monocoque-chassis Type 72, a radical wedge shape first used on the 1968 Indianapolis Lotus, with inboard braking and torsion bar suspension, it represented a major technical advance, giving the driver superior ride and vision in a better ventilated seat. Rindt had only raced the car twice before (but in a different spec) and had preferred his old Lotus 49 in the preceding Monaco and Belgian rounds of the World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090807-0001-0001", "contents": "1970 Dutch Grand Prix\nThree years earlier the 72's predecessor; DFV-debutant Type 49 won in 1967 won first time out at exactly the same track with Jim Clark driving. Rindt racing the 72 without the complex anti-squat and anti-dive features, which the Austrian had never believed in, effortlessly dominated the practice and race putting little pressure on the car and not even having to use the maximum road width or line. The race also saw the debut of Clay Regazzoni with Ferrari, who finished fourth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090807-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Dutch Grand Prix, Report\nIckx led Rindt off the line. On lap 2, Rindt running on full tanks, 50-55 gallons of petrol on board, put in his fastest lap of the race and outbraked Ickx into the Tarzan hairpin, on the inside in a classic passing manoeuvre, at the start of lap 3. Chapman had persisted with anti-squat and dive on John Miles' 72 which was fifth on the first lap and proved difficult to pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090807-0002-0001", "contents": "1970 Dutch Grand Prix, Report\nThis assisted Team Lotus as it was much easier for Rindt to thread past the four car duel for fifth on lap 29-32 than for Ickx or Jackie Stewart who spent 7 laps getting past Brabham, Beltoise, Surtees and Miles Miles in the second 72 was finally being passed by Beltoise on lap 49, when a large wave over the coast dunes saw Miles, lose adhesion and Surtees did finally, claim the 6th place and the final pont by passing, John Miles 72, which was brakeless by then, 4 laps from the flag.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090807-0002-0002", "contents": "1970 Dutch Grand Prix, Report\nHowever the race was marred by the violent fatal accident of British driver Piers Courage driving the Frank Williams-entered De Tomaso-Ford on lap 22, at Tunnel Oost, when his car's suspension was damaged after hitting a curb, and the car went straight up a grass embankment. It then somersaulted and exploded, and Courage had died instantly after being hit on the head by one of the car's front wheels. The flames were so intense, that trees surrounding the accident site, were lit up as a result. A similar accident occurred at the 1973 race, which claimed the life of Roger Williamson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 618]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090808-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Dutch Open (tennis)\nThe 1970 Dutch Open was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament staged in Hilversum, Netherlands. The tournament was played on outdoor clay courts and was held from 3 August until 9 August 1970. It was the 14th edition of the tournament. Tom Okker won the men's singles title and earned $3,000 first-prize money while Margaret Court won the women's singles event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090808-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Dutch Open (tennis), Finals, Men's Doubles\nBill Bowrey / Owen Davidson defeated John Alexander / Phil Dent 6\u20133, 6\u20134, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 47], "content_span": [48, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090808-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Dutch Open (tennis), Finals, Women's Doubles\nKaren Krantzcke / Kerry Melville defeated Margaret Court / Helga Niessen 3\u20136, 9\u20137, 7\u20135", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 49], "content_span": [50, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090808-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Dutch Open (tennis), Finals, Mixed Doubles\nWinnie Shaw / Owen Davidson defeated Christina Sandberg / Bob Maud 4\u20136, 6\u20133, 7\u20135", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 47], "content_span": [48, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090809-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Dwars door Belgi\u00eb\nThe 1970 Dwars door Belgi\u00eb was the 26th edition of the Dwars door Vlaanderen cycle race and was held on 22 March 1970. The race started and finished in Waregem. The race was won by Daniel Van Ryckeghem.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090810-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 E3 Prijs Vlaanderen\nThe 1970 E3 Harelbeke was the 13th edition of the E3 Harelbeke cycle race and was held on 21 March 1970. The race started and finished in Harelbeke. The race was won by Daniel Van Ryckeghem of the Dr. Mann team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090811-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament\nThe 1970 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 9th tournament in league history. It was played between March 10 and March 14, 1970. Quarterfinal games were played at home team campus sites, while the 'final four' games were played at the Boston Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. By reaching the championship game both, Cornell and Clarkson received invitations to participate in the 1970 NCAA University Division Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090811-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format\nThe tournament featured three rounds of play, all of which were single-elimination. The top eight teams, based on conference rankings, qualified to participate in the tournament. In the quarterfinals the first seed and eighth seed, the second seed and seventh seed, the third seed and sixth seed and the fourth seed and fifth seed played against one another. In the semifinals, the highest seed plays the lowest remaining seed while the two remaining teams play with the winners advancing to the championship game and the losers advancing to the third place game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090811-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Conference Standings\nNote: GP = Games Played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; Pct. = Winning Percentage; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 66], "content_span": [67, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090812-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 East Carolina Pirates football team\nThe 1970 East Carolina Pirates football team was an American football team that represented East Carolina University as a member of the Southern Conference during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. In their first season under head coach Mike McGee, the team compiled a 3\u20138 record. The team's game against the Marshall Thundering Herd preceded the crash of Southern Airways Flight 932, in which 37 members of the Thundering Herd football team were killed that night.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090813-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Eastern Illinois Panthers football team\nThe 1970 Eastern Illinois Panthers football team represented Eastern Illinois University as an independent during the 1970 NCAA College Division football season. The Panthers played their home games at O'Brien Stadium in Charleston, Illinois. Led by sixth-year head coach Clyde Biggers, they compiled a 2\u20138 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090814-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Eastern Michigan Hurons football team\nThe 1970 Eastern Michigan Hurons football team represented Eastern Michigan University as an independent during the 1970 NCAA College Division football season. In their fourth season under head coach Dan Boisture, the Hurons compiled a 7\u20132\u20131 record and outscored their opponents, 237 to 109. On November 14, 1970, the Hurons won the final game of their season, 60\u20130, over Ball State, as running back Larry Ratcliff scored four touchdowns and rushed for 212 yards in his final college game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090815-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Eastern Suburbs season\nThe 1970 Eastern Suburbs season was the 63rd in the club's history. They competed in the NSWRFL's 1970 premiership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090815-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Eastern Suburbs season, Details\nIan Baker, John Ballesty, Cliff Boyd, John Brass, Alan Cardy, John Dykes, Laurie Freier, Graham Gardiner, Kevin Goldspink, Les Hayes, Jim Hall, Mark Harris, Kevin Junee, Johnny Mayes, Allan McKean, Jim Morgan, Peter Moscatt, Bill Mullins, Louis Neumann, John Peard, Jim Porter, Barry Reilley, Ron Saddler", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090816-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Edinburgh Corporation election\nFollowing the election, Edinburgh Corporation was composed of 31 Progressives, 21 Labour councillors, 7 SNP councillors, 6 Conservatives, 2 Liberals, and 2 independents. The SNP saw its vote collapse, failing to win a single ward and losing the only ward it was defending.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090816-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Edinburgh Corporation election\nFollowing the election, the Progressives and Conservative coalition retained controlled of the council with a majority of five seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090817-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Edmonton municipal by-election\nJulia Kiniski, an alderman on the Edmonton City Council, died October 11, 1969. A by-election was held November 27, 1970 to replace her. The electorate also decided three plebiscite questions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090817-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Edmonton municipal by-election\nThe by-election's winner, Julian Kinisky (Kiniski's son), was the last alderman to be elected at-large in Edmonton. The 1971 election introduced a ward system to Edmonton's municipal politics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090817-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Edmonton municipal by-election\nIn addition to choosing a new City Councillor, citizens were asked to vote on three related plebiscites. Following the yes vote on the 1968 Convention and Sports Complex plebiscite, citizens were now being asked to support the specific funding requests for the Omniplex project. With costs of $34,000,000 and an annual operating deficit up to $3,000,000, compared to $23,000,000 and $2,000,000 quoted in the 1968 plebiscite, voters turned down the three related Omniplex requests for funding. The single-site sports and convention concept was eventually served by the distributed Northlands Coliseum (opened 1974), Commonwealth Stadium (1978), and Edmonton Convention Centre (1983).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 718]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090817-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Edmonton municipal by-election, Voter turnout\nThere were 77571 ballots cast out of 238828 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 32.5%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 50], "content_span": [51, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090817-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Edmonton municipal by-election, Results, Plebiscites, Omniplex Construction\nShould Council pass bylaw No. 3624 to borrow by debentures the sum of $26,434,000.00 for the construction of an Omniplex containing a Trade and Convention Centre and Covered Sports Facilities, the sum to include the building, its equipment and furnishings, and the acquisition of the land which the building will be located?", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090817-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Edmonton municipal by-election, Results, Plebiscites, Omniplex Construction\nAttendant costs of the Omniplex project are:1. Construction of parking facilities near the Omniplex up to $3,400,000.002. Annual operating deficit, unknown in amount but approximately $2,000,000.00 to $3,000,000.00 and expected to diminish yearly. 3. $4,366,000.00 that represents a computation of interest costs that could be allocated to \tOmniplex from future road programs that would be accelerated by construction of \tOmniplex.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090817-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 Edmonton municipal by-election, Results, Plebiscites, Omniplex Parking\nTo purchase land North of proposed Omniplex site to be used for parking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 75], "content_span": [76, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090817-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 Edmonton municipal by-election, Results, Plebiscites, Omniplex Pedestrian Passage\nProviding a pedestrian passage from Omniplex Building to a Rapid Transit Station Site.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 86], "content_span": [87, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090818-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Eisenhower Trophy\nThe 1970 Eisenhower Trophy took place 23 to 26 September at the Real Club de la Puerta de Hierro in Madrid, Spain. It was the seventh World Amateur Team Championship for the Eisenhower Trophy. The tournament was a 72-hole stroke play team event with 36 four-man teams. The best three scores for each round counted towards the team total.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090818-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Eisenhower Trophy\nThe United States won the Eisenhower Trophy for the fourth time, finishing 12 strokes ahead of the silver medalists, New Zealand. South Africa took the bronze medal while Australia finished fourth. Victor Regalado from Mexico had the lowest individual score, eight-under-par 280, three strokes better than Dale Hayes from South Africa. Tom Kite was ill on the final day and didn't complete his final round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090818-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Eisenhower Trophy, Individual leaders\nThere was no official recognition for the lowest individual scores.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090819-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Embassy British Indoor Championships\nThe 1970 Embassy British Indoor Championships was a combined men's and women's Grand Prix tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts. It was the 3rd edition of the British Indoor Championships in the Open era. The tournament took place at the Wembley Arena in London in England and ran from 16 November until 21 November 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090819-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Embassy British Indoor Championships\nThe men's singles event and the $7,200 first prize was won by first\u2013seeded Rod Laver while Billie Jean King won the women's singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090819-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Embassy British Indoor Championships, Finals, Men's Doubles\nKen Rosewall / Stan Smith defeated Ilie N\u0103stase / Ion \u021airiac 6\u20134, 6\u20133, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 64], "content_span": [65, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090819-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Embassy British Indoor Championships, Finals, Women's Doubles\nRosie Casals / Billie Jean King defeated Ann Jones / Virginia Wade 6\u20133, 7\u20135", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 66], "content_span": [67, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090820-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Emilia-Romagna regional election\nThe Emilia-Romagna regional election of 1970 took place on 7\u20138 June 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090820-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Emilia-Romagna regional election\nThe Italian Communist Party was by far the largest party and, after the election, Communist Guido Fanti formed a government with the support of the Italian Socialist Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090821-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Emperor's Cup, Overview\nIt was contested by 8 teams, and Yanmar Diesel won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090822-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Emperor's Cup Final\n1970 Emperor's Cup Final was the 50th final of the Emperor's Cup competition. The final was played at National Stadium in Tokyo on January 1, 1971. Yanmar Diesel won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090822-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Emperor's Cup Final, Overview\nYanmar Diesel won their 2nd title, by defeating defending champion Toyo Industries 2\u20131. Yanmar Diesel was featured a squad consisting of Kunishige Kamamoto, Daishiro Yoshimura and Eizo Yuguchi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090823-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Enfield West by-election\nThe Enfield West by-election of 19 November 1970 was held after Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) Iain Macleod died on 20 July of the same year. The seat was retained by the Conservatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090824-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 English Greyhound Derby\nThe 1970 Greyhound Derby took place during June with the final being held on 27 June 1970 at White City Stadium. The winner was John Silver and the winning owner received \u00a39,861. John Silver was owned, bred and reared by Reg Young, who later went on to take out a trainer's licence in his own right. 1981", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090824-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 English Greyhound Derby, Final result, Distances\n1, 5, 1\u00bc, 1\u00be, 2\u00bd (lengths)The distances between the greyhounds are in finishing order and shown in lengths. One length is equal to 0.08 of one second.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090824-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 English Greyhound Derby, Competition Report\nThe 1970 derby attracted 187 entries and the market leaders were Cals Pick the 1969 Greyhound of the Year, Trafalgar Cup winner Sherwood Glen, Moordyke Spot, Valiant Ray the Select Stakes champion and Hack It Lee. In addition trainer Geoff DeMulder had a greyhound called Little County that was subject to significant ante-post wagers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090824-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 English Greyhound Derby, Competition Report\nThe qualifying races were a series of races with no betting to determine which greyhounds would line up as the final 48. On the Monday before the competition got underway 125 hounds took part and Cals Pick, Valiant Ray and Sherwood Glen all failed to progress through. John Silver was the fastest qualifier in 28.94 sec and subsequently became one of the favourites alongside Moordyke Spot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090824-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 English Greyhound Derby, Competition Report\nDuring the first round Moordyke Spot went quickest in 28.74 with John Silver and Little County also winning. The second round pitted Moordyke Spot with John Silver and the latter came out on top in 28.56; Little County remained unbeaten which attracted a \u00a35,000 bet by B.J. Patel to win the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090824-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 English Greyhound Derby, Competition Report\nThe semi-finals arrived and DeMulder's Little County won again going into the final unbeaten whilst Moordyke Sport gained quick revenge over John Silver in the second heat. On the run up to final night Little County was backed once again in London bookmakers shops and the bookies now had \u00a325,000 liabilities against the greyhound.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090824-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 English Greyhound Derby, Competition Report\nThe bookmakers made Little County 7-4 favourite for the final but he missed the break as the lids went up. Recovering well he showed good early pace to get into contention by the second bend and then led by the third bend but John Silver, who was involved in early bunching was always in contention before passing Little County to claim a one length victory. The success enabled Barbara Tompkins to claim responsibility for a Derby winner one year after her involvement with Sand Star. John Silver, a British-bred son of 1966 winner Faithful Hope was bred and owned by Reg Young, who later became a promoter at the Milton Keynes track.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 684]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090825-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 English National Badminton Championships\nThe 1970 English National Badminton Championships were held in Poole from 12\u201313 December, 1969.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090826-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 English cricket season\nThe 1970 English cricket season was the 71st in which the County Championship had been an official competition. There was controversy when a tour by South Africa was forced to be abandoned because of mounting opposition to the apartheid policy perpetuated by the South African government. Five Tests were scheduled but the tour was officially cancelled at the request of Home Secretary James Callaghan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090826-0000-0001", "contents": "1970 English cricket season\nInstead, England played a highly successful series of unofficial Tests against a Rest of the World XI which was captained by Gary Sobers and included some of the best South African players such as Graeme Pollock, Eddie Barlow, Mike Procter and Barry Richards. These matches were promoted as Tests at the time, but were not recognised as such by the International Cricket Conference. Alan Jones played for England only in this series, and had the unfortunate experience of thinking that he had played in Tests only subsequently to discover that he had not. Kent won the County Championship title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090827-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Espirito Santo Trophy\nThe 1970 Espirito Santo Trophy took place 30 September \u2013 3 October at the Negro course at the R.S.H.E. Club de Campo in Madrid, Spain. Several years later, in the late 1970s, the course became home of the Club de Campo Villa de Madrid, while the R.S.H.E Club moved to another location, north of the Madrid city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090827-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Espirito Santo Trophy\nIt was the fourth women's golf World Amateur Team Championship for the Espirito Santo Trophy. The tournament was a 72-hole stroke play team event with 22 three-woman teams. The best two scores for each round counted towards the team total.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090827-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Espirito Santo Trophy\nThe United States team won the Trophy, defending their title from two years ago and winning their third consecutive title, beating France by one stroke. France took the silver medal while South Africa, seven strokes further behind, for the first time on the podium in the championship, took the bronze.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090827-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Espirito Santo Trophy, Teams\n22 teams contested the event. Each team had three players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090827-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Espirito Santo Trophy, Individual leaders\nThere was no official recognition for the lowest individual scores.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090828-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Estonian SSR Football Championship\nThe 1970 Estonian SSR Football Championship was won by Norma.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090829-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 EuroHockey Club Champions Cup\nThe 1970 EuroHockey Club Champions Cup was the second unofficial edition of Europe's premier field hockey competition. It took place in Terrassa as a group stage, which was won again by hosts and defending champions CD Terrassa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090830-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 European Aquatics Championships\nThe 1970 European Aquatics Championships were held in Barcelona, Spain from 5 to 13 September 1970. Titles were contested in swimming, diving and water polo (men). The swimming program was significantly expanded. Both men and women competed in the 200 m freestyle, 100 m breaststroke and 200 individual medley for the first time. Furthermore, in the men's swimming program the 100 m butterfly was introduced and the 100 m backstroke was re-introduced after having been absent for the last two championships. In the women's swimming program, the 800 m freestyle, 200 m backstroke and 200 m butterfly were introduced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 652]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090831-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships\nThe 1st European Athletics Indoor Championships were held in 1970 at Wiener Stadthalle, Vienna, the capital of Austria, between 14\u201315 March 1970. It replaced the European Indoor Games, an indoor athletics competition which had been held since 1966.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090832-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 1500 metres\nThe men's 1500 metres event at the 1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 15 March in Vienna.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090832-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 1500 metres, Results, Heats\nFirst 4 in each heat (Q) qualified directly for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 80], "content_span": [81, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090833-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 3000 metres\nThe men's 3000 metres event at the 1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 14 and 15 March in Vienna.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090833-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 3000 metres, Results, Heats\nFirst 4 in each heat (Q) qualified directly for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 80], "content_span": [81, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090834-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 4 \u00d7 400 metres relay\nThe men's 4 \u00d7 400 metres relay event at the 1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 14 March in Vienna. Each athlete ran two laps of the 200 metres track.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 73], "section_span": [73, 73], "content_span": [74, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090835-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 400 metres\nThe men's 400 metres event at the 1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 15 March in Vienna.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090835-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 400 metres, Results, Heats\nThe winner of each heat (Q) and the next 1 fastest (q) qualified for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 79], "content_span": [80, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090836-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 60 metres\nThe men's 60 metres event at the 1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 14 March in Vienna.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090836-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 60 metres, Results, Heats\nFirst 4 from each heat (Q) qualified directly for the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 78], "content_span": [79, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090836-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 60 metres, Results, Semifinals\nFirst 3 from each heat (Q) qualified directly for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 83], "content_span": [84, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090837-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 60 metres hurdles\nThe men's 60 metres hurdles event at the 1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 15 March in Vienna.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [70, 70], "content_span": [71, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090837-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 60 metres hurdles, Results, Heats\nFirst 4 from each heat (Q) qualified directly for the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 86], "content_span": [87, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090837-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 60 metres hurdles, Results, Semifinals\nFirst 3 from each heat (Q) qualified directly for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 91], "content_span": [92, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090838-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 800 metres\nThe men's 800 metres event at the 1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 14 and 15 March in Vienna.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090838-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 800 metres, Results, Heats\nFirst 3 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 79], "content_span": [80, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090839-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's high jump\nThe men's high jump event at the 1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 15 March in Vienna.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090840-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's long jump\nThe men's long jump event at the 1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 15 March in Vienna.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090841-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's medley relay\nThe men's 400 + 600 + 800 + 1000 metres medley relay event at the 1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 15 March in Vienna. The first athlete ran two laps of the 200-metre track, the second three, the third four and the anchor five, thus 14 laps or 2800 metres in total.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090841-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's medley relay, Results, Heats\nFirst 2 teams in each heat (Q) qualified directly for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 81], "content_span": [82, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090842-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's pole vault\nThe men's pole vault event at the 1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 15 March in Vienna.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090843-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's shot put\nThe men's shot put event at the 1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 15 March in Vienna.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090844-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's triple jump\nThe men's triple jump event at the 1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 15 March in Vienna.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090845-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 4 \u00d7 200 metres relay\nThe women's 4 \u00d7 200 metres relay event at the 1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 14 March in Vienna. Each athlete ran one lap of the 200 metres track.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 75], "section_span": [75, 75], "content_span": [76, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090846-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 400 metres\nThe women's 400 metres event at the 1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 14 March in Vienna.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090846-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 400 metres, Results, Heats\nThe winner of each heat (Q) and the next 1 fastest (q) qualified directly for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 81], "content_span": [82, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090847-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 60 metres\nThe women's 60 metres event at the 1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 15 March in Vienna.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090847-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 60 metres, Results, Heats\nFirst 4 from each heat (Q) qualified directly for the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 80], "content_span": [81, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090847-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 60 metres, Results, Semifinals\nFirst 3 from each heat (Q) qualified directly for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 85], "content_span": [86, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090848-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 60 metres hurdles\nThe women's 60 metres hurdles event at the 1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 14 and 15 March in Vienna.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 72], "section_span": [72, 72], "content_span": [73, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090848-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 60 metres hurdles, Results, Heats\nFirst 4 from each heat (Q) qualified directly for the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 72], "section_span": [74, 88], "content_span": [89, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090848-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 60 metres hurdles, Results, Semifinals\nFirst 3 from each heat (Q) qualified directly for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 72], "section_span": [74, 93], "content_span": [94, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090849-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 800 metres\nThe women's 800 metres event at the 1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 14 and 15 March in Vienna.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090849-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 800 metres, Results, Heats\nFirst 4 in each heat (Q) qualified directly for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 81], "content_span": [82, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090850-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's high jump\nThe women's high jump event at the 1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 15 March in Vienna.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090851-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's long jump\nThe women's long jump event at the 1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 14 March in Vienna.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090852-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's medley relay\nThe women's 200 + 400 + 600 + 800 metres medley relay event at the 1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 15 March in Vienna. The first athlete ran one lap of the 200-metre track, the second two, the third three and the anchor four, thus 10 laps or 2000 metres in total.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [67, 67], "content_span": [68, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090853-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's shot put\nThe women's shot put event at the 1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 15 March in Vienna.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090854-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 European Athletics Junior Championships\nThe 1970 European Athletics Junior Championships was the inaugural edition of the biennial athletics competition for European athletes aged under twenty. It was held in Colombes, near Paris, France, between 11 and 13 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090854-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 European Athletics Junior Championships, Significant participating athletes\nAccording to the publication Athletics International who published the list below, it is interesting to underline some of the most significant names who competed in Paris Colombes, most of whom did not immediately make their best result but who definitely achieved distinction in the years afterwards:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 80], "content_span": [81, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090855-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 European Badminton Championships\nThe 2nd European Badminton Championships were held in Port Talbot (Wales), between 17 and 19 April 1970, and hosted by the European Badminton Union and the Welsh Badminton Union.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090856-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 European Cup (athletics)\nThe 1970 European Cup was the 3rd edition of the European Cup of athletics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090856-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 European Cup (athletics)\nThe Super League Finals were held in Stockholm, Sweden (men) and Budapest, Hungary (women).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090857-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 European Cup Final\nThe 1970 European Cup Final was a football match held at the San Siro, Milan, on 6 May 1970, that saw Feijenoord of the Netherlands defeat Celtic of Scotland 2\u20131 after extra time. Ove Kindvall's goal in the 117th minute meant the trophy was won by a Dutch club for the first time. It remains Feyenoord's only European Cup triumph.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090857-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 European Cup Final\nFor losing finalists Celtic, this marked the second\u2014\u2013 and to date most recent\u2013\u2014 European Cup Final appearance in club history, after the famous win by the \"Lisbon Lions\" side in the 1967 edition. The match nearly never took place due to massive strikes throughout Italy during 1970; the Italian Football Federation backed down to ensure that their own clubs would be able to compete in further UEFA competitions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090857-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 European Cup Final, Match, Summary\nIn contrast to their win in the European Cup Final three years prior, in which they had gone into the match as heavy underdogs against Inter, this time around, Celtic entered the final as strong favourites. However, despite Tommy Gemmell opening the scoring after 30 minutes, they were comprehensively outplayed by Feyenoord. The Dutch team's manager, Ernst Happel, ensured Celtic winger Jimmy Johnstone was double marked at all times, whilst the midfield trio of Franz Hasil, Willem van Hanegem and Wim Jansen dominated their Celtic counterparts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090857-0002-0001", "contents": "1970 European Cup Final, Match, Summary\nRinus Isra\u00ebl quickly equalised with his head, the first Feyenoord-goal in this campaign scored outside their home stadium. Celtic managed to hold on at 1\u20131 to force extra time. With just a few minutes of extra-time remaining, a long free-kick from the Feyenoord half was sent towards the Celtic penalty area. Celtic defender and captain Billy McNeill stumbled and misjudged the ball, and as he tried to recover he appeared to punch the ball away. Before the referee had a chance to award a penalty, Ove Kindvall reacted quickly, running on and chipping the ball over the advancing goalkeeper Evan Williams to seal a 2\u20131 win for Feyenoord.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 678]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090858-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 European Cup Winners' Cup Final\nThe 1970 European Cup Winners' Cup Final was a football match between Manchester City of England and G\u00f3rnik Zabrze of Poland on 29 April 1970 at Prater Stadium in Vienna, Austria. It was the final match of the 1969\u201370 European Cup Winners' Cup and the tenth European Cup Winners' Cup final. Both sides made their first appearance in a European final. Manchester City won the match 2\u20131 thanks to goals by Neil Young and Francis Lee. The victory is, as of 2021, City's only European trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090858-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 European Cup Winners' Cup Final, Route to the final, Manchester City\nManchester City and G\u00f3rnik Zabrze qualified for the Cup Winners' Cup by winning their respective national cups in the 1968\u201369 season. Manchester City defeated Leicester City in the 1969 FA Cup Final, G\u00f3rnik Zabrze defeated Legia Warsaw 2\u20130 in the 1969 Polish Cup Final. It was only Manchester City's second European campaign. Their maiden entry into European competition, an appearance in the 1968\u201369 European Cup, saw the club exit in the opening round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 73], "content_span": [74, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090858-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 European Cup Winners' Cup Final, Route to the final, Manchester City\nManchester City played the away leg first in every round. Their first tie was against Spanish club Athletic Bilbao, who were themselves managed by an Englishman, Ronnie Allen. In the first leg, City recovered from a two-goal deficit to secure a 3\u20133 draw. The home leg was a routine 3\u20130 win. Post-match reports alleged that a scuffle had taken place at half-time between Mike Doyle and Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00f3n Betzuen, The referee spoke to both managers, but did not take any further action.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 73], "content_span": [74, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090858-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 European Cup Winners' Cup Final, Route to the final, G\u00f3rnik Zabrze\nThe 1969\u201370 cup run was G\u00f3rnik's seventh European campaign. The club had participated in the European Cup six times in the previous decade. It was their first appearance in the Cup Winners' Cup. The club had qualified for the competition on one previous occasion, but withdrew without playing a match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090858-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 European Cup Winners' Cup Final, Match, Summary\nManchester City were without winger Mike Summerbee with a leg injury that had troubled him since the League Cup Final the previous month. George Heslop came into the team as a result, though Summerbee was fit enough to be named as a substitute. Heslop was given the task of man-marking W\u0142odzimierz Luba\u0144ski, who The Guardian identified as \"an outstanding individual... ...whom Malcolm Allison considers to be in the same class as Eus\u00e9bio.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090858-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 European Cup Winners' Cup Final, Match, Summary\nManchester City started strongly, particularly Francis Lee; The Guardian correspondent wrote \"Lee, indefatigable and nigh irresistible continually embarrassed the G\u00f3rnik defence in the early stages\". Lee had the first chance of the match, a close range shot which was saved by Kostka. Manchester City took the lead in the 12th minute. Lee cut in from the left wing, escaping a tackle from Alfred Olek, and struck a fierce shot. Goalkeeper Hubert Kostka parried the ball, only for it to land at the feet of Neil Young for a simple finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 590]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090858-0005-0001", "contents": "1970 European Cup Winners' Cup Final, Match, Summary\nShortly after City defender Mike Doyle sustained an ankle injury after colliding with Stefan Florenski. Manchester City played on with ten men for a period as Doyle received treatment from trainer Dave Ewing, but the defender was unable to continue. Substitute Ian Bowyer replaced him. The change prompted an alteration in formation, in which Colin Bell switched to a deeper position. Shortly before half-time, Young won the ball after loose play from Florenski, which put him clear on goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090858-0005-0002", "contents": "1970 European Cup Winners' Cup Final, Match, Summary\nAs Young moved into the penalty area Kostka rushed out of his goal and upended him, leaving the referee no option but to give a penalty. Lee struck the spot-kick with power into the centre of the goal. Kostka's legs made contact with the ball, but the force of the shot carried it into the net to make it 2\u20130. G\u00f3rnik got a goal back midway through the second half, but there were no more goals and the match finished 2\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090858-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 European Cup Winners' Cup Final, Post-match\nWinning manager Joe Mercer said \"the heavy rain in the second half ruined the game\" and that he was \"quite happy with the performance of our team, although the technical level was rather low in the second half\". G\u00f3rnik manager Micha\u0142 Matyas blamed his side's poor start, saying the \"first goal came too early for us and we never recovered from this shock.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090859-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 European Figure Skating Championships\nThe 1970 European Figure Skating Championships was a senior-level international competition held at the Yubileyny Sports Palace in Leningrad, Soviet Union from February 4 to 8, 1970. Elite senior-level figure skaters from European ISU member nations competed for the title of European Champion in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090860-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 European Formula Two Championship\nThe 1970 European Formula Two season was contested over 8 rounds. Tecno Racing Team driver Clay Regazzoni clinched the championship title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090860-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 European Formula Two Championship, Calendar\nRace 2, 5, 6 and 7 were held in two heats, with results shown in aggregate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090860-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 European Formula Two Championship, Calendar\nRace 1 and 4 were held with two semi-final heats and the final run, with time only shown for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090860-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 European Formula Two Championship, Calendar\nRace 1, 4 and 6 was won by a graded driver, all graded drivers are shown in Italics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090860-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 European Formula Two Championship, Final point standings, Driver\nFor every race points were awarded: 9 points to the winner, 6 for runner-up, 4 for third place, 3 for fourth place, 2 for fifth place and 1 for sixth place. No additional points were awarded. The best 6 results count. One driver had a point deduction, which are given in ().", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090860-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 European Formula Two Championship, Final point standings, Driver\nOnly drivers which were not graded were able to score points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090860-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 European Formula Two Championship, Final point standings, Driver\nRace 5 not all points were awarded (not enough finishers).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090861-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 European Judo Championships\nThe 1970 European Judo Championships were the 19th edition of the European Judo Championships, and were held in East Berlin, East Germany on 23 and 24 May 1970. Championships were subdivided into six individual competitions, and a separate team competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090862-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 European Karate Championships\nThe 1970 European Karate Championships, the 5th edition, was held in Hamburg, Germany from May 5 to 7, 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090863-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 European Rowing Championships\nThe 1970 European Rowing Championships were rowing championships held on Lake \u00d6reg in Tata, Hungary. There were five competitions for women only (W1x, W2x, W4x+, W4+, W8+); the events for men were contested two weeks later at the 1970 World Rowing Championships in St. Catharines, Canada, instead. As World Rowing Championships were still held at four-year intervals at the time, the European Rowing Championships were open to nations outside of Europe and had become to be regarded as quasi-world championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090863-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 European Rowing Championships\nThe championships were held from 20 to 23 August 1970 and that saw entries from 17 nations. The Soviet Union, the host Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, the Netherlands and East Germany were the countries that contested all five boat classes. In total, 56 boats were nominated. The competition distance was 1000\u00a0metres.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090863-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 European Rowing Championships, Medal summary \u2013 women's events\nEast Germany was the most successful country with three gold medals (single sculls, double sculls, and eight), with one gold to the Soviet Union (coxed four) and Romania (coxed quad scull) each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 66], "content_span": [67, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090864-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 European Weightlifting Championships\nThe 1970 European Weightlifting Championships were held in Szombathely, Hungary from June 20 to June 28, 1970. This was the 49th edition of the event. There were 137 men in action from 21 nations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090865-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 FA Charity Shield\nThe 1970 FA Charity Shield was the 48th FA Charity Shield, the annual football match played between the winners of the previous season's Football League and FA Cup competitions. It was contested between Everton, the reigning First Division champions, and Chelsea, holders of the FA Cup. Goals from Alan Whittle and Howard Kendall gave Everton a 2\u20131 victory; Chelsea's goal was scored by Ian Hutchinson. The match was staged at Stamford Bridge, Chelsea's home ground.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090866-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 FA Cup Final\nThe 1970 FA Cup Final was contested by Chelsea and Leeds United. The match took place on 11 April 1970 at Wembley Stadium and ended 2\u20132, making it the first FA Cup final to require a replay since 1912. The replay was staged at Old Trafford and played on 29 April; after four hours of fiercely contested football, Chelsea eventually won 2\u20131. As of 2019, both the final and replay were the last times that FA Cup final ties were scheduled to be played in April; all subsequent FA Cup final ties have been scheduled to be played in May, with only the 2020 FA Cup final played later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090866-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 FA Cup Final\nLeeds and Chelsea were two of England's top teams that season, having finished 2nd and 3rd respectively in the First Division. The match marked a clash of footballing contrasts: Chelsea were regarded as \"flamboyant\" southerners, whereas Leeds were seen as uncompromising northerners. Neither had won the FA Cup before, though both had recently been runners-up, Leeds in 1965 and Chelsea in 1967.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090866-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 FA Cup Final\nIt was the only time between 1923 and 2000 that an FA Cup Final was played at a stadium other than Wembley. The replay attracted a British television audience of more than 28 million, the second highest UK audience for a sports broadcast (behind the 1966 World Cup Final), and the sixth highest audience for any UK broadcast. It has been ranked among the greatest ever FA Cup finals, and named as the \"most brutal game\" in the history of English football, due to the animosity between the two teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090866-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 FA Cup Final, Road to Wembley, Leeds United\nSemi-final: Manchester United 0\u20130 Leeds United (at Hillsborough Stadium, Sheffield)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 48], "content_span": [49, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090866-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 FA Cup Final, Match review, Before the game\nThe final at Wembley was scheduled for 11 April, around a month earlier than was typical for FA Cup finals, due to the FA's wish for the England national team, who were world champions and were defending their trophy in Mexico, to have time to acquaint themselves to the Mexican climate. The Wembley stadium's pitch was in very poor condition with the Horse of the Year Show having taken place there a week previously.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 48], "content_span": [49, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090866-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 FA Cup Final, Match review, Wembley final\nIn a game where Leeds were generally seen to have had the best of the play \u2013 with winger Eddie Gray in particular giving David Webb a torrid time \u2013 the Yorkshiremen took the lead after 20 minutes when Jack Charlton's downward header from a corner did not bounce in the muddy pitch, defending Chelsea player Eddie McCreadie mis-timed his attempted clearance and the ball rolled over the line. Towards the end of the first half, Chelsea's Peter Houseman drove a low shot from 20 yards (18\u00a0m), which rolled under goalkeeper Gary Sprake's body for the equaliser.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 46], "content_span": [47, 605]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090866-0005-0001", "contents": "1970 FA Cup Final, Match review, Wembley final\nLeeds appeared to have secured the game six minutes from full-time when an Allan Clarke header hit the post and Mick Jones reacted first to put the ball into the net, but two minutes later Ian Hutchinson headed in the equaliser from John Hollins' cross. There were no more goals scored during the 30-minute extra time and the two squads took a joint lap of honour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 46], "content_span": [47, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090866-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 FA Cup Final, Match review, Wembley final\nThe Wembley pitch, after the game, was in such dire condition that the Football Association decided to stage the replay at Manchester's Old Trafford stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 46], "content_span": [47, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090866-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 FA Cup Final, Match review, Replay at Old Trafford\nThe replay at Old Trafford, watched by a television audience of 28 million, a record for an FA Cup final, became one of the most notorious clashes in English football for the harshness of play, which exceeded the previous game at Wembley. The referee in charge of both games, 47-year-old Eric Jennings from Stourbridge, in his last season as a Football League referee, allowed rough play by both sides throughout, playing the advantage to its full extent. He booked only one player, Ian Hutchinson of Chelsea, during the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 55], "content_span": [56, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090866-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 FA Cup Final, Match review, Replay at Old Trafford\nOnly one change was made in either line-up, with Leeds United replacing goalkeeper Gary Sprake with David Harvey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 55], "content_span": [56, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090866-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 FA Cup Final, Match review, Replay at Old Trafford\nModern-day referee David Elleray reviewed the match in 1997, and concluded that the sides would have received six red cards and twenty yellow cards between them, in the modern era of football. Tommy Baldwin and Terry Cooper, admittedly two of the quieter men in the two sides, were kicking lumps out of one another, as the battle began. Not long into the game, Chelsea's Ron Harris caught winger Eddie Gray with a kick to the back of the knee, an action which neutralised the Scottish winger for the rest of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 55], "content_span": [56, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090866-0009-0001", "contents": "1970 FA Cup Final, Match review, Replay at Old Trafford\nNorman Hunter and Ian Hutchinson traded punches while Eddie McCreadie, in his own penalty area, made a flying kick to Billy Bremner's head and Johnny Giles also lunged at a Chelsea opponent. Charlton kneed and headbutted Peter Osgood while Chelsea's goalkeeper Peter Bonetti was injured after being bundled into the net by Leeds' Jones, who, minutes later, shot past the limping Bonetti for the opening goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 55], "content_span": [56, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090866-0010-0000", "contents": "1970 FA Cup Final, Match review, Replay at Old Trafford\nChelsea equalised twelve minutes before the end, after a flowing move, from which Osgood scored with a diving header from a Charlie Cooke cross. Jackie Charlton should have been marking Osgood but had 'lost' him while chasing Hutchinson to exact retribution for a deadleg administered in the Chelsea penalty area a minute or so earlier. In scoring, Osgood became the last player to date to have scored in every round of the FA Cup. With the game ending 1\u20131, the final once again went into extra time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 55], "content_span": [56, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090866-0010-0001", "contents": "1970 FA Cup Final, Match review, Replay at Old Trafford\nOne minute before the first period of extra time was to end, Chelsea's Hutchinson sent in a long throw-in that missed almost every player in the penalty area but came off Charlton's head towards the far post, before being put into the unguarded net by Webb to give Chelsea the lead for the first time in the two games. They kept the lead until the end, securing their first FA Cup win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 55], "content_span": [56, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090866-0011-0000", "contents": "1970 FA Cup Final, Beyond the final\nThe two teams, at the time, were praised for their determination and for providing fans and audiences with two \"splendid games\", but there was also criticism among football professionals and media for the very physical play. In the modern era, however, the two games are often denoted as \"epic\" and \"iconic\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090866-0012-0000", "contents": "1970 FA Cup Final, Beyond the final\nIn the following season, neither team would reach the quarter final stage of the Cup. Chelsea were eliminated from the competition in the 4th round, after losing 0\u20133 to Manchester City at home, while, in the 5th round, Leeds United were upset in a 2\u20133 away defeat by Fourth Division outsiders Colchester United.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090866-0013-0000", "contents": "1970 FA Cup Final, Beyond the final\nChelsea, however, went on to reach the final of the European Cup Winners' competition, played in Piraeus, Greece, at Karaiskakis Stadium, where they faced Real Madrid. After yet another cup final that went into a replay, the first game ending 1\u20131 and the second one 2\u20131 to Chelsea, the English team won its first European trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090866-0014-0000", "contents": "1970 FA Cup Final, Beyond the final\nThe Yorkshire side also succeeded in Europe, beating Juventus of Italy in the final Inter Cities Fairs Cup final. The score was 3\u20133 after completion of the two legs, Leeds winning on the away goals rule after a 2\u20132 draw in Turin. Liverpool had been knocked out by Leeds at the semi-final stage 1\u20130 on aggregate,", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090867-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 FAMAS Awards\nThe 18thFilipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences Awards Night was held in 1970 for the Outstanding Achievements for the year 1969.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090867-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 FAMAS Awards\nPinagbuklod ng Langit by United Brothers Productions was a movie about the life and love story of then President Ferdinand Marcos and First Lady Imelda Marcos won the most awards with 8 wins including the FAMAS Award for Best Picture and Best Director for Eddie Garcia. Garcia also won the Best Supporting Actor Award for the movie Dugo ng Bayani.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090868-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 FIBA Africa Championship for Women\nThe 1970 FIBA Africa Championship for Women was the 3rd FIBA Africa Championship for Women, played under the rules of FIBA, the world governing body for basketball, and the FIBA Africa thereof. The tournament was hosted by Togo from March 28 to April 4, 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090868-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 FIBA Africa Championship for Women\nMadagascar defeated the United Arab Republic 44\u201336 in the final to win their first title and qualify for the 1971 FIBA Women's World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090869-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship\nThe 1970 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship was an international basketball competition held in Greece in 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090870-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 FIBA Intercontinental Cup\nThe 1970 FIBA Intercontinental Cup was the 5th edition of the FIBA Intercontinental Cup for men's basketball clubs. It took place at Palazzo dello Sport, Varese. From the FIBA European Champions Cup participated Ignis Varese, Real Madrid, and Slavia V\u0160 Praha, from the South American Club Championship participated SC Corinthians, and from the NABL participated the Columbia Sertoma.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090871-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 FIBA World Championship\nThe 1970 FIBA World Championship was the 6th FIBA World Championship, the international basketball world championship for men's teams. It was hosted by Yugoslavia in Sarajevo, Split, Karlovac, Skopje and Ljubljana, from May 10 to 24, 1970. It was the first ever FIBA World Championship hosted outside South America.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090871-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 FIBA World Championship, Final ranking\nRatomir Tvrdi\u0107, Ljubodrag Simonovi\u0107, Vinko Jelovac, Trajko Rajkovi\u0107, Aljo\u0161a \u017dorga, Dragan Kapi\u010di\u0107, Ivo Daneu, Kre\u0161imir \u0106osi\u0107, Damir \u0160olman, Nikola Ple\u0107a\u0161, Dragutin \u010cermak, and Petar Skansi. Head Coach: Ranko \u017deravica.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 43], "content_span": [44, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090872-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup\nThe 1970 FIFA World Cup was the ninth edition of the FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international football championship for men's senior national teams. Held from 31 May to 21 June in Mexico, it was the first World Cup tournament staged in North America, and the first held outside Europe and South America. Teams representing 75 nations from all six populated continents entered the competition, and its qualification rounds began in May 1968. Fourteen teams qualified from this process to join host nation Mexico and defending champions England in the 16-team final tournament. El Salvador, Israel and Morocco made their debut appearances at the final stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 681]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090872-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup\nThe tournament was won by Brazil, who defeated another former two-time world champion, and current 1968 European champion Italy, by 4\u20131 in the final. Furthermore, during the tournament, Brazil also had to defeat other former two-time world champion and current 1967 South American champion Uruguay, by 3\u20131 in the semi-final, and the 1966 World Cup defending champions England, by 1\u20130 in the group stage. This was the first and only time that a champion team defeated the current European and South American champions and the current World Cup defending champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090872-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup\nThe win gave Brazil its third World Cup title, which allowed them to permanently keep the Jules Rimet Trophy, and a new trophy was introduced in 1974. The victorious team, led by Carlos Alberto and featuring players such as Pel\u00e9, G\u00e9rson, Jairzinho, Rivellino, and Tost\u00e3o, is often cited as the greatest-ever football team. They achieved a perfect record of wins in all six games in the finals, as well as winning all their qualifying fixtures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090872-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup\nDespite the issues of altitude and high temperature, the finals largely produced attacking football which created an average goals per game record not since bettered by any subsequent World Cup Finals. With the advancements in satellite communications, the 1970 Finals attracted a new record television audience for the FIFA World Cup as games were broadcast live around the world and, in a few cases, in colour - the first time that this was the case.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090872-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup, Host selection\nMexico was chosen as the host nation in 1964 through a vote at FIFA's congress in Tokyo on 8 October, ahead of the only other submitted bid from Argentina, who eventually hosted the 1978 World Cup. The tournament became the first World Cup hosted in North America, and the first to be staged outside South America and Europe; Mexico later became the first country to host the FIFA World Cup twice when it stepped in to stage the 1986 event after the original host selection, Colombia, suffered financial problems.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090872-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup, Qualification\nA total of 75 teams entered the 1970 FIFA World Cup, and 73 were required to qualify. Due to rejected entries and withdrawals, 68 teams eventually participated in the qualifying stages, including eight for the first time. Mexico as the host nation and England as reigning World Cup champions were granted automatic qualification, with the remaining 14 finals places divided among the continental confederations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090872-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup, Qualification\nEight places were available to teams from UEFA (Europe), three for CONMEBOL (South America), one for CAF (Africa), one for a team from either the AFC or the OFC (Asia/Oceania), and one for CONCACAF (North and Central America and Caribbean). A place in the finals for an African representative was guaranteed for the first time, as a response to the mass boycott of the qualifying process for 1966 by the African entrants after FIFA linked Africa, Asia and Oceania together with only one qualifying place on offer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090872-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup, Qualification\nThe draw for the qualifying stages was conducted on 1 February 1968 in Casablanca, Morocco, with matches beginning in May 1968 and the final fixtures being concluded in December 1969. North Korea, quarter-finalists at the previous tournament, were disqualified during the process after refusing to play in Israel for political reasons. El Salvador qualified for the finals after beating Honduras in a play-off match, which was the catalyst for a four-day conflict in July 1969 known as the Football War.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090872-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup, Qualification\nHalf of the eventual qualifying teams had also been present at the previous World Cup, but three teams qualified for the first time: El Salvador, Israel and Morocco, while Peru, Romania, Belgium and Sweden made their first World Cup appearances since 1930, 1938, 1954 and 1958 respectively. Czechoslovakia returned to the World Cup stage after missing the 1966 World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090872-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup, Qualification\nAs of 2018, this was the only time Israel qualified for a FIFA World Cup finals, and also the only time Argentina failed to qualify (they declined to participate in 1938, 1950 and 1954).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090872-0010-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup, Venues\nFive stadiums in five cities were selected to host the World Cup matches. Alternative venues in Hidalgo state and the port city of Veracruz were also considered. Each group was based solely in one city with exception of Group 2, which was staged in both Puebla and Toluca. Aside from the Estadio Luis Dosal, all the stadia had only been constructed during the 1960s, as Mexico prepared to host both the World Cup and the 1968 Summer Olympics. The stadium construction cost for the four smaller venues were around 11 million USD, while the final stadium in Mexico City cost 20 million USD.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090872-0011-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup, Venues\nThe altitude of the venues varied and the importance of acclimatisation was strongly considered by all the participating teams. As a result, in contrast to the previous tournament staged in England, most teams arrived in the region well in advance of their opening fixtures to prepare for this factor. Some teams had already experienced the local conditions when competing in the football competition at 1968 Summer Olympics. At an elevation in excess of 2,660 metres (8,730\u00a0ft) above sea level, Toluca was the highest of the venues; Guadalajara was the lowest at 1,500\u00a0m (4,920\u00a0ft). In addition to the altitude, all five locations had hot and rainy weather where temperatures would regularly go past 32\u00a0\u00b0C (90\u00a0\u00b0F).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 743]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090872-0012-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup, Venues\nOf the five stadia used for the 32 matches played, the largest and most used venue was the Azteca Stadium in Mexico City, which hosted 10 total matches including the final and third place matches, and all of Group 1's matches (which included all of host Mexico's matches). The Jalisco Stadium in Guadalajara hosted eight matches including all of Group 3's matches and a semi-final. The Nou Camp Stadium in Leon hosted seven matches, which consisted of all of Group 4's matches and a quarter-final match. The Luis Dosal stadium in Toluca hosted four matches, and Cuauht\u00e9moc stadium in Puebla hosted three matches and was the only stadium of the five used for this tournament not to host any knockout rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 734]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090872-0013-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup, Format\nTeams were divided into four groups of four. Within each group, each team played each other team in a round robin, with 2 points awarded for a win and 1 for a draw. Teams were ranked by points, with goal difference being used as a tie-breaker. If two teams finished equal on both points and goal difference, lots were drawn to separate them. This method was used to separate the Soviet Union and Mexico in group 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090872-0014-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup, Format\nThe top two teams from each group progressed to the knockout stage. In all knockout matches, extra time was played if the teams were drawn after 90 minutes. If teams were still tied after extra-time, drawing of lots would have been used in all matches other than the final. FIFA did not announce in advance what would happen if the final itself were to be drawn after extra time. In the event, all knockout matches were decided in either regular time or extra time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090872-0015-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup, Final draw\nAlthough it was reported in the build-up to the final draw that seedings would be used, as had been the case at the previous two World Cup Finals, the FIFA Organising Committee ultimately announced that there would be no seeding of teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090872-0015-0001", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup, Final draw\nInstead, the 16 teams were divided into four 'geographical groupings', which also took into account the teams' strengths and even political considerations; the system ensured that Israel and Morocco would not be drawn to face each other after Morocco had earlier threatened to withdraw from the tournament, as they had done from the Olympic football tournament two years earlier, if that were the case.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090872-0016-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup, Final draw\nThe draw was staged in Mexico City, Mexico on 10 January 1970 in the Maria Isabel Hotel, which served as FIFA's headquarters during the competition. The teams were drawn into the four groups, which had their locations defined in advance: Group 1 being staged in Mexico City, Group 2 in Puebla and Toluca, Group 3 in Guadalajara and Group 4 in Le\u00f3n. It was predetermined that the hosts Mexico would be in Group 1 and so based in the capital city, and that England as holders would be based in Guadalajara, the tournament's second largest stadium. The 10-year-old daughter of Guillermo Ca\u00f1edo, President of the Mexican Football Federation and the Local Organising Committee, drew out the teams from four silver cups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 746]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090872-0017-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup, Squads\nTeams could name a squad of no more than 22 players for the tournament; Morocco only named 19 players in their squad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090872-0018-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup, Tournament review, Group stage\nFollowing the opening ceremony host nation Mexico faced the Soviet Union; this was the last time until the 2006 World Cup that the host nation's first match rather than the World Cup holders' began the tournament. Both this opening match of Group 1 and many others during the competition kicked off at noon for the benefit of European television schedules, meaning play under the midday sun. The match produced a goalless draw, prompting some media to predict the entire tournament would be played at the slow tempo that featured in this game given the conditions involved.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 51], "content_span": [52, 625]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090872-0018-0001", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup, Tournament review, Group stage\nFollowing the half-time interval Anatoliy Puzach became the first substitute to be used in FIFA World Cup history as the Soviets made use of the new competition rule. Both teams won their remaining two games to progress from the group at the expense of Belgium and World Cup debutants El Salvador.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 51], "content_span": [52, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090872-0019-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup, Tournament review, Group stage\nGroup 2 was the lowest-scoring of the groups with only six goals in its six matches as Uruguay, reigning South America champions, and Italy, the reigning European champions, edged past Sweden and Israel. Sweden would have progressed if they had produced a two-goal victory against Uruguay in their final game, but it was not until the final minute that they scored the only goal of the game. Hours before the game FIFA elected to replace the scheduled referee after bribery rumours \u2013 later dismissed by FIFA \u2013 arose in Mexico. The 1\u20130 result meant Uruguay advanced, to be joined by Italy after they avoided defeat in the group finale against Israel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 51], "content_span": [52, 701]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090872-0020-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup, Tournament review, Group stage\nOwing to the lack of a seeding system, Group 3 allowed the reigning World Cup holders England to be paired together with the two-time former champion Brazil, considered by many the pre-tournament favourites for the trophy. England's preparations were hampered by the arrest of their captain Bobby Moore in Colombia for allegedly stealing a bracelet from a jeweller's shop; the charges were later dropped. The attitude of their manager Alf Ramsey and the English media in general was perceived by many locals as unfriendly and xenophobic toward Mexico's hosting of the competition, which meant the English team received a largely hostile response during the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 51], "content_span": [52, 721]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090872-0021-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup, Tournament review, Group stage\nWith both having won their opening games \u2013 against Czechoslovakia and Romania, respectively \u2013 Brazil met England in the group's most famed match. Although Gordon Banks in the English goal denied Pel\u00e9 from close range with a reflex save that Pel\u00e9 himself cited as the greatest of his career, a second half goal from Jairzinho won the match for Brazil, after which England squandered several excellent opportunities to equalise. Both teams then won their final group games to progress to the knockout stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 51], "content_span": [52, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090872-0022-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup, Tournament review, Group stage\nPlay in Group 4 began with Bulgaria taking a two-goal lead against Peru, but a second half comeback gave the South Americans a 3\u20132 victory. Morocco, the first African World Cup representatives since 1934, also began strongly by taking the lead against the 1966 runners-up West Germany, but the Germans came back to win 2\u20131. West Germany also went behind against Bulgaria in their second match, but a Gerd M\u00fcller hat-trick helped them recover and win 5\u20132; the eventual Golden Boot winner M\u00fcller hit another hat-trick \u2013 the only hat-tricks of the entire tournament. \u2013 to win the group against Peru.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 51], "content_span": [52, 648]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090872-0023-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup, Tournament review, Knockout stage, Quarter-finals\nMexico and the Soviet Union had finished tied at the top of Group 1 on both points and goal difference, meaning that the drawing of lots was required to rank them. On 12 June, the draw allocated the Soviet Union the group winners' berth, meaning that they would face Uruguay at the Estadio Azteca, while the host nation were paired against Italy in the smaller Toluca venue. Mexican officials unsuccessfully appealed to FIFA to stage their game in the capital to avoid traffic problems.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 70], "content_span": [71, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090872-0023-0001", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup, Tournament review, Knockout stage, Quarter-finals\nThe hosts took the lead against Italy with a Jos\u00e9 Luis Gonz\u00e1lez goal, but his teammate Javier Guzm\u00e1n equalised with an own goal before half-time. Italy then dominated the second half to progress to the semi-finals with a 4\u20131 win. The Soviet Union were also eliminated in their quarter-final when a V\u00edctor Esp\u00e1rrago header three minutes from the end of extra-time sent Uruguay through. The Soviets had stopped play during Uruguay's attack leading to the goal, believing that the ball had crossed the touchline.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 70], "content_span": [71, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090872-0024-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup, Tournament review, Knockout stage, Quarter-finals\nThe all-South America tie in Guadalajara was the highest-scoring of the four quarter-finals as Brazil recorded a 4\u20132 triumph over Peru. The match is considered to be one of the most entertaining matches in World Cup history: Brazil shot 27 times; Peru, 22. Next came a rematch of the previous World Cup final between England and West Germany took place in Le\u00f3n. The reigning champions took a two-goal lead, but Franz Beckenbauer halved the deficit when his low shot beat England's second-choice goalkeeper Peter Bonetti, who was playing after Gordon Banks suffered food poisoning the day before.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 70], "content_span": [71, 666]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090872-0024-0001", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup, Tournament review, Knockout stage, Quarter-finals\nEight minutes from time, an Uwe Seeler header levelled the score. England's Geoff Hurst then had an apparently legitimate goal ruled out for offside. An extra-time goal from Gerd M\u00fcller brought (West) Germany's first-ever competitive victory over England. It has been speculated that the national embarrassment of losing against Germany played a significant role in the surprise defeat of Harold Wilson's government in the 1970 United Kingdom general election four days later, however recent analysis found no evidence to support this theory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 70], "content_span": [71, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090872-0025-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup, Tournament review, Knockout stage, Semi-finals\nAll four of the semi-finalists were former world champions, with the line-up guaranteeing a final between Europe and South America. In the all-South American tie, controversially switched from the capital to the lower altitude of Guadalajara, Brazil came from behind to defeat Uruguay 3\u20131 and earn the right to contest their fourth World Cup Final. Two Brazilian goals in the final 15 minutes decided a match that had been evenly-matched until that point. The all-European meeting between Italy and West Germany produced a match regarded by many as one of the greatest World Cup games of all time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 67], "content_span": [68, 665]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090872-0025-0001", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup, Tournament review, Knockout stage, Semi-finals\nHaving led from the eighth minute through Roberto Boninsegna's strike, Italy were pegged back in injury time when sweeper Karl-Heinz Schnellinger scored his only international goal. Extra-time brought five more goals as the lead swung between the two sides until Gianni Rivera gave the Azzurri a decisive 4\u20133 lead. The match subsequently became known as the \"Game of the Century\", and today has a monument outside the Estadio Azteca to commemorate it. West Germany went on to defeat Uruguay 1\u20130 in the third-place match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 67], "content_span": [68, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090872-0026-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup, Tournament review, Knockout stage, Final\nIn the final, Brazil opened the scoring when Pel\u00e9 headed in a cross from Rivellino in the 18th minute, but Roberto Boninsegna equalised for Italy after a series of blunders in the Brazilian defence. The match remained level until the 65th minute when a powerful shot from G\u00e9rson restored the Brazilians' lead. Further goals from Jairzinho and Carlos Alberto rewarded Brazil's attacking play and secured a 4\u20131 victory and a record third World Cup triumph, which earned them the right to permanently keep the Jules Rimet Trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 61], "content_span": [62, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090872-0027-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup, Tournament review, Legacy\nBoth the Brazilian team that were crowned champions of the 1970 World Cup and the tournament itself have become regarded as among the very finest in the history of the FIFA World Cup. In contrast to the more physical style of play that had dominated the previous two tournaments, the 1970 Finals are noted for the attacking play adopted by most teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 46], "content_span": [47, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090872-0028-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup, Tournament review, Legacy\nFor the first time at a World Cup Finals, referees could issue yellow and red cards (a system that is now commonplace at every level of football worldwide), yet, in contrast to the previous tournaments (besides the 1950 edition) and all subsequent tournaments to date, no player was expelled from play. The officiating of the opening match, commentated by some media as overly strict, set a standard of discipline that instead helped protect skillful players in accordance with FIFA's stated wish. The tournament's average of 2.97 goals per game set a level not since bettered.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 46], "content_span": [47, 624]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090872-0029-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup, Tournament review, Legacy\nThe eventual champions Brazil, led by Carlos Alberto, and featuring Pel\u00e9, Clodoaldo, G\u00e9rson, Jairzinho, Rivellino, and Tost\u00e3o, is often cited as the greatest-ever World Cup team. They won all of their six games on the way to the title, and had also won every one of their qualifying fixtures. Jairzinho's feat of scoring in every finals match likewise has yet to be equalled. Coach M\u00e1rio Zagallo became the first man to win the World Cup as both a player (1958, 1962) and coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 46], "content_span": [47, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090872-0030-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup, Tournament review, Legacy\nThis was the first World Cup to use the Telstar ball from Adidas (who have supplied every World Cup match ball to date), introduced as the \"Telstar Erlast\" for the 1968 European Football Championship. The Telstar was the first World Cup ball to use the now-familiar truncated icosahedron for its design, consisting of 12 black pentagonal and 20 white hexagonal panels. The 32-panel configuration had been introduced in 1962 by Select Sport, and was also used in the official logo for the 1970 World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 46], "content_span": [47, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090872-0030-0001", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup, Tournament review, Legacy\nThe black-and-white pattern, to aid visibility on black and white television broadcasts (which was still commonplace then, as colour television was rare in many parts of the world), was also well established before the Telstar. The name came from the Telstar communications satellite, which was roughly spherical and dotted with solar panels, somewhat similar in appearance to the football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 46], "content_span": [47, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090872-0031-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup, Tournament review, Merchandise\nForming a partnership with FIFA in 1970, Panini published its first FIFA World Cup sticker album for the 1970 World Cup, initiating a global craze for collecting and trading stickers. In 2017, a complete 1970 World Cup Panini sticker album signed by Pel\u00e9 sold for a record \u00a310,450.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 51], "content_span": [52, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090872-0032-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup, Group stage, Group stage\nThe first round, or group stage, saw the 16 teams divided into four groups of four teams. Each group was a round-robin of six games, where each team played one match against each of the other teams in the same group. Teams were awarded two points for a win, one point for a draw and none for a defeat. The teams finishing first and second in each group qualified for the quarter-finals, while the bottom two teams in each group were eliminated from the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 45], "content_span": [46, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090872-0033-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup, Knockout stage\nThe eight teams that had advanced from the group stage entered a single-elimination style tournament, which also featured a third place play-off contested between the two losing semi-finalists. In this knockout stage (including the final), if a match was level at the end of 90 minutes, extra time of two periods (15 minutes each) would be played. In matches prior to the final, if the score was still level after extra time then a coin toss by the referee would determine the winner. If the final was still level after 120 minutes' play then the match would instead be replayed at a later date.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 631]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090872-0034-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup, Statistics, Goalscorers\nWith 10 goals, Gerd M\u00fcller was the top scorer in the tournament. In total, 95 goals were scored by 55 players, with only one of them credited as own goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090872-0035-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup, FIFA retrospective ranking\nIn 1986, FIFA published a report that ranked all teams in each World Cup up to and including 1986, based on progress in the competition, overall results and quality of the opposition. The rankings for the 1970 tournament were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 47], "content_span": [48, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090872-0036-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup, FIFA retrospective ranking\n* Listed as #13 in one of the sources** Listed as #12 in one of the sources", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 47], "content_span": [48, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090873-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup Final\nThe 1970 FIFA World Cup Final was held on Sunday, 21 June, in the Estadio Azteca in Mexico City, to determine the winner of the 1970 FIFA World Cup. This final, between Brazil and Italy, marked the first time that two former world champions met in a final; Italy had previously won the World Cup in 1934 and 1938, while Brazil won in 1958 and 1962.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090873-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup Final\nBefore the finals in Mexico, Brazil had to play qualifying matches against Colombia, Venezuela and Paraguay. Brazil was far superior, winning all six games, scoring 23 goals and conceding only two. In the last match of the qualifying round, Brazil beat Paraguay 1\u20130 and had the largest official audience ever recorded for a football match, with 183,341 spectators in Brazil's Maracan\u00e3 Stadium. In total, the Brazilian team won all 12 games, scoring 42 goals and conceding only eight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090873-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup Final\nWith this third win after their 1958 and 1962 World Cup victories, Brazil became the world's most successful national football team at that time, surpassing both Italy and Uruguay, who each had two championships. The third title earned Brazil the right to retain the Jules Rimet Trophy permanently; it was stolen in 1983 while on display in Rio de Janeiro and never recovered.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090873-0002-0001", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup Final\n38-year-old Brazilian coach M\u00e1rio Zagallo became the first footballer to win the World Cup as a player (1958, 1962) and a coach, as well the second youngest coach to win a World Cup, after Alberto Suppici in 1930. Pel\u00e9 ended his World Cup playing career as the competition's first three-time winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090873-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup Final, Match, Summary\nBrazil struck first, with Pel\u00e9 heading in a cross by Rivellino at the 18th minute. Roberto Boninsegna equalized for Italy after a blunder in the Brazilian defence. In the second half, Brazil's firepower and creativity was too much for an Italian side that clung to their cautious defensive system. G\u00e9rson fired in a powerful shot for the second goal, and then helped provide the third, with a long free kick to Pel\u00e9 who headed down into the path of the onrushing Jairzinho.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090873-0003-0001", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup Final, Match, Summary\nPel\u00e9 capped his superb performance by drawing the Italian defence in the centre and feeding captain Carlos Alberto on the right flank for the final score. Carlos Alberto's goal, after a series of moves by the Brazilian team from the left to the centre, is considered one of the greatest goals ever scored in the history of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090873-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup Final, Match, Summary\nA total of seven outfield players from Brazil passed the ball until captain Carlos Alberto hammered the ball into the corner of the Italian goal following a pass across the Italian penalty area from Pel\u00e9, prompted by Tost\u00e3o, who, with his back to the goal, told Pel\u00e9 that Alberto was steaming in on the right flank. Tost\u00e3o started the move five yards from the left of the Brazilian penalty area, then ran the length of the field to the Italian box without touching the ball again to tell Pel\u00e9 to lay it off for Alberto.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090873-0004-0001", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup Final, Match, Summary\nThe players involved in the passes in order were Tost\u00e3o, Brito, Clodoaldo, Pel\u00e9 and G\u00e9rson. Clodoaldo beat four Italian players in his own half before passing to Rivellino who hit a perfect pass down the wing to Jairzinho. Jairzinho crossed from the wing to the centre of the box to Pel\u00e9 who held the ball up to play a pass for Alberto to smash it home. The only outfield players not involved in the move were Everaldo and Piazza. In 2002, the UK public voted the goal as number 36 in the list of the 100 Greatest Sporting Moments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090874-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup Group 1\nGroup 1 of the 1970 FIFA World Cup was contested in Mexico City's Estadio Azteca between 31 May and 11 June 1970. The Soviet Union and Mexico finished level on both points and goal difference, meaning a drawing of lots was required under the tournament rules to determine the placings of the teams. The Soviet Union was drawn out and therefore were ranked as group winner, with Mexico ranked in second place. Belgium and El Salvador both failed to advance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090875-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup Group 2\nGroup 2 of the 1970 FIFA World Cup was contested in the Estadio Cuauht\u00e9moc and Estadio Nemesio D\u00edez between 2 and 11 June 1970. Italy won the group, and advanced to the quarter-finals, along with Uruguay, who finished second by virtue of goal difference. Sweden and Israel failed to advance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090876-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup Group 3\nGroup 3 of the 1970 FIFA World Cup was contested in Guadalajara's Estadio Jalisco between 2 and 11 June 1970. Brazil won the group, and advanced to the quarter-finals, along with World Cup holders England. Romania and Czechoslovakia failed to advance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090877-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup Group 4\nGroup 4 of the 1970 FIFA World Cup was contested in Le\u00f3n's Estadio Nou Camp between 2 and 11 June 1970. West Germany won the group, and advanced to the quarter-finals, along with Peru. Bulgaria and Morocco failed to advance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090878-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup knockout stage\nThe knockout stage of the 1970 FIFA World Cup was the second and final stage of the competition, following the group stage. It featured the eight national teams that had finished in the top two in each of the four groups, and so advanced to compete in a single-elimination style tournament. A third place play-off was contested between the two losing semi-finalists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090878-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup knockout stage\nIn the knockout stage (including the final), if a match was level at the end of 90 minutes, extra time of two periods (15 minutes each) would be played. If the score was still level after extra time prior to the final, then a coin toss by the referee would determine the winner. If the final was still level after 120 minutes then the match would be replayed at a later date.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090878-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup knockout stage\nThe stage began on 14 June with the quarter-finals, and ended one week later with the final match of the tournament held at the Estadio Azteca in Mexico City, in which Brazil defeated Italy 4\u20131 to claim a then-record third World Cup triumph.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090878-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup knockout stage, Qualified teams\nThe top two placed teams from each of the four groups qualified for the knockout stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090879-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup qualification\nA total of 75 teams entered the 1970 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds, competing for a total of 16 spots in the final tournament. Hosts Mexico and defending champions England qualified automatically, leaving 14 spots open for competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090879-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup qualification\nFor the first time, the winners of both the African zone and the Asian and Oceanian zone were guaranteed a direct place in the final tournament. The 16 spots available in the 1970 World Cup would be distributed among the continental zones as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090879-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup qualification\nA total of 68 teams played in at least one qualifying match. A total of 172 qualifying matches were played, and 542 goals were scored (an average of 3.15 per match).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090879-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup qualification\nListed below are the dates and results of the qualification rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090879-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup qualification, Qualified teams\n10 of the 16 teams subsequently failed to qualify for the 1974 finals: Belgium, Czechoslovakia, El Salvador, England, Israel, Mexico, Morocco, Peru, Romania and Soviet Union.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090879-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup qualification, Europe\nFIFA rejected the entry of Albania. The remaining 29 teams were divided into 8 groups of 3 or 4 teams each (three groups with 3 teams and five groups with 4 teams). The teams played against each other on a home-and-away basis. The group winners would qualify.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 41], "content_span": [42, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090879-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup qualification, South America\nThe 10 teams were divided into 3 groups; two groups with 3 teams and one group with 4 teams. The teams played against each other on a home-and-away basis. The group winners would qualify.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090879-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup qualification, South America, Group 1\nThe Bolivia v Peru match on 10 August 1969 is infamous for being fixed by Argentina in favour of Bolivia. Match referee Sergio Chechelev annulled a valid goal from Peru without any justification, allowing Bolivia to win 2-1. Years later, Chechelev excused himself saying that Argentina had paid him to favour Bolivia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090879-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup qualification, South America, Group 1\nThis has been the only time that Argentina failed to qualify to a World Cup tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090879-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup qualification, North, Central America and Caribbean\nFIFA rejected the entry of Cuba. There would be three rounds of play:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 71], "content_span": [72, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090879-0010-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup qualification, North, Central America and Caribbean, Semifinal Round, Group 2\nEl Salvador and Honduras finished level on points, and a play-off on neutral ground was played to decide who would advance to the Final Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 97], "content_span": [98, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090879-0011-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup qualification, North, Central America and Caribbean, Semifinal Round, Group 2\nEl Salvador advanced to the Final Round. Additionally, these matches featured prominently in the Football War.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 97], "content_span": [98, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090879-0012-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup qualification, North, Central America and Caribbean, Final Round\nEl Salvador and Haiti finished level on points, and a play-off on neutral ground was played to decide who would qualify.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 84], "content_span": [85, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090879-0013-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup qualification, Africa\nFIFA rejected the entries of Guinea and Zaire. There would be three rounds of play:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 41], "content_span": [42, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090879-0014-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup qualification, Asia and Oceania\nNorth Korea withdrew because they refused to play with Israel. There would be three rounds of play:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090879-0015-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup qualification, Asia and Oceania, Second round, Group 1\nAustralia and Rhodesia finished level on points, and a play-off was played to decide who would advance to the Final Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 74], "content_span": [75, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090879-0016-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup qualification, Asia and Oceania, Second round, Group 2\nIsrael advanced to the Final Round. North Korea, despite their good performance in the previous tournament staged in England in 1966, refused to play in Israel for political reasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 74], "content_span": [75, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090880-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC and OFC)\nListed below are the dates and results for the 1970 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds for the Asian and Oceanian zone (AFC and OFC). For an overview of the qualification rounds, see the article 1970 FIFA World Cup qualification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090880-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC and OFC)\nNorth Korea withdrew before the matches were played as they refused to play with Israel. There would be three rounds of play:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090880-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC and OFC), Second round, Group 1\nAustralia and Rhodesia finished level on points, and a play-off was played to decide who would advance to the Final Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 70], "content_span": [71, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090880-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC and OFC), Second round, Group 2\nIsrael advanced to the Final Round. North Korea, despite their good performance in the previous tournament staged in England in 1966, refused to play in Israel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 70], "content_span": [71, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090881-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup qualification (CAF)\nThe Confederation of African Football (CAF) section of the 1970 FIFA World Cup qualification saw teams competing for one berth in the final tournament in Mexico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090881-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup qualification (CAF)\nThirteen nations in total entered the qualifying stage but FIFA rejected the entries of Guinea and Zaire, leaving 11 nations to contest the qualifying spot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090881-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup qualification (CAF), Qualification, First Round\nThe aggregate score was tied 6\u20136, but Sudan advanced to the Second Round as they scored more goals in the second match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 67], "content_span": [68, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090881-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup qualification (CAF), Qualification, First Round\nThe aggregate score was tied 2\u20132, and since extra time was not played in the second match, a play-off on neutral ground was played to decide who would advance to the Second Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 67], "content_span": [68, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090881-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup qualification (CAF), Qualification, Second Round\nThe aggregate score was tied 0\u20130, and a play-off on neutral ground was played to decide who would advance to the Final Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 68], "content_span": [69, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090881-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup qualification (CAF), Qualification, Second Round\nMorocco advanced to the Final Round, by winning a coin toss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 68], "content_span": [69, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090882-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA)\nThe European (UEFA) zone of qualification for the 1970 FIFA World Cup saw 29 teams competing for eight places at the finals. UEFA members England qualified automatically as the defending champions. The qualification process started on 19 May 1968 and ended on 7 December 1969.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090882-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA), Format\nFIFA rejected the entry of Albania. The remaining 29 teams were drawn into eight groups, five groups of four teams and three of three teams. All eight group-winners qualified automatically.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 48], "content_span": [49, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090882-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA), Groups, Group 2\nCzechoslovakia and Hungary finished level on points, and a play-off on neutral ground was played to decide who would qualify. Czechoslovakia won the play-off to qualify for the World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090883-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Group 1\nThe 1970 FIFA World Cup qualification UEFA Group 1 was a UEFA qualifying group for the 1970 FIFA World Cup. The group comprised Greece, Portugal, Romania and Switzerland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090884-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Group 2\nThe 1970 FIFA World Cup qualification UEFA Group 2 was a UEFA qualifying group for the 1970 FIFA World Cup. The group comprised Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Hungary and Republic of Ireland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090884-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Group 2, Standings\nCzechoslovakia and Hungary finished level on points, and a play-off on neutral ground was played to decide who would qualify.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 59], "content_span": [60, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090885-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Group 3\nThe 1970 FIFA World Cup qualification UEFA Group 3 was a UEFA qualifying group for the 1970 FIFA World Cup. The group comprised East Germany, Italy and Wales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090886-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Group 4\nThe 1970 FIFA World Cup qualification UEFA Group 4 was a UEFA qualifying group for the 1970 FIFA World Cup. The group comprised Northern Ireland, Soviet Union and Turkey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090887-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Group 5\nThe 1970 FIFA World Cup qualification UEFA Group 5 was a UEFA qualifying group for the 1970 FIFA World Cup. The group comprised France, Norway and Sweden.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090888-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Group 6\nThe 1970 FIFA World Cup qualification UEFA Group 6 was a UEFA qualifying group for the 1970 FIFA World Cup. The group comprised Belgium, Finland, Spain and Yugoslavia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090889-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Group 7\nThe 1970 FIFA World Cup qualification UEFA Group 7 was a UEFA qualifying group for the 1970 FIFA World Cup. The group comprised Austria, Cyprus, Scotland and West Germany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090890-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup qualification \u2013 UEFA Group 8\nThe 1970 FIFA World Cup qualification UEFA Group 8 was a UEFA qualifying group for the 1970 FIFA World Cup. The group comprised Bulgaria, Luxembourg, Netherlands and Poland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090891-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup squads\nBelow are the squads for the 1970 FIFA World Cup final tournament in Mexico. Sweden (6), West Germany (2) and Czechoslovakia (1) had players representing foreign clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090891-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 FIFA World Cup squads, Group 4, Bulgaria\nThe Georgi Kamenski replacement to Yordan Filipov in at the last moment by injury", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090892-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 FIM Motocross World Championship\nThe 1970 FIM Motocross World Championship was the 14th F.I.M. Motocross Racing World Championship season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090892-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 FIM Motocross World Championship, Summary\nArne Kring led the world championship points standings after the first nine rounds, before breaking his back while competing in a non-championship race, forcing him to miss the remaining races. Bengt \u00c5berg went on to win his second consecutive 500cc world championship for Husqvarna. Jo\u00ebl Robert claimed the 250cc title for Suzuki, marking the first championship for a Japanese manufacturer in the motocross world championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090893-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship\nThe 1970 FIVB Men's World Championship was the seventh edition of the tournament, organised by the world's governing body, the FIVB. It was held from 29 September to 12 October 1970 in Bulgaria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090893-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship, Results, Final round\nThe results and the points of the matches between the same teams that were already played during the first round are taken into account for the final round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 67], "content_span": [68, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090894-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship\nThe 1970 FIVB Women's World Championship was the sixth edition of the tournament, organised by the world's governing body, the FIVB. It was held from 22 September to 2 October 1970 in Bulgaria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090894-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship, Format\nThe tournament was played in two different stages (first and final rounds). In the First round, the 16 participants were divided in four groups of four teams each. A single round-robin format was played within each group to determine the teams group position, all teams progressed to the next round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 55], "content_span": [56, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090894-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship, Format\nIn the Final round, two groups were created (1st-8th and 9th-16th), teams were allocated to a group according to their First round group position (best two teams of each group going to 1st-8th and the remaining teams to 9th-16th). A single round-robin format was played within each group with matches already played between teams in the First round also counted in this round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 55], "content_span": [56, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090894-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship, Results, Final round\nThe results and the points of the matches between the same teams that were already played during the first round are taken into account for the final round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 69], "content_span": [70, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090895-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Faroese general election\nGeneral elections were held in the Faroe Islands on 7 November 1970. The Social Democratic Party emerged as the largest party in the L\u00f8gting, winning 7 of the 26 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090896-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Federation Cup (tennis)\nThe 1970 Federation Cup was the eighth edition of what is now known as the Fed Cup. 22 nations participated in the tournament, which was held at the Freiburg Tennis Club in Freiburg, West Germany from 19\u201324 May. Australia defeated West Germany in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090896-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Federation Cup (tennis), Draw\nAll ties were played at the Freiburg Tennis Club in Freiburg, West Germany on clay courts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 34], "content_span": [35, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090897-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Finnish parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections were held in Finland on 15 and 16 March 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090897-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Finnish parliamentary election, Background\nMauno Koivisto had replaced Rafael Paasio as leader of the Social Democratic Party and Prime Minister in March 1968. His government was very broad-based, including the Social Democrats, the Centre Party, the Finnish People's Democratic League, the Swedish People's Party and the Social Democratic Union of Workers and Smallholders, with over four-fifths of MPs belonging to the governing parties. Koivisto's government implemented some liberal reforms, including the sale of medium-strength beer in grocery stores and kiosks, and abortion on demand (allowed also for social reasons, in addition to medical ones). The government helped the Finnish economy to grow by pursuing its predecessor's policies of subsidising export companies and fixed-term public works or government-funded jobs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 836]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090897-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Finnish parliamentary election, Background\nCentralized incomes agreements between the employers' organizations, labour unions and government became a part of the Finnish \"consensus\" (broad agreement) politics. On the other hand, quickly proceeding urbanization and industrialization caused many young people and young adults to leave from the countryside, and tens of thousands of Finns moved to Sweden in pursuit of a higher standard of living. Smallholders were severely affected, particularly in eastern and northern Finland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090897-0002-0001", "contents": "1970 Finnish parliamentary election, Background\nThe populist Finnish Rural Party benefited from this discontent, and its charismatic leader, former Assistant Finance Minister and presidential candidate Veikko Vennamo accused the \"old parties\" of deliberately worsening the farmers' living standards, emptying the countryside and appeasing the Soviet Union too much by, for example, discouraging its open criticism in the Finnish political debate and media.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090897-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Finnish parliamentary election, Background\nThe increasing mocking and criticism of Christianity, traditional family values, patriotism, army and military service, and parents' and teachers' authority also helped the Rural Party and the National Coalition Party to score big gains in the elections. The opposition parties were irritated by the student radicals' \"conquest\" of the Old University Students' House in Helsinki in November 1968. Koivisto's government suffered heavy losses, totalling over 20 MPs, but it still had a majority. President Urho Kekkonen allowed the National Coalition Party's leader Juha Rihtniemi to try to form a new government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 659]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090897-0003-0001", "contents": "1970 Finnish parliamentary election, Background\nHe was unable to form a majority government, and Kekkonen refused to allow him to form a minority centre-right government, claiming that such a government would fail in foreign policy (in other words, it would not gain the Soviet Union's trust). From May to July 1970, the Liberal city manager of Helsinki, Teuvo Aura, led a caretaker government. Long-time Foreign Minister Ahti Karjalainen managed to form a new centre-left majority government in July 1970, which excluded the National Coalition Party and Rural Party from power. One notable demographic change of these parliamentary elections was the election of several young (under 30-year-old) MPs reflecting the rising political activity of young Finns (the baby boomers), and the lowering of minimum voting age to 20 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 828]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090898-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 First National Tennis Classic\nThe 1970 First National Tennis Classic, also known as the Louisville Open, was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Louisville Tennis Center in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. It was the inaugural edition of the tournament and was held from July 29 through August 3, 1970. The tournament was part of the 1970 Grand Prix tennis circuit and categorized in Class 2 with total prize money of $25,000. The singles final was won by Rod Laver who earned eight ranking points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090898-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 First National Tennis Classic, Finals, Doubles\nJohn Newcombe / Tony Roche defeated Roy Emerson / Rod Laver 8\u20136, 5\u20137, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090899-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Five Nations Championship\nThe 1970 Five Nations Championship was the forty-first series of the rugby union Five Nations Championship. Including the previous incarnations as the Home Nations and Five Nations, this was the seventy-sixth series of the northern hemisphere rugby union championship. Ten matches were played between 10 January and 18 April. It was contested by England, France, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090899-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Five Nations Championship\nThe England v Wales game at Twickenham was notable for two injuries. Robert Calmet, the French referee, had to leave the field at half time and was replaced by Johnny Johnson of England. Then, with 15 minutes to go, Gareth Edwards of Wales left the field injured. In doing so, it was the only time in his Welsh international career that Edwards failed to finish a game. Chico Hopkins of Maesteg took over, and not only set up a try for JPR Williams, but then helped create history when he scored himself in injury time. It was the first try scored by a replacement player, to be awarded by a replacement referee at international level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 666]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090901-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Florida Attorney General election\nThe 1970 Florida Attorney General election was held on November 3, 1970. Robert L. Shervin would be elected winning 61.43% of the vote and defeated Thom Rumberger.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090901-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Florida Attorney General election, Primary elections, Democratic Primary\nThe Democratic Party would hold its primary on September 8, 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 77], "content_span": [78, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090901-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Florida Attorney General election, Primary elections, Republican Primary\nThe Republican Party did not hold a primary as Thom Rumberger was unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 77], "content_span": [78, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090902-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Florida Gators football team\nThe 1970 Florida Gators football team represented the University of Florida during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. The season was Florida alumnus Doug Dickey's first of nine as the new head coach of the Florida Gators football team. Dickey had been the starting quarterback for the Gators under coach Bob Woodruff in 1952 and 1953, and had previously served as the head coach of the Tennessee Volunteers before returning to his alma mater in 1970. Dickey's 1970 Florida Gators finished with a 7\u20134 overall record and a 3\u20133 record in the Southeastern Conference (SEC), tying for third among ten SEC teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 656]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090903-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Florida State Seminoles baseball team\nThe 1970 Florida State Seminole baseball team represented Florida State University in the 1970 NCAA University Division baseball season. The Seminoles played their home games at Seminole Field. The team was coached by Jack Stallings in his 2nd season at Florida State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090903-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Florida State Seminoles baseball team\nThe Seminoles lost the College World Series, defeated by the USC Trojans in the championship game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090903-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Florida State Seminoles baseball team, Seminoles in the 1970 MLB Draft\nThe following members of the Florida State Seminoles baseball program were drafted in the 1970 Major League Baseball Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 75], "content_span": [76, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090904-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Florida State Seminoles football team\nThe 1970 Florida State Seminoles football team represented Florida State University in the 1970 NCAA University Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090905-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Florida gubernatorial election\nThe 1970 Florida gubernatorial election took place on November\u00a03, 1970, to determine the Governor and Lieutenant Governor of Florida, concurrent with the election to the United States Senate, elections to the United States House of Representatives, and various state and local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090905-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Florida gubernatorial election\nIncumbent Republican Governor Claude R. Kirk Jr. chose to run for a second term, with this being the first election in which the incumbent would be eligible for another four-year term. The first Republican elected governor since the Reconstruction Era, Kirk was challenged by Eckerd Corporation founder Jack Eckerd and State Senator Louis A. \"Skip\" Bafalis for his party's nomination. After failing to receive a majority, Kirk prevailed over Eckerd in a runoff. The primary for the Democratic Party nomination featured a four candidate field, with Florida Attorney General Earl Faircloth and President pro tempore of the Florida Senate Reubin Askew advancing to a runoff. Askew won the runoff and received the nomination of the Democratic Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 781]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090905-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Florida gubernatorial election\nThis was the first election since the re-establishment of the office of Lieutenant Governor. Askew selected Florida Secretary of State Thomas Burton Adams Jr., while Kirk chose to run with incumbent Ray C. Osborne. Primarily due to controversial statements and actions during his term, as well as his inability to portray Askew as an extreme liberal as he had done with Robert King High in 1966, Kirk lost re-election to Askew in the general election by a margin of 56.88% to 43.12%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090905-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Florida gubernatorial election, Overview\nIncumbent Governor of Florida Claude R. Kirk Jr. was the first Republican who held Florida's governorship since Reconstruction. He was elected in 1966, when Republicans has made some gains in traditionally Democratic Deep South. During his tenure as governor, the Florida Legislature created a new Constitution in 1968, which was approved by voters on November\u00a05, 1968. As part of the new Constitution, the office of Lieutenant Governor was re-established. Kirk appointed Ray C. Osborne, a Florida House of Representatives member from Pinellas County. The new Constitution also allowed for the Governor of Florida to serve two consecutive terms. Kirk was thus eligible for re-election in 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 739]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090905-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Florida gubernatorial election, Republican primary\nDuring the Republican primary, incumbent Claude Kirk was challenged by State Senator Louis A. Bafalis from Palm Beach and Eckerd founder Jack Eckerd of Clearwater. The Miami Herald endorsed Eckerd, stating that he is \"an efficient campaigner with the ability to bring people together constructively. ... [Eckerd has] a common touch, dedication to high principle, and organizing genius.\" William C. Cramer, a powerful Republican in the state and the party's senate nominee for that year, publicly remained neutral during the primary, but voted for Eckerd. Later, Eckerd himself would state, \"I was offended by his [Kirk's] public behavior and chagrined that he was a Republican.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 55], "content_span": [56, 734]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090905-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Florida gubernatorial election, Republican primary\nIn the primary election held on September\u00a08, Kirk reached first place with 48.16% of the vote, compared to 38.37% for Eckerd, and 13.48% for Bafalis. However, because Kirk failed to receive a majority of the votes, he and Eckerd advanced to a run-offrelection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 55], "content_span": [56, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090905-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 Florida gubernatorial election, Republican primary, Run-off\nIn the run-off election on September\u00a029, Kirk received 199,943\u00a0votes versus Eckerd's 152,327\u00a0votes, by 47,616\u00a0votes \u2013 a margin of approximately 13.52%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 64], "content_span": [65, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090905-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 Florida gubernatorial election, Democratic primary\nIn primaries, held on September 8, none of these candidates was able to win majority. As a result, the top two finishers, Faircloth and Askew, advanced to a runoff election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 55], "content_span": [56, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090905-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 Florida gubernatorial election, Democratic primary, Run-off\nAlthough the primary election was a close race, Askew defeated Faircloth by a relatively wide margin in the run-off election on September\u00a029. Askew earned 447,025\u00a0votes against Faircloth's 328,038\u00a0votes, by 312,158\u00a0votes \u2013 a margin of approximately 15.36%. Askew selected Florida Secretary of State Thomas Burton Adams Jr. to be his running mate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 64], "content_span": [65, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090905-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 Florida gubernatorial election, General election\nIn response to the schism between Cramer and Kirk, the Miami Herald endorsed Askew and noted that \"Askew and Chiles form a logical team; Kirk and Cramer don\u2019t\". Kirk mocked Askew as a \"momma\u2019s boy who wouldn\u2019t have the courage to stand up under the fire of the legislators\" and as a \"nice, sweet-looking fellow chosen by \u2018liberals\u2019 ... to front for them.\" Despite promising no new taxes and several attempts to label Askew a \"liberal\", Kirk had overseen what was then the largest tax increase in Florida history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 53], "content_span": [54, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090905-0010-0000", "contents": "1970 Florida gubernatorial election, General election\nAskew and Adams defeated incumbents Governor Kirk and Lieutenant Governor Ray C. Osborn with respectable margin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 53], "content_span": [54, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090905-0011-0000", "contents": "1970 Florida gubernatorial election, General election\nOn the very same day Florida elected to the United States Senate Democrat Lawton Chiles, who later was elected Governor in 1990.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 53], "content_span": [54, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090906-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Football League Cup Final\nThe 1970 Football League Cup Final took place on 7 March 1970 at Wembley Stadium with an attendance of 97,963. It was the tenth Football League Cup final and the fourth to be played at Wembley. It was contested between Manchester City and West Bromwich Albion. Manchester City won their first of two trophies that season; on 29 April they would win the 1970 European Cup Winners' Cup Final 2-1 against G\u00f3rnik Zabrze.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090906-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Football League Cup Final\nJeff Astle opened the scoring for Albion after five minutes, becoming the first player to score in the final of both the League Cup and FA Cup at Wembley. He had already scored in the first leg of the 1966 League Cup Final four years previously, however that was at West Ham's Boleyn Ground. City equalised through Mike Doyle to send the game into extra-time, and eventually won 2\u20131, with Glyn Pardoe scoring the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090906-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Football League Cup Final, Background\nHonours were shared in the league matches between the two sides during the 1969\u201370 league season, with Manchester City gaining a 2\u20131 victory at Maine Road and West Bromwich Albion winning 3\u20130 at The Hawthorns. City went on to achieve a 10th-place finish in the First Division, while Albion finished 16th. The only previous meeting between the two sides in the League Cup had taken place at the third round stage of the 1966\u201367 competition; on that occasion, Albion progressed by a 4\u20132 scoreline and went on to reach that season's final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090907-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Formula Ford National Series\nThe 1970 Formula Ford National Series was an Australian motor racing competition open to Formula Ford racing cars. It was the first annual Australian series for Formula Fords.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090907-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Formula Ford National Series\nThe series was won by Richard Knight driving an Elfin 600.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090907-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Formula Ford National Series, Series schedule\nThe series was contested over six rounds with one race per round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090907-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Formula Ford National Series, Points system\nSeries points were awarded on a 9-6-4-3-2-1 basis for the first six places at each round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090908-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Formula One season\nThe 1970 Formula One season was the 24th season of the FIA's Formula One motor racing. It featured the 21st World Championship of Drivers and the 13th International Cup for F1 Manufacturers. Thirteen races were held between 7 March and 25 October, with the Drivers' Championship won by Jochen Rindt and the Constructors' title by Lotus. Rindt died four races before the end of the season, but had earned just enough World Championship points that no other driver managed to surpass his total by the end of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090908-0000-0001", "contents": "1970 Formula One season\nIt is the only season to date in which the World Drivers' Championship title had been awarded posthumously. Jacky Ickx driving for Ferrari finished the season strongly, but his low 4th-place finish in the penultimate round ensured that Rindt's title lead would stand. In the end, all of Rindt's 45 points came from his five wins in the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090908-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Formula One season, Teams and drivers\nThe following teams and drivers competed in the 1970 World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090908-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Formula One season, Calendar, Calendar changes\nThe Belgian Grand Prix returned in 1970 after the 1969 race was cancelled after the drivers boycotted the Grand Prix because of the extreme dangers of the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps. The circuit had major safety changes were made to it for 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090908-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Formula One season, Calendar, Calendar changes\nThe Spanish Grand Prix was moved from Montju\u00efc to Jarama, in keeping with the event-sharing arrangement between the two circuits.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090908-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Formula One season, Calendar, Calendar changes\nThe British Grand Prix was moved from Silverstone to Brands Hatch, in keeping with the event-sharing arrangement between the two circuits.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090908-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Formula One season, Calendar, Calendar changes\nThe German Grand Prix was originally to be held at the N\u00fcrburgring but the drivers refused to race at the 'Ring in the condition it was in' unless major safety changes were made to it. The Nurburgring track officials responded negatively to a list of changes requested by the drivers. The Hockenheimring would host the race in 1970 on its intended date.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090908-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 Formula One season, Calendar, Calendar changes\nThe Austrian Grand Prix hosted its first Grand Prix in 1970. The race was held at the \u00d6sterreichring on 16 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090908-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 Formula One season, Calendar, Calendar changes\nThe Canadian Grand Prix was moved from Mosport Park to Circuit Mont-Tremblant, in keeping with the event-sharing arrangement between the two circuits.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090908-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 Formula One season, Season review\nFor the 1970 Formula One season, following an agreement with Simca, Tyrrell were asked by Matra to use their V12 rather than the Cosworth. Stewart tested the Matra V12 and found it inferior to the DFV.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 38], "content_span": [39, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090908-0008-0001", "contents": "1970 Formula One season, Season review\nAs a large part of the Tyrrell budget was provided by Ford, and another significant element came from French state-owned petroleum company Elf (which had an agreement with Renault that precluded supporting a Simca partner), Ken Tyrrell had little alternative (due to clashing sponsorship deals) but to buy the March 701 chassis as an interim solution while developing his own car in secret with the first Tyrrell bearing a substantial resemblance to the MS80.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 38], "content_span": [39, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090908-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 Formula One season, Season review\nThe new wedge-shaped Lotus 72 had very innovative car design, featuring torsion bar suspension, hip-mounted radiators, inboard front brakes and an overhanging rear wing. The 72 originally had suspension problems, but when dive and squat were designed out of the suspension the car quickly showed its superiority. Lotus's new leader, the Austrian Jochen Rindt, dominated the championship until he was killed at Monza when he crashed into some poorly installed crash barriers right before the Parabolica corner. He took the 1970 title posthumously for Lotus. Jacky Ickx won the Austrian, Canadian and Mexican Grands Prix to come second in the Drivers' Championship, having re-joined Ferrari from Brabham. Had he won the United States Grand Prix instead of Brazilian newcomer Emerson Fittipaldi, Ickx would have been crowned champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 38], "content_span": [39, 870]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090908-0010-0000", "contents": "1970 Formula One season, Season review\nThe 1970 season was one of the most tragic in Formula One history. Before Rindt's death at Monza, New Zealander Bruce McLaren was killed testing a McLaren Can-Am car at the Goodwood Circuit in England, and Briton Piers Courage was killed at the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort, driving a Frank Williams-entered De Tomaso.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 38], "content_span": [39, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090908-0011-0000", "contents": "1970 Formula One season, Season review\nAfter a Formula One career which began at the 1955 British Grand Prix, triple World Champion Jack Brabham retired at the end of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 38], "content_span": [39, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090908-0012-0000", "contents": "1970 Formula One season, Season review, Race 1: South Africa\nThe first round was the South Africa Grand Prix held at the Kyalami circuit between Johannesburg and Pretoria. Jack Brabham won the race in a Brabham BT33.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 60], "content_span": [61, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090908-0013-0000", "contents": "1970 Formula One season, Season review, Race 2: Spain\nThe Spanish Grand Prix took place on the Jarama circuit. The defending champion Jackie Stewart won in a March 701.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 53], "content_span": [54, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090908-0014-0000", "contents": "1970 Formula One season, Season review, Race 3: Monaco\nThe Monaco Grand Prix ended in a close finish. At the last corner of the last lap, Jack Brabham skidded off the track, allowing Austrian Jochen Rindt in a Lotus 49 to pass and win the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090908-0015-0000", "contents": "1970 Formula One season, Season review, Race 4: Belgium\nFormula One had recently lost one of its top drivers: Bruce McLaren had been killed testing a Can-Am car at the Goodwood circuit in southern England. But the F1 circus had returned to a wild and dangerous place: the notorious 14.1 kilometres (8.8\u00a0mi) ultra-fast Spa-Francorchamps circuit had returned to the calendar for the 1970 season after some safety upgrades, including steel Armco barriers now lined around the circuit. A chicane had also been inserted at the incredibly fast Malmedy corner to reduce speeds onto the Masta straight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090908-0015-0001", "contents": "1970 Formula One season, Season review, Race 4: Belgium\nThe field only consisted of 18 entrants; Spa often had a small number of entrants compared to other circuits because most racing drivers in Europe were frightened of the circuit and did not like racing there. Stewart took pole, followed by New Zealander Chris Amon and Rindt. Rindt took the lead going into Eau Rouge, and once the cars came back around towards La Source, Amon was leading. Then, Stewart took the lead, but then retired his March-Ford/Cosworth with engine problems.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090908-0015-0002", "contents": "1970 Formula One season, Season review, Race 4: Belgium\nAmon took the lead, but Mexican Pedro Rodr\u00edguez in a BRM was making the most of his BRM engine's V12 power, and he and Amon battled until the 28th and last lap \u2013 and Rodriguez beat the perennially unlucky Amon to the checkered flag by a mere 1.1 seconds. Frenchman Jean-Pierre Beltoise took the final podium spot, followed by home favorite Jacky Ickx in a Ferrari. But this was the last time the old triangle-shaped Spa was to be used for Formula One \u2013 the circuit proved to be just too fast and dangerous, even with safety modifications. The Belgian Grand Prix was originally scheduled to be on the following year's calendar, but was taken off the calendar after the circuit was not up to FIA-newly mandated safety specs. The race would move to Nivelles and Zolder.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 822]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090908-0016-0000", "contents": "1970 Formula One season, Season review, Race 5: The Netherlands\nThe Dutch Grand Prix of 1970 saw the revolutionary Lotus 72 stamp its authority on the Formula One scene. Although the car made its debut at Spa with John Miles, the car was still not properly finished. But for the Dutch event, it was \u2013 and Jochen Rindt dominated this weekend by taking pole and leading from start to finish on the fast, beachside Zandvoort circuit. But the race itself was marred by the fatal accident of Briton Piers Courage in a Frank Williams-entered DeTomaso-Ford/Cosworth. Courage crashed at the very fast Tunnel Oost corner, and one of the wheels hit him in the head and killed him instantly. After the car had crashed, it then caught fire, as was so common in those days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 63], "content_span": [64, 760]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090908-0017-0000", "contents": "1970 Formula One season, Season review, Race 6: France\nFormula One then went to the 5.1 mile Charade circuit, made up entirely of closed-off public roads located around an extinct volcano overlooking the small city of Clermont-Ferrand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090908-0017-0001", "contents": "1970 Formula One season, Season review, Race 6: France\nPractice and qualifying were both eventful \u2013 in addition to Ferrari showing improved form by Jacky Ickx taking pole, the circuit was littered with rocks and Rindt \u2013 already made nauseous by the twisty and roller-coaster-type nature of the circuit \u2013 was hit in the face by a rock thrown from another car \u2013 in those days, drivers wore open-face helmets covered by a white rag to protect them from the gas fumes. Ickx took the lead from the start, but he retired with engine damage, and Frenchman Beltoise \u2013 driving an all-French Matra \u2013 was in the lead. However, due to the rocks on the track, Beltoise punctured a tire, and had to come in. This gave Rindt the lead, ahead of Chris Amon. Rindt won from Amon and Brabham.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 773]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090908-0018-0000", "contents": "1970 Formula One season, Season review, Race 7: Great Britain\nThe British Grand Prix alternated between the very fast, flat, smooth Silverstone circuit and the twisty, undulating and rough Brands Hatch, just outside London. For 1970, the British GP was at Brands Hatch, and it was an exciting race \u2013 Jack Brabham was leading at the start, but he ran out of fuel at the last bend \u2013 and Rindt overtook him and won his 3rd consecutive race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 61], "content_span": [62, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090908-0018-0001", "contents": "1970 Formula One season, Season review, Race 7: Great Britain\nAfter the race, Rindt's Lotus was disqualified for not meeting the maximum rear wing height -after the car had been brought back to the Lotus garage, the team appealed, the car was reviewed again (having been out of parc ferme for a while) and this time it was declared within the regulations, returning the win to Rindt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 61], "content_span": [62, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090908-0019-0000", "contents": "1970 Formula One season, Season review, Race 8: Germany\nThe German Grand Prix was held at the Hockenheimring for 1970. It had originally been scheduled to be run at the very long and notoriously dangerous Nurburgring Nordschleife, but the drivers refused to race at the 'Ring in the condition it was in \u2013 unless major safety changes were made to it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090908-0019-0001", "contents": "1970 Formula One season, Season review, Race 8: Germany\nThere was a driver's meeting at the Dorchester Hotel in London after the memorial services for Bruce McLaren and Piers Courage, and the drivers, already under considerable pressure and motivated by a normally quiet Jack Brabham \u2013 voted not to race there after the German GP organizers responded negatively to a list of changes requested by the drivers. The Hockenheimring was very fast, and it generated a great race \u2013 Jochen Rindt and Jacky Ickx battled all throughout the race and Rindt won yet again \u2013 and it was clear at this point who the two main title contenders were going to be.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 643]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090908-0020-0000", "contents": "1970 Formula One season, Season review, Race 9: Austria\nThe second Formula One Austrian Grand Prix was the first held at the fast and spectacular \u00d6sterreichring \u2013 in 1964, it had been held at the unpopular Zeltweg Airfield. The year-old Styrian circuit played host to Ferrari dominance \u2013 their first victory since 1968. Jacky Ickx and Clay Regazzoni easily finished 1\u20132; the Ferrari 312B had become a competitive package, although this was not done by Ickx, who did not like testing and often preferred to use his driving skill to deal with a car's shortcomings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090908-0021-0000", "contents": "1970 Formula One season, Season review, Race 10: Italy\nMonza was an ultra-fast circuit with no chicanes of any kind, and the weekend was marred by the death of Jochen Rindt, who was killed on the straight going into the Parabolica on his wingless Lotus 72. Aerodynamic downforce was not yet properly understood, and the car was, according to his teammate John Miles, rather unstable and difficult to drive. Ultimately though, it was a brake system failure that caused Rindt to spin off and crash into a poorly installed Armco barrier: the car went under the barrier and rotated a few times in the sand trap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 607]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090908-0021-0001", "contents": "1970 Formula One season, Season review, Race 10: Italy\nRindt's belts were loose, and he was not wearing a crotch strap belt, a recent introduction. As a result, he slipped down in the car and the belt buckle caused fatal throat injuries. Ferrari driver Clay Regazzoni won his first Formula One race, and the overjoyed crowd ran onto the track and celebrated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090908-0022-0000", "contents": "1970 Formula One season, Season review, Race 11: Canada\nThe F1 season concluded with a 3-part North American tour, which started in Canada at the spectacular Mont-Tremblant circuit in Quebec near the town of St. Jovite \u2013 the second and last time F1 would race there. The Lotus team did not show up, and although Jackie Stewart dominated practice in his new Tyrrell-Ford/Cosworth 001, he retired due to mechanical problems, and Ickx took victory in his Ferrari.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090908-0023-0000", "contents": "1970 Formula One season, Season review, Race 12: United States\nThe United States Grand Prix at Watkins Glen saw the return of the Lotus team, and Brazilian newcomer Emerson Fittipaldi, who had become their lead driver after Rindt's death, was competitive throughout. He was challenged by Mexican Pedro Rodriguez, wanting to win again after his Spa triumph four months earlier. Rodriguez led but ran out of fuel, and although he stormed through the track, Fittipaldi was able to hold on to win his first Formula One championship race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 62], "content_span": [63, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090908-0023-0001", "contents": "1970 Formula One season, Season review, Race 12: United States\nThis was the last F1 race at the original Watkins Glen permanent race track \u2013 the circuit was rebuilt for the following year. Rindt posthumously won the Drivers' Championship at this race \u2013 Ickx needed to win to stand a chance of overtaking Rindt's points total, but finished fourth after mechanical problems.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 62], "content_span": [63, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090908-0024-0000", "contents": "1970 Formula One season, Season review, Race 13: Mexico\nThe last race of the Formula One World Championship was the Mexican Grand Prix at the Magdalena Mixhuca Park in Mexico City. The event proved troublesome \u2013 some 200,000 people showed up to watch, and a number of them were actually sitting right next to the track asphalt, over the barriers. This delayed the race start for over an hour \u2013 after Rodriguez and Stewart pleaded with the crowd to move back, which they did \u2013 but not very far. The race finally got underway \u2013 and Ickx won again for Ferrari, as Stewart retired after hitting a stray dog. But the crowd's shenanigans caused by the disorganization of the event caused the Mexican Grand Prix to be cancelled for the following year, and it did not come back until 1986 to the same circuit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 801]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090908-0025-0000", "contents": "1970 Formula One season, Results and standings, World Drivers' Championship standings\nPoints were awarded on a 9\u20136\u20134\u20133\u20132\u20131 basis to the first six finishers at each race. The best six results from the first seven rounds and the best five results from the last six rounds were retained.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 85], "content_span": [86, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090908-0026-0000", "contents": "1970 Formula One season, Results and standings, World Drivers' Championship standings\n\u2020 Jochen Rindt suffered a fatal accident in practice before the Italian Grand Prix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 85], "content_span": [86, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090908-0027-0000", "contents": "1970 Formula One season, Results and standings, International Cup for F1 Manufacturers standings\nPoints were awarded on a 9\u20136\u20134\u20133\u20132\u20131 basis to the first six finishers at each round, however only the best placed car from each manufacturer was eligible to score points. The best six results from the first seven rounds and the best five results from the last six rounds were retained.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 96], "content_span": [97, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090908-0028-0000", "contents": "1970 Formula One season, Non-championship races\nOther Formula One races held in 1970, which did not count towards the World Championship. The International Trophy and Gold Cup were held concurrently with Formula 5000 cars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 47], "content_span": [48, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090909-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 French Grand Prix\nThe 1970 French Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at the Circuit de Charade, Clermont-Ferrand on 5 July 1970. It was race 6 of 13 in both the 1970 World Championship of Drivers and the 1970 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers. This was the third French Grand Prix to be held at the Circuit de Charade and the second in succession, after plans to hold the race at the Circuit d'Albi near Toulouse fell through.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090909-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 French Grand Prix\nThe 38-lap race was won by Lotus driver Jochen Rindt after he started from sixth position. Chris Amon finished second for the March team and Brabham driver Jack Brabham came in third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090910-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 French Open\nThe 1970 French Open was a tennis tournament that was held at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris in France from 25 May through 7 June 1970. It was the 74th edition of the French Open, the 40th to be open to foreign competitors, and the second Grand Slam of the year. Jan Kode\u0161 and Margaret Court won the singles titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090910-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 French Open, Finals, Men's doubles\nIlie N\u0103stase / Ion \u0162iriac defeated Arthur Ashe / Charlie Pasarell, 6\u20132, 6\u20134, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 39], "content_span": [40, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090910-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 French Open, Finals, Women's doubles\nGail Chanfreau / Fran\u00e7oise D\u00fcrr defeated Rosemary Casals / Billie Jean King, 6\u20131, 3\u20136, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 41], "content_span": [42, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090910-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 French Open, Finals, Mixed doubles\nBillie Jean King / Bob Hewitt defeated Fran\u00e7oise D\u00fcrr / Jean-Claude Barclay, 3\u20136, 6\u20134, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 39], "content_span": [40, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090911-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 French Open \u2013 Men's Doubles\nJohn Newcombe and Tony Roche were the defending champions but both players chose not to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090911-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 French Open \u2013 Men's Doubles\nIlie N\u0103stase and Ion \u0162iriac won in the final 6\u20132, 6\u20134, 6\u20133 against Arthur Ashe and Charlie Pasarell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090912-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 French Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nSeventh-seeded Jan Kode\u0161 defeated \u017deljko Franulovi\u0107 6\u20132, 6\u20134, 6\u20130 in the final to win the Men's Singles tennis title at the 1970 French Open. Rod Laver was the defending champion, but did not compete this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090912-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 French Open \u2013 Men's Singles, Seeds\nThe seeded players are listed below. Jan Kode\u0161 is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090913-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 French Open \u2013 Men's Singles Qualifying\nPlayers who neither had high enough rankings nor received wild cards to enter the main draw of the annual French Open Tennis Championships participated in a qualifying tournament held in the week before the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090914-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 French Open \u2013 Mixed Doubles\nMarty Riessen and Margaret Court were the defending champions, but Marty Riessen did not compete this year. Margaret Court teamed up with \u017deljko Franulovi\u0107 and lost in semifinals to Bob Hewitt and Billie Jean King.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090914-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 French Open \u2013 Mixed Doubles\nBob Hewitt and Billie Jean King won in the final 3\u20136, 6\u20134, 6\u20132 against Jean-Claude Barclay and Fran\u00e7oise D\u00fcrr.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090915-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 French Open \u2013 Women's Doubles\nThe Women's Doubles tournament at the 1970 French Open was held from 25 May to 7 June 1970 on the outdoor clay courts at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France. The fourth-seeded team of Gail Chanfreau and Fran\u00e7oise D\u00fcrr won the title, defeating the first-seeded pair of Rosie Casals and Billie Jean King in the final in three sets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090916-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 French Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nFirst-seeded Margaret Court was the defending champion, and successfully defended her title, defeating Helga Niessen in the final, 6\u20132, 6\u20134 to win the Women's Singles tennis title at the 1970 French Open. This was Court's fifth French Open title, her third consecutive Grand Slam title and her eighteenth Grand Slam overall. Court would go on to win the remaining two majors of the year, becoming the first woman to complete the Calendar Grand Slam in the Open era.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090917-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 French Open \u2013 Women's Singles Qualifying\nPlayers who neither had high enough rankings nor received wild cards to enter the main draw of the annual French Open Tennis Championships participated in a qualifying tournament held in the week before the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090918-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 French cantonal elections\nCantonale elections to renew canton general councillors were held in France on 8 and 15 March 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090918-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 French cantonal elections, Electoral system\nThe cantonales elections use the same system as the regional or legislative elections. There is a 10% threshold (10% of registered voters) needed to proceed to the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090918-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 French cantonal elections, Sources\nAlain Lancelot, Les \u00e9lections sous la Ve R\u00e9publique, PUF, Paris, 1988", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090919-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 French motorcycle Grand Prix\nThe 1970 French motorcycle Grand Prix was the second round of the 1970 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on 17 May 1970 at the Circuit Bugatti Le Mans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090920-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Fresno State Bulldogs football team\nThe 1970 Fresno State Bulldogs football team represented Fresno State College during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season as a member of the Pacific Coast Athletic Association. The team was led by head coach Darryl Rogers, in his fifth year, and they played their home games at Ratcliffe Stadium on the campus of Fresno City College in Fresno, California. They finished the season with a record of eight wins and four losses (8\u20134, 4\u20132 PCAA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090920-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Fresno State Bulldogs football team, Team players in the NFL\nNo Fresno State players were selected in the 1971 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090921-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 GP Ouest\u2013France\nThe 1970 GP Ouest-France was the 34th edition of the GP Ouest-France cycle race and was held on 25 August 1970. The race started and finished in Plouay. The race was won by Gianni Marcarini of the Peugeot team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090922-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Gambian republic referendum\nA referendum on becoming a republic was held in the Gambia in April 1970. The changes resulted in the creation of the post of President to replace Elizabeth II as head of state, thus eliminating the post of Governor-General. It was the second referendum on the issue: the first in 1965 failed because the two-thirds majority required was not reached.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090922-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Gambian republic referendum\nThis time the referendum produced a \"yes\" result. The Prime Minister Sir Dawda Jawara was elected the first President by the parliament, replacing Elizabeth II (represented by Governor-General Sir Farimang Mamadi Singateh) as head of state on 24 April 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090923-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Gediz earthquake\nThe 1970 Gediz earthquake (also known as the 1970 K\u00fctahya-Gediz earthquake) struck western Turkey on 28 March at about 23:02 local time, with an estimated magnitude of 7.2 on the Ms scale.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090923-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Gediz earthquake\nThe event killed 1,086 people, injured 1,260 people, and left many thousands homeless in Gediz. a district of K\u00fctahya Province situated 98\u00a0km (61\u00a0mi) southeast of K\u00fctahya. Many people were burned alive as fires broke out from overturned stoves, and 9,452 buildings in the region were severely damaged or destroyed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090923-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Gediz earthquake\nThe town of Gediz, home to repeated natural disasters like earthquakes and floods, was relocated following a government resolution soon after the destruction to a new place 7\u00a0km (4.3\u00a0mi) away on the road to U\u015fak under the name \"Yeni Gediz\" (literally: New Gediz). The residents moved in their newly built, earthquake-resistant homes. Neighboring towns and villages were also rebuilt at places with relative minimum earthquake risk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090923-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Gediz earthquake\nOther major earthquakes occurred in Gediz in 1866 and 1896, and on June 25, 1944, at 07:20 local time, a magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurred in Gediz, killing 20 people and damaging around 3,500 buildings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090924-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Gent\u2013Wevelgem\nThe 1970 Gent\u2013Wevelgem was the 32nd edition of the Gent\u2013Wevelgem cycle race and was held on 1 April 1970. The race started in Ghent and finished in Wevelgem. The race was won by Eddy Merckx of the Faemino\u2013Faema team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090925-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Georges River state by-election\nThe 1970 Georges River state by-election was held on 19 September 1970 for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Georges River. It was triggered by the death of Douglas Cross (Liberal).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090926-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Georgia 500\nThe 1970 Georgia 500 was a NASCAR Grand National Series event that was held on November 8, 1970, at Middle Georgia Raceway in Byron, Georgia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090926-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Georgia 500\nNASCAR officials would record four engine-related incidents, one major fire, two issues related to the vehicle's suspension and an oil leak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090926-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Georgia 500, Race report\nThe race car drivers still had to commute to the races using the same stock cars that competed in a typical weekend's race through a policy of homologation (and under their own power). This policy was in effect until roughly 1975. By 1980, NASCAR had completely stopped tracking the year model of all the vehicles and most teams did not take stock cars to the track under their own power anymore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090926-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Georgia 500, Race report\nFive hundred laps took place on a paved oval track spanning .548 miles (0.882\u00a0km) for a grand total of 274.0 miles (441.0\u00a0km). The race took three hours, thirteen minutes, and thirty-three seconds to reach its conclusion; Richard Petty (racing for Petty Enterprises) defeated Bobby Isaac in fourteen seconds. The pole position speed was 94.064 miles per hour (151.381\u00a0km/h); accomplished by Richard Petty. Total winnings for this race were $20,000 ($131,671 when considering inflation) with the winner receiving most of $3,275 ($21,561 when considering inflation). This event would be the first of two career starts for Jimmy Watson. Notable crew chiefs for this race included Harry Hyde, Dale Inman and Lee Gordon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 745]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090926-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Georgia 500, Race report\nPetty's wins in 1970 came at 18 different tracks. He didn't have any sweeps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090926-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Georgia 500, Race report\nThis would be the final career start for Lee Roy Carrigg; whose NASCAR Winston Cup Series race spanned nine races and 1002 laps of racing action.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090926-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 Georgia 500, Race report\nEarlier that year, the second annual Atlanta International Pop Festival was held in the same venue as this racing event. Jimi Hendrix and the Allman Brothers Band performed in front of 300,000 concertgoers; the town had a population of about 2,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090926-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 Georgia 500, Race report\nIn comparison to this summer musical festival that took place from July 3\u20135, this autumn racing event only attracted 6500 people in order to see stock car vehicles travel at speeds averaging 83.284 miles per hour or 134.033 kilometres per hour throughout the entire event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090926-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 Georgia 500, Race report, Finishing order\n* Driver failed to finish race\u2020 signifies that the driver is known to be deceased", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 46], "content_span": [47, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090927-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Georgia Bulldogs football team\nThe 1970 Georgia Bulldogs football team represented the Georgia Bulldogs of the University of Georgia during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090928-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team\nThe 1970 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team represented the Georgia Institute of Technology in the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. The Yellow Jackets were led by fourth-year head coach Bud Carson and played their home games at Grant Field in Atlanta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090928-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team\nGeorgia Tech started the year with four straight victories, climbing to 13th in the AP Poll. Two losses to ranked rivals Tennessee and Auburn knocked them out of the polls. After racking up three more wins, they traveled to Notre Dame and almost pulled off an upset over the #1 team in the country, as the Fighting Irish needed a fourth-quarter comeback to beat the Yellow Jackets. The close loss actually brought Georgia Tech back into the polls, at 16th. After defeating rival Georgia, they were invited to the 1970 Sun Bowl, where they defeated Texas Tech, 17\u20139.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090929-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Georgia gubernatorial election\nThe 1970 Georgia gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 1970. It was marked by the election as Governor of Georgia of the relatively little-known former state senator Jimmy Carter after a hard battle in the Democratic primary. This election is famous because Carter, who was often regarded as one of the New South Governors, later ran for president in 1976 on his gubernatorial record and won. As of 2021, this is the last time Fulton County voted for the Republican candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090929-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Georgia gubernatorial election, Background\nUnder the Georgia constitution of 1945, incumbent Democratic governor Lester Maddox was prohibited from seeking re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090929-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Georgia gubernatorial election, Democratic primary, Campaign\nInitially the strongest candidate was former governor Carl E. Sanders. Sanders was a moderate, who worked to improve education, the environment and led the transition away from racial segregation with cooperation with the United States Federal Government. He left office at the peak of his popularity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 65], "content_span": [66, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090929-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Georgia gubernatorial election, Democratic primary, Campaign\nHis main opponent was former state senator and candidate for the gubernatorial nomination in 1966 Jimmy Carter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 65], "content_span": [66, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090929-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Georgia gubernatorial election, Democratic primary, Runoff\nA runoff was held on September 23. Despite Sanders's initial front-runner status and popularity, Carter won by nearly 20 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 63], "content_span": [64, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090929-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Georgia gubernatorial election, Democratic primary, Lieutenant governor\nGovernor Maddox ran for lieutenant governor and won the nomination. Although Maddox was elected as a Democratic candidate at the same time as Jimmy Carter's election as governor as a Democratic candidate, the two were not running mates; in Georgia, particularly in that era of Democratic dominance, the winners of the primary elections went on to easy victories in the general elections without campaigning together as an official ticket or as running mates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 76], "content_span": [77, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090929-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 Georgia gubernatorial election, Republican primary, Campaign\nAt this time, Georgia was still regarded as a part of the Democratic Party's Solid South, despite the Republican plurality in the 1966 gubernatorial race. The Democratic position in 1970 was again regarded as safe. TV newsman Hal Suit faced Comptroller James L. Bentley, who had been elected as a Democrat but joined the Republican party in 1968.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 65], "content_span": [66, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090929-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 Georgia gubernatorial election, General election\nCarter ran on a populist platform. While he refused to join the segregationist White Citizens' Council, he ran a campaign specifically designed to win over the segregationist vote that had made Maddox governor four years earlier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 53], "content_span": [54, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090929-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 Georgia gubernatorial election, General election\nIn winning the governorship back in 1970, he courted the right wing, particularly the large constituency of Lester Maddox, the fiery segregationist Governor ... At one point, he called Mr. Maddox \"the essence of the Democratic Party\" and added that he was \"proud\" to be on the ticket with him..", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 53], "content_span": [54, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090929-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 Georgia gubernatorial election, General election\nCarter's true feelings about race might be better indicated by the fact that his had been one of only two families which voted to admit blacks to the Plains Baptist Church, but that was not something advertised in the 1970 race for governor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 53], "content_span": [54, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090929-0010-0000", "contents": "1970 Georgia gubernatorial election, Controversy, Civil rights\nPrior to this campaign, Jimmy Carter appeared to be a proponent of civil rights and desegregation. In 1954 he refused to join the White Citizens Council despite immense pressure and went on to vote against segregation for his church in 1965. However, after failing to run as a moderate in the Georgia Gubernatorial Election of 1966, Carter's new strategy in 1970 was designed to attract the pro-segregationist vote. Poll data suggested that the appearance of a pro-segregationist position could be critical to winning the race, even if it was never overtly stated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 62], "content_span": [63, 627]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090929-0010-0001", "contents": "1970 Georgia gubernatorial election, Controversy, Civil rights\nIn order to shore up segregationist support, Carter made overtures to numerous racial organizations, and even personally called the cofounder of the White Citizens Council. Carter's apparent support for segregation sparked animosity with his opponent Carl Sanders. Sanders claims that when his own campaign had presented the same poll data, he refused to pursue a strategy on it for moral reasons. Furthermore, Carter's campaign printed numerous pamphlets insinuating Sanders was too \"chummy\" with blacks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 62], "content_span": [63, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090929-0011-0000", "contents": "1970 Georgia gubernatorial election, Controversy, Civil rights\nUltimately, Carter himself has expressed embarrassment and regret over his strategy. After being elected, he reversed his position on segregation prominently, stating in his 1971 gubernatorial inaugural address \"The time for racial discrimination is over.\" Carter won praise for his strategy from Leroy Johnson, who stated \"I understand why he ran that kind of ultra-conservative campaign. You have to do that to win. And that is the main thing. I don't believe you can win [Georgia] without being a racist.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 62], "content_span": [63, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090930-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 German Grand Prix\nThe 1970 German Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at the Hockenheimring on 2 August 1970. It was race 8 of 13 in both the 1970 World Championship of Drivers and the 1970 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers. The 50-lap race was won by Lotus driver Jochen Rindt after he started from second position. Jacky Ickx finished second for the Ferrari team and McLaren driver Denny Hulme came in third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090930-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 German Grand Prix\nOn short notice following the drivers' demand for improved safety at the N\u00fcrburgring, the race was moved to Hockenheim for the first time in the history of the German Grand Prix as this track already had been fitted with Armco. F1 returned to an updated N\u00fcrburgring in 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090931-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 German Open Championships\nThe 1970 German Open Championships was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was the 62nd edition of the tournament, the first one in the Open Era, and took place at the Am Rothenbaum in Hamburg, West Germany, from 10 August through 17 August 1970. First-seeded Tom Okker and Helga Schultze-H\u00f6sl won the singles titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090931-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 German Open Championships, Champions, Men's doubles\nBob Hewitt / Frew McMillan defeated Tom Okker / Nikola Pili\u0107 6\u20133, 7\u20135, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090931-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 German Open Championships, Champions, Women's doubles\nKaren Krantzcke / Kerry Melville defeated Winnie Shaw / Virginia Wade 6\u20130, 6\u20131", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090931-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 German Open Championships, Champions, Mixed doubles\nJudy Dalton / Frew McMillan defeated Evonne Goolagong / Bob Hewitt 6\u20134, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090932-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Gillette Cup\nThe 1970 Gillette Cup was the eighth Gillette Cup, an English limited overs county cricket tournament. It was held between 25 April and 5 September 1970. The tournament was won by Lancashire County Cricket Club who defeated Sussex County Cricket Club by 6 wickets in the final at Lord's.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090932-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Gillette Cup, Format\nThe seventeen first-class counties, were joined by five Minor Counties: Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Cornwall, Norfolk and Oxfordshire. Teams who won in the first round progressed to the second round. The winners in the second round then progressed to the quarter-final stage. Winners from the quarter-finals then progressed to the semi-finals from which the winners then went on to the final at Lord's which was held on 5 September 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 25], "content_span": [26, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090933-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Giro d'Italia\nThe 1970 Giro d'Italia was the 53rd\u00a0edition of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The 3,292-kilometre (2,046\u00a0mi) race consisted of 20 stages, starting in San Pellegrino Terme on 18 May and finishing Bolzano on 7 June. There was one time trial stage and a single rest day. Eddy Merckx of the Faemino team won the overall general classification, his second victory. Italians Felice Gimondi (Salvarani) placed second, 3 min and 14 s slower than Merckx, and Martin Van Den Bossche (Molteni) was third, nearly five minutes behind Merckx.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090933-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Giro d'Italia, Teams\nA total of 13 teams were invited to participate in the 1970 Giro d'Italia. Each team sent a squad of ten riders, so the Giro began with a peloton of 130 cyclists. Out of the 130 riders that started this edition of the Giro d'Italia, a total of 97 riders made it to the finish in Bolzano.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 25], "content_span": [26, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090933-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Giro d'Italia, Pre-race favorites\nThe starting peloton did feature the previous year's winner Felice Gimondi (Salvarani). Despite an initial unwillingness to participate relating to his expulsion the year before, Eddy Merckx chose to enter the race after the race organizers agreed to send all doping controls to Rome rather than conduct them in a van that moved with the race. Merckx entered as the primary favorite to win the race. He entered the race having already won several races that season including: Paris\u2013Nice, Paris\u2013Roubaix, and La Fl\u00e8che Wallonne, among others.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 38], "content_span": [39, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090933-0002-0001", "contents": "1970 Giro d'Italia, Pre-race favorites\nLe Conf\u00e9d\u00e9r\u00e9 felt that Merckx's greatest challenge would come not from Italian riders, but the Belgian Walter Godefroot (Salvarani). Godefroot was thought to be the leader for the Salvarani team as Gimondi entered the race in poor form. Gianni Motta was absent from the race as he was recovering from a knee operation earlier in the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 38], "content_span": [39, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090933-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Giro d'Italia, Route and stages\nThe route was revealed on 31 March 1970 by race director Vincenzo Torriani. The race covered 3,311\u00a0km (2,057\u00a0mi) across twenty stages and one rest day. Compared to the previous edition, the 1970 edition was shorter and included only four stages longer than 200\u00a0km (124\u00a0mi) with stage 14 being the longest at 218\u00a0km (135\u00a0mi). In April, the route was announced to have nineteen categorized climbs that awarded points towards the mountains classification, while the final route included seven more categorized climbs. In total, 25.6\u00a0km (16\u00a0mi) were climbed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 36], "content_span": [37, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090933-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Giro d'Italia, Route and stages\nSan Pellegrino Terme hosted the race's start and then it travelled west, visiting the Alps before turning south and then east towards Treviso. A transfer then occurred to Terracina and the race moved north along the coast. The race made its way to the Dolomites for three stages before finishing in Bolzano. The route did not visit Milan for the first time in race history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 36], "content_span": [37, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090933-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Giro d'Italia, Route and stages\nThe route featured less transition stages than in previous years, which was thought to allow for more action in the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 36], "content_span": [37, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090933-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 Giro d'Italia, Classification leadership\nTwo different jerseys were worn during the 1970 Giro d'Italia. The leader of the general classification \u2013 calculated by adding the stage finish times of each rider \u2013 wore a pink jersey. This classification is the most important of the race, and its winner is considered as the winner of the Giro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 45], "content_span": [46, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090933-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 Giro d'Italia, Classification leadership\nFor the points classification, which awarded a cyclamen jersey to its leader, cyclists were given points for finishing a stage in the top 15. Before the start of the 1970, Termozeta replaced Dreher Brewery as the sponsor of the points classification and so the color of the leader's jersey changed from red to cyclamen. The mountains classification leader. The climbs were ranked in first and second categories, the former awarded 50, 30, and 20 points while the latter awarded 30, 20, and 10 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 45], "content_span": [46, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090933-0007-0001", "contents": "1970 Giro d'Italia, Classification leadership\nIn this ranking, points were won by reaching the summit of a climb ahead of other cyclists. In addition there was the Cima Coppi, the Passo Pordoi, which was the highest mountain crossed in this edition of the race, which gave 200, 100, 80, 70, and 50 points to the first five riders summit the climb. The first rider over the Passo Pordoi was Luciano Armani. Although no jersey was awarded, there was also one classification for the teams, in which the stage finish times of the best three cyclists per team were added; the leading team was the one with the lowest total time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 45], "content_span": [46, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090934-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 10\nThe 1970 Giro d'Italia was the 53rd edition of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Giro began in San Pellegrino Terme on 18 May, and Stage 10 occurred on 28 May with a stage to Rivisondoli. The race finished in Bolzano on 7 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090934-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 10, Stage 1\n18 May 1970 \u2014 San Pellegrino Terme to Biandronno, 115\u00a0km (71\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090934-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 10, Stage 2\n19 May 1970 \u2014 Comerio to Saint-Vincent, 164\u00a0km (102\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090934-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 10, Stage 3\n20 May 1970 \u2014 Saint-Vincent to Aosta, 162\u00a0km (101\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090934-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 10, Stage 4\n21 May 1970 \u2014 Saint-Vincent to Lodi, 205\u00a0km (127\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090934-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 10, Stage 5\n22 May 1970 \u2014 Lodi to Zingonia, 155\u00a0km (96\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090934-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 10, Stage 6\n23 May 1970 \u2014 Zingonia to Malcesine, 212\u00a0km (132\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090934-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 10, Stage 7\n24 May 1970 \u2014 Malcesine to Brentonico, 130\u00a0km (81\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090934-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 10, Stage 8\n25 May 1970 \u2014 Rovereto to Bassano del Grappa, 130\u00a0km (81\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090934-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 10, Stage 9\n26 May 1970 \u2014 Bassano del Grappa to Treviso, 56\u00a0km (35\u00a0mi) (ITT)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090934-0010-0000", "contents": "1970 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 10, Stage 10\n28 May 1970 \u2014 Terracina to Rivisondoli, 172\u00a0km (107\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090935-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Giro d'Italia, Stage 11 to Stage 20\nThe 1970 Giro d'Italia was the 53rd edition of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Giro began in San Pellegrino Terme on 18 May, and Stage 11 occurred on 29 May with a stage from Rivisondoli. The race finished in Bolzano on 7 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090935-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Giro d'Italia, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 11\n29 May 1970 \u2014 Rivisondoli to Francavilla al Mare, 180\u00a0km (110\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090935-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Giro d'Italia, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 12\n30 May 1970 \u2014 Francavilla al Mare to Loreto, 175\u00a0km (109\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090935-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Giro d'Italia, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 13\n31 May 1970 \u2014 Loreto to Faenza, 188\u00a0km (117\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090935-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Giro d'Italia, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 14\n1 June 1970 \u2014 Faenza to Casciana Terme, 218\u00a0km (135\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090935-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Giro d'Italia, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 15\n2 June 1970 \u2014 Casciana Terme to Mirandola, 215\u00a0km (134\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090935-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 Giro d'Italia, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 16\n3 June 1970 \u2014 Mirandola to Lido di Jesolo, 195\u00a0km (121\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090935-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 Giro d'Italia, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 17\n4 June 1970 \u2014 Lido di Jesolo to Arta Terme, 165\u00a0km (103\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090935-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 Giro d'Italia, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 18\n5 June 1970 \u2014 Arta Terme to Marmolada, 180\u00a0km (110\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090935-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 Giro d'Italia, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 19\n6 June 1970 \u2014 Rocca Pietore to Dobbiaco, 120\u00a0km (75\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090935-0010-0000", "contents": "1970 Giro d'Italia, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 20\n7 June 1970 \u2014 Dobbiaco to Bolzano, 155\u00a0km (96\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090936-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Giro di Lombardia\nThe 1970 Giro di Lombardia was the 64th edition of the Giro di Lombardia cycle race and was held on 10 October 1970. The race started in Milan and finished in Como. The race was won by Franco Bitossi of the Filotex team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090937-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Golden Helmet (Poland)\nThe Golden Helmet (Polish: Turniej o Z\u0142oty Kask, ZK) is an annual motorcycle speedway event, and has been organized by the Polish Motor Union (PZM) since 1961. Currently the race is held in PC Team 3rd from last season (previously Wroc\u0142aw), with the top twelve riders in the Extraleague and the top four riders in the First League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090937-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Golden Helmet (Poland)\n1970 Golden Helmet season was the 10th since its establishment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 91]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090937-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Golden Helmet (Poland), Final classification\nNote: Result from final score was subtracted with two the weakest events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090938-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Governor General's Awards\nEach winner of the 1970 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit was selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090939-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Grand National\nThe 1970 Grand National was the 124th renewal of the Grand National horse race that took place at Aintree near Liverpool, England, on 4 April 1970. Gay Trip won the race by 20 lengths, giving jockey Pat Taaffe his second winner. Only seven horses finished the race and Racoon was a fatality at the 3rd fence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090939-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Grand National, Media coverage\nDavid Coleman presented the eleventh Grand National Grandstand (his tenth) on the BBC. Peter O'Sullevan and Julian Wilson were the two commentators - Wilson commentating from the first fence to the Anchor Bridge crossing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090940-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Grand Prix (tennis)\nThe 1970 Pepsi-Cola ILTF Grand Prix was a tennis circuit administered by the International Lawn Tennis Federation (ILTF) which served as a forerunner to the current Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) World Tour and the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) Tour. It was the inaugural edition of the Grand Prix circuit and consisted of men's tournaments recognised by the ILTF. The creation of the Grand Prix circuit, on an experimental basis during its first year, was announced in April 1970 by the president of the ILTF, Ben Barnett. It was the brainchild of Jack Kramer, former tennis promoter and winner of the Wimbledon and US championships, and was aimed at countering the influence of commercial promoters, particularly Lamar Hunt and his World Championship Tennis circuit and George MacCall's National Tennis League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 851]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090940-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Grand Prix (tennis)\nThe tournaments were graded in one of three categories which determined the number of ranking points available: Class A, comprising the three Grand Slam tournaments, Class 1 and Class 2. The Pepsi-Cola Masters and Davis Cup Final are included in this calendar but did not count towards the Grand Prix. In addition to the tournament prize money a bonus pool of $150,000 was available for the top 20 ranked players. The bonus pool was jointly funded by Pepsi-Cola as title sponsor and the participating tournaments which reserved 10% of their prize money. Cliff Richey earned $25,000 bonus as the winner of the first Grand Prix circuit. At the end of the season the top six ranked players qualified for a Masters round-robin tournament held in Tokyo which was won by Stan Smith.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 801]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090940-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Grand Prix (tennis)\nAll open tennis tournaments were eligible to be included in the Grand Prix circuit provided they committed to not paying any management fees to commercial organizations with players under contract. Originally the Italian Championships, played in April in Rome, was part of the Grand Prix calendar but it was withdrawn during the tournament when it became known that they had paid management fees to the competing World Championship Tennis organization.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090940-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Grand Prix (tennis), Schedule, June\nGrass \u2013 128S/80Q/64D/32Q/56XD/12Q Class A Singles Draw \u2013 Doubles Draw \u2013 Mixed Doubles Draw", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090940-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Grand Prix (tennis), Grand Prix point system\nThe tournaments listed above were divided into three categories. Class A consisted of the Grand Slams while the other tournaments were divided into Class 1 and Class 2. Points were allocated based on these groups and the finishing position of a player in a tournament. Ties were settled by the number of tournaments played. The points allocation is listed below:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 49], "content_span": [50, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090940-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Grand Prix (tennis), List of tournament winners\nThe list of winners and number of singles titles won (Grand Slams and Masters in bold text), alphabetically by last name:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 52], "content_span": [53, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090940-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 Grand Prix (tennis), List of tournament winners\nThe list of winners and number of doubles titles won (Grand Slams and Masters in bold text), last name alphabetically:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 52], "content_span": [53, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090940-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 Grand Prix (tennis), List of tournament winners\nThe list of winners and number of mixed doubles titles won (Grand Slams and Masters in bold text), alphabetically by last name:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 52], "content_span": [53, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090940-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 Grand Prix (tennis), List of tournament winners\nThe following players won their first singles title in 1970:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 52], "content_span": [53, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090941-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season\nThe 1970 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season was the 22nd F.I.M. Road Racing World Championship Grand Prix season. The season consisted of twelve Grand Prix races in six classes: 500cc, 350cc, 250cc, 125cc, 50cc and Sidecars 500cc. It began on 3 May, with West German Grand Prix and ended with Spanish Grand Prix on 27 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090941-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, Season summary\nWith no other manufacturers competing in the 500cc class the MV Agusta team continued to dominate as Giacomo Agostini won his fifth consecutive 500cc world championship. Kawasaki began to sell the Kawasaki H1R to privateer racing teams. The H1R was the first multi-cylinder two stroke racing motorcycle to be sold commercially. Ginger Molloy rode one of the Kawasakis to a second place finish behind Agostini in the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 56], "content_span": [57, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090941-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, Season summary\nLife was a bit tougher for Agostini in the 350 class as Kel Carruthers and Renzo Pasolini on Benellis and Rod Gould on a factory Yamaha gave him a battle on more than one occasion. Gould would take the 250 title for Yamaha, battling Carruthers for the entire season. German Dieter Braun would give Suzuki the 125 crown while Derbi mounted Angel Nieto claimed the 50cc class for the second year in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 56], "content_span": [57, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090941-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, Season summary\nThere were six fatalities among the competitors at the Isle of Man TT races, including world championship contender Santiago Herrero, making 1970 the deadliest year in the history of the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 56], "content_span": [57, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090941-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, 1970 Grand Prix season calendar, Scoring system\nPoints were awarded to the top ten finishers in each race. Only the best of six races were counted on 50cc, 125cc, 350cc and 500cc championships, best of seven in 250cc, while in the Sidecars, the best of five races were counted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 89], "content_span": [90, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090942-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Grantland Rice Bowl\nThe 1970 Grantland Rice Bowl was an NCAA College Division game following the 1970 season, between the Tennessee State Tigers and the Southwestern Louisiana Bulldogs (now the Louisiana\u2013Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090942-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Grantland Rice Bowl, Notable participants\nMultiple players from Tennessee State were selected in the 1971 NFL Draft, including offensive tackle Vernon Holland, defensive tackle Larry Woods, and wide receiver Dave Davis. Players later selected in the 1972 NFL Draft include Tennessee State defensive back Clifford Brooks and quarterback Joe Gilliam, and Southwestern Louisiana guard Louis Age. Tennessee State freshman defensive end Ed \"Too Tall\" Jones would be the number one pick in the 1974 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 46], "content_span": [47, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090942-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Grantland Rice Bowl, Notable participants\nTennessee State head coach John Merritt was inducted to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1994.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 46], "content_span": [47, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090943-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Greater London Council election\nThe third election to the Greater London Council was held on 9 April 1970 and saw a Conservative victory with a reduced majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090943-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Greater London Council election, Electoral arrangements\nNew constituencies to be used for elections to Parliament and also for elections to the GLC had not yet been settled, so the London boroughs were used as multi-member 'first past the post' electoral areas . Westminster was joined with the City of London for this purpose. Each electoral area returned between 2 and 4 councillors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 60], "content_span": [61, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090943-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Greater London Council election, Results\nIn addition to the 100 councillors, there were sixteen Aldermen who divided 11 Conservative and 5 Labour, so that the Conservatives actually had 76 seats to 40 for Labour following the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090943-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Greater London Council election, Results\nWith an electorate of 5,524,384, there was a turnout of 35.2%. Labour recovered from its mauling three years previously, but did so primarily in working-class areas. Consequently, relatively few seats changed hands: Labour won back Camden, Greenwich, Hammersmith, Lewisham, Wandsworth, and one seat in Lambeth. The results did enable Labour to take back control of the Inner London Education Authority and were one of the factors used by Prime Minister Harold Wilson in deciding to call a general election soon after.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090943-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Greater London Council election, Results\nAmong those who were first elected to the GLC in 1970 were Tony Banks (Labour, Hammersmith, later Minister for Sport) and Sir George Young (Conservative, Ealing, later a cabinet minister under John Major). The election is also significant as it was at a meeting in support of the Conservative candidates in Lambeth that John Major met Norma Johnson, who became his wife.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090943-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Greater London Council election, Results\n1 These parties were created by a group of students standing in Haringey, who declared that they intended to make a mockery of the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090943-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 Greater London Council election, By-elections 1970\u20131973\nNo seats changed hands in byelections during this term. The Conservatives retained Kensington and Chelsea on 2 December 1971 after the death of Seton Forbes-Cockell, and Barnet on 19 October 1972 after the death of Arthur Peacock. Labour retained Wandsworth on 15 June 1972 after the death of Sir Norman Prichard. No seats were vacant at the end of the term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 60], "content_span": [61, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090944-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Green Bay Packers season\nThe 1970 Green Bay Packers season was their 52nd season overall and their 50th season in the National Football League. The team finished with a 6\u20138 record earning them a third consecutive third-place finish in the four-team NFC Central division. It was the third and final season for Phil Bengtson as head coach; he resigned shortly after the season ended.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090944-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Green Bay Packers season, Offseason\nThe Packers' 1970 season began in a state of mourning. After a summer in and out of Georgetown Hospital, Vince Lombardi succumbed to cancer on September 3, at the age of 57. Over 3,500 people attended Lombardi's funeral in New York City, including pallbearers Bart Starr, Paul Hornung, and Willie Davis. Three days after his funeral, NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle announced that the Super Bowl trophy would be renamed in Lombardi's honor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090944-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Green Bay Packers season, Offseason, NFL draft\nIn the 1970 NFL draft, the Packers used their two picks in the first-round to choose Mike McCoy and Rich McGeorge. The first pick was obtained from the Chicago Bears in a January trade that sent Lee Roy Caffey and Elijah Pitts to Chicago. In total, the Packers selected 20 players in the draft, nine of those being in the first seven rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090944-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Schedule\nThe Packers finished 6\u20138 in the regular season, failing to reach the playoffs for the third consecutive season. The schedule had the Packers play their final five games on the road and they lost four of them. For the first time, the Packers lost to the Dallas Cowboys; this year's game was on Thanksgiving on the artificial turf of the Cotton Bowl. Green Bay had won the first six meetings, four in the regular season (1960, 1964, 1965, 1968) and two in NFL championship games (1966, 1967). The Packers won the next meeting in Green Bay in 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090944-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Standings\nNote: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090944-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Green Bay Packers season, Postseason\nAfter a turbulent season filled with labor disputes, blowout losses, and the final merger of the AFL and NFL, the Packers had only their second losing season (1968) since 1958. Thoroughly frustrated, third-year head coach Phil Bengtson resigned two days after being shut out in the season finale against the Detroit Lions. His overall record was 20\u201321\u20131 during three seasons as Lombardi's handpicked successor. Obviously the organization and the community craved the high standards of winning established a decade earlier; Lombardi's did not have a losing season but Bengston had two in three years and finished in third place in the four-team division each season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 707]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090944-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 Green Bay Packers season, Postseason\nThe 1970 season was also the final season of Forrest Gregg as a Packer, a year later the Hall of Fame right tackle returned home to Texas to play for the Dallas Cowboys, where he joined his former teammates Herb Adderley and Lee Roy Caffey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090944-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 Green Bay Packers season, Statistical leaders\nThe following players led the Packers in the following statistical categories in 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090945-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Greenlandic Football Championship\nThe 1970 Greenlandic Football Championship (also known as the Danish: Fodboldturneringen Gr\u00f8nlandturneringen, Fodboldmesterskab i Gr\u00f8nland or Greenlandic: Angutit Inersimasut GM) was the 8th edition of the Greenlandic Men's Football Championship and the final edition organised by Gr\u00f8nlands Idr\u00e6tsforening before a dedicated Football Association of Greenland was established the following year. The final round was held in Sisimiut. It was won by Tupilak-41 who defeated Kissaviarsuk-33 5\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090945-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Greenlandic Football Championship, Background\nThe first federation to organise a national football championship in Greenland was the GIF (Danish: Gr\u00f8nlands Idr\u00e6tsforening), a general sports federation that organised more than just football tournaments, founded on 3 September 1953 at a meeting attended by eleven clubs from Upernavik, Uummannaq, Qeqertarsuatsiaat, Qasigiannguit, Aasiaat, Sisimiut, Maniitsoq, Nuuk, Paamiut and Qaqortoq. The 1954\u201355 tournament was the first national football tournament and GIF continued to organise the competition, usually announced as Fodboldturneringen, Gr\u00f8nlandturneringen or Fodboldmesterskab i Gr\u00f8nland, until 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 661]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090945-0001-0001", "contents": "1970 Greenlandic Football Championship, Background\nFor the first decade of its existence, the tournament was held sporadically, with iterations often taking more than a year to complete. In 1971 a football specific federation, the Football Association of Greenland (Greenlandic: Kalaallit Nunaanni Isikkamik Arsaattartut Kattuffiat; Danish: Gr\u00f8nlands Boldspil-Union), was founded, and took over the organisation of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090945-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Greenlandic Football Championship, Results\nNo results are available for the season, although it is known that the championship was won by Tupilak-41 who defeated Kissaviarsuk-33 5\u20133 in the final held in Sisimiut, their second title and the fourth time in a row that the team had finished either first or second.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 47], "content_span": [48, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090946-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Greenville 200\nThe 1970 Greenville 200 was a NASCAR Grand National Series event that was held on June 27, 1970, at Greenville-Pickens Speedway in Greenville, South Carolina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090946-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Greenville 200, Race report\nSeven thousand racing fans were in attendance to see Bobby Isaac defeat Bobby Allison by \u00bd of a lap. Bobby Allison had to borrow his son Davey's car because he wrecked his car during the previous week. The pole position was earned by the eventual race winner with a qualifying speed of 82.372 miles per hour (132.565\u00a0km/h) while the average speed of the race was 74.345 miles per hour (119.647\u00a0km/h). It took one hour and thirty-three seconds for the race to reach its conclusion. All twenty-nine competitors were born in the United States of America with no foreign-born drivers, unlike today. Five notable crew chiefs were recorded as participating in the event; including Lee Gordon, Dale Inman and Harry Hyde.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 746]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090946-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Greenville 200, Race report\nCarburetors were still in wide use in both passenger automobiles and with the NASCAR vehicles during the early 1970s; requiring plenty of physically-intensive labor from the people who would maintain the vehicles between races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090946-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Greenville 200, Race report\nNotable drivers in the field included: Richard Petty, Benny Parsons, Elmo Langley (died of a heart attack after driving the pace car at an exhibition race in Japan), Roy Tyner (murdered in his vehicle), and J.D. McDuffie (killed after colliding with turn 5 at the 1991 Budweiser At The Glen race at Watkins Glen International). The winner's purse was considered to be $1,500 ($9,875 when adjusted for inflation).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090946-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Greenville 200, Race report\nThe race car drivers still had to commute to the races using the same stock cars that competed in a typical weekend's race through a policy of homologation (and under their own power). This policy was in effect until roughly 1975. By 1980, NASCAR had completely stopped tracking the year model of all the vehicles and most teams did not take stock cars to the track under their own power anymore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090946-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Greenville 200, Finishing order\n\u2020 signifies that the driver is known to be deceased * Driver failed to finish race", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090947-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Grote Prijs Jef Scherens\nThe 1970 Grote Prijs Jef Scherens was the seventh edition of the Grote Prijs Jef Scherens cycle race and was held on 20 September 1970. The race started and finished in Leuven. The race was won by Frans Verbeeck.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090948-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Guards European Formula 5000 Championship\nThe 1970 Guards European Formula 5000 Championship was a motor racing competition for Formula 5000 cars. The series was organized in the United Kingdom by the British Racing and Sports Car Club but also included European rounds. It was the first and only series to carry the Guards European Formula 5000 Championship name and the second of seven annual European Formula 5000 Championships to be contested between 1969 and 1975. The title was won by Peter Gethin, driving a McLaren M10B.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090948-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Guards European Formula 5000 Championship, Calendar\nThe championship was contested over twenty rounds with each round staged over two heats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 56], "content_span": [57, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090948-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Guards European Formula 5000 Championship, Points system\nChampionship points were awarded on a 9-6-4-3-2-1 basis for the first six places at each round. Final championship positions were determined from the best ten results from the longer rounds (i.e. those contested over greater than 100 miles) and the best four results from the shorter rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 61], "content_span": [62, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090949-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Guatemalan general election\nGeneral elections were held in Guatemala on 1 March 1970. No candidate received over 50% of the vote in the presidential election, resulting in Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio being elected by Congress on 21 March by a vote of 37 to 17. The National Liberation Movement\u2013Institutional Democratic Party alliance also won the Congressional elections. Voter turnout was 53.82% in the presidential election and 53.26% in the Congressional elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090950-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Hamilton Tiger-Cats season\nThe 1970 Hamilton Tiger-Cats season was the 13th season for the team in the Canadian Football League and their 21st overall. The Tiger-Cats finished in 1st place in the Eastern Conference with an 8\u20135\u20131 record, but lost the Eastern Finals to the Montreal Alouettes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090951-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Hardie-Ferodo 500\nThe 1970 Hardie-Ferodo 500 was the 11th running of the Bathurst 500 touring car race. It was held on 4 October 1970 at the Mount Panorama Circuit just outside Bathurst. The race was open to standard production sedans competing in five classes based on the purchase price of the vehicle (in Australian dollars).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090951-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Hardie-Ferodo 500\nAllan Moffat won his first Bathurst enduro leading home Bruce McPhee in a one-two result for the Ford Works Team and their Ford XW Falcon GTHO Phase II's. It was the fifth Phillip Island / Bathurst 500 victory for the factory team. Third, a lap behind the Fords, was Don Holland driving a Holden LC Torana GTR XU-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090951-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Hardie-Ferodo 500\nDefending winners Colin Bond and Tony Roberts drove separate cars in the event. Bond finished 16th in his Holden Dealer Team Torana GTR XU-1 after having led the early laps, while Roberts was lucky to survive what was the biggest accident in the races history to that point when his GTHO Falcon crashed at Skyline only 6 laps from the finish. The Falcon spun backwards, leapt over the guard rail and rolled about 50 metres down the mountain before being stopped by a tree.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090951-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Hardie-Ferodo 500, Class structure, Class A\nFor cars up to $1,960. It was made up of Datsun 1200s, 1.3 litre Ford Escorts, Mazda 1300s and Toyota Corollas. A Datsun 1200 won the class with an average lap time of 3 minutes, 26 seconds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 48], "content_span": [49, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090951-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Hardie-Ferodo 500, Class structure, Class B\nThe $1,961 to $2,400 class consisted of Datsun 1600, Fiat 128, Ford Cortina and 2.6 litre Holden Torana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 48], "content_span": [49, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090951-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Hardie-Ferodo 500, Class structure, Class C\nThe $2,401 to $3,150 class saw a mix of two barrel carburettor Chrysler Valiant Pacer, 1.6 litre Ford Escort, 3.1 litre Holden Torana and Morris Cooper S.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 48], "content_span": [49, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090951-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 Hardie-Ferodo 500, Class structure, Class D\nThe $3,151 to $4,100 class featured only the four barrel carburettor Chrysler Valiant Pacer, a Fiat 125 and a Triumph 2.5 PI although a Ford Capri was also entered but did not start.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 48], "content_span": [49, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090951-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 Hardie-Ferodo 500, Class structure, Class E\nFor cars over $4,100. Apart from a single BMW 2800 and a Holden Monaro the class consisted only of Ford Falcon GTHO Phase II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 48], "content_span": [49, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090952-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Hardy Cup\nThe 1970 Hardy Cup was the 1970 edition of the Canadian intermediate senior ice hockey championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090952-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Hardy Cup, Final\nPowell River Regals beat Val D'Or Olympiques 3\u20132 on series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 21], "content_span": [22, 81]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090953-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Harvard Crimson football team\nThe 1970 Harvard Crimson football team was an American football team that represented Harvard University during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. Harvard tied for second in the Ivy League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090953-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Harvard Crimson football team\nIn their 14th and final year under head coach John Yovicsin, the Crimson compiled a 7\u20132 record and outscored opponents 227 to 157. Gary W. Farneti was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090953-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Harvard Crimson football team\nHarvard's 5\u20132 conference record tied for second place in the Ivy League standings. The Crimson outscored Ivy opponents 160 to 141.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090953-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Harvard Crimson football team\nHarvard played its home games at Harvard Stadium in the Allston neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090954-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Hawaii Rainbows football team\nThe 1970 Hawaii Rainbows football team represented the University of Hawai\u02bbi at M\u0101noa as an independent during the 1970 NCAA College Division football season. In their third season under head coach Dave Holmes, the Rainbows compiled a 9\u20132 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090955-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Hawaii gubernatorial election\nThe 1970 Hawaii gubernatorial election was Hawaii's fourth gubernatorial election. The election was held on November 3, 1970, and resulted in a victory for the Democratic candidate, incumbent Governor of Hawaii John A. Burns over Republican candidate, Judge Samuel Pailthorpe King. Burns received more votes than King in every county in the state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090955-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Hawaii gubernatorial election\nBoth the Democratic and Republican primaries were contested, with the primary votes held on October 3, 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090955-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Hawaii gubernatorial election\nGovernor Burns became ill to the point of incapacitation for the last year of this term, and although he remained the governor in name, Lt. Gov. George Ariyoshi took the role of acting governor from October 26, 1973 until the end of this term on December 2, 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090956-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Hawthorn Football Club season\nThe 1970 season was the Hawthorn Football Club's 46th season in the Victorian Football League and 69th overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090957-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Herbert Pell Cup\nThe 1970 Herbert Pell Cup was held in Newport, Rhode Island, United States in 1970. The winner, Gretel II, was awarded the Herbert Pell Cup and went on to challenge for the 1970 America's Cup. This was the first time a challenger's selection series was held, previously the New York Yacht Club had accepted a direct challenge for the America's Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090957-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Herbert Pell Cup\nIn a defenders selection series that was held simultaneously, three boats competed for the right to defend the America's Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090957-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Herbert Pell Cup, Teams, Gretel II (AUS)\nRepresenting the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron, Gretel II was owned by Frank Packer. The boat was skippered by James Hardy and the crew included starting helmsman Martin Visser, William Fesq, David Forbes, Paul Salmon, John Anderson and port trimmer John Bertrand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 45], "content_span": [46, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090957-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Herbert Pell Cup, Teams, France (FRA)\nFrance was owned by Marcel Bich and represented Cercle de la Voile de Paris. Pierre Delfour skippered the yacht and the crew included \u00c9ric Tabarly, Robin Fuger, Louis Noverraz and Bernard Dunand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 42], "content_span": [43, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090957-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Herbert Pell Cup, Results\nIn a best of seven series, Gretel II was undefeated and won the series 4-0. Bich skippered his own yacht in the fourth and final match race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090958-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Holy Cross Crusaders football team\nThe 1970 Holy Cross Crusaders football team was an American football team that represented the College of the Holy Cross as an independent during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. Bill Whitton returned for a second year as head coach. The team compiled a record of 0\u201310\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090958-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Holy Cross Crusaders football team\nReeling financially from the cancellation of all 1969 home games, Holy Cross opted to schedule an 11-game season for the first time in its history, adding a visit to West Point. The no-win, 10-loss season was the worst result in Holy Cross history to that point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090958-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Holy Cross Crusaders football team\nAll home games were played at Fitton Field on the Holy Cross campus in Worcester, Massachusetts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090959-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Home State 200\nThe 1970 Home State 200 was a NASCAR Grand National Series event that was held on September 30, 1970, at North Carolina State Fairgrounds in Raleigh, North Carolina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090959-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Home State 200\nThe race car drivers still had to commute to the races using the same stock cars that competed in a typical weekend's race through a policy of homologation (and under their own power). This policy was in effect until roughly 1975. By 1980, NASCAR had completely stopped tracking the year model of all the vehicles and most teams did not take stock cars to the track under their own power anymore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090959-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Home State 200, Summary\nThis race was done on a dirt track spanning a distance of 0.500 miles (0.805\u00a0km); for a grand total distance of 100.0 miles (160.9\u00a0km). Benny Parsons was driving the car like a modern NASCAR driver would drive on asphalt while Richard Petty was swinging his car sideways and sliding around the corners. Parsons was carefully following Petty after losing the lead; thinking he could try to throw his car to a corner in an attempt to imitate Richard Petty. As soon as he came off of turn 4 and prepared to throw his car sideways into turn 1, the engine blew after 96 laps of consistent racing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 28], "content_span": [29, 620]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090959-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Home State 200, Summary\nThere were 23 drivers on the racing grid; all of them were American-born males. John Sears would finish in last-place as the result of an engine problem on lap 16 even though he was fastest qualifier and led the first ten laps. Richard Petty defeated Neil Castles by more than two laps in front of 6,000 live audience members. Neil Castles would receive his final 2nd place finish in Grand National career. His name often comes up in the \"best driver never to get a win\" discussions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 28], "content_span": [29, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090959-0003-0001", "contents": "1970 Home State 200, Summary\nTwo lead changes were made in addition to one yellow flag being waved for four laps; making the race last one hour and twenty-seven minutes. The other finishers in the top ten included: Bobby Isaac, James Hylton, Cecil Gordon, Bobby Allison, Dave Marcis, Ben Arnold, Bill Hollar, Jabe Thomas. Nord Krauskopf, James Hylton, and Bobby Allison were the most notable NASCAR owners in this race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 28], "content_span": [29, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090959-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Home State 200, Summary\nThis race was the final dirt track race in what is now known as the Cup Series. John Kenney would retire after this race while Bill Hollar would make his debut here. The top prize of the race was $1,000 ($6,583.55 when considering inflation) while the last-place finisher received $200 ($1,316.71 when considering inflation).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 28], "content_span": [29, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090960-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Houston Astros season\nThe 1970 Houston Astros season was a season in American baseball. The team finished fourth in the National League West with a record of 79\u201383, 23 games behind the Cincinnati Reds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090960-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Houston Astros season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 71], "content_span": [72, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090960-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Houston Astros season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090960-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Houston Astros season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 69], "content_span": [70, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090960-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Houston Astros season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 66], "content_span": [67, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090960-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Houston Astros season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 67], "content_span": [68, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090961-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Houston Cougars football team\nThe 1970 Houston Cougars football team represented the University of Houston during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090962-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Houston Oilers season\nThe 1970 Houston Oilers season was the 11th season overall and its first as part of the National Football League. The team failed to improve on their previous season's 6\u20136\u20132 record, winning only three games. The Oilers started the season winning two of its first three games, both road wins against the Steelers and Bengals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090962-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Houston Oilers season\nThe Oilers struggled the rest of the season, as they went 0-6-1 following the 2-1 start. In week five versus the Steelers in the Astrodome, starting quarterback Charley Johnson suffered a broken clavicle when he was clipped by Pittsburgh defensive tackle Chuck Hinton on an interception return. Johnson returned after missing four games, but was nowhere near as effective than before the injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090962-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Houston Oilers season\nThe Oilers won only one of their last 11 games, a 31-21 win over the Denver Broncos, before losing their final 3 games of the season, including a 52-10 rout by in-state rival Dallas in the finale, to finish the season 3-10-1. They missed the playoffs for the second time in three seasons, and for the first of eight consecutive seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090962-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Houston Oilers season, Standings\nNote: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090963-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Houston Women's Invitation\nThe 1970 Houston Women's Invitation (also known as the Virginia Slims Invitation for sponsorship reasons) was a women's only tennis tournament. The tournament was the first women only tournament and was created by Gladys Heldman and held at the Houston Racquet Club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090963-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Houston Women's Invitation\nThe tournament was held in protest to the unfair distribution of prize money at tennis events. The women objected to the Pacific Southwest Championships offering a 8:1 ratio split in prize money. Nine women, known as \"the original 9\", including Billie Jean King, went with Heldman to play in this one-off tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090963-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Houston Women's Invitation\nThe Houston Women's invitation received sponsorship from Virginia Slims (Philip Morris), making the total prize purse $7,500 and took place at the same time as the Pacific Southwest Championships. The tournament was won by Rosie Casals when she beat Judy Dalton of Australia in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090963-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Houston Women's Invitation, Background\n\"Outspoken on behalf of women's rights, in and out of sports\u2013tennis in particular\u2014she was possibly the most influential figure in popularizing professional tennis in the United States.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090963-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Houston Women's Invitation, Background\nUntil the Houston event, all women's tournaments were held alongside men's tennis events. These events were part of the Grand Prix series for women, but unlike the men's series, without a season-ending championship. The Open era began with the British Hard Court Championships in Bournemouth in 1968. At the first Open Wimbledon, the prize-fund difference was 2.5:1 in favour of men. Billie Jean King won \u00a3750 for taking the title, while Rod Laver took \u00a32,000. The total purses of the competitions were \u00a314,800 for men and \u00a35,680 for women.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090963-0004-0001", "contents": "1970 Houston Women's Invitation, Background\nBy the 1970s, the pay which had been 2.5:1 ratio between men and women increased. In 1969, ratios of 5:1 in terms of pay were common at smaller tournaments; by 1970, these figures increased to 8:1 and even 12:1. At the 1970 Italian Open, men's champion Ilie Nastase received $3,500 and women's champion Billie Jean King received $600.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090963-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Houston Women's Invitation, Background\n\"Gladys and her magazine became the allies of disgruntled female players.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090963-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 Houston Women's Invitation, Background\nGladys Heldman, who was a former player in the amateur era, had been making her mark in American tennis throughout the 1950s and 60s. When the United States Lawn Tennis Association (USLTA) voted not to hold the National Indoor Championships because they always lost money, Heldman stepped in to underwrite the losses, and turned in an $8,000 profit. In 1962, she raised $18,000 to charter a plane to take 85 foreign tennis players to New York to play in the US Open and underwrote their expenses as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090963-0006-0001", "contents": "1970 Houston Women's Invitation, Background\nHeldman's involvement in tennis went back ten years, to 1953, when she set up World Tennis magazine. It made a loss at first, but by the mid-1960s it sold 43,000 copies, making the highest-selling tennis magazine in the world. Heldman used her magazine to increase awareness of gender inequality in sports. In winter 1969, Heldman staged three women's only tournaments: a $5,000 tournament in Philadelphia; another $5,000 tournament at the Vanderblit Club in New York; and a tournament without prize money in Dallas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090963-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 Houston Women's Invitation, Background\n\"If they don't like it. I won't give them any prize money.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090963-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 Houston Women's Invitation, Background\nThe turning point in the struggle for acceptance of the women's game came before the US Open in 1970. The Pacific Southwest Championships, run by Jack Kramer, offered a total prize purse of $12,500 to the men players and only $1,500 to the women players, for a ratio worse than 8:1, a pay difference tennis journalist Bud Collins termed a \"feudalistic ratio.\" Because the tournament would not take place until after the Open, players contacted Heldman and stated that they wanted to boycott the event. Heldman advised against the idea and she approached Kramer twice without success.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 627]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090963-0008-0001", "contents": "1970 Houston Women's Invitation, Background\nHeldman decided that if women were not going to be paid fairly, then she would set up a tournament to rival Kramer's. Houston was chosen as the venue as Heldman was about to move there. She contacted the Houston Racquet Club and the Texas Lawn Tennis Association about her idea and within days had created a $5,000 tournament for eight women.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090963-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 Houston Women's Invitation, Background\nIn the locker rooms at Forest Hills, the women tennis professionals argued about whether to boycott the Pacific Southwest Championship. The idealists in the group wanted to make a point before 12:1 ratios were the norm. Others wanted no part in a rebellion. When it looked as if the group would get nowhere, Heldman walked into the locker room and announced her plan for the Houston Women's Invitation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090963-0010-0000", "contents": "1970 Houston Women's Invitation, Opposition\nWhen Heldman first told Kramer of her tournament, he stated that he would not oppose the tournament. Once Kramer spoke with his friends at the USLTA, he changed his mind and decided that he would object to the tournament taking place; the women needed the governing body's backing to be allowed to proceed. The USLTA, according to King, tried to pin the blame on Perry T. Jones, the president of Southern California Tennis Association, who at the time was in a coma. The USLTA sent a telegram to Heldman allegedly signed by him. Jones died the next day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090963-0011-0000", "contents": "1970 Houston Women's Invitation, Sanctions\nTwo days before the tournament, Alaster Martin, president of the USLTA, sent an ultimatum to the players planning to take part in the tournament. His message stated that the USLTA would suspend any player involved, meaning they could not play in Wightman or Federation Cup competition. Their future at the Grand Slams also would be in doubt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090963-0012-0000", "contents": "1970 Houston Women's Invitation, Sanctions\n\"At that point I didn't care if I never played Wimbledon again.\"\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090963-0013-0000", "contents": "1970 Houston Women's Invitation, Sanctions\nBefore the tournament started, Stan Malless, chairman of the USLTA's scheduling committee, called the group planning to play in the tournament. Malless stated that they could have a sanctioned amateur tournament with no prize money. If they chose this option, they could play for $7,500 in \"money under the table.\" If they played for the money honestly, they would be suspended. The women chose the latter. They signed one-week contracts with Heldman to protect the racquet club from sanctions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090963-0013-0001", "contents": "1970 Houston Women's Invitation, Sanctions\nWith the start of the tournament an hour away and the contracts not signed, King phoned Martin to give him one last chance. Martin offered no money deal and could only offer two tournaments for women: the US Indoor Championships and the US Open. King put the phone down walked away, and with the other eight women signed Heldman's contract. The players marked the moment by taking a photo of each of them holding up a dollar bill symbolic of the $1 contracts they had signed. The photo was widely circulated in the press and has long since represented the birth of modern women's professional tennis as a whole and more specifically the first women's professional tour. The USLTA suspended the players the next day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 758]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090963-0014-0000", "contents": "1970 Houston Women's Invitation, Players\n\"BJ and Rosie were the ringleaders on court, close friends, doubles partners frequent final\u2013round foes, super saleswomen for the emerging tour. They were perfect role players, feisty but good humored kids off the public courts who believed women had a destiny in professional sport.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090963-0015-0000", "contents": "1970 Houston Women's Invitation, Players\n\"We knew we were making history and we had such a strong sense of purpose. I just kept thinking about the vision we had for the future of our sport. We wanted to ensure that any girl in the world that was good enough would have a place to go and make a living playing tennis.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090963-0016-0000", "contents": "1970 Houston Women's Invitation, Players\nTwo other players withdrew from the event: Patti Hogan withdrew because she did not want to take the risk and stand against the establishment. Margaret Court, who, after completing her Grand Slam, had just lost in Charlotte to Chris Evert, who was 15 at the time, withdrew due to a left ankle injury which sidelined her for three months. She was replaced by Pigeon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090963-0017-0000", "contents": "1970 Houston Women's Invitation, Tournament\n\"He came to the financial and spiritual rescue of the women, up to then second\u2013class citizens of tournament tennis.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090963-0018-0000", "contents": "1970 Houston Women's Invitation, Tournament\nJoseph Cullman added an additional $2,500 making the purse stand at $7,500. Cullman was the chairman of Philip Morris and a family friend of Gladys Heldman. Philip Morris had already sponsored the 1968 U.S. Open. Cullman agreed to sponsor the Houston tournament using the Virginia Slims brand the company had introduced two years earlier. The tournament was therefore called the Virginia Slims Invitational.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090963-0019-0000", "contents": "1970 Houston Women's Invitation, Aftermath\nDuring the tournament, Barry MacKay, chairman of the Pacific Coast Championships, called Heldman with an offer. Following all the publicity surrounding her event MacKay had decided to increase the women's prize fund for a draw of 32 players from $2,000 to $4,400. Heldman declined and stated that her players would play for a purse of $11,000. MacKay called the next day and agreed to the demands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090963-0020-0000", "contents": "1970 Houston Women's Invitation, Aftermath\nAfter the event at a dinner at Heldman's house, Larry King and Dennis Van der Meer proposed that their company, TennisAmerica should be brought in to run the women's tour. The players voted between King and Heldman and chose Heldman to run a new women's only tour. This became the Virginia Slims Circuit, with Phillip Morris continuing their link and sponsoring 8 of the 16 tournaments on the schedule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090963-0021-0000", "contents": "1970 Houston Women's Invitation, Aftermath\nIn 2015, a tennis.com article stated, \"The tour would be criticized over the years for promoting cigarettes, but Cullman was the right sponsor for the moment.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090963-0022-0000", "contents": "1970 Houston Women's Invitation, Aftermath\nA few weeks after the tournament the USLTA grudgingly reinstated the nine players who they had suspended. The ILTA initially suspended the players as well, but soon relented when they realised that they needed them for their events to bring in spectators.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090964-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Huascar\u00e1n debris avalanche\nThe 1970 Huascar\u00e1n debris avalanche occurred on May 31, 1970, when a debris avalanche and mudflow triggered by the Ancash earthquake destroyed the Peruvian town of Yungay and ten nearby villages, leaving up to 30,000 people dead. It is the deadliest avalanche or glacier-related disaster in history,\u200b and the third or fourth most deadly landslide-related disaster of the 20th century, after the Haiyuan landslides (China), the Armero tragedy (Colombia) and by some estimates the Khait landslide (Tajikistan).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090964-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Huascar\u00e1n debris avalanche\nThe north peak of Huascar\u00e1n from which the avalanche originated had been considered unstable since 1962, when a smaller collapse wiped out several villages of the Callej\u00f3n de Huaylas valley near Yungay. However, the provincial government made efforts to prevent the news from spreading and urged people not to panic. The 1970 earthquake destabilized a glacier and snowmass which surged rapidly downhill, becoming a mudflow as it accumulated large volumes of loose dirt, rock and surface water.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090964-0001-0001", "contents": "1970 Huascar\u00e1n debris avalanche\nThe death toll was made worse due to the earthquake having occurred on a Sunday, as thousands more people had congregated in Yungay for market when the mudflow struck and leveled the city. The slide then entered the R\u00edo Santa and caused extensive damage as it flowed all the way downstream to the Pacific Ocean, a distance of 100 miles (160\u00a0km), mostly through a narrow canyon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090964-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Huascar\u00e1n debris avalanche\nFollowing the disaster, the Peruvian government conducted relief efforts and planned to move the provincial capital from Yungay to a safer location at Tingua. Survivors resisted the resettlement proposal and thousands stayed in a camp just north of the destroyed city known as \"Yungay Norte\", which would eventually become the present-day town of Yungay. The government has forbidden redevelopment or excavation of the original town site, where a memorial has been established to commemorate the dead. Although most of Yungay was completely leveled by the earthquake and mudflow, some remnants, including the ruined cathedral and cemetery, can still be seen in the area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 702]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090964-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Huascar\u00e1n debris avalanche\nAlthough Yungay was located outside of the direct avalanche path, the slide was so large that it overwhelmed the natural geographic barriers protecting the town, whose location had previously been considered safe. The United States Geological Survey stated that \"conceivably, such an event may not occur again for thousands of years. \"\u200b", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090964-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Huascar\u00e1n debris avalanche, Background, Geography and geology\nDue to its rugged terrain, high elevation and location in an active seismic zone, the Callej\u00f3n de Huaylas, or upper R\u00edo Santa valley has historically been vulnerable to large landslides, mudslides and avalanches. Huasc\u00e1ran, the highest peak of the Peruvian Andes, rises to an elevation of 6,768\u00a0m (22,205\u00a0ft) to the east of the valley. R\u00edo Llanguanuco, a tributary of R\u00edo Santa, drains a ravine on the northwest flank of Huasc\u00e1ran and cuts a steep southwesterly path to join the larger river, forming an alluvial fan in a wide valley near its mouth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 66], "content_span": [67, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090964-0004-0001", "contents": "1970 Huascar\u00e1n debris avalanche, Background, Geography and geology\nDue to the fertile soils and availability of surface water, the area had been farmed for hundreds of years and was home to many small villages. The original site of Yungay town was an elevated area northeast of the R\u00edo Santa and north-west of the R\u00edo Llanguanuco; it was outside of the Llanguanuco valley, with a low ridge (Cerro de Aira) separating the two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 66], "content_span": [67, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090964-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Huascar\u00e1n debris avalanche, Background, Geography and geology\nDebris-flow deposits of Holocene origin make up the R\u00edo Llanganuco alluvial fan and underlie the R\u00edo Santa bed for depths of hundreds of metres in places, indicating that such flows have occurred here regularly for thousands of years. Geologic evidence indicates that Yungay itself was \"probably built on a flow or avalanche deposit.\" The name of nearby Ranrahirca village means \"pile of thrown stones\" in Quechua, suggesting that debris avalanches have been observed in the valley since ancient times. These destructive flows of snow, ice, mud and rock are locally termed huaycos.\u200b", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 66], "content_span": [67, 649]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090964-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 Huascar\u00e1n debris avalanche, Background, Geography and geology\nThe northwest side of Huascar\u00e1n has been called \"one of the most unstable ice-covered areas in the Cordillera Blanca\". Among the many glaciers and permanent icefields on Huascar\u00e1n is \"Glacier\u00a0511\" located below the nearly vertical face of Huascar\u00e1n's north peak. The glacier fills the head of the very steep Quebrada Armapampa ravine, which eventually flows into R\u00edo Llanguanuco.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 66], "content_span": [67, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090964-0006-0001", "contents": "1970 Huascar\u00e1n debris avalanche, Background, Geography and geology\nBeneath the snout of Glacier\u00a0511 the terrain slopes down at an average pitch of 23\u00a0degrees (in some places exceeding 70\u00a0degrees), with a total vertical drop of 3,000\u00a0m (9,800\u00a0ft) before reaching the more gently sloped valleys below, creating ideal conditions for any large falling mass of rock to move unobstructed at high speed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 66], "content_span": [67, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090964-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 Huascar\u00e1n debris avalanche, Background, Yungay before the disaster\nIn the late 1960s, Yungay's permanent population was around 4,000 or 5,000, which swelled greatly on market and church days when thousands of visitors arrived from the surrounding villages. With the notable exception of the massive stone cathedral at the center of town, the city consisted predominantly of two or three-story adobe and wood structures with heavy tile roofs, dating from the Spanish colonial period. This fragile housing stock, typical of structures elsewhere in the R\u00edo Santa valley, was highly vulnerable to seismic activity. Other prominent features of Yungay included the central Plaza de Armas surrounded by palm trees, which hosted events including the fiesta of Santo Domingo, and the elevated cemetery, which was actually built on top of a pre-Inca burial mound which may be as old as 10,000 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 71], "content_span": [72, 894]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090964-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 Huascar\u00e1n debris avalanche, Background, Yungay before the disaster\nIn the years leading up to 1970, Yungay \u2013 sometimes nicknamed \"Pearl of the Huaylas Corridor\" \u2013 had become one of the most popular tourist destinations in Peru due to its picturesque location, architecture, and proximity to Huascar\u00e1n and the Llanganuco lakes.\u200b", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 71], "content_span": [72, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090964-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 Huascar\u00e1n debris avalanche, Background, Yungay before the disaster\nYungay had been struck by disaster before; it was reported to be \"almost completely wiped out by an avalanche\" in 1872, implying an avalanche at least equal to the magnitude of the 1970 event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 71], "content_span": [72, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090964-0010-0000", "contents": "1970 Huascar\u00e1n debris avalanche, Background, 1962 Ranrahirca avalanche\nOn January\u00a010, 1962, part of Glacier 511 collapsed, causing 10\u00a0million\u00a0m3 (13\u00a0million\u00a0yd3) of rock, ice and snow to crash down into R\u00edo Llanganuco. The slide destroyed nine villages and killed more than 4,000 people. The entire town of Ranrahirca, which was built on the Llanguanuco fan at the edge of the slide path, was flattened; some 2,900 people died in Ranrahirca alone.\u200b Residents had little to no warning, as less than four minutes passed from the beginning of the slide before the flow reached the R\u00edo Santa. Everything in the wave's path was destroyed, and corpses were washed as far as the Pacific Ocean, 100\u00a0km (62\u00a0mi) downstream.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 70], "content_span": [71, 713]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090964-0011-0000", "contents": "1970 Huascar\u00e1n debris avalanche, Background, 1962 Ranrahirca avalanche\nThis slide was not caused by an earthquake, nor were seven other large avalanches and debris flows that occurred in the Santa Valley between 1940 and 1970. Rather, the glacier had fractured under its own weight. Due to the steep slope of the underlying rock and lubrication by glacial melt, there was nothing to stop the ice from sliding downhill at high speed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 70], "content_span": [71, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090964-0011-0001", "contents": "1970 Huascar\u00e1n debris avalanche, Background, 1962 Ranrahirca avalanche\nIn the wake of this and other glacier-related disasters in the Ancash region, notably glacial lake outburst floods that destroyed parts of Huaraz in the preceding two decades, the national government had tried to push forward \"hazard zoning\" which would limit development in flood and avalanche zones. However, these efforts were largely unsuccessful due to resistance by locals, who feared the economic and cultural disruption that would result from forced relocation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 70], "content_span": [71, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090964-0012-0000", "contents": "1970 Huascar\u00e1n debris avalanche, Background, Post-1962 observations and controversy\nIn September 1962, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology sponsored a glaciological expedition to assess the aftermath of the Ranrahirca slide. American climbers David Bernays and Charles Sawyer observed, in the aftermath of this slide, \"a massive vertical slab of rock being undermined by Glacier\u00a0511\" posing the threat of a much larger collapse. The overhanging cliff was as much as 1,000\u00a0m (3,300\u00a0ft) high in places and the rock was described as being \"pervasively fractured.\" Although the risk to Yungay was remote, the town could be threatened if a \"sufficiently large avalanche\" were to spill over the ridge to its east.\u200b The Americans' findings were reported on September\u00a027, 1962, in the El Expreso newspaper, under the headline \"Dantesque Avalanche Threatens Yungay.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 83], "content_span": [84, 863]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090964-0013-0000", "contents": "1970 Huascar\u00e1n debris avalanche, Background, Post-1962 observations and controversy\n\"The mountaineers and scientists... [ provided] a dramatic revelation that a gigantic avalanche three times larger than that of Ranrahirca threatens to dislodge, putting in danger Yungay, Mancos and the proposed site where they plan to rebuild the devastated Ranrahirca... It is hoped that authorities take preventative measures to save the lives of the flourishing Callej\u00f3n de Huaylas populations. \"\u200b", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 83], "content_span": [84, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090964-0014-0000", "contents": "1970 Huascar\u00e1n debris avalanche, Background, Post-1962 observations and controversy\nLocal authorities ordered this information to be retracted, and discouraged citizens from speaking about the threat, in order to prevent panic: \"Anyone who spoke in favor of the Americans' conclusions would be charged under the Penal Code for disrupting public tranquility. \"\u200b The director of the regional Lakes Commission, Miguel Eli\u00e1s Pizarro, was asked to \"provide an expert analysis.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 83], "content_span": [84, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090964-0014-0001", "contents": "1970 Huascar\u00e1n debris avalanche, Background, Post-1962 observations and controversy\nPizarro \"dismissed the American mountaineers' statements as outlandish, hurried and uninformed\" and stated that Yungay was in no danger, being well out of the path of the 1962 slide.\u200b Bernays and Sawyer were reportedly threatened with arrest, and they soon fled the country.\u200b Prior to that, Bernays had attended a public meeting in Huaraz where he called the Expreso coverage \"exaggerated\", though he did not deny the possibility that a large enough avalanche could affect Yungay.\u200b", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 83], "content_span": [84, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090964-0015-0000", "contents": "1970 Huascar\u00e1n debris avalanche, Background, Post-1962 observations and controversy\nThis same glacier would be the origin of the much larger collapse that destroyed Yungay eight years later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 83], "content_span": [84, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090964-0016-0000", "contents": "1970 Huascar\u00e1n debris avalanche, Earthquake and landslide\nAt 15:23 on Sunday, May\u00a031, 1970, the Ancash earthquake (also known as the Great Peruvian earthquake) struck off the coast of Peru with a moment magnitude of 7.9. The shaking dislodged a slab of rock about 800\u00a0m (2,600\u00a0ft) wide from the western face of Huascar\u00e1n's north peak, at an elevation of roughly 5,600 to 6,200\u00a0m (18,400 to 20,300\u00a0ft).\u200b The rockfall occurred almost immediately after the shaking began, with witnesses comparing the sound to a gunshot or explosion.\u200b The fall triggered an \"enormous dark cloud of dust\" which rapidly blocked the view from below.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090964-0017-0000", "contents": "1970 Huascar\u00e1n debris avalanche, Earthquake and landslide\nThe rock fell some 600\u00a0m (2,000\u00a0ft) vertically\u200b before landing on Glacier\u00a0511 and sliding nearly 3\u00a0km (1.9\u00a0mi) down its surface, accumulating a large volume of firn snow as it went. The initial ice-rock avalanche volume was at least 25\u00a0million\u00a0m3 (33\u00a0million\u00a0yd3), and grew rapidly in size as it fell down the steep Llanganuco valley, picking up large volumes of dirt, loose glacial moraine, water and uprooted trees. With area soils saturated near the end of the rainy season, and the large amount of snow and ice scraped off the glacier surface, the avalanche quickly liquefied into a fluid, fast-moving mudflow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 672]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090964-0018-0000", "contents": "1970 Huascar\u00e1n debris avalanche, Earthquake and landslide\nThe maximum volume of the mudflow was as much as 0.1\u00a0km3 (130\u00a0million\u00a0yd3), and it reached speeds of up to 435\u00a0km/h (270\u00a0mph). Some debris projectiles launched ahead of the main flow may have exceeded 1,100\u00a0km/h (680\u00a0mph). According to a U.S. Geological Survey report published the same year, the mudflow may have achieved its unusually high speed due to \"air-cushioned flow\", a mixture of snow, ice and entrapped air that allowed the bulk of the material to essentially float over the ground. The initial acceleration of the mass down the low-friction glacial surface was also a major factor, catapulting the material downhill at a much higher speed than if it had slid over bare rock or earth.\u200b", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 57], "content_span": [58, 754]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090964-0019-0000", "contents": "1970 Huascar\u00e1n debris avalanche, Earthquake and landslide, Destruction of Yungay\nIn Yungay, people rushed outside after the earthquake hit; many flocked to churches to shelter and pray. Most buildings in the city were damaged or destroyed by the earthquake, though initial casualties were low compared to the mudflow that followed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 80], "content_span": [81, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090964-0019-0001", "contents": "1970 Huascar\u00e1n debris avalanche, Earthquake and landslide, Destruction of Yungay\nThe mudflow struck Yungay, 13\u00a0km (8.1\u00a0mi) from the avalanche origin, an estimated 1 minute, 42\u00a0seconds after the earthquake began.\u200b Although the nearly 200\u00a0m (660\u00a0ft) hill of Cerro de Aira stood between Yungay and the Llanganuco valley, the mudflow struck the ridge at a high enough speed \u2013 some 170\u00a0km/h (110\u00a0mph) \u2013 that part of it leapt over the crest, first destroying the villages of Shillkop, Aira and Ongo before descending upon Yungay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 80], "content_span": [81, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090964-0020-0000", "contents": "1970 Huascar\u00e1n debris avalanche, Earthquake and landslide, Destruction of Yungay\nA large air blast preceded the debris flow, followed by a rain of boulders and large debris before the main, semi-liquid wave struck. The wind blast was \"strong enough to throw people to the ground and in some places to topple trees.\" Giant rocks \"bounced and rolled\" towards Yungay, leaving huge craters in the ground and flattening buildings that had not been already destroyed by the earthquake. The mudflow itself was described by survivors as \"rolling\", \"wavelike\" or \"a rolling confused motion.\" Due to the speed of the flow, there was no time to evacuate. Practically every man-made structure in Yungay except a few on the outskirts were destroyed, and thousands of people were killed instantly. Survivor Mateo Casaverde described the scene:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 80], "content_span": [81, 829]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090964-0021-0000", "contents": "1970 Huascar\u00e1n debris avalanche, Earthquake and landslide, Destruction of Yungay\n\"We heard a deep noise, different from the earthquake, but not so much so. It was coming from Huascar\u00e1n and we saw between the mountain and Yungay a giant cloud of dust. The quake had caused an avalanche. Part of Huascar\u00e1n was falling... You could see a giant wave of gray mud, about 60 metres (200\u00a0ft) high, about to hit the left hand side of the city. This wave was certainly not dust... The sky went dark. We looked around. Yungay and its many thousands of inhabitants had disappeared.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 80], "content_span": [81, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090964-0022-0000", "contents": "1970 Huascar\u00e1n debris avalanche, Earthquake and landslide, Effects elsewhere\nThe majority of the mudflow headed straight down R\u00edo Llanganuco, which formed the most direct path for the slide. The villages of Incayoc and Huashau, closest to the base of Huascar\u00e1n, were struck first. A group of Czechslovak climbers on their way up the mountain were killed nearby. The entire Llanganuco delta area was destroyed, including the rebuilt town of Ranrahirca, where an estimated 1,800 people were killed. \"An unknown, but probably large, number of additional casualties were sustained elsewhere in the extensive area covered by the debris lobe.\" As had occurred in Yungay, huge boulders were thrown hundreds of metres across the valley, destroying everything in their path. The largest single boulder found in the slide, near the site of Ranrahirca, weighed 14,000 tonnes (31,000,000\u00a0lb).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 880]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090964-0023-0000", "contents": "1970 Huascar\u00e1n debris avalanche, Earthquake and landslide, Effects elsewhere\nThe slide dammed the R\u00edo Santa, causing it to back up in a 2\u00a0km (1.2\u00a0mi) long lake. Material traveled as much as 83\u00a0m (272\u00a0ft) vertically up the opposite bank, destroying part of Matacoto village, before reversing and falling back into the river with a thunderous roar.\u200b Survivors described the motion as \"like a wave on the shore. \"\u200b Within thirty minutes the landslide dam overflowed, and debris and mud flowed downstream for some 100\u00a0km (62\u00a0mi) at speeds up to 35\u00a0km/h (22\u00a0mph), causing damage all along the river banks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090964-0024-0000", "contents": "1970 Huascar\u00e1n debris avalanche, Earthquake and landslide, Effects elsewhere\nIn Caraz, 11\u00a0km (6.8\u00a0mi) downstream of Yungay, the airport and much of the surrounding farmland were flooded, and a highway bridge at Choquechaca was destroyed. The dam of the Ca\u00f1on del Pato hydroelectric plant was also destroyed, although the power station itself was unharmed.\u200b At Huallanca below Ca\u00f1on del Pato, the river reportedly dried up for an hour after the earthquake, due to its temporary blockage upstream, then abruptly rose 20\u00a0m (66\u00a0ft) from its bed. After the water receded \"dozens of corpses, and vehicles and other manmade materials\" were found deposited in the flood zone.\u200b Large sections of railroad and highway between Huallanca and Chimbote were either buried or washed away, cutting off access to the region.\u200b", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 808]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090964-0025-0000", "contents": "1970 Huascar\u00e1n debris avalanche, Earthquake and landslide, Effects elsewhere\nIt reportedly took eight or nine days for the river to cut completely through the debris dam and restore its original course.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090964-0026-0000", "contents": "1970 Huascar\u00e1n debris avalanche, Casualties and losses\nThe number of deaths from the 1970 avalanche has been difficult to quantify; due to the sheer size of the devastated area and the depth to which the towns were buried, thousands of missing bodies were never found. Furthermore, the casualties in Yungay were greatly increased due to the disaster having occurred on Sunday \u2013 market day \u2013 when many people had come in from the countryside.\u200b Most estimates range between a total of 15,000 and 18,000 killed in Yungay and the surrounding villages, although some sources cite a death toll as high as 22,000 or 25,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090964-0027-0000", "contents": "1970 Huascar\u00e1n debris avalanche, Casualties and losses\nOnly about 400 people survived in Yungay proper, 300 of which were children, who had been attending a circus in the local stadium; reportedly a clown led them to higher ground just in time before the mudflow struck. Ninety-two people also survived by climbing an artificial hill at the town cemetery. These were the only structures in town that remained intact, along with \"a statue of Jesus Christ with his arms outstretched, standing tall above the rubble\" which remains today as a memorial to the dead. A photograph of four palm trees that once surrounded Yungay's main plaza, half buried in the mudflow but still standing, became symbolic of the disaster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 714]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090964-0028-0000", "contents": "1970 Huascar\u00e1n debris avalanche, Casualties and losses\nThe debris covered a total area of 1,500 hectares (3,700 acres) and reached depths of up to 20\u00a0m (66\u00a0ft) in the Ranrahirca area; in places the flow spread as wide as 4.3\u00a0km (2.7\u00a0mi). Yungay town was buried under about 5 metres (16\u00a0ft) of debris.\u200b Much of the mud that initially buried the city drained away within a few days of the disaster, leaving a plain of larger rocks which remains today in much the same state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090964-0029-0000", "contents": "1970 Huascar\u00e1n debris avalanche, Aftermath, Relief efforts\nDue to Yungay's cultural and economic importance as the capital of Yungay Province, many survivors not only from Yungay but the surrounding villages resisted government efforts to resettle them elsewhere. Within a year of the disaster, some 2,000 survivors had clustered in the refugee camp known as \"Yungay Norte\", only a few hundred metres north of the destroyed city. Although this location was much safer from landslides than old Yungay, it was geographically constrained\u00a0\u2013 \"aid personnel speculated that if the capital of the province were relocated there, it would soon outgrow the safe area and spill over into dangerous zones. \"\u200b", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 696]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090964-0030-0000", "contents": "1970 Huascar\u00e1n debris avalanche, Aftermath, Relief efforts\nThe national government created the Comisi\u00f3n de Reconstrucci\u00f3n y Rehabilitaci\u00f3n de la Zona Afectada (CRYRZA) agency to oversee aid and reconstruction efforts in the areas affected by the Ancash earthquake. Soon after the disaster, authorities supervised repair of Yungay's irrigation systems which had been destroyed by the mudflow. However, the year's agricultural output still fell far short of normal.\u200b Relief efforts were hindered by the damage to roads and bridges in rough terrain; \"it took two or three days for supplies to reach the upper Santa valley by road from Lima airport. \"\u200b", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 648]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090964-0031-0000", "contents": "1970 Huascar\u00e1n debris avalanche, Aftermath, Relief efforts\nThere was controversy over the distribution of aid, as urban dwellers felt they were not receiving enough compared to indigenous peasants. President Juan Velasco saw the disaster as \"a unique opportunity\" to carry out his populist agenda, which aimed to erase socioeconomic divides in rural provinces such as Yungay. \"For the urban elite accustomed to advantages over the indigenous population, equality was an insidious proposition.\" Yet for rural inhabitants, \"it was a unique opportunity for social mobility in a frontier-like scenario. \"\u200b", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090964-0032-0000", "contents": "1970 Huascar\u00e1n debris avalanche, Aftermath, Reconstruction\nIn November 1970, authorities announced plans to relocate the provincial capital itself to a place called Tingua, 15\u00a0km (9.3\u00a0mi) away. This plan was poorly received, being far from the peasant farmers who depended on Yungay markets to sell their products and came to town for religious functions. Such an arrangement would also leave the urban population without nearby sources of food, goods and revenue (from renting of farmland). \"The Tingua site for the new capital would have disrupted traditional social, economic and political patterns of interrelationships within the capital as well as between the rural and urban sectors of society. The Yungaino leaders were determined to avoid this disruptive project at all costs. \"\u200b", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 788]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090964-0033-0000", "contents": "1970 Huascar\u00e1n debris avalanche, Aftermath, Reconstruction\nUltimately, the national government began the construction of a permanent town at Yungay Norte, with significant international assistance. By 1975, Yungay Norte was simply known as \"Yungay\", with the site of the destroyed town known as \"Yungay Viejo\". The new city already had electricity, running water, clinics, schools, a church, and permanent housing.\u200b By the early 1990s Yungay had recovered to its pre-avalanche population. The social composition of the town was completely changed, especially since a large number of old Yungay's survivors ended up moving to coastal cities, to be replaced by migrants from rural areas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 685]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090964-0034-0000", "contents": "1970 Huascar\u00e1n debris avalanche, Aftermath, Reconstruction\nThe Peruvian government declared the site of Yungay a national cemetery, Campo Santo. Any excavation to recover the dead or search for artifacts is prohibited. A memorial in the shape of the original cathedral facade, a stone altar, and a large memorial garden and obelisk has been built on the site. Some survivors have erected headstones in the locations of their former homes. Visitors can still see a portion of the cathedral wall, the burial mound and statue of Christ, the four palm trees in the central plaza, and the wreckage of a bus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090964-0035-0000", "contents": "1970 Huascar\u00e1n debris avalanche, Aftermath, Reconstruction\nIn the wake of the disaster, the national government greatly increased funding for the mitigation and prevention of glacier-related hazards. May 31 was also declared National Disaster Education and Reflection Day, in honour of the earthquake and avalanche victims.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090965-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Humboldt State Lumberjacks football team\nThe 1970 Humboldt State Lumberjacks football team represented Humboldt State College during the 1970 NCAA College Division football season. Humboldt State competed in the Far Western Conference (FWC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090965-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Humboldt State Lumberjacks football team\nThe 1970 Lumberjacks were led by fifth-year head coach Bud Van Deren. They played home games at the Redwood Bowl in Arcata, California. Humboldt State finished with a record of five wins and five losses (5\u20135, 2\u20132 FWC). The Lumberjacks were outscored by their opponents 238\u2013266 for the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090965-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Humboldt State Lumberjacks football team, Team players in the NFL\nThe following Humboldt State players were selected in the 1971 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 70], "content_span": [71, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090966-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 IAAF World Race Walking Cup\nThe 1970 IAAF World Race Walking Cup was held in Eschborn, Federal Republic of Germany, on October 10, 1970. The event was also known as Lugano Trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090966-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 IAAF World Race Walking Cup, Results, Team\nThe team rankings, named Lugano Trophy, combined the 20km and 50km events team results.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090966-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 IAAF World Race Walking Cup, Participation\nThe participation of 60 athletes from 8 countries is reported.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090966-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 IAAF World Race Walking Cup, Qualifying Rounds\nFrom 1961 to 1985 there were qualifying rounds with the first two winners proceeding to the final. This year, the German Democratic Republic, the United Kingdom, India, the United States, and the Soviet Union proceeded directly to the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 51], "content_span": [52, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090967-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships\nThe 1970 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships were held in Copenhagen, Denmark for the second time after hosting the event in 1950. This event was held under the auspices of the International Canoe Federation. Beginning at these championships, the event would be held on an annual basis in non-Summer Olympic years, a tradition that continues as of 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090967-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships\nThe men's competition consisted of four Canadian (single paddle, open boat) and nine kayak events. Three events were held for the women, all in kayak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090968-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 IIHF European U19 Championship\nThe 1970 IIHF European U19 Championship was the third playing of the IIHF European Junior Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090968-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 IIHF European U19 Championship, Group A\nPlayed in Geneva, Switzerland from December 26, 1969, to January 2, 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090968-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 IIHF European U19 Championship, Group B\nPlayed in Kapfenberg, Leoben, and Bruck, Austria, from December 26, 1969, to January 2, 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090968-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 IIHF European U19 Championship, Group B, First round\nBulgaria was to play in this group but forfeited. The Yugoslavian goaltender played without a mask, and was hit in the face by a shot in their game against Poland, in part explaining the 20 to 0 score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090969-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Ice Hockey World Championships\nThe 1970 Ice Hockey World Championships was the 37th edition of the Ice Hockey World Championships. 21 nations participated in three different divisions or pools:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090969-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Ice Hockey World Championships\nFor the eighth straight year, the Soviet Union won the world championship. Originally the tournament was scheduled to be held in Montreal and Winnipeg in Canada. However, after a dispute over allowing professional players in international tournaments, the IIHF awarded the championships to other cities. The Canadian team withdrew from competing in international hockey. They would not return to international play until 1977. This tournament was also the first one to make helmets mandatory for all skaters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090969-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Ice Hockey World Championships, Canadian departure from international hockey\nCanada was scheduled to be the original host nation of Group A for the 1970 Ice Hockey World Championships, and the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) had granted use of up to nine former professional players for national teams at the event. The Canada men's national ice hockey team had not won the Ice Hockey World Championships since 1961 and had never hosted the event. Hockey Canada and the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association (CAHA) saw the use of professionals as the best chance to return Canada to hockey supremacy, and were committed to event including professionals. Canadian officials were frustrated that their best players, competing in the National Hockey League (NHL), were prevented from playing while Soviet players, who were \"employees\" of the industrial or military organizations that fielded \"amateur\" teams, were allowed to compete.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 81], "content_span": [82, 944]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090969-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Ice Hockey World Championships, Canadian departure from international hockey\nInternational Olympic Committee president Avery Brundage objected to the use of professionals at the World Championships and stated that any national team which played against professionals would be ineligible for ice hockey at the 1972 Winter Olympics. The IIHF called an emergency meeting for January 1970 to discuss the situation. CAHA president Earl Dawson argued that national teams participating in Izvestia Trophy tournaments had played against professionals, but were still eligible for the Olympics and the same should apply to the World Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 81], "content_span": [82, 643]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090969-0003-0001", "contents": "1970 Ice Hockey World Championships, Canadian departure from international hockey\nHe also made the suggestion to consider the 1970 event an invitational tournament instead of a World Championships to avoid the wrath of the IOC, but the IIHF declined the notion. A vote was taken and five of the eight nations in the top division of the World Championships voted against the use of any professionals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 81], "content_span": [82, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090969-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Ice Hockey World Championships, Canadian departure from international hockey\nCanada perceived the situation to be a double standard in international hockey since players on European national teams were believed to be state-sponsored professionals labelled as amateurs. Dawson and the CAHA tooke stand against what they perceived as hypocrisy by European members of the IIHF. Dawson withdrew the Canadian national team from international competitions against European hockey teams until Canada was allowed to use its best players. Hosting of the 1970 World Championships was given Sweden. Dawson felt that Sweden and the Soviet Union combined to sabotage the Canadian attempt to host the 1970 World Championships, because Sweden wanted to host the event and the Soviets did not want to lose the gold medal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 81], "content_span": [82, 810]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090969-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Ice Hockey World Championships, Canadian departure from international hockey\nInstead of competing internationally at the Olympics, Canadian officials helped organize a series of games against the Soviet Union in September 1972 known as the Summit Series. These games featured a Canadian team made up exclusively of NHL professionals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 81], "content_span": [82, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090969-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 Ice Hockey World Championships, World Championship Group A (Sweden)\n14. March 1970 \u2013 StockholmGoalscorers:: Macha\u010d, Martinec, Such\u00fd, Haas, Kochta, Nedomansk\u00fd \u2013 Czachowski, Goralczyk, Kacik.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 72], "content_span": [73, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090969-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 Ice Hockey World Championships, World Championship Group A (Sweden)\n14. March 1970 \u2013 StockholmGoalscorers:: Stig-G\u00f6ran Johansson 2, Svedberg, Sj\u00f6brg, Stefan Karlsson, Wickberg \u2013 Bielas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 72], "content_span": [73, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090969-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 Ice Hockey World Championships, World Championship Group A (Sweden)\n15. March 1970 \u2013 StockholmGoalscorers:: Leimu 3, Murto 2, Ketola, Jorma Peltonen, Mononen, Vehmanen \u2013 Goralczyk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 72], "content_span": [73, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090969-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 Ice Hockey World Championships, World Championship Group A (Sweden)\n15. March 1970 \u2013 StockholmGoalscorers:: Maltsev 4, Mi\u0161akov 3, Firsov, Vikulov, Charlamov, Star\u0161inov, Petrov \u2013 Joachim Ziesche.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 72], "content_span": [73, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090969-0010-0000", "contents": "1970 Ice Hockey World Championships, World Championship Group A (Sweden)\n15. March 1970 \u2013 StockholmGoalscorers:: Such\u00fd 2, Macha\u010d, Kochta \u2013 N. Johansson, Abrahamsson, Nilsson, S. G. Johansson, Hedberg. Referees: Sillankorva (FIN), Karandin (URS)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 72], "content_span": [73, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090969-0011-0000", "contents": "1970 Ice Hockey World Championships, World Championship Group A (Sweden)\n17. March 1970 \u2013 StockholmGoalscorers:: Haas 2, Nedomansk\u00fd, Such\u00fd \u2013 Karrenbauer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 72], "content_span": [73, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090969-0012-0000", "contents": "1970 Ice Hockey World Championships, World Championship Group A (Sweden)\n17. March 1970 \u2013 StockholmGoalscorers:: Vikulov 3, Maltsev 2, Michajlov, Firsov.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 72], "content_span": [73, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090969-0013-0000", "contents": "1970 Ice Hockey World Championships, World Championship Group A (Sweden)\n17. March 1970 \u2013 StockholmGoalscorers:: Stefan Karlsson \u2013 Linnonmaa, Rantasila, Keinonen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 72], "content_span": [73, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090969-0014-0000", "contents": "1970 Ice Hockey World Championships, World Championship Group A (Sweden)\n18. March 1970 \u2013 StockholmGoalscorers:: Kochta \u2013 Maltsev, Vikulov, Nikitin. Referees: Dahlberg (SWE), Sillankorva (FIN)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 72], "content_span": [73, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090969-0015-0000", "contents": "1970 Ice Hockey World Championships, World Championship Group A (Sweden)\n19. March 1970 \u2013 StockholmGoalscorers:: Hans Lindberg 3, Palmqvist 2, Tord Lundstr\u00f6m 2, Abrahamsson, Stefan Karlsson, Sterner, Lars-G\u00f6ran Nilsson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 72], "content_span": [73, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090969-0016-0000", "contents": "1970 Ice Hockey World Championships, World Championship Group A (Sweden)\n20. March 1970 \u2013 StockholmGoalscorers:: Such\u00fd 3, Nedomansk\u00fd 3, \u0160ev\u010d\u00edk, Jar. Hol\u00edk, Haas \u2013 Keinonen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 72], "content_span": [73, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090969-0017-0000", "contents": "1970 Ice Hockey World Championships, World Championship Group A (Sweden)\n20. March 1970 \u2013 StockholmGoalscorers:: Arne Carlsson, Lundstr\u00f6m, Palmqvist, Lars-G\u00f6ran Nilsson - Charlamov, Star\u0161inov.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 72], "content_span": [73, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090969-0018-0000", "contents": "1970 Ice Hockey World Championships, World Championship Group A (Sweden)\n21. March 1970 \u2013 StockholmGoalscorers:: Helmut Novy, Noack - Migacz, Bialynicki.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 72], "content_span": [73, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090969-0019-0000", "contents": "1970 Ice Hockey World Championships, World Championship Group A (Sweden)\n22. March 1970 \u2013 StockholmGoalscorers:: Michajlov 3, Charlamov 3, Maltsev 2, Alexandr Jaku\u0161ev 2, Firsov 2, Petrov, Vikulov, Polupanov, Star\u0161inov - Keinonen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 72], "content_span": [73, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090969-0020-0000", "contents": "1970 Ice Hockey World Championships, World Championship Group A (Sweden)\n22. March 1970 \u2013 StockholmGoalscorers:: Martinec 2, Ji\u0159\u00ed Hol\u00edk 2, Nedomansk\u00fd, Haas, \u0160ev\u010d\u00edk, Posp\u00ed\u0161il, Such\u00fd, Jar. Hol\u00edk \u2013 Bialynicki 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 72], "content_span": [73, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090969-0021-0000", "contents": "1970 Ice Hockey World Championships, World Championship Group A (Sweden)\n23. March 1970 \u2013 StockholmGoalscorers:: Lars-G\u00f6ran Nilsson 2, Stefan Karlsson, Lundstr\u00f6m, Lindberg, Hedberg - Dietmar Peters, Plotka.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 72], "content_span": [73, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090969-0022-0000", "contents": "1970 Ice Hockey World Championships, World Championship Group A (Sweden)\n24. March 1970 \u2013 StockholmGoalscorers:: Michajlov, Charlamov, Firsov, Star\u0161inov, Alexandr Jaku\u0161ev, Mi\u0161akov 2 - Slapke.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 72], "content_span": [73, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090969-0023-0000", "contents": "1970 Ice Hockey World Championships, World Championship Group A (Sweden)\n24. March 1970 \u2013 StockholmGoalscorers:: Pr\u00fdl, Hrbat\u00fd \u2013 Palmqvist, S. G. Johansson. Referees: Karandin (URS), Wycisk (POL)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 72], "content_span": [73, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090969-0024-0000", "contents": "1970 Ice Hockey World Championships, World Championship Group A (Sweden)\n25. March 1970 \u2013 StockholmGoalscorers:: Nedomansk\u00fd 3, Ji\u0159\u00ed Hol\u00edk 2, \u0160ev\u010d\u00edk, Posp\u00ed\u0161il \u2013 Joachim Ziesche, Bielas, Fuchs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 72], "content_span": [73, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090969-0025-0000", "contents": "1970 Ice Hockey World Championships, World Championship Group A (Sweden)\n25. March 1970 \u2013 StockholmGoalscorers:: Maltsev 4, Michajlov 2, Polupanov 2, Charlamov, Mi\u0161akov, \u0160adrin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 72], "content_span": [73, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090969-0026-0000", "contents": "1970 Ice Hockey World Championships, World Championship Group A (Sweden)\n26. March 1970 \u2013 StockholmGoalscorers:: Stefan Karlsson 2, Wickberg, Stig-G\u00f6ran Johansson - Linnonmaa, Leimu, Mononen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 72], "content_span": [73, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090969-0027-0000", "contents": "1970 Ice Hockey World Championships, World Championship Group A (Sweden)\n27. March 1970 \u2013 StockholmGoalscorers:: Hrbat\u00fd \u2013 Vikulov 2, Star\u0161inov, Petrov, Firsov. Referees: Sillankorva (FIN), Wycisk (POL)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 72], "content_span": [73, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090969-0028-0000", "contents": "1970 Ice Hockey World Championships, World Championship Group A (Sweden)\n28. March 1970 \u2013 StockholmGoalscorers:: Dietmar Peters, Prusa, Joachim Ziesche, Braun - Mononen, Oksanen, Ketola.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 72], "content_span": [73, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090969-0029-0000", "contents": "1970 Ice Hockey World Championships, World Championship Group A (Sweden)\n28. March 1970 \u2013 StockholmGoalscorers:: Olsson 2, Abrahamsson, Wickberg, Lundstr\u00f6m \u2013 Migacz.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 72], "content_span": [73, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090969-0030-0000", "contents": "1970 Ice Hockey World Championships, World Championship Group A (Sweden)\n28. March 1970 \u2013 StockholmGoalscorers:: Prusa, Nickel, Plotka, Hiller 2 - Bialynicki, Goralczyk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 72], "content_span": [73, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090969-0031-0000", "contents": "1970 Ice Hockey World Championships, World Championship Group A (Sweden)\n30. March 1970 \u2013 StockholmGoalscorers:: Nedomansk\u00fd, \u0160ev\u010d\u00edk, R. Farda \u2013 Keinonen, Ketola, Murto, Rantasila, Jorma Peltonen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 72], "content_span": [73, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090969-0032-0000", "contents": "1970 Ice Hockey World Championships, World Championship Group A (Sweden)\n30. March 1970 \u2013 StockholmGoalscorers:: Wickberg - Vikulov, Petrov, Maltsev.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 72], "content_span": [73, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090969-0033-0000", "contents": "1970 Ice Hockey World Championships, Pool A Statistics and Team Line-Ups\n1. USSRGoaltenders: Viktor Konovalenko, Vladislav Tre\u0165jak. Defencemen: Vitalij Davidov, Valerij Vasiljev, Alexander Ragulin, Vladimir Lut\u010denko, Igor Romi\u0161evskij, Jevgenij Paladjev, Valerij Nikitin. Forwards: Boris Michajlov, Vladimir Petrov, Valerij Charlamov, Vladimir Vikulov, Viktor Populanov, Anatoli Firsov, Alexander Maltsev, Vja\u010deslav Star\u0161inov, Jevgenij Mi\u0161akov, Alexandr Jaku\u0161ev, Vladimir \u0160adrin, Vladimir \u0160apovalov. Coaches: Arkadij \u010cerny\u0161ev, Anatolij Tarasov.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 72], "content_span": [73, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090969-0034-0000", "contents": "1970 Ice Hockey World Championships, Pool A Statistics and Team Line-Ups\n2. SWEDENGoaltenders: Leif Holmqvist, Gunnar B\u00e4ckman. Defencemen: Thommy Abrahamsson, Arne Carlsson, Anders Hagstr\u00f6m, Nils Johansson, Kjell-Rune Milton, Lars-Erik Sj\u00f6berg, Lennart Svedberg. Forwards: Anders Hedberg, Stig-G\u00f6ran Johansson, Stefan Karlsson, Hans Lindberg, Tord Lundstr\u00f6m, Lars-G\u00f6ran Nilsson, Anders Nordin, Roger Olsson, Bj\u00f6rn Palmqvist, Ulf Sterner, H\u00e5kan Wickberg. Coach: Arne Str\u00f6mberg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 72], "content_span": [73, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090969-0035-0000", "contents": "1970 Ice Hockey World Championships, Pool A Statistics and Team Line-Ups\n3. CZECHOSLOVAKIAGoaltenders: Vladim\u00edr Dzurilla, Miroslav Lack\u00fd. Defencemen: Jan Such\u00fd, Josef Hore\u0161ovsk\u00fd, Old\u0159ich Macha\u010d, Franti\u0161ek Posp\u00ed\u0161il, Vladim\u00edr Bedn\u00e1\u0159, Lubom\u00edr Ujv\u00e1ry. Forwards: Vladim\u00edr Martinec, Richard Farda, Josef \u010cern\u00fd, Jan Hrbat\u00fd, Jaroslav Hol\u00edk, Ji\u0159\u00ed Hol\u00edk, J\u00falius Haas, V\u00e1clav Nedomansk\u00fd, Ji\u0159\u00ed Kochta, Franti\u0161ek \u0160ev\u010d\u00edk, Ivan Hlinka, Stanislav Pr\u00fdl. Coaches: Jaroslav Pitner, Vladim\u00edr Kostka.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 72], "content_span": [73, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090969-0036-0000", "contents": "1970 Ice Hockey World Championships, Pool A Statistics and Team Line-Ups\n4. FINLANDGoaltenders: Urpo Yl\u00f6nen, Jorma Valtonen. Defencemen and Forwards: Seppo Lindstr\u00f6m, Ilpo Koskela, Juha Rantasila, Heikki Riihiranta, Pekka Marjam\u00e4ki, Lalli Partinen, Pekka Leimu, Jorma Peltonen, Lasse Oksanen, Jorma Vehmanen, Veli-Pekka Ketola, Matti Keinonen, V\u00e4in\u00f6 Kalkka, Matti Murto, Esa Peltonen, Juhani Tamminen, Harri Linnonmaa, Lauri Mononen. Coaches: Seppo Liitsola, Matias Helenius.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 72], "content_span": [73, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090969-0037-0000", "contents": "1970 Ice Hockey World Championships, Pool A Statistics and Team Line-Ups\n5. EAST GERMANYGoaltenders: Claus Hirsche, Dieter P\u00fcrschel. Defencemen and Forwards: Dietmar Peters, Frank Braun, Wolfgang Plotka, Peter Slapke, Bernd Karrenbauer, Dieter Dewitz, R\u00fcdiger Noack, Hartmut Nickel, Joachim Ziesche, Wilfried Rohrbach, Rainer Patschinski, Bernd Hiller, Lothar Fuchs, Reinhard Karger, Dieter R\u00f6hl, Helmut Nowy, Rolf Bielas, Peter Prusa. Coach: Rudi Schmiede.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 72], "content_span": [73, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090969-0038-0000", "contents": "1970 Ice Hockey World Championships, Pool A Statistics and Team Line-Ups\n6. POLANDGoaltenders: Walery Kosyl, Andrzej Tkacz. Defencemen and Forwards: Andrzej Slowakiewicz, Ludwik Czachowski, Robert Goralczyk, Marian Feter, Walenty Zietara, J. Stefaniak, Tadeusz Kacik, M. Kajzerek, K. Bialynicki, Tadeusz Obloj, Wlodzimirz Komorski, Feliks Goralzcyk, Bogdan Migacz, J. Modzelewski, St. Szewczyk, Czyslaw Ruchala, Mieczyslaw Jaskierski, Tadeusz Malicki, Stanislaw Fryzlewicz. Coach: A. Jegorov.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 72], "content_span": [73, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090969-0039-0000", "contents": "1970 Ice Hockey World Championships, Ranking and statistics, European championships final standings\nThe final standings of the European championships according to IIHF:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 99], "content_span": [100, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090970-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Icelandic Cup\nThe 1970 Icelandic Cup was the 11th edition of the National Football Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090970-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Icelandic Cup\nIt took place between 2 July 1969 and 14 November 1969, with the final played at Melav\u00f6llur in Reykjavik. The cup was important, as winners qualified for the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup (if a club won both the league and the cup, the defeated finalists would take their place in the Cup Winners' Cup).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090970-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Icelandic Cup\nThe top three finishers from the previous season (\u00cdA Akranes, \u00cdBK Keflav\u00edk and KR Reykjavik did not enter until the quarter finals, the other teams from the 1. Deild (first division) entered in the fourth round. In prior rounds, teams from the 2. Deild (2nd division), as well as reserve teams, played in one-legged matches. In case of a draw, the match was replayed. For the first time, reserve teams did not enter from this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090970-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Icelandic Cup\nFram Reykjavik won their first Icelandic Cup, beating \u00cdBV Vestmannaeyjar in the final, and so qualifying for Europe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090971-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Idaho Vandals football team\nThe 1970 Idaho Vandals football team represented the University of Idaho in the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. The Vandals were led by first-year head coach Don Robbins and were members of the Big Sky Conference, then in the college division of the NCAA. Without a usable stadium on their Moscow campus for a second year, they played their home games at Rogers Field at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090971-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Idaho Vandals football team, Season\nShortly after spring drills in May 1970, head coach Y C McNease was fired and assistant coach Robbins was promoted. With quarterbacks Steve Olson and Tom Ponciano running the offense, the Vandals were 4\u20137 overall and 2\u20132 in the Big Sky. Winless after six games, they won four straight before dropping the finale. Entering the homecoming game on October 24, Idaho had a ten-game losing streak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 40], "content_span": [41, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090971-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Idaho Vandals football team, Season\nIn the Battle of the Palouse, the Vandals suffered a fourth straight loss to neighbor Washington State of the Pac-8, falling 44\u201316 at Joe Albi Stadium in Spokane on September 19. After a scoreless first quarter, Idaho led by ten at halftime, but was then outscored 38\u20130. It broke a ten-game losing streak for the Cougars, and was their only win of the season. The game with WSU was not played in 1969 or 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 40], "content_span": [41, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090971-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Idaho Vandals football team, Season\nThe Big Sky added two teams this season, but the Vandals played neither. The new rivalry with Boise State began in 1971 and Idaho did not schedule Northern Arizona until 1975.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 40], "content_span": [41, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090971-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Idaho Vandals football team, Season\nThe Vandals' former venue on campus, Neale Stadium, had been declared structurally unsafe due to soil erosion in the summer of 1969, and its south grandstand burned that November in a suspected arson. Idaho played home games at Rogers Field in Pullman in 1969 and 1970. In April 1970, Rogers Field also burned in a suspected arson, which destroyed most of the primary grandstand on the south sideline, including the press box. WSU played its home games in 1970 and 1971 in Spokane at Joe Albi Stadium. Requiring less seating capacity, Idaho continued at Rogers in 1970, with reserved seating switched to the north side and students in the unburned lower section of the south grandstand. The new Idaho Stadium opened in October 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 40], "content_span": [41, 773]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090971-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Idaho Vandals football team, University division\nThrough 1977, the Big Sky was a college division (renamed Division II in 1973) conference for football, except for university division (Division I) member Idaho, which moved down to the new Division I-AA in 1978. Idaho maintained its upper division status in the NCAA by playing university division non-conference opponents (and was ineligible for the college division postseason).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090971-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 Idaho Vandals football team, All conference\nFour Vandals were selected to the all-Big Sky team: wide receiver Terry Moreland, halfback Fred Riley, defensive end Tim Reese, and linebacker Ron Linehan, a repeat pick. No second team was selected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090971-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 Idaho Vandals football team, NFL Draft\nNo Vandals were selected in the 1971 NFL Draft, which lasted seventeen rounds (442 selections).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090971-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 Idaho Vandals football team, NFL Draft\nThree juniors were selected in the 1972 NFL Draft, also seventeen rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090972-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Idaho gubernatorial election\nThe 1970 Idaho gubernatorial election took place on November 3 to elect the Governor of Idaho, as well as Idaho's two congress members in the House of Representatives and a number of statewide offices. Incumbent Republican governor Don Samuelson sought re-election to a second consecutive term as governor. Although he faced a primary challenger, former state senator Dick Smith, he received more than 58 percent of the primary vote, and thus secured the party's re-nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090972-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Idaho gubernatorial election\nThe Democratic nominee, Cecil Andrus, had previously run for Governor in 1966, after the initial Democratic nominee died in a plane crash. Andrus faced two competitors in the primary: state representative Vernon Ravenscroft and attorney Lloyd Walker. In the party primary, Andrus won a plurality of 29,000 votes (or 46 percent), and earned the Democratic nomination. During the general election campaign, issues of contention included environmental conservation, taxes, and education funding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090972-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Idaho gubernatorial election\nAndrus won the general election with 128,004 votes, or 52.22 percent of the ballots cast. He carried all regions of the state except for the south-central region; however, he significantly under-performed in rural areas, where Democrats usually achieved their highest margins, while exceeding expectations in the state's affluent urban areas. The general election campaign was then one of the most costly in Idaho's history; however, voter turnout was unusually low, at 67 percent of the voting-age population.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090972-0002-0001", "contents": "1970 Idaho gubernatorial election\nDespite the Democrats' victory in the gubernatorial election, their success failed to trickle down the ballot: Andrus was one of only two Democrats to win a statewide office in the election, and both of Idaho's seats in the U.S. House of Representatives remained in the hands of Republicans. The election marked the beginning of a string of Democratic gubernatorial victories in the state that would not be broken until 1994.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090972-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Idaho gubernatorial election, Background\nFour years earlier, Samuelson (then a state senator) had defeated incumbent Republican governor Robert Smylie, who had been elected to three terms, in the GOP primary. Samuelson's decision to challenge Smylie was driven largely by his opposition to the governor's proposal and signing of the first sales tax in Idaho history. Samuelson had opposed the proposed sales tax while a state senator, and received 61 percent in the primary. In the general election, Samuelson had initially expected to face Democratic nominee Charles Herndon, the favorite nominee of Idaho political boss Tom Boise.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090972-0003-0001", "contents": "1970 Idaho gubernatorial election, Background\nHowever, Herndon died in a plane crash weeks before election day, and the Democrats chose state senator Cecil Andrus (who had placed second to Herndon in the primary earlier that year) as a replacement candidate. Samuelson won election by 10,800 votes, or 4.3 percentage points; more than 54,000 votes went to third-party candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090972-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Idaho gubernatorial election, Background\nAs governor, Samuelson attracted opposition, receiving the nickname \"Dumb Don\" from some of his political detractors. Despite having majorities of his own party in both chambers of the state legislature, Samuelson vetoed a record 39 bills sent to him by the legislature.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090972-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Idaho gubernatorial election, Republican primary\nIn his bid for re-nomination by the Republican party, Samuelson faced only one challenger: former state senator Dick Smith. Smith had served as chairman of the state Board of Regents, and was known for his support for higher education. He struggled to secure enough support to qualify for the state primary, in part because he received little backing from state party officials. During his primary campaign, Smith vowed to vigorously enforce anti-pollution measures; he also criticized Samuelson for his fiscal policies. Smith received support from education communities. The Idaho State Journal forecast that Samuelson would most likely win the race, writing that \"Samuelson has the lead but it's not insurmountable by any means. The odds favor him, is all.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 813]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090972-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 Idaho gubernatorial election, Republican primary\nIn the Republican primary, held on August 4, 1970, Samuelson secured 46,719 votes, or 58.36 percent of the ballots cast. Smith received 33,339 votes, amounting to 41.64 percent of the ballots cast. Samuelson won in all but 10 of Idaho's 44 counties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090972-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 Idaho gubernatorial election, Democratic primary\nThree candidates competed for the Democratic party's nomination. Andrus was the front-runner and eventual winner, having lost the party's 1966 primary for the nomination to Charles Herdnon by 1.8 percent, or under 2,000 votes. Prior to his 1966 gubernatorial bid, Andrus had served three terms in the state Senate, from 1960 to 1966. Andrus drew support in the Democratic primary largely from the same areas that supported Smith in the Republican primary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090972-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 Idaho gubernatorial election, Democratic primary\nAndrus faced two opponents in the primary: state representative Vernon Ravenscroft, who campaigned for aid to farmers and against diverting water away from farmers; and Lloyd Walker, a Twin Falls attorney whose campaign promise was the replacement of the state Commissioner of Agriculture. Ravenscroft and Andrus were both noted for having strong organizations, while Walker's was perceived as disorganized.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090972-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 Idaho gubernatorial election, Democratic primary\nWalker was noted for his aggressive attacks on Andrus, many based on an unsubstantiated claim that Andrus's alleged $25,000 in campaign funds had been largely funded by big businesses. The Idaho State Journal, however, reported that the attacks were false: Andrus's largest campaign contribution was $1,100\u2014just $100 more than Walker's top donation\u2014and that it came not from a business, but from a private citizen. The Journal also argued that the attacks were \"getting old\" and that his campaign seemed to rely on attacks and publicity stunts to get attention. However, they speculated that, of Ravenscroft and Andrus, it was Ravenscroft who lost more support due to Walker, and that should Walker exit the race, Ravenscroft might be in a much better position to beat Andrus in the primary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 845]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090972-0010-0000", "contents": "1970 Idaho gubernatorial election, Democratic primary\nRavenscroft ran largely on his image of a rural community-friendly candidate: he was quoted in the Idaho State Journal as saying \"I'm the only one of the three that's had a shovel in my hands.\" Ravenscroft was unusually strong in traditionally conservative rural areas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090972-0011-0000", "contents": "1970 Idaho gubernatorial election, Democratic primary\nBy the end of the primary season, all three candidates had run out of campaign funds, which most handicapped Ravenscroft and Walker, as they had far less name recognition. The Idaho State Journal gave Andrus the advantage in the primary, writing in their July 31, 1970, issue that \"The Democrats will probably elect Andrus. Ravenscroft could be close. And Walker could surprise everyone with his total on Aug. 5.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090972-0012-0000", "contents": "1970 Idaho gubernatorial election, Democratic primary\nIn the August 4, 1970 Democratic primary, Andrus won with 29,036 votes, or 46.04 percent of the vote. In second place was Ravenscroft, who received 23,369 votes, or 37.05 percent. Walker placed third in the primary, with 10,664 votes and 16.91 percent of the ballots cast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090972-0013-0000", "contents": "1970 Idaho gubernatorial election, General election, Campaigning\nFor much of the election campaign, Andrus positioned himself as a moderate centrist. His campaign slogan was \"A Governor for ALL Idaho.\" Though the public paid little attention to the race in its early months, interest in the election picked up in October, as candidates began debating the issues. Taxes, education, and environmental conservation were among the most-discussed topics in the campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090972-0014-0000", "contents": "1970 Idaho gubernatorial election, General election, Campaigning\nBy the general election, Samuelson had acquired a poor reputation with voters. He campaigned largely on his record as a fiscal conservative, having vetoed a bill that would repeal a state law blocking local governments from increase taxes at a progressive rate. Andrus vowed to repeal the law in question if elected, a position favored by public officials in need of more revenue. Andrus also supported establishing a state-funded but locally operated kindergarten program, and argued in favor of instituting a state sales tax to fund education. Samuelson supported education funding and ran campaign ads displaying the increases in education spending during his tenure. However, he opposed instituting a state sales tax, as he had in 1966.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 805]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090972-0015-0000", "contents": "1970 Idaho gubernatorial election, General election, Campaigning\nAnother major issue in the campaign was a proposal to establish an open-pit mine in Idaho's White Clouds wilderness area. Andrus, in addition to Democratic Idaho Senator Frank Church and several Republican congressmen, opposed the mine, and lobbied in favor of establishing White Clouds as a National Park and Recreation Area. Samuelson supported the mine's development, however, pointing to an estimate that it would generate $4 million in revenue for the state. This position increased his popularity in Custer County, where the mine was to open; however, it did little to endear him to voters in the state's urban areas, who enjoyed vacationing at White Clouds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 729]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090972-0016-0000", "contents": "1970 Idaho gubernatorial election, General election, Campaigning\nBoth campaigns enlisted high-profile speakers to appear on their candidates' behalf. Popular Democratic U.S. Senator Frank Church made many public appearances around the state to support Andrus's candidacy, while Vice President Spiro Agnew appeared in Boise on behalf of Governor Samuelson. However, Agnew's appearance was judged to have little impact outside of Boise and its surrounding communities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090972-0017-0000", "contents": "1970 Idaho gubernatorial election, General election, Election results\nThe general election for Governor of Idaho (and many other statewide and local offices, including Attorney General, Lieutenant Governor, and Secretary of State, as well as the state's two seats in the House of Representatives) took place on November 3, 1970. The election saw some of the highest campaign spending in the state's history as of 1971; however, voter turnout was unusually low, at 67.9 percent (in previous elections, turnout was as high as 84 percent). Fewer votes were cast in the gubernatorial election than in any other such election since 1958.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 69], "content_span": [70, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090972-0018-0000", "contents": "1970 Idaho gubernatorial election, General election, Election results\nAndrus won the election with 128,004 votes, or 52.22 percent of the vote, to Governor Samuelson's 117,108 votes, which amounted to 47.78 percent of the votes cast. Both candidates saw increases in raw votes, and in percentages of total votes, thanks in part to the fact that there were no third-party candidates in the 1970 election, while in the 1966 election there had been three, together having received more than 21 percent of the popular vote. Andrus's 10,896-vote margin of victory was within 60 votes of Samuelson's 10,842-vote margin over Andrus four years earlier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 69], "content_span": [70, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090972-0018-0001", "contents": "1970 Idaho gubernatorial election, General election, Election results\nThe election saw the reversal of some long-standing trends in political allegiances: historically, the state's upper-income urban areas (most notably Boise, Twin Falls, and Idaho Falls) had strongly backed Republican candidates, while lower-income urban and rural areas traditionally supported Democratic candidates. However, in the 1970 election, Samuelson's returns were unusually strong in lower-income areas, but far weaker than expected in upper-income precincts. Conversely, Andrus carried the usually-Republican urban areas while under-performing in rural areas; he won the election having carried only 15 of the state's 44 counties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 69], "content_span": [70, 710]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090972-0018-0002", "contents": "1970 Idaho gubernatorial election, General election, Election results\nAndrus won a majority of the votes in the state's Northern, Southwest, and Southeast regions, while he failed to carry the state's South-Central counties. Andrus lost in every county that contained no cities with more than 1,000 residents; however, he won in three of the five counties containing a city with at least 20,000 residents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 69], "content_span": [70, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090972-0019-0000", "contents": "1970 Idaho gubernatorial election, General election, Analysis\nIt has been posited that the issue of the White Clouds Mountains contributed to Andrus's victory and helped him to carry the normally conservative urban areas of the state, thanks to their residents' vacationing at the mountains and opposing a mine on the land. However, the election results have also been called a \"life-style choice\", in favor of Andrus's conservation and education funding, as opposed to Samuelson's fiscal conservatism at the expense of social programs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090972-0020-0000", "contents": "1970 Idaho gubernatorial election, Aftermath\nAndrus was the first Democrat to win a gubernatorial election in the state in 24 years. His election began the start of 24 consecutive years in which exclusively Democrats served as the state's governor: Andrus served until January 1977, when he was made the U.S. Secretary of the Interior by newly-elected President Jimmy Carter; Andrus was succeeded by John V. Evans, who served for a decade, until January 1987, when Andrus re-assumed the role of Governor by being elected to a third nonconsecutive term. Republican Philip Batt's 1994 gubernatorial election victory marked the end of the 24 years of Democratic governors in Idaho; every Idaho governor since has been a Republican.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 44], "content_span": [45, 728]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090972-0021-0000", "contents": "1970 Idaho gubernatorial election, Aftermath\nAlthough Andrus won the election in 1970 by more than 10,000 votes and more than four percentage points, he had minimal coattails: the only other fellow Democrat to win a statewide office was attorney W. Anthony Park, who won his Attorney General election against the incumbent Republican, Robert M. Robson. Both of the state's seats in the U.S. House of Representatives remained in Republican hands, with the first district's Republican candidate winning by more than 21,000 votes (out of 133,258 cast) and the second district's Republican candidate winning by more than 34,000 votes (out of 100,925 cast).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 44], "content_span": [45, 652]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090972-0022-0000", "contents": "1970 Idaho gubernatorial election, Aftermath\nThe election's results aligned with those of other gubernatorial elections across the US that year: forty-five gubernatorial elections took place in 1970, and Democrats' net gain was 11, meaning that they again controlled a majority of the statehouses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 44], "content_span": [45, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090972-0023-0000", "contents": "1970 Idaho gubernatorial election, Aftermath\nA December 6, 1970, story appeared in the Idaho State Journal to discuss the state's newly divided government: although Andrus held the governorship, both the state senate and House of Representatives had heavily Republican majorities. However, the state representatives and senators felt that the difference of party labels would not be a major issue in legislating.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 44], "content_span": [45, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090972-0024-0000", "contents": "1970 Idaho gubernatorial election, Aftermath\nAs governor, Andrus was successful in blocking the plans to open the White Clouds Mountains mine. In 2018, the White Cloud Mountains were renamed the \"Cecil D. Andrus-White Clouds Wilderness\" in honor of Andrus's emphasis on protecting the mountains. Andrus would remain the last gubernatorial candidate from North Idaho until 2018, when state representative Paulette Jordan received the Democratic party's nomination. She lost in the general election to Republican Brad Little.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 44], "content_span": [45, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090972-0025-0000", "contents": "1970 Idaho gubernatorial election, Aftermath\nRavenscroft went on to join the Republican Party, serve as their state chairman, and run for governor again in 1978, in the GOP primary. He later gained attention for his close involvement in the Sagebrush Rebellion, arguing in favor of limiting the federal government\u2019s control of federal lands in states including Nevada and Idaho. While serving in the Carter administration, Andrus designated lands in Idaho to be protected, a decision Ravenscroft challenged in court. Ravenscroft also owned a consulting firm which specialized in natural resources, and served as a lobbyist. At the firm, he employed future Idaho congresswoman Helen Chenoweth, who in 1998, during the Monica Lewinsky scandal, disclosed that she had carried on a six-year affair with Ravenscroft while he was married.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 44], "content_span": [45, 832]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090973-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Illinois Fighting Illini football team\nThe 1970 Illinois Fighting Illini football team was an American football team that represented the University of Illinois during the 1970 Big Ten Conference football season. In their fourth and final year under head coach Jim Valek, the Illini compiled a 3\u20137 record and finished in a tie for last place in the Big Ten Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090973-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Illinois Fighting Illini football team\nThe team's offensive leaders were quarterback Mike Wells with 906 passing yards, running back Darrell Robinson with 749 rushing yards, and wide receiver Doug Dieken with 537 receiving yards. Dieken was selected for the second consecutive year as the team's most valuable player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090974-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Illinois elections\nElections were held in Illinois on Tuesday, November 3, 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 85]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090974-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Illinois elections\nAdditionally, on December 15, 1970, a special election was held in which Illinois voters voted in support of adopting a new proposed state constitution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090974-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Illinois elections, Election information\n1970 was a midterm election year in the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090974-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Illinois elections, Election information, Turnout\nTurnout in the primary election was 29.88%, with a total of 1,570,317 ballots cast. 819,692 Democratic and 750,625 Republican primary ballots were cast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090974-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Illinois elections, Election information, Turnout\nTurnout during the general election was 69.90%, with 3,731,006 ballots cast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090974-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Illinois elections, Election information, Turnout\n2,017,717 people cast ballots in the December 15 special election regarding the proposed new Illinois constitution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090974-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 Illinois elections, Federal elections, United States Senate\nA special election was held to fill the remainder of the term of Republican Everett Dirksen, who had died in office. Republican Ralph Tyler Smith had been appointed to fill the seat after Dirksen's death, and he lost the special election to Democrat Adlai Stevenson III.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 64], "content_span": [65, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090974-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 Illinois elections, Federal elections, United States House\nAll 24 Illinois seats in the United States House of Representatives were up for election in 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 63], "content_span": [64, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090974-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 Illinois elections, Federal elections, United States House\nNo seats switched parties, so the party composition of Illinois' House delegation remained 12 Democrats and 12 Republicans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 63], "content_span": [64, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090974-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 Illinois elections, State elections, Treasurer\nIncumbent Treasurer Adlai Stevenson III, a Democrat, did not seek a second term, instead opting to run for United States Senate. Democrat Alan J. Dixon was elected to succeed him in office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090974-0010-0000", "contents": "1970 Illinois elections, State elections, Treasurer\nSince Adlai Stevenson III assumed his U.S. Senate office November 17, due to the nature of it being a special election, there was a brief vacancy in the treasurer's office before Dixon would assume office. Therefore, Governor Richard B. Ogilvie appointed Republican Charles W. Woodford to serve as treasurer from November 17 until Dixon took office on January 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090974-0011-0000", "contents": "1970 Illinois elections, State elections, Superintendent of Public Instruction\nIncumbent Superintendent of Public Instruction Ray Page, a Republican seeking a third term, was defeated by Democrat Michael Bakalis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 78], "content_span": [79, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090974-0012-0000", "contents": "1970 Illinois elections, State elections, State Senate\nSeats in the Illinois Senate were up for election in 1970. While there was a 29-29 member split in the chamber after the election, Democrats flipped control of the chamber since there was a Democratic lieutenant governor (Paul Simon).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090974-0013-0000", "contents": "1970 Illinois elections, State elections, State House of Representatives\nSeats in the Illinois House of Representatives were up for election in 1970. Republicans retained control of the chamber.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 72], "content_span": [73, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090974-0014-0000", "contents": "1970 Illinois elections, State elections, Trustees of University of Illinois\nElections were held to elect Trustees of University of Illinois system. This included a regularly-scheduled election of three seats, and a special election to fill a vacancy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 76], "content_span": [77, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090974-0015-0000", "contents": "1970 Illinois elections, State elections, Trustees of University of Illinois, Regular election\nThe regular to fill three seats saw the election new Democratic members William D. Forsyth Jr., George W. Howard III, and Earl L. Neal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 94], "content_span": [95, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090974-0016-0000", "contents": "1970 Illinois elections, State elections, Trustees of University of Illinois, Regular election\nIncumbent Republican Earl Edwin Walker (appointed in 1970) was not reelected. Incumbent Republican W. Clement Stone (appointed in 1969 to replace Harold Pogue following his death in office) lost reelection, running in the regular election instead of the special election to fill Pogue's seat. Second-term Democratic incumbent Howard W. Clement was not renominated. Also not renominated was Democrat Theodore A. Jones (who had been appointed in 1963, and thereafter reelected in 1964)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 94], "content_span": [95, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090974-0017-0000", "contents": "1970 Illinois elections, State elections, Trustees of University of Illinois, Special election\nDemocrat Roger B. Pogue defeated Republican educator and Illinois State Representative Frances L. Dawson in the special election to fill the remaining two years of an unexpired term. Despite losing in the popular vote, Dawson placed first in 64 counties, while Pogue placed first in 38.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 94], "content_span": [95, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090974-0018-0000", "contents": "1970 Illinois elections, State elections, Trustees of University of Illinois, Special election\nIncumbent Republican W. Clement Stone (appointed in 1969 to replace Harold Pogue, whose seat this had been, after his death in office), did not run in this election, instead running in the regular election for a full term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 94], "content_span": [95, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090974-0019-0000", "contents": "1970 Illinois elections, State elections, Ballot measures (November 3)\nThree legislatively referred constitutional amendments were on the ballot on November 3, proposing amendments to the existing 1870 Constitution of Illinois. In order to be placed on the ballot, legislatively referred constitutional amendments needed to be approved by two-thirds of each house of the Illinois General Assembly. In order to be approved, they required votes equal to a majority of those who voted in the 1970 elections, or two thirds of those voting specifically on the measure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 70], "content_span": [71, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090974-0020-0000", "contents": "1970 Illinois elections, State elections, Ballot measures (November 3), Illinois Ad Valorem Tax Prohibition Amendment\nThe Ad Valorem Tax Prohibition Amendment, also known as \"Amendment 1\", prohibited the taxation of personal property by valuation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 117], "content_span": [118, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090974-0021-0000", "contents": "1970 Illinois elections, State elections, Ballot measures (November 3), Illinois Anti-Pollution Amendment\nThe Illinois Anti-Pollution Amendment, also known as \"Amendment 2\", approved the Anti-pollution Bond Act.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 105], "content_span": [106, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090974-0022-0000", "contents": "1970 Illinois elections, State elections, Ballot measures (November 3), Illinois Banking Act Amendment\nThe Illinois Banking Act Amendment, also known as \"Amendment 3\", enabled state chartered banks to have the same powers as national banks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 102], "content_span": [103, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090974-0023-0000", "contents": "1970 Illinois elections, State elections, Ballot measures (December 15)\nA December 15 special election was held in which the proposed 1970 Constitution of Illinois itself was up for election, as were several constitutional convention referral items. The constitutional convention referral items would only take effect if the new constitution itself was approved.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 71], "content_span": [72, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090974-0024-0000", "contents": "1970 Illinois elections, State elections, Ballot measures (December 15)\nThe constitution and all amendments to amend it were required to be approved by at least half of all those casting ballots in the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 71], "content_span": [72, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090974-0025-0000", "contents": "1970 Illinois elections, State elections, Ballot measures (December 15), Constitution Ratification Question\nIllinois voters voted on whether or not the state would adopt the 1970 Constitution of Illinois.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 107], "content_span": [108, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090974-0026-0000", "contents": "1970 Illinois elections, State elections, Ballot measures (December 15), Appoint All Judges Amendment\nThe Appoint All Judges Amendment was a ballot question which asked voters whether judges should be appointed by the governor from a list of nominees or elected by the people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 101], "content_span": [102, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090974-0027-0000", "contents": "1970 Illinois elections, State elections, Ballot measures (December 15), Death Penalty Amendment\nThe Death Penalty Amendment proposed abolishing the death penalty in Illinois. It was defeated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 96], "content_span": [97, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090974-0028-0000", "contents": "1970 Illinois elections, State elections, Ballot measures (December 15), State Representation Amendment\nThe Illinois State Representation Amendment was a ballot question which asked voters whether they wished to retain multi-member districts in the state legislature of switch to single-member districts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 103], "content_span": [104, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090974-0029-0000", "contents": "1970 Illinois elections, State elections, Ballot measures (December 15), Voting Age Amendment\nThe Voting Age Amendment proposed lowering the age of suffrage to 18. It was defeated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 93], "content_span": [94, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090975-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Indian Rajya Sabha elections\nRajya Sabha elections were held in 1970, to elect members of the Rajya Sabha, Indian Parliament's upper chamber.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090975-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Indian Rajya Sabha elections, Elections\nElections were held in 1970 to elect members from various states. The list is incomplete.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 44], "content_span": [45, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090975-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Indian Rajya Sabha elections, Elections, Members elected\nThe following members are elected in the elections held in 1970. They are members for the term 1970-76 and retire in year 1976, except in case of the resignation or death before the term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090975-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Indian Rajya Sabha elections, Bye-elections\nThe following bye elections were held in the year 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090976-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Indiana Hoosiers football team\nThe 1970 Indiana Hoosiers football team represented the Indiana Hoosiers in the 1970 Big Ten Conference football season. The Hoosiers played their home games at Seventeenth Street Stadium in Bloomington, Indiana. The team was coached by John Pont, in his sixth year as head coach of the Hoosiers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090977-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Indiana State Sycamores football team\nThe 1970 Indiana State Sycamores football team represented Indiana State University as an independent during the 1970 NCAA College Division football season. Led by fourth-year head coach Jerry Huntsman, the Sycamores compiled a record of 5\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090978-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Indianapolis 500\nThe 54th 500 Mile International Sweepstakes was held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana on Saturday, May 30, 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090978-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Indianapolis 500\nAl Unser, Sr. dominated the race, winning the pole position and leading 190 laps en route to victory. He joined his brother Bobby as the first duo of brothers to win the Indianapolis 500; it was the first of his four victories at Indianapolis. Car owner Parnelli Jones, who won the race as a driver in 1963, became the second individual (after Pete DePaolo) to win separately as both a driver and as an owner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090978-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Indianapolis 500\nUnser turned 31 a day earlier and took home $271,697 out of a record $1,000,002 purse. For the first time in Indy history, the total prize fund topped a million dollars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090978-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Indianapolis 500\nRain on race morning delayed the start by about thirty minutes. On the pace lap, Jim Malloy smacked the outside wall in turn four, which delayed the start further.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090978-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Indianapolis 500\nAll 33 cars in the field were turbocharged for the first time. This was the final 500 in which the winner celebrated in the old Victory Lane at the south end of the pits; it was relocated nearer the finish line for 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090978-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Indianapolis 500, Race schedule\nThe race start time was scheduled for 12:00 noon local time, a slight departure from the traditional 11:00 am start time that was used during most of the 1960s. With the race scheduled for Saturday May 30, Speedway management announced that Sunday May 31 would be the designated rain date, the first time the race would be permitted to run on a Sunday. However, despite a brief rain delay on race morning, the full 500 miles was completed Saturday, and Sunday was not needed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090978-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 Indianapolis 500, Race schedule\nThis would be the last Indy 500 that was scheduled for the traditional fixed date of May 30. Through 1970, Memorial Day was a fixed date holiday observed on May 30 regardless of the day of the week. For 1970, the date of May 30 fell on a Saturday. From 1911 to 1970, the race was scheduled for May 30, regardless of the day of the week, unless May 30 fell on a Sunday. In those cases, the race would be scheduled for Monday May 31.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090978-0006-0001", "contents": "1970 Indianapolis 500, Race schedule\nThe Uniform Monday Holiday Act would take effect in 1971, and for 1971 and 1972, the race would be scheduled for the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend. In 1973, it was scheduled for Monday (but rain delayed it until Wednesday). From 1974 onward, it was scheduled for the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend. From 1974 onward, the race would only be held on May 30 if that date fell on a Sunday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090978-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 Indianapolis 500, Race schedule\n* Includes days where trackactivity was significantlylimited due to rain", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090978-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 Indianapolis 500, Practice and time trials\nAl Unser, Sr. set the fastest speed during practice, with a lap of 171.233\u00a0mph. Unser led the speed chart on five of the practice days, and was the only driver to crack the 170\u00a0mph barrier during the first two weeks. A. J. Foyt (169.173\u00a0mph) and Art Pollard (169.1\u00a0mph) were close behind.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 47], "content_span": [48, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090978-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 Indianapolis 500, Practice and time trials\nJohn Cannon wrecked on Sunday May 10, and was unable to qualify. On Monday May 11, defending race winner Mario Andretti spun and wrecked in turn four. His car hit the inside wall twice, and the car was heavily damaged. Andretti was not injured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 47], "content_span": [48, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090978-0010-0000", "contents": "1970 Indianapolis 500, Practice and time trials\nOn Tuesday May 12, Dennis Hulme's car caught fire in turn three. He bailed from the moving machine, suffering burns to his hands and feet. He withdrew due to the injuries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 47], "content_span": [48, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090978-0011-0000", "contents": "1970 Indianapolis 500, Practice and time trials, Pole Day \u2013 Saturday May 16\nAl Unser, Sr. won the pole position over Johnny Rutherford by 0.01 seconds, a record closest margin for the pole position at the time. A. J. Foyt rounded out the \"all over 170 mph\" front row. Unser's pole speed of 170.221\u00a0mph (his fastest single lap was 170.358\u00a0mph) was not a record \u2013 which marked the first time since the 1940s that two consecutive years went by without track records set during time trials at Indy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 75], "content_span": [76, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090978-0012-0000", "contents": "1970 Indianapolis 500, Practice and time trials, Pole Day \u2013 Saturday May 16\nRain halted pole day qualifying at 3:42\u00a0p.m. with 17 cars in the field . A few cars (namely Lloyd Ruby, Gary Bettenhausen, and Peter Revson) were still waiting in line when the rains came. USAC officials closed the track for the day, and those cars were deemed ineligible for the pole round. In subsequent years, the rules would be changed to allow all cars in the original qualifying draw order at least one chance to make an attempt during the pole round, regardless if it extended into an additional calendar day due to rain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 75], "content_span": [76, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090978-0013-0000", "contents": "1970 Indianapolis 500, Practice and time trials, Pole Day \u2013 Saturday May 16\nRookie Tony Adamowicz suffered bad luck during his attempt. On his first qualifying lap, the yellow light was turned on by error. He slowed down, and his first lap was turned in at 160.829\u00a0mph. The green light came back on moments later, and he completed the run. Although he had two laps over 166\u00a0mph, his first lap pulled his average down to 164.820\u00a0mph, and made him the second-slowest car in the field for the day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 75], "content_span": [76, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090978-0014-0000", "contents": "1970 Indianapolis 500, Practice and time trials, Second Day \u2013 Sunday May 17\nThree drivers shut out from the pole round came back to qualify on the second day. Peter Revson (167.942\u00a0mph) was the 9th-fastest car in the field, but lined up 18th due to being a second day qualifier. Lloyd Ruby went out for his first attempt, but when he raised his hand to signify the intent to start his attempt, the officials did not see it, and inadvertently waved him off. After he persuaded the officials for a do-over, he had a lap of 169.428\u00a0mph, but burned a piston on the fourth and final lap. The incident drew the ire of the team, as they felt the officials cost them a chance to be the day's fastest qualifier (for having run the extra laps). Ruby went out again later in the day with a new engine, but waved off after one slow lap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 75], "content_span": [76, 824]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090978-0015-0000", "contents": "1970 Indianapolis 500, Practice and time trials, Third Day \u2013 Saturday May 23\nAfter a disappointing first weekend, Lloyd Ruby rebounded to complete his qualifying attempt at 168.895\u00a0mph. A busy day saw 14 attempts, and the field was filled to 33 cars. Two drivers (Bentley Warren and Tony Adamowicz) were bumped.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 76], "content_span": [77, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090978-0016-0000", "contents": "1970 Indianapolis 500, Practice and time trials, Bump Day \u2013 Sunday May 24\nJim McElreath put the fourth Foyt entry in the field, bumping Bartlett. No other cars, however, were able to show enough speed to make the field. Jigger Sirois, infamous for missing the 1969 race, fell far short in Jack Adam's Turbine car.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 73], "content_span": [74, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090978-0017-0000", "contents": "1970 Indianapolis 500, Race recap, Start\nRain delayed the start of the race by about 25 minutes. On the final pace lap, the field was coming through turn four to take the green flag. Suddenly, Jim Malloy on the outside of the third row, suffered a rear suspension failure, and smacked the outside wall. His car veered across the track to the inside, but narrowly avoided contact with any other car. The field was halted on the mainstretch under the red flag to clean up the accident. During the delay, team were permitted to top off their fuel tanks, after burning three laps of methanol.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090978-0018-0000", "contents": "1970 Indianapolis 500, Race recap, Start\nThe field was restarted after the red flag, and 32 cars took the green flag. Johnny Rutherford swept across to take the lead into turn one. Down the backstretch, Al Unser, Sr. tucked in behind, and took the lead going into turn three. Unser led the first lap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090978-0019-0000", "contents": "1970 Indianapolis 500, Race recap, Start\nLloyd Ruby, who started 25th, notably passed ten cars on the first lap. By the third lap, Ruby was in the top ten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090978-0020-0000", "contents": "1970 Indianapolis 500, Race recap, First half\nThe early laps focused on the mad charge of Lloyd Ruby, who was up to 5th place by about lap 28. The yellow flag came out when Art Pollard blew an engine. Under the caution, Mario Andretti was forced to make an unscheduled pit stop to repair loose bodywork. He rejoined the race, but lost many positions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 45], "content_span": [46, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090978-0021-0000", "contents": "1970 Indianapolis 500, Race recap, First half\nAs the race passed the 100-mile mark, Al Unser, Sr. led, with Johnny Rutherford running second, and A. J. Foyt and Lloyd Ruby battling for third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 45], "content_span": [46, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090978-0022-0000", "contents": "1970 Indianapolis 500, Race recap, First half\nAl Unser, Sr. led the first 48 laps. He gave up the lead to A. J. Foyt during a pit stop on lap 49. One lap later, Foyt entered the pits, giving the lead to Lloyd Ruby. Suddenly Ruby was given the black flag for smoke due to broken drive gears. Ruby's dramatic race was over after completing only 54 laps. Meanwhile, Johnny Rutherford stalled exiting the pits, losing considerable track position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 45], "content_span": [46, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090978-0023-0000", "contents": "1970 Indianapolis 500, Race recap, First half\nUnser re-took the lead on lap 54, and led until the halfway point. Mario Andretti once again had to make an unscheduled pit stop, this time to change the right rear tire. Through most of the race, he was experiencing handing issues with the right rear suspension.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 45], "content_span": [46, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090978-0024-0000", "contents": "1970 Indianapolis 500, Race recap, Second half\nAl Unser moved back to the front on lap 106, and he would not relinquish the lead. Johnny Rutherford, who was a factor in the first half, dropped out after 135 laps due to a broken header.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 46], "content_span": [47, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090978-0025-0000", "contents": "1970 Indianapolis 500, Race recap, Second half\nRoger McCluskey, who had dropped out on lap 62 with suspension damage, relieved Mel Kenyon on lap 112.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 46], "content_span": [47, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090978-0026-0000", "contents": "1970 Indianapolis 500, Race recap, Second half\nOn lap 172, Roger McCluskey (driving for Kenyon), spun going into turn three, and crashed hard into the outside wall. Ronnie Bucknum was collected in the crash. Sammy Sessions locked up the brakes and nearly slid into the crashed cars. Sessions gained control, weaved his way through, and continued in the race. Spilled fuel started pouring from one of the crashed cars, and a small fire broke out. As the field approached the scene, several cars got into the fluid and spun. Wally Dallenbach and Jack Brabham spun but continued. Mario Andretti nearly spun out, but he made it through the scene unscathed. The fire was quickly extinguished, but the yellow light was on for over 14 minutes to clear the track.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 46], "content_span": [47, 755]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090978-0027-0000", "contents": "1970 Indianapolis 500, Race recap, Finish\nWith about 25 laps to go, Al Unser, Sr. had lapped the entire field. Unser's crew gave him the \"E-Z\" sign on his chalkboard, and both Mark Donohue and A. J. Foyt got their lap back.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 41], "content_span": [42, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090978-0028-0000", "contents": "1970 Indianapolis 500, Race recap, Finish\nWith Unser leading comfortably, the focus became the battle for second between Mark Donohue and A. J. Foyt. With only a handful of laps left, Foyt suddenly slowed in turn one. He pulled to the apron, but stayed out on the track attempting to nurse the car to the finish line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 41], "content_span": [42, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090978-0029-0000", "contents": "1970 Indianapolis 500, Race recap, Finish\nAl Unser, Sr. led a total of 190 laps en route to his first Indy victory. Unser won by 32.19 seconds over second place Mark Donohue. A very slow A. J. Foyt fell to 10th in the final standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 41], "content_span": [42, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090978-0030-0000", "contents": "1970 Indianapolis 500, Broadcasting, Radio\nThe race was carried live on the IMS Radio Network. Sid Collins served as chief announcer for the 23rd consecutive year. Len Sutton served as \"driver expert\" for the fifth year. At the conclusion of the race, Lou Palmer reported from victory lane. The entire on-air crew remained mostly consistent from 1966-1969. The broadcast came on-air at 11:30 am local time, with a thirty-minute pre-race show scheduled. However, the rain delay increased the pre-race coverage to almost an hour. After the death of Bill Dean, Jack Morrow assumed the role of producer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 42], "content_span": [43, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090978-0031-0000", "contents": "1970 Indianapolis 500, Broadcasting, Radio\nThe broadcast was carried by over 1,000 affiliates in all fifty states, AFN, the CBC, and reached locations such as Vietnam and had four foreign language translations. The broadcast had an estimated 120 million listeners worldwide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 42], "content_span": [43, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090978-0032-0000", "contents": "1970 Indianapolis 500, Broadcasting, Radio\nAmong the celebrity interviews Sid Collins conducted in the booth were Edie Adams, Dennis Hulme, Billy Shaw, Chris Economaki (ABC Sports), Larry Bisceglia, Sam Hanks, Pete DePaolo, Bill Holland, Senator Vance Hartke, Tony Hulman, Duke Nalon, Johnnie Parsons, and J. C. Agajanian. Astronaut Pete Conrad, who was a fellow passenger with Tony Hulman in the pace car for the second year in a row, was also interviewed during the pre-race coverage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 42], "content_span": [43, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090978-0033-0000", "contents": "1970 Indianapolis 500, Broadcasting, Radio\nChief Announcer: Sid CollinsDriver expert: Len SuttonStatistician: John DeCampHistorian: Donald Davidson", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 42], "content_span": [43, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090978-0034-0000", "contents": "1970 Indianapolis 500, Broadcasting, Radio\nTurn 1: Mike AhernTurn 2: Howdy BellBackstretch: Doug ZinkTurn 3: Ron CarrellTurn 4: Jim Shelton", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 42], "content_span": [43, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090978-0035-0000", "contents": "1970 Indianapolis 500, Broadcasting, Television\nThe race was carried in the United States on ABC's Wide World of Sports. The broadcast aired on Saturday June 6. Jim McKay anchored the broadcast with Rodger Ward and Chris Economaki as analysts. Ward drove the pace car at the start of the race. It was the last time the \"500\" was not seen on over-the-air television the day of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 47], "content_span": [48, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090978-0036-0000", "contents": "1970 Indianapolis 500, Broadcasting, Television\nFor the final time, the race was shown live on MCA closed-circuit television in numerous theaters across the United States. Charlie Brockman served as anchor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 47], "content_span": [48, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090978-0037-0000", "contents": "1970 Indianapolis 500, Broadcasting, Television\nThe \"Wide World Of Sports\" broadcast has re-aired on ESPN Classic starting in May 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 47], "content_span": [48, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090979-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Individual Ice Speedway World Championship\nThe 1970 Individual Ice Speedway World Championship was the fifth edition of the World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090980-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Individual Long Track European Championship\nThe 1970 Individual Long Track European Championship was the 14th edition of the Long Track European Championship. The final was held on 30 August 1970 in Schee\u00dfel, West Germany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090980-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Individual Long Track European Championship\nThe title was won by Jon \u00d8degaard of Norway. It was the last time it would be known as the European Championship because as from 1971 it was opened to riders of all nations and became the World Long Track Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090981-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Individual Speedway World Championship\nThe 1970 Individual Speedway World Championship was the 25th edition of the official World Championship to determine the world champion rider.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090981-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Individual Speedway World Championship\nIvan Mauger became the first rider to win the title in three consecutive years, his five ride 15 point maximum took him to third in the all time list behind Ove Fundin and Barry Briggs. The Poles Pawe\u0142 Waloszek and Antoni Woryna took silver and bronze respectively in their home nation at the Olympic Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090981-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Individual Speedway World Championship, Format changes\nThe format of the Championship changed again for the 1970 event. This time the Polish riders were allowed six places in the World Final to be held in Poland. All other nations had to go through the European Final route to provide the remaining 10 riders for the World Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 59], "content_span": [60, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090981-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Individual Speedway World Championship, Second Round, British/Commonwealth Final\nm - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022 t - exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022 x - other exclusion \u2022 e - retired or mechanical failure \u2022 f - fell \u2022 ns - non-starter \u2022 nc - non-classify", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 85], "content_span": [86, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090981-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Individual Speedway World Championship, Second Round, Nordic Final\nm - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022 t - exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022 x - other exclusion \u2022 e - retired or mechanical failure \u2022 f - fell \u2022 ns - non-starter \u2022 nc - non-classify", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 71], "content_span": [72, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090981-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Individual Speedway World Championship, Third Round, British Nordic Final\nm - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022 t - exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022 x - other exclusion \u2022 e - retired or mechanical failure \u2022 f - fell \u2022 ns - non-starter \u2022 nc - non-classify", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 78], "content_span": [79, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090981-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 Individual Speedway World Championship, Third Round, Continental Final\nm - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022 t - exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022 x - other exclusion \u2022 e - retired or mechanical failure \u2022 f - fell \u2022 ns - non-starter \u2022 nc - non-classify", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 75], "content_span": [76, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090981-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 Individual Speedway World Championship, Fourth Round, European Final\nm - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022 t - exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022 x - other exclusion \u2022 e - retired or mechanical failure \u2022 f - fell \u2022 ns - non-starter \u2022 nc - non-classify", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 73], "content_span": [74, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090981-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 Individual Speedway World Championship, World Final\nm - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022 t - exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022 x - other exclusion \u2022 e - retired or mechanical failure \u2022 f - fell \u2022 ns - non-starter \u2022 nc - non-classify", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 56], "content_span": [57, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090982-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Final\nThe 1970 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Final was the final of the twelfth season of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. It was played on 22 and 28 April 1970 between Anderlecht of Belgium and Arsenal of England. Arsenal won the tie 4\u20133 on aggregate; after trailing 3\u20131 in the first leg, Arsenal mounted a comeback in the second with a 3\u20130 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090983-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Intercontinental Cup\nThe 1970 Intercontinental Cup was a football tie held over two legs in August and September 1970 between the winners of the 1969\u201370 European Cup, Feyenoord, and winners of the 1970 Copa Libertadores, Estudiantes de La Plata.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090983-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Intercontinental Cup\nThe first leg was held on 26 August 1970 at La Bombonera in Buenos Aires, and ended in a 2\u20132 draw, with goals from Juan Echecopar and Juan Ram\u00f3n Ver\u00f3n for Estudiantes and Willem van Hanegem and Ove Kindvall for Feyenoord. The return leg was held on 9 September 1970 at De Kuip in Rotterdam, which Feyenoord won 1\u20130 through a goal by Joop van Daele.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090983-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Intercontinental Cup\nThis was the first Intercontinental Cup title for Feyenoord in their first final appearance. Feyenoord never reached the Intercontinental Cup final again before the competition was made defunct in 2004 and merged into today's FIFA Club World Cup. On the other hand, this was the third consecutive final appearance for Estudiantes, having won in 1968 and lost in 1969.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090984-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 International Cross Country Championships\nThe 1970 International Cross Country Championships was held in Vichy, France, on March 22, 1970. An alternate women's championship was held one day earlier in Frederick, Maryland, United States at the VFW Country Club, on March 21, 1970. A report on the Vichy event as well as on the Frederick event was given in the Glasgow Herald.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090984-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 International Cross Country Championships\nComplete results for men, junior men, women (Vichy), women (Frederick), medallists, and the results of British athletes were published.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090984-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 International Cross Country Championships, Participation\nAn unofficial count yields the participation of 211 athletes from 17 countries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 61], "content_span": [62, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090985-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 International Gold Cup\nThe 1970 International Gold Cup was a non-championship Formula One race held at Oulton Park on 22 August 1970. The race was open to Formula One and Formula 5000 cars. It was run in two heats of 20 laps, with the winner decided on aggregate times. The starting grid for Heat 1 was decided by a qualifying session, in which John Surtees won pole position. The grid for Heat 2 was decided by the finishing order of Heat 1. John Surtees won Heat 1 and overall, narrowly beating Heat 2 winner Jochen Rindt, with Howden Ganley posting the best aggregate result of the Formula 5000 entrants. Jackie Stewart, debuting the brand-new Tyrrell 001, set fastest lap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 681]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090986-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Intertoto Cup\nIn the 1970 Intertoto Cup no knock-out rounds were contested, and therefore no winner was declared.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090986-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Intertoto Cup, Group stage\nThe teams were divided into thirteen groups of four teams each, five in the 'A' region and eight in the 'B' region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090987-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Iowa Hawkeyes football team\nThe 1970 Iowa Hawkeyes football team represented the University of Iowa in the 1970 Big Ten Conference football season. This was Ray Nagel's fifth and final season as head coach of the Hawkeyes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090988-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Iowa Senate election\nThe 1970 Iowa State Senate elections took place as part of the biennial 1970 United States elections. Iowa voters elected state senators in 27 of the state senate's 50 districts. Due to redistricting following the amending of the Iowa Constitution in 1968 mandating single-member districts, the Iowa Senate downsized from 61 to 50 members following the 1970 election. State senators typically serve four-year terms in the Iowa State Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090988-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Iowa Senate election\nThe Iowa General Assembly provides statewide maps of each district. To compare the effect of the 1968 redistricting process on the location of each district, contrast the with the .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090988-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Iowa Senate election\nThe primary election on June 2, 1970 determined which candidates appeared on the November 3, 1970 general election ballot. Primary election results can be obtained here. General election results can be obtained here.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090988-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Iowa Senate election\nFollowing the previous election, Republicans had control of the Iowa state Senate with 45 seats to Democrats' 16 seats. In June 1969, a special election in district 18 resulted in Sen. Orr flipping a seat in favor of the Democrats. Therefore, on election day in November 1970, Republicans controlled 44 seats and Democrats had 17.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090988-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Iowa Senate election\nTo claim control of the chamber from Republicans, the Democrats needed to net 9 Senate seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090988-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Iowa Senate election\nRepublicans maintained control of the Iowa State Senate following the 1970 general election with the balance of power shifting to Republicans holding 38 seats and Democrats having 12 seats (a net loss of 6 seats for Republicans and loss of 5 seats for the Democrats).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090989-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Iowa State Cyclones baseball team\nThe 1970 Iowa State Cyclones baseball team represented Iowa State University in the 1970 NCAA University Division baseball season. The Cyclones played their home games at Cap Timm Field. The team was coached by Cap Timm in his 29th year as head coach at Iowa State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090989-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Iowa State Cyclones baseball team\nThe Cyclones won the District V playoff to advance to the College World Series, where they were defeated by the Ohio Bobcats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090990-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Iowa State Cyclones football team\nThe 1970 Iowa State Cyclones football team represented Iowa State University in the Big Eight Conference during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. In their third year under head coach Johnny Majors, the Cyclones compiled a 5\u20136 record (1\u20136 against conference opponents), finished in last place in the conference, and were outscored by opponents by a combined total of 284 to 248. They played their home games at Clyde Williams Field in Ames, Iowa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090991-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Iowa gubernatorial election\nThe 1970 Iowa gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 1970. Incumbent Republican Robert D. Ray narrowly defeated Democratic nominee Robert D. Fulton with 50.98% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090992-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Iranian local elections\nThe second local elections in Iran, and the first to elect the members of provincial and township councils (Anjoman), were held in September1970. 960 seats for 150 councils were up for election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090992-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Iranian local elections, Results\nAccording to Rouhollah K. Ramazani, New Iran Party gained more than 60% of the votes and 300 out of 960 seats while Dishon et al reported the number of seats won by each party as the following:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090993-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Ireland rugby union tour of Argentina\nThe 1970 Ireland rugby union tour of Argentina was a series of matches played between August and September in Argentina by the Ireland national rugby union team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090993-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Ireland rugby union tour of Argentina\nDespite that the matches were not officially recognised by the Irish Rugby Football Union as Test matches, it was a real tour of Irish national team. At that time, the IRFU considered as official only matches against the other Home Unions, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand. It was the third tour of a \"Home Union\" in Argentina in three years, after Wales (1968) and Scotland (1969), and it was the second tour of an Irish side after the tour of 1952.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090993-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Ireland rugby union tour of Argentina, Match details\nSeleccionado del Interior: L. Capell; D. Filippa, R. Tarquini, G. Vera, M. Brandi; C. Navessi, L. Chac\u00f3n; B. Casalle, J. Ghiringhelli, H. Barrera; R. Pasaglia, R. Campra (cap. ); G. Ribeca, L. Ramos (C. Bianchi), M. Senatore (C. Abud) Ireland: T. Ciernan; A. Duggan, F. Brenishan, R. Murphy, W. Brown; B. Mc Gann, J. Molones; J. Buckley, A. Moore, R. Lamont; M. Mohillo, W. Mac Bride; P. O \u0301Callagham, J. Lynch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 57], "content_span": [58, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090993-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Ireland rugby union tour of Argentina, Match details\nRosario: J. Seaton; R. Villavicencio, J. Benzi, C. Blanco, C. Garc\u00eda; J. Scilabra, M. Escalante; J. L. Imhoff, M. Chesta (cap. ), J. Robin; M. Bouza, J. Mangiamelli; R. Fariello, J. Costante, F. Land\u00f3. Ireland: B. O \u0301Driscoll; A. Duggan, F. Brenishan, F. O \u0301Driscoll, T. Grace; B. Mc Gann, L. Hall; R. Lamont, A. Moore, M. Hipwell; W. Mc Bride (cap. ), P. Cassidy; S. Millar, J. Brich, J. Lynch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 57], "content_span": [58, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090993-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Ireland rugby union tour of Argentina, Match details\nArgentina B: J. Seaton; N. P\u00e9rez, J. Benzi, C. Blanco, J. Otaola; T. Harris-Smith, A. Etchegaray (cap. ); N. Carbone, G. Anderson, R. Casabal; J. Retegui, R. Castro; M. Farna, J. Dumas, A. Abella. Ireland: T. Ciernan (cap. ); A. Duggan, F. O \u0301Driscoll, F. Brenishan, W. Brown; B. Mc Gann, J. Molones; M. Hipwell, A. Moore, J. Buckley; M. Mohillo, W. Mc Bride; S. Millar, J. Birch, P. O \u0301Callaghan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 57], "content_span": [58, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090993-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Ireland rugby union tour of Argentina, Match details\nArgentina D: A. Bollini; P. Kember, E. Reynolds, L. Esteras, A. Stein; F. Forrester, G. Blaksley (cap. ); C. Bori, E. Elowson, J. Borghi; J. C. Anderson, J. Vorasoro; F. Ins\u00faa, G. Casas, E. Merelle. Ireland: T. Ciernan (cap. ); A. Duggan, F. O \u0301Driscoll, B. O \u0301Driscoll, W. Brown; H. Murphy, L. Hall; R. Lamont, M. Hipwell, J. Buckley; P. Cassidy, M. Mohillo; J. Lynch, P. Madigan, P. O \u0301Callaghan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 57], "content_span": [58, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090993-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 Ireland rugby union tour of Argentina, Match details, First test\nArgentina C: R. Espagnol; H. Rosatti, J. Walther (E. Word), E. P\u00e9rez Otero (G. Blaksley); G. Pimentel, M. Cutler; J. Carracedo, J. Wittman, M. Morgan; A. Orz\u00e1bal, F. Hughes; H. Incola, L. Lebr\u00f3n, O. Carbone. Ireland: B. O \u0301Driscoll; T. Grace, F. Brenishan, H. Murphy, W. Brown (J. Maloney); F. O \u0301Driscoll, L. Hall; R. Lamont, M. Hipwell, J. Buckley; P. Cassidy, W. Mc Bride (cap. ); J. Lynch, P. Madigan, S. Millar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 69], "content_span": [70, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090994-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Irish Greyhound Derby\nThe 1970 Irish Greyhound Derby took place during July and August with the final being held at Shelbourne Park in Dublin on 8 August 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090994-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Irish Greyhound Derby\nThere was a major breakthrough for the Irish Derby after it received sponsorship from P.J.Carroll and Co, a cigarette company who contributed \u00a33,500 towards the event. The first prize carried a valuable \u00a35,000 and the competition itself had \u00a38,460 prize money in total.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090994-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Irish Greyhound Derby\nThe winner Monalee Pride won \u00a35,000 and was trained by Gay McKenna, owned by Dave Cahill and bred by Bertie Hatton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090994-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Irish Greyhound Derby, Competition Report\nWith the significant rise in prize money the Irish Derby became a major target for UK connections in addition to the Irish greyhounds. The 1970 competition drew in large crowds for all rounds which included trial stakes run at different tracks around Ireland with the winners of the races receiving free entry for the main event. All 22 Irish tracks North and South of the border carried a qualifying trial stake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090994-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Irish Greyhound Derby, Competition Report\nThe defending champion Own Pride returned for trainer Ger McKenna and was installed as the 7-1 ante-post favourite. McAlinden Cup champion Ballyhandy Duke trained by Danny Kelly was considered a major contender but sadly the expected competition from England was missing following a rabies scare. Chicago based Dave Cashman entered Monalee Pride following the brindle dog's disappointing National Produce Stakes campaign. Monalee Pride and his litter mates had cost Cashman \u00a34,000 to buy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090994-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Irish Greyhound Derby, Competition Report\nIt was Own Pride that showed first in round one after winning in a fast 29.40 which shortened his odds further. Ballyhandy Duke went well in 29.46 and other winners that impressed included Brendas Pick 29.50, Geraldine Silver 29.55 and Blackrath Motion 29.67.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090994-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 Irish Greyhound Derby, Competition Report\nThe second round nearly provided the end of Own Pride who just managed third place behind Deise Slipper. Monalee Pride 29.44 and the Tom Lynch trained Menelaus 29.48 went fastest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090994-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 Irish Greyhound Derby, Competition Report\nIn the semi-final Own Pride bounced back to winning ways beating Geraldine Silver in 29.38. A great battle in the second semi-final ended with Ballyhandy Duke beating Monalee Pride in 29.58 and the final semi saw Menelaus defeat Fly Ally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090994-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 Irish Greyhound Derby, Competition Report\nOwn Pride gained the perfect trap draw for the final starting from the red jacket and went off at a hot 11-8 favourite. When the traps opened Monalee Pride led unchallenged until the back straight when Own Pride got himself into a prominent position to challenge the leader. Monalee Pride kicked again to win the Derby for Gay McKenna; Own Pride come home second followed by Menelaus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090995-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Isle of Man TT\nThe 1970 Isle of Man TT, the fourth round of the 1970 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, involved a number of races on the Mountain Course on the Isle of Man. For the third consecutive year, Giacomo Agostini won both the Junior and Senior races, completing the six laps of the latter race in 2:13.47.6 to win by over five minutes. There were three \"production\" categories; Malcolm Uphill won the 750 cc, Frank Whiteway the 500 cc and Chas Mortimer the 250 cc.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090995-0000-0001", "contents": "1970 Isle of Man TT\nGerman pairs won both sidecar events; Klaus Enders and Wolfgang Kalauch in the 500 cc and Siegfried Schauzu and H. Schneider in the 750 cc. Kel Carruthers won the Lightweight 250 cc race, while Dieter Braun won the Lightweight 125 cc. Braun's victory was notable because he was one of only seven riders to have won an Isle of Man TT race in their first attempt. Due to the circuit's 37.7 mile length, it usually takes competitors two or three attempts before they learn its nuances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090995-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Isle of Man TT\nThere were six fatalities among the competitors, including world championship contender Santiago Herrero, making this the deadliest year in the history of the Isle of Man TT.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090996-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Israel Super Cup\nThe 1970 Israel Super Cup was the 2nd Israel Super Cup (7th, including unofficial matches, as the competition wasn't played within the Israel Football Association in its first 5 editions, until 1969), an annual Israeli football match played between the winners of the previous season's Top Division and Israel State Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090996-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Israel Super Cup\nThe match was played between Maccabi Tel Aviv, champions of the 1969\u201370 Liga Leumit and Hapoel Tel Aviv, runners-up in the league, as Maccabi Tel Aviv also won the 1969\u201370 Israel State Cup. Since Maccabi Tel Aviv won the previous season's double, the cup was officially designated as \"The Liga Leumit Cup\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090996-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Israel Super Cup\nThe match was due to be played on 14 October 1970, but was postponed due to weather conditions, and was held a week later. At the match, played at Bloomfield Stadium, Hapoel Tel Aviv won 2\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090997-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Italian Athletics Championships\nThe 1970 Italian Athletics Championships was the 50th edition of the Italian Athletics Championships and were held in Rome (track & field events).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090998-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Italian Athletics Indoor Championships\n1970 Italian Athletics Indoor Championships was the 1st edition of the Italian Athletics Indoor Championships and were held in Genoa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090999-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Italian Grand Prix\nThe 1970 Italian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at the Autodromo Nazionale di Monza on September 6, 1970. It was race 10 of 13 in both the 1970 World Championship of Drivers and the 1970 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers. The race was marred by the death of Jochen Rindt, who died during the practice session on September 5. Rindt himself went on to become Formula One's only posthumous World Champion to date. The 68-lap race was won by Ferrari driver Clay Regazzoni for his first Grand Prix victory after starting from third position. Jackie Stewart finished second for the March team and Matra driver Jean-Pierre Beltoise came in third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 691]}} {"id": "enwiki-00090999-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Italian Grand Prix\nThis was the last time that Monza was driven for 68 laps. From 1971 onwards, the race distance would be 55 laps. It was also the last win for a driver wearing an open-face helmet in Formula One.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091000-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Italian Open (tennis)\nThe 1970 Italian Open was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament that was played on outdoor clay courts at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy. The men's tournament was initially part of the Grand Prix circuit but was withdrawn during the tournament when it became known that the organizers had paid management fees to the competing World Championship Tennis (WCT) organization in order for the WCT players to participate. The women's tournament was a non-tour event, i.e. not part of the Virginia Slims Circuit. The tournament was held from 20 April through 27 April 1970. The singles titles were won by Ilie N\u0103stase and Billie Jean King.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 670]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091000-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Italian Open (tennis), Finals, Men's doubles\nIlie N\u0103stase / Ion \u0162iriac defeated William Bowrey / Owen Davidson 0\u20136, 10\u20138, 6\u20133, 6\u20138, 6\u20131", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091000-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Italian Open (tennis), Finals, Women's doubles\nBillie Jean King / Rosie Casals defeated Fran\u00e7oise D\u00fcrr / Virginia Wade 6\u20132, 3\u20136, 9\u20137", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091001-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Italian local elections\nThe 1970 Italian local elections were held on 7 and 8 June. The elections were held in 6,632 municipalities and 88 provinces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091002-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Italian regional elections\nThe Italian regional elections of 1970 were held on 7 and 8 June. Even if the regional system was conceived by the Italian Constitution in 1948, the five autonomous regions were the sole to be immediately established. The fifteen ordinary regions were indeed created in 1970 with the first elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091002-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Italian regional elections, Electoral system\nThe pure party-list proportional representation had traditionally become the electoral system of Italy, and it was adopted for the regional vote too. Each Italian province corresponded to a constituency electing a group of candidates. At constituency level, seats were divided between open lists using the largest remainder method with Droop quota. Remaining votes and seats were transferred at regional level, where they were divided using the Hare quota, and automatically distributed to best losers into the local lists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091002-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Italian regional elections, Results summary\nTwelve Regional Councils elected an administration led by Christian Democracy in a centrist alliance, while Emilia-Romagna, Umbria and Tuscany chose a leftist administration, the first two regions led by the PCI and the other one by the PSI.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091003-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Ivorian general election\nGeneral elections were held in Ivory Coast on 29 November 1970 to elect a President and National Assembly. At the time the country was a one-party state with the Democratic Party of Ivory Coast \u2013 African Democratic Rally (PDCI-RDA) as the sole legal party. Its leader F\u00e9lix Houphou\u00ebt-Boigny was elected President unopposed, whilst in the National Assembly election, a list of 100 PDCI-RDA candidates (chosen from 650 applicants by the party's executive authorities) for the 100 seats (increased from 85 at the previous elections) was presented to the electorate for approval. Voter turnout was reported to be 98.9% in the parliamentary election and 99.2% in the presidential election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 714]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091004-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Japan Series\nThe 1970 Japan Series was the 21st edition of Nippon Professional Baseball's postseason championship series. It matched the Central League champion Yomiuri Giants against the Pacific League champion Lotte Orions. The Giants defeated the Orions in five games to win their sixth consecutive championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091005-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Japan Soccer League\nThe 1970 season of the Japan Soccer League was the sixth season of Japanese league football. Toyo Industries won their fifth title and set the record for title wins, but they would not regain the title during the rest of the JSL's existence and would not win the successor league, the J. League Division 1, until 2012.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091007-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 John Player League\nThe 1970 John Player League was the second competing of what was generally known as the Sunday League. The competition was won for the second consecutive year by Lancashire County Cricket Club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091009-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 KFK competitions (Ukraine)\nThe 1970 KFK competitions in Ukraine were part of the 1970 Soviet KFK competitions that were conducted in the Soviet Union. It was 7th season of the KFK in Ukraine since its introduction in 1964.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091009-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 KFK competitions (Ukraine), Promotion\nNone of KFK teams were promoted to the 1971 Soviet Second League, Zone 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091009-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 KFK competitions (Ukraine), Promotion\nHowever, to the Class B were promoted following teams that did not participate in the KFK competitions:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091010-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Kansas City Chiefs season\nThe 1970 Kansas City Chiefs season was the franchise's debut season in the National Football League, the 8th as the Kansas City Chiefs, and the 11th overall. It began with the Chiefs attempting to defend their Super Bowl IV championship title but ended with a 7\u20135\u20132 record and missed the playoffs for the first time since 1967.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091010-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Kansas City Chiefs season\nFollowing their championship success, the Chiefs traded running back Mike Garrett, who was the club's all-time leading rusher at the time, to San Diego after a week 3 loss in Denver, and replaced him in the lineup with Ed Podolak. Despite a 44\u201324 win against soon to be Super Bowl V Champion Baltimore on September 28 in just the second-ever telecast of ABC's Monday Night Football, the Chiefs owned a 3\u20133\u20131 record at the season's midpoint. One of the season's pivotal junctures came in a 17\u201317 tie against Oakland on November 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091010-0001-0001", "contents": "1970 Kansas City Chiefs season\nThe Chiefs were ahead 17\u201314 when Len Dawson apparently sealed the win, running for a first down which would have allowed Kansas City to run out the clock. While on the ground, Dawson was speared by Raiders defensive end Ben Davidson in an infamous incident that cost the Chiefs a victory and further inflamed the already heated Chiefs\u2013Raiders rivalry. Wide receiver Otis Taylor retaliated and a bench-clearing brawl ensued. Offsetting penalties were called, nullifying Dawson's first down. The Chiefs were forced to punt and Raiders kicker George Blanda eventually booted a game-tying field goal with eight seconds remaining.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 656]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091010-0001-0002", "contents": "1970 Kansas City Chiefs season\nFollowing the tie with Oakland the Chiefs' defense would permit only 43 points over the next 5 weeks, which included 4 wins and 6\u20136 tie with the St. Louis Cardinals at Municipal Stadium. The Cardinals had come into that game with a streak of three straight shutout wins. The Chiefs' D held St. Louis to a late FG as the game ended 6\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091010-0001-0003", "contents": "1970 Kansas City Chiefs season\nAfter a 16\u20130 shutout of Denver the Chiefs had played to a 6\u20131\u20132 record over the past nine weeks to stand 7\u20133\u20132 with two weeks to play and very much looked like a team with a chance to defend its championship. Then came the big one at Oakland, the game that would decide who reigned supreme in pro football's toughest division. The game on December 12 was a Saturday stand-alone NBC national telecast. The Chiefs led early 3\u20130, and the game was tied 6\u20136 at the half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091010-0001-0004", "contents": "1970 Kansas City Chiefs season\nBut the Raiders, behind the angry running of Marv Hubbard, dominated the 2nd half in a 20\u20136 AFC West title clinching win for Oakland. The Chiefs still had a slim hope for the AFC Wild Card spot. They however needed a win by a poor Buffalo team in Miami and then a Chiefs' win in San Diego to make the playoffs. Miami jumped to a 28\u20130 first quarter lead and rolled to a 45\u20137 win. The Chiefs warming up to play the Chargers saw the Miami blowout and knew their reign as Champions was over.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091010-0001-0005", "contents": "1970 Kansas City Chiefs season\nEliminated, the Chiefs played an uninspired sleep walk game, losing 31\u201313. In the end it was that tie in November with Oakland that ultimately cost the Chiefs the opportunity to win the AFC West division title as Kansas City finished the year with a 7\u20135\u20132 record, while the Raiders went 8\u20134\u20132. The rules were changed several years later to assess such penalties as the Davidson-Taylor incident as dead-ball fouls after the play counted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091010-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Kansas City Chiefs season, Standings\nNote: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091011-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Kansas City Royals season\nThe 1970 Kansas City Royals season was their second in Major League Baseball. The Royals finished tied for fourth place with the Milwaukee Brewers in the American League West with a record of 65-97, 33 games behind the division champion Minnesota Twins. Charlie Metro took over as manager when Joe Gordon resigned after the Royals' initial season, but was replaced by Bob Lemon following a 19-33 start. Bob Oliver hit a team-high 27 home runs, becoming the first Royals player to hit 20 or more home runs in a season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091011-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Kansas City Royals season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 75], "content_span": [76, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091011-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Kansas City Royals season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 68], "content_span": [69, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091011-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Kansas City Royals season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 73], "content_span": [74, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091011-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Kansas City Royals season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 70], "content_span": [71, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091011-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Kansas City Royals season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 71], "content_span": [72, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091012-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Kansas Jayhawks football team\nThe 1970 Kansas Jayhawks football team represented the University of Kansas in the Big Eight Conference during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. In their fourth and final season under head coach Pepper Rodgers, the Jayhawks compiled a 5\u20136 record (2\u20135 against conference opponents), tied for sixth place in the Big Eight Conference, and were outscored by their opponents by a combined total of 277 to 270. They played their home games at Memorial Stadium in Lawrence, Kansas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091012-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Kansas Jayhawks football team\nThe team's statistical leaders included Dan Heck with 1,169 passing yards, John Riggins with 1,131 rushing yards and Ron Jessie with 308 receiving yards. Larry Brown was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091013-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Kansas State Wildcats football team\nThe 1970 Kansas State Wildcats football team represented Kansas State University in the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. The team's head football coach was Vince Gibson. The Wildcats played their home games in KSU Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091013-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Kansas State Wildcats football team\nSenior quarterback Lynn Dickey led the team to a third straight season as the top-rated passing offense in the Big Eight Conference. Kansas State also led the conference in total defense, and posted its first win against a top-ten team, beating #8 Colorado. The Wildcats went into the final conference game of the season against Nebraska ranked #20 and playing for the Big Eight championship. The #4-ranked Cornhuskers throttled Kansas State 51-13 in the game. Kansas State did not return to the national rankings again until the 1993 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091013-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Kansas State Wildcats football team\nThe team finished with a winning record in conference play for the first time since 1953. After the season Gibson was named coach of the year by the Big Eight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091014-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Kansas gubernatorial election\nThe 1970 Kansas gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 1970. Incumbent Democrat Robert Docking defeated Republican nominee Kent Frizzell with 54.3% of the vote. This was the last Kansas gubernatorial election in which the losing candidate won Harvey County.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091015-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Kent State Golden Flashes football team\nThe 1970 Kent State Golden Flashes football team was an American football team that represented Kent State University in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. In their third and final season under head coach Dave Puddington, the Golden Flashes compiled a 3\u20137 record (1\u20134 against MAC opponents), finished in fifth place in the MAC, and were outscored by all opponents by a combined total of 222 to 161.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091015-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Kent State Golden Flashes football team\nThe team's statistical leaders included fullback Don Nottingham with 798 rushing yards and 48 points scored, quarterback Steve Broderick with 757 passing yards, and Jeff Murrey with 165 receiving yards. Center Fred Blosser was selected as a first-team All-MAC player. Other notable players on the team included Nick Saban, Gary Pinkel, John Matsko, and linebacker Jim Corrigall (later head coach at Kent State).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091015-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Kent State Golden Flashes football team\nThe Kent State shootings of May 4, 1970, focused attention on the 1970 Kent State football team, as one of the first activities of the new academic year in the fall of 1970. Before the season began, coach Puddington noted that his players believed they could \"set the tone\" and become \"a unifying force on the campus.\" Nick Saban, a freshman on the 1970 team, later recalled seeing the aftermath of the shootings: \"It's a horrible thing. There's not a May 4 that goes by that I don't think about it. Really think about it.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091015-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Kent State Golden Flashes football team\nOn November 12, 1970, Puddington announced that he would resign as the school's football coach at the end of the quarter. He had compiled a 9-21 record in three seasons at Kent State. Puddington cited factors contributing to his decision, including \"prevailing contagious negativism on campus\" since the May 4 shootings as well as \"fatalism around us and the current tendency to politicize every facet of life.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091016-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Kentucky Derby\nThe 1970 Kentucky Derby was the 96th running of the Kentucky Derby. The race took place on May 2, 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091016-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Kentucky Derby\nThe race is most notable in American popular culture as the setting for \"The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved\", an article written for Scanlan's Monthly by Hunter S. Thompson that would later be identified as the first instance of gonzo journalism.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091017-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Kentucky Wildcats football team\nThe 1970 Kentucky Wildcats football team represented the University of Kentucky in the Southeastern Conference during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091018-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Kerala Legislative Assembly election\nElections were held on 17 September 1970 to elect members of the fourth Niyamasabha. The United Front, led by CPI, IUML, RSP, and with the external support from INC, won plurality of seats and formed the government, with C. Achutha Menon as the Chief Minister.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091019-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 1970 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship was the 76th staging of the Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Kilkenny County Board. The championship began on 17 May 1970 and edned on 4 October 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091019-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship\nOn 4 October 1970, Fenians won the championship after a 2-11 to 3-05 defeat of James Stephens in the final. It was their first ever championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091020-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 King's Cup\nThe 1970 King's Cup finals were held from November 8 to November 20, 1970, in Bangkok. This was the third edition of the international football competition. South Korea were set to defend the title they won in 1969 and in the final they would take the title as they defeated Thailand in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091021-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 LFF Lyga\nThe 1970 LFF Lyga was the 49th season of the LFF Lyga football competition in Lithuania. It was contested by 17 teams, and Atletas Kaunas won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091022-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 LPGA Championship\nThe 1970 LPGA Championship was the 16th LPGA Championship, held June 11\u201315 at Pleasant Valley Country Club in Sutton, Massachusetts, southeast of Worcester.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091022-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 LPGA Championship\nIn an 18-hole Monday playoff, Shirley Englehorn won her only major title, defeating 1967 champion Kathy Whitworth by four strokes. Englehorn bogeyed the second hole and parred the rest for a 74 (+1). Three years earlier Pleasant Valley, Whitworth had bested Englehorn by a stroke in 1967, after the pair had co-led after 54 holes. It was Englehorn's fourth consecutive victory during the 1970 season; defending champion Betsy Rawls tied for 26th, 21 strokes back.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091022-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 LPGA Championship\nThis was the third LPGA Championship held at Pleasant Valley in four years, and the third of seven in an eight-year stretch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091022-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 LPGA Championship, Final leaderboard\nWhitworth had a four-stroke lead after 58 holes, but Englehorn was four-under on the back nine on Sunday, including a birdie on the final hole to force the Monday playoff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091022-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 LPGA Championship, Playoff\nNo birdies were scored in the playoff: both bogeyed the second hole and Whitworth had another at the ninth to fall one back at the turn. She had a double bogey at the twelfth and dropped three back, while Englehorn had seventeen pars on the way to a one-over 74 for a four-stroke win and the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 31], "content_span": [32, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091023-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 LPGA Tour\nThe 1970 LPGA Tour was the 21st season since the LPGA Tour officially began in 1950. The season ran from February 12 to October 25. The season consisted of 21 official money events. Shirley Englehorn won the most tournaments, four. Kathy Whitworth led the money list with earnings of $30,235.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091023-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 LPGA Tour\nThere were two first-time winners in 1970: Kathy Ahern and Jane Blalock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 87]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091023-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 LPGA Tour, Tournament results\nThe following table shows all the official money events for the 1970 season. \"Date\" is the ending date of the tournament. The numbers in parentheses after the winners' names are the number of wins they had on the tour up to and including that event. Majors are shown in bold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091024-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 LSU Tigers football team\nThe 1970 LSU Tigers football team represented Louisiana State University during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091024-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 LSU Tigers football team\nFollowing a 3\u20130 loss to No. 2 Notre Dame at South Bend, LSU was extended a bid to face Big Eight Conference champion Nebraska in the Orange Bowl. However, the bid was contingent on the Tigers defeating both Tulane at New Orleans and Ole Miss at Baton Rouge in the final two weeks of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091024-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 LSU Tigers football team\nStill steaming about being shut out of the major bowl games in 1969 despite a 9\u20131 record, LSU responded to the challenge. The Tigers overcame a stubborn Tulane squad, which went on to defeat Colorado in the Liberty Bowl, and then dismantled Ole Miss 61\u201317 in front of a large television audience and nearly 70,000 fans in Tiger Stadium. In that game, Tommy Casanova tied an NCAA record with two punt return touchdowns in a single game, Craig Burns returned a third put for a touchdown, and Ronnie Estay sacked Rebel quarterback Archie Manning for a safety..", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091024-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 LSU Tigers football team\nIn the Orange Bowl, LSU led Nebraska 12-10 after three quarters, but a late touchdown by Jerry Tagge lifted the Cornhuskers to a 17-12 victory and the Associated Press national championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091024-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 LSU Tigers football team\nCasanova and linebacker Mike Anderson were recognized as consensus All-Americans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091025-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 La Fl\u00e8che Wallonne\nThe 1970 La Fl\u00e8che Wallonne was the 34th edition of La Fl\u00e8che Wallonne cycle race and was held on 19 April 1970. The race started in Li\u00e8ge and finished in Marcinelle. The race was won by Eddy Merckx of the Faemino\u2013Faema team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091026-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Labour Party Shadow Cabinet election\nElections to the Labour Party's Shadow Cabinet (more formally, its \"Parliamentary Committee\") occurred in July 1970, following the party's defeat in the 1970 general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091026-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Labour Party Shadow Cabinet election\nIn addition to the 12 members elected, the Leader (Harold Wilson), Deputy Leader (Roy Jenkins), Labour Chief Whip (Bob Mellish), Labour Leader in the House of Lords (Baron Shackleton), and Labour Chief Whip in the Lords (Baron Beswick) were automatically members. The Labour Lords elected one further member, Baron Champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091026-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Labour Party Shadow Cabinet election\nThe Chair of the Labour Party was elected at the same time as the Shadow Cabinet, and was given a further automatic place in the cabinet. The post was won by Douglas Houghton, who also won one of the twelve places in the Shadow Cabinet election. Ross, who had taken thirteenth place in the Shadow Cabinet election, was given the spare position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091027-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Labour Party deputy leadership election\nThe 1970 Labour Party deputy leadership election took place on 8 July 1970, after sitting deputy leader George Brown lost his seat at the 1970 general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091027-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Labour Party deputy leadership election, Sources\nThis United Kingdom election-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 53], "content_span": [54, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091028-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Lafayette Leopards football team\nThe 1970 Lafayette Leopards football team was an American football team that represented Lafayette College as an independent during the 1970 NCAA College Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091028-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Lafayette Leopards football team\nIn their fourth and final year under head coach Harry Gamble, the Leopards compiled a 6\u20135 record. Richard McKay was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091028-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Lafayette Leopards football team\nFollowing the decision by the Middle Atlantic Conference to end football competition in its University Division, the Leopards competed as a football independent in 1970, though five of the former league rivals (Bucknell, Delaware, Gettysburg, Lafayette and Lehigh) continued to play an informal round-robin called the \"Middle Five\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091028-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Lafayette Leopards football team\nThe three-way rivalry with Lehigh and Rutgers remained on Lafayette's football schedule, but press reports in 1970 make no mention of a Middle Three Conference champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091028-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Lafayette Leopards football team\nLafayette played its home games at Fisher Field on College Hill in Easton, Pennsylvania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091029-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Lamar Tech Cardinals football team\nThe 1970 Lamar Tech Cardinals football team represented the Lamar State College of Technology in the 1970 NCAA College Division football season as a member of the Southland Conference. The Cardinals played their home games at Cardinal Stadium now named Provost Umphrey Stadium in Beaumont, Texas. The team finished the season with a 3\u20137 overall record and a 1\u20133 conference record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091030-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Latvian SSR Higher League, Overview\nIt was contested by 14 teams, and VEF won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091031-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Law on dangerousness and social rehabilitation\nThe 1970 Law on Social Danger and Rehabilitation (la ley de peligrosidad y rehabilitaci\u00f3n social) was a Spanish penal code law approved by dictator Francisco Franco's regime on August 5, 1970. It replaced the 1933 Law on Vagrants and Criminals (la ley de vagos y maleantes) which sought to punish and exclude \"antisocial\" members of society, such as beggars, vandals, drug traffickers, pornographers, prostitutes, pimps and illegal immigrants. Although the jurisdiction of the Law of Vagrants and Criminals was officially extended in 1954 to include homosexuals as \"antisocial\" members of society, the law never targeted them specifically.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 691]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091031-0000-0001", "contents": "1970 Law on dangerousness and social rehabilitation\nThe Law of Danger and Social Rehabilitation went a step further than the Law of Vagrants and Criminals, specifically criminalizing homosexuality and establishing a spectrum of punishments for citizens caught engaged in homosexual acts. The law was passed in 1970, just a year after the Stonewall Uprising in New York City, whose legacy set into motion a series of gay rights movements around the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091031-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Law on dangerousness and social rehabilitation, Punishments and prosecution\nUnder the Law on Social Danger and Rehabilitation, official punishments for homosexuality included internment in rehabilitation establishments for periods lasting between six months and five years, exclusion from visiting certain public spaces or from living in specific neighborhoods, and possible prison time. The regime justified these conditions by framing homosexuality as a disease and popularizing a discourse centered on the \"inherent perversion\" of homosexuals, who were painted as a threat to society, and particularly to young people. The law perpetuated a widespread fear of public scandal and political persecution throughout the queer community of Spain. It is speculated that Spanish poet Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca was assassinated for a double crime of being homosexual and having radical beliefs that contradicted those of Franco's regime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 80], "content_span": [81, 933]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091031-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Law on dangerousness and social rehabilitation, Post-Francoist Spain\nEven after Franco's death, Spanish legislation often did not work in favor of the rights of the queer community. The 1975 general pardon and the 1977 amnesty law did not extend to those citizens who had been punished under the Law of Social Danger and Rehabilitation. Along with the ratification of a new democratic constitution in Spain on November 6, 1978, the Law of Social Danger was overturned, as Judge Miguel Lop\u00e9z Mu\u00f1iz argued that it was a \"product of the Franquista regime,\" but many homosexual prisoners were not released until a year later, in 1979.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 73], "content_span": [74, 635]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091031-0002-0001", "contents": "1970 Law on dangerousness and social rehabilitation, Post-Francoist Spain\nIn January 1979, several articles of the law were repealed, among them one referring to \"acts of homosexuality,\" and ultimately the law's full repeal was achieved in 1989. Ten years later, on December 13, 1999, the third additional provision of the Organic Law on Protection of Personal Data 15/1999, established that the police files of all those repressed by this law would be declared confidential, and only historians would be able to access their data for statistical purposes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 73], "content_span": [74, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091032-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Lazio regional election\nThe Lazio regional election of 1970 took place on 7\u20138 June 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 93]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091032-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Lazio regional election, Events\nChristian Democracy resulted the largest party, followed by the Italian Communist Party. After the election Christian Democrat Girolamo Mechelli formed a centre-left government which included the Italian Socialist Party, the Unitary Socialist Party and the Italian Republican Party (organic Centre-left). In 1972 Mechelli was replaced by fellow Christian Democrat Luigi Cipriani, to whom Rinaldo Santini succeeded in 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091033-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Lebanese presidential election\nAn indirect presidential election was held in the Parliament of Lebanon on 5 November 1970, resulting in Deputy Suleiman Frangieh being elected President of the Lebanese Republic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091033-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Lebanese presidential election\nBy convention, the presidency is always attributed to a Maronite Christian. Under the article 49 of the Lebanese Constitution, a qualified majority of two-thirds of the members of the then 99-seat Lebanese Parliament is required to elect the president in the first round. After the second round of election, the president is elected by an absolute majority of the total number of deputies in office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091033-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Lebanese presidential election\nSuleiman Frangieh, a deputy representing Zgharta in North Lebanon, posed as a conservative consensus candidate, gaining the support from both the left and right and across religious factions due to backlash from the 12 continuous years of reform from the Chehabist regimes. In what was possibly the most controversial presidential election in Lebanon, he was elected by the thinnest margin possible - on a 1 vote difference - on the 17 August 1970 by 50 of the 99 Representatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091033-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Lebanese presidential election, Results\nAll 99 MPs were present. Usually, a consensus candidate would have been agreed before-hand, however in this case both Frangieh and Sarkis had roughly equal support In the first round, a majority of two-thirds of present deputies was required; in the second and subsequent rounds, however, only a simple majority was needed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091033-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Lebanese presidential election, Results\nIn the first round, no one received the 2/3 threshold needed, therefore the election proceeded to the second round. In that round, however, an extra ballot was cast (there were 100 votes in the urn and only 99 deputies in total), therefore the round was negated. In the third round, Frangieh won an upset victory over \u00c9lias Sarkis, the official candidate of the Chehabist regime, due to a last minute change of Kamal Jumblatt, who ordered one of his deputies to vote for Frangieh. The Speaker of the Chamber, Sabri Hamadeh, refused to announce the results on a 1-vote difference and walked out of the parliament building. As he exited the chamber, Deputy Speaker Michel Georges Sassine exercised his functions as Acting Speaker and declared Suleiman Frangieh the 10th President of the Lebanese Republic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 848]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091033-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Lebanese presidential election, Aftermath\nAbout 5 years later, the Lebanese Civil War began as armed right-wing Christian militias began clashing more often with left-wing Muslim PLO militias in Beirut.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091034-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Leeds City Council election\nThe Leeds elections were held on 8 May 1970, with one third of the seats up for election, as well as an extra vacancy in Beeston.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091034-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Leeds City Council election\nThe election seen a nationally resurgent Labour gain 10 seats and achieve a 13% swing from the Conservatives, returning to a competitive status after the routings suffered the previous two elections. Labour gains were as follows: Bramley, Burmantofts, Gipton, Osmondthorpe, Richmond Hill, Scott Hall, Seacroft, Stanningley, Whinmoor and Wortley. There was also a narrow hold in Burley, with Labour close to eliminating the almost 40% Conservative majority managed there the year before. The Liberals further increased their representation with a gain from the Conservatives, repeating their success in West Hunslet following the previous year's upset.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 684]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091034-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Leeds City Council election, Election result\nThe result had the following consequences for the total number of seats on the Council after the elections:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091035-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Lehigh Engineers football team\nThe 1970 Lehigh Engineers football team was an American football team that represented Lehigh University as an independent during the 1970 NCAA College Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091035-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Lehigh Engineers football team\nIn their sixth year under head coach Fred Dunlap, the Engineers compiled a 4\u20136 record. Thad Jamula and Geo Nicholson were the team captains.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091035-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Lehigh Engineers football team\nFollowing the decision by the Middle Atlantic Conference to end football competition in its University Division, the Engineers competed as a football independent in 1970, though five of the former league rivals (Bucknell, Delaware, Gettysburg, Lafayette and Lehigh) continued to play an informal round-robin called the \"Middle Five\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091035-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Lehigh Engineers football team\nThe three-way rivalry with Lafayette and Rutgers remained on Lehigh's football schedule, but press reports in 1970 make no mention of a Middle Three Conference champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091035-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Lehigh Engineers football team\nLehigh played its home games at Taylor Stadium on the university campus in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091036-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Lehigh Valley Railroad derailment\nThe 1970 Lehigh Valley Railroad derailment was a train derailment in the town of Le Roy, New York which resulted in a spill of toxic chemicals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091036-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Lehigh Valley Railroad derailment, Event\nAt approximately 3:30 AM on December 6, 1970, 25 cars from an eastbound 114 car freight train operated by the Lehigh Valley Railroad derailed in the town, rupturing and spilling approximately 2,000 pounds of cyanide crystals, and 30,000 to 35,000 gallons of the solvent trichloroethylene.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 45], "content_span": [46, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091036-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Lehigh Valley Railroad derailment, Cleanup attempts\nThe cyanide crystals were removed, but the trichloroethylene had soaked into the ground and contaminated at least two nearby wells, producing a noticeable smell and solvent properties. The Lehigh Valley Railroad attempted to eliminate the smell in the spill area by pumping approximately 1 million gallons of water from a nearby flooded quarry and saturating the cleanup zone with it, then allowing the water to seep into the ground. This resulted in the trichloroethylene further saturating groundwater in the area, with many more wells becoming contaminated, with approximately 50 wells testing positive for TCE by 1990 to 1994. The Lehigh Valley Railroad began supplying affected homes with drinking water beginning in 1971, and later provided filter systems for contaminated wells.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 56], "content_span": [57, 842]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091036-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Lehigh Valley Railroad derailment, Today\nThe site of the Lehigh Valley Railroad derailment is currently considered an EPA Superfund site, and is monitored by both the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. The former Lehigh Valley Railroad line where the derailment took place was abandoned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 45], "content_span": [46, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091036-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Lehigh Valley Railroad derailment, 2011 LeRoy school investigation\nBeginning in August 2011, 14 students (13 girls and 1 boy) from the LeRoy Junior-Senior High School began reporting myriad perplexing medical symptoms including verbal outbursts, tics, seizure activity, and speech difficulty. In mid-January, 5 days after a community meeting in which the New York State Department of Health stated that their diagnosis could not be revealed publicly due to privacy concerns, two of the girls appeared on NBC's Today Show to discuss their frustration with not getting adequate answers. The next day, Dr. Laszlo Mechtler, a neurologist treating most of the girls, was given permission to share the diagnosis of conversion disorder and mass psychogenic illness.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 763]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091036-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Lehigh Valley Railroad derailment, 2011 LeRoy school investigation\nUnsatisfied with the results of the investigation, the girls and their parents spoke out publicly against their diagnosis, stating that they believed the situation warranted further scrutiny from outside sources. Alternative medical theories for condition were suggested, including Tourette syndrome and PANDAS, which Dr. Mechtler and his team ruled out as possibilities. Erin Brockovich, noted environmental activist, was called to town to investigate environmental pollution from the 1970 Lehigh Valley Railroad derailment as a possible cause. During this time, many of the girls appeared in the local and national media, as well as posting on social media. As this happened, many of these girls started reporting worse symptoms to their doctors and the illness spread to 20 individuals in total.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 870]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091036-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 Lehigh Valley Railroad derailment, 2011 LeRoy school investigation\nEventually, as doctors encouraged their patients to stay away from the media and the media attention died down, many of the girls' symptoms improved. By the end of the school year in June, one girl was diagnosed with Tourette's syndrome, likely the source of the mass psychogenic illness, and most of the girls who received treatment for conversion disorder were back to normal in time for graduation. No environmental causes were found after repeat testing around the school and surrounding areas of town.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091037-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Lesotho coup d'\u00e9tat\nThe 1970 Lesotho coup d'\u00e9tat was a self-coup that took place in Lesotho on 30 January 1970, led by Prime Minister Leabua Jonathan. It led to the assumption of dictatorial powers by Prime Minister Jonathan, who held the office since 1965. The coup was triggered by the victory of the opposition Basutoland Congress Party (BCP, led by Ntsu Mokhehle) over the ruling Basotholand National Party (BNP, led by Jonathan) in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091037-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Lesotho coup d'\u00e9tat\nPrime Minister Jonathan declared a state of emergency, annulled the election, dissolved parliament and suspended the constitution. King Moshoeshoe II was sent into exile after expressing disapproval of the actions. Jonathan himself was deposed in the 1986 coup d'\u00e9tat, led by General Justin Lekhanya.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091038-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Lesotho general election\nGeneral elections were held in Lesotho on 27 and 28 January 1970, the first since independence in 1966. They were won by the opposition Basutoland Congress Party, but without announcing the results, the ruling Basotho National Party carried out a coup d'\u00e9tat by declaring a state of emergency, annulling the election, dissolving parliament and suspending the constitution. King Moshoeshoe II was sent into exile after expressing disapproval of the actions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091038-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Lesotho general election\nLeabua Jonathan then dictated the country until 1986 when a military coup d'\u00e9tat led by Major General Justin Lekhanya deposed him. Lesotho was not returned to democratic rule until the 1993 elections, which were again won by the BCP in a landslide victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091038-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Lesotho general election, Results\nOfficial results were never published, but figures were made available by election observers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091039-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Liberty Bowl\nThe 1970 Liberty Bowl, part of the 1970 bowl game season, took place on December 12, 1970, at Memphis Memorial Stadium in Memphis, Tennessee. The competing teams in the 12th edition of the Liberty Bowl were the Tulane Green Wave, competing as an independent, and the Colorado Buffaloes, representing the Big Eight Conference. Tulane won the game, 17\u20133. This was the last Liberty Bowl played on a Saturday until the 1978 edition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091039-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Liberty Bowl, Teams, Tulane\nEntering the 1970 bowl season, Tulane finished the regular season with a record of 7\u20134. Following a 26\u201314 defeat to the rival LSU Tigers, the Green Wave accepted a bid to play in the Liberty Bowl. The appearance in the game marked Tulane's first since the 1940 Sugar Bowl and their fourth overall bowl appearance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 32], "content_span": [33, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091039-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Liberty Bowl, Teams, Colorado\nEntering the 1970 bowl season, Colorado finished the regular season with a record of 6\u20134. Following the completion of their regular season, the Buffaloes accepted a bid to play in the Liberty Bowl for the second consecutive year. The appearance in the game marked Colorado's second in the Liberty Bowl and their sixth overall bowl appearance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 34], "content_span": [35, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091039-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Liberty Bowl, Game summary\nIn an early defensive struggle, Tulane threatened to score first after Rick Kingrea intercepted a Paul Arendt pass an returned it to the Colorado six-yard line. Four plays later the Green Wave scored first on a 19-yard Lee Gibson field goal. Colorado evened the score 3\u20133 in the second quarter on a 32-yard David Haney field goal to cap a 15-play, 63-yard drive. In the second half the Green Wave scored touchdowns on a pair of David Abercrombie runs to win the game 17\u20133. For his 124 yards rushing and two touchdowns, Abercrombie was named the game's Most Valuable Player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 31], "content_span": [32, 605]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091040-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Libyan coup d'\u00e9tat attempt\nThe attempt of Abdullah Abed al-Senussi in May 1970, a cousin of the late King of Libya Idris al-Senussi, and one of the pillars of the former ruling Senussi dynasty, who was planning from Rome in agreement with officers belonging to the title of the regime, but the Gaddafi regime while his attempt failed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091041-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Liechtenstein general election\nGeneral elections were held in Liechtenstein on 1 February 1970. The Patriotic Union won 8 of the 15 seats in the Landtag, the first time it had held a majority since its formation in 1936. However, it continued the coalition government with the Progressive Citizens' Party, which had been in power since 1938. Voter turnout was 94.8%, although only male citizens were allowed to vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091042-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Liechtenstein tax adjustment referendum\nA double referendum on tax adjustment was held in Liechtenstein on 1 March 1970. Voters were asked whether they approved of a tax adjustment for local government and a counterproposal from the Landtag. The first proposal was approved by 67.6% of voters, whilst the Landtag counterproposal was rejected by 66.8% of voters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091043-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito season\nLiga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito's 1970 season was the club's 40th year of existence, the 17th year in professional football, and the 11th in the top level of professional football in Ecuador.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091044-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Ligurian regional election\nThe Ligurian regional election of 1970 took place on 7\u20138 June 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091044-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Ligurian regional election, Events\nChristian Democracy was the largest party and, narrowly ahead of the Italian Communist Party. After the election, Christian Democrat Gianni Dagnino formed a government comprising the Italian Socialist Party, the Unitary Socialist Party and the Italian Republican Party (organic Centre-left).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091045-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 1970 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship was the 76th staging of the Limerick Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Limerick County Board.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091045-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship\nOn 4 October 1970, Patrickswell won the championship after a 2-14 to 0-02 defeat of Kilmallock in the final. It was their fourth championship title overall and their second title in succession.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091046-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Little League World Series\nThe 1970 Little League World Series took place between August 25 and August 29 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. The American Little League of Wayne, New Jersey, defeated the Campbell Little League of Campbell, California, in the championship game of the 24th Little League World Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091047-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Liverpool City Council election\nElections to Liverpool City Council were held on 7 May 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091047-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Liverpool City Council election, Aldermanic Elections\nTwenty of the forty Aldermen were elected by the city council on 18 May 1970. Those elected by the council and the wards they were allocated to are shown in the table below:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 58], "content_span": [59, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091048-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Li\u00e8ge\u2013Bastogne\u2013Li\u00e8ge\nThe 1970 Li\u00e8ge\u2013Bastogne\u2013Li\u00e8ge was the 56th edition of the Li\u00e8ge\u2013Bastogne\u2013Li\u00e8ge cycle race and was held on 17 April 1970. The race started and finished in Li\u00e8ge. The race was won by Roger De Vlaeminck of the Flandria team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091049-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Lombard regional election\nThe Lombard regional election of 1970 took place on 7\u20138 June 1970. It was the first-ever regional election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091049-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Lombard regional election, Electoral law\nElection was held under proportional representation with provincial constituencies where the largest remainder method with a Droop quota was used. To ensure more proportionality, remained votes and seats were transferred at regional level and calculated at-large.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091049-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Lombard regional election, Results\nThe Christian Democracy party was by far the largest and christian-democrat Piero Bassetti was able to form a strong center-left government with the support of the PSI, the PSU and the PRI. Bassetti was replaced by Cesare Golfari in 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091050-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 London to Mexico World Cup Rally\nThe 1970 London-Mexico World Cup Rally was the first of two World Cup Rallies to be held and the second of four marathon rallies to be held in a nine-year period beginning with the 1968 London-Sydney Marathon. The motor rally started at Wembley Stadium in London on 19 April 1970 and finished in Mexico City on 27 May 1970, covering approximately 16,000 miles (25,700\u00a0km) through Europe and South America. It was won by Hannu Mikkola and Gunnar Palm, driving a Ford Escort.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091050-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 London to Mexico World Cup Rally, Organisation\nThe event was the brainchild of Wylton Dickson, possibly inspired by the earlier 1968 London-Sydney Marathon, and was to mark the fact that the 1966 FIFA World Cup had been held in London and that the upcoming 1970 FIFA World Cup was to be held in Mexico. Dickson approached the renowned British rally driver Paddy Hopkirk and together they went to The Daily Mirror for sponsorship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 51], "content_span": [52, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091050-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 London to Mexico World Cup Rally, Organisation\nThe event was organised by members of the RAC and the MSA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 51], "content_span": [52, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091050-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 London to Mexico World Cup Rally, Route and scoring\nThe course covered approximately 16,000 miles (25,700\u00a0km) through Europe, South America and Central America. Two boats were needed to convey the rally, one to cross the Atlantic Ocean from Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro and a second from Buenaventura, Colombia across the Gulf of Panama to Panama to avoid the impassable Dari\u00e9n Gap. Some of the principal towns and cities visited were, in order:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 56], "content_span": [57, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091050-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 London to Mexico World Cup Rally, Route and scoring\nThe course included many special stages, some over 500 miles (800\u00a0km) long. Time penalties were given for exceeding set times on the special stages, as well as for other infractions of the rules, and the cars' positions determined by the penalties awarded rather than lowest cumulative times.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 56], "content_span": [57, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091050-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 London to Mexico World Cup Rally, Cars\nOver one hundred cars started the event. The rules about what cars could be entered were not restrictive but due to the demanding nature of the course most competitors were conservative and used modified versions of standard models. That did not prevent there being a wide variety of cars, from Volkswagen Beetles to Rolls-Royces. There were works (officially sanctioned and prepared) entries from Ford, British Leyland and Moskvitch, and semi-works entries from Citro\u00ebn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 43], "content_span": [44, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091050-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 London to Mexico World Cup Rally, Cars\nThe Ford team ran modified Escort Mk Is, fitted with an 1850 cc version of the crossflow Kent engine and uprated with various other parts from other Ford models. Each Ford car had two drivers. The British Leyland team entered two teams. The first team ran three Triumph 2.5PI Mark 2s, which were more powerful than the Fords but were significantly heavier; two cars carried a three-man crew, Brian Culcheth preferring to stick with a conventional two-man crew. The second Leyland team ran Austin Maxis, Austin 1800s (some badged Morris) and a lone Mini Clubman. Citro\u00ebn used the venerable DS21. Moskvich used the Moskvich 412 with 1500 cc engine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 43], "content_span": [44, 690]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091050-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 London to Mexico World Cup Rally, Competitors\nMany rally drivers of the day entered the event, including:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 50], "content_span": [51, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091050-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 London to Mexico World Cup Rally, Competitors\nAs well as professional rally drivers, the event attracted a number of well known people, including the footballer Jimmy Greaves, who finished a very creditable sixth, and HRH Prince Michael of Kent, who failed to finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 50], "content_span": [51, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091051-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Long Beach State 49ers football team\nThe 1970 Long Beach State 49ers football team represented California State College, Long Beach during the 1970 NCAA College Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091051-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Long Beach State 49ers football team\nCal State Long Beach competed in the Pacific Coast Athletic Association (PCAA). The team was led by second-year head coach Jim Stangeland, and played the majority of home games at Veterans Stadium adjacent to the campus of Long Beach City College in Long Beach, with one well-attended game at Anaheim Stadium in Anaheim on a Friday night. They\u00a0were PCAA co-champions, with a regular season record of nine wins and two losses (9\u20132, 5\u20131 PCAA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091051-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Long Beach State 49ers football team\nSince they had beaten the other co-champion (San Diego State) at Anaheim, the 49ers qualified for a postseason bowl game, the 1970 Pasadena Bowl. Played on December\u00a019 against the Missouri Valley champion Louisville Cardinals at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, it ended in 24\u201324 tie, and the 49ers finished the season at 9\u20132\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091052-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Los Angeles Dodgers season\nIn 1970, Los Angeles Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley stepped down as team president, turning the reins over to his son Peter, while remaining as the team's chairman. The Dodgers remained competitive, finishing the season in second place, 14\u00bd games behind the NL Champion Cincinnati Reds in the National League West.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091052-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, First major league foul ball injury death\nOn May 16, the Dodgers were playing a home game against the Giants when, during the third inning, Mota fouled off a Gaylord Perry pitch into the stands near first base. It struck Alan Fish, 14, attending the game with other boys from his nearby recreational baseball team and their coach. Fish was unconscious for a minute, and spoke incoherently when he reawakened and, while his speech had recovered, needed assistance walking to the Dodger Stadium's first-aid center.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 90], "content_span": [91, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091052-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, First major league foul ball injury death\nThere, he seemed to have recovered completely. The stadium doctor did not ask whether he had lost consciousness or check his blood pressure, and released him after giving him two aspirin for the lingering pain. He returned to his seat and watched the rest of the game normally, even trying to get autographs from the Dodgers afterwards. However, on his return home he began experiencing dizziness, shaking and crying, and his parents decided to take him to a hospital.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 90], "content_span": [91, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091052-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, First major league foul ball injury death\nTwo hospitals were unable to take the boy immediately, even as his condition deteriorated, and he was not admitted until early the next morning. His condition at first improved, but then became even worse, and a neurosurgeon discovered a large mass at the site of the injury. Before he could operate, however, Fish suffered a convulsion that left him brain dead, and three days later he died after being taken off life support.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 90], "content_span": [91, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091052-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Regular season, First major league foul ball injury death\nThe autopsy found that Fish had died due to an intracerebral hemorrhage after the hairline fracture caused by the foul ball had pushed a piece of his skull into his brain. Had he been required to rest and hospitalized immediately afterward, the neurosurgeon believed he could have recovered completely. The Fishes sued the Dodgers, the stadium physician and the two hospitals that had not been able to treat their son for negligence and medical malpractice; at trial, after dropping the other hospitals, the jury found for the team and doctor. However, an appeals court reversed that verdict three years later due to a jury instruction that should have been given but was not.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 90], "content_span": [91, 767]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091052-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091052-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 69], "content_span": [70, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091052-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 74], "content_span": [75, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091052-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 71], "content_span": [72, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091052-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 72], "content_span": [73, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091052-0010-0000", "contents": "1970 Los Angeles Dodgers season, 1970 Major League Baseball Draft\nThis was the sixth year of a Major League Baseball Draft. The Dodgers drafted 45 players in the June draft and 9 in the January draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 65], "content_span": [66, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091052-0011-0000", "contents": "1970 Los Angeles Dodgers season, 1970 Major League Baseball Draft\nThe most notable pick in this years draft was pitcher Doug Rau, who was selected with the 1st pick in the June Secondary draft out of Texas A&M University. Rau would play for the Dodgers from 1972\u20131979 and made 184 starts for the team, with an 80\u201358 record and 3.30 ERA before spending his final season with the California Angels in 1981.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 65], "content_span": [66, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091052-0012-0000", "contents": "1970 Los Angeles Dodgers season, 1970 Major League Baseball Draft\nThe first pick in the regular June draft was pitcher Jim Haller from Creighton Prep High School. Haller was 18\u201318 in 123 minor league games over six seasons, with a 3.65 ERA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 65], "content_span": [66, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091053-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Los Angeles Rams season\nThe 1970 Los Angeles Rams season was the team's 33rd year with the National Football League and the 25th season in Los Angeles. The team looked to improve on its 11-3 record from 1969. However, the Rams missed their mark by two games, and finished with a respectable 9-4-1 record. Despite the winning record, the team missed the playoffs for the 2nd time in 3 seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091053-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season\nWith the completion of the AFL\u2013NFL merger, the league was realigned into 2 conferences with 3 divisions each. The Rams were placed in the NFC Western Division with the Atlanta Falcons, New Orleans Saints, and San Francisco 49ers, none of whom had a winning record for any of the prior two seasons. The Rams, 49ers and Falcons were members of the Coastal Division of the Western Conference from 1967\u201369, while the Saints came from the Eastern Conference, where they were in the Capitol Division in 1967 and '69 and the Century Division in 1968. Gone from the Rams' division were the Baltimore Colts, with whom the Rams battled for a division title for the past 3 seasons, shifted to the AFC East. Consequently, the Rams were heavy favorites to win what was considered the weakest of the new divisions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 845]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091053-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season\nAs it turned out, the prognosticators did not anticipate that 49er quarterback John Brodie would have an MVP season, that the 49ers had acquired some skilled young players, and the Rams veteran roster began to show signs of aging and suffered a number of injuries. Thus, instead of battling the Colts, the Rams would stage a season long battle for the NFC West with their California archrivals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091053-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season\nThe Rams started the season as expected, with easy wins vs. the St. Louis Cardinals 34-13, at the Buffalo Bills 19-0, and against the San Diego Chargers 37-10. The 49ers came to L.A. in week 4 with a 2-1 record, having lost at Atlanta the week before, 21-20. The Rams were prohibitive favorites, but the 49ers forced 4 turnovers and had 3 sacks to win 20-6 and gain a share of the division lead. The Rams regained the division lead the very next week with a 31-21 win in Green Bay, while the 49ers tied the Saints at San Francisco.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091053-0003-0001", "contents": "1970 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season\nThe 49ers then won 4 games in a row, while the Rams struggled to find consistency. They lost in the mud and rain on a Monday night in Minnesota to the powerful Vikings 13-3, beat the Saints in New Orleans 30-17, needed a last second touchdown to tie the Falcons in L.A. 10-10, had 4 turnovers in an upset loss at home to the New York Jets (playing without an injured Joe Namath), then beat the Falcons in Atlanta 17-7, gaining ground after that win when the 49ers lost to the Lions in Detroit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091053-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season\nWeek 11 was a showdown in San Francisco between the 7-2-1 49ers and the 6-3-1 Rams. The Rams played perhaps their best game of the season in winning 30-13, and were now tied with the 49ers for 1st place with three games to play. More importantly, the Rams held the tiebreaker over San Francisco due to having a better division record (4-1-1 to 3-2-1). After beating the Saints 34-16 in week 10, the 8-3-1 Rams faced the 8-4 Detroit Lions on a Monday night game in Los Angeles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091053-0004-0001", "contents": "1970 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season\nThe Lions won what would prove to be a pivotal game by the score of 28-23, dropping the Rams 1 game behind the 49ers and 1/2 game behind the Lions for the wild card spot. The Rams crushed the New York Giants 31-3 in New York (costing the Giants both the NFC East title and the wild card spot), then awaited the result of the 49ers and Lions games. The Lions won easily at home vs. Green Bay 20-0, and the 49ers crushed the Oakland Raiders, 38-7 (the hometanding Raiders, having already won their division and guaranteed to host their first playoff game, rested most of their regulars).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091053-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Standings\nNote: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091054-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Louisiana Tech Bulldogs football team\nThe 1970 Louisiana Tech Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented Louisiana Tech University as a member of the Gulf States Conference during the 1970 NCAA College Division football season. In their fourth year under head coach Maxie Lambright, the team compiled an 2\u20138 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091055-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Louisville Cardinals football team\nThe 1970 Louisville Cardinals football team was an American football team that represented the University of Louisville in the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. Under second-year head coach Lee\u00a0Corso, the\u00a0Cardinals compiled an 8\u20133\u20131 record (4\u20130 in MVC), played Long Beach State to a tie in the Pasadena Bowl, and outscored their opponents 252 to 208.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091055-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Louisville Cardinals football team\nThe team's statistical leaders included John Madeya with 1,602 passing yards, Bill Gatti with 941 rushing yards, Cookie Brinkman with 599 receiving yards, and Larry Hart with 48 points scored. Punter and kicker Scott Marcus was featured in an article in Sports\u00a0Illustrated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091056-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Love Story\n1970 Love Story is an upcoming Sri Lankan Sinhalese romantic thriller film directed by Aruna Jayawardana and produced by Saman Edirisinghe for Star Entertainments and Events. It stars Hemal Ranasinghe and Gamya Wijayadasa in lead roles along with Mahendra Perera, Bimal Jayakody and Sarath Kothalawala in supportive roles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091056-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Love Story\nThe film based on real events of an incidence occurred in 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 79]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091057-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Macdonald Brier\nThe 1970 Macdonald Brier, Canada's national men's curling championship was held March 2\u20136 at the Winnipeg Arena in Winnipeg, Manitoba.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091057-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Macdonald Brier\nThe hometown Don Duguid rink out of Winnipeg's Granite Club won the event in the last draw, when they beat Saskatchewan's Bob Pickering rink in front of 9,287 fans at the Winnipeg Arena, which was \"filled to capacity\". This gave the team the best round robin record, preventing a playoff against the next best team, Alberta which had one more loss. With the championship, the Duguid team would go on to represent Canada at the 1970 Air Canada Silver Broom, the World Curling Championships, which they won.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091057-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Macdonald Brier\nDuguid's only loss came against team British Columbia, skipped by 1964 Brier champion Lyall Dagg, who would go on to finish in third place. Manitoba's first round match against Alberta, skipped by 1961 Brier and World Champion Hec Gervais proved to be the deciding game. The ice in that game as particularly bad, as it had \"almost turned to water\", making players have to throw the rocks very hard to get them to the other end, and making hits nearly impossible. Manitoba won their match against Alberta 10-9, after Gervais missed his last throw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091057-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Macdonald Brier\nPrior to the season, Duguid's experience as a skip was limited, though he had won the 1965 Brier as a third. For the 1970 season, Duguid reluctantly joined forces with teammates Rod Hunter, Jim Pettapiece and Bryan Wood, replacing Hunter's brother, and found immediate success.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091057-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Macdonald Brier, Teams\nSkip : Harold Mabey Jr.Third: Ed SteevesSecond: Hal KeithLead: Grant MacMellon", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 27], "content_span": [28, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091057-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Macdonald Brier, Teams\nSkip : Tom TodThird: James CarsonSecond: J. Carl WhitfieldLead: Bill Hallinan", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 27], "content_span": [28, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091058-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Magyar Kupa\nThe 1970 Magyar Kupa (English: Hungarian Cup) was the 31st season of Hungary's annual knock-out cup football competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091059-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Maine Black Bears football team\nThe 1970 Maine Black Bears football team was an American football team that represented the University of Maine as a member of the Yankee Conference during the 1970 NCAA College Division football season. In its fourth season under head coach Walter Abbott, the team compiled a 3\u20135 record (1\u20134 against conference opponents) and finished fifth out of six teams in the Yankee Conference. Robert Hamilton and Henry James were the team captains.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091060-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Maine gubernatorial election\nThe 1970 Maine gubernatorial election took place on November\u00a03, 1970. Incumbent Democratic Governor of Maine Kenneth M. Curtis chose to seek re-election. Curtis won a landslide victory in the Democratic primary. His general election opponent was Maine Attorney General James Erwin, the Republican nominee. Erwin had also easily won his respective party primary and received the Republican nomination for governor. Curtis narrowly defeated challenger in one of the tightest elections in Maine history \u2013 the final margin of victory was a mere 890\u00a0votes. Curtis received 163,138\u00a0votes (50.14%), while Erwin had 162,248\u00a0votes (49.86%).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 666]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091060-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Maine gubernatorial election, Background\nAlthough Governor Curtis kept his promise not to raise taxes, his creation of a new income tax law in 1969 caused his approval rating to fall. As a result of the new taxes, the debate about the expansion of state government became the main issue of the campaign. During his tenure, Curtis proposed gun control legislation, which would deny ownership to convicted felons, drug addicts, and those in mental institutions. This was quite controversial and irritated gun owners throughout the state of Maine. In January\u00a01970, Curtis strongly pledged support for an oil refinery at Machiasport. Environmentalists, as well as the Maine Times \u2013 a recently established newspaper \u2013 opposed this proposal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 741]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091060-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Maine gubernatorial election, Background\nPrior to announcing his re-election candidacy, Curtis commissioned a poll of himself versus potential candidate James S. Erwin, conducted by consultant Oliver Quayle. The results of the poll showed Curtis trailing Erwin by a 28% margin. Quayle told Curtis that he had \"never seen an incumbent in more trouble.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091060-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Maine gubernatorial election, Democratic primary, Candidates\nIncumbent Governor Kenneth M. Curtis was challenged by perennial candidate Plato Truman for the Democratic nomination. Nonetheless, Curtis defeated Truman in a landslide on the day of the primary, which was June\u00a015, 1970. Curtis received 33,052\u00a0votes (63.18%) against Truman's 19,266\u00a0votes (38.83%). Winning a majority of the votes, Curtis became the Democratic gubernatorial nominee for the state of Maine in 1970 and avoided a run-off election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 65], "content_span": [66, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091060-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Maine gubernatorial election, Republican primary, Candidates\nIn mid-February 1970, James S. Erwin, a lawyer, Maine Senator, and World War II veteran declared his candidacy for the Republican nomination. Calvin Grass also entered the race. The primary election took place on June\u00a015, 1970. Erwin defeated Grass in a landslide, with 72,760\u00a0votes (89.18%) versus 8,898\u00a0votes (10.9%), respectively. Winning a majority of the votes, Erwin became the Republican gubernatorial nominee for the state of Maine in 1970 and avoided a run-off election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 65], "content_span": [66, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091060-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Maine gubernatorial election, Campaign and results\nAn early poll conducted by the Dorr Research Corporation in Boston showed Erwin leading Curtis 46%\u201339%, with 15% undecided. The first debate between Curtis and Erwin was held on September\u00a024, 1970, which was broadcast on Maine's Education Television Network. According to most observers, Erwin appeared \"awkward and not in command\", while Curtis was \"more poised\" and \"straightforward.\" These observers, the Maine Times, and even Erwin himself noted that Curtis won the debate. Another poll conducted by Quayle in early October still showed Erwin ahead of Curtis, despite Curtis' gain in momentum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 653]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091060-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 Maine gubernatorial election, Campaign and results\nIn the general election held on November\u00a03, 1970, Curtis defeated James S. Erwin by a mere 890 votes. Erwin blamed the media for his loss, claiming they were biased toward Curtis. Years later, Erwin noted, \"I avoided the media. I didn't like them and they didn't like me, in retrospect, I wish I had formed a more beneficial relationship with the media. I think that really hurt my campaign.\" Curtis' victory has also been attributed to Edmund Muskie's coattails, a popular candidate for United States Senator from Maine that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091060-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 Maine gubernatorial election, Recount and aftermath\nDue to the very small margin of victory, a recount was almost immediately conducted. The process lasted 40\u00a0days, from November\u00a023 to December\u00a015, with Republicans and Democrats and their lawyers present for the recount. Eventually incumbent Governor Kenneth M. Curtis was certified as the winner and was sworn-in for a second term on January\u00a07, 1971. He remained in office until January\u00a02, 1975, when he was succeeded by James B. Longley. James S. Erwin received the Republican nomination for governor again in 1974, but placed third against Longley and Democrat George J. Mitchell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 639]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091061-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Major League Baseball All-Star Game\nThe 1970 Major League Baseball All-Star Game was the 41st midseason exhibition between the all-stars of the American League (AL) and the National League (NL), the two leagues comprising Major League Baseball. The game was played on the evening of July 14, 1970, at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio, home of the Cincinnati Reds of the National League, and resulted in a 5\u20134 victory for the NL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091061-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Major League Baseball All-Star Game\nThis was the first MLB All-Star Game ever played at night, coinciding with prime time in the Eastern United States. (The previous year's All-Star Game was originally scheduled to be played at night, but it was rained out and played the following afternoon.) Every All-Star Game since 1970 has been played at night.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091061-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Major League Baseball All-Star Game\nRiverfront Stadium had barely been open two weeks when it hosted its first All-Star Game. The game was hosted by the Cincinnati Reds twice before (1938 and 1953) when their home park was Crosley Field. The Reds would host one more All-Star Game at Riverfront Stadium in 1988. So close was the opening of the stadium and the scheduled exhibition game, that Major League Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn did not confirm that the game would \"definitely\" be played in Cincinnati until June 1. Atlanta was the alternative site.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091061-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Major League Baseball All-Star Game\nUndeniably, the most remembered moment of the game was the final run, scored in the bottom of the twelfth by Pete Rose. The ball was relayed to the American League catcher, Ray Fosse, in time to tag Rose out, but the tenacious Rose bowled Fosse over. Both players were injured, Fosse enough to drop the ball, giving Rose credit for the game-winning run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091061-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Fan balloting returns\nFor the first time since 1957, Major League Baseball restored the selection of the eight position players on each All-Star team to the fans. Fan balloting had been revoked after ballot-stuffing campaigns over a number of years. To avoid a repeat of the problem, the 26 million ballots were evenly distributed to 75,000 retail outlets, and 150 minor and major league stadiums. Major League Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn also announced a special panel would be in place to review voting to determine if ballot stuffing had occurred.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 63], "content_span": [64, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091061-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, American League roster\nThe American League roster included 8 future Hall of Fame players, denoted in italics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091061-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, National League roster\nThe National League roster included 13 future Hall of Fame players and coaches, denoted in italics, as well as all-time hits leader Pete Rose.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091061-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Starting lineups\nWhile the starters were elected by the fans, the batting orders and starting pitchers were selected by the managers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 58], "content_span": [59, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091061-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Scoring summary\nScoring opened in the top of the sixth inning for the AL, with Gaylord Perry pitching in relief for the NL. Ray Fosse singled, and advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt by Sam McDowell. Two batters later, with one out, Carl Yastrzemski singled home Fosse to give the AL a 1\u20130 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091061-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Scoring summary\nThe American League added another run in the top of the seventh inning. With one out, Brooks Robinson singled. Tony Oliva walked, with Robinson advancing to second base. Davey Johnson singled to load the bases. Ray Fosse then hit a sacrifice fly, allowing Robinson to score, pushing the AL advantage to 2\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091061-0010-0000", "contents": "1970 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Scoring summary\nThe NL answered in the bottom of the seventh inning. Jim Perry had entered to pitch in relief for the AL, and gave up a single to Bud Harrelson to start the inning. Cito Gaston walked, sending Harrelson to second base. Jim Perry then hit Denis Menke with a pitch to load the bases. Willie McCovey, pinch hitting for Gaylord Perry, grounded into a double play, permitting Harrelson to score and cutting the AL lead to 2\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091061-0011-0000", "contents": "1970 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Scoring summary\nThe AL increased their lead in the top of the eighth inning. With one out, Carl Yastrzemski and Willie Horton hit back-to-back singles, putting runners at first and second bases. Amos Otis flew out, permitting Yastrzemski to tag up and move to third. Brooks Robinson tripled, scoring Yastrzemski and Horton. The AL now led 4\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091061-0012-0000", "contents": "1970 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Scoring summary\nIn the bottom of the ninth inning, Catfish Hunter entered to pitch in relief for the AL, and promptly gave up a home run to Dick Dietz. Bud Harrelson singled. One batter later, with one out, Joe Morgan singled, sending Harrelson to second base. Fritz Peterson entered to relieve Hunter. The first batter he faced, Willie McCovey, singled, scoring Harrelson, and moving Morgan to third base. Mel Stottlemyre was sent in to relieve Peterson, as Roberto Clemente was sent to pinch hit for the pitcher, Bob Gibson. Clemente hit a sacrifice fly, permitting Morgan to score. The inning ended with Pete Rose striking out. The 4\u20134 score sent the game to extra innings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 718]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091061-0013-0000", "contents": "1970 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Scoring summary\nIn the bottom of the twelfth, NL batters were facing Clyde Wright, in his second inning of relief pitching for the AL. With two outs, Pete Rose and Billy Grabarkewitz hit back-to-back singles to put runners on first and second bases. Jim Hickman singled to Amos Otis in center field. Otis fired the ball to catcher Ray Fosse as Pete Rose ran past third base, heading to home. Otis' throw was on target on the third base side of home plate, and arrived as Rose reached Fosse. Rose bowled over Fosse, forcing him to drop the ball. Rose scored to end the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091061-0014-0000", "contents": "1970 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Game notes and records\nNBC's telecast of the game earned a national Nielsen rating of 28.5, the highest ever for an All-Star Game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091061-0015-0000", "contents": "1970 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Game notes and records\nClaude Osteen was credited with the win. Clyde Wright was charged with the loss. Mel Stottlemyre, who permitted the tying run to score in the bottom of the ninth, was charged with a blown save.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091061-0016-0000", "contents": "1970 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Game notes and records\nRico Carty became the first player in history to be elected to the All-Star team by the fans as a write-in candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091061-0017-0000", "contents": "1970 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Game notes and records\nTwenty-three-year-old Ray Fosse suffered a fractured and separated left shoulder when Pete Rose collided with him on the last play of the game. The damage was not immediately noticed in X-rays taken that evening. While he continued playing for about a month, by his own admission, he never regained his swing and never returned to the level of play that he played at before the injury. In a 1999 San Francisco Chronicle interview, he demonstrated that he still could not lift his left arm, and suffers from arthritis as a result of the injury. The collision opened the debate of collisions at home plate between a runner and a batter, with prohibitions of the practice imposed at amateur levels. After Buster Posey suffered a season-ending injury during the 2013 MLB season, Major League Baseball imposed a rule prohibiting the practice in 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 910]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091061-0018-0000", "contents": "1970 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Game notes and records\nThis was the NL's eighth consecutive win. The AL would end the streak next year, but the NL began an 11-game winning streak in 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091061-0019-0000", "contents": "1970 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Game notes and records\nCarl Yastrzemski tied the All-Star Game record for hits in a game (4), and singles in a game (3).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091061-0020-0000", "contents": "1970 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Game notes and records\nCarl Yastrzemski became the second player to win the MVP award while playing for the losing team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091061-0021-0000", "contents": "1970 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Game notes and records\nPrior to this year, the award given to the MVP of the game had been called the Arch Ward Memorial Award. Starting this year, the award would be called the Commissioner's Trophy. It would be restored to its original name in 1982 before being renamed for Ted Williams in 2002.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091062-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Major League Baseball draft, First round selections\nThe following are the first round picks in the 1970 Major League Baseball draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 56], "content_span": [57, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091063-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Major League Baseball season\nThe 1970 Major League Baseball season. The Seattle Pilots relocated to Milwaukee and became the Brewers, thus returning Major League Baseball to Wisconsin for the first time since the relocation of the Milwaukee Braves to Atlanta following the 1965 season. Major League Baseball returned to Seattle in 1977, when the Mariners began play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091064-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Malagasy parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections were held in Madagascar on 6 September 1970. The result was a victory for the ruling Social Democratic Party, which won 104 of the 107 seats in the National Assembly. Voter turnout was 95%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091065-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Marche regional election\nThe Marche regional election of 1970 took place on 7\u20138 June 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091065-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Marche regional election, Events\nChristian Democracy was the largest party. After the election, Christian Democrat Giuseppe Serrini formed a government including also the Italian Socialist Party, the Unitary Socialist Party and the Italian Republican Party (organic Centre-left). Dino Tiberi took over from Serrini in 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091066-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Marcos State of the Nation Address protest\nThe protest during Ferdinand Marcos' Fifth State of the Nation Address on January 26, 1970, and its violent dispersal by police units, marked a key turning point in the administration of Ferdinand Marcos, and the beginning of what would later be called the \"First Quarter Storm\" a period of civil unrest in the Philippines which took place during the first quarter of the year 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091066-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Marcos State of the Nation Address protest\nThe protest was primarily organized by the National Union of Students of the Philippines (NUSP), and was meant to coincide with the first State of the Nation Address of Marcos' second term. It included \"moderate\" groups such as the NUSP, who wanted Marcos to promise he would not seek power beyond the two terms allowed him by the 1935 Philippine Constitution; and more \"radical\" groups such as the Kabataang Makabayan, who wanted more systemic political reforms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091066-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Marcos State of the Nation Address protest\nThe protest was largely peaceful until the end of the planned program, after which there was a disagreement between the moderate and the radical groups for control over the protest stage. This disagreement was ongoing when Marcos, having finished his speech, walked out the legislative building. President Marcos was jeered by the crowd, which also started throwing pebbles and paper balls, as well as the protest effigies which portrayed a crocodile and a coffin representing the death of democracy, at Marcos and his retinue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091066-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Marcos State of the Nation Address protest\nMarcos and his wife Imelda were eventually able to escape to the presidential limousine, leaving the police - consisting of the Manila Police District (MPD) and elements of the Philippine Constabulary Metropolitan Command (METROCOM) - to disperse the crowd. This led to hours of confrontation between the protesters and the police, ending with at least two students confirmed dead and several more students injured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091066-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Marcos State of the Nation Address protest, Preparations and the protest stage\nThe protest had been organized by the National Union of Students of the Philippines (NUSP, ), a \"moderate\" student group led by their president Edgar Jopson from Ateneo de Manila University. Jopson and the NUSP had secured the necessary permit for the rally under the banner of the 'January 26 Movement', and announced the rally in a press conference a few days earlier, stating that their cause was to press for a non-partisan Constitutional Convention. It was meant to culminate a series of peaceful demonstrations which had taken place the Monday and Friday before.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 83], "content_span": [84, 652]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091066-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Marcos State of the Nation Address protest, Preparations and the protest stage\nAs a matter of standard practice for such demonstrations, other organizations were freely welcomed to join the demonstrations and show their support for the cause. Among the groups that decided to join the demonstration were more \"radical\" groups, including the Kabataang Makabayan, the Samahang Demokratiko ng Kabataan, as well as labor groups and peasant associations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 83], "content_span": [84, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091066-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 Marcos State of the Nation Address protest, Preparations and the protest stage\nPlacards carried out were made of large calendars distributed by the administration during the campaign, touched up to show the President as Hitler or the First Couple as Bonnie and Clyde. Cardboard emblems of a coffin, a crocodile, and an effigy of the President were displayed around the flagpole.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 83], "content_span": [84, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091066-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 Marcos State of the Nation Address protest, Marcos' State of the Nation Address\nInside the Congress building Ferdinand Marcos addressed a joint session of the Philippines' bicameral legislature, giving his Fifth State of the Nation Address as president, and the first such address of his second term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 84], "content_span": [85, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091066-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 Marcos State of the Nation Address protest, Marcos' State of the Nation Address\nIn his speech, Marcos highlighted that year's positive macroeconomic indicators, which he attributed to the four years of his first term. He also emphasized the numerous infrastructure projects of his first term, calling attention to the projects of the Presidential Arm on Community Development. He also discussed the sudden devaluation of the peso against the dollar in the immediate aftermath of his election, saying that the arising challenges would have to be surmounted through \"strength of purpose and discipline,\" calling on citizens \"to subordinate [their] personal desires to the needs and aspirations of the nation.\" Marcos also called attention to the upcoming Philippine Constitutional Convention of 1971, which he said would be a necessary catalyst for social and economic reforms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 84], "content_span": [85, 880]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091066-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 Marcos State of the Nation Address protest, Skirmish between Marcos and the protesters\nPresident Marcos left the senate at around five o'clock in the afternoon, the cardboard coffin and crocodile were hurled towards him, the effigy was set on fire, and protesters began to chant. The police then charged into the crowd of demonstrators, scattering them away and allowing for the President and his companions to safely leave the area. Some were taken by the police and retreated into the legislative building. Other democratic activists regrouped, linked arms, marched forward, and chanted: \"Makibaka! Huwag matakot!\" (Fight! Have no fear!)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 91], "content_span": [92, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091066-0010-0000", "contents": "1970 Marcos State of the Nation Address protest, Further dispersal\nFor the next few hours, activists and police continued to have encounters along Burgos Drive. In the heat of the riot, Senator Emmanuel Pelaez intervened for the student demonstrators, rescuing a demonstrator being pursued and requesting the police to withdraw. However, the riot squads did not retreat. The senator was then cheered on by the demonstrators for this gesture and carried him above their shoulders, thus he was exposed to the flying stones from the policemen. At around nine in the evening, the riots still continued and warning shots were fired into the air. The riot died down at around 10 p.m., with most of the demonstrators regrouping elsewhere to ensure the release of their companions who have been arrested earlier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 66], "content_span": [67, 804]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091066-0011-0000", "contents": "1970 Marcos State of the Nation Address protest, Further dispersal\nIn the aftermath of the rally, at least two were confirmed dead and several were injured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 66], "content_span": [67, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091066-0012-0000", "contents": "1970 Marcos State of the Nation Address protest, Aftermath\nThe dispersal was met with contempt because of the \"unprecedented display of sadism.\" Students declared a week-long boycott of classes and instead met to organize protest rallies. On the Wednesday that followed, Congress created a joint committee to investigate the \"root causes of demonstrations in general.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 58], "content_span": [59, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091066-0013-0000", "contents": "1970 Marcos State of the Nation Address protest, Aftermath\nSince local police units like the Manila Police District (MPD) were under the command of the heads of local government, it was Mayor Antonio Villegas of the City of Manila that commended the MPD for their \"exemplary behavior and courage\" in protecting the First Couple during the encounter. He then declared that the MPD would no longer be the unit to provide security for protests that involve students, to keep the unit from being exposed to what he called \"unfiar criticism\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 58], "content_span": [59, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091067-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Marlborough by-election\nThe Marlborough by-election of 1970 was a by-election for the electorate of Marlborough, held on 21 February 1970 during the 30th New Zealand Parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091067-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Marlborough by-election, Background\nThe by-election resulted from the death of Tom Shand on 11 December 1969, only 12 days after he (and the government) had been re-elected on 29 November; and the new National candidate was defeated by the greatest swing against a government since the 1935 general election, in what was a largely rural electorate generally regarded a safe National seat. Tom Shand had held the seat from 1946, when he defeated Labour\u2019s Ted Meachen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091067-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Marlborough by-election, Background\nThe defeated National candidate Anthony \"Andy\" Shand was the son of the previous member, and there was some criticism of him for frequent \"butting-in\" during a combined television broadcast appearance for all the candidates on Wednesday 17 February.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091067-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Marlborough by-election, Background\nThe vote for Tom Shand had been close in 1966. Labour only decided that the seat was winnable in January, and sent in two MPs Arthur Faulkner and Colin Moyle to organise the campaign. Labour\u2019s candidate Ian Brooks was local; he was a senior clerk in the Picton manual telephone exchange and also had a small farm. The seat was largely rural, but Brooks polled particularly well in Picton, and well in the other two population centres, Blenheim and Kaikoura. The election-night margin to Labour of 1131 was so great that the final result was not expected to change when special votes, which generally tended to go to National, were counted. There were 32 informal votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 710]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091067-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Marlborough by-election, Background\nGeorge Chapman was the Wellington National Party chairman. He heard reports that all was not well in the campaign, the party was in deep trouble, and that Labour was making an all-out effort. But he found that party president Ned Holt was complacent about the by-election; saying that everything was in order, and that in any case National's majority in Marlborough was big enough to absorb any setback. But on by-election night Labour inflicted a stunning defeat on National, reducing the Government majority from six to four, and shaking party confidence. Chapman became the leader for change in the organisation, resulting in his nomination for party president in 1971, although he did not become president until 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 762]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091067-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Marlborough by-election, Background\nDespite winning a surprise victory in 1969, National was so embarrassed from the by-election defeat it triggered the media to seriously speculate about Prime Minister Keith Holyoake's retirement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091068-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Marshall Thundering Herd football team\nThe 1970 Marshall Thundering Herd football team was an American football team that represented Marshall University as an independent during the 1969 NCAA University Division football season. In its second season under head coach Rick Tolley, the team compiled a 3\u20136 record and was outscored by a total of 202 to 138. The team played its home games at Fairfield Stadium in Huntington, West Virginia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091068-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Marshall Thundering Herd football team\nOn November 14, Southern Airways Flight 932, which was chartered by the school to fly the Thundering Herd football team, coaches, and fans to Kinston, North Carolina for a game against the East Carolina Pirates and back to Huntington, crashed on approach to Tri-State Airport after clipping trees just west of the runway and impacting nose-first into a hollow. All 75 people on board died. 37 of them were members of the football team. It was the worst single air tragedy in NCAA sports history. The tragedy was depicted in the movie We Are Marshall (2006) and the documentary film Marshall University: Ashes to Glory (2000).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 669]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091069-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Maryland Terrapins football team\nThe 1970 Maryland Terrapins football team represented the University of Maryland in the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. In their second season under head coach Roy Lester, the Terrapins compiled a 2\u20139 record (2\u20134 in conference), finished in seventh place in the Atlantic Coast Conference, and were outscored by their opponents 241 to 112. The team's statistical leaders included Jeff Shugars with 836 passing yards, Art Seymore with 945 rushing yards and 309 receiving yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091070-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Maryland gubernatorial election\nThe 1970 Maryland gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 1970. Incumbent Democrat Marvin Mandel defeated Republican nominee Charles Stanley Blair with 65.73% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091071-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Massachusetts elections\nThe 1970 Massachusetts general election was held on November 3, 1970, throughout Massachusetts. Democratic and Republican candidates were selected in party primaries held September 15, 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091071-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Massachusetts elections\nAt the federal level, Ted Kennedy was re-elected to the United States Senate and ten of the commonwealth's twelve incumbents were re-elected to the United States House of Representatives. One retired and one lost re-nomination. No seats switched parties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091071-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Massachusetts elections\nIncumbents seeking reelection won all major state offices: Governor, Attorney General, Secretary of the Commonwealth, Auditor, and Treasurer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091071-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Massachusetts elections, Governor and Lieutenant Governor\nRepublicans Francis W. Sargent and Donald R. Dwight were elected Governor and Lieutenant Governor, respectively, over Democrats Kevin White and Michael Dukakis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 62], "content_span": [63, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091071-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Massachusetts elections, Secretary of the Commonwealth\nSecretary of the Commonwealth John Davoren, who was appointed by the Massachusetts General Court to fill the unexpired term of Kevin White, defeated Republican Mary B. Newman, Socialist Labor candidate Edgar E. Gaudet, and Prohibition candidate Murvin Becker in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 59], "content_span": [60, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091071-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Massachusetts elections, Attorney General\nAttorney General Robert H. Quinn, who was appointed by the Massachusetts General Court to fill the unexpired term of Elliot Richardson, was elected to a full term. He defeated Republican Donald L. Conn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091071-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 Massachusetts elections, Treasurer and Receiver-General\nIncumbent Treasurer and Receiver-General Robert Q. Crane defeated Republican Frederick Hannon, Socialist Labor candidate Roy K. Nelson, and Prohibition candidate John B. Lauder in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 60], "content_span": [61, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091071-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 Massachusetts elections, Auditor\nIncumbent Auditor Thaddeus M. Buczko defeated Republican Frank P. Bucci, Socialist Labor candidate Raymond Gray, and Prohibition candidate Roger I. Williams in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091071-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 Massachusetts elections, United States Senate\nDemocrat Ted Kennedy was re-elected to a second full term in office over Republican Josiah Spaulding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091071-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 Massachusetts elections, United States House of Representatives\nAll of Massachusetts' twelve seats in the United States House of Representatives were up for election in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 68], "content_span": [69, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091071-0010-0000", "contents": "1970 Massachusetts elections, United States House of Representatives\nThe 3rd District seat was won by Robert Drinan, who defeated incumbent Philip J. Philbin in the Democratic primary election. Philbin unsuccessfully campaigned as an independent candidate in the general election. The 9th District seat was won by Louise Day Hicks after incumbent John W. McCormack did not seek re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 68], "content_span": [69, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091072-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Massachusetts gubernatorial election\nThe 1970 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 1970. Acting Governor Francis W. Sargent was elected to a four-year term. He defeated incumbent Boston Mayor Kevin H. White in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091072-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Massachusetts gubernatorial election\nThis was the first Massachusetts election in which the governor and lieutenant governor were elected as a ticket rather than separately.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091072-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Massachusetts gubernatorial election, Republican primary, Lieutenant Governor, Campaign\nWith Sargent's support, Dwight won the endorsement of the state party at the Republican convention. State Rep. Martin A. Linsky was Sargent's original choice for the nomination, however two weeks before the convention, Linsky dropped out of the race after it was revealed that police officers had once stopped his car and informed him that the woman was traveling with was a prostitute. After Linsky dropped out, Sargent endorsed Dwight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 92], "content_span": [93, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091072-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Massachusetts gubernatorial election, Democratic primary, Governor, Campaign\nDonahue won the vote of the state convention held on June 15 at the Curry Hicks Cage. Donahue received 697 votes, White received 589, and the remaining 78 went to Bellotti.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 81], "content_span": [82, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091072-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Massachusetts gubernatorial election, Democratic primary, Governor, Results\nDespite losing at the convention, White went on to win the Democratic Primary, defeating Donahue by 12,940 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 80], "content_span": [81, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091072-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Massachusetts gubernatorial election, General election\nSargent defeated White by 259,354 votes. He won 11 of the Massachusetts' 14 counties and beat White in his home city of Boston 54\u201345%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091073-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Masters Tournament\nThe 1970 Masters Tournament was the 34th Masters Tournament, held April 9\u201313 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. A field of 83 players started the tournament and 48 made the 36-hole cut at 150 (+6).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091073-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Masters Tournament\nBilly Casper defeated Gene Littler 69 to 74 in an 18-hole playoff on Monday to win his third major championship. It was the last 18-hole playoff at the Masters; the format was changed to sudden-death in 1976 and first used in 1979. To get into the playoff, Casper scored a final round of 71 (\u22121), while Littler shot a 70 to tie at 279 (\u22129).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091073-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Masters Tournament\nJack Nicklaus shot 69-69 on the weekend, but was hampered by a second round 75 and finished in 8th place. It was the final Masters tournament as a player for 1938 champion Henry Picard, who withdrew without finishing the first round. Three-time Masters champion Sam Snead finished in a tie for 23rd place at the age of 57. It was the Masters debut of two-time champion Tom Watson, then a 20-year-old amateur from Stanford who shot 77-76 and missed the cut by three strokes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091073-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Masters Tournament\nHarold Henning won the eleventh Par 3 contest on Wednesday with a score of 21.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091073-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Masters Tournament\nDick Schaap's The Masters: The Winning of a Golf Classic covered in detail the 1970 tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091073-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Masters Tournament, Field\nGeorge Archer (8,9), Gay Brewer, Jack Burke Jr. (8), Doug Ford, Bob Goalby, Ralph Guldahl, Herman Keiser, Cary Middlecoff, Jack Nicklaus (2,3,8,11), Arnold Palmer (9), Henry Picard, Gary Player (2.3,10), Gene Sarazen, Sam Snead, Art Wall Jr.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091073-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 Masters Tournament, Field\nJulius Boros (9), Raymond Floyd (9,10,11), Al Geiberger (8,9), Don January (8), Dave Marr (9)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091073-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 Masters Tournament, Field\nCharles Coe (a), Vinny Giles (7,a), John Farquhar (a), Steve Melnyk (6,7,a), Allen Miller (7,a), Ed Updegraff (7,a), Tom Watson (a), Bob Zender (a)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091073-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 Masters Tournament, Field\nJohn Bohmann (a), Bill Hyndman (a), Joe Inman (a), Dick Siderowf (a), Lanny Wadkins (a)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091073-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 Masters Tournament, Field\nTommy Aaron (11), Miller Barber (9,10,11), Frank Beard (11), Deane Beman (9), Charles Coody (9,10), Dale Douglass (9,11), Lionel Hebert, Dave Hill (9,11), Gene Littler (11), Mason Rudolph, Dan Sikes (11), Dave Stockton, Tom Weiskopf, Bert Yancey", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091073-0010-0000", "contents": "1970 Masters Tournament, Field\nBunky Henry, Howie Johnson, Bob Murphy, Dean Refram, Phil Rodgers, Bob Rosburg, Kermit Zarley", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091073-0011-0000", "contents": "1970 Masters Tournament, Field\nHomero Blancas, Larry Hinson, Grier Jones, Dick Lotz, Chi-Chi Rodr\u00edguez, R. H. Sikes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091073-0012-0000", "contents": "1970 Masters Tournament, Field\nMaurice Bembridge, Roberto Bernardini, Michael Bonallack (6,a), Peter Butler, Bob Charles, Bruce Crampton (8,9), Roberto De Vicenzo (3), Bruce Devlin (8,9), Bernard Gallacher, Harold Henning (8), Hsieh Yung-yo, Tony Jacklin (3), George Knudson (8), Takaaki Kono (8), Sukree Onsham", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091074-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Meath Intermediate Football Championship\nThe 1970 Meath Intermediate Football Championship is the 44th edition of the Meath GAA's premier club Gaelic football tournament for intermediate graded teams in County Meath, Ireland. The tournament consists of 22 teams. The championship starts with a group stage and then progresses to a knock out stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091074-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Meath Intermediate Football Championship\nNo team was relegated from the S.F.C. the previous year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091074-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Meath Intermediate Football Championship\nMartinstown and Star of the Sea were promoted after claiming the 1969 Meath Junior Football Championship title and Junior 'A' Divisional runners-up spot respectively. Garryowen were also promoted from the J.A.F.C.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091074-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Meath Intermediate Football Championship\nOn 29 November 1970, Dunderry claimed their 3rd Intermediate championship title when they defeated Flathouse 2-9 to 1-3 in the final in Pairc Tailteann, and thus returned the top flight of Meath club football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091074-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Meath Intermediate Football Championship, Team changes\nThe following teams have changed division since the 1969 championship season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 59], "content_span": [60, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091074-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Meath Intermediate Football Championship, Group stage\nThere are 2 groups called Group A and B. The top two finishers in each group will qualify for the Semi-Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 58], "content_span": [59, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091074-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 Meath Intermediate Football Championship, Knock-out Stages\nThe teams in the Semi-Finals are the first and second placed teams from each group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 63], "content_span": [64, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091075-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Meath Senior Football Championship\nThe 1970 Meath Senior Football Championship is the 78th edition of the Meath GAA's premier club Gaelic football tournament for senior graded teams in County Meath, Ireland. The tournament consists of 14 teams, with the winner going on to represent Meath in the Leinster Senior Club Football Championship. The championship starts with a group stage and then progresses to a knock out stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091075-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Meath Senior Football Championship\nThis season saw Drumree's return to the top flight after claiming the 1969 Meath Intermediate Football Championship title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091075-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Meath Senior Football Championship\nKilbride were the defending champions after they defeated Skryne in the previous years final, and they successfully defended their title to claim a 2-in-a-row of titles and their 3rd in 4 seasons when defeating Navan O'Mahonys 0-9 to 0-7 in the final in Pairc Tailteann. It was also their 6th final appearance in 7 seasons, winning 4 of them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091075-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Meath Senior Football Championship\nOldcastle applied to be regraded to the 1971 I.F.C. at the end of the campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091075-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Meath Senior Football Championship, Team Changes\nThe following teams have changed division since the 1969 championship season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 53], "content_span": [54, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091075-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Meath Senior Football Championship, Knock-out Stages\nThe winners and runners up of each group qualify for the semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 57], "content_span": [58, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091076-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Meistaradeildin, Overview\nIt was contested by 5 teams, and K\u00cd Klaksv\u00edk won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091077-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Memorial Cup\nThe 1970 Memorial Cup was the 52nd annual Memorial Cup competition, organized by the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association (CAHA) to determine the champion of junior A ice hockey. It was a best-of-seven series between the Montreal Jr. Canadiens of the Ontario Hockey Association and the Weyburn Red Wings of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League held at the Montreal Forum in Montreal, Quebec. Montreal won their third Memorial Cup, defeating Weyburn four games to none.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091078-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Memorial Park riot\nThe 1970 Memorial Park riot was a civil disturbance by alienated white youths that began in Royal Oak, Michigan, on August 24, 1970, and spread to Birmingham, Michigan, both primarily white middle class suburbs of Detroit. The initial conflict resulted from the closure by police of Memorial Park in Royal Oak. Authorities said that the park was being used as a marketplace for the sale of illegal drugs. The riot lasted for three days, and led to the formation of several youth controlled social service organizations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091078-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Memorial Park riot, Background\nMemorial Park had become a gathering place for members of the counterculture and radical youths in previous years. In the summer of 1969, a radical youth group called Youth for Peace, Freedom and Justice began holding communal suppers in the park, and also obtained a permit for free film showings in the park, including radical films from the Newsreel Film Collective.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091078-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Memorial Park riot, Background\nOn May 6, 1970, an antiwar demonstration was held at the park that culminated in a march to the local draft board office. A \"fist-swinging melee\" between police and 100 youths ensued. Five youths were arrested, and a policeman and three protesters were injured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091078-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Memorial Park riot, Background\nBy the summer of 1970, Memorial Park was well known as a gathering place for alienated youths and street people who often called themselves \"freaks\". Drug sales, drug use and large parties were commonplace in the park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091078-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Memorial Park riot, Background\nOfficials stated that the youths had a \"protective attitude\" toward the park and claimed the right to \"do their own thing\". Fifteen \"hippie-garbed\" undercover police officers infiltrated the drug scene at the park, documenting illegal drug sales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091078-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Memorial Park riot, Closure of Memorial Park and first night of rioting\nOn the evening of Monday, August 24, 1970, the Royal Oak Police Department closed Memorial Park and ordered the people in the park to disperse. Some of the police officers were \"firing revolvers in the air\" when they entered the park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 76], "content_span": [77, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091078-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 Memorial Park riot, Closure of Memorial Park and first night of rioting\nIn response to the park's closure, 800 youths began a four-hour battle with the police that included throwing bottles and rocks, smashing windows, and erecting tire barricades on Woodward Avenue, one of the main traffic arteries in the Detroit metropolitan area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 76], "content_span": [77, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091078-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 Memorial Park riot, Closure of Memorial Park and first night of rioting\nMrs. Ralph Akens, a woman living adjacent to the park, asked, \"How would you like 500 trashy hippies across the street from you? \", and supported an indefinite closure of the park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 76], "content_span": [77, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091078-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 Memorial Park riot, Closure of Memorial Park and first night of rioting\nIt didn't work with everybody, as a police car was vandalized by angry teenagers that night, just outside of Elmwood Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 76], "content_span": [77, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091078-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 Memorial Park riot, Second night of rioting\nOn Tuesday night, the rioting spread north and south along Woodward Avenue. Royal Oak officials imposed a curfew lasting from 7:00\u00a0p.m. to 5:00\u00a0a.m. By the end of the second night of rioting, approximately 100 youths had been arrested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 48], "content_span": [49, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091078-0010-0000", "contents": "1970 Memorial Park riot, Third night of rioting\nBecause of the curfew imposed in Royal Oak, a crowd of 1000 angry youth gathered on Wednesday night in Birmingham to the north, at that city's border with Royal Oak. There, they confronted a large number of Royal Oak policemen at the city limits, and fighting ensued. In response, the city of Birmingham also imposed a curfew on Wednesday night, due to \"rioting, disturbances and destruction of property\". The \"tight curfews\" were successful in reducing the violence, along with mass arrests of all suspicious youths on the streets. City officials considered asking for assistance from the National Guard if the curfews arrests were not effective in ending the rioting, but that was not necessary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 47], "content_span": [48, 745]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091078-0011-0000", "contents": "1970 Memorial Park riot, Third night of rioting\nIt was estimated that up to 2000 youths had participated in the rioting, and at least 564 were arrested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 47], "content_span": [48, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091078-0012-0000", "contents": "1970 Memorial Park riot, Third night of rioting\nMost of the injuries were minor. One police officer suffered a possible broken shoulder due to a thrown rock, and another was cut by flying glass when windows on both sides of his squad car were broken by rocks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 47], "content_span": [48, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091078-0013-0000", "contents": "1970 Memorial Park riot, Fourth day developments and curfew arrests\nOn Thursday, August 27, a newly formed youth group called the People's Defense Committee called a press conference at the Record House in Ferndale, Michigan, to discuss a legal response to the arrests. An organization called Birmingham Youth Assistance also called for a meeting of concerned youth. A group of seven \"self-appointed\" youth leaders had a meeting with Royal Oak city officials.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 67], "content_span": [68, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091078-0014-0000", "contents": "1970 Memorial Park riot, Fourth day developments and curfew arrests\nAlthough no violence occurred on Thursday night, there were about 90 arrests for curfew violations. The curfews were lifted later that night because the violence had ended.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 67], "content_span": [68, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091078-0015-0000", "contents": "1970 Memorial Park riot, Young Peoples Coalition and Center House\nIn the aftermath of the riots, an organization called the Young People's Coalition was formed and controlled by the disaffected youth, with the assistance of the Family Service Agency of Oakland County, Michigan. The People's Defense Committee entered this coalition, with support from employees of a local business called the Record House, which sold rock and roll music. The coalition's goal was to \"relate to the street people who are involved with the drug abuse problem\", and the group recognized that the issues had a political basis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 65], "content_span": [66, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091078-0016-0000", "contents": "1970 Memorial Park riot, Young Peoples Coalition and Center House\nThe coalition planned a \"drop-in center\" and \"rap line\", and announced a fundraising drive with an initial goal of $1,400.00. One organizer, 17-year-old Pamela Applin, said, \"I'd like to see people communicate at a higher level than throwing rocks and arguing.\" Another organizer, 18-year-old Denny Bastin, said that \"We'd like people to talk about what's really inside them.\" They spoke out against gender discrimination in the schools, said Bastin, and the tendency of society to discriminate against disaffected youth for their \"beliefs, looks and actions\", said Applin, who urged that the youth be judged as individuals rather than as a whole.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 65], "content_span": [66, 713]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091078-0017-0000", "contents": "1970 Memorial Park riot, Young Peoples Coalition and Center House\nThe rap line operation was under operation in Ferndale in 1971 under the name \"Center House\". Young People's Coalition organizer Jim Heaphy said, \"We get calls on drug abuse, general rap problems, parents, jobs, suicides, draft and legal information, all kinds of different things. We refer a lot of callers to other agencies.\" The Young People's Coalition also operated a drop-in center at the YMCA in Royal Oak, a coffee house in the YWCA in Ecorse, Michigan, and an anonymous drug analysis program. A free clinic at Center House opened in July, 1971. Financial support was provided by local businesses serving the counterculture, including the Record House, the Speakeasy Boutique, The Happy Apple, the Unisex Shop and the Waterbed Store.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 65], "content_span": [66, 807]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091078-0018-0000", "contents": "1970 Memorial Park riot, 1971 baseball bust\nOn Sunday, April 25, 1971, youths attempted to re-open access to the park by holding a baseball game there. Five police squad cars and a paddy wagon responded, and arrested 21 youths. The People's Defense Committee promptly mobilized lawyers and bail bondsmen to provide assistance to those arrested. A demonstration of 100 youths was held outside the Royal Oak police station, but the police announced their intention to continue arresting youths who gathered at the park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091079-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Memphis State Tigers football team\nThe 1970 Memphis State Tigers football team represented Memphis State University (now known as the University of Memphis) as an independent during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. In its 12th season under head coach Billy J. Murphy, the team compiled a 6\u20134 record (2\u20132 against conference opponents), finished in third place out of five teams in the MVC, and outscored opponents by a total of 227 to 184. The team played its home games at Memphis Memorial Stadium in Memphis, Tennessee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091079-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Memphis State Tigers football team\nThe team's statistical leaders included Rick Strawbridge with 557 passing yards, Paul Gowen with 868 rushing yards, Bill Wright with 206 receiving yards, and Jay McCoy with 54 points scored.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091080-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Men's British Open Squash Championship\nThe 1970 British Open Championship was held at the Edgbaston Priory Club in Birmingham from 8\u201313 December 1969. Jonah Barrington won his third title defeating Geoff Hunt in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091081-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Men's EuroHockey Nations Championship\nThe 1970 Men's EuroHockey Nations Championship was the inaugural edition of the Men's EuroHockey Nations Championship, the quadrennial international men's field hockey championship of Europe organized by the European Hockey Federation. It was held from 19 to 27 September 1970 in Brussels, Belgium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091081-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Men's EuroHockey Nations Championship\nWest Germany won the first-ever European championship by defeating the Netherlands 3\u20131 in the final. Spain won the bronze medal by defeating France 2\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091081-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Men's EuroHockey Nations Championship\nThe top four teams qualified for the 1971 Men's Hockey World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091082-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Men's World Allround Speed Skating Championships\nThe World Allround Speed Skating Championships 1970 were held on 14 and 15 February in Oslo at the Bislett Stadium ice rink.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091083-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Mestaruussarja, Overview\nIt was contested by 12 teams, and Reipas Lahti won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 29], "content_span": [30, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091084-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Mexican Grand Prix\nThe 1970 Mexican Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at the Ciudad Deportiva Magdalena Mixhuca in Mexico City on October 25, 1970. It was race 13 of 13 in both the 1970 World Championship of Drivers and the 1970 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers. The 65-lap race was won by Ferrari driver Jacky Ickx after he started from third position. His teammate Clay Regazzoni finished second and McLaren driver Denny Hulme came in third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091084-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Mexican Grand Prix\nIckx was not able to close the points gap to the late Jochen Rindt in the final races of the season, and as result, Rindt became the only driver ever to win the championship posthumously.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091084-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Mexican Grand Prix, Race report\nThe crowd of 200,000 was difficult to control and almost forced the cancellation of the race. They were crammed in front of the guard-rails, sat at the trackside and ran across the track itself. Despite appeals from Jackie Stewart and local hero Pedro Rodr\u00edguez they still remained troublesome.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 36], "content_span": [37, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091084-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Mexican Grand Prix, Race report\nFrom the start, Jacky Ickx led from Stewart and Clay Regazzoni, but dropped back with steering column trouble. Later, a collision with a dog which had escaped onto the track damaged Stewart's suspension and forced his retirement, leaving the Ferraris dominant in first and second. Jack Brabham retired from third place in his final Grand Prix when the engine blew on lap 53. The Ferraris romped home with Ickx leading Regazzoni and Denny Hulme claiming the third podium spot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 36], "content_span": [37, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091084-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Mexican Grand Prix, Race report\nThe crowd control issues led to the Mexican Grand Prix being dropped from the 1971 calendar. It returned to the Formula One calendar fifteen years later in 1986.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 36], "content_span": [37, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091085-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Mexican Primera Divisi\u00f3n season\nM\u00e9xico 1970In celebration of the 1970 World Cup (Mexico '70) the Mexican Football Federation held a tournament in two phases, before the world cup (Feb. 4 - May 10) and after the world cup (July 8 - Oct. 11).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091085-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Mexican Primera Divisi\u00f3n season\nSixteen teams were seeded in two groups of eight teams, first four places of each group advanced to the \"Championship Group\"and the last four teams of each group played in a \"Consolation Group\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091085-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Mexican Primera Divisi\u00f3n season\nLaguna last place of the 1969-70 season, was scheduled to play against the last place of the Consolation Group in a playoff relegation series, but due to expansion to 18 teams for the 1970-71 season this series was cancelled, there was no relegation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091085-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Mexican Primera Divisi\u00f3n season, Overview\nThis tournament was contested by 16 teams, and Cruz Azul won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091085-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Mexican Primera Divisi\u00f3n season, First stage, Group 1\nTop four teams from each group advance to Championship Group. The bottom four plays in Consolation Group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 58], "content_span": [59, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091086-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Mexican Segunda Divisi\u00f3n season\nThe M\u00e9xico 1970 Segunda Divisi\u00f3n was the 21st season of the Mexican Segunda Divisi\u00f3n. The season started on 5 March 1970 and concluded on 11 October 1970. It was won by Uni\u00f3n de Curtidores. It was a special tournament held as part of the celebrations of the 1970 FIFA World Cup, which was hosted by Mexico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091086-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Mexican Segunda Divisi\u00f3n season\nThe Mexican Football Federation held a tournament in two phases, before the world cup (Mar. 5 - May 10) and after the world cup (July 11 - Oct. 10).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091086-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Mexican Segunda Divisi\u00f3n season\nSeventeen teams were seeded in three groups of five or six teams: North, Central and West, first three or two places of each group advanced to the \"Championship Group\" and the last two or three teams of each group played in a \"Consolation Group\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091086-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Mexican Segunda Divisi\u00f3n season, Primera Divisi\u00f3n promotion playoff\nFor the 1970\u201371 season, the Mexican Football Federation decided to expand the Primera Divisi\u00f3n from 16 to 18 teams, for that reason a promotion playoff was played between the first four teams classified in the Segunda Division Championship Group. The series was held at the Estadio Ol\u00edmpico Universitario, Mexico City between November 6 and 12, 1970. Puebla was the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 72], "content_span": [73, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091086-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Mexican Segunda Divisi\u00f3n season, Segunda Divisi\u00f3n \u2013 Tercera Divisi\u00f3n playoff\nDue to the expansion of the Primera Division, and the dissolution of various clubs in the Segunda Division. The Mexican Football Federation decided to hold a promotional playoff between teams from the Segunda and Tercera Division. These series were held at the Estadio Plan de San Luis, San Luis Potos\u00ed City, between December 15 and 18, 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 81], "content_span": [82, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091086-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Mexican Segunda Divisi\u00f3n season, Segunda Divisi\u00f3n \u2013 Tercera Divisi\u00f3n playoff\nThis round was developed in the direct elimination format, that is, the winning teams in the first matches won promotion or permanence in the category. The same thing happens in the second round, until reaching a final match between the two worst teams. This phase was played by Celaya and Tampico, from the Segunda Divisi\u00f3n; along with Atl\u00e9tico Cuernavaca, Cuautla, Quer\u00e9taro and Universidad Veracruzana, from the Tercera Divisi\u00f3n.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 81], "content_span": [82, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091087-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Mexican general election\nGeneral elections were held in Mexico on 5 July 1970. The presidential elections were won by Luis Echeverr\u00eda \u00c1lvarez, who received 86% of the vote. In the Chamber of Deputies election, the Institutional Revolutionary Party won 178 of the 213 seats, as well as winning all 64 seats in the Senate election. Voter turnout in the legislative elections was 64.4%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091087-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Mexican general election, Designation of the PRI presidential candidate\nAmong the many individuals considered by President D\u00edaz Ordaz to succeed him were Alfonso Corona del Rosal (Head of the Federal District Department), Luis Echeverr\u00eda \u00c1lvarez (Secretary of the Interior) and Emilio Mart\u00ednez Manatou (Secretary of the Presidency).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 76], "content_span": [77, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091087-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Mexican general election, Designation of the PRI presidential candidate\nAccording to Jorge G. Casta\u00f1eda, D\u00edaz Ordaz arrived at a final decision in the aftermath of the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre, in which the Army killed a multitude of unarmed protesters in Mexico City after months of student protests across the country. The massacre was a turning point in Mexican history, and the exact responsibility of the officials involved in it continues to be debated, with many asserting that the Secretary of the Interior, Echeverr\u00eda, was the one who ordered the troops to shoot at the protesters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 76], "content_span": [77, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091087-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Mexican general election, Designation of the PRI presidential candidate\nWith the 1970 elections ahead, D\u00edaz Ordaz \"disqualified\" both Corona del Rosal and Mart\u00ednez Manatou from becoming the PRI presidential candidates: in the former's case, because D\u00edaz Ordaz feared that, in the aftermath of the Tlatelolco massacre, Corona del Rosal would be rejected by the population due to his military background; while in the case of Mart\u00ednez Manatou, he was seen as too close to the dissident sectors that had been behind the 1968 movement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 76], "content_span": [77, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091087-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Mexican general election, Designation of the PRI presidential candidate\nTherefore, D\u00edaz Ordaz decided on Echeverr\u00eda, who didn't have a military background but had unmistakably been a loyal hardliner not just during the events of 1968, but during the entire D\u00edaz Ordaz administration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 76], "content_span": [77, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091087-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Mexican general election, Designation of the PRI presidential candidate\nIn an extraordinary move, during his annual Address to the Congress on 1 September 1969, President D\u00edaz Ordaz assumed the full \"personal, ethical, social, judicial, political and historical responsibility\" for the government's decisions during the 1968 events. This was interpreted by many as the definitive signal that the President had decided on Echeverr\u00eda to be his successor, as D\u00edaz Ordaz was assuming complete responsibility for the repression, clearing Echeverr\u00eda of any culpability. Indeed, two months later, on 8 November 1969 the PRI formally announced that Echeverr\u00eda would be the party's candidate for the 1970 presidential elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 76], "content_span": [77, 724]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091087-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 Mexican general election, Campaign\nIn addition to being nominated by the PRI, Echeverr\u00eda was also nominated by the Authentic Party of the Mexican Revolution (PARM) and the Popular Socialist Party (PPS), two traditional PRI satellites. The only opposition candidate in the presidential race was Efra\u00edn Gonz\u00e1lez Morf\u00edn, a former legislator, nominated by the right-wing National Action Party (PAN)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091087-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 Mexican general election, Campaign\nWhereas Echeverr\u00eda had been a hardliner during the D\u00edaz Ordaz administration, and had been known as a discreet bureaucrat during his entire career, upon becoming the Presidential candidate he radically changed his image, adopting a populist rhetoric towards the peasants and the students; this was likely to shake off the accusations that he had been responsible for the Tlatelolco massacre. As Enrique Krauze puts it, Echeverr\u00eda became \"immediately obsessed with making people forget that he had ever done it.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091087-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 Mexican general election, Campaign\nA confusing incident on November 1969 (shortly after Echeverr\u00eda was officially nominated as the PRI presidential candidate) provoked a national controversy and almost led to Echeverr\u00eda being replaced. During a visit to the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicol\u00e1s de Hidalgo (popularly known as the \"Nicolaita University\"), Echeverr\u00eda gave an address that had a mixed reception among the students present. Shortly after finishing the address and as the candidate prepared to leave the building, one of the students shouted demanding everyone present to keep a minute of silence in memory of the students massacred in Tlatelolco. Echeverr\u00eda and his aides were shocked, and he agreed to keep a minute of silence \"for the dead, for both the students and the soldiers who died in Tlatelolco\", after which the entire audience, including Echeverr\u00eda, kept the minute of silence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 908]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091087-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 Mexican general election, Campaign\nThe military chiefs, including the Secretary of the Defense Marcelino Garc\u00eda Barrag\u00e1n, were outraged by the incident and expressed their indignation to president D\u00edaz Ordaz, stating that the Armed Forces would no longer support Echeverr\u00eda and demanding that he be replaced as the party's candidate. Nonetheless, D\u00edaz Ordaz stood by Echeverr\u00eda, who the next day gave an address in which he praised the Armed Forces. In early January of 1970, Echeverr\u00eda and Garc\u00eda Barrag\u00e1n met at the latter's ranch in Autl\u00e1n to definitely put aside the conflict.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091087-0010-0000", "contents": "1970 Mexican general election, Results, Senate\nFour other senators from the governing PRI took their seats in a by-election in 1975 to conclude the 1970-1976 term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091088-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Miami Dolphins season\nThe 1970 Miami Dolphins season was the team's fifth, and first in the National Football League (NFL). It was the team's first winning season, first playoff appearance, and first of 26 seasons under head coach Don Shula. The team improved on their 3\u201310\u20131 record from 1969, and finished the regular season at 10\u20134, second in the newly-aligned AFC East to only the Baltimore Colts, the eventual Super Bowl champion. In 1970, the Dolphins defeated the New York Jets and the Oakland Raiders for the first time in franchise history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091088-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Miami Dolphins season\nThe Dolphins got off to a fresh start at 4\u20131, but lost three straight to even their record at 4\u20134. Miami then won six straight to end the season to clinch their first-ever winning season and playoff berth, as the wild card team. They met the Oakland Raiders in the opening divisional round, whom they had defeated in Miami in early October, but lost 21\u201314 on the road in the sun and mud.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091088-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Miami Dolphins season\nShula had moved over to the Dolphins on February 18, 1970, after seven seasons as head coach of the Baltimore Colts, now in the same division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091088-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Miami Dolphins season, Regular season, Standings\nNote: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 53], "content_span": [54, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091089-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Miami Hurricanes football team\nThe 1970 Miami Hurricanes football team represented the University of Miami for the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. The Hurricanes played their home games at the Miami Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida. The team was led by seventh-year head coach Charlie Tate until he resigned after the first two games of the season. Walt Kichefski took over as interim head coach for the remainder of the season. Miami finish with a record of 3\u20138.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091090-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Miami Redskins football team\nThe 1970 Miami Redskins football team was an American football team that represented Miami University in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. In their second season under head coach Bill Mallory, Miami compiled a 7\u20133 record (3\u20132 against MAC opponents), finished in a tie for second place in the MAC, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 187 to 112. The team's defense allowed only 11.2 points per game, which ranked 10th among 123 NCAA University Division football teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091090-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Miami Redskins football team\nThe team's statistical leaders included Jim Bengala with 1,265 passing yards, Tim Fortney with 1,063 rushing yards, and Mike Palija with 659 receiving yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091090-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Miami Redskins football team\nDefensive back Dick Adams won the Miami most valuable player award. Adams was also selected as a second-team All-American by the Associated Press. Adams and Jim Bengala were the team captains.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091091-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Michigan State Spartans football team\nThe 1970 Michigan State Spartans football team represented Michigan State University in the 1970 Big Ten Conference football season. In their 17th season under head coach Duffy Daugherty, the Spartans compiled a 3\u20136 overall record (3\u20134 against Big Ten opponents) and finished in a tie for fifth place in the Big Ten Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091091-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Michigan State Spartans football team\nNo Spartans were selected as first-team players on the 1970 All-Big Ten Conference football teams, though three received second-team honors from either the Associated Press (AP) or the United Press International (UPI): split end Gordon Bowdell (AP-2, UPI-2); guard Joe DeLamielleure (AP-2); and halfback Eric Allen (UPI-2).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091092-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Michigan Wolverines football team\nThe 1970 Michigan Wolverines football team was an American football team that represented the University of Michigan in the 1970 Big Ten Conference football season. In their second season under head coach Bo Schembechler, the Wolverines compiled a 9\u20131 record, tied for second place in the conference, and outscored opponents by a total of 288 to 90. Michigan's victories included intersectional contests with Arizona (20\u20139), Washington (17\u20133), and Texas A&M (14\u201310). The team won its first nine games before losing to rival Ohio State and was ranked No. 7 in the final UPI Poll and No. 9 in the final AP Poll", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091092-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Michigan Wolverines football team\nQuarterback Don Moorhead and middle guard Henry Hill were selected as the team's most valuable players. The team's statistical leaders included Moorhead with 1,167 passing yards, tailback Billy Taylor with 911 rushing yards and 66 points scored, and split end Paul Staroba with 519 receiving yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091092-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Michigan Wolverines football team\nOffensive tackle Dan Dierdorf was a consensus first-team choice for the 1970 All-America team. Henry Hill received first-team All-America honors from the Central Press Association, and linebacker Marty Huff was similarly honored by the American Football Coaches Association. In addition, 10 Michigan players received first-team honors on the 1970 All-Big Ten Conference football team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091092-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Michigan Wolverines football team\nThe Wolverines entered the season knowing they would not play in a bowl game. Big Ten rules in place until 1975 allowed only the team representing the conference in the Rose Bowl to participate in the postseason; additionally, the Big Ten had a \"no repeat\" rule barring appearances in consecutive Rose Bowls until 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091092-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Preseason\nThe 1969 Michigan team compiled an 8\u20133 record (6\u20131 Big Ten), won the Big Ten championship, and was ranked No. 9 in the final AP Poll. Key players from the 1969 team who did not return in 1970 included All-American tight end Jim Mandich, All-American defensive back Tom Curtis, and fullback Garvie Craw. Most key letter winners from the 1969 team did return in 1970, including quarterback Don Moorhead, offensive tackles Dan Dierdorf and Jack Harpring, middle guard Henry Hill, linebacker Marty Huff, wolfman Thom Darden, and running backs Billy Taylor and Glenn Doughty. Jim Betts, backup quarterback in 1969, was moved to defensive back for the 1970 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 724]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091092-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Preseason\nIn June 1970, Michigan hired Tirrel Burton as an assistant coach. He began in 1970 as the coach of the freshman football team, later coached receivers from 1972 to 1980 and then took over as the running backs coach from 1980 to 1992.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091092-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Preseason\nMichigan's 1970 recruiting class included Dave Brandon, Dave Gallagher, Clint Haslerig, Mike Hoban, Paul Seal, Ed Shuttlesworth, Tom Slade, and Bob Thornbladh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091092-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Arizona\nOn September 19, Michigan opened its 1970 season with a 20\u20139 victory over Arizona, before a crowd of 80,386 at Michigan Stadium. Michigan took a 10\u20130 lead in the first quarter on a 42-yard field goal from Dana Coin and a touchdown pass from Don Moorhead to Billy Taylor covering 29 yards. Michigan's offense stalled in the second and third quarters, and Arizona closed the gap to one point (10\u20139) on three Steve Hurley field goals. Michigan extended the lead in the fourth quarter on a second field goal from Dana Coin and a touchdown run by Lance Scheffler. Michigan's defense also intercepted four of Brian Linstrom's passes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 63], "content_span": [64, 691]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091092-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Arizona\nDespite the win, Michigan's offense was criticized for its inconsistent play. Michigan gained only 186 rushing yards and had two drives stall inside Arizona's 25-yard line with no points scored. On another drive, Michigan had a first down at Arizona's five-yard line and was forced to settle for a field goal. Coach Schembechler acknowledged: \"Our running game especially was a disappointment. We just weren't blocking. We've got a lot of work to do. But don't underestimate the fact that we won. That's the important thing.\" A Michigan field goal was also blocked, and a punt was fumbled by Michigan's returner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 63], "content_span": [64, 676]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091092-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Arizona\nIn response to coach Schembechler's play calling, the crowd at Michigan Stadium began booing, mostly from the student section, in the third and fourth quarters. After the game, coach Schembechler responded: \"Yeah, I heard them boo me. But if you think it bothered me, you're wrong. I may not be a very good coach but I'm a lot smarter than they are.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 63], "content_span": [64, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091092-0010-0000", "contents": "1970 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Washington\nOn September 26, 1970, Michigan, ranked No. 10 in the UPI poll, defeated Jim Owens' No. 19 Washington Huskies by a 17\u20133 score before a crowd of 57,500 at Husky Stadium in Seattle. The Huskies had beaten Michigan State, 42\u201316, the week before.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091092-0011-0000", "contents": "1970 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Washington\nWashington out-gained Michigan in the first half by 145 yards to 56 yards. Steve Wiezbowksi kicked a 35-yard field goal for a 3\u20130 lead at halftime. The deficit would have been greater were it not for three interceptions of passes from Washington's highly-touted Native American quarterback Sonny Sixkiller.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091092-0012-0000", "contents": "1970 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Washington\nWith Michigan tailback Glenn Doughty ineffective (13 yards on seven carries) and Lance Scheffler sidelined by injury, coach Schembechler sent third-string tailback Preston Henry into the game for the second half. Henry rushed for 113 yards and two touchdowns on 13 carries. Dana Coin also kicked a 39-yard field goal. The defense also stiffened in the second half, as the Wolverines out-gained the Huskies, 226 yards to 56 yards. Thom Darden led the defense with 10 solo tackles and two assists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091092-0013-0000", "contents": "1970 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Texas A&M\nOn October 3, 1970, Michigan defeated Gene Stallings' Texas A&M Aggies by a 14\u201310 score before a crowd of 71,732 at Michigan Stadium. One week earlier, Texas A&M was beaten by Ohio State, 56\u201313, but Michigan's offense was unable to move the ball effectively against the Aggies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091092-0014-0000", "contents": "1970 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Texas A&M\nTexas A&M, which stunned eventual Southeastern Conference champion LSU 20-18 in Baton Rouge Sept. 19, took a 10\u20130 lead in the second quarter on a 10-yard touchdown run by Steve Burks and a 21-yard field goal by Pat McDermott. Michigan narrowed the gap in the second quarter after Texas A&M dropped a punt and Michigan recovered at the Aggies' eight-yard line. Billy Taylor scored on a one-yard run, and Texas A&M led, 10\u20137, at halftime. The defense held Texas A&M scoreless in the second half, led by Pete Newell with 15 solo tackles and linebacker Marty Huff with 13 solo tackles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091092-0015-0000", "contents": "1970 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Texas A&M\nThe offense continued to struggle in the second half, and quarterback Don Moorhead, who completed only three of 16 passes, was booed in the fourth quarter. Michigan won the game on a 62-yard drive with fullback Fritz Seyferth leading the way. For the game, Seyferth totaled 64 rushing yards on 11 carries. But it was Moorhead who silenced the critics by scoring the winning touchdown on a seven-yard run. Asked after the game if he heard the boos, Moorhead replied: \"Yeah, I heard 'em. Let 'em boo. They booed Bo two weeks ago, but they don't know what's going on down there.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 642]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091092-0016-0000", "contents": "1970 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Purdue\nOn October 10, 1970, Michigan defeated Purdue, 29\u20130, before a crowd of 69,022 at Ross\u2013Ade Stadium in West Lafayette, Indiana. Purdue had upset No. 3 Stanford with 26 points the prior week, and no Purdue team had been shut out since 1963.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091092-0017-0000", "contents": "1970 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Purdue\nMichigan's Billy Taylor had played at fullback in the first three games and was moved to tailback against Purdue. He responded with 89 yards and a touchdown, though he also fumbled twice. Quarterback Don Moorhead, still sick with the flu, completed 9 of 17 passes for 92 yards and two touchdowns. After the game, coach Schembechler praised Moorhead: \"He played today after being sick all week. He lost about seven pounds and was as weak as a baby, but he played quite a ballgame.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091092-0018-0000", "contents": "1970 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Purdue\nOn defense, Michigan held Purdue's star running back Otis Armstrong to 11 yards on 14 carries. The defense also intercepted three passes from Purdue quarterback Chuck Piebes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091092-0019-0000", "contents": "1970 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Michigan State\nOn October 17, 1970, Michigan, ranked No. 6 in the AP poll, defeated Duffy Daugherty's Michigan State Spartans by a 34\u201320 score at Michigan Stadium. The crowd of 103,580 was the largest to see a Michigan\u2013Michigan State football rivalry to that point. At the start of the game, Michigan State marched down the field on a drive back capped by a 42-yard touchdown run by Eric Allen. Allen finished the game with 156 yards. Michigan rebounded as Billy Taylor rushed for 149 yards and three touchdowns. Michigan quarterback Don Moorhead completed 12 of 19 passes for 156 yards and a touchdown. Glenn Doughty added 85 rushing yards, 68 receiving yards, and a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 734]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091092-0020-0000", "contents": "1970 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Minnesota\nOn October 24, 1970, Michigan defeated Minnesota, 39\u201313, in the annual Little Brown Jug game before a homecoming crowd of 83,496 at Michigan Stadium. Quarterback Don Moorhead led the offense with 183 yards of total offense, 104 passing yards (7 of 18) and 79 rushing yards. Billy Taylor had 151 rushing yards and a touchdown on 26 carries, and fullback Fritz Seyferth added 76 yards and four touchdowns on 18 carries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091092-0021-0000", "contents": "1970 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Minnesota\nOn defense, Michigan held the Gophers to 69 rushing yards. Minnesota quarterback Craig Curry came into the game as the Big Ten Conference leader in total offense, and completed 16 of 37 passes for 214 yards and a touchdown. Michigan intercepted three of Curry' passes, one each by Bruce Elliott, Thom Darden, and Jim Betts. Betts also tallied 12 solo tackles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091092-0022-0000", "contents": "1970 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Wisconsin\nOn October 31, 1970, Michigan defeated Wisconsin, 29\u201315, before a record crowd of 72,389 at Camp Randall Stadium in Madison, Wisconsin. Michigan jumped to a 21\u20130 lead on two touchdowns by fullback Fritz Seyferth and one by tailback Preston Henry. Wisconsin responded with 15 points in the second quarter on a 17-yard pass from Neil Graff to Alan \"A-Train\" Thompson, an 87-yard punt return for touchdown by Danny Crooks, and a Roger Jaeger field goal. Michigan led, 21\u201315, at halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091092-0022-0001", "contents": "1970 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Wisconsin\nNeither team scored in the third quarter, and Michigan extended its lead in the fourth quarter on a 21-yard touchdown pass from Don Moorhead to Paul Staroba. The Wolverines rushed for 227 rushing yards, and Moorhead completed 11 of 22 passes for 223 yards. Michigan's defense limited Wisconsin to 79 rushing yards and 168 passing yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091092-0023-0000", "contents": "1970 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Illinois\nOn November 7, 1970, Michigan defeated Illinois, 42\u20130, before a crowd of 70,781 (the smallest of the season) at Michigan Stadium. Schembechler emptied the bench to avoid running up the score, using 54 players in the game. Tailback Billy Taylor and wingback Glenn Doughty scored two touchdowns each. Doughty had 81 receiving yards in addition to 40 rushing yards. Backup running back Lance Scheffler, a senior, rushed for 75 yards and a touchdown. Tight end Gerry Schumacher added a touchdown on a pass from Don Moorhead. Moorhead completed nine of 14 passes for 116 yards. On defense, Michigan held the Illini to 71 rushing yards and 101 passing yards and intercepted two Illinois passes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 753]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091092-0024-0000", "contents": "1970 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Iowa\nOn November 14, 1970, Michigan, ranked No. 5 in the AP and UPI polls, defeated Ray Nagel's Iowa Hawkeyes, 55\u20130, before a crowd of 66,189 at Michigan Stadium. The win gave Michigan a 9\u20130 record for the first time since its 1948 national championship season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091092-0025-0000", "contents": "1970 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Iowa\nMichigan's offense gained 561 yards, the third highest total in school history to that point, including 468 rushing yards. Michigan punted on its first possession (the first of only two punts in the game), but Iowa's returner touched the ball with Michigan recovering at the three-yard line to set up the first Wolverine touchdown. Billy Taylor led the offense with 189 yards and two touchdowns on 23 carries in the first three quarters. Quarterback Don Moorhead completed six of 11 passes for 88 yards and rushed for 65 yards and a touchdown. In his final home game for Michigan, Moorhead also passed Bob Chappuis as the school's all-time leader in total offense. Glenn Doughty also totaled 61 yards (36 receiving, 25 rushing).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 789]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091092-0026-0000", "contents": "1970 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Iowa\nOn defense, Michigan held Iowa to 88 rushing yards and 34 passing yards. Iowa did not cross midfield until there were 25 seconds left in the game. The defense also recovered five Iowa fumbles, including a fumble recovery in the end zone for a touchdown by Thom Darden.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091092-0027-0000", "contents": "1970 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Ohio State\nOn November 21, 1970, Michigan lost to Woody Hayes' Ohio State Buckeyes by a 20\u20139 score before a record crowd of 87,331 at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio. Both teams came into the game undefeated and were ranked No. 4 and No. 5, respectively, in the AP Poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091092-0028-0000", "contents": "1970 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Ohio State\nMichigan's Lance Scheffler fumbled the opening kickoff, and Ohio State recovered the ball at Michigan's 25-yard line. Ohio State's Fred Schram kicked a 28-yard field goal for an early lead. Michigan tied the game after Jim Betts intercepted a Rex Kern pass and returned it to the Ohio State 18-yard line, setting up a 31-yard field goal by Dana Coin. Shortly before halftime, and after calling (and being granted) an extra fifth timeout, Ohio State took a 10\u20133 lead on a 26-yard touchdown pass from Kern to Bruce Jankowski.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 590]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091092-0029-0000", "contents": "1970 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Ohio State\nMidway through the third quarter, Michigan scored on a 13-yard touchdown pass from Don Moorhead to Paul Staroba. Michigan's kick for extra point was blocked by Mike Anderson, and Ohio State led by one point. In the fourth quarter, the Buckeyes extended their lead to four points on Fred Schram's second field goal. On the next drive, Ohio State linebacker Stan White intercepted Moorhead's pass at Michigan's 24-yard line and returned it to the nine-yard line, setting up a four-yard touchdown run by Leo Hayden.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091092-0030-0000", "contents": "1970 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Ohio State\nMichigan was unable to move the ball on the ground, gaining only 37 rushing yards on 30 carries. Billy Taylor led the Wolverines with 31 yards on 15 carries. After the game, coach Schembechler noted: \"We didn't move on the ground. That was the ball game. I don't know why we couldn't move . . . We didn't seem to block very much.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091092-0031-0000", "contents": "1970 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Ohio State\nForced to an air attack, Michigan quarterback Don Moorhead completed 12 of 26 passes for 118 yards. In his final game for Michigan, Moorhead established new Michigan career records for completions (199) and total passing yards (2,540).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091092-0032-0000", "contents": "1970 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Ohio State\nThe Buckeyes, on the other hand, moved the ball effectively with running backs Leo Hayden (117 rushing yards on 28 carries) and John Brockington (77 yards on 27 carries). Ohio State quarterback Rex Kern also completed eight of 12 passes for 87 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091092-0033-0000", "contents": "1970 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Ohio State\nIn his postgame interview, Ohio State coach Woody Hayes asked, \"Is this our best team ever? Well, today it was. Today, this was the best we've ever been.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091092-0034-0000", "contents": "1970 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Award season\nTwo Michigan players received first-team honors on the 1969 All-America team", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091092-0035-0000", "contents": "1970 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Award season\nThirteen Michigan players received recognition from the AP and/or UPI on the 1970 All-Big Ten Conference football team: Don Moorhead at quarterback (AP-1, UPI-1), Paul Staroba at offensive end (AP-1, UPI-1), Dan Dierdorf at offensive tackle (AP-1, UPI-1), Phil Seymour at defensive end (AP-1, UPI-1), Henry Hill at defensive tackle (AP-1, UPI-1 [ tie]), Pete Newell at defensive tackle (AP-1, UPI-1), Reggie McKenzie at guard (AP-2, UPI-1), Marty Huff at linebacker (AP-2, UPI-1), Billy Taylor at halfback (AP-2, UPI-1), Guy Murdock at center (UPI-1 [ tie]), Mike Keller at defensive end (UPI-2), Jim Betts at defensive back (UPI-2), and Jack Harpring at tackle (AP-2).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 738]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091092-0036-0000", "contents": "1970 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Award season\nTeam awards were presented at the end of the season as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091092-0037-0000", "contents": "1970 Michigan Wolverines football team, Personnel, Professional football\nFifteen members of the 1970 team went on to play professional football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 72], "content_span": [73, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091092-0037-0001", "contents": "1970 Michigan Wolverines football team, Personnel, Professional football\nThey are: Tom Beckman (St.Louis Cardinals, 1972, Memphis Grizzlies, 1974-1975), Thom Darden (Cleveland Browns, 1972-1981), Dan Dierdorf (St. Louis Cardinals, 1971-1983), Glenn Doughty (Baltimore Colts, 1972-1979), Marty Huff (San Francisco 49ers, 1972; Edmonton Eskimos, 1973; Charlotte Hornets, 1974-1975), Mike Keller (Dallas Cowboys, 1972), Reggie McKenzie (Buffalo Bills, 1972-1982; Seattle Seahawks, 1983-1984), Guy Murdock (Houston Oilers, 1974; Chicago Fire/Winds, 1974-1975), Pete Newell (BC Lions, 1971); Bo Rather (Miami Dolphins, 1973, 1978; Chicago Bears, 1974-78); Fritz Seyferth (Calgary Stampeders, 1972); Paul Seymour (Buffalo Bills, 1973-1977), Paul Staroba (Cleveland Browns, 1972; Green Bay Packers, 1973), Billy Taylor (Calgary Stampeders, 1972), and Mike Taylor (New York Jets, 1972\u201373).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 72], "content_span": [73, 881]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091093-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Michigan gubernatorial election\nThe 1970 Michigan gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 1970. Republican William Milliken won the election, defeating Democratic nominee Sander Levin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091094-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Milan\u2013San Remo\nThe 1970 Milan\u2013San Remo was the 61st edition of the Milan\u2013San Remo cycle race and was held on 19 March 1970. The race started in Milan and finished in San Remo. The race was won by Michele Dancelli of the Molteni team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091095-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Milwaukee Brewers season\nThe 1970 Milwaukee Brewers season was the second season for the franchise. The team finished fourth in the American League West with a record of 65 wins and 97 losses, 33 games behind the Minnesota Twins. This was the team's inaugural season in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, after spending its first year of existence in Seattle, Washington as the Pilots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091095-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Milwaukee Brewers season, Offseason, Relocation to Milwaukee\nDuring the offseason, Dewey Soriano, president of the financially strapped Seattle Pilots, crossed paths with Bud Selig, a Milwaukee car dealer who had been working to bring baseball back to Milwaukee since the Braves (of which he'd been a minority owner) left for Atlanta after the 1965 season. They met in secret for over a month after the end of the season, and during Game 1 of the World Series, Soriano agreed to sell the Pilots to Selig for $10 million to $13 million (depending on the source).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091095-0001-0001", "contents": "1970 Milwaukee Brewers season, Offseason, Relocation to Milwaukee\nSelig would then move the team to Milwaukee and rename it the Brewers. However, the owners turned it down in the face of pressure from Washington's two senators, Warren Magnuson and Henry (Scoop) Jackson, as well as state attorney general Slade Gorton. MLB asked Soriano and chairman William Daley to find a local buyer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091095-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Milwaukee Brewers season, Offseason, Relocation to Milwaukee\nLocal theater chain owner Fred Danz came forward in October 1969 with a $10 million deal, but it fizzled when the Bank of California called in a $4 million loan it had made to Soriano and Daley for startup costs. In January 1970, Westin Hotels owner Eddie Carlson put together a nonprofit group to buy the team. However, the owners rejected the idea almost out of hand since it would have devalued the other clubs' worth. A more traditional deal came one vote short of approval.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091095-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Milwaukee Brewers season, Offseason, Relocation to Milwaukee\nAfter a winter and spring full of court action, the Pilots reported for spring training under new manager Dave Bristol unsure of where they would play. The owners had given tentative approval to the Milwaukee group, but the state of Washington got an injunction on March 17 to stop the deal. Soriano immediately filed for bankruptcy \u2014 a move intended to forestall any post-sale legal action. At the bankruptcy hearing a week later, general manager Marvin Milkes testified there was not enough money to pay the coaches, players and office staff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091095-0003-0001", "contents": "1970 Milwaukee Brewers season, Offseason, Relocation to Milwaukee\nHad Milkes been more than 10 days late in paying the players, they would have all become free agents and left Seattle without a team for the 1970 season. With this in mind, Federal Bankruptcy Referee Sidney Volinn declared the Pilots bankrupt on March 31 \u2014 seven days before Opening Day \u2014 clearing the way for them to move to Milwaukee. The team's equipment had been sitting in Provo, Utah, with the drivers awaiting word on whether to drive toward Seattle or Milwaukee. MLB returned to Seattle in 1977, when the Mariners began play at the Kingdome.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091095-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Milwaukee Brewers season, Offseason, Relocation to Milwaukee\nCoincidentally, Milwaukee had gained its previous team under circumstances similar to some of those surrounding this move. The Braves had moved from Boston to Milwaukee only a few weeks before the 1953 season was to start.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091095-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Milwaukee Brewers season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091095-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 Milwaukee Brewers season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091095-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 Milwaukee Brewers season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091095-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 Milwaukee Brewers season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091095-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 Milwaukee Brewers season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091095-0010-0000", "contents": "1970 Milwaukee Brewers season, Farm system\nThe Brewers' farm system consisted of four minor league affiliates in 1970. The Double-A Jacksonville Suns were shared with the Montreal Expos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 42], "content_span": [43, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091096-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team\nThe 1970 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team represented the University of Minnesota in the 1970 Big Ten Conference football season. In their 17th year under head coach Murray Warmath, the Golden Gophers compiled a 3\u20136\u20131 record and were outscored by their opponents by a combined total of 237 to 180.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091096-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team\nDefensive back Jeff Wright received the team's Most Valuable Player award. Linebacker Bill Light and Wright were named All-Big Ten first team. Offensive tackle Alvin Hawes, running back Barry Mayer and safety Walt Bowser were named All-Big Ten second team. Mayer was named an Academic All-American. Mayer was also named Academic All-Big Ten. The team included offensive lineman, Richard Fliehr, better known as professional wrestler Ric Flair.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091096-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team\nTotal attendance at five home games was 225,468, which averaged to 45,093. The largest crowd was against Nebraska.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091097-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Minnesota Twins season\nLed by new manager Bill Rigney, the 1970 Minnesota Twins won the American League West with a 98\u201364 record, nine games ahead of the Oakland Athletics. The Twins were swept by the Baltimore Orioles in the American League Championship Series. Of note, the Twins were the only team in the American League to have a winning record in the regular season versus the Orioles. After the ALCS, Metropolitan Stadium would never see another post-season game, and the Twins would not return to the postseason stage until 1987 when they won the World Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091097-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Minnesota Twins season, Regular season\nOn April 7, newly acquired Twin Brant Alyea homered twice in going 4 for 4 and driving in 7 RBI. The RBI total set a record for major league baseball's Opening Day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091097-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Minnesota Twins season, Regular season\nOn May 20, in a 10\u20135 win over the Kansas City Royals, Rod Carew became the first Twin to hit for the cycle\u2014going single, homer, double, triple. Over time, his feat will be matched by nine other Twins (C\u00e9sar Tovar, 1972; Larry Hisle, 1976; Lyman Bostock, 1976; Mike Cubbage, 1978; Gary Ward, 1980; Kirby Puckett, 1986; Carlos G\u00f3mez, 2008; Jason Kubel, 2009; and Michael Cuddyer, 2009).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091097-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Minnesota Twins season, Regular season\nOn June 5, pitcher Bert Blyleven debuted, allowing a home run off the first batter he faced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091097-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Minnesota Twins season, Regular season\nFour Twins made the All-Star Game: first baseman Harmon Killebrew, second baseman Rod Carew, outfielder Tony Oliva, and pitcher Jim Perry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091097-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Minnesota Twins season, Regular season\nOn September 16, Blyleven struck out the first six batters he faced to tie a major league record. However, the Twins lost the game to the California Angels, 5\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091097-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 Minnesota Twins season, Regular season\nThe Twins are no-hit for the second time in their history, losing 6\u20130 to Oakland's Vida Blue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091097-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 Minnesota Twins season, Regular season\nThe Twins won the American League West, led by leadoff batter C\u00e9sar Tovar (120 runs), Oliva (.325, 23 HR, 107 RBI) and Killebrew (41 HR, 113 RBI). Carew was batting .366 (after 51 games) when his knee was injured turning a double play. Perry won 24 games and became the first Twins pitcher to win the AL Cy Young Award. Jim Kaat added 14 wins and rookie Bert Blyleven won 10. Kaat also won his 9th Gold Glove Award. Reliever Ron Perranoski led the AL with 34 saves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091097-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 Minnesota Twins season, Regular season\n1,261,887 fans attended Twins games, the third highest total in the American League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091097-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 Minnesota Twins season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 72], "content_span": [73, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091097-0010-0000", "contents": "1970 Minnesota Twins season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091097-0011-0000", "contents": "1970 Minnesota Twins season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 70], "content_span": [71, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091097-0012-0000", "contents": "1970 Minnesota Twins season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 67], "content_span": [68, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091097-0013-0000", "contents": "1970 Minnesota Twins season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 68], "content_span": [69, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091098-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Minnesota Vikings season\nThe 1970 season was the Minnesota Vikings' 10th in the National Football League and the first season following the AFL\u2013NFL merger. Under head coach Bud Grant, they finished with a 12\u20132 record and won the first ever NFC Central title before losing to the San Francisco 49ers at home in the NFC Divisional Playoff game. The Vikings' defense became the second defense in the history of the NFL to lead the league in fewest points allowed and fewest total yards allowed for two consecutive seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091098-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Standings\nNote: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091099-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Minnesota gubernatorial election\nThe 1970 Minnesota gubernatorial election took place on November 3, 1970. Minnesota Democratic\u2013Farmer\u2013Labor Party candidate Wendell Anderson defeated Republican Party of Minnesota challenger Douglas M. Head.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091100-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Minnesota lieutenant gubernatorial election\nThe 1970 Minnesota lieutenant gubernatorial election took place on November 3, 1970. State Senator Rudy Perpich of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party defeated Duluth Mayor Ben Boo of the Republican Party of Minnesota. The 1970 lieutenant gubernatorial election was the final lieutenant gubernatorial election held before the Minnesota Constitution was amended to provide for elections of the Governor and Lieutenant Governor on a joint ticket.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091101-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Mississippi State Bulldogs football team\nThe 1970 Mississippi State Bulldogs football team represented Mississippi State University during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. The Bulldogs finished 6\u20135 for the only winning season in head coach Charles Shira's tenure. The 1970 squad included the first two African-American football players on the Bulldogs' varsity team, defensive back Frank Dowsing and defensive tackle Robert Bell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091102-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Missouri Tigers football team\nThe 1970 Missouri Tigers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Missouri in the Big Eight Conference (Big 8) during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. The team compiled a 5\u20136 record (3\u20134 against Big 8 opponents), finished in a tie for fourth place in the Big 8, and outscored opponents by a combined total of 243 to 223. Dan Devine was the head coach for the 13th of 13 seasons. The team played its home games at Memorial Stadium in Columbia, Missouri.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091102-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Missouri Tigers football team\nThe team's statistical leaders included James Harrison with 702 rushing yards, Chuck Roper with 1,097 passing yards and 1,141 yards of total offense, John Henley with 481 receiving yards, and Jack Bastable with 60 points scored.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091103-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Molise regional election\nThe Molise regional election of 1970 took place on 7\u20138 June 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091103-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Molise regional election, Events\nChristian Democracy was by far the largest party, gaining more than three times the share of vote of the Italian Communist Party, which came distantly second.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091103-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Molise regional election, Events\nAfter the election Christian Democrat Carlo Vitale was elected President of the Region. In 1973 Vitale was replaced by Giustino D'Uva.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091104-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Monaco Grand Prix\nThe 1970 Monaco Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at the Circuit de Monaco on 10 May 1970. It was race 3 of 13 in both the 1970 World Championship of Drivers and the 1970 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers. Jochen Rindt scored the last victory for the famous Lotus 49.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091104-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Monaco Grand Prix\nThis was Bruce McLaren's final Formula One race - as he was killed 5 days before the next race at Belgium - and Ronnie Peterson's first.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091104-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Monaco Grand Prix, Report\nThere were no significant changes in the drivers' lineup for Monaco, and the only new driver was Ronnie Peterson, entering in a non-works March. The Lotus team decided to bring the old 49C chassis instead of the new 72, despite testing the new car in a non-championship race at Silverstone a couple of weeks earlier. In qualifying March swept the front row, with Jackie Stewart on pole (for the Tyrrell team) and Chris Amon alongside him. Third was Denny Hulme's McLaren, and fourth the Brabham of Jack Brabham; behind them was the Ferrari of Jacky Ickx. The first Lotus driver was Jochen Rindt, qualifying in eighth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 654]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091104-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Monaco Grand Prix, Report\nDespite heavy rain during the practice laps, the drivers raced in clear conditions and on a dry track. Stewart led the field with Amon, Brabham, Ickx and Jean-Pierre Beltoise behind him; Hulme got a poor start and was way down the order after the first corner. On the second lap, Beltoise passed Ickx, who retired on lap 12 with a driveshaft failure. On lap 22 Beltoise, now in fourth, retired with transmission problems; on the same lap Brabham passed Amon to take second place. Stewart remained the race leader until his car began misfiring on lap 27.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091104-0003-0001", "contents": "1970 Monaco Grand Prix, Report\nAfter a long pit stop, Stewart returned to the race only to eventually retire. This left Brabham in the lead, with Amon, Hulme and Rindt following. The engine failed on Jackie Oliver's BRM, who retired due to quickly falling oil pressure. At around the same time, Hulme developed problems with the gearing of his McLaren and so dropped back behind Rindt and Pescarolo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091104-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Monaco Grand Prix, Report\nOn lap 62 Amon's suspension failed; he was forced to retire, leaving Rindt in second place nine seconds behind Brabham. Rindt increased his pace, able to close the gap to Brabham. On the final corner of the last lap, however, Brabham defended the inside line to prevent Rindt from passing. There was less traction on the dusty surface off the racing line, and Brabham locked the wheels under braking and the car skidded across the track towards the barriers. Rindt passed behind him and won the race. Brabham quickly reversed and finished the race in second position. Third was Pescarolo in a Matra, while the remaining points positions were rounded out by Hulme, Graham Hill (who worked his way up from the last spot on the grid) and Pedro Rodr\u00edguez.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 782]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091105-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Mongolian National Championship\nThe 1970 Mongolian National Championship was the seventh recorded edition of the Mongolian National Championship for football, with the first tournament taking place in 1955 and no tournament held in 1965. It would appear however that championships were contested between 1956 and 1963, as sources note that Aldar, (literally: Glory) the Mongolian Army Sports Club, won the title on numerous occasions during that time. Nonetheless, the 1970 national championship was won by Aldar, their first recorded title. Aldar went unbeaten throughout the entire season, with Khuldumur finishing as runners up and Darkhan in third place. The official best players for the championship included: Baigal, Bayanjargal, Sagar (all Aldar), Emel, Grish, Purevjal (all Darkhan), Samdan (Khudulmur).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 817]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091106-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Montana Grizzlies football team\nThe 1970 Montana Grizzlies football team represented the University of Montana in the 1970 NCAA College Division football season as a member of the Big Sky Conference (Big Sky). The Grizzlies were led by fourth-year head coach Jack\u00a0Swarthout and played their home games at Dornblaser\u00a0Field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091106-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Montana Grizzlies football team\nSimilar to the previous season, Montana won all ten games in the regular season (5\u20130 Big Sky, champions), but lost to North Dakota State in the Camellia Bowl in Sacramento in December. New conference member Northern Arizona was played this season, but not Boise State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091107-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Montana State Bobcats football team\nThe 1970 Montana State Bobcats football team was an American football team that represented Montana State University in the Big Sky Conference during the 1970 NCAA College Division football season. In their third and final season under head coach Tom Parac, the Bobcats compiled a 2\u20138 record (1\u20135 against Big Sky opponents) and finished sixth out of seven teams in the Big Sky.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091108-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Monte Carlo Open\nThe 1970 Monte Carlo Open was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Monte Carlo Country Club in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France. The tournament was independent, i.e. not part of the 1970 Pepsi-Cola Grand Prix or 1970 World Championship Tennis circuit. It was the 64th edition of the event and was held from 13 April through 19 April 1970. \u017deljko Franulovi\u0107 and Helga Niessen won the singles titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091108-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Monte Carlo Open, Finals, Men's Doubles\nMarty Riessen / Roger Taylor defeated Pierre Barth\u00e8s / Nikola Pili\u0107 6\u20133, 6\u20134, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 44], "content_span": [45, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091108-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Monte Carlo Open, Finals, Women's Doubles\nGail Chanfreau / Fran\u00e7oise D\u00fcrr defeated Winnie Shaw / Virginia Wade 6\u20132, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 46], "content_span": [47, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091109-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Montreal Alouettes season\nThe 1970 Montreal Alouettes finished the season in 3rd place in the Eastern Conference with a 7\u20136\u20131 record and won the Grey Cup, by defeating another third place team, the Calgary Stampeders in a rain soaked field, which both teams called disgraceful. This was Montreal's second Grey Cup, with the first being in their fourth year of existence in 1949.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091110-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Montreal Expos season\nThe 1970 Montreal Expos season was the second season in the history of the franchise. The Expos finished in last place in the National League East with a record of 73\u201389, 16 games behind the Pittsburgh Pirates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091110-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Montreal Expos season, Spring training\nThe Expos held spring training at West Palm Beach Municipal Stadium in West Palm Beach, Florida, a facility they shared with the Atlanta Braves. It was their second season at the stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 43], "content_span": [44, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091110-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Montreal Expos season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 71], "content_span": [72, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091110-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Montreal Expos season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091110-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Montreal Expos season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 69], "content_span": [70, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091110-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Montreal Expos season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 66], "content_span": [67, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091110-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 Montreal Expos season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 67], "content_span": [68, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091110-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 Montreal Expos season, Farm system\nBuffalo franchise moved to Winnipeg and renamed, June 11, 1970; Jacksonville affiliation shared with Milwaukee Brewers", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 39], "content_span": [40, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091111-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Montreal municipal election\nThe 1970 Montreal municipal election took place on October 25, 1970, to elected a mayor and city councillors in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The election was held against the backdrop of the FLQ Crisis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091111-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Montreal municipal election\nMayor Jean Drapeau was re-elected without difficultyshutting out the oppositionist Front d'action politique (FRAP) party. The election was held during the October Crisis and Drapeau as well as federal cabinet minister Jean Marchand, accused the left-wing FRAP of being sympathetic to the Front de lib\u00e9ration du Qu\u00e9bec (FLQ). Support for the FRAP collapsed and Drapeau's Civic Party of Montreal won every seat on city council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091112-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Montserratian general election\nGeneral elections were held in Montserrat on 15 December 1970. The result was a victory for the Progressive Democratic Party (PDP), which won all seven seats in the Legislative Council, whilst the Montserrat Labour Party (MLP), which had won every election since the introduction of universal suffrage in 1951, lost all four of its seats. PDP leader Percival Austin Bramble became Chief Minister, replacing his father and MLP leader, William Henry Bramble.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091112-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Montserratian general election, Background\nUniversal suffrage was introduced in Montserrat in 1951, and the first elections under it were held the following year, with the MLP winning all five seats. The MLP went on to win elections in 1955, 1958, 1961 and 1966. Party leader William Henry Bramble became Chief Minister in 1960 when the new constitution introduced the ministerial system of government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091112-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Montserratian general election, Campaign\nA total of 16 candidates contested the elections; both the PDP and MLP nominated candidates for all seven seats, with two independents also running.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091112-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Montserratian general election, Campaign\nThe elections were the first occasion on which the MLP faced serious opposition. PDP leader Percival Austin Bramble had previously been a member of the MLP and was elected to the Legislative Council as an MLP candidate in the 1966 elections. However, he subsequently broke away to form the PDP as a result of controversy over the number of holiday and retirement homes being built on the island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091112-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Montserratian general election, Aftermath\nFollowing the elections, Percival Austin Bramble formed a government, including the appointment of John Osborne as Minister of Agriculture.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091113-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Moroccan constitutional referendum\nA constitutional referendum was held in Morocco on 24 July 1970. The new constitution replaced that approved by referendum in 1962, but suspended by King Hassan II in 1965 (when Parliament was also dissolved) following riots in Casablanca. It was approved by 98.8% of voters, with a 93.2% turnout. Following its approval, fresh elections were held on 21 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091114-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Moroccan general election\nParliamentary elections were held in Morocco on 21 August 1970. They followed the adoption of a new constitution in a referendum in July. The new Assembly of Representatives had 240 members; 90 elected directly in single member constituencies by public ballot, 90 elected by local councillors and 60 elected by four professional colleges (24 by the Chambers of Agriculture, 16 by the Chambers of Commerceand Industry, 10 by the Chambers of Artisans and 10 by representatives of the wage-earners). The latter two groups were elected on 28 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091114-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Moroccan general election\nA total of 293 candidates, all of whom were male, contested the election. The Istiqlal Party and the National Union of Popular Forces both boycotted the election, although some candidates still participated. Voter turnout was reported to be 85%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091115-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Motor Trend 500\nThe 1970 Motor Trend 500 was a NASCAR Grand National Series event that was held on January 18, 1970, at Riverside International Raceway in Riverside, California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091115-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Motor Trend 500, Race report\nThe Plymouth Superbird would make its first ever NASCAR appearance during this race. Six cautions slowed the race for 31 laps. A. J. Foyt was the winner in his 1970 Ford Torino; defeating Roger McCluskey by 3\u00bd seconds. Parnelli Jones started the race from the pole position but had to start at the back because they used illegal tires qualifying. He took the lead on lap 80 and almost lapped the entire field until his clutch broke on lap 160; giving him an 11th-place finish. Out of A.J. Foyt's seven Cup wins this was his only one that came on a road course. All of his other victories were on super speedways.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091115-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Motor Trend 500, Race report\nUSAC Stock Car champion McCluskey crossed over for his only NASCAR race of the 1970 season and raced his Superbird complete with the popular Looney Tunes character the Road Runner, and finished second. This was his only NASCAR \"top five\" finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091115-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Motor Trend 500, Race report\nThere were forty-four competitors in this race; 43 were from the United States of America while (Lothar Motschenbacher) was from Cologne, West Germany. Jim Cook was involved in a major accident that would leave him in a wheelchair on lap 94. The other finishers in the top ten were: LeeRoy Yarbrough, Donnie Allison, Richard Petty, Dan Gurney (who had become a mainstay at the track during the 1960s and would leave NASCAR after this year), Neil Castles, Friday Hassler, Jerry Oliver, and Dick Guldstrand. Motschenbacher would start in 31st place and finish the race in 40th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091115-0003-0001", "contents": "1970 Motor Trend 500, Race report\nSam Posey's lone NASCAR start ended spectacularly when the #6 Dodge's engine failed in fiery fashion. Considering that the passenger automobile engines of the 1960s and 1970s were never designed for these high speeds, innovations were made in subsequent decades for better performing engines that could perform under the pressures of high speed racing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091115-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Motor Trend 500, Race report\nThe average speed of the race was 97.045 miles per hour (156.179\u00a0km/h) while Dan Gurney earned the pole position with a qualifying speed of 112.006 miles per hour (180.256\u00a0km/h). There was an attendance of 43,200 fans to see 193 laps of action on the road course. This was the last Winston Cup start for road racer Frank Deiny. He would finish in 41st place in this event due to wheel bearing issues on lap 4. However, this event included yellow flags. Eight famous crew chiefs would participate in this race; including Banjo Matthews, Dale Inman, Jerry Hyde and Dick Hutcherson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091115-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Motor Trend 500, Race report\nThe winner's purse was $19,700 ($129,696 when adjusted for inflation) while the last-place finisher went home with $800 ($5,267 when adjusted for inflation). The total amount of money offered at this event was $84,235 ($555,158 when adjusted for inflation).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091116-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Mount Everest disaster\nOn 5 April 1970, during production of The Man Who Skied Down Everest, six Nepalese Sherpas died on Mount Everest. The deaths were caused by an ice-fall avalanche in the Khumbu Icefall. The icefall, which lies between Base Camp and Camp I, has been the site of numerous fatalities, including those in the 2014 Mount Everest ice avalanche. The Sherpas were assisting the Japanese Skiing Expedition, which included Yuichiro Miura, the first person to ski down Everest. Their names were Mima Norbu, Nima Dorje, Tshering Tarkey, Pasang, Kunga Norbu, and Kami Tshering. Another death occurred in the Japanese expedition four days later when Kyak Tsering was killed by ice falling from a serac.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 715]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091117-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Mr. Olympia\nThe 1970 Mr. Olympia contest was an IFBB professional bodybuilding competition held in September 1970 at The Town Hall in New York City, New York. It was the 6th Mr. Olympia competition held.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091118-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Munich bus attack\nOn 10 February 1970, a bus carrying passengers to an El Al airplane at the Munich-Riem Airport, West Germany was attacked by terrorists. One person was killed and 23 were wounded in the attack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091118-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Munich bus attack, Attack\nAn El Al Boeing 707 jet was preparing to take off for London when three terrorists opened fire with submachine guns and hand grenades on a bus carrying passengers to the plane. The attack killed one person and wounded 23 others. The pilot of the plane was slightly wounded when he wrestled one grenade-wielding terrorist to the ground while the other terrorists were shooting. After a brief gunfight with police the terrorists were arrested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091118-0001-0001", "contents": "1970 Munich bus attack, Attack\nAs the actor Assi Dayan, a son of the Israeli Defence Minister was among the passengers some suggested him to have been the target of the attack, while others disregarded this by noting that the attack was indiscriminate and random as Dayan himself was unhurt. Another passenger was actress Hanna Maron who was critically wounded and had to have her leg amputated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091118-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Munich bus attack, Aftermath\nThe Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PDFLP), as well as the \"Action Organization for the Liberation of Palestine\" in Jordan claimed responsibility for the attack. The three terrorists arrested for the attack were identified as Mohammed Hadidi and Mohammed Hanasi from Jordan, and Abdul Rachman from Egypt. The terrorists were released and deported later the same year in response to the Dawson's Field hijackings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091119-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Murrumbidgee state by-election\nThe 1970 Murrumbidgee state by-election was held on 14 February 1970 for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Murrumbidgee. It was triggered by the resignation of Al Grassby (Labor) to successfully contest the federal seat of Riverina at the 1969 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091120-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 NAIA Division I football season\nThe 1970 NAIA Division I football season was the 15th season of college football sponsored by the NAIA. It was also the first of twenty-seven seasons that the NAIA split its football competition into two separate championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091120-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 NAIA Division I football season\nThe season was played from August to November 1970 and culminated in the 1970 NAIA Champion Bowl, played on December 12, 1970 in Greenville, South Carolina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091120-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 NAIA Division I football season\nTexas A&I defeated Wofford in the Champion Bowl, 48\u20137, to win their third NAIA national title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091121-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 NAIA Division II football season\nThe 1970 NAIA Division II football season was the 15th season of college football sponsored by the NAIA and the first season of play of the NAIA's lower division for football. Prior to the season, the NAIA split its football competition into two separate championships: Divisions I and II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091121-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 NAIA Division II football season\nThe season was played from August to November 1970 and culminated in the 1970 NAIA Division II Football National Championship, played on December 13, 1970 at Taggert Stadium in New Castle, Pennsylvania .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091121-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 NAIA Division II football season\nWestminster (PA) defeated Anderson (IN) in the championship game, 21\u201316, to win their first NAIA national title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091122-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 NAIA Ice Hockey Championship\nThe 1970 NAIA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament involved four schools playing in single-elimination bracket to determine the national champion of men's NAIA college ice hockey. The 1970 tournament was the third men's ice hockey tournament to be sponsored by the NAIA. The tournament began on March 6, 1970, and ended with the championship game on March 7.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091122-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 NAIA Ice Hockey Championship\nBemidji State, Lake Superior State, and Gustavus Adolphus attended the tournament for the third straight year while Alaska Methodist made the tournament for the first time. The championship game marked the third straight year that the two ICHA conference rivals Bemidji State College (BSC) and Lake Superior State College (LSSC) met to decide the national title. Bemidji once again defeated Lake Superior State on the Lakers' home ice at Pullar Stadium, Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091123-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 NAIA Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 1970 NAIA Men's Basketball Tournament was held in March at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri. The 33rd annual NAIA basketball tournament featured 32 teams playing in a single-elimination format.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091123-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 NAIA Men's Basketball Tournament\nKentucky State would win the first of three straight National Championship titles, becoming the second team to win three in a row, and the third team to win three titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091123-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 NAIA Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 3rd place game would go into overtime for second time in tournament history. The 6th seeded Eastern New Mexico State Greyhounds beat the 8th seeded Guilford Quakers 77-72 in one overtime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091123-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 NAIA Men's Basketball Tournament, 1970 NAIA bracket, 3rd place game\nThe third place game featured the losing teams from the national semifinalist to determine 3rd and 4th places in the tournament. This game was played until 1988.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 72], "content_span": [73, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091124-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 NASCAR Grand National Series\nThe 1970 NASCAR Grand National Series season began on Sunday January 18 and ended on Sunday November 22. Bobby Isaac was the champion of the series as NASCAR transitioned from the Grand National era to the Winston Cup era. Only one foreigner was racing that year, a Canadian named Frog Fagan (who finished 96th in the championship standings). It was also the last NASCAR national touring series season to feature a dirt track race until the 2013 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, and the last time the Cup series raced on dirt until the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091124-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 NASCAR Grand National Series, Races, Daytona 500\nThe 1970 Daytona 500 was a stock car automobile race run on February 22, 1970, and was the second race for the winged Plymouth Superbird. Pete Hamilton won the race in a Plymouth Superbird.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091124-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 NASCAR Grand National Series, Races, Alabama 500\nThe 1970 Alabama 500 was held on April 12, 1970, at Alabama International Motor Speedway. Pete Hamilton won his second race of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091124-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 NASCAR Grand National Series, Races, Rebel 400\nThe 1970 Rebel 400 was a NASCAR Grand National Series race that took place in May 1970 at Darlington Raceway in South Carolina. David Pearson won the race in 3:05:07. Richard Petty had a huge crash on the homestretch, which inspired the window net that is now mandated by NASCAR.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091124-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 NASCAR Grand National Series, Races, Georgia 500\nThe 1970 Georgia 500 is a NASCAR Grand National race that took place on November 8, 1970, at Middle Georgia Raceway in Macon, Georgia. Richard Petty (racing for Petty Enterprises) defeated Bobby Isaac by fourteen seconds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091124-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 NASCAR Grand National Series, Races, American 500\nThe 1970 American 500 was a 500-mile race that took place on November 15, 1970, at the North Carolina Motor Speedway in Rockingham, North Carolina. Cale Yarborough was the winner of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091124-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 NASCAR Grand National Series, Races, Tidewater 300\nThe 1970 Tidewater 300 was the final NASCAR race held during its Grand National era. Held at the Langley Field Speedway in Hampton, Virginia (.395 mile paved oval track), the race was decided in a time of one hour and forty minutes with Bobby Allison as the race winner. There were 2 cautions (for 10 laps) and 3,200 people attended this race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091125-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 NBA All-Star Game\nThe 1970 NBA All-Star Game was played at the Spectrum in Philadelphia, on January 20, 1970. Bob Rule was the replacement for the injured Nate Thurmond of the San Francisco Warriors. The MVP was Willis Reed. The coaches were Red Holzman (East), Richie Guerin (West). The game was broadcast by ABC, with Chris Schenkel and Jack Twyman commentating.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091126-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 NBA Finals\nThe 1970 NBA World Championship Series was the championship series of the 1970 NBA Playoffs, which concluded the 1969\u201370 National Basketball Association (NBA) season. The Eastern Division champion New York Knicks defeated the Western Division champion Los Angeles Lakers in a best-of-seven series 4 games to 3 for their first NBA title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091126-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 NBA Finals\nThe Knicks appeared to have a see-saw Game 3 won when Dave DeBusschere made a shot with three seconds left to give New York a 102-100 edge, and the Lakers were stuck with no time outs. L.A. inbounded to Mr. Clutch, Jerry West, who launched and made a miracle shot from beyond midcourt. It counted only for two points, as only the ABA had a three-point shot at the time, so the game went to overtime, and the Knicks were able to win, 111-108.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091126-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 NBA Finals\nThe final game of the series was named by ESPN in 2010 as the greatest Game 7 in finals history, featuring a return from injury for Willis Reed. Reed's most famous performance took place on May 8, 1970 in Game 7 played at Madison Square Garden. Due to a severe thigh injury suffered in Game 5, a torn muscle that kept him out of Game 6, he was considered unlikely to play in Game 7. Yet Reed surprised the fans by walking onto the court during warmups, prompting widespread applause.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091126-0002-0001", "contents": "1970 NBA Finals\nStarting the game, he scored the Knicks' first two field goals on his first two shot attempts, his only points of the game. He then played defense on Wilt Chamberlain, limiting him to two shots made in nine attempts. When Reed left for good with 3:05 left in the first half, the Knicks led 61-37. Walt \"Clyde\" Frazier took it from there, finishing with 36 points and 19 assists as the Knicks won the championship, 113-99. Following the game in the winner's locker room, a moved Howard Cosell told Reed on national television, \"You exemplify the very best that the human spirit can offer.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091126-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 NBA Finals, Television\nThe 1970 NBA Finals were the first to be nationally televised in full, with ABC providing the coverage. Chris Schenkel was the play-by-play man, with Jack Twyman serving as the color analyst.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091126-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 NBA Finals, Television\nHowever, the Knicks' victory in Game 7 was not seen live on broadcast TV in New York; ABC's coverage was blacked out on WABC-TV, causing a raft of angry fans to deluge the WABC switchboard. Schenkel made an announcement during the broadcast that the game would be aired in New York at 11:30 p.m. that night. The game was shown live on the premium-channel MSG Network in New York City, which was then only available in about 25,000 cable households in Manhattan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091127-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 NBA draft\nThe 1970 NBA draft was the 24th annual draft of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The draft was held on March 23, 1970, before the 1970\u201371 season. In this draft, 17 NBA teams took turns selecting amateur U.S. college basketball players and other eligible players, including international players. A player who had finished his four-year college eligibility was eligible for selection. If a player left college early, he would not be eligible for selection until his college class graduated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091127-0000-0001", "contents": "1970 NBA draft\nThe first two picks in the draft belonged to the teams that finished last in each division, with the order determined by a coin flip. The Detroit Pistons won the coin flip and were awarded the first overall pick, while the San Diego Rockets were awarded the second pick. The remaining first-round picks and the subsequent rounds were assigned to teams in reverse order of their win\u2013loss record in the previous season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091127-0000-0002", "contents": "1970 NBA draft\nThree expansion franchises, the Buffalo Braves, the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Portland Trail Blazers, took part in the NBA Draft for the first time and were assigned the seventh, the eighth and the ninth pick in each round. In the first round, the Cavaliers had the seventh pick, while the Blazers and the Braves had the eighth and the ninth pick respectively. In the subsequent rounds, the Cavaliers and the Braves exchanged their order of selection, while the Blazers had the eighth pick throughout the draft. The draft consisted of 19 rounds comprising the selection of 239 players; it holds the record for the most prospects selected in any NBA draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 672]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091127-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 NBA draft, Draft selections and draftee career notes\nBob Lanier from St. Bonaventure University was selected first overall by the Detroit Pistons. Rudy Tomjanovich from the University of Michigan and Pete Maravich from Louisiana State University were selected second and third respectively. Fourth pick Dave Cowens from Florida State University and eighth pick Geoff Petrie from Princeton University went on to be named as joint winners of the Rookie of the Year Award in their first season. Six players from this draft, Lanier, Maravich, Cowens, 18th pick Calvin Murphy, 19th pick Nate Archibald and 122nd pick Dan Issel, have been inducted to the Basketball Hall of Fame.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 57], "content_span": [58, 678]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091127-0001-0001", "contents": "1970 NBA draft, Draft selections and draftee career notes\nMaravich, Cowens and Archibald were also named to the list of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History announced at the league's 50th anniversary in 1996. Maravich had four All-NBA Team selections and five All-Star Game selections. Cowens won two NBA championships with the Boston Celtics in 1974 and 1976, one Most Valuable Player Award in 1973, and had three All-NBA Team selections and seven All-Star Game selections. Archibald won one NBA championship with the Celtics in 1981 and had five All-NBA Team selections and six All-Star Game selections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 57], "content_span": [58, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091127-0001-0002", "contents": "1970 NBA draft, Draft selections and draftee career notes\nLanier and Murphy were selected to eight and one All-Star Games respectively. Dan Issel initially opted to play in the American Basketball Association (ABA) with the Kentucky Colonels. He played six seasons in the ABA before finally joining the NBA with the Denver Nuggets when both leagues merged. He was selected to five All-ABA Teams, six ABA All-Star Games and one NBA All-Star Game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 57], "content_span": [58, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091127-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 NBA draft, Draft selections and draftee career notes\nRandy Smith, who was selected by the Detroit Pistons with the 205th pick, did not enter the league until the 1971\u201372 season, after he was drafted again in the 1971 Draft by the Buffalo Braves with the 104th pick. He was selected to both the All-NBA Team and the All-Star Game. Tomjanovich was selected to five All-Star Games during his career. Charlie Scott, the 106th pick, initially opted to play in the ABA with the Virginia Squires before joining the NBA in 1972. He was selected to two All-ABA Teams, two ABA All-Star Games and three NBA All-Star Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 57], "content_span": [58, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091127-0002-0001", "contents": "1970 NBA draft, Draft selections and draftee career notes\nThree other players from this draft, fifth pick Sam Lacey, seventh pick John Johnson and eighth pick Geoff Petrie, was also selected to at least one All-Star Game. The Rockets' first and second round picks, Tomjanovich and Murphy spent all of their playing career with the Rockets. Tomjanovich played 11 seasons while Murphy played 13 seasons with the Rockets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 57], "content_span": [58, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091127-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 NBA draft, Draft selections and draftee career notes\nLanier, Tomjanovich, Cowens and Issel all became head coaches after ending their playing career. Lanier was the interim head coach of the Golden State Warriors in the 1995. Tomjanovich coached two NBA teams, the Houston Rockets and the Los Angeles Lakers. He coached the Rockets for 12 seasons, leading them to the NBA championship twice in 1994 and 1995. He also coached the United States national basketball team to a gold medal at the 2000 Olympic Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 57], "content_span": [58, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091127-0003-0001", "contents": "1970 NBA draft, Draft selections and draftee career notes\nCowens started his coaching career as a player-coach with the Celtics during the 1978\u201379 season, before returning to a full-time player in the next season. He later coached two more NBA teams, most recently with the Golden State Warriors. Issel coached the Denver Nuggets for six seasons in two separate three-year stints. Two other players drafted also went on to have coaching careers in the NBA: 40th pick Gar Heard and 125th pick George Irvine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 57], "content_span": [58, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091127-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 NBA draft, Draft selections and draftee career notes\nThe 1970 draft class is considered to be one of the best in NBA history as it produced six Hall of Famers and twelve All-Stars from those draftees who played in the NBA. Three of the first four picks were inducted to the Hall of Fame and seven of the first eight picks became All-Stars. The 1970 Draft is also known as the first draft where international players who had never played U.S. high school and college basketball were selected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 57], "content_span": [58, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091127-0004-0001", "contents": "1970 NBA draft, Draft selections and draftee career notes\nIn the 10th and 11th round, the Atlanta Hawks drafted Mexican Manuel Raga and Italian Dino Meneghin; both were playing in the Italian league at the time. They became the first two international players drafted to the NBA. However, neither of them ever played in the league as the Hawks did not have US$35,000 to buy out either of their contracts with their teams. Meneghin, who played 28 seasons in Italy, has been inducted by the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) to the FIBA Hall of Fame and also to the Basketball Hall of Fame. Raga has also been inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 57], "content_span": [58, 653]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091127-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 NBA draft, Other picks\nThe following list includes other draft picks who have appeared in at least one NBA game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091128-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 NBA expansion draft\nThe 1970 NBA Expansion Draft was the fifth expansion draft of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The draft was held on May 11, 1970, so that the newly founded Buffalo Braves, Cleveland Cavaliers and Portland Trail Blazers could acquire players for the upcoming 1970\u201371 season. Buffalo, Cleveland and Portland had been awarded the expansion teams on February 6, 1970. The Braves later underwent several name changes and relocations before moving to San Diego in 1978, and to Los Angeles in 1984. They are currently known as the Los Angeles Clippers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 581]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091128-0000-0001", "contents": "1970 NBA expansion draft\nIn an NBA expansion draft, new NBA teams are allowed to acquire players from the previously established teams in the league. Not all players on a given team are available during an expansion draft, since each team can protect a certain number of players from being selected. In this draft, each of the fourteen other NBA teams had protected seven players from their roster. After each round, where each of the expansion teams had selected one player each, the existing teams added another player to their protected list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091128-0000-0002", "contents": "1970 NBA expansion draft\nIn the first round, the Braves had the first pick, while the Blazers and the Cavaliers had the second and the third pick respectively. In the subsequent rounds, the Braves and the Cavaliers exchanged their order of selection, while the Blazers had the second pick throughout the draft. The draft continued until all three teams had selected eleven unprotected players each, while the existing teams had lost two or three players each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091128-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 NBA expansion draft\nThe Buffalo Braves were formed and owned by local businessman Paul Snyder. He hired former Philadelphia 76ers head coach and 1966 Coach of the Year Dolph Schayes as the franchise's first head coach. The Braves' selections included six-time All-Star Bailey Howell. However, Howell was immediately traded to the Philadelphia 76ers in exchange for Bob Kauffman and a future second-round pick. Nine players from the expansion draft joined the Braves for their inaugural season, but only three played more than one season for the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091128-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 NBA expansion draft\nThe Cleveland Cavaliers were formed and owned by businessman Nick Mileti. He hired former college basketball coach Bill Fitch as the franchise's first head coach. The Cavaliers' selections included five-time All-Star Don Ohl and one-time All-Star Len Chappell. However, Ohl retired from playing prior to the start of the season and Chappell only played briefly before he was waived. Eight players from the expansion draft joined the Cavaliers for their inaugural season, but only four played more than one season for the team. Butch Beard was the ninth player from the expansion draft to play for the Cavaliers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091128-0002-0001", "contents": "1970 NBA expansion draft\nAfter one year serving in the military, he started playing with the Cavaliers in the 1971\u201372 season. Bingo Smith played nine and a half seasons with the Cavaliers before he was traded to the San Diego Clippers in 1979. He became the Cavaliers' franchise leader in games played when he left, a record which has since been broken by Danny Ferry and \u017dydr\u016bnas Ilgauskas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091128-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 NBA expansion draft\nThe Portland Trail Blazers were formed by Harry Glickman, who created the franchise through the financers turned co-owners Larry Weinberg, Herman Sarkowsky and Robert Shmertz. They hired former college basketball coach Rolland Todd as the franchise's first head coach. The Blazers' selections included former first overall pick Fred Hetzel and former third pick Larry Siegfried. However, Hetzel was waived without playing a game for the Blazers and Siegfried was immediately traded to the San Diego Rockets in exchange for Jim Barnett. Six players from the expansion draft joined the Blazers for their inaugural season, but only three played more than one season for the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 701]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091129-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 NBA playoffs\nThe 1970 NBA playoffs was the postseason tournament of the National Basketball Association's 1969\u201370 season. The tournament concluded with the Eastern Division champion New York Knicks defeating the Western Division champion Los Angeles Lakers 4 games to 3 in the NBA Finals. Willis Reed was named NBA Finals MVP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091129-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 NBA playoffs\nIt was the first NBA title for the Knicks in franchise history, and was their first appearance in the finals since losing their third straight finals in 1953 to the Lakers while they were still in Minneapolis, Minnesota.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091129-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 NBA playoffs\nFor the Lakers, it was their third straight Western Division title and second straight year they lost in Game 7 of the NBA finals. The Lakers dropped their eighth straight NBA finals series (the previous 7 to the Boston Celtics) and were denied their first NBA title since 1954.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091129-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 NBA playoffs\nIt was also the playoff debut of both the second-year Milwaukee Bucks and Phoenix Suns, with the former managing a first-round defeat of the Philadelphia 76ers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091129-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 NBA playoffs\nBoston missed the playoffs for the first time since 1951, despite being the defending champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091129-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 NBA playoffs, Bracket\nBold Series winnerItalic Team with home-court advantage in NBA Finals", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 26], "content_span": [27, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091129-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 NBA playoffs, Division Semifinals, Eastern Division Semifinals, (1) New York Knicks vs. (3) Baltimore Bullets\nThis was the second playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Knicks winning the first meeting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 114], "content_span": [115, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091129-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 NBA playoffs, Division Semifinals, Eastern Division Semifinals, (2) Milwaukee Bucks vs. (4) Philadelphia 76ers\nThis was the first playoff meeting between these two teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 115], "content_span": [116, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091129-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 NBA playoffs, Division Semifinals, Western Division Semifinals, (1) Atlanta Hawks vs. (3) Chicago Bulls\nThis was the second playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Hawks winning the first meeting while based in St. Louis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 108], "content_span": [109, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091129-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 NBA playoffs, Division Semifinals, Western Division Semifinals, (2) Los Angeles Lakers vs. (4) Phoenix Suns\nThis was the first playoff meeting between these two teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 112], "content_span": [113, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091129-0010-0000", "contents": "1970 NBA playoffs, Division Finals, Eastern Division Finals, (1) New York Knicks vs. (2) Milwaukee Bucks\nThis was the first playoff meeting between these two teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 104], "content_span": [105, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091129-0011-0000", "contents": "1970 NBA playoffs, Division Finals, Western Division Finals, (1) Atlanta Hawks vs. (2) Los Angeles Lakers\nThis was the 10th playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Hawks winning five of the first nine meetings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 105], "content_span": [106, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091129-0012-0000", "contents": "1970 NBA playoffs, NBA Finals: (E1) New York Knicks vs. (W2) Los Angeles Lakers\nThis was the third playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Lakers winning the first two meetings while based in Minneapolis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 79], "content_span": [80, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091130-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 NC State Wolfpack football team\nThe 1970 NC State Wolfpack football team represented North Carolina State University during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. The Wolfpack were led by head coach Earle Edwards, in his 17th and final year with the team, and played their home games at Carter Stadium in Raleigh, North Carolina. They competed as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference, finishing in fifth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091130-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 NC State Wolfpack football team\nEdwards retired at the end of the season, finishing with the Wolfpack's longest tenure and most wins as coach, records which still stand today. He had a record of 77\u201388\u20138 at NC State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091131-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA College Division Baseball Tournament\nThe 1970 NCAA College Division Baseball Tournament decided the champion of baseball at the NCAA College Division level for the 1970 season. This was the third such tournament for the College Division, having separated from the University Division in 1957. The Valley State Matadors (now Cal State Northridge) won the championship by defeating the Nicholls State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091131-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA College Division Baseball Tournament, Format\nFourteen teams were selected to participate, divided into four regions. Three regions consisted of four teams, while the Midwest Region had two. Each region completed a double-elimination round, with the winners advancing to the finals. The finals, made up of the four regional champions, also competed in a double-elimination format.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 54], "content_span": [55, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091132-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA College Division Basketball Tournament\nThe 1970 NCAA College Division Basketball Tournament involved 32 schools playing in a single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA\u00a0College Division college basketball as a culmination of the 1969-70 NCAA College Division men's basketball season. It was won by the Philadelphia College of Textiles & Science (then-known colloquially as \"Philadelphia Textile\", later known as Philadelphia University, and now as Thomas Jefferson University) and Tennessee State's Ted McClain was the Most Outstanding Player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091132-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA College Division Basketball Tournament\nAmerican International College's tournament appearance was later vacated due to NCAA rules violations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091133-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA College Division football rankings\nThe 1970 NCAA College Division football rankings are from the United Press International poll of College Division head coaches and from the Associated Press poll of sportswriters and broadcasters. The 1970 NCAA College Division football season was the 13th year UPI published a Coaches Poll in what was termed the \"Small College\" division. It was the eleventh year for the AP version of the Small College poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091134-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA College Division football season\nThe 1970 NCAA College Division football season was the 15th season of college football in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association at the NCAA College Division level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091134-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA College Division football season, Rankings\nCollege Division teams (also referred to as \"small college\") were ranked in polls by the AP (a panel of writers) and by UPI (coaches). The national champion(s) for each season were determined by the final poll rankings, published at or near the end of the regular season, before any bowl games were played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091134-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA College Division football season, Rankings, College Division final polls\nIn 1970, both UPI and AP ranked Arkansas State (10\u20130) number one. The 34 coaches on the UPI board ranked Tampa second, followed by Montana, while the AP panel ranked Montana second, followed by North Dakota State. Arkansas State went on to beat Central Missouri State in the Pecan Bowl, 38\u201321, while Montana lost to North Dakota State in the Camellia Bowl, 31\u201316.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 82], "content_span": [83, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091134-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA College Division football season, Bowl games\nThe postseason consisted of four bowl games as regional finals, all played on December 12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091134-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA College Division football season, Bowl games\nThis was the final year for the Pecan Bowl; it was succeeded by the Pioneer Bowl in Wichita Falls in 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091135-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships\nThe 1970 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships were contested March 13\u221214, 1970 at Cobo Arena in Detroit, Michigan at the sixth annual NCAA-sanctioned track meet to determine the individual and team national champions of men's collegiate indoor track and field events in the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091135-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships\nKansas topped the team standings, finishing only 1.5 points ahead of Villanova; it was the Jayhawks' second consecutive and third overall indoor team title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091135-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships\nKansas University's victory over Villanova was dominated by their three weight men, Karl Salb, Steve Wilhelm and Doug Knop, who placed one-two-three in the 16-pound shot put with all three athletes breaking 60 feet. This was the second year in a row that the same athletic trio placed one-two-three at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091135-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships\nIn addition, the Kansas 2-mile relay team consisting of (in order of their relay position) Dennis Stewart, Jim Neihouse, Roger Kathol, and Brian McElroy, won first place and beat favored Kansas State by over 10 yards as they set a new indoor world record at 7:25.7. Brian anchored with a great time of under 1:50 on the small 11-laps to the mile track.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091135-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships, Qualification\nUnlike other NCAA-sponsored sports, there were not separate University Division and College Division championships for indoor track and field until 1985. As such, all athletes and teams from University and College Division programs were eligible to compete.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 61], "content_span": [62, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091136-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans\nThe consensus 1970 College Basketball All-American team, as determined by aggregating the results of four major All-American teams. To earn \"consensus\" status, a player must win honors from a majority of the following teams: the Associated Press, the USBWA, The United Press International and the National Association of Basketball Coaches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091136-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans, Academic All-Americans\nOn May 12, 1970, CoSIDA announced the 1970 Academic All-America team. The following is the 1969\u201370 Academic All-America Men's Basketball Team as selected by CoSIDA:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091137-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA Men's Volleyball Tournament\nThe 1970 NCAA Men's Volleyball Tournament was the first annual tournament to determine the national champion of NCAA men's college volleyball. The tournament was played at Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles, California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091137-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA Men's Volleyball Tournament\nUCLA defeated Long Beach State in the championship match (3 sets to 0) to win their first national title. UCLA's Dane Holtzman was named Most Outstanding Player of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091137-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA Men's Volleyball Tournament, Qualification\nUntil the creation of the NCAA Men's Division III Volleyball Championship in 2012, there was only a single national championship for men's volleyball. As such, all NCAA men's volleyball programs (whether from the University Division, or the College Division) were eligible. A total of 4 teams were invited to contest this championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 52], "content_span": [53, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091138-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship\nThe 1970 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship was the second annual NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship to determine the national champion of NCAA men's college water polo. Tournament matches were played at the Belmont Plaza Pool in Long Beach, California during December 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091138-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship\nUC Irvine defeated UCLA in the final, 7\u20136 (in three overtimes), to win their first championship. UCLA was the defending national champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091138-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship\nFor the second consecutive year, the leading scorer for the tournament was Ben Gage from UC Santa Barbara (17 goals). The awards for All-Tournament Team and Most Outstanding Player were not given out until 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091138-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship, Qualification\nSince there has only ever been one single national championship for water polo, all NCAA men's water polo programs (whether from Division I, Division II, or Division III) were eligible. A total of 8 teams were invited to contest this championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 54], "content_span": [55, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091139-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA Skiing Championships\nThe 1970 NCAA Skiing Championships were contested at the Cannon Mountain Ski Area in Franconia, New Hampshire, at the seventeenth annual NCAA-sanctioned ski tournament to determine the individual and team national champions of men's collegiate alpine, cross country skiing, and ski jumping in the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091139-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA Skiing Championships\nDenver, coached by Willy Schaeffler, captured their thirteenth national championship and ninth in ten years. Denver finished 7.8 points ahead of runners-up Dartmouth in the team standings, the second straight year the Pioneers bested the Big Green.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091139-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA Skiing Championships, Venue\nThis year's NCAA skiing championships were held March 4\u20137 in New Hampshire at Cannon Mountain Ski Area near Franconia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 37], "content_span": [38, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091139-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA Skiing Championships, Venue\nThe seventeenth edition, these were the second at Cannon Mountain (1964) and third in New Hampshire (1958). The 1964 championships were scheduled for Dartmouth Skiway, but rain forced the transfer of the alpine events to Cannon Mountain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 37], "content_span": [38, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091140-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA Soccer Tournament\nThe 1970 NCAA Men's Soccer Tournament was the twelfth organized men's college soccer tournament by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, to determine the top college soccer team in the United States. The Saint Louis Billikens won their eighth national title, and second title in a row, by defeating the UCLA Bruins in the championship game, 1\u20130. The final match was played on December 5, 1970, in Edwardsville, Illinois.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091141-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA University Division Baseball Tournament\nThe 1970 NCAA University Division Baseball Tournament was played at the end of the 1970 NCAA University Division baseball season to determine the national champion of college baseball. The tournament concluded with eight teams competing in the College World Series, a double-elimination tournament in its twenty-fourth year. Eight regional districts sent representatives to the College World Series with preliminary rounds within each district serving to determine each representative. These events would later become known as regionals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091141-0000-0001", "contents": "1970 NCAA University Division Baseball Tournament\nEach district had its own format for selecting teams, resulting in 26 teams participating in the tournament at the conclusion of their regular season, and in some cases, after a conference tournament. The twenty-fourth tournament's champion was the Southern California, coached by Rod Dedeaux. The Most Outstanding Player was Gene Ammann of Florida State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091141-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA University Division Baseball Tournament, Tournament\nThe opening rounds of the tournament were played across eight district sites across the country, each consisting of between two and four teams. The winners of each District advanced to the College World Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 61], "content_span": [62, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091142-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA University Division Basketball Tournament\nThe 1970 NCAA University Division Basketball Tournament involved 25 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on March 7, 1970, and ended with the championship game on March 21 in College Park, Maryland. A total of 29 games were played, including a third place game in each region and a national third place game. This tournament was notable for the number of small schools that reached the Sweet 16, Elite 8, Final 4, and Championship Game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091142-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA University Division Basketball Tournament\nUCLA, coached by John Wooden, won the national title with an 80\u201369 victory in the final game over Jacksonville, coached by Joe Williams. Sidney Wicks of UCLA was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091142-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA University Division Basketball Tournament, Schedule and venues\nThe following are the sites that were selected to host each round of the 1970 tournament:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 72], "content_span": [73, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091142-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA University Division Basketball Tournament, Schedule and venues\nRegional Semifinals, 3rd Place Games, and Finals (Sweet Sixteen and Elite Eight)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 72], "content_span": [73, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091142-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA University Division Basketball Tournament, Schedule and venues\nNational Semifinals, 3rd Place Game, and Championship (Final Four and Championship)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 72], "content_span": [73, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091142-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA University Division Basketball Tournament, Schedule and venues\nFor the second time in five years, Cole Field House and the University of Maryland, College Park were the hosts of the Final Four. Like the previous time Cole was the Final Four site, all the venues used in the tournament were on-campus venues. To date, this is the last time that this has been the case. The tournament, which featured three East sub-regional sites for the first time, saw four venues used for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 72], "content_span": [73, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091142-0005-0001", "contents": "1970 NCAA University Division Basketball Tournament, Schedule and venues\nIn the East Regional, the tournament came to the state of South Carolina for the first time, with games played in Columbia at the Carolina Coliseum, home of the South Carolina Gamecocks. The East sub-regional had two new sites to go with the Palestra: Alumni Hall, on the campus of St. John's University, and Jadwin Gymnasium on the campus of Princeton University. Jadwin is the only Ivy League venue other than the Palestra to ever host a tournament game. And in the Mideast sub-regional, the University of Dayton Arena hosted games for the first time, starting its tenure as the most-used venue in tournament history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 72], "content_span": [73, 693]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091142-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA University Division Basketball Tournament, Schedule and venues\nThis would be the last tournament to host five of the arenas: Carolina Coliseum, Daniel-Meyer Coliseum, Hec Edmundson Pavilion, St. John Arena and Smith Fieldhouse. The Columbia market would not hold another tournament for 49 years, when its replacement, the Colonial Life Arena, which opened in 2002, hosted the 2019 tournament. While the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex continued to host games, the tournament is not scheduled to return to Fort Worth itself until 2022 when the new Dickies Arena opens. Seattle has continued to host games, first at the Kingdome and later at KeyArena. The tournament returned to Columbus in 2004 at the Nationwide Arena, and returned in 1972 to Provo and the Smith Fieldhouse's replacement, the Marriott Center.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 72], "content_span": [73, 815]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091143-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA University Division Cross Country Championships\nThe 1970 NCAA University Division Men's Cross Country Championships were the 32nd annual cross country meet to determine the team and individual national champions of men's collegiate cross country running in the United States. Held on November 23, 1970, the meet was hosted by the College of William & Mary on the grounds of the Eastern State Hospital in Williamsburg, Virginia. The distance for this race was 6 miles (9.7 kilometers).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091143-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA University Division Cross Country Championships\nAll NCAA University Division members were eligible to qualify for the meet. In total, 39 teams and 307 individual runners contested this championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091143-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA University Division Cross Country Championships\nThe team national championship was again won by the Villanova Wildcats, their fourth title. The individual championship was won by Steve Prefontaine, from Oregon, with a time of 28:00.02. Prefontaine's time broke the event distance record, set the previous year by Gerry Lindgren. With the distance for the NCAA championships changing to 10,000 meters in 1976, his distance record would remain unbroken.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091144-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA University Division Golf Championship\nThe 1970 NCAA University Division Golf Championship was the 32nd annual NCAA-sanctioned golf tournament to determine the individual and team national champions of men's collegiate golf in the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091144-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA University Division Golf Championship\nThe tournament was held at the Ohio State University Golf Club in Columbus, Ohio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091144-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA University Division Golf Championship\nDefending champions Houston won the team title, the Cougars' twelfth NCAA team national title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091145-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA University Division Men's Ice Hockey Tournament\nThe 1970 NCAA Men's University Division Ice Hockey Tournament was the culmination of the 1969\u201370 NCAA University Division men's ice hockey season, the 23rd such tournament in NCAA history. It was held between March 19 and 21, 1970, and concluded with Cornell defeating Clarkson 6-4. All games were played at the Olympic Arena in Lake Placid, New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091145-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA University Division Men's Ice Hockey Tournament\nAs of 2021 the 1970 Cornell team is the only undefeated NCAA champion in University Division / Division I history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091145-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA University Division Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Qualifying teams\nFour teams qualified for the tournament, two each from the eastern and western regions. The ECAC tournament champion and the two WCHA tournament co-champions received automatic bids into the tournament. An at-large bid was offered to a second eastern team based upon both their ECAC tournament finish as well as their regular season record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 75], "content_span": [76, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091145-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA University Division Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format\nThe ECAC champion was seeded as the top eastern team while the WCHA co-champion with the better regular season record was given the top western seed. The second eastern seed was slotted to play the top western seed and vice versa. All games were played at the Olympic Arena. All matches were Single-game eliminations with the semifinal winners advancing to the national championship game and the losers playing in a consolation game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 65], "content_span": [66, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091146-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA University Division Outdoor Track and Field Championships\nThe 1970 NCAA University Division Outdoor Track and Field Championships were contested June 16\u221218 at the 48th annual NCAA-sanctioned track meet to determine the individual and team national champions of men's collegiate University Division outdoor track and field events in the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [67, 67], "content_span": [68, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091146-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA University Division Outdoor Track and Field Championships\nThis year's outdoor meet was hosted by Drake University at Drake Stadium (the same location as the eponymous Drake Relays) in Des Moines, Iowa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [67, 67], "content_span": [68, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091146-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA University Division Outdoor Track and Field Championships\nBYU, Kansas, and Oregon finished tied atop the team standings, with 35 points each. All three were declared co-champions; it was the Cougars' first title, the Jayhawks' third, and the Ducks' fourth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [67, 67], "content_span": [68, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091147-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA University Division Swimming and Diving Championships\nThe 1970 NCAA University Division Swimming and Diving Championships were contested in March 1970 at the Ute Natatorium at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah at the 47th annual NCAA-sanctioned swim meet to determine the team and individual national champions of University Division men's collegiate swimming and diving in the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091147-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA University Division Swimming and Diving Championships\nIndiana again topped the team standings, the Hoosiers' third overall title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091148-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA University Division Tennis Championships\nThe 1970 NCAA University Division Tennis Championships were the 25th annual tournaments to determine the national champions of NCAA University Division men's singles, doubles, and team collegiate tennis in the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091148-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA University Division Tennis Championships\nUCLA captured the team championship, the Bruins' ninth such title. UCLA finished four points ahead of Rice and Trinity (TX) in the final team standings (26\u201322\u201322).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091148-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA University Division Tennis Championships, Host site\nThis year's tournaments were contested at the Eccles Tennis Center at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 61], "content_span": [62, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091148-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA University Division Tennis Championships, Team scoring\nUntil 1977, the men's team championship was determined by points awarded based on individual performances in the singles and doubles events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 64], "content_span": [65, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091149-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA University Division Wrestling Championships\nThe 1970 NCAA University Division Wrestling Championships were the 40th NCAA University Division Wrestling Championships to be held. Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois hosted the tournament at McGaw Memorial Hall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091149-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA University Division Wrestling Championships\nIowa State was took home the team championship with 99 points and three individual champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091149-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA University Division Wrestling Championships\nLarry Owings of Washington was named the Most Outstanding Wrestler and Dan Gable of Iowa State received the Gorriaran Award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091150-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA University Division baseball rankings\nThe following poll makes up the 1970 NCAA University Division baseball rankings. Collegiate Baseball Newspaper published its first human poll of the top 20 teams in college baseball in 1957, and expanded to rank the top 30 teams in 1961.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091150-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA University Division baseball rankings, Collegiate Baseball\nCurrently, only the final poll from the 1970 season is available.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 68], "content_span": [69, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091151-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA University Division baseball season\nThe 1970 NCAA University Division baseball season, play of college baseball in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) began in the spring of 1970. The season progressed through the regular season and concluded with the 1970 College World Series. The College World Series, held for the twenty fourth time in 1970, consisted of one team from each of eight geographical districts and was held in Omaha, Nebraska at Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium as a double-elimination tournament. Southern California claimed the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 609]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091151-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA University Division baseball season, Conference winners\nThis is a partial list of conference champions from the 1970 season. Each of the eight geographical districts chose, by various methods, the team that would represent them in the NCAA Tournament. 11 teams earned automatic bids by winning their conference championship while 15 teams earned at-large selections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 65], "content_span": [66, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091151-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA University Division baseball season, College World Series\nThe 1970 season marked the twenty fourth NCAA Baseball Tournament, which culminated with the eight team College World Series. The College World Series was held in Omaha, Nebraska. The eight teams played a double-elimination format, with Southern California claiming their sixth championship with a 2\u20131, fifteen inning win over Florida State in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 67], "content_span": [68, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091152-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA University Division football rankings\nTwo human polls comprised the 1970 NCAA University Division football rankings. Unlike most sports, college football's governing body, the NCAA, does not bestow a national championship, instead that title is bestowed by one or more different polling agencies. There are two main weekly polls that begin in the preseason\u2014the AP Poll and the Coaches' Poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091152-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA University Division football rankings, Final Coaches' poll\nThe final UPI Coaches Poll was released prior to the bowl games, in early December. Two coaches on the 35-member board did not submit votes. Texas received 25 of the 33 first place votes; Ohio State received six and Nebraska two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 68], "content_span": [69, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091153-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA University Division football season\nThe 1970 NCAA University Division football season was marked by tragedy, due to two airplane crashes. On October 2, one of the planes carrying the Wichita State football team crashed on the way to a game against Utah State, killing 31 people on board, including 14 players. Then, on November 14, the charter for the Marshall Thundering Herd crashed on the way home from a game against East Carolina, killing all 75 persons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091153-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA University Division football season\nAt season's end, the Nebraska Cornhuskers won the AP national championship after Texas and Ohio State both their lost bowl games on New Year's Day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091153-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA University Division football season\nNo new teams were reclassified in the University Division for the 1971 season. A total of 119 teams competed in the University Division during the 1971 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091153-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA University Division football season\nThis was the first season the NCAA allowed schools to schedule 11 regular season games. Some took advantage by scheduling high-profile intersectional games (Stanford-Arkansas, USC-Alabama, LSU-Notre Dame), but others would not add the 11th game until later in the decade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091153-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA University Division football season\nDuring the 20th century, the NCAA had no playoff for the major college football teams, later known as \"Division I-A.\" The NCAA Football Guide, however, did note an \"unofficial national champion\" based on the top ranked teams in the \"wire service\" (AP and UPI) polls. The \"writers' poll\" by Associated Press (AP) was the most popular, followed by the \"coaches' poll\" by United Press International) (UPI).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091153-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA University Division football season\nUntil 1974, the UPI issued its final poll before the bowls, but beginning in 1968 (also 1965), the AP Trophy was withheld until the postseason was completed. The AP poll in 1970 consisted of the votes of as many as 52 sportswriters, though not all of them voted in every poll. Those who cast votes would give their opinion of the ten best teams. Under a point system of 20 points for first place, 19 for second, etc., the \"overall\" ranking was determined.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091153-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA University Division football season, September\nIn the preseason poll released on September 7, Texas was placed No. 1 with 19 1st place votes. Ohio State and USC followed, with 7 and 6 votes, and Arkansas and Mississippi, each with a vote. USC beat Alabama 42\u201321 at Birmingham, and Arkansas lost to No. 10 Stanford 34\u201328 at Little Rock on September 12. In the poll that followed, Stanford took the place of Arkansas, while the rest of the Top 5 was the same: 1.Texas 2.Ohio State 3.USC 4.Stanford 5.Mississippi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 56], "content_span": [57, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091153-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA University Division football season, September\nSeptember 19: Number 1 Texas won in Austin against California 56\u201315. In Los Angeles, No. 3 USC tied Nebraska 21\u201321. No. 4 Stanford beat San Jose State 34\u20133. No. 5 Mississippi opened with a 47\u201313 win at Memphis State. No. 7 Penn State, which had beaten Navy 55\u20137, reached the Top Five. Poll : 1.Ohio State 2.Texas 3.Stanford 4.Mississippi 5.Penn State", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 56], "content_span": [57, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091153-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA University Division football season, September\nSeptember 26: No. 1 Texas won in Lubbock over Texas Tech, 35\u201313. No. 2 Ohio State opened its season at home in Columbus, beating Texas A&M 56\u201313. No. 3 Stanford (in a battle between Jim Plunkett and Dan Fouts) won at Oregon 33\u201310. No. 4 Mississippi escaped a loss to Kentucky in Jackson, 20\u201317 and fell to 5th. No. 5 Penn State lost at Colorado 41\u201313. No. 7 USC returned to 6th place with a 48\u20130 win at Iowa. No. 6 Notre Dame, which had beaten Purdue 48\u20130, rose to 4th. The new poll was 1.Texas 2.Ohio State 3.Stanford 4.Notre Dame 5.Mississippi 6. USC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 56], "content_span": [57, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091153-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA University Division football season, October\nOctober 3: No. 1 Texas squeaked by UCLA at home 20\u201317 on a touchdown in the last 20 seconds. No. 2 Ohio State beat Duke at home 34\u201310. No. 3 Stanford lost to Purdue 26\u201314. No. 4 Notre Dame beat Michigan State in East Lansing, 29\u20130. No. 4 Mississippi earned a 48\u201323 win in Jackson over Alabama. No. 5 USC beat visiting Oregon State 45\u201313 Poll: 1.Texas 2.Ohio State 3.Notre Dame 4.Mississippi 5.USC", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 54], "content_span": [55, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091153-0010-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA University Division football season, October\nOctober 10: No. 1 Texas defeated Oklahoma in Dallas, 41\u20139. No. 2 Ohio State beat Michigan State in East Lansing, 29\u20130. No. 3 Notre Dame beat Army at home, 51\u201310. No. 4 Mississippi won at Georgia 31\u201321. No. 5 USC lost at Stanford 24\u201314. No. 6 Nebraska, which had tied USC earlier, rose to fifth after its 21\u20137 win over Missouri gave it a 4\u20130\u20131 record. Poll: 1.Texas 2.Ohio State 3.Notre Dame 4.Mississippi 5.Nebraska", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 54], "content_span": [55, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091153-0011-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA University Division football season, October\nOctober 17: No. 1 Texas was idle. No. 2 Ohio State beat Minnesota at home, 28\u20138. No. 3 Notre Dame won at Missouri, 24\u20137. No. 4 Mississippi lost at home in Oxford to Southern Mississippi, 30\u201314. No. 5 Nebraska won at Kansas 41\u201320. No. 6 Michigan, which had beaten Michigan State 34\u201320 at home to reach 5\u20130, got into the top five. Poll: 1.Texas 2.Ohio State 3.Notre Dame 4.Nebraska 5.Michigan", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 54], "content_span": [55, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091153-0012-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA University Division football season, October\nOctober 24: No. 1 Texas defeated Rice 45\u201321 in Houston. No. 2 Ohio State won at Illinois 48\u201329. No. 3 Notre Dame was idle. No. 4 Nebraska beat Oklahoma State 65\u201331. No. 5 Michigan beat Minnesota 39\u201313 at home. Poll: 1.Texas 2.Ohio State 3.Notre Dame 4.Nebraska 5.Michigan", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 54], "content_span": [55, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091153-0013-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA University Division football season, October\nOctober 31: No. 1 Texas beat SMU at home 42\u201315. No. 2 Ohio State beat Northwestern 24\u201310. No. 3 Notre Dame defeated Navy 56\u20137 in Philadelphia. No. 4 Nebraska won at Colorado 29\u201313. No. 5 Michigan won at Wisconsin 29\u201315. Despite reaching 6\u20130, Ohio State dropped to No. 3 . The poll was\u00a0: 1.Texas 2.Notre Dame 3.Ohio State 4.Nebraska 5.Michigan", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 54], "content_span": [55, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091153-0014-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA University Division football season, November\nNovember 7 No. 1 Texas won at Baylor 21\u201314. No. 2 Notre Dame beat Pittsburgh 46\u201314 at home. No. 3 Ohio State won at Wisconsin 24\u20137. No. 4 Nebraska won at Iowa State 54\u201329. No. 5 Michigan beat visiting Illinois 42\u20130. Notre Dame took over the top spot from Texas. Poll: 1.Notre Dame 2.Texas 3.Ohio State 4.Nebraska 5.Michigan", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 55], "content_span": [56, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091153-0015-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA University Division football season, November\nNovember 14 No. 1 Notre Dame survived visiting Georgia Tech, 10\u20137, and lost its top ranking. No. 2 Texas, which won at Texas Christian, 58\u20130, returned to No. 1. No. 3 Ohio State eked out a win at Purdue 10\u20137 . No. 4 Nebraska beat visiting Kansas State 51\u201313, and No. 5 Michigan shut out Iowa 55\u20130. . Poll: 1.Texas 2.Notre Dame 3.Ohio State 4.Nebraska 5.Michigan", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 55], "content_span": [56, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091153-0016-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA University Division football season, November\nNovember 21 As No. 1 Texas prepared for a Thanksgiving Day game, No. 2 Notre Dame won, but just barely, beating visiting LSU 3\u20130. No. 3 Ohio State finished its season with a 20\u20139 win in Columbus over No. 5 Michigan to go to the Rose Bowl. No. 4 Nebraska beat Oklahoma 28\u201321 at home to finish its season unbeaten. Arkansas won at Texas Tech 24\u201310, to reach the Top Five.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 55], "content_span": [56, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091153-0017-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA University Division football season, November\nOn Thanksgiving Day, No. 1 Texas beat Texas A & M at home 52\u201314 to reach 9\u20130\u20130. That Saturday, November 28 No. 2 Notre Dame lost to USC in Los Angeles, 38\u201328, despite over 500 passing yards by quarterback Joe Theismann in a torrential downpour. No. 4 Nebraska and No. 5 Arkansas were idle. No. 7 Tennessee, which had beaten Vanderbilt 24\u20136 in Nashville to finish its season at 9\u20131\u20130, rose to fifth in the poll. LSU defeated Tulane 26\u201314 at New Orleans to keep its hopes of an Orange Bowl berth alive. The Tigers still needed to defeat Ole Miss December 5. The 7\u20134 Green Wave were invited to the Liberty Bowl to play Colorado.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 55], "content_span": [56, 681]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091153-0018-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA University Division football season, December\nDecember 5 No. 1 Texas beat No. 4 Arkansas at Austin, 42\u20137 to close a perfect season at 10\u20130\u20130, running its winning streak to 30 and clinching the UPI national championship for the Longhorns. LSU crushed Ole Miss 61\u201317 at Baton Rouge to clinch the Southeastern Conference championship and rise into the top 5.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 55], "content_span": [56, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091153-0019-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA University Division football season, Bowl games, Major bowls\nIn the Cotton Bowl, No. 6 Notre Dame gained revenge for its narrow defeat to No. 1 Texas in the previous year's Cotton Bowl by upsetting the No. 1 Longhorns, 24\u201311. Notre Dame Head coach Ara Parseghian created a \"wishbone defense\", positioning his linebackers to mirror the Texas running backs and the Irish held the high-powered Texas running game in check.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 70], "content_span": [71, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091153-0020-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA University Division football season, Bowl games, Major bowls\nIn Pasadena, No. 2 Ohio State, the Big Ten champions, were positioned to claim the national championship as they took the field as 10 1/2 point favorites against 8\u20133 No. 12 Stanford of the Pac-8. The Buckeyes overcame a 10\u20130 early deficit to take a 14\u201310 lead on two touchdowns by John Brockington. OSU was still ahead 17\u201313 after three quarters. But Stanford, led by Heisman Trophy winner Jim Plunkett scored two fourth-quarter touchdown to stun Ohio State 27\u201317.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 70], "content_span": [71, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091153-0021-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA University Division football season, Bowl games, Major bowls\nWith the door open, No. 3 Nebraska of the Big 8 seized the opportunity that night in Miami in the Orange Bowl against stubborn No. 5 LSU of the SEC. Down 12\u201310 after three quarters, the Huskers scored a fourth-quarter touchdown and shut down the Tigers to prevail 17\u201312 on the new Poly-Turf and claim the national title. Nebraska took 39 of the 52 first place votes in the final AP Poll, while Notre Dame received eight, Texas three, and Arizona State (11\u20130) two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 70], "content_span": [71, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091153-0022-0000", "contents": "1970 NCAA University Division football season, Awards and honors, Heisman Trophy voting\nThe Heisman Trophy is given to the year's most outstanding player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 87], "content_span": [88, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091154-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 NFL Draft\nThe 1970 National Football League Draft was the 35th National Football League Draft and the first of the league's modern era, following the merger of the National Football League with the American Football League. It was held on January 27\u201328, 1970, at the Belmont Plaza Hotel in New York City, New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091154-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 NFL Draft\nThe first pick of the draft was quarterback Terry Bradshaw from Louisiana Tech University, who was taken by the Pittsburgh Steelers. Bradshaw was one of two future NFL Hall of Fame inductees drafted by the Steelers; the other being Mel Blount from Southern University in Round 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091155-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 NFL season\nThe 1970 NFL season was the 51st regular season of the National Football League, and the first one after the AFL\u2013NFL merger. The season concluded with Super Bowl V when the Baltimore Colts beat the Dallas Cowboys 16\u201313 at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida. The Pro Bowl took place on January 24, 1971, where the NFC beat the AFC 27\u20136 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091155-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 NFL season, Merger between NFL and AFL\nThe merger forced a realignment between the combined league's clubs. During the previous 1969 season, there were 16 NFL teams and 10 AFL teams:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091155-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 NFL season, Merger between NFL and AFL\nThere were more NFL teams than AFL teams, so three teams were transferred to balance the two new conferences at 13 teams each. In May 1969, the Baltimore Colts, Cleveland Browns, and the Pittsburgh Steelers agreed to join all ten AFL teams to form the American Football Conference (AFC). The remaining NFL teams formed the National Football Conference (NFC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091155-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 NFL season, Merger between NFL and AFL\nReplacing the old Eastern and Western conferences (although divisions from those conferences still existed but were renamed to suit the realignment), the new conferences, AFC and NFC, function similar to Major League Baseball's American and National leagues, and each of those two were divided into three divisions: East, Central, and West. The two Eastern divisions had five teams; the other four divisions had four teams each. The realignment discussions for the NFC were so contentious that one final plan, out of five of them, was selected from an envelope in a vase by Commissioner Pete Rozelle's secretary, Thelma Elkjer on January 16, 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 691]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091155-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 NFL season, Merger between NFL and AFL\nThis arrangement would keep most of the pre-merger NFL teams in the NFC and the AFL teams in the AFC. Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and Baltimore were placed in the AFC in order to balance the conferences, while the NFC equalized the competitive strength of its East and West divisions rather than sorting out teams just geographically.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091155-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 NFL season, Merger between NFL and AFL\nDivision alignment in 1970 largely kept traditional rivals in the same division. Plans were also made to add two expansion teams, but this would not take place until 1976, seven years after the merger, when the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Seattle Seahawks joined the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091155-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 NFL season, Merger between NFL and AFL\nThe 26-team league also began to use an eight-team playoff format, four from each conference, that included the three division winners and a wild card team, the second-place team with the best record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 43], "content_span": [44, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091155-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 NFL season, Draft\nThe 1970 NFL Draft was held from January 27 to 28, 1970 at New York City's Belmont Plaza Hotel. With the first pick, the Pittsburgh Steelers selected quarterback Terry Bradshaw from Louisiana Tech University.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 22], "content_span": [23, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091155-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 NFL season, Major rule changes\nThe NFL rules became the standardized rules for the merged league, with two exceptions that were both carried over from the AFL:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091155-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 NFL season, Major rule changes\nAfter experimenting with compromise rules regarding the two-point conversion (then exclusive to the AFL) during the late 1960s preseasons, the NFL decided not to use that feature and use its previous rule only allowing one point for any conversion. The two-point conversion would later be added to the NFL rules in 1994.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091155-0010-0000", "contents": "1970 NFL season, Division races\nStarting in 1970, there were three divisions (Eastern, Central and Western) in each conference. The winners of each division, and a fourth \"wild card\" team based on the best non-division winner, qualified for the playoffs. The tiebreaker rules were changed to start with head-to-head competition, followed by division records, common opponents records, and conference play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091155-0011-0000", "contents": "1970 NFL season, Division races\nThe New York Giants lost their last regular-season game. Had they won that game, they would have tied for first place in the NFC East division and taken the division championship on a tie-breaker; then, the tie-breakers would have simply led to a coin toss between Dallas and Detroit for the NFC wild card. Because of this close call regarding possible use of coin toss, future tie-breakers would be expanded to have more competitive aspects.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091155-0012-0000", "contents": "1970 NFL season, Final standings\nNote: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091155-0013-0000", "contents": "1970 NFL season, Records\nOn November 8, New Orleans Saints placekicker Tom Dempsey kicked a record 63-yard field goal as time expired to win 19\u201317 over the visiting Detroit Lions. It bettered the previous record by seven yards (set seventeen years earlier by Bert Rechichar), and stood for 43 years (tied in 1998, 2011, and 2012) until it was broken in 2013 by Denver Broncos' Matt Prater. His record 64-yard field goal was at elevation in Denver on December 8, at the end of the first half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 24], "content_span": [25, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091155-0014-0000", "contents": "1970 NFL season, Records\nThe Denver Broncos, Detroit Lions, and Los Angeles Rams all started 3\u20130 but lost in Week Four. Only the Lions advanced to the postseason after the 3\u20130 start.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 24], "content_span": [25, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091155-0015-0000", "contents": "1970 NFL season, Stadium changes\nBefore the season, the league had demanded that the Chicago Bears find a new home field: Wrigley Field was too small, as it did not meet the new stadium requirement to seat at least 50,000, and it did not have lights installed (and would not install them until 1988), meaning it was unavailable for late afternoon and night games. The Chicago Cubs baseball team, which shared the stadium with the Bears, did not want to convert it to a football configuration while the Cubs were still in playoff contention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091155-0016-0000", "contents": "1970 NFL season, Stadium changes\nAs a result, the Chicago Bears' first home game of the season against the Philadelphia Eagles was played at Northwestern University's Dyche Stadium. The Bears also treated this game as a trial run for possibly moving their home games to Evanston. Dyche Stadium (since renamed Ryan Field), also did not have lights at the time (nor does it have permanent standards today), was it was still planned to make the Bears' new home. But a deal fell through due to strong opposition from several athletic directors in the Big Ten Conference and residents of Evanston. After negotiations with the Cubs' ownership for continued use of Wrigley Field collapsed, the Bears moved to Soldier Field in 1971 where they remain to the present day, save for a temporary relocation in 2002 to the University of Illinois' Memorial Stadium while Soldier Field was completely renovated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 895]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091155-0017-0000", "contents": "1970 NFL season, Stadium changes\nThe Boston Patriots played in their fourth different facility in 11 seasons, leaving Alumni Stadium at Boston College for Harvard Stadium, the only facility in Massachusetts at that time which met the NFL's 50,000-seat minimum. The struggles to find a home led the Patriots to hastily construct Schaeffer Stadium in Foxborough, which opened in 1971. The Patriots, who were renamed from \"Boston\" to \"New England\" when they moved, continue to play in Foxborough in Gillette Stadium, which opened in 2002.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091155-0018-0000", "contents": "1970 NFL season, Stadium changes\nTwo multi-purpose stadiums made their debut this season: Riverfront Stadium and Three Rivers Stadium, replacing Nippert Stadium and Pitt Stadium as the homes of the Cincinnati Bengals and Pittsburgh Steelers, respectively. 1970 was also the last season in which Franklin Field was the home of the Eagles; they would move to Veterans Stadium, another multi-purpose stadium, for the 1971 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091155-0019-0000", "contents": "1970 NFL season, Stadium changes\nSeven teams played their home games on artificial turf in 1970. This was up from 2 teams in both the NFL and AFL in 1969. The teams were: Cincinnati, Dallas, Miami, Pittsburgh and St. Louis, who joined Houston and Philadelphia, the two teams which played on turf in 1969. Super Bowl V was held at the Orange Bowl in Miami, and was the first Super Bowl played on artificial turf (specifically, Poly-Turf).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091155-0020-0000", "contents": "1970 NFL season, Television changes\nTo televise their games, the combined league retained the services of CBS and NBC, who were previously the primary broadcasters of the NFL and the AFL, respectively. It was then decided that CBS would televise all NFC teams (including playoff games) while NBC all AFC teams. For interconference games, CBS would broadcast them if the visiting team was from the NFC and NBC would carry them when the visitors were from the AFC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091155-0020-0001", "contents": "1970 NFL season, Television changes\nAt the time, all NFL games were blacked out in the home team's market, so this arrangement meant that fans in each team's home market would see all of their team's televised Sunday afternoon games on the same network (CBS for NFC teams and NBC for AFC teams). The two networks also divided up the Super Bowl on a yearly rotation, with the network of the designated visiting conference (NBC for odd-numbered games, CBS for even-numbered game) televising each game through Super Bowl XVIII. From 1970-73, whichever network did not televise the Super Bowl televised the Pro Bowl the next week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091155-0021-0000", "contents": "1970 NFL season, Television changes\nMeanwhile, with the debut of Monday Night Football on ABC September 21, 1970, the league became the first professional sports league in the United States to have a regular series of nationally televised games in prime-time, and the only league ever to have its games televised on all of the then-three major broadcast networks at the same time. Both teams that advanced to the Super Bowl, the Baltimore Colts and the Dallas Cowboys, had suffered humiliating defeats at home on Monday Night Football during the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091156-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 NHL Amateur Draft\nThe 1970 NHL Amateur Draft was the eighth NHL Entry Draft. It was held on June 11, 1970, the day after the 1970 Expansion Draft, at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Quebec.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091156-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 NHL Amateur Draft, Selections by round\nBelow are listed the selections in the 1970 NHL amateur draft. Buffalo was given first choice by a spin of a roulette wheel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 43], "content_span": [44, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091157-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 NHL Expansion Draft\nThe 1970 NHL Expansion Draft was the second expansion draft of the National Hockey League (NHL). The draft was held on June 10, 1970, a day before the 1970 NHL Amateur Draft. The expansion draft was held to allow the Buffalo Sabres and Vancouver Canucks to acquire players for the upcoming 1970\u201371\u00a0season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091157-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 NHL Expansion Draft, Notes, Trades\nThe following trades involving drafted players were made before the start of the 1970\u201371\u00a0season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091158-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 NSWRFL season\nThe 1970 New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership was the 63rd season of Sydney's professional rugby league football competition, Australia's first. Twelve teams, including six foundation clubs and another six admitted post 1908, competed for the J. J. Giltinan Shield during the season which culminated in a grand final match for the WD & HO Wills Cup between the Manly-Warringah and South Sydney clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091158-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 NSWRFL season, Season summary\nFollowing the previous season's \"lay-down\" or \"stop-start\" grand final, rugby league's rules were changed for this season so that rather than stopping the game to call a doctor onto the field when a player goes down injured, the ball is given to a team-mate to play so that no advantage can be gained from feigning injury. Head-high tackles were also outlawed at the commencement of the 1971 season. Each side met all others twice in twenty-two regular season rounds before the top four finishers, Souths, Manly, St. George and Canterbury, fought out four finals for a place in the grand final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091158-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 NSWRFL season, Season summary\nThe 1970 season's Rothmans Medallist was Eastern Suburbs' halfback Kevin Junee. Rugby League Week awarded their player of the year award to Cronulla-Sutherland's halfback Tommy Bishop.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091158-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 NSWRFL season, Season summary, Teams\n36th seasonGround: Belmore Sports Ground Coach: Kevin RyanCaptain: Ron Raper", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 41], "content_span": [42, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091158-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 NSWRFL season, Season summary, Teams\n63rd seasonGround: Sydney Sports GroundCoach: Don Furner Captain: John Brass", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 41], "content_span": [42, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091158-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 NSWRFL season, Season summary, Teams\n63rd seasonGround: Lidcombe Oval Coach: Ron Watson Captain: Roy Ferguson", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 41], "content_span": [42, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091158-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 NSWRFL season, Finals, Grand Final\nHaving lost the previous Grand Final to Balmain, Souths was desperate to win this year. After four minutes the Rabbitohs had scored. Approximately five minutes later Souths captain John Sattler collapsed, having been punched in an off-the-ball incident by Manly forward John Bucknall. He suffered a double fracture to his jaw but pleaded to team mate Mike Cleary, \"Hold me up so they don't know I'm hurt\". He was helped up and continued to play in the game. At half-time Souths was leading 12\u20136 when his teammates learnt about his injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 39], "content_span": [40, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091158-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 NSWRFL season, Finals, Grand Final\nDuring the interval Sattler refused treatment and insisted he continue playing. He also told the side, \"the next bloke who tries to cut me out of the play is in trouble\", to prevent his team mates trying to protect him from further injury. The Souths forward pack returned to the fray and completely dominated the play with its backline hardly called upon. Bucknall had been replaced by Allan Thomson in the 35th minute after a sustained punitive attention from the Rabbitohs pack saw him suffer a shoulder injury in a heavy tackle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 39], "content_span": [40, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091158-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 NSWRFL season, Finals, Grand Final\nSouth Sydney halfback Bob Grant opened the scoring in the fourth minute, crossing untouched while his opposite number Eddie Whiley was off the field having an injury treated. Rabbitohs winger Ray Branighan also crossed untouched six minutes from full-time. By game's end South Sydney had scored three tries to nil in a 23\u201312 victory. Sattler later went to hospital to receive treatment but only after receiving the J. J. Giltinan Shield and making an acceptance speech.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 39], "content_span": [40, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091158-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 NSWRFL season, Finals, Grand Final\nEric Simms' record of four field-goals that day stands as the most ever kicked in a Grand Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 39], "content_span": [40, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091158-0010-0000", "contents": "1970 NSWRFL season, Finals, Grand Final\nSouth Sydney 23 (Tries: Grant 2, R Branighan. Goals: Simms 3. Field Goals: Simms 4)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 39], "content_span": [40, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091159-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 National 500\nThe 1970 National 500 was a NASCAR Grand National Series stock car race that was held on October 11, 1970, at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091159-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 National 500\nThere were 14 winged cars involved in the race; including Lorenzen, Baker, Vandiver, Richard Petty, and Glotzbach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091159-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 National 500, Race report\nOut of the 62 cars that were reported as having been entered on October 9, 1970, only 43 of them were properly recorded by NASCAR officials. Former NASCAR star Curtis Turner had formed an agreement with track president Richard Howard to run the race in a one-off, but he was killed in a plane crash days before the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091159-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 National 500, Race report\nOnly 40 of 43 officially registered drivers qualified for the starting grid. George Eaton and Buck Baker were recorded as sharing the No. 58 vehicle. Drivers that did not qualify were Buck Baker, George Eaton, Raymond Williams and Dick Polling. Cale Yarborough was credited with the last-place finish on lap 10 due to a crash with the wall. Fifty thousand racing fans would see 23 different lead changes and eight cautions for a period of 63 laps. An unusually lengthy race for the early 1970s, the 1970 National 500 lasted a grueling four hours and three minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091159-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 National 500, Race report\nThis race marked Kmart's debut as a NASCAR sponsor as they backed Fred Lorenzen's white #3 Dodge Daytona. The winged Charger would fly high today as Fast Freddie brought it home with a podium finish and led a few laps en route.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091159-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 National 500, Race report\nThe race was held on a dry circuit; with no precipitation recorded around the speedway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091159-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 National 500, Race report\nLeeRoy Yarbrough would defeat Bobby Allison under the yellow flag. This would become Yarbrough's final win in the NASCAR Cup Series. Charlie Glotzbach would qualify for the pole position in this race by driving speeds up to 157.273 miles per hour (253.106\u00a0km/h) during the solo sessions. Other notable drivers at this race were David Pearson, Coo Coo Marlin, Frank Warren, Richard Petty and J.D. McDuffie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091159-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 National 500, Race report\nA lot of the drivers did not finish the race because of crashes on the track. Eleven notable crew chiefs participated in the race; including Herb Nab, Junie Donlavey, Harry Hyde, Dale Inman, Tom Vandiver and Banjo Matthews. The race car drivers still had to commute to the races using the same stock cars that competed in a typical weekend's race through a policy of homologation (and under their own power). This policy was in effect until roughly 1975. By 1980, NASCAR had completely stopped tracking the year model of all the vehicles and most teams did not take stock cars to the track under their own power anymore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 651]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091160-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 National Challenge Cup\nThe 1970 National Challenge Cup was the 57th awarding of the United States Soccer Football Association's annual open soccer championship prize. Teams from the North American Soccer League declined to participate. The Elizabeth S.C. defeated the Los Angeles Croatia in the final game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091161-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 National Invitation Tournament\nThe 1970 National Invitation Tournament was unique in that coach Al McGuire of Marquette University, unhappy with his team's placement, turned down a bid to the NCAA tournament and elected to play in the NIT instead. His Marquette Warriors went on to claim the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091161-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 National Invitation Tournament\nMarquette was ranked 8th and received an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament. The NCAA slotted Marquette into the Midwest regional rather than the closer Mideast regional. McGuire was so displeased about this that Marquette actually turned down the NCAA bid and chose to instead play in the NIT. The NCAA no longer allows a school to turn down a bid to the NCAA tournament in order to play in another postseason tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091161-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 National Invitation Tournament\nThis tournament represented the final college games for LSU great Pete Maravich, the NCAA's all-time leading scorer. Maravich finished his three-year career with 3,667 points, 44.2 per game, records which stand through the 2017-18 season, despite the reinstitution of freshman eligibility and the introduction of the shot clock and 3-point shot. It was LSU's only postseason appearance between 1954 and 1979.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091162-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 National League Championship Series\nThe 1970 National League Championship Series was a match-up between the East Division champion Pittsburgh Pirates and the West Division champion Cincinnati Reds. The Reds swept the Pirates three games to none and went on to lose the World Series to the Baltimore Orioles. The series was the second NLCS.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091162-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 National League Championship Series\nThe series was notable for featuring the first postseason baseball played on artificial turf (which was used in both ballparks, which both also opened at midseason). It was also the first of ten NLCS series between 1970 and 1980 that featured either of the Pennsylvania-based MLB clubs representing the NL East, the Philadelphia Phillies or the Pittsburgh Pirates. The only time neither team appeared in the NLCS during that period was in 1973, when the New York Mets won the NL East.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091162-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 National League Championship Series\nDue to a one-day strike by major league umpires, the series was begun using four minor league umpires, with the regularly assigned crew\u2014including union president Wendelstedt\u2014returning for Games 2 and 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091162-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 1\nCincinnati boasted dual heroes in subduing the Pirates in the opening game. Gary Nolan, an 18-game winner during the regular season, pitched nine shutout innings to edge Dock Ellis. Nolan departed for pinch-hitter Ty Cline in the 10th,inning which turned out to be a stroke of genius by Reds manager Sparky Anderson. Cline socked a triple to lead off the inning. He scored the decisive run on Pete Rose's single, and Lee May doubled to provide two insurance tallies, sealing Ellis' fate. Reliever Clay Carroll protected Nolan's victory by holding Pittsburgh hitless in the 10th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 643]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091162-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 1\nAnother key contributor was second baseman Tommy Helms. With Pirate runners on second and third inning, Dave Cash rifled a shot to Helms' right. Helms' diving stop and quick throw to first prevented two runs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091162-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 2\nThe Reds continued to pound the Pirates in Game\u00a02. Bobby Tolan was a complete mystery to Buc starter Luke Walker. Bobby began his three-hit salvo with a single in the third inning. He stole second base and wound up at third on catcher Manny Sanguill\u00e9n's wild peg into center field. Walker's wild pitch permitted Tolan to score. Bobby delivered his kayo punch in the fifth, belting a home run over the wall in right-center, and capped his big day with a single off relieve Dave Giusti in the eighth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091162-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 2\nLefty Jim Merritt, Cincinnati's lone 20-game winner, was the second-game starter. Arm trouble had kept Merritt on the shelf in the closing weeks of the regular season, but Manager Anderson had precedent going for him in this case. Merritt had beaten the Pirates six times in six starts over the two-year period. He made it seven for seven by lasting \u200b5\u00a01\u20443 innings this time. Carroll relieved Merritt in the sixth, but gave up two hits and had retired only one batter when Anderson signaled for Gullett.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091162-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 2\nThat did it. Gullett shut off the Pirate threat immediately, striking out the side in the seventh and finishing with \u200b3\u00a01\u20443 hitless innings for the save.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091162-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 3\nThe Pirates started the Game\u00a03 scoring by a run in the first inning off Tony Cloninger, who averted disaster three times before Anderson finally yanked him for a pinch-hitter in the fifth with the score 2\u20132. The slugging Reds uncorked their only power show of the playoffs in the first inning, Tony P\u00e9rez and Johnny Bench smacking successive homers off Bob Moose. Pirate starter Moose showed more courage than stuff in the early going. But he hung on and proceeded to halt the Reds until he had two outs in the eighth. Then he walked pinch-hitter Ty Cline and gave up a single to Pete Rose.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 655]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091162-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 3\nWith Tolan coming up, Pirate manager Danny Murtaugh brought in lefty Joe Gibbon. Tolan whacked a single to left. Cline took off from second and sped for the plate. he arrived just a hair ahead of Willie Stargell's peg, and the Reds had a 3\u20132 lead. The Reds had a pitching star in this one, too, young Milt Wilcox, who worked three shutout innings in relief of Cloninger and earned the victory. Wilcox vanished for pinch-hitter Cline in the eighth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091162-0009-0001", "contents": "1970 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 3\nWayne Granger tried to protect the Reds' 3\u20132 lead in the ninth, but was removed with two down and a runner on first. Gullett was Anderson's choice to wrap it up. The teenager wasn't invincible this time, yielding a single to Stargell. But with runners on first and third, Al Oliver swung at Gullett's first pitch and grounded to Helms and the NL pennant belongs to the Reds, their first in nine years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091163-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 National Soccer League season\nThe 1970 National Soccer League season was the forty-seventh season under the National Soccer League (NSL) name. The season began in late April and concluded in early November with the NSL Championship final. The regular season title was clinched by Toronto Croatia by finishing first throughout the regular season. In the playoffs the championship title was won by Hamilton Croatia after defeating Toronto Croatia. The NSL Cup was secured by Toronto First Portuguese after defeating Toronto Hellas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091163-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 National Soccer League season, Overview\nBefore the commencement of the season a dispute emerged between the National Soccer League (NSL) and the Ontario Soccer Association (OSA) over a variety of issues during the OSA's annual meeting. At the meeting the NSL's delegation requested that the league receive more representatives in future OSA meetings, and a percentage in the gate earnings from friendly matches involving touring European teams. All of the NSL's request were denied, and the league was required to recruit match officials from the local Referees Society. The league's circuit become centered around a Montreal\u2013London corridor with the league expanding to the Ottawa region for the first time in its history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 728]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091163-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 National Soccer League season, Overview\nThe Ottawa franchise was given to Ottawa Sons of Italy, who were the 1969 champions of the Ottawa-Rideau Soccer League. Hamilton received further representation with the acceptance of Hamilton Apollos, and Hamilton Croatia. Hamilton Croatia previously competed in the Inter-City Soccer League. The NSL retained their presence in Quebec with Portuguese de Quebec of Montreal replacing Montreal Inter-Italia. Two notable absentees were Toronto Italia and Sudbury Italia as both were given a leave of absence in order settle their financial troubles. Another departing club was Arsenal Portuguese Oakville.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 648]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091163-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 National Soccer League season, Overview\nReports were also circulating of a potential national Canadian championship featuring champions from the NSL, and the Western Canada Soccer League. The NSL began to experience an increase in match attendance since their initial decrease and stagnation in the mid 1960s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091163-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 National Soccer League season, Cup\nThe cup tournament was a separate contest from the rest of the season, in which all fourteen teams took part. The tournament would conclude in a final match for the Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 39], "content_span": [40, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091164-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 National Society of Film Critics Awards\nThe 5th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 10 January 1971, honored the best filmmaking of 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091164-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 National Society of Film Critics Awards\nThe member critics voting for the awards were Hollis Alpert of the Saturday Review, Gary Arnold of The Washington Post, Harold Clurman of The Nation, Jay Cocks of Time, David Denby of The Atlantic, Penelope Gilliatt of The New Yorker, Philip T. Hartung of Commonweal, Pauline Kael of The New Yorker, Stefan Kanfer of Time, Stanley Kauffmann of The New Republic, Arthur Knight of Saturday Review, Robert Kotlowitz of Harper's Magazine, Joseph Morgenstern of Newsweek, Andrew Sarris of The Village Voice, Richard Schickel of Life, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. of Vogue, John Simon of The New Leader, Bruce Williamson of Playboy, and Paul D. Zimmerman of Newsweek.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 704]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091164-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Picture\n2. The Passion of Anna (25 points) 3. The Wild Child (18 points) 4. My Night at Maud's (16 points)5. Five Easy Pieces (10 points)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 67], "content_span": [68, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091164-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Director\n2. Fran\u00e7ois Truffaut \u2013 The Wild Child (20 points) 3. Robert Altman \u2013 M*A*S*H (19 points) 4. Luis Bu\u00f1uel \u2013 Tristana (10 points) 5. Bob Rafelson \u2013 Five Easy Pieces (9 points)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 68], "content_span": [69, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091164-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Actor\n2. George Segal \u2013 Loving, The Owl and the Pussycat, and Where's Poppa? (14 points) 3. Jean-Louis Trintignant \u2013 My Night at Maud's (12 points) 4. Jack Nicholson \u2013 Five Easy Pieces (11 points) 5. Alan Arkin \u2013 Catch-22 (9 points)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 65], "content_span": [66, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091164-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Actress\n2. Fran\u00e7oise Fabian \u2013 My Night at Maud's (20 points) 3. Liv Ullmann \u2013 The Passion of Anna (15 points) 4. Barbra Streisand \u2013 The Owl and the Pussycat (9 points) 5. Carrie Snodgress \u2013 Diary of a Mad Housewife (8 points)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 67], "content_span": [68, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091164-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Supporting Actor\n2. Anthony Perkins \u2013 Catch-22 and WUSA (16 points) 3. Richard Castellano \u2013 Lovers and Other Strangers (11 points) 4. Peter Boyle \u2013 Joe (8 points) 4. Paul Mazursky \u2013 Alex in Wonderland (8 points)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 76], "content_span": [77, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091164-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Supporting Actress\n2. Sally Kellerman \u2013 M*A*S*H (12 points) 3. Eva Marie Saint \u2013 Loving (10 points) 4. Karen Black \u2013 Five Easy Pieces (9 points) 4. Trish Van Devere \u2013 Where's Poppa? (9 points)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 78], "content_span": [79, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091164-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Screenplay\n2. Ingmar Bergman \u2013 The Passion of Anna (17 points) 3. Adrien Joyce [Carole Eastman] \u2013 Five Easy Pieces (15 points) 4. Fran\u00e7ois Truffaut and Jean Gruault \u2013 The Wild Child (13 points) 5. Jorge Sempr\u00fan \u2013 The Confession (10 points)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091164-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Cinematography\nN\u00e9stor Almendros \u2013 The Wild Child and My Night at Maud's (24 points)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 74], "content_span": [75, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091164-0010-0000", "contents": "1970 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Cinematography\n2. Sven Nykvist \u2013 The Passion of Anna and First Love (18 points) 3. Billy Williams \u2013 Women in Love (16 points) 4. Giuseppe Rotunno \u2013 Fellini Satyricon (7 points)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 74], "content_span": [75, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091165-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Navy Midshipmen football team\nThe 1970 Navy Midshipmen football team represented the United States Naval Academy (USNA) as an independent during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. The team was led by second-year head coach Rick Forzano.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091166-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team\nThe 1970 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team represented the University of Nebraska\u2013Lincoln in the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. The team was coached by Bob Devaney and played their home games in Memorial Stadium in Lincoln. The Huskers went 11\u20130\u20131 to win the first of two consecutive national championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091166-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Overview\nThe Huskers started the season at #9 and tied #3 USC in Los Angeles in the second game of the season. After winning their next nine games, including all seven in the Big 8, Nebraska was ranked third in the nation entering the 1971 Orange Bowl against #5 LSU of the SEC. Top-ranked Texas and #2 Ohio State both lost their bowl games earlier in the day and a 17-12 Nebraska victory that night in Miami gave the Huskers their first national title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091166-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Overview\nThrough the 1973 season, the final UPI coaches poll was released in early December, before the bowl games. In 1970 it picked Texas as national champion on December 8, before the Longhorns' 24-11 loss to Notre Dame in the 1971 Cotton Bowl in Dallas on New Year's Day. Notre Dame (10-1) finished second to Nebraska (11-0-1) in the final AP writers poll, released after the bowls in early January.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091166-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Overview\nThe 1970 Cornhuskers championship season was notable for Devaney's rotation of two quarterbacks - Van Brownson and Jerry Tagge - in every game throughout the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091166-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Roster\nAdkins, John #57 (Jr.) DEAnderson, Frosty #89 (So.) SEAnderson, Jim #18 (Jr.) RCBAustin, Al #78 (So.) OTBeran, Mike #62 (So.) OGBlahak, Joe #27 (So.) LCBBomberger, Bill #46 (Sr.) FBBranch, Jim #51 (So.) LBBrownson, Van #12 (Jr.) QBButts, Randy #36 (So.) HBCarstens, Jim #47 (So.) FBCox, Woody #83 (Jr.) SEDecker, John #21 (Sr.) LCBDeyke, Tom #92 (So.) DEDidur, Dale #84 (Sr.) SEDuffy, Joe #52 (So.) MGDumler, Doug #54 (So.) CDutton, John #90 (So.) DTGlover, Rich #79 (So.) DTGoeller, Dave #28 (So.) HBGrenfell, Bob #59 (Sr.) OGHarper, Willie #81 (So.) DEHarvey, Phil #82 (Jr.) TEHauge, Bruce #48 (So.) LBHenderson, Joe #73 (So.) OTHollstein, Gary #29 (Jr.) SHughes, Dennis #63 (So.) OGHughes, Jeff #26 (Jr.) HBHyland, John #58 (So.) DE", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 783]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091166-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Roster\nIngles, Guy #88 (Sr.) SEJacobson, Larry #75 (Jr.) DTJamail, Doug #50 (So.) CJanssen, Bill #55 (Jr.) CJennings, Henry #38 (Jr.) MONJohnson, Carl #71 (Jr.) OTJohnson, Doug #64 (So.) DEJohnson, Monte #37 (So.) DEJones, Bob #15 (So.) QBKinney, Jeff #35 (Jr.) HBKinsel, John #54 (So.) CKosch, Bill #24 (Jr.) SLinder, Max #11 (So.) QBList, Jerry #85 (So.) TELongwell, Brent #91 (So.) PLowe, Rex #83 (Sr.) SEMalone, Dan (Unk) DTMason, Dave #25 (Jr.) MONMcClelland, Tom #16 (Jr.) SMcFarland, Bob #10 (So.) LCBMcGhee, Donnie #70 (Sr.) OTMiller, Jim (Unk) DEMorell, Pat #40 (Jr.) LBMorock, David #43 (Sr.) MONMurtaugh, Jerry #42 (Sr.) LBNewton, Bob #74 (Sr.) OTNewton, Clint #13 (Jr.) RCBNorberg, Bill #32 (So.) HBO'Connell, John #34 (So.) S", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 781]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091166-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Roster\nOlds, Bill #44 (So.) FBOrduna, Joe #31 (Sr.) HBPabis, Bob #66 (So.) MGPeetz, Mike #33 (So.) MONPeriard, Ed #56 (Sr.) MGPitts, John #80 (So.) DEPogge, Bill #17 (So.) DEPowell, Ralph #41 (So.) FBRobinson, Tom #68 (So.) DTRodgers, Johnny #20 (So.) HBRogers, Paul #30 (Sr.) CBRupert, Dick #77 (Jr.) OTSchloff, Merle #69 (So.) DTSchmit, Bob #23 (So.) HBSchneiss, Dan #22 (Sr.) FBSchultz, Kelly #87 (So.) TEStrong, Jon #49 (So.) LBTagge, Jerry #14 (Jr.) QBTerrio, Bob #45 (Jr.) FBVactor, Frank #19 (Sr.) HBWalline, Dave #76 (Sr.) DTWeber, Bruce #61 (Jr.) OGWhite, Daryl #72 (So.) OTWinter, Wally #67 (Sr.) OTWolfe, Bob #86 (So.) TEWortman, Keith #65 (Jr.) OGYanda, Steve #39 (So.) LB", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 725]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091166-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Wake Forest\nWake Forest hit first with a field goal thanks to a Nebraska fumble, but by the half it was the Cornhuskers 28-5. The Demon Deacons would go on to win the ACC title, their last until 2006.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 68], "content_span": [69, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091166-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, USC\nNebraska entered the game as a two-touchdown underdog to a USC squad fresh off a 42-21 whipping of Alabama in Birmingham, but never trailed the Trojans during the course of the game. Each team traded touchdowns, and each team missed opportunities for the win, right up to USC's incomplete 50-yard pass on the last play of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 60], "content_span": [61, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091166-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, USC\nIronically, USC aided Nebraska's national championship push by defeating then-No. 2 Notre Dame 38-28 at Los Angeles in the regular season finale. The Trojans came into the rivalry just 5-4-1, while the Fighting Irish was 9-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 60], "content_span": [61, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091166-0010-0000", "contents": "1970 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Army\nNebraska owned the day, shutting out Army 28-0 in an otherwise unremarkable game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 61], "content_span": [62, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091166-0011-0000", "contents": "1970 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Minnesota\nBob Devaney's record against the Big 10 was extended to 9-0 as the Cornhuskers had little trouble with Minnesota after running ahead 28-10 before the half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091166-0012-0000", "contents": "1970 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Missouri\nNebraska scored only 7 points in the first half, and Missouri matched it before the half. The subsequent defensive battle continued through into the 4th quarter before the Cornhuskers broke away with an additional 14 points, one from a 48-yard punt return touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091166-0013-0000", "contents": "1970 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Kansas\nNebraska was surprised to find themselves behind 10-20 with 10 minutes left in the 1st half, but battled back to take the lead with two more touchdowns before the break, and never let Kansas score again as they cruised to a 41-20 final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 63], "content_span": [64, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091166-0014-0000", "contents": "1970 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma State\nNebraska piled up 65 points, its highest total since 1922, and held Oklahoma State to just 64 ground yards as the Cornhuskers made short work of the Cowboys.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 71], "content_span": [72, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091166-0015-0000", "contents": "1970 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Colorado\nNebraska pulled out in front right away with a 12-0 1st quarter lead, but stubborn Colorado fought back and trailed the Cornhuskers by only 13-15 in the 4th quarter - after missing a 2-point conversion that would have tied the game - before Nebraska decided to stop the uprising with two touchdowns in the last 10 minutes to pull away.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091166-0016-0000", "contents": "1970 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Iowa State\nThe game was not as close as the score indicates, as Iowa State put up two late touchdowns against Nebraska reserves in the 4th quarter after the Cornhuskers had run up a 54-17 lead with 5 minutes remaining to play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 67], "content_span": [68, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091166-0017-0000", "contents": "1970 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Kansas State\nKansas State came to Lincoln with hopes of a Big 8 title opportunity, but they were not prepared for the domination that Nebraska would show them in a convincing defeat. The Wildcats managed only two touchdowns, one of which came with 5 minutes remaining in the 4th against the Nebraska reserves. At one point in the game, the Cornhuskers exploded for 27 points in less than 4 minutes, pushing their lead out to 51-7.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 69], "content_span": [70, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091166-0018-0000", "contents": "1970 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma\nNebraska locked up their first unbeaten regular season since 1965 by coming from behind twice to get the win over stubborn Oklahoma. It wasn't until 7:42 remained in the 4th quarter that Nebraska pulled ahead by a touchdown to settle the final score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091166-0019-0000", "contents": "1970 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Louisiana State\nThird-ranked Nebraska jumped to a 10-0 lead in the first quarter and lead 10-3 at halftime, but #5 LSU fought back to make a game of it, pulling ahead on a field goal at the end of the 3rd quarter to get to 12-10. With over eight minutes remaining, Jerry Tagge jumped over the pile from the 1-yard line for the game's final points, and the Blackshirts held on the rest of the way to preserve the win. Top-ranked Texas and #2 Ohio State both lost their bowl games earlier in the day, which allowed the Huskers to claim their first national championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 72], "content_span": [73, 625]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091166-0020-0000", "contents": "1970 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, 1970 Team Players in the NFL\nThe 1970 Nebraska Cornhuskers seniors selected in the 1971 NFL Draft:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 69], "content_span": [70, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091166-0021-0000", "contents": "1970 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, 1970 Team Players in the NFL\nThe 1970 Nebraska Cornhuskers juniors selected in the following year's 1972 NFL Draft:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 69], "content_span": [70, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091166-0022-0000", "contents": "1970 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, 1970 Team Players in the NFL\nThe 1970 Nebraska Cornhuskers sophomores selected in the 1973 NFL Draft:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 69], "content_span": [70, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091166-0023-0000", "contents": "1970 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, 1970 Team Players in the NFL, NFL and pro players\nThe following 1970 Nebraska players joined a professional team as draftees or free agents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 90], "content_span": [91, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091167-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Nebraska gubernatorial election\nThe 1970 Nebraska gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 1970, and featured businessman James Exon, a Democrat, defeating incumbent Republican Governor Norbert Tiemann.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091168-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Nemzeti Bajnoks\u00e1g I, Play-off matches\nThe teams that finished on the same place played against each other and the results determined their final position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 42], "content_span": [43, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091168-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Nemzeti Bajnoks\u00e1g I, Final standings\nThe final standings of the 1970 Spring Championship, after the play-off matches:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 41], "content_span": [42, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091168-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Nemzeti Bajnoks\u00e1g I, Final standings\nThe winner of each group received 8 points, whilst the remaining teams got 7-1 points according to their standing. These points were added to the final table of 1970-1971 championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 41], "content_span": [42, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091169-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Nevada Wolf Pack football team\nThe 1970 Nevada Wolf Pack football team represented the University of Nevada, Reno during the 1970 NCAA College Division football season. Nevada competed as an independent. The Wolf Pack were led by second-year head coach Jerry Scattini and played their home games at Mackay Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091170-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Nevada gubernatorial election\nThe 1970 Nevada gubernatorial election occurred on November 3, 1970. Incumbent Republican Paul Laxalt did not run for re-election to a second term as Governor of Nevada. Democratic nominee Mike O'Callaghan defeated Republican nominee Ed Fike to succeed him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091171-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 New Brunswick general election\nThe 1970 New Brunswick general election was held on October 26, 1970, to elect 58 members to the 47th New Brunswick Legislative Assembly, the governing house of the province of New Brunswick, Canada. It saw the Liberals defeated, and a new Conservative government take over in the Canadian Province of New Brunswick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091171-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 New Brunswick general election\nLouis Robichaud, the Liberal premier since 1960, called the election early by surprise. Some analysts believed Robichaud was tiring of the job of Premier, and that he had accomplished everything that he had set out to do, such as the Official Languages Act in 1969. With no willing leadership candidates ready to take over at the time, Robichaud called an election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091171-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 New Brunswick general election\nHe had hoped that the Progressive Conservatives, led by new leader Richard Hatfield, would not be ready for a snap election, but Hatfield's platform was released two days before Robichaud's. In fact, the Liberals were forced to write their platform so rapidly that they could not get it in by the publishing deadlines for the local newspapers in which they purchased advertising space, forcing them to run blank pages. That gaffe was the major turning point in the campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091171-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 New Brunswick general election\nMeanwhile, Hatfield grew increasingly confident. He campaigned across the province in a helicopter, and analysts were surprised at the ease in which he communicated in both official languages. Although the Liberals won the popular vote, the Conservatives won a majority of the seats in the provincial legislature.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091171-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 New Brunswick general election\nThis was also the first New Brunswick provincial election contested province-wide by the New Democratic Party. The party had made its first appearance in New Brunswick provincial politics in the 1967 election but ran candidates only in the district of Northumberland. The party fielded candidates in 15 out of 22 districts in the 1970 election, but failed to win any seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091171-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 New Brunswick general election, Further reading\nThis elections in Canada-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091171-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 New Brunswick general election, Further reading\nThis New Brunswick-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091172-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 New Guinea earthquake\nOn October 31 at 17:53 UTC (November 1 at 03:53 AEST) the island of New Guinea was shaken by an earthquake of magnitude 6.9 Mw that particularly affected the city of Madang on the north coast of Papua New Guinea. Causing between five and eighteen fatalities, it triggered landslides that ran down steep hills into poorly reinforced wooden huts. The area that experienced the most powerful intensity extended 20 kilometers (12\u00a0mi) out from the epicenter. Underwater landslides caused minor tsunami over about 100\u00a0km of coast and severed underwater cables in several places.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091172-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 New Guinea earthquake, Tectonic setting\nThe island of New Guinea lies within the complex zone of collision between the Australian Plate and the Pacific Plate. Within this overall setting, the active tectonics of northern Papua New Guinea is dominate by the effects of continuing collision between the Huon\u2013Finisterre island arc terrane with the edge of the Australian continental margin. The overall shortening is concentrated into two zones of thrust faulting, the Ramu\u2013Markham fault zone, which forms the southwestern boundary of the Huon\u2013Finisterre terrane, and the Highlands Thrust Belt, which lies further southwest and deforms the Australian margin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 44], "content_span": [45, 660]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091172-0001-0001", "contents": "1970 New Guinea earthquake, Tectonic setting\nThe hanging wall of the Ramu\u2013Markham thrust system is broken up by a series of strike-slip faults. The orientation of these faults, parallel to the direction of thrusting, suggests that they accommodate distortion of the Huon\u2013Finisterre block. Most of the seismicity in northern Papua New Guinea is associated with the Ramu\u2013Markham fault system, with a smaller number of earthquakes occurring on the strike-slip faults and on the Highlands Thrust Belt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 44], "content_span": [45, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091172-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 New Guinea earthquake, Earthquake\nThe earthquake took place near Madang, approximately 350 miles (563\u00a0km) northwest of Port Moresby. Generally, it was on the northeast coast. The earthquake was the result of strike-slip faulting .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091172-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 New Guinea earthquake, Damage and casualties\nUp to eighteen deaths and twenty injuries occurred. Felt throughout the entire island of New Guinea, it caused extensive damage in the city of Madang, where it killed three people. Several homes buckled and cracks appeared in streets. On the coast of the island, a cable connecting telephone units for Australia and Guam was cut. Initially, officials were worried of a tsunami risk though the earthquake did not produce any. This was due to a dramatic recession of water levels near the epicenter, followed by a rise that at one point measured 3 meters (10\u00a0ft). When a canoe was inverted by this change, three people were killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 679]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091172-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 New Guinea earthquake, Damage and casualties\nIts maximum intensity of VIII (Severe) was restricted to a zone 20 kilometers (12\u00a0mi) from the epicenter (including the epicenter). Up to 70 kilometers (43\u00a0mi) away from the epicenter, damage measuring intensity VII (Very strong) was recorded. Landslides caused most of the deaths (which the Catalog of Tsunamis in the Pacific, 1969\u20131982 lists as 15), which occurred in wooden huts damaged by the shock and crushed by rock. The number of huts damaged totaled more than 800. The city most damaged was Madang. Houses with poor earthquake engineering such as those with weakly reinforced frames performed poorly. Forty-five percent of the city's steel water tanks were beyond repair.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 730]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091173-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 New Hampshire Wildcats football team\nThe 1970 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 1970 NCAA College Division football season. In its third year under head coach Jim Root, the team compiled a 5\u20133 record (3\u20132 against conference opponents) and tied for third place in the Yankee Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091174-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 New Hampshire gubernatorial election\nThe 1970 New Hampshire gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091174-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 New Hampshire gubernatorial election\nIncumbent Republican Governor Walter R. Peterson Jr. defeated Democratic nominee Roger J. Crowley with 45.99% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091175-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 New Mexico Lobos football team\nThe 1970 New Mexico Lobos football team represented the University of New Mexico in the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. In their third season under head coach Rudy Feldman, the Lobos compiled a 7\u20133 record (5\u20131 against WAC opponents), finished second in the WAC, and outscored opponents, 291 to 222.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091175-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 New Mexico Lobos football team\nThe team's statistical leaders included Rocky Long with 649 passing yards, Sam Scarber with 961 rushing yards and 78 points scored, and Tom McBee with 125 receiving yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091176-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 New Mexico State Aggies football team\nThe 1970 New Mexico State Aggies football team was an American football team that represented New Mexico State University as an independent during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. In their third year under head coach Jim Wood, the Aggies compiled a 4\u20136 record and were outscored by a total of 282 to 277. The team played its home games at Memorial Stadium in Las Cruces, New Mexico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091177-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 New Mexico gubernatorial election\nThe 1970 New Mexico gubernatorial election took place on November 3, 1970, in order to elect the Governor of New Mexico. Due to term limits, incumbent Republican David Cargo was ineligible to seek a third term as governor. This election was the first in which the governor was elected for a four-year term. Prior to this, the governor was elected to a two-year term, renewable once.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091177-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 New Mexico gubernatorial election, Democratic primary\nThe Democratic primary was won by state representative Bruce King.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 58], "content_span": [59, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091177-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 New Mexico gubernatorial election, Democratic primary, Campaign\nA major issue in the election was how the University of New Mexico should deal with anti-war protesters. Defenders of the University did so on the grounds of free speech, and opponents argued on the grounds of law and order.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091177-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 New Mexico gubernatorial election, Democratic primary, Campaign\nJack Daniels ran as a moderate liberal candidate, and he became the strongest defender of the University of New Mexico throughout the campaign. King was the other moderate liberal candidate, and he and Daniels agreed on most issues, with them both supporting the University of New Mexico. However, Daniels was more vigorous in his support, constantly advertising and emphasizing that he supported the University's position, while King mostly avoided the issue. On the other hand, Alexander Sceresse attacked the University, calling for law and order. The Democratic primary had above-average turnout, with 54% voting, and King beat Daniels 49%\u201337%, with Sceresse only getting 14% of the vote. Bruce King then went on to become Governor of New Mexico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 819]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091177-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 New Mexico gubernatorial election, Republican primary\nThe Republican primary was won by Mayor of Albuquerque Pete Domenici.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 58], "content_span": [59, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091178-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 New Orleans Saints season\nThe 1970 New Orleans Saints season was the team's fourth as a member of the National Football League. After spending their first three seasons in the NFL's Eastern Conference, the Saints moved in 1970 to the West Division of the new National Football Conference. They failed to improve on their previous season's output of 5\u20139, winning only two games. The team failed to qualify for the playoffs for the fourth consecutive season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091178-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 New Orleans Saints season\nFollowing a 1\u20135\u20131 start, coach Tom Fears was fired by owner John W. Mecom Jr. and replaced by J.D. Roberts, whose first game was a 19\u201317 victory over the Detroit Lions at Tulane Stadium in which Tom Dempsey set an NFL record with a 63-yard field goal on the final play; it broke the record held by Bert Rechichar of the Baltimore Colts by seven yards, set seventeen years earlier. Dempsey's record was tied by three: Jason Elam (Denver Broncos, 1998), Sebastian Janikowski (Oakland Raiders, 2011), and David Akers (San Francisco 49ers, 2012). It was broken by Matt Prater of the Broncos in 2013, at 64 yards at elevation in Colorado.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 664]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091178-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 New Orleans Saints season\nThe victory over the Lions was last of the season for the Saints, but both victories came over teams in the thick of the NFC playoff race. The other, a 14\u201310 triumph over the New York Giants in week three, cost the Giants the NFC East division championship. The Lions qualified for the playoffs as the wild card from the NFC, but were nearly forced into a coin toss with the Dallas Cowboys, a situation which was only averted when the Giants lost their season finale to the Los Angeles Rams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091178-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 New Orleans Saints season, Standings\nNote: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091178-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 New Orleans Saints season, Quotes\nAl Wester of WWL Radio describes Tom Dempsey's 63-yard field goal against the Detroit Lions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091178-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 New Orleans Saints season, Quotes\nHere\u2019s the snap. The ball is down. Dempsey's kick is on the way. And...it is good! It\u2019s good! It\u2019s good! The Saints have won! The Saints have won! The stadium is wild. Dempsey is being mobbed. The time has run out, and the Saints have won, 19-17! Dempsey with a 63-yard field goal! The longest field goal in the history of the National League!", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091178-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 New Orleans Saints season, Quotes\nHe's trying a 63-yard field goal. Not only will Tom Dempsey if he hits this one--he has a very slight wind at his back--he'll set a National Football League record, in addition to winning the game. (Dempsey kicks) I don't believe this...\"IT'S GOOD! I DON'T BELIEVE IT! THE FIELD GOAL ATTEMPT WAS GOOD FROM 63 YARDS AWAY! It's the incredible! Tulane Stadium has gone wild! A 63-yard field goal!", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091179-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 New South Wales Open\nThe 1970 New South Wales Open, also known by its sponsored name Dunlop Open, was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts at the White City Stadium in Sydney, Australia. The tournament was held from 16 March through 22 March 1970. It was the 78th edition of the event and the second held in the Open era of tennis. The men's event consisted of a singles and doubles competition while the women only played a singles competition. The singles titles were won by Billie Jean King and Rod Laver who were both seeded first. It was Laver's second singles title after 1961 and he won AUS$5,000 first-prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 668]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091179-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 New South Wales Open, Finals, Men's Singles\nRod Laver defeated Ken Rosewall 3\u20136, 6\u20132, 3\u20136, 6\u20132, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091179-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 New South Wales Open, Finals, Men's Doubles\nKen Rosewall / Fred Stolle defeated Bill Bowrey / Roger Taylor 6\u20133, 7\u20135", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091180-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 New Year Honours\nThe New Year Honours 1970 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 in supplements to the London Gazette of 30 December 1969 to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091180-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 New Year Honours\nAt this time honours for Australians were awarded both in the United Kingdom honours, on the advice of the premiers of Australian states, and also in a separate Australia honours list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091180-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 New Year Honours\nThe 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.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091180-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 New Year Honours, United Kingdom and Commonwealth, Royal Victorian Order, Member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO)\nAt this time the two lowest classes of the Royal Victorian Order were \"Member (fourth class)\" and \"Member (fifth class)\", both with post-nominal letters MVO. \"Member (fourth class)\" was renamed \"Lieutenant\" (LVO) from the 1985 New Year Honours onwards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 120], "content_span": [121, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091181-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 New Year Honours (New Zealand)\nThe 1970 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 1969 and the beginning of 1970, and were announced on 1 January 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091181-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 New Year Honours (New Zealand)\nThe recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091182-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 New York City Marathon\nThe 1970 New York City Marathon was the 1st edition of the New York City Marathon and took place in New York City on 13 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091183-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 New York Film Critics Circle Awards\nThe 36th New York Film Critics Circle Awards, honored the best filmmaking of 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091184-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 New York Giants season\nThe 1970 New York Giants season was the franchise's 46th season in the National Football League. This was the first season for the Giants after the AFL\u2013NFL merger, in which ten American Football League teams joined the National Football League. The team was led by second-year head coach Alex Webster. The Giants finished the season 9\u20135 for their first winning season in 7 years (1963), but they missed the playoffs by losing their season finale against the Los Angeles Rams by a score of 31\u20133. The Giants finished second in the NFC East, a game behind the Dallas Cowboys. They were also only one game out of a wild-card playoff spot, won by the Detroit Lions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 688]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091184-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 New York Giants season\nProbably more damaging to the Giants' playoff hopes than the loss to the Rams were two devastating losses to two of the NFL's worst teams:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091184-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 New York Giants season\nThe Saints finished with the NFL's second-worst record at 2\u201311\u20131 (the Giants beat the NFL's worst team of 1970, the 2\u201312 Boston Patriots); the Eagles were barely better at 3\u201310\u20131. The Giants also lost at home to the 6-8 Chicago Bears.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091184-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 New York Giants season\nThis was the closest the Giants came to qualifying for the playoffs in the 1970s. The franchise enjoyed only one other winning season in the decade, going 8\u20136 in 1972. Big Blue did not return to the playoffs until 1981, ending a drought which dated back to the 1963 NFL Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091184-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 New York Giants season, Offense\nThe 1970 Giants offense was led by Pro Bowl performers, quarterback Fran Tarkenton, and running back Ron Johnson. The team was in the top ten in several offensive categories including points, yards, and first downs. The team had over one hundred rushing yards in eleven of its fourteen games, including 202 yards in a week eight win against the Dallas Cowboys. The offense struggled when the team failed to run the ball well, as in the week fourteen loss to the Los Angeles Rams in which the Giants rushed for only 50 yards. When the team was able to run the ball and play defense they were able to win. In all their wins, they had at least 100 yards rushing. The leading passer was Fran Tarkenton, the leading rusher was Ron Johnson, and the leading receiver was Clifton McNeil.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 816]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091184-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 New York Giants season, Defense\nThe best defensive game by far for the Giants was the shutout of the Boston Patriots (2\u201312) in a week 5 victory. In that game, the Giants allowed only 155 total offensive yards against one of the weakest teams in the league. The team leader in interceptions for the Giants was Willie Williams, who had 6 interceptions for 114 total interception yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091184-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 New York Giants season, Defense\nThe backbone of New York's defense was a stout front four featuring ends Fred Dryer and Jim Kanicki and tackle Bob Lurtsema. Williams was part of a solid secondary which also included Tom Longo, Scott Eaton and Spider Lockhart. First round draft pick Jim Files moved in at the starting middle linebacker spot for the departed Henry Davis, who moved on to Pittsburgh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091184-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 New York Giants season, Special teams\nThe kicker for the Giants that season was Pete Gogolak. Gogolak was a perfect 32 of 32 in extra points but hit only 25 of 41 field goals attempted on the year, with his longest being a kick of 54 yards in week eight vs. the Cowboys, a kick which came on the same day Tom Dempsey set an NFL record with a 63-yard field goal for the Saints vs. the Lions, and 43-year-old George Blanda hit a 53-yard field goal at the gun to lift Oakland over Cleveland 23\u201320.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091184-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 New York Giants season, Special teams\nBill Johnson and Ernie Koy shared punting duties for the Giants, and each was average for the position. Bobby Duhon and Les Shy were the main kick and punt returners, though neither returned a kick for a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091184-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 New York Giants season, 1970 NFL Draft\nThis is a list of draft picks, taken by the Giants in the 1970 NFL Draft. This list includes the round taken, school, and position of the player selected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091184-0010-0000", "contents": "1970 New York Giants season, Schedule, Standings\nNote: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091185-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 New York Jets season\nThe 1970 New York Jets season was the 11th season for the team and the first in the National Football League, following the AFL\u2013NFL merger. It began with the team trying to maintain or improve upon its 10\u20134 record from 1969 under head coach Weeb Ewbank. The Jets finished with a record of 4\u201310. One of the highlights of the season was the Jets' first game when they appeared on the first ever Monday Night Football game vs. the Cleveland Browns. The Jets lost the game 31\u201321.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091185-0000-0001", "contents": "1970 New York Jets season\nIn the fifth game of the season, quarterback Joe Namath was lost for the season when he broke his wrist vs. the Baltimore Colts in Shea Stadium, the first meeting between the teams since Namath guaranteed victory in Super Bowl III. Namath's injury occurred when he hit his hand on the helmet of Colts defensive tackle Fred Miller. With Namath on the sidelines, the Jets were forced to play untested Al Woodall, who guided New York to upsets of NFC powerhouses Los Angeles and Minnesota, but only one other victory, over the lowly Boston Patriots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091185-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 New York Jets season, Standings\nNote: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091186-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 New York Mets season\nThe 1970 New York Mets season was the ninth regular season for the Mets, who played home games at Shea Stadium. Led by manager Gil Hodges, the team had an 83\u201379 record and finished in third place in the National League's Eastern Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091186-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 New York Mets season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 70], "content_span": [71, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091186-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 New York Mets season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 63], "content_span": [64, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091186-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 New York Mets season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 68], "content_span": [69, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091186-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 New York Mets season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 65], "content_span": [66, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091186-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 New York Mets season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 66], "content_span": [67, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091187-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 New York Yankees season\nThe 1970 New York Yankees season was the 68th season for the franchise in New York, and its 70th season overall. The team finished in second place in the American League East with a record of 93\u201369, 15 games behind the Baltimore Orioles. The 93 wins were the most for the Yankees since 1964. New York was managed by Ralph Houk. The Yankees played their home games at Yankee Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091187-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 New York Yankees season, Regular season\nThe Yankees went from a record of 80 wins and 81 losses in 1969 to a record of 93 wins and 69 losses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091187-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 New York Yankees season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs scored; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; SB = Stolen bases", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 73], "content_span": [74, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091187-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 New York Yankees season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs scored; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; SB = Stolen bases", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 66], "content_span": [67, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091187-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 New York Yankees season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 71], "content_span": [72, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091187-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 New York Yankees season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 68], "content_span": [69, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091187-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 New York Yankees season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 69], "content_span": [70, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091188-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 New York gubernatorial election\nThe 1970 New York gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 1970 to elect the Governor and Lieutenant Governor of New York. Incumbent Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller defeated the Democratic nominee, former UN Ambassador and Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg by more than ten percentage points. On January 1, 1971, he was sworn in for his fourth term as governor. Rockefeller received over 3.15 million votes in total, the highest total in any New York gubernatorial election until Andrew Cuomo received 3.64 million in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091188-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 New York gubernatorial election\nGoldberg's running mate, Basil Paterson, was the first African American nominee for Lieutenant Governor of New York. His son David Paterson would become the first African American Lieutenant Governor 36 years later. David served as Governor from 2008\u201310 after the resignation of Eliot Spitzer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091189-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 New York state election\nThe 1970 New York state election was held on November 3, 1970, to elect the governor, the lieutenant governor, the state comptroller, the attorney general and a U.S. Senator, as well as all members of the New York State Assembly and the New York State Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091189-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 New York state election, Background\nOn June 6, 1968, U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated. On September 10, Governor Rockefeller appointed Congressman Charles E. Goodell to serve for the remainder of Kennedy's term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091189-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 New York state election, Nominations, Democratic primary\nThe Democratic State Committee met on April 1 and 2 at Grossinger's Catskill Resort Hotel in Liberty, New York, and designated Arthur J. Goldberg for Governor; Basil Paterson for Lieutenant Governor; the incumbent Arthur Levitt for Comptroller; Adam Walinsky for Attorney General; and Ted Sorensen for the U.S. Senate. The primary election was held on June 23. Paterson received the most votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 61], "content_span": [62, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091189-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 New York state election, Nominations, Other parties with ballot line\nThe Liberal State Committee met on April 4, and designated Party Chairman Rev. Donald S. Harrington for Governor; and Deputy Mayor of New York Timothy W. Costello for the U.S. Senate. They also endorsed the Democratic designees Paterson and Levitt, and the Republican designee Lefkowitz. Harrington and Costello withdrew on May 7, and on May 11 the State Committee endorsed Democrat Arthur J. Goldberg for Governor; and the incumbent Republican U.S. senator Charles E. Goodell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 73], "content_span": [74, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091189-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 New York state election, Nominations, Other parties with ballot line\nThe Republican State Committee met on April 7 at Rochester, New York, and designated the incumbents Rockefeller, Wilson, Lefkowitz and Goodell (the first three for re-election); and completed the ticket with Edward Regan for Comptroller.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 73], "content_span": [74, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091189-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 New York state election, Nominations, Other parties with ballot line\nThe Conservative State Committee met on April 7, and designated again Prof. Paul L. Adams for Governor, and James L. Buckley for the U.S. Senate. Adams had polled more than half a million votes in 1966, and Buckley more than a million in 1968. They also designated Edward F. Leonard for Lieutenant Governor; Anthony R. Spinelli for Comptroller; and Leo Kesselring, lawyer, of Rochester, for Attorney General.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 73], "content_span": [74, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091189-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 New York state election, Nominations, Other parties with ballot line\nThe Republican, Liberal and Conservative tickets designated by the state committees were not challenged in the primaries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 73], "content_span": [74, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091189-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 New York state election, Nominations, Minor parties\nThe Socialist Workers Party nominated Clifton DeBerry for Governor; Jonathan Rothschild, a \"30 years old Manhattan taxi driver,\" for Lieutenant Governor; Ms. Ruthann Miller (born c. 1940), for Comptroller; Miguel Padilla, Jr., 30, for Attorney General; and Ms. Kipp Dawson (born 1941) for the U.S. Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 56], "content_span": [57, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091189-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 New York state election, Nominations, Minor parties\nThe Communist Party nominated Clifton DeBerry for Governor; Mrs. Grace Mora Newman (born c. 1927), of The Bronx, for Lieutenant Governor; and Arnold Johnson for the U.S. Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 56], "content_span": [57, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091189-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 New York state election, Nominations, Minor parties\nThe \"Civil Service Independents Party\" nominated Gov. Rockefeller and Lt. Gov. Wilson for re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 56], "content_span": [57, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091189-0010-0000", "contents": "1970 New York state election, Nominations, Minor parties\nThe \"Independent Alliance Party\" nominated James L. Buckley for the U.S. Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 56], "content_span": [57, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091189-0011-0000", "contents": "1970 New York state election, Nominations, Minor parties\nThe \"Courage Party,\" the New York state branch of the American Party, was ruled off the ballot on September 11 by Secretary of State John P. Lomenzo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 56], "content_span": [57, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091189-0012-0000", "contents": "1970 New York state election, Nominations, Minor parties\nThe \"Conservation Party\" nominated Richard L Ottinger for the U.S. Senate, but was ruled off the ballot by the Appellate Division on October 1, reversing an earlier New York Supreme Court decision. At the same time, the \"Independent Alliance\" which nominated James L. Buckley, was upheld. The appellate decision was upheld by the New York Court of Appeals on October 7.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 56], "content_span": [57, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091189-0013-0000", "contents": "1970 New York state election, Result\nAt the height of the chaotic political situation during the Vietnam War, a Republican Governor and Lieutenant Governor, a Democratic/Liberal Comptroller, a Republican/Liberal Attorney General and a Conservative U.S. Senator were elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091189-0014-0000", "contents": "1970 New York state election, Result\nThe incumbents Rockefeller, Wilson, Levitt and Lefkowitz were re-elected. The incumbent Goodell was defeated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091190-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 New Zealand Grand Prix\nThe 1970 New Zealand Grand Prix was a race held at the Pukekohe Park Raceway on 10 January 1970. The race had 20 starters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091190-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 New Zealand Grand Prix\nIt was the 16th New Zealand Grand Prix, and doubled as the second round of the 1970 Tasman Series. Frank Matich won his first NZGP in his McLaren Formula 5000 ahead of British racer Derek Bell driving a Tasman Formula specification Brabham-Cosworth. The first New Zealand driver to finish was Graeme Lawrence in the 1969 Chris Amon Dino.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091191-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 New Zealand National Soccer League\nThe 1970 New Zealand National Soccer League was the inaugural season of a nationwide round-robin club competition in New Zealand football. The league's initial sponsors were Rothmans (NZ) Ltd, and the league was thus commonly known as the Rothmans National League. Rothmans retained naming sponsorship rights until 1987 when Air New Zealand took over as principal sponsor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091191-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 New Zealand National Soccer League, Background\nPlans for a national league had been drawn up in 1963 after increasing calls for such a competition from the late 1950s onwards. Plans were delayed by a full programme of overseas games for the NZFA during 1964, but moves towards a viable national league were put in place with the introduction of three regional leagues for the northern, central, and southern regions of the country in 1968.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091191-0001-0001", "contents": "1970 New Zealand National Soccer League, Background\nIt was the final standing in these leagues in the 1969 season which were to provide the eight teams to compete in the 1970 national league, with four teams from the Central league, three from the Northern League, and one from the Southern League granted national league spots. The qualifying sides were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091191-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 New Zealand National Soccer League, Team performance\nThe inaugural season was dominated by teams from Auckland and Wellington, each of which had three teams. It was an Auckland side which would finish on top, with favourites and 1969 Northern League champions Blockhouse Bay triumphant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 57], "content_span": [58, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091191-0002-0001", "contents": "1970 New Zealand National Soccer League, Team performance\nFor much of the season it was to be fellow Queen City side Eastern Suburbs were the main threat for the title, but both Christchurch United and Mount Wellington performed well in the second half of the season, with neither side losing a game in the home stretch until the last game of the season, the league's first floodlit game, which saw Christchurch beat the Mount at home in an eight-goal spectacular in front of the season's biggest crowd of 3,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 57], "content_span": [58, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091191-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 New Zealand National Soccer League, Team performance\nBy comparison with the Auckland sides, the Wellington trio had lacklustre seasons. The four teams from the central region filled the lower half of the table, and the gap between them and the top four \u2014 in both points and form \u2014 was substantial.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 57], "content_span": [58, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091191-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 New Zealand National Soccer League, League table\nNo teams were relegated at the end of the 1970 season, as it was decided to increase the size of the league to ten teams from 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 53], "content_span": [54, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091192-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 New Zealand Open\nThe 1970 New Zealand Open, also known by its sponsored name Benson and Hedges Open, was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts in Auckland, New Zealand from 26 January until 1 February 1970. Roger Taylor and Ann Jones won the singles titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091192-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 New Zealand Open, Finals, Men's Doubles\nDick Crealy / Ray Ruffels defeated John Alexander / Phil Dent 6\u20134, 3\u20136, 6\u20133, 8\u20136", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 44], "content_span": [45, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091192-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 New Zealand Open, Finals, Women's Doubles\nMargaret Court / Ann Jones defeated Karen Krantzcke / Kerry Melville 6\u20130, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 46], "content_span": [47, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091193-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 New Zealand Royal Visit Honours\nThe 1970 New Zealand Royal Visit Honours were appointments by Elizabeth II to the Royal Victorian Order, to mark her visit to New Zealand that year. The Queen was accompanied by the Prince of Wales and Princess Anne on the tour, and attended celebrations connected with the bicentenary of Captain James Cook's first voyage to New Zealand. The honours were announced on 21 and 26 March 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091193-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 New Zealand Royal Visit Honours\nThe recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091193-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 New Zealand Royal Visit Honours, Royal Victorian Order, Member, fourth class (MVO)\nIn 1984, Members of the Royal Victorian Order, fourth class, were redesignated as Lieutenants of the Royal Victorian Order (LVO).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 87], "content_span": [88, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091194-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 New Zealand bravery awards\nThe 1970 New Zealand bravery awards were announced via two Special Honours Lists dated 18 and 20 May 1970, and recognised three people for acts of bravery in 1969 and 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091194-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 New Zealand bravery awards, George Medal (GM)\nIn recognition of his gallantry following a cave in at Kaimai Tunnel on the 24th day of February 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091194-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 New Zealand bravery awards, Queen's Commendation for Brave Conduct\nIn recognition of their gallant services during rescue operations when two men were trapped in an excavation at New Plymouth on 22 December 1969.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 71], "content_span": [72, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091195-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 New Zealand gallantry awards\nThe 1970 New Zealand gallantry awards were announced via a Special Honours List dated 5 May 1970, and recognised one New Zealander for gallantry during operations in Vietnam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091196-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 New Zealand rugby league season\nThe 1970 New Zealand rugby league season was the 63rd season of rugby league that had been played in New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091196-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 New Zealand rugby league season, International competitions\nNew Zealand lost a series 0-3 to Great Britain under coach Morrie Church. The Kiwis then headed to Great Britain and France for the World Cup. They defeated France but lost to Great Britain and Australia. The team was coached by Lory Blanchard and included Mocky Brereton, Roy Christian, Graeme Cooksley, Bill Deacon, Doug Gailey, Lummy Graham, John Greengrass, Eddie Heatley, Elliot Kereopa, Tony Kriletich, Don Ladner, Bernie Lowther, Bob McGuinn, Colin O'Neil, Garry Smith, John Whittaker and Gary Woollard. Brian Anderson was ruled out of the squad due to injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091196-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 New Zealand rugby league season, International competitions\nTo end its seven match New Zealand tour, Great Britain defeated Auckland 23-8 at Carlaw Park. Auckland included; Mike McClennan, Roy Christian, Wayne Redmond, Paul Matete, John Dagg, Fred Schuster, Eric Carson, Eddie Moore, Len Morgan, Brian Lee, Ray Williams, Ernie Wiggs and captain Tony Kriletich. Roger Bailey was to have captained Auckland but withdrew.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091196-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 New Zealand rugby league season, International competitions\nRoy Christian won the New Zealand Rugby League's player of the year award. Ron McGregor was elected as the New Zealand Rugby League's president and chairman, roles he would hold for seventeen years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091196-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 New Zealand rugby league season, National competitions, Rugby League Cup\nCanterbury held the Rugby League Cup at the end of the season after they had defeated the West Coast 20-16 at the Addington Showgrounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 77], "content_span": [78, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091196-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 New Zealand rugby league season, National competitions, Inter-district competition\nWellington won the Rothmans trophy, defeating Waikato 27-21 in the final. Auckland were eliminated by Waikato 36-11 in a semi final in Huntly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 87], "content_span": [88, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091196-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 New Zealand rugby league season, National competitions, Inter-district competition\nEarlier in the season Auckland had defeated Wellington 30-8 and Canterbury 42-17. At the same time Auckland B defeated Waikato 19-11.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 87], "content_span": [88, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091196-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 New Zealand rugby league season, National competitions, Inter-district competition\nCanterbury changed from the red and black hoop design they had worn for the last 16 years and adopted a red jersey with a black and white vee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 87], "content_span": [88, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091196-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 New Zealand rugby league season, National competitions, Inter-district competition\nRoy Christian, Eddie Heatley, Bernie Lowther, Henry Tatana and Roger Bailey played for Auckland while Waikato included Don Parkinson and Bill Deacon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 87], "content_span": [88, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091196-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 New Zealand rugby league season, National competitions, Inter-district competition\nCanterbury included Mocky Brereton, Graeme Cooksley, John Greengrass, Alan Rushton, captain Rodney Walker, Jim Fisher and Jim White.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 87], "content_span": [88, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091196-0010-0000", "contents": "1970 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Auckland\nOtahuhu won the Auckland Rugby League's Fox Memorial Trophy and Roope Rooster. They defeated Mount Albert 10-5 in the Fox Memorial grand final. Mount Albert won the Stormont Shield, Kiwi Shield and Rukutai Shield. Te Atatu and Point Chevalier shared the Sharman Cup while Northcote won the Norton Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 65], "content_span": [66, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091196-0011-0000", "contents": "1970 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Auckland\nRay Williams, from Richmond, won the Lipscombe Cup, Tony Kriletich, from Marist, won the Rothville Trophy, Mike McLennan, from Ponsonby, won the Tetley Trophy, Ernie Wiggs, from Otahuhu, again won the Painter Rosebowl Trophy and Simon Yates from Otahuhu won the Hyland Memorial Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 65], "content_span": [66, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091196-0012-0000", "contents": "1970 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Auckland\nBrian Anderson and Eddie Heatley played for Otahuhu. Anderson would sign with the North Sydney Bears in 1972, being joined by Heatley in 1973. Morrie Robertson was appointed as the coach of Ellerslie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 65], "content_span": [66, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091196-0013-0000", "contents": "1970 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Wellington\nThe Wellington Council grants the Rugby League use of a city-centre park that is renamed Rugby League Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 67], "content_span": [68, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091196-0014-0000", "contents": "1970 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Canterbury\nLinwood won the Canterbury Rugby League's Pat Smith Challenge Trophy, defeating Marist-Western Suburbs 21-2. Papanui won the Massetti Cup while Hornby won the Gore Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 67], "content_span": [68, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091196-0015-0000", "contents": "1970 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Canterbury\nThe first floodlight Canterbury club fixture was a Vivian Cup challenge played between Linwood and Marist at English Park on 30 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 67], "content_span": [68, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091196-0016-0000", "contents": "1970 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Canterbury\nJim White (Addington) won the D.V. Syme Rosebowl as Sportsman of the year while Norm Geddes (Papanui) won the A.G.Bailey Challenge Cup and Hugh Butler (Papanui) and John Rosanowski (Linwood) shared the Turner and Le Brun Cup (goals).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 67], "content_span": [68, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091196-0017-0000", "contents": "1970 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Canterbury\nMocky Brereton joined Marist-Western Suburbs while Jim Bond was the coach of University.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 67], "content_span": [68, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091197-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 New Zealand rugby union tour of South Africa\nThe 1970 New Zealand rugby union tour of South Africa was a series of matches played between June and August 1970 in South Africa and Rhodesia by the All Blacks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091197-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 New Zealand rugby union tour of South Africa\nIt was one of the longest tours for the All Blacks. It begun with two exhibition matches in Australia. An Australian player, Jamie Hendrie, was called to replace the scrum half Sid Going who did not play on Sunday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091197-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 New Zealand rugby union tour of South Africa\nFor the All Blacks it was a comeback 10 years after the tour of 1960 when the New Zealand rugby union continued to exclude Maori and non-white players from the team in order to accommodate the South African apartheid laws.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091197-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 New Zealand rugby union tour of South Africa\nThe New Zealand Rugby Union refused any other tours for the successive 10\u00a0years until New Zealand players of all backgrounds were given the status of \"Honorary Whites\" allowing them to participate in the 1970 tour under apartheid laws.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091198-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Newark mayoral election\nThe 1970 Newark mayoral election was held on June 16, 1970. Incumbent mayor Hugh Addonizio ran for a third term in office but was defeated by civil engineer Kenneth A. Gibson. Gibson became the first black man elected mayor of a major city in the Northeastern United States or Eastern Seaboard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091198-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Newark mayoral election\nGibson finished first in a primary election on May 12 but did not receive a majority of the vote. He defeated Addonizio in the run-off with 55.88% of the vote and record turnout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091198-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Newark mayoral election, Background, Race\nBy 1970, Newark was one of the United States' first majority-black cities. However, city government, the police department, and political representation at the state and federal level were still overwhelmingly white, possibly due in part to the black population skewing below the voting age.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091198-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Newark mayoral election, Background, 1967 riots\nIn the summer of 1967, Newark was the site of race riots, one of 159 throughout the country that summer. Beginning with the arrest, beating, and jailing of a black taxicab driver by two white police officers, the city descended into violent chaos for six days. From July 12 to 17, violence in the city left a total of 16 civilian bystanders, 8 criminal suspects, a police officer, and a firefighter dead; 353 civilians, 214 suspects, 67 police officers, 55 firefighters, and 38 military personnel injured; and 689 civilians and 811 suspects arrested. Property damage is estimated to have exceeded $10 million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 662]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091198-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Newark mayoral election, Background, Addonizio corruption investigation\nIn December 1969, stemming from federal investigations into the cause and handling of the riots, Mayor Addonizio and nine current or former municipal officials were indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of extortion and tax evasion. Five other persons were also indicted, including reputed mafioso Anthony Boiardo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 76], "content_span": [77, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091198-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Newark mayoral election, Aftermath, Addonizio\nAddonizio was convicted of conspiracy and 63 counts of extortion in July and sentenced to ten years in federal prison in September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091198-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 Newark mayoral election, Aftermath, Caufield\nJohn Caufield was elected to the New Jersey Senate as a Democrat in 1978 and served until his death in 1986.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 49], "content_span": [50, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091198-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 Newark mayoral election, Aftermath, Gibson\nGibson went on to serve four terms as mayor until he was defeated for re-election by Sharpe James in 1986. While mayor, he ran twice for Governor of New Jersey in 1981 and 1985, but failed to win the Democratic nomination. He returned to politics in 1998, when he narrowly lost a race for Essex County Executive to Republican James Treffinger. In 2002, he pleaded guilty to tax evasion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 47], "content_span": [48, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091198-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 Newark mayoral election, Aftermath, Imperiale\nImperiale represented the East Ward as an independent member of the state legislature from 1972 to 1978. He opposed Gibson in the 1974 mayoral election. He served one more term in the Assembly as a Republican from 1980 to 1982 but left office to run for Governor in the 1981 election. He finished sixth in the Republican primary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091199-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Nigerien parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections were held in Niger on 22 October 1970. The country was a one-party state at the time, with the Nigerien Progressive Party \u2013 African Democratic Rally as the sole legal party. It therefore won all 50 seats in the National Assembly. Voter turnout was 97.1%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091200-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Nigerien presidential election\nPresidential elections were held in Niger on 1 October 1970. The country was a one-party state at the time, with the Nigerien Progressive Party \u2013 African Democratic Rally as the sole legal party. Its leader, incumbent president Hamani Diori, was the only candidate, and was re-elected unopposed. Voter turnout was reported to be 98.3%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091201-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Nippon Professional Baseball season\nThe 1970 Nippon Professional Baseball season was the 21st season of operation of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091202-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 North American Soccer League season\nStatistics of North American Soccer League in season 1970. This was the 3rd season of the NASL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091202-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 North American Soccer League season, Overview\nSix teams competed with the Rochester Lancers winning the championship. Santos FC of Brazil beat the NASL All-Stars 4-3 at Soldier Field in Chicago to finish the season. In 1970, NASL teams rounded out their schedules by playing an assortment of foreign clubs including Hapoel Petah Tikva, Varzim, Hertha Berlin and Coventry City. These games weren't just for attendance but also counted in the standings. The Washington Darts went 2-2-0 versus the international teams earning the \"International Cup\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091202-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 North American Soccer League season, Regular season\nW = Wins, L = Losses, T= Ties, GF = Goals For, GA = Goals Against, PT= point system", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 56], "content_span": [57, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091202-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 North American Soccer League season, Regular season\n6 points for a win, 3 points for a tie,0 points for a loss,1 point for each goal scored up to three per game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 56], "content_span": [57, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091203-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 North Carolina Tar Heels football team\nThe 1970 North Carolina Tar Heels football team represented the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. The Tar Heels were led by fourth-year head coach Bill Dooley and played their home games at Kenan Memorial Stadium in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. They competed as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference, finishing in second.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091203-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 North Carolina Tar Heels football team\nThe team's star player was running back Don McCauley, who broke O. J. Simpson's NCAA record for single season rushing yards with 1,720 yards. He was named ACC Player of the Year, was a consensus first-team All-American, and finished ninth in voting for the Heisman Trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091204-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 North Dakota Fighting Sioux football team\nThe 1970 North Dakota Fighting Sioux football team, also known as the Nodaks, was an American football team that represented the University of North Dakota in the North Central Conference (NCC) during the 1970 NCAA College Division football season. In its third year under head coach Jerry Olson, the team compiled a 5\u20133\u20131 record (5\u20131\u20131 against NCC opponents), finished in second place out of seven teams in the NCC, and outscored opponents by a total of 202 to 138. The team played its home games at Memorial Stadium in Grand Forks, North Dakota.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091205-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 North Dakota State Bison football team\nThe 1970 North Dakota State Bison football team was an American football team that represented North Dakota State University during the 1970 NCAA College Division football season as a member of the North Central Conference. In their fifth year under head coach Ron Erhardt, the team compiled a 9\u20130\u20131 record, finished as NCC champion, and defeated Montana in the Camellia Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091206-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 North Indian Ocean cyclone season\nThe 1970 North Indian Ocean cyclone season had no bounds, but tropical cyclones in the North Indian Ocean tend to form between April and December, with peaks in May and November. The 1970 season saw a total of seven cyclonic storms, of which three developed into severe cyclonic storms. The Bay of Bengal was more active than the Arabian Sea during 1970, with all of the three severe cyclonic storms in the season forming there. Unusually, none of the storms in the Arabian Sea made landfall this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091206-0000-0001", "contents": "1970 North Indian Ocean cyclone season\nThe most significant storm of the season was the Bhola cyclone, which formed in the Bay of Bengal and hit Bangladesh on November 12. The storm killed at least 500,000, making it the deadliest tropical cyclone in recorded history. The season was also the deadliest tropical cyclone season globally, with 500,805 fatalities, mostly due to the aforementioned Bhola cyclone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091206-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Severe Cyclonic Storm One\nA low-pressure area that developed over the southern Andaman Sea late in April moved north into the Bay of Bengal, becoming the first depression of the year on May 2. The depression intensified under the influence of a high-level anticyclone and became a cyclonic storm the next day. The storm then turned to the northeast and strengthened into a severe cyclonic storm on May 4. Soon after this, it peaked with winds of 150\u00a0km/h (95\u00a0mph) and a well-defined eye formed. The storm made its landfall near Cox's Bazar in easternmost East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) early in the morning of May 7 and dissipated over western Burma that evening.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 74], "content_span": [75, 712]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091206-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Severe Cyclonic Storm One\nThe cyclone brought widespread rain to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, before it moved clear of them on May 3. Effects in East Pakistan are unknown, but Akyab in western Burma reported winds of 55\u00a0km/h (35\u00a0mph) as the cyclone approached land.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 74], "content_span": [75, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091206-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Depression Two\nA depression formed in the northeast of the Bay of Bengal during the morning of May 23, near the East Pakistan coast. It moved towards the coast and made landfall to the south of Cox's Bazar that night, before dissipating over southern Assam on the next day. Any effects on land are unknown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 63], "content_span": [64, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091206-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Cyclonic Storm Three\nA low-pressure area developed off the Karnataka\u2013Goa coastline in the Arabian Sea on May 27, and developed into a depression on the next day. The system developed further into a cyclonic storm on May 29 as it moved to the north. The storm reached its peak with 95\u00a0km/h (60\u00a0mph); soon after this, as it turned to the west, but soon degenerated into a deep depression over the northern Arabian Sea on May 31. The depression continued to move westward, weakening to a remnant low shortly afterward, as it made landfall on the Arabian Peninsula, on June 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 621]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091206-0004-0001", "contents": "1970 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Cyclonic Storm Three\nThe remnant low dissipated over southern Saudi Arabia on the next day. The cyclone itself had minimal effects on land, but the monsoon advanced into western India in late May in association with the system. As the cyclone moved to the west away from the subcontinent, the incursion of moist air from the Arabian Sea persisted over northwestern India for the first three days of June. This brought moderate rainfall to regions of Gujarat, Rajasthan and western Madhya Pradesh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091206-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Cyclonic Storm Four\nA low-pressure area developed in the northern Bay of Bengal on June 6 and developed into a depression on the next day, as it drifted to the north, moving over the south of the Ganges Delta. The depression reversed its course overland, reemerging into the Bay of Bengal on June 8. Once over open water, the depression intensified into a cyclonic storm on the morning of June 9. The cyclone's motion shifted to the northwest and it made a second landfall near Balasore in northern Orissa that night.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091206-0005-0001", "contents": "1970 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Cyclonic Storm Four\nThe cyclone quickly weakened to a deep depression overland and tracked to the west over central India, where it degenerated into a broad area of low pressure on June 11. Sustained winds of 65\u00a0km/h (40\u00a0mph) were recorded at Sandheads on June 9, while the cyclone was at its peak offshore. High levels of rain affected much of Orissa and West Bengal, with over 100\u00a0mm (3.9\u00a0in) falling over large areas of both states. As the storm dissipated overland, it brought severe rain to Vidarbha and southern Madhya Pradesh. The highest recorded rainfall was at Khandwa were 280\u00a0mm (11\u00a0in) fell on June 13 alone. The rains led to localised flooding in parts of Vidarbha and disrupted road transport in the region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 771]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091206-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Deep Depression Five\nA low-pressure area that had developed over the northern Bay of Bengal on June 28 organized into a depression early on June 29. The depression intensified as it moved to the northwest, becoming a deep depression shortly before it crossed the Orissa coast. After landfall, the storm continued to move to the northwest, weakening to a depression again on July 2, over northeast Madhya Pradesh. It degenerated into a remnant low over central Uttar Pradesh during the evening of July 3. The depression brought intense monsoon conditions to Orissa, Madhya Pradesh and Vidarbha during its life.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091206-0006-0001", "contents": "1970 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Deep Depression Five\nOver 210\u00a0mm (8\u00a0inches) of rain and winds of 85\u00a0km/h (55\u00a0mph) were recorded in Paradip as the depression made landfall on June 30. Inland, the heavy rains caused some rivers in Orissa to overflow and flooded rice paddies in Cuttack District. Further west, the Wainganga River overflowed its banks in places. Road transport in Madhya Pradesh was disrupted and there was damage to crops in the Raipur area. Raipur recorded the highest 24-hour rains associated with the depression, with 230\u00a0mm (9\u00a0inches) falling there on July 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091206-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Deep Depression Six\nA low-pressure area moved to the west, off the Burmese coast on July 5, and developed into a depression on the next day, in the north-central Bay of Bengal. The depression intensified as it moved to the northwest, becoming a deep depression on July 7. The system made landfall on the Orissa coast during the morning of July 8, and rapidly degenerated into a broad area of low pressure overland. The remnant low moved north over western Bihar and it persisted there until July 12, when it was absorbed by the monsoon trough.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091206-0007-0001", "contents": "1970 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Deep Depression Six\nWinds of 55\u00a0km/h (35\u00a0mph) were recorded offshore at Sandheads when the system was at its peak. The depression brought isolated heavy rains to many places throughout East India, with rains in excess of 100\u00a0mm (4\u00a0inches) falling each day from the depression's landfall until the absorption of the storm's remnant low.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091206-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Depression Seven\nA low-pressure area that lay over Burma on August 15, moved to the west across the Bay of Bengal and developed into a depression on the evening of August 17, when it was 100\u00a0km (62\u00a0mi) southeast of Gopalpur-on-Sea. The depression moved to the northwest and made landfall near Gopalpur-on-Sea, and turned to the west overland. The depression had weakened into a remnant low by August 20, when it was over western Madhya Pradesh. The depression and associated weather brought widespread rain to much of south and central India, with heavy rain falling in some locations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091206-0008-0001", "contents": "1970 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Depression Seven\nThe heavy rain in Maharashtra disrupted road transport in many areas, especially in the east of the state. The Godavari River inundated parts of Bhadrachalam and many villages in regions of Andhra Pradesh. The rains also damaged rice paddies and disrupted transport in Telangana. Rains associated with the depression reached as far west as Bombay with 200\u00a0mm (8\u00a0inches) falling there on August 19.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091206-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Cyclonic Storm Eight\nA low-pressure area that was centred over West Bengal on August 31 organized into a depression on September 2, when it was 50\u00a0km (31\u00a0mi) to the east of Midnapore. It intensified as it moved to the west, becoming a deep depression on the next day, about 50\u00a0km (31\u00a0mi) east of Ranchi. The system continued to move west across India, before weakening into a depression on September 7, near Ahmedabad, Gujarat. The depression then turned northward and entered southwest Rajasthan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091206-0009-0001", "contents": "1970 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Cyclonic Storm Eight\nOn September 8, the system turned to the southwest and emerged into the Arabian Sea on the following evening. Over open water, it intensified again, becoming a cyclonic storm by the evening of September 10. The cyclone developed a short-lived eye on September 11, as it drifted slowly to the west, before degenerating into a broad area of low pressure as it neared the Oman coast, on September 14. This system brought widespread rains to a wide swathe of India during its existence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091206-0009-0002", "contents": "1970 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Cyclonic Storm Eight\nSome heavy rains in West Bengal flooded vast areas of many districts and resulted in some fatalities, whilst in parts of neighbouring Orissa the floodwaters damaged fields. 390\u00a0mm (15\u00a0inches) of rain fell on Bardhaman over two days as the depression passed overhead. Several thousand people were made homeless in West Bengal. Both the Narmada and Tapti Rivers inundated parts of Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat. The floods in Gujarat took many lives and caused severe damage to crops and other properties. Between 300 and 400\u00a0people were washed away in two villages in Bharuch district. 260\u00a0mm (10\u00a0inches) of rain fell on Surat on July 7 and a further 80\u00a0mm (3\u00a0inches) on Kutch District as the cyclone moved out to sea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 784]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091206-0010-0000", "contents": "1970 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Deep Depression Nine\nA low-pressure area moved from Burma to the Bay of Bengal on September 8, where it developed into a depression. The depression strengthened as it moved to the northwest and became a deep depression on the next day, when it was 150\u00a0km (93\u00a0mi) southeast of Calcutta. The system crossed the West Bengal coast later and moved to the northwest across the Chota Nagpur Plateau. The depression stalled over Uttar Pradesh on September 12, and remained near Lucknow until September 14.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091206-0010-0001", "contents": "1970 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Deep Depression Nine\nThe depression then turned to the east and weakened into a remnant low over northern Bihar, on September 18. The depression brought widespread rain to West Bengal, Orissa, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, and Madhya Pradesh during its lifespan, with rains of 140\u00a0mm (5.5\u00a0inches) as far west as Lucknow. The rains in Uttar Pradesh caused severe property damage and flooding, with some 150\u00a0people losing their lives in the state. The Ganges flooded in northern Bihar, inundating parts of Munger District, whilst the Gandaki River flooded parts of Motihari. The rains worsened floods in south Bengal, increasing the death toll from the floods there to 80 and affecting 8\u00a0million people, with considerable damage done to crops and housing. Jaleswar in Orissa was entirely flooded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 835]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091206-0011-0000", "contents": "1970 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Depression Ten\nA well-defined low-pressure area formed over the west central Bay of Bengal on September 20, and developed into a depression on the next morning about 100\u00a0km (62\u00a0mi) south-east of Visakhapatnam. The depression then moved overland, and after crossing Vidarbha, weakened into a remnant low over Gujarat on September 23. The depression brought widespread rain to northern South India as it passed over the country, and its remnants brought scattered rain to Gujarat over the following week. Over a period of four hours, heavy rain fell on Hyderabad and Secunderabad, destroying many houses in the two cities. About 130\u00a0mm (5\u00a0inches) of rain fell on Bombay as the system dissipated. The heavy rains claimed about 75 lives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 63], "content_span": [64, 782]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091206-0012-0000", "contents": "1970 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Depression Eleven\nA low-pressure area that developed in the Bay of Bengal passed over the southern Indian subcontinent and developed into a depression in the Arabian Sea, off the southern Maharashtra coast on October 11. The depression did not develop further as it drifted westward, and it degenerated into an area of low pressure on October 13, as it was approaching the Arabian Peninsula. The depression brought widespread rains to southern Maharashtra and Karnataka states, with 40 millimetres (1.6\u00a0in) of rain recorded in Karwar. Scattered heavy rain was also reported in the Laccadives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 641]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091206-0013-0000", "contents": "1970 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Severe Cyclonic Storm Twelve\nA depression formed on October 18 in the central Bay of Bengal, and moved to the north. It gradually intensified and turned to the northeast, becoming a cyclonic storm on October 20. The storm became the second severe cyclonic storm of the season on the following day, and turned onto a more northerly track towards the Ganges Delta. The storm peaked with winds of 130\u00a0km/h (80\u00a0mph) before it made landfall near the West Bengal\u2013East Pakistan border, during the morning of October 23. The storm then crossed over East Pakistan, before dissipating over southern Assam on October 24.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 77], "content_span": [78, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091206-0014-0000", "contents": "1970 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Severe Cyclonic Storm Twelve\nThis cyclone brought widespread rain to Tamil Nadu as it formed, and to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands as it moved over the Bay of Bengal. After its landfall, it brought severe rains to West Bengal, Assam, and East Pakistan. The highest recorded rainfall in India was at Shillong, where 220\u00a0mm (8.6\u00a0inches) fell on October 24. A gust of 105\u00a0km/h (65\u00a0mph) was recorded in Calcutta as the storm passed by to the east, where it caused the failure of the power supply.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 77], "content_span": [78, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091206-0015-0000", "contents": "1970 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Severe Cyclonic Storm Twelve\nThe cyclone claimed between 200 and 300 lives in East Pakistan, with the worst of the damage occurring in Khulna District. Over 200 villages were destroyed in the district, leaving several thousand people homeless, and there was extensive damage to crops.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 77], "content_span": [78, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091206-0016-0000", "contents": "1970 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Severe Cyclonic Storm Thirteen\nOn the morning of November 8, a depression formed in the south-central Bay of Bengal. It moved very slowly to the north, becoming a cyclonic storm on the next day. The cyclone continued to intensify as it approached the head of the Bay, becoming the third severe cyclonic storm of the season on November 11. That evening, it reached its peak intensity, with winds of 185\u00a0km/h (115\u00a0mph) with a well-developed eye, becoming the strongest storm of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 79], "content_span": [80, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091206-0016-0001", "contents": "1970 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Severe Cyclonic Storm Thirteen\nOn November 11 the Indian 5500 tonne freighter the Mahajagmitra reported wind speeds of 180 miles an hour and relayed a distress signal before it sank off the East Coast of India with 50 people on board. The vortex then made landfall on the coast of East Pakistan during the night of November 12. The cyclone weakened rapidly as it moved inland and dissipated on the next day, over south Assam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 79], "content_span": [80, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091206-0017-0000", "contents": "1970 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Severe Cyclonic Storm Thirteen\nThis cyclone brought a devastating storm surge of up to 10\u00a0metres (33\u00a0ft) high to the Ganges Delta. Largely as a result of this surge, somewhere between 300,000 and 500,000\u00a0people lost their lives, making this storm the deadliest tropical cyclone ever recorded and one of the deadliest natural disasters of modern times. The total damage from the storm exceeded $85\u00a0million (1970 USD, $480\u00a0million 2008\u00a0USD), and much of the agricultural and fishing capacity of the region was wiped out. A total of some 3.6\u00a0million people suffered direct effects from this cyclone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 79], "content_span": [80, 645]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091206-0018-0000", "contents": "1970 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Severe Cyclonic Storm Thirteen\nThe Pakistani government was severely criticized for its handling of the relief operations following the storm, both by local political leaders in East Pakistan and in the international media. In the December national elections, the opposition Awami League gained a landslide victory, gaining 160 of the 162 East Pakistani seats. Continuing unrest between East Pakistanis and the central government trigged the Bangladesh Liberation War, which concluded with the creation of the state of Bangladesh. This is one of the first times that a natural event helped to trigger a civil war in modern times.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 79], "content_span": [80, 678]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091206-0019-0000", "contents": "1970 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Deep Depression Fourteen\nA low-pressure are that had developed over the south Andaman Sea moved west across the southern Bay of Bengal, and organized into a depression on the morning of November 19, when it was situated about 600\u00a0km (370\u00a0mi) southeast of Madras. The system intensified further into a deep depression, as it moved west-northwestward, and made landfall on Tamil Nadu on the following day. The depression subsequently weakened into a remnant low over Tamil Nadu. The depression brought widespread rain to much of Tamil Nadu, with heavy rain impacting the coastal regions. Low-lying coastal regions from Pondicherry to Atirampattinam. There was damage to crops and housing in Thanjavur District and the rains left thousands homeless in Madras. Cuddalore experienced exceptionally heavy rains with over 440\u00a0mm (17\u00a0inches) falling there, of which 310\u00a0mm (12\u00a0inches) fell on November 20 alone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 73], "content_span": [74, 952]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091206-0020-0000", "contents": "1970 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Cyclonic Storm Fifteen\nThe remnant low of a depression emerged into the Arabian Sea off Kerala late on November 21, and developed into a new depression on the next day, as it moved westward. The depression moved further west, and gradually turned toward the southwest, intensifying as it did so. It became a cyclonic storm on November 28, to the southeast of Socotra, and reached its peak intensity with winds of 75\u00a0km/h (45\u00a0mph) soon after. The cyclone continued to move west-southwestward, and rapidly weakened into a remnant low-pressure area off the Somalia coast on the next day, ending the season. The cyclone brought widespread rain to the Laccadives from November 22 to 24, with 60\u00a0mm (2.4\u00a0inches) recorded on Amini on November 23.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 788]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091206-0021-0000", "contents": "1970 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Season effects\nThis is a table of all storms in the 1970 North Indian Ocean cyclone season. It mentions all of the season's storms and their names, durations, peak intensities (according to the IMD storm scale), areas affected, damages, and death totals. Damage and death totals include the damage and deaths caused when that storm was a precursor wave or extratropical low, and all of the damage figures are in 1970 USD.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 54], "content_span": [55, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091207-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Northeast Louisiana Indians football team\nThe 1970 Northeast Louisiana Indians football team was an American football team that represented Northeast Louisiana University (now known as the University of Louisiana at Monroe) in the Gulf States Conference during the 1970 NCAA College Division football season. In their seventh year under head coach Dixie B. White, the team compiled a 5\u20134 record. The Indians offense scored 151 points while the defense allowed 146 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091208-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Northern Illinois Huskies football team\nThe 1970 Northern Illinois Huskies football team represented Northern Illinois University in the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. The Huskies competed as an independent in the University Division, which became Division I in 1973. They were led by head coach Doc Urich for the second year, and final one of his tenure, and played their home games at Huskie Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091209-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Northern Iowa Panthers football team\nThe 1970 Northern Iowa Panthers football team represented the University of Northern Iowa in the 1970 NCAA College Division football season as a member of the North Central Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091209-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Northern Iowa Panthers football team\nThe team's statistical leaders included Gary Weber with 578 passing yards, Larry Skartvedt with 488 receiving yards, and Roger Jones with 404 rushing yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091210-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Northwest Territories general election\nThe 1970 Northwest Territories general election took place on December 21, 1970. It took place during the centennial of the territory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091210-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Northwest Territories general election\nAmong the festivities earlier in the year was an official visit by Queen Elizabeth II to open the first Arctic Winter games in Yellowknife. The world-famous Polar Bear licence plate was also unveiled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091210-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Northwest Territories general election\nThe centenary election brought up a number of old issues that have been seen in many elections in the past 100 years, mainly the transfer of powers from the federal government to the territory, full self-government, and rights for natives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091210-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Northwest Territories general election\nThis was the first election in which a woman, Lena Pedersen was elected to the Territorial Legislature. She was one of ten elected members and four appointed members who would sit on the council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091210-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Northwest Territories general election\nThe voting age for this election was lowered from 21 to 19.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091211-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Northwestern Wildcats football team\nThe 1970 Northwestern Wildcats team represented Northwestern University during the 1970 Big Ten Conference football season. In their seventh year under head coach Alex Agase, the Wildcats compiled a 6\u20134 record (6\u20131 against Big Ten Conference opponents) and finished in a tie for second place in the Big Ten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091211-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Northwestern Wildcats football team\nThe team's offensive leaders were quarterback Maurie Daigneau with 1,228 passing yards, Mike Adamle with 1,255 rushing yards, and Barry Pearson with 552 receiving yards. Eight Northwestern players received honors on the 1970 All-Big Ten Conference football team. They are: (1) halfback Mike Adamle (AP-1, UPI-1); (2) flanker Barry Pearson (AP-1); (3) tackle John Rodman (AP-1, UPI-2); (4) guard Mike Sikich (AP-1, UPI-1); (5) center John Zigulich (UPI-1); (6) defensive tackle Jim Anderson (AP-2); (7) defensive back Eric Hutchinson (AP-1, UPI-1); and (8) defensive back Rick Telander (AP-2).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 633]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091212-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Norwegian Football Cup\nStr\u00f8msgodset won the Norwegian Cup after beating Lyn 4\u20132 on 25 October. The goal scorers for Str\u00f8msgodset were Thorodd Presberg who scored in the 30th and 46th minutes, and Ingar Pettersen who scored in the 67th and 69th minute. For Lyn, Trygve Christophersen scored in the 10th and 37th minutes. 25\u00a0744 spectators watched the game at Ullev\u00e5l stadion in Oslo. The referee was Einar R\u00f8ed. This was the second time Str\u00f8msgodset won the Norwegian Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091212-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Norwegian Football Cup\nStr\u00f8msgodset's winning squad: Inge Thun, Arild Mathisen, Jan Kristiansen, Tor Alsaker-N\u00f8stdahl, Erik Eriksen, Odd Arild Amundsen, Egil Olsen, Bj\u00f8rn Odmar Andersen, Steinar Pettersen, Thorodd Presberg, Ingar Pettersen; Ole Johnny Friise, H\u00e5vard Beckstr\u00f8m, Johnny Vidar Pedersen, Sverre R\u00f8rvik and Per Rune W\u00f8lner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091212-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Norwegian Football Cup\nLyn's team: Svein Bj\u00f8rn Olsen, Jan Rodvang, Helge \u00d8stvold, Tore B\u00f8rrehaug,Knut Kolle, Arild Gulden, Andreas Morisbak, Ola Dybwad-Olsen, Sven Otto Birkeland, Trygve Christophersen and Jon Palmer Austnes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091213-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team\nThe 1970 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team represented the University of Notre Dame during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091213-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Missouri\nOriginally, Missouri was scheduled to host this game at Busch Memorial Stadium in St. Louis, but the St. Louis Cardinals forced the game to be moved to the University of Missouri campus because they anticipated hosting Game 6 of the World Series. As it turned out, the Cardinals finished a distant fourth place in the National League East, 13 games behind the Pittsburgh Pirates, and were below .500 from July 1 through the end of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091213-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Southern Cal\nNotre Dame quarterback Joe Theismann completed 33 of 58 passes for a school-record 526 yards, and the Irish outgained the Trojans 557\u2013359, but committed eight turnovers to zero for Southern Cal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 74], "content_span": [75, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091214-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Nova Scotia general election\nThe 1970 Nova Scotia general election was held on 13 October 1970 to elect members of the 50th House of Assembly of the Province of Nova Scotia, Canada. It was won by the Liberal Party. It is the only election in Nova Scotia's history in which the party who won the popular vote did not win the most seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091214-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Nova Scotia general election, Further reading\nThis Nova Scotia\u2013related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091214-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Nova Scotia general election, Further reading\nThis elections in Canada-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091215-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Oakland Athletics season\nThe 1970 Oakland Athletics season involved the A's finishing second in the American League West with a record of 89 wins and 73 losses. In 1970, owner Charlie Finley officially changed the team name from the Athletics to the \"A's\". An \"apostrophe-s\" was added to the cap and uniform emblem to reflect that fact.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091215-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Oakland Athletics season, Offseason\nDuring the off-season, Reggie Jackson sought an increase in salary, and A's owner Charlie Finley threatened to send Jackson to the minors. Commissioner Bowie Kuhn successfully intervened in their dispute. Reggie Jackson demanded $60,000 per season, while he was offered $40,000 by Charlie Finley. Both parties settled on $45,000, but Jackson's numbers in 1970 dropped sharply, as he hit just 23 home runs while batting .237.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091215-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Oakland Athletics season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091215-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Oakland Athletics season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091215-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Oakland Athletics season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091215-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Oakland Athletics season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091215-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 Oakland Athletics season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091216-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Oakland Raiders season\nThe 1970 Oakland Raiders season was the team's 11th season in Oakland. It was also their first season as members of the NFL. The Raiders would ultimately win their fourth consecutive division title (as well as their first AFC West title). They advanced to the AFC Championship Game, where they lost to the Baltimore Colts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091216-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Oakland Raiders season\nThe Raiders' 1970 season is best remembered for a series of clutch performances by veteran placekicker/quarterback George Blanda. Blanda, despite being cut during the 1970 preseason, eventually re-joined the Raiders' roster. His ensuing season (the twenty-first of his professional career) would rank as one of the more dramatic comebacks in sports history. Over a span of five consecutive games, Blanda would come off the bench to spark a series of dramatic rallies. The Raiders went an impressive 4\u20130\u20131 over this span.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091216-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Oakland Raiders season\nBlanda's five-game \"streak\" began on October 25, 1970. In a home game against the Pittsburgh Steelers, Blanda threw for two touchdowns in relief of an injured Daryle Lamonica. One week later, his 48-yard field goal (with three seconds remaining on the clock) salvaged a 17\u201317 tie with the defending Super Bowl Champion Kansas City Chiefs. One week later, on November 8, Blanda would come off the bench against the Cleveland Browns. His late touchdown pass (with 1:34 remaining in the game) tied the game at 20\u201320.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091216-0002-0001", "contents": "1970 Oakland Raiders season\nHe would ultimately kick a 53-yard field goal, as time expired, to give the Raiders a stunning 23\u201320 victory. The following week, against the Denver Broncos, Blanda again replaced Lamonica in the fourth quarter. His touchdown pass to Fred Biletnikoff, with 2:28 left in the game, gave the Raiders an unlikely 24\u201319 win. The incredible streak concluded one week later against the San Diego Chargers. The Raiders managed to drive deep into Chargers territory in the game's final seconds. Blanda's last-minute 16-yard field goal would seal a dramatic 20\u201317 triumph.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 590]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091216-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Oakland Raiders season\nBlanda's streak played a huge role in the Raiders' 1970 division title, as the team went a mediocre 4\u20134\u20131 in \"non-streak\" games. Indeed, their final record of 8\u20134\u20132 (itself a four-win drop from a 12\u20131\u20131 finish in 1969) placed them only one game ahead of the Chiefs at season's end.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091216-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Oakland Raiders season\nThe Raiders would ultimately advance to the 1970 AFC Championship Game, where they met the heavily favored 11\u20132\u20131 Baltimore Colts. During this game, Blanda again came off the bench in relief of an injured Lamonica. Blanda's solid play (17 of 32 passes for 217 yards, two touchdowns, and a 48-yard field goal) kept the Raiders in the game until the final quarter, when he was intercepted twice. At age 43, Blanda became the oldest quarterback to ever play in a championship game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091216-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Oakland Raiders season\nBlanda's eye-opening achievements resulted in his winning the Bert Bell Award. Chiefs' owner Lamar Hunt quipped that \"...this George Blanda is as good as his father, who used to play for Houston.\" While he never again played a major role at quarterback, Blanda would serve as the Raiders' kicker for five more seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091216-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 Oakland Raiders season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 7 at Chiefs\nBen Davidson speared Len Dawson causing a massive brawl between the two teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 77], "content_span": [78, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091216-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 Oakland Raiders season, Regular season, Standings\nNote: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091217-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Ohio Bobcats football team\nThe 1970 Ohio Bobcats football team was an American football team that represented Ohio University in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. In their 13th season under head coach Bill Hess, the Bobcats compiled a 4\u20135 record (3\u20132 against MAC opponents), finished in a tie for second place, and were outscored by all opponents by a combined total of 261 to 178.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091217-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Ohio Bobcats football team\nThe team's game against Marshall, scheduled for November 21, was notably canceled in the aftermath of the Southern Airways Flight 932 crash on November 14 that killed 37 members of the opposing team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091218-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Ohio State Buckeyes football team\nThe 1970 Ohio State Buckeyes football team represented the Ohio State University in the 1970 Big Ten Conference football season. The Buckeyes compiled a 9\u20130 regular season record to attain a #2 ranking. Ohio State won the Big Ten Conference title and a berth in the 1971 Rose Bowl in Pasadena against the Stanford Indians, ranked #12 and champions of the Pac-8. The Buckeyes would go on to lose 17\u201327 in their bowl game giving them a 9-1 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091218-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Ohio State Buckeyes football team\nThis was the last year Ohio State played a nine-game regular season schedule. Many major colleges added an 11th game in 1970, although no Big Ten school did so until the following season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091218-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Ohio State Buckeyes football team\nThe Buckeyes were recognized as the 1970 national champion by the National Football Foundation (NFF) giving them their sixth claimed title. The NFF awarded the title before bowl games at the time. This was the fifth and last title that legendary head coach Woody Hayes would win for the Buckeyes. The Ohio State Buckeyes would not win another national championship until 2002.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091218-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Ohio State Buckeyes football team\nMost consider the 11-0-1 Nebraska Cornhuskers to be the 1970 National Champions as they finished #1 in the AP Poll after the bowl games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091218-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Ohio State Buckeyes football team, Game summaries, Texas A&M\nTop-ranked Ohio State rolled up 513 yards of offense and scored touchdowns off five Texas A&M turnovers in a 56-13 rout. Fullback John Brockington scored twice and six other players accounted for touchdowns. The Buckeyes' defense forced three fumbles and an interception which led to four scores in an eight-minute span in the third quarter even though head coach Woody Hayes pulled the starters a little after halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091218-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Ohio State Buckeyes football team, Game summaries, Purdue\nWoody Hayes received a congratulatory phone call from President Richard Nixon after the game and then asked to speak to Fred Schram, who made the game-winning field goal. John Brockington carried the ball for 136 yards and Leo Hayden added 64 yards on 16 carries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091218-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 Ohio State Buckeyes football team, Game summaries, Michigan\nOhio State clinched a Big Ten title, a Rose Bowl berth and some measure of revenge for the 1969 upset.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091218-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 Ohio State Buckeyes football team, New Year's Day\nIn the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, top-ranked and defending national champion Texas was upset 24-11 by #6 Notre Dame, ending the Longhorns' 30-game winning streak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 54], "content_span": [55, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091218-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 Ohio State Buckeyes football team, New Year's Day\nHeavily-favored Ohio State could claim their second outright national title in three years that afternoon with a Rose Bowl victory over Stanford in Pasadena. Stanford (8-3) was led by quarterback Jim Plunkett, the 1970 Heisman Trophy winner. The Indians had climbed to a 6-0 conference record and 8-1 overall, but lost their final two regular season games, to Sugar Bowl-bound Air Force and arch-rival California. Stanford lost earlier in the season at home to Purdue, a team OSU defeated on the road.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 54], "content_span": [55, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091218-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 Ohio State Buckeyes football team, New Year's Day\nThe Buckeyes led Stanford by four points after three quarters, but were outscored 14-0 in the fourth quarter and lost 27-17. Later that night, #3 Nebraska won the Orange Bowl 17-12 over #5 LSU in Miami to claim the top spot in the AP writers poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 54], "content_span": [55, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091219-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Ohio gubernatorial election\nThe 1970 Ohio gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 1970. Democratic nominee John J. Gilligan defeated Republican nominee Roger Cloud with 54.19% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091220-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Oklahoma Sooners football team\nThe 1970 Oklahoma Sooners football team represented the University of Oklahoma in the 1970 NCAA University Division football season, the 76th season of Sooner football. The team was led by head coach Chuck Fairbanks in his fourth season as the OU head coach. They played their home games at Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium in Norman, Oklahoma. They were a member of the Big Eight Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091220-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Oklahoma Sooners football team\nConference play began at Folsom Field in Boulder, Colorado on October 17, with a win over the Colorado Buffaloes, and ended on November 28 at home in Norman with a win over Oklahoma State in the annual Bedlam Series. The Sooners lost their second conference game to Kansas State; the Wildcats' next victory in the series would not occur until 1993.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091220-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Oklahoma Sooners football team\nFollowing a loss in their third game to Oregon State, the Sooners installed the Wishbone offense during the open week prior to the Red River Shootout vs. Texas. The Sooners would run the Wishbone continuously, save for a switch to the I formation in 1982 and 1983, until the early 1990s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091220-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Oklahoma Sooners football team\nAfter finishing the regular season with a record of 7\u20134 (5\u20132 in Big 8 play), the Sooners were invited to play in the Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl, where they tied the Alabama Crimson Tide, 24\u201324.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091220-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Oklahoma Sooners football team\nFollowing the season, John Watson was selected in the seventh round of the 1971 NFL Draft, and Steve Casteel was chosen in the 10th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091220-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Postseason, NFL draft\nThe following players were drafted into the National Football League following the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 58], "content_span": [59, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091221-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Oklahoma State Cowboys football team\nThe 1970 Oklahoma State Cowboys football team represented Oklahoma State University in the Big Eight Conference during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. In their second season under head coach Floyd Gass, the Cowboys compiled a 4\u20137 record (2\u20135 against conference opponents), tied for sixth place in the conference, and were outscored by opponents by a combined total of 337 to 215.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091221-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Oklahoma State Cowboys football team\nThe team's statistical leaders included Bobby Cole with 685 rushing yards, Tony Pounds with 1,871 passing yards, and Hermann Eben with 937 receiving yards and 42 points scored.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091221-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Oklahoma State Cowboys football team\nThe team played its home games at Lewis Field in Stillwater, Oklahoma.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091221-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Oklahoma State Cowboys football team, After the season\nThe 1971 NFL Draft was held on January 28\u201329, 1971. The following Cowboy was selected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091222-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Oklahoma gubernatorial election\nThe 1970 Oklahoma gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 1970, and was a race for the Governor of Oklahoma. Democrat David Hall narrowly defeated Republican incumbent Dewey F. Bartlett, a result that was not clear for 21 days as a ballot recount was conducted. American Party candidate Reuel Little, who had helped form the party to back the 1968 presidential campaign of George Wallace, received over 24 thousand votes, dwarfing the difference between Hall and Bartlett.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091223-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Ole Miss Rebels football team\nThe 1970 Ole Miss Rebels football team represented the University of Mississippi during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season and in the 1971 Gator Bowl against Auburn where Ole Miss lost 35\u201328. Archie Manning was the quarterback for Ole Miss. This also marked the last season of coach Johnny Vaught's first tenure as the Ole Miss coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091223-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Ole Miss Rebels football team, Season\nIn the Egg Bowl, Mississippi State beat Ole Miss by a score of 19\u201314. Ole Miss still held the lead in the series with 35 wins, 26 losses and 6 ties. In the Magnolia Bowl, LSU beat Ole Miss by a score of 61\u201317. LSU held the lead in the series with 30 wins, 26 losses, and 3 ties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 42], "content_span": [43, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091223-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Ole Miss Rebels football team, Season summary, Houston\nArchie Manning broke his left forearm less than five minutes into the third quarter after being sandwiched between two defenders with Ole Miss leading 14\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091224-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Omani coup d'\u00e9tat\nThe 1970 Omani coup d'\u00e9tat was the bloodless overthrow of Sultan of Oman Said bin Taimur by his son Qaboos bin Said in Oman on 23 July 1970. Occurring in the midst of the Dhofar Rebellion, the palace coup was executed with the support of the British and saw Sultan Said bin Taimur deposed and sent into exile to the United Kingdom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091224-0000-0001", "contents": "1970 Omani coup d'\u00e9tat\nThe coup was a pivotal moment in modern Omani history as Qaboos swiftly set in motion numerous wide-ranging modernization reforms in the kingdom, transforming Oman from an underdeveloped backwater into a country on par with many Western nations in terms of political stability and economic development. At the time of his death in January 2020, Sultan Qaboos was the longest-serving ruler in the Middle East.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091224-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Omani coup d'\u00e9tat, Background\nBeginning at the end of the 19th century, Oman gradually came under the influence of the British Empire through a series of treaties and diplomatic arrangements. Eventually, the Omani Sultan became increasingly reliant on Britain for support and advice. The Sultanate's primary sources of revenue, notably the slave trade and arms dealing, were prohibited by the British, resulting in confrontations between the Omani authorities and tribesmen in the country's interior. These confrontations led to Oman seeking military support from the British who agreed to defend Sultan Faisal bin Turki from attempts at overthrowing him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 660]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091224-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Omani coup d'\u00e9tat, Background\nIn 1913, Sultan Taimur bin Feisal took the reins of Oman and brought back the kingdom to a more stable financial footing and quelled tribal unrest in the country. He ruled until his abdication in 1932 at which point his eldest son, Said bin Taimur, took over as Sultan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091224-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Omani coup d'\u00e9tat, Background\nUnder Sultan Said bin Taimur's rule, Oman became increasingly isolationist and underdeveloped. Internal unrest flourished such as in the case of the Jebel Akhdar War and Dhofar Rebellion. Sultan bin Taimur became increasingly reliant on the British to maintain control in his own country, which he refused to rule in a modern manner, at one point refusing to even leave his palace after an assassination attempt. The Dhofar Rebellion was a communist insurgency launched in 1963 and had gripped the country since then, pitting British-led Omani troops against the insurgents primarily in the southern part of the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 655]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091224-0003-0001", "contents": "1970 Omani coup d'\u00e9tat, Background\nThe Sultan's Armed Forces (SAF) were under de facto British command. British Colonel Hugh Oldman commanded the Sultan's troops in Muscat, while Brigadier John Graham was the overall commander of the SAF. By 1970, all of the country's only major source of revenue, petrodollars, was either going to fighting insurgents or directly into the sultan's coffers. Sultan bin Taimur's poor leadership of the country and overreliance on British military support aggravated the British government, who began to view Taimur's deposition as the only viable way to defeating Oman's growing communist insurgency. British officials contacted the Sultan's son, Qaboos bin Said al Said, who was under house arrest per his father's orders, by placing voice messages in musical cassette tapes and informed him of the plan the government was concocting to topple his father. Qaboos agreed and the operation proceeded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 932]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091224-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Omani coup d'\u00e9tat, Coup\nOn 23 July 1970, Qaboos bin Said al Said, the Sultan's 29-year-old son and graduate of Sandhurst, purportedly informed British commanders of his intent to overthrow his father. However, planning for the coup had already been in motion for several weeks before that and British-led military units were being put into position to topple the Sultan. Graham convened the top Arab commanders of the Desert Regiment, the main Omani unit that would carry out the coup, and informed them of the letter sent to them by Qaboos which \"commanded\" the British officers to carry out the coup. The meeting secured their loyalty and cooperation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 28], "content_span": [29, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091224-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Omani coup d'\u00e9tat, Coup\nThe troops arrived at the al-Husn palace in Salalah, Oman and met no resistance. The tribal sheikh of the five hundred guardsmen entrusted to defend the palace's exterior had been persuaded by the British to order his men to stand down prior to the coup. The remainder of the coup was carried out predominantly by Arab troops in order to mask the extent of the involvement of the British in the operation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 28], "content_span": [29, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091224-0005-0001", "contents": "1970 Omani coup d'\u00e9tat, Coup\nDuring the coup, Said bin Taimur shot Sheikh Braik Al Ghafri, a coup plotter and son of a prominent Omani governor in the stomach before accidentally shooting himself in the foot as he cocked his pistol. Said bin Taimur managed to briefly escape with a few confidantes and bodyguards down a series of hidden passageways and tunnels but was recaptured quickly. The wounded sultan urged his adviser to send an urgent message to Oldman informing him of the events that had transpired, which Oldman being a coup planner ignored.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 28], "content_span": [29, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091224-0005-0002", "contents": "1970 Omani coup d'\u00e9tat, Coup\nThe coup ended when Said bin Taimur signed a document of abdication, handing over the reins of the country to his son, Qaboos. Bin Taimur was flown out of the country on a RAF Bristol Britannia first to Bahrain for medical treatment and then on to London where he lived the remaining two years of his life in a suite in The Dorchester, a luxury hotel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 28], "content_span": [29, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091224-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 Omani coup d'\u00e9tat, Aftermath\nSultan Qaboos bin Said al Said immediately set on his priorities of modernizing the country and defeating the insurgency in the newly renamed Sultanate of Oman's interior. Prior to taking the throne, Oman had no secondary schools, only one hospital, and ten kilometers of paved roads. He redirected the country's oil revenue to economic initiatives, moving the country away from subsistence farming and fishing, and building modern infrastructure. Schools were built, the country was electrified, numerous roads were built, and Western journalists ceased labeling the country as \"medieval\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 624]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091224-0006-0001", "contents": "1970 Omani coup d'\u00e9tat, Aftermath\nSlavery was abolished, and by 1975 the insurgency in the country had been suppressed in an international effort. By 1980, Oman had 28 hospitals, 363 schools, and 12,000 kilometers of paved roads. In addition, the Majlis Al-Shura was established which has the power to review legislation and call government ministers to meet with them. Internal unrest in Oman has successfully ended owing to an initiative by Qaboos to include all ethnic and tribal groups into the administration of the country and granting amnesty for former rebels. Bin Taimur died in 1972 in London and Sultan Qaboos ruled Oman until his death in 2020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 656]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091224-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 Omani coup d'\u00e9tat, Aftermath\nThe success of the Dhofar Rebellion which was proving to be a formidable challenge for Oman was reversed with the removal of Taimur. Qaboos launched a concerted \u00a3400 million effort to modernize the Omani military, even founding a navy to protect the country's oil exports. The communist rebels gradually lost their foreign support bases in the Soviet Union and China after a string of military defeats. This, coupled with mounting international opposition to the rebellion including the deployment of Iranian troops in 1973 led to a final defeat of the rebels in 1975.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091224-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 Omani coup d'\u00e9tat, Aftermath\nThe involvement of the British government as a whole in the coup was denied for forty years with the official government narrative being the coup was carried out predominantly by Arab troops with their British commanders taking part on personal initiative. In fact, the coup had been planned by MI6, the Foreign Office, and the Ministry of Defence and given the go-ahead by prime minister Edward Heath. Contingency planning of the event showed that Qaboos would have been kept under the protection of British troops then flown out of the country should the coup have failed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091225-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Omloop Het Volk\nThe 1970 Omloop Het Volk was the 25th edition of the Omloop Het Volk cycle race and was held on 28 February 1970. The race started and finished in Ghent. The race was won by Frans Verbeeck.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091226-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Open Championship\nThe 1970 Open Championship was the 99th Open Championship, played 8\u201312 July at the Old Course in St Andrews, Scotland. Jack Nicklaus won the second of his three Opens in an 18-hole Sunday playoff over Doug Sanders, 72 to 73. In gusty winds during the fourth round on Saturday, Sanders saved par from the Road Hole bunker and led by one heading to the 72nd hole. After a lengthy drive on the short par-4, he took four shots from just 74 yards (68\u00a0m) and missed a downhill putt for par from three feet to win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091226-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Open Championship\nThis was the first playoff at The Open since 1963 and the first at 18 holes. The previous playoffs were 36 holes on Saturday. Prior to 1966, the final two rounds of The Open were played on Friday. The playoff format was changed again to the four-hole aggregate after the 1985 Open, first used in 1989.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091226-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Open Championship\nA thunderstorm late in the opening round on Wednesday evening caused a suspension in play; it was competed early the next day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091226-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Open Championship, Course\n^ The 10th hole was posthumously named for Bobby Jones in 1972", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 93]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091226-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Open Championship, Course\nPrevious lengths of the course for The Open Championship (since 1950):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091226-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Open Championship, Round summaries, Second round\nSource:Amateurs: Melnyk (-1), Bonallack (+1), Humphreys (+2), George (+2), Webster (+5),MacDonald (+7), Berry (+8), Steel (+10), Mosey (+11), Sumner (+11), Sweeny Jr (+11), Farmer (+14)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 53], "content_span": [54, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091226-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 Open Championship, Round summaries, Third round\nSource:Amateurs: Melnyk (+3), Humphreys (+6), Bonallack (+8), George (+9), Webster (+11)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 52], "content_span": [53, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091227-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Orange Bowl\nThe 1970 Orange Bowl was the 36th edition of the college football bowl game, played at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida, on Thursday, January\u00a01. The final game of the 1969\u201370 bowl game season, it matched the independent and second-ranked Penn State Nittany Lions and the #6 Missouri Tigers of the Big Eight Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091227-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Orange Bowl\nA slight underdog, Penn State scored early and won, 10\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 74]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091227-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Orange Bowl, Teams, Penn State\nThe Nittany Lions entered the game on a 21-game winning streak, and were unbeaten in their last 29 games. This was Penn State's second straight Orange Bowl appearance, after they declined an invitation to play top-ranked Texas in the Cotton Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 35], "content_span": [36, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091227-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Orange Bowl, Teams, Missouri\nMissouri was co-champion of the Big Eight for the first time since 1960; through 2019, this remains their most recent conference championship. This was Missouri's third Orange Bowl appearance in ten years; the most recent was nine years earlier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 33], "content_span": [34, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091227-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Orange Bowl, Game summary\nThis was the sixth straight year for a night kickoff at the Orange Bowl, following the Rose Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 30], "content_span": [31, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091227-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Orange Bowl, Game summary\nA field goal by Mike Reitz gave the Nittany Lions an early lead. After the ensuing kickoff, the Tigers' Joe Moore was hit in the backfield and fumbled on the first play and Penn State recovered. On the next play, quarterback Chuck Burkhart threw a 28-yard touchdown pass to halfback Lydell Mitchell, giving them a 10\u20130 lead in the first quarter. Missouri had more turnovers (nine, including seven interceptions) than points (a field goal from 33 yards by Henry Brown, scored in the second quarter).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 30], "content_span": [31, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091227-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 Orange Bowl, Game summary\nThe second half was scoreless and it rained in the fourth quarter. Missouri threatened late, with a first down at the Penn State fifteen with less than two minutes remaining, but resulted in the seventh interception on third down, returned from the two to across midfield. Penn State clinched their second straight undefeated season, but due to Texas' victory in the Cotton Bowl earlier in the day, the Longhorns were declared national champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 30], "content_span": [31, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091227-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 Orange Bowl, Aftermath\nThe Nittany Lions returned to the Orange Bowl four years later. Missouri head coach Dan Devine left after the following season for the NFL's Green Bay Packers, and the Tigers haven't appeared in a major bowl since. (NOTE: Missouri played in the Fiesta Bowl in 1972 and the Cotton Bowl in 2008 and 2014, but those were not considered major bowls at the time played. The Fiesta and Cotton bowls became part of the College Football Playoff rotation in 2014.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 27], "content_span": [28, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091227-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 Orange Bowl, Aftermath\nThis was the last Orange Bowl played on natural grass for seven years; the stadium installed artificial turf (Poly-Turf) prior to the next season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 27], "content_span": [28, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091228-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Oregon State Beavers football team\nThe 1970 Oregon State Beavers football team represented Oregon State University in the Pacific-8 Conference (Pac-8) during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. In\u00a0their sixth season under head coach Dee Andros, the Beavers compiled a 6\u20135 record (3\u20134 in Pac-8, tied for sixth), and were outscored 239\u00a0to\u00a0211. They\u00a0played five home games on campus at Parker Stadium in Corvallis, with one at Civic\u00a0Stadium in Portland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091228-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Oregon State Beavers football team\nThe Beavers defeated rival Oregon in the Civil\u00a0War game for the seventh straight year. This was Oregon State's fifth-straight winning season, but the next was decades away, in\u00a01999.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091229-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Oregon Webfoots football team\nThe 1970 Oregon Webfoots football team represented the University of Oregon during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. Five\u00a0home games were played in Eugene at Autzen Stadium, with one at Civic Stadium in Portland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091229-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Oregon Webfoots football team\nLed by fourth-year head coach Jerry Frei, the Ducks were 6\u20134\u20131 overall and 4\u20133 in the Pacific-8 Conference, tied for second. The opener was played in Portland, the Ducks' first game there in four years; the last was in 1966, prior to the opening of Autzen. After upsetting both UCLA and USC, Oregon was 5\u20132 and ranked #16 in the AP Poll, but won just one of their last four games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091229-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Oregon Webfoots football team\nIn the second game of the season at Illinois, senior quarterback (and punter) Tom Blanchard injured a troublesome knee and was relieved by sophomore Dan Fouts, who became the starter. Blanchard returned the next week against third-ranked Stanford, but only as the\u00a0punter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091229-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Oregon Webfoots football team\nThe Ducks lost the season-ending Civil\u00a0War game to Oregon\u00a0State for a seventh consecutive year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091229-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Oregon Webfoots football team\nThe marching band was not funded this year; in its place was the student rock band Ouroboros, paid $210 per\u00a0game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091229-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Oregon Webfoots football team, All-conference\nFour Oregon players were named to the All-Pacific-8 team: junior halfback Bobby Moore (later Ahmad Rash\u0101d), senior split end Bob Newland, junior linebacker Tom Graham, and senior cornerback Lionel\u00a0Coleman. On\u00a0the second team (honorable mention) were senior guard Jack Stambaugh and junior cornerback Bill\u00a0Drake. Moore also made the first team as a sophomore in 1969 and as a senior in\u00a01971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091230-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Oregon gubernatorial election\nThe 1970 Oregon gubernatorial election took place on November 3, 1970. Republican incumbent Tom McCall defeated Democratic nominee Robert W. Straub to win re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091231-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Orsz\u00e1gos Bajnoks\u00e1g I (men's water polo)\n1970 Orsz\u00e1gos Bajnoks\u00e1g I (men's water polo) was the 64th water polo championship in Hungary. There were ten teams who played two-round match for the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091231-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Orsz\u00e1gos Bajnoks\u00e1g I (men's water polo), Final list\n* M: Matches W: Win D: Drawn L: Lost G+: Goals earned G-: Goals got P: Point", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091232-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Ottawa Rough Riders season\nThe 1970 Ottawa Rough Riders finished the season in 4th place in the Eastern Conference with a 4\u201310 record in their first season without Frank Clair as head coach after he served 14 seasons in that capacity. Jack Gotta, who was an assistant with Ottawa from 1967 to 1969 became head coach. The Rough Riders finished the season out of the playoffs and failed to defend their back-to-back Grey Cup titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091233-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 PGA Championship\nThe 1970 PGA Championship was the 52nd PGA Championship, played August 13\u201316 at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Dave Stockton won the first of his two PGA Championships at 279 (\u22121), two strokes ahead of runners-up Bob Murphy and Arnold Palmer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091233-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 PGA Championship\nIt was Palmer's third runner-up finish at the only major he never won, and was his last time in contention in the final round of a PGA Championship. Stockton won his second PGA Championship six years later in 1976.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091233-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 PGA Championship\nThe third round was played in 101\u00a0\u00b0F (38\u00a0\u00b0C) heat, and Stockton led by three strokes after 54 holes at 206 (\u22124). Defending champion Raymond Floyd carded a 65 (\u22125) on Saturday and was in second place at 209 (\u22121) entering the final round, and Palmer was alone in third place at 211 (+1).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091233-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 PGA Championship\nIt was the second major championship at Southern Hills, which hosted the U.S. Open in 1958. It later hosted the U.S. Open in 1977 and 2001 and the PGA Championship in 1982, 1994, and 2007.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091234-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 PGA Tour\nThe 1970 PGA Tour season was played from January 8 to December 13. The season consisted of 45 official money events. Billy Casper won the most tournaments, four, and there were six first-time winners. The tournament results and award winners are listed below.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091234-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 PGA Tour, Tournament results\nThe following table shows all the official money events for the 1970 season. \"Date\" is the ending date of the tournament. The numbers in parentheses after the winners' names are the number of wins they had on the tour up to and including that event. Majors are shown in bold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 33], "content_span": [34, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091235-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates\nThis is a list of the 1970 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091235-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates\nThe tournament was held in early November at Tucson Country Club in Tucson, Arizona for the first time. There were nine 54-hole district tournaments to determine the final field of 60 players for the final 72-hole qualifying tournament. 18 players earned their tour cards with Bob Barbarossa being medalist. There was a five-for-one playoff for the last card.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091235-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates\nThis was the first year that Greg Powers attempted to qualify for the PGA Tour at PGA Tour Qualifying Tournament. He was not successful. Australian player David Graham also attempted to qualify. However, he was not successful either.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091236-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific Coast International Open\nThe 1970 Pacific Coast International Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Berkeley Tennis Club in Berkeley, California in the United States and was part of the Grand Prix tennis circuit. It was the 82nd edition of the tournament and ran from September 28 through October 4, 1970. Arthur Ashe won the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091236-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific Coast International Open, Finals, Doubles\nBob Lutz / Stan Smith defeated Roy Barth / Tom Gorman 6\u20132, 7\u20135, 4\u20136, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 54], "content_span": [55, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091237-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific Southwest Open\nThe 1970 Pacific Southwest Open was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Los Angeles Tennis Club in Los Angeles, California in the United States. The men's tournament was part of the Grand Prix tennis circuit. It was the 44th edition of the tournament and ran from September 21 through September 27, 1970. Rod Laver and Sharon Walsh won the singles titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091237-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific Southwest Open, Finals, Men's Doubles\nTom Okker / Marty Riessen defeated Bob Lutz / Stan Smith 7\u20136, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091237-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific Southwest Open, Finals, Women's Doubles\nJanet Newberry / Sharon Walsh defeated Esm\u00e9 Emmanuel / Cecilia Martinez 6\u20133, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091238-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific Tigers football team\nThe 1970 Pacific Tigers football team represented the University of the Pacific (UOP) in the 1970 NCAA University Division football season as a member of the Pacific Coast Athletic Association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091238-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific Tigers football team\nLed by first-year head coach Homer Smith, the Tigers played home games at Pacific Memorial Stadium in Stockton, California. They opened with three wins, finished at 5\u20136 (2\u20133 PCAA, tied for fourth), and were outscored 231 to 166.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091238-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific Tigers football team, NFL Draft\nOne UOP Tiger was selected in the 1971 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 44], "content_span": [45, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091239-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific hurricane season\nThe 1970 Pacific hurricane season began on May 15, 1970 in the east Pacific, and on June 1, 1970 in the central Pacific. It ended on November 30, 1970. These dates conventionally delimit the period of time when tropical cyclones form in the eastern Pacific Ocean.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091239-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific hurricane season\nThis season had an above average number of storms. There were twenty-one tropical cyclones, of which eighteen reached tropical storm strength. Four storms became hurricanes, of which none reached major hurricane strength. In the central Pacific, one hurricane and one tropical depression formed. One of the depressions crossed the dateline to become a typhoon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091239-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Adele\nAn area of low pressure lacked strong convection until May 30, when it strengthened into Tropical Depression One-E. On May 31, the storm further intensified into Tropical Storm Adele, the first named storm and Hurricane of the season. Adele tracked westward, as it strengthened into a hurricane on June 1. It reached its peak intensity later that day. As Adele moved west, A hostile environment caused it to weaken into a Tropical Storm. Adele further weakened, and it was downgraded into a depression on June 7. It was degenerated into an open trough, and it dissipated on June 7. Despite that it remained away from any land masses, Adele was retired after this season for unknown reasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 746]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091239-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Blanca\nThe tropical disturbance that became Blanca was first noted on June 8 from satellite pictures. The new disturbance would reach tropical storm strength 24\u00a0hours later. Blanca moved in a northwest direction throughout its short life, dissipating on June 12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091239-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Connie\nNear the same location where Hurricane Adele formed two weeks earlier, a disturbance was noted on June 13. The disturbance abruptly became a tropical storm on June 17. The newly named Connie moved slowly to the northwest, reaching a peak intensity of 50\u00a0mph (80\u00a0km/h) on June 18. Connie started weakening on June 19, finally dissipating on June 21 after stalling 118\u00a0mi (190\u00a0km) from Clarion Island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091239-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Depression Dolores\nA disturbance first noted on June 19 had efficient outflow to be called a tropical depression. Satellite photos taken the same day revealed cloud structure that resembled a tropical storm forming, resulting in the system being called Dolores. The day after, no traces of a storm or of \"Dolores\" were found by reconnaissance. Post season analysis revealed Dolores to have only been a tropical depression.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091239-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Eileen\nA tropical depression formed just off the southern coast of Mexico on June 26. It headed northwestward, reaching storm strength on June 28. The next day, Eileen turned to the northeast, reached a peak of 45\u00a0mph (72\u00a0km/h) winds, and hit western Mexico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091239-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Francesca\nFrancesca was a Category 3 hurricane which was, for a period of time, obscured by a cap of clouds above the hurricane's eye, distorting the appearance of the hurricane. The precursor disturbance to Hurricane Francesca was first noticed on July 1. The system became a tropical depression later that day and reached tropical storm strength the next day. On July 3, data from a ship indicated winds of near 100\u00a0mph (160\u00a0km/h), which indicate a storm of Category\u00a02 strength, near the center of Francesca.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091239-0007-0001", "contents": "1970 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Francesca\nThe cloud cap, which remained over the hurricane since it first became a hurricane, started to move off the lower clouds around the center of the system around July 5. A center fix was obtained, but the maximum sustained winds were unobtainable from the sea surface because of cloud cover in and around the center. Francesca started weakening on July 6, a fact made clear by reconnaissance which indicated that the system had weakened to a tropical storm. The further weakening was obscured by the cloud cover. The final reconnaissance on the weakening system was reported on July 8, two days before Francesca dissipated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 681]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091239-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Gretchen\nGretchen was first noticed on satellite imagery on July 14. From then on out, Gretchen was a hard storm to predict, leading to large errors in forecasting. The storm dissipated on July 21.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 63], "content_span": [64, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091239-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Helga\nThe system that became Helga was first noticed on July 16. The next day, reconnaissance found a minimal tropical storm with winds of only 40\u00a0mph (64\u00a0km/h). Based on satellite imagery, Helga was believed to be gaining strength as it approached Baja California. At one point during intensification, the storm abruptly started weakening, and on July 19, after stalling less than 118\u00a0miles\u00a0(190\u00a0km) south of the tip of Baja California, Helga dissipated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091239-0010-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Ione 1\nA tropical depression developed off the southern coast of Mexico on July 22. A larger, more active, and intensifying tropical cyclone was spotted by satellite at 2235 on the 24th near 17\u00b0N., 111\u00b0W. When the expanding circulation of thisstorm center reached the area of lone No. 1, winds in the latter area decreased and lone No. 1 disappeared abruptly. The second storm, also called lone, movednorth-northwestward and began to weaken. Her top winds were apparently reached about the time of the picture on the 24th which indicated speeds of 55 or 60kn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091239-0010-0001", "contents": "1970 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Ione 1\nMaximum winds on the 25th were 45 kn. near 20. N.,112\u00b0W. These winds decreased to 25 kn. the next day as storm activity faded rapidly near 16 N., 113\u00b0W'. What was unusual about the system was that another tropical storm developed just to its northeast on July 24. That storm, also named Ione, tracked northward, reaching a peak of 60\u00a0mph (97\u00a0km/h) winds before dissipating on July 25. Operationally, these were considered to be the same storm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091239-0011-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Ione 2\nA tropical depression was discovered near 14\u00b0N.,102\u00b0W., at 1800 on July 22, but it became disorganized as seen on satellite pictures the next day. Laterevents indicate it was splitting into two tropical cyclones, both of which were to attain tropical storm strength. The tropical storm first called lonewas encountered by the KANIKAWA MARU at 2100 on July 24. That ship was buffeted by 48-kn southeasterly winds and 15-ft seas near 21\u00b0N, 107\u00b0W. The storm washedout the next day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091239-0012-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Joyce\nA broad, flat low-pressure area persisted south of Baja California after Ione dissipated. On July 29, a small low circulation developed with a center about 120\u00a0nautical miles\u00a0(220\u00a0km) south of Manzanillo. The system was given the name Joyce after winds of 40\u00a0mph (64\u00a0km/h) were reported by a ship. In a similar way to Hurricane Francesca, Tropical Storm Joyce's low level center was unclear due to a cap of cirrus clouds. Joyce reached its peak intensity on July 31 with winds of near 60\u00a0mph (97\u00a0km/h) before weakening, becoming a depression on August 1. Joyce dissipated on August 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 645]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091239-0013-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Kristen\nKristen was a loosely organized storm that formed from a disturbance that was causing squalls near the Mexican coast. Tropical storm-force winds were found on August 5. Kristen was tracked by ship reports and satellite pictures. Kristen reached its peak intensity of 50\u00a0mph (80\u00a0km/h) winds on August 6. The storm dissipated on August 8 while over cold water.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091239-0014-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Lorraine\nTropical Storm Lorraine, which formed on August 16 south of Mexico, intensified to a hurricane on the 20th. Two days later over open waters, it reached a peak of 95\u00a0mph (153\u00a0km/h) winds, but estimates from the Central Pacific Hurricane Center estimated it had winds of 115\u00a0mph (185\u00a0km/h). Without a chance to strengthen further, Lorraine weakened, finally dissipating on August 27 due to dry air.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091239-0015-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Maggie\nA flat low-pressure system appeared in an area of showers to the west-southwest of hurricane Lorraine around 1800 on the 20th. The French refrigeratedcargo carrier BIAFRA was buffeted by 38-kn southerly winds, with a barometer reading 1006 mbar, near 13'N, 132'W, by the soon to be named tropical storm Maggie at 0000 on the 21st. Maggie intensified slowly while moving west-northwestward at 9 kn; her maximum winds were estimated at 55 kn at 0300 on the 25th. Maggie passed about 80\u00a0mi south of the island of Hawaii on the 25th, dumping torrential rains over the big island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091239-0015-0001", "contents": "1970 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Maggie\nRainfall amounts ranged from 10 to 15 in on the windward side of the island from the Hamuka coastto Puna and from 1 to 7 in on the leeward side. Maggie was downgraded to a tropical depression at 0900 on the 26th near 18N, 157W. A westward turn saved Hawaii from a direct hit, but Maggie still brought strong surf and heavy yet beneficial rain to the island of Hawaii. There is some evidence that the remains of Maggie redeveloped into Hurricane Dot in the Central Pacific on September 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091239-0016-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Norma\nNorma was an indirect but essential cause of a flood disaster in Arizona that became known as the \"Labor Day Storm of 1970\". A depression formed August 31 and rapidly intensified into a tropical storm. Moving rapidly, it headed out to sea before slowing down and weakening. Norma's circulation fed humid unstable air into a large extratropical cyclone over Arizona. As Norma dissipated, record rains fell over the state from September 4 to September 6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091239-0017-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Norma\nThe rains were deadly. There were a total of 22 deaths, including 14 from a flash flood on a creek. The damage amounted to over 1\u00a0million dollars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091239-0018-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Dot\nA tropical disturbance, possibly the remnants of Tropical Storm Maggie, became a tropical depression on September 1 to the northwest of Hawaii. It moved to the northwest, coming within miles of the International Date Line and Midway Island but remaining in the Central Pacific. Dot turned to the northeast, reaching tropical storm strength on September 2 and hurricane strength September 3 before being absorbed by a cold core system the next day. When Dot became a hurricane at 35\u00b0 north, it became the highest latitude for a storm to reach hurricane strength east of the International Dateline. This record was soon eclipsed by Hurricane 12 of the 1975 season. A flight flown into Dot also flew into Typhoon Clara.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 770]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091239-0019-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Orlene\n65\u00a0mph (105\u00a0km/h) Tropical Storm Orlene hit Mexico in eastern Oaxaca on September 8, having maintained a northeast track for its short lifetime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091239-0020-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Patricia\nHurricane Patricia was a strong Category 2 hurricane with winds of 95\u00a0mph, Patricia formed on October 4 and dissipated on October 11.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091239-0021-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Rosalie\nRosalie's existence was confirmed on October 21 by observation from a ship. Reconnaissance on the 22nd reported a central pressure of 1006 mb. After a slight regeneration on the 23rd, Rosalie began rapid dissipation, finally dissipating on the 23rd.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091239-0022-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Selma\nThe final storm of the season, Tropical Storm Selma, developed on November 1 to the southwest of Mexico. It meandered to the north, turning to the northeast and northwest before heading southeastward and dissipating on November 8.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091239-0023-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific hurricane season, Storm names\nThese names were used for storms that formed in the east Pacific Ocean this season. It is the same list used in the 1966 season. Names not retired from this list were used again in the 1974 season. Storms were named Norma, Orlene, Patricia, Rosalie, and Selma for the first time this season. Names not used this year are marked in gray.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 42], "content_span": [43, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091239-0024-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific hurricane season, Storm names\nOne storm, Ione, was treated as one storm operationally but was found to have been two storms in post-analysis. Another storm, Dolores, was found to have been a tropical depression in post-season analysis and shouldn't have been named.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 42], "content_span": [43, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091239-0025-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific hurricane season, Storm names\nThe central Pacific used names and numbers from the west Pacific's typhoon list. One name\u2014 Dot\u2014 was required.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 42], "content_span": [43, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091239-0026-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific hurricane season, Storm names\nThe name Adele was retired from this list for unknown reasons. It was replaced in the 1974 season with Aletta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 42], "content_span": [43, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091239-0027-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific hurricane season, Storm names\nThis is the only time that the name Kristen was used. In the 1966 season the name Kirsten was used. It was changed to Kristen this year, perhaps due to a clerical error. In the 1974 season, it reverted to Kirsten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 42], "content_span": [43, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091239-0028-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific hurricane season, Administrative changes\nThis is the first season that the Redwood City-based Eastern Pacific Hurricane Center started issuing advisories on tropical cyclones in the eastern north Pacific. It replaced the previous forecaster, Fleet Weather Central.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091239-0029-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific hurricane season, Administrative changes\nThe Central Pacific Hurricane Center started to issue advisories on tropical cyclones in its area of responsibility this season. It replaced the Joint Hurricane Warning Center.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091240-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific typhoon season\nThe 1970 Pacific typhoon season has no official bounds; it ran year-round in 1970, but most tropical cyclones tend to form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean between June and December. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091240-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific typhoon season\nThe scope of this article is limited to the Pacific Ocean, north of the equator and west of the International Dateline. Storms that form east of the date line and north of the equator are called hurricanes; see 1970 Pacific hurricane season. Tropical Storms formed in the entire west Pacific basin were assigned a name by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center. Tropical depressions in this basin have the \"W\" suffix added to their number. Tropical depressions that enter or form in the Philippine area of responsibility are assigned a name by the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration or PAGASA. This can often result in the same storm having two names.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 715]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091240-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific typhoon season, Systems\n27 tropical depressions formed this year in the Western Pacific, of which 24 became tropical storms. 12 storms reached typhoon intensity, of which 7 reached super typhoon strength.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091240-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Nancy (Atang)\nNancy originated from the interaction between an active ITCZ and a cold front near the Caroline Islands and the equator in mid February. An increase in convection was shown by weather satellites on February 18 and by the following day a recon aircraft found a weak depression to the south of the Caroline Islands. The depression moved west, suppressed south by a high pressure ridge to the north, and gradually strengthened into a tropical storm and was given the name Nancy early on February 20. Nancy became a typhoon on the 22 about 100 miles northwest from Woleai.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091240-0003-0001", "contents": "1970 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Nancy (Atang)\nOn February 23 Nancy passed to the north of Yap where strong gale winds occurred. Continuing to encounter more favorable conditions Nancy was able to achieve a peak intensity of 140\u00a0mph (220\u00a0km/h) and a pressure of 952\u00a0hPa (28.1\u00a0inHg) on February 24. This was the equivalent of a category four hurricane. It is rare to have a typhoon of this magnitude during the month of February, as noted by the JTWC, only Irma of the 1953 season reached the same intensity at the time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091240-0003-0002", "contents": "1970 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Nancy (Atang)\nAs Nancy approached the Philippine Islands the typhoon traversed to the western ambit of the ridge that had kept it to the south, allowing it to move farther in a north direction. During the 25 Nancy passed east off the coast of the easternmost islands of the Philippines. On the island of Catanduanes, the edge of the eye brushed the eastern coast. A U. S. Coast Guard loran station on Catanduanes recorded intense winds, at which point the equipment malfunctioned. The storm encountered a hostile environment to the northeast of Luzon and began to weaken. By February 26 Nancy had become a tropical storm and shortly afterward had transitioned into an extra tropical cyclone and moved off into open ocean. By the 28 what remained of Nancy was a frontal trough.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 822]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091240-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Nancy (Atang)\nNancy caused significant damage to the Philippines and surrounding islands. Particularly hard hit were the islands of Catanduanes and Samar. Damage was estimated near a million dollars with 5,000 families homeless. On the Island of Yap heavy storm surge caused $160,000 in damages, luckily no one was killed. A 6,065 ton American ship, Antinous, encountered the full brunt of the typhoon shortly before midnight, February 24. Ship logs record sea swells of over 40 feet, winds over 100 knots, a central pressure of 953 millibars, and three of the ships large butane tanks on the main dock broke free during the storm along with a portion of its bulwark.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 713]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091240-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Olga (Deling)\nIn mid-June a change in the jet stream over a large part of the Pacific Ocean caused an increase in tropical wave frequency; one becoming the precursor to Olga. The wave was first noticed near the Marshall Islands, particularly the Island of Majuro on June 24. As it moved west weather satellites depicted the wave had begun to organize with considerable convection and spiraling storm bands as it neared the Central Caroline Islands. Due to the waves close proximity to a high pressure area to the north, strong easterlies accelerated it to the west.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091240-0005-0001", "contents": "1970 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Olga (Deling)\nThe increased forward speed inhibited the establishment of a circulation until it was south of Guam early on June 29. Later that day reconnaissance found a closed center and gale-force winds, prompting the JTWC to upgrade the low into a tropical storm and was given the name Olga. As it entered the Philippine Sea the ridge that had kept it to the south began to weaken allowing Olga to move in a northwestward direction. As Olga entered an increasingly favorable environment, the storm slowed its forward speed and strengthened into a typhoon late on June 29.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 620]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091240-0005-0002", "contents": "1970 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Olga (Deling)\nRapid intensification followed as the system bottomed out at a pressure of 904\u00a0hPa (26.7\u00a0inHg) and winds of 160\u00a0mph (260\u00a0km/h) on July 1. The rapid 62 millibar drop between June 30 and July 1 caused an intense wind profile surrounding the small eye. The storm followed a break in the ridge and moved north while gradually weakening. As Olga was passing to the east of Taiwan a short wave from the China mainland gave an eastward component to the storm's motion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091240-0005-0003", "contents": "1970 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Olga (Deling)\nA low developed following the short wave and began to influence Olga, causing the typhoon to weaken. Dry air soon entered the circulation, reducing the systems overall convection. During July 5 Olga made landfall on the Kansai region of Japan, south of Osaka, as a tropical storm. The system continued into the Sea of Japan, and merged with a cold front. The remaining low tracked over South Korea before completely dissipating on July 7.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091240-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Olga (Deling)\nOlga was a very intense typhoon, causing an estimated ten million dollars to Japan alone. While passing through the Ryukyu Islands wind measurements were as high as 130\u00a0mph (205\u00a0km/h) on July 4. Heavy rains occurred over Japan, up to 14 inches in some areas, caused landslides and extensive flooding; killing 20. In South Korea 29 deaths were caused by the heavy rainfall associated with Olga's remnants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091240-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Severe Tropical Storm Pamela (Klaring)\nForming on June 28, Pamela slowly travelled towards the Philippines, and made landfall late on June 30. The tropical storm brought rains and winds to the Philippines, but no major damage was reported. Having greatly weakened after landfall, Pamela degenerated into a remnant low and dissipated over the South China Sea on July 1, just as Category 5 Super Typhoon Olga reached its peak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 76], "content_span": [77, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091240-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Severe Tropical Storm Ruby (Emang)\nTropical Storm Ruby formed as a disturbance east of the Philippines. It slowly traveled west-southwest, becoming a tropical storm on the 12th. It crossed the northern part of Luzon before making landfall in China on the 15th. The storm became extratropical over China, and proceeded northwest, crossing Hokkaido before dissipating over the Aleutian Islands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 72], "content_span": [73, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091240-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Storm Sally\nTropical Storm Sally stayed far offshore during its life. It formed as a disturbance over the Pacific on the 18th, became a tropical storm on the 21st, then became extratropical on the 22nd and dissipated the next day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091240-0010-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Storm Therese\nTropical Storm Therese also remained far at sea during its life. It formed as a disturbance on the 30th, then turned northwestward and became a tropical storm, before undergoing extratropical transition and dissipating over the Bering Sea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091240-0011-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Storm Violet (Heling)\nTropical Storm Violet formed east of the Philippines, then traveled westward, becoming a tropical storm before making landfall on Luzon. Violet then crossed the South China Sea before making landfall in China as a weak tropical storm. It dissipated over China shortly after.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 68], "content_span": [69, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091240-0012-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Wilda (Iliang)\nA broad surface trough developed into Tropical Storm Wilda on August 9. After drifting to the west-southwest, it turned to the north, where it reached a peak of 120\u00a0mph winds on the 12th near Okinawa. Wilda continued northward, and weakened slightly to a 105\u00a0mph typhoon before making landfall on western Ky\u016bsh\u016b on the 14th. Wilda accelerated to the northeast, and became extratropical on the 15th. The typhoon caused heavy rain, killing 11\u00a0people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091240-0013-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Anita\nAn upper level low contributed to the formation of Tropical Depression 11W on August 16 over the northern Marianas Islands. It quickly intensified, reaching typhoon status that night. Anita's intensification rate slowed initially, but as it continued northwestward late on the 18th and 19th, Anita rapidly strengthened to a 155\u00a0mph super typhoon. It weakened as it accelerated to the north-northwest, and hit western Shikoku in Japan on the 21st as a 115\u00a0mph typhoon. Anita, which became extratropical on the 22nd, caused 23 deaths and sank 31 vessels.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091240-0014-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Billie (Loleng)\nTyphoon Billie formed in the Philippine Sea as a weak depression. It intensified while heading northwards, becoming a tropical storm on the 23rd, a typhoon on the 25th, and reaching its maximum intensity of 110-knot winds and a 945-millibar central pressure as it passed the Ryukyu Islands on the 27th. The storm brushed South Korea as a category-1-equivalent typhoon on the 29th before making landfall in North Korea on the 30th. The remnants of Billie dissipated over the Sino-Soviet border shortly after.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091240-0015-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Clara\nTropical Storm Clara developed on August 26 southeast of Japan from an upper tropospheric circulation that separated from the Mid-Pacific trough. It quickly strengthened, and became a typhoon on the 27th at 31.9\u00ba North, one of only 16 Western Pacific typhoons to reach that strength north of 30\u00baN. Clara peaked at 95\u00a0mph before coming close to Japan, when a shortwave trough forced it sharply eastward. The storm maintained its intensity until becoming extratropical on September 3. An interesting fact about Clara was a reconnaissance mission flown into Hurricane Dot in the central Pacific also flew into Clara on the same flight, an unusual accomplishment not normally seen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 729]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091240-0016-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Severe Tropical Storm Fran (Norming)\nTropical Storm Fran formed east of the Philippines on the 3rd, then traveled in a rather unusual fashion, traveling away from the coast before turning back towards it. It passed over the northern part of Taiwan Island on the 6th, before making landfall in China on the 7th. The remnants of Fran lingered over China for some days before it dissipated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 74], "content_span": [75, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091240-0017-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Storm Ellen (Oyang)\nTropical Storm Ellen formed east of the Philippines and traveled northwestwards, becoming a tropical storm well south of Japan. It passed over the southern Ryukyu Islands before dissipating.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 66], "content_span": [67, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091240-0018-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Georgia (Pitang)\nGeorgia originated from a tropical wave on September 7, and became tropical storm Georgia on the 8th. Moving over warmer waters, Georgia reached typhoon status late on the 8th and super typhoon status on the 10th, developing a distinct eye. Georgia continued to strengthen further and peaked as a 160\u00a0mph category 5 super typhoon, just as the typhoon made landfall at Luzon. Georgia did not drop a lot of rain during its passage through the Philippines, but its strong winds caused 95 casualties (with 80\u00a0missing) and damage at $1.4\u00a0million (1970\u00a0USD).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 62], "content_span": [63, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091240-0018-0001", "contents": "1970 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Georgia (Pitang)\nGeorgia greatly weakened over the Philippines, and emerged into the South China Sea on the 12th, as a category 1 typhoon. A trough turned Georgia to the north on the 13th, and Georgia made its final landfall in China, degenerating into a remnant low on the 14th, and completely dissipating on the 16th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 62], "content_span": [63, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091240-0019-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Hope\nThe strongest storm of the season, Hope was a very strong category 5 super typhoon with pressure reaching 895 mbar. Hope did not affect land and stayed well out to sea. It formed in September 19 and dissipated on September 30.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091240-0020-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Iris\nIris was the first typhoon to develop over the South China Sea in October since 1957. Iris developed on the 2nd due to a shear line. It intensified while slowly traveling northwards, reaching its maximum intensity on the afternoon of the 6th while 140 miles south of Hong Kong. The conditions around the system rapidly became unfavorable after that, and it weakened quickly, finally dissipating on the 9th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091240-0021-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Joan (Sening)\nA tropical disturbance organized into Tropical Storm Joan on October 10, east of the Philippines. Conditions favored strengthening, and Joan reached typhoon status on the 11th. From late on the 11th to early on the 13th, Typhoon Joan rapidly intensified to a 175\u00a0mph Super Typhoon. It struck the southeastern Luzon at that intensity on the 13th, and crossed the archipelago. After weakening to a minimal typhoon, Joan turned to the northwest, where it reintensified to a 115\u00a0mph typhoon. It made landfall on eastern Hainan Island on the 16th, and dissipated on the 18th over China. Joan left 768\u00a0people dead (with 193\u00a0missing), and caused $74\u00a0million in damage (1970\u00a0USD), mostly from agricultural losses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 765]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091240-0022-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Kate (Titang)\nTropical Storm Kate developed just behind Typhoon Joan, east of the southern Philippines on October 14. It tracked westward as a small cyclone, and strengthened into a typhoon on the 15th. It made landfall twice, once in the Philippines and once in Vietnam, resulting in at least 631 fatalities (with 284\u00a0missing) and $50\u00a0million in damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091240-0023-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Louise (Uding)\nTyphoon Louise (classified as a tropical storm by the JTWC) formed as a disturbance east of the Philippines. The disturbance traveled across them before it became a tropical storm over the South China Sea. It made landfall in South Vietnam and dissipated over the Gulf of Thailand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091240-0024-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Severe Tropical Storm Marge (Wening)\nTropical Storm Marge followed a similar path to Louise. It formed over the Pacific, becoming a tropical depression south of Guam. It became a tropical storm 3 days later, then crossed southern Luzon before dissipating over the South China Sea off the Vietnamese coast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 74], "content_span": [75, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091240-0025-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Storm Nora\nTropical Storm Nora formed south of Vietnam and began to strengthen, becoming a tropical storm the next day. She passed south of Cape C\u00e0 Mau as a tropical storm before weakening and dissipating over the Gulf of Thailand. The remnants of Nora then crossed the Malay Peninsula on the 5th, and contributed to the formation of the 1970 Bhola cyclone on the 8th, which devastated East Pakistan (Modern day Bangladesh).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091240-0026-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Severe Tropical Storm Opal\nTropical Storm Opal formed as a disturbance over the sea east of Mindanao, then crossed the Philippines before becoming a depression over the South China Sea. It intensified into a tropical storm as it turned southwestward over the South China Sea, passing close to Vietnam, but it dissipated southeast of the Mekong Delta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 64], "content_span": [65, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091240-0027-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Patsy (Yoling)\nA tropical disturbance organized into Tropical Depression 27W on November 14 near the Marianas Islands. A strong ridge to its north forced it westward, where it strengthened to tropical storm status later on the 14th. Patsy steadily intensified, reaching typhoon strength on the 16th and peaking at 155\u00a0mph on the 18th. Its inflow became disrupted by the Philippines to its west, and Patsy hit Luzon on the 19th with winds of 130\u00a0mph, making it the 3rd strong typhoon since September to strike the island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091240-0027-0001", "contents": "1970 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Patsy (Yoling)\nAfter crossing the island, Patsy traversed the South China Sea, where cooler waters kept the system a tropical storm. On November 22, Patsy struck Vietnam, and dissipated soon after. Typhoon Patsy was one of the deadliest typhoons to strike the Philippines in its history. 611\u00a0people were killed (with 351\u00a0missing) on the island, and 135\u00a0people were killed at sea due to shipping failures. Because the Vietnam War was raging at that time, its difficult to say about the damage or death toll, but estimates say that 30\u00a0people died in Vietnam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091240-0028-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Storm Ruth (Aning)\nTropical Storm Ruth formed as a disturbance far at sea, then slowly travelled westward, but it did not intensify into a tropical depression until it was in the South China Sea. It briefly became a tropical storm south of the Mekong Delta, but it weakened into a tropical depression before it crossed just south of Cape C\u00e0 Mau. The remnants of Ruth dissipated just off the coast of Thailand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091240-0029-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Other systems\nAccording to the Japan Meteorological Agency, on September 2 Tropical Cyclone Dot briefly crossed the International Date Line from the Central Pacific into its area of responsibility, crossing back later that day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091240-0030-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific typhoon season, Storm names\nWestern North Pacific tropical cyclones were named by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center. The first storm of 1970 was named Nancy and the final one was named Ruth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091240-0031-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific typhoon season, Storm names\nOne Central Pacific System developed, Hurricane Dot. The policy at that time was to use Western Pacific Names for the Central Pacific.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091240-0032-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific typhoon season, Storm names, Philippines\nThe Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration uses its own naming scheme for tropical cyclones in their area of responsibility. PAGASA assigns names to tropical depressions that form within their area of responsibility and any tropical cyclone that might move into their area of responsibility. Should the list of names for a given year prove to be insufficient, names are taken from an auxiliary list, the first 6 of which are published each year before the season starts. Names not retired from this list will be used again in the 1974 season. This is the same list used for the 1966 season. PAGASA uses its own naming scheme that starts in the Filipino alphabet, with names of Filipino female names ending with \"ng\" (A, B, K, D, etc.). Names that were not assigned/going to use are marked in gray.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 889]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091240-0033-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific typhoon season, Storm names, Retirement\nDue to an extreme impact in the Philippines, PAGASA later retired the names Pitang, Sening, Titang, and Yoling and replaced by Pasing, Susang, Tering, and Yaning for the 1974 season. This season has the most retired names by PAGASA at that time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091240-0034-0000", "contents": "1970 Pacific typhoon season, Season effects\nThis table will list all the storms that developed in the northwestern Pacific Ocean west of the International Date Line and north of the equator during 1970. It will include their intensity, duration, name, areas affected, deaths, missing persons (in parentheses), and damage totals. Classification and intensity values will be based on estimations conducted by the JMA, however due to lack of information around this time sustained winds were recorded by the JTWC. All damage figures will be in 1970\u00a0USD. Damages and deaths from a storm will include when the storm was a precursor wave or an extratropical low.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 656]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091241-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Pakistani general election\nGeneral elections were held in Pakistan on 7 December 1970 to elect members of the National Assembly. They were the first general elections since the independence of Pakistan and ultimately the only ones held prior to the independence of Bangladesh. Voting took place in 300 general constituencies, of which 162 were in East Pakistan and 138 in West Pakistan. A further thirteen seats were reserved for women (seven of which were in East Pakistan and six of which were in West Pakistan), who were to be elected by members of the National Assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091241-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Pakistani general election\nThe elections were a fierce contest between two social democratic parties, the west-based Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and the east-based Awami League. The Awami League was the sole major party in the east wing, while in the west wing, the PPP faced severe competition from the conservative factions of Muslim League, the largest of which was Muslim League (Qayyum), as well as Islamist parties like Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI) and Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan (JUP).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091241-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Pakistani general election\nThe result was a victory for the Awami League, which gained an absolute majority, winning 160 of the 162 general seats and all seven women's seats in East Pakistan. The PPP won only 81 general seats and five women's seats, all in West Pakistan. In the provincial elections held ten days later, the Awami League again dominated in East Pakistan, while the PPP were the winning party in Punjab and Sindh. The Marxist National Awami Party emerged victorious in Northwest Frontier Province and Balochistan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091241-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Pakistani general election\nThe National Assembly was initially not inaugurated as President Yahya Khan and the PPP chairman Zulfikar Ali Bhutto did not want a party from East Pakistan in federal government. Instead, Yahya appointed the veteran Bengali politician Nurul Amin as Prime Minister, asking him to reach a compromise between the PPP and Awami League. However, this move failed as the delay in inauguration had already caused significant unrest in East Pakistan. The situation escalated into a civil war that led to the formation of the independent state of Bangladesh. The Assembly was eventually inaugurated in 1972 after Yahya resigned and handed power to Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. Bhutto became Prime Minister in 1973 after the post was recreated by a new constitution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 781]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091241-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Pakistani general election, Background\nOn 23 March 1956, Pakistan changed from being a Dominion of the British Commonwealth and became an Islamic republic after framing its own constitution. Although the first general elections were scheduled for early 1959, severe political instability led President Iskander Mirza to abrogate the constitution on 7 October 1958. Mirza imposed martial law and handed power to the Commander-in-Chief of the Pakistan Army, General Muhammad Ayub Khan. After assuming presidency, President Ayub Khan promoted himself to the rank of Field marshal and appointed General Muhammad Musa Khan as the new Commander-in-Chief.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 653]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091241-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Pakistani general election, Background\nOn 17 February 1960, President Ayub Khan appointed a commission under Muhammad Shahabuddin, the Chief Justice of Pakistan, to report a political framework for the country. The commission submitted its report on 29 April 1961, and on the basis of this report, a new constitution was framed on 1 March 1962. The new constitution, declaring the country as Republic of Pakistan, brought about a presidential system of government, as opposed to the parliamentary system of government under the 1956 Constitution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091241-0005-0001", "contents": "1970 Pakistani general election, Background\nThe electoral system was made indirect, and the \"basic democrats\" were declared electoral college for the purpose of electing members of the National and Provincial Assemblies. Under the new system, presidential election were held on 2 January 1965 which resulted in a victory for Ayub Khan. As years went by, political opposition against President Ayub Khan mounted. In East Pakistan, leader of the Awami League, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, was one of the key leaders to rally opposition to President Ayub Khan. In 1966, he began the Six point movement for East Pakistani autonomy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 621]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091241-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 Pakistani general election, Background\nIn 1968, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was charged with sedition after the government of President Ayub Khan accused him for conspiring with India against the stability of Pakistan. While a conspiracy between Mujib and India for East Pakistan's secession was not itself conclusively proven, it is known that Mujib and the Awami League had held secret meetings with Indian government officials in 1962 and after the 1965 war. This case led to an uprising in East Pakistan which consisted of a series of mass demonstrations and sporadic conflicts between the government forces and protesters. In West Pakistan, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who served as foreign minister under President Ayub Khan, resigned from his office and founded the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) in 1967. The socialist political party took up opposition to President Ayub Khan as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 883]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091241-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 Pakistani general election, Background\nAyub Khan succumbed to political pressure on 26 March 1969 and handed power to the Commander-in-Chief of the Pakistan Army, General Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan. President Yahya Khan imposed martial law and the 1962 Constitution was abrogated. On 31 March 1970, President Yahya Khan announced a Legal Framework Order (LFO) which called for direct elections for a unicameral legislature. Many in the West feared the East wing's demand for countrywide provincial autonomy. The purpose of the LFO was to secure the future Constitution which would be written after the election so that it would include safeguards such as preserving Pakistan's territorial integrity and Islamic ideology.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 723]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091241-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 Pakistani general election, Background\nThe integrated province of West Pakistan, which was formed on 22 November 1954, was abolished and four provinces were retrieved: Punjab, Sindh, Balochistan and the North-West Frontier Province. The principles of representation was made on the basis of population, and since East Pakistan had more population than the combined population of the four provinces of West Pakistan, the former got more than half seats in the National Assembly. Yahya Khan ignored reports that Sheikh Mujib planned to disregard the LFO and that India was increasingly interfering in East Pakistan. Nor did he believe that the Awami League would actually sweep the elections in East Pakistan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 712]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091241-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 Pakistani general election, Background\nA month before the election, the Bhola cyclone struck East Pakistan. This was the deadliest tropical cyclone in world history, killing on the order of 500,000 people. The Pakistan government was severely criticised for its response.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091241-0010-0000", "contents": "1970 Pakistani general election, Parties and candidates\nThe general elections of 1970 are considered one of the fairest and cleanest elections in the history of Pakistan, with about twenty-four political parties taking part. The general elections presented a picture of a Two-party system, with the Awami League, a Bengali nationalist party, competing against the extremely influential and widely popular Pakistan Peoples Party, a leftist and democratic socialist party which had been a major power-broker in West Pakistan. The Pakistani government supported the pro-Islamic parties since they were committed to strong federalism. The Jamaat-e-Islami suspected that the Awami League had secessionist intentions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 711]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091241-0011-0000", "contents": "1970 Pakistani general election, Parties and candidates, Election campaign in East Pakistan\nThe continuous public meetings of the Awami League in East Pakistan and the Pakistan Peoples Party in Western Pakistan attracted huge crowds. The Awami League, a Bengali nationalist party, mobilised support in East Pakistan on the basis of its Six-Points Program (SPP), which was the main attraction in the party's manifesto. In East Pakistan, a huge majority of the Bengali nation favoured the Awami League, under Sheikh Mujib. The party received a huge percentage of the popular vote in East Pakistan and emerged as the largest party in the nation as a whole, gaining the exclusive mandate of Pakistan in terms both of seats and of votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 91], "content_span": [92, 732]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091241-0012-0000", "contents": "1970 Pakistani general election, Parties and candidates, Election campaign in East Pakistan\nThe Pakistan Peoples Party failed to win any seats in East Pakistan. On the other hand, the Awami League had failed to gather any seats in West Pakistan. The Awami League's failure to win any seats in the west was used by the leftists led by Zulfikar Bhutto who argued that Mujib had received \"no mandate or support from West Pakistan\" (ignoring the fact that he himself did not win any seat in East Pakistan).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 91], "content_span": [92, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091241-0013-0000", "contents": "1970 Pakistani general election, Parties and candidates, Election campaign in East Pakistan\nThe then leaders of Pakistan, all from West Pakistan and PPP leaders, strongly opposed the idea of an East Pakistani-led government. Many in Pakistan predicted that the Awami League-controlled government would oversee the passage of a new constitution with a simple majority. Bhutto uttered his infamous phrase \"idhar hum, udhar tum\" (We rule here, you rule there) \u2013 thus dividing Pakistan for the first time orally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 91], "content_span": [92, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091241-0014-0000", "contents": "1970 Pakistani general election, Parties and candidates, Election campaign in East Pakistan\nThe same attitudes and emotions were also felt in East Pakistan whereas East-Pakistanis absorbed the feeling and reached to the conclusion that Pakistan had been benefited with economic opportunities, investments, and social growth would swiftly depose any East Pakistanis from obtaining those opportunities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 91], "content_span": [92, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091241-0015-0000", "contents": "1970 Pakistani general election, Parties and candidates, Election campaign in East Pakistan\nSome Bengalis sided with the Pakistan Peoples' Party and tacitly or openly supported Bhutto and the democratic socialists, such as Jalaludin Abdur Rahim, an influential Bengali in Pakistan and mentor of Bhutto, who was later jailed by Bhutto. Jamat-e-Islami, while supporting allowing the Awami League to form a government, was also against the fragmentation of the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 91], "content_span": [92, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091241-0015-0001", "contents": "1970 Pakistani general election, Parties and candidates, Election campaign in East Pakistan\nConversely, several prominent figures from West Pakistan supported allowing the Awami League to rule, including the poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz and rights activist Malik Ghulam Jilani, father of Asma Jahangir, G.M Syed the founder of Sindhi nationalist party Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz (JSQM) and Abul Ala Maududi, the leader of Jamat-e-Islami.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 91], "content_span": [92, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091241-0016-0000", "contents": "1970 Pakistani general election, Parties and candidates, Elections in West Pakistan\nHowever, the political position in West Pakistan was completely different from East Pakistan. In West Pakistan, the population was divided between different ideological forces. The right-wing parties, led under Abul Maududi, raised the religious slogans and initially campaigned on an Islamic platform, further promising to enforce Sharia laws in the country. Meanwhile, the founding party of Pakistan and the national conservative Muslim League, that although was divided into three factions (QML, CML, MLC), campaigned on a nationalist platform, promising to initiate the Jinnah reforms as originally envisioned by Jinnah and others in the 1940s. The factions however criticised each other for disobeying the rules laid down by the country's founding father.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 83], "content_span": [84, 844]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091241-0017-0000", "contents": "1970 Pakistani general election, Parties and candidates, Elections in West Pakistan\nThe dynamic leadership and charismatic personality of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was highly active and influential in West Pakistan during these days. Bhutto's ideas and the famous slogan \"Roti Kapra Aur Makaan\" (\"Food, Clothing and Shelter\") attracted poor communities, students, and the working class to his party. Under Bhutto's leadership the democratic left gathered and united into one party platform for the first time in Pakistan's history. Bhutto and the left-leaning elements attracted the people of the West to participate and vote for the Peoples Party based on a broad hope for a better future for their children and families. As compared to the right-wing and conservatives in West Pakistan, Bhutto and his allies won most of the popular vote, becoming the pre-eminent players in the politics of the West.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 83], "content_span": [84, 896]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091241-0018-0000", "contents": "1970 Pakistani general election, Parties and candidates, Nominations\nA total of 1,957 candidates filed nomination papers for 300 National Assembly seats. After scrutiny and withdrawals, 1,579 eventually contested the elections. The Awami League ran 170 candidates, of which 162 were for constituencies in East Pakistan. Jamaat-e-Islami had the second-highest number of candidates with 151. The Pakistan Peoples Party ran only 120 candidates, of which 103 were from constituencies in Punjab and Sindh, and none in East Pakistan. The PML (Convention) ran 124 candidates, the PML (Council) 119 and the PML (Qayyum) 133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 68], "content_span": [69, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091241-0019-0000", "contents": "1970 Pakistani general election, Results\nThe government claimed a high level of public participation and a voter turnout of almost 63%. The total number of registered voters in the country was 56,941,500 of which 31,211,220 were from East Pakistan and 25,730,280 were from West Pakistan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091241-0020-0000", "contents": "1970 Pakistani general election, Aftermath\nThe elected Assembly initially did not meet as President Yahya Khan and the Pakistan Peoples Party did not want the majority party from East Pakistan forming government. This caused great unrest in East Pakistan which soon escalated into the call for independence on March 26, 1971 and ultimately led to war of independence with East Pakistan becoming the independent state of Bangladesh. The Assembly session was eventually held when Khan resigned four days after Pakistan surrendered in Bangladesh and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto took over. Bhutto became the Prime Minister of Pakistan in 1973, after the post was recreated by the new Constitution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 685]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091242-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Pakistani provincial elections\nProvincial elections were held in Pakistan on 17 December 1970, ten days after general elections. Members of the five Provincial assemblies were elected in Balochistan, East Pakistan, North West Frontier Province, Punjab and Sindh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091243-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Palanca Awards\nThe Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature winners in the year 1970 (rank, title of winning entry, name of author).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091244-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Paris Open\nThe 1970 Paris Open Indoor Championships was a men's Grand Prix tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts. It was the 2nd edition of the Paris Open (later known as the Paris Masters). It took place at the Palais omnisports de Paris-Bercy in Paris, France and ran from 9 November through 15 November 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091244-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Paris Open, Finals, Doubles\nPancho Gonzales / Ken Rosewall defeated Tom Okker / Marty Riessen 6\u20134, 7\u20136, 7\u20136", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091245-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Paris Open \u2013 Singles, Seeds\nA champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091246-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Paris\u2013Nice\nThe 1970 Paris\u2013Nice was the 28th edition of the Paris\u2013Nice cycle race and was held from 8 March to 16 March 1970. The race started in Paris and finished in Nice. The race was won by Eddy Merckx of the Faemino\u2013Faema team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091247-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Paris\u2013Roubaix\nThe 1970 Paris\u2013Roubaix was the 68th edition of the Paris\u2013Roubaix cycle race and was held on 12 April 1970. The race started in Compi\u00e8gne and finished in Roubaix. The race was won by Eddy Merckx of the Faemino\u2013Faema team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091248-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Paris\u2013Tours\nThe 1970 Paris\u2013Tours was the 64th edition of the Paris\u2013Tours cycle race and was held on 2 October 1970. The race started in Paris and finished in Tours. The race was won by J\u00fcrgen Tschan of the Peugeot team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091249-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Pau Grand Prix\nThe 1970 Pau Grand Prix was a Formula Two motor race held on 5 April 1970 at the Pau circuit, in Pau, Pyr\u00e9n\u00e9es-Atlantiques, France. The Grand Prix was won by Jochen Rindt, driving the Lotus 69. Henri Pescarolo finished second and Tim Schenken third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091250-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Peach Bowl\nThe 1970 Peach Bowl was a college football bowl game between the Arizona State Sun Devils and the North Carolina Tar Heels.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091250-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Peach Bowl, Background\nThe Sun Devils were champions of the Western Athletic Conference once again and were aiming for a perfect season. The Tar Heels finished tied for second in the Atlantic Coast Conference. Arizona State was invited after Penn State declined. A blizzard developed before gametime, with rain, sleet, and snow coming out in all throughout the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091250-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Peach Bowl, Game summary\nBob Thomas helped the Sun Devils jump out to a 14\u20130 lead before the Tar Heels responded in the second quarter with a Don McCauley touchdown run. J. D. Hill caught a touchdown pass from Joe Spagnola to make it 21\u20137 before the Tar heels exploded for 19 points before the quarter ended. McCauley ran for two touchdowns along with teammate Blanchard to give the Heels a 26\u201321 halftime lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 29], "content_span": [30, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091250-0002-0001", "contents": "1970 Peach Bowl, Game summary\nBut the second half is where the Sun Devils took control, scoring 27 unanswered points on two touchdown runs by both Monroe Eley and touchdown runs by Thomas and Steve Holden to give the Sun Devils their first ever bowl win. Eley rushed for 173 yards to earn co-MVP honors while Junior Ah You earned co-MVP honors for knocking out quarterback Paul Miller.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 29], "content_span": [30, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091250-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Peach Bowl, Aftermath\nThe Tar Heels would win three conference titles before Dooley left after the 1977 season. They have returned to this bowl four times since this game, the last time in 2001. The Sun Devils finished ranked #6 in the polls. They would win five more conference titles before Kush's ouster in 1979. The Sun Devils have not returned to this game since. This was the final Peach Bowl played at Grant Field as it would move to Atlanta Stadium the following year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 26], "content_span": [27, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091251-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Penn Quakers football team\nThe 1970 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1970 NCAA University Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091252-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Penn State Nittany Lions football team\nThe 1970 Penn State Nittany Lions football team represented the Pennsylvania State University in the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. The team was led by fifth-year head coach Joe Paterno and played its home games in Beaver Stadium in University Park, Pennsylvania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091252-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Penn State Nittany Lions football team\nThe Nittany Lions entered the season with a 22-game winning streak, unbeaten (29\u20130\u20131) in their last thirty games. By\u00a0mid-season, they had dropped three (including one at home), then won the last five to finish at 7\u20133 and climbed to No. 18 in the final AP poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091252-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Roster\nNotable players included senior linebacker Jack Ham and junior running backs Lydell Mitchell and Franco Harris.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 51], "content_span": [52, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091252-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Post season\nAfter three consecutive bowl appearances, Penn State stayed home this year, but went to a bowl in each of the next thirteen seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 56], "content_span": [57, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091252-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Post season, NFL Draft\nFour Nittany Lions were selected in the 1971 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 67], "content_span": [68, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091253-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election\nThe 1970 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election was held on November 3. Democrat Milton Shapp challenged incumbent Republican Lieutenant Governor Ray Broderick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091253-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election, Primary elections, Democratic primary, Campaign\nThe Democratic campaign was a bruising rematch between 1966 nominee Milton Shapp and Auditor General Bob Casey. As in the prior election, Shapp and Casey proved to be disparate personalities. The liberal and business-oriented Shapp ran an aggressive campaign into which he injected much of his own funding, while the affable Casey ran a relatively conservative campaign and appealed to labor and rural voters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 89], "content_span": [90, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091253-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election, Campaign\nAlthough Pennsylvania's Democratic establishment had not been keen on Shapp during his first run for the executive office, the support of Lieutenant Gubernatorial nominee Ernie Kline, a power broker within the party, caused support to much better coalesce behind Shapp than it had in 1966. Shapp, who is Jewish, also dealt with a lower degree of anti-Semitism during this campaign, as moderate voters were put off by the hateful messages that had been transmitted during the prior election cycle. Broderick's campaign faced an uphill battle, as he was forced to deal with the unpopularity of his boss, Governor Ray Shafer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 673]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091253-0002-0001", "contents": "1970 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election, Campaign\nFurthermore, Broderick was portrayed as unrealistic in his promises, as he asserted that he would not raise taxes, despite a massive state deficit. Broderick attempted to present himself as an ally of Richard Nixon and ran on a corresponding law-and-order platform; however, his tough stances often backfired, such as when outrage ensued over a Republican cartoon that depicted Shapp's liberal view as equivalent to the Viet Cong.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091253-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election, Campaign\nShapp won victory by a huge margin. His liberalism and local base allowed him to nearly win the suburbs of Philadelphia, a GOP stronghold at the time. Furthermore, he not only performed well in conservative Central Pennsylvania, but even defeated Broderick by a considerable margin in those locales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091254-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Pepsi-Cola Masters\nThe 1970 Pepsi-Cola Masters was a tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium in Tokyo in Japan. It was the first edition of the Masters Grand Prix and was held from December 9 through December 15, 1970. The event included a singles and doubles draw, both of which were held in a round robin format. Stan Smith won the first singles title and then partnered Arthur Ashe to the doubles title as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091254-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Pepsi-Cola Masters\nThe best six players from the 1970 Grand Prix circuit ranking qualified for the singles event. Cliff Richey, the winner of the Grand Prix ranking, could not participate due to illness. John Newcombe was the first replacement as the number seven ranked but was unable to play which meant that Jan Kode\u0161, ranked eight, completed the field. Stan Smith won the singles title in the round robin format.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091254-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Pepsi-Cola Masters, Champions, Singles\nStan Smith won a round robin competition also featuring Arthur Ashe, \u017deljko Franulovi\u0107, Jan Kode\u0161, Rod Laver and Ken Rosewall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091254-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Pepsi-Cola Masters, Champions, Doubles\nArthur Ashe / Stan Smith won a round robin competition against the teams of Jan Kode\u0161 / Rod Laver and \u017deljko Franulovi\u0107 / Ken Rosewall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091255-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Pepsi-Cola Masters \u2013 Doubles, Round robin, Standings\nStandings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-players-ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, or of games won; 5) Steering Committee decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091256-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Pepsi-Cola Masters \u2013 Singles\nStan Smith won the round robin by virtue of having defeated runner-up Rod Laver, although both Smith and Laver had achieved the same number of wins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091256-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Pepsi-Cola Masters \u2013 Singles, Round robin, Standings\nStandings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-players-ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, or of games won; 5) Steering Committee decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091257-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Peru\u2013Ecuador earthquake\nThe 1970 Peru\u2013Ecuador earthquake occurred on December 9 at 23:34 local time. The epicenter was located in northwestern Peru, between Piura and Tumbes, near the Peru\u2013Ecuador border. This earthquake had a magnitude of Mw 7.1, or Ms 7.1. About 81 people were reported dead in Peru and in Ecuador together. Liquefaction was observed. The maximum Mercalli Intensity reached IX (Violent). Fractures in constructions were reported in the urban area of Talara. This was a shallow earthquake, and it was thought to occur in the plate above the plate boundary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091258-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Philadelphia Eagles season\nThe 1970 Philadelphia Eagles season was their 38th in the league. They failed to improve on their previous output of 4\u20139\u20131, winning only three games. The team failed to qualify for the playoffs for the tenth consecutive season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091258-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Philadelphia Eagles season\nThe Eagles did have victories over the playoff-bound Dolphins and the cross-state rival Steelers, as well as a 23\u201320 victory on Monday Night Football over the Giants, ending New York's six-game winning streak and helping deny Big Blue a playoff berth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091258-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Philadelphia Eagles season, Game recaps, Week 2\nThe game got off to bad start when Chicago Bears kickoff returner Cecil Turner had a 96-yard game opening kickoff return for a touchdown. Mark Moseley would miss the extra point when the Eagles answered with a touchdown of their own later in the 1st quarter meaning that they were not losing the game only from the opening kickoff to the time it took Turner to return it. Three times during the game the Bears would lead the Eagles by one point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091258-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Philadelphia Eagles season, Game recaps, Week 8\nIn week 8 the Eagles marked their first time playing a former AFL team in the regular season by winning 24\u201317 for their 1st win of the 1970 season. The defense of Philadelphia would force the Miami quarterbacks (Bob Griese 3 and John Stofa 1) to throw 4 interceptions. Miami kick returner Mercury Morris would average over 26 yards on 4 kickoff returns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091258-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Philadelphia Eagles season, Game recaps, Week 9\nThe Eagles did not score an offensive touchdown, but an aggressive defense harassed Atlanta quarterback Bob Berry for most of the game and scored a touchdown of its own when Steve Preece returned a fumble 21 yards after Gary Pettigrew blindsided Harmon Wages on an attempted halfback option pass. Philadelphia had a chance to win the game in the closing seconds, but Mark Moseley blew a chip shot field goal attempt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091258-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Philadelphia Eagles season, Game recaps, Week 14\nIn week 14 the Eagles played the cross state rival Pittsburgh Steelers in the final NFL game at Franklin Field. Frenchy Fuqua had two long runs for touchdowns, one for 72 yards and another for 85 yards, both in the first half. Mark Moseley would miss his 3rd extra point of the year. His 14th field goal of the year, out of 25 attempted, in the 4th quarter gave the Eagles the lead for good.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091258-0005-0001", "contents": "1970 Philadelphia Eagles season, Game recaps, Week 14\nHe would be cut during the 1971 training camp, play for the Houston Oilers for 13 games over two years, then settle in Washington for 10 years becoming the last straight on kicking style kicker left in the NFL. He won the Most Valuable Player Award during the strike-shortened 1982 season. He is the only placekicker to win the award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091258-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 Philadelphia Eagles season, Game recaps, Standings\nNote: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091258-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 Philadelphia Eagles season, Playoffs\nThe Eagles failed to make the playoffs for the 1970 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091259-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Philadelphia Phillies season\nThe 1970 Philadelphia Phillies season was the 88th season for the franchise in Philadelphia. The Phillies finished in fifth place in the National League East with a record of 73\u201388, 151\u20442 games behind the Pittsburgh Pirates. The Phillies were playing their final season of home games at Connie Mack Stadium, before moving into their new facility, Veterans Stadium, at the start of the following season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091259-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Philadelphia Phillies season, Regular season\nAgainst the San Francisco Giants on May 2, 1970, Phillies starting catcher Tim McCarver broke his finger on a foul tip by Willie Mays. McCarver was replaced by Mike Ryan. Two batters later, Ryan broke his finger on a slide at home plate by Willie McCovey. Ryan finished the inning but left the game. In June 1970, the series of injuries left the Phillies short a catcher and they activated Doc Edwards, who at the time was their bullpen coach. Edwards responded with two hits in his first game back and then caught a Jim Bunning\u2013Dick Selma two-hitter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091259-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 78], "content_span": [79, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091259-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 71], "content_span": [72, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091259-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 76], "content_span": [77, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091259-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 73], "content_span": [74, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091259-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 74], "content_span": [75, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091260-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Philippine Constitutional Convention election\nA constitutional convention was called to change the 1935 Constitution of the Philippines, written to establish the Commonwealth of the Philippines. A special election was held on November 10, 1970 to elect the convention's delegates, which would convene in 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091260-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Philippine Constitutional Convention election\nFormer Philippine President Carlos P. Garcia was sworn in as the President of the Constitutional Convention on June 1, 1971. However, he died thirteen days after taking oath. Former President Diosdado Macapagal replaced Garcia. Sotero H. Laurel served as the President Pro-Tempore of the convention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091260-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Philippine Constitutional Convention election\nOther prominent delegates were former Senators Raul Manglapus and Roseller T. Lim. Other delegates would become influential political figures, including Hilario Davide Jr., Marcelo Fernan, Sotero Laurel, Aquilino Pimentel, Jr., Teofisto Guingona, Jr., Raul Roco, Edgardo Angara, Richard Gordon, Margarito Teves and Federico Dela Plana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091260-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Philippine Constitutional Convention election\nThe work of the Convention was affected by the declaration of martial law in September 1972 by President Ferdinand Marcos. Eventually, on November 29, 1972, the Convention approved the new constitution. It was submitted to a vote in the 1973 constitutional plebiscite. The results of the plebiscite and the legality of the 1973 Constitution was questioned before the Philippine Supreme Court in the Ratification Cases. The constitution was upheld. Marcos would continue to rule as a dictator until being ousted by the People Power Revolution in 1986.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091261-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Piccadilly World Match Play Championship\nThe 1970 Piccadilly World Match Play Championship was the seventh World Match Play Championship. It was played from Thursday 8 to Saturday 10 October on the West Course at Wentworth Club in Surrey, England. Eight players competed in a straight knock-out competition, with each match contested over 36 holes. The champion received \u00a35,750 out of a total prize fund of \u00a318,400. In the final, Jack Nicklaus beat Lee Trevino 2 & 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091261-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Piccadilly World Match Play Championship\nIn the first round, two matches finished at the 36th hole. Tony Jacklin won the last two holes to defeat Gary Player while Lee Trevino beat Billy Casper by holing a 6 foot putt after Casper had missed from 8 feet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091261-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Piccadilly World Match Play Championship\nNicklaus was playing in the event for the first time since 1966 when he had a dispute with the referee in the final. After two comfortable wins, he met Lee Trevino in the final. The final was level after 12 holes but Nicklaus won three of the next five holes to go to lunch 3 up. After 27 holes, Nicklaus led by five with both players having birdied the 9th. Trevino then won the 10th, 11th, 13th and 14th to reduce the lead to 1 hole. However Nicklaus eagled the 15th to take a two hole lead again and, although Trevino birdied the 16th, the match ended at the 17th after Trevino had gone out of bounds off the tee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 662]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091261-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Piccadilly World Match Play Championship, Prize money\nThe winner received \u00a35,750 out of a total prize fund of \u00a318,400.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 58], "content_span": [59, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091262-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Piedmontese regional election\nThe Piedmontese regional election of 1970 took place on 7\u20138 June 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091262-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Piedmontese regional election, Events\nChristian Democracy was by far the largest party and, after the election, it formed a government along with the Italian Socialist Party, the Unitary Socialist Party and the Italian Republican Party (organic Centre-left). The regional government was led by Edoardo Calleri di Sala until 1973 and then by Gianni Oberto Tarena, both Christian Democrats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 42], "content_span": [43, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091263-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Pittsburgh Panthers football team\nThe 1970 Pittsburgh Panthers football team represented the University of Pittsburgh in the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. The team compiled a 5\u20135 record in its second year under head coach Carl DePasqua, their best record since their #4 ranked 9-1 1963 squad. The team's statistical leaders included John Hogan with 801 passing yards and Tony Esposito with 623 rushing yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091264-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Pittsburgh Pirates season\nThe 1970 Pittsburgh Pirates season resulted in the team winning their first National League East title with a record of 89\u201373, five games ahead of the Chicago Cubs. However, they lost the NLCS to the NL West Champion Cincinnati Reds, three games to none.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091264-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Pittsburgh Pirates season\nThe Pirates were managed by Danny Murtaugh and played their home games at Forbes Field during the first part of the year, before moving into the brand new Three Rivers Stadium on July 16. Coinciding with their move, the Pirates became the first major league team to adopt pullover jerseys and sans-a-belt pants for their uniforms, a style copied by a majority of MLB for the next two decades and which the Pirates themselves would wear through the 1990 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091264-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Offseason, Three Rivers Stadium\nIn 1958, the Pirates had sold Forbes Field to the University of Pittsburgh, who wanted the land for expanded graduate facilities. Pitt then leased Forbes back to the Pirates until a new multipurpose stadium could be built. The Steelers opted to play at Pitt Stadium in the meantime. In June 1970, the Pirates played their final game at Forbes Field. It was a doubleheader sweep of the Chicago Cubs and Bill Mazeroski got the final hit at Forbes Field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 63], "content_span": [64, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091264-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Offseason, Three Rivers Stadium\nA site on the North Side had been chosen earlier in the year, but it took until April 25, 1968, to finally break ground. Three Rivers Stadium opened on July 16, 1970, and became the home of the Pirates and the Pittsburgh Steelers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 63], "content_span": [64, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091264-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Postseason, National League Championship Series\nThe Cincinnati Reds won the series, three games to none, over the Pirates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 79], "content_span": [80, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091265-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Pittsburgh Steelers season\nThe 1970 Pittsburgh Steelers season was the franchise's 38th in the National Football League. They improved from a league-worst 1\u201313 record the previous year, finishing with a 5\u20139 record and third place in the newly formed AFC Central. The Steelers began the decade in a new conference and a new stadium with a new quarterback. After nearly 40 years in the NFL they shifted to the AFC, to complete the merger between the NFL and AFL. It was the NFL's weakest division that season, as the Steelers finished three games behind the division-winning Cincinnati Bengals\u2014a team that was only in its third year of existence that season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 661]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091265-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Offseason\nCoach Chuck Noll's reshaping of the squad from the year before continued for 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091265-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Offseason\nUndoubtedly the greatest change that took place was Chuck Noll's trade of the team's lone superstar, Roy Jefferson. Although Jefferson was among the league leaders in receiving in 1968 and 1969, despite playing for the worst team in football with mediocre quarterbacks, he was sent packing after being publicly vocal in criticizing team management. The trade sent Jefferson to Baltimore, where he earned a Super Bowl ring. Years later, Jefferson pinpointed what he had done to get traded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091265-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Offseason\n\"I was [in Baltimore] to make a statement. I wanted to show Pittsburgh they'd made a mistake in getting rid of me. I mean, I wasn't a 'yes' man for coach Chuck Noll. If you cursed me, I cursed you back. I messed over the curfew rules a lot and, in training camp, I'd park my car in the coaches' spaces.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091265-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Offseason\nHence, 1970 brought change with Ron Shanklin emerging as a steady receiver for the next few years until John Stallworth and Lynn Swann joined the team in 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091265-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Offseason\nAs a result of the NFL-AFL merger being finalized for the 1970 season, three teams from the \"old\" NFL were moved to the newly formed AFC alongside the former AFL teams. The Steelers agreed to be one of them after their archrivals, the Cleveland Browns, volunteered to join the AFL franchises in the AFC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091265-0005-0001", "contents": "1970 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Offseason\nThe Browns mainly joined because of the possibility of an intrastate rivalry with the AFL's Cincinnati Bengals (now known as the Battle of Ohio), largely due to the animosity at the time between Browns owner Art Modell and Bengals owner & coach Paul Brown, who was fired from the Browns by Modell after the 1962 season. The Steelers joined the AFC in order to keep the Browns-Steelers rivalry alive on a regular basis, due to the proximity of the cities of Pittsburgh and Cleveland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091265-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Offseason\nAnother change came in the draft. For the first time since 1956, the Steelers owned the number one selection in the draft after winning a coin toss with the Chicago Bears for the top pick, as the two teams had identical 1\u201313 records in 1969. (The Steelers would have won the tiebreaker under the modern NFL tiebreaker rules anyway, since the Bears' one win was against the Steelers in week 8 of that season.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091265-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Offseason\nIn the 1970 NFL Draft, only two Hall of Famers were selected in all 17 Rounds and 442 Picks. One being 1st Round, 1st Pick selection Terry Bradshaw, and the second being 3rd Round, 53rd Pick Mel Blount. Bradshaw and Blount, both part of the '70s Steeler Dynasty, were both inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1989. In his 14-year professional career, Bradshaw got off on a bumpy start from 1970\u20131975. Bradshaw threw a career-high 24 interceptions and only 6 touchdown passes. In wasn't until 1976 when Bradshaw's career had begun to peak. Blount's career was an overall consistent one. In 1975, he intercepted 11 passes for 121 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 675]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091265-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Offseason\nIn 1966, the NFL agreed on a merger with the rival AFL (American Football League). In 1970, the merger became final, as a result of the merger, the AFC (American Football Conference) featuring all the AFL teams and the NFC (National Football Conference) featuring all the \"old\" NFL teams. Two teams from the NFL were asked to join the AFL in the AFC, the Baltimore Colts, and the Cleveland Browns (the Browns owner, Art Modell asked the NFL Commissioner, Pete Rozelle if he could join to play the Cincinnati Bengals in the Battle of Ohio).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091265-0008-0001", "contents": "1970 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Offseason\nUpon hearing this, Art Rooney (Steelers Owner) asked Rozelle if he could join to keep the Steelers-Browns rivalry alive. So, the Steelers would begin playing in the AFC and would leave the Eagles rivalry and many others they had playing the NFC teams. Also, the Steelers moved into the then state-of-the-art, Three Rivers Stadium and left Pitt Stadium. The new Three Rivers was one of the many \"cookie-cutter\" stadiums across the league and became an icon to Pittsburgh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091265-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Offseason\nThe opening of Three Rivers ended their relatively brief stay at Pitt Stadium, where they had only been playing on a full-time basis for six years. Before that, the Steelers played most of their home games at Forbes Field, with occasional games being played at Pitt Stadium to take advantage of the larger capacity. The Steelers later returned the favor to the University of Pittsburgh in 2000 when the Pitt Panthers football team moved into Three Rivers for one season as an interim home before Heinz Field was ready in 2001. Pitt would also play their Backyard Brawl games against West Virginia in years Pitt hosted the game during the existence of Three Rivers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 707]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091265-0010-0000", "contents": "1970 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Offseason\nWTAE-TV sportscaster Myron Cope joined the Steelers radio network as color commentator for the 1970 season. Cope remained a fixture of the Steelers radio network through the 2004 season and became beloved by fans due to his enthusiasm and catchphrases behind the announcing booth. In 1975, Cope invented the Terrible Towel, originally conceived as a gimmick in the Steelers playoff game against Baltimore and now a staple among Steelers fans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091265-0011-0000", "contents": "1970 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1\nThe Steelers played their first regular season game at the brand new Three Rivers Stadium. Terry Bradshaw made his NFL debut, but struggled, going 4 for 16 for 40 yds. Bradshaw was also sacked for a safety, the first of three straight games in which this would happen. With the loss, the Steelers dropped to 0-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 71], "content_span": [72, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091265-0012-0000", "contents": "1970 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 5\nWith the win, the Steelers improved to 2\u20133 and split the regular season series with the Oilers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 71], "content_span": [72, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091265-0013-0000", "contents": "1970 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 6\nIn the first in what would become many regular and postseason games between these 2 teams, the Steelers would lose the very first game to the Raiders as the team dropped to 2\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 71], "content_span": [72, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091265-0014-0000", "contents": "1970 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 7\nThe Steelers won the very first game between them and the Bengals and the teams' record improved to 3\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 71], "content_span": [72, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091265-0015-0000", "contents": "1970 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 10\nIn their first ever game in Cincinnati, the Steelers would lose it by 27 points as the team dropped to 4\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 72], "content_span": [73, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091265-0016-0000", "contents": "1970 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 11\nWith the win, the Steelers improved to 5\u20136 and finished 3\u20133 in their division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 72], "content_span": [73, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091265-0017-0000", "contents": "1970 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Standings\nNote: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091266-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Polish protests\nThe 1970 Polish protests (Polish: Grudzie\u0144 1970, lit. ' December 1970') occurred in northern Poland during 14\u201319 December 1970. The protests were sparked by a sudden increase in the prices of food and other everyday items. Strikes were put down by the Polish People's Army and the Citizen's Militia, resulting in at least 44 people killed and more than 1,000 wounded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091266-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Polish protests, Background\nIn December 1970, the government suddenly announced major increases in the prices of basic foodstuffs, especially dairy products, after bad harvests throughout the year. The increases proved to be a major shock to ordinary citizens, especially in the larger cities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091266-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Polish protests, Events\nDemonstrations against the price increases broke out in the northern Baltic coastal cities of Gda\u0144sk, Gdynia, Elbl\u0105g, and Szczecin. The regime was concerned about an emerging wave of sabotage, which may have been inspired by the secret police, who wanted to legitimize a harsh response to the protestors. Another possible reason why the secret police would instigate sabotage and violence would be to precipitate a change in the leadership of the ruling party, by causing violent deaths among the workers and then blaming the party for them. It is known that the secret police had their agents among the striking workers (and recruited more in the aftermath). Actions of the secret police before and after the protests were codenamed akcja \"Jesie\u0144 '70\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 28], "content_span": [29, 782]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091266-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Polish protests, Events\nProtests started on 14 December. When a party official tried to convince the strikers to return to work, addressing them using loudspeakers on a police car, the strikers took over the police car and used the loudspeakers to announce a general strike, and to call for a manifestation in front of the party building to be held the same day. Fighting against the police started in the afternoon, and widespread fighting and rioting, including arson, continued until late in the evening.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 28], "content_span": [29, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091266-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Polish protests, Events\nThe police started rounding up workers, often random ones who did not participate in protests or rioting, and brutally beating them, commonly using a technique where the detainee was forced to move along a long row of policemen, all of them beating the detainee with their batons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 28], "content_span": [29, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091266-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Polish protests, Events\nOn 15 December in Gda\u0144sk, strikers set fire (reportedly twice) to the building of the Provincial Committee of the ruling party, which became an iconic moment of the protests. They also took some policemen prisoner, transported them to the shipyard, forced them to change into the workers' work clothing, and then transported them to a police station. Fire consumed the roof of the Provincial Committee's building until the protesters were repelled by a column of twenty OT-62 military armored personnel carriers. At least six people are known to be killed on December 15 in Gda\u0144sk. Two more were shot to death the next morning, at or near the shipyard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 28], "content_span": [29, 681]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091266-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 Polish protests, Events\nIn Gdynia, a neighboring city with its own shipyard, the protests were generally more peaceful than in Gda\u0144sk - until the events of 17 December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 28], "content_span": [29, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091266-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 Polish protests, Events\nVice prime minister Stanis\u0142aw Kocio\u0142ek, in his televised speech on the evening of 16 December, condemned the protesters but also called for the workers to get back to work. However, on the 16\u201317 December night, the shipyard in Gdynia was surrounded by the police and the military, including tanks. Responding to the vice PM's appeal proved deadly to some of the workers. In Gdynia, the soldiers had orders to stop workers returning to work and on 17 December fired into the crowd of workers emerging from their trains; at least 11 of them were killed. Then, in other parts of Gdynia, people were shot dead while protesting, bringing the official death toll in Gdynia to 18. The number of the wounded in Gdynia is far from certain but is estimated to be in the hundreds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 28], "content_span": [29, 798]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091266-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 Polish protests, Events\nThe protest movement then spread to other cities, leading to strikes and occupations. The government mobilized 5,000 members of special squads of police and 27,000 soldiers equipped with heavy tanks and machine guns. Overall, more than 1,000 people were wounded and at least 44 killed, and 3,000 arrested, by modern accounts. Only six people were initially reported dead by the government. All who died were buried overnight, with only the closest relatives present or no relatives present at all, in order to avoid spreading the riots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 28], "content_span": [29, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091266-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 Polish protests, Resolution\nThe Party leadership met in Warsaw and decided that a full-scale working-class revolt was inevitable unless drastic steps were taken. With the consent of Leonid Brezhnev in Moscow, Gomu\u0142ka, Kliszko, and other leaders were forced to resign: if the price rises had been a plot against Gomu\u0142ka, it succeeded. Since Moscow would not accept Mieczys\u0142aw Moczar, Edward Gierek was drafted as the new leader. The price increases were reversed, wage increases announced, and sweeping economic and political changes were promised. Gierek went to Gda\u0144sk and met the workers, apologised for the mistakes of the past, promised a political renewal and said that, as a worker himself, he would now govern for the people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 737]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091266-0010-0000", "contents": "1970 Polish protests, Resolution\nStanis\u0142aw Kocio\u0142ek lost the position of vice prime minister. For a short time he remained a member of the Central Committee, but in February 1971 he was reassigned to diplomatic service. That was soon after in January 1971, in a reversal of the previous policy of secrecy, government-controlled media published the list of 44 people who were killed during the protests. Kocio\u0142ek is vilified in a song related to the events of December 1970, Ballada o Janku Wi\u015bniewskim, as the person responsible for deaths of children and women. When workers were shot dead after listening to his appeal (seemingly being lured into a trap), the blame fell on him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 680]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091266-0011-0000", "contents": "1970 Polish protests, Impact\nAlthough the aims of the protesters were mostly social and economic rather than political, the riots reinvigorated the dormant political activity of Polish society. Nevertheless, the workers from the coast did not prevent the government from implementing its goal of increased food prices, which was achieved a few weeks later, after the 1971 \u0141\u00f3d\u017a strikes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 28], "content_span": [29, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091266-0012-0000", "contents": "1970 Polish protests, Impact\nThe Polish protests elicited broad sympathy and support, both in Western Europe and the Soviet bloc. There were copycat strikes on the K\u00fchlungsborn Pier in East Germany and in Riga; Russian sailors on stranded Soviet ships shared their food with the citizens of Gdansk and Szczecin, while Polish strikers shielded Russian families in Poland from reprisals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 28], "content_span": [29, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091266-0013-0000", "contents": "1970 Polish protests, Impact\nMonument to the Fallen Shipyard Workers of 1970 in Gda\u0144sk", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 28], "content_span": [29, 86]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091266-0014-0000", "contents": "1970 Polish protests, Impact\nMonument to victims of massacres during the 1970 protests in Elbl\u0105g", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 28], "content_span": [29, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091267-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Pot Black\nThe 1970 Pot Black event was the second edition of Pot Black, a professional invitational snooker tournament which was first broadcast in 1969. The event was recorded in early 1970 at the BBC TV Studios in Gosta Green, Birmingham. The tournament featured eight professional players. All matches were one-frame shoot-outs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091267-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Pot Black\nBroadcasts were on BBC2, starting with an introductory programme at 9:45\u00a0pm on Monday 23\u00a0March 1970. This year, the tournament moved to a round-robin format with two groups of four players, the top two players from each group qualifying for a place in the semi-finals. Alan Weeks took over as presenter, with Ted Lowe remaining as commentator and Sydney Lee as referee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091267-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Pot Black\nThe two finalists were the same as the previous year but the result was in reverse. John Spencer defeated Ray Reardon 88\u201327 in the one-frame final which was broadcast on 6\u00a0July 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091268-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Prague Skate\nThe 1970 Prague Skate was a senior international figure skating competition held 13\u201315 November 1970 in Czechoslovakia. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles and ladies' singles. West German national champion Klaus Grimmelt obtained gold in the men's event while the Soviet Union's Vladimir Kovalev, a future Olympic medalist, took the silver medal. Czechoslovakia's \u013dudmila Bez\u00e1kov\u00e1 won the ladies' title in a competition featuring skaters from a dozen countries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091269-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Preakness Stakes\nThe 1970 Preakness Stakes was the 95th running of the $205,000 Preakness Stakes thoroughbred horse race. The race took place on May 16, 1970, and was televised in the United States on the CBS television network. Personality, who was jockeyed by Eddie Belmonte, won the race by a scant neck over runner-up My Dad George. Approximate post time was 5:42\u00a0p.m. Eastern Time. The race was run on a fast track in a final time of 1:56-1/5. The Maryland Jockey Club reported total attendance of 42,474, this is recorded as third highest on the list of American thoroughbred racing top attended events for North America in 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 640]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091270-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours\nThe 1970 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours were officially announced in the London Gazette of 7 August 1970 and marked the June 1970 electoral defeat of the Prime Minister, Harold Wilson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091271-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Primera Divisi\u00f3n de Chile\nThe 1970 Campeonato Nacional de Futbol Profesional was first tier\u2019s 38th season. Colo-Colo was the tournament's champion, winning its tenth honor after seven years without a title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091272-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Prince Edward Island general election\nThe 1970 Prince Edward Island general election was held on May 11, 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091272-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Prince Edward Island general election\nThe incumbent Liberal government of Alex Campbell was easily re-elected, gaining a total of 7.9% in the popular vote on the Tories, who dropped by the identical amount, as only the two parties ran any candidates in both the 1970 and 1966 elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091272-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Prince Edward Island general election\nJean Canfield, the first woman ever elected to the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island, was a victorious candidate in 1st Queens in this election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091272-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Prince Edward Island general election, Members elected\nThe Legislature of Prince Edward Island had two levels of membership from 1893 to 1996 - Assemblymen and Councillors. This was a holdover from when the Island had a bicameral legislature, the General Assembly and the Legislative Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 59], "content_span": [60, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091272-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Prince Edward Island general election, Members elected\nIn 1893, the Legislative Council was abolished and had its membership merged with the Assembly, though the two titles remained separate and were elected by different electoral franchises. Assembleymen were elected by all eligible voters of within a district. Before 1963, Councillors were only elected by landowners within a district, but afterward were elected in the same manner as Assemblymen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 59], "content_span": [60, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091273-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Princeton Tigers football team\nThe 1970 Princeton Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Princeton University during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. Princeton finished fifth in the Ivy League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091273-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Princeton Tigers football team\nIn their second year under head coach Jake McCandless, the Tigers compiled a 5\u20134 record and outscored opponents 196 to 180. Dennis J. Burns was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091273-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Princeton Tigers football team\nPrinceton's 3\u20134 conference record placed fifth in the Ivy League standings. The Tigers were outscored 175 to 130 by Ivy opponents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091273-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Princeton Tigers football team\nPrinceton played its home games at Palmer Stadium on the university campus in Princeton, New Jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091274-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Prize of Moscow News\nThe 1970 Prize of Moscow News was the fifth edition of an international figure skating competition organized in Moscow, Soviet Union. It was held December 17\u201320, 1970. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating and ice dancing. Soviets swept the men's podium, with Sergei Chetverukhin defeating Sergey Volkov for the title. Marina Titova took the ladies' title ahead of skaters from East and West Germany. Lyudmila Smirnova / Andrei Suraikin won the pairs title ahead of Olympic champions Ludmila Belousova / Oleg Protopopov. Soviets also swept the ice dancing podium, led by World champions Lyudmila Pakhomova / Alexander Gorshkov.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 702]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091275-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Pro Bowl\nThe 1970 Pro Bowl was the National Football League's twentieth annual all-star game which featured the outstanding performers from the 1969 season. The game was played on Sunday, January 18, 1970, at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles. The final score was West 16, East 13. Gale Sayers of the Chicago Bears was named the game's offensive Most Valuable Player (MVP) after rushing for 75 yards on nine carries. George Andrie of the Dallas Cowboys was selected as the defensive MVP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091275-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Pro Bowl\nAttendance at the game was 57,786. Norm Van Brocklin of the Atlanta Falcons coached the West squad while the East was led by the New Orleans Saints' Tom Fears. This was the last Pro Bowl to feature the Eastern Conference vs. Western Conference format. After the AFL\u2013NFL merger was completed, future Pro Bowls would pit the AFC against the NFC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091276-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Propane vapor cloud explosion in Port Hudson\nThe 1970 Propane vapor cloud explosion in Port Hudson in Missouri resulted from a propane pipeline break, which led to the formation of a large, dense vapor cloud. Upon ignition, the vapor cloud exploded with tremendous force. Both near- and far-field damage indicate that this explosion may be attributed to the detonation of propane in air with an energy release equivalent to that from about 50 tons of detonating trinitrotoluene (TNT). The violence of the explosion is likely unprecedented.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091276-0000-0001", "contents": "1970 Propane vapor cloud explosion in Port Hudson\nAs such, the accident is widely quoted as one of the first, if not the first, confirmed accidental occurrences of an unconfined vapor cloud deflagration that turns into a detonation - a so-called deflagration to detonation transition. The accident represents a \"worst-possible\" sort of case history for assessment of the hazards of fuel transportation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091276-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Propane vapor cloud explosion in Port Hudson\nThe accident took place in Port Hudson, Franklin County, Missouri, on December 9, 1970. The pipeline was owned by Phillips Pipeline Company.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091277-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Puerto Rican suffrage referendum\nA referendum on electoral suffrage was held in Puerto Rico on 1 November 1970. Voters were asked whether the voting age should be lowered from 21 to 18. The reform was approved by 59.2% of voters, with a turnout of just 34.7%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091279-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Purdue Boilermakers football team\nThe 1970 Purdue Boilermakers football team represented Purdue University in the 1970 Big Ten Conference football season. This was Purdue's first losing season since 1956.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091280-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Quebec general election\nThe 1970 Quebec general election was held on April 29, 1970, to elect members of the National Assembly of Quebec. The former Legislative Assembly had been renamed the \"National Assembly\" in 1968. The Quebec Liberal Party, led by Robert Bourassa, defeated the incumbent Union Nationale, led by Premier Jean-Jacques Bertrand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091280-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Quebec general election\nThis election marked the first appearance by a new party, the sovereigntist Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois, led by former Liberal cabinet minister Ren\u00e9 L\u00e9vesque. The PQ won a modest seven seats, although L\u00e9vesque was defeated in his own riding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091280-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Quebec general election\nOnly a few months after the election, Quebec faced a severe test with the October Crisis, in which Liberal cabinet minister Pierre Laporte was kidnapped and assassinated by the Front de lib\u00e9ration du Qu\u00e9bec, a violent pro-independence group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091280-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Quebec general election\nThe Union Nationale, which had governed Quebec through most of the 1940s and 1950s, would never come close to winning power again. This was partly because a significant number of the Union Nationale's younger supporters had embraced sovereigntism and shifted their support to the PQ.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091280-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Quebec general election, Results\nResults change is compared to the combined totals of the Rassemblement pour l'ind\u00e9pendance nationale and Ralliement national from previous election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091280-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Quebec general election, Results\n* Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091281-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Quebec municipal elections\nSeveral municipalities in the Canadian province of Quebec held municipal elections to elect mayors and councillors on October 25, 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091281-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Quebec municipal elections\nThe most closely watched contest was in Montreal, where the election took place against the backdrop of the FLQ Crisis. Incumbent mayor Jean Drapeau was re-elected by a landslide and his party won every seat on the city council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091282-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Queen's Club Championships\nThe 1970 Queen's Club Championships, also known by its sponsored name Rothmans Open London Grass Court Championships, was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament played on grass courts at the Queen's Club in London in the United Kingdom. It was a non-tour event, i.e. not part of the 1970 Pepsi-Cola Grand Prix or 1970 World Championship Tennis circuit . It was the 71st edition of the tournament and was held from 15 June through 20 June 1970. First-seeded Rod Laver and Margaret Court won the singles titles. In the final Court was 2\u20136, 0\u20135 and 0\u201315 down against Winnie Shaw but recovered by winning 14 of the last 17 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 665]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091282-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Queen's Club Championships, Finals, Men's Doubles\nTom Okker / Marty Riessen defeated Arthur Ashe / Charlie Pasarell 6\u20134, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091282-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Queen's Club Championships, Finals, Women's Doubles\nRosie Casals / Billie-Jean King defeated Karen Krantzcke / Kerry Melville 6\u20134, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 56], "content_span": [57, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091282-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Queen's Club Championships, Finals, Mixed Doubles\nWinnie Shaw / Owen Davidson defeated Evonne Goolagong / Bob Giltinan 8\u20136, 13\u201311", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091283-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Queen's Club Championships \u2013 Men's Doubles\nOwen Davidson and Dennis Ralston were the defending champions, but did not participate this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091283-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Queen's Club Championships \u2013 Men's Doubles\nTom Okker and Marty Riessen won the title, defeating Arthur Ashe and Charlie Pasarell 6\u20134, 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091284-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Queen's Club Championships \u2013 Men's Singles\nFred Stolle was the defending champion, but did not participate this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091284-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Queen's Club Championships \u2013 Men's Singles\nRod Laver won the singles title at the 1970 Queen's Club Championships tennis tournament, defeating countryman John Newcombe 6\u20134, 6\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091285-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 RCD Cup\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by Cattell91 (talk | contribs) at 00:52, 6 September 2021 (Sentence structure / syntax). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091285-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 RCD Cup\nThe RCD Cup 1970 was the fourth edition of the RCD Cup professional football tournament, held in Tehran, Iran in 1970. This was a three-nation tournament played in league format between Iran, Pakistan, and Turkey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091285-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 RCD Cup\nIn this tournament, Turkey did not send their senior national team and was represented by the under-23 team", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091286-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Race of Champions\nThe 5th Race of Champions was a non-Championship motor race, run to Formula One rules, held on 22 March 1970 at Brands Hatch circuit in Kent, England. The race was run over 50 laps of the circuit, and was won by Jackie Stewart in a March 701.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091287-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Radiant Cup\nThe 1970 VFL Radiant Night Premiership was the Victorian Football League end of season cup competition played in September of the 1970 VFL Premiership Season. Run as a knock-out tournament, it was contested by the eight VFL teams that failed to make the 1970 VFL finals series. It was the 15th VFL Night Series competition. Games were played at the Lake Oval, Albert Park, then the home ground of South Melbourne, as it was the only ground equipped to host night games. Footscray won its fourth night series cup defeating Melbourne in the final by 2 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091288-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Railway Cup Hurling Championship\nThe 1970 Railway Cup Hurling Championship was the 44th series of the hurling Railway Cup. ree matches were played between 8 February and 17 March 1970. It was contested by Connacht, Leinster, Munster and Ulster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091288-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Railway Cup Hurling Championship\nMunster were the winners for the third year in-a-row and for the 32nd occasion overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091288-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Railway Cup Hurling Championship, Format\nPreliminary round: (1 match) This was a single match between Connacht and Ulster, generally regarded as the two 'weakest' teams in the championship. One team was eliminated at this stage while the winning team advanced to the semi-final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 45], "content_span": [46, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091288-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Railway Cup Hurling Championship, Format\nSemi-final: (1 match) This was a single match between the winners of the preliminary round and Munster. One team was eliminated at this stage while the winning team advanced to the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 45], "content_span": [46, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091288-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Railway Cup Hurling Championship, Format\nFinal: (1 match) This winners of the semi-final and Leinster, who received a bye to this stage, contested this game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 45], "content_span": [46, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091289-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Randwick state by-election\nA by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Randwick on 14 February 1970. It was triggered by the resignation of sitting member Lionel Bowen (Labor) to successfully contest the federal seat of Kingsford Smith at the 1969 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091290-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Rebel 400\nThe 1970 Rebel 400 was a NASCAR Grand National Series event that was held on May 9, 1970, at Darlington Raceway in Darlington, South Carolina. The race is known for a crash involving Richard Petty that inspired NASCAR to implement the window net; a mandatory safety feature in today's NASCAR vehicles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091290-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Rebel 400, Background\nDarlington Raceway is a race track built for NASCAR racing located near Darlington, South Carolina. It is of a unique, somewhat egg-shaped design, an oval with the ends of very different configurations, a condition which supposedly arose from the proximity of one end of the track to a minnow pond the owner refused to relocate. This situation makes it very challenging for the crews to set up their cars' handling in a way that will be effective at both ends.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 26], "content_span": [27, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091290-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Rebel 400, Background\nHarold Brasington was a retired racer in 1948, who had gotten to know Bill France, Sr. while competing against France at the Daytona Beach Road Course and other dirt tracks in the Southeast and Midwestern United States; he quit racing in the late 1940s to concentrate on farming and his construction business. He began planning a new speedway after he noticed the huge crowds while attending the 1948 Indianapolis 500 and thought, \"If Tony Hulman can do it here, I can do it back home.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 26], "content_span": [27, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091290-0002-0001", "contents": "1970 Rebel 400, Background\nBrasington bought 70 acres from farmer Sherman Ramsey, and started making a race track from a cotton and peanut field. However, he was forced to create an egg-shaped oval with one corner tighter, narrower, and more steeply banked because he promised Ramsey that the new track wouldn't disturb Ramsey's minnow pond at the west side of the property. Brasington was able to make the other turn at the east side of the property wide, sweeping, and flat as he wanted. It took almost a year to build the track.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 26], "content_span": [27, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091290-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Rebel 400, Background\nBrasington made a deal in the summer of 1950 with France to run a 500-mile (800\u00a0km) race in Darlington on Labor Day that year. The first Southern 500 carried a record $25,000 purse, and was co-sanctioned by NASCAR and its rival Central States Racing Association. More than 80 entrants showed up for the race. Brasington used a 2-week qualifying scheme similar to the one used at the Indianapolis 500. Brasington was also inspired by Indianapolis when he had the 75-car field aligned in 25 rows of three cars. These practices have been curtailed over the years as NASCAR adopted a more uniform set of guidelines with regard to the number of cars which could qualify for a race. The race was won by Johnny Mantz in a car owned by France.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 26], "content_span": [27, 762]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091290-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Rebel 400, Race report\nDavid Pearson defeated Dick Brooks by three laps in a race lasting three hours and five minutes; leading to his only win of the 1970 NASCAR Grand National Series season. Bill Seifert finished in last-place due to him quitting the race on lap 3. There were four cautions for a duration of 37 laps. Twenty lead changes were made during the course of the race. Overall, there were three accidents and one accidental spin down turn 4. Bobby Isaac dominated the last half of the race but ended up in third place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091290-0004-0001", "contents": "1970 Rebel 400, Race report\nHad Richard Petty not crashed his vehicle in the race and dislocated his shoulder in the process, he would have won the NASCAR championship instead of Bobby Isaac due to his consistency during the other races that season. Isaac raced 47 times and Petty raced 40 times during the 1970 NASCAR Cup Series season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091290-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Rebel 400, Race report\nThis was Buddy Arrington's first race back after his vicious wreck in the Daytona 500. The Mopar stalwart posted a strong run in his return as he brought his #5 Charger home with a sixth-place finish, his best of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091290-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 Rebel 400, Race report\nEngine failures dominated a good portion of the race. Five drivers failed to qualify for the event; including two Ford drivers. Cale Yarborough would finish in 13th place despite losing control over his clutch on lap 250. Nearly 13% of the race was run under a caution flag. Each green flag lasted almost 51 laps on average. Paul Connors would make his final professional stock car appearance at this event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091290-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 Rebel 400, Race report\nDrivers who failed to qualify for the race were: Ed Negre, Bill Shirey, Dick May, Hoss Ellington and Johnny Halford. Qualifying times ranged from 64.3 seconds to 72.1 seconds; speeds driven at the event ranged from 137.267 miles per hour (220.910\u00a0km/h) for the 37th-place driver to 153.822 miles per hour (247.553\u00a0km/h) for the pole position driver. Dale Inman was listed as the official crew chief for Pete Hamilton and Richard Petty. Other notable crew chiefs included Banjo Matthews, Harry Hyde and Herb Nab.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091291-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Rewa\u2013Suva by-election\nA by-election for the Rewa\u2013Suva seat in the House of Representatives of Fiji was held in December 1970 following the death of incumbent MP Alipate Sikivou in September 1970. The result was a victory for Uraia Koroi of the Alliance Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091291-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Rewa\u2013Suva by-election, Background\nIn the 1966 elections, the seat had been won by Alliance Party candidate Alipate Sikivou with 4,427 of the 7,474 valid votes (59.2%). Jone Cure Mataitini, an independent, finished second with 1,779 votes, whilst another independent candidate, Noa Niubalavu Nawalowalo, received 1,268 votes to finish third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091291-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Rewa\u2013Suva by-election, Candidates\nThree candidates contested the elections; Uraia Koroi, a programme organiser for Fijian language broadcasts at Radio Fiji, was the Alliance Party candidate. Ratu Mosese Varesekete Tuisawau, a brother in-law of Prime Minister Kamisese Mara, contested the elections on behalf of the National Federation Party, the first Fijian to contest the election on behalf of the party. The third candidate was Taniela Vitata, leader of the Dockworker and Seamen's Union, who ran on behalf of the National Liberal Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091291-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Rewa\u2013Suva by-election, Campaign\nUnusually, the chief-oriented Alliance Party had a commoner as its candidate, whilst the Indo-Fijian dominated National Federation Party had a Fijian chief. Tuisawau received the backing of a leading Rewan chief, Senator Jone Mataitini, but was strongly opposed by the Fiji Times. During the campaign Tuisawau was involved in a fight with the editor of the Na Tovata newspaper of the Alliance Party. He received strong support in Rewa, but very little in Suva.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091291-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Rewa\u2013Suva by-election, Results\nVitata lost his $100 deposit after receiving less than 10% of the vote. Voter turnout was just under 40%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091292-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Rhode Island Rams football team\nThe 1970 Rhode Island Rams football team was an American football team that represented the University of Rhode Island as a member of the Yankee Conference during the 1970 NCAA College Division football season. In its first season under head coach Jack Gregory, the team compiled a 3\u20135 record (3\u20132 against conference opponents), tied for third place out of six teams in the Yankee Conference, and was outscored by a total of 178 to 125. The team played its home games at Meade Stadium in Kingston, Rhode Island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091293-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Rhode Island gubernatorial election\nThe 1970 Rhode Island gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 1970. Incumbent Democrat Frank Licht defeated Republican nominee Herbert F. DeSimone with 50.07% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091294-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Rhodesian general election\nGeneral elections were held in Rhodesia on 10 April 1970. They were the first elections to take place under the revised, republican constitution. The country had declared itself independent in November 1965, shortly after the previous elections; the Rhodesian Front government had always disliked the 1961 constitution and made sure to change it by the time of the next one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091294-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Rhodesian general election, Background\nFollowing the referendum on the new constitution in June 1969, the timing of the next election was laid out: it would happen once the new Electoral Act had been put in place, and once delimitation of the new constituencies was complete.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091294-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Rhodesian general election, Background\nThis gave opponents of the Rhodesian Front a chance to organise in time for the election. At the Rhodesian Front congress on 23 October 1969, the party chairman Ralph Nilson warned the government to avoid complacency. The Centre Party had been founded in 1968 as a non-racial party which aimed for 'Middle of the Road' political opinion; it supported \"advancement of the African on merit\" and gradual abolition of racial discrimination and was led by Pat Bashford; it was strongest in the urban areas. Ian Smith described it as \"the real opposition\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091294-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Rhodesian general election, Background\nRobin James, an independent MP who had been expelled from the Rhodesian Front for opposing Ian Smith, formed the Conservative Alliance on 26 June 1969 which campaigned for the preservation of the white presence in Rhodesia. James attacked the Rhodesian Front for 'multiracial, integrationist policies'; his party was subsequently renamed the Republican Alliance. Eligible African voters also began to form political parties, among them the National People's Union which aimed to unite Africans against white supremacy without violence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091294-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Rhodesian general election, Electoral system\nUnder the 1969 constitution, the electorate of Rhodesia returned 66 members of the House of Assembly of Rhodesia. The electoral system was divided into three different classes of seat:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091294-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Rhodesian general election, Electoral system, Qualification of voters\nQualification for being a voter depended on having sufficient means or educational achievement. All voters had to be a citizen of Rhodesia, over 21 years of age, have resided in the constituency for at least three months, and have an adequate knowledge of English and be able to sign the claim form in his or her own handwriting. There were then two rolls for which the voter might qualify, which were determined by their race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 74], "content_span": [75, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091294-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 Rhodesian general election, Electoral system, Qualification of voters\nTo qualify for the European voters roll, a voter had to be European, Coloured, or Asian and either:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 74], "content_span": [75, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091294-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 Rhodesian general election, Electoral system, Qualification of voters\nTo qualify for the African voters roll, a voter had to be African and either:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 74], "content_span": [75, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091294-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 Rhodesian general election, Electoral system, Qualification of voters\nIn practice very few Africans qualified, and many who met the qualification requirements refused to register to vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 74], "content_span": [75, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091294-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 Rhodesian general election, Electoral system, Qualification of voters\nWives were deemed to meet the means qualification through their husbands' earnings or wealth, although for African voters living under a system of polygamy, only the first wife qualified. A Minister of Religion or a member of a religious order living under a vow of poverty was automatically deemed to have met the means qualification. Tribal chiefs also qualified automatically to vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 74], "content_span": [75, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091294-0010-0000", "contents": "1970 Rhodesian general election, Electoral system, Qualification of voters\nVoters were disqualified if they were insane, had been convicted of a serious criminal offence or an offence under electoral law, had been under detention or restriction for more than six months under security legislation, or had been expelled from Parliament. Some voters were also disqualified for receiving Government rations or maintenance in lieu of rations for more than a year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 74], "content_span": [75, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091294-0011-0000", "contents": "1970 Rhodesian general election, Electoral system, Constituency boundaries\nA delimitation commission was established by the Electoral Act of 1969, and began work in December 1969. Several of the constituencies were the same as previous constituencies, but some changes were required due to population shifts. The delimitation commission had to work with electorate figures as of 1 February, and could recommend constituencies within 20% either side of a target electorate of 1,740 (which gave a maximum of 2,088 and a minimum of 1,393).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 74], "content_span": [75, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091294-0012-0000", "contents": "1970 Rhodesian general election, Campaign\nOn 1 March, Clifford Dupont as 'Officer Administering the Government' signed a proclamation dissolving Parliament and bringing into effect the new constitution at midnight (Rhodesia therefore became a unilaterally-proclaimed Republic on 2 March). The general election was set for 10 April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091294-0013-0000", "contents": "1970 Rhodesian general election, Campaign\nThe Centre Party announced on 4 March its intention to run 12 candidates. The party declared it accepted the constitution and therefore the independence of Rhodesia. It eventually ran 16; the Republican Alliance had 14, and there were 14 Independents. These candidates generally fell into two categories.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091294-0014-0000", "contents": "1970 Rhodesian general election, Campaign\nA victory for the Rhodesian Front was regarded as inevitable. Ian Smith, helped by the presence of the Republican Alliance, portrayed his government as not being racialist, and sought to postpone the question of what to do about the farming industry until after the election. In the event, the Rhodesian Front won every seat; the most marginal was Salisbury City, which included the large Salisbury community of Indian shopkeepers, and where a mixed-race candidate was only 40 votes off winning. The Centre Party's appeal to non-racial politics played well only among African voters who gave them seven out of the eight seats, with only one going to the National People's Union.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 720]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091294-0015-0000", "contents": "1970 Rhodesian general election, Results, Tribal seats\nAll the successful tribal MPs formed the Rhodesia Electoral Union on election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091294-0016-0000", "contents": "1970 Rhodesian general election, Changes during the Assembly, Party changes\nAllan Savory resigned from the Rhodesian Front in 1972 over the issue of land nationalisation. On 31 October 1972, he formed the Rhodesia Party together with Roy Ashburner (who had been an independent candidate in 1970), and Dr Morris Hirsch, who had been a United Federal Party MP in the 1960s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 75], "content_span": [76, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091294-0017-0000", "contents": "1970 Rhodesian general election, Changes during the Assembly, Mabelreign\nPatrick Palmer-Owen died on 9 June 1971. He was to undergo the first open-heart surgery of its kind at the time, but the operation was unsuccessful. A by-election was held to replace him on 5 August 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 72], "content_span": [73, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091294-0018-0000", "contents": "1970 Rhodesian general election, Changes during the Assembly, Salisbury Central\nTheo Ellison was convicted of a tax fraud and resigned from the Assembly on 15 November 1971. Nomination day for the byelection was 3 December 1971; only Hilary Gwyn Squires of the Rhodesian Front was nominated, and he was declared elected unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 79], "content_span": [80, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091294-0019-0000", "contents": "1970 Rhodesian general election, Changes during the Assembly, Kunyasi\nJosiah Gondo died on 27 October 1972, leading to a byelection to replace him on 8 December 1972. Thomas Tavagwisa Zawaira was elected. There were five defeated candidates: Elias Mapiye Badza, Johnson Matariro Hungwe, Percy Hudson Mkudu, Samson Mundondo, and Isaac Hanzi Samuriwo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 69], "content_span": [70, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091294-0020-0000", "contents": "1970 Rhodesian general election, Changes during the Assembly, Victoria\nGeorge Hartley was made Speaker of the House of Assembly on 27 March 1973, which made him a member of the House ex officio. A byelection to replace him was held on 17 May 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 70], "content_span": [71, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091294-0021-0000", "contents": "1970 Rhodesian general election, Changes during the Assembly, Matojeni\nWening Moraka died on 7 March 1973 and a byelection was held to replace him on 24 May 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 70], "content_span": [71, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091294-0022-0000", "contents": "1970 Rhodesian general election, Changes during the Assembly, Sinoia-Umvukwes\nFrederick Alexander died on 26 December 1973, and the byelection to replace him was held on 28 February 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 77], "content_span": [78, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091294-0023-0000", "contents": "1970 Rhodesian general election, Changes during the Assembly, Raylton\nThomas Pinchen resigned from the Assembly on 9 January 1974. The byelection in Raylton was held on 28 February 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 69], "content_span": [70, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091295-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Rice Owls football team\nThe 1970 Rice Owls football team was an American football team that represented Rice University in the Southwest Conference (SWC) during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. In its fourth and final season under head coach Bo Hagan, the team compiled a 5\u20135 record (3\u20134 against SWC opponents), tied for fourth place in the conference, and was outscored by a total of 175 to 168. The team played its home games at Rice Stadium in Houston.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091295-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Rice Owls football team\nThe team's statistical leaders included Philip Wood with 489 passing yards and 30 points scored, Stahle Vincent with 453 rushing yards, and Mike Philips with 192 receiving yards. Two Rice players were selected by the Associated Press as first-team players on the 1970 All-Southwest Conference football team: middle guard Roger Roitsch and defensive back Bucky Allhouse.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091296-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Richmond Spiders football team\nThe 1970 Richmond Spiders football team represented the Richmond College during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091297-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Road Atlanta Can-Am\nThe 1970 Road Atlanta Can-Am race was the seventh round of the 1970 Can-Am season. It was held September 13, 1970, at Road Atlanta in Braselton, Georgia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091298-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Roller Hockey World Cup\nThe 1970 Roller Hockey World Cup was the nineteenth roller hockey world cup, organized by the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de Roller Sports. It was contested by 11 national teams (6 from Europe, 3 from South America, 1 from North America and 1 from Asia). All the games were played in the city of San Juan, in Argentina, the chosen city to host the World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091299-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Rose Bowl\nThe 1970 Rose Bowl was the 56th edition of the college football bowl game, played at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, on Thursday, January\u00a01. The USC Trojans, champions of the Pacific-8 Conference, defeated the Michigan Wolverines, champions of the Big Ten Conference, 10\u20133. USC\u00a0flanker Bob Chandler scored the only touchdown and was named the Player of the\u00a0Game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091299-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Rose Bowl, Teams, Michigan\nAfter early season losses to #9 Missouri and unranked Michigan State, the Wolverines won four straight games before their showdown with heavily-favored and top-ranked Ohio State for the Big Ten championship. Michigan shocked the college football world by upsetting the top-ranked Buckeyes 24\u201312 to tie for the conference title and receive the Rose Bowl bid. (Ohio State was ineligible anyway because of the Big Ten's \"no repeat\" rule, which was rescinded in 1971.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 31], "content_span": [32, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091299-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Rose Bowl, Teams, Michigan\nJust days before the Rose Bowl, first-year head coach Bo Schembechler, age forty, suffered a mild heart attack and had to miss the game; defensive coordinator Jim Young was the acting head\u00a0coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 31], "content_span": [32, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091299-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Rose Bowl, Teams, USC\nAided by a pass interference penalty on fourth down followed by a controversial last-minute touchdown, USC earned the Rose Bowl berth with a 14\u201312 win over rival UCLA in their regular season finale. The only blemish on their record was a 14\u201314 tie at Notre Dame in mid-October. The Trojans were making their record fourth consecutive Rose Bowl appearance, as the Pac-8 did not have a \"no repeat\" rule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 26], "content_span": [27, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091299-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Rose Bowl, Game summary\nThe score was tied at 3\u20133 at halftime. With three minutes to play in the third quarter, USC quarterback Jimmy Jones threw a 33-yard touchdown pass to Bob Chandler to give the Trojans a 10\u20133 lead. A scoreless fourth quarter ensured the USC victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 28], "content_span": [29, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091299-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Rose Bowl, Aftermath\nUSC finished the year undefeated with one tie, earning a #3 ranking behind undefeated and untied #1 Texas and #2 Penn State. Chandler went on to play for the NFL for 11 years with the Buffalo Bills and the Oakland Raiders. Michigan finished 8\u20133 and was ranked 9th in the AP poll (released in January) and 8th in the UPI poll (released after the regular season in early December).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 25], "content_span": [26, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091300-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Rothmans 12 Hour\nThe 1970 Rothmans 12 Hour was an endurance motor race for Group E Series Production Touring Cars. The event was held at the Surfers Paradise International Raceway in Queensland, Australia on 4 January 1970 with the field divided into four classes determined by the retail price of the vehicle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091300-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Rothmans 12 Hour\nThe race was won by Colin Bond and Tony Roberts driving a Class D Holden Monaro HT GTS350 for the Harry Firth run Holden Dealer Team. The pair, who four months earlier had won the 1969 Hardie-Ferodo 500 at Bathurst, covered 435 laps of the 3.219 km (2.000 mi) circuit for a distance of 1,400.265 km (870 mi).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091301-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Rothmans 250 Production Classic\nThe 1970 Rothmans 250 Production Classic was an endurance motor race for Series Production Touring Cars staged at the Surfers Paradise International Raceway in Queensland, Australia on 1 November 1970. Race distance was 125 laps of the 2 mile circuit, a total of 250 miles. Cars competed in four classes based on purchase price.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091301-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Rothmans 250 Production Classic, Results\nNote: The above results table shows only the top ten outright finishers plus the top three placegetters in each class.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091302-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Rothmans Canadian Open\nThe 1970 Rothmans Canadian Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Toronto Cricket Skating and Curling Club in Toronto in Canada that was part of the 1970 Pepsi-Cola Grand Prix. The men's tournament was held from August 12 through August 18, 1970, while the women's tournament was played from August 19 through August 25, 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091302-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Rothmans Canadian Open, Finals, Men's Doubles\nWilliam Bowrey / Marty Riessen defeated Cliff Drysdale / Fred Stolle 6\u20133, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091302-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Rothmans Canadian Open, Finals, Women's Doubles\nRosemary Casals / Margaret Court defeated Evonne Goolagong / Pat Walkden 6\u20130, 6\u20131", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091303-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Rothmans International Tennis Tournament\nThe 1970 Rothmans International Tennis Tournament was a men's professional tennis tournament held on indoor carpet courts in the Royal Albert Hall in London, England. It was the first edition of the tournament and was held from 4\u20137 March 1970. It was an independent event, i.e. not part of either the 1970 Grand Prix or 1970 World Championship Tennis circuit. Marty Riessen won both the singles and doubles competition and \u00a32525 in prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091303-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Rothmans International Tennis Tournament, Finals, Doubles\nTom Okker / Marty Riessen defeated Rod Laver / Owen Davidson 6\u20133, 13\u201311, 9\u201311, 2\u20136, 7\u20135", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 62], "content_span": [63, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091304-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Round Australia Trial\nThe 1970 Round Australia Trial, officially the Ampol Trial was the eleventh running of the Round Australia Trial. The rally took place between 24 June and 5 July 1970. The event covered 10,200 kilometres around Australia. It was jointly won by Jean-Claude Ogier and Lucette Ogier, driving a Citro\u00ebn DS 21 & Edgar Herrmann and Hans Sch\u00fcller, driving a Datsun 1600 SSS.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091305-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Rugby League World Cup\nThe fifth Rugby League World Cup was held in Great Britain in 1970. Britain, fresh from defeating Australia in the Ashes during their Australasian tour earlier in the year (the last time as of 2017 that they would win The Ashes), were hot favourites, and won all three of their group stage games, including defeating Australia 11\u20134. All the other nations lost two games each, and Australia qualified for the final largely on the back of an impressive tally of points against New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091305-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Rugby League World Cup\nThe final was held at Headingley, Leeds. Although Great Britain dominated the possession, the Kangaroos were able to exploit their chances, and ran out unexpected winners in a scrappy game that became known as the \"Battle of Leeds\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091305-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Rugby League World Cup\nAustralian centre Bob Fulton was named the official player of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091305-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Rugby League World Cup\nAfter winning the tournament, the Australian team put the World Cup trophy on display in the Midland Hotel in Bradford. From there it was stolen and remained unseen for the next 20 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091305-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Rugby League World Cup, Venues\nHeadingley in Leeds hosted a group game between Great Britain and Australia and also hosted the World Cup Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091305-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Rugby League World Cup, Results\nAustralia beat the Kiwis easily at Wigan in the opening fixture with Eric Simms repeating his form of the 1968 tourney by landing a record ten goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091305-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 Rugby League World Cup, Results\nBritain came from 0\u20134 behind to defeat Australia 11\u20134 at Headingley with Syd Hynes scoring the game's only try.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091305-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 Rugby League World Cup, Results\nThe try of the tournament was scored by the sensational French winger Serge Marsolan against New Zealand in a mud-bath at Hull. Marsolan ran from behind his own line for a try fit to win any match but the lackadaisical French lost 15\u201316.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091305-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 Rugby League World Cup, Results\nThe French put up a great fight against Britain in vile conditions, only to lose 0\u20136 at Castleford to three penalties from Ray Dutton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091305-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 Rugby League World Cup, Results\nBritain eliminated New Zealand from the tournament, cruising to victory with five tries to three.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091305-0010-0000", "contents": "1970 Rugby League World Cup, Results\nThis incredibly exciting game has been described as the tournament's piece de resistance. Aussie centre Bobby Fulton scored a try within seconds of the kick-off \u2013 probably the quickest ever in international matches. However, with ten minutes to go and the scores level at 15\u201315, the French stole the game when stand-off half Jean Capdouze dropped a monster goal. The Kangaroos' loss to France meant it was Australia's superior points differential (on the back of their pointsfest in the opening game against New Zealand) alone that got them into the final with the undefeated Great Britain team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091305-0011-0000", "contents": "1970 Rugby League World Cup, Results, Final\nHaving retained the Ashes, Great Britain were favourites to win the final, which would become known as the 'Battle of Headingley' due to its brutality. However it went completely against expectations as Britain failed to play any decent football despite overwhelming possession. The Kangaroos led 5\u20134 at half-time with a try to Australian three-quarter, Father John Cootes. They went on to utilise their meagre chances to the full, running out 12\u20137 victors. The game itself was an extended punch-up. The only surprise was that it took 79 minutes before anyone was sent off. Two sacrificial lambs, Billy Smith of Australia and Syd Hynes of Britain, were sent off the field in the last minute for what had been going unpunished throughout the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 790]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091306-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Rugby League World Cup Final\nThe 1970 Rugby League World Cup Final was the conclusive game of the 1970 Rugby League World Cup tournament and was played between Great Britain and Australia on 8 November 1970 at the Headingley ground in Leeds, England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091306-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Rugby League World Cup Final, Background\nThe 1970 Rugby League World Cup was the fifth staging of the Rugby League World Cup since its inauguration in 1954, and the first since the 1968 tournament. The tournament was held in the England from 21 October, culminating in the final between Great Britain and Australia on 8 November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091306-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Rugby League World Cup Final, Background, Australia\nAustralia, France and New Zealand all finished with one win each. Australia advanced to the Final by virtue of a better for and against record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091306-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Rugby League World Cup Final, Match details\nHaving retained the Ashes against Australia during their 1970 Australasian tour, Great Britain were favourites to win the final, which would become known as the 'Battle of Headingley' due to its brutality. However it went completely against expectations as Britain failed to play any decent football despite overwhelming possession. The Kangaroos led 5\u20134 at half-time with a try to Australian three-quarter, Father John Cootes. They went on to utilise their meagre chances to the full, running out 12\u20137 victors. The game itself was an extended punch-up. The only surprise was that it took 79 minutes before anyone was sent off. Two sacrificial lambs, Billy Smith of Australia and Syd Hynes of Britain, were sent off the field in the last minute for what had been going unpunished throughout the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 849]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091306-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Rugby League World Cup Final, Match details\nGreat Britain, having been undefeated in the World Cup, felt that there should not have been a need to play a final, especially as they had already defeated Australia 11-4 at Headingley in the second game of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091306-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Rugby League World Cup Final, Match details\nWe beat them at Leeds in the group stages as well as beating France and New Zealand so we were confident but in the final we got our tactics wrong. We tried to physically knock them down but we should have played more football. John Atkinson had that altercation with Father John Cootes after the final whistle. Tactically we didn\u2019t play to our best. Maybe there was some complacency due to the Ashes win and the group stage games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091306-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 Rugby League World Cup Final, Match details\n(Note: Although Reilly recalls a post-match incident between Atkinson and Cootes, what actually happened was Australian fullback Eric Simms attempted to shake hands with Atkinson after the game, but was instead greeted with a headbutt by the frustrated Lions winger. This led to a wild post-match brawl between the teams that had to be broken up by referee Fred Lindop, his two touch judges, and the Leeds City Police.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091307-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Rugby League World Cup squads\nThis is a list of the squads which took part at the 1970 Rugby League World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091308-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Rutgers Scarlet Knights football team\nThe 1970 Rutgers Scarlet Knights football team represented Rutgers University in the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. In their 11th season under head coach John F. Bateman, the Scarlet Knights compiled a 5\u20135 record and were outscored by their opponents 215 to 193. The team's statistical leaders included Mike Yancheff with 974 passing yards, Larry Robertson with 397 rushing yards, and Al Fenstemacher with 254 receiving yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091308-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Rutgers Scarlet Knights football team\nThe Scarlet Knights played their home games at Rutgers Stadium in Piscataway, New Jersey, across the river from the university's main campus in New Brunswick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091309-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 SANFL Grand Final\nThe 1970 SANFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football competition. Sturt beat Glenelg by 85 to 64.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091310-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 SANFL season\nThe 1970 South Australian National Football League season was the 91st season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091311-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 SCCA Continental Championship\nThe 1970 SCCA Continental Championship was the fourth annual running of the Sports Car Club of America's professional open wheel racing series. The championship was open to Formula A cars, with both 305 cubic inch \"stock block\" V8 engines and 183 cubic inch \"free design\" engines being permitted in that category. For the first time in the history of the series, drivers competed for the L&M Championship Trophy and a share of a $40,000 prize fund. The championship was won by John Cannon driving a McLaren M10B Chevrolet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091311-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 SCCA Continental Championship\nThe SCCA also organized a separate Continental Championship for Formula B cars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091311-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 SCCA Continental Championship, Points system\nChampionship points were awarded to drivers on a 20-15-12-10-8-6-4-3-2-1 basis for the first ten places in each race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 49], "content_span": [50, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091312-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 SMU Mustangs football team\nThe 1970 SMU Mustangs football team represented Southern Methodist University during the 1970 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091313-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Sacramento State Hornets football team\nThe 1970 Sacramento State Hornets football team represented Sacramento State College during the 1970 NCAA College Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091313-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Sacramento State Hornets football team\nSacramento State competed in the Far Western Conference (FWC). The Hornets were led by head coach Ray Clemons in his tenth season. They played home games at Hornet Stadium in Sacramento, California. The team finished the season with a record of four wins and six losses (4\u20136, 2\u20133 FWC). Overall, the team outscored its opponents 196\u2013169 for the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091313-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Sacramento State Hornets football team, Team players in the NFL\nNo Sacramento State players were selected in the 1971 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 68], "content_span": [69, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091314-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Saint Louis Billikens men's soccer team\nThe 1970 Saint Louis Billikens men's soccer team represented Saint Louis University during the 1970 NCAA soccer season. The Billikens won their eighth NCAA title this season. It was the 12th ever season the Billikens fielded a men's varsity soccer team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091314-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Saint Louis Billikens men's soccer team\nDan Counce lead the Billikens in scoring this season, amassing 14 goals over the course of the season. Captain, Al Trost won the Hermann Trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091314-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Saint Louis Billikens men's soccer team, Roster\nThe following individuals played for the Billikens during the 1970 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091314-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Saint Louis Billikens men's soccer team, Roster\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091315-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Salvadoran legislative election\nLegislative elections were held in El Salvador on 8 March 1970. The result was a victory for the National Conciliation Party, which won 34 of the 52 seats. However, the election was marred by massive fraud. Voter turnout was just 41.6%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091316-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 San Diego Chargers season\nThe 1970 San Diego Chargers season was the franchise's eleventh overall season and first season in the National Football League (NFL). As a result of the NFL-AFL Merger, where the league was broken into two conferences, each member of the American Football League was moved into the American Football Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091316-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 San Diego Chargers season\nSan Diego's 5-6-3 record was the first of seven consecutive losing seasons for the franchise. The 1970 Chargers are the last NFL team to record three ties in a single season, a record which will likely stand, as the NFL adopted overtime for regular season games in 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091316-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season, Standings\nNote: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091317-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 San Diego Padres season\nThe 1970 San Diego Padres season was the second season in franchise history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091317-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 San Diego Padres season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 73], "content_span": [74, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091317-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 San Diego Padres season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 66], "content_span": [67, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091317-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 San Diego Padres season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 71], "content_span": [72, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091317-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 San Diego Padres season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 68], "content_span": [69, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091317-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 San Diego Padres season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 69], "content_span": [70, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091318-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 San Diego State Aztecs football team\nThe 1970 San Diego State Aztecs football team represented San Diego State College during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season as a member of the Pacific Coast Athletic Association. The team was led by head coach Don Coryell, in his tenth year, and played home games at San Diego Stadium in San Diego, California. They finished the season as co-champions of the conference, with a record of nine wins and two losses (9\u20132, 5\u20131 PCAA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091318-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 San Diego State Aztecs football team, Team players in the NFL\nThe following finished their SDSU career in 1970, were not drafted, but played in the NFL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 66], "content_span": [67, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091319-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 San Francisco 49ers season\nThe 1970 San Francisco 49ers season was the franchise's 21st season in the National Football League, and the 25th overall. Quarterback John Brodie won the NFL MVP and the 49ers captured their first Divisional Title with a 10-3-1 record. Cornerback Bruce Taylor won Defensive Rookie of the Year honors. In the NFC Championship, the 49ers lost to the Dallas Cowboys in the final game at Kezar Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091319-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 San Francisco 49ers season, Regular season, Standings\nNote: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091320-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 San Francisco Giants season\nThe 1970 San Francisco Giants season was the Giants' 88th year in Major League Baseball, their 13th year in San Francisco since their move from New York following the 1957 season, and their 11th at Candlestick Park. The Giants went 86\u201376, which was good for third place in the National League West, 16 games behind the NL Champion Cincinnati Reds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091320-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 San Francisco Giants season, Regular season\nClyde King was fired as manager on May 23 after the Giants dropped a 15-inning 17\u201316 game to the San Diego Padres, slipping them to a 19\u201323 record and mired in fourth place. The Giants elevated Charlie Fox, manager of their AAA Phoenix (Pacific Coast League) farm team, to manage the big club. The team responded with a double-header sweep of the Padres, 6\u20131 and 7\u20136. Fox brought the Giants to a third-place finish with a 67\u201353 record the rest of the way.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091320-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 San Francisco Giants season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 77], "content_span": [78, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091320-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 San Francisco Giants season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 70], "content_span": [71, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091320-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 San Francisco Giants season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 75], "content_span": [76, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091320-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 San Francisco Giants season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 72], "content_span": [73, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091320-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 San Francisco Giants season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 73], "content_span": [74, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091321-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 San Francisco State Gators football team\nThe 1970 San Francisco State Gators football team represented San Francisco State College during the 1970 NCAA College Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091321-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 San Francisco State Gators football team\nSan Francisco State competed in the Far Western Conference (FWC). The Gators were led by head coach Vic Rowen in his 10th year at the helm. They played home games at Cox Stadium in San Francisco, California. The team finished the regular season with a record of zero wins, nine losses and one tie (0\u20139\u20131, 0\u20135 FWC). For the season the team was outscored by its opponents 99\u2013372.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091321-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 San Francisco State Gators football team, Team players in the NFL\nNo San Francisco State players were selected in the 1971 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 70], "content_span": [71, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091322-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 San Jose State Spartans football team\nThe 1970 San Jose State Spartans football team represented San Jose State College during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season as a member of the Pacific Coast Athletic Association. The team was led by head coach Joe McMullen for only the first three games of the 1970 season. He was replaced by DeWayne \"Dewey\" King as of the fourth game of the season. They played home games at Spartan Stadium in San Jose, California. They finished the season with a record of two wins and nine losses (2\u20139, 2\u20133 PCAA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091322-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 San Jose State Spartans football team, Team players in the NFL\nNo San Jose State players were selected in the 1971 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 67], "content_span": [68, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091323-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Sandown Three Hour 250\nThe 1970 Sandown Three Hour 250 was an Australian endurance motor race for Series Production Cars. The event was held on 13 September 1970 over 130 laps of the 1.9 mile Sandown Park circuit in Victoria, Australia, a total of 247 miles. There were 42 starters in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091323-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Sandown Three Hour 250\nCanadian race driver Allan Moffat won the first of his five Sandown endurance race victories. Moffat drove the factory-prepared Ford Falcon GT-HO race car to a one lap victory over Holden Dealer Team driver, Colin Bond (Holden Torana). Chrysler factory team driver Norm Beechey (Chrysler Valiant Pacer) finished in third position, three laps behind Bond.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091323-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Sandown Three Hour 250\nThis event, revived from a previous six-hour format, debuted in 1968 and quickly became the recognized precursor event to the annual Bathurst 500 / 1000 race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091324-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Saskatchewan Roughriders season\nThe 1970 Saskatchewan Roughriders finished in 1st place in the Western Conference with a 14\u20132\u20130 record, which still stands as a franchise record for most wins in a single season. The team's winning percentage of 0.875 is also the best since the creation of the Western Interprovincial Football Union in 1936. The Roughriders qualified for the playoffs for the ninth straight season, but lost the West Final three-game series to the Calgary Stampeders. Between regular season and playoffs, Saskatchewan lost only three times at home, all to Calgary, including twice in their playoff series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091325-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Scheldeprijs\nThe 1970 Scheldeprijs was the 57th edition of the Scheldeprijs cycle race and was held on 28 July 1970. The race was won by Roger De Vlaeminck.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091326-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Scottish Cup Final\nThe 1970 Scottish Cup Final was played on 11 April 1970 at Hampden Park in Glasgow and was the final of the 85th Scottish Cup. Aberdeen and Celtic contested the match, Aberdeen won the match 3\u20131 with a goal from Joe Harper and two from Derek McKay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091327-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Scottish League Cup Final\nThe 1970 Scottish League Cup Final was played on 24 October 1970 and was the final of the 25th Scottish League Cup competition. The match was an Old Firm derby between Rangers and Celtic. Rangers won the match 1\u20130, thanks to a goal by the then 16-year-old Derek Johnstone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091328-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Scottish local elections\nLocal elections were held in Scotland in May 1970, as part of that years wider British local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091328-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Scottish local elections\nThe municipal elections, held on 5 May, saw Labour making large gains from the Conservatives, SNP, and Liberals. In Glasgow, the Labour surge denied the Progressive-Conservative alliance of their recently won control. Across Scotland the election saw Labour gaining at the expense of the SNP, with Labour managing to win back voters who had crossed over to the SNP in previous years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091328-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Scottish local elections\nCounty elections were held the following week, on 13 May, and also saw Labour making further gains at the expense of the SNP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091329-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Segunda Divisi\u00f3n de Chile\nThe 1970 Segunda Divisi\u00f3n de Chile was the 19th season of the Segunda Divisi\u00f3n de Chile.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091330-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Senegalese prime ministerial referendum\nA referendum on reinstating the post of Prime Minister was held in Senegal on 22 February 1970, after the post had been abolished in a referendum in 1963. The result was 99.96% of voters in favour of the change, with a 95.2% turnout. Following the referendum, Abdou Diouf was appointed to the post on 26 February.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091331-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Senior League World Series\nThe 1970 Senior League World Series took place from August 17\u201323 in Gary, Indiana, United States. West Tampa, Florida defeated Throggs Neck, New York in the championship game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091332-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Seychellois parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections were held in the Seychelles in November 1970 for the Legislative Assembly of Seychelles. The result was a victory for the Seychelles Democratic Party, which won 10 of the 15 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091333-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Sheffield City Council election\nThe election was held on 8 May 1970 with one third of the council up for election as well as a double vacancy in Mosborough. Since the previous election the Liberals had gained a seat from the Conservatives in a by-election in Heeley. This election seen a consolidation of Labour control, with a further six gains, helped by a more favourable national trend - especially so in the South Yorkshire region. For the first time since the mid-sixties, Labour won the most votes, which a \"delighted\" Alderman - and head of the Labour grouping - Sir Ron Ironmonger attributed to the youth;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 619]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091333-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Sheffield City Council election\n\"I said we expected to win four seats, with Gleadless as a possibility, but Heeley was a bonus. The national swing obviously helped, but the really hopeful sign was the greatly increased Labour vote. Our vote was well up in places, and it must be the first time for some years that the Labour vote has been bigger than the Conservatives. I have got to give the credit for this to the youngsters. This is the only new factor, and they are entitled to the credit.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091333-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Sheffield City Council election\nSir Ron went on to express confidence in both Labour's prospects for the next year's elections, remarking \"As things are looking at the moment we could have an absolute landslide next year\", and their ability to retain control of the council until the upcoming reorganisation in 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091333-0002-0001", "contents": "1970 Sheffield City Council election\nThe re-elected Labour governance promised its attentions would be focused on two key aspects: the environment, in which a committee - or possibly sub-committee of the already existent Town Planning committee - would address environmental questions, and a deputation on the replacement of St. Catherine's school - an important issue during the campaign - would be organised as quickly as possible.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091333-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Sheffield City Council election\nMeanwhile, the Conservatives, who had been hopeful of gaining several seats, seen their targets - Burngreave, Birley and Walkley - swing further away from their grasp. They also resounded to contest the Gleadless victor Colin Radcliffe's narrow win of six votes, headed by the Heeley agent Doreen Smith, claiming that unmarked ballot papers had been counted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091333-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Sheffield City Council election, Election result\nThe result had the following consequences for the total number of seats on the Council after the elections:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091334-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Sikkimese general election\nGeneral elections were held in Sikkim in April 1970. The Sikkim National Party emerged as the largest party, winning eight of the 24 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091334-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Sikkimese general election, Results, Appointed Members\nIn addition to the elected members, six members were appointed to the Sikkim State Council by the Chogyal, which included: Y. Dorji Dahdul (Chief Secretary), M. M. Rasilly, R. S. Prasad, D. B. Chettri, Pinto Tashi and J. D. Pulger.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091334-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Sikkimese general election, Executive Council\nFrom the elected members, the Chogyal appointed six to the Executive Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091335-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Singaporean by-elections\nBy-elections were held for five seats in the Parliament of Singapore in April 1970, resulting from the resignation of representatives of the People's Action Party (PAP). The PAP easily held all five seats; in three of them there was no opposition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091335-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Singaporean by-elections, Background\nAt the time of the 1968 general election, mass resignations by the members of Barisan Sosialis in the parliament, who opted to protest and \"struggle for democracy\" on the streets, had effectively removed all opposition from the parliament. In 1970, however, it was five members from the governing People's Action Party who were invited to resign and give way to new blood as a part of renewing PAP's ranks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091335-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Singaporean by-elections, Background\nThe resulting vacancies were in the constituencies of Delta, Havelock, Kampong Kapor, Ulu Pandan and Whampoa. By-elections were arranged, with nomination day set as 8 April 1970 and polling day as 18 April 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091335-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Singaporean by-elections, Background\nSimilar to 1968 general election, no opposition parties stood except a newly formed United National Front formed from remnants of the defunct Singapore Alliance. This party stood candidates in two seats out of the five, namely Kampong Kapor and Ulu Pandan. Once again the PAP won the other three by walkovers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091335-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Singaporean by-elections, Election deposit\nThe election deposit was set at $500. Similar to previous elections, the election deposit would be forfeited if the particular candidate had failed to secure at least 12.5% or one-eighth of the votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091336-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Singaporean presidential election\nThe 1970 Singaporean presidential election was held to elect the next President of Singapore with Benjamin Sheares as the winning candidate elected by the Parliament of Singapore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091336-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Singaporean presidential election, Results\nThe election took place during a sitting of Parliament on 30 December 1970 where 54 members were present and 4 members were absent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 47], "content_span": [48, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091336-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Singaporean presidential election, Results\nPrime Minister Lee Kuan Yew nominated Benjamin Sheares as president. The Parliament unanimously voted to elect Sheares as president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 47], "content_span": [48, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091336-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Singaporean presidential election, Results\nSheares was sworn in for his first four-year term as president on 2 January 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 47], "content_span": [48, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091337-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Sligo Senior Football Championship\nThis is a round-up of the 1970 Sligo Senior Football Championship. St. Patrick's, Dromard claimed their second title, as they embarked on their dominance of Sligo football in the early seventies. Mullinabreena were the beaten finalists, making their last appearance in a Senior final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091337-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Sligo Senior Football Championship, Sligo Senior Football Championship Final\nTeam:T. CumminsE. RusheA. BolandP.J. KilcullenS. DoneganJ. CuffeJ. KielyJ. KilgallonM. KearinsP. McMunnR. BolandP. KearinsP.J. ClarkeS. BeckettB. Kilcullen", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 81], "content_span": [82, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091337-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Sligo Senior Football Championship, Sligo Senior Football Championship Final\nTeam:S. SweeneyT. McNultyS. RoddyW. RooneyP. GallagherP. GormanT. RoddyJ. FinanJ. BrennanF. GallagherR. LipsettT. KilcoyneS. McCarrickF. McCarrickP. Kilcoyne", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 81], "content_span": [82, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091338-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Solomon Islands general election\nGeneral elections were held in the Solomon Islands in May and June 1970, the first to the new Governing Council. Most candidates ran as independents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091338-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Solomon Islands general election, Background\nThe new Governing Council consisted of seventeen elected members (increased from fourteen in the Legislative Council), six civil servants (down from twelve) and three ex officio members, the first time a Solomon Islands legislature had an elected majority. The Council was to be chaired by the High Commissioner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091338-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Solomon Islands general election, Background\nRather than introducing cabinet government, the new constitution provided for government by committee, which was deemed more in line with Melanesian culture of reaching agreement by consensus rather than majority vote. The Governing Council had five committees, which were responsible for Communications and Works, Education and Social Welfare, Finance, Health and Internal Affairs, and Natural Resources.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091338-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Solomon Islands general election, Aftermath\nThe newly elected Council met for the first time on 15 July. Gordon Siama was appointed chair of the Communications and Works committee, Willie Betu became chair of the Education and Social Welfare committee, Tom Russell (Financial Secretary) became chair of the Finance committee, Roy Davies was appointed chair of the Health and Internal Affairs committee, and David Kausimae became chair of the Natural Resources committee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 48], "content_span": [49, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091338-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Solomon Islands general election, Aftermath\nJoseph Bryan, who lost by 20 votes in East Guadalcanal, lodged a petition against the election results, claiming that the votes cast at two polling stations had been rejected as they contained markings that could identify the voter. The High Court heard the petition on 10 August; with the Returning Officer and winning candidate Leone Laku failing to lodge objections, the court annulled the result and ordered a by-election to be held. The by-election took place on 10 October, with Bryan winning with 977 votes; Laku finished second with 362.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 48], "content_span": [49, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091338-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Solomon Islands general election, Aftermath\nIn 1971 Silas Sitai was appointed 'shadow chairman', becoming the first Speaker of the legislature.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 48], "content_span": [49, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091339-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Sonoma State Cossacks football team\nThe 1970 Sonoma State Cossacks football team represented Sonoma State during the 1970 NCAA College Division football season. In their first season as a varsity team, Sonoma State competed as an independent in 1970. They would join the Far Western Conference (FWC) in 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091339-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Sonoma State Cossacks football team\nThe 1970 Cossacks were led by first-year head coach Carl Peterson. As their campus did not then have a stadium suitable for spectators, home games were played at Bailey Field at Santa Rosa Junior College. Sonoma State finished the season with a record of four wins, four losses and one tie (4\u20134\u20131). The Cossacks were outscored by their opponents 157\u2013210 for the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091339-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Sonoma State Cossacks football team, Team players in the NFL\nNo Sonoma State players were selected in the 1971 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091340-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 South African Grand Prix\nThe 1970 South African Grand Prix, formally titled the Fourth AA Grand Prix of South Africa (Afrikaans: Vierde AA Suid-Afrikaanse Grand Prix), was a Formula One motor race held at Kyalami Circuit on 7 March 1970. It was race 1 of 13 in both the 1970 World Championship of Drivers and the 1970 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers. It was also the 14th and last Formula One victory for triple world champion Jack Brabham.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091340-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 South African Grand Prix\nTwo times World Champion and five times Monaco Grand Prix winner Graham Hill, driving a Lotus 49C for Rob Walker, made his return to racing after a life-threatening crash in the 1969 United States Grand Prix. Despite extensive knee surgery that left Hill with minimal mobility, he finished sixth. Hill rated this achievement as among his finest. After the race, he could not get out of the car by himself and had to be lifted out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091341-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 South African Open (tennis)\nThe 1970 South African Open was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at Ellis Park in Johannesburg, South Africa. It was an independent tournament that was not part of either of the two main tennis circuits; the 1970 Pepsi-Cola Grand Prix circuit and the 1970 World Championship Tennis circuit. It was the 67th edition of the tournament and was held from 24 March through 4 April 1970. Owen Williams was the tournament director. Rod Laver and Margaret Court won the singles titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091341-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 South African Open (tennis), Finals, Men's Doubles\nBob Hewitt / Frew McMillan defeated Cliff Drysdale / Roger Taylor 6\u20133, 6\u20133, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091341-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 South African Open (tennis), Finals, Women's Doubles\nBillie Jean King / Rosie Casals defeated Kerry Mellville / Karen Krantzcke 6\u20132, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 57], "content_span": [58, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091341-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 South African Open (tennis), Finals, Mixed Doubles\nMargaret Court / Marty Riessen defeated Pat Walkden / Frew McMillan 7\u20135, 3\u20136, 7\u20135", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091342-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 South African Senate election\nThe election for the ninth Senate of South Africa took place on November 16, 1970. The result was a victory for the ruling National Party, winning 31 out of the 44 elected seats and 41 out of the total 54 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091342-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 South African Senate election\nAccording to section 29(2)(b) of the 1961 constitution, \"at least one of the two senators nominated from each province under this section shall be thoroughly acquainted, by reason of official experience or otherwise, with the interests of the coloured population in the province for which the said senator is nominated\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091342-0001-0001", "contents": "1970 South African Senate election\nThe seat of an additional (white) senator nominated in accordance with section 7 of the Separate Representation of Voters Act, 1951\"on the ground of his thorough acquaintance, by reason of his official experience or otherwise, with the reasonable wants and wishes of the non-European [i.e. Coloured, as black Africans were explicitly excluded from the definition under section 1 (ii) of the 1951 act] population in the province of the Cape of Good Hope\", had been vacant since 1962 and was finally abolished by the Separate Representation of Voters Amendment Act, 1968 with effect from the elections in 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091343-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 South African general election\nGeneral elections were held in South Africa on 22 April 1970 to elect members of the 166-seat House of Assembly. Parliament was dissolved on 2 March and the deadline for the submission of candidates was 13 March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091343-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 South African general election\nThe elections marked the first time since the formation of South African in 1910 that the House of Assembly would be responsible solely to White South Africans, as the seats for the four MPs elected separately by \"qualified\" Cape Coloured voters expired in the same year, completing the process of political apartheid. They were also the first elections after the 1969 expulsion of Albert Hertzog\u00a0and many verkrampte (hardline) representatives from the ruling National Party (NP), who had subsequently formed the Herstigte Nasionale Party (HNP). This realignment marked a new chapter in the political divisions of the country, with the hardline Afrikaner right-wing later forming the Conservative Party in the early 1980s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 758]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091343-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 South African general election\nThe elections resulted in the NP retained its large majority, reaffirming it as the dominant party for the post-Verwoerd era. Several new representatives were elected, including Chris Heunis, future Acting President and candidate for the NP leadership, and Pik Botha, future Minister of Foreign Affairs (1977\u20131994). However, the NP lost seats for the first time since the 1948 election, seeing its representation reduced by eight seats. With Hertzog's HNP failing to win a seat, the split in the nationalist vote benefitted the moderate United Party (UP) in several constituencies, invigorating it for perhaps the last time. Helen Suzman, member for Houghton, retained her seat as the sole representative of the liberal Progressive Party, the last parliament for which she would sit for her caucus alone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 840]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091343-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 South African general election, Results\nEleven members were elected unopposed. Voting in one constituency did not take place, with the National Party winning the subsequent by-election to give it a total of 118 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091343-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 South African general election, Aftermath\nPik Botha made his maiden speech in an unusual tone for an NP deputy, demanding that the government sign the UN Declaration of Human Rights. F. W. de Klerk was eventually elected to this parliament in a by-election to the seat for Vereeniging in September 1972, replacing NP member V P Coetzee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091344-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 South American Championships (tennis)\nThe 1970 South American Open Championships was a men's tennis tournament that was part of the 1970 Pepsi-Cola Grand Prix and held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It was the third edition of the tournament and ran from 31 October through 8 November 1970. It was played on outdoor clay courts. \u017deljko Franulovi\u0107 won the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091344-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 South American Championships (tennis), Finals, Doubles\nBob Carmichael / Ray Ruffels defeated \u017deljko Franulovi\u0107 / Jan Kode\u0161 7\u20135, 6\u20132, 5\u20137, 6\u20137, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 59], "content_span": [60, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091345-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 South American Junior Championships in Athletics\nThe eighth South American Junior Championships in Athletics were held in Cali, Colombia, at the Estadio Ol\u00edmpico Pascual Guerrero between October 9\u201312, 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091345-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 South American Junior Championships in Athletics, Participation (unofficial)\nDetailed result lists can be found on the \"World Junior Athletics History\" website. An unofficial count yields the number of about 194 athletes from about 9 countries: Argentina (35), Brazil (30), Chile (29), Colombia (33), Ecuador (16), Paraguay (2), Peru (21), Uruguay (5), Venezuela (23).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 81], "content_span": [82, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091345-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 South American Junior Championships in Athletics, Medal summary\nMedal winners are published for men and womenComplete results can be found on the \"World Junior Athletics History\" website.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 68], "content_span": [69, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091346-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 South Australian state election\nState elections were held in South Australia on 30 May 1970. All 47 seats in the South Australian House of Assembly were up for election. The incumbent Liberal and Country League led by Premier of South Australia Steele Hall was defeated by the Australian Labor Party led by Leader of the Opposition Don Dunstan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091346-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 South Australian state election, Background\nThe LCL had formed the government of South Australia for 35 of the previous 38 years due to a malapportionment favouring country areas over the Adelaide area. Deliberately inequitable electoral boundaries resulted in a country vote being worth twice a vote in Adelaide, even though Adelaide accounted for two-thirds of the state's population. This system was popularly known as the \"Playmander,\" since it allowed Thomas Playford to remain Premier of South Australia for 26 years. In the latter part of Playford's tenure, the LCL could only hope to win a few seats in Adelaide. However, the LCL's grip on the country areas was such that it was able to retain power when it lost by substantial margins in terms of raw votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 771]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091346-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 South Australian state election, Background\nLabor finally overcame the Playmander at the 1965 election under Frank Walsh, but the malapportionment was strong enough that Labor only won 21 seats\u2014just enough for a majority\u2014despite taking 54.3 percent of the two-party vote. At the 1968 election, Labor, now led by Don Dunstan won 53.2 percent of the two-party vote. However, Labor lost two seats to the LCL under Playford's successor, Hall. With the LCL one seat short of a majority, the balance of power rested with long-serving independent Tom Stott, a good friend of former Premier Playford and no friend of Labor. As expected, Stott announced his support for the LCL, thus making Hall the new Premier. If just 21 LCL votes were Labor votes in the seat of Murray, Labor would have formed majority government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 814]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091346-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 South Australian state election, Background\nHall was embarrassed that his party was in a position to win power despite finishing seven points behind Labor on the two-party vote. Concerned by the level of publicity and public protest about the issue, Hall was committed to the principle of a fairer electoral system. He enacted a system that expanded the House of Assembly to 47 seats\u201428 of which were located in Adelaide, an increase of 15 metropolitan seats, more than double.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091346-0003-0001", "contents": "1970 South Australian state election, Background\nThe reforms fell short of \"one vote one value,\" as Labor had demanded, since country areas were still somewhat over-represented, with the most populous metropolitan seats still containing double the number of voters than the least populous rural seats. However, while there was still rural overweighting, Adelaide now elected a majority of the legislature, making it a near-certainty that Labor would win the next election. Conventional wisdom was that Hall was effectively handing the premiership to Dunstan at the next election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091346-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 South Australian state election, Background\nA 1968 Millicent by-election was triggered by the Court of Disputed Returns where Labor had won the seat by a single vote at the 1968 election. Labor increased their margin. Notably, turnout increased at the by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091346-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 South Australian state election, Background\nIn early 1970, Hall and Stott fell out over the location of a dam. Stott wanted the dam built in his electorate while Hall thought it more use to locate it elsewhere. Constituent anger forced Stott to vote against the Hall government, leading to an early election and the expected loss to Labor. Stott did not contest the 1970 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091346-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 South Australian state election, Background\nHall remained Leader of the Opposition for two years before resigning from the LCL, claiming that the Party had 'lost its idealism [and] forgotten...its purpose for existence'. He founded the Liberal Movement, a progressive Liberal party that included about 200 former LCL members. Hall won a Federal Senate seat for the Liberal Movement in 1974 (and was re-elected in 1975), serving in the Senate for three years before resigning his position. His replacement as the Liberal Movement Senator for South Australia was Janine Haines, who would subsequently become the initial Australian Democrats Senator.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 652]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091346-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 South Australian state election, Background\nA 1971 Adelaide by-election was triggered as a result of the death of the incumbent MP. Labor easily retained the seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091346-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 South Australian state election, Results\nSouth Australian state election, 30 May 1970House of Assembly << 1968\u20131973 >>", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091346-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 South Australian state election, Legislative Council Results\nThere was no upper house vote at this election, so the numbers in the Council remained as before.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 65], "content_span": [66, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091347-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 South Ayrshire by-election\nThe South Ayrshire by-election of 19 March 1970 was held after the death of Labour Member of Parliament (MP) Emrys Hughes on 18 October 1969. The seat was retained by the Labour Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091347-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 South Ayrshire by-election\nIn what was a fairly common occurrence at the time the Scottish Liberal Party did not run a candidate for the by-election. However, in this case the move had been in part instigated by former party leader Jo Grimond who had privately mooted the idea of an electoral pact with the Scottish National Party. Whilst Grimond's idea was rejected by the Scottish Liberal Party as they opposed Scottish independence they did nonetheless agree to give the SNP a free run in this instance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091347-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 South Ayrshire by-election\nThe SNP had not contested the seat in the past, but during the campaign predicted that the result would be a \"photo-finish\" between their candidate and the Labour candidate. Both the Conservatives and Labour made complaints to the police about illegal posting of SNP posters during the campaign, while on polling day an incident involving an SNP and a Labour official led to the former making a police complaint.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091347-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 South Ayrshire by-election\nMarion McCutcheon who turned 18 the day before the election was at the time the youngest person to have voted at a parliamentary election in Scotland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091347-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 South Ayrshire by-election, Result\nThey day after the election, but before the votes were counted, The Glasgow Herald reported that the Labour Party candidate seemed \"certain to win the seat\". After the result was known, the same newspaper's political correspondent, suggested that \"so Handsome a victory\" for Labour meant Harold Wilson could keep considering the option of calling a general election in the summer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091348-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 South Carolina Gamecocks football team\nThe 1970 South Carolina Gamecocks football team represented the University of South Carolina in the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. The Gamecocks finished the season 4\u20136\u20131 overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091349-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 South Carolina gubernatorial election\nThe 1970 South Carolina gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 1970 to select the governor of the state of South Carolina. John Carl West, the Democratic nominee, won a close general election against Albert Watson, the Republican congressman from the 2nd congressional district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091349-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 South Carolina gubernatorial election, Primaries\nBoth John Carl West and Albert Watson faced no opposition in their party's primaries which allowed both candidates to concentrate solely on the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 53], "content_span": [54, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091349-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 South Carolina gubernatorial election, General election\nThe general election was held on November 3, 1970 and John Carl West was elected as the next governor of South Carolina. Turnout was even higher than the previous gubernatorial election because of the recent enfranchisement of black voters and the controversial candidacy of Albert Watson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 60], "content_span": [61, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091350-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 South Dakota Coyotes football team\nThe 1970 South Dakota Coyotes football team was an American football team that represented the University of South Dakota in the North Central Conference (NCC) during the 1970 NCAA College Division football season. In its fifth season under head coach Joe Salem, the team compiled a 4\u20134\u20132 record (3\u20132\u20131 against NCC opponents), finished in third place out of seven teams in the NCC, and outscored opponents by a total of 290 to 227. The team played its home games at Inman Field in Vermillion, South Dakota.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091351-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 South Dakota gubernatorial election\nThe 1970 South Dakota gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091351-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 South Dakota gubernatorial election\nIncumbent Republican Governor Frank Farrar was defeated by Democratic nominee Richard F. Kneip who won 54.85% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091352-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 South Vietnamese Senate election\nSenate elections were held in South Vietnam on 30 August 1970. The election was contested by a total of 16 lists, of which the three highest polling would be elected and receive 10 seats each. Each voter had three votes, with the winning list receiving 1,149,597 votes (11.7%), whilst the third-placed list won 882,274 votes (9.0%). Voter turnout was reported to be 65.4%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091353-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 South West African legislative election\nLegislative elections were held in South West Africa on 20 April 1970. A whites-only election saw a victory for the National Party of South West Africa, which won all 18 seats in the Legislative Assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091354-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 1970 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament took place from February 27\u2013March 1, 1970, at the original Charlotte Coliseum in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Davidson Wildcats, led by head coach Terry Holland, won their fourth Southern Conference title and received the automatic berth to the 1970 NCAA Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091354-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Format\nAll of the conference's eight members were eligible for the tournament. Teams were seeded based on conference winning percentage. The tournament used a preset bracket consisting of three rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 60], "content_span": [61, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091355-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Southern Illinois Salukis football team\nThe 1970 Southern Illinois Salukis football team was an American football team that represented Southern Illinois University (now known as Southern Illinois University Carbondale) as an independent during the 1970 NCAA College Division football season. Under fourth-year head coach Dick Towers, the team compiled a 6\u20133 record. The team played its home games at McAndrew Stadium in Carbondale, Illinois.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091356-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Southern Miss Southerners football team\nThe 1970 Southern Miss Southerners football team was an American football team that represented the University of Southern Mississippi as an independent during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. In their second year under head coach P. W. Underwood, the team compiled a 5\u20136 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091357-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Southwestern Louisiana Bulldogs football team\nThe 1970 Southwestern Louisiana Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented the University of Southwestern Louisiana (now known as the University of Louisiana at Lafayette) in the Gulf States Conference during the 1970 NCAA College Division football season. In their tenth year under head coach Russ Faulkinberry, the team compiled an 9\u20133 record and were Gulf States Conference champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091358-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Soviet Class A First Group\nThe 1970 Soviet Class A First Group was a transitional season of the future Soviet First League. It was also the 30th season of the Soviet second tier league competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091358-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Soviet Class A First Group\nThe league was reduced to a single group in comparison with the previous season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091359-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Soviet Class A Second Group\n1970 Soviet Class A Second Group was a Soviet football competition at the Soviet third tier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091360-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Soviet Cup\nThe 1970 Soviet Cup was an association football cup competition of the Soviet Union. The winner of the competition, Dinamo Moscow qualified for the continental tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091361-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Soviet Second Group (Class A), Zone 1\nThe 1970 Football Championship of Ukrainian SSR was the 40th season of association football competition of the Ukrainian SSR, which was part of the Second Group of Soviet Class A in Zone 1. It was the eighth and last season in the Second Group of Soviet Class A.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091361-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Soviet Second Group (Class A), Zone 1\nThe 1970 Football Championship of Ukrainian SSR was won by FC Metalurh Zaporizhia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091361-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Soviet Second Group (Class A), Zone 1, Reorganization\nIn 1970\u20131971 the Soviet football league structure went through reformation. The Soviet Class A introduced an extra tier expanding from two to three in total. To the previous First and Second groups, there was introduced Higher (or Top) group. With this, many clubs that previously competed at the second tier (Second Group) were relegated to lower third tier (Second Group). Because of that, many clubs also moved two tiers either up the league's ladder.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 58], "content_span": [59, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091361-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Soviet Second Group (Class A), Zone 1, Teams, Relegated teams\n18 clubs were relegated from the 1969 Second Group (Class A).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 66], "content_span": [67, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091361-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Soviet Second Group (Class A), Zone 1, Teams, Promoted teams\nAll four teams technically were never promoted as they stayed at the third tier. Three clubs were moved from the 1969 Ukrainian Class B, one more from the 1969 Russian Class B, Zone 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 65], "content_span": [66, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091362-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Soviet Top League\n17 teams took part in the league with PFC CSKA Moscow winning the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091363-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Soviet Union legislative election\nElections to the Supreme Soviet were held in the Soviet Union on 14 June 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091363-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Soviet Union legislative election, Electoral system\nCandidates had to be nominated by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) or by a public organisation. However, all public organisations were controlled by the party and were subservient to a 1931 law that required them to accept party rule. The CPSU itself remained the only legal one in the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 56], "content_span": [57, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091363-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Soviet Union legislative election, Electoral system\nVoters could vote against the CPSU candidate, but could only do so by using polling booths, whereas votes for the party could be cast simply by submitting a blank ballot. Turnout was required to be over 50% for the election to be valid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 56], "content_span": [57, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091363-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Soviet Union legislative election, Candidates\nCPSU candidates accounted for around three quarters of the nominees, whilst many of the others were members of Komsomol.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091364-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Soviet nuclear tests\nThe Soviet Union's 1970 nuclear test series was a group of 16 nuclear tests conducted in 1970. These tests followed the 1969 Soviet nuclear tests series and preceded the 1971 Soviet nuclear tests series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091365-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Spanish Grand Prix\nThe 1970 Spanish Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at the Jarama circuit on 19 April 1970. It was race 2 of 13 in both the 1970 World Championship of Drivers and the 1970 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091365-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Spanish Grand Prix\nPrior to the race, the organisers of the Grand Prix sparked anger amongst the members of FOCA when they limited the number of starters to only sixteen. To add to the chaos, none of the laps set on Friday were counted towards qualifying. On the morning before the race, the matter seemed resolved and the organisers initially reversed their decision, and those who failed to qualify looked as if they would be allowed to start. The Commission Sportive Internationale then stepped in and forced the Spanish organisers to revert to the original limit of sixteen starters, and the cars that failed to qualify were wheeled off the grid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 655]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091365-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Spanish Grand Prix\nThe race was won by defending world champion Jackie Stewart, driving a March 701 car entered by a privateer Tyrrell team. This was the last win of a privately entered car in Formula One. American driver Mario Andretti took his first Formula One podium in third place. The race was marred by a serious accident involving Jackie Oliver and Jacky Ickx. Both their cars burst into flames, and Ickx was slightly burned after his race overalls became soaked in burning fuel. He recovered sufficiently to be able to compete in the next race, at Monaco. Bruce McLaren scored his last podium, points and race finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 631]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091366-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Spantax CV-990 crash\nOn 5 January 1970, a Convair 990 Coronado operated by the Spanish airline Spantax crashed shortly after take-off from Stockholm Arlanda Airport, killing five of the ten people on board.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091366-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Spantax CV-990 crash, Background\nThe aircraft was earlier that evening about to fly to Mallorca with Swedish travelers, but at take-off the number 4 engine developed a fault. The take-off was aborted and the aircraft returned to the gate and the passengers were allowed to leave the aircraft. Later in the evening it was decided to perform a three-engine ferry flight to Z\u00fcrich for an engine-change. On board were three crew members and seven passengers. There was a strong wind and -27\u00a0\u00b0C at the airport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091366-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Spantax CV-990 crash, Accident\nAt 22:24 hours the aircraft started its take-off roll on runway 19. During the take-off roll, the nose yawed to the right. This was corrected by retarding number 1 engine power from 85% to 80-60%. The aircraft rotated at 134 knots with 27 degrees flaps. While climbing, the aircraft banked 4-6 degrees to the right and the airspeed suddenly dropped to 10 knots below V2 (145 knots). The aircraft contacted some treetops, banked 10-15 degrees and crashed 1,800 meters from the point of lift-off. The plane ploughed a long road in the woods and broke into several pieces. The cockpit was separated from the rest of the fuselage and was wedged between tree trunks and hard frozen ground and tilted 45 degrees to the left.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 754]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091366-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Spantax CV-990 crash, Accident\nFirst officer Miguel Granado was sitting to the right and became trapped when the seat pushed forward and both legs were caught up under the instrument panel. His right lower leg was broken and angled. His left foot was tightly pinched as well as his left calf and achilles tendon. Askew under the pilot was one of the aircraft maintenance engineers, trapped with multiple rib fractures. Granado held, without gloves, his hands on one of the fuselage pipes and tried to keep himself up and thereby relieve pressure on his friend's chest. Both hands received severe frostbite.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091366-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Spantax CV-990 crash, Accident\nThe captain escaped with minor contusions and was able to break free and get out. Aware of the risk of being motionless at these low temperatures, he walked around and tried to keep the body heat up and thereby escaped with minor frostbite on the hands and feet. They searched in the prevailing darkness and powder snow for the Emergency Locator Transmitter and could, after it was found, call for help. What the crew did not know was that there was a house where a family, asleep and oblivious to the accident, only a hundred meters from the crash site. The family later woke up when a police helicopter flew low over their house.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 667]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091366-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Spantax CV-990 crash, Emergency response\nFour hours after the accident the emergency response located the plane. First officer Granado who was trapped, had to wait over eight hours in the bitter cold before he was free. At the time of the accident, disaster preparedness at Arlanda was minimal. An ambulance was stationed at L\u00f6wenstr\u00f6mska lasarettet in Upplands V\u00e4sby 10\u00a0km south, but had no radio installed. Staff were sent out in white robes, and clogs on their feet to help the survivors. Five people, including a Swedish flight attendant, died in the cold weather.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091366-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 Spantax CV-990 crash, Investigation\nThe Swedish Accident Investigation Authority summarized the interacting factors of the accident:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 40], "content_span": [41, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091366-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 Spantax CV-990 crash, Investigation\nThe group within the Swedish Accident Investigation Authority that investigated the emergency response pointed out certain deficiencies in the search and rescue systems, which later resulted in a reorganization.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 40], "content_span": [41, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091366-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 Spantax CV-990 crash, Aftermath\nThe Spantax accident was one of the events that caused the Swedish health care to develop both the disaster medical preparedness and equipment. They also began to set up emergency plans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091367-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Speedway World Pairs Championship\nThe 1970 Speedway World Pairs Championship was the first FIM Speedway World Pairs Championship. The final took place in Malm\u00f6, Sweden. The championship was won by New Zealand (28 points) who beat Sweden (25 points) and England (19 points).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091367-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Speedway World Pairs Championship, World final\nm - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022 t - exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022 x - other exclusion \u2022 e - retired or mechanical failure \u2022 f - fellns - non-starter \u2022 nc - non-classify", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 51], "content_span": [52, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091368-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Speedway World Team Cup\nThe 1970 Speedway World Team Cup was the 11th edition of the FIM Speedway World Team Cup to determine the team world champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091368-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Speedway World Team Cup\nThe final took place at Wembley Stadium in London. The title was won by Sweden for the sixth time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091368-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Speedway World Team Cup, Qualification, British Round\nGreat Britain seeded to Final (Commonwealth riders eligible for British team)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091368-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Speedway World Team Cup, Tournament, Continental Final\nM - exclusion for exceeding two-minute time allowance \u2022 T - exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022 X - other exclusion \u2022 E - retired or mechanical failure \u2022 F - fell", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 59], "content_span": [60, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091369-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 St Marylebone by-election\nThe St Marylebone by-election of 22 October 1970 was held after Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) Quintin Hogg became a life peer. The seat was retained for the Conservatives by Kenneth Baker, who had lost his previous seat of Acton at the general election four months earlier; Baker would go on to represent the Mole Valley seat in Surrey and become a long-serving Cabinet minister.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091370-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 St. Louis Cardinals (NFL) season\nThe 1970 St. Louis Cardinals season was the 51st season the team was in the league. The team improved on their previous output of 4\u20139\u20131, winning eight games. Despite them shutting out three consecutive opponents (and holding a fourth, the defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs, without a touchdown in a 6\u20136 draw), they failed to reach the playoffs for the 22nd straight season, thanks to three consecutive losses in December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091370-0000-0001", "contents": "1970 St. Louis Cardinals (NFL) season\nThe Cardinals entered their regular season finale at Washington needing to defeat the Redskins, plus for losses by the Cowboys (to the Oilers) and the Giants (to the Rams), to reach the playoffs. It all became academic after the Cardinals lost 28-27 to the Redskins and the Cowboys mauled the Oilers 52-10 to win the NFC East.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091370-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 St. Louis Cardinals (NFL) season\nPrior to the season-ending skid, the Cardinals swept the Dallas Cowboys, with the second victory a 38\u20130 destruction on Monday Night Football at the Cotton Bowl. Dallas did not lose again until it fell to the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl V. The Cardinals swept the Cowboys only one other time, in 1989, (one year after the Cardinals' relocation to Arizona), when Dallas went 1-15 under first-year coach Jimmy Johnson. (The Cardinals and Cowboys have not been division rivals since 2001, as the now-Arizona Cardinals were moved to the NFC West in 2002.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 590]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091370-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 St. Louis Cardinals (NFL) season, Schedule, Standings\nNote: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 58], "content_span": [59, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091371-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 St. Louis Cardinals season\nThe 1970 St. Louis Cardinals season was the team's 89th season in St. Louis, Missouri, and the 79th season in the National League. The Cardinals went 76\u201386 during the season and finished fourth in the National League East, 13 games behind the Pittsburgh Pirates. The season was also the first of 26 seasons for AstroTurf at Busch Memorial Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091371-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 St. Louis Cardinals season, Offseason, Curt Flood\nCurt Flood, because of a salary dispute with Gussie Busch, was traded after the 1969 season but refused to go to the Philadelphia Phillies and on January 16, 1970, filed a civil lawsuit to challenge baseball's reserve clause. The case eventually reached the Supreme Court and, though he lost, paved the way for free agency to change the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091371-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season\nBob Gibson won a Gold Glove and the Cy Young Award this year, with a 3.12 ERA, 23 wins, and 274 strikeouts. The Cardinals won only 76 games, their lowest total since the days of the 154-game schedule. Vic Davalillo had 24 pinch hits, breaking the National League record, and tying the Major League record set by Dave Philley in 1961.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091371-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season\nSteve Carlton posted one game where he struck out 16 batters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091371-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season\nThird baseman Mike Shannon was limited to 52 games and soon would retire because of a kidney disease that threatened his life.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091371-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091371-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 69], "content_span": [70, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091371-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 74], "content_span": [75, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091371-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 71], "content_span": [72, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091371-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 72], "content_span": [73, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091372-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Stanford Indians football team\nThe 1970 Stanford Indians football team represented Stanford University during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091372-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Stanford Indians football team, Season\nThe Indians were 8\u20133 in the regular season and won the Pac-8 title by two games; their only conference loss was at rival California in the Big Game on November 21. In the Rose Bowl in Pasadena on New Year's Day, they upset #2 Ohio State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091372-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Stanford Indians football team, Season\nWith eighteen passing and three rushing touchdowns added to his 2,715 passing yards on the year (which broke his own conference record), Rose Bowl MVP Jim Plunkett was awarded the Heisman Trophy. The 1970 college season had been the \"Year of the Quarterback,\" and Plunkett beat out Notre Dame's Joe Theismann and Archie Manning of Ole Miss to win the award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091372-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Stanford Indians football team, Season\nPlunkett was the first Latino to win the Heisman Trophy; he also captured the Maxwell Award for the nation's best quarterback and was named player of the year by United Press International, The Sporting News, and SPORT magazine. In addition, the American College Football Coaches Association designated him as their Offensive Player of the Year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091372-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Stanford Indians football team, Season\nPlunkett was the first overall pick of the 1971 NFL Draft, selected by the Boston Patriots; the team relocated to the new Schaefer Stadium in Foxborough before the 1971 season began and became the New England Patriots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091372-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Stanford Indians football team, NFL Draft\nFive Stanford players were selected in the 1971 NFL Draft", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091373-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Stanley Cup Finals\nThe 1970 Stanley Cup Finals was the championship series of the National Hockey League's (NHL) 1969\u201370 season, and the culmination of the 1970 Stanley Cup playoffs. It was a contest between the Boston Bruins and the St. Louis Blues, who appeared in their third consecutive finals series. The Bruins were making their first appearance in the Stanley Cup Finals since 1958. The Bruins won the series, four games to none. It was Boston's first Stanley Cup victory in 29 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091373-0000-0001", "contents": "1970 Stanley Cup Finals\nBobby Orr scored the Cup-winning goal on Mother's Day against St. Louis' veteran Hall of Fame goalie Glenn Hall, with an assist from close friend and teammate \"The Turk\" Derek Sanderson, at forty seconds of overtime. The subsequent image of Orr flying through the air, his arms stretched out in victory \u2014 (he had been tripped by Blues' defenseman Noel Picard immediately after scoring the goal) \u2014 is considered the most famous and recognized hockey image of all time. With the win, the Bruins became the first American team to win the Stanley Cup since the Chicago Blackhawks in 1961. The Blues, who had gone to the Finals their first three years in the league, would eventually lose each of the three series in four-game sweeps. St. Louis would not appear in a Stanley Cup Finals again until 2019, ending the second-longest Finals drought in league history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 882]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091373-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Stanley Cup Finals, Paths to the Finals\nBoston defeated the New York Rangers 4\u20132 and the Chicago Black Hawks 4\u20130 to advance to the Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091373-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Stanley Cup Finals, Paths to the Finals\nSt. Louis defeated the Minnesota North Stars 4\u20132 and the Pittsburgh Penguins 4\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091373-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries\nThe Boston Bruins tied for first in the East Division with the Chicago Blackhawks with 99 points. The Bruins lost the tiebreaker of wins with 40 to Chicago's 45. The St. Louis Blues finished first in the West Division with 86 points. This was the first playoff meeting between these two teams. In this year's regular-season series, there were three wins for Boston, one for St. Louis and two ties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091373-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries\nAt 3:57 of the second period of game one, a hard shot from Fred Stanfield was deflected and struck Jacques Plante in the forehead of his face mask, splitting the mask in half and injuring Plante. Plante was finished for the series. Doctors later said if he hadn't been wearing the mask, he surely would have been killed. Ernie Wakely took over in goal but only held off the Bruins for a few minutes before becoming a rather easy mark for Bruins sharpshooters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091373-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Stanley Cup Finals, Quotes\nBobby Orr... behind the net to Sanderson to ORR! BOBBY ORR! ...scores and the Boston Bruins have won the Stanley Cup!", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091373-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 Stanley Cup Finals, \"The Flight\"\nThe most commonly seen video clip of Bobby Orr's famous overtime goal (\"The Flight\") in game four is the American version broadcast on CBS as called by Dan Kelly. This archival clip can be considered a rarity, since surviving kinescopes or videotapes of the telecasts of hockey games from this era usually emanate from CBC's coverage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091373-0006-0001", "contents": "1970 Stanley Cup Finals, \"The Flight\"\nAccording to Dick Irvin Jr.'s book My 26 Stanley Cups (Irvin was in the CBC booth with Danny Gallivan during the 1970 Stanley Cup Finals), he was always curious why even the CBC typically uses the CBS replay of the Bobby Orr goal (with Dan Kelly's commentary) instead of Gallivan's call. The explanation that Irvin received was that the CBC's master tape of the game (along with others) was thrown away in order to clear shelf space at the network.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091373-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 Stanley Cup Finals, \"The Flight\"\nThe New England Sports Network has played the CBS video of the goal but has used the original WBZ-FM radio call with Fred Cusick and Johnny Peirson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091373-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 Stanley Cup Finals, Stanley Cup engraving\nThe 1970 Stanley Cup was presented to Bruins alternate captain Johnny Bucyk by NHL President Clarence Campbell following the Bruins 4\u20133 overtime win over the Blues in game four.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 46], "content_span": [47, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091373-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 Stanley Cup Finals, Stanley Cup engraving\nThe following Bruins players and staff had their names engraved on the Stanley Cup", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 46], "content_span": [47, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091374-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Star World Championships\nThe 1970 Star World Championships were held in Marstrand, Sweden in 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091374-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Star World Championships, Results\nLegend: DNF \u2013 Did not finish; DNS \u2013 Did not start; DSA \u2013 Disabled; WDR \u2013 Withdrew;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091375-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 State of the Union Address\nThe 1970 State of the Union Address was given by Richard Nixon, the 37th United States president, on January 22, 1970, to both houses of the 91st United States Congress. He said, \"I say this not only because 1970 marks the beginning of a new decade in which America will celebrate its 200th birthday. The seventies will be a time of new beginnings, a time of exploring both on the earth and in the heavens, a time of discovery. But the time has also come for emphasis on developing better ways of managing what we have and of completing what man's genius has begun but left unfinished.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091375-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 State of the Union Address\nI say it because new knowledge and hard experience argue persuasively that both our programs and our institutions in America need to be reformed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091375-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 State of the Union Address\nThe moment has arrived to harness the vast energies and abundance of this land to the creation of a new American experience, an experience richer and deeper and more truly a reflection of the goodness and grace of the human spirit.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091375-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 State of the Union Address\nNixon stressed in his speech three areas of focus that he wanted to value during his presidency, the welfare system, the government system, and American opportunity. He talks about the American dream and giving the people opportunities, \"Third, we must adopt reforms which will expand the range of opportunities for all Americans. We can fulfill the American dream only when each person has a fair chance to fulfill his own dreams. This means equal voting rights, equal employment opportunity, and new opportunities for expanded ownership. Because in order to be secure in their human rights, people need access to property rights.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 664]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091375-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 State of the Union Address\nNixon later goes on to talk about health care and providing each American with quality health care, \"It is time to bring comprehensive, high quality health care within the reach of every American. [ We should] assure comprehensive health insurance protection to millions who cannot now obtain it or afford it, with improved protection against catastrophic illnesses. This will be a plan that maintains the high standards of quality in America's health care. And it will not require additional taxes.\" Nixon mentions many topics that the American people stressed about the most. The security, freedom, and health of the nation was the most stagnant points in the address.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 702]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091375-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 State of the Union Address\nFully one-third of Nixon's speech was dedicated to environmental issues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091376-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Stockholm Open\nThe 1970 Stockholm Open was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts and part of the 1970 Pepsi-Cola Grand Prix and took place at the Kungliga tennishallen in Stockholm, Sweden. The tournament was held from 1 November through 7 November 1970. Stan Smith won the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091376-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Stockholm Open, Finals, Doubles\nArthur Ashe / Stan Smith defeated Bob Carmichael / Owen Davidson, 6\u20130, 5\u20137, 7\u20135", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091377-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Stockholm Open \u2013 Doubles\nThe 1970 Stockholm Open was a tennis tournament played on hard courts and part of the 1970 Pepsi-Cola Grand Prix and took place in Stockholm, Sweden. The tournament was held from November 1 through November 7, 1970. Arthur Ashe and Stan Smith won in the final by defeating Bob Carmichael and Owen Davidson, 6\u20130, 5\u20137, 7\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091378-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Stockholm Open \u2013 Singles\nThe 1970 Stockholm Open was a tennis tournament played on hard courts and part of the 1970 Pepsi-Cola Grand Prix and took place in Stockholm, Sweden. The tournament was held from November 1 through November 7, 1970. Stan Smith won in the final by beating Arthur Ashe 5\u20137, 6\u20134, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091379-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Sugar Bowl\nThe 1970 Sugar Bowl was the 36th edition of the college football bowl game, played at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans, Louisiana, on Thursday, January\u00a01. It\u00a0featured the third-ranked Arkansas Razorbacks of the Southwest Conference (SWC) and the #13 Ole Miss Rebels of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). Ole Miss upset Arkansas, 27\u201322.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091379-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Sugar Bowl, Teams\nArkansas entered the game with a 9\u20131 record and #3 national ranking and Ole Miss was at 7\u20133. The two neighboring states had developed a rivalry, with a yearly series ending in 1961, and had met in the Sugar Bowl seven years earlier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 22], "content_span": [23, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091379-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Sugar Bowl, Teams, Arkansas\nThe Razorbacks were making a return trip to the Sugar Bowl, following up a victory in the 1969 Sugar Bowl. Starting 9\u20130, the Razorbacks ended the regular season with a loss to the Texas Longhorns in The Big Shootout, watching a 14\u20130 lead evaporate into a 15\u201314 loss when Texas scored two touchdowns in the fourth quarter. This loss to the #1 Longhorns cost the Hogs, ranked #2 at the time by the Associated Press and #3 by United Press International, a Southwest Conference championship and a chance at the national championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091379-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Sugar Bowl, Teams, Mississippi\nOle Miss, led by coaching great Johnny Vaught and quarterback Archie Manning entered the game at 7\u20133. The Rebels were invited to the Sugar Bowl on the strength of November victories over SEC powers LSU (26\u201323) and Tennessee (38\u20130), both at Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium in Jackson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091379-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Sugar Bowl, Game summary\nOle Miss running back Bo Bowen scampered 69 yards to open the scoring, with Archie Manning adding another 18-yard TD run. Down 14\u20130, Arkansas responded with a 12-yard TD run by Bill Burnett, but the extra point was missed, and after a Rebel field goal and Archie Manning 30-yard TD strike, the Razorbacks were down 24\u20136. Before halftime, Chuck Dicus hauled in a 47-yard pass from Bill Montgomery, but the two-point conversion was incomplete, and the Rebels took a 24\u201312 lead to halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 29], "content_span": [30, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091379-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Sugar Bowl, Game summary\nThe third quarter produced a field goal from each team, and in the fourth quarter fullback Bruce Maxwell caught a six-yard strike from Montgomery to cut the lead to five, but the rally fell short, the Hogs losing by a 27\u201322 final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 29], "content_span": [30, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091379-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 Sugar Bowl, Game summary\nThough Manning's sons Peyton and Eli later became star quarterbacks in the SEC (at Tennessee and Ole Miss, respectively), neither played in the Sugar Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 29], "content_span": [30, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091379-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 Sugar Bowl, Aftermath\nThis was the final bowl game featuring two all-white squads. Arkansas' first black varsity player, Jon Richardson, suited up in 1970, and Ole Miss followed suit in 1972 with Ben Williams. Ole\u00a0Miss and LSU were the last major college programs to desegregate their varsity teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 26], "content_span": [27, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091379-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 Sugar Bowl, Aftermath\nManning returned to the Crescent City less than two years later when the New Orleans Saints selected him second overall (behind Jim Plunkett) in the 1971 NFL Draft. Manning played for the Saints from 1971 until he was traded after the first game of the 1982 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 26], "content_span": [27, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091379-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 Sugar Bowl, Aftermath\nThe Razorbacks and Rebels renewed their annual series in the 1980s, and in 1992, they became conference rivals when Arkansas joined the SEC. Houston Nutt was the head coach of both programs: the Razorbacks from 1998\u20132007 and the Rebels from 2008\u201311.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 26], "content_span": [27, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091379-0010-0000", "contents": "1970 Sugar Bowl, Aftermath\nArkansas has played in the Sugar Bowl twice since losing to Ole Miss. In 1980 (1979 season), the Razorbacks of Lou Holtz lost 24\u20139 to national champion Alabama (coached by Arkansas native Bear Bryant), and in 2011 (2010 season), the Bobby Petrino-led Hogs lost 31\u201326 to Ohio State (the Buckeyes later vacated the win following the discovery of numerous NCAA violations under the watch of coach Jim Tressel).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 26], "content_span": [27, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091379-0011-0000", "contents": "1970 Sugar Bowl, Aftermath\nOle Miss did not return to the Sugar Bowl until January 2016, when it defeated Oklahoma State 48\u201320.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 26], "content_span": [27, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091380-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Summer Universiade\nThe 1970 Summer Universiade, also known as the VI Summer Universiade, took place in Turin, Italy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091380-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Summer Universiade\nAfter the city of Lisbon, Portugal failed to host the 1969 Summer Universiade, the games were assigned to Turin to be held next year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091381-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Sun Bowl\nThe 1970 Sun Bowl was a college football bowl game that featured the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets and the Texas Tech Red Raiders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091381-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Sun Bowl, Background\nAfter three straight 4-6 seasons, the Yellow Jackets had finally broken through in Bud Carson's fourth season as coach and first bowl since the 1967 Orange Bowl. The Red Raiders had finished third in the Southwest Conference in Jim Carlen's first season with the Red Raiders. This was Texas Tech's first bowl since 1965, and their first Sun Bowl since 1964. This was Georgia Tech's first ever Sun Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 25], "content_span": [26, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091381-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Sun Bowl, Game summary\nJack Williams led the Yellow Jackets on an 11-play, 62-yard drive, culminating with Rob Healy giving the Jackets a 7\u20130 lead on his 2-yard touchdown run with 10:23 left in the first quarter. Jack Moore made it 10\u20130 at halftime on his 21-yard field goal with :42 remaining in the half. Texas Tech responded with a Larry Hargrave 50-yard run that set up Doug McCutchen's 7-yard touchdown score to make it 10\u20137 with 8:13 in the third quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 27], "content_span": [28, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091381-0002-0001", "contents": "1970 Sun Bowl, Game summary\nWhen Georgia Tech lined up to punt, Donald Rivers blocked the punt, with the ball sailing into the endzone to make it 10\u20139 with 6:41 remaining in the 3rd. Early in the fourth quarter, the Red Raiders had a chance to take the lead. However, the short field goal attempt by Dickie Ingram fell short. A Tech fumble was recovered by Bill Flowers at the Red Raider 25, and Kevin McNamara ran in for a 2-yard score six plays later to make it 19\u201310 with 1:44 remaining. Rock Perdoni had 13 tackles in an MVP effort. Quarterback Jack Williams completed 11 of 14 passes for 123 yards for the Yellow Jackets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 27], "content_span": [28, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091381-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Sun Bowl, Aftermath\nTexas Tech returned to the Sun Bowl in 1972, while the Yellow Jackets did not return until 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 24], "content_span": [25, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091382-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Swedish Open\nThe 1970 Swedish Open was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts held in B\u00e5stad, Sweden and was part of the Grand Prix circuit of the 1970 Tour. It was the 23rd edition of the tournament and was held from 2 July through 12 July 1970. Dick Crealy and Peaches Bartkowicz won the singles titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091382-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Swedish Open, Finals, Doubles\nDick Crealy / Allan Stone defeated \u017deljko Franulovi\u0107 / Jan Kode\u0161 6\u20132, 2\u20136, 12\u201312, RET.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 34], "content_span": [35, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091383-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Swedish football Division 2\nStatistics of Swedish football Division 2 for the 1970 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091384-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Swedish football Division 3\nStatistics of Swedish football Division 3 for the 1970 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091385-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Swedish general election\nGeneral elections were held in Sweden on 20 September 1970, two years ahead of schedule because of the opening of the newly unicameral Riksdag. The Social Democratic remained the largest party, winning 163 of the 350 seats and gathered enough support to remain in power under its 1969 elected leader, Prime Minister Olof Palme.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091386-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Swiss referendums\nFive referendums were held in Switzerland in 1970. The first was held on 1 February on a federal resolution on the domestic sugar market, and was approved by voters. The second was held on 7 June on a popular initiative \"against foreign infiltration\", and was rejected by voters. The third and fourth were held on 27 September on an amendment to the Swiss Federal Constitution regarding promoting gymnastics and sports, which was approved, and a popular initiative on the \"right to habitation and expansion of family protection\", which was rejected. The fifth was held on 15 November on an amendment to the federal financial order, which was rejected due to not enough cantons voting in favour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 717]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091387-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Syracuse Orangemen football team\nThe 1970 Syracuse Orangemen football team represented Syracuse University during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. The team was led by 22nd-year head coach Ben Schwartzwalder and played their home games at Archbold Stadium in Syracuse, New York. Syracuse finished with a record of 6\u20134 and were not invited to a bowl game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091387-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Syracuse Orangemen football team\nThe season was marred because the head coach and university's refusal to resolve issues of systemic racism brought forth by the Syracuse 8 and their protest boycott.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091388-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 S\u00e3o Paulo FC season\nThe 1970 football season was S\u00e3o Paulo's 41st season since club's existence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091389-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 TANFL season\nThe 1970 Tasmanian Australian National Football League (TANFL) premiership season was an Australian rules football competition staged in Hobart, Tasmania over twenty (20) roster rounds and four (4) finals series matches between 28 March and 12 September 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091389-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 TANFL season, 1970 TANFL Ladder, Round 19\nNote: North Hobart became the only TANFL team to draw consecutive matches", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 46], "content_span": [47, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091389-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 TANFL season, 1970 TANFL Ladder, Grand Final\nSource: All scores and statistics courtesy of the Hobart Mercury and Saturday Evening Mercury (SEM) publications.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 49], "content_span": [50, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091390-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 TCU Horned Frogs football team\nThe 1970 TCU Horned Frogs football team represented Texas Christian University (TCU) in the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. The Horned Frogs finished the season 4\u20136\u20131 overall and 3\u20134 in the Southwest Conference. The team was coached by Fred Taylor, in his fourth and final year as head coach. The Frogs played their home games in Amon G. Carter Stadium, which is located on campus in Fort Worth, Texas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091391-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 TVW Channel 7 Six Hour Le Mans\nThe 1970 TVW Channel 7 Six Hour Le Mans was an endurance race for Sports Cars, Improved Production Touring Cars & Series Production Touring Cars. The event was held at the Wanneroo Park circuit in Western Australia on 1 June 1970 with forty cars lining up for the modified Le Mans type start. Results for the race are shown below.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091392-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Tampa Spartans football team\nThe 1970 Tampa Spartans football team represented the University of Tampa in the 1970 NCAA College Division football season. It was the Spartans' 34th season and competed as a College Division Independent. The team was led by head coach Fran Curci, in his third year, and played their home games at Tampa Stadium in Tampa, Florida. They finished with a record of ten wins and one loss (10\u20131).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091392-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Tampa Spartans football team\nThe Spartans opened the season with a 45\u201312 victory Delta State, and in the win Leon McQuay ran for 177 yards for Tampa in the win. In their second game, Tampa shutout New Mexico Highlands 20\u20130 in what was the Cowboys' first loss since 1966. After victories at Youngstown State and against North Texas State, the Spartans traveled to play at Miami on a Friday evening in their fifth game of the season. Against the Hurricanes, Tampa had one of the bigger upsets of the season with their 31\u201314 win. Former Miami quarterback Lew Pytel started for the Spartans, and the upset was considered unlikely to happen as Miami played in the University Division and the Spartans played in the lower College Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 738]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091392-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Tampa Spartans football team\nAfter their upset at Miami, Tampa was ranked as the No. 1 team in the College Division, returned home and defeated Xavier 33\u201310 to remain undefeated. The Spartans then won a pair of games in Louisiana against Louisiana Tech and Southwestern Louisiana before they returned home for the final three games of the season. In their 68\u20137 blowout victory over Idaho State, McQuay was the star as he rushed for 213 yards and had three touchdowns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091392-0002-0001", "contents": "1970 Tampa Spartans football team\nAgainst Vanderbilt, Tampa was required to suspend five players, that included three starters on the defense, to comply with Southeastern Conference rules for transfer players as the Spartans played as an Independent. Without several of their defensive starters, Tampa lost their lone game of the season against the Commodores 28\u201336 before 35,893 fans. The Spartans then closed the season with a 49\u20137 win over Florida A&M and claimed the final No. 2 ranking. After the end of the season, on December 19, Curci was hired by Miami to serve as their new head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091393-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Tangerine Bowl\nThe 1970 Tangerine Bowl was held on December 28, 1970, at the Tangerine Bowl stadium in Orlando, Florida. The game pitted the #15 AP-ranked Toledo Rockets against the William & Mary Indians (now the Tribe), and ended with a 40\u201312 victory for the Rockets. This was the 25th playing of the Tangerine Bowl, a former name of what is now called the Citrus Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091393-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Tangerine Bowl, Game summary\nAlthough William & Mary scored first and last in the game, Toledo scored six touchdowns in-between, to win by a 28-point margin. Toledo quarterback Chuck Ealey was named outstanding offensive player, while Vince Hubler of William & Mary was named outstanding defensive player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091394-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Tanzanian general election\nGeneral elections were held in Tanzania on 30 October 1970. The country was a one-party state at the time, with the Tanganyika African National Union as the sole legal party on the mainland, and the Afro-Shirazi Party was the only party in Zanzibar. For the National Assembly election there were two candidates from the same party in each of the 106 constituencies, whilst the presidential election was effectively a referendum on TANU leader Julius Nyerere's candidacy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091394-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Tanzanian general election\nVoter turnout was 70.1% in the presidential election and 66.6% in the National Assembly election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091394-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Tanzanian general election\nNyerere took the presidential oath on 5 November 1970. At the same time he announced members of the new government led by Prime Minister Amani Karume, deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Rashid Mfaume Kawama, second deputy and Foreign Affairs Minister Isael Melinawingha, finances Amir Habib Jamal, trade and industry Paul Bomani, communication, transport and employment Job Malecela Luisinde, education Chadiel Johann Mgonji, economy and development Abdul Rahman Mohamed Babu, accommodation and rural and urban development John Mhavile, information and radio Jacob Namfu, water and energy PhD Wilbert Chaguli. Ali Hassan Mweny was appointed as the State Minister at the President's Office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 729]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091395-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Targa Florio\nThe 1970 Targa Florio was an endurance race that took place on May 3, 1970. It was held on a 44.6\u00a0mi (71.8\u00a0km) anti-clockwise circuit made up entirely of public roads on the mountainous Italian island of Sicily. It was the fifth round of the 1970 International Championship for Makes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091395-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Targa Florio, Pre-race\nThe Targa Florio was in 1970 the oldest motor race in the world, even older than the Isle of Man TT and the Indianapolis 500. First run in 1906, it was run on narrow public mountain roads that went up and down, and twisted and turned around the Sicilian countryside. The race was run on a number of variants over the years- from 1932 to 1936 and 1951 to 1977 it was run on the 45 mile Piccolo (Italian for small) course- by far the longest circuit on the 1970 World Sportscar Championship calendar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 27], "content_span": [28, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091395-0001-0001", "contents": "1970 Targa Florio, Pre-race\nIt was one of, if not the last of the genuine road races still run in the world. The previous courses were 67 and 92 miles long; and there were 680 mile Island tour versions run in the early 1910s and the late 1940s. The Piccolo course went through 4 to 5 towns in the island of Sicily.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 27], "content_span": [28, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091395-0001-0002", "contents": "1970 Targa Florio, Pre-race\nThe circuit was extremely demanding and very difficult to learn- over the 45 mile course, there were between 800 and 900 corners- 16 to 20 corners for every mile, and the circuit had about 2,000 feet of elevation change- twice that of the Nurburgring. There was also a number of straights joined together by a number of fast corners at the top of the circuit that measured out to about 6 miles- but the circuit was so twisty and had so many corners, average speeds never went past even 80\u00a0mph (128\u00a0km/h)- which in racing terms is very slow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 27], "content_span": [28, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091395-0001-0003", "contents": "1970 Targa Florio, Pre-race\nThe circuit was also very dangerous- although the roads and streets were closed off to the public for the race (but not for practice and test sessions- this caused all sorts of problems) the circuit was identical to every day civilian use, so it had no safety features of any kind and a crash often meant tumbling down a mountain slope or when in a town, crashing into a stone building, trees, and even groups of spectators. Although the Targa was a race where over its history very few people died in relation to other races like the Mille Miglia and the Carrera Panamericana, it was still a risky affair.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 27], "content_span": [28, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091395-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Targa Florio, Pre-race\nThe Targa Florio, was unusual in that it was a time trial race against the clock as opposed to a race for physical position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 27], "content_span": [28, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091395-0002-0001", "contents": "1970 Targa Florio, Pre-race\nLike most races that take place on extremely long courses such as the Isle of Man TT, the Mille Miglia and some other Italian public road races, each car was started one at a time on the road at timed intervals, much like how a rally-type race is started instead of the cars starting alongside each other, which is almost always the case in general circuit racing and on every other race on the sportscar championship calendar in 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 27], "content_span": [28, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091395-0002-0002", "contents": "1970 Targa Florio, Pre-race\nSo, for example, Car A would be started at 10 minutes before Car B. Once Car B starts and as more race distance would be covered, if Car B was then 9 minutes behind Car A on the road, then Car B would actually be 1 minute in front of Car A. So it was really a driving challenge to see what car could cover the 11-lap distance the quickest- this is almost identical to how a rally works; the Madonie Piccolo course used roads that would be suited for a rally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 27], "content_span": [28, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091395-0002-0003", "contents": "1970 Targa Florio, Pre-race\nMost drivers only knew what their position was every 35\u201350 minutes, and that was when they reached the start-finish line in the town of Cerda; or in more organized team's cases, in another town or on some part of the isolated section of the track, where members of teams would wait for their team's car to come by and they would show pitboards showing their position and how much time their opponents are in front or behind them, which was sometimes out of date; communication in those days was very limited (compared to now).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 27], "content_span": [28, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091395-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Targa Florio, Pre-race\nFor this event, Porsche introduced their new car, the light and nimble 908/03, which was better suited to the twisty and demanding circuit than the big and powerful 917 (although Vic Elford managed to post the fifth fastest overall time with a spare 917K on Friday practice). Porsche motorsports chief Ferdinand Pi\u00ebch (a grandson of founder Ferdinand Porsche) and his team brought 4 908/03's to the island; 3 were given to John Wyer and his factory-supported team and 1 was run as an official works car. The 908/03, unlike the 917K, was of exclusive use for the factory teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 27], "content_span": [28, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091395-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Targa Florio, Pre-race\nRace distance was lengthened to 11 laps from 10 in previous years, to comply with Championship regulations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 27], "content_span": [28, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091395-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Targa Florio, Pre-race\nPole position went to the Wyer 908/03 of Jo Siffert/Brian Redman, followed by the official works 908/03 of Vic Elford/Hans Herrmann, the sole works Ferrari 512S of Sicilian Nino Vaccarella/Ignazio Giunti, a works Alfa Romeo T33/3 of Piers Courage/Andrea De Adamich and then another Wyer 908/03 of Leo Kinnunen/Pedro Rodriguez .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 27], "content_span": [28, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091395-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 Targa Florio, Pre-race\nThe 908/03's had a 3-liter Flat-8 engine; so they were entered in the 3-liter prototype class; as opposed to the big-engined Flat-12 917's and V12 Ferrari 512's which were competing in the 5-liter sportscar class.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 27], "content_span": [28, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091395-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 Targa Florio, Pre-race\nThere were 12 different classes of racing- more than any other race on the calendar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 27], "content_span": [28, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091395-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 Targa Florio, Race\nThe turnout for the race exceeded 400,000 people; the large amount of area the circuit covered helped to spread people out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 23], "content_span": [24, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091395-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 Targa Florio, Race\nRodriguez was ill on raceday, so his co-driver, ex-rally driver Kinnunen took over as #1 and, in the rally-type event, sprinted into the lead in front of the Siffert/Redman 908/03. Once the car was handed off to Rodriguez, he lost the lead to Vaccarella in the lone works Ferrari. While out on the course, Redman caught up to Vaccarella, and attempted to pass him. Vaccarella blocked Redman and in doing so, nearly ran him off the road.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 23], "content_span": [24, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091395-0009-0001", "contents": "1970 Targa Florio, Race\nThis happened multiple times, and knowing Vaccarella knew the course extremely well, Redman decided to stay behind the Sicilian, cleverly deciding to wait for the next pit stop, knowing that the Wyer team was better at pitstops than Ferrari.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 23], "content_span": [24, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091395-0009-0002", "contents": "1970 Targa Florio, Race\nAnd sure enough, when he came in after his 3-lap stint on the 6th lap, he handed the car off to Siffert, and Siffert got past the Ferrari while it was still in the pits, and Siffert sprinted off and went into the lead on the 7th lap, going ahead of the Kinnunen/Rodriguez car while Rodriguez was driving; Kinnunen had retaken the lead from Giunti sometime earlier in the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 23], "content_span": [24, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091395-0010-0000", "contents": "1970 Targa Florio, Race\nOnce Kinnunen was back in, he set the fastest ever lap of the Circuito Piccolo delle Madonie circuit- 33 minutes, 36.0 seconds on the last lap; and he managed to finish second to the Siffert/Redman car. There was some consolation for the Italian fans- homeland hero Nino Vaccarella in the sole works Ferrari 512 finished 3rd, the works Alfa of Courage/De Adamich crashed on the 8th lap and Elford also crashed the official works 908/03 on the first lap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 23], "content_span": [24, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091395-0011-0000", "contents": "1970 Targa Florio, Race\nThis was the 10th time a Porsche had won the Targa outright, a Porsche's first victory was in 1956. A final victory would come in 1973, when a Porsche 911 won outright. Porsche, on a track generally suited to their general design philosophy, hold the record for most victories at the Targa, a race which dated back to 1906.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 23], "content_span": [24, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091396-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Tasman Series\nThe 1970 Tasman Series was a motor racing competition staged in New Zealand and Australia for cars complying with the Tasman Formula. It was the seventh Tasman Series, beginning on 3 January and ending on 22 February after seven races. The series was won by Graeme Lawrence of New Zealand, driving the Ferrari 246T that fellow New Zealander Chris Amon raced to win the 1969 Tasman Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091396-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Tasman Series\n1970 was a transitional year for the series, being the first year not involving the European Formula One teams which had given the Tasman Series its distinctive style. It was also the first year in which stock production engines of up to five litres cubic capacity were allowed, in short, Formula 5000. Entries arrived from both Europe and the United States, although not of the same quality of the earlier Tasman Formula era. Traditional 2.5 litre Tasman cars, like Lawrence's Ferrari, continued to race along with the 1.6 litre cars that filled much of the lower end of the grids during the Tasman era.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091396-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Tasman Series, Results, Races\nThe Bay Park International, held on 28 December 1969, one week before the first round, was a non-championship event. Additional information sourced from:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091397-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Tasman Touring Series\nThe 1970 Tasman Touring Series was an Australian motor racing competition for Series Production Touring Cars. It was the inaugural Tasman Touring Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091397-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Tasman Touring Series\nThe series was won by Allan Moffat driving a Ford Falcon GTHO.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 89]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091397-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Tasman Touring Series, Schedule\nThe series comprised three rounds, each held in support of an Australian round of the 1970 Tasman Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091397-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Tasman Touring Series, Points system\nPoints were awarded on a 9-6-4-3-2-1 basis for the first six positions in each class. Bonus points were awarded on a 3-2-1 basis for the first three outright positions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 41], "content_span": [42, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091397-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Tasman Touring Series, Series standings\nNote: Only the first three placegetters are listed in the table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 44], "content_span": [45, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091397-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Tasman Touring Series, Series standings, Manufacturers Trophy\nThe Manufacturers Trophy was awarded to the Ford Motor Company of Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 66], "content_span": [67, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091398-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Ta\u00e7a de Portugal Final\nThe 1970 Ta\u00e7a de Portugal Final was the final match of the 1969\u201370 Ta\u00e7a de Portugal, the 30th season of the Ta\u00e7a de Portugal, the premier Portuguese football cup competition organized by the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF). The match was played on 14 June 1970 at the Est\u00e1dio Nacional in Oeiras, and opposed two Primeira Liga sides: Benfica and Sporting CP. Benfica defeated Sporting CP 3\u20131 to claim a fourteenth Ta\u00e7a de Portugal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091399-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Temple Owls football team\nThe 1970 Temple Owls football team was an American football team that represented Temple University as an independent during the 1970 NCAA College Division football season. In its first season under head coach Wayne Hardin, the team compiled a 7\u20133 record. The team played its home games at Temple Stadium in Philadelphia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091400-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Tennessee State Tigers football team\nThe 1970 Tennessee State Tigers football team represented Tennessee State University as an independent during the 1970 NCAA College Division football season. In their eighth season under head coach John Merritt, the Tigers compiled a perfect 10\u20130 record, defeated Southwestern Louisiana in the 1970 Grantland Rice Bowl, and outscored all opponents by a total of 396 to 144. The team was also recognized as the 1970 black college national champion and was ranked No. 5 in the final 1970 NCAA College Division football rankings issued by both the Associated Press and United Press International.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 635]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091401-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Tennessee Volunteers football team\nThe 1970 Tennessee Volunteers football team (variously \"Tennessee\", \"UT\" or the \"Vols\") represented the University of Tennessee in the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. Playing as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC), the team was led by head coach Bill Battle, in his first year, and played their home games at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, Tennessee. They finished the season with a record of eleven wins and one loss (11\u20131 overall, 4\u20131 in the SEC) and a victory over Air Force in the Sugar Bowl. The 1970 Tennessee defense holds the record for most takeaways in a single season with 57, not including the bowl game in which they recorded 8 more.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 710]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091402-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Tennessee gubernatorial election\nThe 1970 Tennessee gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 1970. The Republicans put forward a candidate for the first time since 1952. Their nominee Winfield Dunn, defeated Democratic nominee John Jay Hooker with 52.0% of the vote. Dunn became the first Republican Governor of Tennessee in fifty years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091403-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Texas A&M Aggies football team\nThe 1970 Texas A&M Aggies football team represented Texas A&M University in the 1970 NCAA University Division football season as a member of the Southwest Conference (SWC). The Aggies were led by head coach Gene Stallings in his sixth season and finished with a record of two wins and nine losses (2\u20139 overall, 0\u20137 in the SWC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091404-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Texas Longhorns baseball team\nThe 1970 Texas Longhorns baseball team represented the University of Texas at Austin in the 1970 NCAA University Division baseball season. The Longhorns played their home games at Clark Field. The team was coached by Cliff Gustafson in his 3rd season at Texas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091404-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Texas Longhorns baseball team\nThe Longhorns reached the College World Series, finishing third, having split two games with eventual runner-up Florida State, a holding wins over Delaware and Ohio and a fourteen-inning loss to eventual champion Southern California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091404-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Texas Longhorns baseball team, Perfect Game\nOn April 3, 1970 James Street shutout Texas Tech 4\u20130 over 7 innings in Lubbock, TX to secure the first and only Perfect game in Longhorn's history. This was also the only perfect game in the history of the Southwest Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 48], "content_span": [49, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091405-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Texas Longhorns football team\nThe 1970 Texas Longhorns football team represented the University of Texas at Austin in the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. The Longhorns shared the national championship with Nebraska, their third national championship overall. Texas had previously won consensus national titles in 1963 and 1969.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091405-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Texas Longhorns football team\nUtilizing a wishbone option offense, the defending national champion Longhorns won all ten regular season games to extend their winning streak to thirty games. They were again awarded the UPI (coaches) national title, released prior to the bowl games in early December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091405-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Texas Longhorns football team\nOn New Year's Day 1971, Texas had a rematch with Notre Dame in the Cotton Bowl Classic at the Cotton Bowl in Fair Park in Dallas. This time, the sixth-ranked Fighting Irish won 24\u201311, denying top-ranked Texas a third straight Cotton Bowl victory and consecutive consensus national championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091405-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Texas Longhorns football team\nLater that day, second-ranked Ohio State lost 27\u201317 to #12 Stanford in the Rose Bowl. That night, third-ranked Nebraska defeated #5 LSU 17\u201312 in the Orange Bowl to give the unbeaten Huskers (11\u20130\u20131) the post-bowl AP national championship. Through the 1973 season, the final UPI coaches poll was released prior to the bowl games. (In December 1973, UPI champion Alabama also lost their bowl game.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091405-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Texas Longhorns football team, NFL Draft\nNine seniors from the 1970 Longhorns were selected in the 1971 NFL Draft:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091405-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Texas Longhorns football team, NFL Draft\nTwo juniors from the 1970 Longhorns were selected in the 1972 NFL Draft:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091405-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 Texas Longhorns football team, NFL Draft\nOne sophomore from the 1970 Longhorns was selected in the 1973 NFL Draft:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091406-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team\nThe 1970 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team represented Texas Tech University in the Southwest Conference during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. In their first season under head coach Jim Carlen, the Red Raiders compiled an 8\u20134 record (5\u20132 against conference opponents), finished in third place in the conference, lost to Georgia Tech in the 1970 Sun Bowl, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 222 to 165. The team's statistical leaders included Charles Napper with 979 passing yards, Doug McCutchen with 1,068 rushing yards, and Johnny Odom with 331 receiving yards. The team played its home games at Clifford B. & Audrey Jones Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 714]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091407-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Texas gubernatorial election\nThe 1970 Texas gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 1970, to elect the Governor of Texas. Incumbent Democratic Governor Preston Smith was reelected to a second term, winning 53% of the vote to Republican Paul Eggers' 47%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091408-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Texas\u2013Arlington Rebels football team\nThe 1970 Texas\u2013Arlington Rebels football team was an American football team that represented the University of Texas at Arlington in the Southland Conference during the 1970 NCAA College Division football season. In their fifth year under head coach Burley Bearden, the team compiled an 0\u201310 record. After the conclusion of the season on December 9, head coach Bearden resigned to take a position as an assistant professor within UTA's physical education department. The 1970 season also marked the final UTA competed as the Rebels before transitioning to the Mavericks for their 1971 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 635]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091409-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Thailand Regional Games\nThe 4th Thailand Regional Games (Thai: \u0e01\u0e35\u0e2c\u0e32\u0e40\u0e02\u0e15\u0e41\u0e2b\u0e48\u0e07\u0e1b\u0e23\u0e30\u0e40\u0e17\u0e28\u0e44\u0e17\u0e22 \u0e04\u0e23\u0e31\u0e49\u0e07\u0e17\u0e35\u0e48 4, also known as the 1970 National Games and the 1970 Interprovincial Games) were held in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand from 1 to 7 November 1970, with contests in 12 sports. These games were the qualifications for the 1970 Asian Games. At the medal tally, Thailand was third after Japan and South Korea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091409-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Thailand Regional Games, Marketing, Emblem\nThe emblem of 1970 Thailand Regional Games was the emblem of Sports Authority of Thailand on an orange background.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 47], "content_span": [48, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091409-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Thailand Regional Games, The Games, Participating regions\nThe 4th Thailand National Games represented 9 regions from 71 provinces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 62], "content_span": [63, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091410-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 The Citadel Bulldogs football team\nThe 1970 The Citadel Bulldogs football team represented The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina in the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. Red Parker served as head coach for the fifth season. The Bulldogs played as members of the Southern Conference and played home games at Johnson Hagood Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091411-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Thomas Cup\nThe 1970 Thomas Cup was the eighth tournament of Thomas Cup, the most important men's badminton team competition in the world. The final set of ties (team matches) were held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091411-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Thomas Cup\nIndonesia won its fourth title after beating Malaysia in the Final Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 89]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091411-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Thomas Cup, Teams\n25 teams took part in the competition, 3 of them in the Australasian Zone, 8 in the Asian Zone, 9 in the European Zone and 5 in the Pan American Zone. As defending champion, Malaysia received a bye through the zone qualifications and the first round of Inter-zone ties, and played directly in the second round of inter-zone ties (the semifinal round of the entire tournament).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 22], "content_span": [23, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091411-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Thomas Cup, Summary of qualification (Intra-zone) ties\nNew Zealand, led by the Purser brothers, Richard and Bryan, won the Australasian Zone for the first time by beating Australia (8-1) and Singapore (7-2). Denmark again prevailed in the European Zone. Its closest tie came in the zone semifinal against England which the Danes won six matches to three, thanks largely to Svend Pri's three victories. Three wins by Jamie Paulson were also instrumental in Canada's first ever victory (6\u20133) over the USA in the Pan American zone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 59], "content_span": [60, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091411-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Thomas Cup, Summary of qualification (Intra-zone) ties\nThe greatest drama came in the Asian Zone which contained several of the strongest teams in the entire competition. Indonesia, fighting to regain the cup that it had relinquished in 1967, began its quest by defeating India (7-2). It then became embroiled in yet another highly controversial tie, but this time one in which Indonesia, rather than its opponent nation, claimed to be the victim of partisanship. Facing Thailand in Bangkok, up three matches to two, Indonesia removed its player (Muljadi) from the court during the first game of the sixth match and refused to continue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 59], "content_span": [60, 641]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091411-0004-0001", "contents": "1970 Thomas Cup, Summary of qualification (Intra-zone) ties\nThough Thailand was initially awarded the tie, 6-3, the IBF upheld an Indonesian protest and ordered the tie to be continued, at three matches each in Japan, where the zone final was scheduled to be played. When Thailand refused to comply, Indonesia was awarded the match (6-3). In the zone final Indonesia faced a Japanese team which boasted one of the strongest lineups of singles players (Ippei Kojima, Masao Akiyama, and Junji Honma) in the tournament. Indonesia finally prevailed (5-4), largely because of Rudy Hartono's four victories.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 59], "content_span": [60, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091411-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Thomas Cup, Inter-zone playoffs\nPrior to the 1969-1970 Thomas Cup series the defending champion nation had been exempt from earlier play, needing only to defeat a challenger in a single, conclusive challenge round tie. Beginning with this series, however, the defending champion received a bye only to an inter-zone semifinal tie, needing to win this contest and the inter-zone final in order to retain the Cup. Malaysia, defending its title at home in Kuala Lumpur, drew a Danish team which was missing two of its leading \"regulars.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 36], "content_span": [37, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091411-0005-0001", "contents": "1970 Thomas Cup, Inter-zone playoffs\nThe veteran Erland Kops, highly critical of the IBF's (BWF's) decision to sustain Indonesia's protest against Thailand (see Intra-zone summary above), declined to play in further Thomas Cup contests. For reasons less clear, Denmark's top singles player Svend Pri was also unavailable. Nevertheless, Malaysia had great difficulty against a group of opponents who seemed to be less affected by the tropical heat and humidity than previous Danish squads had been.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 36], "content_span": [37, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091411-0005-0002", "contents": "1970 Thomas Cup, Inter-zone playoffs\nPlaying first singles for Denmark, the talented Elo Hansen stunned both Tan Aik Huang and \"Punch\" Gunalan in straight game, while the veteran Henning Borch outlasted Abdul Rahman in the third singles match. Malaysia managed to scrape home 5\u20134 by taking three of the four doubles matches and both singles against the Danish number two. Gunalan atoned for his loss to Hansen by decisively winning his remaining singles and doubles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 36], "content_span": [37, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091411-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 Thomas Cup, Inter-zone playoffs\nIn the other half of the draw, Indonesia, having barely survived the Asian zone qualification, coasted through two ties against first time inter-zone participants. It beat New Zealand without the loss of a match or a game, and Canada with almost equal ease. In eight singles games against Rudy Hartono and Muljadi, Canada's Jamie Paulson and Wayne Macdonnell could aggregate only 21 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 36], "content_span": [37, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091411-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 Thomas Cup, Final round summary\nMalaysia's struggle on its home courts against Denmark had boded badly for its chances against Indonesia, but the relative ease of Indonesia's victory in the final still surprised many observers. Indonesia captured five of the first six matches, including all four at the first two singles positions, to wrest the Cup from Malaysia. Though \"Punch\" Gunalan was Malaysia's strongest all-around player at this time, he was also (at the comparatively late age of 26) a Thomas Cup rookie, and nerves may have played a role in his tame lead-off loss to the veteran Muljadi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 36], "content_span": [37, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091411-0007-0001", "contents": "1970 Thomas Cup, Final round summary\nHe won the first of his doubles matches with the redoubtable Ng Boon Bee and extended Rudy Hartono to three games in the fifth match of the tie, but the potential three wins which might have been expected from Gunalan's racket did not materialize. Indonesia regained the title by a final score of 7\u20132, in one of the very few Thomas Cup occasions that a team has had much more difficulty in qualifying for the final set of ties than in winning it. Again, Hartono won all four of his matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 36], "content_span": [37, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091412-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Tidewater 300\nThe 1970 Tidewater 300 was a NASCAR Grand National Series event that was held on Sunday, November 22, 1970, at Langley Field Speedway in Hampton, Virginia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091412-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Tidewater 300\nThe race car drivers who used General Motors vehicles would be humiliated at the end of the race because they failed to win any races during the 1970 NASCAR Grand National Series season. NASCAR was on a big remeasuring kick during that year. They found out that a lot of tracks were slightly bigger or smaller than originally advertised. Bristol and Martinsville still use the measurements that were discovered in 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091412-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Tidewater 300\nBetween 1950 and 1970, the most dominant drivers in the NASCAR Grand National Series were Richard Petty (with 119 wins), David Pearson (with 58 wins), and Lee Petty (with 53 wins).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091412-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Tidewater 300, Background\nLangley Speedway is a paved short track measuring 0.395 miles in length, it is one of the flattest tracks in the region with only six degrees of banking in the corners and four degrees on the straights.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091412-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Tidewater 300, Race report\nConsidered to be the 48th event of the 1970 season, this race was the final race of an unregulated stock car racing organization without a corporate sponsor. Economic issues and the need to increase the total amount of winnings for each qualifying participant required NASCAR to accept a major corporate sponsor to bankroll what will become multimillion-dollar purses by the end of the 20th century. Like all races done before the 1973 oil crisis, the stock cars were considered to be the same vehicles that the drivers drove to the racetrack in. Homologation rules would remain strict until approximately 1975 when the NASCAR teams would abandon the Detroit factories and set up their own race car factories in the South Carolina area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 768]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091412-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Tidewater 300, Race report\nThe race was decided in a time of one hour and forty minutes. Bobby Allison was declared the race winner. There were two cautions (for ten laps) and 3,200 people attended this 300 lap (118.5 miles) race. Speeds approached 69.584 miles per hour (111.985\u00a0km/h) as the average and 78.239 miles per hour (125.913\u00a0km/h) for the pole position speed. The margin of victory was only one hundred yards (the equivalent of a football field as used by the National Football League).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091412-0005-0001", "contents": "1970 Tidewater 300, Race report\nOther top participants were Benny Parsons (with his first career pole position), Pete Hamilton, John Sears, James Hylton, Neil Castles, Elmo Langley, J.D. McDuffie, Frank Warren, and Jabe Thomas. This was the biggest racing grid of any race on the site at Langley with 30 drivers competing at the start. However, only twenty of them managed to complete the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091412-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 Tidewater 300, Race report\nThe top prize of the race was $1,635 ($10,764 when adjusted for inflation) and the prize for thirtieth place was $200 ($1,317 when adjusted for inflation). Total winnings were considered to be $10,015 ($65,934 when adjusted for inflation). Benny Parsons and Bobby Allison were constantly competing for the lead in parts of the race. Most of the vehicles that failed to finish the race were due to problems in their engine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091412-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 Tidewater 300, Race report\nRoy Tyner would race his final NASCAR Cup series race here while Rodney Bruce would make his only NASCAR Grand National Series appearance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091412-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 Tidewater 300, Race report\nNotable crew chiefs for this race included Junie Donlavey, Harry Hyde, Lee Gordon and Don Lawrence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091412-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 Tidewater 300, Race report\nUnfortunately, it would also be the last race ever for Langley Field. Even though the race was more than 300 miles, it was not considered to be modern enough for the evolving vehicles of what would become the NASCAR Winston Cup Series the following year. Many of the \"pioneer race courses\" did not survive NASCAR's abbreviated schedule as the organizers believed that the older tracks were not modern enough for the faster and newer vehicles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091412-0010-0000", "contents": "1970 Tidewater 300, Race report, Finishing order\n\u2020 signifies that the driver is known to be deceased * Driver failed to finish race", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 48], "content_span": [49, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091412-0011-0000", "contents": "1970 Tidewater 300, Post-race issues, Sponsorship\nAfter years of not needing a primary sponsor, the Big Tobacco conglomerate R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company would become the main sponsor the following season with their Winston cigarette brand. Using their once-abundant profit margin they acquired while getting America's adult smokers to use their products on a habitual basis, the new primary sponsor would help bring NASCAR into its \"modern era.\" This would bring about the unintended consequences of non-automotive sponsors into the sport. An increasing level of media coverage outside of the American Deep South would also help to bring the sport into the modern era.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 49], "content_span": [50, 671]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091412-0012-0000", "contents": "1970 Tidewater 300, Post-race issues, Sponsorship\nGiveaway products in later years like T-shirts, knives, and cigarette lighters were often used as merchandise items handed out by American variety stores. All the customer had to was purchase a carton of Winston cigarettes and the bonus item would be added free of charge. All other cigarette products would not allow the customer to acquire free NASCAR merchandise because only the Winston brand was considered the official tobacco product of NASCAR. Unlike the more expensive items like jackets, merchandise from the main sponsor often dealt with NASCAR in general and never with a specific driver.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 49], "content_span": [50, 650]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091412-0013-0000", "contents": "1970 Tidewater 300, Post-race issues, Distant changes\nReynolds' premier cigarette brand would remain as NASCAR's top sponsor until 2004 when a telecommunications company known as Nextel Communications would take over due to declining North American tobacco sales in the 21st century. This would force the Winston Cup Series (also known as the Winston Cup Grand National Series prior to circa 1985) to change its name to the Nextel Cup Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 53], "content_span": [54, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091412-0013-0001", "contents": "1970 Tidewater 300, Post-race issues, Distant changes\nComputer games released from 2005 to the present day (i.e., NASCAR 2005: Chase for the Cup, NASCAR SimRacing) were allowed to use the name of NASCAR's premier racing series without having to use an ambiguous title because tobacco was no longer involved in its sponsorship. After a few years, the Nextel company would merge with another telecommunications company to form the Sprint Nextel company. This new corporate sponsor would take over primary sponsorship starting in 2008 (making it necessary to change the name of the Nextel Cup Series into the Sprint Cup Series).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 53], "content_span": [54, 625]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091413-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 1970 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship was the 80th staging of the Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Tipperary County Board in 1887.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091413-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship\nOn 4 October 1970, Roscrea won the championship after a 3-11 to 2-12 defeat of Thurles Sarsfields in the final at Thurles Sportsfield. It was their third championship title overall and their third title in succession.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091414-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Tirreno\u2013Adriatico\nThe 1970 Tirreno\u2013Adriatico was the fifth edition of the Tirreno\u2013Adriatico cycle race and was held from 11 March to 15 March 1970. The race started in Casal Palocco and finished in San Benedetto del Tronto. The race was won by Antoine Houbrechts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091415-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Toledo Rockets football team\nThe 1970 Toledo Rockets football team was an American football team that represented the University of Toledo in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. In their eighth and final season under head coach Frank Lauterbur, the Rockets compiled a 12\u20130 record, outscored all opponents by a combined total of 384 to 88, and won the MAC championship. The season ended with a 40\u201312 victory over Southern Conference champion William & Mary in the 1970 Tangerine Bowl. The Rockets were ranked No. 12 in the final AP Poll and No. 17 in the final UPI Poll. After the Tangerine Bowl, William & Mary head coach Lou Holtz said, \"Toledo can play football with anyone \u2013 that includes teams like Ohio State and Texas.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 786]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091415-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Toledo Rockets football team\nThe 1970 season was part of a 35-game winning streak that consisted of three consecutive seasons from 1969 through 1971. During the streak, Toledo won three consecutive MAC championships and three consecutive bowl games, led the nation in total defense all three years, and outscored opponents by a combined total of 1,152 to 344. It remains the second longest winning streak in modern Division I-A college football history behind Oklahoma's 47-game streak in the 1950s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091415-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Toledo Rockets football team\nThe defense led the way for the 1970 team, allowing 104.8 rushing yards, 185.8 total yards, 3.7 turnovers forced, and 7.3 points per game. In a game against Dayton, Toledo allowed only 44 yards of total offense, zero rushing first downs, and zero passing yards, each of which remains a program record. In a 52\u20133 victory over Marshall, the team forced seven turnovers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091415-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Toledo Rockets football team\nDefensive tackle Mel Long was selected as a first-team All-American by the Newspaper Enterprise Association. Eleven Toledo players received first-team All-MAC honors: Mel Long, quarterback Chuck Ealey, fullback Charlie Cole, end Don Fair, offensive guard Bob Caverly, offensive tackle Ken Wilson, defensive end Bob Rose, linebacker John Niezgoda, middle guard Steve Schnitkey, and defensive backs Tom Duncan and Gary Hinkson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091415-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Toledo Rockets football team\nFor the second consecutive year, Chuck Ealey was named MAC Back of the Year, and Frank Lauterbur was named MAC Coach of the Year. Mel Long was also named MAC Lineman of the Year. Ken Crots, who converted six of 18 field goal attempts, Ealey also won the Jim Nicholson Award as the player contributing the most to the team's success. The team captains were Tom Duncan and Tony Harris.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091415-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Toledo Rockets football team\nThe team's statistical leaders included Chuck Ealey with 2,026 passing yards, Charles Cole with 774 rushing yards, Don Fair with 949 receiving yards, Tom Duncan with 76 points scored, Steve Schnitkey with 178 tackles, and Gary Hinkson with seven interceptions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091415-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 Toledo Rockets football team\nThe Rockets played their home game in the Glass Bowl. The attendance at six home games was 93,120, an average of 15,520 per game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091415-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 Toledo Rockets football team\nOne day before the Rockets' appearance in the Tangerine Bowl, Frank Lauterbur confirmed a leak that he was leaving the program to become the head football coach at Iowa. Lauterbur compiled a 48\u201332\u20132 record in eight seasons at Toledo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091416-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Tonghai earthquake\nThe 1970 Tonghai earthquake (Chinese: 1970\u5e74\u901a\u6d77\u5730\u9707) occurred at 01:00:41 local time on January 5 with a moment magnitude of 7.1 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). The strike-slip rupture originated on the Red River Fault, which had not experienced an earthquake above magnitude 7 since 1700, and affected Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China. At least 10,000 people were killed, making it one of the deadliest in its decade. The tremor caused between US$5 to $25 million in damage, felt over an area of 8,781\u00a0km2 (3,390\u00a0sq\u00a0mi). In Hanoi, North Vietnam, almost 483\u00a0km (300\u00a0mi) from the epicenter, victims left their homes as the rupture rumbled through the city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 698]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091416-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Tonghai earthquake\nOccurring during the height of the Cultural Revolution, it was not widely publicized by the Chinese government for well over a decade. The amount of aid and finances distributed was described by the Beijing Morning Post as \"pathetically small\". Much of the aid provided to survivors was in \"spiritual\" form, including Mao Zedong badges and condolence letters. Nevertheless, the earthquake was among the first to be studied over a long term by the Chinese government. It was cited as one of the reasons behind creating the largest earthquake monitoring system in China, 25 years later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091416-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Tonghai earthquake, Background and tectonics\nYunnan, the epicentral region, is one of the more seismically active Chinese provinces. The earliest earthquake recorded there was in the 9th century; however, moderate to strong ones have been observed since the 15th century. Since the 9th century, 32 earthquakes with a magnitude of 7 or greater have occurred in the province. Shallow strike-slip faulting is a characteristic of Yunnan quakes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091416-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Tonghai earthquake, Background and tectonics\nEarthquakes in southwestern Yunnan, such as the 1970 Tonghai event, are less frequent than in other parts of the province. The Red River Fault, the fault line on which this quake is alleged to have occurred, has lacked seismological activity as a whole. Red River temblors generally rise at high angles, as shown in a 1962 Ministry of Geology report. Marking in sedimentary rocks indicate that several large earthquakes formed on the fault during the Pleistocene and Holocene epochs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091416-0003-0001", "contents": "1970 Tonghai earthquake, Background and tectonics\nUntil this quake, no earthquake above magnitude 7.0 on the Richter scale had occurred on this fault since about 1700, and the fault was believed to be \"dead\". Since the 1970 Tonghai rupture, it is believed that the Red River fault is instead experiencing a long seismic gap similar to that of the Japan Median Tectonic Line, on which no major temblor has formed since 700 but produced massive ones during the Holocene epoch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091416-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Tonghai earthquake, Damage and casualties\nThe epicenter of the quake was about 121\u00a0km (75\u00a0mi) southwest of Kunming and 97\u00a0km (60\u00a0mi) northwest of Gejiu; this area was mainly a tobacco-growing region. Effects of the rupture were felt over an area of 8,781\u00a0km2 (3,390\u00a0sq\u00a0mi). In Hanoi, North Vietnam, almost 483\u00a0km (300\u00a0mi) from the epicenter, victims left their homes as the rupture rumbled through the city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 46], "content_span": [47, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091416-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Tonghai earthquake, Damage and casualties\nThe earthquake measured 7.1 on the moment magnitude scale. It may have killed more than 15,000 people, making it the third deadliest in China during the 20th century, and injured an additional 26,783. The tremor caused between US$5 to $25 million in damage. A Reuters news report, the only one in the immediate aftermath, mentioned the recording of a \"severe\" quake by Hong Kong's Royal Observatory and cited an unconfirmed report that it might have destroyed part of Kunming. It caused 50\u00a0km (31\u00a0mi) of visible surface faulting on the Tonghai Fault.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 46], "content_span": [47, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091416-0005-0001", "contents": "1970 Tonghai earthquake, Damage and casualties\nThere was a maximum horizontal offset of 2.5\u00a0m (8\u00a0ft) and vertical offset of about 0.5\u00a0m (1.5\u00a0ft). As a result of inversion techniques, scientists were able to decide that several events comprised the surface faulting. This further confirmed that the earthquake, along with a later earthquake in Yunnan in 1973, corresponded to a fault within the area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 46], "content_span": [47, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091416-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 Tonghai earthquake, Aftermath, Scientific study\nThe earthquake was among the first to be studied over a long term by the Chinese government. More than 40 Chinese seismologists, engineers, and geologists visited the disaster zone to conduct research into the cause and damage of the earthquake; some spending as much as a year collecting soil samples and recording other primary research evidence for future study. Such data was collected over a broad area of almost 1,400 towns within the area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091416-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 Tonghai earthquake, Aftermath, Reaction\nAccording to the Reuters report, the survivors came together to \"fight against the disaster\". Much of the aid provided to survivors was in \"spiritual\" form. The Chinese government sent tens of thousands of Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong books and badges in his honor to victims as part of the relief effort, and survivors also received 14,350 sympathy letters. However, the amount of aid and finances distributed was described by the Beijing Morning Post 30 years later as \"pathetically small.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091416-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 Tonghai earthquake, Aftermath, Reaction\nThe details of the earthquake were not widely publicized by Chinese authorities until about 18 years after its occurrence. In China's first decades of Communist rule, its policy was to not disclose natural disasters or accidents unless foreigners were injured. While the Chinese official press had not released a comprehensive report, Reuters and the Royal Hong Kong Observatory both released information soon after the disaster. At the time of the quake, the Xinhua News Agency briefly mentioned a smaller magnitude quake but did not provide information on damage or casualties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 624]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091416-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 Tonghai earthquake, Aftermath, Reaction\nOn 19 November 1988, nearly nineteen years later, Chen Zhangli of the State Seismology Bureau, speaking at a news conference for another earthquake that had recently occurred, estimated the death toll of the 1970 quake to be 10,000. He did not give a reason why his government had not previously disclosed this knowledge. Government officials from China released a different estimate in 2000, putting the death toll at 15,621. China published the estimate after a memorial service for survivors and relatives was held in Yuxi on 5 January. A Yuxi Seismology Bureau official noted that the information had been classified for \"political reasons\" and the death toll estimate had been known among bureaucrats as early as 1997.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 768]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091416-0010-0000", "contents": "1970 Tonghai earthquake, Aftermath, Reaction\nTwenty-five years after the earthquake, the largest earthquake-monitoring network nationally was established in Yunnan. It set up earthquake offices in every county to prepare for another large rupture. The 1970 Tonghai earthquake was cited as one of the reasons behind creating the monitoring system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091417-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Torneo Descentralizado\nThe 1970 Torneo Descentralizado was the 54th season of the highest division of Peruvian football. Torino and SIMA made their debut in the first division this season. The national champion was Sporting Cristal while SIMA and Grau were relegated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091417-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Torneo Descentralizado, Competition modus\nThe season was divided into two phases. In the first phase the 14 teams played each other twice playing at least one home match and one away match. The teams that finished in first to seventh place advanced to the championship group which contested the national title. The teams that finished in eighth to fourteenth place advanced to the relegation group where they determined the two teams that would be relegated from the division. Teams carried their first phase results in the second phase and played the teams in their group at least once.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091417-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Torneo Descentralizado, Competition modus\nThe points system during the season varied. In the first leg of the first phase\u2014the first 13 rounds\u20142 points were awarded for a win, 1 point for a draw and no points for a loss; in the second leg of the first phase\u2014the last 13 rounds\u2014and in the second stage a win was awarded 4 points, a draw was awarded 2 points and no points were awarded for a loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091418-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Torneo di Viareggio\nThe 1970 winners of the Torneo di Viareggio (in English, the Viareggio Tournament, officially the Viareggio Cup World Football Tournament Coppa Carnevale), the annual youth football tournament held in Viareggio, Tuscany, are listed below.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091418-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Torneo di Viareggio, Format\nThe 16 teams are organized in knockout rounds. The round of 16 are played in two-legs, while the rest of the rounds are single tie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091419-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Toronto Argonauts season\nThe 1970 Toronto Argonauts finished in second place in the Eastern Conference with an 8\u20136 record. They appeared in the Eastern Semi-Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091420-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Tour de France\nThe 1970 Tour de France was the 57th edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. It took place between 27 June and 19 July, with 23 stages covering a distance of 4,254\u00a0km (2,643\u00a0mi). It was the second victory for Belgian Eddy Merckx, who also won the mountains classification, and nearly won every major jersey for a 2nd year in a row but finished second in the points classification behind Walter Godefroot by five points. The previous year only one rider was able to keep him within 20:00 and in 1970 a mere four other riders were within 20:00, with only debutant Joop Zoetemelk finishing inside 15:00 of Merckx.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 651]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091420-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Tour de France, Teams\nThe Tour de France started with 15 teams, of 10 cyclists each, from five different countries. A few days before the Tour started, it became known that Paul Gutty had failed a doping test when he won the French national road championship. Gutty was removed from his Frimatic team, and replaced by Rene Grelin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 26], "content_span": [27, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091420-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Tour de France, Pre-race favourites\nAfter his dominating victory in the previous year, Merckx was the major favourite. The main competition was expected from Luis Oca\u00f1a and Bernard Th\u00e9venet. Early in the race, 86 journalists predicted who would be in the top five of the Tour. 85 of them expected Merckx to be in the top five; Ocana was named by 78, Poulidor by 73. Merckx had already won important races in 1970, including Paris\u2013Roubaix, Paris\u2013Nice, the Giro d'Italia and the Belgian national road championship. Luis Oca\u00f1a, who had won the Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9 Lib\u00e9r\u00e9 and the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, suffered from bronchitis, but still started the Tour, unable to seriously challenge Merckx.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 691]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091420-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Tour de France, Route and stages\nThe 1970 Tour de France started on 27 June, and had no rest days. After the financial success of the split stages in the 1969 Tour de France, even more split stages were used in the 1970 Tour. The highest point of elevation in the race was 2,115\u00a0m (6,939\u00a0ft) at the summit of the Col du Tourmalet mountain pass on stage 19.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091420-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Tour de France, Race overview\nThe big favourite Merckx won the opening prologue, but he decided not to try to keep this leading position during the entire race. In the next stage, Merckx' team chased back all the escapees, so the stage ended in a bunch sprint, and Merckx kept the lead. In the second stage, a few cyclists escaped, and two of Merckx' teammates, Italo Zilioli and Georges Vandenberghe, joined the escape.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091420-0004-0001", "contents": "1970 Tour de France, Race overview\nMerckx' teammate Zilioli was ranked highest amongst the escaped cyclists, and none of them were considered competitors for the general classification, so Guillaume Driessens, Merckx's team leader, allowed the breakaway to work, and told Zilioli and Vandenberghe to give their best. Merckx however chased his own teammates. The group stayed away, Zilioli won the sprint and became the new leader, 4 seconds ahead of Merckx.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091420-0004-0002", "contents": "1970 Tour de France, Race overview\nAfter the stage, Merckx was angry at his team leader, because he had allowed Zilioli to \"steal\" Merckx' yellow jersey, but Driessens explained to him that the other teams had spent energy to chase Zilioli, and the argument was over. Merckx team won the team time trial, and controlled the next stages, keeping Zilioli the leader with Merckx in second place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091420-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Tour de France, Race overview\nIn the sixth stage, Zilioli had a flat tire. Normally, if the leader in the Tour de France suffers a flat tire, a teammate would offer his wheel, and some teammates would stay with him to help him get back into the peloton. However, this time Merckx was considered more important, and Zilioli was given no help. Zilioli finished the stage one minute behind, and Merckx was the new leader.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091420-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 Tour de France, Race overview\nThe seventh stage was split in two. Merckx won the first stage with a solo break, and finished second in the second part, a time trial. In that time trial, run during the rain, Roger de Vlaeminck, third in the general classification, took too much risk, fell down and left the race in an ambulance. Merckx saw De Vlaeminck lying on the street during his race, and decided to take less risks, allowing Jos\u00e9 Antonio Gonz\u00e1lez Linares to win the stage by three seconds. Because Roger de Vlaeminck had left the race, his team Mars needed a new captain. Debutant Joop Zoetemelk was the highest ranked cyclist, and became the new captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 666]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091420-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 Tour de France, Race overview\nIn the ninth stage, Mogens Frey and Joaquim Agostinho, teammates, broke away together. They worked together to stay away, but near the end of the stage Frey stopped working and had Agostinho do all the work, even after his team manager told him to help. In the sprint, Agostinho expected his teammate to give him the victory because he had done all the work, but to his surprise Frey started to come around him. Agostinho then grabbed Frey's handlebars, and crossed the finish line first. The race jury did not allow this, and gave the victory to Frey, putting Agostinho in second place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 622]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091420-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 Tour de France, Race overview\nIn the tenth stage, when the first medium mountains showed up, Merckx won the stage, and only three cyclists were able to stay with him, including Zoetemelk. Zoetemelk then rose to the second place, and he became the most important rival for Merckx.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091420-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 Tour de France, Race overview\nZoetemelk, along with Luis Ocana and Bernard Thevenet would be the only serious rivals for the remainder of Merckx's career.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091420-0010-0000", "contents": "1970 Tour de France, Race overview\nZoetemelk said that he would focus on defending his second place, because he thought Merckx was better than the rest of the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091420-0011-0000", "contents": "1970 Tour de France, Race overview\nAfter the thirteenth stage, Merckx heard that Vicenze Giacotto, who started the Faema team around Merckx, had died of a heart attack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091420-0012-0000", "contents": "1970 Tour de France, Race overview\nMerckx increased his lead steadily in the mountain stages in the Alps. After he won the stage to the Mont Ventoux, Merckx briefly lost consciousness.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091420-0013-0000", "contents": "1970 Tour de France, Race overview\nIn the two Pyren\u00e9an stages, Merckx did not win. He was suffering from stomach problems, and changed bicycles several times. The young Bernard Th\u00e9venet won the first, showing his potential as a future Tour winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091420-0014-0000", "contents": "1970 Tour de France, Race overview\nMerckx was the third cyclist to win the Tour-Giro double in one year; Fausto Coppi and Jacques Anquetil had done it before. Coppi and Anquetil were over thirty years old at their doubles, Merckx was only 25. The margin with the second placed cyclist was less than the year before; according to J.B. Wadley, the difference was that Merckx stopped attacking in 1970 after the Mont Ventoux; had he been inclined to win more time, he probably would have been able to.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091420-0015-0000", "contents": "1970 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes\nThere were several classifications in the 1970 Tour de France, three of them awarding jerseys to their leaders. The most important was the general classification, calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage. The cyclist with the least accumulated time was the race leader, identified by the yellow jersey; the winner of this classification is considered the winner of the Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091420-0016-0000", "contents": "1970 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes\nAdditionally, there was a points classification, where cyclists got points for finishing among the best in a stage finish, or in intermediate sprints. The cyclist with the most points lead the classification, and was identified with a green jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091420-0017-0000", "contents": "1970 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes\nThere was also a mountains classification. The organisation had categorised some climbs as either first, second, third, or fourth-category; points for this classification were won by the first cyclists that reached the top of these climbs first, with more points available for the higher-categorised climbs. The cyclist with the most points lead the classification, but was not identified with a jersey in 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091420-0018-0000", "contents": "1970 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes\nAnother classification was the combination classification. This classification was calculated as a combination of the other classifications, its leader wore the white jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091420-0019-0000", "contents": "1970 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes\nThe fifth individual classification was the intermediate sprints classification. This classification had similar rules as the points classification, but only points were awarded on intermediate sprints. In 1970, this classification had no associated jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091420-0020-0000", "contents": "1970 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes\nFor the team classification, the times of the best three cyclists per team on each stage were added; the leading team was the team with the lowest total time. The riders in the team that led this classification wore yellow caps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091420-0021-0000", "contents": "1970 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes\nThe intermediate sprints classification, sponsored by Miko, was also named \"hot spot\". In addition, there was a combativity award given after each mass-start stage to the cyclist considered most combative. The split stages each had a combined winner. The decision was made by a jury composed of journalists who gave points. The cyclist with the most points from votes in all stages led the combativity classification. Roger Pingeon won this classification, and was given overall the super-combativity award. The new rider classification was first calculated in 1970. It is not the same as the young rider classification, introduced in 1975. The Souvenir Henri Desgrange was given in honour of Tour founder Henri Desgrange to the first rider to pass the summit of the Col d'Aubisque on stage 19. This prize was won by Raymond Delisle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 897]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091420-0022-0000", "contents": "1970 Tour de France, Aftermath\nMerckx had been so dominant during the entire Tour, that the organisation was afraid the race would become dull. The director F\u00e9lix L\u00e9vitan announced that rule changes were considered to break the power of Merckx's team, that he was considering to return to national teams, and to reduce the number of time trials in the Tour. The 1971 Tour did not see major changes in rules, but the number of individual time trials decreased from five to two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091421-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Tour de Romandie\nThe 1970 Tour de Romandie was the 24th edition of the Tour de Romandie cycle race and was held from 6 May to 10 May 1970. The race started in Geneva and finished in Lausanne. The race was won by G\u00f6sta Pettersson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091422-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Tour de Suisse\nThe 1970 Tour de Suisse was the 34th edition of the Tour de Suisse cycle race and was held from 11 June to 19 June 1970. The race started in Murten and finished in Z\u00fcrich. The race was won by Roberto Poggiali of the Salvarani team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091423-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Tour du Haut Var\nThe 1970 Tour du Haut Var was the second edition of the Tour du Haut Var cycle race and was held on 2 March 1970. The race started in Nice and finished in Seillans. The race was won by Ren\u00e9 Grelin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091424-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Tour of Flanders\nThe 54th running of the Tour of Flanders cycling race in Belgium was held on Sunday 5 April 1970. Belgian Eric Leman won ahead of Walter Godefroot and Eddy Merckx, winning his first of three in the classic The race started in Ghent and finished in Gentbrugge. 37 out of 173 riders arrived.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091424-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Tour of Flanders, Course\nOn the ascent of the Muur van Geraardsbergen Frenchman Roger Pingeon broke clear from the peloton. Eddy Merckx was the favourite to win the race and counter-attacked with Walter Godefroot and Eric Leman. They caught Pingeon on the Bosberg, the climb that made its first appearance in the Tour of Flanders. Pingeon was distanced in the finale and Merckx suffered a puncture in the ultimate kilometer. Leman beat Godefroot in a highly-contested two-man sprint and won the race, Merckx finished third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091425-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Tour of the Basque Country\nThe 1970 Tour of the Basque Country was the tenth edition of the Tour of the Basque Country cycle race and was held from 15 April to 19 April 1970. The race started and finished in Eibar. The race was won by Luis Santamarina of the Werner team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091426-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Trampoline World Championships\nThe 6th Trampoline World Championships were held in Bern, Switzerland on June 19, 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091427-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Trans-AMA motocross series\nThe 1970 Trans-AMA motocross series was an international series established by the American Motorcyclist Association as a pilot event to help establish motocross in the United States. The motocross series was an invitational based on a combined 250 and 500cc engine displacement formula, run on American tracks featuring the top riders from the F.I.M. world championship against the top American riders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091427-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Trans-AMA motocross series\nBSA factory rider Dave Nicoll claimed the championship without winning a single event, due to his consistent results. The Suzuki team of Joel Robert and Olle Petterson didn't join the event until the third race of the series. Robert went on to dominate, but his late start hurt his chances to claim the overall championship. As a result of his being the highest placed American rider at fourth overall, Dick Burleson, was crowned the first-ever American motocross national champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091428-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Trans-American Sedan Championship\nThe 1970 Trans-American Championship was a motor racing series organised by the Sports Car Club of America for SCCA Sedans. It was the fifth Trans-Am Championship. Ford (Thanks to Parnelli Jones and George Follmer) and still potent Alfa Romeo won the Over 2 Litre and Under 2 Litre titles respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091428-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Trans-American Sedan Championship\nWith Porsche's 911 moving to a 2.2L engine, the year marked the resurgence of Alfa Romeo as dominant in the Under 2 Liter class. The year also marked the first win for American Motors, with Mark Donohue driving a Penske Racing-prepared AMC Javelin, winning three races. Also winning for the first time was BMW, in the Under 2 Liter races at Bryar and Bridgehampton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091428-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Trans-American Sedan Championship, Schedule\nThe championship was contested over eleven rounds with separate races at each round for Under 2 Liter and Over 2 Liter cars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091428-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Trans-American Sedan Championship, Championships\nPoints were awarded according to finishing position. Only the highest-placed car scored points for the manufacturer. Only the best 9 finishes counted towards the championship. Drivers' championships were not awarded in Trans-Am until 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 53], "content_span": [54, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091428-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Trans-American Sedan Championship, Championships, Over 2.0L manufacturers\n1970 was the first and only year that every Detroit \"pony car\" manufacturer has a factory-backed team in TransAm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 78], "content_span": [79, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091429-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections were held in the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands on 3 November 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091429-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands parliamentary election, Electoral system\nThe bicameral Congress consisted of a 12-member Senate with two members from each of the six districts and a 21-member House of Representatives with seats apportioned to each district based on their population \u2013 five from Truk, four from the Marshall Islands and Ponape, three from the Mariana Islands and Palau and two from Yap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 84], "content_span": [85, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091429-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands parliamentary election, Electoral system\nElections were held every two years in November of even-numbered years, with all members of the House of Representatives and half the Senate (one member from each district) renewed at each election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 84], "content_span": [85, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091429-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands parliamentary election, Aftermath\nFollowing the elections, the Progressive Party submitted a petition to annul the election results in Palau, where the Liberal Party had won all four contested seats (Roman Tmetuchl in the Senate and George Ngirarsaol, Timothy Olkeriil and Tarkong Pedro in the House of Representatives). The Progressives claimed that non-registered people had been able to vote, and ballots had been tampered with. A Senate committee subsequently recommended that the election of Tmetuchl be annulled. However, the Senate voted to allow Tmetuchl to take his seat, although the election of the three Palau House of Representatives members was annulled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 77], "content_span": [78, 712]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091429-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands parliamentary election, Aftermath\nWhen the newly elected Congress met, Bethwel Henry of Ponape was re-elected Speaker of the House of Representatives and Amata Kabua of the Marshall Islands was re-elected President of the Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 77], "content_span": [78, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091429-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands parliamentary election, Aftermath\nThe by-election for the three House of Representatives seats in Palau was held on 30 March, with Polycarp Basilius, Olkeriil and Pedro elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 77], "content_span": [78, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091430-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Tulane Green Wave football team\nThe 1970 Tulane Green Wave football team was an American football team that represented Tulane University during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season as an independent. In their fifth year under head coach Jim Pittman, the team compiled a 8\u20134 record and defeated Colorado in the Liberty Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091431-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team\nThe 1970 Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team represented the University of Tulsa during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. In their first year under head coach Claude \"Hoot\" Gibson, the Golden Hurricane compiled a 6\u20134 record, 3\u20131 against conference opponents, and finished in second place in the Missouri Valley Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091431-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team\nThe team's statistical leaders included John Dobbs with 664 passing yards, Josh Ashton with 685 rushing yards, and Jim Butler with 245 receiving yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091432-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Tuscan regional election\nThe Tuscan regional election of 1970 took place on 7\u20138 June 1970. It was the first-ever regional election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091432-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Tuscan regional election, Electoral law\nElection was held under proportional representation with provincial constituencies where the largest remainder method with a Droop quota was used. To ensure more proportionality, remained votes and seats were transferred at regional level and calculated at-large.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091432-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Tuscan regional election, Results\nThe Italian Communist Party was by far the largest party. After the election, the Communists formed a left-wing coalition government with the Italian Socialist Party and the Italian Socialist Party of Proletarian Unity. Lelio Lagorio, a Socialist, was elected President of the Region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091433-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 U.S. Clay Court Championships\nThe 1970 U.S. Clay Court Championships was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament that was part of the Grand Prix. It was held at the Woodstock Country Club in Indianapolis, Indiana in the United States and played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 2nd edition of the tournament in the Open Era and was held in from 27 July through 2 August. Cliff Richey and Linda Tuero won the singles titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091433-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 U.S. Clay Court Championships, Finals, Men's Doubles\nClark Graebner / Arthur Ashe defeated Ilie N\u0103stase / Ion \u021airiac 2\u20136, 6\u20134, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 57], "content_span": [58, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091433-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 U.S. Clay Court Championships, Finals, Women's Doubles\nRosie Casals / Gail Chanfreau defeated Helen Gourlay / Pat Walkden 6\u20132, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091434-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 U.S. Figure Skating Championships\nThe 1970 U.S. Figure Skating Championships was held at the Tulsa Assembly Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma from February 4 through 7, 1970. Medals were awarded in three colors: gold (first), silver (second), and bronze (third) in four disciplines \u2013 men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing \u2013 across three levels: senior, junior, and novice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091434-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 U.S. Figure Skating Championships\nThe event determined the U.S. team for the 1970 World Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091434-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 U.S. Figure Skating Championships\nAttendees at the competition noted that the standard of athleticism was rising among skaters in the lower-level divisions. Of particular note was Melissa Militano, who became one of the first female skaters to land a triple toe loop in winning the bronze medal in the junior ladies' event. Another trend was the domination of skaters from California rather than the traditional skating strongholds of the Northeast and Midwest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091434-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, Senior results, Men\nTim Wood likewise defended his title in a unanimous decision. Wood dominated the compulsory figures part of the competition but skated conservatively in the free skating as he was dealing with a sprained ankle. John Misha Petkevich, previously known primarily for his free skating ability, was a surprising second in the figures, but some found his program to music from \"On the Waterfront\" jarring, and his costume\u2014a stretch jumpsuit with a white eyelet shirt\u2014was considered unusually daring as well. Meanwhile, Kenneth Shelley, who finished third, was the audience favorite of the free skating. Shelley was also the winner of the pairs event with his partner JoJo Starbuck.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 59], "content_span": [60, 735]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091434-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, Senior results, Ladies\nJanet Lynn repeated as champion in a unanimous decision of the judges over Julie Lynn Holmes. Lynn won the compulsory figures as well as the free skating, where she skated a brilliant performance to Claude Debussy's \"Rain Forest\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091434-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, Senior results, Pairs\nJoJo Starbuck / Kenneth Shelley (also 3rd in men's event) won the title, following the retirement of the 1969 champions Cynthia Kauffman / Ronald Kauffman. The pairs field was considered relatively weak at this event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 61], "content_span": [62, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091434-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, Senior results, Ice dancing (Gold dance)\nJudy Schwomeyer / James Sladky claimed their third consecutive national title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 80], "content_span": [81, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091435-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 U.S. Open (golf)\nThe 1970 U.S. Open was the 70th U.S. Open, held June 18\u201321 at Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, Minnesota, a suburb southwest of Minneapolis. Tony Jacklin shot under-par in all four rounds on his way to a seven-stroke victory and his only U.S. Open title, the second of his two major championships. He was the first champion born in England since Cyril Walker in 1924.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091435-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 U.S. Open (golf)\nJacklin led wire-to-wire and was hardly threatened throughout the championship. He took a four-shot lead over Dave Hill into the final round, and despite bogeys at the 7th and 8th, made a long birdie putt at 9 to quell any talk of a collapse. Jacklin shot a third consecutive round of 70 and a 281 total, seven clear of the field and the only player under par.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091435-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 U.S. Open (golf)\nOpened eight years earlier, Hazeltine was hosting its first men's major championship, and reviews were less than positive. Runner-up Hill, when asked what the course lacked, said: \"Eighty acres of corn and a few cows. They ruined a good farm when they built this course.\" The course underwent significant renovations; when the U.S. Open returned twenty-one years later in 1991 it drew generally positive reviews, even from Hill. Hazeltine later hosted the PGA Championship twice (2002, 2009) and the Ryder Cup in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091435-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 U.S. Open (golf)\nJacklin's win was the first in the U.S. Open by a European in over forty years and the last for forty more, until Graeme McDowell won at Pebble Beach in 2010. The next win by an Englishman was three years later in 2013, Justin Rose at Merion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091435-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 U.S. Open (golf)\nFuture major winners Ben Crenshaw (age 18) and John Mahaffey (age 22) tied for low amateur honors at 301 (+13), tied for 36th place. Just out of high school, Crenshaw was tied for eighth after each of the first two rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091436-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 U.S. Pro Tennis Championships\nThe 1970 U.S. Pro Tennis Championships was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Longwood Cricket Club in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA. It was classified as a Class 1 category tournament and was part of the 1970 Grand Prix circuit. It was the 43rd edition of the tournament and was held from August 3 through August 9, 1970. Fourth-seeded Tony Roche won the singles title and the accompanying $12,000 first prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091436-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 U.S. Pro Tennis Championships, Finals, Singles\nTony Roche defeated Rod Laver, 3\u20136, 6\u20134, 1\u20136, 6\u20132, 6\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091436-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 U.S. Pro Tennis Championships, Finals, Doubles\nRoy Emerson / Rod Laver defeated Ismail El Shafei / Torben Ulrich, 6\u20131, 7\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091437-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 U.S. Pro Tennis Championships \u2013 Doubles\nThe 1970 U.S. Pro Tennis Championships was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Longwood Cricket Club in Boston, USA. It was classified as a Glass 1 category tournament and was part of the 1970 Grand Prix circuit. It was the 43rd edition of the tournament and was held from August 3 through August 9, 1970. Fourth-seeded Tony Roche won the singles title and the accompanying $12,000 first prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091438-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 U.S. Pro Tennis Championships \u2013 Singles\nThe 1970 U.S. Pro Tennis Championships was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Longwood Cricket Club in Boston, USA. It was classified as a Glass 1 category tournament and was part of the 1970 Grand Prix circuit. It was the 43rd edition of the tournament and was held from August 3 through August 9, 1970. Fourth-seeded Tony Roche won the singles title and the accompanying $12,000 first prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091438-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 U.S. Pro Tennis Championships \u2013 Singles, Seeds\nChampion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 51], "content_span": [52, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091439-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 U.S. Professional Indoor\nThe 1970 U.S. Professional Indoor was a WCT tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts. It was played at the Wachovia Spectrum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States. It was the third edition of the tournament and was held from February 2 through February 8, 1970. First-seeded Rod Laver won his second consecutive singles title at the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091439-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 U.S. Professional Indoor, Finals, Doubles\nIlie N\u0103stase / Ion \u0162iriac defeated Arthur Ashe / Dennis Ralston 6\u20134, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091440-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 U.S. Professional Indoor \u2013 Doubles\nTom Okker and Marty Riessen were the defending champions, but lost in the second round this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091440-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 U.S. Professional Indoor \u2013 Doubles\nIlie N\u0103stase and Ion \u0162iriac successfully defended their title, defeating Arthur Ashe and Dennis Ralston 6\u20134, 6\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091441-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 U.S. Professional Indoor \u2013 Singles\nLaver successfully defended his title, defeating Tony Roche 6\u20133, 8\u20136, 6\u20132 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091442-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 U.S. Women's Open\nThe 1970 U.S. Women's Open was the 25th U.S. Women's Open, held July 2\u20135 at Muskogee Country Club in Muskogee, Oklahoma.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091442-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 U.S. Women's Open\nDefending champion Donna Caponi won the second of her four major titles, one stroke ahead of runners-up Sandra Haynie and Sandra Spuzich. Caponi's four-foot (1.3 m) putt for a double bogey on the final hole hung on the lip before falling to avoid a Monday playoff. She was the second of seven to successfully defend the championship, following Mickey Wright in 1959. Caponi entered the final round with a four-stroke lead and shot a 77 (+6).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091443-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 UC Davis Aggies football team\nThe 1970 UC Davis football team represented the University of California, Davis in the 1970 NCAA College Division football season. UC Davis competed in the Far Western Conference (FWC). The UC Davis sports teams were commonly called the \u201cCal Aggies\u201d from 1924 until the mid 1970s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091443-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 UC Davis Aggies football team\nThe Aggies were led by first-year head coach Jim Sochor. They played home games at Toomey Field. The Aggies finished the season with a record of six wins and four losses (6\u20134, 3\u20132 FWC). They outscored their opponents 208\u2013176 for the 1970 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091443-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 UC Davis Aggies football team, NFL Draft\nNo UC Davis Aggies players were selected in the 1971 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091444-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 UC Riverside Highlanders football team\nThe 1970 UC Riverside Highlanders football team represented UC Riverside during the 1970 NCAA College Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091444-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 UC Riverside Highlanders football team\nUC Riverside competed in the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA). The team was led by first-year head coach Gary Knecht. They played home games at Highlander Stadium in Riverside, California. The Highlanders finished the season with a record of four wins and six losses (4\u20136, 0\u20132 CCAA). Overall, the team was outscored by its opponents 192\u2013306 for the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091444-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 UC Riverside Highlanders football team, Team players in the NFL\nNo UC Riverside players were selected in the 1971 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 68], "content_span": [69, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091445-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 UC Santa Barbara Gauchos football team\nThe 1970 UC Santa Barbara Gauchos football team represented University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091445-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 UC Santa Barbara Gauchos football team\nThe Gauchos competed in the Pacific Coast Athletic Association. The team was led by first-year head coach Andy Everest, and played home games at Campus Stadium in Santa Barbara, California. They finished the season with a record of two wins and nine losses (2\u20139, 1\u20135 PCAA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091445-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 UC Santa Barbara Gauchos football team, Team players in the NFL\nNo Santa Barbara Gaucho players were selected in the 1971 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 68], "content_span": [69, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091446-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 UCI Road World Championships\nThe 1970 UCI Road World Championships took place on Sunday 16 August 1970 at Mallory Park in Leicester, United Kingdom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091447-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 UCI Road World Championships \u2013 Men's road race\nThe men's road race at the 1970 UCI Road World Championships was the 37th edition of the event. The race took place on Sunday 16 August 1970 in Leicester, England. The race was won by Jean-Pierre Monser\u00e9 of Belgium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091448-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 UCI Track Cycling World Championships\nThe 1970 UCI Track Cycling World Championships were the World Championship for track cycling. They took place in Leicester, United Kingdom in 1970. Eleven events were contested, 9 for men (3 for professionals, 6 for amateurs) and 2 for women.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091449-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 UCLA Bruins football team\nThe 1970 UCLA Bruins football team was an American football team that represented the University of California, Los Angeles during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. In their sixth and final year under head coach Tommy Prothro, the Bruins compiled a 6\u20135 record (4\u20133 Pac-8) and finished in a four-way tie for second place in the Pacific-8 Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091449-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 UCLA Bruins football team\nUCLA's offensive leaders in 1970 were quarterback Dennis Dummit with 2,392 passing yards, running back Marv Kendricks with 573 rushing yards, and wide receiver Rick Wilkes with 595 receiving yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091449-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 UCLA Bruins football team\nIn his final season at UCLA, Prothro's team suffered a rash of key injuries and finished 6\u20135, yet they were three close games from a 9\u20132 season and Rose Bowl berth. Before those injuries set in, UCLA took a 3\u20130 record into Austin to play defending national champ and top ranked Texas. Trailing 13\u20133 at the half, UCLA rallied and had a 17\u201313 lead in the final minute. But with 12 seconds left, Texas completed a long pass when their receiver caught the ball between two UCLA defenders, who then collided, allowing the receiver to score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091449-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 UCLA Bruins football team\nUCLA also blew a 20-point fourth quarter lead against Oregon, when Ducks sophomore quarterback Dan Fouts rallied his team to three touchdowns and a 41\u201340 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091449-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 UCLA Bruins football team\nFinally, there came the showdown with Stanford; the game was expected to be a shootout between UCLA quarterback Dennis Dummit and Heisman winner Jim Plunkett. But the defenses ruled as UCLA took a 7\u20136 lead into the 4th quarter. Stanford took a 9\u20137 lead on a field goal, but UCLA was driving to a potential game-winning field goal or touchdown themselves when they completed a pass inside the Stanford 10-yard-line, only to have the receiver get sandwiched by two defenders on the tackle and fumble. This game ultimately decided the Pac-8 championship and 1971 Rose Bowl representative.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091449-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 UCLA Bruins football team\nThe season ended on a high note when UCLA beat rival USC, 45\u201320, in a game that was not that close. This would end up being Prothro's final game at UCLA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091449-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 UCLA Bruins football team\nProthro was frustrated by bizarre officiating at critical moments, numerous last minute narrow losses, and losing out of the Rose Bowl by the conference vote in 1966. Prothro also decried the Pac-8 rule that only allowed the conference champion to go to a bowl game; he witnessed many lower ranked inferior teams (often ones he defeated during the season) go to bowl games while his Bruins stayed home. After George Allen was fired by the Los Angeles Rams, Prothro accepted that job.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091450-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 UEFA European Under-18 Championship\nThe UEFA European Under-18 Championship 1970 Final Tournament was held in Scotland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091450-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 UEFA European Under-18 Championship, Teams\nThe following teams entered the tournament. Six teams qualified (Q) and ten teams entered without playing qualification matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 47], "content_span": [48, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091451-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year\nThe 1970 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year was the 44th year of greyhound racing in the United Kingdom and Ireland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091451-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary\nTote turnover deductions were changed, with tracks being allowed to charge anything up to 12.5% in deductions. The annual National Greyhound Racing Club returns were released, with totalisator turnover at \u00a355,556,351 and attendances recorded at 7,365,653 from 5585 meetings. 1970 English Greyhound Derby finalist Moordyke Spot won the Oxfordshire Stakes, Playfield Cup, and ran undefeated through the Pall Mall Stakes, contributing to another winning streak of eight including the White City Championship. He was retired to stud in Galway at the end of the year and was named Greyhound of the Year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091451-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Tracks\nThe Totalisator and Greyhound Holdings (T.G.H) were showing interest in buying stadia. They already held Crayford & Bexleyheath Stadium, Elland Road Greyhound Stadium, Brough Park and Gosforth Greyhound Stadium and then purchased the Midland Greyhound Racing Co Ltd owned tracks of Monmore Green Stadium and Willenhall Greyhound Stadium. Only the Greyhound Racing Association owned more tracks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091451-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Tracks\nHall Green Stadium underwent a major renovation when the club house was altered into a four tier restaurant costing \u00a3750,000. At the same time, the track kennels were replaced and the contract trainer system was brought in for the first time by the GRA, which would become a trend for most tracks in the near future. One of the contracted trainers was Geoff De Mulder, based from Meriden kennels. Another GRA track Powderhall modernised and new facilities included a 100 seated restaurant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091451-0003-0001", "contents": "1970 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Tracks\nThere were changes too in the GRA trainer ranks with Peter Hawkesley moving to Harringay Stadium from West Ham Stadium to replace the retiring Wilf France. Hawkesley's head kennelhand Ted Parker was promoted to trainer at West Ham, who also appointed Colin West as another trainer. Self-service tote machines were also trialled by the company. Kings Heath Stadium was then purchased by the GRA Property Trust.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091451-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Tracks\nPerry Barr suffered major damage following a fire, the fire caused extensive damage but the main stand was rebuilt with a new restaurant and bar facilities and the track reopened soon after.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091451-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Tracks\nHendon Greyhound Stadium which was enlarged to hold 5,000 persons before Hackney & Hendon Greyhounds Ltd was subject to a reverse takeover by businessman George Walker, brother of boxing champion Billy Walker. This meant his private company bought a public company and the new merger resulted in a new company called Brent Walker. Plans for the UK's first stand-alone shopping centre would result in the track's closure in 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091451-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Tracks\nWhite City Stadium (Nottingham) closed after its owner Ernest Jolley, resulting in a sequence of events that led to the sale of the stadium to property developers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091451-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, News\nHarry 'Bammy' Bamford and Ron Saunders had their first graded runners at Belle Vue Stadium and White City Stadium (Manchester) respectively. The Rayleigh Weir Stadium Racing Manager, Thomas Stanley was unwell and handed the reigns to Roy Vickery, a former Crayford General Manager. Hare coursing became illegal in Northern Ireland and Southend held the first ever televised race meeting in colour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 45], "content_span": [46, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091451-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, News\nOwner/trainer Ernie Gaskin Sr. advertised a litter for sale, after his bitch Come on Dolores whelped to Newdown Heather (Newdown Heather was considered the best sire for many years). Four brothers Bert, Len, John and Arthur White bought four of the litter including a bitch called Dolores Rocket. The black bitch won the Puppy Oaks and Juvenile in 1970, both at Wimbledon and looked set for a big 1971. Dunstable GP Dr Dick Handley died, he was the founder of the Greyhound Breeders Forum. Leading greyhound owner Noel Purvis also died.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 45], "content_span": [46, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091451-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Competitions\nThe Scottish Greyhound Derby returned at Shawfield Stadium, the new home of the event. The Steel City Cup was introduced at Owlerton Stadium. Wimbledon Stadium allowed private trainers to compete in a competition with Wimbledon runners; this gesture was welcomed by the private trainers association due to the fact that not many open races were advertised in the calendar for them. The Duke of Edinburgh Cup national inter-track competition grand final between White City and Brighton, ended with a win for White City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 53], "content_span": [54, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091451-0010-0000", "contents": "1970 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Ireland\nThe Irish Greyhound Board purchased Harold's Cross Stadium after speculation that it would be demolished for re-development. Irish greyhound owners threatened strikes after the Board held trap draws several days before the meeting. Owners wished to keep draws to half an hour before as in Northern Ireland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091451-0011-0000", "contents": "1970 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Ireland\nP.J.Carroll and Co, a cigarette company became the first sponsors of the Irish Greyhound Derby, won by Monalee Pride.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091452-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 UMass Redmen football team\nThe 1970 UMass Redmen football team represented the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the 1970 NCAA College Division football season as a member of the Yankee Conference. The team was coached by Vic Fusia and played its home games at Alumni Stadium in Hadley, Massachusetts. The 1970 season was the last season in which Fusia coached the Redmen. UMass finished the season with a record of 4\u20135\u20131 overall and 3\u20131\u20131 in conference play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091453-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 UNLV Rebels football team\nThe 1970 UNLV Rebels football team was an American football team that represented the University of Nevada, Las Vegas as an independent during the 1970 NCAA College Division football season. In their third year under head coach Bill Ireland, the team compiled an 6\u20134 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091454-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 US Open (tennis)\nThe 1970 US Open was a tennis tournament that took place on the outdoor grass courts at the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, Queens, in New York City, United States. The tournament ran from 2 September until 13 September. It was the 90th staging of the US Open, and the fourth Grand Slam tennis event of 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091454-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 US Open (tennis)\nIt was the first Grand Slam tournament in which the tiebreak was used to decide the set at a 6-6 score. The 1970 US Open was the first tournament to introduce a final set tie-break in a Grand Slam. It differed from the current tie-break scoring in that it was won by the first player to reach five points with a sudden death at 4-4. A red flag would be put up by the umpire\u2019s seat to draw fan attention to the tiebreaker in progress. Most players disapproved of the tiebreaker but the visitors loved it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091454-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 US Open (tennis), Finals, Men's doubles\nPierre Barth\u00e8s / Nikola Pili\u0107 defeated Roy Emerson / Rod Laver, 6\u20133, 7\u20136, 4\u20136, 7\u20136", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 44], "content_span": [45, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091454-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 US Open (tennis), Finals, Women's doubles\nMargaret Court / Judy Tegart Dalton defeated Rosemary Casals / Virginia Wade, 6\u20133, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 46], "content_span": [47, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091454-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 US Open (tennis), Finals, Mixed doubles\nMargaret Court / Marty Riessen defeated Judy Tegart Dalton / Frew McMillan, 6\u20134, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 44], "content_span": [45, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091455-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 US Open \u2013 Men's Doubles\nKen Rosewall and Fred Stolle were the defending US Open men's doubles tennis champions but lost their title after a defeat in the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091455-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 US Open \u2013 Men's Doubles\nEighth-seeded Pierre Barth\u00e8s and Nikola Pili\u0107 won the title by defeating sixth-seeded Roy Emerson and Rod Laver 6\u20133, 7\u20136, 4\u20136, 7\u20136 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091456-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 US Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nKen Rosewall defeated Tony Roche 2\u20136, 6\u20134, 7\u20136(5\u20132), 6\u20133 in the final to win the Men's Singles tennis title at the 1970 US Open. Rod Laver was the defending champion, but lost in the fourth round to Dennis Ralston.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091456-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 US Open \u2013 Men's Singles, Seeds\nThe seeded players are listed below. Ken Rosewall is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091457-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 US Open \u2013 Mixed Doubles\nMarty Riessen and Margaret Court were the defending champions and successfully defended their title, defeating Frew McMillan and Judy Dalton 6\u20134, 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091458-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 US Open \u2013 Women's Doubles\nFran\u00e7oise D\u00fcrr and Darlene Hard were the defending champions but competed this year with different partners. Fran\u00e7oise D\u00fcrr teamed up with Gail Chanfreau, and lost in the semifinals to Margaret Court and Judy Dalton. Darlene Hard teamed up with Peaches Bartkowicz, and lost in the quarterfinals to Fran\u00e7oise D\u00fcrr and Gail Chanfreau.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091458-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 US Open \u2013 Women's Doubles\nMargaret Court and Judy Dalton won the title by defeating Rosemary Casals and Virginia Wade 6\u20133, 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091459-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 US Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nMargaret Court was the defending champion, and successfully defended her title, defeating Rosie Casals in the final, 6\u20132, 2\u20136, 6\u20131, to win the Women's Singles tennis title at the 1970 US Open. This was Court's 20th Grand Slam tournament win overall, surpassing Helen Wills Moody for the most grand slam singles titles in women's tennis history, a record she holds to this day. By holding the four major titles at the same time, Court became the first woman in the Open Era to complete a Grand Slam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091460-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships\nThe 1970 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships men's competition took place between June 26-28 at Memorial Stadium on the campus of Bakersfield College in Bakersfield, California. The women's division held their championships separately a little over a hundred miles south at Drake Stadium on the campus of University of California, Los Angeles in Westwood, California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091461-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 USAC Championship Car season\nThe 1970 USAC Championship Car season consisted of 18 races, beginning in Avondale, Arizona on March 28 and concluding at the same location on November 21. There was also one non-championship event at Pikes Peak, Colorado. The USAC National Champion and Indianapolis 500 winner was Al Unser. After this season, dirt courses did not reappear in the USAC Championship until 1981-82. Road courses after this season did not reappear in the USAC Championship until 1977. The Pikes Peak Auto Hill Climb was the only non-championship event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091461-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 USAC Championship Car season, Schedule and results\nNo pole is awarded for the Pikes Peak Hill Climb, in this schedule on the pole is the driver who started first. No lap led was awarded for the Pikes Peak Hill Climb, however, a lap was awarded to the drivers that completed the climb. Scheduled for 300 miles, stopped early due to rain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091461-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 USAC Championship Car season, Final points standings\nNote: Mark Donohue, Kevin Bartlett, Peter Revson, LeeRoy Yarbrough, John Cannon, Donnie Allison, Ron Grable, Jack Eiteljorg and Jack Brabham are not eligible for points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091462-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 USC Trojans baseball team\nThe 1970 USC Trojans baseball team represented the University of Southern California in the 1970 NCAA University Division baseball season. The team was coached Rod Dedeaux in his 29th season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091462-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 USC Trojans baseball team\nThe Trojans won the College World Series, defeating the Florida State Seminoles in the championship game, starting a run of five consecutive national championships for USC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091462-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 USC Trojans baseball team, Trojans in the 1970 MLB Draft\nThe following members of the USC baseball program were drafted in the 1970 Major League Baseball Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091463-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 USC Trojans football team\nThe 1970 USC Trojans football team represented the University of Southern California (USC) in the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. In their 11th year under head coach John McKay, the Trojans compiled a 6\u20134\u20131 record (3\u20134 against conference opponents), finished in a tie for sixth place in the Pacific-8 Conference (Pac-8), and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 343 to 233. The team was ranked #15 in the final AP Poll and #19 in the final Coaches Poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091463-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 USC Trojans football team\nOn September 12, 1970, USC opened the season visiting the University of Alabama under coach Bear Bryant and became the first fully integrated team to play in the State of Alabama. The game, scheduled by Bryant, resulted in a 42\u201321 win for the Trojans. More importantly, all six touchdowns scored by USC team were by African-American players, two by USC running back Sam \"Bam\" Cunningham, against an all-white Crimson Tide team. The game hastened the racial integration of football at Alabama and in the South.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091463-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 USC Trojans football team\nJim Jones led the team in passing, completing 121 of 234 passes for 1,877 yards with 10 touchdowns and 5 interceptions. Clarence Davis led the team in rushing with 214 carries for 972 yards and nine touchdowns. Bob Chandler led the team in receiving with 41 catches for 590 yards and three touchdowns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091463-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 USC Trojans football team, 1970 team players in the NFL\nThe following players were claimed in the 1971 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 60], "content_span": [61, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091464-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 USSR Chess Championship\nThe 1970 Soviet Chess Championship was the 38th edition of USSR Chess Championship. Held from 25 November to 28 December 1970 in Riga. Viktor Korchnoi won his fourth title. The future world champion Anatoly Karpov had a quiet debut, beginning with a loss and 10 draws out of the first 11 rounds before beating Vladimir Bagirov in a Alekhine Defence in round 12. Mikhail Tal should have played in Riga, his home town, but he didn't. It looks as if the organizers doubted, on his recent illness history, whether he would last out the 21-rounder. It was a decision that was to rankle for years, especially since Tal was physically present, but had to confine himself to the press room.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 712]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091465-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 UTEP Miners football team\nThe 1970 UTEP Miners football team was an American football team that represented the University of Texas at El Paso as a member of the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. In its sixth season under head coach Bobby Dobbs, the team compiled a 6\u20134 record (4\u20133 against WAC opponents), finished fourth in the conference, and outscored opponents by a total of 258 to 236.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091466-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Uganda National First Division League\nThe 1970 Uganda National First Division League was the third season of the Ugandan football championship, the top-level football league of Uganda.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091466-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Uganda National First Division League, Overview\nThe 1970 Uganda National First Division League was contested by 11 teams and was won by Coffee SC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091467-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Ukrainian Class B\nThe 1970 Football Championship of Ukrainian SSR (Class B) was the 40th season of association football competition of the Ukrainian SSR, which was part of the Ukrainian Class B. It was the twentieth and last season in the Soviet Class B and the eighth season of the Ukrainian Class B.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091467-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Ukrainian Class B\nThe 1970 Football Championship of Ukrainian SSR (Class B) was won by FC Khimik Severodonetsk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091467-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Ukrainian Class B, Reorganization\nIn 1970\u20131971 the Soviet football league structure went through reformation. The Soviet Class A introduced an extra tier expanding from two to three in total. To the previous First and Second groups, there was introduced Higher (or Top) group. With this, many clubs that previously competed at the second tier (Second Group) were relegated to lower third tier (Second Group). Because of that, many clubs also moved two tiers either up the league's ladder.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 38], "content_span": [39, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091467-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Ukrainian Class B, Reorganization\nThe 1970 Ukrainian Class B season was the last and the Soviet Class B competition were disbanded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 38], "content_span": [39, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091467-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Ukrainian Class B, Teams, Relegated teams\nThree clubs were relegated from the 1969 Second Group (Class A).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 46], "content_span": [47, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091467-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Ukrainian Class B, Final stage\nAll points earn by each team were carried over to the final stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 35], "content_span": [36, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091468-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Umbrian regional election\nThe Umbrian regional election of 1970 took place on 7\u20138 June 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091468-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Umbrian regional election, Events\nThe Italian Communist Party was by far the largest party. After the election, Communist Pietro Conti formed a left-wing coalition government with the Italian Socialist Party and the Italian Socialist Party of Proletarian Unity (Popular Democratic Front).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091469-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 United Arab Republic presidential confirmation referendum\nPresidential elections were held in the United Arab Republic on 15 October 1970, following the death of the incumbent Gamal Abdel Nasser. The election took the form of a referendum on the candidacy of Anwar El Sadat, who ran unopposed. In Egypt he won with 90% of the vote, with a turnout of 85%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091470-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 United Kingdom general election\nThe 1970 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 18 June 1970. It resulted in a surprise victory for the Conservative Party under leader Edward Heath, which defeated the governing Labour Party under Harold Wilson. The Liberal Party, under its new leader Jeremy Thorpe, lost half its seats. The Conservatives, including the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), secured a majority of 30 seats. This general election was the first in which people could vote from the age of 18, after passage of the Representation of the People Act the previous year, and the first UK election where party, and not just candidate names were allowed to be put on the ballots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 696]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091470-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 United Kingdom general election\nMost opinion polls prior to the election indicated a comfortable Labour victory, and put Labour up to 12.4% ahead of the Conservatives. On election day, however, a late swing gave the Conservatives a 3.4% lead and ended almost six years of Labour government, although Wilson remained leader of the Labour Party in opposition. Writing in the aftermath of the election, the political scientist Richard Rose described the Conservative victory as \"surprising\" and noted a significant shift in votes between the two main parties. The Times journalist George Clark wrote that the election would be \"remembered as the occasion when the people of the United Kingdom hurled the findings of the opinion polls back into the faces of the pollsters\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 774]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091470-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 United Kingdom general election\nThe result would provide the mandate for Heath as Prime Minister to begin formal negotiations for the United Kingdom to become a member state of the European Communities (EC)\u2014or the \"Common Market\" as it was more widely known at the time, before it later became the European Union; the UK officially joined the EC on 1 January 1973, along with the Republic of Ireland and Denmark.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091470-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 United Kingdom general election\nFrontbench Labour politicians George Brown and Jennie Lee were voted out at this election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091470-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 United Kingdom general election\nThis marked the end of a series of elections, recommencing 27 years later, where the Labour Party won over 40% of the vote. This was the last election at which a House of Commons majority for one party immediately before election day was replaced by a Commons majority for a different party on election day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091470-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 United Kingdom general election\nThe result was cast as a two-party politics outcome, with no third party reaching 10% of the (total) vote. Such an outcome would not happen again until the 2017 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091470-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 United Kingdom general election\nThe election was the last in which a nationwide UK party gained seats in Northern Ireland. The UUP sat with the Conservative Party at Westminster, traditionally taking the Conservative parliamentary whip. To all intents and purposes the UUP functioned as the Northern Ireland branch of the Conservative Party. In 1972, in protest over the permanent prorogation of the Parliament of Northern Ireland, the Westminster UUP MPs withdrew from the alliance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091470-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 United Kingdom general election, Election date\nThe date of 18 June was supposedly chosen because Harold Wilson wanted as Prime Minister to go to the polls before the introduction of decimal coinage in early 1971, for which his government had been responsible and which he thought was hugely unpopular, and because Wilson sought to gain some momentum by surprising the Conservatives, who were expecting an October election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091470-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 United Kingdom general election, Overview\nCommentators believed that an unexpectedly bad set of balance of payments figures (a \u00a331-million trade deficit) published three days before the election and a loss of national prestige after the England football team's defeat by West Germany on 14 June in the World Cup contributed to the Labour defeat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091470-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 United Kingdom general election, Overview\nOther factors that were cited as reasons for the Conservative victory included union indiscipline, rising prices, the risk of devaluation, the imposition of Selective Employment Tax (SET), and a set of jobless figures released on final week of the campaign showing unemployment at its highest level since 1940. Interviewed by Robin Day, the outgoing Prime Minister Harold Wilson highlighted the possibility that \"complacency engendered by the opinion polls\" may have resulted in a poor turnout of Labour supporters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091470-0010-0000", "contents": "1970 United Kingdom general election, Overview\nAs defending world champions, England's venture in the World Cup attracted a much keener public interest than the general election did. However an analysis by pollster Matt Singh for the 50th anniversary of the election concluded that the late swing had been caused by the weak economic data and that there was \"no evidence\" that the World Cup had influenced the outcome.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091470-0011-0000", "contents": "1970 United Kingdom general election, Overview\nAmerican pollster Douglas Schoen and Oxford University academic R. W. Johnson asserted that Enoch Powell had attracted 2.5 million votes to the Conservatives, although the Conservative vote only increased by 1.7 million. Johnson later stated \"It became clear that Powell had won the 1970 election for the Tories\u00a0... of all those who had switched their vote from one party to another, 50 per cent were working class Powellites\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091470-0011-0001", "contents": "1970 United Kingdom general election, Overview\nThe Professor of Political Science Randall Hansen assessed a range of studies, including some which contended that Powell had made little or no difference to the result, but concluded that \"At the very least, Powell's effect was likely to have fired up the Conservative vote in constituencies which would have voted Tory in any event\". Election night commentators Michael Barratt and Jeffrey Preece dismissed any special \"Powell factor\", as did Conservative MPs Reginald Maudling, Timothy Raison and Hugh Dykes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091470-0012-0000", "contents": "1970 United Kingdom general election, Overview\nThe 1970\u201374 Parliament has to date been the only time since the 1924\u201329 Parliament in which the Conservative Party were only in government for one term before returning to opposition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091470-0013-0000", "contents": "1970 United Kingdom general election, Overview\nThe most notable casualty of the election was George Brown, deputy leader of the Labour Party, who lost to the Conservative candidate in the Belper constituency. Brown had held the seat since 1945. Labour Minister for the Arts, Jennie Lee lost her Cannock seat, held by Labour since 1935 on a swing of 10.7% to the Conservatives in what Richard Rose called \"the biggest upset\" of the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091470-0014-0000", "contents": "1970 United Kingdom general election, Overview\nUnusually for the Liberal Party, the by-elections between 1966 and 1970 had proved almost fruitless, with many Liberal candidates losing deposits. The one exception was its by-election gain of Birmingham Ladywood in June 1969; this was promptly lost in the 1970 general election. The party found itself struggling to introduce its new leader Jeremy Thorpe to the public, owing to the extensive coverage and attention paid to Enoch Powell. The election result was poor for the Liberals, with Thorpe only narrowly winning his own seat in North Devon. Indeed, of the six MPs returned, three (Thorpe, David Steel and John Pardoe) were elected by a majority of less than 1,000 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 725]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091470-0015-0000", "contents": "1970 United Kingdom general election, Overview\nThe BBC's election coverage was led by Cliff Michelmore, along with Robin Day, David Butler and Robert McKenzie. There were periodic cutaways to the BBC regions. This coverage has been rerun on BBC Parliament on several occasions, including on 18 July 2005 as a tribute to Edward Heath after his death the previous day. Its most recent screening was on the 20th of June 2020, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of its first transmission. The BBC coverage was parodied by Monty Python's Flying Circus in its famous \"Election Night Special\" sketch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091470-0016-0000", "contents": "1970 United Kingdom general election, Overview\nBoth BBC and ITN carried their 1970 election night broadcasts in colour, although segments broadcast from some remote locations and some BBC and ITN regional bureaus were transmitted in black-and-white. Some ITV regions were not yet broadcasting in colour at the time of the 1970 elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091470-0017-0000", "contents": "1970 United Kingdom general election, Timeline\nThe Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, visited Buckingham Palace on 18 May and asked the Queen to dissolve Parliament on 29 May, announcing that the election would be held on 18 June. The key dates were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091470-0018-0000", "contents": "1970 United Kingdom general election, Opinion poll summary\nSummary of the final polling results before the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 58], "content_span": [59, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091470-0019-0000", "contents": "1970 United Kingdom general election, Results\nThis was the first general election where 18-year-olds had the right to vote. Therefore, despite 1.1 million more people voting in 1970 compared to 1966, turnout actually fell by 3%. This 72% turnout was the lowest since the 1935 general election and compared with a post-War high of 84% in 1950. Professor Richard Rose described the low turnout, which he noted was \"one of the lowest since the introduction of the democratic franchise\", as surprising to politician and pollsters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091470-0019-0001", "contents": "1970 United Kingdom general election, Results\nChanges to electoral law as part of the Representation of the People Act 1969 had made postal voting easier and polling stations were open an hour later than in past elections, and this would have been expected to improve turnout. On top of this it was reported by Rose that an estimated 25% of 18- to 21-year-olds who were now eligible to vote had not put their names on the electoral register, meaning the turnout was even lower than the percentage figure suggested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091470-0019-0002", "contents": "1970 United Kingdom general election, Results\nRose also argued that the turnout figures in Britain were \"now among the lowest in the Western world.\" Because the previous election had been in 1966, some people had not had their chance to vote in a general election until the age of 25. Labour's number of votes, 12.2 million, was ironically the same amount they had needed to win in 1964. The Conservative vote surge cost Labour in many marginal seats. Rose suggested the absolute fall in the number of Labour votes suggested that many of the party's supporters had decided to abstain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091470-0019-0003", "contents": "1970 United Kingdom general election, Results\nHe also noted that the Labour Party's local organisation was poorer than that of the Conservatives, but did not feel this was a significant factor in Labour supporters failing to come out to vote for the Party given that this organisational difference had been the case in past elections without having this effect. For the Liberals, a small 1% drop in their vote share saw them lose 6 seats, 3 of which were held by the narrowest of margins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091470-0020-0000", "contents": "1970 United Kingdom general election, Results\nIn the end the Conservatives achieved a swing of 4.7%, enough to give them a comfortable working majority. As for the smaller parties, they increased their number in the Commons from 2 to 6 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091470-0021-0000", "contents": "1970 United Kingdom general election, Results\nThe Scottish National Party won its first-ever seat at a general election (they had won several by-elections previously, going back as far as 1945).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091470-0022-0000", "contents": "1970 United Kingdom general election, Televised declarations\nThese declarations were covered live by the BBC where the returning officer was heard to say \"duly elected\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 60], "content_span": [61, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091471-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland\nThe 1970 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland was held on 31 March with 12 MPs elected in single-seat constituencies using first-past-the-post as part of the wider general election in the United Kingdom. It was the first general election held after the Representation of the People Act 1969 which reduced the voting age from 21 to 18.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091471-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland, Results\nThe Ulster Unionists lost seats to the Protestant Unionist Party led by Ian Paisley, moderator of the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster, and to Unity, a nationalist organisation which had won a by-election in 1969.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 65], "content_span": [66, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091471-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland, Results\nIn the election as a whole, the Labour Party failed to return to government and the Conservative Party, which included the Ulster Unionists, formed a government led by Edward Heath as Prime Minister. This was the last parliament where the UUP took the Conservative whip in the House of Commons, breaking with them after the Parliament of Northern Ireland was suspended by the Northern Ireland (Temporary Provisions) Act 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 65], "content_span": [66, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091472-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 United Kingdom general election in Scotland\nThese are the results of the 1970 United Kingdom general election in Scotland. The election was held on Thursday 18 June 1970 and all 71 seats in Scotland were contested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091473-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 United Kingdom local elections\nLocal elections were held in the United Kingdom in 1970. In April, elections were held to the Greater London Council and 13 county councils. In May there were elections to 83 county boroughs, 259 municipal boroughs and 521 urban district councils. There were also elections to Scottish burghs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091473-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 United Kingdom local elections\nThe results showed a substantial recovery for the Labour Party, which had been in government since 1964 and had suffered heavy losses in council elections during the intervening years. The Liberals turned in their worst performance since Clement Davies was party leader. The Scottish National Party's vote was halved as a result of the pro-Labour swing in Scotland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091473-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 United Kingdom local elections\nPrime Minister Harold Wilson subsequently called a general election in June of that year, which the Labour Party lost contrary to the expectations of most opinion polls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091474-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 United Nations Security Council election\nThe 1970 United Nations Security Council election was held on 26 October 1970 during the Twenty-fifth session of the United Nations General Assembly, held at United Nations Headquarters in New York City. The General Assembly elected Argentina, Belgium, Italy, Japan, and Somalia (for the first time), as the five new non-permanent members of the UN Security Council for two-year mandates commencing on 1 January 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091474-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 United Nations Security Council election, Rules\nThe Security Council has 15 seats, filled by five permanent members and ten non-permanent members. Each year, half of the non-permanent members are elected for two-year terms. A sitting member may not immediately run for re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 52], "content_span": [53, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091474-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 United Nations Security Council election, Rules\nIn accordance with the rules whereby the ten non-permanent UNSC seats rotate among the various regional blocs into which UN member states traditionally divide themselves for voting and representation purposes, the five available seats are allocated as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 52], "content_span": [53, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091474-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 United Nations Security Council election, Rules\nTo be elected, a candidate must receive a two-thirds majority of those present and voting. If the vote is inconclusive after the first round, three rounds of restricted voting shall take place, followed by three rounds of unrestricted voting, and so on, until a result has been obtained. In restricted voting, only official candidates may be voted on, while in unrestricted voting, any member of the given regional group, with the exception of current Council members, may be voted on.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 52], "content_span": [53, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091474-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 United Nations Security Council election, Result\nThe election was managed by then-President of the United Nations General Assembly Edvard Hambro of Norway. The United Nations had 127 member states at this time, with Fiji being admitted only three days before the election (for a timeline of UN membership, see Enlargement of the United Nations). There were no nomination prior to the vote. Delegates were to write the names of the five member states they wished elected on the ballot papers. Voting was conducted on a single ballot. Ballots containing more states from a certain region than seats allocated to that region were invalidated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091475-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Grand Prix\nThe 1970 United States Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on October 4, 1970 at the Watkins Glen Grand Prix Race Course in Watkins Glen, New York. It was race 12 of 13 in both the 1970 World Championship of Drivers and the 1970 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091475-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Grand Prix\nThe 108-lap race was won by Emerson Fittipaldi, driving a Lotus-Ford, after he started from third position. Fittipaldi achieved his first Formula One victory, and the first for a Brazilian driver, in only his fourth Grand Prix start. Mexican driver Pedro Rodr\u00edguez finished second in a BRM, having led before a late pit stop for fuel, while Fittipaldi's Swedish team-mate Reine Wisell, making his F1 debut, finished third, which would turn out to be his only podium finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091475-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Grand Prix\nBelgian driver Jacky Ickx finished fourth in his Ferrari, having started from pole position before pitting to repair a broken fuel line. This result meant that Jochen Rindt became the first and, to date, only posthumous Formula One World Champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091475-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Grand Prix, Report\nThe Ferrari of Jacky Ickx was fastest in the initial practice session on Friday with a time of 1:03.07, but expectations were high for the Tyrrell 001 of Jackie Stewart, which had nearly won in its first outing in the previous race in Canada. The final session on Saturday was marred by a downpour that left only fifteen minutes of dry track time, and it was not enough for Stewart to knock Ickx off the pole. Emerson Fittipaldi, who spent the first half of the season in European Formula Two, was just five hundredths behind Stewart in third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 581]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091475-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Grand Prix, Report\nOn Sunday, with a crowd exceeding 100,000 for the second straight year, black clouds and a shower 20 minutes prior to the race caused a lot of excitement among the crews on the grid, as many teams changed to rain tires and back again. By the start, however, all but Clay Regazzoni and Derek Bell had reverted to slicks. Stewart took the lead off the grid, ahead of Pedro Rodr\u00edguez, as Fittipaldi dropped to eighth behind Ickx, Regazzoni, Chris Amon, John Surtees and Jackie Oliver.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091475-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Grand Prix, Report\nBy lap 17, the Ferraris of Ickx and Regazzoni had passed Rodr\u00edguez, but by that time, Stewart's lead was nearly twenty seconds. Graham Hill, in a privately entered Lotus 72, came into the pits on lap 30 with fuel leaking into the cockpit, as a fitting had come loose under the seat. The team took 10 minutes to fix the leak, threw some water on Hill, whose overalls were soaked in fuel, and sent him back out. Several laps later, Hill returned to request they find him some dry overalls, as the gasoline was burning his skin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091475-0005-0001", "contents": "1970 United States Grand Prix, Report\nWhen he stopped again to change clothes, the team said they had not been able to locate any new ones. Hill, however, saw John Surtees, who had retired on the seventh lap, sitting on the wall, and borrowed his overalls and undergarments. The two former World Champions were naked in the pits as Hill was doused with water before donning Surtees' clean clothes and returning to the track, only to retire on lap 72 with a broken clutch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091475-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Grand Prix, Report\nAt half-distance, Stewart was nearly half a lap ahead of Ickx, with Rodr\u00edguez in third and Fittipaldi about to be lapped in fourth. Ickx suddenly pitted on lap 57 to repair a broken fuel line, and he rejoined in twelfth place. He fought his way back up to fourth, setting the race's fastest lap three laps from the finish. Ickx had needed to win to have a chance of overtaking Jochen Rindt in the Championship; his fourth-place finish meant that Rindt became the first posthumous Formula One World Champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091475-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Grand Prix, Report\nOn lap 76, with a one-minute cushion, Stewart's Tyrrell began trailing smoke from its left-hand exhaust pipe. The smoke slowly grew worse, and Rodr\u00edguez tore into Stewart's lead, taking off five seconds a lap, while the Lotus teammates unlapped themselves. On lap 83, with its oil gone, the Cosworth engine in the Tyrrell seized, leaving Rodr\u00edguez with an 18.8 second lead over Fittipaldi, who led team-mate Reine Wisell by another 46 seconds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091475-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Grand Prix, Report\nAt the end of the 100th lap, Rodr\u00edguez coasted into the pit lane having run out of fuel. BRM refueled the car, but Rodr\u00edguez had lost 38 seconds to Fittipaldi, who took the lead. Rodr\u00edguez rejoined ahead of the second Lotus of Wisell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091475-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Grand Prix, Report\nFittipaldi recalled later, \"I took the lead and, going over the finish line, I saw for the first time Colin [Chapman] jumping and throwing his hat, something I'd seen him do for Jim Clark and Graham Hill and Jochen, and I kept saying to myself, 'He's doing that for me. I won the race. I won the US Grand Prix!' It was unbelievable.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091475-0010-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Grand Prix, Report\nHis victory was the seventh American win for Lotus, and it clinched the Drivers' Championship for the team's dead leader, Jochen Rindt, and the Constructors' Championship for Lotus and Colin Chapman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091475-0011-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Grand Prix, Report\nThis was the final Grand Prix to be held on the 2.35-mile (3.78\u00a0km) layout of the track, in use since 1956. Watkins Glen underwent extensive renovation over the course of 1971, including the lengthening of the track to 3.377 miles (5.435\u00a0km) in time for that year's Grand Prix, with an interim layout adopted for the Six Hours sports car race beforehand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091476-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 United States House of Representatives elections\nThe 1970 United States House of Representatives elections was an election for the United States House of Representatives held on November 3, 1970, in the middle of Richard M. Nixon's first term as president. His party, the Republican Party, lost a net of 12 seats to the Democratic Party, which thereby increased its majority in the House. Many viewed the results of the 1970 election as an indication of public fatigue over the ongoing Vietnam War as well as the fallout from the Kent State Massacre.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091476-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 United States House of Representatives elections\nThis was the first House election in which all 50 states used a single-member-district system to elect Representatives instead of using at-large congressional districts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091476-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 United States House of Representatives elections, California\nOne Democratic seat was lost to Republicans. Democrats, therefore, retained a 20-18 margin over Republicans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 65], "content_span": [66, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091477-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 United States House of Representatives elections in California\nThe United States House of Representatives elections in California, 1970 was an election for California's delegation to the United States House of Representatives, which occurred as part of the general election of the House of Representatives on November 3, 1970. Republicans won one open seat when John V. Tunney retired to run for Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [67, 67], "content_span": [68, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091477-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 United States House of Representatives elections in California, Results\nFinal results from the Clerk of the House of Representatives:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 76], "content_span": [77, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091478-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 United States House of Representatives elections in Maryland\nThe 1970 congressional elections in Maryland were held on November 3, 1970, to determine who will represent the state of Maryland in the United States House of Representatives. Maryland has eight seats in the House, apportioned according to the 1960 United States Census. Representatives are elected for two-year terms; those elected served in the 92nd Congress from January 3, 1971 until January 3, 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091479-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina\nThe 1970 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina were held on November 3, 1970 to select six Representatives for two-year terms from the state of South Carolina. The primary elections were held on June 9 and the runoff elections were held two weeks later on June 23. All five incumbents who ran were re-elected and the open seat in the 2nd district was retained by the Republicans. The composition of the state delegation remained five Democrats and one Republican.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [71, 71], "content_span": [72, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091479-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 1st congressional district\nIncumbent Democratic Congressman L. Mendel Rivers of the 1st congressional district, in office since 1941, was unopposed in his bid for re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 99], "content_span": [100, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091479-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 2nd congressional district\nIncumbent Republican Congressman Albert Watson of the 2nd congressional district, in office since 1963, chose to run for Governor instead of re-election. Floyd Spence, a Republican state senator who had unsuccessfully run for the seat in the 1962 elections, defeated Democratic challenger Heyward McDonald.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 99], "content_span": [100, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091479-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 3rd congressional district\nIncumbent Democratic Congressman William Jennings Bryan Dorn of the 3rd congressional district, in office since 1951, defeated Republican challenger Grady Ballard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 99], "content_span": [100, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091479-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 4th congressional district\nIncumbent Democratic Congressman James R. Mann of the 4th congressional district, in office since 1969, was unopposed in his bid for re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 99], "content_span": [100, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091479-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 5th congressional district\nIncumbent Democratic Congressman Thomas S. Gettys of the 5th congressional district, in office since 1964, defeated Republican challenger B. Leonard Phillips.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 99], "content_span": [100, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091479-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 6th congressional district\nIncumbent Democratic Congressman John L. McMillan of the 6th congressional district, in office since 1939, won the Democratic primary and defeated Republican Edward B. Baskin in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 99], "content_span": [100, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091480-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 United States House of Representatives elections in Virginia\nThe 1970 United States House of Representatives elections in Virginia were held on November 3, 1970 to determine who will represent the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States House of Representatives. Virginia had ten seats in the House, apportioned according to the 1960 United States Census. Representatives are elected for two-year terms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091481-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Arizona\nThe 1970 United States Senate election in Arizona took place on November 3, 1970. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Paul Fannin decided to run for reelection to a second term, running unopposed in the Republican primary. Fannin defeated Democratic nominee Sam Grossman in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091482-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in California\nThe 1970 United States Senate election in California was held on November 3, 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091482-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in California\nIncumbent Republican Senator George Murphy lost re-election to a second term to Democratic Congressman John V. Tunney.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091483-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Connecticut\nThe United States Senate election of 1970 in Connecticut was held on November 3, 1970. Republican Lowell Weicker defeated Democratic candidate Joseph Duffey and incumbent Thomas J. Dodd who ran this time, as an independent. Dodd entered the race at the last minute and split the Democratic vote, allowing Weicker to win with only 42% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091484-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Delaware\nThe 1970 United States Senate election in Delaware took place on November 2, 1970. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator John J. Williams retired. Republican Party U.S. Representative Bill Roth was elected to succeed him. As of 2021, this is the last open seat Senate election in the State of Delaware.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091485-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Florida\nThe 1970 United States Senate election in Florida was held on November 3, 1970. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Spessard Holland decided to retire instead of seeking a fifth term. During the Democratic primary, former Governor C. Farris Bryant and State Senator Lawton Chiles advanced to a run-off, having received more votes than Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives Frederick H. Schultz, attorney Alcee Hastings, and State Representative Joel T. Daves, III. Chiles soundly defeated Bryant in the run-off election, scoring a major upset due to his comparatively small name recognition prior to the election. To acquire name recognition and media coverage, Chiles walked about 1,003 miles (1,614\u00a0km) across the state of Florida and was given the nickname \"Walkin' Lawton\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 831]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091485-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Florida\nThe Republican primary exposed an in-party feud between Governor Claude R. Kirk Jr. and U.S. Representative William C. Cramer. In the election, Cramer handily defeated G. Harrold Carswell and body shop owner George Balmer; the former was a Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals judge favored by Kirk and had been rejected as a Supreme Court of the United States nominee a few months prior to the primary. Chiles won the election by a relatively small margin of 7.8%, receiving 902,438\u00a0votes against Cramer's 772,817\u00a0votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091485-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Florida, Background\nIncumbent Spessard Holland, who served in the Senate since 1946, decided to retire rather than seek a fifth term. Although the Democratic Party had dominated state elections since the Reconstruction Era, Claude R. Kirk Jr. and Edward Gurney, both Republicans, were elected Senator and Governor in 1966 and 1968, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091485-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Florida, Democratic primary, Campaign\nInitially, Bryant, a well-known figure, was seen as a natural front-runner. He was challenged by State Senator Lawton Chiles, Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives Frederick H. Schultz, attorney Alcee Hastings, and State Representative Joel T. Daves, III.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 75], "content_span": [76, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091485-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Florida, Democratic primary, Campaign, \"Walkin' Lawton\"\nChiles, despite a twelve-year career in legislature, was largely unknown outside his district. A poll indicated that Chiles had a name recognition of only 5%. To generate some media coverage across the state, Chiles embarked upon a 1,003-mile (1,614\u00a0km) walk across Florida. He would spend each night in a camper, which was driven by one of his aides.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 93], "content_span": [94, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091485-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Florida, Democratic primary, Campaign, \"Walkin' Lawton\"\nOn March\u00a017, Chiles began the walk starting in Century, a small town in Escambia County along the Alabama state line. He initially headed east along State Road 4, toward Tallahassee. Throughout the journey, a number of people walked a small portion of the distance, including State Senators Wilbur H. Boyd \u2013 uncle of State House member Jim Boyd \u2013 and Bob Saunders. Upon reaching the community of Milligan, Chiles turned onto U.S. Route 90, then the main highway through the Florida Panhandle, toward Crestview. On April\u00a07, he reached Tallahassee and remained there during the Florida Legislative session, which lasted 60\u00a0days. Thereafter, he continued on Route 90 for several days, until reaching Lake City, where he began heading along State Road 100 to the city of Lake Butler.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 93], "content_span": [94, 873]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091485-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Florida, Democratic primary, Campaign, \"Walkin' Lawton\"\nAfter reaching Starke, Chiles headed south on Route 301 toward Waldo, where he switched to State Road 24 toward Gainesville. There, he met many students, professors, and others in the vicinity of the University of Florida, his alma mater. He next made a side trip to Pasco County, visiting Dade City, New Port Richey, and Zephyrhills. Chiles made another side trip to Volusia County on the east coast, passing through the cities of Daytona Beach, DeLand, and New Smyrna Beach. Thereafter, he went back to Gainesville and walked south on Route 441 to Ocala.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 93], "content_span": [94, 650]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091485-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Florida, Democratic primary, Campaign, \"Walkin' Lawton\"\nThe 91-day walk earned him the recognition he sought, and the nickname that would follow him throughout his political career \u2013 \"Walkin' Lawton\", coined by Associated Press writer John Van Gieson after Chiles passed through the town of Ponce de Leon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 93], "content_span": [94, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091485-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Florida, Republican primary, Campaign\nIn the fall of 1969, Cramer declared his candidacy for the Senate. President Nixon encouraged Cramer's candidacy in 1970: \"Bill, the Senate needs you, the country needs you, the people need you\u2013now run.\" Sometime during the election, Cramer declined to run for re-election to his U.S. House seat. His former district assistant Charles William \"Bill\" Young of St. Petersburg, then the Florida Senate minority leader, ran for this seat. Young won and remained in the seat until his death in 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 75], "content_span": [76, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091485-0008-0001", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Florida, Republican primary, Campaign\nIn April 1970, the Senate rejected Judge G. Harrold Carswell of Tallahassee as Nixon's second consecutive conservative nominee to the United States Supreme Court. He had been newly appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, based in New Orleans, but his federal judicial service began under Dwight D. Eisenhower. Senators Gurney and Holland, both Carswell supporters, were dismayed by his rejection. Later that year, Carswell attributed his unsuccessful Supreme Court nomination to the \"dark evil winds of liberalism\" and the \"northern press and its knee-jerking followers in the Senate.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 75], "content_span": [76, 692]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091485-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Florida, Republican primary, Campaign\nExpecting to benefit over the uproar in Florida over the rejection of Judge Carswell, political aides suggested that Carswell resign from the bench and run for Holland's Senate seat. Carswell agreed and declared his candidacy while accompanying Governor Kirk in front of reporters in Miami on April\u00a020. Initially, Lieutenant Governor Ray C. Osborne was challenging Cramer for the Republican nomination, but dropped out after Carswell entered the race. Years later, Kirk expressed regret for encouraging Carswell to run and Osborne to withdraw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 75], "content_span": [76, 619]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091485-0009-0001", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Florida, Republican primary, Campaign\nIt is possible that Cramer and Gurney came to an agreement in which Gurney would run for Senate in 1968 and allow Cramer to run in 1970. However, Carswell and Gurney denied having any knowledge of the deal. Although Nixon encouraged Cramer to run, he would not voice support for either Carswell or Cramer during the primary contest. Carswell was endorsed by nationally known actors John Wayne and Gene Autry, as well as Governor Kirk and Senator Gurney.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 75], "content_span": [76, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091485-0010-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Florida, Republican primary, Campaign\nIn the primary campaign, Cramer stressed his amendment to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to prohibit forced busing to achieve racial balance in public schools. He raised questions about Carswell's concurrence in two Fifth Circuit busing edicts. At first, Carswell ignored Cramer's charges; then he spoke out against busing. A reporter from the Miami Herald compared Carswell's speeches to \"legal opinions\" aimed more at Senators Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts and Birch Bayh of Indiana, who had worked against his confirmation, than to Florida Republican primary voters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 75], "content_span": [76, 648]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091485-0010-0001", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Florida, Republican primary, Campaign\nAs a circuit judge, Carswell was bound by high court precedent, and after 1968, the federal courts had decreed busing as a tool to pursue racial balance in schools. Like Cramer, Kirk was identified with anti-busing forces. He had been unable, in 1970, to halt a desegregation plan in Manatee County. At a time of cultural change and social unrest, Cramer went beyond the busing issue in his speeches to attack \"cop killers, bombers, burners, and racial revolutionaries who would destroy America.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 75], "content_span": [76, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091485-0011-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Florida, Republican primary, Campaign\nIn the Republican primary held on September\u00a08, 1970, Cramer received 220,553 votes to Carswell's 121,281. A third candidate, businessman George Balmer, polled 10,974\u00a0votes. Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania, who opposed Carswell's confirmation to the Supreme Court, said that Carswell \"was asking for it, and he got what he deserved.\" Cramer attributed his Senate nomination to his grassroots support and Carswell's lack of campaign experience. Carswell, however, argued that his support among Democrats would have been considerable had Florida been an open primary state, which both Alabama and Georgia conducted open primaries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 75], "content_span": [76, 723]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091486-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Hawaii\nThe 1970 United States Senate election in Hawaii took place on November 3, 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091486-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Hawaii\nIncumbent Republican U.S Senator Hiram Fong was re-elected to a third term in office, narrowly defeating Democratic businessman Cec Heftel. As of 2021, this remains the last U.S. Senate election in Hawaii to be won by a Republican.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091487-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Indiana\nThe 1970 United States Senate election in Indiana took place on November 3, 1970. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Vance Hartke was narrowly re-elected to a third term in office over Republican U.S. Representative Richard Roudebush.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091488-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Maine\nThe 1970 United States Senate election in Maine was held on November 3, 1970. Incumbent Democrat Edmund Muskie defeated Republican nominee Neil S. Bishop with 61.74% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091489-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Maryland\nThe 1970 United States Senate election in Maryland took place on November 3, 1970. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Joseph Tydings ran for re-election to a second term, but was defeated by Republican U.S. Representative J. Glenn Beall Jr.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091489-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Maryland\nTydings had defeated Beall's father, Senator James Glenn Beall six years earlier. Tydings's own adoptive father Millard had served as Senator alongside Beall Sr., making this a rare dynastic election between the sons of former Senators.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091489-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Maryland\nAs of 2021, this is the last time the Republicans won the Class 1 Senate seat in Maryland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091490-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Massachusetts\nThe 1970 United States Senate election in Massachusetts was held on November 3, 1970. The incumbent Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy defeated his challengers. This was Kennedy's first election run since the 1969 Chappaquiddick incident. Kennedy won 62.2% of the vote, down from the 74.3% that he won in the previous election in 1964, indicating that Chappaquiddick did affect his popularity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091490-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Massachusetts\nThis was the last election in which Ted Kennedy lost any Massachusetts county. Spaulding carried Barnstable, Dukes, Franklin, and Nantucket Counties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091491-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Michigan\nThe 1970 United States Senate election in Michigan took place on November 3, 1970. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Philip Hart was re-elected to a third term in office over former First Lady of Michigan Lenore Romney.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091491-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Michigan, Republican primary, Campaign\nGeorge W. Romney was an early favorite for the Republican nomination. President Richard Nixon, who never had good relations with George Romney either personally or on policy grounds, and whom Romney had run against for President in 1968, promoted him for Senate to get Romney out of his cabinet. However, George came up with the idea of his wife Lenore running, and sprung this proposal on Lenore and the children at the end of 1969. Lenore's professed no desire to run unless no other candidate could be found.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 76], "content_span": [77, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091491-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Michigan, Republican primary, Campaign\nU.S. House Minority Leader Gerald Ford (from Grand Rapids) thought Lenore Romney could unite the state party's different factions, but Governor William Milliken opposed her candidacy. Some suspected that her Senate candidacy was just a stalking horse for keeping George's options open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 76], "content_span": [77, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091491-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Michigan, Republican primary, Campaign\nAt a February 21, 1970 meeting of the Michigan Republican Party, convened to declare a \"consensus\" candidate, liberal U.S. Representative Donald W. Riegle, Jr. (who would Hart\u2019s successor after switching to the Democratic Party) and conservative State Senator Robert J. Huber joined Milliken in opposition, blocking Lenore Romney from reaching the three-fourths majority required for the consensus declaration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 76], "content_span": [77, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091491-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Michigan, Republican primary, Campaign\nOn February 23, Lenore Romney formally entered the contest for the Republican nomination for the Senate seat. George successfully pressured Milliken to endorse her, though this may have backfired when The Detroit News exposed the pressure campaign. At the next party meeting, on March 7, Lenore gained the consensus candidate position, and talk of George running ended. Riegle also ended his campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 76], "content_span": [77, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091491-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Michigan, Republican primary, Campaign\nIn the ensuing primary, Romney's campaign emphasized her sex as a campaign theme, arguing, \"Never before has the voice and understanding of a concerned woman been more needed.\" Billboards featuring her face, captioned only \"Lenore\" and omitting any reference to political party, were common throughout the state. She was considered photogenic but was so thin that she was sometimes described as \"frail\" or \"waiflike.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 76], "content_span": [77, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091491-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Michigan, Republican primary, Campaign\nRomney issued a half-hour campaign film that featured endorsements from many national and state party leaders as well as from celebrities Bob Hope and Art Linkletter, and showcased her family and her concern for disadvantaged people. Huber, in contrast, emphasized his edge in political experience, derided her \"motherly concern\", and criticized the \"bossism\" of the Romney family.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 76], "content_span": [77, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091491-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Michigan, Republican primary, Campaign\nRomney called for the withdrawal of all American troops from Vietnam by the end of 1971 and characterized the Vietnam war as \"disastrous.\" She expressed concern over the Cambodian Incursion and proposed an end to congressional funding if Nixon did not abide by his pledge to withdraw from there by the end of the month. On other issues, Romney sometimes took overly broad stances that appeared to come down on multiple sides. The conservative wing of the party, which had never trusted her husband, had the same reaction to her. The largely male press corps tended to deal with her in a paternalistic way, and she was often identified as \"Mrs. George Romney\" in stories and photo captions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 76], "content_span": [77, 766]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091491-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Michigan, Republican primary, Campaign\nInitially heavily favored over Huber, her campaign failed to gain momentum and polls showed a close race; in response, she shifted her ads to focus more on her stands on issues. In the August 4, 1970, primary, Lenore Romney won a narrow victory, with 52\u00a0percent of the vote compared to Huber's 48\u00a0percent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 76], "content_span": [77, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091491-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Michigan, General election, Campaign\nIn the general election, with diminished prestige, a divided party, and with campaign resources drained by the primary fight, Romney was behind incumbent Democrat Hart from the beginning. Romney issued position papers and emphasized crime and social permissiveness, advocated a national healthcare plan, and expressed opposition to environmental damage caused by industry. She never made any personal attacks against Hart. As the only woman running for the U.S. Senate that year, she was a tireless campaigner, traveling around the state in a chartered Cessna and making as many as twelve stops a day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 74], "content_span": [75, 676]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091491-0010-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Michigan, General election, Campaign\nNevertheless, the perception grew that she did not have any vision for what she would do as a senator and was only in the race because she was George Romney's wife. In response, she said at one point, \"I'm not a stand-in or a substitute for anyone.\" Her campaign material continued to just refer to \"Lenore.\" She also was negatively impacted, in both the primary and general election, by fallout from her husband's effort as HUD Secretary to enforce housing integration in Warren, Michigan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 74], "content_span": [75, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091491-0011-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Michigan, General election, Campaign\nThe Romney children campaigned for her, including Mitt, who took student leave to work as a driver and advance man at schools and county fairs during the summer. Together, Lenore and Mitt visited all 83\u00a0Michigan counties. George was in Washington most of the time and did not publicly campaign for her until the campaign's final day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 74], "content_span": [75, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091491-0012-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Michigan, General election, Campaign\nConsistently far ahead in polls, Hart staged a low-key campaign with few public appearances; he mostly ignored her and sometimes acted condescendingly towards her in private.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 74], "content_span": [75, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091491-0013-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Michigan, General election, Results\nHart handily won a third term with 67\u00a0percent of the vote to Romney's 33\u00a0percent. Romney made an unusual election-night visit to congratulate Hart in person, and in saying \"I hope all good things will be his,\" gave what the victor termed \"the most graceful and really moving concession speech I've ever heard.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 73], "content_span": [74, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091491-0014-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Michigan, General election, Results\nIn her election night remarks, Romney said, \"I thought [running as a woman] would be an asset. It was disappointing to find that many people closed their minds just because I was a woman.\" The following year, Romney published an article in Look magazine describing the openly dismissive reaction she had gotten from both men and women. She wrote that, \"In factories, I encountered men in small groups, laughing, shouting, 'Get in the kitchen. George needs you there.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 73], "content_span": [74, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091491-0014-0001", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Michigan, General election, Results\nWhat do you know about politics?'\" To a friend she wrote, \"[I had no idea] how open and bare and wide my own vulnerability would be ... the body wounds are deep.\" She told one of her children that she wished she had not run, and concluded that \"It's the most humiliating thing I know of to run for office.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 73], "content_span": [74, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091492-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Minnesota\nThe 1970 United States Senate election in Minnesota took place on November 3, 1970. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Eugene McCarthy opted not to seek reelection. Former Democratic U.S. Senator, Vice President and 1968 presidential nominee Hubert Humphrey defeated Republican U.S. Representative Clark MacGregor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091493-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Mississippi\nThe 1970 United States Senate election in Mississippi was held on November 3, 1970. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator John C. Stennis won re-election to his fifth term, easily defeating independent candidate William Richard Thompson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091494-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Missouri\nThe 1970 United States Senate election in Missouri took place on November 3, 1970. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Stuart Symington was re-elected to a fourth term in office over Republican John Danforth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091495-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Montana\nThe 1970 United States Senate election in Montana took place on November 3, 1970. Incumbent United States Senator Mike Mansfield, who was first elected to the Senate in 1952 and was re-elected in 1958 and 1964, ran for re-election. Mansfield won the Democratic primary against several opponents, and advanced to the general election, where he was opposed by Harold E. Wallace, a sporting goods salesman and the Republican nominee. While his margin of victory decreased slightly from 1964, Mansfield still managed to defeat Wallace in a landslide, winning his fourth and final term in the Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 641]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091496-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Nebraska\nThe 1970 United States Senate election in Nebraska took place on November 3, 1970. The incumbent Republican Senator, Roman Hruska, was re-elected, albeit with a reduced majority. He defeated the former Governor of Nebraska Frank B. Morrison.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091497-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Nevada\nThe 1970 United States Senate election in Nevada was held on November 3, 1970. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Howard Cannon won re-election to a third term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091497-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Nevada, Campaign\nIn the Senate, Cannon was known as a moderate in the Democratic Party. He served as chairman of several committees, including the rules committee and the inaugural arrangements committee. Cannon was nearly defeated for re-election in 1964 by Republican Lieutenant Governor Paul Laxalt in one of the closest elections in history. However, he became more popular over the next few years and defeated D.A. William Raggio, whose 1970 senate campaign began his long political career. Raggio ran for the Nevada Senate in 1972 and won, serving until 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 54], "content_span": [55, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091498-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in New Jersey\nThe 1970 United States Senate election in New Jersey was held on November 3, 1970. Incumbent Democrat Harrison A. Williams defeated Republican nominee Nelson G. Gross with 54.02% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091498-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in New Jersey, Democratic primary, Campaign\nGuarini ran as the candidate of the powerful Hudson County Democratic machine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 78], "content_span": [79, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091498-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in New Jersey, Republican primary, Campaign\nNelson Gross resigned his position as party chairman on April 9 to enter the race for Senate with the full-backing of Governor William T. Cahill. Cahill's support discouraged any serious contenders from challenging Gross in the primary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 78], "content_span": [79, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091498-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in New Jersey, Republican primary, Campaign\nGross was nonetheless privately criticized as a poor choice by some Republicans due to his ongoing investigation by the United States Department of Justice for involvement with a Mafia-backed labor union. The investigation was led by U.S. Attorney Frederick Bernard Lacey, who had been personally recommended to the Nixon administration by Senator Clifford Case. Case and Gross had been on uneven terms since Gross undermined Case's \"favorite son\" status at the 1968 Republican National Convention by bringing Bergen County delegates into the Nixon column.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 78], "content_span": [79, 635]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091498-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in New Jersey, General election, Campaign\nGross assailed Williams as a \"radical liberal\" and implied that he was involved in \"influence peddling\" for having sponsored special bills for about 70 Chinese seamen who jumped ship in the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 76], "content_span": [77, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091498-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in New Jersey, General election, Campaign\nIn mid-October, President Richard Nixon campaigned for Gross as part of a one-day swing through Pennsylvania, Vermont, Wisconsin and New Jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 76], "content_span": [77, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091499-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in New Mexico\nThe 1970 United States Senate election in New Mexico took place on November 3, 1970. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Joseph Montoya successfully ran for re-election to a second term, defeating Republican Anderson Carter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091500-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in New York\nThe 1970 United States Senate election in New York was held on November 3, 1970, to elect New York's Class I Senator in its delegation. Representative Charles Goodell had been appointed by Governor Nelson Rockefeller to serve the remainder of Robert F. Kennedy's senatorial term following Kennedy's assassination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091500-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in New York\nGoodell attempted to win election to a full term in the Senate with the Republican and Liberal nominations, but faced opposition from Democratic nominee Richard Ottinger and Conservative nominee James L. Buckley. Buckley was able to win with a plurality of the popular vote due to the left-wing vote being split between Ottinger and Goodell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091500-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in New York\nBuckley would serve in the Senate until his reelection bid was defeated by Daniel Patrick Moynihan in 1976. Buckley's victory in the 1970 election would remain the last time a third party candidate won election to the Senate until Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman won reelection with the Connecticut for Lieberman nomination in 2006.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091500-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in New York, Background\nIt was speculated by the Democratic Party that Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, the younger brother of President John F. Kennedy and older brother of Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy, would seek the Democratic nomination for New York's Senate election in 1964. Elected members of the Democratic Party supported a possible campaign by Robert Kennedy, with New York City Mayor Robert F. Wagner Jr. endorsing him on August 21, 1964. On August 25, Kennedy announced that he would seek the Democratic Senatorial nomination, after establishing a residence in Glen Cove, New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091500-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in New York, Background\nOn September 1, 1964, he defeated Representative Samuel S. Stratton for the Democratic nomination at the Democratic state convention with 968 to 153 delegate votes. He also received the nomination of the Liberal Party with a majority of the delegate vote. In the general election he defeated incumbent Republican Senator Kenneth Keating.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091500-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in New York, Background, Appointment\nOn March 16, 1968, Kennedy announced that he would seek the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party for the 1968 presidential election. After winning four primaries Kennedy was assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan in Los Angeles, California on June 6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 71], "content_span": [72, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091500-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in New York, Background, Appointment\nKennedy's death left a vacancy in the United States Senate that would be filled through an appointment by Governor Nelson Rockefeller. John W. Gardner, John Lindsay, Burke Marshall, C. Douglas Dillon, Charles Goodell, Ogden Reid, and Whitney Young were considered as possible candidates for the appointment. On August 11, a spokesman for Rockfeller stated that main choices for the appointment were Gardner, Goodell, and Reid. On September 10, Rockefeller appointed Goodell, a member of the House of Representatives from the 38th congressional district, to fill the vacancy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 71], "content_span": [72, 646]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091500-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in New York, Background, Appointment\nOn July 16, 1968, Joseph A. Valenti filed a lawsuit in the Western District Court against Governor Rockefeller attempting to have a special election held during the 1968 election cycle rather than the 1970 election cycle. Randolph Phillips and George Backer filed similar lawsuits in the Southern District Court on July 17, and July 19. On January 20, 1969, the Southern District Court dismissed their cases allowing for Goodell to serve the remainder of Kennedy's term until a regular election was held in 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 71], "content_span": [72, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091500-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in New York, Conservative nomination\nOn January 28, 1970, Kevin P. McGovern announced that he would seek the Conservative Party's senatorial nomination and criticized the party's leadership for allegedly favoring state Senator John J. Marchi. On April 6, James L. Buckley, the brother of conservative author William F. Buckley Jr. and the party's former senatorial nominee in 1968, announced that he would seek the Conservative Party's nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 71], "content_span": [72, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091500-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in New York, Conservative nomination\nThe Conservative State Committee convened inside Hotel McAlpin in Manhattan, New York City, on April 7, to select the party's nominees in the general election. McGovern attempted to force a primary campaign between him and Buckley, but failed to receive the 25% of delegate votes to force a primary. Buckley received nearly ninety percent of the delegate votes and the remainder was split between McGovern and abstaining delegates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 71], "content_span": [72, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091500-0010-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in New York, Democratic nomination, Campaign\nPrior to the Democratic primary New York Democratic state chairman John J. Burns met with Representatives Richard Ottinger, Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal, Jonathan Brewster Bingham, and Otis G. Pike in Washington, D.C., in 1969, to discuss plans to prevent party infighting during the 1970 Senate Democratic primary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 79], "content_span": [80, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091500-0011-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in New York, Democratic nomination, Campaign\nOn July 12, Paul O'Dwyer, who had received the Democratic nomination for Senate in 1968, announced that he would seek the Democratic senatorial nomination in 1970. O'Dwyer formally announced his candidacy in New York City on December 11, and again in Albany on December 12. However, he was criticized for his refusal to support Hubert Humphrey during the 1968 presidential election. Joseph Zaretski, the Democratic Minority Leader in the state Senate, stated that O'Dwyer was the only candidate with a \"tremendous chance of winning the Democratic designation\" due to his statewide organization.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 79], "content_span": [80, 674]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091500-0012-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in New York, Democratic nomination, Campaign\nOn May 12, 1969, Ted Sorensen, who had served as White House Counsel during John F. Kennedy's presidency, stated that prior to Robert F. Kennedy's assassination, he had been asked to run for Kennedy's Senate seat. Sorensen started to campaign for the Democratic senatorial nomination in October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 79], "content_span": [80, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091500-0013-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in New York, Democratic nomination, Campaign\nRepresentative Richard Ottinger announced on January 19, 1970, that he would be entering the Democratic senatorial primary as the \"unity candidate\". Ottinger formally announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination on February 24.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 79], "content_span": [80, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091500-0014-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in New York, Democratic nomination, Campaign\nOn January 29, Rosenthal announced that he would conduct a statewide tour to test support for a possible senatorial campaign. He promised that he would not cause an irresponsible or destructive primary in a letter written to the state's 300 Democratic committee members. The next day his office stated that Rosenthal was actively campaigning for the Democratic nomination. Although Rosenthal never official announced that he would seek the Democratic nomination he announced on March 4, that he would seek reelection to the House of Representatives as he was unable to find support for a possible senatorial campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 79], "content_span": [80, 697]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091500-0015-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in New York, Democratic nomination, Campaign\nOn January 12, Representative Richard D. McCarthy stated that he was interested in running for the Democratic nomination for the senate election. On February 27, McCarthy announced that he would seek the Democratic nomination. On April 2, McCarthy dropped out of the Democratic primary to help maintain party unity, but later reentered the primary on April 19, as he felt that Upstate New York would lack representation among the Democratic nominees due to all of the other candidates being from the New York metropolitan area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 79], "content_span": [80, 607]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091500-0016-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in New York, Democratic nomination, Campaign\nOn February 23, Morris B. Abram, the president of Brandeis University who had challenged Georgia's voting system in a lawsuit that resulted in the one man, one vote principle being established by the Supreme Court of the United States, announced his resignation from his position so that he could seek the Democratic nomination for senator.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 79], "content_span": [80, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091500-0016-0001", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in New York, Democratic nomination, Campaign\nHowever, the Poughkeepsie Board of Elections ruled that Abram was ineligible to run in the Democratic primary as he registered as a member of the Democratic Party on January 26, 1970, meaning that according to New York's election laws he could only run in Democratic primaries after the 1970 general election. The only way that Abram could be granted permission participate in the Democratic primary would be if the New York State Democratic Committee gave 51% approval at its convention on April 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 79], "content_span": [80, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091500-0016-0002", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in New York, Democratic nomination, Campaign\nOn March 6, Abram asked the state committee for permission to run, but state chairman John J. Burns stated that a survey of party officials showed little support for him due to his decision to sit out the 1968 presidential election. However, Burns told Abram to conduct a statewide campaign in an attempt to gain support from state committee members. He withdrew from the primary and endorsed Ted Sorensen for the nomination on April 9.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 79], "content_span": [80, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091500-0017-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in New York, Democratic nomination, Campaign, Convention\nThe 345 member of the Democratic state committee convened in Liberty, New York, from March 31 to April 2, to select the party's nominees. Sorensen received 62% of the delegate vote, making him the designated candidate for the primary, to O'Dwyer's 25%, and Ottinger's 12%. As Sorensen and O'Dwyer were the only candidates to receive more than 25% of the delegate vote they were the only candidates given automatic access onto the primary ballot. All of the other candidates had to petition their way onto the primary ballot with over 10,000 signatures. Ottinger filed petitions with a total of 26,463 signatures and McCarthy filed petitions with a total of 17,080 signatures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 91], "content_span": [92, 767]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091500-0018-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in New York, Democratic nomination, Results\nOn June 23, the Democratic primary was held in which Ottinger won with over 366,000 votes. O'Dwyer placed second with over 300,000 votes, and performed best within New York City. Sorensen, who was selected as the designated candidate by the state committee, placed a distant third with over 154,000 votes. McCarthy placed last in fourth with over 102,000 votes, and only placed first in his home county, Erie County, and surrounding Cattaraugus and Wyoming counties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 78], "content_span": [79, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091500-0019-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in New York, Liberal nomination\nThe Liberal Party's nomination was electorally important as due to New York's electoral fusion law the party could give its nomination, and a large percentage of the popular vote, to any other party nominee. In the 1968 Senate election incumbent Republican Senator Jacob Javits had defeated Paul O'Dwyer by over one million votes, with half of that total coming from the Liberal Party's ballot line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 66], "content_span": [67, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091500-0020-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in New York, Liberal nomination\nOn April 4, 1970, the state committee selected Timothy W. Costello to serve as the party's placeholder senatorial candidate. The committee selected placeholder candidates for multiple positions as New York law allowed for parties to replace their nominees within five weeks of selecting them. Due to the selection of Costello, who was serving as Deputy Mayor of New York City, Leon A. Katz, a member of the New York City Council, called for Mayor John Lindsay to fire Costello.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 66], "content_span": [67, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091500-0021-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in New York, Liberal nomination\nCharles Goodell was favored by officials in the Liberal Party due to criticism levied against him by members of the Republican and Conservative state committees and his opposition to the Vietnam War. Costello also endorsed Goodell before the nomination ballot. On May 11, Goodell received the party's nomination against Paul O'Dwyer, Richard D. McCarthy, Richard Ottinger, and Ted Sorenson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 66], "content_span": [67, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091500-0022-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in New York, Liberal nomination\nPrior to the ballot voting O'Dwyer accused the Liberal Party of rigging the ballot in favor of Goodell and stated that his nomination would be a betrayal to liberal voters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 66], "content_span": [67, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091500-0023-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in New York, Republican nomination\nOn March 24, 1970, Charles Goodell announced that he would seek reelection to the United States Senate. During his announcement speech in front of 250 people at the Park Central Hotel Goodell criticized Nixon's civil rights, military spending, and Vietnam policies and Nixon's nomination of G. Harrold Carswell to the Supreme Court of the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 69], "content_span": [70, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091500-0024-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in New York, Republican nomination\nJames L. Buckley attempted to enter the Republican senatorial primary, but was rejected by the Republican State Committee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 69], "content_span": [70, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091500-0025-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in New York, Republican nomination\nOn April 8, the 360 member Republican state committee convened to select the Republican nominees for multiple offices. Goodell faced no opposition during ballot although 49 of the 360 committee members, from Nassau, Suffolk, and Queens counties, chose to abstain rather than to vote for him. The entire 28-member Nassau County delegation abstained due to Goodell's lack of support for Nixon, but chose to not nominate another candidate as that could lead to primary challenges in the state legislator and accusations of not being \"real\" Republicans. Joseph Margiotta, the Nassau County Chairman, also stated that abstaining would not anger Governor Nelson Rockefeller, who supported Goodell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 69], "content_span": [70, 761]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091500-0026-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in New York, Other nominations, Communist\nArnold Johnson, the public relations director of the Communist Party USA, was selected to serve as the Communist Party's senatorial nominee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 76], "content_span": [77, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091500-0027-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in New York, Other nominations, Conservation\nOn July 15, 1970, Richard Ottinger's campaign announced that it would circulate petitions in an attempt to gain another ballot line named the Conservation Party. James L. Buckley criticized the party as an attempt to confuse voters who wished to vote for the Conservative Party. Ottinger's campaign claimed that conservation was chosen for the party's name to reflect Ottinger's support for environmental protection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 79], "content_span": [80, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091500-0028-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in New York, Other nominations, Conservation\nIn August, Ottinger filed petitions with a total of 33,561 signatures, more than the 12,000 required, to gain the additional ballot line. However, Mason Hampton, the attorney of the Nassau County Conservative Party, filed 24 objections with the board of elections over the Conservation Party and Representative James F. Hastings filed an objection to Secretary of State John P. Lomenzo over the party's name on August 24.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 79], "content_span": [80, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091500-0029-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in New York, Other nominations, Conservation\nOn September 4, Lomenzo ruled that the Conservation Party's name was too similar to the Conservative Party's name and ruled the Conservation Party off of the general election ballot. Ottinger made an appeal to the New York Supreme Court, and on September 17, the state Supreme Court ruled that the Conservation Party could appear on the ballot. However, the Conservative Party made an appeal to the Appellate Division of the state Supreme Court and on October 1, the court ruled in favor of removing the Conservation Party from the general election ballot. Ottinger made an appeal to the New York Court of Appeals, but on October 7, the Court of Appeals ruled four to three to sustain the decision of the appellate court decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 79], "content_span": [80, 810]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091500-0030-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in New York, Other nominations, Independent Alliance\nOn June 20, 1970, F. Clifton White, James L. Buckley's campaign manager, announced that Buckley's campaign would circulate petitions in an attempt to gain another ballot line named the Independent Alliance Party. Enough valid signatures were collected to gain the additional ballot line, but Secretary of State John P. Lomenzo ruled that the Independent Alliance's emblem, an outline of New York with Buckley's name inside, was illegal as New York's election law limited the number of times that a candidate's name could appear on a ballot line to one. Lomenzo later allowed the party onto the ballot after the emblem was changed to a shield with the letter \"I\" inside.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 87], "content_span": [88, 757]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091500-0031-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in New York, Other nominations, Independent Alliance\nAlthough the Independent Alliance Party received over 100,000 votes in the general election, more than the 50,000 votes required to become an official party and automatic ballot access, it did not become an official party as its only candidate was Buckley, who ran in the Senate election and not in the gubernatorial election where the 50,000 votes were required to come from.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 87], "content_span": [88, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091500-0032-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in New York, Other nominations, Socialist Labor\nIn April 1970, the Socialist Labor Party of America selected John Emanuel, who had served as the party's nominee in the 1969 New York City mayoral election and as the party's senatorial candidate in 1968, as its senatorial nominee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 82], "content_span": [83, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091500-0033-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in New York, Other nominations, Socialist Workers\nOn January 22, 1970, the Socialist Workers Party selected Kipp Dawson, who was 29 years old, as its senatorial nominee. She had served as a national coordinator of the Student Mobilization Committee to End The War in Vietnam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 84], "content_span": [85, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091500-0034-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in New York, General election\nOn September 14, a debate was held between Buckley, Goodell, and Ottinger at the New York State Publishers Association dinner with a four-person panel asking questions. During the debate Goodell and Ottinger stated that the $100,000 bail for the Panther 21 was unconstitutional and supported the direct election of the president while Buckley stated that the bail was constitutional and supported the present use of the electoral college to select the president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 64], "content_span": [65, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091500-0035-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in New York, General election\nA televised debate was held on October 11, between Buckley, Goodell, and Ottinger by WABC-TV. Goodell and Ottinger gave support to opposition to the Vietnam War and criticized the foreign policy in Latin America would lead to \"more Vietnams\" in Latin America. Buckley gave support to the Vietnam War and stated that leaving Vietnam would undermine the trust of other small countries in the United States. Another televised debate between the candidates was held on October 18.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 64], "content_span": [65, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091500-0036-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in New York, General election\nOn October 30, Stanley Shaw, the Liberal Party leader in Queens County, Paul Siminoff and Basil Kyriakakis, the Liberal Party leader in Syracuse and Rochester, and New York City Council Minority Leader Eldon R. Clingan called for an emergency meeting of the Liberal Party's state executive committee to decide whether or not to revoke its nomination from Goodell and instead give it to Ottinger to prevent a Buckley victory through vote splitting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 64], "content_span": [65, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091500-0037-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in New York, General election\nBuckley won the senate election, receiving 2,288,190 votes (38.75%), against Ottinger, receiving 2,171,232 votes (36.77%), and Goodell, receiving 1,434,472 votes (24.29%). Buckley ran for reelection in 1976, but was defeated by Democratic nominee Daniel Patrick Moynihan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 64], "content_span": [65, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091500-0038-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in New York, General election, Nixon and Agnew\nOn June 23, 1970, Charles Goodell stated that he would not support President Richard Nixon during the 1972 presidential election if the United States continued its military involvement in Southeast Asia. On June 24, Goodell stated that he would conduct his campaign without aid from the Nixon administration. He later rejected financial aid from the Nixon administration and the Republican National Committee even though his campaign was struggling financially.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 81], "content_span": [82, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091500-0039-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in New York, General election, Nixon and Agnew\nGoodell lacked support among the Republican base and leadership. On July 1, the Dutchess County Republican Party voted 55 to 21 to not support Goodell, and the Ulster County Republican Party chose to not take a position on the Senate election and told voters to choose for themselves. On July 8, the Franklin County Republican Party voted unanimously to endorse Buckley. On August 25, the Norwich Republican committee endorsed all of the Republican candidates except for Goodell, as four of the eight committee members chose to abstain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 81], "content_span": [82, 618]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091500-0040-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in New York, General election, Nixon and Agnew\nHowever, Goodell later stated that he was a better supporter of Nixon than Senators Barry Goldwater and Strom Thurmond, as Goodell supported Nixon in 48% of his votes compared to Goldwater's 37% support. Goodell also stated that the invasion of Cambodia would be a successful tactical campaign, but that the war would continue to drag on.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 81], "content_span": [82, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091500-0041-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in New York, General election, Nixon and Agnew\nNixon declined to endorse any candidate in New York's senate election. Assistant Press Secretary Gerald Lee Warren stated that Nixon had no position in the election when the New York Times asked Warren if the White House preferred Buckley over Goodell. Goodell stated that Nixon wanted the entire Republican slate to win their elections and that the only reason he chose not to endorse Goodell was due to him asking Nixon to not do so. Buckley stated that Goodell was attempting to \"turn any misfortune of the campaign to his advantage\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 81], "content_span": [82, 619]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091500-0042-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in New York, General election, Nixon and Agnew\nAlthough Nixon declined to take a position in New York's senate election, Vice-president Spiro Agnew did. On September 30, Agnew criticized Goodell for having \"left the [Republican] party\" and joined the \"awful liberal-radical coalition\" to obstruct Nixon's policies. It was revealed that Nixon had approved of Agnew's criticism of Goodell before traveling to Europe. Goodell stated that if Nixon wished to remain neutral in the senate election then he should keep Agnew out of the election as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 81], "content_span": [82, 581]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091500-0042-0001", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in New York, General election, Nixon and Agnew\nSenate Minority Leader Hugh Scott criticized Agnew for his attacks on Goodell, and liberal Republican Senators Jacob Javits, Edward Brooke, and Mark Hatfield also criticized Agnew. Goodell offered to debate Agnew, but Agnew declined stating that he was \"challenged to debates every day\". On October 8, Agnew referred to Goodell as the \"Christine Jorgensen of the Republican Party\", comparing Goodell to the American soldier who had undergone sex reassignment surgery in the 1950s; Jorgensen later demanded an apology from Agnew as she did not want her name to be used in \"dirty politics\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 81], "content_span": [82, 670]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091501-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in North Dakota\nThe 1970 United States Senate election in North Dakota was held November 3, 1970. The incumbent, North Dakota Democratic NPL Party Senator Quentin Burdick, was re-elected to his third term, defeating Republican candidate Thomas S. Kleppe, who later became the United States Secretary of the Interior.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091501-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in North Dakota\nOnly Burdick filed as a Dem-NPLer, and the endorsed Republican candidate was Thomas S. Kleppe, who was finishing his second and final term as a Representative for North Dakota's second congressional district. Burdick and Kleppe won the primary elections for their respective parties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091501-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in North Dakota\nOne independent candidate, Russell Kleppe, also filed before the deadline.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091502-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Ohio\nThe 1970 United States Senate election in Ohio took place on November 3, 1970. Incumbent Democratic Senator Stephen M. Young did not run for re-election to a third term in office. U.S. Representative Robert Taft Jr. won the open seat over Democrat Howard Metzenbaum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091502-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Ohio\nBoth Taft and Metzenbaum won very competitive primaries to gain their parties' nominations, over Governor of Ohio Jim Rhodes and astronaut John Glenn, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091503-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania\nThe 1970 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania was held on November 3, 1970. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Hugh Scott won re-election, defeating Democratic nominee William Sesler.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091504-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Rhode Island\nThe 1970 United States Senate election in Rhode Island took place on November 3, 1970. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator John Pastore successfully sought re-election, defeating Republican John McLaughlin. This was the last election when a Democratic was elected to Rhode Island's Class 1 Senate Seat until Sheldon Whitehouse was elected in the 2006 Senate election in Rhode Island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091505-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Tennessee\nThe United States Senate election of 1970 in Tennessee was held on November 3, 1970. Republican Bill Brock defeated Democratic incumbent Albert Gore, Sr. who ran for a fourth term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091506-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Texas\nThe 1970 United States Senate election in Texas was held on November 3, 1970. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Ralph Yarborough was defeated by former U.S. Representative Lloyd Bentsen in the Democratic primary. Bentsen then defeated Republican U.S. Representative and future president George H. W. Bush in the general election. When Bush was running for president in 1988, his Democratic opponent, Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, selected Bentsen as his vice presidential running mate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091506-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Texas, Democratic primary, Campaign\nYarborough, a liberal icon, was challenged by the more conservative Bentsen in the Democratic primary. In what was characterized as an extremely bitter campaign, Bentsen accused Yarborough of supporting desegregation busing and criticized his opposition to the Vietnam War. Many Texas liberals threatened to support the Republican Bush if Bentsen won the primary, believing that the liberal wing of the Texas Democratic Party would be threatened if Bentsen were elected. Bentsen ultimately defeated Yarborough in the Democratic primary on May 2, 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 73], "content_span": [74, 625]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091506-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Texas, General election\nThe general election was held November 3, 1970. Bentsen defeated Bush, 53.6% \u2013 46.5%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 61], "content_span": [62, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091507-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Utah\nThe 1970 United States Senate election in Utah was held on November 3, 1970. Incumbent Democratic Senator Frank Moss was re-elected to a third term in office, defeating Republican U.S. Representative Laurence J. Burton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091507-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Utah\nAs of 2021, this is the last time the Democrats won a U.S. Senate election in Utah, giving it the second longest streak of voting only Republicans to the senate(tied with Wyoming), only beaten by Kansas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091508-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Vermont\nThe 1970 United States Senate election in Vermont took place on November 3, 1970. Incumbent Republican Winston L. Prouty successfully ran for re-election to third term in the United States Senate, defeating Former Democratic Governor Philip H. Hoff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091509-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Virginia\nThe 1970 United States Senate election in Virginia was held on November 3, 1970. Incumbent Senator Harry F. Byrd Jr. was re-elected to his first full term after winning a race 4 years earlier to finish the remainder of his father's term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091510-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Washington\nThe 1970 United States Senate election in Washington was held on November 3, 1970. Incumbent Democrat Henry M. Jackson won a fourth term in office with a landslide victory over Republican State Senator Charles Elicker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091511-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in West Virginia\nThe 1970 United States Senate election in West Virginia was held on November 3, 1970. Incumbent senator Robert Byrd won re-election by the biggest margin at that point in his career.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091511-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in West Virginia, Background\nThe election was held during the 1970 United States Senate elections. In the election Democrats maintained their majority, but lost seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 63], "content_span": [64, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091512-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Wisconsin\nThe 1970 United States Senate election in Wisconsin was held on November 3, 1970. Incumbent Democrat William Proxmire was re-elected to a third term in office over Republican John E. Erickson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091513-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Wyoming\nThe 1970 United States Senate election in Wyoming took place on November 2, 1970. Incumbent Democratic Senator Gale W. McGee ran for re-election to his third term. In a rematch of the 1964 election, he once again faced Republican John S. Wold, who at this time represented Wyoming in the U.S. House of Representatives. 1970 proved to be a fairly strong year for Wyoming Republicans; Governor Stanley Hathaway was re-elected in a landslide and the party won all of the other statewide offices.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091513-0000-0001", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Wyoming\nHowever, McGee proved popular, and managed to increase his margin from 1964, beating Wold by a solid 56-44% margin. As of 2021, this is the last time that a Democratic candidate won a United States Senate election in Wyoming, currently the second-longest winning streak for the Republican Party (tied with Utah), second to Kansas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091513-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Wyoming, Democratic primary, Campaign\nAs Senator Gale W. McGee faced a fierce challenge for re-election from Republican Congressman John S. Wold, he faced discontent in the Democratic Party over his continued support for the Vietnam War. In the spring of 1970, State Senator Mike Svilar announced that he could not support McGee for re-election, and noted that he was in conversation with several other anti-war Wyoming Democrats, including attorney John Mackey and mountaineer Paul Petzoldt, about challenging McGee in the Democratic primary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 75], "content_span": [76, 581]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091513-0001-0001", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Wyoming, Democratic primary, Campaign\nErnest Wilkerson, a Casper attorney and the 1966 Democratic nominee for Governor, ruled out a challenge to McGee himself, but indicated his support for an anti-war primary challenger and held open the possibility that he could run as an independent candidate. In June, Svilar announced his candidacy, framing the contest as \"a choice between war and peace,\" as he and McGee agreed on virtually all other issues. To support Svilar, a coalition of left-leaning Democrats in the mold of George McGovern, Eugene McCarthy, and Ted Kennedy, formed the New Democratic Coalition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 75], "content_span": [76, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091513-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Wyoming, Democratic primary, Campaign\nThe campaign between McGee and Svilar quickly turned negative, with Svilar repeating his earlier pledge to not support McGee if he won the nomination. McGee threatened legal action against Svilar for claiming that McGee supported staying in Vietnam indefinitely, and Svilar refused to retract his allegation. As the campaign closed out, the state affiliate of the AFL-CIO sent a letter to its members claiming that \"Svilar's purpose is not to win, but to stir up anti-McGee feeling that can be used in the general election . . .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 75], "content_span": [76, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091513-0002-0001", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Wyoming, Democratic primary, Campaign\nto spoil the McGee chances,\" a charge that Svilar called \"completely false and a desperate last-ditch, grasping at straws by Gale McGee's political machine as it sees itself about to collapse.\" Despite the tenacity of the campaign, however, polling close to the primary election showed the race largely uncompetitive; a Wyoming Stockman Farmer poll taken in early August showed McGee leading Svilar, 39-4%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 75], "content_span": [76, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091513-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Wyoming, Democratic primary, Campaign\nUltimately, McGee defeated Svilar in a landslide, winning 80% of the vote to Svilar's 20%. Attorney Ernest Wilkerson, who had said that he would evaluate the possibility of an independent campaign against McGee depending on Svilar's performance, ultimately declined to do so. However, in the general election, Svilar refused to support McGee over Wold, though he did support the rest of the state Democratic ticket, and Paul Petzoldt, an anti-war opponent of McGee's in the Democratic Party, endorsed Wold over him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 75], "content_span": [76, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091513-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Wyoming, General election, Campaign\nThe general election campaign between McGee and Wold was fierce, with national Republicans targeting McGee for defeat. A small controversy developed over McGee falsely claiming the endorsement of the National Rifle Association, which prompted a member of the NRA Board of Directors to accuse McGee of \"deceiving\" voters. However, the Casper Star-Tribune issued a correction to its original reporting, noting that McGee did not claim the endorsement, but instead aloud read a complimentary letter from the NRA at a sportsmen meeting in Rock Springs, which some of the attendees took as an endorsement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 73], "content_span": [74, 674]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091513-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Wyoming, General election, Campaign\nPolling of the race in October suggested a McGee victory, though depending on the source, they disagreed about how sizable; Wold's internal polling put McGee up just 51-48% on October 4, while independent polling from Casper television station KTWO put McGee up 56-44%, projecting an overall turnout of 140,000 votes. By late October, KTWO polling showed McGee widening his lead, beating Wold 57-43%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 73], "content_span": [74, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091513-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate election in Wyoming, General election, Campaign\nIn the end, McGee ended up defeating Wold by a wide margin, winning 56% of the vote to Wold's 44%, an increase from the 1964 campaign. McGee won by racking up large margins in the central and southern ancestrally Democratic counties of the state, through which the Union Pacific line ran, while Wold performed better in the more reliably Republican regions in the far north, east, and west.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 73], "content_span": [74, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091514-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate elections\nThe 1970 United States Senate elections was an election for the United States Senate, taking place in the middle of Richard Nixon's first term as President. The Democrats lost a net of three seats, while the Republicans and the Conservative Party of New York picked up one net seat each, and former Democrat Harry F. Byrd Jr. was re-elected as an independent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091514-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate elections\nThis was the most recent election in which a third party won a seat in the Senate until 2006.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091514-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate elections\nThese were the last elections until 2018 where a member of a political party other than the Democrats or Republicans had won one or more seats in the chamber (not including Independents, members of no political party). This was also the last midterm election until the 2018 midterm elections where a sitting President's party simultaneously experienced net gains in the Senate and net losses in the House. As of 2021, this is also the most recent cycle in which Democrats won Senate elections in Utah and Wyoming, and the most recent in which Republicans won a Senate election in Hawaii.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091514-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate elections, Getting out the vote\nPresident Nixon said that rather than violent protests, the best way for the American public to get their opinion heard was by voting:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091514-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate elections, Getting out the vote\nThe most powerful four letter word is a clean word, it\u2019s the most powerful four letter word in the history of men, it's called vote. V-O-T-E. My friends, I say that the answer to those that engage in disruption, to those that shout their filthy slogans, to those that try to shout down speakers, it's not to answer in kind, but go to the polls in election day, and in the quiet of that ballot box, stand up and be counted, the great silent majority of America.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091514-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate elections, Race summary, Special elections during the 91st Congress\nIn these special elections, the winner was seated during 1970 or before January 3, 1971; ordered by election date, then state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 93], "content_span": [94, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091514-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate elections, Race summary, Elections leading to the next Congress\nIn these general elections, the winners were elected for the term beginning January 3, 1971; ordered by state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 89], "content_span": [90, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091514-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate elections, Alaska (special)\nRepublican Ted Stevens was appointed December 24, 1968 to finish the term of Democrat Bob Bartlett, who had died in office. The open primary was held August 25, 1970, in which Stevens received 40,411 votes (55.91%), Key received 29,459 votes (23.94%), State senator Joe Josephson received 12,730 votes (18.22%) and Fritz Singer (R) received 1,349 votes (1.93%). In the November 3, 1970 special election to finish the term, he ran against the Democratic Speaker of the Alaska House of Representatives Wendell P. Kay. Stevens easily won with almost 60% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 53], "content_span": [54, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091514-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate elections, Arizona\nIncumbent Republican Paul Fannin decided to run for re-election to a second term, running unopposed in the Republican primary. Fannin defeated Democratic businessman Sam Grossman in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091514-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate elections, Connecticut\nRepublican Lowell P. Weicker Jr. defeated Democrat Joseph Duffey and incumbent Thomas J. Dodd who ran this time as an independent. Dodd entered the race at the last minute and split the Democratic vote, allowing Weicker to win with only 42% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 48], "content_span": [49, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091514-0010-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate elections, Florida\nIncumbent Democrat Spessard Holland retired instead of seeking a fifth term. During the Democratic primary, former Governor C. Farris Bryant and State senator Lawton Chiles advanced to a run-off, having received more votes than Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives Frederick H. Schultz, attorney Alcee Hastings, and State Representative Joel T. Daves, III. Chiles soundly defeated Bryant in the run-off election, scoring a major upset due to his comparatively small name recognition prior to the election. To acquire name recognition and media coverage, Chiles walked about 1,003 miles (1,614\u00a0km) across the state of Florida and was given the nickname \"Walkin' Lawton\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 725]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091514-0011-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate elections, Florida\nThe Republican primary exposed an in-party feud between Governor Claude R. Kirk Jr. and U.S. Representative William C. Cramer. In the election, Cramer handily defeated G. Harrold Carswell and body shop owner George Balmer; the former was a Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals judge favored by Kirk and had been rejected as a Supreme Court of the United States nominee a few months prior to the primary. Chiles won the election by a relatively small margin of 7.8%, receiving 902,438 votes against Cramer's 772,817 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091514-0012-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate elections, Florida\nIncumbent Spessard Holland, who served in the Senate since 1946, decided to retire rather than seek a fifth term. Although the Democratic Party had dominated state elections since the Reconstruction Era, Claude R. Kirk Jr. and Edward Gurney, both Republicans, were elected senator and Governor in 1966 and 1968, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091514-0013-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate elections, Illinois (special)\nA special election was held to fill the remainder of the term of Republican Everett Dirksen, who had died in office. Republican Ralph Tyler Smith had been appointed to fill the seat after Dirksen's death, and he lost the special election to Democrat Adlai Stevenson III.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 55], "content_span": [56, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091514-0014-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate elections, Massachusetts\nIncumbent Democrat Ted Kennedy defeated his challengers. This was Kennedy's first election run since the 1969 Chappaquiddick incident. Kennedy won 62.2%, down from 74.3% that he won in the previous election in 1964; this decrease was due to numerous factors including Chappaquiddick and a far more favorable environment for the Republicans than the Democratic landslide year of 1964.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 50], "content_span": [51, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091514-0015-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate elections, Massachusetts\nThe Republican nominee was Josiah Spaulding, a businessman and Republican leader in Massachusetts. He led a group of delegates at the 1968 Republican National Convention who unsuccessfully sought to nominate Nelson A. Rockefeller over Richard Nixon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 50], "content_span": [51, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091514-0016-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate elections, Massachusetts\nOther candidates were Lawrence Gilfedder (Socialist Labor) and Mark R. Shaw (Prohibition), a former Prohibition Party candidate for U.S. senator from Massachusetts in 1946, 1952, 1958, 1969, 1962, and 1966. He was the party's candidate for governor of Massachusetts in 1948 and 1956. In 1964, he was the Prohibition Party's candidate for vice-president of the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 50], "content_span": [51, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091514-0017-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate elections, Minnesota\nIncumbent Democrat Eugene McCarthy retired instead of seeking a third term. Former Democratic U.S. senator, Vice President and 1968 presidential nominee Hubert Humphrey defeated Republican U.S. Representative Clark MacGregor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091514-0018-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate elections, Montana\nDemocratic incumbent Mike Mansfield, the Senate Majority Leader who was first elected to the Senate in 1952, and was re-elected in 1958 and 1964, ran for re-election. Mansfield won the primary against several opponents, and advanced to the general election, where he was opposed by Harold E. Wallace, a sporting goods salesman and the Republican nominee. While his margin of victory decreased slightly from 1964, Mansfield still managed to defeat Wallace overwhelmingly, winning his fourth and (what would turn out to be his) final term in the Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091514-0019-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate elections, Nevada\nDemocrat Howard Cannon, the incumbent since 1959, won re-election to a third term over William Raggio, the Washoe County District Attorney.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091514-0020-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate elections, Nevada\nIn the Senate, Cannon was known as a moderate in the Democratic Party. He served as chairman of several committees, including the rules committee and the inaugural arrangements committee. Cannon was nearly defeated for re-election in 1964 by Republican Lieutenant Governor Paul Laxalt in one of the closest election in history. However, he became more popular over the next few years and defeated D.A. William Raggio, whose 1970 senate campaign began his long political career. Raggio ran for the Nevada Senate in 1972 and won. He then served there for decades to come.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091514-0021-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate elections, New Mexico\nIncumbent Democrat Joseph Montoya successfully ran for re-election to a second term, defeating Republican Anderson Carter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091514-0022-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate elections, New York\nIncumbent Republican Charles Goodell, who was recently appointed to the seat by Governor Nelson Rockefeller after senator Bobby Kennedy (D) was assassinated, ran for a full term, but was defeated by the Conservative Party of New York nominee James L. Buckley. Other candidates included: Richard Ottinger, U.S. Congressman (1965\u20131971, 1975\u20131985), Kevin P. McGovern, Paul O'Dwyer, Former New York City Council Member from Manhattan, Ted Sorensen, Former Advisor and Speechwriter to President John F. Kennedy, Richard D. McCarthy, U.S. Congressman (1965-1971).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091514-0023-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate elections, North Dakota\nIncumbent Democratic-NPL Party Senator Quentin N. Burdick was re-elected to his third term, defeating Republican candidate Thomas S. Kleppe, who later became the United States Secretary of the Interior.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 49], "content_span": [50, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091514-0024-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate elections, North Dakota\nOnly Burdick filed as a Dem-NPLer, and the endorsed Republican candidate was Thomas S. Kleppe, who was finishing his second and final term as a Representative for North Dakota's second congressional district. Burdick and Kleppe won the primary elections for their respective parties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 49], "content_span": [50, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091514-0025-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate elections, North Dakota\nOne independent candidate, Russell Kleppe, also filed before the deadline.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 49], "content_span": [50, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091514-0026-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate elections, Pennsylvania\nIncumbent Republican Hugh Scott won re-election, defeating Democratic nominee State senator William Sesler.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 49], "content_span": [50, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091514-0027-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate elections, Texas\nIncumbent Democrat Ralph Yarborough was defeated by former Representative Lloyd Bentsen in the Democratic primary. Bentsen then defeated Representative George H.W. Bush in the general election. When Bush was running for President in 1988, his Democratic opponent, Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, selected Bentsen as his vice presidential running mate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 42], "content_span": [43, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091514-0028-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate elections, Virginia\nIncumbent Harry F. Byrd Jr. was re-elected to his first full term after winning a race 4 years earlier to finish the remainder of his father's term. He beat George C. Rawlings Jr. (D), a former member of the Virginia House of Delegates, and Ray L. Garland (R), a member of Virginia House of Delegates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091515-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate special election in Illinois\nThe 1970 United States Senate special election in Illinois was held on November 3, 1970 to fill the remainder of the term of Republican Everett Dirksen, who had died in office. Republican Ralph Tyler Smith had been appointed to fill the seat after Dirksen's death, and he lost the special election to Democrat Adlai Stevenson III.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091515-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate special election in Illinois, Election information\nThe primaries and general election coincided with those for House and state elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 76], "content_span": [77, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091515-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate special election in Illinois, Election information, Turnout\nTurnout in the primary elections was 26.28%, with a total of 1,381,147 votes cast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 85], "content_span": [86, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091515-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Senate special election in Illinois, Election information, Turnout\nTurnout during the general election was 67.43%, with 3,599,272 votes cast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 85], "content_span": [86, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091516-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Virgin Islands voting age referendum\nA referendum on the voting age was held in the United States Virgin Islands on 3 November 1970. After the Legislature of the Islands requested a referendum take place, it was approved by the United States Congress on 6 October 1970. Voters were given the options of 18, 19, 20 or 21, and the winning option had to receive an absolute majority of the vote. Although the results saw 55.67% vote in favour of setting the voting age at 18, when the blank votes were included, this dropped to 46.71%. A lawsuit was subsequently filed on 1 December 1970, and on 21 January 1971 a court decided that the blank ballots should be discarded, giving the 18 option an absolute majority of votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 739]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091516-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 United States Virgin Islands voting age referendum\nPrior to the Elective Governor Acts of 1968, the governor of the US Virgin Islands was appointed. Melvin H. Evans was the first governor elected under the new system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091517-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 United States census\nThe United States Census of 1970, conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States to be 203,392,031, an increase of 13.4 percent over the 179,323,175 persons enumerated during the 1960 Census. This was the first census since 1800 in which New York was not the most populous state \u2013 California overtook it in population in November 1962. This was also the first census in which all states recorded a population of over 300,000, and the first in which a city in the geographic South recorded a population of over 1 million (Houston).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091517-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 United States census, Data availability\nMicrodata from the 1970 census are freely available through the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series. Aggregate data for small areas, together with electronic boundary files, can be downloaded from the National Historical Geographic Information System. These data were originally created and disseminated by DUALabs. Personally identifiable information will be available in 2042.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 44], "content_span": [45, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091517-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 United States census, Conclusions\nCalifornia took over as the most populous state; New York had previously been ranked number one. While the entire country increased to more than 204 million persons, four states lost population, with West Virginia leading the list, down 8 and a half percent from 1960.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091518-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 United States elections\nThe 1970 United States elections were held on November 3, and elected the members of the 92nd United States Congress. The election took place during the Vietnam War, in the middle of Republican President Richard Nixon's first term. Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew campaigned heavily for Republican candidates, with Nixon encouraging voters to respond to anti-war and civil rights activists by voting the Republican ticket.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091518-0000-0001", "contents": "1970 United States elections\nIn an October speech he declared, \"My friends, I say that the answer to those that engage in disruption--to those that shout their filthy slogans, to those that try to shout down speakers--is not to answer in kind, but go to the polls on election day, and in the quiet of that ballot box, stand up and be counted: the great silent majority of America.\" Despite these White House efforts, the Democratic Party retained its Senate majority and increased its majority in the House.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091518-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 United States elections\nIn the House of Representatives, the Democrats picked up twelve seats at the expense of the Republican Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091518-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 United States elections\nIn the Senate, Republicans picked up two seats and James L. Buckley won election as a member of the Conservative Party of New York. As of 2020, Buckley is the most recent individual to win election to the Senate as a member of a third party and remain affiliated with that party after the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091518-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 United States elections\nUntil 2018, this was the last midterm election cycle in which a sitting president's party made net gains in one chamber of Congress while suffering net losses in the other chamber.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091519-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 United States gubernatorial elections\nUnited States gubernatorial elections were held on 3 November 1970, in 35 states and two territories.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091519-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 United States gubernatorial elections\nDuring this election, the Democrats won a number of the governorships up for re-election via many ways, such as retirement of incumbent, term limits, or defeat of incumbent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091519-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 United States gubernatorial elections\nIn 1970, Arizona, New Mexico and Wisconsin elected their governors to four-year terms for the first time, having previously elected them to two-year terms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091519-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 United States gubernatorial elections\nThis election coincided with the Senate and the House elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091519-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 United States gubernatorial elections, Alabama\nIn Alabama, Governor Albert Brewer (who succeeded to the governorship upon Lurleen Wallace's death in 1968) had to endure a very nasty Democratic primary against former Governor George Wallace. In addition, there were no Republicans in the race for governor. Wallace won the Democratic primary and in November the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 51], "content_span": [52, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091519-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 United States gubernatorial elections, Alaska\nIn Alaska, then-Lt. Gov. Keith Miller had gotten the job of governor in 1969 after Walter Hickel resigned to be part of President Nixon's Cabinet. He lost in 1970 to former Governor William Egan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 50], "content_span": [51, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091519-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 United States gubernatorial elections, Arizona\nIn Arizona, governors were elected to serve two-year terms until 1970, when Jack Richard Williams was the first governor to be elected to a four-year term. Previously, Williams had been elected governor twice to two-year terms in 1966 and in 1968. Arizona made the switch official from a two-year term to a four-year term in 1968 with an amendment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 51], "content_span": [52, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091519-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 United States gubernatorial elections, Arkansas\nIn Arkansas, Winthrop Rockefeller was the first Republican governor in Arkansas since the Reconstruction period. He was defeated in his bid for a third term, by the Democratic challenger Dale Bumpers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091519-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 United States gubernatorial elections, California\nIncumbent Republican Governor and future President Ronald Reagan was elected to a second term as governor with about 53% of the vote over Speaker of the State Assembly Jesse Unruh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091519-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 United States gubernatorial elections, Connecticut\nIncumbent John Dempsey, a Democrat, did not seek re-election. Sixth District Congressman Thomas Joseph Meskill (Republican) defeated First District Congressman Emilio Q. Daddario (Democratic) 53.76% to 46.23%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 55], "content_span": [56, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091519-0010-0000", "contents": "1970 United States gubernatorial elections, Colorado\nIn Colorado, John Arthur Love won re-election. He served until 1973, when he would resign to become the first head of Energy Policy under President Nixon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091519-0011-0000", "contents": "1970 United States gubernatorial elections, Florida\nFlorida's Claude R. Kirk Jr. was another 'first Republican governor since Reconstruction' as well (he switched from Democrat to Republican early on), and was defeated by the Democrat Reubin Askew.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 51], "content_span": [52, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091519-0012-0000", "contents": "1970 United States gubernatorial elections, Georgia\nIn Georgia, governors would be limited to one term until George Busbee was allowed to serve two, and was the first governor to serve two consecutive terms. Future president Jimmy Carter won the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 51], "content_span": [52, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091519-0013-0000", "contents": "1970 United States gubernatorial elections, Hawaii\nIn Hawaii, Burns won another term in 1970, but in 1973, Burns had health problems and his Lt. Governor George Ariyoshi, took over-as acting governor, and in 1974, with Burns' retirement, won a term in his own right. Burns died in 1975.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 50], "content_span": [51, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091519-0014-0000", "contents": "1970 United States gubernatorial elections, Iowa\nIowa also had its governors serving two-year terms until Robert D. Ray won a four-year term in 1974. Previously, Ray had won a two-year term in 1968, a two-year term this year (1970), and would win another two-year term in 1972. Iowa made the four-year term switch official with an amendment to the state's constitution in 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 48], "content_span": [49, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091519-0015-0000", "contents": "1970 United States gubernatorial elections, Kansas\nLike Arizona and Iowa, Kansas also had its governors serving two-year terms until 1974, when a constitutional amendment was added, creating a four-year term system for governors. Docking was elected governor in 1966, 1968, 1970, and would get elected in 1972. The first governor to get a four-year term was Robert Frederick Bennett in 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 50], "content_span": [51, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091519-0016-0000", "contents": "1970 United States gubernatorial elections, Maine\nBeginning with the 1962 governor's race, Maine switched from a two-year term system to a four-year term system for the governors. John H. Reed was the first Maine governor to be elected to a four-year term. Kenneth Curtis was re-elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 49], "content_span": [50, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091519-0017-0000", "contents": "1970 United States gubernatorial elections, Maryland\nIn Maryland, Mandel first won the governorship in 1969 in a special election when Agnew resigned in order to become vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091519-0018-0000", "contents": "1970 United States gubernatorial elections, Maryland\nIn 1970, Mandel ran for a full term and won.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091519-0019-0000", "contents": "1970 United States gubernatorial elections, Massachusetts\nIn 1966, Massachusetts switched from a two-year to four-year terms for governors, and John A. Volpe was the first Massachusetts governor to be elected to a four-year term. He had previously been elected to two-year terms in 1960 and in 1964. Volpe resigned in 1969 to become President Nixon's Secretary of Transportation. Francis W. Sargent then became acting governor. In 1970, Sargent got a term in his own right.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 57], "content_span": [58, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091519-0020-0000", "contents": "1970 United States gubernatorial elections, Michigan\nIn 1963, Michigan changed governors' terms from two years to four years. George W. Romney had won two-year terms in 1962 and 1964, and a four-year term in 1966. He resigned in 1969 to become President Nixon's Housing and Urban Development Secretary. William Milliken became governor, and got a full termin 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091519-0021-0000", "contents": "1970 United States gubernatorial elections, Nebraska\nIn 1962, voters in Nebraska approved of an amendment, effective with the 1966 governor's race, that switched from two-year to four-year terms for governors. In 1966, the \"two consecutive terms\" rule was established. Norbert Tiemann was the first Nebraskan to get a four-year term with the 1966 governor's race. J. James Exon was elected governor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091519-0022-0000", "contents": "1970 United States gubernatorial elections, New Mexico\nNew Mexico also had a two-year term for governors until 1970, when the state constitution was changed to a four-year term for governors-without being allowed to have two consecutive terms. As for the \"no two consecutive terms\" rule, that was still on the books until 1991, when thanks to a change in the state's constitution, Bruce King was eligible for two consecutive terms. King was elected to the first of three non-consecutive terms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091519-0023-0000", "contents": "1970 United States gubernatorial elections, New York\nIn New York, Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller won re-election to a fourth term. Rockefeller served until 1973, when he resigned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091519-0024-0000", "contents": "1970 United States gubernatorial elections, Pennsylvania\nIn Pennsylvania, although the constitution was changed to allow governors to have two consecutive terms, the rule didn't apply to then current Gov. Raymond P. Shafer. The election was won by Milton Shapp.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 56], "content_span": [57, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091519-0025-0000", "contents": "1970 United States gubernatorial elections, South Carolina\nGovernors in South Carolina weren't allowed two consecutive terms until 1980, when an amendment to the constitution was added. Richard Riley was the first South Carolina governor to have two consecutive terms with his 1982 re-election. John C. West won election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 58], "content_span": [59, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091519-0026-0000", "contents": "1970 United States gubernatorial elections, South Dakota\nSouth Dakota also had governors on two-year terms until 1972, when a constitutional amendment allowed the governor to have a four-year term. Richard F. Kneip would be the first governor to be elected to a four-year term, though he resigned to accept an appointment. Kneip, elected governor for a two-year term this year (1970), would be re-elected for another two-year term in 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 56], "content_span": [57, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091519-0027-0000", "contents": "1970 United States gubernatorial elections, Tennessee\nIn 1978, Tennessee changed its constitution to allow the governors to serve two consecutive terms. Winfield Dunn was elected this (1970) year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 53], "content_span": [54, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091519-0028-0000", "contents": "1970 United States gubernatorial elections, Wisconsin\nIn 1968, Wisconsin changed its constitution from a two-year term for governor to a four-year term. Upon his election this year, Patrick Lucey would become the first governor to serve a four-year term (see Wisconsin gubernatorial elections).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 53], "content_span": [54, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091519-0029-0000", "contents": "1970 United States gubernatorial elections, Wyoming\nGovernor Stanley K. Hathaway won re-election to a second four-year term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 51], "content_span": [52, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091520-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 University of Kent at Canterbury Chancellor election\nThe 1970 University of Kent at Canterbury election for the position of Chancellor was called following the death of the first Chancellor, Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, on 27 August 1968. Following protracted discussions and arrangements the election was held on 7 May 1970, with the winner Jo Grimond installed in July 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091520-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 University of Kent at Canterbury Chancellor election, Electorate, nominations and rules\nThe death of Princess Marina came suddenly, less than four years after the University's creation, and no formal process had been developed for selecting a new Chancellor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 92], "content_span": [93, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091520-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 University of Kent at Canterbury Chancellor election, Electorate, nominations and rules\nThe relevant Statute is, in fact, rather unhelpful about any details, merely saying that the appointment is to be made by the Court on the nomination of the Council after consultation with the Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 92], "content_span": [93, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091520-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 University of Kent at Canterbury Chancellor election, Electorate, nominations and rules\nAlthough in theory a Chancellor could have been appointed in the same manner as the Vice-Chancellor, growing demands for student participation in the running of universities and a belief that the Chancellor should represent the entire University led to the Council and Senate agreeing to a direct election by all students, monthly-paid staff and members of the Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 92], "content_span": [93, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091520-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 University of Kent at Canterbury Chancellor election, Electorate, nominations and rules\nBecause of concerns that a frivolous candidate might be elected, a complex system of nominations was agreed:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 92], "content_span": [93, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091520-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 University of Kent at Canterbury Chancellor election, Electorate, nominations and rules\nVoting was to be by means of the alternative vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 92], "content_span": [93, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091520-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 University of Kent at Canterbury Chancellor election, Electorate, nominations and rules\nThe process was not begun until October 1969. The joint committee was initially chaired by Sydney Irving, Chairman of Ways and Means of the House of Commons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 92], "content_span": [93, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091520-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 University of Kent at Canterbury Chancellor election, Candidates\nOnly those who were approved by the committee and assented to the election had their names made public. Several people whose names were approved subsequently declined the position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 69], "content_span": [70, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091520-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 University of Kent at Canterbury Chancellor election, Candidates\nThose who were put to the electorate were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 69], "content_span": [70, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091520-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 University of Kent at Canterbury Chancellor election, Result\nBy agreement the numbers were not revealed, but all four candidates \"were understood to have received 'respectable' votes\". Jo Grimond was declared elected, and formally installed at the start of July. He served in the post until 1990.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 65], "content_span": [66, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091521-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Upper Hunter state by-election\nThe 1970 Upper Hunter state by-election was held on 14 February 1970 for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Upper Hunter. It was triggered by the resignation of Frank O'Keefe (Country) to successfully contest the federal seat of Paterson at the 1969 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091522-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Upper Voltan constitutional referendum\nA constitutional referendum was held in the Republic of Upper Volta on 14 June 1970. It followed a military coup in 1966, and would restore multi-party democracy. However, the new constitution made the country a presidential republic, with the President able to dissolve the National Assembly and rule by decree. It also allowed coup leader Sangoul\u00e9 Lamizana to remain President for a further four years. It was approved by 98.56% of voters with a 77.3% turnout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091523-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Upper Voltan parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections were held in the Republic of Upper Volta on 20 December 1970, following the restoration of multi-party democracy in a referendum earlier in the year. The result was a victory for the former sole legal party, the Voltaic Democratic Union\u2013African Democratic Rally, which won 37 of the 57 seats in the National Assembly. Voter turnout was 48.3%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091524-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Uruguayan Primera Divisi\u00f3n, Overview\nIt was contested by 11 teams, and Nacional won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091525-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Utah Redskins football team\nThe 1970 Utah Redskins football team was an American football team that represented the University of Utah during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. Head coach Bill Meek led the team to a 4\u20132 mark in the WAC and 6\u20134 overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091526-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Utah State Aggies football team\nThe 1970 Utah State Aggies football team represented Utah State University in the 1970 NCAA University Division football season as independent. Led by fourth-year head coach Chuck Mills, the team played their home games at Romney Stadium in Logan, Utah. The team completed the season with a 5\u20135 record, which was shortened by one game from what was originally scheduled; the game against Wichita State on October 3 was canceled after one of their charter aircraft crashed in Colorado en route to Utah the day before, killing many of their starting players and coaching staff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091527-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 VFA season\nThe 1970 Victorian Football Association season was the 89th season of the top division of the Australian rules football competition, and the tenth season of second division competition. The Division 1 premiership was won by the Prahran Football Club, marking the club's third Division 1 premiership; it defeated Williamstown, which qualified for the Grand Final in its first season after promotion to Division 1, on 20 September by 50 points. The Division 2 premiership was won by Coburg, in its second season since being relegated from Division 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091527-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 VFA season, Division 1\nThe Division 1 home-and-home season was played over 18 rounds; the top four then contested the finals under the Page\u2013McIntyre system. The finals returned to the St Kilda Cricket Ground for the first time since 1966.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091527-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 VFA season, Division 2\nThe Division 2 home-and-home season was played over eighteen rounds; the top four then contested the finals under the Page\u2013McIntyre system; all finals were played on Sundays at Toorak Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091528-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 VFL Grand Final\nThe 1970 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Carlton Football Club and Collingwood Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) on 26 September 1970. It was the 74th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1970 VFL season. The match was won by Carlton by a margin of 10 points, marking that club's 10th premiership victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091528-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 VFL Grand Final\nThis game is widely considered to be one of the greatest Grand Finals of all time and, according to one of the key protagonists Ted Hopkins, heralded \"the birth of modern football\". The attendance figure of 121,696 spectators broke the grand final record set the previous year of 119,165 spectators, and set an all-time attendance record for any football code in Australia that still stands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091528-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 VFL Grand Final, Prologue\nCollingwood finished 1970 on top of the ladder with 18 wins. Carlton was next with 16 wins, followed by St Kilda and South Melbourne (14 wins each). South Melbourne was participating in its first Finals series since 1945, and got in despite winning only four of their last eight home-and-away matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091528-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 VFL Grand Final, Prologue\nDuring the home-and-away season, Collingwood and Carlton had played each other twice. In Round 8 at VFL Park, Carlton had led by 29 points at half-time before being overrun to lose by 23. In the return fixture at Victoria Park in Round 19, Collingwood was dominant and won by 77, then its greatest winning margin against Carlton. The two clubs faced each other again in the second semi-final, which was a closely fought battle won by Collingwood 17.16 (118) d. 17.6 (108). Carlton qualified for the grand final with a comfortable 62-point victory against St Kilda in the preliminary final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 620]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091528-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 VFL Grand Final, Prologue\nCollingwood had last played in a VFL Grand Final in 1966, which was won by St Kilda by one point, while the Blues were playing in their third consecutive VFL Grand final. The match was the fourth grand final between the two traditional rivals, the previous occurring in 1910, 1915 and 1938.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091528-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 VFL Grand Final, Teams\nCollingwood named an unchanged line-up from the team that had defeated Carlton in the Second Semi-final. There had been some concern over star ruckman Len Thompson, who had not trained for the entire week leading up to the Grand Final on doctor's orders. Players highlighted in yellow have been inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 27], "content_span": [28, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091528-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 VFL Grand Final, Teams\nThe umpiring panel for the match, comprising one field umpire, two boundary umpires and two goal umpires is given below.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 27], "content_span": [28, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091528-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 VFL Grand Final, Teams\nNumbers in brackets represent the number of grand finals umpired, including 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 27], "content_span": [28, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091528-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 VFL Grand Final, Match summary\nConditions were perfect at the MCG. The attendance of 121,696 spectators was the highest in the history of the league, a record still held today. Carlton captain Nicholls won the toss and chose to kick toward the Punt Road End.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 35], "content_span": [36, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091528-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, First quarter\nKicking against a very slight breeze, Collingwood were into attack straight away when umpire Jolley awarded a free kick to Jenkin from the opening bounce. For the next 20 minutes, the Collingwood midfielders continually won the ball and drove deep into the forward line with long kicks, while the Blues struggled to maintain any sort of meaningful possession. Collingwood opened the scoring with behinds to Wayne Richardson and Britt before ex-captain Tuddenham gathered the ball from a handpass under pressure from Max Richardson, evaded an attempted bump and snapped the first goal of the game at the 5-minute mark.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 50], "content_span": [51, 668]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091528-0009-0001", "contents": "1970 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, First quarter\nMcKenna followed up with his first goal of the match at the 13-minute mark, converting a free kick set shot after great play upfield from O'Callaghan, Price and Tuddenham. After missing a snapshot earlier in the quarter, Britt received a handball from McKenna in the forward pocket to score Collingwood's third goal at the 21-minute mark. Up to that stage, Carlton had yet to register a score, but the Magpies' had been inaccurate finishing in front of goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 50], "content_span": [51, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091528-0010-0000", "contents": "1970 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, First quarter\nIt took the Blues until the 23-minute mark of the quarter to register its first score, with a behind to Crosswell after bringing the ball forward through scrappy play. A minute later, Jesaulenko had a great chance to kick Carlton's first goal when he took a strong mark from a rushed kick forward by Silvagni, only to miss his set shot from directly in front. Collingwood responded at the 29-minute mark when a pass from Wayne Richardson found McKenna, whose set shot from 20 yards out on a slight angle gave him his second goal for the game. The quarter-time siren sounded shortly afterward, with Collingwood 29 points ahead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 50], "content_span": [51, 677]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091528-0011-0000", "contents": "1970 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Second quarter\nThe Blues finally scored their first goal of the game in the second minute of the quarter, when rover Gallagher converted his free kick set shot after a careless bump from Jenkin. Collingwood responded almost immediately when McKenna got front position to a long kick into the forward line from Dean and marked strongly before kicking his third goal. Then at the 8-minute mark, the Magpies scored two goals in quick succession; the first came when Clifton intercepted an attempted pass by Gallagher on Carlton's half-forward line and kicked long into attack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 51], "content_span": [52, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091528-0011-0001", "contents": "1970 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Second quarter\nComing out from Collingwood's forward line to gather possession of the ball, Dunne grabbed it on the half volley, turned on to his non-preferred left foot and snapped a long-range goal. Then from the subsequent centre bounce, Collingwood captain Waters sharked Jones' hit-out and sent another long kick into Collingwood's forward line. McKenna was in the right place to gather the bouncing ball and snap his fourth goal to extend Collingwood's lead to 44 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 51], "content_span": [52, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091528-0012-0000", "contents": "1970 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Second quarter\nThe remainder of the quarter was evenly contested, with each side kicking three goals: Robert Walls (Carlton) in the 9th minute, Adrian Gallagher (Carlton) in the 12th minute, Max Richardson (Collingwood) in the 16th minute, McKenna with his fifth goal of the half in the 22nd minute, Sergio Silvagni (Carlton) in the 29th minute and Robert Dean (Collingwood) in the 31st minute. As such, the half time margin remained 44 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 51], "content_span": [52, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091528-0013-0000", "contents": "1970 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Second quarter\nNotable among the highlights in the quarter came in the 27th minute, when Jesaulenko (Carlton) leapt onto the shoulders of Collingwood ruckman Graeme Jenkin and took a spectacular mark that was judged the official 1970 Mark of the Year. Mike Williamson's TV commentary of the mark, \"Oh, Jesaulenko, you beauty!\" has endured as famous as the mark itself, and was later included in the Toyota Legendary Moments series of advertisements.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 51], "content_span": [52, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091528-0014-0000", "contents": "1970 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Second quarter\nAlthough the Magpies had built a formidable and seemingly insurmountable half-time lead, there was one incident that had fans worried; Collingwood's superstar full-forward McKenna was groggy after teammate Tuddenham had accidentally floored him with a hip-and-shoulder while flying for a chest mark. McKenna, who already had kicked over 140 goals for the season and five goals in the first half. He would only kick one more goal for the rest of the match. The fact that this goal came from an overhead mark only 2 minutes and 43 seconds after the collision caused the TV commentators to believe that he had recovered. Speaking about the incident forty years later in an interview for the Herald Sun, McKenna recalled that:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 51], "content_span": [52, 774]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091528-0015-0000", "contents": "1970 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Second quarter\nI don't remember much after that and nothing from halftime. The club doctor wanted to take me off, but Bobby Rose wouldn't hear of it. In the second half I started to wait for the ball and play in an uncharacteristic fashion. I went home after the game and straight to bed, waking at 10pm and thinking I had better get to the wake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 51], "content_span": [52, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091528-0016-0000", "contents": "1970 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Third quarter\nDuring the break, champion Carlton coach Ron Barassi instructed his players to handball and play on at all costs, instituting a strategy to try to nullify Collingwood's long kicking game. A key positional move was the introduction of little-known Ted Hopkins, a small rover, as a substitute for Bert Thornley in the second half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 50], "content_span": [51, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091528-0017-0000", "contents": "1970 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Third quarter\nThese changes were highly effective and in the early part of the third quarter, Carlton staged one of the most remarkable purple patches in league history, kicking seven goals in eleven minutes to draw the margin back to only three points. Substitute Ted Hopkins kicked the first two, roving the ball from broken marking contests in the goal square in the 3rd and 4th minutes of the quarter. In the 7th minute, Syd Jackson snapped a goal from near the boundary line in the forward pocket.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 50], "content_span": [51, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091528-0017-0001", "contents": "1970 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Third quarter\nIn the 8th minute, Brent Crosswell kicked a goal from a high tackle free kick. Hopkins kicked his third goal in the 10th minute after receiving a handpass from Robert Walls, who had marked at half-forward; and in the 12th minute, Walls marked at half forward again, this time playing on and kicking the goal himself. Finally, in the 14th minute, from a ball-up in the forward pocket, Hopkins managed to kick the ball to Alex Jesaulenko who scored a goal to bring the margin back to only three points, 10.14 (74) vs 11.5 (71).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 50], "content_span": [51, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091528-0018-0000", "contents": "1970 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Third quarter\nThereafter, Collingwood steadied, and the second half of the third quarter was a much more even contest. In the 20th minute, Collingwood extended the lead to 10 points with a set shot goal by Len Thompson. Two minutes later, Jesaulenko kicked a goal for Carlton from a free kick, and from the ensuing centre bounce, Collingwood responded with a goal to Ross Dunne from a close range mark. In the 28th minute, McKenna marked and kicked his sixth goal from 20m, and shortly before the three-quarter time siren he kicked another behind, to extend the margin to 17 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 50], "content_span": [51, 619]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091528-0019-0000", "contents": "1970 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Fourth quarter\nAfter imploring his team to take risks and play on at every opportunity at half-time, Barassi changed his tone at the three-quarter time huddle, eyeballing each player and declaring, \"Win, lose or draw, I'm proud of you.\" He later revealed that he had kept that line stored in his memory after reading an article by Harry Beitzel in the aftermath of the previous season's Grand final defeat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 51], "content_span": [52, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091528-0020-0000", "contents": "1970 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Fourth quarter\nCarlton opened the final quarter strongly, but missed two early shots \u2013 Hopkins again roving the ball in the goal square before hitting the post from less than a metre out in the first minute, and Jackson missing wide on a long-range set shot \u2013 before Thompson kicked a set shot goal in the 5th minute for Collingwood. At this point, Collingwood was 21 points ahead, having scored the last three goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 51], "content_span": [52, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091528-0021-0000", "contents": "1970 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Fourth quarter\nSoon after, Carlton had three shots inside three minutes to narrow the margin back to eight points, largely through the efforts of ruckman John Nicholls who was resting forward. He kicked a goal in the 8th minute from a high tackle free kick; then in the 9th minute rucked the ball to Robert Walls, whose snap shot from near the boundary line was just touched on the line by Peter Eakins; and then in the 10th minute took a contested mark and converted another short range set shot. No goals were kicked in the following ten minutes, both teams' defences repeatedly repelling attacks. Collingwood's 19th and 20th men were both brought on to replace cramping team mates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 51], "content_span": [52, 721]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091528-0022-0000", "contents": "1970 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Fourth quarter\nIn the 20th minute, Syd Jackson made a brilliant piece of individual play, smothering then regathering an attempted clearing kick by Eakins, before handpassing to an unmarked Hopkins at full forward, who kicked his fourth goal and brought the margin back to one point. As time-on neared, Crosswell was awarded a free kick for a high tackle from Tuddenham and took his set shot on an angle from 35 metres out. In an interview for the AFL Record 50 years later, Crosswell recalled that \u201cthe wind was going slightly right to left and I remember thinking I needed to kick it towards the right goalpost. The kick was slightly right of the goalpost and the wind just took it through, thankfully.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 51], "content_span": [52, 742]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091528-0023-0000", "contents": "1970 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Fourth quarter\nThe Blues had taken the lead for the first time in the match, amidst scenes of pandemonium in the stands. In the critical passage of play in the 28th minute, Peter McKenna claimed an overhead mark in the forward-line, having gotten his hands to the ball but just been spoiled from behind, but the umpire called play-on; ten seconds later, Carlton had cleared to centre half-forward, where Jesaulenko gathered and kicked towards the vacant goal, and the ball took four bounces and went through for a goal to put Carlton 11 points ahead. At this point, Carlton had kicked the last 5.2 (32) of the game. Dunne kicked a behind for Collingwood in the 29th minute to narrow the margin to ten points, and the siren went shortly after.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 51], "content_span": [52, 779]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091528-0024-0000", "contents": "1970 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Aftermath\nThis was the same winning margin as the Second Semi Final also played at the MCG two weeks earlier between these teams which Collingwood won 17.16 (118) to 17.6 (108). Leading ball winners for Carlton were Crosswell with 23 (17 kicks and 6 handballs), McKay 20 (18 and 2) and Waite 19 (10 and 9).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 46], "content_span": [47, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091528-0024-0001", "contents": "1970 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Aftermath\nFor Collingwood, Price 22 (17 and 5), W. Richardson 22 (21 and 1) and M. Richardson 19 (13 and 6) Brent Crosswell (Carlton) was generally regarded as the best player on the day for his four-quarter contribution, especially in the first half when many Carlton players were not playing well. Hopkins, whose four goals as 19th man became legendary, played only one further game for Carlton, soon quitting football to pursue other interests.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 46], "content_span": [47, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091528-0025-0000", "contents": "1970 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Aftermath\nThe game was immediately hailed across the Australian sporting press as an all-time classic. In a typically eloquent report for the Canberra Times, respected journalist Rohan Rivett described the Grand final as a 'once-in-a-lifetime match':", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 46], "content_span": [47, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091528-0026-0000", "contents": "1970 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Aftermath\nYears hence thousands of boys who yelled themselves hoarse will be trying to tell sons or grandsons how it happened. [ ...] For the uncommitted spectator, if anyone could, remain uninvolved in the frenzy, there were 10\u00bd minutes of luminous football in the third quarter which transformed a hopelessly one-sided struggle into one of the historic sporting occasions. Thereafter the 121,696 people jamming the sundrenched ground simmered or yelled in mounting fever of hope and fear until the last kick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 46], "content_span": [47, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091528-0027-0000", "contents": "1970 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Aftermath\nIn his match report for The Age, chief football writer Percy Beames called Carlton's triumph \"a premiership win based on courage, and Ron Barassi's greatest coaching triumph since he crossed from Melbourne.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 46], "content_span": [47, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091528-0028-0000", "contents": "1970 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Aftermath\nIn addressing the moment in the dying stages of the game when McKenna was not paid a mark from which he might have put Collingwood back in front, Beames wrote that he sided with umpire Jolley's decision. He also wrote that the Collingwood players had little excuse for letting down their coach Bob Rose, compared to their losses in 1964 and 1966. Besides their scoring inaccuracy, Beames also criticized Collingwood for their lack of heart and ability to rise to the challenge in the final quarter, as well as focusing too much on their spearhead McKenna, while citing Carlton's evenness as the key to victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 46], "content_span": [47, 657]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091528-0029-0000", "contents": "1970 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Aftermath\nCarlton runner Rodney Wilkinson, who had taken over the position when Sergio Silvagni came out of retirement midway through the 1970 season, offered a unique perspective on where he believed the outcome of the game had been decided, based on the habits of both coaches:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 46], "content_span": [47, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091528-0030-0000", "contents": "1970 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Aftermath\n\u2018Barass\u2019 sat with [former Carlton player and then chairman of selectors] Jack Wrout upstairs (in the old Smokers Stand?) - but Rose sat with his man, the selector Charlie Utting, on the bench at ground level. The game of football, once it starts, is like a chess game, but in footy you can\u2019t see all the pieces from ground level... and I believe Rose was 10 to 15 minutes behind in the 1970 Grand Final, particularly when the game started swinging and moves could have been made.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 46], "content_span": [47, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091528-0030-0001", "contents": "1970 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Aftermath\nIf you look back at the replay of the game, when Hopkins kicked those goals in the third quarter, his opponent Colin Tully was nowhere to be seen. When you\u2019re coaching from ground level you don\u2019t pick up on a lot of these things, but Barassi, from where he was positioned, would have reacted straight away. Put it this way. If Barassi had coached Collingwood, they\u2019d never have lost it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 46], "content_span": [47, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091528-0031-0000", "contents": "1970 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Aftermath\nThe 44-point half-time deficit overcome by Carlton was then the second-largest half-time deficit ever overcome in VFL history. The only larger deficit overcome before this was 52 points, by Collingwood against St Kilda in Round 10 earlier in the season (which remains the record as of 2020).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 46], "content_span": [47, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091528-0032-0000", "contents": "1970 VFL Grand Final, Perspective, \"The birth of modern football\"\nOne thing we said we must do is handball, and we handball, and we handball and we handball. It was the only possible way to get back into the game. I reminded them of the game out at Hawthorn, where prior to this game our handball was down. So that game we had to handball. And today was the same. I reminded them of it. At half time I think our handball was 13, which was just shocking. And we did something about it and it won us the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 65], "content_span": [66, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091528-0033-0000", "contents": "1970 VFL Grand Final, Perspective, \"The birth of modern football\"\nCoach Ron Barassi, Jr., speaking to a radio interview after the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 65], "content_span": [66, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091528-0034-0000", "contents": "1970 VFL Grand Final, Perspective, \"The birth of modern football\"\nThe style of play displayed by Carlton in the second half, featuring frequent attacking use of handball, playing on quickly from marks, and open fast running play, was a key part of the club's recovery and victory in the game; and coach Ron Barassi's half-time instructions to \"handball, handball, handball!\" became part of the game's folklore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 65], "content_span": [66, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091528-0035-0000", "contents": "1970 VFL Grand Final, Perspective, \"The birth of modern football\"\nThe game, and Barassi's half time instructions, are sometimes referred to as \"the birth of modern football\", a label which critical historical analysis views as symbolic, rather than literal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 65], "content_span": [66, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091528-0035-0001", "contents": "1970 VFL Grand Final, Perspective, \"The birth of modern football\"\nThe style of football played in Victoria had been undergoing a clear change through the 1960s and early 1970s: prior to this, football had mostly been a stop-start game, with players kicking forward to teammates who took a mark, stopped and kicked again, with the handball being used mainly as a defensive or last-resort option; but through this period, attacking use of handball and playing on and short kicks, became more common. Carlton's recovery in the 1970 grand final symbolized this transition perfectly: falling 44 points behind in the first half playing \"old football\", then recovering to win playing \"new football\" in the second half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 65], "content_span": [66, 711]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091528-0036-0000", "contents": "1970 VFL Grand Final, Perspective, \"The birth of modern football\"\nNevertheless, the mythology surrounding the game has perpetuated a myth that Barassi's half-time instructions represented a revolutionary, seminal moment which heralded the transition from the old style of football to the modern style. This literal interpretation does not hold up to any critical assessment: Barassi noted that Carlton had been playing a handball style of game throughout 1970, and credited early 1960s Fitzroy coach Len Smith as being the first coach to encourage attacking use of handball in Victoria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 65], "content_span": [66, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091528-0036-0001", "contents": "1970 VFL Grand Final, Perspective, \"The birth of modern football\"\nFootball historian John Devaney assessed likewise that the transition towards handball and playing on had been gradual through the 1960s, and was already a well established tactic both within and outside Victoria in the years before 1970. Barassi and Devaney both also note that Carlton's recovery couldn't be attributed to handball alone, with Hopkins strong play, better overall discipline and winning a higher proportion of possession also key to the recovery.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 65], "content_span": [66, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091529-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 VFL finals series\nThe 1970 Victorian Football League finals series was the 74th annual edition of the VFL/AFL final series, the Australian rules football tournament staged to determine the winner of the 1970 VFL Premiership season. The series ran over four weekends in September 1970, culminating with the 1970 VFL Grand Final at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 26 September 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091529-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 VFL finals series, Qualification\nThe top four teams on the ladder at the end of the home-and-away rounds of the 1970 VFL Premiership season qualified for the finals series. It was the first season in which featured 22 home-and-away rounds, meaning that each club played all the others twice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 37], "content_span": [38, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091529-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 VFL finals series, Venues\nAll the finals matches were hosted at the Melbourne Cricket Ground and for the second straight year, official crowd attendances at each finals match exceeded 100,000 spectators. Although VFL Park had hosted its first VFL match in April 1970, the stadium's construction was not yet complete and all finals remained contracted to the Melbourne Cricket Ground until at least 1971, and so the new would not host its first VFL final until 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091529-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 VFL finals series, Matches\nThe system used for the 1970 VFL finals series was the Page\u2013McIntyre system, also known as the McIntyre Final Four System, which had been used by the VFL since 1931. The first- and second-placed teams would contest the Second Semi-final, while the third- and fourth-placed teams would contest the First Semi-final. The loser of the First Semi-final would be eliminated, while the winner would advance to the Preliminary final, while the loser of the Second Semi-final would receive a \"double chance\" in the Preliminary final, and the winner would advance directly to the Grand final. The winner of the Preliminary final would then play off in the Grand final, and the loser would be eliminated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 31], "content_span": [32, 726]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091529-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 VFL finals series, Matches, Week one: First Semi-final (St Kilda v South Melbourne), Teams\nThe First Semi-final saw third-placed St Kilda play fourth-placed South Melbourne at the MCG. South Melbourne was competing in its first VFL finals series since 1945 and were the sentimental favourite, while the Saints were competing in their seventh finals series in the last ten seasons, and still had a number of their stars from the 1966 premiership triumph. Interestingly, this was the first time the two clubs had met in a VFL final, despite being foundation members of the VFL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 95], "content_span": [96, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091529-0004-0001", "contents": "1970 VFL finals series, Matches, Week one: First Semi-final (St Kilda v South Melbourne), Teams\nIt was a special occasion for Swans captain Bob Skilton, who had returned to action after missing the whole of 1969 due to a snapped Achilles \u2013 he was playing his first final in his 218th game, which at the time set the record for the longest wait for any VFL/AFL player before playing in a final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 95], "content_span": [96, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091529-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 VFL finals series, Matches, Week one: First Semi-final (St Kilda v South Melbourne), Match summary\nBigger, more experienced, cooler in the crises, St Kilda ended the fairytale VFL season of South Melbourne and Bobby Skilton at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Saturday. A hundred and four thousand people welcomed Skilton on to the ground with a tremendous roar. The vast majority cheered for his men throughout the match, but it was not enough. Fifteen great minutes in the second quarter saw South Melbourne grab the lead at half-time. For the rest of the match it was just a case of a fine smaller team pitting determination against a slightly more gifted and appreciably bigger team with even more discipline. In the end, height, weight and discipline told, and St Kilda won comfortably by53 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 103], "content_span": [104, 807]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091529-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 VFL finals series, Matches, Week two: Second Semi-final (Collingwood v Carlton)\nThe Second Semi-final saw Collingwood play Carlton at the MCG. This was the 14th meeting between the two clubs in finals, having previously met in the 1969 Second Semi-final. Carlton had won nine of the encounters, including the last six meetings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 84], "content_span": [85, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091529-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 VFL finals series, Matches, Week two: Second Semi-final (Collingwood v Carlton), Match summary\nCollingwood, the hottest VFL favourite in a decade, won its way into the 1970 grand final on Saturday, but three players almost confounded its expectations. Collingwood had a far more even team, won the ball more often, outmarked its opponents by 77 to 51 yet lost the lead in every quarter and got home by only 10 points. Amid the tension bordering on delirium which always accompanies a Collingwood-Carlton finals clash, the lead changed 10 times before the biggest semi-final crowd in history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 99], "content_span": [100, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091529-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 VFL finals series, Matches, Week three: Preliminary final (Carlton v St Kilda)\nThe Preliminary final saw Carlton play St Kilda at the MCG on Saturday, 19 September. This was the fourth final between the two clubs, having previously met in the finals in 1907, 1908 and 1929, with Carlton winning all three encounters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 83], "content_span": [84, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091529-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 VFL finals series, Matches, Week three: Preliminary final (Carlton v St Kilda), Match summary\nIn what was predicted to be a close match, Carlton blew away St Kilda in the second half. In what turned out to be a chilling premonition, esteemed veteran journalist Rohan Rivett wrote the following in his article covering the game for the Canberra Times:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 98], "content_span": [99, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091529-0010-0000", "contents": "1970 VFL finals series, Matches, Week three: Preliminary final (Carlton v St Kilda), Match summary\nAs Collingwood's coach, Bob Rose, watched Carlton's weak links of the previous week becoming bastions of strength, he must have wondered if onceagain his hopes of a Collingwood premiership will be dashed at the eleventh hour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 98], "content_span": [99, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091529-0011-0000", "contents": "1970 VFL finals series, Matches, Week four (Grand Final)\nThis marked the fourth meeting in a VFL Grand final between Carlton and Collingwood.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 56], "content_span": [57, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091530-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 VFL season\nThe 1970 Victorian Football League season was the 74th season of the elite Australian rules football competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091530-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 VFL season, Premiership season\nIn 1970, the VFL competition consisted of twelve teams of 18 on-the-field players each, plus two substitute players, known as the 19th man and the 20th man. A player could be substituted for any reason; however, once substituted, a player could not return to the field of play under any circumstances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091530-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 VFL season, Premiership season\nTeams played each other in a home-and-away season of 22 rounds; matches 12 to 22 were the \"home-and-way reverse\" of matches 1 to 11.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091530-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 VFL season, Premiership season\nOnce the 22 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1970 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the Page\u2013McIntyre system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091530-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 VFL season, Consolation Night Series Competition\nThe consolation night series were held under the floodlights at Lake Oval, South Melbourne, for the teams (5th to 12th on ladder) out of the finals at the end of the home and away rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 53], "content_span": [54, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091531-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 VI FIBA International Christmas Tournament\nThe 1970 VI FIBA International Christmas Tournament \"Trofeo Raimundo Saporta\" was the 6th edition of the FIBA International Christmas Tournament. It took place at Sports City of Real Madrid Pavilion, Madrid, Spain, on 24, 25 and 26 December 1970 with the participations of Real Madrid (champions of the 1969\u201370 Liga Espa\u00f1ola de Baloncesto), Juventud Nerva, Gimnasia y Esgrima and Puerto Rico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091532-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Valley State Matadors football team\nThe 1970 Valley State Matadors football team represented Valley State during the 1970 NCAA College Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091532-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Valley State Matadors football team\nValley State competed in the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA). The 1970 Matadors were led by second-year head coach Leon McLaughlin. They played home games at Birmingham High School in Van Nuys, California. Valley State finished the season with a record of four wins and six losses (4\u20136, 1\u20132 CCAA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091532-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Valley State Matadors football team, Team players in the NFL\nNo Valley State players were selected in the 1971 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091533-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Valparaiso Crusaders football team\nThe 1970 Valparaiso Crusaders football team represented Valparaiso University as a member of the Indiana Collegiate Conference (ICC) during the 1970 NCAA College Division football season. Led by third-year head coach Norm Amundsen, the Crusaders compiled and overall record of 5\u20133\u20131 with a conference mark of 1\u20134, placing fourth in the ICC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091534-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Vanderbilt Commodores football team\nThe 1970 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represented Vanderbilt University in the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. The Commodores were led by head coach Bill Pace in his fourth season and finished the season with a record of four wins and seven losses (4\u20137 overall, 1\u20135 in the SEC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091535-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Venetian regional election\nThe Venetian regional election of 1970 took place on 7\u20138 June 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091535-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Venetian regional election, Events\nChristian Democracy was by far the largest party, securing a full majority. After the election the Christian Democrats formed a one-party government under the leadership of Angelo Tomelleri, who was briefly replaced by Paolo Feltrin in 1972\u20131973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091536-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Venezuelan Primera Divisi\u00f3n season\nThe 1970 season of the Venezuelan Primera Divisi\u00f3n, the top category of Venezuelan football, was played by 8 teams. The national champions were Galicia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091537-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Vermont Catamounts football team\nThe 1970 Vermont Catamounts football team was an American football team that represented the University of Vermont in the Yankee Conference during the 1970 NCAA College Division football season. In their first year under head coach Joe Scannella, the team compiled an 0\u20139 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091538-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Vermont gubernatorial election\nThe 1970 Vermont gubernatorial election took place on November 3, 1970. Incumbent Republican Deane C. Davis ran successfully for re-election to a second term as Governor of Vermont, defeating Democratic candidate Leo O'Brien Jr.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091539-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Victorian state election\nThe 1970 Victorian state election, held on Saturday, 30 May 1970, was for the 45th Parliament of Victoria. It was held in the Australian state of Victoria to elect the 73 members of the state's Legislative Assembly and 18 members of the 36-member Legislative Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091539-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Victorian state election\nThe incumbent Liberal government led by Henry Bolte was returned for a sixth term with a slightly reduced majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091539-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Victorian state election, Results, Legislative Assembly\nVictorian state election, 30 May 1970Legislative Assembly << 1967\u20131973 >>", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091539-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Victorian state election, Results, Legislative Council\nVictorian state election, 30 May 1970Legislative Council << 1967\u20131973 >>", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091540-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Villanova Wildcats football team\nThe 1970 Villanova Wildcats football team represented the Villanova University during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. The head coach was Lou Ferry, coaching his first season with the Wildcats. The team played their home games at Villanova Stadium in Villanova, Pennsylvania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091541-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Virginia Cavaliers football team\nThe 1970 Virginia Cavaliers football team represented the University of Virginia during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. The Cavaliers were led by sixth-year head coach George Blackburn and played their home games at Scott Stadium in Charlottesville, Virginia. They competed as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference, finishing in last. At the conclusion of the season, Blackburn was fired as head coach. He had a record of 28\u201333\u20130 at Virginia, with just one winning season, in 1968.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091542-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Virginia Slims of Richmond\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by Wolbo (talk | contribs) at 00:47, 11 September 2020 (\u2192\u200eReferences: Added navigational template). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091542-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Virginia Slims of Richmond\nThe 1970 Virginia Slims of Richmond was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor clay courts at the Westwood Racquet Club in Richmond, Virginia in the United States. It was the inaugural edition of the tournament and was held from November 5 through November 8, 1970. It was the second Virginia Slims tournament after the 1970 Houston Women's Invitation in September and was not sanctioned by the United States Lawn Tennis Association (USLTA). First-seeded Billie Jean King won the singles title and earned $2,400 first-prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091542-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Virginia Slims of Richmond, Finals, Doubles\nRosie Casals / Billie Jean King defeated Mary-Ann Curtis / Valerie Ziegenfuss 6\u20134, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091543-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Virginia Tech Gobblers football team\nThe 1970 Virginia Tech Gobblers football team represented Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in the 1970 NCAA University Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091543-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Virginia Tech Gobblers football team, Players\nThe following players were members of the 1970 football team according to the roster published in the 1971 edition of The Bugle, the Virginia Tech yearbook.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 50], "content_span": [51, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091544-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Virginia ballot measures\nThe 1970 Virginia State Elections took place on Election Day, November 3, 1970, the same day as the U.S. Senate and U.S. House elections in the state. The only statewide elections on the ballot were four constitutional referendums to amend the Virginia State Constitution. All referendums were referred to the voters by the Virginia General Assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091544-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Virginia ballot measures, Question 1\nDue to the events of the Civil Rights Movement, several U.S. federal laws, court cases, and the 24th Amendment had nullified large parts of the Virginia State Constitution which had been drafted in 1902. Therefore, Governor A. Linwood Holton Jr. and the Virginia General Assembly collectively decided to call a constitutional convention in order to overhaul the constitution and remove its discriminatory elements. After this measure was passed the Government of Virginia established a Commission on Constitutional Revision which generated the current Virginia State Constitution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 622]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091544-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Virginia ballot measures, Question 1\n\"Shall the Constitution be generally amended and revised, as agreed to by the General Assembly at its 1969 and 1970 sessions (except for the three proposals separately stated below)?\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091544-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Virginia ballot measures, Question 2\nThis amendment asked voters to repeal Section 60 (which prohibits lotteries) and leave it to the General Assembly to decide whether or not to authorize or prohibit lotteries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091544-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Virginia ballot measures, Question 3\nThis amendment asked voters to authorize the state government to issue government bonds for specific capital projects. The sum of the debt incurred by these bond measures cannot not exceed 1.15 times the total annual income and sales tax revenues of the Commonwealth. These bond measures must first be approved by a voter referendum in order to take effect.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091544-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Virginia ballot measures, Question 4\nThis amendment asked voters to authorize the state government to issue revenue bonds for specific capital projects. Such bonds must first by certified by the Governor that the anticipated revenues from such projects will be sufficient to pay principal and interest as they become due. Such bonds must also have the approval of 2/3s of both chambers in the Virginia General Assembly. The sum of the debt incurred by these bond measures cannot not exceed 1.15 times the total annual income and sales tax revenues of the Commonwealth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091545-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Volta a Catalunya\nThe 1970 Volta a Catalunya was the 50th edition of the Volta a Catalunya cycle race and was held from 10 September to 18 September 1970. The race started in Manresa and finished in Barcelona. It was won by Franco Bitossi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091546-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a\nThe 1970 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a was the 25th Edition Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, taking place from 23 April to 12 May 1970. It consisted of 19 stages over 3,568\u00a0km (2,217\u00a0mi), ridden at an average speed of 39.85\u00a0km/h (24.76\u00a0mph). The race revealed August\u00edn Tamames as a contender for the future at the Vuelta as Tamames riding in his first Vuelta held in the final week the race lead until the final individual time trial when Luis Oca\u00f1a time trialled himself into the lead. Oca\u00f1a had finished runner up in the previous edition of the race and won the two time trials in the 1970 Vuelta. It would be Oca\u00f1a\u2019s only win in the Spanish race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 640]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091547-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 WANFL season\nThe 1970 WANFL season was the 86th season of the Western Australian National Football League. After four years of dominance by the three Perth clubs, 1970 saw 1969 wooden spooners South Fremantle, aided by a tough pre-season training program under coach \u201cHassa\u201d Mann (a three-time Melbourne premiership player) and the arrival of Len Clark and John O\u2018Reilly from the VFL, rise to take their first premiership since the 1947\u20131954 dynasty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091547-0000-0001", "contents": "1970 WANFL season\nThe Bulldogs (as the club had recently become known) upset Perth in two finals in wet conditions, while 1969 premiers West Perth fell to sixth with only ten victories: indeed this was the first season since 1955 with East Perth that legendary ruckman \u201cPolly\u201d Farmer had played for a team that missed the finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091547-0000-0002", "contents": "1970 WANFL season\nThe Cardinals were affected by the loss of John Wynne to Norwood, backup ruckmen Brian Sampson and Neil Evans to retirement and Greg Astbury to a major stomach problem, plus a dispute over Bill Valli, whose clearance to Collingwood was refused by the WANFL and the club's severe lack of depth in its reserves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091547-0000-0003", "contents": "1970 WANFL season\nOf the lower sides from previous seasons, in addition to South Fremantle's surprise flag Claremont showed major improvement due to such young players as Moss, winning more games than in any season since 1965, and would have done much better but for long-term injuries to rover Bruce Duperouzel and centre half-forward Lindsay Carroll in the second half of the season, when they fell out of the four after looking like a second semi-final berth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091547-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 WANFL season\nDespite a much wetter winter than the drought year of 1969, scoring in 1970 was higher than ever before, exceeding 100 points per team per game for the first time, including a record highest losing score. This was largely due to the \u201cout of bounds on the full\u201d rule which the WANFL adopted for the first time after its success in the 1969 VFL season. Attendances for the home-and-away season also hit a never-to-be-equalled average of 9,644 per match, aided by South's revival. The season, unusually, lasted a week beyond the conclusion of the senior premiership due to a draw in the reserves Grand Final between East Fremantle and Subiaco.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091547-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 WANFL season\nAlthough Swan Districts finished with its second wooden spoon in three seasons, captain-coach Bill Walker \u2013 whose coaching was often severely criticised \u2013 became the only player to win four Sandover Medals when awarded a retrospective Medal by Westar Rules in 1997.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091547-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 WANFL season, Home-and-away season, Interstate Trial\nThe first interstate trial match on Anzac Day since 1961 had its revenue donated to the Anzac Day Trust Fund, and saw Claremont\u2019s Russell Reynolds and Vern Orr emerge as the leading new lights for carnival selection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 57], "content_span": [58, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091547-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 WANFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 4\nAfter a shaky start, an East Perth team featuring only ten of its 1969 Grand Final players demolishes a feeble Perth via hard defence on a perfect day for football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 48], "content_span": [49, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091547-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 WANFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 10\nWest Perth, without Farmer and Dempsey on state duty, and only seventeen fit players after half-time, fall to two games below fourth as their forwards fail to capitalise on Mel Whinnen\u2019s dominance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 49], "content_span": [50, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091547-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 WANFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 13\nWith Farmer and Dempsey back in form, West Perth hold South Fremantle scoreless in the opening quarter, but the Cardinals\u2019 lack of good forwards proves decisive afterwards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 49], "content_span": [50, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091547-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 WANFL season, Home-and-away season, Interstate match\nWestern Australia\u2019s speed on the wings allows it to win a drab and unexciting match, whose margin should have been wider since a late goal awarded to Wayne Phillis was clearly a behind according to replays. \u201cPolly\u201d Farmer played with a major ankle problem.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 57], "content_span": [58, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091547-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 WANFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 20\nAfter an even first half, George Young, Cam Blakemore and Peter Metropolis take the match over, kicking eight of the Maroons\u2019 ten second half goals and dominating general play on the ball. The result leaves Claremont to beat top team Perth and hope Old Easts can continue their recent form to remain in the four.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 49], "content_span": [50, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091547-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 WANFL season, Finals, First semi-final\nPoor tactics by Subiaco \u2013 including playing an unfit Bunton together with Watt on the ball and constantly kicking too high in the air \u2013 leave the depleted Royals with a very easy win and no injuries form the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 43], "content_span": [44, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091547-0010-0000", "contents": "1970 WANFL season, Finals, Second semi-final\nSouth Fremantle end a record 11-game losing streak against Perth to enter their first Grand Final since 1956. The Bulldogs\u2019 resolution after a woefully inaccurate first quarter yielding 2.12 (24) allowed them to hold out Perth in a controversial finish where Perth forward Pat Astone was denied a mark to boos from the crowd.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 44], "content_span": [45, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091547-0011-0000", "contents": "1970 WANFL season, Finals, Preliminary final\nPerth\u2019s tired finish \u2013 it just held on after leading by thirty-five points at three-quarter time \u2013 raises doubts over its Grand Final prospects on the back of two very tough games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 44], "content_span": [45, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091547-0012-0000", "contents": "1970 WANFL season, Finals, Grand Final\nIn very wet conditions, South Fremantle take advantage of Perth\u2019s woeful inaccuracy in the first half to win their first premiership for sixteen years with some ease.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 38], "content_span": [39, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091547-0013-0000", "contents": "1970 WANFL season, Notes\nWalker lost on a countback, but was retrospectively awarded a Medal by the Westar Rules hierarchy in 1997. This policy was made illegal in 1973 when a \u2018centre diamond\u2019 (later the current centre square) was introduced, within with no team could place more than four players during a centre bounce. East Fremantle were not to suffer another wooden spoon after their debut until 2004, and they did so again in 2006.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 24], "content_span": [25, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091548-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament\nThe 1970 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 11th conference playoff in league history. The tournament was played between March 12 and March 14, 1970. All East Regional games were played at the Duluth Arena Auditorium in Duluth, Minnesota while West Regional games were held at the DU Arena in Denver, Colorado. By winning the regional tournaments, both the East Regional Champion\u2020, Michigan Tech, and West Regional Champion\u2021, Wisconsin, were invited to participate in the 1970 NCAA University Division Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091548-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format\nThe top eight teams in the WCHA, according to their final conference standings, were eligible for the tournament and were seeded No. 1 through No. 8. The eight teams were then divided into two separate groups by placing all even-numbered seeds in one group (2, 4, 6, 8) and the odd-numbered seeds (1, 3, 5, 7) in the other group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 45], "content_span": [46, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091548-0001-0001", "contents": "1970 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format\nUsing the location of the top seeds in each of the groups, the odd-numbered group (containing Minnesota) was placed in the east region which was held at the Duluth Arena Auditorium while the odd-numbered grouping (containing Denver) was placed in the west region which was held at the DU Arena. Once each regional group was set the teams were reseeded No. 1 to No. 4 according to their final conference standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 45], "content_span": [46, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091548-0001-0002", "contents": "1970 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format\nBecause Minnesota-Duluth was placed in the West Region despite their building hosting the East Region they were swapped with the equivalent seed (Michigan State) in the East Region to allow them to play in their home venue. In the first round the first and fourth seeds and the second and third seeds in each region were matched in a single game with the winners advancing to their regional final games. The winners of the two championship games were declared as co-conference tournament champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 45], "content_span": [46, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091548-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format, Conference Standings\nNote: GP = Games Played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PCT = Winning Percentage; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091549-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team\nThe 1970 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team was an American football team that represented Wake Forest University during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. In its second season under head coach Cal Stoll, the team compiled a 6\u20135 record, finished in first place in the Atlantic Coast Conference with a 5\u20131 record against conference opponents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091550-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Washington Darts season\nThe 1970 Washington Darts season was the team's first season in the North American Soccer League, and the club's fourth season in professional soccer. Previously the club fielded a team in the American Soccer League. In their initial run in the NASL, the team earned first place in the Southern Division and finished with the top record in the league. As division champions they automatically qualified for the championship game known as the NASL Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091550-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Washington Darts season, Competitions, NASL regular season\nG = Games, W = Wins, L = Losses, T= Ties, GF = Goals For, GA = Goals Against, PT= point system", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 63], "content_span": [64, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091550-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Washington Darts season, Competitions, NASL regular season\n6 points for a win, 3 points for a tie,0 points for a loss,1 point for each goal scored up to three per game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 63], "content_span": [64, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091551-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Washington Huskies football team\nThe 1970 Washington Huskies football team was an American football team that represented the University of Washington during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. In its fourteenth season under head coach Jim Owens, the team compiled a 6\u20134 record, tied for second in the Pacific-8 Conference at 4\u20133, and outscored its opponents 334 to 216.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091551-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Washington Huskies football team\nThe Huskies were led on the field by sophomore quarterback Sonny Sixkiller, who set numerous team records. Fullback Bo\u00a0Cornell and defensive tackle Tom\u00a0Failla were the team captains.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091551-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Washington Huskies football team, NFL Draft selections\nFour University of Washington Huskies were selected in the 1971 NFL Draft, which lasted seventeen rounds with 442 selections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 59], "content_span": [60, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091552-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Washington Redskins season\nThe 1970 Washington Redskins season was the franchise's 39th season in the National Football League (NFL) and their 34th in Washington, D.C.. Second-year head coach Vince Lombardi was diagnosed with terminal cancer in late June and died on September 3; offensive line coach Bill Austin stepped in as interim head coach in mid-July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091552-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Washington Redskins season\nAustin had been an NFL head coach for three seasons with the Pittsburgh Steelers (1966\u201368) and was starting his eighth year as an assistant coach under Lombardi (1959\u201364, 1969\u201370). Also, Austin's final four seasons as a player on the offensive line with the New York Giants (1954\u201357) were with Lombardi as offensive coordinator.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091552-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Washington Redskins season\nThe Redskins finished at 6\u20138 in 1970, fourth in the NFC East, but with a five-game losing streak in the second half of the season. The last loss was a 34\u20130 shutout at rival Dallas on December 6, and Washington fell to a 4\u20138 record and four games behind the Cowboys.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091552-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Washington Redskins season\nIt was the 25th consecutive season that the Redskins did not advance to the playoffs. Austin's contract was not renewed, and he was succeeded by George Allen in January 1971. Austin returned to Redskins in 1973 as the offensive line coach under Allen for five seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091552-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Washington Redskins season, Regular season, Standings\nNote: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091553-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Washington Senators season\nThe 1970 Washington Senators season involved the Senators finishing sixth in the American League East with a record of 70 wins and 92 losses. This was the franchise's penultimate season in Washington, D.C..", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091553-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091553-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 69], "content_span": [70, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091553-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 74], "content_span": [75, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091553-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 71], "content_span": [72, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091553-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 72], "content_span": [73, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091554-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Washington Star International\nThe 1970 Washington Star International was a men's tennis tournament and was played on outdoor clay courts. It was the second edition of the tournament and was part of the 1970 Grand Prix circuit and categorized as a Class 2 event. It was held at the Rock Creek Park in Washington, D.C. from July 13 through July 19, 1970. Cliff Richey won the singles title and earned a $7,000 first prize.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091554-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Washington Star International, Finals, Doubles\nBob Hewitt/ Frew McMillan defeated Ilie N\u0103stase / Ion \u021airiac 7\u20135, 6\u20130", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091555-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Washington State Cougars football team\nThe 1970 Washington State Cougars football team was an American football team that represented Washington State University in the Pacific-8 Conference (Pac-8) during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. In their third season under head coach Jim Sweeney, the Cougars compiled a 1\u201310 record (0\u20137 in Pac-8, last), and were outscored 460 to 231.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091555-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Washington State Cougars football team\nThe team's statistical leaders included Ty Paine with 1,581 passing yards, Bob Ewen with 667 rushing yards, and Ed Armstrong with 488 receiving yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091555-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Washington State Cougars football team\nDue to the fire at Rogers Field in April, all home games were played at Joe Albi Stadium in Spokane in 1970 and\u00a01971. AstroTurf was installed there in the summer of 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091555-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Washington State Cougars football team\nFor the second straight year, Washington State played a full conference schedule and went winless. The\u00a0only victory was in September over neighbor Idaho in the Battle of the Palouse, the sole meeting in a three-year span. The\u00a0annual rivalry game was not played the previous season (and in 1971) to allow the Cougars to schedule all seven conference opponents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091555-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Washington State Cougars football team, All-conference\nOne Washington State offensive lineman, junior guard Steve Busch, was named to the All-Pac-8 team. On the second team (honorable mention) was senior cornerback Lionel\u00a0Thomas. Busch made the first team again as a senior in 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 59], "content_span": [60, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091555-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Washington State Cougars football team, NFL Draft\nFor the first time in five years, no Cougars were selected in the 1971 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 54], "content_span": [55, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091556-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Watkins Glen 6 Hours\nThe 1970 Watkins Glen 6 Hours was an endurance race held at the Watkins Glen Grand Prix Race Course, New York, United States on July 11, 1970. It was the ninth round of the 1970 World Sportscar Championship season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091556-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Watkins Glen 6 Hours, Pre-race\nJohn Wyer's team had not won a race since Spa and they came off a disastrous attempt at winning Le Mans; losing all three of their cars in 10 hours and the race to their sister team, Porsche Salzburg. Mario Andretti returned to Ferrari to try to help the great marque repeat their triumph at Sebring less than 4 months previously. Ferrari were keen on doing this; a win here would be sufficient comeuppance for them after their humiliating Le Mans run; all four works cars had retired after 4 hours and 4 of 6 other privately entered 512's also retired.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091556-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Watkins Glen 6 Hours, Pre-race\nThis particular race was one of 4 timed races on the calendar; the others being at Daytona, Sebring, and Le Mans. It was the only 6 hour race on the calendar in 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091556-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Watkins Glen 6 Hours, Pre-race\nQualifying once again went to a Porsche; the Jo Siffert/Brian Redman 917K managed to edge out the Andretti/Giunti Ferrari 512S and the Rodriguez/Kinnunen 917K by three tenths of a second.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091556-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Watkins Glen 6 Hours, Pre-race\nThis would be the last Watkins Glen 6 Hours race on the original circuit. The circuit was rebuilt for the next year; they used the short track (as the extension had not yet been finished) and the whole track in 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091556-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Watkins Glen 6 Hours, Race\nAt the start, Andretti took the lead from Siffert, but the Swiss driver took the lead back from Andretti on the third lap. He then lost the lead to Rodriguez. Later on in the race, Rodriguez attempted to switch off the 917K's headlights; but instead he switched off the fuel pumps, and the engine started to fail.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 31], "content_span": [32, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091556-0005-0001", "contents": "1970 Watkins Glen 6 Hours, Race\nRodriguez was about to come into the pits, but then he realized what he had done, switched the pumps on, and then stormed through the field, made fastest lap and he & Kinnunen went on to win for the 4th time in the season. Wyer's team finished 1-2, and both cars finished on the same lap, with the works Ferrari of Andretti/Giunti completing the podium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 31], "content_span": [32, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091557-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Wayne State Tartars football team\nThe 1970 Wayne State Tartars football team represented Wayne State University as an independent during the 1970 NCAA College Division football season. In its sixth season under head coach Vernon Gale, the team compiled a 6\u20132 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091557-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Wayne State Tartars football team\nAlthough classed did not begin until October 1, the team began training camp on September 3. Before the season began, the university began a review of the football program and its future. Coach Gale hinted at the time that 1970 may be his last as head football coach at Wayne.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091557-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Wayne State Tartars football team\nThe team's statistical leaders included Gary Rossi with 914 passing yards, Terry Fuller with 451 receiving yards, George Crayton with 206 rushing yards, Rossi set a school record with 35 pass attempts against Hillsdale on November 21. Tom Bomberski and Tom Sheppard were the team captains.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091558-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 West Virginia Mountaineers football team\nThe 1970 West Virginia Mountaineers football team represented West Virginia University in the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. It was the Mountaineers' 78th overall season and they competed as an independent. The team was led by head coach Bobby Bowden, in his first year, and played their home games at Mountaineer Field in Morgantown, West Virginia. They finished the season with a record of 8\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091559-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers football team\nThe 1970 Western Kentucky football team represented Western Kentucky University during the 1970 NCAA College Division football season. The team was led by coach Jimmy Feix and won the Ohio Valley Conference championship after coming in second the previous three years. The coaching staff included future NFL coach Romeo Crennel. The Hilltoppers\u2019 finished the season ranked No. 12 in the AP and No. 9 in the UPI final polls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091559-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers football team\nThe team roster included future National Football League (NFL) players Lawrence Brame, Bill \"Jelly\" Green, Clarence \"Jazz\" Jackson, Brad Watson, and Mike McCoy. Brame was named to the AP All-American team as well as being the OVC Defensive Player Of The Year for the second consecutive year. The All-OVC team included Jim Barber, Brame, Jay Davis, Dennis Durso, Green, and Steve Wilson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091560-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Western Michigan Broncos football team\nThe 1970 Western Michigan Broncos football team represented Western Michigan University in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. In their seventh season under head coach Bill Doolittle, the Broncos compiled a 7\u20133 record (2\u20133 against MAC opponents), finished in fourth place in the MAC, and outscored their opponents, 277 to 132. The team played its home games at Waldo Stadium in Kalamazoo, Michigan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091560-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Western Michigan Broncos football team\nThe team's statistical leaders included Ted Grignon with 1,001 passing yards, Roger Lawson with 1,205 rushing yards, and Greg Flaska with 372 receiving yards. Safety Vern Davis and tight end Greg Flaska were the team captains. Fullback Roger Lawson received the team's most outstanding player award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091561-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Western Samoan general election\nGeneral elections were held in Western Samoa on 7 February 1970. All candidates ran as independents, with voting restricted to matais and citizens of European origin (\"individual voters\"), with the matais electing 45 MPs and Europeans two. Following the election, Tupua Tamasese Lealofi IV became Prime Minister.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091561-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Western Samoan general election, Background\nA parliamentary debate on introducing universal suffrage was held on 27 March 1969. The motion by Letele Taneolevao Siaosi, the youngest member of parliament, would still limit candidacy to the 8,500 matais, but allow all citizens over the age of 21 (numbering over 30,000) to vote in elections. Prior to 1967 elections, the number of matais was increased significantly, as candidates seeking to increase their vote were able to bestow titles on people to create new matai. Following the elections, a law was introduced that prohibited conferring of a matai title on anyone younger than 21.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 639]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091561-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Western Samoan general election, Background\nAlthough Prime Minister Fiame Mata'afa had been in favour of universal suffrage during the 1954 and 1960 constitutional conventions, he opposed the motion, arguing that voters had approved limiting suffrage to matais in the 1961 constitutional referendum, which had been held under universal suffrage. Members of the Legislative Assembly voted 37\u20136 against the motion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091561-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Western Samoan general election, Campaign\nOver 150 candidates contested the elections. Fifteen candidates were returned unopposed, including Faimaala Filipo, who became Western Samoa's first female MP, and Prime Minister Fiame Mata'afa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091561-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Western Samoan general election, Results\nTwenty-one of the forty-seven elected members were new to the Legislative Assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091561-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Western Samoan general election, Aftermath\nThe newly elected Legislative Assembly met for the first time on 25 February. In the first round of the election for Prime Minister, Fiame Mata'afa received 19 votes, Tupua Tamasese Lealofi 17 and Tufuga Efi 10. The second ballot saw Mata'afa and Tupua both receive 23 votes. A third round of voting was held the following day, which Tupua won by 25 votes to 20. It was reported that Mata'afa would almost certainly have won in the second round had one of his supporters, To'omata Lilomaiava Tua, not died the previous week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 47], "content_span": [48, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091561-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 Western Samoan general election, Aftermath\nA cabinet reshuffle took place in March 1971 when Fatialofa Momo'e resigned. Va'ai Kolone was brought into the government as Minister of Health, with Fuimaono Moasope becoming Minister for the Post Office, Radio and Broadcasting in place of Momo'e. Minister of Justice Tuala Paulo and Minister for Education Amoa Tausilia also exchanged portfolios.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 47], "content_span": [48, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091562-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Wichita State Shockers football team\nThe 1970 Wichita Shockers football team was an American football team that represented Wichita State University as a member of the Missouri Valley Conference during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. The team compiled a 0\u20139 record (0\u20134 against conference opponents), finished last out of five teams in the MVC, and was outscored by a total of 381 to 99. The team played its home games at Cessna Stadium in Wichita, Kansas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091562-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Wichita State Shockers football team\nHead coach Ben Wilson, 14 players, and 16 others died on October 2 in the Wichita State University football team plane crash. Bob Seaman took over as head coach after the crash.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091562-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Wichita State Shockers football team\nThe team's statistical leaders included Rick Baehr with 513 passing yards, Don Gilley with 290 rushing yards and 12 points scored, Bill Moore with 175 receiving yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091562-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Wichita State Shockers football team, Pre-season\nThe team included 22 returning lettermen led by junior quarterback Bob Renner, senior fullback Randy Jackson, and middle linebacker John Hoheisel. Hoheisel, who was described by coach Wilson in the preseason as \"the heart and soul of our defense\", was selected as the team captain. Prior to the start of the season, second-year head coach Ben Wilson described his squad as a young club with good team speed, room to improve, and \"a chance to surprise a lot of people.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091562-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Wichita State Shockers football team, September games\nOn September 12, Wichita State opened its season with a 41\u201314 loss to Gene Stallings' Texas A&M Aggies before a crowd of 30,006 in College Station, Texas. They followed with losses to Arkansas State on September 19 and West Texas State on September 26.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091562-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Wichita State Shockers football team, Plane crash\nOn Friday, October 2, 1970, Wichita State traveled to Logan, Utah, in two chartered planes, designated as \"Gold\" and \"Black\" according to the school colors, for a game against Utah State. The \"Gold\" plane carrying the first-team players and staff crashed in Colorado's Loveland Pass. Thirty-one persons were killed in the crash, including the following 14 players:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 54], "content_span": [55, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091562-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 Wichita State Shockers football team, Plane crash\nThe fatalities also included head coach Ben Wilson (and his wife Helen), athletic director Bert Katzenmeyer (and his wife Marian), team manager Marty Harrison (age 19), team trainer Tom Reeves, admissions director Carl Fahrbach, ticket manager Floyd Farmer, Shocker Club chairman Ray Coleman (and his wife Maxine), Kansas state representative Ray King (and his wife Yvonne), the plane's pilot Dan Crocker, and two stewardesses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 54], "content_span": [55, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091562-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 Wichita State Shockers football team, Plane crash\nIn addition to the 14 players killed, eight other players survived the crash with varying degrees of injury:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 54], "content_span": [55, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091562-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 Wichita State Shockers football team, Plane crash\nOn the scheduled game day, the team held a memorial service at Romney Stadium in Logan and placed a wreath on the 50-yard line. Classes at Wichita State were canceled for Monday, October 5, and a memorial service was held that evening at the school's Cessna Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 54], "content_span": [55, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091562-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 Wichita State Shockers football team, Plane crash\nThe following month, Southern Airways Flight 932 carrying the Marshall University football team crashed, killing 37 members of that team. At the end of the season, a nationally televised fundraising program hosted by Monty Hall was aired to raise money for the victims of the two crashes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 54], "content_span": [55, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091562-0010-0000", "contents": "1970 Wichita State Shockers football team, \"Second season\"\nAfter the crash, the team's scheduled games against Utah State and Southern Illinois were cancelled. However, the surviving members of the team voted 76-to-1 to complete the 1970 schedule. The remaining portion of the schedule was designated the \"second season.\" Assistant coach Bob Seaman took over as the team's head coach after the crash.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091562-0011-0000", "contents": "1970 Wichita State Shockers football team, \"Second season\"\nOn October 24, 1970, the team played the first game after the crash. With permission from the NCAA, the Shockers played seven freshmen in their starting lineup. Facing an Arkansas team ranked No. 9 in the country, Wichita lost by a 62\u20130 score. The Arkansas crowd cheered for the effort demonstrated by Wichita State, and Arkansas coach Frank Broyles benched his first team after seven minutes and used 61 players in the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091562-0012-0000", "contents": "1970 Wichita State Shockers football team, \"Second season\"\nOn October 31, the Shockers lost by at 35\u20135 score to Cincinnati before a homecoming crowd of 27,210. Prior to the game, a 15-minute ceremony featuring astronaut John Swigert was held to commemorate the team's return to Cessna Stadium for its first game since the crash. The Shockers started seven freshmen and 10 sophomores and scored five points on a 37-yard field goal by John Potts and a safety when Cincinnati quarterback Bill Carter was tackled in the end zone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091562-0013-0000", "contents": "1970 Wichita State Shockers football team, \"Second season\"\nOn November 7, the Shockers showed marked improvement in a 21\u201312 loss to Tulsa. Trailing 21\u20136 in the fourth quarter, Wichita's freshman quarterback Tom Owen threw a 21-yard touchdown pass to wingback Tim Thissen to narrow the score to 21\u201312.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091562-0014-0000", "contents": "1970 Wichita State Shockers football team, \"Second season\"\nOn November 14, Wichita lost to Memphis State by a 51\u20136 score. The Shockers only points were scored in the first quarter on a 14-yard touchdown pass from Tom Owen to Eddie Plopa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091562-0015-0000", "contents": "1970 Wichita State Shockers football team, \"Second season\"\nOn November 21, the Shockers lost to North Texas State by a 41\u201324 score. The highlight of the game for Wichita was a 105-yard kickoff return by tailback Don Gilley in the first quarter. Wichita's freshman quarterback Rick Baher also threw two touchdown passes, and John Potts kicked a 47-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091562-0016-0000", "contents": "1970 Wichita State Shockers football team, \"Second season\"\nIn the final game of the season, the Shockers took a 17\u20130 lead over Lee Corso's bowl-bound Louisville Cardinals. However, the Cardinals came back to win the game by a 34\u201324 score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091562-0017-0000", "contents": "1970 Wichita State Shockers football team, Roster\nThe following players from the 1970 team were not on the plane that crashed:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 49], "content_span": [50, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091563-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Wightman Cup\nThe 1970 Wightman Cup was the 42nd edition of the annual women's team tennis competition between the United States and Great Britain. It was held at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London in England in the United Kingdom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091564-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 William & Mary Indians football team\nThe 1970 William & Mary Indians football team represented the College of William & Mary as a member of the Southern Conference (SoCon) during the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. Led by Lou Holtz in his second year as head coach, William & Mary finished the season 5\u20137 overall and 3\u20131 in conference play, winning the SoCon title. The Indians were invited to the Tangerine Bowl, where they lost to Toledo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091565-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Wimbledon Championships\nThe 1970 Wimbledon Championships was a tennis tournament that took place on the outdoor grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The tournament was held from Monday 22 June until Saturday 4 July 1970. It was the 84th staging of the Wimbledon Championships, and the third Grand Slam tennis event of 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091565-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Wimbledon Championships, Prize money\nThe total prize money for 1970 championships was \u00a341,650. The winner of the men's title earned \u00a33,000 while the women's singles champion earned \u00a31.500.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091565-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Wimbledon Championships, Champions, Seniors, Men's Singles\nJohn Newcombe defeated Ken Rosewall, 5\u20137, 6\u20133, 6\u20132, 3\u20136, 6\u20131", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 63], "content_span": [64, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091565-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Wimbledon Championships, Champions, Seniors, Men's Doubles\nJohn Newcombe / Tony Roche defeated Ken Rosewall / Fred Stolle, 10\u20138, 6\u20133, 6\u20131", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 63], "content_span": [64, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091565-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Wimbledon Championships, Champions, Seniors, Women's Doubles\nRosie Casals / Billie Jean King defeated Fran\u00e7oise D\u00fcrr / Virginia Wade, 6\u20132, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 65], "content_span": [66, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091565-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Wimbledon Championships, Champions, Seniors, Mixed Doubles\nIlie N\u0103stase / Rosie Casals defeated Alex Metreveli / Olga Morozova, 6\u20133, 4\u20136, 9\u20137", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 63], "content_span": [64, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091566-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Boys' Singles\nByron Bertram successfully defended his title, defeating Frank Gebert in the final, 6\u20130, 6\u20133 to win the Boys' Singles tennis title at the 1970 Wimbledon Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091567-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Girls' Singles\nSharon Walsh defeated Marina Kroschina in the final, 8\u20136, 6\u20134 to win the Girls' Singles tennis title at the 1970 Wimbledon Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091568-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's Doubles\nJohn Newcombe and Tony Roche successfully defended their title, defeating Ken Rosewall and Fred Stolle in the final, 10\u20138, 6\u20133, 6\u20131 to win the Gentlemen's Doubles title at the 1970 Wimbledon Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091568-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's Doubles, Seeds\nClick on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 51], "content_span": [52, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091569-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's Singles\nJohn Newcombe defeated Ken Rosewall in the final, 5\u20137, 6\u20133, 6\u20132, 3\u20136, 6\u20131 to win the Gentlemen's Singles tennis title at the 1970 Wimbledon Championships. It was his second Wimbledon singles title, and his fifth major singles title overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091569-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's Singles\nRod Laver was the defending champion, but lost in the fourth round to Roger Taylor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091569-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's Singles, Seeds\nClick on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 51], "content_span": [52, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091570-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's Singles Qualifying\nPlayers who neither had high enough rankings nor received wild cards to enter the main draw of the annual Wimbledon Tennis Championships participated in a qualifying tournament held one week before the event. One players withdrew from the main draw after qualifying had commenced, leading to the highest ranked players who lost in the final qualifying round, Eduardo Zuleta, to be entered into the main draw as a lucky loser.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091571-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Mixed Doubles\nFred Stolle and Ann Jones were the defending champions, but Jones did not compete. Stolle partnered with Evonne Goolagong, but lost in the semifinals to Ilie N\u0103stase and Rosie Casals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091571-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Mixed Doubles\nN\u0103stase and Casals defeated Alex Metreveli and Olga Morozova in the final, 6\u20133, 4\u20136, 9\u20137 to win the Mixed Doubles tennis title at the 1970 Wimbledon Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091571-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Mixed Doubles, Seeds\nClick on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 51], "content_span": [52, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091572-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Women's Doubles\nMargaret Court and Judy Dalton were the defending champions, but lost in the semifinals to Fran\u00e7oise D\u00fcrr and Virginia Wade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091572-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Women's Doubles\nRosie Casals and Billie Jean King defeated D\u00fcrr and Wade in the final, 6\u20132, 6\u20133 to win the Ladies' Doubles tennis title at the 1970 Wimbledon Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091572-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Women's Doubles, Seeds\nClick on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 53], "content_span": [54, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091573-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Women's Singles\nMargaret Court defeated Billie Jean King 14\u201312, 11\u20139 to win the Ladies' Singles tennis title at the 1970 Wimbledon Championships. This was Court's third Wimbledon title, her third major tournament of the year, her fourth consecutive major title and her nineteenth major singles title overall. Court became the first woman to complete a Career Grand Slam in the Open Era. She would later win the US Open, thus also becoming the first woman to win the Grand Slam in the Open Era. Ann Jones was the reigning champion, but she didn't defend her title as she had retired from Grand Slam singles competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 649]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091573-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Women's Singles, Seeds\nClick on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 53], "content_span": [54, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091574-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Women's Singles Qualifying\nPlayers who neither had high enough rankings nor received wild cards to enter the main draw of the annual Wimbledon Tennis Championships participated in a qualifying tournament held one week before the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091575-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Winter Universiade\nThe 1970 Winter Universiade, the VI Winter Universiade, took place in Rovaniemi, Finland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091576-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Wisconsin Badgers football team\nThe 1970 Wisconsin Badgers football team represented the University of Wisconsin in the 1970 Big Ten Conference football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091577-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Wisconsin gubernatorial election\nThe 1970 Wisconsin gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 1970. Democrat Patrick Lucey won the election with 54% of the vote, winning his first term as Governor of Wisconsin and defeating Republican Jack B. Olson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091578-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Women's British Open Squash Championship\nThe 1970 Women's Open Squash Championships was held at the BP Club in Sydenham, London from 13\u201318 February 1970.Heather McKay (n\u00e9e Blundell) won her ninth consecutive title defeating Marcia Roche in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091579-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Women's College World Series\nThe second Women's College World Series of softball was conducted in 1970. It was organized by the Omaha Softball Association and recognized by the Division for Girls' and Women's Sports (DGWS) as a championship tournament. Softball teams from 17 schools met on May 15\u201317 in Omaha, Nebraska.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091579-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Women's College World Series, Teams\nThe John F. Kennedy College Patriettes won their second consecutive college softball championship by winning five of their six games, defeating Southwest Missouri State in the final if-necessary game, 7\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091580-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Women's Softball World Championship\nThe 1970 ISF Women's World Championship for softball was held in Osaka, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091581-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Women's World Allround Speed Skating Championships\nThe 31st edition of the World Allround Speed Skating Championships for Women took place on 28 February and 1 March in West Allis at the State Fair Park ice rink.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091582-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Women's World Cup\nThe 1970 Women's World Cup (Italian: Coppa del Mondo; sponsored name Martini & Rossi Cup) was an association football tournament organised by the Federation of Independent European Female Football (FIEFF) in Italy in July 1970. It featured women's teams from seven countries and is the first known tournament to be named as a women's football World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091582-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Women's World Cup\nMatches were played in Genoa, Bologna, Milan, Bari, Salerno, Naples, and the third-place playoff and final were both in Turin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091582-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Women's World Cup\nThe tournament was won by Denmark, represented by Boldklubben Femina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091582-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Women's World Cup, The tournament\nEight teams were scheduled to appear in the tournament, but only seven could participate: England, West Germany, Denmark, Mexico, Italy, Austria and Switzerland. The eighth team, Czechoslovakia, would have been the only country from Europe's Eastern Bloc to compete, but the team withdrew because of visa issues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 38], "content_span": [39, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091582-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Women's World Cup, The tournament\nThe crowds for the tournament were \"30,000-strong\". Denmark won the tournament after beating Italy 2\u20130 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 38], "content_span": [39, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091582-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Women's World Cup, The tournament\nTeams were divided into the \"northern\" group (in Genoa, Bologna and Milan), and \"southern\" (Bari, Salerno, Naples) with the top teams meeting in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 38], "content_span": [39, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091582-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 Women's World Cup, The tournament\nThe tournament did not involve FIFA, which had held the first men's World Cup in 1930 but did not hold any women's event until 1988. The host country's matches are considered official by the Italian Football Federation. The Italian women's league had been established in 1968.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 38], "content_span": [39, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091582-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 Women's World Cup, The tournament\nMexico, a losing semi-finalist 2\u20131 to Italy, were described as the \"revelation\" of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 38], "content_span": [39, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091582-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 Women's World Cup, The tournament, Quarter-finals\nCzechoslovakia withdrew due to visa issues, and so West Germany were given a second chance instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 54], "content_span": [55, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091582-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 Women's World Cup, Memorials\nTournament memorabilia was collected at an exhibition in Pessione di Chieri (Turin) from June to August 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091582-0010-0000", "contents": "1970 Women's World Cup, Later tournaments\nThe tournament was followed by the 1971 Women's World Cup in Mexico, and the series of five Mundialito tournaments from 1981\u20131988 in Japan and Italy, before the 1988 FIFA Women's Invitation Tournament and 1991 FIFA Women's World Cup, both in China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091583-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 World 600\nThe 1970 World 600 the 11th running of the event, was a NASCAR Grand National Series race held on May 24, 1970 at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina. Contested over 400 laps on the 1.5 mile (2.42\u00a0km) speedway, it was the 16th race of the 1970 NASCAR Grand National Series. Donnie Allison won the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091583-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 World 600\nBugs Stevens made his official NASCAR debut in this race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 72]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091583-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 World 600, Background\nThe race was held at Charlotte Motor Speedway, a 1.5-mile (2.4\u00a0km) quad-oval track located in Concord, North Carolina. The track's turns were banked at twenty-four degrees, while the front stretch, the location of the finish line, was five degrees. The back stretch, opposite of the front, also had a five degree banking. Charlotte Motor Speedway hosted the NASCAR Grand National Series twice during the 1970 season, with the other race being the National 500. The track opened for the inaugural World 600 in 1960, and was built by Bruton Smith and Curtis Turner. An estimated 70,000 spectators attended the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 26], "content_span": [27, 640]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091584-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 World Allround Speed Skating Championships\nThe World Allround Speed Skating Championships for Men took place on 14 and 15 February 1970 in Oslo at the Bislett Stadium ice rink.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091585-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 World Amateur Snooker Championship\nThe 1970 World Amateur Snooker Championship was the fourth edition of the championship that later became known as the IBSF World Snooker Championship, the first event having been held in 1963. The 1970 tournament was played at the Meadowbank Stadium, Edinburgh, Scotland from 19 October to 7 November 1970, with two round-robin groups each producing one player to contest the final. Both finalists were from England. Jonathan Barron defeated Sid Hood 11\u20137 to win the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091585-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 World Amateur Snooker Championship\nJack Rogers made the highest break of the tournament, 65.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091586-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships\nThe 17th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Hala Tivoli, Ljubljana, SR Slovenia, SFR Yugoslavia, in 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091586-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships\nCathy Rigby won the first medal for the United States women at the World Championships with a silver on balance beam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091587-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 World Championship Tennis season\nThe 1970 season of the World Championship Tennis (WCT) circuit was one of the two rival professional male tennis circuits of 1970. It was organized by World Championship Tennis (WCT).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091588-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 World Cup (men's golf)\nThe 1970 World Cup took place 12\u201315 November at The Jockey Club in San Isidro 28 kilometers north of the center of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It was the 18th World Cup event. The tournament was a 72-hole stroke play team event with 43 teams. 44 teams were invited, but the Czechoslovakia team of amateurs Jiri Dvorak and Jan Kun\u0161ta withdraw from the tournament before it begun. Each team consisted of two players from a country. The combined score of each team determined the team results.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091588-0000-0001", "contents": "1970 World Cup (men's golf)\nThe Australia team of Bruce Devlin and David Graham won, with a record aggregate of 544, by eight strokes over the Japan team of Takaaki Kono and Haruo Yasuda. Australia held a record advantage of 19 strokes going into the final round. This was the third victory for Australia in the history of the World Cup, until 1967 named the Canada Cup. The individual competition was won by Roberto De Vicenzo, Argentina one stroke ahead of Graham. The event was dedicated to the 47-year-old home hero De Vicenzo, who had participated in 15 Canada Cup/World Cup events played and shared in Argentina's victory in the 1953 inaugural event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 656]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091589-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 World Fencing Championships\nThe 1970 World Fencing Championships were held in Ankara, Turkey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091590-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 World Figure Skating Championships\nThe 1970 World Figure Skating Championships were held at the Hala Tivoli in Ljubljana, SR Slovenia, SFR Yugoslavia from March 3 to 8. At the event, sanctioned by the International Skating Union, medals were awarded in men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091590-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 World Figure Skating Championships\nThe ISU Representative was John R. Shoemaker of the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091591-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 World Karate Championships\nThe 1970 World Karate Championships are the 1st edition of the World Karate Championships, and were held in Tokyo and Osaka, Japan on October 10 and October 13, 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091592-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 World Men's Handball Championship\nThe 1970 World Men's Handball Championship was the seventh team handball World Championship. It was held in France between 26 February-8 March 1970. Romania won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091592-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 World Men's Handball Championship, Results, Placement Round (9-12 pos.)\nThe four third placed teams from the preliminary round played a round robin tournament for positions 9-12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 76], "content_span": [77, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091592-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 World Men's Handball Championship, Results, Main Round\nThe top two finishers from each preliminary round group progressed to the quarter-finals. The winners progressed to the semi-final stage, while losers played for positions 5-8.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 59], "content_span": [60, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091592-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 World Men's Handball Championship, Final standings\nPlaces 1\u20138 were decided by play\u2013off or knock\u2013out. Places 9\u201312 were decide by a placement round. Teams finishing fourth in the preliminary round are ranked 13 to 16. In case of a tie in points gained, the goal difference of the preliminary round were taken into account.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091593-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 World Men's Handball Championship \u2013 qualification\nQualification matches for the 1970 World Men's Handball Championship took place in 1969.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091593-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 World Men's Handball Championship \u2013 qualification, Europe and Africa\nThe draw took place on 15 March in Basel, Switzerland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 73], "content_span": [74, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091593-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 World Men's Handball Championship \u2013 qualification, Europe and Africa, East Germany \u2013 Israel\nThe second game between East Germany and Israel was a forfeit lose because Israel had not a correct handball hall. This was decided by executive committee of the IHF at the weekend 29\u201330 November 1969.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 96], "content_span": [97, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091593-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 World Men's Handball Championship \u2013 qualification, Europe and Africa, East Germany \u2013 Israel\nIn Tel Aviv was only an outdoor small field handball place available and the hall in Kfar Giladi had not the official handball court dimensions of 20\u00d740 meter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 96], "content_span": [97, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091593-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 World Men's Handball Championship \u2013 qualification, Europe and Africa, East Germany \u2013 Israel\nOn 28 November 1969 the Israel Handball Association found an alternative place but it was too late.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 96], "content_span": [97, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091593-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 World Men's Handball Championship \u2013 qualification, Europe and Africa, East Germany \u2013 Israel\nThe Israel Handball Association made a protest against the decision of the IHF. They said the dimensions were correct and on Tuesday two officials of the East Germany team and the two referees had no complains against the field. The Israelis said there were political reasons that the Germany didn't travel to Israel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 96], "content_span": [97, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091593-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 World Men's Handball Championship \u2013 qualification, Europe and Africa, East Germany \u2013 Israel\nIn einer gemeinsamen Sitzung des B\u00fcros der IHF am 21. Dezember 1969 in Basel mit Vertretern Ostdeutschland und Israel wurde nach eingehender Beratung entschieden, da\u00df das R\u00fcckspiel Israel \u2013 Ostdeutschland f\u00fcr die Endrundenqualifikation der Hallenhandball-Weltmeisterschaft 1970 wegen Nichterf\u00fcllung der technischen Voraussetzungen entsprechend dem geltenden WM-Reglement nicht stattfinden konnte und damit nicht gewertet wird. Ostdeutschland ist auf Grunde des regul\u00e4ren Vorspielergebinsses von 35:2 f\u00fcr die Endrunde der Weltmeisterschaft in Frankreich qualifiziert. Dem Protest von Israel konnte nicht stattgegeben werden.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 96], "content_span": [97, 720]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091593-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 World Men's Handball Championship \u2013 qualification, Europe and Africa, East Germany \u2013 Israel\nIn a joint meeting of the IHF office in Basel on December 21, 1969 with representatives of East Germany and Israel, it was decided after detailed consultation that the return leg Israel - East Germany for the final qualification of the 1970 Indoor Handball World Cup due to non-fulfillment of the technical requirements in accordance with the current World Cup Regulations could not take place and are therefore not evaluated. East Germany is qualified for the finals of the World Cup in France due to the regular lead win of 35: 2. The Israeli protest could not be accepted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 96], "content_span": [97, 672]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091593-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 World Men's Handball Championship \u2013 qualification, Europe and Africa, Iceland \u2013 Austria\n2009-04-22 at the National and University Library of Iceland: 15.11.1969 and 7.12.1969", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 92], "content_span": [93, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091593-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 World Men's Handball Championship \u2013 qualification, Europe and Africa, Poland \u2013 Morocco\nMorocco gave forfeit. First was Morocco directly qualified for the World championship, one year later the IHF recall this decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 91], "content_span": [92, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091593-0010-0000", "contents": "1970 World Men's Handball Championship \u2013 qualification, North America\nIn March Die Tat from Switzerland wrote that Canada was already qualified.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 69], "content_span": [70, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091593-0011-0000", "contents": "1970 World Men's Handball Championship \u2013 qualification, North America\nThe USA submitted a protest in December because the Canadian Eric Jacobsen is Danish and has not a passport from Canada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 69], "content_span": [70, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091593-0012-0000", "contents": "1970 World Men's Handball Championship \u2013 qualification, North America\nOn 21 December 1969 the protest was rejected because of missing evidence by the IHF.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 69], "content_span": [70, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091593-0013-0000", "contents": "1970 World Men's Handball Championship \u2013 qualification, North America\nIn January the USA was able to prove the claimed and Canada was disqualified.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 69], "content_span": [70, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091593-0014-0000", "contents": "1970 World Men's Handball Championship \u2013 qualification, North America\nTherefore the Spanish team should be the substitute. But they rejected because they have no time to build a good team again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 69], "content_span": [70, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091593-0015-0000", "contents": "1970 World Men's Handball Championship \u2013 qualification, North America\nOn 28 January 1970 the former rival USA was taken as replacement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 69], "content_span": [70, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091594-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 World Modern Pentathlon Championships\nThe 1970 World Modern Pentathlon Championships were held in Warendorf, West Germany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091595-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 World Orienteering Championships\nThe 3rd World Orienteering Championships were held in Eisenach/Friedrichroda, East Germany, in September 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091595-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 World Orienteering Championships\nThe championships had four events; individual contests for men and women, and relays for men and women.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091595-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 World Orienteering Championships\nThe men's individual course had 19 controls over 14.5 kilometres, while the women's individual course had 10 controls over 7.5 kilometres.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091596-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 World Rowing Championships\nThe 1970 World Rowing Championships was the 3rd World Rowing Championships. It was held in 1970 at the Royal Canadian Henley Rowing Course in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. The competition involved seven events. Prior to the 4th World Rowing Championships in 1974, only men competed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091596-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 World Rowing Championships, Background\nThe International Rowing Federation (FISA) held a congress in conjunction with the 1967 European Rowing Championships in Vichy, France. At that congress, it was decided that the 1970 World Championships would be held outside of Europe, and that Canada was likely be chosen as host.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091596-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 World Rowing Championships, Finals\n+ 7 boat final following protest in semi finals from Australia", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091597-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 World Series\nThe 1970 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1970 season. The 67th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff between the American League champion Baltimore Orioles (108\u201354 in the regular season) and the National League champion Cincinnati Reds (102\u201360). The Orioles won, four games to one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091597-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 World Series\nIn this series Emmett Ashford became the first African American to umpire a World Series. It also featured the first World Series games to be played on artificial turf, as Games 1 and 2 took place at Cincinnati's first-year Riverfront Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091597-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 World Series\nThis was the last World Series in which all games were played in the afternoon. It was also the third time in a World Series in which a team leading three games to none failed to complete the sweep by losing Game 4 but still won Game 5 to clinch the series; 1910 and 1937 were the others. This was the last World Series until 2017 in which both participating teams won over 100 games during the regular season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091597-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 World Series, Background\nThe Baltimore Orioles won the American League East division by 15 games over the New York Yankees and the Cincinnati Reds won the National League West division by 14+1\u20442 games over the Los Angeles Dodgers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091597-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 World Series, Background\nComing into the World Series, the Orioles had won 14 straight including the final 11 during the regular season then defeated the Minnesota Twins, three games to none, in the American League Championship Series for the second straight year. The Reds went 32\u201330 in their last 62 regular season games, but swept the Pittsburgh Pirates, three games to none, in the National League Championship Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091597-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 World Series, Background\nThis World Series set up a classic matchup of a pair of teams laden with all-star players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091597-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 World Series, Background\nThe 1970 Cincinnati Reds squad was the first edition of the \"Big Red Machine.\" Sparky Anderson's first year as a major league manager produced 102 wins and the first of four NL pennants in a seven-year stretch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091597-0006-0001", "contents": "1970 World Series, Background\nThe Reds featured a heavy-hitting lineup that included future Hall of Famers in catcher Johnny Bench (45 home runs, 148 RBI and .293 batting average) and third baseman Tony P\u00e9rez (40, 129, .317), as well as all-time hits leader Pete Rose (15, 52, .316) in right field, NL stolen base leader Bobby Tolan (16, 80, .316) in center field and power-hitting first baseman Lee May (34, 94, .253). The Reds led the National League in batting average and finished third in runs scored. Cincinnati pitching, however, would be a weak spot throughout the Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091597-0006-0002", "contents": "1970 World Series, Background\nTwo-time 20-game winner Jim Maloney could only make three starts during the regular season and was shelved with a ruptured tendon in his toe. Two 1970 All Star game representatives, Jim Merritt (20\u201312) and rookie Wayne Simpson (14\u20133), were suffering arm injuries. Merritt, who won 20 games by the end of August, pitched less than four regular season innings after September 4. Merritt started Game\u00a05 against Baltimore, but was unable to get through the second inning. Simpson started 8\u20131 and had 14 wins by July 26, but was shelved thereafter. He did not pitch in the post season. Right-hander Gary Nolan (18\u20137, 3.26 ERA) would assume the ace role for the Reds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 691]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091597-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 World Series, Background\nBy contrast, pitching was a strength for the Baltimore Orioles as manager Earl Weaver had three, healthy 20-game winners. Mike Cuellar (24\u20138, 3.48 ERA), Dave McNally (24\u20139, 3.22) and future Hall of Famer Jim Palmer (20\u201310, 2.71) were all well-rested and ready for the Series. Weaver balanced good pitching with the hitting of 1970 AL MVP Boog Powell (35, 114, .297), Merv Rettenmund (18, 58, .322), as well as future Hall of Famers Frank Robinson (25, 78, .306) and Brooks Robinson (18, 94, .276). The Orioles led the AL in most runs scored (792), fewest runs allowed (574), complete games (60), lowest team ERA (3.15) and they were second in the AL in fielding percentage (.981) establishing themselves as the most dominant Orioles team in the modern era.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 786]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091597-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 World Series, Background\nThe 1970 World Series appearance by Baltimore was the second of what would be three-straight World Series appearances. The Reds would go on to amass four WS appearances in a seven-year stretch (1970, '72, '75 & '76, winning the last two).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091597-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 World Series, Background\nOf the four World Series Earl Weaver managed the Orioles to, the 1970 World Series was the only one that they won. They lost to the New York Mets in 1969, and to the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1971 and 1979.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091597-0010-0000", "contents": "1970 World Series, Matchups, Game 1\nThe Reds got off to a fast start, taking a 3\u20130 lead off Jim Palmer on a first-inning RBI single by Johnny Bench and a third-inning two-run homer by Lee May. The Orioles' offense answered with a two-run homer by Boog Powell in the fourth inning, off Reds starter Gary Nolan. Elrod Hendricks tied it with a homer in the fifth, and Brooks Robinson hit the game-winning homer in the seventh. In the sixth, Robinson made a spectacular backhanded grab of a hard grounder down the line by May before spinning to throw him out. It was one of several spectacular plays the Gold Glove third baseman would make in the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 650]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091597-0011-0000", "contents": "1970 World Series, Matchups, Game 1\nThe game turned in the sixth inning on a controversial call by home-plate umpire Ken Burkhart. The Reds had Bernie Carbo on third and Tommy Helms on first when Ty Cline, batting for Woody Woodward, hit a high chopper in front of the plate. Burkhart positioned himself in front of the plate to call the ball fair or foul as Carbo sped home. Baltimore catcher Hendricks fielded the ball and turned to tag Carbo with Burkhart blocking the way.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091597-0011-0001", "contents": "1970 World Series, Matchups, Game 1\nHendricks tagged the sliding Carbo with his glove hand while holding the ball in his bare right hand; all the while, Burkhart was knocked to the ground and had his back to the play. When Burkhart turned around, he saw Carbo out of the baseline because Burkhart was actually blocking Carbo's direct path to the plate as Hendricks held the ball. Burkhart signaled Carbo out without asking for help from the other umpires. Replays showed that Hendricks tagged Carbo with an empty mitt, but Carbo also missed the plate on the slide, although, unwittingly, he stood on it when he argued the \"out\" call. Both Carbo and Sparky Anderson vehemently argued the call, to no avail.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 705]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091597-0012-0000", "contents": "1970 World Series, Matchups, Game 1\nRobinson's home run put the O's ahead for the first time, while Palmer settled into a groove on the mound. Palmer allowed no hits in his final 2+2\u20443 innings of work. After he walked Pete Rose with two outs in the ninth, Pete Richert relieved Palmer and got Bobby Tolan to line out to shortstop Mark Belanger to end the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091597-0013-0000", "contents": "1970 World Series, Matchups, Game 1\nThe Jackson 5 performed \"The Star-Spangled Banner\" prior to the game, with the Lemon-Monroe High School Marching Band accompanying the group in the performance. The events were re-enacted in the 1992 miniseries The Jacksons: An American Dream, with the group performing the song a cappella.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091597-0014-0000", "contents": "1970 World Series, Matchups, Game 2\nAgain, another fast start by the Reds fell by the wayside. The Reds scored three in the first on a two-run double by Lee May, who went to third when Orioles center fielder Paul Blair bobbled the ball. Hal McRae squeeze-bunted May home for the third run. They pushed the lead to 4\u20130 on a homer by Bobby Tolan in the third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091597-0015-0000", "contents": "1970 World Series, Matchups, Game 2\nThe Orioles began their comeback innocently enough on a Boog Powell solo homer in the fourth. In the fifth, the floodgates opened. With one out, Reds' starter Jim McGlothlin gave up successive singles to pinch-hitter Chico Salmon and Don Buford. Paul Blair singled home Salmon, chasing McGlothlin and bringing in Milt Wilcox. Wilcox gave up RBI singles to Powell and Brooks Robinson and the crushing blow, a two-run double to Elrod Hendricks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091597-0016-0000", "contents": "1970 World Series, Matchups, Game 2\nThe Reds would get back one run in the sixth on a Johnny Bench home run, but that was it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091597-0017-0000", "contents": "1970 World Series, Matchups, Game 2\nAmerican actor and singer Tony Martin sang the National Anthem prior to the first pitch, which was thrown out by former NL President Warren Giles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091597-0018-0000", "contents": "1970 World Series, Matchups, Game 3\nLeft-hander Dave McNally had a banner day, pitching a complete game and scattering nine hits, while also connecting for a grand slam in the sixth inning off reliever Wayne Granger to break the game open. McNally became the first pitcher to hit a World Series grand slam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091597-0019-0000", "contents": "1970 World Series, Matchups, Game 3\nBaltimore third baseman Brooks Robinson added to his highlight reel with a spectacular display of fielding. After Pete Rose and Bobby Tolan led the game off with consecutive hits, Robinson made a sensational, leaping grab of Tony P\u00e9rez's hopper, stepped on third and fired to first for a double play. In the second inning, Robinson snagged a slow grounder hit by Tommy Helms and threw out the sprinting second baseman. And in the sixth, Robinson made a diving catch of a line drive by Johnny Bench. The Memorial Stadium fans gave Robinson a standing ovation as he came to bat in the bottom of the sixth. He responded by doubling to left.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 673]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091597-0020-0000", "contents": "1970 World Series, Matchups, Game 3\nThe Orioles got two runs in the first on Brooks Robinson's bases-loaded double off of Tony Cloninger. The Reds cut it to 2\u20131 in the second when Hal McRae singled, moved to second on a groundout and scored on Dave Concepcion's single, but Frank Robinson's home run in the third gave the Orioles that run back. Don Buford's home run in the fifth extended their lead to 4\u20131. Next inning Dave McNally's grand slam off of Wayne Granger blew the game open and put the Orioles up 8\u20131. The Reds got two runs in the seventh on Dave Concepcion's sacrifice fly and Pete Rose's RBI single, but the Orioles got a run in the bottom half on Paul Blair's RBI double off of Don Gullett. The Orioles took a commanding 3\u20130 series lead with a 9\u20133 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 767]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091597-0021-0000", "contents": "1970 World Series, Matchups, Game 4\nThe Reds staved off a Series sweep thanks to clutch hitting by Lee May and stellar relief pitching by rookie Don Gullett and veteran Clay Carroll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091597-0022-0000", "contents": "1970 World Series, Matchups, Game 4\nWith a 2\u20131 lead in the third, Reds' starter Gary Nolan gave up two-out RBI singles to Frank Robinson and Brooks Robinson. Gullett relieved Nolan and surrendered another RBI single to Elrod Hendricks. The Reds crept back in the fifth on a homer by Pete Rose.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091597-0023-0000", "contents": "1970 World Series, Matchups, Game 4\nGullett gave up an unearned run in the sixth when Hendricks singled Brooks Robinson to third and Robinson scored when Rose's attempted throw from right field sailed past Tony P\u00e9rez at third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091597-0024-0000", "contents": "1970 World Series, Matchups, Game 4\nIn the eighth, Perez walked and Johnny Bench singled off Baltimore starter Jim Palmer, who was then relieved by Eddie Watt. Lee May then slammed a three-run homer on the first pitch he saw from Watt to put the Reds ahead. Carroll, who had entered in the seventh, made the lead stand. Gullett and Carroll combined to pitch 6+1\u20443 innings, allowing four hits and one unearned run. The Reds' victory snapped Baltimore's 17-game winning streak which included the final 11 regular-season games and a three-game sweep over Minnesota in the ALCS. It also ended Cincinnati's six-game World Series losing streak, including the last three games in the 1961 World Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 695]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091597-0025-0000", "contents": "1970 World Series, Matchups, Game 5\nRain showers threatened to delay game 5, but it kept the Memorial Stadium crowd from being less than capacity. Seemingly re-energized from their game 4 win, the Reds rocked Orioles starter Mike Cuellar for three runs in the first on an RBI single by Johnny Bench and a two-run double by Hal McRae. Cuellar stayed in the game and got Tommy Helms to ground out to Mark Belanger for the final out. The Orioles scored two runs in the bottom of the first against Reds' 20-game winner Jim Merritt, who had been battling a sore arm and had not pitched in 10 days. Merritt allowed more two runs in the second inning before being lifted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 664]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091597-0026-0000", "contents": "1970 World Series, Matchups, Game 5\nFrank Robinson hit a two-run home run, Merv Rettenmund also had a homer and two RBI, and Davey Johnson had two RBI to pace the Orioles' attack. After the rocky first inning, Cuellar settled down and allowed no runs and two hits in the final eight innings for a complete-game victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091597-0027-0000", "contents": "1970 World Series, Matchups, Game 5\nBrooks Robinson won the World Series Most Valuable Player Award hitting .429, broke the record for total bases in a five-game series with 17, tied the record for most hits in one game with four, and tied teammate Paul Blair for most hits in a five-game Series with nine. Total Baseball described Brooks Robinson's fielding with, \"other-worldly defense at third (which) gave Reds right-handed hitters nightmares through the Series.\" Upon hearing that Robinson won the MVP award and a new car from Toyota, Reds' catcher Johnny Bench said, \"If we had known he wanted a car that badly, we'd all have chipped in and bought him one.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 663]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091597-0028-0000", "contents": "1970 World Series, Matchups, Game 5\nThe victory was redemption for Baltimore, who had lost to the underdog New York Mets in the 1969 World Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091597-0029-0000", "contents": "1970 World Series, Matchups, Game 5\nThe game was the last in the majors for Ashford, who became the first black umpire to work at the top level of baseball, when he was hired by the American League in 1966. Ashford reached MLB's then-mandatory retirement age of 55 in late 1969, but was allowed by AL president Joe Cronin to come back for 1970, giving him the opportunity to break the World Series color barrier for umpires. A black umpire did not call balls and strikes in a World Series game until 1993, when the NL's Charlie Williams worked the plate in Game 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091597-0030-0000", "contents": "1970 World Series, Matchups, Game 5\nThis World Series was the first in which both teams wore their last names on the backs of their uniforms. It was also the last where either team wore wool flannel uniforms. The Orioles gradually switched to double-unit uniforms throughout 1971, then went to them full-time in the American League Championship Series; their World Series opponents, the Pittsburgh Pirates, were the first team to don double-knits when they moved to Three Rivers Stadium in July 1970. The Reds, along with 15 other teams, moved from flannels to knits to start 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 581]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091597-0031-0000", "contents": "1970 World Series, Matchups, Composite line score\n1970 World Series (4\u20131): Baltimore Orioles (A.L.) over Cincinnati Reds (N.L.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 49], "content_span": [50, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091597-0032-0000", "contents": "1970 World Series, Aftermath\nThis was the second of three consecutive appearances by the Orioles, who went on to lose the following year's World Series to the Pittsburgh Pirates 4\u20133. Baltimore won both the Super Bowl and the World Series in the same season as the Baltimore Colts won Super Bowl V over the Dallas Cowboys. However, the city fell short of winning MLB, NFL and NBA championships within a one-year span as the Baltimore Bullets were swept by the Milwaukee Bucks in the 1971 NBA Finals. Such a scenario is now unlikely as the Bullets have since relocated to Washington, D.C. and renamed the Wizards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 28], "content_span": [29, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091597-0033-0000", "contents": "1970 World Series, Aftermath\nFor the Reds, this was the first of four World Series appearances in the 1970s. After losing to the Oakland Athletics four games to three in 1972, they proceeded to win back-to-back championships in 1975 (4\u20133 vs. the Red Sox) and 1976 (4\u20130 vs. the Yankees).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 28], "content_span": [29, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091598-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 World Series of Poker\nThe World Series of Poker was first held in 1970. Unlike the WSOP events that followed it, which are decided using a freeze-out tournament, the 1970 champion was decided from a vote by the players. Jack Binion invited the best seven poker players in America to his Binion's Horseshoe casino in Las Vegas, Nevada to decide who was America's best poker player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091598-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 World Series of Poker\nAfter a cash game session, Johnny Moss was voted the best in the world by \"Amarillo Slim\" Preston, Sailor Roberts, Doyle Brunson, Puggy Pearson, Crandell Addington, and Carl Cannon. Moss was awarded a silver cup rather than a bracelet, which was not established as the prize until 1976.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091598-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 World Series of Poker\nAccording to an apocryphal legend, two votes were taken to determine the best player in the world. In the first, the players were asked to vote for the best player, and, the story goes, each voted for himself. In the second vote, they were asked to vote for the second-best player, and Moss won the vote and was awarded the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091599-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 World Snooker Championship\nThe 1970 World Snooker Championship (also known as the Player's No.6 World Snooker Championship for sponsorship reasons) was a snooker tournament that took place in 1970. Like the previous year the final was held at the Victoria Hall in London, from 6 to 11 April 1970. For the second and last time the event was sponsored by Player's No.6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091599-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 World Snooker Championship\nRay Reardon won in the final 37\u201333 against John Pulman. This year was the first of Reardon's six world titles; he held the title for only seven months until the next championship in Australia during November 1970. Reardon also made the highest break of the tournament with 118.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091599-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 World Snooker Championship, Background\nThe World Snooker Championship is a professional tournament and the official world championship of the game of snooker. The sport was developed in the late 19th century by British Army soldiers stationed in India. Professional English billiards player and billiard hall manager Joe Davis noticed the increasing popularity of snooker compared to billiards in the 1920s, and with Birmingham-based billiards equipment manager Bill Camkin, persuaded the Billiards Association and Control Council (BACC) to recognise an official professional snooker championship in the 1926\u201327 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 624]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091599-0002-0001", "contents": "1970 World Snooker Championship, Background\nIn 1927, the final of the first professional snooker championship was held at Camkin's Hall; Davis won the tournament by beating Tom Dennis in the final. The annual competition was not titled the World Championship until 1935, but the 1927 tournament is now referred to as the first World Snooker Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091599-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 World Snooker Championship, Background\nIn 1952, the, following a dispute between the Professional Billiards Players' Association (PBPA) and the BACC about the distribution of income from the world championship, the PBPA members established an alternative competition known as the World Professional Match-play Championship, the editions of which are now recognised as world championships, whilst only Horace Lindrum and Clark McConachy entered for the BACC's 1952 World Snooker Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091599-0003-0001", "contents": "1970 World Snooker Championship, Background\nThe World Professional Match-play Championship continued until 1957, after which there were no world championship matches until professional Rex Williams gained agreement from the BACC that the world championship would be staged on a challenge basis, with defending champion Pulman featuring in the first match. Pulman retained the title in several challenges from 1964 to 1968. Pulman had been touring snooker clubs as promotional work for the tobacco brand John Player, and the company had sponsored his 1968 match against Eddie Charlton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091599-0003-0002", "contents": "1970 World Snooker Championship, Background\nThe good attendances for the championship match led to John Player deciding to sponsor the 1969 World Snooker Championship as a knock-out format tournament, using their \"Players No. 6\" brand. The 1969 championship is regarded as the first of the modern snooker era, and was won by John Spencer, who defeated Gary Owen 37\u201324 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091599-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 World Snooker Championship, Background\nThe 1970 Championship was sponsored by John Player, the second and last time that they were the world championship sponsors. The eight players who participated in the 1969 championship all entered again, joined by David Taylor, who had turned professional after winning the 1968 World Amateur Snooker Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091599-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, First round\nIn the first round match, Taylor played Bernard Bennett at the Yew Tree Labour Club, West Bromwich, from 15 to 17 October. Bennett won the first two frames, and the players were level at 3-3 before the first day finished with Bennett 4-3 up. He added the eighth frame, with Taylor then taking four consecutive frames. After Bennett won the 13th frame, Taylor made a break of 52 and led 8\u20136. Taylor ensured qualificatino fod the next round be securing a winning margin at 11\u20138, with the score 12-9 after dead frames.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091599-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, Quarter-finals\nOwen met Rex Williams at West Bromwich Community Centre from 1 to 6 December 1969, and won all six frames in their first session. He won the seventh frame too, before Williams registered his first frame win. With Williams missing many attempts to pot balls, Owen took a winning lead at 31\u201311, and finished 46-15 ahead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 67], "content_span": [68, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091599-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, Quarter-finals\nSpencer played Jackie Rea at the Co-Op Hall, Bolton, from 8 to 12 December, and won 31\u201315.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 67], "content_span": [68, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091599-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, Quarter-finals\nReardon and Fred Davis contested their semi-final from 15 to 19 December at Longport W.M.C., Bolton. with Reardon prevailing 31\u201326.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 67], "content_span": [68, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091599-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, Quarter-finals\nThe last quarter-final, between Pulman and Tayor, was held from 12 to 16 January 1970, at Grimsby and Cleethorpes Transport Recreation Club. Pulman won 31\u201320.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 67], "content_span": [68, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091599-0010-0000", "contents": "1970 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, Semi-finals\nSpencer and Reardon played their semi-final from 16 to 21 February at the Co-Op Hall, Bolton. Reardon defeated Spencer 37\u201333.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091599-0011-0000", "contents": "1970 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, Semi-finals\nThe second semi-final took place at Priory Social Club, Middlesbrough from 23 to 28 February, between Pulman and Owen. Pulman won 37\u201312.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091599-0012-0000", "contents": "1970 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, Final\nThe final was held at Victoria Hall, Bloomsbury Square, London, from 6 to 11 April. Reardon led 4-2 after the first session, and 8-4 after the second. On the next day, Reardon won four of the six afternoon session frames, and Pulman took four of the six evening frames, including the last three of the session, leaving Reardon 14-10 ahead. Reardon later extended his lead to 27\u201314, but Pulman narrowed the deficit to a single frame at 33\u201334. Reardon eventually won 37\u201334.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091599-0013-0000", "contents": "1970 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, Final\nReardon revieved prize money of \u00a31,125 and Pulman took \u00a3975. Pulman said after the match that Reardon had deserved to win, and acclaimed Reardon's long potting. Pulman also stated that he felt that his own consistency in matches had been diminished due to a lack of match practice, leading to lapses in concentration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091600-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 World Sportscar Championship\nThe 1970 World Sportscar Championship season was the 18th season of FIA World Sportscar Championship motor racing. It featured the 1970 International Championship for Makes and the 1970 International Cup for GT Cars, which were contested concurrently from 31 January to 11 October over a ten race series. The International Championship for Makes, which was open to Group 6 Sports-Prototypes, Group 5 Sports Cars and Group 4 Special GT Cars, was won by German manufacturer Porsche. The International Cup for GT Cars was also won by Porsche.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091600-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 World Sportscar Championship, Schedule\n\u2020 - The BOAC 1000\u00a0km was open to Group 6 Sports-Prototypes and Group 5 Sports Cars only. GT Cars did not participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091600-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 World Sportscar Championship, Season results, International Championship for Makes\nPoints were awarded for the first six places in each race on a 9-6-4-3-2-1 basis. Manufacturers were only awarded points for their highest placed car with no points awarded for positions filled by other cars from the same manufacturer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 87], "content_span": [88, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091600-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 World Sportscar Championship, Season results, International Championship for Makes\nNo points were awarded for positions filled by cars other than Group 6 Sports-Prototypes, Group 5 Sports Cars and Group 4 Special GT Cars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 87], "content_span": [88, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091600-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 World Sportscar Championship, Season results, International Championship for Makes\nOut of the ten rounds in the championship, only the best seven results counted towards the points total for each manufacturer. Discarded points are shown within brackets in the following table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 87], "content_span": [88, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091600-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 World Sportscar Championship, Season results, International Cup for GT Cars\nPoints were awarded for the first six places in the GT category at each race on a 9-6-4-3-2-1 basis. Manufacturers were only given points for their highest finishing car with no points awarded for positions filled by other cars from the same manufacturer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 80], "content_span": [81, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091600-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 World Sportscar Championship, Season results, International Cup for GT Cars\nOnly the best seven results were retained towards the championship total of each manufacturer. Discarded points are shown within brackets in the following table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 80], "content_span": [81, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091600-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 World Sportscar Championship, Season results, International Cup for GT Cars\nThe Grand Touring Car category did not participate in Round 3 at Brands Hatch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 80], "content_span": [81, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091600-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 World Sportscar Championship, The cars\nThe following models contributed towards the net point scores of their respective manufacturers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091601-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 World Weightlifting Championships\nThe 1970 Men's World Weightlifting Championships were held in Columbus, Ohio, United States from September 12 to September 20, 1970. There were 129 men from 28 nations in the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091601-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 World Weightlifting Championships\nNine weightlifters (Sandor Holczreiter, Walter Szoltysek, Vladimir Smetanin, Imre F\u00f6ldi, Henryk Trebicki, Miecyslaw Nowak, Jan Wojnowski, Yoshiyuki Miyake, Janos Bagocs) test positive for amphetamines (Dexedrine) and were disqualified. The urine samples were tested using the Beckman DK-2A ratio recording ultraviolet spectrophotometer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091601-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 World Weightlifting Championships, Medal table\nRanking by all medals: Big (Total result) and Small (Press, Snatch and Clean & Jerk)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 51], "content_span": [52, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091602-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 World Wrestling Championships\nThe 1970 World Wrestling Championships were held in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091603-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Wyoming Cowboys football team\nThe 1970 Wyoming Cowboys football team represented the University of Wyoming in the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. Led by ninth-year head coach Lloyd Eaton, they were members of the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) and played their home games on campus at War Memorial Stadium in Laramie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091603-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Wyoming Cowboys football team\nThe Cowboys had a record of 1\u20139, and Eaton was reassigned to assistant athletic director. The controversial previous season had concluded with four consecutive losses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091603-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Wyoming Cowboys football team, NFL Draft\nOne Cowboy was selected in the 1971 NFL Draft, which lasted seventeen rounds (442 selections).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091604-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Wyoming gubernatorial election\nThe 1970 Wyoming gubernatorial election took place on November 3, 1970. Incumbent Republican Governor Stanley Hathaway ran for re-election to a second term. He faced Democratic nominee John J. Rooney, a State Representative and the former Chairman of the Wyoming Democratic Party. Despite Democratic Senator Gale W. McGee's strong performance in the U.S. Senate race, Hathaway's popularity proved an insurmountable obstacle for Rooney to overcome, and the Governor won a second term in a landslide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091605-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Wyoming state elections\nA general election was held in the U.S. state of Wyoming on Tuesday, November 3, 1970. All of the state's executive officers\u2014the Governor, Secretary of State, Auditor, Treasurer, and Superintendent of Public Instruction\u2014were up for election. Continuing their success from 1962 and 1966, Republicans won all of the statewide executive offices once again, and all of them by large margins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091605-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Wyoming state elections, Governor\nIncumbent Republican Governor Stanley Hathaway ran for re-election to a second term. He was opposed by State Representative John J. Rooney, the Democratic nominee. Hathaway defeated Rooney in a landslide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091605-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 Wyoming state elections, Secretary of State\nIncumbent Republican Secretary of State Thyra Thomson ran for re-election to a third term. After facing marginal opposition in the Republican primary, Thomson faced former State Representative Howard L. Burke, the Democratic nominee, in the general election. Continuing her streak of winning large majorities, Thomson defeated Burke in a landslide to win re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091605-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 Wyoming state elections, Auditor\nIncumbent Republican State Auditor Everett T. Copenhaver ran for re-election to a second consecutive term, his fourth term as State Auditor overall. The Democratic Party did not embark on a major recruitment effort for the race, and the primary election boiled down to Mike Vinich, who served as the executive director of the state employment security commission, rancher David Laird, and businessman Frank Woodhouse. The primary election was close, with Vinich holding a several-hundred vote lead over Laird as the votes were tallied. However, Laird declined to seek a recount and conceded to Vinich, who advanced to the general election against Copenhaver. The general election was much less close, and Copenhaver handily defeated Vinich to win re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 797]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091605-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 Wyoming state elections, Treasurer\nIncumbent Republican State Treasurer Minnie A. Mitchell was unable to seek re-election to a second consecutive term, creating an open seat. Newspaper publisher Jim Griffith won the Republican primary over Cheyenne Mayor Floyd Holland, and he proceeded to the general election, where he was opposed by Democratic nominee Bob Adams, a former State Representative who had repeatedly run as the Democratic nominee for Auditor or Treasurer for several decades. Griffith ultimately defeated Adams by a wide margin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091605-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 Wyoming state elections, Superintendent of Public Instruction\nIncumbent Republican Superintendent of Public Instruction Harry Roberts declined to seek a second term, instead opting to run forCongress rather than seek re-election. Robert G. Schrader, the superintendent of schools in the city of Cody, won a crowded Republican primary to succeed Roberts. He faced Democratic nominee Patrick J. Moran, the Superintendent of the Johnson County School District No. 1, in the general election. Schrader defeated Moran by a wide margin, significantly improving from Roberts's 1966.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 66], "content_span": [67, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091606-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Yale Bulldogs football team\nThe 1970 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1970 NCAA University Division football season. The Bulldogs were led by sixth-year head coach Carmen Cozza, played their home games at the Yale Bowl and finished tied for second place in the Ivy League with a 5\u20132 record, 7\u20132 overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091607-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 Yukon general election\nThe 1970 Yukon general election was held on 8 September 1970 to elect the seven members of the 22nd Yukon Territorial Council. The council was non-partisan and had merely an advisory role to the federally appointed Commissioner. There were twenty-one candidates, and 5,152 out of a potential 7,700 electors voted, a turnout of 66.9%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091607-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 Yukon general election\nThe members elected to the council were Hilda Watson, Ken McKinnon, Norman Chamberlist, Don Taylor, Clive Tanner, Mike Stutter and Ronald Rivett. Watson and Chamberlist were the two members appointed to the council's new executive committee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091608-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 ascariasis poisoning incident\nThe 1970 ascariasis poisoning incident was a poisoning incident that took place in Quebec in February, 1970. At least seven people claimed to have been infected with parasitic worm eggs by Eric Kranz, a former postgraduate student from Hempstead, New York. The victims were Canadians Richard Davis, William Butler, David Fisk, and Keith Fern, with three other friends and acquaintances reported to be mildly infested. Doctors said that one of the men may have been affected by as many as 400,000 larvae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091608-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 ascariasis poisoning incident\nEric Kranz was a 23-year-old postdoctoral student in parasitology at Macdonald College in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec. He shared a house with four roommates: Davis, Butler, Fisk, and Fern. The roommates were at odds with Kranz, who had not paid rent totalling $16.66, and asked him to move out. Kranz became agitated and allegedly told the roommates, \"I'll put parasites in your food and you'll wake up dead\". Kranz did pay the full rent balance on January 31, but the roommates evicted him anyway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091608-0001-0001", "contents": "1970 ascariasis poisoning incident\nSome time around February 1, Kranz prepared a festive Winter Carnival dinner for his roommates, and allegedly tainted the food with eggs stolen from the university laboratory where he studied. The roommates were hospitalized around February 12, and Kranz left Quebec a couple of days later. As the medical investigation continued, doctors suspected poisoning and authorities were notified. On February 25 Kranz was charged with attempted murder and a warrant was sought for his arrest. He returned voluntarily to Quebec, surrendered to authorities on the 9th of March, pleaded not guilty, and was remanded on bail.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 649]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091608-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 ascariasis poisoning incident, Trial and acquittal\nKranz went on trial in June, 1971, charged with intentionally endangering the lives of his four roommates. There was expert evidence before the court consistent with the presence of ascaris larvae in the bodies of two of the complainants: however, opinions from three other laboratory sources were not available. The defence further claimed that the infection could have occurred by way of a recurring sewage backup into the kitchen sink of the house: a version of events which was denied by at least one of the complainants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 55], "content_span": [56, 581]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091608-0002-0001", "contents": "1970 ascariasis poisoning incident, Trial and acquittal\nKranz also pointed out in the course of his testimony that his roommates could have come into contact with ascariasis eggs simply by handling his clothing. Following consideration of the evidence, Judge Gerard Laganiere held that there was insufficient evidence to demonstrate the defendant's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, and Kranz was acquitted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 55], "content_span": [56, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091608-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 ascariasis poisoning incident, Medical aspects\nAbout a week after the dinner, the roommates began to develop cough, dyspnea, anorexia, and fever. The symptoms did not improve, and on February 12 they sought treatment at Queen Elizabeth Hospital's emergency room with symptoms of acute respiratory distress. In addition to these symptoms physicians noted wheezing and the appearance of hives. The roommates were treated for pneumonia, but the infection did not respond to antibiotics. Davis and Butler were in critical condition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091608-0003-0001", "contents": "1970 ascariasis poisoning incident, Medical aspects\nAfter about four days, the staff was able to confirm the ascariasis diagnosis upon isolating live larvae, about 4\u00a0mm long, in the sputum and gastric washings. This confirmed exposure to ascariasis ova which were in the microscopic larval stage, migrating via the blood from intestine to lung. As these larvae ascended the trachea and were swallowed again they began developing into mature worms. Four weeks after infection, the victims passed numerous immature worms in bowel movements. Physicians cleared the developing adults with a course of piperazine, effectively ending the infestation. The victims were released from the hospital March 5, but the attending physician said that one of the men would probably have permanent lung damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 793]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091608-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 ascariasis poisoning incident, Medical aspects\nThis infection established a baseline case or index case for Ascaris suum infection in humans. Doctors had originally consulted Walter Reed Army Medical Center but found no precedent for human infection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091609-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 elections in India, Legislative Assembly elections, Kerala\nElections were held in 1970 in Kerala State for the Kerala Legislative Assembly", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 63], "content_span": [64, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091610-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 floods in Romania\nThe 1970 floods in Romania, brought on by river swelling caused by torrential rains, high winds and a heat wave that melted snow in the Carpathian Mountains, were the worst in modern Romanian history in loss of life, and caused the most damage up to the 2006 floods: at least $500 million; perhaps over $1 billion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091610-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 floods in Romania, Flooding\nThe floods began around May 12 and lasted into mid-June. 209 people were killed, 41,000 houses were damaged or totally destroyed (leaving at least 265,000 homeless), over a million arable acres were inundated, over 100,000 sheep, pigs, cows and chickens (including over 35,000 head of cattle) drowned, 146 factories were idled at least temporarily, and over 250 miles (400\u00a0km) of highway required repair. At least 240,000 people were evacuated, some repeatedly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091610-0001-0001", "contents": "1970 floods in Romania, Flooding\n37 of Romania's then 39 counties were severely damaged, with 230 towns and villages hit in just the first twelve days, including Sighi\u0219oara and Media\u0219, the women and children of which were evacuated to centres in hill villages while the men salvaged possessions. Airports, including those at Sibiu and Satu Mare, were flooded and closed. Railway systems were damaged, and landslides blocked roads and carried away telegraph lines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091610-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 floods in Romania, Flooding\nBroadly speaking, floodwaters moved from the northern and central regions toward the Danube lowlands in the south and east. The Prahova, T\u00e2rnava, Olt (threatening R\u00e2mnicu V\u00e2lcea and Slatina) and Tisza rivers were among those affected, as well as the Danube (which rose up to 6\u00bd ft above normal spring high-water levels, flooding docks and port installations in Turnu Severin), Prut and Siret.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091610-0002-0001", "contents": "1970 floods in Romania, Flooding\nAs crests rolled onward, downstream localities knew to fear the worst: for instance, Gala\u021bi and Br\u0103ila knew by June 3 that floods from three weeks earlier would reach them on June 11, the question being if their dikes would hold. The neighbouring Soviet Union and Bulgaria were not nearly as threatened, as the Prut and Danube banks are steep and high on their shores. The floods also came in phases: for instance, the waters were just beginning to recede when on May 23\u201324 renewed heavy rain and snowfalls raised their level again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091610-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 floods in Romania, Flooding\nSignificant resources were mobilised to fight the waters and their effects. Medical teams toured most areas of the country warning people not to drink polluted water (many drinking water installations were destroyed) and inoculating all citizens aged 2 to 55 against typhoid fever. Thousands of soldiers and civilians worked around the clock to build miles of new dikes and reinforce old ones.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091610-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 floods in Romania, Political ramifications and international response\nThe floods had political ramifications as well. General Secretary Nicolae Ceau\u0219escu took personal direction of some emergency measures in the Br\u0103ila and Gala\u021bi areas, particularly sensitive because their heavy industry and grain-shipping centres are near the Danube, Prut and Siret, all three of which were swollen and which merge four miles (6\u00a0km) upstream from Gala\u021bi. On May 22, wearing a black turtleneck sweater, workman's cloth cap and farmer's jacket, Ceau\u0219escu and high Romanian Communist Party leaders spent hours superintending the completion of a five-mile (8\u00a0km)-long earth and timber dike at Br\u0103ila.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 74], "content_span": [75, 687]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091610-0004-0001", "contents": "1970 floods in Romania, Political ramifications and international response\nIn foreign policy, the floods offered him an opportunity to continue Romania's independent foreign policy, which sought to keep its distance from the Soviet Union.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 74], "content_span": [75, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091610-0004-0002", "contents": "1970 floods in Romania, Political ramifications and international response\nWhile at the height of the floods, he made a sudden trip to Moscow, followed a week later by Prime Minister Ion Gheorghe Maurer, this worried Romanians and Ceau\u0219escu then toured the country, saying over and over in speeches to flood victims that his policy remained unchanged\u2014national independence and sovereignty, noninterference in the internal affairs of other states, equality between governments and between Communist parties, and the right of each party to shape its own policies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 74], "content_span": [75, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091610-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 floods in Romania, Political ramifications and international response\nThe provision of foreign aid also reflected this independent course. The single largest relief payment, the equivalent of $400,000, came from the People's Republic of China, then embroiled in the Sino-Soviet split. The first relief plane came from Israel; Romania was the only Eastern Bloc country to have relations with Israel at the time. Aid from the United States and the Netherlands soon followed, but a week passed before the USSR sent a message and an offer of aid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 74], "content_span": [75, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091610-0005-0001", "contents": "1970 floods in Romania, Political ramifications and international response\nMoreover, Western companies offered to repair or replace damaged industrial equipment they had furnished: the Gala\u021bi iron and steel plant (Romania's largest) was built with Western expertise and equipment against Soviet opposition. Over a dozen countries, including France and Yugoslavia, gave aid. British aid organisations promised 50 tons of food, children's clothing and medicine, while West Germany sent a number of mobile water-purification units. A special fund was set up in Bucharest to assist flood victims; money poured in from factory groups throughout Romania. In one Bucharest institute, 100 donors a day gave blood, while scores of foreign diplomats gave clothing and household items.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 74], "content_span": [75, 774]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091610-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 floods in Romania, Aftermath\nReflecting a drive for development and modernisation, the regime embarked upon a national land-improvement programme following the floods, covering drainage, irrigation, soil erosion, navigation, power, research and training in a comprehensive approach that departed from mere reliance upon control structures. Not only did Romania cope with the floods; it brought in specifically designed alleviative and preventive measures. The floods were mentioned in at least one literary work: Marin Sorescu's 1976 play Matca (\"The Matrix\"). During the rains, a woman gives birth to her child while her father is dying in an adjacent room. As the waters close in on her, her sole thought is to raise the baby above her head in an effort to save it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 772]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091610-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 floods in Romania, Aftermath\nThe main goal of building the St\u00e2nca-Coste\u0219ti Dam, completed in 1978, was to protect villages down the Prut river from floods.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091610-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 floods in Romania, Aftermath\nA memorial cross to the victims, raised in Militari, Bucharest, soon after the floods.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091611-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in Afghanistan\nThe following lists events that happened during 1970 in Afghanistan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091611-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 in Afghanistan\nProgress in establishing a modern type of administration throughout the country to replace traditional tribal institutions is steady rather than spectacular. The personal popularity of the king and his firm support of the prime minister ensures growing respect for the central government, but this does not prevent occasional outbreaks of severe intertribal hostilities. An important factor in the modernizing process to which the king has committed himself is the steady improvement of communications with the outside world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091611-0001-0001", "contents": "1970 in Afghanistan\nSeveral international airlines call regularly at Kabul, and the road from the capital to the Khyber Pass carries increasingly heavy traffic in both directions. The tourist industry receives a great impetus both from the erection on the road between Kabul and Paghman of a luxury hotel with spectacular views, and from the readiness with which the Afghan diplomatic posts in many countries grant tourist visas. External communications are stimulated by a marked improvement in relations with Pakistan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091611-0001-0002", "contents": "1970 in Afghanistan\nThe Afghan government shows increasing interest in the economic success of the Regional Cooperation for Development program (RCD), which is being vigorously pursued by Pakistan, Iran, and Turkey; a visit to Kabul by the Pakistan finance minister, Nawab Muzaffar Ali Khan Qizilbash, leads to a scheme for technical aid in the fields of irrigation, seeds, and fertilizers to help Afghanistan achieve agricultural self-sufficiency as part of its policy of decreasing its reliance on external aid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091612-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in Australia\nThe following lists events that happened during 1970 in Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 84]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091613-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in Australian literature\nThis article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091613-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 in Australian literature, Births\nA list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1970 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091613-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 in Australian literature, Deaths\nA list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1970 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091614-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in Belgian television\nThis is a list of Belgian television related events from 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 89]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091617-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in Brazilian football\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by BHGbot (talk | contribs) at 12:53, 19 June 2020 (WP:BHGbot 6 (List 5): eponymous category first, per MOS:CATORDER; WP:GENFIXES). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091617-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 in Brazilian football\nThe following article presents a summary of the 1970 football (soccer) season in Brazil, which was the 69th season of competitive football in the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091617-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 in Brazilian football, Brazil national team\nThe following table lists all the games played by the Brazil national football team in official competitions and friendly matches during 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091618-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in Brazilian television\nThis is a list of Brazilian television related events from 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 93]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091619-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in British music\nThis is a summary of 1970 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091619-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 in British music, Year-end charts, Best-selling albums\nThe list of the top fifty best-selling albums of 1970 were published in Record Mirror at the end of the year, and later reproduced in the first edition of the BPI Year Book in 1976. However, in 2007 the Official Charts Company published album chart histories for each year from 1956 to 1977, researched by historian Sharon Mawer, and included an updated list of the top ten best-selling albums for each year based on the new research. The updated top ten for 1970 is shown in the table below.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 59], "content_span": [60, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091620-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in British radio\nThis is a list of events in British radio during 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 76]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091621-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in British television\nThis is a list of British television related events from 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 89]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091623-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in Cambodia\nThe following lists events that happened during 1970 in Cambodia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 82]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091625-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in Canadian television\nThe following is a list of events affecting\u00a0Canadian television in 1970. Events listed include television show debuts, finales, cancellations, and channel launches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091626-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in Cape Verde\nThe following lists events that happened during 1970 in Cape Verde.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 86]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091627-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in Chile\nThe following lists events that happened during 1970 in Chile.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 76]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091628-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in China\nEvents in the year 1970 in the People's Republic of China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 72]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091629-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in Croatian television\nThis is a list of Croatian television related events from 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 91]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091629-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 in Croatian television, Deaths\nThis Croatian television-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091631-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in Danish television\nThis is a list of Danish television related events from 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 87]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091633-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in Dutch television\nThis is a list of Dutch television related events from 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 85]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091634-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in Estonia\nThis article lists events that occurred during 1970 in Estonia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 79]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091635-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in Estonian television\nThis is a list of Estonian television related events from 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 91]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091637-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in French television\nThis is a list of French television related events from 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 87]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091638-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in German television\nThis is a list of German television related events from 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 87]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091640-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in Greece\nThe following lists events that happened during 1970 in Greece.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 78]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091641-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in Iceland\nThe following lists events that happened in 1970 in Iceland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 76]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091642-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in India\nEvents in the year 1970 in the Republic of India.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 63]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091645-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in Irish television\nThe following is a list of events relating to television in Ireland from 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091646-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in Israel, Events, Israeli\u2013Palestinian conflict\nThe most prominent events related to the Israeli\u2013Palestinian conflict which occurred during 1970 include:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 52], "content_span": [53, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091646-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 in Israel, Events, Israeli\u2013Palestinian conflict\nThe most prominent Palestinian Arab terror attacks committed against Israelis during 1970 include:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 52], "content_span": [53, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091646-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 in Israel, Events, Israeli\u2013Palestinian conflict\nThe most prominent Israeli military counter-terrorism operations (military campaigns and military operations) carried out against Palestinian militants during 1970 include:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 52], "content_span": [53, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091647-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in Italian television\nThis is a list of Italian television related events from 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 89]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091647-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 in Italian television, Shows of the year, Miniseries, Mystery\nCoralba and I gioved\u00ec della signora Giulia are the first Italian mysteries shot in colors (also if, at the time, they are aired in black and white).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 66], "content_span": [67, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091648-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in Japan\nEvents from the year 1970 in Japan. It corresponds to Sh\u014dwa 45 (\u662d\u548c45\u5e74) in the Japanese calendar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091652-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in LGBT rights\nThis is a list of notable events in the history of LGBT rights that took place in the year 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091653-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in Laos\nThe following lists events that happened during 1970 in Laos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 74]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091654-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in Luxembourg\nThe following lists events that happened during 1970 in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091655-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in Malaysia\nThis article lists important figures and events in Malaysian public affairs during the year 1970, together with births and deaths of notable Malaysians.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091657-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in Michigan\nThe Associated Press (AP) and United Press International (UPI) each selected the state's top news stories as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091657-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 in Michigan\nThe AP and UPI also selected the state's top sports stories as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091657-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 in Michigan, Population\nIn the 1970 United States Census, Michigan was recorded as having a population of 8,875,083 persons, ranking as the seventh most populous state in the country. By 1980, the state's population had grown 4.4% to 9,262,078 persons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091657-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 in Michigan, Population, Cities\nThe following is a list of cities in Michigan with a population of at least 70,000 based on 1970 U.S. Census data. Historic census data from 1960 and 1980 is included to reflect trends in population increases or decreases. Cities that are part of the Detroit metropolitan area are shaded in tan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 36], "content_span": [37, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091657-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 in Michigan, Population, Counties\nThe following is a list of counties in Michigan with populations of at least 120,000 based on 1970 U.S. Census data. Historic census data from 1960 and 1980 are included to reflect trends in population increases or decreases. Counties that are part of the Detroit metropolitan area are shaded in tan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 38], "content_span": [39, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091657-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 in Michigan, Music\nSeveral songs performed by Michigan acts and/or recorded in Michigan ranked on the Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1970, including the following:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 23], "content_span": [24, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091657-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 in Michigan, Music\nAlbums released by Michigan acts and/or recorded in Michigan in 1970 included the following:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 23], "content_span": [24, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091658-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in New Zealand\nThe following lists events that happened during 1970 in New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091658-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 in New Zealand, Incumbents, Government\nThe 36th Parliament of New Zealand commenced, with the second National government in power.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 43], "content_span": [44, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091658-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 in New Zealand, Arts and literature, Radio and Television\nSee : 1970 in New Zealand television, 1970 in television, List of TVNZ television programming, Category:Television in New Zealand, Category:New Zealand television shows, Public broadcasting in New Zealand", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 62], "content_span": [63, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091658-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 in New Zealand, Arts and literature, Film\nSee : Category:1970 film awards, 1970 in film, List of New Zealand feature films, Cinema of New Zealand, Category:1970 films", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 46], "content_span": [47, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091662-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in Norwegian football\nThe 1970 season was the 65th season of competitive football in Norway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091663-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in Norwegian music\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by BHGbot (talk | contribs) at 12:56, 19 June 2020 (WP:BHGbot 6 (List 5): eponymous category first, per MOS:CATORDER; fixed sort key; WP:GENFIXES). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091663-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 in Norwegian music\nThe following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 1970 in Norwegian music.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091665-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in Philippine television\nThe following is a list of events affecting Philippine television in 1970. Events listed include television show debuts, finales, cancellations, and channel launches, closures and rebrandings, as well as information about controversies and carriage disputes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091667-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in Rhodesia\nThe following lists events that happened during 1970 in the self-declared Republic of Rhodesia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091669-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in Scottish television\nThis is a list of events in Scottish television from 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 86]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091670-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in Singapore\nThe following lists events that happened during 1970 in Singapore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 84]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091671-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in Somalia\nThe following lists events that happened during 1970 in Somalia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 80]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091672-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in South Africa\nThe following lists events that happened during 1970 in South Africa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091676-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in Swedish football\nThe 1970 season in Swedish football, starting April 1970 and ending November 1970:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091677-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in Taiwan\nEvents from the year 1970 in Taiwan, Republic of China. This year is numbered Minguo 59 according to the official Republic of China calendar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091678-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in Thailand\nThe year 1970 was the 189th year of the Rattanakosin Kingdom of Thailand. It was the 25th year in the reign of King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX), and is reckoned as year 2513 in the Buddhist Era.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091678-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 in Thailand, Events, December\nThis Thailand-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 34], "content_span": [35, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091680-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in Wales\nThis article is about the particular significance of the year 1970 to Wales and its people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091682-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in architecture\nThe year 1970 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091684-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in association football\nThe following are the football (soccer) events of the year 1970 throughout the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091686-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in baseball\nThe following are the baseball events of the year 1970 throughout the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091687-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in basketball\nThe following are the basketball events of the year 1970 throughout the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091687-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 in basketball\nThe following are the basketball events of the year 1970 throughout the world. Tournaments include international (FIBA), professional (club) and amateur and collegiate levels.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091688-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in comics\nNotable events of 1970 in comics. See also List of years in comics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 82]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091688-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 in comics, Awards, Goethe Awards\nPublished in a 1971 issue of Maggie Thompson's fanzine Newfangles for comics published in 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 37], "content_span": [38, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091688-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 in comics, Awards, Shazam Awards\nPresented in 1971 for comics published in 1970: (Award presentation: May 12, 1971, at the Statler Hilton Hotel's Terrace Ballroom.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 37], "content_span": [38, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091689-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in country music\nThis is a list of notable events in country music that took place in the year 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091689-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 in country music, Events, No Dates\nEarly in the year, Marty Robbins suffers a major heart attack which almost takes the life of the country star.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 39], "content_span": [40, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091690-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in film, Highest-grossing films (U.S.)\nThe top ten 1970 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 43], "content_span": [44, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091691-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in fine arts of the Soviet Union\nThe year 1970 was marked by many events that left an imprint on the history of Soviet and Russian fine arts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091692-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in games\nThis page lists board and card games, wargames, and miniatures games published in 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091693-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in heavy metal music\nThis is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091694-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in jazz\nThis is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 76]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091695-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in literature\nThis article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091696-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in motorsport\nThe following is an overview of the events of 1970 in motorsport including the major racing events, motorsport venues that were opened and closed during a year, championships and non-championship events that were established and disestablished in a year, and births and deaths of racing drivers and other motorsport people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091696-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 in motorsport, Annual events\nThe calendar includes only annual major non-championship events or annual events that had significance separate from the championship. For the dates of the championship events see related season articles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 33], "content_span": [34, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091697-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in music\nList of notable events in music that took place in the year 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 79]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091697-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 in music, Albums released\nIn 1970, 4,000 albums and 5,700 singles were released in the US.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 30], "content_span": [31, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091697-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 in music, Biggest hit singles\nThe following songs achieved the highest in the charts of 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 34], "content_span": [35, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091698-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in paleontology\nPaleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. This includes the study of body fossils, tracks (ichnites), burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces (coprolites), palynomorphs and chemical residues. Because humans have encountered fossils for millennia, paleontology has a long history both before and after becoming formalized as a science. This article records significant discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091698-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 in paleontology, Arthropods, Newly named insects\nA scorpionfly family, type sp. H. maculosa No formal description provided", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 53], "content_span": [54, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091698-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 in paleontology, Archosauromorphs, Newly named birds\nA Spheniscidae, this is the type species of the new genus, Carolina Acosta Hospitaleche, 2007 transferred the species to the genus Palaeospheniscus Moreno et Mercerat, 1891.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 57], "content_span": [58, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091698-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 in paleontology, Archosauromorphs, Newly named birds\nAn Anatidae, this is the type species of the new genus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 57], "content_span": [58, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091698-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 in paleontology, Archosauromorphs, Newly named birds\nDescribed as a Bucconidae, Feduccia et Martin, 1976 erected the family Primobucconidae for it, this is the type species of the new genus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 57], "content_span": [58, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091698-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 in paleontology, Archosauromorphs, Newly named birds\nA Meleagridae, this is the type species of the new genus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 57], "content_span": [58, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091698-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 in paleontology, Archosauromorphs, Newly named birds\nA Spheniscidae, this is the type species of the new genus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 57], "content_span": [58, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091699-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in poetry\nNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091699-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 in poetry, Works published in English\nListed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 42], "content_span": [43, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091699-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 in poetry, Works published in other languages\nListed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 50], "content_span": [51, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091699-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 in poetry, Deaths\nBirth years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 22], "content_span": [23, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091700-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in professional wrestling\n1970 in professional wrestling describes the year's events in the world of professional wrestling.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091701-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in radio\nThe year 1970 in radio saw the debut of a nationally syndicated music countdown show and the incorporation of NPR.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091702-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in rail transport\nThis article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091703-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in science\nThe year 1970 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091704-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in spaceflight\nJapan and China each launched their first satellites in 1970, bringing the total number of nations with independent launch capability to five.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091704-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 in spaceflight\nApollo 13 was launched; after suffering an explosion in deep space it had to circumnavigate the moon and use the LM as a life boat. Apollo 13 was a successful disaster in which the crew survived. The Soviet space program continued its Luna program with Luna 17, which delivered the robotic Lunokhod 1 rover to the lunar surface, and Luna 16, which achieved the first uncrewed lunar sample return. The Soviets also continued the success of the Venera Venus probes with Venera 7, the first man-made spacecraft to successfully land on another planet and to transmit data back to Earth, though it only survived 23 minutes on the surface.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 653]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091705-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in sports\n1970 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 73]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091706-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in television\nThe year 1970 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of notable television-related events in that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091707-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo\nThe following lists events that happened during 1970 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091708-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Philippines\n1970 in the Philippines details events of note that happened in the Philippines in the year 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, January\nUnder the cover of monsoon rains the Vietcong (VC) 409th Battalion attacked the 1st Battalion, 7th Marines at Firebase Ross with mortars and sappers penetrating the wire. The attack was repulsed by 04:00 with 13 Marines and 38 VC killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, January\nThe 1st Brigade, 5th Infantry Division launched Operation Green River in Qu\u1ea3ng Tr\u1ecb Province. The operation results in 106 People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) soldiers killed and 37 U.S. killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, January\nA PAVN/VC artillery attack on Bien Hoa Air Base damaged a C\u2013123, a C\u20137 and a UH\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, February\nMilitary Policemen are called to a murder scene in an apartment at Fort Bragg. Special Forces Captain Jeffrey R. MacDonald claims that four intruders attacked his family killing his pregnant wife and two young daughters. The case remains one of the most litigated murder cases in American criminal history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, February\nSergeant Michael Mullen was killed by shrapnel from friendly artillery fire while serving with the 6th Infantry Regiment in Qu\u1ea3ng T\u00edn Province. His death prompted his mother Peg Mullen to become an antiwar activist who was profiled by journalist C. D. B. Bryan in The New Yorker in 1976 and the story was subsequently made into the 1979 telemovie Friendly Fire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, February\nIn the Son Thang massacre five U.S. Marines killed five Vietnamese women and 11 children in S\u01a1n Th\u1eafng, Qu\u1ebf S\u01a1n District. Four of the Marines were charged with murder, two were acquitted and two convicted but only served sentences of one year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, February\nA PAVN/VC rocket attack on Bien Hoa Air Base damaged three A-37s, two F-100s and a C-7. Two USAF personnel were killed in these attacks and 74 wounded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, March\nOperational control of U.S. forces in I Corps passed from III Marine Amphibious Corps to XXIV Corps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, March\nOn 12 March, Cambodian prime minister Lon Nol closed the port of Sihanoukville to the North Vietnamese and demanded that all PAVN and VC forces withdraw from Cambodian soil within 72 hours (on 15 March) or face military action.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, March\nThe first FTA Show is performed in Fayetteville, North Carolina, near Fort Bragg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0010-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, March\nIn the SS Columbia Eagle incident two crewmembers seized the SS Columbia Eagle with the threat of a bomb and handgun and forced the captain to sail towards Cambodia. Twenty-four of the crew were forced to abandon the ship in lifeboats, while the remaining 13 sailed the ship into Cambodian waters and the two mutineers Clyde McKay, Jr. and Alvin Glatkowski surrendered to the Cambodia government which gave them asylum. The mutineers were later arrested and imprisoned in Cambodia, but released later in the year. Glatowski eventually turned himself in to the U.S. Embassy, was extradited to the U.S. and served seven years in prison, while McKay sought refuge with the Khmer Rouge who apparently killed him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 739]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0011-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, March\nA U.S. Navy EC-121 Warning Star crashed on landing at Da Nang Air Base. The aircraft struck a hangar and caught fire killing 22 of the 31-man crew.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0012-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, March\nThe Cambodian National Assembly voted to remove head of state Prince Norodom Sihanouk from power with Lon Nol taking the powers of the Head of State on an emergency basis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0013-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, March\nThe PAVN attacked Firebase Granite, the attack was repulsed with 10 U.S. and 10 PAVN killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0014-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, March\nNorodom Sihanouk on Beijing radio called for a general uprising against Lon Nol.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0015-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, March\nNorth Vietnam refused an offer by South Vietnam for the release and repatriation of 343 wounded or ill prisoners of war, declaring that there were no members of the PAVN in the south. The North Vietnamese representatives at the Paris Peace Talks asserted that the captives were, instead, \"illegally arrested patriots\" from among South Vietnamese citizens rebelling against the Saigon government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0016-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, March\nThe South Vietnamese Government began the Land to the Tiller program of land reform designed to redistribute land to tenant farmers and undermine support for the VC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0017-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, March\nThe PAVN 272nd Regiment hit Firebase Jay with mortar, rocket and recoilless rifle fire hitting the command post and knocking out communications. The base was occupied by Companies A and E, 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry, B Battery, 2nd Battalion, 12th Artillery and B Battery, 2nd Battalion, 19th Artillery. The PAVN then launched infantry attacks on the base perimeter but were beaten back by dawn. U.S. losses were 13 killed, while 74 PAVN dead were found in and around the base.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0018-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, April\n199th Infantry Brigade commander Brigadier General William R. Bond was killed by sniper fire in B\u00ecnh Th\u1ee7y District.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0019-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, April\nThe PAVN hit Firebase Illingworth with over 300 rounds of mortar and recoilless rifle fire and then assaulted the base with a force of over 400 troops. The base was defended by Companies C and E, 2nd Battalion, 8th Cavalry, B Battery, 5th Battalion, 2nd Artillery, A Battery, 1st Battalion, 30th Artillery, A Battery, 2nd Battalion, 32nd Artillery and B Battery, 1st Battalion, 77th Artillery. During the attack an ammunition dump containing over 190 rounds exploded. By 05:00 the attack had been repulsed at a cost of 24 U.S. killed and 54 wounded and 88 PAVN killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0020-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, April\nThree PAVN battalions attacked Song Mao Base Camp which was defended by the U.S. 2nd Squadron, 1st Cavalry and the ARVN 44th Regiment, 23rd Division. The attack was repulsed resulting in two U.S., two ARVN and 151 PAVN killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0021-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, April\nThe PAVN besiege Dak Seang Camp. On 15 April 1970 the 170th Assault Helicopter Company dropped the 3rd Battalion, 42nd ARVN Regiment into a landing zone near Dak Seang, resulting in the loss of two helicopters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0022-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, April\nOperation Texas Star was a military operation of the U.S. 101st Airborne Division and the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) 1st Division against PAVN logistics routes and bases in the A Shau Valley and the mountains east of the valley. The operation culminated in the Battle of Fire Support Base Ripcord. The operation resulted in 1,782 PAVN killed and five captured, U.S. losses were 386 killed and ARVN losses were 370 killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0023-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, April\nA group of 50,000 demonstrators picketed in Washington D.C. in the \"March for Victory\", organized by fundamentalist radio evangelist Carl McIntire. The marchers, mostly middle-aged white Americans, protested President Nixon's decision to reduce the American commitment rather than to take the war into North Vietnam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0024-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, April\nPhotojournalist Gilles Caron disappeared on Highway 1 in Cambodia. He was the first of 25 journalists to disappear or be killed by the Khmer Rouge/PAVN between 5 April and 28 October 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0025-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, April\nPhotojournalists Sean Flynn and Dana Stone disappeared on Highway 1 in Cambodia. Later investigations revealed that they were captured by the PAVN and then handed over to the Khmer Rouge who executed them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0026-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, April\nFollowing a mortar and Rocket-propelled grenade barrage, PAVN sappers attacked Mai Loc Camp which was defended by CIDG forces and a U.S. artillery unit. The PAVN withdrew leaving 19 dead, while U.S. losses were six killed and 14 CIDG were killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0027-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, April\nTwo PAVN battalions attacked Dak Pek Camp and the defenders were forced back to a small fighting position before air support forced the PAVN back. The PAVN then besieged the camp until early May when they withdrew. Total losses were 34 CIDG and 420 PAVN killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0028-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, April\nIn the village of Xom Bien, a massacre of about 600 Vietnamese Cambodians was carried out by the Khmer National Army (ANK) as part of a campaign by the Lon Nol government against the nation's Vietnamese-speaking minority. Shortly after midnight, troops entered the village, founded as a Roman Catholic mission on the waters of the Mekong River in the Chrouy Changvar area near Phnom Penh and removed the men and boys and shot them. Days later, hundreds of the corpses of the victims (which included more from outside of Xom Bien) were seen floating down the Mekong into South Vietnam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0029-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, April\nA PAVN sapper company attacked Firebase Nancy defended by a unit of the ARVN 1st Regiment, 1st Division and a U.S. artillery unit, returned fire and the PAVN withdrew. At dusk ARVN soldiers sweeping the perimeter made sporadic contact with PAVN. PAVN losses were 71 killed and nine captured and 11 individual and six crew-served weapons captured; U.S. losses were four killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0030-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, April\nThe PAVN 95C Regiment attacked Firebase Atkinson which was defended by Companies B and E, 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry and B Battery, 2nd Battalion, 19th Artillery. The PAVN attacks were beaten back with seven U.S. and 66 PAVN killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0031-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, April\nPresident Nixon announced that he would order the withdrawal of a further 150,000 American troops from South Vietnam over the next 12 months as part of the process of turning conduct of the war over to the South Vietnamese.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0032-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, April\nIn a meeting at the White House of his National Security Council, President Nixon discussed the options for the U.S. response to the continuing use of Cambodia by the PAVN/VC as a base.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0032-0001", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, April\nNational security adviser, Henry Kissinger, would recount later that the three choices were to continue the current response, favored by Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird and Secretary of State William P. Rogers; providing financial and adviser aid to an invasion by the ARVN without committing ground troops (favored by Kissinger); or sending U.S. troops and planes into Cambodia to attack the sanctuaries (favored by General Earle Wheeler, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff). While Nixon supported Kissinger's option, U.S. Vice President Spiro T. Agnew made the argument for committing U.S. troops to Cambodia, the decision that Nixon ultimately adopted", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 694]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0033-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, April\nPresident Nixon issued an Executive Order ending any future deferment from the military draft based on occupation, agriculture or fatherhood.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0034-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, April\nThe PAVN again attack Firebase Granite, the attack is repulsed with seven U.S. killed and one missing and 18 PAVN killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0035-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, April\nThe Cambodian Campaign (also known as the Cambodian Incursion) was a series of military operations conducted in eastern Cambodia by the U.S. and the South Vietnam. A total of 13 major operations were conducted by the ARVN and U.S. forces between 1 May and 30 June. In addition to the capture of large amounts of supplies and equipment 11,369 PAVN/VC were killed and 2,328 captured, ARVN losses were 638 killed and 35 missing and U.S. losses were 338 killed and 13 missing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0036-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, April\nIn a nationally televised address, President Nixon announced that he had sent 2,000 American combat troops into Cambodia and ordered U.S. B-52 bombers to begin airstrikes. Nixon reversed his April 20 announcement that he would withdraw 150,000 troops from Vietnam over the next year, in effect providing that there would again be a need to draft young American men to maintain the current force level. Nixon told viewers \"This is not an invasion of Cambodia.\" rather the attacks were upon territory in Cambodia that were \"completely occupied and controlled by North Vietnamese forces.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0037-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, May\nOperation Toan Thang IV a multi-division U.S./ARVN operation in III Corps concludes. U.S. losses are 685 killed while PAVN/VC losses are 14,479 killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 28], "content_span": [29, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0038-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, May\nProtests against the expansion of the war into Cambodia began on U.S. college campuses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 28], "content_span": [29, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0039-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, May\nFor the first time in more than 50 years, the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted to ask for a meeting with a U.S. president, after having been given no notice of the invasion, and the request was unanimous from both political parties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 28], "content_span": [29, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0040-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, May\nFour college students were shot and killed at Ohio's Kent State University, and nine others wounded by Ohio National Guardsmen, during a protest against the incursion into Cambodia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 28], "content_span": [29, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0041-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, May\nPrince Sihanouk announced from Beijing that he had formed a government-in-exile that would ally with the Communist government of China and the Khmer Rouge to overthrow head of state Lon Nol. Sihanouk's group was called \"GRUNK\" and was a coalition of government officials exiled in China (former premier Penn Nouth as the Prime Minister) and Khmer Rouge leaders within Cambodia, chief of whom was Khmer Rouge leader Khieu Samphan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 28], "content_span": [29, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0042-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, May\nAt 05:00 the PAVN 33rd Sapper Battalion attacked Firebase Henderson south of Ca Lu, Qu\u1ea3ng Tr\u1ecb Province, which was occupied by elements of the 2nd Battalion, 501st Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion, 11th Artillery, 326th Engineer Battalion and ARVN units. The attack resulted in 27 U.S., 3 ARVN and 29 PAVN killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 28], "content_span": [29, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0043-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, May\nThe PAVN/VC attacked Qu\u1ebf S\u01a1n District Headquarters with mortar fire followed by a battalion-sized ground attack. Marines of Company H, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, supported by artillery aided the besieged RF/PF units. The RF/PF lost 10 killed, the Marines one killed and the PAVN/VC 27 killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 28], "content_span": [29, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0044-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, May\nThe PAVN attacked Firebase Maureen which was defended by a platoon of the 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 28], "content_span": [29, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0045-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, May\nA group of 500 construction workers attacked a group of 1,000 student antiwar protesters outside of New York City Hall, near the intersection of Wall Street and Broad Street. More than 60 people were injured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 28], "content_span": [29, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0046-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, May\nHours before a large anti-war protest began at Washington, D.C., President Nixon surprised most of his Secret Service bodyguards and about eight demonstrators by walking in to the Lincoln Memorial at 4:55 in the morning. The Associated Press described it as a \"strange encounter, unique in recent political annals.\" As word got around that the President was chatting with students, the group had increased to 50 by the time he left, and his parting words were \"Go shout your slogans on the Ellipse. Just keep it peaceful.\" Later in the day, a crowd of about 100,000 demonstrated peacefully in the event organized by the New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam in one of many anti-war protests that took place across the nation that day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 28], "content_span": [29, 778]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0047-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, May\nMajor General John A. B. Dillard and eight others were killed when their helicopter was shot down southwest of Pleiku.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 28], "content_span": [29, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0048-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, May\nA PAVN rocket attack on Pleiku Air Base destroyed an EC-47 and damaged two more.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 28], "content_span": [29, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0049-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, May\nA pro-war rally attracted 150,000 people to New York's City Hall Park, with a crowd that included blue collar workers and union members who supported the Nixon administration's policies in the war.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 28], "content_span": [29, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0050-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, May\nChinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong, the de facto leader of the People's Republic of China, issued a statement to his people for the first time in five years, with Radio Peking delivering the word to listeners nationwide. Urging Chinese citizens to work together \"to defeat U.S. imperialism\" in Vietnam and Cambodia, Mao's statement declared, \"People of the world, unite and defeat the U.S. aggressors and all their running dogs!\" Mao went on to say that \"Nixon's fascist atrocities have kindled the raging flames of the revolutionary mass movement\" and added that \"The Chinese people firmly support the revolutionary struggle of the American people\", predicting that \"the fascist rule in the United States will inevitably be defeated.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 28], "content_span": [29, 773]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0051-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, May\nThe National League of POW/MIA Families was incorporated by a group of wives of American servicemen who were listed as prisoners of war or missing in action in the war.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 28], "content_span": [29, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0052-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, June\nPresident Nixon announced in a nationwide television and radio address that American troops would be pulled back out of Cambodia after the achievement of \"all our major military objectives\", and that half of the 31,000 U.S. troops in Cambodia had been returned to fight in South Vietnam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0053-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, June\nThe VC kill 78 South Vietnamese civilians in Thanh My hamlet, Phu Thanh village, Qu\u1ea3ng Nam Province in the Thanh My massacre.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0054-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, June\nIn the Battle of Kompong Speu a combined forces of the ARVN and ANK fought to recapture the provincial capital of Kompong Speu. The town was captured by PAVN/VC forces on June 13 but was retaken by allied forces on June 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0055-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, June\nThe Battle of Prey Veng was part of the ARVN's campaign in Cambodia. It took place in Prey Veng on June 15, 1970, where ARVN and Cambodian troops battled the PAVN/VC. It ended with an allied victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0056-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, June\n\u0110\u1eb7ng Th\u00f9y Tr\u00e2m a 27 year old PAVN doctor and a colleague were killed near \u0110\u1ee9c Ph\u1ed5, Qu\u1ea3ng Ng\u00e3i Province by a patrol from the U.S. 4th Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment in a Free-fire zone. Two of her diaries recovered by U.S. forces were later published under the title Nh\u1eadt k\u00fd \u0110\u1eb7ng Th\u00f9y Tr\u00e2m (\u0110\u1eb7ng Th\u00f9y Tr\u00e2m's Diary (Last Night I Dreamed Of Peace)).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0057-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, June\nThe United States Senate voted to repeal the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution that had supported U.S. intervention in the Vietnam War since 1964.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0058-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, June\nThe 198th Light Infantry Brigade launched Operation Pennsylvania Square in Qu\u1ea3ng T\u00edn Province. The operation resulted in 264 PAVN/VC killed and 13 captured, U.S. losses were 20 killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0059-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, June\nNaval Support Activity Danang was deactivated and its role taken over by U.S. Army units.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0060-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, July\nIn response to North Vietnam's support of Soviet Union in the Sino-Soviet split China removes its final anti-aircraft troops from North Vietnam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0061-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, July\nPresident Richard Nixon named diplomat David K.E. Bruce to head the U.S. delegation to the peace talks in Paris with North Vietnam and the VC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0062-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, July\nThe Battle of Fire Support Base Ripcord was a 23-day battle between the 2nd Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division and the PAVN 324B Division from 1 to 23 July. The battle resulted in 422 PAVN and 75 U.S. killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0063-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, July\nTo unify command and strengthen the administration of the South Vietnamese military President Thi\u1ec7u incorporated the Regional and Popular Forces into the ARVN and redesignated Corps Tactical Zones as Military Regions (MRs). Under the reorganization the Corps deputy commander conducted major offensive operations in the MR while the MR deputy commander, in charge of territorial defense and pacification, commanded the RFs and PFs. Concurrently, MACV and the Joint General Staff completed plans to incorporate the CIDGs into ARVN Border Defense Ranger Battalions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0064-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, July\nWhile on a congressional tour of the South Vietnamese prison on C\u00f4n S\u01a1n Island, aide Tom Harkin photographed the \"tiger cages\" which were used to hold communist cadres, the photos were published in Life Magazine on 17 July 1970 causing international outrage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0065-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, July\nOperation Maeng Da was a Royal Lao Army (RLA) operation against the PAVN logistics hub at Tchepone. The PAVN 9th Regiment offered stiff resistance and the RLA were forced to withdraw having only temporarily interrupted PAVN supply routes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0066-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, July\nThe H\u1ea3i L\u0103ng PF Platoon; RF group 1/11 and Companies 121 and 122; and CAPs 4-3-2 and 4-1-2, located nine kilometers southeast of Qu\u1ea3ng Tr\u1ecb, were attacked by a PAVN/VC force. Supported by gunships and artillery, the Marines/ARVN killed 135 PAVN/VC and captured 74 weapons while losing 16 killed and six missing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0067-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, July\n1st Cavalry Division commander Major General George W. Casey and six others were killed when their helicopter crashed into a mountain in poor weather.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0068-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, July\nThe 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division and the ARVN 3rd Regiment, 1st Division launched Operation Clinch Valley to engage the PAVN 9th Regiment on the Khe Sanh plateau. The operation resulted in 266 PAVN killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0069-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, July\nA CH-53D was hit by a surface to air missile and crashed near Qu\u1ea3ng Tr\u1ecb, killing 3 crewmen and 45 South Vietnamese Marines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0070-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, July\nThe 196th Infantry Brigade launched Operation Elk Canyon near Kh\u00e2m \u0110\u1ee9c, Qu\u1ea3ng T\u00edn Province. The operation resulted in 107 PAVN killed and one captured, U.S. losses were 37 killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0071-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, July\nThe 1st Marine Division launched Operation Pickens Forest to attack PAVN base areas in the mountains of Qu\u1ea3ng Nam Province. The operation resulted in 99 PAVN killed, Marine losses were four killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0072-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, July\nThe 1st Battalion, 11th Infantry Regiment and elements of the ARVN 1st Division launched Operation Wolfe Mountain to conduct reconnaissance in force, rocket suppression and night ambush operations in Qu\u1ea3ng Tr\u1ecb Province. The operation resulted in 242 PAVN killed, U.S. losses were 27 killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0073-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, July\nThe 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division and the ARVN 1st Division launched Operation Chicago Peak in the A Shau Valley. The operation resulted in 99 PAVN killed and 3 ARVN killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0074-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, August\nOperation Chenla I was an operation involving the ANK launched the operation during late August 1970 with limited air support from the ARVN and Republic of Vietnam Air Force. The operation was terminated in February 1971, after the Cambodian High Command made a decision to withdraw some units from Tang Kauk to protect Phnom Penh after Pochentong Airbase was attacked. The objective of the operation was to reconnect Skoun and Kompong Cham along Route 7, which was repeatedly attacked by PAVN/VC forces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0075-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, August\nIn the siege of Firebase O'Reilly 570 PAVN were killed for the loss of 61 ARVN and two U.S.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0076-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, August\nA bomb exploded next to Sterling Hall, University of Wisconsin aimed at destroying the Army Mathematics Research Center killing researcher Robert Fassnacht.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0077-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, August\nThe Chicano Moratorium against the war began in East Los Angeles. A parade through the streets quickly became violent and three days of rioting followed, spreading into South Los Angeles and into Wilmington, California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0078-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, August\nThe South Vietnamese Senate election was held and two-thirds of the eligible voters participated despite random attacks on polling places by the PAVN/VC. The polling was for 30 of the 60 seats in the Senate. At least 11 voters were killed, most of them in the B\u00ecnh \u0110\u1ecbnh Province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0079-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, August\nA PAVN/VC rocket attack on Cam Ranh Base destroyed two 420,000 gallon jet fuel storage tanks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0080-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, August\nOperation Honorable Dragon was an offensive by six RLA battalions to capture Pakse Site 26 and disrupt the Ho Chi Minh Trail.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0081-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, September\nThe U.S. Senate voted against a resolution by Senators George S. McGovern (D-South Dakota) and Mark O. Hatfield (R-Oregon) to force President Nixon to withdraw all American troops from Indochina by mid-1971. The vote had 39 supporters (including seven Republicans) and 55 voting against it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0082-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, September\nOperation Imperial Lake, a United States Marine Corps, Republic of Korea Marine Corps and U.S. Army operation in the Qu\u1ebf S\u01a1n District, Qu\u1ea3ng Nam Province begins. It was the last operation of the U.S. 1st Marine Division during the war. The operation resulted in 296 PAVN killed and 24 U.S. killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0083-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, September\nOperation Jefferson Glenn, an operation by the 101st Airborne Division and the ARVN 1st Division to shield critical installations in Hu\u1ebf and Da Nang begins. It was the last operation of the 101st Airborne during the war.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0084-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, September\nAn ANK amphibious force of 1,500 men broke the siege of Kompong Thom after three months, driving away the PAVN and Khmer Rouge forces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0085-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, September\nOperation Tailwind was a covert incursion into southeastern Laos by a company-sized element of U.S. Army Special Forces and Montagnard commando (Hatchet Force) of the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam Studies and Observations Group (MACV-SOG or SOG). The purpose of the operation was to create a diversion for an RLA offensive and to exert pressure on PAVN forces. The operation resulted in 54 PAVN and three U.S. killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0086-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, September\nOperation Counterpunch was an RLA offensive to recapture Moung Soui and pre-empt the PAVN wet season offensive. The operation succeeded in capturing Moung Soui and delayed the PAVN offensive by one month.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0087-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, October\nIn a nationwide address, President Nixon announced a five-point proposal for a truce to halt the war, with all sides to begin a ceasefire and the release of all prisoners of war, in exchange for broader negotiations in the Paris Peace Talks The North Vietnamese and VC delegations to the Paris Peace Talks both denounced Nixon's proposal the next day as \"a maneuver to deceive world opinion,\" but stopped short of rejecting it entirely.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0088-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, October\nThe Khmer Republic was proclaimed in Cambodia, four days after the parliament voted unanimously to abolish the 1,168 year old monarchy. Lon Nol was inaugurated as the republic's first president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0089-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, October\nThe 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines handed over An Hoa Combat Base to the ARVN 1st Battalion, 51st Regiment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0090-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, October\nThe Tchepone Operation was mounted by the RLA to attack PAVN positions at Tchepone and Muang Phine. The operation failed to secure either objective.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0091-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, October\nUPI journalists Frank Frosch and Ky\u014dichi Sawada were killed by Khmer Rouge on their way to the Kirirom Pass in Cambodia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0092-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, October\nThe PAVN attacked Landing Zone Oasis occupied by the 6th Battalion, 14th Artillery and elements of B Battery, 4th Battalion, 60th Artillery resulting in three U.S. killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0093-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, November\nU.S. Army Landing Craft Utility LCU-63 capsized in bad weather east of Hu\u1ebf killing all 11 onboard, only two bodies were recovered.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0094-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, November\nCBS broadcast a report showing troops of the 1st Cavalry Division at Firebase Aries smoking marijuana through a shotgun barrel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0095-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, November\nOperation Ivory Coast was a failed mission to rescue U.S. prisoners of war from the Son Tay prison camp conducted by United States Special Operations Forces and other elements of the U.S. military.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0096-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, November\nA USAF C-123K on approach to Nha Trang Air Base in poor visibility crashed into terrain killing six U.S. crew and 73 South Vietnamese.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0097-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, November\nA USAF C-123K on approach to Cam Ranh Air Base crashed into terrain killing 42 onboard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0098-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, December\nPresident Nixon warned that if the North Vietnamese increased the level of fighting in South Vietnam as U.S. forces withdrew he would restart bombing North Vietnam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0099-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, December\nThe ARVN 1st Task Force conducted Operation Hoang Dieu 101, a province-wide campaign of saturation patrolling in the lowlands. In the month-long effort, the South Vietnamese and cooperating U.S. and Korean Marine units claimed to have killed 538 PAVN/VC and to have captured 87 prisoners and 171 weapons. Another 45 PAVN/VC surrendered as Chieu Hoi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0100-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, December\nNorth Vietnam released their first accounting of American prisoners of war held there, with a partial list of 368 names in \"the closest thing yet to an official accounting by Hanoi\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091711-0101-0000", "contents": "1970 in the Vietnam War, December\nSouth Vietnamese forces captured Nguy\u1ec5n T\u00e0i the chief of security for the Saigon-Gia Dinh Party Committee and the highest ranking North Vietnamese cadre captured during the war.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091712-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 in the environment\nThis is a list of notable events relating to the environment in 1970. They relate to environmental law, conservation, environmentalism and environmental issues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091713-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 radio ban\nThe Australian 1970 Radio Ban or 1970 Record Ban was a \"pay for play\" dispute in the local music industry that lasted from May until October. During this period, a simmering disagreement between commercial radio stations \u2013 represented by the Federation of Australian Radio Broadcasters (FARB) \u2013 and the six largest record labels \u2013 represented by Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) \u2013 resulted in major United Kingdom and Australian pop songs being refused airplay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091713-0000-0001", "contents": "1970 radio ban\nThe government-owned Australian Broadcasting Corporation \u2013 which had its own copyright and royalty arrangement with recording and music publishing companies \u2013 did not take part in the dispute. The ban did not extend to releases by American artists. Some radio disc jockeys, such as Stan Rofe, defied the ban by playing songs according to their personal tastes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091713-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 radio ban\nTeen-oriented pop music newspaper Go-Set reported on the dispute: it interviewed affected musicians and its journalists argued for the removal of the ban. Once the ban was lifted, status quo ante resulted: APRA's record companies returned to supplying free promotional material and FARB's radio stations resumed playing their records.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091713-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 radio ban\nDuring the ban some Australian musicians recorded covers of UK artists' hits on previously minor labels. The Mixtures, for example, recorded Mungo Jerry's \"In the Summertime\" on the Fable Label which was released in August. It peaked at No. 1 for nine weeks to be displaced by \"Yellow River\" \u2013 originally by Christie \u2013 which was covered by two Australian groups, Jigsaw (from Melbourne) and Autumn (from Sydney). Music charts from the period indicate that in the years immediately following the ban, there was a significant reduction in the number of Australian acts who scored major chart peaks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091713-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 radio ban, Background\nThe 1970 Radio Ban had its origins early in 1969. Following the enactment of the new Copyright Act 1968, a group of recording companies \u2013 including most of the members of the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) \u2013 decided to scrap a long-standing royalty agreement with commercial radio stations that dated back to the 1950s. The recording companies included five major overseas labels Polygram, EMI, RCA, CBS and Warner and Australia's leading local company, Festival.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 26], "content_span": [27, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091713-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 radio ban, Background\nAPRA and the record labels demanded payment for pop records played on commercial radio claiming they were providing free programming for radio stations. Record companies traditionally supplied stations with free promotional copies of new singles. The commercial radio lobby \u2013 represented by the Federation of Australian Radio Broadcasters (FARB) \u2013 balked at the proposed levy. They argued they provided a large amount of free promotion for the records they played. The government-owned Australian Broadcasting Corporation \u2013 which had its own copyright and royalty arrangement with recording and music publishing companies \u2013 did not take part in the dispute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 26], "content_span": [27, 684]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091713-0005-0000", "contents": "1970 radio ban, Background\nIn April 1970, teen-oriented pop music newspaper Go-Set reported on the dispute and interviewed musicians including former King of Pop Normie Rowe. He feared \"it could be a major blow to the Australian scene.\" Other musicians expected the situation would be resolved. Radio disc jockey and Go-Set columnist Stan Rofe claimed discussions were progressing and the threat of a ban was over. Fellow columnist and compiler of the Go-Set National Top\u00a040, Ed Nimmervoll, predicted that its charts would be compromised as local artists' record sales were dependent on radio play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 26], "content_span": [27, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091713-0006-0000", "contents": "1970 radio ban, Background\nAfter negotiations between the parties broke down in late May 1970, the recording companies imposed a six-month embargo on the supply of promotional records to radio stations. In retaliation, FARB members boycotted all new major label releases by UK or Australian artists, but not American artists, and refused to include records from these companies in their weekly chart surveys.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 26], "content_span": [27, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091713-0007-0000", "contents": "1970 radio ban, Background\nThis was a serious matter as there was only one Australian national pop chart, published by Go-Set, and most Top\u00a040 charts were collated locally by individual radio stations in major cities and towns. Darryl Cotton, lead singer of pop group Zoot was concerned that the public would be unaware of new releases by local acts. Solo singer Ronnie Burns believed it would affect groups more than individuals, who had greater access to television shows.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 26], "content_span": [27, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091713-0008-0000", "contents": "1970 radio ban, Background\nAnother singer, Russell Morris, criticised the policy which led to the ban, \"[the Government] didn't realise that the pop recording market is a very large and important industry\". As from 30 May, Nimmervoll's charts in Go-Set were based on direct surveying of large record-selling stores instead of relying on radio stations' Top\u00a040s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 26], "content_span": [27, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091713-0009-0000", "contents": "1970 radio ban, Background\nSome disc jockeys, including Rofe, defied the ban on their radio shows \u2013 he regularly played \"Turn Up Your Radio\" by The Masters Apprentices which had been issued by EMI in April. Rofe also championed the cause of Australian musicians in Go-Set by criticising mainstream media coverage of the dispute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 26], "content_span": [27, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091713-0010-0000", "contents": "1970 radio ban, Background\nDuring the ban, many UK hits like The Beatles' \"The Long and Winding Road\" and Mary Hopkin's \"Knock, Knock Who's There?\" gained only limited exposure in Australia. Some local artists released cover versions of UK hits; Melbourne singer Liv Maessen's \"Knock, Knock, Who's There\" debuted in the Top\u00a010 in May with co-credit to Hopkin and Maessen. It eventually peaked at No. 2 in early August and earned Maessen the first gold record ever awarded to an Australian female artist.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 26], "content_span": [27, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091713-0010-0001", "contents": "1970 radio ban, Background\n\"In the Summertime\" by The Mixtures was a cover of Mungo Jerry's hit which reached No. 1 in August for nine weeks. Melbourne band Jigsaw and Sydney band Autumn both had success with their respective versions of Christie's hit song, \"Yellow River\". \"Yellow River\" displaced \"In the Summertime\" at No. 1 in late October. For a short period, the ban had the inadvertent effect of putting more local musicians to air than ever before, and also opened the door to the 'underground' artists on previously minor labels such as Fable Label.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 26], "content_span": [27, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091713-0011-0000", "contents": "1970 radio ban, Background\nMusic charts in the years immediately following the ban show there was a significant reduction in the number of Australian acts who scored major chart peaks. The Go-Set charts for 1972, for example, indicate that only two Australian acts (Colleen Hewett and Blackfeather) had national No. 1 hits; while in 1973 no Australian act scored a No. 1 hit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 26], "content_span": [27, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091714-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 \u00darvalsdeild, Overview\nIt was contested by 8 teams, and \u00cdA won the championship. \u00cdBA's Hermann Gunnarsson was the top scorer with 14 goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 26], "content_span": [27, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091715-0000-0000", "contents": "1970 \u00darvalsdeild karla (basketball)\nThe 1970 \u00darvalsdeild karla was the 19th season of the top tier men's basketball league on Iceland, then known as 1. deild karla. The season started on January 4, 1970 and ended on March 21, 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091715-0001-0000", "contents": "1970 \u00darvalsdeild karla (basketball)\n\u00cdR won their tenth title by beating \u00c1rmann 2-0 in the playoffs finals for championship. KR finished in third place after beating KFR, two games to none, in a best-of-three series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091715-0002-0000", "contents": "1970 \u00darvalsdeild karla (basketball)\n\u00de\u00f3rir Magn\u00fasson led all players in scoring during the regular season, scoring 292 points in 10 games, or 29.2 points per game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091715-0003-0000", "contents": "1970 \u00darvalsdeild karla (basketball), Competition format\nThe participating teams played each other twice for a total of 10 games. The top four teams would then enter a playoffs for the championship. \u00cdR won a coin toss with KR for the first seed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 55], "content_span": [56, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091715-0004-0000", "contents": "1970 \u00darvalsdeild karla (basketball), Playoffs, Extra game\nKFR and Njar\u00f0v\u00edk ended tied in 4-5th place with 6 points and therefore played an extra game to decide which team would go to the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091716-0000-0000", "contents": "1970/71 NTFL season\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by Paul2520 (talk | contribs) at 17:46, 17 November 2019 (Adding short description: \"50th season of the NTFL\" (Shortdesc helper)). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091716-0001-0000", "contents": "1970/71 NTFL season\nThe 1970/71 NTFL season was the 50th season of the Northern Territory Football League (NTFL).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091716-0002-0000", "contents": "1970/71 NTFL season\nDarwin have won there 18th premiership title while defeating St Marys in the grand final by 48 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091717-0000-0000", "contents": "1970: The Complete Fun House Sessions\n1970: The Complete Fun House Sessions is a seven-CD limited edition boxed set that commemorates and chronicles the entire session for Fun House, the second studio album by American proto-punk band The Stooges.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091717-0001-0000", "contents": "1970: The Complete Fun House Sessions, The original album\nAlthough when originally released, Fun House was not a big seller for either the band or Elektra Records, the album ended up being a favorite of critics like Lester Bangs and magazines like Creem. The album's reputation (as well as that of its eponymous predecessor and its 1973 follow up Raw Power) grew with the advent of punk, as the likes of Ramones, Sex Pistols and The Clash mentioned The Stooges in general, and Fun House in particular, as a major influence. Henry Rollins devoted most of a Spin magazine column to the album in 1985, furthering the reputation of the album, which was quietly put back in print not long afterward, with the first compact disc reissue occurring in 1988.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 749]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091717-0002-0000", "contents": "1970: The Complete Fun House Sessions, About the box set\n1970: The Complete Fun House Sessions was compiled from all thirteen reels of multi-track reel-to-reel tape that held every note and snippet of studio dialogue. Twelve reels of tape had been used during the sessions; the thirteenth reel was the one that held the takes that would be used for the album. In 1999, Rhino house engineers Bill Inglot and Dan Hersch mixed down every tape from end to end, placing the master takes that had been used for the master reel of the album back in their rightful position for the boxed set.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 56], "content_span": [57, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091717-0003-0000", "contents": "1970: The Complete Fun House Sessions, About the box set\nSix of the seven CDs in the box set hold every note, word, and sound from the sessions. This includes not only multiple versions of all songs but also false starts, tune-ups and jokes or conversations between the musicians and producer. The seventh CD replicates the original \"Down on the Street/1970\" mono 45 rpm single, featuring edited versions of the aforementioned tracks. The single version of \"Down On The Street\" features overdubbed organ, most likely played by producer Don Gallucci, who had played the same instrument when he was a member of The Kingsmen on their notorious garage rock classic \"Louie Louie\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 56], "content_span": [57, 675]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091717-0004-0000", "contents": "1970: The Complete Fun House Sessions, About the box set\nFor the obligatory liner notes, Stooges expert Ben Edmonds interviewed all of the surviving Stooges as well as several others who either were involved with or who admire the original album, including Henry Rollins. Instead of a book, this boxed set features Edmonds' extensive liner notes printed a section at a time in each of the first six discs' jewel case inserts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 56], "content_span": [57, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091717-0005-0000", "contents": "1970: The Complete Fun House Sessions, About the box set\nThe outer lid of the boxed set incorporates the original Fun House album artwork, while the inner box replicates the look of a cardboard record shipping box with the Elektra \"stencil E\" logo on the side, and the inserts of the first six CDs reproduce the front covers of the original session reels. The seventh CD is packaged in a reproduction of a plain paper 7\" 45 sleeve.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 56], "content_span": [57, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091717-0006-0000", "contents": "1970: The Complete Fun House Sessions, About the box set\n1970: The Complete Fun House Sessions was one of the early releases from Rhino Records' limited-edition imprint Rhino Handmade. It was released in a one-time pressing of 3000 copies, sold out within a year of its release, and helped fully establish Rhino Handmade's reputation for collector's-interest releases. The set was re-released in November 2010 by Rhino Handmade and is not individually numbered to maintain the collectability of the original release.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 56], "content_span": [57, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091717-0007-0000", "contents": "1970: The Complete Fun House Sessions, About the box set\nIn 2005, highlights from the many unreleased tracks on the album, plus the single versions of \"Down On The Street\" and \"1970\", were compiled by Rhino for use on the second disc of the deluxe double-CD reissue of Fun House. The box set was also reissued in digital download form on August 27, 2005 exclusively at the iTunes Music Store, to commemorate Rhino Records' 27th Anniversary. The box set is also notable for the long version of \"L.A. Blues\" titled \"Freak\", clocking in at over 17 minutes in length and featuring more sonic violence than the official release.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 56], "content_span": [57, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0000-0000", "contents": "1970s\nThe 1970s (pronounced \"nineteen-seventies\"; shortened to \"the '70s\") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1970, and ended on December 31, 1979.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [5, 5], "content_span": [6, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0001-0000", "contents": "1970s\nIn the 21st century, historians have increasingly portrayed the 1970s as a \"pivot of change\" in world history, focusing especially on the economic upheavals that followed the end of the postwar economic boom. In the Western world, social progressive values that began in the 1960s, such as increasing political awareness and economic liberty of women, continued to grow. In the United Kingdom, the 1979 election resulted in the victory of its Conservative leader Margaret Thatcher, the first female British Prime Minister.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [5, 5], "content_span": [6, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0001-0001", "contents": "1970s\nIndustrialized countries experienced an economic recession due to an oil crisis caused by oil embargoes by the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries. The crisis saw the first instance of stagflation which began a political and economic trend of the replacement of Keynesian economic theory with neoliberal economic theory, with the first neoliberal governments being created in Chile, where a military coup led by Augusto Pinochet took place in 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [5, 5], "content_span": [6, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0002-0000", "contents": "1970s\nThe 1970s was also an era of great technological and scientific advances; since the appearance of the first commercial microprocessor, the Intel 4004 in 1971, the decade was characterised by a profound transformation of computing units - by then rudimentary, spacious machines - into the realm of portability and home accessibility.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [5, 5], "content_span": [6, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0003-0000", "contents": "1970s\nOn the other hand, there were also great advances in fields such as physics, which saw the consolidation of Quantum Field Theory at the end of the decade, mainly thanks to the confirmation of the existence of quarks and the detection of the first gauge bosons in addition to the photon, the Z boson and the gluon, part of what was christened in 1975 as the Standard Model.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [5, 5], "content_span": [6, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0004-0000", "contents": "1970s\nNovelist Tom Wolfe coined the term \"\u200a'Me' decade\" in his essay \"The 'Me' Decade and the Third Great Awakening\", published by New York Magazine in August 1976 referring to the 1970s. The term describes a general new attitude of Americans towards atomized individualism and away from communitarianism, in clear contrast with the 1960s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [5, 5], "content_span": [6, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0005-0000", "contents": "1970s\nIn Asia, affairs regarding the People's Republic of China changed significantly following the recognition of the PRC by the United Nations, the death of Mao Zedong and the beginning of market liberalization by Mao's successors. Despite facing an oil crisis due to the OPEC embargo, the economy of Japan witnessed a large boom in this period, overtaking the economy of West Germany to become the second-largest in the world. The United States withdrew its military forces from their previous involvement in the Vietnam War, which had grown enormously unpopular. In 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, which led to an ongoing war for ten years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [5, 5], "content_span": [6, 656]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0006-0000", "contents": "1970s\nThe 1970s saw an initial increase in violence in the Middle East as Egypt and Syria declared war on Israel, but in the late 1970s, the situation in the Middle East was fundamentally altered when Egypt signed the Egyptian\u2013Israeli Peace Treaty. Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt, was instrumental in the event and consequently became extremely unpopular in the Arab world and the wider Muslim world. Political tensions in Iran exploded with the Iranian Revolution in 1979, which overthrew the Pahlavi dynasty and established an authoritarian Islamic republic under the leadership of the Ayatollah Khomeini.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [5, 5], "content_span": [6, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0007-0000", "contents": "1970s\nAfrica saw further decolonization in the decade, with Angola and Mozambique gaining their independence in 1975 from the Portuguese Empire after the restoration of democracy in Portugal. The continent was, however, plagued by endemic military coups, with the long-reigning Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie being removed, civil wars and famine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [5, 5], "content_span": [6, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0008-0000", "contents": "1970s\nThe economies of much of the developing world continued to make steady progress in the early 1970s because of the Green Revolution. However, their economic growth was slowed by the oil crisis, although it boomed afterwards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [5, 5], "content_span": [6, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0009-0000", "contents": "1970s, Politics and wars, Wars\nThe most notable wars and/or other conflicts of the decade include:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 30], "content_span": [31, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0010-0000", "contents": "1970s, Worldwide trends\nSuperpower tensions had cooled by the 1970s, with the bellicose US\u2013Soviet confrontations of the 1950s\u201360s giving way to the policy of \"d\u00e9tente\", which promoted the idea that the world's problems could be resolved at the negotiating table. D\u00e9tente was partially a reaction against the policies of the previous 25 years, which had brought the world dangerously close to nuclear war on several occasions, and because the US was in a weakened position following the failure of the Vietnam War. As part of d\u00e9tente, the US also restored ties with the People's Republic of China, partially as a counterweight against Soviet expansionism.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 23], "content_span": [24, 654]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0011-0000", "contents": "1970s, Worldwide trends\nThe US\u2013Soviet geopolitical rivalry nonetheless continued through the decade, although in a more indirect faction as the two superpowers jockeyed relentlessly for control of smaller countries. American and Soviet intelligence agencies gave funding, training, and material support to insurgent groups, governments, and armies across the globe, each seeking to gain a geopolitical advantage and install friendly governments. Coups, civil wars, and terrorism went on across Asia, Africa, and Latin America, and also in Europe where a spate of Soviet-backed Marxist terrorist groups were active throughout the decade. Over half the world's population in the 1970s lived under a repressive dictatorship. In 1979, a new wrinkle appeared in the form of Islamic fundamentalism, as the Shia theocracy of Ayatollah Khomeini overthrew the Shah of Iran and declared itself hostile to both Western democracy and godless communism.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 23], "content_span": [24, 940]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0012-0000", "contents": "1970s, Worldwide trends\nPeople were deeply influenced by the rapid pace of societal change and the aspiration for a more egalitarian society in cultures that were long colonized and have an even longer history of hierarchical social structure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 23], "content_span": [24, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0013-0000", "contents": "1970s, Worldwide trends\nThe Green Revolution of the late 1960s brought about self-sufficiency in food in many developing economies. At the same time an increasing number of people began to seek urban prosperity over agrarian life. This consequently saw the duality of transition of diverse interaction across social communities amid increasing information blockade across social class.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 23], "content_span": [24, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0014-0000", "contents": "1970s, Worldwide trends\nOther common global ethos of the 1970s world included increasingly flexible and varied gender roles for women in industrialized societies. More women could enter the work force. However, the gender role of men remained as that of a breadwinner. The period also saw the socioeconomic effect of an ever-increasing number of women entering the non-agrarian economic workforce. The Iranian revolution also affected global attitudes to and among those of the Muslim faith toward the end of the 1970s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 23], "content_span": [24, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0015-0000", "contents": "1970s, Worldwide trends\nThe global experience of the cultural transition of the 1970s and an experience of a global zeitgeist revealed the interdependence of economies since World War\u00a0II, in a world increasingly polarized between the United States and the Soviet Union.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 23], "content_span": [24, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0016-0000", "contents": "1970s, Economy\nThe 1970s were perhaps the worst decade of most industrialized countries' economic performance since the Great Depression. Although there was no severe economic depression as witnessed in the 1930s, economic growth rates were considerably lower than previous decades. As a result, the 1970s adversely distinguished itself from the prosperous postwar period between 1945 and 1973. The oil shocks of 1973 and 1979 added to the existing ailments and conjured high inflation throughout much of the world for the rest of the decade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 14], "content_span": [15, 542]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0016-0001", "contents": "1970s, Economy\nU.S. manufacturing industries began to decline as a result, with the United States running its last trade surplus (as of 2009) in 1975. In contrast, Japan and West Germany experienced economic booms and started overtaking the U.S. as the world's leading manufacturers. In 1970, Japan overtook West Germany to become the world's second-largest economy. Japan would rank as the world's second-largest economy until 1994 when the European Economic Area (18 countries under a single market) came into effect.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 14], "content_span": [15, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0017-0000", "contents": "1970s, Economy\nIn the US, the average annual inflation rate from 1900 to 1970 was approximately 2.5%. From 1970 to 1979, however, the average rate was 7.06%, and topped out at 13.29% in December 1979. This period is also known for \"stagflation\", a phenomenon in which inflation and unemployment steadily increased. It led to double-digit interest rates that rose to unprecedented levels (above 12% per year). The prime rate hit 21.5 in December 1980, the highest in history. A rising cost of housing was reflected in the average price of a new home in the U.S.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 14], "content_span": [15, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0017-0001", "contents": "1970s, Economy\nThe average price of a new home in the U.S. was $23,450 in 1970 up to $68,700 by 1980. By the time of 1980, when U.S. President Jimmy Carter was running for re-election against Ronald Reagan, the misery index (the sum of the unemployment rate and the inflation rate) had reached an all-time high of 21.98%. The economic problems of the 1970s would result in a sluggish cynicism replacing the optimistic attitudes of the 1950s and 1960s and a distrust of government and technology. Faith in government was at an all-time low in the aftermath of Vietnam and Watergate, as exemplified by the low voter turnout in the 1976 United States presidential election. There was also the 1973\u201374 stock market crash.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 14], "content_span": [15, 717]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0018-0000", "contents": "1970s, Economy\nGreat Britain also experienced considerable economic turmoil during the decade as outdated industries proved unable to compete with Japanese and German wares. Labor strikes happened with such frequency as to almost paralyze the country's infrastructure. Following the Winter of Discontent, Margaret Thatcher was elected prime minister in 1979 with the purpose of implementing extreme economic reforms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 14], "content_span": [15, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0019-0000", "contents": "1970s, Economy\nIn Eastern Europe, Soviet-style command economies began showing signs of stagnation, in which successes were persistently dogged by setbacks. The oil shock increased East European, particularly Soviet, exports, but a growing inability to increase agricultural output caused growing concern to the governments of the COMECON block, and a growing dependence on food imported from democratic nations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 14], "content_span": [15, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0020-0000", "contents": "1970s, Economy\nOn the other hand, export-driven economic development in Asia, especially by the Four Asian Tigers (Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan), resulted in rapid economic transformation and industrialization. Their abundance of cheap labor, combined with educational and other policy reforms, set the foundation for development in the region during the 1970s and beyond.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 14], "content_span": [15, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0021-0000", "contents": "1970s, Economy, Oil crisis\nEconomically, the 1970s were marked by the energy crisis which peaked in 1973 and 1979 (see 1973 oil crisis and 1979 oil crisis). After the first oil shock in 1973, gasoline was rationed in many countries. Europe particularly depended on the Middle East for oil; the United States was also affected even though it had its own oil reserves. Many European countries introduced car-free days and weekends. In the United States, customers with a license plate ending in an odd number were only allowed to buy gasoline on odd-numbered days, while even-numbered plate-holders could only purchase gasoline on even-numbered days. The realization that oil reserves were not endless and technological development was not sustainable without potentially harming the environment ended the belief in limitless progress that had existed since the 19th century. As a result, ecological awareness rose substantially, which had a major effect on the economy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 26], "content_span": [27, 968]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0022-0000", "contents": "1970s, Science and technology, Science\nThe 1970s witnessed an explosion in the understanding of solid-state physics, driven by the development of the integrated circuit, and the laser. Stephen Hawking developed his theories of black holes and the boundary-condition of the universe at this period with his theory called Hawking radiation. The biological sciences greatly advanced, with molecular biology, bacteriology, virology, and genetics achieving their modern forms in this decade. Biodiversity became a cause of major concern as habitat destruction, and Stephen Jay Gould's theory of punctuated equilibrium revolutionized evolutionary thought.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 38], "content_span": [39, 649]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0023-0000", "contents": "1970s, Science and technology, Science, Space exploration\nAs the 1960s ended, the United States had made two successful manned lunar landings. Many Americans lost interest afterward, feeling that since the country had accomplished President John F. Kennedy's goal of landing on the Moon by the end of the 1960s, there was no need for further missions. There was also a growing sentiment that the billions of dollars spent on the space program should be put to other uses. The Moon landings continued through 1972, but the near loss of the Apollo\u00a013 mission in April 1970 served to further anti-NASA feelings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 57], "content_span": [58, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0023-0001", "contents": "1970s, Science and technology, Science, Space exploration\nPlans for missions up to Apollo 20 were canceled, and the remaining Apollo and Saturn hardware was used for the Skylab space station program in 1973\u20131974, and for the Apollo\u2013Soyuz Test Project (ASTP), which was carried out in July 1975. Many of the ambitious projects NASA had planned for the 1970s were canceled amid heavy budget cutbacks, and instead it would devote most of the decade to the development of the Space Shuttle. ASTP was the last manned American space flight for the next five years. The year 1979 witnessed the spectacular reentry of Skylab over Australia. NASA had planned for a Shuttle mission to the space station, but the shuttles were not ready to fly until 1981, too late to save it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 57], "content_span": [58, 765]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0024-0000", "contents": "1970s, Science and technology, Science, Space exploration\nMeanwhile, the Soviets, having failed in their attempt at manned lunar landings, canceled the program in 1972. By then, however, they had already begun Salyut, the world's first space station program, which began in 1971. This would have problems of its own, especially the tragic loss of the Soyuz\u00a011 crew in July 1971 and the near-loss of the Soyuz 18a crew during launch in April 1975. It eventually proved a success, with missions as long as six months being conducted by the end of the decade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 57], "content_span": [58, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0025-0000", "contents": "1970s, Science and technology, Science, Space exploration\nIn terms of unmanned missions, a variety of lunar and planetary probes were launched by the US and Soviet programs during the decade. The most successful of these include the Soviet Lunokhod program, a series of robotic lunar missions which included the first unmanned sample return from another world, and the American Voyagers, which took advantage of a rare alignment of the outer planets to visit all of them except Pluto by the end of the 1980s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 57], "content_span": [58, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0026-0000", "contents": "1970s, Science and technology, Science, Space exploration\nChina entered the space race in 1970 with the launching of its first satellite, but technological backwardness and limited funds would prevent the country from becoming a significant force in space exploration. Japan launched a satellite for the first time in 1972. The European Space Agency was founded during the decade as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 57], "content_span": [58, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0027-0000", "contents": "1970s, Science and technology, Science, Space exploration\nApollo 17 Astronaut Gene Cernan becomes the last man on the Moon, December 13, 1972", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 57], "content_span": [58, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0028-0000", "contents": "1970s, Science and technology, Science, Space exploration\nAn artist impression of an American Apollo spacecraft and Soviet Soyuz spacecraft docking, a propaganda portrait for the Apollo\u2013Soyuz Test Project mission", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 57], "content_span": [58, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0029-0000", "contents": "1970s, Science and technology, Science, Space exploration\nAmerica's first space station Skylab in orbit February 8, 1974", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 57], "content_span": [58, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0030-0000", "contents": "1970s, Science and technology, Science, Space exploration\nViking 1, the first of two spacecraft sent to Mars, takes this picture of the landing site in Chryse Planitia (1978)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 57], "content_span": [58, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0031-0000", "contents": "1970s, Science and technology, Science, Space exploration\nVoyager 1 passing by Jupiter's Great Red Spot February 25, 1979", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 57], "content_span": [58, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0032-0000", "contents": "1970s, Science and technology, Science, Social science\nSocial science intersected with hard science in the works in natural language processing by Terry Winograd (1973) and the establishment of the first cognitive sciences department in the world at MIT in 1979. The fields of generative linguistics and cognitive psychology went through a renewed vigor with symbolic modeling of semantic knowledge while the final devastation of the long-standing tradition of behaviorism came about through the severe criticism of B.\u00a0F. Skinner's work in 1971 by the cognitive scientist Noam Chomsky.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 54], "content_span": [55, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0033-0000", "contents": "1970s, Science and technology, Technology, Electronics and communications\nThe birth of modern computing was in the 1970s, which saw the development of:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 73], "content_span": [74, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0034-0000", "contents": "1970s, Science and technology, Technology, Rail\nBritish Rail introduced high-speed trains on InterCity services. The trains consisted of British Rail Class 43 diesel-electric locomotives at either end with British Rail Mark 3 carriages. The trains were built in the United Kingdom by British Rail Engineering Limited. The high speed trains ran at 125 miles per hour (201\u00a0km/h) speeding up journeys between towns and cities and is still known as the InterCity 125.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 47], "content_span": [48, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0035-0000", "contents": "1970s, Science and technology, Technology, Rail\nAmtrak was formed in the United States in 1971, assuming responsibility for inter-city passenger operations throughout the country. In 1976, Conrail was formed to take over assets of six bankrupt freight railroads in the northeastern US.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 47], "content_span": [48, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0036-0000", "contents": "1970s, Science and technology, Technology, Automobiles\nThe 1970s was an era of fuel price increases, rising insurance rates, safety concerns, and emissions controls. The 1973 oil crisis caused a move towards smaller, fuel-efficient vehicles. Attempts were made to produce electric cars, but they were largely unsuccessful. In the United States, imported cars became a significant factor for the first time, and several domestic-built subcompact models entered the market. American-made cars such as the \"quirky\" AMC Gremlin, the jelly bean shaped AMC Pacer, and Pontiac Firebird's powerful Trans Am \"sum up\" the decade. Muscle cars and convertible models faded from favor during the early-1970s. It was believed that the 1976 Cadillac Eldorado would be the last American-built convertible; ending the open body style that once dominated the auto industry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 54], "content_span": [55, 855]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0037-0000", "contents": "1970s, Science and technology, Technology, Automobiles\nCars in the U.S. from the early 1970s are noted more for their power than their styling, but they even lost their power by Malaise era of the late-1970s. Styling on American cars became progressively more boxy and rectilinear during the 1970s, with coupes being the most popular body style. Wood paneling and shag carpets dominated the interiors. Many automobiles began to lose their character and looked the same across brands and automakers, as well as featuring \"luxury\" enhancements such as vinyl roofs and opera windows. Only a few had \"real personalities\" such as the AMC Gremlin, which was America's first modern subcompact, and the AMC Pacer. \"These two cars embody a sense of artful desperation that made them stand out from the crowd and epitomize at once the best and worst of the seventies.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 54], "content_span": [55, 858]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0038-0000", "contents": "1970s, Science and technology, Technology, Automobiles\nAutomobiles in the U.S. reached the largest sizes they would ever attain, but by 1977, General Motors managed to downsize its full-size models to more manageable dimensions. Ford followed suit two years later, with Chrysler offering new small front-wheel-drive models, but was suffering from a worsening financial situation caused by various factors. By 1979, the company was near bankruptcy, and under its new president Lee Iacocca (who had been fired from Ford the year before), asked for a government bailout. American Motors beat out the U.S. Big Three to subcompact sized model (the Gremlin) in 1970, but its fortunes declined throughout the decade, forcing it into a partnership with the French automaker Renault in 1979.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 54], "content_span": [55, 782]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0039-0000", "contents": "1970s, Science and technology, Technology, Automobiles\nEuropean car design underwent major changes during the 1970s due to the need for performance with high fuel efficiency\u2014designs such as the Volkswagen Golf and Passat, BMW 3, 5, and 7 series, and Mercedes-Benz S-Class appeared at the latter half of the decade. Ford Europe, specifically Ford Germany, also eclipsed the profits of its American parent company. The designs of Giorgetto Giugiaro became dominant, along with those of Marcello Gandini in Italy. The 1970s also saw the decline and practical failure of the British car industry\u2014a combination of militant strikes and poor quality control effectively halted development at British Leyland, owner of all other British car companies during the 1970s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 54], "content_span": [55, 760]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0040-0000", "contents": "1970s, Science and technology, Technology, Automobiles\nThe Japanese automobile industry flourished during the 1970s, compared to other major auto markets. Japanese vehicles became internationally renowned for their affordability, reliability, and fuel-efficiency, which was very important to many customers after the oil crisis of 1973. Japanese car manufacturing focused on computerized robotic manufacturing techniques and lean manufacturing, contributing to high-efficiency and low production costs. The Honda Civic was introduced in 1973, and sold well due to its high fuel-efficiency. By 1975 Toyota overtook Volkswagen as the top-selling imported automobile brand in the U.S., with over a million cars sold per year by this point. Other popular compact cars included the Toyota Corolla and the Datsun Sunny, in addition to other cars from those companies and others such as Subaru, Mitsubishi, and Mazda.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 54], "content_span": [55, 910]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0041-0000", "contents": "1970s, Science and technology, Technology, Automobiles\n1970 Dodge Challenger Trans Am, example of muscle cars in the earlier part of the decade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 54], "content_span": [55, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0042-0000", "contents": "1970s, Society, Role of women in society\nThe role of women in society was profoundly altered with growing feminism across the world and with the presence and rise of a significant number of women as heads of state outside monarchies and heads of government in a number of countries across the world during the 1970s, many being the first women to hold such positions. Non", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 40], "content_span": [41, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0042-0001", "contents": "1970s, Society, Role of women in society\n-monarch women heads of state and heads of government in this period included Isabel Mart\u00ednez de Per\u00f3n as the first woman President in Argentina and the first woman non-monarch head of state in the Western hemisphere in 1974 until being deposed in 1976, Elisabeth Domitien becomes the first woman Prime Minister of the Central African Republic, Indira Gandhi continuing as Prime Minister of India until 1977 (and taking office again in 1980), Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Prime minister of Sri Lanka (Former Ceylon) and first female head of government in the world, re-elected in 1970, Prime Minister Golda Meir of Israel and acting Chairman Soong Ching-ling of the People's Republic of China continuing their leadership from the sixties, Lidia Gueiler Tejada becoming the interim President of Bolivia beginning from 1979 to 1980, Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo becoming the first woman Prime Minister of Portugal in 1979, and Margaret Thatcher becoming the first woman Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1979. Both Indira Gandhi and Margaret Thatcher would remain important political figures in the following decade in the 1980s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 40], "content_span": [41, 1167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0043-0000", "contents": "1970s, Society, Social movements, Anti-war protests\nThe opposition to the War in Vietnam that began in the 1960s grew exponentially during the early 1970s. One of the best-known anti-war demonstrations was the Kent State shootings. In 1970, university students were protesting the war and the draft. Riots ensued during the weekend and the National Guard was called in to maintain the peace. However, by 4 May 1970, tensions arose again, and as the crowd grew larger, the National Guard started shooting. Four students were killed and nine injured. This event caused disbelief and shock throughout the country and became a staple of anti-Vietnam demonstrations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 51], "content_span": [52, 661]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0044-0000", "contents": "1970s, Society, Social movements, Environmentalism\nThe 1970s started a mainstream affirmation of the environmental issues early activists from the 1960s, such as Rachel Carson and Murray Bookchin, had warned of. The Apollo 11 mission, which had occurred at the end of the previous decade, had transmitted back concrete images of the Earth as an integrated, life-supporting system and shaped a public willingness to preserve nature. On April 22, 1970, the United States celebrated its first Earth Day, in which over two thousand colleges and universities and roughly ten thousand primary and secondary schools participated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 50], "content_span": [51, 622]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0045-0000", "contents": "1970s, Society, Social movements, Sexual Revolution\nThe 1960s counterculture movement had rapidly undone many existing social taboos, and divorce, extramarital sex, and homosexuality were increasingly accepted in the Western world. The event of legalized abortion and over-the-counter birth control pills also played a major factor. Western Europe was in some ways more progressive on sexual liberation than the United States, as nudity in film and on TV had been gradually accepted there from the mid-1960s, and many European countries during this time began allowing women to go topless in public places. Nudist culture was also popular during the decade, especially in Germany and Scandinavia. Child erotica found a niche market, but would eventually be banned under child pornography laws in the 1980s to 1990s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 51], "content_span": [52, 815]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0046-0000", "contents": "1970s, Society, Social movements, Sexual Revolution\nThe market for adult entertainment in the 1970s was large, and driven in part by the sizable baby boomer population, and the 1972 movie Behind the Green Door, an X-rated feature, became one of the top-grossing films of the year. Playboy Magazine appeared increasingly dull and old-fashioned next to new, more explicit sex-themed magazines such as Penthouse Magazine and Hustler Magazine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 51], "content_span": [52, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0047-0000", "contents": "1970s, Society, Social movements, Sexual Revolution\nBy the end of the decade, there was an increasing backlash against libertine sexual attitudes, and the event of the AIDS epidemic helped bring about an end to the Sexual Revolution. Adult movie theaters, which had exploded in numbers during the 1970s and were widely seen as a symptom of urban decay in the US, declined as pornographic movies would largely shift to VHS tapes during the succeeding decade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 51], "content_span": [52, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0048-0000", "contents": "1970s, Society, Social movements, Crime and urban decay\nCrime rates in the US had been low from the 1940s until the mid-1960s, but began to escalate after 1965 due to a complex of social, economic, and demographic factors. By the 1970s, crime and blighted urban areas were a serious cause of concern, New York City being particularly affected. In 1972, the US Supreme Court ruled capital punishment unconstitutional, then reversed the ruling only four years later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 55], "content_span": [56, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0049-0000", "contents": "1970s, Society, Social movements, Feminism\nThe Second-Wave Feminist Movement in the United States, which had begun in the 1960s, carried over to the 1970s, and took a prominent role within society. The fiftieth anniversary of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (which legalized female suffrage) in 1970 was commemorated by the Women's Strike for Equality and other protests.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 42], "content_span": [43, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0050-0000", "contents": "1970s, Society, Social movements, Feminism\n1971 saw Erin Pizzey establish the world's first domestic violence shelter in Chiswick, London and Pizzey and her colleagues opened further facilities throughout the next few years. This work inspired similar networks of safe houses for female victims of abuse in other countries, with the first shelter in continental Europe opening in Amsterdam in 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 42], "content_span": [43, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0051-0000", "contents": "1970s, Society, Social movements, Feminism\nWith the anthology Sisterhood is Powerful and other works, such as Sexual Politics, being published at the start of the decade, feminism started to reach a larger audience than ever before. In addition, the Supreme Court's 1973 decision of Roe v. Wade, which constitutionalized the right to an abortion, brought the women's rights movement into the national political spotlight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 42], "content_span": [43, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0052-0000", "contents": "1970s, Society, Social movements, Feminism\nGloria Steinem, Betty Friedan, Betty Ford, Shirley Chisholm, Bella Abzug, Robin Morgan, Kate Millet and Elizabeth Holtzman, among many others, led the movement for women's equality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 42], "content_span": [43, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0053-0000", "contents": "1970s, Society, Social movements, Feminism\nEven musically, the women's movement had its shining moment. Australian-American singer Helen Reddy, recorded the song \"I Am Woman\", which became an anthem for the women's liberation movement. \"I Am Woman\" reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and even won Helen her one and only Grammy Award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 42], "content_span": [43, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0054-0000", "contents": "1970s, Society, Social movements, Feminism\nMost efforts of the movement, especially aims at social equality and repeal of the remaining oppressive, sexist laws, were successful. Doors of opportunity were more numerous and much further open than before as women gained unheard of success in business, politics, education, science, the law, and even the home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 42], "content_span": [43, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0054-0001", "contents": "1970s, Society, Social movements, Feminism\nAlthough most aims of the movement were successful, however, there were some significant failures, most notably the failure to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution with only three more states needed to ratify it (efforts to ratify ERA in the unratified states continues to this day and twenty-two states have adopted state ERAs). Also, the wage gap failed to close, but it did become smaller.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 42], "content_span": [43, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0055-0000", "contents": "1970s, Society, Social movements, Feminism\nThe second wave feminist movement in the United States largely ended in 1982 with the failure of the Equal Rights Amendment, and with new conservative leadership in Washington, D.C.. American women created a brief, but powerful, third-wave in the early 1990s which addressed sexual harassment (inspired by the Anita Hill\u2013Clarence Thomas Senate Judiciary Committee hearings of 1991). The results of the movement included a new awareness of such issues among women, and unprecedented numbers of women elected to public office, particularly the United States Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 42], "content_span": [43, 607]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0056-0000", "contents": "1970s, Society, Social movements, Civil rights\nThe Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s began to fracture in the 1970s, as social groups began defining themselves more by their differences than by their universalities. The Black Nationalist movement grew out of frustrations with the \"non-violent\" strategies of earlier Civil Rights Activists. With the April 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and June 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, many Black people were compelled to reject ideas of negotiation and instead embrace isolation. The feminist movement also splintered from a larger push for Civil Rights in the 1970s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 46], "content_span": [47, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0056-0001", "contents": "1970s, Society, Social movements, Civil rights\nThe seventies were seen as the \"woman's turn\", though many feminists incorporated civil rights ideals into their movement. A feminist who had inherited the leadership position of the civil rights movement from her husband, Coretta Scott King, as leader of the black movement, called for an end to all discrimination, helping and encouraging the Woman's Liberation movement, and other movements as well. At the National Women's Conference in 1977 a minority women's resolution, promoted by King and others, passed to ensure racial equality in the movement's goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 46], "content_span": [47, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0056-0002", "contents": "1970s, Society, Social movements, Civil rights\nSimilarly, the gay movement made a huge step forward in the 1970s with the election of political figures such as Harvey Milk to public office and the advocating of anti-gay discrimination legislation passed and not passed during the decade. Many celebrities, including Freddie Mercury and Andy Warhol, also \"came out\" during this decade, bringing gay culture further into the limelight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 46], "content_span": [47, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0057-0000", "contents": "1970s, Society, Social movements, Youth suffrage\nThe Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified on July 1, 1971, lowering the voting age for all federal and state elections from 21 years to 18 years. The primary impetus for this change was the fact that young men were being drafted to fight in the Vietnam War before they were old enough to vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 48], "content_span": [49, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0058-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture\nThe Disco scene was very popular in the 1970s. Here is a disco ball.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 22], "content_span": [23, 91]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0059-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture\nAtari was established in 1972, this company was the leader in video gaming during the 1970s with games like Pong, which would become the first successful video game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 22], "content_span": [23, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0060-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture\nThe Brady Bunch was a popular television show in the 1970s. 1970s slang like \"groovy\" was used in the show.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 22], "content_span": [23, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0061-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture\nEarth, Wind and Fire was a popular band in the disco scene at the time with hits like September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 22], "content_span": [23, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0062-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture\nThe most prominent events and trends in popular culture of the decade (particularly in the Anglosphere) include:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 22], "content_span": [23, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0063-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Music\nDuring the early 1970s, popular music continued to be dominated by musicians who had achieved fame during the 1960s such as the Rolling Stones, The Who, Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, The Grateful Dead, and Eric Clapton. In addition, many newcomer rock groups such as Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin appeared. The Beatles disbanded in 1970, but each member of the band immediately released a highly successful solo album, and Paul McCartney especially would remain extremely popular throughout the decade. Singer-songwriters such as Elton John, James Taylor and Jackson Browne also came into vogue during the early 1970s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 29], "content_span": [30, 645]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0064-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Music\nThe 1970s saw the rapid commercialization of rock music, and by mid-decade there were a spate of bands derisively dubbed \"corporate rock\" due to the notion that they had been created by record labels to produce simplistic, radio-friendly songs that offered clich\u00e9s rather than meaningful lyrics. Such bands included The Doobie Brothers, Bread, Styx, Kansas, and REO Speedwagon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 29], "content_span": [30, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0065-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Music\nFunk, an offshoot of soul music with a greater emphasis on beats, and influences from rhythm and blues, jazz, and psychedelic rock, was also very popular. The mid-1970s also saw the rise of disco music, which dominated during the last half of the decade with bands like the Bee Gees, Chic, ABBA, Village People, Boney M, Donna Summer, KC and the Sunshine Band, and others. In response to this, rock music became increasingly hard-edged, with early metal artists like Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Black Sabbath, and Deep Purple. Minimalism also emerged, led by composers such as Philip Glass, Steve Reich and Michael Nyman. This was a break from the intellectual serial music in the tradition of Schoenberg, which lasted from the early 1900s to 1960s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 29], "content_span": [30, 779]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0066-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Music\nThe 1970s also saw artists from Motown records become popular across the globe. Artists like the Jackson 5, Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye dominated the record charts across the world and had a significant influence on pop culture, including breaking down racial barriers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 29], "content_span": [30, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0067-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Music\nExperimental classical music influenced both art rock and progressive rock genres with bands such as Pink Floyd, Yes, Todd Rundgren's Utopia, Supertramp, Rush, Genesis, King Crimson, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Jethro Tull, The Moody Blues and Soft Machine. Hard rock and Heavy metal also emerged among British bands Led Zeppelin, Queen, The Who, Black Sabbath, UFO, Deep Purple, Uriah Heep, and Judas Priest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 29], "content_span": [30, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0067-0001", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Music\nAustralian band AC/DC also found its hard-rock origins in the early 1970s and its breakthrough in 1979's Highway to Hell, while popular American rock bands included Aerosmith, Lynyrd Skynyrd and shock rockers Alice Cooper, Blue \u00d6yster Cult, and Kiss, and guitar-oriented Ted Nugent and Van Halen. In Europe, there was a surge of popularity in the early decade for glam rock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 29], "content_span": [30, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0068-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Music\nThe decade is of course an arbitrary schema itself\u2014time doesn't just execute a neat turn toward the future every ten years. But like a lot of artificial concepts\u2014money, say\u2014the category does take on a reality of its own once people figure out how to put it to work. ' The '60s are over,' a slogan one only began to hear in 1972 or so, mobilized all those eager to believe that idealism had become passe, and once they were mobilized, it had. In popular music, embracing the '70s meant both an elitist withdrawal from the messy concert and counterculture scene and a profiteering pursuit of the lowest common denominator in FM radio and album rock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 29], "content_span": [30, 677]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0069-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Music\nAfter a successful return to live performing in the late 60s with his TV special, Elvis Presley remained popular in Vegas and on concert tours throughout the United States until his death in 1977. His 1973 televised concert, Aloha from Hawaii Via Satellite, aired in over 40 countries in Europe and Asia, as well as the United States, making it one of the most popular concert events of the decade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 29], "content_span": [30, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0070-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Music\nThe second half of the decade saw the rise of punk rock, when a spate of fresh, young rock groups playing stripped-down hard rock came to prominence at a time when most of the artists associated with the 1960s to early 1970s were in creative decline. Punk bands included The Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Ramones, The Talking Heads, and more.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 29], "content_span": [30, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0071-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Music\nThe highest-selling album was Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon (1973). It remained on the Billboard 200 albums chart for 741 weeks. Electronic instrumental progressive rock was particularly significant in continental Europe, allowing bands like Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, Can, and Faust to circumvent the language barrier. Their synthesiser-heavy \"krautrock\", along with the work of Brian Eno (for a time the keyboard player with Roxy Music), would be a major influence on subsequent synthrock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 29], "content_span": [30, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0071-0001", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Music\nThe mid-1970s saw the rise of electronic art music musicians such as Jean Michel Jarre, Vangelis, and Tomita, who with Brian Eno were a significant influence of the development of new-age music. Japanese band Yellow Magic Orchestra helped to pioneer synthpop, with their self-titled album (in 1978) setting a template with less minimalism and with a strong emphasis on melody, and drawing from a wider range of influences than had been employed by Kraftwerk. YMO also introduced the microprocessor-based Roland MC-8 sequencer and TR-808 rhythm machine to popular music.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 29], "content_span": [30, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0072-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Music\nIn the first half of the 1970s, many jazz musicians from the Miles Davis school achieved cross-over success through jazz-rock fusion with bands like Weather Report, Return to Forever, The Headhunters and The Mahavishnu Orchestra who also influenced this genre and many others. In Germany, Manfred Eicher started the ECM label, which quickly made a name for \"chamber jazz\". Towards the end of the decade, Jamaican reggae music, already popular in the Caribbean and Africa since the early 1970s, became very popular in the U.S. and in Europe, mostly because of reggae superstar and legend Bob Marley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 29], "content_span": [30, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0072-0001", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Music\nThe mid-1970s saw the reemergence of acoustic jazz with the return of artists like Dexter Gordon to the US music scene, who, along with a number of other artists, such as trumpet innovators like Don Ellis and Woody Shaw, who were among the last of the decade's traditionally-oriented acoustic jazz musicians to be signed to major record labels, to receive critical and widespread commercial recognition and multiple Grammy nominations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 29], "content_span": [30, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0073-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Music\nThe late 1970s also saw the beginning of hip hop music with disc jockeys like DJ Kool Herc and Afrika Bambaataa taking loops from funk and soul records and play them repeatedly at block parties and dance clubs. At the end of the 1970s, popular songs like \"Rapper's Delight\" by Sugarhill Gang gave hip hop a wider audience. Hip hop was also influenced by the song \"The Revolution Will Not Be Televised\" by Gil Scott-Heron.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 29], "content_span": [30, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0074-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Music\nCountry music also continued to increase in popularity in the 1970s. Between 1977 and 1979, it became more mainstream, particularly with the outlaw movement, led by Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson. The 70s also saw the rise of a country music subgenre, southern rock, led by the Allman Brothers Band. Other artists; such as Conway Twitty, Loretta Lynn, Don Williams, Kenny Rogers, Dolly Parton, Ronnie Milsap, Crystal Gayle, and Barbara Mandrell; all scored hits throughout the 70s which reached both country and pop charts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 29], "content_span": [30, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0074-0001", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Music\nThe genre also saw its golden age of vocal duos and groups in this decade; with Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn, George Jones and Tammy Wynette, Jim Ed Brown and Helen Cornelius, the Bellamy Brothers, the Oak Ridge Boys, the Statler Brothers, Dave & Sugar, and The Kendalls. The genre also became more involved in Hollywood toward the end of the decade, with country-themed action films such as Smokey and the Bandit and Every Which Way But Loose, a trend that continued into the early 80s with Urban Cowboy and Bronco Billy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 29], "content_span": [30, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0075-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Music\nA major event in music in the early 1970s was the deaths of popular rock stars Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison, all at the age of 27. Two of popular music's most successful artists from other eras died within eight weeks of each other in 1977. Elvis Presley, the best-selling singer of all time, died on August 16, 1977. Presley's funeral was held at Graceland, on Thursday, August 18, 1977. Bing Crosby, who sold about 50 million records, died on October 14, 1977. His single, White Christmas, remains as the best selling single of all time, confirmed by the Guinness Records.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 29], "content_span": [30, 620]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0076-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Music\nIn addition to the deaths in the 1970s, breakups of bands and duos; such as the Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, Creedence Clearwater Revival, the Everly Brothers, and others; occurred over the course of the decade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 29], "content_span": [30, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0077-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Music\nStatistically, Led Zeppelin and Elton John were the most successful musical acts of the 1970s, both having sold more than 300 million records since 1969.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 29], "content_span": [30, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0078-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Film\nOscar winners of the decade were Patton (1970), The French Connection (1971), The Godfather (1972), The Sting (1973), The Godfather Part II (1974), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Rocky (1976), Annie Hall (1977), The Deer Hunter (1978), and Kramer vs. Kramer (1979).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 28], "content_span": [29, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0079-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Film\nThe top ten highest-grossing films of the decade are (in order from highest to lowest grossing): Star Wars, Jaws, Grease, The Exorcist, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Superman, The Godfather, Saturday Night Fever, Rocky, and Jaws 2. Two of these movies came out on the same day: June 16, 1978.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 28], "content_span": [29, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0080-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Film\nIn 1970s European cinema, the failure of the Prague Spring brought about nostalgic motion pictures such as Istv\u00e1n Szab\u00f3's Szerelmesfilm (1970). German New Wave and Rainer Fassbinder's existential movies characterized film-making in Germany. The movies of the Swedish director Ingmar Bergman reached a new level of expression in motion pictures like Cries and Whispers (1973).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 28], "content_span": [29, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0081-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Film\nCar chase movies also became a popular film genre of the 1970s with such films as Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry in 1974, and perhaps the genre's most popular film Smokey and the Bandit in 1977.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 28], "content_span": [29, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0082-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Film\nAsian cinema of the 1970s catered to the rising middle class fantasies and struggles. In the Bollywood cinema of India, this was epitomized by the movies of Bollywood superhero Amitabh Bachchan. Another Asian touchstone beginning in the early 1970s was Hong Kong martial arts film which sparked a greater interest in Chinese martial arts around the world. Martial arts film reached the peak of its popularity largely in part due to its greatest icon, Bruce Lee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 28], "content_span": [29, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0083-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Film\nDuring the 1970s, Hollywood continued the New Hollywood revolution of the late-1960s with young film-makers. Top-grossing Jaws (1975) ushered in the blockbuster era of filmmaking, though it was eclipsed two years later by the science-fiction film Star Wars (1977). Saturday Night Fever (1977) single-handedly touched off disco mania in the U.S. The Godfather (1972) was also one of the decade's greatest successes and its first follow-up, The Godfather Part II (1974) was also successful for a sequel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 28], "content_span": [29, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0084-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Film\nThe Rocky Horror Picture Show flopped in its 1975 debut, only to reappear as a more-popular midnight show later in the decade. Still in limited release decades after its premiere, it is the longest-running theatrical release in film history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 28], "content_span": [29, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0085-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Film\nThe Exorcist (1973) was a box office success for the horror genre, inspiring many other so-called \"devil (Satan)\" films like The Omen and both of their own sequels.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 28], "content_span": [29, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0086-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Film\nAll That Jazz (1979) gained high critical praise, winning four Oscars and several other awards. It was an inductee of the 2001 National Film Registry list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 28], "content_span": [29, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0087-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Television, United Kingdom\nIn the United Kingdom, colour channels were now available; three stations had begun broadcasting in colour between 1967 and 1969. However, many viewers continued to watch black-and-white television sets for most of the decade, which meant for example that televised snooker (in which the colour of balls is important) did not reach the heights of its popularity until the 1980s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 50], "content_span": [51, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0088-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Television, United Kingdom\nNotable dramas included Play for Today and Pennies from Heaven. In police dramas, there was a move towards increasing realism; popular shows included Dixon of Dock Green, Z-Cars, Softly, Softly, and The Sweeney.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 50], "content_span": [51, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0089-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Television, United Kingdom\n1970s UK television featured a mix of traditional and more modern comedy. Morecambe and Wise, The Benny Hill Show, Are You Being Served? and Dad's Army had their origins in the variety show and radio comedy of the first half of the century. Many popular British situation comedies (sit-coms) were gentle, unchallenging comedies of middle-class life; typical examples were Terry and June and Sykes. However, the middle-class settings of The Good Life and The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin contrasted with their anti-establishment theme of people rejecting traditional social norms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 50], "content_span": [51, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0089-0001", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Television, United Kingdom\nA harsher side of society was shown by comedy series like Porridge and Rising Damp, while sitcoms such as Mind Your Language, Love Thy Neighbour and Till Death Us Do Part reflected social unease brought about by post-war immigration. Spike Milligan's Q and the still-popular Monty Python's Flying Circus both used surreal comedy, originating from the 1950s The Goon Show.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 50], "content_span": [51, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0090-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Television, United Kingdom\nThe television information retrieval service Teletext was initially introduced when the BBC Ceefax system went live on 23 September 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 50], "content_span": [51, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0091-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Television, United Kingdom\nIn the late 1970s, BBC2's unveiled a new identity, a twin-striped \"2\", which was the first electronically generated symbol and scrolled on and off the screen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 50], "content_span": [51, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0092-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Television, United States\nAs the 1970s began, the Big Three TV networks were rapidly re-engineering their lineups, noting that existing programs were not attracting the youth audience. Most existing programs still operated on paradigms established in the 1950s, and some shows had literally been on the air since the dawn of TV broadcasting in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Shows that had low ratings or insufficient youth appeal were cancelled as networks scrambled to attract the large baby boomer audience.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 49], "content_span": [50, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0093-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Television, United States\nTo reflect the new social trends, television changed dramatically with more urban and edgy settings, and replaced the popular rural/country wholesome look of the 1950s and 1960s, seen as outmoded and unable to connect with young, educated urban audiences. This particular trend was known as the rural purge. Television was transformed by what became termed as \"social consciousness\" programming, such as All in the Family and Soap, which broke down television barriers. Many advertising trends of the 1970s also reflected this growing social consciousness trend, such as with Coca-Cola's \"Give the World a Coke\" and McDonalds \"You Deserve a Break\" campaigns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 49], "content_span": [50, 708]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0094-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Television, United States\nThe women's movement ushered in a slew of programming featuring strong, independent females as central characters. Most notable was The Mary Tyler Moore Show, which spawned the successful spin-offs Rhoda and Phyllis, and also resulted in Mary Tyler Moore becoming the first female to head a television production company of her own, MTM Enterprises, which churned out groundbreaking programming in the late 1970s throughout the 1990s. Women were also established portraying action characters in programs like Police Woman, Wonder Woman, The Bionic Woman, and others.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 49], "content_span": [50, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0095-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Television, United States\nMinority-centric television programming also featured prominently during the 1970s. Shows featuring African-Americans as main characters, such as Sanford and Son, Maude, The Jeffersons, Good Times, and What's Happening!! broke down barriers and became very popular. In addition, Soul Train, the brainchild of Don Cornelius, premiered in 1971 as the African-American counterpart to American Bandstand, giving a forum for soul, funk, jazz, R&B, disco, and future rap and hip hop artists to gain exposure to American audiences, consumers, music lovers, enthusiasts, and those keen on learning new dance moves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 49], "content_span": [50, 656]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0096-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Television, United States\nThe television western, which had been very popular in the 1950s and 1960s, all but died out during the 1970s, with Bonanza, The Virginian, and Gunsmoke ending their runs. Replacing westerns were police and detective shows, a trend that would last through the 1980s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 49], "content_span": [50, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0097-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Television, United States\nTelevision still had its medical shows of the 1970s, however, Emergency! was the first popular medical drama ever to feature both the paramedic program as well as the hospital emergency department, which also encouraged future people in the United States to develop their own paramedic program or hospital emergency department, and acted as an inspiration for many individuals. Marcus Welby, M.D. and Medical Center were other long-running medical dramas popular during the 1970s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 49], "content_span": [50, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0098-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Television, United States\n1950s nostalgia became a theme in prime time sitcoms with the Garry Marshall-produced Happy Days and its two spin-offs Laverne & Shirley and Mork & Mindy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 49], "content_span": [50, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0099-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Television, United States\nBy the mid-to-late 1970s, \"jiggle television\"\u2014programs oriented toward sexual gratification and bawdy humor and situations such as Charlie's Angels, The Love Boat, and Three's Company\u2014became popular.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 49], "content_span": [50, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0100-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Television, United States\nSoap operas expanded their audiences beyond housewives with the rise of All My Children, As the World Turns, Somerset, and The Young and the Restless; with many extending their episodes from 30 minutes to an hour. The soap Another World began a 16-month experiment in March 1979 by screening 90-minute episodes, the only serial to do so.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 49], "content_span": [50, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0101-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Television, United States\nGame shows such as Match Game, The Hollywood Squares, Family Feud, and many others saw its golden age on daytime television. The height of Match Game's popularity occurred between 1973 and 1977, before it was overtaken by Family Feud in 1978. Television's current longest-running game show, The Price Is Right, began its run hosted by Bob Barker in 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 49], "content_span": [50, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0102-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Television, United States\nAnother influential genre was the television newscast, which built on its initial widespread success in the 1960s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 49], "content_span": [50, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0103-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Television, United States\nThe science fiction phenomenon of the late 1970s that began with Star Wars went to television with shows such as Battlestar Galactica.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 49], "content_span": [50, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0104-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Television, United States\nVariety shows, a staple of TV programming since the beginning, were also re-engineered to appeal to young viewers. Old standbys such as The Ed Sullivan Show and The Red Skelton Show were canceled and replaced by hipper programming like Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour and Donny & Marie. The Carol Burnett Show also ended its historic 11-year run in 1978. In the end, rising production costs largely did in variety shows.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 49], "content_span": [50, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0105-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Television, United States\nAs cable television became more affordable and accessible by U.S. consumers, the race to bring the silver screen to the small screen commenced with the launch of pay television services showing premium content.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 49], "content_span": [50, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0106-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Television, United States\nHBO launched on November 8, 1972, becoming the nation's first pay-television channel. On September 30, 1975, HBO became the first television network to continuously deliver signals via satellite when it showed the \"Thrilla in Manila\" boxing-match between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 49], "content_span": [50, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0107-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Television, United States\nStar Channel launched their service offerings nationally in 1973 through the delivery of movies on video tapes for cable providers to broadcast. This proved problematic since the videotapes were often riddled with technical difficulties. Star Channel eventually was linked up to satellite in January 1978. Shortly after, Warner Communications acquired the channel and relaunched it on December 1, 1979, in its current form as The Movie Channel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 49], "content_span": [50, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0108-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Television, United States\nMedia giant Viacom launched their premium service, Showtime, nationally on July 1, 1976, after a brief, wildly successful test launch on their cable system in Dublin, California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 49], "content_span": [50, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0109-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Television, Australia\nIn 1974, Australian TV tests color transmissions (full-time color comes in 1975). Popular Shows during the decade include, Young Talent Time, Number 96, The Aunty Jack Show, Class of '74, The Sullivans, The Don Lane Show, Cop Shop, The Naked Vicar Show, The Paul Hogan Show and Countdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 45], "content_span": [46, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0110-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Television, South Africa\nSouth Africa saw nationwide television service for the first time on January 5, 1976, although limited-view, locally available television began on May 5, 1975.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 48], "content_span": [49, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0111-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Sports\nThe 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany saw swimmer Mark Spitz set seven World Records and won a record seven gold medals. The 1976 Summer Olympics were held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Brazil won the 1970 FIFA World Cup in Mexico, West Germany won the 1974 FIFA World Cup in West Germany, and Argentina won the 1978 FIFA World Cup in Argentina. The 1970 FIFA World Cup was the first world cup to be televised in color.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 30], "content_span": [31, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0112-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Sports\nOn April 9, 1975, Asia's first professional basketball league, the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) were played first game at the Araneta Coliseum in Cubao, Quezon City, Philippines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 30], "content_span": [31, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0113-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Sports, United States\nThe Oakland Athletics three-peated at the World Series in 1972\u20131974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 45], "content_span": [46, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0114-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Sports, United States\nThe Cincinnati Reds go to the World Series in 1970, 1972, 1975, and 1976, led by the Big Red Machine winning two out of four.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 45], "content_span": [46, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0115-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Sports, United States\nThe New York Yankees won the World Series in 1977 and 1978 after losing in 1976.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 45], "content_span": [46, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0116-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Sports, United States\nThe Dallas Cowboys and the Pittsburgh Steelers dominated the decade in the NFL. Steelers were led by Terry Bradshaw and Chuck Noll, and the Cowboys were led by Roger Staubach and Tom Landry, while the Miami Dolphins became the only team in NFL history to go \"all the way,\" winning the Super Bowl with an undefeated record\u2014a feat that remains unmatched to this day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 45], "content_span": [46, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0117-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Sports, United States\nThe Philadelphia Flyers won the Stanley Cup in 1974 and 1975, a team best remembered as \"The Broad Street Bullies\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 45], "content_span": [46, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0118-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Sports, Disc sports (Frisbee)\nAs numbers of young people became alienated from social norms, they resisted and looked for alternatives. They would form what would become known as the counterculture. The forms of escape and resistance would manifest in many ways including social activism, alternative lifestyles, experimental living through foods, dress, music and alternative recreational activities, including that of throwing a frisbee. What started with a few players like Victor Malafronte, Z Weyand and Ken Westerfield experimenting with new ways of throwing and catching a frisbee, later would become known as playing freestyle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 53], "content_span": [54, 659]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0118-0001", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Sports, Disc sports (Frisbee)\nOrganized disc sports, in the 1970s, began with promotional efforts from Wham-O and Irwin Toy (Canada), a few tournaments and professionals using frisbee show tours to perform at universities, fairs and sporting events. Disc sports such as freestyle, double disc court, guts, disc ultimate and disc golf became this sports first events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 53], "content_span": [54, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0119-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Literature\nFiction in the early '70s brought a return to old-fashioned storytelling, especially with Erich Segal's Love Story. The seventies also saw the decline of previously well-respected writers, such as Saul Bellow and Peter De Vries, who both released poorly received novels at the start of the decade. Racism remained a key literary subject. John Updike emerged as a major literary figure. Reflections of the 1960s experience also found roots in the literature of the decade through the works of Joyce Carol Oates and Wright Morris.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 34], "content_span": [35, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0119-0001", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Literature\nWith the rising cost of hard-cover books and the increasing readership of \"genre fiction\", the paperback became a popular medium. Criminal non-fiction also became a popular topic. Irreverence and satire, typified in Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions, were common literary elements. The horror genre also emerged, and by the late 1970s Stephen King had become one of the most popular genre novelists. The postmodern author Thomas Pynchon published his most famous work, Gravity's Rainbow, in 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 34], "content_span": [35, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0120-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Literature\nIn non-fiction, several books related to Nixon and the Watergate scandal topped the best-selling lists. 1977 brought many high-profile biographical works of literary figures, such as those of Virginia Woolf, Agatha Christie, and J.\u00a0R.\u00a0R. Tolkien.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 34], "content_span": [35, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0121-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Architecture\nArchitecture in the 1970s began as a continuation of styles created by such architects as Frank Lloyd Wright and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Early in the decade, several architects competed to build the tallest building in the world. Of these buildings, the most notable are the John Hancock Center and Sears Tower in Chicago, both designed by Bruce Graham and Fazlur Khan, and the World Trade Center towers in New York by American architect Minoru Yamasaki. The decade also brought experimentation in geometric design, pop-art, postmodernism, and early deconstructivism.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 36], "content_span": [37, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0122-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Architecture\nDesign trends in the 1970s were marked by a backlash against the bright colors and futurism of the 1950s and 1960s and a rise in popularity of dark, earthy tones with extensive use of brown, green, purple, and orange. Wood decor and paneling was integral to 1970s interior design as well, replacing the obsession of the 1950s and 1960s with chrome and aluminum. Darker colors not only reflected the back-to-nature mindset of the decade, but the sluggish world economy with its lowered optimism and expectations for the future.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 36], "content_span": [37, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0123-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Architecture\nIn 1974, Louis Kahn's last and arguably most famous building, the National Assembly Building of Dhaka, Bangladesh, was completed. The building's use of open spaces and groundbreaking geometry brought rare attention to the small South Asian country. Hugh Stubbins's Citicorp Center revolutionized the incorporation of solar panels in office buildings. The seventies brought further experimentation in glass and steel construction and geometric design. Chinese architect I. M. Pei's John Hancock Tower in Boston, Massachusetts, is an example, although like many buildings of the time, the experimentation was flawed and glass panes fell from the fa\u00e7ade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 36], "content_span": [37, 688]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0123-0001", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Architecture\nIn 1976, the completed CN\u00a0Tower in Toronto became the world's tallest free-standing structure on land, an honor it held until 2007. The fact that no taller tower had been built between the construction of the CN Tower and the Burj Khalifa shows how innovative the architecture and engineering of the structure truly was.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 36], "content_span": [37, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0124-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Architecture\nModern architecture was increasingly criticized as the decade went on from the point of view of postmodern architects, such as Philip Johnson, Charles Moore, and Michael Graves, who advocated a return to pre-modern styles of architecture and the incorporation of pop elements as a means of communicating with a broader public. Other architects, such as Peter Eisenman of the New York Five, advocated the pursuit of form for the sake of form and drew on semiotics theory for support.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 36], "content_span": [37, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0125-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Architecture\n\"High Tech\" architecture moved forward as Buckminster Fuller continued his experiments in geodesic domes, while the Georges Pompidou Center, designed by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, which opened in 1977, was a prominent example. As the decade drew to a close, Frank Gehry broke out in new direction with his own house in Santa Monica, a highly complex structure, half excavated out of an existing bungalow and half cheaply built construction using materials such as chicken wire fencing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 36], "content_span": [37, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0126-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Architecture\nTerracotta Army figures, dating from 210 BC, were discovered in 1974 by some local farmers in Lintong District, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, China, near the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor (Chinese: \u79e6\u59cb\u7687\u9675; pinyin: Q\u00edn Sh\u01d0hu\u00e1ng Ling). In 1978, electrical workers in Mexico City found the remains of the Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlan in the middle of the city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 36], "content_span": [37, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0127-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Fashion\nClothing styles during the 1970s were influenced by outfits seen in popular music groups and in Hollywood films. In clothing, prints, especially from India and other parts of the world, were fashionable.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 31], "content_span": [32, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0128-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Fashion\nMuch of the 1970s fashion styles were influenced by the hippie movement. As well as the hippie look, the 70s also gave way to glam rock styles, started off by David Bowie who is named the King of Glam Rock. Glam was a genderbent and outlandish style.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 31], "content_span": [32, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0129-0000", "contents": "1970s, Popular culture, Fashion\nThe Farrah Fawcett hairstyle was considered particularly fashionable during the decade", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 31], "content_span": [32, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0130-0000", "contents": "1970s, People, Filmmakers\nLeft to right: Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola, and George Lucas", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 25], "content_span": [26, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0131-0000", "contents": "1970s, See also, Timeline\nThe following articles contain brief timelines which list the most prominent events of the decade:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 25], "content_span": [26, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091718-0132-0000", "contents": "1970s, See also, Timeline\n1970 \u2022 1971 \u2022 1972 \u2022 1973 \u2022 1974 \u2022 1975 \u2022 1976 \u2022 1977 \u2022 1978 \u2022 1979", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 5], "section_span": [7, 25], "content_span": [26, 93]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091719-0000-0000", "contents": "1970s Soviet Union aliyah\nThe 1970s Soviet Union aliyah was the mass immigration of Soviet Jews to Israel after the Soviet Union lifted its ban on Jewish refusenik emigration in 1971. More than 150,000 Soviet Jews immigrated during this period, motivated variously by religious or ideological aspiration, economic opportunity, and a desire to escape anti-Semitic discrimination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091719-0001-0000", "contents": "1970s Soviet Union aliyah\nThis wave of immigration was followed two decades later by a larger aliyah at the end of the Soviet Union.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091719-0002-0000", "contents": "1970s Soviet Union aliyah, Background\nIn 1967, the USSR broke diplomatic relations with Israel in the wake of the Six-Day War. During this time, popular discrimination against Soviet Jewry increased, led by an anti-Semitic propaganda campaign in the state-controlled mass media. By the end of the 1960s, Jewish cultural and religious life in the Soviet Union suffered from a strict policy of discrimination. This state-sponsored atheism persecution denied Jews the ethnic-cultural rights experienced by other Soviet ethnic groups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091719-0003-0000", "contents": "1970s Soviet Union aliyah, Emigration policy\nAfter the Dymshits\u2013Kuznetsov hijacking affair in 1970 following the crackdown, international condemnations caused the Soviet authorities to increase emigration quotas. Between 1960 and 1970, only 4,000 people had left the USSR. The number rose to 250,000 in the following decade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 44], "content_span": [45, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091719-0004-0000", "contents": "1970s Soviet Union aliyah, Emigration policy\nIn 1972, the USSR imposed a so-called \"diploma tax\" on would-be emigrants who had received higher education in the USSR. The fee reached as high as twenty times an annual salary. This measure was designed to combat the brain drain caused by the growing emigration of Soviet Jews and other members of the intelligentsia to the West. Following international protests, the Kremlin soon revoked the tax, but continued to sporadically impose various limitations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 44], "content_span": [45, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091719-0005-0000", "contents": "1970s Soviet Union aliyah, Emigration\nPrior to the Six-Day War, few Soviet Jews emigrated to Israel. Israel's decisive victory changed the opinion of many Soviet Jews towards Israel. After the war, many Soviet Jews began to demand the right to move to Israel. However, given a choice, many Soviet Jews chose to emigrate to the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091719-0006-0000", "contents": "1970s Soviet Union aliyah, Absorption of new immigrants in Israel\nIn 1968, 231 Jews were granted exit visas to Israel, followed by 3,033 in 1969. From that point on, the USSR began granting exit visas in growing numbers. During the late 1960s and the 1970s, some 163,000 Soviet Jews emigrated to Israel; mostly between 1969 and 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 65], "content_span": [66, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091719-0007-0000", "contents": "1970s Soviet Union aliyah, Absorption of new immigrants in Israel\nWhile many Jews emigrated to Israel, others chose the United States instead. Known as \"dropouts\", the emigres applied for US refugee visas while waiting at transit centers in Austria and Italy. In March 1976, the \"dropout rate\" rose to over 50%. Most of the Soviet Jews who only wanted to emigrate to Israel out of religious and/or ideological reasons had done so by 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 65], "content_span": [66, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091719-0007-0001", "contents": "1970s Soviet Union aliyah, Absorption of new immigrants in Israel\nHowever, the Jackson-Vanik Amendment passed by US Congress in 1974, along with additional US congressional funding for Soviet Jewish resettlement, and \"reports of work and housing difficulties\" in Israel due to the 1973 Yom Kippur War, created a situation for this \"dropout\" rate to rise, forcing 51,000 Soviet Jews from 1975 - 1980 to migrate to the US and join the 1.5 million Jews who fled the Russian empire prior to World War I.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 65], "content_span": [66, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091719-0008-0000", "contents": "1970s Soviet Union aliyah, Absorption of new immigrants in Israel\nIsrael was concerned over the dropout rate, and suggested that Soviet emigres be flown directly to Israel from the Soviet Union or Romania. Israel argued that it needed highly skilled and well-educated Soviet Jewish immigrants for its survival. In addition to contributing to the country's economic development, Soviet immigration was also seen as a counterweight to the high fertility rate among Israeli-Arabs. In addition, Israel was concerned that the dropout rate could result in immigration being banned once again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 65], "content_span": [66, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091719-0008-0001", "contents": "1970s Soviet Union aliyah, Absorption of new immigrants in Israel\nAccording to Israeli Immigrant Absorption Minister Yaakov Zur, \"over half of Soviet Jewish dropouts who immigrated to the United States assimilated and ceased to live as Jews within a short period of time...it could jeopardize the whole program if Jews supposedly going to Israel all wind up in Brooklyn and Los Angeles. How will the Soviets explain to their own people that it's just Jews who are allowed to emigrate to the U.S.?\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 65], "content_span": [66, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091719-0009-0000", "contents": "1970s Soviet Union aliyah, Absorption of new immigrants in Israel\nMost Soviet Jews who emigrated to Israel who had stronger Jewish identities came from the Baltic states, Moldova, and Georgia, while the \"dropouts\" were mainly assimilated Jews from the Russian heartland. Overall, between 1970 and 1988, some 291,000 Soviet Jews were granted exit visas, of whom 165,000 migrated to Israel, and 126,000 migrated to the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 65], "content_span": [66, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091720-0000-0000", "contents": "1970s energy crisis\nThe 1970s energy crisis occurred when the Western world, particularly the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, faced substantial petroleum shortages, real and perceived, as well as elevated prices. The two worst crises of this period were the 1973 oil crisis and the 1979 energy crisis, when the Yom Kippur War and the Iranian Revolution triggered interruptions in Middle Eastern oil exports.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091720-0001-0000", "contents": "1970s energy crisis\nThe crisis began to unfold as petroleum production in the United States and some other parts of the world peaked in the late 1960s and early 1970s. World oil production per capita began a long-term decline after 1979. The oil crises prompted the first shift towards energy-saving (particular, fossil fuel-saving) technologies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091720-0002-0000", "contents": "1970s energy crisis\nThe major industrial centers of the world were forced to contend with escalating issues related to petroleum supply. Western countries relied on the resources of countries in the Middle East and other parts of the world. The crisis led to stagnant economic growth in many countries as oil prices surged. Although there were genuine concerns with supply, part of the run-up in prices resulted from the perception of a crisis. The combination of stagnant growth and price inflation during this era led to the coinage of the term stagflation. By the 1980s, both the recessions of the 1970s and adjustments in local economies to become more efficient in petroleum usage, controlled demand sufficiently for petroleum prices worldwide to return to more sustainable levels.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 786]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091720-0003-0000", "contents": "1970s energy crisis\nThe period was not uniformly negative for all economies. Petroleum-rich countries in the Middle East benefited from increased prices and the slowing production in other areas of the world. Some other countries, such as Norway, Mexico, and Venezuela, benefited as well. In the United States, Texas and Alaska, as well as some other oil-producing areas, experienced major economic booms due to soaring oil prices even as most of the rest of the nation struggled with the stagnant economy. Many of these economic gains, however, came to a halt as prices stabilized and dropped in the 1980s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 607]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091720-0004-0000", "contents": "1970s energy crisis, Key periods, Production peaks around 1970\nThe real price of petroleum was stable in the 1970 timeframe, but there had been a sharp increase in American imports, putting a strain on American balance of trade, alongside other developed nations. During the 1960s, petroleum production in some of the world's top producers began to peak. Germany reached its production peak in 1966, Venezuela and the United States in 1970, and Iran in 1974. Canada's conventional oil production peaked around this same time (though non-conventional production later helped revive Canadian production to some degree). The worldwide production per capita peaked soon afterward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 62], "content_span": [63, 676]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091720-0005-0000", "contents": "1970s energy crisis, Key periods, Production peaks around 1970\nAlthough production in other parts of the world was increasing, the peaks in these regions began to put substantial upward pressure on world oil prices. Equally as important, control of the oil supply became an increasingly important problem as countries like West Germany and the U.S. became increasingly dependent on foreign suppliers for this key resource.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 62], "content_span": [63, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091720-0006-0000", "contents": "1970s energy crisis, Key periods, 1973 oil crisis\nThe 1973 oil crisis is a direct consequence of the US production peak in late 1960 and the beginning of 1971 (and shortages, especially for heating oil, started from there). The \"embargo\" as described below is the \"practical name\" given to the crisis. For the main Arab producers, the \"embargo\" allowed them to show to \"the Arab street\" that they were doing something for the Palestinians. In real market terms (number of barrels) the embargo was almost a non-event, and only from a few countries, towards a few countries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 49], "content_span": [50, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091720-0007-0000", "contents": "1970s energy crisis, Key periods, 1973 oil crisis\nThe \"Embargo\" was never effective from Saudi Arabia towards the US, as reported by James Akins in interview at 24:10 in the documentary \"la face cach\u00e9e du p\u00e9trole part 2\". Akins, who audited US capacity for Nixon after US peak, was US ambassador in Saudi Arabia at that time. Lawrence Rocks and Richard Runyon captured the unfolding of these events at the time in The Energy Crisis book.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 49], "content_span": [50, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091720-0007-0001", "contents": "1970s energy crisis, Key periods, 1973 oil crisis\nIn October 1973, the members of Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries or the OAPEC (consisting of the Arab members of OPEC) proclaimed an oil embargo \"in response to the U.S. decision to re-supply the Israeli military\" during the Yom Kippur war; it lasted until March 1974. OAPEC declared it would limit or stop oil shipments to the United States and other countries if they supported Israel in the conflict.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 49], "content_span": [50, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091720-0007-0002", "contents": "1970s energy crisis, Key periods, 1973 oil crisis\nWith the US actions seen as initiating the oil embargo, the long-term possibility of embargo-related high oil prices, disrupted supply and recession, created a strong rift within NATO; both European countries and Japan sought to disassociate themselves from the US Middle East policy. Arab oil producers had also linked the end of the embargo with successful US efforts to create peace in the Middle East, which complicated the situation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 49], "content_span": [50, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091720-0007-0003", "contents": "1970s energy crisis, Key periods, 1973 oil crisis\nTo address these developments, the Nixon Administration began parallel negotiations with both Arab oil producers to end the embargo, and with Egypt, Syria, and Israel to arrange an Israeli pull back from the Sinai and the Golan Heights after the fighting stopped. By January 18, 1974, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger had negotiated an Israeli troop withdrawal from parts of the Sinai. The promise of a negotiated settlement between Israel and Syria was sufficient to convince Arab oil producers to lift the embargo in March 1974. By May, Israel agreed to withdraw from the Golan Heights.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 49], "content_span": [50, 640]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091720-0008-0000", "contents": "1970s energy crisis, Key periods, 1973 oil crisis\nIndependently, the OPEC members agreed to use their leverage over the world price-setting mechanism for oil to stabilize their real incomes by raising world oil prices. This action followed several years of steep income declines after the recent failure of negotiations with the major Western oil companies earlier in the month.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 49], "content_span": [50, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091720-0009-0000", "contents": "1970s energy crisis, Key periods, 1973 oil crisis\nFor the most part, industrialized economies relied on crude oil, and OPEC was their major supplier. Because of the dramatic inflation experienced during this period, a popular economic theory has been that these price increases were to blame, as being suppressive of economic activity. However, the causality stated by this theory is often questioned. The targeted countries responded with a wide variety of new, and mostly permanent, initiatives to contain their further dependency. The 1973 \"oil price shock\", along with the 1973\u20131974 stock market crash, have been regarded as the first event since the Great Depression to have a persistent economic effect.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 49], "content_span": [50, 709]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091720-0010-0000", "contents": "1970s energy crisis, Key periods, 1979 energy crisis\nA crisis emerged in the United States in 1979 during the wake of the Iranian Revolution. Amid massive protests, the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, fled his country in early 1979, allowing the Ayatollah Khomeini to gain control. The protests shattered the Iranian oil sector. While the new regime resumed oil exports, it was inconsistent and at a lower volume, forcing prices to go up. Saudi Arabia and other OPEC nations, under the presidency of Dr. Mana Alotaiba increased production to offset the decline, and the overall loss in production was about 4 percent. However, a widespread panic resulted, driving the price far higher than would be expected under normal circumstances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 52], "content_span": [53, 740]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091720-0011-0000", "contents": "1970s energy crisis, Key periods, 1979 energy crisis\nIn 1980, following the Iraqi invasion of Iran, oil production in Iran nearly stopped, and Iraq's oil production was severely cut as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 52], "content_span": [53, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091720-0012-0000", "contents": "1970s energy crisis, Key periods, 1979 energy crisis\nAfter 1980, oil prices began a decline as other countries began to fill the production shortfalls from Iran and Iraq.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 52], "content_span": [53, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091720-0013-0000", "contents": "1970s energy crisis, Key periods, 1980s oil glut\nThe 1973 and 1979 energy crisis had caused petroleum prices to peak in 1980 at over US$35 per barrel (US$110 in today's dollars). Following these events slowing industrial economies and stabilization of supply and demand caused prices to begin falling in the 1980s. The glut began in the early 1980s as a result of slowed economic activity in industrial countries (due to the 1973 and 1979 energy crises) and the energy conservation spurred by high fuel prices. The inflation adjusted real 2004 dollar value of oil fell from an average of $78.2 per barrel in 1981 to an average of $26.8 in 1986.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 48], "content_span": [49, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091720-0014-0000", "contents": "1970s energy crisis, Key periods, 1980s oil glut\nIn June 1981, The New York Times stated an \"Oil glut! ... is here\" and Time Magazine stated: \"the world temporarily floats in a glut of oil\", though the next week a New York Times article warned that the word \"glut\" was misleading, and that in reality, while temporary surpluses had brought down prices somewhat, prices were still well above pre-energy crisis levels. This sentiment was echoed in November 1981, when the CEO of Exxon also characterized the glut as a temporary surplus, and that the word \"glut\" was an example of \"our American penchant for exaggerated language\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 48], "content_span": [49, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091720-0014-0001", "contents": "1970s energy crisis, Key periods, 1980s oil glut\nHe wrote that the main cause of the glut was declining consumption. In the United States, Europe and Japan, oil consumption had fallen 13% from 1979 to 1981, due to \"in part, in reaction to the very large increases in oil prices by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and other oil exporters\", continuing a trend begun during the 1973 price increases.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 48], "content_span": [49, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091720-0015-0000", "contents": "1970s energy crisis, Key periods, 1980s oil glut\nAfter 1980, reduced demand and overproduction produced a glut on the world market, causing a six-year-long decline in oil prices culminating with a 46 percent price drop in 1986.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 48], "content_span": [49, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091720-0016-0000", "contents": "1970s energy crisis, Effects, Recession\nThe decade of the 1970s was a period of limited economic growth due in part to the energy crises of that decade. Although the mid decade was the worst period for the United States the economy was generally weak until the 1980s. The period marked the end of the general post-World War II economic boom. It differed from many previous recessions as being a stagflation, where high unemployment coincided with high inflation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 39], "content_span": [40, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091720-0017-0000", "contents": "1970s energy crisis, Effects, Recession\nOther causes that contributed to the recession included the Vietnam War, which turned out costly for the United States of America and the fall of the Bretton Woods system. The emergence of newly industrialized countries rose competition in the metal industry, triggering a steel crisis, where industrial core areas in North America and Europe were forced to re-structure. The 1973\u20131974 stock market crash made the recession evident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 39], "content_span": [40, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091720-0018-0000", "contents": "1970s energy crisis, Effects, Recession\nAccording to the National Bureau of Economic Research, the recession in the United States lasted from November 1973 to March 1975. Although the economy was expanding from 1975 to the first recession of the early 1980s, which began in January 1980, inflation remained extremely high for the rest of the decade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 39], "content_span": [40, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091720-0019-0000", "contents": "1970s energy crisis, Effects, Recession\nDuring this recession, the Gross Domestic Product of the United States fell 3.2%. Although the recession ended in March 1975, the unemployment rate did not peak for several months. In May 1975, the rate reached its height for the cycle of 9%. (Only two cycles have higher peaks than this: the current cycle, when the unemployment rate is currently 9.7% in the United States; and the early 1980s recession, when unemployment peaked at 10.8% in November and December 1982.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 39], "content_span": [40, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091720-0020-0000", "contents": "1970s energy crisis, Effects, Recession\nThe recession also lasted from 1973 to 1975 in the United Kingdom. The GDP declined by 3.9% or 3.37% depending on the source. It took 14 quarters for the UK's GDP to recover to that at the start of recession.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 39], "content_span": [40, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091720-0021-0000", "contents": "1970s energy crisis, Effects, Strategic petroleum reserves\nAs a result of the 1973 crisis many nations created strategic petroleum reserves (SPRs), crude oil inventories (or stockpiles) held by the governments of particular countries or private industry, for the purpose of providing economic and national security during an energy crisis. The International Energy Agency (IEA) was formed in the wake of this crisis and currently comprises 29 member countries. According to the IEA, approximately 4.1 billion barrels (650,000,000\u00a0m3) of oil are held in strategic reserves by the member countries, of which 1.4 billion barrels (220,000,000\u00a0m3) is government-controlled. The remainder is held by private industry. These reserves are intended to be equivalent to at least 90 days of net imports. At the moment the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve is one of the largest government-owned reserves, with a capacity of up to 713.5 million barrels (113,440,000\u00a0m3).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 58], "content_span": [59, 955]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091720-0022-0000", "contents": "1970s energy crisis, Effects, Strategic petroleum reserves\nRecently, other non-IEA countries have begun creating their own strategic petroleum reserves, with China being the second largest overall and the largest non-IEA country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 58], "content_span": [59, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091720-0023-0000", "contents": "1970s energy crisis, Effects, Middle East\nSince Israel's declaration of independence in 1948 this state has found itself in nearly continual conflict with the Arab world and some other predominantly Muslim countries. The animosity between the Arabs and the Israelis became a global issue during the 1970s. The Yom Kippur War of 1973, with the supplying of Israel by its Western allies while some Arab states received Soviet supplies, made this one of the most internationally threatening confrontations of the period.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 41], "content_span": [42, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091720-0024-0000", "contents": "1970s energy crisis, Effects, Middle East\nThe large oil discoveries in the Middle East and southwestern Asia, and the peaking of production in some of the more industrialized areas of the world gave some Muslim countries unique leverage in the world, beginning in the 1960s. The 1973 and 1979 crises, in particular, were demonstrations of the new power that these countries had found. The United States and other countries were forced to become more involved in the conflicts between these states and Israel leading to peace initiatives such as the Camp David Accords.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 41], "content_span": [42, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091720-0025-0000", "contents": "1970s energy crisis, Effects, OPEC\nOne of the first challenges OPEC faced in the 1970s was the United States' unilaterally pulling out of the Bretton Woods Accord and taking the U.S. off the established Gold Exchange Standard in 1971. With that standard, only the value of the U.S. dollar was pegged to the price of gold and all other currencies were pegged to the U.S. dollar. The change resulted in instability in world currencies and depreciation of the value of the U.S. dollar, as well as other currencies, and decreasing real revenues for OPEC whose producers still priced oil in dollars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091720-0026-0000", "contents": "1970s energy crisis, Effects, OPEC\nOPEC was slow to adjust to the situation but finally made the decision to price oil against gold. Frustrated negotiations between OPEC and the major oil companies to revise the oil price agreement as well as the ongoing Middle East conflicts continued to stall OPEC's efforts at stabilization through this era.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091720-0027-0000", "contents": "1970s energy crisis, Effects, \"Oil Patch\"\nThe major oil-producing regions of the U.S.\u2014Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Colorado, Wyoming, and Alaska\u2014benefited greatly from the price inflation of the 1970s as did the U.S. oil industry in general. Oil prices generally increased throughout the decade; between 1978 and 1980 the price of West Texas Intermediate crude oil increased 250 percent. Although all states felt the effects of the stock market crash and related national economic problems, the economic benefits of increased oil revenue in the Oil Patch states generally offset much of this.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 41], "content_span": [42, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091721-0000-0000", "contents": "1970s in Angola\nThe 1970s in Angola, a time of political and military turbulence, saw the end of Angola's War of Independence (1961\u20131975) and the outbreak of civil war (1975\u20132002). Agostinho Neto, the leader of the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), declared the independence of the People's Republic of Angola on November 11, 1975, in accordance with the Alvor Accords. UNITA and the FNLA also declared Angolan independence as the Social Democratic Republic of Angola based in Huambo and the Democratic Republic of Angola based in Ambriz.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091721-0000-0001", "contents": "1970s in Angola\nFLEC, armed and backed by the French government, declared the independence of the Republic of Cabinda from Paris. The National Liberation Front of Angola (FNLA) and the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) forged an alliance on November 23, proclaiming their own coalition government based in Huambo with Holden Roberto and Jonas Savimbi as co-presidents and Jos\u00e9 Ndel\u00e9 and Johnny Pinnock Eduardo as co-Prime Ministers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091721-0001-0000", "contents": "1970s in Angola\nThe South African government told Savimbi and Roberto in early November that the South African Defence Force (SADF) would soon end operations in Angola despite the coalition's failure to capture Luanda and therefore secure international recognition at independence. Savimbi, desperate to avoid the withdrawal of the largest, friendly, military force in Angola, asked General Constand Viljoen to arrange a meeting for him with South African Prime Minister John Vorster, Savimbi's ally since October 1974. On the night of November 10, the day before independence, Savimbi secretly flew to Pretoria, South Africa and the meeting took place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 653]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091721-0001-0001", "contents": "1970s in Angola\nIn a remarkable reversal of policy, Vorster not only agreed to keep troops through November but promised to withdraw the SADF troops only after the OAU meeting on December 9. The Soviets, well aware of South African activity in southern Angola, flew Cuban soldiers into Luanda the week before independence. While Cuban officers led the mission and provided the bulk of the troop force, 60 Soviet officers in the Congo joined the Cubans on November 12. The Soviet leadership expressly forbid the Cubans from intervening in Angola's civil war, focusing the mission on containing South Africa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091721-0002-0000", "contents": "1970s in Angola\nIn 1975 and 1976 most foreign forces, with the exception of Cuba, withdrew. The last elements of the Portuguese military withdrew in 1975 and the South African military withdrew in February 1976. On the other hand, Cuba's troop force in Angola increased from 5,500 in December 1975 to 11,000 in February 1976. FNLA forces were crushed by Operation Carlota, a joint Cuban-Angolan attack on Huambo on January 30, 1976. By mid-November, the Huambo government had gained control over southern Angola and began pushing north.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091721-0003-0000", "contents": "1970s in Angola, Clark Amendment\nPresident Gerald Ford approved covert aid to UNITA and the FNLA through Operation IA Feature on July 18, 1975, despite strong opposition from officials in the State Department and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Ford told William Colby, the Director of Central Intelligence, to \"go ahead and do it\" with an initial US$6 million in funding. He granted an additional $8 million in funding on July 27 and another $25 million in August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091721-0004-0000", "contents": "1970s in Angola, Clark Amendment\nTwo days prior to the program's approval, Nathaniel Davis, the Assistant Secretary of State, told Henry Kissinger, the Secretary of State, that he believed maintaining the secrecy of IA Feature would be impossible. Davis correctly predicted the Soviet Union would respond by increasing involvement in the Angolan conflict, leading to more violence and negative publicity for the United States. When Ford approved the program, Davis resigned. John Stockwell, the CIA's station chief in Angola, echoed Davis' criticism saying the success required expanding the program, but the program's size already exceeded what could be hidden from the public eye.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 682]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091721-0004-0001", "contents": "1970s in Angola, Clark Amendment\nDavis' deputy, former U.S. ambassador to Chile Edward Mulcahy, also opposed direct involvement. Mulcahy presented three options for U.S. policy towards Angola on May 13, 1975. Mulcahy believed the Ford administration could use diplomacy to campaign against foreign aid to the Communist MPLA, refuse to take sides in factional fighting, or increase support for the FNLA and UNITA. He warned however that supporting UNITA would not sit well with Mobutu Sese Seko, the ruler of Zaire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091721-0005-0000", "contents": "1970s in Angola, Clark Amendment\nDick Clark, a Democratic Senator from Iowa, discovered the operation during a fact-finding mission in Africa, but Seymour Hersh, a reporter for The New York Times, revealed IA Feature to the public on December 13, 1975. Clark proposed an amendment to the Arms Export Control Act, barring aid to private groups engaged in military or paramilitary operations in Angola. The Senate passed the bill, voting 54\u201322 on December 19, 1975, and the House passed the bill, voting 323\u201399 on January 27, 1976. Ford signed the bill into law on February 9, 1976.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091721-0005-0001", "contents": "1970s in Angola, Clark Amendment\nEven after the Clark Amendment became law, then-Director of Central Intelligence, George H. W. Bush, refused to concede that all U.S. aid to Angola had ceased. According to foreign affairs analyst Jane Hunter, Israel stepped in as a proxy arms supplier for the United States after the Clark Amendment took effect.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091721-0006-0000", "contents": "1970s in Angola, Clark Amendment\nThe U.S. government vetoed Angolan entry into the United Nations on June 23, 1976. Zambia forbid UNITA from launching attacks from its territory after Angola became a member of the UN on December 1, 1976.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091721-0007-0000", "contents": "1970s in Angola, Vietnam\nThe Vietnam War tempered foreign involvement in Angola's civil war as neither the Soviet Union nor the United States wanted to be drawn into an internal conflict of highly debatable importance in terms of winning the Cold War. CBS Newscaster Walter Cronkite spread this message in his broadcasts to \"try to play our small part in preventing that mistake this time.\" The Politburo engaged in heated debate over the extent to which the Soviet Union would support a continued offensive by the MPLA in February 1976.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 24], "content_span": [25, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091721-0007-0001", "contents": "1970s in Angola, Vietnam\nForeign Minister Andrei Gromyko and Premier Alexei Kosygin led a faction favoring less support for the MPLA and greater emphasis on preserving d\u00e9tente with the West. Leonid Brezhnev, the then head of the Soviet Union, won out against the dissident faction and the Soviet alliance with the MPLA continued even as Neto publicly reaffirmed its policy of non-alignment at the 15th anniversary of the First Revolt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 24], "content_span": [25, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091721-0008-0000", "contents": "1970s in Angola, Vietnam\nAngolan government and Cuban troops had control over all southern cities by 1977, but roads in the south faced repeated UNITA attacks. Savimbi expressed his willingness for rapprochement with the MPLA and the formation of a unity, socialist government, but he insisted on Cuban withdrawal first. \"The real enemy is Cuban colonialism,\" Savimbi told reporters, warning, \"The Cubans have taken over the country, but sooner or later they will suffer their own Vietnam in Angola.\" Government and Cuban troops used flame throwers, bulldozers, and planes with napalm to destroy villages in a 1.6 mile wide area along the Angola-Namibia border.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 24], "content_span": [25, 661]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091721-0008-0001", "contents": "1970s in Angola, Vietnam\nOnly women and children passed through this area, \"Castro Corridor,\" because government troops had shot all males ten years of age or older to prevent them from joining the UNITA. The napalm killed cattle to feed government troops and to retaliate against UNITA sympathizers. Angolans fled from their homeland; 10,000 going south to Namibia and 16,000 east to Zambia, where they lived in refugee camps. Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington of the United Kingdom expressed similar concerns over British involvement in Rhodesia's Bush War during the Lancaster House negotiations in 1980.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 24], "content_span": [25, 607]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091721-0009-0000", "contents": "1970s in Angola, Shaba invasions\n1,500 members of the Front for the National Liberation of the Congo (FNLC) invaded Shaba, Zaire from eastern Angola on March 7, 1977. The FNLC wanted to overthrow Mobutu and the Angolan government, suffering from Mobutu's support for the FNLA and UNITA, did not try to stop the invasion. The FNLC failed to capture Kolwezi, Zaire's economic heartland, but took Kasaji, and Mutshatsha. Zairian troops were defeated without difficulty and the FNLC continued to advance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091721-0009-0001", "contents": "1970s in Angola, Shaba invasions\nMobutu appealed to William Eteki of Cameroon, Chairman of the Organization of African Unity, for assistance on April 2. Eight days later, the French government responded to Mobutu's plea and airlifted 1,500 Moroccan troops into Kinshasa. This troop force worked in conjunction with the Zairian army and the FNLA of Angola with air cover from Egyptian pilots flying French Mirage fighter aircraft to beat back the FNLC. The counter-invasion force pushed the last of the militants, along with a number of refugees, into Angola and Zambia in April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091721-0010-0000", "contents": "1970s in Angola, Shaba invasions\nMobutu accused the Angolan government, as well as the Cuban and Soviet governments, of complicity in the war. While Neto did support the FNLC, the Angolan government's support came in response to Mobutu's continued support for Angola's anti-Communists. The Carter Administration, unconvinced of Cuban involvement, responded by offering a meager $15 million-worth of non-military aid. American timidity during the war prompted a shift in Zaire's foreign policy from the U.S. to France, which became Zaire's largest supplier of arms after the intervention. Neto and Mobutu signed a border agreement on July 22, 1977.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091721-0011-0000", "contents": "1970s in Angola, Shaba invasions\nJohn Stockwell, the Central Intelligence Agency's station chief in Angola, resigned after the invasion, explaining in an article for The Washington Post article Why I'm Leaving the CIA, published on April 10, 1977, that he had warned Secretary of State Henry Kissinger that continued American support for anti-government rebels in Angola could provoke a war with Zaire. He also said covert Soviet involvement in Angola came after, and in response to, U.S. involvement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091721-0012-0000", "contents": "1970s in Angola, Shaba invasions\nThe FNLC invaded Shaba again on May 11, 1978, capturing Kolwezi in two days. While the Carter Administration had accepted Cuba's insistence on its non-involvement in Shaba I, and therefore did not stand with Mobutu, the U.S. government now accused Castro of complicity. This time, when Mobutu appealed for foreign assistance, the U.S. government worked with the French and Belgian militaries to beat back the invasion, the first military cooperation between France and the United States since the Vietnam War.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 542]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091721-0012-0001", "contents": "1970s in Angola, Shaba invasions\nThe French Foreign Legion took back Kolwezi after a seven-day battle and airlifted 2,250 European citizens to Belgium, but not before the FNLC massacred 80 Europeans and 200 Africans. In one instance the FNLC killed 34 European civilians who had hidden in a room. The FNLC retreated to Zambia and back to Angola, vowing to return. The Zairian army then forcibly evicted civilians along Shaba's 65-mile long border with Angola and Mobutu ordered them to shoot on sight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091721-0013-0000", "contents": "1970s in Angola, Shaba invasions\nU.S. mediated negotiations between the Angolan and Zairian governments led to a peace accord and an end to support for insurgencies in each other's respective countries. Zaire temporarily cutoff support to FLEC, the FNLA, and UNITA and Angola forbid further activity by the FNLC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091721-0014-0000", "contents": "1970s in Angola, Nitistas\nNeto's Interior Minister, Nito Alves, had successfully put down Daniel Chipenda's Eastern Revolt and the Active Revolt during Angola's War of Independence. Factionalism within the MPLA became a major challenge to Neto's power by late 1975 and he gave Alves the task of once again clamping down on dissension. Alves shut down the Cabral and Henda Committees while expanding his influence within the MPLA through his control of the nation's newspapers and state-run television. Alves visited the Soviet Union in October 1976.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 25], "content_span": [26, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091721-0014-0001", "contents": "1970s in Angola, Nitistas\nWhen he returned, Neto began taking steps to neutralize the threat he saw in the Nitistas, followers of Alves. Neto called a plenum meeting of the Central Committee of the MPLA. Neto formally designated the party Marxist-Leninist, abolished the Interior Ministry and DOM, the official branch of the MPLA used by the Nitistas, and established a Commission of Enquiry. Neto used the commission, officially created to examine and report factionalism, to target the Nitistas, and ordered the commission to issue a report of its findings in March 1977. Alves and Chief of Staff Jos\u00e9 Van-Dunem, his political ally, began planning a coup d'\u00e9tat against dos Santos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 25], "content_span": [26, 683]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091721-0015-0000", "contents": "1970s in Angola, Nitistas\nAlves represented the MPLA at the 25th Soviet Communist Party Congress in February 1977 and may have then obtained support for the coup from the Soviet Union. Alves and Van-Dunem planned to arrest Neto on May 21 before he arrived at a meeting of the Central Committee and before the commission released its report. The MPLA changed the meeting's location shortly before its scheduled start, throwing the plotters' plans into disarray, but Alves attended the meeting and faced the commission anyway. The commission released its report, accusing him of factionalism. Alves fought back, denouncing Neto for not aligning Angola with the Soviet Union. After twelve hours of debate, the party voted 26 to 6 to kick Alves and Van-Dunem out of power.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 25], "content_span": [26, 768]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091721-0016-0000", "contents": "1970s in Angola, Nitistas\nTen armored cars with the FAPLA's 8th Brigade broke into S\u00e3o Paulo prison at 4 a.m. on May 27, killing the prison warden and freeing more than 150 supporters, including 11 who had been arrested only a few days before. The brigade took control of the radio station in Luanda at 7 a.m. and announced their coup, calling themselves the MPLA Action Committee. The brigade asked citizens to show their support for the coup by demonstrating in front of the presidential palace.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 25], "content_span": [26, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091721-0016-0001", "contents": "1970s in Angola, Nitistas\nThe Nitistas captured Bula and Dangereaux, generals loyal to Neto, but Neto had moved his base of operations from the palace to the Ministry of Defence in fear of such an uprising. Cuban troops retook the palace at Neto's request and marched to the radio station. After an hour of fighting, the Cubans succeeded and proceeded to the barracks of the 8th brigade, recaptured by 1:30\u00a0p.m. While the Cuban force captured the palace and radio station, the Nitistas kidnapped seven leaders within the government and the military, shooting and killing six.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 25], "content_span": [26, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091721-0017-0000", "contents": "1970s in Angola, Nitistas\nThe government arrested tens of thousands of suspected Nitistas from May to November and tried them in secret courts overseen by Defense Minister Iko Carreira. Those who were found guilty, including Van-Dunem, Jacobo \"Immortal Monster\" Caetano, the head of the 8th Brigade, and political commissar Eduardo Evaristo, were then shot and buried in secret graves. The coup attempt had a lasting effect on Angola's foreign relations. Alves had opposed Neto's foreign policy of non-alignment, evolutionary socialism, and multiracialism, favoring stronger relations with the Soviet Union, which he wanted to grant military bases in Angola.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 25], "content_span": [26, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091721-0017-0001", "contents": "1970s in Angola, Nitistas\nWhile Cuban soldiers actively helped Neto put down the coup, Alves and Neto both believed the Soviet Union supported Neto's ouster. Ra\u00fal Castro sent an additional four thousand troops to prevent further dissension within the MPLA's ranks and met with Neto in August in a display of solidarity. In contrast, Neto's distrust in the Soviet leadership increased and relations with the USSR worsened. In December, the MPLA held is first party Congress and changed its name to the MPLA-PT. The Nitista coup took a toll on the MPLA's membership. In 1975, the MPLA boasted of 200,000 members. After the first party congress, that number decreased to 30,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 25], "content_span": [26, 675]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091721-0018-0000", "contents": "1970s in Angola, Rise of dos Santos\nOn July 5, 1979, Neto issued a decree requiring all citizens to serve in the military for three years upon turning the age of eighteen. The government gave a report to the UN estimating $293 million in property damage from South African attacks between 1976 and 1979, asking for compensation on August 3, 1979. The Popular Movement for the Liberation of Cabinda, a Cabindan separatist rebel group, attacked a Cuban base near Tshiowa on August 11.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091721-0019-0000", "contents": "1970s in Angola, Rise of dos Santos\nPresident Neto died from inoperable cancer in Moscow on September 10, 1979. L\u00facio Lara and Pascual Luvualo flew to Moscow and the MPLA declared 45 days of mourning. The government held his funeral at the Palace of the People on September 17. Many foreign dignitaries, including Organization of African Unity President William R. Tolbert, Jr. of Liberia, attended. The Central Committee of the MPLA unanimously voted in favor of Jos\u00e9 Eduardo dos Santos as President. He was sworn in on September 21. Under dos Santos' leadership, Angolan troops crossed the border into Namibia for the first time on October 31, going into Kavango. The next day, the governments of Angola, Zambia, and Zaire signed a non-aggression pact.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 754]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0000-0000", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh\nThe 1970s (pronounced \"nineteen-seventies\", commonly abbreviated as the \"Seventies\") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1970, and ended on December 31, 1979. It was a very significant decade in the history of Bangladesh, because this is the decade in which Bangladesh emerged as a sovereign state. The decade began with a devastating cyclone that ravaged the southern part of the country. The next year the country went into Liberation war and achieved independence from Pakistan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0000-0001", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh\nThe government of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman administered the newly formed country between 1972\u20131975, but their rule soon came to an end through a series of coups and counter coups in the later part of the decade. Economically the country struggled because of the war (1971) and famine (1974) throughout the decade and was highly dependent on foreign aids. Culturally, in this decade Bangladesh started to establish its own identity as an independent nation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0001-0000", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Politics and National Life, Tension between the two factions of Pakistan\nThe 1970s started with Bangladesh as part of erstwhile Pakistan amid intense political tension between the two factions of the country - East (later Bangladesh) and the West (later Pakistan). The East Pakistanis observed that the West Pakistani establishment would swiftly depose any East Pakistanis elected Prime Minister of Pakistan, such as Khawaja Nazimuddin, Mohammad Ali Bogra, or Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy. Their suspicions were further aggravated by the military dictatorships of Ayub Khan (27 October 1958 \u2013 25 March 1969) and Yahya Khan (25 March 1969 \u2013 20 December 1971), both West Pakistanis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 93], "content_span": [94, 698]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0001-0001", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Politics and National Life, Tension between the two factions of Pakistan\nThe situation reached a climax in 1970, when the Bangladesh Awami League, the largest East Pakistani political party, led by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, won a landslide victory in the national elections. The party won 167 of the 169 seats allotted to East Pakistan, and thus a majority of the 313 seats in the National Assembly. This gave the Awami League the constitutional right to form a government. However, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (a former Foreign Minister), the leader of the Pakistan Peoples Party, refused to allow Rahman to become the Prime Minister of Pakistan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 93], "content_span": [94, 657]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0001-0002", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Politics and National Life, Tension between the two factions of Pakistan\nInstead, he proposed the idea of having two Prime Ministers, one for each wing. The proposal elicited outrage in the east wing, already chafing under the other constitutional innovation, the \"One Unit scheme\". Bhutto also refused to accept Rahman's Six Points. On 3 March 1971, the two leaders of the two wings along with the President General Yahya Khan met in Dacca to decide the fate of the country. After their discussions yielded no satisfactory results, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman called for a nationwide strike. Bhutto feared a civil war, therefore, he sent his trusted companion, Mubashir Hassan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 93], "content_span": [94, 693]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0001-0003", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Politics and National Life, Tension between the two factions of Pakistan\nA message was conveyed, and Rahman decided to meet Bhutto. Upon his arrival, Rahman met with Bhutto and both agreed to form a coalition government with Rahman as Premier and Bhutto as President. However, the military was unaware of these developments, and Bhutto increased his pressure on Rahman to reach a decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 93], "content_span": [94, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0002-0000", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Politics and National Life, Tension between the two factions of Pakistan\nThe talks proved unsuccessful, however, and on 1 March 1971, Pakistani President Yahya Khan indefinitely postponed the pending National Assembly session, precipitating massive civil disobedience in East Pakistan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 93], "content_span": [94, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0003-0000", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Politics and National Life, Tension between the two factions of Pakistan\nOn 2 March 1971, a group of students, led by A S M Abdur Rob, a student leader, raised the new (proposed) flag of Bangladesh under the direction of the Swadhin Bangla Nucleus. They demanded that Sheikh Mujibur Rahman declare the independence of Bangladesh immediately but Mujibur Rahman refused to agree to this demand. Rather, he decided that he would declare his next steps at a public meeting to be held on 7 March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 93], "content_span": [94, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0004-0000", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Politics and National Life, Tension between the two factions of Pakistan\nOn 3 March, student leader, Shahjahan Siraj, read the 'Sadhinotar Ishtehar' (Declaration of independence) at Paltan Maidan in front of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib at a public gathering under the direction of the Swadhin Bangla Nucleus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 93], "content_span": [94, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0005-0000", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Politics and National Life, Tension between the two factions of Pakistan\nOn 7 March, there was a public gathering in Suhrawardy Udyan to hear updates on the ongoing movement from Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib, the leader of the movement that time. Although he avoided directly referring to independence, as the talks were still underway, he warned his listeners to prepare for any imminent war. The speech is considered a key moment in the war of liberation, and is remembered for the phrase,", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 93], "content_span": [94, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0006-0000", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Politics and National Life, Bhola cyclone\nThe 1970 Bhola cyclone made landfall on the East Pakistan coastline during the evening of 12 November, around the same time as a local high tide, killing an estimated 300,000 to 500,000 people. Though the exact death toll is not known, it is considered the deadliest tropical cyclone on record. A week after the landfall, President Khan conceded that his government had made \"slips\" and \"mistakes\" in its handling of the relief efforts due to a lack of understanding of the magnitude of the disaster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 62], "content_span": [63, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0007-0000", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Politics and National Life, Bhola cyclone\nA statement released by eleven political leaders in East Pakistan ten days after the cyclone hit charged the government with \"gross neglect, callous and utter indifference\". They also accused the president of playing down the magnitude of the problem in news coverage. On 19 November, students held a march in Dacca protesting the slowness of the government's response. Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani addressed a rally of 50,000 people on 24 November, where he accused the president of inefficiency and demanded his resignation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 62], "content_span": [63, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0008-0000", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Politics and National Life, Bhola cyclone\nAs the conflict between East and West Pakistan developed in March, the Dacca offices of the two government organisations directly involved in relief efforts were closed for at least two weeks, first by a general strike and then by a ban on government work in East Pakistan by the Awami League. With this increase in tension, foreign personnel were evacuated over fears of violence. Relief work continued in the field, but long-term planning was curtailed. This conflict widened into the Bangladesh Liberation War in December and concluded with the creation of Bangladesh. This was one of the first times that a natural event helped trigger a civil war.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 62], "content_span": [63, 715]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0009-0000", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Politics and National Life, Formal Declaration of Independence\nIn the early hours of 26 March 1971, a military crackdown by the Pakistan army began. The Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was arrested and the political leaders dispersed, mostly fleeing to neighbouring India where they organised a provisional government. Before being arrested by the Pakistani Army, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman passed a hand written note which contained the Bangladeshi Declaration of Independence. This note was widely circulated and transmitted by the then East Pakistan Rifles' wireless transmitter. The world press reports from late March 1971 also make sure that Bangladesh's declaration of independence by Bangabandhu was widely reported throughout the world. Bengali Army officer Major Ziaur Rahman captured the Kalurghat Radio Station in Chittagong and read the declaration of independence of Bangladesh during the evening hours on 27 March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 83], "content_span": [84, 947]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0010-0000", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Politics and National Life, Formal Declaration of Independence\nThis is Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra. I, Major Ziaur Rahman, at the direction of Bangobondhu Mujibur Rahman, hereby declare that the Independent People's Republic of Bangladesh has been established. At his direction, I have taken command as the temporary Head of the Republic. In the name of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, I call upon all Bengalees to rise against the attack by the West Pakistani Army. We shall fight to the last to free our motherland. Victory is, by the Grace of Allah, ours. Joy Bangla.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 83], "content_span": [84, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0011-0000", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Politics and National Life, Formal Declaration of Independence\nThe Provisional Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh was formed on 10 April in Meherpur (later renamed as Mujibnagar, a town adjacent to the Indian border). Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was announced to be the Head of the State. Tajuddin Ahmed became the Prime Minister, Syed Nazrul Islam became the acting President and Khondaker Mostaq Ahmed the Foreign Minister. There the war plan was sketched out with Bangladesh armed forces established and named \"Muktifoujo\". Later these forces were named \"Muktibahini\" (freedom fighters). M. A. G. Osmani was appointed as the Chief of the Armed Forces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 83], "content_span": [84, 684]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0012-0000", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Politics and National Life, Formal Declaration of Independence\nFor military purposes, Bangladesh was divided into 11 sectors under 11 sector commanders. In addition to these sectors, later in the war, three special forces were formed: Z Force, S Force and K Force. These three forces' names were derived from the initial letters of the commander's name. The training and most of the arms and ammunitions were arranged by the Meherpur government which was supported by India. As fighting grew between the Pakistan Army and the Bengali Mukti Bahini, an estimated ten million Bengalis, mainly Hindus, sought refuge in the Indian states of Assam, Tripura and West Bengal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 83], "content_span": [84, 688]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0013-0000", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Politics and National Life, Formal Declaration of Independence\nThe crisis in East Pakistan produced new strains in Pakistan's troubled relations with India. The two nations had fought a war in 1965, mainly in the west, but the pressure of millions of refugees escaping into India in autumn 1971, as well as Pakistani aggression, reignited Indian hostilities with Pakistan. Indian sympathies lay with East Pakistan, and on 3 December 1971, India intervened on the side of the Bangladeshis which led to a short, but violent, two-week war known as the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 83], "content_span": [84, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0014-0000", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Politics and National Life, Pakistani capitulation and aftermath\nOn 16 December 1971, Lt. Gen A. A. K. Niazi, CO of Pakistan Army forces located in East Pakistan signed the Instrument of Surrender and the nation of Bangla Desh (\"Country of Bengal\") was finally established the following day. At the time of surrender only a few countries had provided diplomatic recognition to the new nation. Over 90,000 Pakistani troops surrendered to the Indian forces making it the largest surrender since World War II. The new country changed its name to Bangladesh on 11 January 1972 and became a parliamentary democracy under a constitution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 85], "content_span": [86, 652]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0014-0001", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Politics and National Life, Pakistani capitulation and aftermath\nShortly thereafter on 19 March Bangladesh signed a friendship treaty with India. Bangladesh sought admission in the UN with most voting in its favour, but China vetoed this as Pakistan was its key ally. To ensure a smooth transition, in 1972 the Simla Agreement was signed between India and Pakistan. The treaty ensured that Pakistan recognised the independence of Bangladesh in exchange for the return of the Pakistani PoWs. India treated all the PoWs in strict accordance with the Geneva Convention, rule 1925. It released more than 93,000 Pakistani PoWs in five months.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 85], "content_span": [86, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0015-0000", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Politics and National Life, Pakistani capitulation and aftermath\nFurthermore, as a gesture of goodwill, nearly 200 soldiers who were sought for war crimes by Bengalis were also pardoned by India. The accord also gave back more than 13,000\u00a0km2 (5,019\u00a0sq\u00a0mi) of land that Indian troops had seized in West Pakistan during the war, though India retained a few strategic areas; most notably Kargil (which would in turn again be the focal point for a war between the two nations in 1999).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 85], "content_span": [86, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0016-0000", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Politics and National Life, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman administration\nUpon his release on 10 January 1972, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman briefly assumed the provisional presidency and later took office as the prime minister, heading all organs of government and decision-making. The politicians elected in 1970 formed the provisional parliament of the new state. The Mukti Bahini and other militias amalgamated to form a new Bangladeshi army to which Indian forces transferred control on 17 March. The government faced serious challenges, which including the rehabilitation of millions of people displaced in 1971, organising the supply of food, health aids and other necessities. The effects of the 1970 cyclone had not worn off, and the state's economy had immensely deteriorated by the conflict.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 85], "content_span": [86, 806]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0017-0000", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Politics and National Life, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman administration\nMujib helped Bangladesh enter into the United Nations and the Non-Aligned Movement. He travelled to the United States, the United Kingdom and other European nations to obtain humanitarian and developmental assistance for the nation. He signed a treaty of friendship with India, which pledged extensive economic and humanitarian assistance and began training Bangladesh's security forces and government personnel. Mujib forged a close friendship with Indira Gandhi, strongly praising India's decision to intercede, and professed admiration and friendship for India. Major efforts were launched to rehabilitate an estimated 10 million refugees. The economy began recovering and a famine was prevented.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 85], "content_span": [86, 785]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0017-0001", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Politics and National Life, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman administration\nA constitution was proclaimed in 1973 and elections were held, which resulted in Mujib and his party gaining power with an absolute majority. He further outlined state programmes to expand primary education, sanitation, food, healthcare, water and electric supply across the country. A five-year plan released in 1973 focused state investments into agriculture, rural infrastructure and cottage industries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 85], "content_span": [86, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0018-0000", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Politics and National Life, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman administration\nIn 1974, Bangladesh experienced the deadliest famine ever, which killed around 1.5\u00a0million Bangladeshi people from hunger. The Bangladesh famine of 1974 is a major source of discontent against Mujib's government. Bangladeshi people feel ashamed, insulted and demoralised as a nation for this famine that was not due to a food crisis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 85], "content_span": [86, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0019-0000", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Politics and National Life, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman administration, Left wing insurgency\nAt the height of Sheikh Mujib's power, left wing insurgents, organised by Jatiyo Samajtantrik Dal's armed wing Gonobahini fought against the government of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, to establish a Marxist government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 107], "content_span": [108, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0020-0000", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Politics and National Life, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman administration, Left wing insurgency\nThe government responded by forming the Jatiya Rakkhi Bahini which began a campaign of brutal human rights abuses against the general populace, including the force became involved in numerous charges of human rights abuse including political killings, shooting by death squads, and rape. Members of Jatiyo Rakkhi Bahini were granted immunity from prosecution and other legal proceedings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 107], "content_span": [108, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0021-0000", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Politics and National Life, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman administration, Bangladesh Krishak Sramik Awami League (BAKSAL)\nAccording to Abdur Razzaq, the 1974 famine profoundly affected Mujib's views on governance, while political unrest gave rise to increasing violence. During the famine, 70,000 people were reported as dead (Note: Reports vary). In response, he began increasing his powers. On 25 January 1975 Mujib declared a state of emergency and his political supporters approved a constitutional amendment banning all opposition political parties. Mujib assumed the presidency and was given extraordinary powers. His political supporters amalgamated to form the only legalised political party, the Bangladesh Krishak Sramik Awami League, commonly known by its initials\u2014BAKSAL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 134], "content_span": [135, 796]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0021-0001", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Politics and National Life, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman administration, Bangladesh Krishak Sramik Awami League (BAKSAL)\nThe party identified itself with the rural masses, farmers and labourers and took control of government machinery. It also launched major socialist programmes. Using government forces and a militia of supporters called the Jatiyo Rakkhi Bahini, Mujib clamped down on any opposition to him. The militia known as RakhiBahini and police were accused of torturing suspects and political killings. While retaining support from many segments of the population, Mujib evoked anger amongst veterans of the liberation war for what was seen as a betrayal of the causes of democracy and civil rights.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 134], "content_span": [135, 724]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0022-0000", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Politics and National Life, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman administration, Assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and aftermath\nOn 15 August 1975, a group of junior army officers invaded the presidential residence with tanks and killed Mujib, his family and personal staff. Only his daughters Sheikh Hasina Wajed and Sheikh Rehana, who were visiting West Germany, escaped. They were banned from returning to Bangladesh. The coup was planned by disgruntled Awami League colleagues and military officers, which included Mujib's colleague and former confidant\u00e9 Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad, who became his immediate successor. There was intense speculation in the media accusing the US Central Intelligence Agency of having instigated the plot. Lawrence Lifschultz has alleged that the CIA was involved in the coup and assassination, basing his assumption on the then US ambassador in Dhaka Eugene Booster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 139], "content_span": [140, 909]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0023-0000", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Politics and National Life, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman administration, Assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and aftermath\nMujib's death plunged the nation into many years of political turmoil. The coup leaders were soon overthrown and a series of counter-coups and political assassinations paralysed the country. Order was largely restored after a coup in 1977 gave control to the army chief Ziaur Rahman. Declaring himself President in 1978, Ziaur Rahman signed the Indemnity Ordinance, giving immunity from prosecution to the men who plotted Mujib's assassination and overthrow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 139], "content_span": [140, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0024-0000", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Politics and National Life, Ziaur Rahman administration, 1975\u201381\nSuccessive military coups resulted in the emergence of Army Chief of Staff General Ziaur Rahman (\"Zia\") as strongman. He pledged the army's support to the civilian government headed by President Chief Justice Sayem. Acting at Zia's behest, Sayem dissolved Parliament, promising fresh elections in 1977, and instituted martial law.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 85], "content_span": [86, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0025-0000", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Politics and National Life, Ziaur Rahman administration, 1975\u201381\nActing behind the scenes of the Martial Law Administration (MLA), Zia sought to invigorate government policy and administration. While continuing the ban on political parties, he sought to revitalise the demoralised bureaucracy, to begin new economic development programs, and to emphasise family planning. In November 1976, Zia became Chief Martial Law Administrator (CMLA) and assumed the presidency upon Sayem's retirement five months later, promising national elections in 1978.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 85], "content_span": [86, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0026-0000", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Politics and National Life, Ziaur Rahman administration, 1975\u201381\nAs President, Zia announced a 19-point program of economic reform and began dismantling the MLA. Keeping his promise to hold elections, Zia won a five-year term in June 1978 elections, with 76% of the vote. In November 1978, his government removed the remaining restrictions on political party activities in time for parliamentary elections in February 1979. These elections, which were contested by more than 30 parties, marked the culmination of Zia's transformation of Bangladesh's Government from the MLA to a democratically elected, constitutional one. The AL and the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), founded by Zia, emerged as the two major parties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 85], "content_span": [86, 744]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0027-0000", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Administrative Division\nIn the 1970s, Bangladesh used to be administratively divided into 4 divisions, namely Dhaka, Chittagong, Khulna and Rajshahi which were further subdivided into a total of 17 districts (See List of districts of Bangladesh). After the independence, President's Order 7 issued in 1972 dissolved all the existing local government bodies and the names of the Union Council and District Council were changed to Union Panchayet and Zila Board, respectively. The Constitution of 1972 included specific provisions relating to the basic structure and functions of local bodies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0027-0001", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Administrative Division\nArticle 9 provided for the formation of local bodies at every administrative units to be composed of elected representatives of the areas concerned. In 1976, the Local Government Ordinance (LGO) issued by the government of General Ziaur Rahman made provisions for the formation of three types of rural local government, Union Parishad, Thana Parishad and Zila Parishad. In 1978, Jamalpur was upgraded to a District.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0028-0000", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Demographics\nBased on World Development Indicators published by the World Bank the population of Bangladesh grew from 63 million at the beginning of the decade to 79 million by the end. This signifies an annual population growth rate of 2.3%. Population density increased from 487 to 609 per sq. km.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0029-0000", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Demographics\nThe urban population was 7.6% of the total at the beginning, which ended up at 13.7%. Dhaka, the largest city, with a population of 1.4 million, accounted for 27.8% of the total urban population by 1979. United Nations World Population Prospects show that the population growth rate was in increasing trend (from 2.5% per annum to 2.8%), despite reduction in fertility rate (births per woman) from 6.9 to 6.5. Life expectancy at birth increased from 47.5 years to 52.9 years with Child (0-5) mortality reducing from 224 per 1,000 births to 203. Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) changed from 91.0% to 92.6% by the end of the decade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 686]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0030-0000", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Climate\nCompared to prior decade the October and November became warmer by about 0.5 degree Celsius and February and May became cooler by similar magnitude. Thus overall temperature profile became more moderate. Average rainfall decreased for June by about 59mm and increased for September by about 69mm. Average annual rainfall increased by about 74mm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 28], "content_span": [29, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0031-0000", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Economy, National Income and Balance of Payment\nBangladesh GDP was USD 26.4 billion in 1970, which grew to USD 28.4 billion in 1979 (in 2010 constant dollar) signifying a 0.7% annual growth. Agricultural Sector contributed to 54.6% of GDP in the beginning of the decade, which decreased to 52.5% by the end. During the same period contribution from the industrial sector increased from 8.7% to 15.7% and that of the service sector decreased from 36.7% to 31.9%. Per capita GDP decreased from USD 406 to USD 358 (in 2010 constant dollar).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 68], "content_span": [69, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0032-0000", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Economy, National Income and Balance of Payment\nAccording to World Development Indicators published by the World Bank, on 2010 constant dollar basis, Bangladesh used to export USD 0.9 billion (8.3% of GDP) worth of goods and services as of 1970, which grew at annual average rate of 3.3% to USD 1.2 billion (6.1% of GDP) in 1979. In contrast, by 1979 imports stood at USD 3.4 billion (15.8% of GDP). Over the decade, Foreign Direct Investment and Personal Remittances Receipt averaged 0.02% and 0.74% of GDP; while, total Reserve averaged at 13.4% of external debt and 2.4 month's coverage of import.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 68], "content_span": [69, 621]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0033-0000", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Economy, National Income and Balance of Payment\nGross National Income (at 2010 constant dollar) grew from USD 22.3 billion in 1973 to USD 28.4 billion in 1979. At the beginning of this period External Debt stock (of which concessional debt was 71.8%) was of 6.1% of gross national income (GNI) and External Debt Service burden was 0.1% of GNI. By the end of the decade, External Debt stock (of which concessional debt now was 80.3%) stood at 19.1% of GNI and External Debt Service burden was 1.3% of the same. During the same period Military expenditure increased from 0.6% to 0.9% of GNI.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 68], "content_span": [69, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0034-0000", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Economy, Agriculture\nDuring this decade, crop production grew at an annual average rate of 0.9% driven by cereal production increase from 16.9 million metric tons to 19.7 million (implying annual growth of 1.5%) - enabled by improvement in cereal yield from 1666.2\u00a0kg per hectare to 1870.9\u00a0kg. At the same time, livestock production grew at annual 2.7% and fisheries production decreased at annual 0.6%. Altogether these contributed to overall food production increase by annualized rate of 1.2%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 41], "content_span": [42, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0035-0000", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Economy, Agriculture\nThe catastrophic famine of 1974 led to the death of tens of thousands of people due to starvation caused by inadequate food production and the withholding of food shipments by the US government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 41], "content_span": [42, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0036-0000", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Economy, Industrial and Service Sectors\nNet value addition from industrial sector, which stood at USD 3.8 billion in 1970 (in 2010 constant USD), grew at average annual rate of 1.1% to USD 4.2 billion by 1979 (in the same constant USD basis). Manufacturing sector contributed 62.1% of industrial value added in the beginning of this period and it gradually changed to 66.1% by the end. By 1979 manufacturers export accounted for 64.5% of total merchandise export while import supporting the manufacturing segment accounted for 55.2% of total merchandise import. In that year, textile and garments accounted for 37.0% of the value addition of the manufacturing sector. In 1973-74 there were 1,427 industrial establishments in the country employing 0.31 million staffs. By 1979-80 the number of establishment grew to 3,006 and employment in the sector grew to 0.42 million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 60], "content_span": [61, 892]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0037-0000", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Economy, Industrial and Service Sectors\nOn the other hand, net value addition from the service sector amounting USD 14.2 billion in 1970, also grew at average annual rate of 1.3% and stood at USD 16.1 billion by 1979 (in 2010 constant USD).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 60], "content_span": [61, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0038-0000", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Economy, Industrial and Service Sectors\nSome of the major business houses / enterprises that started journey in this decade include the Beximco, City Group, T K Group of Industries and BRAC in 1972, Jamuna Group and Milk Vita in 1974, Concord Group and Otobi in 1975, Meghna Group of Industries in 1976, Nasir Group in 1977, BRAC's business venture Aarong in 1978 and Rangs Group in 1979. In the public sector BTCL was established in 1971 followed by Petrobangla, Bangladesh Shipping Corporation and Biman Bangladesh Airlines in 1972, Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation in 1976 and Bangladesh Machine Tools Factory in 1979.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 60], "content_span": [61, 642]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0039-0000", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Infrastructure, Transportation\nWhen Bangladesh achieved independence in 1971, it inherited 3,860\u00a0km of pucca roads, 2858.73\u00a0km of railway tracks and 466 railway stations, but most roads and connecting bridges were in shambles due to the ravage of the war. After the independence war-ravaged roads, culverts and bridges were reconstructed fast and some new bridges on the national highways were built. All the district headquarters were connected with the national highway network. The construction of double line track between Dhaka-Tangi and Chittagong-Mirsharai started in 1960s. These lines were opened in phases during the 1960s and 1970s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 51], "content_span": [52, 664]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0040-0000", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Infrastructure, Transportation\nAt the time of independence, Bangladesh had 5 inland river ports at Dhaka, Narayanganj, Chandpur, Barisal and Khulna. In 1975 a new port was added at Patuakhali. Air Transport also started to develop. As of 1973, there were 13,500 registered carrier departures worldwide which grew to 14,800 by 1979. During the same period number of passenger carried increased from 0.49 million to 0.62 million per annum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 51], "content_span": [52, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0041-0000", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Infrastructure, Transportation\nA UNDP funded Bangladesh Transportation Sector Study executed by World Bank in 1988 estimated that by 1975 the ground transport system of Bangladesh was already supporting 17 billion km of passenger commute and 2.6 billion km of freight transport. Road network accounted for 54% of the passengers and 35% of the freight whereas 30% of the passengers and 28% of the freight were transported using the rail network. The rest were using inland water transport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 51], "content_span": [52, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0042-0000", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Infrastructure, Telecommunication\nThe erstwhile Telegraph branch under Posts and Telegraph Department of the government was reconstructed as Bangladesh Telegraph and Telephone Department under Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications in 1971 and again as Telegraph and Telephone Board in 1975. In 1979 Bangladesh Telegraph and Telephone Board (BTTB) was given the right to issue license for telecom and wireless services. In the beginning of the decade there were 45,000 fixed telephone line subscription in the country - which increased to 89,000 by the end signifying 0.07 lines per 100 people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 54], "content_span": [55, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0043-0000", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Infrastructure, Energy\nThrough Presidential Order 59 of 31st May 1972, Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) was entrusted with the responsibilities of operation, maintenance, and development of generation, transmission & distribution facilities of electricity throughout the country. A separate division of the Ministry of Energy oversaw oil and gas while Petrobangla, established in 1974, became the main state oil and gas operator. Later, Rural Electrification Board (REB) was established for the development of electricity in the rural areas for the effective benefit of rural people on October, 1977.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 43], "content_span": [44, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0044-0000", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Infrastructure, Energy\nIn 1973 per capital electric power consumption was 15.2 kWh, which increased to 21.0 kWh by 1979. During the same period per capita energy usage increased from 92.5\u00a0kg of oil equivalent to 99.4\u00a0kg and fossil fuel energy consumption increased from 24.2% to 29.4% of total.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 43], "content_span": [44, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0045-0000", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Infrastructure, Energy\nIn 1973 the electricity produced in the country was coming from hydroelectric sources: 23.6%, natural gas sources: 34.7% and oil sources: 41.7%. By 1979 the same distribution changed to - hydroelectric sources: 24.4%, natural gas sources: 45.6% and oil sources: 29.9%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 43], "content_span": [44, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0046-0000", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Infrastructure, Financial Services\nAt the time of independence the country inherited a very limited financial set-up consisting of 1130 branches of 12 commercial banks, the Dhaka Stock Exchange, several insurance companies established between 1958 and 1971, and the Samabaya (co-operative) Bank Ltd.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 55], "content_span": [56, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0047-0000", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Infrastructure, Financial Services\nBangladesh Bank, the central bank of the country, was established in Dhaka as a body corporate vide the Bangladesh Bank Order, 1972 (P.O No. 127 of 1972). Bangladesh Bank started operating with all capital and liabilities of the Dhaka branch of State Bank of Pakistan. The 12 banks which were inherited were soon nationalised and merged into six banks, naming them -Sonali, Agrani, Janata, Rupali, Pubali and Uttara. Later IFIC Bank was established as a private bank in 1976.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 55], "content_span": [56, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0048-0000", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Infrastructure, Financial Services\nThe number of insurance companies that had business in East Pakistan was 75, of which 10 were locally incorporated ones. Following the independence of Bangladesh in 1971, both life and general insurance business in the country was nationalised under the Bangladesh Insurance (Nationalisation) Order 1972 except foreign insurance companies. Five corporations were established to absorb, own and control the businesses of the 75 existing insurance companies and these new corporations were Bangladesh Jatiya Bima Corporation, Karnafuli Bima Corporation, Tista Bima Corporation, Surma Jiban Bima Corporation and Rupsa Jiban Bima Corporation. These four corporations were in business from 1 January 1973 to 14 May 1973. Later they were gradually merged into two entities named Jiban Bima Corporation (for life insurance) and Sadharan Bima Corporation (for general insurance).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 55], "content_span": [56, 927]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0049-0000", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Infrastructure, Financial Services\nThe activity of Dhaka Stock Exchange remained suspended until 1976, when it renewed operations with nine listed companies having paid up capital of Tk 137.52 million. This, along with the establishment of the Investment Corporation of Bangladesh in the same year marked the launch of the country's capital market operations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 55], "content_span": [56, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0050-0000", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Infrastructure, Education\nThe education system that Bangladesh inherited after independence needed immediate intervention to suit the need of a new country. The first Education Commission in Bangladesh appointed under Dr. Qudrat-i-Khuda submitted its report in 1974. The report recommended secular education across levels, future work-relevant technical and vocational education, improvedassessment system, letter grading in the assessment of student performance and makingprimary education from grade 1 to 8 and secondary from grade 9 to 12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 46], "content_span": [47, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0051-0000", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Infrastructure, Education\nThe primary education system in this decade was barely adequate to address the need of the nation. As of 1970, almost 4.77 million primary-school-age children were not enrolled in either primary or secondary schools; and even for those in school, there were only 1.71 teachers per 1,000 students. By 1977-78, the number of out-of-school children dropped to 3.14 million and primary school teachers per 1,000 student ratio improved to 2.39.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 46], "content_span": [47, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0052-0000", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Infrastructure, Education\nBased on World Bank data, in 1973, there were 2.27 million secondary school students (including higher secondary) in the country, which grew to 2.35 million by the end of the decade. However, Secondary school enrollment rate changed from 20.5% to 16.8% during the same period. Over these years ratio of female students in secondary education also dropped from 25.1% to 20.2%. On the brighter side, number of teachers covering the strudnts grew from 94 to 105 thousand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 46], "content_span": [47, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0053-0000", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Infrastructure, Education\nBefore independence the secondary and higher secondary education administration for East Pakistan, used to be managed by 4 general education boards set-up in the 1960s, namely Dhaka, Rajshahi, Comilla and Jessore, and a Technical Education Board. After independence these boards were retained. However, religious education, which historically was managed by community based Madrasas was brought under Government supervision. Steps were taken for the modernization of madrasah education. Bengali, mathematics, English, social science, general science were made compulsory. In 1978 the Madrasah Education Board was formed under Ordinance for the Modernization of Madrasah Education.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 46], "content_span": [47, 728]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0054-0000", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Infrastructure, Education\nIn the tertiary level newly independent Bangladesh started its journey with four general education universities, namely University of Dhaka, University of Rajshahi, University of Chittagong and newly opened Jahangirnagar University along with 2 specialized universities - Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology in Dhaka and Bangladesh Agricultural University at Mymensingh. In addition, Institute of Postgraduate Medicine and Research (IPGMR) served as a Government-controlled postgraduate institute for medical research and studies. The University Grants Commission was established on 16 December 1972 as the apex body of all the affiliated universities of Bangladesh. On 22 November 1979, the foundation of the Islamic University was set up in Kushtia, but it began operations on 28 June 1986.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 46], "content_span": [47, 853]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0055-0000", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Infrastructure, Mass Media\nNews agencies were present in Bangladesh prior to its independence from Pakistan in 1971. The state-owned Associated Press of Pakistan (AAP) had branches in Dhaka and Chittagong from 1949. After independence, the AAP was replaced by the Bangladesh state-owned agency Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha on January 1, 1972. The second news agency to be established, and the first to be privately owned was Eastern News Agency (ENA). It was founded in Dhaka in the years immediately prior to the Bangladesh Liberation War. However, the freedom of press was significantly curbed quite early in the history of the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 47], "content_span": [48, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0055-0001", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Infrastructure, Mass Media\nOne of the many restrictive regulations coming from the enactment of single party rule of BaKSAL was the promulgation of the Newspaper Ordinance (June 1975; Annulment of Declaration)- which allowed only four state owned newspapers (the Dainik Bangla, Bangladesh Observer, The Daily Ittefaq, and Bangladesh Times) to continue their publication and banned the rest of the press and newspaper industries. Later, After the assassination of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, many newspapers that were banned earlier started to reappear. Press Institute of Bangladesh and Bangladesh Press Council were established.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 47], "content_span": [48, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0056-0000", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Infrastructure, Mass Media\nGovernment control was absolute in broadcast media landscape as well. The erstwhile autonomous East Pakistan station of Pakistan Television was brought under Government control after independence of Bangladesh, and started its refreshed journey as Bangladesh Television from 15 Sep 1972. Till the end of the decade BTV operated as the sole television transmission station in the country and aired its programmes in black and white format only. In 1975, the offices of the TV station were moved from the initial location of DIT Bhaban (present Rajuk Bhaban) to its new home at Rampura, Dhaka.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 47], "content_span": [48, 639]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0057-0000", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Infrastructure, Mass Media\nRadio played an important role during the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971. On March 26, 1971, the broadcasting centre of Radio Pakistan was used to transmit a declaration of independence, which was picked up by a Japanese ship in Chittagong Harbor and got retransmitted. During the war, the Pakistan Army took over the Radio Station in Dhaka and the Bangladeshis operated Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra (Independent Bengal Radio Station) clandestinely.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 47], "content_span": [48, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0057-0001", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Infrastructure, Mass Media\nBecause of heavy shelling, the station had to be relocated several times, and ultimately moved to Calcutta on May 25, from where it would broadcast until the end of the war. On December 6, 1971 the station was renamed Bangladesh Betar. It continued to operate as the only state-owned radio station of the country. In 1975, after the coup d'\u00e9tat the station was renamed as Radio Bangladesh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 47], "content_span": [48, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0058-0000", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Culture, Literature\nThe literary works of the 1970s had strong influence of Bangladesh Liberation war on them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0058-0001", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Culture, Literature\nNotable literary works from Bangladeshi authors from this decade include Shawkat Osman's Jahannam Haite Biday, Dui Sainik, Nekde Aranya, Jalamgi and Janma Yadi Taba Bange; Selina Hossain's Hangor Nodi Grenade, Jalochchhvas and Magnachaitanye Shis; Humayun Ahmed's debut novel Nandita Narake and Shankhanil Karagar; Bashir Al Helal's Pratham Krishnachuda and Kalo Ilish; Rahat Khan's Anishchita Lokalay and Antahin Yatra; Anwar Pasha's autobiographical Rifle Roti Aorat; Syed Shamsul Huq's novel Khelaram Khele Ya and poetic play Payer Awaz Pawa Jay; Hasan Azizul Huq's Jiban Gase Agun and Namhin Gotrahin; Alauddin Al-Azad's Amar Rakta and Svapna Amar; Akhtaruzzaman Elias' Anya Ghare Anya Svar and Mamunur Rashid's Ora Kadam Ali. In this decade the literature circle of the country lost luminaries like: novelist Zahir Raihan (1972), author Syed Mujtaba Ali (1974), poet Jasim Uddin and the national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam (1976), writer Ibrahim Khan and Abul Kalam Shamsuddin (1978) and poet Bande Ali Mia (1979).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 1057]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0059-0000", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Culture, Visual arts\nAfter the independence a few pioneers helped set the tone of fine arts for Bangladesh. In the field of photography \u2013 Manzoor Alam Beg and Anwar Hossain made their marks. The field of painting was particularly vibrant with painters Quamrul Hassan, SM Sultan and Monirul Islam actively contributing and new artists like Monsur Ul Karim and Shahabuddin Ahmed coming up. Sultan did some of his best work in the 1970s. In 1976 the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy put on an individual exhibition of his work. It was his first major exhibition and his first in Dhaka.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 41], "content_span": [42, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0059-0001", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Culture, Visual arts\nThe next year he was selected as a member of the panel of judges for the Asian Art Biennale in Dhaka. However, in this decade the death of master painter Zainul Abedin (1976) made the nation grieve. Bangladeshi Architect Fazlur Rahman Khan also was performing at his peak in this decade, although most of his creations were outside Bangladesh. In 1977, architect Bashirul Haq won the national design competition for the Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation (BCIC) headquarters in Dhaka. Shilpakala Academy, the national academy of fine and performing arts, was established through an act of Parliament in 1974 as a statutory organization under the Ministry of Cultural Affairs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 41], "content_span": [42, 725]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0060-0000", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Culture, Performing arts\nMusic played an important role in the Bangladesh Liberation war. Music directors and composers Samar Das, Ajit Roy and Shujeo Shyam along with singers and musicians like Apel Mahmud, Amitava Sengupta, Manjula Dasgupta, Abdul Jabbar, Mala Khan, Rupa Khan, Rafiqul Alam, Kaderi Kibria, Lucky Akhand, Jahangir Hayat Khan, Mihir Kumar Nandi, Timir Nandi, Fakir Alamgir and Dalia Nausheen played instrumental role in Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra in inspiring the freedom fighters and the nation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 45], "content_span": [46, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0060-0001", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Culture, Performing arts\nA pair of benefit concerts organised by former Beatles guitarist George Harrison and Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar named \"The Concert for Bangladesh\" were held on Sunday, 1 August 1971, at Madison Square Garden in New York City, to raise international awareness of, and fund relief for refugees from East Pakistan, following the Bangladesh Liberation War-related genocide. The concerts were followed by a bestselling live album, a boxed three-record set, and Apple Films' concert documentary, which opened in cinemas in the spring of 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 45], "content_span": [46, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0061-0000", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Culture, Performing arts\nAfter the independence, music directors and composers like Debu Bhattacherjee, Lokman Hossain Fakir, Azad Rahman and Alauddin Ali and singers like Ferdausi Rahman, Abdul Alim, Firoza Begum, Sabina Yasmin, Runa Laila and Mahmudun Nabi led the music arena with modern Bengali music and playback music of films. The untimely death of folk singer Abdul Alim in 1974 was shocking to the nation. The first band of the independent Bangladesh are the Underground Peace Lover (UPL), formed in 1972 in Dhaka.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 45], "content_span": [46, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0061-0001", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Culture, Performing arts\nUccharon were the biggest band of that era; and their frontman Azam Khan, a freedom fighter, cemented himself as a pop culture phenomenon. On the other hand, Spondan featuring musicians like Nasir Ahmed Apu, Firoz Shai, Ferdous Wahid, reinvented Bangla folk music and became one of the most popular rock bands during the 1970s. The Akhand Brothers Band (featuring Lucky and Happy Akhand), who produced several hit songs in that decade, is often credited as the first pop rock band of the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 45], "content_span": [46, 542]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091722-0062-0000", "contents": "1970s in Bangladesh, Culture, Performing arts\nTheatre was possibly the most forceful and exuberant expression of post-liberation Bangladesh. Numerous non-professional theatre groups were formed all over the country, modelled after the group theatre movement in post-Nabanna Calcutta. The most important among these in Dhaka city were Theatre (established February 1972), Nagarik Natya Sampraday (established 1968, first performance August 1972), Natyachakra (established August 1972), Aranyak Natyadal (established 1972), Dhaka Theatre (established July 1973) and, in Chittagong, Theatre '73 (established 1973), \u2018\u2019Tirjak Nattyagoshthi\u2019\u2019 (Established May 1974) and Arindam (established September 1974). The range of texts performed by the groups varied widely, from Euro-American plays to contemporary originals written by group members themselves. A completely new set of playwrights appeared, important among whom were Abdullah al Mamun, Mamunur Rashid, Syed Shamsul Huq, Selim Al Deen and Momtazuddin Ahmed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 45], "content_span": [46, 1009]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091723-0000-0000", "contents": "1970s in Ghana\n1970s in Ghana details events of note that happened in Ghana in the years 1970 to 1979.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091723-0001-0000", "contents": "1970s in Ghana, National holidays\nIn addition, several other places observe local holidays, such as the foundation of their town. These are also \"special days.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 33], "content_span": [34, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091724-0000-0000", "contents": "1970s in Hong Kong\nHong Kong in the 1970s underwent many changes that shaped its future, led for most of the decade by its longest-serving and reform-minded Governor, Murray MacLehose. Economically, it reinvented itself from a manufacturing base into a financial centre.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091724-0001-0000", "contents": "1970s in Hong Kong, Background\nPolitical talks about the Second Convention of Peking resurfaced in the early 70s. The New Territories land lease agreement would end within 27 years in 1997. MacLehose began visiting Beijing to talk about the future of Hong Kong with PRC leaders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091724-0002-0000", "contents": "1970s in Hong Kong, Background\nThe British and the PRC governments began a long negotiation process that would ultimately lead to the Handover of Hong Kong in 1997.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091724-0003-0000", "contents": "1970s in Hong Kong, Political and social development\nUnder Sir Murray MacLehose, 25th Governor of Hong Kong (1971\u201382), a series of reforms improved public services, the environment, housing, welfare, education and infrastructure. MacLehose was the longest-serving governor and, by the end of his tenure, had become one of the most popular and well-known figures in the Crown Colony. MacLehose laid the foundation for Hong Kong to establish itself as a global city in the 1980s and early 1990s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 52], "content_span": [53, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091724-0004-0000", "contents": "1970s in Hong Kong, Political and social development\nWith the rising public service provision came a clampdown on the free flow of refugees from mainland China that had powered the growth of Hong Kong since the Second World War. In 1974, the 'touch base' was introduced, under which only those immigrant arrivals who reached the urban areas were allowed to stay. Six years later, it was replaced by a policy of repatriation for all illegal arrivals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 52], "content_span": [53, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091724-0005-0000", "contents": "1970s in Hong Kong, Culture, Metrication\nThe Metric System was adopted under the 1976 Metrication Ordinance. Subsequently, many of the wet markets and traditional Chinese medicine shops used the old Chinese system for at least another decade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 40], "content_span": [41, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091724-0006-0000", "contents": "1970s in Hong Kong, Culture, Education\nThe Hong Kong government introduced six years of free compulsory education in 1971, and expanded it to nine years in 1978. Companies were also seeking well educated employees for complex projects. Seventy-two percent of overseas graduates between 1962 and 1976 would come back to Hong Kong to take on highly skilled domestic positions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 38], "content_span": [39, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091724-0007-0000", "contents": "1970s in Hong Kong, Culture, Domestic entertainment\nOn 7 September 1975, Commercial Television was established. It provided competition for the other two other companies: Rediffusion Television and Television Broadcasts Limited. Unable to compete, Commercial TV closed down on 22 August 1978 after only three years of operation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 51], "content_span": [52, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091724-0008-0000", "contents": "1970s in Hong Kong, Culture, Domestic entertainment\nThe 1970s was when Hong Kong gained daily news broadcasts. News programmes ranked in the top 10 continuously for a decade. Other segments of the ratings included TV dramas, which averaged 80 to 120 episodes, usually broadcasting at 7:00\u00a0pm. 66% of the population tuned in regularly covering 2 to 3\u00a0million viewers nightly. Popular series finales would empty streets and restaurants. Most series did not contain much if any Chinese traditionalism. The theme songs of these dramas also helped revive Cantonese music - indeed the term Cantopop was coined during this period.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 51], "content_span": [52, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091724-0009-0000", "contents": "1970s in Hong Kong, Culture, Foreign entertainment\nHong Kong also found itself at a unique geographical and cultural crossroads. Many of the western artists like Elvis Presley and The Beatles were getting exposure in the music industry. Toys from Japan have arrived in Hong Kong via random and inconsistent shipments in the past. But the first big waves of Japanese products with staying power in the market place were mainly super robot toys. Gordian Warrior and Baxinger were some that were commonly available.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 50], "content_span": [51, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091724-0010-0000", "contents": "1970s in Hong Kong, Culture, Foreign entertainment\nThe 1975 Japanese series Ultraman was aired, and was named as such since the protagonist had eyes resembling eggs. The children were fascinated. Kids tried to \"fly\" in the air, imitating their heroes. Two kids (aged 3\u00bd and 4\u00bd) attempted a flight jumping off a 7-storey building in Kowloon City on 26 July 1975. The younger brother was killed on the spot, while the elder was miraculously saved. The broadcast of the series was suspended for a while after the accident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 50], "content_span": [51, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091724-0011-0000", "contents": "1970s in Hong Kong, Culture, Cinema\nThe martial arts films starred by Bruce Lee, including the 1971 The Big Boss (\u5510\u5c71\u5927\u5144) and Fist of Fury (\u7cbe\u6b66\u9580) the following year, were sensational. Cornered for some times by Western and Mandarin films, Cantonese films were much revived in the 1970s, with the great success of 1976 The Private Eyes (\u534a\u65a4\u516b\u5169), directed by Michael Hui, which is said to remain the all-time box-office king of Hong Kong cinema when inflation is taken into account.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 35], "content_span": [36, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091724-0012-0000", "contents": "1970s in Hong Kong, Culture, Cinema\nThe James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun in 1973 was filmed in Hong Kong. The film featured the wreck of SS Seawise University and that of the famous former Cunard Ocean liner RMS Queen Elizabeth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 35], "content_span": [36, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091724-0013-0000", "contents": "1970s in Hong Kong, Culture, Natural disasters\nIn August 1971, Typhoon Rose passed over Hong Kong causing extensive damage, forcing the hoisting of Hurricane Signal No. 10 on 16 August. A total of 5,664 people from 1,032 families became homeless. The typhoon also destroyed 653 wooden huts and damaged 24 buildings, six beyond repair.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 46], "content_span": [47, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091724-0014-0000", "contents": "1970s in Hong Kong, Culture, Natural disasters\nIn June 1972, torrential rains caused two serious landslides in Sau Mau Ping and the Mid-levels respectively. Around 150 were killed and many buildings were destroyed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 46], "content_span": [47, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091724-0015-0000", "contents": "1970s in Hong Kong, Culture, Natural disasters\nIn August 1979, Typhoon Hope reached Hong Kong but has weakened considerably from the 150\u00a0mph wind earlier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 46], "content_span": [47, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091724-0016-0000", "contents": "1970s in Hong Kong, Culture, Law and order, Anti-corruption campaigns\nIn the 1970s, corruption was a way of life in Hong Kong, being the norm in all government departments. Policemen would often extract bribes (popularly called \"tea fee\") before they investigated a crime, as did firemen before they rescued people and put out fires. Many Chinese detective superintendents amassed incredible wealth from their corrupt dealings with triads and corporations. Their names have been seared into the memories of the older generations, their stories adapted into several popular movies such as To be Number One (\u8ddb\u8c6a) in 1991. That is not to say British officers were entirely clean in their dealings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 69], "content_span": [70, 693]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091724-0017-0000", "contents": "1970s in Hong Kong, Culture, Law and order, Anti-corruption campaigns\nIn 1974, Hong Kong Governor Murray MacLehose, realising the seriousness of the problem, founded the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC). The investigations and arrests of many police officers created a furore among the police, who protested against the ICAC and even tried to overrun the headquarters in one protest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 69], "content_span": [70, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091724-0018-0000", "contents": "1970s in Hong Kong, Culture, Law and order, Anti-corruption campaigns\nThe Governor, concerned to avoid a possible police strike or even rebellion, at last issued a pardon, preventing arrests in cases committed before 1977. However, the pardon did not extend to higher-level detective superintendents. These high-level Chinese officers, famous for their riches, left for exile to Taiwan, which had no extradition treaty with Hong Kong. In time, the efforts of the ICAC changed the habits of an entire population and turned Hong Kong into one of the least corrupt cities in the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 69], "content_span": [70, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091724-0019-0000", "contents": "1970s in Hong Kong, Politics, Defend Diaoyutai Islands campaigns\nIn 1970, the American government returned to Japan the sovereignty of Ryukyu Islands and Diaoyutai Islands (known as the Senkaku Islands to Japan). The act stirred up campaigns for defending the Diaoyutai Islands among Chinese societies all around the world. The \"Hong Kong Federation of Students\" (\u9999\u6e2f\u5c08\u4e0a\u5b78\u751f\u806f\u6703) requested a protest at Victoria Park in Causeway Bay on 7 July 1971. Having been frightened by the 1967 riots, the police tried to prevent the protest. Unnecessary violence erupted, leading to the arrests of students. The media criticised the violation of democracy. The British police officers involved were sent back to the UK and went unpunished. Protests concerning the defence of Diaoyutai Islands continued to be held the following months.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 64], "content_span": [65, 819]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091724-0020-0000", "contents": "1970s in Hong Kong, Economy, Manufacturing\nMany factors contributed to the decline of manufacturing in Hong Kong. The late 1970s saw increases in land prices. Along with the opening up of global trade with China via the 1978 economic reforms, factories were gradually relocated to the mainland, where labour costs were lower.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 42], "content_span": [43, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091724-0021-0000", "contents": "1970s in Hong Kong, Economy, Manufacturing\nAt the same time, Singapore and Taiwan underwent similar developments to those of Hong Kong. The competitiveness of manufacturing similar products led to protectionism to shelter local companies. As a result, there was less demand for Hong Kong goods.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 42], "content_span": [43, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091724-0022-0000", "contents": "1970s in Hong Kong, Economy, Property and land\nFollowing decades of immense and sustained immigration, the shortage of housing in the territory became acute. Many lived in squatter settlements or boats, where they were susceptible to typhoons, fires and landslides. To improve the quality of public housing and relieve overcrowded conditions, the government announced the Ten-year Housing Programme (\u5341\u5e74\u5efa\u5c4b\u8a08\u5283) in 1972, with the goal of providing quality housing for 1.8\u00a0million people in 10 years. The Hong Kong Housing Authority was formed to spearhead the programme. The government also introduced the Home Ownership Scheme (\u5c45\u8005\u6709\u5176\u5c4b\u8a08\u5283) in 1976, building houses and selling them at below-market prices to help people own property.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 46], "content_span": [47, 727]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091724-0023-0000", "contents": "1970s in Hong Kong, Economy, Emerging businesses\nWellcome, the first supermarket in Hong Kong, was opened in Central in 1970. It was called \"Gweilo market\" by some locals, as most customers were westerners during the initial period of its operation, but Chinese citizens would soon embrace this new kind of store. By 1975, more than 200 big- and small-scaled supermarkets could be found in the city. These new stores eliminated most traditional rice dealers (\u7c73\u8216), wine shops (\u8fa6\u9928) and convenient stores (See Dor) (\u58eb\u591a). Wellcome and PARKnSHOP did not take long to capture the market. The front and full page ads of these two mega franchises aided in their increase in popularity where smaller traditional stores couldn't. The first McDonald's restaurant opened on Paterson Street, Causeway Bay in 1975.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 48], "content_span": [49, 800]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091724-0024-0000", "contents": "1970s in Hong Kong, Economy, Infrastructure\nHong Kong's first modern rapid transit, the Mass Transit Railway (MTR) was opened in October 1979. The first line served eastern Kowloon from Shek Kip Mei to Kwun Tong. In December, services were extended to Tsim Sha Tsui, and by 1980, it was possible to ride from Kwun Tong to the central business district in Central on the other side of the harbour on Hong Kong Island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 43], "content_span": [44, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091724-0025-0000", "contents": "1970s in Hong Kong, Economy, Infrastructure\nThe Cross-Harbour Tunnel, the first underwater tunnel in Hong Kong, opened in 1972. For the first time in the region's history, people could travel between Hong Kong and Kowloon without taking ferries. As a result, small electrical boats like sampans (\u5c0f\u96fb\u8239) were gradually eliminated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 43], "content_span": [44, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091724-0026-0000", "contents": "1970s in Hong Kong, Economy, Infrastructure\nKai Tak Airport was expanded in the first half of the 1970s to handle Boeing 747s, despite the limited land space and proximity to nearby hills.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 43], "content_span": [44, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091724-0027-0000", "contents": "1970s in Hong Kong, Economy, Finance\nPeople grew richer entering the 1970s. Not surprisingly, people started to look for some means of investment. The passing of Banking Ordinance of 1964 would begin the tightening up of banks. A minimum capital of HK$5\u00a0million and liquidity ratio of 25% and limitation on loans and investments became the new requirements to operate legally. People began to have more trust in their banks, and the accumulation of savings led to people's willingness to invest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 36], "content_span": [37, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091724-0028-0000", "contents": "1970s in Hong Kong, Economy, Finance\nSoon, the stock rush began. New stocks were on sale every day; brokerage houses mushroomed; some people quit their jobs to become full-time investors, suffering a kind of urban disease that doctors called \"stock illness\". It is said that the investors during this period numbered to 500,000. The Hang Seng Index kept soaring, but then crashed in March 1973, leaving many people bankrupt. The Hong Kong economy recovered only slowly over the next few years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 36], "content_span": [37, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091724-0029-0000", "contents": "1970s in Hong Kong, Economy, Finance\nIn 1976, a \"Deposit-taking Companies Ordinance\" was also passed to enforce non-licensed bank institutions to register with the government. A minimum paid up capital requirement of HK$2.5\u00a0million was also required. The strategy was to mirror the Deposit Trust concept in the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 36], "content_span": [37, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091724-0030-0000", "contents": "1970s in Hong Kong, Economy, Resource\nAs a result of the water shut-down by mainland China during the Cultural Revolution riots in Hong Kong, the government responded with a desalination plant at Lok On Pai, Castle Peak in 1975. The High Island Reservoir construction went from 1969 to 1979, and was expected to be the same size as Plover Cove. The construction, contracted by a Japanese company cost more than HK$400\u00a0million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 37], "content_span": [38, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091724-0031-0000", "contents": "1970s in Hong Kong, Trivia\nTsang Tsou Choi, or the \"Kowloon Emperor\", began his career of calligraphy graffiti in 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 26], "content_span": [27, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091725-0000-0000", "contents": "1970s in Irish television\nFor articles on Irish television in the 1970s please see:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 83]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091726-0000-0000", "contents": "1970s in Japan\nIn Japan during the 1970s, the economy was hit by the oil shock and the Nixon shock. Energy consumption dropped and industrial production increased. During the 1970s energy crisis, Japan introduced energy-saving measures and became a hub of miniaturization. The women's liberation movement in Japan, known as \u0169man ribu, began to gain momentum with feminist groups starting to form in 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091726-0001-0000", "contents": "1970s in Japan\nIn November 1973, a tissue shortage in Japan was reported by news agencies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091727-0000-0000", "contents": "1970s in LGBT rights\nThis is a list of notable events in the history of LGBT rights that took place in the 1970s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091727-0001-0000", "contents": "1970s in LGBT rights, Background\nPrivate, consensual same-sex activity was decriminalized in England and Wales in 1967. Most same-sex activity was legalized in Canada in 1969. The Stonewall riots, which occurred in New York City in June 1969, are generally considered to have ignited the modern gay rights movement in the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091727-0002-0000", "contents": "1970s in LGBT rights, Themes\nConsidering the profound stigma still attached to homosexuality at the dawn of the 1970s, the movement, although still nascent, saw tremendous gains over the course of the decade. The American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from its list of psychiatric disorders in 1973. Homosexual decriminalisation laws and ordinances were passed by several cities and states, including Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1972, South Australia in 1975, the Australian Capital Territory in 1976, and in 1977 Quebec became the first jurisdiction larger than a city or county in the world to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation in the public and private sectors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 28], "content_span": [29, 693]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091727-0003-0000", "contents": "1970s in LGBT rights, Themes\nBisexuality also saw increased visibility. A Quaker group, the Committee of Friends on Bisexuality, issued the \u201cIthaca Statement on Bisexuality\u201d supporting bisexuals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 28], "content_span": [29, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091727-0004-0000", "contents": "1970s in LGBT rights, Themes\nThe Statement, which may have been \"the first public declaration of the bisexual movement\" and \"was certainly the first statement on bisexuality issued by an American religious assembly,\" appeared in the Quaker Friends Journal and The Advocate in 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 28], "content_span": [29, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091727-0005-0000", "contents": "1970s in LGBT rights, Themes\nToday Quakers have varying opinions on LGBT people and rights, with some Quaker groups more accepting than others.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 28], "content_span": [29, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091727-0006-0000", "contents": "1970s in LGBT rights, Themes\nFor the first time, a few openly gay people were elected to political office in the United States. In 1977 Harvey Milk, a politically active gay man in the emerging gay neighborhood The Castro, was elected to the Board of Supervisors in San Francisco. Milk and liberal San Francisco mayor George Moscone were assassinated the following year. In 1979 their assassin, Dan White, received a sentence of voluntary manslaughter. The anger the gay community felt about the murders and about White's light sentence further galvanized the movement (see White Night Riots).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 28], "content_span": [29, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091727-0007-0000", "contents": "1970s in LGBT rights, Themes\nThe increasing visibility of gay people also generated a backlash during the 1970s. In perhaps the most discussed anti-gay rights campaign of the decade, singer Anita Bryant led a successful drive in 1977 to repeal a gay-rights ordinance in Dade County, Florida. The new openness about homosexuality proved disconcerting to some heterosexuals who had been accustomed to gay and lesbian people remaining closeted and politically silent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 28], "content_span": [29, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091727-0007-0001", "contents": "1970s in LGBT rights, Themes\nCanadian author Robertson Davies wrote during the decade that \"the love that dare not speak its name\" (referencing the famous Lord Alfred Douglas quotation, also quoted by Oscar Wilde during his court case in 1895) \"has become the love that won't shut up.\" On October 14, 1979, approximately 100,000 people marched in Washington, D.C., in the largest pro-gay rights demonstration up to that time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 28], "content_span": [29, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091727-0008-0000", "contents": "1970s in LGBT rights, By year\nThe Statement, which may have been \"the first public declaration of the bisexual movement\" and \"was certainly the first statement on bisexuality issued by an American religious assembly,\" appeared in the Quaker Friends Journal and The Advocate in 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 29], "content_span": [30, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091728-0000-0000", "contents": "1970s in Morocco\nIn the 1970s in Morocco, after two coup attempts in 1971 and 1972, the patriotism engendered by Morocco's participation in the Middle East conflict and by the events in Western Sahara contributed to Hassan's popularity and strengthened his hand politically despite serious domestic turmoil. The king had dispatched Moroccan troops to the Sinai front after the outbreak of Arab-Israeli War in October 1973. Although they arrived too late to engage in hostilities, the action won Morocco goodwill among other Arab states. Shortly thereafter, the attention of the government turned to the annexation of then Spanish Sahara from Spain, an issue on which all major domestic parties agreed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 701]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091728-0001-0000", "contents": "1970s in Morocco\nThe Spanish enclave of Ifni in the south became part of the new Morocco in 1969, but other Spanish possessions in the north (Ceuta, Melilla and some small islands) remain under Madrid's control, with Morocco viewing them as \"occupied territories\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091728-0002-0000", "contents": "1970s in Morocco\nA defining theme of Moroccan history and foreign policy is the bitter struggle over Western Sahara. Moroccan claims to Western Sahara date to the 11th century. However, in August 1974, Spain formally acknowledged the 1966 United Nations (UN) resolution calling for a referendum on the future status of Western Sahara and requested that a plebiscite be conducted under UN supervision. A UN visiting mission reported in October 1975 that an overwhelming majority of the Sahrawi people desired independence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091728-0002-0001", "contents": "1970s in Morocco\nMorocco opposed the proposed referendum and took the case to the International Court of Justice at The Hague, which ruled that despite historical \u201cties of allegiance\u201d between Morocco and some tribes of Western Sahara, there was no legal justification for departing from the UN position on self-determination. Spain, meanwhile, had declared that even in the absence of a referendum, it intended to surrender political control of Western Sahara, and Spain, Morocco, and Mauritania convened a tripartite conference to resolve the territory's future. But Madrid also announced that it was opening independence talks with the Algerian-backed Sahrawi independence movement known as the Polisario Front.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 713]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091728-0003-0000", "contents": "1970s in Morocco\nIn early 1976, Spain ceded Western Sahara administration's to Morocco and Mauritania. Morocco assumed control over the northern two-thirds of the territory and conceded the remaining portion in the south to Mauritania. An assembly of Saharan tribal leaders duly acknowledged Moroccan sovereignty. However, buoyed by the increasing defection of the chiefs to its cause, the Polisario drew up a constitution and announced the formation of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR). A new dimension was thereby added to the dispute because the liberation movement could now present its claims as a government-in-exile.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 635]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091728-0004-0000", "contents": "1970s in Morocco\nMorocco eventually sent a large portion of its combat forces into Western Sahara to confront the Polisario's forces, which were relatively small but well-equipped, highly mobile, and resourceful, using Algerian bases for quick strikes against targets deep inside Morocco and Mauritania as well as for operations in Western Sahara. In August 1979, after suffering heavy military losses, Mauritania renounced its claim to Western Sahara and signed a peace treaty with the Polisario, in which the Islamic republic ceded its part of Western Sahara to the SADR. By the same month, Morocco annexed the territory formerly controlled by Mauritanians.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 659]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091730-0000-0000", "contents": "1970s in comics\nSee also:1960s in comics,other events of the 1970s,1980s in comics and thelist of years in comics", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091730-0001-0000", "contents": "1970s in comics\nPublications: 1970 - 1971 - 1972 - 1973 - 1974 - 1975 - 1976 - 1977 - 1978 - 1979", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091730-0002-0000", "contents": "1970s in comics, Publications, 1970\nJack Kirby leaves Marvel Comics to work for rival DC Comics. At DC, he creates the Fourth World mythology, introducing many new characters to the DC Universe, most notably Darkseid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091730-0003-0000", "contents": "1970s in comics, Publications, 1970\nMort Weisinger retires from DC Comics after a long tenure as editor of the Superman line during the Silver Age of comic books. He is succeeded by his longtime friend, Julius Schwartz.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091730-0004-0000", "contents": "1970s in comics, Publications, 1970\nMarvel Comics adapts Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian into a series written by Roy Thomas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091730-0005-0000", "contents": "1970s in comics, Publications, 1978\nCancelled Comic Cavalcade is a publication reproduced in the offices of DC Comics in very limited quantity following the \"DC Implosion\" in 1978 that features material originally intended for series that were abruptly cancelled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091731-0000-0000", "contents": "1970s in fashion\nFashion in the 1970s was about individuality. In the early 1970s, Vogue proclaimed \"There are no rules in the fashion game now\" due to overproduction flooding the market with cheap synthetic clothing. Common items included mini skirts, bell-bottoms popularized by hippies, vintage clothing from the 1950s and earlier, and the androgynous glam rock and disco styles that introduced platform shoes, bright colors, glitter, and satin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091731-0001-0000", "contents": "1970s in fashion\nNew technologies brought advances in production through mass production, higher efficiency, generating higher standards and uniformity. Generally the most famous silhouette of the mid and late 1970s for both genders was that of tight on top and loose on bottom. The 1970s also saw the birth of the indifferent, anti-conformist casual chic approach to fashion, which consisted of sweaters, T-shirts, jeans and sneakers. The French designer Yves Saint Laurent and the American designer Halston both observed and embraced the changes that were happening in the society, especially the huge growth of women's rights and the youth counterculture. They successfully adapted their design aesthetics to accommodate the changes that the market was aiming for.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 767]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091731-0002-0000", "contents": "1970s in fashion\nTop fashion models in the 1970s were Lauren Hutton, Margaux Hemingway, Beverly Johnson, Gia Carangi, Janice Dickinson, Cheryl Tiegs, Jerry Hall, and Iman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091731-0003-0000", "contents": "1970s in fashion, 1970s beauty trends, Women's hairstyles\nThroughout much of the decade, women and teenage girls wore their hair long, with a centre or side parting, which was a style carried over from the late 1960s. Other hairstyles of the early to mid-1970s included the wavy \"gypsy\" cut, the layered shag, and the \"flicked\" style, popularly referred to as \"wings\", in which the hair was flicked into resembling small wings at the temples. This look was popularised by the stars of the television series Charlie's Angels. Blonde-streaked or \"frosted\" hair was also popular. In 1977, punk singer Debbie Harry of Blondie sparked a new trend with her shoulder-length, dyed platinum blonde hair worn with a long fringe (bangs).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 57], "content_span": [58, 726]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091731-0004-0000", "contents": "1970s in fashion, 1970s beauty trends, Women's hairstyles\nIn the 1970s, making one of the popular hairstyles for a woman didn't take a lot of time. These hairstyles, including Afro hairstyle, Shaggy Hairdo and Feathered hair (then known as \"Farrah Fawcett hairstyle\") were said to be perfect when you're on-the-go and would still keep your expressive style in-check. For black people in the United States and elsewhere, the afro was worn by both sexes throughout the decade. It was occasionally sported by Whites, especially Jewish Americans as an alternative to the uniform long, straight hair which was a fashion mainstay until the arrival of punk and the \"disco look\" when hair became shorter and centre partings were no longer the mode.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 57], "content_span": [58, 740]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091731-0005-0000", "contents": "1970s in fashion, 1970s beauty trends, Women's hairstyles\nThe most iconic women's hairstyle of the 1970s is arguably the Farrah Fawcett hairstyle. Popularized in 1976, the hairstyle was heavily imitated by many American women and girls. It incorporated waves, curls, and layers. The style mostly worn with bangs, but could also be worn with a side part. To make it even more stylish, women and girls would frost their hair with blonde streaks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 57], "content_span": [58, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091731-0006-0000", "contents": "1970s in fashion, 1970s beauty trends, Men's hairstyles\nContinuing on from the 1960s, the ducktail and Pompadour hairstyle (then known as the \"Elvis Presley hairstyle\") were popular among young Italian-American and Mexican-American men in big cities like New York. Large quantities of grease or brylcreem was normally used to keep the hair in place. The early and mid 1970s generally featured longer hair on men, as way of rebelling against the social norms of years past. Sideburns were also worn around the same time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 55], "content_span": [56, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091731-0006-0001", "contents": "1970s in fashion, 1970s beauty trends, Men's hairstyles\nSome of the most popular hairstyles for men include \"Long and Luscious\" hairstyle, mod haircut, and the \"buzzcut\" hairstyle popularised by action heroes like Steve McQueen. In the late 1970s, men went for the chop, ranging from crew cuts, to buzz cuts, to a shag. This was mainly done for an athletic look, and sideburns and facial hair went out of style.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 55], "content_span": [56, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091731-0007-0000", "contents": "1970s in fashion, Makeup and cosmetics\nCosmetics in the 1970s reflected the contradictory roles ascribed for the modern woman. For the first time since 1900, make-up was chosen situationally, rather than in response to monolithic trends. The era's two primary visions were the daytime \"natural look\" presented by American designers and Cosmopolitan magazine, and the evening aesthetic of sexualized glamour presented by European designers and fashion photographers. In the periphery, punk and glam were also influential. The struggling cosmetics industry attempted to make a comeback, using new marketing and manufacturing practices.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 38], "content_span": [39, 633]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091731-0008-0000", "contents": "1970s in fashion, Image gallery\nThe early 1970s' fashions were a continuation of the hippie look from the late 1960s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 31], "content_span": [32, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091731-0009-0000", "contents": "1970s in fashion, Image gallery\nA West German school girl with Schult\u00fcte in 1970, with a 'hippyish' outfit on.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 31], "content_span": [32, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091731-0010-0000", "contents": "1970s in fashion, Image gallery\nIn Kings Road, London, 1971, Swedish model Efva Attling wears a \"midi\" dress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 31], "content_span": [32, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091731-0011-0000", "contents": "1970s in fashion, Image gallery\nFashion models in Leipzig, GDR, 1972. One of the girls is modelling a \"maxi\" dress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 31], "content_span": [32, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091731-0012-0000", "contents": "1970s in fashion, Image gallery\nSiouxsie Sioux of the English punk group Siouxsie and the Banshees. She personified the female punk look on both sides of the Atlantic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 31], "content_span": [32, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091731-0013-0000", "contents": "1970s in fashion, Image gallery\nDavid Bowie in the early 1970s. His avant-garde style of dressing exerted a strong influence on fashion in the first half of the decade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 31], "content_span": [32, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091731-0014-0000", "contents": "1970s in fashion, Image gallery\nAmerican First Lady Pat Nixon wears a shirt with the wide collar that was popular until the final years of the decade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 31], "content_span": [32, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091731-0015-0000", "contents": "1970s in fashion, Image gallery\nLos Angeles high school students, 1973. The tousled, blond surfer hair was popular for young men in southern California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 31], "content_span": [32, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091731-0016-0000", "contents": "1970s in fashion, Image gallery\nEnglish girl in the mid-1970s wearing a wide-sleeved shirt, belted at the waist.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 31], "content_span": [32, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091731-0017-0000", "contents": "1970s in fashion, Image gallery\nDebbie Harry of Blondie in 1977. A female punk icon, her dyed platinum blonde hair was widely copied by teenage girls and young women in Britain and America.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 31], "content_span": [32, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091731-0018-0000", "contents": "1970s in fashion, Image gallery\nSilk scarves were popular fashion accessories for women in the 1970s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 31], "content_span": [32, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091731-0019-0000", "contents": "1970s in fashion, Image gallery\nSinger Barry Manilow wears his hair longish in the soft, layered style favoured by men in the 1970s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 31], "content_span": [32, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091731-0020-0000", "contents": "1970s in fashion, Image gallery\nPunk pioneer Lene Lovich in 1979, with her trademark long plaited hair.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 31], "content_span": [32, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091731-0021-0000", "contents": "1970s in fashion, Image gallery\nFrisbee player Ken Westerfield wearing draw string bell bottoms in the 1970s", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 31], "content_span": [32, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091732-0000-0000", "contents": "1970s in film\nThe decade of the 1970s in film involved many significant films.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 78]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091732-0001-0000", "contents": "1970s in film, Highest-grossing films\n(All figures are U.S.- Canada. Some figures * are for rentals accruing to the distributor, not total box office gross.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 37], "content_span": [38, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091732-0002-0000", "contents": "1970s in film, Asian cinema\nAn Asian cinema touchstone beginning in the early 1970s was traditional Hong Kong martial arts films which sparked a greater interest in Chinese martial arts across the world. Martial arts film reached the peak of its popularity largely in part due to its greatest icon, Bruce Lee. His films elevated the genre to a new level and sparked a greater interest in martial arts in the West.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 27], "content_span": [28, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091732-0002-0001", "contents": "1970s in film, Asian cinema\nLee became famous for playing Kato in the TV series The Green Hornet during the 1960s yet it was when he returned to Hong Kong and starred in three films that shot him to stardom all over Asia, The Big Boss (1971), Fist of Fury (1972) and Way of the Dragon (1972). After the kung fu film Five Fingers of Death (1972), starring Indonesian-born actor Lo Lieh, topped the North American box office in 1973, this paved the way for Lee's The Big Boss and Fist of Fury topping the US box office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 27], "content_span": [28, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091732-0002-0002", "contents": "1970s in film, Asian cinema\nLee achieved his greatest global stardom with his last completed film, and the first kung fu film to be produced by a Hollywood studio, Enter the Dragon (1973). This led to a \"chopsocky\" kung fu craze across the world, and a wave of \"Bruceploitation\" films. In 1978, Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung popularized the kung fu comedy sub-genre, with Snake in the Eagle's Shadow, Drunken Master and Enter the Fat Dragon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 27], "content_span": [28, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091732-0003-0000", "contents": "1970s in film, Asian cinema\nSouth Asian cinema of the 1970s catered to the rising working-class fantasies and struggles. In the Bollywood cinema of India, this was epitomized by the films written by Salim\u2013Javed and starring Amitabh Bachchan. They began the genre of gritty, violent, Bombay underworld crime films in the 1970s, with films such as Zanjeer (1973) and Deewaar (1975). These films portrayed adventurous plots and presented the young working-class man from the slums as an \"angry young man\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 27], "content_span": [28, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091732-0003-0001", "contents": "1970s in film, Asian cinema\nThe women on the other hand were shown as ones who have adopted western values and outfits especially by heroines like Parveen Babi (who was featured on the cover of Time magazine for a story on Bollywood's success) and Zeenat Aman. However towards the very end of the 1970s, especially after the steep rise in land prices in urban areas and the decline in employment security, the heroines were seen more often as saree-women striving to have a prosperous middle-class family especially heroines like Jaya Prada and Hema Malini. In this way, the cinema of Asian region becomes a sociological statement of the social-economic times of the region and its people. In Malayalam cinema, Adoor Gopalakrishnan made Swayamvaram in 1972, which got wide critical acclaim. This was followed by the film Nirmalyam by M. T. Vasudevan Nair in 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 27], "content_span": [28, 863]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091732-0004-0000", "contents": "1970s in film, European cinema\nIn European cinema, the failure of the Prague Spring brought about nostalgic motion pictures reminiscent of the ones that celebrate the 1970s itself. These films expressed a yearning and as a premonition to the decade and its dreams. The Hungarian director Istv\u00e1n Szab\u00f3 made the motion picture Szerelmesfilm (1970), which is a nostalgic portrayal and a premonition of the fading of the young 1970s ethos of change and a friendlier social structure. The Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci made the motion picture The Conformist (1970). German films after the war asked existential questions especially the works of Rainer Fassbinder.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 30], "content_span": [31, 665]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091732-0004-0001", "contents": "1970s in film, European cinema\nThe films of the Swedish director Ingmar Bergman reached a new level of expression in motion pictures like Cries and Whispers (1973). Young German directors made films that came to be known as the German new wave. It was the voice of a new generation that had grown up after the second world war. These included directors like Wim Wenders, Hans-J\u00fcrgen Syberberg and Werner Herzog.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 30], "content_span": [31, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091732-0005-0000", "contents": "1970s in film, North American cinema\nThe decade opened with Hollywood facing a financial slump, reflecting the monetary woes of the nation as a whole during the first half of the decade. Despite this, the 1970s proved to be a benchmark decade in the development of cinema, both as an art form and as a business. With young filmmakers taking greater risks and restrictions regarding language and sexuality lifting, Hollywood produced some of its most critically acclaimed and financially successful films since its \"golden era.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 36], "content_span": [37, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091732-0006-0000", "contents": "1970s in film, North American cinema\nIn the years previous to 1970, Hollywood had begun to cater to the younger generation with films such as The Graduate. This proved a folly when anti-war films like R. P. M. and The Strawberry Statement became major box-office flops. Even solid films with bankable stars, like the Pearl Harbor epic Tora! Tora! Tora!, flopped, leaving studios in dire straits financially. Unable to repay financiers, studios began selling off land, furniture, clothing, and sets acquired over years of production. Nostalgic fans bid on merchandise and collectibles ranging from Judy Garland's sparkling red shoes to MGM's own back lots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 36], "content_span": [37, 655]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091732-0007-0000", "contents": "1970s in film, North American cinema\nMore of the successful films were those based in the harsh truths of war, rather than the excesses of the 1960s. Films like the Francis Ford Coppola-scripted Patton, starring George C. Scott as the World War II general, and Robert Altman's MASH, about a Korean War field hospital, were major box-office draws in 1970. Honest, old-fashioned films like Summer of '42, and the Erich Segal adaptation, Love Story, were commercial and critical hits. (Love Story and \"Summer\" remain, as of 2005, two of the most successful films in Hollywood history. \"Summer\", costing US$1,000,000, brought in $25,000,000 at the box office, while \"Love Story\", with a budget of $2,200,000, earned $106,400,000).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 36], "content_span": [37, 726]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091732-0008-0000", "contents": "1970s in film, North American cinema\nOne of the most insightful films of the decade came from the mind of a Hollywood outsider, Czechoslovakian director Milo\u0161 Forman, whose Taking Off became a bold reflection of life at the beginning of the 1970s. The 1971 film satirized the American middle class, following a young girl who runs away from home, leaving her parents free to explore life for the first time in years. While the film was never given a wide release in America, it became a major critical achievement both in America and around the world (garnering the film high honors at the Cannes Film Festival and several BAFTA Award nominations).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 36], "content_span": [37, 648]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091732-0009-0000", "contents": "1970s in film, North American cinema\nSean Connery returned to the role of James Bond in 1971 in Diamonds Are Forever after George Lazenby filled the role in 1969. Roger Moore succeeded Connery in 1973 with an adaptation of Ian Fleming's Live and Let Die which was the most successful of his Bond films in terms of admissions. Live and Let Die was followed by an adaptation of The Man with the Golden Gun in 1974, which at the time garnered the lowest box office taking of any Bond film before it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 36], "content_span": [37, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091732-0009-0001", "contents": "1970s in film, North American cinema\nAfter its release Harry Saltzman co-owner of Danjaq with Albert R. Broccoli sold his half to United Artists causing a three-year gap until the next Bond film, the longest gap since the start of the franchise in 1962. The series picked up again in 1977 with The Spy Who Loved Me and ended the decade with Moonraker in 1979, which was the highest grossing Bond film (not adjusting for inflation) of all time until GoldenEye in 1995.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 36], "content_span": [37, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091732-0010-0000", "contents": "1970s in film, North American cinema\nAn adaptation of an Arthur Hailey novel would prove to be one of the most notable films of 1970, and would set the stage for a major trend in 1970s cinema. The film, Airport, featured a complex plot, characters, and an all-star cast of Hollywood A-listers and legends. Airport followed an airport manager trying to keep a fictional Chicago airport operational during a blizzard, as well as a bomb plot to blow up an airplane. The film was a major critical and financial success, helping pull Universal Studios into the black for the year. The film earned senior actress Helen Hayes an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress and garnered many other nominations in both technical and talent categories. The success of the film launched several other disaster films, many of which following the same blueprint of major stars, a melodramatic script, and great suspense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 36], "content_span": [37, 897]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091732-0011-0000", "contents": "1970s in film, North American cinema\nThree Airport sequels followed in 1974, 1977, and 1979, each successor making less money than the last. 1972 brought The Poseidon Adventure, which starred a young Gene Hackman leading an all-star cast to safety in a capsized luxury liner. The film earned an Academy Award for visual effects (and Best Original Song for \"The Morning After\"), as well as numerous nominations, including one for its notable supporting star, Shelley Winters, but its sequel in 1979 was far less successful. The Towering Inferno teamed Steve McQueen and Paul Newman against a fire in a San Francisco skyscraper.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 36], "content_span": [37, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091732-0011-0001", "contents": "1970s in film, North American cinema\nThe film cost a whopping $14 million to produce (expensive for its time), and won Academy Awards for Cinematography, Film Editing, and Best Original Song. The same year, the epic Earthquake featured questionable effects (camera shake and models) to achieve a destructive 9.9 earthquake in Los Angeles. Despite this, the film was one of the most successful of its time, earning $80 million at box office. By the late 1970s, the novelty had worn off and the disasters had become less exciting. 1977 brought a terrorist targeting a Rollercoaster, 1978 a Swarm of bees, and a less-than-threatening Meteor in 1979.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 36], "content_span": [37, 646]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091732-0012-0000", "contents": "1970s in film, North American cinema\nThe early 1970s also brought a rebirth of gritty crime film, three years after the influential Bullitt. William Friedkin's The French Connection, starring Gene Hackman as a drug detective and Sidney Lumet's Serpico, starring Al Pacino in the true-life story of an honest cop who fought corruption, were two of the most famous ones. Films like Get Carter featured gratuitous nudity, while Stanley Kubrick's groundbreaking A Clockwork Orange featured much physical and sexual violence to complement its complex story. African American filmmakers also found success in the 1970s with such hits as Shaft and Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. Like other sequels in the 1970s, Shaft went on to have two more adventures, each less successful than the last.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 36], "content_span": [37, 787]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091732-0013-0000", "contents": "1970s in film, North American cinema\nAn adaptation of a Mario Puzo novel, The Godfather, was a box-office and critical success in 1972. The three-hour epic followed a Mafia boss, played by Marlon Brando, through his life of crime. Beyond the violence and drama were themes of love, pride, and greed. The Godfather went on to earn $134 million at American box office, and $245 million throughout the world, becoming the highest-grossing film of all time. It won Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Screenplay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 36], "content_span": [37, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091732-0013-0001", "contents": "1970s in film, North American cinema\nIts director Francis Ford Coppola was passed over in favor of Bob Fosse and his musical, Cabaret, which also earned an Oscar for its star, Liza Minnelli. The Godfather Part II followed in 1974, with roughly the same principal cast and crew, earning Oscars for star Robert De Niro, its director, composer, screenwriters and art directors. The film also earned the Best Picture Oscar for that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 36], "content_span": [37, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091732-0014-0000", "contents": "1970s in film, North American cinema\nNot all of the \"street smart\" urban related films were 100% live action. Director Ralph Bakshi released the first animated full-length feature specifically oriented towards adults (Fritz the Cat) then moved on to two other features that dealt with the mafia and other ethnic-related urban issues. Both Heavy Traffic and Coonskin would prove that this kind of material could be handled effectively in the animation genre. Bakshi would later produce fantasy oriented films (Wizards and The Lord of the Rings) before the decade ended.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 36], "content_span": [37, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091732-0015-0000", "contents": "1970s in film, North American cinema\nInaugurated by the 1969 release of Andy Warhol's Blue Movie, the phenomenon of adult erotic films being publicly discussed by celebrities (like Johnny Carson and Bob Hope), and taken seriously by critics (like Roger Ebert), a development referred to, by Ralph Blumenthal of The New York Times, as \"porno chic\", and later known as the Golden Age of Porn, began, for the first time, in modern American culture. According to award-winning author Toni Bentley, Radley Metzger's 1976 film The Opening of Misty Beethoven, based on the play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw (and its derivative, My Fair Lady), and due to attaining a mainstream level in storyline and sets, is considered the \"crown jewel\" of this 'Golden Age'.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 36], "content_span": [37, 756]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091732-0016-0000", "contents": "1970s in film, North American cinema\nIn the middle 1970s, films began to also reflect the disenfranchisement brought by the excesses of the past twenty years. A deeply unsettling look at alienation and city life, Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver earned international praise, first at the Cannes Film Festival and then at the Academy Awards, where it was nominated for Best Leading Actor (Robert De Niro), Best Supporting Actress (Jodie Foster), Best Score (Bernard Herrmann), and Best Picture. All the President's Men dealt with the impeachment of Richard Nixon, while Lumet's Network portrayed greed and narcissism in both American society and television media.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 36], "content_span": [37, 659]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091732-0016-0001", "contents": "1970s in film, North American cinema\nThe film won Oscars for Best Actor (Peter Finch), Best Actress (Faye Dunaway), Best Supporting Actress (Beatrice Straight), and Best Screenplay (Paddy Chayefsky). Thanks to a stellar cast, experienced director, and a poignant story, Network became one of the largest critical successes of 1976. Another film, Rocky, about a clubhouse boxer (played by Sylvester Stallone) who is granted a world championship title fight won the Best Picture Academy Award that year. The film also became a major commercial success and spawned four sequels through the rest of the 1970s and 1980s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 36], "content_span": [37, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091732-0017-0000", "contents": "1970s in film, North American cinema\nThroughout the 1970s, the horror film developed into a lucrative genre of film. It began in 1973 with the terrifying The Exorcist, directed by William Friedkin and starring the young Linda Blair. The film saw massive success, and the first of several sequels was released in 1977. 1976 brought the equally creepy suspense thriller, Marathon Man, about a man who becomes the target of a former Nazi dentist's torment after his brother dies. The same year, the Devil himself made an appearance in The Omen, about the spawn of Satan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 36], "content_span": [37, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091732-0017-0001", "contents": "1970s in film, North American cinema\n1978's Halloween was a precursor to the \"slasher\" films of the 1980s and 1990s with its psychopathic Michael Myers. Cult horror films were also popular in the 1970s, such as Wes Craven's early gore films Last House on the Left and The Hills Have Eyes, as well as Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 36], "content_span": [37, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091732-0018-0000", "contents": "1970s in film, North American cinema\nThe blockbuster was born in 1975. While The Exorcist was among the top five grossing films of the 1970s, the first film given the blockbuster distinction was 1975's Jaws. Released on June 20, the film about a series of horrific deaths related to a massive great white shark was director Steven Spielberg's first big-budget Hollywood production, coming in at $9 million in cost. The film slowly grew in ticket sales and became one of the most profitable films of its time, ending with a $260 million gross in the United States alone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 36], "content_span": [37, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091732-0018-0001", "contents": "1970s in film, North American cinema\nThe film won Academy Awards for its skillful editing, chilling score, and sound recording. It was also nominated for Best Picture that year, though it lost to Milo\u0161 Forman's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (which also won acting awards for Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher). It spawned the successful sequel, Jaws 2 in 1978, which featured the same cast, but without Steven Spielberg. Another tailor-made blockbuster, Dino De Laurentiis' King Kong was released, but to less than stellar success. King Kong did mark the first time a film was booked to theaters before a release date, a common practice today.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 36], "content_span": [37, 646]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091732-0019-0000", "contents": "1970s in film, North American cinema\nThe massive success of Jaws was eclipsed just two years later by another legendary blockbuster and film franchise. The George Lucas science-fiction film Star Wars hit theater screens in May 1977, and became a major hit, growing in ticket sales throughout the summer and the rest of the year. In time earning some $460 million, the good versus evil fantasy set in space was not soon surpassed. The film's breathtaking visual effects won an Academy Award. The film also won for John Williams's uplifting score, as well as art direction, costume design, film editing, and sound.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 36], "content_span": [37, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091732-0019-0001", "contents": "1970s in film, North American cinema\nStar Wars effectively removed any specter of studio bankruptcy that had haunted the studios since early in the decade. When a television film, Star Wars Holiday Special, was released as a spin-off from Star Wars in 1978; it failed to receive the status of the original film, and was deemed a flop. It would be two years until the Star Wars series would be revived with The Empire Strikes Back. Another success in visual effects came the same year as Star Wars, with Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind, another blockbuster and alien contact set in the wilderness.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 36], "content_span": [37, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091732-0019-0002", "contents": "1970s in film, North American cinema\nFor the picture, Spielberg received his first Oscar nomination for directing. A year later the most iconic superhero was brought to the screen in Superman, who was portrayed by classically trained actor Christopher Reeve. It was met by resounding praise for strong performances and its epic scope which resulted in numerous sequels and is regarded as one of the greatest superhero films ever made, beginning a new era of superhero films.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 36], "content_span": [37, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091732-0020-0000", "contents": "1970s in film, North American cinema\nThe success of Woody Allen's Annie Hall in 1977 stirred a new trend in filmmaking. Annie Hall, a love story about a depressed comedian and a free-spirited woman, was followed with more sentimental films, including Neil Simon's The Goodbye Girl, An Unmarried Woman starring Jill Clayburgh, the autobiographical Lillian Hellman story, Julia, starring Jane Fonda and Vanessa Redgrave, and 1978's Heaven Can Wait and International Velvet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 36], "content_span": [37, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091732-0021-0000", "contents": "1970s in film, North American cinema\nYounger audiences were also beginning to be the focus of cinema, after the huge blockbusters that had attracted them back to the theater. John Travolta became popular in the pop-culture landmark films, Saturday Night Fever, which introduced Disco to middle America, and Grease, which recalled the world of the 1950s. Comedy was also given new life in the irreverent Animal House, set on a college campus during the 1960s. Up in Smoke, starring Cheech & Chong, was another irreverent comedy about marijuana use became popular among teenagers. The new television comedy program, \"Saturday Night Live\", launched the careers of several of its comedians, such as Chevy Chase, who co-starred in the 1978 hit Foul Play with Goldie Hawn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 36], "content_span": [37, 766]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091732-0022-0000", "contents": "1970s in film, North American cinema\nThe decade closed with two films chronicling the Vietnam War, Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter and Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now. Both films focused on the horrors of war and the psychological damage caused by such horrors. Christopher Walken and director Michael Cimino earned Oscars for their work on the film, which earned a Best Picture Academy Award. Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep were also nominated for their work in The Deer Hunter. Apocalypse Now won for cinematography and sound, and earned nominations for Robert Duvall and Coppola. Hal Ashby's Coming Home portrayed life for Vietnam veterans. Actor Jon Voight won an Academy Award for his role in the film.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 36], "content_span": [37, 715]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091732-0023-0000", "contents": "1970s in film, North American cinema\n1979 saw the poignant Kramer vs. Kramer, the inspiring Norma Rae, and the nuclear thriller, The China Syndrome. Alien scared summer film-going audiences of 1979 with its horrible monster from outer space, achieving similar success that Jaws had seen four years earlier. Meanwhile, The Onion Field and ... And Justice for All focused on the failures of the American judicial system. The year ended with Hal Ashby's subtle black comedy Being There and The Muppet Movie, a family film based on the Jim Henson puppet characters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 36], "content_span": [37, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091732-0024-0000", "contents": "1970s in film, Events\nThe films in the 1970s came in many different varieties, as the socially conscious directors that emerged in the late 1960s grew in very different ways, influenced by music, literature, crime and war. The decade is most known for excelling in the crime-drama genre. The early part of the decade focused on increasingly realistic, gritty films, including Coppola's first two Godfather pictures and Robert Altman's black comedy MASH. A trend that lasted through the decade was the popularity of disaster films, starting with Airport in 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 21], "content_span": [22, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091732-0024-0001", "contents": "1970s in film, Events\nAnother trend was the birth of the blockbuster horror film, initiated by William Friedkin's The Exorcist, which spawned numerous imitators. A pivotal moment in films was the release of Steven Spielberg's first blockbuster hit, Jaws, which was considered to be the birth of the blockbuster motion picture (a trend sealed two years later with the release of Star Wars). The end of the decade saw two epic Vietnam War films, from directors Michael Cimino (The Deer Hunter) and Coppola (Apocalypse Now).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 21], "content_span": [22, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091733-0000-0000", "contents": "1970s in furniture\nFurniture of the 1970s refers to the style of furniture popular in the 1970s. Often, the furniture would be laid with bold fabric patterns and colors. Bold designs and prints were also used profusely in other decor. Other design elements found in 1970s furniture and interior decorating included the use of the colors brown, purple, orange, and yellow (sometimes all in the same piece of fabric), shag-pile carpet, textured walls, lacquered furniture, gaudy lampshades, lava lamps, and molded plastic furniture.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091733-0001-0000", "contents": "1970s in furniture\nAnother major aspect of 1970s furniture is the use of teak wood. The use of teak in fashionable furniture and panelling regained popularity in the 1960s and items became chunkier as it progressed into the 1970s. Because of the popularity of wood in homes, dark color palettes also became more widely used as the 1970s progressed. In the mid-to-late 1970s, pine wood began to replace teak wood, and color palettes became even darker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091734-0000-0000", "contents": "1970s in jazz\nIn the 1970s in jazz, jazz become increasingly influenced by Latin jazz, combining rhythms from African and Latin American countries, often played on instruments such as conga, timbale, g\u00fciro, and claves, with jazz and classical harmonies played on typical jazz instruments (piano, double bass, etc.). Artists such as Chick Corea, John McLaughlin and Al Di Meola increasingly influenced the genre with jazz fusion, a hybrid form of jazz-rock fusion which was developed by combining jazz improvisation with rock rhythms, electric instruments, and the highly amplified stage sound of rock musicians such as Jimi Hendrix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091734-0000-0001", "contents": "1970s in jazz\nAll Music Guide states that \"..until around 1967, the worlds of jazz and rock were nearly completely separate.\" However, \"...as rock became more creative and its musicianship improved, and as some in the jazz world became bored with hard bop and did not want to play strictly avant-garde music, the two different idioms began to trade ideas and occasionally combine forces.\" On June 16, 1972 the New York Jazz Museum opened in New York City at 125 West 55th Street in a one and one-half story building. It became the most important institution for jazz in the world with a 25,000 item archive, free concerts, exhibits, film programs, etc.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 652]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091734-0001-0000", "contents": "1970s in jazz\nMiles Davis made the breakthrough into fusion in the 1970s with his album Bitches Brew. Musicians who worked with Davis formed the four most influential fusion groups: Weather Report and Mahavishnu Orchestra emerged in 1971 and were soon followed by Return to Forever and The Headhunters. Although jazz purists protested the blend of jazz and rock, some of jazz's significant innovators crossed over from the contemporary hard bop scene into fusion. Jazz fusion music often uses mixed meters, odd time signatures, syncopation, and complex chords and harmonies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091734-0001-0001", "contents": "1970s in jazz\nIn addition to using the electric instruments of rock, such as the electric guitar, electric bass, electric piano, and synthesizer keyboards, fusion also used the powerful amplification, \"fuzz\" pedals, wah-wah pedals, and other effects used by 1970s-era rock bands. Notable performers of jazz fusion included Miles Davis, keyboardists Joe Zawinul, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, vibraphonist Gary Burton, drummer Tony Williams, violinist Jean-Luc Ponty, guitarists Larry Coryell, Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin and Frank Zappa, saxophonist Wayne Shorter, and bassists Jaco Pastorius and Stanley Clarke. Jazz fusion was also popular in Japan where the band Casiopea released over thirty albums praising Jazz Fusion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 724]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091734-0002-0000", "contents": "1970s in jazz\nIn the mid-1970s, jazz funk became popular, characterized by a strong back beat (groove), electrified sounds, and often, the presence of the first electronic analog synthesizers. The integration of Funk, Soul, and R&B music and styles into jazz resulted in the creation of a genre whose spectrum is indeed quite wide and ranges from strong jazz improvisation to soul, funk or disco with jazz arrangements, jazz riffs, and jazz solos, and sometimes soul vocals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091735-0000-0000", "contents": "1970s in motorsport\nThis article documents the events in motorsport that happened in the 1970s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0000-0000", "contents": "1970s in music\nThis article includes an overview of the major events and trends in popular music in the 1970s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0001-0000", "contents": "1970s in music\nIn North America, Europe, and Oceania, the decade saw the rise of disco, which became one of the biggest genres of the decade, especially in the mid-to-late 1970s. In Europe, a variant known as Euro disco rose in popularity towards the end of the 1970s. Aside from disco, funk, smooth jazz, jazz fusion, and soul music remained popular throughout the decade. Rock music played an important part in the Western musical scene, with punk rock thriving throughout the mid to late 1970s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0002-0000", "contents": "1970s in music\nOther subgenres of rock, particularly glam rock, hard rock, progressive, art rock, and heavy metal achieved various amounts of success. Other genres such as reggae were innovative throughout the decade and grew a significant following. Hip hop emerged during this decade, but was slow to start and did not become significant until the late 1980s. Classical began losing a little momentum; however, through invention and theoretical development, this particular genre gave rise to experimental classical and minimalist music by classical composers. A subgenre of classical, film scores, remained popular with movie-goers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 635]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0002-0001", "contents": "1970s in music\nAlongside the popularity of experimental music, the decade was notable for its contributions to electronic music, which rose in popularity with the continued development of synthesizers and harmonizers; more composers embraced this particular genre, gaining the notice of listeners who were looking for something new and different. Its rising popularity, mixed with the popular music of the period, led to the creation of synthpop. Pop also had a popularity role in the 1970s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0003-0000", "contents": "1970s in music\nIn Africa, especially Nigeria, the genre known as Afrobeat gained a following throughout the 1970s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0004-0000", "contents": "1970s in music\nIn Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula, the Nueva canci\u00f3n movement peaked in popularity and was adopted as the music of the hippie, Liberation Theology, and New Left movements. Cumbia music began its internationalization as regional scenes rose outside Colombia. Merengue experienced mainstream exposure across Latin America and the southern US border states.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0005-0000", "contents": "1970s in music\nIn Asia, music continued to follow varying trends. In Japan, the decade saw several musical trends, including pop music, folk music, rock music, disco music, while the rock group \"Spiders\" disbanded in 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0006-0000", "contents": "1970s in music, Overview\nIn an essay published in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981), Robert Christgau wrote:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 24], "content_span": [25, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0007-0000", "contents": "1970s in music, Overview\n\"The decade is of course an arbitrary schema itself\u2014time doesn't just execute a neat turn toward the future every ten years. But like a lot of artificial concepts\u2014money, say\u2014the category does take on a reality of its own once people figure out how to put it to work. ' The '60s are over,' a slogan one only began to hear in 1972 or so, mobilized all those eager to believe that idealism had become passe, and once they were mobilized, it had. In popular music, embracing the '70s meant both an elitist withdrawal from the messy concert and counterculture scene and a profiteering pursuit of the lowest common denominator in FM radio and album rock.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 24], "content_span": [25, 674]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0008-0000", "contents": "1970s in music, Overview\nAccording to Christgau, the decade also saw greater fragmentation along stylistic lines because of the rise of semipopular music: \"It goes back to whenever arty types began to find 'the best' rock worthy of attention in the '60s, but in the '60s tolerance was the rule; it was easier to name rough substyles\u2014say British invasion, folk-rock, psychedelic, and soul\u2014than to analyze their separate audiences (even racial distinctions were fuzzy). Not until 1968 or 1969, when it became a hippie commonplace to dismiss soul as 'commercial' and when bubblegum and 'white blues' developed into clear categories, did the breakdown really begin. And only in the '70s did genres start asserting themselves: singer-songwriter and interpreter, art-rock and heavy metal and country-rock and boogie, fusion and funk and disco and black MOR, punk and new wave, and somehow straddling them all (except for punk, God bless) the monolith of pop-rock.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 24], "content_span": [25, 958]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0009-0000", "contents": "1970s in music, North America, Hard rock, arena rock and heavy metal\nThe 1970s saw the emergence of hard rock as one of the most prominent subgenres of rock music. During the first half of the decade, British acts such as Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Uriah Heep, Black Sabbath were at the height of their international fame, particularly in the United States. By the second half of the decade, many other acts had also achieved stardom, namely, Mountain, Grand Funk Railroad, Alice Cooper, Cactus, James Gang, AC/DC, Blue \u00d6yster Cult, Kiss, Aerosmith, Van Halen, and Ted Nugent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 68], "content_span": [69, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0010-0000", "contents": "1970s in music, North America, Hard rock, arena rock and heavy metal\nArena rock grew in popularity through rock acts such as Boston, Kansas, Styx, Journey, TOTO, Foreigner, and Heart.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 68], "content_span": [69, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0011-0000", "contents": "1970s in music, North America, Hard rock, arena rock and heavy metal\nPsychedelic rock declined in popularity after the deaths of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison of The Doors, the self-imposed seclusion of Syd Barrett from Pink Floyd, and the break-up of The Beatles in 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 68], "content_span": [69, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0012-0000", "contents": "1970s in music, North America, Progressive rock\nThe American brand of prog rock varied from the eclectic and innovative Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, and Blood, Sweat and Tears, to more pop rock oriented bands like Boston, Foreigner, Journey, Kansas, and Styx.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 47], "content_span": [48, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0012-0001", "contents": "1970s in music, North America, Progressive rock\nThese, beside British bands Supertramp and Electric Light Orchestra, all demonstrated a prog rock influence and while ranking among the most commercially successful acts of the 1970s, ushering in the era of pomp or arena rock, which would last until the costs of complex shows (often with theatrical staging and special effects), would be replaced by more economical rock festivals as major live venues in the 1990s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 47], "content_span": [48, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0013-0000", "contents": "1970s in music, North America, New wave\nSuccessful American new wave bands in the late seventies included Talking Heads, The Cars, The Knack, The B-52's, and Devo. Some of the Canadian new wave groups included Rough Trade, The Payolas, and Martha and the Muffins. After the success of British synthpop acts in the U.S. such as Gary Numan and the Buggles, a number of American bands also began experimenting with synthesizers. In the early 1980s, bands from the United Kingdom became immensely popular in the U.S., and this phenomenon became known as the Second British Invasion which mainly consisted of British new wave and synthpop acts, therefore broadening the definition of \"new wave\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 39], "content_span": [40, 690]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0014-0000", "contents": "1970s in music, North America, Punk rock\nThe mid-1970s saw the rise of punk music from its protopunk-garage band roots in the 1960s and early 1970s. The Ramones, Patti Smith, and Blondie were some of the earliest American punk rock acts to make it big in both the United Kingdom and the United States. Punk music has also been heavily associated with a certain punk fashion and absurdist humour which exemplified a genuine suspicion of mainstream culture and values. Blondie quickly lost their punk roots going on to become a pop/ska/reggae band.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 40], "content_span": [41, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0015-0000", "contents": "1970s in music, North America, Blues rock\nBlues rock remains popular, with Eric Clapton, ZZ Top, and George Thorogood seeing the greatest success. Freddie King started moving from straight blues to blues rock since the genre was now mostly popular among white audiences. Stress from nonstop touring resulted in his death at the age of 42 in 1976.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 41], "content_span": [42, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0016-0000", "contents": "1970s in music, North America, Soft rock and pop\nSome of the more notable pop/soft rock groups during the 1970s were the Carpenters, the Jackson 5, Seals & Crofts, The Bee Gees, The Doobie Brothers, Hall & Oates, Bread, Captain & Tennille, Tony Orlando and Dawn, Bay City Rollers, and The Osmonds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 48], "content_span": [49, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0017-0000", "contents": "1970s in music, North America, Soft rock and pop\nSoloists who characterized the pop music of the era included Barry Manilow, Andy Gibb, Elvis Presley, Neil Diamond, Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder, Elton John, Marvin Gaye, Cat Stevens, James Taylor, Eric Clapton, Barry White, and Rod Stewart. Female soloists who epitomized the 1970s included Linda Ronstadt, Carly Simon, Roberta Flack, Donna Summer, Barbra Streisand, Rita Coolidge, Olivia Newton-John, and Helen Reddy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 48], "content_span": [49, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0018-0000", "contents": "1970s in music, North America, Soft rock and pop\nSome of the most popular music acts of the day got their own network television variety shows, which were very popular in the 70s. Acts like Sonny & Cher, Glen Campbell, John Denver, Tony Orlando and Dawn, husband and wife team Captain & Tennille, brother and sister Donny & Marie Osmond.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 48], "content_span": [49, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0019-0000", "contents": "1970s in music, North America, Soft rock and pop\nSoft rock was prominently featured on many Top 40 and contemporary hit radio stations throughout the 1970s. Soft rock often used acoustic instruments and placed emphasis on melody and harmonies. Major soft rock artists of the 1970s included Carole King, James Taylor, Billy Joel, Chicago, America, the Eagles, and Fleetwood Mac, whose Rumours (1977) was the best-selling album of the decade. (See the country music section of this article for more about country music that crossed over onto the pop charts.) Bob Dylan's 1975\u20131976 Rolling Thunder Revue reunited him with a number of folk-rock acts from his early days of performing, most notably Joan Baez, who returned to the charts in 1975 with \"Diamonds & Rust\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 48], "content_span": [49, 763]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0020-0000", "contents": "1970s in music, North America, Soft rock and pop\nSome of the most successful singers and songwriters were: Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Jim Croce, John Denver, Neil Diamond, Barry Gibb, Stevie Wonder, Neil Young, Carole King, Elton John, Don McLean, Joni Mitchell, Paul Simon, Kris Kristofferson, Carly Simon, Donna Summer, Gordon Lightfoot, and Harry Chapin\u2014 some had previously been primarily songwriters but began releasing albums and songs of their own. King's album Tapestry became one of the top-selling albums of the decade, and the song \"It's Too Late\" became one of the 1970s biggest songs. McLean's 1971 song \"American Pie,\" inspired by the death of Buddy Holly, became one of popular music's most-recognized songs of the 20th century, thanks to its abstract and vivid storytelling, which center around \"The Day the Music Died\" and popular music of the rock era.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 48], "content_span": [49, 873]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0021-0000", "contents": "1970s in music, North America, Soft rock and pop\nThe early 1970s marked the departure of Diana Ross from The Supremes and the break-up of Simon & Garfunkel and The Beatles. All continued hugely successful recording careers throughout the decade. Some of their songs that are among the hits of the early 1970s: Simon & Garfunkel's \"Bridge Over Troubled Water\", Simon's solo hit \"50 Ways to Leave Your Lover\", The Beatles \"Let It Be\", Paul McCartney's \"Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey\", George Harrison's \"My Sweet Lord\", and Ross' \"Ain't No Mountain High Enough\" .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 48], "content_span": [49, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0022-0000", "contents": "1970s in music, North America, Soft rock and pop\nPopular British acts were The Rolling Stones, Peter Frampton, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Leo Sayer, The Bee Gees, Queen, Led Zeppelin, Supertramp, and The Who; who's lead singer Roger Daltrey made a splash in the movie Tommy, playing the title role, based on the groups 1969 album of the same name. Elton John, Tina Turner, Ann-Margret, Oliver Reed, Jack Nicholson, and the other band members made up the ensemble cast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 48], "content_span": [49, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0023-0000", "contents": "1970s in music, North America, Disco, R&B and urban\nThe Bee Gees were one of, if not the 1970s biggest musical act dominating album sales, singles sales and music charts of many countries including the U.S. and U.K. Most notably. They spearheaded and led the disco and pop music scenes of the 1970s at one point The Bee Gees had 5 songs in the top 10 and 3 songs in the top 5 of the U.S. Billboard charts according to Barry Gibb.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 51], "content_span": [52, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0023-0001", "contents": "1970s in music, North America, Disco, R&B and urban\nthey were the main artists and songwriters of the cultural and revolutionary music soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever which went on to become the second biggest selling soundtrack of all time and up until Thriller it was the biggest selling album of all time selling between 40 to 50 million copies worldwide to date. After achieving all of these huge records and milestones some critics have labeled The Bee Gees as the decade-defining act and band of the 1970s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 51], "content_span": [52, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0024-0000", "contents": "1970s in music, North America, Disco, R&B and urban\nAlong with disco, funk was one of the most popular genres of music in the 1970s. Primarily an African-American genre, it was characterized by the heavy use of bass and \"wah-wah\" pedals. Rhythm was emphasized over melody. Artists such as James Brown, The Meters, Parliament-Funkadelic and Sly and the Family Stone pioneered the genre. It then spawned artists such as Stevie Wonder, Rufus, The Brothers Johnson, Kool & The Gang, Earth, Wind & Fire, The Spinners, King Floyd, Tower of Power, Ohio Players, The Commodores, War, Confunkshun, Gap Band, Slave, Cameo, the Bar-Kays, Zapp, and many more. Other popular artists with the mainstream were Bill Withers, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Three Dog Night, The Stylistics, The Fifth Dimension, Marvin Gaye, The Temptations, The O'Jays, Barry White, and Issac Hayes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 51], "content_span": [52, 860]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0025-0000", "contents": "1970s in music, North America, Disco, R&B and urban\nThe 1970s saw African-American audiences shift away from genres like rock and blues which had originally been invented and dominated by black musicians. While blues performers like B.B. King and Albert King remained successful, they changed to a mostly white audience. Soul, R&B, and funk became the predominate music styles among black artists and audiences.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 51], "content_span": [52, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0026-0000", "contents": "1970s in music, North America, Disco, R&B and urban\nRoberta Flack had two of the biggest hits of the decade with \"The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face\", from the Clint Eastwood movie Play Misty for Me; and \"Killing Me Softly\". Both were # 1 hits on the pop charts and she became the first artist and the only female artist to win back to back Grammy Awards for Record of the Year. Stevie Wonder who topped the charts five times during the decade with songs such as \"You Are the Sunshine of My Life\" and \"Sir Duke\" had a unique treble. He won Grammy Awards for both Best Male Pop & Best Male R&B Vocal Performance in 1974, 1975, and 1977.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 51], "content_span": [52, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0027-0000", "contents": "1970s in music, North America, Disco, R&B and urban\nThe Jackson 5 became one of the biggest pop-music phenomena of the 1970s, playing from a repertoire of rhythm and blues, pop and later disco. The Jacksons \u2014 brothers Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon, and Michael \u2014 the first act in recording history to have their first four major label singles: \"I Want You Back\", \"ABC\", \"The Love You Save\", and \"I'll Be There\" reach the top of the Billboard Hot 100.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 51], "content_span": [52, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0027-0001", "contents": "1970s in music, North America, Disco, R&B and urban\nThe band served as the launching pad for the solo careers of their lead singers Jermaine and Michael, both had some solo success in the early part of the decade. Jermaine with top 10 hit \"Daddy's Home\" and Michael topped the charts with \"Ben\" theme song to the movie. Other family acts included Gladys Knight & the Pips who topped the charts with \"Midnight Train to Georgia\", Sly & the Family Stone who brought \"Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)\" and \"Family Affair\" to the top spot. As well as The Staple Singers with \"I'll Take You There\" and \"Let's Do It Again\" theme song to a 1975 Sidney Poitier/Bill Cosby movie. The Sylvers with \"Boogie Fever\", and The Emotions with \"Best of My Love\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 51], "content_span": [52, 750]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0028-0000", "contents": "1970s in music, North America, Disco, R&B and urban\nThe Emotions were a girl group which were still popular in soul music, Honey Cone had a chart topping hit with \"Want Ads\", as did Labelle with \"Lady Marmalade\" and A Taste of Honey with \"Boogie Oogie Oogie\". Other examples of the girl group were Love Unlimited and The Three Degrees who scored a number two pop hit with \"When Will I See You Again\" but topped the chart when they teamed with Mother, Sister, Father, Brother (MSFB) on the Sound of Philadelphia (TSOP).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 51], "content_span": [52, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0029-0000", "contents": "1970s in music, North America, Disco, R&B and urban\nThe Commodores were another group that played from a diverse repertoire, including R&B, funk, and pop. Lionel Richie, who went on to even greater success as a solo artist in the 1980s, fronted the group's biggest 1970s hits, including \"Easy\", \"Three Times a Lady\", and \"Still\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 51], "content_span": [52, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0030-0000", "contents": "1970s in music, North America, Country\nA number of styles defined country music during the 1970s decade. At the beginning of the decade, the countrypolitan \u2014 an offshoot of the earlier \"Nashville Sound\" of the late 1950s and early 1960s \u2014 and the honky-tonk fused Bakersfield Sound were some of the more popular styles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 38], "content_span": [39, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0031-0000", "contents": "1970s in music, North America, Country\nThe countrypolitan sound \u2014 a polished, streamlined sound featuring string sections, background vocals and crooning lead vocalists \u2014 was popularized by artists including Lynn Anderson, Glen Campbell, Anne Murray, Dottie West, Tammy Wynette, and others, achieving their successes through such songs as \"(I Never Promised You a) Rose Garden\", \"Snowbird\", and others. The Bakersfield sound, first popularized in the early 1960s, continued its peak in popularity through artists such as Buck Owens and Merle Haggard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 38], "content_span": [39, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0032-0000", "contents": "1970s in music, North America, Country\nBut other styles began to emerge during the 1970s. One of the more successful styles was \"outlaw country\", a type of music blending the traditional and honky tonk sounds of country music with rock and blues music, and mixed with the anger of an alienated subculture of the nation during the period. The leaders of the movement were Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson, although others associated with the movement were Jerry Jeff Walker, David Allan Coe, Jessi Colter, Tompall Glaser, Gary Stewart, and Billy Joe Shaver. The efforts of Jennings, Nelson, Colter, and Glaser were encapsulated in the 1976 album Wanted! The Outlaws.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 38], "content_span": [39, 666]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0033-0000", "contents": "1970s in music, North America, Country\nThe 1970s saw the rise of country music groups. The most successful act by far during the first half of the decade was The Statler Brothers, a Stanton, Virginia-based group that had gotten its start performing with Johnny Cash in the 1960s. The group \u2013 several years removed from their 1965 hit \"Flowers On the Wall\" \u2013 successfully used their vocal harmonies on songs including \"Bed Of Rose's,\" \"Do You Remember These,\" \"The Class of '57,\" \"I'll Go To My Grave Loving You,\" and \"Do You Know You Are My Sunshine.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 38], "content_span": [39, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0033-0001", "contents": "1970s in music, North America, Country\nUntil 1977, the Statlers \u2013 who in the 1970s had brothers Harold and Don Reid, Phil Balsley, and Lew DeWitt \u2013 were the only group to achieve sustained success; that year, the Oak Ridge Boys, a country gospel group, switched to a country-pop direction, and their first single release, \"Y'all Come Back Saloon,\" was a top-5 hit on the country chart; their lineup in the late 1970s was Duane Allen, Joe Bonsall, William Lee Golden, and Richard Sterban.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 38], "content_span": [39, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0033-0002", "contents": "1970s in music, North America, Country\nBoth groups remained firmly committed to gospel music, but it was with country-pop that they had their most success and the rise in country groups began to take shape. In 1979, a third group \u2013 the Fort Payne-based band Alabama, the core being cousins Randy Owen, Teddy Gentry, and Jeff Cook, along with drummer Mark Herndon \u2013 released the mellow love ballad \"I Wanna Come Over\"; although only reaching the mid-30s on the country chart, \"... Over\" was a foreshadowing of what was to come for one of the most successful country music groups/bands of all time, with their blend of soft rock and Southern rock (which would be featured on their next single, \"My Home's In Alabama,\" recorded in 1979 and released in January 1980).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 38], "content_span": [39, 763]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0034-0000", "contents": "1970s in music, North America, Country\nThe country pop sound was a successor to the countrypolitan sound of the early 1970s. In addition to artists such as Murray and Campbell, several artists who were not initially marketed as country were enjoying crossover success with country audiences through radio airplay and sales. The most successful of these artists included The Bellamy Brothers, Charlie Rich, John Denver, Olivia Newton-John, Marie Osmond, B. J. Thomas, and Kenny Rogers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 38], "content_span": [39, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0034-0001", "contents": "1970s in music, North America, Country\nNewton-John, an Australian pop singer, was named Female Vocalist of the Year by the Country Music Association in 1974, sparking a debate that continues to this day \u2014 what is country music? A group of traditional-minded artists, troubled by this trend, formed the short-lived Association of Country Entertainers, in an attempt to bring back traditional honky-tonk sounds to the forefront, setting the stage for the neotraditional country revival that would become particularly prominent in the early 1980s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 38], "content_span": [39, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0034-0002", "contents": "1970s in music, North America, Country\nThe debate continued into 1975, a year where six songs reached No. 1 on both the Billboard Hot Country Singles and Billboard Hot 100 charts. Things came to a head when, at that year's CMA Awards, Rich \u2014 the reigning Entertainer of the Year, and himself a crossover artist \u2014 presented the award to his successor, \"my good friend, Mr. John Denver.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 38], "content_span": [39, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0034-0003", "contents": "1970s in music, North America, Country\nHis statement, taken as sarcasm, and his setting fire to the envelope (containing Denver's name) with a cigarette lighter were taken as a protest against the increasing pop style in country music (this despite Rich himself having made his name with songs that crossed over from country into the pop and adult contemporary charts).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 38], "content_span": [39, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0035-0000", "contents": "1970s in music, North America, Country\nBy the later half of the 1970s, Dolly Parton, a highly successful traditional-minded country artist since the late 1960s, mounted a high-profile campaign to crossover to pop music, culminating in her 1977 hit \"Here You Come Again\", which peaked at No. 1 country and No. 3 pop. Of her 25 career No. 1 hits, 11 of them came during the 1970s. Parton, also became the female country music artist to host her own variety show, Dolly!, which aired during the 1976\u201377 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 38], "content_span": [39, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0035-0001", "contents": "1970s in music, North America, Country\nRogers, the former lead singer of The First Edition, followed up a successful career in pop, rock, and folk music by switching to country music. Like Parton, whom he would record with in the 1980s and thereafter, Rogers enjoyed a long series of successful songs that charted on both the Hot Country Singles and Billboard Hot 100 charts; the first of the lot was \"Lucille,\" a No. 1 country and No. 5 pop hit. Crystal Gayle, Ronnie Milsap, Eddie Rabbitt, and Linda Ronstadt were some of the other artists who also found success on both the country and pop charts with their records as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 38], "content_span": [39, 627]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0036-0000", "contents": "1970s in music, North America, Country\nThe most successful of the female artist in the 1970s was Loretta Lynn, releasing her best selling album Coal Miner's Daughter in 1970. She gained a total of seven number one albums, and 20 number one hit singles including her biggest hit single, 1970s \"Coal Miner's Daughter,\" which went on to sell more than 500,000 copies to date. Several of Lynn's siblings gained national recording contracts, and it was her youngest sister, Crystal Gayle (born Brenda Gail Webb), who would become by far the most successful.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 38], "content_span": [39, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0036-0001", "contents": "1970s in music, North America, Country\nAlthough she has recorded and/or performed traditional country, Gayle's primary style was country pop, and by forging her own path rather than mimicking her famous sister's style, she had several tremendously successful songs, most notably \"Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue.\" Lynn also recorded with Conway Twitty multiple times during the 1970s, and had five No. 1 singles together, including \"After the Fire Is Gone.\" Like Lynn, Twitty had family\u2014in this case, his children\u2014who also recorded and had songs make the top 40 of the Billboard country chart, but none of them had sustained, long-term success.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 38], "content_span": [39, 645]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0037-0000", "contents": "1970s in music, North America, Country\nBesides Lynn-Twitty duet pairing, there were other notable duet pairings during the 1970s, including George Jones and Tammy Wynette. Married in 1968, the two had their first duet hit together in 1972 with \"Take Me\" (a remake of Jones' 1965 solo hit), and went on to have three No. 1 hits together.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 38], "content_span": [39, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0037-0001", "contents": "1970s in music, North America, Country\nThe two went through an acrimonious divorce in 1975, due in part to Jones' increasingly erratic behavior worsened by substance abuse problems, but the two did continue recording together afterward, releasing their most successful hit, the ironic \"Golden Ring\" (a song about how a wedding ring is meaningless without true love) in 1976.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 38], "content_span": [39, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0037-0002", "contents": "1970s in music, North America, Country\nAs a solo artist, Jones continued to maintain his hold as the premiere honky-tonk artist of the genre, recording songs of broken relationships (\"The Grand Tour,\" \"The Door\", and \"Her Name Is\") and bitterness (\"These Days I Barely Get By\"), but the aforementioned substance abuse and behavioral issues restrained his own success and by the end of the decade, his life was wildly out of control. Wynette, meanwhile, remarried to producer and songwriter George Richey, and continued to perform songs in her signature style, alternating between heartbreak and marital difficulty to loyalty and fidelity. Although she would have health and legal issues of her own, Wynette remained highly successful, achieving 10 of her 16 solo number one hits during the 1970s, including \"'Til I Get It Right,\" \"Another Lonely Song\", and \"'Til I Can Make It on My Own.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 38], "content_span": [39, 888]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0038-0000", "contents": "1970s in music, North America, Country\nThe 1970s continued a trend toward a proliferation of No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart. In 1970, there were 23 songs that reached the top spot on the chart, but by the mid-1970s, more than 40 titles rotated in and out of the top spot for the first time in history. The trend temporarily reversed itself by the late 1970s, when about 30 to 35 songs reached the pinnacle position of the chart annually.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 38], "content_span": [39, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0039-0000", "contents": "1970s in music, North America, Country, Country rock and Southern rock\nCountry rock, a subgenre of country music formed from the fusion of rock music with country music, gained its greatest commercial success in the 1970s, beginning with non-country artists such as Bob Dylan, Gram Parsons, and The Byrds. By the mid-1970s, Linda Ronstadt, along with other newer artists such as Emmylou Harris and The Eagles, were enjoying mainstream success and popularity that continues to this day. The Eagles themselves emerged as one of the most successful rock acts of all time, producing albums that included Hotel California (1976).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 70], "content_span": [71, 624]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0039-0001", "contents": "1970s in music, North America, Country, Country rock and Southern rock\nThe year 1975 was big for Ronstadt, Harris and the Eagles as each had their first top 10 country hits during the year: Ronstadt with a cover of Hank Williams' \"I Can't Help It (If I'm Still In Love With You),\" featuring Harris on backing vocals; Harris, with \"If I Could Only Win Your Love\"; and the Eagles with \"Lyin' Eyes.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 70], "content_span": [71, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0040-0000", "contents": "1970s in music, North America, Country, Country rock and Southern rock\nDuring the 1970s, a similar style of country rock called southern rock (fusing rock, country, and blues music, and focusing on electric guitars and vocals) was enjoying popularity with country audiences, thanks to such non-country acts as The Ozark Mountain Daredevils, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Allman Brothers Band, and The Marshall Tucker Band.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 70], "content_span": [71, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0041-0000", "contents": "1970s in music, North America, Country, Country rock and Southern rock\nIt was with both country rock and southern rock that Hank Williams Jr., a longtime stalwart of country music, used to resurrect his career. The son of pioneering legend Hank Williams, the younger Williams (who adopted the nickname \"Bocephus,\" an affectionate nickname given to him by his father) recorded in a primarily countrypolitan style in the 1960s and early 1970s, including many of his famous father's songs and often performed in his father's style. By the mid-1970s, several career- and life-changing events shaped his future.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 70], "content_span": [71, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0041-0001", "contents": "1970s in music, North America, Country, Country rock and Southern rock\nHe began recording and performing with recording artists including Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, and Charlie Daniels, and recorded a Southern rock-heavy album showcasing his new style called Hank Williams Jr. and Friends. On August 8, 1975, Williams was nearly killed in a mountain climbing accident on the Ajax Peak in southwestern Montana; his recovery took two years, and it was thereafter that he adopted his signature look \u2013 a beard, sunglasses, and a cowboy hat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 70], "content_span": [71, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0041-0002", "contents": "1970s in music, North America, Country, Country rock and Southern rock\nIn 1979, after a string of modestly-performing singles in his new style, he broke through with \"Family Tradition,\" an autobiographical song about his heritage and new musical identity. Williams went on to become one of country music's top superstars of the 1980s and beyond with his blend of country, rock, Southern rock and blues, and with songs having themes of soul-searching, rebellion, wild living, and political and societal activism.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 70], "content_span": [71, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0042-0000", "contents": "1970s in music, North America, Country, Notable deaths in country music\nThe decade saw the deaths of several country music performers, many who would come to be regarded as classic stars of the genre. The year 1975 was a particularly difficult year for the genre, as three key performers \u2013 Bob Wills, George Morgan, and Lefty Frizzell\u2014all died within a two-month timespan. In 1977, Elvis Presley and Bing Crosby, two performers not directly identified as country but were vastly influential in and/or had substantial successes and fanbases in the genre, died within six weeks of each other.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 71], "content_span": [72, 590]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0042-0001", "contents": "1970s in music, North America, Country, Notable deaths in country music\nWithin a seven-month time span from October 1978 to May 1979, four other notable performers died: Mel Street, a relative newcomer whose honky tonk stylings made him one of the decade's most promising new artists; \"Mother\" Maybelle and Sara Carter, of the pioneering Carter Family; and Lester Flatt, an early bluegrass pioneer who formed a successful partnership with Earl Scruggs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 71], "content_span": [72, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0043-0000", "contents": "1970s in music, North America, Other developments\nThe decade saw commercial success for blue-eyed soul artists, such as David Bowie who released the successful albums Young Americans (1975), which included the number one hit \"Fame\", and Station to Station (1976).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 49], "content_span": [50, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0044-0000", "contents": "1970s in music, North America, Other developments\nIn the second half of the decade, a 1950s nostalgia movement prompted the Rockabilly Revival fad. The Stray Cats led the revival into the early 1980s. Queen participated through their hit \"Crazy Little Thing Called Love\". Also symbolizing this trend was the hit movie Grease in 1978, starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 49], "content_span": [50, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0045-0000", "contents": "1970s in music, North America, Other developments\nTying in with the nostalgia craze, several stars of the late 1950s and early 1960s successfully revived their careers during the early- to mid-1970s after several years of inactivity. The most successful of these were Ricky Nelson (\"Garden Party\", 1972), Paul Anka (\"(You're) Having My Baby\", 1974), Neil Sedaka (\"Laughter in the Rain\" and \"Bad Blood\", both 1975), and Frankie Valli as both a solo artist (1975's \"My Eyes Adored You\") and with The Four Seasons (1976's \"December 1963 (Oh, What A Night)\").", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 49], "content_span": [50, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0045-0001", "contents": "1970s in music, North America, Other developments\nIn addition, Perry Como\u2014one of the most successful pre-rock era artists\u2014enjoyed continued success, albeit on a somewhat smaller scale (as most of his fans were adults who grew up during the 1940s and early 1950s, and not the rock record-buying youth); his most successful hits of the decade were \"It's Impossible\" (1970) and the Don McLean song \"And I Love You So\" (1973).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 49], "content_span": [50, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0046-0000", "contents": "1970s in music, North America, Other developments\nTwo of popular music's most successful artists died within eight weeks of each other in 1977. Elvis Presley, the best-selling singer of all time, died on August 16, 1977. Presley's funeral was held at Graceland, on Thursday, August 18, 1977.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 49], "content_span": [50, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0047-0000", "contents": "1970s in music, North America, Other developments\nBing Crosby, who sold about half a billion records, died October 14, 1977. His single, \"White Christmas\", remains as the best selling single of all time, confirmed by the Guinness Records.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 49], "content_span": [50, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0048-0000", "contents": "1970s in music, North America, Other developments\nThe early seventies also marked the deaths of rock legends Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, gospel great Mahalia Jackson, and Cass Elliot of the Mamas and the Papas. The decade also saw the plane crash in 1977 in which three members of Lynyrd Skynyrd were killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 49], "content_span": [50, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0049-0000", "contents": "1970s in music, The UK and the rest of Europe, Pop\nElton John became the decade's biggest solo pop star, releasing diverse styles of music that ranged from ballads to arena rock; some his most popular songs included \"Crocodile Rock\", \"Goodbye Yellow Brick Road\", \"Bennie and the Jets\", \"Philadelphia Freedom\", and \"Don't Go Breaking My Heart\" (the latter a duet with Kiki Dee). Other European soft rock major artists of the decade included Cat Stevens, Fleetwood Mac, and Joan Armatrading. (See the country music section of this article for more about country music that crossed over onto the pop charts.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 50], "content_span": [51, 605]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0050-0000", "contents": "1970s in music, The UK and the rest of Europe, Pop\nOne of the biggest bands of the 1970s were the UKs Bee Gees who dominated the 1970s music scene having a string of number one hits and albums in the U.K. the U.S. and Europe they have generally been considered one of the most important acts of the 1970s and one of the most influential and important acts of all time, selling over 220 million albums worldwide to date and have generally been regarded as the decades biggest band.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 50], "content_span": [51, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0051-0000", "contents": "1970s in music, The UK and the rest of Europe, Pop\nOne of the most successful European groups of the decade, and one of the best-selling acts of all time with 380 million records sold, was the quartet ABBA. The most successful Swedish group of all time, ABBA first found fame when they won the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest. They became one of the most widely known European groups ever, as well as one of the few groups from a non-English speaking country to gain international success with several back-to-back No. 1 albums and singles in most of the major music markets. \"Waterloo\", \"Mamma Mia\", \"Take a Chance on Me\", \"Knowing Me, Knowing You\", \"Dancing Queen\", and \"The Winner Takes It All\" are just some of ABBA's most popular and most successful songs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 50], "content_span": [51, 758]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0052-0000", "contents": "1970s in music, The UK and the rest of Europe, Pop, New wave\nIn the late 1970s, many bands in the United Kingdom began experimenting with synthesizers, forming the new wave style known as synthpop. Major synthpop bands around this time included Gary Numan and Tubeway Army, the Buggles, the Human League, and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. Other successful British new wave bands in the late 1970s included the Police, Echo & the Bunnymen, Adam and the Ants, Roxy Music, Squeeze, XTC, the Cure, the Stranglers, Joy Division, and Siouxsie and the Banshees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 60], "content_span": [61, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0053-0000", "contents": "1970s in music, The UK and the rest of Europe, Rock\nOne of the first events of the 1970s was the break-up of The Beatles in the spring of 1970. Paul McCartney formed a new group, Wings, and continued to enjoy great mainstream success. The three other former Beatles \u2014 John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr \u2014 all continued hugely successful recording careers throughout the decade and beyond. Lennon, McCartney, and Harrison all released extremely successful solo albums in 1970, Imagine, McCartney, and All Things Must Pass, and several of their songs are listed among the biggest hits of the 1970s: Wings' \"Silly Love Songs\" and \"My Love,\" and Harrison's \"My Sweet Lord\".\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 51], "content_span": [52, 681]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0054-0000", "contents": "1970s in music, The UK and the rest of Europe, Rock, Hard rock\nHeavy metal music gained a cult following in the 1970s, led by Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, and Deep Purple, with their styles later influencing other bands like Judas Priest and Mot\u00f6rhead, which eventually started the New Wave of British Heavy Metal in the 1980s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 62], "content_span": [63, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0055-0000", "contents": "1970s in music, The UK and the rest of Europe, Rock, Hard rock\nBlack Sabbath, formed in 1968 (as The Polka Tulk Blues Band, then Earth), is often credited with inventing the metal genre as well as stoner rock, doom metal, as well as sparking a revolution with much darker lyrics than were the norm in rock at that time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 62], "content_span": [63, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0056-0000", "contents": "1970s in music, The UK and the rest of Europe, Rock, Progressive rock\nProgressive or prog rock developed out of late 1960s blues-rock and psychedelic rock. Dominated by British bands, it was part of an attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility. Progressive rock bands attempted to push the technical and compositional boundaries of rock by going beyond the standard verse-chorus-based song structures. The arrangements often incorporated elements drawn from classical, jazz, and world music. Instrumentals were common, while songs with lyrics were sometimes conceptual, abstract, or based in fantasy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 69], "content_span": [70, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0056-0001", "contents": "1970s in music, The UK and the rest of Europe, Rock, Progressive rock\nProgressive rock bands sometimes used \"concept albums that made unified statements, usually telling an epic story or tackling a grand overarching theme.\" King Crimson as well as the Moody Blues have been seen as the bands who established the concept of \"progressive rock\". The term was applied to the music of bands such as Yes, Genesis, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, Rush, and Emerson, Lake & Palmer. It reached its peak of popularity in the mid-1970s, but had mixed critical acclaim and the punk movement can be seen as a reaction against its musicality and perceived pomposity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 69], "content_span": [70, 645]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0056-0002", "contents": "1970s in music, The UK and the rest of Europe, Rock, Progressive rock\nNevertheless, Pink Floyd's 1973 release, The Dark Side of the Moon, was an immediate success, remaining in the charts for 741 weeks from 1973 to 1988, with an estimated 50 million copies sold. It is Pink Floyd's most commercially successful album and one of the best-selling albums worldwide. It has twice been remastered and re-released, and has been covered in its entirety by several other acts. It spawned two singles, \"Money\" and \"Time\". In addition to its commercial success, The Dark Side of the Moon is one of Pink Floyd's most popular albums among fans and critics, and is frequently ranked as one of the greatest rock albums of all time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 69], "content_span": [70, 717]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0057-0000", "contents": "1970s in music, The UK and the rest of Europe, Rock, Glam rock\nGlam or glitter rock developed in the UK in the post-hippie early 1970s. It was characterized by outrageous clothes, makeup, hairstyles, and platform-soled boots. The flamboyant lyrics, costumes, and visual styles of glam performers were a campy, playing with categories of sexuality in a theatrical blend of nostalgic references to science fiction and old movies, all over a guitar-driven hard rock sound. Pioneers of the genre included David Bowie, Roxy Music, Mott the Hoople, Marc Bolan, and T.Rex.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 62], "content_span": [63, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0057-0001", "contents": "1970s in music, The UK and the rest of Europe, Rock, Glam rock\nThese, and many other acts straddled the divide between pop and rock music, managing to maintain a level of respectability with rock audiences, while enjoying success in the singles chart, including Queen and Elton John. Other performers aimed much more directly for the popular music market, where they were the dominant groups of their era, including Slade, Sweet, and Mud. The glitter image was pushed to its limits by Gary Glitter and The Glitter Band. Largely confined to the British, glam rock peaked during the mid-1970s, before it disappeared in the face of punk rock and new wave trends.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 62], "content_span": [63, 659]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0058-0000", "contents": "1970s in music, The UK and the rest of Europe, Rock, Soft rock\nFrom the late 1960s it became common to divide mainstream rock music into soft rock and hard rock. Soft rock was often derived from folk rock, using acoustic instruments and putting more emphasis on melody and harmonies. It reached its commercial peak in the mid- to late-1970s with acts like the reformed Fleetwood Mac, whose Rumours (1977) was the best-selling album of the decade. Major British soft rock artists of the 1970s included 10cc, Mungo Jerry, the Hollies, and Rod Stewart. Some of the most successful singers and songwriters were Cat Stevens, Steve Winwood, and Elton John.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 62], "content_span": [63, 650]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0059-0000", "contents": "1970s in music, The UK and the rest of Europe, Rock, Punk rock\nThe mid-1970s saw the rise of punk music from its protopunk-garage band roots in the 1960s and early 1970s. The Sex Pistols and The Clash were some of the earliest British acts to make it big in both the United Kingdom and the United States. Groups like the Clash were noted for the experimentation of style, especially that of having strong ska influences in their music. Punk music has also been heavily associated with a certain punk fashion and absurdist humour which exemplified a genuine suspicion of mainstream culture and values. The Sex Pistols caused a major sensation in 1977 and were the first serious challenge to the established rock groups like the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin, although the punk era in Britain lasted only three years and effectively ended with the Pistols' breakup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 62], "content_span": [63, 865]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0060-0000", "contents": "1970s in music, Australia and New Zealand\nThe mid-to-late 1970s Australian band AC/DC became one of the most popular and successful acts in Australia, scoring a string of hits, albums and singles. They made their international debut in 1976 with High Voltage. The band quickly became successful outside their home country; the Highway to Hell album from 1979 peaked at number 13 on the Kent Music Report Albums Chart and they would continue as one of the most popular rock groups in the world through the following decade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 41], "content_span": [42, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0061-0000", "contents": "1970s in music, Australia and New Zealand\nThe Bee Gees were an English-Australian group which consisted of brothers Barry, Maurice, and Robin Gibb \u2014 was a successful harmonic act as the 1970s dawned. Aside from the chart-topping How Can You Mend a Broken Heart in 1971, the brothers did not make much impact in the US during the first half of the decade and most of their record sales were in Europe, especially on the continent. With the failure of their 1973 album Life in a Tin Can, the Bee Gees appeared washed up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 41], "content_span": [42, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0061-0001", "contents": "1970s in music, Australia and New Zealand\nBut in 1975, they rebounded with Main Course which added more of a beat to their songs and they began embracing the new disco sound in their next album Children of the World (1976). The musical movie Saturday Night Fever (1977) finally propelled the Bee Gees to global superstar status with Stayin' Alive, More Than a Woman, and Night Fever (from the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack). The Gibbs' youngest brother, Andy, was a sensation with his own solo career. He made occasional appearances with his brothers and hit the jackpot with his songs I Just Want to Be Your Everything and Shadow Dancing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 41], "content_span": [42, 641]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0062-0000", "contents": "1970s in music, Australia and New Zealand\nThe most successful Australian female artist of the decade, Olivia Newton-John, became a leading singer in the 1970s in both the popular and country genres and realized several number one hits, including the songs, Let Me Be There and I Honestly Love You for which she received three Grammys.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 41], "content_span": [42, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0063-0000", "contents": "1970s in music, Australia and New Zealand\nAdditional top music acts in Australia and New Zealand included: Little River Band, Sherbet, Skyhooks, John Paul Young, Marcia Hines, Jon English, Stevie Wright, Richard Clapton, Dragon, Hush, and the Ted Mulry Gang.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 41], "content_span": [42, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0064-0000", "contents": "1970s in music, Latin America, Caribbean and Africa\nJose Jose big break came on 15 March 1970, when he represented Mexico in the international song festival the II Festival de la Canci\u00f3n Latina (Latin Song Festival II, predecessor of the OTI Festival) with a performance of the song \"El Triste\". Although Jos\u00e9 Jos\u00e9 finished in third place, his performance helped launch his music career to a wider audience. In 1971, Juan Gabriel released his first studio album El Alma Joven..., which included the song \"No Tengo Dinero\", which became his debut single and his first hit. Vicente Fern\u00e1ndez's greatest hit was \"Volver, volver,\" released in 1972; his first million-selling album was 1983's 15 Grandes con el n\u00famero uno. Rolando Villaz\u00f3n is born.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 51], "content_span": [52, 743]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0065-0000", "contents": "1970s in music, Latin America, Caribbean and Africa, Nueva canci\u00f3n\nDuring the 1970s in Latin America, the 1960s music influence remained strong and two styles developed from it one that followed the European and North American trends and Nueva Canci\u00f3n that focused on the renewal of folklore including Andean music and cueca. Some bands such as Los Jaivas from Chile mixed both streams and created a syncretism between folklore and progressive rock. The Nueva Canci\u00f3n movement got an even more marked protest association after all countries in the Southern Cone became (or were already) military dictatorships in the 1970s. In Chile, the Nueva canci\u00f3n styles developed through the 1970s would remain popular until the return to democracy in 1990.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 66], "content_span": [67, 746]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0066-0000", "contents": "1970s in music, Latin America, Caribbean and Africa, Rock\nIn the 1970s, rock en Espa\u00f1ol began to emerge (especially in Argentina), and as imitation bands became fewer, rock music started to develop more independently from the outside, although many rock bands still preferred to sing in English. The Argentine defeat in the Falklands War in 1982 followed by the fall of the military junta that year diminished need of Nueva Canci\u00f3n as protest music there in favour of other styles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 57], "content_span": [58, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0067-0000", "contents": "1970s in music, Latin America, Caribbean and Africa, Tropical\nSonora Santanera is an orchestra playing tropical music from Mexico with over 60 years of history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 61], "content_span": [62, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0068-0000", "contents": "1970s in music, Latin America, Caribbean and Africa, Reggae and AfroBeat\nThe Wailers, a band started by Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, and Bunny Wailer in 1963 which used to play ska and rocksteady music during the 1960s, became popular in the Caribbean, Europe and Africa since the early 1970s after they started playing reggae music. Later on, the band became very popular in the U.S. The Wailers broke up in 1974 with each of the three main members going on to pursue solo careers. Despite the break-up, Marley continued recording music under the name Bob Marley & The Wailers. In 1975, Marley had his international breakthrough with his first hit outside Jamaica, \"No Woman, No Cry\", from the Natty Dread album. The success of the album Exodus (1977), which included the major international hits \"Jamming\", \"Turn Your Lights Down Low\", and \"One Love\", propelled Marley to international stardom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 72], "content_span": [73, 891]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0069-0000", "contents": "1970s in music, Latin America, Caribbean and Africa, Reggae and AfroBeat\nIn addition to the Wailers, other significant pioneers include Prince Buster, Desmond Dekker, Jackie Mittoo, and several others.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 72], "content_span": [73, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0070-0000", "contents": "1970s in music, Latin America, Caribbean and Africa, Reggae and AfroBeat\nFela Anikulapo Kuti, or simply Fela, was a Nigerian human rights activist, political maverick, multi-instrumentalist, musician, and pioneer of the Afrobeat music genre. He has been called \"superstar, singer, musician, Panafricanist, polygamist, mystic, legend.\" During the height of his popularity, he was often hailed as one of Africa's most \"challenging and charismatic music performers.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 72], "content_span": [73, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0071-0000", "contents": "1970s in music, Latin America, Caribbean and Africa, Cumbia\nIt was during the 1970s the cumbia became widely popular outside Colombia. Several bands brought Cumbia to Mexico, Peru, Argentina, and Chile places that later became major scenes for further developments of cumbia music. While Nueva Canci\u00f3n was the music of the New Left and the rock developments of Argentina reflected the European oriented youth, cumbia became widely popular among the large poor sectors of Latin American countries, to such degree that it came to be associated with shantytowns and low-prestige Native American populations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 59], "content_span": [60, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0072-0000", "contents": "1970s in music, Latin America, Caribbean and Africa, Salsa and merengue\nSalsa music developed in the 1960s and 1970s by Puerto Rican and Cuban immigrants to the New York City area but did not enter into mainstream popularity in Latin America until the late 1980s. The merengue music experienced during the late 1970s was a golden age of productivity characterized by the rise of a new generation of musicians.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 71], "content_span": [72, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091736-0073-0000", "contents": "1970s in music, Other trends\nThe commercial cinemas around the world tended to imitate nuances of disco beats in their movies to present their movies as western and upbeat. These included the increasingly popular kung-fu movies in far East Asia and Bollywood movies from India. These trends are essential in proving that commercial cinemas were a beneficial investment for the community.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 28], "content_span": [29, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091737-0000-0000", "contents": "1970s in science and technology\nThis article is a summary of the 1970s in science and technology.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091737-0001-0000", "contents": "1970s in science and technology, Science\nThe 1970s in science and technology reached its height with the ambitious Voyager Program, which sent the Voyager I and Voyager II uncrewed expeditions to several of the outer planets in the solar system. The program also included a Voyager Golden Record with the spaceships in hopes of presenting aspects of life on Earth to intelligent alien life forms. The record contained pictures and other data about human beings and other living beings on earth. It also had an assortment of music from across cultures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091737-0002-0000", "contents": "1970s in science and technology, Science\nCoupled with the zenithal achievements of the Voyagers as the end of NASA's Apollo lunar spacecraft program, with the final flight, Apollo 17, in 1972. The Apollo-Soyuz and Spacelab programs ended in 1976, and there would be a five-year hiatus in American crewed spaceflight until the flight of the Space Shuttle. The Soviet Union developed vital technologies involving long-term human life in free-fall on the Salyut and later Mir space stations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091737-0003-0000", "contents": "1970s in science and technology, Science\nThe 1970s witnessed an explosion in the understanding of solid-state physics, driven by the development of the integrated circuit and the laser. The evolution of the computer produced an interesting duality in the physical sciences at this period \u2014 analogue recording technology had reached its peak and was incredibly sophisticated. However, digital measurement and mathematical tools, now becoming cheaper (though still out of reach for the general public) allowed discrete answers and imaging of physical phenomena, albeit at a low resolution and a low bandwidth of data. This tendency was to reach its peak in 1982, though the period 1974\u20131982 represents the 'period of dichotomy' in the metrication of the sciences.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 761]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091737-0004-0000", "contents": "1970s in science and technology, Science\nDeep understanding of physics became important in the 1970s. At CERN, the Irs proton collider and the Super Proton Synchrotron started operation in this decade, and Stephen Hawking developed his theories of black holes and the boundary-condition of the universe. The biological sciences, spurred by social concerns about the environment and life, gained tremendous detail. The elucidation of molecular biology, bacteriology, virology and genetics achieved their modern forms in this decade. Discrete quantum interactions within living systems became amenable to analysis and manipulation. Genetic Engineering became a commercially viable technology.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 690]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091737-0005-0000", "contents": "1970s in science and technology, Technology\nThe birth of modern computing was in the 1970s. The world's first general microprocessor, the Intel 4004, came out in November 1971. The C programming language was developed early in the decade and the Unix operating system was rewritten into it in 1973. With \"large-scale integration\" possible for integrated circuits (microchips) rudimentary personal computers began to be produced along with pocket calculators. Notable home computers released in North America of the era are the Apple II, the TRS-80, the Commodore PET, and Atari 400/800 and the NEC PC-8001 in Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091737-0006-0000", "contents": "1970s in science and technology, Technology\nThe availability of affordable personal computers led to the first popular wave of internetworking with the first bulletin board systems. In 1976, Cray Research, Inc. introduced the first supercomputer, the Cray-1, which could perform 230,000,000 calculations per second. Supercomputers designed by Cray continued to dominate the market throughout the 1970s. The 1970s was also the beginning of the video game era. Atari established itself as the dominant force in home video gaming, first with its home version of the arcade game Pong and later in the decade with the Atari 2600 console (originally called the \"VCS\", or Video Computer System). By 1979, the scene was set for the Golden Age of Arcade Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 751]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091737-0007-0000", "contents": "1970s in science and technology, Technology\nThe 1970s were also the start of fiber optics. In 1970 Corning Glass announced that it had created a glass fiber so clear that it could be used to communicate pulses of light. Soon after GTE and AT&T began experiments to transmit sound and image data using fiber optics, and transformed the communications industry. After 1973 both the United States and Europe turned away from the large and heavy mainstream automobiles, and towards lightweight, fuel-efficient and environmentally-conscious vehicles, already beginning to be produced by Japan. The Lotus Esprit was an example of a 1970s super car, producing high performance from a small engine. The Volkswagen Golf GTI of 1974 made the concept of a performance hatchback part of automotive mainstream thinking, though it had many precedents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 837]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091737-0008-0000", "contents": "1970s in science and technology, Technology\nThe United States lagged badly in the development of compact and fuel-efficient vehicles, a side effect of industrial inexperience on the part of the manufacturers in Detroit. Two giants of the industry, GM and Ford both produced vehicles that fell drastically short of customer desires and economic demands; in the case of GM the Vega and for Ford the Pinto. Automotive historians have also described the period as 'the era of poor quality control', and manufacturers internationally produced vehicles that have since become by-words for poor technological integration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091737-0009-0000", "contents": "1970s in science and technology, Technology\nNotably, the 1970s saw the introduction in the automotive field of novel technologies, particularly from Japan and Germany, that would begin to mature in the 1990s and 2000s as viable alternative propulsion sources, such as hybrid vehicles, Stirling engines, as well as solar-electric and pure-electric vehicles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091737-0010-0000", "contents": "1970s in science and technology, Technology\nThe integration of the computer and robot, particularly in Japan, saw unprecedented improvements in mass-produced automotive quality. Japanese advanced lightweight, fuel efficient and environmentally-conscious vehicles dramatically increased in demand, and such cars as the Honda Civic and the Toyota Corolla became some of the most popular and iconic vehicles of the 1970s. Japanese manufacturers dramatically made their presence felt in international markets during the decade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091737-0011-0000", "contents": "1970s in science and technology, Technology\nDuring the 1970s, microwave ovens experienced a surge in popularity as price and size decreased rapidly towards the end of the decade. Cassette tapes continued to surge in popularity after their introduction in the 1960s. JVC's VHS and Sony's Betamax waged a videotape format war as the primary recording and video devices beginning in 1976, but by the end of the decade VHS had become the dominant format. Also introduced to the home market was the Laserdisc, the first optical disc format used primarily for high quality video.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091738-0000-0000", "contents": "1970s in sociology\nThe following events related to sociology occurred in the 1970s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 83]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091739-0000-0000", "contents": "1970s in sports, Olympics\nDuring the 1970s, the Olympics took place four times, with Munich hosting the games in 1972 and Montreal playing host in 1976. The 1972 Summer games became victim to both terrorism and international controversy with ties to the ongoing Cold War situation. During the games, Palestinian terrorists killed two Israeli athletes and took nine hostages. After a failed rescue attempt, all hostages and all but three of terrorists were killed. The United States-Soviet Union basketball game was also embroiled in controversy. The U.S. basketball Olympic winning streak, which started in 1936, was ended by the Soviet Union team's close victory game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 25], "content_span": [26, 669]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091739-0001-0000", "contents": "1970s in sports, Olympics\nThe U.S. complained about errors in officiating but the victory by the Soviet Union was upheld. Among the 1972 Summer Olympic highlights was the performance of swimmer Mark Spitz, who set seven World Records to win a record seven gold medals in one Olympics, bringing his total to nine. Other notable athletes at the 1972 games were sixteen-year-old Olga Korbut, whose success in women's gymnastics earned three gold medals for the Soviet Union, and British athlete Mary Peters, who took home the gold in the women's pentathlon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 25], "content_span": [26, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091739-0002-0000", "contents": "1970s in sports, Olympics\nThe 1976 Summer games in Montreal marked the first time the Olympic games were held in Canada. Mindful of the tragedy during the 1972 games, security was high during the Montreal games. Due to its policy on apartheid, South Africa was banned from the games. Even so, twenty-two other African countries sat out to protest. The 1976 Summer Olympics were highlighted by the legendary performance of 14-year-old Romanian female gymnast Nadia Com\u0103neci, who scored seven perfect 10s and won 3 gold medals, including the prestigious All Around in women's gymnastics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 25], "content_span": [26, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091739-0002-0001", "contents": "1970s in sports, Olympics\nThe performance by Com\u0103neci also marked the rise of legendary women's gymnastics coach B\u00e9la K\u00e1rolyi, who went on to coach the U.S. team in both the 1988 and 1992 summer Olympic games. The 1976 Summer games also featured the strong U.S. boxing team, which consisted of Sugar Ray Leonard, Leon Spinks, Michael Spinks, Leo Randolph and Howard Davis Jr. The team won five gold medals and was arguably the greatest Olympic boxing team ever. In wrestling, Dan Gable won the gold medal in the 149-pound weight class without having a single point scored against him. Amazingly, this was done with a painful shoulder injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 25], "content_span": [26, 641]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091739-0003-0000", "contents": "1970s in sports, Olympics\nThe Winter Olympics were held in Sapporo, Japan, in 1972 and Innsbruck, Austria, in 1976. Originally, Denver, Colorado, was supposed to host the '76 games, but voters rejected a plan to finance the venues needed and the IOC chose Innsbruck instead; the city had already had venues from hosting the 1964 Winter Olympics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 25], "content_span": [26, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091740-0000-0000", "contents": "1970s in television\nThe decade of the 1970s saw significant changes in television programming in both the United Kingdom and the United States. The trends included the decline of the \"family sitcoms\" and rural-oriented programs to more socially contemporary shows and \"young, hip and urban\" sitcoms in the United States and the permanent establishment of colour television in the United Kingdom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091740-0001-0000", "contents": "1970s in television, Overall trends, United Kingdom\nIn 1967, BBC Two had started trials of their new colour service, and it was gradually rolled out over the next few years. BBC One and ITV followed suit in 1969, so by 1970 the viewer had three colour channels from which to choose: BBC1, BBC2 and ITV. Although U.S. imports occupied a significant proportion of airtime, there was a substantial amount of high quality in-house production too.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 51], "content_span": [52, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091740-0002-0000", "contents": "1970s in television, Overall trends, United Kingdom\nThe BBC, supported by its licence fee and with no advertisers to placate, continued fulfilling its brief to entertain and inform. The Play for Today was a continuation of the Wednesday Play which had run from the mid-1960s. As the title implied, it presented TV drama which had relevance to current social and economic issues, done in a way calculated to intrigue or even shock the viewer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 51], "content_span": [52, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091740-0002-0001", "contents": "1970s in television, Overall trends, United Kingdom\nAs well as using established writers, it was effectively an apprenticeship for new ones who were trying to make a name for themselves; Dennis Potter, John Mortimer, Arthur Hopcraft and Jack Rosenthal all served time on Play for Today before going on to write their own independent series. In style, the plays could go from almost documentary realism (of which Cathy Come Home is the best known example) to the futuristic or surrealist (The Year of the Sex Olympics, House of Character).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 51], "content_span": [52, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091740-0003-0000", "contents": "1970s in television, Overall trends, United Kingdom\nPotter went on to write Pennies from Heaven, one of the landmarks of 1970's television drama. It had the now familiar elements of Potter's style: sexual explicitness, nostalgia, fantasy song and dance scenes, all overlaying a dark and pessimistic view of human motivation. The series was a success, but the BBC was not yet ready for Brimstone and Treacle, a story of the rape of a physically and mentally handicapped young woman. After viewing it, the BBC's Director Of Programs Alasdair Milne, pronouncing it to be \"brilliantly written ... but nauseating\", withdrew it, and it would not be shown on British television until 1987.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 51], "content_span": [52, 682]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091740-0004-0000", "contents": "1970s in television, Overall trends, United Kingdom\nThings had begun to change in the 1960s, with Till Death Us Do Part, and the series continued during 1972\u201375. The rantings of Alf Garnett on race, class, religion, education and anything else at all definitely touched a nerve. Although the show was in fact poking fun at right-wing bigotry, not everyone got the joke. Some \u2014 including, notably, Mary Whitehouse \u2014 complained about the language (although the level of profanity was quite light) and resented the racial epithets like \"wog\" and \"coon\" and the attitudes underlying them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 51], "content_span": [52, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091740-0004-0001", "contents": "1970s in television, Overall trends, United Kingdom\nOthers, completely missing the point of the show, actually adopted Alf as their hero, thinking he was uttering truths that others didn't dare to \u2014 apparently oblivious to the fact that he never got the best of any argument and was regularly shown up to be stupid and ill-informed. The series regularly provoked controversy in the media, and for millions it became a common gossiping point at work or in the pub.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 51], "content_span": [52, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091740-0005-0000", "contents": "1970s in television, Overall trends, United Kingdom\nMany popular British situation comedies (sitcoms) were gentle, innocent, not challenging portrayals of middle-class life, avoiding or only hinting at controversial issues; typical examples were Happy Ever After (later succeeded by Terry and June), Sykes and The Good Life. Set in a hotel in Torquay, Fawlty Towers was a massive success for the BBC, despite only twelve episodes being made.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 51], "content_span": [52, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091740-0005-0001", "contents": "1970s in television, Overall trends, United Kingdom\nMore nostalgic in tone were Last of the Summer Wine, about the escapades of pensioners in a Yorkshire town, Dad's Army, about a Home Guard unit during World War II and It Ain't Half Hot Mum about a Royal Artillery Concert Party stationed in India/later Burma also during (and after) World War II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 51], "content_span": [52, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091740-0006-0000", "contents": "1970s in television, Overall trends, United Kingdom\nA more diverse view of society was offered by series like Porridge, a comedy about prison life, and Rising Damp, set in a lodging house inhabited by two students, a lonely spinster and a lecherous landlord. Taking a softer approach to race than Till Death Us Do Part, ITV's Mind Your Language (1977\u201379) represented several foreign nations personified as English language students attending an evening class. Despite LWT ending the show after its third series in objection to the undeniable stereotyping, Mind Your Language did later return for a fourth series in the 1980s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 51], "content_span": [52, 625]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091740-0007-0000", "contents": "1970s in television, Overall trends, United Kingdom\nIn police dramas, there was a move towards increasing realism. Dixon of Dock Green continued until 1976, but it was essentially a nostalgic look back to an earlier time when police officers were depicted as a mix of strict but fair law enforcer, and kindly social worker. On the other hand, detective series such as Softly, Softly (a spin-off from the earlier Z-Cars) began to show police work done by fallible human beings with their own personal failings and weaknesses, constantly frustrated by the constraints under which they worked.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 51], "content_span": [52, 590]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091740-0007-0001", "contents": "1970s in television, Overall trends, United Kingdom\nSuch series showed crime at the level of petty larceny and fraud, being tackled by ordinary coppers on the beat. Serious organised crime, on the other hand, was the province of various elite units, and one show in the 1970s set a new standard. The Sweeney presented a hard, gritty picture of an armed police unit \u2014 members of Scotland Yard's elite Flying Squad. Violence was routine, as were fast car chases; Regan and Carter were hard-hitting coppers, who when they weren't catching villains were likely to be on a drunken binge or womanizing.#2323123", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 51], "content_span": [52, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091740-0008-0000", "contents": "1970s in television, Overall trends, United Kingdom\nAlthough this was a truer picture of British policing, it was not always to the liking of senior police officers, who felt that the confidence of the public in the police force would be diminished as a result. In police dramas, through most of the 1970s however, corruption was rare, the detection rate was unrealistically high, and the criminals arrested were always convicted on solid evidence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 51], "content_span": [52, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091740-0008-0001", "contents": "1970s in television, Overall trends, United Kingdom\nAlthough the officers in The Sweeney were no angels, and there were occasional hints that police who inhabited a world where informants were necessary could not completely avoid compromises, these never amounted to more than turning a blind eye to minor misdemeanours. It would not be until 1978 that a police drama (the miniseries Law and Order) would depict a police officer fabricating evidence to secure a conviction, with the collusion of his colleagues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 51], "content_span": [52, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091740-0009-0000", "contents": "1970s in television, Overall trends, United States, Long-standing trends reach the end of the road\nAt the start of the decade, long-standing trends in American television were finally reaching the end of the road. The Red Skelton Show and The Ed Sullivan Show, long-revered American institutions, were finally canceled after multi-decade spans. The \"family sitcom\", popularized by the travails of Ozzie and Harriet Nelson in the 1950s and 1960s, saw its last breath at the start of the new decade with The Brady Bunch, which ran for five seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 98], "content_span": [99, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091740-0009-0001", "contents": "1970s in television, Overall trends, United States, Long-standing trends reach the end of the road\nAlthough the show was never highly rated during its original run, it has been broadcast in syndication continuously since 1974, and many children have grown up with it, causing them to think of the Bradys as the quintessential family \u2014 not only in 1970s television, but quite possibly all of American television. In the early 1970s the high concept sitcoms like I Dream of Jeannie and Bewitched began to lose American interest with I Dream of Jeannie ending its run in 1970 and Bewitched ending in 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 98], "content_span": [99, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091740-0010-0000", "contents": "1970s in television, Overall trends, United States, The death of rural-oriented programming and the rise of \"socially conscious\" programming\nIn 1971; CBS, tired of being ridiculed as the \"Hillbilly Network\" because the majority of its hit shows were rural-oriented, cancelled The Beverly Hillbillies, Hee Haw, Green Acres and Mayberry RFD plus every show \"that had a tree in it\" as described by actor Pat Buttram. In its place, shows that appealed to a younger, more urban demographic became commonplace. It was transformed by what became termed as \"social consciousness\" programming, spearheaded by television producer Norman Lear. All in the Family, his adaptation of the British television series Till Death Us Do Part, broke down television barriers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 140], "content_span": [141, 754]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091740-0010-0001", "contents": "1970s in television, Overall trends, United States, The death of rural-oriented programming and the rise of \"socially conscious\" programming\nWhen the series premiered in 1971, Americans heard the words \"fag,\" \"jigaboo,\" and \"spic\" on national television programming for the first time. All in the Family was the talk of countless dinner tables throughout the country; Americans hadn't seen anything like it on television before. The show became the highest-rated program on U.S. television schedules in the fall of 1971 and stayed in the top slot until 1976 \u2014 to date, only one other series has tied All in the Family for such a long stretch at the top of the ratings. All in the Family spawned numerous spin-offs, such as Maude, starring Bea Arthur.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 140], "content_span": [141, 750]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091740-0011-0000", "contents": "1970s in television, Overall trends, United States, The death of rural-oriented programming and the rise of \"socially conscious\" programming\nMaude was Edith Bunker's cousin and Archie's archenemy. She stood for everything liberal and was an outspoken advocate of civil rights and feminism. Like All in the Family, Maude broke new ground in television and presented American audiences with something they had never encountered on television before when Maude admitted, without guilt or shame, to planning to have an abortion. Maude felt most comfortable, however, hiring a black woman as her housekeeper.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 140], "content_span": [141, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091740-0011-0001", "contents": "1970s in television, Overall trends, United States, The death of rural-oriented programming and the rise of \"socially conscious\" programming\nMaude's housekeeper, Florida Evans (played by Esther Rolle), became popular in her own right and was given her own television series in 1974, Good Times, which proved to be another hit for Lear's production company. Lear developed two shows in 1975: The Jeffersons, a spin-off of All in the Family in which Archie Bunker's black next-door neighbors moved to a luxury apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, and One Day at a Time, about a single mother raising her two teenage daughters in Indianapolis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 140], "content_span": [141, 650]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091740-0012-0000", "contents": "1970s in television, Overall trends, United States, The decline of the western\nWith the rise in socially responsible programming, the television western, a very popular genre in the 1960s, slowly died out. The first casualties were The High Chaparral and The Virginian, both NBC staples, in the spring of 1971. Bonanza suffered a blow when actor Dan Blocker died during surgery in 1972, and the show quietly ended its run the next year. CBS's Gunsmoke outlasted them all, and finally ended its run with a star-studded series finale in 1975. In the meantime, Kung Fu, airing from 1972 to 1975, offered a mix of the genre with Eastern philosophy and martial arts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 78], "content_span": [79, 661]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091740-0012-0001", "contents": "1970s in television, Overall trends, United States, The decline of the western\nBonanza actor Michael Landon helped popularize a television adaptation of the popular children's book series Little House on the Prairie. Debuting in 1974, the series ran for eight years. Little House's competitor family drama was CBS's The Waltons, which revolved around family unity but during a different time and place \u2014 Virginia during the Great Depression.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 78], "content_span": [79, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091740-0013-0000", "contents": "1970s in television, Overall trends, United States, Medical shows\nMedical shows were popular in the early 1970s; Marcus Welby, M.D. was the first medical drama ever to tackle many subjects on television for ABC, the same for Medical Center for CBS, those shows aired for 7 seasons. Other shows such as Emergency!, was also the first series ever to feature both the paramedic and the emergency hospital, starring Robert Fuller and Julie London, which also launched the career of Randolph Mantooth, and M*A*S*H, starring Alan Alda, focused on the days of the Korean War, combined both comedy and drama.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 65], "content_span": [66, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091740-0014-0000", "contents": "1970s in television, Overall trends, United States, Jiggle television and crime shows\nBy the mid-to-late 1970s, viewers tired of socially responsible sitcoms. Former CBS head of programming Fred Silverman defected to struggling ABC started the trend of TV centred on sexual gratification and bawdy humor and situations, nicknamed \"jiggle television.\" Jiggle TV shows included the crime-fighting television series Charlie's Angels, which starred up-and-coming sex symbols Farrah Fawcett, Jaclyn Smith, and Kate Jackson and the risqu\u00e9 sitcom such as Three's Company, modeled after the British series Man About the House, in which swinging single-man Robin Trip pretended to be gay in order to live in an apartment with two single women. Mildly controversial at the time, the show quickly became a Top Ten hit in the ratings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 85], "content_span": [86, 822]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091740-0015-0000", "contents": "1970s in television, Overall trends, United States, Jiggle television and crime shows\nThe aforementioned Charlie's Angels was one of many crime shows to prosper during the 1970s. Another show, Police Woman starring Angie Dickinson, was the first show, ever to have a female lead in the title role, also became a sex symbol. Other successful TV crime dramas of the decade included The Streets of San Francisco, Columbo, Barnaby Jones, The Rockford Files, Starsky & Hutch, Kojak and, above all, Hawaii Five-O, for many years considered the longest-running police show in the history of American television.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 85], "content_span": [86, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091740-0015-0001", "contents": "1970s in television, Overall trends, United States, Jiggle television and crime shows\nHowever, crime shows often came under fire during the 1970s from various groups decrying the programs' often-violent content and demanded that companies pull their ads from such programs. 1977 saw the debut of CHiPs, an action-packed police show where the cops very seldom drew their guns. One year earlier, Quincy, M.E., a mystery-crime show centered around an inquisitive medical examiner who often immersed himself in contemporary hot-button issues, had bowed on NBC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 85], "content_span": [86, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091740-0016-0000", "contents": "1970s in television, Overall trends, United States, Science-fiction\nA science-fiction trend accelerated as the 1970s decade progressed. A number of sci-fi shows, many of them from Universal TV, achieved at least a measure of popularity during this period. They included The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman, Battlestar Galactica, Wonder Woman, The Incredible Hulk and Fantasy Island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 67], "content_span": [68, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091740-0017-0000", "contents": "1970s in television, Overall trends, United States, The soap opera boom\nAnother popular medium in U.S. television moving into the 1970s was the soap opera, which moved from being a genre watched exclusively by housewives to having a sizable audience of men (who largely watched The Edge of Night) and college students; the latter audience helped All My Children gain a devoted following, as it was on during many universities' traditional \"lunch period.\" In a TIME article written about the genre in 1976, it was estimated that as many as 35 million households tuned into at least one soap opera each afternoon, the most popular being As the World Turns, which routinely grabbed viewing figures of twelve million or higher each day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 71], "content_span": [72, 732]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091740-0018-0000", "contents": "1970s in television, Overall trends, United States, The soap opera boom\nThe soap boom spawned a nighttime soap parody, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, which made a quick star out of Louise Lasser, who played the eponymous heroine. A rising soap opera toward the decade's end was Ryan's Hope, which capitalized on the everyman success of the film Rocky (despite Ryan's Hope debuting earlier; the show's success came a while after the movie's release). The serial was about an Irish-American family running a pub in New York City, and earned critical acclaim from television critics for its realistic portrayal of an \"ethnic\" middle-class family in a contemporary setting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 71], "content_span": [72, 666]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091740-0018-0001", "contents": "1970s in television, Overall trends, United States, The soap opera boom\nThe show's matriarch, played by Helen Gallagher, won two Daytime Emmys by decade's end. Also during the decade General Hospital, a soap that spent most of the decade with bad ratings (It was almost canceled in 1976) saw a rise in popularity around late 1978 due to its more youthful focus. However, it would not yet become a ratings giant until the 1980s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 71], "content_span": [72, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091740-0019-0000", "contents": "1970s in television, Overall trends, United States, The soap opera boom\nABC aired Soap, a sitcom that parodied soap operas, and garnered controversy by writing in one of the first gay characters on U.S. television. Many stations refused to air the series (another storyline consisted of heroine Corinne Tate, played by Diana Canova, lusting after a priest who eventually left the priesthood to marry her). Silverman's legacy also included the escapist \"fantasy\" genre, which started in 1977 with The Love Boat. The series involved popular movie and television stars in guest roles as passengers on a luxury cruise liner that sailed up and down the Pacific Coast. Silverman followed up in 1978 with Fantasy Island, starring Ricardo Montalban and Herv\u00e9 Villechaize. Montalban and Villechaize were the owner and sidekick, respectively, of a luxury island resort where peoples' wishes came true.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 71], "content_span": [72, 891]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091740-0020-0000", "contents": "1970s in television, Overall trends, United States, Daytime game shows\nDaytime television was consumed with several game shows, airing alongside soap operas during the mornings and afternoons. During the early years of the decade, The Hollywood Squares (NBC) was the most popular, winning numerous Emmy awards. Hosted by masterly emcee Peter Marshall, nine celebrities in a large tic-tac-toe board \u2014 among them, archetypical center square Paul Lynde \u2014 responded to miscellaneous questions. Contestants must state whether they \"agree\" or \"disagree\" with the answers and if they are correct, their \"X\"/\"O\" symbol lights up in the celeb's box.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 70], "content_span": [71, 640]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091740-0020-0001", "contents": "1970s in television, Overall trends, United States, Daytime game shows\nThe first to get three in a row or a five-square win succeeds and wins money. Bluffs and zingers made this the essential show to watch on afternoons. In the mid-1970s Match Game (CBS) was the most popular game show (it was #1 among them from 1973 to 1977), in a time when there were many of them. Players must match the answers of panelists like Brett Somers and Charles Nelson Reilly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 70], "content_span": [71, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091740-0021-0000", "contents": "1970s in television, Overall trends, United States, Daytime game shows\nFill-in-the-blank questions involving crude humor, zany panelists, several hilarious incidents, and pure \"fun\" between the panel and \"ringmaster\" host Gene Rayburn made it popular. At one point, it broke records as the highest-rated daytime TV show in U.S. history. The show launched a spin-off, Family Feud (ABC), an enormously prominent game which prevailed as the #1 game show of the late 1970s. Two families squared off in assuming the most common answers to surveys of 100 people across the nation with such questions as, \"name a public figure most Americans dislike.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 70], "content_span": [71, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091740-0021-0001", "contents": "1970s in television, Overall trends, United States, Daytime game shows\nThe simple concept was the main cause of its success, but interesting answers and the clever wit of Richard Dawson fueled the show's amazingly high ratings. Other successful game shows during this decade included The Price Is Right (still on the air to this day), Let's Make a Deal, The $20,000 Pyramid, The Gong Show, The Newlywed Game, Password, Tattletales, Tic Tac Dough, Bowling for Dollars, Break the Bank and The Joker's Wild.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 70], "content_span": [71, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091740-0022-0000", "contents": "1970s in television, Overall trends, United States, Television newscasts\nAnother influential genre was the television newscast, which built on its initial widespread success in the 1960s. Each of the three television networks had widely recognizable and respected journalists helming their newscasts: CBS anchor Walter Cronkite, who was voted \"The Most Trusted Man in America\" many times over, led in the nightly ratings. NBC's John Chancellor and David Brinkley were a strong second, while ABC, perennially third place in the news department until the 1990s, had a newscast helmed by Howard K. Smith.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 72], "content_span": [73, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091740-0023-0000", "contents": "1970s in television, Overall trends, United States, The rise of telefilms\nThe success of the 1971 telefilm Duel signaled the rise of movies produced specifically for television. Some featured a hero or heroine whose life was in jeopardy, while others were pilots for proposed TV series to be picked up by a network. (Some sold; many did not.) Still others centered on the destructiveness of a certain disease, whether medical or social. Roots, a multi-part miniseries that ran on a number of consecutive nights in early 1977, proved to be a huge hit in the ratings and thus paved the way for others of its kind like Shogun and The Thorn Birds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 73], "content_span": [74, 643]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091740-0024-0000", "contents": "1970s in television, Overall trends, United States, Variety shows\nThe variety show received its last hurrah during this decade. Popular during the 1950s and 1960s, variety shows carried on in the 1970s with The Carol Burnett Show. With a repertory company that included Vicki Lawrence, Harvey Korman and Lyle Waggoner, the veterans' series continued to be successful and ran well into the mid-1970s. NBC aired a variety show of its own, starring African-American comedian Flip Wilson. The Flip Wilson Show became a success and became the first show headed by an African-American comedian to become a ratings winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 65], "content_span": [66, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091740-0025-0000", "contents": "1970s in television, Overall trends, United States, Variety shows\nIn 1971, while Fred Silverman was still working for CBS, he spotted singing duo Sonny & Cher doing a stand-up concert and decided to turn it into a weekly variety show. In addition to some entertaining stand-up banter between the husband and wife, The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour would also have skits and music (mostly sung by Cher). The show was a ratings winner from the first episode and ran for three years. It was followed in the same vein shortly after by singing group Tony Orlando and Dawn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 65], "content_span": [66, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091740-0026-0000", "contents": "1970s in television, Overall trends, United States, Variety shows\nAnother group of singers who received a variety show in the 1970s were two of the famous singing Osmonds \u2014 Donny and his sister Marie. Sid & Marty Krofft set to work on the siblings' series and Donny & Marie premiered on ABC in the winter of 1976. Although the show became very popular, the Osmonds were equally ridiculed for their wholesome image and Mormon moral reputation (on an episode of Good Times, the lead character, Florida, listed three things in the world you just can't do, and one was \"smile wider than Donny and Marie\").", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 65], "content_span": [66, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091740-0027-0000", "contents": "1970s in television, Overall trends, United States, Producers of 1970s television\nMany prime-time programs of the 1970s were helmed by independent producers, often in association with a major Hollywood studio. A particularly successful independent producer at the dawn of the decade was Quinn Martin, who produced such crime shows as The Streets of San Francisco, Cannon, and Dan August (a one-season cop series starring an up-and-coming Burt Reynolds that would find greater popularity after its star had hit it big at the cinema).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 81], "content_span": [82, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091740-0027-0001", "contents": "1970s in television, Overall trends, United States, Producers of 1970s television\nMartin's success would fade during the latter half of the decade, however; by the end of 1980, the erstwhile mega-producer would be left without a single prime-time network series on the air. As for other producers during the period, Norman Lear produced the socially relevant All in the Family as well as more innocuous fare such as One Day at a Time. Jack Webb, a holdover from previous decades, oversaw Adam-12 and Emergency!, the latter highly popular with young children.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 81], "content_span": [82, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091740-0027-0002", "contents": "1970s in television, Overall trends, United States, Producers of 1970s television\nGlen A. Larson produced a number of series in association with Universal TV (McCloud, Switch, etc. ), while David Gerber made a name for himself with such fare as Police Woman and Police Story. (The latter was a one-hour anthology series with no real regulars.) Among 1970s TV producers, however, it was Aaron Spelling who would go on to be perhaps, according to an article written by Michael Idato for The Sydney Morning Herald, \"the most prolific producer in TV history.\" Like Quinn Martin, Spelling was known for producing crime dramas (S.W.A.T., Starsky & Hutch).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 81], "content_span": [82, 649]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091740-0027-0003", "contents": "1970s in television, Overall trends, United States, Producers of 1970s television\nHowever, Spelling also produced more escapist fare as represented by the likes of The Love Boat, Fantasy Island, and even the private-eye opus Charlie's Angels. There was also Family, a socially relevant hour-long series which would win a number of Emmys during its four-year run. Spelling's success would continue well into the 1990s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 81], "content_span": [82, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091741-0000-0000", "contents": "1970s in video games\nThe 1970s was the first decade in the history of the video game industry. The 1970s saw the development of some of the earliest video games, chiefly in the arcade game industry, but also several for the earliest video game consoles and personal computers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091741-0001-0000", "contents": "1970s in video games, Arcade history\nNotable early arcade video games of the early-to-mid-1970s include Computer Space (1971), Pong (1972), Space Race (1973), Speed Race (1974), Gun Fight (1975), Heavyweight Champ (1976), Fonz (1976), Night Driver (1976), Breakout (1976), Death Race (1976) and Space Wars (1977).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 36], "content_span": [37, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091741-0002-0000", "contents": "1970s in video games, Arcade history, Golden age of arcade video games (1978\u20131979)\nClassic arcade games of the late 1970s include Space Invaders (1978), Galaxian (1979), Asteroids (1979), Barrier (1979), Speed Freak (1979), Warrior (1979), Tail Gunner (1979) and Lunar Lander (1979).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 82], "content_span": [83, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091741-0003-0000", "contents": "1970s in video games, Consoles of the 1970s, First-generation consoles (1972\u20131979)\nThe so-called first generation of consoles were on sale between 1972 and 1980 and included the Magnavox Odyssey, Telstar, Home Pong and Color TV-Game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 82], "content_span": [83, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091741-0004-0000", "contents": "1970s in video games, Consoles of the 1970s, Second-generation consoles (1976\u20131979)\nThe second generation of consoles, on sale between 1976 and 1988, made several leaps forward technologically. Consoles first available in the late 1970s included the Fairchild Channel F, Atari 2600, Bally Astrocade and Magnavox Odyssey\u00b2. The first handheld console, the Microvision, was released in 1979.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 83], "content_span": [84, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091741-0005-0000", "contents": "1970s in video games, Best-selling arcade games of the decade\nThe following titles were the best-selling arcade video games of each year in the 1970s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 61], "content_span": [62, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091742-0000-0000", "contents": "1970s operation in Balochistan\nThe 1970s operation in Balochistan was a five-year military conflict in Balochistan, the largest province of Pakistan, between the Pakistan Army and Baloch separatists and tribesmen that lasted from 1973 to 1978.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091742-0001-0000", "contents": "1970s operation in Balochistan\nThe operation began in 1973 shortly after then-Pakistani President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto dismissed the elected provincial government of Balochistan on the pretext that arms had been discovered in the Iraqi Embassy, ostensibly for Baloch rebels. The ensuing protest against the dismissal of the duly elected government also led to calls for Balochistan's secession, met by Bhutto's ordering the Pakistan Army into the province. Akbar Khan Bugti served as provincial governor during the early stages of the conflict. The operation itself was led by General Tikka Khan against an unknown number of militants coordinated by their Baloch sardars, or tribal chiefs, most notably Khair Bakhsh Marri and Ataullah Mengal. Iran provided military support to the operation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 790]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091742-0002-0000", "contents": "1970s operation in Balochistan\nFighting was intermittent throughout the conflict, climaxing in 1974 with drawn-out battles. The Bhutto regime was overthrown by General Zia-ul-Haq on 5 July 1977, and martial law was imposed. A general amnesty was declared by military governor Rahimuddin Khan. Army action ended by 1978, replaced by development and educational policies to conciliate the province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091742-0003-0000", "contents": "1970s operation in Balochistan\nThe conflict took the lives of 3,300 Pakistani troops, 5,300 Baloch, and thousands of civilians. Most civilian casualties were inflicted by militants targeting local Baloch populations whom the militants believed were loyal to the government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091742-0004-0000", "contents": "1970s operation in Balochistan, Calls for independence\nThe 1971 Indo-Pakistani War had ended with the defeat of Pakistan at the hands of Bangladesh and India. East Pakistan declared itself to be independent. It became a new sovereign state called Bangladesh, to be ruled by Bengali leader Shaikh Mujibur Rahman. Mujib had been a major personality in the events that had led to the war, having called for greater provincial autonomy and rights for what was then East Pakistan, only to be met with utter disapproval by the then military ruler Yahya Khan and his West Pakistan-based political opponent Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 619]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091742-0004-0001", "contents": "1970s operation in Balochistan, Calls for independence\nDespite Mujib's having won the federal elections of 1970, both Yahya and Bhutto refused to let Mujib form the central government. The ensuing unrest gradually deteriorated into civil war, and ultimately the secession of Bangladesh after the India-Pakistan War of 1971. India also played a large part in the independence of Bangladesh by arming and financing the separatist group Mukti Bahini which rebelled against the Pakistani State after the injustice done to the then East Pakistan. Most importantly, India sent its troops into East Pakistan to aid the Bengali separatists in suppressing the Pakistan army.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 665]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091742-0005-0000", "contents": "1970s operation in Balochistan, Calls for independence\nThis greatly influenced Balochistan's leading political party, the National Awami Party (NAP). Led by ethnic nationalists and feudal leaders such as Sardar Ataullah Mengal and Khan Wali Khan, the party dominated the province due to the large amount of individual political influence its leaders held. Emboldened by the secession of Bangladesh, the party demanded greater autonomy from Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who had become the new President of Pakistan following his predecessor Yahya Khan's resignation in December 1971, in return for a consensual agreement on Bhutto's Pakistan Constitution of 1973. Bhutto, however, refused to negotiate on any terms that might have involved a reduction in his powers, with chief minister Ataullah Mengal in Quetta and Mufti Mahmud in Peshawar. The already significant civil unrest now turned volatile as tensions between the NAP and Bhutto erupted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 938]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091742-0006-0000", "contents": "1970s operation in Balochistan, Launch of Bhutto's military operation\nThe ethno-separatist rebellion of Balochistan of the 1970s, the most threatening civil disorder to Pakistan since Bangladesh's secession, now began. Surveying the political instability, Bhutto's central government sacked two provincial governments within six months, arrested the two chief ministers, two governors, forty-four Members of the National Assembly and Provincial Assembly, obtained an order from the Supreme Court banning the NAP, and charged everyone with high treason to be tried by a specially constituted Hyderabad Tribunal of handpicked judges. Following the alleged discovery of Iraqi arms in Islamabad in February 1973, Bhutto dissolved the Balochistan Provincial Assembly and infuriated Balochistan's political oligarchs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 69], "content_span": [70, 811]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091742-0007-0000", "contents": "1970s operation in Balochistan, Launch of Bhutto's military operation\nIn time, the nationalist insurgency, which had been steadily gathering steam, now exploded into action, with widespread civil disobedience and armed uprisings. Bhutto now sent in the army to maintain order and crush the insurgency. This essentially pitted the ethno-separatists against the central government. As casualties rose, the insurgency became a full-fledged armed struggle against the Pakistan Army. The sporadic fighting between the insurgency and the army started in 1973 with the largest confrontation taking place in September 1974 when around 15,000 ethno-separatists fought the Pakistan Army and Air Force.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 69], "content_span": [70, 691]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091742-0007-0001", "contents": "1970s operation in Balochistan, Launch of Bhutto's military operation\nSensing the seriousness of the conflict, the Pakistan Navy dispatched units under Vice-Admiral Patrick Simpson\u2014Commander of the Southern Naval Command\u2014to provide logistic and intelligence support to the Army and Air Force from the sea. The navy applied an effective blockade in Balochistan's waters and stopped the illegal arms trade and aid to Baloch rebel groups. In a separate operation, the navy seized and destroyed vessels that were trying to aid the Baloch rebel groups. The army suffered more than 3,000 casualties in the fight while the militants lost some 5,000 fighters as of 1977. After three years of fighting the separatists were running out of ammunition and so withdrew by 1976.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 69], "content_span": [70, 764]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091742-0008-0000", "contents": "1970s operation in Balochistan, Foreign Support, India\nPakistan asserted India was covertly intervening in Balochistan in the same way it had intervened in East Pakistan before the secession of Bangladesh. India denied the assertions, replying that it was fearful of further balkanisation of the subcontinent after Bangladesh. In retrospect, Avinash Paliwal, in his book My Enemy's Enemy: India in Afghanistan from the Soviet Invasion to the US Withdrawal, cites a junior Indian intelligence officer participant in these operations who recalled that \"we gave Baloch everything, from money to guns, during the 1970s, everything\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091742-0008-0001", "contents": "1970s operation in Balochistan, Foreign Support, India\nPaliwal further claims that just as Pakistan and India were bitter rivals, so were Iran and Iraq. In the pursuit of their respective rivalries, Pakistan and Iran developed closer relations, as did India and Iraq. Arming Baloch insurgents in Iran and Pakistan was in the interest of both Iraq and India. The militant group Pasthun Zalmay was responsible for a series of bomb blasts and other insurgent activities in Pakistan; it comprised Balochs and Pashtuns and was in direct contact with Kabul as well as with the Indian and Iraqi missions in Afghanistan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091742-0008-0002", "contents": "1970s operation in Balochistan, Foreign Support, India\nAs a consequence, relations between Iran and India deteriorated so much that in 1975, Indian diplomat Ram D. Sathe sent a secret letter to the Indian ambassador in Tehran in which Sathe predicted that \"it will be a few more days before the Iranians will stridently back the Pakistanis (on Kashmir) ... Personally I do not think we should be under any illusion about this matter. I think Iranians will definitely back the Pakistanis\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091742-0009-0000", "contents": "1970s operation in Balochistan, Foreign Support, Iran\nIt was after visiting Iran in 1973 that President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto had dissolved Balochistan's provincial government in the run-up to the operation. When the operation was begun, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran and Bhutto ally, feared a spread of Baloch ethnic resistance into Iran. The Imperial Iranian Army began providing Pakistan with military hardware and financial support. Among Iran's contributions were 30 HueyCobra attack helicopters and $200\u00a0million in aid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091742-0010-0000", "contents": "1970s operation in Balochistan, Foreign Support, Republic of Afghanistan\nThe Republic of Afghanistan under the leadership of Mohammed Daoud Khan provided covert support to Baloch militants. In the 1970s Daoud Khan had ordered the construction of military training camps for Baloch militants in Kabul and in Kandahar. Camps in Kabul were under the supervision and control of Republican Guards. Baloch militants were provided with arms, ammunition, and training in insurgent warfare so that they would fight against Pakistan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 72], "content_span": [73, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091742-0011-0000", "contents": "1970s operation in Balochistan, End of action\nAlthough major fighting had broken down, ideological schisms caused splinter groups to form and steadily gain momentum. On 5 July 1977, the Bhutto government was overthrown by General Zia-ul-Haq and martial law was imposed. With the civil disobedience in Balochistan remaining widespread, the military brought in Lieutenant General Rahimuddin Khan as governor under martial law. Rahimuddin declared a general amnesty for belligerents willing to give up arms and oversaw military withdrawal. Ataullah Mengal and Khair Bakhsh Marri, sardars that had been active in the conflict, were isolated by Rahimuddin from provincial affairs, and left the province for foreign countries. Marri later said the Baloch independence movement was 'at a virtual standstill', and Marri tribesmen granted amnesty laid down their arms. Akbar Bugti, having sided with Tikka Khan and now being marginalised by Rahimuddin Khan, went into self-imposed seclusion. Civil disobedience movements and anti-government protests died down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 1051]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091742-0012-0000", "contents": "1970s operation in Balochistan, End of action\nRahimuddin's tenure also ushered in sustained development. Following the Soviet invasion of neighbouring Afghanistan in 1979, Rahimuddin used the resultant foreign attention on Balochistan by introducing an externally financed development programme for the area. Forty million dollars (USD) were committed to the programme by the end of 1987, by which time Rahimuddin had resigned. He expedited the regulation of Pakistan Petroleum Limited, the exploration company charged with the Sui gas field. He consolidated the then-contentious integration of Gwadar into Balochistan, which had earlier been notified as a district in 1977.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 674]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091742-0012-0001", "contents": "1970s operation in Balochistan, End of action\nAddressing the province's literacy rate, the lowest in the country for both males and females, he administered the freeing up of resources towards education, created girls' incentive programs, and had several girls' schools built in the Dera Bugti District. As part of his infrastructure schemes, he also forced his way in extending electricity to vast areas with subsoil water.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091742-0013-0000", "contents": "1970s operation in Balochistan, End of action\nTensions have resurfaced in the province with the Pakistan Army being involved in attacks against ethnic Baloch separatist groups like the Balochistan Liberation Army, the Baloch Liberation Front and the Baloch Republican Army. Attempted uprisings have taken place as recently as 2006.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091743-0000-0000", "contents": "1970s peasant revolts in Thailand\nThailand witnessed several uprisings by farmers from several central Thai provinces in the mid-1970s. Thailand, transitioning to democratic government after nearly forty years of dictatorship, was beset by revolution involving several segments of the population. Farmers were one of several politicized groups that rioted on the streets. They implored Thai Prime Minister Thanom Kittikachorn to reduce their debt and to ensure fair rice prices.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091743-0001-0000", "contents": "1970s peasant revolts in Thailand\nThese appeals were ignored, with the prime minister refusing to meet with farmers. In their desperation, farmers tried to enact change by themselves. Unafraid of creditors and other capitalists, they hoped for a change which would free them from debt-bondage. They announced their intention to cease paying taxes and refused to recognise the authority of Thai state leadership. By setting up an autonomous liberated zone, the farmers sought greater freedom and the ability to better influence rice crop prices in order to better sustain themselves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091743-0002-0000", "contents": "1970s peasant revolts in Thailand\nThe aims of the farmer's revolt were to be recognised for their contributions to the state and subsequently to be treated with respect equal to that of their landlords. From the revolt, the Farmers Federation of Thailand (FFT), a national, autonomous Thai farmers organisation, emerged. The FFT led the struggle in northern Thailand to pass a law which standardised and lowered the level of rents on rice land, the Land Rent Control Act (LRCA) of December 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091743-0003-0000", "contents": "1970s peasant revolts in Thailand\nWhat followed in the wake of the 14 October 1973 movement were mass protests by farmers and their allies such as students and professional classes who challenged the ruling elite to improve the lives of farmers. The revolt antagonized landowners and state officials. In response, activists were harassed and murders were to follow. Between March 1974 and September 1979, 21 FTT leaders were assassinated with the killings concentrated in the Chiang Mai region. The assassination of FTT leaders created an environment of pervasive fear in the countryside and ended the revolutionary efforts of the FTT.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 635]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091743-0004-0000", "contents": "1970s peasant revolts in Thailand, Social and economic situation\nHow easy to thresh from these stalks a stream of grain. Who but the farmer knows all the hardships involved? Drops of sweat, who cares to count how many. But drop by drop I can count every one of my worries. How many bulging sinews of mine, tear up from the earth what you put in your mouth?", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091743-0005-0000", "contents": "1970s peasant revolts in Thailand, Social and economic situation\nMajor issues in Thai society were rural poverty and regional underdevelopment. Cities enjoyed sharp growth and along with it, a growing and prospering urban middle class. Composing up to 78 percent of Thailand's total labour force, peasant farmers formed the largest occupational group in Thailand. Agricultural output, mainly rice, accounted for nearly 30 percent of Thailand's GDP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091743-0006-0000", "contents": "1970s peasant revolts in Thailand, Social and economic situation\nThe producers of these commodities, however, were not among the beneficiaries. Farmers depended on rice sales to survive. To better protect themselves, they organised themselves and formed a national coalition of farmers against exploitative market conditions. Though the farmers attempted in vain to defend their livelihood and source of income, their efforts were systematically frustrated by governmental authorities in collusion with landlords and others with vested interests in ensuring that rice prices remained low. In the 1970s a Thai farmer's average per capita income was only US$49. In contrast, the average national per capita income was US$125, and that of urban residents stood at US$428.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 768]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091743-0007-0000", "contents": "1970s peasant revolts in Thailand, Social and economic situation, The growing income gap\nSource: News report in Prachtnippatai, 23 Jul 1974. quoted from Akira Takahashi, \"Thailand: Growing Land Problems\", in Z. M. Ahmadi, ed., Land Reform in Asia, Geneva, 1976, p.\u00a0118.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 88], "content_span": [89, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091743-0008-0000", "contents": "1970s peasant revolts in Thailand, Social and economic situation, The growing income gap\nThailand had not previously suffered from the runaway population growth found in most developing nations. The productivity of its soil, along with its external environment, combined with a non-existent political culture, based on the tenets of respect and love for a hereditary monarch, had the effect of creating political passivity in Thailand's rural population. But several policy changes enacted by the government had an adverse effect on rural Thailand, particularly during the period of open politics from 1973-1976. The combination of a sudden uptick in Thailand's population along with the increasing scarcity of arable land led to increasing political and social conflict.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 88], "content_span": [89, 771]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091743-0009-0000", "contents": "1970s peasant revolts in Thailand, Social and economic situation, The growing income gap\nInvariably, tenancy and debts increased among farmers, especially in the north and central plains. Though there was increased interaction between farmers and governmental officials due to improved infrastructure and the increasing presence of the government in the countryside, the nature of these interactions was frequently negative. Farmers were distrustful and over a period of time finally reached their breaking point. They turned to political action to make their grievances known to the government. In an era of more open politics, there were instances of petitions against land rents and demonstrations leading to the emergence of the Farmer Federation of Thailand (FFT). The FFT frequently clashed with the ruling elite in its attempt to improve the lives of the Thai farmers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 88], "content_span": [89, 876]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091743-0010-0000", "contents": "1970s peasant revolts in Thailand, Rice production policies\nRice is central to Thailand's economy and culture. Cultivation occupies approximately 55 percent of Thailand's arable land and is the staple food across all income brackets. Thailand in the 1970s invested heavily in infrastructure improvements, agricultural research, and road networks to increase its rice production. The use of technology, combined with advanced knowledge of rice strains and fertilisers, along with helpful governmental policies, increased rice production. From the 1950s to the 1970s, rice production per unit of land increased by almost 50 percent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091743-0011-0000", "contents": "1970s peasant revolts in Thailand, Rice production policies\nConcomitantly, the government sought to accelerate growth in urban areas. One of its policies was to tax the rice industry and use the profits to fund much-needed projects in the larger cities. Thai authorities levied taxes on rice exports known as the \"rice premium\". This increased tax revenues, while at the same time decreasing the price of rice domestically. The government, in enacting this policy, shifted from protecting the farmers to leaving the rice industry to market forces, often leading to unbridled profit taking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091743-0012-0000", "contents": "1970s peasant revolts in Thailand, Rice production policies\nThough technology had greatly improved rice production, it had not translated into success for peasant farmers. Escalating prices left many farmers unable to hold onto their lands. Many had to become tenants to sustain themselves. Despite uncertainty in the Thai economy, the government appeared unconcerned. Taxes were collected good year or bad, which further drove down farming profits.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091743-0013-0000", "contents": "1970s peasant revolts in Thailand, Rice production policies\nThe introduction of new technology meant that rice farming barriers to entry mounted, leaving most peasant farmers unable to own their land outright. Larger farming operations were able to meet the rising costs of these new technologies and were able to purchase fertiliser, improved rice strains, and machinery without much problem. The average farmer though, had to make a living as a manual labourer on a farm earning barely enough to feed himself and his family.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091743-0014-0000", "contents": "1970s peasant revolts in Thailand, Problems of tenancy and rural debt\nThe construction of new rural infrastructure was initiated and managed by the bureaucratic elite in Bangkok rather than by rural villagers. At the top, corruption was prevalent. High-ranking officials received kickbacks. While the government sought to implement measures to improve agricultural output, these projects in general did relatively little to improve farmer's lives. Instead, the agricultural sector was plagued by the growing issues of indebtedness and land shortages. The country's total agricultural debt was estimated at 143 million baht, with the bulk of the debt (78 percent) concentrated in Chiang Mai and the central plains.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 69], "content_span": [70, 713]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091743-0015-0000", "contents": "1970s peasant revolts in Thailand, Problems of tenancy and rural debt\nThough indebtedness in rural areas was present as early as the 1930s, farmers during that period still owned their lands outright. Tenant farmers and absentee landlords were non-existent. A survey conducted by the National Statistical Office found that 40 percent of farmers were renting out part or all of their land they farmed in the central plains. In Chiang Mai and other northern regions, up to 18 percent of farmers were tenants, whereas in other areas of Thailand the figures were comparatively lower.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 69], "content_span": [70, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091743-0016-0000", "contents": "1970s peasant revolts in Thailand, Problems of tenancy and rural debt\nEight years later, another study was conducted which found 56 percent of farmers in the central plains rented some of the lands they tilled while 27 percent did not own any land at all. In a decade, the rate of tenancy in the central area had more than doubled with only approximately 17 percent of farmers fully independent of landlords. The report also found that four of every five farming families were in debt for an aggregate sum of 16 billion baht. The average farm family debt was US$200, compared to an average family income of less than US$300 a year. Some of the families lived on US$25 or less a year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 69], "content_span": [70, 683]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091743-0017-0000", "contents": "1970s peasant revolts in Thailand, Problems of tenancy and rural debt\nA number of significant factors contributed to the higher rates of tenancy, rural indebtedness, and land rents in the north and central plains. It was found that the land holdings in the north were smaller than in any other region of the country, thus reducing efficiency. Farming was done on a much smaller scale, which combined with lower productivity, yielded low incomes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 69], "content_span": [70, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091743-0018-0000", "contents": "1970s peasant revolts in Thailand, Problems of tenancy and rural debt, Population growth in Thailand\nAs the Thai economy evolved with higher standards of living, farmers saw their incomes shrink. Small scale farming operations had to borrow from money lenders, usually middlemen involved in the rice trade or owners of rice mills. The loans made at high interest rates. The problems of land fragmentation and subdivision also contributed to problems in the north. A report submitted by the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) found that subdivision of land holdings was growing rapidly in Thailand. Sub-divisions occurred mostly following the death of the landholder.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 100], "content_span": [101, 672]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091743-0019-0000", "contents": "1970s peasant revolts in Thailand, Problems of tenancy and rural debt, Population growth in Thailand\nSource: Compiled from National Economic and Social Development Board (NESDB), Bangkok.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 100], "content_span": [101, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091743-0020-0000", "contents": "1970s peasant revolts in Thailand, Problems of tenancy and rural debt, Population growth in Thailand, Relations between farmers and landlords\nAggravating the situation, farmers, often illiterate, were often cheated. When harvests were poor, farmers had no choice but to mortgage their land as collateral to obtain a loan. Should the farmer fail to repay the loan, he would forfeit his land. Farmers with a run of bad harvests, combined with high interest rates, would lose ownership of their land.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 141], "content_span": [142, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091743-0021-0000", "contents": "1970s peasant revolts in Thailand, Problems of tenancy and rural debt, Population growth in Thailand, Relations between farmers and landlords\nFarmers in the central and northern plains have suffered from severe indebtedness since the 1930s. By the 1970s, most of the farmers had lost their land to creditors. The government ignored this issue as Thai farmers lacked political clout. Farmers were seen as disorganised, scattered, and politically apathetic, accepting misfortune and poverty as their lot in life. This all changed in 1973, when farmers decided to take matters into their own hands and sought to change their lives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 141], "content_span": [142, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091743-0022-0000", "contents": "1970s peasant revolts in Thailand, The political mobilization of farmers\n1973 was a watershed year for Thai politics. The government transitioned from a military dictatorship to a moderate civilian government. This provided an opening for the political mobilisation and participation of various segments of society in the political affairs of the country. Social discontent and the urgent needs of oppressed classes formerly subjugated by authoritarian rule, were thrust into the forefront and these issues were openly raised. Labour disputes were suddenly discussed with great vigour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 72], "content_span": [73, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091743-0023-0000", "contents": "1970s peasant revolts in Thailand, The political mobilization of farmers\nStudents and professional classes such as teachers and lawyers, fearful for their own long-term political survival, joined farmers to air their grievances. Student activists convinced farmers to organise themselves into a political body in order to pressure the government to act on their behalf. During 1973 and 1974, farmers took to the streets and protested against local district officers and other officials.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 72], "content_span": [73, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091743-0024-0000", "contents": "1970s peasant revolts in Thailand, The political mobilization of farmers\nTenant farmers in the north and on the central plains were particularly demonstrative. Activists helped to organise several complaints against land owners over land mortgages and unfair land rents and also against local officials for corruption. Thousands of farmers marched to the prime minister's office in Bangkok to demand the return of their lands from landlords, middlemen, and creditors. The demonstrations signaled the farmers' will and determination to implement policies which would change the landscape of the agricultural sector after years of abuse and neglect by Thai authorities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 72], "content_span": [73, 667]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091743-0025-0000", "contents": "1970s peasant revolts in Thailand, The political mobilization of farmers\nIn March 1974, farmers, supported by the NSCT (National Students Center of Thailand), staged their first large-scale protest, gaining nationwide attention for their demands to increase rice prices. From August to November 1974, land disputes were widespread and discontent was vented. Newspaper reports reported that approximately 7,000 farmers from eight different provinces threatened to relinquish their Thai identification cards and go about setting up a \"liberated area\" unless the government met their demands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 72], "content_span": [73, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091743-0026-0000", "contents": "1970s peasant revolts in Thailand, The political mobilization of farmers\nOn 19 November 1974, the assembled farmer representatives in Bangkok declared the formation of the Farmers Federation of Thailand (FFT). FFT then handed the government a list of demands. The government acceded to some of the demands of the FFT, albeit slowly. A few half-hearted agrarian reform laws were passed, including the seed certification law, a land rental law, and a moderate land reform law. The FFT clamoured for the Land Rent Control Act (LRCA) to be ratified and its laws to be made applicable to the whole country. It was finally enacted in December 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 72], "content_span": [73, 642]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091743-0027-0000", "contents": "1970s peasant revolts in Thailand, The political mobilization of farmers\nThe 1974 act was more extensive and differed from an earlier 1950 law in terms of application, terms of rent, and terms of enforcement. The 1974 act stipulated the establishment of provincial and district committees to oversee its implementation and administration and also to mediate conflicts between tenants and farmers. The officials on these committees were to be selected from the sub-districts where there was land tenancy. By involving farmers directly in the administration of the law, farmers were to be entitled to a fair hearing from fellow farmers rather than government bureaucrats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 72], "content_span": [73, 669]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091743-0028-0000", "contents": "1970s peasant revolts in Thailand, The political mobilization of farmers\nThe 1974 act also established the need to assess land quality and harvest success when determining rental amounts, as opposed to the 1950s act which stipulated rental amounts from 5 to 25 percent of the harvest irrespective of other factors. The act thus brought welcome relief from exorbitant rents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 72], "content_span": [73, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091743-0029-0000", "contents": "1970s peasant revolts in Thailand, Assassinations of FFT leaders\nThe three years between 14 October 1973 and 6 October 1976 were a tumultuous period filled with political possibilities and change in Thailand. Groups whose political action was restricted under military rule organised and protested in unprecedented numbers. Thais from all walks of life transcended class and social status to challenge injustice. But throughout 1975 and 1976, students, journalists, socialists, employees, and farmers were subject to growing harassment, intimidation, threats, and finally assassination. From March 1974 to August 1975, approximately 21 FFT leaders were murdered.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 662]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091743-0030-0000", "contents": "1970s peasant revolts in Thailand, Assassinations of FFT leaders\nIt was thought that these murders were committed to intimidate. All those murdered were active FFT members. The killings took place within a short span of time. In many instances, the murders pointed to the work of a highly professional assassin and not to random murder by an angry villager motivated by revenge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091743-0031-0000", "contents": "1970s peasant revolts in Thailand, Assassinations of FFT leaders, Murdered FFT activists\nSource: David Morell: Political Conflict in Thailand: Reform, Reaction, Revolution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 88], "content_span": [89, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091743-0032-0000", "contents": "1970s peasant revolts in Thailand, Assassinations of FFT leaders, Murdered FFT activists\nAssassinated early were ordinary members of the FFT. As the killings continued, top leaders such as Intha became targets. The killings were a clear warning to FFT leaders to cease their activities if they wished to remain alive. The murder campaign ultimately derailed FFT efforts. The organisation ceased growing and diminished as a political party. By 1976, the party was seldom heard of again. The FFT had a small group of important individuals who were experienced and familiar with the complexities of the Land Control Act. With their murders and others afraid for their lives, the FFT collapsed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 88], "content_span": [89, 690]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091743-0033-0000", "contents": "1970s peasant revolts in Thailand, Assassinations of FFT leaders, Murdered FFT activists\nThirty years on, various issues surrounding this period of political possibility, the imaginings of a different and fair future for the ordinary people of Thailand and the death of those dreams, remains unresolved and understudied. Thongchai Winichakul, a prominent Southeast Asian scholar, argues that the massacre that took place at Thammasat University and the assassinations of FFT farmers continue to be shrouded in silence and fear.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 88], "content_span": [89, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091744-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u20131979 world oil market chronology\nFor further details see the \"Energy crisis\" series by Facts on File.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091745-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 1. Slovensk\u00e1 n\u00e1rodn\u00e1 hokejov\u00e1 liga season\nThe 1970\u201371 1. Slovensk\u00e1 n\u00e1rodn\u00e1 hokejov\u00e1 liga season was the 2nd season of the 1. Slovensk\u00e1 n\u00e1rodn\u00e1 hokejov\u00e1 liga, the second level of ice hockey in Czechoslovakia alongside the 1. \u010cesk\u00e1 n\u00e1rodn\u00ed hokejov\u00e1 liga. 12 teams participated in the league, and A\u0160D Dukla Tren\u010d\u00edn won the championship. TJ ZPA Pre\u0161ov and TJ Stroj\u00e1rne Martin relegated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091746-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 1.Lig\nThe following are the statistics of the Turkish First Football League for the 1970\u201371 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091746-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 1.Lig, Overview\nIt was contested by 16 teams, and Galatasaray S.K. won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 23], "content_span": [24, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091747-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 1re s\u00e9rie season\nThe 1970\u201371 1re s\u00e9rie season was the 50th season of the 1re s\u00e9rie, the top level of ice hockey in France. 10 teams participated in the league, and Chamonix Hockey Club won their 26th league title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091748-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 A Group\nStatistics of Bulgarian A Football Group in the 1970\u20131971 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 81]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091748-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 A Group, Overview\nIt was contested by 16 teams, and CSKA Sofia won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 25], "content_span": [26, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091749-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 ABA season\nThe 1970\u201371 ABA season was the fourth season of the American Basketball Association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091749-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 ABA season\nThe Utah Stars, led by Zelmo Beaty and Willie Wise, won the championship, defeating the Kentucky Colonels, 4 games to 3, in the ABA Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091749-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 ABA season, Western Division\nAsterisk denotes playoff team (the Rockets and the Chaparrals played a one game playoff to settle the tie for the final playoff spot, which the Chaparrals won)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 36], "content_span": [37, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091750-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 AHL season\nThe 1970\u201371 AHL season was the 35th season of the American Hockey League. Eight teams played 72 games each in the schedule. The Baltimore Clippers finished first overall in the regular season. The Springfield Kings won their first Calder Cup championship, since being renamed from the Indians.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091750-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 AHL season, Final standings\nNote: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; Pts = Points;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 35], "content_span": [36, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091750-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 AHL season, Final standings\n\u2020The Springfield Kings defeated the Quebec Aces by a score of 4-3 in overtime in a one game playoff to determine the last playoff spot in the East Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 35], "content_span": [36, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091750-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 AHL season, Scoring leaders\nNote: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalty minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 35], "content_span": [36, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091751-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Aberdeen F.C. season\nThe 1970\u201371 season was Aberdeen's 58th season in the top flight of Scottish football and their 60th season overall. Aberdeen competed in the Scottish League Division One, Scottish League Cup, Scottish Cup, and European Cup Winners' Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091751-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Aberdeen F.C. season\nAberdeen finished second in the league behind Celtic and became the first club to be knocked out of European competition in a penalty shoot-out when they lost to Hungarian club Honv\u00e9d. Goalkeeper Bobby Clark achieved a record by going 1,155 minutes without conceding a goal in the league, which was surpassed in 2009 by Manchester United goalkeeper Edwin Van der Sar. On 6 February a fire destroyed part of the Main Stand at Pittodrie. The Scottish Cup trophy was saved by firemen, but many historical club artifacts and items of memorabilia were destroyed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091751-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Aberdeen F.C. season, Results, Scottish League Cup\nAberdeen failed to qualify from section 4 of the League Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091751-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Aberdeen F.C. season, Results, Scottish Cup\nAberdeen, the defending champions of the Scottish Cup, were knocked out by Rangers in the quarter final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091751-0004-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Aberdeen F.C. season, Results, Europe\nAberdeen made history by becoming the first club to be knocked out of European competition on penalty kicks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 45], "content_span": [46, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091752-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Albanian Cup\n1970\u201371 Albanian Cup (Albanian: Kupa e Shqip\u00ebris\u00eb) was the nineteenth season of Albania's annual cup competition. It began on August 1970 with the First Round and ended on May 1971 with the Final match. KF Partizani were the defending champions, having won their ninth Albanian Cup last season. The cup was won by Dinamo Tirana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091752-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Albanian Cup\nThe rounds were played in a one-legged format similar to those of European competitions. If the number of goals was equal, the match was decided by extra time and a penalty shootout, if necessary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091752-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Albanian Cup, Second round\nIn this round entered the 16 winners from the previous round. First and second legs were played on January 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091752-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Albanian Cup, Quarter finals\nIn this round entered the 8 winners from the previous round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 36], "content_span": [37, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091752-0004-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Albanian Cup, Semifinals\nIn this round entered the four winners from the previous round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091753-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Albanian National Championship\nThe 1970\u201371 Albanian National Championship was the 32nd season of the Albanian National Championship, the top professional league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 1930.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091753-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Albanian National Championship, Overview\nIt was contested by 14 teams, and Partizani won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091753-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Albanian National Championship, League table\nNote: 'Labinoti' is Elbasani, '17 N\u00ebntori' is Tirana, 'Lokomotiva Durr\u00ebs' is Teuta, 'Traktori' is Lushnja", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 52], "content_span": [53, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091754-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Algerian Championnat National\nThe 1970\u20131971 Algerian Championnat National was the 9th season of the Algerian Championnat National since its establishment in 1962. A total of 16 teams contested the league, with CR Belcourt as the defending champions, The Championnat started on September 20, 1970. and ended on April 25, 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091755-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Algerian Cup\nThe 1970\u201371 Algerian Cup is the 9th edition of the Algerian Cup. CR Belcourt are the defending champions, having beaten USM Alger 4\u20131 in the previous season's final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091756-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship\nThe 1970\u201371 All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship was the inaugural staging of the All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship since its establishment by the Gaelic Athletic Association. The championship began on 13 September 1970 and ended on 21 November 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091756-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship\nOn 21 November 1971, East Kerry won the championship following a 5-09 to 2-07 defeat of Bryansford in the All-Ireland final at Croke Park. It remains their only championship title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091757-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship\nThe 1970\u201371 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship was the first season of the All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship, the Gaelic Athletic Association's premier club hurling tournament. The All-Ireland series began on 14 November 1971 and ended on 19 December 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091757-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship\nRoscrea won the title after defeating St. Rynagh's by 4-5 to 2-5 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091758-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Allsvenskan (men's handball)\nThe 1970\u201371 Allsvenskan was the 37th season of the top division of Swedish handball. 10 teams competed in the league. SoIK Hellas won the regular season and also won the playoffs to claim their fifth Swedish title. IFK Malm\u00f6 and IF Start were relegated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091759-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Alpha Ethniki\nThe 1970\u201371 Alpha Ethniki was the 35th season of the highest football league of Greece. The season began on 20 September 1970 and ended on 13 June 1971. AEK Athens won their fifth Greek title and their first one in three years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091759-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Alpha Ethniki\nThe point system was: Win: 3 points - Draw: 2 points - Loss: 1 point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 91]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091760-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Arad County Championship\nThe 1970\u201371 Arad County Championship was the 3rd season of the Liga IV Arad, the fourth tier of the Romanian football league system. Gloria Arad won the league after a strong battle with Olimpia Arad and promoted to Divizia C without promotion play-off. Due to the expansion of Divizia C from next season, from eight series with 16 teams to twelve series of 14 teams, the promotion play-off was not held this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091761-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Arsenal F.C. season\nDuring the 1970\u201371 English football season, Arsenal F.C. competed in the Football League First Division. In a truly historic campaign, they became just the fourth side in history to win the coveted league and FA Cup double. Having ended their 17-year trophy drought with victory over Anderlecht in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Final the previous year, Arsenal started the campaign well, crushing Manchester United 4\u20130 in the first home game. It was a sign of things to come. For the first time in their history, Arsenal remained unbeaten at home for the entirety of the league campaign, losing just once there in all competitions \u2013 0\u20132 to Crystal Palace in the Football League Cup fourth round replay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 727]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091761-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Arsenal F.C. season\nThe defence of the Fairs Cup ended with a quarter-final defeat to West Germans FC Koln on away goals, but the domestic campaign continued to inspire, with Stoke City seen off after a replay in the FA Cup semi-final in April, before the league season hit its summit on the final day of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091761-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Arsenal F.C. season\nNearest challengers Leeds United had already finished their season, standing one point clear of the Gunners. Thus, a win would clinch Arsenal the title, as would a 0\u20130 draw, as the goal average system(the division of goals scored by goals conceded) was still being used.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091761-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Arsenal F.C. season\nThe setting was White Hart Lane, and the opposition was bitter local rivals Tottenham Hotspur, the last side to win the double, in the 1960\u201361 season. The encounter was tense, but thankfully for Arsenal Ray Kennedy headed home a late winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091761-0004-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Arsenal F.C. season\nAnd so the Gunners travelled to Wembley to face Liverpool in an attempt to clinch the double. A goalless ninety minutes at Wembley meant extra-time was needed, and two minutes in Steve Heighway gave Liverpool the lead. However, Arsenal were quick to respond, Eddie Kelly equalising nine minutes later before Charlie George rocketed in a late winner to clinch the double.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091761-0005-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Arsenal F.C. season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series\nThe 1970\u201371 Ashes series consisted of seven cricket Test matches, each of five days with six hours play each day and eight ball overs. It formed part of the MCC tour of Australia in 1970\u201371 and the matches outside the Tests were played in the name of the Marylebone Cricket Club. Ray Illingworth's England team beat Bill Lawry's Australians 2\u20130 and regained the Ashes, the only full Test series in Australia in which the home team failed to win a Test.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0000-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series\n\"The Momentous Series of 1970\u201371\" was pivotal in cricket history and \"essentially ushered in the modern period of Test cricket\". It was the first Test series to have more than five Tests and the first One Day International in cricket history was played in Melbourne; like the first test match in history it was won by Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series\nRay Illingworth's use of hostile, short-pitched fast-bowling by John Snow, Ken Shuttleworth, Bob Willis and Peter Lever heralded the dominance of fast bowling in the 1970s and 1980s, as did the decline of behaviour by players as the England team united under against ineffectual management, biased umpires, tabloid press and hostile crowds. Snow's 31 wickets (22.83) was the most by an England bowler in Australia since Harold Larwood, and has not been exceeded since.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0001-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series\nGeoff Boycott had his most prolific series with 657 runs (93.85), John Edrich made 648 runs (72.00), which kept him at the crease for a record 33 hours and 26 minutes, and Brian Luckhurst 455 runs (56.87). Together these three opening batsmen added 995 runs (90.45) for the first wicket with five century and three half-century opening stands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series\nRod Marsh, Greg Chappell, Dennis Lillee, Terry Jenner, Alan Thomson, Kerry O'Keeffe, Ross Duncan, Ken Eastwood and Tony Dell made their debuts for Australia and Bob Willis, Brian Luckhurst, Ken Shuttleworth and Peter Lever for England. It also saw the retirement of Bill Lawry and Garth McKenzie from the Australian team and Don Bradman after 35 years as a selector. The WACA Ground in Perth saw its inaugural Test match, the first new venue in an Ashes Test since the Brisbane Cricket Ground at Woolloongabba in 1928\u201329.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 542]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, First Test \u2013 Brisbane, Preliminaries\nRay and Bill dragged dedication around Australia for 103 days last summer...they dragged it from Brisbane to Perth and back across the Nullabor to the eastern capitals as if it was their last dollar. Unfortunately they directed most of it towards avoidance of defeat during a seven-act performance which most of us were naive enough to believe was staged primarily for public entertainment and which was financed by the public.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 58], "content_span": [59, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0004-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, First Test \u2013 Brisbane, Preliminaries\nFast-medium bowler Alan Thomson was called up for his debut after taking 6/80 and 3/101 in Victoria's victory over the tourists and wicket-keeper Rod Marsh and leg-spinner Terry Jenner also made their debuts for Australia. Opener Brian Luckhurst and fast bowler Ken Shuttleworth made their debuts for England. The MCC had struggled in the state matches, losing one and drawing the three others. Though Geoff Boycott, Brian Luckhurst, John Edrich and Basil d'Oliveira had batted well none of their bowlers had made their mark and Australia was confident that they had the upper hand. Australian umpire Tom Brooks was officiating in his first Test.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 58], "content_span": [59, 705]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0005-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, First Test \u2013 Brisbane, Australia \u2013 First Innings\nIt was a remarkable day's cricket here at \"the Gabba\". The crowd on the hill shouted \"Ave a Go\" only 21 times. This was a record for the first day of the first Test against England in Brisbane. The previous record was about 2,800. This was partly due to the eloquence with the bat of Keith Stackpole...tremendously spectacular and entertaining to watch but you felt he was about to slip any second... When running between the wickets...he looks like one of those vintage steam traction engines. And almost as fast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 70], "content_span": [71, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0006-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, First Test \u2013 Brisbane, Australia \u2013 First Innings\nBill Lawry won the toss and chose to bat on a good wicket, but became John Snow's 100th Test victim, caught by Alan Knott for 4 off an attempted hook. Keith Stackpole had been promoted from the middle order to open the innings as along with Lawry he was the only Australian who had any confidence against short-pitched bowling. He should have been run out for 18, Geoff Boycott throwing down the wicket at the bowler's end with Derek Underwood backing up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 70], "content_span": [71, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0006-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, First Test \u2013 Brisbane, Australia \u2013 First Innings\nThe batsman was given the benefit of the doubt by Lou Rowan, but the Australian newspapers carried photographs the next day showing that he had failed to ground his bat as he crossed the line. This formed a major point of controversy in the media and Rowan's decision was hyperbolically labelled \"one of the worst in cricket history\". It probably cost England victory as Stackpole went on to make his highest Test score of 207, adding 151 with Ian Chappell (59) and 209 with Doug Walters (112).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 70], "content_span": [71, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0006-0002", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, First Test \u2013 Brisbane, Australia \u2013 First Innings\nThe new ball was taken in the afternoon, but had to be replaced after five overs due to complaints from Snow and Shuttleworth, though Keith Miller, Ray Lindwall, Bill O'Reilly and Jack Fingleton could find little wrong with it in the press box. Stackpole was told in the afternoon drinks break that he was nearing Bradman's record 187 against England at the Gabba and as a result dug himself in and failed to score for the last half-hour of the day, leaving Australian 308/2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 70], "content_span": [71, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0006-0003", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, First Test \u2013 Brisbane, Australia \u2013 First Innings\nJohn Edrich met a spectator when fielding on the boundary who told him \"You're following in your cousin's footsteps you know. I was sitting here and he spent all day chasing the ball along the same piece of grass. He didn't stop much either\". A frustrated Snow forced a nervous Walters to dodge three bouncers in a row and was warned by the umpires for intimidation, not for the last time in the series. Stackpole crawled to 200 on the second day, hit Illingworth for six and gave what may have been a catch behind off Snow at 372/3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 70], "content_span": [71, 605]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0006-0004", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, First Test \u2013 Brisbane, Australia \u2013 First Innings\nHe was visibly wilting in the heat and gladly took the opportunity to walk with 207 against his name. Australia looked set to make a huge score, but soon after lunch Illingworth threw himself full length to take a spectacular catch at silly mid-on to dismiss Ian Redpath off Derek Underwood (3/101).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 70], "content_span": [71, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0006-0005", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, First Test \u2013 Brisbane, Australia \u2013 First Innings\nKeith Dunstan noted that \"Underwood is inclined to wear a hole in the pitch by dropping the ball on the same spot...\", but his first 236 balls had failed to take a wicket, now \"Deadly Derek\" took two wickets in four balls; dismissing Sheahan for a duck and Walters for 112 as 418/3 became 421/6. Snow (6/114) ran through the lower order \u2013 Jenner, Gleeson and Thomson all failed to score \u2013 and Australia were all out for 433.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 70], "content_span": [71, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0006-0006", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, First Test \u2013 Brisbane, Australia \u2013 First Innings\nThe loss of seven Australian wickets for 15 runs was their worst collapse since Alec Bedser took 14/99 and Australia fell from 237/3 to 249 all out at Trent Bridge in 1953. As commentator Ted Dexter put it 'People say cricket's slow. I always tell them, \"You just have to be prepared to wait a long time between the thrills\"'.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 70], "content_span": [71, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0007-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, First Test \u2013 Brisbane, England \u2013 First Innings\n\"As I departed just in front of Cannery Row there was a pile of beer cans like a golden pyramid. I would estimate the rate of the day's play at 2,000 cans per wicket and 20 cans per run.\" Dunstan wasn't far off target. On the first three days of the Test 35,093 spectators consumed 36,872 cans of beer and 890 gallons of draught. The grand total, according to statisticians, was 4,816 gallons...there could not have been many teetotalleers at this Meeting Place of Many Waters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 68], "content_span": [69, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0008-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, First Test \u2013 Brisbane, England \u2013 First Innings\nThe veteran Garth McKenzie and debutant Alan Thomson departed from line and length with the new ball and Geoff Boycott (37) and Brian Luckhurst (74) added 92 for the first wicket. In the increasing gloom Boycott tried to square-cut a long hop from Johnny Gleeson and edged it to Rodney Marsh, providing the keeper with the first of his 355 victims in Test cricket. Alan Knott came in as nightwatchman and was bounced by Thomson in the poor light, Jack Fingleton claiming that 'He can be excused. he doesn't know where he is bowling.'.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 68], "content_span": [69, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0008-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, First Test \u2013 Brisbane, England \u2013 First Innings\nIn the morning \u2013 the first Sunday's play at the Gabba \u2013 Knott took his score to 73, joined by John Edrich (79) and Basil d'Oliveira (57) as they slowly batted into the fourth afternoon with the crowd giving them a slow hand-clap. The Monday was a rest day with three and a half inches of rain falling, but the wicket was covered, so there would be no danger of a gluepot as in the 1950\u201351 Brisbane Test.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 68], "content_span": [69, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0008-0002", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, First Test \u2013 Brisbane, England \u2013 First Innings\nThe following day Colin Cowdrey (28) overtook Wally Hammond's record of 7,249 runs to become the most prolific Test batsmen, which earned him an ovation from the crowd. The \"Golden Arm\" of Doug Walters was able to both swing the ball and produce line and length to dismiss Knott, take the last two wickets and return figures of 3/12, but the other bowlers suffered; McKenzie 2/90, Thomson 1/136, Gleeson 2/92 and Jenner 1/86.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 68], "content_span": [69, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0008-0003", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, First Test \u2013 Brisbane, England \u2013 First Innings\nRod Marsh had been brought in as wicket-keeper because of his superior batting skills and took four catches, but dropped three as he fumbled the ball and was dubbed \"Iron Gloves\" by the press. England overtook the Australian total to finish with 464, the third highest Test innings without a century at the time, to give them a lead of 31 runs. The Australian selector Neil Harvey commented that Ray Illingworth \"gave up any thought of going for a win when he lost the toss\", and most of the commentators agreed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 68], "content_span": [69, 581]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0009-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, First Test \u2013 Brisbane, Australia \u2013 Second Innings\nSnow and Shuttleworth simply lolled back to bowl and each of their overs occupied more than five minutes. The advantage to a pace bowler of slouching between deliveries and winning a longer rest while one's partner is bowling should be obvious... The spectators saw far more of Snow, Shuttleworth, Lever and Willis's walking during the series than they saw of their running.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 71], "content_span": [72, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0010-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, First Test \u2013 Brisbane, Australia \u2013 Second Innings\nAustralia lost two wickets before stumps, then collapsed on the fifth morning to 214 all out. Only the captain made any real resistance, batting for five and a half hours for his 84, though Redpath spent two hours making 28. Surprisingly the destroyer was debutant fast bowler Ken Shuttleworth who took 5/47, his best bowling for England and his only 5 wicket haul in Tests.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 71], "content_span": [72, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0011-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, First Test \u2013 Brisbane, England \u2013 Second Innings\nNeeding 183 in just over an hour England were unlikely to win and when Terry Jenner caught and bowled Boycott for 16 it was decided to call an end to the match. England were left on 39/1, paying the price for their slow first innings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 69], "content_span": [70, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0012-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, First Test \u2013 Brisbane, Result\nNext morning Bobby Simpson wrote, 'England have come out of the Test with a moral victory.' They could have had a flesh and blood triumph.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 51], "content_span": [52, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0013-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, First Test \u2013 Brisbane, Result\nDespite the Australians collapsing in both innings they drew the First Test with England to leave the teams 0\u20130 in the series. 42,376 people attended the match over the five days, paying $36,612.10 at the gate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 51], "content_span": [52, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0014-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Second Test \u2013 Perth, Preliminaries\nI wonder if Bill Lawry and Ray Illingworth knew of the tremendous effort that had been put by the people of Western Australia into the staging of this 205th Test between England and Australia? I wonder whether their teams were aware of it? If the answer to both of these questions is in the affirmative, their reaction was lamentable \u2013 by and large...they muffed it \u2013 massacred it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 56], "content_span": [57, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0015-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Second Test \u2013 Perth, Preliminaries\nThis was the inaugural Test match at the WACA Ground in Perth and the first new venue in an Ashes Test since the Brisbane Cricket Ground at Woolloongabba in 1928\u201329. Western Australia had won the Sheffield Shield in 1947\u201348 on percentages even though they had played fewer games than the eastern states and outright in 1968\u201369. Test status was granted to the WACA for the 1970\u201371 Ashes series and although its playing conditions were equal to any in Australia $400,000 was raised to build extra stands and improve the facilities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 56], "content_span": [57, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0015-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Second Test \u2013 Perth, Preliminaries\nThe state government supplied $100,000 and Perth City Council another $20,000. The remaining $280,000 was raised by public subscription, with Norm O'Neill, Keith Slater and Peter Loader touring the state in aid of the cause. Farmers donated barley, wheat, oats, timber, sheep and cattle to be sold for the fund, one town built and sold a house and the racehorse La Loire made $18,000 in a raffle. 'Pre-Test interest was tremendous. You could not make a move in Perth just prior to the Test without breakfasting, lunching and dining-out on cricket...'", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 56], "content_span": [57, 607]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0015-0002", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Second Test \u2013 Perth, Preliminaries\nOn a pitch expected to suit fast bowling the two sides dropped their spinners Terry Jenner and Derek Underwood. The Lancashire fast-medium swing bowler Peter Lever made his Test debut as did Greg Chappell, the young South Australian all-rounder who had been twelfth man at Brisbane. However, this gave Australia only three specialist bowlers; Garth McKenzie, Alan Thomson and John Gleeson and England four; John Snow, Ken Shuttleworth, Peter Lever and Ray Illingworth. Lindsay Hassett commented that \"you can scarcely get a decent Test attack from the two sides\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 56], "content_span": [57, 620]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0016-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Second Test \u2013 Perth, England \u2013 First Innings\nLawry, the conservative, became Lawry, the cavalier... He was not the \"Laughing Cavalier\"... Did he hope that there was a vestige of early life in the reputedly fast Perth wicket? If he did, he was disappointed, for, while McKenzie did manage to make a few deliveries rise with shoulder strength and even rapped Luckhurst painfully on the hand, the pitch remained placidly amenable all day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 66], "content_span": [67, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0017-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Second Test \u2013 Perth, England \u2013 First Innings\nBill Lawry won the toss and to the amazement of the Australian commentators put England in to bat, later saying that he had only one spinner and did not expect the wicket to turn. Ray Illingworth requested the use of a roller on the wicket before play began, but this was turned down by umpire Lou Rowan, who apologised in the lunch break when he realised his mistake. Even so, Geoff Boycott and Brian Luckhurst added 171 for the first wicket when Boycott was out for 70.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 66], "content_span": [67, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0017-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Second Test \u2013 Perth, England \u2013 First Innings\nLuckhurst made his maiden Test century (131) despite having his thumb injured by McKenzie on 15. With the help of John Edrich (47) he took England to 243 before a second wicket fell and they finished the first day on 257/2. Their cause was helped by Rod Marsh, Ian Chappell and Keith Stackpole dropping five catches between them, three off Garth McKenzie playing on his home turf. The next day Greg Chappell caught and bowled Colin Cowdrey for 40 at 389/7 and McKenzie (4/66) wrapped up the tail to dismiss England for 397 after batting for 10 dreary hours. Greg Chappell (1/54), Walters (1/35) and Stackpole (0/33) bowled 54 eight-ball overs between them to make up for the loss of a fourth bowler.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 66], "content_span": [67, 766]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0018-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Second Test \u2013 Perth, Australia \u2013 First Innings\nMy first innings in Test cricket was, as you might expect, a trying experience, but proved to be one of the best cricket lessons of my career, thanks to Ian Redpath. I came to the wicket with Australian reeling at 5/107 to join \"Redders\", who had watched three quick wickets fall at the other end. Illingworth and Snow, sensing that one more wicket would see them through our batting line up, stepped up their attack on the senior member of our partnership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 68], "content_span": [69, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0018-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Second Test \u2013 Perth, Australia \u2013 First Innings\n\"Snowy\" concentrated his attack short of a length on \"Redders\" off-stump, with a liberal sprinkling of shorter pitched balls for good measure. Ian made a point of not playing at anything he didn't have to and ducked or swayed away from the shorter deliveries. Each time he swayed or ducked he came back to the upright position and sneered at \"Snowy\". It may not have looked all that pretty, but it was pretty effective as both Illingworth and Snow became more and more frustrated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 68], "content_span": [69, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0018-0002", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Second Test \u2013 Perth, Australia \u2013 First Innings\nIan's example at the other end made me feel that if it meant that much to him to keep his wicket intact then I had better make sure I try just as hard at my end to keep mine intact. Fortunately we both succeeded and out partnership put us into a sound position, but from my point of view I had received an invaluable lesson in what Test match batting was all about from one of the most courageous batsmen ever to play for Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 68], "content_span": [69, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0019-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Second Test \u2013 Perth, Australia \u2013 First Innings\nJohn Snow (4/143) gave Australia a torrid start, sending Bill Lawry and Keith Stackpole back to the pavilion with 8 runs on the board, the batsmen having already survived lbw appeals from Ken Shuttleworth and Peter Lever. Lever then had Doug Walters caught behind by Alan Knott to make it 17/3. Ian Chappell (50) and Ian Redpath saw out the day and added 88 before they were parted, but Paul Sheahan was run out for 2 and Greg Chappell came in at 107/5.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 68], "content_span": [69, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0019-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Second Test \u2013 Perth, Australia \u2013 First Innings\nIn 1968 a 21-year-old Chappell had batted for Somerset, but when they played Sussex at Hove he was cracked on the head by a nasty bouncer from Snow and forced to retire hurt. He was therefore under no illusions as to his likely reception from the fiery fast bowler in the Test arena. Redpath made his highest Test score of 171 before he was .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 68], "content_span": [69, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0019-0002", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Second Test \u2013 Perth, Australia \u2013 First Innings\nChappell spent 40 minutes making 1, but after tea he hit 58 runs inside an hour to bring up his maiden Test century, 108 in his first Test innings as they put on 219 for the sixth wicket. He was the eleventh Australian to make a century on his Ashes debut after Charles Bannerman, Harry Graham, Reggie Duff, Roger Hartigan, Herbie Collins, Bill Ponsford, Archie Jackson, Neil Harvey, Jim Burke and Doug Walters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 68], "content_span": [69, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0019-0003", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Second Test \u2013 Perth, Australia \u2013 First Innings\nHe gave Brian Luckhurst a catch off Ken Shuttleworth, but \"Bill Lawry didn't go crook on me when I got back into the rooms, so I guess it didn't matter\". Rod Marsh added 40 and Australia overtook England's total with seven wickets down and ended with 440, a lead of 43.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 68], "content_span": [69, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0020-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Second Test \u2013 Perth, England \u2013 Second Innings\nEngland's fourth day batting made the death march seem like an Irish jig.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 67], "content_span": [68, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0021-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Second Test \u2013 Perth, England \u2013 Second Innings\nBoycott and Luckhurst accounted for the arrears by adding 60 for the first wicket, but the Yorkshireman was stumped by Rod Marsh off Gleeson on 98/1, Fletcher was lbw in the same over and Cowdrey soon followed and England were 101/4. John Edrich made typically stalwart 115 not out, batting for nearly six hours, and allowed Illingworth to make a late declaration on 287/6, leaving Australia 245 to win less than three hours, which Lawry described as a 'joke'.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 67], "content_span": [68, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0022-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Second Test \u2013 Perth, Australia \u2013 Second Innings\nThe England substitute fielder John Hampshire gave the tourists the hope of a collapse when he caught Stackpole and Ian Chappell off (2/17) and Australia were 20/2. Snow was twice warned by Rowan for intimidatory bowling, but continued to bowl short. He was given an official warning, but Illingworth told him that this was to be his last over in any case and the fast bowler sent his last ball flying over the head of Doug Walters, turned to Rowan and said \"Now that's a bouncer for you\". Walters was bowled by Lever for 8, but Bill Lawry made 38 not out and Ian Redpath added an unbeaten 26 to his first innings century and the match ended with Australia 100/3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 69], "content_span": [70, 734]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0023-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Second Test \u2013 Perth, Result\nThey came to watch cricket sanctioned by the uncharacteristically over-cautious Bradmans and Allens and the Illingworths and the Lawrys of this world, God pity them and theirs. And what was their reward? Some great bowling by John Snow, one great 50 by Greg Chappell, some cover drives from Geoff Boycott that would have done for Hobbs, Stackpole's occasional audacity and some wicketkeeping from Alan Knott that only Don Tallon has matched.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 49], "content_span": [50, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0024-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Second Test \u2013 Perth, Result\nAustralia and England drew the second Test to maintain their 0\u20130 tie in the series. Ray Illingworth blamed his bowlers and Bill Lawry his fieldsmen for their failure to win the match. 84,142 spectators paid $106,748 in gate money over the five days of the Test When the attendance figures were announced over the public address system and found to be almost double that of their Brisbane rivals there were large cheers from the Perth crowd.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 49], "content_span": [50, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0025-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Third Test \u2013 Melbourne\nOur cricket administrators have been caught in the slops. But, perhaps, by unleashing this deluge, the gods have conspired to save us from the even greater boredom of having to watch another Test grind relentlessly to yet another draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 44], "content_span": [45, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0026-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Third Test \u2013 Melbourne\nThe Australian selectors dropped Paul Sheahan (who Don Bradman had tipped as the future captain of Australia) and Terry Jenner and brought back the experienced fast-medium bowler Alan Connolly and the off-spinner Ashley Mallett, even though he was not liked by Bill Lawry. England kept the same team from Perth. and decided to field, but rain began to fall before the teams went out and after three days of continuous rain the match was abandoned without a ball being bowled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 44], "content_span": [45, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0026-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Third Test \u2013 Melbourne\nDesperate attempts to dry the boggy outfield were made by Ian Johnson and the MCG ground staff, who claimed that \"if the match had been in England the teams would have played. The outfield was good, the wicket firm and bowlers' run-ups safe\". Each day they announced that play would be able to start \"as soon as the rain stopped\" to encourage spectators to come to the ground. One English writer said that the 8,000 people who arrived on the Thursday would have 'gladly paid a dollar each to permit the M.C.G. to buy a proper cover'.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 44], "content_span": [45, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0026-0002", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Third Test \u2013 Melbourne\nSir Cyril Hawker, President of the MCC, and Gubby Allen, the treasurer, happened to be in Melbourne and with David Clark arranged the historic One Day International for the fifth day with Sir Donald Bradman and the Australian Board of Control. They also cancelled the second tour match between Victoria and the MCC so that an extra Test could be played. Ray Illingworth and the England players were not consulted and only found out when Bradman came into the dressing room to thank them for their co-operation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 44], "content_span": [45, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0026-0003", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Third Test \u2013 Melbourne\nThe players had severe misgivings about this state of affairs as the extra Test might cost them the Ashes and cancelled one of their rest days. They now had only five rest days in the last six weeks of the tour, and these included official receptions and engagements. There was also the question of pay and it was several weeks before Clark was able to grant an extra \u00a3100, long after the Australians had agreed a pay deal with their team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 44], "content_span": [45, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0027-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, First One Day International \u2013 Melbourne, Preliminaries\nWhen Lawry won the toss and sent England into bat, the accepted move in one-day, limited number of overs games, I noted an edginess and expectation among player and crowd that had been absent, even from Test cricket, for decades.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 76], "content_span": [77, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0028-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, First One Day International \u2013 Melbourne, Preliminaries\nThe first One Day International was hastily arranged for what would have been the fifth day of the abandoned Third Test. Fortunately there were enough senior officials in Melbourne from the MCC and ACB to sanction the match. It was to consist of 40 eight-ball overs for each team (320 balls, or 53.2 six-ball overs). Many were surprised at the 46,000 crowd who turned up to watch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 76], "content_span": [77, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0029-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, First One Day International \u2013 Melbourne, England Innings\nThen Boycott and Edrich began to run what in the Tests had been 'impossible' runs, to play what had been 'impossible' strokes...the Australian out-fieldsmen were hurling themselves about along the fence in a manner I had not seen for years in desperate endeavour to save fours and reduce runs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 78], "content_span": [79, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0030-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, First One Day International \u2013 Melbourne, England Innings\nBill Lawry won the toss, elected to field and Garth McKenzie bowled the first ball to Geoff Boycott. To everyone's surprise Boycott and Edrich proceeded to hit the Australian bowlers around the ground and 'some of the less credulous Pressmen nearly fainted when John Edrich cracked Alan Connolly over mid off for four'. Alan Thomson was reduced to bowling 25 bouncers in 8 overs to reduce the run rate, but was not called for intimidation as they lacked menace.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 78], "content_span": [79, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0030-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, First One Day International \u2013 Melbourne, England Innings\nLawry caught Boycott (8) off Alan Thomson (1/22) for the first wicket to fall in a One Day International after 21 runs had been added. Edrich made 82 runs off 119 balls and 'made all his partners look like hacks' No one else made 25 and he was instrumental in the England total of 190. Although spin bowlers were regarded as a target in one day cricket Ashley Mallett's off-spin took 3/34 and Keith Stackpole's part-time leg-spin 3/40, which compared favourably with the figures of the three fast bowlers Garth McKenzie (2/22), Alan Thomson (0/21) and Alan Connolly (0/62). England's 190 off 39.4 eight-ball overs was made at a rate of 60.12 runs per 100 balls (3.63 runs per six-ball over).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 78], "content_span": [79, 770]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0031-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, First One Day International \u2013 Melbourne, Australia Innings\nThe crowd were roaring their applause at every run now as Australia swept to 152 for 3 in 140 minutes and then Chappell, hooking and driving and cutting with a will, took 14 of 17 from D'Oliveira's sixth over.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 80], "content_span": [81, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0032-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, First One Day International \u2013 Melbourne, Australia Innings\nAustralian needed 191 runs to win and did so without any great trouble. John Snow's first ball was a wide, but both he and the batsman Bill Lawry had to signal it before Umpire Brooks accepted it. His second over was hit for 12 runs by Keith Stackpole, who was caught and bowled by Ken Shuttleworth for 13. Ian Chappell made an awkward start and was out paced by Lawry, who made many quick singles until caught by Knott off Ray Illingworth (3/50), the only Englishman to bowl with conviction and Alan Knott took another catch and a stumping.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 80], "content_span": [81, 622]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0032-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, First One Day International \u2013 Melbourne, Australia Innings\nWith Snow taken off Ian Chappell 'went mad', hitting Illingworth for a six and a four and hooking and pulling Basil d'Oliveira for 26 runs in two overs, ending with 60 runs off 103 balls. Doug Walters made hay with 41 off 51 balls with 6 fours as he added 66 with Chappell for the third wicket. Greg Chappell (22 not out) batted 'like an Australian Peter May' and Australia won comfortably by five wickets. Their 191/5 off 34.6 eight-ball overs was made at a rate of 68.70 runs per 100 balls (4.12 runs per six-ball over).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 80], "content_span": [81, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0033-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, First One Day International \u2013 Melbourne, Result\nTerrific. If they played cricket all the time like this, they'd pack the M.C.G. No risk. You can't tell me there's any less skill involved. I'd reckon there's more skill.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 69], "content_span": [70, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0034-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, First One Day International \u2013 Melbourne, Result\nAustralia won the first One Day International by five wickets on the same ground where they had won the first Test match 93 years before. They won $2,400 and England $400 from the sponsors Rothmans. John Edrich was awarded $200 as Man of the Match by the England umpire Charlie Elliott because \"without John's 82 there'd have been no match\". Despite the rain over the previous week 46,006 spectators paid $33,894.40 to attend the game, which was completed without a hitch. Even opponents of the limited over game such as E. W. Swanton admitted \"There is clearly a great future in this sort of thing\", and within a few years One Day International games were being played all over the cricketing world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 69], "content_span": [70, 770]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0035-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Fourth Test \u2013 Sydney, Preliminaries\nIf you recall my would-be Sherlock Holmesian assessment of Professor Moriarty's \u2013 sorry, Professor Illingworth's \u2013 plan to recapture the Ashes, you will remember that it is in Sydney, in the Fourth Test, that this cricketing chess player is due to strike and then retire to the corner of his web and seal off reprisals. Those who command the condition of Sydney Cricket Ground and its accessories gave him just the pitch he needed. By this time, I fancy, they were nauseated by negation and demanded a win at any price \u2013 even at the price of Australian defeat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 57], "content_span": [58, 618]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0036-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Fourth Test \u2013 Sydney, Preliminaries\nUnlike the flat, over-rolled batting tracks at the other venues the famous spinning wicket at the S.C.G. was expected to give a result and Bill Lawry announced \"This time there will be a result for sure\". England replaced their out of form vice-captain Colin Cowdrey with his Kentish team-mate Derek Underwood to give them five specialist bowlers. Ken Shuttleworth was replaced by fast bowler Bob Willis, playing his first Test.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 57], "content_span": [58, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0036-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Fourth Test \u2013 Sydney, Preliminaries\nThe Australians announced their team before the One Day International had been played, too late to replace Alan Connolly who had been hit for 62 runs off eight overs in the knockabout game. The erratic fast-medium bowler Alan Thomson was replaced on the field by the spinner John Gleeson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 57], "content_span": [58, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0036-0002", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Fourth Test \u2013 Sydney, Preliminaries\nThomson was made twelfth man, but was so popular that drinks were served two overs late as he struggled though the crowd of people chatting to him and patting him on the back Ray Illingworth won the toss again and chosen to bat on a 'hot and hostile' pitch which looked like helping the seamers, but was predicted to take increasing turn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 57], "content_span": [58, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0037-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Fourth Test \u2013 Sydney, England \u2013 First Innings\nThis day Boycott was not so permissive and his innings shone like a sapphire in the sun. Lawry's field-settings seemed to be mirrored in the Yorkshireman's mind, so much so that when he went for his strokes there might as well have been no fieldsmen on the ground.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 67], "content_span": [68, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0038-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Fourth Test \u2013 Sydney, England \u2013 First Innings\nThe wicket was not quite the batsman's paradise of the previous Tests, but after bowling a couple of maidens Garth McKenzie conceded 15 runs off his third over. Brian Luckhurst kept trying to steal singles, while his partner Geoff Boycott kept sending him back and England were 100/0 at lunch. Boycott was caught hooking by John Gleeson at fine-leg for 77 out of 116, and Gleeson had Luckhurst leg before wicket for 38 at 130/2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 67], "content_span": [68, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0038-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Fourth Test \u2013 Sydney, England \u2013 First Innings\nJohn Edrich made 55 before Gleeson caught him off Greg Chappell, Ashley Mallett (4/40) accounted for Fletcher and D'Oliveira, had Alan Knott stumped by Marsh to reduce England from 200/2 to 219/6. Gleeson bowled Illingworth for 24 and England were 267/7 at the end of the day. John Snow (37) made runs in the morning but Gleeson (4/83) struck again, dismissing him and Underwood in successive balls. Peter Lever (36) and Bob Willis (15 not out) added 41 for the last wicket to carry England to 332, the lowest first innings total of the series so far.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 67], "content_span": [68, 619]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0039-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Fourth Test \u2013 Sydney, Australian \u2013 First Innings\nSnow's first second-spell over the Walters and Redpath resembles one of those oldtime bombardments on the World War I Western Front. His first delivery was just short of a length and straight. His second was a lofty bumper, under which Walters ducked. His third was lifting offside ball... The fifth ball, called a no-ball by Umpire Rowan, was perhaps the most vicious bumper of all...Redpath turned his back on this one and the thud on his rump could be heard from most parts of the ground.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 70], "content_span": [71, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0040-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Fourth Test \u2013 Sydney, Australian \u2013 First Innings\nThe Australian captain Bill Lawry chose to open with his vice-captain Ian Chappell, who did not look happy at the prospect, and Keith Stackpole was returned to the middle order. Strangely, Lawry did not consider opening with fellow-Victorian Ian Redpath during the series, despite having made a double century opening stand together against South Africa. However, in the 1970\u201371 season Lawry opened the Victorian batting with Keith Stackpole with 'Redders' coming in at number three.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 70], "content_span": [71, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0040-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Fourth Test \u2013 Sydney, Australian \u2013 First Innings\nLawry and Chappell were soon out and it was Redpath (64) and Doug Walters (55) who made the most of Australian's 189/4 by the end of what was regarded as the best day's play of the series. Their stand of 99 was made against the hostile bowling of John Snow (1/23) and Bob Willis (0/26), with the barrackers on the infamous Sydney Hill started hooting and counting Snow out as he bowled a host of short balls. in the end it was the spinners who did the damage, Walters was caught off Ray Illingworth (1/59) after being deceived in flight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 70], "content_span": [71, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0040-0002", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Fourth Test \u2013 Sydney, Australian \u2013 First Innings\nGreg Chappell had just been made Australia's Sportsman of the Year 1970 ahead of Evonne Goolagong, Margaret Court, Heather McKay and Rod Laver, but was caught and bowled by Derek Underwood for 15 and Keith Fletcher caught Redpath off Basil d'Oliveira's off-spin (2/20) just before stumps. Resuming after the rest day Deadly Derek (4/66) dismissed Stackpole, Marsh and Mallett as Australia collapsed to 208/8 and 236 all out, 96 runs behind.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 70], "content_span": [71, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0041-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Fourth Test \u2013 Sydney, England \u2013 Second Innings\nThere are runs in that wicket but you have to be prepared to work for them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 68], "content_span": [69, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0042-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Fourth Test \u2013 Sydney, England \u2013 Second Innings\nEngland now had two and a half days to pile up the runs and set Australia an impossible target on a wearing wicket. Geoff Boycott took nearly seven hours to make 142 not out having seen his partners Luckhurst, Edrich (run out by Boycott) and Fletcher depart with only 48 runs on the board. He added 133 with d'Oliveira (56), 95 with Illingworth (53) and 43 with Knott (21 not out) before the captain declared at 319/5 on the afternoon of the fourth day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 68], "content_span": [69, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0043-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Fourth Test \u2013 Sydney, Australian \u2013 Second Innings\nI had not seen an Englishman bowl either faster or better than Snow at Sydney since Tyson... In a fast bowler rhythm and accuracy generally go hand in hand. When everything is absolutely ticking, so to speak, a strong fellow like Snow finds not only an extra yard of pace but seems able to keep an unerring eye on the target. The merit of Snow is that in this form is not only that that high arm and loose wrist get the utmost life and lift from the pitch but that he is so extraordinarily straight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 71], "content_span": [72, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0044-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Fourth Test \u2013 Sydney, Australian \u2013 Second Innings\nAustralia were set 416 runs for victory, in 1970 no Test team had ever made such a total to win a Test match and Bill Lawry announced there was \"no way\" they could win. It quickly became apparent that Australia would not be breaking any batting records as John Snow (7/40) soon dismissed Ian Redpath and both Chappells, Doug Walters fell to Peter Lever, one of Alan Knott's three catches, and Australia were 21/4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 71], "content_span": [72, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0044-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Fourth Test \u2013 Sydney, Australian \u2013 Second Innings\nBill Lawry (60 not out) and Keith Stackpole (30) took them to 60/4 by stumps, but Stackpole was caught off Snow the next morning, followed by Marsh for a duck. Willis (1/1) took his first Test wicket, Garth McKenzie retired hurt after being hit in the face by a rising ball from Snow and retired from Test cricket just two wickets short of Richie Benaud's Australian record haul of 248. Snow finished off the tail, bowling Gleeson for a duck and Connolly three balls later and Australia were all out for 116, Lawry carrying his bat throughout the debacle. It was a superb piece of fast bowling from Snow, aggressive, hostile and decisive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 71], "content_span": [72, 710]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0045-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Fourth Test \u2013 Sydney, Result\nThe Australian 'Humpty Dumpty' had fallen from the wall and, in our disgust at its fragility, we wondered how even all the king's horse and all the king's men, let alone Sir Donald Bradman, Sam Loxton and Neil Harvey, could put it together again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 50], "content_span": [51, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0046-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Fourth Test \u2013 Sydney, Result\nEngland won by a huge margin of 299 runs, their biggest victory in Australia since 1936\u201337 to go 1\u20130 up in the series with three Tests to play. Geoff Boycott (77 and 142 not out) scored more runs for an English batsmen in Australia since Denis Compton (147 and 103 not out) in the Fourth Test of the 1946\u201347 Ashes series, a total since exceeded by Alastair Cook (67 and 235 not out) in the First Test of the 2010\u201311 Ashes series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 50], "content_span": [51, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0046-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Fourth Test \u2013 Sydney, Result\nJohn Snow (7/40) became the eighth England bowler to take seven wickets in a Test innings in Australia after Tom Richardson (8/94), George Lohmann (8/35 and 8/58), Wilfred Rhodes (7/56 and 8/68), Doug Wright (7/105), Frank Tyson (7/27), Brian Statham (7/57) and Fred Titmus (7/79). 101,694 spectators came to the see the Test, paying $71,017 in gate money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 50], "content_span": [51, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0047-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Fifth Test \u2013 Melbourne, Preliminaries\nIllingworth had moulded his men into a team. They had one mission uppermost in mind. High living, if it came at all, could come later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 59], "content_span": [60, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0048-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Fifth Test \u2013 Melbourne, Preliminaries\nThis Test was added to the series to make up for the abandoned Third Test despite the reservations of some of the England players, replacing the Victoria vs MCC tour match scheduled for 22\u201326 January 1971. After the heavy defeat at Sydney the response of the Australian press was to \"Sack the Lot! \", but the selectors kept all their failing batsman and reshuffled their limited bowling attack, dropping Garth McKenzie, their fast bowling spearhead of the 1960s who had been injured by Snow, and Ashley Mallett despite his 4/40.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 59], "content_span": [60, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0048-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Fifth Test \u2013 Melbourne, Preliminaries\nThe fast-medium bowler Alan Thomson swopped his twelfth man position with Alan Connolly The fast-medium bowler Ross Duncan made his Test debut, as did the leg-spinning all-rounder Kerry O'Keeffe who had taken 6/69 and hit 55 not out against the tourists earlier in the season. England recalled their vice-captain Colin Cowdrey (who had been in the nets for much of the Fourth Test) to replace Keith Fletcher, who had been injured in the tour match against North New South Wales. Brian Luckhurst bruised his fingers in the same game and had retired hurt, but was declared fit to play. Australian umpire Max O'Connell was officiating in his first Test.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 59], "content_span": [60, 710]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0049-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Fifth Test \u2013 Melbourne, Australian \u2013 First Innings\nSnow aroused the ire of the crowd by firing down two bumpers to welcome back the retired hurt Bill Lawry back on the deck... A barracker yelled, 'Why don't you try to bump one onto the sightscreen, Snow? Bowl at the wicket.' Snow did just that next ball and took Redpath's leg stump \u2013 around behind his legs. Three for 269.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 72], "content_span": [73, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0050-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Fifth Test \u2013 Melbourne, Australian \u2013 First Innings\nand chose to bat on a good wicket with Keith Stackpole as his new opening partner. John Snow sent down three bouncers in the first four balls and Stackpole was caught by wicket-keeper Alan Knott off the last ball of the first over. However, he was given not out because Max O'Connell called \"over\" early and had already started his walk to square leg. Consequently, he had not seen the catch and had to give Stackpole not out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 72], "content_span": [73, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0050-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Fifth Test \u2013 Melbourne, Australian \u2013 First Innings\nInstead Stackpole (30) and Lawry (56) added 64 for the first wicket when d'Oliveira dismissed Stackpole, soon followed by Lawry who retired hurt on 38 after he was hit on the hand several times with the score 86/1. They were followed by Ian Chappell (111) and Ian Redpath (72) who added another 180, a total of 202 for the second wicket. Lawry returned at 266/2 to a flurry of short balls from Snow, saw Redpath go on 269/3, but added 49 with Doug Walters (55).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 72], "content_span": [73, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0050-0002", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Fifth Test \u2013 Melbourne, Australian \u2013 First Innings\nBob Willis took 3/79 as the wickets were shared around the unfortunate England bowlers, whose cause was not helped by 8 dropped catches, 4 by Cowdrey's normally safe hands. Cowdrey and Chappell then had their Test caps stolen when the crowd invaded the pitch to celebrate Chappell's maiden Ashes century. Rod Marsh made 92 not out, after being dropped twice in one over off Derek Underwood, equalling the record set by Don Tallon for highest score by an Australian wicket-keeper.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 72], "content_span": [73, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0050-0003", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Fifth Test \u2013 Melbourne, Australian \u2013 First Innings\nBut Lawry declared the innings after batting for over 11 hours at 493/9 to get an extra hour of bowling before stumps at the end of the second day. When questioned by the press about his lost chance to make an historic century Marsh said he had gained forty runs instead of missing eight as he thought Lawry should have declared an hour earlier. Marsh would later make 132 against New Zealand at in 1973\u201374, the first century by an Australian wicket-keeper, and his maiden Ashes century (110 not out) in the 1976\u201377 .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 72], "content_span": [73, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0051-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Fifth Test \u2013 Melbourne, England \u2013 First Innings\nLawry's unimaginative, deep field-settings for his spinners sent a highly expectant, eager-for-victory crowd of 65,000 home unhappy. Even the most loyal Victorian could see, and admit, that Lawry was not the captain to arrest those escaping Ashes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 69], "content_span": [70, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0052-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Fifth Test \u2013 Melbourne, England \u2013 First Innings\nEngland survived the day without losing a wicket, thus negating the advantage of Lawry's early declaration and adding to the criticism he received in the press. The next morning \"Froggie\" Thomson (3/110) dismissed Boycott and Edrich, John Gleeson (3/60) caught and bowled Colin Cowdrey and England were 88/3. Brian Luckhurst made a brave 109 to save the innings despite his hands being damaged again by Thomson's short-pitched bowling. He had three fingers of his right hand bound together and his left hand was in plaster, but he added 140 with Basil d'Oliveira (117).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 69], "content_span": [70, 639]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0052-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Fifth Test \u2013 Melbourne, England \u2013 First Innings\nThomson fired down six bouncers in one over against Ray Illingworth (41) and several more at John Snow, who was bowled by Ian Chappell for 1 after a stay of 47 minutes. Knott and Snow complained about Kerry O'Keeffe's \"suspect\" bowling action and were backed by Illingworth, which did not improve their popularity with the public, and Illingworth was booed in the final Tests as a result. England were finally out after tea on the fourth day for 392, 101 runs behind Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 69], "content_span": [70, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0053-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Fifth Test \u2013 Melbourne, Australia \u2013 Second Innings\nWhile Illingworth was guilty of go-slow tactics it was Lawry who helped put the lid on the coffin throughout the sweltering afternoon. His safety-first tactics were totally incomprehensible...Lawry Stackpole and Chappell were sad figures in that vast arena as they poked and prodded and had absolutely no desire to score runs as a reasonable pace.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 72], "content_span": [73, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0054-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Fifth Test \u2013 Melbourne, Australia \u2013 Second Innings\nAustralia needed quick runs for a declaration, but Lawry spent two and a half hours making 42 and Ian Chappell over two hours for 30. John Snow bowled 12 eight ball overs for a mere 21 runs and the wickets of Lawry and Redpath. He was warned for intimidatory bowling by Max O'Connell after bowling short at Doug Walters (39 not out), despite no action having been taken against Thomson's bouncers earlier in the Test.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 72], "content_span": [73, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0054-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Fifth Test \u2013 Melbourne, Australia \u2013 Second Innings\nSnow was also photographed picking at the seam of a Kookaburra cricket ball, which caused a furore in the Australian press until it was realised that the Kookaburra did not have a seam and Snow had been playing a practical joke on the cameraman. Lawry finally declared at 169/4, leaving England to make 271 in four hours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 72], "content_span": [73, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0055-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Fifth Test \u2013 Melbourne, England \u2013 Second Innings\nDo you want any more? I did not. I drove off to Adelaide...to face the next ordeal...", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 70], "content_span": [71, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0056-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Fifth Test \u2013 Melbourne, England \u2013 Second Innings\nAn adventurous or desperate captain might have taken up the challenge, but Illingworth was neither, Geoffrey Boycott and John Edrich were disinclined to throw their wickets away and had made an unbeaten stand of 161 when the game finally drew to a close. Ross Duncan in his only Test made 3 and took 0/30 in the first innings, did not bat or bowl in the second and took no catches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 70], "content_span": [71, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0057-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Fifth Test \u2013 Melbourne, Result\nAustralia and England drew the Fifth Test to maintain England's 1\u20130 lead in the series. 184,503 spectators attended, paying $135,022.80 in gate money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 52], "content_span": [53, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0058-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Sixth Test \u2013 Adelaide, Preliminaries\nWe were watching the crucifixion of cricket with Lawry and Illingworth washing their hands...like two Pontius Pilates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 58], "content_span": [59, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0059-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Sixth Test \u2013 Adelaide, Preliminaries\nWith the Fourth Test replacing the tour match against Victoria Australia and England played back to back Test matches only two days apart, unusual at the time. Australian dropped the unfortunate Ross Duncan and brought in a tearaway young fast bowler called Dennis Lillee for his debut. Leg-spinner Kerry O'Keeffe was replaced by off-spinner Ashley Mallett on his home ground. England replaced the injured batsmen Brian Luckhurst and out of form vice-captain Colin Cowdrey with John Hampshire and Keith Fletcher, who was fit again after missing the Fifth Test.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 58], "content_span": [59, 619]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0060-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Sixth Test \u2013 Adelaide, England \u2013 First Innings\nWe were near the entrance to a bar when a roar penetrated the alleyway under the stairs. It was a kind of reaction from a crowd I'd not heard before... The roar went on...and on. There was no following applause to greet a departing batsman. The roar dropped to a murmur. Then there was silence. It was all very eerie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 68], "content_span": [69, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0061-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Sixth Test \u2013 Adelaide, England \u2013 First Innings\nEngland won the toss and understandably decided to bat, with a 1\u20130 lead in the series they had no incentive to hurry and spent ten and a half hours making 470. Bill Lawry gave the new ball to 'Froggie' Thomason and had debutant Dennis Lillee bowling into a strong southerly wind, even so Lillee was yards faster than Thomson, and more accurate. Geoff Boycott (58) and John Edrich (130) added 107 for the first wicket before Boycott was given run out despite his strong opinion to the contrary. E.W. Swanton in the commentary box shouted \"He's out!\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 68], "content_span": [69, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0061-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Sixth Test \u2013 Adelaide, England \u2013 First Innings\nwhen Ian Chappell threw down the stumps and as he had failed to ground his bat when reaching the crease Umpire O'Connell had given him out. Convincing Boycott that he was out was always a difficult business and his displeasure was obvious when he threw his bat to the ground, he caused further trouble when he pointedly refused to apologise to the umpires for his behaviour (Boycott later apologised to Umpire O'Connell in private).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 68], "content_span": [69, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0061-0002", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Sixth Test \u2013 Adelaide, England \u2013 First Innings\nHe stormed off the field with the crowd howling in his ears and to wide condemnation by the press when a photograph showed he was clearly out. Some called on David Clark to withdraw Boycott's \u00a3150 good conduct bonus and Keith Miller said \"This will cost Boycott the England and maybe also the Yorkshire captaincy\". Keith Fletcher returned to form with 80 out of a stand of 169 with Edrich before the Surrey opener was caught by Stackpole to give Lillee his first, hard earned, Test wicket.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 68], "content_span": [69, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0061-0003", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Sixth Test \u2013 Adelaide, England \u2013 First Innings\nLillee (5/84) dismissed Alan Knott, Alan Thomson bowled Fletcher and England lost three wickets for 13 runs, but soon found their way again. Basil D'Oliveira (47), John Hampshire (55), Ray Illingworth (24) and John Snow (38) took them to 458/6 before Lillee cleared up the tail, the last four wickets falling for twelve runs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 68], "content_span": [69, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0062-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Sixth Test \u2013 Adelaide, Australia \u2013 First Innings\nThe cream of Australian batsmanship, barring one or two Test rejects, had curdled...", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 70], "content_span": [71, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0063-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Sixth Test \u2013 Adelaide, Australia \u2013 First Innings\nBill Lawry and Keith Stackpole opened and Stackpole made 87 out of 117/2 before he was bowled by Derek Underwood. Australia collapsed to 180/7 thanks to Peter Lever (4/49). Rod Marsh and Ashley Mallett both made 28 and added 39 for the eighth wicket, but they were all out for 235 on Australia Day, exactly half of England's score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 70], "content_span": [71, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0064-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Sixth Test \u2013 Adelaide, England \u2013 Second Innings\nBoth Ray Illingworth and Bill Lawry have done some mystifying things this series, but the English captain must about win the prize with his decision not to force Australia to follow on...I know, for sure, that our captain in South Africa, Ali Bacher, would have told Lawry to put the pads on again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 69], "content_span": [70, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0065-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Sixth Test \u2013 Adelaide, England \u2013 Second Innings\nPeter Lever had a shoulder strain, John Snow was suffering from an inflamed sacroiliac joint and they did not feel that they could bowl through another innings. The 40-year-old Illingworth was tired himself, took the advice of his bowlers and chose not to enforce the follow on, instead batting Australia out of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 69], "content_span": [70, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0065-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Sixth Test \u2013 Adelaide, England \u2013 Second Innings\nThis caused great surprise to the pundits and old Test cricketers at the ground who felt that he had let Australia off the hook, This was a situation made for Geoff Boycott and ignoring the furore caused by his first innings he made 119 not out, making another century opening stand with John Edrich (40). Thomson (3\u201379) took three quick wickets to help reduce 103/0 to 151/4, but Ray Illingworth (48 not out) added 82 with Boycott before declaring on 233/4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 69], "content_span": [70, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0066-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Sixth Test \u2013 Adelaide, Australia \u2013 Second Innings\nIf the Australians play for turn they'll lose. If they play for no turn, they'll hit him in the middle of the bat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 71], "content_span": [72, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0067-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Sixth Test \u2013 Adelaide, Australia \u2013 Second Innings\nFaced with an impossible 469 runs to win Australia had no choice but to try to bat out almost 9 hours of play. Lawry (21) added 65 for the first wicket with Stackpole who made 136 with 16 fours. It would have been 17 boundaries but the ball was stopped in the outfield when it hit a seagull, which survived the experience and flew away. He added 202 for the second wicket with Ian Chappell (104), who was dropped by Colin Cowdrey off John Snow early in his innings. When they were out in the final session Ian Redpath (21 not out) and Doug Walters (36 not out) saw out the day for 328/3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 71], "content_span": [72, 659]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0068-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Sixth Test \u2013 Adelaide, Result\nAustralia and England drew another Test to maintain England's 1\u20130 lead in the series. 98,808 spectators attended, paying $65,836 in gate money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 51], "content_span": [52, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0069-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Seventh Test \u2013 Sydney, Preliminaries\nBill Lawry, a defensive captain, had failed so far to defend the Ashes. Was he more likely to be able to regain the ascendancy? Of course not. Was he more likely to return to his former batting form, his early club and Shield batting form, if he were diplomatically relieved of the responsibility of leadership? Of course, yes. All the more likely if he were undiplomatically removed, because he would be nursing a grudge, burning to stage reprisals...", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 58], "content_span": [59, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0070-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Seventh Test \u2013 Sydney, Preliminaries\nFully aware that they needed to win the last Test to retain the Ashes the Australian selectors axed Bill Lawry, the first Australian captain ever to be dropped mid-series. Don Bradman, Sam Loxton and Neil Harvey delayed the announcement while they tried to locate Lawry at the end of the Sixth Test, but he had already left for his home in Melbourne and they were unable to find him. He first heard the news on the radio and the selectors were much maligned in the press as a result.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 58], "content_span": [59, 542]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0070-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Seventh Test \u2013 Sydney, Preliminaries\nLawry never played for Australia again despite being only 33 and averaging 47.15, but began his 40-year career as a commentator in the Seventh Test, saying \"Well, I suppose we all have to get around to it some day\". Although the appointment of the more aggressive Ian Chappell as captain (with Ian Redpath as his vice-captain) made sense, Lawry was still a redoubtable opening batsman who averaged 40.50 in the series and many thought that his services should have been retained.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 58], "content_span": [59, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0070-0002", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Seventh Test \u2013 Sydney, Preliminaries\nInstead the veteran Victorian opener Ken Eastwood was called up for his only Test after having made 177 against New South Wales. John Gleeson, Ashley Mallett and Ross Duncan were all dropped and replaced by debutant Tony Dell, a left-arm fast medium bowler, and the leg-spinners Kerry O'Keeffe and Terry Jenner. The selectors made another mistake in not recalling Garth McKenzie to partner his Western Australia team-mate Dennis Lillee after he had broken Geoff Boycott's arm on the same ground in a one-day match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 58], "content_span": [59, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0070-0003", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Seventh Test \u2013 Sydney, Preliminaries\nMcKenzie could have been a real handful for the England batsmen, and was only two wickets short of Richie Benaud's Australian Test record of 248 wickets (Benaud wrote 'Bring back McKenzie' in his newspaper column). This meant Australia's four-man bowling attack had only 6 Test wickets to their name, the least since in 1945\u201346 when seven players made their debut after the war. Boycott was, of course, unfit to play and Brian Luckhurst returned to open the innings, having missed the Sixth Test because of his bruised hands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 58], "content_span": [59, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0070-0004", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Seventh Test \u2013 Sydney, Preliminaries\nJohn Snow had been suffering from an inflamed sacroiliac joint, which required traction and complete rest, but he was declared fit in time for the Test. This was Australian umpire Lou Rowan's last Test as he retired at the end of the season and the Australian selectors Don Bradman retired after 35 years, out of which Australia had held the Ashes for all but 6 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 58], "content_span": [59, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0071-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Seventh Test \u2013 Sydney, England \u2013 First Innings\nIan's got off to a great start as captain of Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 68], "content_span": [69, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0072-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Seventh Test \u2013 Sydney, England \u2013 First Innings\nA good County attack would have had England out for 150.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 68], "content_span": [69, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0073-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Seventh Test \u2013 Sydney, England \u2013 First Innings\nIan Chappell won the toss and fielded on a damp wicket with slow, uneven bounce that had produced the decisive Fourth Test victory for England. The injured Brian Luckhurst took 37 minutes over his duck before was dismissed by Doug Walters (1/10) and England took an hour to reach 11/1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 68], "content_span": [69, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0073-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Seventh Test \u2013 Sydney, England \u2013 First Innings\nJohn Edrich (30) and Keith Fletcher (33) took the score to 60/1, but Dell (2/32) took his first Test wicket \u2013 Edrich caught by Greg Chappell \u2013 and England collapsed to 98/5 thanks to the leg-spinners Terry Jenner (3/42) and Kerry O'Keeffe (3/48), who were kept on even when the new ball became available. Ray Illingworth fought back with a solid 42 before he was , but England were all out for 184 and things were going Australia's way.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 68], "content_span": [69, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0074-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Seventh Test \u2013 Sydney, Australia \u2013 First Innings\nFollowing another round of booing and the throwing of more cans, Illingworth ordered and led his men from the field and I noticed that to some of them he had to repeat his order at least twice...Had the Englishmen remained on the field I doubt whether play could have resumed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 70], "content_span": [71, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0075-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Seventh Test \u2013 Sydney, Australia \u2013 First Innings\nPeter Lever (3/43) had Ken Eastwood caught behind by Alan Knott and John Snow (1/68) removed Keith Stackpole's off stump with a ball that came back a foot after pitching to leave Australian 13/2 at the end of the first day. Bob Willis (3/58) caught the nightwatchman Rod Marsh and bowled Ian Chappell the next morning and they were 66/4, but Ian Redpath (59) and Doug Walters (42) added 81.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 70], "content_span": [71, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0075-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Seventh Test \u2013 Sydney, Australia \u2013 First Innings\nWalters was stumped on 41 by Knott, who made 6 dismissals in the match, but 'when Umpire Rowan ruled Walters not out, Knott stood on the edge of the popping crease as if paralysed with unbelief. Walters was stumped off Underwood (2/39) on 42 and given out by Umpire O'Connell and the spinner caught and bowled Ian Redpath. When Kerry O'Keeffe was out at 178/7 Greg Chappell (65) was left alone with the tail.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 70], "content_span": [71, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0076-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Seventh Test \u2013 Sydney, Australia \u2013 First Innings\nTerry Jenner retired hurt when he ducked into a on 8. Rowan warned the fast bowler for intimidatory bowling yet again, but Snow and Illingworth objected strongly, the captain saying \"That's the only bouncer he's bowled\" and that he would complain to the ABC, but Snow had bowled three other short balls at Jenner earlier in the over and Bob Willis had been brought in for the mis-hit. Rowan later claimed that Illingworth and Snow swore at him, which they denied.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 70], "content_span": [71, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0076-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Seventh Test \u2013 Sydney, Australia \u2013 First Innings\nThe bowler was loudly booed and \"when he returned to his fielding position at long-leg Snow was pelted with bottles, cans and partially eaten pies\". Some of the crowd wanted to shake his hand, but then he was at Paddington Hill who was forced to let go by other spectators. In 1998 the eighty-year-old Trevor Guy told the Sydney Morning Herald that he was the man who had grabbed Snow in order to tell him what he thought about him hitting Jenner. Guy and Snow, in Australia for the 1998\u201399", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 70], "content_span": [71, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0076-0002", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Seventh Test \u2013 Sydney, Australia \u2013 First Innings\nAshes series, agreed that they had no hard feelings about the matter. To avoid injury to his team Illingworth took his men back to the dressing room without the permission of the umpires, an unprecedented move in Test cricket. He later justified his action by saying \"I've seen people hit by bottles and it makes a bloody mess of them\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 70], "content_span": [71, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0076-0003", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Seventh Test \u2013 Sydney, Australia \u2013 First Innings\nThe England manager David Clark tried to push Illingworth back onto the field and Lou Rowan told them that if they did not immediately return they would forfeit the match (and the Ashes) and was supported by Alan Barnes of the ABC. A furious Illingworth said he would not return until the playing area had been cleared and the crowd had calmed down. Furthermore, he strongly objected to Clark constantly siding with the Australians against his own team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 70], "content_span": [71, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0076-0004", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Seventh Test \u2013 Sydney, Australia \u2013 First Innings\nIt took seven minutes for the groundstaff to move the debris, during which one was hit on the head with a beer-can and had to be taken to hospital, though most of the 40 cans were for soft drinks. The Australian batsmen Greg Chappell and Dennis Lillee remained at the crease throughout the incident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 70], "content_span": [71, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0077-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Seventh Test \u2013 Sydney, Australia \u2013 First Innings\nJenner returned to bat at 235/8 and made a brave 30, last man out on 264 to give Australia a lead of 80 runs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 70], "content_span": [71, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0078-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Seventh Test \u2013 Sydney, England \u2013 Second Innings\nIllingworth led his team from the front, on and off the field during the seventh Test, giving to his task everything he had \u2013 even bowling for long periods on about 1\u00bd legs while the issue was in the balance and battling with officials in the dressing room over the last two days...Had Chappell had Lawry amongst his batsmen and McKenzie partnering his State colleague Lillee with the new ball, it is more than possible that Australia would have won this match against the depleted Englishmen and by drawing the series retained the Ashes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 69], "content_span": [70, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0079-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Seventh Test \u2013 Sydney, England \u2013 Second Innings\nThe ever-reliable England openers Luckhurst (59) and Edrich (57) made 94 for the first wicket and the first nine batsmen all made double figures, but only Basil D'Oliveira (47) really got going as Dell (3/85) and O'Keeffe (3/96) regularly took wickets. Ken Eastwood (1/21), who barely bowled even at grade level, was brought on and took Keith Fletcher's wicket with his slow left-arm wrist-spin, caught by Keith Stackpole. The scoring rate was understandably slow as England had the triple objective of overhauling their first innings deficit, batting out the match and setting Australia a large fourth innings target. In the end they took seven and a half hours to make 302, batting well into the fourth day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 69], "content_span": [70, 779]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0080-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Seventh Test \u2013 Sydney, Australia \u2013 Second Innings\nOne of the surprising, yet pleasant, features of the innings was the tremendous applause accord Snow after he bowled Eastwood for nought behind his (Eastwood's) legs. All John's efforts to remain the villain of the piece had failed. He was even applauded the whole way back to his old querencia by the crowd on The Hill.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 71], "content_span": [72, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0081-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Seventh Test \u2013 Sydney, Australia \u2013 Second Innings\nAustralia were set 223 to win and retain the Ashes and their hopes must have been high even after Snow yorked Ken Eastwood for a duck. Unfortunately for England Snow had to retire after two overs when he smashed his finger on the wooden boundary fence trying to catch a six off Keith Stackpole. He was taken to hospital for an operation under general anaesthetic to reconstruct his shattered finger bones.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 71], "content_span": [72, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0081-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Seventh Test \u2013 Sydney, Australia \u2013 Second Innings\nStackpole was caught off a thick edge by Alan Knott off Peter Lever on 13, but was given not out, much to the disappointment of England skipper Ray Illingworth who said \"It was really unbelievable\". Stackpole hit 2 sixes and 6 fours in his 67, but received little support as the rest of the team folded. Illingworth took 3/39 off 20 eight ball overs and accounted for Stackpole, Redpath and Greg Chappell, d'Oliveira took 2/15 and Underwood 2/28 on a spinning wicket and Australia were all out for 160 to lose by 62 runs. The last wicket was that of Terry Jenner caught by Keith Fletcher off Derek Underwood, after which the England team chaired Ray Illingworth off the field in celebration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 71], "content_span": [72, 763]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0082-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Seventh Test \u2013 Sydney, Aftermath\nLooking back over the series it is impossible to nominate any department of the game in which Australia were superior. For England to have lost this match and only drawn the series would have been a gross miscarriage of justice. Undoubtedly, they have been the better team throughout. Boycott established himself as a master batsman and John Snow stood head and shoulders over any bowler in the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 54], "content_span": [55, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0083-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Seventh Test \u2013 Sydney, Aftermath\nEngland won the series 2\u20130 to regain the Ashes and celebrated in style. It was the only time a touring team has played a full Test series in Australia without losing a Test and the third and last time that Australia hosted a Test series without winning a Test in the season, the others being in 1886\u201387 and 1887\u201388. 96,834 spectators attended, paying $68,081.90 in gate money, a total of 678,486 people over the whole series (paying $532,220) with an estimated 30,000,000 watching it on television.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 54], "content_span": [55, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0083-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Seventh Test \u2013 Sydney, Aftermath\nAlan Knott had made a record 24 dismissals in a Test series, beating Wally Grout's 23 against the West Indies in 1960\u201361. John Snow's 31 wickets (22.83) was the most by an England bowler in Australia since Harold Larwood's 33 wickets (19.51) in 1932\u201333. No England bowler after Snow has taken 25 wickets in a Test series in Australia. Geoffrey Boycott's 657 runs (93.85) the most by an England batsman in Australia since Wally Hammond's 905 (113.12) in 1928\u201329.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 54], "content_span": [55, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091762-0083-0002", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ashes series, Seventh Test \u2013 Sydney, Aftermath\nJohn Edrich's 648 runs (72.00) kept him at the crease for 33 hours and 26 minutes, a record for a Test series until broken by Shivnarine Chanderpaul against India in 2001\u201302. Snow recalled 'the champagne-filled, beer-laden, hangover-inducing rejoicings of Sydney'. and Basil d'Oliveira pushed his forefinger into the chest of the every Australian he met, saying \"We stuffed you\". Geoffrey Boycott and John Snow returned home early to recover from their injuries, and would face a disciplinary hearing at Lords for their behaviour on the field. The rest of the team proceeded to New Zealand for the second leg of their long tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 54], "content_span": [55, 683]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091763-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Aston Villa F.C. season\nThe 1970\u201371 English football season was Aston Villa's 71st season in the Football League, this season playing in the Third Division. Vic Crowe was manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091764-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Athenian League\nThe 1970\u201371 Athenian League season was the 48th in the history of Athenian League. The league consisted of 48 teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091764-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Athenian League, Premier Division\nThe division featured two new teams, both promoted from last season's Division One:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091764-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Athenian League, Division Two\nThe division featured 2 new teams, all relegated from last season's Division One:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091765-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Atlanta Hawks season\nThe 1970\u201371 NBA season was the Hawks' 22nd season in the NBA and third season in Atlanta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091766-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Australian region cyclone season\nThe 1970\u201371 Australian region cyclone season was the second most active tropical cyclone season in the Australian Region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091766-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Severe Tropical Cyclone Andrea-Claudine\nAndrea, 31 October to 11 November 1970 in central Indian Ocean", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 90], "content_span": [91, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091766-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Carmen\nTropical Cyclone Carmen developed on November 20 and left the basin on November 26.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 74], "content_span": [75, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091766-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Severe Tropical Cyclone Beverley-Eva\nBeverley, 26 November to 1 December 1970 in Arafura Sea. The decayed storm developed into Eva.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 87], "content_span": [88, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091766-0004-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Severe Tropical Cyclone Dominique-Hilary\nSevere Tropical Cyclone Dominique-Hilary developed on December 11 and left the basin on December 17.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 91], "content_span": [92, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091766-0005-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Janet\nJanet, 19 to 25 December 1970 in central Indian Ocean", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 73], "content_span": [74, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091766-0006-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Loris\nLoris, 26 to 31 December 1970 crossed the Pilbara coast near Mandora with no serious damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 73], "content_span": [74, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091766-0007-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Severe Tropical Cyclone Myrtle-Ginette\nMyrtle-Ginette, 15 to 18 January 1971 near Cocos Island and moved west", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 89], "content_span": [90, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091766-0008-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Polly\nPolly existed from 20 to 29 January 1971 in central Indian Ocean", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 73], "content_span": [74, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091766-0009-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Rita\nRita existed from 23 to 30 January 1971 passed over Exmouth, Western Australia with flood damage only.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091766-0010-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Severe Tropical Cyclone Sheila-Sophie\nShiela-Sophie, 29 January to 6 February 1971 crossed the coast near Roebourne, Western Australia, while doing some damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 88], "content_span": [89, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091766-0011-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Aggie\nAggie, 1 to 4 February 1971 in Gulf of Carpentaria and Arnhem Land", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 73], "content_span": [74, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091766-0012-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Dora\nCyclone Dora formed in the Coral sea east of Proserpine on February 10, 1971, it took a southeasterly track over the next 4 days away from the QLD coast turning into a low pressure system well east of the QLD NSW border. On February 17 the system reintensified into a cyclone east of the Gold Coast and crossed the coast north of Brisbane at Redcliffe. Widespread structural damage was reported with power lines down and roofs removed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091766-0013-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Severe Tropical Cyclone Tilly-Iphigenie\nSevere Tropical Cyclone Tilly-Iphigenie existed from February 10 to February 14.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 90], "content_span": [91, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091766-0014-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Gertie\nGertie, 11 to 16 February 1971 crossed near Townsville, Queensland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 74], "content_span": [75, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091766-0015-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Severe Tropical Cyclone Fiona\nSevere Tropical Cyclone Fiona existed from February 16 to February 28.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 80], "content_span": [81, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091766-0016-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Severe Tropical Cyclone Yvonne-Lise\nSevere Tropical Cyclone Yvonne-Lise developed on February 19 and left the basin on February 23.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 86], "content_span": [87, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091766-0017-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Severe Tropical Cyclone Maggie-Muriel\nSevere Tropical Cyclone Maggie-Muriel developed on March 7 and left the basin on March 13.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 88], "content_span": [89, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091766-0018-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Severe Tropical Cyclone Mavis\nMavis, 23 to 29 March 1971 crossed coast near Denham, Western Australia causing flooding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 80], "content_span": [81, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091767-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Austrian Hockey League season\nThe 1970\u201371 Austrian Hockey League season was the 41st season of the Austrian Hockey League, the top level of ice hockey in Austria. Eight teams participated in the league, and EC KAC won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091768-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Austrian football championship, Overview\nIt was contested by 16 teams, and FC Wacker Innsbruck won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091770-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Baltimore Bullets season\nThe 1970\u201371 season was the 10th season of the Baltimore Bullets in the NBA. This would be its first year in the newly created Central Division inside the Eastern Conference. Despite playing close to .500 basketball all season, the Bullets would capture the Central Division with a 42\u201340 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091770-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Baltimore Bullets season, Draft picks\nThe Baltimore Bullets made seventeen selections in the 1970 NBA Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 45], "content_span": [46, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091770-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Baltimore Bullets season, Playoffs\nIn the playoffs the Bullets would get off to a quick start as they grabbed a 3\u20131 series lead over the Philadelphia 76ers. However, the Bullets would find themselves in a 7th game and that game the Bullets would emerge victorious 128\u2013120. The Bullets would face the New York Knicks in the Eastern Conference Finals. The Bullets would finally break through in Game 5 and break the tie in the series by beating the Knicks at Madison Square Garden 89\u201384.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091770-0002-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 Baltimore Bullets season, Playoffs\nThe Bullets would have a chance to close the series out at home, but the Knicks would bounce back with a 113\u201396 win to force a 7th and deciding game in New York. In the seventh game, the Bullets would triumph, winning in New York by 2 points to reach the NBA Finals.However, the Bullets would be swept in 4 straight games by the Milwaukee Bucks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091771-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Belgian First Division, Overview\nIt was contested by 16 teams, and Standard Li\u00e8ge won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091772-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Birmingham City F.C. season\nThe 1970\u201371 Football League season was Birmingham City Football Club's 68th in the Football League, their 30th in the Second Division, and their first with Freddie Goodwin as manager. They finished in 9th position in the 22-team division. They entered the 1970\u201371 FA Cup in the third round proper and lost in that round after a replay to Huddersfield Town, and progressed from the first round of the League Cup to the fourth where they were eliminated by Bristol Rovers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091772-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Birmingham City F.C. season\nTwenty-six players made at least one appearance in nationally organised first-team competition, and there were twelve different goalscorers. Defender Roger Hynd played in 48 of the 50 first-team matches over the season, and Phil Summerill was leading goalscorer for the third consecutive season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091773-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Blackpool F.C. season\nThe 1970\u201371 season was Blackpool F.C. 's 63rd season (60th consecutive) in the Football League. They competed in the 22-team Division One, then the top tier of English football, finishing bottom. As a result, they were relegated back to Division Two a season after their promotion from it, and did not compete in the top flight again until 2010\u201311.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091773-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Blackpool F.C. season\nBlackpool won the Anglo-Italian Cup for the first and only time, beating Bologna 2\u20131 in the final at the Stadio Renato Dall'Ara in the Italian city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091773-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Blackpool F.C. season\nLes Shannon left his position as manager during the season after only seventeen months in charge. He was replaced, in a caretaker manager role, by Jimmy Meadows. Meadows was, in turn, succeeded by Bob Stokoe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091773-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Blackpool F.C. season\nMicky Burns was the club's top scorer, with ten goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 84]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091773-0004-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Blackpool F.C. season\nJimmy Armfield retired at the end of the season after seventeen years of service for Blackpool, his only professional club. His final appearance was against Manchester United at Bloomfield Road, in front of a crowd of 30,000. He had come back from an injury lay-off to make his swan song. His 569 appearances remains a club record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091774-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Boise State Broncos men's basketball team\nThe 1970\u201371 Boise State Broncos men's basketball team represented Boise State College during the 1970\u201371 NCAA University Division basketball season. The Broncos were led by sixth-year head coach Murray Satterfield, and played their home games on campus at Bronco Gymnasium in Boise, Idaho.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091774-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Boise State Broncos men's basketball team\nThey finished the regular season at 10\u201316 overall, with a 5\u20139 record in the Big Sky Conference, seventh in the standings. This\u00a0was their first season in the Big Sky and the University Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091774-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Boise State Broncos men's basketball team\nNo Broncos were named to the all-conference team; senior forward Ron Austin was on the second team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091774-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Boise State Broncos men's basketball team\nThere was no conference tournament, which debuted five years later in 1976.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091775-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Boston Bruins season\nThe 1970\u201371 Boston Bruins season was the Bruins' 47th season in the NHL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091775-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Boston Bruins season, Regular season\nThe 1970\u201371 Bruins set an NHL record by having 10 different skaters score 20 goals or more in a season. The record was broken by the 1977\u201378 Bruins when they had 11 different skaters with 20 goals or more.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091775-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Boston Bruins season, Regular season, Playoffs\nThe postseason ended quickly for the Bruins as they lost in the opening round to the Montreal Canadiens and their rookie goaltender Ken Dryden in a seven-game upset.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 54], "content_span": [55, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091776-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Boston Celtics season\nThe 1970\u201371 NBA season was the Celtics' 25th season in the NBA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 93]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091777-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Boston University Terriers men's ice hockey season\nThe 1970\u201371 Boston University Terriers men's ice hockey team represented Boston University in college ice hockey. In its 9th year under head coach Jack Kelley the team compiled a 28\u20132\u20131 record and reached the NCAA tournament for the seventh time. The Terriers defeated Minnesota 4\u20132 in the championship game at the Onondaga War Memorial in Syracuse, New York to win the national championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091777-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Boston University Terriers men's ice hockey season, Season, Early Season\nAfter a very good season in 1970, BU set their sights firmly on improving over their third place ECAC finish. Jack Kelley's Terriers opened the season in St. Louis, playing the new varsity team for Saint Louis University. Not surprisingly, the experienced easterners dominated the Billikens, winning both games by a combined score of 17\u20131. The squad returned home for their next contest three days later, defeating Brown soundly before hitting the road again (through not traveling nearly as far away as their first two games).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 80], "content_span": [81, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091777-0001-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 Boston University Terriers men's ice hockey season, Season, Early Season\nAfter dropping New Hampshire BU faced Harvard in their first big test on the season and the two teams fought to a 4\u20134 draw. The Terriers returned to their home rink to take on two non-conference opponents and thoroughly dispatched both. First was College Division Merrimack followed by a down Minnesota team ten days later. BU Shut out both opponents and glided into their winter break with a 6\u20130\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 80], "content_span": [81, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091777-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Boston University Terriers men's ice hockey season, Season, Christmas Tournament\nAt the end of December BU played host in the Boston Arena Christmas Tournament for the 17th and final time. In the first game the Terriers dropped a good Providence team then beat the independent Notre Dame team 7\u20133 to claim the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 88], "content_span": [89, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091777-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Boston University Terriers men's ice hockey season, Season, Christmas Tournament\nAfter the calendar changed to 1971, BU welcomed Princeton to the Boston Arena with the second-largest shutout victory in program history (14\u20130). After travelling across town to defeat arch-rival Boston College the Terriers returned home to face Northeastern on their shared rink. The Huskies were no match for Boston University and Kelley's boys posted their fifth shutout of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 88], "content_span": [89, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091777-0004-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Boston University Terriers men's ice hockey season, Season, Christmas Tournament\nAfter brushing off another College Division program, this time in the form of Bowling Green, BU hosted Dartmouth and trounced the Big Green 13\u20134, their sixth win by at least 8 goals in only 14 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 88], "content_span": [89, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091777-0005-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Boston University Terriers men's ice hockey season, Season, First Blemish\nIn late January BU left New England for the first time in almost two months to face defending national champion Cornell. Cornell had not lost at home in over four years and, despite their best efforts, the first-place Terriers were unable to end the Big Red's streak, suffering their first loss of the season 1\u20135. BU took their frustrations out on Providence to begin another winning streak, defeating four conference opponents in quick succession (including second-place Clarkson) to head into the Beanpot narrowly holding onto the top spot in the ECAC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 81], "content_span": [82, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091777-0006-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Boston University Terriers men's ice hockey season, Season, First Blemish\nBU's first opponent in the Beanpot was a very weak Northeastern team and the match was more or less a repeat of the first meeting between the two with the Terriers winning 12\u20132. Kelley's team played three games during the two-week break and won all three contests by a 5-goal margin. When the time came for the championship BU was able to hold Harvard to a single goal and won their second consecutive Beanpot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 81], "content_span": [82, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091777-0007-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Boston University Terriers men's ice hockey season, Season, ECAC Tournament\nThe Terriers finished their regular season with two more wins, finishing with an 18\u20131\u20131 ECAC record while possessing the top offense and #2 defense in the 17-team conference. BU played host to Rensselaer in the conference quarterfinals and won the match easily, 11\u20130. When the tournament shifted to the Boston Garden BU faced Harvard in the semifinal and disaster struck, for the fourth year in a row the Terriers lost in the conference semis, losing 2\u20134 to their cross-town rivals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 83], "content_span": [84, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091777-0007-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 Boston University Terriers men's ice hockey season, Season, ECAC Tournament\nOrdinarily that would have meant that BU would not have an opportunity to make the NCAA tournament but because that was only the Terriers' second loss of the season there was a small chance that the selection committee would choose BU as the second eastern seed. To give them a better shot at the tournament the Terriers would have to defeat Cornell in the third place game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 83], "content_span": [84, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091777-0008-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Boston University Terriers men's ice hockey season, Season, ECAC Tournament\nCornell got off to a fast start, scoring less than four minutes into the game but BU was able to tie the match in less than two minutes. The two teams exchanged goals three more times before the first period was over and Cornell led 3\u20132 after one. The Terriers tied the game early in the second and then Cornell got into penalty trouble. BU score two power play goals in a 5-minute span and took a 5\u20133 lead before Cornell got their own man-advantage marker with three minutes left in the second.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 83], "content_span": [84, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091777-0008-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 Boston University Terriers men's ice hockey season, Season, ECAC Tournament\nBU reestablished the 2-goal margin 33 seconds later but the Big Red were able to cut close the gap with 14 seconds left in the middle frame. After allowing the fifth goal on 31 shots, Kelley pulled starter Dan Brady in favor of Tim Regan and the later responded by putting up a wall in front of the BU net. Cornell fired a further 13 shots in the third period but Regan turned away everything and BU skated to a 6\u20135 win and a third-place finish in the ECAC tournament, the team's first win over the Big Red in 45 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 83], "content_span": [84, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091777-0009-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Boston University Terriers men's ice hockey season, Season, ECAC Tournament\nUnfortunately for BU, Harvard won the ECAC tournament, meaning that the selection committee would be choosing between runner-up Clarkson (28\u20134\u20131) and third-place BU (26\u20132\u20131). However, with BU having defeated the Golden Knights back on February 5 (the two team's only meeting), and Clarkson having lost to Bowling Green the committee chose to give the Terriers the nod.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 83], "content_span": [84, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091777-0010-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Boston University Terriers men's ice hockey season, Season, NCAA Tournament\nBoston University returned to the national tournament after 4 years on the outside and faced Denver in the semifinal. BU had lost each of their previous four meetings but this year was different and the Terriers managed to triumph over the western powerhouse 4\u20132. BU reached the championship for the first time and met Minnesota for the second time that season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 83], "content_span": [84, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091777-0010-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 Boston University Terriers men's ice hockey season, Season, NCAA Tournament\nThe Golden Gophers were the first team to reach the title tilt with a losing record (and remain the only squad to do so as of 2019) and had been relying on strong goaltending from Dennis Erickson from the start of postseason play. BU opened the scoring just past the five-minute mark with a power play goal from team captain Steve Stirling and shortly thereafter a slapshot from Bob Brown caught Erickson in an unprotected part of his knee and injured the goaltender.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 83], "content_span": [84, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091777-0010-0002", "contents": "1970\u201371 Boston University Terriers men's ice hockey season, Season, NCAA Tournament\nAfter an extended pause in the game Erickson remained in the game and continued to play well but allowed another goal before the first had ended and a second goal to Stirling on a breakaway in the middle frame. Brady, the BU starter, faced almost as many shots in the game but looked calm in the net, turning aside the 23 shots he faced through two periods.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 83], "content_span": [84, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091777-0011-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Boston University Terriers men's ice hockey season, Season, NCAA Tournament\nIn the third BU played a much more defensive game and limited Minnesota's chances. The game was beginning to look like another shutout for the terriers until Mike LaGarde was called for holding. While the Terriers managed to kill off the disadvantage the Golden Gophers continued to keep the pressure on and scored 5 seconds after the penalty had expired. With momentum having swung in their direction Minnesota went on the attack but Brady stood tall and kept the put out of the BU net.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 83], "content_span": [84, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091777-0011-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 Boston University Terriers men's ice hockey season, Season, NCAA Tournament\nWith just over two minutes remaining BU found themselves on a two-on-one and Ron Anderson was able to give the Terriers a three-goal lead. Dean Blais would score Minnesota's second goal with 16 seconds left in the contest but the game was effectively over and BU won their first national championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 83], "content_span": [84, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091777-0012-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Boston University Terriers men's ice hockey season, Season, NCAA Tournament\nDan Brady was named as the Tournament MOP (the first American so honored since Barry Urbanski in 1960) and was named to the All-Tournament Team with Bob Brown, Don Cahoon and Steve Stirling. Both Brown and Stirling were named to the AHCA All-American East Team and were joined by John Danby on the All-ECAC Hockey First Team while Ric Jordan made the Second Team. Brown was also awarded the ECAC Hockey Rookie of the Year, an obvious choice perhaps with Brown having led all defensemen in scoring.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 83], "content_span": [84, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091778-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Bradford City A.F.C. season\nThe 1970\u201371 Bradford City A.F.C. season was the 58th in the club's history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091778-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Bradford City A.F.C. season\nThe club finished 19th in Division Three, reached the 2nd round of the FA Cup, and the 1st round of the League Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091779-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Brentford F.C. season\nDuring the 1970\u201371 English football season, Brentford competed in the Football League Fourth Division. A forgettable season was chiefly remembered for a run to the fifth round of the FA Cup, the furthest the Bees had progressed in the competition since 1948\u201349.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091779-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\nAfter taking over halfway through an encouraging 1969\u201370 season, Brentford manager Frank Blunstone went into the 1970\u201371 Fourth Division season with the belief that the club would be able to finish one place higher and gain automatic promotion. Five players were released (including ageing defensive stalwarts Tommy Higginson and Allan Jones) and three were transferred in \u2013 midfielder Jackie Graham from Guildford City, utility player Paul Bence from Brighton & Hove Albion and Chelsea youth defender Michael Maskell. Due to financial constraints, Blunstone's squad was limited to just 16 players for the fourth consecutive season, but the youth team was reactivated after being disbanded due to budget cuts in 1967.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 763]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091779-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\nEverything went wrong as the season got underway, with a failure to win any of the opening 9 matches of the season in all competitions setting a new post-war club record. The loan signing of former Busby Babe Alex Dawson from Brighton & Hove Albion in September 1970 helped improve matters, with the forward scoring 7 goals in 11 appearances and inspiring a five-match winning streak in October and November. Frustratingly, a \u00a37,000 deal to buy him fell through and he left the club after his loan expired.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091779-0002-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\nThe final match in which Dawson scored was a 2\u20131 victory over Gillingham in the FA Cup first round and while the team would slowly pull themselves away from the relegation zone and finish comfortably in mid-table, the FA Cup gradually became the main focus of the season. Third Division club Walsall were beaten in the second round, but the third round draw failed to produce a money-spininng tie and instead an away trip to fellow Fourth Division club Workington.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091779-0002-0002", "contents": "1970\u201371 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\nA John Docherty goal was enough to see off Workington and the fourth round draw produced another away tie, this time to Second Division club Cardiff City. Over 23,000 watched Brentford run out 2\u20130 winners at Ninian Park, courtesy of goals from Jackie Graham and John Docherty. Brentford also faced Second Division opponents in the fifth round \u2013 Hull City and victory would have made Brentford the second Fourth Division club to reach the last-eight of the FA Cup. Brentford took the lead through Bobby Ross at Boothferry Park, but two late goals from the Tigers ended the Bees' run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091779-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\nSignificantly for the long-term future of Brentford, the FA Cup run generated \u00a38,000, which helped boost the profit on the season to \u00a320,000 and enabled the final instalment of the club's 1967 \u00a3104,000 loan (equivalent to \u00a31,480,800 in 2021) to be paid off. A 6\u20134 victory over York City on 9 November 1970 equalled the club record for highest aggregate score in a Football League match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091780-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 British Home Championship\nThe 1970\u201371 British Home Championship was an international football competition between the British Home Nations. The tournament was low-scoring affair, reflecting trends in world football at the time, which relied on heavy defense. England won the tournament in their final match by beating Scotland following an earlier victory over Ireland and a draw with the Welsh. The England versus Scotland match saw more goals than the rest of the tournament put together, but Ireland did manage to gain a rare second-place position with 1\u20130 wins over disappointing Welsh and Scottish sides, whose own match for last place was a goalless draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 669]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091781-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 British Ice Hockey season\nThe 1970\u201371 British Ice Hockey season featured the Northern League for teams from Scotland and the north of England and the newly formed Southern League for teams from the rest of England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091781-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 British Ice Hockey season\nMurrayfield Racers won the Northern League and Sussex Senators won the Southern League. Murrayfield Racers won the Icy Smith Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091782-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Buffalo Braves season\nThe 1970\u201371 NBA season was the Buffalo Braves inaugural season in the NBA. With a roster made up primarily of castoffs, the Braves got off on the right foot by beating the Cleveland Cavaliers 107\u201392 at the Buffalo Memorial Auditorium on October 14. However, the Braves would drop their next nine as they took on established NBA teams on the way to finishing in last place in the Atlantic Division. The Braves' record was 22\u201360, which was 7 games better than the Cleveland Cavaliers, their partners in expansion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091782-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Buffalo Braves season, Offseason, NBA Draft\nThe 1970 NBA Draft was held on March 23, 1970 in New York City. The Braves first ever draft pick was John Hummer from Princeton, as he was selected with the 15th overall selection at the 1970 NBA Draft. Hummer, a 6'9\" center from Washington, DC, averaged 17.5 points per game in 25 games with the Tigers during the 1969-70 season. Hummer led Princeton with a .487 field goal percentage, as well as leading the team with 9.5 rebounds per game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091782-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Buffalo Braves season, Offseason, NBA Draft\nCornell Warner was selected by Buffalo in the second round, 24th overall. Warner, another center, played for Jackson State University from 1967-1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091782-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Buffalo Braves season, Offseason, Expansion Draft\nThe 1970 NBA Expansion Draft was held on May 11, 1970, with the Braves and two other expansion franchises, the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Portland Trail Blazers participating in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091782-0004-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Buffalo Braves season, Offseason, Expansion Draft\nThe Braves most notable selection was power forward Bailey Howell from the Boston Celtics. Howell was a six time NBA all-star, however, immediately after the draft, he was traded to the Philadelphia 76ers in exchange for power forward Bob Kauffman, who had played the 1969-70 season with the Chicago Bulls. Kauffman saw limited playing time with the Bulls, averaging 4.3 points per game while averaging 12.1 minutes per game in 64 games with Chicago.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091782-0005-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Buffalo Braves season, Offseason, Expansion Draft\nAnother selection was 10-year NBA veteran, forward/center Ray Scott from the Baltimore Bullets. The Braves management were looking forward to his leadership on the team; however, due to contradictory language in his Baltimore contract that provided him a loophole to become a free agent after the 1969-70 NBA season. The Braves did not exercise his option under the reserve clause because they believed it was a two-year contract. Scott was free to sign with the Virginia Squires in the American Basketball Association. The league compensated the Braves due to losing a chosen player from Expansion Draft by promoting their 3rd round pick to a 2nd round pick (24th overall) in the 1971 NBA Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 754]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091782-0006-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Buffalo Braves season, Regular season, October\nThe Braves won their first game in franchise history, defeating the Cleveland Cavaliers 107-92 at the Buffalo Memorial Auditorium on October 14, 1970. Don May led Buffalo with 24 points in the historic victory. This would be the Braves only victory in the month of October, as they closed out the month on a six game losing streak. On October 24, May scored 34 points in a 114-95 loss to the Detroit Pistons. Buffalo had a 1-6 record during the month, sitting in last place in the Atlantic Division, six games behind the first place New York Knicks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091782-0007-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Buffalo Braves season, Regular season, November\nBuffalo dropped their first three games of November, extending their losing skid to nine games and dropping the team to a 1-9 record. The Braves snapped their losing streak with a 103-91 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers on November 7, which was the second time Buffalo had defeated Cleveland in the season. Bob Kauffman led the way for Buffalo with 24 points in 30 minutes. In their following game, Buffalo won consecutive games for the first time in team history, defeating the Atlanta Hawks 134-118, as Kauffman scored 35 points to lead the team, while Bill Hosket grabbed 17 rebounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091782-0007-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 Buffalo Braves season, Regular season, November\nAfter dropping their next two games, the Braves returned to the win column with a 112-103 win over the Seattle SuperSonics on November 16, as Don May led the team in scoring with 25 points and John Hummer recorded a double-double with 10 points and 12 rebounds. On the next night, the Braves won their first ever road game, as they defeated the Portland Trail Blazers 102-101. The Braves struggled during the rest of the month, earning a 2-5 record over their remaining seven games, with wins over the Phoenix Suns and Portland Trail Blazers. In their win over Phoenix, Kauffman recorded a triple-double, as he scored 26 points, grabbed 17 rebounds, and recorded 11 assists in the 112-106 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 749]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091782-0008-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Buffalo Braves season, Regular season, November\nThe Braves finished November with a 6-10 record during the month. Overall, their record was 7-16, as the club remained in the Atlantic Division cellar, 11 games behind the first place New York Knicks. Also during this time, the Braves traded guard Freddie Crawford to the Philadelphia 76ers for a future draft pick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091782-0009-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Buffalo Braves season, Regular season, December\nBuffalo began December with a narrow 117-116 loss to the Boston Celtics. The Braves returned to the win column on December 4, defeating the powerful New York Knicks 97-91, as Dick Garrett led the team with 23 points and 10 rebounds. Bob Kauffman scored 22 points and recorded 13 rebounds, while Don May scored 20 points with 10 rebounds in the win. Following the victory over New York, the Braves lost their next five games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091782-0009-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 Buffalo Braves season, Regular season, December\nIn the Braves 108-106 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers, Kauffman scored 40 points, which was the first time in team history that a player reached 40 points in a game. On December 12, the Braves returned to the win column, beating the Detroit Pistons 93-92. After a loss to Atlanta in their next game, the Braves defeated the Los Angeles Lakers 113-111 in overtime, as Kauffman led the way with 34 points and 11 rebounds. The Braves lost their next game against Boston, but returned to the win column in their following game, crushing the Cleveland Cavaliers 113-94. In their win, six different Braves players recorded 10 or more points. Buffalo struggled for the remainder of the month, losing their final seven games of December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 785]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091782-0010-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Buffalo Braves season, Regular season, December\nThe club recorded a 4-15 record in December, bringing their overall win-loss record to 11-31 at the end of the month. The Braves continued to be in last place in the Atlantic Division, 20 games behind the first place New York Knicks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091782-0011-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Buffalo Braves season, Regular season, January\nBuffalo lost their first game of the new year, losing 115-103 to the Cincinnati Royals, extending their losing skid to eight games. In their next game, the Braves halted their losing streak with a 115-108 victory over the San Francisco Warriors, as Bob Kauffman led the way with 20 points and 17 rebounds. Following the win over the Warriors, the Braves lost their next three games, including a 141-113 blowout loss to the Chicago Bulls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091782-0011-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 Buffalo Braves season, Regular season, January\nBuffalo ended their losing streak with an impressive 119-113 win over the Portland Trail Blazers, in which eight players scored double digits in points for the Braves. Buffalo then lost their next four games, including an embarrassing 111-79 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers. The club responded with a three game winning streak after that loss to Cleveland, as the Braves defeated the Portland Trail Blazers twice, as well as a win over the San Diego Rockets. Buffalo then concluded January on a five game road trip, in which they lost every game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091782-0012-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Buffalo Braves season, Regular season, January\nBuffalo earned a record of 5-13 during the month of January. Overall, the Braves were 16-44, falling to 24.5 games behind the Atlantic Division leaders, the New York Knicks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091782-0013-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Buffalo Braves season, Regular season, February\nBuffalo began February with two more losses in a row, extending their losing skid to seven games. The club ended their losing streak with a 106-99 victory over the New York Knicks, which was the Braves second victory over New York during the season, as Buffalo was led by Don May and his 29 points. In their following game, the Braves defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers 111-106, as May led the team with 35 points. Following their two game winning streak, Buffalo would end the month by dropping seven of their remaining eight games. Their lone win was a 118-114 decision over the Washington Bullets on February 17.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 669]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091782-0014-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Buffalo Braves season, Regular season, February\nThe Braves finished February with a 3-9 record, dropping their overall win-loss record to 19-53, remaining in the Atlantic Division cellar and dropping to 27 games behind the first place New York Knicks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091782-0015-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Buffalo Braves season, Regular season, March\nThe Braves began March with a 131-118 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers. In the loss, Don May scored 40 points for Buffalo. In their next game, Buffalo dropped a close 116-113 game to the Milwaukee Bucks, extending their losing streak to seven games. The Braves ended their losing streak and won their twentieth game of the season with a 120-109 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers on March 6. In their following game, the Braves defeated the Portland Trail Blazers 114-98 to win consecutive games for the first time since the middle of February. After a loss to the San Diego Rockets, the Braves defeated the Los Angeles Lakers on the road 116-109 as seven different players earned 10 or more points for the Braves. Buffalo would finish the season with four straight losses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 826]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091782-0016-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Buffalo Braves season, Regular season, March\nThe Braves finished March with a 3-7 record, bringing their final regular season win-loss record to 22-60, finishing in fourth place in the four team Atlantic Division, 30 games behind the first place New York Knicks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091782-0017-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Buffalo Braves season, Player statistics\nNote: GP= Games Played; MPG = Minutes per game; FG% = Field goal percentage; FT% = Free throw percentage; RPG = Rebounds per game; APG = Assists per game; PPG = Points per game", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091782-0018-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Buffalo Braves season, Transactions\nThe Braves were involved in the following transactions during the 1970\u201371 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091783-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Buffalo Sabres season\nThe 1970\u201371 Buffalo Sabres season was the Sabres' first season in the National Hockey League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091783-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Buffalo Sabres season\nThe Sabres had the first pick in the 1970 NHL Amateur Draft, which they used to select Gilbert Perreault. Led by Perreault's NHL rookie record of 38 goals, the Sabres would 24\u201339\u201315, ahead of the Vancouver Canucks and Detroit Red Wings in the Eastern Division. However, they finished 19 points behind the Toronto Maple Leafs in the division, and finished 19 points short of a playoff berth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091783-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Buffalo Sabres season\nThe Sabres played their home games in the Buffalo Memorial Auditorium. \"The Aud\" was previously home of the Buffalo Bisons AHL team. To make way for the Sabres the Bisons folded following the 1969\u201370 AHL season, which saw the Bisons win their fifth and final Calder Cup. For the Sabres first season played the Aud had an ice hockey seating capacity of only 12,280 for hockey. The arena would be renovated following the season to expand capacity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091783-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Buffalo Sabres season, Offseason\nThe Buffalo Sabres, along with the Vancouver Canucks, joined the NHL in the 1970\u201371 season. The Sabres' first owners were Seymour and Northrup Knox, scions of a family long prominent in western New York. The team's name, selected through a fan contest, was chosen because it was known as a weapon carried by leaders, and it is also swift and strong on offense as well as defense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091783-0003-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 Buffalo Sabres season, Offseason\nThe Knoxes had tried twice before to get an NHL team, first when the NHL expanded in 1967, and then unsuccessfully attempting to buy the Oakland Seals with the intent of moving them to Buffalo. At the time of their creation, the Buffalo Sabres exercised their option to create their own AHL farm team, the Cincinnati Swords. On June 9, 1970, the 1970 NHL Expansion Draft was held to fill the Sabres' and Canucks' rosters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091783-0004-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Buffalo Sabres season, Offseason, NHL draft\nIn 1970, two new franchises were awarded in the NHL \u2014 the Buffalo Sabres and the Vancouver Canucks. Sabres general manager/coach Punch Imlach chose his favorite number, number 11, for the roulette wheel spin to determine which franchise would have the first choice in the 1970 Entry Draft. Ultimately, the Canucks were allocated numbers 1\u201310 on the wheel, while the Sabres had 11\u201320. When league president Clarence Campbell spun the wheel, he initially thought the pointer landed on 1. However, while Campbell was congratulating the Vancouver delegation, Imlach asked Campbell to check again. As it turned out, the pointer was on 11. This was the first year that the Montreal Canadiens did not have a priority right to draft Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois junior players. Consequently, Perreault was available and taken first overall by the Sabres.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 879]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091783-0005-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Buffalo Sabres season, Regular season, Punch Imlach\nAfter being fired by the Leafs, it was expected that Imlach would join the NHL's new Vancouver franchise. Imlach, Joe Crozier, and Foster Hewitt had become partners in the Vancouver Canucks of the Western Hockey League and were in line to become owners of the Vancouver NHL team. But they didn't have the financial resources to buy the team, which went to Medical Investment Corporation (Medicor). Medicor bought the WHL Canucks for $2.8 million, with Imlach making a reported gain of more than $250,000. He was offered a job with the NHL Canucks, but instead accepted an offer from the NHL's other expansion team, the Buffalo Sabres, as their first coach and general manager in 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 744]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091783-0006-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Buffalo Sabres season, Player statistics, Forwards\nNote: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalty minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091783-0007-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Buffalo Sabres season, Player statistics, Defencemen\nNote: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalty minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091783-0008-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Buffalo Sabres season, Player statistics, Goaltending\nNote: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; SO = Shutouts; GAA = Goals against average", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091784-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Bulgarian Cup\nThe 1970\u201371 Bulgarian Cup was the 31st season of the Bulgarian Cup (in this period the tournament was named Cup of the Soviet Army). Levski Sofia won the competition, beating Lokomotiv Plovdiv 3\u20130 in the final at the Bulgarian Army Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091785-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Bulgarian Hockey League season\nThe 1970\u201371 Bulgarian Hockey League season was the 19th season of the Bulgarian Hockey League, the top level of ice hockey in Bulgaria. Six teams participated in the league, and HK CSKA Sofia won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091786-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Bundesliga\nThe 1970\u201371 Bundesliga was the eighth season of the Bundesliga, West Germany's premier football league. It began on 15 August 1970 and ended on 5 June 1971. Borussia M\u00f6nchengladbach were the defending champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091786-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Bundesliga, Competition modus\nEvery team played two games against each other team, one at home and one away. Teams received two points for a win and one point for a draw. If two or more teams were tied on points, places were determined by goal difference and, if still tied, by goals scored. The team with the most points were crowned champions while the two teams with the fewest points were relegated to their respective Regionalliga divisions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 37], "content_span": [38, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091786-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Bundesliga, Team changes to 1969\u201370\nTSV 1860 Munich and Alemannia Aachen were relegated to the Regionalliga after finishing in the last two places. They were replaced by Arminia Bielefeld and Kickers Offenbach, who won their respective promotion play-off groups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 43], "content_span": [44, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091786-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Bundesliga, Season overview\nBorussia M\u00f6nchengladbach successfully defended their title. FC Bayern Munich ended up in second place, but not without a title, as they defeated 1. FC K\u00f6ln in the domestic cup final, thereby qualifying for the Cup Winners' Cup. As a consequence, Bayern's original spot in the newly formed UEFA Cup, to which teams finishing in second to fifth place were permitted to enter, went to K\u00f6ln. The latter were joined by Hertha BSC, Eintracht Braunschweig and Hamburger SV. The teams demoted to the Regionalliga were Kickers Offenbach and Rot-Weiss Essen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 35], "content_span": [36, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091786-0004-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Bundesliga, Season overview, Bundesliga scandal\nEventually, it was revealed that the decisions in the league had not been determined on the strength of each team alone. On 6 June 1971, Offenbach chairman Horst-Gregorio Canellas played an audio tape to an audience who originally had gathered to celebrate Canellas' 50th birthday. The circle included national team coach Helmut Sch\u00f6n, as well as high DFB representatives and also a few reporters. The tape proved that matches had been sold for money. Soon, the DFB launched its own investigation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 55], "content_span": [56, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091786-0004-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 Bundesliga, Season overview, Bundesliga scandal\nIt was discovered that a total of 18 games had been fixed, including almost every relevant match in the relegation decision. Over 60 players from ten clubs were involved and nearly one million marks had been paid. Nevertheless, the first verdicts were not spoken until after the start of the following season, meaning that the bribed games officially counted in the final table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 55], "content_span": [56, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091786-0005-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Bundesliga, Champion squad\nDefenders: Ludwig M\u00fcller (34 / 2); Berti Vogts (34 / 1); Klaus-Dieter Sieloff (33 / 6); Heinz Wittmann (20); Hartwig Bleidick (16). Midfielders: G\u00fcnter Netzer (32 / 9); Peter Dietrich (28 / 3); Herbert Wimmer (26 / 3); Rainer Bonhof (11 / 1); Hans-J\u00fcrgen Wloka (11). Forwards: Horst K\u00f6ppel (34 / 9); Jupp Heynckes (33 / 19); Herbert Laumen (31 / 20); Ulrik le Fevre (31 / 3). (league appearances and goals listed in brackets)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091786-0006-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Bundesliga, Champion squad\nOn the roster but have not played in a league game: Bernd Schrage; Werner Adler.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091787-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 CHL season\nThe 1970\u201371 CHL season was the eighth season of the Central Hockey League, a North American minor professional league. Seven teams participated in the regular season, and the Omaha Knights won the league title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091788-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 California Golden Seals season\nThe 1970\u201371 California Golden Seals season was the Seals' fourth in the NHL, but their first as the Golden Seals. Oakland Athletics owner Charlie O. Finley bought the team in the offseason for approximately $4,500,000. He announced a name change in which his team would be called the Bay Area Seals. On October 16, after the first two games of the season, Finley changed the name once again. The team became known as the California Golden Seals in an attempt to draw fans from across the state of California, in particular from nearby San Francisco. Along with the name change came new green and gold colours, and a new logo and uniforms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 677]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091788-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 California Golden Seals season\nSeveral other changes occurred in the Seals' front office after Finley bought the team. Unhappy, General Manager Frank Selke Jr. quit in October 1970. His replacement, Bill Torrey, lasted only a month before resigning himself. Coach Fred Glover took over the responsibilities of General Manager after Torrey's departure in November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091788-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 California Golden Seals season\nAmidst the shake-up of the Seals from a business point of view the on-ice performance of the team suffered greatly. The team won only 20 games, and had but 45 points, last in the NHL. It was the worst season in their history up to that point in time. Coincidentally, the Seals record was worse than both of the two expansion teams that season, the Buffalo Sabres and the Vancouver Canucks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091788-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 California Golden Seals season\nOn May 22, 1970, The Seals made a trade with the Montreal Canadiens that would come back to haunt the franchise for the rest of their existence. In the trade, the Seals sent defenseman Francois Lacombe along with their first round draft pick in 1971 to the Montreal Canadiens for Ernie Hicke and Montreal's first round pick. Since the Seals finished with the NHL's worst record that season, that gave the Canadiens the first overall pick in the 1971 draft which they used to select future hall of famer Guy Lafleur.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091788-0004-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 California Golden Seals season\nCaptain Ted Hampson was traded to the Minnesota North Stars late in the season, and was replaced by Carol Vadnais.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091788-0005-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 California Golden Seals season, Player statistics, Skaters\nNote: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalties in minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091788-0006-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 California Golden Seals season, Player statistics, Skaters\n\u2020Denotes player spent time with another team before joining Seals. Stats reflect time with the Seals only. \u2021Traded mid-season", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091788-0007-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 California Golden Seals season, Player statistics, Goaltenders\nNote: GP = Games played; TOI= Time on ice (minutes); W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; GA = Goals against; SO = Shutouts; GAA = Goals against average", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091788-0008-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 California Golden Seals season, Transactions\nThe Seals were involved in the following transactions during the 1970\u201371 season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 52], "content_span": [53, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091789-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Cambridge United F.C. season\nThe 1970\u201371 season was Cambridge United's first season in the Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091789-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Cambridge United F.C. season\nOn 30 May 1970 Bradford Park Avenue failed to be re-elected to the Football League and Cambridge United were voted to take their place. They had a quiet start to life as a football league club finishing in 20th position with 43 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091790-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Cardiff City F.C. season\nThe 1970\u201371 season was Cardiff City F.C. 's 44th season in the Football League. They competed in the 22-team Division Two, then the second tier of English football, finishing third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091790-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Cardiff City F.C. season\nThe club's season was disrupted by the sale of John Toshack to Liverpool in November, breaking up the Toshack-Brian Clark strike partnership which had scored countless goals for the club in recent years. Despite this the team reached the quarter-finals of the European Cup Winners Cup before losing 2\u20131 on aggregate to Spanish side Real Madrid, after winning the first leg 1\u20130 at their home ground Ninian Park, a result that has since gone on to become one of the most famous moments in the club's history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091790-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Cardiff City F.C. season, Players\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091790-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Cardiff City F.C. season, Players\nKey:\u00a0\u00a0\u2021 On loan from another club \u00a0\u00a0* First appearance(s) for the club", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091790-0004-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Cardiff City F.C. season, Players\nCorrect as of May 1971. Starting appearances are listed first, followed by substitute appearances in parentheses where applicable.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091791-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Carlisle United F.C. season\nFor the 1970\u201371 season, Carlisle United F.C. competed in Football League Division Two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091792-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Carolina Cougars season\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by CHICHI7YT (talk | contribs) at 01:07, 18 November 2019. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091792-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Carolina Cougars season\nThe 1970\u201371 Carolina Cougars season was the 2nd season of the Cougars in the ABA. The Cougars finished dead last in the Eastern Division, though they missed the playoffs by 3 games. They finished 8th in point per game at 115.3 points per game, while finishing 6th in points allowed at 119.4 points per game. The team faltered near the end of the season, losing 11 straight games from February 25 to March 19. Their biggest win streak was 3, which they accomplished 5 times in the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091792-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Carolina Cougars season, Awards, records, and honors\n1971 ABA All-Star Game played on January 23, 1971 at Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, North Carolina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091793-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Celtic F.C. season\nDuring the 1970\u201371 Scottish football season, Celtic competed in Scottish Division One.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091794-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Challenge Cup\nThe 1970\u201371 Challenge Cup was the 70th staging of rugby league's oldest knockout competition, the Challenge Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091794-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Challenge Cup\nThe final was contested by Leeds and Leigh at Wembley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 76]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091794-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Challenge Cup, Final\nThe final was played on Saturday 15 May 1971, where Leigh beat Leeds 24-7 at Wembley in front of a crowd of 85,514.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091794-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Challenge Cup, Final\nThe winner of the Lance Todd Trophy was Leigh's captain-coach, Alex Murphy who was stretchered off after a clash with Leeds player, Syd Hynes. For his part in the \"clash\", Hynes was sent off, and became the first player to be sent-off in a Challenge Cup final after the headbutt on Leigh's Murphy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091794-0004-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Challenge Cup, Final\nThis was Leigh's second Cup Final win in two Final appearances. To date it was also their last appearance in a Challenge Cup Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091795-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Chelsea F.C. season\nThe 1970-71 season was Chelsea Football Club's 57th of competitive football, and their 44th in the English top flight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091796-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Chester F.C. season\nThe 1970\u201371 season was the 33rd season of competitive association football in the Football League played by Chester, an English club based in Chester, Cheshire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091796-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Chester F.C. season\nAlso, it was the 13th season spent in the Fourth Division after its creation. Alongside competing in the Football League the club also participated in the FA Cup, Football League Cup and the Welsh Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091797-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Chicago Black Hawks season\nThe 1970\u201371 Chicago Black Hawks season was the Hawks' 45th. The Black Hawks advanced to the Stanley Cup Finals for the first time since 1965 but were defeated by the Montreal Canadiens in seven games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091797-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Chicago Black Hawks season, Offseason\nDuring the off-season, the NHL would expand by two teams, as the Buffalo Sabres and Vancouver Canucks joined the league, and both clubs were placed in the East Division. The league also increased the schedule by two games, going from 76 to 78. The Black Hawks were moved to the West Division as part of the divisional realignment, and the club decided to strip Pat Stapleton from his team captaincy, electing to not have a captain of the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091797-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Chicago Black Hawks season, Regular season\nChicago started the season very well, as the team had a record of 18\u20134\u20135 in their first 27 games. The Hawks stayed hot throughout the season, and easily won the West Division with a club record 49 victories and 107 points, finishing 20 points ahead of the second place St. Louis Blues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091797-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Chicago Black Hawks season, Regular season\nOffensively, the Hawks were led by Bobby Hull, who scored a team high 44 goals and 52 assists for 96 points, which placed him fifth in NHL scoring. His brother Dennis Hull also cracked the 40 goal barrier, as he scored 40 goals and added 26 assists for 66 points. Stan Mikita had another solid season, scoring 28 goals and 72 points. Pit Martin and Bryan Campbell each had very good seasons, finishing with 55 and 54 points respectively. On the blueline, Pat Stapleton led the team with 7 goals and 51 points, while Bill White chipped in with 4 goals and 25 points. White also led the club with a +51 rating. Keith Magnuson led the Hawks in toughness, setting a team record with 291 penalty minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 750]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091797-0004-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Chicago Black Hawks season, Regular season\nIn goal, Tony Esposito led the club with 35 victories and a 2.27 GAA, along with six shutouts while appearing in 57 games. Backup goaltender Gerry Desjardins was very solid, winning 12 games while having a 2.47 GAA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091797-0005-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Chicago Black Hawks season, Playoffs\nThe Hawks opened the playoffs against the Philadelphia Flyers, who had a record of 28\u201333\u201317, earning 73 points, while placing third in the West Division. The series opened with two games at Chicago Stadium, and the Black Hawks, who won a club record 30 games at home, continued their dominance, easily defeating the Flyers 5\u20132 and 6\u20132 to take a 2\u20130 series lead. The series moved to the Philadelphia Spectrum for the next two games, however, the Hawks were too much to handle for the Flyers, as Chicago won a close third game by a 3\u20132 score, before sweeping Philadelphia out of the playoffs with a 6\u20132 win in the fourth game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 669]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091797-0006-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Chicago Black Hawks season, Playoffs\nChicago's next opponent was the New York Rangers, who had finished the season with a 49\u201318\u201311 record, earning 109 points, and a second-place finish in the East Division. The Rangers defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs in their first playoff series. Since the Black Hawks won their division, they were given home ice advantage in the series. The series opened up with two games at Chicago Stadium, however, the Rangers took a 1\u20130 series lead, defeating the Hawks in overtime by a 2\u20131 score. Chicago evened the series in the next game, shutting out New York 3\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091797-0006-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 Chicago Black Hawks season, Playoffs\nThe series shifted to Madison Square Garden for the next two games, and the Rangers won the third game of the series by a 4\u20131 score, however, Chicago fought back in the fourth game, demolishing New York 7\u20131 to once again even the series. The fifth game was back in Chicago, and the Hawks took the series lead for the first time with a 3\u20132 overtime victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091797-0006-0002", "contents": "1970\u201371 Chicago Black Hawks season, Playoffs\nBack in New York for the sixth game, the Rangers would push the series to the limit, with their second overtime victory of the series, setting up a seventh and deciding game in Chicago. The Black Hawks used their home ice advantage, and held on for a 4\u20132 victory, to win the series, and earn their first trip to the Stanley Cup finals for the first time since 1965.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091797-0007-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Chicago Black Hawks season, Playoffs\nThe Black Hawks opponent was the Montreal Canadiens, who finished the season with a 42\u201323\u201313 record, earning 97 points, which was good for third place in the East. Montreal then upset the heavily favored Boston Bruins in the first round, followed by defeating the Minnesota North Stars in the second round. The series opened with two games at Chicago Stadium, and the Hawks took a commanding 2\u20130 series lead, defeating the Canadiens 2\u20131 and 5\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091797-0007-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 Chicago Black Hawks season, Playoffs\nThe series shifted to the Montreal Forum for the next two games, and the Canadiens evened the series with two home wins of their own, by scores of 4\u20132 and 5\u20132. The fifth game returned to Chicago, and the Black Hawks stayed hot at home, shutting out Montreal 2\u20130 to take a 3\u20132 series lead. The Hawks, looking to wrap up the series in the sixth game in Montreal, however, the Canadiens forced a seventh and deciding game, winning by a score of 4\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091797-0007-0002", "contents": "1970\u201371 Chicago Black Hawks season, Playoffs\nIn the seventh game at Chicago Stadium, where the Hawks were 7\u20131 during the playoffs, the Black Hawks would have a 2\u20130 lead halfway through the game, but the Canadiens cut into the lead when Jacques Lemaire scored on a shot from center ice that got past Hawks goaltender Tony Esposito. The Canadiens tied the game at two before the end of the second when Henri Richard scored, setting up an intense third period.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091797-0007-0003", "contents": "1970\u201371 Chicago Black Hawks season, Playoffs\nRichard once again scored 2:34 into the period, giving Montreal a 3\u20132 lead, and Canadiens goaltender Ken Dryden kept the Black Hawks off the scoreboard for the rest of the game, as Montreal would win the Stanley Cup in dramatic fashion for their third championship in four years. The Canadiens were the second team in NHL history, the other the 1945 Toronto Maple Leafs to win a game seven on the road in the Stanley Cup final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091797-0008-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Chicago Black Hawks season, Draft picks\nChicago's draft picks at the 1970 NHL Amateur Draft held at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Quebec.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 47], "content_span": [48, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091798-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Chicago Bulls season\nThe 1970-71 NBA season was the Bulls' 5th season in the NBA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 89]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091799-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Cincinnati Bearcats men's basketball team\nThe 1970\u201371 Cincinnati Bearcats men's basketball team represented the University of Cincinnati during the 1970\u201371 NCAA men's basketball season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091800-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Cincinnati Royals season\nAfter trading Oscar Robertson, the Royals became a quick, young team. Some players included Norm Van Lier, a second-year guard who would lead the league in assists with 10.1 assists per game. Draft picks Sam Lacey and Nate \"Tiny\" Archibald were new additions to the team. The Royals would continue its fast-breaking, high-scoring ways. During the season, they were held below 100 points only four times all season. The Royals also broke the 130 point mark an astounding 11 times. The team's 116.0 scoring average was good for 3rd place in the NBA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091800-0000-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 Cincinnati Royals season\nBob Cousy, the Royals coach was not defensive minded, and opposing teams racked up an average of 119.2 points per game. The Royals finished the season in 3rd place in the newly formed Central Division. The Royals would finish the season with a record of 33 wins, compared to 49 losses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091801-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Cleveland Cavaliers season\nThe 1970\u201371 Cleveland Cavaliers season was the inaugural season of NBA basketball in Cleveland, Ohio. The Cavaliers finished the season with a 15\u201367 record in their first season, finishing last in the Central Division and Eastern Conference. John Johnson was named an All-Star, the first in franchise history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091801-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Cleveland Cavaliers season, Game log, January\nRecord: 5\u20139\u00a0; Home: 4\u20134\u00a0; Road: 0\u20135\u00a0; Neutral: 1\u20130:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091801-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Cleveland Cavaliers season, Game log, February\nRecord: 2\u201312\u00a0; Home: 1\u20135\u00a0; Road: 0\u20137\u00a0; Neutral: 1\u20130", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091802-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Clydebank F.C. season\nThe 1970\u201371 season was Clydebank's fifth season in the Scottish Football League. They competed in the Scottish League Division Two where they finished 5th in the table, Scottish League Cup and Scottish Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091803-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Colchester United F.C. season\nThe 1970\u201371 season was Colchester United's 29th season in their history and their third successive season in the fourth tier of English football, the Fourth Division. Alongside competing in the Fourth Division, the club also participated in the FA Cup and the League Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091803-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Colchester United F.C. season\nColchester reached the FA Cup quarter-final, famously beating First Division Leeds United 3\u20132 at Layer Road in the fifth round. They had already defeated Ringmer, Cambridge United, Barnet and Rochdale along the way, before being defeated 5\u20130 by Everton at Goodison Park. Owing to their cup run, Colchester's league form stuttered, ending the campaign in sixth place, while they suffered a second round exit in the League Cup after being beaten by Birmingham City following a replay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091803-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Colchester United F.C. season, Season overview\nDuring the summer of 1970, manager Dick Graham increased the average age of his Colchester squad by signing a number of ageing players, including ex-England international Ray Crawford, Brian Garvey, John Kurila, Mick Mahon and Brian Owen. During the season, both Owen and Roy Massey suffered serious or career ending injuries, forcing Graham into signing Brian Lewis and Dave Simmons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 54], "content_span": [55, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091803-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Colchester United F.C. season, Season overview\nThe 1970\u201371 season is most notable for Colchester's famous FA Cup run. In the first round, the U's disposed of non-League Ringmer courtesy of a Ray Crawford hat-trick. They then completed a cup double over Cambridge United, beating them 5\u20130 in the first round of the League Cup and then 3\u20130 in the second round of the FA Cup. Colchester defeated further non-League opposition in the third round, winning against Barnet at Underhill Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 54], "content_span": [55, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091803-0003-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 Colchester United F.C. season, Season overview\nThe U's trailed 3\u20131 with five minutes remaining of their fourth round tie with Rochdale before staging a late comeback to earn a 3\u20133 draw and a Layer Road replay, where they thrashed Rochdale 5\u20130. This earned them a home tie against First Division side Leeds United, a side top of the League and who boasted ten internationals in their side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 54], "content_span": [55, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091803-0004-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Colchester United F.C. season, Season overview\nLeeds United were at the time one of the best teams in the country. However, Dick Graham's side set out to frustrate Leeds by suppressing their usual wing play and playing direct football instead. Chairs and other obstacles were placed by the sidelines to produce an illusion of a narrow playing surface. Colchester found themselves 3\u20130 ahead after two goals from Ray Crawford and one from Dave Simmons. However, Leeds began to fight back, pulling back two goals with 17-minutes remaining, before Colchester goalkeeper Graham Smith produced a phenomenal save to deny Mick Jones with the score at 3\u20132. Colchester held on to record a famous victory and one of the most notable FA Cup giant-killings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 54], "content_span": [55, 752]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091803-0005-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Colchester United F.C. season, Season overview\nWith the U's in the quarter-finals, they were drawn against Everton at Goodison Park. Dick Graham's Grandad's Army finally succumbed to defeated by a 5\u20130 scoreline in front of a crowd of 53,028.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 54], "content_span": [55, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091803-0006-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Colchester United F.C. season, Season overview\nColchester's cup run had a negative impact on their league form. With fixtures backing up, a run of 17 league games following their cup exit until the end of the season proved too much as they finished the campaign in sixth position, two points shy of promotion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 54], "content_span": [55, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091803-0007-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Colchester United F.C. season, Squad statistics, Player debuts\nPlayers making their first-team Colchester United debut in a fully competitive match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091804-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Connecticut Huskies men's basketball team\nThe 1970\u201371 Connecticut Huskies men's basketball team represented the University of Connecticut in the 1970\u201371 collegiate men's basketball season. The Huskies completed the season with a 10\u201314 overall record. The Huskies were members of the Yankee Conference, where they ended the season with a 5\u20135 record. The Huskies played their home games at Hugh S. Greer Field House in Storrs, Connecticut, and were led by second-year head coach Dee Rowe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091805-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Copa del General\u00edsimo\nThe 1970\u201371 Copa del General\u00edsimo was the 69th staging of the Spanish Cup football competition. It began on 14\u00a0October 1970 and concluded on 4\u00a0July 1971 with the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091806-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Coppa Italia\nThe 1970\u201371 Coppa Italia, the 24th Coppa Italia was an Italian Football Federation domestic cup competition won by Torino.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091806-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Coppa Italia, Qualifying play-off\nThe top seven groupwinners of the nine group qualifier in the quarter-finals. The other two teams played playoff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091807-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Coupe de France\nThe Coupe de France's results of the 1970\u201371 season. Stade Rennais won the final played on 20 June 1971, beating Olympique Lyonnais.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091808-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Cuban National Series\nThe tenth season of the Cuban National Series ended with Azucareros taking the title, finishing just ahead of a group including Habana, Granjeros and Industriales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091809-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Cupa Rom\u00e2niei\nThe 1970\u201371 Cupa Rom\u00e2niei was the 33rd edition of Romania's most prestigious football cup competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091809-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Cupa Rom\u00e2niei\nThe title was won by Steaua Bucure\u0219ti against Dinamo Bucure\u0219ti.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 85]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091809-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Cupa Rom\u00e2niei, Format\nIn the first round proper, two pots were made, first pot with Divizia A teams and other teams till 16 and the second pot with the rest of teams qualified in this phase. Each tie is played as a single leg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091809-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Cupa Rom\u00e2niei, Format\nFirst round proper matches are played on the ground of the lowest ranked team, then from the second round proper the matches are played on a neutral location.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091809-0004-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Cupa Rom\u00e2niei, Format\nIn the first round proper, if a match is drawn after 90 minutes, the game goes in extra time, and if the scored is still tight after 120 minutes, the team who played away will qualify.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091809-0005-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Cupa Rom\u00e2niei, Format\nFrom the second round proper, if a match is drawn after 90 minutes, the game goes in extra time, and if the scored is still tight after 120 minutes, then the team from the lower division will qualify. If the teams are from the same division, the younger team will qualify.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091809-0006-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Cupa Rom\u00e2niei, Format\nIn the quarter-finals and in the semi-finals, each tie is played as a two legs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091809-0007-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Cupa Rom\u00e2niei, Format\nFrom the first edition, the teams from Divizia A entered in competition in sixteen finals, rule which remained till today.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091809-0008-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Cupa Rom\u00e2niei, Quarter-finals\nThe matches were scheduled to be played on 28 April and 2 June 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 37], "content_span": [38, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091809-0009-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Cupa Rom\u00e2niei, Semi-finals\nThe matches were scheduled to be played on 16 June and 23 June 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 34], "content_span": [35, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091810-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Cypriot Cup\nThe 1970\u201371 Cypriot Cup was the 29th edition of the Cypriot Cup. A total of 16 clubs entered the competition. It began on 1 May 1971 with the first round and concluded on 6 June 1971 with the replay final which was held at GSE Stadium. Anorthosis Famagusta won their 5th Cypriot Cup trophy after beating Omonia 1\u20130 in the replay final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091810-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Cypriot Cup, Format\nIn the 1970\u201371 Cypriot Cup, participated all the teams of the Cypriot First Division and 4 of 12 teams of the Cypriot Second Division (first four of the league table; cup took place after the end of the league).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091810-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Cypriot Cup, Format\nThe competition consisted of four knock-out rounds. In all rounds each tie was played as a single leg and was held at the home ground of the one of the two teams, according to the draw results. Each tie winner was qualifying to the next round. If a match was drawn, extra time was following. If extra time was drawn, there was a replay at the ground of the team who were away for the first game. If the rematch was also drawn, then extra time was following and if the match remained drawn after extra time the winner was decided by penalty shoot-out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091810-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Cypriot Cup, Format\nThe cup winner secured a place in the 1971\u201372 European Cup Winners' Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091810-0004-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Cypriot Cup, Final\nBecause the match ended in a draw after the extra time, a replay match was played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 26], "content_span": [27, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091811-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Cypriot First Division, Overview\nIt was contested by 12 teams, and Olympiakos Nicosia won the championship. EPA Larnaca FC participated in the Greek championship as the previous year's champions. They finished in 18th position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091812-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Cypriot Second Division\nThe 1970\u201371 Cypriot Second Division was the 16st season of the Cypriot second-level football league. APOP Paphos FC won their 2nd title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091812-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Cypriot Second Division, Format\nTwelve teams participated in the 1970\u201371 Cypriot Second Division. All teams played against each other twice, once at their home and once away. The team with the most points at the end of the season crowned champions. The first team was promoted to 1971\u201372 Cypriot First Division. The last team was relegated to the 1971\u201372 Cypriot Third Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091813-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Cypriot Third Division\nThe 1970\u201371 Cypriot Third Division was the 1st season of the Cypriot third-level football league. Keravnos Strovolou FC won their 1st title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091813-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Cypriot Third Division, Format\nTwelve teams participated in the 1970\u201371 Cypriot Third Division. All teams played against each other twice, once at their home and once away. The team with the most points at the end of the season crowned champions. The first two teams were promoted to 1971\u201372 Cypriot Second Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091813-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Cypriot Third Division, Format, Point system\nTeams received two points for a win, one point for a draw and zero points for a loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091814-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Czechoslovak Extraliga season\nThe 1970\u201371 Czechoslovak Extraliga season was the 28th season of the Czechoslovak Extraliga, the top level of ice hockey in Czechoslovakia. 10 teams participated in the league, and Dukla Jihlava won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091815-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Czechoslovak First League, Overview\nIt was contested by 16 teams, and FC Spartak Trnava won the championship. Jozef Adamec and Zden\u011bk Nehoda were the league's top scorers with 16 goals each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091816-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 DDR-Oberliga\nThe 1970\u201371 DDR-Oberliga was the 22nd season of the DDR-Oberliga, the first tier of league football in East Germany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091816-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 DDR-Oberliga\nThe league was contested by fourteen teams. Dynamo Dresden won the championship, the club's second of eight East German championships, having previously won the 1952\u201353 edition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091816-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 DDR-Oberliga\nHans-J\u00fcrgen Kreische of Dynamo Dresden was the league's top scorer with 17 goals, the first of a record four top scorer finishes for Kreische, while Peter Ducke of FC Carl Zeiss Jena won the seasons East German Footballer of the year award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091816-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 DDR-Oberliga\nOn the strength of the 1970\u201371 title Dresden qualified for the 1971\u201372 European Cup where the club was knocked out by Ajax in the first round. Ninth-placed club BFC Dynamo qualified for the 1971\u201372 European Cup Winners' Cup as the seasons FDGB-Pokal runners-up, Dresden having won the double, and was knocked out by Dynamo Moscow in the semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091816-0003-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 DDR-Oberliga\nSecond-placed FC Carl Zeiss Jena qualified for the 1971\u201372 UEFA Cup where it was knocked out in the third round by Wolverhampton Wanderers while third-placed Hallescher FC Chemie withdrew after losing a player in the Hotel 't Silveren Seepaerd fire before the second leg of their first round tie with PSV Eindhoven.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091816-0004-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 DDR-Oberliga\nAt the end of the season National People's Army club FC Vorw\u00e4rts Berlin, based in East Berlin, was moved to Frankfurt/Oder to become FC Vorw\u00e4rts Frankfurt/Oder for political reasons. Vorw\u00e4rts had been quite a popular club with East Berlin football supporters but was seen as an obstacle to the ambitions of BFC Dynamo, which was supported by the Ministry for State Security and its head Erich Mielke. The relocation was allegedly driven by Erich Mielke, who wanted to create better sporting conditions for BFC Dynamo in East Berlin, and his fellow Politburo member and SED First Secretary in Bezirk Frankfurt Erich M\u00fcckenberger, who anticipated a boost for the Frankfurt/Oder region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 704]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091816-0005-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 DDR-Oberliga, Table\nThe 1970\u201371 season saw two newly promoted clubs 1. FC Union Berlin and 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 27], "content_span": [28, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091817-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 DDR-Oberliga (ice hockey) season\nThe 1970\u201371 DDR-Oberliga season was the 23rd season of the DDR-Oberliga, the top level of ice hockey in East Germany. Two teams participated in the league, and SG Dynamo Wei\u00dfwasser won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091818-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 DFB-Pokal\nThe 1970\u201371 DFB-Pokal was the 28th season of the annual German football cup competition. It began on 12 December 1970 and ended on 19 June 1971. 32 teams competed in the tournament of five rounds. In the final Bayern Munich defeated 1. FC K\u00f6ln 2\u20131 after extra time. It was Bayern's fifth triumph in the cup while it was Cologne's second consecutive loss in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091818-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 DFB-Pokal, Mode\nThe tournament consisted of five single elimination rounds. In case a game ended with a draw 30 minutes of extra time were played. If the score was still level the game was replayed with 30 minutes of extra time in case of another draw. For the first time a penalty shootout was held if no winner could be determined after the replay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 23], "content_span": [24, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091819-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Danish 1. division season\nThe 1970\u201371 Danish 1. division season was the 14th season of ice hockey in Denmark. Ten teams participated in the league, and Gladsaxe SF won the championship. Hvidovre Ishockey was relegated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091820-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens women's basketball team\nThe 1970\u201371 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens women's basketball team represented the University of Delaware during the 1970\u201371 school year. This marked the second year of the program as a sanctioned sport by the university. Women's basketball, field hockey, and swimming had been approved on an experimental two-year basis in early 1969. This was also the first year of varsity coaching for head coach Mary Ann Hitchens, who had led the 1969-70 freshman women's team to an undefeated 5\u20130 record the prior season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091821-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Denver Rockets season\nThe 1970\u201371 ABA season was the fourth season of the Denver Rockets. They finished 30-54, but finished in a tie for the fourth and final playoff spot. However, they lost the tiebreaker 115-109 to the Texas Chaparrals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091822-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Detroit Pistons season\nFollowing are the results of the 1970\u201371 season of the Detroit Pistons, the franchise of the National Basketball Association based in Detroit, Michigan. The 1970-71 NBA season was the Pistons' 23rd season in the NBA and 14th season in the city of Detroit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091823-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Detroit Red Wings season\nThe 1970\u201371 Detroit Red Wings season was Gordie Howe's final season with the Red Wings. Ned Harkness was hired as coach in 1970 and was promoted to general manager midway through the season. His background was a successful college hockey coach. He tried to force his two-way style of play on a veteran Red Wings team resistant to change. Harkness also demanded short hair, no smoking, and put other rules in place regarding drinking and phone calls. The Red Wings finished in with a 22\u201345\u201311 record for 55 points for last place in the East Division, making things even worse was that they finished behind the two expansion clubs that season, the Buffalo Sabres and the Vancouver Canucks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 720]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091823-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Detroit Red Wings season, Offseason\nThe Fort Worth Wings of the Central Hockey League, coached by former Red Wings' defenceman Doug Barkley, continued to be operated as Detroit's top farm team during the 1969\u201370 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091823-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Detroit Red Wings season, Regular season\nRed Wings general manager Sid Abel wanted to get rid of coach Ned Harkness and was overruled by team owner Bruce Norris. Once Harkness took over as general manager, he got rid of players he deemed a threat to him. On January 10, 1971, Doug Barkley was promoted to become head coach of the Red wings, and on January 13, 1971, Frank Mahovlich was traded to the Montreal Canadiens for Mickey Redmond, Guy Charron and Bill Collins. Mahovlich was reunited with his brother Pete, who had become a star player himself with the Canadiens. One of the few highlights of the season was the emergence of young rookie goaltender Jim Rutherford.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 680]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091823-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Detroit Red Wings season, Player statistics, Forwards\nNote: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalty minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091823-0004-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Detroit Red Wings season, Player statistics, Defencemen\nNote: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalty minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 63], "content_span": [64, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091823-0005-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Detroit Red Wings season, Player statistics, Goaltending\nNote: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; SO = Shutouts; GA = Goals against; GAA = Goals against average", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 64], "content_span": [65, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091823-0006-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Detroit Red Wings season, Draft picks\nDetroit's draft picks at the 1970 NHL Amateur Draft held at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Quebec.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 45], "content_span": [46, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091824-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Divizia A\nThe 1970\u201371 Divizia A was the fifty-third season of Divizia A, the top-level football league of Romania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091824-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Divizia A, Champion squad\nGoalkeepers: Mircea Constantinescu (27 / 0); Marin Andrei (4 / 0); Iosif Cavai (1 / 0). Defenders: Florin Cheran (27 / 1); Ion Nunweiller (20 / 0); Mircea Stoenescu (20 / 0); Cornel Dinu (24 / 4); Gabriel Sandu (9 / 0); Augustin Deleanu (27 / 3); Augustin Deleanu (27 / 3); Constantin \u0218tefan (8 / 0); Nicolae Petre (2 / 0). Midfielders: Viorel S\u0103lceanu (26 / 8); Alexandru Must\u0103\u021bea (18 / 0); Radu Nunweiller (30 / 5). Forwards: Alexandru Moldovan (12 / 0); Petre Nu\u021bu (12 / 0); Florea Dumitrache (28 / 15); Mircea Lucescu (23 / 3); Gavril Both (10 / 1); Doru Popescu (22 / 7); Ion Haidu (14 / 2); Ion Mo\u021b (3 / 0). (league appearances and goals listed in brackets)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 33], "content_span": [34, 698]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091825-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Divizia B\nThe 1970\u201371 Divizia B was the 31st season of the second tier of the Romanian football league system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091825-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Divizia B\nThe format has been maintained to two series, each of them having 16 teams. At the end of the season the winners of the series promoted to Divizia A and the last two places from each series relegated to Divizia C.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091825-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Divizia B, Team changes, Other teams\nO\u021belul Gala\u021bi gave away its place in the Divizia B to FC Gala\u021bi, a newly formed team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 44], "content_span": [45, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091826-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Divizia C\nThe 1970\u201371 Divizia C was the 15th season of Liga III, the third tier of the Romanian football league system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091826-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Divizia C, Team changes, Renamed teams\nGloria B\u00e2rlad was moved from B\u00e2rlad to Slatina and was renamed as Gloria Slatina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 46], "content_span": [47, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091826-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Divizia C, Team changes, Renamed teams\nUnirea M\u00e2n\u0103stirea was moved from M\u00e2n\u0103stirea to Bucure\u0219ti and was renamed as Unirea Bucure\u0219ti.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 46], "content_span": [47, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091826-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Divizia C, Team changes, Other teams\nGloria CFR Gala\u021bi was dissolved and instead was formed FC Gala\u021bi who took the place in Divizia B from O\u021belul Gala\u021bi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 44], "content_span": [45, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091826-0004-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Divizia C, Team changes, Other teams\nDacia Gala\u021bi took the place of dissolved Gloria CFR Gala\u021bi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 44], "content_span": [45, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091827-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Drexel Dragons men's basketball team\nThe 1970\u201371 Drexel Dragons men's basketball team represented Drexel University during the 1970\u201371 men's basketball season. The Dragons, led by 3rd year head coach Frank Szymanski, played their home games at the 32nd Street Armory and were members of the University\u2013Eastern division of the Middle Atlantic Conferences (MAC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091827-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Drexel Dragons men's basketball team\nThe team finished the season 7\u201317, and finished in 7th place in the University\u2013Eastern division of the MAC in the regular season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091828-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team\nThe 1970\u201371 Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team represented Duke University in the 1970\u201371 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The head coach was Bucky Waters and the team finished the season with an overall record of 20\u201310 and did not qualify for the NCAA tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091829-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Duleep Trophy\nThe 1970\u201371 Duleep Trophy was the 10th season of the Duleep Trophy, a first-class cricket tournament contested by five zonal teams of India: Central Zone, East Zone, North Zone, South Zone and West Zone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091829-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Duleep Trophy\nSouth Zone won the title, defeating East Zone in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 81]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091830-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Dumbarton F.C. season\nThe 1970\u201371 season was the 87th football season in which Dumbarton competed at a Scottish national level, entering the Scottish Football League, the Scottish Cup and the Scottish League Cup. In addition Dumbarton competed in the Stirlingshire Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091830-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Dumbarton F.C. season, Scottish Second Division\nDumbarton had their best league campaign in over 10 years - including an unbeaten home record - the first for over 30 years, although with only 4 wins in 18 away matches, in the end it became a case of 'catch-up' - 8 wins in their last 10 games not being enough to challenge the leaders. Nevertheless, it was a creditable 4th-place finish, with 44 points, 12 behind champions Partick Thistle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091830-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Dumbarton F.C. season, Scottish League Cup\nFive wins and a draw from the six sectional games meant an easy section qualification. Then Partick Thistle were dispatched in the quarter final, with the mighty Celtic waiting in the semi final - and it was only after an extra time 0-0 draw that Dumbarton eventually succumbed by the odd goal in seven in the replay again after extra time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091830-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Dumbarton F.C. season, Scottish Cup\nIn the Scottish Cup, Dumbarton had a disappointing second round loss to Stranraer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091830-0004-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Dumbarton F.C. season, Stirlingshire Cup\nLocally, in the Stirlingshire Cup, Dumbarton were knocked out in the first round by Clydebank.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091830-0005-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Dumbarton F.C. season, Player statistics, Transfers\nAmongst those players joining and leaving the club were the following", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091830-0006-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Dumbarton F.C. season, Reserve team\nFor the first time in eight years, Dumbarton played an official reserve team which competed in the Combined Reserve League. The league was played in two series, and reporting of results is scarce - but both series were won by Partick Thistle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091831-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Dundee F.C. season\nThe 1970\u201371 season was the 69th season in which Dundee competed at a Scottish national level, playing in Division One, where the club would finish in 5th place. Domestically, Dundee would also compete in both the Scottish League Cup and the Scottish Cup, where they would get knocked out by Celtic in the quarter-finals of the League Cup, and by Hibernian in the quarter-finals of the Scottish Cup. Dundee would also compete in the first edition of the Texaco Cup, being knocked out by English side Wolves in the 1st round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091832-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Dundee United F.C. season\nThe 1970\u201371 season was the 62nd year of football played by Dundee United, and covers the period from 1 July 1970 to 30 June 1971. United finished in sixth place in the First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091832-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Dundee United F.C. season, Match results\nDundee United played a total of 44 competitive matches during the 1970\u201371 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091832-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Dundee United F.C. season, Match results, Legend\nAll results are written with Dundee United's score first. Own goals in italics", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091833-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Eerste Divisie\nThe Dutch Eerste Divisie in the 1970\u201371 season was contested by 16 teams. FC Den Bosch won the championship. Due to the disbandment of the Tweede Divisie at the end of this season, there was no relegation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091834-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ekstraklasa\nThe 1970\u201371 I liga was the 45th season of the Polish Football Championship and the 37th season of the I liga, the top Polish professional league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 1927. The league was operated by the Polish Football Association (PZPN).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091834-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ekstraklasa\nThe champions were G\u00f3rnik Zabrze, who won their 9th Polish title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 85]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091834-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ekstraklasa, Competition modus\nThe season started on 8 August 1970 and concluded on 23 June 1971 (autumn-spring league). The season was played as a round-robin tournament. The team at the top of the standings won the league title. A total of 14 teams participated, 12 of which competed in the league during the 1969\u201370 season, while the remaining two were promoted from the 1969\u201370 II liga. Each team played a total of 26 matches, half at home and half away, two games against each other team. Teams received two points for a win and one point for a draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091835-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Eredivisie\nThe Dutch Eredivisie in the 1970\u201371 season was contested by 18 teams. Feijenoord won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091836-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Eredivisie (ice hockey) season\nThe 1970\u201371 Eredivisie season was the 11th season of the Eredivisie, the top level of ice hockey in the Netherlands. Five teams participated in the league, and the Tilburg Trappers won the championship. The Smoke Eaters Geleen finished first, tied with Tilburg, but the title was awarded to Tilburg due to the Smoke Eaters Geleen using ineligible players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091837-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 European Cup\nThe 1970\u201371 season of the European Cup football club tournament was won by Ajax in the final against Panathinaikos. It was the first time the cup went to Ajax, beginning a three-year period of domination, and the second consecutive championship for Netherlands. UEFA had introduced for first time the penalty shoot-out as a way of deciding drawn ties \u2013 doing away with the unsatisfactory tossing of a coin. They had also decided that the away goals rule should apply to all rounds, and not just the first two, as had been the case.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091837-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 European Cup\nFeyenoord, the defending champions, were eliminated by Romanian club UTA Arad in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091837-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 European Cup\nThis season marked the first time in European Cup history that Real Madrid failed to qualify for the tournament, having appeared in all 15 previous seasons. It was also the first time a Greek team reached the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091837-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 European Cup, First round, Second leg\nSpartak Moscow 4\u20134 Basel on aggregate. Basel won on away goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091837-0004-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 European Cup, First round, Second leg\nFeyenoord 1\u20131 UTA Arad on aggregate. UTA Arad won on away goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091837-0005-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 European Cup, Second round, Second leg\nBorussia M\u00f6nchengladbach 2\u20132 Everton on aggregate. Everton won on penalties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 46], "content_span": [47, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091837-0006-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 European Cup, Quarter-finals, Second leg\nAtl\u00e9tico Madrid 2\u20132 Legia Warszawa on aggregate. Atl\u00e9tico Madrid won on away goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 48], "content_span": [49, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091837-0007-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 European Cup, Quarter-finals, Second leg\nEverton 1\u20131 Panathinaikos on aggregate. Panathinaikos won on away goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 48], "content_span": [49, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091837-0008-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 European Cup, Semi-finals, Second leg\nRed Star Belgrade 4\u20134 Panathinaikos on aggregate. Panathinaikos won on away goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091837-0009-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 European Cup, Top scorers\nThe top scorers from the 1970\u201371 European Cup (excluding preliminary round) are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091838-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 European Cup (handball)\nThe 1970\u201371 European Cup was the 11th edition of Europe's premier club handball tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091839-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 European Cup Winners' Cup\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by 2a02:c7d:9059:a000:353c:8c8b:d21d:91d2 (talk) at 22:41, 10 July 2021. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091839-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 European Cup Winners' Cup\nThe 1970\u201371 season of the European Cup Winners' Cup football club tournament was won by Chelsea in a replay against Real Madrid. Defending champions Manchester City were eliminated by Chelsea in the semi-finals, only the second ever tie in the competition between two clubs from the same country. These two sides would later compete in the 2021 UEFA Champions League final, with Chelsea winning 1\u20130. The finals were played in Karaiskakis Stadium in Piraeus, Greece.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091839-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 European Cup Winners' Cup, First round, Second leg\nBologna 1\u20131 Vorw\u00e4rts Berlin on aggregate. Vorw\u00e4rts Berlin won on away goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 58], "content_span": [59, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091840-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Everton F.C. season\nDuring the 1970\u201371 English football season, Everton F.C. competed in the Football League First Division. They finished 14th in the table with 37 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091840-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Everton F.C. season, Final League Table\nP = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; GA = Goal average; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091841-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 FA Cup\nThe 1970\u201371 FA Cup was the 90th season of the world's oldest football cup competition, the Football Association Challenge Cup, commonly known as the FA Cup. First Division champions Arsenal won the competition for the fourth time, beating Liverpool 2\u20131 in the final at Wembley. In doing so, Arsenal were the fourth team to complete a double of League and Cup victories, following Preston North End, Aston Villa and Tottenham Hotspur.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091841-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 FA Cup\nMatches were scheduled to be played at the stadium of the team named first on the date specified for each round, which was always a Saturday. Some matches, however, might be rescheduled for other days if there were clashes with games for other competitions or the weather was inclement. If scores were level after 90 minutes had been played, a replay would take place at the stadium of the second-named team later the same week. If the replayed match was drawn further replays would be held until a winner was determined. If scores were level after 90 minutes had been played in a replay, a 30-minute period of extra time would be played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 653]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091841-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 FA Cup, Results, First Round Proper\nAt this stage clubs from the Football League Third and Fourth Divisions joined those non-league clubs having come through the qualifying rounds. Matches were scheduled to be played on Saturday, 21 November 1970, with the exception of the Great Harwood\u2013Rotherham United match, which was played the following Tuesday. Nine matches were drawn, of which one went to a second replay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 43], "content_span": [44, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091841-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 FA Cup, Results, Second Round Proper\nThe matches were scheduled for Saturday, 12 December 1970. Six matches were drawn, with replays taking place later the same week or the week after. The Lincoln City\u2013Bradford City match required a second replay, which was played on the 21 December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 44], "content_span": [45, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091841-0004-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 FA Cup, Results, Third Round Proper\nThe 44 First and Second Division clubs entered the competition at this stage. The matches were scheduled Saturday, 2 January 1971, but ten were played at later dates. Seven matches were drawn and went to replays.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 43], "content_span": [44, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091841-0005-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 FA Cup, Results, Fourth Round Proper\nThe matches were scheduled for Saturday, 23 January 1971. Seven matches were drawn, of which one required a second replay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 44], "content_span": [45, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091841-0006-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 FA Cup, Results, Fifth Round Proper\nThe matches were scheduled for Saturday, 13 February 1971 with one fixture and two replays played three or four days later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 43], "content_span": [44, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091841-0007-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 FA Cup, Results, Sixth Round Proper\nThe four sixth round ties were played on the 6 March 1971. There were two replays in the midweek fixtures of the following week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 43], "content_span": [44, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091841-0008-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 FA Cup, Results, Semi-Finals\nThe semi-final matches were played on Saturday, 27 March 1971 with the Arsenal\u2013Stoke match needing a replay. Liverpool and Arsenal came through the Semi final round to meet at Wembley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091841-0009-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 FA Cup, Results, Third place playoff\nBetween 1970 and 1974, a third place playoff between the two losing semi-finalists was held.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 44], "content_span": [45, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091841-0010-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 FA Cup, Results, Final\nThe 1971 FA Cup Final was contested by Arsenal and Liverpool at Wembley on the 8 May 1971. Arsenal won 2\u20131 after extra time, with all three goals coming in the added half-hour. Steve Heighway scored for Liverpool first, before Arsenal equalised with a scrambled goal from substitute Eddie Kelly - the first time a substitute had ever scored in an FA Cup final. Charlie George scored the winner six minutes into the second period.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 30], "content_span": [31, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091841-0011-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 FA Cup, TV Coverage\nThe rights to show FA Cup games were, as with Football League matches, shared between the BBC and ITV network. All games were shown in a highlights format, except the Final, which was shown live both on BBC1 and ITV. The BBC football highlights programme Match Of The Day would show up to three games and the various ITV regional network stations would cover up to one game and show highlights from other games covered elsewhere on the ITV network. The ITV region Anglia showed highlights of the Second Round tie between Colchester United and Cambridge United, it would be the last game from outside the third round covered by ITV until 1982. Highlights of replays would be shown on either the BBC or ITV.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 733]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091842-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 FA Cup qualifying rounds\nThe FA Cup 1970\u201371 is the 90th season of the world's oldest football knockout competition; The Football Association Challenge Cup, or FA Cup for short. The large number of clubs entering the tournament from lower down the English football league system meant that the competition started with a number of preliminary and qualifying rounds. The 28 victorious teams from the Fourth Round Qualifying progressed to the First Round Proper.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091842-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 FA Cup qualifying rounds, 1970\u201371 FA Cup\nSee 1970-71 FA Cup for details of the rounds from the First Round Proper onwards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091843-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 FA Trophy\nThe 1970\u201371 FA Trophy was the second season of the FA Trophy. The competition was set up for non-league clubs which paid their players and were therefore not eligible to enter the FA Amateur Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091844-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 FC Barcelona season\nThe 1970\u201371 season was the 72nd season for FC Barcelona.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 84]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091845-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 FC Basel season\nThe 1970\u201371 season was Fussball Club Basel 1893's 77th season in their existence. It was their 25th consecutive season in the top flight of Swiss football after their promotion the season 1945\u201346. They played their home games in the St. Jakob Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091845-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 FC Basel season, Overview, Pre-season\nFor the sixth consecutive season Helmut Benthaus was player-manager. There were only very few changes in the squad. Bruno Michaud retired from active football after winning his third championship title. He had played 16 seasons in the Nationalliga A, 14 of these were with Basel and two with Lausanne-Sport. During his time with Basel Michaud played a total of 355 competitive games and scored 22 goals. Dieter R\u00fcefli moved on to play for St. Gallen and Janos Konrad moved on to Vevey-Sports. In the other direction Edoardo Manzoni joined the squad on loan from Xamax.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091845-0001-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 FC Basel season, Overview, Pre-season\nBenthaus did not want any other transfers and relied on young players who came up from the reserve team to help, when needed in the first team. Basel played a total of 55 matches during this season. 27 of these games were in the domestic league including the play-off for the championship. Three of these games were in the Swiss Cup, four were in the European Cup, five were in the Cup of the Alps and 16 were friendly matches. Of these 16 test games 13 were won and three were drawn. Five test matches were played at home and 11 played away.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091845-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 FC Basel season, Overview, Domestic league\n14 teams contested in the 1970\u201371 Nationalliga A. These were the top 12 teams from the previous 1969\u201370 season and the two newly promoted teams Sion and Luzern. The championship was played in a double round robin. The champions would qualify for the 1971\u201372 European Cup and the last two teams in the league table at the end of the season were to be relegated. Basel won 18 of their 26 league games, drawing six, losing just twice, they scored 67 goals conceding 26.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091845-0002-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 FC Basel season, Overview, Domestic league\nThey finished the regular season level on points with Grasshopper Club Z\u00fcrich and so these two teams had to contest a play-off game on 8 June 1971 to decide the title winners. Grasshopper won the play-off 4\u20133 after extra time. Walter Balmer was Basel's top goal scorer with 13 league goals and Karl Odermatt second top scorer with 12 league goals. Peter Wenger scored 10, Helmut Hauser managed 9 and J\u00fcrgen Sundermann scored 8 league goals. Bellinzona finished last and the table and were relegated. Sion and Fribourg, level on points, were both second last and thus they had to have a play-off against relegation. Sion won 1\u20130, so Fribourg were relegated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 707]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091845-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 FC Basel season, Overview, Swiss Cup\nOn 1 November 1969 Basel started in the Swiss Cup in the round of 32 with a 5\u20131 home win against CS Ch\u00eanois. In the round of 16 played on 29 November Basel had a home match against Bellinzona which was won 2\u20130. In the quarter-final, played on 28 February 1971, Basel had an away tie against Mendrisiostar (after club merger later renamed FC Mendrisio-Stabio). However, this was lost 0\u20132 after extra time. Servette won the cup competition at the end of the season, winning the final at the Wankdorf Stadium 2\u20130 against Lugano.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091845-0004-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 FC Basel season, Overview, European Cup\nIn the European Cup Basel were drawn against Spartak Moscow. The first leg, which was played on 16 September 1970 away from home, was lost 2\u20133 with Odermatt and Benthaus scoring for the guests during the last 12 minutes, after they had gone three down with just a quarter of an hour left to play. In the second leg played in the St. Jakob Stadium Basel won 2\u20131, the goals being scored by Siegenthaler und Walter Balmer. Thus the tie ended 4\u20134 on aggregate. Basel won on away goals and advanced to the second round. Here they were drawn against Ajax, first away from home, but they suffered a 0\u20133 defeat. The second leg at home also ended with a defeat, 1\u20132, despite the fact that Odermatt put Basel one up with a penalty after 36 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 47], "content_span": [48, 786]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091845-0005-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 FC Basel season, Overview, Cup of the Alps\nIn the 1970 Cup of the Alps Basel were in the Swiss Group together with Lugano, Young Boys and Z\u00fcrich. They played against each of the four Italian teams Fiorentina, Lazio, Sampdoria and Bari. Basel won the Swiss group and in the final they faced and beat Fiorentina 3\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091845-0006-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 FC Basel season, Players\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091845-0007-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 FC Basel season, Players\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091845-0008-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 FC Basel season, Results, European Cup\nSpartak Moscow 4\u20134 Basel on aggregate. Basel won on away goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 46], "content_span": [47, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091846-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 FC Bayern Munich season\nThe 1970\u201371 FC Bayern Munich season was the club's sixth season in Bundesliga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091847-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 FC Dinamo Bucure\u0219ti season\nThe 1970\u201371 season was FC Dinamo Bucure\u0219ti's 22nd season in Divizia A. Dinamo is close to their second double in Romania, but fails to win the Romanian Cup, losing again the final against Steaua. In was the fourth final in a row played by Dinamo. After a two-year break, Dinamo is back in the European cups, playing in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup where is eliminated in the second round by Liverpool F.C..", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091847-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 FC Dinamo Bucure\u0219ti season, Squad\nGoalkeepers: Mircea Constantinescu (27 / 0); Marin Andrei (4 / 0); Iosif Cavai (1 / 0). Defenders: Florin Cheran (27 / 1); Ion Nunweiller (20 / 0); Mircea Stoenescu (20 / 0); Cornel Dinu (24 / 4); Gabriel Sandu (9 / 0); Augustin Deleanu (27 / 3); Augustin Deleanu (27 / 3); Constantin \u0218tefan (8 / 0); Nicolae Petre (2 / 0). Midfielders: Viorel S\u0103lceanu (26 / 8); Alexandru Must\u0103\u021bea (18 / 0); Radu Nunweiller (30 / 5). Forwards: Alexandru Moldovan (12 / 0); Petre Nu\u021bu (12 / 0); Florea Dumitrache (28 / 15); Mircea Lucescu (23 / 3); Gavril Both (10 / 1); Doru Popescu (22 / 7); Ion Haidu (14 / 2); Ion Mo\u021b (3 / 0). (league appearances and goals listed in brackets)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 706]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091847-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 FC Dinamo Bucure\u0219ti season, Transfers\nBefore the season, Dinamo transferred Alexandru Must\u0103\u021bea from Universitatea Cluj, and Mircea Constantinescu from Politehnica Ia\u015fi. Ion Nunweiller returned after two seasons spent at Fenerbah\u00e7e. Constantin Fr\u0103\u021bil\u0103 went to FC Arge\u015f, Ion P\u00eerc\u0103lab to N\u00eemes Olympique, in France and Vasile Gergely to Hertha Berlin. Ion Mo\u0163 is transferred from Unirea Alba Iulia during the season. Gabriel Sandu is promoted from the second team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091848-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 FIBA European Champions Cup\nThe 1970\u201371 FIBA European Champions Cup was the 14th installment of the European top-tier level professional basketball club competition FIBA European Champions Cup (now called EuroLeague). The Final was held at the Arena Deurne, in Antwerp, Belgium, on April 8, 1971. It was won by CSKA Moscow, who defeated Ignis Varese, by a result of 67\u201353.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091848-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 FIBA European Champions Cup, First round\n*FIBA cancelled this match and declared \u0130T\u00dc winner as Partizani Tirana refused to play in Turkey due to an outbreak of cholera in this country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 48], "content_span": [49, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091848-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 FIBA European Champions Cup, First round\n* *Fiat Stars and \u00cdR withdrew before the first leg, so A\u0160K Olimpija and Olympique Antibes received a forfeit (2\u20130) in both their games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 48], "content_span": [49, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091848-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 FIBA European Champions Cup, Quarterfinals group stage\nThe quarterfinals were played with a round-robin system, in which every Two Game series (TGS) constituted as one game for the record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 62], "content_span": [63, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091849-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup\nThe 1970\u201371 FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup was the fifth edition of FIBA's 2nd-tier level European-wide professional club basketball competition, contested between national domestic cup champions, running from 3 December 1970, to 7 April 1971. It was contested by 26 teams, six more than in the previous edition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091849-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup\nItaly became the first country to win the competition twice in a row, as the 1966 FIBA European Cup champion, Simmenthal Milano, defeated Spartak Leningrad, in the last of the competition's three two-legged finals. It previously defeated defending champion, Fides Napoli, in the semifinals, in the competition's first tie between two clubs from the same country. Olimpia Milano was the third Italian League club to win the FIBA Cup Winners' Cup, after Ignis Varese, and Fides Napoli.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091850-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 FIBA Women's European Champions Cup\nThe 1970\u201371 FIBA Women's European Champions Cup was the twelfth edition of FIBA Europe's competition for women's basketball national champion clubs, running from November 1970 to April 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091850-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 FIBA Women's European Champions Cup\nFrance's Clermont UC became the first team from the Western Bloc to reach the competition's final, defeating 1970 runner-up Wis\u0142a Krak\u00f3w in the semifinals, but it wasn't able to end the Soviet hegemony, with Daugava Riga winning its eighth title in a row. Turkey withdrew from the competition for sanitary reasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091851-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 FIRA Nations Cup\nThe Nations Cup 1970-71 was the 11th edition of a European rugby union championship for national teams, and sixth with the formula and the name of \"Nations Cup\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091851-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 FIRA Nations Cup\nThe tournament was won by France, who swept all their matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 87]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091852-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup\nThe 5th World Cup season began in December 1970 in Italy and concluded in March 1971 in Sweden. Gustav Th\u00f6ni of Italy won the first of his three consecutive overall titles. Annemarie Pr\u00f6ll of Austria won the women's overall title, her first of five consecutive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091852-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, Men, Overall\nIn Men's Overall World Cup 1970/71 the best three downhills, best three giant slaloms and best three slaloms count. 22 racers had a point deduction.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091852-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, Men, Downhill\nIn Men's Downhill World Cup 1970/71 the best 3 results count. Seven racers had a point deduction, which are given in ().", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091852-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, Men, Giant Slalom\nIn Men's Giant Slalom World Cup 1970/71 the best 3 results count. 12 racers had a point deduction, which are given in ().", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 51], "content_span": [52, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091852-0004-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, Men, Slalom\nIn Men's Slalom World Cup 1970/71 the best 3 results count. 11 racers had a point deduction, which are given in (). Jean-No\u00ebl Augert won five races and won the cup with maximum points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 45], "content_span": [46, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091852-0005-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, Ladies, Overall\nIn Women's Overall World Cup 1970/71 the best three downhills, best three giant slaloms and best three slaloms count. 18 racers had a point deduction.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091852-0006-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, Ladies, Downhill\nIn Women's Downhill World Cup 1970/71 the best 3 results count. Eight racers had a point deduction, which are given in ().", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091852-0007-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, Ladies, Giant Slalom\nIn Women's Giant Slalom World Cup 1970/71 the best 3 results count. 11 racers had a point deduction, which are given in (). Annemarie Pr\u00f6ll won the cup with maximum points by winning the last three competitions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091852-0008-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, Ladies, Slalom\nIn Women's Slalom World Cup 1970/71 the best 3 results count. Ten racers had a point deduction, which are given in ().", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091853-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 FK Partizan season\nThe 1970\u201371 season was the 25th season in FK Partizan's existence. This article shows player statistics and matches that the club played during the 1970\u201371 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091854-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Football League\nThe 1970\u201371 season was the 72nd completed season of The Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091854-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Football League\nArsenal won the league championship at the home of their North London rivals, Tottenham Hotspur, with Ray Kennedy scoring the winner. This would soon be followed by their FA Cup final tie with Liverpool. They narrowly overcame Leeds to win the league, with a 12-point gap separating Leeds United from third-placed Tottenham. Wolves and Liverpool joined these two teams in the UEFA Cup. Chelsea missed out on the top five on goal average but compensated for this shortcoming by beating Real Madrid in the European Cup Winners' Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091854-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Football League\nBurnley and Blackpool (who won this year's Anglo-Italian Cup) were relegated to the Second Division. Burnley returned from 1973/74 to 1975/76 but it took Blackpool until the 2009\u201310 season to regain their top flight status after a 3\u20132 victory over Cardiff City in the Playoff Final (only to be relegated back after the 2010\u201311 season).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091854-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Football League\nWilf McGuinness was sacked after 18 unsuccessful months as manager of Manchester United. Sir Matt Busby was re-appointed as manager on a temporary basis, but never considered returning to his old job on a permanent basis. Leicester City manager Frank O'Farrell was appointed at the end of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091854-0004-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Football League\nLeicester City and Sheffield United were promoted to the First Division. Blackburn Rovers and Bolton Wanderers, two of the most famous and historic names in English football, were relegated to the Third Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091854-0005-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Football League\nPreston North End and Fulham finally had something to shout about by getting promoted to the Second Division. Halifax Town achieved its best ever league position, missing out on the Second Division by one place. Reading, Bury, Doncaster Rovers and Gillingham slid into the Fourth Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091854-0006-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Football League\nNotts County, Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic, Oldham Athletic and York City were promoted to the Third Division. The Football League voted for the league's four bottom clubs to maintain their status.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091854-0007-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Football League, Final league tables and results\nBeginning with the season 1894\u201395, clubs finishing level on points were separated according to goal average (goals scored divided by goals conceded), or more properly put, goal ratio. In case one or more teams had the same goal difference, this system favoured those teams who had scored fewer goals. The goal average system was eventually scrapped beginning with the 1976\u201377 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091854-0008-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Football League, Final league tables and results\nSince the Fourth Division was established in the 1958\u201359 season, the bottom four teams of that division have been required to apply for re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091854-0009-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Football League, First Division, Top scorers\nGoalscorers are listed order of total goals, then according to the number of league goals, then of FA cup goals, then of League Cup goals. A dash means the team of the player in question did not participate in European competitions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091854-0010-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Football League, Second Division, Top scorers\nGoalscorers are listed order of total goals, then according to the number of league goals, then of FA cup goals, then of League Cup goals. A dash means the team of the player in question did not participate in European competitions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 53], "content_span": [54, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091854-0011-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Football League, Third Division, Top scorers\nGoalscorers are listed order of total goals, then according to the number of league goals, then of FA cup goals, then of League Cup goals. A dash means the team of the player in question did not participate in European competitions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 52], "content_span": [53, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091854-0012-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Football League, Fourth Division, Top scorers\nGoalscorers are listed order of total goals, then according to the number of league goals, then of FA cup goals, then of League Cup goals. A dash means the team of the player in question did not participate in European competitions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 53], "content_span": [54, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091855-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Football League Cup\nThe 1970\u201371 Football League Cup was the 11th season of the Football League Cup, a knock-out competition for England's top 92 football clubs. The tournament started on 17 August 1970 and ended with the final at Wembley on 27 February 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091855-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Football League Cup\nTottenham Hotspur won the tournament after defeating Aston Villa in the final at Wembley Stadium, London.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091855-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Football League Cup\nThis was to be the last season in which it wasn't compulsory to enter the tournament. The only team who did not enter in 1970\u201371 was Everton, the previous season's league champions. After 1971\u201372 entry to the tournament became compulsory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091855-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Football League Cup, Final\nThe final was held at Wembley Stadium, London on 27 February 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091856-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Football League First Division\nStatistics of Football League First Division in the 1970\u201371 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091856-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Football League First Division, Overview\nArsenal won the First Division title for the eighth time in the club's history that season. They also won the FA Cup to complete the club's first double. Arsenal wrapped up the title on 3 May, with a 1\u20130 win at North London rivals Tottenham Hotspur. Blackpool were relegated on 12 April, after only holding Tottenham Hotspur to a 0\u20130 draw at home. Burnley joined them on 24 April, after losing 2\u20131 at home to Derby County, which meant West Ham United's 1\u20131 draw at Manchester United saved the Hammers from relegation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091857-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Four Hills Tournament\nIn 1971, Ji\u0159\u00ed Ra\u0161ka became the first Czechoslovakian to win the Four Hills Tournament. For the first time, an athlete who won three out of four events did not end up winning the tournament after Ingolf Mork lost twenty points to Ra\u0161ka and Hubac in Innsbruck.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091857-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Four Hills Tournament\nFor the first time in four years, Ra\u0161ka did not actually win any event in the tournament. It was a desolate year for the two host nations: No athlete from Germany or Austria placed in the Top 15 at any event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091857-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Four Hills Tournament, Participating nations and athletes\nThe national groups of Germany and Austria only competed at the two events in their respective countries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091858-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 French Division 1\nOlympique de Marseille won Division 1 season 1970/1971 of the French Association Football League with 55 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091858-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 French Division 1, Final table\nPromoted from Division 2, who will play in Division 1 season 1971/1972", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091859-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 French Division 2\nThe 1970\u201371 French Division 2 season was the 30th season since its establishment. It was constituted by three geographic groups (South, Center and North) with 16 clubs each. The winners of each group won promotion to the 1971\u201372 French Division 1. Additionally, the winners met once in the championship play\u2013offs. The club with most points was crowned champion and awarded the trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091859-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 French Division 2\nOn the other hand, the bottom club of each group and the worst 15th placed club were relegated to the 1971\u201372 French Division 3. Meanwhile, all reserves teams were relegated at the end of the season, regardless of their final position, due to the creation of the Division 3, which would also serve as the top league for amateur clubs and the club's reserves sides.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091859-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 French Division 2\nThe season began on 23 August 1970 and ended on 12 June 1971. The winter break was in effect from 27 December 1970 to 10 January 1971. Two points were awarded for a win, with no points for a loss. If the match was drawn, each team received one point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091860-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 French Rugby Union Championship\nThe 1970-71 French Rugby Union Championship was contested by 64 teams divided in 8 pools. The first four of each pool, were qualified for the \"last 32\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091860-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 French Rugby Union Championship\n'B\u00e9ziers won The French Rugby Union Championship beating Toulon in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091860-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 French Rugby Union Championship\nFor B\u00e9ziers, was the first of ten title in two decades, while Touloun had to wait until 1987.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091860-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 French Rugby Union Championship, Qualification round\nIn bold the clubs qualified for the next round. The teams are listed according to the final ranking", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 60], "content_span": [61, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091861-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Galatasaray S.K. Volleyball season\nGalatasaray SK. Men's 1970\u20131971 season is the 1970\u20131971 volleyball season for Turkish professional basketball club Galatasaray Yurti\u00e7i Kargo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091861-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Galatasaray S.K. Volleyball season, Results, schedules and standings\nPts=Points, Pld=Matches played, W=Matches won, L=Matches lost, F=Points for, A=Points against", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 76], "content_span": [77, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091862-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Galatasaray S.K. season\nThe 1970\u201371 season was Galatasaray's 67th in existence and the 13th consecutive season in the 1. Lig. This article shows statistics of the club's players in the season, and also lists all matches that the club have played in the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091863-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Gala\u021bi County Championship\nThe 1970\u201371 Gala\u021bi County Championship was the 3rd season of the Liga IV Gala\u021bi, the fourth tier of the Romanian football league system. Gloria Tecuci won the championship and promoted to Divizia C without promotion play-off. Due to the expansion of Divizia C from next season, from eight series with 16 teams to twelve series of 14 teams, the promotion play-off was not held this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091864-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team\nThe 1970\u201371 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team represented Georgetown University during the 1970\u201371 NCAA University Division college basketball season. John Magee coached them in his fifth season as head coach. The team was an independent and played its home games at McDonough Gymnasium on the Georgetown campus in Washington, D.C.. It finished the season with a record of 12-14 and had no post-season play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091864-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap\nIn recent seasons, Georgetown had established a pattern of strong starts followed by late-season collapses that sank hopes for a berth in a post-season tournament, losing seven of its final 10 games in the 1964-65 season, eight of its final 11 games in 1966-67, and seven of its last nine games in 1968-69. In 1969-70, however, it had played well enough for a bid in the 1970 National Invitation Tournament and had come close to defeating Pete Maravich and his Louisiana State teammates in the first round. With junior forward Art White \u2013 generally viewed at the time as the greatest player in Georgetown basketball history \u2013 as well as senior guard Don Weber and junior forward Mike Laughna returning, Magee had high hopes that a new era of success had dawned in Georgetown men's basketball.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 60], "content_span": [61, 853]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091864-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap\nLaughna had a strong season, shooting 48.2% from the field. Over the course of three consecutive games in February 1971 against American, Loyola, and New York University (NYU), he scored 76 points and pulled down 50 rebounds, and in the NYU game alone he grabbed 11 rebounds and scored 35 points, the only 30-plus-point scoring performance in a single game by a Georgetown player during the 1970s. During the season, he led the team in scoring in 14 games, including 10 of the last 11.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 60], "content_span": [61, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091864-0002-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap\nWhite, meanwhile, scored in double figures in 21 of the season's 26 games and averaged 14.2 points per game, and Weber closed out his collegiate career by scoring in double figures 13 times, shooting 44% from the field, and leading the team in assists for the second straight year with 100.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 60], "content_span": [61, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091864-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap\nMagee's hope that the 1970-71 team would build on the success of the previous year went unfulfilled: The team played very poorly on defense and, after opening 3-5 and then winning six of its next eight to improve to 9-7, it returned to the pattern of the teams of the latter half of the 1960s, losing seven of its last 10 games. The season culminated in a meeting with longtime rival Fordham, ranked No. 13 in the Associated Press Poll, before a sellout crowd at McDonough Gymnasium on March 4, 1971. Rams guard/forward Charlie Yelverton scored 38 points to lead Fordham to an 81\u201368 victory that gave the Rams a 22\u20132 record, and the win clinched Fordham's first bid to the NCAA Tournament since 1954.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 60], "content_span": [61, 762]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091864-0004-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap\nGeorgetown finished the season with a record of 12-14 and had no post-season play. Magee's relationship with the team deteriorated as the season wore on. Praising only Laughna \u2014 when asked what lineup he would use for the team the following season, he said, \"Laughna and four others\" \u2014 Magee otherwise openly blamed the year's results on the performance of his players, specifically calling White \"a disappointment\" in an interview with the campus newspaper The Hoya. White did not return to the team for the following season because of academic issues, presaging a dismal Hoya performance in 1971-72.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 60], "content_span": [61, 662]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091864-0005-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap\nThe 1970-71 team was not ranked in the Top 20 in the Associated Press Poll or Coaches' Poll at any time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 60], "content_span": [61, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091865-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Gonzaga Bulldogs men's basketball team\nThe 1970\u201371 Gonzaga Bulldogs men's basketball team represented Gonzaga University during the 1970\u201371 NCAA University Division basketball season. Charter members of the recently expanded Big Sky Conference, the Bulldogs were led by twentieth-year head coach Hank Anderson and played their home games on campus at Kennedy Pavilion in Spokane, Washington. They were 12\u201313 overall and 6\u20138 in conference play, tied for fifth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091865-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Gonzaga Bulldogs men's basketball team\nNo Bulldogs were selected for the all-conference team; senior center Bill Quigg was on the second team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091866-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Greek Football Cup\nThe 1970\u201371 Greek Football Cup was the 29th edition of the Greek Football Cup. The competition culminated with the Greek Cup Final, held at Karaiskakis Stadium, on 9 June 1971. The match was contested by Olympiacos and PAOK, with Olympiacos winning by 3\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091866-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Greek Football Cup, Last qualifying round\n*The match was interrupted in the expense of EPA Larnaca while the score was 2\u20131. That remained as the final score", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091866-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Greek Football Cup, Last qualifying round\n\u2022 The last 16 of the previous season's Cup qualified for the 2nd round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091866-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Greek Football Cup, Final\nThe 27th Greek Cup Final was played at the Karaiskakis Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091867-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Heart of Midlothian F.C. season\nDuring the 1970\u201371 season, Heart of Midlothian F.C. competed in the Scottish First Division, the Scottish Cup, the Scottish League Cup, the Texaco Cup and the East of Scotland Shield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091868-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Hellenic Football League\nThe 1970\u201371 Hellenic Football League season was the 18th in the history of the Hellenic Football League, a football competition in England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091868-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Hellenic Football League, Premier Division\nThe Premier Division featured 15 clubs which competed in the division last season, along with three new clubs:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091868-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Hellenic Football League, Division One\nThe Division One featured 17 clubs which competed in the division last season, along with 3 new clubs:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091869-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Hibernian F.C. season\nDuring the 1970\u201371 season Hibernian, a football club based in Edinburgh, came twelfth out of 18 clubs in the Scottish First Division, reached the semi-finals of the Scottish Cup and reached the quarter-finals of the Scottish League Cup and Inter-Cities Fairs Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091870-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Honduran Liga Nacional\nThe 1970\u201371 Honduran Liga Nacional season was the 6th edition of the Honduran Liga Nacional. The format of the tournament remained the same as the previous season. C.D. Motagua won the title and qualified to the 1971 CONCACAF Champions' Cup along with runners-up Club Deportivo Olimpia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091871-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Honduran Segunda Divisi\u00f3n\nThe 1970\u201371 Honduran Segunda Divisi\u00f3n was the fifth season of the Honduran Segunda Divisi\u00f3n. Under the management of Joaqu\u00edn Padilla, C.D. Troya won the tournament after defeating C.D. Lenca in the final series and obtained promotion to the 1971\u201372 Honduran Liga Nacional.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091872-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Hong Kong First Division League\nThe 1970\u201371 Hong Kong First Division League season was the 60th since its establishment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091873-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season\nHuddersfield Town's 1970\u201371 campaign was Town's first season in the Football League's top division since the 1955\u201356 season, following their successful previous season in Division 2. They finished in 15th place, but only 9 points clear of the relegation zone. They had some brilliant results during the season, including a 2\u20131 win over champions and FA Cup winners Arsenal, and were top of the table after wins over Blackpool and Southampton. Their top position lasted only one more season, followed by their dramatic slide in the 1971\u201372 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091873-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Squad at the start of the season\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 73], "content_span": [74, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091873-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Review\nAfter a successful previous season, Town started their Division 1 lives with convincing 3\u20130 & 3\u20131 wins over Blackpool & Southampton respectively. Those wins actually put Town top of the table, but they were soon put back into place with a 4\u20130 drubbing by Liverpool at Anfield. They had a pretty mixed season, but they were never in any danger of being dragged into a relegation dogfight. One of their most impressive wins was a 2\u20131 win over Arsenal in January 1971. Goals by Les Chapman and Frank Worthington in between a Ray Kennedy equalizer gave Town a win over the eventual league and FA Cup winners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 652]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091873-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Review\nTown finished in 15th place, despite only winning 11 games all season. They had 36 points, but never looked like getting relegated or fighting for a European place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091873-0004-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Squad at the end of the season\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 71], "content_span": [72, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091874-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Hunedoara County Championship\nThe 1970\u201371 Hunedoara County Championship was the 3rd season of the Liga IV Hunedoara, the fourth tier of the Romanian football league system. The season began on 6 September 1970 and ended on 30 May 1971. Constructorul Hunedoara promoted to Divizia C without promotion play-off. Due to the expansion of Divizia C from next season, from eight series with 16 teams to twelve series of 14 teams, the promotion play-off was not held this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091875-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 IHL season\nThe 1970\u201371 IHL season was the 26th season of the International Hockey League, a North American minor professional league. Seven teams participated in the regular season, and the Port Huron Flags won the Turner Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091875-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 IHL season, Turner Cup-Playoffs, Semifinals\nThe semifinals were a round-robin with the Port Huron Flags, Des Moines Oak Leafs, and the Dayton Gems competing. The Flags and Oak Leafs advanced to the finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 51], "content_span": [52, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091876-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 IIHF European Cup\nThe 1970\u201371 European Cup was the sixth edition of the European Cup, IIHF's premier European club ice hockey tournament. The season started on October, 1970 and finished on September 4, 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091876-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 IIHF European Cup\nThe tournament was won by CSKA Moscow, who beat Dukla Jihlava in the final", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091877-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Idaho State Bengals men's basketball team\nThe 1970\u201371 Idaho State Bengals men's basketball team represented Idaho State University during the 1970\u201371 NCAA University Division basketball season. Led by fourth-year head coach Dan Miller, the Bengals played their home games on campus at the new ISU Minidome in Pocatello.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091877-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Idaho State Bengals men's basketball team\nIdaho State finished the regular season at 9\u201315 overall, with a 7\u20137 record in the Big Sky Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091877-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Idaho State Bengals men's basketball team\nSenior guard Willie Humes averaged over 34 points per game and was again unanimously selected to the all-conference team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091877-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Idaho State Bengals men's basketball team\nMiller was dismissed after the season in March, succeeded by Jim Killingsworth, the head coach for seven seasons at Cerritos College in southern California, where he compiled a 157\u201346 (.773) record and led the Falcons to the 1968 California junior college championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091878-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Idaho Vandals men's basketball team\nThe 1970\u201371 Idaho Vandals men's basketball team represented the University of Idaho during the 1970\u201371 NCAA University Division basketball season. Charter members of the recently expanded Big Sky Conference, the Vandals were led by fifth-year head coach Wayne Anderson and played their home games on campus at the Memorial Gymnasium in Moscow, Idaho. They were 14\u201311 overall and 8\u20136 in conference play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091878-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Idaho Vandals men's basketball team\nSenior forward Malcolm Taylor was selected for the all-conference team, and senior forward John Nelson was on the second team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091879-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team\nThe 1970\u201371 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team represented the University of Illinois.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091879-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team, Regular season\nHead coach Harv Schmidt, in only his fourth season at the helm of the Fighting Illini men's basketball team, saw the longest losing streak of his career, 8 games. After starting the year by winning 9 of their first 12 games and 10 of their first 14, the Illini started their losing streak at Ohio State on February 13, and continue for a month. The agonizing month ended March 13, 1971, when the Illini visited Indiana in the season finale. The Fighting Illini finished the season with an 11-12 record, tied for 5th place in the conference with a 5-9 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 70], "content_span": [71, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091879-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team, Regular season\nThe Illini added sophomore forward Nick Weatherspoon for the season. Weatherspoon finished his inaugural season by scoring 381 points, averaging 16.5 points per game, and collected 246 rebounds. By the completion of his time at Illinois, Weatherspoon was their all-time leading scorer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 70], "content_span": [71, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091879-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team, Regular season\nThe 1970-71 team's starting lineup included Weatherspoon and Fred Miller at the forward spots, Jim Krelle and Rick Howat as guards and Greg Jackson at center.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 70], "content_span": [71, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091880-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Illinois State Redbirds men's basketball team\nThe 1970\u201371 Illinois State Redbirds men's basketball team represented Illinois State University during the 1970\u201371 NCAA University Division men's basketball season. The Redbirds, led by first-year head coach Will Robinsion, played their home games at Horton Field House in Normal, Illinois as members of the Conference of Midwestern Universities. They finished the season 16\u201310, 3\u20135 in conference play to finish in fourth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091881-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team\nThe 1970\u201371 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team represented Indiana University. Their head coach was Lou Watson, who after taking a one-year leave of absence to recover from surgery returned for his 5th and final year. Jerry Oliver, who filled in for Watson the previous season, again filled in for him when Watson resigned before the last game of the season. For the last time, the team played its home games in New Fieldhouse in Bloomington, Indiana, and was a member of the Big Ten Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091881-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team\nThe Hoosiers finished the regular season with an overall record of 17\u20137 and a conference record of 9\u20135, finishing 4th in the Big Ten Conference. Indiana was not invited to play in any postseason tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091882-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Indiana Pacers season\nThe 1970\u201371 Indiana Pacers season was Indiana's fourth season in the American Basketball Association and fourth as a team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091883-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Inter Milan season\nDuring 1970-71 season Inter competed in Serie A, Coppa Italia and Fairs' Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091883-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Inter Milan season, Summary\nFollowing the golden era of the 1960s, Inter managed to win their eleventh league title in 1971. The second season of Heriberto Herrera is opened with the transfer out of Luis Su\u00e1rez to Sampdoria, after nine years in Milan. The fans of Inter Milan were schocked with initial results, with Inter out in Coppa Italia and eliminated by Newcastle United in Fairs Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091883-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Inter Milan season, Summary\nPresident Ivanoe Fraizzoli, who at the time also made it clear that he was willing to sell the club if the right offer was tabled, fired Herrera after a 0-3 loss with city rivals Milan and handed control of the side to youth team boss Giovanni Invernizzi. A former Inter player, Invernizzi was initially appointed on a temporary basis yet ended the campaign by making Italian football history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091883-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Inter Milan season, Summary\nInvernizzi rejuvenated a tactically exhausted and an under-performing squad. He turned Tarcisio Burgnich into a sweeper, played the young Mauro Bellugi at right-back, reintegrated Jair into the team, replaced summer signing Mario Frustalupi with Mario Bertini and asked the club's senators \u2013 Giacinto Facchetti, Sandro Mazzola, Mario Corso and Boninsegna \u2013 to perform to their status.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091883-0004-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Inter Milan season, Summary\nThe turning point in their season came after a defeat to Napoli in Week 7. On the flight home, Invernizzi and some of the side's more experienced elements sat down with a fixture list to hand. Together they plotted their path to what many perceived as unlikely title glory and the tabella, as it was known, became part of Inter folklore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091883-0005-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Inter Milan season, Summary\nFollowing defeat at the San Paolo, they went on an unbeaten run which saw them take 21 points from a possible 24. The Nerazzurri won the return derby, wiped out a significant point gap that winter champions Milan had over them and netted the championship with two games to spare.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091883-0006-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Inter Milan season, Summary\nInvernizzi not only became a hero of consequence, he also made sure his name would be inscribed in the footballing annals of time. Never before and not since has a Serie A team changed Coach mid-season and gone on to be crowned champions of Italy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091883-0007-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Inter Milan season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091884-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup\nThe thirteenth and final Inter-Cities Fairs Cup was played over the 1970\u201371 season. The competition was won by Leeds United for the second time, over two legs, in the final against Juventus. It was the first time the competition final had been won on the away goals rule. The competition was abolished and replaced the next season by the UEFA Cup. The Inter-Cities Fairs trophy was finally won in a play-off between the first and last competition winners: CF Barcelona and Leeds United, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091884-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, Second round, Second leg\nThe referee called the end of the game three minutes before the regulation time and had to abandon the pitch escorted out by Beveren's players because of the pressure and the protests by the visiting team as a result of his decision. K.S.K. Beveren won 2\u20131 on aggregate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091884-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, Quarter-finals, Second leg\n2\u20132 on aggregate; 1. FC K\u00f6ln won on away goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091884-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, Final, First leg\nGame abandoned in the 51st minute due to heavy rain and waterlogged pitch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091885-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Iowa State Cyclones men's basketball team\nThe 1970\u201371 Iowa State Cyclones men's basketball team represented Iowa State University during the 1970\u201371 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Cyclones were coached by Glen Anderson, who was in his twelfth and final season with the Cyclones. They played their home games at the Iowa State Armory in Ames, Iowa for the final season. Anderson was replaced at head coach by Maury John, and the Armory was replaced with Hilton Coliseum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091885-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Iowa State Cyclones men's basketball team\nThey finished the season 5\u201321, 2\u201312 in Big Eight play to finish in a tie for seventh place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091886-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Iraq Central FA Premier League\nThe 1970\u201371 Iraq Central FA Premier League was the 23rd season of the Iraq Central FA League (the top division of football in Baghdad and its neighbouring cities from 1948 to 1973). Eight teams competed in the tournament, which was played in a double round-robin format. After returning from the 1971 Asian Club Championship, Aliyat Al-Shorta had two games in hand against Al-Mushat and Al-Sikak Al-Hadeed and if they won both games they would win the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091886-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Iraq Central FA Premier League\nTheir captain Abid Kadhim missed the Al-Sikak Al-Hadeed game due to a broken foot. Al-Sikak Al-Hadeed, who had not previously beaten Aliyat Al-Shorta in the league, managed to go 2\u20130 up in the first half through two goals from Ali Kadhim. Aliyat Al-Shorta then scored twice in the last ten minutes through Douglas Aziz and Tariq Aziz but the game ended 2\u20132, giving the title to Maslahat Naqil Al-Rukab, who earned their fourth title and their fifth title in the history of the teams that were later merged to form Amanat Baghdad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091886-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Iraq Central FA Premier League\nAl-Quwa Al-Siyara were relegated after they were found guilty of match fixing in their 5\u20130 loss to Aliyat Al-Shorta (who were subsequently not awarded any points for their victory in that match).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091887-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Irish League\nThe Irish League in season 1970\u201371 comprised 12 teams, and Linfield won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091888-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Israel State Cup\nThe 1970\u201371 Israel State Cup (Hebrew: \u05d2\u05d1\u05d9\u05e2 \u05d4\u05de\u05d3\u05d9\u05e0\u05d4\u200e, Gvia HaMedina) was the 32nd season of Israel's nationwide football cup competition and the 17th after the Israeli Declaration of Independence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091888-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Israel State Cup\nHakoah Maccabi Ramat Gan and Maccabi Haifa made their way to the final, which was played on 16 June 1971, Hakoah winning 2\u20131 to obtain its second cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091888-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Israel State Cup, Results, Second Round\nAlso promoted from this round: Maccabi Afula, Hapoel Givat HaMoreh and Hapoel Kafr Yasif", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 47], "content_span": [48, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091888-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Israel State Cup, Results, Fourth Round\nLiga Alef clubs entered the competition on this round. As in previous seasons, The draw was set so that Liga Alef clubs wouldn't be drawn against each other.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 47], "content_span": [48, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091888-0004-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Israel State Cup, Results, Sixth Round\nLiga Leumit clubs entered the competition in this round. The IFA arranged the draw so each Liga Leumit clubs wouldn't be drawn to play each other.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 46], "content_span": [47, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091889-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Isthmian League\nThe 1970\u201371 season was the 56th in the history of the Isthmian League, an English football competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091889-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Isthmian League\nWycombe Wanderers were champions, winning their third Isthmian League title. At the end of the season Maidstone United and Wealdstone switched to the Southern Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091890-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Japan Ice Hockey League season\nThe 1970\u201371 Japan Ice Hockey League season was the fifth season of the Japan Ice Hockey League. Five teams participated in the league, and the Seibu Tetsudo won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091891-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 KNVB Cup\nThe 53rd edition of the KNVB Cup started on August 15, 1970. The final was played on May 20, 1971: Ajax beat Sparta 2\u20131 and won the cup for the sixth time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091891-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 KNVB Cup, First round\nThe matches of the first round were played on August 15 and 16 1970. Cupholders Ajax E received a bye for this round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091891-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 KNVB Cup, Second round\nThe matches of the second round were played on November 8, 1970. The following clubs received a bye: Fortuna Sittard, FC Twente, Holland Sport, HFC Haarlem, Sparta Rotterdam and SC Drenthe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 30], "content_span": [31, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091891-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 KNVB Cup, Round of 16\nThe matches of the round of 16 were played on March 14, 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 91]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091891-0004-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 KNVB Cup, Quarter finals\nThe quarter finals were played on April 7 and 8 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 32], "content_span": [33, 86]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091891-0005-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 KNVB Cup, Semi-finals\nThe semi-finals were played on April 21 and 22 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 82]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091891-0006-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 KNVB Cup, Final\nThe final was played on May 5, 1971. The replay was played on May 20, 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 23], "content_span": [24, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091891-0007-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 KNVB Cup, Final\nSparta would participate in the Cup Winners' Cup, since Ajax finished second in the Eredivisie, already qualifying for the European Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 23], "content_span": [24, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091892-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team\nThe 1970\u201371 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team represented the University of Kansas during the 1970\u201371 college men's basketball season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091893-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Kentucky Colonels season\nThe 1970\u201371 Kentucky Colonels season was the fourth season of the Colonels in the American Basketball Association. University of Kentucky star Dan Issel was signed by the Colonels. Issel was given a 10-year contract worth $1.4 million, while playing all but one game in the whole season, leading to him being named Rookie of the Year, alongside averaging 29.9 points and 13.2 rebounds per game during the season. Despite a 10\u20135 record, Rhodes was fired during the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091893-0000-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 Kentucky Colonels season\nAfter having business manager Alex Groza coach the team for 2 games, Frank Ramsey was hired to coach the rest of the season. In the Semifinals, the Colonels beat The Floridians 4 games to 2. In the Eastern Division Finals, they beat the Virginia Squires 4 games to 2. In the ABA Finals, they lost to the Utah Stars in seven games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091893-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Kentucky Colonels season, Awards and honors\n1971 ABA All-Star Game selections (game played on January 23, 1971)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 51], "content_span": [52, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091894-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team\nThe 1970\u201371 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team was head coach Adolph Rupp's second to last team. While not as successful as his past Wildcats teams, would go reach the Sweet Sixteen, finishing the season with a 22-6 record (16-2) and a Southeastern Conference regular season championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091896-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 La Liga\nThe 1970\u201371 La Liga was the 40th season since its establishment. The season started on September 12, 1970, and finished on April 18, 1971. Valencia won its fourth title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091897-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Lancashire Cup\nThe 1970\u201371 Lancashire Cup was the fifty-eighth staging of the tournament. Leigh won the trophy by beating St. Helens by the score of 7-4 in the final. The match was played at Station Road, Pendlebury, (historically in the county of Lancashire). The attendance was 10,776 and receipts were \u00a33,136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091897-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Lancashire Cup, Background\nThe total number of teams entering the competition remained the same at a total of 16. Once again two junior (or amateur) clubs were invited St Helens Amateurs and this year, Whitehaven Amateurs. The same fixture format was retained, and due to the number of participating clubs, resulted in a full fixture list with no byes or \u201cblank\u201d or \u201cdummy\u201d fixtures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091897-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Lancashire Cup, Competition and results, Round 1\nInvolved 8 matches (with no bye or \u201cblank\u201d fixture) and 16 clubs", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 56], "content_span": [57, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091897-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Lancashire Cup, Competition and results, Final, Teams and scorers\nScoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = two (2) points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 73], "content_span": [74, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091897-0004-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Lancashire Cup, Notes and comments\n1 * St Helens Amateurs were a junior (or amateur) club from St Helens 2 * Whitehaven Amateurs are a junior (or amateur) club from Whitehaven 3 * Station Road was the home ground of Swinton from 1929 to 1932 and at its peak was one of the finest rugby league grounds in the country and it boasted a capacity of 60,000. The actual record attendance was for the Challenge Cup semi-final on 7 April 1951 when 44,621 watched Wigan beat Warrington 3-2", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091898-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 League of Ireland, Overview\nIt was contested by 14 teams, and Cork Hibernians won the championship after beating Shamrock Rovers 3-1 in a Championship Play-off on 25 April 1971 in Dalymount Park with goals from Miah Dennehy (2) and Dave Wigginton for Cork Hibernians, and Mick Leech for Shamrock Rovers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091899-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Libyan Premier League\nThe 1970\u201371 Libyan Premier League was the 7th edition of the competition since its inception in 1963.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091899-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Libyan Premier League, Overview\nIt was contested by 14 teams, and Al-Ahly Tripoli won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091900-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Liga Alef\nThe 1970\u201371 Liga Alef season saw Maccabi Jaffa (champions of the North Division) and Hapoel Be'er Sheva (champions of the South Division) win the title and promotion to Liga Leumit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091901-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Liga Bet\nThe 1970\u201371 Liga Bet season saw Hapoel Migdal HaEmek, Hapoel Kiryat Haim, Maccabi Bat Yam and Hapoel Ashdod win their regional divisions and promoted to Liga Alef.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091902-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Liga Espa\u00f1ola de Baloncesto\nThe 1970\u201371 Liga Espa\u00f1ola de Baloncesto season was the 15th season of the Liga Espa\u00f1ola de Baloncesto and was played between 10 October 1970 and 7 March 1971. The season ended with Real Madrid winning their 13th title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091902-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Liga Espa\u00f1ola de Baloncesto, Overview before the season\n12 teams joined the league, including two promoted from the 1969\u201370 Segunda Divisi\u00f3n.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 63], "content_span": [64, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091903-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Liga Leumit\nThe 1970\u201371 Liga Leumit season saw Maccabi Netanya win their first title. Maccabi Petah Tikva and Hapoel Holon (in their first and only season in the top division) were both relegated. Eli Ben-Rimoz of Hapoel Jerusalem was the league's top scorer with 20 goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091904-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Lion Shield\nThe 1970\u201371 season of the Lion Shield was the second season of top flight association football competition in Tonga. Kolofo'ou No.1won the championship, their second successive title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091905-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Liverpool F.C. season\nThe rebuilding of Liverpool F.C. continued into 1970-71 as many of the side who came in the previous season began to make their presence felt with the club. Although they had finished fifth in the football league Ray Clemence, Larry Lloyd, and Alec Lindsay all beginning to emerge in their second season of first-team action. Two players would figure well into the seventies; Steve Heighway who joined from Skelmersdale United in May 1970 and became a regular in his full season with the club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091905-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Liverpool F.C. season\nJohn Toshack was bought from Cardiff City in November 1970 for \u00a3110,000, and became an instant hero by scoring in the Merseyside derby versus Everton F.C. a few weeks later. The rebuilding of the side from the 1960s was beginning to take shape and although they finished fifth in the First Division it seemed that Bill Shankly would be emerging with a team that would be challenging for major trophies in the next few years. One signing which took place a few days before they finished runners-up in the FA Cup Final was the signing of Kevin Keegan from Scunthorpe United for \u00a335,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091905-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Liverpool F.C. season\nHowever, the team showed that the future would look promising by losing in the FA Cup Final to League and Cup double winners Arsenal and losing on aggregate one-nil in the Semi-Finals to Leeds United who end up being the eventual and last winners of the Fairs Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091906-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Local League\nThe 1970\u201371 season was the first season of the Local League of Iranian football. The competition was won by Taj Football Club of Tehran.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091906-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Local League, Qualifying Tournament \u2013 Region C (Rasht), Final\n(P) Pas Tehran and Arya Mashhad Promoted to the Group stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 69], "content_span": [70, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091906-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Local League, Qualifying Tournament \u2013 Region D (Isfahan), Final\n(P) Bargh Tehran and Taj Shiraz Promoted to the Group stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 71], "content_span": [72, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091906-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Local League, Final Round (Amjadieh Tehran), Semifinals\n*awarded 3\u20130 to Taj Tehran, abandoned at 1\u20131 in 80' when Perspolis walked off", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 63], "content_span": [64, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091907-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Los Angeles Kings season\nThe 1970\u201371 Los Angeles Kings season was the Kings' fourth season of operation in the National Hockey League (NHL). The Kings finished in fifth place in the West Division and did not qualify for the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091907-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Los Angeles Kings season, Transactions\nThe Kings were involved in the following transactions during the 1970\u201371 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091907-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Los Angeles Kings season, Draft picks\nLos Angeles's draft picks at the 1970 NHL Amateur Draft held at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Quebec.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 45], "content_span": [46, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091908-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Los Angeles Lakers season\nThe 1970\u201371 NBA season was the Lakers' 23rd season in the NBA and 11th season in Los Angeles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091908-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Los Angeles Lakers season\nThe Lakers would be eliminated by the eventual champions, the Milwaukee Bucks, in five games in the Western Conference Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091908-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Los Angeles Lakers season\nThe team's season roster is featured in the video games NBA 2K16, NBA 2K17, and NBA 2K18.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091909-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Luxembourg National Division\nThe 1970\u201371 Luxembourg National Division was the 57th season of top level association football in Luxembourg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091909-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Luxembourg National Division, Overview\nIt was performed in 12 teams, and Union Luxembourg won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091910-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 MJHL season\nIn the 1970-71 season of Canadian ice hockey, the Manitoba Junior Hockey League (MJHL) champions were Winnipeg Saints (St. Boniface Saints), who won the Turnbull Memorial Trophy in the final on March 30, 1971, at home in St. Boniface. The Saints went on to win the Anavet Cup by defeating the Weyburn Red Wings of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League on April 13, 1971, at the St. James ground in Winnipeg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091911-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Maltese Premier League\nThe 1970\u201371 Maltese First Division was the 56th season of top-tier football in Malta. It was contested by 8 teams, and Sliema Wanderers F.C. won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091912-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Manchester United F.C. season\nThe 1970\u201371 season was Manchester United's 69th season in the Football League, and their 26th consecutive season in the top division of English football. In a pre-season competition United participated in the Watney Cup, which was contested by the teams that had scored the most goals in each of the four divisions of the Football League the previous season who had not been promoted or admitted to one of the European competitions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091912-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Manchester United F.C. season\nOn 29 December 1970, United manager Wilf McGuinness who struggled in his new post was replaced with Matt Busby who returned as United manager until the end of the season, guiding the club to an eighth-place finish in the league. Following speculation that the Celtic manager Jock Stein would take over during the close season of 1971, Leicester City manager Frank O'Farrell was given the United job.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091912-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Manchester United F.C. season\nUnited's best chance of success came in the League Cup, but they were beaten by Third Division side Aston Villa in the semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091913-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Mansfield Town F.C. season\nThe 1970\u201371 season was Mansfield Town's 34th season in the Football League and 10th in the Third Division, they finished in 7th position with 51 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091914-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Marquette Warriors men's basketball team\nThe 1970\u201371 Marquette Warriors men's basketball team represented Marquette University in NCAA Division I men's competition in the 1970\u201371 academic year. The Warriors were ranked either No. 1 or No. 2 from January 1971 through the end of the regular season and finished the regular season undefeated with a record of 28\u20130. The team advanced to the 1971 NCAA University Division Basketball Tournament where it defeated Miami and SEC champion Kentucky, but lost to Ohio State. The team finished with a 28\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091914-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Marquette Warriors men's basketball team\nThe team was coached by Al McGuire who was selected by the Associated Press as the college coach of the year for the 1970-71 season. McGuire was later inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091914-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Marquette Warriors men's basketball team\nGuard Dean Meminger was the team's captain and leading scorer, averaging 21.2 points per game. Center Jim Chones was the leading rebounder with an average of 11.5 rebounds per game. After the season, Meminger was selected as a first-team player on the 1971 All-America team, and Chones received first-team honors on the 1972 All-America team. Meminger and Chones both went on to have successful careers in professional basketball.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091914-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Marquette Warriors men's basketball team\nThe team's sole loss was by a 60-59 score against Ohio State in the NCAA Tournament. Pacific Eight Conference referee Mel Ross called a controversial fifth and final foul on Meminger, depriving Marquette of its most valuable player for the game's final five minutes. After the season, Marquette named referee Ross to its \"all-opponent team\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091914-0004-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Marquette Warriors men's basketball team\nPrior to losing to Ohio State, Marquette had compiled a 39-game winning streak dating back to the previous season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091915-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Memphis Pros season\nThe 1970\u201371 Memphis Pros season was the 1st season of the Pros in the American Basketball Association after three seasons in New Orleans as the Buccaneers, with P.W. Blake of Mississippi buying the team on August 21, 1970 and moving the team 10 days later to Memphis. Due to having to reuse the Bucs' jerseys with a name that would fit the four letters they had put on the home and road jerseys, the team was named \"Pros\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091915-0000-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 Memphis Pros season\nHowever the Pros had to deal with limited dates to book for games at the Mid-South Coliseum, with some of the games being played in Jackson, Mississippi. On October 20, 1970, the Pros played their first ever game, playing the New York Nets in Memphis, losing 108\u2013103. The biggest losing streak was 8, coming near the end of the season, with them losing 20 out of their last 30 games. However, they sneaked into the playoffs, finishing 3rd over the Texas Chaparrals and Denver Rockets by 11 games. The Pros finished dead last in points scored per game with 109.2, but finished first in points allowed at 109.9 per game. In the playoffs, they were swept by the Indiana Pacers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 702]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091915-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Memphis Pros season\nMeanwhile, Blake had decided to let the league take over operations of the team less than midway through the season, claiming losses of $200,000. With the threat of the team being bought and relocated somewhere else, the city of Memphis attempted to save the team with a public offering named \"Save the Pros\" on February 12, 1971, in which people could buy stock certificates of either $5, $10, or $50. In total, over 4,000 people bought stock in the team. The plan worked, and subsequently the Pros would now be owned by Memphis Area Sports Inc., with a 24-member board of directors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091915-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Memphis Pros season, Awards and honors\n1971 ABA All-Star Game selection (game played on January 23, 1971)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091916-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Mersin \u0130dmanyurdu season\nMersin \u0130dmanyurdu (also Mersin \u0130dman Yurdu, Mersin \u0130Y, or M\u0130Y) Sports Club; located in Mersin, east Mediterranean coast of Turkey in 1970\u201371. The 1970\u201371 season was the fourth season of Mersin \u0130dmanyurdu (M\u0130Y) football team in Turkish First Football League, the first level division in Turkey. They finished eleventh in the league. They also took place in Turkish Cup and eliminated at second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091916-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Mersin \u0130dmanyurdu season\nMehmet Karamehmet was president. Erol Tarhan was general captain. Mahir Turhan, Sezai Sak, Orhan Mutlu were executive committee member.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091916-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Mersin \u0130dmanyurdu season, 1970\u201371 First League participation\nFirst League was played with 16 teams in its 13th season, 1970\u201371. Last two teams relegated to Second League 1971\u201372. Mersin \u0130Y became 11th with 11 wins, and Osman Arpac\u0131o\u011flu was most scorer player with 14 goals", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 68], "content_span": [69, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091916-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Mersin \u0130dmanyurdu season, 1970\u201371 First League participation, League table\nMersin \u0130Y's league performance in First League in 1970\u201371 season is shown in the following table. At the end of the season coach B\u00fclent Giz declared that he will no longer train the team in the next season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 82], "content_span": [83, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091916-0004-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Mersin \u0130dmanyurdu season, 1970\u201371 First League participation, League table\nNote: Won, drawn and lost points are 2, 1 and 0. F belongs to M\u0130Y and A belongs to corresponding team for both home and away matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 82], "content_span": [83, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091916-0005-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Mersin \u0130dmanyurdu season, 1970\u201371 First League participation, Results by round\nResults of games M\u0130Y played in 1970\u201371 First League by rounds:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 86], "content_span": [87, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091916-0006-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Mersin \u0130dmanyurdu season, 1970\u201371 Turkish Cup participation\n1970\u201371 Turkish Cup was played for the 9th season as T\u00fcrkiye Kupas\u0131 by 25 teams. Two elimination rounds (including one preliminary round) and finals were played in two-legs elimination system. Mersin \u0130dmanyurdu participated in 1970\u201371 Turkish Cup from the first round and was eliminated at second round by Eski\u015fehirspor. Eski\u015fehirspor won the Cup for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 67], "content_span": [68, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091916-0007-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Mersin \u0130dmanyurdu season, 1970\u201371 Turkish Cup participation, Cup track\nThe drawings and results Mersin \u0130dmanyurdu (M\u0130Y) followed in 1970\u201371 Turkish Cup are shown in the following table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 78], "content_span": [79, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091916-0008-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Mersin \u0130dmanyurdu season, 1970\u201371 Turkish Cup participation, Game details\nMersin \u0130dmanyurdu (M\u0130Y) 1970\u201371 Turkish Cup game reports is shown in the following table. Kick off times are in EET and EEST.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 81], "content_span": [82, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091916-0009-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Mersin \u0130dmanyurdu season, 1970\u201371 squad\nStats are counted for 1970\u201371 First League matches and 1970\u201371 Turkish Cup (T\u00fcrkiye Kupas\u0131) matches. In the team rosters four substitutes were allowed to appear, two of whom were substitutable. Only the players who appeared in game rosters were included and listed in the order of appearance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091917-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Mexican Primera Divisi\u00f3n season\nStatistics of the Primera Divisi\u00f3n de M\u00e9xico for the 1970\u201371 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091917-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Mexican Primera Divisi\u00f3n season, Overview\nZacatepec was promoted to Primera Divisi\u00f3n (Segunda Divisi\u00f3n 1969\u201370 Champion)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091917-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Mexican Primera Divisi\u00f3n season, Overview\nPuebla was also promoted to Primera Divisi\u00f3n (winner of promotional tournament between Uni\u00f3n de Curtidores, Nacional and Naucalpan) to increase the number of teams to 18.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091917-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Mexican Primera Divisi\u00f3n season, Overview\nThe season was contested by 18 teams, and America won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091917-0004-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Mexican Primera Divisi\u00f3n season, Overview\nAfter this season Necaxa was sold and changed its name to Atl\u00e9tico Espa\u00f1ol.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091917-0005-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Mexican Primera Divisi\u00f3n season, Relegation Playoffs\nAggregate score tied so a 3rd match will be played", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 60], "content_span": [61, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091917-0006-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Mexican Primera Divisi\u00f3n season, Relegation Playoffs\nPachuca won on aggregate 5-3. Atlas was relegated to Segunda Division", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 60], "content_span": [61, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091918-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Mexican Segunda Divisi\u00f3n season\nThe 1970\u201371 Segunda Divisi\u00f3n was the 22nd season of the Mexican Segunda Divisi\u00f3n. The season started on 19 December 1970 and concluded on 8 August 1971. It was won by San Luis, which was the first team to win the Segunda divisi\u00f3n one year after being promoted from Tercera Divisi\u00f3n.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091919-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team\nThe 1970\u201371 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team represented Michigan State University in the 1970\u201371 NCAA Division I men's basketball season as members of the Big Ten Conference. They played their home games at Jenison Fieldhouse in East Lansing, Michigan and were coached by Gus Ganakas in his second year as head coach of the Spartans. They finished the season 10\u201314, 4\u201310 in Big Ten play to finish in a three-way tie for seventh place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091919-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team, Previous season\nThe Spartans finished the 1969\u201370 season 9\u201315, 5\u20139 in Big Ten play to finish in a three-way tie for sixth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 70], "content_span": [71, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091920-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team\nThe 1970\u201371 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team represented the University of Michigan in intercollegiate college basketball during the 1970\u201371 season. The team played its home games at Crisler Arena on the school's campus in Ann Arbor, Michigan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091920-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team\nUnder the direction of head coach Johnny Orr, the team finished second in the Big Ten Conference. Dan Fife served as team captain and shared team co-MVP honors with Henry Wilmore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091920-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team\nOver the course of the season, Ken Brady led the conference in field goal percentage with a 61.7% average in conference games. The team earned the Big Ten scoring offense statistical championship with an 88.4 average in conference games. The team was in the Associated Press Top Twenty Poll for four of the sixteen weeks of the season, rising as high as number twelve. However, the team ended the season unranked in both the final UPI Coaches' Poll and the final AP Poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091920-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team\nThe team defeated two of the four ranked opponents that it faced during the season. The team participated in the sixteen team 1971 National Invitation Tournament where it advanced to the quarterfinals by defeating the Syracuse Orange by an 86\u201376 margin before falling to the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets 78\u201370. The team was led by All-American Henry Wilmore. Dan Fife established the school career field goal percentage record at 57.44% that would last until Loy Vaught ended his career with a 61.7% mark in 1990. He also set the school single season assist average of 5.35 per game that would last until Dave Baxter surpassed it in 1978. The team set the school single-game record for free throws made of 33 on January 23, 1971, against Northwestern, which would be unsurpassed until 1998.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 839]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091920-0004-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team, Team players drafted into the NBA\nFive players from this team were selected in the NBA Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 84], "content_span": [85, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091921-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Midland Football Combination\nThe 1970\u201371 Midland Football Combination season was the 34th in the history of Midland Football Combination, a football competition in England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091921-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Midland Football Combination, Division One\nDivision One featured 16 clubs which competed in the division last season along with two new clubs:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 50], "content_span": [51, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091922-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Midland Football League\nThe 1970\u201371 Midland Football League season was the 71st in the history of the Midland Football League, a football competition in England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091922-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Midland Football League, Clubs\nThe league featured 17 clubs which competed in the previous season, along with one new club:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 38], "content_span": [39, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091923-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Milwaukee Bucks season\nThe 1970\u201371 Milwaukee Bucks season was the third season for the Bucks. Milwaukee posted a 66\u201316 record in only its third year of existence, and its second since drafting Lew Alcindor (later known as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar). A key part of this championship season was the acquisition of Oscar Robertson. Other role players on the Bucks included players such as Bob Dandridge (18.4 ppg), Jon McGlocklin (15.8 ppg), power forward Greg Smith & key reserves such as Lucius Allen, Bob Boozer and Dick Cunningham completing the nucleus. This season included a 20-game winning streak, the NBA's longest at the time, and still ranked fifth all-time. The Bucks became the first team from the Midwest Division to win the NBA title; it would be 23 years before the Houston Rockets would do the same.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 815]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091923-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Milwaukee Bucks season, Draft picks\nThe Milwaukee Bucks made ten selections in the 1970 NBA Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091923-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Milwaukee Bucks season, Regular season\nIn only his second professional season, Lew Alcindor led the league in scoring at 31.7 ppg, ranked second in field goal percentage at .577 and fourth in rebounding at 16.0 rpg. Newly arrived Oscar Robertson turned 32 early in the 1970\u201371 season, and was past his prime when he came to Milwaukee, but his versatile skills and experience provided a leadership role for the Bucks. Robertson had never won a championship and his desire to win seemed to inspire Alcindor and unite the rest of the Bucks. Robertson ranked third in the league in assists at 8.3 apg and was the Bucks' No. 2 scorer at 19.4 ppg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 649]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091923-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Milwaukee Bucks season, Transactions\nOn April 21, 1970, the Bucks traded two young players, Flynn Robinson and Charlie Paulk, to the Cincinnati Royals for 10-year veteran guard Oscar Robertson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 44], "content_span": [45, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091924-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Minnesota North Stars season\nThe 1970\u201371 Minnesota North Stars season was the North Stars' fourth season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091924-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Minnesota North Stars season\nCoached by Jack Gordon, the team compiled a record of 28\u201334\u201316 for 72 points, to finish the regular season 4th in the West Division. In the playoffs they won the quarter-finals 4\u20132 over the St. Louis Blues, but lost the semi-finals 4\u20132 to the Montreal Canadiens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091924-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Minnesota North Stars season, Playoffs\nFor the third time in four seasons, the North Stars played the Blues. This time, the North Stars gained the upper hand and won over the Blues after winning three in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091924-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Minnesota North Stars season, Playoffs\nThis was the first series played between the Canadiens and the North Stars. Their win on April 24 was the first win by a member of the expansion squad against the original teams in the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091924-0004-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Minnesota North Stars season, Draft picks\nMinnesota's draft picks at the 1970 NHL Amateur Draft held at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Quebec.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 49], "content_span": [50, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091925-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Mitropa Cup\nThe 1970\u201371 Mitropa Cup was the 31st season of the Mitropa football club tournament. It was won by \u010celik Zenica who beat Austria Salzburg 3\u20131 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091926-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Montenegrin Republic League\nThe 1970\u201371 Montenegrin Republic League was 26th season of Montenegrin Republic League. Season started in August 1970 and finished in May 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091926-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Montenegrin Republic League, Season\nOn season 1970\u201371, in Montenegrin Republic League participated 12 teams. Among the teams which didn't play during the previous season were Zabjelo and Jedinstvo (relegated from Second League) and the two best teams from Regional leagues - Gor\u0161tak and Kom. After 22 weeks, the title won Bokelj, with only one point more than Rudar Pljevlja. With that result, Iskra gained a promotion to Yugoslav Second League. Three lowest ranked teams - De\u010di\u0107 and Spu\u017e were relegated to Regional leagues (fourth level).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091926-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Montenegrin Republic League, Higher leagues\nOn season 1970\u201371, six Montenegrin teams played in higher leagues of SFR Yugoslavia. All of them (Budu\u0107nost, Sutjeska, Lov\u0107en, OFK Titograd and Iskra) participated in 1970\u201371 Yugoslav Second League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 51], "content_span": [52, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091927-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Montreal Canadiens season\nThe 1970\u201371 Montreal Canadiens season was the club's 62nd season. After missing the playoffs in the previous season, the team rebounded to place third in the East Division, qualifying for the playoffs. Behind new star goalie Ken Dryden the team won their 17th Stanley Cup championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091927-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Montreal Canadiens season, Regular season\nOn February 11, 1971, Jean Beliveau became the fourth player to score 500 career goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091927-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Montreal Canadiens season, Playoffs, Stanley Cup Final\nBrothers Frank and Peter Mahovlich starred for the Canadiens, scoring nine goals in the seven game final series. Ken Dryden debuted for the Canadiens, while this was Jean Beliveau's final final series appearance, and he ended his career with ten championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091927-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Montreal Canadiens season, 1971 Montreal Canadiens Stanley Cup champions\nKen Dryden, Rogie Vachon, Jacques Laperriere, J. C. Tremblay, Guy Lapointe, Terry Harper, Pierre Bouchard, Jean Beliveau, Marc Tardif, Yvan Cournoyer, Rejean Houle, Claude Larose, Henri Richard, Phil Roberto, Peter Mahovlich, Leon Rochefort, John Ferguson, Bobby Sheehan, Jacques Lemaire, Frank Mahovlich, Bob Murdoch, Chuck Lefley, Al MacNeil (coach), Sam Pollock (general manager).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 80], "content_span": [81, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091927-0004-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Montreal Canadiens season, Draft picks\nMontreal's draft picks at the 1970 NHL Amateur Draft held at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Quebec.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 46], "content_span": [47, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091928-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Moroccan Throne Cup\nThe 1970\u201371 season of the Moroccan Throne Cup is the 15th edition of the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091928-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Moroccan Throne Cup\nFAR de Rabat won the competition after beating Maghreb de F\u00e8s 8\u20137 on penalties after a 1\u20131 draw in the final, played at the Stade d'honneur in Casablanca. FAR de Rabat won the competition for the second time in their history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091928-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Moroccan Throne Cup, Tournament, Final\nThe final took place between the two winning semi-finalists, FAR de Rabat and Maghreb de F\u00e8s, on 5 September 1971 at the Stade d'honneur in Casablanca.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091929-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NBA season\nThe 1970\u201371 NBA season was the 25th season of the National Basketball Association. The season ended with the Milwaukee Bucks winning the NBA Championship, beating the Baltimore Bullets 4 games to 0 in the NBA Finals. Three new teams made their debut: the Cleveland Cavaliers, the Portland Trail Blazers, and the Buffalo Braves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091930-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NCAA College Division men's ice hockey season\nThe 1970\u201371 NCAA College Division men's ice hockey season began in November 1970 and concluded in March of the following year. This was the 7th season of second-tier college ice hockey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091931-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NCAA University Division men's basketball rankings\nThe 1970\u201371 NCAA University Division men's basketball rankings was made up of two human polls, the AP Poll and the Coaches Poll, in addition to various other preseason polls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091932-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NCAA University Division men's basketball season\nThe 1970\u201371 NCAA University Division men's basketball season began in December 1970, progressed through the regular season and conference tournaments, and concluded with the 1971 NCAA University Division Basketball Tournament Championship Game on March 27, 1971, at the Astrodome in Houston, Texas. The UCLA Bruins won their seventh NCAA national championship with a 68\u201362 victory over the Villanova Wildcats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091932-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NCAA University Division men's basketball season, Season outlook, Pre-season polls\nThe Top 20 from the AP Poll and Coaches Poll during the pre-season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 90], "content_span": [91, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091932-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NCAA University Division men's basketball season, Coaching changes\nA number of teams changed coaches during the season and after it ended.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 74], "content_span": [75, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091933-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NCAA University Division men's ice hockey season\nThe 1970\u201371 NCAA University Division men's ice hockey season began in November 1970 and concluded with the 1971 NCAA University Division Men's Ice Hockey Tournament's championship game on March 20, 1971 at the Onondaga War Memorial in Syracuse, New York. This was the 24th season in which an NCAA ice hockey championship was held and is the 76th year overall where an NCAA school fielded a team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091933-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NCAA University Division men's ice hockey season\nSaint Louis begins to sponsor their ice hockey program as an independent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091933-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NCAA University Division men's ice hockey season, Player stats, Scoring leaders\nThe following players led the league in points at the conclusion of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 87], "content_span": [88, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091933-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NCAA University Division men's ice hockey season, Player stats, Scoring leaders\nGP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalty minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 87], "content_span": [88, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091933-0004-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NCAA University Division men's ice hockey season, Player stats, Leading goaltenders\nThe following goaltenders led the league in goals against average at the end of the regular season while playing at least 33% of their team's total minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 91], "content_span": [92, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091933-0005-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NCAA University Division men's ice hockey season, Player stats, Leading goaltenders\nGP = Games played; Min = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; OT = Overtime/shootout losses; GA = Goals against; SO = Shutouts; SV% = Save percentage; GAA = Goals against average", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 91], "content_span": [92, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091934-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NFL playoffs\nThe National Football League playoffs for the 1970 season began on December 26, 1970. The postseason tournament concluded with the Baltimore Colts defeating the Dallas Cowboys in Super Bowl V, 16\u201313, on January 17, 1971, at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091934-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NFL playoffs\nThis was the first playoff tournament after the AFL\u2013NFL merger. An eight-team playoff tournament was designed, with four clubs from each conference qualifying. Along with the three division winners in each conference, one wild card team, the second place team with the best record from each conference, was added to the tournament. The first round was named the Divisional Playoffs, while the Conference Championship games were moved to the second playoff round and the Super Bowl became the league's championship game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091934-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NFL playoffs\nHowever, the home teams in the playoffs were still decided based on a yearly divisional rotation, excluding the wild card teams, who would always play on the road. Also, a rule was made that two teams from the same division could not meet in the Divisional Playoffs. In the rotation system, teams who hosted and won against the wild card team in the Divisional playoffs never could host the Conference Championship game. Conversely, this meant that the winner of Divisional playoff games that were exclusively between division winners always hosted the Conference Championship game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091934-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NFL playoffs\nThis is the most recent year in which all playoff games matched up two teams that had yet to meet in the postseason in a previous year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091934-0004-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NFL playoffs, Participants\nWithin each conference, the three division winners and one wild card team (the top non-division winner with the best overall records of all remaining teams in the conference) qualified for the playoffs. The NFL did not use a seeding system until the 1975 season, and instead home teams during the first two rounds of the playoffs alternated by division. Thus it was possible for a team to host another club with a better regular season record. For the Super Bowl, the third and final round played at a neutral site, the designated home team was based on an annual rotation by conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 622]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091934-0005-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NFL playoffs, Participants\nThe defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs finished the season 7\u20135\u20132, runner-up in the AFC West.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091934-0006-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NFL playoffs, Schedule\nIn the United States, CBS televised the NFC playoff games, while NBC broadcast the AFC games and Super Bowl V.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091934-0007-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, December 26, 1970, AFC: Baltimore Colts 17, Cincinnati Bengals 0\nThe Bengals started out their first season as an NFL team 1\u20136, but stormed into the playoffs by winning their last seven games. However, their comeback season came to a crushing halt in Baltimore, where the Colts' defense limited the Bengals to 7 first downs and 139 total yards of offense. By the end of the first three quarters, the Bengals had just 47 yards and two first downs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 117], "content_span": [118, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091934-0008-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, December 26, 1970, AFC: Baltimore Colts 17, Cincinnati Bengals 0\nThe closest Cincinnati came to scoring was Horst Muhlmann's 50-yard field goal attempt, which was blocked by Colts linebacker Ray May. Meanwhile, Baltimore quarterback Johnny Unitas threw two touchdown passes: a 45-yard completion to Roy Jefferson in the first quarter and a 53-yard reception to Eddie Hinton in the fourth period. Jim O'Brien added a 44-yard field goal in the second quarter. Rookie running back Norm Bulaich rushed for 116 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 117], "content_span": [118, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091934-0009-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, December 26, 1970, AFC: Baltimore Colts 17, Cincinnati Bengals 0\nThis was the first postseason meeting between the Bengals and Colts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 117], "content_span": [118, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091934-0010-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, December 26, 1970, NFC: Dallas Cowboys 5, Detroit Lions 0\nAlthough they recorded 209 rushing yards, the Cowboys could only manage a field goal and a safety. But they still managed to shut out the Lions. The Cowboy defense held Lions quarterback Greg Landry to 48 passing yards. In addition, they contained his running as Landry was an excellent running QB; he averaged 10 yards per carry and gained 350 yards during the regular season. However, in this game he was held to 15 yards rushing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 110], "content_span": [111, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091934-0011-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, December 26, 1970, NFC: Dallas Cowboys 5, Detroit Lions 0\nIn the first quarter, Cowboys rookie safety Charlie Waters recovered a fumble from Landry and returned it 9 yards to his own 45. A 14-yard completion from Craig Morton to fullback Walt Garrison and a pair of 6-yard runs by Duane Thomas then got the team close enough for Mike Clark's 26-yard field goal to give the Cowboys a 3\u20130 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 110], "content_span": [111, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091934-0011-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, December 26, 1970, NFC: Dallas Cowboys 5, Detroit Lions 0\nIn the second quarter, Detroit managed to advance the ball to the Dallas 29, but a jarring tackle by defensive end Larry Cole stripped the ball from RB Altie Taylor and Waters recorded his second fumble recovery to keep Detroit scoreless. The Lions would not move the ball into Dallas territory again until 59 seconds remained in the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 110], "content_span": [111, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091934-0012-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, December 26, 1970, NFC: Dallas Cowboys 5, Detroit Lions 0\nIn the final period, Dallas marched 76 yards in 15 plays, 51 of the yards from Thomas, to advance to the Detroit one-yard line. Rather than kick a field goal on fourth down, the Cowboys elected to give the ball to Thomas, who was stopped short of the goal line. But three plays later, Dallas defensive end George Andrie sacked Landry for a safety.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 110], "content_span": [111, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091934-0012-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, December 26, 1970, NFC: Dallas Cowboys 5, Detroit Lions 0\nBill Munson replaced Landry and led the Lions down field in the waning moments, including a 39-yard completion to Earl McCullouch on the Dallas 29 that converted a 4th down, but the Cowboys clinched the victory in the final moments with defensive back Mel Renfro's interception at their own 11-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 110], "content_span": [111, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091934-0013-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, December 26, 1970, NFC: Dallas Cowboys 5, Detroit Lions 0\nThe contest remains the lowest-scoring postseason game in NFL history and was just the second time in league history a game ended with a 5-0 score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 110], "content_span": [111, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091934-0014-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, December 26, 1970, NFC: Dallas Cowboys 5, Detroit Lions 0\nThis was the first postseason meeting between the Lions and Cowboys.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 110], "content_span": [111, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091934-0015-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Sunday, December 27, 1970, NFC: San Francisco 49ers 17, Minnesota Vikings 14\nThe 10\u20133\u20131 49ers, making their first playoff game since 1957, stunned the heavily favored Vikings, the defending NFL champions who had finished the regular season with an NFL best record at 12\u20132. The 49ers defeated the Vikings in Minnesota, despite losing three of five fumbles; Minnesota had four turnovers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 119], "content_span": [120, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091934-0016-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Sunday, December 27, 1970, NFC: San Francisco 49ers 17, Minnesota Vikings 14\nQuarterback John Brodie led the 49ers to their first NFL playoff victory by throwing for 201 yards and touchdown and rushing for another. The Vikings scored first when Minnesota defensive back Paul Krause picked up San Francisco running back Ken Willard's fumble in midair and returned it 22 yards for a touchdown. But the 49ers scored 17 unanswered points, first with Brodie's 24-yard touchdown pass to Dick Witcher. Then in the second quarter, San Francisco converted a Vikings fumble into Bruce Gossett's 40-yard field goal. Brodie scored the clinching touchdown, a 1-yard run, with 1:20 left. Minnesota's 24-yard touchdown pass was snapped with only seven seconds left in the game, and ended with just one second remaining on the clock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 119], "content_span": [120, 860]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091934-0017-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Sunday, December 27, 1970, NFC: San Francisco 49ers 17, Minnesota Vikings 14\nThis was the first postseason meeting between the 49ers and Vikings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 119], "content_span": [120, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091934-0018-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Sunday, December 27, 1970, AFC: Oakland Raiders 21, Miami Dolphins 14\nQuarterback Daryle Lamonica threw two touchdown passes and the Raiders scored 14-points in the second half to defeat the Dolphins 21\u201314 in a sea of mud at the Oakland Coliseum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 112], "content_span": [113, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091934-0019-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Sunday, December 27, 1970, AFC: Oakland Raiders 21, Miami Dolphins 14\nIn the first quarter, both teams blew scoring chances on drives deep into opposing territory, with Raiders kicker George Blanda driving a 23-yard field goal attempt wide right and Miami's Garo Yepremian missing a kick from 24 yards. In the second quarter, Dolphins defensive lineman Bill Stanfill recovered a fumble from Charlie Smith on the Raiders 19 that set up Bob Griese's 16-yard touchdown pass to Paul Warfield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 112], "content_span": [113, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091934-0019-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Sunday, December 27, 1970, AFC: Oakland Raiders 21, Miami Dolphins 14\nWith less than five minutes left in the half, Raiders quarterback Daryle Lamonica led the team on a 62-yard scoring drive to tie the game at 7, completing a 21-yard pass to tight end Raymond Chester and an 11-yarder to Fred Biletnikoff before connecting with Beletnikoff in the end zone from 22 yards out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 112], "content_span": [113, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091934-0020-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Sunday, December 27, 1970, AFC: Oakland Raiders 21, Miami Dolphins 14\nOakland took the second half kickoff and drove all the way to the Dolphins 2-yard line, but Smith lost another fumble, this was one recovered by defensive back Jake Scott, and the Raiders were unable to break the tie. On the first play after the turnover, Miami quarterback Bob Griese hooked up with Paul Warfield for 24-yard gain. But later in the drive, he was sacked for a 12-yard loss. Faced with 3rd down and 19, Griese had to go deep to attempt a first down completion. He attempted to throw to Warfield, only to see his pass intercepted by Willie Brown and returned 50 yards for a touchdown, giving the Raiders a 14\u20137 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 112], "content_span": [113, 743]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091934-0021-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Sunday, December 27, 1970, AFC: Oakland Raiders 21, Miami Dolphins 14\nEarly in the fourth quarter, Miami drove into scoring range, but came up empty when Yepremian missed another field goal attempt from 24 yards. Two plays later, on 3rd down and 12 Lamonica fired a pass to Rod Sherman, who took off for an 82-yard touchdown completion to put the Raiders up 21\u20137. Miami responded by picking up five first downs on a 69-yard drive that ended with Griese's 7-yard touchdown pass to Willie Richardson. Then with 2:22 left, they managed for force a punt, giving them one last chance to drive for a tying touchdown. However, the Raiders forced a turnover on downs and then ran out the rest of the clock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 112], "content_span": [113, 741]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091934-0022-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Sunday, December 27, 1970, AFC: Oakland Raiders 21, Miami Dolphins 14\nLamonica finished the game 8/16 for 187 yards and two touchdowns, with no interceptions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 112], "content_span": [113, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091934-0023-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Sunday, December 27, 1970, AFC: Oakland Raiders 21, Miami Dolphins 14\nThis was the first postseason meeting between the Dolphins and Raiders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 112], "content_span": [113, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091934-0024-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, January 3, 1971, AFC: Baltimore Colts 27, Oakland Raiders 17\nColts quarterback Johnny Unitas's 68-yard touchdown pass to Ray Perkins in the fourth quarter gave the Colts a two score lead that the Raiders could not overcome, sending his team to their second Super Bowl in the last three years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 116], "content_span": [117, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091934-0025-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, January 3, 1971, AFC: Baltimore Colts 27, Oakland Raiders 17\nBaltimore dominated the first quarter, holding the Raiders to six plays and one completion, while Unitas led them to the 4-yard line where Jim O'Brien's 16-yard field goal gave them a 3\u20130 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 116], "content_span": [117, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091934-0026-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, January 3, 1971, AFC: Baltimore Colts 27, Oakland Raiders 17\nIn the second quarter, a massive hit by Colts lineman Bubba Smith knocked Oakland QB Daryle Lamonica out of the game, and he was replaced by George Blanda. Later on, Raiders defensive back Willie Brown narrowly dropped an interception on a deep pass from Unitas. At the time this did not seem to matter much, as the incomplete pass was on third down and the Colts had to punt. But returner George Atkinson fumbled David Lee's kick and the Colts running back Sam Havrilak recovered with excellent field position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 116], "content_span": [117, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091934-0026-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, January 3, 1971, AFC: Baltimore Colts 27, Oakland Raiders 17\nUnitas then completed a 43-yard pass to Eddie Hinton at the 2-yard line, and Norm Bulaich scored a touchdown run on the next play, increasing the lead to 10\u20130. Blanda then led the Raiders back, and with the aid of a roughing the punter penalty, he got them close enough for a 48-yard field goal, which he kicked himself to cut the score 10\u20133 at the end of the half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 116], "content_span": [117, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091934-0027-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, January 3, 1971, AFC: Baltimore Colts 27, Oakland Raiders 17\nOakland tied the score early in the third quarter with Blanda's 38-yard touchdown pass to Fred Biletnikoff. Unitas responded with two key long completions to Hinton that set up O'Brien's 23-yard field goal to retake the lead at 13\u201310. Later in the quarter, Buliach scored on an 11-yard touchdown run, giving the Colts a 20\u201310 lead going into the fourth quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 116], "content_span": [117, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091934-0028-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, January 3, 1971, AFC: Baltimore Colts 27, Oakland Raiders 17\nNow down by two scores with just one quarter left, Blanda got the Raiders rolling on a long touchdown drive. First running back Charlie Smith picked up 20 yards on a draw play (the longest run of the game for either team). Then Blanda fooled the Colts defense with a fake handoff before firing a pass to Warren Wells for a 37-yard gain to the Colts 11. Blanda eventually finished the drive with a 15-yard touchdown pass to Wells on third down, making the score 20\u201317.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 116], "content_span": [117, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091934-0028-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, January 3, 1971, AFC: Baltimore Colts 27, Oakland Raiders 17\nThe momentum seemed to be swinging back in their favor when they forced the Colts into a 3rd and 11 situation on their own 32-yard line on the next drive. On the next play, Unitas threw a deep pass to a wide open Ray Perkins, who raced down the left sideline for a 68-yard touchdown completion that gave the Colts a 27\u201317 lead. This would prove to be the last score of the game as the Raiders were shut out in the final 12 minutes, with Blanda throwing two interceptions deep in Baltimore territory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 116], "content_span": [117, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091934-0029-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, January 3, 1971, AFC: Baltimore Colts 27, Oakland Raiders 17\nBlanda finished the game completing 17 of 32 passes for 271 yards with 2 touchdowns and 3 interceptions. At 43 years old, he was the oldest quarterback ever to play in a championship game. His top target was Wells, who caught 5 passes for 108 yards and a touchdown. Unitas completed 11 of 30 passes for 245 yards and a touchdown. The Colts leading receiver was Hinton, who caught 8 passes for 115 yards. Colts linemen Bubba Smith and Ray Hilton each had two sacks, along with Raiders lineman Ben Davidson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 116], "content_span": [117, 622]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091934-0030-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, January 3, 1971, AFC: Baltimore Colts 27, Oakland Raiders 17\nThis would turn out to be the final home playoff win for the Colts in Baltimore before they moved to Indianapolis in 1984.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 116], "content_span": [117, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091934-0031-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, January 3, 1971, AFC: Baltimore Colts 27, Oakland Raiders 17\nThis was the first postseason meeting between the Raiders and Colts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 116], "content_span": [117, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091934-0032-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, January 3, 1971, NFC: Dallas Cowboys 17, San Francisco 49ers 10\nAlthough Dallas quarterback Craig Morton only completed 7 out of 22 passes for 101 yards, rookie halfback Duane Thomas rushed for 143 yards and caught 2 passes for 24 as Dallas converted two third quarter interceptions into 14 points to defeat the 49ers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 119], "content_span": [120, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091934-0033-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, January 3, 1971, NFC: Dallas Cowboys 17, San Francisco 49ers 10\nOn the second drive of the game, 49ers quarterback John Brodie's 42-yard completion to Gene Washington at the Cowboys 9-yard line set up Bruce Gossett's 16-yard field goal to give the team a 3\u20130 lead, but only after Brodie misfired on a pass to fullback Ken Willard, who was open in the end zone. This would be the only score of the half for San Francisco. Dallas fared little better, with Mike Clark missing a field goal from 40 yards out, and later kicking a 21-yard field goal to tie the game at 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 119], "content_span": [120, 621]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091934-0034-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, January 3, 1971, NFC: Dallas Cowboys 17, San Francisco 49ers 10\nAfter each team punted once in the second half, San Francisco had the ball on their own 21-yard line. On the first play, Brodie was sacked by linebacker Dave Edwards for a 7-yard loss. Then on second down, Lee Roy Jordan intercepted Brodie's pass and returned it 4 yards to the 13, where Thomas scored a touchdown run for Dallas on the next play, breaking three tackles en route to the end zone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 119], "content_span": [120, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091934-0034-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, January 3, 1971, NFC: Dallas Cowboys 17, San Francisco 49ers 10\nOn San Francisco's next series, defensive back Mel Renfro picked off a pass from Brodie and returned it 19 yards to the Cowboys 38-yard line, setting off a 62-yard scoring drive for his team. The key player on the drive was fullback Walt Garrison, who had a 12-yard carry, gained 24 yards on a screen pass, and finished it off with a 5-yard touchdown catch from Morton to give the Cowboys a 17\u20133 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 119], "content_span": [120, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091934-0035-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, January 3, 1971, NFC: Dallas Cowboys 17, San Francisco 49ers 10\nSan Francisco responded with an 8-play, 72-yard drive to score on Brodie's 26-yard touchdown pass to tight end Dick Witcher and cut the score to 17\u201310 going into the fourth quarter, but they were shut out for the rest of the game. They nearly got a big scoring chance when Thomas fumbled the ball, but receiver Reggie Rucker recovered it, allowing Dallas to keep possession and take a lot of time off the clock with a drive to the 49ers 17-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 119], "content_span": [120, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091934-0035-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, January 3, 1971, NFC: Dallas Cowboys 17, San Francisco 49ers 10\nClark missed a field goal attempt from there, giving San Francisco a chance to drive for the tying touchdown, but the farthest they could make it was to the Dallas 39, and after Renfro broke up a third down pass, Gossett missed a field goal from 47 yards out, and 49ers would not threaten to score again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 119], "content_span": [120, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091934-0036-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, January 3, 1971, NFC: Dallas Cowboys 17, San Francisco 49ers 10\nThis was the 49ers first playoff game at home since 1957 and the team's last home game to be played at Kezar Stadium. Johnny Mathis sang the national anthem, and Tony Bennett performed his signature song \"I Left My Heart in San Francisco\" at halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 119], "content_span": [120, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091934-0037-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, January 3, 1971, NFC: Dallas Cowboys 17, San Francisco 49ers 10\nThis was the first postseason meeting between the Cowboys and 49ers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 119], "content_span": [120, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091934-0038-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NFL playoffs, Super Bowl V: Baltimore Colts 16, Dallas Cowboys 13\nThis is the only Super Bowl meeting between the Colts and Cowboys.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 73], "content_span": [74, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091935-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NHL season\nThe 1970\u201371 NHL season was the 54th season of the National Hockey League. Two new teams, the Buffalo Sabres and Vancouver Canucks made their debuts and were both put into the East Division. The Chicago Black Hawks were moved to the West Division. The Montreal Canadiens won the Stanley Cup by beating the Black Hawks in seven games in the finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091935-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NHL season, League business\nThe NHL added two expansion teams in Buffalo and Vancouver.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 35], "content_span": [36, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091935-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NHL season, League business\nAt the beginning of the season, the Oakland Seals were renamed California Golden Seals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 35], "content_span": [36, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091935-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NHL season, League business\nFrom this season through the 2002\u201303 season, teams wore their white (or yellow) jerseys at home and their colored jerseys on the road.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 35], "content_span": [36, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091935-0004-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NHL season, Regular season\nFor 1970\u201371 the NHL went to a balanced schedule, with each team playing each other team six times, three at home and three on the road, without regard to divisional alignment. Nevertheless, playoff qualification was determined entirely by divisional standings, with the top four teams in each division qualifying.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091935-0005-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NHL season, Regular season\nThis season saw a marked increase in goal scoring, especially by the Boston Bruins, who shattered scoring records as they set the mark for most goals by a team (399) by nearly a hundred over the previous record holder. They also set records for most victories (57) and points (121). Phil Esposito set records for most goals in a season with 76 and for most points with 152. Defenceman Bobby Orr won his second consecutive Hart Memorial Trophy and set a new record for assists with 102.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091935-0005-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 NHL season, Regular season\nThe Bruins also had the four league leading scorers, the first time in history this was achieved (the only other time being by the Bruins in 1974), and seven of the top eleven leading scorers, the only time in NHL history this has ever been achieved. They had 6 of the top 8 scorers in the league. Furthermore, the Bruins set marks for the highest scoring single season marks at every position: center (Esposito), left wing (Johnny Bucyk with 116), right wing (Ken Hodge with 105) and defence (Orr), as well as for a forward line (Esposito centering Wayne Cashman and Hodge).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091935-0006-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NHL season, Regular season\nBoston won the East Division championship in a runaway. In the West Division, the powerful Chicago Black Hawks had been moved there partially to accommodate the expansion Buffalo Sabres and Vancouver Canucks (both of which were placed in the East Division) but more in an effort to provide greater balance between the divisions. Chicago broke St. Louis' stranglehold over the division, winning handily over the Blues and advancing to the Stanley Cup finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091935-0007-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NHL season, Regular season\nThe Montreal Canadiens, who missed the playoffs in 1969\u201370, appeared to be sinking once more. Players did not like Claude Ruel's dictatorial rule as coach, and Ralph Backstrom and John Ferguson retired. Ruel resigned and Al MacNeil took over. Both Ferguson and Backstrom returned, butBackstrom was later traded to Los Angeles for draft choices.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091935-0008-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NHL season, Regular season\nThe Vancouver Canucks played well at first and were around the .500 mark at mid-season. Then Orland Kurtenbach was injured and the team sagged.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091935-0009-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NHL season, Regular season\nOn October 29, Gordie Howe became the first player to record 1,000 assists in a 5\u20133 winover Boston at the Detroit Olympia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091935-0010-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NHL season, Regular season\nDetroit introduced a fine rookie goaltender, Jim Rutherford, who had bright momentsdespite the Red Wings last place finish. However, they suffered their worst defeat infranchise history January 2, when Toronto crushed them 13\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091935-0011-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NHL season, Regular season\nOn March 12, Boston's Phil Esposito broke Bobby Hull's record for goals by a player ina season at 7:03 of the first period on Denis DeJordy of Los Angeles at the Forum inInglewood, California. Then, at 15:40 he became the first player to score 60 goals. The Bruins won 7\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091935-0012-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NHL season, Regular season\nBuffalo had a star, Gilbert Perreault, who on March 18 broke Nels Stewart's (and Danny Grant's, and Norm Ferguson's) rookie record with his 35th goal in a 5\u20133 win over St. Louis. He went on to finish the season with 38.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091935-0013-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NHL season, Regular season\nBilly Taylor and Don Gallinger, now middle-aged, were finally forgiven for their gambling in 1948 and were reinstated to the NHL. However, they did not return to the NHL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091935-0014-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NHL season, Playoffs, Format change\nDue to three straight years of non-competitive finals (where the West Division winning St. Louis Blues were swept all 3 years by an established East Division club); the NHL changed the match-ups for the semifinals by having the winner of the series of the 1st vs. 3rd East Division teams play the winner of the 2nd vs. 4th West Division teams. Similarly, the other semifinal series pitted the winner of the 1st vs. 3rd West Division teams against the winner of the 2nd vs. 4th East Division teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 43], "content_span": [44, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091935-0014-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 NHL season, Playoffs, Format change\nCombined with the transfer of the Chicago Black Hawks into the West Division (which previously consisted only of expansion teams), the Stanley Cup Final series was expected to be more competitive. The realignment and change in playoff format brought the desired results in that each Stanley Cup Final for the next 3 years was either between two East Division teams or Montreal vs Chicago. None of the finals were sweeps. Until realignment in 1974\u201375 when the original six and expansion teams were more thoroughly mixed, the Philadelphia Flyers were the only West Division/1967 expansion team to reach a Cup final (they won).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 43], "content_span": [44, 668]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091935-0015-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NHL season, Playoffs, Format change\nA significant controversy arose before the playoffs. With 4 games to play, the Minnesota North Stars were in 3rd place with a record of 28\u201330\u201316 for 72 points while the Philadelphia Flyers were in 4th at 26\u201333\u201315 for 67 points. Minnesota then lost their final four games while the Flyers went 2\u20130\u20132 to jump ahead of Minnesota in the final standings by 1 point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 43], "content_span": [44, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091935-0015-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 NHL season, Playoffs, Format change\nIt was widely rumored that Minnesota did so to avoid playing the far superior Chicago Black Hawks, since at this time in the playoffs the first place team played the third place team and the second played the fourth. Nothing was proven against the North Stars (who defeated their first round opponents, St. Louis, four games to two, while the Flyers were swept by the powerful Black Hawks), but the format was changed the following year to the 1 vs. 4/2 vs.3 format that prevailed thereafter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 43], "content_span": [44, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091935-0016-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NHL season, Playoffs, Quarterfinals, (E1) Boston Bruins vs. (E3) Montreal Canadiens\nThe Boston Bruins finished first in the league with 121 points. The Montreal Canadiens finished third in the East Division with 97 points. This was the fifteenth playoff series between these two teams with Montreal winning twelve of the fourteen previous series. They last met in the 1969 Stanley Cup Semifinals which Montreal won in six games. Boston won five of the six games in this year's regular season series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 91], "content_span": [92, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091935-0017-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NHL season, Playoffs, Quarterfinals, (E1) Boston Bruins vs. (E3) Montreal Canadiens\nThe Montreal Canadiens were matched against the Boston Bruins, and in one of the most extraordinary upsets in hockey history, Ken Dryden was hot in goal for the Canadiens as they ousted the Bruins in seven games. Game 2 featured what many perceive as one of the greatest comebacks in NHL history. With the Bruins leading 5\u20132 heading into the third period, the Canadiens, who had trailed 5\u20131, scored 5 goals in the final session to win 7\u20135. The prominent Canadian sports journalist Red Fisher lists the Canadiens' comeback has the in his over 49 years of covering hockey. In game 4, Bobby Orr became the first defenceman to get a hat trick in a playoff game when Boston won 5\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 91], "content_span": [92, 770]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091935-0018-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NHL season, Playoffs, Quarterfinals, (E2) New York Rangers vs. (E4) Toronto Maple Leafs\nThe New York Rangers finished second in the East Division with 109 points. The Toronto Maple Leafs finished fourth with 82 points. This was the eighth playoff meeting between these two teams with New York winning four of the seven previous series. They last met in the 1962 Stanley Cup Semifinals which Toronto won in six games. New York won five of the six games in this year's regular season series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 95], "content_span": [96, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091935-0019-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NHL season, Playoffs, Quarterfinals, (W1) Chicago Black Hawks vs. (W3) Philadelphia Flyers\nThe Chicago Black Hawks finished first in the West Division with 107 points. The Philadelphia Flyers finished third in the West Division with 73 points. This was the first playoff meeting between these two teams. Chicago won this year's six game regular season series earning nine of twelve points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 98], "content_span": [99, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091935-0020-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NHL season, Playoffs, Quarterfinals, (W2) St. Louis Blues vs. (W4) Minnesota North Stars\nThe St. Louis Blues finished second in the West Division with 87 points. The Minnesota North Stars finished fourth in the West Division with 72 points. This was the third playoff meeting between these two teams with St. Louis winning both of the previous series. They met in the previous year's Stanley Cup Quarterfinals which the Blues won in six games. Minnesota won this year's six game regular season series earning eight of twelve points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 96], "content_span": [97, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091935-0021-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NHL season, Playoffs, Semifinals, (E3) Montreal Canadiens vs. (W4) Minnesota North Stars\nThis was the first playoff series between these two teams. Montreal won this year's six game regular season series earning eight of twelve points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 96], "content_span": [97, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091935-0022-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NHL season, Playoffs, Semifinals, (E3) Montreal Canadiens vs. (W4) Minnesota North Stars\nThe Canadiens' upset of Boston was so sensational that the Canadiens nearly suffered a fatal letdown against the Minnesota North Stars. The Canadiens' 6\u20133 loss in Montreal on April 22 to Minnesota, led by the goaltending of Cesare Maniago was the first playoff defeat for an Original Six team at the hands of a 1967 Expansion franchise.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 96], "content_span": [97, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091935-0023-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NHL season, Playoffs, Semifinals, (W1) Chicago Black Hawks vs. (E2) New York Rangers\nThis was the third playoff series between these two teams with Chicago winning both previous series. They last met in the 1968 Stanley Cup Quarterfinals which the Black Hawks won in six games. The teams split this year's six-game regular season series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 92], "content_span": [93, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091935-0024-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NHL season, Playoffs, Semifinals, (W1) Chicago Black Hawks vs. (E2) New York Rangers\nBobby Hull and the Chicago Black Hawks were just too much for the Rangers and the Black Hawks advanced to the finals in seven games. Hull won two games with goals on face-offs, despite Glen Sather's coverage to check him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 92], "content_span": [93, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091935-0025-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NHL season, Playoffs, Stanley Cup Finals\nThis was the fifteenth series between these two teams with the Montreal Canadiens winning nine of the fourteen previous series. They last met in the 1968 Stanley Cup Semifinals which Montreal won in five games. The teams split this year's six-game regular season series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 48], "content_span": [49, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091935-0026-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NHL season, Playoffs, Stanley Cup Finals\nThe series went the full seven games, with the Canadiens winning in Chicago despite trailing 2\u20130 halfway into the second period of game seven. Jacques Lemaire took a shot from centre ice that miraculously escaped goaltender Tony Esposito cutting the Black Hawks' lead to 2\u20131. Henri Richard tied the game just before the end of the second period, and scored again 02:34 into the third, giving the Habs the lead. Montreal goalie Ken Dryden kept Chicago off the board for the rest of the game, and the Habs won their third Stanley Cup in four years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 48], "content_span": [49, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091935-0026-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 NHL season, Playoffs, Stanley Cup Finals\nIt was the final game for Canadiens superstar and captain Jean Beliveau who retired after the season. The Canadiens were the last road team to win a Game 7 of a Stanley Cup Final until the Pittsburgh Penguins in 2009. It was Al MacNeil's final game as Montreal coach \u2014 after he had benched Richard for Game 5, The Pocket Rocket declared \"[MacNeil] is the worst coach I ever played for!\" Although Richard retracted his \"angry comment\", as he called it, MacNeil still resigned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 48], "content_span": [49, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091935-0027-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NHL season, Awards\nA new award for the most outstanding player as voted by the members of the NHL Players Association, the Lester B. Pearson Award, was introduced this season and the first winner was Phil Esposito.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 26], "content_span": [27, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091935-0028-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NHL season, Player statistics, Leading goaltenders\nNote: GP = Games played; Min \u2013 Minutes Played; GA = Goals Against; GAA = Goals Against Average; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; SO = Shutouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 58], "content_span": [59, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091935-0029-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NHL season, Debuts\nThe following is a list of players of note who played their first NHL game in 1970\u201371 (listed with their first team, asterisk(*) marks debut in playoffs):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 26], "content_span": [27, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091935-0030-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NHL season, Last games\nThe following is a list of players of note that played their last game in the NHL in 1970\u201371 (listed with their last team):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091935-0031-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NHL season, Last games\nNOTE: Bathgate would finish his major professional career in the World Hockey Association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091936-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 NK Hajduk Split season\nThe 1970\u201371 season was the 60th season in Hajduk Split\u2019s history and their 25th season in the Yugoslav First League. Their 7th place finish in the 1969\u201370 season meant it was their 25th successive season playing in the Yugoslav First League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091937-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 National Football League (Ireland)\nThe 1970\u201371 National Football League was the 40th staging of the National Football League (NFL), an annual Gaelic football tournament for the Gaelic Athletic Association county teams of Ireland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091937-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 National Football League (Ireland), Format, Round-Robin Format\nEach team played every other team in its division (or group where the division is split) once, either home or away.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 70], "content_span": [71, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091937-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 National Football League (Ireland), Format, Points awarded\n2 points were awarded for a win and 1 for a draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 66], "content_span": [67, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091937-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 National Football League (Ireland), Format, Knockout stage structure\nThe final match-up is: Winner Semi-final 1 v Winner Semi-final 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 76], "content_span": [77, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091937-0004-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 National Football League (Ireland), Format, Separation of teams on equal points\nIn the event that teams finish on equal points, then a play-off will be used to determine group placings if necessary, i.e. where to decide relegation places or quarter-finalists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 87], "content_span": [88, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091938-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 National Hurling League\nThe 1970\u201371 National Hurling League was the 40th season of the National Hurling League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091938-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 National Hurling League, Division 1\nCork came into the season as defending champions of the 1969-70 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091938-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 National Hurling League, Division 1\nOn 23 May 1971, Limerick won the title following a 3-12 to 3-11 win over Tipperary in the final. It was their first league title since the 1946-47 season and their 6th National League title overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091938-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 National Hurling League, Division 1\nKilkenny's Eddie Keher was the Division 1 top scorer with 2-50.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091939-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Nationalliga A, Overview\n14 teams contested in the 1970\u201371 Nationalliga A. These were the top 12 teams from the previous 1969\u201370 season and the two newly promoted teams Sion and Luzern. The championship was played in a double round robin. The champions would qualify for the 1971\u201372 European Cup and the last two teams in the league table at the end of the season were to be relegated. FC Basel finished the regular season level on points with Grasshopper Club Z\u00fcrich and so these two teams had to contest a play-off game on 8 June 1971 to decide the title winners. Grasshopper won the play-off 4\u20133 after extra time. Bellinzona finished last and the table and were relegated. Sion and Fribourg, level on points, were both second last and thus they had to have a play-off against relegation. Sion won 1\u20130, so Fribourg were relegated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 840]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091940-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Nationalliga A season\nThe 1970\u201371 Nationalliga A season was the 33rd season of the Nationalliga A, the top level of ice hockey in Switzerland. Eight teams participated in the league, and HC La Chaux-de-Fonds won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091941-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Nemzeti Bajnoks\u00e1g I, Final standings\nExtra points were awarded to the teams according to their position in the 1970 Spring Championship. The winner of each group received 8 points, whilst the remaining teams got 7-1 points according their standing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 44], "content_span": [45, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091942-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 New York Knicks season\nThe 1970\u201371 New York Knicks season was the 25th season for the team in the National Basketball Association (NBA). New York entered the season as the defending NBA champions, having defeated the Los Angeles Lakers in the 1970 NBA Finals in seven games to win the first championship in franchise history. In the 1970\u201371 regular season, the Knicks finished in first place in the Atlantic Division with a 52\u201330 record, and qualified for the NBA Playoffs for the fifth consecutive year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091942-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 New York Knicks season\nNew York began its NBA title defense with a 4\u20131 series victory over the Atlanta Hawks in the first round of the 1971 NBA Playoffs. In the Eastern Conference Finals, the Baltimore Bullets defeated the Knicks in seven games, ending the team's chances for a repeat championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091942-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 New York Knicks season, Draft picks\nNote: This is not an extensive list; it only covers the first and second rounds, and any other players picked by the franchise that played at least one game in the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091943-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 New York Nets season\nThe 1970\u201371 New York Nets season was the fourth season of the franchise. On January 6, 1971, during a game versus the Memphis Pros, referee Andy Hershock suffered a heart attack, later dying in the medical office at Island Garden. The game was later restarted, with the Nets winning 110\u2013101. Two months later, they played the Kentucky Colonels in a doubleheader benefit game for Hershock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091943-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 New York Nets season\nThis was Rick Barry's first season with the Nets. Barry averaged 29.4 points per game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091944-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 New York Rangers season\nThe 1970\u201371 New York Rangers season was the 45th season for the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091944-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 New York Rangers season, Player statistics\n\u2020Denotes player spent time with another team before joining Rangers. Stats reflect time with Rangers only. \u2021Traded mid-season. Stats reflect time with Rangers only.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091944-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 New York Rangers season, Draft picks\nNew York's picks at the 1970 NHL Amateur Draft in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091945-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Newport County A.F.C. season\nThe 1970\u201371 season was Newport County's ninth consecutive season in the Football League Fourth Division since relegation at the end of the 1961\u201362 season and their 43rd overall in the Football League. The season saw the worst set of results in County's history, with the club failing to win any of the first 25 league matches, setting a Football League record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091945-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Newport County A.F.C. season\nThe season started with a home and away loss, but County were still two places from the foot of the table. However their record of three wins and five draws from the next 31 games left them rooted to the bottom. Results improved in the latter stages of the season, with County picking up seven wins and three draws in the remaining 13 games. The club still had to apply for re-election for the third successive season, but held on to their League status.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091946-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team\nThe 1970\u201371 North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team represented the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during the 1970\u201371 men's college basketball season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091947-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Northern Football League\nThe 1970\u201371 Northern Football League season was the 74th in the history of Northern Football League, a football competition in England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091947-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Northern Football League, Clubs\nDivision One featured 18 clubs which competed in the league last season, along with two new clubs:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091948-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Northern Premier League\nThe 1970\u201371 Northern Premier League was the third season of the Northern Premier League, a regional football league in Northern England, the northern areas of the Midlands and North Wales. The season began on 15 August 1970 and concluded on 8 May 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091948-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Northern Premier League, Overview\nThe League was expanded this season, for the first time, from twenty teams to twenty-two teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091948-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Northern Premier League, Overview, Team changes\nThe following two clubs left the League at the end of the previous season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091948-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Northern Premier League, Overview, Team changes\nThe following four clubs joined the League at the start of the season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091948-0004-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Northern Premier League, Overview, League table\nThe system of using goal average to separate two teams tied on points was used up until the 1976\u201377 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091948-0005-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Northern Premier League, Cup results, FA Cup\nOut of the twenty-two clubs from the Northern Premier League, only Wigan Athletic reached for the second round:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091948-0006-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Northern Premier League, Cup results, FA Trophy\nOut of the twenty-two clubs from the Northern Premier League, only Macclesfield Town reached for the fourth round:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091948-0007-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Northern Premier League, End of the season\nAt the end of the third season of the Northern Premier League none of the teams put forward, for election, received enough votes to be promoted to the Football League. Conversely, none of the sides were relegated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091948-0008-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Northern Premier League, End of the season, Football League elections\nAlongside the four Football League clubs facing re-election, a total of twelve non-League clubs applied for election, three of which were from the Northern Premier League. All four Football League teams were re-elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 77], "content_span": [78, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091948-0009-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Northern Premier League, End of the season, Promotion and relegation\nThe League expanding from twenty-two clubs to twenty-four clubs for the following season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091948-0010-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Northern Premier League, End of the season, Promotion and relegation\nThe following two clubs joined the League the following season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091949-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Northern Rugby Football League season\nThe 1970\u201371 Rugby Football League season was the 76th season of rugby league football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091949-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Northern Rugby Football League season, Season summary\nSunday afternoon rugby was allowed for the first time by the RFL on 17 December 1967. Initially most clubs chose not to switch away from Saturday's despite competition from football. The first ever Sunday fixtures were Bradford Northern v York, and Leigh v Dewsbury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091949-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Northern Rugby Football League season, Season summary\nSt. Helens won their sixth Championship when they beat Wigan 16-12 in the Championship Final. Wigan had ended the regular season as the league leaders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091949-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Northern Rugby Football League season, Season summary\nThe Challenge Cup Winners were Leigh when they beat Leeds 24-7 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091949-0004-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Northern Rugby Football League season, Season summary\nThere was no county league competition this season, other than a break between the 1902\u201303 and 1906\u201307 seasons, and breaks for World War I and World War II, this was the first season in which the Lancashire League and Yorkshire League titles were no longer awarded. Leigh beat St. Helens 7\u20134 to win the Lancashire County Cup, and Leeds beat Featherstone Rovers 23\u20137 to win the Yorkshire County Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091949-0005-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Northern Rugby Football League season, Challenge Cup\nLeigh beat Leeds 24-7 in the Challenge Cup Final at Wembley Stadium, London on Saturday 15 May 1971, in front of a crowd of 85,514.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 60], "content_span": [61, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091949-0006-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Northern Rugby Football League season, Challenge Cup\nThis was Leigh\u2019s second Cup Final win in two Final appearances. To date it was also their last appearance in a Challenge Cup Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 60], "content_span": [61, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091949-0007-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Northern Rugby Football League season, Challenge Cup\nIn the Final, Lance Todd Trophy winner, Leigh's captain-coach, Alex Murphy, was stretchered off after a clash with Leeds player, Syd Hynes. For his part in the \"clash\", Hynes was sent off.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 60], "content_span": [61, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091950-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Norwegian 1. Divisjon season\nThe 1970\u201371 Norwegian 1. Divisjon season was the 32nd season of ice hockey in Norway. Eight teams participated in the league, and Valerenga Ishockey won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091951-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball team\nThe 1970\u201371 Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball team represented the University of Notre Dame during the 1970\u201371 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091951-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball team\nGuard Austin Carr was the team's captain and leading scorer, averaging 38.0 points per game. After the season, Carr was selected as a first-team player on the 1971 All-America team. Center Collis Jones was the leading rebounder with an average of 13.2 rebounds per game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091951-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball team\nThe team's sole loss was by a 79\u201372 score against Drake in the NCAA Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091951-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball team\nFollowing the season, Austin Carr was drafted by Cleveland Cavaliers with the first pick 1971 NBA Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091952-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 OB I bajnoksag season\nThe 1970\u201371 OB I bajnoks\u00e1g season was the 34th season of the OB I bajnoks\u00e1g, the top level of ice hockey in Hungary. Six teams participated in the league, and Ferencvarosi TC won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091953-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball team\nThe 1970\u201371 Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball team represented The Ohio State University during the 1970\u201371 season. Led by 13th-year head coach Fred Taylor, the Buckeyes finished 20\u20136 and won the Big Ten title with a 13\u20131 record in league play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091954-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Pacific Tigers men's basketball team\nThe 1970\u201371 Pacific Tigers men's basketball team represented the University of Pacific during the 1970\u201371 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. Led by coach Dick Edwards, Pacific compiled a 22\u20136 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091954-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Pacific Tigers men's basketball team\nCenter John Gianelli was the team's captain and leading scorer, averaging 21.4 points per game and 18.2 rebounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091955-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Panathinaikos F.C. season\nIn the 1970\u201371 season Panathinaikos played in Greece's top division, the Alpha Ethniki. They also competed in the European Cup, being the finalists, and the Greek Cup", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091955-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Panathinaikos F.C. season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091955-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Panathinaikos F.C. season, Competitions, Intercontinental Cup\nPanathinaikos played also for the Intercontinental Cup against Club Nacional de Football due to refusal of Ajax to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 69], "content_span": [70, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091956-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. season\nThe 1970\u201371 season was Paris Saint-Germain's 1st season in existence. PSG mainly played their home league games at the Stade Jean-Bouin in Paris, but occasionally at the Stade Municipal Georges Lef\u00e8vre in Saint-Germain-en-Laye as well, registering an average attendance of 3,018 spectators per match. The club was presided by Pierre-\u00c9tienne Guyot and the team was coached by player-manager Pierre Phelipon. Jean Djorkaeff was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091956-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. season\nParis Saint-Germain was founded on August 12, 1970, after a group of businessmen decided to create a major team in the French capital. Guy Crescent and Pierre-\u00c9tienne Guyot chose to merge their virtual side, Paris Football Club, with the Stade Saint-Germain of Henri Patrelle after the team from Saint-Germain-en-Laye, 15km west of Paris, won promotion to Division 2. PFC was created a in 1969, while Stade Saint-Germain was founded in 1904. The French Football Federation ratified the merger on August 27, 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091956-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. season\nThe PFC Association contributed with the financial backing, while Stade Saint-Germain provided their Division 2 status, Camp des Loges training centre, coach Pierre Phelipon and star players Bernard Guignedoux, Michel Prost and Camille Choquier. Nevertheless, PSG strengthened its squad with several signings, including French national team captain Jean Djorkaeff, the club's first star. Led by Djorkaeff, the new capital club won promotion to Division 1 and claimed the 1970\u201371 French Division 2 title via play-offs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091956-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. season, Players, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 55], "content_span": [56, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091956-0004-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. season, Transfers, Arrivals\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 60], "content_span": [61, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091956-0005-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. season, Kits\nThe club didn't have a shirt sponsor. French sportswear brand Le Coq Sportif was the kit manufacturer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 45], "content_span": [46, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091957-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Penn State Nittany Lions basketball team\nThe 1970\u201371 Penn State Nittany Lions men's basketball team represented the Pennsylvania State University during the 1970\u201371 NCAA University Division men's basketball season. The team was led by 3rd-year head coach Johnny Bach, and played their home games at Rec Hall in University Park, Pennsylvania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091958-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Philadelphia 76ers season\nThe 1970\u201371 NBA season was the 76ers 22nd season in the NBA and 8th season in Philadelphia. They improved to a record of 47\u201335. In the playoffs, they lost a hard fought series with the Baltimore Bullets 4-3, who represented the Eastern Conference in the Finals. This was the final season for forward Bailey Howell, who was signed by Philadelphia & was a vital part in 2 Celtics championships in 1968 and 1969.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091958-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Philadelphia 76ers season\nThe Sixers also tried a new uniform style. Instead of the traditional PHILA in block lettering, they used a design that wrote out Seventy Sixers in cursive writing. These uniforms did not last the entire year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091959-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Philadelphia Flyers season\nThe 1970\u201371 Philadelphia Flyers season was the Philadelphia Flyers' fourth season in the National Hockey League (NHL). The Flyers lost in the quarterfinals to the Chicago Black Hawks in a four-game sweep.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091959-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Philadelphia Flyers season, Regular season\nBobby Clarke led the team in goals (27), assists (36), and points (63) in his second season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091959-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Philadelphia Flyers season, Playoffs\nThe Flyers were swept in four games by the Chicago Black Hawks in the first round. Even though the team had improved their record in his second season behind the bench, head coach Vic Stasiuk was replaced by Fred Shero in the off-season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091959-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Philadelphia Flyers season, Transactions\nThe Flyers were involved in the following transactions from May 11, 1970, the day after the deciding game of the 1970 Stanley Cup Finals, through May 18, 1971, the day of the deciding game of the 1971 Stanley Cup Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 48], "content_span": [49, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091959-0004-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Philadelphia Flyers season, Transactions, Signings, Free agency\nThe following players were signed by the Flyers via free agency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 71], "content_span": [72, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091959-0005-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Philadelphia Flyers season, Transactions, Signings, Internal\nThe following players were either re-signed by the Flyers or, in the case of the team's selections in the NHL Amateur Draft, signed to contracts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 68], "content_span": [69, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091959-0006-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Philadelphia Flyers season, Transactions, Drafts, Intra-League\nThe 1970 NHL Intra-League Draft was held on June 9, 1970. It cost $30,000 to make a claim.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 70], "content_span": [71, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091959-0007-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Philadelphia Flyers season, Transactions, Drafts, Expansion\nThe 1970 NHL Expansion Draft was held on June 10, 1970. It featured two expansion teams, the Buffalo Sabres and Vancouver Canucks, selecting players from the 12 existing NHL teams. Each NHL team placed 15 skaters and 2 goaltenders on a protected list from which the two expansion teams could not select.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 67], "content_span": [68, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091959-0008-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Philadelphia Flyers season, Transactions, Drafts, Reverse\nThe 1970 NHL Reverse Draft was held on June 11, 1970. The Reverse Draft featured American Hockey League (AHL) and Western Hockey League (WHL) teams selecting unprotected players from NHL teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 65], "content_span": [66, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091959-0009-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Philadelphia Flyers season, Draft picks\nPhiladelphia's picks at the 1970 NHL Amateur Draft, which was held at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Quebec on June 11, 1970. The Flyers were without a first-round draft pick due to having traded it three years previously to the Boston Bruins for Rosaire Paiement. The Bruins used the pick, fourth overall, to select Rick MacLeish, who the Flyers would acquire seven months later in a trade with the Bruins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 47], "content_span": [48, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091959-0010-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Philadelphia Flyers season, Farm teams\nThe Flyers were affiliated with the Quebec Aces of the AHL, the Flint Generals of the IHL, and the Jersey Devils of the EHL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091960-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Phoenix Suns season\nThe 1970\u201371 Phoenix Suns season was the third season for the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association. Head coach Cotton Fitzsimmons lead the Suns, in the NBA's first season which separated the teams into both conferences and divisions as the league continued to gain more teams. It was the first season the Suns would be without the services of All-Star guard Gail Goodrich. With a 48\u201334 record (fourth best in the league), the Suns set the NBA record for the team with the best winning percentage not to make the playoffs. The team would break their own record the next year with a 49\u201333 finish. All home games were played at Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 703]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091960-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Phoenix Suns season\nThe Suns were led in scoring by Dick Van Arsdale with 21.9 points per game. Connie Hawkins finished the season averaging 20.9 points and 9.1 rebounds per contest. Paul Silas led the Suns with 12.5 rebounds per game, the highest-ever average in Suns history, while Neal Walk garnered 8.2 rebounds to go with his 12.9 points a game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091960-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Phoenix Suns season\nGoodrich, a native of Los Angeles and who played college ball at UCLA, was traded before the season back to the Los Angeles Lakers, where he had played before being acquired in the expansion draft of 1968. In exchange, the Suns obtained the 29-year-old 7-footer Mel Counts, who was coming off a career-high 12.6 average in points. Goodrich would go on to play nine more seasons in the NBA, six of those with the Lakers. During those six years, he would average 22.3 points per game, appear in four All-Star Games and be named to an All-NBA First Team. Meanwhile, Counts averaged 11 points and 6.3 rebounds in his first of two seasons with the Suns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 676]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091961-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Pittsburgh Condors season\nThe 1970\u201371 Pittsburgh Condors season was the 1st season of the Pittsburgh Condors, and third overall season of Pittsburgh's tenure in American Basketball Association. Haven Industries (makers of the Jack Frost sugar brand) had bought the team after the previous season and they decided to rename the team. With the prize being $500, the winning selection was \"Pioneers\". However, Point Park College, a NAIA college near the team offices threatened legal action due to them already using the nickname for their team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091961-0000-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 Pittsburgh Condors season\nThe pro team hastily came up with a replacement name in the form of \"Condors\", with the first game of the season being on October 15, 1970 versus the New York Nets, which they won 105\u2013102. However, only 3,616 attended the game, a harbinger of things to come. For the November 17th game vs the Floridians, GM Marty Blake tried to spur interest by giving away all available tickets for free. Of the 13,000 seats offered, 8,074 fans showed up. Later in the year, he was fired when the team was 10 games below .500, alongside management being tired of promotional gimmicks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091961-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Pittsburgh Condors season\nOn March 6, 1971, Stew Johnson scored 62 points versus the Floridians, going 25 of 44 with one three-pointer made and 11 free throws. While the team's biggest losing streak (done twice) was only 4 games, the team simply could not keep a winning streak longer than three games, with the team being reassured of a below .500 finish after losing on March 13, just nine games before the end of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091961-0001-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 Pittsburgh Condors season\nHowever, the team was in contention for the final spot in the playoffs, with a game versus the Floridians (36\u201346) in the penultimate game for both teams (played on March 28) that could seal the spot up, as the Condors had a 35\u201347 record. However, they lost 130\u2013117 to the Floridians, sealing their fate. Two days later, their season ended, with Pittsburgh having missed a playoff berth for another consecutive year. They finished 5th in points scored, with a 119.1 points per game average. Conversely, they finished 8th in points allowed at 121.8 points per game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091961-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Pittsburgh Condors season, Awards and honors\n1971 ABA All-Star Game selections (game played on January 23, 1971)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 52], "content_span": [53, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091962-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Pittsburgh Penguins season\nThe 1970\u201371 Pittsburgh Penguins season was the franchise's fourth season in the National Hockey League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091962-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Playoffs\nThe Penguins failed to make the playoffs, despite making it last year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091962-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Player statistics\n\u2020Denotes player spent time with another team before joining the Penguins. Stats reflect time with the Penguins only. \u2021Denotes player was traded mid-season. Stats reflect time with the Penguins only.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091962-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Transactions\nThe Penguins were involved in the following transactions during the 1970\u201371 season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 48], "content_span": [49, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091963-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Polska Liga Hokejowa season\nThe 1970\u201371 Polska Liga Hokejowa season was the 36th season of the Polska Liga Hokejowa, the top level of ice hockey in Poland. 10 teams participated in the league, and Podhale Nowy Targ won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091964-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Port Vale F.C. season\nThe 1970\u201371 season was Port Vale's 59th season of football in the Football League, and their first (seventh overall) season back in the Third Division following their promotion from the Fourth Division. Gordon Lee led his team to safety in the league, though Vale exited both cup competitions at the first stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091964-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Third Division\nThe pre-season saw the arrival of centre-half Roy Cross (Walsall); inside-forward Brian Horton (Hednesford Town); and full-back Mick Hopkinson (Mansfield Town).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091964-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Third Division\nThe season began with two wins, but a run of one win in ten games then followed. In September, four of the five directors resigned, one of them (Len Cliff) stated that \"the club is being run by outsiders\". A new board was formed by November. Meanwhile, on 13 September the club suffered a loss of 7\u20133 at Gay Meadow to Shrewsbury Town, despite a Bobby Gough hat-trick \u2013 the match also saw a sending off, an attempted pitch invasion, and a \u00a335 fine for Gordon Lee for remarks he made to referee Ricky Nicholson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091964-0002-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Third Division\nTommy McLaren then returned from injury to lead Vale on a four match winning streak that included a 2\u20130 win over fallen-giants Aston Villa in front of a Burslem crowd of 11,224 fans. Four straight defeats soon came after this sequence however, as Vale's form was patchy. In December, Ron Wilson left the club as he emigrated to South Africa due to his son's ill health. A 1\u20130 defeat at Villa Park on 16 January was the first of a nine match streak without a victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091964-0002-0002", "contents": "1970\u201371 Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Third Division\nAt the end of the month Lee signed John Brodie from Northern Premier League side Bradford Park Avenue for \u00a3250. During this spell forward Sammy Morgan began to be jeered by fans after losing his scoring touch. He also began studying to be a teacher. Lee said that \"I really feel some of our lads have been singled out by the boo boys. If only they realised that encouragement can lift players, things would be so much better\". In February, Mark Singer resigned as chairman, and was replaced by Graham Bourne. By then the club were hovering above the relegation zone, but a record of just ten goals conceded in their final twelve games was enough to secure safety, with Brian Horton in good form.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 751]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091964-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Third Division\nThey finished in seventeenth spot, their 42 points leaving them three clear of relegation. John James was the top-scorer with fifteen goals. As a reward for their endeavours, the players were taken on a working holiday to Benidorm, Spain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091964-0004-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Finances\nOn the financial side, a profit of \u00a33,424 was made, the club's first profitable season since 1962\u201363. A \u00a319,322 donation from the Sportsmen's Association and the Development Fund helped to reduce the club's total debt to \u00a3134,640. Three players were released: Mick Hopkinson (Boston United); John Green (Northwich Victoria); and John King (Wigan Athletic).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091964-0005-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Cup competitions\nIn the FA Cup, Vale were knocked out in the First Round by Fourth Division Notts County 1\u20130 in a 'physical' encounter at Meadow Lane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091964-0006-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Cup competitions\nIn the League Cup, Vale were eliminated once again at the first stage, this time Walsall left Burslem with a 1\u20130 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091965-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Portland Trail Blazers season\nThe Portland Trail Blazers were one of three new teams to join the NBA for the 1970\u201371 season. The franchise played its inaugural regular season game on a Friday night in Portland, beating the fellow expansion Cleveland Cavaliers 115\u2013112 on October 16, with 4,273 in attendance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091965-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Portland Trail Blazers season\nThe Trail Blazers played a regular season home game at McArthur Court in Eugene, Oregon on February 19, 1971 against the Cincinnati Royals. Portland was defeated by Cincinnati, 102\u2013109.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091965-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Portland Trail Blazers season\nPortland finished last in the Pacific Division with a record of 29\u201353 (.354). Of the three expansion teams, their record was the best; with seven more wins than the Buffalo Braves and fourteen more than the Cavaliers. The leading scorer for the Blazers was Geoff Petrie; he averaged 24.8 points per game and shared Rookie of the Year honors with Boston Celtics star Dave Cowens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091965-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Portland Trail Blazers season, Pre-season\nThe Trail Blazers convened their preseason camp on September 14, 1970. Sixteen players reported to camp, which was held in the gymnasium at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon. Pat Riley was unable to attend the camp due to the death in his father. Players reported to drills at 10 AM and 4 PM. The first players to be cut from camp were third round draft pick Bill Cain and Tim Robinson, who had played for the Harlem Globetrotters from 1961 to 1965.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091965-0004-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Portland Trail Blazers season, Media\nOn September 13, 1970, the Trail Blazers announced that KPTV would broadcast 12 road games (all in color) during their inaugural season. Jimmy Jones was Portland's play-by-play announcer on television.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 44], "content_span": [45, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091966-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Primeira Divis\u00e3o\nThe 1970\u201371 Primeira Divis\u00e3o was the 37th season of top-tier football in Portugal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091966-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Primeira Divis\u00e3o, Overview\nIt was contested by 14 teams, and S.L. Benfica won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091967-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Purdue Boilermakers men's basketball team\nThe 1970\u201371 Purdue Boilermakers men's basketball team represented Purdue University during the 1970\u201371 NCAA men's basketball season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091968-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 QMJHL season\nThe 1970\u201371 QMJHL season was the second season in the history of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. Ten teams played 62 games each in the schedule. The league dissolves East and West Divisions. The Frank J. Selke Memorial Trophy is first awarded to the most sportsmanlike player, after being the trophy for the West Division champions for the previous season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091968-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 QMJHL season\nThe Quebec Remparts repeated as first place in the regular season, and won their second President's Cup, defeating the Shawinigan Bruins in the finals. After the winning the league championship, the Remparts prevailed three games to two in a controversial 1971 Richardson Cup final versus the St. Catharines Black Hawks of the Ontario Hockey Association. The Remparts then won the 1971 Memorial Cup in shortened series by defeating the Edmonton Oil Kings two games to none.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091968-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 QMJHL season, Final standings\nNote: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; Pts = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091968-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 QMJHL season, Scoring leaders\nNote: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalties in minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091968-0004-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 QMJHL season, Playoffs\nGuy Lafleur was the leading scorer of the playoffs with 43 points (22 goals, 21 assists).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091970-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Rangers F.C. season\nThe 1970\u201371 season was the 91st season of competitive football by Rangers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091970-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Rangers F.C. season, Overview\nRangers played a total of 53 competitive matches during the 1970\u201371 season. The season was largely overshadowed by the Second Ibrox disaster when 66 people were crushed to death on Stairway 13 of Ibrox Park following an Old Firm game on 2 January 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091971-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ranji Trophy\nThe 1970\u201371 Ranji Trophy was the 37th season of the Ranji Trophy. Bombay won their 13th title in a row defeating Maharashtra in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091971-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Ranji Trophy\nA proposal to promote two teams from the zonal leagues to the knockout stage was made Maharashtra in the working committee meeting of BCCI at Shillong on August 16, 1970. Bombay had won Ranji Trophy in the previous twelve seasons and Maharashtra repeatedly found their qualification from the West Zone blocked. Ironically, Maharashtra won the West Zone in the 1970\u201371 and Bombay finished second in the zone for the first time since 1958\u201359. But the new rules enabled Bombay to qualify for the knockout matches as the second team and they eventually beat Maharashtra in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091972-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Real Madrid CF season\nThe 1970\u201371 season is Real Madrid Club de F\u00fatbol's 68th season in existence and the club's 39th consecutive season in the top flight of Spanish football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091972-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Real Madrid CF season, Summary\nThe club finished in a disappointing fourth place, two points below of Champion Valencia CF coached by former Real Madrid' star Alfredo Di St\u00e9fano.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091972-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Real Madrid CF season, Summary\nIn 1971 Copa del General\u00edsimo the squad as Defending Champion was early eliminated in Round of 32 by Deportivo La Coru\u00f1a on away goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091972-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Real Madrid CF season, Summary\nThe team played the 7th final in Europe, a record at the time, first a draw 1\u20131 after extra time, and then, lost the 1971 European Cup Winners' Cup Final trophy against Chelsea F.C. 1\u20132 in the replay in Piraeus closing the first trophy-less season since the 1952\u201353 campaign. After 18 years as club player, clinching 12 league titles, 2 Copa del General\u00edsimo and 6 European Cups Francisco Gento is retired at the end of this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091972-0004-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Real Madrid CF season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091973-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Red Star Belgrade season\nDuring the 1970\u201371 season, Red Star Belgrade participated in the 1970\u201371 Yugoslav First League, 1970\u201371 Yugoslav Cup and 1970\u201371 European Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091973-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Red Star Belgrade season, Season summary\nRed Star were eliminated by Panathinaikos in the semi-finals of the European Cup. In the Yugoslav Cup final, Red Star defeated Sloboda Tuzla 6\u20130 on aggregate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091974-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Regionalliga\nThe 1970\u201371 Regionalliga was the eighth season of the Regionalliga, the second tier of the German football league system. The league operated in five regional divisions, Berlin, North, South, Southwest and West. The five league champions and all five runners-up, at the end of the season, entered a promotion play-off to determine the two clubs to move up to the Bundesliga for the next season. The two promotion spots went to the Regionalliga West champions and runners-up VfL Bochum and Fortuna D\u00fcsseldorf.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091974-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Regionalliga, Regionalliga Nord\nThe 1970\u201371 season saw three new clubs in the league, SV Meppen, SC Sperber Hamburg and Heider SV, all three promoted from the Amateurliga, while no club had been relegated from the Bundesliga to the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091974-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Regionalliga, Regionalliga Berlin\nThe 1970\u201371 season saw two new clubs in the league, VfL Nord Berlin and Alemannia 90 Berlin, both promoted from the Amateurliga, while no club had been relegated from the Bundesliga to the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091974-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Regionalliga, Regionalliga West\nThe 1970\u201371 season saw three new clubs in the league, Eintracht Gelsenkirchen and Westfalia Herne, both promoted from the Amateurliga, while Alemannia Aachen had been relegated from the Bundesliga to the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091974-0004-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Regionalliga, Regionalliga S\u00fcdwest\nThe 1970\u201371 season saw two new clubs in the league, VfB Theley and VfR Frankenthal, both promoted from the Amateurliga, while no club had been relegated from the Bundesliga to the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 42], "content_span": [43, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091974-0005-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Regionalliga, Regionalliga S\u00fcd\nThe 1970\u201371 season saw four new clubs in the league, SV G\u00f6ppingen, FC Wacker M\u00fcnchen and Viktoria Aschaffenburg, all threepromoted from the Amateurliga, while TSV 1860 M\u00fcnchen had been relegated from the Bundesliga to the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 38], "content_span": [39, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091975-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Rheinlandliga\nThe 1970\u201371 Rheinlandliga was the 19th season of the highest amateur class of the Rhineland Football Association under the name of 1. Amateurliga Rheinland. It was a predecessor of today's Rheinlandliga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091975-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Rheinlandliga, Results\nSpVgg Andernach became Rheinland Champion. Sportfreunde Eisbachtal represented Rhineland in the 1971 German Soccer Amateur Championship and lost in the quarterfinals against SC J\u00fclich (Middle Rhine).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091975-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Rheinlandliga, Results\nFV R\u00fcbenach and Eintracht Trier II had to move down to the 2. Amateur League. For the following 1971\u201372 season, ESG Betzdorf, SV Leiwen and SV Remagen moved up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091976-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Rochdale A.F.C. season\nThe 1970\u201371 season saw Rochdale compete for their second consecutive season in the Football League Third Division. The season also saw Rochdale win the Lancashire Cup for the first time since 1949.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091977-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Roller Hockey Champions Cup\nThe 1970\u201371 Roller Hockey Champions Cup was the 6th edition of the Roller Hockey Champions Cup organized by CERH.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091977-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Roller Hockey Champions Cup, Teams\nThe champions of the main European leagues, and Reus Deportiu as title holders, played this competition, consisting in a double-legged knockout tournament. As Reus Deportiu was also the Spanish league champions, Voltreg\u00e0 also joined the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 42], "content_span": [43, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091978-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Romanian Hockey League season\nThe 1970\u201371 Romanian Hockey League season was the 41st season of the Romanian Hockey League. Six teams participated in the league, and Dinamo Bucuresti won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091979-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Rugby Union County Championship\nThe 1970\u201371 Rugby Union County Championship was the 71st edition of England's premier rugby union club competition at the time. It would be the last season when the competition was viewed as the premier club competition because the following season would see the introduction of a National Knockout Competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091979-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Rugby Union County Championship\nSurrey won their second title after defeating Gloucestershire in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091980-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 S.L. Benfica season\nThe 1970\u201371 season was Sport Lisboa e Benfica's 67th season in existence and the club's 37th consecutive season in the top flight of Portuguese football, covering the period from 1 July 1970 to 30 June 1971. Benfica competed domestically in the Primeira Divis\u00e3o and the Ta\u00e7a de Portugal, and participated in the European Cup Winners' Cup after winning the Ta\u00e7a de Portugal in the previous season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091980-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 S.L. Benfica season\nBenfica began the new season with the task of to regaining the title lost to Sporting the year before. After Otto Gl\u00f3ria resigned and Jos\u00e9 Augusto replaced him, Benfica searched for a manager and selected Jimmy Hagan, with Jos\u00e9 Augusto as his assistant. With only Ant\u00f3nio Barros as new signing, an improvement in the team was solely dependent on Hagan. In the transfer window, M\u00e1rio Coluna and Humberto Fernandes departed. The season started with a win over CUF, followed by draw with Sporting. After a second home win and reaching first place, Benfica went through three weeks of consecutive draws.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 627]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091980-0001-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 S.L. Benfica season\nIn November, Benfica was knocked-out of Europe and suffered consecutive away losses. Despite winning at home, Benfica had only one win on the road over the course of half a season. They sat in fourth place with a six-point deficit to Sporting. In the second part of the campaign, Benfica regained four points in two match-days, which included a 5\u20131 win over them. By January, Benfica closed the gap to one point, but a 4\u20130 loss against Porto stopped them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091980-0001-0002", "contents": "1970\u201371 S.L. Benfica season\nAfter a slow February; in March, Benfica caught Sporting at the front and in April, overtook them, after they lost to Porto. On 25 April, Benfica confirmed their 18th league title with Artur Jorge as Bola de Prata. Benfica concluded the season with Ta\u00e7a de Portugal Final, losing it to Sporting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091980-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary\nBenfica started the new season with the task of improving on troubled past season, where they lost the title to Sporting and had Est\u00e1dio da Luz banned for part of the season for pitch invasion. Back-to-back league winner, Otto Gl\u00f3ria had resigned and was replaced by Jos\u00e9 Augusto for the final months of the season. Alfredo Di St\u00e9fano was approached to replace him, but the choice fell to Englishman, Jimmy Hagan, who arrived in Lisbon on 15 April. Hagan most notorious change was his rigidity and harsh training sessions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091980-0002-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary\nIn the transfer window, Benfica lost M\u00e1rio Coluna and Humberto Fernandes, both were part of the team for over 10 years and Coluna become a club legend. The only signing for the first team was Ant\u00f3nio Barros, with the youth team, bringing in Sh\u00e9u. The pre-season began on 28 July with the team travelling to Luanda for a tour. After a brief period in Portugal, on 17 August, Benfica embarked on another tour, in South-east Asia, where they played seven games in roughly two weeks. Due to the events of the past season, Benfica still had to play one game at Est\u00e1dio Nacional.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091980-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary\nThe league campaign began on 13 September with home win against CUF. Three days later, Benfica faced Olimpija Ljubljana for the European Cup Winners' Cup and drew 1\u20131. In the first away match of the league, Benfica visited Est\u00e1dio de Alvalade to play Sporting, bringing home his second 1\u20131 draw of the week. For the final league match of the month, Benfica returned to Est\u00e1dio da Luz after a prolonged exile. They beat Boavista by 4\u20130 and reached first place, levelled on points with Sporting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091980-0003-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary\nMid week, Benfica played host to Olimpija Ljubljana, winning 8\u20131 and qualifying for the second round. In October, the club performance dipped and they went three weeks without a win. First they drew nil-nil on the road against Vit\u00f3ria de Guimar\u00e3es, followed by a 2\u20132 draw in the Cl\u00e1ssico with Porto. On 21 October, Benfica hosted Vorw\u00e4rts Berlin for the Cup Winners' Cup and beat them by 2\u20130. Four days later, Benfica concluded their three weeks without a win for the Primeira Divis\u00e3o, with a third away draw, now with Belenenses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091980-0003-0002", "contents": "1970\u201371 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary\nThis left Benfica in second place, three points shy of leader Sporting. In the last match of October, Benfica responded to this dark spell with a 7\u20130 home win against Tirsense. On the 4 November, Benfica was knocked-out of Europe by Vorw\u00e4rts Berlin on penalties, after a 2\u20130 loss during 120 minutes. On the opening league match of the month, Benfica won away against Barreirense, their first ever away win in the season. Still, the team remained uncompetitive on the road, losing for the first time in the league on 15 November in a visit to Farense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091980-0003-0003", "contents": "1970\u201371 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary\nThis put Benfica in fourth place with five points less than Sporting. In the following week, a home win against Leix\u00f5es, while Sporting dropped points, cut Benfica's deficit to four points. However, a double from V\u00edtor Baptista in the visit to Vit\u00f3ria de Set\u00fabal, inflicted the team their second league loss of the campaign. Sporting had again a six-point lead over Benfica, who remained fourth. Benfica began December with a 3\u20130 win over Varzim and gained a point over Sporting. The first half of the season ended with an away draw against Acad\u00e9mica de Coimbra, putting Benfica with six points less than Sporting at the turn of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 684]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091980-0004-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary\nBenfica began the second part of the campaign with an away win over CUF. Sporting lost so Benfica regained two points, right before meeting them. In the Derby de Lisboa, Benfica received and beat Sporting by 5\u20131 with a hat-trick from Artur Jorge. Jimmy Hagan described the win as \"Speed, goals and football, plus an amazing V\u00edtor Damas\". Benfica was now with 21 points, two less than Sporting. They kept on winning and beat Boavista by 3\u20130 on the road.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091980-0004-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary\nAfter a tour in South America in mid January, Benfica defeated Vit\u00f3ria de Guimar\u00e3es at home and got within a point of Sporting, after they dropped points on the same day. On 31 January, Benfica visited Est\u00e1dio das Antas and was surprised by 4\u20130 loss. This result kept Benfica in third place and saw Sporting reopen a three\u2013point lead. In the opening match of February, Benfica beat Belenenses at home, while Sporting drew away, resetting the gap between them at two points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091980-0004-0002", "contents": "1970\u201371 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary\nIn the following two match-days, all of the Big Three won, so no changes occurred at the top of the table; Benfica beat Tirsense on the road and Barreinse in Est\u00e1dio da Luz. On 21 March, Benfica defeated Farense at home by 5\u20130 and climbed to the top of table, taking advantage of a loss from Sporting and Porto draw. The win put Sporting and Benfica level on points. Benfica closed March with an away win over Leix\u00f5es, with Porto losing and dropping out of race. This left Benfica and Sporting with a three\u2013point lead and three match-days to go.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091980-0004-0003", "contents": "1970\u201371 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary\nOn 4 April, Benfica beat Vit\u00f3ria de Set\u00fabal at home and for the first time headed the league isolated, with a two-point lead. Sporting had lost with Porto. Three weeks later, Benfica confirmed their league title with an away win over Varzim. It was their 18th league title. They finished the Primeira Divis\u00e3o with a 5\u20131 victory over Acad\u00e9mica, ending the campaign with a three-point lead over Sporting, having won nine points over them in half a season. Artur Jorge was Bola de Prata with 24 goals. The season concluded with Benfica and Sporting both qualifying for the Ta\u00e7a de Portugal Final, with Sporting winning by 4\u20131. It was Sporting's first ever win against Benfica in the final of the Ta\u00e7a de Portugal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 754]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091980-0005-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 S.L. Benfica season, Player statistics\nThe squad for the season consisted of the players listed in the tables below, as well as staff member Jimmy Hagan (manager) and Jos\u00e9 Augusto (assistant manager).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091980-0006-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 S.L. Benfica season, Player statistics\nNote 1: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091980-0007-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 S.L. Benfica season, Player statistics\nNote 2: Players with squad numbers marked \u2021 joined the club during the 1970-71 season via transfer, with more details in the following section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091981-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 SK Rapid Wien season\nThe 1970\u201371 SK Rapid Wien season was the 73rd season in club history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091982-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 SM-sarja season\nThe 1970\u201371 SM-sarja season was the 40th season of the SM-sarja, the top level of ice hockey in Finland. 12 teams participated in the league, and \u00c4ssat Pori won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091983-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 San Diego Rockets season\nThe 1970\u201371 NBA season was the Rockets' 4th season in the NBA. It was also the team's final season in San Diego, as the franchise relocated to Houston, Texas following the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091984-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 San Francisco Warriors season\nThe 1970\u201371 NBA season was the Warriors' 25th season in the NBA and ninth in the San Francisco Bay Area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091984-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 San Francisco Warriors season\nIt was also the franchise's final season in San Francisco before relocating across the Bay to Oakland the following season. The team would not play in San Francisco full time until the 2019\u201320 NBA season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091985-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Scottish Cup\nThe 1970\u201371 Scottish Cup was the 86th staging of Scotland's most prestigious football knockout competition. The Cup was won by Celtic who defeated Rangers in the replayed final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091986-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Scottish Division One\nThe 1970\u201371 Scottish Division One was won by Celtic by two points over nearest rival Aberdeen. St Mirren and Cowdenbeath finished 17th and 18th respectively and were relegated to the 1971\u201372 Second Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091987-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Scottish Division Two\nThe 1970\u201371 Scottish Second Division was won by Partick Thistle who, along with second placed East Fife, were promoted to the First Division. Brechin City finished bottom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091988-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Scottish Football League, Scottish League Division One\nAberdeen, with 15 straight wins of which the last 12 were without conceding, led the league from December until the last week of the season. Aberdeen faced Celtic in their penultimate game needing a win to almost certainly clinch the title, but could only draw 1-1: and then they lost their last game, at Falkirk, allowing Celticto take the championship by 2 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 62], "content_span": [63, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091989-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Scottish Inter-District Championship\nThe 1970\u201371 Scottish Inter-District Championship was a rugby union competition for Scotland's district teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091990-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Scottish League Cup\nThe 1970\u201371 Scottish League Cup was the twenty-fifth season of Scotland's second football knockout competition. The competition was won by Rangers, who defeated Celtic in the Final breaking a run of 5 successive wins in the preceding years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091991-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Seattle SuperSonics season\nThe 1970\u201371 Seattle SuperSonics season was the Seattle SuperSonics 4th season in the National Basketball Association (NBA). In their second season with Lenny Wilkens as head coach, the Sonics finished in 8th place in the Western Conference with a 38\u201344 record. Trouble arose with the injury of top scorer Bob Rule, who tore his Achilles tendon three games into the season during a match against the Portland Trail Blazers and lost him for the remainder of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091991-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Seattle SuperSonics season, Offseason\nDuring the offseason, the SuperSonics traded 10-year veteran Bob Boozer and their first round selection from the 1969 NBA draft, Lucius Allen to the Milwaukee Bucks for Don Smith (later known as Zaid Abdul-Aziz). Despite the early retirement announcement made by 24-year-old Smith to the Sonics' front office, he joined the team and played in 61 games in the regular season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091991-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Seattle SuperSonics season, Offseason, Draft picks\nNote: only draft picks who participated in at least one game in the NBA are listed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091991-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Seattle SuperSonics season, Transactions, Overview\nThe Sonics signed Haywood as a free agent after he spent a season with the American Basketball Association's Denver Rockets, who signed Haywood after his sophomore year at the University of Detroit Mercy under a hardship clause. Because eligibility rules of the National Basketball Association at the time required a span of four years after high school graduation for a player to be picked by any team, a legal battle ensued, with the federal court ruling in favor of Haywood.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091992-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Segunda Divisi\u00f3n\nThe 1970\u201371 Segunda Divisi\u00f3n season was the 40th since its establishment and was played between 5 September 1970 and 6 June 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091992-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Segunda Divisi\u00f3n, Overview before the season\n20 teams joined the league, including 3 relegated from the 1969\u201370 La Liga and 7 promoted from the 1969\u201370 Tercera Divisi\u00f3n.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 52], "content_span": [53, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091993-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Serie A, Teams\nVarese, Foggia and Catania had been promoted from Serie B.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 22], "content_span": [23, 81]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091994-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Serie A (basketball)\nThe 1970\u201371 Serie A basketball championship was the 48th season of the Serie A, the highest professional basketball league in Italy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091994-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Serie A (basketball)\nThe regular season ran from 18 October 1970 to 28 March 1971, twelve teams played 22 games each. As both Ignis Varese and Simmenthal Milano were tied first with the same head-to-head record (having only lost once apiece, to each other) a single playoff game decided the title, the third ever played between the two squads (one on-the-court win per side, respectively in 1962 and 1966). Varese won the game played in Rome to earn their third straight championship, fifth overall (and the single spot in the European Champions Cup).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091994-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Serie A (basketball)\nThe other end of the league table also saw a tie, with three teams on the same points for two relegation spots, hence playoffs were also played where Libertas Livorno and Cecchi Biella (both newly promoted) were relegated back to the Serie B.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091994-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Serie A (basketball), Preseason\nIgnis Varese, who had the previous season completed the domestic double (league and Italian Cup) in addition to winning the European Champions Cup (adding the Intercontinental Cup before the season) were seen as the overwhelming favourites. Simmenthal Milano, All'Onest\u00e0 Milano and on a lesser note Forst Cant\u00f9 and Spl\u00fcgen Venezia were seen as the likely challengers. All but one club had sponsorship names \u2013 widely the major source of revenue for clubs \u2013 with Libertas Livorno the involuntary exception.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091994-0004-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Serie A (basketball), Preseason\nWith only one foreign player allowed per club, nearly all were American, Varese's Mexican international Manuel Raga (considered the best foreigner in the league) and Spl\u00fcgen Venezia's newly arrived Brazilia international Ubiratan were the notable exceptions. Ignis, led by Aca Nikoli\u0107, could still count on Raga, Dino Meneghin, Aldo Ossola, Ottorino Flaborea and Paolo Vittori, adding Italian international Ivan Bisson from Snaidero Udine whilst sending Claudio Malagoli and Livio Paschini the other way (American John Fultz was signed only for the European Champions Cup).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091994-0004-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 Serie A (basketball), Preseason\nSimmenthal, coached by Cesare Rubini, had replaced on-off American Jim Tillman with compatriot Arthur Kenney, the retirement of historic player Sandro Riminucci was the only other change. All'Onesta put their trust in the proven quartet of Joe Isaac, Tony Gennari, Enrico Bovone and Marino Zanatta, Forst Cant\u00f9 had supplemented key players Carlo Recalcati and Alberto De Simone with American newcomer Bob Lienhard whilst an important move saw Dado Lombardi move from Norda Bologna to cross-town rivals Eldorado Bologna for 25 million lira.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091994-0005-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Serie A (basketball), Regular season\nBoth Ignis and Simmenthal raced ahead of the others, so much that by the time they met each other in Varese on 27 December 1970 they were both unbeaten, with only Fides Napoli having provided any serious opposition. The game was already seen as title-deciding, Ignis had the best defence (60,1 points conceded per game to Simmenthal's 63.8) but the Milanese were more prolific in attack (81.8 points per game to Varese's 79.4) and were seen to have a slight edge over the holders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091994-0005-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 Serie A (basketball), Regular season\nUltimately, Varese would win a hard-fought if not spectacular game 71-58, Meneghin out-rebounded Massimo Masini to score 16 points while Vittori and Flaborea dominated in attack (the first scoring a game-high 22 points). Though Giorgio Giomo shackled Raga well and Kenney put in a fighting performance (15 points), it was not enough for Simmenthal, not helped by an anonymous performance from Renzo Bariviera (3 points).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091994-0006-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Serie A (basketball), Regular season\nWhen came the time to play the return game in Milan on the 14 March 1971 the situation remained unchanged with both teams having won all their games in between (including in Europe). The game, reportedly played at the highest level, saw a partial repeat of the first leg as an in-form Vittori again top-scored (25 points) whilst Flaborea (18 points) also stepped up when Giomo's good marking on Raga restricted the sharpshooter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091994-0006-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 Serie A (basketball), Regular season\nHowever, this time Simmenthal stepped up to the challenge and an extremely combative Kenney dished up 20 points, including two free-throws with only seconds left, whilst Masini added as much, to grab a close 72-71 win. With both squads on the same points and with the same head-to-head record, a playoff game was seen as virtually guaranteed despite there being three rounds left to play as no team could challenge the leaders. It proved to be the case as both squads easily won their final games to preserve the status-quo and make a playoff necessary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091994-0006-0002", "contents": "1970\u201371 Serie A (basketball), Regular season\nSimmenthal even recorded the most points scored in a league game by downing Snaidero Udine 138-88 in the final round on 24 April, four days before other games as Milano were playing the Cup Winners' Cup final.. The 138 points record, replacing the 133 Simmenthal themselves had scored the previous season, stayed as league record for decades, it still is a club record as of 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091994-0007-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Serie A (basketball), Regular season\nForst Cant\u00f9 comfortably beat presumed title-challenger All'Onesta Milano 90-57 in Milan in the second round. They proved to be the surprise squad of the tournament as the emergence of an eighteen-year-old Pierluigi Marzorati at playmaker coupled with good performances from Lienhard and Recalcati led them to third-place, 10 points from the leading duo but themselves 8 points in front of the rest of the pack led by All'Onesta Milano, an Ubiratan-led Spl\u00fcgen Venezia and a workmanlike Fides Napoli.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091994-0008-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Serie A (basketball), Regular season\nIn the relegation battle, the two promoted squads Cecchi Biella and Libertas Livorno predictably struggled but managed to win the odd game (Biella was greatly helped by American import Rudy Bennett, third-best league scorer with 22.8 points per game). At the same time Norda Bologna spent a large part of the season in free-fall, losing twelve consecutive games until a win over Snaidero Udine during the penultimate round enabled them to join Biella and Livorno on 10 points (from five wins). All three lost their final game, which both Livorno and Biella had to play at a neutral venue (respectively Florence and Borgosesia) due to being penalised for previous crowd behaviour), meaning a three-way playoff series was needed to decide relegation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 793]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091994-0009-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Serie A (basketball), Regular season, Individual scoring table\nSource: unofficial statistics compiled by the Giganti del Basket magazine (official statistics started from the 1975\u201376 season).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 70], "content_span": [71, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091994-0010-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Serie A (basketball), Postseason, Title playoff\nThe title-deciding playoff was played as a single game on 3 April 1971 at a neutral venue, namely Rome's Palazzo dello Sport. It proved slightly anticlimactic as Ignis raced in front during the first minutes and never allowed Simmenthal back in the game on the way to securing a 65-57 win and their third straight league championship. Manuel Raga was the foremost contributor to Varese's lead, escaping first Giomo's then Giuseppe Brumatti's then Kenney's marking to score 17 points in 12 minutes whilst at the same time the normally accurate Giulio Iellini and Giomo were shooting astray for Milano.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 656]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091994-0010-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 Serie A (basketball), Postseason, Title playoff\nWith Flaborea and Vittori also potent in attack and Meneghin in defence, Milano's task became even greater despite Masini's efforts as the half-time score read 39-21 for the champions. Though Simmenthal managed to reduce the deficit in the second half, the gulf was too big and Varese were comfortable enough to rest Raga and play eighth man Paolo Polzot (who had arrived from Biella that season and rarely came off the bench) for nearly all the half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091994-0011-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Serie A (basketball), Postseason, Relegation playoffs\nThe relegation playoffs were played on the 2nd, 3rd and 4 April 1971 in Cant\u00f9 (originally scheduled in Milan's Palalido, they were moved after student protesters occupied the arena). Each team won and lost a game apiece, Norda Bologna ultimately escaped relegation thanks to a superior points differential (+14 to Livorno's -4 and Biella's -10).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 61], "content_span": [62, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091994-0012-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Serie A (basketball), Italian Cup\nIgnis Varese won nearly all the competitions they played after lifting the Italian Cup, beating Fides Napoli 83-60 in the final, played in Viareggio on 12 April 1971. The third place game between losing semifinalists saw Simmenthal Milano down Forst Cant\u00f9 66-63.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091995-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Serie A (ice hockey) season\nThe 1970\u201371 Serie A season was the 37th season of the Serie A, the top level of ice hockey in Italy. Six teams participated in the league, and SG Cortina won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091996-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Serie B\nThe Serie B 1970\u201371 was the thirty-ninth tournament of this competition played in Italy since its creation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091996-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Serie B, Teams\nNovara, Massese and Casertana had been promoted from Serie C, while Brescia, Palermo and Bari had been relegated from Serie A.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 22], "content_span": [23, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091997-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Serie C\nThe 1970\u201371 Serie C was the thirty-third edition of Serie C, the third highest league in the Italian football league system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091998-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Sheffield Shield season\nThe 1970\u201371 Sheffield Shield season was the 69th season of the Sheffield Shield, the domestic first-class cricket competition of Australia. South Australia won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091999-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Shell Shield season\nThe 1970\u201371 Shell Shield season was the fifth edition of what is now the Regional Four Day Competition, the domestic first-class cricket competition for the countries of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB). The tournament was sponsored by Royal Dutch Shell, with matches played from 22 January to 23 April 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091999-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Shell Shield season\nFive teams contested the competition \u2013 Barbados, the Combined Islands, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago. Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica both won two and drew two of their four matches, but Trinidad and Tobago finished with more points, winning a second consecutive title. Trinidadian batsman Joey Carew led the tournament in runs for a second consecutive season, while Jamaican fast bowler Uton Dowe was the leading wicket-taker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091999-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Shell Shield season, Statistics, Most runs\nThe top five run-scorers are included in this table, listed by runs scored and then by batting average.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00091999-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Shell Shield season, Statistics, Most wickets\nThe top five wicket-takers are listed in this table, listed by wickets taken and then by bowling average.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092000-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 South Carolina Gamecocks men's basketball team\nThe 1970\u201371 South Carolina Gamecocks men's basketball team represented the University of South Carolina during the 1970\u201371 men's college basketball season. South Carolina won the ACC Tournament Championship, defeating North Carolina in the championship game 52-51. This was the last season South Carolina ever played in the ACC. The success South Carolina achieved on the court brought resentment and anger from fellow ACC schools, especially those on \"Tobacco Road,\" as the conference members of the state of North Carolina were known.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092000-0000-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 South Carolina Gamecocks men's basketball team\nThe hostility of the road crowds, the unfriendly behavior of coaches and athletic directors in the conference, and the discrepancies in eligibility standards led head coach Frank McGuire to support South Carolina becoming an Independent before the 1971-72 season. Despite South Carolina leaving the ACC in 1971, (as of 2018) they still remain the only school in the state of South Carolina to win an ACC tournament championship, even though Clemson, still remains in the ACC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092001-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 South Pacific cyclone season\nThe 1970\u201371 South Pacific cyclone season, in terms of severe tropical cyclones, was the least active season on record, with none of its six storms strengthening above Category 2 tropical cyclone intensity. It was a below average season, beginning late and ending early. The season officially began on November 15 and ended on April 30, but the first storm formed a month after that, on December 15.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092001-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 South Pacific cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Priscilla\nDuring December 15, a small tropical depression developed about 278\u00a0km (175\u00a0mi) to the north of Yasawa-i-Rara in Fiji's Yasawa Islands. Over the next day, the system drifted westwards, before it started to move southwards and intensify further. The system subsequently became equivalent to a modern-day category 1 tropical cyclone, with 10-minute sustained wind speeds of 75\u00a0km/h (45\u00a0mph) during December 17. During that day, the system passed about 95\u00a0km (60\u00a0mi) to the west of Nadi and started to move south-eastwards and passed well to the south of Ono-I-Lau during December 18. The system was last noted during the next day, after it had moved below 25S and out of the tropics. It was thought that the system caused gale-force winds in parts of Viti Levu, Vatulele, Kandavu and the Yasawa and Mamanutha group of islands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 73], "content_span": [74, 898]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092001-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 South Pacific cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Rosie\nCyclone Rosie was a weak cyclone which existed in late December 1970 near New Caledonia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 69], "content_span": [70, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092001-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 South Pacific cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Ida\nCyclone Ida existed from 16 to 22 February 1971 in the Coral Sea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 67], "content_span": [68, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092001-0004-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 South Pacific cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Fiona\nCyclone Fiona existed from 16 to 28 February 1971. It developed from remains of Cyclone Gertie, which was located in the Gulf of Carpentaria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 69], "content_span": [70, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092001-0005-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 South Pacific cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Lena\nCyclone Lena existed from 13 to 20 March 1971 near New Caledonia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 68], "content_span": [69, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092001-0006-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 South Pacific cyclone season, Systems, Other systems\nTropical Depression Nora caused minor damage and gale-force winds over the Yasawa and Mamanuca islands, Viti-Levu as well as the Lomaiviti Islands, when it impacted Fiji between October 29\u201330.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 60], "content_span": [61, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092001-0007-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 South Pacific cyclone season, Systems, Other systems\nCyclone Dora formed in the Coral Sea east of Proserpine on February 10, 1971. It took a southeasterly track over the next four days, away from the Queensland coast, turning into a low pressure system well east of the Queensland/New South Wales border. On February 17, the system reintensified into a cyclone east of the Gold Coast, and it crossed the Queensland coast north of Brisbane at Redcliffe. Widespread structural damage was reported, with numerous power lines falling and roofs being uproofed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 60], "content_span": [61, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092001-0008-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 South Pacific cyclone season, Systems, Other systems\nDuring March 8, Tropical Cyclone Thelma impacted Western and Southwestern Fiji and caused flooding in Ba.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 60], "content_span": [61, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092002-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season\nThe 1970\u201371 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season was an above-average cyclone season. The season officially ran from November 1, 1970, to April 30, 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092002-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Felicie\nCyclone Felicie was a slow moving cyclone that made a large number of landfalls in Madagascar, 4, in addition to a single landfall in Mozambique, which reportedly killed 30 people. The storm followed a very erratic track due to unusual steering patterns, and went through many cycles of strengthening and weakening as it slowly trudged to the south. Felicie reached Tropical Cyclone status three separate times, before finally becoming extratropical southwest of Madagascar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 81], "content_span": [82, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092002-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Myrtle\u2013Ginette\nOn January 19, Severe Tropical Cyclone Myrtle entered the South-West Indian Ocean; therefore, it was assigned a second name, Ginette. The next day, Ginette reached hurricane status and developed a clear eye as it traveled generally west-southwestward. On January 22, Ginette curved southwestward and came within 72 kilometers (45 miles) of the island of Rodrigues. On Rodrigues, winds as high as 150 km/h (93 mph) were recorded along with a minimum barometric pressure of 989 mbar (29.21 inHg). Throughout the next two days, Ginette approached the island of Reunion, causing stormy weather that lasted until January 29.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 88], "content_span": [89, 708]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092002-0002-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Myrtle\u2013Ginette\nIn Reunion, swells associated with Ginette reached 6 meters (20 feet) at times. On January 25, Ginette became stationary while located south of Reunion. The next day, Ginette encountered a ridge which caused it to execute a small clockwise loop. After completing the loop, Ginette accelerated southeastward and gradually weakened. By January 31, Ginette had transitioned into an extratropical cyclone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 88], "content_span": [89, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092002-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Helga\nOn February 8, Helga passed southeast of R\u00e9union and Mauritius, bringing heavy rainfall to the former island, reaching 926\u00a0mm (36.5\u00a0in) at Commerson. Two people died on the island due to drowning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 79], "content_span": [80, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092003-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Southern Football League\nThe 1970\u201371 Southern Football League season was the 68th in the history of the league, an English football competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092003-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Southern Football League\nYeovil Town won the championship, winning their third Southern League title, whilst Folkestone, Gravesend & Northfleet, Guildford City and Merthyr Tydfil were all promoted to the Premier Division. Eight Southern League clubs applied to join the Football League at the end of the season, but none were successful.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092003-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Southern Football League\nAt the end of the season Division One was split into divisions One North and One South with 14 new clubs joining the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092003-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Southern Football League, Premier Division\nThe Premier Division consisted of 22 clubs, including 18 clubs from the previous season and four new clubs, promoted from Division One:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092003-0004-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Southern Football League, Division One\nDivision One consisted of 20 clubs, including 17 clubs from the previous season and four new clubs, relegated from the Premier Division:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092003-0005-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Southern Football League, Division One\nAt the end of the season Division One was split into divisions One North and One South with 14 new clubs joining the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092003-0006-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Southern Football League, Football League elections\nAlongside the four League clubs facing re-election, a total of 12 non-League clubs applied for election, eight of which were Southern League clubs. All League clubs were re-elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092004-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Soviet Cup (ice hockey)\nThe 1970\u201371 Soviet Cup was the 13th edition of the Soviet Cup ice hockey tournament. 32 teams participated in the tournament, which was won by Spartak Moscow, who claimed their second title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092005-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Soviet League season\nThe 1970\u201371 Soviet Championship League season was the 25th season of the Soviet Championship League, the top level of ice hockey in the Soviet Union. Nine teams participated in the league, and CSKA Moscow won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092006-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Spartan League\nThe 1970\u201371 Spartan League season was the 53rd in the history of Spartan League. The league consisted of 18 teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092006-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Spartan League, League table\nThe division featured 18 teams, 17 from last season and 1 new team:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 36], "content_span": [37, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092007-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 St. John's Redmen basketball team\nThe 1970\u201371 St. John's Redmen basketball team represented St. John's University during the 1970\u201371 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The team was coached by Frank Mulzoff in his first year at the school after Lou Carnesecca left to become the head coach of the New York Nets in the American Basketball Association. St. John's home games are played at Alumni Hall and Madison Square Garden.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092008-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 St. Louis Blues season\nThe 1970\u201371 St. Louis Blues season was the St. Louis Blues' fourth season in the National Hockey League (NHL).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092008-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 St. Louis Blues season\nThe Blues began the 1970\u201371 season with high hopes after making a trip to the Stanley Cup Finals in the 1969\u201370 season. They purchased Christian Bordeleau from the Montreal Canadiens, who led the team in scoring and finished in the top five in game winning goals that season. They also sold Hall-of-Famer Jacques Plante to the Toronto Maple Leafs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092008-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 St. Louis Blues season\nDuring this season the Blues saw the most ties in their history (19), as well as most home ties (9), and the fewest home losses (7).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092008-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 St. Louis Blues season, Statistics, Skater statistics\nNote: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalties in minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092008-0004-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 St. Louis Blues season, Playoffs, Goalie statistics\nNote: GP = Games Played; TOI = Time On Ice (minutes); W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; GA = Goals Against; SO = Shutouts; Sv% = Save Percentage; GAA = Goals Against Average", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092008-0005-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 St. Louis Blues season, Draft picks\nSt. Louis's draft picks at the 1970 NHL Amateur Draft held at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Quebec.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092009-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Stoke City F.C. season\nThe 1970\u201371 season was Stoke City's 64th season in the Football League and the 40th in the First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092009-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Stoke City F.C. season\nStoke had a successful season making it to the semi-final of the FA Cup for only the second time in their history. Stoke made it through seven matches before facing Arsenal, where after building a 2\u20130 lead at Hillsborough Stoke let slip in the final few minutes and Arsenal levelled at 2\u20132. In the replay the \"Gunners\" won 2\u20130 at Villa Park. In the league Stoke finished in a mid-table position of 13th with 37 points, Stoke did record a famous win over Arsenal beating the eventual league champions 5\u20130 in September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092009-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Stoke City F.C. season, Season review, League\nStoke had a good opening spell to the 1970\u201371 season, losing just three of their first 12 matches one of which was a crushing 5\u20132 defeat at Midlands rivals West Bromwich Albion. But generally the defence looked strong and solid and indeed six clean sheets were kept during that period. Stoke's sixth home game of the season on 26 September was against Bertie Mee's impressive Arsenal side at the Victoria Ground. Because of local travel difficulties (bus driver strike) just over 18,000 fans saw the match and those lucky enough to be there watch one of the best performances by a Stoke City side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 651]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092009-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Stoke City F.C. season, Season review, League\nArsenal, who would go on to become First Division and FA Cup winners were well beaten 5\u20130 by Stoke in front of the Match of the Day cameras. As the season wore on Stoke found it difficult to maintain a consistent run of form in the First Division and their attentions soon turned towards the FA Cup. With the cup a distraction Stoke did well to finish in a mid table position of 13th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092009-0004-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Stoke City F.C. season, Season review, FA Cup\nAfter Christmas Stoke became heavily involved in the FA Cup and they came very close to making it to their first final. Revenge was gained over Millwall in the third round and then Huddersfield Town proved to be difficult to get the better of, the tie finally being decided in a second replay at Old Trafford, Stoke winning 1\u20130 thanks to a goal from Jimmy Greenhoff. In the fifth round Stoke met Ipswich Town and after a goalless draw, Denis Smith scoring the only goal at Portman Road to send Stoke through to face Hull City in the quarter final. The tie at Boothferry Park was a cracking encounter with Stoke winning 3\u20132 to claim a place in the semi final for the first time since 1899, 75 years ago.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 756]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092009-0005-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Stoke City F.C. season, Season review, FA Cup\nTheir opponents in the semi final were Arsenal with the tie played at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield. Stoke produced a dominant first half display and went into the half time break 2\u20130 up, with Smith and Ritchie scoring the goals that sent Stoke supporters ecstatic. Alas it was not to be as Arsenal clawed their way back into the match thanks to two second half goals from Peter Storey with the last being a penalty in the last minute of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092009-0005-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 Stoke City F.C. season, Season review, FA Cup\nStoke were left to rue only scoring two goals in their first half dominance as the \"Gunners\" earned a replay they hardly deserved. Villa Park was the venue for 'part two' of the contest and in front of 62,356, Arsenal comfortably won 2\u20130 and went on to lift the trophy and complete a domestic double alongside their First Division league title. On the eve of the final, Stoke won the third place play off against Everton 3\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092009-0006-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Stoke City F.C. season, Season review, League Cup\nMillwall knocked Stoke out of the League Cup 2\u20131 in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092010-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Sussex County Football League\nThe 1970\u201371 Sussex County Football League season was the 46th in the history of Sussex County Football League a football competition in England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092010-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Sussex County Football League, Division One\nDivision One featured 14 clubs which competed in the division last season, along with two new clubs, promoted from Division Two:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 51], "content_span": [52, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092010-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Sussex County Football League, Division Two\nDivision Two featured 13 clubs which competed in the division last season, along with three new clubs:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 51], "content_span": [52, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092011-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Svenska Cupen\nSvenska Cupen 1970\u201371 was the sixteenth season of the main Swedish football Cup. The competition was concluded on 30 June 1971 with the final, held at Malm\u00f6 Stadion, Malm\u00f6. \u00c5tvidabergs FF won 3-2 against Malm\u00f6 FF before an attendance of 7,544 spectators.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092011-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Svenska Cupen, Quarter-finals\nThe quarter finals were held on 4 and 5 April 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 37], "content_span": [38, 89]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092011-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Svenska Cupen, Final\nThe final was played on 30 June 1971 at Malm\u00f6 Stadion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 83]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092012-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Swedish Division I season\nThe 1970\u201371 Swedish Division I season was the 27th season of Swedish Division I. Brynas IF won the league title by finishing first in the final round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092013-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Tercera Divisi\u00f3n\nThe 1970\u201371 Tercera Divisi\u00f3n season was the 37th since the establishment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092014-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Texaco Cup\nThe 1970\u201371 Texaco Cup was the first edition of the tournament sponsored by Texaco. It was won by Wolverhampton Wanderers, who beat Hearts in a two-legged final by 3\u20132 on aggregate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092015-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Texas Chaparrals season\nThe 1970\u201371 Texas Chaparrals season was the fourth season of the Chaparrals in the American Basketball Association. In order to try to attract more fans, the Chaparrals adopted the Texas moniker, even playing games in Fort Worth, Texas, at the Tarrant County Coliseum along with Lubbock, Texas, at the Lubbock Municipal Coliseum. This practice was scrapped after the season, along with the moniker, as the team was renamed before the next season. For the fourth straight year, the Chaps made the playoffs, but for the third straight year in a row they bowed out in the Division Semifinals, once again to Utah.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 641]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092015-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Texas Chaparrals season, Playoffs\nThe Rockets and Chaparrals were tied for the fourth and final playoff spot in the Western Division, so the two teams played in a one game playoff, with the Chaps winning 115\u2013109.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092015-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Texas Chaparrals season, Awards and honors\n1971 ABA All-Star Game selections (game played on January 23, 1971)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092016-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 The Floridians season\nThe 1970\u201371 The Floridians season was the third season of American Basketball Association in Florida and first as The Floridians, after two seasons as the Miami Floridians. In an attempt to appeal to the entire regional, game were played in five cities: Miami, Tampa, St. Petersburg, Florida, Jacksonville, and West Palm Beach. New head owner Ned Doyle decided to get rid of the entire team, except the coach. The Floridians finished 9th in points scored at 114.0 per game, but 5th in points allowed at 115.6 per game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092016-0000-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 The Floridians season\nThe team's biggest losing streak was 6, which happened less than a month after the season began, though a 5-game winning streak followed that. But by the first half of the season, they were 17\u201325, and Blitman was fired after they had lost their fifth straight game on January 14 to make them 18\u201330. One day later, Bob Bass was hired by the team after resigning from Texas Tech. The next day, he won his first game, versus the Utah Stars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092016-0000-0002", "contents": "1970\u201371 The Floridians season\nA seven-game winning streak near the end of the season helped clinch a playoff spot for the team, with the key win being versus the Pittsburgh Condors on March 28, the penultimate game of the season played in Jacksonville, beating them 130\u2013117 to eliminate Pittsburgh. In the Semifinals, they overcame a 2\u20130 hole to tie the series up, but the Kentucky Colonels won the next two games to win the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092016-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 The Floridians season, Awards and honors\n1971 ABA All-Star Game selections (game played on January 23, 1971)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092017-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Toronto Maple Leafs season\nThe 1970\u201371 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the 54th season of the franchise, 44th as the Maple Leafs. Norm Ullman ranked sixth in the league in the scoring with 85 points. The Leafs placed fourth in the East to qualify for the playoffs. The Leafs lost to the New York Rangers in the first round of the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092017-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Toronto Maple Leafs season, Regular season\nIn February, the Maple Leafs and Philadelphia Flyers swung a large trade. Toronto picked up Bernie Parent and a second-round draft choice for Bruce Gamble, Mike Walton and a first-round draft choice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092017-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Toronto Maple Leafs season, Transactions\nThe Maple Leafs have been involved in the following transactions during the 1970\u201371 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 48], "content_span": [49, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092018-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Tweede Divisie\nThe Dutch 1970\u201371 Tweede Divisie season was contested by 17 teams. The Tweede Divisie league would be disbanded after this season, so eleven teams returned to amateur football (either forced or on a voluntary basis). De Volewijckers were the last champions and they were promoted to the Eerste Divisie along with five other teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092019-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 UC Irvine Anteaters men's basketball team\nThe 1970\u201371 UC Irvine Anteaters men's basketball team represented the University of California, Irvine during the 1970\u201371 NCAA College Division men's basketball season. The Anteaters were led by second year head coach Tim Tift and played their home games at Crawford Hall. The anteaters finished the season with a record 16\u201310.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092019-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 UC Irvine Anteaters men's basketball team, Previous Season\nAfter previous head coach Dick Davis accepted the head coaching position at San Diego State, frosh coach Tim Tift was hired to be his replacement. The anteaters finished the season with a record 17\u20139 and were not invited to a post season tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 66], "content_span": [67, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092020-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team\nThe 1970\u201371 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team won the National Collegiate Championship on March 27, 1971, in the Astrodome in Houston, Texas. It was UCLA's fifth consecutive national title, and seventh in eight years under head coach John Wooden. The Bruins defeated Villanova 68\u201362, but the Wildcats' runner-up finish was later vacated by the NCAA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092020-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team\nSmith Barrier, executive sports editor at the Daily News and Record of Greensboro, North Carolina, wrote: \"Mister John Wooden has a watch factory out in Los Angeles. It's a bit different from most Swiss works. They don't make watches, they win 'em.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092020-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team\nThe Bruins' only blemish was a 89\u201382 loss at Notre Dame on January\u00a023. The victory over UC Santa Barbara on January\u00a030 began UCLA's record 88-game winning streak; it lasted nearly three years, broken on January 19, 1974, again at Notre Dame.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092020-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team\nUCLA averaged 83.5 points per game, and allowed 71.1 points. Seniors Sidney Wicks and Curtis Rowe were selected to the consensus All-America team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092020-0004-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team\nThe Bruins opened NCAA West Regional in Salt Lake City with a 91\u201373 win over BYU, then edged Long Beach State 57\u201355 in the regional final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092020-0005-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team\nAt the Final Four in Houston, UCLA defeated fourth-ranked Kansas 68\u201360 in the semifinal game on Thursday night.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092021-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 USM Alger season\nIn the 1970\u201371 season, USM Alger is competing in the Championnat National for the 5th season, as well as the Algerian Cup. They will be competing in Championnat National, and the Algerian Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092021-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 USM Alger season, Summary season\nIn 1970\u201371 Algerian Cup after a long march due to playing the quarter and semi-finals in home and away system Al-Ittihad reached the final to face in the Algiers Derby, MC Alger and be defeated again. before her in the semi-finals in Khenchela against the local team, Al-Ittihad was not welcomed because of a word used by USM Alger supporters which is that Khenchela is \u201cShawiya\u201d a term that has been misinterpreted and they prepared a hostile reception, and the match lasted four hours due to the storming to the stadium several times by the supporters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092021-0001-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 USM Alger season, Summary season\nAfter the end of the match USM Alger players who were accompanied by a handful of fans, remained locked in the dressing rooms until midnight and after the intervention of a Gendarmerie brigade sent from Batna. his return to Algiers was around 9 am the next day, then the Algerian Football Federation at that time punished the two clubs by playing 50 kilometers away from its stadium for one year. As for USM Alger it received in the 1971\u201372 season at Stade des Fr\u00e8res Brakni. USM Alger again participated in the Maghreb Cup Winners Cup as a runner-up of the Algerian Cup, finished in the last place with two defeats against Club Africain and Wydad Casablanca.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 700]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092021-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 USM Alger season, Squad list\nPlayers and squad numbers last updated on 1 September 1970.Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092021-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 USM Alger season, Squad information, Goalscorers\nIncludes all competitive matches. The list is sorted alphabetically by surname when total goals are equal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 56], "content_span": [57, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092022-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 United States network television schedule\nThe following is the 1970\u201371 network television schedule for the three major English language commercial broadcast networks in the United States. The schedule covers primetime hours from September 1970 through August 1971. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series cancelled after the 1969\u201370 season. All times are Eastern and Pacific, with certain exceptions, such as Monday Night Football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092022-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 United States network television schedule\nThis was the first time that the top rated show of the season aired on ABC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092022-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 United States network television schedule\nEach of the 30 highest-rated shows is listed with its rank and rating as determined by Nielsen Media Research.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092022-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 United States network television schedule\nPBS, the Public Broadcasting Service, was in operation by October 1970; however, schedules were set by each affiliated station.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092022-0004-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 United States network television schedule\nIn April 1970, Congress passed a law banning the advertising of cigarettes on television and radio, effective January 2, 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092022-0005-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 United States network television schedule\nThis season would be the last one for the traditional 3\u00bd-hour prime time schedule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092022-0006-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 United States network television schedule, Monday\nNote: NBC Comedy Theater featured repeats of Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre, with new introductions by Jack Kelly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 57], "content_span": [58, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092022-0007-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 United States network television schedule, Wednesday\nNotes: Love on a Rooftop consisted of reruns of the series, which originally aired during the 1966-1967 season. The Men from Shiloh formerly was entitled The Virginian.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 60], "content_span": [61, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092022-0008-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 United States network television schedule, Thursday\nNotes: The Dean Martin Summer Show Starring Your Host Vic Damone consisted entirely of reruns of the show of the same name from the summer of 1967. NBC Action Playhouse featured repeats of Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre, with new introductions by Peter Marshall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 59], "content_span": [60, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092022-0009-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 United States network television schedule, By network, NBC\nNote: The * indicates that the program was introduced in midseason.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 66], "content_span": [67, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092023-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 United States network television schedule (daytime)\nThe 1970\u201371 daytime network television schedule for the three major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the weekday and weekend daytime hours from September 1970 to August 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092023-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 United States network television schedule (daytime), Schedule, Saturday\nIn the Know aired on CBS at 8:55\u00a0am, 9:55\u00a0am, 10:55\u00a0am, 11:55\u00a0am, and 12:55\u00a0pm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 79], "content_span": [80, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092024-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 United States network television schedule (late night)\nThese are the late night Monday-Friday schedules on all three networks for each calendar season beginning September 1970. All times are Eastern/Pacific.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092024-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 United States network television schedule (late night)\nTalk/Variety shows are highlighted in yellow, Local News & Programs are highlighted in white.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092025-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Utah Stars season\nThe 1970\u201371 Utah Stars season was the first season for the Stars in Utah. After one season in Anaheim and two seasons in Los Angeles, the team moved to Utah in June 1970. The Stars finished second in the Western Division and won their first and only ABA title. In the Semifinals, the Stars swept the Texas Chaparrals in four games. In the Division Finals, they beat the Indiana Pacers in seven games (including Game 7 in Indiana) to advance to the ABA Finals. In seven games, they beat the Kentucky Colonels, to give the state of Utah its first pro championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092025-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Utah Stars season, Roster\nBold indicates the player was on the final roster prior to the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092025-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Utah Stars season, Playoffs\nZelmo Beaty scored 23.2 points per game and rebounded 14.6 rebounds per game, which earned him the Playoffs MVP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092026-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Valparaiso Crusaders men's basketball team\nThe 1970\u201371 Valparaiso Crusaders men's basketball team represented Valparaiso University during the 1970\u201371 NCAA Division II men's basketball season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092027-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Vancouver Canucks season\nThe 1970\u201371 Vancouver Canucks season was the Canucks' first in the NHL. They joined the league on May 22, 1970, along with the Buffalo Sabres. After not being awarded an expansion team in 1967 when the league added six teams, Vancouver finally joined the NHL in 1970 for a price of $6 million (compared to $2 million in 1967). The Vancouver Canucks of the Western Hockey League were promoted to the NHL, though the ownership group of the WHL Canucks, not willing to pay the $6 million to join the NHL, sold the team to Medicor, a group controlled by Thomas Scallen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092027-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Vancouver Canucks season\nThe Canucks logo was a stylized C designed as a hockey stick inside a rink incorporating the colours of blue, green and white to represent the water, forests and snow surrounding Vancouver. It was designed by a local creative designer, Joe Borovich, and bought for $500.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092027-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Vancouver Canucks season\nDuring the Amateur draft, held on June 11 in Montreal, there was debate over what expansion team would draft first. In order to reach a compromise, a numbered spinning wheel was brought in to determine the draft: the Sabres were odd numbers, the Canucks even. When the wheel landed on 11, the Canucks and NHL President Clarence Campbell thought it was II (two) in Roman numerals. However it turned out to be 11 (eleven) in Arabic numerals, leading the Sabres to select first overall future superstar Gilbert Perreault.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092027-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Vancouver Canucks season\nOn October 9, 1970, the Canucks played their first game in the NHL, a 3\u20131 loss to the Los Angeles Kings. There was a grand opening ceremony attended by British Columbia Premier W. A. C. Bennett, Mayor of Vancouver Tom Campbell (who was booed by fans), Chief Dan George and former Vancouver Millionaires player Cyclone Taylor, who received a standing ovation upon being introduced. Barry Wilkins scored the first goal for the Canucks in the third period.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092027-0004-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Vancouver Canucks season\nInexplicably, the Canucks were placed in the East Division, which was not only the tougher division but featured opponents over 2,000 miles away from Vancouver. (The Canucks were nearly a .500 team at home, but could only win seven of 39 road games.) Throughout the first three months of the season, though, the expansion club managed to stay within contention of a playoff spot, until captain Orland Kurtenbach injured his knee in late December. The Canucks would finish their inaugural season with six 20-goal scorers, and Tallon would break Bobby Orr's rookie record for defenseman assists, but 11-30-5 mark to end the season placed them only one point out of last place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 707]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092027-0005-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Vancouver Canucks season, Player statistics, Skaters\nNote: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalty Minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092027-0006-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Vancouver Canucks season, Player statistics, Skaters\n\u2020Denotes player spent time with another team before joining Vancouver. Stats reflect time with the Canucks only.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092027-0007-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Vancouver Canucks season, Player statistics, Skaters\n*Denotes player traded by Vancouver midway through the season. Stats reflect time with Canucks only.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092027-0008-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Vancouver Canucks season, Player statistics, Goaltenders\nNote: GP = Games Played; Min = Minutes; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; GA = Goals Against; SO = Shutouts; GAA = Goals Against Average", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 64], "content_span": [65, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092027-0009-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Vancouver Canucks season, Awards and records, Records achieved in the season\nNote: Only records that stand as of 2020\u201321 are listed", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 84], "content_span": [85, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092027-0010-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Vancouver Canucks season, Transactions\nThe Canucks were involved in the following transactions during the 1970\u201371 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092027-0011-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Vancouver Canucks season, Draft picks, Expansion draft\nVancouver's picks at the 1970 NHL Expansion Draft. In order to fill out the rosters of both the Canucks and Buffalo Sabres, they were given the opportunity to select eighteen skaters and two goaltenders from the unprotected lists of existing NHL team's rosters. Teams were allowed to protect several players from being drafted, and as such kept many of their star players, leaving the Canucks and Sabres with lesser quality players to choose from. The draft was held on June 9, 1970, at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Using a spinning wheel to determine the order of the expansion draft, Buffalo had the first choice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 62], "content_span": [63, 704]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092027-0012-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Vancouver Canucks season, Draft picks, Amateur draft\nVancouver's picks at the 1970 NHL Amateur Draft. The draft was held on June 11, 1970, at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092028-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Vehicle & General Australasian knock-out competition\nThe 1970\u201371 Vehicle & General Australasian knock-out competition was the second edition of the officical List A domstic tournament in Australia. Seven teams representing six states in Australia and New Zealand took part in the knock-out competition. The competition began on 18 October 1970 when South Australia took on Victoria at the Adelaide Oval.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092028-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Vehicle & General Australasian knock-out competition\nThe 1970\u201371 cup final was played on 6 February 1971 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground between Queensland and Western Australia, with Western Australia recording an 91 run victory over Queensland. Ian Chappell scored the most runs in the tournament with 176 runs with Graham McKenzie from Western Australia taking the most wickets with eight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092028-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Vehicle & General Australasian knock-out competition, Format\nThe second season of the competition was a straight knockout competition between the six states of Australia and a team that represented New Zealand at the domestic level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 68], "content_span": [69, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092029-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Villanova Wildcats men's basketball team\nThe 1970\u201371 Villanova Wildcats men's basketball team represented Villanova University during the 1970\u201371 NCAA University Division men's basketball season. The team was led by head coach Jack Kraft and played its home games on campus at Villanova Field House in Villanova, Pennsylvania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092029-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Villanova Wildcats men's basketball team\nThe independent Wildcats made a run through the NCAA Tournament before falling to No. 1 UCLA, 68\u201362, in the championship game. Villanova finished with a 27\u20137 (.794) record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092030-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Virginia Squires season\nThe 1970\u201371 Virginia Squires season was the first season of the Virginia Squires in the American Basketball Association. After one season each in Oakland and Washington, owner Earl Foreman was convinced by the league to move his team to Virginia. Like the Carolina Cougars and The Floridians, the Squires played as a regional franchise, primarily playing games in Norfolk, Hampton and Richmond, with Salem and Roanoke having occasional games. The Squires started play on October 17, 1970, in Norfolk, winning 133\u2013116 over the Pittsburgh Condors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092030-0000-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 Virginia Squires season\nThey proceeded to win their next five games, while having a 30\u201312 first half of the season, highlighted by a seven-game winning streak. They went 25\u201317 in the second half, though they never lost more than two games in a row. They finished 1st in points scored at 123.3 per game, but 7th in points allowed at 119.7 per game. In the playoffs, they beat the Kentucky Colonels in six games to advance to the Division Finals, but they were beaten in six games themselves by the New York Nets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092030-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Virginia Squires season\nPrior to the season on September 1, the Squires traded an unhappy Rick Barry to the New York Nets for $200,000 cash. Offsetting this loss was rookie Charlie Scott from the University of North Carolina. Scott averaged 27.1 points per game and was named ABA Rookie of the Year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092030-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Virginia Squires season, Awards and honors\n1971 ABA All-Star Game selections (game played on January 23, 1971)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092031-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 WCHL season\nThe 1970\u201371 WCHL season was the fifth season of the Western Canada Hockey League (WCHL). Ten teams completed a 66-game season, with the Edmonton Oil Kings winning the President's Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092031-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 WCHL season, League business\nThe Medicine Hat Tigers were approved as an expansion team in January 1970, for the upcoming 1970\u201371 season. The Regina Pats were accepted into the WCHL, which increased league to ten teams by May 1970. League president Ron Butlin stated that the expansion draft was configured so that new teams would be competitive in their first year. Established teams could protect six players before expansion teams could then start drafting from the rest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092031-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 WCHL season, League business\nThe Canadian Amateur Hockey Association (CAHA) general meeting in May 1970 discussed proposals, in which the WCHL and Butlin were interested as part of rejoining the CAHA and disbanding the Canadian Hockey Association. Proposals included splitting junior ice hockey into two tiers, and readmitting the WCHL into the top tier along with the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League and the Ontario Hockey Association Major Junior A Series. The top tier teams would be eligible to compete for the Memorial Cup, receive greater development payments from the National Hockey League when players were drafted, and be allowed to select a limited number of players from lower-tier teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 710]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092031-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 WCHL season, League business\nOn May 29, 1970, Justice Lieberman of the Alberta Supreme Court ruled in favour of the WCHL being paid C$13,200 in outstanding development payments from the CAHA for the 1968 NHL draft. Butlin was satisfied with the ruling and considered further court action to receive an additional $40,700 from the 1969 NHL draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092031-0004-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 WCHL season, League business\nOn June 24, 1970, the WCHL and the CAHA signed a two-year agreement to reunite the organizations. The WCHL was admitted to the top tier of the CAHA, and would receive $100,000 in development grants for the 1970\u201371 season. The WCHL would pay a flat registration fee per team rather than a percentage of gate receipts, and would have direct representation on the CAHA junior council. The WCHL was expected to abide by any future CAHA-NHL agreements which included the renegotiation of draft payment amounts, and the CAHA agreed to distribute outstanding draft money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092031-0004-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 WCHL season, League business\nLeague expansion or relocation of teams were subject to CAHA approval, and the WCHL league champion qualified for the Memorial Cup final. The WCHL was allowed four over-age players in the upcoming season, then reduced to two over-age players in the second season onward. The WCHL was allowed to transfer up to six players between provinvces per team from areas west of Ontario, and could draft a maximum of two players from a lower tier team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092031-0005-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 WCHL season, League business\nIn August 1970, Butlin announced an affiliation agreement with the British Columbia Junior Hockey League to develop prospect players for the WCHL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092031-0006-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 WCHL season, League business\nIn October 1970, CAHA president Earl Dawson threatened to have the league expelled from the CAHA due to the use of over-age players who came from Ontario, and disputes with payments to lower tier teams. CAHA secretary Gordon Juckes later clarified that automatic release provisions would not be used in the 1970\u201371 season, and suggested alternate arrangements be made to settle disputes of roster movements between tiers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092031-0007-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 WCHL season, League business\nIn January 1971, the league set up an $8,000 scholarship for Ernie Heineman due to a career-ending eye injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092031-0008-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 WCHL season, League business\nThe Edmonton Oil Kings issued a challenge to the Quebec Remparts to play for the 1971 Memorial Cup championship. The CAHA approved a best-of-three final with all three games played at the Quebec Coliseum. Edmonton failed to win a game and the Remparts won the Memorial Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092031-0009-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 WCHL season, League business\nButlin chose to resign as WCHL president on June 21, 1971, since he was not happy with how some of the team owners did business. He stated that he was cautious about expanding in to British Columbia, and claimed that several team owners had done negotiations without him. Butlin had one year remaining on his contract.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092031-0010-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 WCHL season, Regular season\nThe Medicine Hat Tigers were added to the West division, and the Regina Pats were added to the East division. The regular season was expanded to 66 games from 60.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092031-0011-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 WCHL season, Regular season, Scoring leaders\nNote: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalties in minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 52], "content_span": [53, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092031-0012-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 WCHL season, All-Star game\nThe 1970\u201371 WCHL All-Star Game was held in Winnipeg, Manitoba, with the WCHL All-stars defeating the Winnipeg Jets 4\u20133 before a crowd of 3,543.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092032-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 WFA Cup\nThe 1970\u201371 Women's Football Association Cup was the first edition of the WFA Cup (Women's FA Cup), the national women's football knockout competition in England, which at the time was open to clubs from the rest of the United Kingdom. It was organised by the Women's Football Association (WFA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092032-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 WFA Cup\nSeventy-one teams entered the Cup, which was sponsored by sports equipment company Mitre and was thus named the Mitre Challenge Trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092032-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 WFA Cup\nThe inaugural Cup-winners were the English club Southampton Women's F.C., who beat Scotland's Stewarton Thistle in the Final on 9 May 1971 at Crystal Palace Park; Stewarton won the first edition of the Scottish Women's Cup Final in the same year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092032-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 WFA Cup\nThe WFA tournament followed the rescindment of the English Football Association's 1921 ban on women's teams' use of FA member clubs' pitches. However, the English Football League partially continued this ban for more than a decade after 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092032-0004-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 WFA Cup, Prior developments\nAfter the 1921 ban, national women's football competitions had been attempted by organisations including the English Ladies Football Association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092032-0005-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 WFA Cup, Prior developments\nFrom 1967 until 1972, a large annual summer tournament was held in Deal, Kent with women's clubs from throughout Great Britain, playing short-form matches. The Deal International Tournament comprised 52 clubs in 1969, including some from Czechoslovakia and Austria. This was a catalyst in the formation of the Ladies Football Association of Great Britain in November 1969 by forty-four clubs, with its first AGM on 6 June 1970. It was shortly renamed the Women's Football Association (WFA). One of the Association's founder members was a club from the Republic of Ireland, Dundalk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092032-0006-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 WFA Cup, Prior developments\nWomen's football had been treated in hostile terms by the FA, which forbade women's teams to play at its member club grounds in England from 1921 until the early 1970s. The FA voted to revoke the ban in January 1970, but the men's Football League did not take similar action, and did not permit its clubs to host the first WFA Cup Finals. A blanket ban lasted for a further three years, according to the WFA's Patricia Gregory:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092032-0007-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 WFA Cup, Prior developments\nThe Football League (FL, now EFL) didn't lift their objections to our using their grounds until we played an International match against The Netherlands in November 1973 (a game played at Reading FC [Elm Park]).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092032-0008-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 WFA Cup, Prior developments\nIn 1971, and in the next ten competitions, the WFA Cup Finals were not allowed to be held at Football League grounds, according to the History of the Women's Football Association, based on British Library records: \"As the sport grew the WFA was reliant upon the generosity of smaller clubs\". The first women's Final held at a League ground was the 1982 Final at Loftus Road.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092032-0009-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 WFA Cup, Prior developments\nIn November 1970, the County FA Secretaries' Association conference voted to reject, by 31 to 13, the Birmingham FA's proposal to allow women's clubs to affiliate to county FAs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092032-0010-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 WFA Cup, Prior developments\nSeveral regional leagues were formed around this time, including the Heart of England Ladies' Football League, Midland Ladies Football League, Torbay Women's League, Home Counties Women's Football League, Kent Women's League, and Merseyside and Wirral Ladies' Football League", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092032-0011-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 WFA Cup, Early rounds\nThe first news report on team entries to the Cup was in August 1970. Mitre's sponsorship of the competition continued from 1970 until 1976; the company also provided the first winners' trophy, which was used until 1979.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 29], "content_span": [30, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092032-0012-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 WFA Cup, Early rounds\nThe 1970\u201371 Cup was reportedly divided into eight area groups. The eight zonal winners qualified to the quarter-finals, held in Watford.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 29], "content_span": [30, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092032-0013-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 WFA Cup, Early rounds\nA first-round match in Scotland was Aberdeen Prima Donnas v Stewarton Thistle (of Kilmarnock), on 29 November 1970 at the Aberdeen Lads' Club Fields in Woodside, Aberdeen. The teams would meet again in the Scottish Women's Cup Final in 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 29], "content_span": [30, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092032-0014-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 WFA Cup, Early rounds\nIn the earliest reported fixture in the Cup, on 1 November, Leicester City Supporters L.F.C. were drawn at home to The Wandering Angels (Lichfield), and in December Amersham Angels (\"who were given a bye in the preliminary round\") beat Luton Ladies, 5\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 29], "content_span": [30, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092032-0015-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 WFA Cup, Early rounds\nAt this time, the Association was evidently open to all Irish and Welsh women's football clubs, though how many competed in the Cup is unclear. The successful Welsh women's team Prestatyn travelled to Ireland to play Dundalk in an \"international\" friendly match in April 1971, which ended in a 4\u20132 away win, and Dundalk's Kevin Gaynor was on the WFA Executive. A representative Northern Ireland team was discussed with the WFA in June 1971; eventually, the WFA came to be solely a governing body for England. The Scottish Women's Football Association was founded in 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 29], "content_span": [30, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092032-0016-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 WFA Cup, Final rounds\nOne of the eight zonal final matches was won by Nuneaton Wanderers (Warwickshire) 6\u20133 against Bantams Ladies (Coventry), at the Memorial Park; another zonal winner was EMGALS (from Leicester, representing the East Midlands Gas Board, EMGAS), who won 5\u20133 at Hull. Another zonal final match was between Chiltern Valley and Amersham Angels.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 29], "content_span": [30, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092032-0017-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 WFA Cup, Final rounds\nIn the quarter-finals, Nuneaton Wanderers beat Kays Ladies (Worcester) on 25 April at Watford. EMGALS, Southampton and Stewarton also progressed from their quarter-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 29], "content_span": [30, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092032-0018-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 WFA Cup, Final rounds\nThe semi-final winners were Stewarton Thistle (9\u20132 against the injury-hit Wanderers) and Southampton (11\u20130 versus EMGALS).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 29], "content_span": [30, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092032-0019-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 WFA Cup, Final rounds\nThe final matches were held at the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre, earlier the site of twenty men's FA Cup Finals in the 19th and 20th centuries. As in the FA Cup at the time, a third-place playoff was held \u2013 Nuneaton Wanderers beat EMGALS on penalties after a 3\u20133 draw. Soon after, Wanderers won a 10-team international tournament in Holland in June 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 29], "content_span": [30, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092032-0020-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 WFA Cup, Final rounds\nSouthampton Women's F.C. won the Cup with a 4\u20131 victory over Stewarton Thistle, including a hat-trick by Pat Davies. The Kilmarnock-based club, whose Rose Reilly later won eight women's Serie A titles, were the first winners of the Scottish Women's Cup in the same year; the team also reached the second WFA Cup Final in 1972 under the name Lee's Ladies. Southampton went on to win eight WFA Cups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 29], "content_span": [30, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092033-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 WIHL season\n1970\u201371 was the 24th season of the Western International Hockey League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 91]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092033-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 WIHL season, Playoff\nIn the Best of 7 final series, the Nelson Maple Leafs defeated the Spokane Jets 4 games to 2 (9-4, 3-4, 3-6, 4-2, 4-3, 5-2). The Nelson Maple Leafs advanced to the 1970-71 Western Canada Allan Cup Playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 28], "content_span": [29, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092034-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Washington Huskies men's basketball team\nThe 1970\u201371 Washington Huskies men's basketball team represented the University of Washington for the 1970\u201371 NCAA college basketball season. Led by third-year head coach Tex Winter, the Huskies were members of the Pacific-8 Conference and played their home games on campus at Hec Edmundson Pavilion in Seattle, Washington.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092034-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Washington Huskies men's basketball team\nThe Huskies were 15\u201313 overall in the regular season and 6\u20138 in conference play, fifth in the standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092034-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Washington Huskies men's basketball team\nAfter the season in May 1971, Winter left to become head coach of the NBA's San Diego Rockets, who moved to Houston that summer. Marv Harshman was hired in June, and he led the Huskies for fourteen seasons. He was previously the head coach at rival Washington State for thirteen years, preceded by thirteen years at his alma mater, Pacific Lutheran.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092035-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Washington State Cougars men's basketball team\nThe 1970\u201371 Washington State Cougars men's basketball team represented Washington State University for the 1970\u201371 college basketball season. Led by thirteenth-year head coach Marv Harshman, the Cougars were members of the Pacific-8 Conference and played their home games on campus at Bohler Gymnasium in Pullman, Washington.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092035-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Washington State Cougars men's basketball team\nThe Cougars were 12\u201314 overall in the regular season and 2\u201312 in conference play, tied for last in the standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092035-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Washington State Cougars men's basketball team\nAt the end of the season, assistant Jud Heathcote became head coach at the University of Montana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092035-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Washington State Cougars men's basketball team\nA fixture in Pullman since 1958, Harshman departed in June for rival Washington in Seattle. Bob Greenwood, an assistant at Iowa and former head coach at Washington University in St. Louis, was hired in July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092036-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Weber State Wildcats men's basketball team\nThe 1970\u201371 Weber State Wildcats men's basketball team represented Weber State College during the 1970\u201371 NCAA University Division basketball season. Members of the Big Sky Conference, the Wildcats were led by third-year head coach Phil Johnson and played their home games on campus at Wildcat Gym in Ogden, Utah. They were 21\u20135 in the regular season and 12\u20132 in conference play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092036-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Weber State Wildcats men's basketball team\nThe conference tournament was five years away, and for the fourth consecutive season, Weber State won the Big Sky title and played in the 25-team NCAA Tournament. In the West regional at nearby Logan, they met Jerry Tarkanian's Long Beach State 49ers in the first round for a second straight year and lost again, this time by eleven points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092036-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Weber State Wildcats men's basketball team\nBoth starting forwards were unanimously selected to the all-conference team; senior Willie Sojourner was named for a third consecutive season and junior Bob Davis repeated the next year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092036-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Weber State Wildcats men's basketball team\nFollowing the season, Johnson became an assistant in the NBA with the Chicago Bulls under Dick Motta, whom he had played for in high school in Idaho and coached under at Weber.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092037-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Welsh Cup\nThe 1970\u201371 FAW Welsh Cup is the 84th season of the annual knockout tournament for competitive football teams in Wales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092037-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Welsh Cup, Fifth round\nNine winners from the Fourth round and seven new clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 86]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092038-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 West Midlands (Regional) League\nThe 1970\u201371 West Midlands (Regional) League season was the 71st in the history of the West Midlands (Regional) League, an English association football competition for semi-professional and amateur teams based in the West Midlands county, Shropshire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire and southern Staffordshire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092038-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 West Midlands (Regional) League, Premier Division\nThe Premier Division featured 18 clubs which competed in the division last season, along with one new club:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 57], "content_span": [58, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092039-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Western Football League\nThe 1970\u201371 season was the 69th in the history of the Western Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092039-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Western Football League\nThe champions for the second time in their history were Bideford.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092039-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Western Football League, Final table\nThe league was reduced from twenty clubs to eighteen after Portland United, Weymouth Reserves and Yeovil Town Reserves left, and one new club joined:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092040-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers basketball team\nThe 1970\u201371 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers men's basketball team represented Western Kentucky University during the 1970\u201371 NCAA University Division men's basketball season. The Hilltoppers were led by Ohio Valley Conference Coach of the Year John Oldham and consensus All-American player Jim McDaniels. WKU won the OVC season championship, as well as the conference's automatic bid to the 1971 NCAA University Division Basketball Tournament. No conference tournament was held, so the conference bid was awarded to the season champion. The Hilltoppers advanced to the NCAA Final Four, though the tournament games were later vacated by the NCAA due to McDaniels having signed a contract with an agent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 751]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092040-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers basketball team\nFor the second consecutive year, McDaniels was OVC Player of the Year and set the school record for most points scored in season and career, and highest scoring average. Jerry Dunn and Jim Rose joined McDaniels on the All-OVC Team. This team was one of the most talented in school history with several players being drafted by the NBA and ABA including McDaniels, Dunn, Rose, Clarence Glover, and Jerome Perry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092040-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers basketball team, Cultural Relevance\nThis year's Western Kentucky team was the first non-historically black Kentucky college to start five African-American players: McDaniels, Rose, Glover, Dunn, and Rex Bailey. Coach Oldham was pressured, and even threatened, not to start all five together, but resisted the pressure saying \"they are my best five players.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 72], "content_span": [73, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092040-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers basketball team, NCAA Sanctions\nWKU's NCAA tournament games were later vacated by the NCAA after it was discovered that McDaniels had signed with a professional agent prior to the tournament. \u201cI admit I made a mistake,\u201d McDaniels told the Courier-Journal in an interview. \u201cThere was a lot of pressure. I got around some people who did not have my best interests at heart.\u201d The sanctions reduced their officially recognized record to 20\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 68], "content_span": [69, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092041-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team\nThe 1970\u20131971 Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team represented University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison. The head coach was John Powless, coaching his third season with the Badgers. The team played their home games at the UW Fieldhouse in Madison, Wisconsin and was a member of the Big Ten Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092042-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Yale Bulldogs men's basketball team\nThe 1970\u201371 Yale Bulldogs men's basketball team represented Yale University during the 1970\u201371 men's college basketball season. The Bulldogs, led by 14th year head coach Joe Vancisin, played their home games at John J. Lee Amphitheater of the Payne Whitney Gymnasium and were members of the Ivy League. They finished the season 4\u201320, 2\u201312 in Ivy League play to finish in seventh place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092043-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Yorkshire Cup\nThe 1970\u201371 Yorkshire Cup was the sixty-third occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092043-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Yorkshire Cup\nLeeds won the trophy by beating Featherstone Rovers by the score of 23\u20137", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092043-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Yorkshire Cup\nThe match was played at Odsal in the City of Bradford, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 6,753 and receipts were \u00a31,879", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092043-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Yorkshire Cup\nThis was Featherstone Rovers's second Yorkshire Cup final defeat in successive competitions", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092043-0004-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Yorkshire Cup, Background\nThis season there were no junior/amateur clubs taking part, no new entrants and no \"leavers\" and so the total of entries remained the same at sixteen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092043-0005-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Yorkshire Cup, Background\nThis in turn resulted in no byes in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 86]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092043-0006-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Yorkshire Cup, Competition and Results, Final, Teams and Scorers\nScoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = two (2) points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 72], "content_span": [73, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092043-0007-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Yorkshire Cup, Notes and comments\n1 * Just prior to the new season's start, the Hunslet players were told they had to accept a cut in wages. This they refused to accept as they had not had a rise for eight years. They went on strike. When the management threatened to close down the club, the players relented and backed down, but after only one match they went back on strike. This match was not played and Doncaster awarded a walk-over.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 41], "content_span": [42, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092043-0008-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Yorkshire Cup, Notes and comments\n2 * Odsal is the home ground of Bradford Northern from 1890 to 2010 and the current capacity is in the region of 26,000, The ground is famous for hosting the largest attendance at an English sports ground when 102,569 (it was reported that over 120,000 actually attended as several areas of boundary fencing collapse under the sheer weight of numbers) attended the replay of the Challenge Cup final on 5 May 1954 to see Halifax v Warrington", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 41], "content_span": [42, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092043-0009-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Yorkshire Cup, Notes and comments, General information for those unfamiliar\nThe Rugby League Yorkshire Cup competition was a knock-out competition between (mainly professional) rugby league clubs from the county of Yorkshire. The actual area was at times increased to encompass other teams from outside the county such as Newcastle, Mansfield, Coventry, and even London (in the form of Acton & Willesden).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 83], "content_span": [84, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092043-0010-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Yorkshire Cup, Notes and comments, General information for those unfamiliar\nThe Rugby League season always (until the onset of \"Summer Rugby\" in 1996) ran from around August-time through to around May-time and this competition always took place early in the season, in the Autumn, with the final taking place in (or just before) December (The only exception to this was when disruption of the fixture list was caused during, and immediately after, the two World Wars)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 83], "content_span": [84, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092044-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Yorkshire Football League\nThe 1970\u201371 Yorkshire Football League was the 45th season in the history of the Yorkshire Football League, a football competition in England. This season the league expanded up to three divisions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092044-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Yorkshire Football League, Division One\nDivision One featured 12 clubs which competed in the previous season, along with two new clubs:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092044-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Yorkshire Football League, Division Two\nDivision Two featured eight clubs which competed in the previous season, along with six new clubs, relegated from Division One:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092044-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Yorkshire Football League, Division Three\nThe division was formed by nine clubs relegated from Division Two and six new clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092045-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Yugoslav Cup\nThe 1970\u201371 Yugoslav Cup was the 24th season of the top football knockout competition in SFR Yugoslavia, the Yugoslav Cup (Serbo-Croatian: Kup Jugoslavije), also known as the \"Marshal Tito Cup\" (Kup Mar\u0161ala Tita), since its establishment in 1946.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092045-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Yugoslav Cup, Finals (First Leg)\nVladislav Bogi\u0107evi\u0107, Slobodan Jankovi\u0107 (Mile Novkovi\u0107), Stanislav Karasi, Zoran Filipovi\u0107, Jovan A\u0107imovi\u0107, Dragan D\u017eaji\u0107", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 40], "content_span": [41, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092045-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Yugoslav Cup, Finals (Second Leg)\nFuad Suba\u0161i\u0107, Omer Jusi\u0107 (Muhamed Glavovi\u0107), Tihomir Trifunovi\u0107, \u010caslav Jevremovi\u0107", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092046-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Yugoslav First Basketball League\nThe 1970\u201371 Yugoslav First Basketball League season was the 27th season of the Yugoslav First Basketball League, the highest professional basketball league in SFR Yugoslavia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092047-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Yugoslav First League\nThe 1970\u201371 Yugoslav First League season was the 25th season of the First Federal League (Serbo-Croatian: Prva savezna liga), the top level association football league of SFR Yugoslavia, since its establishment in 1946. Eighteen teams contested the competition, which ended with Hajduk Split winning their fourth title, club's first in 16 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092047-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Yugoslav First League, Incidents\nThe season featured an incident that occurred in Split's Stari plac Stadium on 23 September 1970 during the Hajduk vs. OFK Beograd week 7 league fixture. With the score tied at 2-2 in the 52nd minute, match referee Pavle Risti\u0107 from Novi Sad fell unconscious after getting hit in the head with an object thrown from the stands. The match was stopped and the Yugoslav FA's (FSJ) disciplinary body made a ruling to register it with a 0-3 score for OFK Beograd.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092047-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Yugoslav First League, Incidents\nThe disciplinary measure set off huge, days-long, often violent protests in Split that quickly assumed a distinctly anti-Belgrade and anti-Serb tone. Led by the club's hardcore fans Torcida, the practice of seeking out parked cars with the city of Belgrade license plates and pushing them into the Adriatic Sea from the docks was especially widespread in Split during the protests.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092047-0002-0001", "contents": "1970\u201371 Yugoslav First League, Incidents\nThe press also reported about some of the gathered mob spontaneously launching into a cynical and sarcastic rendition of Sergio Endrigo's then current and popular song \"Kud plovi ovaj brod\" ('Where is This Ship Going') as the cars with Belgrade plates were pushed into the sea and floated in the water before sinking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092047-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Yugoslav First League, Incidents\nDue to their political undertones and the potential to undermine the country's official inter-ethnic guiding principle during the sensitive time when MASPOK was gathering steam in SR Croatia, the Split football protests quickly came to the attention of Yugoslav politicians who decided to deal with the situation by pressing FSJ into changing its disciplinary ruling and registering the 2-2 score. FSJ did exactly that, reinstating the score at the moment when the match was interrupted as the official result.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092048-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 Yugoslav Ice Hockey League season\nThe 1970\u201371 Yugoslav Ice Hockey League season was the 29th season of the Yugoslav Ice Hockey League, the top level of ice hockey in Yugoslavia. 11 teams participated in the league, and Jesenice have won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092049-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 ice hockey Bundesliga season\nThe 1970\u201371 Ice hockey Bundesliga season was the 13th season of the Ice hockey Bundesliga, the top level of ice hockey in Germany. 10 teams participated in the league, and EV Fussen won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092050-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 in Belgian football\nThe 1970\u201371 season was the 68th season of competitive football in Belgium. Standard Club Li\u00e9geois won their 6th Division I title. RFC Brugeois reached the quarter-finals of the 1970\u201371 European Cup Winners' Cup. K Beerschot VAV won the Belgian Cup final against K Sint-Truidense VV (2-1 after extra time). The Belgium national football team started their UEFA Euro 1972 qualifying campaign as they were drawn in Group 5 with Portugal, Scotland and Denmark. They won all of their first 4 games and finished the season at the top of Group 5, 2 points ahead of Portugal with 2 matches to go.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092050-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 in Belgian football, Overview\nAt the end of the season, R Charleroi SC and ARA La Gantoise were relegated to the Division II, to be replaced by KSV Cercle Brugge and KV Mechelen from Division II. The bottom 2 clubs in Division II (ASV Oostende KM and KSV Sottegem) were relegated to Division III, to be replaced by KSK Tongeren and K Boom FC from Division III. The bottom club of each Division III league (VC Westerlo, RC Tirlemont, Kortrijk Sport and R Jet de Bruxelles) were relegated to the Promotion, to be replaced by R Herve FC, Wavre Sports, K Helzold FC and KSC Lokeren from Promotion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092050-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 in Belgian football, European competitions\nStandard Club Li\u00e9geois beat Rosenborg BK of Norway in the first round of the 1970\u201371 European Champion Clubs' Cup (won 2-0 away, 5-0 at home) but lost in the second round to Legia Warsaw of Poland (won 1-0 at home, lost 0-2 away).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092050-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 in Belgian football, European competitions\nRFC Brugeois eliminated Kickers Offenbach of West Germany in the first round of the 1970\u201371 European Cup Winners' Cup (lost 1-2 away, won 2-0 at home) and FC Z\u00fcrich of Switzerland in the second round (won 2-0 at home, lost 1-2 away). In the quarter-finals, Bruges lost to future winner Chelsea FC after extra time (won 2-0 at home, lost 0-4 away).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092050-0004-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 in Belgian football, European competitions\nThe 3 Belgian clubs who entered the 1970\u201371 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup were ARA La Gantoise, RSC Anderlechtois and KSK Beveren. In the first round, RSC Anderlechtois beat NK \u017deljezni\u010dar of Yugoslavia (won 4-3 away, 5-4 at home) and KSK Beveren beat Wiener Sportclub of Austria (won 2-0 away, 3-0 at home), but ARA La Gantoise lost to Hamburger SV of West Germany (lost 0-1 at home, 1-7 away). In the second round, RSC Anderlechtois beat Akademisk Boldklub of Denmark (won 3-1 away, 4-0 at home), while KSK Beveren beat Valencia CF of Spain (won 1-0 away, drew 1-1 at home). Both clubs exited at the third round, RSC Anderlechtois to Vitoria FC of Portugal (won 2-1 at home, lost 1-3 away after extra time) and KSK Beveren to Arsenal FC (lost 0-4 away, drew 0-0 at home).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 818]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092051-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 in English football\nThe 1970\u201371 season was the 91st season of competitive football in England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092051-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 in English football, Honours\nNotes = Number in parentheses is the times that club has won that honour. * indicates new record for competition", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092051-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 in English football, FA Cup\nThe 1971 FA Cup Final saw Arsenal beat Liverpool 2\u20131 to become only the fourth club in history and the second club this century to have won the league championship and FA Cup double.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092051-0003-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 in English football, FA Cup\nStoke City beat Everton 3\u20132 at Selhurst Park in a third-place playoff, held the day before the final. The biggest FA Cup shock, however, was Fourth Division Colchester United's 3\u20132 victory over Don Revie's Leeds United at Layer Road in the fifth round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092051-0004-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 in English football, FA Cup\nBarnet equalled the record for the biggest win by a non-league team over a Football League team by beating Newport County 6\u20131 in the First Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092051-0005-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 in English football, League Cup\nThe final was held at Wembley Stadium, London. Tottenham Hotspur beat Aston Villa to win the 1971 Football League Cup Final and add to their list of trophies won under the management of Bill Nicholson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092051-0006-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 in English football, Football League, First Division\nArsenal won the league championship at the end of a season which would soon be followed by their FA Cup final tie with Liverpool. Arsenal secured the league title at White Hart Lane, the home of bitter rivals Tottenham. They narrowly overcame Leeds to win the league, with a 12-point gap separating Leeds from third-placed Tottenham. Wolves and Liverpool joined these two teams in the UEFA Cup. Chelsea missed out on the top five on goal average but compensated for this shortcoming by achieving European Cup Winners' Cup glory over Real Madrid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092051-0007-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 in English football, Football League, First Division\nBurnley and Blackpool (who won this year's Anglo-Italian Cup) were relegated to the Second Division. Burnley returned from 1973\u201374 to 1975\u201376 but Blackpool had to wait 39 years to regain their top flight status for the 2010\u201311 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092051-0008-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 in English football, Football League, First Division\nWilf McGuinness was sacked at the end of 1970 after 18 unsuccessful months as manager of Manchester United. Sir Matt Busby was re-appointed as manager on a temporary basis, but never considered returning to his old job on a permanent basis. Leicester City manager Frank O'Farrell was appointed at the end of the season, ahead of more reputable candidates including Jock Stein and Don Revie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092051-0009-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 in English football, Football League, Second Division\nLeicester City and Sheffield United were promoted to the First Division. Blackburn Rovers and Bolton Wanderers, two of the most famous and historic names in English football, were relegated to the Third Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092051-0010-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 in English football, Football League, Third Division\nPreston North End and Fulham finally had something to shout about by getting promoted to the Second Division. Reading, Bury, Doncaster Rovers and Gillingham slid into the Fourth Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092051-0011-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 in English football, Football League, Fourth Division\nNotts County, Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic, Oldham Athletic and York City were promoted to the Third Division. Newport County set a new Football League record by not winning any of their first 25 matches. The Football League voted for the league's four bottom clubs to maintain their status.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092051-0012-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 in English football, European football\nLeeds United won the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup against Juventus in the two leg Final and also took part in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Trophy Play-Off which they lost 2\u20131 to Barcelona.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092051-0013-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 in English football, European football\nThere was also success in London for Chelsea, who beat Real Madrid in the European Cup Winners Cup final to win their first ever European trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092051-0014-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 in English football, Ford Sporting League\nThe Ford Sporting League was a short-lived reward scheme sponsored by the Ford Motor Company. Its only season was that of 1970\u201371. Clubs were awarded a point for every goal scored at home and two points for every goal scored away, but lost 5 points if a player was booked and 10 points if a player was sent off.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092051-0015-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 in English football, Ford Sporting League\nPoints could be earned over the first 42 league games (it did not apply to cup ties) only, so that the First and Second divisions were on an equal footing with the Third and Fourth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092051-0016-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 in English football, Ford Sporting League\nOldham Athletic won the competition, winning a pot of \u00a370,000. League rules stipulated the prize money be used on stadium improvements, so the money went to build a stand in the stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092051-0017-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 in English football, Ford Sporting League\nThe \u00a370,000 prize fund was made up of 8 monthly prizes of \u00a32,500 and then a final prize of \u00a350,000. The points total was cumulative, which resulted in Oldham winning each prize available, as they picked up only four bookings and no red cards over the 42 game period.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092051-0018-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 in English football, Ford Sporting League\nFord's sponsorship of the competition is notable, with the 1970\u201371 season marking a watershed for sponsorship in English football. In addition to the Ford Sporting League, the season saw the first Watney Cup and first Texaco Cup, although The Football League itself turned down an offer of \u00a3600,000 to sponsor the Football League Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092051-0019-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 in English football, Star players\nFrank McLintock was credited for his key role in Arsenal's double triumph with the FWA Footballer of the Year award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092052-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 in Scottish football\nThe 1970\u201371 season was the 98th season of competitive football in Scotland and the 74th season of Scottish league football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092052-0001-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 in Scottish football, Scottish League Division One\nAberdeen, with a 15-game unbeaten run, led the league from December until the last week of the season. Aberdeen faced Celtic in their penultimate game, needing a win to almost certainly clinch the title, but could only draw 1\u20131 and then they lost their last game, at Falkirk, allowing Celtic to take the championship by 2 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092052-0002-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 in Scottish football, Other honours, County\n* \u2013 aggregate over two legs \u2013 play off \u2013 won on penalties", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092053-0000-0000", "contents": "1970\u201371 snooker season\nThe 1970\u201371 snooker season was a series of snooker tournaments played between July 1970 and January 1971. The following table outlines the results for the season's events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092054-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\n1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1971st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 971st year of the 2nd\u00a0millennium, the 71st year of the 20th\u00a0century, and the 2nd year of the 1970s decade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 4], "section_span": [4, 4], "content_span": [5, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092054-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\nThe year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses (February 25, July 22 and August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 10, and August 6).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 4], "section_span": [4, 4], "content_span": [5, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092054-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\nThe world population increased by 2.1% this year, the highest increase in history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 4], "section_span": [4, 4], "content_span": [5, 87]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092055-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 (2007 film)\n1971 is a 2007 Indian Hindi-language war drama film directed by Amrit Sagar, and written by Piyush Mishra and Amrit Sagar, based on a true story of prisoners of war after the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. The film features an ensemble cast of Manoj Bajpayee, Ravi Kishan, Piyush Mishra, Deepak Dobriyal and others.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092055-0000-0001", "contents": "1971 (2007 film)\nAt the 55th National Film Awards, it won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi The film is an account of the escape of six soldiers of the Indian Army taken as prisoners of war by Pakistan Army, during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 that was preceded by rebellion of East Pakistan to separate itself from West Pakistan and create a new country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092055-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 (2007 film), Plot\nThe story takes place in Pakistan in 1977, six years after the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War. Major Suraj Singh of 18th Rajputana Rifles, Captain Kabir, Captain Jacob and Subedar Ahmed discussing the camp in general. The next morning, an army truck is driving towards the camp. This truck has a few more Indian POWs. This group includes Flight Lieutenant Ram, Flight Lieutenant Gurtu and Colonel Puri. They steal a guard's wallet and get a Pakistani army ID card on the way. The POWs realize that they are in a place less than 200\u00a0 km from the Indo-Pak border.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 22], "content_span": [23, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092055-0001-0001", "contents": "1971 (2007 film), Plot\nThe place, it is revealed later, is Chaklala. When Colonel Puri is told of this and the idea of an escape is put forward, he overrules it. His reasons are that perhaps they will finally be repatriated and that a failed attempt could result in all of them being killed. Colonel Shakoor arrives at the Chaklala camp; he informs Colonel Puri and Major Singh that all the POWs will be repatriated. Ahmed steals a newspaper and finds they are being and lied to and plan an escape.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 22], "content_span": [23, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092055-0001-0002", "contents": "1971 (2007 film), Plot\nAs a celebration for 14 August, a Ghazal singer is invited to the camp. The soldiers also manage some fake IDs and Pakistani uniforms. Due to some confusion, Ahmed dies to blow up the electrical room during the escape attempt. The rest escape with the singer. Jacob shoots himself unable to take the pain after he is injured during their stay at a hideout. Ram kills many of the search party by exploding a grenade on himself, helping his comrades to evade capture. Kabir dies in his sleep as they reach very close to the Indian border. Suraj is shot and killed by Pakistanis as he is about to cross to the India side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 22], "content_span": [23, 641]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092055-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 (2007 film), Plot\nIt is now in 2007. The place is Multan Jail in Pakistan. We see an old man walking in the prison compound. He has made five little mounds of earth and he is putting a few flowers on them. He sits on the ground next to them and leaves through what was once Major Suraj Singh's prison diary. This old man is Gurtu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 22], "content_span": [23, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092056-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 (2014 film)\n1971 is a 2014 American documentary film and the directorial debut of producer Johanna Hamilton, who also co-wrote the film. The film had its world premiere on 18 April 2014 at the Tribeca Film Festival and focuses on the break-in of an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania on Monday, March 8, 1971, to steal over 1000 classified documents. It was pitched at the Sheffield Doc/Fest 2011 MeetMarket preceding its debut. The break-in took place on the night of the first Ali-Frazier boxing title fight dubbed the Fight of the Century.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092056-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 (2014 film)\nHamilton was inspired to create the film after learning that Betty Medsger was working on her book The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover\u2019s Secret FBI, which discussed the 1971 events and revealed the identities of many of the participants, who had remained anonymous up to that point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092056-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 (2014 film), Synopsis\nThe film focuses on the events of March 8, 1971, when eight people orchestrated the burglary and public distribution of government files from an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania. The theft was altogether different than the numerous contemporary draft board office break-ins, in which activists (including many of the burglars) burned government draft paperwork to interfere with America's continued participation in the Vietnam War. The group, all of whom were ordinary citizens, called themselves the Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI and stole every file in the office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 26], "content_span": [27, 609]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092056-0002-0001", "contents": "1971 (2014 film), Synopsis\nThe goal of the burglars was to gather tangible evidence of government surveillance of civilian political activists, which was infringing on First Amendment rights. The stolen files exposed that the FBI was indeed running extensive, illegal operations intended to spread paranoia and distrust among numerous New Left and black civil rights organizations. (Other files included training manuals, information about organized crime, and information about draft resistance.) Over time, the group mailed copies of the files to various newsrooms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 26], "content_span": [27, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092056-0002-0002", "contents": "1971 (2014 film), Synopsis\nMost news organizations returned the files to the FBI and refused to run stories regarding the stolen documents, but the notable exception was The Washington Post, which ran a front-page story on March 24, 1971, about the files which were mailed to journalist Betty Medsger. Arguably the most significant element in the stolen materials turned out to be a single file mentioning \"COINTELPRO\", a secret surveillance program that was run by J. Edgar Hoover. Subsequent investigations and freedom of information requests regarding COINTELPRO played a role in the 1975 Church Committee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 26], "content_span": [27, 609]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092056-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 (2014 film), Reception\nCritical reception for 1971 has been positive. Washingtonian and Variety both praised the work, which the Washingtonian described as \"a compelling documentary that provides a powerful perspective on the current debate about the men and women who risk everything to disclose government secrets.\" Indiewire also gave a favorable review, praising Hamilton's directing and stated \"Her film is not celebratory, lingering on the notion that, with the public charade of COINTELPRO, ultimately the FBI won. While their post-break-in behaviors are mocked, the government credits itself with tactics specifically utilized to \"enhance the paranoia,\" creating a culture of fear that still exists today.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 27], "content_span": [28, 719]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092057-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 1. divisjon\nThe 1971 1. divisjon was the 27th completed season of top division football in Norway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092057-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 1. divisjon, Overview\nIt was contested by 10 teams, and Rosenborg BK won the championship, their third league title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 26], "content_span": [27, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092057-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 1. divisjon, Overview\nOnly one team was relegated this season due to the league's extension to 12 teams ahead of the 1972 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 26], "content_span": [27, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092058-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 1000 km Buenos Aires\nThe 1971 Buenos Aires 1000 Kilometers was the opening round of the 1971 International Championship for Makes season. It took place at the Buenos Aires circuit No.15, Argentina, on January 10, 1971. Grand tourer class cars did not participate in this event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092058-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 1000 km Buenos Aires\nScuderia Ferrari driver Ignazio Giunti was killed during the race. He was leading the race when his car ran into the back of the disabled Matra driver Jean-Pierre Beltoise was pushing to the pits. Both cars were caught on fire and Giunti was unable to escape.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092058-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 1000 km Buenos Aires, Official results\nClass winners in bold. Cars failing to complete 70% of the winner's distance marked as Not Classified (NC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 43], "content_span": [44, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092059-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 2. divisjon\nThe 1971 2. divisjon was a Norwegian second-tier football league season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 89]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092059-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 2. divisjon\nThe league was contested by 30 teams, divided into a total of four groups; A and B (non-Northern Norwegian teams) and two district groups which contained teams from Northern Norway: district IX\u2013X and district XI. The winners of group A and B and District IX\u2013X were promoted to the 1972 1. divisjon, and the winners of the district groups qualified for the Northern Norwegian final. The winner of district XI was not eligible for promotion. The bottom team in all groups were relegated to the 3. divisjon. The two second last teams in group A and B met in a qualification round where the losing team was relegated to the 3. divisjon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 649]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092059-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 2. divisjon, Overview, Summary\nMj\u00f8ndalen won group A with 20 points. Skeid won group B with 22 points. Both teams promoted to the 1972 1. divisjon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 35], "content_span": [36, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092059-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 2. divisjon, Relegation play-offs, Results\nOdd won the qualification round 2\u20130 on aggregate and remained in the 2. divisjon. Aurskog was relegated to the 3. divisjon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 47], "content_span": [48, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092059-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 2. divisjon, Northern Norwegian Final\nA Northern Norwegian Final was played between the winners of the two district groups, Mj\u00f8lner and Kirkenes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 42], "content_span": [43, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092060-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 24 Hours of Le Mans\nThe 1971 24 Hours of Le Mans was the 39th Grand Prix of Endurance, and took place on 12 and 13 June 1971. It was the ninth round of the 1971 International Championship for Makes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092060-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 24 Hours of Le Mans\nThis year would be the swansong of the mighty engines \u2013 the incoming regulations would put a 3-litre limit on engine capacity. As it turned out, there was a perfect confluence of the most powerful racing cars yet seen, a long fast track and extended good weather to produce the fastest race in the event's history to date setting a record that would stand for almost 40 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092060-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 24 Hours of Le Mans\nAlthough there were few accidents this year, there were many cars delayed or forced to retire with mechanical problems and only twelve cars were classified at the finish. Winners, at a record speed, were Gijs van Lennep and Helmut Marko in their Team Martini Porsche 917.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092060-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 24 Hours of Le Mans, Regulations\nWith the imminent ban of engines over 3-litres for the upcoming 1972 season, the FIA made no changes to their standing regulations. The Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO) likewise made very few changes. The experiment of the standing-start in echelon from the previous year was discarded. A 2-by-2 rolling start behind a safety car became the most preferred way, which remains the tradition up to the modern day. This allowed an Armco guardrail to be erected between the pits and the main straight, greatly increasing the safety of the pit-crews. Drivers were also now permitted to stay in their cars during refuelling.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 655]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092060-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 24 Hours of Le Mans, Regulations\nOn race-week plans were unveiled for an extensive realignment of the circuit, making it self-contained. It included a new Mulsanne straight alongside the public highway and a new series of curves to cut out the dangerous Maison Blanche corner \u2013 the scene of many major race accidents over the years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092060-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 24 Hours of Le Mans, Regulations\nThis year, first prize for outright victory was US$13000 \u2013 barely the cost of a top-tier racing engine, and not reflecting the huge preparation and work required. But such was the stature of the race it kept drawing strong fields. Finally, after fourteen years, the ban on female drivers was lifted with the ACO accepting top French rally-driver Marie-Claude Beaumont in the Greder Corvette entry \u2013 the first female driver at Le Mans since 1951.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092060-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries\nThe ACO received 80 entries for the race, which it reduced to 63 for qualifying, though only 53 cars arrived to practice. Noticeable was the very low turnout from manufacturers\u2019 works teams. Given the dominance of the big Sports Cars on fast tracks like Le Mans, there were few Prototypes entered. Ferrari and Alfa Romeo withdrew their works teams to concentrate on next year's models. However, a vast fleet of privateer Porsche 911s arrived to fill the gap, making the GT category the strongest-supported group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092060-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries\nOver the winter, extensive development work was done on the 917L (langheck or \u2018long-tail\u2019). Using the French SERA aerodynamics laboratory, the chassis was further streamlined. Now running 17\u201d rear tyres made its handling almost as good as the K-version (kurzheck or \u2018short-tail\u2019) much to the drivers\u2019 satisfaction. Porsche also supplied a slightly larger 5.0-litre engine (vs 4.9L) using high-performance nickel-silicon cylinder-liners from NSU that improved oil consumption and reduced wear. This pushed its output up to 620\u00a0bhp. It also came with a new 4-speed gearbox, but as all the teams chose to use the tried-and-tested 5-speed gearbox the new engines were not used either.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 714]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092060-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries\nWith four victories to date in the 1971 Championship, the JW Automotive team were favourites for outright victory. They certainly had the strongest driver line-up with Pedro Rodriguez/Jackie Oliver and by Jo Siffert and Derek Bell in langhecks. Their third team car, a 917K, was driven by 1970 race-winner Richard Attwood with Herbert M\u00fcller.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092060-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries\nThe cars and equipment of the previous year's successful Porsche Salzburg team was purchased for the Martini Racing Team by Conte Gregorio Rossi di Montelera (of the Martini & Rossi company). They entered three cars \u2013 a long-tail for Vic Elford/G\u00e9rard Larrousse (winners at Sebring and the N\u00fcrburgring) and a magnesium-alloy chassis short-tail for Gijs van Lennep/Helmut Marko. (JWA was not offered these experimental options) The third was an experimental short-tail version. The 917/20 was built as a test-bed for future Can-Am parts and aerodynamic low-drag concepts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092060-0009-0001", "contents": "1971 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries\nShorter and much wider than the 917K, it was designed and tested by Robert Choulet and the SERA wind tunnel, after their other work on the 917. Nicknamed \u201cthe Pig\u201d by the company, it was driven by Reinhold Joest/Willi Kauhsen. Following up the psychedelic paintjob of their car the previous year Martini, with tongue in cheek, had the chunky car painted in pink for the race with names of pieces of meat written across it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092060-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries\nAfter the 1970 race, Ferrari set about improving the 512. Widened by 100mm, with an improved and lightened aerodynamic chassis, the V12 engine was also uprated to produce 580\u00a0bhp. The new version, the 512M (modificato) debuted at the end of the 1970 season with a win to Ickx/Giunti. The 512M modifications were offered to the customer teams, but not applied to the works cars as Ferrari had decided to give up any official effort with the 512 in order to prepare the new 312PB for 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092060-0011-0000", "contents": "1971 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries\nBetween them, the customer teams put up a competent challenge to Porsche. The North American Racing Team (NART) had three entries. The Penske team, very competitive at the American rounds of the championship, arrived on one of the NART entry tickets. Their chassis was made by Holman & Moody and the engine prepared by Can-Am V8 specialist Traco (claiming 614\u00a0bhp). A number of quick-change modifications were added for wheels, brakes and refuelling to save valuable minutes in the pits. The blue, Sunoco-sponsored, car was driven by Mark Donohue/David Hobbs. The regular NART 512M also had a Traco engine and was driven by Sam Posey/Tony Adamowicz. And there was an open-top, spyder, version was for Masten Gregory/George Eaton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 763]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092060-0012-0000", "contents": "1971 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries\nThe Scuderia Filipinetti also entered a much-modified Ferrari. Known as the \u201c512F\u201d, it was designed by former Ferrari racing engineer/driver Mike Parkes it had a bigger rear-wing and used the Porsche 917 windscreen which was 120mm narrower, allowing for better water- and oil-cooler placement. With regular co-driver Jo Bonnier unavailable for personal reason, Henri Pescarolo was brought in as his co-driver. Jos\u00e9 Juncadella of Escuderia Montjuich had employed 1964-winner Nino Vaccarella. Ecurie Francorchamps, Georg Loos and Corrado Manfredini also returned with their modified cars. David Piper\u2019s entry was used by American privateer David Weir who had bought the spare car off Steve McQueen's Solar Productions film company.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 763]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092060-0013-0000", "contents": "1971 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries\nJust after the 1970 Le Mans, Chrysler completed the takeover of Simca creating Chrysler Europe, and this also meant the Matra company was renamed Matra-Simca. Matra entered only one 660 for its F1 drivers Chris Amon and Jean-Pierre Beltoise. Beltoise had recently recovered his racing license after investigation in an accident at January's Buenos Aires 1000km that had killed Ferrari driver Ignazio Giunti. After a poor race the previous year, the engine was strengthened and now put out 420\u00a0bhp.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092060-0014-0000", "contents": "1971 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries\nWhile Guy Ligier\u2019s GT car was on hold pending homologation, he entered a one-off special \u2013 the JS3. Fitted with the Ford-Cosworth DFV F1 engine (that only arrived at the start of race-week, making its Le Mans debut) that was limited to 8800 rpm, allowing around 400\u00a0hp. The car had finished second in the Test Weekend race, and for this race was driven by former Matra team manager Claude LeGuezec and Patrick Depailler. Against the French prototypes were a collection of privateer Porsche 908s, including French importer Auguste Veuillet's Sonauto car that had won the three-hour race at the Test Weekend. The 3-litre flat-8 was beginning to show its age and only put out 350\u00a0bhp, well below the French competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 750]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092060-0015-0000", "contents": "1971 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries\nThe under-2 litre classes in both Group 5 and 6 were poorly supported, with no entries in the Sports category. Team Huron could not supply their new cars, so Guy Edwards took one of their entry spots with his Lola T212. With no Chevrons present, its only competition was an older Porsche 907 from the Andr\u00e9 Wicky team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092060-0016-0000", "contents": "1971 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries\nIn the GT category, the Grand Touring trophy was split into over- and under-2.0 litre classes. In the Over-2 litre class, the two French Corvettes were set to take on the veritable army of privateer Porsche 911s. Once again, rally-specialist Henri Greder and Claude Aubriet's Ecurie L\u00e9opard bought their Chevrolet Corvettes as the biggest cars in the entry list. Greder also made waves by nominating his French female rally-driver teammate, Marie-Claude Beaumont, as his co-driver. Female racers had been banned after the death of Annie Bousquet in the 1956 12 Hours of Reims. The American Troy Promotions team had also intended to bring its two Yenko-prepared cars over after strong showings in the American races but were later withdrawn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 774]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092060-0017-0000", "contents": "1971 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries\nDue to insufficient production, Ferrari's current GT car, the 365 GTB/4 \u201cDaytona\u201d had to run in the Group 5 Sports category. Effectively a GT road-car, its 4.4-litre V12 (developing 350\u00a0bhp) put it head-to-head against the Porsche 917s and Ferrari 512s. NART entered a single car for Bob Grossman and Luigi Chinetti Jr., son of team owner Luigi Chinetti.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092060-0018-0000", "contents": "1971 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries\nPorsche had now made available a new 2.4-litre engine, alongside the current 2.25 and 2.2-litre versions. It developed 245\u00a0bhp that now got the car up to about 255\u00a0kp/h (160\u00a0mph) on the Mulsanne Straight.< Eight of these uprated Porsches were present, including ones for race-winner turned team manager Masten Gregory and the German Kremer Racing team. Kremer himself rejoined Nic Koob in another 2.4, along with G\u00fcnther Huber in what was the first example of a triple-driver combination. In a reduced under-2 litre class, the \u00c9curie L\u00e9opard tried taking on the Porsches with a 1.6-litre Alpine A110.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092060-0019-0000", "contents": "1971 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries\nSo Porsche established a single-make record with 33 starters from the field of 49 \u2013 a trend that would carry on through the 70s and 80s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092060-0020-0000", "contents": "1971 24 Hours of Le Mans, Practice\nThe test weekend in April had shown the chassis development on the 917 had made them even faster. Jackie Oliver becoming the first person to record a 250\u00a0kp/h lap with an incredible time of 3:13.6 equating to 250.5\u00a0kp/h (155.6\u00a0mph). In June, Rodr\u00edguez followed up that form with a 3:13.9 in the JWA Porsche to put a 917 on pole. This was underlined by Vic Elford coming in second, going five seconds faster using the same car as he had the previous year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092060-0021-0000", "contents": "1971 24 Hours of Le Mans, Practice\nThird was the second Wyer car, nearly four seconds behind his teammate. Jo Siffert had had a big moment during practice when he approached Maison Blanche at near 290\u00a0kp/h (180\u00a0mph). Bill Tuckett in the Paul Watson Porsche did not see him approaching and took his standard line. Swerving to avoid the 911, Siffert got the car into a series of spins but amazingly only lightly tapped the barriers situated right next to the track. He got back to the pits, shaken and livid, and stormed off to the stewards\u2019 office to protest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092060-0022-0000", "contents": "1971 24 Hours of Le Mans, Practice\nAfter a problematic practice session, Penske's Mark Donohue was the fastest of the Ferraris, in fourth just ahead of the second Martini Porsche and Vaccarella in the Spanish Ferrari. The \"Pink Pig\" Martini 917/20 special was a strong 7th with a 3:21.1. After blowing their engine up on Thursday, the Filipinetti 512F team was able to borrow one from the Penske crew and with it they qualified 8th. Likewise, the Piper Ferrari had problems in practice. The clutch had broken on Wednesday and on Thursday the car kept jumping out of gear.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092060-0022-0001", "contents": "1971 24 Hours of Le Mans, Practice\nAt one point Chris Craft was approaching Maison Blanche at 280 km/h when it skipped into neutral. Despite that he was able to get 9th on the grid. Fastest of the 3-liter Prototypes was the Matra in 16th (3:31.9), well ahead of the Ligier in 17th (3:39.8), while the L\u00e9opard Corvette was the fastest GT in 26th (4:09.5).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092060-0023-0000", "contents": "1971 24 Hours of Le Mans, Practice\nAnother major incident in practice was when Andr\u00e9 Wicky's 908 lost its rear suspension doing 290\u00a0kp/h (180\u00a0mph) along the Mulsanne and dragged its tail for over half a kilometre. Wicky was not injured, but the car came to rest over a blind brow and a 917 came flying along the straight to find a marshal on the track sweeping away debris, emphasising the issue of spotting yellow flags at 200\u00a0mph!", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092060-0024-0000", "contents": "1971 24 Hours of Le Mans, Practice\nRegulations dictated that all cars had to be within 140% of the time of the fastest qualifier. This put pressure on the smaller GTs, especially with the big 917s in record-breaking mood. Non -qualifiers included three of the Porsche 911s and the little Alpine. Even that caused a great differential in speeds that many drivers thought dangerous. Once he had recovered after his wild ride during practice, Jo Siffert commented", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092060-0025-0000", "contents": "1971 24 Hours of Le Mans, Practice\n\u201dI have never seen anything so dangerous as this profusion of slow cars. Le Mans may be the world\u2019s greatest race, but despite its glorious title they must realise that things aren\u2019t right with it. In a lifetime you only have a moment like that, and get away with it, once.\u201d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092060-0026-0000", "contents": "1971 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Start\nDespite stormy weather through the week, the practice sessions had been dry and race-day was sunny. Honorary starter this year was Hollywood actor Steve McQueen with the opening of his film \u201cLe Mans\u201d that had been shot with footage from the 1970 race. Left in the pits was the Piper Ferrari and the NART Ferrari spyder with fuel system problems. The Piper car fired up and joined the back of the field, but was delayed again at 5pm when the fuel pump packed up again dropping it well down the field. It was worse for the NART car though, which came straight in at the end of the formation lap and did not get out until a half-hour had passed. It then only managed 7 laps until retired at 7.40pm with clutch failure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 753]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092060-0027-0000", "contents": "1971 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Start\nFor the first time, and ever since, races begin with rolling starts. At the end of the first lap Rodriguez led from Larrousse, Siffert and the Ferraris of Vaccarella and Donohue. Rodriguez was lapping backmarkers by just the second lap. At the one-hour mark the two Wyer cars of Rodriguez and Siffert were lapping together, having done 17 laps. Larrousse was ten seconds back with ahead of the Ferraris of Donohue, Vaccarella and Parkes. Next were the Porsches of Attwood, Marko and Kauhsen and they were only cars still on the lead lap. Poirot's 910 hit the sandbank at Arnage and although he limped back to the pits on 3 wheels the car was out of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 696]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092060-0028-0000", "contents": "1971 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Start\nAfter three hours Rodriguez (52 laps) led from Elford, Donohue in the Penske Ferrari, then Siffert and Marko in the second team Porsches all on the same lap (both having been delayed by loose engine parts). Vaccarella's Spanish Ferrari was sixth ahead of the third team Porsches of M\u00fcller and Kauhsen. Donohue soon moved up into second only to have the car hit with terminal engine trouble around 8.15pm. The Lola led the Prototypes (42 laps) and the L\u00e9opard Corvette, in 22nd, (41 laps) let the GTs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092060-0029-0000", "contents": "1971 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Start\nSoon after, the cooling fan blew off Elford's Porsche overheating the engine. This left the JWA Porsches running 1-2-3 after 6 hours. The Montjuich Ferrari was fourth ahead of the Martini 917/20 \u201cPink Pig\u201d, the Matra and Marko's recovering Porsche. The Belgian and Piper Ferraris were next and the Ligier rounded out the top-10. The L\u00e9opard Corvette (17th) was in a tussle with the Ferrari Daytona (18th) for nominal GT honours. Posey's NART Ferrari was having issues \u2013 it had run out of petrol twice, flattened its battery and now was running low oil pressure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092060-0030-0000", "contents": "1971 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Night\nDuring the night all three Wyer cars were badly delayed. Just before 10pm, the Siffert/Bell car lost over an hour getting its rear end replaced, dropping it to 13th. At 3am, Oliver bought his JWA car with the same issue and while it was spending 30 minutes getting repaired (dropping it to 4th) the second-placed Attwood/M\u00fcller car came in without fifth, needing a half-hour gearbox change.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092060-0031-0000", "contents": "1971 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Night\nDuring this the Pink Pig special had moved up to third when its cooling fan also started coming loose. They had made it back to 3rd after the delay when Joest found he had no brakes approaching Arnage, went up the escape road and crashed out into retirement in the early hours of the morning. The Filipinetti Ferrari had been running 5th early on, then got delayed fixing its fuel pump. Rushing to catch up, Parkes crashed at Maison Blanche at 1 am. Despite extensive damage, it was repaired but Pescarolo had to park it at 3am with no oil pressure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092060-0032-0000", "contents": "1971 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Night\nThis put the Montjuich Ferrari into the lead for an hour until it in turn broke its gearbox right on halftime. The Marko/van Lennep Martini Porsche took first, with a five-lap lead now over the Matra of Beltoise/Amon, delighting the partisan crowd. Eighth-placed Guy Chasseuil crashed the French Sonauto Porsche 908 at Maison Blanche. Although the car caught fire, the driver escaped uninjured. Coming up to 5am, Rodriguez was racing toward Indianapolis corner when he was sprayed with hot oil. He got back to the pits but the engine was ruined.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092060-0033-0000", "contents": "1971 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Night\nGiven the Porsche 911's reputation for reliability it was surprising that by 1am, after 9 hours of racing, already nine of the eighteen entries were out of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092060-0034-0000", "contents": "1971 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Morning\nAt 6.20am the Matra went into the pits with a misfire. Changing the sparkplugs, then the fuel meter, let the Attwood/M\u00fcller Porsche back into second place. With all the other cars\u2019 delays the Piper Ferrari had steadily moved up the order. They had just got to third around 9am when it lost another clutch. At 9:40am, Amon coasted to a stop at the end of the Mulsanne straight. The faulty fuel-meter had finally packed up and run him out of fuel. Soon after the Siffert/Bell Porsche was retired from sixth after it had been delayed further with a cracked crankcase. This had moved the NART Ferrari of Posey/Adamowicz up to third and the Ligier prototype into fifth. But then the Ligier's gearbox seized. JW Automotive gave them Hewland parts to repair it but three hours were lost in the process.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 835]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092060-0035-0000", "contents": "1971 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Finish and post-race\nThe order stayed pretty static through the afternoon and the race came to a subdued, incident-free end. Marko and van Lennep won by three laps from Attwood and M\u00fcller who had eased off their charge back up the field. The two Porsches were the first cars to cover over 5000\u00a0km in the race, easily beating that milestone. Putting it in context, it was equivalent to crossing the Atlantic, from Le Mans to Maine in 24 hours. It was a distance record that stood for a remarkable 39 years until beaten by Audi in 2010. What was significant this year was that virtually no car had a trouble-free run, with a number of engine, gearbox and suspension rebuilds required keeping all the pitcrews very busy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 52], "content_span": [53, 749]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092060-0036-0000", "contents": "1971 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Finish and post-race\nOnly two makes were among the classified finishers. Third place, a very distant 29 laps (386\u00a0km) further back, was the NART Ferrari. The Piper Ferrari of Weir/Craft had struggled on, but was never under threat despite finishing fourth with only second and fifth gears left. Fifth was the NART Ferrari Daytona after a reliable run, which also won the Index of Thermal Efficiency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 52], "content_span": [53, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092060-0037-0000", "contents": "1971 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Finish and post-race\nHalf of the twelve classified finishers were Porsche 911s. All of them had been delayed by various mechanical issues. Winner of the GT category was the 2.4-litre ASA Cachia car of Couroul/Anselme (battling an oil-leak) taking sixth in the last hour and finishing barely 40 metres ahead of the Andr\u00e9 Wicky Porsche 907 of Walter Brun/Peter Mattli. With all the 3-litre cars retiring the Wicky Porsche 907 was the sole Prototype finisher. Tenth was the Kremer-prepared Porsche of Nicolas Koob. They had been leading the category after the halfway mark until delayed for an hour in the morning to replace the gearbox. Last classified finisher was that of Vestey/Bond, managed by Adrian Hamilton and Stuart Rolt, sons of the 1953 race winners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 52], "content_span": [53, 791]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092060-0038-0000", "contents": "1971 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Finish and post-race\nThe JWA team had a tragic end to 1971. Less than a month later, after winning the next round at \u00d6sterreichring, Pedro Rodriguez was killed driving a Ferrari 512 at Germany's Norisring in a non-championship sports car race. Then in October Jo Siffert died at the World Championship Victory Race at Brands Hatch when his BRM crashed, rolled and caught fire with him trapped underneath. At the 2018 race, marking Porsche's 70th anniversary the European Porsche GT team revived the \"Pink Pig\" colour-scheme for one of its entries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 52], "content_span": [53, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092060-0039-0000", "contents": "1971 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Finish and post-race\nThis race marked an end of an era, with the regulations changing in 1972 limiting engine size in both Group 5 and 6 to 3 litres. It was the last time the Index of Performance prize was awarded. It was also the last run on a circuit layout that had been essentially unchanged for 39 years, with a new part of the track opened in the next year that bypassed the dangerous and fast Maison Blanche stretch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 52], "content_span": [53, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092060-0040-0000", "contents": "1971 24 Hours of Le Mans, Official results, Finishers\nResults taken from Quentin Spurring's book, officially licensed by the ACO Class Winners are in Bold text.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092060-0041-0000", "contents": "1971 24 Hours of Le Mans, Official results, Statistics\nTaken from Quentin Spurring's book, officially licensed by the ACO", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 54], "content_span": [55, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092061-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 ABA All-Star Game\nThe fourth American Basketball Association All-Star Game was played January 23, 1971 at Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, North Carolina before an audience at 14,407. Al Bianchi of the Virginia Squires coached the East, with Bill Sharman of the Utah Stars coached the West.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092061-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 ABA All-Star Game, Results\nRick Barry scored four points in the final 49 seconds as the East overcame an 18-point third-quarter deficit. Mel Daniels of the Indiana Pacers was named MVP after scoring 29 points and grabbing 13 rebounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 31], "content_span": [32, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092062-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 ABA Playoffs\nThe 1971 ABA Playoffs was the postseason tournament of the American Basketball Association's 1970-1971 season. The tournament concluded with the Western Division champion Utah Stars defeating the Eastern Division champion Kentucky Colonels, four games to three in the ABA finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092062-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 ABA Playoffs, Notable events\nThere was a one-game playoff for fourth place in the Western Division because the Texas Chaparrals and Denver Rockets had tied with regular season records of 30-54. The game was played on April 1 and the Chaparrals won 115-109.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 33], "content_span": [34, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092062-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 ABA Playoffs, Notable events\nThis was the first season in ABA history in which the team with the best regular season record did not win the ABA championship. The Indiana Pacers had the league's best record during this season at 58-26 (.690), putting them one game ahead of the eventual league champion Utah Stars in the Western Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 33], "content_span": [34, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092062-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 ABA Playoffs, Notable events\nThis was the first season in ABA history in which neither regular season division champion made it to the ABA finals. The second place Utah Stars represented the West while the Kentucky Colonels, second place in the East behind the Virginia Squires, met them in the finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 33], "content_span": [34, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092062-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 ABA Playoffs, Notable events\nGame 3 of the Eastern Finals saw 287 total points scored. This was the most points scored in any ABA playoff game, and would be the most points scored in a playoff game in either the NBA or ABA until 1992.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 33], "content_span": [34, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092062-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 ABA Playoffs, Notable events\n13,260 fans attended Game Seven of the ABA championship series between the Utah Stars and Kentucky Colonels at the Salt Palace in Salt Lake City, Utah on May 18, 1971. After the Stars won 131-121 the fans stormed the floor and mobbed the court for twenty minutes. Willie Wise and Zelmo Beaty rode off the floor carried upon the shoulders of Utah fans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 33], "content_span": [34, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092062-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 ABA Playoffs, Notable events\nZelmo Beaty was named Most Valuable Player of the ABA playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 33], "content_span": [34, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092062-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 ABA Playoffs, Western Division\n(1) Indiana Pacers vs. (3) Memphis Pros:Pacers win series 4-0", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092062-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 ABA Playoffs, Western Division\n(2) Utah Stars vs. (4) Texas Chaparrals:Stars win series 4-0", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092062-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 ABA Playoffs, Western Division\n(1) Indiana Pacers vs. (2) Utah Stars:Stars win series 4-3", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092062-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 ABA Playoffs, Eastern Division\n(1) Virginia Squires vs. (3) New York Nets:Squires win series 4-2", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092062-0011-0000", "contents": "1971 ABA Playoffs, Eastern Division\n(2) Kentucky Colonels vs. (4) The Floridians:Colonels win series 4-2", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092062-0012-0000", "contents": "1971 ABA Playoffs, Eastern Division\n(1) Virginia Squires vs. (2) Kentucky Colonels:Colonels win series 4-2", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092062-0013-0000", "contents": "1971 ABA Playoffs, ABA Finals\n(2) Utah Stars VS. (2) Kentucky Colonels:Stars win series 4-3", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 91]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092063-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 ABC Championship\nThe 1971 Asian Basketball Confederation Championship for Men were held in Tokyo, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092064-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 ACC Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 1971 Atlantic Coast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was held in Greensboro, North Carolina, at the Greensboro Coliseum from March 11\u201313. South Carolina defeated North Carolina, 52\u201351, to win the championship. This was the only ACC Tournament that South Carolina won and the last ACC Tournament in which they played. Lee Dedmon of North Carolina and John Roche of South Carolina tied as tournament MVPs. In the final, 6'3\" Kevin Joyce out-jumped 6\"10\" Dedmon with seconds remaining to tap the ball to Tom Owens, who was left alone under the basket. Owens made the layup to give South Carolina the win as time expired.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 664]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092065-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 AFC Youth Championship\nThe AFC Youth Championship 1971 was held in Tokyo, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 85]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092065-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 AFC Youth Championship, Quarterfinals\n1 Kuwait refused to play Israel for political reasons; Israel were awarded a 2-0 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092067-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Aconcagua earthquake\nThe Valpara\u00edso Region of central Chile was struck by an earthquake of magnitude 7.8 Mw at 22:03 8 July 1971 local time (03:03 9 July UTC). It had a maximum felt intensity of IX (violent) on the Modified Mercalli intensity scale and caused the deaths of 83 people and injured a further 447.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092067-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Aconcagua earthquake, Tectonic setting\nCentral Chile lies on the destructive plate boundary where the Nazca Plate is being subducted beneath the South American Plate. The rate of convergence at this boundary in central Chile is about 74\u00a0mm per year. The boundary has a long history of destructive earthquakes and damaging tsunamis. Events occur on the plate interface and within both the subducting slab and the over-riding plate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 43], "content_span": [44, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092067-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Aconcagua earthquake, Earthquake\nThe focal mechanism and hypocentral depth of this earthquake are consistent with rupture along the plate interface. The aftershock locations spread from the epicenter westwards towards the trench.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092067-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Aconcagua earthquake, Damage\nThe earthquake caused widespread damage across central Chile, with the port city of Valpara\u00edso being the most affected. A total of 83 people were killed, a further 447 were injured and 40,000 made homeless.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092068-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Adelaide state by-election\nThe Adelaide state by-election, 1971 was a by-election held on 3 July 1971 for the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Adelaide. This was triggered by the death of state Labor MHA Sam Lawn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092068-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Adelaide state by-election, Results\nThe Communist Party, who contested the previous election on 4.9 percent of the vote, did not contest the by-election. Labor easily retained the seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092069-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 African Cup of Champions Clubs\nThe African Cup of Champions Clubs 1971 was the 7th edition of the annual international club football competition held in the CAF region (Africa), the African Cup of Champions Clubs. It determined that year's club champion of association football in Africa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092069-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 African Cup of Champions Clubs\nThe tournament was played by 25 teams and used a knock-out format with ties played home and away. Canon Yaound\u00e9 from Cameroon won the final, and became CAF club champion for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092069-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 African Cup of Champions Clubs, Final\nFor the final, only points aggregate, not goals aggregate was considered.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 42], "content_span": [43, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092069-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 African Cup of Champions Clubs, Final\n1 The match was abandoned at the 82' with Canon Yaound\u00e9 leading 1-0 after Asante Kotoko fans invaded the pitch. Canon Yaound\u00e9 were declared champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 42], "content_span": [43, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092069-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 African Cup of Champions Clubs, Top scorers\nThe top scorers from the 1971 African Cup of Champions Clubs are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 48], "content_span": [49, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092070-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Air Canada Silver Broom\nThe 1971 Air Canada Silver Broom, the men's world curling championship, was held from March 16 to 21 at the Palais de Sports in Meg\u00e8ve, France.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092070-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Air Canada Silver Broom, Teams\nSkip : Pierre BoanThird: Andr\u00e9 MabbouxSecond: Andr\u00e9 TroncLead: Richard DuvillardAlternate: Gerard Pasquier", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092071-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Air Force Falcons football team\nThe 1971 Air Force Falcons football team represented the United States Air Force Academy in the 1971 NCAA University Division football season as an Independent. They were led by fourteenth\u2013year head coach Ben Martin, and played their home games at Falcon Stadium in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Air Force tied in scoring with their opponents 187\u2013187 and finished with a record of 6 wins and 4 losses (6\u20134).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092071-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Air Force Falcons football team\nThe previous season ended in the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans on New Year's Day. This year, the Falcons began at 5\u20131 and were ranked 18th in the AP Poll in late October; they dropped three of four, fell out of the polls, and did not play in the postseason.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092071-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Air Force Falcons football team\nThis was the last season that the Navy was off of the Falcons' schedule; the Commander-in-Chief's Trophy was introduced the following year which matched the three academies annually. Previously, Air Force played Navy in even years and Army in odd years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092072-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Akron Zips football team\nThe 1971 Akron Zips football team represented Akron University in the 1971 NCAA College Division football season as an independent. Led by 11th-year head coach Gordon K. Larson, the Zips played their home games at the Rubber Bowl in Akron, Ohio. They finished the season with a record of 8\u20132 and outscored their opponents 193\u2013119.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092073-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Alabama Crimson Tide football team\nThe 1971 Alabama Crimson Tide football team (variously \"Alabama\", \"UA\" or \"Bama\") represented the University of Alabama in the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. It was the Crimson Tide's 77th overall and 38th season as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The team was led by head coach Bear Bryant, in his 14th year, and played their home games at Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa and Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama. They finished season with eleven wins and one loss (11\u20131 overall, 7\u20130 in the SEC), as SEC champions and with a loss to Nebraska in the Orange Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092073-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Alabama Crimson Tide football team\nThe 1971 squad was notable for a pair of firsts in Alabama football history. This was the first team that African Americans contributed as members of the Alabama varsity squad, with John Mitchell being the first to actually see playing time. 1971 also marked the first season the Crimson Tide utilized the wishbone offense that Alabama became noted for throughout the remainder of Bryant's tenure as head coach at Alabama.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092073-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Alabama Crimson Tide football team\nAlabama opened the season with an upset victory at USC. This was the first game that the wishbone was utilized by the Crimson Tide offense, and their victory was attributed in part to surprising the Trojans with its introduction. They then won their next four games over Southern Miss, Florida, Ole Miss and Vanderbilt and set up a top 20 match-up against Tennessee. In their rival game, the Crimson Tide ended a four-game losing streak to the Vols with their 32\u201315 victory. After a hard-fought win over Houston and victory over Mississippi State at Jackson, Alabama defeated LSU for their third win over a ranked team on the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 673]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092073-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Alabama Crimson Tide football team\nThe Crimson Tide next defeated Miami on homecoming and set up a match-up between undefeated teams for the first time in the history of the Iron Bowl to close the regular season. With both teams ranked in the top five, Alabama defeated Auburn 31\u20137 and captured the outright SEC football championship. However, they were unable to capture a national championship as they were defeated by No. 1 Nebraska 38\u20136 to close the season in the Orange Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092073-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Integration\nAlthough several African American students competed during spring practice in 1967, Wilbur Jackson became the first African American awarded a scholarship to play for Alabama, and he competed as a member of the freshman squad in 1970 and played for the varsity team in 1971. For the 1971 season, John Mitchell became the first African American to play on the varsity squad for the Crimson Tide during the regular season after he transferred from Eastern Arizona College.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 52], "content_span": [53, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092073-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Integration\nWhile the Crimson Tide finally fielded Black Players, they lost the National Championship to a well Integrated University of Nebraska team. Nebraska's best players who made the difference in the blowout victory were African Americans including Outland Trophy Winner Rich Glover, future Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Rodgers and bowl game MVP Willie Harper amongst others. Nebraska's victory played a part in causing the SEC as a whole to integrate their teams and that integration would help Alabama reinvorgate their team creating a new dynasty winning National Championships in the years to come.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 52], "content_span": [53, 652]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092073-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Wishbone offense\nIn 1968, Texas head coach Darrell Royal and his offensive coordinator Emory Bellard introduced what would become known as the wishbone offense. The wishbone was derived from the Split-T offense run at Oklahoma under Bud Wilkinson. In the formation, the quarterback lines up with a fullback and two tailbacks behind him, and on any play may keep the ball, hand off to the fullback, or pitch to a tailback. From the time Bryant arrived at Alabama through the 1970 season, the Crimson Tide ran a pro-style offense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 57], "content_span": [58, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092073-0006-0001", "contents": "1971 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Wishbone offense\nBy 1969, Bryant began to recruit larger linemen and tailbacks, and after a pair of six win seasons in 1969 and 1970, Bryant saw the success of the wishbone for the Longhorns and decided to implement the offense for the 1971 season. In spring 1971, Alabama assistants Mal Moore and Jimmy Sharpe traveled to Austin where they saw first hand how the wishbone operated during Texas' final week of spring practice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 57], "content_span": [58, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092073-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Wishbone offense\nDuring the second summer session at the University, both Moore and Sharpe began to work with players on the offensive change, and in August Royal and Bellard traveled to Tuscaloosa and led a coaching clinic for the Alabama staff on the wishbone. In order to keep the change a secret, Bryant closed all of the Crimson Tide's practices closed from the public, screened the practice field from view with a canvas and hired security to keep people away.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 57], "content_span": [58, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092073-0007-0001", "contents": "1971 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Wishbone offense\nThe change to the wishbone was kept under such secrecy that when the media would visit practice, Bryant had the team practice the pro-style system that was phased out. Alabama later opened the season with an upset victory over USC that was credited to the surprise switch to the wishbone that caught the Trojans off-guard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 57], "content_span": [58, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092073-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, USC\nAfter the NCAA enacted a rule that allowed its member institutions to schedule an eleventh regular season game, in January 1970 the Crimson Tide agreed to a home-and-home series with the University of Southern California (USC). At the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Alabama upset the No. 5 Trojans 17\u201310 on a Friday night to open the 1971 season. The Crimson Tide took a 10\u20130 lead in the first quarter behind a 13-yard Johnny Musso touchdown run and a 37-yard Bill Davis field goal. They extended it further to 17\u20130 early in the second quarter on an eight-yard Musso touchdown run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 60], "content_span": [61, 642]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092073-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, USC\nUSC responds with ten unanswered points and made the halftime score 17\u201310. They scored first on a seven-yard Charles Young touchdown run and next on a 37-yard Mike Rae field goal. Neither team scored in the second half as both defenses created several turnovers and Alabama won 17\u201310. The victory was also the 200th career win for Alabama head coach Bear Bryant. The victory improved Alabama's all-time record against Southern Cal to 3\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 60], "content_span": [61, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092073-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Southern Miss\nAfter their victory over USC, Alabama moved into the No. 9 position in the AP Poll prior to their game against Southern Miss. In their home opener, Alabama played 62 different players and defeated the Southerners 42\u20136 at Denny Stadium. Johnny Musso gave the Crimson Tide a 14\u20130 lead with touchdown runs of one-yard in the first and 16-yards in the second quarter. Ellis Beck then extended their lead to 21\u20130 with his one-yard touchdown run prior to halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 70], "content_span": [71, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092073-0011-0000", "contents": "1971 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Southern Miss\nThe Crimson Tide extended their lead further to 35\u20130 with third quarter touchdowns scored on a four-yard Joe LaBue run and a 25-yard Benny Rippetoe pass to William Wood. Southern Miss ended the shutout attempt with a nine-yard Doyle Orange touchdown run in the fourth, and Alabama closed with an 18-yard Steve Bisceglia touchdown run that made the final score 42\u20136. The victory improved Alabama's all-time record against Southern Miss to 12\u20132\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 70], "content_span": [71, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092073-0012-0000", "contents": "1971 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Florida\nAfter their victory over Southern Miss, Alabama moved into the No. 8 position in the AP Poll prior to their game against Florida. Against the Gators, Johnny Musso scored four rushing touchdowns en route to a 38\u20130 shutout at Florida Field. After Bill Davis gave the Crimson Tide a 3\u20130 lead with his first quarter field goal, Musso scored Alabama's next four touchdowns and extended their lead to 31\u20130. All four came on the ground with a pair from one-yard out, a three-yard run and a five-yard run. Alabama then closed the game with an 11-yard Billy Sexton touchdown pass to Dexter Wood that made the final score 38\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 682]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092073-0013-0000", "contents": "1971 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Florida\nThe four touchdowns scored by Musso on the ground set a new school record for rushing touchdowns. Additionally, the shutout was the first for the Crimson Tide defense since their 17\u20130 victory in 1967 over South Carolina. The victory improved Alabama's all-time record against Florida to 11\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092073-0014-0000", "contents": "1971 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Ole Miss\nAfter their victory over Florida, Alabama moved into the No. 7 position in the AP Poll prior to their game against Ole Miss. Looking to avenge the 48\u201323 loss from the previous season, the Crimson Tide defeated the Rebels 40\u20136 at Legion Field. After Bill Davis gave the Crimson Tide a 6\u20130 with field goals of 25 and 42-yards, Ole Miss tied the game 6\u20136 with what was their only points of the game. The score came on a 48-yard Kenneth Lyons touchdown pass to Elmer Allen in the second quarter. Alabama responded with an 11-yard Terry Davis touchdown pass to David Bailey that made the halftime score 13\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 669]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092073-0015-0000", "contents": "1971 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Ole Miss\nAlabama extended their lead to 27\u20136 in the third quarter behind touchdown runs of 29-yards by Joe LaBue and seven-yards by Johnny Musso. The Crimson Tide then closed the game with touchdown runs of 15-yards by Steve Bisceglia and 14-yards by Butch Hobson that made the final score 40\u20136. The 531 rushing yards made by Alabama were the most allowed by the Rebels' defense in school history. The victory improved Alabama's all-time record against Ole Miss to 22\u20135\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092073-0016-0000", "contents": "1971 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Vanderbilt\nAfter their victory over Ole Miss, Alabama moved into the No. 6 position in the AP Poll prior to their game against Vanderbilt. Against the Commodores, the Alabama defense forced their second shutout of the season win this 42\u20130 victory at Dudley Field. Johnny Musso gave the Crimson Tide a 7\u20130 lead with his 17-yard touchdown run in the first quarter. Their lead was then stretched to 13\u20130 at halftime behind field goals of 33-yards by Bill Davis and 26-yards by Greg Gantt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 67], "content_span": [68, 542]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092073-0017-0000", "contents": "1971 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Vanderbilt\nAlabama closed the game with a pair of touchdowns in each of the final two quarters and won 42\u20130. Ellis Beck scored on a one-yard run and Terry Davis threw a nine-yard touchdown pass to Jim Simmons in the third quarter. In the fourth, Bob McKinney scored on a 55-yard punt return and Johnny Sharpless scored on an 11-yard touchdown run. The victory improved Alabama's all-time record against Vanderbilt to 28\u201317\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 67], "content_span": [68, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092073-0018-0000", "contents": "1971 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Tennessee\nAfter their victory at Vanderbilt, Alabama moved into the No. 4 position and Tennessee into the No. 14 position in the AP Poll prior to their game at Legion Field. Against the Volunteers, Alabama ended a four-game losing streak that dated back to their 1967 season with this 32\u201315 in their annual rivalry game. After the Crimson Tide took an early 6\u20130 lead on a 20-yard Terry Davis touchdown pass to David Bailey, the Vols responded with a four-yard Curt Watson touchdown run that made the score 7\u20136 at the end of the first quarter. Alabama then took a 15\u20136 halftime lead after a 27-yard Bill Davis field goal and six-yard Terry Davis touchdown run in the second quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 738]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092073-0019-0000", "contents": "1971 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Tennessee\nEarly in the third, the Crimson Tide extended their lead to 22\u20137 behind a 16-yard Terry Davis touchdown pass to Bailey. Tennessee responded in the fourth with a nine-yard Watson touchdown run that cut the Alabama lead to 22\u201315. However, the Crimson Tide closed the game with a 39-yard Bill Davis field goal and five-yard Johnny Musso touchdown run for the 32\u201315 victory. The 73,828 in attendance set a new record for largest crowd in the history of Legion Field to date. The victory improved Alabama's all-time record against Tennessee to 24\u201323\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092073-0020-0000", "contents": "1971 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Houston\nWith their over the Vols, Alabama retained their No. 4 position in the AP Poll prior to their game against Houston. Although the Cougars outgained the Crimson Tide by over 100 total yards, Alabama won 34\u201320 at Denny Stadium. Alabama took a 7\u20130 first quarter lead on a two-yard Johnny Musso touchdown run, but Houston then scored on a three-yard Tom Mozisek touchdown run that tied the game 7\u20137 early in the second. The Crimson Tide responded with a pair of Terry Davis touchdown passes to David Bailey from 10 and 25-yards that gave Alabama a 20\u20137 halftime lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 627]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092073-0021-0000", "contents": "1971 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Houston\nBoth teams then traded touchdowns in the second half en route to the 34\u201320 Crimson Tide victory. In the third quarter, Musso scored for Alabama first with his nine-yard run and Houston followed with a three-yard Gary Mullins touchdown pass to Riley Odoms; in the fourth Joe LaBue scored for the Crimson tide on a 10-yard run and Mullins threw a second, three-yard pass to Odoms that made the final score 34\u201320. In the game, Musso had 132 yards rushing for Alabama and both Robert Newhouse and Tom Mozisek each had over 100 yards rushing for Houston with 182 and 105 respectively. The victory improved Alabama's all-time record against Houston to 7\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 715]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092073-0022-0000", "contents": "1971 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Mississippi State\nAs they entered their game against Mississippi State, Alabama retained their No. 4 position in the AP Poll. At Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium, the visiting Crimson Tide did not allow an offensive touchdown and defeated the Bulldogs 41\u201310. After Alabama took a 3\u20130 first quarter lead behind a 20-yard Bill Davis field goal, they scored a pair of touchdowns in the second. The first came on a 31-yard Terry Davis pass to Wayne Wheeler and the second on a 30-yard Steve Higginbotham interception return. The Bulldogs then made the halftime score 17\u20133 behind a 41-yard Glenn Ellis field goal at the end of the second.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 74], "content_span": [75, 695]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092073-0023-0000", "contents": "1971 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Mississippi State\nState cut the Alabama lead to 17\u201310 on an 88-yard Frank Dowsing punt return in the third. However, the Crimson Tide closed the game with 24 unanswered points for the 41\u201310 win. Fourth quarter points were scored on a 33-yard Bill Davis field goal, touchdowns on runs of one-yard by Johnny Musso and 16-yards by David Knapp and on a one-yard Terry Davis pass to Glenn Woodruff. The victory improved Alabama's all-time record against Mississippi State to 43\u201310\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 74], "content_span": [75, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092073-0024-0000", "contents": "1971 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Mississippi State\nThe win was Bryant's 116th win at Alabama and broke Frank Thomas' record of 115 wins as the head coach of the Crimson Tide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 74], "content_span": [75, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092073-0025-0000", "contents": "1971 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, LSU\nAfter their victory over Mississippi State, Alabama retained their No. 4 position and LSU was in the No. 18 position in the AP Poll prior to their match-up at Baton Rouge. Playing in a regionally televised game on ABC, Alabama defeated the Tigers 14\u20137 at Tiger Stadium. Bill Davis scored all of the first half points with his field goals of 29 and 38-yards that gave Alabama a 6\u20130 halftime lead. Scoring concluded in the third quarter behind a 16-yard Terry Davis touchdown run for the Crimson Tide and a seven-yard Paul Lyons touchdown pass to Andy Hamilton that made the final score 14\u20137. The victory improved Alabama's all-time record against LSU to 21\u201310\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 60], "content_span": [61, 722]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092073-0026-0000", "contents": "1971 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Miami\nAs they entered their game against Miami, Alabama retained their No. 4 position in the AP Poll for a fifth consecutive week. On homecoming in Tuscaloosa, Alabama defeated Hurricanes 31\u20133 at Denny Stadium. Mike Burke scored the only Miami points with his 42-yard field goal in the first and gave the Hurricanes their only lead at 3\u20130. The Crimson Tide responded with a pair of touchdowns later in the first on runs of 22-yards by Terry Davis and 67-yards by Wilbur Jackson. A 27-yard Bill Davis field goal in the second gave Alabama a 16\u20133 halftime lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 62], "content_span": [63, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092073-0027-0000", "contents": "1971 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Miami\nThe Crimson Tide closed the game with a six-yard Terry Davis touchdown run in the third and a 10-yard Butch Hobson touchdown run in the fourth for the 31\u20133 Alabama win. With their 345 offensive yards in the game, Alabama surpassed the previous SEC season record for total offense of 3,068 yards set by Tennessee in 1951. The victory improved Alabama's all-time record against Miami to 9\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 62], "content_span": [63, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092073-0028-0000", "contents": "1971 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Auburn\nAs they entered their annual rivalry game against Auburn, Alabama moved into the No. 3 position and the Tigers were in the No. 5 position in the AP Poll prior to the first top five match-up in the Iron Bowl. In what was the first Alabama\u2013Auburn game that featured two undefeated teams, the Crimson Tide defeated their rival 31\u20137 and captured the outright SEC championship for the 1971 season. Alabama took a 14\u20130 lead behind first quarter touchdown runs of six and 11-yards by Terry Davis. Auburn responded with a 31-yard Harry Unger touchdown pass to Terry Beasley in the second quarter that made the halftime score 14\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 63], "content_span": [64, 686]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092073-0029-0000", "contents": "1971 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Auburn\nAfter a scoreless third, the Crimson Tide scored 17 unanswered points in the fourth quarter and won 31\u20137. After Bill Davis connected on a 41-yard field goal, Johnny Musso scored on touchdown runs of 12 and six-yards in the victory. The victory improved Alabama's all-time record against Auburn to 19\u201316\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 63], "content_span": [64, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092073-0030-0000", "contents": "1971 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Nebraska\nIn what was a No. 1 versus No. 2 matchup for the national championship, Alabama was dominated by the Nebraska Cornhuskers 38\u20136 in the Orange Bowl. Nebraska stormed out to a 28\u20130 halftime lead after they scored a pair of touchdowns in the first two quarters. Jeff Kinney scored on a two-yard run and Johnny Rodgers on a 77-yard punt return in the first; Jerry Tagge scored on a one-yard run and Gary Dixon on a two-yard run in the second quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092073-0031-0000", "contents": "1971 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Nebraska\nAlabama then scored their only points on a three-yard Terry Davis touchdown run in the third and made the score 28\u20136. However, the Cornhuskers closed the game with a 21-yard Rich Sanger field goal in the third and a one-yard Van Brownson touchdown run in the fourth that made the final score 38\u20136. The loss brought Alabama's all-time record against Nebraska to 2\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092073-0032-0000", "contents": "1971 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, NFL Draft\nSeveral players that were varsity lettermen from the 1971 squad were drafted into the National Football League (NFL) in the 1972, 1973 and 1974 drafts. These players included:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 50], "content_span": [51, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092073-0033-0000", "contents": "1971 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Freshman squad\nPrior to the 1972 NCAA University Division football season, NCAA rules prohibited freshmen from participating on the varsity team, and as such many schools fielded freshmen teams. The Alabama freshmen squad was led by coach Clem Gryska for the 1971 season and finished with a record of four wins and one loss (4\u20131). The Baby Tide opened the season with a 28\u201323 victory over Navy at Annapolis. After Randy Billingsley gave Alabama an early 7\u20130 lead with his nine-yard touchdown run, Navy responded with a trick play that saw Jim O'Brien throw a 33-yard touchdown pass to John Brodhead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 55], "content_span": [56, 640]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092073-0033-0001", "contents": "1971 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Freshman squad\nIn the second quarter, Billingsley scored on a one-yard touchdown run, and again the Midshipmen responded with a 20-yard Brodhead touchdown pass to Rhett Bray that made the halftime score 14\u201313. The Baby Tide extended their lead to 21\u201313 after Bob Holmes scored on a three-yard run on the first drive of the third quarter. However, Navy responded with a 46-yard Brodhead touchdown pass to Ward Hill and next with a safety and took a 23\u201321 lead. Ralph Stokes then went on and scored the game-winning touchdown for Alabama in the fourth quarter on a 38-yard run that made the final score 28\u201323.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 55], "content_span": [56, 648]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092073-0034-0000", "contents": "1971 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Freshman squad\nIn their only home game of the season, the Baby Tide ran for 359 yards and six touchdowns en route to a 41\u20137 win over Vanderbilt on a Friday afternoon. The next week, Alabama rallied from a 15-point deficit and defeated Tulane 23\u201322 at New Orleans. After Danny Ridgeway gave the Baby Tide an early 7\u20130 lead, Tulane responded with the next 22 points and opened a 22\u20137 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 55], "content_span": [56, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092073-0034-0001", "contents": "1971 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Freshman squad\nGreen Wave points were scored on a 43-yard Steve Foley touchdown pass to Robert Johnson, a one-yard Foley touchdown run, a 50-yard John Washington punt return and on a 31-yard David Falgue field goal. Alabama then rallied for the 23\u201322 victory behind a pair of Bob Holmes touchdown runs and a pair of Ralph Stokes two-point conversions in the fourth quarter. At Knoxville, a 36\u201313 loss to the Volunteers ended an eight-game winning streak for the Baby Tide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 55], "content_span": [56, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092073-0034-0002", "contents": "1971 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Freshman squad\nAlabama took an early 7\u20130 lead after Duffy Boles scored on a one-yard run that was set up after the Baby Tide recovered a Tennessee fumble at their one-yard line. The Vols tied the game 7\u20137 early in the second quarter on a 35-yard Condredge Holloway touchdown pass to John Yarbrough. They then took a 10\u20137 lead later in the second on a 32-yard Ricky Townsend field goal, and then extended their lead to 16\u20137 at halftime behind a five-yard halfback pass from Neil Clabo to Holloway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 55], "content_span": [56, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092073-0034-0003", "contents": "1971 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Freshman squad\nTennessee further extended their lead to 29\u20137 with a pair of touchdown runs from John Sapp and one from Kent Fullington in the third quarter. In the fourth, Jim Turley recovered a Tennessee fumble for a touchdown and Carl Stinson scored on a one-yard run for the Vols and made the final score 36\u201313.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 55], "content_span": [56, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092073-0035-0000", "contents": "1971 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Freshman squad\nIn their final game of the season, before 15,000 fans at Cliff Hare Stadium, Alabama defeated Auburn 13\u20136. After a scoreless first half, Auburn scored their only points on a 48-yard Mike Fuller touchdown reception in the third quarter. Bob Holmes tied the game 6\u20136 late in the third with his one-yard run, and Randy Billingsley followed in the fourth quarter with his game-winning, two-yard touchdown run. In the game, the Tigers had seven turnovers and both teams missed several scoring opportunities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 55], "content_span": [56, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092073-0036-0000", "contents": "1971 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Freshman squad\nFreshman \"Baby Tide\" roster: Danny Ridgeway/QB/#10, Mark Prudhomme/QB/#11, Duffy Boles/HB/#20, Ricky Davis/HB/#21, Mike Washington/HB/#24, James Taylor/FLK/#25, Bob Holmes/FB/#30, Randy Billingsley/HB/#31, Steve Ford/HB/#40, Mike Riley/HB/#41, Ralph Stokes/HB/#42, Gary Yelvington/HB/#43, Drew Cook/HB/#44, Ray Maxwell/LB/#45, Dwight Brown/LB/#46, Dennis Durrance/LB/#48, Mike Dubose/LB/#50, Dudley Sheppard/C/#51, Robert Brophy/E/#53, James Braasch/LB/#57, Steve Kulback/G/#60, Richard Whitley/G/#62, John Lewis/G/#63, Rodney Brown/G/#64, Rudy Wooten/T/#70, Barry McGee/T/#71, David Hagan/T/#72, John Hollis/T/#73, David Capan/T/#74, Lamar Langley/T/#75, Randy Hall/T/#76, Bob Bryan/T/#77, Rick Meadows/T/#78, Ronnie Barnes/E/#80, Terry Mager/E/#81, Joe Dale Harris/E/#82, Gene Lunceford/E/#83, Tom Nelson/E/#84, Glenn Turley/E/#85, Sylvester Croom/C/#87.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 55], "content_span": [56, 912]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092074-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Alberta general election\nThe 1971 Alberta general election was held on August 30, 1971, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092074-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Alberta general election, Background\nThe Progressive Conservative Party, led by Peter Lougheed, won a large majority, thereby ending the Social Credit Party's 36-year run in government\u2013one of the longest such runs at the provincial level in Canada at the time. Ernest C. Manning had resigned as Social Credit leader and premier in 1968 after 25 years in office, a year after leading the Socreds to their ninth consecutive majority government. His successor, Harry E. Strom, had been unable to revive a government increasingly seen as tired, complacent and old-fashioined. The Socreds had been in government for almost two generations, having won their first victory more than a decade before oil was found in a big way in Alberta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 735]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092074-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Alberta general election, Background\nThe Progressive Conservatives, on the other hand, had significant momentum going into the 1971 election. Over the past four years, their caucus had increased from the six members elected in 1967 to ten, after two MLAs from other parties crossed the floor and the Tories won two by-elections (one in Manning's former riding). The collapse of the other opposition parties made the PCs the only credible challenger to the Socreds. The Tories took 46% of the popular vote and won 49 of the 75 seats in the legislature, enough for a strong majority government. This would be the first of twelve consecutive victories for the PCs; they would remain in government without interruption until their defeat in 2015, making them the longest serving political dynasty in Canadian history. The 1971 election is considered a classic example of a political realignment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 896]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092074-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Alberta general election, Background\nSocial Credit garnered a record number of votes in this election compared to previous elections, which had been plagued by low turn-outs. The party lost only a small share of their popular vote from 1967 and finished only five points behind the Tories. However, the Tories converted this slim lead into a large lead in seats due to their success in the province's two largest cities: Edmonton, where the Tories won every seat, and Calgary, where they took all but five. While many of the Social Credit losses came by small margins, those losses were enough to cost the party almost half of its caucus. Strom resigned as Social Credit leader a few months after the defeat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 713]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092074-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Alberta general election, Background\nThe defeat sent Social Credit into headlong decline. Its membership in the Assembly shrank over the next ten years and disappeared altogether by 1982.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092074-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Alberta general election, Background\nThe Liberal Party was shut out of the legislature. One Liberal, Bill Dickie, had crossed the floor to the PCs. Another, William Switzer, died in 1969. The remaining Liberal, Michael Maccagno, resigned to run, unsuccessfully as it turned out, for the federal Parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092074-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Alberta general election, Background\nAlberta New Democratic Party leader Grant Notley was the only one in his party to win election. He sat as the only New Democrat in the legislature until 1982. His daughter Rachel would lead the NDP to victory over the Tories in 2015, ending its 44 years in office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092074-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Alberta general election, Background\nA number of electoral districts were redistributed following 1970 amendments to The Elections Act which were informed by the 1968 Report of the Alberta Committee on Redistribution Procedure written by the Special Committee on Redistribution chaired by SoCred member Frederick C. Colborne.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092074-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Alberta general election, Daylight saving time plebiscite\nAlberta voters also voted in a province-wide plebiscite whether or not to endorse a proposal to adopt daylight saving time (summer time). This time however it passed with a wide margin of 61.37% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092074-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 Alberta general election, Daylight saving time plebiscite, Background\nIn 1948, the Government of Alberta formally set the province's time zone with the passage of The Daylight Saving Time Act, which mandated the entire province observe Mountain Standard Time, and prevented any municipality from observing daylight saving time or any other time zone. The bill came after Calgary (1946 and 1947), and Edmonton (1946) held municipal plebiscites which approved the move to daylight saving time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092074-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 Alberta general election, Daylight saving time plebiscite, Background\nAlberta's urban municipalities were largely in favour of daylight saving time and pressured the provincial government to hold a provincial plebiscite or permit municipalities to observe daylight saving time. The effort in the Legislature was spearheaded by Liberal MLA and Calgary Alderman Bill Dickie who in March 1964 brought forward a motion to permit municipalities to hold plebiscites on the issue, the motion was defeated by the Social Credit government. At the time Social Credit MLA William Patterson describing daylight saving time as \"that fandangled thing\", and Minister Allen Russell Patrick stating municipal daylight saving time would be difficult for tourists to understand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 764]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092074-0011-0000", "contents": "1971 Alberta general election, Daylight saving time plebiscite, Background\nThe Social Credit government finally gave into the request for a provincial plebiscite on daylight saving time, approving a motion by Bill Dickie put forward in February 1966. the government responded on March 29, 1966, Minister Alfred Hooke introduced An Act to amend The Daylight Saving Time Act (Bill 75) which amended the Daylight Saving Time Act to permit the government to hold a plebiscite on the issue. Alberta voters were asked the question \"Do you favour Province-wide Daylight Saving Time? \", during the 1967 Alberta general election. A narrow majority of 51.25 per cent of voters rejected daylight saving time, which were primarily located in rural areas, while strong support for daylight saving time was seen in Calgary, Edmonton, Lethbridge and Medicine Hat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 848]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092074-0012-0000", "contents": "1971 Alberta general election, Daylight saving time plebiscite, Background\nAcross Canada, by 1967, each province besides Alberta and Saskatchewan had adopted daylight saving time. Many Alberta businesses provided for modified summer hours, including the Alberta Stock Exchange which started at 7 a.m. to align with exchanges in Toronto and Montreal. Air Canada released a statement expressing the difficulty of distributing flight schedules with flights in Alberta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092074-0013-0000", "contents": "1971 Alberta general election, Daylight saving time plebiscite, Background\nAfter 25 years as Premier, Social Credit leader Ernest Manning stepped down officially on December 12, 1968, and his successor Harry Strom was sworn in as Premier. Only a few months later in April 1969, the Strom announced Albertans would once again be asked to vote on daylight saving time in conjunction with the next scheduled provincial general election. During the announcement Strom stated he was neutral on the topic and did not have a preference one way or another.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092074-0014-0000", "contents": "1971 Alberta general election, Daylight saving time plebiscite, Campaign\nOnce again Calgary residents and businessmen Bill Creighton and David Matthews led a campaign for daylight saving times, just as they did in 1967, arguing the benefits of an additional hour of late sunlight for sports. Creighton learned from the successful and well funded \"no\" campaign on 1967 led by the Alberta Council for Standard Time and Calgary lawyer and drive-in movie operator R. H. Barron. Creighton and Matthews formed the \"Yes for Daylight Saving Society\" to advocate during the leadup to the 1971 plebiscite, mirroring the organized approach of the no campaign during 1967.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 660]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092074-0014-0001", "contents": "1971 Alberta general election, Daylight saving time plebiscite, Campaign\nThe Edmonton chapter had a $1,000 budget for advertising and even crowned \"Miss Daylight Saving Time\", who made appearances throughout Edmonton. The arguments made for daylight saving time were similar to 1967, more amateur sport time, saving 150 hours of electricity each summer and fixing the time difference between Alberta and the 8 other provinces which observed daylight saving time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092074-0015-0000", "contents": "1971 Alberta general election, Daylight saving time plebiscite, Campaign\nThe primary opposition to daylight saving time was described by members of the \"Yes for Daylight Saving Society\" as farmers, housewives and drive-in movie operators. In the 1967 campaign, the Alberta Council for Standard Time was able to raise $30,000 for advertisements, but were much less vocal during the 1971 campaign. Unifarm, an agricultural organization opposed the move but was not willing to spend significantly on a campaign against daylight saving time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092074-0016-0000", "contents": "1971 Alberta general election, Daylight saving time plebiscite, Aftermath\nThe 1971 plebiscite on daylight saving time resulted in an overwhelming majority of the Alberta population approving the transition. A statement from Unifarm, a farmer representative organization which opposed daylight saving time admitted that the organization anticipated the proposal would pass, but also downplayed the consequences for farmers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 73], "content_span": [74, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092074-0016-0001", "contents": "1971 Alberta general election, Daylight saving time plebiscite, Aftermath\nThe new Progressive Conservative government highlighted the change to observe daylight saving in the Speech from the Throne in early March 1972, and Attorney-General Merv Leitch announced on March 14, 1972 that Alberta will official observe daylight saving time, with the start date set for April 30, 1972, and lasting until October 29, 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 73], "content_span": [74, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092075-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Algerian Cup Final\nThe 1971 Algerian Cup Final was the 8th final of the Algerian Cup. The final took place on June 13, 1971, at Stade 20 Ao\u00fbt 1955 in Algiers with kick-off at 15:00. MC Alger beat USM Alger 2-0 to win their first Algerian Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092076-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 All England Badminton Championships\nThe 1971 All England Championships was a badminton tournament held at Wembley Arena, London, England, from 24\u201328 March 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092076-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 All England Badminton Championships, Final results\nThe defending women's champion Etsuko Takenaka withdrew with an injured knee. Judy Hashman represented England instead of the United States and Gillian Perrin married meaning her name would now be Gillian Gilks. Irmgard Latz married and became Imgard Gerlatzka and Pernille Molgaard-Hansen married and became Pernille Kaagaard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 55], "content_span": [56, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092077-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Atlantic Coast Conference football team\nThe 1971 All-Atlantic Coast Conference football team consists of American football players chosen by various selectors for their All-Atlantic Coast Conference (\"ACC\") teams for the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. Selectors in 1971 included the Associated Press (AP).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092078-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Big Eight Conference football team\nThe 1971 All-Big Eight Conference football team consists of American football players chosen by various organizations for All-Big Eight Conference teams for the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. The selectors for the 1971 season included the Associated Press (AP).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092079-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Big Ten Conference football team\nThe 1971 All-Big Ten Conference football team consists of American football players chosen by various organizations for All-Big Ten Conference teams for the 1971 Big Ten Conference football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092079-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Big Ten Conference football team, Key\nAP = Associated Press, selected by the AP's Midwest board and Big Ten football experts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 46], "content_span": [47, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092079-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Big Ten Conference football team, Key\nUPI = United Press International, selected by the conference coaches", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 46], "content_span": [47, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092079-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Big Ten Conference football team, Key\nBold = Consensus first-team selection by both AP and UPI", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 46], "content_span": [47, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092080-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Ireland Intermediate Hurling Championship\nThe 1971 All-Ireland Intermediate Hurling Championship was the 11th staging of the All-Ireland hurling championship. The championship ended on 19 September 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092080-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Ireland Intermediate Hurling Championship\nAntrim were the defending champions, however, they were defeated in the provincial championship. Tipperary won the title after defeating Wicklow by 3-16 to 3-13 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092081-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship\nThe 1971 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship was the 40th staging of the All-Ireland Minor Football Championship, the Gaelic Athletic Association's premier inter-county Gaelic football tournament for boys under the age of 18.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092081-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship\nGalway entered the championship as defending champions, however, they were defeated by Mayo on a scoreline of 1-7 to 0-9 in the Connacht semi-final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092081-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship\nOn 26 September 1971, Mayo won the championship following a 2-15 to 2-7 defeat of Cork in the All-Ireland final. This was their fourth All-Ireland title overall and their first title in five championship seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092082-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship\nThe 1971 All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship was the 41st staging of the All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship. The championship began on 15 August 1971 and ended on 5 September 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092082-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship\nOn 5 September 1971, Cork won the championship following a 2-11 to 1-11 defeat of Kilkenny in the All-Ireland final. This was their 11th All-Ireland title and their third in successive championship seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092082-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship\nCork's Pat Buckley was the championship's top scorer with 3-13.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092083-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship\nThe 1971 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship was the high point of the 1971 season. The championship was won by Cork, who defeated Wexford by a 13-point margin in the final. The match drew an attendance of 4,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092083-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, Semi-finals\nKilkenny won the Leinster Championship for the first time when they defeated Dublin 5\u20133 to 4\u20133 and received an unexpected bye to the All-Ireland final when Galway withdrew, receiving a three-month suspension from Central Council for failing to fulfil the fixture.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 57], "content_span": [58, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092083-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, Final\nCork took control of the final in the first half. Agnes Hourigan wrote in the Irish Press", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 51], "content_span": [52, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092083-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, Final\nThe game was won and lost in the five minutes preceding the interval with Wexford leading 1-1 to 0-2 in the 20th minute when, Rosie Hennessy and Anne Comerford, last year\u2019s captain, cracked home three Cork goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 51], "content_span": [52, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092084-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship Final\nThe 1971 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship Final was the fortieth All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1971 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, an inter-county camogie tournament for the top teams in Ireland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092085-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship Final\nThe 1971 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship final was a hurling match played at St. Brendan's Park on 19 December 1971 to determine the winners of the 1970\u201371 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship, the first season of the All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship, a tournament organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association for the champion clubs of the four provinces of Ireland. The final was contested by Roscrea of Tipperary and St. Rynagh's of Offaly, with Roscrea winning by 4-5 to 2-5.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092085-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship Final\nThe match was played in deplorable conditions in the height of winter, however, in spite of this, both sides played excellent hurling. The Tipperary champions, Roscrea, were at their brilliant best and had an interval lead of 2\u20134 to 0\u20131. St. Rynagh's had a very slow start and were held scoreless against the wind for 29 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092085-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship Final\nAn early goal by Barney Moylan held out prospects of a St. Rynagh's comeback early in the second half, however, a solo-run goal by Joe Tynan produced a goal that put Roscrea back in command. Roscrea were regarded as the fitter side with Francis Loughnane leading a set of forwards who could not be held. Roscrea's half-back line also came in for praise in nullifying the St. Rynagh's attack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092085-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship Final\nSt. Rynaghs' All-Ireland defeat was the first of two All-Ireland defeats in three years. They remain a team who has contested All-Ireland deciders but has never claimed the ultimate prize.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092086-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship\nThe 1971 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 85th staging of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, the Gaelic Athletic Association's premier inter-county Gaelic football tournament. The championship began on 25 April 1971 and ended on 26 September 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092086-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship\nKerry entered the championship as the defending champions, however, they were defeated by Cork in the Munster final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092086-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship\nOn 26 September 1971, Offaly won the championship following a 1-14 to 2-8 defeat of Galway in the All-Ireland final. This was their first All-Ireland title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092086-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship\nOffaly's Tony McTague was the championship's top scorer with 1-35. Offaly's Eugene Mulligan was the choice for Texaco Footballer of the Year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092086-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, Leinster Championship format change\nThe Second Round returns to Leinster football championship this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 82], "content_span": [83, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092087-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final\nThe 1971 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the 84th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1971 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092087-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final\nGalway were appearing in their first final since the three-in-a-row side of the 1960s. Offaly, who had never won an All-Ireland title, had last contested a final in 1969.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092087-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final\nGalway were favourites. Instead a shock occurred. A Murt Connor goal gave Offaly their first title. However, with the duration of certain championship matches increasing from 60 to 80 minutes during the 1970s before being settled at 70 minutes after five seasons of this in 1975, this is the only All-Ireland final whose outcome would have changed if the time had remained the same; had it done so, the 1971 final would have ended in a draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092087-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final\nThis was the first All-Ireland final attended by Martin Breheny. The weather on the day was later described by Breheny as consisting of a \"steady drizzle\" in the first half, followed by a \"deluge of monsoon proportions\" during the second half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092087-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final\nIt would be a further 21 years before another team won their first All-Ireland Senior Football Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092088-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship\nThe All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship of 1971 was the 85th staging of Ireland's premier hurling knock-out competition. Tipperary won the championship, beating Kilkenny 5-17 to 5-14 in the final at Croke Park, Dublin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092088-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, The championship, Format\nThe All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship of 1971 was run on a provincial basis as usual. It was a knockout tournament with pairings drawn at random in the respective provinces - there were no seeds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092088-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, The championship, Format\nEach match was played as a single leg. If a match was drawn there was a replay. If both sides were still level at the end of that game another replay had to take place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092088-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, The championship, Format, Munster Championship\nQuarter-final: (1 match) This was a single match between the first two teams drawn from the province of Munster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 92], "content_span": [93, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092088-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, The championship, Format, Munster Championship\nSemi-finals: (2 matches) The winner of the lone quarter-final joined the other three Munster teams to make up the semi-final pairings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 92], "content_span": [93, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092088-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, The championship, Format, Munster Championship\nFinal: (1 match) The winner of the two semi-finals contested this game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 92], "content_span": [93, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092088-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, The championship, Format, Leinster Championship\nFirst Round: (1 match) This was a single match between two of the 'weaker' teams drawn from the province of Leinster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 93], "content_span": [94, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092088-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, The championship, Format, Leinster Championship\nQuarter-finals: (2 matches) The winner of the first-round game joined three other Leinster teams to make up the two quarter-final pairings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 93], "content_span": [94, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092088-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, The championship, Format, Leinster Championship\nSemi-finals: (2 matches) The winners of the two quarter-finals joined Kilkenny and Wexford, who received a bye to this stage, to make up the semi-final pairings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 93], "content_span": [94, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092088-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, The championship, Format, Leinster Championship\nFinal: (1 match) The winner of the two semi-finals contested this game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 93], "content_span": [94, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092088-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, The championship, Format, All-Ireland Championship\nQuarter-final: (1 match) This was a single match between Antrim and Galway, two teams who faced no competition in their respective provinces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 96], "content_span": [97, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092088-0011-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, The championship, Format, All-Ireland Championship\nSemi-finals: (2 matches) The winner of the lone quarter-final joined London and the Munster and Leinster champions to make up the semi-final pairings. The provincial champions were drawn in opposite semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 96], "content_span": [97, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092088-0012-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, The championship, Format, All-Ireland Championship\nFinal: (1 match) The winner of the two semi-finals contested this game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 96], "content_span": [97, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092088-0013-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Player facts, Debutantes\nThe following players made their d\u00e9but in the 1971 championship:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092088-0014-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Player facts, Retirees\nThe following players played their last game in the 1971 championship:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 68], "content_span": [69, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092089-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final\nThe 1971 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final was the 84th All-Ireland final and the culmination of the 1971 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, an inter-county hurling tournament for the top teams in Ireland. The match took place on 5 September 1971, at Croke Park, Dublin. The match was contested by 1969 winners Kilkenny and 1968 runners-up Tipperary, and it was refereed by Frank Murphy from Cork.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092089-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Background\nThe All-Ireland final was the thirteenth meeting of Kilkenny and Tipperary in a championship decider. Tipperary held the balance of power in all previous meetings between the two, having recorded seven All-Ireland victories to Kilkenny's five. Both sides last met in the All-Ireland final of 1967 when Kilkenny recorded their first championship victory over their nearest neighbours since 1922. Both Tipperary and Kilkenny had dominated hurling throughout the sixties, with Tipp winning All-Ireland titles in 1961, 1962, 1964 and 1965, and Kilkenny claiming the championship in 1963, 1967 and 1969. Moreover, Tipperary had lost back-to-back All-Ireland finals in 1967 and 1968. The thought of losing a third championship decider on-the-trot proved a great motivation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 62], "content_span": [63, 830]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092089-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Background\nIn 1970 Cork triumphed over Wexford in the All-Ireland final to claim their 21st and draw level with Tipperary at the top of hurling's roll of honour. A victory for Tipp would put them one title ahead yet again, while a victory for Kilkenny would give them their 18th All-Ireland title and would narrow the gap between them and the other two big teams in hurling's trinity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 62], "content_span": [63, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092089-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Pre-match, Referee\nCork-based referee Frank Murphy was named as the referee for the 1971 All-Ireland final on 30 August 1971. His only experience in a national senior final was the National Hurling League final between Tipperary and Limerick the previous May. Twenty-seven-year-old Murphy, a former teacher and now a regional manager in Cork for an American publishing company, has been refereeing for ten years, having started his career in the Blackrock street leagues. He is currently the secretary of the Blackrock club and its representative on the Cork County Board.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 70], "content_span": [71, 624]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092089-0003-0001", "contents": "1971 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Pre-match, Referee\nHe has officiated at county finals all over the southern province but became prominent on the inter-county scene in 1970 when he officiated in two Munster championship matches. Earlier in 1971 Murphy was appointed to the Central Council refereeing panel and, following a competent display in the league decider, took charge of the Munster decider between Tipperary and Limerick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 70], "content_span": [71, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092089-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Pre-match, Referee\nMurphy's umpires for the final were J. Duggan, M. J. 'Inky' Flaherty (both Galway), E. Devlin (Tyrone) and D. Anglin (Antrim). Flaherty played with Galway for nearly two decades and was a distinguished referee in his own right, having taken charge of the 1949 All-Ireland final between Tipperary and Laois.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 70], "content_span": [71, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092089-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Pre-match, Wedding\nOn 28 August 1971, just one week before the All-Ireland final, Tipperary's John Flanagan married Margaret Gleeson in the Church of the Sacred Heart, Gortnahoe, County Tipperary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 70], "content_span": [71, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092089-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Broadcasting\nThe All-Ireland final was broadcast in Ireland by RT\u00c9 with Michael O'Hehir providing the commentary. The programme ran from 1.20pm until 5.10pm and included basic coverage of both the All-Ireland minor and senior finals. Following on from RT\u00c9's broadcast of the 1971 Eurovision Song Contest in colour, this became the first All-Ireland final to be broadcast live in colour. The senior final was also broadcast live on Radio \u00c9ireann.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 64], "content_span": [65, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092089-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Match, First half\nThe opening forty minutes proved to be a dour battle, characterised by close marking and a lack of free-flowing hurling. Tipperary played with a strong breeze and defended the Railway end. They also had to contend with playing into a blazing sub. Tipp's Francis Loughnane opened the scoring after just three minutes when he captured the first two points of the day. What followed for the next fifteen minutes was a series of tit-for-tat scores, with no side building up a huge lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 69], "content_span": [70, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092089-0007-0001", "contents": "1971 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Match, First half\nAfter nineteen minutes Tipperary's Noel O'Dwyer scored the first goal of the match, a shot from long range that travelled along the ground. Kilkenny's Eddie Keher brought his team back into contention just a minute later when he blasted a 21-yards free straight into te net for Kilkenny's opening goal of the game. Just two minutes later John Flanagan capitalised on a shrewd pass from Roger Ryan to shoot Tipperary's second goal. A stalemate developed following this score, however, Keher tapped over another point for 'the Cats' eight minutes later. With just a minute left to play Mossy Murphy shot Kilkenny's second goal after being put in possession by Pat Delaney. Loughnane bookended the opening half when he scored the last point before the short whistle, giving Tipperary a 2-10 to 2-4 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 69], "content_span": [70, 870]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092089-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Match, Second half\nKilkenny started the second period of play with two quick points by Eddie Keher. Michael 'Babs' Keating replied in kind for Tipp, however, in the forty-fifth minute Ned Byrne flicked home a Kilkenny goal after a lob from the right by Martin Brennan. Less than two minutes later a S\u00e9amus Hogan shot hit the upright and Roger Ryan goaled for Tipperary on the rebound. The Munster champions failed to capitalise on this and Eddie Keher scored three more points inside four minutes. A fourth unanswered point by Mossy Murphy brought Kilkenny within one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 70], "content_span": [71, 620]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092089-0008-0001", "contents": "1971 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Match, Second half\nTipperary stretched out their lead to three points with a succession of points, however, this lead was short-lived as Kieran Purcell brought Kilkenny back on level terms, 4-11 to 3-14, with a goal. After more than an hour of hurling played at this stage Frank Cummins stepped up with a point to give Kilkenny the lead for the first time in the match. Four minutes later Tipperary were back in front when Roger Ryan turned a free from Mick Roche into the Kilkenny net. Tipperary heaped on more punishment and stretched the lead with three more unanswered points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 70], "content_span": [71, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092089-0008-0002", "contents": "1971 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Match, Second half\nBy this stage 'Babs' Keating had thrown off his boots and socks and was roaming around midfield in his bare feet. He sent a long ball into Dinny Ryan who sealed the game with Tipperary's fifth and final goal of the day. Kilkenny's Eddie Keher refused to give up and goaled a 21-yards free with just two minutes remaining. On the stroke of full-time Keher pointed again for Kilkenny and brought his own tally to 2-11. It was too late as Tipperary sealed a three-point victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 70], "content_span": [71, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092090-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship\nThe 1971 All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship was the eighth staging of the All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship since its establishment by the Gaelic Athletic Association in 1964.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092090-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship\nOn 19 September 1971, Cork won the championship following a 3-10 to 0-3 defeat of Fermanagh in the All-Ireland final. This was their second All-Ireland title overall and their second in succession.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092091-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship\nThe 1971 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship was the eighth staging of Ireland's hurling knock-out competition for players aged between 18 and 21. Cork won the championship, beating Wexford 7-8 to 1-11 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092091-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship, The championship, Format, All-Ireland Championship\nSemi-finals: (2 matches) The three provincial winners join Galway to make up the four semi-finalists. The pairings are Munster v Ulster and Leinster v Galway. Two teams are eliminated at this stage while two teams advance to the All-Ireland final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 98], "content_span": [99, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092091-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship, The championship, Format, All-Ireland Championship\nFinal: (1 match) The winners of the two semi-finals contest the All-Ireland final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 98], "content_span": [99, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092091-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship, Championship statistics, Miscellaneous\n4 goals in a final and 4 goals and a point in semi-final at U21 by John (Rocky) Rothwell are high scoring records which still stand as of 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 86], "content_span": [87, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092092-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship Final\nThe 1971 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship final was a hurling match that was played at Walsh Park, Waterford on 12 September 1971 to determine the winners of the 1971 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship, the 8th season of the All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship, a tournament organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association for the champion teams of the four provinces of Ireland. The final was contested by Cork of Munster and Wexford of Leinster, with Cork winning by 7-8 to 1-11.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092092-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship Final\nThe All-Ireland final between Cork and Wexford was their seventh championship meeting. Cork were hoping to win their fifth title over all and an unprecedented fourth All-Ireland title in-a-row. Wexford were hoping to win their second All-Ireland title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092092-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship Final\nCork's All-Ireland victory was their fifth in six years. The victory also secured a fourth successive All-Ireland title, a record which still stands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092092-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship Final\nWexford's run of bad luck in All-Ireland finals continued. After winning their sole title in 1965, defeat in 1971 marked their fourth loss in an All-Ireland decider since that victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092093-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Pacific-8 Conference football team\nThe 1971 All-Pacific-8 Conference football team consists of American football players chosen for All-Pacific-8 Conference teams for the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. The team was selected by the conference's eight head\u00a0coaches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092094-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Pro Team\nThe following is a list of players that were named to the Associated Press All-Pro Team, the Newspaper Enterprise Association All-Pro team and the Pro Football Writers Association, and Pro Football Weekly All-Pro teams in 1971. Both first- and second- teams are listed for the NEA, and PFWA teams. These are the four All-Pro teams that are included in the Total Football II: The Official Encyclopedia of the National Football League and compose the Consensus All-pro team for 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092095-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 All-SEC football team\nThe 1971 All-SEC football team consists of American football players selected to the All-Southeastern Conference (SEC) chosen by various selectors for the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. Alabama won the conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092095-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 All-SEC football team, Key\nBold = Consensus first-team selection by both AP and UPI", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 31], "content_span": [32, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092096-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Southwest Conference football team\nThe 1971 All-Southwest Conference football team consists of American football players chosen by various organizations for All-Southwest Conference teams for the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. The selectors for the 1971 season included the Associated Press (AP).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092096-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 All-Southwest Conference football team, Key\nCFHOF = Player inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 48], "content_span": [49, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092097-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Allan Cup\nThe 1971 Allan Cup was the Canadian national senior ice hockey championship for the 1970-71 Senior \"A\" season. The event was hosted by the Galt Hornets and Galt, Ontario. The 1971 playoff marked the 63rd time that the Allan Cup has been awarded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092098-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Allsvenskan, Overview\nThe league was contested by 12 teams, with Malm\u00f6 FF winning the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 26], "content_span": [27, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092099-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Amateur World Series\nThe 1971 Amateur World Series was the 19th Amateur World Series (AWS), an international men's amateur baseball tournament. The tournament was sanctioned by the International Baseball Federation (which titled it the Baseball World Cup as of the 1988 tournament). The tournament took place, for the seventh time, in Cuba, and was won by the host Cuba national baseball team, their 11th title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092100-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 American League Championship Series\nThe 1971 American League Championship Series was a matchup between the East Division Champion Baltimore Orioles and the West Division Champion Oakland Athletics. The Orioles swept the A's in three games, despite the fact that each team had won 101 games. The Orioles won their third consecutive pennant in the process, but lost the 1971 World Series to the Pittsburgh Pirates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092100-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 American League Championship Series\nThis was the first of ten ALCS series between 1971 and 1981 that featured either the Oakland Athletics or the Kansas City Royals. The only time neither team appeared in the ALCS during that period was in 1979.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092100-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 1\nDave McNally, a 20-game winner for the fourth season in a row, survived a rocky start to win the opener. He trailed, 3\u20130, after four innings pitched, giving up three doubles and a triple. The A's had McNally tottering in the second inning. With two runs home, a runner on second and none out, second baseman Dick Green came to bat. It was at this point that A's manager Dick Williams made the first of several ultra-cautious moves which were to fuel criticism of his playoff strategy. He ordered Green to sacrifice, which put runner Dave Duncan on third with one out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092100-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 1\nThe next batter was Blue, whose bunting ability is well known, Vida tried to squeeze the run home, But the O's had guessed correctly on what was coming. McNally pitched out and Duncan was nailed in a rundown. Blue proceeded to strike out, and the A's splurge was over. McNally gave up another run in the fourth, but that ended the A's scoring forays. Meanwhile, 24-game winner Blue yielded just one run and three hits during the first six innings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092100-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 1\nHowever, disaster overtook Vida in the very next frame. Frank Robinson led off with a walk and Boog Powell struck out. Brooks Robinson's single sent Frank Robinson to second, after which Andy Etchebarren's fly to right advanced Frank Robinson to third. Now there were runners on first and third with two down, and Blue appeared likely to quell the flurry without damage. After all, he'd beaten the O's twice in two tries during the season. And the next hitter was shortstop Mark Belanger, hardly a nemesis to any pitcher. But Belanger rifled a single to center to score Frank Robinson and ignite thunderous cheering from the crowd of 42,621.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 706]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092100-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 1\nThen Curt Motton, pinch-hitter hero of a '69 Oriole playoff victory (Game 2) over Minnesota, stepped up to bat for McNally. Curt slammed a double to the left-field corner, plating Brooks Robinson and tying the score. Center fielder Paul Blair followed with the blow that doomed Blue, a two-run double to left. Reliever Eddie Watt blanked the A's the last two innings and Oakland was one game down. Skipper Williams was subjected to further sharpshooting for his failure to remove Blue, or even visit the mound, during the seventh-inning barrage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092100-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 1\nDave Johnson's error in the sixth inning was the only miscue between both teams in the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092100-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 2\nCatfish Hunter held Baltimore to seven hits, but unfortunately for him, four of them were home runs. Boog Powell walloped two, Brooks Robinson and Elrod Hendricks the others. Cuellar displayed his usual pitching artistry, a baffling assortment of curves and change-ups which the A's solve for a mere six hits.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092100-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 2\nTypical of the A's super-cautious approach to their task was an incident in the sixth inning when they were trailing, 2\u20131. Reggie Jackson led off against Cuellar with a double. Cleanup hitter Tommy Davis was up next and to the surprise of everyone in the park, he bunted. The next two hitters were easy outs. Davis' sacrifice, it turned out, was not ordered by Williams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092100-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 3\nJim Palmer's performance in the deciding game was not among his most noteworthy\u2014he permitted three home runs, two of them by the slugging Jackson and the other by Sal Bando. But all three shots were struck with the bases empty, and Palmer had more than enough to pitch Baltimore's pennant clincher for the third straight year. Loser of his only two starts against Baltimore during the season, Diego Segui reached the fifth inning of Game\u00a03 with the score 1\u20131. Then he met his \"Waterloo\". The crusher was Brooks Robinson's two-run single. It came after Williams ordered an intentional pass to Hendricks. loading the bases.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 686]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092100-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 3\nBando's homer cut the A's deficit to 3\u20132 in the sixth. But in the seventh, Frank Robinson's double and Darold Knowles' wild pitch put Baltimore out of danger. The Orioles collected 12 hits off Segui and his four successors, with Don Buford's triple and two singles leading the way.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092101-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 American Soccer League\nIn the 1971 American Soccer League II, the New York Greeks were the champions. After the season, Virginia Capitol moved to Washington, and Syracuse folded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092101-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 American Soccer League, League standings\nError in table: 23 total wins\u00a0!= 21 total losses", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092102-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Amstel Gold Race\nThe 1971 Amstel Gold Race (held Sunday March 28, 1971) was the sixth edition of the annual road bicycle race \"Amstel Gold Race\". It was held in the Dutch provinces of Limburg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092102-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Amstel Gold Race\nThe race stretched 233 kilometres, starting in Heerlen and finishing in Meerssen. There were a total of 123 competitors, and 47 cyclists finished the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092103-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Anglo-American Match Races\nThe 1971 Anglo-American Match Races was the inaugural running of the Anglo-American Match Races (renamed Transatlantic Trophy in 1972), an annual series of motorcycle races between the United Kingdom and America which were held from 1971 to 1988 and again in 1991. The match was held 9-12 April 1971 (Easter weekend) with rounds at Brands Hatch, Mallory Park and Oulton Park. The event was heavily sponsored by BSA/Triumph. They also supplied the 750 cc racing triples that the riders competed on. The motorcycles were to AMA/F750 specification. Most of the competitors were work BSA/Triumph works riders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092103-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Anglo-American Match Races\nThe UK won all the races and the series 183-137. Ray Pickrell and Paul Smart won three races each and were the top scorers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092103-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Anglo-American Match Races, Background\nBritish journalists, Gavin Trippe and Bruce Cox, ran California based Motor Cycle Weekly and promoted motorcycle races in the US. The pair were keen to promote American racers in the UK. They met with Chris Lowe of Motor Circuit Developments (MCD), who ran Brands Hatch, Oulton Park and Mallory Park circuits, and Jim Swift of the British Motorcycle Racing Club at the 1970 Daytona 200 and the plan for the Transatlantic Trophy was formulated. Ron Grant, the leader of the US Suzuki team supported the scheme. Lowe approached BSA/Triumph who agreed to supply 750 cc racing triples for the riders and to financially support the series out of their $2 million racing budget for 1970/71.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 728]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092103-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Anglo-American Match Races, Format\nThe event consisted of three rounds over the Easter weekend at different tracks: Brands Hatch (9 April - Good Friday), Mallory Park (11 April - Easter Sunday) and Oulton Park (12 April - Easter Monday) Each round consisted of two 12 lap races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092103-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Anglo-American Match Races, Format\nEach team consisted of 5 riders. The Americans had a squad of six riders team so not all riders could compete in every race. However, American captain Gary Nixon fell in practice two days before the first race and broke his wrist so was unable to ride in any of the races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092103-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Anglo-American Match Races, Format\nPoints were awarded for each race, the winner receiving 10 points, 2nd place points etc down to 1 point for 10th place. Prize money was also awarded for each race with the winner receiving \u00a3150 down to \u00a315 for 10th place. A bonus of \u00a350 was given to the rider who had set the fastest lap over the series. The total prize fund was \u00a35,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092103-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Anglo-American Match Races, Teams, America\nGene Romero, the current A.M.A. Grand National Champion and runner-up at the 1971 Daytona 200 was to have led the US team but withdrew.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092103-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Anglo-American Match Races, Teams, Britain\nThe home team had the advantage of knowing the tracks that were to be used and also in the nature of the circuits. The American riders were more used to dirt tracks, ovals and road races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092103-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Anglo-American Match Races, Motorcycles\nIn September 1969 Triumph\u2019s chief development engineer, Doug Hele, suggested the factory should switch its emphasis from production racing to the new F750 open class that was being suggested. Acting on his suggestion, BSA-Triumph announced it would develop its 750cc Rocket III and Trident triples for this series. The factory worked against the clock to get machines ready for the 1970 Daytona race. The factory failed to get results in Daytona due to unreliability.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092103-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 Anglo-American Match Races, Motorcycles\nThe factory had entered 10 riders for the 1971 Daytona race. A new specification machine had been developed. At Percy Tait's suggestion Rob North had built a new frame for the triples changing the steering head angle angle by 2 degrees to 28 degrees. Shorter forks were fitted, the engine moved forwards and upwards by 40 mm to put more load on the front wheel and increase ground clearance. This shortened the wheel base and a longer swing arm fitted to compensate. This was known as the lowboy frame. The engines were also modified to produce slightly more power. Disc brakes were fitted to the front wheel. Only four of the new machines were available which were allocated to Gene Romero, Paul Smart, Dick Mann and Mike Hailwood. Mann won the race with BSA/Triumph taking the top three places.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 841]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092103-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 Anglo-American Match Races, Motorcycles\nThe machines were airfreighted in from Daytona and Smart and Hailwood's bikes converted to short-circuit specification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092103-0011-0000", "contents": "1971 Anglo-American Match Races, Motorcycles\nSmart used his Daytona bike for the matches, Ray Pickrell used Hailwood's Daytona machine and the other three members of the British team had new \"lowboy\" machines. Mann used his lowboy Daytona machine and Gary Nixon Romero's machine. The rest of the American team used the older spec machines, although, with the exception of Jim Rice's machine, they had been fitted with disc brakes. All the American machines were fitted with the larger Daytona tank and seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092103-0012-0000", "contents": "1971 Anglo-American Match Races, Motorcycles\nThe disparity between the two teams' bikes led to claims that the Americans were disadvantaged. Don Emde is quoted as saying \u201cWe got beaten so badly that it was close to an ambush situation, but we gave it a good shot, and if we had all been on the same bikes as Pickrell, Smart and Cooper, it would have been closer.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092103-0013-0000", "contents": "1971 Anglo-American Match Races, Races, Brands Hatch\nThe race started on a damp but drying track. Pickrell took the lead from the start and led the whole race. Smart had a slow start as he was still adjusting his helmet when the flag dropped, but recovered to take second place. Mann was the highest placed American in third place. Cooper seemed to be struggling, possible due to a recent injury, and finished last.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092103-0014-0000", "contents": "1971 Anglo-American Match Races, Races, Brands Hatch\nPickrell soon took the lead and maintained it to the finish, equalling Phil Read's lap record in the process. Smart was again second. Americans Castro and Mann finished third and fourth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092103-0015-0000", "contents": "1971 Anglo-American Match Races, Races, Mallory Park\nCastro took the lead from the start but slid on oil and several riders passed him. Tait slid off at the hairpin and a lap later Smart did the same, breaking a finger. Castro retired with a broken conrod. Pickrell made it a hat-trick of wins, with Cooper, who had recovered some form, second. Mann finished third and Jefferies fourth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092103-0016-0000", "contents": "1971 Anglo-American Match Races, Races, Mallory Park\nJefferies had wrecked his bike whilst taking part in the \"Unlimited\" race that was also on the programme, so only 9 riders took the start for the second match race. Tait retired with engine problems giving Smart the win and Pickerell second. Cooper finished third and equalled the Hailwood's lap record that had been set on a works Honda RC166 six.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092103-0017-0000", "contents": "1971 Anglo-American Match Races, Races, Oulton Park\nEmde and Castro got good starts and led the pack away only to be passed by Smart by the end of the first lap. As the race progressed Pickrell, Cooper and Mann passed the pair. Castro fell off on the last lap but remounted and finished last.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 51], "content_span": [52, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092103-0018-0000", "contents": "1971 Anglo-American Match Races, Races, Oulton Park\nMann took the lead from the start but was passed by Smart on lap 2. Mann defended successfully against Cooper and Pickrell to retain second place. Pickrell came off in the closing stages of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 51], "content_span": [52, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092103-0019-0000", "contents": "1971 Anglo-American Match Races, Races, Results\nBritain won all three rounds and the series 183 points to 137 points. Ray Pickrell and Paul Smart won three races each and were joint top individual scorers with American Dick Mann third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092104-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Anglo-Italian Cup\nThe 1971 Anglo-Italian Cup was the second staging of the annual association football tournament. It featured twelve teams \u2014 six from England and six from Italy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092104-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Anglo-Italian Cup\nThe competition started on 26 May 1971 and concluded on 12 June 1971 with Blackpool beating Bologna 2\u20131 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092104-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Anglo-Italian Cup, Details\nThe twelve teams were divided into three groups of four teams \u2014 two from England and two from Italy. Each team plays the two foreign teams twice, home and away. The teams are then ranked against teams in their own country in a league, and the top-ranked teams from each country play off in a final for the trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 31], "content_span": [32, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092104-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Anglo-Italian Cup, Final rankings\nTotal points are determined by points gained plus goals scored. (NB: two points for a win).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 38], "content_span": [39, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092105-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Antiguan general election\nGeneral elections were held in Antigua and Barbuda on 11 February 1971. They were won by the Progressive Labour Movement. PLM leader George Walter was elected Premier of Antigua, defeating the incumbent Premier Vere Bird of the Antigua Labour Party. The PLM was founded in 1967 after a split in the leadership of the Antigua Trades and Labour Union; this was its first election, as well as its first and only electoral victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092105-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Antiguan general election\nThe 1971 election marked the first change of government in the history of Antigua and Barbuda. It was the first election held in the territory since its creation as a West Indies Associated State in 1967 and the end of its period under British colonial rule. Voter turnout was 56.4%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092106-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Aral smallpox incident\nThe Aral smallpox incident was a 30 July 1971 outbreak of the viral disease which occurred as a result of a field test at a Soviet biological weapons (BW) facility on an island in the Aral Sea. The incident sickened ten people, of whom three died, and came to widespread public notice only in 2002.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092106-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Aral smallpox incident, Background\nIn 1954, an existing biological weapons test site originally constructed on Vozrozhdeniya Island in the Aral Sea in 1948 was greatly expanded by the Soviet Ministry of Defence, including to the neighboring Komsomolskiy Island, and named Aralsk-7. A field scientific research laboratory to conduct biological experiments was expanded, and the town of Kantubek was constructed to house employees and scientists. Bio-agents tested there included Bacillus anthracis, Coxiella burnetii, Francisella tularensis, Brucella suis, Rickettsia prowazekii, Variola major (smallpox), Yersinia pestis, botulinum toxin, and Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus. (By 1960, the Soviet biological weapons program also included numerous other research and operational facilities throughout the country.) Aralsk-7 had a history of association with mass deaths of fish, various regional plague outbreaks, a saiga antelope die-off, and individual cases of infectious disease among visitors to Vozrozhdeniya Island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 1031]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092106-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Aral smallpox incident, Background\nAfter the Soviet Union ceased to exist, the island became joint territory of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092106-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Aral smallpox incident, The incident\nAccording to Soviet General Pyotr Burgasov (Peter Burgasov), field testing of 400 grams of smallpox at Aralsk-7 caused an outbreak on 30 July 1971. Burgasov, former Chief Sanitary Physician of the Soviet Army, former Soviet Vice-Minister of Health and a senior researcher within the Soviet BW program, described the incident:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092106-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Aral smallpox incident, The incident\nOn Vozrozhdeniya Island in the Aral Sea, the strongest recipes of smallpox were tested. Suddenly I was informed that there were mysterious cases of mortalities in Aralsk (Aral). A research ship [the Lev Berg] of the Aral fleet came to within 15\u00a0km of the island (it was forbidden to come any closer than 40\u00a0km). The lab technician of this ship took samples of plankton twice a day from the top deck. The smallpox formulation\u2014400 gr. of which was exploded on the island\u2014\"got her\" and she became infected. After returning home to Aralsk, she infected several people including children.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 625]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092106-0004-0001", "contents": "1971 Aral smallpox incident, The incident\nAll of them died. I suspected the reason for this and called the Chief of General Staff of Ministry of Defense and requested to forbid the stop of the Alma-Ata-Moscow train in Aralsk. As a result, the epidemic around the country was prevented. I called [future Soviet General Secretary Yuri] Andropov, who at that time was Chief of KGB, and informed him of the exclusive recipe of smallpox obtained on Vozrazhdenie Island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092106-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Aral smallpox incident, The incident\nThere is a contending belief that the disease actually spread to the Lev Berg from Uyaly or Komsomolsk-on-Ustyurt, two cities in what is now Uzbekistan where the ship docked.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092106-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Aral smallpox incident, The incident\nThe incident caused ten individuals to contract smallpox and three unvaccinated individuals (a woman and two children) died from the haemorrhagic form of the disease. One crew member of the Lev Berg contracted smallpox as the ship passed within 15\u00a0km (9 miles) of the island. This crew member became ill on 6 August with fever, headache, and myalgia. The ship then landed in the port city of Aral on 11 August. The ill crew member returned to her home, and she developed a cough and temperature exceeding 38.9\u00a0\u00b0C (102\u00a0\u00b0F). Her physician prescribed antibiotics and aspirin. Although she was previously vaccinated for smallpox, a rash subsequently appeared on her back, face, and scalp; her fever subsided; and she recovered by 15 August. On 27 August this patient's 9-year-old brother developed a rash and fever, his pediatrician prescribed tetracycline and aspirin, and he recovered.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 925]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092106-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Aral smallpox incident, The incident\nDuring the following three weeks, eight additional cases of fever and rash occurred in Aral. Five adults ranging in age from 23 to 60, and three children (4 and 9 months old, and a 5-year-old) were diagnosed with smallpox both clinically and by laboratory testing. These children and the 23-year-old were previously unvaccinated. The two youngest children and the 23-year-old subsequently developed the haemorrhagic form of smallpox and died. The remaining individuals had previously been vaccinated, and all recovered after having an attenuated form of the disease.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092106-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Aral smallpox incident, The incident\nThe high ratio of haemorrhagic smallpox cases in this outbreak, combined with the rate of infectivity and the testimony of General Burgasov, has led to the understanding that an enhanced weaponized strain of smallpox virus was released from Aralsk-7 in 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092106-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 Aral smallpox incident, Response\nA massive public health response to the smallpox cases in Aral ensued once the disease was recognized. In less than two weeks, approximately 50,000 residents of Aral were vaccinated. Household quarantine of potentially exposed individuals was enacted, and hundreds were isolated in a makeshift facility at the edge of the city. All traffic in and out of the city was stopped, and approximately 5.000 sq. meter (54.000 sq. ft.) of living space and 18 metric tons of household goods were incinerated by health officials.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092107-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Argentina rugby union tour of South Africa\nThe 1971 Argentina rugby union tour of South Africa was a series of 14 matches played by the Argentina national rugby union team in June and July 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092107-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Argentina rugby union tour of South Africa\nIt was the second tour of Argentinian team in South Africa, six year after the 1965 tour .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092107-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Argentina rugby union tour of South Africa\nThe \"Pumas\" didn't play against Springboks (playing meanwhile in Australia, but against the Gazelles, the selection of emerging young players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092107-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Argentina rugby union tour of South Africa\nOriginally was scheduled also a match in Rhodesia, but it was cancelled after a prohibition of Argentine government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092107-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Argentina rugby union tour of South Africa, Matches\nSouth East Transvall: M.de Pager; B.Strydom, J.Killitan, S.Breytenbach, K.Ferreira; K.Nel, J.Van Zyl; O.Du Preez, L.Luus, J.de Lange; L.Van der Merwe, K.Venter; S.Du Tand, H.Steenkamp (capt. ), J.Taljaard. Argentina:D.Morgan; M.Pascual, R.Matarazzo, A.Travaglini, M.Walther; H.M\u00e9ndez, G.Blacksley; R.Foster, R.Handley, L.Garc\u00eda Y\u00e1\u00f1ez; B.Ota\u00f1o, A.Anthony; M.Morgan, H.Silva (capt. ), N.Carbone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 56], "content_span": [57, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092107-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Argentina rugby union tour of South Africa, Matches\nEastern Orange Free State: G.Kotze: M.Van Rensburg, K.Wessel, P.Pultney, J.Visagie; D.Fourie, Pultney; R.Simes, J.Mintz, T.Human; G.Jordany K.Scheespers; C.Betern, J.Bell, T.Lyell. Argentina:D.Morgan; M.Pascual, J.Walther, A.Travaglini, M.Walther, H.M\u00e9ndez, A.Etchegaray; R.Foster, R.Handley, H.Incola: N.Carbone, B.Ota\u00f1o; A.Anthony, H.Silva (capt. ), J.Wittman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 56], "content_span": [57, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092107-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Argentina rugby union tour of South Africa, Matches\nNorthern Universities: O.de Meyer; A.Millar, D.van Wyk, B.Grace, Ch.Parker; D.Gradwell, J.Osthuizen; R.Portgieter, K.Resnick (capt. ), N.Bezuidenbout; P.Bezuidenbout, T.Bernard; P.Du Pleussis, J.Stofberg, B.Bernardo. Argentina:D.Morgan; E.Morgan, A.Rodr\u00edguez Jurado, A.Travaglini, M.Walther; T.Harris-Smith, A.Etchegaray; R.Foster, R.Handley, L.Garc\u00eda Y\u00e1\u00f1ez; A.Anthony B.Ota\u00f1o; N.Carbone, H.Silva (capt. ), M.Morgan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 56], "content_span": [57, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092107-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Argentina rugby union tour of South Africa, Matches\nSouth African Colleges: J.Sauerman; G.Germisius, J.Croftd-Jones, J.de Vos, Jan Pretorius; C.Classen, B.Wolmarans; R.van der Merwe, J.Wagenaer, R.Marchant; C.Knoetze, P.Clarke; J.Joubert, J.Kleingeld, M.Kocket. Argentina:R.Espagnol; M.Pascual, A.Rodr\u00edguez Jurado, J.Walther, A.Travaglini; T.Harris-Smith, G.Blaksley; H.Incola, J.Constante, R.Foster, A.Anthony, B.Ota\u00f1o; H.Miguens, H.Silva (capt. ), J.Wittman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 56], "content_span": [57, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092107-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Argentina rugby union tour of South Africa, Matches\nNatal: M.Swanby; R.Pitcher, R.Greyling, P.de Lange, M.Warner; T.Mehrtens, C.Hola; T.Dannahauser, J.Krotzingery R.Steyn (capt. ); M.Van Rensburg, M.Mckenzie; F.Jackson, S.Labuschagno, D.Van der Berg. Argentina:D.Morgan; M.Pascual, R.Matarazzo, A.Travaglini, J.Walther; R.Espagnol, G.Blaksley; J.Wittman, H.Silva (capt. ), N.Carbone; A.Anthony, B.Ota\u00f1o; R.Foster, R.Handley, H.Incola.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 56], "content_span": [57, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092107-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 Argentina rugby union tour of South Africa, Matches\nNorthern Orange Free State: J.Louw; F.Aucamp; B.Harris, D.Boytma, W.Armes; F.Froneman; J.van Eevter; H.Boerseun Roux, W.Potgieter; E.Kapp, J.Vandenberg; H.Fourie.B.Colette, J.Tredoux. Argentina:D.Morgan; M.Pascual, J.Walther, R.Matarazzo, E.Morgan; R.Espagnol ya.Etchegaray; M.Morgan, H.Silva (capt. ), J.Wittman; A.Anthony, J.Fern\u00e1ndez; A.Orz\u00e1bal, R.Handley, L.Garc\u00eda Y\u00e1\u00f1ez", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 56], "content_span": [57, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092107-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 Argentina rugby union tour of South Africa, Matches\nGazelles: J.van Deventer; T.Du Toit, A.Swartz, A.van Staden, L.Vogel; J.Barnard, C.Hola; B.Neetling, J.Wagenaar, R.Potgieter; J.Jamneck, J.van Aswegen; M.van Resnburg, P.vanDeventer, C.Grobler. Argentina:D.Morgan; M.Pascual, R.Matarazzo, A.Rodr\u00edguez Jurado, A.Travaglini; R.Espagnol, G.Blaksley; H.Silva (capt. ), J.Wittman, N.Carbone; B.Ota\u00f1o, A.Anthony; R.Foster, R.Handley, L.Garc\u00eda Y\u00e1\u00f1ez.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 56], "content_span": [57, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092107-0011-0000", "contents": "1971 Argentina rugby union tour of South Africa, Matches\nSouth Western Districts: G.Kok; J.Bester, F.Stander, F.van Zyl, H.Faricius; S.de Oplesis, S.Bradley; P.Carstens, H.Vester, L.Du Toit; T.van der Westhuizen, J.Swec, C.Pretorius, S.Jonker. Argentina:D.Morgan; M.Walther, A.Travaglini, A.Rodr\u00edguez Jurado, M.Pascual; T.Harris-Smith, A.Etchegaray; R.Foster, J.Constante, H.Incola; M.Morgan, B.Ota\u00f1o; L.Garc\u00eda Y\u00e1\u00f1ez, H.Silva (capt. ), J.Wittman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 56], "content_span": [57, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092107-0012-0000", "contents": "1971 Argentina rugby union tour of South Africa, Matches\nSouth Africa CD: A.Joubet; O.Fourie, B.Swartz, K.Walkdeck, P.Ackerman; L.Gerber, F.Duplessis; D.van der Merwe, D.Slabbert, D.Coleshan; B.Stander, K.Engelbrecht; J.Kritzinger, B.Jamneck, D.Vorster. Argentina:D.Morgan; M.Pascual, A.Travaglini, A.Rodr\u00edguez Jurado, M.Walther; T.Harris-Smith, A.Etchegaray; H.Silva (capt. ), M.Morgan, J.Wittman; A.Anthony, B.Ota\u00f1o; R.Foster, R.Handley, L.Garc\u00eda Y\u00e1\u00f1ez.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 56], "content_span": [57, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092107-0013-0000", "contents": "1971 Argentina rugby union tour of South Africa, Matches\nSouthern Universities: R.Carlson; P.Berning, J.Snyman, J.van der Merwe, J.Engelbrecht (capt. ); J.Nel, F.de Villiers; R.Bryant, B.Butler, R.Stader; J.Le Roux, G.Watt; F.Burger, B.Cohetes, P.Le Roux. Argentina:D.Morgan; M.Pascual, A.Travaglini, J.Walther, M.Walther; T.Harris-Smith, A.Etchegaray, H.Silva (capt. ), M.Morgan, J.Wittman; A.Anthony, B.Ota\u00f1o; R.Foster, R.Handley, L.Garc\u00eda Y\u00e1\u00f1ez", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 56], "content_span": [57, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092107-0014-0000", "contents": "1971 Argentina rugby union tour of South Africa, Matches\nNorth west Cape: Ch.Husamen; P.Maas, K.de Jong, J.Kotze, A.van Tonder; L.Harvey, T.van Zyl; N.De Pager; D.Herman, T.Kamfer; J.Niewoudt, H.Engelbrech (capt. ); M.Vincent, V.Hanekom, B.Young.Argentina:H.Silva (capt. ); E.Morgan, G.Blacksley, J.Wittman, N.Carbone; A. Anthony, J.Fern\u00e1ndez; H.Incola, U.Constante, R.Foster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 56], "content_span": [57, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092107-0015-0000", "contents": "1971 Argentina rugby union tour of South Africa, Matches\nArgentina:D.Morgan; M.Walther, A.Rodr\u00edguez Jurado, G.Blacksley, N.P\u00e9rez; R.Espagnol, A.Etchegaray; N.Carbone, H.Miguens, M.Morgan; J.Fern\u00e1ndez, A.Orz\u00e1bal; H.Incola, J.Constante, L.Garc\u00eda Y\u00e1\u00f1ez", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 56], "content_span": [57, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092107-0016-0000", "contents": "1971 Argentina rugby union tour of South Africa, Matches\nGazelles: J.van Deventer; D.Svodoba, R.Swartz, T.Symons, A.Leter; D.Svodoba, R.Holm; T.Neetling (capt. ), J.Wagenaar, D.Coleshaw; P.van Devente, J.van Aswegen; M.van Rensburg, K.van Dyck, K.Grobler. Argentina:D.Morgan; M.Walther, A.Rodr\u00edguez Jurado, A.Travaglini, M.Pascual; T.Harris, A.Etchegaray; H.Silva (capt. ), J.Wittman, M.Morgan; A.Anthony, J.Fern\u00e1ndez; R.Foster, R.Handley, H.Incola.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 56], "content_span": [57, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092107-0017-0000", "contents": "1971 Argentina rugby union tour of South Africa, Matches\nGriqualand West: T.Smith; O.Fourie, B.Swartz, K.Waldeck, J.Lategan; P.Visagie, J.Viljoen; B.Fourie, D.Slabbert, S.Nel; P.Smith, J.Theron; V.Schnetler, P.van Deventer, D.Vorster. Argentina:D.Morgan; M.Pascual, A.Travaglini, R.Matarazzo, M.Walther; T.Harris-Smith, A.Etchegaray; H.Silva (capt. ), H.Miguens, J.Wittman; B.Ota\u00f1o, L.Garc\u00eda Y\u00e1\u00f1ez; R.Foster, R.Handley, H.Incola", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 56], "content_span": [57, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092108-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Argentine Grand Prix\nThe 1971 Argentine Grand Prix was a motor race consisting of a Formula One class and a Formula 5000 class, held at the Buenos Aires circuit in Buenos Aires on 24 January 1971. The Formula One class was not part of the FIA Formula One World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092108-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Argentine Grand Prix\nThis event was held because at that time the FIA regulations required a demonstration race to be held as a quality check, before a Grand Prix could be admitted as part of the World Championship. The race was run over two heats of 50 laps each, the final results being an aggregate of the two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092108-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Argentine Grand Prix\nScuderia Ferrari had entered three cars for this event, but they were withdrawn after the fatal accident suffered by Ignazio Giunti in a sports car race two weeks previously. Jean-Pierre Beltoise was also involved in that accident, and as a consequence had his international license suspended, and was unable to compete.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092108-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Argentine Grand Prix, Heat one\nRolf Stommelen won the first heat, leading from the start, from Jo Siffert in second place. Siffert had held off the rest of the field, with Chris Amon passing Reine Wisell before duelling with Henri Pescarolo for third place. The Frenchman won this battle to take third at the finish, with Amon, Wisell and Carlos Reutemann rounding out the top six. Emerson Fittipaldi lost a nose fin and had to pit for a new one, losing three laps. He eventually finished 10th. The retirements were all F5000 cars, namely Jo Bonnier's Lola, which pulled off with a flat battery, and Marincovich's McLaren and Garcia-Veiga's Surtees, which both suffered mechanical failures. Wisell posted the fastest lap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 726]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092108-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Argentine Grand Prix, Heat two\nThe grid for heat two was decided by the finishing order from the first heat, with Greg Young taking over Marincovich's car. At the start, Siffert pulled away from Stommelen to take the lead. Amon quickly passed Reutemann and Pescarolo to move into third place, but he caught Stommelen just as the German was trying to pass Siffert. Amon and Stommelen collided and Stommelen's Surtees went off the track, causing gearbox damage which soon proved to be terminal. Shortly afterwards, Amon passed Siffert for the lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092108-0004-0001", "contents": "1971 Argentine Grand Prix, Heat two\nDuring the next two laps, Siffert was also passed by Pescarolo, Reutemann, Derek Bell's March and Wilson Fittipaldi's Lotus. Wisell pitted with handling problems, and Silvio Moser finally started the race after extensive engine work being performed in the pits, meaning he missed the start. Wilson Fittipaldi then retired on lap 21 with engine failure, and Wisell and Moser also retired. Bell passed Reutemann but retired after that with another engine failure. Siffert had also retired his March with broken suspension. Amon won the heat by 22 seconds from Pescarolo, and this margin gave him the overall victory, his only win of the season. He also posted the fastest lap of the heat, which was the overall fastest lap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 757]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092108-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Argentine Grand Prix, Classification\nNote: the classification was determined using the sum of the times obtained in the two heats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092109-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n\nThe 1971 Primera Divisi\u00f3n season was the 80th season of top-flight football in Argentina, with Independiente (10th title) winning the Metropolitano and Rosario Central (1st title) winning the Nacional championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092110-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Arizona State Sun Devils football team\nThe 1971 Arizona State Sun Devils football team represented Arizona State University in the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. The offense scored 462 points while the defense allowed 201 points. Led by head coach Frank Kush, the Sun Devils won the Fiesta Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092110-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Arizona State Sun Devils football team, 1972 NFL Draft\nThe following players were claimed in the 1972 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 59], "content_span": [60, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092111-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Arizona Wildcats football team\nThe 1971 Arizona Wildcats football team represented the University of Arizona in the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. In their third season under head coach Bob Weber, the Wildcats compiled a 5\u20136 record (3\u20133 against WAC opponents), finished in third place in the WAC, and were outscored by their opponents, 232 to 191. The team played its home games in Arizona Stadium in Tucson, Arizona.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092111-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Arizona Wildcats football team\nThe team's statistical leaders included Bill Demory with 1,384 passing yards, Bob McCall with 525 rushing yards, and Charlie McKee with 854 receiving yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092111-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Arizona Wildcats football team\nThis was the first season in which Arizona played eleven regular season games, as the WAC announced plans to expand the regular season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092111-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Washington State\nArizona started the season strong with a win over Washington State and won their first road game since 1968, when they defeated Utah, and breaking a nine-game road losing streak dating back to that season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 69], "content_span": [70, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092111-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Arizona Wildcats football team, Game summaries, Arizona State\nIn the season finale at Arizona State, the Wildcats never stood a chance against the Sun Devils, and were shut out. As of 2021, this remains Arizona State's most recent shutout victory over the Wildcats in Tempe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092112-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Arkansas Razorbacks football team\nThe 1971 Arkansas Razorbacks football team represented the University of Arkansas in the Southwest Conference (SWC) during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. In their 14th year under head coach Frank Broyles, the Razorbacks compiled an 8\u20133\u20131 record (5\u20131\u20131 against SWC opponents), finished in second place behind Texas in the SWC, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 356 to 169. The team finished the season ranked #16 in the final AP Poll and #20 in the final UPI Coaches Poll and went on to lose the 1971 Liberty Bowl to Tennessee by a 14\u201313 score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 619]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092112-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Arkansas Razorbacks football team\nThe Razorbacks assumed the driver's seat for their first trip to the Cotton Bowl Classic since 1965 following a 31-7 rout of archrival Texas in Little Rock, but followed that by losing at home to Texas A&M and tying lowly Rice on the road, allowing the Longhorns to regain the Southwest Conference lead and go on to their fourth consecutive conference championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092112-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Arkansas Razorbacks football team\nKicker Bill McClard was an All American. McClard also averaged 6.5 points per game, the seventh best average nationally. Razorback quarterback Joe Ferguson was eighth in the nation in completions per game, with 14.5. Mike Reppond averaged 5.6 receptions per game, the fourth highest average during 1971. As an offense, Arkansas averaged 211.5 yards per game, the highest in the SWC, and eighth-highest in college football. Arkansas was seventh in total offense, with a total of 4898 yards over 11 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 542]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092112-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Arkansas Razorbacks football team, Liberty Bowl\nThe 1971 Liberty Bowl matched up Arkansas with Tennessee. The Volunteers took the lead first, with a two-yard run by Bill Rudder. The Hogs responded with a 36-yard TD strike from Joe Ferguson to Jim Hodge. Scoring wouldn't resume until the fourth quarter, when Razorback Bill McClard kicked 19- and 30-yard field goals. A third McClard kick was good, set up by Louis Campbell's third interception, but a penalty kept the Hogs off the board a fourth time. Arkansas fumbled at their own 36-yard line, and Tennessee's Curt Watson scored three plays later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 52], "content_span": [53, 605]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092113-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Army Cadets football team\nThe 1971 Army Cadets football team represented the United States Military Academy in the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. In their sixth year under head coach Tom Cahill, the Cadets compiled a 6\u20134 record but were outscored by their opponents by a combined total of 206 to 146. In the annual Army\u2013Navy Game, the Cadets defeated the Midshipmen by a 24 to 23 score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092113-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Army Cadets football team\nNo Army players were selected as first-team players on the 1971 College Football All-America Team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092114-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Arundel and Shoreham by-election\nA by-election for the United Kingdom House of Commons was held in the constituency of Arundel and Shoreham on 1 April 1971, following the death of sitting Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) Henry Kerby.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092114-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Arundel and Shoreham by-election\nIt was successfully held by the new Conservative candidate, Richard Napier Luce.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092115-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Aryamehr Cup\nThe 1971 Aryamehr Cup was a men's professional tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Imperial Country Club in Tehran in Iran. The event was part of the 1971 World Championship Tennis circuit. It was the first edition of the tournament and was held from 10 May through 16 May 1971. Marty Riessen won the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092115-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Aryamehr Cup, Finals, Doubles\nJohn Newcombe / Tony Roche defeated Bob Carmichael / Ray Ruffels 6\u20134, 6\u20137, 6\u20131", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 34], "content_span": [35, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092116-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Ascot state by-election\nA by-election for the seat of Ascot in the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia was held on 13 November 1971. It was triggered by the death of Merv Toms, the serving Labor member and Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, on 8 October 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092116-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Ascot state by-election\nToms' death reduced Labor to a minority government, and David Brand, the opposition leader, threatened to bring on a motion of no confidence. Because of this, the premier, John Tonkin, controversially advised the governor, Sir Douglas Kendrew, to prorogue parliament until the by-election was held. A loss for the Labor Party was considered high unlikely and did not eventuate, although the party did suffer a heavy negative swing of 22.4 points on first preferences. The winning candidate, Mal Bryce, polled 53.4 percent of the vote, while the Liberal candidate, Fred Chaney, polled 41.6 percent of the vote, despite the party not having contested the seat at the 1971 state election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 714]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092116-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Ascot state by-election, Background\nMerv Toms had held Ascot for the Labor Party since the seat's creation at the 1968 state election, and had first been elected to parliament at the 1956 election. He was elected to the speakership after Labor's victory at the 1971 election, and due to the party's one-seat majority had to frequently exercise his casting vote. Toms died in office on 8 October 1971, with the writ for the by-election issued on 14 October and the close of nominations on 21 October. Polling day was on 13 November, with the writ returned on 30 November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092116-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Ascot state by-election, Aftermath\nBryce increased his majority at the 1974 state election, despite the Tonkin government being defeated. He became deputy premier under Brian Burke when Labor returned to power in 1983, serving until his retirement in 1988. Bryce's chief opponent at the by-election, Fred Chaney, was elected to the Senate at the 1974 federal election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092117-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Asheville 300\nThe 1971 Asheville 300 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series racing event that took place on May 21, 1971, at New Asheville Speedway in Asheville, North Carolina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092117-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Asheville 300\nThis race marked the Cup series' return to New Asheville Speedway after an absence of just under three years but it would be the series' final race here as the trimmed down schedule in 1972 eliminated this event. Richard Petty won the prior race in 1968 and won again here with little challenge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092117-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Asheville 300, Race report\nSeventeen drivers started the race; seven of them parked over the course of the race (including tenth-place finisher Bill Shirey), due to concerns regarding prize money for independent teams. The other DNFs were due to engine, brake problems, in addition to problems with the ignition system. After nearly one and a half hours of racing 300 laps, Richard Petty scored a relatively easy victory over Elmo Langley by a distance of four laps. This was the last time Elmo Langley led a race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092117-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Asheville 300, Race report\nBecause Richard Petty only had to contend with 16 other drivers and the race was less than three hours long, this race is not comparable to the wins that were experienced in the NASCAR races of the current era.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092117-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Asheville 300, Race report\nDale Inman was the winning crew chief of this race. Other notable crew chiefs who actively participated in the race were Vic Ballard and Lee Gordon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092117-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Asheville 300, Race report\nAn audience of 4500 people saw four different lead changes, no caution periods along with Petty and Langley constantly fight it out for the lead. Like the 1959 Daytona 500, the 1969 Motor Trend 500 and the 1971 Space City 300, this race is considered to be one of NASCAR's infrequently occurring \"perfect games.\" Petty would qualify for pole position driving speeds up to 79.598 miles per hour (128.101\u00a0km/h) during solo qualifying sessions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092117-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Asheville 300, Race report\nIronically, the circumstances of this race yielded Dick May's career-best finish in Winston Cup racing, in spite of the fact that he parked halfway through the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092117-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Asheville 300, Race report\nThe drivers earned very little for participating in this race compared to the multimillion-dollar purses of today; Petty earned a meager $1,500 ($9,469.6 when adjusted for inflation) while last-place finisher Hylton walked away only $220 wealthier ($1,388.87 when adjusted for inflation).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092117-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Asheville 300, Finishing order\n\u2020 signifies that the driver is known to be deceased * Driver failed to finish race", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 35], "content_span": [36, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092118-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Asia Golf Circuit\nThe 1971 Asia Golf Circuit was the tenth season of golf tournaments that comprised the Asia Golf Circuit, formerly known as the Far East Circuit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092118-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Asia Golf Circuit, Schedule\nThe table below shows the 1971 Asia Golf Circuit schedule. There were no changes from the previous season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092118-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Asia Golf Circuit, Final standings\nThe Asia Golf Circuit standings were based on a points system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092119-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Asian Amateur Boxing Championships\nThe 5th edition of the Men's Asian Amateur Boxing Championships was held from 27 August to 1 September 1971 in Tehran, Iran.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092120-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Asian Badminton Championships\nThe 1971 Asia Badminton Championships was the 4th tournament of the Badminton Asia Championships. It was held August 1971 in Jakarta, Indonesia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092120-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Asian Badminton Championships, 1971 Asia Badminton Championships Final\nThis is the final result of the 1971 Asia Badminton Championships", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 75], "content_span": [76, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092121-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Asian Baseball Championship\nThe 1971 Asian Baseball Championship was the ninth continental tournament held by the Baseball Federation of Asia. The tournament was held in Seoul, South Korea for the second time, and was won by the hosts for their second Asian Championship; both times when hosting the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092121-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Asian Baseball Championship\nThe tournament marked the first time the Australian team participated in the Asian Championships\u2014or in any international tournament\u2014finishing 4th. Through 2009, the Philippines' bronze medal would be the last time they would achieve a medal in the tournament. Japan (2nd) and Taiwan (5th) were the other participants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092122-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Asian Champion Club Tournament\nThe 1971 Asian Champion Club Tournament was the fourth edition of the annual Asian club football competition hosted by Asian Football Confederation. Eight clubs from eight countries competed in the tournament. The tournament was held in Bangkok, Thailand from 21 March to 2 April. Eight clubs were split in two groups of four and the group winners and the runners-up advanced to semifinals. Jardine Hong Kong withdrew from the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092122-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Asian Champion Club Tournament\nMaccabi Tel Aviv F.C. (ISR) recorded their second Asian title after Al-Shorta (IRQ) refused to play against them in protest at the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Al-Shorta players waved the Palestinian flag and the Iraqi flag around the field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092122-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Asian Champion Club Tournament\nAl-Shorta were regarded as the winners of the tournament in the Iraqi media (the Al-Mal'ab newspaper headline read: \"The Champions of Asia Return to Baghdad\") and were greeted with a heroes' reception upon their return to the country, holding an open top bus parade and later adding a star above their logo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092122-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Asian Champion Club Tournament, Result, Preliminary Round\nThese were the group allocation matches. Each group consisted of two winners and two losers from this round. The draw for the preliminary round was re-made after Al-Shorta refused to play Maccabi Tel-Aviv as had been scheduled in the original draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 62], "content_span": [63, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092122-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Asian Champion Club Tournament, Result, Knockout Stage, Final\n1 The final was scratched and Maccabi Tel Aviv were awarded the championship as Al-Shorta players waved Iraqi and Palestinian flags around the pitch, refusing to play the Israeli side for political reasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092123-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Asian Cycling Championships\nThe 1971 Asian Cycling Championships took place at the Farrer Park Stadium in Singapore from 23 to 30 October 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092124-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Asian Weightlifting Championships\nThe 1971 Asian Weightlifting Championships were held at the auditorium of the Far Eastern University in Manila, Philippines between October 9 and October 11, 1971. Weightlifters from seven countries Iran, Israel, South Korea, Philippines, Australia (as guest nation), Indonesia and Taiwan competed in the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092125-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl\nThe 1971 Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl was a college football bowl game that featured the Colorado Buffaloes and the Houston.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092125-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl, Background\nColorado finished third in the Big Eight Conference. This their fourth bowl game appearance in five seasons and their first Bluebonnet Bowl since 1967. As for the Cougars, this was their second Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl in three seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092125-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl, Game summary\nRobert Newhouse had 35 carries for 168 yards for Houston. Charlie Davis had 202 yards on 37 carries for Colorado.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092125-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl, Aftermath\nThe Buffaloes finished third in the final AP Poll. They went to three more bowl games in the decade, including an Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl appearance in 1975. The Cougars (who finished 17th in the final poll) returned to the Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl in 1973, en route to four more bowls in the decade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092126-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Atlanta Braves season\nThe 1971 Atlanta Braves season was the sixth season in Atlanta along with the 101st season as a franchise overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092126-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Atlanta Braves season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 71], "content_span": [72, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092126-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Atlanta Braves season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092126-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Atlanta Braves season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 69], "content_span": [70, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092126-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Atlanta Braves season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 66], "content_span": [67, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092126-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Atlanta Braves season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 67], "content_span": [68, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092127-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Atlanta Falcons season\nThe 1971 Atlanta Falcons season was the franchise's sixth year in the National Football League (NFL). It was the first winning season in franchise history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092127-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Atlanta Falcons season, Regular season, Standings\nNote: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092128-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Atlantic hurricane season\nThe 1971 Atlantic hurricane season was fairly active with several notable storms. Hurricane Edith, the strongest of the season, was a Category 5 on the Saffir-Simpson scale, the highest category on the scale. It struck Nicaragua at peak intensity, killing dozens, and later hit southern Louisiana. Until 2003, Hurricane Ginger held the record for the longest known duration of a North Atlantic tropical cyclone, lasting 27.25\u00a0days from early September to early October; it is currently the second longest-lasting Atlantic hurricane. Ginger moved ashore in North Carolina, producing heavy rains and damaging winds. An unnamed storm in August attained hurricane status further north than any other Atlantic hurricane. On 11 September, seven tropical cyclones were active at the same time, the record for the Atlantic basin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 852]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092128-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Atlantic hurricane season\nThe season officially began on June 1, and lasted until November 30, 1971; these dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the Atlantic basin. With thirteen tropical storms, of which six became hurricanes, the season was active.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092128-0001-0001", "contents": "1971 Atlantic hurricane season\nDespite the activity, damage in the United States totaled about $235\u00a0million (1971\u00a0USD, $1.5\u00a0billion 2021\u00a0USD), which National Hurricane Center forecaster Paul Hebert noted was \"pretty small considering we had five storms in a row strike the U.S.\" Most of the damage came from Tropical Storm Doria, which affected much of the East Coast of the United States. Hurricane Fern struck Texas after executing an unusual track, dropping heavy rainfall and producing flooding. The first storm, Arlene, developed on July\u00a04 off the coast of North Carolina. Activity was steady through most of the season, and the last storm, Laura, dissipated on November\u00a022.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 679]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092128-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Arlene\nThe origins of Arlene were from a cold front that exited the East Coast of the United States on July\u00a02 and stalled offshore. A frontal wave developed the next day, steadily developing due to thermal instability. On July\u00a04, the system organized into a tropical depression about 120\u00a0mi (195\u00a0km) southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. While in its formative stages, it dropped rainfall along the coast of the Carolinas, peaking at 4.11\u00a0in (104\u00a0mm) in Pinopolis, South Carolina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 542]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092128-0002-0001", "contents": "1971 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Arlene\nThe depression tracked northeastward due to a ridge over New England, and the cyclone passed just southeast of the Outer Banks. After a Hurricane Hunters plane observed gale-force winds, the depression was upgraded to Tropical Storm Arlene late on July\u00a05; in the post-season summary, meteorologist Neil Frank noted, \"the surprising element in the development of Arlene was the rapidity of the transformation process.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092128-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Arlene\nUpon being named, Arlene continued northeastward, possessing a circular mass of convection with spiral rainbands. Late on July\u00a06, the storm attained peak winds of 65\u00a0mph (100\u00a0km/h), based on a ship report. It weakened thereafter, and Arlene transitioned into an extratropical cyclone late on July\u00a07 just south of Newfoundland. The cyclone last observed early the following day. The storm capsized a boat in the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, and the crew of 12 was rescued.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092128-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Two\nA hybrid-type depression formed east of Bermuda on July\u00a029. It moved rapidly southwestward before turning to a northwest drift. On August\u00a03, it was classified as a tropical depression, and the next day the system passed near Bermuda. The depression accelerated to the northeast, strengthening into a tropical storm on August\u00a05. It intensified further due to baroclinity, or enhanced instability through different levels of the atmosphere caused by temperature and moisture gradients.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092128-0004-0001", "contents": "1971 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Two\nOn August\u00a06, a drilling rig about 230\u00a0mi (370\u00a0km) southeast of Newfoundland recorded sustained winds of 90\u00a0mph (140\u00a0km/h) with gusts to 126\u00a0mph (204\u00a0km/h) at an altitude of 325\u00a0ft (99\u00a0m); this suggested the storm attained hurricane status at 46\u00b0 North, which is the northernmost location for a tropical storm to intensify into a hurricane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092128-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Two\nDespite the intensity, the cyclone was not purely tropical; although the radius of maximum winds was only 35\u00a0mi (56\u00a0km), the thermal structure did not resemble a tropical cyclone, and there was no precipitation or convection near the center. It continued northeastward and dissipated on August\u00a07 to the southwest of Greenland. It was not named operationally, but it was later added to the Atlantic hurricane database.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092128-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Beth\nOn August 9, an upper-level low developed off the coast of Florida, and the next day spawned a tropical depression. The newly developed cyclone tracked slowly northeastward, eventually encountering conditions favorable for development. On August\u00a014, the depression intensified into Tropical Storm Beth off the coast of North Carolina, and it quickly strengthened into a hurricane by August\u00a015. After reaching peak winds of 85\u00a0mph (137\u00a0km/h) off the coast of Cape Cod, Beth slightly weakened and later moved ashore near Copper Lake, Nova Scotia. Shortly thereafter, Beth was swept up by a nearby cold front and transitioned into an extratropical cyclone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 709]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092128-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Beth\nThe hurricane left extensive damage in its wake, especially to crops and infrastructure. Halifax International Airport reported 10.49\u00a0in (266\u00a0mm) of rainfall in a 30\u2011hour span, which caused widespread flooding. Several bridges in the region were washed out, while railways were covered by water, forcing trains to suspend their operation. Overall monetary damage from Beth is estimated up to $5.1 million (1971\u00a0USD, $32.6\u00a0million 2021\u00a0USD). One person was indirectly killed by the hurricane in a traffic accident induced by heavy rainfall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092128-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Depression Eight\nOn August\u00a011, Tropical Depression Eight developed southwest of Fort Myers, Florida. It quickly moved ashore, reaching Lake Okeechobee before looping to the northwest. While moving across the state, it dropped heavy rainfall of around 10\u00a0in (250\u00a0mm) along the west coast. In Pinellas Park, the heavy rains led to flash flooding that forced 200\u00a0families from their house, including one that required evacuation from a helicopter. Damage in the region was estimated at $250,000 (1971\u00a0USD, $1.6\u00a0million 2021\u00a0USD).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 66], "content_span": [67, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092128-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Depression Eight\nThe depression emerged into the Gulf of Mexico on August\u00a015 near Tampa, and later turned to the northeast ahead of an upper-level low. On August\u00a016, it intensified as it moved ashore near Cedar Key, where hurricane-force wind gusts were briefly observed. The depression dissipated on August\u00a017 over South Carolina, although in that state it produced its heaviest rainfall, totaling 14.11\u00a0in (358\u00a0mm) in Sullivan's Island. In nearby Savannah, Georgia, the rainfall forced about 100\u00a0families from their houses in low-lying areas. The remnants continued northeastward through the Mid-Atlantic States and New England, crossing into Canada on August\u00a020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 66], "content_span": [67, 715]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092128-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Chloe\nA tropical wave moved off the coast of Africa on August\u00a013, moving westward for several days before organizing into a tropical depression on August\u00a018 about 460\u00a0mi (740\u00a0km) east of Barbados. It quickly moved through the Lesser Antilles, where it produced wind gusts up to 58\u00a0mph (93\u00a0km/h). The cyclone also dropped heavy rainfall up to 6\u00a0in (150\u00a0mm) on Barbados and Martinique. After entering the eastern Caribbean Sea, the depression intensified into Tropical Storm Chloe on August\u00a020. About 18\u00a0hours after attaining tropical storm status, Chloe quickly strengthened to peak winds of 65\u00a0mph (105\u00a0km/h) about 215\u00a0mi (345\u00a0km) south of the Mona Passage, as reported by reconnaissance aircraft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 753]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092128-0011-0000", "contents": "1971 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Chloe\nAfter reaching peak intensity, Chloe began weakening as it turned to the west-southwest, and late on August\u00a022, it was downgraded to a tropical depression as a weakening ridge to its north cut off the low-level inflow. For several days it continued generally westward, gradually losing organization. While passing south of Jamaica, the storm prompted the evacuation of the SS Hope, a hospital ship, at Kingston. On August\u00a025, Chloe moved ashore in Belize as a weak tropical depression, and dissipated shortly thereafter without ever having caused significant damage or deaths. The remnants of Chloe later spawned Hurricane Lily in the eastern Pacific Ocean.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 719]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092128-0012-0000", "contents": "1971 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Doria\nTropical Storm Doria, the costliest storm of the season, developed from a tropical wave on August 20 to the east of the Lesser Antilles, and after five days without development attained tropical storm status to the east of Florida. Doria turned to the north, and reached peak winds of 65\u00a0mph (105\u00a0km/h) as it was making landfall near Morehead City, North Carolina. It turned to the northeast, and moved through the Mid-Atlantic and New England as a tropical storm before becoming an extratropical storm over Maine on August 29.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092128-0013-0000", "contents": "1971 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Doria\nIn North Carolina, Doria produced moderate rainfall, resulting in localized flooding and damage. The storm spawned a tornado near Norfolk, Virginia, damaging twelve\u00a0houses and downing hundreds of trees. Tropical Storm Doria dropped heavy precipitation in New Jersey, peaking at 10.29\u00a0in (261\u00a0mm) in Little Falls. The rainfall led to record-breaking river levels and flooding in several houses, resulting in damage to dozens of houses across the state. Moderate damage and rainfall continued along its path into New England and southeastern Canada. In all, Tropical Storm Doria caused seven deaths and $147.6\u00a0million (1971\u00a0USD, $943\u00a0million 2021\u00a0USD).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 712]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092128-0014-0000", "contents": "1971 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Fern\nHurricane Fern was the first of four tropical systems to develop in association with an extended surface trough across the Gulf of Mexico into the open Atlantic, along with Ginger, Heidi, and a strong tropical depression. Fern developed on September\u00a03 in the central Gulf of Mexico. It moved over southern Louisiana the next day, but due to increased ridging to the north the depression moved southwestward back over water.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092128-0014-0001", "contents": "1971 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Fern\nOn September\u00a07, the depression intensified into Tropical Storm Fern; it is rare for a tropical depression to move over land in the continental United States (excluding Florida) and later attain tropical storm status. Fern later turned to the northwest, intensifying into a hurricane on September\u00a08. It quickly reached peak winds of 90\u00a0mph (140\u00a0km/h), but later weakened as it curved to the southwest, moving ashore on September\u00a010 between Freeport and Matagorda, Texas as a tropical storm. Fern dissipated on September\u00a013 over northeastern Mexico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092128-0015-0000", "contents": "1971 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Fern\nThe precursor of Fern dropped rainfall up to 5\u00a0in (130\u00a0mm) of rainfall across South Florida, while totals of up to 10\u00a0in (250\u00a0mm) were reported in southeastern Louisiana where it made its first landfall. As it struck Texas, Fern produced strong winds up to 86\u00a0mph (138\u00a0km/h), along with 5 to 6\u00a0ft (1.5 to 1.8\u00a0m) storm tides and heavy rainfall; the highest precipitation total was 26.0\u00a0in (660\u00a0mm) in Beeville. The heavy rainfall caused severe flash flooding that isolated numerous small towns in the southeastern portion of the state, damaging 7,500\u00a0buildings. In all, Fern left two indirect deaths and moderate damage totaling $30.2\u00a0million (1971\u00a0USD, $187\u00a0million 2021\u00a0USD).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 732]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092128-0016-0000", "contents": "1971 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Edith\nHurricane Edith, the strongest storm of the season, developed from a tropical wave on September\u00a05 to the east of the southern Lesser Antilles. It moved quickly across the southern Caribbean Sea, intensifying into a hurricane just off the north coast of South America. Edith rapidly intensified on September\u00a09 and made landfall on Cape Gracias a Dios as a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale. It quickly lost intensity over Central America and after briefly entering the Gulf of Honduras it crossed the Yucat\u00e1n Peninsula in Mexico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092128-0016-0001", "contents": "1971 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Edith\nAfter moving across the Gulf of Mexico, a trough turned the storm to the northeast and Edith, after having restrengthened while accelerating towards the coast, made landfall on Louisiana with winds of 105\u00a0mph (170\u00a0km/h) on September 16. Edith steadily weakened over land and dissipated over Georgia on September\u00a018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092128-0017-0000", "contents": "1971 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Edith\nThe hurricane killed two people when it passed near Aruba. Striking northeastern Central America as a Category\u00a05 hurricane, Edith destroyed hundreds of homes and killed at least 35\u00a0people. In Texas high tides caused coastal flooding but little damage. Edith caused moderate to heavy damage in portions of Louisiana due to flooding and a tornado outbreak from the storm. One tornado, rated F3 on the Fujita Scale, damaged several homes and injured multiple people in Baton Rouge. The tornado outbreak extended eastward into Florida. Damage in the United States totaled $25\u00a0million (1971\u00a0USD, $160\u00a0million 2021\u00a0USD).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 671]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092128-0018-0000", "contents": "1971 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Ginger\nHurricane Ginger was thought to be the longest lasting Atlantic hurricane on record until 2003, when the 1899 San Ciriaco hurricane was retroactively found to have lasted longer. The eighth tropical cyclone and fifth hurricane of the season, Ginger spent 27.25\u00a0days as a tropical cyclone, and lasted from September\u00a06 to October\u00a03. The storm developed in a large region of convection across the Gulf of Mexico and western Atlantic, and for the first nine days of its duration tracked generally east- or northeastward while gradually strengthening to peak winds of 110\u00a0mph (175\u00a0km/h). On September\u00a014 Ginger slowed and turned to a general westward track, passing near Bermuda on September\u00a023; there, the hurricane produced gusty winds and high waves, but no damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 821]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092128-0019-0000", "contents": "1971 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Ginger\nWhile over the western Atlantic Ocean, Ginger became the last target of Project Stormfury, which sought to weaken hurricanes by depositing silver iodide into tropical cyclone rainbands. The plane dropped silver iodide into the center of Ginger, although there was no effect due to Ginger's large eye and diffuse nature; Ginger was the last seeding done by the project. Ginger ultimately struck North Carolina on September\u00a030 as a minimal hurricane, lashing the coastline with gusty winds that caused power outages across the region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 590]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092128-0019-0001", "contents": "1971 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Ginger\nHeavy rainfall flooded towns and left heavy crop damage, with 3\u00a0million bushels of corn and 1\u00a0million bushels of soybean lost. Damage in the state was estimated at $10\u00a0million (1971\u00a0USD, $63.9\u00a0million 2021\u00a0USD). Further north, moderate rainfall and winds spread through the Mid-Atlantic states, although no significant damage was reported outside of North Carolina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092128-0020-0000", "contents": "1971 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Heidi\nTropical Storm Heidi was the last of the four tropical systems to develop from the extended surface trough of low pressure, forming on September\u00a011 northeast of the Bahamas and intensifying into a tropical storm the next day. After initially moving to the northwest, Heidi curved northeastward and attained its peak intensity of 65\u00a0mph (100\u00a0km/h) on September\u00a014 off the coast of Virginia. The storm failed to become a well-organized system, and it gradually weakened while accelerating north-northeastward. On September\u00a015, shortly after Heidi moved ashore in Maine, it was absorbed by a broad extratropical cyclone over the northern Appalachians.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 710]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092128-0021-0000", "contents": "1971 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Heidi\nHeidi did not directly cause any fatalities or severe damage. However, the larger extratropical storm drew in moisture from Heidi, producing rainfall from North Carolina through northern New England, including a peak of 9.38\u00a0in (238\u00a0mm) in southeastern Pennsylvania. The heavy rains triggered extensive flooding that caused over a dozen fatalities and left thousands of residents homeless in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. In Chester, Pennsylvania a stone dam collapsed, forcing hundreds of families to evacuate and damaging homes, businesses, roads, and bridges. Governor Milton Shapp declared a state of emergency in several Pennsylvania counties following the floods.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 730]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092128-0022-0000", "contents": "1971 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Irene\nA tropical wave spawned a tropical depression on September\u00a011 about 800\u00a0mi (1300\u00a0km) east of the Windward Islands. The cyclone tracked nearly due westward at a low latitude, passing through the southern Windward Islands and later over northern South America. In the southwest Caribbean Sea, it intensified to a tropical storm and later a hurricane. Irene made landfall on southeastern Nicaragua on September\u00a019, and maintained its circulation as it crossed the low-lying terrain of the country. Restrengthening after reaching the Pacific, Irene was renamed Hurricane Olivia, which ultimately attained peak winds of 115\u00a0mph (185\u00a0km/h) before weakening and dissipating over northwestern Mexico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 749]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092128-0023-0000", "contents": "1971 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Irene\nIn the Atlantic, Irene produced moderate rainfall and winds along its path, although impact was greatest in Nicaragua where it moved ashore as a hurricane. A total of 96\u00a0homes were destroyed, and 1,200\u00a0people were left homeless. The rainfall resulted in widespread flooding, killing three people in Rivas. In neighboring Costa Rica, Hurricane Irene caused more than $1\u00a0million (1971\u00a0USD, $6.39\u00a0million 2021\u00a0USD) in damage to the banana crop. The hurricane was the first actively tracked tropical cyclone that moved into the eastern Pacific Ocean from the Atlantic Ocean.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 627]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092128-0024-0000", "contents": "1971 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Janice\nThe origins of Janice were from a tropical wave that moved off the coast of Africa on September\u00a018. It developed into a tropical depression on September\u00a021 about 1050\u00a0mi (1700\u00a0km) west-southwest of Cape Verde, which was the easternmost formation of the named storms this season. The next day, the depression intensified into Tropical Storm Janice, and quickly reached peak winds of 65\u00a0mph (105\u00a0km/h). The storm never became well-organized, with its peak winds located east of the broad center.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092128-0024-0001", "contents": "1971 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Janice\nDespite being in a climatologically favored region for further development, Janice weakened due to increased wind shear from Hurricane Ginger. The circulation became elongated and separated from the convection, and on September\u00a024 the storm weakened to a tropical depression. Later that day Janice dissipated just northeast of the Lesser Antilles as it was absorbed by Ginger. Around that time, it produced rainfall in the northeastern Caribbean, reaching 4\u00a0in (100\u00a0mm) on Saint Kitts; no damage or fatalities were reported.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092128-0025-0000", "contents": "1971 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Kristy\nThe interaction between a tropical wave and an upper-level trough led to the development of a tropical depression on October\u00a018, about 685\u00a0mi (1100\u00a0km) northeast of Puerto Rico. It moved quickly north-northeastward, followed by a curve to the northeast. On October\u00a020, a ship reported winds of 45\u00a0mph (72\u00a0km/h), indicating the depression intensified into Tropical Storm Kristy. As it reached this strength, an approaching cold front produced cooler, drier air over the storm. Kristy intensified slightly further to peak winds of 50\u00a0mph (85\u00a0km/h) before becoming indistinguishable from the cold front. By October\u00a021 it transitioned into an extratropical cyclone before dissipating near the Azores.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 759]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092128-0026-0000", "contents": "1971 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Laura\nThe final storm of the season, Laura, formed on November\u00a012 in the western Caribbean Sea, and reached winds of 70\u00a0mph (120\u00a0km/h) as it approached western Cuba. Across the island, the storm produced heavy rainfall, peaking at 32.5\u00a0in (830\u00a0mm). The resulting flooding killed one person and caused crop damage, and also forced 26,000\u00a0people to evacuate their homes. Initially, Laura was forecast to move across the island and impact the southern United States, but it executed a small loop and turned to the southwest. The storm moved ashore on Belize, one of only four November storms to affect the country. Little impact occurred during Laura's final landfall, and it dissipated on November\u00a022 over central Guatemala.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 778]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092128-0027-0000", "contents": "1971 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Other systems\nIn addition to the named storms and otherwise notable cyclones, there were several weak depressions during the season. After a June devoid of activity, three tropical depressions developed within the first ten days of July. The first became Tropical Storm Arlene on July\u00a04, and the second formed off the coast of Louisiana on July\u00a06. Tropical Depression Two moved westward due to a ridge to its northeast, and it struck just west of the Texas/Louisiana border before dissipating on July\u00a08. Its precursor dropped 3.90\u00a0in (99\u00a0mm) near Carrabelle, Florida, but much less along its path. Just two days later, another tropical depression formed in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico, quickly moving ashore in southern Texas before dissipating on July\u00a011; it dropped light rainfall along its path.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 843]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092128-0028-0000", "contents": "1971 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Other systems\nIn August, there were two tropical depressions, in addition to the named storms and the notable Tropical Depression Eight. The first, Tropical Depression Five, developed in the central Gulf of Mexico on August\u00a06. It made landfall in Louisiana three days later, eventually dissipating over Mississippi. The other, designated Tropical Depression Eleven, formed over the Bahamas on August\u00a028. It moved westward, crossing Florida and the Gulf of Mexico before dissipating over southeastern Louisiana on September\u00a01. The depression dropped moderate rainfall along the Gulf Coast, peaking at 6.82\u00a0in (173\u00a0mm) at Gulf Shores, Alabama.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 682]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092128-0029-0000", "contents": "1971 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Other systems\nThere were three non-developing tropical depressions in September, the first of which just off the coast of Africa on September\u00a03. It moved west-northwestward, passing near Cape Verde before dissipating on September\u00a08. The next, Tropical Depression Eighteen, originated on September\u00a08 east of Florida from the same trough that also spawned Fern, Ginger, and Heidi. It initially moved northward before curving to the west, making landfall near the Georgia/South Carolina border on September\u00a011 before dissipating the following day. The other, Tropical Depression Nineteen, developed off the coast of Africa on September\u00a010, moving westward before dissipating on September\u00a014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 729]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092128-0030-0000", "contents": "1971 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Other systems\nThe final non-developing tropical depression of the season formed on October\u00a06 in the western Caribbean Sea. It crossed the Yucat\u00e1n Peninsula the next day, dropping heavy rainfall up to 9.09\u00a0in (231\u00a0mm). The depression turned to the northeast due to an approaching upper-level trough, and it transitioned into a frontal wave on October\u00a010. As the trough advanced ahead of the storm, a ridge built across the southeast United States, causing the cyclone to turn northward and parallel the west coast of Florida. It regained tropical characteristics before moving ashore near Apalachicola and dissipating on October\u00a014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 672]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092128-0031-0000", "contents": "1971 Atlantic hurricane season, Storm names\nThe following names were used for named storms (tropical storms and hurricanes) that formed in the North Atlantic in 1971. Names that were not assigned are marked in gray. Storms were named Beth, Kristy and Laura for the first time in 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092128-0032-0000", "contents": "1971 Atlantic hurricane season, Season effects\nThis is a table of the storms in 1971 and their landfall(s), if any. Deaths in parentheses are additional and indirect (an example of an indirect death would be a traffic accident), but are still storm-related. Damage and deaths include totals while the storm was extratropical or a wave or low.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092129-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Auburn Tigers football team\nThe 1971 Auburn Tigers football team represented Auburn University in the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. The Tigers offense scored 335 points while the defense allowed 182 points. SEC Champion Alabama handed Auburn their only conference loss of the year. Pat Sullivan won the Heisman Trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092129-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Auburn Tigers football team, Season\nIn the Iron Bowl, both teams entered the regular season finale undefeated: Auburn lost to Alabama, 31\u20137. On New Year's Day, the Tigers lost to Oklahoma in the Sugar Bowl, 40-22.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 40], "content_span": [41, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092130-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Auckland City mayoral election\nThe 1971 Auckland City mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1971, elections were held for the Mayor of Auckland plus other local government positions including twenty-one city councillors. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092130-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Auckland City mayoral election, Background\nIncumbent Mayor Dove-Myer Robinson was re-elected with an overwhelming majority with an absence of a challenger from either the Citizens & Ratepayers ticket or Labour Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092131-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Australia rugby union tour of France\nThe 1971 Australia rugby union tour of France was a series of eight matches played by the Australia national rugby union team (the \"Wallabies\") in France in November 1971. The Wallabies drew the series, winning the first test of the two against the France and losing the second. They also played six games against teams described as French Selections (or Regional XVs), of which they won three and lost three.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092131-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Australia rugby union tour of France, Squad leadership\nThe Wallaby squad was captained by Greg Davis described by Howell as \"a leader of men who believed a leader should lead....a single minded flanker who gave no quarter and asked for none\". Davis was making his sixth overseas tour with the Wallabies and his second as captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092132-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Australian Drivers' Championship\nThe 1971 Australian Drivers\u2019 Championship was a CAMS sanctioned motor racing title open to Australian Formula 1 and Australian Formula 2 racing cars. It was the fifteenth Australian Drivers' Championship and the first to feature cars complying with a new for 1971 Australian Formula 1 which permitted cars with production based V8 engines of up to 5 litre capacity (commonly known as Formula 5000 cars) or racing engines of up to eight cylinders and up to 2 litre capacity. The championship winner was awarded the 1971 CAMS Gold Star and the title of Australian Champion Driver.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092132-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Australian Drivers' Championship\nThe championship was won by Max Stewart from Kevin Bartlett, Alan Hamilton and John McCormack, with only two points separating first from fourth after the final race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092132-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Australian Drivers' Championship, Calendar\nThe championship was contested over a six race series. Races were staged concurrently with those of the 1971 Australian Formula 2 Championship", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092132-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Australian Drivers' Championship, Points system\nChampionship points were awarded on a 9-6-4-3-2-1 basis to the first six placegetters in each race. Each driver could retain points only from his/her best five race results. Only holders of a General Competition License issued by CAMS were eligible to compete for the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 52], "content_span": [53, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092132-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Australian Drivers' Championship, Championship standings\nNew Zealander Graeme Lawrence (Brabham BT30 Ford) placed second at Oran Park, but not being an Australian resident he did not qualify for championship points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 61], "content_span": [62, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092133-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Australian Formula 2 Championship\nThe 1971 Australian Formula 2 Championship was a CAMS sanctioned motor racing title for drivers of Australian Formula 2 racing cars. It was the fifth Australian Formula 2 Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092133-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Australian Formula 2 Championship, Calendar\nThe championship was contested over a six heat series with one race per heat. Heats were staged concurrently with those of the 1971 Australian Drivers' Championship which was open to drivers of both Australian Formula 1 and Australian Formula 2 cars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092133-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Australian Formula 2 Championship, Points system\nChampionship points were awarded on a 9\u20136\u20134\u20133\u20132\u20131 basis to the first six placegetters in the Formula 2 class at each heat. Each driver could retain points only from his/her best five heat results.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 53], "content_span": [54, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092134-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Australian Grand Prix\nThe 1971 Australian Grand Prix was a motor race held at Warwick Farm Raceway in New South Wales, Australia on 21 November 1971. It was open to Racing Cars complying with either Australian Formula 1 or Australian Formula 2 regulations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092134-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Australian Grand Prix\nThe race was the thirty sixth running of the Australian Grand Prix. Frank Matich won his second straight AGP and, as in 1970, he started the race on pole and also set the fastest race lap. The race marked the debut of Matich's self designed and built Matich A50 which was powered by a Repco Holden V8 engine. Matich won the race by 58.7 seconds from Kevin Bartlett driving a McLaren M10B-Chevrolet, with Alan Hamilton, also driving McLaren M10B-Chevrolet, 1.1 seconds behind Bartlett in third place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092134-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Australian Grand Prix\nOther than two New Zealanders, the only international driver in the event was 1964 Formula One World Drivers' Champion John Surtees. The Englishman started ninth in his Surtees TS8-Chevrolet, and battled with Bartlett, Hamilton, and, until his retirement, Colin Bond in the McLaren M10B in which Matich had won the 1970 Australian Grand Prix. Surtees ultimately placed 14th after suffering two punctures late in the race. 1971 Rothmans F5000 European Championship winner Frank Gardner was unable to start the race after damaging his Lola T300 in the first practice session on the Saturday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092134-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Australian Grand Prix, Classification, Official practice\nGrid positions for the race were determined during \"official practice\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 61], "content_span": [62, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092135-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Australian Manufacturers' Championship\nThe 1971 Australian Manufacturers' Championship was a CAMS sanctioned Australian motor racing title open to Group E Series Production Touring Cars. The championship, which was the inaugural Australian Manufacturers' Championship, was won by General Motors-Holden's.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092135-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Australian Manufacturers' Championship, Calendar\nThe championship was contested over a five heat series, with each heat being a single race staged over a minimum duration of three hours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 53], "content_span": [54, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092135-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Australian Manufacturers' Championship, Class Structure\nCars competed in five classes based on a Capacity / Price index in which the engine capacity in litres was multiplied by the retail price to determine the CP units for each model.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 60], "content_span": [61, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092135-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Australian Manufacturers' Championship, Points system\nChampionship points were awarded on a 9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis for the first nine positions in each class plus 4-3-2-1 for the first four positions outright. Only the best placed car from a manufacturer was eligible to score points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 58], "content_span": [59, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092136-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Australian Open\nThe 1971 Australian Open, also known under its sponsored name Dunlop Australian Open, was a tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts at the White City Stadium in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia from 7 to 14 March. The tournament was originally scheduled to be played in Melbourne but was moved to Sydney on account of a $125,000 sponsorship deal with Dunlop. The tournament date was moved from its regular January slot to March to accommodate scheduling requirements made by the commercial promoters World Championship Tennis and National Tennis League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092136-0000-0001", "contents": "1971 Australian Open\nIt was the 59th edition of the Australian Open, the 17th and final one held in Sydney, and the first Grand Slam tournament of the year. The tournament was part of the 1971 World Championship Tennis circuit. The singles titles were won by Australians Ken Rosewall and Margaret Court. The tiebreak was introduced for all sets except the deciding set.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092136-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Australian Open\nThe competition for mixed doubles was not held between 1970 and 1986 edition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092136-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Australian Open, Seniors, Men's doubles\nJohn Newcombe / Tony Roche defeated Tom Okker / Marty Riessen 6\u20132, 7\u20136", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 44], "content_span": [45, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092136-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Australian Open, Seniors, Women's doubles\nEvonne Goolagong / Margaret Court defeated Jill Emmerson / Lesley Hunt 6\u20130, 6\u20130", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 46], "content_span": [47, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092137-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Australian Open \u2013 Men's Doubles\nJohn Newcombe and Tony Roche defeated Tom Okker and Marty Riessen 6\u20132, 7\u20136 in the final to win the Men's Doubles title at the 1971 Australian Open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092137-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Australian Open \u2013 Men's Doubles, Seeds\nThe top four seeds receive a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 43], "content_span": [44, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092138-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Australian Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nSecond-seeded Ken Rosewall defeated defending champion Arthur Ashe 6\u20131, 7\u20135, 6\u20133 in the final to win the Men's Singles tennis title at the 1971 Australian Open. He was the first man to win a Grand Slam singles title without dropping a set in the open era.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092139-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Australian Open \u2013 Women's Doubles\nEvonne Goolagong and Margaret Court defeated Jill Emmerson and Lesley Hunt 6\u20130, 6\u20130 in the final to win the Women's Doubles title at the 1971 Australian Open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092139-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Australian Open \u2013 Women's Doubles, Seeds\nThe first and second seeds received a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 45], "content_span": [46, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092140-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Australian Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nFirst-seeded Margaret Court was the two-time defending champion and successfully defended her title, defeating Evonne Goolagong in the final, 2\u20136, 7\u20136(7\u20130), 7\u20135 to win the Women's Singles tennis title at the 1971 Australian Open. This was Court's tenth Australian Open title, her sixth consecutive Grand Slam title and her 21st Grand Slam title overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092140-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Australian Open \u2013 Women's Singles, Seeds\nThe first and second seeds receive a bye into the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 45], "content_span": [46, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092141-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Australian Rally Championship\nThe 1971 Australian Rally Championship was a series of five rallying events held across Australia. It was the fourth season in the history of the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092141-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Australian Rally Championship\nColin Bond and navigator George Shepheard in the Holden Dealer Team Holden Torana GTR XU-1 were the winners of the 1971 Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092141-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Australian Rally Championship, Season review\nThe fourth Australian Rally Championship was decided over five events, staged across the Eastern States of Australia with two events in New South Wales and one each in Queensland, Victoria and South Australia. The series was the start of the domination of the Holden Dealer Team Holden Torana GTR XU-1 of Colin Bond and George Shepheard. The Renault R8 Gordinis which had won the previous year were the only team to present any real challenge to the Toranas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 49], "content_span": [50, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092141-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Australian Rally Championship, The Rallies\nThe five events of the 1971 season were as follows.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 47], "content_span": [48, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092142-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Australian Sports Car Championship\nThe 1971 Australian Sports Car Championship was a CAMS sanctioned Australian motor racing title for drivers of Group A Sports Cars, Group B Improved Production Sports Cars and Group D Series Production Sports Cars. The title, which was the third Australian Sports Car Championship, was won by John Harvey driving a McLaren M6 Repco.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092142-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Australian Sports Car Championship, Points system\nChampionship points were awarded on a 9-6-4-3-2-1 basis to the first six placegetters at each heat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 54], "content_span": [55, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092143-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Australian Touring Car Championship\nThe 1971 Australian Touring Car Championship was a CAMS-sanctioned motor racing title for drivers of Group C Improved Production Touring Cars and Group E Series Production Touring Cars. The title, which was the twelfth running of the Australian Touring Car Championship, began at Symmons Plains Raceway on 1 March 1971 and ended at Oran Park Raceway on 8 August after seven heats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092143-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Australian Touring Car Championship\nBob Jane won his third Australian Touring Car Championship, driving his 7.0-litre Chevrolet Camaro ZL-1. Allan Moffat finished runner-up in his Ford Boss 302 Mustang, while Ian Geoghegan was third in his Ford Mustang. Defending champion Norm Beechey finished fifth in the series, suffering from reliability problems with his Holden HT Monaro GTS350. Beechey only finished two rounds of the series, one of which was a victory in the second round at Calder Park Raceway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092143-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Australian Touring Car Championship, Drivers\nThe following drivers competed in the 1971 championship. The list is not exhaustive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092143-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Australian Touring Car Championship, Calendar\nThe championship was contested over a series of seven heats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092143-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Australian Touring Car Championship, Race summaries, Symmons Plains\nBob Jane held the fastest time in official practice for the majority of the session with a time of 1:00.6. Allan Moffat came out with twenty minutes remaining and equalled Jane's time and was set to go faster until he ran off the circuit and damaged his front spoiler. In response, Jane set a time of 1:00.3 to take pole position ahead of Moffat, Ian Geoghegan and Norm Beechey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092143-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Australian Touring Car Championship, Race summaries, Symmons Plains\nThe race was held in wet conditions and Jane and Geoghegan led away from the line after Moffat made a bad gear change. Jim McKeown got squeezed between John Harvey and Terry Allan, while Graham Ritter was forced onto the grass when Harvey got sideways. Geoghegan made a mistake at the hairpin and allowed Moffat back through to second place, while Allan, who started on slick tyres, spun and fell to the back of the field. Allan retired a few laps later with a blown gasket.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092143-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Australian Touring Car Championship, Race summaries, Symmons Plains\nMoffat passed Jane fat the end of the back straight on lap 5 and began to pull away. Jane spun on lap 8, allowing Beechey into second place. Jane rejoined in front of Geoghegan and McKeown, around 25 seconds behind Beechey. McKeown passed Geoghegan for fourth, while Harvey retired with a seized engine. With the track drying out, Geoghegan took fourth place back from McKeown on lap 27, with the latter suffering from a clutch problem.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092143-0006-0001", "contents": "1971 Australian Touring Car Championship, Race summaries, Symmons Plains\nBeechey began to close in on Moffat, whose lead dropped to as low as 2.5 seconds when he was held up by McKeown, while Jane was catching both Beechey and Moffat. Once clear of McKeown, Moffat was able to extend his lead again, and it became even larger when Beechey's engine blew on lap 37. Moffat took victory, five seconds ahead of Jane, while Geoghegan finished in third place, forty seconds off the lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092143-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Australian Touring Car Championship, Race summaries, Calder\nAfter dominating the opening round of the championship both Bob Jane and Allan Moffat retired from the Calder race. Jane's clutch failed on the first lap while Moffat retired with an overheating engine on lap 24, having already lost a number of places after leading early in the race. Norm Beechey took the lead from Moffat on lap 15 and led to the finish, followed by Ian Geoghegan and Jim McKeown. Geoghegan's second place elevated him into the championship lead with Moffat and Beechey tied for second place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092143-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Australian Touring Car Championship, Race summaries, Sandown\nBob Jane and Allan Moffat continued their strong form at Sandown. The pair pulled away from the field in the first half the race to be twenty seconds clear of third-placed Ian Geoghegan and a lap ahead of the rest of the field. Norm Beechey retired with an engine problem which was leaking oil onto the clutch. Jane then encountered a problem when his car became jammed in top gear, allowing Moffat into the lead of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092143-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 Australian Touring Car Championship, Race summaries, Sandown\nMoffat was black-flagged on lap 25 due to a transmission oil cooler line which had come undone and was hanging underneath the car, but he continued on despite the black flag being held out on the subsequent laps. Moffat finally stopped on the last lap and, with the oil cooler line adjudged as no risk, went on to take victory. However, he was disqualified for ignoring the black flags. This gave the victory to Jane, who had stayed ahead of Geoghegan despite his problem, while Jim McKeown completed the podium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092143-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 Australian Touring Car Championship, Race summaries, Surfers Paradise\nAllan Moffat dominated the fourth round of the championship at Surfers Paradise. He qualified on pole position, set a new lap record and won the race by a margin of 35 seconds. Bob Jane finished second and took the championship lead from Ian Geoghegan, who finished third despite being pressured by John French, driving Moffat's Ford Falcon GTHO, for much of the race. Moffat's victory moved him to third place in the championship, just three points adrift of Jane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 74], "content_span": [75, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092143-0011-0000", "contents": "1971 Australian Touring Car Championship, Race summaries, Mallala\nBob Jane extended his championship lead by taking victory at Mallala. Ian Geoghegan applied pressure to Jane late in the race but was unable to pass him, finishing three-tenths of a second behind. Allan Moffat finished third despite a spin early on and then going off the track while lapping Norm Beechey. Jim McKeown and Brian Foley finished fourth and fifth respectively, one lap down on Jane, while local driver Graham Bishop took the final point in sixth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092143-0012-0000", "contents": "1971 Australian Touring Car Championship, Race summaries, Lakeside\nThe championship tightened up at Lakeside, with Ian Geoghegan, Bob Jane and Allan Moffat finishing the race in reverse order to their respective championship positions. Moffat took an easy win from pole position, leading all the way. Jane looked set for second place until a wheel bearing failure in the closing laps, which allowed Geoghegan into second and dropped Jane to third. Norm Beechey finished fourth, only the second time he had finished a race during the season, while John French finished fifth in Geoghegan's Ford Falcon GTHO. The result left Jane in the championship lead with 34 points, Geoghegan in second place with 32 and Moffat in third with 31.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 66], "content_span": [67, 731]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092143-0013-0000", "contents": "1971 Australian Touring Car Championship, Race summaries, Oran Park\nBob Jane came into the final round in the championship lead with 34 points. Ian Geoghegan was second on 32, ahead of Allan Moffat with 31. With the points system giving nine points for victory and six points for second place, if any of the three championship contenders won the race they would also claim the title. Moffat took pole position, 1.2 seconds ahead of Jane and 1.7 ahead of Geoghegan. Moffat won the start, while Jane missed a gear and lost second place to Geoghegan. Moffat built a small lead in the opening laps, but once Jane passed Geoghegan the gap began to close. Moffat stopped on lap 16 with his car stuck in second gear, allowing Jane and Geoghegan past. Moffat was able to get his car moving shortly afterwards and rejoined the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 823]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092143-0014-0000", "contents": "1971 Australian Touring Car Championship, Race summaries, Oran Park\nMoffat began closing the fifteen second gap to Jane at around one second per lap. He struggled to find a way past Geoghegan, eventually doing so around the outside of the first corner, but not without making contact. With his lead down to six seconds, Jane began to push a little harder and was able to hold the gap. A spectator then drove a Valiant Pacer road car onto the circuit, entering at the Esses and pulling up at the entry to the pit lane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092143-0014-0001", "contents": "1971 Australian Touring Car Championship, Race summaries, Oran Park\nIn the process, he was almost hit by Moffat, who did not recall seeing the Pacer after the race. Moffat closed in on Jane in the final six laps, getting to within a few car lengths at the final corner. Jane held on to take the race win and the championship, while Moffat's second place saw him overtake Geoghegan, who finished third, for the runner-up spot in the points standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092143-0015-0000", "contents": "1971 Australian Touring Car Championship, Points system\nPoints were awarded as follows to the top six finishers in each heat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 55], "content_span": [56, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092143-0016-0000", "contents": "1971 Australian Touring Car Championship, Points system\nAny six of the seven heats could be counted towards each drivers total.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 55], "content_span": [56, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092144-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Austrian Grand Prix\nThe 1971 Austrian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at \u00d6sterreichring on 15 August 1971. It was race 8 of 11 in both the 1971 World Championship of Drivers and the 1971 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers. The 54-lap race was won by BRM driver Jo Siffert after he started from pole position. Emerson Fittipaldi finished second for the Lotus team and Brabham driver Tim Schenken came in third. This was the debut race of the future world champion Niki Lauda.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092144-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Austrian Grand Prix, Race report\nJo Siffert took a surprise pole position from Jackie Stewart and led away at the start from Clay Regazzoni and Jacky Ickx. The front two drew away from the pack, where Regazzoni was duelling with Fran\u00e7ois Cevert and Ickx was dropping back with mechanical problems. On lap 21, Stewart-with a poorly handling car-allowed Cevert through so he could chase Siffert. Further down the field, there were two Brabham-Lotus battles, with Tim Schenken duelling with Emerson Fittipaldi and Reine Wisell trading places with Graham Hill. By lap 32, Ickx had retired with a spark plug problem, Regazzoni had an engine blow up and Fittipaldi had passed Schenken and set about catching Stewart.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 716]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092144-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Austrian Grand Prix, Race report\nOn lap 36, Stewart's race ended with a violent accident - his left rear driveshaft broke and the wheel was torn off. He emerged unhurt to be greeted as World Champion following Ickx's retirement. Cevert was chasing down Siffert, but with 12 laps to go his gearbox exploded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092144-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Austrian Grand Prix, Race report\nFittipaldi was now carving chunks out the BRM's lead, due to a left-rear puncture for the Swiss. However he managed to nurse the ailing car home for a popular victory by 4 seconds. Schenken was 3rd, with Wisell pipping Hill for 4th place - the Englishman was another to suffer a puncture in the dying stages and Pescarolo finished 6th in his March. Stewart won the Drivers' Championship with 3 races left to go.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092145-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Austrian legislative election\nEarly parliamentary elections were held in Austria on 10 October 1971, following electoral reforms intended to benefit smaller parties. The number of seats in the National Council was increased from 165 to 183, and the proportionality of the seat distribution was increased as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092145-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Austrian legislative election\nThe Socialist Party, which had governed as a minority government since 1970, won 93 of the 183 seats, a majority of two. Voter turnout was 92.4%. It was the first time that the Socialists had won an absolute majority at an election. They also won just over half of the vote, something no Austrian party had previously achieved in a free election. Socialist leader Bruno Kreisky remained Chancellor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092146-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Austrian presidential election\nPresidential elections were held in Austria on 25 April 1971. The result was a victory for incumbent President Franz Jonas of the Socialist Party, who received 52.8% of the vote. Voter turnout was 95.3%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092147-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 B-52C Lake Michigan crash\nOn January 7, 1971, a Boeing B-52C Stratofortress (serial 54-26660) of Strategic Air Command crashed into northern Lake Michigan at the mouth of Little Traverse Bay near Charlevoix, Michigan, while on a low-level training flight. All nine crew members aboard were lost. No remains of the crewmen were recovered. Parts of the aircraft were retrieved from a water depth of 225 feet (69\u00a0m) in May and June 1971. The structural remains included parts of the wings, all eight engines, the tail, crew section, landing gear and wheels, plus numerous smaller parts of the plane. Oceans Systems, a Florida-based salvage company, carried out the recovery mission. It remains the deadliest plane crash involving a B-52 Stratofortress in aviation history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 775]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092147-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 B-52C Lake Michigan crash, Background\nStrategic Air Command was formed by the United States Air Force after World War II to provide an active defense against any surprise attack by the Soviet Union. Though it had been an ally against Germany and Japan during World War II, by 1948 the Soviet Union showed a propensity to instigate problems with Britain, France and the United States. In August 1949, the Soviet Union detonated its first nuclear weapon and by the early 1950s had detonated a hydrogen bomb. The war of words between the two superpowers escalated during 1950s and 1960s into a nuclear arms race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092147-0001-0001", "contents": "1971 B-52C Lake Michigan crash, Background\nBy 1970 the United States was using a \"Triad Defense System\" composed of nuclear submarines armed with nuclear missiles, land based intercontinental ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads and bombers capable of delivering hydrogen bombs on enemy targets. The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress bomber had been designed in the early 1950s by Boeing Aircraft Company to give the United States Air Force the capability of delivering nuclear weapons far inside the territory of Soviet Russia. The planes were to fly at high altitude with enough fuel to hit their target.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092147-0001-0002", "contents": "1971 B-52C Lake Michigan crash, Background\nIn May 1960, the Soviet Union made known its capability to shoot such high altitude planes out of the sky by using a surface to air missile to strike CIA pilot Francis Gary Powers' U-2 spy plane over Russian territory. From that point on, the high-altitude B-52 had to be modified to conduct missions at low level, something it was not intended to be.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092147-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 B-52C Lake Michigan crash, B-52C 54-2666\nThe B-52C used on the mission of Thursday January 7, 1971, with the call sign \"Hiram 16\", had been built in the summer of 1956 as one of thirty-five B-52C bombers. From 1952 to 1962 a total of 744 B-52s of all models were built. By January 1971, all thirty-one remaining B-52Cs were stationed at Westover Air Force Base near Springfield, Massachusetts. The aircraft were more than 15 years old and four of the original thirty-five had been lost to accidents. None of the remaining aircraft had been modified to cope with the structural stress demands of low-level flight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092147-0002-0001", "contents": "1971 B-52C Lake Michigan crash, B-52C 54-2666\nAll were used for training in their designed high altitude role and, after May 1960, in the new low-level role. Low-level B-52 missions were typically flown at 300 to 500\u00a0ft (91 to 152\u00a0m) above ground level. Some of the aircraft stationed at Westover were loaned to other bases during the late 1960s and early 1970s, due to Strategic Air Command being use of later model B-52s in combat in Southeast Asia, beginning with Operation Rolling Thunder in March 1965.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092147-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 B-52C Lake Michigan crash, Hiram 16 Crew\nThe crew that flew Hiram 16 on its final mission on 7 January 1971 were all veterans of the Vietnam War. They had been loaned by the Strategic Air Command to assist in that war effort and were back stateside by January 1971 to participate in a Cold War training mission that involved a low level flight over northern Lake Michigan at Bay Shore, Michigan's mobile Radar Bomb Scoring Site.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092147-0003-0001", "contents": "1971 B-52C Lake Michigan crash, Hiram 16 Crew\nBay Shore was a radar site operated by Air Force technicians using electronic equipment designed to track, plot, score and at the same time jam the capability of bombers using its associated Olive Branch low level route. Olive Branch routes simulated what a bomb crew would experience over enemy territory. The crew members consisted of aircraft commander Lt. Col William Lemmon, co-pilot Lt. Douglas Bachman, radar navigator Cap. John Weaver, electronics warfare officer Cap. Joel Hirsch, tail gunner Tech. Sgt . Gerry Achey. Navigator instructor Maj. John Simonfy on board to recertify navigators and electronic warfare officers Lt. Douglas Ferguson, Maj. Gerald Black, and Maj. Donald Rousseau. The four extra crew members were on board for a SAC required low-level flight recertification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 838]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092147-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 B-52C Lake Michigan crash, Accident\nAfter taking off from Westover Air Force Base at 1:30 pm EST, the \"Hiram 16\" crew completed a mandatory practice refueling procedure with its accompanying KC-135 Stratotanker. A second refueling attempt had to be aborted due to a minor hydraulic leak near the right bulkhead of the crew compartment. By 6 p.m. EST the bomber had successfully completed, and scored as 'positive,' the laying down of two electronic bombs at Bay Shore Ob-9 Route targets Echo and Foxtrot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092147-0004-0001", "contents": "1971 B-52C Lake Michigan crash, Accident\nThe bomber then proceeded to circle to its entry spot at the top of Lake Michigan to make its second and final bomb scoring run north to south towards Big Rock Point where targets Delta and Charlie were located. Weather at the time showed broken to overcast skies at 2500', visibility of two miles, with light snow and rime icing in clouds from 2500-6000'. The aircraft was flying below the cloud ceiling at approximately 300'-500' above the water. At 6:32\u00a0p.m. EST the bomb crew scored a successful drop on target Delta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092147-0004-0002", "contents": "1971 B-52C Lake Michigan crash, Accident\nThe plane's crew was in radio contact with the Air Force Bomb Scoring Site at Bay Shore to confirm the hit. The two crews were both trying to jam each other to recreate likely conditions over enemy territory. Bay Shore radar technicians observed the bomber on its radar until at 6:33 pm EST, when, a mere 20 seconds into the electronic pinging of target Charlie, the radar screen suddenly lit up in a bright flash, then went blank. No verbal contact was heard immediately before or after that loss of radar tracking. The large aircraft had simply disappeared from the radar screen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 622]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092147-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 B-52C Lake Michigan crash, Accident investigation\nRecovery of the B-52C T/N 54-2666 was not accomplished until the end of June 1971. Winter weather and lake surface icing did not allow recovery procedures to continue when started in January 1971. Ocean Systems, a salvage company from Florida, retrieved parts of the plane that included all eight engines in four pods, crew and tail sections, landing gear and wheels, and large sections of the massive wings. All recovered parts were taken to the now-closed Kincheloe Air Force Base south of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, and laid out in a hangar for inspection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092147-0005-0001", "contents": "1971 B-52C Lake Michigan crash, Accident investigation\nBoeing engineer Lawrence Lee and USAF Col. Robert Saye inspected the salvaged parts and concluded that the accident was a result of structural failure between the left wing's two engine pods. With the loss of that wing, the plane nose-dived into the water exploding on impact. The plane's wings and fuselage were giant jet fuel cells that ignited and caused the explosion. No human remains were recovered. The plane's explosion was witnessed by at least five civilians living on Little Traverse Bay who all said the sky lit up like a giant fireball.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092147-0005-0002", "contents": "1971 B-52C Lake Michigan crash, Accident investigation\nSome said it 'appeared the sun was rising in the west.' The accident board noted for the record that the plane was not carrying nuclear weapons and thus was not a \"broken arrow\" accident. It was finally noted that the mishap aircraft's left wing spars had succumbed to metal fatigue and snapped in half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092147-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 B-52C Lake Michigan crash, Aftermath\nBeginning in July 1963, United States Air Force bombers were being scored by Air Force technicians at the mobile radar scoring site in Bay Shore, Michigan. The site was made up of mobile trailers filled with electronic equipment used to track, plot and jam the incoming aircraft and its crew. Each mission was a simulated use of electronics on the bomber to jam enemy radar so that the Cold War mission could be accomplished, while at the same time the ground crew of radar and electronic technicians were doing the same.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092147-0006-0001", "contents": "1971 B-52C Lake Michigan crash, Aftermath\n5 miles (8.0\u00a0km) west of the Bay Shore site was the Big Rock Point Nuclear Power Plant owned by Consumers Power and had gone active in October 1962. The 67 MegaWatt nuclear reactor was encased in concrete under a steel dome that was 5.5\u00a0in (140\u00a0mm) thick. From July 1963, most low-level training flight bomber crews had been using the large green dome of the nuclear power plant as a sight target since flying directly over the Bay Shore radar site did not give the ground technicians the ability to properly score the planes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092147-0006-0002", "contents": "1971 B-52C Lake Michigan crash, Aftermath\nThe bombers had to be either west or east of the Bay Shore-based site. As early as November 1963 Consumers Power officials were complaining about the overflights stating in one letter that they posed an exceedingly high risk factor in the event of a crash into its facility. The B-52C was traveling at 365\u00a0mph (317\u00a0kn; 587\u00a0km/h) when the main spar in its left wing suffered a major structural failure, causing a complete loss of pilot control. It was 5\u00a0mi (8.0\u00a0km) due north of Big Rock Point when it went down on a 312-degree trajectory from the Bayshore Bomb Scoring Site. Both the Big Rock Point Nuclear Power Plant and the Bay Shore Bomb Scoring Site have since been closed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 720]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092148-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 BBC2 Floodlit Trophy\n1971 was the seventh occasion on which the BBC2 Floodlit Trophy competition had been held. This year was another new name on the trophySt. Helens won the trophy by beating Rochdale Hornets by the score of 8-2The match was played at Knowsley Road, Eccleston, St Helens, Merseyside. The attendance was 9,255 and receipts were \u00a32,493This was St. Helens first victory after being runner-up in three of the previous six finals", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092148-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 BBC2 Floodlit Trophy, Background\nThis season saw no changes in the entrants, no new members and no withdrawals, the number remaining at eighteen. The format was changed back to that favoured in previous seasons when the preliminary round was played on a two-legged home and away basis with the rest of the tournament being played on a knock-out basis. The preliminary round involved four clubs, to reduce the numbers to sixteen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092148-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 BBC2 Floodlit Trophy, Competition and results, Preliminary round \u2013 second leg\nInvolved 2 matches and the same 4 Clubs in reverse fixtures", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 82], "content_span": [83, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092148-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 BBC2 Floodlit Trophy, Competition and results, Final, Teams and scorers\nScoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = two (2) points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 76], "content_span": [77, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092148-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 BBC2 Floodlit Trophy, Notes and comments\n1 * This match was televised2 * Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990-1991 and 1991-92 and the St. Helens official archives give the attendance as 9,300, but RUGBYLEAGUEprojects gives it as 9,2553 * Knowsley Road was the home of St Helens R.F.C. from 1890 until its closure in 2010. The final capacity was 17,500 although the record attendance was 35,695 set on 26 December 1949 for a league game between St Helens and Wigan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092148-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 BBC2 Floodlit Trophy, Notes and comments, General information for those unfamiliar\nThe Rugby League BBC2 Floodlit Trophy was a knock-out competition sponsored by the BBC and between rugby league clubs, entrance to which was conditional upon the club having floodlights. Most matches were played on an evening, and those of which the second half was televised, were played on a Tuesday evening. Despite the competition being named as 'Floodlit', many matches took place during the afternoons and not under floodlights, and several of the entrants, including Barrow and Bramley did not have adequate lighting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 87], "content_span": [88, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092148-0005-0001", "contents": "1971 BBC2 Floodlit Trophy, Notes and comments, General information for those unfamiliar\nAnd, when in 1973, due to the world oil crisis, the government restricted the use of floodlights in sport, all the matches, including the Trophy final, had to be played in the afternoon rather than at night. The Rugby League season always (until the onset of \"Summer Rugby\" in 1996) ran from around August-time through to around May-time and this competition always took place early in the season, in the Autumn, with the final taking place in December (The only exception to this was when disruption of the fixture list was caused by inclement weather)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 87], "content_span": [88, 641]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092149-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 BC Lions season\nThe 1971 BC Lions finished in fourth place in the Western Conference, with a 6\u20139\u20131 record, and failed to make the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092149-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 BC Lions season\nOn January 1, Eagle Keys was hired as head coach after coaching Saskatchewan to four consecutive 12+ win seasons, including a 14\u20132 record in 1970. However, the Lions did not have the talent that the Roughriders had accumulated, and the Lions had a second consecutive 6-win season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092149-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 BC Lions season\nJim Evenson had another outstanding season and finally won the CFL rushing title, with 1247 yards rushing, and was the lone Lion on the CFL all-star team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092149-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 BC Lions season\nDuring the season rookie Don Moorhead gradually won the starting quarterback job due to injuries and performance issues with incumbent 3-year starter Paul Brothers (who was traded to Ottawa late in the season) and backup Tom Wilkinson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092149-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 BC Lions season\nCarl Weathers, who later became better known as an actor, joined the team as a linebacker and was on the Lions roster until 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092149-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 BC Lions season\nFor the season, the Lions helmet had a special logo celebrating British Columbia's centennial. The Canadian Confederacy Centennial logo has three orange Cs linked with a small white Pacific dogwood flower at the centre.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092150-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 BMC Invitational\nThe 1971 BMC Invitational, also known as the British Motor Cars Invitational, was a women's tennis tournament that took place on indoor carpet courts at the Civic Auditorium in San Francisco in the United States. It was the initial tournament of the 1971 WT Women's Pro Tour and as such was the first all-female professional tournament as part of a women's tennis tour. The event was held from January 6 through January 9, 1971. The final drew an attendance of 3,100 spectators who saw first-seeded Billie Jean King won the singles title .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092150-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 BMC Invitational, Finals, Doubles\nBillie Jean King / Rosie Casals defeated Fran\u00e7oise D\u00fcrr / Ann Jones 6\u20134, 6\u20137, 6\u20131", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 38], "content_span": [39, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092151-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 BMC Invitational \u2013 Singles\nBillie Jean King won in the final 6\u20133, 6\u20134 against Rosie Casals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092152-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 BRDC International Trophy\nThe 23rd BRDC International Trophy meeting - formally the GEN/Daily Express BRDC International Trophy - was held on 8 May 1971 at the Silverstone Circuit, England. The race was run to Formula One and Formula 5000 regulations, and was held over two heats of 26 laps each, the final results being an aggregate of the two. Graham Hill emerged the winner in the unique Brabham BT34 lobster-claw car, designed by Ron Tauranac. It would be the two-time World Champion's last victory in a Formula One race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092152-0000-0001", "contents": "1971 BRDC International Trophy\nThe 1971 event was also notable as one of the few competitive outings for the Lotus 56 gas turbine car. However, suspension failure on only the third lap of the first heat resulted in early retirement for driver Emerson Fittipaldi, although the car held together for long enough to take third place in the second heat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092152-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 BRDC International Trophy\nThe race incorporated Round 5 of the 1971 Rothmans European Formula 5000 Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092153-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 BYU Cougars football team\nThe 1971 BYU Cougars football team was an American football team that represented Brigham Young University in the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. In their eighth and final season under head coach Tommy Hudspeth, the Cougars compiled a 5\u20136 record (3\u20134 against WAC opponents), finished fourth in the WAC, and outscored opponents by a total of 227 to 199.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092153-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 BYU Cougars football team\nPete Van Valkenburg led the team with 602 rushing yards, 684 yards of total offense, and 48 points scored. Other statistical leaders included Bill August with 448 passing yards, Golden Richards with 238 receiving yards, and Dave Atkinson with nine interceptions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092154-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Balkans Cup\nThe 1971 Balkans Cup was an edition of the Balkans Cup, a football competition for representative clubs from the Balkan states. It was contested by 6 teams and Panionios won the trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092155-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Ball State Cardinals football team\nThe 1971 Ball State Cardinals football team was an American football team that represented Ball State University as an Independent during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. In its first season under head coach Dave McClain, the team compiled a 4\u20135\u20131 record. The team played its home games at Ball State Stadium in Muncie, Indiana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092156-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Ballon d'Or\nThe 1971 Ballon d'Or, given to the best football player in Europe as judged by a panel of sports journalists from UEFA member countries, was awarded to Johan Cruyff on 28 December 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092156-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Ballon d'Or\nCruyff was the first Dutch national to win the award, and also the first Ajax player to win the trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092157-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Balmoral Furniture Company bombing\nThe Balmoral Furniture Company bombing was a paramilitary attack that took place on 11 December 1971 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. A bomb exploded without warning outside a furniture showroom on the Shankill Road in a predominantly unionist area, killing four civilians, two of them babies. It is widely believed that the bombing was carried out by members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) in retaliation for the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) bombing of McGurk's Bar a week earlier, which killed 15 Catholic civilians.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092157-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Balmoral Furniture Company bombing\nThe bombing happened on a Saturday when the Shankill was crowded with shoppers, creating bedlam in the area. Hundreds of people rushed to help British Army troops and the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) rescue survivors trapped under the rubble of the devastated building. According to journalist Peter Taylor, the bomb site was \"reminiscent of the London Blitz\" during World War II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092157-0001-0001", "contents": "1971 Balmoral Furniture Company bombing\nThe attack provoked much anger in the tight-knit Ulster Protestant community and many men later cited the bombing as their reason for joining one of the two main Ulster loyalist paramilitary organisations: the illegal UVF or the then-legal Ulster Defence Association (UDA). Four such men were Tommy Lyttle, Michael Stone, Sammy Duddy, and Billy McQuiston.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092157-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Balmoral Furniture Company bombing\nThe bombing was one of the catalysts that sparked the series of tit-for-tat bombings and shootings by loyalists, republicans and the security forces that made the 1970s the bloodiest decade in the 30-year history of the Troubles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092157-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Balmoral Furniture Company bombing, The bombing\nAt 12.25 pm on 11 December 1971, when the Shankill Road was packed with Saturday shoppers, a green car pulled up outside the Balmoral Furniture Company at the corner of Carlow Street and Shankill Road. The shop was locally known as \"Moffat's\" although Balmoral Furniture Company was its official name. One of the occupants got out, leaving a box containing a bomb on the step outside the front door. The person got back into the car and it sped away. The bomb exploded moments later, bringing down most of the building on top of those inside the shop and on passersby outside.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 52], "content_span": [53, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092157-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Balmoral Furniture Company bombing, The bombing\nFour people were killed as a result of the massive blast, including two babies\u2014Tracey Munn (2) and Colin Nichol (17 months)\u2014who both died instantly when part of the wall crashed down upon the pram they were sharing. Two employees working inside the shop were also killed: Hugh Bruce (70) and Harold King (29). Unlike the other three victims, who were Protestant, King was a Catholic. Bruce, a former soldier and a Corps of Commissionaires member, was the shop's doorman and was nearest to the bomb when it exploded. Nineteen people were injured in the bombing, including Tracey's mother. The building, which was built in Victorian times, had load-bearing walls supporting upper floors on joists. It was thus unable to withstand the blast and so collapsed, adding to the devastation and injury count.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 52], "content_span": [53, 852]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092157-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Balmoral Furniture Company bombing, The bombing\nThe bombing caused bedlam in the crowded street. Hundreds of people rushed to the scene where they formed human chains to help the British Army and RUC free those trapped beneath the rubble by digging with their bare hands. Peter Taylor described the scene as \"reminiscent of the London Blitz\" in World War II. One witness was Billy McQuiston, who had been walking down the Shankill with a friend when they heard the blast. Rushing to the scene, McQuiston later recounted what he saw and felt upon reaching the wrecked building:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 52], "content_span": [53, 581]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092157-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Balmoral Furniture Company bombing, The bombing\nWomen were crying. Men were trying to dig out the rubble. Other men were hitting the walls. One person was crying beside you and the next person was shouting 'Bastards' and things like that. I didn't actually see the babies' bodies as they had them wrapped in sheets, but the blood was just coming right through them. They were just like lumps of meat, you know, small lumps of meat. All these emotions were going through you and you wanted to help. There were people shouting at the back, \"Let's get something done about this\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 52], "content_span": [53, 581]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092157-0006-0001", "contents": "1971 Balmoral Furniture Company bombing, The bombing\nTo be perfectly honest with you, I just stood there and cried, just totally and utterly numb. It wasn't until I got back home that I realised, this isn't a game. There's a war going on here. These people are trying to do us all in. They're trying to kill us all and they don't care who we are or what age we are. Because we're Protestants, they are going to kill us so we're going to have to do something here.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 52], "content_span": [53, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092157-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Balmoral Furniture Company bombing, The bombing\nThe angry crowd at the scene shared McQuiston's dismay and anger against the IRA, whom they automatically held responsible for the bombing. They also sought to retaliate against any Catholic they happened upon. A Protestant man nearby made a remark about the bombing, and someone who overheard it mistook the speaker for a Catholic and shouted out: \"He's Catholic!\" A mob of about one hundred men and women ran towards him and began kicking and punching him until he was left unconscious. It took the RUC and British troops half an hour to rescue him from his attackers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 52], "content_span": [53, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092157-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Balmoral Furniture Company bombing, Aftermath\nAlthough nobody claimed responsibility for the attack, the Provisional IRA was immediately and widely blamed. In his book Loyalists, Peter Taylor explained that the Provisional IRA bombed Balmoral in retaliation for the McGurk's Bar bombing one week earlier, which had killed 15 Catholic civilians. This theory is supported by author Susan McKay. Billy McQuiston, along with many other Protestant men who had been on the Shankill at the time of the explosion, immediately joined the Ulster Defence Association (UDA). Others included Sammy Duddy, Michael Stone, and Tommy Lyttle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 50], "content_span": [51, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092157-0008-0001", "contents": "1971 Balmoral Furniture Company bombing, Aftermath\nLyttle, who became brigadier of the UDA West Belfast Brigade, was not there but his wife and two daughters were near the bomb when it went off. They received no injuries, but his daughter Linda said that Lyttle \"took it personally\". Jackie McDonald, the incumbent South Belfast UDA brigadier, worked as dispatches manager for the Balmoral Furniture Company. The leader of the Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF, the name the UDA used to claim attacks), John White, who was convicted of the double murder of Senator Paddy Wilson and Irene Andrews in 1973, used the Balmoral bombing as justification for these killings and others.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 50], "content_span": [51, 674]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092157-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 Balmoral Furniture Company bombing, Aftermath\nWithin a month of the bombing, the UDA had restructured, adopting a more military structure and establishing a thirteen-member Security Council under Charles Harding Smith to co-ordinate activity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 50], "content_span": [51, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092157-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 Balmoral Furniture Company bombing, Aftermath\nMichael Stone would go on to perpetrate the Milltown Cemetery attack in 1988, which was caught on camera. Another Protestant man, Eddie Kinner, had been at the scene following the explosion. He lived around the corner from Balmoral. He sought revenge against the IRA and later joined the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 50], "content_span": [51, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092157-0010-0001", "contents": "1971 Balmoral Furniture Company bombing, Aftermath\nHe later spoke about his reactions to the Balmoral bombing in an interview with Peter Taylor: \"On that occasion, if somebody had handed me a bomb to plant it anywhere you want in the Falls, I would have done it\", adding that he had no qualms about taking somebody else's life. Within a week of the attack, the UVF retaliated by planting a bomb at Murtagh's Bar on the Irish nationalist Springfield Road in west Belfast. A 16-year-old Catholic barman, James McCallum, was killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 50], "content_span": [51, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092157-0011-0000", "contents": "1971 Balmoral Furniture Company bombing, Aftermath\nThe building which housed Balmoral's Furniture Company was formerly \"Wee Joe's Picture House\", dating from the 1930s. Taking its name from \"Wee\" Joe McKibben, one of three owners of the cinema (which was nicknamed the \"Wee Shank\"), it was said locally that it cost a jam jar to get in on account of the fact that patrons could go to McKibben's other place of business, a grocery shop, and swap an empty jam jar for a ticket to the cinema. The edifice was demolished after the bombing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 50], "content_span": [51, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092157-0011-0001", "contents": "1971 Balmoral Furniture Company bombing, Aftermath\nAlthough a youth on the Shankill had seen the green car and person who planted the device, the bombers were never apprehended nor was anyone ever charged in connection with the attack. The McGurk's Bar bombing was the catalyst that sparked a series of tit-for-tat bombings and shootings by loyalist and republican paramilitaries that would help make the 1970s the bloodiest decade in the 30-year history of the Troubles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 50], "content_span": [51, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092157-0012-0000", "contents": "1971 Balmoral Furniture Company bombing, Aftermath\nThe Balmoral bombing was not the first paramilitary attack in the Shankill Road area. On 29 September 1971, the Four Steps Inn pub had been bombed by the Provisional IRA, resulting in the deaths of two men. It would not be the last either. In August 1975, the Provisional IRA carried out a shooting and bombing attack against the Bayardo Bar on Aberdeen Street, which killed three men and two women - one aged 17. A deadlier attack took place on 23 October 1993 when a two-man IRA unit from Ardoyne carried a bomb into Frizzell's Fish Shop on the Shankill. The device detonated prematurely, killing one of the bombers and ten of the customers (see Shankill Road bombing).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 50], "content_span": [51, 722]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092157-0013-0000", "contents": "1971 Balmoral Furniture Company bombing, Aftermath\nBalmoral as a company was also established as a target by this attack and in October 1976 its premises in Dunmurry were blown up in another bomb attack. There were no casualties. Three IRA volunteers were arrested not far from the scene of this attack with one, Bobby Sands, imprisoned for possessing a gun as a result. Sands' fellow hunger striker, Joe McDonnell, was also arrested following this incident. Sands and McDonnell had jointly planned the bomb attack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 50], "content_span": [51, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092158-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Baltimore Colts season\nThe 1971 Baltimore Colts season was the 19th season for the team in the National Football League. Led by second-year head coach Don McCafferty, the Colts appeared to be on the verge of winning the AFC East again after beating the Miami Dolphins 14\u20133 in the penultimate game of the regular season. However, the Colts lost the final game of the season at home to the New England Patriots, dropping them to 10\u20134 and the wild card berth. They lost to the Dolphins in the AFC Championship game. The Baltimore defense gave up a total of 140 points for 14 regular season (10 PPG) & in their four defeats, they lost by 15 points total.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 655]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092158-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Baltimore Colts season\nThis was the final season under the ownership of Carroll Rosenbloom, who traded franchises with the Los Angeles Rams in July 1972, with players and coaching staffs remaining intact.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092158-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Baltimore Colts season, Regular season, Standings\nNote: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092158-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Baltimore Colts season, Postseason\nThe team made it to the playoffs as a No. 4 seed and traveled to Cleveland to play the Cleveland Browns in the divisional round. The Colts led 14\u20130 at the half and would cruise to a 20\u20133 win. They then traveled south to play the Miami Dolphins and tried to make it to their second consecutive Super Bowl. Colts QB Johnny Unitas was intercepted three times as they were shut out 21\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092159-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Baltimore Orioles season\nIn 1971, the Baltimore Orioles finished first in the American League East, with a record of 101 wins and 57 losses. As of 2016, the 1971 Orioles are one of only two Major League Baseball clubs (the 1920 Chicago White Sox being the other) to have four 20-game winners in a season: Jim Palmer, Dave McNally, Mike Cuellar, and Pat Dobson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092159-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Baltimore Orioles season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092159-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Baltimore Orioles season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092159-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Baltimore Orioles season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092159-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Baltimore Orioles season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092159-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Baltimore Orioles season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092160-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Baltimore mayoral election\nThe 1971 Baltimore mayoral election saw the election of William Donald Schaefer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092161-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Bandy World Championship\nThe 1971 Bandy World Championship was the seventh Bandy World Championship and was contested between four men's Bandy playing nations. The championship was played in Sweden from 3\u201314 March 1971. The Soviet Union became champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide\nThe genocide in Bangladesh began on 26 March 1971 with the launch of Operation Searchlight, as West Pakistan (now Pakistan) began a military crackdown on the East Pakistan wing (now Bangladesh) of the nation to suppress Bengali calls for self-determination. During the nine-month-long Bangladesh Liberation War, members of the Pakistan Armed Forces and supporting pro-Pakistani Islamist militias from Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami killed between 200,000 and 3,000,000 people and raped between 200,000 and 400,000 Bengali women, according to Bangladeshi and Indian sources, in a systematic campaign of genocidal rape. Pakistan rejected the claims and termed it as propaganda against the Pakistan Army.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 722]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide\nThe actions against women were supported by Pakistan's religious leaders, who declared that Bengali women were gonimoter maal (Bengali for \"public property\"). As a result of the conflict, a further eight to ten million people, mostly Hindus, fled the country to seek refuge in neighbouring India. It is estimated that up to 30 million civilians were internally displaced out of 70 million. During the war, there was also ethnic violence between Bengalis and Urdu-speaking Biharis. Biharis faced reprisals from Bengali mobs and militias, and from 1,000 to 150,000 were killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide\nThere is an academic consensus that the events which took place during the Bangladesh Liberation War constituted a genocide; however, there are some scholars and authors who deny that the killing was a genocide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, Background\nFollowing the partition of India, the new state of Pakistan represented a geographical anomaly, with two wings separated by 1,600 kilometres (1,000\u00a0mi) of Indian territory. The wings were not only separated geographically, but also culturally. The authorities of the West viewed the Bengali Muslims in the East as \"too 'Bengali'\" and their application of Islam as \"inferior and impure\", believing this made the Bengalis unreliable \"co-religionists\". To this extent politicians in West Pakistan began a strategy to forcibly assimilate the Bengalis culturally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, Background\nThe Bengali people were the demographic majority in Pakistan, making up an estimated 75\u00a0million in East Pakistan, compared with 55\u00a0million in the predominantly Punjabi-speaking West Pakistan. The majority in the East were Muslim, with large minorities of Hindus, Buddhists and Christians. The West considered the people of the East to be second-class citizens, and Amir Abdullah Khan Niazi, who served as head of the Pakistani Forces in East Pakistan in 1971, referred Bengalis not equal to the level of Pathans and Punjabis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, Background\nIn 1948, a few months after the creation of Pakistan, Governor-General Mohammad Ali Jinnah declared Urdu as the national language of the newly formed state, although only four\u00a0per cent of Pakistan's population spoke Urdu at that time. He branded those who supported the use of Bengali as communists, traitors and enemies of the state. The refusal by successive governments to recognise Bengali as the second national language culminated in the Bengali language movement and strengthened support for the newly formed Awami League, which was founded in the East as an alternative to the ruling Muslim League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 643]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0005-0001", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, Background\nA 1952 protest in Dhaka, the capital of East Pakistan, was forcibly broken up, resulting in the deaths of several protesters. Bengali nationalists viewed those who had died as martyrs for their cause, and the violence led to calls for secession. The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 caused further grievances, as the military had assigned no extra units to the defence of the East. This was a matter of concern to the Bengalis who saw their nation undefended in case of Indian attack during the conflict of 1965, and that Ayub Khan, the dictator-ruler of Pakistan, was willing to lose the East if it meant gaining Kashmir.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 653]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, Background\nThe slow response to the Bhola cyclone which struck on 12 November 1970 is widely seen as a contributing factor in the December 1970 general election. The East Pakistan-based Awami League, headed by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, won a national majority in the first democratic election since the creation of Pakistan, sweeping East Pakistan. But, the West Pakistani establishment prevented them from forming a government. President Yahya Khan, encouraged by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, banned the Awami League and declared martial law. The Pakistani Army demolished Ramna Kali Mandir (temple) and killed 85 Hindus. On 22 February 1971, General Yahya Khan is reported to have said \"Kill three million of them, and the rest will eat out of our hands.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 772]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, Background\nSome Bengalis supported a united Pakistan and opposed secession from it. According to Indian academic Sarmila Bose, these pro-Pakistan Bengalis constituted a significant minority, and included the Islamic parties. Moreover, many Awami League voters who hoped to achieve provincial autonomy may not have desired secession. Additionally, some Bengali officers and soldiers remained loyal to the Pakistani Army and were taken as prisoners of war by India along with other West Pakistani soldiers. Thus, according to Sarmila Bose, there were many pro-regime Bengalis who killed and persecuted the pro-liberation fighters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 654]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0007-0001", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, Background\nSydney Schanberg reported the formation of armed civilian units by the Pakistani Army in June 1971. Only a minority of the recruits were Bengali while most were Biharis and Urdu speakers. The units with local knowledge played an important role in the implementation of the Pakistani Army's genocide. American writer Gary J. Bass believes that the breakup of Pakistan was not inevitable, identifying 25 March 1971 as the point where the idea of a united Pakistan ended for Bengalis with the start of military operations. According to John H. Gill, since there was widespread polarisation between pro-Pakistan Bengalis and pro-liberation Bengalis during the war, those internal battles are still playing out in the domestic politics of modern-day Bangladesh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 793]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, Operation Searchlight\nOperation Searchlight was a planned military operation carried out by the Pakistani Army to curb elements of the separatist Bengali nationalist movement in East Pakistan in March 1971. The Pakistani state justified commencing Operation Searchlight on the basis of anti-Bihari violence by Bengalis in early March. Ordered by the government in West Pakistan, this was seen as the sequel to Operation Blitz which had been launched in November 1970. On 1 March 1971 East Pakistan governor Admiral Syed Mohammed Ahsan was replaced after disagreeing with military action in East Pakistan. His successor Sahibzada Yaqub Khan resigned after refusing to use soldiers to quell a mutiny and disagreement with military action in East Pakistan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 47], "content_span": [48, 779]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, Operation Searchlight\nAccording to Indian academic Sarmila Bose, the postponement of the National Assembly on 1 March led to widespread lawlessness spread by Bengali protesters during the period of 1\u201325 March, in which the Pakistani government lost control over much of the province. Bose asserts that during this 25-day period of lawlessness, attacks by Bengalis on non-Bengalis were common as well as attacks by Bengalis on Pakistani military personnel who, according to Bose and Anthony Mascarenhas, showed great restraint until 25 March, when Operation Searchlight began. Bose also described the atrocities committed by the Pakistani Army in her book. According to Anthony Mascarenhas, the actions of the Pakistani Army compared to the violence by Bengalis was \"altogether worse and on a grander scale\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 47], "content_span": [48, 833]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, Operation Searchlight\nOn the night of 25 March 1971 the Pakistani Army launched Operation Searchlight. Time magazine dubbed General Tikka Khan, the \"Butcher of Bengal\" for his role in Operation Searchlight. Targets of the operation included Jagannath Hall which was a dormitory for non-Muslim students of Dhaka University, Rajarbagh Police Lines, Pilkhana, which is the headquarters of East Pakistan Rifles. About 34 students were killed in the dormitories of Dhaka University. Neighbourhoods of old Dhaka which had a majority Hindu population were also attacked. Robert Payne, an American journalist, estimated that 7,000 people had been killed and 3,000 arrested in that night. Teachers of Dhaka University were killed in the operation by the Pakistani Army. Sheikh Mujib was arrested by the Pakistani Army on 25 March. Ramna Kali Mandir was demolished by the Pakistani Army in March 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 47], "content_span": [48, 917]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0011-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, Operation Searchlight\nThe original plan envisioned taking control of the major cities on 26 March 1971, and then eliminating all opposition, political, or military, within one month. The prolonged Bengali resistance was not anticipated by Pakistani planners. The main phase of Operation Searchlight ended with the fall of the last major town in Bengali hands in mid May. The countryside still remained almost evenly contested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 47], "content_span": [48, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0012-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, Operation Searchlight\nThe first report of the Bangladesh genocide was published by West Pakistani journalist Anthony Mascarenhas in The Sunday Times, London on 13 June 1971 titled \"Genocide\". He wrote: \"I saw Hindus, hunted from village to village and door to door, shot off-hand after a cursory 'short-arm inspection' showed they were uncircumcised. I have heard the screams of men bludgeoned to death in the compound of the Circuit House (civil administrative headquarters) in Comilla.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 47], "content_span": [48, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0012-0001", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, Operation Searchlight\nI have seen truckloads of other human targets and those who had the humanity to try to help them hauled off 'for disposal' under the cover of darkness and curfew.\" This article helped turn world opinion against Pakistan and decisively encouraged the Government of India to intervene. On 2 August 1971, Time magazine correspondent sent a dispatch that provided detailed description of the Pakistani army-led destruction in East Pakistan. It wrote that cities have whole sections damaged from shelling and aerial bombardments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 47], "content_span": [48, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0012-0002", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, Operation Searchlight\nThe dispatch wrote: \"In Dhaka, where soldiers set sections of the Old City ablaze with flamethrowers and then machine-gunned thousands as they tried to escape the cordon of fire, nearly 25 blocks have been bulldozed clear, leaving open areas set incongruously amid jam-packed slums.\" It quoted a senior US official as saying \"It is the most incredible, calculated thing since the days of the Nazis in Poland.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 47], "content_span": [48, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0013-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, Operation Searchlight\nArcher K. Blood, American diplomat wrote in the Blood Telegram: \"with support of the Pak military, non-Bengali Muslims are systematically attacking poor people's quarters and murdering Bengalis and Hindus.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 47], "content_span": [48, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0014-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, Estimated killed\nOn the high end, Bangladeshi authorities claim that as many as 3 million people were killed; the lowest estimate comes from the controversial Hamoodur Rahman Commission, the official Pakistani government investigation, which claimed the figure was 26,000 civilian casualties. The figure of 3 million has become embedded in Bangladeshi culture and literature. Sayyid A. Karim, Bangladesh's first foreign secretary alleges that the source of the figure was Pravda, the news-arm of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Independent researchers have estimated the death toll to be around 300,000 to 500,000 people while others estimate the casualty figure to be 3 million. The United States intelligence agency, the CIA and the State Department estimated that 200,000 people had been killed in the genocide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 42], "content_span": [43, 849]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0015-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, Estimated killed\nAccording to Sarmila Bose's controversial book Dead Reckoning: Memories of the 1971 Bangladesh War, the number lies somewhere between 50,000 and 100,000. However, her book was the subject of strong criticism by journalists; writer and visual artist Naeem Mohaiemen; Nayanika Mookherjee, an anthropologist at Durham University; and others.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 42], "content_span": [43, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0016-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, Estimated killed\nIn 1976 the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh undertook a comprehensive population survey in Matlab, Noakhali where a total of 868 excess wartime deaths were recorded; this led to an estimated overall excess number of deaths in the whole of Bangladesh of nearly 500,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 42], "content_span": [43, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0016-0001", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, Estimated killed\nBased on this study, the British Medical Journal in 2008, conducted a study by Ziad Obermeyer, Christopher J. L. Murray, and Emmanuela Gakidou which estimated that 125,000\u2013505,000 civilians died as a result of the conflict; the authors note that this is far higher than a previous estimate of 58,000 by Uppsala University and the Peace Research Institute, Oslo. This figure is supported by the statements of Bangladeshi author Ahmed Sharif in 1996, who added that \"they kept the truth hidden for getting political advantages\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 42], "content_span": [43, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0016-0002", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, Estimated killed\nAmerican political scientists Richard Sisson and Leo E. Rose give a low-end estimate of 300,000 dead, killed by all parties, and they deny that a genocide occurred, while American political scientist R. J. Rummel estimated that about 1.5\u00a0million people were killed in Bangladesh. Indian journalist Nirmal Sen claims that the total number killed was about 250,000 and among them, about 100,000 were Bengalis and the rest were Biharis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 42], "content_span": [43, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0017-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, Estimated killed\nMany of those killed were the victims of radical religious paramilitary militias formed by the West Pakistani Army, including the Razakars, Al-Shams and Al-Badr forces. There are many mass graves in Bangladesh, and more are continually being discovered (such as one in an old well near a mosque in Dhaka, located in the Mirpur region of the city, which was discovered in August 1999). The first night of war on Bengalis, which is documented in telegrams from the American Consulate in Dhaka to the United States State Department, saw indiscriminate killings of students of Dhaka University and other civilians.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 42], "content_span": [43, 653]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0018-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, Estimated killed\nOn 16 December 2002, the George Washington University's National Security Archive published a collection of declassified documents, consisting mostly of communications between US embassy officials and USIS centres in Dhaka and India, and officials in Washington, D.C. These documents show that US officials working in diplomatic institutions within Bangladesh used the terms selective genocide and genocide (see Blood telegram) to describe events they had knowledge of at the time. The complete chronology of events as reported to the Nixon administration can be found on the Department of State website.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 42], "content_span": [43, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0019-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, Islamist militias\nThe Jamaat-e-Islami party as well as some other pro Pakistani Islamists opposed the Bangladeshi independence struggle and collaborated with the Pakistani state and armed forces out of Islamic solidarity. According to political scientist Peter Tomsen, Pakistan's secret service, in conjunction with the political party Jamaat-e-Islami, formed militias such as Al-Badr (\"the moon\") and the Al-Shams (\"the sun\") to conduct operations against the nationalist movement. These militias targeted noncombatants and committed rapes as well as other crimes. Local collaborators known as Razakars also took part in the atrocities. The term has since become a pejorative akin to the western term \"Judas\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 736]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0020-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, Islamist militias\nMembers of the Muslim League, Nizam-e-Islam, Jamaat-e-Islami and Jamiat Ulema Pakistan, who had lost the election, collaborated with the military and acted as an intelligence organisation for them. Jamaat-e-Islami members and some of its leaders collaborated with the Pakistani forces in rapes and targeted killings. The atrocities by Al-Badr and the Al-Shams garnered worldwide attention from news agencies; accounts of massacres and rapes were widely reported.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0021-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, Killing of intellectuals\nDuring the war, the Pakistani Army and its local collaborators, mainly Jamaat e Islami carried out a systematic execution of the leading Bengali intellectuals. A number of professors from Dhaka University were killed during the first few days of the war. However, the most extreme cases of targeted killing of intellectuals took place during the last few days of the war.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 50], "content_span": [51, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0021-0001", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, Killing of intellectuals\nProfessors, journalists, doctors, artists, engineers and writers were rounded up by the Pakistani Army and the Razakar militia in Dhaka, blindfolded, taken to torture cells in Mirpur, Mohammadpur, Nakhalpara, Rajarbagh and other locations in different sections of the city to be executed en masse, most notably at Rayerbazar and Mirpur. Allegedly, the Pakistani Army and its paramilitary arm, the Al-Badr and Al-Shams forces created a list of doctors, teachers, poets, and scholars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 50], "content_span": [51, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0022-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, Killing of intellectuals\nDuring the nine-month duration of the war the Pakistani Army, with the assistance of local collaborators, systematically executed an estimated 991 teachers, 13 journalists, 49 physicians, 42 lawyers, and 16 writers, artists and engineers. Even after the official ending of the war on 16 December there were reports of killings being committed by either the armed Pakistani soldiers or by their collaborators. In one such incident, notable filmmaker Jahir Raihan was killed on 30 January 1972 in Mirpur, allegedly by armed Beharis. In memory of the people who were killed, 14 December is observed in Bangladesh as Shaheed Buddhijibi Dibosh (\"Day of the Martyred Intellectuals\").", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 50], "content_span": [51, 728]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0023-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, Killing of intellectuals\nNotable intellectuals who were killed from the time period of 25 March to 16 December 1971 in different parts of the country include Dhaka University professors Dr. Govinda Chandra Dev (philosophy), Dr. Munier Chowdhury (Bengali literature), Dr. Mufazzal Haider Chaudhury (Bengali Literature), Dr. Anwar Pasha (Bengali Literature), Dr M Abul Khair (history), Dr. Jyotirmoy Guhathakurta (English literature), Humayun Kabir (English literature), Rashidul Hasan (English literature), Ghyasuddin Ahmed, Sirajul Haque Khan, Faizul Mahi, Dr Santosh Chandra Bhattacharyya and Saidul Hassan (physics), Rajshahi University professors Dr. Hobibur Rahman (mathematics), Prof Sukhranjan Somaddar (Sanskrit), Prof Mir Abdul Quaiyum (psychology) as well as Dr. Mohammed Fazle Rabbee (cardiologist), Dr. AFM Alim Chowdhury (ophthalmologist), Shahidullah Kaiser (journalist), Nizamuddin Ahmed (journalist), Selina Parvin (journalist), Altaf Mahmud (lyricist and musician), Dhirendranath Datta (politician), Jahir Raihan (novelist, journalist, film director) and Ranadaprasad Saha (philanthropist).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 50], "content_span": [51, 1132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0024-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, Violence against women\nThe generally accepted figure for the mass rapes during the nine-month long conflict is between 200,000 and 400,000. During the war, a fatwa in Pakistan declared that the Bengali freedom fighters were Hindus and that their women could be taken as the 'booty of war'. Imams and Muslim religious leaders publicly declared that the Bengali women were 'gonimoter maal' (war booty) and thus they openly supported the rape of Bengali women by the Pakistani Army. Numerous women were tortured, raped and killed during the war. Hindu women used to be killed after being raped and Bengali Muslim women left alive to give birth to \"pure\" Muslims. Aubrey Menen documented a 17 year old Hindu bride who was gang raped by Pakistani soldiers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 777]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0025-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, Violence against women\nTwo went into the room that had been built for the bridal couple. The others stayed behind with the family, one of them covering them with his gun. They heard a barked order, and the bridegroom's voice protesting. Then there was silence until the bride screamed... In a few minutes one of the soldiers came out, his uniform in disarray. He grinned to his companions. Another soldier took his place in the extra room. And so on, until all six had raped the belle of the village. Then all six left, hurriedly. The father found his daughter lying on the string unconscious and bleeding. Her husband was crouched on the floor, kneeling over his vomit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 696]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0026-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, Violence against women\nBangladeshi sources cite a figure of 200,000 women raped, giving birth to thousands of war-babies. The soldiers of the Pakistan Army and razakars also kept Bengali women as sex-slaves inside the Pakistani Army's camps, and many became pregnant. The perpetrators also included Mukti Bahini and the Indian Army, which targeted noncombatants and committed rapes, as well as other crimes. Among other sources, Susan Brownmiller refers to an estimated number of over 400,000. Pakistani sources claim the number is much lower, though they have not denied that rape incidents occurred. Brownmiller quotes:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0027-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, Violence against women\nKhadiga, thirteen years old, was interviewed by a photojournalist in Dacca. She was walking to school with four other girls when they were kidnapped by a gang of Pakistani soldiers. All five were put in a military brothel in Mohammadpur and held captive for six months until the end of the war.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0028-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, Violence against women\nIn a New York Times report named 'Horrors of East Pakistan Turning Hope into Despair', Malcolm W. Browne wrote:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0029-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, Violence against women\nOne tale that is widely believed and seems to come from many different sources is that 563 women picked up by the army in March and April and held in military brothels are not being released because they are pregnant beyond the point at which abortions are possible.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0030-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, Violence against women\nThe licentious attitude of the soldiers, although generally supported by their superiors, alarmed the regional high command of the Pakistani Army. On 15 April 1971, in a secret memorandum to the divisional commanders, Niazi complained,", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0031-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, Violence against women\nSince my arrival, I have heard numerous reports of troops indulging in looting and arson, killing people at random and without reasons in areas cleared of the anti state elements; of late there have been reports of rape and even the West Pakistanis are not being spared; on 12 April two West Pakistani women were raped, and an attempt was made on two others.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0032-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, Violence against women\nAnthony Mascarenhas published a newspaper article titled 'Genocide in June 1971' in which he also wrote about violence perpetrated by Bengalis against Biharis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0033-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, Violence against women\nFirst it was the massacre of the non-Bengalis in a savage outburst of Bengali hatred. Now it was massacre deliberately carried out by the West Pakistan army ... The West Pakistani soldiers are not the only ones who have been killing in East Bengal, of course. On the night of 25 March... the Bengali troops and paramilitary units stationed in East Pakistan mutinied and attacked non-Bengalis with atrocious savagery. Thousands of families of unfortunate Muslims, many of them refugees from Bihar who chose Pakistan at the time of the partition riots in 1947, were mercilessly wiped out. Women were raped, or had their breasts torn out with specially-fashioned knives. Children did not escape the horror; the lucky ones were killed with their parents...", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 801]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0034-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, Violence against women\nPakistani Major General Khadim Hussain Raja wrote in his book that Niazi, in presence of Bengali officers would say \u2018Main iss haramzadi qom ki nasal badal doonga (I will change the race of the Bengalis)\u2019. A witness statement to the commission read \"The troops used to say that when the Commander (Lt Gen Niazi) was himself a raper (sic), how could they be stopped? \".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0035-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, Violence against women\nAnother work that has included direct experiences from the women raped is Ami Birangona Bolchhi (\"I, the heroine, speak\") by Nilima Ibrahim. The work includes in its name from the word Birangona (Heroine), given by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman after the war, to the raped and tortured women during the war. This was a conscious effort to alleviate any social stigma the women might face in the society.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0036-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, Violence against women\nThere are eyewitness reports of the \"rape camps\" established by the Pakistani Army. The US based Women Under Siege Project of the Women's Media Center have reported the girls as young as 8 and women as old as 75 were detained in Pakistan military barracks, and where they were victims of mass rape which sometimes culminated in mass murder. The report was based on interview with survivors. Australian Doctor Geoffrey Davis was brought to Bangladesh by the United Nation and International Planned Parenthood Federation to carry out late term abortions on rape victims.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0036-0001", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, Violence against women\nHe was of the opinion that the 200,000 to 400,000 rape victims were an underestimation. On the actions of Pakistan army he said \"They'd keep the infantry back and put artillery ahead and they would shell the hospitals and schools. And that caused absolute chaos in the town. And then the infantry would go in and begin to segregate the women. Apart from little children, all those were (sic) sexually matured would be segregated.. And then the women would be put in the compound under guard and made available to the troops ... Some of the stories they told were appalling. Being raped again and again and again. A lot of them died in those [rape] camps. There was an air of disbelief about the whole thing. Nobody could credit that it really happened! But the evidence clearly showed that it did happen.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 854]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0037-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, Violence against women\nIn October 2005, Sarmila Bose published a paper suggesting that the casualties and rape allegations in the war have been greatly exaggerated for political purposes. Whilst she received praise from many quarters, a number of researchers have shown inaccuracies in Bose's work, including flawed methodology of statistical analysis, misrepresentation of referenced sources, and disproportionate weight to Pakistani Army testimonies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0038-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, Violence against women\nA 2014 film titled Children of War focused on the harrowing condition in the 'rape camps' set up by the Anti Separatists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0039-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, Violence against women\nHistorian Christian Gerlach states that \"a systematic collection of statistical data was aborted, possibly because the tentative data did not substantiate the claim that three million had died and at least 200,000 women had been raped.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0040-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, Violence against Hindus\nAn article in Time magazine, dated 2 August 1971, stated \"The Hindus, who account for three-fourths of the refugees and a majority of the dead, have borne the brunt of the Muslim military hatred.\" Pakistan army eastern command headquarter officials in Dhaka made clear the government's policy on East Bengal. After the elimination or exile of Hindus, their property was going to be shared among middle class Muslims. According to Colonel Naim, Hindus \"undermined the Muslim masses.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 49], "content_span": [50, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0040-0001", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, Violence against Hindus\nHe said Bengali culture to a great extent was Hindu culture, and \"We have to sort them out to restore the land to the people.\" In April 1971 at Comilla, Major Rathore said to Anthony Mascarenhas, regarding Hindus: \"Now under the cover of fighting we have an excellent opportunity of finishing them off. [ ...] Of course [...], we are only killing the Hindu men. We are soldiers, not cowards like the rebels.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 49], "content_span": [50, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0041-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, Violence against Hindus\nHindus were alleged to have corrupted the Awami League. Pakistani soldiers repeatedly boasted to US Consul Archer Blood that they came \"to kill Hindus\". A witness heard an officer shouting to soldiers: \"Why you have killed Muslims [sic]. We ordered you to kill only Hindus.\" US government cables noted that the minorities of Bangladesh, especially the Hindus, were specific targets of the Pakistani Army. US consulates reported methodical slaughter of Hindu men in cities starting in the first 24 hours of the crackdown. Army units entered villages asking where Hindus live; it was \"common pattern\" to kill Hindu males.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 49], "content_span": [50, 669]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0041-0001", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, Violence against Hindus\nHindus were identified because they were not circumcised. Sometimes the military also massacred Hindu women. There were barely any areas where no Hindu was killed. There was widespread killing of Hindu males, and rapes of women. Documented incidents in which Hindus were massacred in large numbers include the Jathibhanga massacre, the Chuknagar massacre, and the Shankharipara massacre.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 49], "content_span": [50, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0042-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, Violence against Hindus\nSenator Edward Kennedy wrote in a report that was part of United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations testimony, dated 1 November 1971, \"Hardest hit have been members of the Hindu community who have been robbed of their lands and shops, systematically slaughtered, and in some places, painted with yellow patches marked \"H\". All of this has been officially sanctioned, ordered and implemented under martial law from Islamabad\". More than 60% of the Bengali refugees who fled to India were Hindus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 49], "content_span": [50, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0042-0001", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, Violence against Hindus\nIt has been alleged that this widespread violence against Hindus was motivated by a policy to purge East Pakistan of what was seen as Hindu and Indian influences. Buddhist temples and Buddhist monks were also attacked throughout the course of the year. Lt . Colonel Aziz Ahmed Khan reported that in May 1971 there was a written order to kill Hindus, and that General Niazi would ask troops how many Hindus they had killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 49], "content_span": [50, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0043-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, Violence against Hindus\nAccording to R. J. Rummel, professor of political science at the University of Hawaii,", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 49], "content_span": [50, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0044-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, Violence against Hindus\nThe genocide and gendercidal atrocities were also perpetrated by lower-ranking officers and ordinary soldiers. These \"willing executioners\" were fueled by an abiding anti-Bengali racism, especially against the Hindu minority. \"Bengalis were often compared with monkeys and chickens. Said General Niazi, 'It was a low lying land of low lying people.' The Hindus among the Bengalis were as Jews to the Nazis: scum and vermin that [should] best be exterminated. As to the Moslem Bengalis, they were to live only on the sufferance of the soldiers: any infraction, any suspicion cast on them, any need for reprisal, could mean their death. And the soldiers were free to kill at will. The journalist Dan Coggin quoted one Pakistani captain as telling him, \"We can kill anyone for anything. We are accountable to no one.\" This is the arrogance of Power.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 49], "content_span": [50, 896]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0045-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, Violence against Hindus\nThe Pulitzer Prize\u2013winning journalist Sydney Schanberg covered the start of the war and wrote extensively on the suffering of the East Bengalis, including the Hindus both during and after the conflict. In a syndicated column \"The Pakistani Slaughter That Nixon Ignored\", he wrote about his return to liberated Bangladesh in 1972. \"Other reminders were the yellow \"H\"s the Pakistanis had painted on the homes of Hindus, particular targets of the Muslim army\" (by \"Muslim army\", meaning the Pakistan Army, which had targeted Bengali Muslims as well). Bangladesh reported massacres occurring on a daily basis. One priest reported to Schanberg about the slaughter of over thousand Hindus in southern district of Barisal in one day. According to another priest, meeting was called in northeastern Sylhet district. Later troops arrived and from the gathered crowd selected 300 Hindus and shot them dead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 49], "content_span": [50, 947]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0046-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, Persecution of Biharis\nIn 1947, at the time of partition and the establishment of the state of Pakistan, Bihari Muslims, many of whom were fleeing the violence that took place during partition, migrated from India to the newly independent East Pakistan. These Urdu-speaking people were averse to the Bengali language movement and the subsequent nationalist movements because they maintained allegiance toward West Pakistani rulers, causing anti-Bihari sentiments among local nationalist Bengalis. After the convening of the National Assembly was postponed by Yahya Khan on 1 March 1971, the dissidents in East Pakistan began targeting the ethnic Bihari community which had supported West Pakistan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 723]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0047-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, Persecution of Biharis\nIn early March 1971, 300 Biharis were slaughtered in rioting by Bengali mobs in Chittagong alone. The Government of Pakistan used the 'Bihari massacre' to justify its deployment of the military in East Pakistan on 25 March, when it initiated its infamous Operation Searchlight. When the war broke out in 1971, the Biharis sided with the Pakistani Army. Some of them joined Razakar and Al-Shams militia groups and participated in the persecution and genocide of their Bengali countrymen, in retaliation for atrocities committed against them by Bengalis, including the widespread looting of Bengali properties and abetting other criminal activities. When the war finished Biharis faced severe retaliation, resulting in a counter-genocide and the displacement of over a million non-Bengalis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 837]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0048-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, Persecution of Biharis\nAccording to The Minorities at Risk Project the number of Bihari killed was about 1,000. International estimates vary between 20,000 and 200,000. In June 1971, Bihari representatives stated that 500,000 Biharis were killed by Bengalis. R.J. Rummel gives a prudent estimate of 150,000 killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0049-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, Persecution of Biharis\nAfter the war the Government of Bangladesh confiscated the properties of the Bihari Population. There are many reports of massacres of Biharis and alleged collaborators that took place in the period following the surrender of the Pakistani Army on 16 December 1971. In an incident on 18 December 1971, captured on camera and attended by members of the foreign press, Abdul Kader Siddiqui, together with Kaderia Bahini guerrillas under his command and named after him, bayoneted and shot to death a group of prisoners of war who were accused of belonging to the Razakar paramilitary forces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 638]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0050-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, International reactions\nTime reported a high US official as saying of the slaughter of the East Pakistanis by their West Pakistani enemies, \"It is the most incredible, calculated thing since the days of the Nazis in Poland.\" Genocide is the term that is used to describe the event in almost every major publication and newspaper in Bangladesh; the term is defined as \"the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 49], "content_span": [50, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0051-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, International reactions\nA 1972 report by the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) noted that both sides in the conflict accused each other of perpetrating genocide. The report observed that it may be difficult to substantiate claims that the \"whole of the military action and repressive measures taken by the Pakistani Army and their auxiliary forces constituted genocide' that was intended to destroy the Bengali people in whole or in part, and that 'preventing a nation from attaining political autonomy does not constitute genocide: the intention must be to destroy in whole or in part the people as such.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 49], "content_span": [50, 640]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0051-0001", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, International reactions\nThe difficulty of proving intent was considered to be further complicated by the fact that three specific sections of the Bengali people were targeted in killings committed by the Pakistani Army and their collaborators: members of the Awami League, students, and East Pakistani citizens of the Hindu religion. The report observed, however, that there is a strong prima facie case that particular acts of genocide were committed, especially towards the end of the war, when Bengalis were targeted indiscriminately. Similarly, it was felt that there is a strong prima facie case that crimes of genocide were committed against the Hindu population of East Pakistan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 49], "content_span": [50, 712]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0052-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, International reactions\nAs regards the massacres of non-Bengalis by Bengalis during and after the Liberation War, the ICJ report argued that it is improbable that \"spontaneous and frenzied mob violence against a particular section of the community from whom the mob senses danger and hostility is to be regarded as possessing the necessary element of conscious intent to constitute the crime of genocide,\" but that, if the dolus specialis were to be proved in particular cases, these would have constituted acts of genocide against non-Bengalis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 49], "content_span": [50, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0053-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, International reactions\nAfter the minimum 20 countries became parties to the Genocide Convention, it came into force as international law on 12 January 1951. At that time however, only two of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council were parties to the treaty, and it was not until after the last of the five permanent members ratified the treaty in 1988, and the Cold War came to an end, that the international law on the crime of genocide began to be enforced. As such, the allegation that genocide took place during the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971 was never investigated by an international tribunal set up under the auspices of the United Nations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 49], "content_span": [50, 696]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0054-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, International reactions\nRudolph Rummel wrote, \"In 1971, the self-appointed president of Pakistan and commander-in-chief of the army General Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan and his top generals prepared a careful and systematic military, economic, and political operation against East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). They planned to murder that country's Bengali intellectual, cultural, and political elite. They planned to indiscriminately murder hundreds of thousands of its Hindus and drive the rest into India. And they planned to destroy its economic base to insure that it would be subordinate to West Pakistan for at least a generation to come. This despicable and cutthroat plan was outright genocide.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 49], "content_span": [50, 723]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0055-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, International reactions\nThe genocide is also mentioned in some publications outside the subcontinent; for example, The Guinness Book of Records lists the atrocities as one of the largest five genocides in the twentieth century.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 49], "content_span": [50, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0056-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, International reactions, US complicity\nPresident Richard Nixon viewed Pakistan as a Cold War ally, and refused to condemn its actions. From the White House tapes: \"The President seems to be making sure that the distrusted State Department would not, on its own, condemn Yahya for killing Bengalis.\" Nixon and China tried to suppress reports of genocide emanating from East Pakistan. Nixon also relied on Americans not paying close attention to events in Asia: \"Biafra stirred up a few Catholics. But you know, I think Biafra stirred people up more than Pakistan, because Pakistan they're just a bunch of brown goddamn Moslems.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 64], "content_span": [65, 653]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0057-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, International reactions, US complicity\nThe US government secretly encouraged the shipment of weapons from Iran, Turkey, and Jordan to Pakistan, and reimbursed those countries for them despite Congressional objections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 64], "content_span": [65, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0058-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, International reactions, US complicity\nA collection of declassified US government documents, mostly consisting of communications between US officials in Washington, D.C. and in embassies and USIS centers in Dhaka and in India, show that US officials knew about these mass killings at the time and, in fact, used the terms \"genocide\" and \"selective genocide,\" for example, in the \"Blood Telegram.\" They also show that President Nixon, advised by Henry Kissinger, decided to downplay this secret internal advice, because he wanted to protect the interests of Pakistan as he was apprehensive of India's friendship with the USSR, and he was seeking a closer relationship with China, which supported Pakistan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 64], "content_span": [65, 730]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0059-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, International reactions, US complicity\nIn his book The Trial of Henry Kissinger, Christopher Hitchens elaborates on what he saw as the efforts of Kissinger to subvert the aspirations of independence on the part of the Bengalis. Hitchens not only claims that the term genocide is appropriate to describe the results of the struggle, but also points to the efforts of Henry Kissinger in undermining others who condemned the then-ongoing atrocities as being a genocide. Hitchens concluded, \"Kissinger was responsible for the killing of thousands of people, including Sheikh Mujibur Rahman\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 64], "content_span": [65, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0060-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, International reactions, US complicity\nSome American politicians did speak out. Senator Ted Kennedy charged Pakistan with committing genocide, and called for a complete cut-off of American military and economic aid to Pakistan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 64], "content_span": [65, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0061-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, War crimes trial attempts\nAs early as 22 December 1971, the Indian Army was conducting investigations of senior Pakistani Army officers connected to the massacre of intellectuals in Dhaka, with the aim of collecting sufficient evidence to have them tried as war criminals. They produced a list of officers who were in positions of command at the time, or were connected to the Inter-Services Screening Committee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 51], "content_span": [52, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0062-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, War crimes trial attempts, 1972\u20131975\nOn 24 December 1971, Home minister of Bangladesh A. H. M. Qamaruzzaman said, \"war criminals will not survive from the hands of law. Pakistani military personnel who were involved with killing and raping have to face tribunal.\" In a joint statement after a meeting between Sheikh Mujib and Indira Gandhi, the Indian government assured that it would give all necessary assistance for bringing war criminals into justice. In February 1972, the government of Bangladesh announced plans to put 100 senior Pakistani officers and officials on trial for crimes of genocide. The list included General A. K. Niazi and four other generals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 62], "content_span": [63, 691]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0063-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, War crimes trial attempts, 1972\u20131975\nAfter the war, the Indian Army held 92,000 Pakistani prisoners of war, 195 of whom were suspected of committing war crimes. All 195 were released in April 1974 following the tripartite Delhi Agreement between Bangladesh, Pakistan and India, and repatriated to Pakistan, in return for Pakistan's recognition of Bangladesh. Pakistan expressed interest in performing a trial against those 195 officials. Fearing for the fate of 400,000 Bengalis trapped in Pakistan, Bangladesh agreed to hand them over to Pakistani authorities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 62], "content_span": [63, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0064-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, War crimes trial attempts, 1972\u20131975\nThe Bangladeshi Collaborators (Special Tribunals) Order of 1972 was promulgated to bring to trial those Bangladeshis who collaborated with and aided the Pakistani Armed forces during the Liberation War of 1971. There are conflicting accounts of the number of persons brought to trial under the 1972 Collaborators Order, ranging between 10,000 and 40,000. At the time, the trials were considered problematic by local and external observers, because they appear to have been used for carrying out political vendettas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 62], "content_span": [63, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0064-0001", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, War crimes trial attempts, 1972\u20131975\nR. MacLennan, a British MP who was an observer at the trials stated that 'In the dock, the defendants are scarcely more pitiable than the succession of confused prosecution witnesses driven (by the 88-year-old defence counsel) to admit that they, too, served the Pakistani government but are now ready to swear blindly that their real loyalty was to the government of Bangladesh in exile.' In May 1973, the Pakistani government detained Bengali civil servants stranded in Pakistan, as well as their family members, in response to Bangladesh's attempt to try POWs for genocide. Pakistan unsuccessfully pleaded five times to the International Court of Justice to contest Bangladesh's application of the term \"genocide\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 62], "content_span": [63, 780]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0065-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, War crimes trial attempts, 1972\u20131975\nThe government of Bangladesh issued a general amnesty on 30 November 1973, applying it to all persons except those who were punished or accused of rape, murder, attempted murder or arson. The Collaborators Order of 1972 was revoked in 1975.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 62], "content_span": [63, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0066-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, War crimes trial attempts, 1972\u20131975\nThe International Crimes (Tribunals) Act of 1973 was promulgated to prosecute any persons, irrespective of nationality, who were accused of committing crimes against peace, crimes against humanity, war crimes, \"violations of any humanitarian rules applicable in armed conflicts laid out in the Geneva Conventions of 1949\" and \"any other crimes under international law\". Detainees held under the 1972 Collaborators Order who were not released by the general amnesty of 1973 were going to be tried under this Act. However, no trials were held, and all activities related to the Act ceased after the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1975.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 62], "content_span": [63, 707]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0067-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, War crimes trial attempts, 1972\u20131975\nThere are no known instances of criminal investigations or trials outside Bangladesh of alleged perpetrators of war crimes during the 1971 war. Initial steps were taken by the Metropolitan Police to investigate individuals resident in the United Kingdom who were alleged to have committed war crimes according to a Channel 4 documentary film aired in 1995. To date, no charges have been brought against these individuals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 62], "content_span": [63, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0068-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, War crimes trial attempts, 1991\u20132006\nOn 29 December 1991 Ghulam Azam, who was accused of being a collaborator with Pakistan in the war of 1971, became the chairman or Ameer of the political party Jamaat-e-Islami of Bangladesh, which caused controversy. This prompted the creation of a 'National Committee for Resisting the Killers and Collaborators of 1971', in the footsteps of a proposal by writer and political activist Jahanara Imam. A mock people's court was formed, which on 26 March 1992 found Ghulam Azam guilty in a trial that was criticised widely, and which sentenced him to death.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 62], "content_span": [63, 618]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0069-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, War crimes trial attempts, 1991\u20132006\nA case was filed in the Federal Court of Australia on 20 September 2006 for alleged crimes of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity during 1971 by the Pakistani Armed Forces and its collaborators. Raymond Solaiman & Associates, acting for the plaintiff Mr. Solaiman, released a press statement which among other things said:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 62], "content_span": [63, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0070-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, War crimes trial attempts, 1991\u20132006\nWe are glad to announce that a case has been filed in the Federal Magistrate's Court of Australia today under the Genocide Conventions Act 1949 and War Crimes Act. This is the first time in history that someone is attending a court proceeding in relation to the [alleged] crimes of Genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity during 1971 by the Pakistani Armed Forces and its collaborators. The Proceeding number is SYG 2672 of 2006. On 25 October 2006, a direction hearing will take place in the Federal Magistrates Court of Australia, Sydney registry before Federal Magistrate His Honor Nicholls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 62], "content_span": [63, 666]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0071-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, War crimes trial attempts, 1991\u20132006\nOn 21 May 2007, at the request of the applicant leave was granted to the applicant to discontinue his application filed on 20 September 2006.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 62], "content_span": [63, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0072-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, War crimes trial attempts, 2007\u2013present\nOn 30 July 2009, the Minister of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs of Bangladesh stated that no Pakistanis would be tried under the International Crimes (Tribunals) Act of 1973. This decision has drawn criticism from international jurists, because it effectively gives immunity to the commanders of the Pakistani Army who are generally considered to be ultimately responsible for the majority of the crimes that were committed in 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 65], "content_span": [66, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0073-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, War crimes trial attempts, 2007\u2013present\nThe International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) is a war crimes tribunal in Bangladesh set up in 2009 to investigate and prosecute suspects for the genocide committed in 1971 by the Pakistan Army and their local collaborators, Razakars, Al-Badr and Al-Shams during the Bangladesh Liberation War. During the 2008 general election, the Awami League (AL) pledged to try war criminals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 65], "content_span": [66, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0074-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, War crimes trial attempts, 2007\u2013present\nThe government set up the tribunal after the Awami League won the general election in December 2008 with more than two-thirds majority in parliament. The War Crimes Fact Finding Committee, tasked to investigate and find evidence, completed its report in 2008, identifying 1600 suspects. Prior to the formation of the ICT, the United Nations Development Programme offered assistance in 2009 on the tribunal's formation. In 2009 the parliament amended the 1973 act that authorised such a tribunal to update it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 65], "content_span": [66, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0075-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, War crimes trial attempts, 2007\u2013present\nThroughout the years, tens of thousands of mostly young demonstrators, including women, have called for the death penalty for those convicted of war crimes. Non -violent protests supporting this position have occurred in other cities as the country closely follows the trials. The first indictments were issued in 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 65], "content_span": [66, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0076-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, War crimes trial attempts, 2007\u2013present\nBy 2012, nine leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami, the largest Islamist party in the nation, and two of the Bangladesh National Party, had been indicted as suspects in war crimes. Three leaders of Jamaat were the first tried; each were convicted of several charges of war crimes. The first person convicted was Abul Kalam Azad, who was tried in absentia as he had left the country; he was sentenced to death in January 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 65], "content_span": [66, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0077-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, War crimes trial attempts, 2007\u2013present\nWhile human rights groups and various political entities initially supported the establishment of the tribunal, they have since criticised it on issues of fairness and transparency, as well as reported harassment of lawyers and witnesses representing the accused. Jamaat-e-Islami supporters and their student wing, Islami Chhatra Shibir, called a general strike nationwide on 4 December 2012 in protest against the tribunals. The protest leaders demanded that the tribunal be scrapped permanently and their leaders released immediately.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 65], "content_span": [66, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0078-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, War crimes trial attempts, 2007\u2013present\nOne of the most high profile verdicts was of Abdul Quader Molla, assistant secretary general of Jamaat, who was convicted in February 2013 and sentenced to life imprisonment, which culminated in the massive Shahbag protests. The government, although initially reluctant, eventually appealed the verdict in the Supreme Court, which then sentenced Molla to death. Abdul Quader Molla was subsequently executed on Thursday 12 December 2013, amidst controversies on the legitimacy of the war tribunal hearings, drawing wide criticisms from countries such as the US, UK and Turkey, as well as from the UN. A period of unrest ensued. The majority of the population, however, was found to be in favour of the execution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 65], "content_span": [66, 777]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0079-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, War crimes trial attempts, 2007\u2013present\nDelwar Hossain Sayeedi was convicted of war crimes due to his involvement in mass killings, rape, arson, looting and forced conversion of Hindus to Islam. He was sentenced to death by hanging; his sentence, however, was later commuted to life imprisonment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 65], "content_span": [66, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0080-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, War crimes trial attempts, 2007\u2013present\nMotiur Rahman Nizami was hanged on 11 May 2015 for 16 charges of genocide, rape and torture.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 65], "content_span": [66, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0081-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, War crimes trial attempts, 2007\u2013present\nSalahuddin Quader Chowdhury and Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid, both of whom had been convicted of genocide and rape, were hanged in Dhaka Central Jail shortly after midnight on 22 November 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 65], "content_span": [66, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0082-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, War crimes trial attempts, 2007\u2013present\nOn 3 December 2016, business tycoon Mir Quasem Ali, convicted of crimes against humanity for torturing and killing suspected Bangladeshi liberationists, was hanged at Kashimpur Prison.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 65], "content_span": [66, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0083-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, War crimes trial attempts, 2007\u2013present\nIn 2016, a draft of the Digital Security Act was finalized and placed for cabinet approval. The law proposed to declare any propaganda against the War of Liberation as cognizable and non-bailable.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 65], "content_span": [66, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0084-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, Views in Pakistan\nThe Hamoodur Rahman Commission set up by the Pakistani government following the war noted various atrocities committed by the Pakistani military, including: Widespread arson and killings in the countryside; killing of intellectuals and professionals; killing of Bengali military officers and soldiers on the pretence of mutiny; killing Bengali civilian officials, businessmen and industrialists; raping numerous Bengali women as a deliberate act of revenge, retaliation and torture; deliberate killing of members of the Bengali Hindu minority; and the creation of mass graves. The Hamoodur Rahman Commission wrote: \"[I]ndiscriminate killing and looting could only serve the cause of the enemies of Pakistan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 751]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0084-0001", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, Views in Pakistan\nIn the harshness, we lost the support of the silent majority of the people of East Pakistan.... The Comilla Cantonment massacre (on 27th/28th of March, 1971) under the orders of CO 53 Field Regiment, Lt. Gen. Yakub Malik, in which 17 Bengali Officers and 915 men were just slain by a flick of one Officer's fingers should suffice as an example\". The commission's report and findings were suppressed by the Pakistani government for more than 30 years, but were leaked to the Indian and Pakistani media in 2000. However, the commission's lowly death toll of 26,000 was criticised as an attempt to whitewash the war.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 657]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0085-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, Views in Pakistan\nSeveral former West Pakistani Army officers who served in Bangladesh during the 1971 war have admitted to large-scale atrocities by their forces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0086-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, Views in Pakistan\nThe government of Pakistan continues to deny that the 1971 Bangladesh genocide took place under Pakistan's rule of Bangladesh (East Pakistan) during the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971. They typically accuse Pakistani reporters (such as Anthony Mascarenhas) who reported on the genocide of being \"enemy agents\". According to Donald W. Beachler, professor of political science at Ithaca College:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0087-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, Views in Pakistan\nThe government of Pakistan explicitly denied that there was genocide. By their refusal to characterise the mass-killings as genocide or to condemn and restrain the Pakistani government, the US and Chinese governments implied that they did not consider it so.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0088-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, Views in Pakistan\nSimilarly, in the wake of the 2013 Shahbag protests against war criminals who were complicit in the genocide, English journalist Philip Hensher wrote:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0089-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, Views in Pakistan\nThe genocide is still too little known about in the West. It is, moreover, the subject of shocking degrees of denial among partisan polemicists and manipulative historians.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0090-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, Views in Pakistan\nIn the 1974 Delhi Agreement, Bangladesh called on Pakistan to prosecute 195 military officers for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide under relevant provisions of international law. Pakistan responded that it \"deeply regretted any crimes that may have been committed\". It failed to bring the perpetrators to account on its own soil, as requested by Bangladesh. The position taken by Pakistan was reiterated by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in 1974, when he simply expressed \"regret\" for 1971, and former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf in 2002, when he expressed regret for the \"excesses\" committed in 1971. By 2015, many of those 195 officers were deceased.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 711]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0091-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, Views in Pakistan\nThe International Crimes Tribunal set up by Bangladesh in 2009 to prosecute surviving collaborators of the pro-Pakistani militias in 1971 has been the subject of strong criticism in Pakistani political and military circles. On 30 November 2015, the government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif retreated from earlier positions and said that it denies any role by Pakistan in atrocities in Bangladesh. A statement of the Pakistani Foreign Ministry, after summoning the Acting Bangladeshi High Commissioner, said that \"Pakistan also rejected insinuation of complicity in committing crimes or war atrocities. Nothing could be further from the truth\". The statement marked a growing trend of genocide denial in Pakistan, which picked up pace after controversial Indian academic Sarmila Bose accused the Mukti Bahini of war crimes. Bose asserts that there is greater denial in Bangladesh of war crimes which were committed by Bengalis against Biharis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 987]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092162-0092-0000", "contents": "1971 Bangladesh genocide, Views in Pakistan\nMany in Pakistan's civil society have called for an unconditional apology to Bangladesh and an acknowledgement of the genocide, including noted journalist Hamid Mir, former Pakistani ambassador to the United States Husain Haqqani, human rights activist Asma Jahangir, former Pakistan Air Force chief Asghar Khan, cultural activist Salima Hashmi, and defence analyst Muhammad Ali Ehsan. Asma Jahangir has called for an independent United Nations inquiry to investigate the atrocities. Jahangir also described Pakistan's reluctance to acknowledge the genocide a result of the Pakistani Army's dominant influence on foreign policy. She spoke of the need for closure on the 1971 genocide. Pakistani historian Yaqoob Khan Bangash described the actions of the Pakistani Army during the Bangladesh Liberation war as a \"rampage\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 865]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092163-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Barbadian general election\nGeneral elections were held in Barbados on 9 September 1971. Amendments to the electoral system saw the two-member constituencies previously used replaced by single-member first-past-the-post constituencies. This was also the first election in modern Barbadian history to be contested by only two political parties, not including two independent candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092163-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Barbadian general election\nThe result was a victory for the Democratic Labour Party, which won 18 of the 24 seats. Despite achieving a larger increase in vote share than its opponent, the Barbados Labour Party lost two seats and its leader, Harold Bernard St. John, was defeated in his constituency of Christ Church South Central. Voter turnout was 81.6%, the highest in the country's history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092164-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Barking London Borough Council election\nThe 1971 Barking Council election took place on 13 May 1971 to elect members of Barking London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Labour party stayed in overall control of the council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092164-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Barking London Borough Council election, Background\n96 Candidates across 6 parties ran. Labour was the only party that ran a full slate of candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092164-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Barking London Borough Council election, Results\nLabour comfortably maintained its majority. The Conservatives lost all 13 of its councillors to Labour whilst the Residents Association held all 4 of its Councillors. Labour won 45 councillors to the Residents Association 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 53], "content_span": [54, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092165-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Barnet London Borough Council election\nThe 1971 Barnet Council election took place on 13 May 1971 to elect members of Barnet London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Conservative party stayed in overall control of the council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092166-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting\nElections to the Baseball Hall of Fame for 1971 featured a new committee on the Negro leagues that met in February and selected Satchel Paige, who spent most of his career in Negro league baseball before joining the Cleveland Indians in 1948, when he was over 40 years old. Controversy arose both over the selection of a pitcher with only 28 major-league victories (Negro league baseball statistics were not considered major-league statistics until 2020) and about the original plan not to include Negro league players in the main Hall of Fame. In July, officials announced that Paige and future Negro league selections would be included in the main Hall of Fame. Paige was honored alongside other Hall of Fame inductees in August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 768]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092166-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting\nOtherwise, the elections continued a system of annual elections in place since 1968. The Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA) voted by mail to select from recent major league players and elected no one. The Veterans Committee met in closed-door sessions to select from executives, managers, umpires, and earlier major league players. It elected seven, the most in its 1953 to 2001 history: Dave Bancroft, Jake Beckley, Chick Hafey, Harry Hooper, Joe Kelley, Rube Marquard, and George Weiss. A formal induction ceremony was held in Cooperstown, New York, on August 9, 1971, with Commissioner of Baseball Bowie Kuhn presiding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 673]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092166-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, BBWAA election\nThe BBWAA was authorized to elect players active in 1951 or later, but not after 1965; the ballot included candidates from the 1970 ballot who received at least 5% of the vote but were not elected, along with selected players, chosen by a screening committee, whose last appearance was in 1965. All 10-year members of the BBWAA were eligible to vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092166-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, BBWAA election\nVoters were instructed to cast votes for up to 10 candidates; any candidate receiving votes on at least 75% of the ballots would be honored with induction to the Hall. The ballot consisted of 48 players; a total of 360 ballots were cast, with 270 votes required for election. A total of 2,681 individual votes were cast, an average of 7.45 per ballot. Those candidates receiving less than 5% of the vote will not appear on future BBWAA ballots but may eventually be considered by the Veterans Committee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092166-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, BBWAA election\nCandidates who were eligible for the first time are indicated here with a dagger (\u2020). Candidates who have since been elected in subsequent elections are indicated in italics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092166-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, BBWAA election\nJohnny Vander Meer and Bobby Doerr were on the ballot for the final time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092166-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, BBWAA election\nThe field of newly eligible players included 13 All Stars, 7 of whom were not included on the ballot, representing a total of 70 All Star selections. The new class included 18-time All-Star Yogi Berra, 15-time All-Star Nellie Fox, 6-time All-Star Vic Power, and 5-time All-Stars Dick Donovan and Roy Sievers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092166-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, BBWAA election\nPlayers eligible for the first time who were not included on the ballot were: Frank Baumann, Gino Cimoli, Dick Donovan, Ryne Duren, Gordon Jones, Frank Lary, Don Mossi, Gus Triandos and Don Zimmer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092166-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, J. G. Taylor Spink Award\nHeywood Broun (1888\u20131939) received the J. G. Taylor Spink Award honoring a baseball writer. The award was voted at the December 1970 meeting of the BBWAA, and included in the summer 1971 ceremonies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 62], "content_span": [63, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092167-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Baylor Bears football team\nThe 1971 Baylor Bears football team represented the Baylor University in the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. The Bears offense scored 74 points, while the Bears defense allowed 236 points. In the Battle of the Brazos, Texas A&M beat the Bears by a score of 10\u20139.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092168-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Belgian Open Championships\nThe 1971 Belgian Open Championships was a men's tennis tournament staged at the Leopold Club in Brussels, Belgium that was part of the Grand Prix circuit and categorized as a Group B event. The tournament was played on outdoor clay courts and was held from 17 May until 23 May 1971. It was the fifth edition of the tournament and Cliff Drysdale won the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092168-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Belgian Open Championships, Finals, Doubles\nMarty Riessen / Tom Okker and Ilie N\u0103stase / Ion \u021airiac divided", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092169-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Belgian general election\nGeneral elections were held in Belgium on 7 November 1971. The result was a victory for the Christian People's Party, which won 40 of the 212 seats in the Chamber of Representatives and 34 of the 106 seats in the Senate. Voter turnout was 91.5%. Elections to the nine provincial councils were also held.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092169-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Belgian general election\nThe linguistic issues led to the splitting of the major parties into separate Flemish and Francophone parties. Consequently the election returned a very fragmented parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092169-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Belgian general election\nThe election followed the first state reform, with the creation of three cultural communities. The newly elected members of parliament would thus also serve in the newly established cultural councils.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092170-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Benson & Hedges Centennial Open\nThe 1971 Benson & Hedges Centennial Open was a combined men's and women's Grand Prix tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts. It was in Auckland, New Zealand from 7 March to 13 March 1971. Bob Carmichael and Margaret Court won the singles titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092170-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Benson & Hedges Centennial Open, Finals, Men's Doubles\nBob Carmichael / Ray Ruffels defeated Brian Fairlie / Raymond Moore 6\u20133, 6\u20137, 6\u20134, 4\u20136, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 59], "content_span": [60, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092170-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Benson & Hedges Centennial Open, Finals, Women's Doubles\nMargaret Court / Evonne Goolagong defeated Lesley Bowrey / Winnie Shaw 7\u20136, 6\u20130", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 61], "content_span": [62, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092171-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Benson & Hedges Centennial Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nBob Carmichael defeated Allan Stone 7\u20136, 7\u20136, 6\u20133 to win the 1971 Benson & Hedges Centennial Open singles competition. Roger Taylor was the reigning champion but did not defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092172-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Bexley London Borough Council election\nThe 1971 Bexley Council election took place on 13 May 1971 to elect members of Bexley London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Labour party gained overall control of the council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092173-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Big League World Series\nThe 1971 Big League World Series took place from August 16\u201321 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States. Cupertino, California defeated Lincolnwood, Illinois twice in the championship game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092174-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Big Ten Conference football season\nThe 1971 Big Ten Conference football season was the 76th season of college football played by the member schools of the Big Ten Conference and was a part of the 1971 NCAA University Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092174-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Big Ten Conference football season\nThis was the first season in which Big Ten teams were permitted to schedule 11 games, one season after most schools first did so. Ohio State increased its schedule from nine games to 10, but did not play 11 until 1974, while Purdue first scheduled an 11th game in 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092174-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Big Ten Conference football season\nThe 1971 Michigan Wolverines football team, under head coach Bo Schembechler, compiled an 11\u20130 record in the regular season but lost to Stanford, 13\u201312, on a field goal with 12 seconds remaining in the 1972 Rose Bowl. The Wolverines led the Big Ten in both scoring offense (35.1 points per game) and scoring defense (6.9 points allowed per game). The team was ranked No. 4 in the final Coaches Poll and No. 6 in the final AP Poll. Linebacker Mike Taylor and offensive guard Reggie McKenzie were consensus first-team All-Americans. Running back Billy Taylor rushed for 1,297 yards, was named as the team most valuable player, and was selected as a first-team All-American by the Football News. Defensive back Thom Darden was selected as a first-team All-American by the American Football Coaches Association and The Sporting News.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 869]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092174-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Big Ten Conference football season\nThe 1971 Northwestern Wildcats football team, under head coach Alex Agase, compiled a 7\u20134 record and finished in second place in the Big Ten. Quarterback Maurie Daigneau led the Big Ten with 1,733 passing yards and was a consensus first-team All-Big Ten player. Defensive back Eric Hutchinson was selected as a first-team All-American by the Football Writers Association of America. The Wildcats did not finish in the first division again until winning the conference and going to the Rose Bowl in 1995.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092174-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Big Ten Conference football season\nMichigan State running back Eric Allen led the Big Ten with 1,494 rushing yards and 108 points scored and received the Chicago Tribune Silver Football as the conference's most valuable player. Purdue halfback/wide receiver Darryl Stingley led the conference with 734 receiving yards, and Minnesota quarterback Craig Curry led the conference with 2,071 total yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092174-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Results and team statistics\nKeyAP final = Team's rank in the final AP Poll of the 1971 seasonAP high = Team's highest rank in the AP Poll throughout the 1971 seasonPPG = Average of points scored per game; conference leader's average displayed in boldPAG = Average of points allowed per game; conference leader's average displayed in boldMVP = Most valuable player as voted by players on each team as part of the voting process to determine the winner of the Chicago Tribune Silver Football trophy; trophy winner in bold", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 85], "content_span": [86, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092174-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Regular season, September 11\nOn September 11, 1971, the Big Ten football teams opened the season with four conference games and one non-conference game. Purdue did not open its season until the following week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 86], "content_span": [87, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092174-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Regular season, September 18\nOn September 18, 1971, the Big Ten teams participated in nine non-conference games, resulting in three wins and six losses. Ohio State had a bye week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 86], "content_span": [87, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092174-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Regular season, September 25\nOn September 25, 1971, the Big Ten teams played 10 non-conference games, resulting in three wins and seven losses. Through the first three weeks of the season, the Big Ten had compiled a 7\u201313 record against non-conference opponents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 86], "content_span": [87, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092174-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Regular season, October 2\nOn October 2, 1971, the Big Ten teams played two conference games and six non-conference games. The non-conference games resulted in three wins and three losses, giving the Big Ten a 10\u201316 non-conference record to that point in the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 83], "content_span": [84, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092174-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Regular season, October 9\nOn October 9, 1971, the Big Ten teams played five conference games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 83], "content_span": [84, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092174-0011-0000", "contents": "1971 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Regular season, October 16\nOn October 16, 1971, the Big Ten teams played five conference games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 84], "content_span": [85, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092174-0012-0000", "contents": "1971 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Regular season, October 23\nOn October 23, 1971, the Big Ten teams played five conference games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 84], "content_span": [85, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092174-0013-0000", "contents": "1971 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Regular season, October 30\nOn October 30, 1971, the Big Ten teams played five conference games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 84], "content_span": [85, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092174-0014-0000", "contents": "1971 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Regular season, November 6\nOn November 6, 1971, the Big Ten teams played five conference games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 84], "content_span": [85, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092174-0015-0000", "contents": "1971 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Regular season, November 13\nOn November 13, 1971, the Big Ten teams played five conference games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 85], "content_span": [86, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092174-0016-0000", "contents": "1971 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Regular season, November 20\nOn November 20, 1971, the Big Ten teams played five conference games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 85], "content_span": [86, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092174-0017-0000", "contents": "1971 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Bowl games\nThe game was the first Rose Bowl meeting between the two schools since the inaugural Rose Bowl in 1902, in which Michigan crushed Stanford, 49\u20130. In the 1972 rematch, Michigan was ranked #3 in the country and favored by 10\u00bd points. Michigan's Dana Coin kicked a 30-yard field goal in the second quarter for the only first half scoring. In the first series of the second half, Stanford stopped the Wolverines on fourth and one at Stanford's four-yard line, then tied the game on a 42-yard field goal by Rod Garcia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 68], "content_span": [69, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092174-0017-0001", "contents": "1971 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Bowl games\nEarly in the fourth quarter, Michigan's Fritz Seyferth scored on a one-yard dive to put Michigan up 10\u20133. After Stanford got the ball back, the Indians faced fourth and ten from their own 33. Stanford ran a fake punt, with Jim Kehl receiving the snap and handing the ball forward to Jackie Brown through Brown's legs. Brown ran 33 yards for a first down, and followed up a minute later with a 24-yard touchdown run to tie the game. Late in the fourth quarter, Michigan recovered a Stanford fumble near midfield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 68], "content_span": [69, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092174-0017-0002", "contents": "1971 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Bowl games\nFacing fourth down with time running down, the Wolverines attempted a 42-yard field goal. The kick was short, and Stanford safety Jim Ferguson caught the ball and attempted to run it out of the end zone. Instead, he was knocked back into the end zone by Ed Shuttlesworth for a controversial Michigan safety, as replays seemed to show that Ferguson's forward progress was to the three-yard line. This made the score 12\u201310 with just over three minutes to play, and Michigan due to get the ball on a free kick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 68], "content_span": [69, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092174-0017-0003", "contents": "1971 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Bowl games\nFollowing the free kick, Stanford held Michigan to a three-and-out and got the ball back on their own 22-yard line with 1:48 to go. Bunce then threw five consecutive completions to take Stanford to the Michigan 17-yard line with 22 seconds left. The Indians ran twice to get to the Michigan 14-yard line with 12 seconds left. From there, Garcia kicked a 31-yard field goal to give Stanford a 13\u201312 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 68], "content_span": [69, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092174-0018-0000", "contents": "1971 Big Ten Conference football season, Statistical leaders, Passing yards\n1. Maurie Daigneau, Northwestern (1,733)2. Craig Curry, Minnesota (1,691)3. Gary Danielson, Purdue (1,467)4. Neil Graff, Wisconsin (1,300)5. Frank Sunderman, Iowa (1,297)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 75], "content_span": [76, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092174-0019-0000", "contents": "1971 Big Ten Conference football season, Statistical leaders, Rushing yards\n1. Eric Allen, Michigan State (1,494)2. Billy Taylor, Michigan (1,297)3. Rufus Ferguson, Wisconsin (1,222)4. Otis Armstrong, Purdue (945)5. Al Robinson, Northwestern (881)5. Ernie Cook, Minnesota (881)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 75], "content_span": [76, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092174-0020-0000", "contents": "1971 Big Ten Conference football season, Statistical leaders, Receiving yards\n1. Darryl Stingley, Purdue (734)2. Barry Pearson, Northwestern (674)3. Albert Hannah, Wisconsin (608)4. Rick Sayers, Purdue (573)5. Jim Lash, Northwestern (523)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 77], "content_span": [78, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092174-0021-0000", "contents": "1971 Big Ten Conference football season, Statistical leaders, Total yards\n1. Craig Curry, Minnesota (2,071)2. Maurie Daigneau, Northwestern (1,678)3. Gary Danielson, Purdue (1,494)3. Eric Allen, Michigan State (1,494)5. Neil Graff, Wisconsin (1,486)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 73], "content_span": [74, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092174-0022-0000", "contents": "1971 Big Ten Conference football season, Statistical leaders, Scoring\n1. Eric Allen, Michigan State (108)2. Billy Taylor, Michigan (78)2. Rufus Ferguson, Wisconsin (78)4. Randy Anderson, Northwestern (60)4. Otis Armstrong, Purdue (60)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 69], "content_span": [70, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092174-0023-0000", "contents": "1971 Big Ten Conference football season, Awards and honors, All-Big Ten honors\nThe following players were picked by the Associated Press (AP) and/or the United Press International (UPI) as first-team players on the 1971 All-Big Ten Conference football team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 78], "content_span": [79, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092174-0024-0000", "contents": "1971 Big Ten Conference football season, Awards and honors, All-American honors\nAt the end of the 1971 season, Big Ten players secured two of the consensus first-team picks for the 1971 College Football All-America Team. The Big Ten's consensus All-Americans were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 79], "content_span": [80, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092174-0025-0000", "contents": "1971 Big Ten Conference football season, Awards and honors, All-American honors\nOther Big Ten players who were named first-team All-Americans by at least one selector were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 79], "content_span": [80, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092174-0026-0000", "contents": "1971 Big Ten Conference football season, Awards and honors, Other awards\nRunning back Eric Allen of Michigan State finished 10th in the voting for the 1971 Heisman Trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 72], "content_span": [73, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092174-0027-0000", "contents": "1971 Big Ten Conference football season, 1972 NFL Draft\nThe following Big Ten players were among the first 100 picks in the 1972 NFL Draft:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 55], "content_span": [56, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092175-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Billie Jean King Invitational\nThe 1971 Billie Jean King Invitational was a women's tennis tournament that took place in Long Beach in the United States. It was part of the 1971 Virginia Slims Circuit and began on January 14, 1971. First seeded Billie Jean King win the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092175-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Billie Jean King Invitational, Finals, Doubles\nBillie Jean King / Rosie Casals defeated Fran\u00e7oise D\u00fcrr / Ann Jones 7\u20135, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092176-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Billie Jean King Invitational \u2013 Singles\n16 players played in the first edition of the Billie Jean King Invitational which would later become the LA Women's Tennis Championships. In the final it was top seed Billie Jean King who won 6\u20131, 6\u20132 against Rosie Casals who she played against in the previous week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092177-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Bing\u00f6l earthquake\nThe 1971 Bing\u00f6l earthquake occurred at 18:44:02 local time on 22 May. It had a moment magnitude of 6.9 and a maximum intensity of VIII (Severe) on the Mercalli intensity scale, killing at least 755 people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092178-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Birthday Honours\nThe 1971 Queen's Birthday Honours were appointments to orders and decorations of the Commonwealth realms to reward and highlight citizens' good works, on the occasion of the official birthday of Queen Elizabeth II. They were announced in supplements to The London Gazette of 4 June 1971 for the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Mauritius, and Fiji.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092178-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Birthday Honours\nAt this time honours for Australians were awarded both in the United Kingdom honours on the advice of the premiers of Australian states, and also in a separate Australia honours list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092178-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Birthday Honours\nThe 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.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092178-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Birthday Honours, United Kingdom and Commonwealth, Royal Victorian Order, Member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO)\nAt this time the two lowest classes of the Royal Victorian Order were \"Member (fourth class)\" and \"Member (fifth class)\", both with post-nominal letters MVO. \"Member (fourth class)\" was renamed \"Lieutenant\" (LVO) from the 1985 New Year Honours onwards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 120], "content_span": [121, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092179-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Birthday Honours (New Zealand)\nThe 1971 Queen's Birthday Honours in New Zealand, celebrating the official birthday of Elizabeth II, were appointments made by the Queen on the advice of the New Zealand government to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by New Zealanders. They were announced on 12 June 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092179-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Birthday Honours (New Zealand)\nThe recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092180-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Blue Swords\nBlue Swords was a senior international figure skating competition in East Germany. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles and pair skating.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092181-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Boise State Broncos football team\nThe 1971 Boise State Broncos football team represented Boise State College during the 1971 NCAA College Division football season, the fourth season of Bronco football (at the four-year level) and the second as members of the Big Sky Conference and NCAA. In the College Division (now Division II), they played their home games on campus at Bronco Stadium in Boise, Idaho.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092181-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Boise State Broncos football team\nLed by fourth-year head coach Tony Knap, the Broncos were 9\u20132 in the regular season and 4\u20132 in conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092181-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Boise State Broncos football team\nBoise State opened the season with a stunning 42\u201314 upset of Idaho in the first meeting between the two teams, creating an instant rivalry game. This was actually an Idaho \"home game\" moved to Boise, because their new stadium in Moscow was not completed. A member of the University Division, Idaho had frequently played one home game per season in Boise in the old wooden Bronco Stadium (and its predecessors) from 1920 through 1968; this ended when Boise State joined the Big Sky. Despite the opening loss, Idaho won the conference title in 1971, as the Broncos lost twice on the road.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 625]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092181-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Boise State Broncos football team\nKnap was named coach of the year in the West for the College Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092181-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Boise State Broncos football team, Camellia Bowl\nInvited for the first time to the eight-team postseason in the College Division, Boise State accepted a bid to play Chico State in the Camellia Bowl in Sacramento, California. The teams last met in the season opener in 1970, the first-ever game in Bronco Stadium. Boise State was ranked seventh in the final small college poll, released by the Associated Press in late November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 53], "content_span": [54, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092181-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Boise State Broncos football team, Camellia Bowl\nThe game included a wager between the respective governors of the two states, Cecil Andrus of Idaho and Ronald Reagan of California. The bet was for three-day vacations, at either Sun Valley in central Idaho or Disneyland in southern California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 53], "content_span": [54, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092181-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Boise State Broncos football team, Camellia Bowl\nReagan invited the Chico State team to his office the day before the game and encouraged the Wildcats to go out and win for the state of California. Although a neutral site game, Chico State only had to travel 90 miles (145\u00a0km) from its campus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 53], "content_span": [54, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092181-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Boise State Broncos football team, Camellia Bowl\nAfter a scoreless first quarter, Chico State had a 14\u20130 lead at halftime, and was ahead by three touchdowns after three quarters. Led by quarterback (and placekicker) Eric Guthrie, Boise State outscored the Wildcats 25\u20130 in the final period to win 32\u201328. This was the extent of the postseason in the College Division; after the final poll in late November, four regional bowls (quarterfinals) were played in mid-December. A full tournament was initiated in 1973 with the introduction of Division II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 53], "content_span": [54, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092181-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Boise State Broncos football team, Camellia Bowl\nIt was later revealed that Guthrie had signed a professional baseball contract with the Pittsburgh Pirates organization five years earlier in 1966. The NCAA had Boise State return the winner's trophy and $18,000, its share of the gate and other receipts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 53], "content_span": [54, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092181-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 Boise State Broncos football team, NFL Draft\nTwo Broncos were selected in the 1972 NFL Draft, which lasted seventeen rounds (442 selections).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092182-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Bolivian Primera Divisi\u00f3n\nThe 1971 Bolivian Primera Divisi\u00f3n, the first division of Bolivian football (soccer), was played by 12 teams. The champion was Oriente Petrolero.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092183-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Boston College Eagles football team\nThe 1971 Boston College Eagles football team represented Boston College during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. The Eagles were led by fourth-year head coach Joe Yukica and played their home games at Alumni Stadium in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Boston College finished with a record of 9\u20132, but were not invited to a bowl game. The Eagles were passed up for a spot in the Peach Bowl in favor of five-loss Georgia Tech, partly due to the Eagles' reputation of having a slow, defense-heavy style of play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092183-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Boston College Eagles football team, Schedule, Game notes\nThe game against rival Holy Cross was moved at the last minute to the newly constructed Schaefer Stadium (home of the New England Patriots until 2001) due to a heavy snowstorm making conditions unplayable at Fitton Field in Worcester.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 62], "content_span": [63, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092184-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Boston Red Sox season\nThe 1971 Boston Red Sox season was the 71st season in the franchise's Major League Baseball history. The Red Sox finished third in the American League East with a record of 85 wins and 77 losses, 18 games behind the Baltimore Orioles, who went on to win the AL championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092184-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Boston Red Sox season, Regular season, Highlights\nIn the second year of Eddie Kasko's management, the Red Sox finished 16 games behind the eventual American League champions Baltimore Orioles. The Sox did not have a .300 hitter in 1971, with Reggie Smith's .283 batting average being the best among their regulars. Tony Conigliaro, his health still a question, had been traded the previous October to the California Angels for reliever Ken Tatum and rookie infielder Doug Griffin. Conigliaro played in 74 games for the Angels in 1971 but then had to give up baseball, his sight having deteriorated greatly. Tatum was 2\u20134 with the Red Sox, and Griffin batted a season .244, while becoming the regular second baseman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 54], "content_span": [55, 720]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092184-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Boston Red Sox season, Regular season, Highlights\nHighlights of an otherwise forgettable season included the late arrival of a big catcher from Bellows Falls, Vermont, Carlton Fisk, who got into 14 games for the 1971 Sox and hit two home runs. Making a bigger splash was a utility fielder who had been acquired in 1970 from the New York Yankees but came into his own in 1971. John Kennedy hit .272, with five homers and 22 RBIs, and was nicknamed \"Super Sub\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 54], "content_span": [55, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092184-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Boston Red Sox season, Regular season, Highlights\nAnother bright spot for the Sox in '71 was Jim Lonborg's winning 10 games (and losing 7). But Sonny Siebert, a pitcher acquired in a deal with the Cleveland Indians in 1969, was the top hurler for Boston, winning 16 games. A feisty left-hander, Sparky Lyle was 6\u20134, with 16 saves and a 2.77 ERA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 54], "content_span": [55, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092185-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Boston University Terriers football team\nThe 1971 Boston University Terriers football team was an American football team that represented Boston University as an independent during the 1971 NCAA College Division football season. In their third season under head coach Larry Naviaux, the Terriers compiled a 3\u20137 record and were outscored by a total of 284 to 200.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092186-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Boston mayoral election\nThe Boston mayoral election of 1971 occurred on Tuesday, November 2, 1971, between Mayor Kevin White and United States Representative Louise Day Hicks. This was the second election in a row between White and Hicks. White once again defeated Hicks and was elected to a second term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092186-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Boston mayoral election\nThe nonpartisan municipal preliminary election was held on September 14, 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092187-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Bowling Green Falcons football team\nThe 1971 Bowling Green Falcons football team was an American football team that represented Bowling Green University in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. In their fourth season under head coach Don Nehlen, the Falcons compiled a 6\u20134 record (4\u20131 against MAC opponents) and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 263 to 207.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092187-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Bowling Green Falcons football team\nThe team's statistical leaders included Reid Lamport with 1,006 passing yards, Paul Miles with 1,185 rushing yards, and Rick Newman with 443 receiving yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092188-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Brent London Borough Council election\nThe 1971 Brent Council election took place on 13 May 1971 to elect members of Brent London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Labour party gained overall control of the council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092189-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 British Grand Prix\nThe 1971 British Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Silverstone on 17 July 1971. It was race 6 of 11 in both the 1971 World Championship of Drivers and the 1971 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers. The 68-lap race was won by Tyrrell driver Jackie Stewart after he started from second position. Ronnie Peterson finished second for the March team and Lotus driver Emerson Fittipaldi came in third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092189-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 British Grand Prix, Race report\nOn one of the fastest circuits on the calendar, horsepower counted for everything. Clay Regazzoni, driving for Ferrari, gained pole with a scorching lap of 1 min 18.1 secs, beating Jackie Stewart in a Tyrrell and Jo Siffert in a BRM by just a couple of hundredths of a second. BRM were mourning the loss of Pedro Rodr\u00edguez in a sports car race a few days earlier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 36], "content_span": [37, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092189-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 British Grand Prix, Race report\nThe start itself was a shambles, with a bungled flag drop causing a collision between Jackie Oliver and Graham Hill, for which Oliver was fined \u00a350. Regazzoni led away from Jacky Ickx and Stewart, but after just one lap Stewart had passed Ickx, with Siffert following him. On lap 4, Stewart passed Regazzoni and disappeared into the distance. By lap 10 he was over 3 seconds ahead. In the points positions, Emerson Fittipaldi, Ronnie Peterson and Tim Schenken were having a memorable tussle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 36], "content_span": [37, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092189-0002-0001", "contents": "1971 British Grand Prix, Race report\nRegazzoni repassed Siffert who was suffering from vibration problems on lap 15, but the BRM driver managed to hang on to the back of the Ferrari for several more laps. Stewart increased his lead to 14 seconds and by lap 20 he was ahead by 18 seconds. Ickx dropped out of fourth place with rubber breaking off from his front left tyre, and Siffert dropped way down with a broken coil bracket. The battle between Peterson, Schenken and Fittipaldi moved up into 3rd, 4th and 5th places.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 36], "content_span": [37, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092189-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 British Grand Prix, Race report\nOn lap 48, tyre problems struck Regazzoni and further problems ensued when he tried to leave the pits after his tyre change to find his engine had no oil pressure. Schenken too dropped down the field with gearbox problems and retired completely when it jammed for good 4 laps from home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 36], "content_span": [37, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092189-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 British Grand Prix, Race report\nHenri Pescarolo and Rolf Stommelen thus moved up into the battle for 4th and 5th, duelling right to the line, with Pescarolo winning out by just 0.5 seconds. John Surtees gained 6th place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 36], "content_span": [37, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092189-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 British Grand Prix, Race report\nStewart took a commanding home win and extended his lead in the Championship to 23 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 36], "content_span": [37, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092190-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 British Hard Court Championships\nThe 1971 British Hard Court Championships was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at The West Hants Club in Bournemouth, England. The event was part of the 1971 Pepsi-Cola Grand Prix and categorized as B class. The tournament was held from 16 to 22 May 1971. Gerald Battrick and Margaret Court won the singles titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092190-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 British Hard Court Championships, Finals, Men's doubles\nBill Bowrey / Owen Davidson defeated Patricio Cornejo / Jaime Fillol 8\u20136, 6\u20132, 3\u20136, 4\u20136, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 60], "content_span": [61, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092190-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 British Hard Court Championships, Finals, Women's doubles\nMary\u2013Ann Curtis / Fran\u00e7oise D\u00fcrr defeated Margaret Court / Evonne Goolagong 6\u20133, 5\u20137, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 62], "content_span": [63, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092191-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 British League Division Two season\nThe 1971 British League Division Two season was the second tier/division motorcycle speedway in Great Britain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092191-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 British League Division Two season, Summary\nThe league continued with 17 teams in its fourth season despite Reading Racers moving up to Division One and two teams dropping out because there were three new entrants to the league. Doncaster Dragons disbanded for good, with the promotion and some of the riders moving to Birmingham and reformed the Birmingham Brummies, who had last raced in 1957. The Crayford Highwayman also dropped out and the Middlesbrough Teessiders changed their name to Teesside Teessiders. Birmingham were one of the new entrants along with Hull Vikings and Sunderland Stars. Hull had last seen league speedway in 1949 and Sunderland in 1964.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 670]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092191-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 British League Division Two season, Summary\nEastbourne Eagles won their first title since their 1959 Southern Area League success. Despite losing their leading rider Dave Jessup to division 1, the Eastbourne Eagles triumphed by bringing in new signing Malcolm Ballard to support the Kennett brothers Gordon and Dave.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092191-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 British League Division Two season, British League Division Two Knockout Cup\nThe 1971 British League Division Two Knockout Cup (sponsored by the Speedway Express) was the fourth edition of the Knockout Cup for tier two teams. Ipswich Witches were the winners of the competition for the second successive year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 81], "content_span": [82, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092191-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 British League Division Two season, British League Division Two Knockout Cup, Final\nIpswich were declared Knockout Cup Champions, winning on aggregate 92\u201364.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 88], "content_span": [89, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092192-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 British League season\nThe 1971 British League season was the 37th season of the top tier of speedway in the United Kingdom and the seventh season known as the British League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092192-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 British League season, Summary\nReading Racers moved up from Division 2 and Newcastle Diamonds dropped out. Belle Vue Aces retained their title to become the first team to win the title for the second time. The team included three time world champion Ivan Mauger, Swedish international S\u00f6ren Sj\u00f6sten, Tommy Roper, Eric Broadbelt, Chris Pusey and a 17 year old Peter Collins in his debut season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092192-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 British League season, Final table\nM = Matches; W = Wins; D = Draws; L = Losses; Pts = Total Points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 39], "content_span": [40, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092192-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 British League season, British League Knockout Cup\nThe 1971 Speedway Star British League Knockout Cup was the 33rd edition of the Knockout Cup for tier one teams. Hackney were the winners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 55], "content_span": [56, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092192-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 British League season, British League Knockout Cup, Final, Second leg\nHackney Hawks were declared Knockout Cup Champions, winning on aggregate 88-68.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 74], "content_span": [75, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092193-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 British Lions tour to New Zealand and Australia\nIn 1971 the Lions toured New Zealand, also playing two matches in Australia. Despite losing the first match to Queensland the tour was a great success, the Lions winning the Test series against the All Blacks. They are still the only Lions side to have won a Test series in New Zealand. The side was captained by John Dawes, coached by Carwyn James and managed by Doug Smith.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092193-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 British Lions tour to New Zealand and Australia, Background\nAlthough the Lions had done poorly when touring New Zealand in 1966 (they lost all four Tests to the All Blacks), the seeds had been sown for the successful series of 1971. Wales had won the Grand Slam in the Five Nations Championship in 1971, and appropriately supplied more players than any other home nation to the touring squad. Both the coach and captain were also Welsh. This was the only tour to result in a Lions victory over the All Blacks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 64], "content_span": [65, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092193-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 British Lions tour to New Zealand and Australia, Background\nNew Zealand, after a long period of success, had lost their most recent series in 1970 away to South Africa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 64], "content_span": [65, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092193-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 British Lions tour to New Zealand and Australia, Key factors\nA major factor in their victory was self belief. Gerald Davies explained, \"...somewhere along the line it becomes a mental thing... We grew in confidence; we came to believe it was possible to beat the All Blacks.\" The coaching team had also done important reconnaissance work.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 65], "content_span": [66, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092193-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 British Lions tour to New Zealand and Australia, Key factors\nColin Meads said Mervyn Davies was \"the one player who probably had the biggest impact on that 1971 Lions Test series,\" particularly as he prevented NZ winning line out ball via Brian Lochore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 65], "content_span": [66, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092193-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 British Lions tour to New Zealand and Australia, Test series\nThe Lions won the first Test in Dunedin 9\u20133, with a penalty goal to the All Blacks, and two penalties and a try, (scored by Ian McLauchlan) to the Lions. Several Lions players later admitted they were overconfident following their initial Test victory. The Lions were thus convincingly beaten 22\u201312 in the second Test in Christchurch, with the All Blacks outscoring them five tries (Bob Burgess (2), Sid Going, Ian Kirkpatrick, pen try) to two (Davies (2)). The third Test was played at Athletic Park, Wellington. The Lions did not make the same mistake they had in Christchurch, resulting in a 13\u20133 win, the Lions scored two converted tries and a drop goal. The All Blacks managed only a try.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 65], "content_span": [66, 759]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092193-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 British Lions tour to New Zealand and Australia, Test series\nFollowing the third Test the Lions led the series 2\u20131. The final game played in Auckland would require an All Black victory for New Zealand to draw the series. A draw or Lions victory would give the Lions a series win. Scores were level 8\u20138 at half time with a try, conversion and penalty each. The first 15 minutes of the second half saw the Lions land a penalty goal and the All Blacks score a try.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 65], "content_span": [66, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092193-0006-0001", "contents": "1971 British Lions tour to New Zealand and Australia, Test series\nWith the scores tied 11\u201311, Lions fullback JPR Williams received the ball 45 metres out and attempted a drop goal, it was successful and put the Lions ahead 14\u201311. Williams's drop goal was the only one he landed in his Test career. The All Blacks could only manage three further points from a penalty to draw the game 14-14, which gave the Lions the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 65], "content_span": [66, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092193-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 British Lions tour to New Zealand and Australia, The Test matches, Third Test\nNEW ZEALAND: Laurie Mains, Bruce Hunter, Howard Joseph, Wayne Cottrell, Ken Carrington, Bob Burgess (rep Mick Duncan), Sid Going, Brian Muller, Tane Norton, Richie Guy, Colin Meads (c), Brian Lochore, Alan McNaughton Ian Kirkpatrick, Alex Wyllie", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 82], "content_span": [83, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092193-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 British Lions tour to New Zealand and Australia, The Test matches, Third Test\nLIONS: Williams, Gerald Davies, Dawes (c), Gibson, Duckham, John, Edwards, Lynch, Pullin, McLauchlan, McBride, Brown, Quinnell, Slattery, Mervyn Davies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 82], "content_span": [83, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092193-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 British Lions tour to New Zealand and Australia, The Test matches, Third Test\nIn the pack, the Lions selected Gordon Brown over Delme Thomas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 82], "content_span": [83, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092193-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 British Lions tour to New Zealand and Australia, The Test matches, Fourth Test\nNEW ZEALAND: Laurie Mains, Ken Carrington, Mick Duncan, Phil Gard, Bryan Williams, Wayne Cottrell, Sid Going, Brian Muller, Tane Norton, Richie Guy, Colin Meads (c), Peter Whiting, Ian Kirkpatrick, Tom Lister, Alex Wyllie", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 83], "content_span": [84, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092193-0011-0000", "contents": "1971 British Lions tour to New Zealand and Australia, The Test matches, Fourth Test\nLIONS: Williams, Gerald Davies, Dawes (c), Gibson, Duckham, John, Edwards, Lynch, Pullin, McLauchlan, McBride, Brown, Taylor, Dixon, Mervyn Davies. Thomas replaced injured Brown 60mins", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 83], "content_span": [84, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092194-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 British National Track Championships\nThe 1971 British National Track Championships were a series of track cycling competitions held during the summer of 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092195-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 British Saloon Car Championship\nThe 1971 British Saloon Car Championship was the 14th season of the championship. Bill McGovern won his second title, driving a Sunbeam Imp.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092195-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 British Saloon Car Championship, Calendar & Winners\nAll races were held in the United Kingdom. Overall winners in bold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 56], "content_span": [57, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092196-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 British Virgin Islands general election\nGeneral elections were held in the British Virgin Islands on 2 June 1971. The result was a victory for a coalition of the VI Democratic Party (DP) together with independent candidate Willard Wheatley over the newly formed Virgin Islands Party (VIP) led by former Chief Minister Lavity Stoutt, and incumbent BVI United Party (UP) led by Conrad Maduro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092196-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 British Virgin Islands general election\nPrior to the election Stoutt had was serving as Chief Minister and leader of the UP, but due to internal divisions Stoutt left and formed his new party to contest the election against the UP and the DP, but ended up losing and being replaced by Wheatley as Chief Minister.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092196-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 British Virgin Islands general election\nThe election was also notable for the first female candidate in a British Virgin Islands election: Millicent Mercer contested the 5th District on behalf of the VIP, but lost to Conrad Maduro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092196-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 British Virgin Islands general election\nIn the 7th District the former representative, Robinson O'Neal, had died in a car crash the prior year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092197-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Bromley London Borough Council election\nThe 1971 Bromley Council election took place on 13 May 1971 to elect members of Bromley London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Conservative party stayed in overall control of the council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092198-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Bromsgrove by-election\nThe Bromsgrove by-election, 1971 was a parliamentary by-election held in the United Kingdom on 27 May 1971 for the Bromsgrove constituency in Worcestershire. The vacancy was caused by the death of Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) James Dance. The seat was won by the opposition Labour Party in a by-election that saw only the two major parties participating.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092199-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Brown Bears football team\nThe 1971 Brown Bears football team was an American football team that represented Brown University during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. Brown lost every game and finished last in the Ivy League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092199-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Brown Bears football team\nIn their fifth season under head coach Len Jardine, the Bears compiled a 0\u20139 record and were outscored 238 to 129. S. Bennett and F. Walsh were the team captains.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092199-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Brown Bears football team\nThe Bears' winless (0\u20137) conference record placed last in the Ivy League standings. They were outscored by Ivy opponents 162 to 86.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092199-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Brown Bears football team\nBrown played its home games at Brown Stadium in Providence, Rhode Island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092200-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Brownlow Medal\nThe 1971 Brownlow Medal was the 44th year the award was presented to the player adjudged the fairest and best player during the Victorian Football League (VFL) home and away season. Ian Stewart of the Richmond Football Club won the medal by polling twenty-one votes during the 1971 VFL season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092201-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Buckeye Tennis Championships\nThe 1971 Buckeye Tennis Championships, als known as the Buckeye Open, was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Buckeye Boys Ranch in Grove City, Columbus, Ohio in the United States that was part of Group D of the 1971 Grand Prix circuit. It was the second edition of the tournament and was held from July 26 through August 1, 1971. Second-seeded Tom Gorman won the singles title and earned $5,000 first-prize money as well as 15 ranking points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092201-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Buckeye Tennis Championships, Finals, Singles\nTom Gorman defeated Jimmy Connors 6\u20137, 7\u20136, 4\u20136, 7\u20136(5\u20132), 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092201-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Buckeye Tennis Championships, Finals, Doubles\nJim Osborne / Jim McManus defeated Jimmy Connors / Roscoe Tanner 4\u20136, 7\u20135, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092202-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Bucknell Bison football team\nThe 1971 Bucknell Bison football team was an American football team that represented Bucknell University as an independent during the 1971 NCAA College Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092202-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Bucknell Bison football team\nIn their third year under head coach Fred Prender, the Bison compiled a 5\u20135 record. Joe DiOrio and John Klenovic were the team captains.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092202-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Bucknell Bison football team\nBucknell played its home games at Memorial Stadium on the university campus in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092203-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Buffalo Bills season\nThe 1971 Buffalo Bills season was the franchise's 2nd season in the National Football League, and the 12th overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092203-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Buffalo Bills season\nFor the second time in four seasons, the Bills finished with only one victory. The Bills 1\u201313 record (a 0.071 winning percentage) remains the worst in franchise history. The team allowed 394 points, the most in franchise history for a 14-game season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092203-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Buffalo Bills season\nThe season began in turmoil when coach John Rauch resigned, forcing pro personnel director Harvey Johnson to assume the position for the second time on an interim basis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092203-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Buffalo Bills season\nBuffalo lost their first ten games of the season, extending their losing streak to 15 and winless streak to 17, dating back to the previous season. They were held scoreless in four games; their minus-210 point differential is the worst in the team's history, and one of the forty worst point-differentials in NFL history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092203-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Buffalo Bills season\nRunning back O. J. Simpson would have a stellar year, despite the Bills poor team record. Simpson would rush for 742 yards on 183 attempts. However, Simpson would only score 5 touchdowns, the fewest of his career in one season. The Bills would only score 21 touchdowns as a team during the 1971 season, the fewest in franchise history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092203-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Buffalo Bills season, Offseason, NFL Draft\nThe Bills had a strong draft in 1971, selecting several players who would have long-term impact with the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 47], "content_span": [48, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092203-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Standings\nNote: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 52], "content_span": [53, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092204-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Bulgarian Cup Final\nThe 1971 Bulgarian Cup Final was the 31st final of the Bulgarian Cup (in this period the tournament was named Cup of the Soviet Army), and was contested between Levski Sofia and Lokomotiv Plovdiv on 25 August 1971 at Bulgarian Army Stadium in Sofia. Levski won the final 3\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092205-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Bulgarian constitutional referendum\nA constitutional referendum was held in Bulgaria on 16 May 1971. Voters were asked whether they approved of a new constitution (known as the Zhivkov Constitution). The new constitution defined Bulgaria as a \"socialist state of the working people from the cities and the villages\", led by the Bulgarian Communist Party in cooperation with the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union. The result was reportedly 99.7% in favour, with a voter turnout of 99.7%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092206-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Bulgarian parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria on 27 June 1971, the first held under the new Zhivkov Constitution, which had been approved in a referendum held a month earlier. The Fatherland Front, dominated by the Bulgarian Communist Party, was the only organisation to contest the election; all candidate lists had to be approved by the Front. The Front nominated one candidate for each constituency. Of the 400 candidates 268 were members of the Communist Party, 100 were members of the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union and the remaining 32 were unaffiliated. Voter turnout was reportedly 99.9%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092207-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Bundesliga scandal\nThe Bundesliga scandal (der Bundesliga-Skandal) refers to the malicious, for-profit manipulation of games in the 1970\u201371 German football championship season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092207-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Bundesliga scandal, History\nThe manipulation of games was revealed when the president of Kickers Offenbach, Horst-Gregorio Canellas, presented an audio-tape to DFB officials and a few journalists at his 50th birthday garden-party. In that tape, several players, including German internationals Bernd Patzke and Manfred Manglitz, could be heard offering to let themselves be bribed to help Offenbach avoid relegation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092207-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Bundesliga scandal, History\nThe chief prosecutor of the DFB, Hans Kindermann, found out that, amongst others, the 17 April 1971 game between FC Schalke and Arminia Bielefeld that ended 0\u20131, had been \"sold\" (or thrown) by Schalke's players and the board of directors. Afterwards, many of the Schalke players were banned for long periods, while several lifetime bans were imposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092207-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Bundesliga scandal, History\nThe players maintained their innocence, and even swore an oath to that, but the oath was eventually proven to be false. Schalke's rivals, especially from the Ruhr, still occasionally refer to Schalke as FC Meineid (German for \"FC Perjury\").", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092207-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Bundesliga scandal, History\nFifty-two players, two managers and six club functionaries were punished. Also, Bielefeld and Offenbach had their license to participate in the Bundesliga revoked. Offenbach would have been relegated due to their sporting performance anyway, despite the manipulated games, but Bielefeld were to play in the next Bundesliga season. Eventually, Bielefeld had to play all 34 games of the 1971\u201372 season, but would be relegated after the season, independently of their record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092207-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Bundesliga scandal, Manipulated games\n*Strictly speaking, the game was not manipulated, but the Braunschweig players were promised, and given, for winning this game an additional bonus by a third party, which was illegal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092208-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 CFL Draft\nThe 1971 CFL Draft composed of nine rounds where 70 Canadian football players that were chosen exclusively from eligible Canadian universities. The Saskatchewan Roughriders, despite being Western Conference finalists, had the first overall selection through a trade with the last place Winnipeg Blue Bombers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092209-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 CFL season\nThe 1971 Canadian Football League season is considered to be the 18th season in modern-day Canadian football, although it was officially the 14th Canadian Football League season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092209-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 CFL season, CFL News for 1971\nThe Grey Cup Championship was played on artificial turf for the first time in Vancouver. The BC Lions also wore special \"CCC\"-logo helmets to commemorate the Canadian Confederation Centennial of British Columbia, the province having entered into Canadian Confederation a hundred years earlier, in 1871. The flower in the centre of the \"CCC\" logo is the pacific dogwood, the official provincial flower of British Columbia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 34], "content_span": [35, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092209-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 CFL season, CFL News for 1971\nAll CFL teams had their player's last names appearing on the jersey backs (at shoulder height, above the back number) beginning this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 34], "content_span": [35, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092209-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 CFL season, CFL News for 1971\nThis would be the last year until 2006 that the Edmonton Eskimos would miss the playoffs; in the intervening years, they would reach the playoffs for 33 straight years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 34], "content_span": [35, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092209-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 CFL season, Regular season standings, Final regular season standings\nNote: GP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Pts = Points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 73], "content_span": [74, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092209-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 CFL season, Playoff bracket, Grey Cup Championship\n59th Annual Grey Cup Game: Empire Stadium \u2013 Vancouver, British Columbia", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 55], "content_span": [56, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092210-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 CONCACAF Champions' Cup\nThe 1971 CONCACAF Champions' Cup was the 7th edition of the annual international club football competition held in the CONCACAF region (North America, Central America and the Caribbean), the CONCACAF Champions' Cup. It determined that year's club champion of association football in the CONCACAF region. It was played from 22 August 1971 till 19 April 1972 under the home/away match system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092210-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 CONCACAF Champions' Cup\nThe teams were split into 3 zones (North American, Central American and Caribbean), each one qualifying two teams to the final tournament, played for the first time in a group system. After the end of the group a playoff match had to be played because two teams ended with the same points in the lead of the group. This tournament included the Rochester Lancers, the only team from the original North American Soccer League to take part.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092210-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 CONCACAF Champions' Cup\nCruz Azul from Mexico won the final after beating, and became for the third time in its history CONCACAF champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092211-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 CONCACAF Championship\nThe 1971 CONCACAF Championship, the fifth edition of the CONCACAF Championship, was held in Trinidad and Tobago from 20 November to 5 December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092212-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 CONCACAF Championship qualification, Caribbean zone, Second round\nCuba and Suriname refused to meet Haiti in the final triangular; CONCACAF decided to award the places in the final tournament to Haiti and Cuba.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 70], "content_span": [71, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092213-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament\nThe 1971 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament was the 4th CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092214-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Cal Poly Mustangs football team\nThe 1971 Cal Poly Mustangs football team represented California Polytechnic State University during the 1971 NCAA College Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092214-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Cal Poly Mustangs football team\nCal Poly competed in the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA). The team was led by fourth-year head coach Joe Harper and played home games at Mustang Stadium in San Luis Obispo, California. They finished the season as CCAA champion, with a record of six wins and five losses (6\u20135, 3\u20130 CCAA). This was the third of five consecutive CCAA championships for the Mustangs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092214-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Cal Poly Mustangs football team, Team players in the NFL\nThe following Cal Poly Mustangs were selected in the 1972 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 61], "content_span": [62, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092215-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Cal Poly Pomona Broncos football team\nThe 1971 Cal Poly Pomona Broncos football team represented California State Polytechnic College, Kellogg-Voorhis during the 1971 NCAA College Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092215-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Cal Poly Pomona Broncos football team\nCal Poly Pomona competed in the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA). Cal Poly Pomona was led by third-year head coach Roy Anderson. They played home games at Kellogg Field in Pomona, California. The Broncos finished the season with a record of six wins and five losses (6\u20135, 1\u20133 CCAA). Overall, the team was outscored by its opponents 246\u2013260 for the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092215-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Cal Poly Pomona Broncos football team, Team players in the NFL\nThe following Cal Poly Pomona players were selected in the 1972 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 67], "content_span": [68, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092216-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Cal State Fullerton Titans football team\nThe 1971 Cal State Fullerton Titans football team represented California State College at Fullerton during the 1971 NCAA College Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092216-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Cal State Fullerton Titans football team\nCal State Fullerton competed in the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA). The team was led by second-year head coach Dick Coury. The Titans split their home games among 3 sites, with one game played at Santa Ana Stadium in Santa Ana, California, one at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, and four at Anaheim Stadium in Anaheim, California. They finished the season with a record of seven wins and four losses (7\u20134, 3\u20131 CCAA). At the end of the season, the Titans took part in the second Mercy Bowl, a benefit for the families of three Cal State Fullerton assistant coaches who had perished in a plane crash a month earlier. In the game, the Titans beat Fresno State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 725]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092216-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Cal State Fullerton Titans football team, Team players in the NFL\nNo Cal State Fullerton Titans were selected in the 1972 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 70], "content_span": [71, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092216-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Cal State Fullerton Titans football team, Team players in the NFL\nThe following finished their college career in 1971, were not drafted, but played in the NFL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 70], "content_span": [71, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092217-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Cal State Hayward Pioneers football team\nThe 1971 Cal State Hayward Pioneers football team represented California State College at Hayward in the 1971 NCAA College Division football season. Cal State Hayward competed in the Far Western Conference (FWC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092217-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Cal State Hayward Pioneers football team\nThe Pioneers were led by first-year head coach Bob Rodrigo. They played home games at Pioneer Stadium in Hayward, California. The Pioneers finished the season with a record of seven wins, two losses and one tie (7\u20132\u20131, 3\u20132\u20131 FWC). They outscored their opponents 272\u2013185 for the 1971 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092217-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Cal State Hayward Pioneers football team, Team players in the NFL\nNo Cal State Hayward Pioneers players were selected in the 1972 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 70], "content_span": [71, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092218-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Cal State Los Angeles Diablos football team\nThe 1971 Cal State Los Angeles Diablos football team represented California State University, Los Angeles during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092218-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Cal State Los Angeles Diablos football team\nThe Diablos competed in the Pacific Coast Athletic Association. The team was led by Foster Andersen in his first year as head coach. This was the third straight year the Diablos had a new head coach. The team played home games at East L.A. College Stadium in Monterey Park, California. They finished the season with a record of two wins and eight losses (2\u20138, 0\u20133 CCAA). The Diablos were held to a touchdown or less in 8 of their 10 games. For the year, they scored 90 points while giving up 269.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092218-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Cal State Los Angeles Diablos football team, Team players in the NFL\nNo Cal State Los Angeles players were selected in the 1972 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 73], "content_span": [74, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092219-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Calgary Stampeders season\nThe 1971 Calgary Stampeders season was the 14th season for the team in the Canadian Football League and their 27th overall. The team finished in first place in the Western Conference with a 9\u20136\u20131 record and won the franchise's second Grey Cup title with a 14\u201311 victory over the Toronto Argonauts in the 59th Grey Cup game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092219-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Calgary Stampeders season, Playoffs, Grey Cup\n59th Annual Grey Cup Game: Empire Stadium \u2013 Vancouver, British Columbia", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092220-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 California Angels season\nThe 1971 California Angels season involved the Angels finishing 4th in the American League West with a record of 76 wins and 86 losses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092220-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 California Angels season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092220-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 California Angels season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092220-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 California Angels season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092220-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 California Angels season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092220-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 California Angels season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092221-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 California Golden Bears football team\nThe 1971 California Golden Bears football team was an American football team that represented the University of California, Berkeley in the Pacific-8 Conference (Pac-8) during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. In their eighth year under head coach Ray Willsey, the Golden Bears compiled a 6\u20135 record (4\u20133 against Pac-8 opponents), finished in a tie for third place in the Pac-8, and were outscored by their opponents by a combined total of 262 to 186.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092221-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 California Golden Bears football team\nThe team's statistical leaders included Jay Cruze with 1,284 passing yards, Steve Kemnitzer with 686 rushing yards, and Steve Sweeney with 579 receiving yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092222-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Camden London Borough Council election\nThe 1971 Camden Council election took place on 13 May 1971 to elect members of Camden London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Labour party gained overall control of the council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092224-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Campeonato Argentino de Rugby\nThe 1971 Campeonato Argentino de Rugby was won by the selection of Uni\u00f3n de Rugby de Buenos Aires that beat in the final the selection of Uni\u00f3n de Rugby de Rosario", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092224-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Campeonato Argentino de Rugby, Semifinals\nScory system: try = 3 points, conversion=2 point, penalty kick, and kick from mark=3 points. Drop = 3 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092224-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Campeonato Argentino de Rugby, Semifinals\nMar del Plata: L. Rodr\u00edguez, D. Filippa, F. Uriaguereca, C. Sosa (cap), G. Severino, R. Lerario, R. Caparelli, E. Feullasier, M. Riego, C. Etchegaray, W. Heath, D. Cordasco, R. Sepe, F. Rossi, R. Bonomo. Buenos Aires:' M. Alonso, N. P\u00e9rez, M. Pascual, A. Travaglini, M. Walther, A. Etchegaray, R. Matarazzo, N. Carbone, J. Wittman, H. Silva, A. Ota\u00f1o, A. Anthony, O. Carbone, J. Dumas, L. Garc\u00eda Y\u00e1\u00f1ez", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092224-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Campeonato Argentino de Rugby, Semifinals\nMendoza: J. Castro, M. Brandi, R. Tarquini, O. Terranova, E. Candia, C. Navesi, L. Chac\u00f3n, J. Navesi, E. Casale, J. Nasazzi, A. Cataneo, E. S\u00e1nchez, C. Gonz\u00e1lez, l. Ramos, R. Ira\u00f1eta. Rosario\u00a0:'J. Seaton, G. Blanco, A. Fosse, C. Blanco, C. Garc\u00eda, J. Scilabra, S. Furno, M. Bouza, J. Fradua, R. Fariello", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092224-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Campeonato Argentino de Rugby, Semifinals, Third place final\nCuyo: E. Naviera, M. Brandi, E. Gand\u00eda, D. Mu\u00f1iz, C. Dora, C. Navesi (cap), L. Chac\u00f3n, R. Ira\u00f1eta, L. Ramos, C. Gonz\u00e1lez, C. Schmidt, E. S\u00e1nchez, A. Granata, J. Nasazzi, J. NavesiMar del Plata: J. Viders, L. Rodr\u00edguez, C. Sosa (cap), F. Uriaguereca, G. Severino, R. Lerario, R. Caparelli, E. Feullasier, M. Riego, C. Etchegaray, W. Heath, D. Cordasco, R. Bonomo, F. Rossi, R. Sepe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 65], "content_span": [66, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092224-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Campeonato Argentino de Rugby, Semifinals, Final\nBuenos Aires: M. Alonso, N. P\u00e9rez, A. Travaglini, M. Pascual, M. Walther, R. Matarazzo, A. Etchegaray, N. Carbone, J. Wittman, H. Silva (cap), A. Ota\u00f1o, A. Anthony, O. Carbone, J. Dumas, L. Garc\u00eda Y\u00e1\u00f1ez Rosario:'J. Seaton, C. Garc\u00eda, A. Fasce, C. Blanco, G. Blanco, J. Scilabra, M. Escalante, J. Imhoff, M. Chesta (cap), V. Macat, M. Senatore, R. Su\u00e1rez, S. Furno, J. Fradua, R. Fariello", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092225-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie A\nThe 1971 Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie A (officially the Primeiro Campeonato Nacional de Clubes, \"First National Championship of Clubs\") was the first official Brazilian football championship, and 15th edition overall of the S\u00e9rie A following the Ta\u00e7a Brasil and Torneio Roberto Gomes Pedrosa tournaments (which have been considered by the Brazilian confederation as valid national tournaments since 2010). Organized by the Brazilian Confederation of Sports (CBD), it was won by Atl\u00e9tico Mineiro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092225-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie A\nWhile the tournament represented the top tier of Brazilian football, its name was \"Division Extra\", with \"First Division\" instead used by the second-tier tournament (since known as Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie B).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092225-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie A, Background\nDuring the 1960s, two tournaments were used to pick Brazil's representative at the Copa Libertadores: Ta\u00e7a Brasil (1959-1968), a single-elimination tournament between the state champions; and Torneio Roberto Gomes Pedrosa (1967-1970), divided in two separate group phases with teams mostly from the states of Rio de Janeiro and S\u00e3o Paulo. Both tournaments had a format that barely covered the entire country and had regional phases that diminished fan support, leading to dissatisfaction from both the team owners and the Brazilian Confederation of Sports (CBD), who organized the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 643]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092225-0002-0001", "contents": "1971 Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie A, Background\nIn 1970, the Brazil national football team won the 1970 FIFA World Cup in Mexico, becoming the first three-time world champion. Seeing the valorization of Brazilian football, president Em\u00edlio M\u00e9dici and the Brazilian media pushed CBD towards a true national tournament. With a format inspired by the European tournaments, the tournament would feature 20 teams. The format of the national tournament was still close to the 1970 Torneio Roberto Gomes Pedrosa, with the state of Cear\u00e1 being the only addition to the seven featured in the Robert\u00e3o's final edition. Some of the shunned federation states, led by Goi\u00e1s, even created their own parallel national tournament, the Torneio Integra\u00e7\u00e3o da CBD.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 745]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092225-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie A, Teams\nTwenty clubs participated in this championship (home city in parenthesis):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092226-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie B\nThe football (soccer) Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie B 1971, the second level of Brazilian National League, was played from September 12 to December 22, 1971. The competition had 23 clubs. The tournament consisted in a fusion of the already existing Torneio Centro-Sul and the Copa Norte-Nordeste, with the champions of each tournament facing off in the finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092226-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie B\nVilla Nova beat Remo on the finals, and was declared 1971 Brazilian S\u00e9rie B champions. The relegation and promotion system hadn't been implemented yet, so no clubs were promoted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092227-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Campeonato Carioca\nThe 1971 edition of the Campeonato Carioca kicked off on March 6, 1971 and ended on June 27, 1971. It was organized by FCF (Federa\u00e7\u00e3o Carioca de Futebol, or Carioca Football Federation). Twelve teams participated. Fluminense won the title for the 20th time. no teams were relegated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092227-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Campeonato Carioca, System\nThe regulations also had stipulated that the qualification for the National Championship later that year would be partially defined by revenue, with the four teams with the best revenue qualifying along with the champion. The qualification for the Ta\u00e7a Guanabara would also follow similar criteria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092227-0001-0001", "contents": "1971 Campeonato Carioca, System\nHowever, that criterion proved controversial, as Olaria began complaining about the federation supposedly favouring its competitors, Am\u00e9rica and Bangu, and eventually that criterion was scrapped altogether, after the retail chain Ponto Frio bought all the tickets for Olaria's last home match against Flamengo, in Maracan\u00e3, guaranteeing Olaria fifth place in the revenue ranking and prompting protests from Am\u00e9rica and Bangu. In the end, Am\u00e9rica was invited to the National Championship in the place of Olaria, who withdrew from the Ta\u00e7a Guanabara as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092228-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Campeonato Ecuatoriano de F\u00fatbol Serie A\nThe 1971 Campeonato Ecuatoriano de F\u00fatbol Serie A, the first division of Ecuadorian football (soccer), was played by 16 teams. The champion was Barcelona.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092229-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Campeonato Paulista\nThe 1971 Campeonato Paulista da Divis\u00e3o Especial de Futebol Profissional, organized by the Federa\u00e7\u00e3o Paulista de Futebol, was the 70th season of S\u00e3o Paulo's top professional football league. S\u00e3o Paulo won the title for the 10th time. no teams were relegated and the top scorer was Palmeiras's C\u00e9sar Maluco with 18 goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092229-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Campeonato Paulista, Championship\nMuch like in the previous year, a preliminary phase was disputed before the championship proper, in which all teams played against each other twice and the six best teams qualified into the main championship. That phase was to be disputed in the second semester of 1970, by the teams that had been eliminated in that phase in the previous year, the four worst-placed teams in the main championship, and Noroeste, that had been promoted from the Second level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092229-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Campeonato Paulista, Championship\nIn the championship proper, each team played against the others twice, and the team with the most points won the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092230-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Campionati Internazionali di Sicilia\nThe 1971 Campionati Internazionali di Sicilia, also known as the Palermo Open, was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts in Palermo, Italy that was part of the Group C category of the 1971 Grand Prix circuit. It was the 23rd edition of the tournament and was held from 12 April until 18 April 1971. Roger Taylor won the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092230-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Campionati Internazionali di Sicilia, Finals, Doubles\nGeorges Goven / Pierre Barth\u00e8s defeated Ilie N\u0103stase / Ion \u021airiac 6\u20132, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092231-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Can-Am season\nThe 1971 Canadian-American Challenge Cup was the sixth season of the Can-Am auto racing series. It was contested by FIA Group 7 two-seater racing cars competing in two-hour sprint races. The series began on 13 June 1971 and ended on 31 October 1971, after ten rounds. The series was given official recognition by the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de l'Automobile for the first time in 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092231-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Can-Am season\nThe series was won by Peter Revson driving a McLaren M8F for McLaren Cars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 93]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092231-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Can-Am season, Series standings\nPoints were awarded to the top ten finishers in the order of 20-15-12-10-8-6-4-3-2-1. Only the best four placings from the first five races and the best four places from the second five races could be counted towards a driver's series total. Points earned but not counted are marked by parenthesis. The fourth-place finish overall of Jo Siffert was determined posthumously as Siffert died in October 1971 at a Formula One race at Brands Hatch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 36], "content_span": [37, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092232-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Canadian Grand Prix\nThe 1971 Canadian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Mosport Park on September 19, 1971. It was race 10 of 11 in both the 1971 World Championship of Drivers and the 1971 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers. Jackie Stewart took the win in the awful conditions and the race was stopped after 64 laps of the scheduled 80 due to the weather. American Mark Donohue scored an excellent third on his F1 debut.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092232-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Canadian Grand Prix\nThis was the first ever Formula One race to be red flagged.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 84]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092233-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Canadian federal budget\nThe Canadian federal budget for fiscal year 1971-1972 was presented by Minister of Finance Edgar Benson in the House of Commons of Canada on 18 June 1971. The budget lowered income taxes on individual and corporations, and sale taxes on a variety of commodities. A Capital gains tax was also introduced to the Canadian tax code.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092233-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Canadian federal budget, Reception\nThe budget initially received mixed reviews. Spokespersons for all three opposition parties were displeased by the budget and criticized the lack of measures to counter umemployment. However, Progressive Conservative MP Robert Thompson responded especially favorably to the budget, praising its tax cuts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092233-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Canadian federal budget, Reception\nA July 1971 Gallup opinion poll asked \"Do you think the last federal budget, presented to parliament in mid-june will effect, in any direct way, the financial situation of yourself and your family?\" 60% of respondents said \"No\" while 40% said \"yes\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092233-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Canadian federal budget, Reception\nDo you think the last federal budget, presented to parliament in mid-june will effect, in any direct way, the financial situation of yourself and your family?", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092234-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Canberra flood\nThe 1971 Canberra flood was a flash flood that occurred on 26 January 1971, in the Woden Valley district of Canberra, Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092234-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Canberra flood, Canberra flood\nThe flood killed seven people including four children, injured 15 and affected 500 people. The insurance damage was estimated at A$ 9 million. It was estimated that around 95\u00a0mm of rain fell in one hour during this event. The Yarralumla Creek drainage channel peak rate of flow measured 186,891 litres per second at the Carruthers Street pluviograph near Yarra Glen at around 8:50pm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092234-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Canberra flood, Canberra flood\nThe force of the water was strong enough to turn a bus 180 degrees on Melrose Drive south east of the intersection with Yarra Glen. The intersection was covered to a depth of an estimated 1.83m and the floodwaters spread an estimated 183m wide, east to west across the intersection of Yamba Drive, Melrose Drive and Yarra Glen. A number of people and cars were swept into the Yarralumla Creek drainage channel from a low level crossing at the junction of Yamba Drive, Melrose Drive and Yarra Glen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092234-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Canberra flood, Canberra flood\nYamba Drive was covered in fast flowing water to at least 275m south of the Hindmarsh Drive intersection where a white car and the driver were swept into the Long Gully drainage channel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092234-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Canberra flood, Aftermath\nOne Australian Police Officer, Constable Jeff Brown, was six months later awarded the British Empire Medal for Gallantry for rescue efforts during the event. Four Australian Police Officers were later awarded the Queen's Commendation for Brave Conduct for rescue efforts during the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092234-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Canberra flood, Aftermath\nFollowing the flood seven crosses were erected near the side of the road to mark the victims. A permanent memorial was officially dedicated on 26 January 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092235-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Cannes Film Festival\nThe 24th Cannes Film Festival was held from 12 to 27 May 1971. The Palme d'Or went to The Go-Between by Joseph Losey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092235-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Cannes Film Festival\nThe festival opened with Gimme Shelter, a documentary about English rock band The Rolling Stones directed by David Maysles, Albert Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin and closed with Les mari\u00e9s de l'an II, directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau. The festival paid tribute to Charlie Chaplin and honored him with the title of Commander of the national order of the Legion of Honor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092235-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Cannes Film Festival, Jury\nThe following people were appointed as the Jury of the 1971 film competition:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 31], "content_span": [32, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092235-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Cannes Film Festival, Official selection, In competition \u2013 Feature film\nThe following feature films competed for the Grand Prix International du Festival:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 76], "content_span": [77, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092235-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Cannes Film Festival, Official selection, Films out of competition\nThe following films were selected to be screened out of competition:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 71], "content_span": [72, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092235-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Cannes Film Festival, Official selection, Short film competition\nThe following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 69], "content_span": [70, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092235-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Cannes Film Festival, Parallel sections, International Critics' Week\nThe following feature films were screened for the 10th International Critics' Week (10e Semaine de la Critique):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 73], "content_span": [74, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092235-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Cannes Film Festival, Parallel sections, Directors' Fortnight\nThe following films were screened for the 1971 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des R\u00e9alizateurs):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 66], "content_span": [67, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092235-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Cannes Film Festival, Awards, Official awards\nThe following films and people received the 1971 Official selection awards:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 50], "content_span": [51, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092236-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Cardiff City Council election\nThe 1971 Cardiff City Council election was held on Thursday 13 May 1971 to elect councillors to Cardiff City Council in Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales. It took place on the same day as several other county borough elections in Wales and England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092236-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Cardiff City Council election\nThe previous elections to this one were in May 1970 and the next elections would be in May 1972. The 1971 election would be the penultimate all-Cardiff election before the dissolution of the unitary authority and the creation of the new second-tier district authority of Cardiff City Council in 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092236-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Cardiff City Council election\nThe election saw the Labour Party taking a significant number of seats back from the Conservatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092236-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Cardiff City Council election, Background\nCardiff County Borough Council had been created in 1889. Cardiff became a city in 1905. Elections to the local authority were held annually, though not all council seats were included in each contest, because each of the three councillors in each ward stood down for election in rotation. The councillors elected in 1971 would serve for less than three years, before the dissolution of the present Council in April 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092236-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Cardiff City Council election, Background\nThe local government elections took place in the context of an Edward Heath's new Conservative UK government (which had been elected only 11 months previously) and rising prices and unemployment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092236-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Cardiff City Council election, Overview of the result\nNineteen seats in 19 electoral wards were up for election in May 1971. In what was described as a \"night of disaster for the Conservatives\" the Labour Party more than recovered the position they had been in Cardiff prior to the 1967 elections. Labour gained a total of 11 seats, including one in the previous Tory stronghold of Whitchurch. A number of former Cardiff Labour councillors won their seats back, including Eva Davies, Emyr Currie-Jones, Philip Dunleavy, Harold Bartlett and Dengar Evans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092236-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Cardiff City Council election, Overview of the result, Council composition\nFollowing the May 1970 election the balance on the city council was 57 Conservatives, 18 Labour and one Plaid Cymru. With 11 out of 19 seats changing hands in May 1971, Cardiff Labour chairman Cllr Jack Brooks called for the other two thirds of Cardiff seats to be put up for election, saying it was unfair that the Conservatives should remain in control.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 79], "content_span": [80, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092237-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Caribbean Series\nThe fourteenth edition of the Caribbean Series (Serie del Caribe) baseball tournament was played in 1971. It was held from February 6 through February 11 with the champions teams from Dominican Republic, Tigres del Licey; Mexico, Naranjeros de Hermosillo; Puerto Rico, Cangrejeros de Santurce, and Venezuela, Tiburones de La Guaira. The format consisted of 12 games, each team facing the other teams twice, and the games were played at Hiram Bithorn Stadium in San Juan, Puerto Rico, which boosted its capacity to 18,000 seats. The first pitch was thrown by Bowie Kuhn, by then the Commissioner of Major League Baseball.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 642]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092237-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Caribbean Series, Summary\nDominican Republic captured the competition with an undefeated record of 6-0, behind a strong effort by manager Manny Mota, who also led the Series hitters with a .579 batting average (11-for-19) and won Most Valuable Player honors. The pitching support came from Chris Zachary (2-0), Reggie Cleveland (1-0), and reliever Pedro Borb\u00f3n (1-0, two saves). Other key players for Licey included Jim Beauchamp, Carmen Fanzone, C\u00e9sar Ger\u00f3nimo, Elvio Jim\u00e9nez and Rafael Robles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092237-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Caribbean Series, Summary\nPuerto Rico, Mexico and Venezuela shared second place with a 2-4 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092237-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Caribbean Series, Summary\nPuerto Rico's team, managed by Frank Robinson, was a huge favorite to win the Series, thanks to a roster loaded with prominent players like Sandy Alomar, Don Baylor, Elrod Hendricks, Reggie Jackson, Mike Kekich, Buck Martinez, Jerry Morales, Tony P\u00e9rez, Juan Pizarro, but the team faded just after the first half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092237-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Caribbean Series, Summary\nFor the first time, a representing team of Mexico took part in this tournament. Hermosillo was guided by Maury Wills and the offensive support came from Celerino S\u00e1nchez, who led the Series hitters in home runs (3) and RBI (9). Other noted players were Ed Acosta, Bobby Darwin, H\u00e9ctor Espino, Francisco Estrada, Jim Ray, Sergio Robles, Vicente Romo and Zoilo Versalles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092237-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Caribbean Series, Summary\nGraciano Ravelo managed the Venezuela club, which was clearly led by Pat Kelly (.381 BA, 2 HR, .714 slugging) and \u00c1ngel Bravo (7-for-21, .333 BA), while Leo C\u00e1rdenas hit .409 (9-for-22) for an otherwise weak offense, bottomed out by Ed Spiezio (3-for-19, .158 BA), Jos\u00e9 Cardenal (4-for-22, .182 BA) and Enzo Hern\u00e1ndez (6-for-23, .264). George Lauzerique (1-0, 1.64 ERA, 7 SO) was a high point in a pitching rotation headed by Larry Gura (0-1, 4.00), Steve Barber (0-2, 5.56) and Aurelio Monteagudo (0-1, 9.58). Orlando Pe\u00f1a (1-0, 3.00 ERA) provided a solid support in three relief appearances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 624]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092238-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Castrol Trophy\nThe 1971 Castrol Trophy was an endurance race for Group E Series Production Touring Cars. The event, which was staged at the Warwick Farm circuit in New South Wales, Australia on 2 May 1971, was Round 2 of the 1971 Australian Manufacturers' Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092238-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Castrol Trophy, Classes\nAs the race was an Australian Manufacturers\u2019 Championship round, the field was divided into five classes, based on \u201cCP Units\u201d. The engine capacity, in litres, was multiplied by the retail price, in Australian Dollars, to arrive at a CP Unit value for each competing model.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 28], "content_span": [29, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092238-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Castrol Trophy, Results\nThe winner's race time for the 100 lap, 225 mile race was 3 hours 6 minutes 29.5 seconds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 28], "content_span": [29, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092238-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Castrol Trophy, Results\nFrom the 30 entries for the race, 28 cars started, with seven failing to finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 28], "content_span": [29, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092239-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Census of India\nThe 1971 Census of India was the 11th in a series of censuses held in India every decade since 1872.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092239-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Census of India, Information\nDuration of Residence at the village or town of enumeration Religion S.C. or S.T. Literacy (L or O) Educational level Mother tongue Other languages", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092240-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Centennial Cup\nThe 1971 Centennial Cup is the first Tier II Junior \"A\" 1971 ice hockey National Championship for the Canadian Junior A Hockey League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092240-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Centennial Cup\nThe Centennial Cup was competed for by the winners of the Western Canadian Champions and the Eastern Canadian Champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092240-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Centennial Cup\nThe finals were hosted by the Charlottetown Islanders in the city of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092240-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Centennial Cup\nThe Manitoba Centennial Trophy was presented to the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association (CAHA) by the Manitoba Amateur Hockey Association to commemorate their centennial year of 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092241-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Central American Championships in Athletics\nThe sixth Central American Championships in Athletics were held at the Pista Eduardo Garnier in San Jos\u00e9, Costa Rica, between November 19\u201321, 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092241-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Central American Championships in Athletics, Medal summary\nSome results and medal winners could be reconstructed from the archive of Costa Rican newspaper La Naci\u00f3n.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 63], "content_span": [64, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092241-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Central American Championships in Athletics, Medal table (incomplete)\nOnly medals from the 27 events with known results from above are counted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 74], "content_span": [75, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092241-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Central American Championships in Athletics, Team Rankings\nCosta Rica won the overall team ranking, Nicaragua won the team ranking in the men's category, and Panam\u00e1 won the team ranking in the women's category.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 63], "content_span": [64, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092242-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics\nThe 1971 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics were held at the National Stadium in Kingston, Jamaica between 14\u201317 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092243-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics \u2013 Results\nThese are the results of the 1971 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics which took place on July 14\u201317, 1971 in Kingston, Jamaica.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 72], "section_span": [72, 72], "content_span": [73, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092244-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Central Michigan Chippewas football team\nThe 1971 Central Michigan Chippewas football team represented Central Michigan University during the 1971 NCAA College Division football season. In their fifth season under head coach Roy Kramer, the Chippewas compiled a 5\u20135 record and outscored their opponents, 183 to 181. The team's statistical leaders included quarterback Mick Brzezinski with 426 passing yards, tailback Jesse Lakes with 1,143 rushing yards, and Ron Goodin with 186 receiving yards. Lakes received the team's most valuable player award for the second consecutive year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092245-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Certej dam failure\nThe 1971 Certej dam failure was a flood due to the failure of a tailings dam at the Certej mine which led to the death of 89 people. It occurred on 30 October 1971 in Certeju de Sus commune, Hunedoara County, Romania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092245-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Certej dam failure, Background\nThe tailing pond of Certej was used between 1936 and 1971 to hold the cyanide-laced acid tailings resulting from the gold mine exploitation of Certej.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092245-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Certej dam failure, The disaster\nAt 4:55 AM, the dam broke for a length of 80 metres (87\u00a0yd) and from the tailings pond, 300,000 cubic metres (390,000\u00a0cu\u00a0yd) of residue flowed towards the town of Certej, flooding a radius of around 4\u20135 kilometres (2.5\u20133.1\u00a0mi) around the pond. The flood completely destroyed six apartment buildings, a dormitory building and seven individual houses, resulting in 89 deaths and 76 people being wounded. Due to the early hour, most of the victims were sleeping, which resulted in the high death toll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092245-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Certej dam failure, Aftermath\nThe Romanian Communist authorities announced in the press only 48 deaths, in order to avoid a National day of mourning. The survivors were compensated for the loss of their dwellings, receiving from the state an apartment or construction materials to rebuild their houses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092245-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Certej dam failure, Aftermath\nA governmental commission made out of 16 experts was created to investigate the disaster. Following their investigation, they found that the tailings lost their stability due to the increase in height over the allowed limits. Also, a factor may have been the heterogenous content of the pond, as between 1936 and 1971, various materials were deposited, having different characteristics, leading to a fault slip.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092245-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Certej dam failure, Aftermath\nThe prosecutors investigated the dam planner and five other people, but eventually they decided to drop all charges, as the disaster could not have been easily predicted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092246-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Championship of Australia\nThe 1971 Championship of Australia was the 15th edition of the Championship of Australia, an ANFC-organised national club Australian rules football match between the champion clubs from the VFL and the SANFL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092246-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Championship of Australia\nThis was the last Championship of Australia title to be held as a single game before the competition was expanded the following year into a knockout tournament that included the champions of the WANFL and the Tasmanian State Premiership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092246-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Championship of Australia, Match Details, Championship of Australia\nThis Australian rules football competition-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 72], "content_span": [73, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092247-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Charlotte Tennis Classic\nThe 1971 Charlotte Tennis Classic, also known by its sponsored name North Carolina National Bank Open, was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Olde Providence Racquet Club in Charlotte, North Carolina in the United States.. The men's competition was part of group C the 1971 Grand Prix circuit while the women's competition was a non-tour amateur event without prize money. It was the inaugural edition of the tournament and was held from April 12 through April 18, 1971 Arthur Ashe won the men's singles title, earning $5,000 first-prize money, and Chris Evert won the women's title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 664]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092247-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Charlotte Tennis Classic, Finals, Men's Doubles\nMarty Riessen / Tony Roche defeated Arthur Ashe / Dennis Ralston 6\u20132, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092247-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Charlotte Tennis Classic, Finals, Women's Doubles\nChris Evert / Sue Stap defeated Janet Newberry / Eliza Pande 6\u20133, 1\u20136, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092248-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Chatham Cup\nThe 1971 Chatham Cup was the 44th annual nationwide knockout football competition in New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092248-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Chatham Cup\nEarly stages of the competition were run on a regional basis, with the National League teams receiving a bye until the later stages of the competition. In all, 99 teams took part in the competition. Note: Different sources give different numberings for the rounds of the competition: some start round one with the beginning of the regional qualifications; others start numbering from the first national knock-out stage. The former numbering scheme is used in this article.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092248-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Chatham Cup, The 1971 final\nPrior to the changes in the organisation of the competition in 1970, finals were always between North Island and South Island teams. With the reorganisation of the draw, this was no longer the case, and so the 1971 final became the first local derby ever to be played out in the final, with both teams coming from Wellington.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 32], "content_span": [33, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092248-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Chatham Cup, The 1971 final\nIn the final, Western Suburbs made up for their defeat the previous year by seeing of neighbours Wellington City, who had been formed as a national league side through a merger of Miramar Rangers and Hungaria. In a howling Wellington southerly wind, Dave Wallace and Allan Jeffrey scored for Suburbs while Paul Cameron and Julius Beck countered for City. With the scores tied, the teams went to extra time, where the game remained locked at 2-2 until the last moments. With the final kick of the game Barry Humphreys sent a long ball forward which caught the breeze and bounced over the City keeper into his net.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 32], "content_span": [33, 645]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092248-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Chatham Cup, Results, Third Round\n\u2020 Due to the regional nature of the early part of the competition, Caversham and Invercargill United both progressed to a regional play-off, despite their losses in this round of the competition", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 38], "content_span": [39, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092249-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Chattanooga Moccasins football team\nThe 1971 Chattanooga Moccasins football team was an American football team that represented the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga during the 1971 NCAA College Division football season. In their fourth year under head coach Harold Wilkes, the team compiled a 2\u20139 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092250-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Chicago Bears season\nThe 1971 Chicago Bears season was their 52nd regular season completed in the National Football League. The team finished with a 6\u20138 record, another below .500 showing, eventually costing head coach Jim Dooley his job. This was their 1st season at Soldier Field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092250-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Chicago Bears season, Game summaries, Week 6\nChuck Hughes became the first NFL player to die on the field during a game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092250-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Chicago Bears season, Standings\nNote: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092251-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Chicago Cubs season\nThe 1971 Chicago Cubs season was the 100th season of the Chicago Cubs franchise, the 96th in the National League and the 56th at Wrigley Field. The Cubs finished third in the National League East with a record of 83\u201379.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092251-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Chicago Cubs season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 69], "content_span": [70, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092251-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Chicago Cubs season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 62], "content_span": [63, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092251-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Chicago Cubs season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 67], "content_span": [68, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092251-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Chicago Cubs season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 64], "content_span": [65, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092251-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Chicago Cubs season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 65], "content_span": [66, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092252-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Chicago White Sox season\nThe 1971 Chicago White Sox season was their 72nd season overall and 71st in the American League. They finished with a record 79\u201383, good enough for third place in the American League West, 22\u00bd games behind the first-place Oakland Athletics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092252-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Chicago White Sox season, Player stats, Batting\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At Bats; R = Runs scored; H = Hits; 2B = Doubles; 3B = Triples; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; BB = Base on balls; SO = Strikeouts; AVG = Batting average; SB = Stolen bases", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092252-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Chicago White Sox season, Player stats, Pitching\nNote: W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; SV = Saves; IP = Innings pitched; H = Hits allowed; R = Runs allowed; ER = Earned runs allowed; HR = Home runs allowed; BB = Walks allowed; K = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092253-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Chicago mayoral election\nIn the Chicago mayoral election of 1971, Richard J. Daley was elected to a fifth term as mayor, defeating Republican Richard Friedman by a landslide 40% margin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092253-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Chicago mayoral election\nIn winning his fifth mayoral election, Daley tied the record set by both Carter Harrison Sr. and Carter Harrison Jr. for the most Chicago mayoral election victories. He also became the first individual elected to five consecutive terms as Mayor of Chicago.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092253-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Chicago mayoral election\nDaley faced weak opposition in the election, with no serious challengers arising.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092253-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Chicago mayoral election\nThis was the final Chicago mayoral election to be held before the ratification of the Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which lowered the voting age from 21 to 18. Thus, it was the final Chicago mayoral election in which the voting age was 21.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092253-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Democratic primary\nIn December 1970, Daley put an end to speculation as to whether he'd seek reelection by announcing that he would seek a fifth term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092253-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Chicago mayoral election, Nominations, Republican primary\nThe Republican Party had hoped that Friedman, a reformist, would be able to build a coalition of Republicans and independents that could prove a strong challenge to Daley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092253-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Chicago mayoral election, General election\nPolitically Friedman was to the left of Daley, being more liberal. Friedman had sought to run an anti-machine campaign attracting reform Democrats, Republicans, and black voters. He ultimately failed to do this.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092254-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Chico State Wildcats football team\nThe 1971 Chico State Wildcats football team represented Chico State College during the 1971 NCAA College Division football season. Chico State competed in the Far Western Conference in 1971. They played home games at College Field in Chico, California. This was the last year the stadium was named College Field. With the school's change to University status in 1972, the stadium was renamed \"University Stadium\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092254-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Chico State Wildcats football team\nThe 1971 Wildcats were led by fourth-year head coach Pete Riehlman. Chico State finished the regular season as co-champion of the FWC, with a record of nine wins and one loss (9\u20131, 5\u20131 FWC). At the end of the season they were invited to play in the Camellia Bowl against Boise State. The Wildcats lost the game 28\u201332, giving them a final record of nine wins and two losses (9\u20132, 5\u20131 FWC). This would turn out to be the only end of season bowl game in which Chico State would participate. The Wildcats outscored their opponents 394\u2013164 for the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 590]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092254-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Chico State Wildcats football team, Team players in the NFL\nThe following Chico State players were selected in the 1972 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092255-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Chouf parliamentary by-election\nOn January 10, 1971, a by-poll was held to elect a member of parliament from one of the Sunni Muslim seats from Chouf District in the Lebanese Chamber of Deputies. The constituency was a very sensitive area, as it was the home to arch-rivals Kamal Jumblatt and Camille Chamoun. The election was described by contemporary observers as the 'most fiery Lebanon had ever witnessed in a by-election'. There was a massive presence of security forces deployed in the constituency during the campaign and on the voting day in particular.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092255-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Chouf parliamentary by-election\nThe election was called following the death of the incumbent Progressive Socialist Party parliamentarian Anwar al-Khatib in November 1970. Al-Khatib had been elected from Chouf in 1968.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092255-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Chouf parliamentary by-election\nThroughout the campaign there were unsuccessful efforts to find a compromise candidate, in order to avoid further sectarian conflict. The Prime Minister Saeb Salam was the most prominent figure in this drive for a middle ground. Salam also met with the Fatah leader Muhammad Yusuf an-Najjar to discuss reports of involvement of Palestinian fedayeen in the election campaign, claims that an-Najjar rebutted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092255-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Chouf parliamentary by-election\nIn the end the fight over the seat stood between two candidates; Zahir al-Khatib (son of Anwar al-Khatib) and Hassan al-Qa'qur. Al-Khatib of the Progressive Socialist Party belonged to the camp Kamal Jumblatt. His candidature was also supported by Nahj, the Communist Party and other leftists. Al-Qa'qur, who had been defeated by the late al-Khatib in the 1968 election, was supported by an alliance consisting of ex-president Camille Chamoun's National Liberal Party, the Kataeb Party, Constitutionalists, former Nahjists and others.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092255-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Chouf parliamentary by-election\nAl-Khatib won the seat, obtaining 22,065 votes. Al-Qa'qur obtained 18,148 votes. The election reaffirmed Jumblatt's dominance over politics in the Chouf District. In the end, no violent incidents were reported.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092256-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Christchurch mayoral election\nThe 1971 Christchurch mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1971, elections were held for the Mayor of Christchurch plus other local government positions. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092256-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Christchurch mayoral election, Background\nThere were two hotly-discussed issues leading up to the 1971 election: a proposal by the mayor to build a road through North Hagley Park, and the venue choice for the 1974 British Commonwealth Games. Senior councillor Peter Skellerup of the Citizens' ticket criticised the incumbent mayor, Ron Guthrey (also of the Citizens' ticket) on the road proposal. According to Hamish Hay, a later mayor, the road proposal was Guthrey's undoing, and he was defeated by Labour councillor Neville Pickering. It was the first occasion in 46 years that a sitting mayor had been defeated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 620]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092256-0001-0001", "contents": "1971 Christchurch mayoral election, Background\nLabour won a majority on the city council as well, winning control of the council for the first time since 1956, resulting in the composition of the council at eleven seats to eight in favour of the Labour Party. The highest-polling councillor, by a margin of 2500 votes, was Skellerup, though.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092257-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Cincinnati Bearcats football team\nThe 1971 Cincinnati Bearcats football team represented University of Cincinnati during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. The Bearcats, led by head coach Ray Callahan, participated as independent and played their home games at Nippert Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092258-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Cincinnati Bengals season\nThe 1971 Cincinnati Bengals season was the franchise's 2nd season in the National Football League, and the 4th overall. Cornerback Lemar Parrish set a team record with seven interceptions, including one for a 65-yard score, Cincinnati's first-ever interception return for a touchdown. The Bengals, coming off their first division-winning season of 1970, drafted quarterback Ken Anderson in the third round of the 1971 NFL Draft. Anderson would go on to play 16 seasons for the club and set numerous team passing records. While 1971 proved to be a disappointment, losing six games by four points or less, statistically this was the first year the Bengals led their opponents in almost every category.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 730]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092258-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Cincinnati Bengals season, Regular season, Standings\nNote: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092259-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Cincinnati Open\nThe 1971 Cincinnati Open, also known as the Western Open Championships, was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Coney Island in Cincinnati, Ohio in the United States that was part of the 1971 Pepsi-Cola Grand Prix. The tournament was held from August 2 through August 8, 1971. Stan Smith and Virginia Wade won the singles titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092259-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Cincinnati Open, Finals, Men's doubles\nStan Smith / Erik van Dillen defeated Sandy Mayer / Roscoe Tanner 6\u20134, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 43], "content_span": [44, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092259-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Cincinnati Open, Finals, Women's doubles\nHelen Gourlay / Kerry Harris defeated Gail Chanfreau / Winnie Shaw 6\u20134, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092260-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Cincinnati Reds season\nThe 1971 Cincinnati Reds season consisted of the Reds finishing in a fourth place tie with the Houston Astros in the National League West, with a record of 79\u201383, 11 games behind the NL West champion San Francisco Giants. The Reds were managed by Sparky Anderson, and played their first full season of home games at Riverfront Stadium, which had opened at mid-season in the previous year. This was the team's only losing season of the 1970s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092260-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 72], "content_span": [73, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092260-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092260-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 70], "content_span": [71, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092260-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 67], "content_span": [68, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092260-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 68], "content_span": [69, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092261-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Clemson Tigers football team\nThe 1971 Clemson Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Clemson University in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. In its second season under head coach Hootie Ingram, the team compiled a 5\u20136 record (4\u20132 against conference opponents), finished second in the ACC, and was outscored by a total of 202 to 155. The team played its home games at Memorial Stadium in Clemson, South Carolina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092261-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Clemson Tigers football team\nLarry Hefner and end John McMakin were the team captains. The team's statistical leaders included quarterback Tommy Kendrick with 1,040 passing yards, running back Rick Gilstrap with 514 rushing yards, Don Kelley with 505 receiving yards, and John McMakin with 30 points scored (5 touchdowns).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092261-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Clemson Tigers football team\nTwo Clemson players were selected by the Associated Press as first-team players on the 1971 All-Atlantic Coast Conference football team: offensive end John McMakin, defensive end Wayne Baker, and linebacker Larry Hefner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092262-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Cleveland Browns season\nThe 1971 Cleveland Browns season was the team's 22nd season with the National Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092262-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Cleveland Browns season\nAfter missing the playoffs the previous year, the Browns got off to a good start at 4\u20131 only to stumble losing 4 straight to fall to 4\u20135. However, the Browns would rebound to win the final 5 games of the season for the AFC Central Division title. Just as the 1967 Browns returned to the playoffs following a one-year absence, so, too, did the '71 club, which was in its first season under new head coach Nick Skorich after Blanton Collier's final team in 1970 had finished just 7\u20137, ending a string of three consecutive postseason berths.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092262-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Cleveland Browns season\nAs was the case in 1967, the '71 Browns went 9\u20135 and won a division crown. They captured the AFC Central for the first time, finishing three games in front of the soon-to-emerge Pittsburgh Steelers (6\u20138). In the playoffs the Browns would fall in the first round 20\u20133 to the Baltimore Colts. Running back Leroy Kelly was on the downside of his Pro Football Hall of Fame career, but he did manage to rush for 865 yards and 10 touchdowns \u2013 still good for a 14-game season. Wide receiver Fair Hooker led the team in receptions with 45.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092262-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Cleveland Browns season, Exhibition schedule\nThere was a doubleheader on September 4, 1971 Jets vs Steelers and Giants vs Browns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 49], "content_span": [50, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092262-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Cleveland Browns season, Game Summaries, Week 1: vs. Houston\nThe Browns open the regular season by blasting the Oilers, 31-0, in Nick Skorich's first game as coach. Leroy Kelly scores the Browns' first two touchdowns on 1-yard runs, and Bill Nelsen and Mike Phipps both throw a touchdown pass. The Browns intercept five passes (two by rookie Clarence Scott) and yield just 11 first downs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 65], "content_span": [66, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092262-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Cleveland Browns season, Game Summaries, Week 2: At Baltimore\nThe Browns survived a late mistake and upset the defending Super Bowl-champion Colts, 14-13 at Baltimore. After Walt Sumner intercepts a Johnny Unitas pass with five seconds left (Cleveland's fifth interception), he attempts to lateral to Scott, who never touches the ball as Baltimore's Ray Perkins recovers at the Cleveland 27. But the Colts, out of timeouts, watch theclock expire before they can get off a field-goal attempt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 66], "content_span": [67, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092262-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Cleveland Browns season, Game Summaries, Week 5: At Cincinnati\nThe Browns edge the Bengals, 27-24, at Cincinnati on Bo Scott's third touchdown - a 4-yard run with 39 seconds remaining. The win improves Cleveland's record to 4-1 and drops Paul Brown's defending AFC Central-champion Bengals to 1-4. The Browns get a break when defensive end Jack Gregory recovers a fumble at the Cincinnati 10, setting up a Nelsen-to-Scott TD pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 67], "content_span": [68, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092262-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Cleveland Browns season, Game Summaries, Week 10 vs. New England\nThe Browns snap a four-game losing streak with a 27-7 win over the Patriots at Cleveland Stadium. Kelly rushes for 113 yards and scores two touchdowns, one on a 7-yard pass from Nelsen for the game's first score. The Browns intercept four passes by New England rookie Jim Plunkett, who has trouble adjusting on a windy day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 69], "content_span": [70, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092262-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Cleveland Browns season, Game Summaries, Week 12 vs. Cincinnati\nThe Browns clinch their first AFC Central Division title with a 31-27 win over Cincinnati at Cleveland. Leroy Kelly, who surpassed the 100-yard mark for the 26th time, scores the first and last touchdowns to complement a 224-yard passing performance by Nelsen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 68], "content_span": [69, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092262-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 Cleveland Browns season, Standings\nNote: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092263-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Cleveland Indians season\nThe 1971 Cleveland Indians season was the 71st in franchise history. The team finished sixth in the American League East with a record of 60\u2013102, 43 games behind the Baltimore Orioles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092263-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Cleveland Indians season, Regular season\nIn the summer of 1971, Indians owner Vernon Stouffer was entertaining overtures with regards to the Cleveland Indians playing 27 to 30 home dates a year in New Orleans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092263-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Cleveland Indians season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092263-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Cleveland Indians season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092263-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Cleveland Indians season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092263-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Cleveland Indians season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092263-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Cleveland Indians season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092264-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Cleveland mayoral election\nThe Cleveland mayoral election of 1971 saw the election of Ralph Perk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092264-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Cleveland mayoral election\nThis was the last officially partisan mayoral election in Cleveland. Subsequent elections have used a nonpartisan system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092265-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Colgate Red Raiders football team\nThe 1971 Colgate Red Raiders football team was an American football team that represented Colgate University as an independent during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. In its fourth season under head coach Neil Wheelwright, the team compiled a 6\u20134 record. For the first time since the 1944 season, the team named two players as captains, Thomas Doyle and Steve Morgan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092265-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Colgate Red Raiders football team\nThe team played its home games at Andy Kerr Stadium in Hamilton, New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092265-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Colgate Red Raiders football team, Leading players\nTwo trophies were awarded to the Red Raiders' most valuable players in 1971:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092266-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 College Baseball All-America Team\nAn All-American team is an honorary sports team composed of the best amateur players of a specific season for each team position\u2014who in turn are given the honorific \"All-America\" and typically referred to as \"All-American athletes\", or simply \"All-Americans\". Although the honorees generally do not compete together as a unit, the term is used in U.S. team sports to refer to players who are selected by members of the national media. Walter Camp selected the first All-America team in the early days of American football in 1889.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092266-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 College Baseball All-America Team\nFrom 1947 to 1980, the American Baseball Coaches Association was the only All-American selector recognized by the NCAA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092267-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 College Football All-America Team\nThe 1971 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans by various organizations and writers that chose College Football All-America Teams in 1971. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) recognizes five selectors as \"official\" for the 1971 season. They are: (1) the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA), (2) the Associated Press (AP), (3) the Football Writers Association of America (FWAA), (4) the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA), and (5) the United Press International (UPI).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092267-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 College Football All-America Team\nNine players are recognized by the NCAA as unanimous All-America selections: quarterback and 1971 Heisman Trophy winner Pat Sullivan of Auburn; running backs Ed Marinaro of Cornell and Greg Pruitt of Oklahoma; receiver Terry Beasley of Auburn; tackle Jerry Sisemore of Texas; guard Royce Smith of Georgia; defensive end Walt Patulski of Notre Dame; linebacker Mike Taylor of Michigan; and defensive back Bobby Majors of Tennessee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092267-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 College Football All-America Team, Consensus All-Americans\nThe following chart identifies the NCAA-recognized consensus All-Americans for the year 1971 and displays which first-team designations they received.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 63], "content_span": [64, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092268-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Colorado Aviation Aero Commander 680 crash\nThe 1971 Colorado Aviation Aero Commander 680 crash claimed the life of decorated American World War II veteran Audie Murphy and five other people on May 28, 1971. The aircraft's passengers were on a business trip from Atlanta, Georgia, to Martinsville, Virginia, aboard an Aero Commander 680 Super twin-engined aircraft owned and operated by Colorado Aviation Co, Inc. The aircraft crashed into the side of Brushy Mountain, 14 nautical miles northwest of Roanoke, Virginia, during conditions of poor visibility.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092268-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Colorado Aviation Aero Commander 680 crash\nThe National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) concluded that the crash was caused by the pilot's decision to continue operating under visual flight rules (VFR) into instrument meteorological conditions (IMC), combined with his lack of experience in the aircraft type.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092268-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Colorado Aviation Aero Commander 680 crash, Accident\nOn the morning of May 28, 1971, an Aero Commander 680 Super prepared to depart DeKalb\u2013Peachtree Airport in Atlanta, operating as an unscheduled passenger air taxi flight under VFR to its destination of Blue Ridge Airport in Martinsville, Virginia, located 284 nautical miles northeast. The estimated flight time was 1 hr, 46 min.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 57], "content_span": [58, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092268-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Colorado Aviation Aero Commander 680 crash, Accident\nBefore takeoff, the Aero Commander's pilot requested a weather report by phone, and decided weather along the route was safe for visual flying. No flight plan was required and none was filed. Air traffic control at Peachtree cleared the flight and the aircraft departed at 09:10 EDT. As the flight continued, weather conditions deteriorated, and 2 hr, 20 min after take off, at 11:30, witnesses in Galax, Virginia (60 miles due west of Martinsville) reported seeing the plane flying circles in and out of the clouds at approximately 150 feet above ground level (AGL). Shortly afterward the aircraft unsuccessfully attempted to land on a four-lane highway northwest of Galax. After making a passover the town at near treetop level, the aircraft left the area heading west towards the Blue Ridge Mountains.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 57], "content_span": [58, 862]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092268-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Colorado Aviation Aero Commander 680 crash, Accident\nThe last communication with the aircraft was at 11:49, when the pilot contacted the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Flight Service Station at Roanoke's Woodrum Airport asking for a weather report and saying he intended to land there. At this point, the aircraft had flown past its destination of Martinsville and was west of and below the peaks of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The latest weather report radioed by Roanoke was \"measured ceiling 1,000 ft broken, 2500 ft overcast, visibility 3 miles in light rain and fog, with mountain ridges obscured\". The pilot did not indicate he was in any kind of trouble or report the aircraft's current position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 57], "content_span": [58, 713]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092268-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Colorado Aviation Aero Commander 680 crash, Accident\nAt 12:08, the aircraft impacted the west side of Brushy Mountain at the 2,700-ft level while flying at \"high speed, level attitude\" on a heading of 100\u00b0 to the Roanoke VORTAC navigation beacon. The collision into the heavily wooded slope and postcrash fire destroyed the aircraft, and all six people on board received fatal injuries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 57], "content_span": [58, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092268-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Colorado Aviation Aero Commander 680 crash, Aircraft\nRegistered as N601JJ, the aircraft was a 14-year-old 680 Super, seven-seat, light twin, type certified on October 14, 1955, and manufactured in 1957 by Aero Commander. Serial number 680-491-161 was equipped with 340\u00a0hp Lycoming GSO-480-B1A6 supercharged engines, turning Hartzell three-bladed feathering propellers. Maximum takeoff weight was 7,000\u00a0lb (3,200\u00a0kg) with a total fuel load of 225.5 US gal, giving a 1,480-mi range at a cruise speed of 230\u00a0mph. Because of these features, the 680 Super is considered a complex multiengined airplane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 57], "content_span": [58, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092268-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Colorado Aviation Aero Commander 680 crash, Crew and passengers\nThe single crewmember was 43-year-old pilot Herman Butler, who held a valid private pilot license with airplane single- and multiengine land rating, but was not rated to fly under IFR. Butler had over 8,000 hours of flight experience, but only six hours logged in the newly acquired Aero Commander. He was also the secretary of Colorado Aviation Co., Inc., of Denver, Colorado, which owned the plane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 68], "content_span": [69, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092268-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Colorado Aviation Aero Commander 680 crash, Crew and passengers\nAmong the five passengers was Audie Murphy, the most decorated U.S. veteran of World War II and a director of Colorado Aviation's parent company, Telestar Leisure Investments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 68], "content_span": [69, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092268-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 Colorado Aviation Aero Commander 680 crash, Aftermath\nWhen the aircraft failed to arrive in Martinsville, awaiting friends were told the flight had changed destinations to Roanoke. By late that afternoon, though the aircraft was recognized to be missing, and a search was initiated. Civil Air Patrol in Danville began searching with help from units in Martinsville, Roanoke, Buckingham, Hillsville, and Lynchburg. The Eastern Air Search and Rescue Center at Robins Air Force Base also launched 31 aircraft in support of the search.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 58], "content_span": [59, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092268-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 Colorado Aviation Aero Commander 680 crash, Aftermath\nDue to poor weather conditions and the lack of a flight plan, the crash site was not located until May 31. Colonel Hale and Major Slusser of the Virginia Wing of the Civil Air Patrol discovered the site about 300 ft below the summit of Brushy Mountain at 2:30 in the afternoon. Later that day, rescue workers were able to reach the area after hiking up 4 miles of steep terrain. Three passengers, including Murphy, had been thrown uphill from the wreckage and were identified on site. The remaining three were found within the cabin of the aircraft and were badly burned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 58], "content_span": [59, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092268-0011-0000", "contents": "1971 Colorado Aviation Aero Commander 680 crash, Investigation\nThe accident was investigated by the NTSB, and centered on the weather at the time of the crash and the pilot's abilities. No evidence was found of any preimpact malfunction of the aircraft, and in its final report, issued on June 15, 1972, the NTSB determined this official probable cause for the accident: \"[T]he pilot's attempt to continue visual fight into adverse weather conditions [was] at an altitude too low to clear the mountainous terrain. The board also finds that the pilot attempted to continue flight into instrument weather conditions, which were beyond his operational capabilities.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 62], "content_span": [63, 663]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092268-0012-0000", "contents": "1971 Colorado Aviation Aero Commander 680 crash, Civil lawsuit\nIn December 1971, Murphy's widow and two sons hired attorney Herbert Hafif and filed a $10 million lawsuit in Los Angeles District Court alleging negligence in the operation and maintenance of the aircraft. The 13 defendants included the estate of pilot Herman Butler, the estates of passengers Claude Crosby and Jack Littleton, Aero Commander, Colorado Aviation, and Telestar. In December 1975, a jury awarded the Murphy family $2.5 million in damages to be paid by the aircraft's owner, Colorado Aviation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 62], "content_span": [63, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092269-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Colorado Buffaloes football team\nThe 1971 Colorado Buffaloes football team represented the University of Colorado at Boulder in the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. The Buffaloes scored 370 points and allowed 220 points. Led by head coach Eddie Crowder, the Buffaloes were 9\u20132 in the regular season, won the Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl, and finished third in the final rankings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092270-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Colorado State Rams football team\nThe 1971 Colorado State Rams football team was an American football team that represented Colorado State University in the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. In its 2nd season under head coach Jerry Wampfler, the team compiled a 3\u20138 record (1\u20134 against WAC opponents).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092270-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Colorado State Rams football team\nColorado State's senior running back, Lawrence McCutcheon, rushed for 1,112 yards and caught 19 passes for 197 yards. McCutcheon later played ten seasons in the National Football League and appeared in five Pro Bowls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092271-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Columbia Lions football team\nThe 1971 Columbia Lions football team was an American football team that represented Columbia University during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. Columbia finished third in the Ivy League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092271-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Columbia Lions football team\nIn their fourth season under head coach Frank Navarro, the Lions compiled a 6\u20133 record and outscored opponents 166 to 136. John Sefcik and Charles Johnson were the team captains.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092271-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Columbia Lions football team\nThe Lions' 5\u20132 conference record placed third in the Ivy League standings. Columbia outscored Ivy opponents 149 to 117.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092271-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Columbia Lions football team\nColumbia played its home games at Baker Field in Upper Manhattan, in New York City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092272-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Columbus, Ohio mayoral election\nThe Columbus mayoral election of 1971 was the 74th mayoral election in Columbus, Ohio. It was held on Tuesday, November 2, 1971. Incumbent Democratic mayor Jack Sensenbrenner was defeated by Republican party nominee Tom Moody.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092273-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting\nThe 1971 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting was the first Meeting of the Heads of Government of the Commonwealth of Nations (formerly named the British Commonwealth). It was held in Singapore, between 14 January 1971 and 22 January 1971, and was hosted by that country's Prime Minister, Lee Kuan Yew.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092273-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting\nBritish prime minister Edward Heath advised Queen Elizabeth II not to attend the conference due to a row within the Commonwealth over Britain selling arms to South Africa. It would be the only CHOGM the Queen would miss until 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092273-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting\nUgandan president Milton Obote was overthrown by Idi Amin in a military coup, whilst he was attending the meeting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092273-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting\nAt the meeting the Singapore Declaration of Commonwealth Principles was agreed setting out the core political values that would form the main part of the Commonwealth's membership criteria. The final document was not ratified by Pakistan. Topics discussed at the meeting included Chinese representation at the United Nations, East-West relations, conflict in the Southeast Asia, Portuguese violations of Guinean sovereignty and situation in Portuguese colonies, and South African situation. Members also discussed the repercussions of future Accession of the United Kingdom to the European Communities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 648]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092274-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Connecticut Huskies football team\nThe 1971 Connecticut Huskies football team represented the University of Connecticut in the 1971 NCAA College Division football season. The Huskies were led by first year head coach Robert Casciola, and completed the season with a record of 5\u20133\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092275-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Cook Islands Round Cup\nThe 1971 season of the Cook Islands Round Cup was the second recorded season of top flight association football competition in the Cook Islands, with any results between 1951 and 1969 currently unknown. Titikaveka won the championship, their second recorded championship in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092276-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Copa Fraternidad\nThe Copa Fraternidad 1971 was the first Central American club championship played between six clubs, two from Costa Rica, two from El Salvador and two from Guatemala. This was the first edition under this format.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092277-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Copa Interamericana\nThe 1971 Copa Interamericana was the 2nd staging of the competition. The final took place between Nacional (Winners of 1971 Copa Libertadores) and Cruz Azul (Winners of the 1971 CONCACAF Champions' Cup) and was staged over two legs on 15 July and 7 November 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092277-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Copa Interamericana\nSince the winning of 1971 Copa Libertadores, some players of Nacional had been transferred, such as Atilio Ancheta, striker Luis Artime and Juan Mujica. Instead of acquiring new players from other clubs, National chose to promote players from the youth divisions to play the series v Cruz Azul. Some of them were Walter Mantegazza, Braulio Castro, Eduardo Gerolami, and Ruben Su\u00e1rez.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092277-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Copa Interamericana\nOn the other hand, the Mexican side had signed former V\u00e9lez Sarsfield goalkeeper, Argentine Miguel Mar\u00edn, and Chilean back Alberto Quintano.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092277-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Copa Interamericana\nNacional won its third International championship of the season after obtaining the 1971 Libertadores and the 1971 Intercontinental Cup on June and December 1971 respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092278-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Copa Libertadores\nThe Copa Libertadores 1971 was the 12th edition of the Copa Libertadores, CONMEBOL's annual international club tournament. Nacional won the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092278-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Copa Libertadores\nThe participating teams were divided into five groups, in which teams of the same country were placed in the same group. Each country was represented by two teams. The countries were paired as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092279-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Copa Libertadores Finals\nThe 1971 Copa Libertadores de Am\u00e9rica was a football competition contested between the top clubs of the CONMEBOL federation. Uruguayan side Nacional won the competition defeating Argentine team Estudiantes de la Plata 2\u20130 in a playoff held in Estadio Nacional in Lima, Peru, after the two-legged series (in La Plata and Montevideo) ended with one win for each side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092279-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Copa Libertadores Finals\nIt was the first Copa Libertadores won by Nacional, after three finals contested before with no success. Otherwise, Estudiantes lost their first final after three consecutive trophies won.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092280-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Copa Per\u00fa\nThe 1971 Copa Per\u00fa season (Spanish: Copa Per\u00fa 1971), the promotion tournament of Peruvian football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092280-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Copa Per\u00fa\nIn this tournament after many qualification rounds, each one of the 24 departments in which Peru is politically divided, qualify a team. Those teams plus de team relegated from First Division on the last year, enter in two more rounds and finally 6 of them qualify for the Final round, staged in Lima (the capital).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092280-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Copa Per\u00fa\nThree teams were promoted to play in 1971 First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 72]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092280-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Copa Per\u00fa, Finalists teams\nThe following list shows the teams that qualified for the Final Stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 31], "content_span": [32, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092281-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Copa del General\u00edsimo Final\nThe Copa del General\u00edsimo 1971 Final was the 69th final of the King's Cup. The final was played at Santiago Bernab\u00e9u Stadium in Madrid, on 4 July 1971, being won by FC Barcelona, who beat Valencia 4-3 in the extra-time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092282-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Coppa Italia Final\nThe 1971 Coppa Italia Final was a final group of the 1970\u201371 Coppa Italia. From 1968 to 1971, FIGC introduced a final group instead of semi\u2013finals and finals. In the final group, four teams played against each other home\u2013and\u2013away in a round\u2013robin format (30 May \u2013 23 June 1971). In the final group standings, the top two teams each had 7 points, and a tie\u2013breaking match needed to be played. The play\u2013off match was played on 27 June 1971 between Torino and Milan. Torino won 5\u20133 on penalties after the match ended 0\u20130 after extra time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092283-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship\nThe 1971 Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship was the 62nd staging of the Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1909.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092283-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship\nOn 7 November 1971, Nemo Rangers won the championship following a 4\u201311 to 2\u201303 defeat of Carrigtwohill in a final replay. This was their third championship title overall and their first title since 1928.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092284-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Cork Senior Football Championship\nThe 1971 Cork Senior Football Championship was the 83rd staging of the Cork Senior Football Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1887. The draw for the opening round fixtures took place at the Cork Convention on 31 January 1971. The championship began on 18 April 1971 and ended on 10 October 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092284-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Cork Senior Football Championship\nMuskerry entered the championship as the defending champions, however, they were defeated by Carbery at the quarter-final stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092284-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Cork Senior Football Championship\nOn 10 October 1971, Carbery won the championship following a 3-11 to 2-08 defeat of University College Cork in the final. This was their third championship title overall and their first title since 1968.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092284-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Cork Senior Football Championship\nUniversity College Cork's Brendan Lynch was the championship's top scorer with 2-17.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092285-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Cork Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 1971 Cork Senior Hurling Championship was the 83rd staging of the Cork Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1887. The championship began on 25 April 1971 and ended on 3 October 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092285-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Cork Senior Hurling Championship\nUniversity College Cork entered the championship as the defending champions, however, they were defeated by Passage in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092285-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Cork Senior Hurling Championship\nOn 3 October 1971, Blackrock won the championship following a 2-19 to 5-4 defeat of St. Finbarr's in the final. This was their 24th championship title overall and their first in ten years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092285-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Cork Senior Hurling Championship\nBlackrock's Pat Moylan was the championship's top scorer with 0-37.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092286-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Cornell Big Red football team\nThe 1971 Cornell Big Red football team represented Cornell University in the 1971 NCAA University Division football season as a member of the Ivy League. The Big Red were led by sixth-year head coach Jack Musick and played their home games at Schoellkopf Field. The Big Red finished the season 8\u20131 overall and 6\u20131 in Ivy League play to win Cornell's first-ever Ivy League championship, sharing the title with Dartmouth, the only team to defeat the 1971 Big Red.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092286-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Cornell Big Red football team\nThe team was led offensively by future NFL running back Ed Marinaro; during the 1971 season, Marinaro capped his college football career by setting a national collegiate record for career rushing yards at 4,715, which stood until being broken in 1976 by Tony Dorsett of the Pittsburgh Panthers. Marinaro won first team All-American honors and finished in a close second in voting for the Heisman Trophy. On October 30, 1971, Cornell saw its largest home football crowd in the post-1970 era with 23,000 in attendance at Schoellkopf Field (which had a capacity of 25,597) for the day's rivalry match-up against Columbia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 653]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092287-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Cotton Bowl Classic\nThe 1971 Cotton Bowl Classic was the 35th edition of the college football bowl game, played at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas, on Friday, January\u00a01. A rematch from the previous year, the undefeated and top-ranked Texas Longhorns of the Southwest Conference were upset by the independent Notre Dame Fighting Irish, 24\u201311.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092287-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Cotton Bowl Classic, Teams, Notre Dame\nLed by head coach Ara Parseghian, Notre Dame's captains were Larry DiNardo and Tim Kelly, and featured Joe Theismann at quarterback and Tom Gatewood as a wide receiver.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 43], "content_span": [44, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092287-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Cotton Bowl Classic, Teams, Texas\nTexas was coached by Darrell Royal, and the captains for the Longhorns were Scott Henderson, Steve Worster, Bobby Wuensch and Bill Zapalac. The team also featured Jerry Sisemore at tackle and Jim Bertelsen at running back.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092287-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Cotton Bowl Classic, Teams, Texas\nTexas was trying to win consecutive national championships, while Notre Dame was seeking revenge for the previous Cotton Bowl loss to Texas, its first bowl appearance in over four decades.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092287-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Cotton Bowl Classic, Game summary\nAfter Texas' initial field goal, Notre Dame scored 21 straight points. Texas scored in the second quarter and Notre Dame added a field goal to lead 24\u201311 at halftime. Parseghian's defense held the Longhorn wishbone offense in check the rest of the game and the second half was scoreless. Texas committed six turnovers (five fumbles and an interception) while Notre Dame had only two turnovers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092287-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Cotton Bowl Classic, Aftermath\nIt ended the Longhorns' 30-game winning streak, which is currently (as of October 2011) the 12th longest winning streak in NCAA Division I records. Notre Dame had defeated Oklahoma in 1957 to end their 47-game win streak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092287-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Cotton Bowl Classic, Aftermath\nSecond-ranked Ohio State lost to Stanford in the Rose Bowl, while #3 Nebraska won the Orange Bowl and was named the AP national champion for the 1970 season, with Notre Dame as runner-up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092287-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Cotton Bowl Classic, Aftermath\nTexas had been selected as the national champion by the UPI Coaches' Poll, whose final edition was then released at the end of the regular season, prior to bowl games. After a similar occurrence in 1973, the Coaches Poll released its final edition after the bowl games, starting with the 1974 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092288-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 County Championship\nThe 1971 County Championship was the 72nd officially organised running of the County Championship. Surrey won the Championship title by virtue of winning more matches because they had finished level on points with Warwickshire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092289-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Coupe de France Final\nThe 1971 Coupe de France Final was an association football match held at Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir, Colombes on 20 June 1971. Stade Rennais defeated Olympique Lyonnais 1\u20130, thanks to a goal by Andr\u00e9 Guy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092289-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Coupe de France Final, Match Summary\nIn an overall average game opposing two teams disposed in a 4-4-2 formation, the break came from a penalty kick scored by ex-Lyon player Andr\u00e9 Guy, who had transferred to Rennes in December 1970, after a questionable foul by Robert Valette. The referee, Mr. Vigilani had previously disallowed a goal by Andr\u00e9 Betta in the 58th minute for Rennes due to an offside position by Robert Rico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 41], "content_span": [42, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092289-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Coupe de France Final, Match Summary\nThis win was Rennes' second Coupe de France victory, their first win having come in the 1965 final against Sedan-Torcy. Lyon, suffered their second defeat in the final in the fourth Coupe de France Final appearance, the first loss having been against AS Monaco in 1963.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 41], "content_span": [42, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092289-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Coupe de France Final, Match Summary\nThis was the last Coupe de France final to be played at the Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir in Colombes, as the final was played at the Parc des Princes from 1972 to 1997, and since 1998 has been played at the Stade de France.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 41], "content_span": [42, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092290-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9 Lib\u00e9r\u00e9\nThe 1971 Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9 Lib\u00e9r\u00e9 was the 23rd edition of the cycle race and was held from 18 May to 23 May 1971. The race started in Avignon and finished at Montceau-les-Mines. The race was won by Eddy Merckx of the Molteni team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092290-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9 Lib\u00e9r\u00e9, Teams\nNine teams, containing a total of 90 riders, participated in the race:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092291-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks season\nThe 1971 Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks season was the 5th in club's history. They competed in the NSWRFL's 1971 premiership. The Sharks also won the Endeavour Cup this year. The Endeavour Cup competition was only run for two years, it was a knockout competition involving the teams that didn't make the final five for that year. The trophy was recently found at the club thanks to a request from life member Andrew Downie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092292-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Croydon London Borough Council election\nThe 1971 Croydon Council election took place on 13 May 1971 to elect members of Croydon London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Conservative party stayed in overall control of the council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092292-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Croydon London Borough Council election, Election result\nNote: One Alderman was elected as an independent in 1968, but was a Conservative by the time of this election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 61], "content_span": [62, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092293-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Cup of the Alps\n1971 Coppa delle Alpi shows the results of the 1971 tournament that was held in Switzerland in the preseason 1971/72. The Coppa delle Alpi (translated as Cup of the Alps) was a football tournament, jointly organized by the Italian Football Federation and the Swiss Football Association as a pre-season event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092293-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Cup of the Alps, Overview\nThere were four participants from Italy, these being Hellas Verona, Lazio, Sampdoria and Varese and there were four from Switzerland: Lugano, Lausanne Sports, Winterthur and FC Basel. Two teams from each country were drawn into each of the two groups. Within the group each team played the two clubs of the other country twice, but did not play compatriots. The Italians and the Swiss each formed their own league table and the winners from each country then matched themselves in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092293-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Cup of the Alps, League Tables, Italy\nNB: Decisive points total (DPT) computed as sum of points and goals scored", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 42], "content_span": [43, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092293-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Cup of the Alps, Final\nThe Final was played in St. Jakob Stadium, Basel, between the winner of the Italien and the winner of the Swiss groups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 27], "content_span": [28, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092294-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Cupa Rom\u00e2niei Final\nThe 1971 Cupa Rom\u00e2niei Final was the 33rd final of Romania's most prestigious football cup competition. It was disputed between Steaua Bucure\u0219ti and Dinamo Bucure\u0219ti, and was won by Steaua Bucure\u0219ti after a game with 5 goals. It was the 11th cup for Steaua Bucure\u0219ti.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092295-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Currie Cup\nThe 1971 Currie Cup was the 33nd edition of the Currie Cup, the premier annual domestic rugby union competition in South Africa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092295-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Currie Cup\nThe tournament was jointly won by Northern Transvaal and Transvaal \u2013 the fifth time each of those teams won the competition \u2013 after the two teams drew 14\u201314 in the final in Johannesburg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092296-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Cyrus International Tournament\nThe Cyrus International Tournament (Persian: \u062a\u0648\u0631\u0646\u0645\u0646\u062a \u0628\u06cc\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0644\u0644\u06cc \u06a9\u0648\u0631\u0634\u200e) or simply Cyrus Cup (Persian: \u062c\u0627\u0645 \u06a9\u0648\u0631\u0634\u200e) was a friendly football tournament held in Tehran, Iran between June 25 to July 4, 1971. As this tournament was held at the same year of the 2,500 year celebration of Iran's monarchy celebrating the foundation of Persian Empire by Cyrus the Great the name Cyrus was given to the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092296-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Cyrus International Tournament\nThis tournament was won by Iran who also managed to qualify from Asia for the 1972 Olympic Games the following year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092297-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Czech legislative election\nNational Council elections were held in the Czech part of Czechoslovakia on 26 and 27 November 1971. They were the first direct elections after the creation of the Czech National Council, whose first members were co-opted in 1968 by the members of National Assembly, elected in 1964.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092298-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Czechoslovak parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections were held in Czechoslovakia on 26 and 27 November 1971. They were the first held after the Constitutional Act on the Czechoslovak Federation converted Czechoslovakia into a federal republic, comprising the Czech Socialist Republic and the Slovak Socialist Republic, as well as the first elections in Czechoslovakia held in the aftermath of the Prague Spring.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092298-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Czechoslovak parliamentary election\nThe National Front, dominated by the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, put forward a single list of candidates for both houses of the Federal Assembly, the House of the People (the lower house) and the House of Nations (the upper house). A single NF-approved candidate ran in each single member constituency. With a total of 350 seats in the two Houses, 245 were assigned to the Communist Party, 20 to the Czechoslovak Socialist Party, 16 to the Czechoslovak People's Party, four to the Party of Slovak Revival, four to the Freedom Party, and 61 to independents. Voter turnout was reported to be 99.45%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 645]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092298-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Czechoslovak parliamentary election\nLike the other elections of the Communist era, the result was a foregone conclusion. People were afraid not to vote, and when they did so, those who entered a voting booth to modify their ballot paper could expect to be persecuted by the state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092299-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 DFB-Pokal Final\nThe 1971 DFB-Pokal Final decided the winner of the 1970\u201371 DFB-Pokal, the 28th season of Germany's knockout football cup competition. It was played on 19 June 1971 at the Neckarstadion in Stuttgart. Bayern Munich won the match 2\u20131 after extra time against 1. FC K\u00f6ln, to claim their 5th cup title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092299-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 DFB-Pokal Final, Route to the final\nThe DFB-Pokal began with 32 teams in a single-elimination knockout cup competition. There were a total of four rounds leading up to the final. Teams were drawn against each other, and the winner after 90 minutes would advance. If still tied, 30 minutes of extra time was played. If the score was still level, a replay would take place at the original away team's stadium. If still level after 90 minutes, 30 minutes of extra time was played. If the score was still level, a penalty shoot-out was used to determine the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 40], "content_span": [41, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092299-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 DFB-Pokal Final, Route to the final\nNote: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 40], "content_span": [41, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092300-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Dallas Cowboys season\nThe 1971 Dallas Cowboys season was the franchise's 12th season in the National Football League, the first at the new Texas Stadium in suburban Irving, Texas and the 12th season under head coach Tom Landry. The Cowboys led the NFL with 406 points scored. Their defense allowed 222 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092300-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Dallas Cowboys season\nFor the sixth consecutive season, the Cowboys had a first-place finish. They won their second-consecutive NFC championship, then defeated the Miami Dolphins in Super Bowl VI to capture their first Super Bowl championship. They were the first team from the NFC to win a Super Bowl since the 1970 merger of the National Football League and the American Football League, and subsequently, the first team from the NFC East division to win the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092300-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Dallas Cowboys season, NFL Draft\nThe 1971 NFL Draft was one of the worst in the history of the franchise, although the Cowboys recovered draft choices by trading Tody Smith and Ike Thomas to other teams. Third-round selection Bill Gregory played seven seasons with the Cowboys, winning two Super Bowl rings. Eighth-round selection Ron Jessie was cut after the Cowboys acquired San Diego Chargers All-Pro Lance Alworth, but went on to enjoy a long and successful NFL career with the Detroit Lions and Los Angeles Rams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092300-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Dallas Cowboys season, Season recap\nThe Cowboys opened the new Texas Stadium with a 44\u201321 win over the New England Patriots on Oct. 24. Duane Thomas scored the first touchdown, a 56-yard run two minutes and 16 seconds after the start of the game. Attendance was 65,708 persons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092300-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Dallas Cowboys season, Season recap\nThe team entered the season still having the reputation of \"not being able to win the big games\" and \"next year's champion\". The Super Bowl V loss added more fuel to that widely held view. As in the previous season, Dallas had a quarterback controversy as Roger Staubach and Craig Morton alternated as starting quarterback (in a loss to the Bears in game 7, Morton and Staubach alternated plays). The Cowboys were 4\u20133 at the season midpoint. But after head coach Tom Landry settled on Staubach, the Cowboys won their last seven regular season games to finish with an 11\u20133 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 620]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092300-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Dallas Cowboys season, Season recap\nStaubach finished the regular season as the NFL's top rated passer (101.8) by throwing for 1,882 yards, 15 touchdowns, and only 4 interceptions. He was also a terrific rusher, gaining 343 yards and 2 touchdowns on 41 carries. Said Cold Hard Football Facts of Staubach's 1971 season, \"Staubach finally out-jockeyed Craig Morton for the starting gig with the Cowboys in 1971 and instantly produced one of the greatest passing seasons in history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092300-0005-0001", "contents": "1971 Dallas Cowboys season, Season recap\nThe numbers are not big and gaudy, but they were ruthlessly efficient \u2013- the 104.8 passer rating truly amazing in a season in which the average rating was 62.2. His 8.9 [yards-per-attempt] in the regular season is phenomenal in any era of the NFL, as was his 18 [touchdowns] against a meager 4 [interceptions] (including postseason). The Cowboys did not lose a single one of Staubach's 13 starts in 1971 and \u2013- most impressively \u2013- he lifted the proverbial \"team that couldn't win the big game\" to its long-awaited first NFL championship.[ ...] \"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092300-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Dallas Cowboys season, Season recap\nDallas also had an outstanding trio of running backs, Walt Garrison, Duane Thomas, and Calvin Hill, who rushed for a combined total of 1,690 yards and 14 touchdowns during the season. Garrison led the team in receptions during the season. (Thomas, upset that the Cowboys would not renegotiate his contract after his excellent rookie year, had stopped talking to the press and to almost everyone on the team). Wide Receivers Bob Hayes and Lance Alworth also provided a deep threat, catching a combined total of 69 passes for 1,327 yards and 10 touchdowns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092300-0006-0001", "contents": "1971 Dallas Cowboys season, Season recap\nThe offensive line, anchored by all-pro tackle Rayfield Wright, Pro Bowlers John Niland and Ralph Neely, and #64 Tony Liscio who was coaxed out of retirement by Tom Landry after Ralph Neely got injured off the field, was also a primary reason for their success on offense. (Neely had broken his leg in November in a dirt-bike accident, and was replaced first by Gregg and then by Tony Liscio, who came out of retirement.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092300-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Dallas Cowboys season, Season recap\nThe Dallas defense (nicknamed the \"Doomsday Defense\") had given up only one touchdown in the last 25 quarters prior to the Super Bowl. Their defensive line was anchored by Pro Bowl defensive tackle Bob Lilly, who excelled at pressuring quarterbacks and breaking up running plays. Dallas also had an outstanding trio of linebackers: Pro Bowler Chuck Howley, who recorded 5 interceptions and returned them for 122 yards; Dave Edwards 2 interceptions; and Lee Roy Jordan, who recorded 2 interceptions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092300-0007-0001", "contents": "1971 Dallas Cowboys season, Season recap\nThe Cowboys secondary was led by 2 future hall of fame cornerbacks Herb Adderley (6 interceptions for 182 return yards) and Mel Renfro (4 interceptions for 11 yards). Safeties Cliff Harris and Pro Bowler Cornell Green also combined for 4 interceptions. After the 1971 Bob Lilly would play in the last of his last pro bowl despite being selected after the 1972 and 1973 seasons. Lilly would also score his final career touchdown in a 42\u20137 smashing of The Philadelphia Eagles. Lilly would retire with the NFL record of scoring the most tds by a defensive lineman with 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092300-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Dallas Cowboys season, Season recap, Standings\nNote: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092301-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Danish 1st Division, Overview\nIt was contested by 12 teams, and Vejle Boldklub won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092302-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Danish electoral age referendum\nA referendum on lowering the voting age from 21 to 20 was held in Denmark on 21 September 1971. The change was approved by 56.5% of voters, with a turnout of 86.2%. A previous referendum had been unsuccessful in lowering the electoral age to 18 years, which was introduced after a 1978 referendum and which still stands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092303-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Danish general election\nGeneral elections were held in Denmark on 21 September 1971 and in the Faroe Islands on 5 October. The Social Democratic Party remained the largest in the Folketing, with 70 of the 179 seats. Voter turnout was 87.2% in Denmark proper, 56.8% in the Faroe Islands and 52.1% in Greenland (where only one of the two constituencies was contested as the other had only a single candidate who was elected unopposed). They were the first elections using the new counties as constituencies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092304-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Dartmouth Indians football team\nThe 1971 Dartmouth Indians football team represented Dartmouth College during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. The Indians were led by first-year head coach Jake Crouthamel and played their home games at Memorial Field in Hanover, New Hampshire. They finished with an overall record of 8\u20131, and an Ivy League record of 6\u20131, sharing the championship with Cornell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092305-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Davis Cup\nThe 1971 Davis Cup was the 60th edition of the Davis Cup, the most important tournament between national teams in men's tennis. 28 teams entered the Europe Zone, 13 teams entered the Americas Zone, and 9 teams entered the Eastern Zone. Bolivia made its first appearance in the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092305-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Davis Cup\nBrazil defeated Mexico in the Americas Inter-Zonal final, India defeated Japan in the Eastern Inter-Zonal final, and Czechoslovakia and Romania were the winners of the two Europe Zones, defeating Spain and West Germany respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092305-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Davis Cup\nIn the Inter-Zonal Zone, Brazil defeated Czechoslovakia and Romania defeated India in the semifinals, and then Romania defeated Brazil in the final. Romania were then defeated by the defending champions the United States in the Challenge Round. The final was played at the Olde Providence Racquet Club in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States on 8\u201311 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092305-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Davis Cup\n1971 was the last year the Davis Cup was played under the Challenge Round format.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092305-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Davis Cup\nSouth Africa was excluded from the tournament as part of the growing international opposition to its apartheid policies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092306-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Davis Cup Americas Zone\nThe Americas Zone was one of the three regional zones of the 1971 Davis Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092306-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Davis Cup Americas Zone\n13 teams entered the Americas Zone: 5 teams competed in the North & Central America Zone, while 8 teams competed in the South America Zone. The winner of each sub-zone would play against each other to determine who moved to the Inter-Zonal Zone to compete against the winners of the Eastern Zone and Europe Zone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092306-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Davis Cup Americas Zone\nMexico defeated New Zealand in the North & Central America Zone final, and Brazil defeated Chile in the South America Zone final. In the Americas Inter-Zonal Final, Brazil defeated Mexico and progressed to the Inter-Zonal Zone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092307-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Davis Cup Eastern Zone\nThe Eastern Zone was one of the three regional zones of the 1971 Davis Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092307-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Davis Cup Eastern Zone\n9 teams entered the Eastern Zone, competing across 2 sub-zones. The winner of each sub-zones would play against each other to determine who would compete in the Inter-Zonal Zone against the winners of the Americas Zone and Europe Zone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092307-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Davis Cup Eastern Zone\nJapan defeated Australia in the Zone A final, and India received a walkover in the Zone B final after Pakistan withdrew. In the Inter-Zonal final India defeated Japan and progressed to the Inter-Zonal Zone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092308-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Davis Cup Europe Zone\nThe Europe Zone was one of the three regional zones of the 1971 Davis Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092308-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Davis Cup Europe Zone\n30 teams entered the Europe Zone, competing across 2 sub-zones. The winners of each sub-zone went on to compete in the Inter-Zonal Zone against the winners of the Americas Zone and Eastern Zone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092308-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Davis Cup Europe Zone\nCzechoslovakia defeated Romania in the Zone A final, and West Germany defeated Spain in the Zone B final, resulting in both Czechoslovakia and Romania progressing to the Inter-Zonal Zone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092309-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Daytona 500\nThe 1971 Daytona 500, the 13th running of the event, was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series race held on February 14, 1971 at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. Spanning 500 miles (800\u00a0km) on the paved oval track, it was the first Daytona 500 in the Winston Cup era of NASCAR. During this time, Richard Petty (the race winner and the eventual Winston Cup champion) was becoming one of the winningest veterans on the NASCAR circuit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092309-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Daytona 500, Background\nDaytona International Speedway is a race track in Daytona Beach, Florida that is one of six superspeedways to hold NASCAR races, the others being Michigan International Speedway, Auto Club Speedway, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Pocono Raceway and Talladega Superspeedway. The standard track at Daytona is a four-turn superspeedway that is 2.5 miles (4.0\u00a0km) long. The track also features two other layouts that utilize portions of the primary high speed tri-oval, such as a 3.56-mile (5.73\u00a0km) sports car course and a 2.95-mile (4.75\u00a0km) motorcycle course. The track's 180-acre (73\u00a0ha) infield includes the 29-acre (12\u00a0ha) Lake Lloyd, which has hosted powerboat racing. The speedway is owned and operated by International Speedway Corporation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 772]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092309-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Daytona 500, Background\nThe track was built by NASCAR founder Bill France Sr. to host racing that was being held at the former Daytona Beach Road Course and opened with the first Daytona 500 in 1959. The speedway has been renovated three times, with the infield renovated in 2004, and the track repaved in 1978 and 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092309-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Daytona 500, Background\nThe Daytona 500 is regarded as the most important and prestigious race on the NASCAR calendar. It is also the series' first race of the year; this phenomenon is virtually unique in sports, which tend to have championships or other major events at the end of the season rather than the start. Since 1995, U.S. television ratings for the Daytona 500 have been the highest for any auto race of the year, surpassing the traditional leader, the Indianapolis 500 which in turn greatly surpasses the Daytona 500 in in-track attendance and international viewing. The 2006 Daytona 500 attracted the sixth largest average live global TV audience of any sporting event that year with 20 million viewers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 721]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092309-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Daytona 500, Race report\nThe manufacturers that were involved included Chevrolet, Mercury, Ford, Plymouth, and Dodge. For the 500 miles the average speed was 144.462 miles per hour (232.489\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092309-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Daytona 500, Race report\nThe fastest qualifying speed for the 1971 Daytona 500 was more than 190 miles per hour (310\u00a0km/h). The forty car field included legends like A. J. Foyt and David Pearson, both eventually acquiring top-five finishes. A.J. Foyt in the Wood Bros. Mercury had the car to beat all day, but the crew had trouble filling it with gas. He ran out while leading on lap 162. Foyt's crew found out someone crushed the filler neck on the gas tank. There were 34 lead changes in the first 250 miles of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092309-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Daytona 500, Race report\nFirst Daytona 500 starts for Bill Dennis and Maynard Troyer. Only Daytona 500 start for Pedro Rodriguez, Freddy Fryar, Marv Acton, and Larry Baumel. Last Daytona 500 starts for Fred Lorenzen, LeeRoy Yarbrough, and Friday Hassler.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092309-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Daytona 500, Race report\nDrivers who failed to qualify for the race were: Ed Negre (#8), Vic Elford (#59), Charlie Roberts (#63), Dick May (#67), J.D. McDuffie (#70), Bill Shirey (#74), Dick Poling (#78), Joe Hines (#80), Bobby Mausgrover (#84), Butch Hirst (#87), Leonard Blanchard (#95), Robert Brown (#58), E.J. Trivette (#56), Roy Mayne (#46), Jimmy Crawford (#02), Pedro Rodr\u00edguez (#14), Dub Simpson (#16), Fritz Schultz (#23), Earl Brooks (#26), Bill Hollar (#28), Walter Ballard (#30), Wendell Scott (#34), Blackie Wangerin (#38) and Ken Meisenhelder (#41).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092309-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Daytona 500, Race report\nNotable crew chiefs for this race were Paul Goldsmith, Junie Donlavey, Harry Hyde, Dale Inman, Tom Vandiver, Vic Ballard, Jake Elder among others.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092309-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 Daytona 500, Race report, Finishing order\n\u2020 Driver is known to be deceased * Driver failed to finish race", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 46], "content_span": [47, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092309-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 Daytona 500, Post-race report, Winnings and championship potential\nThe winner's purse for the 1971 Daytona 500 was $45,450 American dollars ($286,929 when inflation is taken into effect). Last place finisher received $1,000 ($6,313 with inflation). Richard Petty would go on to win four more Daytona 500 races (1973, 1974, 1979, and 1981). There were seven cautions for forty-four laps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 71], "content_span": [72, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092309-0011-0000", "contents": "1971 Daytona 500, Post-race report, Attendance\nAttendance for the 1971 Daytona 500 reached 80,000 spectators; Expansion in the next eighteen years would bring attendance up to 180,000 people. ABC's Wide World of Sports televised the race. The commentary was done by the legendary Chris Economaki who did the Daytona 500 races in the 1970s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 46], "content_span": [47, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092309-0012-0000", "contents": "1971 Daytona 500, Post-race report, End of a tradition\nAll of the vehicles utilized during that running of the Daytona 500 were based on street version sheet metal and engine blocks of cars manufactured between 1969 and 1971. Deviation of up to two or three model years was expected because parity wasn't enforced by NASCAR during that era and different teams had different budgets from each other.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 54], "content_span": [55, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092309-0013-0000", "contents": "1971 Daytona 500, Post-race report, End of a tradition\nOut of the forty racers competing in the 1971 Daytona 500, thirty-nine were American and one was Mexican. Pedro Rodriguez (who would finish in thirteenth place) would have an asphalt racing course named after him after he died six months later in Germany during a sports car race (along with his older brother Ricardo Rodr\u00edguez).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 54], "content_span": [55, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092309-0014-0000", "contents": "1971 Daytona 500, Post-race report, End of a tradition\nIn this race, Dick Brooks would be the final driver to make a competitive run with a winged vehicle. Following the 1970 season, special, limited production 'aero' cars such as the Dodge Daytona and Plymouth Superbird, as well as the Ford Torino Talladega and Mercury Spoiler II, were restricted to a 305 ci engine. Brooks' Mario Rossi team was the only team to run a winged car in the race, and although they had a 7th-place run in the race, elected to run a conventional big-block powered car the rest of the season. Rear wings would not appear again in NASCAR until 2008 with the 'Car of Tomorrow'.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 54], "content_span": [55, 655]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092310-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Delaware 500\nThe 1971 Delaware 500 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series race that took place on October 17, 1971, at Dover Downs International Speedway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092310-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Delaware 500, Background\nDover International Speedway is one of five short tracks to hold NASCAR races; the others are Bristol Motor Speedway, Richmond International Raceway, Martinsville Speedway, and Phoenix International Raceway. The NASCAR race makes use of the track's standard configuration, a four-turn short track oval that is 1 mile (1.6\u00a0km) long. The track's turns are banked at twenty-four degrees, and both the front stretch (the location of the finish line) and the backstretch are banked at nine degrees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092310-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Delaware 500, Race report\nAll the racing action took place in the American community of Dover, Delaware with five hundred laps completed on a paved oval track spanning 1.000 mile or 1.609 kilometres. It took four hours and three minutes (243 minutes) for the race to reach its full conclusion. Richard Petty defeated Charlie Glotzbach by more than one lap in front of eighteen thousand people. Richard Petty capitalizes for career win #137 as Bobby Allison's wheel troubles in the closing laps doom the dominate Holman-Moody entry. Petty pulled a \"spin and win\" as he looped the famous Petty Blue #43 Plymouth with 25 laps to go but didn't hit anything and got going again without losing the lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 702]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092310-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Delaware 500, Race report\nThis race marked Fred Lorenzen's return to Ray Nichels' team and the driver's seat of the #99 STP Plymouth, having previously left the team after Talladega saying it wasn't competitive. After a one-off with the Wood Brothers at Darlington that ended in a bad crash Lorenzen came back with his stint with Nichels here wasn't the best of times. He qualified the bright #99 mid-pack and then fell out early with a blown engine. The comeback deal was supposed to be for the rest of the season but it fell apart and he left again, this time for good, with David Pearson brought in to run Rockingham instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 633]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092310-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Delaware 500, Race report\nNotable speeds for the race were: 123.254 miles per hour or 198.358 kilometres per hour for the average speed (which was a record during that era) and 132.811 miles per hour or 213.739 kilometres per hour for the pole position speed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092310-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Delaware 500, Race report\nTotal winnings for this race were $59,965 ($378,563 when adjusted for inflation). David Ray Boggs had his best career NASCAR Cup Series finish at this race. Richard Childress would make his only start in a vehicle other than General Motors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092310-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Delaware 500, Race report\nBobby Allison dominated the early portion of the race; temporarily losing the lead to Charlie Glotzbach on lap 143 and getting it back on lap 148. However, they found faulty lug nuts after pitting with two laps in the lead (which cost him an almost-guaranteed victory in that race).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092310-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Delaware 500, Finishing order\n* Driver failed to finish race \u2020 signifies that the driver is known to be deceased", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 34], "content_span": [35, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092311-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team\nThe 1971 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team was an American football team that represented the University of Delaware as an independent during the 1971 NCAA College Division football season. In their seventh season under head coach Tubby Raymond, the team compiled a 10\u20131 record and was voted No. 1 in the AP and UPI small college polls. The season concluded with a victory over C.W. Post in the Boardwalk Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092311-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team\nThe team played its home games at Delaware Stadium in Newark, Delaware. Ralph Borgess was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092312-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Delaware State Hornets football team\nThe 1971 Delaware State Hornets football team represented Delaware State College\u2014now known as Delaware State University\u2014as a member of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) in the 1971 NCAA College Division football season. This was their first season as a member of the newly formed MEAC. Led by fifth-year head coach Arnold Jeter, the Hornets compiled an overall record of 1\u20138 and a mark of 1\u20135 in conference play, tying for sixth in the MEAC. The team played most of the season with mainly freshmen and sophomores, as many veteran players were suspended after being involved in a drug scandal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 643]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092313-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Denver Broncos season\nThe 1971 Denver Broncos season was the team's 12th season in professional football and second in the National Football League (NFL). Led by fifth-year head coach and general manager Lou Saban, the Broncos finished the season with four wins, nine losses, and one tie, again fourth in the AFC West. Fifth-year running back Floyd Little became the thirteenth in professional football history to rush for over 1,000 yards in a season; the future hall of famer ran for 1,133 yards, averaging four yards per carry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092313-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Denver Broncos season\nOn Wednesday, November 17, Saban stepped down as head coach, but remained as general manager; offensive line coach Jerry Smith led the team for the final five games, with two wins. Several days after the season finale, Saban was rehired as head coach of the Buffalo Bills, who had just one victory in 1971. they improved to 9\u20135 in 1973 and made the playoffs in 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092313-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Denver Broncos season\nIn early January 1972, the Broncos hired John Ralston as head coach and general manager; he was previously the head coach for nine years at Stanford University, upset winners of the last two Rose Bowls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092313-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Denver Broncos season, Regular season, Standings\nNote: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 53], "content_span": [54, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092314-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Detroit Lions season\nThe 1971 Detroit Lions season was their 42nd in the league. The team failed to improve on their previous season's output of 10\u20134, winning only seven games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092314-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Detroit Lions season\nMired in adversity, the 1971 season turned especially tragic for the Lions and the NFL when, during their Week 6 hosting of the Chicago Bears, Lions wide receiver Chuck Hughes collapsed on the playing field. Unresponsive, Hughes was pronounced dead later that day of heart failure. Since 1971, no Detroit player has worn Hughes' #85 jersey save on special permission of the Hughes family.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092314-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Detroit Lions season, Schedule, Standings\nNote: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 46], "content_span": [47, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092314-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Detroit Lions season, Schedule, Season summary, Week 6\nChuck Hughes became the first NFL player to die on the field during a game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 59], "content_span": [60, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092315-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Detroit Tigers season\nThe 1971 Detroit Tigers finished in second place in the American League East with a 91\u201371 record, 12 games behind the Orioles. They outscored their opponents 701 to 645. They drew 1,591,073 fans to Tiger Stadium, the second highest attendance in the American League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092315-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Detroit Tigers season, Regular season\nMickey Lolich became the second pitcher in the history of the American League to win 25 games but not win the Cy Young Award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092315-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 71], "content_span": [72, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092315-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092315-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 69], "content_span": [70, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092315-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 66], "content_span": [67, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092315-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L= Losses; SV = Saves; GF = Games finished; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 67], "content_span": [68, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092315-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Detroit Tigers season, Awards and honors, Players ranking among top 100 all time at position\nThe following members of the 1972 Tigers were ranked among the Top 100 of all time at their position in The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract in 2001:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 97], "content_span": [98, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092316-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Dhaka University massacre\nIn March 1971, the Pakistani Armed Forces chief General Yahya Khan launched Operation Searchlight to curb the Bengali nationalist movement. As part of the operation, Pakistani forces attacked Dhaka University.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092316-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Dhaka University massacre, Black night of 25 March 1971\nThe Pakistan Army convoy that attacked Dhaka University on 25 March 1971 included the 18th Panjab, 22nd FF, and 32nd Panjab regiments along with several battalions. Armed with heavy weapons such as tanks, automatic rifles, rocket launchers, heavy mortars, and light machine guns, they encircled Dhaka University from the east (unit 41), from the south (unit 88) and from the north (unit 26).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 60], "content_span": [61, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092316-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Dhaka University massacre, Massacre of teachers\nAt the beginning of Operation Searchlight 10 teachers of Dhaka University were killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092316-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Dhaka University massacre, Massacre of teachers\nProfessor Fajllur Rahman and his two relatives were killed at building 23 situated at Nilkhet. Professor Rahman's wife escaped because she was not in the country. The Pakistan Army also attacked the house of Professor Anwar Pasha and Professor Rashidul Hassan (English Department). Both of them survived by hiding under beds, but were killed later in the war by the Al-Badr militia. Professor Rafiqul Islam (Bangla Literature Department) was in building 24. Two wounded women with their children stayed in the entrance of the building for some time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092316-0003-0001", "contents": "1971 Dhaka University massacre, Massacre of teachers\nWhen the Army came they found blood on the stairs and, surmising that other groups had done the massacre, left. This way Professor Rafiqul escaped. Later he stated that there had been one East Pakistani professor at that building, who left home before 25 March. All other non-Bengali families did the same without informing others.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092316-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Dhaka University massacre, Massacre of teachers\nAt Number 12 Fuller Road, the Army called on Sayed Ali Noki (Professor Social Science). They allowed him to go but killed Professor Abdul Muktadir (Geology) who was a resident of the same building. His body was found at Jahurul Huq Hall (then Iqbal Hall). He was buried at Paltan by his relatives. Professor K. M. Munim (English Literature), the house tutor of Salimullah Student Hall, was injured at Salimullah Hall. Professors A R Khan Khadim and Sharafat Ali of the Mathematics department were killed in Dhaka Hall. At Jagannath Hall they attacked teachers' residence and harassed Professor Mirja Huda (Economics) and Professor Mofijullah Kabir (History).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 711]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092316-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Dhaka University massacre, Massacre of teachers\nWhen Jagannath Hall, a student dormitory for minority Hindu students, was attacked, university staff quarters were also affected. The Army killed Ex-Provost and famous professor of philosophy Dr Gobindra Chandra Dev with his Muslim adopted daughter's husband. They attacked and killed Dr. A.N.M. Manirujjaman, Professor of Statistics, along with his son and two relatives. Professor Jyotirmoy Guhathakurta the provost of Jagannath Hall was severely injured by the Army attack and died in the hospital later. Dormitory electrician Chitrabali and eyewitness Rajkumari Devi state that the doctors of Dhaka Medical College Hospital recognised Dr. Guhathakurta and buried him under a tree near Dhaka Medical College morgue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 771]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092316-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Dhaka University massacre, Massacre of teachers\nAssistant house tutor Anudoipayon Bhattacharja was also killed at that dorm. This information was taken from the novel \"Riffel Roti Awrat\" (Rifle, Bread, Women) by Professor Anwar Pasha who was later killed in December. Professor Pasha wrote this famous Bengali novel during the nine-month war period of 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092316-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Dhaka University massacre, Killing of students\nThe Non-cooperation movement was organised under the banner of \"Independent Bangladesh Students Movement Council\" from Jahrul Hoque hall of Dhaka University. The first target of Operation Searchlight was this student hall. By 25 March all leaders of Chhatra League had left the hall. According to Professor Dr. K.M. Munim around 200 students were killed at this dorm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092316-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Dhaka University massacre, Killing of students\nAfter 12 o'clock the army entered Jagannath Hall and initially attacked the hall with mortars and began non-stop firing. They entered through north and south gate and indiscriminately targeted students in each room, killing around 34 students at that time. Some students of Jagannath Hall were resident of Ramna Kali Bari. So, around 5\u20136 were killed there. Among them only the name of Ramonimohon Bhattacharjee is known.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092316-0008-0001", "contents": "1971 Dhaka University massacre, Killing of students\nMany guests of students who were at those dorms were also killed, including Helal of Bhairab college, Babul Paul of Bajitpur College, Baddruddojha of Jagannath Hall, Jibon Sarkar, Mostaq, Bacchu and Amar of Netrokona. Archer Blood, the then-consul general of US at Dhaka, wrote in his book The Cruel Birth of Bangladesh, \"Fire was started at Rokeya Hall (girls' dormitory) and, when the students tried to escape, the military started firing. From the conversation of military control room and army unit 88, a total of 300 students death was estimated.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092316-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 Dhaka University massacre, Killing of staff\nThe convoy that attacked Jahurul Huq hall initially killed EPR guards guarding the British Council building. They killed hall staff: Shirajul Huq, Ali Hossain, Shohorab Ali Gaji and Abdul Majid at the University teachers lounge. At Rokeya Hall, Chottor Ahmed Ali, Abdul Khalec, Nomi, Md. Solaiman Khan, Md. Nurul Islam, Md Hafizuddin, Md. Chunnu Miya were killed with their families.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092316-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 Dhaka University massacre, Killing of staff\nThe convoy that attacked Shahid Minar and Bangla Academy also attacked Shahidullah hall, associated teachers' houses, and the home of Madhushudhan De. At building 11, Md. Sadeq, a teacher of University Laboratory School, was killed. The army left around 50 dead bodies, including some police officers (escaped from Rajarbag Police line), Bengali EPR members guarding President House and general people from Nilkhet Basti in the roof of university residential building-23.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092316-0011-0000", "contents": "1971 Dhaka University massacre, Killing of staff\nBetween 25 and 27 March the Pakistan Army destroyed three temples: the Arts building-associated Guruduwara (Sikh), Ramna Kali Temple, and Ramna Shiva Temple (Hindu) opposite Shahid Minar. At least 85 people were intentionally murdered in Ramna Kali Temple before it was demolished. That night, staff of Philosophy department Khagen De, his son Motilal De, University staff Shushil Chandra De, Bodhiram, Dakkhuram, Vimroy, Moniram, Jaharlala Rajvar, Monvaran Roy, Plumber Rajvar and Shankar Kuri were killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092316-0012-0000", "contents": "1971 Dhaka University massacre, Attack at girls' dormitory\nArcher Blood, the then-consul general of US at Dhaka, wrote in his book The Cruel Birth of Bangladesh, \"Fire was started at Rokeya Hall (girls' dormitory) and, when the students tried to escape, the military started firing... On 10 November 1971 some armed criminals attacked Rokeya Hall and kept 30 girls confined for two hours. They also attacked Provost House\". In 1971 there were two strong military establishments near Rokeya hall, it was impossible to attack university Girls' Hostel without their knowledge for two hours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092316-0013-0000", "contents": "1971 Dhaka University massacre, Attack at girls' dormitory\nExcerpts from Genocide in Bangladesh by Kalyan Chaudhury, pp 157\u2013158:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092316-0014-0000", "contents": "1971 Dhaka University massacre, Attack at girls' dormitory\n... Some army officer raided Rokeya Hall on 7 October 1971. Accompanied by five soldiers, Major Aslam had first visited the hostel on 3 October and asked the superintendent to supply some girls who could sing and dance at a function to be held in Tejgaon Cantonment. The superintendent told him that most of the girls had left the hostel after the disturbances and only 40 students were residing but as a superintendent of a girls' hostel she should not allow them to go to the cantonment for this purpose. Dissatisfied, Major Aslam went away.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092316-0014-0001", "contents": "1971 Dhaka University massacre, Attack at girls' dormitory\nSoon after the superintendent informed a higher army officer in the cantonment, over the telephone, of the Major' s mission. However, on 7 October at about 8\u00a0pm. Major Aslam and his men raided the hostel. The soldiers broke open the doors, dragged the girls out and stripped them before raping and torturing them in front of the helpless superintendent. The entire thing was done so openly without any provocation, that even the Karachi-based newspaper, Dawn, had to publish the story, violating censorship by the military authorities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092316-0014-0002", "contents": "1971 Dhaka University massacre, Attack at girls' dormitory\nIn seven days after liberation about 300 girls were recovered from different places around Dacca where they had been taken away and kept confined by the Pakistani army men. On 26 December altogether 55 emaciated and half-dead girls on the verge of mental derangement were recovered by the Red Cross with the help of the Mukti Bahini and the allied forces from various hideouts of the Pakistani army in Narayanganj, Dacca Cantonment and other small towns on the periphery of Dacca city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092316-0015-0000", "contents": "1971 Dhaka University massacre, Academic activities at 1971\nMilitary Governor of East Pakistan Tikka Khan ordered department heads to join work from 21 April and the other teachers on 1 June, classes to start from 2 August. All the dormitories were cleaned to remove any signs of destruction to present a good educational environment at the university to the international community. All exams were postponed due to the national crisis. As the forces of war increased until September, attendance in the classes also increased. As many students had joined the Mukti Bahini (Liberation Forces), they blasted hand grenades near the university and quickly entered classes. This is why the Army failed to arrest anyone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 714]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092316-0016-0000", "contents": "1971 Dhaka University massacre, Warning, arresting and punishment of teachers\nFor known connections with liberation force, Tikka Khan issued arrest orders against many teachers and arrested some of them. Among them there were Dr. Abul Khayer, Dr. Rafiqul Islam, Dr. K. A. M. Salauddin, Ahsanul Hoque, Giasuddin Ahmed, Jahrul Hoque and M. Shahidullah. Military Governor of East Pakistan Tikka Khan officially warned Professor Munir Chowdhury, Professor Nilima Ibrahim, Professor Shirajul Islam Chowdhury, and Professor Enamul Hoque. Dr. Abu Muhammah Habibullah was terminated. Professor Abdur Razzak (political scientist and later National Professor of Bangladesh) was sentenced in absentia to 14 years in jail for supporting the Bengali Independence movement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 77], "content_span": [78, 759]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092316-0017-0000", "contents": "1971 Dhaka University massacre, Vice-chancellor during 1971\nAfter March 1971 Dhaka University was without any vice-chancellor. In early March the vice-chancellor Justice Abu Sayed Chowdhury was at Geneva joining \"United Nations Humanitarian Conference\". In the middle of March he read news about death of two students. He immediately wrote his resignation letter to State's Education Secretary and fled to London leaving the conference. There he worked for Bangladeshi liberation. After the independence of Bangladesh, he became the country's second president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092316-0018-0000", "contents": "1971 Dhaka University massacre, Vice-chancellor during 1971\nPakistan Army fetched Dr. Syed Sajjad Hussain the then VC of Rajshahi University in their convoy. He was made VC of Dhaka University. University teachers who helped the Pakistan government included Dr. Hasan Zaman, Dr. Mohar Ali, Dr. A. K. M. Abdur Rahman, Dr. Abdul Bari, Dr. Mukbul Hossain, Dr. Saifuddin Joarder. Collaborator and VC Dr. Syed Sajjad Hussain, Dr. Hasan Zaman and Dr. Mohar Ali were arrested after the liberation of Bangladesh and exiled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092316-0019-0000", "contents": "1971 Dhaka University massacre, Massacre on 14 December 1971\nIn December, it became clear to the Pakistan government that it would lose the war. When Dhaka University reopened on 2 July 1971, teachers who collaborated with the Pakistani army gathered at Nawab Abdul Gani Road to build up a list of intellectuals who supported the Independence movement. Until then, the Pakistan Army secretly trained a group of Pakistan-supporting madrasa, college and university students. This group was named Al Badar. At the verge of the December war Al-Badar members came out and selectively killed Bengali professors, doctors, engineers and many other intellectuals. Many of those killed were teachers of Dhaka University.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 60], "content_span": [61, 710]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092317-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Dixie 500\nThe 1971 Dixie 500 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series racing event that took place on August 1, 1971, at Atlanta International Raceway in Hampton, Georgia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092317-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Dixie 500\nOnly manual transmission vehicles were allowed to participate in this race; a policy that NASCAR has retained to the present day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092317-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Dixie 500, Background\nAtlanta International Raceway (now Atlanta Motor Speedway) is one of ten current intermediate tracks to hold NASCAR races; the others are Charlotte Motor Speedway, Chicagoland Speedway, Darlington Raceway, Homestead Miami Speedway, Kansas Speedway, Kentucky Speedway, Las Vegas Motor Speedway, New Hampshire Motor Speedway, and Texas Motor Speedway. However, at the time, only Charlotte, Darlington, and New Hampshire were built.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 26], "content_span": [27, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092317-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Dixie 500, Background\nThe layout at Atlanta International Speedway at the time was a four-turn traditional oval track that is 1.54 miles (2.48\u00a0km) long. The track's turns are banked at twenty-four degrees, while the front stretch, the location of the finish line, and the back stretch are banked at five.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 26], "content_span": [27, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092317-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Dixie 500, Race report\nElmo Langley received the last-place finish due to an engine issue on lap 36 of 328, while Richard Petty defeated Bobby Allison by 2 car lengths in front of 22500 live spectators. Five cautions slowed the race for 48 laps; making the race last three hours and fifty-two minutes in length. Buddy Baker qualified for the pole position with a speed of 155.796 miles per hour (250.729\u00a0km/h), while the average racing speed was 129.061 miles per hour (207.704\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092317-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Dixie 500, Race report\nDave Marcis had problems with his vehicle's suspension on lap 38 while Raymond Williams' vehicle had a faulty transmission on lap 40. Dub Simpson blew his vehicle's engine on lap 60. Ed Negre wrecked his vehicle's transmission on lap 62. Coo Coo Marlin would over-exhaust his engine on lap 82 while Charlie Roberts did the same thing on lap 90. The suspension on Neil Castles' vehicle stopped working on lap 92. Bill Dennis' vehicle had some serious vibration issues on lap 131 while Paul Tyler's engine blew on lap 149. Further engine problems occurred on lap 231 with Buddy Baker, lap 249 with Pete Hamilton, lap 264 with Earl Brooks, and lap 302 with Bobby Brack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 694]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092317-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Dixie 500, Race report\nFriday Hassler gets his third top six finish in a row less than a month after driving the Junior Johnson Chevy to victory at Bristol in relief of Charlie Glotzbach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092317-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Dixie 500, Race report\nRichard Petty officially became a millionaire after this race; bringing his career earnings to approximately $1,000,000 ($6,390,304 when adjusted for inflation). This would be the last time a driver won 5 races in a row, in any series, until 2009 when Ron Hornaday won five in a row in the 2009 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season. Petty's five consecutive wins during the 1971 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season is considered to be the equivalent of Sebastian Vettel winning nine races in a row at the end of the 2013 Formula One World Championship. Dick Poling would retire from the NASCAR Cup Series after finishing in 26th place during this race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 681]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092317-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Dixie 500, Race report\nNotable crew chiefs who fully participated in the race were Junie Donlavey, Harry Hyde, Dale Inman, Vic Ballard, Lee Gordon, and John Green.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092317-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 Dixie 500, Race report\nThe race car drivers still had to commute to the races using the same stock cars that competed in a typical weekend's race through a policy of homologation (and under their own power). This policy was in effect until roughly 1975. By 1980, NASCAR had completely stopped tracking the year model of all the vehicles and most teams did not take stock cars to the track under their own power anymore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092318-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Drexel Dragons football team\nThe 1971 Drexel Dragons football team represented the Drexel University as an independent during the 1971 NCAA College Division football season. Sterling Brown was the team's head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092319-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Drybrough Cup\nThe 1971 Drybrough Cup was the first staging of Scotland's summer football competition. The competition was won by Aberdeen, who defeated Celtic 2\u20131 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092320-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Duke Blue Devils football team\nThe 1971 Duke Blue Devils football team represented Duke University during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092321-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Dunedin mayoral election\nThe 1971 Dunedin mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1971, elections were held for the Mayor of Dunedin plus other local government positions including twelve city councillors. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092321-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Dunedin mayoral election\nJim Barnes, the incumbent Mayor was re-elected for a second term. He defeated former mayor Russell Calvert who had been re-elected to the council in a mid-term by-election. The state of parties remained unchanged on the city council with the Citizens' Association winning eight seats and the Labour Party four.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092322-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Dutch Grand Prix\nThe 1971 Dutch Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Zandvoort on 20 June 1971. It was race 4 of 11 in both the 1971 World Championship of Drivers and the 1971 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers. Due to heavy rain, the track was treacherously wet and slippery, giving a large advantage to \"wet-weather men\" Ickx and Rodriguez, who also happened to be equipped with highly suitable cars and tyres.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092322-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Dutch Grand Prix\nThis was the last Formula One race on a circuit with no safety features on it. Because of this the Dutch Grand Prix was canceled the next year, but the circuit came back in 1973; and the layout had been modified.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092323-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Dutch Open (tennis)\nThe 1971 Dutch Open was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament staged in Hilversum, Netherlands. It was a non\u2013tour event, i.e. not part of one of the main tennis circuits, the Grand Prix or World Championship Tennis circuit. The tournament was played on outdoor clay courts and was held from 26 July through 1 August 1971. It was the 15th edition of the tournament and was part of the 1971 Grand Prix circuit. Gerald Battrick and Evonne Goolagong won the singles titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092323-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Dutch Open (tennis), Finals, Men's Doubles\nJean-Claude Barclay / Daniel Contet defeated John Cooper / Colin Dibley 7\u20135, 3\u20136, 7\u20135, 4\u20136, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 47], "content_span": [48, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092323-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Dutch Open (tennis), Finals, Women's Doubles\nBetty St\u00f6ve / Christina Sandberg defeated Katja Ebbinghaus / Trudy Walhof 6\u20131, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 49], "content_span": [50, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092323-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Dutch Open (tennis), Finals, Mixed Doubles\nBetty St\u00f6ve / Jean-Claude Barclay defeated Christina Sandberg / Patrice Dominguez 8\u20136, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 47], "content_span": [48, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092324-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Dutch general election\nGeneral elections were held in the Netherlands on 28 April 1971. The Labour Party (PvdA) emerged as the largest party, winning 39 of the 150 seats in the House of Representatives. The elections were the first without compulsory voting, causing a sharp fall in voter turnout, down to 79.1% from 94.9% in the 1967 elections. Barend Biesheuvel of the Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP) became Prime Minister, leading the first Biesheuvel cabinet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092324-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Dutch general election\nHis cabinet contained a broad coalition of parties, with ministers from ARP, Christian Historical Union (both Protestant), the Catholic People's Party, the conservative-liberal People's Party for Freedom and Democracy and moderate socialist Democratic Socialists '70 (DS'70), which had just split off from the PvdA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092324-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Dutch general election\nHowever, Biesheuvel's government was short-lived; following a decision to cut government spending, DS'70 withdrew from the government, causing it to lose its majority and fresh elections to be held after just a year and seven months.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092325-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 E3 Prijs Vlaanderen\nThe 1971 E3 Harelbeke was the 14th edition of the E3 Harelbeke cycle race and was held on 27 March 1971. The race started and finished in Harelbeke. The race was won by Roger De Vlaeminck.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092326-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament\nThe 1971 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 10th tournament in league history. It was played between March 9 and March 13, 1971. Quarterfinal games were played at home team campus sites, while the 'final four' games were played at the Boston Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. By reaching the championship game Harvard was invited to participate in the 1971 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament. Clarkson, however, was passed over with Boston University chosen instead as the second eastern representative.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092326-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format\nThe tournament featured three rounds of play, all of which were single-elimination. The top eight teams, based on winning percentage, qualified to participate in the tournament. In the quarterfinals the first seed and eighth seed, the second seed and seventh seed, the third seed and sixth seed and the fourth seed and fifth seed played against one another. In the semifinals, the highest seed plays the lowest remaining seed while the two remaining teams play with the winners advancing to the championship game and the losers advancing to the third place game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092326-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Conference Standings\nNote: GP = Games Played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; Pct. = Winning Percentage; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 66], "content_span": [67, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092327-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Ealing London Borough Council election\nThe 1971 Ealing Council election took place on 13 May 1971 to elect members of Ealing London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Labour party gained overall control of the council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092328-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 East Carolina Pirates football team\nThe 1971 East Carolina Pirates football team was an American football team that represented East Carolina University as a member of the Southern Conference during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. In their first season under head coach Sonny Randle, the team compiled a 4\u20136 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092329-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 East German general election\nGeneral elections were held in East Germany on 14 November 1971. 434 deputies were elected to the Volkskammer, with all of them being candidates of the single-list National Front. 584 Front candidates were put forward, with 434 being elected. The allocation of seats remained unchanged from previous elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092330-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Eastern Illinois Panthers football team\nThe 1971 Eastern Illinois Panthers football team represented Eastern Illinois University as an independent during the 1971 NCAA College Division football season. The Panthers played their home games at O'Brien Stadium in Charleston, Illinois.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092331-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Eastern Michigan Hurons football team\nThe 1971 Eastern Michigan Hurons football team represented Eastern Michigan University as an independent during the 1971 NCAA College Division football season. In their fifth season under head coach Dan Boisture, the Hurons compiled a 7\u20131\u20132 record and outscored their opponents, 228 to 85. Dave Pureifory was the team captain. The Hurons were undefeated in the regular season, were ranked No. 3 in the NCAA College Division, allowed only one touchdown in the last five games, and advanced to the College Division quarterfinals. In the first bowl game in the program's 79-year existence, the Hurons lost to Louisiana Tech in the inaugural Pioneer Bowl in Wichita Falls, Texas, by a score of 14 to 3. Houston Booth was the team's starting quarterback.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 792]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092332-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Edinburgh Corporation election\nAn election to Edinburgh Corporation was held on 4 May 1971, alongside municipal elections across Scotland. Of the council's 68 seats, 23 were up for election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092332-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Edinburgh Corporation election\nFollowing the election, Edinburgh Corporation was composed of 28 Labour councillors, 27 Progressives, 9 Conservatives, 3 Liberals, and 2 independents. The SNP was wiped off the council after lost all five of the seats it was defending.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092332-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Edinburgh Corporation election\nFollowing the election, the Progressives and Conservative coalition retained controlled of the council with a majority of three seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092333-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Edmonton municipal election\nThe 1971 municipal election was held October 13, 1971 to elect a mayor and twelve aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council and seven trustees to sit on each of the public and separate school boards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092333-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Edmonton municipal election\nThis was the first election in which a ward system was used. Where previously all twelve aldermen were elected at large, beginning with this election three would be elected from each of four wards (starting with the 1980 election, this was changed to two aldermen being elected from each of six wards). The election was conducted under the block voting system in which each voter was given as many votes as there were vacancies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092333-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Edmonton municipal election, Voter turnout\nThere were 101235 ballots cast out of 273271 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 37.1%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092334-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Egyptian Federation of Arab Republics referendum\nA referendum on the Federation of Arab Republics was held in Egypt on 1 September 1971, alongside simultaneous referendums in Libya and Syria. It was approved by 99.96% of voters, with a turnout of 98.1%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092335-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Egyptian constitutional referendum\nA constitutional referendum was held in Egypt on 11 September 1971. The changes to the constitution were approved by 99.98% of voters, with a turnout of 95.1%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092336-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Egyptian parliamentary election\nEarly parliamentary elections were held in Egypt on 27 October 1971, with a second round for 141 seats taking place on 3 November, following the adoption of a new constitution in September 1971. At the time the country was a one-party state and all candidates had to be members of the Arab Socialist Union (ASU).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092336-0000-0001", "contents": "1971 Egyptian parliamentary election\nTwo candidates were elected from each of the 175 constituencies (although the six constituencies in Sinai and Suez were not contested and their representatives appointed by the President), with a second round of voting required if one or both of the candidates failed to win over 50% of the vote in the first round, or neither of the candidates with over 50% were classed as a worker or farmer (each constituency had to have at least one farmer or worker representing it). In total, 1,661 candidates contested the elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092336-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Egyptian parliamentary election\nFollowing the elections, a further 10 members were appointed by the President.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092337-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Embassy British Indoor Championships\nThe 1971 Embassy British Indoor Championships was a combined men's and women's Grand Prix tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts. The event was categorized as a B Class tournament and was the 4th edition of the British Indoor Championships in the Open era. The tournament took place at the Wembley Arena in London in England and ran from 23 October through 30 October 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092337-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Embassy British Indoor Championships\nThe men's singles event was won by unseeded Ilie N\u0103stase who received 30 Grand Prix ranking points for his tournament victory. Billie Jean King won the women's singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092337-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Embassy British Indoor Championships, Finals, Men's Singles\nIlie N\u0103stase defeated Rod Laver 3\u20136, 6\u20133, 3\u20136, 6\u20134, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 64], "content_span": [65, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092337-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Embassy British Indoor Championships, Finals, Men's Doubles\nBob Hewitt / Frew McMillan defeated Bill Bowrey / Owen Davidson 7\u20135, 9\u20137, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 64], "content_span": [65, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092337-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Embassy British Indoor Championships, Finals, Women's Doubles\nFran\u00e7oise D\u00fcrr / Virginia Wade defeated Evonne Goolagong / Julie Heldman 3\u20136, 7\u20135, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 66], "content_span": [67, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092338-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Emperor's Cup, Overview\nIt was contested by 8 teams, and Mitsubishi Motors won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092339-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Emperor's Cup Final\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by Monkbot (talk | contribs) at 00:17, 8 January 2020 (\u2192\u200etop: Task 15: language icon template(s) replaced (1\u00d7);). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092339-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Emperor's Cup Final\n1971 Emperor's Cup Final was the 51st final of the Emperor's Cup competition. The final was played at National Stadium in Tokyo on January 1, 1972. Mitsubishi Motors won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092339-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Emperor's Cup Final, Overview\nMitsubishi Motors won their 1st title, by defeating defending champion Yanmar Diesel 3\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092340-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Enfield London Borough Council election\nThe 1971 Enfield Council election took place on 13 May 1971 to elect members of Enfield London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Conservative party stayed in overall control of the council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092341-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 England rugby union tour of Far East\nThe 1971 England rugby union tour of Far East was a series of matches played between September and October by an English national selection in Asia, as part of the RFU\u2019s centenary celebrations. None of the six international matches on this tour were given official Test status, with England playing as England XV, No 'caps' were awarded to the English players who took part on the tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092341-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 England rugby union tour of Far East\nThe first match against Japan was played at the Kintetsu Hanazono Rugby Stadium, in Osaka, on the Friday, 24 September 1971, (Vernal Equinox Day, a public holiday in Japan), in front of a crowd of 13,000. The Japanese side was captained by 30 year old Akira Yokoi and coached by Tetsunosuke Onishi. England struggled to overcome Japan in the match, despite outscoring the home side five tries to two (tries were still worth four points). The match was level at 19-19 with three minutes to go before tries from right wing Peter Glover in the 37th minute and centre Jeremy Janion in the 38th minute gave the English XV a 27-19 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 675]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092341-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 England rugby union tour of Far East\nThe second match of the series held under lights at the Chichibunomiya Rugby Stadium in Tokyo on Tuesday, 28 September 1971, before 25,000 people, was even closer than the previous game. At halftime neither side had scored a try, but England crept out to a halftime lead of 6-0, with two penalties scored by fullback Peter Rossborough. Japan then came back hard in the second half, getting three points of their own, with a penalty scored by flanker Yoshiharu Yamaguchi. One of the Japanese centres, Koji Miyata, was tackled just three yards from the try line but the visitors eventually held out for a 6-3 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 653]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092342-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 English Greyhound Derby\nThe 1971 Greyhound Derby took place during June with the final being held on 26 June 1971 at White City Stadium. The winner was Dolores Rocket and the winning owner received \u00a310,000. Dolores Rocket was bred and reared by his owner Bert White.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092342-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 English Greyhound Derby, Final result, Distances\n\u00be , \u00bd, \u00be, 2\u00bc, 1\u00bd (lengths)The distances between the greyhounds are in finishing order and shown in lengths. One length is equal to 0.08 of one second.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092342-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 English Greyhound Derby, Competition Report\nWith the National Greyhound Racing Club allowing trainers to seed+ their greyhounds wide for the first time it was generally agreed that there would be less crowding in races. Little County and Moordyke Spot had both retired but defending champion John Silver was entered for the competition. Clohast Rebel trained by Geoff De Mulder set a time of 28.28sec in a solo trial, two spots faster than the track record held by Yellow Printer. Laurels champion Sole Aim, Puppy Derby champion Crefogue Flash and Irish entry Postal Vote topped the ante-post lists alongside Clohast Rebel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092342-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 English Greyhound Derby, Competition Report\nThe qualifying round was held on a firm track and many greyhounds posted fast times including Postal Vote who recorded the best time of 28.33, a heat that ended with the elimination of John Silver. The fastest first round winner was Brighton\u2019s Hurst Wickham trained by Fred Lugg in a time of 28.56; Sole Aim, Crefogue Flash and Dolores Rocket also claimed heats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092342-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 English Greyhound Derby, Competition Report\nDolores Rocket and 'Leap and Run' both won second round heats and remained unbeaten whilst Clohast Rebel bounced back to winning ways in the fastest time of 28.39. Postal Vote and Gold Collar champ Down Your Way both failed to make it to the semi-finals. The semi-finals resulted in two 10-1 shot winners, the first was Leap and Run who had now made the final unbeaten. Clohast Rebel and Crefogue Flash failed to progress. The second semi went to Irish hope Ivy Hall Flash; Sole Aim handled by Nora Gleeson for the duration of the event went out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092342-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 English Greyhound Derby, Competition Report\nThe final saw Supreme Fun first away from the traps but Leap and Run soon took the lead and maintained an advantage from Supreme Fun and Moordyk Champion. However it was Dolores Rocket who came from last place to first becoming the first bitch to win the Derby since 1949. Dolores Rocket's dam was Come on Dolores owned by Ernie Gaskin Sr.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092342-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 English Greyhound Derby, Competition Report\n+Seeding (The process of classifying a greyhound to run in the inside traps or outside traps, known by the terms railer or wide runner.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092343-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 English National Badminton Championships\nThe 1971 English National Badminton Championships were held at Nottingham University from 12-13 December, 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092344-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 English cricket season\nThe 1971 English cricket season was the 72nd in which the County Championship had been an official competition. India won a Test series in England for the first time. It was a huge surprise at the time because England, having just won the Ashes in Australia, had a very strong team. England also played Pakistan and won that series 1\u20130. Surrey won the County Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092344-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 English cricket season, Test series\n1971 saw India tour England for the second half of the domestic season. After drawing the first two tests at Lord's and Old Trafford, India won the final test at The Oval by four wickets to claim the series 1-0. This was India's first victory on England's soil.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092344-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 English cricket season, Test series\nFor the first half of the season, England hosted Pakistan. The first two games were drawn, but this time England won the final test at Headingley by 25 runs to take the series 1-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092345-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Estonian SSR Football Championship\nThe 1971 Estonian SSR Football Championship was won by Tempo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092346-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Estonian Supreme Soviet election\nElections to the Supreme Soviet of the Estonian SSR were held on 13 June 1971. The Bloc of Communists and Non-Party Candidates was the only party able to contest the elections, and won all 183 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092347-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 EuroHockey Club Champions Cup\nThe 1971 EuroHockey Club Champions Cup was the third unofficial edition of Europe's premier field hockey competition. It took place in Rome as a group stage, which was won by SC 1880 Frankfurt's hockey team. It was the first of five titles in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092348-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European 10 m Events Championships\nThe 1971 European 10 m Events Championships was the 1st edition of the special 10 m events competition, European 10 m Events Championships, organised by the International Shooting Sport Federation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092349-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Amateur Boxing Championships\nThe 1971 European Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Madrid, Spain from 11 June to 19 June. The 19th edition of the bi-annual competition was organised by the European governing body for amateur boxing, EABA. There were 194 fighters from 27 countries participating.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092350-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Amateur Team Championship\nThe 1971 European Amateur Team Championship took place 24\u201327 June at Golf Club de Lausanne, in Lausanne, Switzerland. It was the seventh men's golf European Amateur Team Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092350-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 European Amateur Team Championship\nAll participating teams played one qualification round of stroke-play with up to six players, counted the five best scores for each team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092350-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 European Amateur Team Championship\nThe eight best teams formed flight A, in knock-out match-play over the next three days. The teams were seeded based on their positions after the stroke play. The first placed team were drawn to play the quarter final against the eight placed team, the second against the seventh, the third against the sixth and the fourth against the fifth. In each match between two nation teams, two 18-hole foursome games and five 18-hole single games were played. Teams were allowed to switch players during the team matches, selecting other players in to the afternoon single matches after the morning foursome matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 648]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092350-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 European Amateur Team Championship\nThe six teams placed 9\u201314 in the qualification stroke-play formed Flight B and the three teams placed 15\u201317 formed Flight C, to play similar knock-out play to decide their final positions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092350-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 European Amateur Team Championship\nDuring three practice days before the tournament, the whether was warm and sunny, but on the first day of competition, play was interrupted several times due to heavy rain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092350-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 European Amateur Team Championship\nDefending champions England won the gold medal, earning their third title, beating Scotland 5\u20132 in the final. Team Norway, for the first time on the podium, earned the bronze on third place, after beating Spain 4\u20133 in the bronze match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092350-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 European Amateur Team Championship\nIndividual leaders in the opening 18-hole stroke-play qualifying competition was Martin Kessler, Switzerland, Klaus Nierlich, Austria and Hugh Stuart, Scotland, tied first, each with a score of 1-over-par 73. There was no official award for the lowest individual scores.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092350-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 European Amateur Team Championship, Teams\n17 nation teams contested the event. Each team consisted of a minimum of five players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 46], "content_span": [47, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092350-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 European Amateur Team Championship, Results\n* Note: In the event of a tie the order was determined by the better non-counting score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092350-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 European Amateur Team Championship, Results\nNote: There was no official award for the lowest individual score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092351-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships\nThe 10th (X) European Athletics Championships were held from 10 August to 15 August 1971 in the Olympic Stadium of Helsinki, the capital of Finland. Contemporaneous reports on the event were given in the Glasgow Herald.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092351-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 871 athletes from 29 countries participated in the event, fourteen athletes more than the official number of 857 as published.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 52], "content_span": [53, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092352-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 10,000 metres\nThe men's 10,000 metres at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, at Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 10 August 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092352-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 10,000 metres, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 35 athletes from 18 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 74], "content_span": [75, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092353-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 100 metres\nThe men's 100 metres at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, at Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 10 and 11 August 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092353-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 100 metres, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 29 athletes from 18 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 71], "content_span": [72, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092354-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 110 metres hurdles\nThe men's 110 metres hurdles at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, at Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 13, 14, and 15 August 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092354-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 110 metres hurdles, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 24 athletes from 15 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 79], "content_span": [80, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092355-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 1500 metres\nThe men's 1500 metres at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, at Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 13 and 15 August 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092355-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 1500 metres, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 32 athletes from 19 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 72], "content_span": [73, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092356-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 20 kilometres walk\nThe men's 20 kilometres race walk at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, on 10 August 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092356-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 20 kilometres walk, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 22 athletes from 10 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 79], "content_span": [80, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092357-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 200 metres\nThe men's 200 metres at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, at Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 12 and 13 August 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092357-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 200 metres, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 28 athletes from 18 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 71], "content_span": [72, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092358-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 3000 metres steeplechase\nThe men's 3000 metres steeplechase at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, at Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 13 and 15 August 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [70, 70], "content_span": [71, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092358-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 3000 metres steeplechase, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 33 athletes from 18 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 85], "content_span": [86, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092359-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 4 \u00d7 100 metres relay\nThe men's 4 x 100 metres relay at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, at Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 14 and 15 August 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092359-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 4 \u00d7 100 metres relay, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 40 athletes from 10 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 81], "content_span": [82, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092360-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 4 \u00d7 400 metres relay\nThe men's 4 x 400 metres relay at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, at Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 14 and 15 August 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092360-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 4 \u00d7 400 metres relay, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 40 athletes from 10 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 81], "content_span": [82, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092361-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 400 metres\nThe men's 400 metres at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, at Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 11, 12, and 13 August 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092361-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 400 metres, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 26 athletes from 14 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 71], "content_span": [72, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092362-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 400 metres hurdles\nThe men's 400 metres hurdles at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, at Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 10, 11, and 12 August 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092362-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 400 metres hurdles, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 31 athletes from 15 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 79], "content_span": [80, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092363-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 50 kilometres walk\nThe men's 50 kilometres race walk at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, on 14 August 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092363-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 50 kilometres walk, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 25 athletes from 12 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 79], "content_span": [80, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092364-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 5000 metres\nThe men's 5000 metres at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, at Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 12 and 14 August 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092364-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 5000 metres, Results, Final\n14 AugustContrary to the 10,000-metre race of these European Athletics Championships, the 5,000-metre final was run at a slow pace for most of its laps. Early during the final, the Soviet Union's Vladimir Afonin was pushed by one or more other runners, fell down, and dropped out of the race. Finland's Juha V\u00e4\u00e4t\u00e4inen, who was a strong pre-race favourite, given his explosive kick in the 10,000-metre race, kept observing the situation without taking the lead before the final lap. So did the two other pre-race favourites, France's Jean Wadoux and West Germany's Harald Norpoth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 73], "content_span": [74, 653]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092364-0001-0001", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 5000 metres, Results, Final\nAlthough Wadoux was several seconds faster than V\u00e4\u00e4t\u00e4inen in 1,500 metres, for some strange reason the Frenchman did not try to break away from the Finn before the final lap. Neither did Norpoth, who was also a fast 1,500-metre runner, having placed fourth in that distance at the 1968 Mexico City Summer Olympics. At the start of the final lap, there were still at least eight or nine runners in the lead group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 73], "content_span": [74, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092364-0001-0002", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 5000 metres, Results, Final\nFinland's young Lasse Viren tried to sprint into the lead, but he was pushed so hard by some other runners that he nearly lost his balance for a few seconds. With about 300 metres left, V\u00e4\u00e4t\u00e4inen unleashed his furious kick, and only Wadoux and Norpoth were able to follow him. On the final bend, V\u00e4\u00e4t\u00e4inen began to pull away from Wadoux and Norpoth, and stretched his lead further on the home straight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 73], "content_span": [74, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092364-0001-0003", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 5000 metres, Results, Final\nFor some seconds, it looked as if also Norpoth would pass Wadoux, but then the French runner was able to accelerate enough to leave the West German runner with the bronze medal. As a result of V\u00e4\u00e4t\u00e4inen's double European titles in the long-distance races, a new enthusiasm for the long-distance running began in Finland. (V\u00e4\u00e4t\u00e4inen & Eeli Aalto, One More Lap / Kierros viela (Finland, 1972); Raevuori, Antero, Lasse Viren: The Gilded Spikes / Kullatut piikkarit (Finland, c. 1976); Wunsche, Wolfgang, The Heroes of the Race Tracks (the Finnish edition, c. 1984); EUROPEI DI HELSINKI 1971 5000 VAATAINEN.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 73], "content_span": [74, 684]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092364-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 5000 metres, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 28 athletes from 16 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 72], "content_span": [73, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092365-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 800 metres\nThe men's 800 metres at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, at Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 10, 11, and 12 August 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092365-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's 800 metres, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 24 athletes from 17 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 71], "content_span": [72, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092366-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's decathlon\nThe men's decathlon at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, at Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 11 and 12 August 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092366-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's decathlon, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 30 athletes from 16 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 70], "content_span": [71, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092367-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's discus throw\nThe men's discus throw at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, at Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 14 and 15 August 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092367-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's discus throw, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 26 athletes from 16 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 73], "content_span": [74, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092368-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's hammer throw\nThe men's hammer throw at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, at Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 13 and 14 August 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092368-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's hammer throw, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 23 athletes from 14 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 73], "content_span": [74, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092369-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's high jump\nThe men's high jump at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, at Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 13 and 14 August 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092369-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's high jump, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 27 athletes from 13 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 70], "content_span": [71, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092370-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's javelin throw\nThe men's javelin throw at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, at Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 10 and 11 August 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092370-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's javelin throw, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 26 athletes from 12 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 74], "content_span": [75, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092371-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's long jump\nThe men's long jump at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, at Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 10 and 11 August 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092371-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's long jump, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 30 athletes from 14 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 70], "content_span": [71, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092372-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's marathon\nThe men's marathon at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, on 15 August 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092372-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's marathon, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 52 athletes from 21 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 69], "content_span": [70, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092373-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's pole vault\nThe men's pole vault at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, at Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 11 and 13 August 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092373-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's pole vault, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 20 athletes from 10 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 71], "content_span": [72, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092374-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's shot put\nThe men's shot put at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, at Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 12 and 13 August 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092374-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's shot put, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 23 athletes from 12 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 69], "content_span": [70, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092375-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's triple jump\nThe men's triple jump at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, at Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 14 and 15 August 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092375-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Men's triple jump, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 18 athletes from 14 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 72], "content_span": [73, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092376-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's 100 metres\nThe women's 100 metres at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, at Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 10 and 11 August 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092376-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's 100 metres, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 20 athletes from 11 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 73], "content_span": [74, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092377-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's 100 metres hurdles\nThe women's 100 metres hurdles at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, at Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 12 and 13 August 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092377-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's 100 metres hurdles, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 17 athletes from 13 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 81], "content_span": [82, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092378-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's 1500 metres\nThe women's 1500 metres at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, at Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 13 and 15 August 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092378-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's 1500 metres, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 30 athletes from 16 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 74], "content_span": [75, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092379-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's 200 metres\nThe women's 200 metres at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, at Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 12 and 13 August 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092379-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's 200 metres, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 20 athletes from 10 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 73], "content_span": [74, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092380-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's 4 \u00d7 100 metres relay\nThe women's 4 x 100 metres relay at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, at Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 14 and 15 August 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [68, 68], "content_span": [69, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092380-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's 4 \u00d7 100 metres relay, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 40 athletes from 10 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [70, 83], "content_span": [84, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092381-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's 4 \u00d7 400 metres relay\nThe women's 4 x 400 metres relay at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, at Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 14 and 15 August 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [68, 68], "content_span": [69, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092381-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's 4 \u00d7 400 metres relay, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 40 athletes from 10 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [70, 83], "content_span": [84, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092382-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's 400 metres\nThe women's 400 metres at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, at Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 10, 11, and 12 August 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092382-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's 400 metres, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 28 athletes from 14 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 73], "content_span": [74, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092383-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's 800 metres\nThe women's 800 metres at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, at Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 10, 11, and 12 August 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092383-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's 800 metres, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 23 athletes from 14 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 73], "content_span": [74, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092384-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's discus throw\nThe women's discus throw at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, at Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 11 and 12 August 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092384-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's discus throw, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 16 athletes from 7 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 75], "content_span": [76, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092385-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's high jump\nThe women's high jump at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, at Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 11 and 12 August 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092385-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's high jump, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 35 athletes from 18 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 72], "content_span": [73, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092386-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's javelin throw\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by Sol1 (talk | contribs) at 18:39, 27 February 2020 (\u2192\u200eQualification). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092386-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's javelin throw\nThe women's javelin throw at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, at Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 12 and 13 August 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092386-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's javelin throw, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 17 athletes from 10 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [63, 76], "content_span": [77, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092387-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's long jump\nThe women's long jump at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, at Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 13 and 14 August 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092387-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's long jump, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 17 athletes from 13 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 72], "content_span": [73, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092388-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's pentathlon\nThe women's pentathlon at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, at Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 13 and 14 August 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092388-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's pentathlon, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 22 athletes from 13 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 73], "content_span": [74, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092389-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's shot put\nThe women's shot put at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, at Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 10 August 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092389-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Championships \u2013 Women's shot put, Participation\nAccording to an unofficial count, 14 athletes from 9 countries participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 71], "content_span": [72, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092390-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships\nThe 2nd European Athletics Indoor Championships were held on 13 and 14 March 1971 in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092390-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships\nThe track used for the championships was 200 metres long.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092391-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 1500 metres\nThe men's 1500 metres event at the 1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 13 and 14 March in Sofia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092391-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 1500 metres, Results, Heats\nFirst 2 from each heat (Q) qualified directly for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 80], "content_span": [81, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092392-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 3000 metres\nThe men's 3000 metres event at the 1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 13 and 14 March in Sofia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092392-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 3000 metres, Results, Heats\nFirst 4 from each heat (Q) qualified directly for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 80], "content_span": [81, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092393-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 4 \u00d7 400 metres relay\nThe men's 4 \u00d7 400 metres relay event at the 1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 14 March in Sofia. Each athlete ran two laps of the 200 metres track.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 73], "section_span": [73, 73], "content_span": [74, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092394-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 4 \u00d7 800 metres relay\nThe men's 4 \u00d7 800 metres relay event at the 1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 14 March in Sofia. Each athlete ran four laps of the 200 metres track.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 73], "section_span": [73, 73], "content_span": [74, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092395-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 400 metres\nThe men's 400 metres event at the 1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 13 and 14 March in Sofia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092395-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 400 metres, Results, Heats\nFirst 2 from each heat (Q) qualified directly for the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 79], "content_span": [80, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092395-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 400 metres, Results, Semifinals\nFirst 2 from each heat (Q) qualified directly for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 84], "content_span": [85, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092396-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 60 metres\nThe men's 60 metres event at the 1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 13 March in Sofia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092396-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 60 metres, Results, Heats\nFirst 4 from each heat (Q) qualified directly for the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 78], "content_span": [79, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092396-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 60 metres, Results, Semifinals\nFirst 3 from each heat (Q) qualified directly for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 83], "content_span": [84, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092397-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 60 metres hurdles\nThe men's 60 metres hurdles event at the 1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 14 March in Sofia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [70, 70], "content_span": [71, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092397-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 60 metres hurdles, Results, Heats\nFirst 3 from each heat (Q) qualified directly for the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 86], "content_span": [87, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092397-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 60 metres hurdles, Results, Semifinals\nFirst 3 from each heat (Q) qualified directly for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [72, 91], "content_span": [92, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092398-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 800 metres\nThe men's 800 metres event at the 1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 13 and 14 March in Sofia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092398-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 800 metres, Results, Heats\nFirst 2 from each heat (Q) qualified directly for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 79], "content_span": [80, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092399-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's high jump\nThe men's high jump event at the 1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 13 March in Sofia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092400-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's long jump\nThe men's long jump event at the 1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 14 March in Sofia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092401-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's pole vault\nThe men's pole vault event at the 1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 14 March in Sofia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092402-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's shot put\nThe men's shot put event at the 1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 14 March in Sofia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092403-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's triple jump\nThe men's triple jump event at the 1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 14 March in Sofia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092404-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 1500 metres\nThe women's 1500 metres event at the 1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 14 March in Sofia. This was the first time that this distance was contested at the championships by women.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092405-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 4 \u00d7 200 metres relay\nThe women's 4 \u00d7 200 metres relay event at the 1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 13 March in Sofia. Each athlete ran one lap of the 200 metres track.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 75], "section_span": [75, 75], "content_span": [76, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092406-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 4 \u00d7 400 metres relay\nThe women's 4 \u00d7 400 metres relay event at the 1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 14 March in Sofia. Each athlete ran two laps of the 200 metres track.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 75], "section_span": [75, 75], "content_span": [76, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092407-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 400 metres\nThe women's 400 metres event at the 1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 13 and 14 March in Sofia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092407-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 400 metres, Results, Heats\nFirst 2 from each heat (Q) qualified directly for the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 81], "content_span": [82, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092407-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 400 metres, Results, Semifinals\nFirst 2 from each heat (Q) qualified directly for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 86], "content_span": [87, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092408-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 60 metres\nThe women's 60 metres event at the 1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 14 March in Sofia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092408-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 60 metres, Results, Heats\nFirst 3 from each heat (Q) qualified directly for the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 80], "content_span": [81, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092408-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 60 metres, Results, Semifinals\nFirst 3 from each heat (Q) qualified directly for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 85], "content_span": [86, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092409-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 60 metres hurdles\nThe women's 60 metres hurdles event at the 1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 14 March in Sofia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 72], "section_span": [72, 72], "content_span": [73, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092409-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 60 metres hurdles, Results, Heats\nFirst 3 from each heat (Q) qualified directly for the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 72], "section_span": [74, 88], "content_span": [89, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092409-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 60 metres hurdles, Results, Semifinals\nFirst 3 from each heat (Q) qualified directly for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 72], "section_span": [74, 93], "content_span": [94, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092410-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 800 metres\nThe women's 800 metres event at the 1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 13 and 14 March in Sofia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092410-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 800 metres, Results, Heats\nFirst 2 from each heat (Q) qualified directly for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 81], "content_span": [82, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092411-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's high jump\nThe women's high jump event at the 1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 14 March in Sofia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092412-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's long jump\nThe women's long jump event at the 1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 13 March in Sofia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092413-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's shot put\nThe women's shot put event at the 1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 13 March in Sofia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092414-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Baseball Championship\nThe 1971 European Baseball Championship was held in Italy and was won by the Netherlands for the second time in a row. Italy finished as runner-up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092415-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Cup Final\nThe 1971 European Cup Final was a football match between Ajax of the Netherlands and Panathinaikos of Greece on 2 June 1971 at Wembley Stadium. It was the final match of the 1970\u201371 season of Europe's premier cup competition, the European Cup. Ajax were appearing in their second final, having lost the 1969 final 4\u20131 to Italian team A.C. Milan. Panathinaikos were appearing in their first final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092415-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 European Cup Final\nBoth teams progressed through four rounds to reach the final. Ajax comfortably won all of their ties by two goals, except for their 5\u20131 aggregate victory against Swiss team Basel in the second round. Panathinaikos matches were close affairs, with the exception of their 7\u20131 aggregate victory against Jeunesse Esch of Luxembourg in the first round. Their quarter-final and semi-final victories were both won via the away goals rule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092415-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 European Cup Final\nWatched by a crowd of 83,179, Ajax took the lead in the 5th minute when Dick van Dijk scored. Ajax extended their lead in the 87th minute when a shot by Arie Haan deflected off defender Anthimos Kapsis and went into the Panathinaikos goal, giving Ajax its first European Cup victory by a score of 2\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092416-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Cup Winners' Cup Final\nThe 1971 European Cup Winners' Cup Final was a football match contested by Chelsea of England and Real Madrid of Spain. It was the final match of the 1971 competition and the 11th European Cup Winners' Cup final in all.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092416-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 European Cup Winners' Cup Final, Match review\nThe Spanish club were challenging for their seventh European trophy overall (all six previous were European Cups), a record among European clubs at the time, while the West Londoners were seeking their first ever European honour. The final took place on 19 May 1971 and was staged at Karaiskakis Stadium in Piraeus, Greece, which was filled to capacity by traveling fans of both clubs as well as local football aficionados.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 50], "content_span": [51, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092416-0001-0001", "contents": "1971 European Cup Winners' Cup Final, Match review\nChelsea went ahead with a Peter Osgood left-foot volley from inside the area, after a Boyle-Cooke combination, but Real, demonstrating their \"exceptional ball skills\", pressed back and eventually equalised in the last minute with Ignacio Zoco. There were no further goals scored in extra time, so the final went to a replay game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 50], "content_span": [51, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092416-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 European Cup Winners' Cup Final, Match review\nThe replay was staged at the same venue two days later, on a Friday, with markedly lower attendance. Most of the clubs' fans had left, having booked return tickets on the assumption that, as usual, the final would be decided in one game, although a number of Chelsea's followers stayed on, \"sleeping in the rough\" around the city. Chelsea scored two goals with Peter Osgood and John Dempsey in the first half. Real's Sebasti\u00e1n Fleitas scored 15 minutes before the end of the game but Chelsea hung on to win 2\u20131 and become the third London club to win the trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 50], "content_span": [51, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092417-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Figure Skating Championships\nThe 1971 European Figure Skating Championships was a senior-level international competition held at the Hallenstadion in Z\u00fcrich, Switzerland on February 2\u20137. Elite senior-level figure skaters from European ISU member nations competed for the title of European Champion in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092417-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 European Figure Skating Championships\nThe pair skating event demonstrated the dominance of the Soviet Union in this discipline. Irina Rodnina and Alexei Ulanov took the title in spite of a fall by Ulanov on a double Axel, a side-by-side jump not being attempted by any other team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092417-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 European Figure Skating Championships\nThe ice dance competition was a contrast between the British and Russian styles of dance. British-trained Angelika and Erich Buck narrowly lost a 5-4 decision to Liudmila Pakhomova and Alexandr Gorshkov, who as usual were criticized for their unequal balance of skills.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092417-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 European Figure Skating Championships\nOndrej Nepela ran away with the men's title following the withdrawal of his two top challengers, Patrick P\u00e9ra and Gunter Zoller, due to injuries. Nepela's victory was more the result of his strong showing in the compulsory figures than for his rather indistinguished free skating. The free skating portion of the competition was won by Haig Oundjian, who landed triple toe loop and triple salchow jumps and moved up from 6th after the figures to take the bronze medal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092417-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 European Figure Skating Championships\nThe ladies event was likewise decided by the compulsory figures as Beatrix Schuba dominated that part of the competition. The free skating was won by Sonja Morgenstern, who landed a triple salchow jump in her program\u2014at that time it was very rare for women to attempt triple jumps. Morgenstern had placed a distant 8th in the figures. Schuba was heavily criticized for the poor quality of her free skating, which included a fall on a relatively simple double loop as well as a definite underrotation on her double Axel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092418-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Formula Two Championship\nThe 1971 European Formula Two season was contested over 11 rounds. March Engineering driver Ronnie Peterson clinched the championship title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092418-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 European Formula Two Championship, Calendar\nRace 1, 7, 8 and 10 were held in two heats, with results shown in aggregate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092418-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 European Formula Two Championship, Calendar\nRace 2, 5 and 6 were held with two semi-final heats and the final run, with time only shown for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092418-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 European Formula Two Championship, Calendar\nRace 2, 4, 5 and 9 was won by a graded driver, all graded drivers are shown in Italics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092418-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 European Formula Two Championship, Final point standings, Driver\nFor every race points were awarded: 9 points to the winner, 6 for runner-up, 4 for third place, 3 for fourth place, 2 for fifth place and 1 for sixth place. No additional points were awarded. The best 8 results count. No driver had a point deduction.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092418-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 European Formula Two Championship, Final point standings, Driver\nOnly drivers which were not graded were able to score points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092419-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Judo Championships\nThe 1971 European Judo Championships were the 20th edition of the European Judo Championships, and were held in Gothenburg, Sweden on 21 and 22 May 1971. Championships were subdivided into six individual competitions, and a separate team competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092420-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Junior Badminton Championships\nThe 1971 European Junior Badminton Championships was the second edition of the European Junior Badminton Championships. It was held in Gottwaldov, Czechoslovakia, in the month of April. Danish players won both the Girls' singles and doubles while England won Boys' doubles and Mixed doubles. Netherland's Ridder won Boys' singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092421-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Karate Championships\nThe 1971 European Karate Championships, the 6th edition, was held in the sports complex of Coubertine Hall in Paris, France from May 2 to 4, 1971. 1971 was the year Scotland and Finland were accepted by the EKU and no longer participated as part of Great Britain and there was an introduction of weight classes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092422-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Rowing Championships\nThe 1971 European Rowing Championships were rowing championships held on Lake Bagsv\u00e6rd in the Danish capital Copenhagen. There were seven competitions for men and five for women, and the most successful nation was East Germany with five gold medals across the twelve boat classes. As World Rowing Championships were still held at four-year intervals at the time, the European Rowing Championships were open to nations outside of Europe and had become to be regarded as quasi-world championships. Men competed in all seven Olympic boat classes (M1x: 17 boats; M2x: 16 boats; M2-: 13 boats; M2+: 20 boats; M4-: 15 boats; M4+: 18 boats; M8+: 16 boats), and 120 boats were entered in total.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 721]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092422-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 European Rowing Championships\nThe women's championships were held from 12 to 15 August, and 49 boats were entered from 17 countries. The men's championships were held shortly afterwards, from 18 to 25 August. The men entered 116 boats from 27 countries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092422-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 European Rowing Championships, Medal summary, Men's events\nThe New Zealand eight would go on in unchanged composition to win the 1972 Olympic eight event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 63], "content_span": [64, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092423-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Weightlifting Championships\nThe 1971 European Weightlifting Championships were held at the Universiada Hall in Sofia, Bulgaria from June 19 to June 27, 1971. This was the 50th edition of the event. There were 123 men in action from 23 nations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092424-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships\nThe 8th European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships were held in Minsk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092425-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 FA Charity Shield\nThe 1971 FA Charity Shield was a football match between Leicester City and Liverpool at Filbert Street on Saturday 7 August 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092425-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 FA Charity Shield\nArsenal won the double in 1970\u201371 but were unable to take part in the Charity Shield because they had contracted to go on a pre-season tour that clashed with the fixture. The 1971 FA Cup Final runners-up Liverpool and second division winners Leicester City were invited to take part instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092425-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 FA Charity Shield\nLeicester won the game with a goal from Steve Whitworth, when he tapped the ball in at the near post after initially crossing the ball into the box.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092426-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 FA Cup Final\nIn the finale to the 1970\u201371 FA Cup season, the 1971 FA Cup Final was contested by Arsenal and Liverpool at Wembley on 8 May 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092426-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 FA Cup Final\nArsenal won 2\u20131 after extra time, with all three goals coming in the added half-hour. Steve Heighway opened the scoring for Liverpool with a low drive past Wilson on his near post. However, Arsenal equalised with a scrambled goal from George Graham which is often credited to substitute Eddie Kelly although tv footage exists which shows Graham got the final touch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092426-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 FA Cup Final\nCharlie George then scored a winner late in extra time, when his long range effort went past Ray Clemence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092426-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 FA Cup Final\nThe game was the second half of Arsenal's first League and FA Cup double, the first double achieved by any club since Tottenham Hotspur's double in 1961. The first half had been achieved through Arsenal's league victory over Tottenham at White Hart Lane on the Monday of the same week. The trophy was presented by the President of The Football Association, Prince Edward, Duke of Kent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092426-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 FA Cup Final\nDue to the clash of Liverpool's red strip with Arsenal's red and white colours, Arsenal wore their away strip of yellow shirt and blue shorts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092426-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 FA Cup Final, Final\nThe game was played on a hot sunny day, and cramp and stamina were both to be of concern by the end of the match. Arsenal captain Frank McLintock won the toss, and he chose to play towards the southern end for the first half, meaning that Arsenal would have the low late afternoon sun at their backs in the second period.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 24], "content_span": [25, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092426-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 FA Cup Final, Final\nEarly play was dominated by Liverpool, who mounted several attacks on the Arsenal goal but found difficulty breaking through Arsenal's defence. As the half progressed play became for the most part evenly balanced, with Arsenal mounting more counterattacks on the break and Liverpool's best chances coming largely from free kicks deep in Arsenal's half of the field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 24], "content_span": [25, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092426-0006-0001", "contents": "1971 FA Cup Final, Final\nThe best opportunities to break the deadlock came late in the half, with Ray Clemence forced to make a reflex save of a header from George Armstrong in the 41st minute, followed in the 44th minute by a similarly fine diving save by Bob Wilson from Alec Lindsay, the result of a free kick. Earlier in the half, Ray Kennedy had caused several problems for the Liverpool defence, and a long range effort from Charlie George also narrowly failed to find the net.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 24], "content_span": [25, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092426-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 FA Cup Final, Final\nNeither side had total dominance during the second period; Arsenal started strongly, with Liverpool coming more into the game as play progressed. Arsenal finished more strongly with a spell of concerted pressure in the latter stages of the half as the game opened up. The first few minutes of the second half consisted of the teams sizing each other up, with no clear chance coming until an opportunity for Arsenal in the 51st minute when Kennedy failed to get his foot to an effort from close range.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 24], "content_span": [25, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092426-0007-0001", "contents": "1971 FA Cup Final, Final\nPlay was largely uneventful from then until the 56th minute, when Charlie George again shot wide from long distance. Liverpool's style of play largely consisted of slow, patient attacks, with their first major foray of the half coming in the 58th minute, ending when John Toshack failed to link up with Alun Evans. Eddie Kelly replaced a limping Peter Storey in the 64th minute. Three minutes later, Evans was replaced for tactical reasons for Liverpool by Peter Thompson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 24], "content_span": [25, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092426-0007-0002", "contents": "1971 FA Cup Final, Final\nHe was to have a part in a strong attack by Liverpool less than two minutes later, halted when the ball was cleared by McLintock. The game was briefly paused immediately after this attack, owing to Emlyn Hughes receiving treatment after being hit in the face by the ball. Liverpool were now having more of the possession, though the next clear chance, in the 74th minute, fell to Ray Kennedy when he received a John Radford cross within the goal area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 24], "content_span": [25, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092426-0007-0003", "contents": "1971 FA Cup Final, Final\nThe game opened up considerably from this point, and a George Graham header from a Radford long throw hit the crossbar in the 77th minute. The resulting corner led to a scrambled goal-line clearance by Lindsay. Steve Heighway mounted an instant counter-attack, but it came to nothing. In the next three minutes, Wilson was forced to make two saves in response to further attacks by Heighway and Thompson. A further solo effort by Brian Hall came five minutes before the end of the half, followed shortly afterwards by a shot from Kennedy at the other end.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 24], "content_span": [25, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092426-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 FA Cup Final, Final, Extra time\nThe first period of extra time began with Arsenal kicking off facing the same way as in the second half, with the low sun at their backs. Within a minute, a move which began with Larry Lloyd deep within Liverpool's half found Heighway in space on the left flank. He sent a low ball from the edge of the penalty area which went behind the advancing Wilson and into the Arsenal net. Two minutes later John Toshack almost made it two, with a sharp reflex save required from Wilson to prevent further damage to Arsenal's cause.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 36], "content_span": [37, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092426-0008-0001", "contents": "1971 FA Cup Final, Final, Extra time\nLiverpool continued to dominate for the next ten minutes, but without any clear chances. This pressure left some holes in Liverpool's defence, however, and in the eleventh minute of extra time an overhead kick from John Radford into the Liverpool penalty area led to a scrambled attempt to clear the ball which saw the ball end up in the net. Eddie Kelly is often credited with the goal but tv footage exists that shows George Graham got the final touch. Clemence was forced to make a brave save two minutes from the end of the half after a centring cross almost found Kelly deep in the Liverpool area. The last chance of the half came from a strong shot from distance by Radford which went straight to Clemence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 36], "content_span": [37, 749]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092426-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 FA Cup Final, Final, Extra time\nBy the start of the second period of extra time, the hot conditions and pace of the match were starting to take their toll, with several players (notably Brian Hall and George Graham) suffering from cramp. As such play was more broken, with fewer successful attacks, as crosses frequently failed to find their targets. Liverpool had the first clear chance after five minutes, when a cross from Thompson deep on the right flank narrowly failed to find Toshack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 36], "content_span": [37, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092426-0009-0001", "contents": "1971 FA Cup Final, Final, Extra time\nAn immediate counterattack required Tommy Smith to tackle Kennedy deep in his own penalty area after Kennedy had received a long ball from Graham. The winning goal was to come moments later in the seventh minute of the period, when a ball from Radford found Charlie George just outside the Liverpool penalty area. His powerful strike beat Clemence to hit the top left of the Liverpool net. He followed this up with his famous celebration, lying on his back with arms outstretched until he was picked up by other members of his team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 36], "content_span": [37, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092426-0009-0002", "contents": "1971 FA Cup Final, Final, Extra time\nLiverpool were not to give up, however, and the first opportunity to reply came from Chris Lawler, who defied his cramping legs to attempt a flying kick at a pass from Toshack within the Arsenal area. This was one of the few remaining instances to really threaten in the dying minutes, however, although Radford produced a powerful long-range shot some two minutes before the final whistle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 36], "content_span": [37, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092426-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 FA Cup Final, Final, Extra time\nThe match was played in a great spirit of sportsmanship by the players and was responded to as such by the fans. When Liverpool's Lawler was floored with cramp late in extra time, he was helped to recover by two Arsenal players. Arsenal's victory \u2013 and double win after a gruelling 64-match season \u2013 was greeted with an ovation by both their own and Liverpool's fans at the stadium, and Liverpool were also cheered by both sets of fans as they took a lap of honour after the presentation of the trophy and medals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 36], "content_span": [37, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092426-0011-0000", "contents": "1971 FA Cup Final, DVD release\nTelevision coverage of the match has been released on DVD by the BBC as part of their FA Cup Final Classics series as part of a double-DVD set (BBCDVD 1681) along with Arsenal's win over Manchester United in the 1979 FA Cup Final. The ITV coverage was also released on DVD in 2004, as one of a series of DVDs covering the 1970s Cup Finals, distributed by ILC Sport (DVD2508). The same company have also released DVDs of all the 1980s and 1990s Cup Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092427-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 FAMAS Awards\nThe 19th Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences Awards Night was held in 1971 for the Outstanding Achievements for the year 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092427-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 FAMAS Awards\nMga Anghel na Walang Langit of FPJ Productions a movie about the life of street children won the most awards with 6 wins including the FAMAS Award for Best Picture and Best Story for Ronwaldo Reyes. This is the first movie where FPJ used the name Ronwaldo Reyes. Except from close associates in the production, no one knew who Ronwaldo Reyes was until the FAMAS awarding when Reyes was declared as the winner for best story. FPJ appeared and revealed himself as the man behind the man. Since then, he had been using the name in his writing and directorial credit. On the other hand, Eddie Garcia was nominated in 3 different categories; Best Director for Crisis, best actor for Tubog sa Ginto (winner) and Best Supporting Actor for Pipo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 755]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092428-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship\nThe 1971 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship (known at that time as 1971 European Championship for Cadets) was the first edition of the FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship. The city of Gorizia, in Italy, hosted the tournament. Yugoslavia won their first title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092428-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship, Preliminary round\nThe twelve teams were allocated in two groups of six teams each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 57], "content_span": [58, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092428-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship, Final standings\nDragan Todori\u0107, Predrag Tripkovi\u0107, Ante Zaloker, Dragan Ki\u0107anovi\u0107, Marko Martinovi\u0107, Milan Mili\u0107evi\u0107, Zoran Biorac, Rajko \u017di\u017ei\u0107, Mirza Deliba\u0161i\u0107, \u017deljko Morelj, Radmilo Lukovac, and Mirko Grgin. Head Coach: Mirko Novosel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092429-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 FIBA Oceania Championship\nThe FIBA Oceania Championship for Men 1971 was the qualifying tournament of FIBA Oceania for the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. The tournament, a best-of-three series between Australia and New Zealand, was held in Auckland, Roturua and Christchurch. Australia won the series 3-0 to win the first Oceania Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092430-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 FIBA World Championship for Women\nThe 1971 FIBA World Championship for Women (Spanish:1971 Campeonato Mundial Feminino da Fiba) was hosted by Brazil from 1971. The Soviet Union won the tournament, defeating Brazil 88-69 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092431-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 FIM Motocross World Championship\nThe 1971 FIM Motocross World Championship was the 15th F.I.M. Motocross Racing World Championship season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092431-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 FIM Motocross World Championship, Summary\nRoger De Coster won his first 500cc world championship for Suzuki in a tight points battle with Maico rider \u00c5ke Jonsson. The championship wasn't decided until the final round of the season when Jonsson suffered a mechanical failure. De Coster's victory at the season opening Italian Grand Prix gave Suzuki the first ever victory for a Japanese factory in a 500cc motocross Grand Prix. Jo\u00ebl Robert, claimed his fourth consecutive 250cc title, and second since joining the Suzuki factory racing team. It was his fifth 250cc world championship overall in his career.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092432-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Falkland Islands general election\nThe Falkland Islands general election of 1971 was held on 30 November \u2013 2 December 1971 to elect members to the Legislative Council. Four out of the ten Councillors were elected through universal suffrage, two from Stanley and one each from East Falkland and West Falkland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092432-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Falkland Islands general election, Results\nCandidates in bold were elected. Candidates in italic were incumbents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 47], "content_span": [48, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092433-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Federation Cup (tennis)\nThe 1971 Federation Cup was the ninth edition of what is now known as the Fed Cup. 14 nations participated in the tournament, which was held at the Royal King's Park Tennis Club in Perth, Western Australia, from 26\u201329 December 1970. Australia defended their title, defeating Great Britain in the final, and winning the title without losing a rubber.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092433-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Federation Cup (tennis), Draw\nAll ties were played at the Royal King's Park Tennis Club in Perth, Australia on grass courts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 34], "content_span": [35, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092434-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Fiesta Bowl\nThe 1971 Fiesta Bowl was the inaugural edition of the college football bowl game, played at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona, on Monday, December\u00a027. Part of the 1971\u201372 bowl game season, it featured the eighth-ranked Arizona State Sun Devils of the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) and the independent Florida State Seminoles. Arizona State broke a tie late in the fourth quarter to win, 45\u201338.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092434-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Fiesta Bowl, Background\nThe Fiesta Bowl had been created as a bowl game for the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) champion to participate in, the first to take place for the 1971 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092434-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Fiesta Bowl, Teams, Arizona State\nThe Sun Devils won their third consecutive WAC title (with an undefeated conference record for the second time in three years). The previous season, ASU won the Peach Bowl, their first bowl appearance in two decades.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 38], "content_span": [39, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092434-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Fiesta Bowl, Teams, Florida State\nFlorida State was an independent in Coach Jones' first year at the program. A 5\u20130 start had made the Seminoles ranked #19, but later losses to Florida, Houston, and Georgia Tech knocked them out of the polls. This was Florida State's first bowl appearance in three years, as they looked for their first bowl win since January 1965.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 38], "content_span": [39, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092434-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Fiesta Bowl, Game summary\nThe game kicked off shortly after 1 p.m. MST, and was televised by Mizlou.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 30], "content_span": [31, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092434-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Fiesta Bowl, Game summary\nCalvin Demery started the scoring when he caught a touchdown pass from Danny White to give ASU an early lead, but Florida State would tie the game with a Paul Magalski touchdown run and take the lead later in the quarter with a field goal. Woody Green took the lead back for the Sun Devils with his touchdown run in the second quarter, but FSU added a field goal to narrow the lead to one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 30], "content_span": [31, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092434-0005-0001", "contents": "1971 Fiesta Bowl, Game summary\nLater in the quarter, Rhett Dawson caught a pass from Kent Gaydos (normally the wide receiver) for a touchdown to give the Seminoles the lead again, with a successful conversion attempt to make it 21\u201314. But the Sun Devils tied the game with a Steve Holden touchdown catch from White to make it tied at 21\u201321. Dawson caught another touchdown, this time from quarterback Gary Huff, to give the Seminoles the lead again, and the Sun Devils went into halftime down 28\u201321.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 30], "content_span": [31, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092434-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Fiesta Bowl, Game summary\nArizona State started off small in the second half with an Eckstrand field goal, but later in the quarter Green put the Sun Devils ahead on his second touchdown run. Florida State tied the game with a Frank Fontes field goal in the fourth quarter. Later in the quarter, Florida State punted the ball to Holden, who returned it 58 yards for a touchdown to give Arizona State the lead 38\u201331. Dawson caught his third touchdown of the day to tie the game at 38.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 30], "content_span": [31, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092434-0006-0001", "contents": "1971 Fiesta Bowl, Game summary\nWith 4:44 to play after the kickoff, the Sun Devils needed to score to win the game while giving the Noles little time, which they did as Green ran for his third touchdown of the day to give the Arizona State the lead with 34 seconds left. The Seminoles could not muster any more magic as the Sun Devils won their second consecutive bowl game and the first Fiesta Bowl. Woody Green went 101 yards on 24 carries and caught 2 passes for 41 yards for ASU, though FSU's Huff was named Offensive MVP, throwing 25 of 46 yards for 347 yards, throwing two touchdowns and interceptions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 30], "content_span": [31, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092434-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Fiesta Bowl, Aftermath\nIt took six years and the firing of two coaches before the Seminoles returned to another bowl game, which they did under Bobby Bowden. This was their last Fiesta Bowl until 1988. The Sun Devils went to two straight Fiesta Bowls while winning two more WAC titles and ultimately five in the 1970s. The schools would next play in the 1979 regular season, and would next meet in a bowl game in the 2019 Sun Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 27], "content_span": [28, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092435-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 First National Tennis Classic\nThe 1971 First National Tennis Classic, also known as the Louisville WCT, was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Louisville Tennis Center in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. It was the second edition of the tournament and was held from July 19 through July 25, 1971. The tournament was part of the 1971 World Championship Tennis circuit and offered total prize money of $50,000. The singles final was won by Tom Okker who earned $10,000 first-prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092435-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 First National Tennis Classic, Finals, Doubles\nKen Rosewall / Fred Stolle and Roy Emerson / Rod Laver not played, divided", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092436-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Five Nations Championship\nThe 1971 Five Nations Championship was the forty-second series of the rugby union Five Nations Championship. Including the previous incarnations as the Home Nations and Five Nations, this was the seventy-seventh series of the northern hemisphere rugby union championship. This was the last Five Nations tournament where a try was worth 3 points. Ten matches were played between 16 January and 27 March. It was contested by England, France, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092436-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Five Nations Championship\nWales won all their four matches to win the championship for the seventeenth time outright, excluding shared titles. They won the Triple Crown for the second time in three seasons and the twelfth time overall, and completed the Grand Slam for the first time since 1952 and the sixth time overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092438-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Florida Gators football team\nThe 1971 Florida Gators football team represented the University of Florida during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. The season was Doug Dickey's second as the head coach of the Florida Gators football team. Dickey's 1971 Florida Gators finished with a 4\u20137 overall record and a 1\u20136 record in the Southeastern Conference (SEC), tying for eighth among ten SEC teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092438-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Florida Gators football team, Game summaries, Alabama\nAgainst the Gators, Alabama's Johnny Musso scored four rushing touchdowns en route to a 38\u20130 shutout at Florida Field. After Bill Davis gave the Crimson Tide a 3\u20130 lead with his first quarter field goal, Musso scored Alabama's next four touchdowns and extended their lead to 31\u20130. All four came on the ground with a pair from one-yard out, a three-yard run and a five-yard run. Alabama then closed the game with an 11-yard Billy Sexton touchdown pass to Dexter Wood that made the final score 38\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 58], "content_span": [59, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092438-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Florida Gators football team, Game summaries, Alabama\nThe four touchdowns scored by Musso on the ground set a new school record for rushing touchdowns. Additionally, the shutout was the first for the Crimson Tide defense since their 17\u20130 victory in 1967 over South Carolina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 58], "content_span": [59, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092438-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Florida Gators football team, Game summaries, Miami (FL)\nThe disappointing season ended on a controversial note. With the Gators leading the Miami Hurricanes 45\u20138 late in the fourth quarter of the last game of the season, senior quarterback John Reaves was just 14 yards short of the NCAA career record for passing yardage, but Miami had the ball and seemed destined to run out the clock. At the urging of Florida defensive captain Harvin Clark, Dickey agreed to permit the Gators defense to allow the Hurricanes to score, thus returning the ball to the Gators offense and giving Reaves a chance to break the record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 621]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092438-0003-0001", "contents": "1971 Florida Gators football team, Game summaries, Miami (FL)\nDubbed the \"Florida Flop\" or \"Gator Flop\", the move worked. When Miami snapped the ball from the Florida 8-yard line, the Gators instantly flopped to the turf, allowing Miami quarterback John Hornibrook to walk uncontested into the endzone. Florida's offense got one more possession, and Reeves promptly broke the record with a pass to favorite target Carlos Alvarez. After the game, many Gator players celebrated by jumping into the pool at the Orange Bowl's east end zone used by the Miami Dolphins' live mascot, Flipper.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092438-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Florida Gators football team, Game summaries, Miami (FL)\nMiami coach Fran Curci was so angered by the turn of events that he refused to shake Dickey's hand. In a post-game interview, he called the actions \"bush league\" and declared that \"what Doug Dickey did shows absolutely no class.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092439-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Florida State Seminoles football team\nThe 1971 Florida State Seminoles football team represented Florida State University in the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. Larry Jones was head coach, Steve Sloan was an assistant coach/offensive coordinator, and Bill Parcells coached the linebackers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092440-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Football Cup of Ukrainian SSR among KFK\nThe 1971 Football Cup of Ukrainian SSR among KFK was the annual season of Ukraine's football knockout competition for amateur football teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092441-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Football League Cup Final\nThe 1971 Football League Cup Final took place in February 1971 at Wembley Stadium. It was the eleventh Football League Cup final and the fifth to be played at Wembley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092441-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Football League Cup Final\nIt was contested between Tottenham Hotspur and Aston Villa. Tottenham Hotspur were riding high in the First Division (as the top level of league football in England was then known) and Aston Villa, the most successful club of the late Victorian and Edwardian eras and a traditional heavyweight, were in the Third Division (then the third tier of English football), a level to which it had never previously sunk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092441-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Football League Cup Final\nThis match signalled the reversal of a long period of decline for Villa. Ten years later they were champions of England and the following year they had become the champions of Europe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092441-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Football League Cup Final, Road to Wembley, Tottenham Hotspur\nRound 2: Tottenham Hotspur 3-0 Swansea City (9 September 1970)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 66], "content_span": [67, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092441-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Football League Cup Final, Road to Wembley, Tottenham Hotspur\nRound 3: Tottenham Hotspur 2-1 Sheffield United (7 October 1970)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 66], "content_span": [67, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092441-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Football League Cup Final, Road to Wembley, Tottenham Hotspur\nRound 4: Tottenham Hotspur 5-0 West Bromwich Albion (28 October 1970)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 66], "content_span": [67, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092441-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Football League Cup Final, Road to Wembley, Tottenham Hotspur\nQuarter final: Tottenham Hotspur 4-1 Coventry City (18 November 1970)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 66], "content_span": [67, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092441-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Football League Cup Final, Road to Wembley, Tottenham Hotspur\nSemi final, 1st leg: Bristol City 1\u20131 Tottenham Hotspur (16 December 1970)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 66], "content_span": [67, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092441-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Football League Cup Final, Road to Wembley, Tottenham Hotspur\nSemi final, 2nd leg: Tottenham Hotspur 2\u20130 Bristol City (after extra time) (23 December 1970)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 66], "content_span": [67, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092442-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Formula One season\nThe 1971 Formula One season was the 25th season of the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de l'Automobile's Formula One motor racing. It featured the 22nd World Championship of Drivers and the 14th International Cup for F1 Manufacturers which were contested concurrently over eleven races between 6 March and 3 October. The season also included a number of non-championship races open to Formula One cars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092442-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Formula One season\nThe World Championship of Drivers was won by Jackie Stewart, driving a Tyrrell Ford, and the International Cup for F1 Manufacturers was won by Tyrrell Ford.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092442-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Formula One season\nAfter the death of 1970 World Champion Jochen Rindt the previous year, Lotus had a desultory season, with young and inexperienced drivers such as Emerson Fittipaldi appearing in the cars. The team spent a lot of time experimenting with a gas turbine powered car, and with four wheel drive again. Using their own chassis heavily inspired by the Matra MS80 but with conventional tanks, Tyrrell and Jackie Stewart easily took success in 1971. Of the eleven World Championship races, Mario Andretti, Jacky Ickx, Jo Siffert, Peter Gethin and Fran\u00e7ois Cevert won one race each, while Stewart won the other six races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092442-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Formula One season\nJo Siffert and Pedro Rodr\u00edguez, who had an intense rivalry driving for John Wyer's Gulf-sponsored works Porsche endurance sportscar team, both lost their lives racing in 1971. Rodriguez died driving a Ferrari 512 sports car at an Interserie race at the Norisring, Germany, in July, while Siffert died in a fiery crash at the World Championship Victory Race non-championship Formula One event at Brands Hatch, in October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092442-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Formula One season\nThe battle of the 12 cylinder cars (Ferrari with their Flat-12 boxer engine, BRM and (to a lesser extent) Matra with their V12 engines) against the lighter Ford Cosworth DFV V8-powered cars proved to be the main theme throughout this season. Dunlop, one of the manufacturers supplying tyres to F1 teams, withdrew from Formula One and left the American giants Goodyear and Firestone to battle it out for this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092442-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Formula One season\nThis was the first season where at least 22 cars started every championship race, except the Monaco Grand Prix, where 18 cars started.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092442-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Formula One season\nThe maximum race distance for World Championship Grand Prix races was reduced from 400\u00a0km to 325\u00a0km.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092442-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Formula One season, Season summary, Pre-season report\nAustrian Jochen Rindt had won the championship posthumously in 1970 for Lotus-Ford; he was killed at Monza during practice for the Italian Grand Prix in September of that year. Although three races remained after Monza, Rindt's points lead after four consecutive Grand Prix victories earlier in the season was enough to secure him the championship. Briton Jackie Stewart, world champion in 1969, had a transitional year in 1970, using a customer March car after Matra refused to allow Stewart's boss Ken Tyrrell to put a Ford-Cosworth DFV V8 in their car in place of Matra's own V12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 58], "content_span": [59, 642]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092442-0007-0001", "contents": "1971 Formula One season, Season summary, Pre-season report\nTyrrell was designing his own car in secret in England, and the March was an interim solution. The new Tyrrell 001 car was first raced by the Scottish Stewart at the Mont-Tremblant circuit in Quebec, Canada- and was immediately competitive, but he retired due to mechanical failure. The car's competitiveness enabled designer Derek Gardner to produce an even more competitive car for the 1971 season- the Tyrrell 002 and 003. 002 had a longer wheelbase and was exclusively for Stewart's tall French teammate Francois Cevert, and 003 was exclusively for the short Stewart. These 2 cars were mechanically almost identical; the only difference being the longer wheelbase for Cevert's height.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 58], "content_span": [59, 747]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092442-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Formula One season, Season summary, Pre-season report\nOver the winter months Ferrari technical director Mauro Forghieri and his engineers at Ferrari developed the car into 312B/2 form. Jacky Ickx and Clay Regazzoni were retained but the team's third driver, Italian Ignazio Giunti was killed in January during the Buenos Aires 1000 kilometer long-distance sportscar race. Jean-Pierre Beltoise was pushing his Matra sportscar back to the pits when he was hit by Giunti's Ferrari 312P; the Italian was killed in the ensuing crash.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 58], "content_span": [59, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092442-0008-0001", "contents": "1971 Formula One season, Season summary, Pre-season report\nAs a result, Mario Andretti was hired on a part-time basis to be the team's third driver; Andretti had been driving Ferraris in long distance sportscar races during the two previous years. Tyrrell retained Jackie Stewart and Francois Cevert, while Team Lotus also developed its 1970 car for Brazilian Emerson Fittipaldi and Swede Reine Wisell (although design work was progressing on the Lotus 56, a gas turbine car powered by Pratt & Whitney engines).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 58], "content_span": [59, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092442-0008-0002", "contents": "1971 Formula One season, Season summary, Pre-season report\nMarch lost both of its 1970 drivers: Chris Amon, moving to Matra to join Beltoise and Jo Siffert replacing Jack Oliver at BRM as teammate to Pedro Rodriguez and new driver Howden Ganley. McLaren continued with Denny Hulme and Peter Gethin but the Alfa Romeo engines used by Andrea de Adamich moved to March where the Italian became Ronnie Peterson's teammate in the curious March 711 factory cars. Rob Walker decided that he could no longer afford to continue his private team and transferred his Brooke Bond Oxo sponsorship to Surtees, which recruited second driver Rolf Stommelen (with backing from Auto Motor und Sport and Eifelland caravans) from Brabham.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 58], "content_span": [59, 718]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092442-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 Formula One season, Season summary, Pre-season report\nWalker's decision to stop racing freed veteran Graham Hill and he moved to Brabham (which was now being run by Ron Tauranac, and would be bought by Bernie Ecclestone that year) where he was joined by former Williams driver Tim Schenken while Williams entered old Marches for Derek Bell and Matra refugee Henri Pescarolo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 58], "content_span": [59, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092442-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 Formula One season, Season summary, Pre-season report\nThe first Argentine Grand Prix since 1960 was held as a non-championship Grand Prix in the sweltering heat of a January summer in the capital city of Buenos Aires; the reason for this was that the FIA stipulated that in order for a country to host an official championship Grand Prix round, the organizers had to prove themselves by successfully running an interim non-championship race to their standards. This race was held at the slightly modified Buenos Aires Autodrome, the same venue used previously. Run in two heats, it was won by New Zealander Chris Amon in a Matra.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 58], "content_span": [59, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092442-0011-0000", "contents": "1971 Formula One season, Season summary, Round 1: South Africa\nThe South African Grand Prix, held at the fast and flowing high-altitude Kyalami circuit between Johannesburg and Pretoria in March kicked off the championship season. Stewart took pole, ahead of the twelve-cylinder cars of Amon, Regazzoni and Andretti. At the start, Regazzoni took the lead going into the Crowthorne corner ahead of Fittipaldi, Ickx (who had started 8th), Hulme, Rodriguez, Andretti, and Stewart. Amon dropped to 14th. Hulme in his McLaren-Ford passed Fittipaldi for second then Regazzoni for the lead. Hulme led the race until the 76th of 79 laps- when he had to come into the pits to repair some suspension damage his car had suffered. Andretti took the lead and won, followed by Stewart, Regazzoni, Wisell, Amon, and Hulme.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 62], "content_span": [63, 807]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092442-0012-0000", "contents": "1971 Formula One season, Season summary, 7-week gap between Rounds 1 and 2\nThere were three non-championship events between the first and second 1971 Formula One championship rounds. Two weeks after the South African Grand Prix, a number of teams traveled to England (where most F1 teams were and are based) to compete in the Race of Champions, held at the undulating and bumpy Brands Hatch circuit just outside London. This race, run at a shorter distance than is usual for a Grand Prix was won by the Swiss Regazzoni in a Ferrari, ahead of pole-sitter Jackie Stewart and veteran Briton John Surtees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 74], "content_span": [75, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092442-0013-0000", "contents": "1971 Formula One season, Season summary, 7-week gap between Rounds 1 and 2\nThe Questor Grand Prix in the western United States was held one week after the Race of Champions, at the Ontario Motor Speedway in southern California. The circuit was based on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, but also had an interior road circuit which also utilized part of the speedway oval. This race, like the Argentine race, was run in two heats; Mario Andretti won in a Ferrari ahead of Jackie Stewart. Financial problems for the organizers meant that Ontario was never to be used again for a Formula One race; the circuit fell into financial disrepair and was closed in 1980. The Auto Club Speedway of California in nearby Fontana effectively replaced this venue in 1996.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 74], "content_span": [75, 755]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092442-0014-0000", "contents": "1971 Formula One season, Season summary, 7-week gap between Rounds 1 and 2\nAnother race in England, the Spring Trophy, was held at Oulton Park near Manchester. This event was not entered by Ferrari, and Stewart took pole again ahead of Briton Peter Gethin in a McLaren-Ford, Rodriguez and Siffert BRMs. In misty, damp and cold weather, Rodriguez won the event, ahead of Gethin and Stewart.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 74], "content_span": [75, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092442-0015-0000", "contents": "1971 Formula One season, Season summary, Round 2: Spain\nThe Spanish Grand Prix in 1971 was held at the Montjuic Park city street circuit in Barcelona; the previous year it had been held at the Circuito del Jarama near Madrid as part of a rotation with the Catalan circuit. The Ferraris of Ickx and Regazzoni were 1-2 on the grid respectively, followed by Amon, Stewart, Rodriguez, Beltoise, Gethin and Andretti. Six of the first eight cars had 12-cylinder engines. Stewart took second place at the start, and passed Ickx for the lead on lap 6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092442-0015-0001", "contents": "1971 Formula One season, Season summary, Round 2: Spain\nAmon overtook Regazzoni for third place on lap 3. Stewart began to increase his lead over Ickx while Amon ran third; Regazzoni went out on lap 13 with a fuel pump failure which promoted Rodriguez to fourth place with Andretti fifth and Denny Hulme sixth in his McLaren-Ford. In the mid-race Andretti retired with an engine problem and so Hulme moved to fifth place and Beltoise took sixth. In the closing laps Ickx closed the gap to Stewart but he was still 3.4 seconds behind at the finish, ahead of Amon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092442-0016-0000", "contents": "1971 Formula One season, Season summary, Round 2: Spain\nA third non-championship race took place in England three weeks after the Spanish Grand Prix, at Silverstone. This race also included Chevrolet-powered Formula 5000 cars. Ferrari did not enter, and the race, run in two heats, was won by British veteran Graham Hill in a Brabham-Ford.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092442-0017-0000", "contents": "1971 Formula One season, Season summary, Round 3: Monaco\nTwo weeks after the non-championship International Trophy race and five weeks after the second round in Spain came the most prestigious round of the calendar, the Monaco Grand Prix, which was also the 200th World Championship Grand Prix. Qualifying was run in rainy conditions, and Stewart took pole by 1.2 seconds from Jacky Ickx's Ferrari. The second row featured Siffert's BRM and Amon's Matra; then it was Rodriguez, Hulme, Beltoise, Ronnie Peterson in a March, Hill and John Surtees in a car of his own construction. Team Lotus were far down with Wisell 11th and Fittipaldi 17th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 641]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092442-0017-0001", "contents": "1971 Formula One season, Season summary, Round 3: Monaco\nAmon had problems at the start and lost half a lap so Ickx and Stewart were left to fight for the first corner with Siffert, who managed to slip ahead of the Ferrari and take second place behind Stewart. Five-time Monaco Grand Prix winner Graham Hill made a mistake and crashed on the second lap, and his Brabham teammate Tim Schenken hit a barrier two laps later while swerving to avoid Francois Cevert's Tyrrell-Ford when the car's engine cut. Both men got going again but Cevert crashed two laps later when the DFV engine cut again. Stewart gradually increased his lead, while Peterson climbed up to second place in the mid-race, passing both Ickx and Siffert. Stewart was able to hold on to take victory ahead of Peterson and Ickx; Siffert later went out with an engine failure, so fourth place went to Hulme.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 870]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092442-0018-0000", "contents": "1971 Formula One season, Season summary, 4-week gap between Rounds 3 and 4\nThe Belgian Grand Prix was originally supposed to be held as a championship round two weeks after the Monaco event on 6 June at the fast 8.7 mile (14.1\u00a0km) Spa-Francorchamps circuit, but the failure of the track owners and authorities to bring Spa up to mandatory safety standards meant that the rural circuit was deemed unsuitable for Formula One cars to race on and the event was cancelled. Formula One did not return to Spa until 1983, when it was re-designed and shortened in 1979.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 74], "content_span": [75, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092442-0019-0000", "contents": "1971 Formula One season, Season summary, 4-week gap between Rounds 3 and 4\nAnother non-championship round, the Rhein-Pokalrennen, was held three weeks after the Monaco Grand Prix at the very fast Hockenheim circuit in West Germany, and was won by Jacky Ickx in a Ferrari. This race was run on the same day as the final day of the 24 Hours of Le Mans sportscar race in western France.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 74], "content_span": [75, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092442-0020-0000", "contents": "1971 Formula One season, Season summary, Round 4: Netherlands\nOne week after the non-championship Hockenheim event and four weeks after Monaco was the Dutch Grand Prix, held at the very fast and dangerous Zandvoort circuit, west of Amsterdam. The bumpy circuit had few safety features. Ickx took pole, ahead of Rodriguez, Stewart, Regazzoni and Amon. The race was run in wet conditions, and at the start Mario Andretti's Ferrari was missing because of a fuel pump problem. He did start the race but was a long way behind and retired after just a few laps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 61], "content_span": [62, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092442-0021-0000", "contents": "1971 Formula One season, Season summary, Round 4: Netherlands\nIckx went ahead of Rodriguez, Stewart and Amon. Siffert blew his chances with a spin. On the second lap Amon spun out and on the third lap Stewart had a rare spin and dropped to eighth place; the Goodyear-shod runners were suffering compared to the Firestone-shod cars. This left Regazzoni third and Surtees fourth ahead of Wisell. The Swede did not last long because a rear wheel worked loose and trying to solve the problem he reversed into the pitlane and was disqualified.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 61], "content_span": [62, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092442-0021-0001", "contents": "1971 Formula One season, Season summary, Round 4: Netherlands\nAs everyone else struggled Ickx and Rodriguez built up a big lead with Rodriguez moving ahead on the ninth lap. They ran closely for a number of laps, but towards the end Ickx pulled away to win by nearly eight seconds. Regazzoni finished third. The Dutch Grand Prix was not held in 1972 due to the outdated facilities of the circuit; it returned for 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 61], "content_span": [62, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092442-0022-0000", "contents": "1971 Formula One season, Season summary, Round 5: France\nTwo weeks after the Dutch race was the French Grand Prix at the brand-new Paul Ricard circuit near Marseille in the south of France. This circuit, in stark comparison to the rudimentary facilities of Zandvoort, was one of the most modern racing circuits in the world, with a smooth surface and state-of-the-art facilities not seen before in Formula One. It also had a long 1.1 mile straight, typical of French circuits. In the two previous years, the event had held at the twisty Charade public road circuit near Clermont-Ferrand; this was a very different type of circuit to Paul Ricard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 645]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092442-0022-0001", "contents": "1971 Formula One season, Season summary, Round 5: France\nStewart took pole ahead of Regazzoni, Ickx and Graham Hill in a Brabham. At the start Stewart went into the lead with Regazzoni chasing. Ickx was in trouble with his engine and dropped quickly back to retire while there was a battle for third place between Rodriguez and Beltoise. On the 19th lap Peterson's Alfa Romeo engine blew up and Regazzoni spun off on the oil. Hill had a similar accident but was able to get going and pit for repairs. This left Rodriguez in second place. By then, Cevert had moved into third later the ignition in Rodriguez's BRM failed. So Cevert found himself promoted to second place behind Stewart, giving Tyrrell a 1-2 finish. Third place went to Fittipaldi who had come through the field after starting from 17th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 802]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092442-0023-0000", "contents": "1971 Formula One season, Season summary, Round 6: Britain\nTwo weeks after France was the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. Before the race, Pedro Rodriguez had been killed in a crash while driving a Ferrari 512S sportscar at a German Interserie race at the Norisring street circuit. At the start Regazzoni and Ickx took the lead for Ferrari with Stewart third. At the tail of the field Oliver ran into the back of Graham Hill's Brabham, putting both men out of the race. Stewart and Siffert overtook Ickx during the second lap and on lap four Stewart overtook Regazzoni at Stowe Corner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 57], "content_span": [58, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092442-0023-0001", "contents": "1971 Formula One season, Season summary, Round 6: Britain\nHe immediately began to build up a lead. Siffert overtook Regazzoni in the course of the fifth lap. Siffert began to suffer vibration problems and was caught and repassed by Regazzoni on lap 17. On lap 37 Ickx went into the pits to retire with engine trouble and five laps later Siffert also retired with a misfire. This put Peterson up to third place with Schenken and Fittipaldi, who had dropped to 11th early on, chasing him. On Lap 48 Regazzoni retired with engine trouble. With a few laps to go, Schenken suffered transmission failure and retired, leaving third place for Fittipaldi, and a home victory for Stewart, ahead of Peterson. Everyone else was lapped.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 57], "content_span": [58, 723]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092442-0024-0000", "contents": "1971 Formula One season, Season summary, Round 7: Germany\nThe German Grand Prix returned to an updated 14.2 mile (22.8\u00a0km) Nurburgring after a year's absence from the track due to safety concerns. The circuit had been resurfaced and lined with Armco barrier, some of the worst bumps were taken out or smoothed over and the circuit was made less twisty, and was therefore a little faster than before. But with the layout being largely unchanged, the circuit was still dangerous. Stewart took pole ahead of Ickx, Siffert and Regazzoni. The race distance was 12 laps, compared to the 14 lap distance for the 1969 race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 57], "content_span": [58, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092442-0024-0001", "contents": "1971 Formula One season, Season summary, Round 7: Germany\nThere was a crowd of around 375,000 for the race on Sunday. Graham Hill (Brabham) and Reine Wisell (Lotus) both had problems before the start only 20 cars lined up on the grid. Ickx took the lead from Stewart but the Tyrrell was soon back ahead again and pulling away from the rest with Ickx being chased by Regazzoni, Hulme, Siffert, Peterson and Cevert. On the second lap, while pushing hard to keep up with Stewart, Ickx spun off at the Eiskurve corner and Regazzoni went off as he tried to avoid his teammate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 57], "content_span": [58, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092442-0024-0002", "contents": "1971 Formula One season, Season summary, Round 7: Germany\nThis left Stewart with a big lead over Siffert (who had overtaken Hulme). Regazzoni rejoined in third and Peterson (who had also overtaken Hulme) was fourth. The McLaren driver soon fell behind Andretti and Cevert, and the Tyrrell driver soon passed the Ferrari so was up to fifth. In the laps that followed, Cevert overtook Peterson, Siffert (who soon dropped behind Regazzoni) and then Regazzoni himself. Thereafter the order remained stable at the front with a Tyrrell 1-2 the result, with Stewart winning his fifth race of the season. Regazzoni was third with Andretti catching and passing Peterson for fourth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 57], "content_span": [58, 672]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092442-0025-0000", "contents": "1971 Formula One season, Season summary, Round 8: Austria\nFor only the third time, the Austrian Grand Prix was a championship round. The race was held at the \u00d6sterreichring in the rural Styrian mountains near Graz. Jackie Stewart had a large lead in the driver's championship - 51 points compared to second-placed Jacky Ickx's 19 points and Ronnie Peterson's 16 points. If Ickx and Peterson both failed to score here, Stewart would be champion. Jo Siffert took pole in his BRM, followed by Stewart, Cevert, Regazzoni, Fittipaldi and Ickx.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 57], "content_span": [58, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092442-0025-0001", "contents": "1971 Formula One season, Season summary, Round 8: Austria\nSiffert took the lead at the start and held off Stewart's attacks with Regazzoni, Cevert, Ickx and Schenken chasing after them. Both Ferraris retired early with engine trouble. This promoted Cevert to third place and Schenken to fourth. As the race progressed, Cevert closed on Stewart, who was struggling with the handling of his car. On lap 23 Cevert was waved through into second place. On Lap 31, Ickx had retired with problems with his Ferrari engine's spark plugs and Peterson was running in ninth place and out of the points with serious handling problems.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 57], "content_span": [58, 621]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092442-0025-0002", "contents": "1971 Formula One season, Season summary, Round 8: Austria\nOn Lap 36 Stewart's race ended with a broken rear axle. Cevert's engine failed on lap 43, promoting Fittipaldi to second, having overtaken Schenken a few laps earlier. In the final laps Siffert suffered a deflating tire but he was so far ahead that he was able to nurse the car to the line, beating Fittipaldi by just over four seconds. Peterson finished out of the points in eighth, so Stewart was World Champion for the second time. Niki Lauda made his debut in this race in a March; he qualified 21st and retired on lap 20 with handling problems.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 57], "content_span": [58, 607]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092442-0026-0000", "contents": "1971 Formula One season, Season summary, Round 8: Austria\nThe Gold Cup non-championship Grand Prix at Oulton Park was won by veteran John Surtees in his own Surtees car. This race was held one week after the Austrian Grand Prix. The Tyrrell team did not enter this event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 57], "content_span": [58, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092442-0027-0000", "contents": "1971 Formula One season, Season summary, Round 9: Italy\nA year since the death of Jochen Rindt at Monza, there were still some legal problems between Team Lotus and the Italian authorities which meant that Team Lotus did not officially enter the event, although a Lotus 56 did enter under the name World Wide Racing. This car was powered by an American Pratt & Whitney turbine jet engine. McLaren was also down to just one entry as Denny Hulme was away in the United States for a USAC race in California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092442-0027-0001", "contents": "1971 Formula One season, Season summary, Round 9: Italy\nMatra was also running only one car as Jean-Pierre Beltoise was still suspended as a result of the sportscar accident in January in Buenos Aires which had killed Ignazio Giunti. The field was bolstered by a third Surtees, entered for Mike Hailwood, a multiple Grand Prix motorcycle champion making the transition to car racing. On the fast sweeps of Monza the V12 cars were very competitive and Chris Amon took pole in his Matra with Jacky Ickx alongside in his Ferrari.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092442-0027-0002", "contents": "1971 Formula One season, Season summary, Round 9: Italy\nThe second row featured the BRMs of Jo Siffert and Howden Ganley and the first V8 car was the Tyrrell of Francois Cevert, fifth on the grid. At the start of the race Regazzoni made a fast start from the fourth row to take the lead. On lap 16 both Stewart and Ickx retired with engine failures and two laps later Regazzoni went out as well. Eventually, a close five-car battle developed for the lead, with Peter Gethin taking his only Grand Prix victory by 0.010 secs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092442-0027-0003", "contents": "1971 Formula One season, Season summary, Round 9: Italy\nThe first five cars were all covered by 0.61s; it was the closest finish in the history of the World Championship and the fastest ever race, with an average speed of 150.75\u00a0mph. Peterson was second with Cevert third, Hailwood fourth and Ganley fifth. Amon was sixth over half a minute behind. Chicanes were added to Monza's layout for subsequent years, lowering average speeds and effectively eliminating the slipstream battles that highlighted previous Italian Grands Prix at Monza.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092442-0028-0000", "contents": "1971 Formula One season, Season summary, Round 10: Canada\nTwo weeks after the Italian Grand Prix, the Canadian Grand Prix was held at Mosport Park circuit near Toronto. World Champion Stewart took pole position ahead of Siffert, Cevert, Fittipaldi, Amon, Peterson, Wisell, and Mark Donohue in a Penske-entered McLaren. The Ferraris were not competitive with Ickx 12th, Andretti 13th and Regazzoni 18th. Wayne Kelly was killed on lap 2 of the Formula Ford race and the Grand Prix was delayed, and by the time the race started it was pouring with rain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 57], "content_span": [58, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092442-0028-0001", "contents": "1971 Formula One season, Season summary, Round 10: Canada\nHowden Ganley crashed his BRM in the warm-up period before the race and so could not make the start. At the start Stewart went into the lead with Peterson second, chased by Beltoise, Donohue, Fittipaldi, Cevert and the rest. On the third lap Graham Hill crashed his Brabham and five laps later Regazzoni did the same in his Ferrari, which caught fire. Stewart had a firm grip on the race while Peterson had to fight for second with Beltoise until the Frenchman crashed on lap 16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 57], "content_span": [58, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092442-0028-0002", "contents": "1971 Formula One season, Season summary, Round 10: Canada\nAt the same time Donohue pitted for new goggles but did not lose a place. This left a large gap between the first two and the rest. Peterson took the lead on lap 18 but on lap 31 Stewart took the lead back while they were going through backmarkers. A few moments later Peterson ran into Eaton's BRM and damaged the front of his car. This upset the balance of the car and Peterson was unable to match Stewart's pace and so the Tyrrell edged away to win by nearly 40 seconds. It was Stewart's sixth championship victory of the season. Donohue finished third on his F1 debut.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 57], "content_span": [58, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092442-0029-0000", "contents": "1971 Formula One season, Season summary, Round 11: United States\nAnother fortnight later, the championship moved to the newly revamped and redesigned Watkins Glen circuit in upstate New York. The circuit, originally 2.3 miles long, had been significantly upgraded, with a new pits and paddock complex and an additional mile of new track. Jackie Stewart took his sixth pole position of the year for Tyrrell, ahead of Emerson Fittipaldi, Denny Hulme, Clay Regazzoni, Francois Cevert, Jo Siffert, Jacky Ickx and Chris Amon. 29 drivers entered and started the race; Stewart took the lead from Hulme at the start with Cevert moving up to third place, followed by Regazzoni and Siffert.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 64], "content_span": [65, 680]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092442-0029-0001", "contents": "1971 Formula One season, Season summary, Round 11: United States\nFittipaldi made a poor start and was eighth. On the seventh lap Cevert was able to pass Hulme for second place and on lap 14 he moved ahead of Stewart, who was suffering from bad oversteer. Hulme was also having handling problems and he began to drop back, being overtaken by Ickx (who had passed Siffert). Stewart also fell victim to the Ferrari and then Siffert as well. Ickx stalked Cevert until lap 40 when the Ferrari began to fall back with an alternator problem which led to the Belgian's retirement. This moved Siffert to second place and Peterson (who had passed Stewart) to take third. Howden Ganley was fourth with Stewart fifth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 64], "content_span": [65, 705]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092442-0030-0000", "contents": "1971 Formula One season, Season summary, Round 11: United States\nIt was Cevert's first World Championship victory and with the Mexican Grand Prix having been cancelled due to crowd control problems the previous year, the United States Grand Prix was the last World Championship race of the 1971 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 64], "content_span": [65, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092442-0031-0000", "contents": "1971 Formula One season, Season summary, World Championship Victory Race\nThere was one more non-championship race to contend, the World Championship Victory Race at Brands Hatch, England, three weeks after the United States Grand Prix. The race lasted for less than half of its intended distance following a number of accidents. On lap 2, Henri Pescarolo and Reine Wisell collided at the Druids hairpin, with both cars retiring. Then Mike Hailwood and Ronnie Peterson also collided and had to pit for repairs. Hailwood's car was deemed unfit to continue, but Peterson rejoined the race, albeit nearly a lap down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 72], "content_span": [73, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092442-0031-0001", "contents": "1971 Formula One season, Season summary, World Championship Victory Race\nSiffert had fallen several places at the start, but had made his way back to 4th by lap 14. Approaching the fast Hawthorn Bend at high speed on lap 15, his BRM suffered a mechanical failure which pitched it across the track into an earth bank. The car rolled over and caught fire, trapping him underneath, and he died from asphyxiation before he could be extricated. The race was stopped with the track blocked, and all the cars were stranded out on the circuit except for John Surtees, who was able to drive around to the pits, his car damaged by debris.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 72], "content_span": [73, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092442-0032-0000", "contents": "1971 Formula One season, Results and standings, World Drivers' Championship standings\nPoints were awarded on a 9\u20136\u20134\u20133\u20132\u20131 basis to the first six finishers at each Grand Prix. Only the five best results from the first six Grands Prix and the four best results from the last five Grands Prix counted towards the World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 85], "content_span": [86, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092442-0033-0000", "contents": "1971 Formula One season, Results and standings, International Cup for F1 Manufacturers standings\nPoints were awarded on a 9\u20136\u20134\u20133\u20132\u20131 basis to the first six finishers at each round, however only the best placed car from each manufacturer was eligible to score points. The best five results from the first six rounds and the best four results from the last five rounds were retained.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 96], "content_span": [97, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092442-0034-0000", "contents": "1971 Formula One season, Non-championship races\nA number of other Formula One races, which did not count towards the World Championship, were also held in 1971. The Questor Grand Prix and the last three British races were open to both Formula One and Formula 5000 cars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 47], "content_span": [48, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092443-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 France rugby union tour of South Africa\nThe 1971 France rugby union tour of South Africa was a series of matches played by the France national rugby union team in South Africa in June 1971. The French team drew one and lost one of their international matches against the South Africa national rugby union team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092444-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 French Grand Prix\nThe 1971 French Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at the Circuit Paul Ricard on 4 July 1971. It was race 5 of 11 in both the 1971 World Championship of Drivers and the 1971 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers. The 55-lap race was won by Tyrrell driver Jackie Stewart after he started from pole position. His teammate Fran\u00e7ois Cevert finished second and Lotus driver Emerson Fittipaldi came in third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092444-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 French Grand Prix, Race report\nThis was the first French Grand Prix to be held at the new Circuit Paul Ricard near Marseille. The Tyrrell team had new front bodywork for Jackie Stewart's car, and the Briton gained pole position with this revised car \u2013 also helped by extensive tyre testing in the weeks before \u2013 from Clay Regazzoni, Jacky Ickx and Graham Hill. Stewart led away from Regazzoni, Pedro Rodr\u00edguez and Jean-Pierre Beltoise, whilst Ickx was jostled through the first chicane and dropped back. Stewart streaked ahead, setting fastest lap on lap 2 and pulling out a 10-second lead by lap 7.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 35], "content_span": [36, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092444-0001-0001", "contents": "1971 French Grand Prix, Race report\nHis only real challenger, Regazzoni, hit a patch of oil and sailed into the guardrail, breaking a wheel on lap 20. On lap 28 Rodr\u00edguez dropped out with a faulty coil, leaving the Tyrrells in 1\u20132 formation, with Fran\u00e7ois Cevert proving his worth on his home ground. Hill dropped out of fifth place with a broken oil pipe, having previously hit the guardrail whilst avoiding Regazzoni.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 35], "content_span": [36, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092444-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 French Grand Prix, Race report\nThis left Jo Siffert in third place, holding off Emerson Fittipaldi, who was in pain and heavily bandaged after a road accident. Despite this, the Brazilian took 3rd on lap 39. Siffert retook this briefly, but Fittipaldi held on for the final podium place from the Swiss. Chris Amon took 5th in an unconvincing performance by home team Matra, duelling with Tim Schenken until Schenken ran out of oil 6 laps from the end.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 35], "content_span": [36, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092444-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 French Grand Prix, Race report\nIt was a 1\u20132 success for the Tyrrells on a tricky circuit, the Cosworth DFV engine providing extra power down the very long Mistral straight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 35], "content_span": [36, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092444-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 French Grand Prix, Race report\nThis was to be Pedro Rodr\u00edguez's last Formula One race. He was killed a week later while driving a privately entered Ferrari 512 at an Interserie sports car race at the Norisring in Germany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 35], "content_span": [36, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092445-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 French Open\nThe 1971 French Open was a tennis tournament that took place on the outdoor clay courts at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France. The tournament ran from 24 May until 6 June. It was the 75th staging of the French Open, and the second Grand Slam tennis event of 1971. Jan Kode\u0161 and Evonne Goolagong won the singles titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092445-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 French Open, Finals, Men's doubles\nArthur Ashe / Marty Riessen defeated Tom Gorman / Stan Smith, 6\u20138, 4\u20136, 6\u20133, 6\u20134, 11\u20139", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 39], "content_span": [40, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092445-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 French Open, Finals, Women's doubles\nGail Sherriff Chanfreau / Fran\u00e7oise D\u00fcrr defeated Helen Gourlay / Kerry Harris, 6\u20134, 6\u20131", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 41], "content_span": [42, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092445-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 French Open, Finals, Mixed doubles\nFran\u00e7oise D\u00fcrr / Jean-Claude Barclay defeated Winnie Shaw / Toomas Leius, 6\u20132, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 39], "content_span": [40, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092446-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 French Open \u2013 Men's Doubles\nIlie N\u0103stase and Ion \u0162iriac were the defending champions but they withdrew from the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092446-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 French Open \u2013 Men's Doubles\nArthur Ashe and Marty Riessen won in the final 6\u20138, 4\u20136, 6\u20133, 6\u20134, 11\u20139 against Tom Gorman and Stan Smith.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092447-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 French Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nFirst-seeded Jan Kode\u0161 successfully defended his title, defeating Ilie N\u0103stase 8\u20136, 6\u20132, 2\u20136, 7\u20135 in the final to win the 'Men's Singles tennis title at the 1971 French Open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092447-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 French Open \u2013 Men's Singles, Seeds\nThe seeded players are listed below. Jan Kode\u0161 is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092448-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 French Open \u2013 Men's Singles Qualifying\nPlayers who neither had high enough rankings nor received wild cards to enter the main draw of the annual French Open Tennis Championships participated in a qualifying tournament held in the week before the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092449-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 French Open \u2013 Mixed Doubles\nBob Hewitt and Billie Jean King were the defending champions but both players chose not to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092449-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 French Open \u2013 Mixed Doubles\nJean-Claude Barclay and Fran\u00e7oise D\u00fcrr won in the final 6\u20132, 6\u20134 against Toomas Leius and Winnie Shaw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092450-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 French Open \u2013 Women's Doubles\nThe Women's Doubles tournament at the 1971 French Open was held from 24 May to 6 June 1971 on the outdoor clay courts at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France. The first-seeded team of Gail Chanfreau and Fran\u00e7oise D\u00fcrr won the title, defeating the unseeded pair of Helen Gourlay and Kerry Harris in the final in straight sets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092451-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 French Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nEvonne Goolagong defeated Helen Gourlay, 6\u20133, 7\u20135 in the final to win the Women's Singles tennis title at the 1971 French Open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092451-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 French Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nTop-seeded Margaret Court was the two-time defending champion, but she was defeated in the third round by Gail Chanfreau. This marked the first time since the 1964 US Open that Court failed to reach a grand slam quarterfinals, a run of 19 consecutive majors. It was also Court's earliest exit from a grand slam event since 1962 Wimbledon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092451-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 French Open \u2013 Women's Singles, Seeds\nThe seeded players are listed below. Evonne Goolagong is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092452-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 French Open \u2013 Women's Singles Qualifying\nPlayers who neither had high enough rankings nor received wild cards to enter the main draw of the annual French Open Tennis Championships participated in a qualifying tournament held in the week before the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092453-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 French Senate election\nThe fifth senatorial elections of the Fifth Republic were held in France on September 26, 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092453-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 French Senate election, Context\nThis election has depended largely of the results of 1971 municipal elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092453-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 French Senate election, Results, Senate Presidency\nOn October 2, 1971, Alain Poher was re-elected president of the Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092454-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 French municipal elections\nMunicipal elections were held in France on 14 and 21 March 1971. Georges Pompidou had been in power since 1969 by 1971. The UDR gained in the radical south-west while the French Communist Party (PCF) gained in the north and east. On the left, the socialists, although still administering numerous cities with the \"moderates\", the strategy of unions with the PCF developed, marked mostly by the withdrawal of candidates in runoff to profit one party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092455-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Fresno State Bulldogs football team\nThe 1971 Fresno State Bulldogs football team represented Fresno State College during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season as a member of the Pacific Coast Athletic Association. The team was led by head coach Darryl Rogers, in his sixth year, and they played their home games at Ratcliffe Stadium on the campus of Fresno City College in Fresno, California. They finished the season with a record of six wins and five losses (6\u20135, 3\u20132 PCAA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092455-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Fresno State Bulldogs football team\nAt the end of the season, an extra charity bowl game was added due to benefit the children of three Cal State Fullerton coaches and a pilot who had been killed in an airplane crash a month earlier. The game was called Mercy Bowl II, and was played on December 11 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092455-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Fresno State Bulldogs football team, Team players in the NFL\nNo Fresno State players were selected in the 1972 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092456-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 GP Ouest\u2013France\nThe 1971 GP Ouest-France was the 35th edition of the GP Ouest-France cycle race and was held on 24 August 1971. The race started and finished in Plouay. The race was won by Jean-Pierre Danguillaume.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092458-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Gator Bowl (December)\nThe 1971 Gator Bowl (December) was a college football postseason bowl game that featured the Georgia Bulldogs and the North Carolina Tar Heels.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092458-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Gator Bowl (December), Background\nIn the battle between the Dooley brothers was a finely balanced match up of an Atlantic Coast Conference champion that hadn't lost a conference game and a team that had only lost one game (#7 Auburn) which had cost them a Southeastern Conference title. This was Georgia's first Gator Bowl since 1948 and North Carolina's first since 1963. Altogether, the match was also called the \"Dooley Bowl\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092458-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Gator Bowl (December), Game summary\nThe third quarter proved to be the most crucial part of a game dominated by defense. The Tar Heels took the lead on a Craven 35 yard field goal with nine minutes left in the quarter. But the Bulldogs drove 80 yards down the field on the following possession, culminated with a 25-yard run by Jimmy Poulos with 1:39 left in the quarter to give Georgia the go-ahead touchdown. Poulus went for 161 yards on 20 carries, in an MVP effort. North Carolina was limited to under 200 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092458-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Gator Bowl (December), Aftermath\nThe Tar Heels would win the ACC title the following year, advancing to the Sun Bowl. They returned to the Gator Bowl in 1979. Georgia returned in 1989. The two teams met again at the 2016 Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game where Georgia beat the Tar Heels, 33 to 24.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092459-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Gator Bowl (January)\nThe 1971 Gator Bowl (January) was a college football postseason bowl game between the 10th-ranked Auburn Tigers and the unranked Ole Miss Rebels, both of the Southeastern Conference. It was played in Jacksonville, Florida, on January 2, 1971, the day after the major bowl games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092459-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Gator Bowl (January), Background\nThis was a matchup of two SEC teams, second-place Auburn and fourth-place Ole Miss, that rarely played each other. Although in the same conference, they had met only once since 1953, in the Liberty Bowl in December 1965.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092459-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Gator Bowl (January), Background\nThis was Auburn's third straight bowl game and first Gator Bowl since 1955. The Rebels made their fourteenth straight bowl appearance in Johnny Vaught's final full season as head coach, but it was their first Gator Bowl since 1958. This was Archie Manning's final game as Rebel quarterback; Auburn quarterback Pat Sullivan won the Heisman Trophy the following season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092459-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Gator Bowl (January), Background\nNeither head coach was on the sidelines due to medical reasons: Auburn's Ralph Jordan was recovering from an appendectomy and Johnny Vaught from a mild heart attack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092459-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Gator Bowl (January), Scoring\nAuburn jumped out to a 21\u20130 lead and Ole Miss pulled to within seven at halftime, but could get no closer as the teams traded touchdowns in the second half. Manning went 19-of-28 for 180 yards while rushing for 95 yards on 11 carries, with two touchdowns and one interception. Sullivan went 27-of-43 for 351 yards and rushed for 35 yards on 10 carries, with three touchdowns and one interception.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 34], "content_span": [35, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092459-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Gator Bowl (January), Aftermath\nVaught was replaced by Billy Kinard before the next season started. Kinard reached one bowl in his tenure before being fired midway through the 1973 season, and Vaught replaced Kinard for the final eight games, going 5\u20133. Ralph Jordan led Auburn for five additional seasons and the Tigers reached four more bowl games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092460-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Gent\u2013Wevelgem\nThe 1971 Gent\u2013Wevelgem was the 33rd edition of the Gent\u2013Wevelgem cycle race and was held on 31 March 1971. The race started in Ghent and finished in Wevelgem. The race was won by Georges Pintens of the Hertekamp team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092461-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Georgia 500\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by GVnayR (talk | contribs) at 02:56, 7 September 2020 (\u2192\u200eRace report: made an improvement to the in-race report). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092461-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Georgia 500\nThe 1971 Georgia 500 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series racing event that occurred on November 7, 1971, at Middle Georgia Raceway in Byron, Georgia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092461-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Georgia 500\nThe race car drivers still had to commute to the races using the same stock cars that competed in a typical weekend's race through a policy of homologation (and under their own power). This policy was in effect until roughly 1975. By 1980, NASCAR had completely stopped tracking the year model of all the vehicles and most teams did not take stock cars to the track under their own power anymore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092461-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Georgia 500, Race report\nFriday Hassler, Bobby Allison, Jim Paschal, and Tiny Lund would fight for the first-place position in this race; with Allison leading the most laps. Bobby Allison would go on to defeat Tiny Lund by a margin of one lap after more than three hours and twenty minutes of racing. Bill Dennis's last-place finish would occur on the first lap in this 500-lap regulation event due to problems with his driveshaft. Friday Hassler had a great run, leading 12 laps early on the way to a third-place finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092461-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Georgia 500, Race report\nThis was a combination race with the Grand American series. Tiny Lund was the best finishing pony car in 2nd, 1 lap down in his Camaro. The other Grand Am drivers were Ernie Shaw, Frank Sessions, Wayne Andrews, Joe Dean Huss, Buck Baker, Randy Hutchinson, H.B. Bailey, Jim Paschal, Bob Williams, & David Ray Boggs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092461-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Georgia 500, Race report\nThere were 32 drivers on the grid; all of them were born in the United States of America. Allison would qualify for the pole position with a top speed of 95.334 miles per hour (153.425\u00a0km/h) and set the pace for the entire event averaging speeds up to 80.859 miles per hour (130.130\u00a0km/h) to excite the 7,300 live audience members who attended this historic event. NASCAR officials gave out seven caution flags for 44 laps; one of them was related to the Walter Ballard crash on lap 455.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092461-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Georgia 500, Race report\nVic Ballard and Junie Donlavey were the most notable crew chiefs to actively participate in this race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092461-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Georgia 500, Race report\nEngine problems would retire some drivers out of the race in addition to clutch problems and troubles with managing the transmission, the suspension, and the alternator. Manufacturers that are hard to find today like the AMC Javelin, the Pontiac Firebird, and the Camaro once competed alongside \"plain Jane\" Chevrolet, Ford, and Dodge vehicles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092461-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Georgia 500, Race report\nJimmy Watson would never compete in a NASCAR Cup Series race after this event while Bob Williams would make his introduction into professional stock car racing here. Individual winnings for this event ranged from a handsome $3,275 ($20,675 when considering inflation) to a meager $350 ($2,210 when considering inflation).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092461-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 Georgia 500, Race report\nUntil the Pontiac Excitement 400 in 1989, this marked the last time that Richard Petty failed to make the starting grid of a Cup race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092462-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Georgia Bulldogs football team\nThe 1971 Georgia Bulldogs football team represented the Georgia Bulldogs of the University of Georgia during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092463-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team\nThe 1971 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team represented the Georgia Institute of Technology in the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. The Yellow Jackets were led by fifth-year head coach Bud Carson and played their home games at Grant Field in Atlanta. They were invited to the 1971 Peach Bowl, held just 3 miles from their home stadium in Atlanta, where they lost to Ole Miss, 18\u201341. After the season, Bud Carson was fired as head coach after compiling a 27\u201327 record over five seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092464-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 German Formula Three Championship\nThe 1971 German Formula Three Championship (German: 1971 ADAC Preis der Formel 3) was a multi-event motor racing championship for single-seat open wheel formula racing cars held across Europe. The championship featured drivers competing in two-litre Formula Three racing cars which conformed to the technical regulations, or formula, for the championship. It commenced on 11 April at N\u00fcrburgring and ended at Mendig on 29 August after six rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092464-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 German Formula Three Championship\nManfred Mohr became a champion. He won the season opener. Dieter Kern finished as runner-up, winning race at Bremgarten. Hermann Unold completed the top-three in the drivers' standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092465-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 German Grand Prix\nThe 1971 German Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at N\u00fcrburgring on 1 August 1971. It was race 7 of 11 in both the 1971 World Championship of Drivers and the 1971 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092465-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 German Grand Prix\nThe race returned to the N\u00fcrburgring after a year at the Hockenheimring after the safety was improved on the track. The race distance was shortened to 12 laps. Notable driver changes included Vic Elford, who replaced Pedro Rodr\u00edguez. Jackie Stewart took pole and dominated the race, while Fran\u00e7ois Cevert finished second, making it a Tyrrell 1-2. Cevert battled with and was stuck behind Clay Regazzoni for more than a quarter of the race; the Swiss driver finished 3rd. Mario Andretti, Ronnie Peterson and Tim Schenken rounded out the points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092465-0001-0001", "contents": "1971 German Grand Prix\nMike Beuttler was disqualified on the third lap after entering the pits via the \"short chute\", after suffering a flat tire just after passing the pits, and not wanting to drive 14 miles on a flat tire. Jo Siffert was also disqualified on lap seven for taking the short chute into the pits, after his right-hand lower front wishbone started detaching from the chassis and his ignition coil started acting up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092466-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Gilbert and Ellice Islands general election\nGeneral elections were held in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands on 19 March 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092466-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Gilbert and Ellice Islands general election, Background\nPrior to the elections constitutional changes saw the House of Representatives replaced with a 33-member Legislative Council consisting of 28 elected members, three ex officio members (the Assistant to the Resident Commissioner, the Attorney General and the Financial Secretary) and two civil servants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 60], "content_span": [61, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092466-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Gilbert and Ellice Islands general election, Campaign\nA total of 110 candidates contested the 28 elected seats, all running as independents. Of the 23 incumbent members, only 13 ran for re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 58], "content_span": [59, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092466-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Gilbert and Ellice Islands general election, Results\nOnly five of the 23 incumbent MPs were re-elected, with eight of them losing their seat. Tekarei Russell became the first female member of the legislature. Director of Agriculture Ray Harberd and Director of Education Harry Urquhart were appointed as the two nominated official members.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 57], "content_span": [58, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092466-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Gilbert and Ellice Islands general election, Aftermath\nThe new Legislative Council met for the first time on 14 April. Reuben Uatioa was elected Leader of Government Business. An Executive Council was subsequently appointed by Resident Commissioner John Osbaldiston Field after consultation with Uatioa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 59], "content_span": [60, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092467-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Gillette Cup\nThe 1971 Gillette Cup was the ninth Gillette Cup, an English limited overs county cricket tournament. It was held between 15 May and 4 September 1971. The tournament was won by Lancashire County Cricket Club who defeated Kent County Cricket Club by 24 runs in the final at Lord's.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092467-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Gillette Cup, Format\nThe seventeen first-class counties, were joined by five Minor Counties: Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Lincolnshire, Northumberland and Staffordshire. Teams who won in the first round progressed to the second round. The winners in the second round then progressed to the quarter-final stage. Winners from the quarter-finals then progressed to the semi-finals from which the winners then went on to the final at Lord's which was held on 4 September 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 25], "content_span": [26, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092468-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Giro d'Italia\nThe 1971 Giro d'Italia was the 55th\u00a0edition of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The 3,567-kilometre (2,216\u00a0mi) race consisted of 20 stages and an opening prologue, starting in Lecce on 20 May and finishing at the Vigorelli velodrome in Milan on 10 June. There were three time trial stages and a single rest day. G\u00f6sta Pettersson of the Ferretti team won the overall general classification, becoming the first Swedish rider to win a Grand Tour. Herman Van Springel (Molteni) placed second, 2 min and 32 s in arrears, and Ugo Colombo (Filotex) was third, just three seconds slower than Van Springel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092468-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Giro d'Italia, Teams\nTour de France organizer F\u00e9lix L\u00e9vitan and the Mars-Flandria were in disagreements over the team's participation in the coming Tour de France and there was speculation that the team would instead race the Giro d'Italia. The team chose to wait for L\u00e9vitan's decision regarding their entry, which came following the Giro's start, and therefore did not participate in the Giro. Ultimately, L\u00e9vitian requested the team to pay extra money, on top of the 25,000 franc entry fee, to participate in the Tour. A total of 10 teams were invited to participate in the 1971 Giro d'Italia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 25], "content_span": [26, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092468-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Giro d'Italia, Teams\nEach team sent a squad of ten riders, so the Giro began with a peloton of 100 cyclists. The majority of riders were Italian (72), while 28 riders were foreign. Of the non-Italians, Belgians had the most with twelve riders, 10 Spaniards which comprised the whole KAS team, 3 Swedes, 2 Swiss, and one French rider. Only two of the ten teams entering the race were not based in Italy: KAS (Spain) and Magniflex (Belgium).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 25], "content_span": [26, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092468-0002-0001", "contents": "1971 Giro d'Italia, Teams\nGiorgio Favaro was the last rider to arrive for the race because his Molteni teammate Martin Van Den Bossche was removed shortly before the race's start due to the discovery of an abscess that was operated on in a Vicenza hospital. Out of the riders that started this edition of the Giro d'Italia, a total of 75 riders made it to the finish in Milan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 25], "content_span": [26, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092468-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Giro d'Italia, Pre-race favorites\nOn 15 January, it was announced that Eddy Merckx the winner of the previous year's race and the 1968 edition would not participate in the race for the first time in four years. Instead, he would focus solely on preparing for the upcoming Tour de France, which he hoped to win for the third consecutive year. An El Mundo Deportivo writer felt Merckx's absence opened the race for other riders to win. The starting peloton featured three previous winners: Franco Balmamion (1962 & 1963) ridring for Scic, Salvarani's Felice Gimondi (1965 & 1967), and Gianni Motta (1966), also of Salvarani.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 38], "content_span": [39, 627]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092468-0003-0001", "contents": "1971 Giro d'Italia, Pre-race favorites\nGimondi had finished in the top five of the general classification in each Giro since 1965. Motta entered the Giro after having won the Tour de Romandie. Motta and Gimondi were named favorites. Salvarani announced they would be racing the Tour de France in July; however, Het Vrije Volk writer Peter Ouwerkerk questioned whether the team - which had thirteen riders total - had enough stamina for these large three-week races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 38], "content_span": [39, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092468-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Giro d'Italia, Pre-race favorites\nOuwerkerk felt Salvarani's biggest challenger was to be the Molteni team, even without Merckx, and he specifically felt Herman Van Springel was capable of winning the race. He referenced Gimondi's previous season where he exceeded expectations as a primary reason for his support. Van Den Bossche was also thought to be a challenger for the Salvarani riders before his aforementioned withdrawal before the race. Molteni's riders Marino Basso and Romano Tumellero were thought to give the team enough support in the absence of Merckx. Italo Zilioli, Franco Bitossi, G\u00f6sta Pettersson, Patrick Sercu, and Michele Dancelli were other riders that were thought to be contenders for the overall victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 38], "content_span": [39, 735]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092468-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Giro d'Italia, Route and stages\nThe race route was unveiled by race director Vincenzo Torriani on 24 February 1971. The start of the race was announced to be in Lecce after the officials of the city paid 20 million lira to the organization to earn the honor. The race contained 20 stages, one of which was a split stage, and one opening prologue. There were ten stages that included categorized climbs that had points to count towards the mountains classification, including the twelfth stage which was a climbing individual time trial to the Serniga di Sal\u00f2. Six of the stages featured summit finishes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 36], "content_span": [37, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092468-0005-0001", "contents": "1971 Giro d'Italia, Route and stages\nTogether, the amount of climbing for the categorized climbs included in the race totaled to be 26.5\u00a0km (16\u00a0mi). There were three total time trials, two individual and one team leg. The final stage of the race ended in Milan at the Vigorelli velodrome. The race was televised in an hourly program each day and also covered over the radio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 36], "content_span": [37, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092468-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Giro d'Italia, Route and stages\nThe race route traveled all the way down to the boot of the Italian countryside. The opening prologue from Lecce to Apulia time trial stage covering 62.2\u00a0km (39\u00a0mi), was broken into ten equal 6.22\u00a0km (4\u00a0mi) segments, with one rider from each team of ten contesting one part. The team with the lowest total time was declared winner and all of the team's riders go to wear the race leader's maglia rosa the following day. The times did not count towards the general classification for the race. When writing about this stage's format 44 years later, rider Renato Laghi commented \"Torriani was forever having strange ideas.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 36], "content_span": [37, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092468-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Giro d'Italia, Route and stages\nThe race entered two countries aside from Italy, Yugoslavia and Austria. This was the first time the Giro entered Austria, as the race traveled through the country to finish on the Gro\u00dfglockner. The race's entry into the Dolomites from June 7 to June 9 was expected to be the highlight. Former Italian cyclist Cino Cinelli stated that he had tried to climb the mountain several times and that the race's cars would have a hard time climbing the mountain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 36], "content_span": [37, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092468-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Giro d'Italia, Route and stages\nThere was some concern over the quality and condition of the some roads used early in the race, particularly during the second mass-start stage. Five-time champion Alfredo Binda said \"Only a climber can win it and it will remain uncertain until Ponte di Legno.\" El Mundo writer Bosch praised race organizer Torriani for experimenting with new routes and felt that this route was \"the best.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 36], "content_span": [37, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092468-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 Giro d'Italia, Race overview\nThe race started at 1:45 PM local time in front of the Piazza Sant'Oronzo, it was estimated that 200,000 people watched along the course. Salvarani won the team time trial event by three seconds over Molteni and one of their leaders, Gimondi, registered the fastest time over the 6.2\u00a0km (4\u00a0mi) at 8' 26 s. The favorites entering the day, Ferretti, finished in fourth, 52 s slower than Salvarani.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 33], "content_span": [34, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092468-0009-0001", "contents": "1971 Giro d'Italia, Race overview\nThe group remained together initially before Molteni's Luigi Castelletti attacked off the front of the peloton and gained a few minutes advantage before KAS, G.B.C., and Ferretti riders raised the tempo and caught Castelletti. As rain started to hit the course, Marinus Wagtmans (Molteni) won the second traguardi tricolori sprint of the leg, ahead of Attilio Rota (Dreher). The two then opened up a gap between the peloton reaching 55\", but Rota refused to help with the pace and the two were with several kilometers remaining.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 33], "content_span": [34, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092468-0009-0002", "contents": "1971 Giro d'Italia, Race overview\nAfter the day had under 30\u00a0km (19\u00a0mi) left there was a crash involving roughly 50 riders. The riders remounted and another attacked ensued by a group of riders; however, it was caught as the peloton geared up for a bunch sprint. The sprint to the line was closely contested by Franco Bitossi (Filotex) and Marino Basso (Molteni) and both celebrated as if to have won the stage, but a photo finish revealed Basso to be the victor and he assumed the lead of the general classification and points classification. The second stage of the race was the longest of the race at 260\u00a0km (162\u00a0mi).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 33], "content_span": [34, 620]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092468-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 Giro d'Italia, Race overview\nDuring the seventeenth stage, that finished on the Gro\u00dfglockner, an Alpine pass. Race leader Claudio Michelotto held on to the back of a team car to finish the climb and was given a one-minute penalty. Following the stage, Pettersson took the race lead from Michelotto. Pettersson became the first rider born north of the Rhine to win the Giro d'Italia. In addition, he became the first Swedish rider to win a Grand Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 33], "content_span": [34, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092468-0011-0000", "contents": "1971 Giro d'Italia, Race overview, Doping\nDoping controls were conducted following each stage finish. If a rider tested positive, the punishment was a ten-minute penalty and their stage results were voided. It was announced on the 26th May that Gianni Motta had tested positive for ephedrine. In response to the news, Motta stated that he had used his grandmother's herbs to help with his fatigue. Lucillo Lievore also tested positive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 41], "content_span": [42, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092468-0012-0000", "contents": "1971 Giro d'Italia, Classification leadership\nTwo different jerseys were worn during the 1971 Giro d'Italia. The leader of the general classification \u2013 calculated by adding the stage finish times of each rider \u2013 wore a pink jersey. This classification is the most important of the race, and its winner is considered as the winner of the Giro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 45], "content_span": [46, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092468-0013-0000", "contents": "1971 Giro d'Italia, Classification leadership\nFor the points classification, which awarded a cyclamen jersey to its leader, cyclists were given points for finishing a stage in the top 15. The mountains classification leader. The climbs were ranked in first and second categories, the former awarded 50, 30, and 20 points while the latter awarded 30, 20, and 10 points. In this ranking, points were won by reaching the summit of a climb ahead of other cyclists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 45], "content_span": [46, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092468-0013-0001", "contents": "1971 Giro d'Italia, Classification leadership\nIn addition there was the Cima Coppi, the Grossglockner, which was the highest mountain crossed in this edition of the race, which gave 200, 100, 80, 70, and 50 points to the first five riders summit the climb. The first rider over the Grossglockner was Pierfranco Vianelli. Although no jersey was awarded, there was also one classification for the teams, in which the stage finish times of the best three cyclists per team were added; the leading team was the one with the lowest total time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 45], "content_span": [46, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092469-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Giro d'Italia, Prologue to Stage 10\nThe 1971 Giro d'Italia was the 54th edition of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Giro began with a prologue team time trial in Lecce on 20 May, and Stage 10 occurred on 30 May with a stage to Pian del Falco di Sestola. The race finished in Milan on 10 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092469-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Giro d'Italia, Prologue to Stage 10, Prologue\n20 May 1971 \u2014 Lecce to Brindisi, 62.2\u00a0km (38.6\u00a0mi) (TTT)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092469-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Giro d'Italia, Prologue to Stage 10, Stage 1\n21 May 1971 \u2014 Brindisi to Bari, 175\u00a0km (109\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092469-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Giro d'Italia, Prologue to Stage 10, Stage 2\n22 May 1971 \u2014 Bari to Potenza, 260\u00a0km (160\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092469-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Giro d'Italia, Prologue to Stage 10, Stage 3\n23 May 1971 \u2014 Potenza to Benevento, 177\u00a0km (110\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092469-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Giro d'Italia, Prologue to Stage 10, Stage 4\n24 May 1971 \u2014 Benevento to Pescasseroli, 203\u00a0km (126\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092469-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Giro d'Italia, Prologue to Stage 10, Stage 5\n25 May 1971 \u2014 Pescasseroli to Gran Sasso d'Italia, 198\u00a0km (123\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092469-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Giro d'Italia, Prologue to Stage 10, Stage 6\n26 May 1971 \u2014 L'Aquila to Orvieto, 163\u00a0km (101\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092469-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Giro d'Italia, Prologue to Stage 10, Stage 7\n27 May 1971 \u2014 Orvieto to San Vincenzo, 220\u00a0km (140\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092469-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 Giro d'Italia, Prologue to Stage 10, Stage 8\n28 May 1971 \u2014 San Vincenzo to Casciana Terme, 203\u00a0km (126\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092469-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 Giro d'Italia, Prologue to Stage 10, Stage 9\n29 May 1971 \u2014 Casciana Terme to Forte dei Marmi, 141\u00a0km (88\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092469-0011-0000", "contents": "1971 Giro d'Italia, Prologue to Stage 10, Stage 10\n30 May 1971 \u2014 Forte dei Marmi to Pian del Falco di Sestola, 123\u00a0km (76\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092470-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Giro d'Italia, Stage 11 to Stage 20b\nThe 1971 Giro d'Italia was the 54th edition of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Giro began with a prologue team time trial in Lecce on 20 May, and Stage 11 occurred on 31 May with a stage from Sestola. The race finished in Milan on 10 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092470-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Giro d'Italia, Stage 11 to Stage 20b, Stage 11\n31 May 1971 \u2014 Sestola to Mantua, 199\u00a0km (124\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092470-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Giro d'Italia, Stage 11 to Stage 20b, Stage 12\n2 June 1971 \u2014 Desenzano del Garda to Serniga di Sal\u00f2, 28\u00a0km (17\u00a0mi) (ITT)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092470-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Giro d'Italia, Stage 11 to Stage 20b, Stage 13\n3 June 1971 \u2014 Sal\u00f2 to Sottomarina di Chioggia, 218\u00a0km (135\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092470-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Giro d'Italia, Stage 11 to Stage 20b, Stage 14\n4 June 1971 \u2014 Chioggia to Bibione, 170\u00a0km (110\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092470-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Giro d'Italia, Stage 11 to Stage 20b, Stage 15\n5 June 1971 \u2014 Bibione to Ljubljana, 201\u00a0km (125\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092470-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Giro d'Italia, Stage 11 to Stage 20b, Stage 16\n6 June 1971 \u2014 Ljubljana to Tarvisio, 100\u00a0km (62\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092470-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Giro d'Italia, Stage 11 to Stage 20b, Stage 17\n7 June 1971 \u2014 Tarvisio to Gro\u00dfglockner, 206\u00a0km (128\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092470-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Giro d'Italia, Stage 11 to Stage 20b, Stage 18\n8 June 1971 \u2014 Lienz to Falcade, 195\u00a0km (121\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092470-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 Giro d'Italia, Stage 11 to Stage 20b, Stage 19\n9 June 1971 \u2014 Falcade to Ponte di Legno, 182\u00a0km (113\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092470-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 Giro d'Italia, Stage 11 to Stage 20b, Stage 20a\n10 June 1971 \u2014 Ponte di Legno to Lainate, 185\u00a0km (115\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 52], "content_span": [53, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092470-0011-0000", "contents": "1971 Giro d'Italia, Stage 11 to Stage 20b, Stage 20b\n10 June 1971 \u2014 Lainate to Milan, 20\u00a0km (12\u00a0mi) (ITT)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 52], "content_span": [53, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092471-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Giro di Lombardia\nThe 1971 Giro di Lombardia was the 65th edition of the Giro di Lombardia cycle race and was held on 9 October 1971. The race started in Milan and finished in Como. The race was won by Eddy Merckx of the Molteni team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092472-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Golden Helmet (Poland)\nThe Golden Helmet (Polish: Turniej o Z\u0142oty Kask, ZK) is an annual motorcycle speedway event, and has been organized by the Polish Motor Union (PZM) since 1961. Currently the race is held in PC Team 3rd from last season (previously Wroc\u0142aw), with the top twelve riders in the Extraleague and the top four riders in the First League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092472-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Golden Helmet (Poland)\n1971 Golden Helmet season was the 11th since its establishment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 91]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092472-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Golden Helmet (Poland), Final classification\nNote: Result from final score was subtracted with two the weakest events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092473-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Goole by-election\nThe Goole by-election of 27 May 1971 was held after the death of Labour Member of Parliament (MP) George Jeger. The seat was retained by Labour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092474-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Governor General's Awards\nEach winner of the 1971 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit was selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092475-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Grand National\nCommentator Peter O'Sullevan describes the climax of the 1971 National", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092475-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Grand National\nThe 1971 Grand National was the 125th renewal of the Grand National horse race that took place at Aintree near Liverpool, England, on 3 April 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092475-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Grand National\nGay Buccaneer was very unlucky having been the clear leader at the Canal turn on the first circuit, only to be interfered with by a loose horse which resulted in him going from first to last, and finishing tenth. Specify was the winner from a close finish between the leading five in the final furlong.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092475-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Grand National, Media coverage\nA special Grand National Grandstand was presented by David Coleman on the BBC for the twelfth year. Three commentators were used this year, Peter O'Sullevan, Raleigh Gilbert and Julian Wilson. Peter Bromley was the lead commentator on BBC radio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092475-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Grand National, Aftermath\nJohn Cook retired from racing the following year on medical advice and emigrated to Australia where he died after a long illness in 1999", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092476-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Grand Prix (tennis)\nThe 1971 Pepsi Cola Grand Prix was a professional tennis circuit held that year. It incorporated three of the four grand slam tournaments, the Grand Prix tournaments. It was the second edition of the Grand Prix circuit and was run by the International Lawn Tennis Federation (ITLF). In addition to regular tournament prize money a bonus prize money pool of \u00a360,000 ($150,000) was available to be divided among the 20 highest ranking players after the last tournament. To be eligible for a share of the bonus pool a player had to compete in a minimum of nine tournaments. The circuit culminated in a Masters event in Paris, France for the seven highest point scoring players. Stan Smith was the winner of the circuit with 187 ranking points and four tournament victories.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 795]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092476-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Grand Prix (tennis), List of tournament winners\nThe list of winners and number of singles titles won, listed alphabetically by last name:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 52], "content_span": [53, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092477-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Grand Prix German Open\nThe 1971 Grand Prix German Open was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was the 63rd edition of the tournament. The event was part of the 1971 Pepsi-Cola Grand Prix circuit and categorized as a B Class tournament. It took place at the Am Rothenbaum in Hamburg, West Germany, from 17 May through 23 May 1971. Andr\u00e9s Gimeno and Billie Jean King won the singles titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092477-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Grand Prix German Open, Champions, Men's doubles\nJohn Alexander / Andr\u00e9s Gimeno defeated Dick Crealy / Allan Stone 6\u20134, 7\u20135, 7\u20139, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092477-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Grand Prix German Open, Champions, Women's doubles\nRosie Casals / Billie Jean King defeated Helga Masthoff / Heide Orth 6\u20132, 6\u20131", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092477-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Grand Prix German Open, Champions, Mixed doubles\nHeide Orth / J\u00fcrgen Fassbender defeated Helga H\u00f6sl / Harald Elschenbroich 6\u20134, 3\u20136, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092478-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season\nThe 1971 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season was the 23rd F.I.M. Road Racing World Championship Grand Prix season. The season consisted of twelve Grand Prix races in six classes: 500cc, 350cc, 250cc, 125cc, 50cc and Sidecars 500cc. It began on 9 May, with Austrian Grand Prix and ended with Spanish Grand Prix on 26 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092478-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, Season summary\nGiacomo Agostini would claim his tenth world championship in 1971, passing Carlo Ubbiali and Mike Hailwood as the all time championship leader. Angel Nieto challenged for the 50cc and 125cc titles. A crash in the final 50cc race handed the title to Dutchman Jan de Vries but, Nieto was able to claim the 125 crown over a young Barry Sheene. Phil Read captured the 250 championship on a private Yamaha-powered Eric Cheney-designed chassis, after falling out with the Yamaha factory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 56], "content_span": [57, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092478-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, Season summary\nAgostini won the 350 title for the fourth year in a row but a newcomer served notice when young Finn, Jarno Saarinen, won his first Grand Prix at the Czechoslovakian round then won again in Italy. Agostini had things his way in the 500cc class, winning the first eight rounds of the eleven race series against minimal factory-sponsored opposition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 56], "content_span": [57, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092478-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, Season summary\nJack Findlay's victory at the 1971 Ulster Grand Prix not only marked the first victory for a Suzuki motorcycle in the premier 500cc class, but also the first-ever 500cc class victory for a motorcycle powered by a two stroke engine. Kawasaki won their first 500cc class victory at the season ending Spanish Grand Prix at Jarama when Dave Simmonds won the race after Agostini sat out the event after already winning the championship. The inaugural Austrian Grand Prix was held at the new high-speed Salzburgring.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 56], "content_span": [57, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092478-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, 1971 Grand Prix season calendar, Scoring system\nPoints were awarded to the top ten finishers in each race. Only the best of six races were counted on 50cc, 125cc, 350cc and 500cc championships, best of seven in 250cc, while in the Sidecars, the best of five races were counted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 89], "content_span": [90, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092479-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Grantland Rice Bowl\nThe 1971 Grantland Rice Bowl was an NCAA College Division game following the 1971 season, between the Tennessee State Tigers and the McNeese State Cowboys.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092479-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Grantland Rice Bowl, Notable participants\nFrom Tennessee State, three players were selected in the 1972 NFL Draft \u2013 defensive back Clifford Brooks, linebacker Robert Stevenson, and quarterback Joe Gilliam. Players later selected in the 1973 NFL Draft include tackle Robert Woods, tight end Jim Thaxton, wide receiver Ollie Smith, defensive end Will Wynn, and wide receiver Charlie Wade. Sophomore defensive end Ed \"Too Tall\" Jones would be the number one pick in the 1974 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 46], "content_span": [47, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092479-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Grantland Rice Bowl, Notable participants\nFrom McNeese State, guard Mike O'Quinn was selected in the 1972 NFL Draft. Running back Larry Grissom was inducted to his university's hall of fame in 1985, as was safety Billy Blakeman in 2009. Quarterback Greg Davis went on to be the head coach at Tulane, and offensive coordinator for several college teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 46], "content_span": [47, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092479-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Grantland Rice Bowl, Notable participants\nTennessee State head coach John Merritt was inducted to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1994. McNeese State head coach Jack Doland was inducted to the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame in 2002.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 46], "content_span": [47, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092479-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Grantland Rice Bowl, Scoring summary\nGrissom's field goal was the first in Grantland Rice Bowl history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 41], "content_span": [42, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092480-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Green Bay Packers season\nThe 1971 Green Bay Packers season was their 53rd season overall and their 51st season in the National Football League (NFL). The team finished with a 4\u20138\u20132 record under first-year coach Dan Devine, earning them a fourth-place finish in the NFC Central division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092480-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Green Bay Packers season, Standings\nNote: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092481-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Greenlandic Football Championship\nThe 1971 Greenlandic Football Championship was the inaugural edition of the Greenlandic Football Championship. The final round was held in Nuuk. It was won by Tupilak-41 who defeated Gr\u00f8nlands Seminarius Sportklub 1\u20130 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092482-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Greenwich London Borough Council election\nThe 1971 Greenwich Council election took place on 13 May 1971 to elect members of Greenwich London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Labour party gained overall control of the council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092483-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Greenwich by-election\nThe Greenwich by-election of 8 July 1971 was held after the Labour Member of Parliament (MP) Richard Marsh resigned from the House of Commons to take up the post of Chairman of British Rail. The seat was retained by Labour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092484-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Grote Prijs Jef Scherens\nThe 1971 Grote Prijs Jef Scherens was the eighth edition of the Grote Prijs Jef Scherens cycle race and was held on 19 September 1971. The race started and finished in Leuven. The race was won by Frans Verbeeck.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092485-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Hackney London Borough Council election\nThe 1971 Hackney Council election took place on 13 May 1971 to elect members of Hackney London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Labour party gained overall control of the council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092486-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Hagihara\n1971 Hagihara, provisional designation 1955 RD1, is an Eoan asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 12 kilometers in diameter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092486-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Hagihara\nIt was discovered on 14 September 1955, by the Indiana Asteroid Program at the Goethe Link Observatory near Brooklyn, Indiana, United States. It was later named after Japanese astronomer Yusuke Hagihara.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092486-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Hagihara, Orbit and classification\nHagihara is a member of the Eos family (606), the largest asteroid family in the outer main belt consisting of nearly 10,000 asteroids. It orbits the Sun in the outer main-belt at a distance of 2.7\u20133.2\u00a0AU once every 5 years and 2 months (1,891 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.09 and an inclination of 9\u00b0 with respect to the ecliptic. The asteroid's observation arc begins with its discovery observation at Goethe in September 1955.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 39], "content_span": [40, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092486-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Hagihara, Physical characteristics\nAccording to the survey carried out by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer with its subsequent NEOWISE mission, Hagihara measures 12.3 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo of 0.135, which is neither typical for stony nor for carbonaceous bodies. As of 2017, the asteroid's composition and spectral type, as well as its rotation period and shape remain unknown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 39], "content_span": [40, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092486-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Hagihara, Naming\nThis minor planet was named in honour of Yusuke Hagihara (1897\u20131979) on the occasion of his 81st birthday. He was professor of astronomy at the University of Tokyo and director of the Tokyo Observatory. He also served as vice-president of the International Astronomical Union and was the president of its Commission VII.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 21], "content_span": [22, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092486-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Hagihara, Naming\nHagihara is best known for the discussion of stability problems in celestial mechanics and his theory of libratory motions, as well as for important contributions to the study of the velocity distribution of free electrons in planetary nebulae, and his important five-volume treatise on celestial mechanics. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 August 1978 (M.P.C. 4419).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 21], "content_span": [22, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092487-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Haitian constitutional referendum\nA constititional referendum was held in Haiti on 30 January 1971. Before the referendum, the Haitian parliament had voted in favour of lowering the age limit for becoming president from 40 years to 20, as well as confirming Jean-Claude Duvalier, son of ailing Dictator Fran\u00e7ois Duvalier as 21 years of age, which would allow him to succeed his father. The referendum asked Haitians the question:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092487-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Haitian constitutional referendum\nCitizen Doctor Fran\u00e7ois Duvalier . . . has chosen Citizen Jean-Claude Duvalier to succeed him to the Presidency for Life of the Republic. Does this choice answer your aspirations and your desires? Do you ratify it?", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092487-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Haitian constitutional referendum\nIt was reportedly approved by 100% of voters, with no votes against officially recognized. London based publication the Latin America reported that there were 2 invalid ballots while \"one brave man voted against\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092487-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Haitian constitutional referendum, Results\nOut of approximately 4,7 million inhabitants, 2,391,916 voters voted at the referendum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 47], "content_span": [48, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092488-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Hamilton Tiger-Cats season\nThe 1971 Hamilton Tiger-Cats season was the 14th season for the team in the Canadian Football League and their 22nd overall. The Tiger-Cats finished in 2nd place in the Eastern Conference with a 7\u20137 record, but lost the Eastern Finals to the Toronto Argonauts. On September 6, 1971, Joe Zuger and Dave Fleming set a franchise record with the longest single play passing yard, a 108-yard passing play against the Argonauts. Tony Gabriel's rookie season was with Hamilton in 1971, where he caught 20 passes for 285 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092489-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Hammersmith London Borough Council election\nThe 1971 Hammersmith Council election took place on 13 May 1971 to elect members of Hammersmith London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Labour party gained overall control of the council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092489-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Hammersmith London Borough Council election, Election result\nThe Labour Party won 58 seats - a gain of 52 seats from the previous election, taking control of the council. The Conservative Party won 2 seats (the Avonmore ward) - a loss of 52 seats from their previous result, and lost control of the council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 65], "content_span": [66, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092489-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Hammersmith London Borough Council election, Election result\nThe Liberal Party stood candidates in three wards, and a single candidate stood for the Communist Party, but none of these won a seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 65], "content_span": [66, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092490-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Harco work-in\nThe 1971 Harco work-in was an action undertaken by workers at a steel plant in Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia. The work-in was the culmination of a protracted industrial dispute between the owners of Harco Steel and the workers at the Campbelltown site. The dispute arose as a result of worker objections to the owners' practice of sacking and then rehiring workers to reduce costs during periods of low production.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092490-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Harco work-in\nAfter a round of sackings in November 1971, the workers decided that strike action, which was common at the site, was no longer an effective tactic for confronting management. Drawing inspiration from the factory occupations in France in 1968 as well as actions taken by the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders in Scotland earlier in 1971, the Harco workers adopted the tactic of the work-in.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092490-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Harco work-in\nThe work-in lasted for a period of four weeks. Workers' self-management was practiced, leading to an increase in productivity of around 26%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092490-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Harco work-in\nThe owners of Harco responded in a number of ways, including sabotage and legal action. Workers received community support in the form of donations of food and money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092490-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Harco work-in\nThe work-in ended when Harco obtained an order from the Supreme Court of New South Wales, which compelled the workers to leave the site.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092491-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Hardie-Ferodo 500\nThe 1971 Hardie-Ferodo 500 was a motor race held on 3 October 1971 at the Mount Panorama Circuit just outside Bathurst in New South Wales, Australia. It was open to production vehicles competing in showroom condition, with the field divided into five classes based on the purchase price of the vehicle in Australian dollars. Although an outright winner was officially recognised, all other official awards were for class results only. The race was the 12th in a sequence of annual \"Bathurst 500\" production car races dating back to the 1960 Armstrong 500. The outright winner was Allan Moffat driving a Ford XY Falcon GT-HO Phase III.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092491-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Hardie-Ferodo 500\nThe 1971 race is perhaps best remembered for Sydney driver Bill Brown's lucky escape after the biggest single car crash in the race's history. On lap 43, the right front tyre on Brown's Phase III GTHO Falcon burst at over 100\u00a0mph (161\u00a0km/h) on the approach to the daunting McPhillamy Park, which in 1971 had no runoff area on the outside of the track, just the earth bank and a fence made of railway sleepers on top.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092491-0001-0001", "contents": "1971 Hardie-Ferodo 500\nThe Falcon barrel-rolled along the fence (with two marshals lucky to escape with their lives by only just scampering out of the way) and ended upside down after 3\u00bd rolls. Brown was lucky because his seat broke in the first roll and he was lying flat in the car as it continued rolling. Amazingly his only injuries were a grazed shin and a black eye.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092491-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Hardie-Ferodo 500\n1971 will also be remembered as the year that Moffat had a stray cardboard Southwark Bitter carton attached itself to the front of his GTHO for a number of laps, blocking the car's radiator. Pit boards told him of the problem and the team attempted to call Moffat in for a quick stop to remove the carton, but Moffat, seeing no change to the engine temperature and no reduction in the cars performance, waved them off and remained on the track until his scheduled pit stop with the approval of Ford Works Team manager Howard Marsden.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092491-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Hardie-Ferodo 500, Class structure\nCars competed in five classes based on the purchase price of the vehicle in Australian dollars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092491-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Hardie-Ferodo 500, Class structure, Class A\nClass A was for cars costing less than $2,150. It was contested by Datsun 1200, Mazda 1300 and Toyota Corolla.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 48], "content_span": [49, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092491-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Hardie-Ferodo 500, Class structure, Class B\nThe $2,151 to $2,500 class had the smallest number of starters with just four cars: Datsun 1600 and Mazda Capella 1600.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 48], "content_span": [49, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092491-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Hardie-Ferodo 500, Class structure, Class C\nThe $2,501 to $3,150 class saw a mix of Ford Cortina, Ford Escort, 2.8 litre Holden Torana GTR, Honda 1300, Mazda RX-2 and Morris Cooper S.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 48], "content_span": [49, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092491-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Hardie-Ferodo 500, Class structure, Class D\nThe $3,151 to $4,350 class featured Alfa Romeo Giulia, the E38 version of the Chrysler Valiant Charger, Ford Falcon 500 and 3.0 litre Holden Torana GTR XU-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 48], "content_span": [49, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092491-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Hardie-Ferodo 500, Class structure, Class E\nFor cars over $4,350. Apart from a single Fiat 124S, the class consisted only of Ford Falcon GT-HO Phase IIIs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 48], "content_span": [49, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092492-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Hardy Cup\nThe 1971 Hardy Cup was the 1971 edition of the Canadian intermediate senior ice hockey championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092492-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Hardy Cup, Final\nBathurst Alpine Papermakers beat Rosetown Red Wings 3\u20130 on series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 21], "content_span": [22, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092493-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Haringey London Borough Council election\nThe 1971 Haringey Council election took place on 13 May 1971 to elect members of Haringey London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Labour party gained overall control of the council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092493-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Haringey London Borough Council election, Ward results, Alexandra-Bowes\nS. R. Gaubert was a sitting councillor for Noel Park ward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 76], "content_span": [77, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092493-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Haringey London Borough Council election, Ward results, Central Hornsey\nG. C. Cleaver was a sitting councillor for Coleraine ward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 76], "content_span": [77, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092493-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Haringey London Borough Council election, Ward results, Fortis Green\nMrs C. J. Levinson was a sitting councillor for Central Hornsey ward. G. J. Y. Murphy was a sitting councillor for Turnpike ward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 73], "content_span": [74, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092493-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Haringey London Borough Council election, Ward results, Noel Park\nM. S. Hiller was a sitting councillor for Coleraine ward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 70], "content_span": [71, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092493-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Haringey London Borough Council election, Ward results, Stroud Green\nMiss C. D. Jackson was a sitting councillor for Central Hornsey ward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 73], "content_span": [74, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092493-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Haringey London Borough Council election, Ward results, West Green\nMrs E. M. Donno was a sitting councillor for Seven Sisters ward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 71], "content_span": [72, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092494-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Harrow London Borough Council election\nThe 1971 Harrow Council election took place on 13 May 1971 to elect members of Harrow London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election; no party gained overall control.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092495-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Harvard Crimson football team\nThe 1971 Harvard Crimson football team was an American football team that represented Harvard University during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. Harvard finished fourth in the Ivy League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092495-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Harvard Crimson football team\nIn their first year under head coach Joe Restic, the Crimson compiled a 5\u20134 record and outscored opponents 180 to 167. David A. Ignacio was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092495-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Harvard Crimson football team\nHarvard's 4\u20133 conference record placed fourth in the Ivy League standings. The Crimson outscored Ivy opponents 147 to 139.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092495-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Harvard Crimson football team\nHarvard played its home games at Harvard Stadium in the Allston neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092496-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Havering London Borough Council election\nThe 1971 Havering Council election took place on 13 May 1971 to elect members of Havering London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Labour party gained overall control of the council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092497-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Hawaii Rainbows football team\nThe 1971 Hawaii Rainbows football team represented the University of Hawai\u02bbi at M\u0101noa as an independent during the 1971 NCAA College Division football season. In their fourth season under head coach Dave Holmes, the Rainbows compiled a 7\u20134 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092498-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Hawthorn Football Club season\nThe 1971 season was the Hawthorn Football Club 47th season in the Victorian Football League and 70th overall. Hawthorn finished as the minor premiers for the first time since 1963. Hawthorn qualified for the finals for the first time since 1963. Hawthorn qualified for their third Grand Final and first since 1963. Hawthorn defeated St Kilda in the Grand Final 82\u201375 to win their second VFL premiership and first since 1961. Peter Hudson kicked 150 goals equalling the record set by Bob Pratt in 1934.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092499-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Hayes and Harlington by-election\nThe Hayes and Harlington by-election of 17 June 1971 was held after the death of Labour Member of Parliament (MP) Arthur Skeffington. The seat was retained by Labour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092500-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Heinz Cup\nThe 1971 VFL H.J. Heinz Night Premiership was the Victorian Football League end of season cup competition played in September of the 1971 VFL Premiership Season. Run as a knock-out tournament, it was contested by the eight VFL teams that failed to make the 1971 VFL finals series. Games were played at the Lake Oval, Albert Park, then the home ground of South Melbourne, as it was the only ground equipped to host night games. It was the 16th and last VFL Night Series competition, with the series disbanded the following year due to waning interest and the introduction of the final five in the premiership competition. Melbourne won its first night series cup defeating Fitzroy in the final by 16 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 721]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092501-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Hillingdon London Borough Council election\nThe 1971 Hillingdon Council election took place on 13 May 1971 to elect members of Hillingdon London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Labour party gained overall control of the council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092502-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Hokkaido gubernatorial election\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by Rich Farmbrough (talk | contribs) at 17:08, 19 November 2019 (Date formats). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092502-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Hokkaido gubernatorial election\nA gubernatorial election was held on 11 April 1971 to elect the Governor of Hokkaido Prefecture.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092503-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Holy Cross Crusaders football team\nThe 1971 Holy Cross Crusaders football team was an American football team that represented the College of the Holy Cross during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. Ed Doherty took over for his first year as head coach. The team compiled a record of 4\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092503-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Holy Cross Crusaders football team\nHoly Cross competed as an independent despite having announced in May 1971 that the Crusaders, along with the Boston University Terriers, would join the Yankee Conference. Because their previous scheduling commitments would not allow them to play the full Yankee round-robin in 1971 and 1972, HC and BU continued to compete as football independents and were not eligible for the Yankee Conference championship. Holy Cross did play non-conference games against two longstanding Yankee teams in 1971, losing to both Connecticut and Massachusetts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092503-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Holy Cross Crusaders football team\nAll home games were played at Fitton Field on the Holy Cross campus in Worcester, Massachusetts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092504-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Honduran general election\nGeneral elections were held in Honduras on March 28, 1971. Voters went to the polls to elect a new President of the Republic and a new Congress. The two main parties, the National Party and Liberal Party, had agreed before the election to split the Congressional seats equally between them, with each party being awarded 32 of the 64 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092504-0000-0001", "contents": "1971 Honduran general election\nAdditional one seat was to be allocated to the winner of the presidential elections as the president was entitled to one seat in parliament, while both parties were to be equally represented in the Supreme Court in all state institutions including the Government. Ram\u00f3n Ernesto Cruz Ucl\u00e9s of the National Party won the presidential election with 53% of the vote. Approximately 40% out of total of around 900,000 voters abstained from voting at the elections. Some of the major topics at the elections was the issue of commitment to continued participation in the Central American Common Market and approach to the relations with Salvador after the Football War.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 692]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092505-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Hong Kong municipal election\nThe 1971 Urban Council election was held on 3 March 1971 for the 5 of the 10 elected seats of the Urban Council of Hong Kong.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092505-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Hong Kong municipal election\n10,047 of the 37,797 eligible voters cast their votes, the turnout rate was 26.6%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092505-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Hong Kong municipal election\nCecilia Yeung Lai Yin of the Club won the seat onto the Urban Council, becoming the first Chinese woman ever elected on this Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092506-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Hounslow London Borough Council election\nThe 1971 Hounslow Council election took place on 13 May 1971 to elect members of Hounslow London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Labour party gained overall control of the council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092507-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Houston Astros season\nThe 1971 Houston Astros season was a season in American baseball. The team finished tied for fourth in the National League West with a record of 79\u201383, 11 games behind the San Francisco Giants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092507-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Houston Astros season\nThe Astros played 75 games that were decided by a one run margin, which is an all-time MLB record. In those games, the team had a record of 32\u201343.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092507-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Houston Astros season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 71], "content_span": [72, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092507-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Houston Astros season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092507-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Houston Astros season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 69], "content_span": [70, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092507-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Houston Astros season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 66], "content_span": [67, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092507-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Houston Astros season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 67], "content_span": [68, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092508-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Houston Cougars football team\nThe 1971 Houston Cougars football team represented the University of Houston during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. The Cougars, coached by Bill Yeoman in his tenth season, compiled a 9\u20133 record, and outscored their opponents by a total of 339 to 199. Houston finished ranked No. 17 in the AP Poll after a loss to Colorado in the Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092509-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Houston Oilers season\nThe 1971 Houston Oilers season was the team's 12th season, and second with the National Football League. The Oilers improved on their previous season's output of three victories, winning four games in 1971. They missed the playoffs for the second consecutive season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092509-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Houston Oilers season\nThe 1971 Oilers are the only team in NFL history to throw three-or-more interceptions in ten different games. (The team was 2\u20137\u20131 in those games.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092509-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Houston Oilers season, Standings\nNote: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092510-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Humboldt State Lumberjacks football team\nThe 1971 Humboldt State Lumberjacks football team represented Humboldt State College during the 1971 NCAA College Division football season. Humboldt State competed in the Far Western Conference (FWC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092510-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Humboldt State Lumberjacks football team\nThe 1971 Lumberjacks were led by sixth-year head coach Bud Van Deren. They played home games at the Redwood Bowl in Arcata, California. Humboldt State finished with a record of seven wins and four losses (7\u20134, 3\u20133 FWC). The Lumberjacks outscored their opponents 288\u2013209 for the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092510-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Humboldt State Lumberjacks football team, Team players in the NFL\nNo Humboldt State players were selected in the 1972 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 70], "content_span": [71, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092511-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Hungarian parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections were held in Hungary on 25 April 1971. The Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party was the only party to contest the elections, and won 224 of the 352 seats, with the remaining 128 going to independents selected by the party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092511-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Hungarian parliamentary election\nAll prospective candidates had to accept the program of the Patriotic People's Front, which was dominated by the HSWP. While it was possible for more than one candidate to run in a constituency, only 49 of the 352 constituencies had more than one candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092512-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships\nThe 1971 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships were held in Meran, Italy under the auspices of International Canoe Federation for the second time. It was the 12th edition. The mixed C2 team event was discontinued following the 1969 championships. Meran hosted the championships previously in 1953, tying a record set both by Geneva, Switzerland (1949, 1959) and by Spittal, Austria (1963, 1965).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092513-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships\nThe 1971 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships were held in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092513-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships\nThe men's competition consisted of six canoe (single paddle, open boat) and nine kayak events. Three events were held for women, all in kayak. C-1 500 m and C-2 500 m events debuted at this ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, the ninth Championships in canoe sprint.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092514-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 IHF Olympic Asian qualification tournament\nThe 1971 IHF Olympic Asian qualification tournament was held in Japan. The winner of the tournament qualified for the 1972 Summer Olympics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092514-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 IHF Olympic Asian qualification tournament, Broadcast\nThe first and last game of Japan were broadcast by NHK Educational TV. For the game on 23 November Israel against Japan there were negotiation for a radio broadcast at NHK Radio 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 58], "content_span": [59, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092515-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 IIHF European U19 Championship\nThe 1971 IIHF European U19 Championship was the fourth playing of the IIHF European Junior Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092515-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 IIHF European U19 Championship, Group A\nPlayed in Presov, Czechoslovakia from December 27, 1970, to January 3, 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092515-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 IIHF European U19 Championship, Group A\nNorway should have been relegated to Group B for 1972, but were not because Romania declined their promotion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092515-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 IIHF European U19 Championship, Group B\nPlayed in Bucharest, Romania from December 27, 1970, to January 3, 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092515-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 IIHF European U19 Championship, Group B\nRomania should have been promoted to Group A for 1972, but they declined.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092516-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 IMSA GT Championship\nThe 1971 IMSA GT Series season was the inaugural season of the IMSA GT Championship auto racing series. It was for Grand Tourer-style racing cars which ran in the GTO and GTU classes, as well as former Trans Am Series cars in the TO and TU classes. It began April 18, 1971, and ended November 21, 1971, after six rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092516-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 IMSA GT Championship, Constructors' Championship\nPoints are awarded to the top six in each class in the order of 9-6-4-3-2-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 53], "content_span": [54, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092517-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Ibrox disaster\nThe 1971 Ibrox disaster was a crush among the crowd at an Old Firm football game, which led to 66 deaths and more than 200 injuries. It happened on 2 January 1971 in an exit stairway at Ibrox Park (now Ibrox Stadium) in Glasgow, Scotland. It was the worst British football disaster until the Hillsborough disaster in Sheffield, England, in 1989.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092517-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Ibrox disaster\nThe stadium's owner, Rangers F.C., was later ruled to be at fault in a sheriff's judgement on one of the deaths. Rangers did not dispute this ruling, and was sued for damages in 60 other cases brought by relatives of the dead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092517-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Ibrox disaster, Background\nThe first disaster at Ibrox occurred during a 1902 home international match between Scotland and England. The back of the wooden West Tribune Stand collapsed due to heavy rainfall the previous night, causing 25 deaths and more than 500 injuries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092517-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Ibrox disaster, Background\nDuring 1963, concerns were raised about the safety of the stairway adjacent to passageway 13, colloquially known as Stairway 13, the exit closest to Copland Road subway station. It was documented that the stairs provided very little freedom of movement due to crowd pressure; many were lifted off their feet by the crowd and had no choice in which lane they were going to use, or at what pace.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092517-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Ibrox disaster, Background\nOn 16 September 1961, two people were killed in a crush on the stairway. In 1967, eight spectators were injured when leaving the stadium. In 1969, 26 were injured in an accident on Stairway 13 during egress. No measures were taken to consult a professional firm to discuss the potential dangers from crowds on Stairway 13 following these events. Subsequent to the 1961 accident, Rangers had by then spent a total of \u00a3150,000 (equivalent to \u00a32,500,000 in 2019) on improvements to Ibrox, a very significant sum of money for the time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092517-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Ibrox disaster, Events\nThe disaster occurred on Saturday, 2 January 1971, when 66 people were killed in a crush as supporters tried to leave the stadium. The match was an Old Firm game (Rangers v Celtic) and was attended by more than 80,000 fans. In the 90th minute, Celtic took a 1\u20130 lead through Jimmy Johnstone, but in the final moments of the match, Colin Stein scored an equaliser for Rangers. As thousands of spectators were leaving the ground by stairway 13, it appears that someone may have fallen, causing a massive chain-reaction pile-up of people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092517-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Ibrox disaster, Events\nThe loss included many children, five of whom, Peter Easton, Martin Paton, Mason Phillips, Brian Todd and Douglas Morrison, were schoolmates from the same town of Markinch in Fife. The loss also included 31 teenagers, including the only female victim Margaret Ferguson of Maddiston in Falkirk, age 18. The youngest child to die was Nigel Patrick Pickup of Liverpool, age 9. Most of the deaths were caused by compressive asphyxia, with bodies being stacked up to six feet deep in the area. More than 200 other fans were injured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092517-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Ibrox disaster, Events\nInitially there was speculation that some fans left the ground slightly early when Celtic scored, but then turned back when they heard the crowd cheering when Stein scored the equaliser, colliding with fans leaving the ground when the match ended. The official inquiry into the disaster indicated that there was no truth in this hypothesis, however, as all the spectators were heading in the same direction at the time of the collapse.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092517-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Ibrox disaster, Events\nLiverpool legend Kenny Dalglish, then a Celtic player, was in the stands when the tragedy\u00a0occurred. Dalglish was also present at the Heysel and Hillsborough disasters in 1985 and 1989, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092517-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 Ibrox disaster, Victims\nSixty-six people died on the day at the stadium as a result of injuries incurred during the disaster. Over 200 people were reported to have suffered injuries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 28], "content_span": [29, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092517-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 Ibrox disaster, Victims, Ages\nOf those who died, all were aged under 50, 61 were under 40, 49 were under 30, 33 were under 20 and 1 was aged under 10.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092517-0011-0000", "contents": "1971 Ibrox disaster, Consequences\nThe disaster spurred the UK government to look into safety at sports grounds. In February 1971, Scottish judge Lord Wheatley was asked to conduct an inquiry. His findings, published in May 1972, formed the basis for the Guide to Safety at Sports Grounds (Green Guide), first published in 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092517-0012-0000", "contents": "1971 Ibrox disaster, Consequences\nA fatal accident inquiry had been held in Glasgow which opened on 15 February 1971. It lasted 7 days, although the jury of four men and three women had been instructed not to make recommendations around safety precautions at football grounds, because an inquiry led by Lord Wheatley would be examining this.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092517-0013-0000", "contents": "1971 Ibrox disaster, Consequences\nThe 1971 disaster led to a huge redevelopment of the Ibrox ground, spearheaded by the then-manager Willie Waddell, who visited Borussia Dortmund's Westfalenstadion for inspiration. After three years' reconstruction work, three-quarters of the ground being replaced by modern all-seater stands, Ibrox was converted to a 44,000-capacity stadium by 1981. Further work in the 1990s increased the stadium capacity to 50,000, and Ibrox was subsequently awarded UEFA five-star status.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092517-0014-0000", "contents": "1971 Ibrox disaster, Consequences\nThe Scottish folk singer-songwriter Matt McGinn (1928\u20131977) wrote a song called \"The Ibrox Disaster\" as a tribute to the people who died in the tragic event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092517-0015-0000", "contents": "1971 Ibrox disaster, Consequences\nFor some years after the 1971 disaster, there was only a small plaque at the corner of the ground where it happened. However, in 1995, Rangers announced plans to commemorate the 66 fans killed in the 1971 disaster. On 2 January 2001, the 30th anniversary of the tragedy, a larger monument was unveiled at the corner of the Bill Struth Main Stand and the Copland Road Stand. The monument contains blue plaques displaying the names of each person killed in all three incidents. A statue of John Greig, the Rangers captain at the time of the 1971 disaster, stands atop the monument.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092517-0016-0000", "contents": "1971 Ibrox disaster, Consequences\nIn 2011, the 40th anniversary of the disaster was commemorated before the Old Firm game on 2 January 2011 when a one-minute silence was observed before the game. Both teams wore black armbands as a sign of respect and were led out by John Greig and Billy McNeill \u2013 the respective club captains at the time of the disaster (although Billy McNeill had not played due to injury).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092517-0017-0000", "contents": "1971 Ibrox disaster, Damages claims\nSheriff James Irvine Smith, in his damages statement, ruled: \"The said accident was due to the fault and negligence of the defenders, Rangers F.C.\". Smith found Rangers F.C. guilty on four counts in the case of the death of Charles Dougan, a 31-year-old boilermaker from Clydebank who died, as did 56 others, from traumatic asphyxia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092517-0018-0000", "contents": "1971 Ibrox disaster, Damages claims\nAfter hearing of the series of accidents on Stairway 13 including September 1961 when there were 70 people injured and two deaths, September 1967 when 11 people were taken to hospital, and January 1969 when 29 people were injured, Sheriff Irvine Smith stated,", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092517-0019-0000", "contents": "1971 Ibrox disaster, Damages claims\nSo far as the evidence is concerned, the Board never so much as considered that it ought to apply its mind to the question of safety on that particular stairway [...] and would appear \u2013 I put it no higher \u2013 to have proceeded on the view that if the problem was ignored long enough it would eventually go away [...] Indeed it goes further than this because certain of their actions can only be interpreted as a deliberate and apparently successful attempt to deceive others that they were doing something, when in fact they were doing nothing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092517-0020-0000", "contents": "1971 Ibrox disaster, Damages claims\nIn the case of Charles Dougan and a further 60 cases brought by relatives of the dead, Rangers F.C. did not dispute the findings of Sheriff Irvine Smith and instead merely disputed the calculation of the damages as can be seen from the appeal judgement of the Sheriff Principal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092517-0021-0000", "contents": "1971 Ibrox disaster, Damages claims\nIn his book, Irvine Smith states that almost 40 years after his decision, he was viewed with disapproval by some Rangers-supporting friends, who accused him of \"disloyalty\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092518-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Ice Hockey World Championships\nThe 1971 Ice Hockey World Championships was the 38th edition of the Ice Hockey World Championships, which also doubled as the 49th European ice hockey championships. The Pool A, Pool B and Pool C tournaments were hosted by the following nations:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092518-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Ice Hockey World Championships\nA record 22 nations participated in the tournaments. The Pool A tournament featured the top six nations, playing a double round-robin tournament for the World Championship. Teams #7-#14 participated in the Pool B tournament with the winner qualifying for the 1972 Pool A championship while the two last-place teams were demoted to the 1972 Pool C tournament. The bottom eight teams participated in the Pool C tournament with the top two teams qualifying for the 1972 Pool B tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092518-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Ice Hockey World Championships\nThe Soviet Union won its ninth consecutive (a record which has not been broken), and 11th overall, title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092518-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Ice Hockey World Championships\nThis was the last international tournament in which goaltenders did not have to wear face masks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092518-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Ice Hockey World Championships, Qualifying round (A/B)\nThe Pool A tournament was held in Bern and Geneva, Switzerland, from 19 March to 3 April 1971. The East German team declined to participate. West Germany participated instead after beating Poland in two qualifying games arranged in November 1970 for the vacant slot. West Germany had placed second in last year's Pool B, while Poland had finished 6th in last year's Pool A.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092518-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Ice Hockey World Championships, World Championship Group A (Switzerland)\nFor the ninth straight year, the Soviet Union won the world championship, although Czechoslovakia won the 49th European championship as the Czech opening loss against the Americans did not count in the European standings. Team USA was demoted to the 1972 Pool B tournament. The Americans came into their final game needing to win by five goals, and led five to zero in the third period, but the Germans scored the only goal of the frame claiming the advantage in the tie-breaker for 5th place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 77], "content_span": [78, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092518-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Ice Hockey World Championships, World Championship Group A (Switzerland)\n19 March 1971 \u2013 BernGoalscorers: Nedomansk\u00fd \u2013 Riutta 2, Konik, Patrick, Boucha. Referees: Dahlberg (SWE), Ehrensperger (SUI)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 77], "content_span": [78, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092518-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Ice Hockey World Championships, World Championship Group A (Switzerland)\n19 March 1971 \u2013 BernGoalscorers: Mi\u0161akov 3, Petrov 2, Vikulov 2, Firsov, Malcev, Zimin, Marti\u0148uk \u2013 Alois Schloder, Philipp.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 77], "content_span": [78, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092518-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Ice Hockey World Championships, World Championship Group A (Switzerland)\n20 March 1971 \u2013 BernGoalscorers: Boucha, Falkman \u2013 Wickberg 2, Sterner, Lindberg", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 77], "content_span": [78, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092518-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 Ice Hockey World Championships, World Championship Group A (Switzerland)\n20 March 1971 \u2013 BernGoalscorers: Hanig, Kuhn, Philipp \u2013 Oksanen 2, Ketola, Isaksson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 77], "content_span": [78, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092518-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 Ice Hockey World Championships, World Championship Group A (Switzerland)\n21 March 1971 \u2013 BernGoalscorers: Hlinka 3, Nedomansk\u00fd, Panch\u00e1rtek \u2013 Lundstr\u00f6m 2, Hammarstr\u00f6m, Nilsson, Norlander, Sterner. Referees: Bader (GER), Ehrensperger (SUI)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 77], "content_span": [78, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092518-0011-0000", "contents": "1971 Ice Hockey World Championships, World Championship Group A (Switzerland)\n21 March 1971 \u2013 BernGoalscorers: Koskela \u2013 Malcev 2, Petrov 2, Davydov, Vikulov, Firsov, Michajlov.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 77], "content_span": [78, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092518-0012-0000", "contents": "1971 Ice Hockey World Championships, World Championship Group A (Switzerland)\n22 March 1971 \u2013 BernGoalscorers: B. \u0160\u0165astn\u00fd 2, Kochta, Farda, \u010cern\u00fd, Martinec, Hore\u0161ovsk\u00fd, Ji\u0159\u00ed Hol\u00edk, Posp\u00ed\u0161il \u2013 Eimansberger. Referees: Gagnon (USA), Sillankorva (FIN)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 77], "content_span": [78, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092518-0013-0000", "contents": "1971 Ice Hockey World Championships, World Championship Group A (Switzerland)\n22 March 1971 \u2013 BernGoalscorers: Vikulov 2, Star\u0161inov 2, Mi\u0161akov 2, Lut\u010denko, Firsov, Malcev, Charlamov \u2013 Sheehy, Christiansen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 77], "content_span": [78, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092518-0014-0000", "contents": "1971 Ice Hockey World Championships, World Championship Group A (Switzerland)\n23 March 1971 \u2013 BernGoalscorers: Alois Schloder, Philipp \u2013 Nordlander, Abrahamsson, Wickberg, Lundstr\u00f6m, Lindberg, Stig-G\u00f6ran Johansson, Hammarchtr\u00f6m.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 77], "content_span": [78, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092518-0015-0000", "contents": "1971 Ice Hockey World Championships, World Championship Group A (Switzerland)\n23 March 1971 \u2013 BernGoalscorers: Gambucci 2, McElmury, Patrick \u2013 Marjam\u00e4ki, Esa Peltonen, Vehmanen, Linnonmaa, Lindstr\u00f6m, Oksanen, Koskela.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 77], "content_span": [78, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092518-0016-0000", "contents": "1971 Ice Hockey World Championships, World Championship Group A (Switzerland)\n24 March 1971 \u2013 BernGoalscorers: Nov\u00e1k, Nedomansk\u00fd, Kochta \u2013 Marty\u0148uk, Firsov, Petrov. Referees: Wycsik (POL), Ehrensperger (SUI)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 77], "content_span": [78, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092518-0017-0000", "contents": "1971 Ice Hockey World Championships, World Championship Group A (Switzerland)\n25 March 1971 \u2013 BernGoalscorers: Christiansen, Boucha \u2013 Hofherr 2, Philipp 2, V\u00f6lk, Hanig, Kuhn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 77], "content_span": [78, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092518-0018-0000", "contents": "1971 Ice Hockey World Championships, World Championship Group A (Switzerland)\n26 March 1971 \u2013 BernGoalscorers: Firsov 4, Michajlov 2, Petrov, Marti\u0148uk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 77], "content_span": [78, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092518-0019-0000", "contents": "1971 Ice Hockey World Championships, World Championship Group A (Switzerland)\n26 March 1971 \u2013 BernGoalscorers: Farda, Nov\u00e1k, Nedomansk\u00fd, Kochta, Ji\u0159\u00ed Hol\u00edk. Referees: Bader (GER), D\u00e4mmerich (GDR)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 77], "content_span": [78, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092518-0020-0000", "contents": "1971 Ice Hockey World Championships, World Championship Group A (Switzerland)\n27 March 1971 \u2013 GenevaGoalscorers: \u010cern\u00fd, Posp\u00ed\u0161il, Bubla, Nov\u00e1k, Farda. Referees: Karandin (URS), Gerber (SUI)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 77], "content_span": [78, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092518-0021-0000", "contents": "1971 Ice Hockey World Championships, World Championship Group A (Switzerland)\n27 March 1971 \u2013 GenevaGoalscorers: Alois Schloder, Modes \u2013 Lut\u010denko, Vikulov, Malcev 2, Firsov, Charlamov 2, Michajlov, Zimin, \u0160adrin 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 77], "content_span": [78, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092518-0022-0000", "contents": "1971 Ice Hockey World Championships, World Championship Group A (Switzerland)\n28 March 1971 \u2013 GenevaGoalscorers: Lundstr\u00f6m 2, Nilsson, Palmqvist \u2013 Gambucci 2, Boucha.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 77], "content_span": [78, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092518-0023-0000", "contents": "1971 Ice Hockey World Championships, World Championship Group A (Switzerland)\n28 March 1971 \u2013 GenevaGoalscorers: Repo, J\u00e4rn, Erkki Mononen, Murto, Lauri Mononen, Marjam\u00e4ki, Vehmanen \u2013 Bernd Kuhn, Egger.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 77], "content_span": [78, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092518-0024-0000", "contents": "1971 Ice Hockey World Championships, World Championship Group A (Switzerland)\n29 March 1971 \u2013 GenevaGoalscorers: Malcev 2, Michajlov, Petrov, Marti\u0148uk, Star\u0161inov, Ragulin, Firsov, \u0160adrin 2 \u2013 Koskela.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 77], "content_span": [78, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092518-0025-0000", "contents": "1971 Ice Hockey World Championships, World Championship Group A (Switzerland)\n29 March 1971 \u2013 GenevaGoalscorers: \u010cern\u00fd, Such\u00fd, Kochta \u2013 Bergman. Referees: Karandin (URS), Ehrenberger (SUI)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 77], "content_span": [78, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092518-0026-0000", "contents": "1971 Ice Hockey World Championships, World Championship Group A (Switzerland)\n30 March 1971 \u2013 GenevaGoalscorers: \u010cern\u00fd 2, Nedomansk\u00fd, Martinec. Referees: Sillankorva (FIN), Gerber (SUI)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 77], "content_span": [78, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092518-0027-0000", "contents": "1971 Ice Hockey World Championships, World Championship Group A (Switzerland)\n30 March 1971 \u2013 GenevaGoalscorers: Gambucci 2, Christiansen, Mellor, Boucha \u2013 Romi\u0161evskij, Malcev, Kuzkin, Michajlov, Marti\u0148uk, \u0160adrin, Mi\u0161akov.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 77], "content_span": [78, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092518-0028-0000", "contents": "1971 Ice Hockey World Championships, World Championship Group A (Switzerland)\n31 March 1971 \u2013 GenevaGoalscorers: Ketola 3, Koskela 2, Luojola, Oksanen \u2013 D.Ross, McElmury, Boucha.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 77], "content_span": [78, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092518-0029-0000", "contents": "1971 Ice Hockey World Championships, World Championship Group A (Switzerland)\n1 April 1971 \u2013 GenevaGoalscorers: Nedomansk\u00fd, Such\u00fd, Hore\u0161ovsk\u00fd, B. \u0160\u0165astn\u00fd, Farda \u2013 Malcev, Charlamov. Referees: Wycisk (POL), Ehrensperger (SUI)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 77], "content_span": [78, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092518-0030-0000", "contents": "1971 Ice Hockey World Championships, World Championship Group A (Switzerland)\n2 April 1971 \u2013 GenevaGoalscorers: Hofherr \u2013 Gambucci, Patrick, Boucha, Ahearn, Christiansen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 77], "content_span": [78, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092518-0031-0000", "contents": "1971 Ice Hockey World Championships, World Championship Group A (Switzerland)\n3 April 1971 \u2013 GenevaGoalscorers: Nedomansk\u00fd 2, B. \u0160\u0165astn\u00fd, Hlinka \u2013 Murto, Linnonmaa. Referees: Wycisk (POL), Ehrensperger (SUI)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 77], "content_span": [78, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092518-0032-0000", "contents": "1971 Ice Hockey World Championships, World Championship Group A (Switzerland)\n3 April 1971 \u2013 GenevaGoalscorers: Firsov, Petrov, Michajlov, Lut\u010denko, Charlamov, Kuzkin \u2013 H\u00e5kan Wickberg, Tord Lundstr\u00f6m, H\u00e5kan Pettersson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 77], "content_span": [78, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092518-0033-0000", "contents": "1971 Ice Hockey World Championships, Pool A statistics and team rosters\n1. Soviet UnionGoalkeepers: Viktor Konovalenko, Vladislav Tretiak. Defencemen: Vladimir Lutchenko, Alexander Ragulin, Vitali Davydov, Viktor Kuzkin, Igor Romishevsky, Yuri Lyapkin, Gennadiy Tsygankov. Forwards: Boris Mikhailov, Vladimir Petrov, Valeri Kharlamov, Vladimir Vikulov, Alexander Maltsev, Anatoli Firsov, Alexander Martynyuk, Yevgeni Mishakov, Vyacheslav Starshinov, Vladimir Shadrin, Yevgeni Zimin. Coaches: Arkady Chernyshev, Anatoly Tarasov.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 71], "content_span": [72, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092518-0034-0000", "contents": "1971 Ice Hockey World Championships, Pool A statistics and team rosters\n2. CzechoslovakiaGoalkeepers : Ji\u0159\u00ed Hole\u010dek, Marcel Saka\u010d. Defencemen: Jan Such\u00fd, Franti\u0161ek Posp\u00ed\u0161il, Old\u0159ich Macha\u010d, Franti\u0161ek Panch\u00e1rtek, Josef Hore\u0161ovsk\u00fd, Rudolf Tajcn\u00e1r, Ji\u0159\u00ed Bubla. Forwards: Jan Havel, V\u00e1clav Nedomansk\u00fd, Ji\u0159\u00ed Hol\u00edk, Eduard Nov\u00e1k, Richard Farda, Josef \u010cern\u00fd, Vladim\u00edr Martinec, Ivan Hlinka, Bohuslav \u0160\u0165astn\u00fd, Ji\u0159\u00ed Kochta, Bed\u0159ich Bruncl\u00edk. Coaches: Jaroslav Pitner, Vladim\u00edr Kostka.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 71], "content_span": [72, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092518-0035-0000", "contents": "1971 Ice Hockey World Championships, Pool A statistics and team rosters\n3. SwedenGoalkeepers: Christer Abrahamsson, Leif Holmqvist, William L\u00f6fqvist. Defencemen: Arne Carlsson, Lennart Svedberg, Thommy Abrahamsson, Bert-Ola Nordlander, Thommie Bergman, Kjell-Rune Milton, Gunnar Andersson. Forwards: Inge Hammarstr\u00f6m, Stig-G\u00f6ran Johansson, Stefan Karlsson, Hans Lindberg, Tord Lundstr\u00f6m, Lars-G\u00f6ran Nilsson, H\u00e5kan Nygren, Bj\u00f6rn Palmqvist, H\u00e5kan Pettersson, Ulf Sterner, H\u00e5kan Wickberg. Coach: Arne Str\u00f6mberg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 71], "content_span": [72, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092518-0036-0000", "contents": "1971 Ice Hockey World Championships, Pool A statistics and team rosters\n4. FinlandGoalkeepers: Urpo Yl\u00f6nen, Jorma Valtonen. Defencemen: Ilpo Koskela, Seppo Lindstr\u00f6m, Hannu Luojola, Heikki J\u00e4rn, Pekka Marjam\u00e4ki, Jauko \u00d6ystil\u00e4. Forwards: Lauri Mononen, Erkki Mononen, Seppo Repo, Esa Isaksson, Jorma Vehmanen, Lasse Oksanen, Tommi Salmelainen, Veli-Pekka Ketola, Harri Linnonmaa, Matti Murto, Esa Peltonen, Juhani Tamminen. Coaches: Seppo Liitsola, Matias Helenius.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 71], "content_span": [72, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092518-0037-0000", "contents": "1971 Ice Hockey World Championships, Pool A statistics and team rosters\n5. GermanyGoalkeepers : Anton Kehle, Josef Schramm. Defencemen: Hans Schichti, Rudolf Thanner, Josef V\u00f6lk, Paul Langer, Otto Schneidberger, Erwin Riedmeier, Werner Modes. Forwards: Alois Schloder, Gustav Hanig, Bernd Kuhn, Anton Hofherr, Rainer Phillip, Lorenz Funk, Johann Eimannsberger, Franz Hofherr, Karl-Heinz Egger, Heinz Weisenbach, Klaus Ego. Coach: Gerhard Kiessling.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 71], "content_span": [72, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092518-0038-0000", "contents": "1971 Ice Hockey World Championships, Pool A statistics and team rosters\n6. United StatesGoalkeepers: Carl Wetzel, Mike Curran, Dick Tomasoni. Defencemen: George Konik, Jim McElmury, Don Ross, Bruce Riutta, Tom Mellor, Dick McGlynn. Forwards: Henry Boucha, Gary Gambucci, Craig Patrick, Craig Falkman, Keith Christiansen, Tim Sheehy, Leonard Lilyholm, Kevin Ahearn, Bob Lindberg, Paul Schilling, Pete Fichuk, Richard Toomey. Coach: Murray Williamson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 71], "content_span": [72, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092518-0039-0000", "contents": "1971 Ice Hockey World Championships, Ranking and statistics, European championships final standings\nThe final standings of the European championships according to IIHF:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 99], "content_span": [100, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092519-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Icelandic Cup\nThe 1971 Icelandic Cup was the 12th edition of the National Football Cup. Vikingur Reykjavik were winners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092519-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Icelandic Cup\nIt took place between 7 July 1969 and 9 December 1969, with the final played at Melav\u00f6llur in Reykjavik. The cup was important, as winners qualified for the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup (if a club won both the league and the cup, the defeated finalists would take their place in the Cup Winners' Cup).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092519-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Icelandic Cup\nClubs playing in Europe (\u00cdA Akranes and \u00cdBV Vestmannaeyjar) did not enter until the quarter finals. Other teams from the 1. Deild (1st division), entered at the fourth round. As with previous years, teams from the 2. Deild (2nd division) and 3. Deild played in one-legged matches. In case of a draw, the match was replayed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092519-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Icelandic Cup\nVikingur Reykjavik became the first 2. Deild team to win the competition, beating newly promoted Brei\u00f0ablik Kopavogur in the final by the narrowest of margins (1\u20130). It was the first national trophy for the club who had a memorable season: this trophy, promotion to the 1. Deild, and qualification for Europe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092520-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Icelandic parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections were held in Iceland on 13 June 1971. Although the Independence Party remained the largest party in the Lower House of the Althing, winning 15 of the 40 seats, Independence Party leader J\u00f3hann Hafstein resigned as Prime Minister the day after the elections as his party and its coalition partners had failed to win a majority of seats. \u00d3lafur J\u00f3hannesson of the Progressive Party succeeded him as Prime Minister, announcing the formation of a new coalition government on the same day. The new government's programme included expanding Icelandic fishing borders from 19 to 80 kilometers and gradually closing down Naval Air Station Keflavik but remaining committed to NATO membership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 745]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092521-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Idaho Vandals football team\nThe 1971 Idaho Vandals football team represented the University of Idaho in the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. The Vandals, led by second-year head coach Don Robbins, were members of the Big Sky Conference and played the final three of their five home games at the new Idaho Stadium, an outdoor facility on campus in Moscow, Idaho.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092521-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Idaho Vandals football team\nThe Vandals won their first outright conference title in 1971, which included an eight-game winning streak after opening with two losses. Idaho finished 8\u20133 in the regular season and 4\u20131 in the Big Sky. At the time, it was the best record in school history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092521-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Idaho Vandals football team, Notable games\nA third consecutive season opened without a home field, as the new Idaho Stadium was not quite finished and there was no suitable venue available on the Palouse. After the wooden Neale Stadium (1937) was condemned in August 1969, the Vandals played their limited schedule of Palouse home games at the wooden Rogers Field at WSU in nearby Pullman in 1969 and 1970. The primary (south) grandstand of Rogers burned in April 1970, and was razed in 1971; in its footprint Martin Stadium was constructed and opened in September 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092521-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Idaho Vandals football team, Notable games\nThe Vandals' season opener was a stunning 14\u201342 upset loss at Boise State in the first meeting between the two teams, creating an instant rivalry game. This was actually an Idaho \"home game\" moved south to Boise, because the new stadium in Moscow was behind schedule and not completed. Boise State had been a junior college program through 1967, moved up to NAIA in 1968 as an independent, and joined the NCAA \"college division\" (Division II) and Big Sky in 1970. Idaho had played a home game every season in Boise in the old wooden Bronco Stadium through 1968; this ended when Boise State joined the Big Sky.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 657]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092521-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Idaho Vandals football team, Notable games\nThe Colorado State game on September 25 was played at Joe Albi Stadium in Spokane, The Vandals shut out the CSU Rams 10\u20130 to begin their eight-game winning streak; the Rams' star running back was Lawrence McCutcheon, who was selected for multiple Pro Bowls while with the Los Angeles Rams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092521-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Idaho Vandals football team, Notable games\nThe new Idaho Stadium opened with a 40\u20133 Vandal victory over Idaho State on October 9. The unlit outdoor concrete stadium in Moscow replaced Neale Stadium in the same footprint and continued with a natural grass surface. It was the first game played on campus in nearly three years, the last was a win on November 2, 1968. Artificial turf, 3M Tartan Turf, was installed in 1972, and the facility was enclosed in 1975 to become the multi-purpose Kibbie Dome.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092521-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Idaho Vandals football team, Notable games\nAfter four consecutive road victories, the Vandals finished the 1971 season at home with a 40\u20132 victory over Montana State to wrap up the Big Sky title, and a disappointing 13\u201342 non-conference loss to Utah State in the finale. Boise State finished at 10\u20132 with a postseason win, but its two losses were in league play and finished second in the Big Sky at 4\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092521-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Idaho Vandals football team, Division I\nAlthough a charter member of a conference whose other members were \"college division\" (Division II) for football, Idaho maintained its status as a \"university division\" (Division I) program with the NCAA by playing only \"university division\" opponents in its non-conference schedule. That is why runner-up Boise State went to the Camellia Bowl in 1971, and when the Division II playoffs arrived in 1973, the Vandals were again ineligible, as they were in Division I. (Idaho was a member of the conference primarily for basketball, in Division I.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092521-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Idaho Vandals football team, Division I\nThe Big Sky moved up to the new Division I-AA in 1978, and Idaho was forced to move down. In 18 seasons in I-AA, the Vandals reached the post-season playoffs 11 times, missing only once in the final 11 seasons of 1985\u201395.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092521-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 Idaho Vandals football team, Division I\nIdaho returned to Division I-A in 1996 with a move to the Big West, and then to the WAC in 2005. (The Big West dropped football after 2000; Idaho was a \"football only\" member of the Sun Belt for four seasons, 2000\u201304.) The WAC dropped football after the 2012 season and Idaho athletics rejoined the Big Sky in 2013 for all sports except football, which was independent in 2013, rejoined the Sun Belt in 2014, and the Big Sky (FCS) in 2018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092521-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 Idaho Vandals football team, All-conference\nSix Vandals were named to the all-Big Sky team, two on offense and four on defense: halfback Fred Riley, guard Andy Kupp, defensive end Rick Simmons, noseguard Steve Barker, and linebackers Ron Linehan and Rand Marquess. The second team also had six Idaho players, with four on offense and two on defense: fullback Frank Doctor, wide receiver Jack Goddard, tackle Larry Bosma, center Ken Muhlbeier, defensive tackle Bill Cady, and defensive back Kelly Courage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092521-0011-0000", "contents": "1971 Idaho Vandals football team, All-conference\nLinehan's selection was his third consecutive, and he was also named the team's most valuable player. Three weeks after the season ended, he received a gunshot wound to his left side; he spent less than two days at Gritman hospital and was released. His younger brothers were also starters for the Vandals: Rick was the strong safety in the late 1970s and Scott was the quarterback in the mid-1980s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092521-0012-0000", "contents": "1971 Idaho Vandals football team, NFL Draft\nThree Vandal seniors were selected in the 1972 NFL Draft, which lasted seventeen rounds (442 selections).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092521-0013-0000", "contents": "1971 Idaho Vandals football team, NFL Draft\nOne junior was selected in the following year's draft in 1973, also seventeen rounds (442 selections).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092521-0014-0000", "contents": "1971 Idaho Vandals football team, NFL Draft\nTwo sophomores were selected in the 1974 NFL Draft, which lasted seventeen rounds (442 selections).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092522-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Illinois Fighting Illini football team\nThe 1971 Illinois Fighting Illini football team was an American football team that represented the University of Illinois during the 1971 Big Ten Conference football season. In their first year under head coach Bob Blackman, the Illini compiled a 5\u20136 record and finished in a three-way tie for third place in the Big Ten Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092522-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Illinois Fighting Illini football team\nThe team's offensive leaders were quarterback Mike Wells with 1,007 passing yards, running back John Wilson with 543 rushing yards, and wide receiver Garvin Roberson with 372 receiving yards. Punter/halfback Terry Masar was selected as the team's most valuable player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092523-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Indian Airlines hijacking\nOn 30 January 1971, an Indian Airlines domestic passenger airliner named Ganga, flying from Srinagar Airport to the Jammu-Satwari Airport, was hijacked by two Kashmiri separatists belonging to the National Liberation Front (NLF, the antecedent of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front). The hijackers were Hashim Qureshi and his cousin Ashraf Qureshi. The aircraft was flown to Lahore Airport in Pakistan where the passengers and the crew were released and the aircraft was burnt down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092523-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Indian Airlines hijacking\nGanga was one of the oldest aircraft in the Indian Airlines fleet and was already withdrawn from service but was re-inducted days before the hijacking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092523-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Indian Airlines hijacking\nIndia retaliated to the hijacking and subsequent burning by banning overflights of Pakistani aircraft over Indian territory. The ban, occurring in the run-up to the December 1971 war between the countries, had a significant impact on troop movement into the erstwhile East Pakistan, now Bangladesh. Pakistan reacted by charging the hijackers and other NLF militants with conspiracy. The crackdown severely weakened the militant organisation. Subsequently, the leader of the movement, Amanullah Khan, moved to Britain, where he established a new organisation called the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 635]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092523-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Indian Airlines hijacking, Planning\nHashim Qureshi, a Srinagar resident who went to Peshawar on family business in 1969, met Maqbool Bhat of the National Liberation Front (NLF), a self-declared 'armed wing' of the Azad Kashmir Plebiscite Front. Qureshi was persuaded to join the NLF and given an ideological education and lessons in guerrilla tactics in Rawalpindi. In order to draw the world's attention to the Kashmiri independence movement, the NLF planned an airline hijacking fashioned after the Dawson's Field hijackings by the Palestinian militants. Hashim Qureshi, along with his cousin Ashraf Qureshi, was ordered to execute one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 643]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092523-0003-0001", "contents": "1971 Indian Airlines hijacking, Planning\nA former Pakistani air force pilot Jamshed Manto trained him for the task. However, Qureshi was arrested by the Indian Border Security Force when he tried to reenter the Indian-administered Kashmir with arms and equipment. He negotiated his way out by claiming to help find other conspirators that were allegedly in the Indian territory, and sought an appointment in the Border Security Force to provide such help. Maqbool Bhat sent replacement equipment for the hijacking, but it fell into the hands of a double agent, who then turned it over to the Indian authorities. Undeterred, the Qureshis made look-alike explosives out of wood and hijacked an Indian Airlines aircraft called Ganga on 30 January 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 749]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092523-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Indian Airlines hijacking, Burning\nThe hijackers landed the aircraft at Lahore and demanded the release of 36 NLF prisoners lodged in Indian jails. However, they succumbed to pressure from the airport authorities and ended up releasing all the passengers and the crew. Years later, Ashraf Qureshi admitted that they were naive and didn't realise that \"the passengers were more important than the actual aircraft.\" Pakistani Minister Zulfikar Bhutto showed up at the airport and paid a handsome tribute to the hijackers. Indian Government then refused to carry out the demands. The aircraft lay on the tarmac for eighty hours, during which the Pakistani security personnel thoroughly searched the aircraft and removed papers and postal bags they found in it. Eventually, upon the advice of the authorities, Hashim Qureshi burnt the aircraft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 845]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092523-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Indian Airlines hijacking, Crackdown\nFor some time, the Qureshis were lauded as heroes. After India reacted by banning overflight of Pakistani aircraft over India, the Pakistani authorities claimed that the hijack was staged by India, and arrested the hijackers and all their collaborators. A one-man investigation committee headed by Justice Noorul Arifeen declared the hijacking to be an Indian conspiracy, citing Qureshi's appointment in the Border Security Force. In addition to the hijackers, Maqbool Bhat and 150 other NLF fighters were arrested. Seven people were eventually brought to trial (the rest being held without charges).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 642]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092523-0005-0001", "contents": "1971 Indian Airlines hijacking, Crackdown\nThe High Court acquitted all of them of treason charges. Hashim Qureshi alone was convicted of terrorism and sentenced to seven years in prison. Ironically, Ashraf Qureshi was released even though he was an equal participant in the hijacking. This is said to have been due to a deal made by Zulikar Bhutto, by now the President of Pakistan, who declared that he would convict one hijacker but release the other.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092523-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Indian Airlines hijacking, Crackdown\nAmanullah Khan, the leader of the Plebiscite Front, was also imprisoned for 15 months in a Gilgit prison during 1970\u201372, accused of being an Indian agent. He was released after protests broke out in Gilgit. Thirteen of his colleagues were sentenced to 14 years in prison, but released after a year. According to Hashim Qureshi, 400 activists of the Plebiscite Front and NLF were arrested in Pakistan after the Ganga hijacking. Abdul Khaliq Ansari, who was arrested and tortured, testified in the High Court that the Ganga hijacking had emboldened the people to question the corrupt practices of the Azad Kashmir leaders and, in reaction, the government arrested them and forced them to confess to being Indian agents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 759]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092523-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Indian Airlines hijacking, Crackdown\nTo escape the close surveillance and pressure from the Pakistan government, Amanullah Khan and Abdul Khaliq Ansari moved to the UK, where they found active support from the Mirpuri diaspora. Khan converted the UK branch of the Plebiscite Front into a new organisation Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front, which eventually spearheaded the Kashmir insurgency in the 1980s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092524-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Indian Ocean Vickers Viscount crash\nOn 10 November 1971, a Merpati Nusantara Airlines Vickers Viscount, registration PK-MVS, crashed in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia, after telling air traffic controllers they could not make their destination due to bad weather. All 69 people aboard the aircraft were killed in the crash. It remains the third worst Vickers Viscount accident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092524-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Indian Ocean Vickers Viscount crash, Accident\nThe aircraft was flying between Kemayoran Airport in Jakarta, Indonesia, and Tabing Airport, the former airport of Padang, Indonesia. Five minutes before it was scheduled to arrive at Padang, air traffic controllers lost radio contact with the flight. Controllers at Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin II Airport, Palembang, Sumatra, reported the aircraft issued a distress signal. The flight crew reportedly said they could not land at Padang because of poor weather and bad visibility. The aircraft subsequently crashed into the Indian Ocean, killing all 62 passengers and seven crew aboard the aircraft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092524-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Indian Ocean Vickers Viscount crash, Passengers and crew\nAll the passengers aboard the aircraft were Indonesian nationals, except for a German doctor and his wife, and a British helicopter pilot who was employed in Indonesia. Eight children were also aboard the flight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 61], "content_span": [62, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092524-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Indian Ocean Vickers Viscount crash, Aftermath\nThree days after the accident pieces of the wreckage were found floating 75 miles off Sumatra, Indonesia. Fisherman found seats of the aircraft between the Beringin and Katang-Katang islands. An Indonesian Navy boat also recovered clothes and uninflated life rafts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 51], "content_span": [52, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092525-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Indian Rajya Sabha elections\nRajya Sabha elections were held on various dates in 1971, to elect members of the Rajya Sabha, Indian Parliament's upper chamber.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092525-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Indian Rajya Sabha elections, Elections, Members elected\nThe following members are elected in the elections held in 1971. They are members for the term 1971-1977 and retire in year 1977, except in case of the resignation or death before the term. The list is incomplete.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092525-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Indian Rajya Sabha elections, Bye-elections\nThe following bye elections were held in the year 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092526-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Indian general election\nGeneral elections were held in India between 1 and 10 March 1971 to elect members of the 5th Lok Sabha. They were the fifth general elections since independence in 1947. The 27 Indian states and union territories were represented by 518 constituencies, each with a single seat. Under the leadership of Indira Gandhi, the Indian National Congress (R) led a campaign which focused on reducing poverty and won a landslide victory, overcoming a split in the party and regaining many of the seats lost in the previous election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092526-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Indian general election, Background, Congress party split\nDuring her previous term, there had been internal divisions in the Indian National Congress between Indira Gandhi and the party establishment, especially Morarji Desai. In 1969, she was expelled from the party, causing a split. Most of the Congress MPs and grassroots support joined Gandhi's INC(R) faction, which was recognised by the Election Commission as being the successor to the previous party. 31 MPs who opposed Gandhi formed Indian National Congress (Organization) party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 62], "content_span": [63, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092526-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Indian general election, Background, Opposition alliance\nINC(O) formed a pre-poll alliance with Samyukta Socialist Party (SSP), Praja Socialist Party (PSP), Swatantra Party and Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) to defeat Gandhi's party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 61], "content_span": [62, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092526-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Indian general election, Results\nDespite the split, the Ruling faction gained votes and seats to win a strong majority, while the Grand Alliance was badly trounced and lost more than half of their seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092526-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Indian general election, Aftermath\nOn 12 June 1975, the Allahabad High Court invalidated the result in Gandhi's constituency on the grounds of electoral malpractices. Instead of resigning, Indira Gandhi called a state of emergency, suspending democracy and outlawed political opposition. After democracy was restored in 1977, the opposition Congress faction formed a coalition of parties called the Janata Party, which inflicted the Congress' first electoral defeat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092527-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Indian general election in Andhra Pradesh\nThe 1971 Indian general election polls in Andhra Pradesh were held for 42 seats in the state. The result was a victory for the Indian National Congress which won 28 out of 42 seats. This election also saw introduction of Telangana Praja Samithi which won 10 out of the 14 seats it contested, mostly in the Telangana region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092528-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Indian general election in Bihar\nVijoy 15 million people voted in the state of Bihar in the 1971 Indian general election, a turnout of 49%. The Indian National Congress won 39 seats from a total of 53.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092529-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Indian general election in Gujarat\nGeneral elections were held in India to constitute the 5th Lok Sabha in March 1971. This was the fifth election since independence in 1947. The 27 Indian states and union territories were represented by 518 constituencies, each with a single seat. Under the leadership of Indira Gandhi, the Indian National Congress (R) led a campaign which focused on reducing poverty and won a landslide victory, overcoming a split in the party and regaining many of the seats lost in the previous election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092529-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Indian general election in Gujarat\nIn Gujrat, INC wins 11 seats, new party NCO wins 11 seats but swatantra party wins only 2 seats lower than the last election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092530-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Indian general election in Jammu and Kashmir\nThe 1971 Indian general election in Jammu and Kashmir to the 5th Lok Sabha were held for 6 seats. Indian National Congress won 5 seats and an independent candidate from Srinagar constituency won 1 seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092531-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Indian general election in Odisha\nThe 1971 Indian general election in Odisha were held for 20 seats with the state going to the polls in the first two phases of the general elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092531-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Indian general election in Odisha\nThe major contenders in the state were the Indian National Congress and the Swatantra Party. The third front parties contesting in the state were the Utkal Congress, the Left parties. The assembly elections were held simultaneously with the general elections in the state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092531-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Indian general election in Odisha\nBiju Patnaik was close to Indira Gandhi. However, they clashed in 1969 over the Presidential election. He left the Congress and formed a regional party called Utkal Congress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092531-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Indian general election in Odisha, Voting and results, List of elected MPs\nKeys:\u00a0\u00a0INC \u00a0\u00a0Swatantra Party \u00a0\u00a0Communist Party of India \u00a0\u00a0Utkal Congress", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 79], "content_span": [80, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092532-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Indian general election in Tamil Nadu\nThe 1971 Indian general election polls in Tamil Nadu were held for 39 seats in the state. After winning in 1967, DMK supported the Congress party under Indira Gandhi, and the 25 DMK MPs, ensured her to stay in power as a minority government, from 1969\u20131971. This state was crucial for Indira Gandhi to hold, in order for her to stay in power.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092532-0000-0001", "contents": "1971 Indian general election in Tamil Nadu\nThe result was a victory for Indian National Congress (Indira) and its ally Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam winning 38 seats (with 5 seats going to the Left Front), while Opposition Congress and Swatantra Party could only win 1 seat. DMK won every seat it contested except the seat contested by K. Kamarajar in Nagercoil.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092533-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Indiana Hoosiers football team\nThe 1971 Indiana Hoosiers football team represented the Indiana Hoosiers in the 1971 Big Ten Conference football season. The Hoosiers played their home games at Seventeenth Street Stadium in Bloomington, Indiana. The team was coached by John Pont, in his seventh year as head coach of the Hoosiers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092533-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Indiana Hoosiers football team, First one-point safety\nThe first known occurrence of a one-point safety (conversion safety) was in an NCAA game on October 2, 1971, scored by Syracuse in the first quarter of a game at Indiana. On a point-after-touchdown kick, the ball was kicked almost straight up in the air. An Indiana player illegally batted the ball in the end zone (a spot foul defensive penalty). Syracuse won the game, 7\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092533-0001-0001", "contents": "1971 Indiana Hoosiers football team, First one-point safety\nThe 1970 rulebook (Rule 8-5-3) stated, \"If a scrimmage kick fails to cross the neutral zone, or crosses the neutral zone and is first touched by Team B, or is untouched and then rebounds into the end zone where it is recovered by Team A, it is a safety,\" and (8-5-4) \"If the penalty for a foul committed when the ball is free leaves the ball behind a goal line, it is a safety if behind the offender's goal line.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 59], "content_span": [60, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092534-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Indianapolis 500\nThe 55th 500 Mile International Sweepstakes was held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana on Saturday, May 29, 1971. Al Unser, Sr. won for the second consecutive year, dominating most of the race. The race was marred by a crash involving the pace car at the start. Eldon Palmer, a local Indianapolis-area Dodge dealer, lost control of the Dodge Challenger pace car at the south end of the pit area, and it crashed into a photographers' stand, injuring 29 people, two seriously.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092534-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Indianapolis 500\nPeter Revson started on the pole with a record speed of 178.696 miles per hour (287.6\u00a0km/h), more than a mile per hour faster than any other qualifier, with defending champ Al Unser in the middle of the second row. Mark Donohue, who qualified in the middle of the front row, took the lead at the start of the race and led the first 50 laps. A mechanical issue ended his day after just 66 laps, and Unser assumed the lead. He and Joe Leonard swapped the lead several times during the middle portion of the race, but Unser led for the final 83 laps, giving him a win for the second year in a row. He was the first to successfully defend his title since Bill Vukovich in 1954.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 695]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092534-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Indianapolis 500\nUnser became the first and only driver to date to win the race on his birthday (32nd); it was the second of his four Indy victories, and he also became the first winner to celebrate in the new victory lane. The new winner's area, now featuring black and white checkered ramps, was moved from the south end of the pits to the \"horseshoe\" area immediately below the Master Control Tower, near the start/finish line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092534-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Indianapolis 500\nThe 1971 Indy 500 was part of the newly re-organized USAC Marlboro Championship Trail, in which dirt tracks were separated from the paved ovals and road courses. From then on, the Gold Crown championship schedule would consist solely of paved tracks (both ovals and road courses), giving the national championship a decidedly new look for the 1970s and beyond. In addition, with 500-mile races at Ontario and Pocono now on the schedule, Indy car racing formed its first \"triple crown.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092534-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Indianapolis 500\nThe city of Indianapolis celebrated its Sesquicentennial in 1971, and the occasion was reflected on the bronze and silver pit badges for the month of May. During the week leading up to the race, Indianapolis was also the site of 1971 NATO International Conference of Cities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092534-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Indianapolis 500, Race schedule\n* Includes days where trackactivity was significantlylimited due to rain", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092534-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Indianapolis 500, Race schedule\nIn the days leading up to the race, Speedway officials announced that female reporters would be allowed in the pit area and garage area for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092534-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Indianapolis 500, Race schedule\nThis and the next running in 1972 were held on a Saturday instead of its traditional May 30 date as Memorial Day was permanently moved to the last Monday in May starting with 1971. In 1973, it went to the Memorial Day Monday holiday itself before permanently being moved to the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend in 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092534-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Indianapolis 500, Time trials\nFor the first time, USAC firmed up the rules regarding pole day qualifying. As had been done in previous years, a blind draw would be held to determine the order of qualifying on pole day. However, starting in 1971, all drivers/cars in the original qualifying draw order would be allowed the opportunity to make at least one attempt in the pole round regardless if rain halted the session and pushed it off to another day. Previously, if rain interrupted the qualifying line on pole day, any cars left in the original qualifying order at the time the track closed (due to rain or at the 6 o'clock gun) were simply out of luck, and had to qualify on the next round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 34], "content_span": [35, 699]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092534-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 Indianapolis 500, Time trials\nDuring practice, McLaren arrived at the track with the new M16 chassis, drawing attention and some controversy due to presence of a large rear wing affixed to the engine cover. USAC rules through 1971 required that any aerodynamic devices were to be an integral part of the bodywork. After inspection, officials ultimately approved the device, as McLaren argued it was part of the engine cover. The engine cover was not much more than a flat, plate-like shape that ran along the top of the engine, with the wing affixed to the rear. As practice began, the McLaren entries quickly established themselves as favorites for the pole position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 34], "content_span": [35, 673]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092534-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 Indianapolis 500, Time trials, Pole Day - Saturday May 15\nMcLaren M16 cars dominated qualifying during a record-shattering afternoon. The chassis took 1st, 2nd, and 4th starting positions, with Peter Revson the surprise pole position winner. Revson's four-lap track record of 178.696\u00a0mph put the pole position far out of reach for the rest of the field. Penske Racing driver Mark Donohue (177.087\u00a0mph) qualified for the middle of the front row, while Bobby Unser in an Eagle chassis, squeezed between the McLaren cars by qualifying third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 62], "content_span": [63, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092534-0011-0000", "contents": "1971 Indianapolis 500, Time trials, Second Day - Sunday May 16\nThree drivers completed runs, with Bud Tingelstad (170.156\u00a0mph) the fastest of the afternoon. Mike Mosley returned after two crashes the previous day, and qualified solidly over 169\u00a0mph.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 62], "content_span": [63, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092534-0012-0000", "contents": "1971 Indianapolis 500, Time trials, Third Day - Saturday May 22\nA busy day saw the field filled to 33 cars car. The day concluded with Steve Krisiloff bumping out rookie Sam Posey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 63], "content_span": [64, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092534-0013-0000", "contents": "1971 Indianapolis 500, Time trials, Bump Day - Sunday May 23\nStrong winds kept speeds down, and only three drivers successfully bumped their way into the field. The windy conditions led to six crashes, and hopefuls waited until the final 45 minutes before they took to the track. The session started out with Mel Kenyon bumping out Carl Williams. Bob Harkey bumped Dick Simon, and Art Pollard got back into the field by bumping Jim McElreath.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 60], "content_span": [61, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092534-0014-0000", "contents": "1971 Indianapolis 500, Time trials, Bump Day - Sunday May 23\nJim Hurtubise once again tried to qualify his front-engined roadster, but on his second lap, hit the outside wall at the head of the main stretch. His first two laps would not have been fast enough to bump his way in. The day ended as Dick Simon (waved off) and Jerry Grant (waved off) made unsuccessful attempts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 60], "content_span": [61, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092534-0015-0000", "contents": "1971 Indianapolis 500, Time trials, Bump Day - Sunday May 23\nAfter qualifying, car owner Dick Simon announced he was going to take over the machine qualified by John Mahler. By rule, the car must move to the rear of the grid (33rd) on race day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 60], "content_span": [61, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092534-0016-0000", "contents": "1971 Indianapolis 500, Pace car crash\nFor 1971, none of the Big Three auto manufacturers chose to supply a pace car for the Indianapolis 500, as the muscle car market had dried up and marketing efforts were shifted elsewhere. Four local Indianapolis-area Dodge dealers, spearheaded by Eldon Palmer, stepped up to supply the fleet of pace cars. The vehicle chosen was the Dodge Challenger 383-4V. Palmer was chosen to drive the pace car at the start of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 37], "content_span": [38, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092534-0017-0000", "contents": "1971 Indianapolis 500, Pace car crash\nIn preparation for the race, Palmer supposedly set up an orange flag (sometimes reported as an orange traffic cone) in the pit lane to provide himself with a braking reference point. However, there has been some dispute regarding the existence of the marker at all. During the parade and pace lap, Tony Hulman, ABC broadcaster Chris Schenkel, and John Glenn served as passengers in the car. Palmer practiced the run the day before the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 37], "content_span": [38, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092534-0018-0000", "contents": "1971 Indianapolis 500, Pace car crash\nAs the field came down the main stretch for the start, Palmer pulled into the pits and accelerated down the pit lane. Palmer continued to accelerate, under the impression he was required to cross the start/finish line in the pit area prior to the race cars doing so out on the track. His reference flag (or cone) had been removed and he missed his planned braking spot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 37], "content_span": [38, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092534-0018-0001", "contents": "1971 Indianapolis 500, Pace car crash\nMoving upwards of perhaps 125 miles per hour (201\u00a0km/h), Palmer realized he was going too fast, and rather than perilously veering back on to the racing surface, he braked heavily and lost control. Palmer had refused to blame the car, stating afterwards that \"the equipment was good, disc brakes. I just didn't have enough track to stop.\" The car swerved and skidded to the end of the pit lane, and crashed into a photographers' stand. The stand toppled and collapsed, injuring 29 people, but no one was killed. Dr. Vicente Alvarez, a freelance photographer from Argentina, was one of two on the stand who were seriously injured. Alvarez survived, and died in the late 1990s. Tony Hulman suffered a sprained ankle, and a shaken Schenkel sat out the remainder of the ABC broadcast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 37], "content_span": [38, 818]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092534-0019-0000", "contents": "1971 Indianapolis 500, Pace car crash\nPalmer maintained possession of the car, and eventually it was repaired and restored. Indiana businessman Steven Cage purchased the vehicle in 2006, and it currently is displayed at his RPM Collection in Fishers, Indiana. Reactions of the accident were very critical afterwards, and for the next several years, the pace car drivers selected were either former Indy drivers or people with racing experience. Palmer passed away on June 30, 2016 at age 87 from an unspecified illness.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 37], "content_span": [38, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092534-0020-0000", "contents": "1971 Indianapolis 500, Race details, First half\nDespite the pace car crash near the exit of the pits, the green light came on, and the race continued underway. Mark Donohue grabbed the lead from the middle of the front row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 47], "content_span": [48, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092534-0021-0000", "contents": "1971 Indianapolis 500, Race details, First half\nOn lap 12, Steve Krisiloff blew an engine, spilling oil in turn three. Mel Kenyon slid in the oil making contact with the turn three wall. Gordon Johncock and Mario Andretti continued to race each other through three yellow lights. When they arrived at turn three, track workers were on the scene beside the Kenyon machine. Having not heeded the yellow lights, both Johncock and Andretti slid in the oil with Johncock crashing into the Kenyon car, running over the top of it and destroying both cars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 47], "content_span": [48, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092534-0021-0001", "contents": "1971 Indianapolis 500, Race details, First half\nKenyon, fortunately, had seen Johncock coming and dropped back down into the cockpit of his race car. Johncocks car left a tire mark on the top of Kenyon's helmet. The only injury received by Kenyon was a small cut on his shin from the dash board being pushed down onto his legs. All four cars were out of the race, and the yellow light was on for 19 minutes to clean up the accident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 47], "content_span": [48, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092534-0022-0000", "contents": "1971 Indianapolis 500, Race details, First half\nDonohue led the first 50 laps, then the lead traded hands during pit stops between Joe Leonard, Bobby Unser, as well as Al Unser. After leading a total of 52 laps, Mark Donohue dropped out on lap 66 with broken gears. He came to a stop in turn four, and parked the car in the infield, just north of the entrance to the pits.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 47], "content_span": [48, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092534-0023-0000", "contents": "1971 Indianapolis 500, Race details, Second half\nOn lap 111, David Hobbs blew an engine on the main stretch. Rick Muther spun in the oil, his car veered to the inside wall, then bounced across the track, hitting Hobbs, and lifting up on two wheels. Hobbs' car was pushed head-on into the wall, but he was not seriously injured. Both cars slid down the main stretch, and came to a rest just beyond the start/finish line. The track was blocked except for a narrow portion on the inside where other cars were able to skirt by. The incident happened right in front of Al Unser, who was the leading the race at the moment. The yellow light came on for 12 minutes to clean up the crash.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 48], "content_span": [49, 680]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092534-0024-0000", "contents": "1971 Indianapolis 500, Race details, Second half\nAfter a series of pit stops by the leaders under the yellow, the green eventually came back out with Al Unser leading.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 48], "content_span": [49, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092534-0025-0000", "contents": "1971 Indianapolis 500, Race details, Second half\nWith less than 40 laps to go, Al Unser continued to lead, with Peter Revson second, Bobby Unser third, and A. J. Foyt fourth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 48], "content_span": [49, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092534-0026-0000", "contents": "1971 Indianapolis 500, Race details, Second half\nOn lap 167, Mike Mosley lost a wheel in turn 4. He smacked the outside wall in turn four hard, then bounced across the track and hit the inside wall. Leader Al Unser was ahead of the crash, and second place Peter Revson just slipped by. Third place Bobby Unser spun to avoid Mosley, and hit the outside wall. Mosley's car then crashed into the parked cars of Mark Donohue and Steve Krisiloff, that were sitting near the entrance to the pits.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 48], "content_span": [49, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092534-0026-0001", "contents": "1971 Indianapolis 500, Race details, Second half\nA fire broke out, at which time 8th running Gary Bettenhausen stopped his car, and ran to the scene to help. Fire crews quickly doused the flames, and Mosley suffered a broken leg. Bill Vukovich II also spun to the avoid the crash, but he was able to continue. The yellow remained on for 22 minutes to clean up the crash.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 48], "content_span": [49, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092534-0027-0000", "contents": "1971 Indianapolis 500, Race details, Second half\nThe green light came back on with less than 20 laps to go. Al Unser held a comfortable lead, and won his second 500 in a row. Despite four yellows for 53 minutes (about 48 laps), the average speed of 157.735\u00a0mph was a new record at the time. Bettenhausen, who finished 10th, was given a cheer at the finish for stopping to help Donohue and Unser on lap 164.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 48], "content_span": [49, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092534-0028-0000", "contents": "1971 Indianapolis 500, Broadcasting, Radio\nThe race was carried live on the IMS Radio Network. It was carried on over 1,200 affiliates, including shortwave transmission to Europe, Asia, and Vietnam. The broadcast reached an estimated 100 million listeners worldwide. Sid Collins served as chief announcer and Len Sutton served as \"driver expert.\" At the conclusion of the race, Lou Palmer reported from victory lane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 42], "content_span": [43, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092534-0029-0000", "contents": "1971 Indianapolis 500, Broadcasting, Radio\nThe entire on-air crew remained mostly consistent from 1966 to 1970. Bob Forbes was assigned as \"wireless\" microphone, covering the garages and roving reports. The pre-race coverage was 30 minutes long. In a departure from previous years, Sid Collins decided to eliminate booth interviews with celebrities during the race. The only exception was an interview with Hugh Downs, but that was during the post-race coverage. In addition, Luke Walton interviewed Evel Knievel in the pit area during the early stages of the race. Knievel was making his first visit to the 500, as a guest of the A. J. Foyt team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 42], "content_span": [43, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092534-0030-0000", "contents": "1971 Indianapolis 500, Broadcasting, Radio\nChief Announcer: Sid CollinsDriver expert: Len SuttonStatistician: John DeCampHistorian: Donald Davidson", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 42], "content_span": [43, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092534-0031-0000", "contents": "1971 Indianapolis 500, Broadcasting, Radio\nTurn 1: Mike AhernTurn 2: Howdy BellBackstretch: Doug ZinkTurn 3: Ron CarrellTurn 4: Jim Shelton", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 42], "content_span": [43, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092534-0032-0000", "contents": "1971 Indianapolis 500, Broadcasting, Television\nFor the first time, the race was carried in the United States the same day the race was held, on ABC Sports on a same-day tape delay basis. The race was held in the afternoon, and the broadcast aired in prime time later in the day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 47], "content_span": [48, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092534-0033-0000", "contents": "1971 Indianapolis 500, Broadcasting, Television\nThe broadcast totaled two hours, and came on-air at 8:30\u00a0p.m. (eastern). Among the notable appearances, was David Letterman, at the time employed by then-ABC Indianapolis affiliate WLWI, who served as a roving turn reporter. Letterman interviewed Mario Andretti after he dropped out of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 47], "content_span": [48, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092534-0034-0000", "contents": "1971 Indianapolis 500, Broadcasting, Television\nChris Schenkel began what would be a decade-long tenure as host, while Jim McKay anchor the broadcast as play-by-play announcer. But Schenkel's day as host was short. Riding in (and broadcasting from) the pace car at the start of the race, he was slightly injured when the pace car crashed after coming into the pits at the start of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 47], "content_span": [48, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092534-0035-0000", "contents": "1971 Indianapolis 500, Broadcasting, Television\nThe broadcast has re-aired numerous times on ESPN Classic since February 2002.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 47], "content_span": [48, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092535-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Indianapolis mayoral election\nThe Indianapolis mayoral election of 1971 took place on November 2, 1971. This was the first election after the creation of the Unigov. Incumbent Republican Richard Lugar was reelected to a second term. Lugar's challenger had been Democrat John Neff, a former state senator. Neff had campaigned in opposition to the Unigov, promising to seek its abolishment if elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092536-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Individual Ice Speedway World Championship\nThe 1971 Individual Ice Speedway World Championship was the sixth edition of the World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092536-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Individual Ice Speedway World Championship\nThe winner was Gabdrakhman Kadyrov of the Soviet Union for the fourth time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092537-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Individual Long Track World Championship\nThe 1971 Individual Long Track World Championship was the first edition of the FIM speedway Individual Long Track World Championship. The event was held on 1 September 1971 in Oslo, Norway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092537-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Individual Long Track World Championship\nThe world title was won by Ivan Mauger of New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092538-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Individual Speedway World Championship\nThe 1971 Individual Speedway World Championship was the 26th edition of the official World Championship to determine the world champion rider.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092538-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Individual Speedway World Championship\nOle Olsen became the first Danish winner of the Championship. His 15 point maximum denied Ivan Mauger from winning a fourth consecutive title. Mauger won the silver medal run-off against Bengt Jansson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092538-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Individual Speedway World Championship, Format changes\nThe format of the Championship changed again for the 1971 event. This time the Swedish riders were allowed six places in the World Final to be held in Sweden. All other nations had to go through the European Final route to provide the remaining 10 riders for the World Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 59], "content_span": [60, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092538-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Individual Speedway World Championship, Second Round, British/Commonwealth Final\nm - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022 t - exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022 x - other exclusion \u2022 e - retired or mechanical failure \u2022 f - fell \u2022 ns - non-starter \u2022 nc - non-classify", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 85], "content_span": [86, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092538-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Individual Speedway World Championship, Second Round, Nordic Final\nm - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022 t - exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022 x - other exclusion \u2022 e - retired or mechanical failure \u2022 f - fell \u2022 ns - non-starter \u2022 nc - non-classify", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 71], "content_span": [72, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092538-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Individual Speedway World Championship, Third Round, British/Commonwealth/Nordic Final\nm - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022 t - exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022 x - other exclusion \u2022 e - retired or mechanical failure \u2022 f - fell \u2022 ns - non-starter \u2022 nc - non-classify", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 91], "content_span": [92, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092538-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Individual Speedway World Championship, Third Round, Continental Final\nm - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022 t - exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022 x - other exclusion \u2022 e - retired or mechanical failure \u2022 f - fell \u2022 ns - non-starter \u2022 nc - non-classify", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 75], "content_span": [76, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092538-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Individual Speedway World Championship, Fourth Round, Swedish Finals\nThree races held on 1 June at Eskilstuna, 2 June at Norrk\u00f6ping and 3 June in Stockholm", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 73], "content_span": [74, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092538-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Individual Speedway World Championship, Fourth Round, European Final\nm - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022 t - exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022 x - other exclusion \u2022 e - retired or mechanical failure \u2022 f - fell \u2022 ns - non-starter \u2022 nc - non-classify", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 73], "content_span": [74, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092538-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 Individual Speedway World Championship, World Final\nm - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022 t - exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022 x - other exclusion \u2022 e - retired or mechanical failure \u2022 f - fell \u2022 ns - non-starter \u2022 nc - non-classify", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 56], "content_span": [57, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092538-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 Individual Speedway World Championship, World Final\nNote\u00a0: Vladimir Gordeev was disqualified after illegal additives were found in his fuel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 56], "content_span": [57, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092539-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Indonesian legislative election\nLegislative elections were held in Indonesia on 3 July 1971, the first under the New Order regime. There were ten participants; nine political parties and the \"functional group\" Golkar, which came first with more than 60 percent of the vote, resulting in an absolute majority in the People's Representative Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092539-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Indonesian legislative election, Background\nIn March 1966, President Sukarno signed a document giving Army commander Suharto authority to restore order. Suharto used this document to ban the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI), which was officially blamed for the coup attempt the previous September. In June, the Provisional People's Consultative Assembly (MPRS) passed a resolution calling for elections to be held by 5 June 1968. Two years later, the People's Consultative Assembly elected Suharto president. The army-backed New Order regime subsequently announced that the Golkar organisation would be its political vehicle. The regime stressed that Golkar (\"Functional Groups\") was not a political party. In order to give General Ali Murtopo, a member of Suharto's personal staff, time to turn Golkar into an organisation fit to command a majority in the legislature, the general election originally planned for no later than 5 July 1968 was postponed to no later than 5 July 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 990]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092539-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Indonesian legislative election, Background\nAfter a time with no word from the government concerning the forthcoming election, on 22 October 1968, the Sinar Harapan daily reported a statement by President Suharto to the effect that the government had begun to take the necessary steps to organise the poll. A General Election Board was established in mid-1969 headed by Minister of Home Affairs Amir Machmud. On 23 September 1970, the ballot paper numbers and electoral symbols for the 10 election participants were announced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092539-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Indonesian legislative election, Background\nA total of 6,000 tons of paper, 6 ships, 45,000 motor vehicles and 793,036 ballot boxes (lockable to ensure secrecy of the ballot) were needed for the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092539-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Indonesian legislative election, Campaign, Regulations and restrictions\nOn 25 April, Home Affairs Minister Amir Machmud spoke on television and asked all election participants to campaign for national, not party issues. The official campaign ran from 27 April to 25 June. Election participants were forbidden to question the state Pancasila ideology or the 1945 Constitution. Also banned were disrespectful comments about the government, state officials or foreign countries. Permission for election rallies had to be obtained in advance, and all election materials had to be submitted to the authorities for approval.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 76], "content_span": [77, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092539-0004-0001", "contents": "1971 Indonesian legislative election, Campaign, Regulations and restrictions\nThere was also a specific ban on \"partisan use\" of the name of former president Sukarno, which affected the PNI campaign in particular. The seven-day period after the end of the campaign was a \"calming down\" period, with no campaigning and all election posters within 300 meters of polling stations being removed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 76], "content_span": [77, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092539-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Indonesian legislative election, Campaign, Themes and goals\nMost of the main theme for campaign by the political parties were democracy and development. The Catholic Party promoted their \"Three Programs\", which included democracy, reform, and development. Their campaign head was I. J. Kasimo, who stated that the main goal for the Catholic Party was to protect human rights in Indonesia. Similar to their Catholic counterpart, the Indonesian Christian Party also promoted human rights, also campaigning for regional autonomy, and the equal partnership of the army, Golkar, and political parties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092539-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Indonesian legislative election, Campaign, Themes and goals\nNationalist and socialist political parties, such as the Indonesian National Party (PNI) and Murba Party also emphasized the need to implement the state Pancasila ideology and the Constitution of Indonesia. In a speech on national television, PNI leader Usep Ranawidjaja stated that Pancasila and constitution were the basic things that the government need to run the country and carry out the people's will. He also stated that democracy in the political system of Indonesia had to be implemented with all of its consequences.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092539-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Indonesian legislative election, Campaign, Themes and goals\nIslamic political parties, such as Parmusi, Nahdlatul Ulama, and the Indonesian Islamic Union Party (PSII), also adopted a main campaign theme similar to other political parties. Parmusi, the newest party in the elections, stated on 17 March 1971, that the party would not establish an Islamic state or another new country, but would continue to defend Pancasila and the constitution. The party also stated that it supported the five-year plan of the government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092539-0007-0001", "contents": "1971 Indonesian legislative election, Campaign, Themes and goals\nNahdlatul Ulama stated on national television on 29 April 1971 that one of its main goals for the election was to enforce and uphold Sharia and the belief in God according to Pancasila. The party also supported the idea of villages as the basis for development, and industrialization as a way to end unemployment. The PSII campaigned for the election to be a way to exemplify the democratic system in Indonesia. Even though it was an Islamic party, the PSII focused its campaign on constitutional rather than religious matters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092539-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Indonesian legislative election, Campaign, Themes and goals\nUnlike the other Islamic parties, Perti did not have any grandiose promises or ideals. Instead, it focused its campaign on rural matters, such as irrigation, roads, and agricultural matters. They insisted that problems in those sectors should be fixed immediately by the government. Perti itself viewed the elections as a way to educate the citizens to understand their rights and duties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092539-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 Indonesian legislative election, Campaign, Themes and goals\nMeanwhile, Golkar, which was an organization rather than a political party in the election, used its five-point political statement as the main basis for its campaign. The political statement stated that Golkar would implement a system of democracy based on Pancasila, form a new and clean government, hold further elections, and secure the national revolution. Golkar further stated that \"the new history of Indonesia was made possible by the cooperation of the army, people, and Golkar\", and promised that Golkar would not be divided based on ideology, but rather would be a big tent. The big tent principle of Golkar would later help it to be supported by large groups, mainly by the army and government employees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 782]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092539-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 Indonesian legislative election, Campaign, Campaign methods\nMost of the campaign used traditional methods, such as mass gatherings and the display of banners. Mass gatherings mostly took place in stadiums, school fields, and in sports halls. Places of worship were also used by Islamic and Christian political parties to gather crowds. For example, the Catholic Party gathered at the Jakarta Cathedral, and the Islamic parties frequently used mosques as a way to rally their masses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092539-0011-0000", "contents": "1971 Indonesian legislative election, Campaign, Campaign methods\nA more modern tactic for campaign was also used by political parties, involving motor vehicles donated by the government. For example, the Nahdlatul Ulama held a rally at Ujungpandang, involving around a thousand cars and motorcycles, and carrying around the symbol of Nahdlatul Ulama. The PSII was given several Toyota cars, along with several thousand rupiahs in cash for their maintenance. Cars were used by the PSII for campaign purposes, and the party also built mosques. Golkar and the parties also made use of television and radio for campaign speeches, but they were only allowed to read pre-approved prepared texts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 689]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092539-0012-0000", "contents": "1971 Indonesian legislative election, Manipulation to ensure Golkar victory\nSuharto's personal assistant and head of the Opsus Army intelligence organization, along with Home Affairs Minister Amir Machmud and internal security organization Kopkamtib were tasked with making sure Golkar won the election. In order to weaken possible rivals to Golkar, the government manipulated the top two parties from the 1955 election, the Indonesian National Party (PNI) and Parmusi (the successor to Masjumi following that party's banning in 1960) such that they lost credibility in the eyes of voters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 75], "content_span": [76, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092539-0012-0001", "contents": "1971 Indonesian legislative election, Manipulation to ensure Golkar victory\nGiven that the party that had come fourth, the Indonesian Communist Party, had been banned in the aftermath of the 30 September Movement coup attempt in 1965, that left only the Nahdatul Ulama (NU) as a major rival. Kopkamtib head General Sumitro later said that without the intervention from ABRI, Golkar would have lost the election to the Muslim parties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 75], "content_span": [76, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092539-0013-0000", "contents": "1971 Indonesian legislative election, Manipulation to ensure Golkar victory\nAway from the political parties, civil servants were effectively obliged to vote Golkar and regional administrators were required to fulfill \"quotas\" of Golkar votes. The system of allocating seats was changed from that of the 1955 election to reduce the number of parties winning seats in the legislature. All seats were to be allocated in the regional electoral districts, rather than being divided up based on national results. The government also disqualified large numbers of candidates from the political parties. Hardest hit was the PNI, with 171 disqualifications leaving it with 506 candidates. Parsumi lost 141, and the NU lost 24 candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 75], "content_span": [76, 728]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092539-0014-0000", "contents": "1971 Indonesian legislative election, Results\nThe results were officially announced on 7 August. Golkar won 227 of the 251 directly elected seats in the DPR as well as all nine indirectly elected seats in Western New Guinea. Golkar was also awarded the remaining 100 seats according to the provisions of the 1969 Election Law, giving it 336, almost three quarters of the total.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092539-0015-0000", "contents": "1971 Indonesian legislative election, Aftermath\nImmediately before the election, a Golkar spokesman stated that he expected Golkar to win no more than 35 percent of the vote. Predictions from the other parties were for up to 100 seats from the PNI, up to 79 seats from Parmusi, 35 from Parkindo and 20 from Murba. Only the NU was anywhere close with its prediction of 65 seats, and it was the only party to do better than it had in the 1955 election. The Golkar landslide meant that a proportional representation system had produced a government party with a majority in the legislature. More important was the fact that the Indonesian military, through Golkar, had become a participant in parliamentary politics. In 1973, the MPR comprising the membership of the new DPR together with the appointed regional, functional and social representatives, re-elected Suharto to the presidency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 47], "content_span": [48, 886]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092539-0016-0000", "contents": "1971 Indonesian legislative election, Aftermath\nA year before the election, President Suharto had said that he wanted the political parties to join together in two groups, one religious and one nationalist. This led to the establishment on March 1970 of the United Development Group, comprising Nahdlatul Ulama, Parmusi, the PSII and Perti, and the Democratic Development Group, comprising the PNI, PIKI, Murba and the two Christian parties, which had refused to be grouped with the Muslim parties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 47], "content_span": [48, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092539-0016-0001", "contents": "1971 Indonesian legislative election, Aftermath\nAfter the election, Suharto announced that the DPR would comprise four factions, the Armed Forces (ABRI), Golkar, the Spiritual-Material Group (the Muslim parties) and the Material-Spiritual group (the PNI, Parkindo and the Catholic Party). In March 1973, year, the four Muslim parties, were forced to merge into the United Development Party, while parties of the Material-Spiritual group as well as IPKI and Murba (who had no DPR seats), were merged into the Indonesian Democratic Party. These parties were afflicted by internal divisions and were never a credible political threat. Forbidden to organize down to the village level and later obliged to accept Panacasila as their sole ideology, they were the only parties allowed to contest elections until the end of the Suharto regime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 47], "content_span": [48, 835]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092540-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Final\nThe 1971 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Final was the final of the thirteenth and last Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. It was played on 28 May and 3 June 1971 between Juventus of Italy and Leeds United of England. Leeds won the tie 3\u20133 on away goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092540-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Final\nThe game that was originally scheduled to be the first leg game, on 26 May, was abandoned after 51 minutes of play with a score of 0\u20130 due to heavy rain and waterlogged pitch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092541-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Intercontinental Cup\nThe 1971 Intercontinental Cup was an association football tie held over two legs in December 1971 between the runners-up of the 1970\u201371 European Cup, Panathinaikos, replacing European Cup winners Ajax which declined to participate, and Nacional, winners of the 1971 Copa Libertadores.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092541-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Intercontinental Cup\nThe first leg was held on 15 December 1971 at the Karaiskakis Stadium, home of Olympiacos, as Panathinaikos ground was deemed unsuitable. The match finished up as a 1\u20131 draw. The goals came from Totis Filakouris in the 48th minute and Luis Artime in the 50th minute. Julio Morales broke the leg of Yiannis Tomaras and was sent off. Estadio Centenario hosted the return leg 13 days later on 28 December 1971. In the second leg, Nacional beat Panathinaikos 2\u20131, therefore the Uruguayan club won the series 3\u20132 on aggregate to achieve their first Intercontinental Cup trophy. Argentine striker Luis Artime was the keyplayer of the series after scoring three goals on both matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 703]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092542-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 International Cross Country Championships\nThe 1971 International Cross Country Championships was held in San Sebasti\u00e1n, Spain, at the Lasarte Hippodrome on March 20, 1971. A report on the event was given in the Glasgow Herald.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092542-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 International Cross Country Championships\nComplete results for men, junior men, women, medallists, and the results of British athletes were published.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092542-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 International Cross Country Championships, Participation\nAn unofficial count yields the participation of 228 athletes from 18 countries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 61], "content_span": [62, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092543-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 International Gold Cup\nThe XVIII International Gold Cup was a non-championship Formula One race, and also a round of the European Formula 5000 Championship, held on 22 August 1971 at Oulton Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092543-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 International Gold Cup\nEight Formula 1 cars turned up, with a full complement of F5000 cars making up the rest of the grid. Peter Gethin set pole position for the first heat, which was won by Henri Pescarolo. The grid for the second heat was arranged according to the finishing order of the first heat. John Surtees took the lead from Pescarolo and held it to the end, setting fastest lap, and a new circuit record, in the process. His win and his third place in the first heat made him the aggregate winner, just ahead of Howden Ganley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 542]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092543-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 International Gold Cup\nFrank Gardner was the highest F5000 finisher in both heats, his performance being good enough for third overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092544-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Intertoto Cup\nIn the 1971 Intertoto Cup no knock-out rounds were contested, and therefore no winner was declared.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092544-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Intertoto Cup, Group stage\nTeams from seven countries (West Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria, and Denmark) participated: four teams from each country. Denmark was the only country that failed to win a group, while West German clubs won two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092545-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Iowa Hawkeyes football team\nThe 1971 Iowa Hawkeyes football team represented the University of Iowa in the 1971 Big Ten Conference football season. This was Frank Lauterbur's first year as head coach of the Hawkeyes, and the last season for Iowa's home football venue to be called \"Iowa Stadium\". It would be renamed \"Nile Kinnick Stadium\" as of the 9/23/72 home opener, named for Iowa's only Heisman Trophy winner, Nile Kinnick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092546-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Iowa State Cyclones football team\nThe 1971 Iowa State Cyclones football team represented Iowa State University in the Big Eight Conference during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. In their fourth year under head coach Johnny Majors, the Cyclones compiled an 8\u20134 record (4\u20133 against conference opponents), finished in fourth place in the conference, and outscored opponents by a combined total of 337 to 250. They played their home games at Clyde Williams Field in Ames, Iowa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092546-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Iowa State Cyclones football team\nDean Carlson, Ray Harm, and Keith Schroeder were the team captains.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092547-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Iranian general election\nParliamentary elections were held in Iran on 9 July 1971. The result was a victory for the New Iran Party, which won 230 of the 268 seats in the Majlis and 28 of the 30 elected seats in the Senate. Voter turnout was around 35%. The elections were boycotted by the Pan-Iranist Party, which complained that the government held a monopoly over campaign broadcasts on state radio and television, and also claimed that its newspaper had been censored. Its offshoot, Iranians' Party, won a seat by its secretary-general.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092547-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Iranian general election\nFollowing the elections, Prime Minister Amir-Abbas Hoveyda formed a new government on 13 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092547-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Iranian general election\nThe elections were \"rigged and far from a legitimate process\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092548-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Iraq poison grain disaster\nThe 1971 Iraq poison grain disaster was a mass methylmercury poisoning incident that began in late 1971. Grain treated with a methylmercury fungicide and never intended for human consumption was imported into Iraq as seed grain from Mexico and the United States. Due to a number of factors, including foreign-language labelling and late distribution within the growing cycle, this toxic grain was consumed as food by Iraqi residents in rural areas. People suffered from paresthesia (numbness of skin), ataxia (lack of coordination of muscle movements) and vision loss, symptoms similar to those seen when Minamata disease affected Japan. The recorded death toll was 459 people, but figures at least ten times greater have been suggested. The 1971 poisoning was the largest mercury poisoning disaster when it occurred, with cases peaking in January and February 1972 and stopping by the end of March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 931]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092548-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Iraq poison grain disaster\nReports after the disaster recommended tighter regulation, better labelling and handling of mercury-treated grain, and wider involvement of the World Health Organization in monitoring and preventing poisoning incidents. Investigation confirmed the particular danger posed to fetuses and young children.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092548-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Iraq poison grain disaster, Context\nThe properties of mercury make it an effective fungicide. Methylmercury had been banned in Sweden in 1966, the first country to do so, and the United Kingdom followed in 1971. Previous mercury-poisoning incidents had occurred in Iraq in 1956 and 1960. In 1956, there had been around 200 cases, and 70 deaths; in 1960 there had been 1000 cases and 200 deaths, in both cases due to ethylmercury compounds. Among the recommendations made after the 1960 incident had been to colour any toxic grain for easy identification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092548-0002-0001", "contents": "1971 Iraq poison grain disaster, Context\nBefore the 1971 incident, around 200\u2013300 cases of methylmercury poisoning had been reported worldwide. Drought had reduced harvests in 1969, affecting 500,000 people, and in 1970. Saddam Hussein, as the government's no. 2 behind Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, decided to import mercury-coated seed grain for the late 1971 planting season. Hussein himself may have worked in the Department of Agriculture in the aftermath of the 1960 incident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092548-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Iraq poison grain disaster, Causes\nSome 95,000 tonnes (93,000 long tons; 105,000 short tons) of grain (73,201 tonnes of wheat grain and 22,262 tonnes of barley), coloured a pink-orange hue, were shipped to Iraq from the United States and Mexico. The wheat arrived in Basra on SS Trade Carrier between 16 September and 15 October, barley between 22 October and 24 November 1971. Iraq's government chose Mexipak, a high-yield wheat seed developed in Mexico by Norman Borlaug. The seeds contained an average of 7.9 \u03bcg/g of mercury, with some samples containing up to nearly twice that.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092548-0003-0001", "contents": "1971 Iraq poison grain disaster, Causes\nThe decision to use mercury-coated grain has been reported as made by the Iraqi government, rather than the supplier, Cargill. The three Northern governorates of Nineveh, Kirkuk and Erbil together received more than half the shipments. Contributing factors to the epidemic included the fact that distribution started late, and much grain arrived after the October\u2013November planting season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092548-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Iraq poison grain disaster, Causes\nFarmers holding the poisoned grain instead offered it to their families as food, since their own planting had been completed. Distribution was hurried and open, with grain being distributed free of charge or with payment in kind. Some farmers even sold off their own grain, lest this new grain's harvest devalue their old varieties. This left them dependent on tainted grain for the winter. Many Iraqis were either unaware of the significant health risk posed, or chose to ignore the warnings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092548-0004-0001", "contents": "1971 Iraq poison grain disaster, Causes\nInitially, farmers were to certify with a thumbprint or signature that they understood the grain was poison, but according to some sources, distributors did not ask for such an indication. Warnings on the sacks were in Spanish and English, not at all understood, or included the black-and-white skull and crossbones design, which meant nothing to Iraqis. The long, asymptomatic latent period of mercury poisoning may have granted farmers a false sense of security when animals fed the grain initially appeared to be fine. The red dye washed off the grain; the mercury did not. Hence, washing may have given only the appearance of removing the poison.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 690]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092548-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Iraq poison grain disaster, Causes\nMercury was ingested through the consumption of homemade bread, meat and other animal products obtained from livestock given treated barley, vegetables grown from soil contaminated with mercury, game birds that had fed on the grain and fish caught in rivers, canals, and lakes into which treated grain had been dumped by the farmers. Ground seed dust inhalation was a contributing factor in farmers during sowing and grinding. Consumption of ground grain in homemade bread is thought to have been the major source of toxicity, since no cases were reported in urban areas, where government flour supplies were commercially regulated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 672]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092548-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Iraq poison grain disaster, Symptoms, outbreak and treatment\nThe effect of mercury took some time \u2013 the latent period between ingestion and the first symptoms (typically paresthesia \u2013 numbness in the extremities) was between 16 and 38 days. Paresthesia was the predominant symptom in less serious cases. Worse cases included ataxia (typically loss of balance), blindness or reduced vision, and death resulting from central nervous system failure. Anywhere between 20 and 40\u00a0mg of mercury has been suggested as sufficient for paresthesia (between 0.5 and 0.8\u00a0mg/kg of body weight). On average, individuals affected consumed 20\u00a0kg or so of bread; the 73,000 tonnes provided would have been sufficient for over 3 million cases.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 65], "content_span": [66, 729]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092548-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Iraq poison grain disaster, Symptoms, outbreak and treatment\nThe hospital in Kirkuk received large numbers of patients with symptoms that doctors recognised from the 1960 outbreak. The first case of alkylmercury poisoning was admitted to hospital on 21 December. By 26 December, the hospital had issued a specific warning to the government. By January 1972, the government had started to strongly warn the populace about eating the grain, although dispatches did not mention the large numbers already ill. The Iraqi Army soon ordered disposal of the grain and eventually declared the death penalty for anyone found selling it. Farmers dumped their supplies wherever possible, and it soon got into the water supply (particularly the River Tigris), causing further problems. The government issued a news blackout and released little information about the outbreak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 65], "content_span": [66, 867]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092548-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Iraq poison grain disaster, Symptoms, outbreak and treatment\nThe World Health Organization assisted the Iraqi government through the supply of drugs, analytical equipment and expertise. Many new treatments were tried, since existing methods for heavy metal poisoning were not particularly effective. Dimercaprol was administered to several patients, but caused rapid deterioration of their condition. It was ruled out as a treatment for this sort of poisoning following the outbreak. Polythiol resins, penicillamine and dimercaprol sulfonate all helped, but are believed to have been largely insignificant in overall recovery and outcomes. Dialysis was tested on a few patients late in the treatment period, but they showed no clinical improvement. The result of all treatments was varied, with some patients' blood mercury level being dramatically reduced, but a negligible effect in others. All patients received periods of treatment interspersed with lay periods; continuous treatment was suggested in future cases. Later treatment was less effective in reducing blood toxicity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 65], "content_span": [66, 1086]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092548-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 Iraq poison grain disaster, Effects\n6,530 patients were admitted to hospitals with poisoning, and 459 deaths reported. Cases reached a peak of hundreds per day in January, and had largely subsided by the beginning of March. The last admittance was on 27 March; admissions represented every age and gender stratum, although those under the age of ten represented a third of admitted cases. This number is \"certainly an underestimate\", because of the availability of hospital treatment, hospital overcrowding and lack of faith in treatment. In the most severely affected areas, prevalence was 28% and mortality was 21% of the cases.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 635]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092548-0009-0001", "contents": "1971 Iraq poison grain disaster, Effects\nSome Iraqi doctors believe both the number of cases and fatalities are at least ten times too low, with perhaps 100,000 cases of brain damage. One suggested reason for the vast discrepancy between reported and estimated numbers of deaths is the Iraqi custom, common to large parts of the Middle East, for a person to die at home when possible. Home deaths would not have been recorded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092548-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 Iraq poison grain disaster, Effects\nA large number of patients with minor symptoms recovered completely; those with more serious symptoms improved. This was in contrast to expected outcomes, largely based on analysis of Minamata disease in Japan. In boys with mercury levels below clinical poisoning, a reduction in school performance was noted, although this correlation could not be confirmed. In infants, the mercury poisoning caused central nervous system damage. Relatively low doses caused slower development in children, and abnormal reflexes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092548-0010-0001", "contents": "1971 Iraq poison grain disaster, Effects\nDifferent treatments for mercury poisoning have since been developed, and \"quiet baby syndrome\", characterised by a baby who never cries, is now a recognised symptom of methylmercury-induced brain damage. Ongoing recommendations of the food regulation authorities have focused on consumption by pregnant women and infant children, noting the particular susceptibility of fetuses and infants to methylmercury poisoning. Data from Iraq have confirmed that methylmercury can pass to a child in utero, and mercury levels were equal to or higher in the newborn child than in the mother.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 622]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092548-0011-0000", "contents": "1971 Iraq poison grain disaster, Effects\nIn 1974, a joint Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and World Health Organization (WHO) meeting made several recommendations to prevent a similar outbreak. These included stressing the importance of labelling bags in the local language and with locally understood warning symbols. The possibility of an additive creating a strong bitter taste was studied. The meeting urged governments to strictly regulate methyl- and ethylmercury use in their respective countries, including limiting use to where no other reasonable alternative was available.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092548-0011-0001", "contents": "1971 Iraq poison grain disaster, Effects\nIt also recommended the involvement of the FAO and WHO in assisting national governments in regulation and enforcement, and the setting up of national poison control centres. Over 9\u201313 November, a Conference on Intoxication due to Alkylmercury-Treated Seed was held in Baghdad. It supported the recommendations of the FAO/WHO report and further suggested that local and national media should publicise outbreaks, including size and symptoms; it considered the distribution of this information crucial. It also laid out a general plan as to the collection of relevant information from the field and potential analysis for further investigation. It called on national governments to make use of WHO involvement whenever feasible, and absolved world governments in clear terms, saying that \"No country should ever feel that any blame will attach to it for allowing an outbreak to occur\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 925]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092549-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Irish Greyhound Derby\nThe 1971 Irish Greyhound Derby took place during July and August with the final being held at Shelbourne Park in Dublin on 7 August 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092549-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Irish Greyhound Derby\nThe winner Sole Aim won \u00a35,000 and was trained by Dave Geggus and owned by Mrs Frances Chandler. The competition was sponsored by Carrolls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092549-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Irish Greyhound Derby, Competition Report\nThe Irish Derby had firmly established itself as a major target for top British hopes as well as the usual Irish challengers helped by the increase in prize money from sponsors Carrolls. The British contingent included 1971 English Greyhound Derby finalist Moordyk Champion and Laurels champion Sole Aim trained by Dave Geggus and on paper would they provide a major challenge. The Irish hopes rested with Ivy Hall Flash the beaten English Derby favourite and finalist, defending champion Monalee Pride, Gay McKenna's Postal Vote, the 1970 Irish greyhound of the year Mark Anthony, and coursing champion Hack up Fenian.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 666]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092549-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Irish Greyhound Derby, Competition Report\nWith such a star studded line up, the competition seemed destined for great things and in the very first round Ivy Hall Flash recorded 29.10. Ante-post favourite Postal Vote and Corn Cuchulainn winner Fleur des Lis also won. There was a Ger McKenna double, after both Mr Lir and Hopeful Hope won but there was a big shock as Moordyk Champion failed to qualify.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092549-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Irish Greyhound Derby, Competition Report\nHeavy rain prevailed during the second round but Ivy Hall Flash impressed again in a time of 29.53. Clerihan Venture won again and Postal Vote qualified finishing second in his heat. Other winners included Duval Prince, Monalee Pride and Butlers Glen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092549-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Irish Greyhound Derby, Competition Report\nBefore the semi-finals Ivy Hall Flash and Postal Vote were both quoted at short odds of 7-4 to win the competition. Clerihan Venture was withdrawn injured before the English challenger Sole Aim ran superbly beating Postal Vote in a time of 28.99. Gahans Wood claimed the next semi-final pushing Time Up Please into second place in 29.37 and the final heat saw Butlers Glen overtake and beat Ivy Hall Flash in a shock result timed at 29.45.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092549-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Irish Greyhound Derby, Competition Report\nThe final featured three big names and it was the same trio that took the first three places. Postal Vote was first out of traps and gained a decent lead. By the second bend Sole Aim had forced his way on the inside of Postal Vote taking the lead at the third bend before coming home to win the Derby. Sole Aim had won the event for England, home track Walthamstow and owner Mrs Frances Chandler. Postal Vote held off Ivy Hall Flash for second place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092550-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Isle of Man TT\nThe 1971 Isle of Man TT was a motorcycle event held on 12 June 1971, on the 37-mile Snaefell Mountain course on the Isle of Man between Great Britain and Ireland. It was the third round of the F.I.M. 1971 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season (now MotoGP).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092550-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Isle of Man TT\nThe unbelievable happened in 1971 - Agostini's MV broke down on the first lap of the Junior. The crowd cheered when it was announced that the Italian had stopped at Ramsey with engine problems. His demise produced a dramatic race in which many of the favourites either crashed or broke down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092550-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Isle of Man TT\nYamaha's Phil Read led Alan Barnett, Rod Gould and Dudley Robinson at the end of the first lap. Gould then crashed at Quarterbridge, but continued. On lap three Barnett came off at Glen Helen, and a lap later Read retired with chassis problems. With one lap to go Robinson led Yorkshireman Tony Jefferies, riding a Yamsel, but he crashed at Rhencullen, so Jefferies came home with 37 seconds to spare from newcomers Gordon Pantall, with Bill Smith third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092550-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Isle of Man TT\nAgostini had no such problems in the Senior, which was postponed by a day because of bad weather. Despite spending nearly two minutes in the pits to rectify carburation problems, he won comfortably from Peter Williams (Arter Matchless) and Frank Perris on a Suzuki.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092550-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Isle of Man TT\nThe Yamaha twins dominated the 250cc race, which was reduced to four laps. Phil Read led all the way when his main challenger Peter Williams's MZ expired at the end of the first lap. Barry Randle and Alan Barnett completed a Yamaha clean sweep.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092550-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Isle of Man TT\nBarry Sheene made his one and only TT appearance in the 125cc race, but slipped off his Suzuki at Quarterbridge on the second lap while lying second in appalling conditions. The race was won by Chas Mortimer, riding a Yamaha, at the slowest 125cc average on the Mountain Course since 1953.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092550-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Isle of Man TT\nA new three-lap Formula 750 race was introduced to provide a class to accommodate the popular British 750cc racing machines. Tony Jefferies led throughout on a works Triumph after a splendid battle with the BSA of Ray Pickrell and the Norton of Peter Williams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092550-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Isle of Man TT\nPickrell gained revenge in the 750cc class of the Production race. Riding a Triumph, he was involved in a tremendous duel with Williams until the Norton stopped on the third lap at the Bungalow. Pickrell was a comfortable winner from Jefferies and the BSA of Bob Heath. John Williams and Bill Smith brought Honda success in both the 500 and 250cc classes with dominant victories.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092550-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Isle of Man TT\nSiggi Schauzu won his fifth TT after a superb duel with BMW teammate George Auerbacher in the World Championship sidecar race. Earlier in the week Auerbacher had secured his first TT victory in the 750cc sidecar event after ten years of trying. Schauzu broke the lap record from a standing start but dropped out on the second lap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092551-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Islington London Borough Council election\nThe 1971 Islington Council election took place on 13 May 1971 to elect members of Islington London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Labour party gained overall control of the council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092552-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Islip 250\nThe 1971 Islip 250 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series race that was conducted on July 15, 1971, at Islip Speedway in Islip, New York", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092552-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Islip 250\nTwo black racers were involved in this race (Wendell Scott and George Wiltshire).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092552-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Islip 250, Background\nIslip Speedway was a .2-mile (320-meter) oval race track in Islip, New York which was open from 1947 until 1984. It is the smallest track ever to host NASCAR's Grand National Series, from 1964 to 1971. The first demolition derby took place at Islip Speedway in 1958. The idea was patented by Larry Mendelson, who worked at Islip Speedway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 26], "content_span": [27, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092552-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Islip 250, Race report\nTwo hundred and fifty green flag laps were done on a paved oval track spanning .200 miles (0.322\u00a0km). However, the race was shortened by twenty laps to 230 laps due to an error with the scoring system. At the time, Islip Speedway had a scoring system that looked like a Rolodex card system that would flip down cards with minutes (with numbers from 00 to 99) and seconds (with numbers from 00 to 59) on them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092552-0003-0001", "contents": "1971 Islip 250, Race report\nThis would give the time elapsed in the race with some manual output; similar to the scoring system used at the very first Daytona 500 because electronic scoring would be decades away from being a reality. The first column would count the number of minutes elapsed with the second column would count the number of seconds elapsed. It would be rare to see a race last for more than ninety-nine minutes and fifty-nine seconds (approximately 1.6 hours) until NASCAR started lengthening their races in the 1970s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092552-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Islip 250, Race report\nThe race car drivers still had to commute to the races using the same stock cars that competed in a typical weekend's race through a policy of homologation (and under their own power). This policy was in effect until roughly 1975. By 1980, NASCAR had completely stopped tracking the year model of all the vehicles and most teams did not take stock cars to the track under their own power anymore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092552-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Islip 250, Race report\nThe time of the race was fifty-five minutes and seventeen seconds. Speeds were considered to be 49.925 miles per hour (80.346\u00a0km/h) for the average and 46.133 miles per hour (74.244\u00a0km/h) for the pole. Richard Petty managed to defeat Friday Hassler by out-lapping him twice. Frog Fagan was the lone Canadian in the race making his final start in a Cup Series vehicle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092552-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Islip 250, Race report\nFagan would race for a single lap before quitting in Neil Castles' #06 Dodge vehicle. In addition to leading the race, Richard Petty led all 230 laps of the race. The track was shorter than even Martinsville Speedway; seven drivers chose to quit the race because they could see the leader even before the green flag. Ken Meisenhelder's vehicle overheated on lap 27 just like Pete Hamilton's vehicle would overheat on lap 36. John Sears noticed the axle on his vehicle was acting weirdly on lap 48 while the ignition on Bill Champion's vehicle stopped working on lap 71. Bobby Mausgrover noticed that his vehicle's brakes stopped working on lap 102 while battery problems would relegate Ed Negre to the sidelines on lap 106.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 751]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092552-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Islip 250, Race report\nBill Seifert noticed that his vehicle's transmission was developing problems on lap 113 while Jerry Churchill blew his engine on lap 119. J.D. McDuffie had to leave the race due to a missing vehicular rear end on lap 132 while Larry Baumel's vehicle would be cursed with transmission problems on lap 142. Henley Gray would notice that his vehicle's brakes stop working on lap 200; forcing his premature exit from the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092552-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Islip 250, Race report\nBenny Listman would do his only NASCAR Cup Series race here. Four automobile manufacturers were predominant during this race: Ford, Dodge, Plymouth and Mercury. Notable crew chiefs that participated in the event were Lee Gordon, Vic Ballard, Dale Inman and Wesley Wiltshire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092552-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 Islip 250, Race report\nThe winner would receive a prize bounty of $1,500 ($9,470 when adjusted for inflation) while the last place finisher would receive a paltry $10 ($63 when adjusted for inflation) prize bounty. Total winnings for this track would be $8,685 ($54,829 when adjusted for inflation). This would be the final race for this track; the track would later be demolished to become a cookie factory. All races shorter than 250 miles would be axed by the NASCAR organization; in the sport's modernization process.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092552-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 Islip 250, Finishing order\n\u2020 signifies that the driver is known to be deceased * Driver failed to finish race", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 31], "content_span": [32, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092553-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Israel Super Cup\nThe 1971 Israel Super Cup was the 3rd Israel Super Cup (8th, including unofficial matches, as the competition wasn't played within the Israel Football Association in its first 5 editions, until 1969), an annual Israel football match played between the winners of the previous season's Top Division and Israel State Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092553-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Israel Super Cup\nThe match was played between Maccabi Netanya, champions of the 1970\u201371 Liga Leumit and Hakoah Ramat Gan, winners of the 1970\u201371 Israel State Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092553-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Israel Super Cup\nAt the match, played at Maccabi Netanya Stadium, Maccabi Netanya won 4\u20132 after extra time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092554-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Italian Athletics Championships\nThe 1971 Italian Athletics Championships was the 61st edition of the Italian Athletics Championships and were held in Rome (track & field events).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092555-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Italian Athletics Indoor Championships\n1971 Italian Athletics Indoor Championships was the 2nd edition of the Italian Athletics Indoor Championships and were held in Genoa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092556-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Italian Grand Prix\nThe 1971 Italian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Monza on 5 September 1971. It was race 9 of 11 in both the 1971 World Championship of Drivers and the 1971 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092556-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Italian Grand Prix\nThis race featured the closest finish in Formula One history, as Peter Gethin beat Ronnie Peterson by 0.01 seconds. The top five were covered by just 0.61 seconds, with Fran\u00e7ois Cevert finishing third, Mike Hailwood fourth and Howden Ganley fifth. With an average speed of 242.615\u00a0km/h (150.754\u00a0mph), this race stood as the fastest-ever Formula One race for 32 years, until the 2003 Italian Grand Prix at Monza.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092556-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Italian Grand Prix, Race report\nThe historical Monza National Autodrome, located just north of the northern Italian city of Milan, in 1971 became the fastest circuit used by Formula One after the Belgian Spa-Francorchamps circuit was removed from the calendar. However, this was the last year in which the circuit was used with this configuration: considering the enormous speed that the cars reached in this edition, two chicanes were introduced the following year in the two most dangerous curves of the track.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 36], "content_span": [37, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092556-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Italian Grand Prix, Race report\nEmerson Fittipaldi drove a four-wheel drive Lotus 56B powered by a gas turbine, the only time he would race in a Formula One World Championship race in a car not powered by a Ford Cosworth DFV engine. Due to ongoing legal issues between Team Lotus and the Italian authorities following Jochen Rindt's death the previous year, the car was entered under the name \"World Wide Racing\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 36], "content_span": [37, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092556-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Italian Grand Prix, Race report\nWith the championship settled, this was an opportunity for new drivers to prove themselves. Chris Amon in the Matra proved an embarrassment to Ferrari by seizing pole at their home track with the fastest lap of all time in a Formula One championship race, lapping at 156 mph (252 km/h), with the BRMs on the second row, whilst champion Stewart was in 6th after suffering gearbox problems. Mike Hailwood was making his debut for Surtees\u2014an inspired choice as he held both the Formula 5000 and motorbike lap records for Monza.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 36], "content_span": [37, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092556-0004-0001", "contents": "1971 Italian Grand Prix, Race report\nClay Regazzoni's Ferrari thrilled the crowd by surging forward from the fourth row to lead from Jo Siffert and Stewart until lap 3, when Ronnie Peterson took the lead. On lap 7, Stewart took the lead. By lap 16, Stewart and Jacky Ickx retired with engine problems, followed two laps later by Clay Regazzoni. The race began to break into high-speed packs\u2014the leading one containing Hailwood (leading on his debut), Fran\u00e7ois Cevert, Peterson, Siffert, Howden Ganley, Chris Amon, Peter Gethin and Jackie Oliver.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 36], "content_span": [37, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092556-0004-0002", "contents": "1971 Italian Grand Prix, Race report\nGethin, Peterson, Cevert, Hailwood and Ganley (who fell back slightly) battled right down to the line and all finished within two-tenths of a second of each other. Siffert dropped back after problems with a gearbox that would only select fourth gear. Tyrrell-Ford won their first Constructors' Championship with two races remaining.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 36], "content_span": [37, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092557-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Italian Open (tennis)\nThe 1971 Italian Open was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament that was played by men on outdoor clay courts at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy. The men's tournament was part of the World Championship Tennis circuit while the women's tournament was a non-tour event, i.e. not part of the Grand Prix or Virginia Slims circuit. The tournament was held from 3 May through 10 May 1971. The singles titles were won by Rod Laver and Virginia Wade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092557-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Italian Open (tennis), Finals, Men's doubles\nJohn Newcombe / Tony Roche defeated Andr\u00e9s Gimeno / Roger Taylor 6\u20134, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092557-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Italian Open (tennis), Finals, Women's doubles\nVirginia Wade / Helga Masthoff defeated Lesley Turner Bowrey / Helen Gourlay 5\u20137, 6\u20132, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092558-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Italian Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nIlie N\u0103stase was the defending champion but did not compete. Rod Laver claimed the title overcoming Jan Kode\u0161 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092559-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Italian presidential election\nThe Italian presidential election of 1971 was held in Italy on 9\u201324 December 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092559-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Italian presidential election\nOnly members of Parliament and regional delegates were entitled to vote, most of these electors having been elected in the 1968 general election and in the 1970 regional elections. As head of state of the Italian Republic, the President has a role of representation of national unity and guarantees that Italian politics comply with the Italian Constitution, in the framework of a parliamentary system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092559-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Italian presidential election\nOn 24 December 1971 former Prime Minister and president of the Chamber of Deputies Giovanni Leone was elected president with 518 votes out of 1,008, the smallest majority ever obtained by an elected president. With twenty-three rounds of voting, this presidential election remains still today the longest presidential election in the Italian republican history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092559-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Italian presidential election, Procedure\nIn accordance to the Italian Constitution, the election was held in the form of a secret ballot, with the senators and the deputies entitled to vote. The election was held in the Palazzo Montecitorio, home of the Chamber of Deputies, with the capacity of the building expanded for the purpose. The first three ballots required a two-thirds majority of the 1,008 voters in order to elect a president, or 673 votes. Starting from the fourth ballot, an absolute majority was required for candidates to be elected, or 505 votes. The presidential mandate lasts seven years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092559-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Italian presidential election, Procedure\nThe election was presided over by the President of the Chamber of Deputies Sandro Pertini, who proceeded to the public counting of the votes, and by the President of the Senate Amintore Fanfani.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092559-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Italian presidential election, Chronology\nThe period or the late 1960 \u2013 1970s came to be known as the Opposti Estremismi, (from left-wing and right-wing extremists riots), later renamed anni di piombo (\"years of lead\") because of a wave of bombings and shootings \u2014 the first victim of this period was Antonio Annarumma, a policeman, killed on 12 November 1969 in Milan during a left-wing demonstration. In December 1969, four bombings struck in Rome the Monument of Vittorio Emanuele II (Altare della Patria), the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, and in Milan the Banca Commerciale and the Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura. The later bombing, known as the Piazza Fontana bombing of 12 December 1969, killed 17 and injured 88. Social protests, in which the student movement was particularly active, shook Italy during the 1969 autunno caldo (Hot Autumn), leading to the occupation of the Fiat factory in Turin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 909]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092559-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Italian presidential election, Chronology\nIn December 1970, a neo-fascist coup, dubbed the Golpe Borghese, was planned by young far-right fanatics, elderly veterans of Italian Social Republic, and supported by members of the Corpo Forestale dello Stato, along with right-aligned entrepreneurs and industrialists. The \"Black Prince\", Junio Valerio Borghese, took part in it. The coup, called off at the last moment, was discovered by the newspaper Paese Sera, and publicly exposed three months later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092559-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Italian presidential election, Chronology\nIn this extremely difficult context for republican institutions, on 9 December 1971 Italian Parliament convened to elect a new President. As a result of the 1968 general election, left-wing parties had now more representatives in the Parliament, while Christian Democracy had shrunk its numbers, making it more difficult to elect the new President without the help of its centre-left allies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092559-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Italian presidential election, Chronology\nAfter a long voting period which lasted almost two weeks, the Christian democrat Giovanni Leone managed to be elected President with the votes of the Christian Democracy and the neo-fascist Italian Social Movement, facing the extreme opposition of the left-wing parties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092559-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 Italian presidential election, Inauguration\nGiovanni Leone officially sworn in as the new President of Italy on 29 December 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 48], "content_span": [49, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092559-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 Italian presidential election, Inauguration, Gallery\nLeone arrives at the Quirinal Palace for the swearing in ceremony", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 57], "content_span": [58, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092560-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 JVP insurrection\nThe 1971 Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) insurrection (also known as the 1971 Revolt) was the first of two unsuccessful armed revolts conducted by the communist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) against the government of Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) under Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike. The revolt began on 5 April 1971, and lasted until June of that year. The insurgents held towns and rural areas for several weeks, until the regions were recaptured by the armed forces. Although this first attempt to seize power was quickly crushed by force, in 1987 the JVP launched a stronger insurgency in the island's southern, central and western regions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 669]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092560-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 JVP insurrection\nThe insurrection formally began in 1971, but the first attacks took place in 1970. The JVP fought the right-wing United National Party (UNP) before launching an island-wide, militant opposition to the newly-elected, pro-socialist United Front government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092560-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 JVP insurrection\nThe government's socialist background drew the attention of many states which needed to support it. The Soviet Union sent 60 air-force troops; India guarded the forts, stopping North Korean vessels and a Chinese freighter which raided the harbors. Although China provided diplomatic aid, it was accused of supporting the JVP; Chinese diplomats allegedly contacted North Korea, which supplied weapons and ammunition to the JVP. Diplomatic ties between Ceylon and United States were severed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092560-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 JVP insurrection, Origins\nCeylon (now Sri Lanka) became a dominion in 1948 with a conservative government formed under the premiership of D. S. Senanayake, who had been instrumental in the negotiations with the British government which led to self-rule. He founded the United National Party (UNP), amalgamating three right-leaning pro-dominion parties which won a majority in parliament at the general election. The UNP was defeated in 1956, when S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike became prime minister on a wave of nationalist sentiment. His wife, Sirimavo Bandaranaike, entered politics after his assassination and became the world's first female prime minister in 1960. Due to successive governments, varying economic policies and frequent strikes, Ceylon's economic outlook during the 1960s had fallen below what it was when it gained independence in 1948; this led to an attempted coup in 1962.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 895]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092560-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 JVP insurrection, Origins, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna\nThe Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) movement was founded during the late 1960s by Rohana Wijeweera, a former Lumumba University medical student and Ceylon Communist Party functionary. At odds with party leaders and impatient with its lack of revolutionary purpose, Wijeweera formed the movement in 1965 with other like-minded young people. He was apparently expelled from the Maoist wing of the Ceylonese Communist Party the following year, and brought his Marxist ideology to what became known as the Sinhalese Marxist Group. Along with Wijeweera, three close supporters emerged as the leaders of the new movement: Sanath, Karunnarathe and Loku Athula.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 57], "content_span": [58, 711]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092560-0004-0001", "contents": "1971 JVP insurrection, Origins, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna\nInitially known also as the New Left, the group attracted students and unemployed rural youth (most between ages 16 and 25) who felt that their economic interests had been neglected by the nation's leftist coalitions. The standard program of indoctrination, the \"Five Lectures\", included discussions of Indian imperialism (expansionism), the growing economic crisis, the failure of the island's communist and socialist parties, and the need for a sudden, violent seizure of power.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 57], "content_span": [58, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092560-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 JVP insurrection, Prelude, JVP preparation\nThe JVP expanded rapidly between 1967 and 1970, gaining control of the student socialist movement on a number of major university campuses (including the Socialist Students Union) and receiving recruits and sympathizers from the armed forces; some provided sketches of police stations, airports, and military facilities, a factor in the revolt's initial success. To draw new members further into the organization and prepare them for a coming confrontation, Wijeweera opened \"education camps\" in remote areas of the south and south-western coasts which provided training in Marxism\u2013Leninism and basic military skills. The movement's central committee was formed at Madampella in 1969. A CID unit under ASP K. C. de Silva was investigating the \"Che Guevara clique\" by 1970, when opposition leader Sirima Bandaranaike referred to it in her May Day speech.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 47], "content_span": [48, 901]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092560-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 JVP insurrection, Prelude, JVP preparation\nDeveloping secret cells and regional commands, Wijeweera's group also began to take a more public role during that year's elections. His cadres campaigned openly for the socialist United Front (UF), also distributing posters and pamphlets promising violent rebellion if Bandaranaike did not address proletarian interests. In a manifesto issued during this period, the group used the name \"Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna\" (People's Liberation Front) for the first time. Because of the subversive tone of his publications, the United National Party government had Wijeweera arrested before the elections in May; the victorious UF ordered his release in July 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 47], "content_span": [48, 704]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092560-0006-0001", "contents": "1971 JVP insurrection, Prelude, JVP preparation\nIn the politically-tolerant atmosphere of the next few months, as the new government attempted to win over a variety of unorthodox leftist groups, the JVP intensified its public campaign and secret preparations for a revolt. Although their group was relatively small, the members hoped to immobilize the government by selective kidnapping and sudden, simultaneous strikes against security forces throughout the island. Some of the necessary weapons had been bought with funds supplied by members, but most party funding came from a string of robberies. The JVP decided to rely on raids against police stations and army camps to secure weapons, and they manufactured their own bombs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 47], "content_span": [48, 730]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092560-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 JVP insurrection, Prelude, Development\nBy 1970, the movement had begun recruiting and training cadres at camps in Kurunegala, Akmeemana, Tissamaharama, Elpitiya and Anuradhapura. Classes delivering the \"Five Lectures\" were held throughout the island, primarily in secluded locations such as cemeteries. After raising a force of about 10,000 full-time members, the JVP stopped recruiting in 1971. The movement was based on five-member cells with a leader, and there were several such cells in a police-station area with an area leader. The area leaders selected a district leader, and the district leaders made up the Central Committee. Above the Central Committee was a 12-member politburo which included Wijeweera. Communications were in code by couriers, with the district secretaries communicating messages from the Politburo (which met every two months in Colombo).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 43], "content_span": [44, 874]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092560-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 JVP insurrection, Prelude, Development\nThe cells began arming themselves with shotguns; each member was expected to have a shotgun, 10 cartridges, blue uniforms, military boots, and haversacks. Home-made bombs were prepared, with some exploding in the process; on 17 December 1970, Victor Ivan (alias Podi Athula) lost his left hand and was critically injured when a grenade exploded while being tested. The JVP published a newspaper (the Janatha Vimukthi, or People's Liberation), and carried out several robberies\u00a0\u2013 including the Okkampitiya and Ambalangoda bank robberies, the Badulla mailbag robbery and the York Street robbery\u00a0\u2013 to raise money. Members were also asked to contribute personal funds. The JVP gave \u20a830,000 stolen from York Street to Podi Athula to manufacture bombs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 43], "content_span": [44, 790]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092560-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 JVP insurrection, Prelude, Ceylon's defense establishment\nSince its formation in 1949, Ceylon's armed forces were an internal security force assisting the Ceylon Police during strikes and riots. After the attempted coup in 1962, the armed forces had major cuts in funding, recruitment and joint operations, and were unprepared for a large-scale insurrection. The Ceylon Army had several infantry regiments armed with World War II-era weapons, armored cars, mortars and anti-aircraft guns; it lacked tanks, field artillery, submachine guns and other modern weapons, and peacetime ammunition stocks could sustain only one week of offensive operations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 62], "content_span": [63, 654]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092560-0009-0001", "contents": "1971 JVP insurrection, Prelude, Ceylon's defense establishment\nThe Royal Ceylon Navy, which had suffered the most from the fallout of the attempted coup (its recruitment had been frozen until 1969) had only one frigate in its fleet. It had to deploy its crew on shore duty, and was incapable of preventing the JVP from obtaining aid by sea. The Royal Ceylon Air Force had mothballed its jet trainers after plans for introducing jet fighters were scrapped, and was limited to a small fleet of light-transport aircraft and helicopters: two flying squadrons and a few pilots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 62], "content_span": [63, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092560-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 JVP insurrection, Prelude, Initial government response\nThe government received multiple warnings of preparations undertaken by the JVP, but failed to comprehend the scale of the insurrection and was unprepared to counter it. Early warnings came from the Police Criminal Investigation Department (CID), which had been tasked with internal security with its late-1969 and early-1970 establishment of the \"Che Guevara Desk\" under ASP K. C. de Silva. John Attygalle, former Inspector General of Police who had been appointed special security advisor to the Ministry of External Affairs and Defence, submitted a report on the new group's potential threat to Prime Minister Dudley Senanayake's government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 59], "content_span": [60, 704]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092560-0010-0001", "contents": "1971 JVP insurrection, Prelude, Initial government response\nThe government instructed the police to arrest Wijeweera, who was taken into custody in May 1970. After the 1970 general election, however, newly-elected Prime Minister Sirima Bandaranaike had Wijeweera released from police custody; reports from the previous administration were overlooked. Bandaranaike's new administration made changes to the police force, removing officers and disbanding units perceived as disloyal. These changes affected the CID; the new government was fearful of another coup by security forces loyal to the previous administration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 59], "content_span": [60, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092560-0010-0002", "contents": "1971 JVP insurrection, Prelude, Initial government response\nBandaranaike's cousin and volunteer captain Anuruddha Ratwatte was promoted to lieutenant colonel and appointed commanding officer of the Army's Field Security Detachment, tasked with identifying potentially-disloyal officers. Captain Denzil Kobbekaduwa (who led the investigations) reported that a more substantial threat to the government was posed by the JVP, and police investigation of bomb-making factories began.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 59], "content_span": [60, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092560-0011-0000", "contents": "1971 JVP insurrection, Prelude, Foreign aid\nIn 1970, a parcel sent by the People's Socialist Republic of Albania containing Chinese-made rifles was captured by the police; other similar incidents occurred at the beginning of the insurgency. The Party of Labour of Albania had sent a delegation early in 1965, meeting Wijeweera.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 43], "content_span": [44, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092560-0012-0000", "contents": "1971 JVP insurrection, Prelude, Foreign aid\nWijeweera also visited North Koreans in the country, who congratulated him. He sent a JVP member to the Middle East to forge a link with the South Yemen National Liberation Front. The envoy returned with a letter from the government promising to ship weapons to the island if possible, hinting at aid from South Yemen diplomats to the JVP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 43], "content_span": [44, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092560-0013-0000", "contents": "1971 JVP insurrection, Prelude, Decision to attack\nThe JVP held its last public rally before the insurrection on 27 February 1971 at Colombo's Hyde Park, where Wijeweera said: \"Let the revolution of the workers, farmers, and soldiers be triumphant\". On 5 March, after an accidental explosion in one of the JVP bomb factories which killed five members, police found 58 bombs in a hut in Nelundeniya, Kegalle District. Wijeweera traveled around the country, but was arrested on 13 March in Ampara by a special police team and later transferred to the Jaffna Prison.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 50], "content_span": [51, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092560-0013-0001", "contents": "1971 JVP insurrection, Prelude, Decision to attack\nThe government declared a state of emergency on 16 March, but no military mobilization took place. A meeting was held at the Vidyodaya University sangaramaya (temple) by the JVP politburo on 2 April in response to a request by Wijeweera that posters and leaflets calling for his release be published and, if the insurgency began, 500 cadres be sent to Jaffna to break him out of prison.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 50], "content_span": [51, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092560-0013-0002", "contents": "1971 JVP insurrection, Prelude, Decision to attack\nThe group, consisting of S. V. A .Piyathilaka, Lionel Bopage, Jayadeva Uyangoda, Sunanda Deshpriya, Loku Athula, W. T. Karunarathne, Susi L. Wickrama, Wijesena Vidanage (alias Sanath), Somasiri Kumanayake and Anura Ranjith Kurukulasooriya, decided that all police stations in the country would be attacked on 5 April at 11:00\u00a0pm. The JVP believed that police stations were the government's principal local element of power, and hoped that disabling them would encourage local populations to rise up in their support. The district leader for Monaragala and Wellawaya was not at the meeting, and the decision to attack was conveyed to them in a telegram that read: \"JVP Appuhamy expired. Funeral 5.\". The Wellawaya leader interpreted the order as to attack on the morning of 5 April, not in the evening.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 50], "content_span": [51, 852]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092560-0014-0000", "contents": "1971 JVP insurrection, Insurrection, Missions\nFour missions were planned and assigned to the nationwide 5 April attack. The main responsibility for the attacks was given to the student wing, which Wijeweera had called the \"Red Guard\". The first of the four missions was to attack the Panagoda Cantonment, which was one of the country's largest military installations and housed a large arsenal. Piyasiri was in charge of the attack by 800 students, who were divided into groups of twenty-five; a smaller attack was to be made on RCyAF Katunayake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 45], "content_span": [46, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092560-0014-0001", "contents": "1971 JVP insurrection, Insurrection, Missions\nThe second mission, led by Nimal, Somawansa Amarasinghe, Sanath Kumar, and Lal Pieries with more than 50 students, was to abduct the prime minister. The third mission, led by Bopage, was to capture of the city of Colombo. The capital was divided into five areas: Colombo South, Colombo North, Kandy Road, Colombo Central, and Kotte. The insurgents were to attack police stations along the way, obtaining arms and ammunition from them. The targets were Welikada Prison, Srawasthi, Radio Ceylon and the homes of government officials, including Justice Minister Felix Dias Bandaranaike, the Army Commander and the IGP. The fourth mission was to rescue Wijeweera from prison in Jaffna.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 45], "content_span": [46, 727]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092560-0015-0000", "contents": "1971 JVP insurrection, Insurrection, Wellawaya attack\nPlanning for the countrywide insurrection was hasty and poorly coordinated, with some district leaders not informed until the morning of the uprising. At 5:20 am on 5 April, the Wellawaya police station was attacked and two police constables killed. The Wellawaya attack had preempted the initial wave of simultaneous attacks planned by the JVP, which lost the element of surprise. After news about the attack in Wellawaya, the government began frantic preparations for further attacks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 53], "content_span": [54, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092560-0015-0001", "contents": "1971 JVP insurrection, Insurrection, Wellawaya attack\nA curfew was declared, all police stations were warned of an impending attack, and the armed forces were mobilized by Major General D. S. Attygalle, Commander of the Ceylon Army. After dawn on 5 April, General Attygalle ordered army units of the Gemunu Watch from Diyatalawa to Wellawaya. Major Gratian Silva, Army HQ GSO 1 (Ops), and DIG Rudra Rajasingham flew by helicopter to Wellawaya that morning to inspect the ground situation in Wellawaya and report to Attygalle and the Inspector General of Police (IGP). At 7:00 am, Radio Ceylon reported the attack and warned of further attacks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 53], "content_span": [54, 643]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092560-0016-0000", "contents": "1971 JVP insurrection, Insurrection, Wellawaya attack\nSeveral JVP cadres were arrested at Viharamahadevi Park on 5 April as they prepared to abduct (or assassinate) Prime Minister Bandaranaike at her residence in Rosemead Place. This was followed by a quick citywide curfew and more arrests in Kotahena and Borella, with large numbers of bombs, weapons, and medical equipment meant to be used in the planned attack on the city. At 8:00 pm, Attygalle, IGP Stanley Senanayake and Lieutenant Colonel Anuruddha Ratwatte arrived at the prime minister's residence and briefed her on the attack on Wellawaya and an impending attack that night.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 53], "content_span": [54, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092560-0016-0001", "contents": "1971 JVP insurrection, Insurrection, Wellawaya attack\nSoon afterwards, the prime minister left for Temple Trees (her official residence) with General Attygalle, Captain A.R.P. (Kalu) Wijeratne, and her normal escort. Temple Trees became the center of government operations during the crisis, and its security was strengthened. It was a refuge for the ministers, most of whom were from leftist parties. Helicopter patrols around the capital began as rumors spread that the JVP was marching on Colombo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 53], "content_span": [54, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092560-0017-0000", "contents": "1971 JVP insurrection, Insurrection, First wave of attacks\nWith a curfew imposed and suspects being arrested, some JVP leaders went into hiding. The attack began as planned. Ninety-two police stations across the country were attacked simultaneously by JVP groups armed with shotguns, bombs, and Molotov cocktails; five (in Deniyaya, Uragaha, Rajangane, Kataragama and Warakapola) were overrun by the insurgents, and 43 were abandoned by the police for \"strategic reasons\" during the following days. Fifty-seven police stations were damaged. The insurgents cut telephone and power lines, and blocked roads with trees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 58], "content_span": [59, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092560-0017-0001", "contents": "1971 JVP insurrection, Insurrection, First wave of attacks\nThe Hanwella police station, near Colombo, was attacked on 6 April and defended with army reinforcements from the Panagoda Cantonment. The No. 4 Squadron of the Royal Ceylon Air Force deployed its three Bell 206A JetRanger helicopters, which began flying missions to remote police stations to supply them with weapons and ammunition; over the following days, the helicopters returned wounded to hospitals. RCyAF Ekala was also attacked. The police withdrew personnel from smaller police stations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 58], "content_span": [59, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092560-0017-0002", "contents": "1971 JVP insurrection, Insurrection, First wave of attacks\nThe rebels had taken control of Matara District and the city of Ambalangoda in Galle District by 10 April, and came close to capturing the remainder of Southern Province except for Galle and Matara (which had two Dutch colonial forts and small army garrisons). However, none of the JVP's four major missions succeeded. The abduction of the prime minister failed, with arrests of JVP members in Colombo on 5 April. The Panagoda Cantonment and Colombo were never attacked, because the members did not assemble. Jaffna Prison was attacked on the night of 5 April to rescue Wijeweera.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 58], "content_span": [59, 639]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092560-0017-0003", "contents": "1971 JVP insurrection, Insurrection, First wave of attacks\nThe cadre booked a bus to the prison, and Pyatilake led the attack. It failed, however, when police reinforcements arrived; many of the attackers were arrested, and some killed. Attacks on the Jaffna police station and Karainagar naval detachment also failed, with four insurgents killed on 6 April at Elephant Pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 58], "content_span": [59, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092560-0018-0000", "contents": "1971 JVP insurrection, Insurrection, North Korean involvement\nNorth Korea used revolutionary propaganda daily in newspapers; North Korean newspapers quoted Kim Il-Sung about revolution, and the government of Sri Lanka was suspicious of the country's motives. JVP bases contained Juche literature distributed by the North Korean high commission in the country, which helped to develop the party. On 15 May 1971, 18 North Koreans affiliated with the JVP were arrested. Indian patrol boats deployed around the island stopped two North Korean vessels, capturing weapons, food parcels and literature; the vessels may have been headed to JVP-controlled territory to reinforce it against the Ceylonese army. Aid may also have come through the Ceylon-North Korea Friendship Association, which had branches throughout the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 61], "content_span": [62, 821]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092560-0019-0000", "contents": "1971 JVP insurrection, Insurrection, Chinese influence and alleged support\nIn April, a Chinese freighter raided a harbour; it was turned back by Indian patrol boats assisting Ceylon's coast guard. Shortly after the Wellawaya attack, a Chinese vessel stocked with weapons anchored near the island. Although its crew said that the weapons were ordered from Tanzania, the Ceylonese government said that the weapons were for the JVP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 74], "content_span": [75, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092560-0020-0000", "contents": "1971 JVP insurrection, Insurrection, Chinese influence and alleged support\nAn unfamiliar ship was seen off the JVP-controlled coast of Matara; according to an eye-witness, it was larger than any ship the Sri Lanka Navy had at the time. Another man grabbed a gun to shoot at it, but the ship was too far away.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 74], "content_span": [75, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092560-0021-0000", "contents": "1971 JVP insurrection, Counter-insurrection, Government reaction\nGovernment forces responded by first securing Colombo, other cities and large towns with sizable police and military garrisons. Roadblocks were set up; bridges, ports and airports were secured, overstretching the armed forces (which began mobilizing its reservists). Army, navy, and air-force personnel were initially deployed on ground duty in a defensive posture; in most areas, the police were able to hold out themselves. The government considered the situation dire during the insurrection's early days; its small-arms ammunition was expected to run out in a week, and the shooting of naval ratings by a fellow rating in Jaffna stoked fears of JVP infiltration of the armed forces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 64], "content_span": [65, 751]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092560-0022-0000", "contents": "1971 JVP insurrection, Counter-insurrection, Government reaction\nDuring this time, the JVP took advantage of military and law-enforcement weakness by easily capturing large portions of the country. Many army convoys were ambushed; initial government offensives were pushed back in areas such as Matara, where local member of parliament Sumanapala Dahanayake was wounded accompanying the first joint army and police expedition into rebel-held areas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 64], "content_span": [65, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092560-0023-0000", "contents": "1971 JVP insurrection, Counter-insurrection, International assistance\nShort of weapons and ammunition, Bandaranaike telegraphed a request for support to friendly countries. The response from many governments was swift. The United Kingdom was the first to respond positively, allowing the Ceylonese government uses an Air Ceylon Trident to ferry small arms and ammunition from its bases in Singapore. Pakistan responded with an airlift of supplies, troops, and helicopters to Ratmalana Airport, taking over the airport's defense and freeing Ceylonese troops for other duties. India did not receive the cable, and the Indian High Commissioner in Ceylon was sent back to India with the aid request on 13 April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 69], "content_span": [70, 707]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092560-0023-0001", "contents": "1971 JVP insurrection, Counter-insurrection, International assistance\nUnits of the Indian Army Southern Command were airlifted from Bangalore and Madras (Chennai) to RCyAF Katunayake, and five Chetak helicopters from the 104th Helicopter Squadron followed with arms and ammunition. The squadron logged 573 flying hours on as many as 1,122 sorties in Ceylon. One hundred fifty Indian Gorkhas took over securing RCyAF Katunayake. The Indian Navy deployed four frigates, setting up a naval cordon around Ceylon; the Royal Ceylon Navy had deployed its sailors on ground operations and harbor defense, the latter later taken over by Indian and Pakistani troops. Australia donated 5,000 rifles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 69], "content_span": [70, 688]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092560-0024-0000", "contents": "1971 JVP insurrection, Counter-insurrection, International assistance\nRAF heavy transports flew in six Bell 47-G2 helicopters and ammunition purchased from Singapore on 17 April. Ceylon received the most aid from the Soviet Union, with its Air Force flying in five Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17F fighter bombers, a MiG-15 UTI trainer, and two Kamov Ka-26 helicopters. The Soviet Union also sent 12 light mortars; Yugoslavia supplied four 76mm mountain guns, and China supplied 30 85mm Type 60 anti-tank guns. The Soviet Union donated 10 BTR-152 armored personnel carriers. Although China supplied 30,000 automatic and semi-automatic rifles, it was still suspected of supporting the JVP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 69], "content_span": [70, 680]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092560-0025-0000", "contents": "1971 JVP insurrection, Counter-insurrection, International assistance\nThe United States said that it was aware that the JVP was not the organization which attacked the US embassy in Ceylon, but had no specific intention to militarily aid the government. The previous government had requested helicopter parts, however, and the US military fulfilled the request.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 69], "content_span": [70, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092560-0026-0000", "contents": "1971 JVP insurrection, Counter-insurrection, Crackdown\nWithin days of the insurrection's start, the armed forces began offensive operations after the initial wave of attacks ended. Personnel from all three armed services deployed with the mobilization of reservists (most of whom were World War II veterans), and regular troops were freed from guard duty as Pakistani and Indian troops defended key installations. Former Inspector General of Police (IGP) S. A. Dissanayake was appointed Additional Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of External Affairs and Defence, and coordinated the government's defense from the situation room at Temple Trees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 54], "content_span": [55, 648]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092560-0026-0001", "contents": "1971 JVP insurrection, Counter-insurrection, Crackdown\nLocal military coordinating officers, appointed from the three branches of the armed forces for each district, were tasked with carrying out local counter-insurgency operations. The RCyAF took five Hunting Jet Provosts which had been mothballed in 1970, serviced and armed them in three days, and flew them from RCyAF Chinabay to RCyAF Katunayake (attacking rebel locations en route). Several weeks later, the Jet Provosts were joined by the Bell 47-G2 in ground attacks. With additional supplies flowing in, government forces intensified their offensives into insurgent-held areas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 54], "content_span": [55, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092560-0026-0002", "contents": "1971 JVP insurrection, Counter-insurrection, Crackdown\nThe insurgents who had seized large parts of the island from their initial assault failed to consolidate their holdings or expand into other areas; local JVP committees raised a red flag in a captured area, and did little else. Widespread looting and damage to state property took place, and several civilians were murdered by the insurgents. After three weeks of fighting, the government regained control of all but a few remote areas. In most cases, the government regained control of townships; insurgent groups melted away into the jungle and continued to operate, with some groups operating into early 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 54], "content_span": [55, 667]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092560-0026-0003", "contents": "1971 JVP insurrection, Counter-insurrection, Crackdown\nThe government announced two amnesties in May and June 1971, airdropping leaflets encouraging the insurgents to surrender. Without food, weapons, and leadership, many youths surrendered; other groups were surrounded and captured. Two JVP leaders, Sanath (Wijesena Vidanage) and Susil, were killed in confrontations with the armed forces; Loku Athula, who led the remnants of his group into the jungles of Wilpathu, was wounded and captured. Many youths were detained in rehabilitation camps for months. The official arrest total was 5,067 (of whom 1,117 were from Colombo), but arrests of up to 20,000 were claimed. The government imposed strict censorship of all domestic and foreign news during the period.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 54], "content_span": [55, 763]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092560-0027-0000", "contents": "1971 JVP insurrection, Aftermath, Casualties\nThe official death toll was 1,200, but unofficial sources reliably estimated it at 4,000\u20135,000. Forty-one civilians were killed by the insurgents; thirty-seven police officers were killed and 195 wounded. Twenty-six armed-services personnel were killed (19 from the army, four from the air force, and three from the navy) and 130 were wounded (87 army, 15 air force, and 28 navy) in 1971 and 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 44], "content_span": [45, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092560-0028-0000", "contents": "1971 JVP insurrection, Aftermath, Prosecution\nAdvised by Justice Minister Felix Dias Bandaranaike, the prime minister appointed an investigative unit headed by retired IGP Aleric Abeygunawardena to prosecute the captured insurgents. The unit was made up of crown counsels and police officers. The crown counsels were made assistant superintendents, enabling them to record statements from suspects which would be admissible in court. It soon became apparent that convicting the large number of suspects in custody within normal contemporary procedure and laws would take years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 45], "content_span": [46, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092560-0029-0000", "contents": "1971 JVP insurrection, Aftermath, Prosecution, Criminal Justice Commission\nThe Criminal Justice Commission was established by the government to prosecute the detained rebels expediently. The commission was composed of Chief Justice H. N. G. Fernando (chairman), Justice A. C. Alles, Justice V. T. Thamotheram, Justice H. Dheragoda and Justice T. W. Rajaratnam. In 1975, Wijeweera was sentenced to life imprisonment (later reduced to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment). Many of the surviving JVP leaders received prison sentences; some, including Loku Athula and Somasiri Kumanayake, turned crown witness and were pardoned. Most of the youths in rehabilitation camps were released.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 74], "content_span": [75, 680]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092560-0030-0000", "contents": "1971 JVP insurrection, Legacy\nThe insurgency caused \u20a82.7 million in damage to public and private property; other institutions lost \u20a83 million, and the RCyAF lost an aircraft. Over \u20a8450 million earmarked for capital development was not spent as intended due to the insurgency. Ceylon severed diplomatic ties with North Korea based on information that the country supported the JVP, and diplomatic relations were not reestablished in 2014. Under the six years of emergency rule following the uprising, the JVP remained dormant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092560-0030-0001", "contents": "1971 JVP insurrection, Legacy\nAfter the victory of the United National Party in the 1977 elections, however, the new government tried to broaden its mandate with a period of political tolerance. Wijeweera was freed, the ban on the party was lifted, and the JVP entered the arena of legal political competition. As a candidate in the 1982 presidential elections, Wijeweera finished fourth with over 250,000 votes (compared with winner J. R. Jayewardene's 3.2 million).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092560-0031-0000", "contents": "1971 JVP insurrection, Legacy\nThe JVP began a second insurrection, which lasted from 1987 to 1989 and was more of a low intensity conflict than an open revolution. The movement fought with a well-organized military wing, capable of attacking and capturing large components of the Sri Lankan Army.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092560-0032-0000", "contents": "1971 JVP insurrection, Legacy, Incentives for resurgence\nTwo incentives for a renewed insurgency exist: unemployment and government. With a rapid population increase and relatively-slow economic growth, many youths who were the beneficiaries of free education are unemployed or underemployed; the unemployment rate is high relative to the output of the educational system, which the labour market has failed to address. Political factors include President Jayawardena's political strategy of oppressing the opposition; the weakness of the main opposition party (SLFP); the exclusion of those without political connections from some state jobs; the Indo-Sri Lankan Peace Accord, and the entry of Indian troops into Sri Lanka.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 56], "content_span": [57, 724]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092561-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Jakarta Anniversary Tournament\nThe 1971 Jakarta Anniversary Tournament was an association football tournament held from June 5 to 16 in Jakarta. Nine teams participated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092561-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Jakarta Anniversary Tournament, First stage, Group Y\nafter the final whistle, Thai players started a brawl which led to a six month suspension of the team by the FAT", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092561-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Jakarta Anniversary Tournament, Fifth Place\nnot played, Thailand returned home after player brawl in last group match v Khmer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 48], "content_span": [49, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092562-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 January 22 Surgut Aeroflot Antonov An-12 crash\nThe 1971 January 22 Surgut Aeroflot Antonov An-12 crash occurred on 22 January 1971, when an Aeroflot Antonov An-12B, registered CCCP-11000, flying from Omsk Tsentralny Airport, in the Soviet Union's (RSFSR), crashed 15\u00a0km (9.3\u00a0mi) short of the runway on approach to Surgut International Airport, Surgut, RSFSR. An investigation found the aircraft's ice protection system was ineffective because the engine bleed air valves were closed during the flight; ice therefore built up on the aircraft causing it to go out of control.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092562-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 January 22 Surgut Aeroflot Antonov An-12 crash, Aircraft\nThe aircraft was an Antonov AN-12B with the aircraft registration 11000 (factory number - 5343610, a serial number showing some basic information about the aircraft, 5 for the last digit of the year of manufacture - 1965, 34 for the factory of origin - the Tashkent aviation factory, 36 for the production batch and 10 for the individual aircraft within that batch) this aircraft left the production line of the V. P. Chkalov Tashkent aviation production association on the 3rd of December 1965 and by the 2nd of February was handed over to the main directorate of the civil air fleet (the governmental organ tasked with overseeing aviation throughout the soviet union). The aircraft was then sent to the Syktyvkar aviation department of the Komi territorial directorate of the civil air fleet. At the time of the crash the aircraft had completed 5626 flying hours in total and 2578 landings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 61], "content_span": [62, 954]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092562-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 January 22 Surgut Aeroflot Antonov An-12 crash, Accident\nIn the first half of January 1971 CCCP-11000 was one of two Antonov AN-12s which, along with 3 crews from the 75th flying squadron were temporarily based at Omsk airport, these aircraft were used in transporting freight. On January 22nd an order was received to fly CCCP-11000 to Syktyvkar, where routine maintenance work was to be carried out on the aircraft. It was decided to combine the flight with the delivery of 12 metric tons of freight to Surgut. The goods to be transported consisted mainly of rolls of netting, plastic floor tiles and other household goods, as well as a C-995 piledriver for use in construction. Aboard were two crews, the flight crew and a relief crew. The flight crew consisted of:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 61], "content_span": [62, 773]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092562-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 January 22 Surgut Aeroflot Antonov An-12 crash, Accident\nTwo others were also on board: an engineer from the 75th flying squadron; Nikolai Pavlovich Kayakan and loadmaster; Yevgeniya Rudolfovna Kramar. At Surgut, according to the weather forecast provided to the crew, there were Stratocumulus clouds at a height of 500\u2013700\u00a0m (1,640.4\u20132,296.6\u00a0ft), visibility was 3\u20134\u00a0km (1.9\u20132.5\u00a0mi), there was snow, with icing conditions in the clouds. After take-off at 18:09 Moscow time from Omsk airport the AN-12 climbed to a flight level of 6,600\u00a0m (21,653.5\u00a0ft).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 61], "content_span": [62, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092562-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 January 22 Surgut Aeroflot Antonov An-12 crash, Accident\nAt Surgut there was solid cloud at a height of 450\u00a0m (1,476.4\u00a0ft) , visibility was 5.5\u00a0km (3.4\u00a0mi), a fresh breeze was blowing from the north and the air temperature was \u22129\u00a0\u00b0C (15.8\u00a0\u00b0F). At 19:20 the radar controller at Surgut gave permission for the crew of the AN-12 to descend to a height of 4,500\u00a0m (14,763.8\u00a0ft), and then to a height of 1,200\u00a0m (3,937.0\u00a0ft). When the crew reported that they had reached a height of 1,200\u00a0m (3,937.0\u00a0ft), they were ordered to contact landing control.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 61], "content_span": [62, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092562-0004-0001", "contents": "1971 January 22 Surgut Aeroflot Antonov An-12 crash, Accident\nThey approached the runway on a magnetic heading of 180\u00b0 and the aircraft entered the second turn of its circuit whilst descending to a height of 400\u00a0m (1,312.3\u00a0ft), the distance to the runway at this point was 11\u00a0km (6.8\u00a0mi). At 19:34 Moscow time the crew reported that they were passing the outer marker beacon at a height of 400\u00a0m (1,312.3\u00a0ft), which was acknowledged by the controller. At 19:36 Moscow time (21:36 local time), the aircraft was 11\u00a0km (6.8\u00a0mi) laterally and 16\u00a0km (9.9\u00a0mi) radially from the runway. The crew received the order to perform the third turn of their holding pattern, this instruction was acknowledged by the crew. This was the last communication that took place with the aircraft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 61], "content_span": [62, 773]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092562-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 January 22 Surgut Aeroflot Antonov An-12 crash, Accident\nWhen the AN-12 was at a distance of 18\u00a0km (11.2\u00a0mi)to the North-East of Surgut airport at a speed of 330\u00a0km/h (205.1\u00a0mph) conducting a left turn, the aircraft experienced flow separation on the wing as a result of which it entered a progressive left turn and lost altitude. At this point, having deviated from its original course by 110\u00b0, and now on a bearing of 40\u00b0 and with a left bank around 90\u00b0 the aircraft crashed into the ground in the vicinity of the river Pochekuika and was completely destroyed with the wreckage catching fire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 61], "content_span": [62, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092562-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 January 22 Surgut Aeroflot Antonov An-12 crash, Causes\nAccording to an analysis of the weather conditions there was severe icing conditions at an altitude of 400\u20131,300\u00a0m (1,312.3\u20134,265.1\u00a0ft). Severe icing conditions at 1,200\u00a0m (3,937.0\u00a0ft) were also reported by the crew of CCCP-12996, another AN-12 involved in a very similar crash at the same airfield just 9 days later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 59], "content_span": [60, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092562-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 January 22 Surgut Aeroflot Antonov An-12 crash, Causes\nThe conclusion of the commission: The aircraft suffered a stall at the third turn due to a sharp deterioration in its aerodynamics as a consequence of icing on the wing whilst flying through severe icing conditions, and also due to an inappropriate speed given for the third and fourth turns for an aircraft weighing 55 tons and with icing on the wings. Icing on the wings occurred due to insufficient heating of the leading edge of the wing resulting from incomplete opening of the air bleed valves from the engine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 59], "content_span": [60, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092562-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 January 22 Surgut Aeroflot Antonov An-12 crash, Aftermath\nIn the span of 9 days (22nd and 31st of January 1971) two AN-12 aircraft crashed at Surgut, CCCP-11000 and CCCP-12996. Both crashes occurred under similar circumstances, whilst carrying out the third turn of their landing circuit both aircraft suffered spontaneous rolls due to flow separation on the wing caused by a drop in aerodynamics because of icing, which in turn was caused by ineffective de-icing systems since the hot air intake valve from the engine was not fully open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 62], "content_span": [63, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092562-0008-0001", "contents": "1971 January 22 Surgut Aeroflot Antonov An-12 crash, Aftermath\nIn order to prevent further catastrophes of the same nature significant improvements were made to the air bleed control systems including an indicator to show the fully open position of the valves. Special tests were also carried out, the results of which helped to clarify the aerodynamic characteristics of the AN-12 during icing. It also lead to changes in many civil aviation governing documents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 62], "content_span": [63, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092563-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 January 31 Surgut Aeroflot Antonov An-12 crash\nThe 1971 January 31 Surgut Aeroflot Antonov An-12 crash occurred on 31 January 1971, when an Aeroflot Antonov An-12B, aircraft registration CCCP-12996, flying from Roshchino International Airport, Tyumen, in the Soviet Union's Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic (RSFSR), crashed 13.6\u00a0km (8.5\u00a0mi) short of the runway on approach to Surgut International Airport, Surgut, RSFSR. An investigation found the aircraft's loss of control was caused by icing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092563-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 January 31 Surgut Aeroflot Antonov An-12 crash, Aircraft\nThe aircraft involved in the incident was an Antonov AN-12B with the aircraft registration number 12996 (Factory number - 00347403, a serial number giving some basic information about the aircraft: 00 for the last digit of the year of manufacture - 1970, 34 for the factory of origin - the Tashkent aviation factory, 74 for the production batch and 03 for the individual aircraft within that batch), this aircraft left the production line of the V. P. Chkalov Tashkent aviation production association on the 31st of August 1970 and handed over to the main directorate of the civil air fleet (the governmental organ tasked with overseeing aviation throughout the soviet union), which then sent the aircraft to the 2nd Tuman aviation department of the territorial directorate of the civil air fleet. At the time of the crash the aircraft had completed a total of 391 flying hours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 61], "content_span": [62, 940]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092563-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 January 31 Surgut Aeroflot Antonov An-12 crash, Accident\nCCCP-12996 was sent to transport goods from Tyumen to Surgut, the aircraft's load consisted of 12 metric tons of fresh seafood; Pacific herring packed in boxes. The aircraft was piloted by a crew from the 259th flying squadron, consisting of:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 61], "content_span": [62, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092563-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 January 31 Surgut Aeroflot Antonov An-12 crash, Accident\nAlso on board was a loadmaster. At 01:25 Moscow time the airliner took off from Tyumen airport and, after gaining height, occupied a flight level of 6,000\u00a0m (19,685.0\u00a0ft).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 61], "content_span": [62, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092563-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 January 31 Surgut Aeroflot Antonov An-12 crash, Accident\nAt Surgut the sky was fully covered by layered cloud down to an altitude of 240\u00a0m (787.4\u00a0ft), a fresh breeze was blowing from the South-South-West, visibility was 6\u00a0km (3.7\u00a0mi), the air temperature was \u22127\u00a0\u00b0C (19.4\u00a0\u00b0F). At 02:30 Moscow time and 120\u00a0km (74.6\u00a0mi) from their destination, the crew made radio contact with the radar controller at Surgut airport and received a weather report. When the AN-12 was 100\u00a0km (62.1\u00a0mi) away from Surgut the radar controller gave permission for the aircraft to descend to an altitude of 4,500\u00a0m (14,763.8\u00a0ft).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 61], "content_span": [62, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092563-0004-0001", "contents": "1971 January 31 Surgut Aeroflot Antonov An-12 crash, Accident\nHaving achieved this new altitude and now at a distance of 80\u00a0km (49.7\u00a0mi) from the airfield, the crew transferred communication to the approach controller who gave permission to descend to an altitude of 1,200\u00a0m (3,937.0\u00a0ft). Whilst descending to this new altitude the crew switched over to the landing controller and at 02:34:30 reported reaching an altitude of 1,200\u00a0m (3,937.0\u00a0ft). In response the landing controller informed them that the landing would be at 180\u00b0 and that the airfield pressure altitude was 766 millimetres of mercury. At this point the crew began to descend to the altitude of the airfield traffic pattern.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 61], "content_span": [62, 691]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092563-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 January 31 Surgut Aeroflot Antonov An-12 crash, Accident\nPassing through an altitude of 800\u2013900\u00a0m (2,624.7\u20132,952.8\u00a0ft), the crew reported strong icing conditions and a minute later very strong icing conditions. The transcript of the crew's communications with the ground controllers records that the aircraft's de-icing system was switched on. At 02:37:12 the crew reported that they had descended to an altitude of 600\u00a0m (1,968.5\u00a0ft), a couple of minutes later at 02:39:35 the crew began the third turn (to the left) of the airfield traffic pattern at an altitude of 400\u00a0m (1,312.3\u00a0ft).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 61], "content_span": [62, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092563-0005-0001", "contents": "1971 January 31 Surgut Aeroflot Antonov An-12 crash, Accident\n10-15 seconds before completing this turn the aircraft began to behave abnormally and at 02:40:25 someone in the cabin said \"the engines are starting to shake\". In this case it is highly likely that the this shaking was caused by a condition close to flow separation on the wing of the aircraft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 61], "content_span": [62, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092563-0005-0002", "contents": "1971 January 31 Surgut Aeroflot Antonov An-12 crash, Accident\nWhen the third turn was completed at 02:40:39, the captain gave the order to set the flaps to 15\u00b0, but 5 seconds later he was forced to give the command to return them to their previous position since the crew had noticed that the speed of the aircraft had dropped from 330\u00a0km/h (205.1\u00a0mph) to 310\u00a0km/h (192.6\u00a0mph), despite an increase in engine thrust.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 61], "content_span": [62, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092563-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 January 31 Surgut Aeroflot Antonov An-12 crash, Accident\nWhen the AN-12 had exited the left turn, a few seconds later the aircraft again independently entered a slight left turn. The crew countered the left turn with a small steering input to the right, but were quickly forced to steer to the left and then back to the right again since the aircraft had begun to roll from side to side causing a decrease in lift and causing the aircraft to fall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 61], "content_span": [62, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092563-0006-0001", "contents": "1971 January 31 Surgut Aeroflot Antonov An-12 crash, Accident\nAt this point the aircraft was experiencing a force of 1.8 - 1.9g, at 02:41:04 Moscow time (04:41:04 local time) at a speed of 395\u00a0km/h (245.4\u00a0mph) and at a severe left hand tilt, the AN-12 crashed into the ground 16.5\u00a0km (10.3\u00a0mi) North of Surgut airport, close to one of the lakes in the area, the aircraft was completely destroyed and burst into flames. Part of the wreckage including the tail section fell into the lake. All 7 people on board were killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 61], "content_span": [62, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092563-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 January 31 Surgut Aeroflot Antonov An-12 crash, Causes\nThe stall during the final approach immediately after completion of the third turn was the result of icing on the wing tips. The formation of ice on the wing was the result of incomplete opening of the air bleed valves from the engine and extreme icing conditions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 59], "content_span": [60, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092563-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 January 31 Surgut Aeroflot Antonov An-12 crash, Aftermath\nIn the span of 9 days (22nd and 31st of January 1971) two AN-12 aircraft crashed at Surgut, CCCP-11000 and CCCP-12996. Both crashes occurred under similar circumstances, whilst carrying out the third turn of their landing circuit both aircraft suffered spontaneous rolls due to flow separation on the wing caused by a drop in aerodynamics because of icing, which in turn was caused by ineffective de-icing systems since the hot air intake valve from the engine was not fully open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 62], "content_span": [63, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092563-0008-0001", "contents": "1971 January 31 Surgut Aeroflot Antonov An-12 crash, Aftermath\nIn order to prevent further catastrophes of the same nature significant improvements were made to the air bleed control systems including an indicator to show the fully open position of the valves. Special tests were also carried out, the results of which helped to clarify the aerodynamic characteristics of the AN-12 during icing. It also lead to changes in many civil aviation governing documents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 62], "content_span": [63, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092564-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Japan Series\nThe 1971 Japan Series was the 22nd edition of Nippon Professional Baseball's postseason championship series. It matched the Central League champion Yomiuri Giants against the Pacific League champion Hankyu Braves. This was the fourth time in five years that the two teams had met in the Japan Series, with the Giants winning all previous matchups. The Giants defeated the Braves in five games to win their seventh consecutive title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092565-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Japan Soccer League, Promotion/Relegation Series\nNagoya Mutual Bank lost its place in the League for a second time, this time to Towa Real Estate, which would become one of the biggest names in Japanese football as Fujita Engineering and Bellmare Hiratsuka, currently known as Shonan Bellmare.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092565-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Japan Soccer League, Promotion/Relegation Series\nTowa RE promoted, Nagoya Mutual Bank relegated; NMB resigned from JSL instead of forming Second Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092566-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Japan national football team\nThis page records the details of the Japan national football team in 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092567-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Japanese House of Councillors election\nHouse of Councillors elections were held in Japan on 27 June 1971, electing half the seats in the House. The Liberal Democratic Party won the most seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092568-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Japanese Regional Leagues, Champions list\nBy winning the All Japan Senior Football Championship and then defeating Nagoya Bank in a Promotion/Relegation Series, Towa ED was promoted to the Japan Soccer League; it and the remaining JSL clubs constituted the new JSL First Division, while Toyota, Kyoto and eight other clubs were chosen for the new JSL Second Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092569-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Jochen Rindt Ged\u00e4chtnisrennen\nThe Jochen Rindt Ged\u00e4chtnisrennen or the VI Rhein-Pokalrennen was a motor race, run to Formula One rules, held on 13 June 1971 at the Hockenheimring, Germany. The race was run over 35 laps of the circuit, and was dominated by Belgian driver Jacky Ickx in a Ferrari 312B.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092569-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Jochen Rindt Ged\u00e4chtnisrennen\nThe race was arranged after the Belgian Grand Prix of 1971 was cancelled, in order to fill the gap between the Monaco Grand Prix and the Dutch Grand Prix. The German Grand Prix had moved to the N\u00fcrburgring, so the Hockenheim circuit was chosen for the race, which was also a memorial race for Jochen Rindt, the reigning World Champion who had been killed at the 1970 Italian Grand Prix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092569-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Jochen Rindt Ged\u00e4chtnisrennen\nOn the same weekend, the 1971 24 Hours of Le Mans was being held, so several of the regular Formula One drivers were absent from this race, including Chris Amon, Jean-Pierre Beltoise, Henri Pescarolo, Pedro Rodr\u00edguez and Jo Siffert. There were other absentees: Jackie Stewart and Denny Hulme were taking part in the Labatt's 200 Can-Am race, and Emerson Fittipaldi was recovering from a road accident. Of the regular Formula One teams, Matra were at Le Mans, Brabham were still repairing Graham Hill's car after an accident in Monaco, and Tyrrell elected not to take part. Scuderia Ferrari had entered a car for Mario Andretti but he missed the race after suffering burns in an accident in the US.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 732]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092569-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Jochen Rindt Ged\u00e4chtnisrennen\nAs a tribute to Rindt, pole position on the grid was left vacant, leaving polesitter Ickx alone on the front row, taking the second slot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092569-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Jochen Rindt Ged\u00e4chtnisrennen, Qualifying\nThe practice sessions were dominated by the Ferraris, with Ickx lapping comfortably faster than he had done on his last visit to the circuit, for the 1970 German Grand Prix. The gas turbine Lotus 56B of Dave Walker suffered an engine fire during practice, and Walker took over Tony Trimmer's car for the race. Robert Lamplough and Bernd Terbeck were driving old BRMs recently bought from the factory, and although Lamplough qualified his P133 relatively well, Terbeck's even older P126 blew its engine and he was unable to start the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092569-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Jochen Rindt Ged\u00e4chtnisrennen, Race\nIckx started well and pulled away from team-mate Clay Regazzoni in second, with Ronnie Peterson following behind. Ickx stayed in front for the whole race, although Regazzoni stopped after three laps with a mechanical fault which ultimately cost him ten laps after a mechanic had to go out to fix it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 40], "content_span": [41, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092569-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Jochen Rindt Ged\u00e4chtnisrennen, Race\nAs the race continued, Reine Wisell passed Peterson and was catching Ickx when he pitted with brake problems. Wisell lost two laps while his brakes were bled. Peterson himself encountered a clutch fault and began to fall further behind Ickx. Peter Gethin retired on lap four with a broken throttle, and John Miles had to retire three laps later with an engine fault. Ray Allen dropped out at the back of the field with a fuel leak on lap 15.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 40], "content_span": [41, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092569-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Jochen Rindt Ged\u00e4chtnisrennen, Race\nBy this time, John Surtees had passed Howden Ganley for third, with Nanni Galli's ailing March in fifth. Rolf Stommelen missed a chicane while racing with Walker and Skip Barber, and the German was later given a one-minute penalty for this transgression. At the chequered flag, Ickx finished almost a minute ahead of Peterson, with Surtees over 20 seconds behind the Swede.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 40], "content_span": [41, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092570-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 John Player League\nThe 1971 John Player League was the third competing of what was generally known as the Sunday League. The competition was won for the first time by Worcestershire County Cricket Club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092571-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Jordan League\nThe following are the statistics of the Jordan League for the 1971 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 93]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092572-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 KFK competitions (Ukraine)\nThe 1971 KFK competitions in Ukraine were part of the 1971 Soviet KFK competitions that were conducted in the Soviet Union. It was 8th season of the KFK in Ukraine since its introduction in 1964.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092572-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 KFK competitions (Ukraine), Promotion\nNone of KFK teams were promoted to the 1972 Soviet Second League, Zone 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092572-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 KFK competitions (Ukraine), Promotion\nHowever, to the Class B were promoted following teams that did not participate in the KFK competitions:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092573-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Kangaroo tour of New Zealand\nThe 1971 Kangaroo Tour of New Zealand was a mid-season tour of New Zealand by the Australia national rugby league team. The Australians played three matches on tour, including a test against the New Zealand national rugby league team. The tour began on 22 June and finished on 29 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092573-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Kangaroo tour of New Zealand, Leadership\nHarry Bath was the coach of the squad, which he had been since 1968 in this particular tenure. St. George Dragons fullback Graeme Langlands was named captain for the tour ahead of 1969 New Zealand Tour leader John Sattler.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092573-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Kangaroo tour of New Zealand, Touring squad\nAll but two members of the squad played in the New South Wales Rugby League premiership, those players being Brian Fitzsimmons and Wayne Bennett. Several tour members represented the Australia national rugby league team but only played in minor matches in New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092573-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Kangaroo tour of New Zealand, Tour\nThe Australians played three matches on the tour, winning one match and losing two, including the test match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 39], "content_span": [40, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092574-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Kansas City Chiefs season\nThe 1971 Kansas City Chiefs season was the franchise's 2nd season in the National Football League, the 9th as the Kansas City Chiefs, and the 12th overall. They improved from a 7\u20135\u20132 campaign in 1970 to record a 10\u20133\u20131 mark and win the AFC West division championship, the Chiefs' first division title since 1966. The Chiefs tied with the Miami Dolphins for the best record in the AFC and were tied for the third-best record overall in the NFL, trailing only the 11\u20133 marks of the Dallas Cowboys and Minnesota Vikings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092574-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Kansas City Chiefs season\nThe Chiefs playoff loss to the Miami Dolphins remains the longest game in NFL history at 82 minutes and 40 seconds. Dolphins kicker Garo Yepremian kicked a 37-yard field goal with 7 minutes and 20 seconds left in the second overtime to win the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092574-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Kansas City Chiefs season, Season Summary\nMost of the pieces of the team which won Super Bowl IV two years earlier were still in place. Left defensive end Jerry Mays retired after the 1970 season, with Marvin Upshaw taking his spot, but the other 10 defensive starters were the same as they were two years prior. Middle linebacker Willie Lanier was a unanimous All-Pro selection following the season, and would likely have been named NFL Defensive Player of the Year had not Viking defensive tackle Alan Page become the second defensive player to win the league's Most Valuable Player award. Outside linebacker Bobby Bell, defensive tackles Buck Buchanan and Curley Culp, and cornerback Emmitt Thomas joined Lanier on the AFC Pro Bowl squad following the season. Bell, Buchanan, Culp, Lanier, and Thomas are all members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 858]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092574-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Kansas City Chiefs season, Season Summary\nOn offense, Robert Holmes was traded to the San Diego Chargers midway through the season, leaving Wendell Hayes to assume the fullback duties next to third-year pro Ed Podolak, who had become the starting halfback when Mike Garrett was traded to San Diego in 1970. Morris Stroud, the tallest player in NFL history at 6-foot-10, and Willie Frazier, acquired from San Diego, alternated at tight end for the retired Fred Arbanas, but the rest of the offensive line, save for center Jack Rudnay, remained the same from the Super Bowl winning team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 590]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092574-0003-0001", "contents": "1971 Kansas City Chiefs season, Season Summary\nRudnay assumed the starting center spot in 1970 over veteran E. J. Holub. At wide receiver, rookie Elmo Wright, the Chiefs' first-round pick in the 1971 NFL Draft from the University of Houston, assumed the slot opposite all-pro Otis Taylor, as Frank Pitts had moved on to the Cleveland Browns. Taylor earned selection to the Pro Bowl, along with guard Ed Budde, quarterback Len Dawson, and tackle Jim Tyrer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092574-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Kansas City Chiefs season, Season Summary\nKansas City's special teams remained among the league's elite units, thanks to the combination of kicker Jan Stenerud and punter Jerrel Wilson, both of whom were named to the Pro Bowl. Podolak and Warren McVea handled the bulk of the return duties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092574-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Kansas City Chiefs season, Season Summary\nThe season was the last for the Chiefs in Municipal Stadium, as owner Lamar Hunt and general manager Jack Steadman were overseeing the construction of Arrowhead Stadium, located at the junction of Interstate 70 and Interstate 435 in Jackson County, Missouri, at the eastern edge of the Kansas City city limits. Arrowhead, along with Royals Stadium, being constructed for the Kansas City Royals of Major League Baseball, would form the Truman Sports Complex, bucking the trend of multi-purpose stadiums in vogue at the time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092574-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Kansas City Chiefs season, Season Summary\nThe season ended in heartbreak, as the Miami Dolphins won the longest game in National Football League history on Christmas Day, defeating the Chiefs 27\u201324 in double-overtime on a 37-yard field goal by Garo Yepremian in the last football game in Municipal Stadium, as well as the last game for safety Johnny Robinson, who was an original member of the Dallas Texans in 1960. Coach Hank Stram often called the 1971 Chiefs the franchise's best-ever squad, and this loss haunted Stram for the rest of his life, even after his induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2003. Stram died July 4, 2005 at age 82. Others who are in the Hall of Fame from this squad are owner Hunt (who died December 13, 2006, at age 74), quarterback Dawson, and kicker Stenerud.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 806]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092574-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Kansas City Chiefs season, Season Summary\nThe loss to Miami began a nosedive in the Chiefs' fortunes. Kansas City backslid to 8\u20136 and 7\u20135\u20132 in 1972 and 1973, before falling to 5\u20139 and a tie for last in the AFC West in 1974, leading to Stram's firing following the season. Kansas City would not reach the playoffs again until 1986, did not host (or win) another playoff game until 1991, and did not win the AFC West division title again until 1993.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092574-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Kansas City Chiefs season, Standings\nNote: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092575-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Kansas City Royals season\nThe 1971 Kansas City Royals season was their third in Major League Baseball. The Royals had the first winning season (85-76) in franchise history, good enough for second place in the American League West and 16 games behind the Oakland Athletics. Kansas City earning a winning record in its third season was the fastest of any expansion club in Major League Baseball history to that point. The record would stand until the 1999 Arizona Diamondbacks won the National League West title in their second season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092575-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Kansas City Royals season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 75], "content_span": [76, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092575-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Kansas City Royals season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 68], "content_span": [69, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092575-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Kansas City Royals season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 73], "content_span": [74, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092575-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Kansas City Royals season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 70], "content_span": [71, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092575-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Kansas City Royals season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 71], "content_span": [72, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092576-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Kansas Jayhawks football team\nThe 1971 Kansas Jayhawks football team represented the University of Kansas in the Big Eight Conference during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. In their first season under head coach Don Fambrough, the Jayhawks compiled a 4\u20137 record (2\u20135 against conference opponents), tied for fifth place in the conference, and were outscored by opponents by a combined total of 286 to 187. They played their home games at Memorial Stadium in Lawrence, Kansas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092576-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Kansas Jayhawks football team\nThe team's statistical leaders included Dave Jaynes with 748 passing yards, Delvin Williams with 509 rushing yards and John Schroll with 491 receiving yards. Kenny Page and Bob Childs were the team captains.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092577-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Kansas State Wildcats football team\nThe 1971 Kansas State Wildcats football team represented Kansas State University in the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. The team's head football coach was Vince Gibson. The Wildcats played their home games in KSU Stadium. 1971 saw the wildcats finish with a record of 5\u20136, and a 2\u20135 record in Big Eight Conference play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092578-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Kensington and Chelsea London Borough Council election\nThe 1971 Kensington and Chelsea Council election took place on 13 May 1971 to elect members of Kensington and Chelsea London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Conservative party stayed in overall control of the council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092579-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Kent State Golden Flashes football team\nThe 1971 Kent State Golden Flashes football team was an American football team that represented Kent State University in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. In their first season under head coach Don James, the Golden Flashes compiled a 3\u20138 record (0\u20135 against MAC opponents), finished in sixth place in the MAC, and were outscored by all opponents by a combined total of 304 to 169.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092579-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Kent State Golden Flashes football team\nThe team's statistical leaders included Renard Harmon with 566 rushing yards, Larry Hayes with 848 passing yards, and Jeff Murrey with 259 receiving yards. On defense, Jack Lambert led the team with 155 total tackles, including 68 solo tackles. Other notable players on the team included Nick Saban and Gary Pinkel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092579-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Kent State Golden Flashes football team\nDon James was announced as Kent State's football coach on December 12, 1970, following the resignation of Dave Puddington. Prior to being hired by Kent State, James was a defensive coach for the University of Colorado.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092580-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Kentucky Derby\nThe 1971 Kentucky Derby was the 97th running of the Kentucky Derby. The race took place on May 1, 1971, with 123,284 people in attendance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092581-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Kentucky Wildcats football team\nThe 1971 Kentucky Wildcats football team represented the University of Kentucky in the Southeastern Conference during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092582-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Kentucky gubernatorial election\nThe 1971 Kentucky gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 1971. Incumbent Republican Louie Nunn, was ineligible for a second term due to term limits, a rule that was later repealed in 1992.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092582-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Kentucky gubernatorial election\nIn the Democratic primary, Lieutenant Governor Wendell H. Ford ran against former Governor Bert T. Combs and 6 other opponents. Ford would win in an easy victory that wasn't expected. In the Republican primary, Thomas Emberton easily won his primary and was endorsed by Governor Nunn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092582-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Kentucky gubernatorial election\nIn the general election, Ford and Emberton were joined by former Governor A. B. \"Happy\" Chandler, running as an Independent, as well as American Party candidate William Smith. The Republicans had hoped that Chandler would help Emberton's chances, but Ford eventually won the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092583-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 1971 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship was the 77th staging of the Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Kilkenny County Board.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092583-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship\nOn 14 November 1971, Bennettsbridge won the championship after a 3-10 to 1-07 defeat of Fenians in the final. It was their 12th championship title overall and their first in three championship seasons. It remains their last championship triumph.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092584-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Kingsport 300\nThe 1971 Kingsport 300 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series racing event that took place on May 23, 1971, at Kingsport Speedway in Kingsport, Tennessee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092584-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Kingsport 300, Race report\nThere were 25 drivers on the starting grid; 13 drivers would fail to finish the race. Bill Hollar would finish in last-place on the first lap due to an issue with his clutch. Bill Champion received his second straight top-five finish. Richard Childress would be involved in a fire during the race while a crash would take D.K. Ulrich out of the race. 300 laps were performed in front of 3,800 live spectators. Bobby Isaac and Richard Petty were exchanging the lead for the entire race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092584-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Kingsport 300, Race report\nIsaac would go on to defeat Elmo Langley after more than 90 minutes of racing action; with Harry Hyde as the winner's crew chief. Isaac's qualifying speed of 75.167 miles per hour (120.970\u00a0km/h) earned him the pole position for this race. Notable crew chiefs for this race were Harry Hyde, Dale Inman, Vic Ballard and Lee Gordon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092584-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Kingsport 300, Race report\nThe race car drivers still had to commute to the races using the same stock cars that competed in a typical weekend's race through a policy of homologation (and under their own power). This policy was in effect until roughly 1975. By 1980, NASCAR had completely stopped tracking the year model of all the vehicles and most teams did not take stock cars to the track under their own power anymore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092584-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Kingsport 300, Finishing order\n\u2020 signifies that the driver is known to be deceased * Driver failed to finish race", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 35], "content_span": [36, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092585-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Kingston upon Thames London Borough Council election\nThe 1971 Kingston upon Thames Council election took place on 13 May 1971 to elect members of Kingston upon Thames London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Conservative party stayed in overall control of the council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092586-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Krasnodar bus bombing\nThe Krasnodar bus bombing (Russian language: \u0412\u0437\u0440\u044b\u0432 \u0430\u0432\u0442\u043e\u0431\u0443\u0441\u0430 \u0432 \u041a\u0440\u0430\u0441\u043d\u043e\u0434\u0430\u0440\u0435) was a bombing that occurred on a bus in Krasnodar, June 14, 1971, when a homemade suitcase bomb placed near the gas tank by mentally ill Peter Volynsky exploded, killing 10 persons and wounding 20\u201390 others.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092586-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Krasnodar bus bombing, Attack\nAround 8:20 a.m. Volynsky went into the bus with suitcase bomb and placed the explosive near the gas tank. After the bus pulled off from the stop, Volynsky claimed to be sick and told the driver to release him urgently (according to another version, he went out at the next stop).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092586-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Krasnodar bus bombing, Attack\nThe explosion occurred at about 8:30 a.m. in Turgenev Street. The blast reportedly threw the bus into the air, Five people died on the spot, while another five subsequently died in the hospital. Many others were injured. The bomb was stuffed with metal balls, nails and bearings, which struck the gas tank of the bus, as a result of which it caught fire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092586-0002-0001", "contents": "1971 Krasnodar bus bombing, Attack\nThe driver, who was not seriously injured, managed to open the jammed doors and smash the window with the mounting, but the people who suffered severe injuries could not get out of the cabin and were burned in it. Surviving passengers said that they saw a man with a cap with a large black suitcase, in addition, one of the found parts was a piece of fire extinguisher.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092586-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Krasnodar bus bombing, Aftermath\nThe KGB department found Volynsky two days after the bombing. In the bomber's apartment was found gas cylinders, a box, gunpowder, disassembled bearings and a nichrome wire, enough to destroy a five-store house. And a Napoleon portrait with the inscription \"i can do anything\". Volynsky carefully calculated the cost of manufacturing explosive devices, as a result of which investigators managed to establish that the bomb exploded cost him only 40 rubles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092586-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Krasnodar bus bombing, Aftermath\nWhile interrogated, they asked for Volynsky what prompted him to commit the crime, Volynsky simply said: \"I hate people.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092586-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Krasnodar bus bombing, Aftermath\nForensic psychiatrists examination recognized Volynsky as insane and sent him to a compulsory treatment in a psychiatric hospital of a closed type in Novy Abisnky District, Krasnodar Krai by a court decision where the bomber is still held at the hospital.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092587-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Kuala Lumpur floods\nThe 1971 Kuala Lumpur floods was a major flash flood disaster in Malaysia that occurred in January 1971. The flooding was the result of heavy monsoon rains, which swelled the Klang, Batu, and Gombak rivers. 32 people were killed and 180,000 people were affected. The Malaysian Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak declared a state of national disaster in Western Malaysia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092587-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Kuala Lumpur floods\nThe floods were the worst in the country since 1926. As a result of the flooding, the Kuala Lumpur Flood Mitigation Programme was set up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092588-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Kuwaiti general election\nGeneral elections were held in Kuwait on 23 January 1971. A total of 183 candidates contested the election, which saw pro-government candidates remain the largest bloc in Parliament. Voter turnout was 51.6%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092589-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 LFF Lyga\nThe 1971 LFF Lyga was the 50th season of the LFF Lyga football competition in Lithuania. It was contested by 16 teams, and Pazanga Vilnius won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092590-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 LPGA Championship\nThe 1971 LPGA Championship was the 17th LPGA Championship, held June 10\u201313 at Pleasant Valley Country Club in Sutton, Massachusetts, southeast of Worcester.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092590-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 LPGA Championship\nKathy Whitworth, the 1967 champion, won the second of her three LPGA Championship titles, four strokes ahead of runner-up Kathy Ahern, who won the following year. It was the fifth of Whitworth's six major titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092591-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 LPGA Tour\nThe 1971 LPGA Tour was the 22nd season since the LPGA Tour officially began in 1950. The season ran from February 18 to October 17. The season consisted of 20 official money events. Kathy Whitworth won the most tournaments, five. She also led the money list with earnings of $41,181.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092591-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 LPGA Tour\nThe season saw the first $10,000 first prize at the Sears Women's World Classic won by Ruth Jessen. There were four first-time winners in 1971: Pam Barnett, Jan Ferraris, Pam Higgins, and Sandra Palmer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092591-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 LPGA Tour, Tournament results\nThe following table shows all the official money events for the 1971 season. \"Date\" is the ending date of the tournament. The numbers in parentheses after the winners' names are the number of wins they had on the tour up to and including that event. Majors are shown in bold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092592-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 LSU Tigers football team\nThe 1971 LSU Tigers football team represented Louisiana State University during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092593-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 La Fl\u00e8che Wallonne\nThe 1971 La Fl\u00e8che Wallonne was the 35th edition of La Fl\u00e8che Wallonne cycle race and was held on 22 April 1971. The race started in Li\u00e8ge and finished in Marcinelle. The race was won by Roger De Vlaeminck of the Flandria team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092594-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Labour Party Shadow Cabinet election\nElections to the Labour Party's Shadow Cabinet (more formally, its \"Parliamentary Committee\") occurred in December 1971. In addition to the 12 members elected, the Leader (Harold Wilson), Deputy Leader (Roy Jenkins), Labour Chief Whip (Bob Mellish), Chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party (Douglas Houghton), Labour Leader in the House of Lords (Baron Shackleton), and Labour Chief Whip in the Lords (Baron Beswick) were automatically members. The Labour Lords elected one further member, Baron Champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092594-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Labour Party Shadow Cabinet election\nLever and Thomson both resigned in April 1972, and were replaced by Prentice and Silkin, the first two unsuccessful candidates. Jenkins resigned as deputy leader in the same month, and was replaced by Edward Short. This created an additional vacancy, and because the next two unsuccessful candidates had tied on votes, a run-off election was held to decide who would join the shadow cabinet. On 3 May, Barbara Castle defeated Eric Heffer by 111 votes to 89, to take the position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092595-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Labour Party deputy leadership election\nThe 1971 Labour Party deputy leadership election took place in November 1971 after left-wingers Michael Foot and Tony Benn challenged sitting deputy leader Roy Jenkins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092595-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Labour Party deputy leadership election, Results\nAs a result of the first round, Benn was eliminated. The remaining two candidates were left to face each other in a second round a week later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 53], "content_span": [54, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092595-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Labour Party deputy leadership election, Sources\nThis United Kingdom election-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 53], "content_span": [54, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092596-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Lafayette Leopards football team\nThe 1971 Lafayette Leopards football team was an American football team that represented Lafayette College as an independent during the 1971 NCAA College Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092596-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Lafayette Leopards football team\nIn their first year under head coach Neil Putnam, the Leopards compiled a 5\u20135 record. Peter Tonks and Edward DiSalvo were the team captains.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092596-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Lafayette Leopards football team\nLafayette played its home games at Fisher Field on College Hill in Easton, Pennsylvania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092597-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Lamar Cardinals football team\nThe 1971 Lamar Cardinals football team represented Lamar University in the 1971 NCAA College Division football season as a member of the Southland Conference. The Cardinals played their home games at Cardinal Stadium now named Provost Umphrey Stadium in Beaumont, Texas. The competed at the NCAA College Division level in 1971. The 1971 season marked the first year the Cardinals competed as the Lamar University Cardinals following the school's name change from Lamar State College of Technology to Lamar University on August 23, 1971. The Cardinals finished the season with a 5\u20136 overall record and a 4\u20131 conference record. The 4\u20131 conference record was good enough for the Cardinals to tie for the conference championship. The team ended the season in a three-way tie for first place in conference play. The Cardinals shared the conference title with new member, Louisiana Tech, and departing member, Trinity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 947]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092598-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Lambeth London Borough Council election\nElections to Lambeth London Borough Council were held in May 1971. The whole council was up for election. Turnout was 35.4%. This election had aldermen as well as councillors. Labour and the Conservatives both got 5 aldermen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092599-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Latvian SSR Higher League, Overview\nIt was contested by 13 teams, and VEF won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092600-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Leeds City Council election\nThe Leeds municipal elections were held on 14 May 1971, with one third of the councillors up for vote including a double vacancy in Talbot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092600-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Leeds City Council election\nReflecting national patterns, the results were a near mirror-image of the 1968 results, as Labour achieved their highest vote share since 1945, and their greatest number of votes since 1953. It was the Conservatives who sunk to a low-point this time around, setting post-war record lows in both vote percentages and actual votes. However, with the defeat being less severe and the entirety of the council not being elected this time, the Conservatives held on to control with the superior number of aldermen allotted to them the previous year. Overall turnout across the city was 37.8%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 619]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092600-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Leeds City Council election\nStarting from such a shrunken base following their overwhelming defeat in 1968, Labour gained over half of seats up for election, as well as holding the seats in the four wards they won previously (City, East Hunslet, Holbeck and Middleton). Labour gained seventeen in total, with all but Castleton from the Conservatives: Armley, Beeston, Bramley, Burley, Burmantofts, Castleton, Gipton, Harehills, Kirkstall, Osmondthorpe, Richmond Hill, Scott Hall, Seacroft, Stanningley, Whinmoor, Woodhouse and Wortley. Castleton was gained from the Liberals, who repeated their success in West Hunslet for the third year running and gained from the Conservatives, leaving their total unchanged.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 716]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092600-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Leeds City Council election, Election result\nThe result had the following consequences for the total number of seats on the Council after the elections:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092601-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Lehigh Engineers football team\nThe 1971 Lehigh Engineers football team was an American football team that represented Lehigh University as an independent during the 1971 NCAA College Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092601-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Lehigh Engineers football team\nIn their seventh year under head coach Fred Dunlap, the Engineers compiled an 8\u20133 record. John Hill and Gary Scheib were the team captains.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092601-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Lehigh Engineers football team\nLehigh played its home games at Taylor Stadium on the university campus in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092602-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Lewisham London Borough Council election\nElections to Lewisham London Borough Council were held in May 1971. The whole council was up for election. Turnout was 39.8%. This election had aldermen as well as councillors. Labour and the Conservatives each got five aldermen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092603-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spill\nThe Liberal Party of Australia held a leadership spill on 10 March 1971. Prime Minister John Gorton called for a vote of confidence in his leadership, which was tied, prompting Gorton to resign. William McMahon subsequently defeated Billy Snedden for the leadership, and was sworn in as prime minister on the same day. Gorton was elected as his deputy, defeating Malcolm Fraser and David Fairbairn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092603-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spill, Background\nOn 8 March 1971, Defence Minister Malcolm Fraser resigned from cabinet, supposedly over Gorton's failure to support him in a dispute with Chief of the General Staff Thomas Daly. The following day, Fraser gave a statement to the House of Representatives in which he excoriated Gorton and called him \"not fit to hold the great office of prime minister\". Fraser's actions brought to a head tensions over Gorton's leadership style, particularly what his opponents viewed as his lack of consultation with cabinet. In response, Gorton called a partyroom meeting for 10 a.m. on 10 March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 60], "content_span": [61, 641]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092603-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spill, Meeting\nThe partyroom meeting began with an open debate on the leadership. Gorton, who was chairing the meeting, then called for a vote of confidence in his leadership, which was tied at 33 votes in favour and 33 votes opposed. Gorton supporter Duke Bonnett was the only absentee (due to illness); had he been present, Gorton would have received 34 votes. Under party rules of the time, Gorton could have retained the leadership. However, Gorton resigned, saying a tie vote was not a vote of confidence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 57], "content_span": [58, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092603-0002-0001", "contents": "1971 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spill, Meeting\nHe turned to Foreign Affairs Minister William McMahon and nominated him for the leadership, to the applause of his colleagues; Billy Snedden, the Minister for Labour and National Service, was the only other nominee. McMahon \u2013 who had been deputy leader of the Liberal Party since 1966 \u2013 defeated Snedden with what The Canberra Times called \"a comparatively small majority\". The exact result was kept secret, as was the party's practice at the time, but has been estimated to have been 40 votes for McMahon to 26 for Snedden.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 57], "content_span": [58, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092603-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spill, Meeting\nAfter McMahon was elected as leader, there was a second ballot to elect his successor as deputy leader. Somewhat unexpectedly, Gorton put himself forward as a candidate and was elected, defeating Malcolm Fraser and backbencher David Fairbairn. McMahon was sworn in as prime minister by Governor-General Paul Hasluck later that afternoon; his full ministry was not sworn in until 22 March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 57], "content_span": [58, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092603-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spill, Aftermath\nGorton was sacked from cabinet for disloyalty in August 1971, and subsequently resigned the deputy leadership and was replaced by Snedden. McMahon lost the December 1972 federal election to the Labor Party, led by Gough Whitlam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 59], "content_span": [60, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092604-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Liberian general election\nGeneral elections were held in Liberia on 4 May 1971. In the presidential election, incumbent William Tubman of the True Whig Party was the only candidate, and was re-elected unopposed. In the legislative elections, the True Whig Party won all 52 seats in the House of Representatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092605-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Liberty Bowl\nThe 1971 Liberty Bowl was a college football postseason bowl game between the Arkansas Razorbacks and the Tennessee Volunteers, played on December 20, 1971, in Memphis, Tennessee. In the 13th edition of the Liberty Bowl, ninth-ranked Tennessee defeated 18th-ranked Arkansas, 14\u201313.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092605-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Liberty Bowl\nThe game was wrought with controversy, mainly due to two calls in the game by SEC official Preston Watts that favored Tennessee. An Arkansas field goal was wiped out due to a phantom holding call on Arkansas tight end Bobby Nichols. Nichols stated after the game that a Vols player grabbed him and pulled him to the ground, yet Watts flagged Nichols for the holding penalty. The second controversial call came in the fourth quarter when Arkansas fumbled the ball, but Razorback player Tom Reed recovered, and actually handed the ball to Preston Watts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092605-0001-0001", "contents": "1971 Liberty Bowl\nWatts unceremoniously signaled that the ball had been recovered by Tennessee, and gave possession to the Volunteers at the Arkansas 37 yard line. Tennessee would score a touchdown a few plays later to take the lead. Watts was born and raised in Tennessee. This controversy prompted the NCAA to change its rules concerning officiating in bowl games. No longer would bowl game officiating crews be split between the conferences of the competing teams; rather, officiating crews would be composed of officials from conferences not playing in that bowl game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092605-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Liberty Bowl, Setting, #18 Arkansas\nArkansas defeated #7 Cal in War Memorial Stadium to open the season, but suffered a one-point defeat to an unranked Tulsa team two weeks later. The Hogs would upset #10 Texas in Little Rock also, but lost to Texas A&M and tied Rice, costing the Hogs the Southwest Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 40], "content_span": [41, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092605-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Liberty Bowl, Game summary\nThe Volunteers took the lead first, with a two-yard run by Bill Rudder. The Hogs responded with a 36-yard TD strike from Joe Ferguson to Jim Hodge. Scoring wouldn't resume until the fourth quarter, when Razorback Bill McClard kicked 19- and 30-yard field goals. A third McClard kick was good, set up by Louis Campbell's third interception, but a penalty kept the Hogs off the board a fourth time. Arkansas fumbled at their own 36-yard line, and Tennessee's Curt Watson scored three plays later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 31], "content_span": [32, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092605-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Liberty Bowl, Game summary\nArkansas set a Liberty Bowl record with 104 interception return yards in the contest. This record still stands today. Louis Campbell of Arkansas had three interceptions, also a Liberty Bowl Record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 31], "content_span": [32, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092606-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Libyan Federation of Arab Republics referendum\nA referendum on the Federation of Arab Republics was held in Libya on 1 September 1971, alongside simultaneous referendums in Egypt and Syria. It was approved by 98.6% of voters, with a turnout of 94.6%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092607-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Liechtenstein women's suffrage referendum\nA referendum on the introduction of women's suffrage was held in Liechtenstein on 28 February 1971. Voting was restricted to men, and resulted in a majority against its introduction. Voter turnout was 85.6%. Following the referendum, some women demonstrated in Vaduz and other towns, booing male pedestrians and carrying signs bearing the slogan \"Men of Liechtenstein: Where's your virility\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092608-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito season\nLiga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito's 1971 season was the club's 41st year of existence, the 18th year in professional football and the 12th in the top level of professional football in Ecuador.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092609-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 1971 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship was the 77th staging of the Limerick Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Limerick County Board in 1887.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092609-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship\nOn 12 December 1971, Claughaun won the championship after a 6-06 to 2-13 defeat of South Liberties in the final. It was their ninth championship title overall and their first championship title in three years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092610-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Little League World Series\nThe 1971 Little League World Series took place between August 24 and August 28 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. The Tainan Little League of Tainan City, Taiwan, defeated the Anderson Little League of Gary, Indiana, in the championship game of the 25th Little League World Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092610-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Little League World Series\nThis was the first championship game that was decided in extra innings, and remains the longest championship game in LLWS history, at nine innings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092611-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Liverpool City Council election\nElections to Liverpool City Council were held on 13 May 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092611-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Liverpool City Council election, Ward results\nThis data is compared with the election results for 1968, when the councillors were elected for a three-year term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 50], "content_span": [51, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092612-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Liverpool Scotland by-election\nThe Liverpool Scotland by-election of 1 April 1971 was held after Labour Member of Parliament (MP) Walter Alldritt resigned from the House of Commons. The seat was retained by Labour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092613-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Li\u00e8ge\u2013Bastogne\u2013Li\u00e8ge\nThe 57th edition of the Li\u00e8ge\u2013Bastogne\u2013Li\u00e8ge road cycling race in Belgium was held on 25 April 1971. Belgian Eddy Merckx concluded his second win in the monument classic, after beating his countryman Georges Pintens in a two-man sprint.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092613-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Li\u00e8ge\u2013Bastogne\u2013Li\u00e8ge, Summary\nCycling icon Eddy Merckx attacked solo in Rocourt, at 92 kilometers from the finish in Li\u00e8ge, and soon had a five-minute advantage over his pursuers. In a rare display, he suffered a sudden fatigue on the Mont-Theux and was joined by Georges Pintens. Pintens failed to distance a tired Merckx, and Merckx managed to outsprint his fellow Belgian at the line to seal his second victory in the classic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 34], "content_span": [35, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092613-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Li\u00e8ge\u2013Bastogne\u2013Li\u00e8ge, Summary\nThe race was run in harrowing weather conditions, with snow and cold rampaging the peloton. 27 of 122 starters finished the race. Years later, one of Merckx' soigneurs revealed that Merckx, suffering from exhaustion after the race, needed to shower on a chair.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 34], "content_span": [35, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092614-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church\n1971 meeting of the Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church was the third in the history of the Russian Orthodox Church, and second in the second patriarchal period (since 1917), which took place 30 May to 2 June 1971 in the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius. The Local Council meeting was held in connection with the need to elect a new primate of the Church after the death of Patriarch Alexy I. Metropolitan Pimen of Krutitsy and Kolomna, locum tenens of the patriarchal throne was elected new patriarch. Another important act of the Council was the abolition of the anathema on the old rites that was issued by the Great Moscow Council of 1667, thus recognizing full communion to the Old Believers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 753]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092614-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church, Background\nOn 17 April 1970, Patriarch Alexy I died. On 12 June, the Council for Religious Affairs received permission from the CPSU Central Committee to open the Council. However, the authorities did not allow the Council to be held in the year of the centenary of the birth of Vladimir Lenin. The decision to convene the Council was adopted on 25 June 1970, by the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church. The Commission on the preparation of the Council consisted of 16 people, including two lay persons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 61], "content_span": [62, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092614-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church, Composition\nThe Local Council of 1971 was the most representative of the councils that met in the post-revolution period. It was attended by the heads of six, and representatives of five other autocephalous churches of the Eastern Orthodox world, and the heads of all three autonomous Eastern Orthodox churches, as well as the leaders of several ecumenical organizations: World Council of Churches, Christian Peace Conference, Conference of European Churches and other representatives of the non-Orthodox churches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 62], "content_span": [63, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092614-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church, Composition\nCouncil has 234 members, including 72 bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church, 84 representatives of the clergy and 78 lay faithful. In addition, 25 foreign nationals were present in the meeting, representing 124 foreign parishes of the Moscow Patriarchate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 62], "content_span": [63, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092614-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church, Meeting\nParticipants heard and discussed the report of the Patriarchal locum tenens Metropolitan Pimen, \"The life and work of the Russian Orthodox Church\". The reports and speeches of participants positively evaluated relation between the Russian Orthodox Church and the socialist political system, domestic and foreign policy of the Soviet government. Satisfaction was expressed towards the existing legislation on religious life, the relations between Church and State, expressed commitment to the episcopate and clergy to continue to develop \"good relations with our country\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 58], "content_span": [59, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092614-0004-0001", "contents": "1971 Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church, Meeting\nThe Council unanimously approved the anti-canonical changes in the Regulations on the Administration of the ROC imposed by the Council for the Affairs of the ROC on the Bishops' Council of 1961. Local Council granted autocephaly to the Orthodox Church in America and autonomy to the Japanese Orthodox Church, and also ordered church leaders to take \"the necessary canonical sanctions\" to the leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 58], "content_span": [59, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092615-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 London local elections\nLocal government elections took place in London, and some other parts of the United Kingdom on Thursday 13 May 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092615-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 London local elections\nAll London borough council seats were up for election. The previous Borough elections in London were in 1968.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092616-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Long Beach State 49ers football team\nThe 1971 Long Beach State 49ers football team represented California State College, Long Beach during the 1971 NCAA College Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092616-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Long Beach State 49ers football team\nCal State Long Beach competed in the Pacific Coast Athletic Association. The team was led by third year head coach Jim Stangeland, and played the majority of their home games at Veterans Stadium adjacent to the campus of Long Beach City College in Long Beach, California. One home game was played at Anaheim Stadium in Anaheim, California. They finished the season as Champions of the PCAA, with a record of eight wins and four losses (8\u20134, 5\u20131 PCAA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092616-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Long Beach State 49ers football team, Team players in the NFL\nThe following finished their college career in 1970, were not drafted, but played in the NFL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 66], "content_span": [67, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092617-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Los Angeles Dodgers season\nThe 1971 Los Angeles Dodgers finished the season in second place in the National League West.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092617-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092617-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 69], "content_span": [70, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092617-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 74], "content_span": [75, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092617-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 71], "content_span": [72, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092617-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 72], "content_span": [73, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092617-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Los Angeles Dodgers season, 1971 Major League Baseball Draft\nThis was the seventh year of a Major League Baseball Draft. The Dodgers drafted 55 players in the June draft and six in the January draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 65], "content_span": [66, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092617-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Los Angeles Dodgers season, 1971 Major League Baseball Draft\nThe only notable Major League player in this draft class was first round pick Rick Rhoden, a pitcher from Atlantic High School in Delray Beach, Florida. He pitched in the Majors from 1974\u20131989, the first five years with the Dodgers. He would have a record of 151\u2013125 and was a two time all-star.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 65], "content_span": [66, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092618-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Los Angeles Rams season\nThe 1971 Los Angeles Rams season was the team's 34th year with the National Football League and the 26th season in Los Angeles. The team looked to improve on its 9\u20134\u20131 record from 1970, but finished one game below their goal, as they finished 8\u20135\u20131 and finished 2nd in the NFC West, behind the San Francisco 49ers (9\u20135).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092618-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Los Angeles Rams season\nThe Rams started out strong at 4\u20131\u20131, but split their final eight games. Despite sweeping the 49ers on the season, a crucial tie against the Atlanta Falcons in week 2 proved to doom the Rams, because had they beaten Atlanta, they would've clinched the NFC West by virtue of their sweep over the 49ers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092618-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Los Angeles Rams season\nTeam owner Dan Reeves died of cancer prior to the season in April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092618-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season\nAs they had in 1970, the Rams and 49ers staged a season long battle for the NFC West title that came down to the season's final game. The Rams season got off to a rocky and controversial start in New Orleans against the Saints and their rookie quarterback Archie Manning. The Saints trailed 20\u201317 in the final seconds and faced 4th and goal from the Rams' 1-yard line. Instead of settling for a tie (there was no overtime for regular season games in the NFL in 1971), the Saints gambled and went for the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092618-0003-0001", "contents": "1971 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season\nManning ran a quarterback sneak in which the officials signaled touchdown, although television replays showed that Manning was stopped short of the goal line. So instead of a 20\u201317 win, the Rams lost 24\u201320. In week 2 the Rams needed a last second field goal to tie the Atlanta Falcons, 20\u201320.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092618-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season\nThe Rams appeared to right their ship by winning their next four games, including a 20\u201313 win in San Francisco. But back-to-back losses to the Miami Dolphins and Baltimore Colts left the 4\u20133\u20131 Rams 1+1\u20442 games behind the 6\u20132 49ers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092618-0004-0001", "contents": "1971 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season\nThen the Rams won 2 straight, including a 17\u20136 win in San Francisco; that gave the Rams a 1\u20442-game lead in the division and they held the tiebreaker over the 49ers by virtue of their season sweep of S.F. The Rams then lost a Thanksgiving game in Dallas 28\u201321, but re-took the division lead with two games to play by beating the Saints 45\u201328. However, just as they had the year before, the Rams lost a Monday night game at home, this time to the Redskins, coached by former Rams head coach George Allen, 38\u201324.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092618-0004-0002", "contents": "1971 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season\nAnd just like the previous season's Monday night home loss to the Lions, this one ended up costing the Rams both the division title and the wild card berth (won by the Redskins). The Rams won their final game in Pittsburgh 23\u201314, but learned on their flight home that the 49ers rallied beat the Lions with a 4th-quarter touchdown, 31\u201327.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092618-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Standings\nNote: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092619-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Louisiana Tech Bulldogs football team\nThe 1971 Louisiana Tech Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented Louisiana Tech University as a member of the Southland Conference during the 1971 NCAA College Division football season. In their fifth year under head coach Maxie Lambright, the team compiled a 9\u20132 record, were Southland Conference champion, and defeated Eastern Michigan in the Pioneer Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092620-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Louisville Cardinals football team\nThe 1971 Louisville Cardinals football team was an American football team that represented the University of Louisville in the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. In their third season under head coach Lee Corso, the Cardinals compiled a 6\u20133\u20131 record (3\u20132 against conference opponents) and outscored opponents by a total of 190 to 111.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092620-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Louisville Cardinals football team\nThe team's statistical leaders included John Madeya with 1,045 passing yards, Howard Stevens with 1,429 rushing yards and 78 points scored, and Gary Barnes with 404 receiving yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092621-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Macclesfield by-election\nThe Macclesfield by-election, 1971 was a parliamentary by-election held on 30 September 1971 for the constituency of Macclesfield in Cheshire. It was caused by the elevation to the peerage of the sitting MP, the Conservative Arthur Vere Harvey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092621-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Macclesfield by-election\nAlthough this was a fairly safe seat which had been Conservative for over half a century, the party managers were concerned since the Labour party had recently won Bromsgrove with a 10.1 per cent swing and only 9.5 per cent would be required to take Macclesfield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092621-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Macclesfield by-election\nThe Conservative candidate was Nicholas Winterton, who had previously run unsuccessfully at Newcastle-under-Lyme. Winterton had made clear his opposition to membership of the European Economic Community and it was felt that the result might be taken as a referendum on the proposed terms of entry. It was reported that Douglas Hurd, the Prime Minister's political private secretary, withdrew when it became obvious that the local party preferred an anti-EEC candidate. The Labour candidate, Diana Jeuda, whose husband had previously run for the party in this constituency, was also against joining. There were two other minor anti-EEC candidates, Reginald Simmerson (Anti- Common Market) and Robert Goodall (English Resurgence Movement). Michael Hammond of the Liberal Party was the only openly pro-Europe candidate. In the course of the campaign, Winterton changed his position on the issue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 922]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092621-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Macclesfield by-election\nThe result was a narrow win for the Conservatives, with a majority down from over 10,000 at the general election to just 1,079.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092622-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Macdonald Brier\nThe 1971 Macdonald Brier, Canada's national men's curling championship was held March 1\u20136 at the 2,800 seat Pavilion de la Jeunesse in Quebec City, Quebec.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092622-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Macdonald Brier\nA blizzard hit the city late in the week, and was blamed for low attendance. One draw had to be cancelled due to the blizzard, and curlers had to be shuttled from the rink to their hotels on snowmobiles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092622-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Macdonald Brier\nAfter the round robin, three teams (Manitoba, Northern Ontario and Saskatchewan) were tied for first place with identical 8-3 records, forcing a playoff. Lots were drawn to determine the seeds, and Team Manitoba, won the draw and were given the bye into the final. Northern Ontario's Bill Tetley rink won the first playoff match over Saskatchewan's Bob Pickering, but lost to a rested Team Manitoba in the final, 11-6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092622-0002-0001", "contents": "1971 Macdonald Brier\nWith the victory, skip Dale Duguid and his team of Rod Hunter, Jim Pettapiece and Bryan Wood became only the third rink to repeat at the Brier, having won the championship in 1970. The team went on to win the 1971 Air Canada Silver Broom World Championship, defending their title there as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092622-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Macdonald Brier\nAfter winning the 1971 World Championship, Duguid retired from competitive curling, and joined the CBC in 1972 as a curling commentator.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092622-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Macdonald Brier, Teams\nSkip : Matt BaldwinThird: Tom KroegerSecond: Rich CustLead: Reg Van Wassenhove", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 27], "content_span": [28, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092622-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Macdonald Brier, Playoff\nA two-round playoff was necessitated as three teams had tied for top spot in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 29], "content_span": [30, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092623-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Maghreb Athletics Championships\nThe 1971 Maghreb Athletics Championships was the fifth edition of the international athletics competition between the countries of the Maghreb. Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco were the competing nations. Organised by the Union des F\u00e9d\u00e9rations d'Athl\u00e9tisme du Maghreb Uni (Union of Athletics Federations of the United Maghreb), it took place on 27 February in Casablanca, Morocco. It was the second Moroccan city to host the event, after the capital Rabat in 1967. A total of 36 athletics events were contested, 22 for men and 14 for women.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092623-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Maghreb Athletics Championships\nIt was the last time that the competition was held on a yearly schedule, with the event becoming a biennial one instead. Morocco topped the medal table courtesy of its complete sweep of the women's titles. Tunisia took second with twelve golds in the men's section, followed by Algeria with five men's golds. Tunisia's performance was led by Mansour Guettaya and Mohamed Gammoudi, who won a middle-distance running and long-distance running double, respectively. In the women's events, Ch\u00e9rifa Meskaoui was the most successful with four individual gold medals, in hurdles, shot put, discus throw, and pentathlon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 649]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092624-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Maine Black Bears football team\nThe 1971 Maine Black Bears football team was an American football team that represented the University of Maine as a member of the Yankee Conference during the 1971 NCAA College Division football season. In its fifth season under head coach Walter Abbott, the team compiled a 2\u20136 record (1\u20134 against conference opponents) and finished last in the Yankee Conference. William Swadel and Stanley Maddock were the team captains.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092625-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Major League Baseball All-Star Game\nThe 1971 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, the 42nd such game, was played on July 13, 1971. The all-stars from the American League and the National League faced each other at Tiger Stadium, home of the Detroit Tigers. The American League won by a score of 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092625-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Major League Baseball All-Star Game\nThis was the third time that the Tigers had hosted the All-Star Game (at the previous two in 1941 and 1951, Tiger Stadium had been called Briggs Stadium). This would be the last time Tiger Stadium hosted the All-Star Game, as when it returned to Detroit in 2005, the Tigers had moved to their new home at Comerica Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092625-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Major League Baseball All-Star Game\nThis was the first American League win since the second All-Star Game of 1962, and would be their last until the 54th All-Star Game in 1983. Over the twenty game stretch from 1963\u20131982, the American League would go 1\u201319; the worst stretch for either league in the history of the exhibition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092625-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, National League roster\nThe National League roster included 15 future Hall of Fame players and coaches, denoted in italics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092625-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, American League roster\nThe American League squad featured ten future Hall of Fame players and coaches, denoted in italics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092625-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Starting lineups\nWhile the starters were elected by the fans, the batting orders and starting pitchers were selected by the managers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 58], "content_span": [59, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092625-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Umpires\nJake O'Donnell retired from umpiring after the 1971 season, after only three years on the job, but would go on to work through 1995 as a referee in the NBA, earning assignment to every NBA Finals between 1972 and 1994. His work in this game makes him the only person to officiate in a Major League Baseball All-Star Game and an NBA All-Star Game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092625-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Umpires\nCoincidentally, Denkinger wore uniform number 11 from 1980-98, the same number O'Donnell wore as an NBA official. The American League did not use uniform numbers for its umpires prior to 1980; the National League began using them in the 1960s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092625-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Scoring summary\nWith a gusty wind blowing to right, all ten runs were scored on home runs, three for each side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092625-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Scoring summary\nThe NL opened the scoring off starter Vida Blue in the top of the second inning. Willie Stargell was hit by a pitch to lead off. With one out, 23-year-old catcher Johnny Bench hit a two-run home run into the upper deck in deep right center. In the top of the third inning, Hank Aaron launched a two-out solo home run (his first career All-Star Game extra-base hit ) into the upper deck in right off of Blue to give the NL a 3\u20130 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092625-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Scoring summary\nThe AL responded in the bottom of the third inning. With Dock Ellis still pitching, Luis Aparicio singled to center to lead off the inning, and Reggie Jackson pinch-hit for pitcher Blue. On a 1\u20132 count, Jackson crushed a two-run home run high off the light tower atop the right center field roof. Rod Carew walked, Bobby Murcer hit an infield pop fly, which drifted and was caught near first base by third baseman Joe Torre. Carl Yastrzemski flew out to left field, held up in the wind and caught by shortstop Bud Harrelson. With two outs, Frank Robinson hit a two-run home run to right to give the AL a 4\u20133 lead, then Norm Cash was caught looking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 706]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092625-0011-0000", "contents": "1971 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Scoring summary\nIn the bottom of the sixth, Cubs' pitcher Ferguson Jenkins gave up a first pitch single to center by Al Kaline of the hometown Tigers. The next batter, Harmon Killebrew, launched the third two-run home run of the game for the American League. This one was pulled to the upper deck in left, against the wind, on a full count. Brooks Robinson singled, but did not advance, as a fly out to center and a 4-6-3 double play ended the inning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092625-0012-0000", "contents": "1971 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Scoring summary\nIn the top of the eighth, lefthander Mickey Lolich of the Tigers caught Bobby Bonds looking, but next up was Roberto Clemente (1934\u20131972); in his final All-Star Game at-bat, he launched a 3\u20131 pitch to the upper deck in deep right center, followed by weak ground outs by Lee May and Ron Santo. In the ninth, Lolich retired the side in order (Lou Brock, Don Kessinger, Bench) for a six-out save.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092625-0013-0000", "contents": "1971 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Game notes and records\nVida Blue was credited with the win. Dock Ellis was credited with the loss. Hometown favorite Mickey Lolich was credited with the save, the first official save in an MLB All-Star Game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092625-0014-0000", "contents": "1971 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Game notes and records\nAll of the scoring came via the home run, all six home runs hit in the game and all the runs scored were by future Hall of Fame players. The six total home runs hit by both teams tied an All-Star Game record. Besides the home runs, the National League got singles by Bench and Tommy Davis; the American League got singles by Murcer, Kaline, Aparicio, and Brooks Robinson. All of them, except Davis and Murcer, were eventually inducted in Cooperstown", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092625-0015-0000", "contents": "1971 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Game notes and records\nFrank Robinson became the first player in All-Star Game history to hit home runs for both leagues over the course of his career.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092625-0016-0000", "contents": "1971 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Game notes and records\nReggie Jackson's home run is described as \"especially memorable\", as it hit one of the light standards on the roof of the stadium, credibly estimated to have landed 520 feet from home plate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092625-0017-0000", "contents": "1971 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Game notes and records\nRoberto Clemente would be named to the 1972 National League squad, but would be replaced due to injury. This game marked his final All-Star Game appearance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092625-0018-0000", "contents": "1971 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Game notes and records\nA total of 26 future Hall of Famers were present for this game: 21 players, both managers, National League coach WaltAlston, Hall of Fame umpire Doug Harvey, and future Hall of Fame manager Joe Torre.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092625-0019-0000", "contents": "1971 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Game notes and records\nThis was the final All-Star Game in which a majority of players wore uniforms made of wool flannel. In the 1972 All-Star Game at Atlanta, only the Expos, Royals and Yankees were still wearing flannels full-time. Players from the Orioles, Pirates and Cardinals wore polyester uniforms in this All-Star Game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092626-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Major League Baseball draft, First round selections\nThe following are the first round picks in the 1971 Major League Baseball draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 56], "content_span": [57, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092626-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Major League Baseball draft, Background\nThe June 1971 draft was a productive one, even though none of its top ten choices yielded players who would have memorable major league careers. Selected in the regular phase were future Hall of Famers Jim Rice (Boston, 1st round), George Brett (Kansas City, 2nd round) and Mike Schmidt (Philadelphia, 2nd round).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092626-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Major League Baseball draft, Background\nPitcher Mike Flanagan was selected in the 15th round of the June regular phase by Houston, but enrolled at the University of Massachusetts. One of the more interesting highlights of the June draft was that five quarterbacks were selected including future NFL stars Jim Plunkett, Archie Manning, Dan Pastorini, Steve Bartkowski, Joe Theismann as well as Condredge Holloway, who went on to have a career in the Canadian Football League, where he was awarded Most Outstanding Player while playing for the Toronto Argonauts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092626-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Major League Baseball draft, Background\nDanny Goodwin, the nation's top pick, could not agree to terms with the White Sox and became the first top choice who did not sign a contract, instead choosing to attend Southern University in Baton Rouge. Four years later, Goodwin was again selected first overall, this time by the Angels.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092627-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Major League Baseball season\nThe 1971 Major League Baseball season was the final season for the Senators in Washington, D.C., before the team's relocation to the Dallas-Fort Worth suburb Arlington for the following season, as the Texas Rangers, leaving the nation's capital without a baseball team of its own until 2005.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092627-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Major League Baseball season\nThis was the final season the majority of MLB teams wore wool flannel uniforms. The Pirates and Cardinals wore double knit uniforms of nylon and rayon throughout 1971, and the Orioles gradually phased out flannels, going all-double knit in time for the ALCS. By 1973, flannel uniforms completely disappeared from the MLB scene.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092627-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Major League Baseball season, Regular Season Recap\nThree of the four division races were anticlimactic; the only race was in the N.L. West between old rivals Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants. The Giants led by 8.5 games on September 1 but the Dodgers chipped away. In mid September, the Dodgers won 8 in a row, including 5 over the Giants to narrow the gap to one game. But they could get no closer; ultimately both teams won on the final day of the season and the Giants won the division by 1 game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092628-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Malawian general election\nGeneral elections were due to be held in Malawi on 17 April 1971, the first since the pre-independence elections in 1964. The Malawi Congress Party had been the only legally permitted party in the country since 1966. Each of the 60 constituencies had three to five candidates nominated by party committees. These candidates were then submitted to President Hastings Banda, who selected a single candidate for each seat. As there was only one candidate for each constituency, no voting actually took place on election day, as there was no opposition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092628-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Malawian general election\nHowever, only 56 of the seats were filled, and following the election, Banda nominated another eight members to the National Assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092629-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Maltese general election\nGeneral elections were held in Malta between 12 and 14 June 1971. The Malta Labour Party emerged as the largest party, winning 28 of the 55 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092629-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Maltese general election, Electoral system\nThe elections were held using the single transferable vote system, whilst the number of seats was increased from 50 to 55.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092630-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Marshall Thundering Herd football team\nThe 1971 Marshall Thundering Herd football team (sometimes referred to as the Young Thundering Herd) represented Marshall University in the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. It marked the Thundering Herd's 69th season. The team was led by head coach Jack Lengyel in his first year and played its home games at Fairfield Stadium in Huntington, West Virginia. The Herd finished with a 2\u20138 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092630-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Marshall Thundering Herd football team, Before the season, Previous season\nOn November 14, 1970, Southern Airways Flight 932, which was chartered by the school to fly the 1970 Marshall Thundering Herd football team and fans to Greenville, North Carolina for a game against the East Carolina Pirates and back to Huntington, West Virginia, crashed on approach to Tri-State Airport after clipping trees just west of the runway and impacting nose-first into a hollow. All 75 people on board died. It was the worst single air tragedy in NCAA sports history. The 1970 Marshall University football team was coached by Rick Tolley and finished with a record of 3\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 79], "content_span": [80, 662]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092630-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Marshall Thundering Herd football team, Before the season, New coaching staff\nMarshall lost much of their coaching staff and their athletic director in the crash. Joe McMullen was hired to be the new AD. Georgia Tech assistant coach Dick Bestwick was hired to be the head coach. However, after two days he returned to Georgia Tech. William \"Red\" Dawson was named acting head coach, and later signed 21 prospects from five states. Wooster coach Jack Lengyel was eventually hired to fill the position. Dawson, an assistant coach, had gone on a recruiting trip instead of flying back with the team after the ECU game in 1970, and Lengyel convinced him to stay around for the 1971 season, providing some continuity. Dawson would retire from coaching following the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 82], "content_span": [83, 772]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092630-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Marshall Thundering Herd football team, Before the season, Freshmen eligibility waiver\nPrior to and during the 1971 season the NCAA did not allow freshmen to compete in varsity football. Marshall requested and was granted a waiver to allow freshmen to compete so that they could field a complete team. Due to the age of the players on the team coach Lengyel nicknamed them the Young Thundering Herd. Beginning with the 1972 season the NCAA allowed freshmen to compete for all varsity football teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 91], "content_span": [92, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092630-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Marshall Thundering Herd football team, Before the season, Construction of the roster\nIn addition to the true freshmen who were allowed to play the roster featured three players from the previous year's varsity team. Defensive backs Felix Jordan and Nate Ruffin had both missed the ECU game due to injuries, and defensive lineman Eddie Carter had missed the ECU game due to personal matters. As freshmen had not been allowed to play on the varsity team in 1970, the 1971 roster also had many sophomores that had been recruited to Marshall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 90], "content_span": [91, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092630-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Marshall Thundering Herd football team, Before the season, Construction of the roster\nAside from nine players who did not board the flight, the 1971 team consisted of walk-ons, former servicemen and three basketball players who had used their fifth year of eligibility to play for the football team. 50 players tried out for the team, with 35 being accepted as walk-ons. Lengyel dubbed his team the \"Young Thundering Herd,\" and to motivate the team, President Richard Nixon wrote, \"Friends across the land will be rooting for you, but whatever the season brings, you have already won your greatest victory by putting the 1971 varsity on the field.\" The letter was later read by Legyel to the team at the first day of practice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 90], "content_span": [91, 731]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092630-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Marshall Thundering Herd football team, Before the season, Construction of the roster\nThe team did not have a placekicker and held tryouts. Blake Smith, who had never attended a football game, would ultimately win the job.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 90], "content_span": [91, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092630-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Marshall Thundering Herd football team, The season\nFor the season opener, the team visited the Morehead State Eagles for the I-64 Rivalry. Despite losing 29\u20136, the Herd managed to score late in the game with Reggie Oliver's touchdown pass to Tom Smyth, prompting a standing ovation from the crowd.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092630-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Marshall Thundering Herd football team, We Are Marshall\nThe event and its aftermath were dramatized in the 2006 Warner Brothers motion picture, We Are Marshall, starring Matthew McConaughey as Jack Lengyel and Matthew Fox as Red Dawson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 60], "content_span": [61, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092631-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Maryland Terrapins football team\nThe 1971 Maryland Terrapins football team represented the University of Maryland in the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. In their third season under head coach Roy Lester, the Terrapins compiled a 2\u20139 record (1\u20135 in conference), finished in last place in the Atlantic Coast Conference, and were outscored by their opponents 283 to 224. The team's statistical leaders included Al Neville with 1,275 passing yards, Monte Hinkle with 457 rushing yards, and Dan Bungori with 490 receiving yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092632-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Maryville 200\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by GVnayR (talk | contribs) at 23:53, 11 April 2020 (+authority control). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092632-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Maryville 200\nThe 1971 Maryville 200 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series event that took place on April 15, 1971, at Smoky Mountain Raceway in Maryville, Tennessee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092632-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Maryville 200, Race report\nFour thousand and two hundred fans came out to see vehicles average a speed of 88.697 miles per hour (142.744\u00a0km/h) on a paved oval track. Richard Petty defeated Benny Parsons by a time of eight seconds; Parsons' second-place finish came a week after coming up short at Columbia. These were his second and third runner-up finishes in NASCAR, but he'd finally break through with his first career win a month later in South Boston. Friday Hassler received the pole position with a speed of 91.464 miles per hour (147.197\u00a0km/h) while qualifying on the 0.520 miles (0.837\u00a0km) speedway. There was only one caution, which lasted for three laps. D. K. Ulrich ran his first Cup Series race here while E.J. Trivette retired from NASCAR after this race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 775]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092632-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Maryville 200, Race report\nSmoky Mountain Raceway closed forever after this race due to the changes in the sport during the Winston Cup era that aimed to modernize it. Abbreviation of the Cup Series schedule was the order of the day in the 1970s as the new sponsors wanted NASCAR to have a schedule that was structured closer to that of the National Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092632-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Maryville 200, Race report\nRichard Petty won $1,000 for winning the race, the 125th win in his NASCAR Cup Series career. Notable crew chiefs for this race included Dale Inman, Vic Ballard, Lee Gordon and Mario Rossi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092632-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Maryville 200, Race report\nThe race car drivers still had to commute to the races using the same stock cars that competed in a typical weekend's race through a policy of homologation (and under their own power). This policy was in effect until roughly 1975. By 1980, NASCAR had completely stopped tracking the year model of all the vehicles and most teams did not take stock cars to the track under their own power anymore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092632-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Maryville 200, Finishing order\n* Driver failed to finish race \u2020 signifies that the driver is known to be deceased", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 35], "content_span": [36, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092633-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Masters Tournament\nThe 1971 Masters Tournament was the 35th Masters Tournament, held April 8\u201311 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. Charles Coody won his only major championship, two strokes ahead of runners-up Johnny Miller and Jack Nicklaus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092633-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Masters Tournament\nMiller was six-under for the Sunday round and, playing two groups ahead of the final two-some, his birdie on 14 would open up a two-shot lead when Coody subsequently bogeyed the hole, but could not hold on to win. Coody, co-leader with Nicklaus entering the round, rebounded from his bogey at 14 with two consecutive birdies and parred the final two holes while Miller, 23, bogeyed two of the last three holes. It was a bit of redemption for Coody, who bogeyed the final three holes in 1969 to finish two strokes back. It was Coody's third and final win on the PGA Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092633-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Masters Tournament\nFuture 3-time U.S. Open champion Hale Irwin made his Masters debut in 1971 and tied for 13th place. It was the final Masters for two champions: 1948 winner Claude Harmon, withdrew during the first round and 1955 champion Cary Middlecoff during the second.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092633-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Masters Tournament\nDave Stockton won the twelfth Par 3 contest on Wednesday with a score of 23.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092633-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Masters Tournament\nFor the first time in its history, the Masters was not the first major championship of the year. The 1971 PGA Championship was played in Florida in February, and was won by Nicklaus. The co-leader entering Sunday, his attempt to secure the second leg of the grand slam came up short on the back nine on Sunday, as he shot 37 for an even-par 72.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092633-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Masters Tournament, Field\nGeorge Archer, Gay Brewer (9), Billy Casper (2,8,9,11), Doug Ford, Bob Goalby, Ralph Guldahl, Claude Harmon, Herman Keiser, Cary Middlecoff, Jack Nicklaus (2,3,8,10,11), Arnold Palmer (10), Gary Player (3,8), Gene Sarazen, Sam Snead (8), Art Wall Jr.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092633-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Masters Tournament, Field\nJulius Boros (8,9), Raymond Floyd (10,11), Al Geiberger, Don January (8), Dave Stockton (8,10)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092633-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Masters Tournament, Field\nWilliam C. Campbell (a), Jim Gabrielsen (a), Vinny Giles (7,a), Tom Kite (7,a), Steve Melnyk (6,a), Jim Simons (a), Richard Spears (a), Lanny Wadkins (6,7,a)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092633-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Masters Tournament, Field\nTommy Aaron (11), Miller Barber (9,11), Frank Beard (11), Deane Beman, Charles Coe (a), Charles Coody, Bert Greene, Dave Hill (9,11), Howie Johnson (9), Gene Littler (9,10,11), Dick Lotz (10), Bob Lunn (9), Bob Murphy (10), Chi-Chi Rodr\u00edguez, Tom Weiskopf, Terry Wilcox, Bert Yancey", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092633-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 Masters Tournament, Field\nDave Eichelberger, Gibby Gilbert, Lou Graham, Jerry Heard, Hale Irwin, Johnny Miller, John Schlee, Tom Shaw", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092633-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 Masters Tournament, Field\nBob Charles (8,9), Gary Cowan (5,a), Bruce Crampton (10), Roberto De Vicenzo (3), Bruce Devlin (9), David Graham, Harold Henning, Tommy Horton, Hsieh Yung-yo, Tony Jacklin (2,3,8,9), Takaaki Kono (8), John Lister, Sukree Onsham, Peter Oosterhuis", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092634-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Mauritanian general election\nGeneral elections were held in Mauritania on 8 August 1971 to elect a President and National Assembly, the first time the two elections had been held together. At the time, the country was a one-party state with the Mauritanian People's Party (PPM) as the sole legal party. Its leader, incumbent President Moktar Ould Daddah, was the only candidate in the presidential election, and was re-elected unopposed to a third term in office, whilst the PPM won all 50 seats in the National Assembly election. Voter turnout for the parliamentary election was reported to be 95.6%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092634-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Mauritanian general election, Background\nMauritania came under the direct control of the French Colonial Empire during 1933. After independence on 28 November 1960, the country declared itself the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, with Ould Daddah becoming its first President. He declared the country a one-party state in 1964, and during 1965 all parties merged with the ruling Mauritanian Assembly Party to form the Mauritanian People's Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092635-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 May Day protests\nThe 1971 May Day protests were a series of large-scale civil disobedience actions in Washington, D.C., in protest against the Vietnam War. These began on Monday morning, May 3rd, and ended on May 5th. More than 12,000 people were arrested, the largest mass arrest in U.S. history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092635-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 May Day protests\nMembers of the Nixon administration would come to view the events as damaging, because the government's response was perceived as violating citizens' civil rights.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092635-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 May Day protests, Planning\nBy the middle of 1970 many leaders of the anti war movement had come to believe that tactics of mass marches that had been used during the past six years would not end the war, and that more aggressive actions were needed. Rennie Davis and David Dellinger of the People's Coalition for Peace and Justice and Jerry Coffin of the War Resisters League began planning the actions; later in 1970 Michael Lerner joined their number.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092635-0002-0001", "contents": "1971 May Day protests, Planning\nA group known as the \"May Day Tribe\" was formed: it was made up of Yippies and others among the more militant members of the anti-war movement. It was decided that small groups of protesters would block major intersections and bridges in the capital, under the slogan, \"If the government won't stop the war, we'll stop the government.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092635-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 May Day protests, The protests, Saturday May 1\nMore than 40,000 protesters camped out in West Potomac Park near the Potomac River to listen to rock music and plan for the coming action.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092635-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 May Day protests, The protests, Sunday May 2\nThe Nixon administration secretly canceled the protester's camping permit. U.S. Park Police and Washington Metropolitan Police, dressed in riot gear, raided the encampment. The police gave the campers until noon to clear out. Some protesters abandoned the demonstration and left the city. The remaining protesters, estimated at 12,000, regrouped at various churches and college campuses in the area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 49], "content_span": [50, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092635-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 May Day protests, The protests, Monday May 3\nThe U.S. government had put into effect Operation Garden Plot, a plan it had developed during the 1960s to combat major civil disorders. Over the weekend, while protesters listened to music, planned their actions or slept, 10,000 federal troops were moved to various locations in the Washington, D.C. area. At one point, so many soldiers and Marines were being moved into the area from bases along the East Coast that troop transports were landing at the rate of one every three minutes at Andrews Air Force Base in suburban Maryland, about 15 miles east of the White House.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 49], "content_span": [50, 624]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092635-0005-0001", "contents": "1971 May Day protests, The protests, Monday May 3\nAmong these troops were 4,000 paratroopers from the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division. Troops from the Marine Barracks lined both sides of the 14th St bridge. These troops were to back up the 5,100 officers of the D.C. Metropolitan Police, 2,000 members of the D.C. National Guard and federal agents that were already in place. Every monument, park and traffic circle in the nation's capital had troops protecting its perimeters. Paratroopers and Marines deployed via helicopter to the grounds of theWashington Monument.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 49], "content_span": [50, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092635-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 May Day protests, The protests, Monday May 3\nProtesters announced that because the government had not stopped the Vietnam War they would stop the government and told troops, many of whom were of similar age, that their goal was to prevent the troops from being sent to Vietnam. While the troops were in place and thousands held in reserve, the police clashed with members of the May Day tribe. The protesters engaged in hitand run tactics throughout the city, trying to disrupt traffic and cause chaos in the streets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 49], "content_span": [50, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092635-0006-0001", "contents": "1971 May Day protests, The protests, Monday May 3\nPresident Richard Nixon, who was at the Western White House in San Clemente, California, refused to give Federal workers the day off, forcing them to navigate through police lines and May Day tribe roadblocks. Most commuters who tried arrived at their jobs, despite being delayed somewhat. Federal Employees for Peace held a rally the following day in Lafayette Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 49], "content_span": [50, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092635-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 May Day protests, The protests, Monday May 3\nWhile the troops secured the major intersections and bridges, the police abandoned their usual arrest procedures, roaming through the city making sweep arrests and using tear gas. They detained anyone who looked like a demonstrator. By 8 am thousands of people had been arrested, including many who had not been breaking any law. The city's prisons did not have the capacity to handle that many people thus several emergency detention centers were set up including the Washington Coliseum and another one surrounded by an 8-foot-high (2.4\u00a0m) fence was set up next to RFK Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 49], "content_span": [50, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092635-0007-0001", "contents": "1971 May Day protests, The protests, Monday May 3\nThe prisoners massed against the fence, pushed it over, and were tear-gassed. No food, water, or sanitary facilities were made available by authorities but sympathetic local residents brought supplies. Skirmishes between protesters and police occurred up until about mid-day. In Georgetown, the police herded the protesters and onlookers through the streets to the Georgetown University campus. The police then engaged in a back and forth with the protesters outside the university's main gate on O Street, lobbing tear gas over the gate each time they pushed the crowd back.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 49], "content_span": [50, 625]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092635-0007-0002", "contents": "1971 May Day protests, The protests, Monday May 3\nOther forms of gas were used including pepper based and one that induced vomiting. Police helicopters also dropped tear gas on the university's lower athletic field where protesters had camped the night before. Numerous people were injured and treated by volunteers on campus. By afternoon the police had suppressed the protest and held more than 7,000 prisoners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 49], "content_span": [50, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092635-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 May Day protests, The protests, Next several days\nOn Tuesday, May 4, another 2,000 people were arrested at a sit-in outside the headquarters of the Justice Department. On Wednesday, May 5, 1,200 more people were arrested at a legal rally on the steps of the U.S. Capitol, bringing the total to 12,614 people, making this the largest mass arrest in U.S. history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 54], "content_span": [55, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092635-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 May Day protests, Aftermath\nThe Justice Department filed conspiracy charges against May Day leader Rennie Davis, as well as against two other activists who had been members of the Chicago 7, John Froines and Abbie Hoffman. The charges were eventually dismissed. Out of the 12,000 demonstrators arrested most were released without charges. Only 79 were eventually convicted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092635-0009-0001", "contents": "1971 May Day protests, Aftermath\nThe ACLU pursued a class action suit on behalf of thousands of detained protesters and ultimately the federal courts, recognizing the illegal nature of the arrests, ordered the government to pay a settlement to those arrested, making them some of the only citizens in US history to receive financial compensation for violation of the constitutional rights of free assembly and due process.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092635-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 May Day protests, Aftermath\nRichard Helms, who was Central Intelligence Agency director at the time, said \"It was obviously viewed by everybody in the administration, particularly with all the arrests and the howling about civil rights and human rights and all the rest of it...as a very damaging kind of event. I don't think there was any doubt about that.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092636-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Meath Intermediate Football Championship\nThe 1971 Meath Intermediate Football Championship is the 45th edition of the Meath GAA's premier club Gaelic football tournament for intermediate graded teams in County Meath, Ireland. The tournament consists of 24 teams. The championship starts with a group stage and then progresses to a knock out stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092636-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Meath Intermediate Football Championship\nThis year marked St. Colmcille's first year in existence as a club as Intermediate club Star of the Sea and Junior club Shallon amalgamated in the early part of 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092636-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Meath Intermediate Football Championship\nRatoath and Cortown were promoted after claiming the 1970 Meath Junior Football Championship title and Junior 'A' Divisional runners-up spot respectively. This was only Cortown's second season in existence after being formed in 1969. Kilberry were also promoted from the J.A.F.C.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092636-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Meath Intermediate Football Championship\nOn 24 October 1971, Ballivor claimed their 2nd Intermediate championship title when they defeated Moylagh 3-2 to 1-5 in the final in Pairc Tailteann, and thus returned the top flight of Meath club football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092636-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Meath Intermediate Football Championship\nBallinabrackey, Bellewstown St. Theresa's and Cortown were relegated to the 1972 J.F.C. Salesian College Warrenstown also stopped fielding teams in the Meath football championships at the end of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092636-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Meath Intermediate Football Championship, Team changes\nThe following teams have changed division since the 1970 championship season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 59], "content_span": [60, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092636-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Meath Intermediate Football Championship, Group stage\nThere are 2 groups called Group A and B. The top two finishers in each group will qualify for the Semi-Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 58], "content_span": [59, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092636-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Meath Intermediate Football Championship, Knock-out Stages\nThe teams in the Semi-Finals are the first and second placed teams from each group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 63], "content_span": [64, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092637-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Meath Senior Football Championship\nThe 1971 Meath Senior Football Championship is the 79th edition of the Meath GAA's premier club Gaelic football tournament for senior graded teams in County Meath, Ireland. The tournament consists of 15 teams, with the winner going on to represent Meath in the Leinster Senior Club Football Championship. The championship starts with a group stage and then progresses to a knock out stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092637-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Meath Senior Football Championship\nThis season saw Dunderry's return to the top flight after claiming the 1970 Meath Intermediate Football Championship title. It was also Syddan's return to the top flight after their application to be promoted from the 1970 I.F.C. was granted, even though they had failed to reach the knockout stages of the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092637-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Meath Senior Football Championship\nKilbride were the defending champions after they defeated Navan O'Mahonys in the previous years final, and they successfully defended their title to claim a 3-in-a-row of titles and their 5th in 8 seasons when beating Skryne 1-8 to 0-9 in the final in Pairc Tailteann. It was also their 7th final appearance in 8 seasons, a feat achieved by no other club to date. Pat Bruton raised the Keegan Cup for the Dunboyne parish outfit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092637-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Meath Senior Football Championship\nDrumree applied to be regraded to the 1972 I.F.C. at the end of the campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092637-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Meath Senior Football Championship, Team Changes\nThe following teams have changed division since the 1970 championship season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 53], "content_span": [54, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092637-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Meath Senior Football Championship, Knock-out Stages\nThe winners and runners up of each group qualify for the semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 57], "content_span": [58, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092638-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Mediterranean Games\nThe VI Mediterranean Games \u2013 \u0130zmir 1971, commonly known as the 1971 Mediterranean Games, were the 6th Mediterranean Games. The Games were held in \u0130zmir, Turkey, from 6 to 17 October 1971, where 1,362 athletes (1,235 men and 127 women) from 15 countries participated. There were a total of 137 medal events from 17 different sports.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092639-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Meistaradeildin, Overview\nIt was contested by 6 teams, and Havnar B\u00f3ltfelag won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092640-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Memorial Cup\nThe 1971 Memorial Cup was the 53rd annual Memorial Cup competition, organized by the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association (CAHA) to determine the champion of major junior A ice hockey. It was a best-of-three series between the Quebec Remparts of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL) and the Edmonton Oil Kings of the Western Canada Hockey League (WCHL). Quebec won the series in two games, both held at the Colis\u00e9e de Qu\u00e9bec, to win the first Memorial Cup championship in the city's history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092640-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Memorial Cup\nThe national playdowns were marred by controversy as the Remparts advanced to the championship series when the Ontario Hockey Association's (OHA) St. Catharines Black Hawks forfeited the eastern championship series after five games rather than return to Quebec City for a sixth game in the face of a hostile and violent crowd and threats from the Front de lib\u00e9ration du Qu\u00e9bec. The Remparts agreed to a challenge from the Oil Kings for an abbreviated national championship and a best-of-three series to be held rather than the typical best-of-seven.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092640-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Memorial Cup, National playdowns\nThe Canadian Amateur Hockey Association (CAHA) reorganized junior A hockey prior to this season, splitting this top level into two tiers. The OHA, QMJHL and WCHL formed the \"Tier I Major Junior A\" rank (simply \"Major Junior\" starting in 1980). The Memorial Cup became the national championship of the new tier. The remaining teams and leagues remained in the Junior A rank. A new championship, the Manitoba Centennial Trophy, was created for teams at this level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 37], "content_span": [38, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092640-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Memorial Cup, National playdowns\nThe Memorial Cup tournament remained in an east versus west format for 1971. The champions of the OHA and QMJHL were to play for the Eastern championship and then face the WCHL winner for the national title. This format lasted only one year, as for 1972, the CAHA reorganized the Memorial Cup into a three-team round-robin tournament between the winner of each league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 37], "content_span": [38, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092640-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Memorial Cup, National playdowns, East championship\nThe Remparts were led by Guy Lafleur, who in 1970\u201371 set league records with 130 goals and 209 points. He added another 22 goals in the playoffs to lead Quebec to the QMJHL's President's Cup championship. In a best-of-seven series for the Eastern championship, they faced OHA champion St. Catharines, led by Marcel Dionne, who was the Ontario league's top scorer with 143 points. The teams split the first two games, held in St. Catharines, before the Remparts took a 2\u20131 series lead in the third game, held in Quebec. The game was violent at times with over 102 penalties in minutes given out by the referee \u2013 77 to the Black Hawks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 56], "content_span": [57, 690]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092640-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Memorial Cup, National playdowns, East championship\nQuebec moved to within one win of winning the series with a 6\u20131 victory in game four, also held in Quebec. As with the third game, the Black Hawks attempted to intimidate their smaller Remparts opponents physically. The crowd grew increasingly hostile towards the visitors, pelting the players with eggs, potatoes and golf balls, while one fan threw a knife. Dionne's parents were assaulted in the stands over the fact that he had left the Quebec league to play in Ontario. Mike Bloom inadvertently struck a police officer with his stick trying to hit a fan who spat on him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 56], "content_span": [57, 631]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092640-0005-0001", "contents": "1971 Memorial Cup, National playdowns, East championship\nThe Black Hawk players were escorted out of the building by police following the game as a mob of angry fans threw bottles at them and then milled around the team's motel until the early hours of the following morning. Threats were made against the players by the Quebec Liberation Front, a group that precipitated the October Crisis of 1970 that resulted in the Canadian government invoking the War Measures Act.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 56], "content_span": [57, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092640-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Memorial Cup, National playdowns, East championship\nThe fifth game was held in a neutral location. St. Catharines defeated Quebec 6\u20133 at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto, but refused to return to Quebec City for the sixth and seventh games. The Black Hawks offered to play the remainder of the series in Montreal, which the Remparts refused. Fearing for their safety, the players voted to forfeit the sixth game. CAHA president Earl Dawson then declared the series a forfeit in favour of Quebec.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 56], "content_span": [57, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092640-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Memorial Cup, National playdowns, West championship\nIn the west, The Edmonton Oil Kings were led by 60-goal scorer Don Kozak and 43-goal scorers Darcy Rota and Dan Spring. They won the Western Canada Hockey League championship over the Flin Flon Bombers four games to one, with one tie. They had previously eliminated the New Westminster Bruins in five games and then the Calgary Centennials in six.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 56], "content_span": [57, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092640-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Memorial Cup, National playdowns, West championship\nIt was the first Western championship for the Oil Kings since they made seven consecutive appearances in the Memorial Cup between 1960 and 1966. Their streak ended when they helped create the WCHL in 1966 over the objection of the CAHA who declared them outlaws and ineligible to compete for the national championship. The WCHL gained CAHA sanction prior to the 1970\u201371 season, allowing the Oil Kings to return to the Memorial Cup Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 56], "content_span": [57, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092640-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 Memorial Cup, Memorial Cup final\nIn August 1970, OHA president Tubby Schmalz announced that teams from the OHA and the QMJHL would not play against any team from the WCHL for the 1971 Memorial Cup, due to disagreements over travel allowances given to team at the Memorial Cup and the higher number of over-age players allowed on WCHL rosters. Nonetheless, the Oil Kings extended a challenge to the Eastern champion and proposed a best-of-seven series to open in the east, then move to Edmonton for two games and then finish out east. The eastern leagues were also upset that the CAHA offered a $10,000 travel subsidy to the western champion for the Memorial Cup vs. $6,000 to the eastern champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 37], "content_span": [38, 702]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092640-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 Memorial Cup, Memorial Cup final\nOil Kings' owner, general manager and coach, Bill Hunter, implored the eastern leagues to participate in a championship series calling it the \"burning ambition\" of all Canadian junior players while invoking the actions of the government during the October Crisis: \"If the Prime Minister wants to do something right for the west for a change, he'll use the War Measures Act to enforce a Memorial Cup final.\" The Oil Kings and the Remparts agreed to a shortened best-of-three series for the Memorial Cup, with all games in Quebec as approved by the CAHA and Earl Dawson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 37], "content_span": [38, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092640-0011-0000", "contents": "1971 Memorial Cup, Memorial Cup final\nEdmonton was met by a much different crowd when they arrived in Quebec City than the one St. Catharines faced. A crowd of 2,000 people welcomed the Oil Kings at the airport as they arrived. Quebec won the first game easily, 5\u20131, on the strength of four points by Lafleur. The Remparts then won the title with a 5\u20132 victory in the second game before a crowd of 11,401. It was the first Memorial Cup championship for the Remparts, and the first for Quebec City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 37], "content_span": [38, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092640-0012-0000", "contents": "1971 Memorial Cup, Players\nLafleur was hailed by the fans in Quebec as the best junior player in the world, and was selected first overall by the Montreal Canadiens in the 1971 NHL Entry Draft three weeks after winning the Memorial Cup. He won five Stanley Cup championships in Montreal as part of a Hall of Fame career. Lafleur's teammates Jacques Richard, Andre Savard, Richard Grenier and Charlie Constantin also went on to play in the National Hockey League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 26], "content_span": [27, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092640-0013-0000", "contents": "1971 Memorial Cup, Players\nDarcy Rota, Tom Bladon and Phil Russel went on to long NHL careers after graduating from the Oil Kings. Dave Kryskow, Ron Jones and John Rogers also went on to play in the NHL after leaving Edmonton. Marcel Dionne was selected second overall by the Detroit Red Wings from the St. Catharines Black Hawks in 1971 and played 18 years before joining Lafleur in the Hall of Fame.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 26], "content_span": [27, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092641-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Memphis State Tigers football team\nThe 1971 Memphis State Tigers football team represented Memphis State University (now known as the University of Memphis) as an independent during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. In its 13th and final season under head coach Billy J. Murphy, the team compiled a 5\u20136 record (2\u20131 against conference opponents), tied for second place out of seven teams in the MVC, defeated San Jose State in the Pasadena Bowl, and outscored all opponents by a total of 255 to 202. The team played its home games at Memphis Memorial Stadium in Memphis, Tennessee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092641-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Memphis State Tigers football team\nThe team's statistical leaders included John Robison with 496 passing yards, Paul Gowen with 644 rushing yards and Paul Gowen with 42 points scored, and Stan Davis with 509 receiving yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092642-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Men's African Volleyball Championship\nThe 1971 Men's African Volleyball Championship was in Cairo, Egypt, with 7 teams participating in the continental championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092643-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Men's British Open Squash Championship\nThe 1971 British Open Championship was held at the Edgbaston Priory Club in Birmingham from 4\u201312 December 1969. Jonah Barrington won his fourth title defeating Aftab Jawaid in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092643-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Men's British Open Squash Championship, Draw and results, Main draw\nEighth Seed Abdelfattah Abou Taleb withdrew against Mike Hepker in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 72], "content_span": [73, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092644-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Men's European Volleyball Championship\nThe 1971 Men's European Volleyball Championship was the eighth edition of the event, organized by Europe's governing volleyball body, the Conf\u00e9d\u00e9ration Europ\u00e9enne de Volleyball. It was hosted in several cities in Italy from September 23 to October 1, 1971, with the final round held in Milan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092645-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Men's Hockey World Cup\nThe 1971 Men's Hockey World Cup was the inaugural edition of the Hockey World Cup. It took place from 15 to 24 October in Barcelona, Spain. Pakistan were the inaugural World Cup winners, beating Spain in the final, 1\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092645-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Men's Hockey World Cup, Final squads\nPakistanMohammed Aslam, Akhtar-ul Islam, Munawwaruz Zaman, Jahangir Butt, Riaz Ahmed, Ur Fazal, Khalid Mahmood, Ashfaque Rashid, Abdul Rashid, Islahuddin Siddique, Mohammed Shanaz", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092645-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Men's Hockey World Cup, Final squads\nSpainLuis Twose, Antonio Nogu\u00e9s (sub Jamie Amat), Francisco Segura, Juan Amat, Francisco F\u00e1bregas Bosch, Jorge F\u00e1bregas, Vicente Llorach, Juan Quintana, Francisco Amat, Jos\u00e9 Sall\u00e9s, Agust\u00edn Masa\u00f1a", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092645-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Men's Hockey World Cup, Statistics, Final standings\nAs per statistical convention in field hockey, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 56], "content_span": [57, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092645-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Men's Hockey World Cup, Statistics, Goalscorers\nThere were 67 goals scored in 30 matches, for an average of 2.23 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092646-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Men's South American Volleyball Championship\nThe 1971 Men's South American Volleyball Championship, the 9th tournament, took place in 1971 in Montevideo (\u00a0Uruguay).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092647-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Men's World Team Squash Championships\nThe 1971 Men's World Team Amateur Squash Championships were held in Palmerston North, Henderson and Auckland, New Zealand, and took place from 6 to 16 August 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092648-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Merdeka Tournament\nThe 1971 Merdeka Tournament was held in August 1971 with 12 participating teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092649-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Merton London Borough Council election\nThe 1971 Merton Council election took place on 13 May 1971 to elect members of Merton London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Labour party gained overall control of the council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092650-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Mestaruussarja, Overview\nIt was contested by 14 teams, and TPS Turku won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 29], "content_span": [30, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092651-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Miami Dolphins season\nThe 1971 Miami Dolphins season was the team's sixth, and second in the National Football League (NFL). The team improved on their 10-4 record from 1970 and finished 10\u20133\u20131. This was the first of four consecutive AFC East titles for the Dolphins. They opened the season tying the Denver Broncos, before splitting their next 2 games to sit at 1\u20131\u20131. The Dolphins then won 8 in a row to sit at 9\u20131\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092651-0000-0001", "contents": "1971 Miami Dolphins season\nThe Dolphins won their first division title, finishing first in the AFC East, and then defeated the Kansas City Chiefs in the Divisional Round in 2 overtimes (the game is considered the longest in NFL history by time). They advanced to their first ever AFC championship game, where they defeated the reigning champion Baltimore Colts, 21\u20130, and went on to play in their first Super Bowl. However, in Super Bowl VI, Miami was walloped 24\u20133 by the Dallas Cowboys. After losing Super Bowl VI, the Dolphins would not lose another game until Week 2 of the 1973 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 590]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092651-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Miami Dolphins season, Regular season, Standings\nNote: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 53], "content_span": [54, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092652-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Miami Hurricanes football team\nThe 1971 Miami Hurricanes football team represented the University of Miami as an independent during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. Led by first-year head coach Fran Curci, the Hurricanes played their home games at the Miami Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida. Miami finished the season with a record of 4\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092653-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Miami Redskins football team\nThe 1971 Miami Redskins football team was an American football team that represented Miami University in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. In their third season under head coach Bill Mallory, Miami compiled a 7\u20133 record (2\u20133 against MAC opponents), finished in a tie for third place in the MAC, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 207 to 117. The team's defense allowed only 11.7 points per game, which ranked 12th among 128 NCAA University Division football teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092653-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Miami Redskins football team\nThe team's statistical leaders included Stu Showalter with 464 passing yards, Bob Hitchens with 1,157 rushing yards, and John Viher with 251 receiving yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092653-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Miami Redskins football team\nMiddle guard Doug Krause won the Miami most valuable player award. Krause, Dick Dougherty, and Marc Smith were the team captains.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092654-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Michigan State Spartans football team\nThe 1971 Michigan State Spartans football team represented Michigan State University in the 1971 Big Ten Conference football season. In their 18th season under head coach Duffy Daugherty, the Spartans compiled a 6\u20135 overall record (5\u20133 against Big Ten opponents) and finished in a tie for third place in the Big Ten Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092654-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Michigan State Spartans football team\nFour Spartans were selected by either the Associated Press (AP) or the United Press International (UPI) as first-team players on the 1971 All-Big Ten Conference football team: running back Eric Allen (AP-1, UPI-1); offensive guard Joe DeLamielleure (AP-1, UPI-1); defensive tackle Ron Curl (AP-1, UPI-1); and defensive back Brad Van Pelt (AP-1, UPI-1).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092654-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Michigan State Spartans football team, Game summaries, Michigan\nOn October 9, 1971, Michigan State lost Michigan, 24\u201313, in front of 80,093 spectators, the largest crowd to that time in the history of Spartan Stadium in East Lansing, Michigan. Billy Taylor rushed for 117 yards and two touchdowns on 15 carries. Tom Slade started his first game at quarterback, completed three of nine passes for 45 yards, and rushed for 48 yards and a touchdown. With Michigan State athletic director Biggie Munn in critical condition following a stroke, the Spartans kept the game close.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 68], "content_span": [69, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092654-0002-0001", "contents": "1971 Michigan State Spartans football team, Game summaries, Michigan\nMichigan State trailed 10\u20137 late in the third quarter and had the ball at Michigan's 14-yard line. At that point, Michigan's Butch Carpenter forced a fumble that was recovered by Mike Keller. The Wolverines then sealed the game with a two-yard touchdown run by Taylor and a seven-yard touchdown run by Slade. Michigan kicker Dana Coin converted three point after touchdown attempts and kicked a 27-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 68], "content_span": [69, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092655-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Michigan Wolverines football team\nThe 1971 Michigan Wolverines football team was an American football team that represented the University of Michigan in the 1971 Big Ten Conference football season. In their third season under head coach Bo Schembechler, the Wolverines compiled an 11\u20131 record, outscored opponents 421 to 83, won the Big Ten Conference championship, and were ranked No. 4 in the final UPI Poll and No. 6 in the final AP Poll. Defensive back Frank Gusich and center Guy Murdock were the team captains.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092655-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Michigan Wolverines football team\nThe Wolverines were undefeated in the regular season, including three consecutive shutout victories over Virginia (56\u20130), UCLA (38\u20130), and Navy (46\u20130). Two later victories over Indiana (61\u20137) and Iowa (63\u20137) were the Wolverines' highest point totals since a 69-point tally in 1947. The Michigan-Ohio State game set an NCAA record with a crowd of 104,016 at Michigan Stadium. In the 1972 Rose Bowl, Michigan lost to Stanford, 13\u201312, on a field goal with 12 seconds remaining.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092655-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Michigan Wolverines football team\nFour Michigan players received first-team honors on the 1971 College Football All-America Team. They are:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092655-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Michigan Wolverines football team\nLinebacker Dana Coin set an NCAA record by successfully converting 55 of 55 extra points without a miss during the 1971 season. He was also the team's leading scorer with 79 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092655-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Pre-season\nThe 1970 Michigan team compiled a 9\u20131 record and was ranked No. 7 in the final Coaches Poll and No. 9 in the final AP Poll. The 1970 team was not permitted to accept a bowl invitation, as Big Ten policy prescribed that the Rose Bowl was the only bowl game in which a conference team could participate. In March 1971, Michigan coach Bo Schembechler launched a public campaign to change the Big Ten's restrictive bowl participation policy. He noted that lesser teams had played in major bowl games and said, \"It was a crime what happened to us last season. We were the greatest team in the country not to play in a bowl game.\" The conference eventually rescinded its one-bowl policy in 1975.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 756]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092655-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Pre-season\nSchembechler also spoke in opposition to the extension of the football schedule from 10 to 11 games for the 1971 season: \"I think the NCAA made a mistake in going to 11 games. . . . I love the game and I love to coach it but I also realize that in college they still have to go to school. . . . it does take away somewhat from their academic pursuits. I was concerned about that.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092655-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Pre-season\nImportant players lost from the 1970 team included quarterback Don Moorhead, who had set 24 school records, including those for most yards of total offense and most passing yards. The candidates to take Moorhead's spot as the team's starting quarterback included Tom Slade, Kevin Casey, and Larry Cipa. After the first spring scrimmage, Schembechler criticized the play of his quarterbacks: \"We have a lousy offense. We're going to have to run the ball every play.\" Slade and Casey ended up starting eight and four games, respectively. Cipa was the only one of the trio who went on to play quarterback in the NFL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 680]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092655-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Pre-season\nOther key players lost from the 1970 season included offensive lineman Dan Dierdorf, middle guard Henry Hill, and linebacker Marty Huff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092655-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Pre-season\nMichigan was ranked No. 4 in the final pre-season poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092655-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Pre-season, Recruiting\nMichigan's recruiting class for 1971 included quarterback Dennis Franklin, running backs Chuck Heater and Gil Chapman, defensive back Dave Brown, linebacker Steve Strinko, and offensive lineman Dennis Franks. Chapman was the most heralded rookie back, having scored 564 points in high school.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 78], "content_span": [79, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092655-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Northwestern\nMichigan opened its 1971 season with a 21\u20136 victory over Northwestern in front of 42,472 spectators at Dyche Stadium in Evanston, Illinois. Sophomore Kevin Casey started at quarterback and completed only four of 11 passes for 34 yards and had one pass intercepted. Michigan's first touchdown was scored in the second quarter by split end Bo Rather on \"an 18-yard razzle-dazzle end around TD run\", with Jim Brandstatter making a key block.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092655-0010-0001", "contents": "1971 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Northwestern\nRather scored again in the third quarter after a 51-yard field goal attempt by Dana Coin was knocked down by a Northwestern player as it fell short; Rather fell on the ball in the end zone, and the officials ruled it a live ball and fumble recovery. Tailback Billy Taylor scored Michigan's third touchdown on a five-yard touchdown run later in the third quarter. Taylor totaled 105 rushing yards on 28 carries in the game. Kicker Dana Coin converted all three point after touchdown attempts. On defense, Frank Gusich had two interceptions. Northwestern scored its touchdown in the fourth quarter on a short pass. After the game, coach Schembechler told the press, \"It was no masterpiece, but it was effective.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 779]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092655-0011-0000", "contents": "1971 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Northwestern\nAfter a review of game films, center Guy Murdock was named Michigan's offensive champion, and Gusich, with his two interceptions, was named defensive champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092655-0012-0000", "contents": "1971 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Virginia\nOn September 18, Michigan defeated Virginia, 56\u20130, in the home opener before a crowd of 81,391 at Michigan Stadium. Michigan took a 35\u20130 lead at halftime and used its reserves extensively, including five quarterbacks and 11 running backs. Michigan's offense was heavily skewed in favor of the ground game, with 83 rushing carries and only 10 passes. The Wolverine backs carried the ball 83 times and totaled 495 rushing yards, including 107 yards by Ed Shuttlesworth and 89 yards, all in the first half, by Billy Taylor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092655-0012-0001", "contents": "1971 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Virginia\nMichigan scored seven rushing touchdowns, two each by Taylor and Alan Walker and one each by Shuttlesworth, Bob Thornbladh and Fritz Seyferth. Michigan's eighth touchdown was scored by Dave Elliott, the son of former Michigan player Pete Elliott, who fell on the ball after a Michigan kickoff was not fielded by Virginia as it made its way into the end zone. Kevin Casey started his second game at quarterback and completed two of five passes for 43 yards. Virginia completed only one pass and threw three interceptions. In total offense, Michigan out-gained Virginia, 566 yards to 78 yards. After the game, Virginia coach Don Lawrence praised Michigan's running backs: \"Those are the best six running backs I've ever seen together. We were there, but we just got knocked down.\" Coach Schembechler opined, \"There's not much to say, is there? We were bigger and stronger physically than they were.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 962]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092655-0013-0000", "contents": "1971 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, UCLA\nOn September 25, Michigan defeated UCLA, 38\u20130, before a crowd of 89,177 in the rain at Michigan Stadium. Michigan led 24\u20130 at halftime on touchdown runs by Fritz Seyferth and Ed Shuttlesworth, a 31-yard field goal by Dana Coin, and a 32-yard touchdown pass from Kevin Casey to Bo Rather. Casey's touchdown pass to Rather was the first of the year for Michigan. In the fourth quarter, Michigan added two more touchdowns on a 92-yard interception return by Thom Darden and a short run by Harry Banks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092655-0013-0001", "contents": "1971 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, UCLA\nWith 91 rushing yards, Billy Taylor passed 2,000 career rushing yards to move into third place among Michigan's career rushing leaders. On defense, Michigan held UCLA to 39 rushing yards and sacked UCLA quarterback nine times. After the game, UCLA coach Pepper Rodgers said, \"I've never had a team dominated the way we were today.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092655-0014-0000", "contents": "1971 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, UCLA\nAfter defeating UCLA, Michigan jumped to #2 in the AP and UPI polls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092655-0015-0000", "contents": "1971 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Navy\nOn October 2, Michigan defeated Navy, 46\u20130, in front of 68,168 spectators in Michigan Stadium. The game marked the first time since 1948 that a Michigan football team had shut out three consecutive opponents. Michigan's running backs scored five rushing touchdowns, two by Alan Walker and one each by Billy Taylor, Harry Banks, and Fritz Seyferth. With 76 rushing yards, Taylor passed Tom Harmon and moved into second place among Michigan's career rushing leaders. Ed Shuttlesworth also ran for a two-point conversion in the second quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092655-0015-0001", "contents": "1971 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Navy\nKevin Casey started his fourth game at quarterback and completed only one pass for eight yards, as Tom Slade, Larry Cipa and Jack McBride replaced him after the first quarter and jointly completed eight of 13 passes for 145 yards. Cipa threw a 49-yard touchdown pass to Mike Oldham with three minutes remaining in the game. Dana Coin converted five points after touchdown and kicked a field goal. Michigan out-gained Navy by 428 yards to 71 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092655-0016-0000", "contents": "1971 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Navy\nDuring a halftime ceremony, Michigan honored the crew of Apollo 15, James Irwin, David Scott, and Alfred Worden, all Michigan alumni.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092655-0017-0000", "contents": "1971 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Michigan State\nOn October 9, Michigan won its fifth consecutive game, defeating Michigan State, 24\u201313, in front of 80,093 spectators, the largest crowd to that time in the history of Spartan Stadium in East Lansing, Michigan. Billy Taylor rushed for 117 yards and two touchdowns on 15 carries. Tom Slade started his first game at quarterback, completed three of nine passes for 45 yards, and rushed for 48 yards and a touchdown. With Michigan State athletic director Biggie Munn in critical condition following a stroke, the Spartans kept the game close.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092655-0017-0001", "contents": "1971 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Michigan State\nMichigan State trailed 10\u20137 late in the third quarter and had the ball at Michigan's 14-yard line. At that point, Michigan's Butch Carpenter forced a fumble that was recovered by Mike Keller. The Wolverines then sealed the game with a two-yard touchdown run by Taylor and a seven-yard touchdown run by Slade. Michigan kicker Dana Coin converted three point after touchdown attempts and kicked a 27-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092655-0018-0000", "contents": "1971 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Michigan State\nIn the weekly polling after the Michigan-Michigan State game, the Wolverines dropped from #2 to #3 in both the Coaches and AP Polls. Oklahoma narrowly edged ahead of Michigan after an upset victory over Texas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092655-0019-0000", "contents": "1971 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Illinois\nOn October 16, Michigan defeated Illinois, 35\u20136, at Michigan Stadium. Quarterback Tom Slade threw an interception on the first play from scrimmage, setting up an Illinois touchdown only one minute and 23 seconds into the game. Slade then settled in, ran 25 yards for Michigan's first touchdown, and completed five of seven passes for 74 yards and a touchdown. Defensive back Thom Darden set up Michigan's second touchdown with a 47-yard punt return. Wingback Glenn Doughty was the star of the game for Michigan, as he rushed for 48 yards and two touchdowns on six carries and caught three passes for 56 yards and a touchdown. Billy Taylor led the rushing attack with 103 yards and a touchdown on 22 carries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 772]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092655-0020-0000", "contents": "1971 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Minnesota\nOn October 23, in the annual Little Brown Jug game, Michigan defeated Minnesota, 35\u20137, in front of 44,176 spectators in Minneapolis. Billy Taylor rushed for 166 and two touchdowns on 33 carries. He also surpassed Ron Johnson's career total of 2,524 rushing yards to become Michigan's all-time career rushing leader. Michigan rushed for 391 yards in all, including 96 yards for Ed Shuttlesworth, 62 yards and a touchdown for Glenn Doughty, and 25 yards and a touchdown to Fritz Seyferth. Michigan's passing game never got on track, as Tom Slade completed only one of seven passes for 13 yards. Coming into the game in the second half, Larry Cipa threw a five-yard touchdown pass to Larry Gustafson. Dana Coin converted all five point after touchdown kicks for Michigan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 834]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092655-0021-0000", "contents": "1971 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Indiana\nOn October 30, Michigan defeated Indiana, 61\u20137, before a crowd of 75,751 at Michigan Stadium. Michigan's 61 points was its highest score since a 69-point tally in 1947. Billy Taylor led the offense with 172 rushing yards, including touchdown runs of 43 and 66 yards, on 11 carries, an average of 15.6 yards per carry. Michigan rushed for a total of 452 yard, with addition touchdowns scored by third-string fullback Bob Thornbladh (2), quarterback Tom Slade (2), and Alan Walker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 63], "content_span": [64, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092655-0021-0001", "contents": "1971 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Indiana\nThom Darden returned an interception 60 yards for a touchdown, and Michigan also scored on a safety when the Indiana returner took the ball at the one-yard line, took a step back, and downed the ball in the end zone. Michigan also recovered four fumbles and played its reserves extensively, with a total of 68 players seeing game action. Dana Coin added a field goal and five extra points. After the game, coach Bo Schembechler sent his regrets to his close friend and Indiana coach John Pont; Schembechler told the press, \"I hate to beat anybody that bad, especially somebody I like.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 63], "content_span": [64, 649]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092655-0022-0000", "contents": "1971 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Iowa\nOn November 6, Michigan defeated Iowa, 63\u20137, in front of 72,467 \"shivering fans\" at Michigan Stadium. Fullback Ed Shuttlesworth rushed for three touchdowns in the first half to give Michigan a 21\u20130 lead at halftime. Shuttlesworth ended up with 112 yards on 16 carries. Michigan's backs totaled 493 rushing yards, including 98 yards and two touchdowns for Alan \"Cowboy\" Walker, 80 yards and one touchdown for Billy Taylor, Glenn Doughty with 57 yards and one touchdown, and Bob Thornbladh with 51 yard and a touchdown. Quarterback Tom Slade completed two of four passes for 32 yards, including a 24-yard touchdown pass to Bo Rather. Dana Coin kicked seven extra points, giving him an NCAA record with 51 consecutive successful extra point kicks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 805]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092655-0023-0000", "contents": "1971 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Purdue\nOn November 13, Michigan defeated Purdue, 20\u201317. For the second consecutive week, Ed Shuttlesworth led Michigan in rushing, totaling 125 yards and a touchdown on 28 carries. Billy Taylor added 98 yards and Glenn Doughty 93 yards. Dana Coin added two field goals, including the winning field goal with 46 seconds left in the game. Purdue quarterback Gary Danielson, who attended high school in Dearborn, Michigan, kept the game close with touchdown passes of nine and 66 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092655-0024-0000", "contents": "1971 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Ohio State\nOn November 20, Michigan defeated Ohio State, 10\u20137, before an NCAA record crowd of 104,016 persons in attendance at Michigan Stadium. Michigan took a 3\u20130 lead at halftime on a 32-yard field goal by Dana Coin. Ohio State took the lead in the third quarter on an 85-yard punt return by Campana. Billy Taylor, assisted by a \"devastating block\" by Fritz Seyferth, put Michigan back in the lead with a 21-yard touchdown run with two minutes and seven seconds left in the game. Ohio State's final drive ended when Thom Darden intercepted a pass with one-and-a-half minutes remaining.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092655-0024-0001", "contents": "1971 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Ohio State\nAfter the interception, Ohio State coach Woody Hayes ran across the field, berating each of the officials. The officials assessed an unsportsmanlike conduct against Hayes. When another penalty was assessed against Ohio State linebacker Randy Gradishar for punching Michigan's backup quarterback, Larry Cipa. When the official moved the first-down markers to assess the penalty, Hayes pulled the markers from ground, threw one onto the field and threw the other to the ground, proceeding to then rip the plastic flag from the pole with his hand. The victory gave Michigan an undefeated record in the regular season for the first time since 1948.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 711]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092655-0025-0000", "contents": "1971 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, 1972 Rose Bowl\nThe game was the first Rose Bowl meeting between the two schools since the inaugural Rose Bowl in 1902, in which Michigan crushed Stanford, 49\u20130. In the 1972 rematch, Michigan was ranked #3 in the country and favored by 10\u00bd points. Michigan's Dana Coin kicked a 30-yard field goal in the second quarter for the only first half scoring. In the first series of the second half, Stanford stopped the Wolverines on fourth and one at Stanford's four-yard line, then tied the game on a 42-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092655-0025-0001", "contents": "1971 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, 1972 Rose Bowl\nEarly in the fourth quarter, Michigan's Fritz Seyferth scored on a one-yard dive to put Michigan up 10\u20133. After Stanford got the ball back, the Indians faced fourth and ten from their own 33. Stanford ran a fake punt, with Jim Kehl receiving the snap and handing the ball forward to Jackie Brown through Brown's legs. Brown ran 33 yards for a first down, and followed up a minute later with a 24-yard touchdown run to tie the game. Late in the fourth quarter, Michigan recovered a Stanford fumble near midfield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092655-0025-0002", "contents": "1971 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, 1972 Rose Bowl\nFacing fourth down with time running down, the Wolverines attempted a 42-yard field goal. The kick was short, and Stanford safety Jim Ferguson caught the ball and attempted to run it out of the end zone. Instead, he was knocked back into the end zone by Ed Shuttlesworth for a controversial Michigan safety, as replays seemed to show that Ferguson's forward progress was to the three-yard line. This made the score 12\u201310 with just over three minutes to play, and Michigan due to get the ball on a free kick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092655-0025-0003", "contents": "1971 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, 1972 Rose Bowl\nFollowing the free kick, Stanford held Michigan to a three-and-out and got the ball back on their own 22-yard line with 1:48 to go. Bunce then threw five consecutive completions to take Stanford to the Michigan 17-yard line with 22 seconds left. The Indians ran twice to get to the Michigan 14-yard line with 12 seconds left. From there, Stanford kicked a 31-yard field goal to give Stanford a 13\u201312 victory with 12 seconds left.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092655-0026-0000", "contents": "1971 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Ranking and honors\nIn their third season under coach Schembechler, the Wolverines compiled an 11\u20131 record, outscored opponents 421 to 83, won the Big Ten Conference championship, and played in their second Rose Bowl in three years. In early January 1972, the Associated Press (AP) released its final post-season college football poll for the 1971 season. The 1971 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team was ranked No. 1, and Michigan dropped from No. 4 to No. 6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 74], "content_span": [75, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092655-0027-0000", "contents": "1971 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Ranking and honors\nAfter setting Michigan's career rushing record, Billy Taylor received numerous honors at the end of the 1971 season, including the following:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 74], "content_span": [75, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092655-0028-0000", "contents": "1971 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Ranking and honors\nFour other Michigan players won first-team All-American honors as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 74], "content_span": [75, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092655-0029-0000", "contents": "1971 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Ranking and honors\nLinebacker and placekicker Dana Coin set an NCAA record by successfully converting 55 of 55 extra points without a miss during the 1971 season. He was also the team's leading scorer with 79 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 74], "content_span": [75, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092655-0030-0000", "contents": "1971 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Ranking and honors\nFifteen Michigan players received honors on the 1971 All-Big Ten Conference football team. Thom Darden, Reggie McKenzie, Billy Taylor, and Mike Taylor received first-team honors from both the AP and UPI, and Mike Keller received first-team honors from the AP. Players receiving second-team honors were Tom Coyle (AP-2, UPI-2), Guy Murdock (AP-2, UPI-2), Ed Shuttlesworth (UPI-2), Glenn Doughty (UPI-2), Paul Seymour (UPI-2), Chris Tucker (AP-2), Jim Brandstatter (UPI-2), Jim Coode (UPI-2), Alden Carpenter (UPI-2), and Tom Beckman (AP-2).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 74], "content_span": [75, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092655-0031-0000", "contents": "1971 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Ranking and honors\nTeam awards went to Billy Taylor (Most Valuable Player), Guy Murdock (Meyer Morton Award), Dave Gallagher (John Maulbetsch Award), Tom Kee (Frederick Matthaei Award), and Bruce Elliott (Arthur Robinson Scholarship Award).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 74], "content_span": [75, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092655-0032-0000", "contents": "1971 Michigan Wolverines football team, Personnel\nThe following individuals won varsity letters for their participation on the 1971 Michigan football team. Players who started at least six games are highlighted in bold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092655-0033-0000", "contents": "1971 Michigan Wolverines football team, Personnel, Others\nThe following individuals were on the team roster but did not win varsity letters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 57], "content_span": [58, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092655-0034-0000", "contents": "1971 Michigan Wolverines football team, Personnel, Professional football\nTwenty-two members of the 1971 team went on to play professional football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 72], "content_span": [73, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092655-0034-0001", "contents": "1971 Michigan Wolverines football team, Personnel, Professional football\nThey are: (1) Tom Beckman (St. Louis Cardinals, 1972, Memphis Grizzlies, 1974\u20131975), (2) Larry Cipa (New Orleans Saints, 1974\u201375); (3) Jim Coode (Ottawa Rough Riders, 1974\u201380); (4) Thom Darden (Cleveland Browns, 1972\u20131981), (5) Glenn Doughty (Baltimore Colts, 1972\u20131979), (6) Dave Gallagher (Chicago Bears, 1974, New York Giants, 1975\u201376, Detroit Lions, 1978\u201379), (7) Fred Grambau (Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 1973\u201375), (8) Clint Haslerig (Chicago Bears, 1974, Buffalo Bills, 1974\u201375, Minnesota Vikings, 1975, New York Jets, 1976), (9) Mike Hoban (Chicago Bears, 1974), (10) Mike Keller (Dallas Cowboys, 1972), (11) Randy Logan (Philadelphia Eagles, 1973\u201383), (12) Reggie McKenzie (Buffalo Bills, 1972\u20131982), (13) Seattle Seahawks, 1983\u20131984), (14) Guy Murdock (Houston Oilers, 1974; Chicago Fire/Winds, 1974\u20131975), (15) Bo Rather (Miami Dolphins, 1973, 1978; Chicago Bears, 1974\u201378), (16) Paul Seal (New Orleans Saints, 1974\u201376, San Francisco 49ers, 1977\u201378), (17) Fritz Seyferth (Calgary Stampeders, 1972), (18) Paul Seymour (Buffalo Bills, 1973\u20131977), (19) Ed Shuttlesworth (Toronto Argonauts, 1971\u20131973), (20) Billy Taylor (Calgary Stampeders, 1972), (21) Mike Taylor (New York Jets, 1972\u201373), and (22) Bob Thornbladh (Kansas City Chiefs, 1974).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 72], "content_span": [73, 1315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092656-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Milan\u2013San Remo\nThe 1971 Milan\u2013San Remo was the 62nd edition of the Milan\u2013San Remo cycle race and was held on 19 March 1971. The race started in Milan and finished in San Remo. The race was won by Eddy Merckx of the Molteni team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092657-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Miller High Life 500\nThe 1971 Miller High Life 500 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series event that took place at Ontario Motor Speedway in Ontario, California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092657-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Miller High Life 500, Race report\nTwo hundred laps were raced on the paved oval track spanning 2.500 miles (4.023\u00a0km). The total time of the race was three hours, forty-three minutes, and thirty-six seconds. This would be the first event to ever take place at Ontario Motor Speedway, on February 28, 1971. The only Cup race with a driver from Utah entered. Art Pollard was a DNQ and the sole Utahan to enter a national level NASCAR race until Michael Self's Xfinity starts 44 years later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092657-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Miller High Life 500, Race report\nThe average speed was 134.168 miles per hour (215.922\u00a0km/h) and the pole position speed was 151.711 miles per hour (244.155\u00a0km/h). There were five cautions for 21 laps and the margin of victory was 8\u00bd seconds. With an attendance of nearly seventy-nine thousand people. Notable crew chiefs at this event included Paul Goldsmith, Richard Elder, Harry Hyde, Dale Inman, Lee Gordon and Paul Burchard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092657-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Miller High Life 500, Race report\nIn the 51-car racing grid, there were 50 Americans and one Mexican, Pedro Rodr\u00edguez who finished in 47th due to an electrical fault. It was the 1000th race in NASCAR history. Rodr\u00edguez would retire from the NASCAR Winston Cup Series after his race here. Dean Dalton would finish in last place due to being black flagged and disqualified on lap 2. The only car in the same league with Foyt was Fred Lorenzen until Lorenzen's engine blew and he crashed on the front straight with a fire. At the end, Petty had a chance to win, but he missed his pit under the green flag and had to come back in and finished third. Foyt won the first two Ontario races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 688]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092657-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Miller High Life 500, Race report\nThe total winnings of the race were $180,200 ($1,137,614.3 when adjusted for inflation) - making it the biggest non-Daytona purse during that era. Manufacturers involved in the event included Chevrolet, Ford, Dodge, Mercury, and Plymouth. Other notable drivers included Elmo Langley, Fred Lorenzen, and Ron Hornaday, Sr. (whose son is a four-time Craftsman Truck Series champion). Marty Kinerk would also retire after this race along with Jim McElreath, Pedro Rodr\u00edguez and Johnny Steele.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092657-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Miller High Life 500, Race report, Qualifying\nFailed to qualify: Jack Roberts (#20), John W. Anderson (#57), Ben Arnold (#76), Sam Rose (#09), Walter Ballard (#30), Jerry Barnett (#55), D.K. Ulrich (#40), Earle Wagner (#01), Art Pollard (#94), Harold Pagon (#36), Larry Baumel (#68), Leonard Blanchard (#95), Frank Burnett (#43W), Scotty Cain (#1), Neil Castles (#06), Markey James (#31), Vic Irvan (#5), Paul Tyler (#95), Tru Cheek (#62), Marion Collins (#78), Chris Connery (#11W), Jim Danielson (#64W), Jack DeWitt (#17W), Paul Dorrity (#15), Vallie Engelauf (#65), Doc Faustina (#5), Glenn Francis (#33), Les Loeser (#40W), Ed Negre (#8), Bill Champion (#10)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 50], "content_span": [51, 668]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092658-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Milwaukee Brewers season\nThe 1971 Milwaukee Brewers season involved the Brewers' finishing sixth in the American League West with a record of 69 wins and 92 losses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092658-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Milwaukee Brewers season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092658-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Milwaukee Brewers season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092658-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Milwaukee Brewers season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092658-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Milwaukee Brewers season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092658-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Milwaukee Brewers season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092658-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Milwaukee Brewers season, Farm system\nThe Brewers' farm system consisted of three minor league affiliates in 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 42], "content_span": [43, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092659-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team\nThe 1971 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team represented the University of Minnesota in the 1971 Big Ten Conference football season. In their 18th and final year under head coach Murray Warmath, the Golden Gophers compiled a 4\u20137 record and were outscored by their opponents by a combined total of 278 to 212.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092659-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team\nDefensive end Tom Chandler received the team's Most Valuable Player award. End Doug Kingsriter was named an All-American by the Associated Press and Bob Hope. Kingsriter and linebacker Bill Light were named All-Big Ten first team. Quarterback Craig Curry, fullback Ernie Cook and offensive tackle Jack Babcock were named All-Big Ten second team. Offensive lineman Bart Buetow and linebacker Ron King were named Academic All-Big Ten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092659-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team\nTotal attendance for the season was 207,662, which averaged to 34,610. The season high for attendance was against Michigan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092660-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Minnesota Twins season\nThe 1971 Minnesota Twins finished 74\u201386, fifth in the American League West. 940,858 fans attended Twins games, the fifth-highest total in the American League, the first time the Twins failed to attract over one million fans since moving to Minnesota.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092660-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Minnesota Twins season, Regular season\nFive Twins made the All-Star Game: first baseman Harmon Killebrew, second baseman Rod Carew, shortstop Leo C\u00e1rdenas, outfielder Tony Oliva, and pitcher Jim Perry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092660-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Minnesota Twins season, Regular season\nOn August 10, at Metropolitan Stadium, slugger Harmon Killebrew hit his 500th career home run, in the first inning off the Baltimore Orioles' Mike Cuellar. He followed that in the sixth inning with his 501st, also off Cuellar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092660-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Minnesota Twins season, Regular season\nLead off batter C\u00e9sar Tovar led the AL with 204 hits and was second with 94 runs. Tony Oliva won his third batting title with a .337 average and led the AL with a .546 slugging percentage. Harmon Killebrew hit 28 HR and 119 RBI. Rod Carew hit .307.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092660-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Minnesota Twins season, Regular season\nJim Perry (17\u201317), Bert Blyleven (16\u201315), and Jim Kaat (13\u201314) were the Twins' best pitchers. Kaat won his tenth Gold Glove Award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092660-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Minnesota Twins season, Regular season\nShortstop Leo C\u00e1rdenas topped the AL with a .985 fielding percentage\u2014the highest for an American League shortstop since records began in 1901.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092660-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Minnesota Twins season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 72], "content_span": [73, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092660-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Minnesota Twins season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092660-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Minnesota Twins season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 70], "content_span": [71, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092660-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 Minnesota Twins season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 67], "content_span": [68, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092660-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 Minnesota Twins season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 68], "content_span": [69, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092661-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Minnesota Vikings season\nThe 1971 season was the Minnesota Vikings' 11th in the National Football League. They finished with an 11\u20133 record to win the NFC Central title and return to the playoffs for the fourth consecutive season; however, they lost 20\u201312 at home to the eventual Super Bowl champion Dallas Cowboys in the divisional round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092661-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Minnesota Vikings season\nIn 2007, ESPN.com ranked the 1971 Vikings as the fourth-greatest defense in NFL history, saying, \"[c]onsidering that their motto was 'Meet at the quarterback,' it's no surprise that the Purple People Eaters held opposing QBs to a 40.4 rating, one of the lowest ever.\" ESPN also noted that the 1971 Vikings \"shut out three opponents, and only one team scored more than 20 points against them. As a result, Alan Page became the first defensive player to ever be named NFL MVP. Carl Eller, Jim Marshall and safety Paul Krause joined Page on the All-Pro team.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092661-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Standings\nNote: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092662-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Mississippi State Bulldogs football team\nThe 1971 Mississippi State Bulldogs football team represented Mississippi State University during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092663-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Mississippi gubernatorial election\nThe 1971 Mississippi gubernatorial election took place on 2 November 1971 for the post of Governor of Mississippi. The incumbent governor, Democrat John Bell Williams, was ineligible due to term limits, a rule that was changed to two back-to-back terms in the 1980s. Democrat Bill Waller was elected into office and served as Governor of Mississippi from 1972 to 1976.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092664-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Missouri Tigers football team\nThe 1971 Missouri Tigers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Missouri in the Big Eight Conference (Big 8) during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. The team compiled a 1\u201310 record (0\u20137 against Big 8 opponents), finished in eighth place in the Big 8, and was outscored by opponents by a combined total of 260 to 93. Al Onofrio was the head coach for the first of seven seasons. The team played its home games at Memorial Stadium in Columbia, Missouri.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092664-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Missouri Tigers football team\nThe team's statistical leaders included Don Johnson with 360 rushing yards, Chuck Roper with 613 passing yards and 726 yards of total offense, John Henley with 247 receiving yards, and Greg Hill with 23 points scored.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092665-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Monaco Grand Prix\nThe 1971 Monaco Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Monaco on May 23, 1971. It was race 3 of 11 in both the 1971 World Championship of Drivers and the 1971 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers and the 200th World Championship Grand Prix held since the championship began in 1950. This was the last race on the original Monaco circuit, as a dedicated pit lane was created along the harbor before Tabac in 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092665-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Monaco Grand Prix\nEvents of the race are captured in the documentary film Weekend of a Champion in which Roman Polanski shadows Jackie Stewart.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092665-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Monaco Grand Prix, Race report\nQualifying was extremely wet and so it was Friday morning times that really counted for the grid - for Mario Andretti this was particularly unfortunate as his car was stranded out on the track at this time and so he was unable to qualify despite lying second in the World Championship. Jackie Stewart claimed a stunning pole position over a second ahead of his front row companion Jacky Ickx and shot into an immediate lead from the fast-starting Jo Siffert, Ickx, Pedro Rodr\u00edguez, Ronnie Peterson and Denny Hulme. Chris Amon stalled on the grid and Graham Hill - seeking a 6th Monaco win - made a rare mistake, hitting the wall at Tabac on the 2nd lap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 35], "content_span": [36, 689]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092665-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Monaco Grand Prix, Race report\nStewart extended his lead from Siffert and Ickx, despite being painfully ill from fumes leaking into the cockpit. Peterson was astonishing the crowd with his valiant attempts to take 4th place from Rodr\u00edguez, who was baulking him as much as was legally possible. Hulme actually managed to join the battle and pass Peterson on one lap. Eventually the Mexican slipped up under pressure and locked up a wheel to let both Peterson and Hulme through.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 35], "content_span": [36, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092665-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Monaco Grand Prix, Race report\nThe Who used parts of the Grand Prix and showed Jackie Stewart in the music video for the song \"Baba O'Riley\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 35], "content_span": [36, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092666-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Monegasque municipal elections\nThe 1971 Monegasque municipal elections were held on 7 February to elect the 15 members of the Communal Council of Monaco.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092666-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Monegasque municipal elections, Electoral system\nThe 15 councillors were elected for a four-year period in a single multi-member constituency using plurality-at-large voting with a two-round system. A majority of the votes was required to be elected. The second round would have been held one week after the first round. The Mayor of Monaco was elected by the councillors after the election. Candidates were required to be at least 21 years old and to have the Monegasque nationality for at least 5 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 53], "content_span": [54, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092667-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Mongolian National Championship\nThe 1971 Mongolian National Championship was the eighth recorded edition of the Mongolian National Championship for football, with the first tournament taking place in 1955 and no tournament held in 1965. It would appear however that championships were contested between 1956 and 1963, as sources note that a team called Aldar, the Mongolian Army Sports Club, won the title on numerous occasions during that time. Nonetheless, the 1971 national championship was won by Tengeriin Bugnuud, a team from Bat-\u00d6lzii, a sum (district) of \u00d6v\u00f6rkhangai Province in southern Mongolia, their third title following their first victory in 1967 championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 680]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092668-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Montana Grizzlies football team\nThe 1971 Montana Grizzlies football team was an American football team that represented the University of Montana in the Big Sky Conference during the 1971 NCAA College Division football season. In their fifth year under head coach Jack Swarthout, the team compiled an 6\u20135 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092669-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Montana State Bobcats football team\nThe 1971 Montana State Bobcats football team was an American football team that represented Montana State University in the Big Sky Conference during the 1971 NCAA College Division football season. In their first season under head coach Sonny Holland, the Bobcats compiled a 2\u20137\u20131 record (0\u20135\u20131 against Big Sky opponents) and finished last in the Big Sky.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092670-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Monte Carlo Open\nThe 1971 Monte Carlo Open was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Monte Carlo Country Club in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France. The men's tournament was part of the 1971 Pepsi-Cola Grand Prix circuit. It was the 65th edition of the event and was held from 12 April through 17 April 1971. Ilie N\u0103stase and Gail Chanfreau won the singles titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092670-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Monte Carlo Open, Finals, Men's Doubles\nIlie N\u0103stase / Ion \u021airiac defeated Tom Okker / Roger Taylor 1\u20136, 6\u20133, 6\u20133, 8\u20136", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 44], "content_span": [45, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092670-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Monte Carlo Open, Finals, Women's Doubles\nKatja Ebbinghaus / Betty St\u00f6ve defeated Lucia Bassi / Lea Pericoli 6\u20134, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 46], "content_span": [47, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092671-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Montreal Expos season\nThe 1971 Montreal Expos season was the third season in the history of the franchise. The Expos finished in fifth place in the National League East with a record of 71\u201390, 25\u00bd games behind the Pittsburgh Pirates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092671-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Montreal Expos season, Spring training\nThe Expos held spring training at West Palm Beach Municipal Stadium in West Palm Beach, Florida, a facility they shared with the Atlanta Braves. It was their third season at the stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 43], "content_span": [44, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092671-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Montreal Expos season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 71], "content_span": [72, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092671-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Montreal Expos season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092671-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Montreal Expos season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 69], "content_span": [70, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092671-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Montreal Expos season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 66], "content_span": [67, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092671-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Montreal Expos season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 67], "content_span": [68, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092672-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Moroccan coup d'\u00e9tat attempt\nThe 1971 Moroccan coup attempt or the Skhirat coup d'\u00e9tat (Arabic: \u0645\u062d\u0627\u0648\u0644\u0629 \u0627\u0646\u0642\u0644\u0627\u0628 \u0627\u0644\u0635\u062e\u064a\u0631\u0627\u062a, French: Coup d'\u00c9tat de Skhirat) was an unsuccessful attempt by rebel military leaders to assassinate King Hassan II of Morocco on 10 July 1971, the day of his forty-second birthday. It was the first of half a dozen other attempted coups d'\u00e9tat during the king's regime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092672-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Moroccan coup d'\u00e9tat attempt\nLieutenant-colonel M'hamed Ababou with, and under the orders of General Mohamed Medbouh, were the main instigators of the attack on Hassan II's summer palace in Skhirat on the Atlantic coast, about 20 kilometres (12\u00a0mi) south of Rabat, and ordered the seizing of several key places in Rabat in order to establish a republic. The main motive was the unveiling of several occurrences of corruption inside the Moroccan government and royal family.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092672-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Moroccan coup d'\u00e9tat attempt, Background to coup attempt\nAt the time, Medbouh was head of the Royal Military Household and commander of the Moroccan Royal Guard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092672-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Moroccan coup d'\u00e9tat attempt, Background to coup attempt\nIn April 1971 Medbouh went to the United States for medical treatment. He was also officially charged by Hassan II to prepare his visit to Washington D.C. from April 22 to 27, but was secretly told he had to conduct negotiations about secret US military bases in Morocco who paid rent directly into the royal coffers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092672-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Moroccan coup d'\u00e9tat attempt, Background to coup attempt\nThere, he also investigated why Pan American World Airways had decided against building an Intercontinental Hotel in Casablanca. In California, Medbouh discovered the reason: William P. Rogers, Secretary of State had received a file, from his friend, the president of the Pan American World Airways, containing photocopies of letters from Morocco. The company had been asked by Moroccan government officials for sizable \"commissions\". Indeed, a cleric close to Hassan II, Ben Messaoud, had the forgetfulness to write in black and white, \"Should also pay 600 million to the king.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 641]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092672-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Moroccan coup d'\u00e9tat attempt, Background to coup attempt\nOn hearing this from Medbouh on his return, the king seized Ben Messaoud (who revealed details on the affair and was released later) and fired four of his cabinet ministers. Some said that the dismissals took place only after the ministers had made enough money from corrupt practices and it was time for others to take their turn. Medbouh felt the dismissals were not sufficient: the ministers should be tried and punished. Medbouh was \"disappointed by his king\" and \"sickened by his country\" as he also learned from the same sources in the USA about a huge metal traffic network in Morocco. This was the moment when he considered a putsch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 703]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092672-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Moroccan coup d'\u00e9tat attempt, Background to coup attempt\nHis main task in the putsch was depleting the palace guard. He plotted with Lieutenant-colonel M'hamed Ababou, the commander of the Military Training Academy of Ahermoumou and his elder brother Commandant Mohamed Ababou who were both tasked with investing the palace with their troops and seizing strategic points in Rabat. Mohamed's given mission was raiding the Skhirat palace from the south, which he did without encountering significant resistance. Colonel Larbi Chelouati was another leader, whose role was rallying the entire army, controlling the country, and coordinating the entire operation and radio broadcasts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 684]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092672-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Moroccan coup d'\u00e9tat attempt, Attack on the palace\nOn 10 July 1971 at 14:08, about 1,200 cadets from the base of Ahermoumou (300 kilometres (190\u00a0mi) from there) stormed the palace of Skhirat during the king's birthday reception and attacked the guests with automatic weapons and grenades. It was subsequently claimed by the Moroccan authorities that the young cadets had been misled by senior officers into thinking that they were doing \"maneuvers\" in the region, then that they were acting to protect the king, who was \"surrounded by enemies\". According to eyewitnesses they ran out of control when they saw the luxury of the gathering but in his memoirs the king wrote that the soldiers had been drugged with substituted amphetamine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 740]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092672-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Moroccan coup d'\u00e9tat attempt, Attack on the palace\nBetween 400 and 800 senior government members, military officers and other members of the elite were present. Important guests were placed under house arrest, and the king himself was taken to a small pavilion. A total of 92 people were killed during the shooting, including Belgian ambassador Marcel Dupret, the Minister of Justice Muhammed Lazrak, ex-Prime Minister Ahmed Bahnini and the king's 80-year-old surgeon Henri Dubois-Roquebert. The king's brother, Prince Moulay Abdallah, was among the 133 injured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092672-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 Moroccan coup d'\u00e9tat attempt, Attack on the palace\nHassan II along with his aides and immediate family, including his eight-year-old son Crown Prince Mohammed, and General Mohamed Oufkir (Interior minister and later responsible for the attempted coup d'\u00e9tat of 1972) managed to escape unharmed by hiding in a bathroom or a closet. Medbouh came and knocked on the door, asking to negotiate with the king, who replied, \"I don't have to follow you.\" Medbouh ordered a sentinel to guard the door, not letting anyone entering or leaving.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092672-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 Moroccan coup d'\u00e9tat attempt, Attack on the palace\nWhen the firing died down, at about 16:45, the king re-emerged to find himself face to face with one of the rebel commanders. Keeping eye contact, he recited the opening verse of the Quran, and the rebel knelt and kissed his hand. Other sources report that Hassan II faced a cadet, who apologized for not recognizing him, and was exhorted to recite the Quran with several of his comrades. They joined in and shouted, \"Long live the King!\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092672-0011-0000", "contents": "1971 Moroccan coup d'\u00e9tat attempt, Attack on the palace\nThe Interior Ministry, the Army headquarters and Rabat's main radio station (Radio-Maroc) were at the same time taken over by other rebels soldiers and the radio was ordered to broadcast propaganda stating that the king had been murdered and a republic established, although the Moroccan news agency later confirmed he was unharmed. Loyalist troops later sealed off government buildings and patrolled Rabat's streets in tanks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092672-0012-0000", "contents": "1971 Moroccan coup d'\u00e9tat attempt, Attack on the palace\nIn a squabble between the coup leaders, M'hamed Ababou apparently shot Mohamed Medbouh at an early stage. Medbouh wished only for Hassan II to abdicate whereas Ababou had more radical demands. According to historian Michel Abitbol, Medbouh's death occurred \"under mysterious circumstances\". When the mutineers moved on the Army headquarters, Ababou was killed during an exchange of fire with royal troops led by General Bouhali, who had been dispatched to the palace to rescue the king. It is reported that Ababou was only wounded in this clash, but had asked his right-hand man, Chief Warrant Officer Harrouch Akka to shoot him so that he would not be taken alive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 721]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092672-0013-0000", "contents": "1971 Moroccan coup d'\u00e9tat attempt, Aftermath\nThe overthrow attempt ended the same day when royalist troops took over the palace in combat against the rebels. Immediately after being freed from the palace, General Oufkir was invested by Hassan II with full military and civilian power in order to seize and punish the rebels and ordered loyalist troops to go to Rabat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 44], "content_span": [45, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092672-0014-0000", "contents": "1971 Moroccan coup d'\u00e9tat attempt, Aftermath\nAmong the cadets, nearly 200 were caught in the crossfire of their comrades and more than a hundred others were killed in the palace shootings; around 900 others were captured by loyal forces and acquitted. In February 1972, 74 officers and non-commissioned officers were sentenced to prison terms ranging from one year to life imprisonment. Most of them were later transferred from Rabat to the prison of Tazmamart, built between 1972 and 1973. Ten senior officers (including four generals) were executed in the courtyard of a military barracks in Rabat, witnessed by military officers, who \"spat on the corpses\", and Moroccan journalists. General Oufkir had personally interrogated them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 44], "content_span": [45, 734]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092672-0015-0000", "contents": "1971 Moroccan coup d'\u00e9tat attempt, Aftermath\nMohamed Ababou was arrested, tried and incarcerated along with other coup antagonists (Harrouch Akka and Ahmed Mzireg). After a failed escape attempt with a group of prisoners, among whom was Ali Bourequat, he vanished and nothing is known of the circumstances of his supposed death. Although several years later his family received an official death certificate dated 20 July 1976, he is still considered disappeared by the Moroccan state. Mohamed and M'hamed younger brother, chief sergeant Abdelaziz Ababou, died during the coup itself.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 44], "content_span": [45, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092672-0016-0000", "contents": "1971 Moroccan coup d'\u00e9tat attempt, Aftermath\nOufkir was named Minister of Defense. King Hassan II was at the state funeral for his supporters killed at the summer palace in the two-and-a-half hour gun battle. In a press conference on July 13, the king identified the leaders of the coup and said the 1,400 rebels involved had been killed or rounded up. He dismissed the challenge to his authority, saying, \"It was all very under-developed,\" and he pointed to foreign interference as 600 Moroccans had attempted to renew their passports in Cairo on the day of the attack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 44], "content_span": [45, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092673-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Motor Trend 500\nThe 1971 Motor Trend 500 was the first race in NASCAR's Winston Cup era (also known as the Winston Cup Grand National Series) that took place on January 10, 1971. 191 laps on a road course at Riverside International Raceway in Riverside, California that spanned a total distance of 2.620 miles (4.216\u00a0km).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092673-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Motor Trend 500\nAttendance was estimated at 23,000. It took four hours, fifty-seven minutes, and fifty-five seconds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092673-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Motor Trend 500\nDue to a then-struggling economy, both Ford and Chevrolet cut back on factory support for the 1971 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season. NASCAR would also limit engines in the aerodynamic superspeedway cars to 305 cubic inches starting in this race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092673-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Motor Trend 500, Race report\nDefending NASCAR Grand National West series champion Ray Elder won the race; making it the first time that the 500-mile event at Riverside was won by a manufacturer other than Ford. The average speed was 100.783 miles per hour (162.195\u00a0km/h) while the pole speed was 107.084 miles per hour (172.335\u00a0km/h). This race was the final NASCAR Cup Series event with triple-digit numbered cars; with three of them qualifying for the race. (Kittlekow #107, Schilling #148, Collins #177). Elder became the first winner in NASCAR's \"modern\" history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092673-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Motor Trend 500, Race report\nOnly 11 cars finished this 5-hour marathon. The 8th-place finisher was 22 laps down, and the 11th-place finisher dropped out with 34 laps to go. The top prize at this race was $18,715 ($118,149 when adjusted for inflation) and the prize for finishing last (40th) was $1,015 ($6,408 when adjusted for inflation). Richard Petty competed in this race but failed to finish; he would end up in 20th after starting from the pole position. The majority of the drivers who failed to finish had an engine problem. 43-year-old Hershel McGriff entered and raced a Cup race for the first time since 1954, when he won a Grand National race at North Wilkesboro in an Oldsmobile, back when he was 26. McGriff would qualify in 8th and finish 12th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 765]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092673-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Motor Trend 500, Race report\nHarry Hyde and Dale Inman were notable crew chiefs for this event; working for Richard Petty (Inman) and fourth-place finisher Bobby Isaac (Hyde).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092673-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Motor Trend 500, Race report\nAt the end of the race, the margin between Elder and Bobby Allison was ten and a half seconds. Ray Elder would score the first of his two NASCAR cup victories here (with his second victory taking place at the 1972 Golden State 400). This race was Ron Grable's only start in the NASCAR Cup series and that G.T. Tallas finished the race with his career best of 11th place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092674-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Mr. Olympia\nThe 1971 Mr. Olympia contest was an IFBB professional bodybuilding competition held September 24\u201325, 1971 at the Maison de la Mutualit\u00e9 in Paris, France. It was the 7th Mr. Olympia competition held.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092674-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Mr. Olympia\nThe competition was a disappointment to many because three of its four competitors were disqualified before the event, leaving Arnold Schwarzenegger to win the contest unopposed. It was the first time the IFBB barred contestants from any of its events. The IFBB's effort to get bodybuilding represented in the 1976 Olympics required the organization enforce its constitution to give it parity with other official international athletic organizations. Sergio Oliva and Roy Callender were disqualified for entering unsanctioned meets, and Franco Columbu was disqualified for entering the AAU Mr. World contest the previous year. \"If bodybuilding is to become an Olympic Games event it must have an amateur division and it must have rules and regulations specifying who is eligible or not to compete in amateur and professional categories,\" insisted IFBB President Ben Weider in the keynote speech opening the contest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 932]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092675-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Murray by-election\nA by-election was held for the Australian House of Representatives seat of Murray on 20 March 1971. This was triggered by the resignation of former Country Party leader and interim Prime Minister John McEwen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092675-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Murray by-election\nThe by-election was won by Country Party candidate Bruce Lloyd.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 87]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092676-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Myers Brothers 250\nThe 1971 Myers Brothers 250 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series event that took place on August 6, 1971, at Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. This race was the final NASCAR cup series event at Bowman Gray Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092676-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Myers Brothers 250, Background\nBowman Gray Stadium is a NASCAR sanctioned 1\u20444-mile (0.40\u00a0km) asphalt flat oval short track and longstanding football stadium located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. It is one of stock car racing's most legendary venues, and is referred to as \"NASCAR's longest-running weekly race track\". Bowman Gray Stadium is part of the Winston-Salem Sports and Entertainment Complex and is home of the Winston-Salem State University Rams football team. It was also the home of the Wake Forest University football team from 1956 until Groves Stadium (later BB&T Field) opened in 1968.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 609]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092676-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Myers Brothers 250, Background\nBowman Gray Stadium was a popular venue for high school football in the 1970s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092676-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Myers Brothers 250, Race report\nBecause of reduced sponsorship money being given out by the \"Big Three\" automobile companies in Detroit, NASCAR decided to hold six of their smaller Winston Cup Series races in conjunction with the \"minor league\" NASCAR Grand American Series. The race car drivers still had to commute to the races using the same stock cars that competed in a typical weekend's race through a policy of homologation (and under their own power). This policy was in effect until roughly 1975. By 1980, NASCAR had completely stopped tracking the year model of all the vehicles and most teams did not take stock cars to the track under their own power anymore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 36], "content_span": [37, 676]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092676-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Myers Brothers 250, Race report\nThe complete time of the race was one hour and twenty-three minutes. Six cautions slowed the race for 36 laps with Bobby Allison defeating Richard Petty by a margin of three seconds. Fourteen thousand people attended this live race with speeds approaching 44.472 miles per hour (71.571\u00a0km/h). Richard Petty qualified for the pole position with a speed of 55.283 miles per hour (88.969\u00a0km/h) in the solo qualifying portion of the race weekend. There was a 29-driver grid; making the racetrack overcrowded with racing vehicles and forcing the race to devolve into a glorified demolition derby. Bill Seifert, Cecil Gordon and Bill Shirey all quit the race before it was over. The result of the race would have long-reaching effects at the 1984 Firecracker 400; where they were determining whether Petty had his \"200th win\" or his \"201st win.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 36], "content_span": [37, 876]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092676-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Myers Brothers 250, Race report\nRichard Petty and Bobby Allison shared their turns as being the joint leaders of the race. Future NASCAR car owner Richard Childress competed at this race as a driver. J.D. McDuffie was also a notable driver who competed in this race. David Ray Boggs would earn his first \"top-10\" finish racing at this event. Almost 25% of the field was out by lap 18, which was probably about five minutes into the race, being at Bowman Gray.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 36], "content_span": [37, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092676-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Myers Brothers 250, Race report\nNotable crew chiefs for this race were Dale Inman, Vic Ballard, and Lee Gordon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 36], "content_span": [37, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092676-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Myers Brothers 250, Race report\nAs Bobby Allison was not racing in a Grand National car, he never received credit in that series but was credited with a Grand American Series (\"pony\" cars) win. Vehicles that competed at the Grand American series were in Chevrolet Camaros, Ford Mustangs and AMC Javelins as opposed to their full-sized equivalents from their manufacturers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 36], "content_span": [37, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092676-0007-0001", "contents": "1971 Myers Brothers 250, Race report\nNASCAR rules for combination races, which were in effect for Riverside and other West Coast races where the West Series raced with the Cup Series, and later used by other multiple-division races in NASCAR, state each division is scored separately, similar to rules used in the NASCAR-owned International Motor Sports Association sports car racing series. Under current rules, Richard Petty would be credited with a Grand National Series win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 36], "content_span": [37, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092677-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 NAIA Division I football season\nThe 1971 NAIA Division I football season was the 16th season of college football sponsored by the NAIA and the second season of the league's two-division structure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092677-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 NAIA Division I football season\nThe season was played from August to November 1971 and culminated in the 1971 NAIA Champion Bowl, played on December 11, 1971, in Birmingham, Alabama.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092677-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 NAIA Division I football season\nLivingston defeated Arkansas Tech in the Champion Bowl, 14\u201312, to win their first NAIA national title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092678-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 NAIA Division II football season\nThe 1971 NAIA Division II football season was the 16th season of college football sponsored by the NAIA and the second season of play of the NAIA's lower division for football. The season was played from August to November 1971 and culminated in the 1971 NAIA Division II Football National Championship, played on December 11, 1971 in Thousand Oaks, California, on the campus of California Lutheran University.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092678-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 NAIA Division II football season\nCalifornia Lutheran defeated Westminster (PA), the defending national champion, in the championship game, 30\u201314, to win their first NAIA national title. The game was covered by Los Angeles Times sportswriter Jim Murray. The game was also televised nationally on NBC and nearly 10,000 spectators saw the game at Mt. Clef field. Cal Lutheran\u2019s head coach Robert Shoup was named National Assn. of Intercollegiate Athletics Coach of the Year and Lutheran Coach of the Year following the championship win. The university held a celebration in conjunction with the Dallas Cowboys, who won Super Bowl VI, at the Hollywood Palladium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 663]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092678-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 NAIA Division II football season\nSeveral Cal Lutheran players were drafted for NFL teams after the championship game, including Brian Kelley by the New York Giants and Sam Cvijanovich. Mike Sheppard and Ralph Miller were other notable Kingsmen players. While Bob Shoup was the team's head coach, Don Green was the assistant coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092678-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 NAIA Division II football season, Background and championship game\nThe championship season concluded in the first week of December in 1971. CLC barely made it into the four-team national playoffs as the fourth-seeded team. After whipping Montana Tech 34-6 in the semifinals, the Kingsmen played host in the title game to Westminister, the defending NAIA champion which had ranked No. 1 all season. Montana Tech had the best running attack and the highest scorer in the U.S. Besides being the defending champs, they were undefeated in 24 games. Westminister seemed as a sure winner and CLC was the underdog. The Montana Tech team was led by running back Don Heater, who had gained 1,797 yards and scored 25 touchdowns in ten games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 71], "content_span": [72, 735]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092678-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 NAIA Division II football season, Background and championship game\nFor Cal Lutheran, however, a winning streak had begun in 1965 and lasted for several years, bringing in an 8-1 record in 1965 (\"Year of the Champions\"), 8-2 in 1966 (\"Year of the Victors\"), and 7-2 in 1967 (\"Year of the Conquerors\"). In 1968, the college appeared for the first time in the national rankings, coming in ninth. Robbie Robinson's seventeen field goals in 1969 (\"Year of the Warriors\") set an\u00a0NAIA\u00a0record and the team moved up to seventh place. Cal Lutheran headed to the championship with an 8-1 record in 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 71], "content_span": [72, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092678-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 NAIA Division II football season, Background and championship game\nThe strongest personalities on the Kingsmen team have been described as Jim Baeuer, Sam Cvijanovich, Brian Kelley, and Ralph Miller. Cvijanovich was described as the hardest hitter coach Shoup ever met, while Ralph Miller (nicknamed \u201cMagic Mountain\u201d) was the team\u2019s largest player at 6\u20194\u201d and 260 lbs. Brian Kelly, who later enjoyed an eleven-year NFL career, was known as \u201cthe Ralph Miller of the defense.\u201d After a field goal by Richard Kelley furthered Cal Lutheran\u2019s lead 24-14, Brian Kelley completed the scoring by returning an interception 33 yards for a touchdown. The Cal Lutheran team had received 23 points in the forth corner and became the national champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 71], "content_span": [72, 743]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092678-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 NAIA Division II football season, Aftermath\nKelley has been recognized for having helped the team win the NAIA Championship and was named the most valuable player of the game. In 1972, Kelley was selected to the NAIA All-America First Team, NAIA District 3 Defensive First Team and the All-Lutheran College Defensive First Team. He was also a wrestler and an NAIA District III Heavyweight Champion. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in May 2010. He has also been inducted into Cal Lutheran Hall of Fame. In the game, Mike Sheppard was named the defensive player of the game. Middle linebacker Sam Cvijanovich was named 1971 NAIA District III Player of the Year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 48], "content_span": [49, 687]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092678-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 NAIA Division II football season, Aftermath\nA banquet of the champions was held in February 1972 at the Hollywood Palladium in order to honor the Kingsmen football team and the Dallas Cowboys, an NFL team based at Cal Lutheran who won their first Super Bowl in January 1972. The NFL team had been located at CLC for nine summers prior to its Super Bowl win. There was a strong bond between the NFL team and the university, which was known as \u201cthe summer home of the Dallas Cowboys.\u201d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 48], "content_span": [49, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092678-0007-0001", "contents": "1971 NAIA Division II football season, Aftermath\nThe Cal Lutheran coach, Bob Shoup, attended a sort of \u201cinformal summer school\u201d for 26 years with Tom Landry as his teacher. Shoup spent much time around the NFL players, observed them play and picked up tricks. He has been described as the \u201cde facto host\u201d for the Dallas Cowboys at Cal Lutheran.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 48], "content_span": [49, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092678-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 NAIA Division II football season, Aftermath\nA Bob Shoup statue was erected on University Plaza at California Lutheran University on October 18, 2014, in homage to Shoup\u2019s 1971 Kingsmen team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 48], "content_span": [49, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092678-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 NAIA Division II football season, Notable players\nNumerous of the CLU players were later drafted for professional teams, including Brian Kelley by the New York Giants and\u00a0Sam Cvijanovich. Other key players in the game were Mike Sheppard, later receivers coach with the NFL\u2019s Baltimore Ravens, and Ralph Miller, who later joined the Houston Oilers and played five years in the National, Canadian and World Football Leagues. Sam Cvijanovich, who later became a player in the Canadian Football League, was named NAIA Player of the Year following the championship game. While Bob Shoup was the team's head coach, Don Green was the assistant coach. Green was also the father of Doni Green, a notable player in the championship. Another notable player was Jim Bauer, the brother of Hank Bauer who also played football for the Kingsmen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 54], "content_span": [55, 834]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092679-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 NAIA Ice Hockey Championship\nThe 1971 NAIA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament involved four schools playing in single-elimination bracket to determine the national champion of men's NAIA college ice hockey. The 1971 tournament was the third men's ice hockey tournament to be sponsored by the NAIA. The tournament began on March 6, 1971, and ended with the championship game on March 7.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092679-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 NAIA Ice Hockey Championship\nBemidji State and Gustavus Adolphus attended the tournament for the fourth straight year while Augsburg College and Lakehead University made the tournament for the first time. With the addition of Lakehead, the 1971 tournament marked the first occasion that teams from United States and Canada made up the field. Bemidji and Lakehead, both members of the ICHA, reached the championship game to make it the fourth straight that the title game featured two ICHA teams. Bemidji defeated Lakehead to win the team's fourth-straight NAIA championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092680-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 NAIA Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 1971 NAIA Men's Basketball Tournament was held in March at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri. The 34th annual NAIA basketball tournament featured 32 teams playing in a single-elimination format.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092680-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 NAIA Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe championship game featured Kentucky State University for the second time. It was the fourth time since seeding began in 1957 that the number one team won the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092680-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 NAIA Men's Basketball Tournament, 1971 NAIA bracket, 3rd place game\nThe third place game featured the losing teams from the national semifinalist to determine 3rd and 4th places in the tournament. This game was played until 1988.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 72], "content_span": [73, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092681-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 NASCAR Winston Cup Series\nThe 1971 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season began on Sunday January 10 and ended on Sunday November 20. Richard Petty was the champion for this Winston Cup season. After 20 years of being named the NASCAR Grand National Series, R. J. Reynolds first became the primary sponsor in a decade where the growing anti-tobacco movement banned its advertisement on television and motorsports was the ideal place to place their advertisements. Through NASCAR, Winston merchandise was unveiled to live viewers of the races (since they were not allowed to advertise to a televised audience).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092681-0000-0001", "contents": "1971 NASCAR Winston Cup Series\nThis kind of merchandise would also be given out at stores that sold cigarettes in subsequent years. Race car drivers were encouraged to smoke cigarettes (when not racing) until the mid-2000s brought in strict drug testing policies in addition to a smoking cessation program by Nicorette, a GlaxoSmithKline brand (Goody's Headache Powders, a long-time NASCAR sponsor, is a GSK brand; as of 2011, GSK sponsors both Martinsville Speedway Sprint Cup races).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092681-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Season recap\nNote: Some races were combined races for Grand American and Grand National cars. Races marked Combined Races were won by Grand American cars. The driver who finished first among Grand National cars is listed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 44], "content_span": [45, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092681-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Notable Races, Motor Trend 500\nThe 1971 Motor Trend 500 was the first official race in NASCAR's Winston Cup era. Drivers had to contend with 191 laps on a 2.620 mile road course at Riverside International Raceway in Riverside, California. Ray Elder won the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092681-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Notable Races, Daytona 500\nThe 12th annual Daytona 500 was run on February 14 at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. A. J. Foyt won the pole and Richard Petty would win his third Daytona 500.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092681-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Notable Races, Miller High Life 500\nThe Miller High Life 500 was run on February 28 at Ontario Motor Speedway. A. J. Foyt would win this race after more than three hours of racing (from the pole position).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 67], "content_span": [68, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092681-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Notable Races, Greenville 200\nThe Greenville 200 was the first live flag-to-flag telecast of a NASCAR race. The race was run on Saturday, April 10 at Greenville-Pickens Speedway and was carried live on ABC with Jim McKay, Chris Economaki and Ken Squier. Bobby Isaac won the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092681-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Notable Races, Southern 500\nThe Rebel 400 was run on May 2 at Darlington Raceway in Darlington, South Carolina. Donnie Allison won the pole and Buddy Baker would win his third Rebel 400.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092681-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Notable Races, Winston 500\nThe Winston 500 was run on May 16 at Alabama International Motor Speedway in Talladega, Alabama. Donnie Allison won the pole and won the race. He defeated Bobby by some seconds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 58], "content_span": [59, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092681-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Notable Races, World 600\nThe World 600 was run on May 30 at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, South Carolina. Charlie Glotzbach won the pole and Bobby Allison would win the 1971 World 600 (defeating his brother).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092681-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Notable Races, Myers Brothers 250\nThe 1971 Myers Brothers 250 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series event that took place on August 6, 1971, at Bowman Gray Stadium in the American community of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Due to the reduced sponsorship money being given out by the \"Big Three\" automobile companies in Detroit, NASCAR decided to hold six of their smaller Winston Cup Series races in conjunction with the \"minor league\" NASCAR Grand American Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092681-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Notable Races, Myers Brothers 250\nAs Bobby Allison was not racing in a Grand National car, he never received credit in that series, but was credited with a Grand American Series (\"pony\" cars) win. Richard Petty, who finished second in a Grand National car, was never given credit for the class win. Under current rules used in various combination races among cars in NASCAR series, Petty would be credited with a series win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092681-0011-0000", "contents": "1971 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Notable Races, Yankee 400\nThe Yankee 400 was run on August 15 at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Michigan. Pete Hamilton won the pole and Bobby Allison would win the 1971 Yankee 400.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092681-0012-0000", "contents": "1971 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Notable Races, Delaware 500\nThe 1971 Delaware 500 is a NASCAR Winston Cup Series race that took place on October 17, 1971. Richard Petty defeated Charlie Glotzbach by more than one lap in front of eighteen thousand people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092682-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 NASCAR Winston West Series\nThe 1971 NASCAR Winston West Series was the 18th season of the series. The title was eventually won by Ray Elder, his third in succession.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092682-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 NASCAR Winston West Series, Schedule and results\nThe 1971 season included 26 individual races, although some tracks were run twice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092683-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 NASL Professional Hoc-Soc Tournament\nThe 1971 NASL Professional Hoc-Soc Tournament was the first indoor variant of soccer sanctioned by the North American Soccer League. It was held in St. Louis, Missouri on the evening of March 19, 1971 and involved four of the league's eight franchises.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092683-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 NASL Professional Hoc-Soc Tournament, Overview\nIndoor soccer tournaments had been played in one form or another in North America throughout much of the 20th Century, but 1971 marked the first time that a Division One professional league organized an indoor competition for its member clubs. The total purse was $2,800. The winning side received $1,000, while the runners-up earned $750. The winners and losers of the third place match made $600 and $450 respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092683-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 NASL Professional Hoc-Soc Tournament, Overview\nThe matches themselves were all played on March 19 at the St. Louis Arena. Individual matches lasted 30 minutes and were divided by an intermission into two 15-minute periods. Golden goal overtime was in place to break any tie after regulation time if needed. The first two matches were scheduled for 8:00 PM and 8:45 PM starts, with the others to follow at unspecified times.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092683-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 NASL Professional Hoc-Soc Tournament, Overview\nFour of the NASL's five established franchises participated: the Dallas Tornado, Rochester Lancers, St. Louis Stars and Washington Darts. The Atlanta Chiefs did not. The other three NASL squads, Montreal, New York and Toronto, were all expansion teams set to begin play in the 1971 outdoor season, which itself was to begin a few weeks later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092683-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 NASL Professional Hoc-Soc Tournament, Overview, Hoc-Soc rules\nThe basic premise of hoc-soc, was to combine several of the rules of hockey with small-side soccer. The playing surface was AstroTurf and the field dimensions were the same as a standard NHL hockey rink (200 feet by 85 feet), surrounded by dasher boards. The goals were set into the end boards and essentially cut in half (12 feet across by 8 feet high). As in hockey, the dasher boards were in play. Rosters were nine players strong, with six a side taking the field at the start of play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 66], "content_span": [67, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092683-0004-0001", "contents": "1971 NASL Professional Hoc-Soc Tournament, Overview, Hoc-Soc rules\nFree substitutions were permitted on the fly at the substituting team's own risk. Most fouls committed would result in a two-minute, sending-off penalty being assessed to the offending player, which would also give the opposition a hockey-style power play. The offending player's team would play short handed for two minutes or until the other team scored a goal \u2013whichever occurred first. As there were no assistant referees, the standard offside rules of soccer did not apply to hoc-soc. This caused many at the time to predict that the scoring would be much higher than that of a conventional match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 66], "content_span": [67, 669]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092683-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 NASL Professional Hoc-Soc Tournament, Overview, Hoc-Soc rules\nTwo specific rules were created to keep play moving. The first was that a player in their own defensive half was not permitted to kick the ball directly over the boards out of play. Doing so would result in a two-minute penalty for delay of game. The second allowed the goalie to clear the ball only by throwing the ball to teammates within the defensive half of the field. Kicking the ball to clear it or throwing the ball to a teammate beyond midfield would result in an indirect free kick from the spot of the illegal pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 66], "content_span": [67, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092683-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 NASL Professional Hoc-Soc Tournament, Tournament recap\nA crowd of 5,060 came out to witness the four back-to-back games. Eight minutes and five seconds into the opening match of the tournament, the home fans cheered as Jim Leeker put St. Louis ahead with the historic, first-ever NASL indoor goal. Their joy was short-lived as the Tornado rallied to defeat the Stars, 2\u20131, on the strength of two second-half goals by Jim Benedek. The second match saw the Lancers dispatch the Darts, 3\u20131. After a longer intermission, the losing teams, St. Louis and Washington, faced off in the Third Place match, with the Stars winning, 2\u20130. Dragan Popovi\u0107 scored both of St. Louis' goals. The evening culminated with the championship game between Dallas and Rochester. Tournament MVP Mike Renshaw was the man of the match with a pair of goals. After their 3\u20130 victory, the Dallas Tornado were crowned the NASL's professional hoc-soc champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 933]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092683-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 NASL Professional Hoc-Soc Tournament, Tournament recap\nDespite pre-tournament predictions, the score lines were not overly high (in fact, there were only 12 goals in the four games, or three per contest; in the 1971 NASL \"outdoor\" season, there were 292 goals scored in 89 games, or 3.28 per match). Pundits attributed this to the players' instinctive reluctance to play in offside positions, despite the nonexistence of such a rule in hoc-soc.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092683-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 NASL Professional Hoc-Soc Tournament, Final rankings\nPos = Final Position, G = Games, W = Wins, L = Losses, GF = Goals For, GA = Goals Against, GD = Goal Differential", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 57], "content_span": [58, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092683-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 NASL Professional Hoc-Soc Tournament, Statistical leaders\nGoals (worth 2 points), A = Assists (worth 1 point)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 62], "content_span": [63, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092683-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 NASL Professional Hoc-Soc Tournament, Legacy\nWhile 1971 marked the NASL's first foray into indoor soccer, it was by no means its last. In 1973 the Atlanta Apollos hosted two matches at The Omni against Montreal and Dallas respectively. In February 1974 the famed Soviet Red Army squad embarked on a three-city tour (Toronto, Philadelphia, St. Louis) against NASL competition. It was the second of those three matches, played on February 11 that caught everybody's attention. The Philadelphia Atoms lost a close match to the Soviets before 11,790 screaming fans at the Spectrum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 49], "content_span": [50, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092683-0010-0001", "contents": "1971 NASL Professional Hoc-Soc Tournament, Legacy\nThat night is often cited as the watershed moment of indoor soccer in the United States. With over 35,000 fans attending the three Russian matches, the NASL began to recognize the sport's potential. Larger indoor tournaments were staged in 1975 and 1976, as well as more independently staged matches. All of this ultimately led to full NASL indoor seasons beginning in 1979\u201380.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 49], "content_span": [50, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092683-0011-0000", "contents": "1971 NASL Professional Hoc-Soc Tournament, Legacy\nBy no small coincidence, the future co-founder of the Major Indoor Soccer League, Ed Tepper, was also in attendance at the Spectrum that night in 1974. Liking what he saw, Tepper later shared a videotape of an 1977 indoor match with former Washington Whips owner, Earl Foreman. Foreman also saw the game's potential, and the two men set about forming a new indoor-only soccer league. The MISL began play in 1978, and lasted until 1992.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 49], "content_span": [50, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092683-0012-0000", "contents": "1971 NASL Professional Hoc-Soc Tournament, Legacy\nOther national indoor leagues that followed included the Continental Indoor Soccer League, the American Indoor Soccer Association, (MISL II and MISL III), as well as the current Major Arena Soccer League. In 2008 the Federaci\u00f3n Internacional de F\u00fatbol R\u00e1pido, or FIFRA, was formed as the sport's international governing body. FIFRA was effectively replaced in 2013 by the World Minifootball Federation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 49], "content_span": [50, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092684-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 NBA All-Star Game\nThe 1971 NBA All-Star Game was played at the San Diego Sports Arena, in San Diego, California, on January 12, 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092684-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 NBA All-Star Game\nThe coach for the East team was Red Holzman and the West team was coached by Larry Costello. Officials for the game were Mendy Rudolph and Ed T. Rush. The announced attendance was 14,378. West beat the East 108\u2013107. Lenny Wilkens was named the game's Most valuable player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092685-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 NBA Finals\nThe 1971 NBA Finals was the championship series played at the conclusion of the National Basketball Association (NBA)'s 25th anniversary season of 1970\u201371. The Western Conference champion Milwaukee Bucks, who were founded as an expansion team three years earlier, swept the Eastern Conference champion Baltimore Bullets in four games. Baltimore had dethroned the 1969\u201370 NBA champion New York Knicks in the Eastern Conference finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092685-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 NBA Finals\nThe Bucks were the first Western Conference champions to win the league's championship since the St. Louis Hawks did so in 1958, and were the first expansion team in the NBA to win a championship since the NBA held its first expansion draft. (The Bullets originally started out as the Chicago Packers, an expansion team that began play in 1961\u201362 before moving to Baltimore in 1963.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092685-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 NBA Finals\nThe Bullets were forced to play Game 1 on a Wednesday night, just 48 hours after having defeated New York in Game 7 of the 1971 Eastern Conference Finals, then had to wait four days before playing Game 2. The series was the second (and last) time in NBA history that the teams alternated home games, the other being in 1956. Most other series were held in the 2-2-1-1-1 or 2-3-2 format (a 1-2-2-1-1 format was used in 1975 and 1978). It was also the last NBA Championship Series completed before May 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092685-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 NBA Finals\nThe series was broadcast by ABC with Chris Schenkel and Jack Twyman providing the commentary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092685-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 NBA Finals\nUntil 2021, it was the Bucks' only and the city's second championship (with the other being the 1957 Braves). The city's 49-year drought was the fourth longest title drought in the \"Big 4\" major professional sports leagues, behind Buffalo, San Diego and Vancouver.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092686-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 NBA draft\nThe 1971 NBA draft was the 25th annual draft of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The draft was held on March 29 and 30, 1971 before the 1971\u201372 season. In this draft, 17 NBA teams took turns selecting amateur U.S. college basketball players and other eligible players, including international players. A player who had finished his four-year college eligibility was eligible for selection. If a player left college early, he would not be eligible for selection until his college class graduated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092686-0000-0001", "contents": "1971 NBA draft\nThe first two picks in the draft belonged to the teams that finished last in each conference, with the order determined by a coin flip. The Cleveland Cavaliers won the coin flip and were awarded the first overall pick, while the Portland Trail Blazers were awarded the second pick. The remaining first-round picks and the subsequent rounds were assigned to teams in reverse order of their win\u2013loss record in the previous season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092686-0000-0002", "contents": "1971 NBA draft\nPrior to the start of the season, the San Diego Rockets and the San Francisco Warriors relocated to Houston, Texas, and Oakland, California, and became the Houston Rockets and Golden State Warriors respectively. The draft consisted of 19 rounds comprising the selection of 237 players. The league also hosted a supplemental hardship draft on September 20, 1971, for college underclassmen who wished to join the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092686-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 NBA draft, Draft selections and draftee career notes\nAustin Carr from the University of Notre Dame was selected first overall by the Cleveland Cavaliers. Sidney Wicks from the University of California, Los Angeles, who went on to win the Rookie of the Year Award in his first season, was selected second by the Portland Trail Blazers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 57], "content_span": [58, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092686-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 NBA draft, Draft selections and draftee career notes\nSpencer Haywood, the 30th pick, and Randy Smith, the 104th pick, were selected to both the All-NBA Team and the All-Star Game. Haywood was selected to four All-NBA Teams and five All-Star Games. He also won the NBA championship with the Los Angeles Lakers in 1980. During his first and only season in the American Basketball Association (ABA), he won the ABA Most Valuable Player Award, and was selected to the ABA All-Star Game and All-ABA Team. Smith was selected to one All-NBA Team and two All-Star Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 57], "content_span": [58, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092686-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 NBA draft, Draft selections and draftee career notes\nArtis Gilmore, the 117th pick, initially opted to play in the ABA. Gilmore spent five seasons with the Kentucky Colonels before finally joined the NBA in 1976 after both leagues merged. His achievements include ABA Most Valuable Player Award in 1972, five All-ABA Team selections, five ABA All-Star Game selections and six NBA All-Star Game selections. For his achievements, he was inducted to the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 57], "content_span": [58, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092686-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 NBA draft, Draft selections and draftee career notes\nFred Brown, the 6th pick, spent all of his 13-year playing career with the Sonics and was selected to one All-Star Game. Carr, Wicks, and 11th pick Curtis Rowe are the only other players from this draft who were selected to an All-Star Game. Phil Chenier, a college underclassman selected in the supplemental hardship draft, was also selected to both All-NBA Team and All-Star Game. Two players drafted went on to have coaching careers in the NBA: 13th pick Jim Cleamons and 46th pick Dave Wohl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 57], "content_span": [58, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092686-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 NBA draft, Draft selections and draftee career notes\nSpencer Haywood was selected in the second round by the Buffalo Braves although he already played in the NBA with the Seattle SuperSonics in the previous season. He left college basketball in 1969 with two years remaining in his college eligibility. At that time, the NBA prohibited the drafting or signing of a player before his college class had graduated. He then played in the ABA with the Denver Rockets for a season before controversially signed by the Sonics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 57], "content_span": [58, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092686-0005-0001", "contents": "1971 NBA draft, Draft selections and draftee career notes\nThe league and the other NBA teams opposed the move and argued Haywood should be prohibited to join and play with the Sonics. This led to a court case between the NBA against the Sonics and Haywood. He argued that he should be allowed to play because he was a \"hardship case\", due to his position as the sole wage earner in his family. He then won the case and was allowed to play late in the 1970\u201371 season. This led to the NBA allowing college underclassmen to enter the draft provided they could give evidence of \"hardship\". With the existing rules, Haywood was eligible for this year's draft, when his college class graduated. The Braves used one of their three second-round picks to select him, hoping that they would win the rights to sign him. However, he remained with the Sonics and never played for the Braves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 57], "content_span": [58, 878]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092686-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 NBA draft, Other picks\nThe following list includes other draft picks who have appeared in at least one NBA game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092686-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 NBA draft, Hardship draft\nOn September 10, 1971, the NBA hosted a supplemental hardship draft for college underclassmen who wish to join the league. Prior to the 1971 Draft, college underclassmen were not eligible to be drafted until their college class graduated. These underclassmen fulfilled the \"hardship\" criteria and were allowed to enter the draft early. This new rule came as a result of Spencer Haywood winning the court case against the NBA which allowed him to play in the NBA before his college class graduated. The teams selected in reverse order of their win\u2013loss record in the previous season. The team that made a selection must withdraw their equivalent selection in the 1972 Draft. The teams were allowed to not exercise their rights on this hardship draft and thus retained their full selection in the 1972 Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 30], "content_span": [31, 837]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092686-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 NBA draft, Hardship draft\nThree teams that were supposed to have the first three selections, the Cleveland Cavaliers, Buffalo Braves and Portland Trail Blazers, declined to exercise their rights. Therefore, the Cincinnati Royals had the first selection, which they used to select Nate Williams from Utah State University. Phil Chenier, a junior guard from the University of California, was selected by the Baltimore Bullets. He is the only player from the hardship draft who was selected to All-NBA Team and All-Star Game. Joe Hammond, who had not played high school and college basketball, was selected in the fourth round by the Los Angeles Lakers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 30], "content_span": [31, 655]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092686-0008-0001", "contents": "1971 NBA draft, Hardship draft\nHammond, who had played for the Allentown Jets in the Eastern Basketball Association (EBA) prior to the draft, had to apply as the \"hardship case\" because his college class could not graduate until 1972 if he had gone to the college. From the six players that were available for selection, only Ed Owens from Weber State University was not selected by any NBA team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 30], "content_span": [31, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092687-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 NBA playoffs\nThe 1971 NBA playoffs was the postseason tournament of the National Basketball Association's 1970\u201371 season. The tournament concluded with the Western Conference champion Milwaukee Bucks defeating the Eastern Conference champion Baltimore Bullets 4 games to 0 in the NBA Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092687-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 NBA playoffs\nLed by Finals MVP and the previous season's Rookie of the Year Lew Alcindor and Oscar Robertson, the Bucks became the fastest expansion team in NBA history to win the championship (a record that they still hold as of 2018), and did so in dominating fashion, finishing 12-2 in the playoffs with a postseason average point differential of 14.5.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092687-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 NBA playoffs\nThe playoff format changed from the previous 2-division format. There were now 4, with each division qualifying its champion and second-place team. In the Conference Semifinals, the champion of each division played the 2nd place team in the other, with the divisional champion having home-court advantage. The two winners then played for the conference championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092687-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 NBA playoffs\nThis was the first NBA Finals appearance for the Bullets, and their only trip to the championship round in Baltimore; they made 3 more appearances (winning one title) later in the decade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092687-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 NBA playoffs\nThe 1971 playoffs was the last for the San Francisco Warriors under that moniker; the following season, symbolizing their already-established home base of Oakland, they changed their name to the Golden State Warriors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092687-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 NBA playoffs, Conference Semifinals, Eastern Conference Semifinals, (A1) New York Knicks vs. (C2) Atlanta Hawks\nThis was the first playoff meeting between these two teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 116], "content_span": [117, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092687-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 NBA playoffs, Conference Semifinals, Eastern Conference Semifinals, (C1) Baltimore Bullets vs. (A2) Philadelphia 76ers\nThis was the first playoff meeting between these two teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 123], "content_span": [124, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092687-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 NBA playoffs, Conference Semifinals, Western Conference Semifinals, (M1) Milwaukee Bucks vs. (P2) San Francisco Warriors\nThis was the first playoff meeting between these two teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 125], "content_span": [126, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092687-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 NBA playoffs, Conference Semifinals, Western Conference Semifinals, (P1) Los Angeles Lakers vs. (M2) Chicago Bulls\nThis was the second playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Lakers winning the first meeting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 119], "content_span": [120, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092687-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 NBA playoffs, Conference Finals, Eastern Conference Finals, (A1) New York Knicks vs. (C1) Baltimore Bullets\nThis was the third playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Knicks winning the first two meetings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 112], "content_span": [113, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092687-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 NBA playoffs, Conference Finals, Western Conference Finals, (M1) Milwaukee Bucks vs. (P1) Los Angeles Lakers\nThis was the first playoff meeting between these two teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 113], "content_span": [114, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092687-0011-0000", "contents": "1971 NBA playoffs, NBA Finals: (M1) Milwaukee Bucks vs. (C1) Baltimore Bullets\nThis was the first playoff meeting between these two teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 78], "content_span": [79, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092688-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 NC State Wolfpack football team\nThe 1971 NC State Wolfpack football team represented North Carolina State University during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. The Wolfpack were led by first-year head coach Al Michaels and played their home games at Carter Stadium in Raleigh, North Carolina. The team competed as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference, finishing in sixth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092688-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 NC State Wolfpack football team\nMichaels had been the defensive coordinator for the Wolfpack under Earle Edwards, and served as the interim coach after his retirement. Lou Holtz was hired as permanent coach shortly after the end of the season, and Michaels returned to the defensive coordinator position under Holtz.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092689-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA College Division Baseball Tournament\nThe 1971 NCAA College Division Baseball Tournament decided the champion of baseball at the NCAA College Division level for the 1971 season. This was the fourth such tournament for the College Division, having separated from the University Division in 1957. The Florida Southern Moccasins won the championship by defeating the Central Michigan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092689-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA College Division Baseball Tournament, Format\nTwenty one teams were selected to participate, divided into four regions. Two regions consisted of six teams, another had five, and the West had four. Each region completed a double-elimination round, with the winners advancing to the finals. The finals, made up of the four regional champions, also competed in a double-elimination format.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 54], "content_span": [55, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092690-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA College Division Basketball Tournament\nThe 1971 NCAA College Division Basketball Tournament involved 32 schools playing in a single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA\u00a0College Division\u00a0college basketball as a culmination of the 1970-71 NCAA College Division men's basketball season. It was won by the University of Evansville, with Evansville's Don Buse named the Most Outstanding Player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092690-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA College Division Basketball Tournament\nSouthwestern Louisiana's tournament and semifinal appearances were later vacated due to NCAA rules violations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092691-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA College Division football rankings\nThe 1971 NCAA College Division football rankings are from the United Press International poll of College Division head coaches and from the Associated Press poll of sportswriters and broadcasters. The 1971 NCAA College Division football season was the 14th year UPI published a Coaches Poll in what was termed the \"Small College\" division. It was the 12th year for the AP version of the Small College poll. The AP poll was a \"Top 20\" for the first week, but switched to a \"Top 10\" for the rest of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092692-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA College Division football season\nThe 1971 NCAA College Division football season was the 16th season of college football in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association at the NCAA College Division level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092692-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA College Division football season, Rankings\nCollege Division teams (also referred to as \"small college\") were ranked in polls by the AP (a panel of writers) and by UPI (coaches). The national champion(s) for each season were determined by the final poll rankings, published at or near the end of the regular season, before any bowl games were played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092692-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA College Division football season, Rankings, College Division final polls\nDelaware, who during the regular season had defeated Rutgers, Villanova, and Boston University, averaged 40 points per game, and had a 9\u20131 record, was ranked first by both UPI and AP; both polls also ranked McNeese State (9\u20130\u20131) second, and Eastern Michigan (7\u20130\u20132) third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 82], "content_span": [83, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092692-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA College Division football season, Bowl games\nThe postseason consisted of four bowl games as regional finals, all played on December 11. This was the first year for the Pioneer Bowl; it succeeded the Pecan Bowl, which had been played in Arlington, Texas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092692-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA College Division football season, Bowl games\nTop-ranked Delaware met C.W. Post in the Boardwalk Bowl; played indoors at Convention Hall, Delaware won by 50 points in a rout. The next two teams in the polls both lost; Eastern Michigan was defeated by Louisiana Tech in the Pioneer Bowl, and McNeese State fell to Tennessee State\u2014led by future National Football League quarterback Joe Gilliam\u2014in the Grantland Rice Bowl. Out west in the Camellia Bowl, Boise State mounted a 25\u20130 fourth quarter comeback to defeat Chico State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092693-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship\nThe 1971 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Tournament was the first Division I NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship tournament. Prior to this the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA) had voted for the national champion and, subsequently, awarded the Wingate Memorial Trophy for the College lacrosse title based on regular season records.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092693-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship\nEight NCAA Division I college men's lacrosse teams met after having played their way through a regular season. The tournament culminated with the finals, held at Hofstra University in front of 5,458 fans. For this tournament as well as the 1972 tournament, the Wingate Memorial Trophy was presented to the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092693-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship\nCollege lacrosse at that time was broken into four divisions, so the NCAA tournament games for that year were based on geographical fit rather than seeding. The Tournament teams were selected from 114 schools which sponsored lacrosse at that time. Each division sent one team, two other teams were picked from the northern, southern and western divisions, and then two teams were chosen at large, chosen by a selection committee of five coaches and athletic directors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092693-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament overview\nThe Cornell Big Red, who posted a 13\u20131 record during the season, were led by coach Richard M. Moran and star players , John Burnap, Bob Shaw, and , defeated the 9-3 Maryland Terrapins 12 to 6 in the finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 69], "content_span": [70, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092693-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament overview\nCornell won 13 straight games leading up to the title, losing only their opening game by one goal to Virginia. Cornell won despite their 1st team All American goaltender Bob Rule being out with an injury. Backup goaltender Bob Buhmann was credited with 22 saves as the Big Red shut down the Maryland attack. Bob Buhmann also ended up on the honorable mention All American list that season at goaltender.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 69], "content_span": [70, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092693-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament overview\nCanadian-born Al Rimmer, the first Canadian born NCAA lacrosse recruit, scored six goals in the finals to lead Cornell. Rimmer, from Toronto, led Cornell with 43 goals and 31 assists for 74 points for the season. He ended his career as the all-time Cornell record-holder in career points with 80 goals and 82 assists for 162 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 69], "content_span": [70, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092693-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament overview\nIn 1970 in just his second year, Coach Moran\u2019s team was the only squad in the nation to go undefeated with a record of 11-0, but controversy ensued when the USILA named Johns Hopkins, Navy and Virginia as the national champions, while Cornell was voted fifth in the country. The next season, after losing in the season opener to Virginia, 10-9, Cornell rattled off 13-straight victories.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 69], "content_span": [70, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092693-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament overview\nIn the semi-finals, Cornell edged Army, 17-16, with Cornell grabbing a 7-4 lead after one period. Army, led by who had seven goals and three assists in the game, battled back and by the third period it became a question of who would get the last goal. The lead changed hands twice and the score was tied four times in the final period, before Bob Shaw scored at 12:33 giving Cornell the victory. Frank Davis' four goals against Army in the semi-finals ensured Cornell's place in the national championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 69], "content_span": [70, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092693-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament overview\nThis was Cornell's first lacrosse title since winning the USILA championship in 1907. Cornell was 1\u20134\u20131 against Maryland up to this point, in a series that began with Cornell's 2\u20131 win in 1921. The teams played a 2\u20132 tie in 1922, and Maryland won by 11\u20131 in 1929, 14\u20132 in 1951, 17\u201310 in 1963 and 13\u20136 in 1965.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 69], "content_span": [70, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092693-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament overview\nCoach Richie Moran was voted the Division I Coach of the Year, while John Burnap won the Schmeisser Award as the nation\u2019s outstanding defenseman and Bob Rule won the Ens. C.M. Kelly, Jr. Award as the nation\u2019s top goaltender, despite the fact that a season-ending knee injury kept Rule from playing in the NCAA tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 69], "content_span": [70, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092693-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament overview\nIn the finals, Al Rimmer fired in six of Cornell's 12 goals, with Cornell never trailing in the game. Rimmer scored first at 59 seconds and though Maryland was able to tie the score at 2-2, the Terps posed no real threat after the first period. The goal that put Cornell ahead for good was produced by their third midfield. With 7:47 to go in the first period, Bob Wagner, a senior from Newton, Pa., scored off an assist by Craig Bollinger, a junior from Rochester, N.Y. Rimmer then took command and racked up three straight goals. Frank Davis, a junior from Sanborn, N.Y. and Bucky Gunts, a junior from Baltimore, Md. finished up Cornell's string of six straight goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 69], "content_span": [70, 741]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092694-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships\nThe 1971 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships were contested March 12\u221213, 1971 at Cobo Arena in Detroit, Michigan at the seventh annual NCAA-sanctioned track meet to determine the individual and team national champions of men's collegiate indoor track and field events in the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092694-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships\nVillanova topped the team standings, finishing only 2.75 points ahead of Texas\u2013El Paso; it was the Wildcats' second overall indoor team title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092694-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships, Qualification\nUnlike other NCAA-sponsored sports, there were not separate University Division and College Division championships for indoor track and field until 1985. As such, all athletes and teams from University and College Division programs were eligible to compete.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 61], "content_span": [62, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092695-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans\nThe consensus 1971 College Basketball All-American team, as determined by aggregating the results of four major All-American teams. To earn \"consensus\" status, a player must win honors from a majority of the following teams: the Associated Press, the USBWA, The United Press International and the National Association of Basketball Coaches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092696-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA Men's Volleyball Tournament\nThe 1971 NCAA Men's Volleyball Tournament was the second annual tournament to determine the national champion of NCAA men's college volleyball. The tournament was played at Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles, California. Like the previous year, the format of this championship consisted of a preliminary, four-team round robin to determine seeding for a subsequent single-elimination tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092696-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA Men's Volleyball Tournament\nUCLA defeated UC Santa Barbara, 3\u20130 (15\u20136, 17\u201315, 17\u201315), in the championship match to win their second consecutive national title. UCLA's Kirk Kilgour and UC Santa Barbara's Tim Bonynge were named the Most Outstanding Players of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092696-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA Men's Volleyball Tournament, Qualification\nUntil the creation of the NCAA Men's Division III Volleyball Championship in 2012, there was only a single national championship for men's volleyball. As such, all NCAA men's volleyball programs (whether from the University Division, or the College Division) were eligible. A total of 4 teams were invited to contest this championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 52], "content_span": [53, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092697-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship\nThe 1971 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship was the third annual NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship to determine the national champion of NCAA men's college water polo. Tournament matches were played at the Belmont Plaza Pool in Long Beach, California during December 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092697-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship\nUCLA defeated San Jos\u00e9 State in the final, 5\u20133, to win their second national title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092697-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship\nThe leading scorer for the tournament was Jim Waska from Cal State Fullerton (14 goals). The awards for All-Tournament Team and Most Outstanding Player were not given out until 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092697-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship, Qualification\nSince there has only ever been one single national championship for water polo, all NCAA men's water polo programs (whether from Division I, Division II, or Division III) were eligible. A total of 8 teams were invited to contest this championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 54], "content_span": [55, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092698-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA Skiing Championships\nThe 1971 NCAA Skiing Championships were contested at Terry Peak ski area in Lead, South Dakota, at the 18th annual NCAA-sanctioned ski tournament to determine the individual and team national champions of men's collegiate alpine, cross country skiing, and ski jumping in the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092698-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA Skiing Championships\nDenver, under new head coach Peder Pytte, captured their fourteenth national championship and tenth in eleven years. They finished 21.6 points ahead of rival Colorado in the team standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092698-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA Skiing Championships\nDenver's Otto Tschudi, winner of the previous year's giant slalom, swept the three alpine titles; teammate Ole Hansen repeated as Cross Country champion, and John Kendall of New Hampshire repeated as Skimeister (all four events).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092698-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA Skiing Championships\nDespite Denver's impressive streak of success, the Pioneers' next team title came in 2000, nearly three decades later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092698-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA Skiing Championships, Venue\nThe eighteenth edition, this year's NCAA skiing championships were held March 4\u20136 in South Dakota at Terry Peak, in the Black Hills near Lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 37], "content_span": [38, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092698-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA Skiing Championships, Venue\nThrough 2020, these remain the only championships hosted in South Dakota.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 37], "content_span": [38, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092699-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA Soccer Tournament\nThe 1971 NCAA Men's Soccer Tournament was the thirteenth organized men's college soccer tournament by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, to determine the top college soccer team in the United States. The Howard Bison won their first national title by defeating the two-time defending champion Saint Louis Billikens in the championship game, 3\u20132. The final match was played on December 30, 1971, in Miami, Florida, at the Miami Orange Bowl. Howard's championship would later be vacated by the NCAA on disputed grounds of player eligibility.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092699-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA Soccer Tournament\nThis was the final championship before the establishment of separate championships for the NCAA's University Division (now Division I) and College Division (now Divisions II and III) in 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092699-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA Soccer Tournament, Final \u2013 Miami Orange Bowl, Miami, Florida\nThe Championship was later vacated by the NCAA on the grounds that two Howard players had played amateur soccer in Trinidad, exhausting their eligibility, and that two others had not taken entrance exams, required by the NCAA, to predict a grade point average of at least 1.6. Howard University argued that the eligibility rules were vague and discriminated against foreigners, and that the players had all maintained grade-point averages of 3.0 or higher in college, but the NCAA did not reverse the ruling.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 70], "content_span": [71, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092700-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division Baseball Tournament\nThe 1971 NCAA University Division Baseball Tournament was played at the end of the 1971 NCAA University Division baseball season to determine the national champion of college baseball. The tournament concluded with eight teams competing in the College World Series, a double-elimination tournament in its twenty-fifth year. Eight regional districts sent representatives to the College World Series with preliminary rounds within each district serving to determine each representative. These events would later become known as regionals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092700-0000-0001", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division Baseball Tournament\nEach district had its own format for selecting teams, resulting in 23 teams participating in the tournament at the conclusion of their regular season, and in some cases, after a conference tournament. The twenty-fifth tournament's champion was Southern California, coached by Rod Dedeaux. The Most Outstanding Player was Jerry Tabb of Tulsa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092700-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division Baseball Tournament, Tournament\nThe opening rounds of the tournament were played across eight district sites across the country, each consisting of between two and four teams. The winners of each District advanced to the College World Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 61], "content_span": [62, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092701-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division Basketball Tournament\nThe 1971 NCAA University Division Basketball Tournament involved 25 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on March 13, 1971, and ended with the championship game on March 27 in Houston, Texas. A total of 29 games were played, including a third place game in each region and a national third place game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092701-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division Basketball Tournament\nUCLA, coached by John Wooden, won its fifth consecutive national title (its seventh all-time) with a 68\u201362 victory in the final game over Villanova, coached by Jack Kraft. Howard Porter of Villanova was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player. However, Villanova's placement in the tournament was later vacated because it was found that Porter had signed with an agent prior to the competition. Having lost to undefeated, second-ranked Penn (coached by Dick Harter) twice before, Porter did not think they would make it past the regionals where third-ranked South Carolina was also in their path.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 655]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092701-0001-0001", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division Basketball Tournament\nHowever, Penn vanquished South Carolina by 15 points, then had their worst game of the year against Villanova in the East Regional final, losing 90\u201347. Villanova's first-place finish in the East Regional was relinquished to Penn, with the regional consolation game winner, Fordham (coached by Digger Phelps, a former Penn assistant coach), receiving second place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092701-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division Basketball Tournament, Championship Game\nUCLA was a heavy favorite over Villanova in the title game. But the Bruins did not cruise through the season in their accustomed fashion. They were severely threatened in their own conference (and backyard) by second-ranked USC, who lost only twice all season \u2013 both to UCLA. In addition, UCLA lost at Notre Dame and had several other close calls against Washington, Oregon, and Oregon State. In the West Regional final, the Bruins trailed Long Beach State by 11 points midway through the second half, and their star player Sidney Wicks was on the bench with four personal fouls. But Wicks returned and avoided his fifth foul (and disqualification), and the Bruins rallied to take a 55\u201353 lead. With 20 seconds remaining, Wicks sank two clinching free throws and UCLA escaped 57\u201355.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 70], "content_span": [71, 853]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092701-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division Basketball Tournament, Championship Game\nIn the national championship game, UCLA jumped out to an early lead, but star players Sidney Wicks and Curtis Rowe struggled against Villanova's stingy zone defense. Only the outside shooting of Henry Bibby and a career best 29 points from center Steve Patterson kept the Bruins in the lead. In the meantime, Villanova stars Howard Porter and Chris Ford overcame early struggles to keep the Wildcats in the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 70], "content_span": [71, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092701-0003-0001", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division Basketball Tournament, Championship Game\nMidway through the second half, UCLA coach John Wooden ordered the Bruins to go into a four-corner stall offense (there was no shot clock in college basketball in 1971), a tactic he rarely employed. Wooden said after the game he did so to bring Villanova out of their zone, and because he wanted to use the stage of the national championship game to show the NCAA that they should adopt a shot clock (something Wooden had long argued for). However, the tactic almost backfired as Villanova started forcing turnovers with an aggressive man-to-man defense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 70], "content_span": [71, 625]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092701-0003-0002", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division Basketball Tournament, Championship Game\nIn addition, the stall took UCLA out of its offensive rhythm. Villanova closed the gap to 63\u201360 and had the ball with one minute to play. However, Porter missed a 15-foot off-balance jumper, Wicks grabbed the rebound, and UCLA made 5 of 6 free throws down the stretch to win 68\u201362.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 70], "content_span": [71, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092701-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division Basketball Tournament, Championship Game\nIn the national 3rd place game, Western Kentucky defeated Kansas 77\u201375.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 70], "content_span": [71, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092701-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division Basketball Tournament, Championship Game\nIn a situation similar to Villanova's, Western Kentucky's placement in the tournament was vacated due to an NCAA investigation that showed Jim McDaniels had signed a professional contract and accepted money during the 1970\u201371 season. Western Kentucky would be found in violation twice more in the next 10 years, earning the school a \"lack of institutional control\" violation. This made the 1971 Final Four officially the first without a school from east of the Mississippi River. The 2021 Final Four is the first to actually have all four teams come from west of the Mississippi (Baylor, Gonzaga, Houston and UCLA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 70], "content_span": [71, 686]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092701-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division Basketball Tournament, Championship Game\nThe total attendance for the tournament was 220,447, a new record. The crowd of 31,765 for the championship game was also a new record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 70], "content_span": [71, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092701-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division Basketball Tournament, Schedule and venues\nThe following are the sites that were selected to host each round of the 1971 tournament:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 72], "content_span": [73, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092701-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division Basketball Tournament, Schedule and venues\nRegional Semifinals, 3rd Place Games, and Finals (Sweet Sixteen and Elite Eight)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 72], "content_span": [73, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092701-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division Basketball Tournament, Schedule and venues\nNational Semifinals, 3rd Place Game, and Championship (Final Four and Championship)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 72], "content_span": [73, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092701-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division Basketball Tournament, Schedule and venues\nThe city of Houston became the 10th host city, and the Astrodome the 11th host venue, to host the Final Four. It was the first time the Final Four was held in the state of Texas, and the first time the Final Four was held in a domed stadium (or, for that matter, in a baseball or football venue of any kind), though the trend would not take off until the usage of the Louisiana Superdome eleven years later. The tournament saw six new venues used besides the Astrodome.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 72], "content_span": [73, 542]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092701-0010-0001", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division Basketball Tournament, Schedule and venues\nThe Mideast regional brought the tournament to the state of Georgia for the first time, with games held at the Georgia Coliseum on the campus of the University of Georgia. For the second time, the tournament came to the campus of the University of Utah, with the Special Events Center, a future Final Four venue, hosting games for the first time. The tournament came to West Virginia for the first time, with one of the three East sub-regional games held at the WVU Coliseum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 72], "content_span": [73, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092701-0010-0002", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division Basketball Tournament, Schedule and venues\nIn the Mideast sub-regional, the tournament came to its third new host city \u2013 South Bend, home of the University of Notre Dame and the Athletic & Convocation Center, just east of Notre Dame Stadium. In the Midwest sub-regional, the tournament began at the University of Houston's Hofheinz Pavilion, the on-campus home of the Houston Cougars. To date, this marks the last time two different parts of the tournament were held in the same city. In the West sub-regional, the tournament came to Logan and the campus of Utah State University for the first time, with games held at the USU Assembly Center (now known as the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 72], "content_span": [73, 716]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092701-0011-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division Basketball Tournament, Schedule and venues\nThe tournament would mark the only time the Astrodome or the Georgia Coliseum were used. While Houston has continued to be a tournament host at various venues, this was the only time the tournament came to Athens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 72], "content_span": [73, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092702-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division Cross Country Championships\nThe 1971 NCAA University Division Cross Country Championships were the 33rd annual cross country meet to determine the team and individual national champions of men's collegiate cross country running in the United States. Held on November 22, 1971, the meet was hosted by the University of Tennessee at the Fox Den Country Club in Knoxville, Tennessee. The distance for this race was 6 miles (9.7 kilometers).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092702-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division Cross Country Championships\nAll NCAA University Division members were eligible to qualify for the meet. In total, 17 teams and 285 individual runners contested this championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092702-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division Cross Country Championships\nThe team national championship was won by the Oregon Ducks, their first title. The individual championship was retained by Steve Prefontaine, from Oregon, with a time of 29:14.00, although he was unable to break his meet distance record from the previous year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092703-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division Golf Championship\nThe 1971 NCAA University Division Golf Championship was the 33rd annual NCAA-sanctioned golf tournament to determine the individual and team national champions of men's collegiate golf in the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092703-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division Golf Championship\nThe tournament was held at the Tucson National Golf Club in Tucson, Arizona.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092703-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division Golf Championship\nTexas won the team title, the Longhorns' first NCAA team national title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092704-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division Men's Ice Hockey Tournament\nThe 1971 NCAA Men's University Division Ice Hockey Tournament was the culmination of the 1970\u201371 NCAA University Division men's ice hockey season, the 24th such tournament in NCAA history. It was held between March 18 and 20, 1971, and concluded with Boston University defeating Minnesota 4\u20132. All games were played at the Onondaga War Memorial in Syracuse, New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092704-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division Men's Ice Hockey Tournament\nThis was the first time that a team with a losing record participated in an NCAA tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092704-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Qualifying teams\nFour teams qualified for the tournament, two each from the eastern and western regions. The ECAC tournament champion and the two WCHA tournament co-champions received automatic bids into the tournament. An at-large bid was offered to a second eastern team based upon both their ECAC tournament finish as well as their regular season record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 75], "content_span": [76, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092704-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format\nThe ECAC champion was seeded as the top eastern team while the WCHA co-champion with the better regular season record was given the top western seed. The second eastern seed was slotted to play the top western seed and vice versa. All games were played at the Onondaga War Memorial. All matches were Single-game eliminations with the semifinal winners advancing to the national championship game and the losers playing in a consolation game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 65], "content_span": [66, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092705-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division Outdoor Track and Field Championships\nThe 1971 NCAA University Division Outdoor Track and Field Championships were contested June 17\u221219 at the 49th annual NCAA-sanctioned track meet to determine the individual and team national champions of men's collegiate University Division outdoor track and field events in the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [67, 67], "content_span": [68, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092705-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division Outdoor Track and Field Championships\nThis year's outdoor meet was hosted by the University of Washington at Husky Stadium in Seattle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [67, 67], "content_span": [68, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092705-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division Outdoor Track and Field Championships\nUCLA topped the team standings, claiming their third team national title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [67, 67], "content_span": [68, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092706-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division Swimming and Diving Championships\nThe 1971 NCAA University Division Swimming and Diving Championships were contested in March 1971 at the Beyer Hall Pool at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa at the 48th annual NCAA-sanctioned swim meet to determine the team and individual national champions of University Division men's collegiate swimming and diving in the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092706-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division Swimming and Diving Championships\nIndiana again topped the team standings, the Hoosiers' fourth overall title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092707-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division Tennis Championships\nThe 1971 NCAA University Division Tennis Championships were the 26th annual tournaments to determine the national champions of NCAA University Division men's singles, doubles, and team collegiate tennis in the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092707-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division Tennis Championships\nDefending champions UCLA captured the team championship, the Bruins' tenth such title. UCLA finished eight points ahead of Trinity (TX) in the final team standings (35\u201327).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092707-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division Tennis Championships, Host site\nThis year's tournaments were contested at the Courtney Tennis Center at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 61], "content_span": [62, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092707-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division Tennis Championships, Team scoring\nUntil 1977, the men's team championship was determined by points awarded based on individual performances in the singles and doubles events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 64], "content_span": [65, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092708-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division Wrestling Championships\nThe 1971 NCAA University Division Wrestling Championships were the 41st NCAA University Division Wrestling Championships to be held. Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama hosted the tournament at Memorial Coliseum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092708-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division Wrestling Championships\nOklahoma State took home the team championship with 94 points and three individual champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092709-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division baseball rankings\nThe following poll makes up the 1971 NCAA University Division baseball rankings. Collegiate Baseball Newspaper published its first human poll of the top 20 teams in college baseball in 1959, and expanded to rank the top 30 teams in 1961.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092709-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division baseball rankings, Collegiate Baseball\nCurrently, only the final poll from the 1971 season is available.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 68], "content_span": [69, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092710-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division baseball season\nThe 1971 NCAA University Division baseball season, play of college baseball in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) began in the spring of 1971. The season progressed through the regular season and concluded with the 1971 College World Series. The College World Series, held for the twenty fifth time in 1971, consisted of one team from each of eight geographical districts and was held in Omaha, Nebraska at Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium as a double-elimination tournament. Southern California claimed the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092710-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division baseball season, Conference winners\nThis is a partial list of conference champions from the 1971 season. Each of the eight geographical districts chose, by various methods, the team that would represent them in the NCAA Tournament. 10 teams earned automatic bids by winning their conference championship while 13 teams earned at-large selections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 65], "content_span": [66, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092710-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division baseball season, College World Series\nThe 1971 season marked the twenty fifth NCAA Baseball Tournament, which culminated with the eight team College World Series. The College World Series was held in Omaha, Nebraska. The eight teams played a double-elimination format, with Southern California claiming their seventh championship with a 7\u20132 win over Southern Illinois in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 67], "content_span": [68, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092711-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division football rankings\nTwo human polls comprised the 1971 NCAA University Division football rankings. Unlike most sports, college football's governing body, the NCAA, does not bestow a national championship, instead that title is bestowed by one or more different polling agencies. There are two main weekly polls that begin in the preseason\u2014the AP Poll and the Coaches' Poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092711-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division football rankings, Final Coaches' poll\nThe final UPI Coaches Poll was released prior to the bowl games, in early December. Nebraska received 29 of the 31 first place votes; Alabama received the other two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 68], "content_span": [69, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092712-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division football season\nThe 1971 NCAA University Division football season saw Coach Bob Devaney's Nebraska Cornhuskers repeat as national champions. Ranked a close second behind Notre Dame in the preseason poll, Nebraska moved up to first place the following week, remained there for the rest of 1971, and convincingly won the Orange Bowl 38\u20136 in a No. 1 vs. No. 2 game against Alabama.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092712-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division football season\nPrior to the 1971 season, two programs were elevated to the University Division. The new programs were Temple and Texas\u2013Arlington. The change brought the total number of programs in the University Division to 119.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092712-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division football season\nDuring the 20th century, the NCAA had no playoff for major college football in its University Division (now the Football Bowl Subdivision in Division I). The NCAA Football Guide, however, did note an \"unofficial national champion\" based on the top ranked teams in the \"wire service\" (AP and UPI) polls. The \"writers' poll\" by Associated Press (AP) was the most popular, followed by the \"coaches' poll\" by United Press International) (UPI). Prior to the 1974 season, the UPI issued its final poll before the bowls, but since the 1968 season, the AP Trophy was withheld until the postseason was completed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 649]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092712-0002-0001", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division football season\nThe AP poll in 1971 consisted of the votes of as many as 55 sportswriters, though not all of them voted in every poll. Those who cast votes would give their opinion of the ten best teams. Under a point system of 20 points for first place, 19 for second, etc., the \"overall\" ranking was determined.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092712-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division football season, Regular season, September\nIn the preseason poll released on September 6, Notre Dame was ranked No. 1, with defending champion Nebraska was second. Nebraska had more first place votes (26) than Notre Dame (15), but fewer points overall (870 vs. 885). Texas, Michigan and USC rounded out the Top Five. The poll was 1.Notre Dame 2.Nebraska 3.Texas 4.Michigan 5.USC", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 72], "content_span": [73, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092712-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division football season, Regular season, September\nSeptember 10\u201311On Friday night in Los Angeles, Alabama beat No. 5 USC, 17\u201310, marking a successful debut for Bear Bryant's new Wishbone offense. The next day, No. 2 Nebraska won its opener at home, 34\u20137 over Oregon. No. 4 Michigan won 21\u20136 at No. 20 Northwestern. Notre Dame and Texas did not start their seasons until the following week. In the poll that followed, Nebraska received 31 of the 50 first place votes, while Ohio State took USC's No. 5 spot. The poll was 1.Nebraska 2.Notre Dame 3.Texas 4.Michigan 5.Ohio State", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 72], "content_span": [73, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092712-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division football season, Regular season, September\nSeptember 18Nebraska beat Minnesota 35\u20137, and No. 3 Texas won its opener 28\u201310 at UCLA. No. 2 Notre Dame opened with 50\u20137 win over Northwestern, No. 4 Michigan shut out Virginia 56\u20130, and No. 6 Auburn beat UT-Chattanooga 60\u20137,; they moved up to No. 5, as idle Ohio State dropped to sixth.Poll: 1.Nebraska 2.Notre Dame 3.Texas 4.Michigan 5.Auburn", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 72], "content_span": [73, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092712-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division football season, Regular season, September\nSeptember 25Nebraska beat Texas A&M, 34\u20137, and No. 3 Texas beat Texas Tech 28\u20130. No. 2 Notre Dame narrowly won at Purdue, 8\u20137, and No. 4 Michigan beat visiting UCLA, 38\u20130. No. 6 Ohio State lost 20\u201314 to visiting No. 10 Colorado. No. 5 Auburn edged No. 9 Tennessee at home, 10\u20139. Michigan and Notre Dame traded places in the poll that followed.Poll: 1.Nebraska 2.Michigan 3.Texas 4.Notre Dame 5.Auburn", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 72], "content_span": [73, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092712-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division football season, Regular season, October\nOctober 2Fifteen of the Top 20 teams remained unbeaten, including the Top 12. Nebraska handled Utah State in Lincoln, 42\u20136, while No. 2 Michigan registered its third straight shutout at home, beating Navy 46\u20130. No. 3 Texas defeated Oregon 35\u20137, No. 4 Notre Dame beat Michigan State 14\u20132, and fell to seventh in the next poll. No. 5 Auburn beat Kentucky 38\u20136, and No. 6 Colorado rose to fifth after beating Kansas State 31\u201321.Poll: 1.Nebraska 2.Michigan 3.Texas 4.Auburn 5.Colorado", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 70], "content_span": [71, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092712-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division football season, Regular season, October\nOctober 9The top 9 teams improved their records to 4\u20130 or 5\u20130. In their first Big Eight conference game and first on the road, No. 1 Nebraska shut out Missouri 36\u20130. No. 3 Texas lost to No. 8 Oklahoma in their rivlary game at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, 48\u201327, while No. 2 Michigan won at Michigan State, 24\u201313. No. 4 Auburn beat Southern Miss 27\u201314, and No. 5 Colorado won 24\u201314 at Iowa State, but dropped in the poll to sixth, while No. 6 Alabama won 42\u20130 at Vanderbilt and rose to fourth. Texas dropped to tenth place, while Oklahoma rose to second. The poll: 1.Nebraska 2.Oklahoma 3.Michigan 4.Alabama 5.Auburn", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 70], "content_span": [71, 684]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092712-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division football season, Regular season, October\nOctober 16Top-ranked Nebraska crushed Kansas 55\u20130, raising its record to 6\u20130 and outscoring its opposition 238\u201327. No. 2 Oklahoma beat visiting No. 6 Colorado 45\u201317 and No. 3 Michigan beat Illinois 35\u20136. No. 4 Alabama beat No. 14 Tennessee 32\u201315 at Birmingham and No. 5 Auburn won over Georgia Tech in Atlanta, 31\u201314. Eight teams had records of 5\u20130 or 6\u20130. The next poll: 1.Nebraska 2.Oklahoma 3.Michigan 4.Alabama 5.Auburn 6.Notre Dame 7.Penn State 8.Georgia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 70], "content_span": [71, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092712-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division football season, Regular season, October\nOctober 23Seven of the top 8 teams stayed unbeaten, playing unranked opponents. No. 1 Nebraska allowed Oklahoma State to reach double digits, but easily won at Stillwater, 41\u201313. No. 2 Oklahoma decimated Kansas State 75\u201328 in Manhattan. No. 3 Michigan won 35\u20137 at Minnesota, No. 4 Alabama hosted Houston, and No. 5 Auburn beat Clemson 35\u201313. No. 6 Notre Dame lost to visiting USC, 28\u201314. No. 7 Penn State walloped visiting TCU 66\u201314, No. 8 Georgia beat Kentucky at home, 34\u20130.Poll: 1.Nebraska 2.Oklahoma 3.Michigan 4.Alabama 5.Auburn 6.Penn State 7. Georgia", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 70], "content_span": [71, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092712-0011-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division football season, Regular season, October\nOctober 30Number one Nebraska handed visiting No. 9 Colorado a 31\u20137 defeat, and No. 2 Oklahoma beat Iowa State 43\u201312. No. 3 Michigan rolled over Indiana 61\u20137, and No. 4 Alabama beat Mississippi State 41\u201310 at Jackson. No. 5 Auburn beat Florida 40\u20137, No. 6 Penn State won 35\u20137 at West Virginia, and No. 7 Georgia recorded its third consecutive shutout, 24\u20130 at South Carolina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 70], "content_span": [71, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092712-0012-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division football season, Regular season, October\nAll of the aforementioned games were overshadowed by the death of TCU head coach Jim Pittman, who suffered a massive heart attack during the Horned Frogs' rivalry game with Baylor in Waco. TCU somehow overcame its grief to oust the Bears 34\u201327. Pittman was in his first season at Fort Worth after five seasons at Tulane, where he guided the Green Wave to an 8\u20134 record in his final season of 1970, capped off by a 17\u20133 victory over Colorado in the Liberty Bowl. The top seven all stayed unbeaten and the poll was unchanged:1.Nebraska 2.Oklahoma 3.Michigan 4.Alabama 5.Auburn 6.Penn State 7.Georgia", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 70], "content_span": [71, 668]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092712-0013-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division football season, Regular season, November\nNovember 6Nebraska beat Iowa State 37\u20130 and No. 2 Oklahoma won 20\u20133 at Missouri. No. 3 Michigan crushed Iowa, 63\u20137, and No. 4 Alabama won at No. 18 LSU, 14\u20137. No. 5 Auburn beat Mississippi State 30\u201321, No. 6 Penn State won 63\u201327 over Maryland, and No. 7 Georgia beat Florida at Jacksonville. As the Top 7 teams extended their undefeated records, the poll stayed unchanged:1.Nebraska 2.Oklahoma 3.Michigan 4.Alabama 5.Penn State 6.Auburn 7.Georgia (all undefeated)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 71], "content_span": [72, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092712-0014-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division football season, Regular season, November\nNovember 13Nebraska won at Kansas State 44\u201317, and No. 2 Oklahoma beat Kansas 56\u201310. No. 3 Michigan narrowly won at Purdue, 20\u201317, and No. 4 Alabama defeated the visiting Miami Hurricanes, 31\u20133. No. 5 Auburn (8\u20130) and No. 7 Georgia (9\u20130) met at Athens, with the Auburn winning a decisive 35\u201320 victory. No. 6 Penn State beat North Carolina State 35\u20133.Poll: 1.Nebraska 2.Oklahoma 3.Michigan 4.Alabama 5.Auburn 6.Penn State (all undefeated)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 71], "content_span": [72, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092712-0015-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division football season, Regular season, November\nNovember 20Four of the top five teams were idle. No. 1 Nebraska (10\u20130) and No. 2 Oklahoma (10\u20130) prepared for their Thanksgiving Day meeting in Norman, while No. 4 Alabama and No. 5 Auburn prepared for their season closer in the Iron Bowl in Birmingham. No. 3 Michigan (10\u20130) defeated Ohio State, 10\u20137, to win the Big 10 title and earn the Rose Bowl berth, and No. 6 Penn State won at Pittsburgh 55\u201318.Poll: 1.Nebraska 2.Oklahoma 3.Michigan 4.Alabama 5.Auburn 6.Penn State (all undefeated)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 71], "content_span": [72, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092712-0016-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division football season, Regular season, November\nNovember 25\u201327As the regular season neared its close, Big Eight rivals Nebraska and Oklahoma were unbeaten, as were SEC rivals Alabama and Auburn, and Big Ten champ Michigan. On Thanksgiving Day, No. 1 Nebraska (10\u20130) and No. 2 Oklahoma (9\u20130) met on the Sooners' field in a game that would determine the Big Eight title, the No. 1 ranking, and a trip to the Orange Bowl in Miami. In the decade's Game of the Century, Nebraska won a classic back-and-forth battle 35\u201331; Husker I-back Jeff Kinney scored his fourth and game-deciding touchdown with 98 seconds left, capping a 5\u00bd-minute, 74-yard drive. The loss dropped Oklahoma behind the unbeatens into fifth place in the polls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 71], "content_span": [72, 748]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092712-0017-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division football season, Regular season, November\nLater that weekend, No. 4 Alabama (10\u20130) and No. 5 Auburn (9\u20130) played their annual season-ender at Birmingham, with Alabama handing the Tigers their first loss, 31\u20137; as a result of this impressive win, Alabama jumped over Michigan. As SEC champion, Alabama was invited to, but not obligated to play in, the Sugar Bowl; they deferred and accepted a bid to play top-ranked Nebraska in the Orange Bowl. Auburn went to the Sugar Bowl instead, to face Oklahoma in a meeting of conference runners-up. No. 6 Penn State was idle, but moved up two places. The next poll: 1.Nebraska 2.Alabama 3.Michigan 4.Penn State 5.Oklahoma", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 71], "content_span": [72, 691]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092712-0018-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division football season, Regular season, December\nDecember 4Nebraska (11\u20130) had NCAA permission to play a twelfth game... in Hawaii; they beat the Rainbows 45\u20133 and ended the regular season at 12\u20130. No. 4 Penn State (10\u20130) faced No. 12 Tennessee (8\u20132), at Knoxville but lost 31\u201311. No. 5 Oklahoma's season ender was in state at Stillwater against Oklahoma State, which the Sooners easily won 58\u201314. The final regular season poll:1.Nebraska 2.Alabama 3.Michigan 4.Oklahoma 5.Auburn. 6. Colorado", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 71], "content_span": [72, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092712-0019-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division football season, Bowl games, Major bowls\n^ Last game in which Stanford used nickname \"Indians\"; it was changed to \"Cardinals\" early in 1972, and to the singular \"Cardinal\" in 1982.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 70], "content_span": [71, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092712-0020-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division football season, Bowl games, Major bowls\nWith No. 1 Nebraska slated to play No. 2 Alabama in the Orange Bowl on New Year's night, there was little suspense as to which game or games would decide the national title. No. 3 Michigan held out the slim hope that, if they handily defeated Stanford while Nebraska or Alabama barely won or tied, they could leapfrog both teams into the top position. For the second year in a row in the Rose Bowl, underdog Stanford rallied to defeat the undefeated Big Ten champion, besting Michigan 13\u201312 on a last second field goal by Rod Garcia. (He had missed all five of his kicks (four field goals and an extra point) when Stanford was upset by San Jose State on November 13, by the same score.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 70], "content_span": [71, 757]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092712-0021-0000", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division football season, Bowl games, Major bowls\nIn the final game of the day, Nebraska walloped Alabama in the Orange Bowl 38\u20136 to claim its second straight national title. Earlier in the day at the Sugar Bowl, Oklahoma intercepted Heisman Trophy winner Pat Sullivan three times and easily handled Auburn 40\u201322,and regained the runner-up ranking in the final poll. With bowl losses by No. 2 Alabama, No. 3 Michigan, and No. 5 Auburn, sixth-ranked Colorado, winner of the Bluebonnet Bowl, rose to third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 70], "content_span": [71, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092712-0021-0001", "contents": "1971 NCAA University Division football season, Bowl games, Major bowls\nThe Big Eight occupied the top three spots in the final AP poll, with Nebraska receiving all 55 first place votes; Oklahoma was second, and Colorado (whose only losses were to Nebraska and Oklahoma) climbed to third. This was the first time that two teams from the same conference topped the final poll, and it remains as the only time that a conference had the top three.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 70], "content_span": [71, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092713-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 NFL Draft\nThe 1971 National Football League draft was held January 28\u201329, 1971, at the Belmont Plaza Hotel in New York City, New York. It was the first draft where the three first selections, Jim Plunkett, Archie Manning, and Dan Pastorini, were quarterbacks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092714-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 NFL season\nThe 1971 NFL season was the 52nd regular season of the National Football League. The season ended with Super Bowl VI when the Dallas Cowboys defeated the Miami Dolphins 24\u20133 at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans. The Pro Bowl took place on January 23, 1972, at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum; the NFC beat the AFC 26\u201313.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092714-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 NFL season, Draft\nThe 1971 NFL Draft was held from January 28 to 29, 1971 at New York City's Belmont Plaza Hotel. With the first pick, the New England Patriots selected quarterback Jim Plunkett from Stanford University.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 22], "content_span": [23, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092714-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 NFL season, New officials\nThree referees--Walt Fitzgerald, Bob Finley and George Rennix--retired following the 1970 season. Bob Frederic, Dick Jorgensen and Fred Wyant were promoted to fill those vacancies. Rich Eichhorst, a back judge in 1970, resigned to concentrate on officiating college basketball; he was replaced by Don Orr, who officiated in the league through 1995.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 30], "content_span": [31, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092714-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 NFL season, Division races\nStarting in 1970, and until 2002, there were three divisions (Eastern, Central and Western) in each conference. The winners of each division, and a fourth \u201cwild card\u201d team based on the best non-division winner, qualified for the playoffs. The tiebreaker rules were changed to start with head-to-head competition, followed by division records, record against common opponents, and records in conference play. More tiebreakers were provided in 1971 because, in 1970, reversing just one game\u2019s outcome would have led to a coin toss between Dallas and Detroit for the NFC wild card berth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092714-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 NFL season, Final standings\nNote: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092715-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 NHL Amateur Draft\nThe 1971 NHL Amateur Draft was the ninth NHL Entry Draft. It was held on June 10, 1971, at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Quebec.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092715-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 NHL Amateur Draft, Selections by round\nBelow are listed the selections in the 1971 NHL amateur draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 43], "content_span": [44, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092716-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 NHRA Winternationals\nThe 1971 NHRA Winternationals were a National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) drag racing event, held at Pomona, California on 7 February.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092716-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 NHRA Winternationals, Background\nThe Funny Car Eliminator title at the 1971 Winternats would go to Roland Leong's Dodge Charger, Hawaiian,. with Butch Maas at the wheel. Don Garlits' novel rear-engined dragster, Swamp Rat XIV, appeared at the Winternats, qualifying with 6.8; his best time of the meet was a 6.70, over Jim Dunn's 7.58, in the semi-final: Garlits would win, when Kenny Safford broke in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092716-0001-0001", "contents": "1971 NHRA Winternationals, Background\nThe last Top Gas Eliminator crown, before NHRA abolished the class, went to Walt Stevens, at the wheel of Ken Theiss' twin-engined Odd Couple TG/D. Canadian Barrie Poole repeated his 1970 Winternats win in Super Stock, in a Sandy Elliot Mustang. Don Enriquez (in Gene Adams' A/FD) won Competition Eliminator, turning in a pass of 7.34 at 199\u00a0mph (320\u00a0km/h), quicker and faster than Steve Woods' hemi-engined BB/Gas Ford Anglia; the field also included twin-engine straight-six-cylinder-powered D/Ds, and AA/FAs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092716-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 NHRA Winternationals, Background\nThe year's award for Best Engineered Car went to Jim Busby, with a dragster powered by a pair of injected 427 \"Cammer\" (SOHC) engines. (Hank Westmoreland failed to qualify the car, and it never ran again.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092716-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 NHRA Winternationals, Background\nThe meet was marred by the death of \"Sneaky Pete\" Robinson, who wrecked his TF/D in qualifying, with a 6.77 pass, which would have been #4 qualifier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092716-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 NHRA Winternationals, Results, Top Fuel Dragster\nThe field was 32 cars. Ron Rivero, Larry Dixon, Jim Paoli, Gary Cochran, and John Mitchell attended, but failed to qualify.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 53], "content_span": [54, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092716-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 NHRA Winternationals, Results, Top Fuel Dragster, Round one\nTop qualifier Norm Wilcox (driving for Ted Gotelli) went out to #17 qualifier Jimmy King. \"TV Tommy\" Ivo, qualified #13, lost to Glen Woosley, who qualified #29. Larry Hendrickson qualified #24, losing to #8 qualifier Gerry Glenn. Jerry \"The King\" Ruth qualified #14, and was eliminated by #30 qualifier Carl Olson. #6 qualifier Rick Ramsey eliminated #22 qualifier Don \"The Snake\" Prudhomme. Don Cook qualified #28 and fell to Tom \"Mongoo$e\" McEwen. #31 qualifier Bill Alexander lost to #15 qualifier Kenny Safford (driving for Larry Bowers). Mike Tarter qualified #27 and lost to Jim Davis (qualified #11).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 64], "content_span": [65, 673]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092716-0005-0001", "contents": "1971 NHRA Winternationals, Results, Top Fuel Dragster, Round one\n#26 qualifier Tom Allen was eliminated by Don \"Big Daddy\" Garlits, who qualified #10 (in Swamp Rat XIV). #25 qualifier Denver Schutz lost to #9 qualifier Herman Petersen. Chris \"The Greek\" Karamesines qualified #7 and eliminated Paul Schoenfeld, who qualified #23. #22 qualifier Don Prudhomme was eliminated by #6 qualifier Rick Ramsey (in the Keeling & Clayton dragster). Les Allen qualified #21 and was beaten by Don Moody, who qualified #5. #32 qualifier Bill Dunlap lost to #16 qualifier Dennis Baca. #19 qualifier Ronnie Martin (later partner with Ronnie Sox) was eliminated by #3 qualifier Henry Harrison in the Ewell & Bell dragster. Jim Warren qualified #18, losing to #2 qualifier John Nichols (driving for Jerry Dee Hagood). Low qualifier Jim Dunn defeated #20 qualifier Ed Renck.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 64], "content_span": [65, 855]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092716-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 NHRA Winternationals, Results, Top Fuel Dragster, Round two\nDunn beat McEwen. Woosley was defeated by Moody. Glenn eliminated Baca. Davis lost to Harrison. King defeated Petersen. Safford lost to Karamesines. Olson defeated Ramsey. Nichols fell to Garlits.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 64], "content_span": [65, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092716-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 NHRA Winternationals, Results, Top Fuel Dragster, Round three\nGarlits defeated Olson. Moody fell to King. Glenn lost to Dunn. Safford eliminated Harrison.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 66], "content_span": [67, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092716-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 NHRA Winternationals, Results, Top Fuel Dragster, Final\nGarlits defeated SAfford, when Safford broke. The win earned Garlits US$8,625.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 60], "content_span": [61, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092716-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 NHRA Winternationals, Results, Top Fuel Funny Car, Round one\nJake Johnston qualified #1 in the 1971 Dodge Charger owned by Gene Snow, and eliminated #9 qualifier Tom Prock. Snow qualified #2 in a 1971 Charger, beating Jim Dunn. Tom Hoover, qualifying #7, was eliminated by #15 qualifier Mike Snively. Qualifying #12, Kenny Goodell lost to Roland Leong's Hawaiian, driven by Butch Maas. Dave Condit qualified #13 and lost to #5 qualifier Larry Reyes (driving a 1971 Plymouth Barracuda owned by \"Big John\" Mamazian). Don \"The Snake\" Prudhomme qualified #14, and was eliminated by #6 qualifier Stan Shiroma. #3 qualifier Dick Tharp's 1971 Ford Mustang (owned by Harry Schmidt) lost to the Ramchargers 1971 Dodge Challenger of Leroy Goldstein. Low qualifier Don Schumacher went out to Rich Siroonian's Mamazian-owned 1971 Barracuda.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 65], "content_span": [66, 833]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092716-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 NHRA Winternationals, Results, Top Fuel Funny Car, Round two\nSnively lost to Goldstein. Maas defeated Siroonian. Reyes was defeated by Johnston. Snow eliminated Shiroma.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 65], "content_span": [66, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092716-0011-0000", "contents": "1971 NHRA Winternationals, Results, Top Fuel Funny Car, Final\nMaas took the win over Goldstein, for a prize of US$8625.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 61], "content_span": [62, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092716-0012-0000", "contents": "1971 NHRA Winternationals, Results, Top Gas, Round one\nTop qualifier Larry Van Unen lost to #9 qualifier Walt Stevens (driving Ken Theiss' twin-engined Odd Couple TG/D). Low qualifier Chuck Beal lost to #5 qualifier Bill Mullins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 54], "content_span": [55, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092716-0013-0000", "contents": "1971 NHRA Winternationals, Results, Top Gas, Round two\nMullins beat #10 qualifier Gene Brasel, and Stevens eliminated #6 qualifier Ray Hadford.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 54], "content_span": [55, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092716-0014-0000", "contents": "1971 NHRA Winternationals, Results, Top Gas, Semi-final\nJerry Goddard, #8 qualifier, lost to Mullins. Don Hampton, qualified #7, was eliminated by Mullins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 55], "content_span": [56, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092716-0015-0000", "contents": "1971 NHRA Winternationals, Results, Top Gas, Final\nMullins lost to Stevens in the final, earning Stevens US$7125.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 50], "content_span": [51, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092716-0016-0000", "contents": "1971 NHRA Winternationals, Results, Pro Stock\nThe Pro Stock field was 16 cars. Attendees included Herb McCandless (qualified #2 in a 1970 Plymouth Barracuda), Dave Strickler (qualified #20), Jim Pettit (qualified #30), and Cecil Yother (qualified #31); none actually raced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092716-0017-0000", "contents": "1971 NHRA Winternationals, Results, Pro Stock, Round one\nTop qualifier Ronnie Sox's Barracuda defeated #17 qualifier Dick Brannan. Rich Miracki, qualified # 27, lost to #11 qualifier \"Dyno Don\" Nicholson. #29 qualifier Ed Schartman lost to #13 qualifier Bill Jenkins' 1971 Chevrolet Camaro. #12 qualifier \"Dandy Dick\" Landy defeated #28 qualifier Hubert Platt. Bob Lambeck qualified #9 and eliminated #25 qualifier John Livingston. #22 qualifier Ed Miller lost to #6 qualifier Arlen Vanke. John Petrie qualified #3, and defeated #19 qualifier Ken Van Cleve. Bobby Yowell, #8 qualifier, lost to #24 qualifier Bill Tanner. Low qualifier Ed Terry was eliminated by #16 qualifier Wally Booth (driving a 1970 Camaro).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 56], "content_span": [57, 712]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092716-0018-0000", "contents": "1971 NHRA Winternationals, Results, Pro Stock, Round two\nTanner lost to Booth. Nicholson was eliminated by Petrie. Sox overcame Lambeck.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 56], "content_span": [57, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092716-0019-0000", "contents": "1971 NHRA Winternationals, Results, Pro Stock, Semi-final\nJenkins was eliminated by Sox. Booth defeated Landy. Vanke was defeated by Booth. Petrie lost to Sox.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 57], "content_span": [58, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092716-0020-0000", "contents": "1971 NHRA Winternationals, Results, Pro Stock, Final\nBooth lost to Sox, who earned US$11,625 in prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 52], "content_span": [53, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092717-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 NPSL First Division\nThe 1971 National Professional Soccer League season was the first season of the National Professional Soccer League. Orlando Pirates won the inaugural title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092717-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 NPSL First Division\nAt the time, due to the country's apartheid policies, the competition was only open to black South African teams, and it ran in parallel with the FPL and the NFL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092718-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 NSWRFL season\nThe 1971 New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership was the sixty-fourth season of Sydney's professional rugby league football competition, Australia's first. Twelve teams, including six foundation clubs and another six admitted since 1908, competed for the J. J. Giltinan Shield during the season, which culminated in a Grand Final match for the W.D. & H.O. Wills between the South Sydney and St. George clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092718-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 NSWRFL season, Season summary\nThe season saw the number of tackles in a set increased from four to six. In addition, the number of points awarded for a field goal was reduced from two to one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092718-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 NSWRFL season, Season summary\nEach side met all others twice in twenty-two regular season rounds, resulting in the top four teams consisting of Manly-Warringah, South Sydney, St. George and Parramatta who fought out three finals for the right to play in the Grand Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092718-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 NSWRFL season, Season summary\nThe 1971 Rothmans Medal was won by South Sydney's five-eighth Denis Pittard while Rugby League Week awarded their player of the year award to South Sydney's halfback Bob Grant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092718-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 NSWRFL season, Season summary\nThis season marked the end of a 23-year run where all but two of the premierships were won by St. George or South Sydney.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092718-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 NSWRFL season, Season summary\nThe 1971 season saw a ban imposed by the NSWRL on TV coverage of games in the Sydney premiership. It was believed that TV coverage was a contributing factor to falling attendances at games. As a result, only the Grand Final was televised, and even then as a one-hour late night highlights package rather than live coverage. The ban was lifted for the 1972 season onwards, as in practice it was shown to have negligible effect on match attendances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092718-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 NSWRFL season, Season summary, Teams\n37th seasonGround:Belmore Sports Ground Coach: Bob HaganCaptain(s): Johnny Greaves / Terry Reynolds", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 41], "content_span": [42, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092718-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 NSWRFL season, Season summary, Teams\n64th seasonGround: Sydney Sports GroundCoach: Don Furner Captain: Kevin Junee", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 41], "content_span": [42, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092718-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 NSWRFL season, Season summary, Teams\n64th seasonGround: Henson ParkCoach: Harry Bath Captain: Brian Moore / Barry Briggs", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 41], "content_span": [42, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092718-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 NSWRFL season, Season summary, Teams\n64th seasonGround: North Sydney OvalCoach: Merv Hicks Captain: Noel Cavanagh", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 41], "content_span": [42, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092718-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 NSWRFL season, Season summary, Teams\n51st seasonGround: Kogarah Jubilee Oval Coach: Jack GibsonCaptain: Graeme Langlands", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 41], "content_span": [42, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092718-0011-0000", "contents": "1971 NSWRFL season, Finals\nUnder the guidance of revolutionary head-coach Jack Gibson who was in 1971 beginning to embrace the attitude and training methods used in the United States' National Football League, St. George in 1971 had reached the Grand Final in all three grades. They were to lose all three matches. (5\u201311 v Canterbury-Bankstown in Third Grade; 5\u201319 v Canterbury-Bankstown in Reserve Grade and 10\u201316 v South Sydney in the top grade).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 26], "content_span": [27, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092718-0012-0000", "contents": "1971 NSWRFL season, Finals, Grand Final\nAgainst a battle-hardened South Sydney side with a larger pack, the young Dragons went into the Grand Final as clear underdogs. Only Smith, Madison and Langlands for St. George had Grand Final experience of the level enjoyed by the entire Rabbitoh pack. Many of the Rabbitohs were playing in their fourth or fifth successive Grand Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 39], "content_span": [40, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092718-0013-0000", "contents": "1971 NSWRFL season, Finals, Grand Final\nThe first half was a gruelling affair, with the sole point coming from an Eric Simms field goal. McCarthy crossed the Dragons\u2019 try-line in the sixth minute but was called back on a forward pass ruling by referee Holman. Simms attempted a long-range field goal in the eighth minute which was unsuccessful, and Grant took another vain field goal shot minutes later. Souths dominated possession and field-position in the first fifteen minutes and were just held at bay by the rugged defence of the Dragons, especially from their centre, Clapham.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 39], "content_span": [40, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092718-0013-0001", "contents": "1971 NSWRFL season, Finals, Grand Final\nPittard made a 75 metres (82\u00a0yd) break at the fourteen-minute mark and was brought down 3 metres (3.28\u00a0yd) from the Dragons\u2019 line by a desperate diving tackle from Smith. In the fifteenth minute Simms took another field goal attempt from dead in front and was successful. Souths attack was free-flowing, and they kept the play alive with late offloads whilst St. George adopted a more structured play of one-off running or moving the ball across the backline. In the twentieth minute Beath was stopped in the Souths' corner by a classy Coote cover tackle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 39], "content_span": [40, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092718-0014-0000", "contents": "1971 NSWRFL season, Finals, Grand Final\nLanglands missed two penalty goal attempts in the first half, one mid-way through the period and another shortly before the break. Only Beath and Smith regularly broke through Souths' defences. At the interval Souths were in front by the unlikely scoreline of 1\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 39], "content_span": [40, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092718-0015-0000", "contents": "1971 NSWRFL season, Finals, Grand Final\nWhen play resumed Souths continued with their adventurous style of keeping the ball alive, they broke through poor Dragon defence and Branighan scored in the corner. Simms hit the post with the conversion attempt. Cox had replaced Bowen for St. George at half-time. Sattler tested out Cox early in the half with niggle and surreptitious fouls and appeared to eye-gouge Langlands in the 55th minute. The match began to turn spiteful at that point when Beath was penalised for using his knees on McCarthy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 39], "content_span": [40, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092718-0015-0001", "contents": "1971 NSWRFL season, Finals, Grand Final\nCoote scored the second try after a break by Sait, Simms converted and then added a penalty goal a few minutes later. At this stage Souths held an 11\u20130 lead and looked to be racing away with the match as St. George failed to complete tackles allowing the Rabbitohs to continually off-load.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 39], "content_span": [40, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092718-0016-0000", "contents": "1971 NSWRFL season, Finals, Grand Final\nThe Dragons then rallied and fought back with a try to Barry Beath after a brave blind-side fifth tackle move by Billy Smith which was followed by a magnificent sideline conversion from Langlands. Smith was proving to be the Dragons\u2019 only attacking spark until he was collared by Piggins and Sattler in a cynical head high tackle at the 65th minute. With the penalty that ensued Langlands took play to the other end of the field and Ted Walton scored for St. George. Langlands again converted from out wide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 39], "content_span": [40, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092718-0016-0001", "contents": "1971 NSWRFL season, Finals, Grand Final\nWith the score at 11\u201310 and only twelve minutes remaining, Saints looked to be getting on top of their more fancied rivals. However a match-winning try two minutes from full-time by Bob McCarthy running freely off Ron Coote, showed the experience of the Rabbitohs, who took their fourth title in a five-year period.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 39], "content_span": [40, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092718-0017-0000", "contents": "1971 NSWRFL season, Finals, Grand Final\nMcCarthy and Coote had starred for Souths and continually threatened to split the Dragons' defence. Souths hooker George Piggins who had been called into the side to replace regular season rake Elwyn Walters, was hailed as a hero, playing himself to a standstill in what was ultimately a closely fought encounter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 39], "content_span": [40, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092718-0018-0000", "contents": "1971 NSWRFL season, Finals, Grand Final\nThe victory was to be South Sydney's last for a period of 43 years, with the club not to win another Premiership until 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 39], "content_span": [40, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092718-0019-0000", "contents": "1971 NSWRFL season, Finals, Grand Final\nSouth Sydney 16 (Tries: Branighan, Coote, McCarthy. Goals: Simms 3. Field Goal: Simms.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 39], "content_span": [40, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092719-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 NYPD Work Stoppage\nThe 1971 NYPD Work Stoppage occurred for five days between January 14 and January 19, 1971, when around 20,000 New York City police officers refused to report for regular duty. While officers maintained that they would continue to respond to serious crimes and emergencies, they refused to carry out routine patrolling duties, leading in some cases, to as few as 200 officers being on the street in the city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092719-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 NYPD Work Stoppage\nThe police called in sick, a form of strike action known as blue flu, in this case circumventing Article 14 of the New York State Civil Service Law, aka the Taylor Law, which legally prevented police officers from striking. The stoppage was partly a response to a lawsuit by the Sergeants Benevolent Association being struck down in court. That suit would have increased pay for both police and fire fighters, and entitled them to back pay up to the point of their last negotiated contract. More specifically in the 19th Precinct, where the first set of day-shift officers struck at E. 67th Street, another triggering event was the subpoenas from the Knapp Commission investigating corrupt practices.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 724]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092719-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 NYPD Work Stoppage\nThe strike was ended on January 19, after a \"stormy union voting session\" at the Hotel New Yorker. During the six days, the department managed to deploy about 15% of its regular force, using a mix of senior officers and auxiliary forces. In contrast to the Boston Police Strike of 1919, and the Montreal strike of 1969, there was no surge of crime or unrest. The back-pay issue was eventually settled in the favor of the officers and firemen with a ruling by State Supreme Court judge Irving H. Saypol. For violating the Taylor Law, later that year each participating officer was docked about $417 each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 627]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092720-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Nashville 420\nThe 1971 Nashville 420 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series event that took place on July 24, 1971, at Nashville Speedway in Nashville, Tennessee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092720-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Nashville 420, Background\nNashville Speedway was converted to a half-mile paved oval in 1957, when it began to be a NASCAR series track. The speedway was lengthened between the 1969 and 1970 seasons. The corners were cut down from 35 degrees to their present 18 degrees in 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092720-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Nashville 420, Race report\nIt took two hours and forty-seven minutes to complete 420 laps of racing at a paved oval track spanning 0.596 miles (0.959\u00a0km). Richard Petty qualified for the race with a pole position speed of 114.628 miles per hour (184.476\u00a0km/h) and won it with an average speed of 89.667 miles per hour (144.305\u00a0km/h). He defeated James Hylton by more than four laps in his 1971 Plymouth Roadrunner machine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092720-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Nashville 420, Race report\nDale Inman would be credited as the winning crew chief for this race. Other crew chiefs that were important to the race were Vic Ballard and Lee Gordon. Ten thousand people would watch two lead changes and four cautions for 46 laps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092720-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Nashville 420, Race report\nEarl Brooks would make his best career finish with a fourth-place performance; he experienced tire problems as the race progressed and was unable to lead a lap. Brooks' team only had top 10s in 12% of its races, but 11% of their total top 10s came in this race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092720-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Nashville 420, Race report\nAll 29 of these competitors were American-born males. Other notable names include future car owner Richard Childress, Sterling Marlin's father Coo Coo, Elmo Langley, and Bobby Allison (one of the famous Allison brothers of NASCAR history). The total purse for this racing event was $20,980 ($133,493 when adjusted for inflation).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092720-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Nashville 420, Race report\nRichard Petty received $4,325 ($27,638 when adjusted for inflation) for his well-deserved victory while last-place finisher Dick May only received $215 ($1,374 when adjusted for inflation).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092720-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Nashville 420, Finishing order\n\u2020 signifies that the driver is known to be deceased * Driver failed to finish race", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 35], "content_span": [36, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092721-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 National 500\nThe 1971 National 500 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series racing event that took place on October 10, 1971, at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina. Most of the vehicles used in the race had a rating of 427 cubic inches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092721-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 National 500\nThe race car drivers still had to commute to the races using the same stock cars that competed in a typical weekend's race through a policy of homologation (and under their own power). This policy was in effect until roughly 1975. By 1980, NASCAR had completely stopped tracking the year model of all the vehicles and most teams did not take stock cars to the track under their own power anymore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092721-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 National 500, Race report\nThere were 42 American-born drivers on this 238-lap race. It was supposed to last for 334 laps but the race had to end due to rain and darkness. On the day of the race, 0.22 inches of precipitation were recorded around the speedway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092721-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 National 500, Race report\nBobby Allison managed to defeat Bobby Isaac by five seconds in front of 52000 people. The race lasted more than two and a half hours with six caution periods lasting for 37 laps. Charlie Glotzbach rightfully earned the pole position with a qualifying speed of 157.085 miles per hour (252.804\u00a0km/h) while the winner of the race would have an average speed of 126.14 miles per hour (203.00\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092721-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 National 500, Race report\nJim Vandiver would end up getting the last-place finish on lap 10 due to a single-car collision into the wall. Wendell Scott had to leave the race because his vehicle developed faulty wheel bearings on lap 63 while Dick Brooks' vehicle broke down early and finished poorly on lap 73. A faulty lug bolt took Neil Castles of the race on lap 114 while an engine problem took Maynard Troyer out of the race on lap 115.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092721-0004-0001", "contents": "1971 National 500, Race report\nA couple of crashes on lap 120 took LeeRoy Yarbrough and Earle Canavan out of the race while steering problems took Dave Marcis out of the race on lap 152. Stick Elliot's vehicle developed a faulty driveshaft on lap 163 while lap 184 would see A.J. Foyt retiring from the race due to steering problems. Cale Yarborough would overheat his car on lap 209, ending his hopes of acquiring a top-ten finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092721-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 National 500, Race report\nBobby Allison and Richard Petty were duking it out up front at speeds up to 160 miles per hour (260\u00a0km/h), highlighting that Allison drove the Coke car during the race while Petty drove for Pepsi. Tiny Lund also had a Pepsi car in this one but dropped out early on.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092721-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 National 500, Race report\nCountry music singing sensation and part-time NASCAR driver Marty Robbins would finish in 37th place in his 1969 Dodge Charger machine after starting in 15th. LeeRoy Yarbrough ran a limited schedule during the 1971 season as Ford's factories were pulling out of NASCAR production at that time. This would force NASCAR teams using the Ford manufacturer to create vehicles by themselves with their in-house staff. Injuries sustained while practicing for that year's Indianapolis 500 contributed to the limited NASCAR schedule. He managed to shake off those injuries long enough to qualify in seventh place and finish in a lowly 34th place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 668]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092721-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 National 500, Race report\nThe total purse of the race was $83,259 ($525,619 when adjusted for inflation); Allison would earn $18,450 of the total prize winnings that were offered in the race ($23,399 when adjusted for inflation).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092722-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 National Challenge Cup\nThe 1971 National Challenge Cup was the 58th awarding of the United States Soccer Football Association's annual open soccer championship prize. Teams from the North American Soccer League declined to participate. The New York Hota defeated the San Pedro Yugoslavs in the final game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092723-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 National Football League (South Africa)\nThe 1971 National Football League was the 13th season of the National Football League. It was won by Hellenic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092724-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 National Formula Ford Driver to Europe Series\nThe 1971 National Formula Ford Driver to Europe Series was an Australian motor racing competition open to Formula Ford racing cars. It was the second annual Australian series for Formula Fords.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092724-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 National Formula Ford Driver to Europe Series\nThe series was won by Larry Perkins driving an Elfin 600.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092724-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 National Formula Ford Driver to Europe Series, Points system\nPoints were awarded on a 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis for the first ten places at each round except the Sandown round, for which double points were awarded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 65], "content_span": [66, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092724-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 National Formula Ford Driver to Europe Series, Series results\nAll cars were powered by a standard Ford Cortina 1600 GT engine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 66], "content_span": [67, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092725-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 National Invitation Tournament\nThe 1971 National Invitation Tournament was the 1971 edition of the annual NCAA college basketball competition. 1971 was unique because it is the only time that major rivals Duke and North Carolina have played each other after the ACC Tournament. Eventual ACC member Georgia Tech also made the semis, and lost to North Carolina in the championship. The fourth semifinalist, St. Bonaventure, was playing its first season following the departure of All-American Bob Lanier, who led the Bonnies to the 1970 Final Four.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092725-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 National Invitation Tournament, Selected teams\nBelow is a list of the 16 teams selected for the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 51], "content_span": [52, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092726-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 National League Championship Series\nThe 1971 National League Championship Series was a best-of-five series that pitted the East Division champion Pittsburgh Pirates against the West Division champion San Francisco Giants. The Pirates won the Series three games to one and won the 1971 World Series against the Baltimore Orioles. The Giants did not return to the postseason until 1987.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092726-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 National League Championship Series\nThis was the third National League Championship Series in all. It was the first League Championship Series in either league that was not a sweep for the winning team (Baltimore swept Oakland in the 1971 ALCS).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092726-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 1\nWith aces Gaylord Perry and Steve Blass taking the mound for their respective teams, Game 1 looked to be a pitchers' duel. But the offenses were effective. The Pirates struck for two in the top of the third when Dave Cash doubled home Jackie Hern\u00e1ndez. Cash scored the second run when Richie Hebner grounded to Tito Fuentes at second, but Willie McCovey dropped Fuentes' throw when he attempted to field the ball after having to scramble back to first because Perry didn't cover the bag. The Giants halved the lead in their half of the third when Chris Speier singled, went to second on a Perry sacrifice bunt, and scored on a Ken Henderson single.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 713]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092726-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 1\nFuentes and McCovey would redeem themselves in the fifth by each slamming two-run homers off Blass for a 5\u20132 lead. Al Oliver cut the deficit to 5\u20134 for the Pirates with two-run single in the seventh, but that was it as Perry went the distance for a complete game win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092726-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 2\nIn front of an NBC-TV audience, Pirate first baseman Bob Robertson grew into a star in Game 2. Robertson smashed three homers, becoming the first to do so in a playoff game. The Giants struck first in the bottom of the first when Tito Fuentes singled off Dock Ellis and scored on a double by Willie Mays.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092726-0004-0001", "contents": "1971 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 2\nAfter the Pirates tied the game in the second off John Cumberland when Robertson hit a leadoff double and scored on Manny Sanguill\u00e9n's single, the Giants retook the lead in the bottom half when Chris Speier hit a leadoff double and scored on Ken Henderson's single. Robertson's first home run of the game tied the score again in the fourth. Sanguill\u00e9n's single then knocked Cumberland out of the game. After a stolen base, Jackie Hern\u00e1ndez's RBI single off Jim Barr put the Pirates up 3\u20132. Gene Clines's home run next inning extended their lead to 4\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092726-0004-0002", "contents": "1971 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 2\nA pivotal play occurred just prior to the Pirates' 4-run seventh, when Mays, batting in the bottom of the sixth with two out and his team trailing, 4\u20132, saw his bid for a bases-clearing double grabbed by right fielder Roberto Clemente. After a leadoff double and single, Clemente's RBI single off Don Carrithers made it 5\u20132 Pirates. One out later, Robertsons' three-run home run off Ron Bryant extended their lead to 8\u20132. Robertson's third home run in the ninth off of Steve Hamilton made it 9\u20132. A two-run home run from Mays off Bob Miller in the bottom half made it 9\u20134, but Dave Giusti in relief retired all three batters he faced as the Pirates tied the series heading to Pittsburgh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 752]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092726-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 3\nThe Pirates' Bob Johnson and the Giants' Juan Marichal locked into a tight pitcher's duel for eight innings. Bob Robertson hit a homer in the second, his then-record fourth of the series. The Giants tied it in the sixth when Ken Henderson singled and scored when third baseman Richie Hebner threw wildly past Robertson at first after fielding a bunt by Tito Fuentes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092726-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 3\nHebner would atone for the error, however, by slamming a game-winning homer in the eighth off Marichal. Dave Giusti came on in the ninth and saved it for Johnson and the Pirates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092726-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 4\nAnother anticipated pitching duel between Giants' Gaylord Perry and Pirates' Steve Blass quickly went by the wayside. Blass lasted only two innings, giving up five runs. Willie McCovey's RBI single with two on in the first gave the Giants a 1\u20130 lead, but they left the bases loaded. In the bottom half, after a leadoff single and double, Roberto Clemente's two-run single put the Pirates up 2\u20131, but in the second, Chris Speier's leadoff home run tied the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092726-0007-0001", "contents": "1971 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 4\nAfter two singles and two outs, Willie McCovey's three-run home run put the Giants up 5\u20132, but the Pirates, however, got Blass off the hook in the bottom of the inning. Richie Hebner tied the game with a three-run home run. The score stayed at 5\u20135 until the sixth when Dave Cash singled, moved to second on a groundout, and scored on a Roberto Clemente RBI single. Jerry Johnson relieved Perry and after intentionally walking Willie Stargell, Al Oliver's three-run home run made it 9\u20135 Pirates. Meanwhile, Bruce Kison and Dave Giusti pitched the last seven innings of shutout baseball to close out the series and win the pennant for the first time in 11 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 725]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092727-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 National Soccer League season\nThe 1971 National Soccer League season was the forty-eighth season under the National Soccer League (NSL) name. The season began in early May and concluded in October with the Canadian Open Cup final where Toronto Croatia defeated Challenge Trophy champions Vancouver Eintracht. The Croatians would secure a treble by successfully defending their regular season title, and defeating Toronto First Portuguese for the NSL Championship. The NSL Cup was successfully defended by Toronto First Portuguese who defeated Sudbury City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092727-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 National Soccer League season\nThe Canadian Open Cup was created by the NSL with the objective of determining a national champion through an annual knock-out cup competition where all professional and amateur Canadian clubs were invited to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092727-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 National Soccer League season, Overview\nThe National Soccer League became centered once more within the boundaries of Ontario after the departure of Soccer Portugais du Quebec of Montreal. Northern Ontario was added to the circuit once again as Sudbury Italia returned under the name Sudbury City. The league expanded into the Niagara region for the first time as St. Catharines Heidelberg was granted a franchise. Heidelberg previously competed in the Inter-City Soccer League. Ottawa Sons of Italy began a process of Canadianizing their organization by renaming the team Ottawa Tigers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092727-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 National Soccer League season, Overview\nThe NSL experienced competition from the American based North American Soccer League as it expanded into Ontario with the creation of the Toronto Metros. The league's match attendance continued to surge, and surpassed the previous season's gate earnings at Stanley Park Stadium. The league ownership also approved the creation of a under-23 division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092727-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 National Soccer League season, Cup\nThe cup tournament was a separate contest from the rest of the season, in which all fourteen teams took part. The tournament would conclude in a final match for the Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 39], "content_span": [40, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092727-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 National Soccer League season, Canadian Open Cup\nThe Canadian Open Cup was a tournament organized by the National Soccer League in 1971 where the NSL champion would face the Challenge Trophy winners to determine the best team throughout the country. The intention of the tournament was to form an annual knock-out cup competition open to all Canadian professional and amateur clubs in order to determine a national champion. The championship was initially sponsored by the Macdonald Tobacco Company, and was named the Export Trophy. Toronto Croatia as the NSL champions were selected as the league's representative while their opponents were Vancouver Eintracht of the Pacific Coast Soccer League, who were the Challenge Trophy titleholders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 746]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092727-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 National Soccer League season, Individual awards\nThe NSL awards were given to recipients from St. Catharines Heidelberg, Sudbury City, and Toronto Croatia. The most gentlemanly team award was given to St. Catharines, and league official John Parfect received the most dedicated official award. \u017deljko Bilecki of Toronto Croatia was named the goalkeeper of the year, and would later represent the Canada national team and play in the North American Soccer League. The league's top goal scorer was Sudbury's Ferruccio Deni, and he later returned to the NSL to play with the Sudbury Cyclones. The final award went to Hugh Morrow as the top referee throughout the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 672]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092728-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 National Society of Film Critics Awards\nThe 6th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 24 December 1971, honored the best filmmaking of 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092728-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Picture\n1. Claire's Knee (Le genou de Claire)2. The Conformist (Il conformista)3. A Clockwork Orange", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 67], "content_span": [68, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092729-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Nauruan parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections were held in Nauru on 23 January 1971. As there were no political parties, all candidates ran as independents. Following the election, Hammer DeRoburt was re-elected President by Members of the Parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092729-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Nauruan parliamentary election, Campaign\nA total of 48 candidates contested the 18 seats. In Anabar Constituency the two incumbent MPs were returned unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092729-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Nauruan parliamentary election, Results\nFour sitting MPs were unseated in the election; Speaker Itubwa Amram, Asa Paul Diema, Totuwa Depaune and Derog Gioura.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092729-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Nauruan parliamentary election, Aftermath\nFollowing the elections, Hammer DeRoburt was the only candidate for president, and was elected unopposed by the newly elected Parliament. MPs also elected Kenas Aroi as Speaker and Victor Eoaeo as Deputy Speaker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092729-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Nauruan parliamentary election, Aftermath\nDeRoburt's cabinet was unchanged from the previous parliamentary term with James Ategan Bop as Minister of Finance, Austin Bernicke as Minister for Health and Education, Joseph Detsimea Audoa as Minister of Justice and Buraro Detudamo as Minister of Works and Community Services and Minister Assistant to the President. DeRoburt held the portfolios of External Affairs, Internal Affairs and Island Development and Industry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092730-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Navy Midshipmen football team\nThe 1971 Navy Midshipmen football team represented the United States Naval Academy (USNA) as an independent during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. The team was led by third-year head coach Rick Forzano.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092731-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team\nThe 1971 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team represented the University of Nebraska in the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. The Cornhuskers were led by 10th-year head coach Bob Devaney and played their home games at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092731-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team\nThe Huskers went undefeated at 13\u20130, repeating as national champions. They outscored their opponents by a combined total of 507 to 104, held ten of their thirteen opponents to single-digit points or fewer (including three shutouts), and famously defeated #2-ranked Oklahoma on the road in a game that has been referred to as the \"Game of the Century\". In the years since, the 1971 Nebraska team has been cited by some sports pundits as the greatest in college football history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092731-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Schedule\nThe 1971 Cornhuskers were one of the most dominant teams in college football history, winning twelve of their thirteen games by 24 points (or more) and defeating the next three teams in the final AP poll. The sole close game of the season was the Game of the Century at #2 Oklahoma on Thanksgiving. Nebraska decisively beat #3 Colorado (then #9) 31\u20137 in Lincoln and #4 Alabama (then #2) 38\u20136 in the 1972 Orange Bowl in Miami.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092731-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Roster\nAdkins, John #57 (Sr.) DEAnderson, Dan #67 (So.) RGAnderson, Frosty #89 (So.) SEAnderson, Jim #18 (Sr.) RCBAustin, Al #78 (So.) RTBell, John #31 (Jr.) MGBeran, Mike #62 (Jr.) RGBlahak, Joe #27 (Jr.) LCBBorg, Randy #19 (So.) RCBBranch, Jim #51 (Jr.) LBBrownson, Van #12 (Sr.) QBButts, Randy #36 (So.) HBCarstens, Jim #47 (Jr.) FBColeman, Ron #9 (So.) QBCox, Woody #32 (Sr.) SECrenshaw, Marvin #70 (So.) RTDamkroger, Maury #46 (So.) FBDeyke, Tom #94 (So.) DTDidur, Dale #84 (Sr.) SEDixon, Gary #22 (Jr.) HBDoak, Mark #93 (So.) NTDuffy, Joe #52 (So.) LGDumler, Doug #54 (Jr.) CDutton, John #90 (So.) DTFuller, Bruce #8 (So.) SGarson, Glen #39 (So.) HBGlover, Rich #79 (Jr.) MGGoeller, Dave #28 (So.) HBGuibord, Greg #87 (So.) DEHarper, Willie #81 (Jr.) DE", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 800]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092731-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Roster\nHarvey, Phil #82 (Sr.) TEHauge, Bruce #48 (Jr.) LBHegener, Stan #92 (So.) LTHenderson, Joe #63 (So.) RGHenrichs, Dennis #96 (So.) LGHill, Jeff #98 (So.) SEHollstein, Gary #29 (Sr.) LCBHughes, Jeff #26 (Sr.) HBHumm, Dave #10 (So.) QBHunter, Ken #78 (Jr.) MGHyland, John #58 (Jr.) DEJacobson, Larry #75 (Sr.) DTJamail, Doug #50 (Jr.) CJanssen, Bill #55 (Jr.) DTJohnson, Carl #71 (Sr.) RTJohnson, Doug #64 (Jr.) DEJohnson, Monte #37 (Jr.) MGKinney, Jeff #35 (Sr.) HBKinsel, John #53 (Jr.) CKosch, Bill #24 (Sr.) SLackovic, Tim #80 (So.) SELinder, Max #88 (So.) SEList, Jerry #85 (Jr.) TELongwell, Brent #86 (So.) TELynch, Dan #73 (So.) DTManstedt, Steve #11 (So.) DEMason, Dave #25 (Jr.) MONMcClelland, Tom #16 (Sr.) SMcKinley, Kim #69 (So.) DTMoran, Jeff #30 (So.) HBMorell, Pat #40 (Sr.) LB", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 837]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092731-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Roster\nNelson, Chris #99 (So.) TEO'Connell, John #34 (So.) SO'Holleran, Mike #38 (So.) HBOlds, Bill #44 (Jr.) FBPabis, Bob #66 (Sr.) MGPeetz, Mike #33 (So.) MONPeterson, John (Unk) MGPitts, John #56 (Jr.) MONPowell, Ralph #41 (So.) FBRighetti, Phil #74 (Jr.) LTRobison, Tom #68 (So.) DTRodgers, Johnny #20 (Jr.) HBRunty, Steve #13 (So.) QBRupert, Dick #77 (Sr.) LGSanger, Rich #43 (So.) LBSchmit, Bob #23 (So.) HBSloey, Bill #42 (Jr.) LBStarkebaum, John #15 (So.) MONStrong, Jon #49 (So.) LBTagge, Jerry #14 (Sr.) QBTerrio, Bob #45 (Sr.) LBThornton, Bob #17 (Jr.) RCBWeber, Bruce #61 (Sr.) LGWestbrook, Don #21 (So.) HBWhite, Daryl #72 (So.) LTWieser, Steve #83 (So.) DEWolfe, Bob #76 (So.) LTWortman, Keith #65 (Sr.) RGZanrosso, Dennis #59 (So.) C", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 789]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092731-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Oregon\nThe Nebraska reserves were on the field in the 4th quarter, working under a comfortable 34-0 lead, when a fumbled punt allowed Oregon to put in a late score to avoid the shutout with 3 minutes to play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 63], "content_span": [64, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092731-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Oregon\nTwo days later, Nebraska vaulted Notre Dame for the No. 1 spot in the polls and never relinquished it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 63], "content_span": [64, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092731-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Minnesota\nMinnesota managed a 2nd-quarter touchdown, but the game was never really in doubt as Nebraska extended their unbeaten streak to 21 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092731-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Texas A&M\nTwo huge plays left Nebraska's signature on the Texas A&M win, as Johnny Rodgers tore off a 98-yard kickoff return for a touchdown, and Bill Kosch returned an interception 95 yards for a score of his own. The Aggies also managed a big score for their only points, an equally-impressive 94-yard kickoff return touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092731-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Utah State\nUtah State was behind 0-35 when they managed to avoid the shutout with a 3rd-quarter touchdown, but the PAT was blocked. The Cornhuskers ran the margin of victory back up again with a final fourth-quarter touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 67], "content_span": [68, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092731-0011-0000", "contents": "1971 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Missouri\nNebraska was held scoreless for over 20 minutes, but Missouri eventually succumbed to the pressure as Nebraska then ran up 36 points and shut out the Tigers in Columbia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092731-0012-0000", "contents": "1971 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Kansas\nNebraska smashed Kansas at Homecoming for another shutout, holding the Jayhawks to 56 yards of total offense, barely more than one tenth of the Cornhuskers' 538 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 63], "content_span": [64, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092731-0013-0000", "contents": "1971 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma State\nAll of Oklahoma State's entire scoring was picked up in the last 2 minutes against Nebraska reserves, making the game appear closer than it was, if 41-13 can be called close.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 71], "content_span": [72, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092731-0014-0000", "contents": "1971 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Colorado\nNebraska rolled right out to a 24-0 lead by halftime and was cruising against #9 Colorado without much effort. The Buffaloes did manage a 3rd-quarter touchdown on a broken play, but Nebraska matched it and easily held on for the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092731-0015-0000", "contents": "1971 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Iowa State\nThe Cornhuskers held Iowa State to just 105 yards of offense and had no trouble holding the Sun Bowl-bound Cyclones off the scoreboard for another shutout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 67], "content_span": [68, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092731-0016-0000", "contents": "1971 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Kansas State\nNebraska QB Jerry Tagge became the first Cornhusker to exceed 5000 career yards at Kansas State as Nebraska scored touchdowns on each of its first four possessions. Johnny Rodgers also entered the record book with his 10-season touchdown receptions, 45 receptions on the season, and 84 receptions for his career. No other team managed to score so many points on Nebraska this season as did the Wildcats, but another convincing win was behind them as Nebraska prepared for a showdown with #2 Oklahoma to decide the Big 8 title and potentially the national championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 69], "content_span": [70, 638]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092731-0017-0000", "contents": "1971 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma\nOklahoma and Nebraska battled back and forth in the Game of the Century in front of a sold-out crowd in Norman and over 55 million viewers on ABC-TV on Thanksgiving Day. Nebraska struck first with a 72-yard Johnny Rodgers punt return, but Oklahoma pulled ahead by 3 by halftime. The Cornhuskers came back strong in the third quarter with two more touchdowns, but the Sooners responded with two of their own to retake the lead with only 7:10 remaining. Down by 3 points, the Huskers went on a final drive and with only 1:38 remaining, Jeff Kinney scored his fourth touchdown of the day for the lead and the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 676]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092731-0018-0000", "contents": "1971 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Hawaii\nAlmost 1/3 of the fans in the relatively sparse crowd were dressed in red and rooting for the Cornhuskers, as Nebraska handily won this game almost as an afterthought to the vacation in Honolulu. It was 24-3 at the half, and Hawaii never saw the scoreboard again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 63], "content_span": [64, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092731-0019-0000", "contents": "1971 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Alabama\nIn the 1972 Orange Bowl, the Huskers battled a #2 team for the second time this season, but Alabama hardly posed the challenge that the Oklahoma Sooners had been, as Nebraska sent the Crimson Tide to the locker room at the half trailing by an embarrassing 28-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092731-0019-0001", "contents": "1971 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Alabama\nAlabama managed a feeble third-quarter touchdown but failed in the following 2-point conversion and never scored again, while Nebraska responded with 10 more points of their own to close the game and ended the season as national champions for the second consecutive year and exact revenge for losses to Alabama in the 1966 Orange Bowl and 1967 Sugar Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092731-0020-0000", "contents": "1971 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Rankings, Awards\nJerry Tagge finished seventh in the Heisman Trophy balloting in 1971,teammate Johnny Rodgers would win in 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 57], "content_span": [58, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092731-0021-0000", "contents": "1971 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, 1971 team players in the NFL\nThe 1971 Nebraska Cornhuskers seniors selected in the 1972 NFL Draft:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 69], "content_span": [70, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092731-0022-0000", "contents": "1971 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, 1971 team players in the NFL\nThe 1971 Nebraska Cornhuskers juniors selected in the following year's 1973 NFL Draft:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 69], "content_span": [70, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092731-0023-0000", "contents": "1971 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, 1971 team players in the NFL\nThe 1971 Nebraska Cornhuskers sophomores selected in the 1974 NFL Draft:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 69], "content_span": [70, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092731-0024-0000", "contents": "1971 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, 1971 team players in the NFL, NFL and pro players\nThe following is a list of 1971 Nebraska players who joined a professional team as draftees or free agents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 90], "content_span": [91, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092732-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Nebraska vs. Oklahoma football game\nThe 1971 Nebraska vs. Oklahoma football game was the 51st edition of the rivalry, one of several labeled as a \"Game of the Century.\" The Big Eight Conference matchup was held on Thursday, November 25, 1971, in Norman, Oklahoma.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092732-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Nebraska vs. Oklahoma football game\nThe top-ranked Nebraska Cornhuskers, defending national champions with a 20-game winning streak (and 29 without a loss), traveled south to play the second-ranked Oklahoma Sooners. In a game that lived up to the hype, the Cornhuskers scored a late touchdown to defeat the Sooners by four, 35\u201331.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092732-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Nebraska vs. Oklahoma football game, Background\nThe teams combined for 17 of 22 first-team All-Big Eight players. Nebraska had the nation\u2019s top-ranked defense. Oklahoma had the nation's most productive offense with their wishbone averaging over 472 rushing yards per game, an NCAA record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092732-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Nebraska vs. Oklahoma football game, Background\nThe cover of Sports Illustrated (November 22) prior to the game included photographs of Nebraska linebacker Bob Terrio and Oklahoma running back Greg Pruitt, nose-to-nose, beneath the headline: \"Irresistible Oklahoma Meets Immovable Nebraska.\" Both teams had twelve days to prepare, as neither had played on the preceding Saturday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092732-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Nebraska vs. Oklahoma football game, Background\nThe Husker \"Blackshirts\" defense included seven first-team All-Big Eight selections, four players who would earn consensus All-America recognition during their careers and two Outland Trophy winners: tackle Larry Jacobson and middle guard Rich Glover. Glover would win both the Outland and Lombardi awards in 1972 and eventually be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame. They were joined in the starting lineup by end Willie Harper, like Glover, a two-time All-American. John Dutton, an All-American in 1973, was a sophomore backup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092732-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Nebraska vs. Oklahoma football game, Background\nThe Sooners' record-setting wishbone attack was led by All-American QB Jack Mildren who rushed for over 1,000 yards, but was also a very good passer. His weapons were Heisman candidate HB Greg Pruitt, who averaged a stunning 9.5 yards per carry and speedy split end Jon Harrison. Future College Football Hall of Famer Tom Brahaney was the anchor at center.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092732-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Nebraska vs. Oklahoma football game, Background\nThe Husker offense was led by junior flanker Johnny Rodgers, a future Heisman Trophy winner, senior quarterback Jerry Tagge, and bullish senior tailback Jeff Kinney; the latter two were first round picks in the 1972 NFL Draft. The Sooner defense was anchored by all-Big 8 defensive tackle Derland Moore, a future All-American and NFL Pro Bowler.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092732-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Nebraska vs. Oklahoma football game, Background\nWith a kickoff shortly before 3 pm EST, ABC-TV broadcast the game nationally to an estimated 55 million viewers (at the time the largest television audience ever for a college football game). Chris Schenkel did the play-by-play, color analysis was provided by Oklahoma's legendary former coach, Bud Wilkinson, with Bill Flemming reporting from the sidelines. Before the game, Schenkel and Wilkinson emerged from the tunnel leading to the field, and when the Oklahoma crowd spotted Wilkinson, they erupted into applause. They came to their feet with admiration for the Minnesota-born coach who had guided the Sooners to prominence with three national championships and an NCAA record 47-game winning streak in the 1950s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 772]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092732-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Nebraska vs. Oklahoma football game, Background\nThe game was played at Owen Field in Norman on Thanksgiving Day. Not only at stake was the Big Eight title, but also the #1 national ranking in the polls. However, the bowl trips had already been determined before the game, with Nebraska going to the Orange in Miami and Oklahoma headed for the Sugar in New Orleans. Two days after Thanksgiving, #5 Auburn (9\u20130) with Heisman Trophy winner Pat Sullivan at quarterback, faced #3 Alabama (10\u20130) at Birmingham for the SEC title, the two opponents that Oklahoma and Nebraska would play. Given the magnitude of the game, Devaney had even had his players' food flown in from Lincoln, in case gamblers attempted to induce a hotel chef to give the Huskers food poisoning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 765]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092732-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 Nebraska vs. Oklahoma football game, Game, Summary\nThe game went back and forth, with three lead changes in the second half, after Oklahoma took its first lead of the game, 17\u201314, with five seconds left to play in the first half. Oklahoma would go ahead once more, 31\u201328 with 7:10 left in the game, but Nebraska then answered with a 74-yard drive for the winning touchdown with 1:38 left. At that point, Nebraska had scored touchdowns on three of its last four possessions to secure a 35\u201331 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 55], "content_span": [56, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092732-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 Nebraska vs. Oklahoma football game, Game, First half\nThe first half was atypical for both teams, as the Huskers' potent offense was stymied by the underrated Sooner defense; meanwhile, the Sooners devastating wishbone offense was blunted by the brutal Nebraska defense, as the Sooners lost the ball on fumbles a total of three times (twice in the first half) and were continually frustrated by Husker middle guard Rich Glover, who ended up with twenty-two tackles on the day, despite lining up across from All-American OU center Tom Brahaney.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 58], "content_span": [59, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092732-0011-0000", "contents": "1971 Nebraska vs. Oklahoma football game, Game, First half\nThe Cornhuskers struck first, with Rodgers shocking the Sooners with a 72-yard punt return for a touchdown after the Sooners' first possession was stopped. The punt return remains one of college football's signature moments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 58], "content_span": [59, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092732-0012-0000", "contents": "1971 Nebraska vs. Oklahoma football game, Game, First half\nOklahoma answered with a field goal before the teams exchanged touchdown drives \u2014 first Nebraska to take a 14\u20133 lead (the largest of the day), then Oklahoma, to make the score 14\u201310 Nebraska with 5:40 to play in the first half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 58], "content_span": [59, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092732-0013-0000", "contents": "1971 Nebraska vs. Oklahoma football game, Game, First half\nRelying almost entirely on Jack Mildren's arm and legs, the Sooners grabbed a 17\u201314 lead on two long passes from Mildren to Harrison with five seconds left before halftime. For the first time all season, the Cornhuskers trailed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 58], "content_span": [59, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092732-0014-0000", "contents": "1971 Nebraska vs. Oklahoma football game, Game, Second half\nRelying on a power running game, the Huskers scored two touchdowns (the first aided by the Sooners' third lost fumble of the game) to lead, 28\u201317, with 3:38 to play in the third quarter. Mildren then led the Sooners back with a pair of touchdowns, and Oklahoma was ahead 31\u201328 with 7:10 to play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 59], "content_span": [60, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092732-0015-0000", "contents": "1971 Nebraska vs. Oklahoma football game, Game, Second half\nThe Huskers got the ball back on their own 26-yard line. On a play starting from the Oklahoma 48, Husker quarterback Jerry Tagge threw to Rodgers, who broke tackles and ran all the way to the 15. Tailback Jeff Kinney, who would finish the game with 171 yards on 31 carries, then carried four consecutive times, the last resulting in his fourth touchdown of the game, and Nebraska regained the lead at 35\u201331 with only 98 seconds remaining. Sacks of Mildren on third and fourth down in Sooner territory finished the game off as a Nebraska win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 59], "content_span": [60, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092732-0016-0000", "contents": "1971 Nebraska vs. Oklahoma football game, Aftermath\nThis game, much more than the previous year's national championship, made Nebraska a program with a national following. Already having sold every seat available at their Memorial Stadium since coach Bob Devaney arrived in 1962, they would be a perennial national championship contender and a frequent presence on national TV.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 51], "content_span": [52, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092732-0017-0000", "contents": "1971 Nebraska vs. Oklahoma football game, Aftermath\nThe Cornhuskers had one more regular season game to play, venturing well southwest to Honolulu to crush Hawaii 45\u20133. Nebraska then traveled southeast to the Orange Bowl in Miami and soundly defeated the #2 Alabama Crimson Tide 38\u20136 on New Year's Day night for consecutive national titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 51], "content_span": [52, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092732-0018-0000", "contents": "1971 Nebraska vs. Oklahoma football game, Aftermath\nDevaney returned in 1972 hoping to win three consecutive national championships, but was derailed by a season-opening road loss to UCLA, as well as a tie at Iowa State and a 17\u201314 loss at home to Oklahoma in Lincoln. He retired right after routing Notre Dame 40\u20136 in the Orange Bowl. Continuing as Nebraska's athletic director, he promoted 35-year-old assistant Tom Osborne, who led the program for a quarter century (1973\u201397).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 51], "content_span": [52, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092732-0019-0000", "contents": "1971 Nebraska vs. Oklahoma football game, Aftermath\nPruitt did not win the Heisman, which went to quarterback Pat Sullivan of Auburn; the announcement came only hours after the conclusion of the Nebraska-Oklahoma game. The Sooners ended the regular season by destroying Oklahoma State in Stillwater 58\u201314.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 51], "content_span": [52, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092732-0020-0000", "contents": "1971 Nebraska vs. Oklahoma football game, Aftermath\nBy coincidence, Auburn was Oklahoma's opponent in the Sugar Bowl, and the Sooners won 40\u201322. (By another coincidence, these two arch-rivals, Nebraska and Oklahoma, played each half of another rivalry, Alabama and Auburn, and beat them both.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 51], "content_span": [52, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092732-0021-0000", "contents": "1971 Nebraska vs. Oklahoma football game, Aftermath\nDespite the loss, Oklahoma's program was also relaunched by this game, and were a perennial national contender throughout the 1970s up until Barry Switzer's departure in the late 1980s. Head coach Chuck Fairbanks left the Sooners after the 1972 season for the NFL's New England Patriots, and offensive coordinator Barry Switzer was promoted. Over the next 16 seasons (1973\u201388), he compiled a 157\u201329\u20134 (.837) record and guided the Sooners to national championships in 1974, 1975, and 1985.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 51], "content_span": [52, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092732-0022-0000", "contents": "1971 Nebraska vs. Oklahoma football game, Aftermath\nThe top three teams in the final AP poll for the 1971 season were from the Big Eight: Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Colorado. The top two teams had never been from the same conference, and this year had three.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 51], "content_span": [52, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092732-0023-0000", "contents": "1971 Nebraska vs. Oklahoma football game, Aftermath\nNebraska vs. Oklahoma, considered a minor rivalry before the Game of the Century (of 1971), became one of the biggest in the country, usually played on the day after Thanksgiving. Oklahoma still played Oklahoma State after playing Nebraska until 1979, when the game vs. the Cornhuskers became the Sooners' regular season finale (except in 1983, when the Sooners played at Hawaii on the first Saturday of December; and 1985, when Oklahoma played Oklahoma State and SMU after the Nebraska game due to television commitments).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 51], "content_span": [52, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092732-0024-0000", "contents": "1971 Nebraska vs. Oklahoma football game, Aftermath\nA scandal caught up with Oklahoma in the late 1980s, sending it into a decline and forcing Switzer's resignation in June 1989. That coincided with the rise of the football program at Colorado, which replaced Oklahoma as Nebraska's Thanksgiving Friday opponent in 1996 due to the formation of the Big 12 conference (leading to the end of the annual Nebraska-Oklahoma matchup).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 51], "content_span": [52, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092732-0025-0000", "contents": "1971 Nebraska vs. Oklahoma football game, Aftermath\nThe Big Eight added the four most prominent Southwest Conference schools (Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Baylor) to become the Big 12 Conference in 1996. Since one of those four was Texas, already a major non-conference rival with Oklahoma, the UT-OU rivalry game in Dallas grew in importance as they became division foes. Oklahoma and Oklahoma State were put in the South Division, while Nebraska and the other five Big 8 teams went into the North Division. Now in different divisions, NU and OU only played each other twice every four seasons, which significantly diminished the rivalry, while the OU-OSU rivalry game was returned to the end of the regular season and became more competitive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 51], "content_span": [52, 745]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092732-0026-0000", "contents": "1971 Nebraska vs. Oklahoma football game, Aftermath\nOklahoma bottomed out in the second half of the 1990s, going 5-5-1 under Howard Schnellenberger in 1995, then suffering three consecutive losing seasons under John Blake. The Sooners returned to glory under Bob Stoops, who replaced Blake in 1999. Stoops guided Oklahoma to the 2000 national championship and compiled a 190-48 record in 18 seasons, winning the Big 12 championship nine times. The Sooners have continued their dominance under Lincoln Riley, winning the Big 12 championship in each of his first four seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 51], "content_span": [52, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092732-0027-0000", "contents": "1971 Nebraska vs. Oklahoma football game, Aftermath\nNebraska left the Big 12 in the summer of 2011 to join the Big Ten Conference. The Sooners and Huskers met in the final Big 12 championship game in 2010, with OU winning 23\u201320 on December 4. The schools agreed in 2012 to play a home-and-home series in 2021 and 2022. The 2021 game is scheduled for Norman to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the 1971 classic, with the following year in Lincoln. The Sporting News named the 1971 Cornhusker team as the greatest team of the 20th century in 1988.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 51], "content_span": [52, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092732-0028-0000", "contents": "1971 Nebraska vs. Oklahoma football game, Aftermath\nIt is unlikely future meetings will be scheduled after 2022. Oklahoma announced in August 2021 it was departing the Big 12 for the Southeastern Conference no later than 2025 (along with Texas), while the Big Ten soon thereafter entered into a scheduling alliance with the Atlantic Coast and Pacific-12 conferences to begin in 2024.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 51], "content_span": [52, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092733-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Nemzeti Bajnoks\u00e1g I (women's handball)\nThe 1971 Nemzeti Bajnoks\u00e1g I is the 21st season of the Nemzeti Bajnoks\u00e1g I, Hungary's premier Handball league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092733-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Nemzeti Bajnoks\u00e1g I (women's handball), Final list\n* M: Matches W: Win D: Drawn L: Lost G+: Goals earned G-: Goals got P: Point", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092734-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Nepalese general election\nGeneral elections were held in Nepal in 1971 to elect members of the Rastriya Panchayat. At the time, the Rastriya Panchayat had 125 members; out of them 16 were appointed by the King, 90 were elected by Zonal Assemblies, 15 were elected by class organizations and 4 were elected by the graduates constituency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092734-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Nepalese general election, District representatives\nThe district representatives were elected by the Anchal Sabhas (Zonal Assemblies) of the 14 Zones of Nepal, one representative for each district. The 15 districts with a population of more than 100 000 were able to elect an additional Rastriya Panchayat member. The Anchal Sabhas consisted of all the members of the Zilla Panchayats (District Councils). Each Zilla Panchayat had 11 members, who were elected from the town or village panchayats in the district. The town and village panchayats were elected from local assemblies in which all adult residents could vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 625]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092734-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Nepalese general election, District representatives\nA potential candidate had to be a Zilla Panchayat member of the concerned district to be an eligible to contest a district seat. Moreover, the potential candidate had to be proposed and seconded by two other members of the same Zilla Panchayat. To be elected the candidate would need a simple majority of the votes in the Anchal Sabha. The system favoured the less populates areas in the hills, whose districts had a much lower population than the Terai districts in the south.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092734-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Nepalese general election, Class organisation representatives\nThe following official class organisations were able to select their representatives in the Rastriya Panchayat. The representatives were elected by the central committees of the respective organisation, through a Preferential Proportional Representation vote:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 66], "content_span": [67, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092734-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Nepalese general election, Graduates constituency\nThe college graduates of the country, numbering about 13000 at the time, were able to elect four members of the Rastriya Panchayat. The representatives were elected with Preferential Proportional Representation vote. The candidates had to be college graduates themselves. In total 22 candidates were in the fray. Seventeen of them contested on a joint reformist agenda. One candidate, the young advocate Ram Raja Prasad Singh, demanded direct transition to parliamentary democracy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092734-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Nepalese general election, Graduates constituency\nThe prime minister Kirti Nidhi Bista campaigned against the reformist candidates as opponents of the Panchayat system. However, the regime was embarrassed as the reformist candidates were elected, including Ram Raja Prasad Singh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092735-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Netherlands Antilles island council elections\nIsland council elections were held in the Netherlands Antilles in 1971. They were the sixth elections for the Island Council,", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092735-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Netherlands Antilles island council elections, Aruba\nGeneral elections were held in Aruba in 1971. They were the first in which the People's Electoral Movement participated, after Gilberto Croes split from the AVP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 57], "content_span": [58, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092735-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Netherlands Antilles island council elections, Sint Maarten\nGeneral elections were held in Sint Maarten on 7 May 1971 to elect the 5 members of the Island Council. The result was a victory for the Democratic Party, which won four of the five Island Council seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 64], "content_span": [65, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092736-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Nevada Wolf Pack football team\nThe 1971 Nevada Wolf Pack football team represented the University of Nevada, Reno during the 1971 NCAA College Division football season. Nevada competed as an independent. The Wolf Pack were led by third-year head coach Jerry Scattini and played their home games at Mackay Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092737-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 New Democratic Party leadership election\nThe 1971 New Democratic Party leadership election was a leadership convention held in Ottawa from April 21 to 24 to elect a leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada. Tommy Douglas retired as federal leader, and David Lewis was elected as his successor. At this convention the Waffle faction was at the zenith of its popularity and power. Donald C. MacDonald, the former Ontario NDP leader, was elected as the party's president. The major non-leadership issues were what stance would the party take in terms of Quebec sovereignty and whether policy initiatives calling for the nationalization of the oil, gas, and mining industries would pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 692]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092737-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 New Democratic Party leadership election, The Waffle\u2013Unity Group floor battle\nThe Waffle was a group of mostly young, university students and intellectuals. It was formed in 1969 and was led at the convention by University of Toronto economist Mel Watkins, an NDP vice-president, and James Laxer, a candidate to replace Tommy Douglas as federal leader. The Unity Group\u00a0\u2013 also known as \"NDP NOW\", from the title of a pamphlet released earlier in the year that espoused its philosophy\u00a0\u2013 was a committee of party establishment officials and organizers set up to oppose the Waffle at the convention by presenting more moderate views at the convention floor microphones.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 82], "content_span": [83, 670]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092737-0001-0001", "contents": "1971 New Democratic Party leadership election, The Waffle\u2013Unity Group floor battle\nIt was formed in 1970, after the well-organized Waffle had effectively taken over much of the floor debate at the Winnipeg Convention in October 1969. The group was headed by Desmond Morton, a University of Toronto professor who was involved with organizing the party in Ontario, and Marion Bryden, the director of research for the Ontario NDP. Lynn Williams, of the United Steelworkers, was the main link between the Unity Group and organized labour. He helped co-ordinate the Canadian Labour Congress' (CLC) actions during the convention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 82], "content_span": [83, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092737-0001-0002", "contents": "1971 New Democratic Party leadership election, The Waffle\u2013Unity Group floor battle\nThe big issues over which the groups fought were those of Quebec's right to self-determination, and large scale nationalization of the natural resources/energy sector. The Waffle was at the forefront for advocating these ideas, while the Unity Group put up the defence against these proposals The Unity Group won these debates, and the Waffle's motions on these issues were defeated or heavily modified.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 82], "content_span": [83, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092737-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 New Democratic Party leadership election, Gender equity motion\nThe first test for the Waffle, on the convention floor, occurred on opening day, Wednesday, April 21. That afternoon, the constitution committee tabled a motion to ensure at least 12 of the approximately 100 members of the ruling Federal Council were women. The Waffle put their full support behind it, when Krista Maeots, leadership candidate James Laxer's wife, put forward the resolution that 12 of the 24 council members elected at the convention be women. She was met by surprising resistance from fellow women, but had the support of leadership candidate John Harney. It needed a two-thirds majority to pass, according to the party's constitution, but many delegates thought it was tokenism, and voted down the resolution two to one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 67], "content_span": [68, 807]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092737-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 New Democratic Party leadership election, Natural resources nationalization debate\nOn Friday, April 23, the most complex and thorny issues were debated. The first contentious issue on the agenda dealt with natural resources industries, such as the oil, gas, and mines, as it became the centre of a major showdown between the Waffle and the labour movement forces. The Waffle faction wanted total nationalization and public ownership of resource industries. The party establishment, and Labour, being more moderate, wanted only to expand public and co-operative ownership. The hour-long debate, quickly transcended into raucous name-calling and physical pushing and shoving at the microphone stands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 87], "content_span": [88, 703]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092737-0003-0001", "contents": "1971 New Democratic Party leadership election, Natural resources nationalization debate\nSidney Green, Manitoba\u2019s Minister of Mines and Resources in the NDP provincial government, spoke in favour of the moderate resolutions committee motion. He was countered on the convention floor by university professor Peter Usher, a Waffle member from Ottawa, who moved to refer the committee\u2019s motion back for redrafting to push for nationalization of all resource industries. After much heated debate, his motion was defeated in a standing-count vote by a three to one margin. The standing vote was needed because Waffle members challenged two previous voting attempts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 87], "content_span": [88, 659]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092737-0003-0002", "contents": "1971 New Democratic Party leadership election, Natural resources nationalization debate\nOnce defeated, the Unity Group, and its labour supporters, pressed for the adoption of the original eight-point resolution, which then passed easily with a five to one plurality. With the Waffle\u2019s amendment defeated, it seemed unlikely that they could pass other motions that called for the nationalization of other economic sectors like manufacturing, financial, and transportation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 87], "content_span": [88, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092737-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 New Democratic Party leadership election, The Quebec issue\nNo other issue at the convention caused more worry for the NDP than what its policy should be with regards to Quebec self-determination. The Waffle's position called for the recognition of Quebecers' right to secede from the rest of Canada, without intervention from the other provinces and the federal government. The Unity Group, and its allies, urged the convention not to take a stance which could be construed by Canadian voters as assisting Quebec separation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 63], "content_span": [64, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092737-0004-0001", "contents": "1971 New Democratic Party leadership election, The Quebec issue\nIn an effort to prevent the whole Quebec issue even reaching the floor, the Unity Group tried to reach a compromise with the Waffle and the NDP's Quebec wing the day before the convention started. In essence, compromise would have been a \"commitment to Canadian union while saying that the constitutional arrangements between Ottawa and the provinces must be completely renegotiated.\" It went on to further state that \"The unity of this country cannot be based on force. ...", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 63], "content_span": [64, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092737-0004-0002", "contents": "1971 New Democratic Party leadership election, The Quebec issue\nIf one of our provinces were to choose to separate, freely and democratically, it would be madness to attempt to restrain it by force.\" A compromise could not be reached as the small Quebec contingent\u00a0\u2013 and the Waffle members in attendance at the resolutions committee\u00a0\u2013 refused to vote to accept the new resolution, forcing the Quebec issue on to the convention floor on Friday, April 23.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 63], "content_span": [64, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092737-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 New Democratic Party leadership election, The Quebec issue\nThe next day, while giving his final leader's report, T.\u00a0C. \"Tommy\" Douglas launched the party establishment's opening salvo against the Waffle and their Quebec resolution. He told the almost 2000 convention attendees that he rejected the principle that Quebec has the right to self-determination through unilateral separation from Canada. He further rejected the notion that non-Quebecers could not partake in that province's internal debates and stated that he would \"do everything I can to better the conditions of those people in Quebec who have been betrayed by successive governments.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 63], "content_span": [64, 655]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092737-0005-0001", "contents": "1971 New Democratic Party leadership election, The Quebec issue\nHe reiterated the intent of the compromise motion by stating that if \"the overwhelming majority of the people of Quebec want out of Confederation, it will be time enough to call in the lawyers.\" To further support Douglas' call for dialogue between English and French-speaking Canadians, towards an equal partnership based on common goals, Ontario NDP leader Stephen Lewis (David Lewis's son) announced his section's support for national unity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 63], "content_span": [64, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092737-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 New Democratic Party leadership election, The Quebec issue\nThe Quebec wing, led by Raymond Lalibert\u00e9, a former head of Quebec's activist teachers' union, Centrale des syndicats du Qu\u00e9bec (CEQ), was making noises that they might secede from the party if it adopted the federalist resolution. The official resolution that the Waffle and the Quebec wing refused to vote on the previous day was: \"The unity of our country cannot be based on force. However, the business of the NDP is to work for a united Canada, on a basis that will do full justice to our people.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 63], "content_span": [64, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092737-0006-0001", "contents": "1971 New Democratic Party leadership election, The Quebec issue\nTo counter this, Richard Comber, the Waffle's Quebec leader, and Lalibert\u00e9 proposed a resolution from the floor to form a new alliance between the two Canadian founding nations. Their resolution demanded: \"A recognition to Quebeckers of their absolute right to self-determination, meaning their right to collectively determine the degree of political sovereignty which they desire.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 63], "content_span": [64, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092737-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 New Democratic Party leadership election, The Quebec issue\nOn Friday, the debate and vote on the Quebec issue lasted about an hour and a half. The Resolutions Committee's motion was tabled by leadership contender, David Lewis. He led the charge against the Waffle, speaking from the floor, and surrounded by approximately 600 supporters, stated: \"You would be doing an immense disservice to the party and this great country if this convention binds itself to any resolution that questions the desire of the people to live in one united Canada.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 63], "content_span": [64, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092737-0007-0001", "contents": "1971 New Democratic Party leadership election, The Quebec issue\nAnother leadership hopeful, Ed Broadbent, tried to bridge the two polarized factions, by attempting to introduce a compromise amendment to Lewis' motion that said: \"There should be no questioning of the fundamental right of Quebeckers to leave Confederation if the decision is democratically arrived by the people of Quebec.\" His amendment garnered little support, and was rejected outright by a wide majority. In the end, the vast majority of the 1,700 convention delegates supported the Lewis motion, with a show of hands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 63], "content_span": [64, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092737-0007-0002", "contents": "1971 New Democratic Party leadership election, The Quebec issue\nThe motion backed a one-Canada stand, and really gave the party's establishment a free-hand on how to prepare a more detailed position for the up-coming federal election, since the motion also made the party's establishment-controlled Federal Council responsible for producing that policy. After the Quebec wing's defeat on the Quebec motion, Lalibert\u00e9 refused to state whether they would leave the party, only suggesting that it would be dealt with at their June provincial convention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 63], "content_span": [64, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092737-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 New Democratic Party leadership election, Party officer elections\nNDP Now and the Waffle fought for control of the party's bureaucracy, by trying to get as many people elected as party officers of the Federal Executive and Council. The major battles were for the party's executive positions, especially the President and Vice-President positions. NDP Now, and its trade union backers, nominated the Ontario NDP's former leader, Donald C. MacDonald as its candidate for party President. The Waffle candidate was Susan Gudmundson, from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 70], "content_span": [71, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092737-0008-0001", "contents": "1971 New Democratic Party leadership election, Party officer elections\nBoth MacDonald and Gudmundson were vying to succeed Allan Blakeney, who was stepping down as president because he recently was elected as the leader of the Saskatchewan NDP. MacDonald won 885 to 565, as expected, but Gudmundson received a surprisingly high level of support, due in part, to leadership candidate Ed Broadbent's supporters and the relative strength of the Waffle's supporters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 70], "content_span": [71, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092737-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 New Democratic Party leadership election, Party officer elections\nGudmundson then ran for one of the seven Vice-President positions, as did fellow Waffler Mel Watkins. She managed to get elected, but Watkins failed to keep his seat on the executive, and had to run for a general council seat instead. David Lewis' campaign manager, McGill University professor Charles Taylor easily won re-election as a Vice-President.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 70], "content_span": [71, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092737-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 New Democratic Party leadership election, Party officer elections\nThe whole Federal Council, including the executive, had 124 members, on which the Waffle held 20 positions going into the elections. After April 23, they held only Gudmundson and Watkins' seats. On April 25, Laxer and Watkins tried to get on the executive, as there were still two vacant seats. They were overwhelmingly rebuffed in their attempts by the pro-establishment council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 70], "content_span": [71, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092737-0011-0000", "contents": "1971 New Democratic Party leadership election, Leadership contenders, David Lewis\nDavid Lewis was seen as the front runner by the media. He had worked for either the NDP and its forerunner, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, for almost 36 years. He was the National Secretary from 1936 until 1950, when he moved from Ottawa to Toronto to set up a labour law practice. He served as the National President of the CCF during its final years, and was one of the main organizers behind bringing labour and democratic socialists together to form the NDP in 1961.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 81], "content_span": [82, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092737-0011-0001", "contents": "1971 New Democratic Party leadership election, Leadership contenders, David Lewis\nHe had been the Member of Parliament for the federal electoral district of York South, since 1962 (with the exception of a two-year period between 1963 and 1965). The two times that T.\u00a0C. Douglas did not win a seat to parliament, Lewis took over as house leader. The second time, in 1968, essentially left Lewis as the de facto leader. His years of service and control of most of the federal party's apparatus made him the \"establishment\" candidate, and the one to beat at the convention. During the leadership campaign, he did not travel around the country, as the other candidates had to, since he did most of his electioneering in the fall of 1970, and declared his intentions formally in December 1970, as a direct result of this work.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 81], "content_span": [82, 821]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092737-0012-0000", "contents": "1971 New Democratic Party leadership election, Leadership contenders, Ed Broadbent\nEd Broadbent was a newly elected Member of Parliament, for the Oshawa\u2013Whitby electoral district and was the first candidate to declare candidacy for the leadership when he did so in June 1970. He had been one of the founders of the Waffle, but backed away from them before the 1969 convention. He ran partially to bridge gulf between the Waffle and the Establishment in the party. When Lewis and Frank Howard attacked the Waffle, Broadbent warned that they were setting up the convention to be divided along Waffle/Establishment lines, which is what happened.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 82], "content_span": [83, 642]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092737-0012-0001", "contents": "1971 New Democratic Party leadership election, Leadership contenders, Ed Broadbent\nBefore getting into politics, Broadbent was a professor at York University, teaching political theory. He was educated at the University of Toronto and the London School of Economics. His performance on the Quebec issue the day before the leadership vote cost him much of his support as his amendments were rejected outright on the convention floor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 82], "content_span": [83, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092737-0013-0000", "contents": "1971 New Democratic Party leadership election, Leadership contenders, John Harney\nJohn Harney was originally from Quebec and was fluently bilingual. Entering the race in November 1970, he turned forty years old during the campaign, and like the other candidates, was essentially a generation younger than David Lewis. Like Broadbent, he was a university professor, first at the University of Guelph, and later at York University, teaching English literature. He was the Provincial Secretary for the Ontario New Democratic Party from 1966 to 1970. In that time, he was also the campaign manager for that party's breakthrough campaign in the 1967 general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 81], "content_span": [82, 662]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092737-0013-0001", "contents": "1971 New Democratic Party leadership election, Leadership contenders, John Harney\nHowever, he had a major disadvantage compared to some of the other candidates: at the time of the leadership campaign, he did not hold elected office, and had been defeated in four previous attempts to get elected to the House of Commons. The Quebec issue, and much of the fall-out from weeks of debating it before the convention, pulled Harney away from the issues that he was trying to get debated, notably regulating financial institutions to use their wealth to promote programs that had social benefits for all, and following the Ontario NDP's plan for nationalizing resource industries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 81], "content_span": [82, 674]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092737-0014-0000", "contents": "1971 New Democratic Party leadership election, Leadership contenders, Frank Howard\nOf all of Lewis' challengers, Frank Howard was the oldest at 45, still considerably younger than Lewis' 61 years, and the only one not from Ontario. He entered the leadership campaign in January 1971, attacking the Waffle for their political naivet\u00e9. At the time, he had served in the Commons for 14 years, one of the last CCF MPs left from the 1957 federal election, representing the Skeena electoral district. He was known for his caustic, no-nonsense approach to politics, and was frequently in trouble with the Speaker of the House of Commons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 82], "content_span": [83, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092737-0014-0001", "contents": "1971 New Democratic Party leadership election, Leadership contenders, Frank Howard\nHe also had a criminal record for armed robbery, committed when he was 18. This naturally led him to espousing penal reform as one of his main platform items. His other platform plank included support for native-Canadian issues, or in the parlance of the time, Indian Affairs. He did not spend much time campaigning before the convention, and even went on a two-week parliamentary trip to Australia and New Zealand in March. His strategy was to win delegate support at the convention in the days leading up to the Saturday vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 82], "content_span": [83, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092737-0015-0000", "contents": "1971 New Democratic Party leadership election, Leadership contenders, James (Jim) Laxer\nJames Laxer was the youngest candidate, at 29 years old. He was the Waffle's candidate for leader, and he espoused their ultra-nationalistic left-wing views. He came from a family that originally were keen supporters of the Communist Party of Canada, until 1956, when Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev made public Josef Stalin's reign of terror. In the mid-1960s, he was the president of Canadian University Press, and was a lecturer at Queen's University during the campaign. He was married to Krista Maeots, who ran unsuccessfully for the NDP's presidency at the 1969 policy convention. She was also a leading figure in the Waffle movement. He did not hold elected office, but because all the candidates were debating the Waffle's issues he was effectively Lewis' main challenger.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 87], "content_span": [88, 869]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092737-0016-0000", "contents": "1971 New Democratic Party leadership election, Leadership vote\nOn Saturday, April 24, at the Ottawa Civic Centre, David Lewis was elected the party's new leader after four ballots. This was the first time in CCF/NDP history that the leadership wasn't won on the first ballot. Unlike the recent Progressive Conservatives and Liberal conventions, where there were problems with computerized voting machines, the NDP decided to stay with the more traditional paper ballot book and manual vote tabulation system. The party organizers divided the approximately 1,700 delegates into 20 polls, similar to a federal electoral district vote, with returning officers that carried the ballot boxes to the voters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 62], "content_span": [63, 701]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092737-0016-0001", "contents": "1971 New Democratic Party leadership election, Leadership vote\nThe balloting took less than an hour for each round. The first ballots results were announced within an hour of the 2:00\u00a0p.m. starting time. The second round vote results were released by 3:30\u00a0p.m., the third round by 4:15\u00a0p.m., and the final fourth ballot by 4:40\u00a0p.m. The recent Ontario Progressive Conservative party leadership election took about ten hours, due to its use of an embryonic electronic balloting system that did not work as advertised.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 62], "content_span": [63, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092737-0017-0000", "contents": "1971 New Democratic Party leadership election, Aftermath\nThe media attention that the Waffle, and its candidate, James Laxer, received, before and during the vote, partially explains the closest federal NDP leadership election up to that time. Lewis' perceived heavy-handed tactics in dealing with the Waffle at this and previous conventions had made him enough enemies to make the leadership campaign interesting. As well, Lewis was involved in most of the internal conflicts within the CCF/NDP during the previous 36 years, so the many members that felt his wrath as the party disciplinarian during this period, plotted their revenge against him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 56], "content_span": [57, 648]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092737-0017-0001", "contents": "1971 New Democratic Party leadership election, Aftermath\nAt his first press conference after winning the leadership, Lewis stated that he was not beholden to the Waffle, as they were soundly defeated on the floor, and he made no promises to them. He also took on the party's Quebec wing, stating that they could continue to theorize about possible self-determination resolutions, but come election time, they must pledge themselves to the party's newly confirmed federalist policy. He did not purge the Waffle from the NDP, instead leaving it to his son Stephen to do in June 1972, when the party's Ontario wing resolved to disband the Waffle, or kick its members out of the party if they did not comply with the disbanding order.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 56], "content_span": [57, 730]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092737-0018-0000", "contents": "1971 New Democratic Party leadership election, Aftermath\nIn the 1972 federal election campaign, the NDP finally made a breakthrough, winning 31 seats in the House of Commons, including one for John Harney, and holding the balance of power. However, within two years, the party faced a setback when it won only 16 seats in the 1974 federal election. Lewis, Howard, and Harney lost their seats and ended their federal careers as active politicians. Lewis resigned, finally informing the public that he had been fighting cancer for the past two years. Broadbent, became the leader in the House of Commons until a new leader was elected. In the end, the real winner of 1971 convention was Ed Broadbent. Although he was unsuccessful for his run at the leadership in 1971, it was a prelude to his winning the leadership at the next convention, and without the internecine divisiveness that the Waffle introduced at this convention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 56], "content_span": [57, 925]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092738-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 New England Patriots season\nThe 1971 New England Patriots season was the franchise's 2nd season in the National Football League and 12th overall. The 1971 season was the first that the team played as the New England Patriots, changing their name from the Boston Patriots, briefly to the Bay State Patriots before changing it again to the New England Patriots, in an effort to regionalize the franchise's equal distance from Boston and Providence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092738-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 New England Patriots season\nThe Patriots finished with six wins and eight losses, third place in the AFC East Division. It was the first season the Patriots played in the new Schaefer Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, after playing in three different stadiums the previous three seasons in Boston.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092738-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 New England Patriots season\nDuring training camp, the Dallas Cowboys traded disgruntled running back Duane Thomas to the Patriots for Carl Garrett and Halvor Hagen on July 31. Thomas became embroiled in a conflict with head coach John Mazur, prompting Patriots general manager Upton Bell to request that Commissioner Pete Rozelle void the trade three days after it had been made. Rozelle granted Bell's request, and the traded players returned to where they had been prior to the deal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092738-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 New England Patriots season, Regular season, Standings\nNote: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092739-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 New Hampshire Wildcats football team\nThe 1971 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 1971 NCAA College Division football season. In its fourth and final year under head coach Jim Root, the team compiled a 4\u20134\u20131 record (3\u20132 against conference opponents) and finished third out of six teams in the Yankee Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092740-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 New Jersey State Senate election\nThe 1971 New Jersey State Senate Elections was the mid-term election of Republican William Cahill's term as Governor of New Jersey. Democrats picked up seven Senate seats. Sixteen incumbents did not seek re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092740-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 New Jersey State Senate election, Background, Redistricting\nLegislative districts were redrawn by a 10-member bi-partisan Legislative Apportionment Commission to reflect population changes following the 1970 U.S. Census. Senators generally (with some exceptions) ran At-Large countywide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092740-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 New Jersey State Senate election, Background, Redistricting\nUntil 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\"). In 1965, the New Jersey Senate was increased to 29 members, with larger counties given multiple seats and some smaller counties sharing one or two Senators.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092740-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 New Jersey State Senate election, Background, Redistricting\nThe map was changed again in 1967, and again in 1971, as the state adjusted to the one man, one vote ruling.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092740-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 New Jersey State Senate election, Background, Redistricting\nFor the 1971 election, two seats were eliminated in District 11 and District 12 (Essex and Hudson counties, respectively). They were replaced by two new seats in the single-member District 4C and District 5 (Burlington and Monmouth counties, respectively). District 6 (Mercer County) also switched from electing its Senators at-large to electing them from two single-member districts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092740-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 New Jersey State Senate election, Summary of results by State Senate District, Gains and losses\nOne incumbent Republican Senator who was denied party support for another term ran in the General Election as Independent candidates and was defeated; Republicans held this seat:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 100], "content_span": [101, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092740-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 New Jersey State Senate election, Summary of results by State Senate District, Open Seats\nThirteen incumbent Republican Senators did not seek re-election in 1971, and Democrats won six of those seats:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 94], "content_span": [95, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092740-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 New Jersey State Senate election, Summary of results by State Senate District, Open Seats\nOne incumbent Republican Senator was elected to Congress in 1970 and resigned his State Senate seat in January 1971 to take his seats in the U.S. House of Representatives:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 94], "content_span": [95, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092740-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 New Jersey State Senate election, Summary of results by State Senate District, Open Seats\nOne incumbent Republican Senator resigned in 1970 to become a Judge. His seat was won in a November 1971 Special Election by a Democrat, but Republicans held the seat in the November 1971 General Election for a full term:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 94], "content_span": [95, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092740-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 New Jersey State Senate election, Summary of results by State Senate District, Open Seats\nOne incumbent Democratic Senator was defeated for renomination in the June primary and Democrats held that seat:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 94], "content_span": [95, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092740-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 New Jersey State Senate election, Summary of results by State Senate District, Open Seats\nTwo incumbent Democratic Senators did not seek re-election in 1971. Democrats won one seat and Republicans won one seat:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 94], "content_span": [95, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092740-0011-0000", "contents": "1971 New Jersey State Senate election, Leadership\nRepublicans chose Raymond Bateman as the Senate President and Alfred Beadleston as Majority Leader; Republicans named J. Edward Crabiel as Minority Leader.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092741-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 New Mexico Lobos football team\nThe 1971 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 1971 NCAA University Division football season. In their fourth season under head coach Rudy Feldman, the Lobos compiled a 6\u20133\u20132 record (5\u20131 against WAC opponents) and outscored opponents by a total of 341 to 292.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092741-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 New Mexico Lobos football team\nRocky Long, Herman Fredenberg, and Bob Gaines were the team captains. The team's statistical leaders included Rocky Long with 876 passing yards and 78 points scored, Fred Henry with 1,129 rushing yards, and Ken Smith with 281 receiving yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092742-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 New Mexico State Aggies football team\nThe 1971 New Mexico State Aggies football team was an American football team that represented New Mexico State University as an independent during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. In their fourth year under head coach Jim Wood, the Aggies compiled a 5\u20135\u20131 record and outscored opponents by a total of 220 to 208. The team played its home games at Memorial Stadium in Las Cruces, New Mexico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092743-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 New Orleans Saints season\nThe 1971 New Orleans Saints season was the Saints' fifth season. The Saints drafted Archie Manning with their first round pick, the second overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092743-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 New Orleans Saints season\nManning led the Saints to their first opening day victory in franchise history, scoring a touchdown run on a rollout on the final play of a 24\u201320 victory over the Los Angeles Rams, New Orleans' first over Los Angeles following four consecutive losses, including the Saints' inaugural game in 1967. Four weeks later, Manning engineered a 24\u201314 victory over the Dallas Cowboys, who would return to Tulane Stadium in January and win Super Bowl VI over the Miami Dolphins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092743-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 New Orleans Saints season, Regular season, Standings\nNote: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092744-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 New South Wales state election\nElections for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly were held in the state of New South Wales, Australia, on Saturday 13 February 1971. The Liberal-Country Party coalition government led by Sir Robert Askin won a third term in office. The Labor Party opposition was led by Pat Hills.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092744-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 New South Wales state election\nThe Legislative Assembly had been enlarged by two members to 96 for the 1971 election. The seats of Sturt and Casino were established. Until 2019, this was the last time the Coalition won a third-term in New South Wales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092744-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 New South Wales state election, Results\nNew South Wales state election, 13 February 1971Legislative Assembly << 1968\u20131973 >>", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092745-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 New Year Honours\nThe New Year Honours 1971 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 in supplements to the London Gazette of 31 December 1970 to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092745-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 New Year Honours\nAt this time honours for Australians were awarded both in the United Kingdom honours, on the advice of the premiers of Australian states, and also in a separate Australia honours list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092745-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 New Year Honours\nThe 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.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092745-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 New Year Honours, United Kingdom and Commonwealth, Royal Victorian Order, Member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO)\nAt this time the two lowest classes of the Royal Victorian Order were \"Member (fourth class)\" and \"Member (fifth class)\", both with post-nominal letters MVO. \"Member (fourth class)\" was renamed \"Lieutenant\" (LVO) from the 1985 New Year Honours onwards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 120], "content_span": [121, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092746-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 New Year Honours (New Zealand)\nThe 1971 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 1970 and the beginning of 1971, and were announced on 1 January 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092746-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 New Year Honours (New Zealand)\nThe recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092747-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 New York City Marathon\nThe 1971 New York City Marathon was the 2nd edition of the New York City Marathon and took place in New York City on 19 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092748-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 New York Cosmos season\nThe 1971 New York Cosmos season was the inaugural season for the New York Cosmos, an expansion team in the now-defunct North American Soccer League. In the Cosmos' first year of existence, the club finished 2nd in the Northern Division and 4th in the overall league table. In the playoffs, the Cosmos were eliminated by the Atlanta Chiefs in the first two games of the best-of-three semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092748-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 New York Cosmos season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092748-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 New York Cosmos season, Results, Regular season\nPld = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, D = Draws, GF = Goals For, GA = Goals Against, Pts = Points6 points for a win, 3 points for a draw, 0 points for a loss, 1 point for each goal scored (up to three per game).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092749-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 New York Film Critics Circle Awards\nThe 37th New York Film Critics Circle Awards honored the best filmmaking of 1971. The winners were announced on 29 December 1971 and the awards were given on 23 January 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092750-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 New York Giants season\nThe 1971 New York Giants season was the franchise's 47th season in the National Football League (NFL). The Giants had a 4\u201310 record for the season and finished in last place in the National Football Conference East Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092750-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 New York Giants season\nThe Giants selected Rocky Thompson in the 1971 NFL Draft, with the 18th overall pick. After a winless preseason, New York began the regular season with a 2\u20131 record before posting a 2\u20139 mark in its final eleven games. The team was affected by numerous injuries, including a thigh injury suffered by running back Ron Johnson, who had gained more than 1,000\u00a0rushing yards in 1970. The 1971 season was the last for quarterback Fran Tarkenton with the Giants; after he requested a trade, the Giants dealt him to the Minnesota Vikings in 1972 for three players and a pair of draft picks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092750-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 New York Giants season, Schedule, Standings\nNote: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092751-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 New York Jets season\nThe 1971 New York Jets season was the twelfth season for the team and the second in the National Football League. It began with the team trying to improve upon its 4\u201310 record from 1970 under head coach Weeb Ewbank.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092751-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 New York Jets season\nDisaster struck before the regular season started and the Jets finished 6\u20138. Joe Namath was injured in a preseason game against the Detroit Lions and required knee surgery, All-Pro WR George Sauer unexpectedly retired at the peak of his career, and All-Pro defensive end Verlon Biggs exercised his option and signed with the Washington Redskins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092751-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 New York Jets season\nAfter missing nineteen consecutive Jets games in 1970 and 1971, Namath returned to action against the San Francisco 49ers in the third quarter (November 28, 1971) and threw for 258 yards and three touchdowns, but was intercepted by Johnny Fuller in the end zone on the final play of a 24\u201321 loss. He then started the final three games, and the Jets won the last two after suffering a 52\u201310 loss in a nationally televised game to the eventual Super Bowl champion Dallas Cowboys.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092751-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 New York Jets season, Regular season, Standings\nNote: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 52], "content_span": [53, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092752-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 New York Mets season\nThe 1971 New York Mets season was the tenth regular season for the Mets, who played home games at Shea Stadium. Led by manager Gil Hodges, the team posted an 83\u201379 record and finished the season tied for third place in the National League East.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092752-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 New York Mets season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 70], "content_span": [71, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092752-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 New York Mets season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 63], "content_span": [64, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092752-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 New York Mets season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 68], "content_span": [69, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092752-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 New York Mets season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 65], "content_span": [66, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092752-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 New York Mets season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 66], "content_span": [67, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092753-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 New York Yankees season\nThe 1971 New York Yankees season was the 69th season for the franchise in New York, and its 71st season overall. The team finished fourth in the American League East with a record of 82\u201380, 21 games behind the Baltimore Orioles. New York was managed by Ralph Houk. The Yankees played their home games at Yankee Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092753-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 New York Yankees season, Regular season, The final Senators game\nThe Yankees were part of Washington baseball history. The Senators played their final game in Washington at RFK Stadium and their opponents were the Yankees. Fan enmity came to a head in the game on September 30. Thousands of fans simply walked in without paying because the security guards left early in the game, swelling the paid attendance of 14,460 to around 25,000. The Senators led 7\u20135 with two outs in the top of the ninth. Just then, fans poured onto the field. A teenager scooped up first base and ran away. With no security guards in sight, the game was forfeited to the Yankees, 9\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 69], "content_span": [70, 665]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092753-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 New York Yankees season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 73], "content_span": [74, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092753-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 New York Yankees season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 66], "content_span": [67, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092753-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 New York Yankees season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 71], "content_span": [72, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092753-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 New York Yankees season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 68], "content_span": [69, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092753-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 New York Yankees season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 69], "content_span": [70, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092754-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 New Zealand Grand Prix\nThe 1971 New Zealand Grand Prix was a race held at the Pukekohe Park Raceway on 9 January 1971. The race had 20 starters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092754-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 New Zealand Grand Prix\nIt was the 17th New Zealand Grand Prix, and doubled as the second round of the 1971 Tasman Series. Australian Neil Allen won his first NZGP in his McLaren Formula 5000 ahead of fellow Australian and previous years winner, Frank Matich. The first New Zealand driver to finish was Graham McRae in the McLaren Formula 5000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092755-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 New Zealand National Soccer League\nThe 1971 New Zealand National Soccer League was the second season of a nationwide round-robin club competition in New Zealand football. The league was expanded at the end of the inaugural season, so there was no relegation from the 1970 league season. Hungaria, who had competed in the inaugural season, combined with Miramar Rangers to form a new composite league team, Wellington City. Though Miramar withdrew from the team after the 1971 season, the team continued to use the new name.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092755-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 New Zealand National Soccer League, Promotion to the national league\nAt the end of the 1970 season, the winners of the Northern, Central, and Southern leagues \u2014 Mount Albert-Ponsonby (Auckland), Waterside (Wellington), and Caversham (Dunedin) respectively \u2014 took part in a play-off series to decide the two teams which would be granted entry to the national league. the results were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 73], "content_span": [74, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092755-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 New Zealand National Soccer League, Promotion to the national league\nAs a result of these matches, Mount Albert-Ponsonby and Caversham gained entry to the national league. In order to mount a stronger southern challenge, Caversham amalgamated with several other Dunedin-based sides to form Dunedin Suburbs; the team lasted for one season in this form before reverting to Caversham.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 73], "content_span": [74, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092755-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 New Zealand National Soccer League, Team performance\nThe same four teams dominated the league as in the inaugural season, but this time it was Eastern Suburbs who finished on top. An unbeaten run of twelve matches by Mount Wellington saw them move into second place, followed by Christchurch United and Blockhouse Bay. The league title came down to the last round of matches and a controversial yet thrilling between the top two sides. In front of an estimated crowd of 10,000 at Newmarket Park, the Mount had three goals disallowed yet still managed to draw against Suburbs 2-2. Despite still having one game in hand, the Mount needed a win to hang onto its title chances, and Suburbs were crowned champions. A personal milestone occurred for Eastern Suburbs' John Wrathall, who scored his 1000th goal in 26 years of senior football during Suburbs' 3-1 win against Mount Albert-Ponsonby.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 57], "content_span": [58, 893]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092755-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 New Zealand National Soccer League, Team performance\nThe gap between the top four and the rest closed considerably over the debut season for Gisborne City, who finished comfortably fifth. below that was a major gap, however, with Dunedin Suburbs, Mount Albert-Ponsonby, Stop Out, Wellington City, and Western Suburbs FC all battling to avoid relegation. Wellington's teams struggled in the league for a second season, filling all three bottom places, and it was Porirua-based Western Suburbs which finished last on goal average. If goal difference had been employed \u2014 a system which was to be introduced for the 1978 league \u2014 they would have survived and it would have been City who went down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 57], "content_span": [58, 698]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092756-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 New Zealand gallantry awards\nThe 1971 New Zealand gallantry awards were announced via four Special Honours Lists dated 7 May, 27 May, 27 September and 19 October 1971, and recognised 12 New Zealand military personnel for gallantry during operations in Vietnam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092757-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 New Zealand rugby league season\nThe 1971 New Zealand rugby league season was the 64th season of rugby league that had been played in New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092757-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 New Zealand rugby league season, International competitions\nNew Zealand defeated Australia 2\u20131 in a Test series. New Zealand were coached by Lory Blanchard. They then toured Great Britain and France, winning 2\u20131 in Britain and 2\u20130, with one draw, in France. It was the Kiwis first Test win on British soil since the 1907-08 All Golds tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092757-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 New Zealand rugby league season, International competitions\nAustralia defeated a New Zealand XIII 35-14 before losing to Auckland 14\u201315 at Carlaw Park. Coached by Neville Denton, Auckland included Mike McClennan, Bob McGuinn, Bernie Lowther, Dennis Williams, Roy Christian, Gary Woollard, Ken Stirling, Henry Tatana, Gene Woolsey, Don Mann, Murray Eade, Tony Kriletich and Ray Williams. Fred Schuster came on as a substitute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092757-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 New Zealand rugby league season, International competitions\nRoy Christian won the New Zealand Rugby League's player of the year award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092757-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 New Zealand rugby league season, National competitions, Rugby League Cup\nWest Coast held the Rugby League Cup at the end of the season, after they had defeated Wellington. Wellington had defeated Canterbury 19\u201313 to win the trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 77], "content_span": [78, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092757-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 New Zealand rugby league season, National competitions, Inter-district competition\nAuckland won the Rothmans trophy, defeating Waikato 44\u20139 in a semi final and Wellington 26\u201312 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 87], "content_span": [88, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092757-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 New Zealand rugby league season, National competitions, Inter-district competition\nEarlier in the year Auckland had defeated Waikato 48\u20135, Rest of New Zealand 33\u201317 in a Kiwis trial, Wellington 60\u20134, the West Coast 37-2 and Canterbury 28\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 87], "content_span": [88, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092757-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 New Zealand rugby league season, National competitions, Inter-district competition\nManawatu recorded their first victory over the Bay of Plenty, 24\u201319.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 87], "content_span": [88, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092757-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Auckland\nOtahuhu won the Auckland Rugby League's Fox Memorial Trophy, Rukutai Shield, Stormont Shield and Kiwi Shield. They defeated the Mount Albert Lions 25\u201312 in the Fox Memorial grand final. Marist Brothers won the Roope Rooster while Glenora won the Sharman Cup and Marist and Pakuranga shared the Norton Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 65], "content_span": [66, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092757-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Auckland\nEddie Wulf (Marist) won the Lipscombe Cup, Ken Stirling (Ellerslie) won the Rothville Trophy and Bert Humphries Memorial (back) award. Eddie Heatley (Otahuhu) won the Bert Humphries Memorial (forward) award. Paul Matete (Otahuhu) won the Tetley Trophy, Brian Tracey (Ponsonby) won the Painter Rosebowl Trophy and Morrie Robertson (Ellerslie) won the Hyland Memorial Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 65], "content_span": [66, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092757-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Auckland\nMurray Eade, Robert Orchard and Doug Gailey played for Ellerslie while Otahuhu included Roy Christian, Shane Dowsett, Dave Sorensen and Bob McGuinn. Tony Kriletich and Bill Burgoyne played for Marist and Mount Wellington included Mike McClennan. John O'Sullivan and Don Mann played for Ponsonby and Richmond included Bernie Lowther and Ray Williams. Te Atatu included Dennis Williams while Mount Albert included Gary Woollard and Henry Tatana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 65], "content_span": [66, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092757-0011-0000", "contents": "1971 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Canterbury\nPapanui won the Canterbury Rugby League's Pat Smith Challenge Trophy, defeating Addington 27\u20138 in the Grand Final. Papanui won the Massetti Cup while Linwood won the Gore Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 67], "content_span": [68, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092757-0012-0000", "contents": "1971 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Canterbury\nAs the Canterbury Rugby League, who had nine premier teams, and the West Coast Rugby League, who had five premier teams, played a trans-Alps series instead of both competitions having a bye.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 67], "content_span": [68, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092757-0013-0000", "contents": "1971 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Canterbury\nTrevor Williams (Hornby) won the D.V. Syme Rosebowl as Sportsman of the year. Phil Brown (Marist-Western) and John Watts (Linwood) shared the A.G.Bailey Challenge Cup while Trevor Williams (Hornby)\twon the Turner and Le Brun Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 67], "content_span": [68, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092757-0014-0000", "contents": "1971 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Canterbury\nJim Bond was the coach of University, who played in the senior division for the first time. Rodney Walker played for Papanui.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 67], "content_span": [68, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092757-0015-0000", "contents": "1971 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Other Competitions\nThis was Phillip Orchard's final season playing for the Ngongotaha Chiefs, as he moved to Wellington in 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 75], "content_span": [76, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092757-0016-0000", "contents": "1971 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Other Competitions\nGraeme West for the Hawera Hawks in the Taranaki Rugby League competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 75], "content_span": [76, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092758-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Newfoundland general election\nThe 1971 Newfoundland general election was held on 28 October 1971 to elect members of the 35th General Assembly of Newfoundland. It resulted in a hung parliament as, with the support of the Labrador Party's lone MHA, the Smallwood government had the support of 21 MHAs compared to 21 for the Progressive Conservative party. Smallwood ultimately resigned in January 1972 allowing Moores' Tories to form a government but the instability in the House led to the March 24, 1972 provincial election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092759-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Newham London Borough Council election\nElections to Newham London Borough Council were held in May 1971. The whole council was up for election. Turnout was 27.3%. This election had aldermen as well as councillors. Labour won all ten aldermen positions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092759-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Newham London Borough Council election, Background\nA total of 142 candidates stood in the election for the 60 seats being contested across 24 wards. 2 seats in one ward went unopposed. Candidates included a full slate from the Labour party, while the Liberal and Conservative parties stood 8 and 21 respectively. Other candidates included 42 Residents & Ratepayers, 3 Communists and 2 National Front.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092760-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Newry killings\nOn 23 October 1971 undercover soldiers from the British Army shot dead three unarmed Catholic civilians in disputed circumstances in Newry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092760-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Newry killings, Background\nThe Irish Troubles broke out in August 1969 after the Battle of the Bogside and the Belfast August 1969 riots. Soon after the British Army was called in to restore order but events quickly shaped the conflict into a three-way urban guerrilla war with Loyalist paramilitaries like the Ulster Volunteer Force on one side, Irish Republican paramilitaries like the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) on one side and the British state security services making up the other belligerent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092760-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Newry killings, Background\nThe killings in Newry on 23 October 1971 was one in a series of controversial incidents between 1970\u20131973 that involved the British Army shooting and killing Catholic Irish Nationalist civilians. During the Falls Curfew of July 1970 the British Army killed four Catholic civilians, the next year in August 1971 (when internment was being introduced) during the Ballymurphy Massacre they shot dead eleven civilians including a Catholic priest and a 50-year-old mother of eight. The most famous of these incidents was Bloody Sunday in January 1972 in which British paratroopers shot dead 14 civil rights protesters, later on that same year British army snipers shot dead five civilians and injured two more Catholic civilians in an event known as the Springhill massacre.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 801]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092760-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Newry killings, The shooting\nThe shooting happened when the undercover British soldiers who were in an observation post on the roof of a Woolworths store believed they saw a robbery taking place at a bank across the street and assumed the robbers were members of the IRA. Sean Ruddy (19), Robert Anderson (25) and Thomas McLoughlin (27) were all shot dead. The British Army said that it had received information that the Provisional IRA was going to launch an operation in the area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092760-0003-0001", "contents": "1971 Newry killings, The shooting\nNone of those killed were members of any paramilitary group and local eyewitnesses claim that the men were just having an argument with someone inside the bank, not robbing it, and that the army simply shot the three men without the men posing any serious risk to the soldiers or anybody else in the area. The shootings were carried out by the British Army\u2019s Royal Green Jackets. In 2011 the Northern Ireland Historical Enquiries Team (HET) released its four-year investigation into the shooting. The HET report concluded that the killings were \"a tragedy that should not have happened\". The report found there to be a \"question mark\" over the British Army's conduct. Arthur Ruddy, brother of Sean Ruddy and a former nationalist councillor, said the four-year-long investigation by the Historical Enquiries Team had vindicated the family, who always maintained the 19-year-old's killing was unlawful.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 934]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092760-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Newry killings, The shooting\nThere was intense rioting by the nationalist community in Newry for several days after the killing of the three men, with people directing their anger towards soldiers by throwing stones and, in some cases, petrol bombs at them. During the funerals of the men killed, most shops in the town closed out of respect to the dead men - except for the bank where the men had been shot, and the local post office. Both of these had their windows broken by youths throwing stones through them. After this there were further clashes with locals and the army, with the army firing CS gas and baton rounds at the mourners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 645]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092761-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Nice International Championships\nThe 1971 Nice International Championships, was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Nice Lawn Tennis Club in Nice, France that was part of Group D of the 1971 Grand Prix circuit. It was the inaugural edition of the tournament and was held from 29 March until 4 April 1971. Ilie N\u0103stase won the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092761-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Nice International Championships, Finals, Doubles\nIlie N\u0103stase / Ion \u021airiac defeated Pierre Barth\u00e8s / Fran\u00e7ois Jauffret 6\u20133, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 54], "content_span": [55, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092762-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Nippon Professional Baseball season\nThe 1971 Nippon Professional Baseball season was the 22nd season of operation of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092763-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 North American Soccer League season\nStatistics of North American Soccer League in season 1971. This was the 4th season of the NASL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092763-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 North American Soccer League season, Overview\nEight teams competed with Dallas Tornado winning the championship. However Dallas' road to that title was the stuff of legends. In Game 1 of the best-of-three semifinal against the Rochester Lancers, league scoring champion Carlos Metidieri of Rochester mercifully ended the longest match in NASL history, 2\u20131, late in the 6th 15\u00a0minute OT period. The golden goal was scored in the 176th minute, or less than four minutes shy of playing two complete games in one day! Three days later Dallas evened the series at one game each with a 3\u20131 regulation win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092763-0001-0001", "contents": "1971 North American Soccer League season, Overview\nIn the rubber match four days later, the two teams ended regulation tied again at 1 goal apiece. This time the game would reach a 4th OT before Bobby Moffat sent Dallas into the Finals in the 148\u00a0minute. Incredibly, only four days after that, Dallas lost Game 1 of the NASL Championship Series, 2\u20131, in the 3rd OT to Atlanta after 123\u00a0minutes. All totaled, Dallas had played 537\u00a0minutes of football (3\u00a0minutes short of six games) in 13\u00a0days time. Finally the Tornado were able to get control of the finals, pulling away in Games 2 and 3, by scores of 4\u20131 and 2\u20130 respectively, to capture the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 649]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092763-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 North American Soccer League season, Changes From the previous season, Rules changes\nPlayoffs series switched from a two-game aggregate score to a best-two-out-of-three match format. Any playoff games tied after 90\u00a0minutes would now be settled by golden goal (or sudden death) overtime periods lasting 15 minutes each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 89], "content_span": [90, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092763-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 North American Soccer League season, Regular season\nW = Wins, L = Losses, T= Ties, GF = Goals For, GA = Goals Against, PT= point system", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 56], "content_span": [57, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092763-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 North American Soccer League season, Regular season\n6\u00a0points for a win, 3\u00a0points for a tie, 0\u00a0points for a loss, 1\u00a0point for each goal scored up to three per game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 56], "content_span": [57, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092764-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 North Carolina Tar Heels football team\nThe 1971 North Carolina Tar Heels football team represented the North Carolina Tar Heels of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. The Tar Heels were led by fifth-year head coach Bill Dooley and played their home games at Kenan Memorial Stadium. North Carolina won the Atlantic Coast Conference with a perfect conference record of 6\u20130. They were invited to the 1971 Gator Bowl, where they lost to Georgia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092765-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 North Dakota Fighting Sioux football team\nThe 1971 North Dakota Fighting Sioux football team, also known as the Nodaks, was an American football team that represented the University of North Dakota in the North Central Conference (NCC) during the 1971 NCAA College Division football season. In its fourth year under head coach Jerry Olson, the team compiled a 6\u20133\u20131 record (5\u20132 against NCC opponents), won the NCC championship, and outscored opponents by a total of 245 to 142. The team played its home games at Memorial Stadium in Grand Forks, North Dakota.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092766-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 North Dakota State Bison football team\nThe 1971 North Dakota State Bison football team was an American football team that represented North Dakota State University during the 1971 NCAA College Division football season as a member of the North Central Conference. In their sixth year under head coach Ron Erhardt, the team compiled a 7\u20132 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092767-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 North Indian Ocean cyclone season\nThe 1971 North Indian Ocean cyclone season was part of the annual cycle of tropical cyclone formation. The season has no official bounds but cyclones tend to form between April and December. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northern Indian Ocean. There are two main seas in the North Indian Ocean\u2014the Bay of Bengal to the east of the Indian subcontinent and the Arabian Sea to the west of India.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092767-0000-0001", "contents": "1971 North Indian Ocean cyclone season\nThe official Regional Specialized Meteorological Centre in this basin is the India Meteorological Department (IMD), while the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) releases unofficial advisories. An average of five tropical cyclones form in the North Indian Ocean every season with peaks in May and November. Cyclones occurring between the meridians 45\u00b0E and 100\u00b0E are included in the season by the IMD.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092767-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Cyclone Ten (10B)\nThis cyclone was formed on September 27 and peaked as a Category-1 equivalent storm. On September 30, the storm made landfall over Sunderbans and dissipated over the state of Bihar by the next day. 60 people were killed due to the storm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092767-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, 1971 Odisha cyclone (12B)\nOn October 27 a tropical depression formed in the Bay of Bengal. It tracked northward, rapidly strengthened until reached a peak of 115\u00a0mph winds. The cyclone struck Paradip in Odisha, India, on October 29, and dissipated by the same day. The storm surge and flooding from the system caused 10,800 fatalities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 74], "content_span": [75, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092767-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Cyclone Thirteen (13A)\nA tropical cyclone moved through the Arabian Sea near the end of October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092767-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Cyclone Fifteen (15A)\nThis was a rare cyclone which threatened the Arabian Peninsula in the month of December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092768-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 North Vietnamese legislative election\nParliamentary elections were held in North Vietnam on 11 April 1971. Only candidates representing the Vietnamese Fatherland Front (an alliance of the Vietnamese Workers' Party together with various bloc parties and satellite organisations) contested the election. Voter turnout was reported to be 98.9%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092769-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Northeast Louisiana Indians football team\nThe 1971 Northeast Louisiana Indians football team was an American football team that represented Northeast Louisiana University (now known as the University of Louisiana at Monroe) as an independent during the 1971 NCAA College Division football season. In their eighth year under head coach Dixie B. White, the team compiled a 4\u20136\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092770-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Northern Illinois Huskies football team\nThe 1971 Northern Illinois Huskies football team represented Northern Illinois University in the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. The Huskies competed as an independent in the University Division, which became Division I in 1973. They were led by new head coach Jerry Ippoliti, where he led the Huskies to this first .500 season, and played their home games on campus at Huskie Stadium in DeKalb.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092771-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Northern Iowa Panthers football team\nThe 1971 Northern Iowa Panthers football team represented the University of Northern Iowa in the 1971 NCAA College Division football season as a member of the North Central Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092772-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Northwestern Wildcats football team\nThe 1971 Northwestern Wildcats team represented Northwestern University during the 1971 Big Ten Conference football season. In their eighth year under head coach Alex Agase, the Wildcats compiled a 7\u20134 record (6\u20133 against Big Ten Conference opponents) and finished in second place in the Big Ten Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092772-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Northwestern Wildcats football team\nThe team's offensive leaders were quarterback Maurie Daigneau with 1,733 passing yards, Al Robinson with 881 rushing yards, and Barry Pearson with 674 receiving yards. Ten Northwestern players received honors on the 1971 All-Big Ten Conference football team. They are: (1) Maurie Daigneau (AP-1; UPI-1); (2) running back Al Robinson (AP-2); (3) wide receiver Barry Pearson (AP-1; UPI-1); (4) offensive tackle Tom McCreight (AP-1); (5) defensive end Wil Hemby (UPI-2); (6) defensive tackle Jim Anderson (UPI-2); (7) linebacker John Voorhees (AP-2); and defensive ends (8) Eric Hutchinson (AP-1; UPI-1); (9) Jerry Brown (AP-2); and (10) Jack Duston (UPI-2). Eric Hutchinson was also selected as a first-team All-American by the Football Writers Association of America.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 807]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092773-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Norwegian Football Cup\nThe 1971 Norwegian Football Cup was won by Rosenborg after beating Fredrikstad in the cup final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092775-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team\nThe 1971 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team represented the University of Notre Dame during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092775-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team\nPrior to their concluding game at LSU, #7 Notre Dame (8\u20131) announced that they would not play in a bowl game this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092776-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Oakland Athletics season\nThe 1971 Oakland Athletics season involved the A's finishing first in the American League West with a record of 101 wins and 60 losses. In their first postseason appearance of any kind since 1931, the A's were swept in three games by the Baltimore Orioles in the American League Championship Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092776-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Oakland Athletics season, Regular season\nVida Blue became the first black player in the history of the American League to win the American League Cy Young Award. He was also the youngest AL player in the 20th century to win the MVP Award. During the year, Vida Blue was on the cover of Sports Illustrated and Time magazine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092776-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Oakland Athletics season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092776-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Oakland Athletics season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092776-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Oakland Athletics season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092776-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Oakland Athletics season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092776-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Oakland Athletics season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092776-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Oakland Athletics season, 1971 American League Championship Series, Game 1\nSunday, October 3, 1971, at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore, Maryland", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 79], "content_span": [80, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092776-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Oakland Athletics season, 1971 American League Championship Series, Game 2\nMonday, October 4, 1971, at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore, Maryland", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 79], "content_span": [80, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092776-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 Oakland Athletics season, 1971 American League Championship Series, Game 3\nTuesday, October 5, 1971, at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum in Oakland, California", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 79], "content_span": [80, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092777-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Oakland Raiders season\nThe 1971 Oakland Raiders season was the team's 12th season. After winning the AFC West in 1970, the Raiders failed to make the playoffs as their main rivals, the Kansas City Chiefs, would win the division title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092777-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Oakland Raiders season, Regular season, Standings\nNote: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092778-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Odisha Legislative Assembly election\nElections to the second Odisha Legislative Assembly were held in 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092778-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Odisha Legislative Assembly election, Constituencies\nThe elections were held for 140 seats. A total of 835 candidates contested for these 140 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 57], "content_span": [58, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092778-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Odisha Legislative Assembly election, Political Parties\nThree national parties, Communist Party of India, Indian National Congress and Swatantra Party along with the state party Utkal Congress took part in the assembly election. Congress party emerged again as the winner by winning 40% of the seats with a vote share of 28.74%. Harekrushna Mahatab again become the Chief Minister of the state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 60], "content_span": [61, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092778-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Odisha Legislative Assembly election, Government\nThe United Front a coalition of Swatantra Party who won 36 Assembly seats and the new regional party Utkal Congress who won 33 Assembly seats formed the government under the leadership of Independent candidate Bishwanath Das.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092778-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Odisha Legislative Assembly election, Government\nDas resigned on June 14, 1972 due to defection of a large number of members from the ruling coalition and on same day Nandini Satpathy of the Indian National Congress formed the government and continued till March 1973. Nandini Satpathy ousted due in-fighting of the members after which there was imposition of President's rule in the state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092779-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Odisha cyclone\nThe 1971 Odisha cyclone was a devastating tropical cyclone that struck the Indian state of Odisha (known as Orissa at the time) on October 29, 1971. The cyclone also affected the Indian state of West Bengal as well as East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh), which had been devastated by the 1970 Bhola cyclone just less than a year prior and was in the middle of Bangladesh Liberation War.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092779-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Odisha cyclone, Meteorological history\nThis tropical cyclone formed on October 26. Within few hours after its formation, due to presence of highly favorable conditions, the cyclone underwent rapid intensification which became an extremely severe cyclonic storm and Category 3 equivalent cyclone in one and ten minute mean windspeed on 29 October. At the time, the storm's central pressure was 966 hPa. At its peak intensity, the storm made landfall on the coast of Odisha near Paradip early on the morning of October 30 and weakened the same day. It then curved northeast and dissipated on October 31.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 43], "content_span": [44, 607]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092779-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Odisha cyclone, Impact\nThe storm surge flooded low lying areas of the Odisha coast, resulting in more than 10,000 deaths and killing 50,000 cattle. Hundreds of thousands of trees were uprooted. The cyclone destroyed more than 800,000 houses. Communications and power lines were cut for days, pre venting news of the disaster from reaching the outside world. Coastal districts of Odisha such as Bhadrak, Balasore, Cuttack and Jagatsinghpur were widely affected by this cyclone, since gusts were recorded to be up to 175 kph there.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092780-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Ohio Bobcats football team\nThe 1971 Ohio Bobcats football team was an American football team that represented Ohio University in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. In their 14th season under head coach Bill Hess, the Bobcats compiled a 5\u20135 record (2\u20133 against MAC opponents), finished in a tie for third place, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 240 to 173.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092781-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Ohio State Buckeyes football team\nThe 1971 Ohio State Buckeyes football team represented the Ohio State University in the 1971 Big Ten Conference football season. The Buckeyes compiled a 6\u20134 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092781-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Ohio State Buckeyes football team\nThe Buckeyes entered the season knowing it could not go to a bowl game, due to the Big Ten's \"no repeat\" rule, prohibiting conference schools from appearing in the Rose Bowl in consecutive seasons, plus the rule banning schools from playing in any bowl other than the Rose Bowl. The no-repeat rule was rescinded December 9 and went into effect for 1972; the prohibition on playing in bowls other than the Rose was not repealed until 1975.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092781-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Ohio State Buckeyes football team\nThis was the first season Ohio Stadium had artificial turf. The playing surface was scheduled to be installed in time for the 1970 season, but had been delayed. The AstroTurf field remained in place through the 1989 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092781-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Ohio State Buckeyes football team, Game summaries, Iowa\nDon Lamka, who spent the last two seasons as a reserve defensive back, made his debut at quarterback with 211 total yards and four touchdowns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092782-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Okinawa Reversion Agreement\nThe Okinawa Reversion Agreement (Japanese: \u6c96\u7e04\u8fd4\u9084\u5354\u5b9a, Hepburn: Okinawahenkan ky\u014dtei) was an agreement between Japan and the United States in which the United States relinquished in favor of Japan all rights and interests under Article III of the Treaty of San Francisco, which had been obtained as a result of the Pacific War, and thus return the Okinawa Prefecture to Japanese sovereignty. The document was signed simultaneously in Washington, DC, and Tokyo on June 17, 1971, by William P. Rogers on behalf of United States President Richard Nixon and Kiichi Aichi on behalf of Japanese Prime Minister Eisaku Sat\u014d. The document was not ratified in Japan until November 24, 1971, by the National Diet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 731]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092782-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Okinawa Reversion Agreement, Terms\nThe agreement is divided into nine major articles that specify the details of this agreement. America returned control of the Ryukyu Islands and the Dait\u014d Islands (also known as the Okinawa Prefecture) to Japan, if the United States Armed Forces could occupy Okinawa as well have access to its facilities. The Americans maintained a large military presence in Okinawa because its strategic location and intense fighting made it known as the \"Keystone Of The Pacific\" during World War II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092782-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Okinawa Reversion Agreement, Terms\nUnder the agreement, the Ryukyu and the Dait\u014d Islands would become subject to all existing and future treaties agreed upon between the Americans and the Japanese. The United States would help to repair damages done to land seized by American administrations. The treaty also states that Japan would recognize actions taken by the United States administration in those areas, and that the administration would not be held liable for criminal activity during its time. The Japanese government also agreed to pay the United States government $320,000,000 over the next five years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092782-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Okinawa Reversion Agreement, Terms\nThe goals of the agreement for the United States were to transfer sovereignty, ensure that the United States could help a democratic government, and ensure the Japan would not be able to endanger the peace.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092782-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Okinawa Reversion Agreement, Negotiations\nThe reversion of Okinawa back to Japan was met with several complications between Japanese and American diplomats. Many diplomats met with each other and wanted to solve the issues between the two countries, but complications and conflicting interests made reversion problematic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092782-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Okinawa Reversion Agreement, Negotiations, Early negotiations\nNegotiations began between Japanese Foreign Minister Kiichi Aichi and United States Ambassador to Japan U. Alexis Johnson in 1968. The two worked well together and establishied an effective working relationship in the hope of quickly coming to an understanding. The discussions moved slowly at first because Japan's primary concern was for a confirmed date of reversion, before agreeing upon the specifics of the agreement, which came to be known as the \"clean-slate\" policy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 66], "content_span": [67, 542]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092782-0005-0001", "contents": "1971 Okinawa Reversion Agreement, Negotiations, Early negotiations\nAichi's active role in foreign policy helped make a breakthrough in negotiations when he suggested Reversion by 1972, suggesting to Johnson that military bases could maintain all present freedoms until both governments agreed upon a gradual removal without any threat to regional security. In a following negotiation with Henry Kissinger, Kissinger stated that the military presence in Okinawa served as a deterrent to nuclear weapon development.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 66], "content_span": [67, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092782-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Okinawa Reversion Agreement, Negotiations, Early negotiations\nMorton Halperin outlined the American stance on the reversion. Firstly, removal of American nuclear weapons from Okinawa. If North Korea were determined to invade South Korea, the Americans willingness to fire nuclear weapons to defend the South could deter the North from invading at all. The United States was also concerned that reversion of Okinawa would be interpreted by others as retreating from Asia. The United States considered Okinawa part of Japan and intended to revert sovereignty by 1972 but only if its concerns were completely dealt with by then.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 66], "content_span": [67, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092782-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Okinawa Reversion Agreement, Negotiations, Japan-US Kyoto Conference\nAt the Japan-US Kyoto Conference, Japan argued that keeping nuclear weapons in Okinawa would be redundant and that there were more suitable areas for military presence. Support from American specialists helped to persuade Americans the benefits of reversion. After the conference, a summary stated that the United States had an official concern that Japan would support the United States if there were a crisis in the Korean Peninsula.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 73], "content_span": [74, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092782-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Okinawa Reversion Agreement, Negotiations, Talks between Kishi and Nixon\nSpecial Envoy Kishi met President Nixon with two preconceived desires. Japan sought reversion by 1972 with, at least, denuclearized US military bases. On April 1, 1969, Kishi told President Nixon that \"many Japanese feel that if Japan is to play a greater role in Asia, it is quite unacceptable for part of their country to remain occupied by a foreign power.\" Kishi also believed that maintaining the status quo in Okinawa could risk political fallout. Nixon assured him that he was well informed about the topic and that relations between Japan and the United States were important to him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 77], "content_span": [78, 669]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092782-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 Okinawa Reversion Agreement, Negotiations, Final stages\nThe United States had informed Japan that reversion was possible if in the event of an emergency, nuclear weapons were allowed in Okinawa. The issue was brought forth by the United States as an ultimatum. Japan complied, but the ultimatum brought up complications on what was considered an emergency that warranted nuclear weapons. Although Japan did not believe such an emergency would ever occur, its goal for total denuclearization had failed. The United States also sought for fair competition with Japanese wool textile manufacturers. Because economy and government are intertwined, America pressed for regulations on wool manufacturers. Since the issue of reversion became tied to trade, top-secret discussions took place at the White House and ended with an agreement to meet with other countries concerning the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in which Japan promised to support the Americans' search for fair trade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 991]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092782-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 Okinawa Reversion Agreement, Negotiations, Final stages\nChina criticized the reversion of sovereignty because of its claims on the area, based on ancient Chinese maritime logs, Voyage with a Tail Wind. Its references were judged insufficiently credible to validate their claim. The historical circumstances remain a subject of debate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092782-0011-0000", "contents": "1971 Okinawa Reversion Agreement, Negotiations, Reaction in Japan\nThe agreements sparked controversy in both Okinawa and Mainland Japan for different reasons. Despite the desire of many inhabitants of the islands for some form of independence, the Japanese government decided to negotiate the reversion of the prefecture back to its control. The document was not ratified in Japan until November 24, 1971, by the National Diet. Even before the discussions, the Ryukyu independence movement aimed to have Okinawa independent from both America and Japan. In Tokyo, a group of radical students discontent with American military presence in Okinawa, rioted using Molotov cocktails and steel pipes, killing a police officer. The Koza riot was another example of the social unrest that took place in Japan during that time. American military forces reported that the reversion of sovereignty created a new and challenging environment for military forces to deal with.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 65], "content_span": [66, 961]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092782-0012-0000", "contents": "1971 Okinawa Reversion Agreement, Negotiations, Okinawa Reversion 40th Anniversary Ceremony\nIn 2011, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda visited Okinawa and gave a speech stating the Japanese government supports Okinawa's independent plans to help improve the prefecture. He also acknowledged the burden that the military bases in Okinawa have on the islanders and claimed to continue trying to reduce the burden. Noda also said, \"It is Okinawa that will be the driving force for Japan as a whole, creating a role for itself at the forefront of the Asia-Pacific era. It is we who are responsible for creating this future. There is no doubt that the aspirations of the people of Okinawa for peace, and their globally-minded spirit as a \"bridge between nations\" will be a tremendous asset in the development and growth of Okinawa in the 21st century.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 91], "content_span": [92, 843]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092782-0013-0000", "contents": "1971 Okinawa Reversion Agreement, Negotiations, Okinawa Reversion 40th Anniversary Ceremony\nCitizens in Okinawa continue to seek the removal of military bases and equal living standards with mainland Japanese citizens. Since the reversion, the inhabitants of Okinawa rely on government investment for improvement, instead of American military spending.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 91], "content_span": [92, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092783-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Oklahoma Sooners football team\nThe 1971 Oklahoma Sooners football team represented the University of Oklahoma in the 1977 NCAA Division I football season. Oklahoma was a member of the Big Eight Conference and played its home games in Oklahoma Memorial Stadium where it has played its home games since 1923. The team posted an 11\u20131 and 6\u20131 conference record under head coach Chuck Fairbanks. The Sooners finished the season ranked #2, losing only once, 35\u201331 to eventual national champion Nebraska in the 1971 Nebraska vs. Oklahoma football game, which has become known as Game of the Century.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092783-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Oklahoma Sooners football team\nIn 1971, offensive coordinator Barry Switzer perfected the wishbone offense as it led the nation in both scoring (45 points average) and total yards (563 total yards average), and set an NCAA record by averaging over 472.4 (5196 in 11 games) rushing yards in a season. The team holds the current school record with 7.07 yards per rushing attempt and 7.6 yards per play as well as the records for 469.6 rushing yards (5635 in 12 games counting bowl game) and 566.83 yards of total offense per game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092783-0001-0001", "contents": "1971 Oklahoma Sooners football team\nThe team also holds the single-season rushing touchdowns record of 62 and rushing touchdowns per game record of 5.17. The team's records of 711 single-game rushing yards and 785 total yards stood for nine seasons. Jack Mildren's single-season record for yards rushing by a quarterback of 1140 would be broken three seasons later by Freddie Solomon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092783-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Oklahoma Sooners football team\nGreg Pruitt set the current national single-season record with 8.98 yards per attempt, the school's single-game records of 294 rushing yards and 374 all-purpose yards. Meanwhile, Jon Harrison set the single-season and career yards per reception with 29.1 and 27.0. His 2066 single-season all-purpose yards record stood until Quentin Griffin broke it in 2002. Joe Wylie's kickoff return average record of 28.5 stood for 27 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092783-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Oklahoma Sooners football team\nThe team was led by three All-Americans: Pruitt, Tom Brahaney and Jack Mildren. The team won its first nine games on a schedule that included five ranked opponents (In order, #17 USC, #3 Texas, #6 Colorado, #1 Nebraska and #5 Auburn). All five of these opponents finished the season ranked. The only loss was to Nebraska. They played Auburn in the Sugar Bowl and won 40\u201322.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092783-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Oklahoma Sooners football team\nThe top three teams in the final AP poll for the 1971 season were from the Big Eight: Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Colorado. The top two teams had never been from the same conference, and this year had three.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092783-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Oklahoma Sooners football team\nPruitt led the team in rushing with 1760 yards, Mildren led the team in passing yards for the third straight season with 889 yards and also in scoring with 12 points, Harrison led the team in receiving with 494 yards, Mark Driscoll led the team in tackles with 134, and John Shelly led the team in interceptions with 5.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092783-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, Nebraska\nOklahoma and Nebraska battled back and forth in the Game of the Century in front of a sold-out crowd in Norman and over 55 million viewers on ABC-TV on Thanksgiving Day. Nebraska struck first with a 72-yard Johnny Rodgers punt return, but Oklahoma pulled ahead by 3 by halftime. The Cornhuskers came back strong in the third quarter with two more touchdowns, but the Sooners responded with two of their own to retake the lead with only 7:10 remaining. Down by 3 points, the Huskers went on a final drive and with only 1:38 remaining, Jeff Kinney scored his fourth touchdown of the day for the lead and the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 61], "content_span": [62, 672]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092783-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Postseason, NFL draft\nThe following players were drafted into the National Football League following the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 58], "content_span": [59, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092784-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Oklahoma State Cowboys football team\nThe 1971 Oklahoma State Cowboys football team represented Oklahoma State University in the Big Eight Conference during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. In their third and final season under head coach Floyd Gass, the Cowboys compiled a 4\u20136\u20131 record (2\u20135 against conference opponents), tied for fifth place in the conference, and were outscored by opponents by a combined total of 322 to 184.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092784-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Oklahoma State Cowboys football team\nThe team's statistical leaders included Bobby Cole with 631 rushing yards, Tony Pounds with 792 passing yards, and Dick Graham with 631 receiving yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092784-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Oklahoma State Cowboys football team\nThe team played its home games at Lewis Field in Stillwater, Oklahoma.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092784-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Oklahoma State Cowboys football team, After the season\nThe 1972 NFL Draft was held on February 1\u20132, 1972. The following Cowboy was selected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092785-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Ole Miss Rebels football team\nThe 1971 Ole Miss Rebels football team represented the University of Mississippi during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092785-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Ole Miss Rebels football team\nIt was the first Rebel squad since 1946 to not be coached by Johnny Vaught, who was forced to take a leave of absence midway through the previous campaign due to health concerns. This was also Ole Miss' last all-white varsity team. The Rebels and Southeastern Conference rival LSU were the last major college teams still fielding all-white squads. LSU would also field its first desegregated varsity squad in 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092786-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Omloop Het Volk\nThe 1971 Omloop Het Volk was the 26th edition of the Omloop Het Volk cycle race and was held on 25 March 1971. The race started and finished in Ghent. The race was won by Eddy Merckx.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092787-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Ontario general election\nThe 1971 Ontario general election was held on October 21, 1971, to elect the 117 members of the 29th Legislative Assembly of Ontario (Members of Provincial Parliament, or \"MPPs\") of the Province of Ontario.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092787-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Ontario general election\nThe Ontario Progressive Conservative Party, led by Bill Davis, who had replaced John Robarts as PC leader and premier earlier in the year, won a ninth consecutive term in office, and maintained its majority in the legislature, increasing its caucus in the legislature by eight seats from its result in the previous election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092787-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Ontario general election\nThe Ontario Liberal Party, led by Robert Nixon, lost seven seats, but continued in the role of official opposition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092787-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Ontario general election\nThe social democratic Ontario New Democratic Party, led by Stephen Lewis, lost one seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092787-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Ontario general election\nThis election marked the first time that the provincial election was held on a Thursday. Subsequently, every provincial election has also been held on a Thursday, with the exception of the 2007 Ontario general election, which was held on a Wednesday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092788-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Open Championship\nThe 1971 Open Championship was the 100th Open Championship, played 7\u201310 July at Royal Birkdale Golf Club in Southport, England. Lee Trevino won the first of his consecutive Open Championships, one stroke ahead of Lu Liang-Huan. It was the third of his six major titles and his second consecutive; he won the U.S. Open less than a month earlier in a playoff over Jack Nicklaus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092788-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Open Championship\nTrevino became the fourth player to win both the U.S. Open and the Open Championship in the same year, joining Bobby Jones (1926, 1930), Gene Sarazen (1932), and Ben Hogan (1953). Subsequent winners of both were Tom Watson (1982) and Tiger Woods (2000); all six are Americans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092788-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Open Championship\nTrevino also won the Canadian Open the previous week near Montreal for three national titles in 1971, all won in less than a month.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092788-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Open Championship\nThis was the last major championship of 1971 because the PGA Championship was played in February instead of its traditional date in August. (In 2019 the PGA moved to May.) Trevino's win, therefore, assured that Americans won all four major championships in 1971 (Charles Coody won the Masters Tournament and Nicklaus captured the PGA). This was the fifth time this had happened in golf history. (It has happened five more times since 1971 but none since 1982.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092788-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Open Championship, Round summaries, Second round\nSource:Amateurs: Bonallack (\u22123), Melnyk (+4),Humphreys (+6), Berry (+7), Carr (+8), Foster (+9), Birtwell (+11), Bird (+12), Rolley (+14).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 53], "content_span": [54, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092789-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Orange Bowl\nThe 1971 Orange Bowl was the 37th edition of the college football bowl game, played at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida, on Friday, January 1. Part of the 1970\u201371 bowl season, it matched the third-ranked Nebraska Cornhuskers, champions of the Big Eight Conference, and the #5 LSU Tigers, champions of the Southeastern Conference (SEC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092789-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Orange Bowl\nEarlier on New Year's Day, the two top-ranked teams lost their bowl games: #1 Texas in the Cotton and #2 Ohio State in the Rose. The Huskers were aware when they took the field that night that they could claim the top ranking in the AP writers poll with a victory. An\u00a0LSU victory would likely have given Notre Dame the national title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092789-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Orange Bowl\nAhead early, Nebraska rallied in the fourth quarter to win 17\u201312.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 82]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092789-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Orange Bowl, Game summary\nPaul Rogers kicked a 25-yard field goal for Nebraska to take an early lead. Joe Orduna scored on a three-yard touchdown run, as Nebraska extended its lead to 10\u20130. Late in the second quarter, LSU got a 36-yard field goal from Mark Lumpkin to cut the lead to 10\u20133 at halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 30], "content_span": [31, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092789-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Orange Bowl, Game summary\nIn the third quarter, Lumpkin added a 25-yard field goal to make it 10\u20136. On the final play of the third quarter, Buddy Lee threw a 31-yard touchdown pass to Lance Chaffee to put LSU ahead 12\u201310. The Huskers then drove 67 yards and quarterback Jerry Tagge scored from a yard out with 8:50 remaining; it was the game's last scoring play and gave Nebraska the 17\u201312 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 30], "content_span": [31, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092789-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Orange Bowl, National champions\nUndefeated Nebraska (11\u20130\u20131) was named national champion in the final AP poll, released after the bowls in January. With the narrow defeat, LSU (9\u20133) fell only two spots, from fifth to seventh, its last top-10 finish until finishing fifth in 1987. The UPI coaches poll was released in early December (before the bowls) through the 1973 season; it had Texas as first, as it did not consider their 24\u201311 loss to Notre Dame\u2014which defeated LSU 3\u20130 at South Bend in November\u2014in the Cotton Bowl on New Year's Day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 36], "content_span": [37, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092789-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Orange Bowl, Artificial turf\nThis was the first Orange Bowl played on artificial turf, on Poly-Turf, a competitor to AstroTurf. Super Bowl V, the first on artificial turf, was played on the same field on January 17. It was installed prior to the 1970 season and lasted just two years, and its replacement for four more. It was removed shortly after Super Bowl X, played in January 1976.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 33], "content_span": [34, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092789-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Orange Bowl, Artificial turf\nNebraska had a distinct advantage on the artificial surface, installing AstroTurf at Memorial Stadium in 1970 and playing six home games that season, as well as wins at Minnesota and Kansas. Meanwhile, LSU played its first game ever on artificial turf when it defeated Alabama at Legion Field in Birmingham in its seventh game of 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 33], "content_span": [34, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092789-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Orange Bowl, Artificial turf\nNebraska did not lose a game on artificial turf until the end of the 1972 regular season, falling 17\u201314 at home to Oklahoma.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 33], "content_span": [34, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092789-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 Orange Bowl, Cigarette advertising\nIn April 1970, Congress passed the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act banning the advertising of cigarettes on television and radio; in order to allow the New Year's Day football games to keep their already-sold cigarette ads, the prohibition was set to begin on at midnight Eastern Standard Time January 2, 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 39], "content_span": [40, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092789-0009-0001", "contents": "1971 Orange Bowl, Cigarette advertising\nAiring in prime time on the East Coast, the 1971 Orange Bowl thus became the last televised sporting event to carry cigarette ads, the final one (for Winston) airing at 10:54\u00a0p.m. (The last tobacco advertisement on network TV, for Virginia Slims, was shown at 11:59\u00a0p.m. during a break on The Tonight Show).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 39], "content_span": [40, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092789-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 Orange Bowl, Future meetings\nThe teams next met in the 1975 season opener at Lincoln, with the Cornhuskers prevailing 10\u20137. In the 1976 season opener at Baton Rouge, the top-ranked Cornhuskers escaped with a 6\u20136 tie after LSU's Mike Conway missed a 44-yard field goal in the closing seconds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 33], "content_span": [34, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092789-0011-0000", "contents": "1971 Orange Bowl, Future meetings\nNebraska won three bowl meetings vs. LSU in the 1980s: the 1983 Orange Bowl, 1985 Sugar Bowl and 1987 Sugar Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 33], "content_span": [34, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092790-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Oregon State Beavers football team\nThe 1971 Oregon State Beavers football team represented Oregon State University in the Pacific-8 Conference (Pac-8) during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. In their seventh season under head coach Dee Andros, the Beavers compiled a 5\u20136 record (3\u20133 in Pac-8, fifth), and were outscored 295\u00a0to\u00a0131. They\u00a0played three home games on campus at Parker Stadium in Corvallis, with one at Civic\u00a0Stadium in\u00a0Portland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092790-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Oregon State Beavers football team\nOregon State defeated rival Oregon in the Civil\u00a0War game for the eighth consecutive year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092790-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Oregon State Beavers football team\nThis was the first of 28 consecutive losing seasons for the Beavers, and OSU did not win five games in a season again until 1998.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092791-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Oregon Webfoots football team\nThe 1971 Oregon Webfoots football team represented the University of Oregon during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. Home games were played in Eugene at Autzen Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092791-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Oregon Webfoots football team\nLed by fifth-year head coach Jerry Frei, the Ducks were 5\u20136 overall and 2\u20134 in the Pacific-8 Conference. They\u00a0did not play UCLA and lost the Civil\u00a0War to Oregon State for an eighth consecutive year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092791-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Oregon Webfoots football team\nOregon was led by junior quarterback Dan Fouts and senior All-American halfback Bobby\u00a0Moore (Ahmad\u00a0Rash\u0101d), the fourth overall pick of the 1972 NFL Draft, taken by the St. Louis Cardinals. Rash\u0101d played ten seasons in the NFL, primarily as a wide receiver with the Minnesota\u00a0Vikings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092791-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Oregon Webfoots football team\nTwo months after the season, Frei resigned as head coach on January 19, 1972, and assistant coach Dick\u00a0Enright was promoted two weeks\u00a0later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092791-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Oregon Webfoots football team, All-conference\nFour Oregon seniors were named to the All-Pacific-8 team: halfback Bobby\u00a0Moore, tackle Tom\u00a0Drougas, guard John\u00a0McKean, and defensive back Bill\u00a0Drake. It\u00a0was the third straight year on the first team for\u00a0Moore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092792-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Orsz\u00e1gos Bajnoks\u00e1g I (men's water polo)\n1971 Orsz\u00e1gos Bajnoks\u00e1g I (men's water polo) was the 65th water polo championship in Hungary. There were ten teams who played two-round match for the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092792-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Orsz\u00e1gos Bajnoks\u00e1g I (men's water polo), Final list\n* M: Matches W: Win D: Drawn L: Lost G+: Goals earned G-: Goals got P: Point", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092793-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Ottawa Rough Riders season\nThe 1971 Ottawa Rough Riders finished the season in 3rd place in the Eastern Conference with a 6\u20138 record and lost in the Eastern Semi-Final game to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092794-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Oxford-Cambridge rugby union tour of Argentina\nThe1971 Oxford e Cambridge rugby union tour of Argentina and Brazil was a series of matches played between July and September 1971 by a selection of the British players of Oxford University RFC & Cambridge University R.U.F.C..", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092794-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Oxford-Cambridge rugby union tour of Argentina\nA mixed selection, formed also of many international players of British national team, students at Oxford and Cambridge universities were arranged for this tour the fourth after the historical 1948, 1956 ,and 1965 tours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092794-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Oxford-Cambridge rugby union tour of Argentina\nThe university team lost both the Test matches against the Pumas", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092794-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Oxford-Cambridge rugby union tour of Argentina, Results\nUniversidad de Neuqu\u00e9n: M. Cecheto; D. Segovia, F. G\u00f3mez, L. Lorences, A. Buitrago; J. Blok, J. Leiva; G. Peralta, M. Kodelja, J. Escalada; O. Larice, A. Saravia; C. Silfeni (cap); H. Goncalves, R. Dom\u00ednguez. Oxford-Cambridge: P. Caroll (cap); I. Dunbar, C. Saville, P. Smith, G. Philips; J. Williams, B. Carroll; J. Redmond, W. Jones, S. James; P. Gordon, N. Witney; P. Hinto, P. Keith-Roach, A. Douglas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 60], "content_span": [61, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092794-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Oxford-Cambridge rugby union tour of Argentina, Results\nMendoza: J. Castro; M. Brandi, O. Terranova, R. Tarquini, E. Gand\u00eda; C. Navesi, L. Chac\u00f3n; J. Navesi, E. Casale (cap), J. Nasazzi; E. S\u00e1nchez, A. Cataneo; C. Gui\u00f1az\u00fa, L. Ramos, R. Ira\u00f1eta. Oxford-Cambridge: P. Carroll; G. Phillips, R. Jones, K. Hughes, T. Dunbar; D. Bell, J. Page; P. Gordon, G. Redmond, W. Jones; A. Rodgers, N. Witny; R. Skiner, D. Barry, N. Hinton", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 60], "content_span": [61, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092794-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Oxford-Cambridge rugby union tour of Argentina, Results\nC\u00f3rdoba: F.Mezquida; E.Vaca Narvaja, G.Pispiero, C.Antoraz, J.J.Rubio; R.Ag\u00fcero, J.Vera; C.Cottorano, H.Barrea, D.Torrecillas; R.Pasaglia, R.Borsdoch; G.Ribeca, A.Paz, R.Dunn Oxford-Cambridge: P.Carroll; G.Philips, K.Hughes, P.Smith, R.Jones; J.Williams, B.Carroll; S.James, G.Redmond, W.Jones; D.Greenwood, A.Rodgers; N.Hinton, P.Keith-Roach, A.Douglas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 60], "content_span": [61, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092794-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Oxford-Cambridge rugby union tour of Argentina, Results\nTucum\u00e1n: J.Vega; C.Cisint, R.Grunauer, C.Odstril, J.Rojas; C.Rojas, C.Nieva; J.Bach, J.Ghiringhelli (capt. ), J.Veglia; I.Iramain, O.Ferrari; J.Olmos, M.Iramain, C.P\u00e9rez Oxford-Cambridge: P.Carroll (capt. ); G.Phillips, D.Bell, S.Saville, R.Jones; J.Williams, J.Page; W.Jones, S.Janes, D.Greenwood; K.Witney, A.Rodgers; A.Douglas, D.Parry, R.Skinner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 60], "content_span": [61, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092794-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Oxford-Cambridge rugby union tour of Argentina, Results\nSanta Fe: E.Amanzio; F.Williams, H.Laur\u00eda, G.Ibazquez, A.Eckard; B.Kreczmann, E.Tenca; A.Donet, A.Fidalgo, R.Campanella; D.Mota, P.Giardini; J.Colombo, J.Aguilera, R.Gonz\u00e1lez. Oxford-Cambridge: P.Carroll (capt. ); G.Phillips, P.Smith, K.Hughes, R.Jones; J.Williams, J.Page; R.Wilkinson, P.Gordon, S.Jones; N.Witney, R.Rodgers; R.Skinner, P.Keith-Roach, P.Milton", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 60], "content_span": [61, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092794-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Oxford-Cambridge rugby union tour of Argentina, Results\nRosario: L.Huljich; C.Garc\u00eda, C.Blanco, J.Seaton, G.Blanco; J.Scilabra, M.Escalante; M.Chesta (cap. ), J.Imhoff, E.Mainnini; H.Su\u00e1rez, M.Senatore; R.Fariello, J.Fradua, S.Furno. Oxford-Cambridge: P.Carroll (cap. ); G.Phillips, P.Smith, K.Hughes, R.Jones; D.Bell, J.Page; R.Wilkinson, P.Gordon, A.Jones; N.Witney, R.Rodgers; N.Hinton, D.Parry, A.Douglas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 60], "content_span": [61, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092794-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 Oxford-Cambridge rugby union tour of Argentina, Results\nBuenos Aires: M.Alonso; J.Otaola, M.Rodr\u00edguez Jurado, L.Esteras, G.Escobar;C.Mart\u00ednez, M.Cutler (capt. ); M.Iglesias, J.Braceras, J.Carracedo; J.Borghi, C.Gomis; F.Ins\u00faa, G.Casas, O.Carbone Oxford-Cambridge: P.Carroll (capt. ); G.Phillips, C.Saville, K.Hughes, I.Dunbar; D.Bell, B.Carroll; S.James, G.Redmon, W.Jones; R.Wilkinson, A.Rodgers; P.Hinton, P.D \u0301A.Keith-Roach, R.Skinner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 60], "content_span": [61, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092794-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 Oxford-Cambridge rugby union tour of Argentina, Results\nMar del Plata: J.Viders; D.Filippa, C.Sosa (capt. ), F.Uriaguereca, G.Severino; R.L \u0301Erario, R.Caparelli; R.Panzarini, M.Riego, E.Feullasier; W.Heathi, D.Cordasco; R.Bonomo, M.Blanco, D.Sepe. Oxford-Cambridge: P.Carroll; P.Greenwood, G.Redmon, S.James; M.Witney, P.Gordon; R.Skinner, D.Parry, A.Douglas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 60], "content_span": [61, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092795-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 PGA Championship\nThe 1971 PGA Championship was the 53rd PGA Championship, played February 25\u201328 at the original PGA National Golf Club, presently known as BallenIsles Country Club (East Course) in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092795-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 PGA Championship\nJack Nicklaus won the second of his five PGA Championships, two strokes ahead of Billy Casper, the reigning Masters champion. Nicklaus led wire-to-wire, and held a four-stroke lead over Gary Player after 54 holes, with Casper seven shots back. The two were pre-tournament favorites, along with Arnold Palmer, who shot an opening round 75 and finished at 289 (+1), eight strokes back.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092795-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 PGA Championship\nNicklaus became the first in history to complete the modern career Grand Slam for a second time; two victories in each of the four major championships. He completed his third career grand slam at the 1978 Open Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092795-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 PGA Championship\nThe championship was played in February rather than August, due to anticipated oppressive summer weather in Florida. The rescheduling changed the PGA Championship from the fourth and final major of the calendar year to the first in 1971, and the 1970 and 1971 editions were consecutive majors. It returned to August in 1972 at Oakland Hills in Michigan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092796-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 PGA Tour\nThe 1971 PGA Tour season was from January 7 to December 12. The season consisted of 44 official money events. Lee Trevino won the most tournaments, six, and there were 10 first-time winners. Trevino won two majors, the U.S. Open and British Open, in a span of three weeks. In between, he also won the Canadian Open to become the first to win all three in the same season. The tournament results and award winners are listed below.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092796-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 PGA Tour, Tournament results\nThe following table shows all the official money events for the 1971 season. \"Date\" is the ending date of the tournament, usually a Sunday. The numbers in parentheses after the winners' names are the number of wins they had on the tour up to and including that event. Majors are shown in bold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 33], "content_span": [34, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092796-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 PGA Tour, Tournament results\nThe PGA Championship was played in February, rather than August, in order to avoid the intense heat and humidity of Florida in the summer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 33], "content_span": [34, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092796-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 PGA Tour, Dave Hill antitrust lawsuit\nAt the Colonial National Invitation, Dave Hill shot rounds of 77-85 to miss the cut. On his last hole, Hill threw a ball out of a sand trap. Hill was disqualified but it was for his signing a scorecard with an incorrect score on it. When Hill went to play in his next tournament, the Danny Thomas Memphis Classic, Hill was told he was being fined $500 for conduct unbecoming a professional golfer. Hill was required to pay the fine before teeing it up in the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 42], "content_span": [43, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092796-0003-0001", "contents": "1971 PGA Tour, Dave Hill antitrust lawsuit\nHe did so but less than a week later, Hill filed a one-million dollar antitrust suit against the PGA Tour. In response, the tour put Hill on probation for one year. Hill then increased the amount of damages he was seeking to three-million dollars. The litigation was resolved out of court in less than a year and Hill was taken off probation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 42], "content_span": [43, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092797-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates\nThis is a list of the 1971 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates. The event was held in mid-October at PGA National Golf Club in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092797-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates\nAfter three 72-hole regional qualifiers, there were 75 players in the 108-hole final qualifying tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092797-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates\nBob Zender was the medalist as 23 players earned their tour cards. Overall, according to the Orlando Sentinel's Jim Warters, \"The PGA tour qualifying school came and went just about the way the experts predicted.\" Elite, \"nationally-known\" amateurs such as Lanny Wadkins, Steve Melnyk, Allen Miller, and John Mahaffey \"graduated to the tour with little difficulty.\" In addition, Bruce Fleisher and David Graham, \"a couple of relatively new pros who should have earned their diplomas earlier,\" also finished in the top ten. In addition, the graduating class is considered to be one of the greatest in PGA Tour Qualifying Tournament history. Wadkins, Mahaffey, Graham, and another graduate, Tom Watson, went on to win major championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 778]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092797-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates\nSam Adams was considered to be the big surprise of the tournament. He opened with a 69, one of few sub-70 scores in the first round. He then shot rounds of 74 and 76 to fall behind. However, he closed with rounds of 70-70-69, seven-under-par over the course of those three rounds, to earn playing privileges. \"I really didn't expect to do this well,\" Adams said after the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092797-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates\nDavid Glenz had the best \"comeback\" of the tournament. He opened with rounds of 75, 74, and 80. He came back with consecutive rounds of 72, however, to put him in a tie for 28th place, just outside the cut-off figure. He opened the final round \"shakily\" with three pars. He then hit a poor drive and approach shot to the 4th hole. However, he holed his chip shot for a birdie. He made two birdies thereafter for a bogey-free 69 (\u22123). Glenz earned his card by multiple shots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092797-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates\nMac O'Grady made his first of many Q-school appearances at this school. He did not successfully graduate. Calvin Peete also made his first appearance at the PGA Tour Qualifying Tournament. He did not successfully graduate either. Greg Powers attempted to make the tour for the second straight year. He was successful this time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092798-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Pacific Southwest Open\nThe 1971 Pacific Southwest Open was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Los Angeles Tennis Center in Los Angeles, California in the United States and was part of the 1971 Grand Prix tennis circuit. It was the 45th edition of the tournament and ran from September 20 through September 26, 1971. Pancho Gonzales, aged 43, won the men's singles title and $10,000 first prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092798-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Pacific Southwest Open\nThe women's singles title was divided between Billie Jean King and Rosie Casals. 1971 was the last year this tournament was a combined men's and women's event. That year, a separate Los Angeles based professional women's tournament was inaugurated: The LA Women's Tennis Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092798-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Pacific Southwest Open, Finals, Men's Doubles\nJohn Alexander / Phil Dent defeated Frank Froehling / Clark Graebner 7\u20136, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092798-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Pacific Southwest Open, Finals, Women's Doubles\nRosie Casals / Billie Jean King defeated Fran\u00e7oise D\u00fcrr / Judy Tegart Dalton 6\u20132, 5\u20137, 7\u20136", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092799-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Pacific Tigers football team\nThe 1971 Pacific Tigers football team represented the University of the Pacific (UOP) in the 1971 NCAA University Division football season as a member of the Pacific Coast Athletic Association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092799-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Pacific Tigers football team\nLed by second-year head coach Homer Smith, the Tigers played home games at Pacific Memorial Stadium in Stockton, California. They finished the season at 3\u20138 (1\u20134 in PCAA, sixth), and were outscored 176\u2013198.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092799-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Pacific Tigers football team, Team players in the NFL\nNo UOP players were selected in the 1972 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 58], "content_span": [59, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092800-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Pacific hurricane season\nThe 1971 Pacific hurricane season began on May 15, 1971, in the east Pacific, and on June 1, 1971, in the central Pacific. It ended on November 30, 1971. These dates conventionally delimit the period of time when tropical cyclones form in the east Pacific Ocean.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092800-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Pacific hurricane season\nThe 1971 season was above average with 18 named storms. Twelve hurricanes formed, of which six became major hurricanes by reaching Category\u00a03 or higher on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale. At the time, this was a record number of storms. This season had six landfalls (Agatha, Bridget, Katrina, Lily, Olivia and Priscilla), the highest number of landfalling Pacific tropical cyclones in one season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092800-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Agatha\nOn May 21, an area of low pressure developed in the very warm waters south of Tehuantepec, Mexico. Later that day, satellite images showed increasing circulation and Tropical Storm Agatha developed shortly after. Agatha continued moving to the west-northwest parallel to the Mexican coastline and strengthened into a hurricane on May 22. A U.S. Air Force weather reconnaissance aircraft flew into Agatha and found an eye and strong bands. The next day, a reconnaissance plane found winds of 85 to 90\u00a0mph (140 to 150\u00a0km/h). On May 24, a ship reported winds of 100\u00a0mph (160\u00a0km/h). Agatha made landfall as a Category\u00a02 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale within 45\u00a0mi (75\u00a0km) of Zihuatanejo, Mexico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 765]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092800-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Agatha\nThe village of Playa Azul was hard hit by the storm. Up to half of the village's homes were destroyed. Also, much of the banana, mango, and coconut crop was destroyed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092800-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Bridget\nA tropical disturbance near El Salvador remained unorganized until June 12. The area of convection started to drift west-northwestward and strengthened into Tropical Depression Two-E. On June 15, the Tropical Depression further intensified into Tropical storm status and was named Bridget, the second tropical storm of the season. Tropical Storm Bridget moved across the Gulf of Tehuantepec which was favorable for Development. On June 16, Bridget continued intensifying and satellite imagery and ship report data confirmed that Bridget had strengthened into a hurricane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092800-0004-0001", "contents": "1971 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Bridget\nHurricane Bridget continued moving west-northwest along the west coast of Mexico and came within 35 to 45\u00a0mi (55 to 75\u00a0km) of Acapulco on June 17. Bridget later made landfall as a Tropical Storm about 100\u00a0mi (155\u00a0km) southeast of Manzanillo, Mexico. However, the Tropical Depression Re-entered open waters and dissipated on June 20.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092800-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Bridget\nBridget was the worst hurricane to hit Acapulco in over 25\u00a0years; the last strong hurricane to impact Acapulco to a greater extent was the 1943 Mazatlan Hurricane, which made landfall as a Category 3 hurricane and caused $56 million (1971 USD; $358\u00a0million 2021\u00a0USD) in damage. Hurricane Bridget's storm surge caused flooding in the bay and damaged waterfront and beach facilities. Rough weather and violent seas also sank 20\u00a0boats plus a flagship of the Mexican Navy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092800-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Carlotta\nOn July 1 an area of weather developed about 115\u00a0mi (185\u00a0km) east of Clipperton Island. On July 2 the area of thunderstorms strengthened into Tropical Storm Carlotta. An Air Force reconnaissance aircraft flew into Carlotta on July 4 and found a system with a well-defined eye and good outflow, but winds only supported a tropical storm. Another reconnaissance plane found winds that were near hurricane strength on July 4. In post-season analysis, it was discovered that Carlotta was a hurricane for 24\u00a0hours on July 3 and 4. Later that day, Carlotta started weakening after moving into a less favorable environment. The storm continued to weaken until dissipating on July 8.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 734]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092800-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Carlotta\nCarlotta stayed over open waters during its entire life and no land was affected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092800-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Denise\nOn July 2 an area of weather got better organized about 865\u00a0mi (1390\u00a0km) east of then Tropical Storm Carlotta. On July 4 satellite imagery indicated that the system had strengthened into Tropical Storm Denise and later into Hurricane Denise on July 6. The system continued to move west and on July 7, U.S. Air Force weather reconnaissance plane found a more organized system with sustained winds estimated to be 90\u00a0mph (150\u00a0km/h) with a minimum central pressure of 963\u00a0mbar (hPa; 28.4\u00a0inHg).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092800-0008-0001", "contents": "1971 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Denise\nBy July 8, the system had sustained one-minute winds of 125\u00a0mph (205\u00a0km/h) and a minimum central pressure of 951\u00a0mbar (hPa; 28.1\u00a0inHg). Denise reached a peak intensity of 140\u00a0mph (220\u00a0km/h), a Category\u00a04 on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale early on July 9, but then started to weaken.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092800-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Denise\nDenise had started a northwest movement towards Hawaii. A reconnaissance aircraft found surface winds of approximately 115\u00a0mph (185\u00a0mph) on July 9. Soon after, the eyewall started to dissipate, most likely because of cooler inflow. Over the next 48\u00a0hours, the system continued to weaken into a tropical storm. On July 13 the system was approaching the Hawaiian Islands, but a reconnaissance flight only found winds that were barely tropical storm strength. What was left of the storm quickly weakened and Denise became a remnant low.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 590]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092800-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Denise\nThe remnants of Denise moved south of the Hawaiian Islands, but still brought beneficial rains that caused some minor flooding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092800-0011-0000", "contents": "1971 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Eleanor\nEleanor was a short-lived, weak tropical storm that stayed well out to sea. On July 7, a tropical depression formed east-southeast of the weakening Carlotta and west of the strengthening Denise. By July 8, satellite imagery showed that the depression had strengthened into a tropical storm. Eleanor strengthened over the next 24\u00a0hours to a top strength of 60\u00a0mph (95\u00a0km/h). On July 10, a U.S. Air Force weather reconnaissance plane found a weakening system and the next day the storm was a dissipating depression moving toward the west-southwest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 609]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092800-0012-0000", "contents": "1971 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Francene\nAn area of enhanced shower activity and low pressure circulation developed a couple hundred miles off the coast of Mexico. On July 18 a tropical depression had formed and on July 19 the system strengthened into Tropical Storm Francene. Francene underwent rapid deepening into a Category\u00a03 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale. However, because of Francene's increasing size, the storm starting pulling in cool surface air which caused weakening. By July 20, Francene had weakened into a tropical storm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092800-0012-0001", "contents": "1971 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Francene\nFrancene continued to weaken over the next 24\u00a0hours and was barely a tropical storm by the morning of July 22. That afternoon, Francene began to strengthen once again but it was short-lived. By July 23, the surface circulation had disappeared and Francene was no longer a tropical cyclone. Francene stayed over open water and did not affect land.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092800-0013-0000", "contents": "1971 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Georgette\nA tropical depression formed to the east of Hurricane Francene on July 20. A reconnaissance flight found a poorly organized tropical storm with winds of 50\u00a0mph (80\u00a0km/h) on July 23. Georgette reached a peak intensity of 60\u00a0mph (97\u00a0km/h) the next day. Ships to the north of Georgette reported weak tropical storm force winds. By July 26 the storm began to weaken rapidly before dissipating the next day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092800-0014-0000", "contents": "1971 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Hilary\nTropical Storm Hilary developed about 115\u00a0mi (185\u00a0km) west of Clipperton Island on July 26. Hilary strengthened quickly into a hurricane by July 28 and a recon plane found surface winds of 90\u00a0mph (140\u00a0km/h) and noted a well-defined eye. The hurricane would peak as a category 2 with sustained winds of 100\u00a0mph (160\u00a0km/h) on July 30. Hilary weakened slightly as its motion became erratic across the tropical Pacific Ocean. By August 1 the hurricane turned to the northwest towards cooler waters. Hilary weakened into a tropical storm on August 3 after being at hurricane strength for a week. Steady weakening continued over the next four days before dissipating in the Central Pacific.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 741]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092800-0015-0000", "contents": "1971 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Ilsa\nHurricane Ilsa formed on July 31 to the south of the Mexican coast. It gradually strengthened into a tropical storm and a hurricane. Ilsa peaked as a Category 3 hurricane before heading further out to sea and weakening. Hurricane Ilsa dissipated on August 8.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092800-0016-0000", "contents": "1971 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Jewel\nTropical Storm Jewel formed near Mexico on August 6. Heading out to sea, it strengthened into a 70\u00a0mph (112.63\u00a0km/h) tropical storm. It dissipated on August 11.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092800-0017-0000", "contents": "1971 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Katrina\nKatrina was a very small storm. Katrina brushed Baja California Sur and made landfall in the Mexican state of Sonora as a tropical storm. It dissipated on August 13. Rain from Katrina's remnants ruined crops, destroyed railroad trestles, and washed away three bridges.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092800-0018-0000", "contents": "1971 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Lily\nThe remnants of Tropical Storm Chloe in the Atlantic formed into Tropical Depression Twelve on August 28. Twelve continued northeast and intensified into a tropical storm and was thus assigned the name Lily. Lily turned northwest. Rapid intensification occurred and Lily developed an eye. Lily peaked with one-minute sustained winds of 85\u00a0mph and a pressure of 978mb. Lily made landfall soon after. Once over land, Lily fell below tropical storm intensity. Then the hurricane turned northwest and dissipated soon after.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092800-0019-0000", "contents": "1971 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Monica\nMonica was a Category 3 hurricane which did not affect land.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092800-0020-0000", "contents": "1971 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Nanette\nHurricane Nanette threatened southern Baja California but turned west before making landfall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092800-0021-0000", "contents": "1971 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Olivia\nOlivia was a continuation of Atlantic Hurricane Irene. Olivia eventually strengthened into a Category\u00a03 hurricane before recurving and making landfall in Baja California as a depression. The remnants of Olivia continued north into California, where they brought rain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092800-0022-0000", "contents": "1971 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Priscilla\nPriscilla made landfall south of Mazatl\u00e1n as a tropical storm. It had weakened significantly before landfall, having once been a strong Category\u00a03 hurricane. Priscilla destroyed roughly 36,000\u00a0acres of corn, tomatoes, peppers, bananas, and cotton, resulting in $3.12\u00a0million in losses. Heavy rains inundated 30\u00a0towns in Nayarit, damaging roads and two major thoroughfares; road damage totaled $544,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092800-0023-0000", "contents": "1971 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Ramona\nRamona formed on October 28, it quickly strengthened into a tropical storm. It later weakened back to a tropical depression. Before dissipation, it made a sharp turn to the north-northeast. It had dissipated on October 31.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092800-0024-0000", "contents": "1971 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Sharon\nTropical Storm Sharon was a late season tropical storm that formed a few hundred miles from Mexico on November 25. It slowly strengthened into a minimal tropical storm before unfavorable conditions caused it to dissipate on November 29.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092800-0025-0000", "contents": "1971 Pacific hurricane season, Storm names\nThese names were used for storms that formed in 1971. It is the same list used in the 1967 season. A storm was named Sharon for the first time this year. No names were retired, so it was used again in the 1975 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 42], "content_span": [43, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092800-0026-0000", "contents": "1971 Pacific hurricane season, Storm names\nThe central Pacific used names and numbers from the west Pacific's typhoon name list. No storms formed in the region, and thus no names were used. However, tropical disturbances that later became typhoons started forming in this area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 42], "content_span": [43, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092800-0027-0000", "contents": "1971 Pacific hurricane season, Season effects\nThis is a table of all of the storms in the 1971 Pacific hurricane season. It includes their durations, peak intensities, names, landfall(s), damages, and death totals. Deaths in parentheses are additional and indirect (an example of an indirect death would be a traffic accident), but are still storm-related. Damage and deaths include totals while the storm was extratropical or a wave or a low.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092801-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Pacific typhoon season\nThe 1971 Pacific typhoon season has no official bounds; it ran year-round in 1971, but most tropical cyclones tend to form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean between June and December. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092801-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Pacific typhoon season\nThe scope of this article is limited to the Pacific Ocean, north of the equator and west of the international date line. Storms that form east of the date line and north of the equator are called hurricanes; see 1971 Pacific hurricane season. Tropical Storms formed in the entire west pacific basin were assigned a name by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center. Tropical depressions in this basin have the \"W\" suffix added to their number. Tropical depressions that enter or form in the Philippine area of responsibility are assigned a name by the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration or PAGASA. This can often result in the same storm having two names.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 716]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092801-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Pacific typhoon season, Seasonal summary\nAccording to the United States Joint Typhoon Warning Center, the 1971 season was the most active season since 1967, with a total of 35 tropical storms being monitored by them during the year. In addition to the 35 tropical storms, the Japan Meteorological Agency considered Tropical Depression 25W to be a tropical storm additional tropical storm, which was only classified as a tropical depression by the JTWC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 45], "content_span": [46, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092801-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Severe Tropical Storm Sarah\nDuring January 8, the JMA started to monitor a tropical depression that had developed, about 500\u00a0km (310\u00a0mi) to the east of Ngerulmud, Palau. Over the next day the system gradually developed further as it moved north-westwards, before it was classified as a tropical storm and named Sarah by the JTWC, after a US Navy plane had found an organised system. The system subsequently recurved north-eastwards, before it was classified as a Severe Tropical Storm by the JMA during January 10.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092801-0003-0001", "contents": "1971 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Severe Tropical Storm Sarah\nDuring that day, the JTWC reported that the system had peaked, with 1-minute sustained wind-speeds of 95\u00a0km/h (60\u00a0mph). Over the next day, the system quickly weakened and became an extratropical cyclone during January 11. Sarah's extratropical remnants were subsequently tracked as they moved north-eastwards, until it made landfall on Canada and broke up over the mountains of British Columbia during January 17.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092801-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Storm Thelma (Bebeng)\nOn March 16, a tropical depression formed to the south of Guam. It immediately entered the Philippine Area of Responsibility, earning the local name Bebeng. It executed a small loop to the east of Mindanao before it traveled to the northwest. It exited the Area of Responsibility as a tropical storm before transitioning to an extratropical storm, southwest of Minami-Tori-shima. The extratropical storm weakened and dissipated on March 21, to the south-southeast of Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 68], "content_span": [69, 542]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092801-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Wanda (Diding)\nOn April 23 Tropical Storm Wanda began its life to the east of the Philippines. It tracked over the archipelago, and emerged into the South China Sea on the 25th. It turned to the northwest, and became a typhoon on May 1 just off the coast of South Vietnam. The westerlies brought Wanda to the north and northeast, where it weakened until dissipating on the 4th near Hainan Island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092801-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Wanda (Diding)\nThe storm caused 56 deaths (with 14\u00a0missing) and $700,000 in damage (1971\u00a0USD) from the heavy flooding across the Philippines. While Wanda brushed the coast of Vietnam, the United States Army grounded most aircraft in northern areas and skirmishes related to the Vietnam War temporarily decreased until the storm passed by. In Qu\u1ea3ng Ng\u00e3i Province, 23 people were killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092801-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Amy\nAccording to the JTWC best track, Amy was first noted as a tropical depression early on April 29. Amy reached tropical storm status shortly afterwards, and became a typhoon by early on May 1. The cyclone then rapidly intensified into a Category 5 super typhoon with 1-minute sustained winds of 280\u00a0km/h (175\u00a0mph) on May 2, with the JMA estimating a minimum central pressure of 890\u00a0mb (hPa; 26.28\u00a0inHg), although the JTWC estimated a slightly higher pressure of 895\u00a0mbar (hPa; 26.43\u00a0inHg), while noting a compact eye 10 nautical miles across.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092801-0007-0001", "contents": "1971 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Amy\nAlthough Amy weakened to a Category 4 super typhoon on May 3, it regained Category 5 intensity later that day, with 1-minute sustained winds of 260\u00a0km/h (160\u00a0mph) and a central pressure of 900\u00a0mb (hPa; 26.58\u00a0inHg). The storm began to weaken by May 4 and was last noted as producing tropical-storm force winds on May 7, after which Amy was absorbed by a frontal system. Amy was one of the strongest typhoons recorded in May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092801-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Amy\nOn Truk Atoll, now known as Chuuk Atoll, one person was killed after a coconut tree fell on him. On May\u00a018, the Federated States of Micronesia was declared a disaster area by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The weather station and over 2,250 homes were destroyed on Namonuito Atoll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092801-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Dinah (Herming)\nAcross the Philippines, 13\u00a0people were killed and another 14 were reported missing. Total damage in the country reached \u20b14\u00a0million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092801-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Gilda (Mameng)\nOne person was killed and damage reached \u20b18\u00a0million across the Philippines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092801-0011-0000", "contents": "1971 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Harriet (Neneng)\nStriking near the demilitarized zone between North and South Vietnam as a powerful typhoon, Harriet caused significant disruptions to the Vietnam War. Military operations on both sides were temporarily halted, with all United States helicopters grounded. Ground movement was severely limited as well. Despite the intensity of the storm, damage was relatively light, with Camp Eagle reporting some roofs blown off from 120\u00a0km/h (75\u00a0mph) winds. In \u0110\u00e0 N\u1eb5ng, between 8 to 10\u00a0in (200 to 250\u00a0mm) of rain fell and strong winds knocked out power to the area. A 24\u2011hour maximum rainfall of 10.16\u00a0in (258\u00a0mm) was measured in Camp Evans. Throughout Vietnam, four people were killed and fourteen others were reported missing. Th\u1eeba Thi\u00ean Province sustained the most significant damage, with 2,500\u00a0homes damaged or destroyed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 62], "content_span": [63, 874]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092801-0012-0000", "contents": "1971 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Lucy (Rosing)\nThe strongest typhoon to strike the Philippines that year, this cyclone moved towards the region from the Marianas as a slow pace. Gusty southwest winds impacted western portions of Visayas and Luzon, including Manila, as the cyclone passed by on the 21st. The highest winds recorded were 190 kilometres per hour (100\u00a0kn) at Basco in Batanes. Heavy rains caused by the strong onshore flow led to heavy rains, which peaked at 379.5 millimetres (14.94\u00a0in) at Baguio City within 24 hours. The heavy rains led to severe flooding and landslides in north-central sections of the Philippines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 645]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092801-0013-0000", "contents": "1971 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Nadine (Sisang)\nTyphoon Nadine, which formed on July 20, quickly strengthened to a peak of 175\u00a0mph (282\u00a0km/h) on the 24th. It weakened slightly as it continued its northwest movement, and struck eastern Taiwan on the 25th with winds of over 100\u00a0mph (200\u00a0km/h). Nadine dissipated the next day over China, after causing 28 deaths (with 25\u00a0missing) and heavy damage on Taiwan from the flooding. Nadine also caused the crash of a Pan American cargo aircraft, killing all four people in the crew.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092801-0014-0000", "contents": "1971 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Olive\n85\u00a0mph (137\u00a0km/h) Typhoon Olive, which developed on July 29 from the near equatorial trough, hit southwestern Japan on August 4. It continued northward, and became extratropical in the Sea of Japan. Olive's heavy rains resulted in numerous mudslides, killing 69\u00a0people. It disrupted the Boy Scout XIII World Jamboree, being held in Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092801-0015-0000", "contents": "1971 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Rose (Uring)\nA small circulation near Chuuk organized into Tropical Storm Rose on August 10. An extremely small cyclone with a wind field of 150 nautical miles (280\u00a0km) across, Rose quickly strengthened, and became a typhoon later that day. It briefly weakened to a tropical storm on the 11th, but restrengthened to a typhoon as it continued westward. On August 13, Typhoon Rose made landfall on Palanan, Isabela with winds of 130\u00a0mph (210\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092801-0015-0001", "contents": "1971 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Rose (Uring)\nIt weakened to a minimal typhoon over the mountainous terrain, but after reemerging in the South China Sea, Rose rapidly intensified, and peaked at 140\u00a0mph (230\u00a0km/h) winds on the 16th. As it approached the coast of Hong Kong, the inflow became disrupted, but Rose still hit as a 100\u00a0mph (200\u00a0km/h) typhoon on the 16th. The typhoon dissipated the next day, after causing 130 deaths in Hong Kong and leaving 5,600\u00a0people homeless. A Macao ferry was capsized, resulting in the loss of its 88-person crew.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092801-0016-0000", "contents": "1971 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Trix\nAn upper level low contributed to the birth of Tropical Storm Trix on August 20. After drifting northward, the storm turned to the west in response to the building of the subtropical ridge. Trix slowly strengthened after becoming a typhoon on the 21st, and reached a peak of 115\u00a0mph (185\u00a0km/h) winds on the 28th. Trix recurved, and struck southwestern Japan on the 29th as a 95\u00a0mph (153\u00a0km/h) typhoon. It accelerated to the northeast, and became extratropical on the 30th. Just weeks after Typhoon Olive, Trix dropped more heavy rain to the country, in one case as much as 43 inches (1,100\u00a0mm) of rain. Trix caused 44 deaths, with heavy crop damage amounting to $50.6\u00a0million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 727]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092801-0017-0000", "contents": "1971 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Virginia\nWithin one month of Typhoons Trix and Olive, Typhoon Virginia came up the Japanese coast with winds of 80\u00a0mph (130\u00a0km/h). It became extratropical on September 7 just east of Japan, after dropping more heavy rain causing 56 casualties from numerous landslides.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092801-0018-0000", "contents": "1971 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Bess (Yayang)\nSuper Typhoon Bess, having peaked at 160\u00a0mph (260\u00a0km/h) on July 5, tracked west-northwestward. The typhoon weakened as it continued its movement, and struck eastern Taiwan on the 22nd as a 130\u00a0mph (210\u00a0km/h) typhoon. It rapidly weakened over the country, and dissipated on the 10th over China. The typhoon caused heavy flooding, resulting in 32 deaths and moderate crop damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092801-0019-0000", "contents": "1971 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Severe Tropical Storm Faye-Gloria (Krising-Dadang)\nA tropical disturbance east of the Marianas Islands developed into Tropical Storm Faye on October 4. After peaking at 75\u00a0mph (121\u00a0km/h) on the 5th, Faye became very disorganized, and weakened to a tropical depression on the 7th. At this time, there were several circulations, so it is possible that Faye was absorbed by another disturbance to its south. Regardless, the storm re-organized as it approached the Philippines. Faye crossed the islands on the 10th as a minimal tropical storm, and again became a typhoon in the South China Sea on the 11th. Steering currents became weak, and a northwest flow forced Faye southeastward back into the Philippines. Faye crossed the islands on the 12th, and dissipated on the 13th, after causing torrential rainfall killing 13\u00a0people with 80\u00a0missing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 88], "content_span": [89, 880]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092801-0020-0000", "contents": "1971 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Hester (Goying)\nDeveloping as a tropical depression on October\u00a018 near Palau Island, Hester gradually intensified as it moved westward towards the Philippines. Across the Philippines, Hester was responsible for six deaths and \u20b15\u00a0million in damage. After passing over Mindanao and the Visayas as a tropical storm between October\u00a020 and 21, the storm intensified into a typhoon before striking Palawan. Once over the South China Sea, Hester further strengthened and ultimately attained peak winds of 165\u00a0km/h (105\u00a0mph). On October\u00a023, the storm made landfall near Hu\u1ebf, South Vietnam. Once onshore, Hester rapidly weakened and dissipated on October\u00a024 over Laos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 705]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092801-0021-0000", "contents": "1971 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Hester (Goying)\nThe most significant impact from Typhoon Hester was felt in South Vietnam were winds in excess of 155\u00a0km/h (100\u00a0mph) caused extensive damage to several United States Army bases. The hardest hit base was in Chu Lai where three Americans were killed. At least 75\u00a0percent of the structures in the base sustained damage and 123\u00a0aircraft were damaged or destroyed. Newspaper reports indicated that 100\u00a0Vietnamese lost their lives due to the storm, including 33\u00a0following a plane crash near Quy Nh\u01a1n. In the wake of the storm, the South Vietnamese government provided the hardest hit areas with relief funds and supplies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 677]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092801-0022-0000", "contents": "1971 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Irma (Ining)\nThe strongest typhoon of the season, Irma, reached a peak intensity of 180\u00a0mph (290\u00a0km/h) on November 11. It remained at sea, affecting only shipping and causing minor damage to the islands of the West Pacific. At the time, the typhoon held the record for the fastest intensification in a 24\u2011hour period, deepening from 980\u00a0mbar to 884\u00a0mbar but it was beaten by Typhoon Forrest of 1983..", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092801-0023-0000", "contents": "1971 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Other systems\nBetween January 7-8, PAGASA monitored Tropical Depression Auring. In addition to the storms listed above, the China Meteorological Agency also monitored several other tropical cyclones, including one tropical storm and two severe tropical storms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092801-0024-0000", "contents": "1971 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Other systems\nFurthermore, there were two other systems listed within the International Best Tracks Database: one tropical depression and one tropical storm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092801-0025-0000", "contents": "1971 Pacific typhoon season, Season effects\nThis is a table of all of the storms that have formed in the 1971 Pacific typhoon season. It includes their duration, names, affected areas, damages, and death totals. Deaths in parentheses are additional and indirect (an example of an indirect death would be a traffic accident), but were still related to that storm. Damage and deaths include totals while the storm was extratropical, a wave, or a low, and all of the damage figures are in 1971 USD. Names listed in parentheses were assigned by PAGASA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092802-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Palanca Awards\nThe Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature winners in the year 1971 (rank, title of winning entry, name of author).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092803-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Pan American Games\nThe sixth Pan American Games were held in Cali, Colombia, from July 30 to August 13, 1971. (One source dates the Games from July 25 to August 8.) A total of 2,935 athletes from 32 countries participated in seventeen sports. (One source says 4,000 athletes)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092803-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Pan American Games, Host city selection\nThree cities submitted bids to host the 1971 Pan American Games that were recognized by the Pan American Sports Organization. On July 22, 1967, Cali was selected over Santiago and Champ, Missouri by a vote of 12 to 11 to 6, respectively, by PASO at its general assembly, held at the Manitoba Medical College in Winnipeg, Canada, to host the VI Pan American Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092803-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Pan American Games, Venues\nThe main stadium was the Cali Olympic Stadium. Some events were held in the Coliseo El Pueblo. Boxing was staged in the Plaza de Toros Ca\u00f1averalejo, a Cali bullring. Some complaints were made about the barracks-style housing, which was woefully overcrowded. In an effort to protect the athletes from students who had protested the amount of money that Colombia was spending on the games, security-minded officials surrounded the athletes' village with barbed wire and guards carrying rifles. The overcrowding caused it to be dubbed \"Claustrophobia Manor\" by the athletes. Other concerns centered on mosquitoes, the altitude, faulty plumbing, dysentery and pickpockets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 700]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092803-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Pan American Games, Medal count\nTo sort this table by nation, total medal count, or any other column, click on the icon next to the column title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 36], "content_span": [37, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092803-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Pan American Games, Medal count\nThe medal counts for the United States, Cuba and Canada are disputed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 36], "content_span": [37, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092804-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Pan American Games medal table\nThe 1971 Pan American Games, officially known as the VI Pan American Games, were a continental multi-sport event held in Cali, Colombia, from July\u00a030 to August\u00a013, 1971. At the Games, 2,935 athletes selected from 32 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated in events in 17 sports. Twenty nations earned medals during the competition, and fifteen won at least one gold medal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092804-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Pan American Games medal table, Medal table\nThe ranking in this table is based on medal counts published by several media organizations. By default, the table is ordered by the number of gold medals won by the athletes representing a nation. (In this context, a nation is an entity represented by a NOC). The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals. If nations are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically by IOC country code.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 48], "content_span": [49, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092805-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Paris\u2013Nice\nThe 1971 Paris\u2013Nice was the 29th edition of the Paris\u2013Nice cycle race and was held from 10 March to 17 March 1971. The race started in Paris and finished in Nice. The race was won by Eddy Merckx of the Molteni team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092806-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Paris\u2013Roubaix\nThe 1971 Paris\u2013Roubaix was the 69th edition of the Paris\u2013Roubaix cycle race and was held on 18 April 1971. The race started in Compi\u00e8gne and finished in Roubaix. The race was won by Roger Rosiers of the Bic team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092807-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Paris\u2013Tours\nThe 1971 Paris\u2013Tours was the 65th edition of the Paris\u2013Tours cycle race and was held on 3 October 1971. The race started in Paris and finished in Tours. The race was won by Rik Van Linden.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092808-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Park Drive 600\nThe Park Drive 600 was an invitational professional snooker tournament, which took place on 28 and 29 April 1971 at the St Phillips Social Club in Sheffield with six professional players participating. Reardon claimed the title with a 4\u20130 victory against Spencer in the final, making a break of 129 during the match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092808-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Park Drive 600\nThere was \u00a3600 prize money for the winner, on a \"winner takes all\" basis. Additionally, there was a prize of \u00a31 per point for the highest break achieved. The tournament was broadcast on Yorkshire Television in weekly programmes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092808-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Park Drive 600\nThe first round matches and semi-finals were each decided on the aggregate score across three frames. Pulman defeated Rea by 10 points after taking the last three colours in their second frame, and Williams eliminated Davis by winning 184\u2013165 on the final pink ball. In the first semi-final, Spencer won 228\u2013134 against Pulman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092809-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Pasadena Bowl\nThe 1971 Pasadena Bowl was a college football bowl game played on December 18 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. Part of the bowl schedule of the 1971 NCAA University Division football season, the Saturday afternoon game featured San Jose State Spartans of the Pacific Coast Athletic Association (PCAA) and the Memphis State Tigers from the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092809-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Pasadena Bowl, Game summary\nTrailing 3\u20130 late in the first quarter, Memphis State defensive back Tom Carlsen blocked a John McMillen punt and recovered it in the end zone to pull ahead 7\u20133. Dornell Harris scored on a nine-yard run in the second quarter to make it 14\u20133 at halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 32], "content_span": [33, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092809-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Pasadena Bowl, Game summary\nAfter a scoreless third quarter, the Tigers' final two scores were set up by turnovers. Tailback Paul \"Skeeter\" Gowen added on to the score with an 18-yard run after an interception and Clifton Taylor sealed the game for the Tigers from two yards out following a fumble recovery. The Spartans could only muster a late touchdown to narrow the final margin, with their five turnovers hurting them despite outgaining them 350\u2013290.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 32], "content_span": [33, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092809-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Pasadena Bowl, Game summary\nMemphis State coach Billy J. Murphy retired after the bowl win, which was the final edition of the Pasadena Bowl as a University Division (now Division I FBS) bowl game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 32], "content_span": [33, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092810-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Pau Grand Prix\nThe 1971 Pau Grand Prix was a Formula Two motor race held on 25 April 1971 at the Pau circuit, in Pau, Pyr\u00e9n\u00e9es-Atlantiques, France. The Grand Prix was won by Reine Wisell, driving the Lotus 69C. Jean-Pierre Jabouille finished second and Jean-Pierre Jaussaud third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092811-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Peach Bowl\nThe 1971 Peach Bowl was a college football bowl game between the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets and the Ole Miss Rebels.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092811-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Peach Bowl, Background\nThe independent Yellow Jackets were playing their last game under coach Bud Carson, while competing in their second straight bowl game. This was the 15th straight season of postseason play for the Rebels, who tied for fourth in the Southeastern Conference (SEC). This was the first Peach Bowl played at Atlanta Stadium after the first three were played at Georgia Tech's Grant Field. Unfortunately, the field turned soggy prior to the game, getting worse as the game progressed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092811-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Peach Bowl, Background\nThis was the last college football game to feature an all-white team due to racial segregation. Ole Miss and SEC rival LSU each suited up their first black varsity players in 1972. LSU won the Sun Bowl over Iowa State 12 days prior to this contest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092811-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Peach Bowl, Game summary\nThe Rebels scored 38 straight points in the first half, starting with Norris Weese's touchdown run. Porter added in two touchdown runs, and touchdown passes from Lyons and Weese as the Yellow Jackets could not respond until the first half was almost over, on a Bill Healy run. Georgia Tech scored once more on another Healy run to make it 38\u201312. Ole Miss only scored once in the half on Hinton's second field goal, but Georgia Tech only scored once more as well on Healy's third touchdown run as Ole Miss stymied the Yellow Jackets, forcing three turnovers. Weese threw 7-of-14 for 116 yards along with 32 yards on 11 carries. Greg Ainsworth rushed for 119 yards on 28 carries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 29], "content_span": [30, 707]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092811-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Peach Bowl, Aftermath\nAs it turned out, this was the last bowl season for the Rebels until 1983. Georgia Tech reached a bowl the following year, and returned to the Peach Bowl in 1978, losing to Purdue. The Yellow Jackets are 0\u20134 in the Peach/Chick-Fil-A Bowl, also losing in 2000 and 2008 to LSU.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 26], "content_span": [27, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092811-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Peach Bowl, Aftermath\nPoor field conditions plagued nearly every Peach Bowl contested at Atlanta Stadium (renamed Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium in 1974), thanks to the wear and tear of full seasons of Braves baseball and Falcons football. The game moved indoors to the Georgia Dome in January 1993, and later to the retractable-roofed Mercedes-Benz Stadium in December 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 26], "content_span": [27, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092812-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Penn Quakers football team\nThe 1971 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1971 NCAA University Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092813-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Penn State Nittany Lions football team\nThe 1971 Penn State Nittany Lions football team represented the Pennsylvania State University in the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. The team was coached by Joe Paterno and played its home games in Beaver Stadium in University Park, Pennsylvania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092813-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Game summaries, Air Force\nAlberto Vitiello, a 5\u00a0ft 7\u00a0in (1.70\u00a0m) junior college transfer, kicked a 22-yard field goal with four minutes to help Penn State escape with a 16\u201314 victory over Air Force.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 70], "content_span": [71, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092813-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, NFL Draft\nFour Nittany Lions were drafted in the 1972 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 54], "content_span": [55, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092814-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Pepsi-Cola Masters\nThe 1971 Pepsi-Cola Masters was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts of the Coubertin Stadium in Paris, France. It was the 2nd edition of the Masters Grand Prix and was the season-ending event of the 1971 Grand Prix circuit. The tournament consisted of a round robin competition for the seven highest points scorers of the Grand Prix circuit. John Newcombe and Ken Rosewall, players signed to the rival World Championship Circuit but who also took part in several Grand Prix tournaments, had qualified for the event but declined to participate. The tournament was held from 4 December until 12 December 1971 and was won by Ilie N\u0103stase who earned the $15,000 first prize.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 716]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092814-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Pepsi-Cola Masters, Champion, Singles\nIlie N\u0103stase won a round robin competition also featuring Pierre Barth\u00e8s, \u017deljko Franulovi\u0107, Clark Graebner, Jan Kode\u0161, Cliff Richey and Stan Smith.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092815-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Pepsi-Cola Masters \u2013 Singles\nStan Smith was the defending champion but lost matches in the round robin to Ilie N\u0103stase and Jan Kode\u0161.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092815-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Pepsi-Cola Masters \u2013 Singles\nN\u0103stase won the round robin by winning all five of his matches. He did not play Pierre Barth\u00e8s because he had already clinched the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092815-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Pepsi-Cola Masters \u2013 Singles, Round robin, Standings\nStandings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) Number of sets won; 4) Number of games won; 5) In two-players-ties, head-to-head records; 6) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, or of games won; 7) Steering Committee decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092816-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Philadelphia Eagles season\nThe 1971 Philadelphia Eagles season was their 39th in the National Football League. They improved on their previous output of 3\u201310\u20131, winning six games. Despite the improvement, the team failed to qualify for the playoffs for the eleventh consecutive season. This was the team's inaugural season in Veterans Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092816-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Philadelphia Eagles season, Offseason, NFL Draft\nThe table shows the Eagles selections and what picks they had that were traded away and the team that ended up with that pick. It is possible the Eagles' pick ended up with this team via another team that the Eagles made a trade with. Not shown are acquired picks that the Eagles traded away.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092816-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Philadelphia Eagles season, Schedule, Standings\nNote: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092817-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Philadelphia Phillies season\nThe 1971 Philadelphia Phillies season was the 89th season for the franchise in Philadelphia. The Phillies finished in sixth place in the National League East, with a record of 67\u201395.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092817-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Philadelphia Phillies season, Regular season\nOn April 10, the Phillies officially opened Veterans Stadium, their new home park, with a 4\u20131 victory over the Montreal Expos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092817-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Philadelphia Phillies season, Regular season\nHarry Kalas was hired by the Phillies in 1971 to succeed Bill Campbell, and was the master of ceremonies at the 1971 opening of Veterans Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092817-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Philadelphia Phillies season, Regular season\nThe Phillies played an exhibition game against the Reading Phillies on June 17, 1971, in Reading. The Phillies had signed second-round draft pick Mike Schmidt on June 11. Schmidt made his professional debut in the exhibition game in Reading. Schmidt played the whole game at shortstop for the Phillies and hit a game-winning home run against Reading. He was subsequently assigned to the Reading club, where he played the balance of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092817-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Philadelphia Phillies season, Regular season\nOn June 25, Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder Willie Stargell hit what wound up being the longest home run in Veterans Stadium history off of pitcher Jim Bunning in a 14\u20134 Pirates win over the Phillies. The spot where the ball landed was marked with a yellow star with a black \"S\" inside a white circle until Stargell's 2001 death, when the white circle was painted black. The star remained until the stadium's 2004 demolition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092817-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 78], "content_span": [79, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092817-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 71], "content_span": [72, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092817-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 76], "content_span": [77, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092817-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 73], "content_span": [74, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092817-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 74], "content_span": [75, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092818-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Philadelphia mayoral election\nThe Philadelphia mayoral election of 1971 saw the election of Frank Rizzo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092818-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Philadelphia mayoral election, Democratic primary, Campaign\nRizzo had a reputation for his harsh policing style, and as called \"the toughest cop in America\". He began his candidacy as the frontrunner for the nomination, with the endorsement of the city's Democratic organization.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 64], "content_span": [65, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092818-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Philadelphia mayoral election, Democratic primary, Campaign\nRizzo refused to debate or attend the same events as his opponents. Green refused to discuss most issues, and avoided interviews or written questions by the media or civic groups. He also refused to join his opponents in testifying on the city's financial problems before the Philadelphia City Council. Rizzo also did not make many campaign appearances, making only a single appearance a day and only appearing in white ethnic neighborhoods considered to be friendly towards him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 64], "content_span": [65, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092818-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Philadelphia mayoral election, Democratic primary, Campaign\nRizzo repeatedly insisted that he was \"not a politician\". Rizzo took a position against additional taxes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 64], "content_span": [65, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092818-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Philadelphia mayoral election, Democratic primary, Campaign\nRizzo had earned goodwill with many voters, who perceived his command of the police department as having staved off the sort of violent rioting other cities had experienced years earlier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 64], "content_span": [65, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092818-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Philadelphia mayoral election, Democratic primary, Campaign\nGreen warned voters that it would be a \"disaster\" if America's then-fourth largest city were to be led by Rizzo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 64], "content_span": [65, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092818-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Philadelphia mayoral election, Democratic primary, Campaign\nLiberal politicians primarily supported Green. Shortly before the primary, governor Milton Shapp endorsed Green (after which Rizzo attacked Shapp's record).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 64], "content_span": [65, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092818-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Philadelphia mayoral election, Democratic primary, Campaign\nGreen's camp had attempted to get Williams to withdraw, in order to unite liberal voters around Green and against Rizzo. Williams refused.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 64], "content_span": [65, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092818-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Philadelphia mayoral election, Democratic primary, Campaign\nWilliams was the first well-known African American to run for mayor of Philadelphia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 64], "content_span": [65, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092818-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 Philadelphia mayoral election, Democratic primary, Campaign\nAfter Shapp accused Rizzo of police brutality and Pennsylvania Attorney General J . Shane Creamer found Rizzo guilty of having beaten a black demonstrator in 1965, Rizzo dismissed this as a political \"cheap shot\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 64], "content_span": [65, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092818-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 Philadelphia mayoral election, Democratic primary, Campaign\nThe Philadelphia Bulletin argued that the real race was not between Rizzo and Green, but between incumbent mayor Tate and governor Shapp for control of the Philadelphia Democratic Party. This newspaper declined to endorse a candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 64], "content_span": [65, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092818-0011-0000", "contents": "1971 Philadelphia mayoral election, General election, Campaign\nRizzo's campaign slogan \"Rizzo means business\". Rizzo benefited from white racial backlash. He campaigned primarily in white, working class areas of the city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 62], "content_span": [63, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092819-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Philippine Senate election\nA senatorial election was held on November 8, 1971 in the Philippines. The opposition Liberal Party won five seats in the Philippine Senate while three seats were won by the Nacionalista Party, the administration party; this was seen as a consequence of the Plaza Miranda bombing on August 21, 1971, which wounded all of the Liberal Party's candidates and almost took the lives of John Henry Osme\u00f1a and Jovito Salonga. Their terms as senators were cut short as a result of the declaration of martial law by President Ferdinand Marcos on September 23, 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092819-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Philippine Senate election\nDue to the ratification of a new constitution in 1973, the Senate was abolished and the unicameral parliamentary Batasang Pambansa was instituted. In 1987, a new constitution was approved that reverted to the presidential and bicameral legislative system. This means that this would be the last election for the Senate until the 1987 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092819-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Philippine Senate election, Results\nThe Liberal Party won five seats, while the Nacionalista Party won three.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092819-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Philippine Senate election, Results\nTwo Liberal incumbents successfully defended their seats: Genaro Magsaysay and Jovito Salonga, while Alejandro Almendras and Eva Estrada Kalaw of the Nacionalistas successfully defended their seats, as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092819-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Philippine Senate election, Results\nThe other four winners are neophyte senators: Eddie Ilarde, Ramon Mitra Jr., and John Henry Osme\u00f1a of the Liberals, and Ernesto Maceda of the Nacionalistas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 40], "content_span": [41, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092820-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Phillip Island 500K\nThe 1971 Phillip Island 500K was an endurance race for Group E Series Production Touring Cars held at the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit in Victoria, Australia on 24 October 1971. The event was staged over a race distance of 106 laps, totalling 500\u00a0km (310\u00a0mi). It was Round 4 of the 1971 Australian Manufacturers' Championship. The field was divided into five classes according to the assessed CP Units of each car (i.e. engine capacity in litres multiplied by retail price in dollars).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092821-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Piccadilly World Match Play Championship\nThe 1971 Piccadilly World Match Play Championship was the eighth World Match Play Championship. It was played from Thursday 7 to Saturday 9 October on the West Course at Wentworth. Eight players competed in a straight knock-out competition, with each match contested over 36 holes. The champion received \u00a38,500 out of a total prize fund of \u00a325,000. In the final, Gary Player beat Jack Nicklaus 5 & 4 to win the championship for the fourth time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092821-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Piccadilly World Match Play Championship\nIn his first round match, Jack Nicklaus went 4 up over Lu Liang-Huan after six holes but Lu levelled the match by the 12th hole and went ahead at the 16th. Nicklaus won the 18th to be level at lunch. Nicklaus then went 3 up after eight holes in the afternoon and although Lu reduced the deficit to 1 hole, Nicklaus holed a long putt for a birdie at the 16th to take a two hole lead and won 2 & 1 at the next hole. Neil Coles won six holes in a row against Charles Coody from the 12th to the 17th holes of the first round and went to lunch six holes up. Coles eventually won by a score of 5 & 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 640]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092821-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Piccadilly World Match Play Championship\nIn the final between Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player, Nicklaus was 1 up at lunch but Player won the first four holes in the afternoon and, with Nicklaus missing a number of short putts, Player eventually won 5 & 4. It was his fourth win in the eight World Match Play events contested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092821-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Piccadilly World Match Play Championship, Prize money\nThe winner received \u00a38,500, the runner-up \u00a34,500, the losing semi-finalists \u00a33,000 and the first round losers \u00a31,500, making a total prize fund of \u00a325,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 58], "content_span": [59, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092822-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Pioneer Bowl\nThe 1971 Pioneer Bowl was a college football bowl game in Texas, played between the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs and Eastern Michigan Hurons at Memorial Stadium in Wichita Falls. The inaugural edition of the Pioneer Bowl, it was one of four regional finals in the College Division played on December 11.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092823-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Pitcairnese general election\nGeneral elections were held in the Pitcairn Islands on 26 December 1971 to elect members of the Island Council. Of the island's 91 residents, 61 were registered to vote. Voting was compulsory, with a $1 fine for failing to cast a ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092824-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Pittsburgh Panthers football team\nThe 1971 Pittsburgh Panthers football team represented the University of Pittsburgh in the 1971 NCAA University Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092825-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Pittsburgh Pirates season\nThe 1971 Pittsburgh Pirates season was the 90th season for the Pittsburgh Pirates franchise; their 85th in the National League. It involved the Pirates finishing first in the National League East with a record of 97 wins and 65 losses. They defeated the San Francisco Giants three games to one in the National League Championship Series and beat the Baltimore Orioles four games to three in the World Series. The Pirates were managed by Danny Murtaugh, and played their first full season at Three Rivers Stadium, which had opened in July the year before.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092825-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Regular season\nIn 1971, the Pirates became the first Major League Baseball team to field an all-black starting lineup. Taking the field, on September 1, was Rennie Stennett, Gene Clines, Roberto Clemente, Willie Stargell, Manny Sanguill\u00e9n, Dave Cash, Al Oliver, Jackie Hern\u00e1ndez, and Dock Ellis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092825-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Postseason, National League Championship Series\nThe Pittsburgh Pirates won the series over the San Francisco Giants, 3\u20131", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 79], "content_span": [80, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092825-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Postseason, World Series, Composite box\n1971 World Series (4\u20133): Pittsburgh Pirates (N.L.) over Baltimore Orioles (A.L.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 71], "content_span": [72, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092825-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs scored; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; SB = Stolen bases", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 75], "content_span": [76, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092825-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs scored; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; SB = Stolen bases", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 68], "content_span": [69, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092825-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; BB = Walks allowed; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 73], "content_span": [74, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092825-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; BB = Walks allowed; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 70], "content_span": [71, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092825-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; BB = Walks allowed; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 71], "content_span": [72, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092826-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Pittsburgh Steelers season\nThe 1971 Pittsburgh Steelers season was the team's 39th in the National Football League. The Steelers showed improvement finishing in second Place with a 6-8 record. But Terry Bradshaw struggled with turnovers in his second season throwing 22 interceptions to 13 touchdown passes. The Steelers that year drafted wide receiver Frank Lewis, Hall of Fame linebacker Jack Ham, guard Gerry Mullins, defensive end Dwight White, tight end/tackle Larry Brown, defensive tackle Ernie Holmes, and safety Mike Wagner, all key contributors during the Steelers Super Bowl teams of the 1970s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092826-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 3 (Sunday October 3, 1971): San Diego Chargers\nSteelers stop San Diego with a goal line stand preserving the 21-17 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 116], "content_span": [117, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092826-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Standings\nNote: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092827-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Pot Black\nThe 1971 Pot Black event was the third edition of Pot Black, a professional invitational snooker tournament which was first broadcast in 1969. The event was recorded in early 1971 at the BBC TV Studios in Gosta Green, Birmingham. The tournament featured eight professional players. All matches were one-frame shoot-outs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092827-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Pot Black\nBroadcasts were on BBC2, starting with an introductory programme at 9:45 pm on Wednesday 17\u00a0February 1971 The tournament again used a round-robin format with two groups of four players, the top two from each group qualifying for a place in the semi-finals. The players in this event were mainly the same as the previous two, but Ray Reardon was replaced by David Taylor who was making his television debut. Alan Weeks presented the programme, with Ted Lowe as commentator and Sydney Lee as referee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092827-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Pot Black\nJohn Spencer retained his Pot Black title, beating Fred Davis 88\u201327 in the one-frame final which was broadcast on 2\u00a0June 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092828-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Prague Skate\nThe 1971 Prague Skate was a senior international figure skating competition held 13\u201314 November 1971 in Czechoslovakia. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's and ladies' singles. Italian national champion Stefano Bargauan won the men's title ahead of Czechoslovakia's Zden\u011bk Pazd\u00edrek and Swiss champion Daniel H\u00f6ner. After finishing 12th a year earlier, Hana Knapov\u00e1 took gold in the ladies' event, defeating future Olympic champion Anett P\u00f6tzsch of East Germany and Switzerland's Karin Iten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092829-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Preakness Stakes\nThe 1971 Preakness Stakes was the 96th running of the $200,000 Preakness Stakes thoroughbred horse race. The race took place on May 15, 1971, and was televised in the United States on the CBS television network. Canonero II, who was jockeyed by Gustavo \u00c1vila, won the race by one and one half lengths over runner-up Eastern Fleet. Approximate post time was 5:40\u00a0p.m. Eastern Time. The race was run on a fast track in a final time of 1:54 flat. The Maryland Jockey Club reported total attendance of 47,221, this is recorded as third highest on the list of American thoroughbred racing top attended events for North America in 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 652]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092830-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 President's Cup Football Tournament\nThe 1971 President Park's Cup Asian Football Tournament (Korean: \uc81c1\ud68c \ubc15\ub300\ud1b5\ub839\ucef5 \uc7c1\ud0c8 \uc544\uc2dc\uc544\ucd95\uad6c\ub300\ud68c) was the first competition of Korea Cup. The competition was held from 2 to 15 May 1971. South Korea and Burma played out a 0\u20130 draw and shared the trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092831-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Primera Divisi\u00f3n de Chile\nThe 1971 Campeonato Nacional was Primera Divisi\u00f3n de Chile\u2019s 39th season since its foundation in 1933. Uni\u00f3n San Felipe was the tournament's champion, winning its first ever league title at top-level. By doing this, San Felipe became the only Chilean team to win the second division one year, and the first division tournament the next year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092832-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Princeton Tigers football team\nThe 1971 Princeton Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Princeton University during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. Princeton tied for fifth in the Ivy League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092832-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Princeton Tigers football team\nIn their first year under head coach Jake McCandless, the Tigers compiled a 4\u20135 record but outscored opponents 195 to 160. Robert Wolfe was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092832-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Princeton Tigers football team\nPrinceton's 3\u20134 conference record tied for fifth in the Ivy League standings. The Tigers outscored Ivy opponents 142 to 115.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092832-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Princeton Tigers football team\nPrinceton played its home games at Palmer Stadium on the university campus in Princeton, New Jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092833-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe\nThe 1971 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe was a horse race held at Longchamp on Sunday 3 October 1971. It was the 50th running of the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092833-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe\nThe winner was Mill Reef, a three-year-old colt trained in England by Ian Balding and ridden by Geoff Lewis. Mill Reef won by three and one-and-a-half lengths from the two fillies Pistol Packer and Cambrizzia in a new race-record time of 2:28.3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092834-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Prize of Moscow News\nThe 1971 Prize of Moscow News was the sixth edition of an international figure skating competition organized in Moscow, Soviet Union. It was held November 25\u201328, 1971. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating and ice dancing. Soviets swept the men's podium, led by Sergei Chetverukhin. The ladies' category was won by Marina Titova, who took the title for the second consecutive year. Olympic champions Ludmila Belousova / Oleg Protopopov won the pairs' title, defeating two pairs who had beaten them a year earlier. World champions Lyudmila Pakhomova / Alexander Gorshkov took gold in the ice dancing event for the third consecutive year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 711]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092835-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Pro Bowl\nThe 1971 Pro Bowl was the NFL's 21st annual all-star game which featured the outstanding performers from the 1970 season. The game was played on January 24, 1971, at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California. The final score was NFC 27, AFC 6. Mel Renfro of the Dallas Cowboys was named the game's offensive Most Valuable Player (MVP) and Fred Carr of the Green Bay Packers was selected as the defensive MVP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092835-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Pro Bowl\nAttendance at the game was 48,222. John Madden of the Oakland Raiders, coached the AFC while the NFC was led by the San Francisco 49ers' Dick Nolan. The referee for the contest was Fred Silva. This was the first Pro Bowl to feature the AFC vs. the NFC format, which was used until 2014, then resumed in 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092836-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election\nThe 1971 Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election was held on February 12 of that year to replace retiring premier John Robarts. The party selected Bill Davis on the fourth ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092836-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election, Background\nThe change in leadership came about when John Robarts announced his retirement plans on December 1, 1970. Five sitting members quickly announced their intention to vie for the leadership. Bill Davis was the early front runner and was seen as the candidate of the party establishment. He had support of 14 cabinet ministers and 42 Members of Provincial Parliament (MPPs). Allan Lawrence was viewed as suave and a bit of a maverick. He attracted supporters who disliked Davis' education expenditures. Darcy McKeough, Bob Welch and Bert Lawrence had less support and were viewed as compromise candidates. Robert Pharand was a late entry into the race. He was a 26-year-old graduate student from Ottawa who announced his intention to run on January 31, 1971. He represented a small group of young Conservative members who felt the five established candidates were not speaking clearly enough about the issues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 78], "content_span": [79, 984]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092836-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election, The convention\nThe convention was held at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto between February 11\u201312, 1971. On the first night speeches were made by the candidates. Davis defended his record at the Ministry of Education. He described himself as resolute decisive and steadfast. The text read well but he spoke in a monotone that lessened the impact. Some argued that the speech 'fell flat'. Darcy McKeough spoke next. He gave an aggressive speech. He tried to cast himself as the compromise candidate, neither for the establishment (Davis) nor for the dissidents (A. Lawrence).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 82], "content_span": [83, 639]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092836-0002-0001", "contents": "1971 Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election, The convention\nBob Welch discarded his prepared speech and gave a fierce rendering of his vision. He pledged himself to a more open party. Allan Lawrence ignored his previous arguments about excessive spending on education and government services. Instead he described himself as natural successor to Robarts, a preserver of Canadian unity and Ontario's greatness. Some observers felt his speech was cheeky and presumptuous but it went down well with his organizers. Bert Lawrence who realized that he was well behind in the polls, promised an improved relationship between government and people, structural reform of the cabinet, an enlarged role for backbenchers, and better coordination of the work of the civil service.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 82], "content_span": [83, 791]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092836-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election, Voting procedure\nOn the second day, voting took place. 15 large voting machines were placed in the middle of the floor. Alan Eagleson, a key organizer of the convention, explained to delegates how the voting machines would work. Voting began at 3:15 pm but after an hour it was announced that 12 of the 15 machines had failed work properly. During the next two hours conference organizers met with the manufacturer of the machines and candidates. The manufacturers claimed that nothing was wrong with their machines and it was the delegates who had failed to use them properly. After a meeting with the candidates, there was unanimous agreement that the first ballot be scrapped and that it be redone using paper ballots. This was announced to the delegates at about 6:15 pm. Voting didn't take place until about 7:45 pm and the results were announced about 9 pm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 84], "content_span": [85, 931]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092836-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election, Voting procedure\nIn the meantime, unofficial results from the machine vote had leaked out and there was intense discussions between candidates and their organizers. When the first paper ballot results were announced, Davis was in the lead by 117 votes. Both Robert Pharand and Bert Lawrence dropped out and refused to endorse anyone. The second ballot began at about 10 pm and the results had Bob Welch in last place. Darcy McKeough tried to make a deal with him but he was turned down. Welch felt that to make a deal with McKeough would go against his principles for an open party. He refused to make an endorsement. After the third ballot, McKeough was in last place and he gave his endorsement to Davis. The fourth ballot results were announced at 2 am. It gave Davis the victory by only 44 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 84], "content_span": [85, 868]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092836-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election, Voting procedure\nAnalysis of the results focused on why Davis almost lost. Some argued that Davis' moderate stance was almost outshone by Lawrence who curried favour with more right-wing Conservatives. In terms of delegates, Lawrence and Davis were virtually tied. The deciding factor was the sitting MPPs who voted almost entirely for Davis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 84], "content_span": [85, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092838-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Purdue Boilermakers football team\nThe 1971 Purdue Boilermakers football team represented Purdue University during the 1971 Big Ten Conference football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092839-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Qantas bomb hoax\nThe 1971 Qantas bomb hoax was an extortion and robbery committed by Peter Macari and Raymond Poynting on May 26, 1971, where Macari, under the alias of 'Mr. Brown', extorted $500,000 from Qantas airlines by informing officials that he had hidden a bomb onboard Qantas Flight 755 from Sydney to Hong Kong, and that the device would explode if the plane were to descend below 20,000 feet. In exchange for the safety of the 128 passengers and crew onboard Flight 755, Macari demanded a ransom of $500,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092839-0000-0001", "contents": "1971 Qantas bomb hoax\nWhile authorities negotiated with Macari, Flight 755 was forced to circle Sydney; however after over six hours in the air and with fuel supplies dwindling, Qantas was forced to concede. At around 5:45pm, in Chifley square, just outside Qantas company headquarters, Captain RJ Ritchie, a Qantas general manager, handed Macari the ransom money through the window of a Volkswagen Kombi. Sometime after 6 o'clock, Qantas received a final call from Macari stating that there was no bomb onboard Flight 755. The plane was able to land safely at Sydney Airport around 6:45pm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 590]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092839-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Qantas bomb hoax\nAn investigation was launched by police and Macari and his accomplice Raymond Poynting were arrested on August 4, 1971 after a service station attendant tipped off police about Poynting's new lavish lifestyle. Poynting was jailed for seven years and Macari for 15. Howver, Macari only served nine years before being paroled and deported to England in 1980.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092839-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Qantas bomb hoax\nThe 1986 Australian television film Call Me Mr. Brown is based on the events of the 1971 Qantas bomb hoax.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092839-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Qantas bomb hoax, Background\nPeter Macari was born in Devon, England. In July, 1969, Macari was arrested on charges of indecent assault and was later released on bail. Macari then sold a fish and chip shop he owned to his eldest brother Bernard for roughly $6500. In August, 1969, using a false passport, Macari skipped bail and sailed to Sydney, Australia on the MS Achille Lauro with 22 year old Ivan Jay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092839-0003-0001", "contents": "1971 Qantas bomb hoax, Background\nMacari used a variety of aliases while living in Sydney including 'Peter King', 'Peter Young', 'Brian Adams', and 'William Day'; however, most people knew him as 'Peter King', including his accomplice Raymond Poynting. It's unclear exactly how Macari and Poynting met, but according to police they became friends while Macari was running a fiberglass furniture and boat-building business in Brookvale.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092839-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Qantas bomb hoax, Planning\nMacari's plan to extort an aircraft was initially inspired by the 1966 television-thriller film The Doomsday Flight; the film depicted a bomb equipped with an altitude-sensitive switch being hidden inside an airliner. Macari viewed the film in Townsville in March, 1971 while travelling inside what witnesses described as a \"fitted-up van\". According to witnesses, after watching the film Macari stated \"That would be a good way to make money\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092839-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Qantas bomb hoax, Planning\nWith the plan beginning to form, Macari travelled to Mount Isa in April where he befriended a miner called Francis Sorohan, who stole gelignite and a dozen detonators for him. On May 11, Macari bought an altimeter, an instrument used to determine the height of an object above a certain point. Macari then offered Poynting $50,000 in exchange for his help with the extortion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092839-0005-0001", "contents": "1971 Qantas bomb hoax, Planning\nPoynting agreed and typed out three threatening letters that detailed the instructions for the ransom and warned that the bomb would explode if the plane descended below 20,000 feet; the three letters were later discovered in a locker at Kingsford Smith International Airport, along with an explosive device consisting of unprimed gelatin that could be detonated at a set height using the altimeter. According to Poynting, Macari initially asked him for help on how to build the explosive device; however Poynting stated that he didn't know anything about electronics and that Macari apparently got the advice elsewhere.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 652]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092839-0005-0002", "contents": "1971 Qantas bomb hoax, Planning\nThe night before the hoax on May 25, Poynting drove Macari to Hertz depot in Alexandria where they stole car keys belonging to a Volkswagen Kombi, later used as a getaway vehicle during the extortion. Macari had initially planned to extort a Pan American jet, but he found that Flight 755 from Sydney to Hong Kong was the only flight that would stay long enough in the air to make the plan work.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092839-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Qantas bomb hoax, Extortion of Qantas Airlines\nAround midday on May 26, 1971, Peter Macari, under the alias of 'Mr. Brown', called the Australian Department of Civil Aviation where he told officials he had hidden a bomb onboard a Boeing 707, on Qantas Flight 755; to prove he wasn't lying, Macari told authorities there was an identical bomb located in locker 84 at Kingsford Smith International Airport. Police located the locker and upon opening it, found three letters and an explosive device constructed out of unprimed gelignite and an altimeter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092839-0006-0001", "contents": "1971 Qantas bomb hoax, Extortion of Qantas Airlines\nThe first letter was addressed to Captain RJ Ritchie, a Qantas General Manager; the letter demanded a $500,000 ransom in exchange for instructions on how to dismantle the bomb on Flight 755. The second letter repeated that an identical explosive device was hidden inside Flight 755, and the third letter warned that the bomb would explode if the plane should descend below 20,000 feet. Police defused the replica bomb found in locker 84 and replaced the explosives with a light bulb.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092839-0006-0002", "contents": "1971 Qantas bomb hoax, Extortion of Qantas Airlines\nThe bomb was then taken aboard a second Boeing 707 to test whether the device would explode during its descent. The plane climbed to roughly 8,500 feet (2,600 meters) before it began its descent; when the plane reached 5,000 feet (1,500 meters) the light bulb was activated, meaning that the bomb would have exploded if the explosives has not been replaced. This worried authorities and a radio-link was soon established with the pilot of Flight 755.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092839-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Qantas bomb hoax, Extortion of Qantas Airlines, Search of Flight 755\nQantas Flight 755 from Sydney to Hong Kong was a Boeing 707 and was carrying a total of 128 people, 116 passengers and 12 crew. Around 1:30pm, while flying over Dalby, Queensland, Captain William Selwyn, pilot of Flight 755, was informed of the situation and was told to maintain an altitude of 35,000 feet. Initial plans were made to divert the plane to Canberra as it was the highest location in the country where the plane could land. Instead, Flight 755 was diverted to Brisbane, the crew told passengers this was because of a technical fault.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 73], "content_span": [74, 621]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092839-0007-0001", "contents": "1971 Qantas bomb hoax, Extortion of Qantas Airlines, Search of Flight 755\nHowever, the plane was later diverted back to Sydney as Sydney Airport had superior emergency services. While Selwyn made his way back to Sydney at minimum speed, the air and cabin crew searched the plane extensively for the bomb; according to statements taken from those onboard, passengers personal belongings were searched and they were told they were \"looking for a small-object\". Selwyn later recounted:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 73], "content_span": [74, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092839-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Qantas bomb hoax, Extortion of Qantas Airlines, Search of Flight 755\nWe were searching all the time. We pulled-off every conceivable panel and searched. The passengers remained calm and there was no panic at any time. This was the case even when the stewards and hostesses began ripping-up carpets and removing light-fittings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 73], "content_span": [74, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092839-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 Qantas bomb hoax, Extortion of Qantas Airlines, Search of Flight 755\nSelwyn arrived at Sydney and was forced to circle the plane for several hours at sea off Mascot while negotiations were held. He informed controllers of his dwindling fuel supply and told them he would need to land the plane at 7pm at the latest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 73], "content_span": [74, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092839-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 Qantas bomb hoax, Extortion of Qantas Airlines, The pay-off\nWhile Flight 755 circled at sea, Macari, still posing as 'Mr. Brown', spoke with Qantas deputy general manager Phillip Howson, as Qantas general manager Captain RJ Ritchie, who the letter in locker 84 was addressed to, was not present at the time. Macari spoke with Howson at roughly 2pm, 3pm, and 4pm, each time providing more information and instructions regarding the ransom; at around 5:30pm Macari spoke with Howson again, relaying his instructions for the delivery of the ransom money. Macari demanded $500,000 in used, unmarked $20 notes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 64], "content_span": [65, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092839-0010-0001", "contents": "1971 Qantas bomb hoax, Extortion of Qantas Airlines, The pay-off\nWith a little over an hour left of fuel on Flight 755, Qantas agreed to pay the ransom. Macari told authorities that a yellow van would park outside Qantas company headquarters in Chifley Square at 5:45pm, and that the driver would identify himself by shaking his keys out the window, he warned that the van must not be followed, and if there was any deviation from the agreement, he would activate the bomb on Flight 755. The money was delivered in two blue suitcases.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 64], "content_span": [65, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092839-0010-0002", "contents": "1971 Qantas bomb hoax, Extortion of Qantas Airlines, The pay-off\nAt roughly 5:45pm Macari arrived in a yellow Volkswagen Kombi, which he had stolen the night before, he was reported to have worn a disguise consisting of a wig, a fake moustache, and glasses. Captain RJ Ritchie handed the suitcases to Macari through the window of the van. There were four police vehicles in the area, however, they were apparently never informed the handover was taking place; it remains unclear exactly what happened.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 64], "content_span": [65, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092839-0011-0000", "contents": "1971 Qantas bomb hoax, Extortion of Qantas Airlines, The pay-off\nSoon after 6pm, authorities received a final call from Macari stating that there was no bomb onboard Flight 755. The plane began its descent around 6:40pm and was able to land safely at Sydney Airport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 64], "content_span": [65, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092839-0012-0000", "contents": "1971 Qantas bomb hoax, Investigation\nThe next day on May 27, a reward of $50,000 for information leading to the capture of the hoaxer was offered to the public; police would receive over 14,500 calls regarding the reward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092839-0012-0001", "contents": "1971 Qantas bomb hoax, Investigation\nPhonetic experts were also brought in by police who, after listening to recordings of Macari's voice, concluded that he was an Englishman, likely from the Midlands, and likely a recent English migrant; police tried to match the information gained in the phonetic analysis with those that had a criminal record in Britain and they worked closely with Scotland Yard, Interpol, and the FBI, who helped Australian police narrow down the list of suspects.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092839-0012-0002", "contents": "1971 Qantas bomb hoax, Investigation\nTwo weeks after the hoax, police discovered that the gelignite and denotators used in the making of the bomb found in locker 84 at Sydney Airport, were also being used in the Mount Isa Mines, in Queensland. At the time this lead them to believe that the hoaxer, 'Mr. Brown' either worked or had worked in the mines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092839-0013-0000", "contents": "1971 Qantas bomb hoax, Investigation, Arrests\nA breakthrough came in August, 1971 when police received a tip-off from a service station attendant about a young barman, Raymond Poynting, the attendant became suspicious of the man after he suddenly began making large and extravagant purchases, including buying himself an E-Type Jaguar and a Ford GT. Detectives placed Poynting and later Peter Macari, a suspicious associate of the man, under surveillance. Police tailed a Chevrolet Camaro belonging to Macari before arresting him on Burton and Elizabeth Street, in Darlinghurst. A few hours later police arrested Poynting outside of his apartment in Bondi Junction; shortly after he was detained, Poynting confessed to his part in the robbery.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 45], "content_span": [46, 743]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092839-0014-0000", "contents": "1971 Qantas bomb hoax, Investigation, Search for the missing money\nShortly after the arrests, police became suspicious of an Annandale property which they believed to be owned by Macari. A bricklayer working on the property later contacted police, telling them that recent work had been done inside the house by somebody else. Police arrived at the property where they found $138,240 in $20 notes behind a bricked-up fireplace. In 1972, Qantas held an auction where they sold the suitcases used in the ransom as well as cars bought by Macari and Poynting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 66], "content_span": [67, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092839-0014-0001", "contents": "1971 Qantas bomb hoax, Investigation, Search for the missing money\nIn July 1973, police found $137,000 of the ransom money in a home in Balmain after a new tenant reached out to police stating that he was suspicious about the position of some of the floorboards. Police stated that Macari had hidden in the house for a few days after the extortion. After his arrest, Macari was asked by authorities where the remainder of the money was, he stated that there was another man involved in the extortion by the name of 'Ken'.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 66], "content_span": [67, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092839-0014-0002", "contents": "1971 Qantas bomb hoax, Investigation, Search for the missing money\nAccording to Macari 'Ken' was apart of a large gang and was the mastermind behind the hoax, 'Ken' had seen The Doomsday Flight and he had stayed in touch with Macari throughout the extortion. Macari stated that after he was handed the ransom money, he was given $125,000, while 'Ken' took the rest. Police dismissed Macari's statement as there was no evidence of another individual involved in the crime. As of 2021, only about $260,000 of the $500,000 ransom has been recovered. Some suspect that the missing money might be hidden underwater off Bondi Beach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 66], "content_span": [67, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092839-0015-0000", "contents": "1971 Qantas bomb hoax, Aftermath, Legal proceedings\nMacari and Poynting both pleaded guilty to charges of demanding money with menaces and stealing a motor vehicle. Macari was also charged with carrying a grenade in Sydney Airport. Francis Sorohan, the man who stole the gelignite and detonators for Macari, was initially charged as a minor accomplice; however, the charges against him were later dismissed. Macari and Poynting were sentenced in January, 1972 at Sydney Quater Sessions. Macari was sentenced to fifteen years in prison, eligible for parole after serving nine; Poynting received seven years for his involvement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092839-0016-0000", "contents": "1971 Qantas bomb hoax, Aftermath, Legal proceedings\nIn 1980, after serving nine years in prison Macari was paroled and deported to England on a Qantas flight. Macari was last reported to be running a fish and chip shop in England bought by his brothers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092839-0017-0000", "contents": "1971 Qantas bomb hoax, Aftermath, The Doomsday Flight\nFour days after the hoax, an interview was published with Rod Serling, screenwriter of the 1966 film The Doomsday Flight. By now The Doomsday Flight had inspired three extortion plots. Serling expressed regret over writing the film, stating that he \"didn\u2019t realise there were that many kooks in the woodwork.\" Later in August the same year a similar incident was carried out in Denver on a British Overseas Airways Corporation flight with 380 passengers onboard. The US government became involved and urged 500 television stations to ban the film.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 53], "content_span": [54, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092839-0018-0000", "contents": "1971 Qantas bomb hoax, Aftermath, Copycat attempt\nAt 1:44pm on July 4, 1997, a man contacted Qantas Airlines under the pseudonym 'Mr. Brown', he stated that he had hidden a bomb onboard a Boeing 747-400, on Qantas Flight 27 from Sydney to Hong Kong and like Macari, he said the device would explode if the plane descended below 6,500 meters. He demanded $505,000 and said that the bomb contained trip wires to prevent it being defused, he also said that he was able to remotely detonate it if Qantas did not meet his demands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 49], "content_span": [50, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092839-0018-0001", "contents": "1971 Qantas bomb hoax, Aftermath, Copycat attempt\nLike Macari, the man also demanded the money in used banknotes and that they should be delivered inside a suitcase. New South Wales police were notified and upon further review of technical information given by the man, they deemed the threat a hoax. Authorities reached this conclusion as not only was deactivating the bomb via remote control deemed impossible, but the hoaxer relayed inconsistent instructions to Qantas and displayed technical ineptitude. It was also highly unlikely the hoaxer would have been able to hide the device on the plane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 49], "content_span": [50, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092839-0018-0002", "contents": "1971 Qantas bomb hoax, Aftermath, Copycat attempt\nAfter the threat was deemed a hoax, Qantas was able to trace where the call had being made from, and delivered two bags full of phonebooks to the hoaxer to give the impression that there was money inside. At 8:15pm, Flight 27 landed safely in Hong Kong. The calls were being made from a motel, where the hoaxer stayed the night. The next day he arranged a taxi to deliver the bags to his residence, police followed the taxi and arrested the hoaxer once he took possession of the bags.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 49], "content_span": [50, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092839-0019-0000", "contents": "1971 Qantas bomb hoax, In culture\nIn 1971, Australian singer Peter Hiscock released a single titled 'A certain Mr. Brown' detailing the events of the hoax.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092839-0020-0000", "contents": "1971 Qantas bomb hoax, In culture\nThe 1986 Australian television film, Call Me Mr. Brown, is based on the events of the bomb hoax. Qantas actively tried to stop the film being made and despite failing to do so, Network 10, who had invested $250,000 into the film, refused to air it. The film was eventually released on video in 1990.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092840-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Queen's Club Championships\nThe 1971 Queen's Club Championships, also known as the Rothmans London Grass Court Championships, was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament played on grass courts at the Queen's Club in London in the United Kingdom that was part of the 1971 Pepsi-Cola Grand Prix. It was the 72nd edition of the tournament and was held from 14 June until 19 June 1971. Stan Smith and Margaret Court won the singles titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092840-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Queen's Club Championships, Finals, Men's Doubles\nTom Okker / Marty Riessen defeated Stan Smith / Erik van Dillen 8\u20136, 4\u20136, 10\u20138", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092840-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Queen's Club Championships, Finals, Women's Doubles\nRosie Casals / Billie Jean King defeated Mary\u2013Ann Curtis / Valerie Ziegenfuss 6\u20132, 8\u20136", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 56], "content_span": [57, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092841-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Queen's Club Championships \u2013 Men's Doubles\nOkker and Riessen successfully defended their title, defeating Stan Smith and Erik van Dillen 8\u20136, 4\u20136, 10\u20138 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092842-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Queen's Club Championships \u2013 Men's Singles\nRod Laver was the defending champion, but lost in the quarterfinals this year against Tom Gorman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092842-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Queen's Club Championships \u2013 Men's Singles\nStan Smith won the men's singles title at the 1971 Queen's Club Championships tennis tournament, defeating John Newcombe 8\u20136, 6\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092843-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Questor Grand Prix\nThe Questor Grand Prix was a non-championship race for Formula One and Formula 5000 cars held on 28 March 1971 to inaugurate a new racing facility in California, the Ontario Motor Speedway, built by the Questor conglomerate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092843-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Questor Grand Prix\nBecause of the smaller fuel tanks of the F5000 cars, the race was run in two heats of 32 laps, and the final result decided by a points system. Jackie Stewart qualified on pole for Heat 1 and finished runner-up behind Mario Andretti. Chris Amon set fastest lap. Stewart and Andretti again finished first and second in Heat 2 and Pedro Rodriguez set fastest lap, quicker than Amon's time in Heat 1. Mario Andretti was declared the winner; with Stewart in second place and Denny Hulme third. Mark Donohue was the best-placed F5000 finisher in Heat 1, and Ron Grable best in Heat 2. Grable was also the best-placed F5000 driver on aggregate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 662]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092843-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Questor Grand Prix\nHopes for a regular fixture rapidly faded due to financial problems; the Questor Grand Prix remained a one-off event and the Ontario Motor Speedway was never again host to Formula One cars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092843-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Questor Grand Prix, Qualifying\n1 Hobbs, Lovely and Byers were late entries and relegated to reserve drivers. 2 Stewart briefly drove Foyt's car in qualifying.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092844-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 RAF Hercules crash\nOn 9 November 1971, a Royal Air Force Lockheed Hercules C.1 crashed into the sea off the coast of Livorno by Meloria shoal, Italy, killing all 46 passengers and 6 crew. At the time it was described by Italian officials as the worst military air disaster in Italy in peacetime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092844-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 RAF Hercules crash, Crash\nThe Hercules serial number XV216, from RAF Lyneham in Wiltshire, was due to carry out an early morning parachute drop at Cagliari, Sardinia, as part of a large-scale joint training exercise called Coldstream. Ten aircraft were to be involved; nine Hercules and one Hawker Siddeley Andover. Their order of takeoff was marked by a serial number, chalked onto the fuselage of each aircraft. The Hercules known as Chalk 4 was the fourth of the 10 aircraft due to depart at fifteen-minute intervals from San Giusto military airport in Pisa, Italy. The aircraft crashed near the Meloria rocks, four miles west of Livorno. At Pisa, the stream take-off was cancelled, another four aircraft had followed XV216 into the air but the last two were prevented from departing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 792]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092844-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 RAF Hercules crash, Crash\nAll 52 on board were killed, they included five British aircrew from 24 Squadron, a British parachute jumping instructor from No. 1 Parachute Training School at RAF Abingdon and 46 Italian paratroopers from the Folgore Parachute Brigade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092844-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 RAF Hercules crash, Recovery\nIt was at first difficult to find the wreckage due to a persistent wind and low clouds. The wreckage was found lying in 200 feet (61\u00a0m) of water, although small fragments had already been recovered, the salvage operation, which was hindered by the bad weather, was led by the Italian Navy. The cause of the accident was not found.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092844-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 RAF Hercules crash, Memorial\nA memorial plaque was erected in Livorno in 2003 to commemorate the accident. On 21 November 2006, a memorial service was held in Pisa, attended by a delegation from No. 24 Squadron, current operators of the C-130J Hercules, and relatives of the lost crew members.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092845-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Race of Champions\nThe 6th Race of Champions was a non-Championship motor race, run to Formula One rules, held on 21 March 1971 at Brands Hatch circuit in Kent, England. The race was run over 50 laps of the circuit, and was won by Clay Regazzoni in a Ferrari 312B2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092846-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Railway Cup Hurling Championship\nThe 1971 Railway Cup Hurling Championship was the 45th staging of the Railway Cup since its establishment by the Gaelic Athletic Association in 1927. The championship ended on 17 March 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092846-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Railway Cup Hurling Championship\nOn 17 March 1971, Leinster won the championship following a 2\u201317 to 2\u201312 defeat of Munster in the final. This was their 12th Railway Cup title and their first since 1967.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092846-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Railway Cup Hurling Championship\nLeinster's Eddie Keher was the Railway Cup top scorer with 0-18.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092847-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Redbridge London Borough Council election\nThe 1971 Redbridge Council election took place on 13 May 1971 to elect members of Redbridge London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Conservative party stayed in overall control of the council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092848-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Redwood Bank Pacific Coast Open\nThe 1971 Redwood Bank Pacific Coast Open was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Berkeley Tennis Club in Berkeley, California in the United States. The event was part of both the 1971 Grand Prix and World Championship Tennis circuit. It was the 81st edition of the tournament and ran from September 27 through October 3, 1971. First-seeded Rod Laver won the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092848-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Redwood Bank Pacific Coast Open, Finals, Doubles\nRoy Emerson / Rod Laver defeated Ken Rosewall / Fred Stolle 6\u20133, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092849-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Rhineland-Palatinate state election\nThe Rhineland-Palatinate state election, 1971 was conducted on 21 March 1971 to elect members to the Landtag, the state legislature of Rhineland-Palatinate, West Germany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092849-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Rhineland-Palatinate state election\nThis German elections-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092850-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Rhode Island Rams football team\nThe 1971 Rhode Island Rams football team was an American football team that represented the University of Rhode Island as a member of the Yankee Conference during the 1971 NCAA College Division football season. In its second season under head coach Jack Gregory, the team compiled a 3\u20136 record (2\u20133 against conference opponents), tied for fourth place out of seven teams in the Yankee Conference, and was outscored by a total of 207 to 154. The team played its home games at Meade Stadium in Kingston, Rhode Island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092851-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Rice Owls football team\nThe 1971 Rice Owls football team was an American football team that represented Rice University in the Southwest Conference (SWC) during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. In its first and only season under head coach Bill Peterson, the team compiled a 3\u20137\u20131 record (2\u20134\u20131 against SWC opponents), finished sixth in the conference, and was outscored by a total of 220 to 146. The team played its home games at Rice Stadium in Houston.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092851-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Rice Owls football team\nThe team's statistical leaders included Bruce Gadd with 1,061 passing yards, Stahle Vincent with 945 rushing yards, Gary Butler with 397 receiving yards, and Bubba Berg and Stahle Vincent with 18 points each. Stahle Vincent was selected by the Associated Press as a first-team running back on the 1971 All-Southwest Conference football team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092852-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Richmond Spiders football team\nThe 1971 Richmond Spiders football team represented the Richmond College during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092853-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Richmond upon Thames London Borough Council election\nThe 1971 Richmond upon Thames Council election took place on 13 May 1971 to elect members of Richmond upon Thames London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Conservative party stayed in overall control of the council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092854-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Road Atlanta Can-Am\nThe 1971 Road Atlanta Can-Am race was the third round of the 1971 Can-Am Challenge Cup. It was held July 11, 1971, at Road Atlanta in Braselton, Georgia. It was the second Can-Am race held at the track.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092855-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Rose Bowl\nThe 1971 Rose Bowl was It was the 57th edition of the college football bowl game, played at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, on Friday, January\u00a01. The Stanford Indians of the Pacific-8 Conference defeated the second-ranked Ohio State Buckeyes of the Big Ten Conference, 27\u201317. The\u00a0Player of the\u00a0Game was Stanford quarterback Jim Plunkett, the Heisman Trophy winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092855-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Rose Bowl, Teams, Ohio State\nOhio State started the season ranked first in the nation and proceeded to roll off five easy wins by a combined score of 195\u201360. In\u00a0their fifth game, the Buckeyes won 48\u201329 at Illinois. But for some reason, Texas leapfrogged Ohio State to #1 after beating unranked Rice 45\u201321. The next week the Buckeyes defeated #20 Northwestern 24\u201310, but dropped to third in the rankings as Notre Dame moved up to second after a rout of Navy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 33], "content_span": [34, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092855-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Rose Bowl, Teams, Ohio State\nAfter a 10\u20137 win with a late field goal at Purdue on November\u00a014, they fell to fifth despite still being undefeated, as Nebraska and Michigan passed them. They earned the Rose Bowl berth on the strength of their 20\u20139 victory over #4 Michigan in their rivalry game that decided the Big Ten title and rose back to second, behind Texas. After Texas lost in the Cotton Bowl to #6 Notre Dame earlier on New Year's Day, Ohio State went into the Rose Bowl with the inside track to claim the national championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 33], "content_span": [34, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092855-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Rose Bowl, Teams, Stanford\nStanford started the season ranked tenth, and in the season opener they upset #4 Arkansas 34\u201328 at Little Rock. After an easy win over San Jose State, they traveled north to Eugene for a game that featured a quarterback battle between Plunkett and Oregon sophomore Dan Fouts. Stanford won 33\u201310, but then were caught looking ahead to their showdown with USC and lost 24\u201316 at home to Purdue. They then beat four-time defending Pac-8 champion USC at Stanford, 24\u201314 (avenging a last second loss to the Trojans the year before). An easy 63\u201316 win over conference doormat Washington State boosted the Indians to #8.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 31], "content_span": [32, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092855-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Rose Bowl, Teams, Stanford\nNext up was a showdown with #16 UCLA in Los Angeles for the conference lead. In\u00a0what was expected to be another quarterback showdown between Plunkett and the Bruins' Dennis Dummit, the defenses dominated in Stanford's key 9\u20137 win. After an easy win over Oregon State, they rose to sixth before clinching the conference title in the Rose Bowl decider over sophomore QB Sonny Sixkiller and Washington, 29\u201322. Stanford then suffered a pair of letdowns, losing to #13 Air Force 31\u201314 and to arch rival California, 22\u201314. The Pac-8 standings were so tightly bunched, that a win by either Oregon, UCLA, or Washington over Stanford would have sent that team to the Rose Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 31], "content_span": [32, 700]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092855-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Rose Bowl, Aftermath\nEarlier that New Year's Day, top-ranked Texas lost 24\u201311 to #6 Notre Dame in the Cotton Bowl in Dallas. Stanford's upset prevented Ohio State from claiming the national championship, which went to #3 Nebraska, a 17\u201312 victor over #5 LSU that night in the Orange Bowl in Miami. In the final AP poll taken after the bowls, Ohio State fell to fifth and Stanford rose to eighth. Stanford repeated as Rose Bowl champions the following year, led by fifth-year senior quarterback Don Bunce, who redshirted this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 25], "content_span": [26, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092856-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Rothmans 250\nThe 1971 Rothmans 250 was motor race for Group E Series Production Touring Cars. It was staged on 7 November 1971 at the Surfers Paradise International Raceway in Queensland, Australia, over a 250-mile distance. The race, which was Heat 5 of the 1971 Australian Manufacturers' Championship, was won by Allan Moffat driving a Ford Falcon GTHO.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092856-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Rothmans 250, Classes\nAs a heat of the 1971 Australian Manufacturers' Championship, classes were defined by a Capacity/Price Units formula with values for each model calculated by multiplying the engine capacity in litres by the retail price.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 26], "content_span": [27, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092856-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Rothmans 250, Results\nThe winning car completed the race in 3 hours 11 minutes 46.1 seconds at an average speed of 83\u00a0mph (133\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 26], "content_span": [27, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092856-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Rothmans 250, Results\nThe above results table does not list all competitors, given that there were \"over forty starters\" in the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 26], "content_span": [27, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092857-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Rothmans 3 Hour\nThe 1971 Rothmans 3 Hour was motor race for Group E Series Production Touring Cars. It was staged at the Mount Panorama Circuit near Bathurst, in New South Wales, Australia on 12 April 1971. The race, which was Heat 1 of the 1971 Australian Manufacturers' Championship, was won by Allan Moffat driving a Ford Falcon GTHO.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092857-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Rothmans 3 Hour, Classes\nAs a heat of the 1971 Australian Manufacturers' Championship, classes were defined by a Capacity/Price Units formula with the value for each model calculated by multiplying the engine capacity in litres by the retail price.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 29], "content_span": [30, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092857-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Rothmans 3 Hour, Results\n35 cars started the event and 14 failed to finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 29], "content_span": [30, 80]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092857-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Rothmans 3 Hour, Results\nAllan Moffat recorded the fastest practice time (2:46.4) and the fastest race lap (2:46).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 29], "content_span": [30, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092858-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Rothmans Canadian Open\nThe 1971 Rothmans Canadian Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Toronto Lawn Tennis Club in Toronto in Canada that was part of the 1971 World Championship Tennis circuit. The tournament was held from August 9 through August 16, 1971. John Newcombe and Fran\u00e7oise D\u00fcrr won the singles titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092858-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Rothmans Canadian Open, Finals, Men's Doubles\nTom Okker / Marty Riessen defeated Arthur Ashe / Dennis Ralston 6\u20133, 6\u20133, 6\u20131", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092858-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Rothmans Canadian Open, Finals, Women's Doubles\nRosemary Casals / Fran\u00e7oise D\u00fcrr defeated Lesley Turner Bowrey / Evonne Goolagong 6\u20133, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092859-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Rothmans Channel 7 Cup\nThe 1971 Rothmans Channel 7 Cup was a one-off WANFL-organised national club Australian rules football tournament between the leading clubs from the VFL, the SANFL and the WANFL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092859-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Rothmans Channel 7 Cup\nThe Tournament was held as a testimonial to celebrate Graham 'Polly' Farmer who was retiring at the end of the 1971 WANFL season, with the matches being played as Lightning matches of two 25 minute quarters with time-on.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092860-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Rothmans F5000 European Championship\nThe 1971 Rothmans F5000 European Championship was a motor racing series for Formula 5000 cars. The series was organized in the United Kingdom by the British Racing and Sports Car Club but also included European rounds. It was the third of seven annual European Formula 5000 Championships to be contested between 1969 and 1975, and the first to carry the Rothmans F5000 European Championship name. The championship was won by Frank Gardner, driving a Lola T192 and a Lola T300.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092860-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Rothmans F5000 European Championship, Points system\nChampionship points were awarded on a 9-6-4-3-2-1 basis for the first six places at each round. Final championship positions were determined from the best six results from the longer rounds (i.e. those contested over a distance of 100 to 150 miles) and the best six results from the shorter rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 56], "content_span": [57, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092861-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Rothmans International Tennis Tournament\nThe 1971 Rothmans International Tennis Tournament was a men's professional tennis tournament held on indoor carpet courts in the Royal Albert Hall in London, England. It was the second edition of the tournament and was held from 28 February through 4 March 1971. It was an independent event, i.e. not part of either the 1971 Grand Prix or 1971 World Championship Tennis circuit. Only a singles event was held which was won by Rod Laver who earned $7,800 / \u00a33,250 first-prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092862-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Rutgers Scarlet Knights football team\nThe 1971 Rutgers Scarlet Knights football team represented Rutgers University in the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. In their 12th season under head coach John F. Bateman, the Scarlet Knights compiled a 4\u20137 record and were outscored by their opponents 243 to 193. The team's statistical leaders included Leo Gasienica with 1,148 passing yards, Larry Robertson with 405 rushing yards, and Bob Carney with 351 receiving yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092862-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Rutgers Scarlet Knights football team\nThe Scarlet Knights played their home games at Rutgers Stadium in Piscataway, New Jersey, across the river from the university's main campus in New Brunswick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092863-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Ryder Cup\nThe 19th Ryder Cup Matches were held September 16\u201318, 1971, in the United States at the Old Warson Country Club in St. Louis, Missouri. The U.S. team won the competition by a score of 181\u20442 to 131\u20442 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092863-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Ryder Cup, Format\nThe Ryder Cup is a match play event, with each match worth one point. From 1963 through 1971 the competition format was as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 22], "content_span": [23, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092863-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Ryder Cup, Format\nWith a total of 32 points, 161\u20442 points were required to win the Cup. All matches were played to a maximum of 18 holes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 22], "content_span": [23, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092863-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Ryder Cup, Teams\nSix members of the Great Britain team were selected from a points list based on a player's best 10 performances in 15 events during the 1971 season, ending with the Benson & Hedges Festival of Golf on 21 August. The remaining six were chosen by a committee and announced on 23 August. The leading six in the points table were: Neil Coles, Peter Oosterhuis, Brian Barnes, Harry Bannerman, Peter Butler and Maurice Bembridge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 21], "content_span": [22, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092863-0003-0001", "contents": "1971 Ryder Cup, Teams\nThe committee chose Brian Huggett, Peter Townsend and Bernard Gallacher who had finished 7th, 8th and 9th in the list, together with Tony Jacklin, Christy O'Connor Snr and John Garner. Jacklin had played most of his golf in America, while O'Conner had missed much of the season with a wrist injury. Garner was chosen over Tommy Horton who had had a good season in 1970 but had been less consistent than Garner in 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 21], "content_span": [22, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092863-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Ryder Cup, Individual player records\nEach entry refers to the Win\u2013Loss\u2013Half record of the player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 41], "content_span": [42, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092864-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 SANFL Grand Final\nThe 1971 SANFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football competition. North Adelaide beat Port Adelaide by 79 to 59.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092865-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 SANFL season\nThe 1971 South Australian National Football League season was the 92nd season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092866-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 SCCA Formula Super Vee season\nThe 1971 SCCA Formula Super Vee season was the first season of the Sports Car Club of America sanctioned Formula Super Vee championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092867-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 SCCA L&M Continental 5000 Championship\nThe 1971 SCCA L&M Continental 5000 Championship was the fifth annual running of the Sports Car Club of America's professional open wheel racing series. Liggett & Myers increased it support of the championship for 1971 through its L&M cigarette brand and now had series naming rights.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092867-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 SCCA L&M Continental 5000 Championship\nThe championship was won by David Hobbs, driving a McLaren M10B Chevrolet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092867-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 SCCA L&M Continental 5000 Championship, Calendar\nThe championship was contested over eight races with two heats per race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 53], "content_span": [54, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092867-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 SCCA L&M Continental 5000 Championship, Points system\nChampionship points were awarded to drivers on a 20-15-12-10-8-6-4-3-2-1 basis for the first ten places in each race, those places having been determined from the results of the two heats. Total points for each driver were based on the best six finishes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 58], "content_span": [59, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092868-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 SMU Mustangs football team\nThe 1971 SMU Mustangs football team represented Southern Methodist University during the 1971 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092869-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Sacramento State Hornets football team\nThe 1971 Sacramento State Hornets football team represented Sacramento State College during the 1971 NCAA College Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092869-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Sacramento State Hornets football team\nSacramento State competed in the Far Western Conference (FWC). The Hornets were led by head coach Ray Clemons in his eleventh season. They played home games at Hornet Stadium in Sacramento, California. The team finished the season with a record of four wins and five losses and one tie (4\u20135\u20131, 2\u20133\u20131 FWC). Overall, the team was outscored by its opponents 228\u2013238 for the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092869-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Sacramento State Hornets football team, Team players in the NFL\nNo Sacramento State players were selected in the 1972 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 68], "content_span": [69, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092870-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Saga gubernatorial election\nA gubernatorial election was held on 11 April 1971 to elect the Governor of Saga Prefecture. Incumbent Sunao Ikeda scored a second victory over communist candidate K\u014dz\u014d Eguchi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092871-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Saint Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla general election\nGeneral elections were held in Saint Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla on 10 May 1971. The result was a victory for the Saint Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla Labour Party (SKNALP), which won seven of the nine elected seats. The SKNALP won all seven seats at the island of Saint Kitts, while the two seats at the island of Nevis were divided between the People's Action Movement and the Nevis Reformation Party. Anguilla, which was nominally entitled to one seat, boycotted the elections in the aftermath of the 1969 referendum. Voter turnout was 87.9%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092872-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Salem, Illinois, derailment\nThe 1971 Salem, Illinois derailment occurred on June 10, 1971, when Amtrak\u2019s City of New Orleans passenger train derailed near Salem, Illinois. It is sometimes referred to as the Tonti derailment, after the unincorporated community of Tonti, Illinois, which was the site of the crash. An investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) found that the derailment was caused by a false flange on a flat wheel caused by a seized axle bearing. The crash killed 11 people and injured 163. It was Amtrak's first fatal accident since assuming control of most intercity passenger trains in the United States on May 1, 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 665]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092872-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Salem, Illinois, derailment, Accident\nAmtrak #1 (later #59), the City of New Orleans departed Chicago's Central Station at 8:00 AM CT on June 10, 1971. The City of New Orleans was a daytime train between Chicago and New Orleans, Louisiana. Up until April 30, 1971, it had been operated by the Illinois Central Railroad, but passed to Amtrak when the latter assumed operation of most intercity service in the United States. It was scheduled to arrive in New Orleans at 1:30 AM on June 11.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092872-0001-0001", "contents": "1971 Salem, Illinois, derailment, Accident\nThe train was composed of 15 cars: a baggage car, 11 coaches, a diner-counter, a lounge car, and a combination coach/food service car. Amtrak had inherited or leased this equipment from other railroads. A set of four leased Illinois Central EMD E-units of various models pulled the train: E8A #4031 (leading), E9Bs #4109 and #4106, and E10A (a rebuilt E8A) #2024 (formerly #4032).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092872-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Salem, Illinois, derailment, Accident\nThe lead locomotive assigned to the train was #4031, an EMD E8A originally manufactured in 1952. The E8 developed 2,250 horsepower (1,680\u00a0kW) from two 12 cylinder model 567B engines, each driving a generator to power the two traction motors on one truck. During the run south from Chicago the #2 engine on #4031 failed and could not be repaired. After a crew change in Champaign, Illinois, the new crew observed the #2 engine respond to the throttle and concluded that it was operational again. South of Champaign the Illinois Central main line was double track with crossovers. As the train passed over one of these crossovers at Tonti, #4031 derailed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 696]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092872-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Salem, Illinois, derailment, Accident\n#4031 was badly damaged in the derailment; #4109, immediately behind, caught fire and was destroyed. The rear two locomotives remained upright and suffered little damage. The lead baggage car and first five coaches were destroyed. The remaining eight cars suffered varying degrees of damage. Eleven people were killed and 163 were injured. Six of the eleven fatalities occurred when passengers were ejected through large side windows. It was Amtrak's first fatal accident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092872-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Salem, Illinois, derailment, Investigation\nThe NTSB investigation found flat spots on the rear truck of #4031. Inspection of the tracks between Tonti and Effingham, Illinois, revealed markings where the wheels had slid instead of spun. Further investigation revealed that the truck's traction motor had seized prior to the accident, and that the wheels had probably locked at Effingham during a station stop. The locked wheels created a false flange. When the compromised wheel reached the switch at the crossover at Tonti it derailed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092872-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Salem, Illinois, derailment, Investigation\n#4031 had made another run from Chicago to New Orleans on June 6. Engine #2 had failed on that trip as well and was shut down in New Orleans. As an added precaution the reverser for the engine was locked in neutral for trip to Chicago. Shutting down the engine and locking the reverser in neutral had the effect of disabling the wheel slip indicator, which would notify the locomotive engineer that a wheel was slipping or sliding. While #4031 was repaired in Chicago, the Illinois Central maintenance forces did not observe that the reverser was locked and did not realize that power was not being supplied to the rear truck.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 674]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092872-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Salem, Illinois, derailment, Aftermath\nThe NTSB found that the mechanical faults in Illinois Central locomotive #4031 caused the derailment. It recommended improvements in wheel-slip detection devices for locomotives and in pre-departure testing procedures. The NTSB also recommended that the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) draft safety standards to address the ejection of passengers through windows in the event of accidents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092873-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 San Diego Chargers season\nThe 1971 San Diego Chargers season was the franchise's second season in the National Football League (NFL), and its 12th overall. The team improved on their 5\u20136\u20133 record in 1970. It was Harland Svare's first season as the team's head coach. After a 1-4 start, the Chargers would slightly improve, winning 3 of their next 4 games. However, they would lose 3 of their final 5 games en route to a 6-8 finish. The only bright spot was quarterback John Hadl who completed 233 passes out of 431 attempts for 3,075 yards and 21 touchdowns and won the NFL Man of the Year award as well as leading the league in both passing yards and touchdown passes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 674]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092873-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 San Diego Chargers season, Regular season, Standings\nNote: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092874-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 San Diego Padres season\nThe 1971 San Diego Padres season was the third season in franchise history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092874-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 San Diego Padres season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 73], "content_span": [74, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092874-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 San Diego Padres season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 66], "content_span": [67, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092874-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 San Diego Padres season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 71], "content_span": [72, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092874-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 San Diego Padres season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 68], "content_span": [69, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092874-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 San Diego Padres season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 69], "content_span": [70, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092875-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 San Diego State Aztecs football team\nThe 1971 San Diego State Aztecs football team represented San Diego State College during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season as a member of the Pacific Coast Athletic Association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092875-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 San Diego State Aztecs football team\nThe team was led by head coach Don Coryell, in his eleventh year, and played home games at San Diego Stadium in San Diego, California. They finished the season with a record of six wins and five losses (6\u20135, 2\u20133 PCAA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092876-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 San Diego mayoral election\nThe 1971 San Diego mayoral election was held on November 2, 1971 to elect the mayor for San Diego. Incumbent Frank Curran stood for reelection for a third term. California State Assembly member Pete Wilson and former San Diego City Attorney Ed Butler received the most votes in the primary and advanced to the runoff. Wilson was then elected mayor with a majority of the votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092876-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 San Diego mayoral election, Campaign\nIn October 1970, prior to the beginning of the campaign, incumbent Mayor Frank Curran and several other City officials were indicted for allegedly taking bribes from the Yellow Cab Company. He was acquitted on all charges prior to the election. Despite the controversy, Curran chose to run for reelection to a third term, hoping that reelection would serve as a public exoneration from his involvement in the case.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092876-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 San Diego mayoral election, Campaign\nThe 1971 election attracted a then-record 14 declared candidates. Five of Curran's challengers had previous experience in elected office, including California State Assembly member Pete Wilson, former San Diego City Attorney Ed Bulter, San Diego Board of Supervisors member Jack Walsh, former member of the Assembly and the San Diego City Council Tom Hom, and city council member Mike Schaefer. The remaining eight challengers were political outsiders running for their first elective office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092876-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 San Diego mayoral election, Campaign\nIn the September 21, 1971 primary election, Wilson received more than twice as many votes his nearest competitor with 36.8 percent of the vote. Butler came in second place with 18.3 percent, followed by Walsh in third place with 16.2 percent of the vote, and Mayor Curran at 10.6 percent. None of the remaining ten candidates received more than five percent of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092876-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 San Diego mayoral election, Campaign\nBecause no candidate received a majority of the vote, the top two vote-getters, Wilson and Butler, advanced to the runoff election scheduled for November 2, 1971. Wilson was then elected mayor with a majority of 61.7 percent of the votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092877-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 San Fernando earthquake\nThe 1971 San Fernando earthquake (also known as the Sylmar earthquake) occurred in the early morning of February 9 in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains in southern California. The unanticipated thrust earthquake had a magnitude of 6.5 on the Ms scale and 6.6 on the Mw scale, and a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme). The event was one in a series that affected Los Angeles county in the late 20th century. Damage was locally severe in the northern San Fernando Valley and surface faulting was extensive to the south of the epicenter in the mountains, as well as urban settings along city streets and neighborhoods. Uplift and other effects affected private homes and businesses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 725]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092877-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 San Fernando earthquake\nThe event affected a number of health-care facilities in Sylmar, San Fernando, and other densely populated areas north of central Los Angeles. The Olive View Medical Center and Veterans Hospital both experienced very heavy damage, and buildings collapsed at both sites, causing the majority of deaths that occurred. The buildings at both facilities were constructed with mixed styles, but engineers were unable to thoroughly study the buildings' responses because they were not outfitted with instruments for recording strong ground motion, and this prompted the Veterans Administration to later install seismometers at its high-risk sites. Other sites throughout the Los Angeles area had been instrumented as a result of local ordinances, and an unprecedented amount of strong motion data was recorded, more so than any other event up until that time. The success in this area spurred the initiation of California's Strong Motion Instrumentation Program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 984]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092877-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 San Fernando earthquake\nTransportation around the Los Angeles area was severely afflicted with roadway failures and the partial collapse of several major freeway interchanges. The near total failure of the Lower Van Norman Dam resulted in the evacuation of tens of thousands of downstream residents, though an earlier decision to maintain the water at a lower level may have contributed to saving the dam from being overtopped. Schools were affected, as they had been during the 1933 Long Beach earthquake, but this time amended construction styles improved the outcome for the thousands of school buildings in the Los Angeles area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092877-0002-0001", "contents": "1971 San Fernando earthquake\nAnother result of the event involved the hundreds of various types of landslides that were documented in the San Gabriel Mountains. As had happened following other earthquakes in California, legislation related to building codes was once again revised, with laws that specifically addressed the construction of homes or businesses near known active fault zones.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092877-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 San Fernando earthquake, Tectonic setting\nThe San Gabriel Mountains are a 37.3\u00a0mi (60.0\u00a0km) long portion of the Transverse Ranges and are bordered on the north by the San Andreas Fault, on the south by the Cucamonga Fault, and on the southwest side by the Sierra Madre Fault. The San Bernardino, Santa Ynez, and Santa Monica Mountains are also part of the anomalous east\u2013west trending Transverse Ranges. The domain of the ranges stretches from the Channel Islands offshore to the Little San Bernardino Mountains, 300 miles (480\u00a0km) to the east. The frontal fault system at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains extends from the San Jacinto Fault Zone in the east to offshore Malibu in the west, and is defined primarily by moderate to shallow north-dipping faults, with a conservative vertical displacement estimated at 4,000\u20135,000 feet (1,200\u20131,500\u00a0m).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 858]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092877-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 San Fernando earthquake, Tectonic setting\nPaleomagnetic evidence has shown that the western Transverse Ranges were formed as the Pacific Plate moved northward relative to the North American Plate. As the plate shifted to the north, a portion of the terrane that was once parallel with the coast was rotated in a clockwise manner, which left it positioned in its east\u2013west orientation. The Transverse Ranges form the perimeter of a series of basins that begins with the Santa Barbara Channel on the west end.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092877-0004-0001", "contents": "1971 San Fernando earthquake, Tectonic setting\nMoving eastward, there is the Ventura Basin, the San Fernando Valley, and the San Gabriel Basin, with active reverse faults (San Cayetano, Red Mountain, Santa Susana, and Sierra Madre) all lining the north boundary. A small number of damaging events have occurred, with three in Santa Barbara (1812, 1925, and 1978) and two in the San Fernando Valley (1971 and 1994), though other faults in the basin that have high Quaternary slip rates have not produced any large earthquakes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092877-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 San Fernando earthquake, Earthquake\nThe San Fernando earthquake occurred on February 9, 1971, at 6:00:41\u00a0am Pacific Standard Time (14:00:41 UTC) with a strong ground motion duration of about 12 seconds as recorded by seismometers, although the whole event was reported to have lasted about 60 seconds. The origin of faulting was located five miles north of the San Fernando Valley. Considerable damage was seen in localized portions of the valley and also in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains above the fault block.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092877-0005-0001", "contents": "1971 San Fernando earthquake, Earthquake\nThe fault that was responsible for the movement was not one that had been considered a threat, and this highlighted the urgency to identify other similar faults in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. The shaking surpassed building code requirements and exceeded what engineers had prepared for, and although most dwellings in the valley had been built in the prior two decades, even modern earthquake-resistant structures sustained serious damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092877-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 San Fernando earthquake, Earthquake\nSeveral key attributes of the event were shared with the 1994 Northridge earthquake, considering both were brought about by thrust faults in the mountains north of Los Angeles, and each resulting earthquake being similar in magnitude, though no surface rupture occurred in 1994. Since both occurred in urban and industrial areas and resulted in significant economic impairment, each event drew critical observation from planning authorities, and has been thoroughly studied in the scientific communities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092877-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 San Fernando earthquake, Earthquake, Surface faulting\nProminent surface faulting trending N72\u00b0W was observed along the San Fernando Fault Zone from a point south of Sylmar, stretching nearly continuously for 6 miles (9.7\u00a0km) east to the Little Tujunga Canyon. Additional breaks occurred farther to the east that were in a more scattered fashion, while the western portion of the most affected area had less pronounced scarps, especially the detached Mission Wells segment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092877-0007-0001", "contents": "1971 San Fernando earthquake, Earthquake, Surface faulting\nAlthough the complete Sierra Madre Fault Zone had previously been mapped and classified by name into its constituent faults, the clusters of fault breaks provided a natural way to identify and refer to each section. As categorized during the intensive studies immediately following the earthquake, they were labeled the Mission Wells segment, Sylmar segment, Tujunga segment, Foothills area, and the Veterans fault.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092877-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 San Fernando earthquake, Earthquake, Surface faulting\nAll segments shared the common elements of thrust faulting with a component of left-lateral slip, a general east\u2013west strike, and a northward dip, but they were not unified with regard to their connection to the associated underlying bedrock. The initial surveyors of the extensive faulting in the valley, foothills, and mountains reported only tectonic faulting, while excluding fissures and other features that arose from the effects of compaction and landslides.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092877-0008-0001", "contents": "1971 San Fernando earthquake, Earthquake, Surface faulting\nIn the vicinity of the Sylmar Fault segment, there was a low possibility of landslides due to a lack of elevation change, but in the foothills and mountainous area a large amount of landslides occurred and more work was necessary to eliminate the possibility of misidentifying a feature. Along the hill fronts of the Tujunga segment, some ambiguous formations were present because some scarps may have had influence from downhill motion, but for the most part they were tectonic in nature.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092877-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 San Fernando earthquake, Earthquake, Surface faulting\nIn repeated measurements of the different fault breaks, the results remained consistent, leading to the belief that most of the slip had occurred during the mainshock. While lateral, transverse, and vertical motions were all observed, the largest individual component of movement was 5\u00a0ft 3\u00a0in (1.60\u00a0m) of left lateral slip near the middle of the Sylmar segment. The largest cumulative amount of slip of 6\u00a0feet 7\u00a0inches (2.01\u00a0m) occurred along the Sylmar and Tujunga segments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092877-0009-0001", "contents": "1971 San Fernando earthquake, Earthquake, Surface faulting\nThe overall fault displacement was summarized by geologist Barclay Kamb and others as \"nearly equal amounts of north\u2013south compression, vertical uplift (north side up), and left lateral slip and hence may be described as a thrusting of a northern block to the southwest over a southern block, along a fault surface dipping about 45\u00b0 north.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092877-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 San Fernando earthquake, Earthquake, Landslides\nThe USGS commissioned a private company and the United States Air Force to take aerial photographs over 97\u00a0sq\u00a0mi (250\u00a0km2) of the mountainous areas north of the San Fernando Valley. Analysis revealed that the earthquake triggered over 1,000 landslides. Highly shattered rock was also documented along the ridge tops, and rockfalls (which continued for several days) were the result of both the initial shock and the aftershocks. Few of the slides that were logged from the air were also observed from the ground.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092877-0010-0001", "contents": "1971 San Fernando earthquake, Earthquake, Landslides\nThe greatest number of slides were centered to the southwest of the mainshock epicenter and close to the areas where surface faulting took place. The slides ranged from 49\u2013984 feet (15\u2013300\u00a0m) in length, and could be further categorized as rock falls, soil falls, debris slides, avalanches, and slumps. The most frequently encountered type of slide was the surficial (less than 3 feet (0.91\u00a0m) thick) debris slides and were most often encountered on terrain consisting of sedimentary rock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092877-0011-0000", "contents": "1971 San Fernando earthquake, Earthquake, Strong motion\nIn early 1971, the San Fernando Valley was the scene of a dense network of strong-motion seismometers, which provided a total of 241 seismograms. This made the earthquake the most documented event, at the time, in terms of strong-motion seismology; by comparison, the 1964 Alaska earthquake did not provide any strong motion records. Part of the reason there were so many stations to capture the event was a 1965 ordinance that required newly constructed buildings in Beverly Hills and Los Angeles over six stories in height to be outfitted with three of the instruments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 627]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092877-0011-0001", "contents": "1971 San Fernando earthquake, Earthquake, Strong motion\nThis stipulation ultimately found its way into the Uniform Building Code as an appendix several years later. One hundred seventy-five of the recordings came from these buildings, another 30 were on hydraulic structures, and the remainder were from ground-based installations near faults, including an array of the units across the San Andreas Fault.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092877-0012-0000", "contents": "1971 San Fernando earthquake, Earthquake, Strong motion\nThe instrument that was installed at the Pacoima Dam recorded a peak horizontal acceleration of 1.25\u00a0g, a value that was twice as large as anything ever seen from an earthquake. The extraordinarily high acceleration was just one part of the picture, considering that duration and frequency of shaking also play a role in how much damage can occur. The accelerometer was mounted on a concrete platform on a granite ridge just above one of the arch dam's abutments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092877-0012-0001", "contents": "1971 San Fernando earthquake, Earthquake, Strong motion\nCracks formed in the rocks and a rock slide came within 15 feet (4.6\u00a0m) of the apparatus, and the foundation remained undamaged, but a small (half-degree) tilt of the unit was discovered that was apparently responsible for closing the horizontal pendulum contacts. As a result of what was considered a fortunate accident, the machine kept recording for six minutes (until it ran out of paper) and provided scientists with additional data on 30 of the initial aftershocks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092877-0013-0000", "contents": "1971 San Fernando earthquake, Damage\nThe areas that were affected by the strongest shaking were the outlying communities north of Los Angeles that are bounded by the northern edge of the San Fernando Valley at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains. The unincorporated districts of Newhall, Saugus, and Solemint Junction had moderate damage, even to newer buildings. The area where the heaviest effects were present was limited by geographical features on the three remaining margins, with the Santa Susana Mountains on the west, the Santa Monica Mountains and the Los Angeles River to the south, and along the Verdugo Mountains to the east.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 640]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092877-0013-0001", "contents": "1971 San Fernando earthquake, Damage\nLoss of life that was directly attributable to the earthquake amounted to 58 (a number of heart attacks and other health-related deaths were not included in this figure). Most deaths occurred at the Veterans and Olive View hospital complexes, and the rest were located at private residences, the highway overpass collapses, and a ceiling collapse at the Midnight Mission in downtown Los Angeles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092877-0014-0000", "contents": "1971 San Fernando earthquake, Damage\nThe damage was greatest near and well north of the surface faulting, and at the foot of the mountains. The hospital buildings, the freeway overpasses, and the Sylmar Juvenile Hall were on coarse alluvium that overlay thousands of feet of loosely consolidated sedimentary material. In the city of San Fernando, underground water, sewer, and gas systems suffered breaks too numerous to count, and some sections were so badly damaged that they were abandoned. Ground displacement damaged sidewalks and roads, with cracks in the more rigid asphalt and concrete often exceeding the width of the shift in the underlying soil. Accentuated damage near alluvium had been documented during the investigation of the effects of the 1969 Santa Rosa earthquakes. A band of similarly intense damage further away near Ventura Boulevard at the southern end of the valley was also identified as having been related to soil type.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 947]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092877-0015-0000", "contents": "1971 San Fernando earthquake, Damage\nFederal, county, and private hospitals suffered varying degrees of damage, with four major facilities in the San Fernando Valley suffering structural damage, and two of those collapsing. The Indian Hills Medical Center, the Foothill Medical Building, and the Pacoima Lutheran Professional building were heavily damaged. Nursing homes also were affected. The one-story Foothill Nursing Home sat very close to a section of the fault that broke the surface and was raised up three feet higher than the street. Scarps ran along the sidewalk and across the property. The building was not in use and remained standing. Though the reinforced concrete block structure was afflicted by the shock and uplift, the relatively good performance was in stark contrast to that of the Olive View and Veterans Hospital complexes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 848]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092877-0016-0000", "contents": "1971 San Fernando earthquake, Damage, Olive View Hospital\nMost of the buildings at the Los Angeles County\u2013owned, 880-bed hospital complex had been built before the adoption of new construction techniques that had been put in place after the 1933 Long Beach earthquake. The group of one-story structures 300 feet west of the new facility, and some other buildings, were not damaged. The damaged buildings variously were wood-frame and masonry structures. The five-story, reinforced-concrete Medical Treatment and Care Building was one of three new additions to the complex (all three of which sustained damage), was assembled with earthquake-resistant construction techniques, and was completed in December 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 57], "content_span": [58, 711]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092877-0016-0001", "contents": "1971 San Fernando earthquake, Damage, Olive View Hospital\nThe hospital was staffed by 98 employees and had 606 patients at the time of the earthquake; all three deaths that occurred at the Olive View complex were in this building. Two were due to power failure of life-support systems and one, that of an employee who was struck by part of the collapsing building as he or she tried to exit the building, was a direct result of the destruction.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 57], "content_span": [58, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092877-0017-0000", "contents": "1971 San Fernando earthquake, Damage, Olive View Hospital\nThe Medical Treatment and Care Building included a basement that was exposed (above grade) on the east and south sides, mixed (above and below grade) on the west side, and below grade on the north side of the building, the variation being due to the shallow slope at the site. The complete structure, including the four external staircases, could be considered five separate buildings, because the stair towers were detached from the main building by about four inches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 57], "content_span": [58, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092877-0017-0001", "contents": "1971 San Fernando earthquake, Damage, Olive View Hospital\nEarthquake bracing used in the building's second through fifth floors consisted of shear walls, but a rarely used slip joint technique used with the concrete walls at the first floor kept them from being part of that system. Damage to the building, including ceiling tiles, telephone equipment, and elevator doors, was excessive at the basement and the first floor, with little damage further up. The difference in rigidity at the second floor was proposed as a cause of the considerable damage to the lower levels. Because the first floor almost collapsed, the building was leaning to the north by almost two feet, and three of the four concrete stair towers fell away from the main building.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 57], "content_span": [58, 751]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092877-0018-0000", "contents": "1971 San Fernando earthquake, Damage, Olive View Hospital\nOn the grounds, there were cracks in the pavement and soil, but no surface faulting. In addition to the collapse of the stairways, the elevators were out of commission. Electrical power and communications failed at the hospital at the time of the earthquake, but very few people occupied the lower floors and the stairways at the early hour. Casualties in these highly affected areas might have increased had the shock occurred later in the day. The duration of strong ground motion at that location was probably similar to the 12 seconds observed at the Pacoima Dam, and it is thought that another few seconds' shaking might have been enough to bring the building to collapse.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 57], "content_span": [58, 735]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092877-0019-0000", "contents": "1971 San Fernando earthquake, Damage, Veterans Administration Hospital\nThe Veterans Administration Hospital entered into service as a tuberculosis hospital in 1926 and became a general hospital in the 1960s. By 1971, the facility comprised 45 individual buildings, all lying within 5\u00a0km (3.1\u00a0mi) of the fault rupture in Sylmar, but the structural damage was found to have occurred as a result of the shaking and not from ground displacement or faulting. Twenty-six buildings that were built prior to 1933 had been constructed following the local building codes and did not require seismic-resistant designs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 70], "content_span": [71, 607]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092877-0019-0001", "contents": "1971 San Fernando earthquake, Damage, Veterans Administration Hospital\nThese buildings suffered the most damage, with four buildings totally collapsing, which resulted in a large loss of life at the facility. Most of the masonry and reinforced concrete buildings constructed after 1933 withstood the shaking and most did not collapse, but in 1972 a resolution came forth to abandon the site and the remaining structures were later demolished, the site becoming a city park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 70], "content_span": [71, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092877-0020-0000", "contents": "1971 San Fernando earthquake, Damage, Veterans Administration Hospital\nFew strong motion seismometer installations were present outside of the western United States prior to the San Fernando earthquake but, upon a recommendation by the Earthquake and Wind Forces Committee, the Veterans Administration entered into an agreement with the Seismological Field Service (then associated with NOAA) to install the instruments at all VA sites in Uniform Building Code zones two and three. It had been established that these zones had a higher likelihood of experiencing strong ground acceleration, and the plan was made to furnish the selected VA hospitals with two instruments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 70], "content_span": [71, 671]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092877-0020-0001", "contents": "1971 San Fernando earthquake, Damage, Veterans Administration Hospital\nOne unit would be installed within the structure and the second would be set up as a free-field unit located a short distance away from the facility. As of 1973, a few of the highest risk (26 were completed in zone 3 alone) sites that had been completed were in Seattle, Memphis, Charleston, and Boston.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 70], "content_span": [71, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092877-0021-0000", "contents": "1971 San Fernando earthquake, Damage, Van Norman Dam\nBoth the Upper and Lower Van Norman dams were severely damaged as a result of the earthquake. The lower dam was very close to breaching, and approximately 80,000 people were evacuated for four days while the water level in the reservoir was lowered. This was done as a precaution to accommodate further collapse due to a strong aftershock. Some canals in the area of the dams were damaged and not usable, and dikes experienced slumping but these did not present a hazard. The damage at the lower dam consisted of a landslide that dislocated a section of the embankment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 622]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092877-0021-0001", "contents": "1971 San Fernando earthquake, Damage, Van Norman Dam\nThe earthen lip of the dam fell into the reservoir and brought with it the concrete lining, while what remained of the dam was just 5 feet (1.5\u00a0m) above the water level. The upper lake subsided 3 feet (0.91\u00a0m) and was displaced about 5 feet (1.5\u00a0m) as a result of the ground movement, and the dam's concrete lining cracked and slumped.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092877-0022-0000", "contents": "1971 San Fernando earthquake, Damage, Van Norman Dam\nThe upper dam was constructed in 1921 with the hydraulic fill process, three years after the larger lower dam, which was fabricated using the same style. An inspection of the lower dam in 1964 paved the way towards an arrangement between the State of California and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power that would maintain the reservoir's water level that was reduced 10 feet lower than was typical. Since the collapse of the dam lowered its overall height, the decision to reduce its capacity proved to be a valuable bit of insurance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092877-0023-0000", "contents": "1971 San Fernando earthquake, Damage, Van Norman Dam\nDifferential ground motion and strong shaking (MMI VIII (Severe)) were responsible for serious damage to the Sylmar Juvenile Hall facility and the Sylmar Converter Station (both located close to the Upper Van Norman lake). The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, as well as the County of Los Angeles, investigated and verified that local soil conditions contributed to the ground displacement and resulting destruction. The area of surface breaks on the ground at the site was 900\u00a0ft (270\u00a0m) (at its widest) and stretched 4,000\u00a0ft (1,200\u00a0m) down a 1% grade slope towards the southwest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 645]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092877-0023-0001", "contents": "1971 San Fernando earthquake, Damage, Van Norman Dam\nAs much as 5\u00a0ft (1.5\u00a0m) of lateral motion was observed on either end of the slide, and trenches that were excavated during the examination at the site revealed that some of the cracks were up to 15\u00a0ft (4.6\u00a0m) deep. The two facilities, located near Grapevine and Weldon canyons that channel water and debris off the Sierra Madre Mountains, are lined by steep ridges and have formed alluvial fans at their mouths. The narrow band of ground disturbances were found to have been the result of settling of the soft soil in a downhill motion. Soil liquefaction played a role within confined areas of the slide, but it was not responsible for all the motion at the site, and tectonic slip of faults in the area was also excluded as a cause.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 786]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092877-0024-0000", "contents": "1971 San Fernando earthquake, Damage, Transportation\nSubstantial disruption to about 10 miles of freeways in the northern San Fernando Valley took place, with most of the damage occurring at the Foothill Freeway / Golden State Freeway interchange, and along a five-mile stretch of Interstate 210. On Interstate 5, the most significant damage was between the Newhall Pass interchange on the north end and the I-5 / I-405 interchange in the south, where subsidence at the bridge approaches and cracking and buckling of the roadway made it unusable.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092877-0024-0001", "contents": "1971 San Fernando earthquake, Damage, Transportation\nSeveral landslides occurred between Balboa Boulevard and California State Route 14, but the most significant damage occurred at the two major interchanges. The Antelope Valley Freeway had damage from Newhall Pass to the northeast, primarily from settling and alignment issues, as well as splintering and cracking at the Santa Clara River and Solemint bridges.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092877-0025-0000", "contents": "1971 San Fernando earthquake, Damage, Transportation\nWhile the Newhall Pass interchange was still under construction at the time of the earthquake, the requisite components of the overpass were complete. Vibration caused two of the bridge's 191-foot sections to fall from a maximum height of 140\u00a0ft (43\u00a0m), along with one of the supporting pillars. The spans slipped off of their supports at either end due to lack of proper ties and insufficient space (a 14\u00a0in (360\u00a0mm) seat was provided) on the support columns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092877-0025-0001", "contents": "1971 San Fernando earthquake, Damage, Transportation\nGround displacement at the site was ruled out as a major cause of the failure, and in addition to the fallen sections and a crane that was struck during the collapse, other portions of the overpass were also damaged. Shear cracking occurred at the column closest to the western abutment, and the ground at the same column's base exhibited evidence of rotation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092877-0026-0000", "contents": "1971 San Fernando earthquake, Damage, Transportation\nThis interchange is a broad complex of overpasses and bridges that was nearly complete at the time of the earthquake and not all portions were open to traffic. Several instances of failure or collapse at the site took place and two men were killed while driving in a pickup truck as a result. The westbound I-210 to southbound I-5, which was complete except for paving at the ramp section, collapsed to the north, likely because of vibration that moved the overpass off its supports due to an inadequate seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092877-0026-0001", "contents": "1971 San Fernando earthquake, Damage, Transportation\nUnlike the situation at the Antelope Valley Interchange, permanent ground movement (defined as several inches of left-lateral displacement with possibly an element of thrusting) was observed in the area. The movement contributed to heavy damage at the Sylmar Juvenile Hall facility, Sylmar Converter Station, and the Metropolitan Water District Treatment Plant, but its effects on the interchange was not completely understood as of a 1971 report from the California Institute of Technology.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 52], "content_span": [53, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092877-0027-0000", "contents": "1971 San Fernando earthquake, Damage, Schools\nA large number of public school buildings in the Los Angeles area displayed mixed responses to the shaking, and those that were built after the enforcement of the Field Act clearly showed the results of the reformed construction styles. The Field Act was put into effect just one month following the destructive March 1933 Long Beach earthquake that damaged many public school buildings in Long Beach, Compton, and Whittier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 45], "content_span": [46, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092877-0027-0001", "contents": "1971 San Fernando earthquake, Damage, Schools\nThe Los Angeles Unified School District had 660 schools consisting of 9,200 buildings at the time of the earthquake, with 110 masonry buildings that had not been reinforced to meet the new standards. More than 400 portable classrooms and 53 wood frame pre-Field Act buildings were also in use.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 45], "content_span": [46, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092877-0027-0002", "contents": "1971 San Fernando earthquake, Damage, Schools\nAll these buildings had been previously inspected with regard to the requirements of the Act, and many were reinforced or rebuilt at that time, but earthquake engineering experts recommended further immediate refurbishment or demolition after a separate evaluation was done after the February 1971 earthquake, and within a year and a half the district followed through with the direction with regard to about 100 structures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 45], "content_span": [46, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092877-0028-0000", "contents": "1971 San Fernando earthquake, Damage, Schools\nAt Los Angeles High School (20\u00a0mi (32\u00a0km) from Pacoima Dam) where the exterior walls of the main pre-Field Act building (constructed 1917) were unreinforced brick masonry, long portions of the parapet and the associated brick veneer broke off and some fragments fell through the roof to a lower floor, while other material landed on an exit stairway and into a courtyard area. The main building was demolished at a cost of $127,000, and none of the various post-Field Act buildings were damaged at the site.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 45], "content_span": [46, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092877-0028-0001", "contents": "1971 San Fernando earthquake, Damage, Schools\nExcept for the concrete gymnasium, all of the buildings at Sylmar High School (3.75\u00a0mi (6.04\u00a0km) from Pacoima Dam) were post-Field Act, one-story, wood construction. Abundant cracks formed in the ground at the site, and some foundations and many sidewalks were also cracked. The estimate for repairs at the site was $485,000. At 2\u00a0mi (3.2\u00a0km), Hubbard Street Elementary School was the closest school to Pacoima dam and was also less than a mile from the Veterans Hospital complex. The wood-frame buildings (classrooms, a multipurpose building, and some bungalows) were built after the Field Act, and damage and cleanup costs there totaled $42,000. Gas lines were broken and separation of the buildings' porches was due to lateral displacement of up to six inches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 45], "content_span": [46, 809]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092877-0029-0000", "contents": "1971 San Fernando earthquake, Aftermath\nFollowing many of California's major earthquakes, lawmakers have acted quickly to develop legislation related to seismic safety. After the M6.4 1933 Long Beach earthquake, the Field Act was passed the following month, and after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, the Seismic Hazards Mapping Act and Senate Bill 1953 (hospital safety requirements) were established. Following the San Fernando event, earthquake engineers and seismologists from established scientific organizations, as well as the newly formed Los Angeles County Earthquake Commission, stated their recommendations that were based on the lessons learned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 657]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092877-0029-0001", "contents": "1971 San Fernando earthquake, Aftermath\nThe list of items needing improvements included building codes, dams and bridges being made more earthquake resistant, hospitals that are designed to remain operational, and the restriction of development near known fault zones. New legislation included the Alquist-Priolo Special Studies Zone Act and the development of the Strong Motion Instrumentation Program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092877-0030-0000", "contents": "1971 San Fernando earthquake, Aftermath\nIntroduced as Senate Bill 520 and signed into law in December 1972, this legislation was originally known as the Alquist-Priolo Geologic Hazard Zones Act, and had the goal of reducing damage and losses due to surface fault ruptures or fault creep. The act restricts construction of buildings designed for human occupancy across potentially active faults. Since it is presumed that surface rupture will likely take place where past surface displacement has occurred, the state geologist was given the responsibility for evaluating and mapping faults that had evidence of Holocene rupture, and creating regulatory zones around them called Earthquake Fault Zones. State and local agencies (as well as the property owner) were then responsible for enforcing or complying with the building restrictions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 838]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092877-0031-0000", "contents": "1971 San Fernando earthquake, Aftermath\nPrior to the San Fernando earthquake, some structural engineers had already believed that the existing groundwork for seismic design required enhancement. Although instruments had recorded a force of .33g during the 1940 El Centro earthquake, building codes only required structures to withstand a lateral force of .1g as late as the 1960s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092877-0031-0001", "contents": "1971 San Fernando earthquake, Aftermath\nEven at that time, engineers were against the idea of constructing buildings to resist the high forces that were seen in the El Centro shock, but after a 1966 earthquake peaked at .5g, and a maximum of 1.25g was observed at the Pacoima Dam during the San Fernando event, a debate began as to whether that low requirement was sufficient.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092877-0032-0000", "contents": "1971 San Fernando earthquake, Aftermath\nDespite the compelling seismogram from the 1940 event in El Centro, strong-motion seismology was not explicitly sought until later events occurred\u2014the San Fernando earthquake made evident the need for more data for earthquake engineering applications. The California Strong Motion Instrumentation Program was initiated in 1971 with the goal of maximizing the volume of data by furnishing and maintaining instruments at selected lifeline structures, buildings, and ground response stations. By the late 1980s, the program had instrumented more than 450 structures, bridges, dams, and power plants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092877-0032-0001", "contents": "1971 San Fernando earthquake, Aftermath\nThe 1979 Imperial Valley and 1987 Whittier Narrows earthquakes were presented as gainful events that were recorded during that period, because both produced valuable data that increased knowledge of how moderate events affect buildings. The success of the Imperial Valley event was especially pronounced because of a recently constructed and fully instrumented government building that was shaken to the point of failure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092878-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 San Francisco 49ers season\nThe 1971 San Francisco 49ers season was the franchise's 22nd season in the National Football League and their 26th overall. The 49ers appeared in the NFC Championship Game for the second consecutive year. The team moved into a new home, Candlestick Park. After winning two of their first three games on the road the 49ers lost their first game at Candlestick Park to the Los Angeles Rams 20\u201313. The 49ers would rebound and win the NFC West for the second year in a row by posting a 9\u20135 record. However, for the second year in a row the 49ers season ended in disappointment with a 14\u20133 loss in the NFC Championship Game to the Cowboys in Dallas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 676]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092878-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 San Francisco 49ers season, Regular season, Standings\nNote: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092879-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 San Francisco Bay oil spill\nThe 1971 San Francisco Bay oil spill occurred when two Standard Oil Company of California tankers, the Arizona Standard and the Oregon Standard, collided on January 18, 1971, in the San Francisco Bay. The resulting 800,000 gallon spill, the largest in Bay Area history, threatened sensitive natural habitats both inside and outside the bay, including the Bolinas Lagoon, and contributed to the growth of activism against pollution, after thousands of bay area residents volunteered to clean up beaches and rescue oil soaked birds. A number of environmental organizations had their origins in the spill cleanup. Standard Oil spent more than $1 million in the clean-up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 700]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092879-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 San Francisco Bay oil spill, Inception of International Bird Rescue and volunteerism\nIn March 1971, California's Fish and Game Department estimated that 7,000 birds were oiled during the incident, most of which died prior to collection or while being taken into care. At the end of January 1971, roughly 200 of the 1600 birds \"brought in\" were still alive. Ultimately less than 80 of those survived.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 89], "content_span": [90, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092879-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 San Francisco Bay oil spill, Inception of International Bird Rescue and volunteerism\nThe resulting environmental destruction from the spill, specifically the avian population, prompted volunteers to rescue some 4,300 birds. At the time, knowledge on how to care for oiled birds was low. Despite best efforts, only 300 or so animals were ever deemed fit to be released. The remnants of this volunteer force eventually resulted in the creation of the International Bird Rescue in an endeavor to increase knowledge and research in bird rescue. One of the largest volunteer turnouts since the 1906 San Francisco earthquake came of this event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 89], "content_span": [90, 643]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092880-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 San Francisco Giants season\nThe 1971 San Francisco Giants season was the Giants' 89th year in Major League Baseball, their 14th year in San Francisco since their move from New York following the 1957 season, and their 12th at Candlestick Park. The team finished in first place in the National League West with a 90\u201372 record. The Giants faced the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 1971 National League Championship Series, losing three games to one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092880-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 San Francisco Giants season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs scored; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; SB = Stolen bases", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 77], "content_span": [78, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092880-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 San Francisco Giants season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 70], "content_span": [71, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092880-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 San Francisco Giants season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 75], "content_span": [76, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092880-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 San Francisco Giants season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 72], "content_span": [73, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092880-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 San Francisco Giants season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 73], "content_span": [74, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092880-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 San Francisco Giants season, National League Championship Series\nThe Pittsburgh Pirates win the series, 3\u20131, over the Giants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 69], "content_span": [70, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092881-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 San Francisco State Gators football team\nThe 1971 San Francisco State Gators football team represented San Francisco State College during the 1971 NCAA College Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092881-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 San Francisco State Gators football team\nSan Francisco State competed in the Far Western Conference (FWC). The Gators were led by head coach Vic Rowen in his 11th year at the helm. They played home games at Cox Stadium in San Francisco, California. The team finished the regular season with a record of five wins and six losses (5\u20136, 2\u20134 FWC). For the season the team was outscored by its opponents 209\u2013332.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092881-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 San Francisco State Gators football team, Team players in the NFL\nThe following San Francisco State players were selected in the 1972 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 70], "content_span": [71, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092882-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 San Francisco mayoral election\nThe San Francisco mayoral election of 1971 was held on November 2, 1971, with incumbent Joseph Alioto being re-elected with 38.6 percent of the vote, from among 11 candidates, there being no provision for a runoff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092882-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 San Francisco mayoral election, Campaign\nThe three major contenders\u2014Mayor Joe Alioto; Harold Dobbs, former member of the Board of Supervisors; and Dianne Feinstein, president of the Board of Supervisors\u2014tried to outdo one another as advocates for law and order. Alioto challenged Dobbs to commit to keeping Police Chief Donald Scott and accused Feinstein of wanting to create a civilian review board to investigate police conduct. Dobbs would not commit to a particular police chief but did plan to appoint a new police commission. Feinstein planned to \"serve notice on the pusher, the mugger and the thief\" and \"break the back of crime\", while denying advocating a civilian review board but wanting a \"strong and independent police commission.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 750]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092882-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 San Francisco mayoral election, Campaign\nFeinstein, the only woman in the race, charged her opponents with distorting her positions, especially her position on school busing, which the two other main contenders, Alioto and Dobbs, opposed. The issue was raised by an unpopular court order forcing the S.F. school district to begin busing to achieve ethnic balance in elementary schools.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092882-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 San Francisco mayoral election, Campaign\nFormer newspaper editor Scott Newhall proposed staging a world ecology fair and replacing California's water plan by importing icebergs, and imputed little difference between the top three contenders, whom he lumped together as \"Joe Dobbstein\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092882-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 San Francisco mayoral election, Campaign\nAlioto was a slight favorite to win in spite of being scheduled to go on trial the following January on federal charges of conspiracy, mail fraud, and using the mail to promote bribery of a public official. As of November, Dobbs, the only Republican in the race, had passed Feinstein in polls and was gaining on Alioto.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092882-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 San Francisco mayoral election, Results\nThe result of the November 2 election was the re-election of Alioto by a 3\u20132 margin over his nearest challenger. Alioto quoted Jackie Gleason\u2014\"How sweet it is! \"\u2014at a victory celebration and referred to his federal indictment as an attempt by the \"national administration\" to \"knock out a mayor\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092882-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 San Francisco mayoral election, Results\nAmong other races on the ballot was Richard Hongisto's surprise victory for sheriff over incumbent Matthew Carberry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092882-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 San Francisco mayoral election, Results\nOn the ballot was a referendum limiting new-building heights to six stories, which was defeated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092882-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 San Francisco mayoral election, Results\nA referendum to make the school board an elective one, it being the only appointive such board in the state, passed. The school-board measure was regarded as a reaction to busing initiated by the school board under court order.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092882-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 San Francisco mayoral election, Results\nAnother measure approved was to keep cable car service at no less than current levels.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092883-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 San Jose State Spartans football team\nThe 1971 San Jose State Spartans football team represented San Jose State College in the Pacific Coast Athletic Association (PCAA) during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. Led by second year-head coach Dewey King, they played home games at Spartan Stadium in San Jose, California. With a 55\u201310 road rout of UC Santa Barbara, the Spartans ended the regular season at an even .500 with five wins, five losses, and one tie (5\u20135\u20131, 4\u20131 PCAA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092883-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 San Jose State Spartans football team\nThis season, San Jose State made its first bowl appearance as a major college program in the Pasadena Bowl. They faced the Memphis State Tigers on Saturday, December\u00a018, but lost 9\u201328 to finish at 5\u20136\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092884-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Sandlapper 200\nThe 1971 Sandlapper 200 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series racing event that took place on August 27, 1971, at Columbia Speedway in Columbia, South Carolina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092884-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Sandlapper 200\nThe race car drivers still had to commute to the races using the same stock cars that competed in a typical weekend's race through a policy of homologation (and under their own power). This policy was in effect until roughly 1975. By 1980, NASCAR had completely stopped tracking the year model of all the vehicles and most teams did not take stock cars to the track under their own power anymore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092884-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Sandlapper 200, Background\nColumbia Speedway was an oval racetrack located in Cayce, a suburb of Columbia, South Carolina. It was the site of auto races for NASCAR's top series from 1951 through 1971. For most of its history, the racing surface was dirt. The races in April and August 1970 were two of the final three Grand National races ever held on a dirt track.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092884-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Sandlapper 200, Background\nThe track was paved before hosting its last two Grand National races in 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092884-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Sandlapper 200, Background\nWhile Columbia Speedway was shut down to cars in 1979, noise complaints, it reopened as a velodrome in 2001.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092884-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Sandlapper 200, Race report\nTwo hundred laps were completed on a paved oval track spanning 0.500 miles (0.805\u00a0km) in only one hour and thirty-four minutes. Six cautions were given for forty-one laps; Richard Petty managed to defeat Tiny Lund by ten car lengths. Local track announcer Jim Seay would realize the charismatic potential of Petty and interviewed him right after the race in front of a regional crowd. Eight thousand people showed up in person to see cars achieve speeds of up to 64.831 miles per hour (104.335\u00a0km/h). Richard Petty, however, would achieve the pole position speed of 85.137 miles per hour (137.015\u00a0km/h). Ron Keselowski would crash prior to the first lap of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 699]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092884-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Sandlapper 200, Race report\nThe combined winnings purse for this race would be $9,275 ($58,554 when adjusted for inflation); the winner would receive $1,500 of it ($9,470 when adjusted for inflation) while the last-place finisher took home a meager $200 ($1,263 when adjusted for inflation).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092884-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Sandlapper 200, Race report\nH. B. Bailey was running in second place until a freak crash on 55 made him finish in 24th place (a loss of 22 positions).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092884-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Sandlapper 200, Race report\nLast top-10 finish for Ken Meisenhelder. The Massachusetts driver had three top-10 finishes in his career, all of them finishing 10th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092884-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 Sandlapper 200, Race report\nLee Gordon, Vic Ballard and Dale Inman were among the three most notable crew chiefs to participate in this event. Inman was in charge of keeping Richard Petty's car in good order while Vic Ballard looked after Walter Ballard. Lee Gordon's primary responsibility was keeping Cecil Gordon's vehicle in decent working order.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092885-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Sandown 250\nThe 1971 Sandown 250 was an endurance motor race open to Group E Series Production Touring Cars. The event was held at the Sandown circuit in Victoria, Australia on 12 September 1971 over 130 laps, approximately 250 miles (403\u00a0km). As a round of the 1971 Australian Manufacturers' Championship, the race featured five classes based on Capacity Price Units with the CP Unit value for each model determined by multiplying the engine capacity of the vehicle in litres by its retail price in Australian dollars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092885-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Sandown 250\nThe race, which is recognised as the sixth \"Sandown 500\", was won by Colin Bond driving a Holden LC Torana GTR XU-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092885-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Sandown 250, Results\nNote: The above results list 36 of the 37 starters in the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 25], "content_span": [26, 89]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092886-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Saskatchewan general election\nThe 1971 Saskatchewan general election was held on June 23, 1971, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092886-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Saskatchewan general election\nUnder the leadership of Allan Blakeney, the New Democratic Party of Saskatchewan returned to power after seven years in opposition. The NDP won a majority government, increasing its share of the popular vote by over 10 percentage points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092886-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Saskatchewan general election\nThe Liberal government of Premier Ross Thatcher more or less held its share of the popular vote, but lost a significant number of seats in the legislature in part because of the continuing decline in the share of the vote won by the Progressive Conservative Party, now led by Ed Nasserden.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092886-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Saskatchewan general election\nRoss Thatcher died on July 22, 1971, just shy of a month since losing the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092886-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Saskatchewan general election, Results\nNote: * Party did not nominate candidates in previous election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 43], "content_span": [44, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092887-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Scheldeprijs\nThe 1971 Scheldeprijs was the 58th edition of the Scheldeprijs cycle race and was held on 27 July 1971. The race was won by Gustaaf Van Roosbroeck.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092888-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Scottish League Cup Final\nThe 1971 Scottish League Cup Final was played on 23 October 1971 and was the final of the 26th Scottish League Cup competition. Newly promoted Partick Thistle beat Celtic, who had played in the European Cup final in 1970, in a major upset. Sam Leitch, a presenter of BBC sports show Grandstand, previewed the game by saying that:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092888-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Scottish League Cup Final\nIn Scotland, it's League Cup final day at Hampden Park, where Celtic meet Partick Thistle, who have no chance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092888-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Scottish League Cup Final\nThistle went 4\u20130 up inside 37 minutes, causing the reported crowd of 62,470 to allegedly be swelled by many thousands of Rangers fans who were keen to see their Old Firm rivals be humiliated. Kenny Dalglish pulled a goal back for Celtic in the second half, but Thistle held on to win 4\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092889-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Scottish local elections\nLocal elections were held in Scotland in May 1971. As in other parts of the United Kingdom, they were a great success for the opposition Labour Party which gained control of Glasgow and Dundee, as well as becoming the largest party in Edinburgh for the first time. Overall they gained 113 seats, the majority of them from the Conservatives and their allies. The Conservatives lost 10 seats in Glasgow, including within Cathcart where their organization was at its best.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092889-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Scottish local elections\nThe result was a very poor one for the Scottish National Party which lost the seats they were defending in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Dundee. They lost a total of 52 seats, though they retained control of Cumbernauld and did better than average in both Stirling and Falkirk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092890-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Scottish soldiers' killings\nThe 1971 Scottish soldiers' killings took place in Northern Ireland during The Troubles. It happened on 10 March 1971, when the Provisional Irish Republican Army shot dead three unarmed British Army soldiers of the 1st Battalion, Royal Highland Fusiliers. Two of the three soldiers were teenage brothers; all three were from Scotland. They were murdered off-duty and in civilian clothes, having been lured from a city-centre bar in Belfast, driven to a remote location and shot whilst relieving themselves by the roadside. Three British soldiers had been killed prior to this event; all had been on duty and killed during rioting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 663]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092890-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Scottish soldiers' killings\nThe deaths led to public mourning and protests against the Provisional IRA. Pressure to act precipitated a political crisis for the Government of Northern Ireland, which led to the resignation of James Chichester-Clark as Prime Minister of Northern Ireland. The British Army raised the minimum age needed to serve in Northern Ireland to 18 in response to this incident. In 2010, a memorial was dedicated to the three soldiers near to where they were killed in north Belfast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092890-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Scottish soldiers' killings, Events\nBritish troops had been deployed to Northern Ireland in 1969 for Operation Banner in response to a deteriorating security situation following the 1969 Northern Ireland riots. The British Army had become involved in the disturbances culminating in the Falls Curfew of July 1970. The Provisional Irish Republican Army was created in December 1969 after a split from the Official Irish Republican Army. After the split, the Provisional IRA planned for an \"all-out offensive action against the British occupation\". Provisional IRA Chief of Staff Se\u00e1n Mac St\u00edof\u00e1in decided they would \"escalate, escalate and escalate\" until the British agreed to go. The IRA Army Council sanctioned offensive operations against the British Army at the beginning of 1971. In this year, Robert Curtis was the first British soldier shot and killed by the Provisional IRA, on 6 February 1971, and two more soldiers were killed prior to 10 March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 40], "content_span": [41, 960]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092890-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Scottish soldiers' killings, Events\nBrothers John and Joseph McCaig from Ayr and Dougald McCaughey from Glasgow in Scotland (ages 17, 18 and 23) were privates serving with the 1st Battalion, The Royal Highland Fusiliers, stationed at Girdwood Barracks, beside Crumlin Road Prison in North Belfast. The shootings occurred on 10 March 1971 after the three soldiers had been granted an afternoon pass which allowed them to leave their base. McCaughey's younger brother was serving in the same unit but was on duty and unable to join them. The three soldiers were off-duty, unarmed and in civilian clothes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 40], "content_span": [41, 607]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092890-0003-0001", "contents": "1971 Scottish soldiers' killings, Events\nThey were drinking in \"Mooney's\", a Belfast city centre bar in Cornmarket, one of the safer areas of the city for soldiers at this stage in \"the Troubles\". The three previous shootings that year had occurred in different circumstances, during rioting. One report said that the three Scottish soldiers were enticed into a car by Republican women who promised them a party. The three were taken to the White Brae, Squire's Hill, off the Ligoniel Road in North Belfast. There they were murdered by Provisional IRA members; two were shot in the back of the head and the other in the chest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 40], "content_span": [41, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092890-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Scottish soldiers' killings, Events\nThe inquest in August 1971 was not able to establish the exact sequence of events. It was established that all three were shot at very close range, probably in a line. All had been drinking, and Joseph was found to be severely intoxicated. The jury was told that the three were probably shot whilst relieving themselves beside the road. The coroner commented: \"You may think that this was not only murder, but one of the vilest crimes ever heard of in living memory\". The bodies were heaped on top of each other with two beer glasses lying near to them. After failing to return to their barracks by 18:30 the three were listed as AWOL. Their bodies were found by children at 21:30.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 40], "content_span": [41, 722]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092890-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Scottish soldiers' killings, Aftermath\nThe day after the killings, British Home Secretary Reginald Maudling made a statement in the House of Commons in which he informed the house that security arrangements for off-duty soldiers were being reviewed and suggested that the aim of the killers was to provoke the security forces into reprisals. He said that:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092890-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Scottish soldiers' killings, Aftermath\nThe battle now joined against the terrorists will be fought with the utmost vigour and determination. It is a battle against a small minority of armed and ruthless men whose strength lies not so much in their numbers as in their wickedness.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092890-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Scottish soldiers' killings, Aftermath\nThe funerals were held in Scotland with John and Joseph McCaig buried together in Ayr. Their older brother, serving with the Royal Marines in Singapore, was flown home for the service. That day, 20,000 people attended rallies in Belfast and Carrickfergus. In Belfast, the cenotaph at the City Hall was the focus of the mourning with 10,000 people attending including workers from factories in a gathering that stopped the traffic in the city centre. Many wept openly. The Reverend Ian Paisley led the mourners in laying dozens of wreaths. The crowd observed a two-minute silence and sang a hymn and the national anthem.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 663]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092890-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Scottish soldiers' killings, Aftermath\nThe deaths led to a crisis for the Government of Northern Ireland with calls for increased security measures. Ian Paisley demanded the Stormont Government's resignation, saying \"We can no longer tolerate your weakness. You must go before the whole land is deluged with the blood of innocent men and women.\" On 12 March, 4,000 shipyard workers took to the streets of Belfast to demand internment. The Northern Ireland Prime Minister James Chichester-Clark flew to London to request more troops, and when the numbers were not what he wanted, he resigned. On 23 March 1971, Brian Faulkner was elected Ulster Unionist Party leader and was appointed Prime Minister the same day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 717]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092890-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 Scottish soldiers' killings, Aftermath\nThe British Army raised the minimum age for serving in Northern Ireland to 18 in response to the death of 17-year-old John McCaig.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092890-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 Scottish soldiers' killings, Aftermath\nNo one has been convicted of the killings. The Daily Mirror reported in November 2007 that three Provisional IRA men were responsible for the deaths: Martin Meehan (died 2007)- Meehan was questioned over the killings but was never charged; Patrick McAdorey- McAdorey was shot and killed in August 1971 during a gun battle in the Ardoyne area of Belfast. He was also suspected of the fatal shooting, hours before his own death, of Private Malcolm Hatton of the Green Howards. and a third unnamed man. The case of the three soldiers is one of those being re-examined by the Police Service of Northern Ireland's Historical Enquiries Team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 679]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092890-0011-0000", "contents": "1971 Scottish soldiers' killings, Memorial\nThe mother of the two McCaig brothers visited the site of their deaths in May 1972. She expressed a wish to leave a monument to her sons but was advised that it might well be damaged by vandals. She later said that she was touched by the wreaths and flowers that had been left at the spot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092890-0012-0000", "contents": "1971 Scottish soldiers' killings, Memorial\nIn 2010 the Royal British Legion Oldpark/Cavehill branch in Belfast raised money from the sale of badges to erect a memorial to the men. On 28 May 2010, a memorial stone was placed at the site of the killings on Squire's Hill by the families and former regimental colleagues of the three soldiers. The next day a 15-foot obelisk incorporating carved images of the deceased was dedicated to the soldiers at nearby Ballysillan Avenue. A service of remembrance with regimental drums and colours was then held at Ballysillan leisure centre attended by around 1000 people including Lord Mayor of Belfast Naomi Long and North Belfast MP Nigel Dodds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 686]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092890-0013-0000", "contents": "1971 Scottish soldiers' killings, Memorial, Vandalism\nThe memorial at White Brae, Ligoniel, that marks the place of the killings has been vandalised several times since 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092891-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Segunda Divisi\u00f3n de Chile\nThe 1971 Segunda Divisi\u00f3n de Chile was the 20th season of the Segunda Divisi\u00f3n de Chile.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092892-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Senior League World Series\nThe 1971 Senior League World Series took place from August 16\u201321 in Gary, Indiana, United States. La Habra, California defeated Richmond, Virginia in the championship game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092893-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Sheffield City Council election\nThe elections were held on 14 May 1971, with one third up for vote. Since the previous election, a by-election in November for Burngreave seen the Liberals increase their representation to two, with a gain from Labour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092893-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Sheffield City Council election\nImmediately following last year's election, the allocation of fourteen retiring Alderman was decided, with Labour taking the overwhelming majority, strengthened by their election performance and the knowledge that if repeated it would lead to a landslide victory for them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092893-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Sheffield City Council election\nLabour leader Ironmongers' prediction of an aforementioned landslide played out in this election, with Labour making over a dozen gains, with all-but-one coming from their competitor the Conservatives - the other being a Liberal seat in Heeley won in a by-election in 1969. This left them with a record number of 80 seats, and a similarly record-breaking majority of 52.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092893-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Sheffield City Council election\nWith such heavy losses, numerous high-profile Conservative councillors lost their seat, not least of which was a contender for the group's leadership, Irvine Patnick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092893-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Sheffield City Council election, Election result\nThe result had the following consequences for the total number of seats on the Council after the elections:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092894-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Sicilian regional election\nThe Sicilian regional election of 1971 took place on 13 June 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092894-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Sicilian regional election\nChristian Democracy was by far the largest party, largely ahead of the Italian Social Movement that came second. During the legislature the Christian Democrats governed the Region in coalition with some centre-left parties: the Italian Socialist Party, the Italian Democratic Socialist Party and the Italian Republican Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092895-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Sligo Senior Football Championship\nThis is a round-up of the 1971 Sligo Senior Football Championship. St. Patrick's, Dromard claimed their third title, and completed back-to-back wins in the process. Tubbercurry returned to the final after a 14-year absence, but it was in vain, as St. Patrick's cantered to an easy victory, with Micheal Kearins, who became Sligo's first All-Star recipient later that year, leading the winners' onslaught.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092895-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Sligo Senior Football Championship, Sligo Senior Football Championship Final\nTeam:T. CumminsE. RusheA. BolandP.J. KilcullenS. DoneganJ. CuffeJ. KielyM. KearinsJ. KilgallonP. McMunnR. BolandP. KearinsL. BolandS. BeckettB. Kilcullen", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 81], "content_span": [82, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092895-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Sligo Senior Football Championship, Sligo Senior Football Championship Final\nTeam:S. HenryM. BurkeH. GallagherM. PhillipsO. LeonardM. KilcoyneP. GormanL. GormleyP. HuntM. NooneP. KilcoyneJ. KilcoyneT. KavanaghP.J. BrennanO. Gormley", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 81], "content_span": [82, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092896-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Slovak parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections were held in the Slovak Socialist Republic on 26 and 27 November 1971 alongside national elections. All 150 seats in the National Council were won by the National Front.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092897-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Solomon Islands earthquakes\nThe 1971 Solomon Islands earthquakes occurred in the northern part of the Solomon Islands, within Papua New Guinea as a doublet earthquake. The first large shock occurred on July 14 at 06:11 UTC with a magnitude of Mw 8.0. The second large event occurred on July 26 at 01:23 UTC with a magnitude of Mw\u202f 8.1. The initial event on July 14 caused a tsunami, which was observed in Rabaul. The earthquake of July 26 triggered a tsunami with a 3.4\u00a0m (11\u00a0ft) runup in New Britain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092897-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Solomon Islands earthquakes\nShallow, large thrust earthquakes in the Solomon Islands tend to occur in multiplets. Examples of such earthquakes include the doublets occurred in 1971, 1974, and 1975. The 1971 doublet occurred at the junction of two trenches. The July 14 earthquake is located in the northwestern Solomon Islands Trench, while the July 26 earthquake ruptured the northeastern New Britain Trench. The July 14 earthquake and the July 26 earthquake were caused by the subduction of the Solomon Sea Plate beneath the Pacific Plate and the Bismark Sea Plate, respectively. The 1971 sequence had the largest earthquake in 50 years in this region as it occurred.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 674]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092898-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Sonoma State Cossacks football team\nThe 1971 Sonoma State Cossacks football team represented Sonoma State during the 1971 NCAA College Division football season. Sonoma State competed in the Far Western Conference (FWC) for the first time, after having played as an independent the previous two seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092898-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Sonoma State Cossacks football team\nThe 1971 Cossacks were led by second-year head coach Carl Peterson. They played home games at Cossacks Stadium in Rohnert Park, California. Sonoma State finished the season with a record of two wins and eight losses (2\u20138, 0\u20136 FWC). The Cossacks were outscored by their opponents 153\u2013277 for the season. This was the last season for the Cossacks with Coach Peterson at the helm. He finished his two years at Sonoma State with a record of 6\u201312\u20131, a .342 winning percentage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092898-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Sonoma State Cossacks football team\nIn April 1972 it was announced that Sonoma State would no longer field a football team due to financial issues. They did not have another team until a club team was started in 1979.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092898-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Sonoma State Cossacks football team, Team players in the NFL\nNo Sonoma State players were selected in the 1972 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092899-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 South Africa rugby union tour of Australia\nThe 1971 South Africa rugby union tour of Australia was a controversial six-week rugby union tour by the Springboks to Australia. Anti -apartheid protests came to being all around the country. The tour is perhaps most infamous for a state of emergency being declared in Queensland. In total, around 700 people were arrested whilst the Springboks were on tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092899-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 South Africa rugby union tour of Australia, Overview\nThe first games were then played in Adelaide and Perth, which were disrupted mainly by youth-led protesters. The third match was set to take place in Melbourne. A 5,000 strong crowd, made up mostly of university students, gathered in the streets of Melbourne to march on Olympic Park in protest. Police had set up a wall of units around the stadium, around 650 policemen many armed with batons and some on horseback.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 57], "content_span": [58, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092899-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 South Africa rugby union tour of Australia, Overview\nIn Sydney, several people, including the Secretary of the New South Wales Builders Labourers Federation, attempted to saw down the goal posts at the Sydney Cricket Ground prior to the match. In addition, a gigantic anti-apartheid effigy was hung from the Sydney Harbour Bridge but subsequently cut down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 57], "content_span": [58, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092899-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 South Africa rugby union tour of Australia, Overview\nQueensland premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen declared a month-long state of emergency. Protests at the Tower Mill Motel where the South African team were staying were responded to by police. The game was instead played at the Exhibition Ground, being moved from its original venue at Ballymore, as it was deemed easier to erect barricades at the Exhibition Ground. A two-metre chain wire fence was erected to separate players and spectators.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 57], "content_span": [58, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092899-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 South Africa rugby union tour of Australia, Overview\nAccording to Meredith Burgmann and Peter McGregor, both leading firebrands, the rugby tour was a crucial target but to stop the summer's cricketing visit was the ultimate goal. They were successful in this regard as the cricket tour was called off due to security reasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 57], "content_span": [58, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092899-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 South Africa rugby union tour of Australia, Test matches\nSouth Africa: McCallum, Nomis, Cronje, Jansen, Viljoen, Visagie, J Viljoen, Du Plessis, Ellis, Greyling, Williams, Du Preez, Marais (c), Van Wyk and Sauermann", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 61], "content_span": [62, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092899-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 South Africa rugby union tour of Australia, Test matches\nTries by Hannes Viljoen, Joggie Viljoen and Jan Ellis. Ian McCallum 2 conversions and penalty and Piet Visagie drop goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 61], "content_span": [62, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092900-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 South African Grand Prix\nThe 1971 South African Grand Prix, formally the Fifth AA Grand Prix of South Africa (Afrikaans: Vyfde AA Suid-Afrikaanse Grand Prix), was a Formula One motor race held at Kyalami Circuit on 6 March 1971. It was race 1 of 11 in both the 1971 World Championship of Drivers and the 1971 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers. The race was won by Mario Andretti who was driving for the Ferrari team in what was his first Formula One victory, but would not win another Formula One race until 1976.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092900-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 South African Grand Prix, Report\nIt was expected the 12-cylinder cars would be dominant over the V8 Ford Cosworths \u2013 Ferrari had won four out of the last five Grands Prix in 1970, and they had a strong line-up consisting of Mario Andretti, Clay Regazzoni and Jacky Ickx.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092900-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 South African Grand Prix, Report\nJackie Stewart took pole in the Tyrrell to join Chris Amon and Regazzoni on the front row. Denny Hulme was suffering with a new suspension that he said was behaving very strangely.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092900-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 South African Grand Prix, Report\nAt the start, Regazzoni led the field away at the start \u2013 both Stewart and Amon suffering slow starts. Emerson Fittipaldi managed to hold off Hulme until lap three when he dived through to chase the Ferraris. On lap 17, he squeezed through under braking and the orange McLaren once again led a race. Pedro Rodr\u00edguez was forced to retire from fourth place when his bodywork started to melt and the hot air began burning his feet. The heat also took its toll on Jo Siffert, whose engine overheated and Howden Ganley who was taken ill with heat exhaustion. On lap 37, John Surtees who had steadily been moving up the field, managed to pass Regazzoni. Surtees however, suffered a gearbox failure on lap 57. Andretti took his first career victory, driving a Ferrari; his teammate Regazzoni finished in third place behind Stewart.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 862]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092901-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 South African Open (tennis)\nThe 1971 South African Open was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Ellis Park Tennis Stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa. It was the 68th edition of the tournament and was held from 5 April through 17 April 1971. Ken Rosewall and Margaret Court won the singles titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092901-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 South African Open (tennis), Finals, Men's doubles\nKen Rosewall / Fred Stolle defeated Bob Hewitt / Frew McMillan 5\u20137, 6\u20132, 6\u20131, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092901-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 South African Open (tennis), Finals, Women's doubles\nMargaret Court / Evonne Goolagong defeated Brenda Kirk / Laura Rossouw 6\u20133, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 57], "content_span": [58, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092901-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 South African Open (tennis), Finals, Mixed's doubles\nMargaret Court / Fred Stolle defeated Ray Ruffels / Pat Walkden 6\u20133, 7\u20136", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 57], "content_span": [58, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092902-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 South American Championships in Athletics\nThe 1971 South American Championships in Athletics were held in Lima, Peru, between 9 and 17 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092903-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 South American Open (tennis)\nThe 1971 ATP Buenos Aires, also known as the South American Open Championships, was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts and held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The men's event was part of the 1971 Pepsi-Cola Grand Prix. The even was held from 25 November though 1 December 1971. \u017deljko Franulovi\u0107 and Helga Masthoff won the singles titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092903-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 South American Open (tennis), Finals, Men's Doubles\n\u017deljko Franulovi\u0107 / Ilie N\u0103stase defeated Patricio Cornejo / Jaime Fillol Sr.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092903-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 South American Open (tennis), Finals, Women's Doubles\nHelga Masthoff / Heide Orth defeated Ana Mar\u00eda Pinto Bravo / Raquel Giscafr\u00e9 6\u20130, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 58], "content_span": [59, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092904-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 South American Open \u2013 Men's Singles\n\u017deljko Franulovi\u0107 defeated Ilie N\u0103stase 6\u20133, 7\u20136, 6\u20131 to win the 1971 South American Open singles competition. Franulovi\u0107 was the defending champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092905-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 South American Rugby Championship\nThe 1971 South American Rugby Championship was the seventh edition of the competition of the leading national Rugby Union teams in South America.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092905-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 South American Rugby Championship\nThe tournament was played in Montevideo and won by Argentina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092906-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 South American U-20 Championship\nThe South American Youth Championship 1971 was held in Asunci\u00f3n, Paraguay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092907-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 South Carolina Gamecocks football team\nThe 1971 South Carolina Gamecocks football team represented the University of South Carolina as an independent in the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. The Gamecocks finished the season 6\u20135 overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092907-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 South Carolina Gamecocks football team\nAfter competing in the Atlantic Coast Conference from its founding in 1953 through the spring of 1971, South Carolina withdrew due to a disagreement with the ACC's desire to strengthen its academic requirements. The Gamecocks honored existing contracts with the seven remaining ACC schools for the 1971 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092908-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 South Carolina's 1st congressional district special election\nThe 1971 South Carolina 1st congressional district special election was held on April 27, 1971 to select a Representative for the 1st congressional district to serve out the remainder of the term for the 92nd Congress. The special election resulted from the death of longtime Representative L. Mendel Rivers on December 28, 1970. Mendel Jackson Davis, a former aide to Rivers and his godson, won a surprising victory in the Democratic primary and went on to win the general election against Republican challenger James B. Edwards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092908-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 South Carolina's 1st congressional district special election, Democratic primary\nThe South Carolina Democratic Party held their primary on February 23, 1971. Charleston mayor J. Palmer Gaillard, Jr. was the frontrunner to win the primary, but he faced stiff competition from state representative Thomas F. Hartnett and from 28-year-old former congressional aide to Rivers, Mendel Jackson Davis. It was widely expected that a runoff would be required two weeks later, but Mendel Jackson Davis garnered over fifty percent and avoided a runoff election. Davis campaigned for the sympathy vote and claimed that he would have more influence in Washington since he had worked with the Democrats for the past ten years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 85], "content_span": [86, 717]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092908-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 South Carolina's 1st congressional district special election, Republican primary\nThe Republicans viewed this open seat as an excellent opportunity to take it from the Democrats because the Lowcountry was a hotbed of conservatism. In fact, Mendel Rivers had stated to Arthur Ravenel, Jr. that the congressman to follow him would be a Republican. The South Carolina Republican Party had never held a primary election for a congressional race, but was compelled by Ravenel to use the primary instead of a nominating convention. The primary date was set for February 20, a Saturday, and Charleston dentist James B. Edwards defeated Ravenel. Edwards was the most conservative of the candidates and he received most of his vote from Charleston County whereas Ravenel dominated the rural counties, but was noted as a liberal who sought support from the black community.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 85], "content_span": [86, 867]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092908-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 South Carolina's 1st congressional district special election, General election campaign\nThe general election came down to whether Davis could win enough votes from those who still grieved at the loss of his mentor and namesake. While Edwards was a conservative and his positions more closely matched that of the voters than did Davis, he was a Republican in a district that had not had a Republican Representative since 1897. The district electorate was 35% black and Dorchester County black activist Victoria DeLee entered the race as a candidate for the United Citizens Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 92], "content_span": [93, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092908-0003-0001", "contents": "1971 South Carolina's 1st congressional district special election, General election campaign\nDavis tried to solidify his position in the black community by eschewing identity politics and instead proclaiming that he was a Democrat representing both blacks and whites. Although Davis won the election, he did so with less than fifty percent of the vote in large part because DeLee took almost ten percent of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 92], "content_span": [93, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092909-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 South Dakota Coyotes football team\nThe 1971 South Dakota Coyotes football team was an American football team that represented the University of South Dakota in the North Central Conference (NCC) during the 1971 NCAA College Division football season. In its sixth season under head coach Joe Salem, the team compiled a 3\u20137 record (3\u20133 against NCC opponents), tied for fourth place out of seven teams in the NCC, and was outscored by a total of 191 to 172. The team played its home games at Inman Field in Vermillion, South Dakota.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092910-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 South Korean legislative election\nLegislative elections were held in South Korea on 25 May 1971. The result was a victory for the Democratic Republican Party, which won 113 of the 204 seats in the National Assembly. Voter turnout was 73.2%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092911-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 South Korean presidential election\nPresidential elections were held in South Korea on 27 April 1971. The result was a victory for incumbent president Park Chung-hee, who won 53.2% of the vote. Voter turnout was 79.8%. Within a year of his re-election, Park declared martial law and introduced the Yushin Constitution, which vested him with sweeping and near-dictatorial powers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092911-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 South Korean presidential election\nThese would be the last contested presidential elections in South Korea until 1981, and the last direct presidential elections until 1987.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092911-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 South Korean presidential election, Nominations, Democratic Republican Party\nThe DRP Convention was held on 17 March 1971, at which incumbent president Park Chung-hee became the presidential nominee. Under the constitution, Park would have normally been ineligible to run in 1971, as presidents were limited to two consecutive terms. However, shortly after his re-election in 1967, the DRP-dominated legislature passed a constitutional amendment allowing the incumbent president to run for three consecutive terms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 81], "content_span": [82, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092911-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 South Korean presidential election, Nominations, New Democratic Party\nBy tradition, the most senior members of the party leadership were supposed to run for president. It was assumed that either former Korea University president Yu Jin-oh, the sitting party chair Yu Jin-san, or former president Yun Po-sun would be chosen for the party's candidate. However, the norm was broken by lawmaker Kim Young-sam, who was only in his early forties, when he declared his bid for the New Democratic nomination for president on 8 November 1969. He was followed by Kim Dae-jung and Lee Cheol-seung, both prominent politicians in their forties. The party leadership tried to discourage the three candidates at first, but later conceded that it was now time for the new generation to take over. Lee Cheol-seung withdrew his bid and endorsed Kim Dae-jung after the party leadership, including Chairman Yu Jin-san, announced they would be backing Kim Young-sam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 74], "content_span": [75, 950]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092911-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 South Korean presidential election, Nominations, New Democratic Party\nAt the convention held on 29 September 1970, the establishment-endorsed Kim Young-sam surprisingly lost to the minority faction's Kim Dae-jung, who became the party's candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 74], "content_span": [75, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092912-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 South Pacific Games\nThe 1971 South Pacific Games, held at Papeete in Tahiti from 25 August to 5 September 1971, was the fourth edition of the South Pacific Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092912-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 South Pacific Games\nApproximately 1,500 male athletes and 500 female athletes participated in the games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092912-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 South Pacific Games, Sports\nThere were 17 sports contested at the 1971 South Pacific Games:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092912-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 South Pacific Games, Notes\nCycling: Six events were held: 1 km time trial, individual road race (111 km), 74 km road race, 4 km individual pursuit, 4 km Olympic pursuit, and an individual sprint.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 31], "content_span": [32, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092912-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 South Pacific Games, Notes\nThe women's softball tournament was won by Guam, with Papua New Guinea and American Samoa taking second and third place respectively, although the Oceania Sport Information Centre report (on their Sporting Pulse webpage as at October 2015) omits the result.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 31], "content_span": [32, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092913-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 South Pacific Touring Series\nThe 1971 South Pacific Touring Series was an Australian motor racing competition for Series Production Touring Cars. It was the second running of an annual series which had first been contested as the 1970 Tasman Touring Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092913-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 South Pacific Touring Series\nThe series was won by Colin Bond driving a Holden Torana GTR XU-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092913-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 South Pacific Touring Series, Schedule\nEach round was held as a support race to a round of the 1971 Tasman Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092913-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 South Pacific Touring Series, Schedule\nThe first round was scheduled to be held at Surfers Paradise on 7 February however that meeting was postponed due to heavy rain and it was rescheduled to 28 February.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092913-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 South Pacific Touring Series, Classes\nCompeting cars were classified into five classes according to an assessed CP Units value for each vehicle. Under this system, the engine capacity of the car (in litres) was multiplied by the retail price of the car (in Australian dollars) to arrive at a CP Unit value.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092913-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 South Pacific Touring Series, Points system\nPoints were awarded on a 4,3,2,1 basis for the first four places at each round. In addition, points were awarded for places in each class as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092913-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 South Pacific Touring Series, Points system\nPoints were only awarded to a driver who started in all three rounds. The driver was required to compete in a vehicle entered by the same entrant in all three rounds and that vehicle was required to be the same make and model although not necessarily the same vehicle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092913-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 South Pacific Touring Series, Series standings\nOnly the first three outright series placings are shown in the above table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092913-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 South Pacific Touring Series, Series standings, Manufacturers Awards\nA Manufacturers Award was presented to the manufacturer of the winning driver's car at the end of the series. In addition, awards were made to the manufacturers of the winning driver's car in each of the four remaining classes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 73], "content_span": [74, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092914-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 South Vietnamese parliamentary election\nElections to the House of Representatives were held in South Vietnam on 29 August 1971. Only a few candidates were affiliated with political parties. They were the final elections held in South Vietnam, as its government was overthrown by the North in 1975 and unified with the North in 1976.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092914-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 South Vietnamese parliamentary election, Electoral system\nIn order to elect members of the House of Representatives, each province and city acted as an electoral district, except the city of Saigon, which was divided into three districts, and the province of Gia Dinh, which was divided into two districts. Voters had as many votes as there were seats to be filled. In single-member districts, this made the electoral system single-member plurality: in districts where there were more than one seat to be filled, this became the multiple non-transferable vote system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 62], "content_span": [63, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092914-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 South Vietnamese parliamentary election, Results\nVoter turnout was 78.5%, with 5,567,446 of the 7,085,943 registered voters voting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 53], "content_span": [54, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092914-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 South Vietnamese parliamentary election, Results, Elected members by province\nAs voters in districts that elected more than one member had more than one vote, percentages may not add up to 100%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 82], "content_span": [83, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092915-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 South Vietnamese presidential election\nPresidential elections were held in South Vietnam on 2 October 1971. After two opposition candidates boycotted the election, incumbent President Nguy\u1ec5n V\u0103n Thi\u1ec7u was the only candidate, receiving 100% of the vote. Thi\u1ec7u's victory in this election officially marked his second term in office. They were last presidential elections held in South Vietnam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092916-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Southampton Itchen by-election\nThe Southampton Itchen by-election of 27 May 1971 was held after the Speaker of the House of Commons and Member of Parliament (MP) Horace King retired. The seat was gained by the Labour Party (although King had initially sat as a Labour MP). The by-election was noted for the strong performance of the far right National Democratic Party, who had developed a following in the constituency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092917-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Southeast Asian Peninsular Games\nThe 1971 Southeast Asian Peninsular Games, officially known as the 6th Southeast Asian Peninsular Games, was a Southeast Asian multi-sport event held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 6 to 13 December 1971 with 15 sports featured in the games. In this edition of the games, host country Malaysia joined Singapore in pressuring Thailand to let the SEAP Games Federation expand to include the Philippines and Indonesia, but to no avail.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092917-0000-0001", "contents": "1971 Southeast Asian Peninsular Games\nThai officials felt that such expansion would be contrary to the small family affair they had intended the games to be, and would not be in keeping with the close-neighbours spirit the games was supposed to cultivate. This was the second time Malaysia hosted the games and its first time since 1965. The games was opened and closed by Abdul Halim, the King of Malaysia at the Stadium Merdeka. The final medal tally was led by Thailand, followed by host Malaysia and Singapore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092917-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Southeast Asian Peninsular Games, The games, Aquatics\nAquatics included swimming, diving and water polo events. The three sports of aquatics were held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Aquatics events was held between 12 and 15 December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 58], "content_span": [59, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092918-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 1971 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament took place from March 4\u20136, 1971 at the original Charlotte Coliseum in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Furman Paladins, led by head coach Joe Williams, won their first Southern Conference title and received the automatic berth to the 1971 NCAA Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092918-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Format\nAll of the conference's seven members were eligible for the tournament. Teams were seeded based on conference winning percentage. The tournament used a preset bracket consisting of three rounds, with the top finisher receiving a first-round bye.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 60], "content_span": [61, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092919-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Southern Illinois Salukis baseball team\nThe 1971 Southern Illinois Salukis baseball team represented the University of Southern Illinois in the 1968 NCAA University Division baseball season. The Salukis played their home games at Abe Martin Field. The team was coached by Itch Jones in his 2nd season at Southern Illinois.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092919-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Southern Illinois Salukis baseball team\nThe Salukis lost the College World Series, defeated by the USC Trojans in the championship game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092919-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Southern Illinois Salukis baseball team, Salukis in the 1971 MLB Draft\nThe following members of the Southern Illinois Salukis baseball program were drafted in the 1971 Major League Baseball Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 75], "content_span": [76, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092920-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Southern Illinois Salukis football team\nThe 1971 Southern Illinois Salukis football team was an American football team that represented Southern Illinois University (now known as Southern Illinois University Carbondale) as an independent during the 1971 NCAA College Division football season. Under fifth-year head coach Dick Towers, the team compiled a 6\u20134 record. The team played its home games at McAndrew Stadium in Carbondale, Illinois.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092921-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Southern Miss Southerners football team\nThe 1971 Southern Miss Southerners football team was an American football team that represented the University of Southern Mississippi as an independent during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. In their third year under head coach P. W. Underwood, the team compiled a 6\u20135 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092922-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Southwark London Borough Council election\nElections to Southwark Council were held in May 1971. The whole council was up for election. Turnout was 28.7%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092922-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Southwark London Borough Council election\nThis election had aldermen as well as councillors. Labour got all ten aldermen as well as 58 elected councillors. The Liberal Party did not contest any seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092923-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Southwestern Louisiana Bulldogs football team\nThe 1971 Southwestern Louisiana Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented the University of Southwestern Louisiana (now known as the University of Louisiana at Lafayette) in the Southland Conference during the 1971 NCAA College Division football season. In their eleventh year under head coach Russ Faulkinberry, the team compiled an 5\u20134\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092924-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Soviet Cup\nThe 1971 Soviet Cup was an association football cup competition of the Soviet Union. The winner of the competition, Spartak Moscow qualified for the continental tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092925-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Soviet First League\nThe 1971 Soviet First League was the inaugural season of the Soviet First League and the 31st season of the Soviet second tier league competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092926-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Soviet Second League\n1971 Soviet Second League was a Soviet competition in the Soviet Second League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092926-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Soviet Second League, Qualifying groups, Group I [Ukraine]\nThe 1971 Football Championship of Ukrainian SSR was the 41st season of association football competition of the Ukrainian SSR, which was part of the Soviet Second League in Zone 1. It was the first season in the newly established Soviet Second League, after both Class A and Class B competitions were discontinued.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 63], "content_span": [64, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092926-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Soviet Second League, Qualifying groups, Group I [Ukraine]\nThe 1971 Football Championship of Ukrainian SSR was won by FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 63], "content_span": [64, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092926-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Soviet Second League, Reorganization\nThe division became a part of big football reform that took place in the Soviet Union and stretched over two years 1970\u20131971. Most of the club previously competed in the 1970 Class A Second Group (Zone 1) and were grandfathered into the newly established Second League (Zone 1). Clubs from other union republics (Belorussian SSR) were weeded out into other Zone. The lower tier Class B competition were completely disbanded with only eight teams allowed to advance to the Second League, thus replacing those club of other union republics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092926-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Soviet Second League, Teams, Promoted teams\nEight clubs were promoted from the 1970 Class B (Ukrainian SSR).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092927-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Soviet Second League, Zone 1\nThe 1971 Football Championship of Ukrainian SSR was the 41st season of association football competition of the Ukrainian SSR, which was part of the Soviet Second League in Zone 1. It was the first season in the newly established Soviet Second League, after both Class A and Class B competitions were discontinued.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092927-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Soviet Second League, Zone 1\nThe 1971 Football Championship of Ukrainian SSR was won by FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092927-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Soviet Second League, Zone 1, Reorganization\nThe division became a part of big football reform that took place in the Soviet Union and stretched over two years 1970\u20131971. Most of the club previously competed in the 1970 Class A Second Group (Zone 1) and were grandfathered into the newly established Second League (Zone 1). Clubs from other union republics (Belorussian SSR) were weeded out into other Zone. The lower tier Class B competition were completely disbanded with only eight teams allowed to advance to the Second League, thus replacing those club of other union republics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092927-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Soviet Second League, Zone 1, Teams, Promoted teams\nEight clubs were promoted from the 1970 Class B (Ukrainian SSR).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092928-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Soviet Top League\nThe 1971 season of the Soviet Top League saw Dynamo Kyiv clinching their title after three unsuccessful seasons. This season was also unique for successful performances of non-RSFSR clubs: Ararat Yerevan from the Armenian SSR took the second place, while bronze medals were awarded to Dinamo Tbilisi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092929-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Soviet nuclear tests\nThe Soviet Union's 1971 nuclear test series was a group of 23 nuclear tests conducted in 1971. These tests followed the 1970 Soviet nuclear tests series and preceded the 1972 Soviet nuclear tests series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092930-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Space City 300\nThe 1971 Space City 300 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series racing event that took place on June 23, 1971, at Meyer Speedway in Houston, Texas. While Houston was considered to be one of the epicenters of stock car racing during the 1950s and 1960s, the local passion for the motorsport died out starting in the 1970s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092930-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Space City 300\nMeyer Speedway was bumpy enough to loosen bolts off of a typical NASCAR vehicle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092930-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Space City 300\nWith only 14 cars entering the 1971 Space City 300, this event was one of many in 1971 that contributed to significant changes demanded by new series sponsor Winston for the 1972 season, when the number of races was reduced from 48 to 31, all dirt tracks were removed from the schedule, and a minimum race distance of 250 miles (400\u00a0km) was established for races on oval tracks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092930-0002-0001", "contents": "1971 Space City 300\nWhile NASCAR's top series had a successful 48 race schedule in previous years, by 1971 the reduced sponsorship money being given out by the \"Big Three\" automobile companies made it difficult for race car drivers to justify driving their \"stock\" race cars under their own power (as required by the homologation rules until 1975) to events offering only small prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092930-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Space City 300, Race report\nBobby Allison defeated James Hylton by at least two laps after two hours and two minutes of racing 300 laps on a paved track); marking Allison's fifth consecutive win. The entire track was considered to span a distance of 0.500 miles (0.805\u00a0km) for a grand total of 150.0 miles (241.4\u00a0km).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092930-0003-0001", "contents": "1971 Space City 300, Race report\nThere were no cautions given out by NASCAR; making this a perfect race alongside the 1959 Daytona 500, the 1969 Motor Trend 500, the 1971 Asheville 300 and the 2002 EA Sports 500; which became the final oval course race that had gone the entire distance without a single caution flag.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092930-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Space City 300, Race report\nNine\u00a0thousand people would watch a 14-car grid of American-born drivers perform speeds of up to 73.489 miles per hour (118.269\u00a0km/h). Pete Arnold would make his only start here and record the race's last-place finish due to a steering issue on lap 58. Fred Hill would make his only NASCAR Cup Series start here; ending his day with a rear end issue on lap 116. Walter Ballard finished third to claim his best career NASCAR finish. Richard Petty qualified in second place and managed to dominate 38 laps before the halfway point. Petty's vehicle developed problems with its distributor. More than 10 minutes were lost and 28 laps went by in the race before Petty was able to get his vehicle back on the track. Miraculously, he gained back 7 of his lost laps and salvaged a top-10 finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 819]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092930-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Space City 300, Race report\nThe NASCAR Cup Series has never again come close to having a field this small. Even for the rest of 1971, they only once had fewer than 29 cars and that was a 22 car field. Hill and Arnold make their only cup starts in this debacle of a NASCAR Cup Series event. Ronnie Chumley, who lasted a bit longer, only started six other career Cup races. The motivation to stop here on the way back across the country from Riverside was not strong as most drivers did not put their best effort forward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092930-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Space City 300, Race report\nThis would be the last race until Kaz Grala's 2020 run at Daytona for Austin Dillon that a Cup driver debuted in a #3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092930-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Space City 300, Race report\nFrank Warren's Pontiac was the only General Motors product on the racing grid. The next NASCAR Winston Cup Series race to lack a major manufacturer would be the 1982 Daytona 500; which excluded all Chevrolet vehicles. Lee Gordon, Vic Ballard and Dale Inman were the three notable crew chiefs that participated in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092930-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Space City 300, Race report\nOnly manual transmission vehicles were allowed to participate in this race; a policy that NASCAR has retained to the present day. This event would become Meyer Speedway's only NASCAR Cup Series racing event. There would be less than 15 cars in the entire racing event; a rarity during the early 1970s. After this race, there would be at least 20 cars that qualified each and every time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092930-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 Space City 300, Race report\nThe winner would receive $2,200 in winnings ($13,889 when adjusted for inflation) while the last-place finisher would walk away with $340 ($2,146 when adjusted for inflation). Most of the teams that raced at Meyer Speedway went straight back to the Southeastern United States due to the meager prize money that was handed out at this racing event (that took place in the Southwestern United States).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092931-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Spanish Grand Prix\nThe 1971 Spanish Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at the Montju\u00efc circuit on April 18, 1971. It was race 2 of 11 in both the 1971 World Championship of Drivers and the 1971 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers. The 75-lap race was won by Tyrrell driver Jackie Stewart after he started from fourth position. Jacky Ickx finished second for the Ferrari team and Matra driver Chris Amon came in third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092931-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Spanish Grand Prix\nThis was the first Formula One race in which slick tyres were used. The tyres were introduced by Firestone, based on its experience in American open wheel racing series. The race itself was held in the morning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092932-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Speaker of the British House of Commons election\nThe 1971 election of the Speaker of the House of Commons occurred on 12 January 1971, following the retirement of the previous Speaker Dr Horace King. The election resulted in the election of Conservative MP Selwyn Lloyd, formerly Chancellor of the Exchequer and Foreign Secretary. It was the first election with more than one nominee since William Morrison defeated Major James Milner in the 1951 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092932-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Speaker of the British House of Commons election\nHowever, under the rules at the time, any MP could be nominated for Speaker with or without their consent or knowledge. Labour MP Sir Geoffrey de Freitas was nominated against his wishes to stand against Lloyd. Subsequently, the rules were changed to require the consent of a nominee for Speaker before he or she could be nominated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092932-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Speaker of the British House of Commons election, Election\nThe election was conducted by means of a conventional parliamentary motion, originally to elect Selwyn Lloyd. He was proposed and seconded by Conservative MP Dame Irene Ward and Labour MP Charles Pannell respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 63], "content_span": [64, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092932-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Speaker of the British House of Commons election, Election\nConservative MP Robin Maxwell-Hyslop moved an amendment to the original motion to elect Geoffrey De Freitas, who was then seconded by Labour MP Willie Hamilton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 63], "content_span": [64, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092932-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Speaker of the British House of Commons election, Election\nLloyd then gave a speech of submission to the will of the House, but De Freitas followed by stating he had not been consulted by anyone who proposed his name and stated his support for Lloyd.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 63], "content_span": [64, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092932-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Speaker of the British House of Commons election, Results\nMPs then voted on the motion that Selwyn Lloyd take the Chair as Speaker, which was approved by 294 votes to 55. Lloyd was thus conducted to the Speaker's Chair by Charles Pannell and Dame Irene Ward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 62], "content_span": [63, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092933-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Speedway World Pairs Championship\nThe 1971 Speedway World Pairs Championship was the second FIM Speedway World Pairs Championship. The final took place on 11 July 1971 in Rybnik, Poland. The championship was won by Poland (maximum 30 points) who beat New Zealand (25 points) and Sweden (22 points).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092933-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Speedway World Pairs Championship, World final\nm - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022 t - exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022 x - other exclusion \u2022 e - retired or mechanical failure \u2022 f - fellns - non-starter \u2022 nc - non-classify", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 51], "content_span": [52, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092934-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Speedway World Team Cup\nThe 1971 Speedway World Team Cup was the 12th edition of the FIM Speedway World Team Cup to determine the team world champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092934-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Speedway World Team Cup\nThe final took place at Stadion Olimpijski (Wroc\u0142aw) in Poland. The title was won by Great Britain for the second time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092934-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Speedway World Team Cup, World final\nRay Wilson - 12Ivan Mauger - 10Jim Airey - 9Barry Briggs - 6Ronnie Moore - dnr", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092934-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Speedway World Team Cup, World final\nGrigory Khlinovsky - 8Vladimir Smirnov - 7Vladimir Gordeev - 4Anatoly Kuzmin - 3Viktor Trofimov - dnr", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092934-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Speedway World Team Cup, World final\nPawe\u0142 Waloszek - 5Henryk Gl\u00fccklich - 4Antoni Woryna - 4Edward Jancarz - 4Andrzej Wyglenda - 2", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092934-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Speedway World Team Cup, World final\nAnders Michanek - 9S\u00f6ren Sj\u00f6sten - 3Bengt Jansson 3Leif Enecrona 3Bernt Persson 0", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092935-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Spring Trophy\nThe Rothmans/Daily Express Spring Trophy was a non-championship Formula One race held on 9 April 1971 at Oulton Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092935-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Spring Trophy\nOnly twelve cars took part. Team Lotus entered three different chassis types - a 49C, a 72D and the Pratt & Whitney gas-turbine-engined 56B. Local favourite and Formula 3 driver Cyd Williams was entrusted with aFrank Williams Racing Cars March but crashed heavily during untimed practice and did not start the race. Jackie Stewart set pole position in the spare car but in the race itself he struggled with his regular car's handling. Pedro Rodriguez won ahead of Peter Gethin, the two of them sharing fastest lap. Stewart finished third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092935-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Spring Trophy, Classification, Race\n1 Stewart practiced in the spare Tyrrell 002 but opted to race Tyrrell 001.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 40], "content_span": [41, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092936-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 St. Louis Cardinals (NFL) season\nThe 1971 St. Louis Cardinals season was the 52nd season the team was in the National Football League and twelfth in St. Louis. The team failed to improve on their previous year's 8\u20135\u20131 record, winning only four games. They failed to reach the playoffs for the 23rd straight season, their previous appearance was in 1948 in the championship game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092936-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 St. Louis Cardinals (NFL) season\nThis was the last season the team was co-owned by Charles Bidwill, Jr.; he sold his share to his younger brother Bill in September 1972. The adopted sons of Charles and Violet Bidwill, the two had co-owned the team since their mother's death in January 1962.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092936-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 St. Louis Cardinals (NFL) season, Schedule, Standings\nNote: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 58], "content_span": [59, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092937-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 St. Louis Cardinals season\nThe 1971 St. Louis Cardinals season was the team's 90th season in St. Louis, Missouri and its 80th season in the National League. The Cardinals went 90\u201372 during the season and finished second in the National League East, seven games behind the eventual NL pennant and World Series champion Pittsburgh Pirates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092937-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season\nThe Cardinals scrapped their traditional buttoned jerseys for T-shirt style uniform tops, and would keep them until they switched back in 1992.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092937-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 St. Louis Cardinals season, Regular season\nThird baseman Joe Torre won the MVP Award this year, batting .363, with 24 home runs and 137 RBIs. Pitcher Bob Gibson won a Gold Glove this year, and threw a no-hitter against the Pittsburgh Pirates on August 14.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092937-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092937-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 69], "content_span": [70, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092937-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 74], "content_span": [75, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092937-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 71], "content_span": [72, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092937-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 72], "content_span": [73, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092938-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Stanford Indians football team\nThe 1971 Stanford Indians football team represented Stanford University during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. Led by ninth-year head coach John Ralston, the Indians were 8\u20133 in the regular season and repeated as Pacific-8 Conference champions at 6\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092938-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Stanford Indians football team, Season\nThe previous season, the Indians won the Pac-8 title and upset undefeated Ohio State in the Rose Bowl behind Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Jim Plunkett, the first overall pick in the 1971 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092938-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Stanford Indians football team, Season\nWith the core of the \"Thunder Chickens\" defense returning, led by Jeff Siemon and Pete Lazetich, and an offense under the steady leadership of fifth-year senior quarterback Don Bunce, the Indians defended the conference title and upset fourth-ranked Michigan in the Rose Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092938-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Stanford Indians football team, Season\nShortly after their New Year's Day victory, Ralston resigned to become head coach and general manager of the Denver Broncos in the National Football League. A few weeks later, offensive coordinator Mike White was hired as head coach at rival California, his alma mater, and Stanford promoted defensive assistant Jack Christiansen to head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092938-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Stanford Indians football team, Season\nThis was the final season with the \"Indians\" nickname, which was changed to \"Cardinals\" for 1972, and reduced to the singular \"Cardinal\" in 1982.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092938-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Stanford Indians football team, NFL Draft\nSix Stanford players were selected in the 1972 NFL Draft", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092939-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Stanley Cup Finals\nThe 1971 Stanley Cup Finals was the championship series of the National Hockey League's (NHL) 1970\u201371 season, and the culmination of the 1971 Stanley Cup playoffs. It was contested between the Chicago Black Hawks and the Montreal Canadiens. The Black Hawks made their first appearance in the finals since 1965, while the Canadiens had last played in and won the finals in 1969. The Canadiens won the series, four games to three.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092939-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Stanley Cup Finals, Paths to the Finals\nThe playoff system changed this year to allow cross-over between the divisions during the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092939-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Stanley Cup Finals, Paths to the Finals\nChicago defeated the Philadelphia Flyers 4\u20130 and the New York Rangers 4\u20133 to advance to the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092939-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Stanley Cup Finals, Paths to the Finals\nMontreal defeated the defending champion Boston Bruins 4\u20133 and the Minnesota North Stars 4\u20132. This set up the first \"Original Six\" finals since the 1967 final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092939-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries\nBrothers Frank and Peter Mahovlich starred for the Canadiens, scoring nine goals in the seven-game final series. Ken Dryden debuted for the Canadiens, while this was Jean Beliveau's last Final appearance. He ended his career with ten championships. This would be only the second time that the road team would win a game seven in Finals history. The only previous time it happened was when the Toronto Maple Leafs defeated the Detroit Red Wings 2\u20131 in game seven in the 1945 Stanley Cup Finals in Detroit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092939-0004-0001", "contents": "1971 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries\nMontreal also won the series despite losing the first two games on the road; neither of these feats would happen again until 2009, when the Pittsburgh Penguins defeated the Red Wings in game seven by the same 2\u20131 score after losing the first two games to the Red Wings. The next seven-game Stanley Cup Finals would not occur until the 1987 Stanley Cup Finals with the Edmonton Oilers and the Philadelphia Flyers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092939-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Stanley Cup Finals, Coaching controversies\nBoth clubs would suffer public controversies regarding coaching performances, specifically accusations of mishandling star players during the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 47], "content_span": [48, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092939-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Stanley Cup Finals, Coaching controversies\nChicago head coach Billy Reay would be attacked in the media by Hawks star forward Bobby Hull for his excessive employment of two little used forwards, Lou Angotti and Eric Nesterenko, as well as the injured defenseman Keith Magnuson in game seven. With a 2\u20130 Blackhawks lead, both Hull and Hawks star center Stan Mikita were left on the bench for extended periods in favor of Angotti and Nesterenko, including two four-on-four situations. The wide open matchup should have favored the frustrated Hull, who had been successfully shadowed in the series by Canadiens rookie Rejean Houle. The first two Canadien goals were tallied with the two backliners on the ice and the hobbled Magnuson was beaten one on one by speedy Montreal center Henri Richard for the ultimate game winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 47], "content_span": [48, 827]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092939-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Stanley Cup Finals, Coaching controversies\nThe Canadiens suffered their own coaching controversy earlier in the series when head coach Al MacNeil benched alternate captain Henri Richard in game five. Following the 2-0 loss, Richard ripped MacNeil in the media calling him incompetent and \"the worst coach I ever played for.\" Accusation of favoring English-speaking players plagued MacNeil and turned the public against him. Following death threats, MacNeil and his family were assigned body guards for the final home game in Montreal. Even the eventual series victory wouldn't be enough to save MacNeil's job. He was replaced as head coach by Scotty Bowman soon after the finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 47], "content_span": [48, 684]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092939-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Stanley Cup Finals, Stanley Cup engraving\nThe 1971 Stanley Cup was presented to Canadiens captain Jean Beliveau by NHL President Clarence Campbell following the Canadiens 3\u20132 win over the Black Hawks in game seven.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 46], "content_span": [47, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092939-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 Stanley Cup Finals, Stanley Cup engraving\nThe following Canadiens players and staff had their names engraved on the Stanley Cup", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 46], "content_span": [47, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092940-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Star World Championships\nThe 1971 Star World Championships were held in Puget Sound, United States in 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092940-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Star World Championships, Results\nLegend: DNF \u2013 Did not finish; DNS \u2013 Did not start; DSQ \u2013 Disqualified; WDR \u2013 Withdrew;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092941-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Stirling and Falkirk by-election\nThe Stirling and Falkirk by-election of 16 September 1971 was held following the death of Labour Member of Parliament (MP) Malcolm MacPherson. The seat was retained by Labour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092941-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Stirling and Falkirk by-election\nOn the day of polling it was reported that Labour were confident of holding the seat and believed that they would have a swing of 10% or more towards them with the Conservatives in second place. The SNP reportedly thought they would win 38% of the vote and the Conservatives would lose their deposit. In contrast the Conservatives claimed that the SNP would take votes from Labour and allow them to win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092941-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Stirling and Falkirk by-election, Outcome and aftermath\nLabour's victorious candidate Harry Ewing claimed that the result represented a \"complete rejection\" of the policies of the Heath Government, particularly \"their policy on the Common Market.\" Ewing also conceded that his \"majority was less than we expected\". Journalist William Clark writing in The Glasgow Herald reported that Labour supporters were surprised by the size of the SNP vote, and himself described the level support for McIntyre as being a \"major upset\". McIntyre said the result showed that \"the SNP are on the march again.\" The defeated Conservative, Alloa Solicitor David Anderson, said that he did not think the result was \"an anti-Common Market vote\", but was probably a protest against the Government. He also said that he thought that it was significant that Labour had not performed as well as they had expected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 60], "content_span": [61, 895]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092941-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Stirling and Falkirk by-election, Outcome and aftermath\nAn editorial in the Glasgow Evening Times the day after the election headed \"One in the eye for Ted\" said the real story of the result was the poor Conservative performance standing \"there can be no doubt that the figures are indicative of the low standing of the Conservatives in Scotland.\" In attacking Prime Minister Edward Heath and the Conservatives it particularly highlighted what it saw as his Government's poor handling of the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders crisis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 60], "content_span": [61, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092942-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Stockholm Open\nThe 1971 Stockholm Open was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts and part of the 1971 World Championship Tennis circuit and took place at the Kungliga tennishallen in Stockholm, Sweden. The tournament was held from 1 November through 7 November 1971. Arthur Ashe won the singles title and $10,000 first prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092942-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Stockholm Open, Finals, Singles\nArthur Ashe defeated Jan Kode\u0161, 6\u20131, 3\u20136, 6\u20132, 1\u20136, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 93]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092942-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Stockholm Open, Finals, Doubles\nTom Gorman / Stan Smith defeated Arthur Ashe / Bob Lutz, 6\u20133, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092943-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Stockholm Open \u2013 Doubles\nThe 1971 Stockholm Open was a tennis tournament played on hard courts and part of the 1971 Pepsi-Cola Grand Prix and took place in Stockholm, Sweden. The tournament was held from November 1 through November 7, 1971. Stan Smith and Tom Gorman defeated Arthur Ashe and Bob Lutz, 6\u20134, 6\u20133, in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092944-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Stockholm Open \u2013 Singles\nThe 1971 Stockholm Open was a tennis tournament played on hard courts and part of the 1971 Pepsi-Cola Grand Prix and took place in Stockholm, Sweden. The tournament was held from November 1 through November 7, 1971. Arthur Ashe defeated Jan Kode\u0161, 6\u20131, 3\u20136, 6\u20132, 1\u20136, 6\u20134, in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092945-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Sudanese coup d'\u00e9tat\nThe 1971 Sudanese coup d'\u00e9tat was a short-lived communist-backed coup, led by Major Hashem al Atta, against the government of President Gaafar Nimeiry. The coup took place on 19 July 1971, toppling the government of the Democratic Republic of the Sudan, but failed to garner support either domestically or internationally. After several days Nimeiry loyalists launched a counter-coup, freeing Nimeiry and toppling Atta's government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092945-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Sudanese coup d'\u00e9tat\nFollowing the coup Nimeiry, pushed by Defense Minister Khalid Hassan Abbas, made moves to strengthen his rule, and by the end of the year ultimate authority had transferred from the multi-member Revolutionary Command Council to the Presidency, held by Nimeiry. Over the next several years, the remaining former members of the RCC would see their authority diminished, and by 1975 all but Abu al-Gasim Mohammed Ibrahim had been forced out of government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092945-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Sudanese coup d'\u00e9tat, Background\nAfter neutralizing the conservative opposition from the Ansar movement, the government of the Revolutionary Command Council (RCC), who had seized power in 1969, concentrated on consolidating its political organization to phase out communist participation in the government. This strategy prompted an internal debate within the Sudanese Communist Party (SCP). The orthodox wing, led by party secretary general Abd al Khaliq Mahjub, demanded a popular front government with communists participating as equal partners. The National Communist wing, on the other hand, supported cooperation with the government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092945-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Sudanese coup d'\u00e9tat, Background\nSoon after the army had crushed the Ansar at Aba Island, Nimeiri moved against the SCP. He ordered the deportation of Abd al Khaliq Mahjub. Then, when the SCP secretary general returned to Sudan illegally after several months abroad, Nimeiri placed him under house arrest. In March 1971, Nimeiri indicated that trade unions, a traditional communist stronghold, would be placed under government control. The RCC also banned communist affiliated student, women's, and professional organizations. Additionally, Nimeiri announced the planned formation of a national political movement called the Sudan Socialist Union (SSU), which would assume control of all political parties, including the SCP. After this speech, the government arrested the SCP's central committee and other leading communists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 831]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092945-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Sudanese coup d'\u00e9tat, Background\nThe SCP, however, retained a covert organization that was not damaged in the sweep. Before further action could be taken against the party, the SCP launched a coup against Nimeiri. The coup occurred on July 19, 1971, when one of the plotters, Major Hisham al Atta, surprised Nimeiri and the RCC meeting in the presidential palace and seized them along with a number of pro-Nimeiri officers. Atta named a seven-member revolutionary council, in which communists ranked prominently, to serve as the national government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092945-0004-0001", "contents": "1971 Sudanese coup d'\u00e9tat, Background\nThree days after the coup, however, loyal army units stormed the palace, rescued Nimeiri, and arrested Atta and his confederates. Nimeiri, who blamed the SCP for the coup, ordered the arrest of hundreds of communists and dissident military officers. The government subsequently executed some of these individuals and imprisoned many others.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092945-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Sudanese coup d'\u00e9tat, Events, The Siesta Coup\nThe coup began in the mid afternoon of 19 July, when Khartoum was relatively quiet due to many Sudanese retiring from the scorching mid afternoon sun to take a siesta. With Khartoum relatively quiet Atta moved tanks into positions around government buildings, capturing the Presidential Palace and taking Nimeiry and several dozen of his followers prisoner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 50], "content_span": [51, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092945-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Sudanese coup d'\u00e9tat, Events, The Siesta Coup\nAt this point Atta declared himself, Babiker Al Nour, and Farouk Osman Hamdallah in charge of the government, proclaiming a new Revolutionary Council. The three men were rumoured communists, and whilst they denied this, their new government's first act was to lift Nimeiry's ban on the Sudanese Communist Party and its various affiliated organisations. Speaking over the radio, Atta announced the new government would work in closer collaboration with communist and socialist countries, and stated that Sudanese communists would be brought into a new coalition government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 50], "content_span": [51, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092945-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Sudanese coup d'\u00e9tat, Events, The Siesta Coup\nThe response to the coup was initially limited, with Atta's forces receiving no opposition from either the Sudanese Armed Forces or from the wider population. Khartoum did however see communists stage pro-coup demonstrations. Whilst Atta was in Khartoum, his fellow coup leaders, Al Nour and Hamdallah, were in London, with Hamdallah having accompanied Al Nour on a trip for medical treatment. Upon being informed of the success of the coup the two wound up their affairs and prepared to fly back to Khartoum, with Al Nour being slated to serve as Chief of Staff in the new government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 50], "content_span": [51, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092945-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Sudanese coup d'\u00e9tat, Events, The coup fails to take hold\nDespite the ease at which Atta had seized Khartoum the coup had little widespread support. While the Sudanese Communist Party was the largest Communist Party in the Arab World, its support base was limited to a small section of Sudan's population. In contrast to this there was a widespread opposition in Sudan's religious and conservative population to communism, which was viewed as having dangerous links to atheism.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 62], "content_span": [63, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092945-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 Sudanese coup d'\u00e9tat, Events, The coup fails to take hold\nAdding to this was the fact that Sudan's neighbors were also opposed to the new communist government. None of Sudan's neighbours wished to have either a communist or communist-sympathising government for a neighbor, and Anwar Sadat in Egypt ordered first a fact-finding mission to Khartoum, and later ordered Egyptian forces stationed south of Khartoum to resist the coup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 62], "content_span": [63, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092945-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 Sudanese coup d'\u00e9tat, Events, The coup fails to take hold\nGaddafi's Libya also supported Nimeiry. Gaddafi, like Nimeiry, had come to power two years prior. Gaddafi was also at this point virulently anti-communist. Gaddafi's response was far more extreme than Sadat's, and he dispatched two Libyan fighter jets to force down the British Airlines jetliner which was ferrying Al Nour and Hamdallah from London back to Khartoum. The plane was forced down in Libya, and the two were taken off the plane and arrested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 62], "content_span": [63, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092945-0011-0000", "contents": "1971 Sudanese coup d'\u00e9tat, Events, The coup fails to take hold\nSaudi Arabia was also worried about the prospect of a new communist government across the Red Sea, although Saudi Arabia refrained from engaging in any clear action against the new Sudanese government. Ba'athist Iraq did however respond favorably to the new government, publicly supporting the coup, and was actually the only Arab government to do so. Baghdad dispatched an airliner to Khartoum carrying an Iraqi delegation to congratulate Atta and his new government, although this crashed under mysterious circumstances whilst crossing Saudi Arabia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 62], "content_span": [63, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092945-0012-0000", "contents": "1971 Sudanese coup d'\u00e9tat, Events, The coup unravels\nUnaware that Al Nour and Hamdallah's plane had been forced down in Libya, Atta travelled to Khartoum International Airport on the morning of the 22 July expecting to welcome the two back to Sudan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 52], "content_span": [53, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092945-0012-0001", "contents": "1971 Sudanese coup d'\u00e9tat, Events, The coup unravels\nAtta had realized by this point that the coup may prove more difficult than it originally appeared, and had dispatched orders to prevent any attempted countercoups; the army had been ordered to immobilise its tanks in the Khartoum area, most armored brigades and paratroopers had been put on leave, and the arms and ammunition of units whose loyalty was in doubt had been removed and locked away. According to rumours, Atta had not undertaken these courses of action alone, but had instead done so with the advice and support of Soviet military personnel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 52], "content_span": [53, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092945-0013-0000", "contents": "1971 Sudanese coup d'\u00e9tat, Events, The coup unravels\nUpon learning of the status of the plane, Atta travelled to the center of Khartoum to address a rally that he had called to welcome back Al Nour and Hamdullah. Speaking to the crowd, Atta tried desperately to muster support for his coup, but the crowd was thin, Atta was heckled, and there were calls for the return of Nimeiry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 52], "content_span": [53, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092945-0014-0000", "contents": "1971 Sudanese coup d'\u00e9tat, Events, The coup unravels\nWithin hours, military units loyal to Nimeiry moved into Khartoum, engaging with units loyal to Atta and freeing Nimeiry after a short battle. Al Nour and Hamdullah were returned to Khartoum by Gaddafi, and were executed alongside Atta and a half dozen other coup leaders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 52], "content_span": [53, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092945-0015-0000", "contents": "1971 Sudanese coup d'\u00e9tat, Results\nHaving survived the SCP-inspired coup, Nimeiri reaffirmed his commitment to establishing a socialist state. A provisional constitution, published in August 1971, described Sudan as a \"socialist democracy\" and provided for a presidential form of government to replace the RCC. A plebiscite the following month elected Nimeiri to a six-year term as president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 34], "content_span": [35, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092945-0016-0000", "contents": "1971 Sudanese coup d'\u00e9tat, Results\nThe coup brought major changes in Sudan's foreign and domestic policies. In its aftermath, leading members of the Sudanese Communist Party were executed, and several communist-dominated trade unions were banned. In his foreign policy, Nimeiry expelled East German security advisers and denounced the Soviet Union and most of its European allies for their attitude to the attempted coup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 34], "content_span": [35, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092946-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Sudanese presidency referendum\nA referendum on the presidency of Jaafar Nimeiry was held in Sudan on 15 September 1971. It came after Nimeiry was overthrown in a Communist coup in July, followed by his reinstatement. He was backed by 98.6% of voters, with a turnout of 92.9%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092947-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Sugar Bowl\nThe 1971 Sugar Bowl was the 37th edition of the college football bowl game, played at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans, Louisiana, on Thursday, January\u00a01. It\u00a0featured the fourth-ranked Tennessee Volunteers of the Southeastern Conference (SEC), and the independent Air Force Falcons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092947-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Sugar Bowl, Teams, Air Force\nThe Falcons were in their first Sugar Bowl under thirteenth-year head coach Ben Martin; he had a 68\u201357\u20137 record and brought Air Force into national prominence, ranked in the AP Poll for the second time in school history. However, the tenth-ranked Falcons lost their final regular season game 49\u201319 at home to Colorado. A week earlier, Air Force had defeated Pacific-8 champion Stanford, who later upset #2 Ohio State in the Rose Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 33], "content_span": [34, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092947-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Sugar Bowl, Teams, Tennessee\nTennessee was under the leadership of 29-year old rookie coach Bill Battle, a member of the national champion 1961 Alabama Crimson Tide. This was the Vols' fifth Sugar Bowl appearance and first since the 1957 game. The Vols rolled over Alabama 24\u20130 at Knoxville in October and gained revenge for a 38\u20130 loss in 1969 to Ole Miss in November, but an early loss to Auburn in Birmingham wound up costing Tennessee the Southeastern Conference championship, which instead went to LSU.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 33], "content_span": [34, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092947-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Sugar Bowl, Teams, Tennessee\nThe game was a match of offense vs defense. In the regular season, Air Force averaged 423.6 yards in offense, while Tennessee surrendered only 88.4 yards on defense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 33], "content_span": [34, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092947-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Sugar Bowl, Game summary\nTelevised by ABC, the Sugar Bowl kicked off at 12 noon CST, an hour before the Cotton Bowl on CBS.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 29], "content_span": [30, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092947-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Sugar Bowl, Game summary\nQuarterback Bobby Scott summed the game up with a quote after the game: \"We had the momentum going.\" The Volunteers, not fooled by Air Force's eight-man line, drove 59 yards in 2 minutes and 45 seconds and culminated with a Don McLeary touchdown. It only grew worse for the Falcons as they fumbled on their ensuing drive, as the Vols added in a field goal by George Hunt soon after. Following an Air Force punt, the Vols drove down the field once again, driving 58 yards that culminated in McLeary's 2nd touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 29], "content_span": [30, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092947-0005-0001", "contents": "1971 Sugar Bowl, Game summary\nA fumble by Air Force gave the ball back to the Vols at the Falcons' own 24. Four plays later, Scott passed to Gary Theiler for a touchdown. By this point, 3:12 was left in the first period, and it was 24\u20130. Air Force did later score in the quarter, happening on a fumble recovery by Darryl Hass in the endzone on a bad snap while the Vols were in their own territory. The second quarter went scoreless, as the demoralized Falcons trailed 24\u20137 at halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 29], "content_span": [30, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092947-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Sugar Bowl, Game summary\nThe third quarter turned out to be worse. Bobby Majors returned an Air Force punt 57 yards for a touchdown. Air Force added in a measly touchdown later in the quarter, but by that point it was 31\u201313, and Hunt added in his second field goal to make the final score 34\u201313.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 29], "content_span": [30, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092947-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Sugar Bowl, Aftermath\nAir Force has not returned to the Sugar Bowl or any other bowl sponsored by the Bowl Championship Series and its successor, the College Football Playoff. Tennessee has returned twice, 1986 and 1991, where they defeated the Miami Hurricanes and the Virginia Cavaliers, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 26], "content_span": [27, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092947-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Sugar Bowl, Aftermath\nThis was the final event at Tulane Stadium that was played on grass. Poly-Turf was installed in the summer of 1971 and remained in place until the stadium was torn down at the end of 1979.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 26], "content_span": [27, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092948-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Sun Bowl\nThe 1971 Sun Bowl was a college football postseason bowl game between the LSU Tigers and the Iowa State Cyclones.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092948-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Sun Bowl, Background\nLSU tied for 6th in the Southeastern Conference while the Cyclones tied for 4th in the Big Eight Conference. This was the first Sun Bowl for the Tigers and Cyclones, along with the first bowl appearance for Iowa State. This was the first Sun Bowl game to have all tickets be sold. George Amundson was the first Cyclone to rush for over 1,000 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 25], "content_span": [26, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092948-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Sun Bowl, Game summary\nBert Jones completed 12-of-18 passes for 227 yards and three touchdowns passing and one rushing touchdown in an MVP effort. LSU scored early on two Jay Michaelson field goals, but Iowa State responded with a field goal of their own to make it 6\u20133. The Tigers had the ball at the ISU 4 late in the half, but they turned it over on downs, and the half soon ended. In the second half, LSU broke the game open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 27], "content_span": [28, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092948-0002-0001", "contents": "1971 Sun Bowl, Game summary\nJones threw two touchdown passes in the third quarter, one to Andy Hamilton from 37 yards out, and one to Gerald Keigley from 21 yards out to make it 19\u20133. Iowa State responded late in the quarter with a Dean Carlson 30-yard touchdown pass to Larry Marquardt to make it 19\u20139. In the fourth, Carlson threw a 1-yard pass to Keith Krepfle to make it 19\u201315 early in the fourth. Jones responded with his third touchdown pass, this time to Michaelson, to make it 26\u201315. Jay Michaelson. With 3:00 remaining, Jones ran for a touchdown to make it 33\u201315. George Amundson was held to 56 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 27], "content_span": [28, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092949-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Super Prestige Pernod\nThe 1971 Super Prestige Pernod was the thirteenth edition of the Super Prestige Pernod, a season-long competition for road bicycle racing. It included sixteen races in Europe. Belgian Eddy Merckx of the Molteni team won the overall title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092950-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Sutton London Borough Council election\nThe 1971 Sutton Council election took place on 13 May 1971 to elect members of Sutton London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Conservative party stayed in overall control of the council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092951-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Svenska Cupen Final\nThe 1971 Svenska Cupen final took place on 30 June 1971 at Malm\u00f6 Stadion in Malm\u00f6. The match was contested by Allsvenskan sides Malm\u00f6 FF and \u00c5tvidabergs FF. \u00c5tvidaberg played their second consecutive final and their third final in total, Malm\u00f6 FF played their first final since 1967 and their eighth final in total. \u00c5tvidaberg won their second title with a 3\u20132 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092952-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Swedish Open\nThe 1971 Swedish Open was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts held in B\u00e5stad, Sweden. The event was classified as a Group C category tournament and was part of the 1971 Grand Prix circuit. It was the 24th edition of the tournament and was held from 5 July through 11 July 1971. Ilie N\u0103stase and Helga Masthoff won the singles titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092952-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Swedish Open, Finals, Men's Doubles\nIlie N\u0103stase / Ion \u0162iriac defeated Jaime Pinto-Bravo / Butch Seewagen 7\u20136, 6\u20131", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 40], "content_span": [41, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092952-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Swedish Open, Finals, Women's Doubles\nHelga Masthoff / Heide Orth defeated Ana Mar\u00eda Pinto Bravo / Linda Tuero 6\u20131, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 42], "content_span": [43, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092953-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Swedish football Division 2\nStatistics of the Swedish football Division 2 in the 1971 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092954-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Swedish football Division 3\nStatistics of Swedish football Division 3 for the 1971 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092955-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Swiss federal election\nFederal elections were held in Switzerland on 31 October 1971. Although the Social Democratic Party received the most votes, the Free Democratic Party emerged as the largest party in the National Council, winning 49 of the 200 seats. They were the first federal elections in which women were allowed to vote, following a referendum earlier in the year that introduced universal suffrage for federal elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092956-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Swiss referendums\nThree referendums were held in Switzerland in 1971. The first was held on 7 February on introducing women's suffrage at the federal level, and was approved by 66% of voters. The second and third were held on 6 June on a constitutional amendment to introduce the human right to a non-hazardous environment and a federal resolution on federal finances. In the first referendum in which women were allowed to vote, both were approved by voters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092957-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Syracuse Orangemen football team\nThe 1971 Syracuse Orangemen football team represented Syracuse University during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. The team was led by 23rd-year head coach Ben Schwartzwalder and played their home games at Archbold Stadium in Syracuse, New York. The team finished with a record of 5\u20135\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092957-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Syracuse Orangemen football team, First one-point safety\nThe first known occurrence of a one-point safety (conversion safety) was in an NCAA game on October 2, 1971, scored by Syracuse in the first quarter of a game at Indiana. On a point-after-touchdown kick, the ball was kicked almost straight up in the air. An Indiana player illegally batted the ball in the end zone (a spot foul defensive penalty). Syracuse won the game, 7-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 61], "content_span": [62, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092957-0001-0001", "contents": "1971 Syracuse Orangemen football team, First one-point safety\nThe 1970 rulebook (Rule 8-5-3) stated, \"If a scrimmage kick fails to cross the neutral zone, or crosses the neutral zone and is first touched by Team B, or is untouched and then rebounds into the end zone where it is recovered by Team A, it is a safety,\" and (8-5-4) \"If the penalty for a foul committed when the ball is free leaves the ball behind a goal line, it is a safety if behind the offender's goal line.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 61], "content_span": [62, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092958-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Syrian Federation of Arab Republics referendum\nA referendum on the Federation of Arab Republics (Arabic: \u0627\u0633\u062a\u0641\u062a\u0627\u0621 \u0627\u062a\u062d\u0627\u062f \u0627\u0644\u062c\u0645\u0647\u0648\u0631\u064a\u0627\u062a \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0633\u0648\u0631\u064a 1971) was held in Syria on 1 September 1971, alongside simultaneous referendums in Egypt and Libya. It was approved by 96.4% of voters, with a turnout of 89.7%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092959-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Syrian presidential election\nPresidential elections were held in Syria on 22 March 1971. There was only one candidate, Hafez al-Assad, with voters asked to approve or reject his candidacy. A reported 99.2% of voters voted in favour, with a turnout of 95.3%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092960-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 S\u00e3o Paulo FC season\nThe 1971 football season was S\u00e3o Paulo's 42nd season since club's existence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092961-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 TANFL season\nThe 1971 Tasmanian Australian National Football League (TANFL) premiership season was an Australian rules football competition staged in Hobart, Tasmania over twenty (20) roster rounds and five (5) finals series matches (one match was drawn) between 3 April and 25 September 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092961-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 TANFL season, 1971 TANFL Ladder, Grand Final\nSource: All scores and statistics courtesy of the Hobart Mercury and Saturday Evening Mercury (SEM) publications.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 49], "content_span": [50, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092962-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 TCU Horned Frogs football team\nThe 1971 TCU Horned Frogs football team represented Texas Christian University (TCU) in the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. The Horned Frogs finished the season 6\u20134\u20131 overall and 5\u20132 in the Southwest Conference. The team was coached by Jim Pittman, in his first and only year as head coach. Pittman died of a heart attack suffered on the sidelines of a game against Baylor in Waco, Texas on October 30, 1971. Assistant Coach Billy Tohill replaced Pittman as head coach for the remainder of the season, finishing with a 3\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 581]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092962-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 TCU Horned Frogs football team\nThis would be the Horned Frogs' last winning season until 1984.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092962-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 TCU Horned Frogs football team\nThe Frogs played their home games in Amon G. Carter Stadium, which is located on campus in Fort Worth, Texas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092963-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 TVW Channel 7 6 Hour Le Mans\nThe TVW Channel 7 6 Hour Le Mans was motor race staged at the Wanneroo Park Circuit in Western Australia on 7 June 1971. It was the 17th \u201cSix Hour Le Mans\u201d race to be held in Western Australia and the third to be staged at Wanneroo Park. The race was won by Ray Thackwell and Jim Mullins driving a Porsche 911S.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092963-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 TVW Channel 7 6 Hour Le Mans, Results\nPole position was attained by Howie Sangster with a lap time of 1:02.0", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092964-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election\nThe fifth legislative assembly election of Tamil Nadu was held in March 1971. Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam was re-elected, after its first victory under the leadership of C N Annadurai in 1967. This was the first time M. Karunanidhi, contested as the leader of DMK party won the election, since he assumed Chief Ministership for the first time, after the death of C N Annadurai. Karunanidhi had emerged successfully in the leadership crisis with other party leaders M. G. Ramachandran, and Nedunchezhiyan, which ensued after the death of C. N. Annadurai. The main opposition party in the election was Indian National Congress (Organisation) led by K. Kamaraj, whereas the Indian National Congress (Indira) faction aligned with Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 796]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092964-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election\nKarunanidhi did not face any Leadership crisis with M.G. Ramachandran. MGR was instrumental and helped Karunanidhi to become Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu against all odds after the death of C N Annadurai.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092964-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election\nDMK's 48.58% vote share and 184 seats remain the largest share of votes and seats ever won by a party in the history of Tamil Nadu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092964-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election, Background\nThe opposition party, Indian National Congress was heavily weakened due to a split that occurred in 1969. This led to the formation of Indian National Congress (Organisation) under K. Kamaraj, which was the major opposition in this election, while the Indian National Congress, supported the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam. Indira Gandhi continued as Prime Minister with the support of Communist parties and DMK which had 25 seats in the Lok Sabha. It was during this time, the long-awaited Salem steel mill was approved. The ruling Congress party decided to dissolve the Lok Sabha and conduct early elections and Karunanidhi also decided to dissolve the state assembly and face the elections in alliance with Indira's Congress one year before the end of his term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 817]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092964-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election, Parties and alliances\nDravida Munnetra Kazhagam formed a seven party alliance called Left and Democratic Front (Progressive Front). The front was led by the DMK and comprised Indian National Congress (Indira), Communist Party of India (CPI), the Praja Socialist Party, the All India Forward Bloc, the Muslim League and M. P. Sivagnanam's Tamil National Party. The Congress party dependent on DMK votes in the Lok Sabha for survival had no influence in the seating arrangements. The Indira Congress contested in 9 out of 39 parliamentary constituencies but not in legislative assembly constituencies. Indira Gandhi instructed the leader of the Tamil Nadu Congress, C. Subramaniam to accept the arrangement in a sign indicative of writing off Tamil Nadu as a Congress territory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 68], "content_span": [69, 823]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092964-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election, Parties and alliances\nThe opposition front was a coalition of Kamaraj led Indian National Congress (Organisation) (Congress (O)), Rajaji's Swatantara Party, Samyukta Socialist Party, the Tamil Nadu Toilers' Party, the Republican Party and the Coimbatore District Agriculturist Association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 68], "content_span": [69, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092964-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly election, Karunanidhi's Cabinet\nThe council of ministers in M. Karunanidhi's cabinet (in 1971).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 68], "content_span": [69, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092965-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Tampa Spartans football team\nThe 1971 Tampa Spartans football team represented the University of Tampa in the 1971 NCAA College Division football season. It was the Spartans' 35th season. The team was led by head coach Bill Fulcher, in his first year, and played their home games at Tampa Stadium in Tampa, Florida. They finished with a record of six wins and five losses (6\u20135). Fulcher was hired on January 7, 1971, to serve as the replacement for Fran Curci who resigned to become the head coach at Miami.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092965-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Tampa Spartans football team\nAfter an upset loss against Louisiana Tech to open the season, the Spartans won four consecutive games against Chattanooga, Youngstown State, Dayton and Drake. Ranked No. 2 as they entered their game against Villanova, Tampa was upset by the Wildcats 24\u20133. After the loss, the Spartans would lose three of their next four games. A week after their loss at Louisville, Tampa returned home and lost to Ole Miss by a single point in a game that saw the Spartans score on touchdown passes of 93 and 49 yards. Tampa then rebounded the next week with a 43\u20137 win over East Carolina. The Spartans then closed the season with a loss at Vanderbilt and a victory over Florida A&M. On January 21, 1972, Fulcher resigned as head coach of the Spartans to take the same position at Georgia Tech.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 814]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092966-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Tangerine Bowl\nThe 1971 Tangerine Bowl was held on December 28, 1971, at the Tangerine Bowl stadium in Orlando, Florida. The Toledo Rockets of the Mid-American Conference defeated the Richmond Spiders of the Southern Conference by a score of 28\u20133. The Tangerine Bowl is a former name of what is now called the Citrus Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092966-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Tangerine Bowl\nHeading into the game, Toledo had an unblemished 11\u20130 record. They were MAC champions and were ranked #14 in the AP Poll. The Toledo Rockets were heavy favorites; they were riding a 34-game winning streak and attempting to finish their third straight undefeated and untied season in a row. Their nationally ranked defense, led by All-American Mel Long, helped the Rockets outgain the Spiders 395\u2013138 in total yards. Toledo finished #14 in the season's final AP Poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092966-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Tangerine Bowl\nRichmond entered with a 5\u20136 record. They were Southern Conference champions after they defeated William & Mary, 21\u201319, in the regular season finale to clinch the conference title. The Spiders were appearing in their second-ever postseason bowl game; their first had been the 1968 Tangerine Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092967-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Tanglewood International Tennis Classic\nThe 1971 Tanglewood International Tennis Classic was a men's tennis tournament held at Tanglewood Park in Clemmons, North Carolina in the United States that was part of the Grand Prix circuit and categorized as a Group C event. The tournament was played on outdoor clay courts and was held from July 19 through July 25, 1971. It was the inaugural edition of the tournament and Jaime Fillol won the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092967-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Tanglewood International Tennis Classic, Finals, Doubles\nJim McManus / Jim Osborne defeated Jimmy Connors / Jeff Austin 6\u20132, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 61], "content_span": [62, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092968-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Tasman Series\nThe 1971 Tasman Series was a motor racing competition staged in New Zealand and Australia for cars complying with the Tasman Formula. The series, which began on 2 January and ended on 28 February after seven races, was the eighth annual Tasman Series. It was won by Graham McRae of New Zealand, driving a McLaren M10B Chevrolet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092968-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Tasman Series, Points system\nSeries points were awarded at each race on the following basis:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 33], "content_span": [34, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092968-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Tasman Series, Points system\nAll points scored by each driver were retained to determine final series placings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 33], "content_span": [34, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092969-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Ta\u00e7a de Portugal Final\nThe 1971 Ta\u00e7a de Portugal Final was the final match of the 1970\u201371 Ta\u00e7a de Portugal, the 31st season of the Ta\u00e7a de Portugal, the premier Portuguese football cup competition organized by the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF). The match was played on 27 June 1971 at the Est\u00e1dio Nacional in Oeiras, and opposed two Primeira Liga sides: Benfica and Sporting CP. Sporting CP defeated Benfica 4\u20131 to claim a seventh Ta\u00e7a de Portugal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092970-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Temple Owls football team\nThe 1971 Temple Owls football team was an American football team that represented Temple University as an independent during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. In its second season under head coach Wayne Hardin, the team compiled a 6\u20132\u20131 record and outscored opponents by a total of 248 to 136. The team played its home games at Temple Stadium in Philadelphia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092970-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Temple Owls football team\nThe team's statistical leaders included Doug Shobert with 1,513 passing yards, Paul Loughran with 468 rushing yards and 48 points scored, and Randy Grossman with 473 receiving yards, and Henry Hynoski with 60 points scored.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092971-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Tennessee State Tigers football team\nThe 1971 Tennessee State Tigers football team represented Tennessee State University as an independent during the 1971 NCAA College Division football season. In their ninth season under head coach John Merritt, the Tigers compiled a 9\u20131 record, defeated McNeese State in the Grantland Rice Bowl, and outscored all opponents by a total of 403 to 151. The team was also recognized as the 1971 black college national champion and was ranked No. 5 in the final 1971 NCAA College Division football rankings issued by the Associated Press and No. 14 in the final poll issued by the United Press International.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 645]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092972-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Tennessee Volunteers football team\nThe 1971 Tennessee Volunteers football team (variously \"Tennessee\", \"UT\" or the \"Vols\") represented the University of Tennessee in the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. Playing as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC), the team was led by head coach Bill Battle, in his second year, and played their home games at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, Tennessee. They finished the season with a record of ten wins and two losses (10\u20132 overall, 4\u20132 in the SEC) and a victory over Arkansas in the 1971 Liberty Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092972-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Season summary, at Florida\nThird-string quarterback Phil Pierce led Tennessee on a 99-yard drive in the third quarter, capped by a 20-yard touchdown pass to Stan Trott to take the lead for good. The Volunteers lost their first and second-string quarterbacks to knee injuries during the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 67], "content_span": [68, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092972-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Season summary, Penn State\nBefore the game, Bobby Majors was honored alongside his brothers, Iowa State head coach Johnny and the late Billy, for the family's overall contribution to the school's football program. Majors finished his final home game with 195 return yards on kicks and punts. With the win, the Volunteers accepted a bid to play in the Liberty Bowl against Arkansas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 67], "content_span": [68, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092973-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Texas A&M Aggies football team\nThe 1971 Texas A&M Aggies football team represented Texas A&M University in the 1971 NCAA University Division football season as a member of the Southwest Conference (SWC). The Aggies were led by head coach Gene Stallings in his seventh season and finished with a record of five wins and six losses (5\u20136 overall, 4\u20133 in the SWC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092973-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Texas A&M Aggies football team\nStallings was fired as head coach and athletic director at the conclusion of the season and replaced by Emory Bellard, offensive coordinator of archrival Texas and the architect of the Wishbone formation. Stallings was hired by Tom Landry to be an assistant coach with the National Football League's Dallas Cowboys, a position he held until he was named head coach of the St. Louis Cardinals in 1986. Stallings returned to college coaching in 1990 as head coach at Alabama.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092974-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Texas Longhorns football team\nThe 1971 Texas Longhorns football team represented the University of Texas at Austin during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092974-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Texas Longhorns football team\nTexas' hopes for a third consecutive national championship were squashed with back-to-back one-sided losses in October to its two biggest rivals, Oklahoma and Arkansas. The Longhorns recovered to win their fourth consecutive Southwest Conference championship and returned to the Cotton Bowl, where they were routed 30-6 by Penn State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092974-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Texas Longhorns football team, NFL Draft\nTwo seniors from the 1971 Longhorns were selected in the 1972 NFL Draft:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092975-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team\nThe 1971 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team represented Texas Tech University in the Southwest Conference during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. In their second season under head coach Jim Carlen, the Red Raiders compiled a 4\u20137 record (2\u20135 against conference opponents), finished in seventh place in the conference, and were outscored by opponents by a combined total of 138 to 131. The team's statistical leaders included Jimmy Carmichael with 423 passing yards, Doug McCutchen with 548 rushing yards, and Johnny Odom with 242 receiving yards. The team played its home games at Clifford B. & Audrey Jones Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 677]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092976-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Texas\u2013Arlington Mavericks football team\nThe 1971 Texas\u2013Arlington Mavericks football team was an American football team that represented the University of Texas at Arlington in the Southland Conference during the 1971 NCAA College Division football season. In their first year under head coach John Symank, the team compiled a 2\u20139 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092976-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Texas\u2013Arlington Mavericks football team\nIn December 1970, former Arlington State back John Symank was hired as head coach from Northern Arizona. The 1971 season also marked the first UTA competed as the Mavericks after previously being known as the Rebels since 1951. The name Mavericks was selected by the student body over Toros and the name change was undertaken after the Rebels moniker became increasingly controversial due to its association with the Confederacy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092977-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Thailand Regional Games\nThe 5th Thailand National Games (Thai: \u0e01\u0e35\u0e2c\u0e32\u0e40\u0e02\u0e15\u0e41\u0e2b\u0e48\u0e07\u0e1b\u0e23\u0e30\u0e40\u0e17\u0e28\u0e44\u0e17\u0e22 \u0e04\u0e23\u0e31\u0e49\u0e07\u0e17\u0e35\u0e48 5, also known as the 1971 National Games and 1971 Interprovincial Games) were held in Nakhon Sawan, Thailand from 2 to 9 December 1971, with contests in 13 sports. These games were the qualifications of Thai athletes for the 1971 Southeast Asian Peninsular Games held in Kualalumpur, Malaysia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092977-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Thailand Regional Games, Participating regions\nThe 5th Thailand National Games represented 9 regions from 70 provinces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092977-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Thailand Regional Games, Sports\nThe 1971 Thailand National Games featured 10 Olympic sports contested at the 1971 Southeast Asian Peninsular Games, 1974 Asian Games and 1972 Summer Olympics. In addition, four non-Olympic sports were featured: badminton, sepak takraw, table tennis and tennis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092978-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 The Citadel Bulldogs football team\nThe 1971 The Citadel Bulldogs football team represented The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina in the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. Red Parker served as head coach for the sixth season. The Bulldogs played as members of the Southern Conference and played home games at Johnson Hagood Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092979-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 1971 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship was the 81st staging of the Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Tipperary County Board in 1887.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092979-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship\nMoyne-Templetuohy won the championship after a 2-08 to 0-06 defeat of Roscrea in the final at Semple Stadium. It remains their only championship title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092980-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Tirreno\u2013Adriatico\nThe 1971 Tirreno\u2013Adriatico was the sixth edition of the Tirreno\u2013Adriatico cycle race and was held from 10 March to 14 March 1971. The race started in Ladispoli and finished in San Benedetto del Tronto. The race was won by Italo Zilioli.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092981-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Toledo Rockets football team\nThe 1971 Toledo Rockets football team was an American football team that represented the University of Toledo in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. In their first season under head coach Jack Murphy, the Rockets compiled a 12\u20130 record, outscored all opponents by a combined total of 383 to 96, and won the Mid-American Conference (MAC) championship. The season ended with a 28\u20133 victory over Southern Conference champion Richmond in the 1970 Tangerine Bowl. The Rockets were ranked No. 14 in the final AP Poll and No. 13 in the final UPI Poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092981-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Toledo Rockets football team\nThe 1971 season was part of a 35-game winning streak that consisted of three consecutive seasons from 1969 through 1971. During the streak, Toledo won three consecutive MAC championships and three consecutive bowl games, led the nation in total defense all three years, and outscored opponents by a combined total of 1,152 to 344. It remains the second longest winning streak in modern Division I-A college football history behind Oklahoma's 47-game streak in the 1950s. The defense led the way for the 1971 team, allowing only 164.6 total yards per game, a figure which remains a school record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092981-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Toledo Rockets football team\nQuarterback Chuck Ealey, who had led Toledo to all three undefeated seasons, finished eighth in the 1971 Heisman Trophy voting with 168 points. Ealey was also selected as a first-team All-American by the Football Writers Association of America (FWAA) and Football News. For the third consecutive year, Ealey was also named the MAC Back of the Year. For the second consecutive year, he received the Jim Nicholson Award as the player contributing the most to the team's success.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092981-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Toledo Rockets football team\nDefensive tackle Mel Long was a consensus All-American, receiving first-team honors from the Associated Press, FWAA, Newspaper Enterprise Association, and United Press International. Long was the first consensus All-American in MAC history. Long was also named MAC Lineman of the Year for the second consecutive year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092981-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Toledo Rockets football team\nFive Toledo players received first-team All-MAC honors: Chuck Ealey, Mel Long, tailback Joe Schwartz, end Don Fair, tight end Al Baker, defensive end Bob Rose, linebacker John Niezgoda, and defensive backs Gary Hinkson and John Saunders. The team captains were Ealey, Long and Hinkson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092981-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Toledo Rockets football team\nThe team's statistical leaders included Chuck Ealey with 1,821 passing yards, Joe Schwartz with 1,130 rushing yards and 120 points scored, Don Fair with 773 receiving yards, and John Niezgoda with 178 tackles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092981-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Toledo Rockets football team\nJack Murphy had been an assistant coach at Toledo under Frank Lauterbur. After Lauterbur resigned in December 1970 to become head football coach at Iowa, Murphy was named as the new head coach. In his first year as Toledo's head coach, Murphy was named MAC Coach of the Year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092981-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Toledo Rockets football team\nThe Rockets played their home game in the Glass Bowl. The attendance at five home games was 98,360, an average of 19,672 per game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092982-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Torneo Descentralizado\nThe 1971 Torneo Descentralizado was the 55th season of the highest division of Peruvian football. The number of teams increased from 14 to 16 teams as four teams gained promotion. The last three teams were relegated from the first division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092982-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Torneo Descentralizado\nThe national champion was Universitario. ADO, Octavio Espinosa and Porvenir Miraflores were relegated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092983-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Torneo God\u00f3\nThe 1971 Torneo God\u00f3 or Trofeo Conde de God\u00f3 was a men's tennis tournament that took place on outdoor clay courts in Barcelona, Spain. It was the 18th edition of the event and was part of the 1971 World Championship Tennis circuit, although it was also open to non-WCT players. It was held from 18 October until 24 October 1971. Manuel Orantes, an independent pro, won the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092983-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Torneo God\u00f3, Finals, Doubles\n\u017deljko Franulovi\u0107 / Juan Gisbert defeated Cliff Drysdale / Andr\u00e9s Gimeno 7\u20136, 6\u20132, 7\u20136", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 33], "content_span": [34, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092984-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Torneo di Viareggio\nThe 1971 winners of the Torneo di Viareggio (in English, the Viareggio Tournament, officially the Viareggio Cup World Football Tournament Coppa Carnevale), the annual youth football tournament held in Viareggio, Tuscany, are listed below.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092984-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Torneo di Viareggio, Format\nThe 16 teams are organized in knockout rounds. The round of 16 are played in two-legs, while the rest of the rounds are single tie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092985-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Toronto Argonauts season\nThe 1971 Toronto Argonauts finished in first place in the Eastern Conference with a 10\u20134 record. They appeared in the Grey Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France\nThe 1971 Tour de France was the 58th edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The 3,608-kilometre (2,242\u00a0mi) race consisted of 22 stages, including three split stages, starting in Mulhouse on 26 June and finishing at the V\u00e9lodrome de Vincennes in Paris on 18 July. There were three time trial stages and two rest days. Eddy Merckx of the Molteni team won the overall general classification, defending his title to win his third Tour de France in a row. Joop Zoetemelk (Flandria\u2013Mars) finished second, 9:51\u00a0minutes behind, and Lucien Van Impe was third (Sonolor\u2013Lejeune), just over 11\u00a0minutes in arrears.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 643]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France\nPre -race favourite Merckx took the first yellow jersey as general classification leader after his team won the prologue stage's team time trial. Merckx's teammate Rini Wagtmans unknowingly took the Tour lead after the second of stage 1's three split stages, before returning it to his leader by the end of the day. The leading positions of the general classification became clearer after stage 2 when a sixteen-strong breakaway group of mostly pre-race favourites ended with a margin of over nine minutes. On stage 8 in the Massif Central, Merckx's closet rival Luis Oca\u00f1a (Bic) attacked and won atop Puy de D\u00f4me to move within just over 30\u00a0seconds of the race leader, just behind second-placed Zoetemelk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 726]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France\nIn the Chartreuse Mountains on stage 10, Merckx had a tyre puncture and was distanced by a group of rivals, with Zoetemelk of the group taking the race lead. Another from the group, Oca\u00f1a, took the yellow jersey the next day as he soloed for 60\u00a0km (37\u00a0mi) to victory up to Orci\u00e8res-Merlette in the Alps, ending with an overall lead of more than eight\u00a0minutes. Merckx gained back close to two\u00a0minutes the following stage as he broke away from the start with a small group in record-breaking speed down to Marseille.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0002-0001", "contents": "1971 Tour de France\nTwo days later in the Pyrenees on stage 14, a thunderstorm passed as the riders traversed the Col de Ment\u00e9 mountain pass. Race leader Oca\u00f1a crashed on the wet roads during the descent, and afterwards was hit by two other riders. He left the race with injury, with Merckx reluctantly taking over the Tour lead. He comfortably held the yellow jersey for the remaining stages, ending the Tour with victory in the individual time trial held in Paris.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France\nIn the other race classifications, Merckx also won the points and the combination classifications. Van Impe won the mountains classification. The intermediate sprints classification was won by Zoetemelk's teammate Pieter Nassen. The winners of the team classification were Bic. The overall award for most combative rider was given to Oca\u00f1a. Merckx won the most stages, with four.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Teams\nThe 1971 edition of the Tour de France consisted of thirteen teams, two less than the previous Tour. Teams were either invited or paid a participation fee. The Italian-based Salvarani and the Belgian Watney\u2013Avia teams announced they would not be entering the race due to the high cost, although Salvarani later reached an agreement. Belgian-based Flandria\u2013Mars and Tour co-organiser F\u00e9lix L\u00e9vitan were in disagreements over the team's participation and there was speculation that the team would instead race the Grand Tour of Italy, the Giro d'Italia, which took place one month before the Tour. The team chose to wait for L\u00e9vitan's decision regarding their entry, which came following the Giro's start, and therefore did not participate in the Giro. Ultimately, L\u00e9vitian requested the team to pay extra money, on top of the 25,000 French francs (f) entry fee, to participate in the Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 26], "content_span": [27, 915]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Teams\nEach squad was allowed a maximum of ten riders, resulting in a start list total of 130. Of these, 37 were riding the Tour de France for the first time. The riders came from twelve countries, with the majority of them coming from France (35), Belgium (25), Italy (25), Spain (21) and Netherlands (14). Francisco Javier Galdeano (Kas\u2013Kaskol) was the youngest rider at 21 years and 201 days, and the oldest was Ventura D\u00edaz (Werner) at 32 years and 304 days. The Goudsmit\u2013Hoff cyclists had the youngest average age while the riders on Werner had the oldest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 26], "content_span": [27, 581]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Pre-race favourites\nThe rider considered the clear favourite for the overall general classification before the Tour was Molteni's Eddy Merckx, who had won the 1969 and 1970 Tours by the large margins of 17:54 and 12:41 minutes respectively. He was unrivalled throughout the 1971 season, winning 54 of the 124 races he entered (43.5%). Of the 13 before the Tour, the most notable were the one-day races Milan\u2013San Remo, Omloop Het Volk, and Li\u00e8ge\u2013Bastogne\u2013Li\u00e8ge, and the general classification in stage races Giro di Sardegna, Paris\u2013Nice, Tour of Belgium, Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9 Lib\u00e9r\u00e9 and Grand Prix du Midi Libre.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 633]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0006-0001", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Pre-race favourites\nHe opted for the Dauphin\u00e9 and Midi Libre races to warm up for the Tour instead of the Giro, which he rode the two previous seasons. In these races, constant adjustment to his riding position caused a knee injury, and he came close to abandoning the final stage of the Midi Libre, a month before the Tour. Later in his retirement, he revealed that heading into the Tour his \"condition was not good\" and that riding the Giro was the ideal preparation because of the harder climbs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0006-0002", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Pre-race favourites\nSince 1968, his Molteni team were undefeated in the team time trial discipline of the prologue stage, and there was speculation whether he would be able to lead the race from beginning to end. Merckx was such an overwhelming favourite that the interest was not in if could win, but rather the manner in which he would do it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Pre-race favourites\nThe strongest challenger to Merckx was expected to be Luis Oca\u00f1a (Bic). He and Merckx were the same age at 26, born eight days apart in June. Both had made their Tour debuts in 1969, but unlike the success of Merckx, Oca\u00f1a crashed out of the race on a descent. In 1970, Oca\u00f1a won the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Spain's Grand Tour, and was likewise Merckx's main rival before the Tour, but he finished the race over an hour behind in 31st place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0007-0001", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Pre-race favourites\nHis confidence in beating Merckx grew in 1971, saying: \"they all surrender to Merckx, but I'm going to stand up to him\". Speaking prior to the Tour, climbing specialist Oca\u00f1a thought he would able to get the better of the all-rounder Merckx in the mountains, as he had shown on the Col du Granier Alpine climb in the Dauphin\u00e9, a race in which he ultimately finished second overall to Merckx.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0007-0002", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Pre-race favourites\nHis biggest results of the season prior to the Tour were the mountains classification of the aforementioned race and the overall victories of the Tour of the Basque Country and Volta a Catalunya. The Spanish media did not rate their compatriot Oca\u00f1a's chances of winning highly, in contrast to in France, where he had lived since childhood.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Pre-race favourites\nThe next contender was thought to be Joop Zoetemelk of Flandria\u2013Mars, who in his debut season as a professional was runner-up in the 1970 Tour. His most notable performance of the year so far was at the Vuelta in May, where he won the mountains classification and finished sixth overall. He finished second to Merckx in the closely contested Midi Libre.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Pre-race favourites\nSeveral other riders were named as favourites for a high place in the general classification. The winner of the 1971 Giro and the third-place finisher of the 1970 Tour G\u00f6sta Pettersson (Ferretti) was considered by Merckx to be among two of his closest rivals, along with Zoetemelk. Bernard Th\u00e9venet (Peugeot\u2013BP\u2013Michelin) was third in the Dauphin\u00e9. Climber Lucien Van Impe (Sonolor\u2013Lejeune), who was sixth overall in 1970, was also consider a contender. Other favourites included Joaquim Agostinho (Hoover\u2013de Gribaldy\u2013Wolber), Gianni Motta (Salvarani) and Leif Mortensen (Bic). Agostinho took a three-week rest two weeks before the Tour following bad crash at the Dauphin\u00e9. Van Impe's teammate Lucien Aimar, a Tour veteran, was the only rider entering apart from Merckx to have won the race, the 1966 edition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 849]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Pre-race favourites\nNotable absentees from the start list were Raymond Poulidor (Fagor\u2013Mercier\u2013Hutchinson), Felice Gimondi (Salvarani), Frans Verbeeck (Watney\u2013Avia), Georges Pintens (Hertekamp\u2013Magniflex), Roger Pingeon (Peugeot\u2013BP\u2013Michelin) and Jan Janssen (Bic). Poulidor, who had top-ten finishes in all of the previous nine Tours bar one, withdrew from his team's squad stating: \"I will only do this if my physical condition leaves something to be desired\". Gimondi, winner of the 1965 Tour, was not selected by his team as Motta was preferred as the leader. Verbeeck, whose team did not enter, was considered to be one of few that would challenge Merckx.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 679]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0010-0001", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Pre-race favourites\nMerckx's one-day race rival Pintens was another from a team not entering. He seemingly managed a rare feat of exposing weakness in Merckx at the notably cold Li\u00e8ge\u2013Bastogne\u2013Li\u00e8ge in April, when he reeled in the tiring lone leader Merckx taking it to the two-way sprint finish won by Merckx, who was later found by his soigneur (team assistant) physically exhausted sat on a stool in a shower. Winner of the 1967 Tour Pingeon was serving a doping suspension from April 30 to July 30. Janssen, winner of the 1968 Tour, kept to his promise to never ride a Tour again, made following his bad crash in the 1970 Paris\u2013Tours. He was critical of the Tour's commercial prioritisation which made the race too hard for riders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 756]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0011-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Route and stages\nOn 16 October 1970, it was announced that city of Mulhouse in eastern France would host the 1971 edition's opening stages (known as the Grand D\u00e9part), which consisted of a team time trial prologue stage and two further stages. The entire route was announced on 8 December at a press conference in Paris by race directors Jacques Goddet and F\u00e9lix L\u00e9vitan. New rules to discourage the use of doping were introduced by cycling's governing body, the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI); stages lengths were reduced, only twenty stages were allowed, and rest days were made compulsory. The latter was a re-introduction to the Tour. At distance of 3,608\u00a0km (2,242\u00a0mi), it was shorter than the previous Tour by 646\u00a0km (401\u00a0mi) and the shortest since 1905.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 786]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0012-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Route and stages\nWith the shortened distance in addition to the increased financial running costs, the race organisers maximised the amount route locations which paid the race to start, pass through or finish there. The navigation of the host locations made a loose figure of eight route, unlike the usual continuous loop. There were total of five transfers which added up to a distance of 350\u00a0km (220\u00a0mi). For the first time in a Tour there were air transfers, from Le Touquet to Paris and Marseille to Toulouse.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0012-0001", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Route and stages\nThe previous Tour's split stages had drawn complaints from the riders, nevertheless, they remained as the income they provided was overriding. There three split stages; two stages were split half and one in thirds. The reduction in distance and amount of stages saw more climbs introduced, and it was thought that this edition was more suited to climbing specialists. Overall, the route was seen as easier than recent editions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0013-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Route and stages\nThe Tour took place over 23 days, including the two rest days, between 26 June and 18 July. Beginning in the Black Forest and Vosges Mountains, with visits to Switzerland and West Germany, the race then headed north-west to the coast passing through the Ardennes and south-east Belgium. After the first rest day and air transfer, racing resumed in the outskirts of Paris, taking the Tour through the Massif Central highlands and the Chartreuse Mountains towards the Alps. After the second rest day and a stage to the Mediterranean coast at Marseille, came the other air transfer. The race then moved into the Pyrenees, with the closing stages taking place between the south-west and the finish in Paris.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 741]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0014-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Route and stages\nOf the mass-start full stages, the longest was stage 7 at 257.5\u00a0km (160\u00a0mi), and stage 15 was the shortest at 19.6\u00a0km (12\u00a0mi), the shortest in the history of the race (as of 2017). There were three time trial events with a total distance of 81.1\u00a0km (50.4\u00a0mi), two were competed individually (13 and 20) and one was by raced by teams (the prologue). It was the first time the team time trial format was used for a Tour prologue stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0014-0001", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Route and stages\nOf the remaining 22 full and split stages, twelve were officially classified as flat, four as medium mountain and six as high mountain. There were three summit finishes: stage 8, to Puy de D\u00f4me; stage 11, to Orci\u00e8res-Merlette; and stage 15, to Superbagn\u00e8res. The highest point of elevation in the race was 2,115\u00a0m (6,939\u00a0ft) at the summit of the Col du Tourmalet mountain pass on stage 16a. It was among seven first-category rated climbs in the race. The Tour included four new start or finish locations: Basel, in stage 1b; Marche-en-Famenne, in stage 4; Le Touquet, in stage 6b; and Gourette, in stages 16a and 16b.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 655]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0015-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Race overview, Grand D\u00e9part in Mulhouse\nThe 11\u00a0km (6.8\u00a0mi) prologue team time trial consisted of four laps of a 2.75\u00a0km (1.71\u00a0mi) circuit around the streets of Mulhouse. Molteni covered it at an average speed of 50.556\u00a0km/h (31.414\u00a0mph) to win with a combined time of 1:05:16 hours, beating second-placed Ferretti by 1:48\u00a0minutes and third-placed Flandria\u2013Mars by 2:16\u00a0minutes. Molteni took the lead of the team classification. The general classification was the only one of the Tour's individually contested classifications taken into account for the prologue stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 60], "content_span": [61, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0015-0001", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Race overview, Grand D\u00e9part in Mulhouse\nEddy Merckx led his squad across the finish line to take the lead of the general classification and with it the first yellow jersey. The five teammates that finished with him took up the following places. Only time bonifications (time subtracted) counted towards the classification, and their victory gave each of the Molteni riders twenty-second time bonuses. Three riders from Ferretti and six from Flandria\u2013Mars received time bonuses of ten and five\u00a0seconds respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 60], "content_span": [61, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0016-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Race overview, Grand D\u00e9part in Mulhouse\nThe second day of the Tour was split into three short stages which journeyed into Switzerland and West Germany, before returning to Mulhouse. In the first part, the riders purposely rode at a slow pace in protest, headed by the French riders, at the disproportionate awarding of the cash prize given to stage winners against the next nineteen finishers. After a talk with F\u00e9lix L\u00e9vitan at the lead car, an agreement was made to share it out more evenly between the top thirty. The stage ended with a large bunch sprint in Basel taken by Eric Leman of Flandria\u2013Mars. Merckx's teammate Rini Wagtmans unknowingly finished ahead of him in the sprint to take over the leading position in the general classification; with all the Molteni riders equalled on time, this countback came into effect.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 60], "content_span": [61, 850]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0017-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Race overview, Grand D\u00e9part in Mulhouse\nMerckx won the opening intermediate sprint of the second split stage to gain a five-second time bonus to reclaim the race lead, even though Wagtmans then went on to struggle on a climb halfway on the stage and was dropped by the peloton (main field), finishing the stage a minute behind Merckx; Wagtmans later admitted to relinquishing the yellow jersey back to his team leader, at the time, lying that his shoes were a size too small and had caused rubbing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 60], "content_span": [61, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0017-0001", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Race overview, Grand D\u00e9part in Mulhouse\nThe stage finished on the cinder track inside Freiburg's M\u00f6slestadion with a bunch sprint won by Goudsmit\u2013Hoff rider Gerben Karstens. A bunch sprint finish followed again in the final part of the day, which saw Albert Van Vlierberghe of Ferretti finish first of the large field. Across the three parts of stage 1, the points classification's green jersey changed hands between Leman, Walter Godefroot (Peugeot\u2013BP\u2013Michelin) and Karstens, respectively. Joop Zoetemelk became the first leader of the mountains classification following stage 1b.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 60], "content_span": [61, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0018-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Race overview, Vosges, Belgium and north-west\nWith 100\u00a0km (62\u00a0mi) remaining of stage 2, Zoetemelk led climbing specialists Lucien Van Impe and Jos\u00e9 Manuel Fuente (Kas\u2013Kaskol) with attack on a depleted peloton over the summit of the second-category rated Vosges climb of Col du Firstplan. A Merckx move brought back the attackers on the descent, which saw the formation of an elite sixteen-rider breakaway group that included all the pre-race favourites, except for Joaquim Agostinho and Lucien Aimar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 66], "content_span": [67, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0018-0001", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Race overview, Vosges, Belgium and north-west\nIn gale-force winds, the leaders reached speeds of 60\u00a0km/h (37\u00a0mph) on the flat terrain, ending with a nine-and-a-half-minute advantage over the peloton at the finish in Strasbourg. On the wet cinder track of Stade Tivoli, Herman Van Springel led-out teammate Merckx to victory in a frantic sprint finish with Roger De Vlaeminck of Flandria\u2013Mars. The points gained by De Vlaeminck put him in the green jersey. The fifteen riders that ended in the breakaway now held an advantage of close to nine\u00a0minutes in the general classification. Of those competing for the overall prize, they were unreservedly now the leader of their team, halting any uncertainty over hierarchy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 66], "content_span": [67, 736]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0019-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Race overview, Vosges, Belgium and north-west\nStage 3 headed west to Nancy for another cinder track finish, where Wagtmans took a sprint win from the ten-man breakaway. The following day the Tour ended in Marche-en-Famenne for its overnight stay in Belgium. With 43\u00a0km (27\u00a0mi) of the 242\u00a0km (150\u00a0mi) remaining, a duo of Jean-Pierre Genet (Fagor\u2013Mercier\u2013Hutchinson) and Jos\u00e9 G\u00f3mez Lucas (Werner) escaped the peloton, who, on the straight slightly uphill finish, they managed to hold off by a distance of 20\u00a0m (66\u00a0ft) at the line, which was crossed by Genet first.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 66], "content_span": [67, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0020-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Race overview, Vosges, Belgium and north-west\nStage 5 featured two iconic locations of one-day \"monument\" races, the short steep sett-paved climb Muur van Geraardsbergen of the Tour of Flanders and the stage finish of Roubaix Velodrome, likewise used in Paris\u2013Roubaix. With 73\u00a0km (45\u00a0mi) remaining, the crowds lining the Geraardsbergen witnessed the valiant breakaway of Agostinho, together with the uncooperative Jos Huysmans (Molteni). The pair were caught, before another break moved clear. The group of five reached the banked velodrome over a minute ahead of the peloton, and Pietro Guerra of Salvarani won the stage in a sprint with Huysmans's teammate Julien Stevens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 66], "content_span": [67, 695]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0021-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Race overview, Vosges, Belgium and north-west\nThe two-legged stage 6 was raced over a total distance of 261\u00a0km (162\u00a0mi), as the Tour reached the channel coast at Le Touquet. In the first part, Leman claimed a second stage win of the race in a bunch sprint at Amiens's Hippodrome du petit Saint-Jean dirt racecourse. Mauro Simonetti of Ferretti won the second part on Le Touquet's promenade from a six-rider breakaway, only seconds ahead of the encroaching peloton. The Tour's first rest day was spent in the resort of Le Touquet. The fifteen riders that profited on stage 2 still led the general classification, with Merckx holding a 26-second advantage over Van Springel, and De Vlaeminck a further 11 down in third place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 66], "content_span": [67, 744]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0022-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Race overview, Massif and Chartreuse\nAfter their rest in Le Touquet, the riders took two early planes to Paris and the start of the transitional stage 7, a 257.5\u00a0km (160.0\u00a0mi) route to Nevers and the subsequent two-stage traverse of the Massif Central. With the peloton in the final kilometre, there were three crashes, one of which included De Vlaeminck, who injured his wrist and lost the green jersey by end, to Karstens. In the bunch sprint, Leman claimed his third win. Merckx was expecting a dangerous sprint, so he chose not to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 57], "content_span": [58, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0022-0001", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Race overview, Massif and Chartreuse\nAlthough to a lesser extent than in his previous Tours, Merckx competed for the time bonuses available in intermediate sprints and final sprints throughout the flat terrain of the early stages, unlike his closest rival Oca\u00f1a, who had been saving his energy for the upcoming mountains, on the advice of five-time Tour winner Jacques Anquetil.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 57], "content_span": [58, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0023-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Race overview, Massif and Chartreuse\nStage 8 saw the Tour's first summit finish, atop the dormant volcano of Puy de D\u00f4me at an elevation of 1,465\u00a0m (4,806\u00a0ft), a first-category climb. Merckx initiated an early twelve-strong breakaway that included Oca\u00f1a, but it only lasted 19\u00a0km (12\u00a0mi). Thereafter, Merckx and his team controlled the race until the early slopes of the 14\u00a0km (8.7\u00a0mi) cloud covered final climb. With 5\u00a0km (3.1\u00a0mi) remaining, a failed Bernard Th\u00e9venet attack was soon followed by a successful one by Oca\u00f1a, who at one point led by 40\u00a0seconds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 57], "content_span": [58, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0023-0001", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Race overview, Massif and Chartreuse\nMountains classification leader Zoetemelk and Agostinho moved ahead of the Merckx in the final kilometre, with the two placing behind winner Oca\u00f1a. In fourth place, Merckx recovered in the final 500\u00a0m (1,600\u00a0ft), limiting the loses to Oca\u00f1a to only fifteen\u00a0seconds. Zoetemelk moved up to second overall, 36\u00a0seconds behind Merckx, with third-placed Oca\u00f1a a further second down. The next day, a group of nine riders broke away over the remainder of the Massif Central climbs and ended six\u00a0minutes ahead of the peloton in Saint-\u00c9tienne. Godefroot won the sprint finish, moving him into the lead of the points classification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 57], "content_span": [58, 679]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0024-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Race overview, Massif and Chartreuse\nStage 10 culminated with the two first-category Chartreuse passes of Col du Cucheron and Col de Porte, before a long descent to the finish in Grenoble at the foot of the Alps. A burst of pace set by Oca\u00f1a's Bic on the Cucheron ascent had reduced the field to a group of overall favourites, leaving Merckx without support. On short descent, the group then passed the unused D\u00e9sir\u00e9 Letort of Bic, who had played a part in his team's concerted effort by breaking away alone earlier for a possible juncture with his leader.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 57], "content_span": [58, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0024-0001", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Race overview, Massif and Chartreuse\nSoon after, Merckx got a tyre puncture and just managed to stay upright, and he was left waiting for his delayed team car to get a replacement wheel. An Oca\u00f1a-led attack with Zoetemelk, Th\u00e9venet, Van Impe and G\u00f6sta Pettersson disobeyed an unwritten rule of the peloton by attacking the race leader when they puncture, although looking back to then Merckx said he did not feel angry and that is part of the sport. Oca\u00f1a set such a dominating pace up the Porte that climbing specialist Van Impe was dropped.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 57], "content_span": [58, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0024-0002", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Race overview, Massif and Chartreuse\nThey reached the summit two\u00a0minutes ahead of Merckx and the chase group, and stayed ahead to Grenoble's Stade Charles-Berty velodrome, where Th\u00e9venet won the sprint finish. Zoetemelk took the yellow jersey, with Merckx coming in seventh place at 1:36\u00a0minutes down and dropping to fourth overall, behind Oca\u00f1a and G\u00f6sta Pettersson respectively. The green jersey was gained by Cyrille Guimard of Fagor\u2013Mercier\u2013Hutchinson, who came in fifth on the stage accompanied by Van Impe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 57], "content_span": [58, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0025-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Race overview, Alps and transition\nIn the opening 12\u00a0km (7.5\u00a0mi) of stage 11, the race began the steep Alpine second-category climb of C\u00f4te de Laffrey, known locally as 'the ramp'. An attack early on the climb by Agostinho was joined by a group of Oca\u00f1a, Van Impe, G\u00f6sta Pettersson and Zoetemelk. Merckx, who was suffering with an upset stomach, was two\u00a0minutes behind the Oca\u00f1a-led group at the summit in a second group of chasers accompanied by his teammates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 55], "content_span": [56, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0025-0001", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Race overview, Alps and transition\nThe leading group gained a two-minute margin along the consistent terrain of the historic Route Napol\u00e9on, with Oca\u00f1a dropping his fellow riders on a detour climb over the second-category Col du Noyer with 60\u00a0km (37\u00a0mi) remaining. He then performed a time trial-like solo effort for the remainder of the Napol\u00e9on and up to the victory atop the first-category climb to the Orci\u00e8res-Merlette ski resort. Van Impe had too ridden alone since the Noyer and finished nearly six\u00a0minutes behind Oca\u00f1a. Merckx led the group of remaining favourites all the way to the finish, 8:42\u00a0minutes in arrears.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 55], "content_span": [56, 645]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0025-0002", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Race overview, Alps and transition\nOca\u00f1a took the general classification lead, with Van Impe rising to third, behind Zoetemelk. After the stage, Merckx admitted defeat in the overall race to the new leader, but Oca\u00f1a was still wary of the former leader. Van Impe took the lead of the mountains classification from Zoetemelk. Oca\u00f1a set such a pace, that 61 cyclists finished outside the original allowed time limit, leaving only 39 in the race. The time limit was consequently extended such that all but three were allowed to start the next stage. De Vlaeminck abandoned the Tour, four days after his crash on stage 7. The next day was the second rest of the race, spent at Orci\u00e8res-Merlette.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 55], "content_span": [56, 712]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0026-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Race overview, Alps and transition\nThe transition to the Pyrenees began with stage 12, taking the Tour from Orci\u00e8res-Merlette down to Marseille at the coast. The day's high temperature had brought forward the start time by ten\u00a0minutes. Whilst Merckx and his Molteni team were prepared to race on the start line, new race leader Oca\u00f1a arrived late and was at the back of the field saying to journalists that he expected the stage to be a \"formality\", at the same time dismissing warnings by his teammates of an early attack on the descent from his rival.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 55], "content_span": [56, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0026-0001", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Race overview, Alps and transition\nMerckx's teammate Wagtmans immediately attacked to form a lead group of twelve, including Merckx and two more teammates. The unexpected move fractured the peloton, and many riders fell as tubular tyres glued during the rest day became detached from wheels rims. The lead group reduced to ten and then nine riders on the flat terrain, and they held an advantage of between one and two\u00a0minutes for the remainder of the stage, with the sprint finish in the Old Port of Marseille won by Scic rider Luciano Armani, ahead of Merckx.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 55], "content_span": [56, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0026-0002", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Race overview, Alps and transition\nThe leaders covered the stage distance of 251\u00a0km (156\u00a0mi) in 5:25:28 hours, breaking the record for the fastest average speed of a mass-start Tour stage at 45.351\u00a0km/h (28.180\u00a0mph). They arrived about one hour ahead of the expected schedule, and the preparations at the finish line not yet been completed, with the race being missed by some fans and dignitaries. The live television slots were missed, and the mayor of Marseille, Gaston Defferre, was so upset that he refused to let the race visit his city again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 55], "content_span": [56, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0027-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Race overview, Alps and transition\nThe reduced peloton finished the stage almost two\u00a0minutes behind the lead group. This could have been more if not for a tactical error by Molteni, when four riders of theirs were dropped by the peloton as they waited to pace back tyre-punctured teammate Joseph Bruy\u00e8re, only just making the time limit; with them being at the front of the peloton they were able to disrupt and slow down the chase. Although Merckx rose to second overall, he was just over seven and a half minutes behind the leader, and was left dissatisfied with the meagre finishing margin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 55], "content_span": [56, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0027-0001", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Race overview, Alps and transition\nReassuring his leader, Wagtmans told him that Oca\u00f1a had looked exhausted on the podium after the stage and that \"Oca\u00f1a has no future in this Tour.\" After the stage, the riders were transferred by plane between the cities of Marseille and Toulouse, before a coach ride to Albi and stage 13's individual time trial held the next day in the town.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 55], "content_span": [56, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0028-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Race overview, Alps and transition\nThe 16.3\u00a0km (10.1\u00a0mi) hilly and technical course which started and finished at the Circuit d'Albi motor-racing track was won by Merckx with a time of 22:57\u00a0minutes, beating second-placed Oca\u00f1a by 11\u00a0seconds. Merckx accused the French television-operated car following alongside Oca\u00f1a and giving him an unfair draft, but the reason for this was that for the first time colour television was being broadcast live and a car was required instead of a motorbike. This furthered tensions in the race with accusations that, in the previous stage, seven riders of the all-Spanish Kas\u2013Kaskol team, allied to Oca\u00f1a, were given unwarranted reprieves after finishing outside the time limit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 55], "content_span": [56, 734]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0029-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Race overview, Pyrenees\nStage 14, from the town Revel to the Pyreneean spa town of Luchon, featured the third-category Col de Portet d'Aspet and then the second-category passes of Col de Ment\u00e9 and Col du Portillon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0029-0001", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Race overview, Pyrenees\nOn the Portet d'Aspet, Fuente shed his fellow breakaway riders to summit with a lead of 2:20\u00a0minutes; Fuente was an elite climber who won the mountains classification at the 1971 Giro, but was not a concern to the Tour favourites as he was close to two\u00a0hours down in 100th place overall, having lost time in two previous stages\u00a0\u2013 a reprieved Kas\u2013Kaskol rider in stage 12. In the group of favourites about five\u00a0minutes behind, Oca\u00f1a defended four attacks from Merckx, with the offensive continuing on the Ment\u00e9 that soon followed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0029-0002", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Race overview, Pyrenees\nAs the lone Fuente summited the Ment\u00e9 ahead, the weather severely worsened with a thunderstorm of torrential rain and large hailstones, making for a dangerous descent, with vision on the mud flooded roads impaired to around 5\u00a0m (16\u00a0ft). Many riders got tyre punctures coming down, including Oca\u00f1a, who rode with one as he closely followed Merckx. With braking all but impossible in the wet, both skidded and fell as they overran a flooded left bend 3\u00a0km (1.9\u00a0mi) from the top.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0029-0003", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Race overview, Pyrenees\nOca\u00f1a was hit by a rider as he got up in the middle of the road, and a few moments later, he was hit again as he stood on the roadside requesting a spare wheel from his team car. As the others involved rode on, Oca\u00f1a was left lying unresponsive in a state of shock, semi-conscious and struggling to breathe. He was unable to continue in the race and was taken to the foot of the climb by ambulance and then by helicopter to hospital in the nearby town of Saint-Gaudens. Suffering with back pain, he was discharged following day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0030-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Race overview, Pyrenees\nThe worst of the storm had passed after about ten minutes, and following a brief entry into Spain to climb the Portillon, Fuente descended to victory in Luchon, 6:21\u00a0minutes ahead a group of five including Merckx, Van Impe and Zoetemelk, who were a minute ahead of the next bunch. Merckx became the new race leader, but out of respect for Oca\u00f1a, he refused the yellow jersey in the ceremony at the end of the stage, and his request not wear it the next stage was granted; he wore the combination classification leader's white jersey instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0030-0001", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Race overview, Pyrenees\nMerckx considered leaving the race, because he did not want to win due to Oca\u00f1a's misfortune, saying 'I would rather finish second than win in this way'. His directeur sportif (team manager) Guillaume Driessens was among those to convince him to remain, reminding him that the work-shy 'wheelsuckers' Zoetemelk and Van Impe would be the next in line to win the race. G\u00f6sta Pettersson abandoned the race on the ascent of the Ment\u00e9; he was fifth overall at the end of the previous stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0031-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Race overview, Pyrenees\nStage 15 was a mass-start hill climb from Luchon, across 19.6\u00a0km (12.2\u00a0mi), up to the Superbagn\u00e8res ski resort. Together with the inclement weather, the form of Fuente continued as he won again, attacking 6\u00a0km (3.7\u00a0mi) from the end. Van Impe and Th\u00e9venet moved clear with 3\u00a0km (1.9\u00a0mi) remaining, coming in half-way between Merckx and Zoetemelk, a minute down. The average speed of 20.6\u00a0km/h (12.8\u00a0mph) covered by the last finisher, Eddy Peelman of Fagor\u2013Mercier\u2013Hutchinson, is among the very slowest of any post-World War II Tour stage, all those within the time limits. In the general classification, Merckx now led Van Impe by 2:17\u00a0minutes, who had moved 4\u00a0seconds ahead of Zoetemelk to second place. Merckx took the points classification led from Guimard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 804]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0032-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Race overview, Pyrenees\nThe first leg of stage 16 was the last with mountain climbing, first crossing the second-category Col de Peyresourde and Col d'Aspin, followed by the higher first-category Col du Tourmalet and Col d'Aubisque, before a short descent to the finish at the Gourette ski resort. Merckx injured his right knee following two falls on the Ment\u00e9, and had been sleep-deprived for the two nights since. He attacked on the descent of the d'Aspin, followed by Van Impe, and by the bottom the two leaders held a 40-second margin over the peloton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0032-0001", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Race overview, Pyrenees\nZoetemelk bridged across to the pair on the early portions of the Tourmalet. Van Impe escaped a kilometre from the summit, where he held a lead of 1:10\u00a0minutes, but Merckx and Zoetemelk worked together into the prevailing headwind on the descent and caught him at the bottom. The three leaders then slowed, and they were joined by several others on the d'Aubisque, where another storm awaited the race. Merckx defended the solitary attack of Van Impe on the climb. A local to area, Bernard Labourdette, took the victory on Bastille Day, summiting with a two-minute advantage and soloing to Gourette. Labourdette, a teammate of Oca\u00f1a, afterwards said: \"This is the stage that Luis Oca\u00f1a should and would have won.\" Merckx lead the others over the finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 798]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0033-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Race overview, Pyrenees\nThe second part of stage 16 brought the race down from the Pyrenees to the city of Pau. The opening 14.5\u00a0km (9.0\u00a0mi) from Gourette was neutralised due to flooding on the d'Aubisque descent caused by the storm, with racing starting in the village of Eaux-Bonnes across a reduced course of 57.5\u00a0km (35.7\u00a0mi). In the final kilometres, Van Springel went clear of an elite-rider breakaway to win the finishing sprint ahead of fellow escapee Willy Van Neste of Flandria\u2013Mars. Van Springel took points away from teammate Merckx's green jersey rival Guimard, who beat Merckx in the sprint for third to his bring overall deficit to five points. Merckx previously accused Guimard of assisting Oca\u00f1a chase him down on stage 13 to Marseille.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 44], "content_span": [45, 774]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0034-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Race overview, Final stages\nThe next three stages took the Tour to its final stage in Paris. In the morning of stage 17, Merckx visited Oca\u00f1a in recuperation at his home in Mont-de-Marsan, the host of the stage start. The course of stage 17 through the Landes forest to Bordeaux, was more often processional and traditionally ended in a bunch sprint. With 65\u00a0km (40\u00a0mi) remaining, an attack launched by Van Impe's teammate Raymond Riotte formed a breakaway with four others, including Merckx. Guimard missed the move as he was swapping bottles around on his bicycle. Merckx won the finishing sprint from the group, increasing his leading margins in the general and points classifications to 5:38\u00a0minutes and 31 points respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 48], "content_span": [49, 752]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0035-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Race overview, Final stages\nOn stage 18 to Poitiers, Jean-Pierre Danguillaume of Peugeot\u2013BP\u2013Michelin sprinted to victory from a ten-man breakaway that finished close to three\u00a0minutes ahead of the peloton. In the last kilometres of the next stage, nine riders bridged across from the peloton to the breakaway of three, and from this Goudsmit\u2013Hoff rider Jan Krekels won the sprint finish, ahead of Guimard, on Versailles's Avenue de Paris in outskirts of Paris.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 48], "content_span": [49, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0036-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Race overview, Final stages\nThe final stage's 53.8\u00a0km (33.4\u00a0mi) individual time trial began in Versailles and ended at the V\u00e9lodrome de Vincennes. It was won by Merckx, 2:36\u00a0minutes ahead of Agostinho, with Wagtmans a further 16\u00a0seconds down in third. Merckx extended his overall lead from 5:38\u00a0to 9:51\u00a0minutes, becoming the third rider, after Louison Bobet and Anquetil, to win three Tours in a row. Zoetemelk raced the time trial 1:22\u00a0minutes quicker than Van Impe to overhaul a 7-second deficit from before the stage and finish the Tour second overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 48], "content_span": [49, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0036-0001", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Race overview, Final stages\nMerckx also ended the race as the points classification winner, beating Guimard by a margin of 16. Van Impe won the mountains classification, 48 points ahead of Zoetemelk. Merckx finished highest in the general and two aforementioned classifications to win the combination classification. The intermediate sprints classification was won by Zoetemelk's teammate Pieter Nassen. The winners of the team classification were Bic. Of the 130 starters, 94 reached the finish of the final stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 48], "content_span": [49, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0037-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Race overview, Aftermath\nAt the time, the 1971 Tour was considered the most exciting in recent years due mainly to the contest between Merckx and Oca\u00f1a. This has since been named among the greatest battles and overall moments in Tour de France history, with its significant stages of 11, 12, and 14, described as a \"trilogy\" by journalist Richard Moore in his 2014 book \u00c9tape: The Untold Stories of the Tour de France's Defining Stages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 45], "content_span": [46, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0038-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Race overview, Aftermath\nSome observers have thought that if Oca\u00f1a had continued he would have won the race. Tour journalist Jock Wadley predicted that Oca\u00f1a would have had an advantage of five minutes over Merckx before the final time trial, and then held three minutes by the end. Jacques Goddet believed that Merckx was a lesser climber and could not have overhauled Oca\u00f1a, but writer Olivier Dazat suggested that Merckx was mentally stronger and would have relentlessly chased down Oca\u00f1a. Riotte said that Oca\u00f1a's crash was \"provoked\" by Merckx and that if not then, Oca\u00f1a would have faltered eventually.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 45], "content_span": [46, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0039-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Race overview, Aftermath\nOca\u00f1a soon recovered from his injuries and had a successful end to the season. He next rode against Merckx over a month later in the world road race championship in Mendrisio, Switzerland, where a mistake of going back to get a drink was countered by Merckx, and he gained his second rainbow jersey as the victor. The rivalry continued into the following Tour, but Oca\u00f1a left the race with illness. Merckx went on to win a fourth Tour, and then won his fifth and final in 1974. He skipped the 1973 edition, which Oca\u00f1a won, and the rivalry never reached the heights seen in the 1971 Tour. Oca\u00f1a was named as his closest rival by Merckx, who is now regarded by many as the most successful rider in the history of competitive cycling.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 45], "content_span": [46, 778]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0040-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Race overview, Aftermath\nThe second, third and fourth-place finishers of the race went on to win at least one Tour during their careers; Zoetemelk in 1980, Van Impe in 1976, and Th\u00e9venet in 1975 and 1977.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 45], "content_span": [46, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0041-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes\nThere were five individual classifications contested in the 1971 Tour and also a team competition. The most important was the general classification, which was calculated by adding each rider's finishing times on each stage. Time bonuses (time subtracted) of 20, 10 and 5 seconds were awarded to the top three positions, respectively, at the end every mass-start stage classified as flat. In the flat split stages bonuses of 8, 6 and 3 seconds were given. The rider with the lowest cumulative time was the winner of the general classification and was considered the overall winner of the Tour. The rider leading the classification wore a yellow jersey. Eddy Merckx was meant to wear the yellow jersey in the prologue stage as the winner of the previous edition but the organisers forgot to bring it to the stage start.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 882]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0042-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes\nAdditionally, there was a points classification, where cyclists got points for finishing among the best in a stage finish. High finishes on flat stages awarded more points, 30 for the winner down to 1 point for 15th place. The flat split stages gave 20 points to the winner down to 2 points for 10th. In mountain stages and individual time trials, 15 points were given to the winner down to 1 point for 15th. Two mountain stages were given less points due their lengths, stages 15 and 16b. No points were awarded in the team time trial prologue stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0042-0001", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes\nThe cyclist with the most points lead the classification, and was identified with a green jersey. Following Merckx's dominance of the classifications during the 1969 Tour, a new rule was introduced in 1970 to allow the second-placed rider of the points classification to wear a green-black jersey if one rider led both the general and points classifications. If this occurred 1971, the rider in second place would wear the green jersey, a rule that has remained ever since.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0043-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes\nThere was also a mountains classification, which awarded points to the riders who reached summits first. Most stages of the race included one or more of these climbs, categorised as fourth-, third-, second- or first-category, with the more difficult climbs rated lower. Changes were made to the calculation in 1971, with the number of points given in the second, third, and fourth-categories increased. First-category ranked mountains gave a maximum 15 points for the first rider across, with the subsequent categories giving 10, 12, and 5 points to the first at the summit respectively. The cyclist with the most points lead the classification, with no identifying jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 737]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0044-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes\nThe combination classification was calculated by adding each rider's overall ranking positions in the general, points, and mountains classifications. The rider with lowest combined total led the classification. In the event of tie, the positions were shared. The leader of the classification wore a white jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0045-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes\nThere was also an intermediate sprints classification. This classification had similar rules to the points classification, but only points were awarded on intermediate sprints, with 6, 4, 3, 2 and 1 awarded respectively. The classification was given more importance in 1971 with the introduction of time bonuses; 5, 3 and 1 seconds were awarded to the first three positions in the sprints respectively. The 1971 Tour was the first time that more than one sprint featured in a full stage. In 1971, this classification had no associated jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0046-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes\nFor the team classification, the times of the best three cyclists per team on each stage were added; the leading team was the team with the lowest total time. The riders in the team that led this classification wore yellow caps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0047-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes\nIn addition, there individual awards given after each stage, excluding the prologue, and at the conclusion of the Tour to the most combative, elegant and amiable riders, with decisions made by a jury composed of journalists. The split stages each had combined winners. At the conclusion of the Tour, overall awards, also decided by journalists, were given to Luis Oca\u00f1a, Leif Mortensen and Jean-Pierre Danguillaume, respectively. There was also a special award, the Souvenir Henri Desgrange, given to the first rider to pass the summit of the C\u00f4te de Dourdan on stage 19. This prize was won by Wilmo Francioni of Ferretti.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 686]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0048-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes\nA total of 470,600 f was awarded in cash prizes in the race, with the overall winner of the general classification receiving 191,550 f. The stage winners, award winners and classification leaders, were rewarded with cash prizes. The amiable award winners received a selection of meat products. Joop Zoetemelk got a color television set for being the Tour's youngest finisher.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0049-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Super Prestige Pernod ranking\nRiders in the Tour competed individually for points that contributed towards the Super Prestige Pernod ranking, an international season-long road cycling competition, with the winner seen as the best all-round rider. Eddy Merckx held his substantial lead in the ranking at the end of the Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 50], "content_span": [51, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092986-0050-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Doping\nIn total, 100 doping tests were done during the 1971 Tour de France, from which 2 returned positive: Yves Ravaleu, after the thirteenth stage; Jean-Claude Daunat, after the eighteenth stage. Both Hoover\u2013de Gribaldy\u2013Wolber riders received the customary punishment: a fine of 1200 f; being set back to the last place in the stage's results and getting ten\u00a0minutes penalty time in the general classification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092987-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 9\nThe 1971 Tour de France was the 58th edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Tour began in Mulhouse with a prologue team time trial on 26 June, and Stage 9 occurred on 6 July with a mountainous stage to Saint-\u00c9tienne. The race finished in Paris on 18 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092987-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 9, Prologue\n26 June 1971 - Mulhouse to Mulhouse, 11\u00a0km (6.8\u00a0mi) (TTT)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092987-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 9, Stage 1a\n27 June 1971 - Mulhouse to Basel, 59.5\u00a0km (37.0\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092987-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 9, Stage 1b\n27 June 1971 - Basel to Freiburg, 90\u00a0km (56\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092987-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 9, Stage 1c\n27 June 1971 - Freiburg to Mulhouse, 74.5\u00a0km (46.3\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092987-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 9, Stage 2\n28 June 1971 - Mulhouse to Strasbourg, 144\u00a0km (89\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092987-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 9, Stage 3\n29 June 1971 - Strasbourg to Nancy, 165.5\u00a0km (102.8\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092987-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 9, Stage 4\n30 June 1971 - Nancy to Marche-en-Famenne, 242\u00a0km (150\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092987-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 9, Stage 5\n1 July 1971 - Dinant to Roubaix, 208.5\u00a0km (129.6\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092987-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 9, Stage 6a\n2 July 1971 - Roubaix to Amiens, 127.5\u00a0km (79.2\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092987-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 9, Stage 6b\n2 July 1971 - Amiens to Le Touquet, 133.5\u00a0km (83.0\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092987-0011-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 9, Stage 7\n4 July 1971 - Rungis to Nevers, 257.5\u00a0km (160.0\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092987-0012-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 9, Stage 8\n5 July 1971 - Nevers to Puy de D\u00f4me, 221\u00a0km (137\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092987-0013-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 9, Stage 9\n6 July 1971 - Clermont-Ferrand to Saint-\u00c9tienne, 153\u00a0km (95\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092988-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Stage 10 to Stage 20\nThe 1971 Tour de France was the 58th edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Tour began in Mulhouse with a prologue team time trial on 26 June, and Stage 10 occurred on 7 July with a mountainous stage from Saint-\u00c9tienne. The race finished in Paris on 18 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092988-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Stage 10 to Stage 20, Stage 10\n7 July 1971 - Saint-\u00c9tienne to Grenoble, 188.5\u00a0km (117.1\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092988-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Stage 10 to Stage 20, Stage 11\n8 July 1971 - Grenoble to Orci\u00e8res-Merlette, 134\u00a0km (83\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092988-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Stage 10 to Stage 20, Stage 12\n10 July 1971 - Orci\u00e8res-Merlette to Marseille, 251\u00a0km (156\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092988-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Stage 10 to Stage 20, Stage 13\n11 July 1971 - Albi to Albi, 16.3\u00a0km (10.1\u00a0mi) (ITT)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092988-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Stage 10 to Stage 20, Stage 14\n12 July 1971 - Revel to Luchon, 214.5\u00a0km (133.3\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092988-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Stage 10 to Stage 20, Stage 15\n13 July 1971 - Luchon to Superbagn\u00e8res, 19.6\u00a0km (12.2\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092988-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Stage 10 to Stage 20, Stage 16a\n14 July 1971 - Luchon to Gourette, 145\u00a0km (90\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 52], "content_span": [53, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092988-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Stage 10 to Stage 20, Stage 16b\n14 July 1971 - Gourette to Pau, 57.5\u00a0km (35.7\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 52], "content_span": [53, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092988-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Stage 10 to Stage 20, Stage 17\n15 July 1971 - Mont-de-Marsan to Bordeaux, 188\u00a0km (117\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092988-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Stage 10 to Stage 20, Stage 18\n16 July 1971 - Bordeaux to Poitiers, 244\u00a0km (152\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092988-0011-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Stage 10 to Stage 20, Stage 19\n17 July 1971 - Blois to Versailles, 185\u00a0km (115\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092988-0012-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de France, Stage 10 to Stage 20, Stage 20\n18 July 1971 - Versailles to Paris, 53.8\u00a0km (33.4\u00a0mi) (ITT)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092989-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de Romandie\nThe 1971 Tour de Romandie was the 25th edition of the Tour de Romandie cycle race and was held from 4 May to 9 May 1971. The race started in Geneva and finished in Lugano. The race was won by Gianni Motta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092990-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour de Suisse\nThe 1971 Tour de Suisse was the 35th edition of the Tour de Suisse cycle race and was held from 11 June to 18 June 1971. The race started in Z\u00fcrich and finished in Olten. The race was won by Georges Pintens of the Hertekamp team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092991-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour of Flanders\nThe 55th running of the Tour of Flanders cycling race in Belgium was held on Sunday 4 April 1971, won by Dutchman Evert Dolman. The race started in Ghent and finished in Gentbrugge, over a 268 km course. The race was considered one of the weakest editions of the Tour of Flanders ever, causing organizers to restyle the route in subsequent years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092991-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour of Flanders, Course\nEddy Merckx tried to break clear on the Kwaremont and the Muur, but was unable to make a decisive move. At 15 km from the finish, a group of 15 relative outsiders was formed. Evert Dolman, practically unknown, made an ultimate attack and finished two seconds ahead of the group. Frans Kerremans won the sprint for second place ahead of Cyrille Guimard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092992-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Tour of the Basque Country\nThe 1971 Tour of the Basque Country was the 11th edition of the Tour of the Basque Country cycle race and was held from 21 April to 25 April 1971. The race started and finished in Eibar. The race was won by Luis Oca\u00f1a of the Bic team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092993-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Tower Hamlets London Borough Council election\nThe 1971 Tower Hamlets Council election took place on 13 May 1971 to elect members of Tower Hamlets London Borough Council in London, England. The entire council was up for election and the Labour party stayed in overall control of the council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092994-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Trans-AMA motocross series\nThe 1971 Trans-AMA motocross series was the second annual international series established by the American Motorcyclist Association as a pilot event to help establish motocross in the United States. The motocross series was an invitational based on a 500cc engine displacement formula, run on American tracks featuring the top riders from the F.I.M. world championship against the top American riders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092994-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Trans-AMA motocross series\nSuzuki factory rider Sylvain Geboers claimed the championship with three overall victories. German Maico rider, Adolf Weil scored two overall victories and claimed second place in the championship, with Swedish Husqvarna pilot Torlief Hansen taking third place. The Suzuki team mates of Joel Robert and Roger De Coster didn't join the event until the fifth race of the series, but made an impact with De Coster posting three overall victories with Robert adding one more. As a result of his being the highest placed American rider at fourteenth overall, Mark Blackwell, was crowned the American motocross national champion, clinching the title by one point over Brad Lackey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 706]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092995-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Trans-American Sedan Championship\nThe 1971 Trans-American Championship was the sixth running of the Sports Car Club of America's Trans-Am Series. The format was altered to an over 2500cc class and an under 2500cc class, up 500cc from past years. All races used split classes except where noted. The year marked the rise of Datsun as a competitive brand, with the Japanese company winning several races throughout the season. American Motors, led by Mark Donohue's 7 wins, and Datsun, led by John Morton's 6 wins, won the manufacturers' championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092995-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Trans-American Sedan Championship, Schedule\nHorst Kwech won the race on track, but was disqualified for an oversize fuel tank.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092995-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Trans-American Sedan Championship, Championships\nPoints were awarded according to finishing position. Only the highest-placed car scored points for the manufacturer. Only the best 8 finishes counted toward the championship. Drivers' championships were not awarded in Trans-Am until 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 53], "content_span": [54, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092996-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Trinidad and Tobago general election\nGeneral elections were held in Trinidad and Tobago on 24 May 1971. The result was a victory for the People's National Movement, which won all 36 seats. Due to a boycott by all major opposition parties protesting at fraud related to the voting machines used in previous elections, voter turnout was just 33.2%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092997-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team\nThe 1971 Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team represented the University of Tulsa during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. In their second year under head coach Claude \"Hoot\" Gibson, the Golden Hurricane compiled a 4\u20137 record, 2\u20131 against conference opponents, and finished in fourth place in the Missouri Valley Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092997-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team\nThe team's statistical leaders included Todd Starks with 1,687 passing yards, Mike Ridley with 311 rushing yards, and Jim Butler with 486 receiving yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092998-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Turkish military memorandum\nThe 1971 Turkish military memorandum (Turkish: 12 Mart Muht\u0131ras\u0131), issued on 12 March that year, was the second military intervention to take place in the Republic of Turkey, coming 11 years after its 1960 predecessor. It is known as the \"coup by memorandum\", which the military delivered in lieu of sending out tanks, as it had done previously. The event came amid worsening domestic strife, but ultimately did little to halt this phenomenon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092998-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Turkish military memorandum, Background\nAs the 1960s wore on, violence and instability plagued Turkey. An economic recession late in that decade sparked a wave of social unrest marked by street demonstrations, labour strikes and political assassinations. Left-wing workers' and students' movements were formed, countered on the right by Islamist and militant Turkish nationalist groups. The left carried out bombing attacks, robberies and kidnappings; from the end of 1968, and increasingly during 1969 and 1970, left-wing violence was matched and surpassed by far-right violence, notably from the Grey Wolves. On the political front, Prime Minister S\u00fcleyman Demirel's centre-right Justice Party government, re-elected in 1969, also experienced trouble. Various factions within his party defected to form splinter groups of their own, gradually reducing his parliamentary majority and bringing the legislative process to a halt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 933]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092998-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Turkish military memorandum, Background\nBy January 1971, Turkey appeared to be in a state of chaos. The universities had ceased to function. Students, emulating Latin American urban guerrillas, robbed banks and kidnapped US servicemen, also attacking American targets. The homes of university professors critical of the government were bombed by neo-fascist militants. Factories were on strike and more workdays were lost between 1 January and 12 March 1971 than during any prior year. The Islamist movement had become more aggressive and its party, the National Order Party, openly rejected Atat\u00fcrk and Kemalism, infuriating the Turkish Armed Forces. Demirel's government, weakened by defections, seemed paralyzed in the face of the campus and street violence and unable to pass any serious legislation on social and financial reform.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 840]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092998-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Turkish military memorandum, Memorandum\nIt was in this atmosphere that on 12 March, the Chief of the General Staff, Memduh Ta\u011fma\u00e7, handed the prime minister a memorandum, really amounting to an ultimatum by the armed forces. It demanded \"the formation, within the context of democratic principles, of a strong and credible government, which will neutralise the current anarchical situation and which, inspired by Atat\u00fcrk's views, will implement the reformist laws envisaged by the constitution\", putting an end to the \"anarchy, fratricidal strife, and social and economic unrest\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092998-0003-0001", "contents": "1971 Turkish military memorandum, Memorandum\nIf the demands were not met, the army would \"exercise its constitutional duty\" and take over power itself. Demirel resigned after a three-hour meeting with his cabinet; veteran politician and opposition leader \u0130smet \u0130n\u00f6n\u00fc sharply denounced any military meddling in politics. While the precise reasons for the intervention remain disputed, there were three broad motivations behind the memorandum. First, senior commanders believed Demirel had lost his grip on power and was unable to deal with rising public disorder and political terrorism, so they wished to return order to Turkey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092998-0003-0002", "contents": "1971 Turkish military memorandum, Memorandum\nSecond, many officers seem to have been unwilling to bear responsibility for the government's violent measures, such as the suppression of Istanbul workers' demonstrations the previous June; more radical members believed coercion alone could not stop popular unrest and Marxist revolutionary movements, and that the social and economic reformism behind the 1960 coup needed to be put into practice. Finally, a minority of senior officers concluded that progress within a liberal democratic system was impossible, and that authoritarianism would result in a more egalitarian, independent and \"modern\" Turkey; other officers felt they had to intervene, if only to forestall these radical elements.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 740]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092998-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Turkish military memorandum, Memorandum\nThe coup did not come as a surprise to most Turks, but the direction it would take was uncertain, as its collective nature made it difficult to discern which faction in the armed forces had seized the initiative. The liberal intelligentsia hoped it was the radical-reformist wing led by Air Force commander Muhsin Batur, who favoured implementing reforms envisaged by the 1961 constitution; they were thus encouraged by the memorandum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092998-0004-0001", "contents": "1971 Turkish military memorandum, Memorandum\nTheir hopes were dashed when it turned out that the high command had taken power, animated by the spectre of a communist threat, and not a radical group of officers as in 1960. (There were rumours the high command had acted to pre-empt a similar move by junior officers; the notion was seemingly confirmed when a number of officers were retired soon afterwards.) The \"restoration of law and order\" was given priority; in practice this meant repressing any group viewed as leftist.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092998-0004-0002", "contents": "1971 Turkish military memorandum, Memorandum\nOn the day of the coup, the public prosecutor opened a case against the Workers' Party of Turkey for carrying out communist propaganda and supporting Kurdish separatism. He also sought to close all youth organisations affiliated with Dev-Gen\u00e7, the Federation of the Revolutionary Youth of Turkey, blamed for the left-wing youth violence and university and urban agitation. Police searches in offices of the teachers' union and university clubs were carried out. Such actions encouraged vigilante action by the \"Idealist Hearths\", the youth branch of the Nationalist Action Party; provincial teachers and Workers' Party supporters became prime targets. The principal motive for the suppression of the left seems to have been to curb trade union militancy and the demands for higher wages and better working conditions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 862]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092998-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Turkish military memorandum, Memorandum\nThe commanders who seized power were reluctant to exercise it directly, deterred by the problems that faced the Greek junta. They had little choice but to rule through an Assembly dominated by conservative, anti-reformist parties and an \"above-party\" government which was expected to carry out the reforms. The military chiefs would give directives from behind the scenes. To lead this government, on 19 March they chose Professor Nihat Erim, acceptable to the Justice Party and the more conservative faction of the Republican People's Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092998-0005-0001", "contents": "1971 Turkish military memorandum, Memorandum\n(This included \u0130n\u00f6n\u00fc, who embraced the generals once they picked his close associate, but the party's general secretary B\u00fclent Ecevit was infuriated and resigned from his post. For his part, Demirel cautioned his party to remain calm.) Erim appointed a technocratic cabinet from outside the political establishment to carry out the commanders' socio-economic reform programme. The regime rested on an unstable balance of power between civilian politicians and the military; it was neither a normal elected government, nor an outright military dictatorship which could entirely ignore parliamentary opposition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 654]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092998-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Turkish military memorandum, Aftermath\nIn April, politics was eclipsed (and the envisaged reform put off until after 1973) when a new wave of terror began, carried out by the Turkish People's Liberation Army, in the form of kidnappings with ransom demands and bank robberies. Intelligence sources confirmed rumours that dissident junior officers and military cadets were directing this force. On 27 April, martial law was declared in 11 of 67 provinces, including major urban areas and Kurdish regions. Soon, youth organisations were banned, union meetings prohibited, leftist (but not militant neo-fascist) publications proscribed and strikes declared illegal. After the Israeli consul was abducted on 17 May, hundreds of students, young academics, writers, trade unionists and Workers' Party activists\u2014not just leftists but also people with liberal-progressive sympathies\u2014were detained and tortured. The consul was shot four days later after a daytime curfew had been announced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 985]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092998-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Turkish military memorandum, Aftermath\nFor the next two years, repression continued, with martial law renewed every two months. Constitutional reforms repealed some of the essential liberal fragments of the 1961 Constitution and allowed the government to withdraw fundamental rights in case of \"abuse\". The National Intelligence Organization (M\u0130T) used the Ziverbey Villa as a torture center, employing physical and psychological coercion. The Counter-Guerrillas were active in the same building, with interrogations directed by their mainly Central Intelligence Agency-trained specialists, and resulting in hundreds of deaths or permanent injuries. Among their victims was journalist U\u011fur Mumcu, arrested shortly after the coup, who later wrote that his torturers informed him even the president could not touch them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 823]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092998-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Turkish military memorandum, Aftermath\nFerit Melen, who made little impression, took over the premiership in April 1972, followed a year later by Naim Talu, whose main task was to lead the country to elections. (An important reassertion of civilian influence took place in March\u2013April 1973, when Demirel and Ecevit, normally at odds, both rejected the generals' choice for president, instead having Fahri Korut\u00fcrk elected to the post by the Assembly.) By summer 1973, the military-backed regime had achieved most of its political tasks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092998-0008-0001", "contents": "1971 Turkish military memorandum, Aftermath\nThe constitution was amended so as to strengthen the state against civil society; special courts were in place to deal with all forms of dissent quickly and ruthlessly (these tried over 3,000 people before their abolition in 1976); the universities, their autonomy ended, had been made to curb the radicalism of students and faculty; radio, television, newspapers and the constitutional court were curtailed; the National Security Council was made more powerful; and, once the Workers' Party was dissolved in July 1971, the trade unions were pacified and left in an ideological vacuum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092998-0008-0002", "contents": "1971 Turkish military memorandum, Aftermath\nThat May, Necmettin Erbakan's National Order Party had been shut down, which the government claimed showed its even-handedness in the anti-terror campaign, but he was not tried and allowed to resume his activities in October 1972; the National Action Party and the right-wing terrorists who worked under its aegis were left conspicuously alone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092998-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 Turkish military memorandum, Aftermath\nIn October 1973, Ecevit, who had won control of the Republican People's Party from \u0130n\u00f6n\u00fc, won an upset victory. Nevertheless, the very same problems highlighted in the memorandum re-emerged. A fragmented party system and unstable governments held hostage by small right-wing parties contributed to political polarization. The economy deteriorated, the Grey Wolves escalated and intensified political terrorism as the 1970s progressed, and left-wing groups too carried out acts aimed at causing chaos and demoralization. In 1980, seeking once again to restore order, the military carried out yet another coup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 652]}} {"id": "enwiki-00092999-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Tuscania earthquake\nThe 1971 Tuscania earthquake is an earthquake that occurred on February 6, 1971 near the town of Tuscania in Lazio, Italy. It had a body wave magnitude of 4.6. Despite being a moderate magnitude this event caused major destruction. 24 people were killed, 150 were injured and about 5,000 homeless. 40 homes were destroyed and 1,678 were damaged. Costs were $41 million (1971 rate). It was reported that the medieval section of Tuscania, a city of 8,000, located 50 miles northwest of Rome, was practically leveled, and 60 percent of the city's buildings destroyed. Among those structures sustaining serious damage were the 8th century St. Peter's Church and the 12th century Basilica of St. Mary Major, both recently restored. The heavy damage sustained was due to the shallow depth of the earthquake and poorly constructed buildings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 859]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093000-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 U.S. Clay Court Championships\nThe 1971 U.S. Clay Court Championships was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament that was part of the 1971 Grand Prix circuit and categorized as a Group B event. The event was held in Indianapolis, USA and played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 3rd edition of the tournament in the Open Era and was held in from August 16 through August 22, 1971. \u017deljko Franulovi\u0107 and Billie Jean King won the singles titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093000-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 U.S. Clay Court Championships, Finals, Men's Doubles\n\u017deljko Franulovi\u0107 / Jan Kode\u0161 defeated Clark Graebner / Erik van Dillen 7\u20136, 5\u20137, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 57], "content_span": [58, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093000-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 U.S. Clay Court Championships, Finals, Women's Doubles\nJudy Dalton / Billie Jean King defeated Julie Heldman / Linda Tuero 6\u20131, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093001-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 U.S. Open (golf)\nThe 1971 U.S. Open was the 71st U.S. Open, held June 17\u201321 at the East Course of Merion Golf Club in Ardmore, Pennsylvania, a suburb west of Philadelphia. Lee Trevino, the 1968 champion, won his second U.S. Open, defeating Jack Nicklaus by three strokes in an 18-hole playoff. It was the second of Trevino's six major titles and the second of four times in which Nicklaus was the runner-up to Trevino in a major; Nicklaus won his third U.S. Open the following year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093001-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 U.S. Open (golf)\nThe U.S. Open was just part of an outstanding year for Trevino in 1971 and following this playoff win, his confidence soared. Two weeks later he won the Canadian Open in a playoff; the next week the British Open, and became the first to win those three national opens in the same year; only Tiger Woods has done it since, in 2000. Trevino won six times on tour in 1971 with two majors and was PGA Player of the Year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093001-0001-0001", "contents": "1971 U.S. Open (golf)\nHe was named athlete of the year by the Associated Press and Sporting News, and was the Sports Illustrated \"Sportsman of the Year.\" Trevino was the first to win the U.S. and British Opens in the same year in 18 years, last accomplished by Ben Hogan in 1953. The others were Gene Sarazen in 1932 and amateur Bobby Jones in 1926 and 1930, his grand slam year. Subsequent winners of both were Tom Watson in 1982 and Woods in 2000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093001-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 U.S. Open (golf)\nFor Jim Simons, a Pennsylvania native entering his senior year at Wake Forest, his fifth-place finish remains the most recent top ten by an amateur at the U.S. Open. It is the best since Nicklaus' tie for fourth in 1961, following his runner-up finish the year before at age 20 in 1960. The last victory by an amateur at any major was at the U.S. Open in 1933, won by Johnny Goodman of Omaha. Bobby Jones won four U.S. Opens as an amateur, the last in 1930 was part of his grand slam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093001-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 U.S. Open (golf)\nThis was the third U.S. Open played at Merion, which previously hosted in 1934 and 1950. A fourth was played in 1981, and a fifth in 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093001-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, Third round\nFour strokes back after 36 holes, amateur Simons shot a five-under 65 in the third round, one off the U.S. Open record, to take the 54-hole lead. He got out to a fast start on Saturday, and was five-under for the round after ten holes. Simons played even-par on the last eight and ended with seven birdies and two bogeys to lead Nicklaus by two strokes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093001-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, Final round\nIn the final pairing with Nicklaus, 21-year-old Simons retained the lead through the first nine holes of the final round, and was one shot back on the 18th tee. Needing a birdie to tie, his tee shot found the thick rough; a double bogey six yielded a 76 and he finished three strokes back in a tie for fifth place. Trevino took the lead with a birdie at 14, but then missed an 8-footer (2.4 m) for par at the last. He backed off before the putt after a disturbance in the gallery.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093001-0005-0001", "contents": "1971 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, Final round\nNicklaus' 15-foot (4.5\u00a0m) birdie putt for the win on the 72nd green also narrowly missed, and settled for par to force a Monday afternoon playoff. Bob Rosburg also had a chance to join the playoff with a birdie at the last, but he three-putted for bogey and finished two shots back.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093001-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, Playoff\nPrior to the playoff, the first at the U.S. Open since 1966, Trevino and Nicklaus, both 31, were involved in a famous incident on the first tee involving a toy rubber snake. Trevino had acquired it at a zoo gift shop and used it earlier in the week along with a pith helmet and hatchet during a whimsical photo shoot emphasizing Merion's thick and penal rough. Hot and humid in the early afternoon, Trevino reached into his golf bag for a fresh glove and came across the snake and took it out to entertain the crowd.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 47], "content_span": [48, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093001-0006-0001", "contents": "1971 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, Playoff\nNicklaus then asked him to toss it over, which Trevino did. Nicklaus picked it up, laughed with the crowd, then threw it back to Trevino. It would later be written that Trevino had tossed the snake at Nicklaus in an attempt to unnerve his rival; in reality, Nicklaus was the one who asked him to throw the snake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 47], "content_span": [48, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093001-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, Playoff\nWhen the playoff began, Trevino bogeyed the first hole and Nicklaus took the lead, but then hit two poor bunker shots on the next two, allowing Trevino to open a two-stroke lead. Although Nicklaus cut into the lead several times, to within one stroke as late as the 12th tee, Trevino never relinquished it. He carded a 68 to Nicklaus' 71 to win by three. Nicklaus won his third U.S. Open the following year in 1972 at Pebble Beach, and a record-tying fourth at Baltusrol at age 40 in 1980.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 47], "content_span": [48, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093001-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, Playoff\nTelevision coverage by ABC Sports for the Monday playoff was scheduled for just an hour, beginning at 4:30\u00a0p.m. EDT. A 35-minute weather delay after the sixth hole allowed for lengthened coverage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 47], "content_span": [48, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093002-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 U.S. Pro Tennis Championships\nThe 1971 U.S. Pro Tennis Championships was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Longwood Cricket Club in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA and was part of the 1971 World Championship Tennis circuit. It was the 44th edition of the tournament and was held from August 2 through August 8, 1971. Sixth-seeded Ken Rosewall won the singles title, his third U.S. Pro title, and the accompanying $10,000 first-prize money. The final was watched by 5,500 spectators.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093002-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 U.S. Pro Tennis Championships, Finals, Doubles\nRoy Emerson / Rod Laver defeated Tom Okker / Marty Riessen 6\u20134, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093003-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 U.S. Pro Tennis Championships \u2013 Doubles\nThe 1971 U.S. Pro Tennis Championships was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Longwood Cricket Club in Boston, USA and was part of the 1971 World Championship Tennis circuit. It was the 44th edition of the tournament and was held from August 2 through August 8, 1971. Sixth-seeded Ken Rosewall won the singles title, his third U.S. Pro title, and the accompanying $10,000 first-prize money. The final was watched by 5,500 spectators.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093003-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 U.S. Pro Tennis Championships \u2013 Doubles, Seeds\nChampion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 51], "content_span": [52, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093004-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 U.S. Pro Tennis Championships \u2013 Singles\nThe 1971 U.S. Pro Tennis Championships was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Longwood Cricket Club in Boston, USA and was part of the 1971 World Championship Tennis circuit. It was the 44th edition of the tournament and was held from August 2 through August 8, 1971. Sixth-seeded Ken Rosewall won the singles title, his third U.S. Pro title, and the accompanying $10,000 first-prize money. The final was watched by 5,500 spectators.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093004-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 U.S. Pro Tennis Championships \u2013 Singles, Seeds\nChampion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 51], "content_span": [52, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093005-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 U.S. Professional Indoor\nThe 1971 U.S. Professional Indoor was a WCT and Virginia Slims Circuit tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts. It was played at the Wachovia Spectrum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States. It was the fourth edition of the tournament and was held from February 9 through February 14, 1971. John Newcombe and Rosie Casals won the singles titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093006-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 U.S. Professional Indoor \u2013 Men's Singles\nJohn Newcombe won the title, defeating Laver 7\u20136(7\u20135), 7\u20136(7\u20131), 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093007-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 U.S. Women's Open\nThe 1971 U.S. Women's Open was the 26th U.S. Women's Open, held June 24\u201327 at Kahkwa Club in Erie, Pennsylvania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093007-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 U.S. Women's Open\nJoAnne Carner won the first of her two U.S. Women's Open titles, seven strokes ahead of runner-up Kathy Whitworth. Carner led (or co-led) wire-to-wire and entered the final round with a five-stroke lead over 1963 champion Mary Mills. The course was designed by Donald Ross.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093008-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 UC Davis Aggies football team\nThe 1971 UC Davis football team represented the University of California, Davis in the 1971 NCAA College Division football season. UC Davis competed in the Far Western Conference (FWC). The UC Davis sports teams were commonly called the \u201cCal Aggies\u201d from 1924 until the mid 1970s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093008-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 UC Davis Aggies football team\nThe Aggies were led by second-year head coach Jim Sochor. They played home games at Toomey Field. UC Davis finished the season as co-champion of the FWC. This started a remarkable streak where the Aggies would win or share the conference crown for the next 20 seasons. The Aggies finished the season with a record of nine wins and one loss (9\u20131, 5\u20131 FWC). The Aggies outscored their opponents 305\u2013184 for the 1971 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093008-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 UC Davis Aggies football team, NFL Draft\nNo UC Davis Aggies players were selected in the 1972 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093009-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 UC Riverside Highlanders football team\nThe 1971 UC Riverside Highlanders football team represented UC Riverside during the 1971 NCAA College Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093009-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 UC Riverside Highlanders football team\nUC Riverside competed in the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA). The team was led by second-year head coach Gary Knecht. They played home games at Highlander Stadium in Riverside, California. The Highlanders finished the season with a record of two wins, seven losses and one tie (2\u20137\u20131, 0\u20132 CCAA). Overall, the team was outscored by its opponents 120\u2013256 for the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093009-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 UC Riverside Highlanders football team, Team players in the NFL\nNo UC Riverside players were selected in the 1972 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 68], "content_span": [69, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093010-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 UC Santa Barbara Gauchos football team\nThe 1971 UC Santa Barbara Gauchos football team represented University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093010-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 UC Santa Barbara Gauchos football team\nThe Gauchos competed in the Pacific Coast Athletic Association. The team was led by second-year head coach Andy Everest, and played home games at Campus Stadium in Santa Barbara, California. They finished the season with a record of three wins and eight losses (3\u20138, 2\u20133 PCAA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093010-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 UC Santa Barbara Gauchos football team\nAt the end of the 1971 season, citing financial problems the school decided to drop football as an intercollegiate sport. UCSB would not field another football team until 1983, when a student-run team was formed. \"Official\" NCAA games did not restart until the 1986 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093010-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 UC Santa Barbara Gauchos football team, Team players in the NFL\nThe following Santa Barbara Gaucho players were selected in the 1972 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 68], "content_span": [69, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093011-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 UCI Road World Championships\nThe 1971 UCI Road World Championships took place on 4 September 1971 in Mendrisio, Switzerland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093012-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 UCI Road World Championships \u2013 Men's road race\nThe men's road race at the 1971 UCI Road World Championships was the 38th edition of the event. The race took place on Sunday 5 September 1971 in Mendrisio, Switzerland. The race was won by Eddy Merckx of Belgium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093013-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 UCI Track Cycling World Championships\nThe 1971 UCI Track Cycling World Championships were the World Championship for track cycling. They took place in Varese, Italy in 1971. Eleven events were contested, 9 for men (3 for professionals, 6 for amateurs) and 2 for women.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093014-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 UCLA Bruins football team\nThe 1971 UCLA Bruins football team represented University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. The team was coached by Pepper Rodgers and was ranked 15th by AP in the pre-season poll. The team finished the season with a 2\u20137\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093014-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 UCLA Bruins football team, Game summaries, USC\nThe game was played to a 7\u20137 tie before 68,426 at the Coliseum and a nationwide TV audience. Lou Harris scored for the Trojans and Marv Kendricks scored a 7-yard touchdown for the Bruins. Efren Herrera kicked the PAT to tie the game in the third quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093015-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 UEFA European Under-18 Championship\nThe UEFA European Under-18 Championship 1971 Final Tournament was held in Czechoslovakia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093015-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 UEFA European Under-18 Championship, Teams\nThe following teams entered the tournament. Eight teams qualified (Q) and eight teams entered without playing qualification matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 47], "content_span": [48, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093016-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year\nThe 1971 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year was the 45th year of greyhound racing in the United Kingdom and Ireland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093016-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary\nThe annual National Greyhound Racing Club (NGRC) returns were released, with totalisator turnover at \u00a356,188,971 and attendances recorded at 7,119,398 from 5808 meetings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093016-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary\nDolores Rocket was Greyhound of the Year after winning the English Greyhound Derby at White City and St Leger at Wembley. Her performances shone through during a difficult year that saw the closure of four tracks. The tracks were Kings Heath Stadium, which had only just recently been purchased by the Greyhound Racing Association (GRA) under their GRA Property Trust, Charlton Stadium (also GRA), the City Stadium, Norwich and Houghton Stadium in Durham.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093016-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Tracks\nHendon was the first track to declare decimal dividends and Milton Keynes (known as Bletchley or the Groveway) switched from independent status to full NGRC status.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093016-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Competitions\nFollowing the closure of Charlton, three events came to an end. The Olympic would return in 1979 at Brighton and the Greenwich Cup was moved to Catford but the Cloth of Gold was discontinued. The Welsh Greyhound Derby at Cardiff Arms Park and the Grand Prix at Walthamstow were given the overdue status of being an official classic status competition, by the NGRC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 53], "content_span": [54, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093016-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Competitions\nThe Eclipse was switched to Hall Green for a two year period.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 53], "content_span": [54, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093016-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Competitions\nSherrys Prince successfully defended his Grand National, breaking the track record twice, first recording 29.26 seconds in the heats and then 29.20 in the semi-finals. The only other greyhounds that had achieved double Grand National glory were Juvenile Classic (1940) and Blossom of Annagura (1950). Dolores Rocket won the Spring Cup over 700 yards at Wimbledon and set a track record at Crayford before victory in the Wembley Spring Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 53], "content_span": [54, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093016-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Competitions\nDon't Gambol won a second successive Scurry Gold Cup at Clapton and in the year ending annual Duke of Edinburgh Cup, Leeds provided a shock by reaching the final and beating Clapton to lift the trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 53], "content_span": [54, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093016-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, News\nA change in the betting laws allowed tracks to hold an extra 26 race meetings per year. Crayford & Bexleyheath Stadium was the latest track to change to a contract trainer system, which led to Henry Parson's 33 year training career coming to an end after he joined the racing office. Slough and Reading followed suit soon after. Another trainer Stan Gray also retired after 35 years at Southend and Frank Melville left Rochester Stadium for Harringay Stadium, Melville was replaced by Jimmy Keane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 45], "content_span": [46, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093016-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, News\nThe demise of the GRA Kings Heath Stadium kennels in addition to the demolition of the Hall Green kennels, meant that the two remaining Birmingham GRA kennel trainers, Eric O'Connor and Peter Harding, were relocated to Powderhall. The Edinburgh track also brought in contract trainers as well (some from Kings Heath). Hall Green Racing Manager Sid Wood moved to Belle Vue Stadium and Bob Rowe (son of Leicester Racing Manager John Rowe) filled the position at Hall Green.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 45], "content_span": [46, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093016-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, News\nThe experiment by GRA to introduce eight dog races continued with trials at Harringay and races at Belle Vue and White City Stadium (Manchester). The Northern Flat took place as an eight dog competition, the first major event to do so. Trainers were also allowed to seed their greyhounds wide for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 45], "content_span": [46, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093016-0011-0000", "contents": "1971 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Ireland\nIn Ireland the Bord na gCon introduced drug testing for the first time. Sole Aim was a rare English winner of the 1971 Irish Greyhound Derby which featured one of strongest entries for years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093016-0012-0000", "contents": "1971 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Ireland\nThe Bord na gCon introduced drugs testing for the first time and experiment with the procedures at Shelbourne Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093016-0013-0000", "contents": "1971 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Ireland\nBlissful Pride trained by Leslie Mcnair wins his 18th race from 19 starts following victory in the Anglo-Irish International at White City. The Irish star also won the Irish Oaks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093017-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 UMass Redmen football team\nThe 1971 UMass Redmen football team represented the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the 1971 NCAA College Division football season as a member of the Yankee Conference. The team was coached by Dick MacPherson and played its home games at Warren McGuirk Alumni Stadium in Hadley, Massachusetts. The 1971 season was the last in which Massachusetts was named the \"Redmen,\" as the university would change the nickname of all athletic teams to the \"Minutemen\" due to changing attitudes regarding the use of Native American-themed mascots in sports. It was also the first season of Dick MacPherson's tenure as head coach. UMass finished the season with a record of 4\u20134\u20131 overall and 3\u20131\u20131 in conference play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 741]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093018-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 UNLV Rebels football team\nThe 1971 UNLV Rebels football team was an American football team that represented the University of Nevada, Las Vegas as an independent during the 1971 NCAA College Division football season. In their fourth year under head coach Bill Ireland, the team compiled an 5\u20134\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093019-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 US Figure Skating Championships\nThe 1971 U.S. Figure Skating Championships was held in Buffalo, New York on January 27\u201331. The compulsory figure competitions were held at Dann Memorial Rink, while the free skating events were held at the Memorial Auditorium. Medals were awarded in three colors: gold (first), silver (second), and bronze (third) in four disciplines \u2013 men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing \u2013 across three levels: senior, junior, and novice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093019-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 US Figure Skating Championships\nThe event determined the U.S. team for the 1971 World Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093019-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 US Figure Skating Championships\nIn addition to Kenneth Shelley, this event was notable for the number of other skaters competing successfully in multiple disciplines. As well as placing second in senior pairs, Melissa Militano won the junior ladies' title, landing a rare triple toe loop as she had at the previous year's championships. Besides winning a bronze medal in ice dance with Mary Karen Campbell, Johnny Johns competed in senior pairs with another partner, and placed a very respectable 6th in the senior men's division. Sheri Thrapp competed in both senior ladies and senior pairs. Another unusual crossover was the junior pair team of Sheryl Trueman and Jack Courtney who had been World Champions in artistic roller skating in 1969\u2014as a team in pair skating, and Courtney individually in men's single skating. This was their first season of competition on the ice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 881]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093019-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 US Figure Skating Championships, Senior results, Men\nThe men's title was vacant due to the retirement of 1970 champion Tim Wood. The title was won by John Misha Petkevich, while Ken Shelley (pulling double duty by competing in singles as well as pairs) took the silver and young Gordon McKellen placed third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 57], "content_span": [58, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093019-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 US Figure Skating Championships, Senior results, Ladies\nThe ladies' competition featured the usual match of this era between Janet Lynn and Julie Lynn Holmes. Holmes had a small lead after the compulsory figures but Lynn pulled ahead in the free skating, in spite of missing an attempt at a triple toe loop. Holmes included an unusual inside double Axel in her free skating.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 60], "content_span": [61, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093019-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 US Figure Skating Championships, Senior results, Pairs\nDefending champions JoJo Starbuck / Kenneth Shelley retained their title with a unanimous decision. Their program included new elements which were considered especially daring for the time\u2014a double twist lift and an overhead lift with three positions. The young team of Melissa / Mark Militano finished second, and third place went to Barbara Brown / Doug Berndt in spite of a frightening fall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 59], "content_span": [60, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093019-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 US Figure Skating Championships, Senior results, Ice dancing (Gold dance)\nJudy Schwomeyer / James Sladky dominated the dance event to win their third consecutive national title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 78], "content_span": [79, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093020-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 US Open (tennis)\nThe 1971 US Open was a tennis tournament that took place on the outdoor grass courts at the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, Queens, in New York City, USA. The tournament ran from 1 September until 12 September. It was the 91st staging of the US Open, and the fourth Grand Slam tennis event of 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093020-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 US Open (tennis), Finals, Men's doubles\nJohn Newcombe / Roger Taylor defeated Stan Smith / Erik van Dillen, 6\u20137, 6\u20133, 7\u20136, 4\u20136, [5-3]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 44], "content_span": [45, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093020-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 US Open (tennis), Finals, Women's doubles\nRosemary Casals / Judy Tegart Dalton defeated Gail Chanfreau / Fran\u00e7oise D\u00fcrr, 6\u20133, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 46], "content_span": [47, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093020-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 US Open (tennis), Finals, Mixed doubles\nBillie Jean King / Owen Davidson defeated Betty St\u00f6ve / Robert Maud, 6\u20133, 7\u20135", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 44], "content_span": [45, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093021-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 US Open \u2013 Men's Doubles\nPierre Barth\u00e8s and Nikola Pili\u0107 were the defending US Open men's doubles tennis champions, but did not defend their title as a team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093021-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 US Open \u2013 Men's Doubles\nSeventh-seeded John Newcombe and Roger Taylor won the title by defeating sixth-seeded Stan Smith and Erik van Dillen 6\u20137, 6\u20133, 7\u20136, 4\u20136, [5-3] in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093022-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 US Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nStan Smith defeated Jan Kode\u0161 3\u20136, 6\u20133, 6\u20132, 7\u20136(5\u20133) in the final to win the Men's Singles tennis title at the 1971 US Open. Ken Rosewall was the defending champion but did not compete at the 1971 US Open \u2013 Men's Singles event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093022-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 US Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nRosewall and Tony Roche, both finalists from the previous year, did not compete in the tournament that year. This would not happen again at the US Open until the 2017 edition of the tournament, 46 years later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093022-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 US Open \u2013 Men's Singles, Seeds\nThe seeded players are listed below. Stan Smith is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093023-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 US Open \u2013 Mixed Doubles\nMarty Riessen and Margaret Court were the defending champions but both players chose not to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093023-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 US Open \u2013 Mixed Doubles\nOwen Davidson and Billie Jean King won in the final 6\u20133, 7\u20135 against Bob Maud and Betty St\u00f6ve.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093024-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 US Open \u2013 Women's Doubles\nMargaret Court and Judy Dalton were the defending champions but Margaret Court did not compete this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093024-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 US Open \u2013 Women's Doubles\nJudy Dalton teamed up with Rosemary Casals and successfully defended her title by defeating Gail Chanfreau and Fran\u00e7oise D\u00fcrr 6\u20133, 6\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093025-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 US Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nBillie Jean King defeated Rosemary Casals 6\u20134, 7\u20136(5\u20132) in the final to win the Women's Singles tennis title at the 1971 US Open. Two-time reigning champion Margaret Court did not defend her title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093025-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 US Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nThis tournament was notable for being the first Grand Slam tournament appearance in which Chris Evert competed in the main draw; she made it to the semi-final. She competed in 19 consecutive US Open tournaments until her retirement in 1989.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093025-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 US Open \u2013 Women's Singles, Seeds\nThe seeded players are listed below. Billie Jean King is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 37], "content_span": [38, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093026-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships\nThe Men's 1971 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships took place between June 25-27 at Hayward Field on the campus of University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon. The Women's Championships took place at Memorial Stadium on the campus of Bakersfield College in Bakersfield, California. The meet was organized by the Amateur Athletic Union. The women's pentathlon took place at Los Alamos, New Mexico on June 12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093026-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships\nThis is the meet where John Smith set the still standing world record in the 440 yard dash, an event now essentially discontinued on the international scene.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093027-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 USAC Championship Car season\nThe 1971 USAC Championship Car season consisted of 12 races, beginning in Rafaela, Argentina on February 28 and concluding in Avondale, Arizona on October 23. The USAC National Champion was Joe Leonard and the Indianapolis 500 winner was Al Unser. For 1971 it was decided that there should be three separate points championships, for paved ovals, dirt ovals, and road courses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093027-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 USAC Championship Car season\nThe existing Championship Car championship was then restricted to only paved ovals, and two new championships were created. The National Dirt Car Championship (which would become the modern Silver Crown Series in 1981) was run over four races, and won by George Snider. The Road Racing championship was originally to be run over between 8 and 10 races, however a lack of interest lead to just two races being held on the same day, on the 7th of August at Seattle International Raceway. Continental Championship cars were allowed, and made up the majority of the grid, with just 5 USAC specification cars entered. Jim Dittemore won the series in a Formula 5000 specification Lola T192-Chevrolet. The Road Racing championship did not continue in 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 783]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093027-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 USAC Championship Car season, Schedule and results\nAll races running on Oval/Speedway. On February 18, the non-championship races at Rafaela were transformed into a points-paying double round, due to a request from race organizers. On June 9, the Langhorne round was cancelled after the drivers refused to race at the outdated venue, and on June 30, USAC cancelled the race at the new Mountaineer Speedway, which was never built to completion. The 1971 season was the first time the 500 mile triple crown was on the schedule with the addition of Ontario Motor Speedway's California 500 the previous year & the Pocono 500 added in this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093027-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 USAC Championship Car season, Final points standings\nNote1: Donnie Allison, Carlos Pairetti, Denny Hulme, David Hobbs and Jim Hurtubise are not eligible for points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093027-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 USAC Championship Car season, Final points standings\nNote2: John Mahler qualified 21st at Indianapolis. His car was driven in the race by Dick Simon who started 33rd as a result of the driver change.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093028-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 USC Trojans baseball team\nThe 1971 USC Trojans baseball team represented the University of Southern California in the 1971 NCAA University Division baseball season. The team was coached Rod Dedeaux in his 30th season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093028-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 USC Trojans baseball team\nThe Trojans won the College World Series, defeating the Southern Illinois Salukis in the championship game, winning their second of five consecutive national championships, and third in four years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093028-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 USC Trojans baseball team, Trojans in the 1971 MLB Draft\nThe following members of the USC baseball program were drafted in the 1971 Major League Baseball Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093029-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 USC Trojans football team\nThe 1971 USC Trojans football team represented the University of Southern California (USC) in the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. In their 12th year under head coach John McKay, the Trojans compiled a 6\u20134\u20131 record (3\u20132\u20131 against conference opponents), finished in second place in the Pacific-8 Conference (Pac-8), and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 229 to 164. The team was ranked #20 in the final AP Poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093029-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 USC Trojans football team\nJim Jones led the team in passing, completing 89 of 161 passes for 995 yards with seven touchdowns and ten interceptions. Lou Harris led the team in rushing with 167 carries for 801 yards and four touchdowns. Edesel Garrison led the team in receiving with 25 catches for 475 yards and five touchdowns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093030-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 USSR Chess Championship\nThe 1971 Soviet Chess Championship was the 39th edition of USSR Chess Championship. Held from 15 September to 18 October 1971 in Leningrad. The tournament was won by Vladimir Savon. It was an amazing result, the title fell to the little-known international master Savon. He only learned the moves at the late age of 13, and lived in a small country settlement where he could find no strong opposition. The final were preceded by semifinals events at Daugavpils, Ivano Frankivsk, Novosibirsk and Perm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093031-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 UTEP Miners football team\nThe 1971 UTEP Miners football team was an American football team that represented the University of Texas at El Paso in the Western Athletic Conference during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. In their seventh year under head coach Bobby Dobbs, the team compiled a 5\u20136 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093032-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Uganda Cup\n1971 Uganda Cup was the first season of the main Ugandan football Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 86]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093032-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Uganda Cup, Overview\nThe competition has also been known as the Kakungulu Cup and was won by Coffee Kakira who beat Simba FC (the Army side) 2-1 in the final. The results are not available for the earlier rounds", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 25], "content_span": [26, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093033-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Uganda National First Division League\nThe 1971 Uganda National First Division League was the fourth season of the Ugandan football championship, the top-level football league of Uganda.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093033-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Uganda National First Division League, Overview\nThe 1971 Uganda National First Division League was contested by 8 teams and was won by Simba FC, the Army side. In the next two seasons of 1972 and 1973 the championship was not completed because of civil unrest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093033-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Uganda National First Division League, Leading goalscorer\nThe top goalscorer in the 1971 season was Polly Ouma of Simba FC with 18 goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 62], "content_span": [63, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093034-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Ugandan coup d'\u00e9tat\nThe 1971 Ugandan coup d'\u00e9tat was a military coup d'\u00e9tat executed by the Ugandan military, led by general Idi Amin, against the government of President Milton Obote on January 25, 1971. The seizure of power took place while Obote was abroad attending the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Singapore. Amin was afraid that Obote might dismiss him, and installed himself as dictator.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093034-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Ugandan coup d'\u00e9tat\nThe 1971 coup is often cited as an example of \"class action by the military\", wherein the Uganda Army acted against \"an increasingly socialist r\u00e9gime whose equalitarian domestic politics posed more and more of a threat to the military's economic privileges\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093034-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Ugandan coup d'\u00e9tat, Background\nA rift had developed between Amin and Obote, exacerbated by the support Amin had built within the army by recruiting from the West Nile region, his involvement in operations to support the rebellion in southern Sudan and an attempt on Obote's life in 1969. In October 1970, Obote took overall control of the armed forces, reducing Amin from his position of commander in chief of all the armed forces to that of commander in chief of the army.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093034-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Ugandan coup d'\u00e9tat, Background\nThe Obote government pursued a policy of African Nationalism which antagonized the British and the Israelis - both of which maintained a strong presence in Uganda. Obote supported independence in Southern Africa and opposed British weapons sales to the Apartheid South Africa government. He attended the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 1971 in order to address this issue. The United Kingdom was also opposed to Obote's Move to the Left, a series of socialist-orientated policies that hindered the operations of international corporations. The British government further feared that these initiatives would provoke the departure of thousands of Asians in Uganda, who were British subjects and might choose to go to the United Kingdom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 780]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093034-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Ugandan coup d'\u00e9tat, Background\nIsrael initially maintained close relations with Obote's government, and used Uganda as a means to channel support to Anyanya rebels in southern Sudan with the hope of distracting Sudan from supporting Palestine in the Arab-Israeli conflict. In 1969 Jaafar Nimeiry came to power in Sudan via a coup and pledged to end the war in the country. Obote summarily ordered the end of all aid to the Anyanya, troubling the Israeli government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093034-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Ugandan coup d'\u00e9tat, Coup\nHaving learned that Obote was planning to arrest him for misappropriating army funds, Amin launched a coup on 25 January 1971, while Obote was attending a Commonwealth summit meeting in Singapore. Army and military police forces loyal to Amin moved to secure strategic positions in and around Kampala and Entebbe. The putschists sealed off Entebbe International Airport to prevent Obote's return, and tanks and soldiers patrolled the streets of Kampala and Entebbe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 30], "content_span": [31, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093034-0005-0001", "contents": "1971 Ugandan coup d'\u00e9tat, Coup\nHere, some soldiers loyal to President Obote and members of the General Service Unit resisted the coup forces while some fighting also took place at the Kampala police college. Fierce fighting was reported in Jinja, about 50 miles from Kampala. Obote's residence was surrounded and major roads were blocked. A nighttime curfew was imposed by the coup forces. Overall, the Obote loyalists were too disorganized to offer an effective resistance, and they were quickly overwhelmed. At 4:30pm it was announced that the Army and the police under Amin's leadership had control of the entire country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 30], "content_span": [31, 624]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093034-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Ugandan coup d'\u00e9tat, Coup\nThe UK government may have orchestrated the Obote government coup. Obote was a supporter of independence for Southern Africa and chose to attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 1971 to oppose British weapons sales to apartheid South Africa. The decision was taken at the meeting to allow the British to continue the arms sale but the issue threatened to destroy the Commonwealth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 30], "content_span": [31, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093034-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Ugandan coup d'\u00e9tat, Coup\nUganda radio broadcasts accused the Obote government of corruption and said the army believed Obote's policies result in violence and accused him of giving preferential treatment to certain regions of the country. The broadcast was reportedly met with cheering crowds in the capital. After having seized control of the government, Amin moved to purge the military of political rivals, and ordered the murder of Acholi and Lango soldiers whom he suspected of being supportive of Obote. By 1972, about 5,000 of them had been killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 30], "content_span": [31, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093034-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Ugandan coup d'\u00e9tat, Aftermath\nAs he consolidated his power as military dictator, Amin ordered numerous purges against suspected opponents, resulting in 30,000 to 50,000 Ugandans killed over the years following the coup. Thousands consequently fled to Tanzania, where they joined Obote's dissidents. With the approval of President of Tanzania Julius Nyerere, these Ugandan exiles formed a small guerilla army, and invaded Uganda in 1972. The popular uprising against Amin they had hoped for failed to materialize, however, and the invasion was defeated. Nevertheless, the conflict resulted in a sharp deterioration of relations between Uganda and Tanzania, which ultimately contributed to the Uganda\u2013Tanzania War and the fall of Amin's regime in 1979.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 756]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093035-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Ulster Unionist Party leadership election\nThe 1971 Ulster Unionist Party leadership election was caused by the resignation of James Chichester-Clark, after he had failed to persuade the British Government to provide his government with more resources to quell the growing civil unrest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093035-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Ulster Unionist Party leadership election, Sources\nThis article about a political party in the United Kingdom is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 55], "content_span": [56, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093035-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Ulster Unionist Party leadership election, Sources\nThis Elections in Northern Ireland related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 55], "content_span": [56, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093036-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 United Kingdom census\nThe United Kingdom Census 1971 was a census of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland carried out on 25 April 1971. The census will be released after 100 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093036-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 United Kingdom census\nAccording to the preliminary general results of the census, the population of the United Kingdom on 25 April 1971 was as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093037-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 United Kingdom local elections\nLocal elections were held in the United Kingdom in 1971, the year after the Conservatives under Edward Heath had taken office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093037-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 United Kingdom local elections\nThe opposition Labour Party, which had lost the general election in the previous year, enjoyed its best results since the 1945 local elections. They were able to win wards in cities including Glasgow, Liverpool and Manchester which they had not even in 1945, as well as some wards they had not previously contested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093037-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 United Kingdom local elections\nThe Conservatives lost overall control of councils such as Harrow, Sutton, Basildon, Havant-Waterloo and Salford which had previously been considered safe for them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093037-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 United Kingdom local elections\nThe Liberals lost seats overall, despite making striking progress in Merseyside. Both the Scottish National Party and Plaid Cymru suffered very poor results.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093038-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 United Kingdom postal workers strike\nThe 1971 United Kingdom postal workers strike was a strike in the United Kingdom staged by postal workers between January and March 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093038-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 United Kingdom postal workers strike, Details\nThe strike was Britain's first national postal strike and began after postal workers demanded a pay rise of 15\u201320% then walked out after Post Office managers made a lower offer. The strike began on 20 January and lasted for seven weeks, finally ending with an agreement on Thursday 4 March. After voting over the weekend, the strikers returned to work on Monday 8 March 1971. The strike overlapped with the introduction of decimal currency in the UK.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 50], "content_span": [51, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093038-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 United Kingdom postal workers strike, Private posts\nA wide range of officially licensed and unlicensed private posts operated during the strike to fill the gap left by the withdrawal of official postal services. Some were genuine commercial services that provided local, national and international deliveries, but many were set up by stamp collectors and stamp dealers to provide philatelic material for collectors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 56], "content_span": [57, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093039-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 United Nations Secretary-General selection\nA United Nations Secretary-General selection was held in 1971 to succeed U Thant, who was stepping down after two full terms. Three candidates received enough votes in the Security Council to be selected Secretary-General: Carlos Ortiz de Rozas of Argentina, Kurt Waldheim of Austria, and Max Jakobson of Finland. However, all of the frontrunners were vetoed in the first two rounds of voting. In the third round, Waldheim accidentally escaped a triple-veto when three permanent members failed to coordinate their votes and all abstained. As a result, Kurt Waldheim was selected Secretary-General of the United Nations for a term starting 1 January 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 702]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093039-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 United Nations Secretary-General selection, Background\nThe Secretary-General of the United Nations is appointed by the General Assembly on the recommendation of the Security Council. Candidates for the office can be vetoed by any of the five permanent members. Members of NATO and the Warsaw Pact were not eligible for the job, as they would be vetoed by the opposing superpower. Only diplomats from neutral countries could expect to escape a veto.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 59], "content_span": [60, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093039-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 United Nations Secretary-General selection, Background\nOn 18 January 1971, Secretary-General U Thant announced that he would not seek another term. Thant had been serving as Secretary-General since 1961, when his predecessor Dag Hammarskj\u00f6ld died in a plane crash. The Soviet Union, France, and Third World countries wanted to draft Thant for at least one more year in office, as he had been strongly opposed to apartheid and colonialism. However, Thant declared that his decision was \"final and categorical,\" and he would not serve \"even for two months\" past the end of his term. The United States also opposed another term for Thant, citing his administrative shortcomings and his opposition to the Vietnam War.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 59], "content_span": [60, 718]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093039-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 United Nations Secretary-General selection, Campaign\nMax Jakobson of Finland entered the race on 20 January 1971. Jakobson had taken a strongly anti-colonial stance, winning him the support of the newly independent countries of Africa. He was supported by the United States and the United Kingdom, while France was troubled only by his inability to speak French. Jakobson had been praised privately by Arab diplomats for his fairness in chairing a committee on Palestinian refugees. However, the Arab countries and the Soviet Union expressed their belief that he would be subject to Zionist pressure because of his Jewish ancestry. Western diplomats believed that the Soviet Union actually opposed Jakobson because of his views on Finnish-Soviet relations, but Soviet diplomat Victor Israelyan revealed decades later that the Soviet Union vetoed Jakobson on behalf of the Arabs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 57], "content_span": [58, 883]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093039-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 United Nations Secretary-General selection, Campaign\nKurt Waldheim of Austria was long rumored to be interested in the position of Secretary-General. After losing the Austrian presidential election to the incumbent Franz Jonas in April 1971, Waldheim turned his efforts to the U.N. Secretary-Generalship. On 16 June 1971, Waldheim called on the U.S. Department of State to make it known that he would be available for the position. Unlike Jakobson, Waldheim spoke French fluently and could count on the French vote. Waldheim also counted on Soviet support in case Jakobson's candidacy began to falter. The United States was unenthusiastic about Waldheim, as his \"greatest asset\" and \"greatest liability\" was that he had no enemies and wouldn't do anything to make enemies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 57], "content_span": [58, 777]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093039-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 United Nations Secretary-General selection, Campaign\nGunnar Jarring of Sweden was a dark-horse candidate. Although Jakobson won Swedish endorsement as the Scandinavian candidate, the Soviet Union floated Jarring's name as a Scandinavian alternative.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 57], "content_span": [58, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093039-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 United Nations Secretary-General selection, Campaign\nFelipe Herrera of Chile picked up support late in the race as Latin American countries united behind his candidacy. Although Herrera had been nominated by the leftist Allende government, even Argentina's military junta committed to support him as the Latin American candidate. Herrera was well-regarded in Latin America as the former head of the Inter-American Development Bank, where he was known as a \"developmentalist\". However, the United States opposed any candidate nominated by the Allende government and felt that Herrera was \"a poor manager to boot\". On 20 October 1971, the United States instructed its ambassadors to tell Latin American Foreign Ministers, \"in deep confidence,\" that the U.S. could not support a Chilean candidate. On 5 November 1971, George Bush met with Herrera and revealed that the United States would not support his candidacy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 57], "content_span": [58, 917]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093039-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 United Nations Secretary-General selection, Campaign, Consultations of the permanent members\nIn past selections, the two superpowers had controlled the selection of the next Secretary-General. However, the 1971 selection was complicated by the uncertain status of the Chinese seat in the United Nations. On 20 November 1970, a majority of the General Assembly had voted to expel the Republic of China from the United Nations and replace it with the People's Republic of China. Although the vote had fallen short of the two-thirds required to take effect, supporters of Communist China were confident of victory in 1971. On 25 October 1971, two-thirds of the General Assembly voted to expel Nationalist China from the United Nations. The Chinese veto was placed in the hands of Communist China, a Third World country that was not aligned with either the United States or the Soviet Union.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 97], "content_span": [98, 892]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093039-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 United Nations Secretary-General selection, Campaign, Consultations of the permanent members\nThe United States and the Soviet Union avoided discussing the Secretary-Generalship as they waited to see what the Chinese position would be. From early in the race, Max Jakobson had presented himself as the only candidate who was acceptable to the People's Republic of China. The Chinese were publicly noncommittal on the selection of a Secretary-General. However, they revealed to the other permanent members that their top choices were Herrera and Jakobson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 97], "content_span": [98, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093039-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 United Nations Secretary-General selection, Campaign, Consultations of the permanent members\nOn 6 December 1971, the permanent members finally began meeting to discuss the selection of a Secretary-General. Despite Thant's \"final and unequivocal\" decision to step down, the Soviet Union expressed its desire to draft Thant for at least a few months to deal with the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. Although Thant had recently been treated at Leroy Hospital for a bleeding ulcer, Soviet ambassador Yakov Malik said that Thant could not be expected to be \"100 percent fit as an astronaut\" and needed two weeks of vacation. The U.S. and British ambassadors argued that Thant should be allowed to step down, and U.S. Secretary of State William P. Rogers instructed Bush to veto Thant if his name appeared on the ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 97], "content_span": [98, 815]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093039-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 United Nations Secretary-General selection, Voting\nOn 17 December 1971, the Security Council met in closed session to vote on the selection of a Secretary-General. The vote was taken by secret ballot, with the permanent members voting on red ballots and the rotating members voting on white ballots. Although Jakobson had been presumed the frontrunner for the past 11 months, Kurt Waldheim was the only candidate to win the required 9-vote majority. However, Waldheim was vetoed by China and the United Kingdom. Felipe Herrera of Chile was kept on the ballot at Chinese and Soviet insistence. Every candidate was vetoed except Gunnar Jarring of Sweden, who became the presumed frontrunner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 55], "content_span": [56, 694]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093039-0011-0000", "contents": "1971 United Nations Secretary-General selection, Voting\nOn 20 December 1971, Waldheim continued to lead with 11 votes but was vetoed by China. Carlos Ortiz de Rozas arrived on the ballot with a surprisingly-strong 10 votes but was vetoed by the Soviet Union. Jakobson received the required minimum of 9 votes but was vetoed by the Soviet Union. Jarring managed only 7 votes and received a double-veto, including one from China. Every candidate received at least one veto, and one candidate was even vetoed by four permanent members. Diplomats expected the veto duel to continue in the third round of voting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 55], "content_span": [56, 607]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093039-0012-0000", "contents": "1971 United Nations Secretary-General selection, Voting, Accidental Waldheim victory\nOn 21 December 1971, the U.S. and British delegations received instructions from their governments to prevent Kurt Waldheim from being selected in that day's voting. Since both countries had voted in favor of Waldheim on 20 December 1971, they decided to abstain if they were \"reasonably certain\" that the Chinese would veto Waldheim again. U.S. ambassador George H. W. Bush asked British ambassador Colin Crowe to talk to the Chinese, but Crowe thought that it would \"only arouse suspicion\". Instead, they asked the Norwegian and Finnish ambassadors how the Chinese would vote, receiving assurances that the Chinese would continue to veto Waldheim. Bush also talked to Jakobson, who said that the Chinese would veto Waldheim \"all the way through\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 84], "content_span": [85, 833]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093039-0013-0000", "contents": "1971 United Nations Secretary-General selection, Voting, Accidental Waldheim victory\nIn the third round of voting, Carlos Ortiz de Rozas moved into the lead with 12 votes but was vetoed by the Soviet Union. Waldheim came in second with 11 votes but received no vetoes. To the surprise of the Americans and British, the Chinese abstained instead of vetoing Waldheim. As a result, Kurt Waldheim was selected as Secretary-General of the United Nations for a term beginning on 1 January 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 84], "content_span": [85, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093039-0014-0000", "contents": "1971 United Nations Secretary-General selection, Conclusions\nThe Austrian campaign for Kurt Waldheim was successful even though he was \"regarded as lacking sufficient stature and drive to be taken seriously\". French ambassador Jacques Kosciusco-Morizet said that it was \"not enough to have a candidate against whom there is no objection. A candidate for SYG [Secretary-General] should also have something in his favor.\" British ambassador Colin Crowe disagreed that Waldheim was even \"non-objectionable\". However, Waldheim received strong diplomatic backing from Austria's Social Democratic government under Bruno Kreisky, even though Waldheim was from the opposition Austrian People's Party. Waldheim was also favored by the Soviet Union. During a dinner at Waldheim's house, Soviet ambassador Yakov Malik proposed a toast to the host, \"May all your wishes come true.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 60], "content_span": [61, 869]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093039-0015-0000", "contents": "1971 United Nations Secretary-General selection, Conclusions\nThe Finnish campaign for Max Jakobson was marked by a number of missteps. Although Finland sought the support of the other Scandinavian countries, Swedish diplomat Gunnar Jarring was also nominated and became the only candidate to receive no vetoes in the first round. Jakobson was Jewish and drew opposition from the Arab countries, but Jarring had been the U.N. Special Representative in the Middle East and tried to arrange an Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai. Jakobson's views on Finnish neutrality also drew Soviet opposition, while Jarring was Sweden's ambassador to the Soviet Union. Finland pressured Sweden to withdraw Jarring from the race, but Swedish neutrality made it difficult to withdraw a candidate who was supported by one of the superpowers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 60], "content_span": [61, 822]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093039-0016-0000", "contents": "1971 United Nations Secretary-General selection, Conclusions\nWaldheim was selected because of a miscalculation by the U.S. and U.K. delegations. On 20 December 1971, George Bush received contradictory information about the Chinese position on Waldheim. The Finnish and Norwegian delegations claimed that China would \"veto Waldheim to the bitter end\". However, the Austrian and Italian delegations claimed that the Chinese would drop their veto if their preferred candidate could not win. Bush felt that Norwegian ambassador Ole \u00c5lg\u00e5rd had \"proven to be most accurate forecaster of PRC positions\". The next day, the U.S. and U.K. acted on this belief by abstaining on Waldheim instead of vetoing him, discovering to their surprise that China also abstained.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 60], "content_span": [61, 756]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093039-0017-0000", "contents": "1971 United Nations Secretary-General selection, Conclusions\nAfter the surprise victory of Kurt Waldheim, the British and Italian delegations criticized Finnish \"overconfidence\" that led to \"inaccurate Finnish statements concerning positions of alleged supporters\". In addition to getting the Chinese position wrong, Finland had also claimed that the Soviet Union would not veto Jakobson, and Sweden would withdraw Jarring. Finland also claimed that the Soviet Union would not veto their candidate and said that the U.S. and U.K. had \"let them down\" by not vetoing Waldheim. The French were \"furious\" when the Finns accused them of vetoing Jakobson in the first round, as they had actually abstained.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 60], "content_span": [61, 700]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093040-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 United Nations Security Council election\nThe 1971 United Nations Security Council election was held on 23 November 1971 during the Twenty-sixth session of the United Nations General Assembly, held at United Nations Headquarters in New York City. The General Assembly elected Guinea, India, Panama, Sudan, and Yugoslavia, as the five new non-permanent members of the UN Security Council for two-year mandates commencing on 1 January 1972. It was the first election of Guinea and Sudan into the council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093040-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 United Nations Security Council election, Rules\nThe Security Council has 15 seats, filled by five permanent members and ten non-permanent members. Each year, half of the non-permanent members are elected for two-year terms. A sitting member may not immediately run for re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 52], "content_span": [53, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093040-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 United Nations Security Council election, Rules\nIn accordance with the rules whereby the ten non-permanent UNSC seats rotate among the various regional blocs into which UN member states traditionally divide themselves for voting and representation purposes, the five available seats are allocated as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 52], "content_span": [53, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093040-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 United Nations Security Council election, Rules\nTo be elected, a candidate must receive a two-thirds majority of those present and voting. If the vote is inconclusive after the first round, three rounds of restricted voting shall take place, followed by three rounds of unrestricted voting, and so on, until a result has been obtained. In restricted voting, only official candidates may be voted on, while in unrestricted voting, any member of the given regional group, with the exception of current Council members, may be voted on.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 52], "content_span": [53, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093040-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 United Nations Security Council election, Result\nThe election was managed by then-President of the United Nations General Assembly Adam Malik of Indonesia. The United Nations had 131 member states at this time (for a timeline of UN membership, see Enlargement of the United Nations). There were no nomination prior to the vote. Delegates were to write the names of the five member states they wished elected on the ballot papers. Voting was conducted on a single ballot. 116 ballot papers were used.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093041-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 United States Grand Prix\nThe 1971 United States Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on October 3, 1971, at the Watkins Glen Grand Prix Race Course in Watkins Glen, New York. It was race 11 of 11 in both the 1971 World Championship of Drivers and the 1971 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers. The 59-lap race was won by Tyrrell driver Fran\u00e7ois Cevert after he started from fifth position. Jo Siffert finished second for the BRM team and March driver Ronnie Peterson came in third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093041-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 United States Grand Prix, Summary\nJackie Stewart's domination in 1971 clinched his second Driver's Championship with three races remaining, but the final round belonged to his Tyrrell teammate, Fran\u00e7ois Cevert. The Frenchman took the lead from Stewart on lap 14 and went on to claim his only career win, the first GP victory for a French driver since Maurice Trintignant in 1958.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093041-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 United States Grand Prix, Summary\nAs usual, the American race attracted a large field of entrants, despite it being the last race of the year and both Championships having long been wrapped up. It seemed nearly every spare works F1 car and quite a few independents, as well, were present to try for a share of the $267,000 in prize money, easily the richest purse in F1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093041-0002-0001", "contents": "1971 United States Grand Prix, Summary\nUnfortunately, the two most popular American drivers, Mario Andretti and Mark Donohue, who was fresh from a stunning third place finish in Canada in his Formula One debut, were committed to drive on Sunday in a USAC race which had incomprehensibly been rescheduled to the GP weekend after a previous rainout. The two drivers qualified, Andretti in a Ferrari and Donohue in a McLaren shared with David Hobbs, hoping for more rain in New Jersey and the chance to return for the race on Sunday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093041-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 United States Grand Prix, Summary\nSince the previous year's race, the course had been resurfaced, widened and, most significantly, lengthened by a mile to 3.377 miles with an entirely new section at the southwest corner called the \"Boot\" or \"Anvil\". The pits were also moved from the north end straight back before the right angle turn known as \"The 90,\" which now became Turn One.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093041-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 United States Grand Prix, Summary\nFriday was sunny and hot (105\u00a0\u00b0F (41\u00a0\u00b0C)), and Stewart jumped immediately to the top of the charts with a time of 1:42.844, as the times were recorded to a thousandth of a second for the first time. On Saturday, with the temperature now 110\u00b0 and both Goodyear's and Firestone's qualifying tires breaking down after a few laps, Emerson Fittipaldi pipped Stewart's time from the day before, but the Scot returned to the track and grabbed the pole by .017 of a second. Denny Hulme joined them on the front row in his McLaren, followed by Clay Regazzoni's Ferrari, Cevert and the soon-to-be-absent Andretti. American Peter Revson qualified nineteenth in the third Tyrrell. It was his only race for Tyrrell and his first Grand Prix since 1964.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 777]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093041-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 United States Grand Prix, Summary, Race\nSunday was dry in both upstate New York and Trenton, and word came that the USAC race would go on, dismaying both the crowd and the organizers, who were robbed of seeing two of the country's best road racers. At the start, Hulme jumped into the lead, ahead of Cevert and Stewart, but by the end of the first lap, Stewart led Hulme, Cevert, Regazzoni, Jo Siffert, Jacky Ickx, Chris Amon and Fittipaldi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093041-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 United States Grand Prix, Summary, Race\nAt first, Stewart was able to open a gap back to the following group, now headed by his teammate, but after ten laps, his tires began to go off and the gap closed. The Scot realized that Cevert's Goodyears were holding up much better in the heat, and when Cevert closed up right behind him, he waved him by on lap 14. Hulme was now struggling with a terrible vibration in his tires and was passed, first by Ickx, then Regazzoni and Siffert. On lap 15, American Sam Posey, in his first Grand Prix, retired from a fine run with a blown piston in his Surtees. By the time Ickx could get around Stewart on lap 17, Cevert's lead was 5.7 seconds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 685]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093041-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 United States Grand Prix, Summary, Race\nAt about half-distance, Cevert finally began to struggle with the same understeer that had plagued Stewart much earlier. Ickx was closing, and his Firestones were getting better as the race went on. On lap 43, the Belgian set the fastest lap of the race, and the gap was down to 2.2 seconds. Then, on lap 49, the Ferrari's alternator fell off, punching a hole in the gearbox and spilling oil all over the track! Hulme hit the oil and spun into the barrier, bending his front suspension. He was standing beside the track when Cevert came by and also hit the barrier, but kept going, now 29 seconds in the lead!", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 654]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093041-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 United States Grand Prix, Summary, Race\nJo Siffert was now in second place and 33 seconds clear of Ronnie Peterson. With four laps to go, however, Siffert began to run low on fuel. The Swede took huge chunks off the gap as Siffert jerked the BRM from side to side, trying to use every remaining drop of fuel. Cevert coasted home, taking both hands off the wheel to wave as he crossed the line, and Siffert weaved his way around to hold second place by four seconds over Peterson's March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093041-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 United States Grand Prix, Summary, Race\nAfter taking the checkered flag, Cevert gave a nod to his teammate. \"I feel pretty good with a $50,000 win. I followed Stewart in the beginning and was flagged on ahead. Jackie Stewart is a very sensible driver and a very good teacher. He let me go through.\" While it was the first race on the expanded Watkins Glen track, it was the third year in a row that The Glen had rewarded a driver with his first career victory. This was Cevert\u2019s only victory in Formula One.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093042-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 United States House of Representatives election in District of Columbia\nThe 1971 special congressional election for the Delegate from the District of Columbia was held on March 23, 1971. This was the first election for the newly re-created district since Norton P. Chipman (R) briefly held the seat during the Reconstruction Era. The winner of the race was Walter E. Fauntroy (D). After serving his remaining term in the 92nd United States Congress, he would continue to be re-elected until he stepped down to run for mayor in the 1990 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 76], "section_span": [76, 76], "content_span": [77, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093042-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 United States House of Representatives election in District of Columbia\nThe non-voting delegate to the United States House of Representatives from the District of Columbia is elected for two-year terms, as are all other Representatives and Delegates minus the Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico, who is elected to a four-year term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 76], "section_span": [76, 76], "content_span": [77, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093042-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 United States House of Representatives election in District of Columbia, Candidates\nWalter E. Fauntroy, a Democrat, sought election for his first term to the United States House of Representatives. Fauntroy was opposed in this election by Republican challenger John A. Nevius, who received 25.08%, and Statehood Party candidate Julius Hobson who received 13.23%. This resulted in Fauntroy being elected with 58.44% of the vote. This is the lowest percentage that a Democratic candidate has received in any election to the District of Columbia's at-large congressional district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 76], "section_span": [78, 88], "content_span": [89, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093043-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 United States House of Representatives elections\nThere were elections in 1971 to the United States House of Representatives:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093043-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 United States House of Representatives elections\nThis American elections-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093044-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 United States gubernatorial elections\nIn Mississippi and Kentucky, general elections took place on 2 November 1971. In Louisiana, their general election took place on 1 February 1972 after the party primaries on 6 November 1971 and a Democratic primary runoff on 18 December 1971. In Louisiana, this was the last gubernatorial election which didn't use the nonpartisan blanket primary system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093044-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 United States gubernatorial elections\nIn Mississippi and Louisiana, there were no party changes (in both cases, from Democrat to Democrat). In Kentucky, there was a Democratic gain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093044-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 United States gubernatorial elections\nIn Kentucky, Louie B. Nunn wasn't allowed to run for a second term under the term limits rule at the time, a rule that was changed in 1992.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093044-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 United States gubernatorial elections\nIn Mississippi, John Bell Williams was also barred from a second term under the term limits rule at the time, a rule that was changed in the mid-1980s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093044-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 United States gubernatorial elections\nIn Louisiana, John McKeithen had been allowed a second term due to a new rule enacted that allowed governors two consecutive terms, and thus wasallowed to run for a second term (see Louisiana gubernatorial election, 1967). Thus, when the 1971 race rolled around, he too was term-limited.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093044-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 United States gubernatorial elections, Election results\nA bolded state name features an article about the specific election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 60], "content_span": [61, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093045-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Uruguayan Primera Divisi\u00f3n, Overview\nIt was contested by 12 teams, and Nacional won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093046-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Uruguayan general election\nGeneral elections were held in Uruguay on 28 November 1971, alongside a double referendum. The result was a victory for the Colorado Party, which won the presidency and the most seats in the Chamber of Deputies and Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093046-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Uruguayan general election\nWilson Ferreira Aldunate of the National Party received the most votes of any individual candidate. However, the combined Colorado vote exceeded the combined National vote by just over 12,000 votes, resulting in Juan Maria Bordaberry being elected president. Under the Ley de Lemas system in effect at the time, the highest-finishing candidate of the party that won the most votes was elected president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093046-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Uruguayan general election\nFifteen months after taking office, Bordaberry carried out a self-coup, closing down the General Assembly and giving the military and police full powers to restore order. This marked the start of a civic-military dictatorship that ruled the country until the next free elections in 1984.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093047-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Uruguayan referendum\nA double referendum was held in Uruguay on 28 November 1971 alongside general elections. Voters were asked whether they approved of two proposals; one to allow presidents to seek immediate re-election for a second term, and one that would force the President to resign if any government ministers were found guilty of violating the law. Both were rejected by voters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093047-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Uruguayan referendum, Proposals\nThe proposal to allow Presidents to seek immediate re-election for a second term was put forward by the Battlista faction of the Colorado Party in the General Assembly. It had been inspired by the National Re-electionista Union supporting President Jorge Pacheco Areco.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093047-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Uruguayan referendum, Proposals\nThe proposal to force the President to resign if any government minister was found guilty of violating the law was put forward a popular initiative.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093048-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Utah Redskins football team\nThe 1971 Utah Redskins football team was an American football team that represented the University of Utah during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. Head coach Bill Meek led the team to a 3\u20134 mark in the WAC and 3\u20138 overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093049-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Utah State Aggies football team\nThe 1971 Utah State Aggies football team was an American football team that represented Utah State University as an independent during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. In their fifth season under head coach Chuck Mills, the Aggies compiled an 8\u20133 record and outscored all opponents 243 to 183.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093049-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Utah State Aggies football team\nThe team's statistical leaders included Tony Adams with 2,035 passing yards, Ed Giles with 510 rushing yards, Bob Wicks with 862 receiving yards, Jerry Hughes with 60 points scored (six touchdowns), Alan McMurray \"Madpup\" (soph all american) lead team with 104 tackles, (record 19.5 sacks) and Tom Murphy with 81 total tackles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093049-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Utah State Aggies football team\nIn December, the team traveled to Japan for two games against Japanese university students. The Aggies were the first American college football team to play a game in Japan since the sport was introduced there in the 1910s. The American players reportedly had a height advantage of twelve inches (30\u00a0cm) and a weight advantage of fifty pounds (23\u00a0kg) per player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093050-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 VFA Grand Final\nThe 1971 VFA Division 1 Grand Final was an Australian rules football match played between the Dandenong Redlegs and the Preston Bullants. The match was held on Sunday 26 September 1971 at the Junction Oval in St Kilda, Victoria, to decide Division 1 Premiership for the 1971 Victorian Football Association season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093050-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 VFA Grand Final\nThe match was one of the most controversial in the history of the VFA. Dandenong won the match by six points; however, Preston challenged the result, on the grounds that a free kick paid to Dandenong full-forward Jim Miller before the opening bounce was not valid under the rules of the game. It was not until Preston's challenge was defeated on the evening of Wednesday 29 September that Dandenong was formally confirmed as premiers. It was Dandenong's second VFA Division 1 premiership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093050-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 VFA Grand Final, Lead-up\nThe Dandenong Redlegs and Preston Bullants had both been promoted from Division 2 to Division 1 in the early 1960s, and had enjoyed success in Division 1 through the latter part of the decade. Dandenong won its first premiership in 1967, and Preston won its first premiership in 1968. The two teams then faced each other in the 1969 Grand Final, which Preston won by twelve points to secure back-to-back flags. Both sides missed the finals in 1970, but returned to the top of the ladder in 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 29], "content_span": [30, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093050-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 VFA Grand Final, Lead-up\nAt the end of the 1971 home and away season, Preston finished as minor premiers with a record of 13-4-1; Dandenong finished second with a record of 12\u20136. The teams had met in the final round of the home and away season, in a vigorous and spiteful match which included two brawls; Preston won the match by 14 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 29], "content_span": [30, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093050-0003-0001", "contents": "1971 VFA Grand Final, Lead-up\nThe two teams faced off in the Second Semi-Final on 12 September, with Dandenong winning easily; the result was effectively decided by quarter time, when Dandenong led 12.2 (74) to 1.2 (8) by 66 points; the Redlegs eventually won 24.11 (155) to 11.15 (81), by 74 points, with Jim Miller kicking ten goals. Preston faced Sandringham in the Preliminary Final on 19 September, and survived a late comeback to beat the Zebras, 17.17 (119) to 14.21 (105), by 14 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 29], "content_span": [30, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093050-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 VFA Grand Final, Lead-up\nThe field umpire for the Grand Final was Jim McMaster. The match was played at the Junction Oval in St Kilda, a neutral venue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 29], "content_span": [30, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093050-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 VFA Grand Final, Match report\nPrior to the opening bounce, and prior to the opening siren, umpire McMaster observed jostling between Dandenong full-forward Jim Miller and Preston full-back Barry Leslie. Without bouncing the ball, McMaster paid a free kick against Leslie for a push in the back, from which Miller scored the opening goal of the game, giving Dandenong an early six-point lead. This free kick would ultimately be the subject of Preston's challenge to the match result.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093050-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 VFA Grand Final, Match report\nDandenong was kicking with the aid of a breeze in the first quarter, and controlled general play to lead by 28 points at quarter time, although wasteful goalkicking saw the Redlegs score only 7.8 (50) from its fifteen scoring shots. The sides also resumed their hostilities from the final round of the season, with a brawl started after only six minutes had elapsed. With the advantage of the wind in the second quarter, Preston kicked five goals to three to narrow the margin to 14 points at half-time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093050-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 VFA Grand Final, Match report\nIn a low-scoring third quarter, Dandenong kicked two goals to one with the wind, to lead by 21 points. Several brawls and fights took place in the third quarter, and three players \u2013 Jim Miller and Lyall Henriksen from Dandenong, and Robert Ireland from Preston \u2013 were reported for striking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093050-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 VFA Grand Final, Match report\nPreston had the better of attack in the final quarter; they kicked four quick goals late in the game, and at the 22-minute mark, after trailing for the entire afternoon, hit the front by one point. In the close finish, Pat Flaherty kicked a goal to regain the lead for Dandenong by five points, and then kicked another behind to extend the lead to six. There was no further score, the final siren sounded, and Dandenong won the game by six points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093050-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 VFA Grand Final, Match report\nOverall, Dandenong rover Rod Evans was credited as the best on ground for the Redlegs. Ruckman Bernie McCarthy was the Bullants' best player, and Preston's final quarter fightback is largely credited to McCarthy's good ruckwork. Miller was the leading goalkicker on the ground, with five; he finished with 99 goals for the 1971 season, including finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093050-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 VFA Grand Final, Protest\nThe evening after the game, Preston club secretary Alf Rowe informed the VFA that the club would protest the result of the game; a formal protest was lodged on the morning of Monday 27 September. The basis of Preston's protest was that the free kick paid to Miller prior to the opening bounce was invalid, because umpire McMaster had not formally started the match when he paid it. Preston contended that Miller's goal should be removed from the scorecard, the final score amended to 92\u201392, and the premiership decided by a grand final replay the following Sunday. Preston did not at any stage attempt to argue that Leslie had not pushed Miller in the back, only that he should not have been penalised for doing so because the game had not yet started.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 29], "content_span": [30, 782]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093050-0011-0000", "contents": "1971 VFA Grand Final, Protest\nThe protest was heard by a meeting of the VFA Board of Management on the evening of Wednesday 29 September. The Board of Management had a total of 44 members, including two delegates from each of the 20 VFA clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 29], "content_span": [30, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093050-0012-0000", "contents": "1971 VFA Grand Final, Protest, Relevant rules and customs\nPreston's protest was based primarily on Rule 6(b) which described the commencement of play as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 57], "content_span": [58, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093050-0013-0000", "contents": "1971 VFA Grand Final, Protest, Relevant rules and customs\nPreston's contention was that because the ball had not been bounced, the match had not started when the free kick was paid, making it invalid. Media reports on the protest also made reference to Rule 17(a), which stated:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 57], "content_span": [58, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093050-0014-0000", "contents": "1971 VFA Grand Final, Protest, Relevant rules and customs\nalthough it is not immediately clear how this rule interacts with the start of the game as defined in Rule 6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 57], "content_span": [58, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093050-0015-0000", "contents": "1971 VFA Grand Final, Protest, Relevant rules and customs\nVFA umpires' advisor Andrew O'Neill testified during the Board of Management meeting that, regardless of the precise interpretation of Rule 6(b), umpires were formally advised that free kicks could be paid between the opening whistle and the opening bounce \u2013 and therefore that the game is thought to commence at the opening whistle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 57], "content_span": [58, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093050-0016-0000", "contents": "1971 VFA Grand Final, Protest, Relevant rules and customs\nFinally, it was testified that it was common practice (although not necessarily explicit in the rules) for an umpire to confirm that the timekeepers are ready by holding the ball above his head, and waiting for the timekeepers to sound the siren \u2013 after which he blows the opening whistle, followed by executing the opening bounce.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 57], "content_span": [58, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093050-0017-0000", "contents": "1971 VFA Grand Final, Protest, Evidence related to the start of the game\nThe Board of Management meeting was hindered by the fact that a technical error meant there was no video footage of the first few minutes of the match; as such, all evidence presented at the meeting was verbal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 72], "content_span": [73, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093050-0018-0000", "contents": "1971 VFA Grand Final, Protest, Evidence related to the start of the game\nAccording to McMaster's testimony, he blew the opening whistle once he was convinced that the teams were ready. However, the timekeepers did not sound the opening siren until McMaster was already in the Dandenong forward-line handing the ball to Miller; this contributed significantly to the confusion about whether or not the game had started.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 72], "content_span": [73, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093050-0018-0001", "contents": "1971 VFA Grand Final, Protest, Evidence related to the start of the game\nThe confusion was caused by the fact that McMaster had not effectively held the ball above his head and waited for the timekeepers to sound the siren, as was the normal custom; Preston timekeeper Len Herman said that he did not see McMaster lift the ball at all, which Preston captain Laurie Hill agreed with, while The Sun News-Pictorial reporter Murray Hubbard reported that McMaster had \"half-raised the ball\" before blowing his whistle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 72], "content_span": [73, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093050-0019-0000", "contents": "1971 VFA Grand Final, Protest, Evidence related to the start of the game\nMcMaster testified that he saw Leslie push Miller as he was still blowing his opening whistle \u2013 which, by O'Neill's advice, allowed him to pay the free kick, regardless of whether or not the siren had sounded. He then immediately blew his whistle a second time to signify the free kick, and ran to the Dandenong forward-line to give the ball to Miller. Witnesses had different accounts on whether or not they heard McMaster blow the opening whistle, or were able to discern it from the free kick whistle. Dandenong timekeeper, Graham Way, testified that although he did not hear the opening whistle, he did see McMaster appear to blow it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 72], "content_span": [73, 711]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093050-0020-0000", "contents": "1971 VFA Grand Final, Protest, David Sheehan's after-the-siren opportunity\nShortly before the final siren, Dandenong's David Sheehan had taken a mark in Dandenong's forward-line, roughly 30 yards out, directly in front; even considering the wind, Sheehan could easily have scored from this distance. When the siren sounded with Dandenong in front, Sheehan threw the ball away, went to celebrate with his team-mates, and did not take the after-the-siren kick for goal to which he was entitled. Had Sheehan taken his kick, any score would have pushed the final margin beyond six points, and it is almost certain that Preston would not have protested the result.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 74], "content_span": [75, 659]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093050-0021-0000", "contents": "1971 VFA Grand Final, Protest, Reaction to the protest\nDandenong reacted with anger towards Preston's protest. Dandenong club secretary, Lionel Farrow, made it clear that his club believed Preston was behaving as a sore loser \u2013 particularly considering the circumstances surrounding David Sheehan's after-the-siren opportunity. Many Dandenong players publicly stated that they would boycott any replay, and the team did not continue its training during the week, so it is questionable whether or not a replay would ever have occurred. Many players were unhappy that the glory and celebration of their premiership were ruined by the uncertainty of the protest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 54], "content_span": [55, 659]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093050-0022-0000", "contents": "1971 VFA Grand Final, Protest, Reaction to the protest\nPreston coach Kevin Wright made it clear that the decision to protest was made at the club administrative level, and that he and his players were prepared to accept the six-point defeat without challenge. Nevertheless, the team continued its training through the week in case the protest was successful.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 54], "content_span": [55, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093050-0023-0000", "contents": "1971 VFA Grand Final, Protest, Reaction to the protest\nIn the uncertainty that followed the protest, the VFA postponed its tribunal session, such that the three players who were reported in the third quarter would have been permitted to play if a replay had eventuated, with their cases to be heard the following week. The VFA also secured the availability of the Junction Oval from the St Kilda Cricket Club for a replay on the Sunday, which would have delayed the opening of St Kilda's district cricket season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 54], "content_span": [55, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093050-0024-0000", "contents": "1971 VFA Grand Final, Protest, Decision\nFollowing the Board of Management meeting, which lasted 2\u00bd hours, Preston's protest was rejected, and Dandenong was formally confirmed as the 1971 Division 1 Premiers. The board ruled in Dandenong's favour by an overwhelming majority, listed in different sources as either 39\u20135 or 40\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093050-0025-0000", "contents": "1971 VFA Grand Final, Protest, Decision\nIt is unclear whether the decision was based solely on Preston's arguments concerning the application of Rule 6(b), or whether other factors \u2013 such as the breakdown in umpire-timekeeper communication, the circumstances of Sheehan's after-the-siren opportunity, or Dandenong's threats that it could boycott the replay \u2013 were taken into account by Board of Management delegates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093050-0026-0000", "contents": "1971 VFA Grand Final, Historical context\nThis was not the first incident of this type at the top level of the game. In the WAFL Grand Final of 1907 between East Fremantle and Perth, legendary umpire Henry \"Ivo\" Crapp awarded a free kick to East Fremantle's Chas Doig at half time, from which Doig scored a goal; East Fremantle initially won the match by five points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 40], "content_span": [41, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093050-0027-0000", "contents": "1971 VFA Grand Final, Historical context\nHowever, Perth lodged a protest with the league, contending that Crapp blew his whistle for Doig's free kick after the half-time bell had sounded, and therefore play was dead and the free kick was invalid \u2013 similar to the argument put forward by Preston concerning the commencement of its game. In that case, Perth's protest was upheld, the score was amended, and Perth was awarded the premiership by one point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 40], "content_span": [41, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093050-0028-0000", "contents": "1971 VFA Grand Final, Historical context\nUnder the 2011 version of the Laws of the Game, it is made explicit in Law 15.1.3(a) that an umpire may award a free kick for any infringement which takes place on the playing surface prior to the commencement of a quarter. Under this modern version of the Laws, Preston would have had no case for a challenge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 40], "content_span": [41, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093050-0029-0000", "contents": "1971 VFA Grand Final, Historical context\nMiller's goal and Preston's protest have left a legacy, with the incident celebrated as one of Australian rules football's 150 greatest moments, released coinciding with the 150th anniversary of the sport in 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 40], "content_span": [41, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093051-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 VFA season\nThe 1971 Victorian Football Association season was the 90th season of the top division of the Australian rules football competition, and the eleventh season of second division competition. The Division 1 premiership was won by the Dandenong Football Club, after it defeated Preston in the Grand Final on 26 September by six points, and after a formal protest by Preston against the result of the Grand Final was dismissed on 29 September; it was Dandenong's second Division 1 premiership. The Division 2 premiership was won by Sunshine; it was the club's first and only premiership in either division in its time in the Association, and came in its ninth consecutive appearance in the Division 2 finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 719]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093051-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 VFA season, Division 1\nThe Division 1 home-and-home season was played over 18 rounds; the top four then contested the finals under the Page\u2013McIntyre system. The finals were played at the St Kilda Cricket Ground.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093051-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 VFA season, Division 1, Grand Final\nDandenong defeated Preston in the Grand Final by six points. However, following the match, Preston formally protested the result, on the grounds that umpire Jim McMaster had paid a free kick to Dandenong full-forward Jim Miller, from which a goal was scored, before the opening bounce was executed and therefore before the game had officially begun \u2013 which Preston contended made the free kick invalid and the resultant goal void. Preston's protest was heard by the Board of Management on the evening of Wednesday 29 September, and was dismissed by an overwhelming majority, formally confirming Dandenong as premiers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 40], "content_span": [41, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093051-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 VFA season, Division 2\nThe Division 2 home-and-home season was played over eighteen rounds; the top four then contested the finals under the Page\u2013McIntyre system; all finals were played on Sundays at Toorak Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093052-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 VFL Grand Final\nThe 1971 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Hawthorn Football Club and St Kilda Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 25 September 1971. It was the 75th annual grand final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1971 VFL season. The match, attended 118,192 spectators, was won by Hawthorn by a margin of 7 points, marking that club's second premiership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093052-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 VFL Grand Final, Background\nThis was St Kilda's first appearance in a premiership decider since winning the 1966 VFL Grand Final, while for Hawthorn it was their first since losing the 1963 VFL Grand Final. Both clubs were aiming for their second premiership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093052-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 VFL Grand Final, Background\nAt the conclusion of the regular home-and-away season, Hawthorn had finished first on the ladder with 19 wins and 3 losses. St Kilda had finished second with 16 wins and 6 losses. Hawthorn's Peter Hudson was the leading goal-kicker in the competition with 140 goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093052-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 VFL Grand Final, Background\nIn the finals series leading up to the grand final, Hawthorn met St Kilda in the second semi final, Hawthorn dominated early with Hudson kicking 7 goals to be well clear by three quarter time. St Kilda staged a fightback to lose by only two points. Hawtorn's victory sent them straight through to the grand final. St Kilda, after this loss, defeated Richmond by 30 points in the preliminary final to match up with Hawthorn in the premiership decider.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093052-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 VFL Grand Final, Match summary\nThe match was played in wet conditions and it was probably the toughest grand final ever played. Both sides dished out physical punishment and copped it as well. It was an evenly fought contest throughout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 35], "content_span": [36, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093052-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, 1st quarter\nHawthorn started well with star full forward Peter Hudson kicking two goals early in the term. St Kilda's fullback Bob Murray was hurt early, and then Cowboy Neale clashed heavily with Hudson leaving Hudson with double vision for the rest of the game. Murray was moved to full forward and Barry Lawrence was moved onto Hawthorn's Hudson and kept him well in check. Les Hawken who had a fitness test earlier in the week hurt his ankle again after a clash with Carl Ditterich and was replaced by Ken Beck.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 48], "content_span": [49, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093052-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, 2nd quarter\nThe rain was relentless and Peter Crimmins kicked an early goal, Murray was replaced by Stephen Rae and Hawthorn's Robert Day was crunched by Neil Besanko in a marking contest. St Kilda managed to inch ahead with goals to John Manzie and Barry Breen. Hudson with concussion kicked his third after a in the back free kick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 48], "content_span": [49, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093052-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, 3rd quarter\nIn the Hawthorn rooms, both Hudson and Robert Day were suffering from concussion, Day being worst, was replaced at half time by Ray Wilson. As no one else could replace Hudson he played on. The Saints were two points up at half time and had the better of the third term. John Bonney goaled from a mark within thirty seconds. Bonney again goaled five minutes later after a free 30 metres out in front.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 48], "content_span": [49, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093052-0007-0001", "contents": "1971 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, 3rd quarter\nBarry Breen goaled after being disallowed a mark and playing on, and then Ross Smith kicked the Saints' fourth goal and they led by twenty seven points by the fifteen-minute mark. A late snap from Leon Rice kicked the Hawks' only goal for the quarter and reduced St Kilda's lead to 20 points at three quarter time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 48], "content_span": [49, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093052-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Final quarter\nAt the 3/4 time address John Kennedy told Bob Keddie \" You'll have to win this for us. Bob! \", Keddie had been quiet with only five touches. Keddie was moved to full-forward and Hudson out to centre-half-forward, Matthews goaled with a long shot from a free, Moore became unpassable across half back and Keddie kicked his first goal from a snap in the goal square. Crimmins kicked the Hawks' third in three minutes from a running snap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 50], "content_span": [51, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093052-0008-0001", "contents": "1971 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Final quarter\nKeddie added two points to level the scores, a minute later Keddie marked on the edge of the goal square, he goaled and the Hawks regained the lead. After another long arm-wrestle Don Scott gathers the ball at half forward and a mongrel kick rolls through for Hawthorn's 10th goal. Keddie outmanoeuvres three opponents to snap his third goal. St Kilda's John Bonney goals straight after the restart. Another Hawthorn forward thrust and Keddie marks in the goal square, he handballs to Hudson but the goal is disallowed as Keddie had moved over his mark. Keddie goals and becomes Hawthorn's match winner with four goals in the space of 16 minutes during the last quarter. Hawks led by nineteen points at the nineteen-minute mark of the final quarter. Goals to St Kilda's Allan Davis and Barry Breen reduced the final margin to seven points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 50], "content_span": [51, 891]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093052-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Final quarter\nThe Hawks scored 7.3 in the quarter to the Saints' three straight goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 50], "content_span": [51, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093052-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Final quarter\nGoing into the game, Hudson needed four goals to surpass Bob Pratt's record for most goals in a VFL season but only managed to kick three which left him level with Pratt on 150 goals. Late in the game he had a set shot on goal to break the record but kicked the ball into the man on the mark, Barry Lawrence. His last attempt for the record, had Hudson kicking out of bounds on the full after running towards an open goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 50], "content_span": [51, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093052-0011-0000", "contents": "1971 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Final quarter\nHawthorn's next success came five years later, when they won the 1976 VFL Grand Final against North Melbourne. It would take another 26 years for St Kilda to appear in another premiership decider, when they were defeated by Adelaide in the 1997 AFL Grand Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 50], "content_span": [51, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093053-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 VFL season\nThe 1971 Victorian Football League season was the 75th season of the elite Australian rules football competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093053-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 VFL season, Premiership season\nIn 1971, the VFL competition consisted of twelve teams of 18 on-the-field players each, plus two substitute players, known as the 19th man and the 20th man. A player could be substituted for any reason; however, once substituted, a player could not return to the field of play under any circumstances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093053-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 VFL season, Premiership season\nTeams played each other in a home-and-away season of 22 rounds; matches 12 to 22 were the \"home-and-way reverse\" of matches 1 to 11.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093053-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 VFL season, Premiership season\nOnce the 22 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1971 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the Page\u2013McIntyre system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093053-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 VFL season, Consolation Night Series Competition\nThe consolation night series were held under the floodlights at Lake Oval, South Melbourne, for the teams (5th to 12th on ladder) out of the finals at the end of the home and away rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 53], "content_span": [54, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093054-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 VII FIBA International Christmas Tournament\nThe 1971 VII FIBA International Christmas Tournament \"Trofeo Raimundo Saporta\" was the 7th edition of the FIBA International Christmas Tournament. It took place at Sports City of Real Madrid Pavilion, Madrid, Spain, on 24, 25 and 26 December 1971 with the participations of Real Madrid (champions of the 1970\u201371 Liga Espa\u00f1ola de Baloncesto), North Carolina Tar Heels, Juventud Schweppes (runners-up of the 1970\u201371 Copa del Rey de Baloncesto) and Uni\u00f3n Espa\u00f1ola.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093055-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Valley State Matadors football team\nThe 1971 Valley State Matadors football team represented Valley State during the 1971 NCAA College Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093055-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Valley State Matadors football team\nValley State competed in the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA). The 1971 Matadors were led by first-year head coach Rod Humenuik. They played home games at the new campus stadium at North Campus Stadium in Northridge, California. Valley State finished the season with a record of four wins and seven losses (4\u20137, 1\u20132 CCAA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093055-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Valley State Matadors football team, Team players in the NFL\nThe following Valley State players were selected in the 1972 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093056-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Vanderbilt Commodores football team\nThe 1971 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represented Vanderbilt University in the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. The Commodores were led by head coach Bill Pace in his fifth season and finished the season with a record of four wins, six losses and one tie (4\u20136\u20131 overall, 1\u20135 in the SEC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093057-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Venezuelan Primera Divisi\u00f3n season\nThe 1971 season of the Venezuelan Primera Divisi\u00f3n, the top category of Venezuelan football, was played by 8 teams. The national champions were Valencia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093058-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Vermont Catamounts football team\nThe 1971 Vermont Catamounts football team was an American football team that represented the University of Vermont in the Yankee Conference during the 1971 NCAA College Division football season. In their second year under head coach Joe Scannella, the team compiled a 2\u20137 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093059-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Villanova Wildcats football team\nThe 1971 Villanova Wildcats football team represented the Villanova University during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. The head coach was Lou Ferry, coaching his second season with the Wildcats. The team played their home games at Villanova Stadium in Villanova, Pennsylvania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093060-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Virginia Cavaliers football team\nThe 1971 Virginia Cavaliers football team represented the University of Virginia during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. The Cavaliers were led by first-year head coach Don Lawrence and played their home games at Scott Stadium in Charlottesville, Virginia. They competed as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference, finishing tied for third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093061-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Virginia Senate election\nThe 1971 Virginia Senate elections were held on November 2, 1971, alongside the Virginia House of Delegates election. All 40 seats in the Senate of Virginia were up for election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093062-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Virginia Slims Clay Court Championships\nThe Virginia Slims Clay Court Championships, also known as the Virginia Slims of Chicago, was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Lake Bluff Bath & Tennis Club in Chicago, Illinois in the United States that was part of the 1971 WT Pro Tour. It was the inaugural edition of the tournament and was held from August 19 through August 22, 1971. Third-seeded Fran\u00e7oise D\u00fcrr won the singles title and earned $4,100 first-prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093062-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Virginia Slims Clay Court Championships, Finals, Doubles\nJudy Dalton / Fran\u00e7oise D\u00fcrr defeated Rosemary Casals / Billie Jean King 6\u20134, 7\u20136", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 61], "content_span": [62, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093063-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Virginia Slims Grass Court Championships\nThe 1971 Virginia Slims Grass Court Championships, also known as the Virginia Slims of Newport, was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts at the Newport Casino in Newport, Rhode Island in the United States that was part of the 1971 Virginia Slims World Championship Series. It was the inaugural edition of the tournament and was held from August 24 through August 29, 1971. Fourth-seeded Kerry Melville won the singles title and earned $4,400 first-prize money. It is the only women's tournament to date where the singles title was decided by a sudden death nine point tiebreak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 645]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093063-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Virginia Slims Grass Court Championships, Finals, Doubles\nJudy Dalton / Fran\u00e7oise D\u00fcrr defeated Kerry Harris / Kerry Melville 6\u20132, 6\u20131", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 62], "content_span": [63, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093064-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Virginia Slims International\nThe 1971 Virginia Slims International was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Hofheinz Pavilion in Houston, Texas in the United States that was part of the 1971 Women's Pro Tour. It was the second edition of the tournament and was held from August 2 through August 8, 1971. First-seeded Billie Jean King won the singles title and earned $10,000 first-prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093064-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Virginia Slims International, Finals, Doubles\nRosemary Casals / Billie Jean King defeated Judy Dalton / Fran\u00e7oise D\u00fcrr 6\u20133, 1\u20136, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093065-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Virginia Slims Invitational of New York\nThe 1971 Virginia Slims Invitational of New York was a women's tennis tournament that took place at the 34th Street Armory in New York in the United States. It was part of the 1971 Virginia Slims Circuit and was held from March 24 through March 27, 1971. Second-seeded Rosie Casals won the tournament and earned $5,000 first-prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093066-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Virginia Slims Masters\nThe 1971 Virginia Slims Masters was a women's singles tennis tournament played on outdoor clay court at the Bartlett Park Tennis Center in St. Petersburg, Florida in the United States. The event was part of the 1971 WT Woman's Pro Tour. It was the inaugural edition of the tournament and was held from April 5 through April 11, 1971. Chris Evert won the singles title but was not entitled to the $2,000 first-prize money due to her amateur status.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093066-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Virginia Slims Masters, Finals, Doubles\nFran\u00e7oise D\u00fcrr / Ann Haydon-Jones defeated Judy Tegart Dalton / Julie Heldman 7\u20136, 3\u20136, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 44], "content_span": [45, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093067-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Virginia Slims National Indoors\nThe 1971 Virginia Slims National Indoors, also known as the Virginia Slims of Boston, was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Winchester Indoor Tennis Center in Winchester, Massachusetts in the United States that was part of the 1971 Virginia Slims World Championship Series. It was the 64th edition of the tournament and was held from February 26 through March 1, 1971. First-seeded Billie Jean King won the singles title after a win in the final against Rosie Casals and earned $2,500 first-prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093067-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Virginia Slims National Indoors, Finals, Doubles\nRosie Casals / Billie Jean King defeated Fran\u00e7oise D\u00fcrr / Ann Jones 6\u20134, 7\u20135", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093068-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Virginia Slims of Milwaukee\nThe Virginia Slims of Milwaukee was a women's tennis tournament that took place in Milwaukee, United States and was the only time that a professional tennis tournament took place in Milwaukee and was part of the 1971 Virginia Slims Circuit. The event took place from January 21 to 24, 1971 and saw Billie Jean King take out the singles and doubles with partner Rosie Casals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093068-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Virginia Slims of Milwaukee, Finals, Doubles\nBillie Jean King / Rosie Casals defeated Fran\u00e7oise D\u00fcrr / Ann Jones 6\u20133, 1\u20136, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093069-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Virginia Slims of Oklahoma City\nThe 1971 Virginia Slims of Oklahoma City was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Frederickson Field House Arena in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in the United States that was part of the 1971 WT Pro Tour. It was the inaugural edition of the tournament and was held from January 29 through February 1, 1971. First-seeded Billie Jean King won the singles title and earned $2,500 first-prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093069-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Virginia Slims of Oklahoma City, Finals, Doubles\nRosie Casals / Billie Jean King defeated Mary-Ann Eisel / Valerie Ziegenfuss 6\u20137, 6\u20130, 7\u20135", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093070-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Virginia Slims of San Diego\nThe 1971 Virginia Slims of San Diego was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Morley Field Sports Complex in San Diego, California in the United States that was part of the 1971 Women's Tennis Circuit. It was the inaugural edition of the tournament and was held from April 22 through April 25, 1971. First-seeded Billie Jean King won the singles title and earned $2,5000 first-prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093070-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Virginia Slims of San Diego, Finals, Doubles\nRosie Casals / Billie Jean King defeated Fran\u00e7oise D\u00fcrr / Judy Tegart Dalton 6\u20137, 6\u20132, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093071-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Virginia Tech Gobblers football team\nThe 1971 Virginia Tech Gobblers football team represented Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in the 1971 NCAA University Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093071-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Virginia Tech Gobblers football team, Players\nThe following players were members of the 1971 football team according to the roster published in the 1972 edition of The Bugle, the Virginia Tech yearbook.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 50], "content_span": [51, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093072-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Volta a Catalunya\nThe 1971 Volta a Catalunya was the 51st edition of the Volta a Catalunya cycle race and was held from 14 to 19 September 1971. The race started in Calafell and finished in Badalona. The race was won by Luis Oca\u00f1a of the Bic team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093073-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Volunteer 500\nThe 1971 Volunteer 500 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series racing event that took place on July 11, 1971, at Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, Tennessee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093073-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Volunteer 500\nThe race car drivers still had to commute to the races using the same stock cars that competed in a typical weekend's race through a policy of homologation (and under their own power). This policy was in effect until roughly 1975. By 1980, NASCAR had completely stopped tracking the year model of all the vehicles and most teams did not take stock cars to the track under their own power anymore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093073-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Volunteer 500, Race report\nThirty American-born drivers competed for 500 laps in a race lasting more than two and a half hours. More than 20,000 people would see Charlie Glotzbach beat Bobby Allison to the checkered line by more than three laps through replacement driver Raymond \"Friday\" Hassler. He would replace Glotzbach for a few stints of the race as a relief driver because of the immense heat and humidity. Johnny Allen and Jack Smith would do the same thing earlier in 1961; while Fred Lorenzen and Ned Jarrett did it in 1963.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093073-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Volunteer 500, Race report\nSince Glotzbach qualified for this race, he received credit for what would become his final win in the NASCAR Winston Cup Series. This race was completely clean with no yellow or red flags given out by NASCAR authorities. While the lead was exchanged seven different times in the race, the average speed of the race was clocked at a mere 101.074 miles per hour (162.663\u00a0km/h). As of 2011, this record-setting pace is still seen as a respectably fast speed for Bristol Motor Speedway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093073-0003-0001", "contents": "1971 Volunteer 500, Race report\nChevrolet started to regain their respectability as a fast and reliable vehicle manufacturer after partaking in their first victory since the 1967 Grand National Series season. NASCAR historians would later recognize this win as the first win for the Chevrolet Monte Carlo. In future races, NASCAR would start to manipulate the races so that there would be no caution-free races. The last race to be done in the NASCAR Cup Series without a caution was at the 2002 EA Sports 500 which took place at Talladega Superspeedway. Dale Earnhardt Jr. would go on to win that race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093073-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Volunteer 500, Race report\nNotable crew chiefs at the race were Junie Donlavey, Dale Inman, Vic Ballard, and Lee Gordon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093073-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Volunteer 500, Race report\nRaymond Williams and Dick May would quit the race for reasons unknown. Bill Shirey acquired the last-place finish due to an ignition problem on lap 5. Richard D. Brown noticed that his vehicle's transmission stopped working on lap 15. Wayne Smith crashed his vehicle on lap 18 while Ed Negre fell out with engine failure on lap 40. G.C. Spencer would no longer have a working engine on lap 59. Bill Seifert managed to overheat his vehicle on lap 63. Paul Tyler lost the rear end of his vehicle on lap 70. Friday Hassler lost the wheel bearings on his vehicle on lap 103 while vehicular vibration problems forced Ken Meisenhelder out of the race on lap 131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 688]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093073-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Volunteer 500, Race report\nA problematic lug bolt sent Dean Dalton out of the race on lap 167. Earl Brooks lost the rear end of his vehicle on lap 168. A faulty spindle eliminated Ron Keselowski out of the race on lap 263 while lug bolt issues sent Bill Dennis out of the race on lap 328. Coo Coo Marlin was the last DNF of the race; having to bow out of the race due to an overheating vehicle on lap 369. The closest battle on the track at the checkered flag was between Jabe Thomas and Walter Ballard for 10th and 11th, 55 laps down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093073-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Volunteer 500, Race report\nRichard Petty had the privilege of earning the pole position with a top speed of 104.589 miles per hour (168.320\u00a0km/h) in qualifying. Drivers that failed to qualify for this race were: Richard Childress, D.K. Ulrich, Bill Dennis, and Frank Warren. The amount of money in the racing purse was $26,970 ($170,263.36 when adjusted for inflation).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093074-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a\nThe 26th Edition Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a (Tour of Spain), a long-distance bicycle stage race and one of the three grand tours, was held from 29 April to 16 May 1971. It consisted of 17 stages covering a total of 2,892\u00a0km (1,797\u00a0mi), and was won by Ferdinand Bracke of the Peugeot cycling team. Joop Zoetemelk won the mountains classification while Cyrille Guimard won the points classification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093074-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a\nAfter the final stage, Wim Schepers was ranked in second place, 19 seconds behind Bracke, but he was given a ten-minute time penalty for a doping offence, and dropped to 15th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093075-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 WANFL season\nThe 1971 WANFL season was the 87th season of the various incarnations of the Western Australian National Football League, and the forty-first (including three wartime under-age seasons) under that moniker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093075-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 WANFL season\nFollowing half a decade dominated with the exception of two challenges from South Fremantle by the three Perth clubs and Austin Robertson's goalkicking, 1971 saw a changing of the guard, with Perth, in Mal Atwell\u2019s last season as coach, dropping to second from bottom owing to the weakness of their forward line, and Subiaco also fell out of the four after an off-season disrupted by efforts to thwart potential clearances of goal machine Robertson, half-forward George Young, and promising young players Stephen Heal and Peter Featherby.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093075-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 WANFL season\nAfter a promising season in 1970 and the acquisition of Colin Tully from Collingwood, John Evans from St. Kilda and 30-possession-per-game rover Ross Parker from VFA club Prahran, Claremont became early favourites for the flag. The Tigers faltered later on however, and despite playing finals for only the fourth time since 1942 and the first since 1965, were regarded as disappointing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093075-0002-0001", "contents": "1971 WANFL season\nEast Perth, despite a noticeable roving weakness owing to the injury-related retirement of Keith Doncon, won fifteen of seventeen matches but failed in the Grand Final before rivals West Perth, who after a disappointing 1970 returned to second position and sent champion ruckman \u201cPolly\u201d Farmer out on a high note with his sixth senior premiership and second as their captain-coach. More significantly, East Fremantle, after four disastrous seasons, reached the preliminary final under the coaching of future Hawthorn premiership mentor Alan Joyce and nearly overcame the Cardinals in a heart-stopping preliminary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 631]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093075-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 WANFL season\nAlthough the season did not quite reach the previous season's record average score of 100.76 points per team per game, it did see a record-high losing score and the highest score and greatest winning margin for over a decade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093075-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 WANFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 9 (Foundation Day)\nEast Perth snatch a win after an all-day thriller with seventeen seconds remaining in front of a record Claremont Oval crowd, following what critics regarded as the finest match of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 65], "content_span": [66, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093075-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 WANFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 11\nSubiaco, after many selection controversies \u2013 notably dropping George Young and Keith Watt to the reserves \u2013 produce their best performance of 1971 with three quarters of masterful teamwork.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 49], "content_span": [50, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093075-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 WANFL season, Finals, First semi-final\nWith regular full-back Neil Dedman kicking seven goals at full-forward, East Fremantle overrun favourites Claremont in the second half, as the Tigers\u2019 expected ruck and key forward superiority is never observed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 43], "content_span": [44, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093075-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 WANFL season, Finals, Second semi-final\nWith winds gusting to 60 miles per hour (97\u00a0km/h) and heavy, squalling rain, the move of Eddie Pitter onto the field and of Bygraves to full-forward drives East Perth to a fourth victory over the Cardinals for 1971, after West Perth looked safe at half-time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 44], "content_span": [45, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093075-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 WANFL season, Finals, Grand Final\nIn champion ruckman \u201cPolly\u201d Farmer\u2019s farewell after 356 senior matches, West Perth\u2019s runners dominate over the favoured Royals, who suffer their seventh consecutive loss in grand finals, leading to severe questioning of the Royals\u2019 mental toughness.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 38], "content_span": [39, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093075-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 WANFL season, Notes\nHad Perth won, the last-round match at Claremont Oval would have determined fourth position. George Doig (in 1934 to 1937, 1940 and 1941) and Bernie Naylor (in 1946 to 1948 and 1952 to 1954) previously held the record with six.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 24], "content_span": [25, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093076-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament\nThe 1971 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 12th conference playoff in league history. The tournament was played between March 12 and March 20, 1971. All East Regional games were played at the Dane County Coliseum in Madison, Wisconsin while West Regional games were held at the DU Arena in Denver, Colorado. By winning the regional tournaments, both the East Regional Champion\u2020, Minnesota, and West Regional Champion\u2021, Denver, were invited to participate in the 1971 NCAA University Division Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093076-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format\nThe top eight teams in the WCHA, according to their final conference standings, were eligible for the tournament and were seeded No. 1 through No. 8. The eight teams were then divided into two separate groups by placing all even-numbered seeds in one group (2, 4, 6, 8) and the odd-numbered seeds (1, 3, 5, 7) in the other group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 45], "content_span": [46, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093076-0001-0001", "contents": "1971 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format\nUsing the location of the top seeds in each of the groups, the odd-numbered group (containing Michigan Tech) was placed in the east region which was held at the Dane County Coliseum while the odd-numbered grouping (containing Denver) was placed in the west region which was held at the DU Arena. Once each regional group was set the teams were reseeded No. 1 to No. 4 according to their final conference standings. In the first round the first and fourth seeds and the second and third seeds in each region were matched in a single game with the winners advancing to their regional final games. The winners of the two championship games were declared as co-conference tournament champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 45], "content_span": [46, 735]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093076-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format, Conference Standings\nNote: GP = Games Played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PCT = Winning Percentage; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093077-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team\nThe 1971 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team was an American football team that represented Wake Forest University during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. In their third season under head coach Cal Stoll, the Demon Deacons compiled a 6\u20135 record and finished in a tie for third place in the Atlantic Coast Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093078-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Walker Cup\nThe 1971 Walker Cup, the 23rd Walker Cup Match, was played on 26 and 27 May 1971, on the Old Course at St Andrews, Scotland. The event was won by Great Britain & Ireland 13 to 11, their first win in the event since 1938.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093078-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Walker Cup\nAlthough Great Britain and Ireland won all the first morning foursomes, the United States won six of the eight singles and held a one point lead after the first day. The United States lead increased to two points after the second day foursomes. However Great Britain and Ireland won six of the eight singles matches to win the Walker Cup for the first time since World War II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093078-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Walker Cup, Format\nThe format for play on Wednesday and Thursday was the same. There were four matches of foursomes in the morning and eight singles matches in the afternoon. In all, 24 matches were played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 23], "content_span": [24, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093078-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Walker Cup, Format\nEach of the 24 matches was worth one point in the larger team competition. If a match was all square after the 18th hole extra holes were not played. Rather, each side earned \u00bd a point toward their team total. The team that accumulated at least 12\u00bd points won the competition. If the two teams were tied, the previous winner would retain the trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 23], "content_span": [24, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093078-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Walker Cup, Teams\nTen players for the United States and Great Britain & Ireland participated in the event. Great Britain & Ireland had a playing captain, while the United States had a non-playing captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 22], "content_span": [23, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093079-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Waltham Forest London Borough Council election\nThe 1971 Waltham Forest Council election took place on 13 May 1971 to elect members of Waltham Forest London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Labour party gained overall control of the council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093080-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Wandsworth London Borough Council election\nThe 1971 Wandsworth Council election took place on 13 May 1971 to elect members of Wandsworth London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Labour party gained overall control of the council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093081-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Washington Darts season\nThe 1971 Washington Darts season was the second season of the team in the North American Soccer League, and the club's fifth season in professional soccer. This year, the team finished in third place of the Southern Division and did not qualify for the playoffs. At the end of the year, the club folded the team and moved to Miami, fielding a new team known as the Miami Gatos for the 1972 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093081-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Washington Darts season, Competitions, NASL regular season\nW = Wins, L = Losses, T= Ties, GF = Goals For, GA = Goals Against, PT= point system", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 63], "content_span": [64, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093081-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Washington Darts season, Competitions, NASL regular season\n6 points for a win, 3 points for a tie,0 points for a loss,1 point for each goal scored up to three per game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 63], "content_span": [64, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093082-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Washington Huskies football team\nThe 1971 Washington Huskies football team was an American football team that represented the University of Washington during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. In its 15th season under head coach Jim Owens, the team compiled an 8\u20133 record (4\u20133 in the Pacific-8 Conference, tied for third), and outscored its opponents 357 to 188.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093082-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Washington Huskies football team\nWashington opened with four non-conference wins, and junior quarterback Sonny Sixkiller was featured in a Sports Illustrated cover story. They lost the Pac-8 opener to defending champion Stanford in Seattle, then at border rival Oregon by two points, as a short field goal attempt in the last minute missed wide right.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093082-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Washington Huskies football team\nAfter rebounding with three wins to improve to 7\u20132, the season ended with two home games. USC won by one point for UW's third loss; in the Apple Cup, the Huskies notched a third consecutive win over Washington State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093082-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Washington Huskies football team\nThe Pac-8 did not allow a second bowl team until the 1975 season; the Huskies climbed to #19 in the final AP poll in January.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093082-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Washington Huskies football team, NFL Draft selections\nOne University of Washington Husky was selected in the 1972 NFL Draft, which lasted seventeen rounds with 442 selections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 59], "content_span": [60, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093083-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Washington Redskins season\nThe 1971 Washington Redskins season was the team's 40th in the National Football League, and its 35th in Washington, D.C. The Redskins were led by first-year head coach George Allen, who had been the head coach of the Los Angeles Rams for the previous five seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093083-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Washington Redskins season\nComing into the 1971 season, the team had not made the postseason in 26 years. The Redskins had had only four winning seasons since their last playoff berth in 1945, the most recent a 7\u20135\u20132 campaign in 1969 under Vince Lombardi, who died of colon cancer in September 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093083-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Washington Redskins season\nAllen was Washington's fourth head coach in as many seasons. Lombardi succeeded Otto Graham, and assistant Bill Austin took over when Lombardi fell mortally ill in the summer of 1970, and posted a 6\u20138 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093083-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Washington Redskins season\nDespite a broken left ankle suffered by leading receiver Charley Taylor in a Week 6 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs that forced him to miss the remainder of the season, the Redskins went 9\u20134\u20131, good for second place in the NFC East. They earned a wild card berth, but lost in the opening divisional round at San Francisco, 24\u201320.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093083-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Washington Redskins season, Postseason, Standings\nNote: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093083-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Washington Redskins season, Postseason, Richard Nixon play\nThere was a rumor that President Richard Nixon called a key play that caused the Redskins to lose to the 49ers in the divisional round of the playoffs. Nixon, a friend of George Allen, once attended a practice game where he tried the same play to much better results.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 63], "content_span": [64, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093084-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Washington Senators season\nThe 1971 Washington Senators season involved the Senators finishing fifth in the American League East with a record of 63 wins and 96 losses (.396). This was the Senators' eleventh and last season in Washington, D.C.; they moved to Arlington, Texas, and became the Texas Rangers in 1972. The previous Senators (now Minnesota Twins) were in Washington from 1901 through 1960.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093084-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Washington Senators season\nThe move to Texas left Washington without a Major League Baseball team for 33 seasons, until the Montreal Expos of the National League relocated there in 2005 and became the current Washington Nationals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093084-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Washington Senators season, Regular season\nThe acquisition of former Cy Young Award winner Denny McLain did not pay dividends for the franchise. Amid constant run-ins with no-nonsense Washington manager Ted Williams, McLain lost 22 games in 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093084-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Washington Senators season, Regular season, Relocation to Texas\nBy the end of the 1970 season, Senators owner Bob Short had issued an ultimatum: unless someone was willing to buy the Senators for $12 million, he would not renew his lease at RFK Stadium and move elsewhere. Several parties offered to buy the team, but all fell short of Short's asking price.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 68], "content_span": [69, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093084-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Washington Senators season, Regular season, Relocation to Texas\nShort was especially receptive to an offer from Arlington mayor Tom Vandergriff, who had been trying to get a major league team to play in the Metroplex for over a decade. Years earlier, Charlie Finley, the owner of the Kansas City Athletics, sought to move his team to Dallas, but the idea was rebuffed by the other AL team owners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 68], "content_span": [69, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093084-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Washington Senators season, Regular season, Relocation to Texas\nArlington's hole card was Turnpike Stadium, a 10,000-seat park which opened in 1965 to house the AA Dallas\u2013Fort Worth Spurs of the Texas League. Built to major league specifications, it was located in a natural bowl, and only minor excavations were necessary to expand the park to major-league size.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 68], "content_span": [69, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093084-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Washington Senators season, Regular season, Relocation to Texas\nAfter Vandergriff offered a multimillion-dollar up-front payment, Short finally decided to pull up stakes and move. On September 20, 1971, he got his wish, receiving approval from AL owners to move the franchise to Arlington for the 1972 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 68], "content_span": [69, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093084-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Washington Senators season, Regular season, Relocation to Texas\nWashington fans were outraged, leaving public relations director Ted Rodgers with the unenviable task of putting a positive spin on such events as fans unfurling a giant banner that contained Short's name, preceded by a popular four-letter invective. A photo of the banner appeared on the front page of a DC newspaper the following day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 68], "content_span": [69, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093084-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Washington Senators season, Regular season, Relocation to Texas\nFan enmity came to a head in the team's last game in Washington, on September 30. Thousands of fans simply walked in without paying because the security guards left early in the game, swelling the paid attendance of 14,460 to around 25,000. The Senators led 7\u20135 with two outs in the top of the ninth. Just then, fans poured onto the field, thinking the final out had already been made. A teenager scooped up first base and ran away. With no security guards in sight, the game was forfeited to the Yankees, 9\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 68], "content_span": [69, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093084-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093084-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 69], "content_span": [70, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093084-0011-0000", "contents": "1971 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 74], "content_span": [75, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093084-0012-0000", "contents": "1971 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 71], "content_span": [72, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093084-0013-0000", "contents": "1971 Washington Senators season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 72], "content_span": [73, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093085-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Washington Star International\nThe 1971 Washington Star International was a men's tennis tournament and was played on outdoor clay courts. The event was the third edition of the tournament and was part of both the 1971 Grand Prix circuit and 1971 World Championship Tennis circuit. It was held in Washington, D.C. from July 12 through July 18, 1971. Ken Rosewall won the singles title and earned a $10,000 first prize.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093085-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Washington Star International, Finals, Doubles\nTom Okker / Marty Riessen defeated Bob Carmichael / Ray Ruffels 7\u20136, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093086-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Washington State Cougars football team\nThe 1971 Washington State Cougars football team was an American football team that represented Washington State University in the Pacific-8 Conference (Pac-8) during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. Led by fourth-year head coach Jim Sweeney, they compiled a 4\u20137 record (2\u20135 in Pac-8, seventh), and were outscored 286 to 246.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093086-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Washington State Cougars football team\nThe team's statistical leaders included junior quarterback Ty Payne with 1,206 passing yards, senior running back Bernard Jackson with 1,189 rushing yards, and wide receiver Ike Nelson with 349 receiving yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093086-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Washington State Cougars football team\nThe Cougars defeated tenth-ranked Stanford, the defending and future Rose Bowl champions, in Palo Alto on October\u00a023, but lost their third straight Apple Cup. Washington State did not play the Battle of the Palouse in 1971, and neighbor Idaho had their best season to date, winning eight consecutive games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093086-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Washington State Cougars football team\nDue to the fire damage to Rogers Field in Pullman in April 1970, the Cougars played their entire home schedule eighty miles (130\u00a0km) north of campus at Joe Albi Stadium in Spokane in 1970 and 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093086-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Washington State Cougars football team, All-conference\nFour Washington State seniors were named to the All-Pacific-8 team: halfback Bernard Jackson, guard Steve Busch, cornerback Ron Mims, and placekicker Don\u00a0Sweet. Busch was a repeat selection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 59], "content_span": [60, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093087-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Wellington City mayoral election\nThe 1971 Wellington City mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1971, elections were held for the Mayor of Wellington plus other local government positions including fifteen city councillors. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093087-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Wellington City mayoral election, Background\nThe election saw incumbent Mayor Sir Frank Kitts re-elected for a record equaling sixth term as Wellington's Mayor, defeating his main opponent, former New Zealand Farmers' Union chairman Alexander O'Shea. The Citizens' Association has difficulty in selecting its mayoral candidate with many speculating that it would not opt to contest the position, leading commentators to label them as \"defeatist\". Deputy mayor George Porter was approached to stand, but declined the nomination for \"personal reasons\", offering himself only for a council seat. Eventually O'Shea was chosen by the Citizens' Association executive over two other undisclosed aspirants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 703]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093087-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Wellington City mayoral election, Background\nThe election also saw a third electoral ticket emerge \"Civic Reform\", who would unsuccessfully challenge the two-ticket system that had dominated Wellington's local body politics since the 1930s. Civic Reform also contested the 1974 and 1977 local elections with even less success.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093087-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Wellington City mayoral election, Background\nThe main talking point following the election was that the initial results showed that the Labour Party had won a majority on the council, the first time they had done so. However, following the counting of special votes the fifteenth highest (last successful) polling candidate, Labour's Joe Aspell, lost his seat to Citizens' candidate Ian Lawrence (a future Mayor) after a 23-vote lead became a 17-vote defeat thus leaving the state of parties at 8-7 in favour of the Citizens' Association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093088-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election\nLegislative Assembly elections were held in the Indian state of West Bengal in 1971. The assembly election was held alongside the 1971 Indian general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093088-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, Parties and coalitions\nAhead of the 1971 election the map of party coalitions was redrawn. The United Front had split into two after the resignation of its Chief Minister. The United Left Front, also known as the Six-Party Coalition, was led by the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and included the Revolutionary Communist Party of India (Sudhindranath Kumar group), the Biplobi Bangla Congress, the Bolshevik Party of India (Nepal Bhattacharya group), the Workers Party of India and the Marxist Forward Bloc.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 70], "content_span": [71, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093088-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, Parties and coalitions\nThe United Left Democratic Front, also known as the Eight-Party Coalition, was led by the Communist Party of India and included the All India Forward Bloc, the Socialist Unity Centre of India, the All India Gorkha League, the Bolshevik Party of India (Barada Mukutmoni group), the RCPI (Anadi Das group), the Samyukta Socialist Party and the Praja Socialist Party (Rebel). The ULDF failed to reach a seat-sharing agreement with the Bangla Congress, but managed to agree to some seat-sharings with the Congress(R).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 70], "content_span": [71, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093088-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, Parties and coalitions\nThe Bangla Congress courted the Congress(R) for a seat-sharing alliance, but the Congress(R) rejected the offer. For Congress(R) the Bangla Congress was considered too close to Congress(O).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 70], "content_span": [71, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093088-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, Violence\nThe electoral campaign was marred by violent incidents. The Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) called for electoral boycott. The CPI(M) on the other hand saw the CPI(ML) as a pawn of Congress(R) to sabotage its chances of winning power in the state. Across the state CPI(M) and CPI(ML) confronted each other; CPI(M) claimed that the CPI(ML) had killed some 200 of its cadres.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 56], "content_span": [57, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093088-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, Violence\nThree candidates were killed during the electoral campaign; on February 17, 1971 Debdatta Mondal (Bangla Congress candidate in Ukhra) was killed, on February 20, 1971 the All India Forward Bloc leader and Shyampukur constituency candidate Hemanta Kumar Basu was killed in broad daylight and on March 5, 1971 Pijush Chandra Ghosh (Congress(O) candidate in Dum Dum) was killed. Elections were countermanded in these three constituencies, but in Shyampukur no election was held as Ajit Kumar Biswas (the candidate nominated by the Forward Bloc in lieu of Hemanta Kumar Basu) was killed as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 56], "content_span": [57, 648]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093088-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, Outcome\nFollowing the election, the Congress(R), the Bangla Congress and the ULDF came to an agreement (albeit without the approval of SUCI), that Congress(R) and Bangla Congress would form a government and ULDF would support it from outside. Two ULDF affiliates, SSP and Gorkha League, joined the government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 55], "content_span": [56, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093089-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 West Berlin state election\nThe election to the Berlin House of Representatives in 1971 took place on 14 March. The SPD experienced yet another change in leadership with the party choosing Governing Mayor Klaus Sch\u00fctz as there lead candidate. The SPD in West Berlin had been led until 1966 by Willy Brandt before he had left to go to Bonn and enter politics on a national level. His successor was Heinrich Albertz, who resigned from his position amid considerable party squabbles relatively soon after taking it up. The opposition CDU meanwhile chose Peter Lorenz as there lead candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093089-0000-0001", "contents": "1971 West Berlin state election\nThe SPD was able to win a fresh majority with 50.4% of votes of the vote. The CDU rose by 5.3 percentage points to 38.2% of the vote, which the FDP, former coalition partner of the SPD, increased by 1.3 percentage points to 8.4%. Klaus Sch\u00fctz decided to form a majority SPD government, with the CDU and FDP going into opposition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093090-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 West Virginia 500\nThe 1971 West Virginia 500 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series racing event that took place on August 8, 1971, at International Raceway Park in Ona, West Virginia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093090-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 West Virginia 500\nThe race car drivers still had to commute to the races using the same stock cars that competed in a typical weekend's race through a policy of homologation (and under their own power). This policy was in effect until roughly 1975. By 1980, NASCAR had completely stopped tracking the year model of all the vehicles and most teams did not take stock cars to the track under their own power any more.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093090-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 West Virginia 500, Race report\nFive hundred laps took place on a paved oval track spanning 0.455 miles (0.732\u00a0km). The total time of the race was two hours and fifty-seven minutes. The average speed of the race was 83.805 miles per hour (134.871\u00a0km/h) while the qualifying speed for the pole position was 84.053 miles per hour (135.270\u00a0km/h). Ten thousand people would attend the live race to see Richard Petty defeat Bobby Allison by more than two laps. It was quite the battle between Petty and Allison during the course of the race. Petty beat on Allison all night and at one point pinned Allison against the wall so hard that both cars came to a stop. There was a grid of 32 competitors; only 14 of them were counted as finishing the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 35], "content_span": [36, 748]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093090-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 West Virginia 500, Race report\nNotable crew chiefs to participate in this race were Dale Inman, Vic Ballard, and Lee Gordon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 35], "content_span": [36, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093090-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 West Virginia 500, Race report\nJerry Churchill decided to quit the race after the first lap; giving him a meager $300 paycheck ($1,894 in current US dollars). Bill Shirey would also quit on lap 31; earning the same amount that Churchill did. Bill Seifert would leave the race on lap 187 due to a legitimate illness brought on by dehydration in the West Virginia summertime heat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 35], "content_span": [36, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093090-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 West Virginia 500, Race report\nNo replacement was found and he brought home $330 from his hard day of racing ($2,083 in today's American dollars).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 35], "content_span": [36, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093090-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 West Virginia 500, Finishing order\n* Driver failed to finish race \u2020 signifies that the driver is known to be deceased", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093091-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 West Virginia Mountaineers football team\nThe 1971 West Virginia Mountaineers football team represented West Virginia University in the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. It was the Mountaineers' 79th overall season and they competed as an independent. The team was led by head coach Bobby Bowden, in his second year, and played their home games at Mountaineer Field in Morgantown, West Virginia. They finished the season with a record of 7\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093092-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Western Australian state election\nElections were held in the state of Western Australia on 20 February 1971 to elect all 51 members to the Legislative Assembly and 15 members to the 30-seat Legislative Council. The four-term Liberal-Country Party coalition government, led by Premier David Brand, was defeated by the Labor Party, led by Opposition Leader John Tonkin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093092-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Western Australian state election\nThis was the first election in which no seats were uncontested since the introduction of responsible government in 1890. This was partly due to the Democratic Labor Party deciding to contest every seat up for election in both Houses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093092-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Western Australian state election\nThere was a large increase in the number of electors, because this was the first election after 18 year olds had been given the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093092-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Western Australian state election, Results, Legislative Assembly\nWestern Australian state election, 20 February 1971Legislative Assembly << 1968\u20131974 >>", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093093-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers football team\nThe 1971 Western Kentucky football team represented Western Kentucky University during the 1971 NCAA College Division football season. The team was led by coach Jimmy Feix and won their second consecutive Ohio Valley Conference championship and the school's fourth overall. The coaching staff included future NFL coach Romeo Crennel. The Hilltoppers\u2019 rankings in the final polls were UPI 12 and AP 6, and finished ranked 1st in Pass Defense in NCAA Division II. The team roster included future NFL players Virgil Livers, John Bushong, Clarence \u201cJazz\u201d Jackson, and Mike McCoy. Jim Barber was named to the Universal Sports All-American team. The All OVC team included Barber, Terry Kokinda, Bob Morehead, Leo Peckenpaugh, Bill Sykes, and Terry Thompson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 799]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093094-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Western Michigan Broncos football team\nThe 1971 Western Michigan Broncos football team represented Western Michigan University in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) during the 1971 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their eighth season under head coach Bill Doolittle, the Broncos compiled a 7\u20133 record (2\u20133 against MAC opponents), finished in fourth place in the MAC, and outscored their opponents, 228 to 124. The team played its home games at Waldo Stadium in Kalamazoo, Michigan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093094-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Western Michigan Broncos football team\nThe team's statistical leaders included Ted Grignon with 912 passing yards, Larry Cates with 819 rushing yards, and Keith Pretty with 352 receiving yards. Quarterback Ted Grignon and linebacker Tom Elias were the team captains. Elias also received the team's most outstanding player award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093095-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Westminster City Council election\nThe 1971 Westminster Council election took place on 13 May 1971 to elect members of Westminster City Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Conservative party stayed in overall control of the council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093096-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Whitbread Awards\nThe Whitbread Awards (1971\u20132005), called Costa Book Awards since 2006, are literary awards in the United Kingdom, awarded both for high literary merit but also for works considered enjoyable reading. This page gives details of the awards given in the year 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093097-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Wichita State Shockers football team\nThe 1971 Wichita Shockers football team was an American football team that represented Wichita State University as a member of the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. In its second season under head coach Bob Seaman, the team compiled a 3\u20138 record (0\u20134 against conference opponents), finished last out of five teams in the MVC, and was outscored by a total of 268 to 149. The team played its home games at Cessna Stadium in Wichita, Kansas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093097-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Wichita State Shockers football team\nDuring the prior season, the team lost 14 of its players and its head coach in the Wichita State University football team plane crash. Several players injured in the crash, including Randy Jackson, returned to play for the 1971 team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093097-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Wichita State Shockers football team\nThe team's statistical leaders included Tom Owen with 613 passing yards, Randy Jackson with 820 rushing yards and 48 points scored, Bill Moore with 318 receiving yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093098-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Widnes by-election\nThe Widnes by-election of 1971 took place on 23 September, following the death of the Labour MP James MacColl on 17 June of that year, and produced a victory for the incumbent Labour Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093098-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Widnes by-election\nIt remains the most recent by-election in England, Wales or Scotland to be contested by only two candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093099-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Wightman Cup\nThe 1971 Wightman Cup was the 43rd edition of the annual women's team tennis competition between the United States and Great Britain. It was held at the Cleveland Arena in Cleveland, Ohio in the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093100-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Wildwater Canoeing World Championships\nThe 1971 Wildwater Canoeing World Championships was the 7th edition of the global wildwater canoeing competition, Wildwater Canoeing World Championships, organised by the International Canoe Federation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093101-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 William & Mary Indians football team\nThe 1971 William & Mary Indians football team represented the College of William & Mary as a member of the Southern Conference (SoCon) during the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. Led by Lou Holtz in his third and final year as head coach, William & Mary finished the season 5\u20136 overall and 4\u20131 in SoCon play to place second.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093102-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Wimbledon Championships\nThe 1971 Wimbledon Championships was a tennis tournament that took place on the outdoor grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The tournament was held from Monday 21 June until Saturday 3 July 1971. It was the 85th staging of the Wimbledon Championships, and the third Grand Slam tennis event of 1971. John Newcombe and Evonne Goolagong won the singles titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093102-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Wimbledon Championships, Prize money\nThe total prize money for the 1971 championships was \u00a337,790. The winner of the men's title earned \u00a33,750 while the women's singles champion earned \u00a31,800.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093102-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Wimbledon Championships, Champions, Seniors, Men's Singles\nJohn Newcombe defeated Stan Smith, 6\u20133, 5\u20137, 2\u20136, 6\u20134, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 63], "content_span": [64, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093102-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Wimbledon Championships, Champions, Seniors, Men's Doubles\n'Roy Emerson / Rod Laver defeated Arthur Ashe / Dennis Ralston, 4\u20136, 9\u20137, 6\u20138, 6\u20134, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 63], "content_span": [64, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093102-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Wimbledon Championships, Champions, Seniors, Women's Doubles\nRosie Casals / Billie Jean King defeated Margaret Court / Evonne Goolagong, 6\u20133, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 65], "content_span": [66, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093102-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Wimbledon Championships, Champions, Seniors, Mixed Doubles\nOwen Davidson / Billie Jean King defeated Marty Riessen / Margaret Court, 3\u20136, 6\u20132, 15\u201313", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 63], "content_span": [64, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093103-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Boys' Singles\nRobert Kreiss defeated Stephen Warboys in the final, 2\u20136, 6\u20134, 6\u20133 to win the Boys' Singles tennis title at the 1971 Wimbledon Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093104-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Girls' Singles\nMarina Kroschina defeated Sue Minford in the final, 6\u20134, 6\u20134 to win the Girls' Singles tennis title at the 1971 Wimbledon Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093105-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's Doubles\nJohn Newcombe and Tony Roche were the defending champions, but lost in the first round to Cliff Drysdale and Nikola Pili\u0107.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093105-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's Doubles\nRoy Emerson and Rod Laver defeated Arthur Ashe and Dennis Ralston in the final, 4\u20136, 9\u20137, 6\u20138, 6\u20134, 6\u20134 to win the Gentlemen's Doubles title at the 1971 Wimbledon Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093105-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's Doubles, Seeds\nClick on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 51], "content_span": [52, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093106-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's Singles\nDefending champion John Newcombe successfully defended his title, defeating Stan Smith in the final, 6\u20133, 5\u20137, 2\u20136, 6\u20134, 6\u20134 to win the Gentlemen's Singles tennis title at the 1971 Wimbledon Championships. It was his third Wimbledon singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093106-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's Singles, Seeds\nClick on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 51], "content_span": [52, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093107-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's Singles Qualifying\nPlayers who neither had high enough rankings nor received wild cards to enter the main draw of the annual Wimbledon Tennis Championships participated in a qualifying tournament held one week before the event. One player withdrew from the main draw after qualifying had commenced, leading to the highest ranked player who lost in the final qualifying round, Bob Howe, to be entered into the main draw as a lucky loser.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093108-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Mixed Doubles\nIlie N\u0103stase and Rosie Casals were the defending champions, but lost in the semifinals to Owen Davidson and Billie Jean King.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093108-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Mixed Doubles\nDavidson and King defeated Marty Riessen and Margaret Court in the final, 3\u20136, 6\u20132, 15\u201313 to win the Mixed Doubles tennis title at the 1971 Wimbledon Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093108-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Mixed Doubles\nNirupama Mankad became the first Indian woman in the open era to play the main draw (and ultimately win a match) at a Grand Slam event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093108-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Mixed Doubles, Seeds\nClick on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 51], "content_span": [52, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093109-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Women's Doubles\nRosie Casals and Billie Jean King successfully defended their title, defeating Margaret Court and Evonne Goolagong in the final, 6\u20133, 6\u20132 to win the Ladies' Doubles tennis title at the 1971 Wimbledon Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093109-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Women's Doubles, Seeds\nClick on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 53], "content_span": [54, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093110-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Women's Singles\nEvonne Goolagong defeated the defending champion Margaret Court in the final, 6\u20134, 6\u20131 to win the Ladies' Singles tennis title at the 1971 Wimbledon Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093110-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Women's Singles, Seeds\nClick on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 53], "content_span": [54, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093111-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Women's Singles Qualifying\nPlayers who neither had high enough rankings nor received wild cards to enter the main draw of the annual Wimbledon Tennis Championships participated in a qualifying tournament held one week before the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093112-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Winnipeg municipal election\nThe 1971 Winnipeg municipal election was held in October 1971 to elect a mayor, councillors and school trustees in the City of Winnipeg. This was the first municipal election to take place after the amalgamation of Winnipeg with its suburban communities. Stephen Juba, who was the last mayor of Winnipeg before amalgamation, was elected to the same position in the new city. Fifty councillors were elected in 50 separate single-member wards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093113-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Winston 500\nThe 1971 Winston 500 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series race that took place on May 16, 1971, at Alabama International Motor Speedway (now Talladega Superspeedway) in Talladega, Alabama.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093113-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Winston 500\nGeorge Altheide, Doc Faustina and David Sisco would make their NASCAR Winston Cup Series debuts in this race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093113-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Winston 500, Background\nTalladega Superspeedway, originally known as Alabama International Motor Superspeedway (AIMS), is a motorsports complex located north of Talladega, Alabama. It is located on the former Anniston Air Force Base in the small city of Lincoln. The track is a Tri-oval and was constructed by International Speedway Corporation, a business controlled by the France Family, in the 1960s. Talladega is most known for its steep banking and the unique location of the start/finish line - located just past the exit to pit road. The track currently hosts the NASCAR series such as the NASCAR Cup Series, NASCAR Xfinity Series, and the NASCAR Truck Series. Talladega Superspeedway is the longest NASCAR oval with a length of 2.66 miles (4.28\u00a0km), and the track at its peak had a seating capacity of 175,000 spectators.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 834]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093113-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Winston 500, Race report\nTwenty-nine thousand people saw Donnie Allison (racing for the Wood Brothers racing team) defeat his brother Bobby (racing for Holman-Moody) by six car lengths in the first official race for new sponsor Winston. Both of them were driving 1969 Mercury Cyclones. The race took three hours and thirty-two minutes to complete. Seven cautions slowed the race for forty-five laps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093113-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Winston 500, Race report\nOther finishers in the top ten included: Buddy Baker (driving for Petty Enterprises), Pete Hamilton, Fred Lorenzen, Jim Vandiver, James Hylton, Bill Dennis, Dave Marcis, and Larry Baumel. There were 45 lead changes between four drivers and Dave Marcis made his first race with the car #71. Marcis was a contender for the win until his engine blew on lap 181; marking the first good finish of a NASCAR Winston Cup Series race on live television.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093113-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Winston 500, Race report\nNotable drivers in the race included: Richard Petty, J.D. McDuffie, Coo Coo Marlin, Benny Parsons, Neil Castles, and Ron Keselowski (uncle of current NASCAR driver Brad Keselowski). Bobby Isaac was hospitalized and could not compete in the race due to kidney stones.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093113-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Winston 500, Race report\nThe prize purse was $145,040 ($915,646.94 when adjusted for inflation); Donnie Allison received $31,140 for winning ($196,588.84 when adjusted for inflation) while last-place finisher Bub Strickler got $1,000 ($6,313.06 when adjusted for inflation).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093114-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Wisconsin Badgers football team\nThe 1971 Wisconsin Badgers football team represented the University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison in the 1971 Big Ten Conference football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093115-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Women's British Open Squash Championship\nThe 1971 Women's Open Squash Championships was held at the BP Club in Sydenham, London from 19\u201325 February 1971.Heather McKay (n\u00e9e Blundell) won her tenth consecutive title defeating Jenny Irving in the final. This equalled the previous record of ten wins set by Janet Morgan from 1950 through to 1959.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093116-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Women's College World Series\nThe 1971 ASA/DGWS Women's College World Series (WCWS), the third in its history, was held in Omaha, Nebraska. On May 14\u201316, softball teams from 28 colleges met in that year's national fastpitch softball tournament, still the largest number of teams to play in a single-site WCWS. The tournament consisted of 55 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093116-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Women's College World Series, Teams\nThe John F. Kennedy College Patriettes won their third consecutive national championship, this time from the loser's bracket, by shutting out the Iowa State Cyclonettes twice in the final, 6\u20130 and 4\u20130. Paula Miller of Arizona State was named the tournament's Most Valuable Player, pitching all of ASU's seven games. Iowa State's result occurred despite having zero funding from the university.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093116-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Women's College World Series, Bracket\nThe individual game results are shown in the tournament bracket below.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093117-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Women's European Volleyball Championship\nThe 1971 Women's European Volleyball Championship was the eighth edition of the event, organised by Europe's governing volleyball body, the Conf\u00e9d\u00e9ration Europ\u00e9enne de Volleyball. It was hosted in several cities in Italy from 23 September to 1 October 1971, with the final round held in Reggio Emilia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093117-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Women's European Volleyball Championship, Format\nThe tournament was played in two different stages. In the first stage, the eighteen participants were divided into six groups of three teams each. In the second stage, three groups were formed, one containing the six winners from first stage groups to contest the tournament title. A second group was formed by the six runners-up from first stage groups which played for position places from 7th to 12th. The third group was formed by the six teams which finished last from first stage groups, which played for positions places from 13th to 18th. All groups in both stages played a single round-robin format.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 662]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093118-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Women's Grand Prix (tennis)\nThe 1971 Pepsi-Cola Grand Prix was a tennis circuit administered by the International Lawn Tennis Federation which served as a forerunner to the current Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) World Tour and the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) Tour. The circuit consisted of the four modern Grand Slam tournaments and open tournaments recognised by the ILTF. This article covers all tournaments that were part of that year's Women's Grand Prix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093118-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Women's Grand Prix (tennis), Grand Prix Entry Rankings, Statistical Information, Titles won by player\nThese tables present the number of singles (S), doubles (D), and mixed doubles (X) titles won by each player and each nation during the season, within all the tournament categories of the 1971 Women's Grand Prix circuit: the Grand Slam tournaments and regular events. The players/nations are sorted by:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 106], "content_span": [107, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093118-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Women's Grand Prix (tennis), Grand Prix Entry Rankings, Statistical Information, Titles won by player\n1) total number of titles;2) highest amount of highest category tournaments (for example, having a single Grand Slam gives preference over any kind of combination without a Grand Slam title); 3) a singles > doubles > mixed doubles hierarchy; 4) alphabetical order (by family names for players).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 106], "content_span": [107, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093119-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Women's Tennis Circuit\nThe 1971 Women's Tennis Circuit consisted of a number of tennis tournaments for female tennis players. It was composed of two series of events (circuits or tours); the Virginia Slims Circuit and the ILTF Pepsi Grand Prix as well as non-tour events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093119-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Women's Tennis Circuit, Virginia Slims Circuit\nPrior to the establishment of this circuit there was an inequality between the prize money purses for male and female tennis players which gave rise to complaints from a number of the leading female tennis players of the time. Nine of them, including Billie Jean King, became later known as the \"Original 9\" after being banned from the then existing multi-gender invitational professional events run by the influential United States Lawn Tennis Association (USLTA) due to their boycotting of the Pacific Southwest Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093119-0001-0001", "contents": "1971 Women's Tennis Circuit, Virginia Slims Circuit\nThis resulted in the first Virginia Slims-sponsored event being held in September 1970 in Houston, an event which laid the groundwork for the establishment of the annual Virginia Slims Circuit the following year. In 1971 the total prize money available from the Virginia Slims events was $309,100 and Billie Jean King became the first female athlete in history to earn more than $100,000 in one season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093119-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Women's Tennis Circuit, Schedule\nThis is a calendar of all events sponsored by Virginia Slims in the year 1971, with player progression documented from the quarterfinals stage. The table also includes the Grand Slam tournaments and the 1971 Federation Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093119-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Women's Tennis Circuit, Grand Prix Circuit, Points system\nThe Grand Prix tournaments were divided into four groups. Group A consisted of the three Grand Slam events \u2013 French Open, Wimbledon Championships and US Open \u2013 while the other tournaments were divided into Groups B, C and D by prize money and draw size. Points were allocated based on these groups and the finishing position of a player in a tournament. The points allocation is listed below:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 62], "content_span": [63, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093119-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Women's Tennis Circuit, Grand Prix Circuit, Standings and bonus pool earnings\nA bonus pool of $50,000 was available for the top 13 points ranked players. To qualify for a share of the bonus pool the players had to participate in a minimum of nine tournaments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 82], "content_span": [83, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093119-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Women's Tennis Circuit, Statistical information\nThese tables present the number of singles (S), doubles (D), and mixed doubles (X) titles won by each player and each nation during the 1971 Virginia Slims Circuit. They also include data for the Grand Slam tournaments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093119-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Women's Tennis Circuit, Statistical information\n1) total number of titles (a doubles title won by two players representing the same nation counts as only one win for the nation);2) highest amount of highest category tournaments (for example, having a single Grand Slam gives preference over any kind of combination without a Grand Slam title);3) a singles > doubles > mixed doubles hierarchy;4) alphabetical order (by family names for players).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093120-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Women's World Allround Speed Skating Championships\nThe 32nd edition of the World Allround Speed Skating Championships for Women took place on 6 and 7 February in Helsinki at the Oulunkyl\u00e4 Ice Rink.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093121-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Women's World Cup\nThe 1971 Women's World Cup (Spanish: 1971 Campeonato de F\u00fatbol Femenil) was an association football tournament organised by the Federation of Independent European Female Football (FIEFF) in Mexico in August\u2013September 1971. Held in Mexico City and Guadalajara, it featured women's teams from six countries and is the second known tournament to be named as a women's football World Cup after the 1970 edition in Italy. It was twenty years before the first official FIFA women's world cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093121-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Women's World Cup\nAlongside Mexico, who qualified automatically as hosts, teams from South America and Europe qualified to the 1971 cup. Denmark were the tournament champions, defending its title by winning the final 3\u20130 against Mexico, in front of a 110,000 crowd.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093121-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Women's World Cup, Background\nA women's football international match was played in Scotland in 1881. Later instances included games between British, French and Belgian teams in the 1920s, and a women's European Championship in 1957. During this time, women's football was often stifled or banned by male-dominated football federations in many countries. In Brazil, women's football was effectively illegal from 1941 until 1979.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093121-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Women's World Cup, Background\nFIEFF organised a previous Women's World Cup in Italy in 1970, also won by Denmark.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093121-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Women's World Cup, Qualifying\nThe 1971 tournament featured three different qualifying groups, two in Europe played in April and June 1971, and one in the Americas. Six teams made the final tournament \u2013 Mexico, Argentina, England, Denmark, France, and Italy. Four teams were knocked out in qualifying \u2013 Austria, the Netherlands, Sweden and Costa Rica.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093121-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Women's World Cup, Qualifying\nSome of the qualifiers and finals games were officially recognised \u2013 for example, the Italian Football Federation classes all of the 1971 Italy games as full internationals. One of the qualification matches was the first FIFA-recognised women's international match: France beat the Netherlands 4-0 in Hazebrouck in front of 1,500 spectators, to qualify for the finals. However, the match was only recognised by the French Football Federation after it was completed, and the French players did not know they had qualified for the tournament until their coach told them after the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 618]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093121-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Women's World Cup, Tournament\nTournament sponsors Martini & Rossi paid for each team's travel, accommodation, and kits. Goalposts were painted in pink hoops and stadium staff wore pink clothes, in order to try to appeal to women and families. Ticket prices ranged from 30 pesos (\u00a31.15) to 80 pesos (\u00a33). The tournament mascot was Xochitl, \"a young girl in [a] football kit\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093121-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Women's World Cup, Tournament\nThe opening match of the finals, Mexico\u2013Argentina (15 August) had a reported attendance of 100,000 at the Azteca Stadium. An estimated 80,000 people attended the Mexico\u2013England group game. The World Cup final, Mexico\u2013Denmark, had an estimated attendance of 110,000, a world record for women's sport. This figure was reported both at the time and subsequently, and surviving footage supports the estimates. The football record at the Azteca Stadium was three years earlier, 119,853 at the men's Mexico\u2013Brazil match in July 1968.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093121-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Women's World Cup, Tournament\nThe hosts Mexico qualified for the final after defeating Italy in the semifinals. Two days before the final, the Mexican press noted the players for Mexico were unhappy they had not been receiving economic support for participating in the tournament. The Mexican team threatened to skip the final but gave up their two million peso demand and the game went forward as scheduled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093121-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 Women's World Cup, Tournament\nDenmark won the tournament after beating Mexico 3\u20130 in the final, featuring a hat trick by 15-year-old Susanne Augustesen. The victorious Danish team were treated to a celebratory reception at Copenhagen Town Hall upon their return from the tournament. However, due to the unofficial nature of the tournament, it is not recognised by the Danish Football Association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093121-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 Women's World Cup, Squads\nEngland's team included 13-year-old Leah Caleb, 14-year-old Gill Sayell, and 15-year-old Chris Lockwood, while 15-year-old Susanne Augustesen scored a hat-trick for Denmark as they beat Mexico 3\u20130 in the final. Augustesen was honoured by the mayor of her hometown, Holb\u00e6k.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093121-0011-0000", "contents": "1971 Women's World Cup, Squads\n12 members of England's 14-woman squad reunited in June 2019 for the first time since the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093121-0012-0000", "contents": "1971 Women's World Cup, Knockout stage, Fifth place play-off\nA match for fifth place was played between the two teams which did not advance to the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 60], "content_span": [61, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093121-0013-0000", "contents": "1971 Women's World Cup, Later tournaments\nThe tournament was later followed by \"the series of Mundialito tournaments throughout the 1980s in Italy, and FIFA's Women's Invitation Tournament in China in 1988\" before the first FIFA Women's World Cup in China in 1991.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093122-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 World 600\nThe 1971 World 600, the 12th running of the event, was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series racing event that took place on May 30, 1971, at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina. It marked the return of Chevrolet to NASCAR.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093122-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 World 600\nChevrolet would go on to dominate NASCAR during the subsequent decades.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 86]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093122-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 World 600, Summary\nThere were 40 drivers in this 400-lap race; Walter Ballard received the last place finish due to a crash on the eleventh lap. The race took more than four hours to complete. There were 13 lead changes and three caution period for 24 laps. Charlotte Motor Speedway had just gone bankrupt a year earlier and the district judge assigned ownership of the floundering track to Mr. Richard Howard; who owned a furniture store in the area. He came up with the idea of having two pace cars advertise his furniture at this race and at the 1971 National 500. As a result, the speedway managed to recover and it still hosts Cup Series races to this day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 23], "content_span": [24, 666]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093122-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 World 600, Summary\nBobby Allison defeated Donnie Allison by 34 seconds in front of an audience of 78000; starting the first of five consecutive wins for Bobby Allison. Charlie Glotzbach won the pole position with a speed of 157.788 miles per hour (253.935\u00a0km/h) while the average race speed was 140.422 miles per hour (225.987\u00a0km/h). The other finishers in the top ten were: Pete Hamilton, Richard Petty, Fred Lorenzen, Buddy Baker, Benny Parsons, Friday Hassler (the fastest Chevrolet driver), Dave Marcis and Dick Brooks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 23], "content_span": [24, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093122-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 World 600, Summary\nNotable crew chiefs for the race were Paul Goldsmith, Junie Donlavey, Harry Hyde, Dale Inman, Tom Vandiver, and Lee Gordon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 23], "content_span": [24, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093122-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 World 600, Summary\nSpeedy Thompson made his last start of his NASCAR Cup Series career and would finish in 16th place despite being absent from the NASCAR Winston Cup Series for nearly nine years. Larry Smith would begin his tragically short NASCAR career during this race; resulting in a 22nd-place finish. One of the most eagerly anticipated races ever as it marked the first competitive entry of a Junior Johnson-owned Chevy. Chevrolet had gone several years without a win in the Grand National division and nearly ended that dry spell in this race. Glotzbach was running strong when he tangled with the lapped car of Thompson and crashed on lap 234, ending his day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 23], "content_span": [24, 674]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093122-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 World 600, Summary\nKevin Terris tried to qualify for this race in a Plymouth Road Runner, but he failed to qualify.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 23], "content_span": [24, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093123-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 World Allround Speed Skating Championships\nThe World Allround Speed Skating Championships for Men took place on 13 and 14 February 1971 in G\u00f6teborg at the Ullevi ice rink.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093124-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 World Archery Championships\nThe 1971 World Archery Championships was the 26th edition of the World Archery Championships. The event was held in York, Great Britain in July 1971 and was organised by World Archery Federation (FITA). The 1971 Championships marked the final competition before archery became an Olympic sport in 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093125-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 World Championship Tennis Finals\nThe 1971 World Championship Tennis Finals was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor Sportface carpet courts. It was the first edition of the WCT Finals and the concluding event of the 1971 World Championship Tennis circuit. The eight top players in points qualified for the event. The quarterfinals and semifinals were played at the Hofheinz Pavilion in Houston, Texas from November 19 through November 21 while the final, watched by 8,200 spectators, was played at the Memorial Auditorium in Dallas, Texas, United States on November 26. Ken Rosewall win the event and the accompanying $50,000 first-prize money. Neil Armstrong presented the prizes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 692]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093126-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 World Championship Tennis Finals \u2013 Singles\nKen Rosewall won the singles title of the 1971 World Championship Tennis Finals with a 6\u20134, 1\u20136, 7\u20136(7\u20133), 7\u20136(7\u20134) victory in the final against Rod Laver.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093126-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 World Championship Tennis Finals \u2013 Singles, Seeds\nA champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 54], "content_span": [55, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093127-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 World Championship Tennis circuit\nThe 1971 World Championship Tennis circuit was one of the two rival professional male tennis circuits of 1971. It was organized by World Championship Tennis (WCT). Points were awarded to players based on their tournament results (ten points for the tournament winner, seven points for the runner\u2013up, four points for the semifinalists, two points for the quarterfinalists and one point for reaching the second round). The circuit included twenty regular events and a WCT circuit final taking place in Houston/Dallas in November for the eight players with the highest points total. Each tournament had a minimum prize money of $50,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 672]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093127-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 World Championship Tennis circuit, Schedule\nThe complete schedule of events on the 1971 WCT circuit, with player progression documented until the quarterfinals stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093128-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 World Championship Victory Race\nThe Rothmans World Championship Victory Race was a motor race, run to Formula One rules, held on 24 October 1971 at Brands Hatch, Kent. The race was to be run over 40 laps of the circuit, but was stopped on lap 15 following the fatal accident suffered by Swiss driver Jo Siffert. The result was taken from the race order after 14 laps, with Peter Gethin being declared the winner in his BRM P160. The entry included several Formula 5000 cars which were contesting Round 12 of the 1971 Rothmans European Formula 5000 Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093128-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 World Championship Victory Race\nSiffert's accident led to a rapid overhaul of safety, both in-car and on circuit. In the subsequent Royal Automobile Club (the UK organising and regulatory representative of the FIA at the time) investigation, it was discovered that the crash itself caused non-fatal injuries but Siffert had rather been killed by smoke inhalation. None of the trackside fire extinguishers worked, and it was found to be impossible to reach the car and extract Siffert because of the intense fire. On-board fire extinguishers (using BCF\u2014Bromochlorodifluoromethane, an aircraft product) became mandatory and also piped air for the drivers, direct into their helmets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 685]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093128-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 World Championship Victory Race, Race\nAlthough the race only lasted for less than half of its intended distance, there were several incidents. On lap 2, Henri Pescarolo and Reine Wisell collided at the Druids hairpin, with both cars retiring. Then Mike Hailwood and Ronnie Peterson also collided and had to pit for repairs. Hailwood's car was deemed unfit to continue, but Peterson rejoined the race, albeit nearly a lap down. Siffert had fallen several places at the start, but had made his way back to 4th by lap 14.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 42], "content_span": [43, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093128-0002-0001", "contents": "1971 World Championship Victory Race, Race\nApproaching Hawthorn Bend at high speed on lap 15, Siffert's BRM suffered a mechanical failure which pitched it across the track into an earth bank. The car rolled over and caught fire, trapping Siffert underneath, and he died in the flames. The race was stopped with the track blocked, and all the cars were stranded out on the circuit except for John Surtees, who was able to drive around to the pits, his car damaged by debris.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 42], "content_span": [43, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093129-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 World Cup (men's golf)\nThe 1971 World Cup took place November 11\u201314 at PGA National Golf Club (now BallenIsles Country Club, East Course) in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. It was the 19th World Cup event. The tournament was a 72-hole stroke play team event with 46 teams, which was a record high number of participants. Each team consisted of two players from a country. The combined score of each team determined the team results. The United States team of Jack Nicklaus and Lee Trevino won by eight strokes over the South Africa team of Harold Henning and Gary Player. The individual competition was won by Nicklaus seven strokes ahead of Player. This was the 11th team victory for the United States in the history of the World Cup, founded in 1953 and until 1967 named the Canada Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 790]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093129-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 World Cup (men's golf), Scores\nThe Singapore team was disqualified when Phua Thin Kiay could not play the first round due to tonsillitis. He played the remaining rounds and his teammate, Alvin Liau played all four rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093130-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 World Fencing Championships\nThe 1971 World Fencing Championships were held in Vienna, Austria. The event took place from July 4 to July 17, 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093131-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 World Field Archery Championships\nThe 1970 World Field Archery Championships were held in Cardiff, Wales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093132-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 World Figure Skating Championships\nThe 1971 World Figure Skating Championships were held in Lyon, France from February 23 to 28. At the event, sanctioned by the International Skating Union, medals were awarded in men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093132-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 World Figure Skating Championships\nThe ISU Representative was John R. Shoemaker of the United States and the ISU Technical Delegate was Elem\u00e9r Tert\u00e1k of Hungary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093133-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 World Judo Championships\nThe 1971 World Judo Championships were the 7th edition of the Men's World Judo Championships, and were held at the Friedrich-Ebert-Halle in Ludwigshafen, West Germany from 2\u20134 September, 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093134-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 World Modern Pentathlon Championships\nThe 1971 World Modern Pentathlon Championships were held in San Antonio, United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093135-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 World Netball Championships\nThe 1971 World Netball Championships was the third edition of the INF Netball World Cup, a quadrennial premier event in international netball. It was held in Kingston, Jamaica, and featured nine teams including the debut of the Bahamas. It began on 31 December 1970 with England and New Zealand winning their opening matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093135-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 World Netball Championships\nIn eight matches, Australia retained the title back from New Zealand after winning all of their matches, New Zealand finished runners-up and England third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093136-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships\nV World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships were held in Havana, Cuba on November 10 & 11, 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093136-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships, Competitors\nThere were competitors from 15 countries - Bulgaria, Soviet Union, Cuba, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, North Korea, Romania, Japan, New Zealand, Denmark, West Germany, Canada, Mexico, Sweden & Italy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 57], "content_span": [58, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093137-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 World Series\nThe 1971 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1971 season. The 68th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff between the defending World Series and American League (AL) champion Baltimore Orioles and the National League (NL) champion Pittsburgh Pirates. The Pirates won in seven games. Game\u00a04 in Pittsburgh was the first World Series game played at night.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093137-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 World Series\nThe teams proved to be evenly matched, as the Series went the full seven games; the home team prevailed in each of the first six. In Game Seven in Baltimore, the Pirates' Steve Blass pitched a four-hit complete game for a 2\u20131 win over Mike Cuellar and the Orioles. In his final World Series appearance, Roberto Clemente became the first Spanish-speaking ballplayer to earn World Series Most Valuable Player Award. He hit safely in all seven games of the Series, duplicating a feat he had performed in 1960. Twenty-one-year-old rookie Bruce Kison pitched \u200b6\u00a01\u20443 scoreless innings and allowed just one hit in two appearances for the Pirates; he set a record of three hit batters in a World Series game, which also tied the 1907 record for a World Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 770]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093137-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 World Series\nThis was the first of three consecutive World Series, all seven games, in which the winning team scored fewer runs overall. The trend continued for the next seven-game series in 1975. These two teams met again in the fall classic eight years later, with the same result, as the Pirates won the final three games to win in seven.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093137-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 World Series, Background\nThe Pirates won the National League East by seven games over the St. Louis Cardinals then defeated the San Francisco Giants, three games to one, in the National League Championship Series. The Orioles won the American League East by 12 games over the Detroit Tigers then swept the Oakland A's in the American League Championship Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093137-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 World Series, Background\nThe Orioles were coming off their third straight AL playoff series sweep (twice over the Minnesota Twins and once over Oakland) and their third straight season with over 100 wins: 109 (1969), 108 (1970), 101 (1971). Featuring four pitchers with 20 or more wins (Dave McNally (21), Mike Cuellar (20), Pat Dobson (20), Jim Palmer (20)), the booming bats of sluggers Frank Robinson (28, 99, .281) and Boog Powell (22, 92, .256), and the sure hands of Brooks Robinson at third and Mark Belanger at short, the O's were primed to defend their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093137-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 World Series, Background\nThe Pirates were in the World Series for the first time since the heroics of Bill Mazeroski (his only appearance in the series came as a pinch-hitter in Game 1) in Game 7 of the 1960 match-up against the New York Yankees. Though not as decorated as the O's staff, the Pirates featured 19-game winner Dock Ellis and 15-game winner Steve Blass. The Bucs did boast a murderous lineup led by Willie Stargell (48, 125, .295), Bob Robertson (26, 72, .271) and Roberto Clemente (13, 86, .341), who collected 12 series hits and hit .414.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093137-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 World Series, Matchups, Game 1\nThe Pirates scored three in the second off of Dave McNally due to sloppy defense by the Orioles. Bob Robertson led off with a walk and went to second on a wild pitch by O's starter Dave McNally. Manny Sanguill\u00e9n grounded to short, but Mark Belanger threw wildly to third in an attempt to retire Robertson. Robertson scored and Sanguill\u00e9n pulled in at second. After advancing to third on a ground ball by Jos\u00e9 Pag\u00e1n, Sanguill\u00e9n scored on a suicide squeeze bunt laid down by Jackie Hern\u00e1ndez, who went to second when catcher Elrod Hendricks threw wildly to first. Dave Cash singled home Hernandez with the only hit the Pirates got the whole inning among the three runs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 703]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093137-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 World Series, Matchups, Game 1\nThe Orioles rallied behind the long-ball. Frank Robinson hit a home run in the second and Merv Rettenmund blasted a three-run home run in the third off Dock Ellis to give the Orioles the lead. Don Buford added a home run off of Bob Moose in the fifth as McNally settled down and allowed only two more hits and no runs the rest of the way.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093137-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 World Series, Matchups, Game 2\nFollowing a one-day delay caused by the first World Series rainout in nine years, the Orioles took a 2\u20130 series lead on Monday afternoon. Baltimore pounded six Pirate pitchers for 14 hits (all singles) and 11 runs, led by three hits and four RBI by Brooks Robinson, who drove in the first Oriole run in the second. In the fourth, with the bases loaded by a single, hit-by-pitch and walk, Davey Johnson's two-run single made it 3\u20130 Orioles and knocked starter Bob Johnson out of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093137-0008-0001", "contents": "1971 World Series, Matchups, Game 2\nTwo walks by Bruce Kison forced in another run to make it 4\u20130 Orioles. In the fifth, after two singles, Elrod Hendricks's two-run single, aided by an error and Robinson's single, made it 7\u20130 Orioles. After another single, Bob Veale relieved Moose and allowed two walks to load the bases and force in another run. Don Buford's groundout and Merv Rettenmund's RBI single made it 10\u20130 Orioles. Robinson's RBI single next inning off of Bob Miller capped the Orioles' scoring. Jim Palmer pitched seven shutout innings and helped himself the easy way by drawing two bases-loaded walks for two RBIs - the only time this has happened in a World Series game. The Pirates got their runs in the eighth when Richie Hebner hit a three-run homer off Palmer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 779]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093137-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 World Series, Matchups, Game 2\nThis was very nearly the first night game in World Series history. After rain postponed Game 2\u2014originally scheduled for Sunday afternoon\u2014Commissioner Bowie Kuhn suggested that the rescheduled game be played on Monday night. However, the Pirates objected as they wanted the honor of hosting the first World Series night game themselves at Three Rivers Stadium when Game Four was played. Thus Game Two was played on Monday afternoon in Baltimore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093137-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 World Series, Matchups, Game 3\nWith the Series shifting to Three Rivers Stadium and with Steve Blass available, the Pirates got back into it. Roberto Clemente's groundout with runners on second and third in the first put them up 1\u20130. Manny Sanguill\u00e9n hit a leadoff double in the sixth and scored on Jose Pagan's single to make it 2\u20130 Pirates. Steve Blass pitched a complete game, allowing only three hits and one run (on a Frank Robinson home run in the seventh) and striking out eight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093137-0010-0001", "contents": "1971 World Series, Matchups, Game 3\nThe big blow on offense was provided by Bob Robertson, who slammed a three-run home run in the seventh off starter Mike Cuellar\u2014after missing the bunt sign. Manager Danny Murtaugh issued the sign to Robertson, who had no sacrifice bunts on the season. Television replays showed Roberto Clemente, who was on second base, appearing to call a timeout, but Cuellar was already in his windup at the time. Blass was sitting next to Murtaugh in the dugout at the time, and told the Pirate manager: \"If you fine him (Robertson, for missing the bunt sign), I'll pay.\" Murtaugh didn't. July 13, 2007, at the Wayback Machine", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 649]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093137-0011-0000", "contents": "1971 World Series, Matchups, Game 4\nIn the first night game in World Series history, it started out looking like a long night for the Pirates. Starting pitcher Luke Walker gave up singles to the Orioles' first three batters, Paul Blair, Mark Belanger, and Merv Rettenmund, loading the bases. Blair scored and the others advanced on a Manny Sanguill\u00e9n passed ball. Walker then intentionally walked Frank Robinson and gave up consecutive sacrifice flies to Brooks Robinson and Boog Powell, giving the Orioles a 3\u20130 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093137-0012-0000", "contents": "1971 World Series, Matchups, Game 4\nManager Danny Murtaugh then pulled Walker in favor of Bruce Kison. Kison proceeded to get the final out of the inning and then pitched shutout baseball for the next six innings, allowing only one hit and despite hitting three Oriole batters, a World Series record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093137-0013-0000", "contents": "1971 World Series, Matchups, Game 4\nKison's heroics allowed the Pirates to claw back off of starter Pat Dobson. Willie Stargell and Al Oliver cut the lead to 3\u20132 in the bottom of the first with back-to-back RBI doubles after a leadoff walk. Oliver tied the score at 3 in the third with an RBI single.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093137-0014-0000", "contents": "1971 World Series, Matchups, Game 4\nIn the seventh, Bob Robertson and Sanguill\u00e9n stroked one-out singles off reliever Eddie Watt. Pinch-hitter Vic Davalillo then lofted a short fly to center that Paul Blair dropped. Robertson reached third and Davalillo first, but Sanguill\u00e9n was caught in a rundown between second and third. Backup catcher Milt May then batted for Kison and delivered a clutch go-ahead RBI single, scoring Robertson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093137-0015-0000", "contents": "1971 World Series, Matchups, Game 4\nDave Giusti pitched the final two innings of hitless ball for the Pirates and got the save.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093137-0016-0000", "contents": "1971 World Series, Matchups, Game 5\nPirates manager Danny Murtaugh chose Nelson Briles to start Game 5 over the Pirates' top starters, Steve Blass and Dock Ellis, choosing to save them for potential Games 6 and 7. The gamble paid off as Briles pitched an efficient two-hit shutout. Bob Robertson's leadoff home run in the second inning off Dave McNally put the Pirates up 1\u20130. Manny Sanguill\u00e9n singled, stole second and scored on Nelson Briles's two-out single to bump the Pirates' lead to 2\u20130. A wild pitch with runners on first and third allowed another run to score to make it 3-0 after three innings. Gene Clines hit a leadoff triple in the fifth and scored on Roberto Clemente's single, his first RBI scoring hit of the series, to cap the scoring as the Pirates took a 3\u20132 series lead heading back to Baltimore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 816]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093137-0017-0000", "contents": "1971 World Series, Matchups, Game 6\nThe 400th game played in world series history, Baltimore returned to Memorial Stadium facing elimination. With Steve Blass needing another day of rest and Dock Ellis nursing an injury, Danny Murtaugh had to go to the well once again, starting reliever Bob Moose\u2014his sixth different starter in this Series. Moose responded well by pitching shutout ball for five innings, while his Pirate teammates got him a 2\u20130 lead. Al Oliver doubled in the second off Jim Palmer and scored on a Bob Robertson single. Roberto Clemente added a homer in the third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093137-0018-0000", "contents": "1971 World Series, Matchups, Game 6\nMoose started having trouble in the sixth, however. Don Buford belted a one-out homer and Moose allowed the next two batters to reach base before giving way to Bob Johnson, who ended the threat. The Orioles tied it off Johnson in the seventh when Mark Belanger singled, stole second, and scored on a single by Davey Johnson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093137-0019-0000", "contents": "1971 World Series, Matchups, Game 6\nBoth teams threatened late; the Orioles had runners on second and third in the bottom of the ninth with two out, but failed to score. The Pirates loaded the bases in the top of the tenth, but Dave McNally, pitching in relief, squelched the threat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093137-0020-0000", "contents": "1971 World Series, Matchups, Game 6\nThe Orioles staved off a World Series defeat in their half of the tenth when Frank Robinson drew a one-out walk and went to third on a Merv Rettenmund single. Brooks Robinson lifted a short fly to center and Frank Robinson tagged and scored the winning run, barely beating Vic Davalillo's throw to the plate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093137-0021-0000", "contents": "1971 World Series, Matchups, Game 7\nWith ace pitchers Steve Blass and Mike Cuellar on the mound for their respective teams, Game 7 proved to be a pitcher's duel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093137-0022-0000", "contents": "1971 World Series, Matchups, Game 7\nSeries MVP Roberto Clemente drew first blood for the Pirates by hitting a two-out homer in the fourth off Cuellar. The Pirates added another run in the eighth when Jos\u00e9 Pag\u00e1n doubled in Willie Stargell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093137-0023-0000", "contents": "1971 World Series, Matchups, Game 7\nThe only run the O's could muster off Blass was an RBI groundout by Don Buford in the eighth. Blass would get his second complete game win of the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093137-0024-0000", "contents": "1971 World Series, Matchups, Game 7\nGame 7 was the only game in which the visiting team won. It was the fourth World Series in which the home team won each of the first six games before the road team won Game 7 with the others being 1955, 1956 and 1965.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093137-0025-0000", "contents": "1971 World Series, Matchups, Game 7\nAfter Game 2, the O's bats went silent. After hitting the Pirates pitching staff for 16 runs and 24 hits in the first two games, the O's scored only eight runs on 21 hits, hitting only .141 (21\u2013149) in the next five games, enabling the Pirates to upset the Orioles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093137-0026-0000", "contents": "1971 World Series, Matchups, Game 7\nThe first pitch was one hour later than usual due to a Baltimore ordinance, since repealed, which prohibited Sunday sporting events from beginning prior to 2 p.m. This also occurred in Game 4 of the 1966 World Series and Game 2 of the 1969 World Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093137-0027-0000", "contents": "1971 World Series, Composite box\n1971 World Series (4\u20133): Pittsburgh Pirates (N.L.) over Baltimore Orioles (A.L.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 32], "content_span": [33, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093138-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 World Series of Poker\nThe 1971 World Series of Poker (WSOP) was a series of poker tournaments held at Binion's Horseshoe during May 1st\u201315th, 1971. This was only the 2nd installment of the World Series of Poker, but unlike at the 1970 event, freezeout tournaments were played to decide the winner of the main title. The freezeout structure replaced the cash games, and it was kept in use ever since. 5 freezeouts were played in total\u20144 preliminary events and the Main Event\u2014each featuring a different poker variant. The preliminary events required player to put up a buy-in of $1K, while the Main Event buy-in was $5K.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093138-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 World Series of Poker, Main Event\nThere were 6 entrants to the main event, each paying $5K to enter the tournament. The game played was no limit Texas hold 'em. Johnny Moss won the tournament and took the whole prize pool. Moss's victory that year was the 1st time a player had been awarded the Main Event Championship 2 years in a row, a feat that would later be also accomplished by Doyle Brunson (in 1976 and 1977), Stu Ungar (in 1980 and 1981), and Johnny Chan (in 1986 and 1987).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093139-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 World Snooker Championship\nThe 1971 World Snooker Championship was a professional snooker tournament that took place between 28 September and 7 November 1970 in Australia. The tournament was the 1971 edition of the World Snooker Championship, first held in 1927 but was held in 1970. It was the first time the event had been held outside England outside of two challenge matches in 1965, with matches held at various locations in New South Wales and Brisbane. The event featured nine participants, with a round-robin round producing four qualifiers, who then competed in a single-elimination tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093139-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 World Snooker Championship\nRay Reardon was the defending champion, having defeated John Pulman in the 1970 final, however Reardon lost to John Spencer in the semi-final. Spencer won the event for the second time by defeating Warren Simpson 37\u201329 in the final held in the Chevron Hotel in Sydney. Eddie Charlton made the highest break of the tournament with a 129 in the final session of his round-robin match against Gary Owen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093139-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 World Snooker Championship, Overview\nThe World Snooker Championship is a professional tournament and the official world championship of the game of snooker. Founded in the late 19th century by British Army soldiers stationed in India, the sport was popular in the British Isles. However, in the modern era it has become increasingly popular worldwide, especially in East and Southeast Asian nations such as China, Hong Kong and Thailand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093139-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 World Snooker Championship, Overview\nThis championship featured nine professional players competing in one-on-one snooker matches in a round-robin format until from which four players qualified to a single elimination format. Each match is played over a predetermined number of frames and sessions. Joe Davis won the first World Championship in 1927, the final match being held in Camkin's Hall, Birmingham, England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093139-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 World Snooker Championship, Overview, Format\nThe championship was held from 28 September to 7 November 1970 at several locations across Australia. This was the first time the championship was held outside the United Kingdom aside from two challenge matches in 1965, and it would be later hosted in Australia again in 1975. The initial stage was a round robin in which the matches were of 37 frames, played across three days, and each competitor played four of the other eight competitors. The number of frames needed to win a match increased at the semi-finals stage. The semi-finals were scheduled to be the best-of-49 and the final as the best-of-73 frames.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 664]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093139-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, Round-robin\nThe first match was held from 28 to 30 September between Paddy Morgan and Warren Simpson. The match was won by Morgan by a score of 21\u201316. Eddie Charlton and Norman Squire met in the second match, during which Charlton made a break of 106, the first century break of the championship. The British players did not start their matches until 6 October when John Spencer, John Pulman and Gary Owen started their first matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093139-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, Round-robin\nRay Reardon started his first match on 9 October where he defeated Perrie Mans. Spencer made a break of 105 in his second win, over Norman Squire, which finished 27\u201310. Reardon and Spencer both played again from 12 to 14 October. Reardon beat Charlton, despite Charlton making a break of 116. Spencer defeated John Pulman, with both players making a century break \u2013 a 113 by Spencer, and a 102 by Pulman. Simpson met Owen from 13 to 15 October, and trailed 14\u201317 and 17\u201318 but won the last two frames to win 19\u201318.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093139-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, Round-robin\nOwen scored his first century of the tournament in his match against Squire, a break of 102. Owen and Charlton won their second matches and met over the following three days, with Charlton making the highest break of the tournament, a 129. Reardon met Morgan in Brisbane and led 20\u201310, before Morgan did not appear for the final session, awarding Reardon a 27\u201310 win. The third win guaranteed his place in the semi-final where he would meet John Spencer. Charlton beat Owen to give him his third win and a place in the semi-final. Simpson then beat Perrie Mans 19\u201318 to gain the last semi-final place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 64], "content_span": [65, 666]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093139-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, Knockout rounds\nThe first semi-final, between Charlton and Simpson, was played from 25 to 28 October at Forbes Golf Club. Charlton was involved in a minor traffic collision on the way to the match, and lost each of the first three frames. Simpson led 7\u20135 after the first day and maintained a 13\u201311 lead after the second day. The last five frames on the third day was won by Simpson to lead 21\u201315. Simpson clinched the match of the fourth and final day when he won the third frame of the evening session to lead 25\u201320. Dead frames were played with the final score being 27\u201322. The highest break of the match was a 95 by Simpson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 68], "content_span": [69, 680]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093139-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, Knockout rounds\nThe second semi-final, between Spencer and Reardon, was played from 27 to 30 October at Parramatta Leagues Club, Sydney. Spencer took a 9\u20133 lead on the first day, however, Reardon made a 108 break during the evening session. Spencer extended his lead to 19\u20135 after two days and won the match 25\u20137 on the third evening. Spencer made a break of 106 on the third afternoon and Reardon made one of 109 in a dead frame on the third evening. The match ended with Spencer leading 34\u201315. Reardon's defeat meant he held the record as the player with the shortest reign as world champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 68], "content_span": [69, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093139-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, Knockout rounds\nThe final was held from 2 to 7 November at the Chevron Hotel in Sydney. Spencer led 8\u20134 after the first day, and 17\u20137 after the second day. He made a break of 105 on the second afternoon and then made breaks of 126 and 107 in the second and third frames of the evening session. At the half-way stage Simpson had reduced Spencer's lead to 20\u201316, but missed a number of easy shots as Spencer won none of the twelve frames on the fourth day to lead 29\u201319.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 68], "content_span": [69, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093139-0010-0001", "contents": "1971 World Snooker Championship, Tournament summary, Knockout rounds\nSpencer was 34\u201326 ahead by the end of day five, and eventually won the match 37\u201329 in the final frame of the afternoon session on the sixth day, having led 36\u201326. The remaining \"dead frames\" were played, resulting in a final score of 42\u201331 to Spencer. Spencer won his second world title and earned \u00a32,333. Simpson had reached the final at his first attempt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 68], "content_span": [69, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093139-0011-0000", "contents": "1971 World Snooker Championship, Results, Knockout stage\nThe remaining four players contested a knockout round. The basis on which the semi-final draw was organised is not known. The 22 October edition of The Sydney Morning Herald reports that Reardon would play Spencer in the second semi-final. At the time Reardon and Spencer still had to play each other and Charlton, Owen and Simpson also had one match to play. So the final order of the group was still undecided. Snooker historian Clive Everton has speculated that the draw was changed \"behind the scenes ... perhaps to ensure an Australian finalist.\" The draw and results from the semi-finals and final are shown below. Players in bold denote match winners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 56], "content_span": [57, 715]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093140-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 World Sportscar Championship\nThe 1971 International Championship for Makes season was the 19th season of FIA World Sportscar Championship motor racing. It was open to Group 6 Sports Prototypes, Group 5 Sportscars, and Group 4 Special GT Cars and was contested over an eleven race series which ran from 10 January to 24 July 1971. Porsche won the championship, and the German manufacturer also won the International Cup for GT Cars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093140-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 World Sportscar Championship, Schedule\n\u2020 - Sports Prototypes and Sportscars only, GT class did not participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093140-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 World Sportscar Championship, Championship results, International Championship for Makes\nChampionship points were awarded to the top 6 finishers in each race in the order of 9-6-4-3-2-1. Manufacturers were only given points for their highest finishing car and any other cars from that manufacturer were merely skipped in the points standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 93], "content_span": [94, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093140-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 World Sportscar Championship, Championship results, International Championship for Makes\nAll Sportscars, Sports Prototypes and GT cars were eligible for points towards the International Championship for Makes and the GT class also had their own separate award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 93], "content_span": [94, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093140-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 World Sportscar Championship, Championship results, International Championship for Makes\nCars participating in races that were not included in the Sportscar, Sports Prototype or GT classes were skipped when awarding points for the overall championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 93], "content_span": [94, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093140-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 World Sportscar Championship, Championship results, International Championship for Makes\nOnly the best 8 points finishes counted towards the championship, with any other points earned not included in the total. Discarded points are shown within brackets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 93], "content_span": [94, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093140-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 World Sportscar Championship, Championship results, International Cup for GT Cars\nThe GT class did not participate in Rounds 1 and 4. Only the best 7 finishes were counted towards the International Cup for GT Cars. Discarded points are shown within brackets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 86], "content_span": [87, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093140-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 World Sportscar Championship, The cars\nThe following models contributed to the net points scores of their respective manufacturers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093141-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 World Table Tennis Championships\nThe 1971 World Table Tennis Championships (31st) were held in Nagoya from March 28 to April 7, 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093141-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 World Table Tennis Championships\nThe nations represented were Austria, Czechoslovakia, the People's Republic of China, England, West Germany Hungary, India, Japan, North Korea and South Korea, Romania, the Soviet Union, and Yugoslavia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093142-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 World Table Tennis Championships \u2013 Men's Doubles\nThe 1971 World Table Tennis Championships \u2013 Men's Doubles was the 31st edition of the men's doubles championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093142-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 World Table Tennis Championships \u2013 Men's Doubles\nIstv\u00e1n J\u00f3nyer and Tibor Klamp\u00e1r won the title after defeating Chuang Tse-tung and Liang Ko-liang in the final by three sets to one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093143-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 World Table Tennis Championships \u2013 Men's Singles\nThe 1971 World Table Tennis Championships \u2013 Men's Singles was the 31st edition of the men's singles championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093143-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 World Table Tennis Championships \u2013 Men's Singles\nStellan Bengtsson defeated Shigeo Itoh in the final, winning three sets to one to secure the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093144-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 World Table Tennis Championships \u2013 Men's Team\nThe 1971 World Table Tennis Championships \u2013 Swaythling Cup (Men's Team) was the 31st edition of the men's team championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093144-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 World Table Tennis Championships \u2013 Men's Team\nChina won the gold medal defeating Japan 5\u20132 in the final. Yugoslavia won the bronze medal after winning the third place play off.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093145-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 World Table Tennis Championships \u2013 Mixed Doubles\nThe 1971 World Table Tennis Championships \u2013 Mixed Doubles was the 31st edition of the mixed doubles championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093145-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 World Table Tennis Championships \u2013 Mixed Doubles\nZhang Xielin and Lin Huiqing defeated Antun Stipan\u010di\u0107 and Maria Alexandru in the final by three sets to one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093146-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 World Table Tennis Championships \u2013 Women's Doubles\nThe 1971 World Table Tennis Championships \u2013 Women's Doubles was the 30th edition of the women's doubles championship. Lin Huiqing and Zheng Minzhi defeated Mieko Hirano and Reiko Sakamoto in the final by three sets to nil.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093147-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 World Table Tennis Championships \u2013 Women's Singles\nThe 1971 World Table Tennis Championships \u2013 Women's Singles was the 31st edition of the women's singles championship. Lin Hui-ching defeated Cheng Min-chih in the final by three sets to one, to win the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093148-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 World Table Tennis Championships \u2013 Women's Team\nThe 1971 World Table Tennis Championships \u2013 Corbillon Cup (Women's Team) was the 24th edition of the women's team championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093148-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 World Table Tennis Championships \u2013 Women's Team\nJapan won the gold medal, China won the silver medal and South Korea won the bronze medal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093149-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 World Weightlifting Championships\nThe 1971 Men's World Weightlifting Championships were held in Lima, Peru from September 18 to September 26, 1971. There were 144 men from 30 nations in the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093149-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 World Weightlifting Championships, Medal table\nRanking by all medals: Big (Total result) and Small (Press, Snatch and Clean & Jerk)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 51], "content_span": [52, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093150-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 World Women's Handball Championship\nThe 1971 World Women's Handball Championship took place in the Netherlands between 11-19 December 1971. After the 1968 edition was cancelled because of the intervention of Czechoslovakia from the Soviet Union, the 1971 edition would see East Germany take the title as they defeated Yugoslavia 11-8 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093151-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 World Wrestling Championships\nThe 1971 World Wrestling Championships were held in Sofia, Bulgaria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093152-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Wyoming Cowboys football team\nThe 1971 Wyoming Cowboys football team represented the University of Wyoming in the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. Led by first-year head coach Fritz Shurmur, they were members of the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) and played their home games on campus at War Memorial Stadium in Laramie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093152-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Wyoming Cowboys football team\nThe Cowboys had a record of 5\u20136, and were 3\u20134 in the WAC. Shurmur had been the defensive line coach at Wyoming for nine years under head coach Lloyd Eaton; Eaton resigned in December 1970 and was reassigned to assistant athletic director, and Shurmur was promoted to head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093153-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Yale Bulldogs football team\nThe 1971 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1971 NCAA University Division football season. The Bulldogs were led by seventh-year head coach Carmen Cozza, played their home games at the Yale Bowl and finished tied for fifth place in the Ivy League with a 3\u20134 record, 4\u20135 overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093154-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Yankee 400\nThe 1971 Yankee 400 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series race that took place at Michigan International Speedway on August 15, 1971. The purse for this event was $51,015 ($326,001.36 when adjusted for inflation).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093154-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Yankee 400, Background\nMichigan International Speedway is a four-turn superspeedway that is 2 miles (3.2\u00a0km) long. Groundbreaking took place on September 28, 1967. Over 2.5\u00a0million cubic yards (1.9\u00d710^6\u00a0m3) of dirt were moved to form the D-shaped oval. The track opened in 1968 with a total capacity of 25,000\u00a0seats. The track was originally built and owned by Lawrence H. LoPatin, a Detroit-area land developer who built the speedway at an estimated cost of $4\u20136\u00a0million. Financing was arranged by Thomas W Itin. Its first race took place on Sunday, October 13, 1968, with the running of the USAC 250 mile Championship Car Race won by Ronnie Bucknum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 656]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093154-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Yankee 400, Race report\nThere were 26,000 fans in attendance for this two hour, forty minute race in Brooklyn, Michigan There were two cautions for twelve laps and the victory margin was three seconds. Average speed was 149.862 miles (241.180\u00a0km) per hour while the pole speed was 161.901 miles (260.554\u00a0km) per hour. All forty competitors in this race were born in the United States of America. 200 laps were undertaken on the paved oval track spanning 2.0 miles (3.2\u00a0km).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 28], "content_span": [29, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093154-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Yankee 400, Race report\nManufacturers involved in this race included Mercury, Ford, Dodge, Chevrolet, and Plymouth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 28], "content_span": [29, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093154-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Yankee 400, Race report\nFriday Hassler blew his vehicle's engine on lap 7. Bobby Isaac had a problem with his vehicle's water pump on lap 11. Benny Parsons blew his engine on lap 29. Henley Gray's vehicle had a problematic suspension on lap 38. Fuel pump issues forced Ed Negre out of the race on lap 40. Dave Marcis overheated his vehicle on lap 45. Problems with the clutch caused John Sears to exit the race on lap 49. Coo Coo Marlin blew his vehicle's engine on lap 76. Dick May overheated his vehicle on lap 84.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 28], "content_span": [29, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093154-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Yankee 400, Race report\nEngine problems happened for Pete Hamilton on lap 87. Pete Hamilton had the only car that could possibly beat Bobby Allison; he would overtake Allison on laps 31, 40, 46, and 49 before losing dominance over Bobby Allison on lap 50. Problems with the vehicle's ignition forced Johnny Halford out of the race on lap 94. Bill Seifert's vehicle had a troublesome fuel pump on lap 110; forcing his early exit from the race. Dean Dalton had engine issues on lap 125 that forced him out of the race while Charlie Glotzbach dealt with the same issue on lap 129.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 28], "content_span": [29, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093155-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Yemen Arab Republic parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections were held in the Yemen Arab Republic in February and March 1971. As political parties were banned, all candidates ran as independents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093155-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Yemen Arab Republic parliamentary election\nThe indirect election system in rural areas led to Parliament being dominated by tribal elites. However, it was suspended in 1974 after a military coup, in order to try to reduce the elite's power.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093155-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Yemen Arab Republic parliamentary election, Electoral system\nOf the 159 members of Parliament, 128 were elected in single-member constituencies and 31 appointed by the President. However, secret elections only took place in urban areas, whilst indirect elections were held in rural areas, effectively barring women from voting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 65], "content_span": [66, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093156-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 Yugoslav Embassy shooting\nThe 1971 Yugoslav Embassy shooting was a terrorist attack carried out by Croatian separatists affiliated with the Ustashe movement. It occurred on April 7, 1971, at the embassy of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in Stockholm, Sweden. Among the victims was Vladimir Rolovi\u0107, the ambassador, who was shot by the attackers, and died a week later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093156-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 Yugoslav Embassy shooting, Background\nOn 10 February 1971, two Yugoslav men entered the Yugoslav Consulate in Gothenburg. They gathered and restrained all the Consulate staff on the premises, at knife and gunpoint. The two men, Blago\u00a0Mikuli\u0107 and Ivan\u00a0Vuji\u010devi\u0107, demanded that the Yugoslav authorities release the convicted Miljenko Hrka\u0107 who was imprisoned in Yugoslavia and that he be brought to the Franco-controlled Spain with $20,000 in his pocket. If the demands were not met, the employees of the consulate would be executed. After just over one day's siege and fruitless negotiations with the Swedish police, they gave up and were arrested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 652]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093156-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 Yugoslav Embassy shooting, Background\nMikuli\u0107 and Vuji\u010devi\u0107, who belonged to the organisation \"Jadran\", or the Black Legion, were later sentenced to three and a half years in prison. The Yugoslav ambassador to Stockholm, Vladimir Rolovi\u0107, criticised the Swedish police in the media and saying they did not take the terrorist threat seriously enough, claiming that the Croatian separatists belonged to Ustashe, an organization that collaborated with Nazi Germany during World War II. The assailants were then popularly called Ustashe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093156-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 Yugoslav Embassy shooting, Events\nA few months later, on 7 April 1971, at the Yugoslav Embassy on Strandv\u00e4gen 7B in Stockholm, Miro Bare\u0161i\u0107 and An\u0111elko Brajkovi\u0107 penetrated the building and took the ambassador Vladimir Rolovi\u0107 (a former OZNA colonel) hostage. He was struck across the face with a pistol and dragged into his room. The men tied Rolovi\u0107 to a chair, pulled a leather belt around his neck and shot him in the face and stomach. Several shots were fired, one penetrated a door and injured the embassy secretary, Mira Stempilhar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093156-0003-0001", "contents": "1971 Yugoslav Embassy shooting, Events\nOne of the men urinated on his hands to clean off Rolovic's blood, the other threw a portrait of Tito through the window. An embassy officer who tried to escape through a window was taken to the hospital. When the police arrived, they immediately stormed the building and forced the terrorists to surrender. The ambassador, fatally-wounded, was laying in a pool of blood on the floor. Bare\u0161i\u0107 and Brajkovi\u0107 stood in a corner with their hands in the air. On their way out of the building, they shouted \"Long live the Independent State of Croatia\" and \"long live Ante Paveli\u0107\". Bare\u0161i\u0107 and Brajkovi\u0107 said they belong to Ustashe and also proclaimed that he wanted to punish Rolovi\u0107 for his visit to Canberra, Australia, where he was sent by the Yugoslav Foreign Ministry to inform the Australian Government of the Ustashe members who prepared terrorist actions in Yugoslavia from its territory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 930]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093156-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 Yugoslav Embassy shooting, Events\nRolovi\u0107 died a week later without regaining consciousness at Karolinska Hospital. The Yugoslav secret service has always maintained that Ante Stojanov, who was convicted by Stockholm District Court for complicity to murder, was, in fact, the mastermind behind the attack and aircraft hijacking, which Stojanov later admitted. He supervised the operation from a bar on Strandv\u00e4gen. Ante Stojanov, was convicted of complicity to the murder of the Yugoslav ambassador, while his then twenty-year-old cousin Miro Bare\u0161i\u0107 along with An\u0111elko Brajkovi\u0107 were convicted to life imprisonment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 621]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093156-0004-0001", "contents": "1971 Yugoslav Embassy shooting, Events\nStojanov and the other two assailants, Marinko Lemo and Stanislav Mili\u010devi\u0107, was sentenced in the same trial to between two and four years in prison and deportation. The Swedish government was now under heavy pressure. The Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito immediately sent his Deputy Foreign Minister to Sweden. A furious Milorad Pe\u0161i\u0107 was met at the airport by the State Secretary Thage G. Peterson. During the journey towards Stockholm and the waiting Prime Minister Olof Palme, a shocked Peterson were told how the Deputy Minister demanded that the arrested should be cut into pieces. He wanted them to be executed in Sweden as soon as possible or at least to be taken to Yugoslavia to be killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 740]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093156-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 Yugoslav Embassy shooting, Events\nThe Swedish police investigation in 1971 had failed to uncover that the kidnapping of Rolovi\u0107 was not the goal of the attack on the Yugoslav Embassy. The Swedish-Croatian journalist Ton\u010di Percan showed, after a thorough examination of the archive material in Stockholm 45 years later, and after talking with the mastermind behind the attack Ante Stojanov, that it really was an act of revenge. Rolovi\u0107 was to be executed. In 1969, the Yugoslavian agent Ilija Stani\u0107 had murdered the Ustashe general Vjekoslav Luburi\u0107 in Spain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093156-0005-0001", "contents": "1971 Yugoslav Embassy shooting, Events\nAfter World War II, Luburi\u0107 had fled to Spain, where he was active in the Croatian National Resistance, and the State Security Administration (UDBA) pursued an intensive search for Croatian nationalists around the world. The attack in Stockholm was a revenge for the murder of Luburi\u0107. Before Rolovi\u0107 was murdered, Bare\u0161i\u0107 had placed a photo of Ilija Stani\u0107 on the ambassador's desk; It was a message to UDBA and Tito that revenge was completed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093156-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 Yugoslav Embassy shooting, Aftermath\nThe first and so far only aircraft hijacking in Sweden, that of the Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 130 took place at Bulltofta Airport on 15 September 1972. It was hijacked because the six Croats who were imprisoned for the murder of Yugoslav ambassador Rolovi\u0107 in Stockholm in 1971 would be released. The aircraft hijacking was already planned before the attack on the Yugoslav Embassy. Stojanov said in an interview in 2004 that if they were to get caught, their comrades would get them free by hijacking an airplane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093156-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 Yugoslav Embassy shooting, Aftermath\nThree Croatian men, Tomislav Rebrina (36), Nicola Lisac (44) and Rudolf Prskalo (29), from the fascist Ustashe movement held 86 passengers and 4 crew members hostage. In the end, six of the detained terrorists who were taken to Malm\u00f6 were exchanged for hostages to be released. The hijackers also received half a million Swedish crowns, which they demanded. A seventh of those involved in the ambassador's murder refused to come along. The plane took off and flew to Madrid. The hijackers and their comrades were arrested and received extremely symbolic punishments - rather protection - in Spain which was then under an authoritarian regime led by Francisco Franco. They were eventually released and scattered across the world. Some returned to Croatia in connection with the breakup of Yugoslavia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 841]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093156-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 Yugoslav Embassy shooting, Aftermath\nAfter the release from a Spanish prison, Bare\u0161i\u0107 lived a flattering life for several years. He worked for a couple of years under a false name as a bodyguard for Paraguay's president Alfredo Stroessner. When he arrived in the United States in 1979, he was disclosed and extradited to Sweden. Again, he created headlines when he repeatedly hunger striked to get his life sentence timed and avoid solitary confinement. In 1985, the sentence was converted to 18 years in prison and in 1987 Bare\u0161i\u0107 was able to leave \u00d6ster\u00e5ker Prison where he served his last time of the sentence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 618]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093156-0008-0001", "contents": "1971 Yugoslav Embassy shooting, Aftermath\nHe was deported from Sweden to Paraguay. From there he finally returned to Croatia. Bare\u0161i\u0107 was killed in action in July 1991, but the Croatian government kept his death secret for over a year so that the morale of the Croatian Army would not sink. He was appointed posthumously to general. An\u0111elko Brajkovi\u0107 also returned to Croatia and retired as a colonel after the war.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093156-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 Yugoslav Embassy shooting, Aftermath\nBoth in connection with the murder of ambassador Rolovi\u0107 and after the aircraft hijacking, the diplomatic situation between Sweden and Yugoslavia was tense. Many Yugoslavians argued that the Swedish government should never have released the Croatian terrorists. The two attacks also caused great concern among the many Yugoslav immigrants in Sweden. However, as a result of the murder of Rolovic, the punishment for unlawful weapons possession and arms crimes in Sweden was tightened. In 1973, the much talked about terrorist law was passed, which gave the Swedish Security Service (S\u00e4po) greater authority. Among other things, S\u00e4po was now able to legally bug suspects phones and open their mail. The law also gave S\u00e4po the right to expel a foreign citizen \"with regard to what is known about the foreigner's previous activities\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 873]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093156-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 Yugoslav Embassy shooting, Aftermath\nStojanov told an interviewer in 2004 that he considered the ambassador's murder and aircraft hijacking as the start of the Croatian struggle for independence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093157-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in Afghanistan\nThe following details notable events from the year 1971 in Afghanistan. The Afghan Islamic Republic, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming part of Central Asia, South Asia, and the Greater Middle East.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093157-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 in Afghanistan\nPolitical life in the capital is dominated by squabbles between the administration and the People's Council. The 1969 elections had returned assembly members who were for the most part quite unfamiliar with parliamentary methods and procedure, at least as laid down in the constitution. The final brush comes over a widely supported demand that questions concerning the administration be dealt with by the minister concerned at the time they are asked. This may not seem serious, but it follows a series of deliberate refusals to pass bills that the government regarded as essential.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093157-0001-0001", "contents": "1971 in Afghanistan\nThese refusals were based less on any difference over principles than on the rivalry between groups headed by individual parliamentarians, who, in the absence of political parties, formed cabals linked by a determination to promote local interests. To secure the passage of essential legislation, the king is obliged to intervene, with a threat to dissolve parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093157-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 in Afghanistan, May 17, 1971\nPrime Minister Nur Ahmad Etemadi, after being continually frustrated in his efforts to modernize the administration and bring the country forward, resigns. He is persuaded to continue as head of the government until his successor, Abdul Zahir, who was ambassador in Rome, is confirmed as prime minister on June 9. Zahir makes earnest efforts to reach a good understanding with parliament; and when he presents his list of ministers to the king in July, he is able to put forward the general desire that the administration concentrate attention on the difficulties of low-income groups. The king gives an assurance that the wishes of the legislators will be respected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 701]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093157-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 in Afghanistan, August 1971\nThe government takes the unprecedented step of launching a worldwide appeal for food after the most serious drought in the country's history. The economic life of the country is severely affected; it is feared that almost three-quarters of the nation's sheep, the main meat staple, might have perished. Large numbers of people cross into Pakistan and Iran in search of food. The response, especially from Pakistan and Iran, is generous. The government undertakes a massive campaign of relief operations to deal with the emergency, but is hampered by the traditionally independent attitude of remote outlying areas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093157-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 in Afghanistan, September 1971\nAfghanistan's ties with the Muslim world are strengthened by participation in the Islamic conference of foreign ministers that meets in Kabul.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093158-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in Australia\nThe following lists events that happened during 1971 in Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 84]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093159-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in Australian literature\nThis article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093159-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 in Australian literature, Births\nA list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1971 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093159-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 in Australian literature, Deaths\nA list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1971 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093160-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in Bangladesh\n1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1971st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 971st year of the 2nd\u00a0millennium, the 71st year of the 20th\u00a0century, and the 2nd year of the 1970s decade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093160-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 in Bangladesh\nThe year 1971 was the year when Bangladesh achieved independence and emerged as a sovereign country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093160-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 in Bangladesh, Events, Sports\nThe Shadhin Bangla Football Team was formed by Bangladesh Krira Samity of the Bangladeshi government in exile shortly after the start of liberation war in 1971. This is the first instance of a Bangladesh national football team in any form. The team toured throughout India playing a total of 16 friendly matches to raise international awareness and economic support for the liberation war.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093160-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 in Bangladesh, Events, Sports\nThe Shadhin Bangla football team captain Zakaria Pintoo, was the first person to hoist the Bangladesh flag outside the territorial Bangladesh. By the end of the 16th match the team had contributed Tk 5 lac to Muktijuddho Fund in 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093161-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in Belgian television\nThis is a list of Belgian television related events from 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 89]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093165-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in Brazilian football\nThe following article presents a summary of the 1971 football (soccer) season in Brazil, which was the 70th season of competitive football in the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093165-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 in Brazilian football, Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie B\nVilla Nova declared as the Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie B champions by aggregate score of 4-2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 57], "content_span": [58, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093165-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 in Brazilian football, Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie B, Promotion\nNo club was promoted to the following year's first level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 68], "content_span": [69, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093165-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 in Brazilian football, Brazil national team\nThe following table lists all the games played by the Brazil national football team in official competitions and friendly matches during 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093166-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in Brazilian television\nThis is a list of Brazilian television related events from 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 93]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093167-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in British music\nThis is a summary of 1971 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093167-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 in British music, Year-end charts, Best-selling albums\nThe list of the top fifty best-selling albums of 1971 were published in Record Mirror at the end of the year, and later reproduced in the first edition of the BPI Year Book in 1976. However, in 2007 the Official Charts Company published album chart histories for each year from 1956 to 1977, researched by historian Sharon Mawer, and included an updated list of the top ten best-selling albums for each year based on the new research. The updated top ten for 1971 is shown in the table below.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 59], "content_span": [60, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093168-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in British radio\nThis is a list of events in British radio during 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 76]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093169-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in British television\nThis is a list of British television related events from 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 89]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093171-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in Cambodia\nThe following lists events that happened during 1971 in Cambodia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 82]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093173-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in Canadian television\nThe following is a list of events affecting Canadian television in 1971. Events listed include television show debuts, finales, cancellations, and channel launches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093174-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in Cape Verde\nThe following lists events that happened during 1971 in Cape Verde.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 86]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093175-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in Chile\nThe following lists events that happened during 1971 in Chile.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 76]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093177-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in Croatian television\nThis is a list of Croatian television related events from 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 91]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093177-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 in Croatian television, Deaths\nThis Croatian television-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093179-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in Danish television\nThis is a list of Danish television related events from 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 87]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093181-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in Dutch television\nThis is a list of Dutch television related events from 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 85]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093182-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in Estonia\nThis article lists events that occurred during 1971 in Estonia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 79]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093183-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in Estonian television\nThis is a list of Estonian television related events from 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 91]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093183-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 in Estonian television, Deaths\nThis Estonian television-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093185-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in German television\nThis is a list of German television related events from 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 87]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093187-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in Greece\nThe following lists events that happened during 1971 in Greece.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 78]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093188-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in Iceland\nThe following lists events that happened in 1971 in Iceland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 76]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093189-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in India\nEvents in the year 1971 in the Republic of India.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 63]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093192-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in Irish television\nThe following is a list of events relating to television in Ireland from 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093193-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in Israel, Events, Israeli\u2013Palestinian conflict\nThe most prominent events related to the Israeli\u2013Palestinian conflict which occurred during 1971 include:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 52], "content_span": [53, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093193-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 in Israel, Events, Israeli\u2013Palestinian conflict\nThe most prominent Palestinian Arab terror attacks committed against Israelis during 1971 include:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 52], "content_span": [53, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093193-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 in Israel, Events, Israeli\u2013Palestinian conflict\nThe most prominent Israeli military counter-terrorism operations (military campaigns and military operations) carried out against Palestinian militants during 1971 include:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 52], "content_span": [53, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093194-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in Italian television\nThis is a list of Italian television related events from 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 89]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093195-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in Japan\nEvents in the year 1971 in Japan. It corresponds to Sh\u014dwa 46 (\u662d\u548c46\u5e74) in the Japanese calendar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093199-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in LGBT rights\nThis is a list of notable events in the history of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) rights that took place in the year 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093200-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in Laos\nThe following lists events that happened during 1971 in Laos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 74]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093201-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in Libya\nThe following lists events that happened in 1971 in Libya.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 72]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093202-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in Luxembourg\nThe following lists events that happened during 1971 in Luxembourg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 86]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093203-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in Malaysia\nThis article lists important figures and events in Malaysian public affairs during the year 1971, together with births and deaths of notable Malaysians. Parliamentary government was restored on 5 February, after its 1969 suspension due to race riots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093205-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in Michigan\nThe Associated Press (AP) selected the top 10 news stories in Michigan as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093205-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 in Michigan\nThe AP also selected the state's top 10 sports stories as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 83]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093205-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 in Michigan, Population\nIn the 1970 United States Census, Michigan was recorded as having a population of 8,875,083 persons, ranking as the seventh most populous state in the country. By 1980, the state's population had grown 4.4% to 9,262,078 persons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093205-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 in Michigan, Population, Cities\nThe following is a list of cities in Michigan with a population of at least 70,000 based on 1970 U.S. Census data. Historic census data from 1960 and 1980 is included to reflect trends in population increases or decreases. Cities that are part of the Detroit metropolitan area are shaded in tan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 36], "content_span": [37, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093205-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 in Michigan, Population, Counties\nThe following is a list of counties in Michigan with populations of at least 120,000 based on 1970 U.S. Census data. Historic census data from 1960 and 1980 are included to reflect trends in population increases or decreases. Counties that are part of the Detroit metropolitan area are shaded in tan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 38], "content_span": [39, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093205-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 in Michigan, Music\nSeveral songs performed by Michigan acts and/or recorded in Michigan ranked on the Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1971, including the following:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 23], "content_span": [24, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093205-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 in Michigan, Music\nAlbums released by Michigan acts and/or recorded in Michigan in 1971 included the following:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 23], "content_span": [24, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093206-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in New Zealand\nThe following lists events that happened during 1971 in New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093206-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 in New Zealand, Incumbents, Government\nThe 36th Parliament of New Zealand continued, with the second National government in power.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 43], "content_span": [44, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093206-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 in New Zealand, Arts and literature, Radio and television\nSee : 1971 in New Zealand television, 1971 in television, List of TVNZ television programming, Category:Television in New Zealand, Category:New Zealand television shows, Public broadcasting in New Zealand", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 62], "content_span": [63, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093206-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 in New Zealand, Arts and literature, Film\nSee : Category:1971 film awards, 1971 in film, List of New Zealand feature films, Cinema of New Zealand, Category:1971 films", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 46], "content_span": [47, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093210-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in Norwegian football\nThe 1971 season was the 66th season of competitive football in Norway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093211-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in Norwegian music\nThe following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 1971 in Norwegian music.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093213-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in Portugal, Arts and entertainment\nPortugal participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 1971, with Tonicha and the song \"Menina do alto da serra\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093213-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 in Portugal, Sport\nIn association football, for the first-tier league seasons, see 1970\u201371 Primeira Divis\u00e3o and 1971\u201372 Primeira Divis\u00e3o; for the Ta\u00e7a de Portugal seasons, see 1970\u201371 Ta\u00e7a de Portugal and 1971\u201372 Ta\u00e7a de Portugal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 23], "content_span": [24, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093214-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in Rhodesia\nThe following lists events that happened during 1971 in Rhodesia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 82]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093216-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in Scottish television\nThis is a list of events in Scottish television from 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 86]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093217-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in Singapore\nThe following lists events that happened during 1971 in Singapore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 84]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093218-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in South Africa\nThe following lists events that happened during 1971 in South Africa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093218-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 in South Africa, Railways, Locomotives\nFour new Cape gauge locomotive types enter service on the South African Railways:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 43], "content_span": [44, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093222-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in Swedish football\nThe 1971 season in Swedish football, starting April 1971 and ending November 1971:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093223-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in Taiwan\nEvents from the year 1971 in Taiwan, Republic of China. This year is numbered Minguo 60 according to the official Republic of China calendar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093224-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in Thailand\nThe year 1971 was the 190th year of the Rattanakosin Kingdom of Thailand. It was the 26th year in the reign of King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX), and is reckoned as year 2514 in the Buddhist Era.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093224-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 in Thailand, Incumbents\nThis Thailand-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093226-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in Uganda\nThe following lists events that happened during 1971 in Uganda.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 78]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093227-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in Wales\nThis article is about the particular significance of the year 1971 to Wales and its people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093228-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in Zaire\nThe following lists events that happened during 1971 in Zaire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 76]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093228-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 in Zaire, Sources\nThis year in Africa article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 22], "content_span": [23, 89]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093231-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in architecture\nThe year 1971 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093233-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in association football\nThe following are the football (soccer) events of the year 1971 throughout the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093235-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in baseball\nThe following are the baseball events of the year 1971 throughout the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093235-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 in baseball, Champions, Major League Baseball\n1971 World Series: Pittsburgh (NL) def. Baltimore (AL), 4 games to 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 50], "content_span": [51, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093235-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 in baseball, Champions, Major League Baseball\nInter-league playoff: Pittsburgh (NL) declined challenge by Tokyo Yomiuri Giants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 50], "content_span": [51, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093237-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in comics, Conventions\nI came back into the field because of [convention organizer Phil Seuling]. I remember [him] calling me in New London, [Connecticut], where I was sitting there as chairman of the board of Croft Publishing Co. My secretary said, 'There's a Mr. Seuling on the phone and he's talking about a comics convention. What is that?' ... I came down and was stunned at the existence of the whole world. ... That was a world that I had left, and I found it very exciting, very stimulating.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093237-0000-0001", "contents": "1971 in comics, Conventions\nI went down to the convention, which was being held in one of the hotels in New York, and there was a group of guys with long hair and scraggly beards, who had been turning out what spun as literature, really popular 'gutter' literature if you will, but pure literature. And they were taking on illegal [sic] subject matter that no comics had ever dealt with before. ... I came away from that recognizing that a revolution had occurred then, a turning point in the history of this medium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093237-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 in comics, Awards, Goethe Awards\nPresented July 3, 1972, (for comics published in 1971) at the Comic Art Convention, New York City, in a ceremony emceed by Tony Isabella and Carl Gafford. The Goethe Award ballot was initially published in The Buyer's Guide to Comics Fandom, The Monster Times, and Graphic Story World. Nominations were sent in from 335 readers. Ultimately, there were 7 categories with 4-7 nominees in each category. 700 fans voted for the final nominees. The award results were also published in Comic Art News & Reviews.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 37], "content_span": [38, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093238-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in country music\nThis is a list of notable events in country music that took place in the year 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093239-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in film, Highest-grossing films (U.S.)\nThe top ten 1971 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 43], "content_span": [44, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093240-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in fine arts of the Soviet Union\nThe year 1971 was marked by many events that left an imprint on the history of Soviet and Russian Fine Arts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093241-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in games\nThis page lists board and card games, wargames, and miniatures games published in 1971. For video and console games, see 1971 in video gaming.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093242-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in heavy metal music\nThis is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093243-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in jazz\nThis is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 76]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093244-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in literature\nThis article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093245-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in motorsport\nThe following is an overview of the events of 1971 in motorsport including the major racing events, motorsport venues that were opened and closed during a year, championships and non-championship events that were established and disestablished in a year, and births and deaths of racing drivers and other motorsport people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093245-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 in motorsport, Annual events\nThe calendar includes only annual major non-championship events or annual events that had significance separate from the championship. For the dates of the championship events see related season articles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 33], "content_span": [34, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093246-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in music\nList of notable events in music that took place in the year 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 79]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093246-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 in music, Biggest hit singles\nThe following songs achieved the highest in the charts of 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 34], "content_span": [35, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093247-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in paleontology\nPaleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. This includes the study of body fossils, tracks (ichnites), burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces (coprolites), palynomorphs and chemical residues. Because humans have encountered fossils for millennia, paleontology has a long history both before and after becoming formalized as a science. This article records significant discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093247-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 in paleontology, Archosauromorphs, Newly named birds\nAn accipitrid, Type species A. varonai, moved to Gymnogyps varonai (2003),", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 57], "content_span": [58, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093247-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 in paleontology, Archosauromorphs, Newly named birds\nAn eogruid. Type species P. turanicus Moved to Eogrus turanicus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 57], "content_span": [58, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093248-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in poetry\nNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093248-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 in poetry, Works published in English\nListed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 42], "content_span": [43, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093248-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 in poetry, Works published in other languages\nListed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 50], "content_span": [51, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093248-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 in poetry, Works published in other languages, India\nIn each section, listed in alphabetical order by first name:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 57], "content_span": [58, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093248-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 in poetry, Deaths\nBirth years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 22], "content_span": [23, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093249-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in professional wrestling\n1971 in professional wrestling describes the year's events in the world of professional wrestling.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093251-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in rail transport\nThis article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093252-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in science\nThe year 1971 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093253-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in spaceflight\n1971 saw the last three known deaths of cosmonauts of the Soviet space program and the only deaths in space. Their mission was to man humanity's first space station. The experimental bay door failed to separate so the first crew failed to dock and second crew were killed on re-entry. 1971 also saw the launch of the first and only British satellite on top of a British rocket after that success the program was cancelled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093254-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in sports\n1971 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 73]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093255-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in television\nThe year 1971 involved some significant events in television. Below is a list of notable TV-related events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093256-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo\nThe following lists events that happened during 1971 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093257-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Philippines\n1971 in the Philippines details events of note that happened in the Philippines in the year 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093258-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Soviet Union\nThe following lists events that happened during 1971 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093259-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in the United Arab Emirates\nEvents from the year 1971 in the United Arab Emirates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 87]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093260-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in the United Kingdom\nEvents from the year 1971 in the United Kingdom. The year was marked by the introduction of decimal currency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, January\nU.S. military personnel in South Vietnam totaled 334,600 on 31 December 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, January\nProject Copper was an unsuccessful operation to use three Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)-trained Cambodian irregular force battalions to interdict the Sihanouk Trail. One battalion deserted, one mutinied during training and the third suffered extensive casualties and had to be withdrawn to assist in the defense of Phnom Penh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, January\nThe United States Congress adopted the revised Cooper-Church Amendment which prohibited the introduction of U.S. ground troops or advisers into Cambodia and declared that U.S. aid to Cambodia should not be considered a commitment to the defense of Cambodia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, January\nOperation Silver Buckle was a Royal Lao Army (RLA) offensive staged in Military Region 4 of Laos and was the deepest RLA penetration to date of the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Reaching the Trailside village of Moung Nong, the forward two companies attacked the rear of the 50,000 man People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) garrison on 8 February 1971, just as Operation Lam Son 719 was launched by the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) and diverted at least six PAVN battalions away from the ARVN assault.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, January\nThe ARVN launched Operation To\u00e0n Th\u1eafng TT02 which culminated in the Battle of Snuol against PAVN and Viet Cong (VC) forces in the Snuol District of Cambodia. The PAVN/VC lost 1,043 killed while the ARVN lost 37 killed, 74 missing and more than 300 captured. The operation rendered the ARVN 5th Division combat ineffective.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, January\nUnited States Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird said that the \"Vietnamization\" of the war was running ahead of schedule and that the combat mission of the U.S. troops would end in summer 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, January\nThe last herbicide spraying by the United States to defoliate forests in South Vietnam and kill crops used to feed communist soldiers and supporters was carried out in Ninh Thuan province. Operation Ranch Hand was finished.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, January\nThe 1st Battalion 1st Marines conducted Operation Upshur Stream, continuous reconnaissance and infantry patrolling and concentrated air and artillery attacks in an effort to prevent the PAVN/VC from using the Charlie Ridge base area for attacks against Da Nang.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, January\n300 ARVN paratroopers with U.S. air support and advisers raided a suspected camp holding American prisoners of war in Cambodia. No POWs were in the camp, but 30 PAVN soldiers were captured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, January\nJoint U.S., South Vietnamese and Cambodian convoys begin up the Mekong River to supply Phnom Penh after Khmer Rouge attacks had cut off overland supply from Cambodia's seaports.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, January\nThe ARVN 4th Armor Brigade and 4th Ranger Group and the 2nd Marine Brigade together with Khmer National Armed Forces (FANK) forces launched Operation Cuu Long 44-02 to reopen Route 4 in Cambodia. The operation resulted in 211 PAVN and 16 ARVN killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0011-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, January\nPAVN sappers attacked Pochentong Airfield near Phnom Penh and destroyed or damaged 69 Khmer National Aviation (AVNK) aircraft and killed 39 AVNK personnel, effectively destroying the AVNK.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0012-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, January\nNBC reported that soldiers of the 173rd Airborne Brigade stationed at Landing Zone English were buying heroin from a Vietnamese house on the base and the South Vietnamese then proceeded to demolish the house.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0013-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, January\nU.S. forces launch Operation Dewey Canyon II to reopen Route 9 to the abandoned Khe Sanh Combat Base as the initial phase of Operation Lam Son 719.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0014-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, February\nCampaign 74B was a PAVN combined arms operation that recaptured the strategic Plain of Jars and brought the PAVN 316th Division within artillery range of the major RLA base at Long Tieng. The assault was stopped by Thai mercenary forces and U.S. air support and the PAVN withdrew as they exhausted their supplies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0015-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, February\nIn Operation Hoang Dien 103, units of III Marine Amphibious Force, Republic of Korea Marine Corps 2nd Marine Brigade, ARVN 51st Regiment, 146th PF Platoon, 39th RF Company and PSDF combed the Da Nang lowlands and lowland fringes, killing 330 PAVN/VC, while losing 46 killed, including two Americans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0016-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, February\nOperation Lam Son 719 (Vietnamese: Chi\u1ebfn d\u1ecbch Lam S\u01a1n 719 or Chi\u1ebfn d\u1ecbch \u0111\u01b0\u1eddng 9 \u2013 Nam L\u00e0o) was an invasion by 20,000 soldiers of the armed forces of South Vietnam of southeastern Laos. The objective of the operation was the disruption of the Ho Chi Minh Trail which supplied PAVN and VC forces in South Vietnam. Although claiming victory, the ARVN withdrew from Laos in disorder and suffered 9,000 casualties. The U.S. supported the operation and had 253 soldiers killed and many helicopters destroyed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0017-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, February\nIn Operation Lam Son 719, an armoured column of the ARVN reached Ban Dong, 20 kilometers inside Laos and one half the distance to Tchepone, the objective of the invasion. The route, Highway 9, was only barely passable and the advance stalled. The PAVN concentrated their resistance against a number of small bases established in Laos to support the operation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0018-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, February\nAn RVNAF UH-1 helicopter carrying photojournalists Larry Burrows, Henri Huet, Kent Potter and Keizaburo Shimamoto and seven others was shot down over Laos killing all on board.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0019-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, February\nOperation Desert Rat was an RLA operation intended to harass the PAVN as they fought off the ARVN in Operation Lam Son 719. The operation resulted in 121 PAVN killed and 39 trucks destroyed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0020-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, February\nNew ARVN I Corps commander Lieutenant General \u0110\u1ed7 Cao Tr\u00ed dies in a helicopter crash near Bien Hoa Air Base. Photojournalist Fran\u00e7ois Sully leapt 75 feet (23\u00a0m) from the burning helicopter but later died of his injuries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0021-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, March\nA bomb exploded in the United States Capitol building at 1:32\u00a0a.m., injuring nobody but causing $300,000 in damage. The Weather Underground took credit for the bombing which was in protest of the invasion of Laos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0022-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, March\nIn Operation Lam Son 719, an airborne operation began against Tchepone, Laos, this was the largest airborne assault of the Vietnam War utilizing 120 UH-1 helicopters to transport two battalions. Tchepone was captured without major resistance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0023-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, March\nPresident Nguy\u1ec5n V\u0103n Thi\u1ec7u of South Vietnam ordered the withdrawal of South Vietnamese troops from Laos. He ignored the recommendation of U.S. Commander General Creighton Abrams that South Vietnam reinforce its troops in Laos and hold its position. The withdrawal became a rout with South Vietnam suffering heavy casualties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0024-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, March\nThe 198th Light Infantry Brigade launched Operation Finney Hill to secure lines of communication and pacification operations in the coastal area of Qu\u1ea3ng Ng\u00e3i Province. The operation resulted in 454 PAVN/VC killed and eight captured, U.S. losses were 32 killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0025-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, March\nThe 196th Light Infantry Brigade launched Operation Middlesex Peak a security operation to prevent PAVN/VC infiltration into the coastal lowlands of Qu\u1ea3ng T\u00edn and Qu\u1ea3ng Ng\u00e3i Provinces. The operation resulted in 463 PAVN/VC killed and 22 captured and U.S. losses of 50 killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0026-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, March\nPAVN artillery began to shell Khe Sanh Combat Base, the main base supporting Operation Lam Son 719.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0027-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, March\nNational Security Adviser Henry Kissinger admitted to President Richard Nixon that Lam Son 719 \"comes out as clearly not a success.\" The failure of Lam Son 719 was called by one scholar \"the military turning point of the war.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0028-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, March\nA PAVN sapper attack on Khe Sanh Combat Base resulted in three Americans killed and several aircraft and two ammunition dumps destroyed, PAVN losses were 14 killed and one captured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0029-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, March\nIn Operation Lam Son 719, most South Vietnamese soldiers had crossed the border back into South Vietnam and fighting in Laos ceased.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0030-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, March\nSeveral dozen PAVN sappers infiltrated Fire Support Base Mary Ann in Qu\u1ea3ng T\u00edn Province and killed 30 American soldiers. Mary Ann was scheduled to be turned over to the ARVN and the U.S. forces withdrawn. Several American officers were demoted or reprimanded for \"substandard performance.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0031-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, March\nThe jury at a military court-martial convicted Lieutenant William Calley of the premeditated murder of 22 Vietnamese civilians during the My Lai massacre of 1968. Calley was the only soldier convicted for his role in the massacre.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0032-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, March\nPAVN/VC forces killed 103 South Vietnamese civilians and destroyed 1,500 homes in the Duc Duc massacre in Duc Duc District, Qu\u1ea3ng Nam Province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0033-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, March\nA confidential U.S. Army directive ordered the interception and confiscation of anti-Vietnam War and other dissident material being sent to U.S. military personnel in South Vietnam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0034-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, March\nLieutenant William Calley was sentenced to life imprisonment and hard labor at Fort Leavenworth for his role in the My Lai massacre. The Battle Hymn of Lt. Calley was released by Terry Nelson around this date protesting Calley's innocence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0035-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, April\nThe U.S. 101st Airborne Division (Airmobile) and the ARVN 1st Division launched Operation Texas Star against PAVN forces in Qu\u1ea3ng Tr\u1ecb and Th\u1eeba Thi\u00ean Provinces. The operation resulted in 1,782 PAVN and 386 U.S. killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0036-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, April\nPresident Nixon ordered Calley to be transferred from Fort Leavenworth prison to house arrest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0037-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, April\nKhe Sanh Combat Base, reactivated to support Operation Lam Son 719, was abandoned once again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0038-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, April\nOperation Xieng Dong was a successful RLA operation to defend the capital Luang Prabang against a PAVN attack. RLA forces from across the country converged on the capital and forced the PAVN 335th Regiment to withdraw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0039-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, April\nThe 3rd Marine Amphibious Brigade was activated at Camp Jay K. Brooks and III Marine Amphibious Force transferred all remaining Marine forces to it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0040-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, April\nJohn Kerry of Vietnam Veterans Against the War testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee stating: \"Someone has to die so that President Nixon won't be - and these are his words - 'the first president to lose a war.' How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0041-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, April\nMembers of Vietnam Veterans Against the War threw away over 700 medals on the west steps of the Capitol building in Washington to protest the war. The next day, antiwar organizers claimed that 500,000 marched, making this the largest demonstration since the November 1969 march.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0042-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, April\nThe 196th Light Infantry Brigade launched Operation Caroline Hill to locate and engage PAVN/VC forces, lines of communications and base areas and provide security for pacification programs in the area west and south of Da Nang following the departure of the III Marine Amphibious Force. The operation resulted in 161 PAVN/VC killed and 11 captured and U.S. losses of 15 killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0043-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, April\nCatholic Priest Philip Berrigan and seven others were indicted for planning to kidnap Henry Kissinger and to blow up government buildings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0044-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, April\nPresident Nixon welcomed the 1st Marine Division back from South Vietnam at a ceremony at Camp Pendleton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0045-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, May\nA reinforced company of VC infantry and sappers stormed \u0110\u1ea1i L\u1ed9c District Headquarters behind a mortar and rocket barrage. RF/PF forces killed 95 VC and captured 43 individual and crew-served weapons, at a cost of 15 dead and 43 wounded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 28], "content_span": [29, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0046-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, May\n15,000 soldiers and police arrested more than 7,000 persons protesting the war in Washington.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 28], "content_span": [29, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0047-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, May\n1,146 protesters against the war were arrested on the U.S. Capitol grounds trying to shut down the U.S. Congress. This brought the total arrested during the 1971 May Day Protests to over 12,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 28], "content_span": [29, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0048-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, May\nThe Paris Peace Talks between North Vietnam, South Vietnam, the Viet Cong and the United States enter their fourth year. Little or no progress had been made.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 28], "content_span": [29, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0049-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, May\nOperation Phoutah was an RLA defensive operation against a PAVN strike from Tchepone. The RLA failed in its attempts to capture Moung Phalane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 28], "content_span": [29, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0050-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, May\n30 U.S. infantrymen, many from Company A, 1st Battalion, 61st Infantry Regiment, were killed when a PAVN 122mm rocket hit their bunker at Charlie 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 28], "content_span": [29, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0051-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, May\nElements of the 38th Regiment and 91st Sapper Battalion attacked Dai Xuyen District, south of Da Nang, where over 80,000 South Vietnamese civilians, including high government officials, had gathered for a religious ceremony. The battle raged throughout the day and into the following night before the PAVN/VC fell back, leaving behind over 200 dead while Allied losses were five killed. 20 civilians died in the fighting and homes in the area suffered extensive damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 28], "content_span": [29, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0052-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, May\nHenry Kissinger in secret peace negotiations with North Vietnam in Paris introduced a new proposal for a U.S. withdrawal from South Vietnam, a ceasefire in place and an exchange of prisoners. The ceasefire in place was a key concession because it would allow PAVN soldiers to remain in South Vietnam at least temporarily.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 28], "content_span": [29, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0053-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, June\nBrigadier General John W. Donaldson was charged with the murder of six Vietnamese civilians during operations in November 1968-January 1969 while flying in his helicopter over Qu\u1ea3ng Ng\u00e3i Province. A colonel at the time of the alleged crimes, he was the first U.S. general charged with war crimes since 1902 and the highest ranking American to be accused of war crimes during the war. The charges were eventually dismissed due to lack of evidence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0054-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, June\nThe PAVN attack Hill 950, a U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam \u2013 Studies and Observations Group operations base and United States Army Security Agency radio relay site overlooking the Khe Sanh plateau. Many of the personnel at the base were evacuated by helicopter, but approximately 22 remained to defend the base and destroy its secret communications system and were either captured or evaded into the surrounding area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0055-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, June\nIn the Battle of Long Kh\u00e1nh the 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment attacked a PAVN/VC base camp in Long Kh\u00e1nh Province. The battle resulted in five VC and three Australians killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0056-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, June\nOperation Phiboonpol was an offensive by four RLA battalions to capture the Bolaven Plateau overlooking the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Faced with strong opposition from the PAVN the RLA only managed to secure a tenuous position on the edge of the plateau after suffering heavy losses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0057-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, June\nThe Mansfield Amendment, authored by Senator Mike Mansfield, was adopted by Congress. The amendment urged withdrawing American troops from South Vietnam at \"the earliest practical date\"\u2014the first time in U.S. history that Congress had called for the end of a war.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0058-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, June\nPrivate Ken Harding died of wounds becoming the last of 37 New Zealand soldiers to die in the war.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0059-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, June\nThe last units of the 3rd Marine Amphibious Brigade left Da Nang.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0060-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, June\nNorth Vietnam negotiators Le Duc Tho and Xuan Thuy responded to Kissinger's 31 May proposal with a nine-point \"bargaining proposal.\" This was the first time that the North Vietnamese had indicated a willingness to negotiate rather than presenting unilateral demands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0061-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, June\nColonel David Hackworth appeared on ABC's Issues and Answers where he strongly criticized U.S. commanders in Vietnam, said the war could not be won, and called for U.S. withdrawal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0062-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, July\nKissinger made the first of two secret visits to China that paved the way for Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to China. Following this meeting Zhou Enlai travelled to Hanoi to advise the North Vietnamese leadership of the change in Sino-American relations. The North Vietnamese were outraged by this change which they correctly perceived as an attempt by the U.S. to undermine Chinese support for North Vietnam in return for a change in U.S. policy towards Taiwan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0063-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, July\nThe Politburo of North Vietnam instructed its negotiators in Paris not to make any further concessions to the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0064-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, July\nKissinger announced that the United States was prepared to provide $7.5 billion in aid to Vietnam, of which $2.5 billion could go to North Vietnam, and to withdraw all American forces within nine months.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0065-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, July\nOperation Sayasila was an RLA operation to capture Salavan and Paksong. The RLA succeeded at heavy cost with eight battalions rendered combat ineffective.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0066-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, August\nOperation Phou Khao Kham was an RLA operation to clear PAVN/Pathet Lao forces from Routes 13 and 7 north of Vientiane and capture Muang Soui. The RLA succeeded in recapturing Muang Soui but fails to clear the approach routes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0067-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, August\nARVN General Duong Van Minh submitted evidence to the U.S. Embassy in Saigon that President Thi\u1ec7u was rigging the Presidential election scheduled for October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0068-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, August\nThe U.S. Embassy in Saigon informed Washington that if President Thi\u1ec7u persisted in his efforts to make the upcoming Presidential election a charade, it might cause \"growing political instability in South Vietnam.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0069-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, August\nVC sappers sank the SS Green Bay at port in Qui Nh\u01a1n, it was the largest merchant ship sunk during the war and ultimately had to be scrapped.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0070-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, August\nAustralia and New Zealand announce that the will withdraw their combat forces from South Vietnam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0071-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, August\nGeneral Minh withdrew as a candidate for president in the upcoming presidential election in South Vietnam. Minh said \"I cannot put up with a disgusting farce that strips away all the people's hope of a democratic regime.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0072-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, August\nWilliam Calley's life sentence for his role in the My Lai massacre was reduced to 20 years. Calley served three and one-half years of his sentence before being paroled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0073-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, August\nOperation Chenla II was a major FANK military operation. The FANK failed to dislodge the PAVN/VC from Cambodian territory and suffered heavy casualties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0074-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, August\nNguy\u1ec5n Cao K\u1ef3 withdrew his candidacy for president in the upcoming election. Incumbent President Thi\u1ec7u was the only candidate remaining in the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0075-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, August\nA PAVN/VC sapper attack on the Cam Ranh Base tri-service ammunition storage area destroyed over 6000 tons of munitions with a value of more than US$10 million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0076-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, August\nThe 173rd Airborne Brigade redeployed from South Vietnam, it was the longest continuously serving allied military unit of the war.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0077-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, August\nThe 1st Brigade, 5th Infantry Division (Mechanized) redeployed from South Vietnam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0078-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, September\nOperation Jefferson Glenn was the last major ground operation in which U.S. troops participated in the Vietnam War. Three battalions of the 101st Airborne Division patrolled the area west of the city of Hu\u1ebf, called the \"rocket belt,\" to try to prevent PAVN/VC rocket attacks. The Americans were gradually replaced by ARVN forces. The Americans and South Vietnamese claimed to have inflicted 2,026 casualties on the PAVN/VC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0079-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, September\nA bomb exploded in the Tu Do Nightclub in Saigon killing 14 Vietnamese and one American and wounding more than 50 others.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0080-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, September\nIn the Battle of Nui Le the 4RAR/NZ (ANZAC) Battalion engaged PAVN/VC forces at N\u00fai L\u00e9, Chau Duc District. The battle resulted in 14 PAVN/VC and five Australians killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0081-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, September\nMarine Security Guard Sergeant Charles \"Wayne\" Turberville was killed in a Khmer Rouge grenade attack in Phnom Penh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0082-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, September\nOperation Sourisak Montry VIII was a Thai offensive against Pathet Lao forces along the Mekong River near Xieng Lom, Laos. The operation was indecisive with the Pathet Lao retaining control of the area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0083-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, October\nThe 1971 South Vietnamese presidential election was held. Incumbent President Thi\u1ec7u garnered 94.3 percent of the vote. All of Thi\u1ec7u's opponents had dropped out of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0084-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, October\nSeveral U.S. soldiers at Firebase Pace near the Cambodian border refused to undertake a patrol outside the perimeter of the firebase. The combat refusal was widely reported by the media as was a letter signed by 65 American soldiers at Firebase Pace to U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy protesting that they were being ordered to participate in offensive combat operations despite U.S. policy to the contrary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0085-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, October\nPresident Nixon announced that \"American troops are now in a defensive position...the offensive activities of search and destroy are now being undertaken by the South Vietnamese\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0086-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, October\nPrime Minister Lon Nol of Cambodia suspended the Cambodian National Assembly and announced that he would run the country by executive decree. Lon Nol said that \"the sterile game of democracy\" was hindering the Cambodian government's fight against the communist forces of the Khmer Rouge and North Vietnamese.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0087-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, October\nTyphoon Hester made landfall over South Vietnam causing severe damage. At Chu Lai Base Area, Hester damaged or destroyed 75\u00a0percent of the structures in the base. Sustained winds and gusts in the base were estimated to have reached 130\u00a0km/h (80\u00a0mph) and 160\u00a0km/h (105\u00a0mph) respectively. Four hangars collapsed in the Chu Lai Air Base, with total aircraft losses amounting to 36 destroyed and 87 damaged. The 91st Evacuation Hospital was mostly destroyed and was forced to transfer patients to Qui Nh\u01a1n.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0087-0001", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, October\nNearly 50\u00a0percent of the structures at the Marble Mountain Air Facility were damaged by the storm's high winds. Heavy rains accompanying the storm caused considerable flooding in the country, approximately 370\u00a0km (230\u00a0mi) of coastline between Qu\u1ea3ng Tr\u1ecb and Da Nang were inundated. About 90\u00a0percent of homes in Da Nang were damaged. Twenty-two people were killed when an RVNAF C-47 transport crashed 5 miles (8.0\u00a0km) west Qui Nh\u01a1n. Thee Americans were killed due to flying debris during the storm and twenty-one others were injured. On 25 October, thunderstorms associated with Hester were blamed for a CH-47 crash near Nha Trang that killed 10 Americans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 687]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0088-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, November\nOperation Bedrock was an RLA offensive against the PAVN 46th Battalion near Salavan. The operation succeeded in securing the rice growing area near Salavan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0089-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, November\nA U.S. Senate sub-committee issued a 300-page report \"corruption, criminality, and moral compromise\" at U.S. Post Exchanges in South Vietnam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0090-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, November\nPresident Nixon announced that U.S. forces in South Vietnam were now in a purely defensive role.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0091-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, November\nOperation Thao La was an RLA dry season offensive to capture the Bolaven Plateau. The RLA secure Tha Theng and Ban Phong but lost Salavan and Paksong. The operation resulted in 1,204 PAVN and 399 RLA killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0092-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, November\nA US Army CH-47 carrying five crew and 28 soldiers from the 327th Infantry Regiment on a flight from Da Nang to Phu Bai Combat Base crashed into high ground killing all onboard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0093-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, December\nThe Vinh wiretap was a CIA espionage operation to intercept North Vietnamese military telephone lines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0094-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, December\nCampaign Z was a PAVN combined arms operation against the RLA base at Long Tieng. The PAVN used T-34 tanks and 130mm field guns for the first time supported by VPAF fighter jets. The PAVN were able to temporarily seize high ground and shell Long Tieng before being pushed back.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0095-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, December\nPresident Nixon ordered the initiation of Operation Proud Deep Alpha, an intensive five-day bombing campaign against military targets in North Vietnam just north of the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone above the 17th parallel north.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0096-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, December\nOperation Maharat was the RLA defense of the Route 7 and 13 intersection at Sala Phoun Khoun. After being initially pushed out the RLA counterattacked and seized the area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093262-0097-0000", "contents": "1971 in the Vietnam War, December\nThe number of U.S. military personnel in South Vietnam totaled 156,800.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093263-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in the environment\nThis is a list of notable events relating to the environment in 1971. They relate to environmental law, conservation, environmentalism and environmental issues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093264-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 in video games\nAt the beginning of the 1970s, video games existed almost entirely as novelties passed around by programmers and technicians with access to computers, primarily at research institutions and large companies. The history of video games transitioned into a new era early in the decade, however, with the rise of the commercial video game industry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093265-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 killing of Bengali intellectuals\nBengali intellectuals killing in 1971, the Pakistan Army and their local collaborators, most notably the extreme right wing Islamist militia group Al-Badr, engaged in the systematic execution of Bengali pro-liberation intellectuals during the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971, a war crime. Intellectuals were killed throughout the entire duration of the war. The largest number of executions took place on 25 March and 14 December 1971, as it became apparent that Bangladesh would become independent. 14 December is commemorated in Bangladesh as Martyred Intellectuals Day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093265-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 killing of Bengali intellectuals, Black Night of 25 March\nAt the beginning of Operation Searchlight, on the night of 25 March 1971, a number of professors from Dhaka University were killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 62], "content_span": [63, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093265-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 killing of Bengali intellectuals, Reason behind the killing\nSince the establishment of the State of Pakistan, the rulers of West Pakistan discriminated against citizens of East Pakistan and denied them civil and political rights. The discrimination was visible in all disciplines and the attack on the language and culture was direct. As a result, the discontent and anger in the minds of Bengalis turned to political and cultural protests and these movements were led by intellectuals from all parts of society. They encouraged and seeded the idea of nationalism in the heart of Bengalis through social and cultural activities. As a result of their cultural movement, the people of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) gradually became aware of their rights, which turned the movement toward political protests.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 811]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093265-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 killing of Bengali intellectuals, 14 December executions\nAs the war neared its end, a final effort was made to kill as many intellectuals as possible, to eliminate the future leaders of the new nation of Bangladesh. On 14 December 1971, over 200 of Bangladesh's intellectuals including professors, journalists, doctors, artists, engineers, and writers were abducted from their homes in Dhaka by the Al-Badr militia and the Pakistan Army. Notable novelist Shahidullah Kaiser and playwright Munier Choudhury were among the victims. They were taken blindfolded to torture cells in Mirpur, Mohammadpur, Nakhalpara, Rajarbagh and other locations in different parts of the city. Later they were executed en masse, most notably at Rayerbazar and Mirpur. In memory of the martyred intellectuals, 14 December is mourned in Bangladesh as Shaheed Buddhijibi Dibosh, or Day of the Martyred Intellectuals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 61], "content_span": [62, 897]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093265-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 killing of Bengali intellectuals, 14 December executions\nIt is widely speculated that the killings of 14 December were orchestrated by Major General Rao Farman Ali. After the liberation of Bangladesh a list of Bengali intellectuals (most of whom were executed on 14 December) was discovered in a page of his diary left behind at the Governor's House. The existence of such a list was confirmed by Ali himself although he denied the motive of genocide. The same was also confirmed by Altaf Gauhar, a former Pakistani bureaucrat. He mentioned an incident in which Gauhar asked Ali to delete a friend's name from the list and Ali did so in front of him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 61], "content_span": [62, 655]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093265-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 killing of Bengali intellectuals, Notable victims\nMany notable intellectuals who were killed from 25 March to 16 December 1971 in different parts of the country include:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 54], "content_span": [55, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093265-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 killing of Bengali intellectuals, Verdict on the killing\nOn 3 November 2013, a Special Court in Dhaka has sentenced two former leaders of the al-Badr killing squad to death for war crimes committed during Bangladesh's war of liberation in 1971. Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin, a Muslim leader based in London, and Ashrafuz Zaman Khan, based in the US, were sentenced in absentia after the court found that they were involved in the abduction and murders of 18 intellectuals \u2013 nine Dhaka University professors, six journalists and three physicians \u2013 in December 1971. Prosecutors said the killings were carried out between 10 and 15 December, when Pakistan was losing the war in Bangladesh (then East Pakistan), and were part of a campaign intended to strip the newborn nation of its intellectuals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 61], "content_span": [62, 793]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093265-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 killing of Bengali intellectuals, Verdict on the killing\nOn 2 November 2014, International Crimes Tribunal, Bangladesh sentenced Mir Quasem Ali to death for war crimes which include the killings of intellectuals. It was proved in the tribunal that he was a key organiser of the Al-Badr, which planned and executed the killing of the intellectuals on 14 December 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 61], "content_span": [62, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093265-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 killing of Bengali intellectuals, Statistics\nThe number of intellectuals killed is estimated in Banglapedia as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093265-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 killing of Bengali intellectuals, Statistics\nThe district wise break-up of the number of martyred academicians and lawyers published in 1972 was as follows \u2013", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093265-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 killing of Bengali intellectuals, Statistics\nAdministrative districts and divisions mentioned here are as they were in 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093265-0011-0000", "contents": "1971 killing of Bengali intellectuals, Commemoration\nMartyred Intellectuals Day is held annually to commemorate the victims. In Dhaka, hundreds of thousands of people walk to Mirpur to lay flowers at the Martyred Intellectuals Memorial. The president and the prime minister of Bangladesh and heads of all three wings of the Bangladesh armed forces pay homage at the memorial.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 52], "content_span": [53, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093266-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 population census in Bosnia and Herzegovina\nThe 1971 population census in Bosnia and Herzegovina was the tenth census of the population of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia conducted a population census on 31 March 1971. 3,746,111 people populated the territory of Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina at the time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093267-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 shooting of Dallas police officers\nThe 1971 shooting of Dallas County and Kaufman County Sheriff's Deputies (also known as the Trinity River Massacre) occurred on February 15, 1971, when Rene Guzman and Leonardo Lopez abducted five law enforcement officers in West Dallas, Texas, killing three officers and injuring one at a site near the Trinity River. One deputy was able to escape the shooting and call for help. Guzman and Lopez were suspects in a burglary in Ellis County, Texas, and the officers were obtaining consent-to-search forms when they were abducted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093267-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 shooting of Dallas police officers\nGuzman and Lopez were able to escape after the shootings, beginning a manhunt that led to their arrest in East Dallas. Guzman and Lopez were tried, found guilty, and sentenced to death. However, following issues in the court case and the death penalty being declared unconstitutional, they were given a retrial. Both were given four life sentences. Lopez was paroled in 1991, but was incarcerated again for a separate case.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093267-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 shooting of Dallas police officers, Parties involved, William Don Reese\nDeputy Sheriff William Reese was born on October 15, 1939, in Dallas, Texas, to H. G. Reese and Grace Watson. He served with the Big Spring police force before joining the Dallas County Sheriff's department in 1962. His funeral services were held at the First Baptist Church of Rockwall, and he was buried at Rockwall Cemetery. He had been steadily progressing within the ranks of his department before his death. He was survived by his parents and a brother.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 76], "content_span": [77, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093267-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 shooting of Dallas police officers, Parties involved, Samuel Garcia Infante, Jr.\nDeputy Sheriff Samuel Infante was born on September 21, 1938, in Corpus Christi, Texas, to Samuel H. Infante and Eva Garcia. He was a Navy veteran, and he had spent six years serving in the Corpus Christi police department before joining the Dallas County Sheriff's department in 1967. His funeral services were at the Southland Funeral Chapel in Grand Prairie, Texas, and he was buried at Moore Memorial Gardens in Arlington, Texas. He was described as gentle and conscientious. He was survived by his wife and son.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 85], "content_span": [86, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093267-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 shooting of Dallas police officers, Parties involved, Arthur James Robertson\nDeputy Sheriff Arthur Robertson was born on June 12, 1911, in Texas, to James R. Robertson and Effie Jackson. He was a veteran of World War II. He worked as a superintendent of the Ellis County Penal Farm and worked in the Texas penal system for 20 years before joining the Ellis County Sheriff's Department. His funeral services were held at the First Methodist Church of Waxahachie, and he was buried in Waxahachie. He was described as jolly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 81], "content_span": [82, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093267-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 shooting of Dallas police officers, Parties involved, Arthur Daniel \u201cA.D.\u201d McCurley, Jr.\nOfficer A. D. McCurley was born on February 24, 1925, in Tyler, Texas. He served as a tank driver during World War II. He worked as a bus driver before entering law enforcement. In 1963 he was named Officer of the Year for his work on investigating the Kennedy Assassination: he was one of the first officers at the scene of the shooting position in the Texas School Book Depository Building. He retired as a deputy Sheriff in 1987, and in 1990 was elected mayor of Murchison, Texas, and served for two terms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 93], "content_span": [94, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093267-0005-0001", "contents": "1971 shooting of Dallas police officers, Parties involved, Arthur Daniel \u201cA.D.\u201d McCurley, Jr.\nHe died on September 21, 2001, in Tyler. He was buried at Haven of Memories in Canton, Texas. He was described as humorous and kind. He was survived by his wife, three sons, and two grandchildren. After the shooting, McCurley stated to interviewers that he thought often of the event and why he was spared while others had died.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 93], "content_span": [94, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093267-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 shooting of Dallas police officers, Parties involved, Wendell Dover\nDeputy Wendell Dover was born on May 29, 1921, in the Byrd community near Waxahachie, to Charlie D. Dover and Ruth Whatley. He served in the Army Air Corps during World War II. He worked as a carpenter before working at the Ellis County Sheriff\u2019s office as a Deputy Sheriff. He died on March 5, 2005, in Ennis, Texas. His funeral services were held at Keever Chapel, and he was buried at Grady Cemetery.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 72], "content_span": [73, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093267-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 shooting of Dallas police officers, Parties involved, Rene Adolpho Guzman\nRene Guzman was born on September 20, 1937, and was 33 years old at the time of the murders. Before the murders, he had received a four-year probated sentence for robberies by assault in Jim Hogg and Hidalgo counties in 1959. His probation was revoked in 1961, and he served time in prison until 1963. He was later found guilty of burglary in Hall and Swisher counties and was given a 10-year sentence for the burglaries. He was out of jail by November 1967, and in July 1968, he was charged with murder in a stabbing incident. The murder charges were dropped after witnesses became reluctant to testify. His brother, 35 year old Moises Zuniga Guzman, was arrested as a suspect the day after the murders. He had no record of convictions in the office of Dallas District Attorney Henry Wade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 78], "content_span": [79, 869]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093267-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 shooting of Dallas police officers, Parties involved, Leonardo Ramos Lopez\nLeonardo was 24 years old at the time of the murders. After his arrest, he told reporters that he had a heroin addiction that cost him $75 to $150 per day. He was married to his first wife at the time of the murders and trials.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 79], "content_span": [80, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093267-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 shooting of Dallas police officers, Background\nThe town of Bristol, Texas, was an alleged target for burglars from Dallas. The town did not have a police force, and investigations were conducted by either Ellis or Dallas County officers. On the afternoon of Monday, February 15, 1971, a home near Bristol was burglarized, and several items including a television set and stereo were taken. A resident of Bristol had copied down the license plate number of a car that was unfamiliar and reported it to the Ellis County police. Ellis County deputies A. J. Robertson and Wendell Dover went to Dallas with a felony warrant to investigate the home of the car owner. They were later joined by Dallas County officers Samuel Infante (who was a Spanish speaker), William Reese, and A.D. McCurley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 792]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093267-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 shooting of Dallas police officers, Background\nThe car owner was registered as living at 2810 Ingersoll Street, Dallas, Texas. Infante, Robertson, and Dover were the first to arrive at the address. Guzman and Lopez were seated in a white Ford Fairlane in the front yard of the house. The car that had been reported in Ellis County, a red and white 1962 Ford, was backed up to the house. The two men invited the officers into the house, with Infante acting as a translator.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093267-0010-0001", "contents": "1971 shooting of Dallas police officers, Background\nWhile inside the house, Infante contacted the Dallas Sheriff's office and requested for Reese to bring a blank consent-to-search form to the house. Reese was joined by McCurley and the two made their way to the house. Guzman and Lopez told the officers that the car in question had been left at their house and that they had not participated in any burglaries. Dover stepped out of the house to check if the engine in the 1962 Ford was still warm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093267-0010-0002", "contents": "1971 shooting of Dallas police officers, Background\nWhile he was checking the car, one of the men followed him out of the house and pressed a gun to Dover's back. The man took Dover's pistol and forced him into the house, where Dover saw Infante and Robertson being held at gunpoint and seated. After Infante had ended his call to the sheriff's office, Guzman and Lopez pulled their guns on the officers and disarmed them. Robertson told Dover to do as the gunmen said. Dover, Infante, and Robertson's hands were tied and the gunmen awaited the arrival of the officers Infante had called. Reese and McCurley arrived at the house around 15 minutes after the officers were disarmed and were told to enter by an unknown voice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 723]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093267-0011-0000", "contents": "1971 shooting of Dallas police officers, Abduction and shootings\nMcCurley and Reese entered the house and saw Infante, Robertson, and Dover with their hands bound and seated on chairs. Guzman and Lopez had waited on either side of the entry door, and they had a gun in each hand. They threatened McCurley and Reese before taking their weapons and binding their hands with rope. A third man entered the house for a short time and spoke with Guzman and Lopez before leaving. Infante attempted to reason with Guzman and Lopez. He told the men that they had the officer's guns, money, and cars, and could flee to Mexico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093267-0011-0001", "contents": "1971 shooting of Dallas police officers, Abduction and shootings\nThe men refused. Dover stated that neither of the men appeared to be under the influence of drugs, and that the taller gunman seemed nervous whereas the shorter man appeared \"steady as a rock\". One of the men went out and backed a squad car to the back door of the house. The men then took the officers and sat them inside the county squad car. Infante was placed in the front seat, and the rest of the officers were placed in the back seat. One of the men returned to the home, and one remained at the squad car. Officer Reese spoke to the remaining man and attempted to convince him to release them, but the other man returned and the two men entered the car with the officers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 744]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093267-0012-0000", "contents": "1971 shooting of Dallas police officers, Abduction and shootings\nInfante's hands were untied, and he was forced at gunpoint to drive. The men were driven onto Singleton Drive going east, turned onto Hampton Road going north towards the Trinity River, west onto Canada Drive, and then north towards a dirt road parallel to the Trinity River levee. While approaching the Trinity riverbank, Reese whispered to McCurley that he had freed his hands, and that the incident had \"...gone far enough. They mean to kill us.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093267-0012-0001", "contents": "1971 shooting of Dallas police officers, Abduction and shootings\nAs Infante was ordered to stop the car in a small gully between the levee and the dirt road, he stated aloud: \"This is it. They're going to kill us now.\" Guzman and Lopez had been communication between one another in Spanish. All seven men quickly got out of the car. Reese told Guzman and Lopez that all of the officers had freed their hands, and both he and an Ellis county officer attempted to dissuade Guzman and Lopez from killing them. Reese swung at Guzman, and was shot by Guzman. Infante tackled Lopez, and was shot and killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093267-0013-0000", "contents": "1971 shooting of Dallas police officers, Abduction and shootings\nDover and Robertson fled the scene towards Westmoreland Street. Robertson saw that Guzman and Lopez had returned to the squad car and were driving towards Dover and Robertson, and he shouted to Dover that the men were going to run them down. Dover and Robertson went over the levee to the riverbank. Dover reached the edge of the river after Robertson and saw Robertson cornered by the shorter of the two men. The man's gun was jammed, and Robertson called for Dover to help him capture the man.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093267-0013-0001", "contents": "1971 shooting of Dallas police officers, Abduction and shootings\nAs Dover made his way to Robertson, the other shooter came down the riverbank towards them. He was armed with two guns. Robertson yelled at Dover to run and the two fled down the river bank. Robertson was shot in the back near the river's edge. Dover ran up to the bank in an attempt to retrieve a loaded shotgun from the squad car when he was shot by a gunman from the top of the river bank. He fell unconscious. When he regained consciousness, he saw Robertson laying near him. He checked for a pulse and found that Robertson was dead. Reese was also laying nearby, and Dover found that he was also deceased. Dover made his way over the levee embankment and could not see the gunmen. He went over the embankment and went towards Westmoreland Street.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 816]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093267-0014-0000", "contents": "1971 shooting of Dallas police officers, Abduction and shootings\nAs the shooting broke out, McCurley dove backwards over the riverbank. He landed 20 feet (6.1\u00a0m) down the slope near the edge of the Trinity River. A tree at the edge of the river stopped McCurley from falling into the water, and caused him to free his bound hands. He had feared falling into the water with his hands tied. He ran east alongside the river and crawled under bushes until he reached Westmoreland Road. McCurley was able to flag down a car, and the driver took him to a gas station.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093267-0014-0001", "contents": "1971 shooting of Dallas police officers, Abduction and shootings\nMcCurley used the phone at the gas station to call city police, and obtained a small pistol from the gas station attendant. A city officer picked McCurley up from the gas station, and the two returned to the scene of the shooting. Guzman and Lopez had left. Dover was found stumbling through a grassy area northeast of the shooting site. He had been shot in the chest and arm. McCurley and the officer picked him up and took him to Parkland Hospital.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093267-0014-0002", "contents": "1971 shooting of Dallas police officers, Abduction and shootings\nOther police officers and deputies made their way to the shooting site and found the bodies of the other officers. Infante's body was found face down in a pile of rubble. Reese's body was found west of Infante and down the riverbank. He was on his back. Robertson's body was found near Reese.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093267-0015-0000", "contents": "1971 shooting of Dallas police officers, Search and arrests\nThe suspects had left the site in the stolen squad car, which was later found abandoned. The officer's billfolds had been taken. Over 400 sheriffs and officers searched the area for suspects. Two men were arrested as suspects the evening of the shooting, and it was theorized that the third man, the leader of the group, was believed to have been recently released from prison for a murder conviction. On Tuesday, February 16, Rene Guzman and his brother Moises Guzman were charged with murder with malice. The brothers were both residents of 2810 Ingersoll Street.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 625]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093267-0015-0001", "contents": "1971 shooting of Dallas police officers, Search and arrests\nOne of the arrested suspects was Moises, who had been arrested in the 2900 block of Weisenbarger Street. His and Rene's fingerprints were allegedly found in the stolen squad car. Rene was still at large at the time the murder charges were set, and lawmen searched motorists passing through the Texas-Mexico border.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093267-0016-0000", "contents": "1971 shooting of Dallas police officers, Search and arrests\nOn Thursday, February 18, McCurley identified Moises as the man who entered and left the home before the shootings. McCurley stated in an earlier interview that the shooters had attempted to convince Moises to join them, but Moises refused. Moises, who had been held without bond since his arrest on Monday, made a written statement that told his account of the day of the shootings. Moises stated that he arrived at his home on Ingersoll Street around 5:30 pm and was warned by his stepfather that there was trouble inside the house.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093267-0016-0001", "contents": "1971 shooting of Dallas police officers, Search and arrests\nMoises entered the home and saw his brother, Rene, and an unnamed friend holding guns. He saw the officers tied down in chairs. He left the house immediately and walked half a block down the street, and did not return until he saw a car full of people leaving the house. Moises returned to the home and took four rifles and a television set and, using Rene's car, drove to a relative's house on Weisenbarger Street where he was later arrested. Following his statement and McCurley's interview, Rene remained a suspect and a warrant was set out for an unnamed John Doe, the second shooter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 648]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093267-0017-0000", "contents": "1971 shooting of Dallas police officers, Search and arrests\nAn informant connected to the US Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs told the police that Guzman and Lopez were hiding in a boarding house on Ross Avenue. Following the arrests, the informant received a $1,000 reward. The man, later identified as heroin dealer Agapito Gonzales, was murdered in June 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093267-0018-0000", "contents": "1971 shooting of Dallas police officers, Search and arrests\nOn Friday, February 19, about 40 federal, state, county, and city officers participated in a raid on an apartment complex at 4627 San Jacinto Street. The raid was led by Dallas County Deputy Sheriff Lew Acker, partner of Infante. An entire block was sealed off in preparation of the raid, with the perimeter of the block being defined by San Jacinto Street, Annex Street, Fitzhugh Street, and Ross Avenue. Around 12:30 am, police entered the apartment of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Rodriguez. Gunfire was exchanged, and both Thomas and his pregnant wife were shot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093267-0019-0000", "contents": "1971 shooting of Dallas police officers, Search and arrests\nThe police searched the large building in the apartment complex and found and arrested Guzman and Lopez at around 1:00 am. Two women, one of whom was reported to be a companion of Guzman, had hindered the police by initially claiming that there was no one else within the apartment. A police officer saw curtains move in the bathroom window, and officers pushed past the two women and entered the apartment. Officers ordered Guzman and Lopez to surrender. Guzman tossed out a pistol from the bathroom and surrendered, and Lopez was arrested and removed from the bathroom. Within the apartment police found two pistols, including Infante's .38 caliber service revolver, which had been tossed out of an adjoining room. Two women, Alice Rosales and Angie Hernandez, would be charged as accessories to the murder for resisting the officers as the apartment was raided.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 924]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093267-0020-0000", "contents": "1971 shooting of Dallas police officers, Search and arrests\nGuzman confessed to the killings on the night of his arrest. He stated that he and Lopez began shooting at an officer when Reese freed his hands and took a .32 caliber revolver. It was speculated that Guzman remained in Dallas to stay close to his heroin supplier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093267-0021-0000", "contents": "1971 shooting of Dallas police officers, Search and arrests\nFive days after his arrest, Lopez confessed to the triple slayings in a signed written statement. According to his statement, it was Guzman who first drew his gun on Infante, Robertson, and Dover at the Ingersoll house, and it was Guzman's idea to drive the men to the Trinity River. Lopez stated that the shootings began when Reese freed his hands and managed to grab a pistol. Lopez claimed that Reese began shooting at him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093267-0021-0001", "contents": "1971 shooting of Dallas police officers, Search and arrests\nHe claimed to have seen Guzman kill Infante, and that Reese had run out of bullets and was running away when Lopez shot and killed him. Lopez and Guzman then chased Robertson and Dover, and Lopez shot one of the men once. Lopez looked for the other officer, McCurley, but could not find him. Lopez stated that he had taken a hit of heroin within two hours before the murders, and could not explain why the killings happened. He claimed he and Guzman did not attempt to leave Dallas because of their drug addictions. When a deputy asked if Lopez had any questions before he signed his confession, Lopez only asked if he would get the chair.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 699]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093267-0022-0000", "contents": "1971 shooting of Dallas police officers, Rodriguez family controversy and Mexican-American community relations\nThe Rodriguez family lived in a garage apartment at the San Jacinto address. An informant had claimed Guzman lived in the garage apartment, leading to the raid. Detective Captain Robert O. Dixon reported that his team announced themselves as police officers and commanded anyone in the apartment to open the door three times, but heard no response. He saw a light turn on and off within the apartment before someone inside shot at the officers twice. Officers returned fire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 110], "content_span": [111, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093267-0023-0000", "contents": "1971 shooting of Dallas police officers, Rodriguez family controversy and Mexican-American community relations\nThomas Rodriguez (also spelled Tomas) lived with his five-months-pregnant wife, Berta, and their eight children. On February 24, he gave his account of the night of the shooting to Pancho Medrano, a labor and civil rights activist. The interview was conducted in Spanish and published in El Sol de Texas and Papel Chicano. According to Thomas, he and his family were asleep when he heard the sound of someone attempting to break the door down. The children woke up and began crying and screaming.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 110], "content_span": [111, 607]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093267-0023-0001", "contents": "1971 shooting of Dallas police officers, Rodriguez family controversy and Mexican-American community relations\nHe went to the front door of the apartment and found it open, and it was then that he was shot through the chest and arms. He went for the gun that he kept behind the sofa, and went to the kitchen door 30 feet (9.1\u00a0m) from the front entrance. He was again shot, this time through the leg, once he arrived at the kitchen door. He fired after he was last shot and said he did not know where the bullet went. His wife was seated in the living room and had been shot through the leg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 110], "content_span": [111, 590]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093267-0023-0002", "contents": "1971 shooting of Dallas police officers, Rodriguez family controversy and Mexican-American community relations\nRodriguez returned to the living room where his son told him to drop the gun, and that the shooters were police. Rodriguez then went outside and was taken into custody. He claimed that he was not questioned at the scene or Parkland Hospital, where he was taken, and that he only knew Guzman through what he saw on the news. Throughout his interview with Medrano, he stated that he only wished to protect his family, and that he was afraid. Some neighbors corroborated Rodriguez's claim that there were no warnings before the shooting began.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 110], "content_span": [111, 651]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093267-0024-0000", "contents": "1971 shooting of Dallas police officers, Rodriguez family controversy and Mexican-American community relations\nFollowing the shooting, Sheriff Clarence Jones claimed that the Rodriguez apartment raid was not a mistake, and that he had evidence proving that Rodriguez was a heroin supplier for Guzman and Lopez. On Wednesday, February 24, District Attorney Henry Wade stated that it would be impossible to charge Rodriguez as a narcotics pusher unless drugs were found at the apartment or he had sold drugs to an undercover agent. No drugs were found in the Rodriguez apartment, and Rodriguez had not sold drugs to an undercover agent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 110], "content_span": [111, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093267-0024-0001", "contents": "1971 shooting of Dallas police officers, Rodriguez family controversy and Mexican-American community relations\nJones, however, claimed that an informant notified the police that Guzman and Lopez were at the Rodriguez apartment and that the police announced themselves at the apartment in Spanish and English. Dallas Legal Services Project director Ed Polk acted as attorney for Thomas Rodriguez. Polk had demanded that the Sheriff file charges against Rodriguez or retract his claims of Rodriguez being the drug seller to Guzman. Sheriff Jones did not file formal charges against Rodriguez, and instead gave his evidence over to the grand jury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 110], "content_span": [111, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093267-0025-0000", "contents": "1971 shooting of Dallas police officers, Rodriguez family controversy and Mexican-American community relations\nRodriguez was given a $1,000 bond by Judge P. T. Scales. A grand jury was gathered in March to determine the Guzman and Lopez indictment, and to determine whether or not to indict Thomas Rodriguez on charges of assault to murder a police officer and the sale of heroin. A federal narcotics agent testified regarding the accusations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 110], "content_span": [111, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093267-0026-0000", "contents": "1971 shooting of Dallas police officers, Rodriguez family controversy and Mexican-American community relations\nOn February 26, Dallas deputy Tom Barker was heard by journalists as claiming that the entire neighborhood where Guzman and Lopez lived were aware of the murders beforehand. This comment, which was interpreted as indicting the largely Mexican-American community in West Dallas, was sharply criticized by community leaders such as Dallas City Councilwoman Anita Martinez. Al Lipscomb also worked to defend the family and community.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 110], "content_span": [111, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093267-0027-0000", "contents": "1971 shooting of Dallas police officers, Rodriguez family controversy and Mexican-American community relations\nWarren Burnett served Rodriguez as his defense attorney after he was indicted by the grand jury. In July, Burnett filed a motion for Rodriguez to receive a speedy trial. Rodriguez also filed a $10,000 damage suit against Sheriff Clarence Jones, Dallas Police Chief Frank Dyson, and the deputies who had shot him. In February 1972, Robert McKnight, one of the officers who had shot Rodriguez, gave a deposition for Rodriguez's suit. McKnight claimed that the police had announced themselves in English and Spanish, and that the first shots he heard came from within the apartment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 110], "content_span": [111, 690]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093267-0027-0001", "contents": "1971 shooting of Dallas police officers, Rodriguez family controversy and Mexican-American community relations\nHe acknowledged that Rodriguez had been fleeing into the apartment when he was shot, and that the officers were tasked with ensuring that no one left the apartment. McKnight claimed that they had believed Guzman and Lopez alone were inside the apartment. Final hearings for the damage suit were held on March 9, 1972. Attorneys Burnett and William Baab focused much of their arguments on the police's failure to announce why they were raiding the apartment. The defense claimed that the injuries sustained by Rodriguez and his wife were his own fault for shooting at the officers. District Attorney Wade also argued that there was no provision in state laws for such a claim against a government body, only regarding motor accidents involving county employees. The charges were dropped in September due to technicalities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 110], "content_span": [111, 932]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093267-0028-0000", "contents": "1971 shooting of Dallas police officers, Rodriguez family controversy and Mexican-American community relations\nOn November 2, 1972, Celso Cantu was awarded $6,500 in personal damages for being held illegally without charges and incommunicado in a 9-foot (2.7\u00a0m) by 4-foot (1.2\u00a0m) room in the Dallas County Jail. Cantu had been arrested while playing baseball in West Dallas as a suspect in the murders of the officers, and was held in solitary confinement for eight days. Dallas County Sheriff Jones admitted that Cantu was imprisoned due to an administrative oversight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 110], "content_span": [111, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093267-0029-0000", "contents": "1971 shooting of Dallas police officers, Trial and retrials\nA grand jury was gathered in March to determine if there was sufficient evidence to charge Guzman and Lopez with murder and determine if the officers acting in the raid on the Rodriguez apartment were acting within the line of duty. The witnesses who testified to indict Guzman and Lopez were Dallas County deputy sheriffs John R. Webb, Jim Valentine, and McCurley. Dallas police detectives Gus Rose and Captain R. O. Dixon and attorney Brian Hunsaker also testified before the grand jury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093267-0030-0000", "contents": "1971 shooting of Dallas police officers, Trial and retrials\nOn March 30, Guzman's attorney filed a motion indicating that he would seek an acquittal in response to the district attorney's office stating in a legal document that they would be seeking the death penalty. He also filed a writ of habeas corpus. Guzman's attorney filed a motion for Guzman to be tried separately from Lopez on April 16, and the motion was denied by District Judge P. T. Scales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093267-0031-0000", "contents": "1971 shooting of Dallas police officers, Trial and retrials\nIn April, Guzman, his brother Moises, and four others filed a suit against the estates of the murdered officers, Sheriff Clarence Jones, Dallas Police Chief Frank Dyson, Dover, and McCurley, claiming that they were arrested without provocation or legal cause and had been subjected to acts of terrorism.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093267-0032-0000", "contents": "1971 shooting of Dallas police officers, Trial and retrials\nNone of the attorneys on the case felt the need for a change of venue, but in May 1971, District Judge P. T. Scales determined that the case had received too much publicity in Dallas for a fair hearing. He moved the murder trial to Belton, Texas, and presided over the trial. Guzman was represented by attorneys Frank Holbrook and John J. Solon, and Lopez was represented by court-appointed attorneys Don Metcalfe and Florentino Ramirez. Before the trial began, Solon hired a psychiatrist who determined that Guzman showed traits of psychomotor epilepsy, an illness that had been used by Jack Ruby's defense team to argue that Ruby was not sane. During the jury selection procedures, Guzman and Lopez were held at the Bell County Jail.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 795]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093267-0033-0000", "contents": "1971 shooting of Dallas police officers, Trial and retrials\nDistrict Attorney Doug Mulder, assistant District Attorney, led the prosecution against Guzman and Lopez. He was joined by state prosecutor Jon Sparling and District Attorney Henry Wade. The team was later joined by Bell County District Attorney Stanley Kacir. The prosecutors decided to try Guzman and Lopez for the murder of Robertson first because Dover was present at Robertson's death and could serve as a witness. Both Dover and McCurley had picked Guzman and Lopez out of a lineup as the men who took the officers captive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093267-0034-0000", "contents": "1971 shooting of Dallas police officers, Trial and retrials\nThe prosecution had difficulties finding Bell County residents who believed in capital punishment, and nearly half of the first round of interviewed potential jurors stated that they could not sentence anyone to death. The first 24 prospective jurors were turned down by both the defense and prosecution. The trial was sat by a jury of 11 men and 1 woman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093267-0035-0000", "contents": "1971 shooting of Dallas police officers, Trial and retrials\nThe trial for the murder of Arthur Robertson began on Monday, June 28, 1971. Dover was the first to give a statement during the opening day of testimony. He described the events of the shooting emotionally, and stated that he had no doubt in his mind that Guzman and Lopez were the shooters, and would never forget them as long as he lived. McCurley also took the stand and described what he saw during the shooting. After the two-day trial, Henry Wade made the closing arguments for the trial.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093267-0035-0001", "contents": "1971 shooting of Dallas police officers, Trial and retrials\nHe stated that the crime Guzman and Lopez committed was \"against the very fiber of our nation\" and reflected what Wade described as an \"open season\" on police officers. These remarks drew strong objections from the defense. The jury deliberated for 30 minutes before convicting Guzman and Lopez of the murder of Arthur Robinson. They were sentenced to death by electric chair. The sentence was seen positively by several surviving friends and relatives. Guzman and Lopez were not tried for the murders of Infante or Reese.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093267-0036-0000", "contents": "1971 shooting of Dallas police officers, Trial and retrials\nIn 1973, the conviction was overturned by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals due to the 1972 Furman v. Georgia U.S. Supreme Court decision that temporarily ruled the death penalty to be unconstitutional and due to the remarks made by District Attorney Henry Wade during his closing arguments were judged improper. The sufficiency of evidence in the original trial was not in question. Guzman was represented by Attorneys Joe Montemayor, Pat McDowell, and Frank Holbrook. Lopez was represented by Attorneys Donald R. Scoggins and Paul Enriquez. District Attorney Jon Sparling led the prosecution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 657]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093267-0037-0000", "contents": "1971 shooting of Dallas police officers, Trial and retrials\nThe first new trial for the murder of A. J. Robertson was held in Belton, Texas, and began on Monday, February 18, 1974. Pat McDowell had unsuccessfully moved for all three murder cases to be tried at once, but Lopez refused to accept the idea, and he and Guzman were tried together for three separate murder cases. Both sets of attorneys also attempted to have separate trials for their clients, but were unsuccessful. A jury of 7 women and 5 men, all African-American or Mexican-American, sat for the first trial.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093267-0037-0001", "contents": "1971 shooting of Dallas police officers, Trial and retrials\nBoth survivors of the shootings served as witnesses in the new case. No case was presented by the defense, and the attorneys of the two defendants had pleaded for mercy for the men during the punishment phase of the trial. The trial concluded on February 20. The jury took 40 minutes to determine a guilty verdict for the murder of Robertson, and 60 minutes to give the defendants a sentence of life in prison.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093267-0038-0000", "contents": "1971 shooting of Dallas police officers, Trial and retrials\nThe trial for the murder of Don Reese began on Tuesday, April 2, 1974. 5 women and 7 men sat on the jury. Deputy Dover was the first witness in the trial, and was followed by other sheriffs and officers from Dallas. District Judge R. T. Scales sat for this trial and for the trial of the murder of Infante. The trial was completed on April 3, and the jury deliberated for 25 minutes before determining a guilty verdict and another 25 minutes before determining a sentence of life in prison for both Guzman and Lopez.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093267-0039-0000", "contents": "1971 shooting of Dallas police officers, Trial and retrials\nThe second trial was held for the murder of Samuel Infante on April 3, 1974, immediately after the sentences for the murder of Reese were handed down. A jury of 8 women and 4 men sat for the trial. The jury took 10 minutes to deliberate on a guilty verdict and 15 minutes to give a second life term for each defendant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093267-0040-0000", "contents": "1971 shooting of Dallas police officers, Aftermath\nIn February 1971, Dallas County Commissioners voted for the Dallas County Historical Plaza to be dedicated to the late Sheriff Bill Decker and all county officers killed in the line of duty. The commissioners also voted to pay the families of Infante and Reese three months of their salaries. In 1967, the State of Texas passed an amendment providing $10,000.00 to officers killed on duty with an additional monthly stipend for families with children. Dallas County also provided life insurance for deputies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 50], "content_span": [51, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093267-0041-0000", "contents": "1971 shooting of Dallas police officers, Aftermath\nRene Guzman attempted to escape from prison in January 1973. He and other escapees had sawed a hole in the prison wall using a hacksaw. Guzman died in prison on August 15, 2021.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 50], "content_span": [51, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093267-0042-0000", "contents": "1971 shooting of Dallas police officers, Aftermath\nLeonardo Lopez was granted parole on December 18, 1990, after requesting parole nine times. At the age of 44, he moved to Houston, where he lived with his wife who he had married by proxy two years before. He expressed remorse and regret for the killings, and claimed that he was so high that he could not accurately recall the events. He did not contact Guzman while imprisoned. He attended church services regularly and claimed to be a Christian.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 50], "content_span": [51, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093267-0042-0001", "contents": "1971 shooting of Dallas police officers, Aftermath\nLopez stated in an interview: \"I don't want to be a hypocrite or nothing, like I tell God when I talk to him . . . He knows I can't change nothing. What happened has happened. Now I put my life in his hands.\" He expressed a fear of traveling to meet with relatives, claiming that he feared harassment from police and that he believed that police could kill him without reprisals. He considered writing to the relatives of survivors, but decided against it after concluding that nothing he stated could make them understand what happened that day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 50], "content_span": [51, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093267-0042-0002", "contents": "1971 shooting of Dallas police officers, Aftermath\nHis parole placed him under intensive supervision, requiring him to have ten in-person visits with his parole officer per month and be subjected to drug testing on demand. His placement on parole was met with criticism. His release helped lead to the formation of special hearings on parole decisions. Lopez was eventually returned to prison in Texas for parole violations, where he died on August 6, 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 50], "content_span": [51, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093268-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 \u00c5landic legislative election\nLegislative elections were held in the \u00c5land Islands on 17 and 18 October 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093269-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 \u00darvalsdeild, Overview\nIt was contested by 8 teams, and Keflav\u00edk won the championship. Keflav\u00edk's Steinar J\u00f3hannsson was the top scorer with 13 goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 26], "content_span": [27, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093270-0000-0000", "contents": "1971 \u0141\u00f3d\u017a strikes\nOn February 10, 1971, textile workers in the central Polish city of \u0141\u00f3d\u017a (known as the \"Manchester of Poland\") began a strike action, in which the majority of participants were women. These events have been largely forgotten because a few weeks earlier, major protests and street fights had taken place in the cities of northern Poland. Nevertheless, the women of \u0141\u00f3d\u017a achieved what shipyard workers of the Baltic Sea coast failed to achieve - cancellation of the increase in food prices, which had been introduced by the government of Communist Poland in December 1970. Consequently, it was the only industrial action in pre-1980 Communist Poland that ended as a success.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 690]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093270-0001-0000", "contents": "1971 \u0141\u00f3d\u017a strikes, Background\nThe communist government announced increases in food prices on December 12, 1970. For example the prices for meat products were raised by up to 100 percent. Strikes and street demonstrations took place in the Baltic ports of Gda\u0144sk, Gdynia, Szczecin, and Elbl\u0105g. Security forces, together with units of the Polish Army massacred at least 42 protesting workers in December. More than 1,000 people were wounded. The news of these events quickly reached \u0141\u00f3d\u017a in spite of the government's censorship and media blackout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093270-0001-0001", "contents": "1971 \u0141\u00f3d\u017a strikes, Background\nA tense atmosphere was palpable in the city which was the Polish center of the textile industry, where majority of workers were female. As informants of Communist secret services reported, employees of main factories talked among each other about high prices of food, desperate living conditions, and low wages. Some brought up the possibility of a strike, but in December 1970 no open protests took place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093270-0001-0002", "contents": "1971 \u0141\u00f3d\u017a strikes, Background\nThis was due to two factors - the recent news of the bloodbath in the coastal cities, and the change in the Politburo of the Polish United Workers' Party, where on December 20, Edward Gierek was nominated as Secretary General. Nevertheless, the government did not back out of the food price increase.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093270-0002-0000", "contents": "1971 \u0141\u00f3d\u017a strikes, Background\nIn January 1971, the situation in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a became even more tense. The government and the Communist Party were openly criticized, and workers in city\u2019s textile factories talked among themselves that changes in the Polish Politburo were not enough, and that these did not guarantee that bloody events of the December 1970 protests would not be repeated in the future. Agents of the security services reported that \u0141\u00f3d\u017a workers frequently mentioned a strike - a term, which according to official propaganda was not supposed to even exist in Communist countries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093270-0002-0001", "contents": "1971 \u0141\u00f3d\u017a strikes, Background\nLocal authorities secured key buildings of the city, including the headquarters of the Communist Party, which was guarded by 70 officers of Milicja Obywatelska, 70 soldiers, and 50 officers of the paramilitary police ORMO. The streets of \u0141\u00f3d\u017a were patrolled by 1400 police officers, several hundred people were preventively arrested, and a special plan for a blockade of main streets was drawn up. Beginning in mid-December 1970, leaflets were distributed among the population, stating: \"Workers! Women of \u0141\u00f3d\u017a! Youth of \u0141\u00f3d\u017a! We urge you to keep your cool, peace and discipline! Disorganization of your life will damage your interests! Only work, peace and order will help you to overcome current difficulties! \".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 744]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093270-0003-0000", "contents": "1971 \u0141\u00f3d\u017a strikes, Strikes of February 1971\nFirst strikes in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a began on February 10, 1971, and despite extensive preparations, the local government was caught by surprise. \u0141\u00f3d\u017a was regarded in Poland as a city of women - 77% of its female residents were employed full-time. The majority of workers in the local textile industry were women, and their work was very hard, with antiquated machines (40% of all machinery was built before World War II, further 20% - before World War I. ), dilapidated buildings, poor health service, little rest, three shifts, high temperature, noise, and low salaries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 43], "content_span": [44, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093270-0003-0001", "contents": "1971 \u0141\u00f3d\u017a strikes, Strikes of February 1971\nWomen were discriminated against, they had little chance of promotion, and their supervisors were almost exclusively males, who frequently humiliated them. In 1971, salaries in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a were 20% lower than the salaries in Polish heavy industry, so the increase in food prices, announced in December 1970, affected local workers to a larger degree than blue-collar laborers elsewhere.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 43], "content_span": [44, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093270-0004-0000", "contents": "1971 \u0141\u00f3d\u017a strikes, Strikes of February 1971\nOn the first day of the strike work stoppages were recorded in two major plants - Julian Marchlewski Cotton Works (which at that time employed 9,000 people), and Shoe and Rubber Factory Stomil. In Marchlewski, the strike was initiated around midday by some 400 workers, while in Stomil, 180 laborers stopped their machines. One of the reasons which precipitated the action was a TV interview with shipyard workers from the Baltic Coast, who said that as a result of their protests they had been granted a 25% pay rise.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 43], "content_span": [44, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093270-0005-0000", "contents": "1971 \u0141\u00f3d\u017a strikes, Strikes of February 1971\nEven though official mass-media did not mention the protests, on February 12 and 13, further cotton plants joined the strike. These were: Defenders of Peace, First of May, People's Army, General Walter, Kunicki and Hanki Sawickiej. Altogether, some 12,000 workers laid down their tools, 80% of them women. Their demands were simple - wage increases and a return to the pre-December 12, 1970, food prices. Local authorities tried to negotiate, telling the strikers that their demands were impossible to meet but the talks were fruitless. On Sunday, February 14, the atmosphere at Marchlewski was very strained.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 43], "content_span": [44, 653]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093270-0005-0001", "contents": "1971 \u0141\u00f3d\u017a strikes, Strikes of February 1971\nWorkers demanded that First Secretary of the Party, Edward Gierek, come to their factory. However, instead of the number one person in Poland, in late evening on that day a delegation from Warsaw came to \u0141\u00f3d\u017a, headed by Prime Minister Piotr Jaroszewicz. Negotiations lasted well into the night. When Jaroszewicz and his people tried to talk the women into going back to work, they answered with dramatic speeches; some cried.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 43], "content_span": [44, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093270-0006-0000", "contents": "1971 \u0141\u00f3d\u017a strikes, Strikes of February 1971\nI am afraid, as I want to get back home safely, but there are so many things to do. I go to a butcher\u2019s with 100 zlotys, I buy half a kilogram of meat, some blood sausage and my money is gone. When I am exhausted, I go to our factory doctor, but the supervisor calls him before I get to his office and tells the doctor not to let me go home, because they need people to work the machines.- said one woman from Marchlewski Works.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 43], "content_span": [44, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093270-0007-0000", "contents": "1971 \u0141\u00f3d\u017a strikes, Strikes of February 1971\nI paid my rent, I paid for the kindergarten, and I do not have enough money left to buy a candy for my child. Our kids eat black bread, while your wife eats sandwiches.- said a female worker of Defenders of Peace Cotton Plant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 43], "content_span": [44, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093270-0008-0000", "contents": "1971 \u0141\u00f3d\u017a strikes, Strikes of February 1971\nAnother woman from Marchlewski, angry at the words W\u0142odzimierz Kruczek of official trades unions, pulled down her pants and showed him her buttocks. At one point, Jaroszewicz said: \"I want to send you sincere worker's greetings from comrade Gierek. Trust us, help us!\" In response, he heard: \"We have got the greetings, but we have got no money\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 43], "content_span": [44, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093270-0009-0000", "contents": "1971 \u0141\u00f3d\u017a strikes, Strikes of February 1971\nThe strikes reached their peak on February 15. The workers had acted spontaneously, without creating any formal committees. There were some loosely organized groups of activists who negotiated with authorities. Only at the Marchlewski plant an unofficial strike council was created, with 26 members. Negotiations with Jaroszewicz did not lead to an agreement, but according to the reports, a visit to \u0141\u00f3d\u017a and an inquiry into the living conditions there was a shock to the Communist officials (Jaroszewicz himself admitted that he did not know that the situation was so bad.). Meanwhile, the strike spread.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 43], "content_span": [44, 650]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093270-0009-0001", "contents": "1971 \u0141\u00f3d\u017a strikes, Strikes of February 1971\nOn Monday, February 15, three other factories joined the protest, and the number of strikers grew to 55,000. Unlike the events of December 1970, \u0141\u00f3d\u017a workers did not go out onto the streets, and decided to remain in their factories, so no street fights took place. Female employees used a powerful argument while negotiating with the authorities - they frequently mentioned their children and the inability to feed and clothe them properly. In one instance, there was an attempt to barricade streets around the Marchlewski plant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 43], "content_span": [44, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093270-0009-0002", "contents": "1971 \u0141\u00f3d\u017a strikes, Strikes of February 1971\n500 - 1000 people gathered there, stopped the traffic, and overturned dumpsters as well as benches. Some skirmishes with the police ensued, and soon afterwards, fighting moved to Piotrkowska Street. The police attacked the protesters with water cannons, batons and tear gas, arresting 30 people. Otherwise, crews of factories tried to keep order, checking all the people who entered through the gates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 43], "content_span": [44, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093270-0010-0000", "contents": "1971 \u0141\u00f3d\u017a strikes, Aftermath\nAfter Jaroszewicz\u2019s visit and a subsequent meeting of the Politburo, on February 15, 1971, the government decided to cancel the increase in food prices, which came into effect on March 1, 1971. Upon hearing of this decision most of the strikes in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a ended. Still, workers were distrustful of the government, demanding written confirmation of the decision. Finally, all strikes ended on the morning of February 17, with the two last textile plants \u2013 Defenders of Peace, and Feliks Dzier\u017cy\u0144ski returning to work. After the end of the strikes, the authorities tried to find and punish the leaders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 28], "content_span": [29, 625]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093270-0010-0001", "contents": "1971 \u0141\u00f3d\u017a strikes, Aftermath\nBy March 5, 1971, 26 workers of the Marchlewski, and 11 of the Defenders of Peace were identified and forced to quit. Furthermore, Communist leaders were incensed to find out that the workers of Marchlewski collected money for a commemorative flag, with the inscription: Thank you, Holy Mother, for your protection on February 10\u201315, 1971. The flag is now kept at Saint Joseph church in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 28], "content_span": [29, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093271-0000-0000", "contents": "1971: Beyond Borders\n1971: Beyond Borders is a 2017 Indian Malayalam-language war film written and directed by Major Ravi. It is the fourth installment in the Major Mahadevan film series, with Mohanlal reprising his role as Colonel Mahadevan and a new character, Major Sahadevan. It also features Arunoday Singh and Allu Sirish. The film, set in two time periods, is based on the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 and act as both prequel and follow-up to the series. Mohanlal's and Sirish's characters were modeled on Hoshiar Singh and Arun Khetarpal, both of whom were awarded the Param Vir Chakra for their roles in the 1971 Indo-Pakistani War.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 639]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093271-0001-0000", "contents": "1971: Beyond Borders\nDialogues were written by Shiju Nambyath for the script of Ravi. The film was shot by Sujith Vaassudev, while Gopi Sunder provided the score. Siddharth Vipin, Najim Arshad, and Rahul Subramanian composed the soundtrack. Principal photography commenced on 31 October 2016 in Suratgarh, Rajasthan and completed on 5 February 2017 in Georgia. 1971: Beyond Borders released on 7 April 2017 in India. Originally made in Malayalam language, the film was dubbed and released in Telugu as Yuddha Bhoomi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093271-0002-0000", "contents": "1971: Beyond Borders, Plot\nThe film starts in Georgia where a Pakistani UN Peace Keeping Forces reaches a building where Gangsters are hiding. As the counter insurgency operation begins, the insurgents open fire. The team is stuck in cross firing and calls for reinforcements. At that time, an Indian UN Peace Keeping Forces reaches there and rescues the contingent. The leader of the contingent is Colonel Mahadevan. He meets the leader of the Pakistani contingent, whose name is Col. Ajmal Raja Akram. He reveals that he is the son of Lt. Col Mohd.Akhram Raja. At a function to honour the UN Peace Keeping Forces, Ajmal reveals that his father was killed in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. On hearing about this, Col. Mahadevan reveals that his father, Major Sahadevan, killed Ajmal's father.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 26], "content_span": [27, 794]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093271-0003-0000", "contents": "1971: Beyond Borders, Plot\nThe story shifts to 1971 when Bangladesh was fighting for secession from Pakistan. On 3 December 1971, Indian airfields are attacked in retaliation to which Indira Gandhi announces war. After the announcement, the entire army is rallied, and leaves are cancelled. The war starts when the Pakistan Army Armoured Corps attack Indian positions at the Basantar river. The Indians are not prepared and face a defeat. The Pakistani Army takes many POWs. The prisoners are tortured by the army men. At the same time, Raja notices this and reprimands his senior officer for violating the Geneva Convention which state that POWs should be treated like guests to which his senior officer is not happy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 26], "content_span": [27, 718]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093271-0004-0000", "contents": "1971: Beyond Borders, Plot\nLater, the Indians launch a full offensive against the Pakistanis in which one of their best tank commander Chinmay is martyred. On seeing Chinmay's face, Raja remarks that such a young boy had destroyed six tanks. He declares ceasefire to let the Indian Army collect the body. On seeing Chinmay's death, the Indian Army vows to take revenge. The Battle of Basantar begins with heavy casualties on both sides. In the end, Raja and Sahadevan face each other in a one on one battle, which is won by Sahadevan. At the same time, Pakistan surrenders unconditionally, and the ceasefire is declared. Sahadevan is disturbed by the deaths of the Indian soldiers and the Pakistani soldiers. He resolves that there should be no more wars as it leads to death and destruction.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 26], "content_span": [27, 792]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093271-0005-0000", "contents": "1971: Beyond Borders, Production, Development\nThe film is set in two time periods, with Mohanlal playing both Colonel Mahadevan and his son Major Sahadevan. The film will also see his transition from a Major to a Colonel. The film is based on a true incident and explores the friendship and life of two army officials. Mohanlal will be appearing in his fourth film as Mahadevan after Keerthi Chakra (2006), Kurukshetra (2008), and Kandahar (2010).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093271-0005-0001", "contents": "1971: Beyond Borders, Production, Development\nRavi said in an interview in October 2015, that unlike the previous films in the series, Beyond Borders will be more like his last military film Picket 43 (2015), that \"the focus will be on the individuals rather than the war, and will portray the relationships that are forged during the war\". Rahul Subramaniam, Siddharth Vipin, and Najim Arshad is composing the music for the film.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093271-0006-0000", "contents": "1971: Beyond Borders, Production, Development\nIn early August 2016, Bollywood actor Arunoday Singh was confirmed playing the role of Lieutenant colonel (Lt. Col.) Rana Sharif, a soldier of Pakistan Army. Before zeroing in Singh, there were talks with other actors. Ravi was particularly looking for a Bollywood actor to play the role. Singh's character was modeled after a real life soldier in the Pakistan Frontier Force Regiment during the 1971 war. Ravi said, it is not a negative role that he is also fighting for his country and will have equal importance as Mahadevan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093271-0006-0001", "contents": "1971: Beyond Borders, Production, Development\nOn 22 October 2016, Telugu actor Allu Sirish himself confirmed his role in the film by announcing in Twitter. He plays Lieutenant (Lt.) Chinmay, an armoured tank Commando, of the wing headed by Mahadevan. It is the Malayalam film debut of Sirish. Ravi was looking for younger actors to play the role. Mumbai-based model Priyanka Agrawal was signed to appear as Shariff's wife, in two different appearances\u2014as a 65 year old and as her younger self. Hers is one among the two leading female roles in the film. It is also her feature film debut.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093271-0007-0000", "contents": "1971: Beyond Borders, Production, Development\nIn early December 2016, it was confirmed that the production team negotiated with Nikki Galrani to play a Tamilian girl, a love interest of Chinmay, played by Sirish. She was busy with her Tamil films, but attracted as a Mohanlal film and the debut of Sirish, she agreed on verbal terms. Galrani later opted out from the film in early January 2017 due to a schedule change and conflicting date issues with some of her Tamil films in contract. Her portions opposite Sirish were supposed to be shot at Pollachi the same month.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093271-0007-0001", "contents": "1971: Beyond Borders, Production, Development\nShe was replaced by Srushti Dange, making her debut into Malayalam cinema. Zoya Zayed Khan was confirmed in December 2016, to play a traditional Pakistani doctor. She is acting alongside Singh. Khan was cast after a screen test. Shafeeq Rahman was cast as Jayakrishnan, one of the soldiers under Mahadevan's command. Saiju Kurup and Sudheer Karamana also plays soldiers, among others. Asha Sarath is paired opposite to Mohanlal's Sahadevan, the mother role of Mahadevan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093271-0008-0000", "contents": "1971: Beyond Borders, Production, Filming\nThe filming commenced on 31 October 2016 at Suratgarh in Rajasthan, India. Art director Saloo K. George built huge sets resembling army camps and bunkers. Built in Kochi, Kerala, they were transported to Rajasthan. The filming was conducted in the deserts of Rajasthan, the Viper population was highest in that area, the crew unaware of it first, immediately ordered antivenoms and worn heavy shoes on reaching the location. Chest congestion often occurred to the crew. Sirish joined filming on 5 November 2016. Indian army base in Arjungarh, Junagarh and Mahajan in Bikaner were some of the filming locations in Rajasthan. After 25 days of filming, the schedule was wrapped on 23 November 2016. There was also a schedule in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 795]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093271-0009-0000", "contents": "1971: Beyond Borders, Production, Filming\nThe next few schedules underwent at various location in Kerala, beginning in Pattambi, Palakkad district. The Indo-Pakistani war sequences were planned to shoot at Uganda, later they decided to film it in Georgia instead, following the Kerala schedule. After finishing in Pattambi, they shifted to nearby Ottapalam in early January 2017. Then to Perumbavoor, Ernakulam district in the third week of January 2017, where sets were built resembling North Indian borders and warfare trenches. It was constructed in a 40 acre reclaimed land near Perumbavoor. Mohanlal joined the location on 16 January 2017, filming held during day and night.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 679]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093271-0010-0000", "contents": "1971: Beyond Borders, Production, Filming\nThe team began filming its final schedule in Georgia on 31 January 2017 for a week. Beyond Borders is the first Malayalam film to be shot in the Eurasian country. Major Mahadevan's action sequences were shot in Georgia who is in a UN peacekeeping mission. The filming wrapped on 5 February 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093271-0011-0000", "contents": "1971: Beyond Borders, Production, Music\nThe film will feature four songs composed by three music directors\u2014Najim Arshad, Siddharth Vipin, and Rahul Subramanian. The film score is composed by Gopi Sunder. Singer Arshad debuts as a music director through the film. He composed a Hindi patriotic song written by a Kolkata-based lyricist named Kamal Karthik, the song come towards the end of the film. Vipin known for his compositions in Tamil films, is composing two songs\u2014one is a romantic song picturised in the locations in Kerala. The other one is a motivational song that will follow after a speech delivered by Mohanlal's character. Subramanian composed a nostalgic song, sung by M. G. Sreekumar and featuring Mohanlal and Asha Sarath.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 738]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093271-0012-0000", "contents": "1971: Beyond Borders, Release\n1971: Beyond Borders released on 7 April 2017 in India. The Telugu dubbed version titled Yuddha Bhoomi (Battlefield) was released on 29 June 2018. The Tamil version was released later. The film released in its original version on 13 April 2017 in GCC countries. The television broadcast right of 1971: Beyond Borders was bought by Amrita TV for an amount of \u20b95.5 crore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 29], "content_span": [30, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093272-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u20131972 Mark Twain Awards\nThe Mark Twain Readers Award is given annually to a book for children in grades four through six.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093273-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u20131972 Massachusetts legislature\nThe 167th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1971 and 1972 during the governorship of Francis Sargent. Kevin B. Harrington served as president of the Senate and David M. Bartley served as speaker of the House.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093274-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 1. Slovensk\u00e1 n\u00e1rodn\u00e1 hokejov\u00e1 liga season\nThe 1971\u201372 1. Slovensk\u00e1 n\u00e1rodn\u00e1 hokejov\u00e1 liga season was the 3rd season of the 1. Slovensk\u00e1 n\u00e1rodn\u00e1 hokejov\u00e1 liga, the second level of ice hockey in Czechoslovakia alongside the 1. \u010cesk\u00e1 n\u00e1rodn\u00ed hokejov\u00e1 liga. 12 teams participated in the league, and \u0160K Liptovsk\u00fd Mikul\u00e1\u0161 won the championship. TJ Sl\u00e1via UK Bratislava and TJ VS\u017d Ko\u0161ice B relegated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093275-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 1.Lig\nStatistics of the Turkish First Football League for the 1971\u201372 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 85]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093275-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 1.Lig, Overview\nIt was contested by 16 teams, and Galatasaray S.K. won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 23], "content_span": [24, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093276-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 1re s\u00e9rie season\nThe 1971\u201372 1re s\u00e9rie season was the 51st season of the 1re s\u00e9rie, the top level of ice hockey in France. 11 teams participated in the league, and Chamonix Hockey Club won their 27th league title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093276-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 1re s\u00e9rie season, First round, Paris-Nord Group\n(Athletic Club de Boulogne Billancourt forfeited the entire season after only one game, an 8-3 win over CG Poitiers.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 55], "content_span": [56, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093277-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 A Group\nStatistics of Bulgarian A Football Group in the 1971\u20131972 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 81]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093277-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 A Group, Overview\nIt was contested by 18 teams, and CSKA Sofia won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 25], "content_span": [26, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093278-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 ABA season\nThe 1971\u201372 ABA season was the fifth season of the American Basketball Association. The Indiana Pacers won the championship, defeating the New York Nets, 4 games to 2, in the ABA Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093279-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 AFC Ajax season\nDuring the 1971\u201372 Dutch football season, AFC Ajax competed in the Eredivisie. Ajax won the Treble that season winning the Eredivisie the 1971\u201372 KNVB Cup and the 1971\u201372 European Cup. It was the club's first season without Rinus Michels since 1965.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093279-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 AFC Ajax season, First-team squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093279-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 AFC Ajax season, Results\nIn the 1971\u201372 season Ajax lost just one game. They were unbeaten at home in both domestic and European competitions. The season included a 12-1 victory over Vitesse at the De Meer Stadion. A result which set a record for the largest win in Eredivisie history. It would stand until 2020, when Ajax beat VVV-Venlo 13\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093280-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 AHL season\nThe 1971\u201372 AHL season was the 36th season of the American Hockey League. Major changes occurred in the off-season. The league welcomed four expansion teams, and lost both Quebec-based teams. Eleven teams played 76 games each in the schedule. The Boston Braves finished first overall in the regular season. The Nova Scotia Voyageurs won their first Calder Cup championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093280-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 AHL season, Final standings\nNote: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against; PTS = Points;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 35], "content_span": [36, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093280-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 AHL season, Final standings\n\u2020 First place tiebreaker determined by head-to-head competition during regular season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 35], "content_span": [36, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093280-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 AHL season, Scoring leaders\nNote: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalty minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 35], "content_span": [36, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093281-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Albanian Cup\n1971\u201372 Albanian Cup (Albanian: Kupa e Shqip\u00ebris\u00eb) was the twentieth season of Albania's annual cup competition. It began on August 1971 with the First Round and ended on May 1972 with the Final matches. Dinamo Tirana were the defending champions, having won their seventh Albanian Cup last season. The cup was won by KS Vllaznia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093281-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Albanian Cup\nThe rounds were played in a two-legged format similar to those of European competitions. If the aggregated score was tied after both games, the team with the higher number of away goals advanced. If the number of away goals was equal in both games, the match was decided by extra time and a penalty shootout, if necessary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093281-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Albanian Cup, Second round\nIn this round entered the 16 winners from the previous round. First and second legs were played on January 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093281-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Albanian Cup, Quarter finals\nIn this round entered the 8 winners from the previous round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 36], "content_span": [37, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093281-0004-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Albanian Cup, Semifinals\nIn this round entered the four winners from the previous round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093281-0005-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Albanian Cup, Finals\nIn this round entered the two winners from the previous round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 28], "content_span": [29, 91]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093282-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Albanian National Championship\nThe 1971\u201372 Albanian National Championship was the 33rd season of the Albanian National Championship, the top professional league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 1930.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093282-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Albanian National Championship, Overview\nIt was contested by 14 teams, and Vllaznia won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093282-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Albanian National Championship, League table\nNote: '17 N\u00ebntori' is Tirana, 'Lokomotiva Durr\u00ebs' is Teuta, 'Traktori' is Lushnja", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 52], "content_span": [53, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093283-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Algerian Championnat National\nThe 1971\u20131972 Algerian Championnat National was the 10th season of the Algerian Championnat National since its establishment in 1962. A total of 16 teams contested the league, with MC Oran as the defending champions, The Championnat started on September 5, 1971 and ended on June 18, 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093284-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Algerian Cup\nThe 1971\u201372 Algerian Cup is the 10th edition of the Algerian Cup. MC Alger are the defending champions, having beaten USM Alger 2\u20130 in the previous season's final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093285-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship\nThe 1971\u201372 All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship was the second staging of the All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship since its establishment by the Gaelic Athletic Association in 1970-71.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093285-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship\nOn 12 May 1972, Bellaghy won the championship following a 0-15 to 1-11 defeat of University College Cork in the All-Ireland final at Croke Park. It remains their only championship title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093286-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship\nThe 1971\u201372 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship was the second staging of the All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship, the Gaelic Athletic Association's premier inter-county club hurling tournament. The championship began on 14 November 1971 and ended on 14 May 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093286-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship\nRoscrea of Tipperary were the defending champions, however, they failed to qualify after being defeated by Moyne-Templetuohy in Tipperary Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093286-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship\nOn 14 May 1972, Blackrock won the championship after a 5\u201313 to 6\u201309 defeat of Rathnure in the All-Ireland final. It was their first ever championship title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093287-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Allsvenskan (men's handball)\nThe 1971\u201372 Allsvenskan was the 38th season of the top division of Swedish handball. 10 teams competed in the league. SoIK Hellas won the regular season and also won the playoffs to claim their sixth Swedish title. Vikingarnas IF and Ystads IF were relegated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093288-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Alpha Ethniki\nThe 1971\u201372 Alpha Ethniki was the 36th season of the highest football league of Greece. The season began on 19 September 1971 and ended on 25 June 1972. Panathinaikos won their 11th Greek title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093288-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Alpha Ethniki\nThe point system was: Win: 3 points - Draw: 2 points - Loss: 1 point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 91]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093289-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Arad County Championship\nThe 1971\u201372 Arad County Championship was the 4th season of the Liga IV Arad, the fourth tier of the Romanian football league system. Constructorul Arad promoted to Divizia C without a promotion play-off match, because Arad County was less represented in the third league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093290-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Arsenal F.C. season\nDuring the 1971\u201372 English football season, Arsenal F.C. competed in the Football League First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093290-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Arsenal F.C. season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093291-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Aston Villa F.C. season\nThe 1971\u201372 English football season was Villa's 73rd season in the Football League, this season playing in the Football League Third Division. Under manager Vic Crowe Aston Villa won promotion to the Second Division as champions with a record 70 points, and thus ended their two-year spell in the Third Division. By the end of the decade they would be firmly re-established as a First Division club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093291-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Aston Villa F.C. season\nIn July 1971, Ray Graydon secured a \u00a350,000 move from third division Bristol Rovers, with captain Brian Godfrey moving in the opposite direction. Graydon missed just one of Villa's 46 league games in the 1971\u201372 season, scoring 14 goals as the club secured the Third Division title with a five-point margin over Brighton & Hove Albion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093291-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Aston Villa F.C. season\nWillie Anderson's contribution included scoring a career high fifteen goals in all competitions with eight coming from penalties, helping him gain a reputation as a penalty taker specialist.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093292-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Athenian League\nThe 1971\u201372 Athenian League season was the 49th in the history of Athenian League. The league consisted of 48 teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093292-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Athenian League, Premier Division\nThe division featured three new teams, promoted from last season's Division One:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093292-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Athenian League, Division One\nThe division featured three new teams, promoted from last season's Division Two:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093292-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Athenian League, Division Two\nThe division joined 3 new teams, all from Spartan League:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093293-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Atlanta Hawks season\nThe 1971\u201372 NBA season was the Hawks' 23rd season in the NBA and fourth season in Atlanta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093294-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Australian region cyclone season\nThe 1971\u201372 Australian region cyclone season was a very active tropical cyclone season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093294-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Rhoda\nTropical Cyclone Rhoda existed from October 20 to October 26.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 73], "content_span": [74, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093294-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Low Kitty\nKitty existed from 2 to 5 December 1971 in the Arafura Sea", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 69], "content_span": [70, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093294-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Severe Tropical Cyclone Sally\nSally, 3 to 13 December 1971 crossed coast near Broome, Western Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 80], "content_span": [81, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093294-0004-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Severe Tropical Cyclone Althea\nTropical Cyclone Althea was a Category\u00a04 cyclone when it hit the coast some 50\u00a0km north of Magnetic Island and Townsville in North Queensland on December 24, 1971. Althea produced peak gust wind speeds between 123 and 145\u00a0miles per hour (197 and 233\u00a0km/h). Three people died and property damage was estimated at A$115\u00a0million loss (1990 value). On Magnetic Island 90% of the houses were damaged or destroyed. In Townsville houses were lifted from their foundations and most trees stripped of foliage. Althea was also notable at the time, as it had struck a major city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 81], "content_span": [82, 650]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093294-0005-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Severe Tropical Cyclone Althea\nAlthough there was a dangerous storm surge associated with TC Althea (between 2.8 and 3.6\u00a0metres) little flooding occurred because the cyclone made landfall on a low tide. However, the combination of storm surge and wave action demolished The Strand sea wall and houses in low-lying areas were inundated with up to 0.6\u00a0metres of water.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 81], "content_span": [82, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093294-0006-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Bronwyn\nBronwyn, 3 to 12 January 1972 in Gulf of Carpentaria", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 75], "content_span": [76, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093294-0007-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Severe Tropical Cyclone Daisy\nDaisy, 7 to 14 February 1972 off Queensland, caused some flooding near Brisbane", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 80], "content_span": [81, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093294-0008-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Severe Tropical Cyclone Tessie-Gigi\nTessie, 20 to 27 February 1972 in central Indian Ocean", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 86], "content_span": [87, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093294-0009-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Severe Tropical Cyclone Vicky\nVicky, 24 February to 4 March 1972 crossed Western Australian coast at Cockatoo Island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 80], "content_span": [81, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093294-0010-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Angela\nAngela, 29 February to 3 March 1972 near Cocos Island and Christmas Island", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 74], "content_span": [75, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093294-0011-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Severe Tropical Cyclone Emily\nEmily, 27 March to 4 April 1972 off Queensland, eight lives lost at sea", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 80], "content_span": [81, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093294-0012-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Severe Tropical Cyclone Carol\nCarol, 6 to 14 April 1972 in the central Indian Ocean.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 80], "content_span": [81, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093294-0013-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Faith\nFaith, 11 to 23 April 1972 in Torres Strait and Coral Sea off Queensland", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 73], "content_span": [74, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093294-0014-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Severe Tropical Cyclone Ida\nIda, 30 May to 3 June 1972 near Solomon Islands causing $70\u00a0million damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 78], "content_span": [79, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093295-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Austrian Hockey League season\nThe 1971\u201372 Austrian Hockey League season was the 42nd season of the Austrian Hockey League, the top level of ice hockey in Austria. Eight teams participated in the league, and EC KAC won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093296-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Austrian football championship, Overview\nIt was contested by 15 teams, and FC Wacker Innsbruck won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093298-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Baltimore Bullets season\nThe Bullets would stun their fans and the entire league by trading Earl \"The Pearl\" Monroe. The trade was done three games into the season and Monroe was sent to the rival New York Knicks. The Bullets received Dave Stallworth, Mike Riordan, and cash. The Bullets did not adjust well to not having Monroe as they finished the season with a 38\u201344 record. The losing record would still be good enough to win the Central Division. In the playoffs, the Bullets would face Monroe and the New York Knicks and be beaten by the Knicks in six games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093299-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Belgian First Division, Overview\nIt was contested by 16 teams, and R.S.C. Anderlecht won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093300-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Birmingham City F.C. season\nThe 1971\u201372 Football League season was Birmingham City Football Club's 69th in the Football League and their 31st in the Second Division. They finished in second place in the 22-team division, so were promoted to the First Division for 1972\u201373, despite never having been in the promotion positions until after the final game of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093300-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Birmingham City F.C. season\nThey entered the 1971\u201372 FA Cup in the third round proper and progressed to the semi-final, in which they lost to Leeds United. This was the third year of five in which the losing semifinalists were required to compete in a \"Match for third place\"; following a goalless 90 minutes, Birmingham beat Stoke City in a penalty shootout, the first time this method had been used to determine the result of an FA Cup match. They lost to Queens Park Rangers in their opening match in the second round of the League Cup, and finished fourth of the six English entrants in the third staging of the Anglo-Italian Cup, a tournament held after the end of the league season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 696]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093300-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Birmingham City F.C. season\nTwenty-five players made at least one appearance in nationally organised first-team competition, and there were ten different goalscorers. Defender Roger Hynd, midfielder Alan Campbell and centre-forward Bob Latchford played in all 53 first-team matches over the season. Latchford finished as leading goalscorer with 30 goals, of which 23 came in league competition. The average attendance in Second Division matches exceeded 32,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093300-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Birmingham City F.C. season, Anglo-Italian Cup\nClubs were classified according to total points (2 for a win, 1 for a draw) added to goals scored. The top club of each national section qualified for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 54], "content_span": [55, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093301-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Blackpool F.C. season\nThe 1971\u201372 season was Blackpool F.C. 's 64th season (61st consecutive) in the Football League. They competed in the 22-team Division Two, then the second tier of English football, finishing sixth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093301-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Blackpool F.C. season\nBlackpool's defence of the Anglo-Italian Cup ended in the final against A.S. Roma at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome. The home side won 3\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093301-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Blackpool F.C. season\nMicky Burns was the club's top scorer for the second consecutive season, with twenty goals (seventeen in the league and three in the League Cup).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093302-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Boise State Broncos men's basketball team\nThe 1971\u201372 Boise State Broncos men's basketball team represented Boise State College during the 1971\u201372 NCAA University Division basketball season. The Broncos were led by seventh-year head coach Murray Satterfield, and played their home games on campus at Bronco Gymnasium in Boise, Idaho.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093302-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Boise State Broncos men's basketball team\nThey finished the regular season at 14\u201312 overall, with a 7\u20137 record in the Big Sky Conference, tied for fifth in the standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093302-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Boise State Broncos men's basketball team\nNo Broncos were named to the all-conference team, though four were honorable mention: guard Booker Brown and forwards Greg Bunn, Bill Cottrell, and Steve Wallace.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093302-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Boise State Broncos men's basketball team\nThere was no conference tournament, which debuted four years later in 1976.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093303-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Boston Bruins season\nThe 1971\u201372 Boston Bruins season was the Bruins' 48th season in the NHL. For the second time in three years, the Bruins won the Stanley Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093303-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Boston Bruins season, Playoffs\nBoston defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs 4\u20131 and the St. Louis Blues 4\u20130 to advance to the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093304-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Boston Celtics season\nThe 1971\u201372 NBA season was the Celtics' 26th season in the NBA. The Celtics qualified for the playoffs for the first time in 3 seasons, and won the Atlantic Division for the 1st time in franchise history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093305-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Boston University Terriers men's ice hockey season\nThe 1971\u201372 Boston University Terriers men's ice hockey team represented Boston University in college ice hockey. In its 10th year under head coach Jack Kelley the team compiled a 26\u20134\u20131 record and reached the NCAA tournament for the eighth time. The Terriers defeated Cornell 4\u20130 in the championship game at the Boston Garden in Boston, Massachusetts to win their second consecutive national championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093305-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Boston University Terriers men's ice hockey season, Season, Fast Start\nComing on the heels of their first national championship, Boston University opened their season in a brand new home rink, the Walter Brown Arena. The Terriers would no longer have to share their home ice with Northeastern and christened their new home with a win over Yale. BU visited Brown for their next game and shut out the opposition for the first of four times on the season. The Terriers returned home and escaped with a narrow 2\u20131 win over New Hampshire then welcomed Harvard four days later and the two Boston powerhouses fought to a 4\u20134 draw. The Terriers rounded out the first part of the schedule with a pair of wins, the first at Princeton and then home against Ohio, the only ever meeting between the two schools.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 78], "content_span": [79, 806]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093305-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Boston University Terriers men's ice hockey season, Season, Holiday Tournaments\nWith the Boston Arena Christmas Tournament now retired, BU signed on to play in both the ECAC Christmas Tournament and the Syracuse Invitational over their winter break. In the ECAC series Boston University opened against Northeastern and downed the hapless Huskies 4\u20131 to advance. The Terriers then faced Rensselaer in the final and dominated the competition to get their second shutout on the season and capture the tournament crown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 87], "content_span": [88, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093305-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Boston University Terriers men's ice hockey season, Season, Holiday Tournaments\nJust before the first of the year the Terriers headed to Syracuse and took on Minnesota for a rematch of the previous year's national championship. The Gophers put up a much better fight and the two squads fought to a 3\u20133 tie after 60 minutes. Because this was a tournament game, however, the two teams would continue until someone scored the deciding goal. In the end it was the Terriers who came out victorious and earned the right to face Cornell for the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 87], "content_span": [88, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093305-0003-0001", "contents": "1971\u201372 Boston University Terriers men's ice hockey season, Season, Holiday Tournaments\nFrom the start it was apparent that BU was the better team but even with the Terriers outshooting the Big Red 12\u20135 it was Cornell who scored first. A power play goal mid-way through the second allowed BU to the tie the game followed by a second marker 4 minutes later. BU continued to out chance their opponent but Dan Brady faltered n the third and allowed two goals on only six shots while Dave Elenbaas shut the door on Kelley's boys to take the championship and improve to 7\u20130 on the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 87], "content_span": [88, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093305-0004-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Boston University Terriers men's ice hockey season, Season, Holiday Tournaments\nThe loss to Cornell was only a minor setback for the Terriers but they had already suffered a big loss when after an exhibition game against the US Olympic Team co-starting goalie Tim Regan was lured away to play for the national team. With the Terriers still had the starter from the previous year's championship team in Brady, the duo had split the BU net for the previous two seasons and the Terriers were entering uncharted waters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 87], "content_span": [88, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093305-0005-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Boston University Terriers men's ice hockey season, Season, Life Without Regan\nThe Terriers returned to their regular season with an easy game against College Division Merrimack then hit the road to take on Clarkson, and were soundly beaten by the Golden Knights 2\u20136. BU rebounded the next night against St. Lawrence before returning home to take on cross-town nemesis Boston College. After defeating the Eagles BU welcomed in two College Division opponents and despite receiving a tough game from eventual ECAC 2 champion Massachusetts, the Terriers were in the midst of a win streak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 86], "content_span": [87, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093305-0006-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Boston University Terriers men's ice hockey season, Season, Life Without Regan\nAfter wins at Providence and home against Saint Louis Regan returned to the team. In his agreement to play for the national team head coach Murray Williamson would allow Regan to return to BU if Regan was not going to be the starter for the team at the Olympics. When the team decided to stick with Mike Curran and Peter Sears Regan left in the middle of the games to rejoin the Terriers, but with the squad streaking Dan Brady remained in goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 86], "content_span": [87, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093305-0007-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Boston University Terriers men's ice hockey season, Season, Beanpot\nBoston University opened the 20th Beanpot with a 4\u20132 win over BC in the semifinal and, after a narrow victory over New Hampshire, the tournament concluded with the Terriers taking down Harvard 4\u20131 for their seventh title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 75], "content_span": [76, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093305-0008-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Boston University Terriers men's ice hockey season, Season, Beanpot\nAfter running their win streak to 11 games the third meeting with Boston College ended with a loss and the worst defensive performance all season. The loss was even more damaging for BU since it meant that Cornell, who had lost three conference games since the earlier meeting of the two teams, was now in a virtual tie with the Terriers for the top spot in the ECAC Tournament. After winning at home against Providence BU ended their season with a rematch against the Big Red. While Cornell still had one more game to play after the meeting, if the Terriers won the game they would guarantee themselves the ECAC championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 75], "content_span": [76, 702]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093305-0009-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Boston University Terriers men's ice hockey season, Season, Beanpot\nThe Big Red opened the scoring once more and, after BU tied the game, Cornell extended their lead to two with goals early in the second and third period. Brady played much better in the second meeting and allowed Boston University to close the gap with a power play marker mid-way through the third but Elenbaas shut the door the rest of the way and Cornell won the ECAC championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 75], "content_span": [76, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093305-0010-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Boston University Terriers men's ice hockey season, Season, ECAC Tournament\nBU entered the tournament as the second seed and met Rensselaer in the first round. As they had the year before the Terriers easily dispatched the Engineers to advance to the semifinal round at the Boston Garden. Boston University faced Harvard for the third time and finally, after five years of trying, BU was able to return to the ECAC championship game with a 3\u20131 win. In their way stood only Cornell and this time the Terriers were ready.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 83], "content_span": [84, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093305-0010-0001", "contents": "1971\u201372 Boston University Terriers men's ice hockey season, Season, ECAC Tournament\nBU were the ones who started the scoring, getting a goal past Elenbaas less than 90 seconds into the contest and again with under three to play in the first. The BU defense helped Brady by limiting the Big Red to only 5 shots in the opening frame. Cornell was able to cut the lead in half late in the second period but BU reestablished their 2-goal advantage less than two minutes later. The Terriers increased their lead early in the third while Brady shut all further opportunities down and the Terriers won their first ECAC Tournament championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 83], "content_span": [84, 635]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093305-0011-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Boston University Terriers men's ice hockey season, Season, NCAA Tournament\nBU was looking to become the first eastern team to defend its national championship but their efforts were dealt a tremendous blow just two days before the championship began when Dan Brady was felled by a knee injury. Regan, who had played only spot duty over the previous six weeks, was the Terriers' only hope of repeating and when they faced Wisconsin in the semifinal things looked bleak early.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 83], "content_span": [84, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093305-0011-0001", "contents": "1971\u201372 Boston University Terriers men's ice hockey season, Season, NCAA Tournament\nRegan allowed Wisconsin to score a soft goal early in the game but after the rude welcome the Terriers buckled down and insulated their netminder while he got skating legs under him. Once Regan recovered his form the Terriers were able to go on the offensive and score the next four goals to skate away with the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 83], "content_span": [84, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093305-0012-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Boston University Terriers men's ice hockey season, Season, NCAA Tournament\nIn the final game BU was once again pitted against Cornell but after being one of the few teams that could beat the Big Red in the past five years, BU was not afraid of the Ithaca powerhouse. Cornell got off to a good start and outshot the Terriers in the first but an ill-advised penalty from Gordon McCormick gave BU their first power play of the game and Ron Anderson capitalized. The game remained that way for over 20 minutes before BU potted their second man-advantage marker, this time from Ric Jordan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 83], "content_span": [84, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093305-0012-0001", "contents": "1971\u201372 Boston University Terriers men's ice hockey season, Season, NCAA Tournament\nAll of this was happening while Cornell continued to pepper Regan with shots but none could find the back of the net. Another Anderson goal came before the two-minute mark of the third and the game appeared to be slipping away from the Big Red. Jordan's second goal with 7 minutes left gave the Terriers a near-insurmountable lead and though they were playing for pride at this point, the Terriers still could not score a goal and Regan earned the shutout to give BU the national championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 83], "content_span": [84, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093305-0013-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Boston University Terriers men's ice hockey season, Season, NCAA Tournament\nTim Regan tied the record for lowest GAA in the tournament (Ken Dryden and Gerry Powers) with a 0.50 mark and was the obvious choice for Tournament MOP. Regan was joined on the All-Tournament Team by Bob Brown, Ric Jordan and John Danby. Brown, Danby and Brady were named to the AHCA All-American East Team and, while Danby and Jordan ended up on the All-ECAC Hockey Second Team, Ric Jordan made the Second Team. Brown and Brady made the first team. Bob Brown, after tying for the team lead in scoring, received the ECAC Hockey Player of the Year, the first Terrier so honored.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 83], "content_span": [84, 661]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093305-0014-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Boston University Terriers men's ice hockey season, Season, NCAA Tournament\nJack Kelley had announced before the final that he was retiring from college hockey and his team did not fail to give him the send-off he deserved. Kelley's squad was the first (and only as of 2019) eastern team to defend it's championship and though his immediate replacement would turn out disastrously for BU, assistant coach Jack Parker would eventually assume the reins and lead the team for 40 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 83], "content_span": [84, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093306-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Bradford City A.F.C. season\nThe 1971\u201372 Bradford City A.F.C. season was the 59th in the club's history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093306-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Bradford City A.F.C. season\nThe club finished 24th in Division Three (being related to Division Four), reached the 1st round of the FA Cup, and the 1st round of the League Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093307-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Brentford F.C. season\nDuring the 1971\u201372 English football season, Brentford competed in the Football League Fourth Division. The club led the division for much of the first half of the season and 10 wins in the final 14 matches secured automatic promotion with a 3rd-place finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093307-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\nDespite the reduction of the club's debt to a manageable level and an average attendance higher than all but the top three finishers in the Third Division, Fourth Division Brentford went into the 1971\u201372 season with a squad of just 14 professionals. Long-time goalkeeper Chic Brodie was released, as was bit-part winger Brian Tawse and in came two defensive youngsters on free transfers \u2013 Terry Scales and Steven Tom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093307-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\nDespite the club record \u00a330,000 departure of Roger Cross to rivals Fulham and Alan Hawley also moving to Craven Cottage on loan, Brentford's 12-man squad met pre-season expectations in the early part of the season, holding onto top spot intermittently until a minor blip in October and November 1971. Utility player Michael Allen was signed from Middlesbrough for an \u00a38,000 fee in October and proved to be a vital cog in the midfield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093307-0002-0001", "contents": "1971\u201372 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\nThe team owed much of its success to prolific goalscoring from John O'Mara, with the centre forward reaching 20 goals for the season after a 6\u20132 thrashing of Darlington on 8 January 1972, a result which made Brentford the top scorers in the Football League and was also notable for a 13-minute hattrick from John Docherty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093307-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\nAfter another blip caused by the suspension of John O'Mara for five weeks dropped Brentford out of the promotion places, the team was buoyed by the loan signing of winger Stewart Houston and entered the final five weeks of the season strongly, winning five matches in a row in March. Two draws and a defeat over Easter threatened to drop the Bees out of the promotion places, but four successive wins meant that automatic promotion was assured with two matches to play, when captain Bobby Ross' penalty was enough to beat Exeter City at Griffin Park on 22 April. Despite going top of the Fourth Division after victory over Barrow in the following match, a 3\u20130 defeat away to Workington in the final match of the season dropped the Bees to a 3rd-place finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 804]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093307-0004-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\nBrentford finished top of the Fourth Division charts in the following statistical categories:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093308-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 British Home Championship\nThe 1971\u201372 British Home Championship was the first such Home Nations football tournament (although not the last), to suffer during The Troubles in Northern Ireland, when death threats from the Provisional Irish Republican Army were sent to the Scottish Football Association and Scottish players who were scheduled to play at Windsor Park. The surge in anti-British feeling which prompted these threats followed Bloody Sunday in January, and also resulted in the cancellation of the rugby union 1972 Five Nations Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093308-0000-0001", "contents": "1971\u201372 British Home Championship\nAs a result, Northern Ireland's home fixture was rescheduled to Hampden Park, effectively granting the Scottish team an extra home match. This was not the last time that The Troubles would interfere with the Home Championship; the 1981 British Home Championship would have to be abandoned following similar heightened tension after the death of Bobby Sands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093308-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 British Home Championship\nScotland used their home advantage well, securing victory over the Irish and Welsh to take a major points advantage into the final match against England, who had lost at home to Northern Ireland following a heavy defeat of Wales. In the last match however, England gained a slight advantage over their old rivals, winning 1\u20130 and thus equalling the tournament on points and resulting in a shared victory (goal difference was not at this stage used to differentiate between teams). The Welsh salvaged a point in their final home game to Northern Ireland, but still finished bottom of the table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 627]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093309-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 British Ice Hockey season\nThe 1971\u201372 British Ice Hockey season featured the Northern League for teams from Scotland and the north of England and the Southern League for teams from the rest of England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093309-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 British Ice Hockey season\nMurrayfield Racers won the Northern League and Sussex Senators won the Southern League. Murrayfield Racers won the Icy Smith Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093310-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Buffalo Braves season\nA pair of rookies named Smith gave Buffalo fans reason for a bright future. The Braves repeated their 22\u201360 record from their inaugural season, and occupied the Atlantic Division basement. Elmore Smith and Randy Smith each had out standing rookie seasons with Elmore averaging 17.3 points per game and 15.2 rebounds per game, while Randy added 13.4 points per game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093310-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Buffalo Braves season, Player statistics\nNote: GP= Games Played; MPG = Minutes per game; FG% = Field goal percentage; FT% = Free throw percentage; RPG = Rebounds per game; APG = Assists per game; PPG = Points per game", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093310-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Buffalo Braves season, Transactions\nThe Braves were involved in the following transactions during the 1971\u201372 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093311-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Buffalo Sabres season\nThe 1971\u201372 Buffalo Sabres season was the Buffalo Sabres second season of operation in the National Hockey League (NHL).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093311-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Buffalo Sabres season, Offseason\nAn $8.7 million (approximately $55.6\u00a0million in 2020 dollars) renovation took place after the 1970\u201371 inauguration of the Sabres and Buffalo Braves franchises. The arena's roof was raised 24 feet, making room for a new upper level. This raised the total capacity of the arena to over 17,000 for basketball and 15,858 for hockey, making it a more suitable home for the NBA and NHL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093311-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Buffalo Sabres season, Regular season\nFor the second consecutive season the Sabres had a breakout rookie performance by their first round draft pick. Rick Martin would score 44 goals breaking the NHL rookie scoring record of 38 set the previous season by Gilbert Perreault. Despite the efforts of their young phenoms the Sabres would finish with a worse record than their inaugural season and again miss the Playoffs. During the season Eddie Shack was traded to Pittsburgh for Rene Robert.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093311-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Buffalo Sabres season, Playoffs\nThe Sabres failed to make the playoffs in the 1971\u201372 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093311-0004-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Buffalo Sabres season, Awards and records\nThe Sabres were not awarded any individual or team awards in the 1971\u201372 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093311-0005-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Buffalo Sabres season, Farm teams\nFor the 1971\u201372 season Buffalo's AHL farm team was the Cincinnati Swords. In the team's inaugural season they would post a 30\u201328\u201318 record placing 3rd in the West Division which would secure a playoff berth. The first round brought the 2nd seed Hershey Bears who were swept. In the second round the Swords faced off against the 1st seed Baltimore Clippers losing the series 4\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093312-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Bulgarian Cup\nThe 1971\u201372 Bulgarian Cup was the 32nd season of the Bulgarian Cup (in this period the tournament was named Cup of the Soviet Army). CSKA Sofia won the competition, beating Slavia Sofia 3\u20130 in the final at the Vasil Levski National Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093313-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Bulgarian Hockey League season\nThe 1971\u201372 Bulgarian Hockey League season was the 20th season of the Bulgarian Hockey League, the top level of ice hockey in Bulgaria. Seven teams participated in the league, and HK CSKA Sofia won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093314-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Bundesliga\nThe 1971\u201372 Bundesliga was the ninth season of the Bundesliga, West Germany's premier football league. It began on 14 August 1971 and ended on 28 June 1972. Borussia M\u00f6nchengladbach were the defending champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093314-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Bundesliga, Competition modus\nEvery team played two games against each other team, one at home and one away. Teams received two points for a win and one point for a draw. If two or more teams were tied on points, places were determined by goal difference and, if still tied, by goals scored. The team with the most points were crowned champions while the two teams with the fewest points were relegated to their respective Regionalliga divisions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 37], "content_span": [38, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093314-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Bundesliga, Team changes to 1970\u201371\nKickers Offenbach and Rot-Weiss Essen were relegated to the Regionalliga after finishing in the last two places. They were replaced by VfL Bochum and Fortuna D\u00fcsseldorf, who won their respective promotion play-off groups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 43], "content_span": [44, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093314-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Bundesliga, Champion squad\nDefenders: Franz Beckenbauer (34 / 6); Johnny Hansen (32 / 4); Hans-Georg Schwarzenbeck (32 / 1); Paul Breitner (30 / 4); Herwart Koppenh\u00f6fer (14); G\u00fcnther Rybarczyk (4). Midfielders: Uli Hoene\u00df (34 / 13); Franz Roth (32 / 12); Rainer Zobel (32 / 4). Forwards: Gerd M\u00fcller (34 / 40); Franz Krauthausen (28 / 5); Wolfgang S\u00fchnholz (25 / 4); Edgar Schneider (23 / 2); Wilhelm Hoffmann (16 / 3); Franz Gerber (1). (league appearances and goals listed in brackets)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093314-0004-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Bundesliga, Champion squad\nOn the roster but have not played in a league game: Herbert Schr\u00f6der.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093315-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 CHL season\nThe 1971\u201372 CHL season was the ninth season of the Central Hockey League, a North American minor professional league. Six teams participated in the regular season, and the Dallas Black Hawks won the league title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093316-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 California Golden Seals season\nThe 1971\u201372 California Golden Seals season was the team's fifth in the NHL. The Seals missed the playoffs again, but posted a solid improvement over the previous season and finished sixth in the West Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093316-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 California Golden Seals season, Offseason\nIn the amateur draft, the Seals did not have a first-round pick. For their first pick, the fifteenth pick overall, in the second round, the Seals chose Ken Baird. At owner Charlie Finley's direction, the team adopted their infamous white skates this season, which were widely ridiculed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093316-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 California Golden Seals season, Player statistics, Skaters\nNote: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalties in minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093316-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 California Golden Seals season, Player statistics, Skaters\n\u2020Denotes player spent time with another team before joining Seals. Stats reflect time with the Seals only. \u2021Traded mid-season", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093316-0004-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 California Golden Seals season, Player statistics, Goaltenders\nNote: GP = Games played; TOI = Time on ice (minutes); W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; GA = Goals against; SO = Shutouts; GAA = Goals against average", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093316-0005-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 California Golden Seals season, Transactions\nThe Seals were involved in the following transactions during the 1971\u201372 season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 52], "content_span": [53, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093317-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Cambridge United F.C. season\nThe 1971\u201372 season was Cambridge United's 2nd season in the Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093318-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Cardiff City F.C. season\nThe 1971\u201372 season was Cardiff City F.C. 's 45th season in the Football League. They competed in the 22-team Division Two, then the second tier of English football, finishing nineteenth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093318-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Cardiff City F.C. season, Players\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093318-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Cardiff City F.C. season, Players\nKey:\u00a0\u00a0\u2021 On loan from another club \u00a0\u00a0* First appearance(s) for the club", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093318-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Cardiff City F.C. season, Players\nCorrect as of May 1972. Starting appearances are listed first, followed by substitute appearances in parentheses where applicable.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093319-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Carlisle United F.C. season\nFor the 1971\u201372 season, Carlisle United F.C. competed in Football League Division Two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093320-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Carolina Cougars season\nThe 1971\u201372 Carolina Cougars season was the 3rd season of the Cougars in the ABA. The team was 14\u201328 after one half of the season, with a six-game losing streak (the longest of the season) contributing to the start. They went 21\u201321 (with two instances of three game winning streaks) in the second half, but they lost the final spot in the playoffs by one game to The Floridians.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093320-0000-0001", "contents": "1971\u201372 Carolina Cougars season\nThe two teams had met up for their final match-up of the season on March 24 in Greensboro, with the Cougars having two games to play afterwards and the Floridians four, respectively. The Floridians won the game 116\u2013115 in overtime, making their record 35\u201345 and the Cougars record at 33\u201349, which meant that it was all but assured the Cougars were eliminated, due to the Floridians clinching the playoff spot four days later with their 36th win (if they had lost all of their four games, the two teams would have been tied at 35\u201349, which would've necessitated a playoff). The Cougars had missed the playoffs for the 2nd straight year in a row. The team was 5th in points scored at 114.8 per game, but 10th in points allowed at 118.1 per game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 775]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093320-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Carolina Cougars season, Awards, records, and honors\n1972 ABA All-Star Game selection (game played on January 29, 1972)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 60], "content_span": [61, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093321-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Celtic F.C. season\nDuring the 1971\u201372 Scottish football season, Celtic competed in Scottish Division One.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093322-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Challenge Cup\nThe 1971\u201372 Challenge Cup was the 71st staging of rugby league's oldest knockout competition, the Challenge Cup. The final was contested by St. Helens and Leeds at Wembley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093322-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Challenge Cup, Final\nThe final was played on Saturday 13 May 1972, in front of a crowd of 89,495. After leading 12-6 at half time, St Helens beat Leeds 16-13.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093322-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Challenge Cup, Final\nThe winner of the Lance Todd Trophy was Saints\u2019 Kel Coslett.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 89]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093322-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Challenge Cup, Final\nSt Helens scorers were Les Jones (1 try), Graham Rees (1 try), and Kel Coslett (5 goals).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093322-0004-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Challenge Cup, Final\nThis was St Helens\u2019 fourth Cup Final win in eight Final appearances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093323-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Chester F.C. season\nThe 1971\u201372 season was the 34th season of competitive association football in the Football League played by Chester, an English club based in Chester, Cheshire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093323-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Chester F.C. season\nAlso, it was the 14th season spent in the Fourth Division after its creation. Alongside competing in the Football League the club also participated in the FA Cup, Football League Cup and the Welsh Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093324-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Chicago Black Hawks season\nThe 1971\u201372 Chicago Black Hawks season was the club's 46th season in the National Hockey League, and their second consecutive first-place finish in the NHL West, with 46 victories and 107 points. In the 1972 playoffs, the Black Hawks swept the Pittsburgh Penguins in the quarter-finals before being swept by the New York Rangers in the semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093324-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Chicago Black Hawks season, Regular season\nChicago had an excellent start to the season, winning their opening five games, and never let up throughout the season, as they had an unbeaten streak of ten games in December to take control of the West Division. The Black Hawks finish the season with a twelve-game unbeaten streak to win their third straight divisional title, with a record of 46\u201317\u201315, tying the club record with 107 points that was set during the 1970\u201371 season. The Black Hawks finished 21 points ahead of the second place Minnesota North Stars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093324-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Chicago Black Hawks season, Regular season\nOffensively, the Black Hawks were led by Bobby Hull, who scored a team high 50 goals and 93 points, which placed him seventh in league scoring. Hull also led the club with a +54 rating. Pit Martin led the club with 51 assists, and finished second in team scoring with 75 points. Dennis Hull had 30 goals and 69 points, while Stan Mikita was just behind him with 26 goals and 65 points. On defense, Pat Stapleton led the club with 41 points, while Bill White and Doug Jarrett each had 29 points. Keith Magnuson led the team in penalty minutes, as he accumulated 201.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093324-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Chicago Black Hawks season, Regular season\nIn goal, Tony Esposito led the club with 31 victories and a 1.77 goals against average, along with nine shutouts while appearing in 48 games. Backup goaltender Gary Smith won 14 games with a 2.42 goals against average and five shutouts. They helped the team have an league low 166 goals against, and were awarded the Vezina Trophy for their efforts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093324-0004-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Chicago Black Hawks season, Playoffs\nThe Hawks opened the playoffs against the Pittsburgh Penguins, who had a record of 26\u201338\u201314, earning 66 points, while placing fourth in the West Division. The series opened with two games at Chicago Stadium, and the Black Hawks, who had a record of 28\u20133\u20138 at home, continued their dominance, as they defeated the Penguins 3\u20131 and 3\u20132 to take a 2\u20130 series lead. The series moved to the Pittsburgh Civic Arena for the next two games, however, it was the Black Hawks who continued to stay hot, as they shutout the Penguins 2\u20130 in the third game, and finished off the series sweep with a 6\u20135 overtime win in the fourth game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 665]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093324-0005-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Chicago Black Hawks season, Playoffs\nChicago's next opponent was the New York Rangers, who had finished the season with a 48\u201317\u201313 record, earning 109 points, and a second-place finish in the East Division. The Rangers defeated the defending Stanley Cup champions, the Montreal Canadiens in their first playoff series. Since the Black Hawks won their division, they were given home ice advantage in the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093324-0005-0001", "contents": "1971\u201372 Chicago Black Hawks season, Playoffs\nThe series opened up with two games at Chicago Stadium, however, it was the Rangers who struck first, defeating the Hawks 3\u20132, then taking the second game in Chicago by a score of 5\u20133 to take an early 2\u20130 series lead. Chicago could not get themselves back in the series, as New York won the third game 3\u20132, and the Rangers completed the sweep of the Black Hawks with a 6\u20132 thumping in the fourth game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093324-0006-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Chicago Black Hawks season, Draft picks\nChicago's draft picks at the 1971 NHL Amateur Draft held at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Quebec.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 47], "content_span": [48, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093325-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Chicago Bulls season\nThe 1971\u201372 NBA season was the Bulls' 6th season in the NBA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 89]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093326-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Cincinnati Royals season\nThe 1971\u201372 season would be the Royals final season in Cincinnati. The franchise continued to struggle and missed the playoffs for the 5th year in a row. The Royals finished the season with a record of 30 wins and 52 losses. Prior to the season, the Royals were sold to a group of 10 businessmen from Kansas City. The new ownership group paid $5 million for the franchise and a decision was reached to move the team after the season. The franchise would relocate to the Midwest where they would be reborn as the Kansas City-Omaha Kings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093327-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Cleveland Cavaliers season\nThe 1971\u201372 Cleveland Cavaliers season was the second season of NBA basketball in Cleveland, Ohio. The Cavaliers finished the season with a 23\u201359 record, finishing last in the Central Division and 7th in the Eastern Conference. Rookie top pick Austin Carr was named to the All-Rookie team and John Johnson and Butch Beard were named All-Stars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093327-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Cleveland Cavaliers season, Offseason, Trades\nAugust 13: Forward Greg Howard obtained from the Phoenix Suns in exchange for undisclosed future draft choices and an undisclosed amount of cash.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093327-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Cleveland Cavaliers season, Game log, October\nRecord: 2\u20138\u00a0; Home: 0\u20136\u00a0; Road: 1\u20132\u00a0; Neutral: 1\u20130", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093327-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Cleveland Cavaliers season, Game log, December\nRecord: 7\u201310\u00a0; Home: 5\u20134\u00a0; Road: 1\u20136\u00a0; Neutral: 1\u20130", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093327-0004-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Cleveland Cavaliers season, Game log, January\nRecord: 1\u201313\u00a0; Home: 0\u20135\u00a0; Road: 1\u20136\u00a0; Neutral: 0\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093327-0005-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Cleveland Cavaliers season, Game log, March\nRecord: 3\u201310\u00a0; Home: 1\u20135\u00a0; Road: 2\u20134\u00a0; Neutral: 0\u20131", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093328-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Clydebank F.C. season\nThe 1971\u201372 season was Clydebank's sixth season in the Scottish Football League. They competed in the Scottish League Division Two where they finished 9th in the table, Scottish League Cup where they reached the quarter-finals and Scottish Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093329-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Colchester United F.C. season\nThe 1971\u201372 season was Colchester United's 30th season in their history and their fourth successive season in the fourth tier of English football, the Fourth Division. Alongside competing in the Fourth Division, the club also participated in the FA Cup and the League Cup, as well as being entered into the pre-season Watney Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093329-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Colchester United F.C. season\nContinuing with their cup success of the previous season, Dick Graham's high-scoring side were entered into the Watney Cup, a pre-season tournament held between the two highest scoring teams in each of the four divisions in the Football League who had not achieved promotion or entered European football. Colchester defeated West Bromwich Albion in their first ever penalty shoot-out following a 4\u20134 draw at The Hawthorns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093329-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Colchester United F.C. season\nColchester reached the third round of the League Cup, where they were knocked out by Blackpool, and were eliminated from the FA Cup in the first round by Shrewsbury Town. Meanwhile, the U's ended their league campaign in eleventh position, nine points away from promotion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093329-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Colchester United F.C. season, Season overview\nColchester's goalscoring exploits of the previous campaign enabled qualification for the 1971\u201372 pre-season Watney Cup competition, open to the two highest scoring teams from each division, exclusively for teams that had not achieved promotion or entered into European competition. Both Luton Town and Carlisle United were beaten at Layer Road ahead of the final, held against West Bromwich Albion at their Hawthorns stadium. The encounter registered four goals apiece, taking the fixture to a penalty shoot-out. Albion missed two penalties, while Colchester youngster Phil Bloss scored the decisive spot kick to win the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 54], "content_span": [55, 688]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093329-0004-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Colchester United F.C. season, Season overview\nAlthough early favourites for promotion, a club debt of over \u00a321,000 meant that manager Dick Graham needed to inject youth into his ageing side, bringing apprentices Steve Leslie, Steve Foley, Lindsay Smith, Micky Cook and John McLaughlin to name but a few into the first-team picture during the season. All became regulars but youth alone was not sufficient for Colchester to maintain a promotion push as they finished the season in eleventh position, nine points adrift of promotion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 54], "content_span": [55, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093329-0005-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Colchester United F.C. season, Season overview\nMeanwhile, Colchester experienced a brief run in the League Cup, defeating Brentford and Swindon Town at Layer Road in the first and second rounds respectively, but were heavily beaten at Blackpool in round three. An early exit in the FA Cup followed. After reaching the quarter-final stage last season, the U's were humbled 4\u20131 at home to Shrewsbury Town in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 54], "content_span": [55, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093329-0006-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Colchester United F.C. season, Squad statistics, Player debuts\nPlayers making their first-team Colchester United debut in a fully competitive match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093330-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Connecticut Huskies men's basketball team\nThe 1971\u201372 Connecticut Huskies men's basketball team represented the University of Connecticut in the 1971\u201372 collegiate men's basketball season. The Huskies completed the season with an 8\u201317 overall record. The Huskies were members of the Yankee Conference, where they ended the season with a 5\u20135 record. The Huskies played their home games at Hugh S. Greer Field House in Storrs, Connecticut, and were led by third-year head coach Dee Rowe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093331-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Copa del General\u00edsimo\nThe 1971\u201372 Copa del General\u00edsimo was the 70th staging of the Spanish Cup. The competition began on 24 October 1971 and concluded on 8 July 1972 with the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093332-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Coppa Italia\nThe 1971\u201372 Coppa Italia was the 25th Coppa Italia, the major Italian domestic cup. The competition was won by Milan, who defeated Napoli in a one-legged final played at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093333-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Coupe de France\nThe 1971\u201372 Coupe de France was its 55th edition. It was won by Olympique de Marseille which defeated SEC Bastia in the Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093334-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Cuban National Series\nThe eleventh season of Cuba's primary amateur baseball league ended with a repeat champion. For the second straight year, Azucareros won the Cuban National Series, defeating Mineros 2-1 games in best-of-three-playoffs after the teams tied for the best record in the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093334-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Cuban National Series, Trivia\nMineros put together a 25-game winning streak during the season, while Matanzas lost 25 in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093335-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Cupa Rom\u00e2niei\nThe 1970\u201371 Cupa Rom\u00e2niei was the 34th edition of Romania's most prestigious football cup competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093335-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Cupa Rom\u00e2niei\nThe title was won by Rapid Bucure\u0219ti against Jiul Petro\u015fani.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 82]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093335-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Cupa Rom\u00e2niei, Format\nIn the first round proper, two pots were made, first pot with Divizia A teams and other teams till 16 and the second pot with the rest of teams qualified in this phase. Each tie is played as a single leg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093335-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Cupa Rom\u00e2niei, Format\nFirst round proper matches are played on the ground of the lowest ranked team, then from the second round proper the matches are played on a neutral location.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093335-0004-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Cupa Rom\u00e2niei, Format\nIn the first round proper, if a match is drawn after 90 minutes, the game goes in extra time, and if the scored is still tight after 120 minutes, the team who played away will qualify.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093335-0005-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Cupa Rom\u00e2niei, Format\nIn the second round proper, if a match is drawn after 90 minutes, the game goes in extra time, and if the scored is still tight after 120 minutes, then the team from the lower division will qualify. If the teams are from the same division, the younger team will qualify.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093335-0006-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Cupa Rom\u00e2niei, Format\nIn the semi-finals, if a match is drawn after 90 minutes, the game goes in extra time, and if the scored is still tight after 120 minutes, the winner will be established at penalty kicks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093335-0007-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Cupa Rom\u00e2niei, Format\nFrom the first edition, the teams from Divizia A entered in competition in sixteen finals, rule which remained till today.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093336-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Cypriot Cup\nThe 1971\u201372 Cypriot Cup was the 30th edition of the Cypriot Cup. A total of 32 clubs entered the competition. It began on 15 April 1972 with the first round and concluded on 12 June 1972 with the final which was held at GSP Stadium. Omonia won their 2nd Cypriot Cup trophy after beating Pezoporikos Larnaca 3\u20131 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093336-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Cypriot Cup, Format\nIn the 1971\u201372 Cypriot Cup, participated all the teams of the Cypriot First Division, the Cypriot Second Division and 8 of the 11 teams of the Cypriot Third Division (first eight of the league table; cup took place after the end of the league).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093336-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Cypriot Cup, Format\nThe competition consisted of five knock-out rounds. In all rounds each tie was played as a single leg and was held at the home ground of the one of the two teams, according to the draw results. Each tie winner was qualifying to the next round. If a match was drawn, extra time was following. If extra time was drawn, there was a replay at the ground of the team who were away for the first game. If the rematch was also drawn, then extra time was following and if the match remained drawn after extra time the winner was decided by penalty shoot-out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093336-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Cypriot Cup, Format\nThe cup winner secured a place in the 1972\u201373 European Cup Winners' Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093336-0004-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Cypriot Cup, First round\nAt the first round the Cypriot First Division teams were not drawn together.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093337-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Cypriot First Division, Overview\nIt was contested by 12 teams, and AC Omonia won the championship. Olympiakos Nicosia participated in the Greek championship as the previous year's champions. They finished in 18th position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093338-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Cypriot Second Division\nThe 1971\u201372 Cypriot Second Division was the 17st season of the Cypriot second-level football league. Evagoras Paphos won their 2nd title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093338-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Cypriot Second Division, Format\nFourteen teams participated in the 1971\u201372 Cypriot Second Division. All teams played against each other twice, once at their home and once away. The team with the most points at the end of the season crowned champions. The first three teams were promoted to 1972\u201373 Cypriot First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093338-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Cypriot Second Division, Changes from previous season\nMoreover, Enosis Panelliniou-Antaeus Limassol (EPAL) absorbed from Aris Limassol FC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093339-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Cypriot Third Division\nThe 1971\u201372 Cypriot Third Division was the 2nd season of the Cypriot third-level football league. Ethnikos Asteras Limassol won their 1st title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093339-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Cypriot Third Division, Format\nEleven teams participated in the 1971\u201372 Cypriot Third Division. All teams played against each other twice, once at their home and once away. The team with the most points at the end of the season crowned champions. The first four teams were promoted to 1972\u201373 Cypriot Second Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093339-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Cypriot Third Division, Format, Point system\nTeams received two points for a win, one point for a draw and zero points for a loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093340-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Czechoslovak Extraliga season\nThe 1971\u201372 Czechoslovak Extraliga season was the 29th season of the Czechoslovak Extraliga, the top level of ice hockey in Czechoslovakia. 10 teams participated in the league, and Dukla Jihlava won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093341-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Czechoslovak First League, Overview\nIt was contested by 16 teams, and Spartak Trnava won the championship. J\u00e1n \u010capkovi\u010d was the league's top scorer with 19 goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093342-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 DDR-Oberliga\nThe 1971\u201372 DDR-Oberliga was the 23rd season of the DDR-Oberliga, the first tier of league football in East Germany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093342-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 DDR-Oberliga\nThe league was contested by fourteen teams. 1. FC Magdeburg won the championship, the club's first of three East German championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093342-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 DDR-Oberliga\nHans-J\u00fcrgen Kreische of Dynamo Dresden was the league's top scorer with 14 goals, the second of a record four top scorer finishes for Kreische, while J\u00fcrgen Croy of BSG Sachsenring Zwickau won the seasons East German Footballer of the year award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093342-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 DDR-Oberliga\nOn the strength of the 1971\u201372 title Magdeburg qualified for the 1972\u201373 European Cup where the club was knocked out by Juventus in the second round. Fourth-placed club FC Carl Zeiss Jena qualified for the 1972\u201373 European Cup Winners' Cup as the seasons FDGB-Pokal winners and was knocked out by Leeds United in the second round. Second-placed BFC Dynamo qualified for the 1972\u201373 UEFA Cup where it was knocked out in the third round by Liverpool F.C. while third-placed Dynamo Dresden lost to the same club in the quarter finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093342-0004-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 DDR-Oberliga\nBefore the start of the season National People's Army club FC Vorw\u00e4rts Berlin, based in East Berlin, was moved to Frankfurt/Oder to become FC Vorw\u00e4rts Frankfurt/Oder for political reasons. Vorw\u00e4rts had been quite a popular club with East Berlin football supporters but was seen as an obstacle to the ambitions of BFC Dynamo, which was supported by the Ministry for State Security and its head Erich Mielke. The relocation was allegedly driven by Erich Mielke, who wanted to create better sporting conditions for BFC Dynamo in East Berlin, and his fellow Politburo member and SED First Secretary in Bezirk Frankfurt Erich M\u00fcckenberger, who anticipated a boost for the Frankfurt/Oder region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 710]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093342-0005-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 DDR-Oberliga, Table\nThe 1971\u201372 season saw two newly promoted clubs FC Karl-Marx-Stadt and ASG Vorw\u00e4rts Stralsund.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 27], "content_span": [28, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093343-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 DDR-Oberliga (ice hockey) season\nThe 1971\u201372 DDR-Oberliga season was the 24th season of the DDR-Oberliga, the top level of ice hockey in East Germany. Two teams participated in the league, and SG Dynamo Wei\u00dfwasser won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093344-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 DFB-Pokal\nThe 1971\u201372 DFB-Pokal was the 29th season of the annual German football cup competition. It began on 4 December 1971 and ended on 1 July 1972. 32 teams competed in the tournament of five rounds. In the final Schalke 04 defeated 1. FC Kaiserslautern 5\u20130, the largest margin by which a DFB-Pokal final was ever decided.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093344-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 DFB-Pokal, Mode\nThe tournament consisted of five rounds. In each round other than the final the games were held over two legs, with the team winning on aggregate advancing to the next round. In case the score was level after two legs, the second game was extended by 30 minutes of extra time. If still no winner could be determined a Penalty shoot-out decided which team advanced to the next round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 23], "content_span": [24, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093344-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 DFB-Pokal, Mode\nThe final was held over one leg with 30 minutes of extra time in case the game was a draw after regular time. If the score was still level the game was replayed with 30 minutes of extra time in case of another draw. If still no winner could be determined, a penalty shoot-out decided the winner of the cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 23], "content_span": [24, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093345-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Dallas Chaparrals season\nThe 1971\u201372 Dallas Chaparrals season was the fifth season of the Chaparrals in the American Basketball Association. For the third straight season, the Chaps lost to the Stars in the Semifinals. This was the final playoff appearance for the team in Dallas before the move to San Antonio in 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093345-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Dallas Chaparrals season, Awards and honors\n1972 ABA All-Star Game selections (game played on January 29, 1972)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 51], "content_span": [52, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093346-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Danish 1. division season\nThe 1971\u201372 Danish 1. division season was the 15th season of ice hockey in Denmark. Ten teams participated in the league, and KSF Copenhagen won the championship. T\u00e5rnby was relegated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093347-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Denver Rockets season\nThe 1971\u201372 ABA season was the fifth season of the Denver Rockets. They finished 34-50, but managed to qualify for the fourth and final playoff spot in the five team Western Division by eight games. They went the distance with the Pacers, who went on to be the eventual ABA champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093348-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Derby County F.C. season\nThe 1971\u201372 season was Derby County's 72nd in the Football League and their 45th season in the top flight. They won their first ever league title to qualify for the 1972\u201373 European Cup, as well as winning the Texaco Cup. In addition, their reserve side won the Central League for the first time since 1936.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093348-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Derby County F.C. season, Season summary\nDerby began the season with an unbeaten League run of five wins and seven draws although they did exit the League Cup at the second round stage, beaten 2\u20130 in a replay at Leeds. Defeat at leaders Manchester United in their 13th match triggered a period of inconsistent league form that saw Derby lose five times in 11 matches, the last at Elland Road just after Christmas, but they lost just one of their next 13 and a 2\u20130 victory against Leeds at the Baseball Ground over Easter took them to the top of the table. They remained there despite losing to Newcastle in the next match, their only home defeat of the season, and then drawing with West Bromwich Albion but had now played a game more than the three teams below them (Leeds, Liverpool and Manchester City) with only two points separating the four.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 855]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093348-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Derby County F.C. season, Season summary\nTwo victories followed but defeat at Manchester City in their penultimate match of the campaign saw Derby slip to third with the title race still wide open. City, having completed their fixtures, now led the table on 57 points but could no longer win the league, with Derby and second-placed Liverpool both a point behind and separated only by goal average. Crucially, the two would meet at the Baseball Ground in Derby's final match although the Reds still had a further game in hand. Leeds lay fourth on 55 points, also with two matches remaining and a superior goal average to the other challengers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 651]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093348-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Derby County F.C. season, Season summary\nDerby ended their season by beating Liverpool 1\u20130, John McGovern netting the winner, leaving them on 58 points with Leeds (who beat Chelsea 2\u20130 on the same night) on 57 and Liverpool on 56. Derby's destiny was not in their own hands and they left the country to escape the pressure - Brian Clough holidayed with his family in the Isles of Scilly while Peter Taylor went to Majorca with the players. Leeds needed a draw and Liverpool a win to overtake Derby.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093348-0004-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Derby County F.C. season, Season summary\nIn the event, Wolverhampton Wanderers beat Leeds 2\u20131 at Molineux and Liverpool could only manage a 0\u20130 draw at Arsenal. The league was unusually close throughout the campaign and the final table saw Derby champions just one point ahead of the teams in 2nd (Leeds), 3rd (Liverpool) and 4th (City).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093348-0005-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Derby County F.C. season, Season summary\nClough had built a balanced team at Derby, one in which every player knew his job. They rarely swept away the opposition, instead building on the foundations of a strong defence, although there were some memorable performances, notably in 4\u20130 defeats of Stoke and Nottingham Forest at the Baseball Ground and away to Sheffield United.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093348-0006-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Derby County F.C. season, Season summary\nAlthough Derby reached the FA Cup fifth round, losing 1\u20130 to eventual runners-up Arsenal in a second replay at Filbert Street, their primary cup success for 1971\u201372 came in the Texaco Cup, a competition between sixteen English, Scottish and Irish clubs who were not in European competition. With home gates consistently over 20,000, Derby beat Dundee United (8\u20135 on aggregate), Stoke (4\u20133 agg.) and Newcastle (4\u20132 agg.) before playing Airdrieonians in the final. After a 0\u20130 draw at Broomfield Park, Derby beat their Scottish opponents 2\u20131 in the second leg at the Baseball Ground with Roger Davies, signed for \u00a312,000 the previous summer from non-league Worcester City, grabbing the decisive goal to give Derby their second cup win in as many seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 801]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093348-0007-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Derby County F.C. season, Season summary\nRecord signing defender Colin Todd claimed the club's Player of the Year while Alan Hinton finished the season as top scorer with 15 goals. Kevin Hector netted his 100th for the club in a 6\u20130 FA Cup fourth round win over Notts County and Alan Durban became the club's most capped international, overtaking Sammy Crooks, with his 27th and final appearance for Wales. Steve Powell became Derby's youngest ever player, a record he held for almost 30 years, when he made his debut in a Texaco Cup tie against Stoke aged just 16 years and 30 days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093349-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Detroit Pistons season\nFollowing are the results of the 1971\u201372 season of the Detroit Pistons, the franchise of the National Basketball Association based in Detroit, Michigan. The 1971-72 NBA season was the Pistons' 24th season in the NBA and 15th season in the city of Detroit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093350-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Detroit Red Wings season\nThe 1971\u201372 Detroit Red Wings season was Marcel Dionne's rookie season. The Red Wings placed fifth to miss the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093350-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Detroit Red Wings season, Regular season\nHead coach Doug Barkley won just 3 of the first 11 games before being replaced by Johnny Wilson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093350-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Detroit Red Wings season, Regular season\nDuring his first season for Detroit in 1971\u201372, Marcel Dionne set an NHL record for scoring by a rookie with 77 points. This record has since been surpassed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093350-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Detroit Red Wings season, Player statistics, Forwards\nNote: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalty minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 61], "content_span": [62, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093350-0004-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Detroit Red Wings season, Player statistics, Defencemen\nNote: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalty minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 63], "content_span": [64, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093350-0005-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Detroit Red Wings season, Player statistics, Goaltending\nNote: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; SO = Shutouts; GA = Goals against; GAA = Goals against average", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 64], "content_span": [65, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093350-0006-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Detroit Red Wings season, Transactions\nThe Red Wings were involved in the following transactions during the 1971\u201372 season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093351-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Divizia A\nThe 1971\u201372 Divizia A was the fifty-fourth season of Divizia A, the top-level football league of Romania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093351-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Divizia A, Champion squad\nGoalkeepers: Daniel Ariciu (1 / 0); Vasile Stan (29 / 0); Spiridon Niculescu (1 / 0). Defenders: Marcel Pigulea (27 / 0); Dumitru Ciolan (16 / 0); Ion Barbu (16 / 0); Constantin Olteanu (20 / 1); Remus Vlad (30 / 0); Petre Ivan (29 / 0); Constantin Nedelcu (1 / 0). Midfielders: Ion Prepurgel (28 / 4); Marian Popescu (30 / 2); \u0218tefan Dumitru (7 / 0). Forwards: Ion Dobrescu (16 / 1); Constantin Radu (27 / 9); Ion Ro\u0219u (17 / 4); Nicolae Dobrin (23 / 15); Radu Jercan (29 / 8); Emil Dumitru (9 / 0); Mihai Ciornoav\u0103 (2 / 0); Constantin Fr\u0103\u021bil\u0103 (17 / 7). (league appearances and goals listed in brackets)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 33], "content_span": [34, 640]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093352-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Divizia B\nThe 1971\u201372 Divizia B was the 32nd season of the second tier of the Romanian football league system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093352-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Divizia B\nThe format has been maintained to two series, each of them having 16 teams. At the end of the season the winners of the series promoted to Divizia A and the last two places from each series relegated to Divizia C.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093353-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Divizia C\nThe 1971\u201372 Divizia C was the 16th season of Liga III, the third tier of the Romanian football league system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093353-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Divizia C, Team changes, Renamed teams\nPenicilina Ia\u0219i was renamed as Unirea Ia\u0219i. Rar\u0103ul C\u00e2mpulung Moldovenesc was renamed as ASA C\u00e2mpulung Moldovenesc. Muncitorul Tecuci was renamed as URA Tecuci. Electronica Bucure\u0219ti was renamed as Electronica Obor Bucure\u0219ti. Unirea Bucure\u0219ti was renamed as Unirea Tricolor Bucure\u0219ti. FC Caracal was renamed as R\u0103s\u0103ritul Caracal. Gloria Slatina was renamed as Oltul Slatina. Lemnarul Odorheiu Secuiesc was renamed as Textila Odorheiu Secuiesc. Gloria Mija was renamed as Metalul Mija. Chimistul Baia Mare was renamed as Topitorul Baia Mare.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 46], "content_span": [47, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093353-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Divizia C, Team changes, Other teams\nMetalul Buz\u0103u was replaced by the newly formed Gloria Buz\u0103u. Unirea Bujoreni was replaced by the newly formed Oltul R\u00e2mnicu V\u00e2lcea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 44], "content_span": [45, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093354-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Drexel Dragons men's basketball team\nThe 1971\u201372 Drexel Dragons men's basketball team represented Drexel University during the 1971\u201372 men's basketball season. The Dragons, led by 1st year head coach Ray Haesler, played their home games at the 32nd Street Armory and were members of the University\u2013Eastern division of the Middle Atlantic Conferences (MAC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093354-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Drexel Dragons men's basketball team\nThe team finished the season 11\u201314, and finished in 4th place in the MAC University\u2013Eastern Division in the regular season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093354-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Drexel Dragons men's basketball team\nOn January 5, 1972, Steve Lilly set the Drexel team record for most rebounds in a single game, recording 30 rebounds against Muhlenberg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093355-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team\nThe 1971\u201372 Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team represented Duke University in the 1971\u201372 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The head coach was Bucky Waters and the team finished the season with an overall record of 14\u201312 and did not qualify for the NCAA tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093356-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Duleep Trophy\nThe 1971\u201372 Duleep Trophy was the 11th season of the Duleep Trophy, a first-class cricket tournament contested by five zonal teams of India: Central Zone, East Zone, North Zone, South Zone and West Zone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093356-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Duleep Trophy\nCentral Zone won the title, defeating West Zone in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 83]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093357-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Dumbarton F.C. season\nThe 1971\u201372 season was the 88th football season in which Dumbarton competed at a Scottish national level, entering the Scottish Football League, the Scottish Cup and the Scottish League Cup. In addition Dumbarton competed in the Drybrough Cup and the Stirlingshire Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093357-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Dumbarton F.C. season, Scottish Second Division\nAfter fifty years of trying, Dumbarton at last gained promotion back to the top flight of Scottish League football, by winning the Division 2 title - their first national championship win in 60 years. However, it was not all plain sailing. With just 3 points from the first 6 games, all was not looking good at the start of the campaign, but a single defeat in the next 14 games put Dumbarton back on track.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093357-0001-0001", "contents": "1971\u201372 Dumbarton F.C. season, Scottish Second Division\nWhen the final game arrived against Berwick Rangers, only a win could secure the championship, while a draw would confirm promotion, with a defeat consigning Dumbarton to another season in the lower division. All went well in front of a massive 9,000 home crowd - a 4-2 win being recorded and First Division football next season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093357-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Dumbarton F.C. season, Scottish League Cup\nThe League Cup at the start of the season was, for some unknown reason, a complete disaster. After the previous season's success and a full squad to choose from, Dumbarton were unable to bring about a repeat, and with a single win and a draw from the six sectional games, there was to be no further interest in the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093357-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Dumbarton F.C. season, Scottish Cup\nIn the Scottish Cup, Dumbarton lost out to Raith Rovers in the fourth round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093357-0004-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Dumbarton F.C. season, Drybrough Cup\nThe season commenced with a new sponsored competition - the Drybrough Cup - played for by the four top scoring sides from the two divisions in the previous season. As top scorers in the Second Division, Dumbarton were matched up against the First Division's top scorers, Celtic in the first round, and it was the Glasgow side who advanced to the next round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093357-0005-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Dumbarton F.C. season, Stirlingshire Cup\nLocally, in the Stirlingshire Cup, Dumbarton were knocked out in the first round by Alloa Athletic, on penalties after a drawn game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093357-0006-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Dumbarton F.C. season, Player statistics, Transfers\nAmongst those players joining and leaving the club were the following:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093357-0007-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Dumbarton F.C. season, Reserve team\nFor the second season running, Dumbarton competed in the Combined Reserve League. Results were mixed and as with the previous season, reporting of results was scarce, nonetheless it is known that the league was never competed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093358-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Dundee F.C. season\nThe 1971\u201372 season was the 70th season in which Dundee competed at a Scottish national level, playing in Division One, where the club would finish in 5th place for the second consecutive season. Domestically, Dundee would also compete in both the Scottish League Cup and the Scottish Cup, where they would get knocked out in the group stages of the League Cup, and by Celtic in the 4th round of the Scottish Cup. Dundee would also compete in the UEFA Cup, where they would reach the 3rd round before being eliminated by A.C. Milan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093358-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Dundee F.C. season\nFor the first time since the 1945\u201346 season, and the first time in the Scottish Football League since the 1901\u201302 season, Dundee would switch their primary colours from navy blue to white. The change however proved unpopular, and it would be the last season to date where the club alternated from their traditional home colours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093359-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Dundee United F.C. season\nThe 1971\u201372 season was the 63rd year of football played by Dundee United, and covers the period from 1 July 1971 to 30 June 1972. United finished in ninth place in the First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093359-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Dundee United F.C. season, Match results\nDundee United played a total of 43 competitive matches during the 1971\u201372 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093359-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Dundee United F.C. season, Match results, Legend\nAll results are written with Dundee United's score first. Own goals in italics", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093360-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Eerste Divisie\nThe Dutch Eerste Divisie (English: First Division) in the 1971\u201372 season was contested by 21 teams, five more than in the previous year. Due to the disbandment of the Tweede Divisie, six teams were promoted to the Eerste Divisie; the rest of the teams returned to amateur football. As a result of the disbandment, teams no longer could relegate to lower leagues. HFC Haarlem won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093361-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Ekstraklasa\nThe 1971\u201372 I liga was the 46th season of the Polish Football Championship and the 38th season of the I liga, the top Polish professional league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 1927. The league was operated by the Polish Football Association (PZPN).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093361-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Ekstraklasa\nThe defending champions were G\u00f3rnik Zabrze, who won their 10th Polish title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093361-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Ekstraklasa, Competition modus\nThe season started on 7 August 1971 and concluded on 28 June 1972 (autumn-spring league). The season was played as a round-robin tournament. The team at the top of the standings won the league title. A total of 14 teams participated, 12 of which competed in the league during the 1970\u201371 season, while the remaining two were promoted from the 1970\u201371 II liga. Each team played a total of 26 matches, half at home and half away, two games against each other team. Teams received two points for a win and one point for a draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093362-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Eredivisie\nThe Dutch Eredivisie in the 1971\u201372 season was contested by 18 teams. Ajax won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093363-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Eredivisie (ice hockey) season\nThe 1971\u201372 Eredivisie season was the 12th season of the Eredivisie, the top level of ice hockey in the Netherlands. Ten teams participated in the league, and the Tilburg Trappers won the championship. Three Belgian teams took part in the league this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093364-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Essex Senior Football League\nThe 1971\u201372 Essex Senior Football League season was the first in the history of Essex Senior Football League, a football competition in England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093365-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 European Cup\nThe 1971\u201372 season of the European Cup football club tournament was won for the second consecutive time by Ajax, who beat Internazionale in the final. Ajax qualified as the current holders of the European Cup, not as the current national league champion. This was the second year in a row that the European Cup had two Dutch clubs compete.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093365-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 European Cup, Second round, First leg\nThis game was annulled as Inter player Roberto Boninsegna was hit by a Coca-Cola can in the 29th minute. The first leg game was replayed after the game that was originally scheduled to be second leg was played, thus the order of legs was switched.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093365-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 European Cup, Semi-finals, Second leg\nDuring the shoot-out, teams had to take all five penalties even if they could no no longer win (the shoot-out would otherwise have ended with a score of 5\u20133 as Inter went first).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093366-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 European Cup (handball)\nThe 1971\u201372 European Cup was the 12th edition of Europe's premier club handball tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093367-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 European Cup Winners' Cup\nThe 1971\u201372 season of the European Cup Winners' Cup football club tournament was won by Rangers, who defeated Dynamo Moscow in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093367-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 European Cup Winners' Cup, Preliminary round, Second leg\nAustria Wien 4\u20134 BK 1909 on aggregate. Austria Wien won on away goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093367-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 European Cup Winners' Cup, Second round\n1The second leg was originally 3\u20132 to Sporting after 90 minutes, and 4\u20133 to Sporting after extra time. The referee erroneously ordered a penalty shootout which Sporting won 3\u20130; UEFA later ruled that Rangers had won on away goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093367-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 European Cup Winners' Cup, Second round, Second leg\nRangers 6\u20136 Sporting CP on aggregate. Rangers won on away goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093367-0004-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 European Cup Winners' Cup, Semi-finals, Second leg\nBFC Dynamo 2\u20132 Dynamo Moscow on aggregate. Dynamo Moscow won 4\u20131 on penalties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 58], "content_span": [59, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093368-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Everton F.C. season\nDuring the 1971\u201372 English football season, Everton F.C. competed in the Football League First Division. They finished 15th in the table with 36 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093368-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Everton F.C. season, Final League Table\nP = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; GA = Goal average; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093369-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 FA Cup\nThe 1971\u201372 FA Cup was the 91st season of the world's oldest football cup competition, the Football Association Challenge Cup, commonly known as the FA Cup. Leeds United won the competition, beating Arsenal 1\u20130 in the final at Wembley, London.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093369-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 FA Cup\nSeveral records were set during this FA Cup season. This was the third year in which the losing semifinalists were required to compete in a \"match for third place\"; following a goalless 90 minutes, Birmingham City beat Stoke City in a penalty shootout, the first time this method had been used to determine the result of an FA Cup match. In the first round proper, Ted MacDougall's nine goals for A.F.C. Bournemouth as they beat Margate 11\u20130 remains the record for goals scored in a match in the FA Cup proper. The fourth qualifying round tie between Alvechurch and Oxford City became the longest FA Cup tie ever, lasting a total of eleven hours before Alvechurch won the fifth replay 1\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 704]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093369-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 FA Cup\nMatches were scheduled to be played at the stadium of the team named first on the date specified for each round, which was always a Saturday. If scores were level after 90 minutes had been played, a replay would take place at the stadium of the second-named team later the same week. If the replayed match was drawn further replays would be held until a winner was determined. If scores were level after 90 minutes had been played in a replay, a 30-minute period of extra time would be played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093369-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 FA Cup, Results, First round proper\nAt this stage clubs from the Football League Third and Fourth Divisions joined those non-league clubs having come through the qualifying rounds. Matches were scheduled to be played on Saturday, 20 November 1971, although Aldershot's tie with Alvechurch was delayed until 24 November because non-league clubs Alvechurch and Oxford City were taking part in the longest FA Cup tie on record, the fifth and decisive replay taking place on 22 November, two days after the date set for the first round ties. Nine drawn matches were settled by a single replay. Ted MacDougall set a goalscoring record for the FA Cup proper with nine goals for Third Division A.F.C. Bournemouth as they beat Margate of the Southern League 11\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 43], "content_span": [44, 763]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093369-0004-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 FA Cup, Results, Second round proper\nThe matches were scheduled for Saturday, 11 December 1971. Six matches were drawn, one of which required a second replay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 44], "content_span": [45, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093369-0005-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 FA Cup, Results, Third round proper\nThe 44 First and Second Division clubs entered the competition at this stage. The matches were scheduled for Saturday, 15 January 1972; the tie between Newcastle United and Hereford United at Newcastle was twice postponed because of a waterlogged pitch on which snow had fallen. Ten matches were drawn, each of which was settled by a single replay. The replay between Hereford and Newcastle, also the subject of several postponements and eventually played on the day scheduled for the fourth round ties, was voted \"best FA Cup tie ever\" in a 2007 poll hosted in The Observer newspaper.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 43], "content_span": [44, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093369-0006-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 FA Cup, Results, Fourth round proper\nThe matches were scheduled for Saturday, 5 February 1972; Hereford United, unable to play their third-round replay until this date, played their match later that week. Five matches were drawn, of which one required a second replay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 44], "content_span": [45, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093369-0007-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 FA Cup, Results, Fifth round proper\nThe matches were played on Saturday, 26 February 1972. Two matches were drawn, of which one required a second replay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 43], "content_span": [44, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093369-0008-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 FA Cup, Results, Match for third place\nFor the third time in what turned out to be a five-year experiment, the losing semifinalists were obliged to play off for third and fourth place. The match was held over until immediately before the 1972\u201373 season. After a goalless 90 minutes, the result was determined by a penalty shootout, the first time this method was used to settle a match in the FA Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 46], "content_span": [47, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093369-0009-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 FA Cup, Results, Final\nThe final took place on Saturday, 6 May 1972 at Wembley and ended in a victory for Leeds United over Arsenal by 1\u20130. The goal was scored by Allan Clarke. The attendance was 100,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 30], "content_span": [31, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093369-0010-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 FA Cup, TV coverage\nThe rights to show FA Cup games were, as with Football League matches, shared between the BBC and ITV network. All games were shown in a highlights format, except the Final, which was shown live both on BBC1 & ITV. The BBC football highlights programme Match Of The Day would show up to three games and the various ITV regional network stations would cover up to one game and show highlights from other games covered elsewhere on the ITV network. No games from Rounds 1 or 2 were shown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093369-0010-0001", "contents": "1971\u201372 FA Cup, TV coverage\nHighlights of replays would be shown on either the BBC or ITV. Third round BBC Swindon Town v Arsenal, Wolverhampton Wanderers v Leicester City, Blackpool v Chelsea, Manchester United v Southampton (Midweek-replay), Hereford United v Newcastle United (Saturday-replay) ITV Southampton v Manchester United (Southern & Granada), West Ham United v Luton Town (LWT), Leeds United v Bristol Rovers (Yorkshire), Peterborough United v Ipswich Town (Anglia), Sunderland v Sheffield Wednesday (Tyne-Tees).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093369-0010-0002", "contents": "1971\u201372 FA Cup, TV coverage\nFourth round BBC Liverpool v Leeds United, Preston North End v Manchester United ITV Reading v Arsenal (Southern & LWT), Birmingham City v Ipswich Town (ATV), Huddersfield Town v Fulham (Yorkshire), Everton v Walsall (Granada), Coventry City v Hull City (Anglia-covered game out of region), Leeds United v Liverpool (Midweek replay-All regions).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093369-0010-0003", "contents": "1971\u201372 FA Cup, TV coverage\nFifth round BBC Orient v Chelsea, Cardiff City v Leeds United, Manchester United v Middlesbrough, Middlesbrough v Manchester United (Midweek-replay) ITV Everton v Tottenham Hotspur (Granada & LWT), Birmingham City v Portsmouth (ATV), Huddersfield Town v West Ham United, Stoke City v Hull City (Anglia-covered game out of region). Sixth round BBC Leeds United v Tottenham Hotspur, Manchester United v Stoke City ITV Orient v Arsenal (LWT), Birmingham City v Huddersfield Town (ATV & Yorkshire) All regions covered those two games. Semi-final BBC Birmingham City v Leeds United ITV Arsenal v Stoke City All regions covered this game Arsenal v Stoke City (Midweek Replay All Regions) Final Arsenal v Leeds United Shown Live on both BBC & all ITV regions", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 780]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093370-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 FA Cup qualifying rounds\nThe FA Cup 1971\u201372 is the 91st season of the world's oldest football knockout competition; The Football Association Challenge Cup, or FA Cup for short. The large number of clubs entering the tournament from lower down the English football league system meant that the competition started with a number of preliminary and qualifying rounds. The 30 victorious teams from the Fourth Round Qualifying progressed to the First Round Proper.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093370-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 FA Cup qualifying rounds, 1971\u201372 FA Cup\nSee 1971-72 FA Cup for details of the rounds from the First Round Proper onwards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093371-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 FA Trophy\nThe 1971\u201372 FA Trophy was the third season of the FA Trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 78]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093372-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 FC Barcelona season\nThe 1971\u201372 season was the 73rd season for FC Barcelona.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 84]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093373-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 FC Basel season\nThe 1971\u201372 season was Fussball Club Basel 1893's 78th season in their existence. It was their 26th consecutive season in the top flight of Swiss football after their promotion the season 1945\u201346. They played their home games in the St. Jakob Stadium. The club's chairman was F\u00e9lix Musfeld for the second year in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093373-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 FC Basel season, Overview, Pre-season\nHelmut Benthaus was player-manager for the seventh consecutive season. Towards the end of his playing career Benthaus stood on the side line as team manager and he only substituted himself into the game if it was not running as he wanted it. In this season Benthaus substituted himself in during just one single game. This being the second last home match of the season on 27 May against Luzern Benthaus retired from playing in at the end of the season aged 36.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093373-0001-0001", "contents": "1971\u201372 FC Basel season, Overview, Pre-season\nHe made only minor adjustments to his squad at the beginning of the season, Rolf Bl\u00e4ttler joined from Lugano, Ren\u00e9 Hasler from Z\u00fcrich and youngster Ottmar Hitzfeld was fetched from FV L\u00f6rrach on the lower German league. Edoardo Manzoni left the squad and returned to Xamax because his loan had come to an end.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093373-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 FC Basel season, Overview, Domestic league\n14 teams contested in the 1971\u201372 Nationalliga A. These were the top 12 teams from the previous 1970\u201371 season and the two newly promoted teams St. Gallen and Grenchen. The championship was played in a double round robin. The champions would qualify for the 1972\u201373 European Cup and the last two teams in the table at the end of the season were to be relegated. Basel remained undefeated in the league during the first 24 rounds. Of their 26 league games Basel won 18, drawing seven, losing just once, scoring 66 goals conceding 28.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093373-0002-0001", "contents": "1971\u201372 FC Basel season, Overview, Domestic league\nBasel won the championship four points ahead of Z\u00fcrich and five points ahead of the Grasshoppers. Ottmar Hitzfeld was Basel's top league goal scorer with 16 league goals, Walter Balmer second with 14 league goals and Karl Odermatt third best with 9 goals. The average attendance at the league matches was 18'769 spectators, the highest number of spectators came to the stadium for the last game of the season against Z\u00fcrich", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093373-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 FC Basel season, Overview, Swiss Cup\nFor Basel the Swiss Cup started in the round of 32 on 24 October 1971 with a 3\u20131 home win against Monthey. On 21 November in the round of 16 Basel played away from home against La Chaux-de-Fonds. The match resulted with a 3\u20130 success. The quarter-final was played on 12 March 1972 in Z\u00fcrich against Grasshopper-Club. The tie ended with a 1\u20131 draw and this meant a replay three days later. Basel won the replay 3\u20132 and continued onto the semi-finals against BSC Young Boys.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093373-0003-0001", "contents": "1971\u201372 FC Basel season, Overview, Swiss Cup\nIn the Wankdorf Stadium on 3 April Karl Odermatt and Walter Balmer each scored a goal to give Basel a 2\u20130 victory. The final was played on 22 May 1970 also in the Wankdorf Stadium but Basel were defeated 0\u20131 by Z\u00fcrich through a goal by Jeandupeux in extra time of the first half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093373-0004-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 FC Basel season, Overview, UEFA and Cup of the Alps\nThe 1971\u201372 UEFA Cup was the inaugural year of the UEFA Cup (now known as the UEFA Europa League), which effectively replaced the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. In the first round Basel were drawn against Real Madrid. The first leg, which played on 15 September 1971 in the St. Jakob Stadium attracted 32'059 spectators but ended for Basel with a 1\u20132 defeat. Madrid won thanks to goals from Francisco Aguilar and Santillana, who turned the result around after the Swiss scored the opener through Ren\u00e9 Hasler. The return leg on 29 September in Santiago Bernab\u00e9u Stadium was watched by 61'861 spectators and also ended with the same result. The same two Spanish international players were the heroes once again, each scoring a goal, to ensure Real Madrid their passage to the next round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 59], "content_span": [60, 838]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093373-0005-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 FC Basel season, Overview, UEFA and Cup of the Alps\nIn the 1971 Cup of the Alps there were four participants from Switzerland and four from Italy. These being Hellas Verona, Lazio, Sampdoria and Varese. The four from Switzerland were Lugano, Lausanne Sports, Winterthur and Basel. Two teams from each country were drawn into each of the two groups. Within the group each team played the two clubs of the other country twice, but did not play compatriots. The Italians and the Swiss each formed their own league table and the winners from each country then matched themselves in the final. Basel won the Swiss Group and qualified for the final, however they were defeated by Lazio 1\u20133. The final was played in St. Jakob Stadium, Basel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 59], "content_span": [60, 742]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093373-0006-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 FC Basel season, Players\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093373-0007-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 FC Basel season, Players\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093373-0008-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 FC Basel season, Results, Cup of the Alps, Final\nThe Final was played in St. Jakob Stadium, Basel, between the winner of the Italien and the winner of the Swiss groups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093374-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 FC Bayern Munich season\nThe 1971\u201372 FC Bayern Munich season was the club's seventh season in Bundesliga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093375-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 FC Dinamo Bucure\u0219ti season\nThe 1971\u201372 season was FC Dinamo Bucure\u0219ti's 23rd season in Divizia A. Dinamo had a modest season in the championship, ending only seventh. In the European Cup, Dinamo eliminated Spartak Trnava. What followed was a double loss against Feyenoord: 0\u20133 and 0\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093375-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 FC Dinamo Bucure\u0219ti season, European Cup\nDinamo Bucure\u0219ti won 2\u20132 on aggregate due to away goals", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 48], "content_span": [49, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093375-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 FC Dinamo Bucure\u0219ti season, Squad\nDefenders: Florin Cheran, Augustin Deleanu, Cornel Dinu, Vasile Dobr\u0103u, Dan Ga\u0219par, Ion Nunweiller, Gabriel Sandu, Mircea Stoenescu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093375-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 FC Dinamo Bucure\u0219ti season, Squad\nForwards: Ion Batacliu, Alexandru Custov, Florea Dumitrache, Florian Dumitrescu, Emil Dumitriu, Mircea Lucescu, Doru Popescu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093375-0004-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 FC Dinamo Bucure\u0219ti season, Transfers\nBefore the season, Dinamo transferred Alexandru S\u0103tm\u0103reanu (Cri\u015ful Oradea), Florian Dumitrescu (UTA) and Emil Dumitriu (Steagul Ro\u015fu). Alexandru Boc left for Rapid. Alexandru Custov was promoted from the youth team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093376-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 FIBA European Champions Cup\nThe 1971\u201372 FIBA European Champions Cup was the 15th installment of the European top-tier level professional basketball club competition FIBA European Champions Cup (now called EuroLeague). The Final was held at the Yad Eliyahu Arena, in Tel Aviv, Israel, on March 23, 1972. It was won by Ignis Varese, who defeated Jugoplastika, by a result of 70\u201369.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093376-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 FIBA European Champions Cup, First round\n*Jeunesse Sportivo Alep withdrew before the first leg and 17 N\u00ebntori received a forfeit (2\u20130) in both games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 48], "content_span": [49, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093376-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 FIBA European Champions Cup, Second round\n*Academic qualified for the next stage of the competition as the winner of this match-up, but the Bulgarian club later withdrew alleging that most of their international players has been summoned to play a series of Communist Bloc tournaments (the real reason was to prepare the Pre-Olympic Tournament though). Later, FIBA fined Akademik for this intentional withdrawal and invited Levi's Flamingo's to take their place in the Quarter finals group stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 49], "content_span": [50, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093376-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 FIBA European Champions Cup, Quarterfinals group stage\nThe quarterfinals were played with a round-robin system, in which every Two Game series (TGS) constituted as one game for the record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 62], "content_span": [63, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093377-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup\nThe 1971\u201372 FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup was the sixth edition of FIBA's 2nd-tier level European-wide professional club basketball competition, contested between national domestic cup champions, running from 4 November 1971, to 21 March 1972. It was contested by 21 teams, five less than in the previous edition, and it marked a reform in the competition's format; a 6-team group stage was introduced, replacing the quarterfinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093377-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup\nDefending champion, Simmenthal Milano, defeated Crvena zvezda in the final, which returned to a single game format, to win its second trophy, becoming the first team to successfully defend its title. It was the third title in a row for an Italian League team. This season's FIBA European Champions Cup final, also featured Italian and Yugoslav League teams, with the same outcome.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093377-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup, First round\n*Partizani Tirana (for political reasons), Ghouta and Blue Stars Amsterdam all withdrew before the first leg, and their rivals received a forfeit (2-0) in both games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 51], "content_span": [52, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093377-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup, Quarterfinals\nThe quarter finals were played with a round-robin system, in which every Two Game series (TGS) constituted as one game for the record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 53], "content_span": [54, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093378-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 FIBA Women's European Champions Cup\nThe 1971\u201372 FIBA Women's European Champions Cup was the twelfth edition of FIBA Europe's competition for women's basketball national champion clubs, running from October 1971 to April 1972. The group stage was expanded from six to eight teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093378-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 FIBA Women's European Champions Cup\nDaugava Riga defeated Sparta Prague in the final to win their ninth title in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093379-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 FIBA Women's European Cup Winners' Cup\nThe 1971\u201372 FIBA Women's European Cup Winners' Cup, running from November 1971 to March 1972, was the inaugural edition of FIBA Europe's second-tier competition for women's basketball clubs, subsequently renamed Ronchetti Cup. The competition system was similar to that of the FIBA Women's European Champions Cup back then.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093379-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 FIBA Women's European Cup Winners' Cup\nSpartak Leningrad won the first of four titles in a row beating \u017dKK Vo\u017edovac in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093380-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 FIRA Nations Cup\nThe Nations Cup 1971-72 was the 12th edition of a European rugby union championship for national teams, and seventh with the formula and the name of \"Nations Cup\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093380-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 FIRA Nations Cup\nThe tournament was won by France, who swept all their matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 87]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093381-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup\nThe 6th World Cup season began in December 1971 in Switzerland and concluded in March 1972 in France. Gustav Th\u00f6ni of Italy won his second of three consecutive overall titles. Annemarie Pr\u00f6ll of Austria won the women's overall title, her second of five consecutive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093381-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup\nA break in the schedule in February was for the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan. Prior to the Olympics, International Olympic Committee head Avery Brundage succeeded in having two-time men's overall World Cup champion Karl Schranz reclassified as a professional and therefore ineligible for the Olympics. Schranz retired from amateur competition immediately thereafter and joined the professional skiing tour in 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093381-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup\nThe controversy over \"professionalism\" (based on endorsements, manufacturers' fees, et cetera) continued for two more seasons, and served to limit both participation and the number of events on the World Cup circuit. Prior to the 1975 season, Brundage's successor Lord Killanin led an effort that changed the rule to permit such payments to be made to national associations, which generally eliminated such disputes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093381-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, Calendar, Men\nNote:For the first time, the Olympic events no longer counted in the World Cup standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093381-0004-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, Calendar, Ladies\nNote: for the first time, the Olympic events no longer counted in the World Cup standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093381-0005-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, Men, Overall\nIn Men's Overall World Cup 1971/72 the best five downhills, best five giant slaloms and best five slaloms count. Four racers had a point deduction. Gustav Th\u00f6ni won the cup with only one win!", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093381-0006-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, Men, Downhill\nIn Men's Downhill World Cup 1971/72 the best 5 results count. One racer had a point deduction, which is given in ().", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093381-0007-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, Men, Giant Slalom\nIn Men's Giant Slalom World Cup 1970/71 the best 5 results count. One racer had a point deduction, which is given in (). Gustav Th\u00f6ni won the cup with only one win. He won his third Giant Slalom World Cup in a row!", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 51], "content_span": [52, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093381-0008-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, Men, Slalom\nIn Men's Slalom World Cup 1971/72 the best 5 results count. Three racers had a point deduction, which are given in ().", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 45], "content_span": [46, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093381-0009-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, Ladies, Overall\nIn Women's Overall World Cup 1971/72 the best five downhills, best five giant slaloms and best five slaloms count. Three racers had a point deduction. Annemarie Pr\u00f6ll won eight races and was only unable to score points in four slaloms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093381-0010-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, Ladies, Downhill\nIn Women's Downhill World Cup 1971/72 the best 5 results count. Three racers had a point deduction, which are given in (). Annemarie Pr\u00f6ll won the cup with maximum points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093381-0011-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, Ladies, Giant Slalom\nIn Women's Giant Slalom World Cup 1971/72 the best 5 results count. Only Annemarie Pr\u00f6ll had a point deduction, which is given in (). She won the cup by winning three races. All other events were won by French athletes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093381-0012-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, Ladies, Slalom\nIn Women's Slalom World Cup 1971/72 the best 5 results count. No racer had a point deduction. Britt Lafforgue won the cup with only four results.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093382-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 FK Partizan season\nThe 1971\u201372 season was the 26th season in FK Partizan's existence. This article shows player statistics and matches that the club played during the 1971\u201372 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093383-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Florida State Seminoles men's basketball team\nThe 1971\u201372 Florida State Seminoles men's basketball team represented Florida State University during the 1971\u201372 college basketball season. Led by head coach Hugh Durham, the Seminoles reached the Championship Game of the NCAA Tournament before losing to unbeaten, 5-time defending champion UCLA, 81\u201376. The team finished with an overall record of 28\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093384-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Football League\nThe 1971\u201372 season was the 73rd completed season of The Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093384-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Football League\nBrian Clough, 37, won the first major trophy of his managerial career by guiding Derby County to their first ever league championship. They overcame Leeds United, Liverpool and Manchester City to win a four-horse race, with only a single point separating them. There were later bribery allegations from The Sun newspaper regarding Leeds manager Don Revie and Leeds' final opponents Wolverhampton Wanderers. The footballing authorities never investigated these allegations to decide whether they were true or not.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093384-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Football League\nNottingham Forest and Huddersfield Town lost their First Division status. By the end of the decade, Forest had made an explosive comeback to the top flight. 1971 \u2013 1972 was Huddersfield's last season in the top flight until their promotion in 2016-17, and within a few seasons they would be in the Fourth Division \u2014 most of their existence since 1972 has been spent in the league's lower two divisions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093384-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Football League\nIn the Second Division Norwich City and Birmingham City were promoted. This was the first time that Norwich City had reached the top flight. Charlton Athletic and Watford were relegated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093384-0004-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Football League\nAston Villa ended their two-year spell in the Third Division by gaining promotion as champions, and by the end of the decade would be firmly re-established as a First Division club. Brighton & Hove Albion followed Villa into the Second Division, but would not reach the heady heights that the midlanders would experience. Mansfield Town, Barnsley, Torquay United and Bradford City were relegated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093384-0005-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Football League\nGrimsby Town, Southend United, Brentford and Scunthorpe United were promoted from the Fourth Division. Barrow were voted out of the Football League and replaced by Hereford United, who a short time earlier had achieved a shock FA Cup victory over Newcastle United.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093384-0006-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Football League\nErnie Tagg sacked himself as manager of Crewe Alexandra because he felt that a younger manager should take charge of the club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093384-0007-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Football League, Final league tables and results\nThe tables below are reproduced here in the exact form that they can be found at website and in Rothmans Book of Football League Records 1888\u201389 to 1978\u201379, with home and away statistics separated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093384-0008-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Football League, Final league tables and results\nBeginning with the season 1894\u201395, clubs finishing level on points were separated according to goal average (goals scored divided by goals conceded), or more properly put, goal ratio. In case one or more teams had the same goal difference, this system favoured those teams who had scored fewer goals. The goal average system was eventually scrapped beginning with the 1976\u201377 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093384-0009-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Football League, Final league tables and results\nSince the Fourth Division was established in the 1958\u201359 season, the bottom four teams of that division have been required to apply for re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093385-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Football League Cup\nThe 1971\u201372 Football League Cup was the 12th season of the Football League Cup, a knock-out competition for England's top 92 football clubs. The tournament started on 17 August 1971 and ended with the final at Wembley on 4 March 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093385-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Football League Cup\nStoke City won the tournament after defeating Chelsea in the final at Wembley Stadium, London.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093385-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Football League Cup\nEntry for all football league clubs became compulsory this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093385-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Football League Cup, Final\nThe final was held at Wembley Stadium, London on 4 March 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093386-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Football League First Division\nStatistics of Football League First Division in the 1971\u201372 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093386-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Football League First Division, Overview\nDerby County won the First Division title for the first time in the club's history that season. Derby's first ever First Division title was confirmed on May 8, after title challengers Liverpool and Leeds United failed to win their final games at Arsenal and Wolverhampton Wanderers respectively. On April 26, Huddersfield Town and Nottingham Forest were relegated after Crystal Palace beat Stoke City 2-0 at Selhurst Park to ensure their survival.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093387-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Four Hills Tournament\nFor the 20th edition of the Four Hills Tournament, the FIS deviated from the traditional order of events and started the tour in Innsbruck. The overall winner was Norwegian Ingolf Mork. In the previous year, Mork won three out of four events while only placing second overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093387-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Four Hills Tournament\nBefore the tournament started, the Japanese team already announced that they would only participate in the first three events before returning to Japan in order to prepare for the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo five weeks later. This decision ended up taking the tournee victory from Yukio Kasaya, who won all three events he participated in, and had a lead of 50.4 points to Mork. He would have been the first non-European tour winner. The preparation paid off: The Japanese took all three medals at the Olympic Normal hill event, Kasaya winning Gold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093387-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Four Hills Tournament, Participating nations and athletes\nA Bulgarian jumper competed for the first time. The Japanese team did not sign up for the final event in Bischofshofen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093387-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Four Hills Tournament, Results, Innsbruck\nYukio Kasaya, who was in dominating form in the winter of 1971/72, became the first Non-European to win an event at the Four Hills Tournament. The Czechoslovakian and Norwegian teams disappointed with modest results for several tournament favourites, among them title holder Ji\u0159\u00ed Ra\u0161ka (12th), Ingolf Mork (22nd) and three-time competition winner Bj\u00f8rn Wirkola (44th).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093387-0004-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Four Hills Tournament, Results, Bischofshofen\nNot taking Kasaya into account, who would not compete at Bischofshofen, the leading field was close together. Mork, who was leading K\u00e4yhk\u00f6 with a margin of 1.2 points, saw his closest competitors struggle: K\u00e4yhk\u00f6 (31st), R. Schmidt (56th), Kalinin (21st).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093387-0005-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Four Hills Tournament, Results, Bischofshofen\nVeteran Zakadze finished in the Top Ten, precisely sixteen years after his first victory at a Four Hills event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093388-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 French Division 1\nOlympique de Marseille won Division 1 season 1971/1972 of the French Association Football League with 56 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093388-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 French Division 1, Final table\nPromoted from Division 2, who will play in Division 1 season 1972/1973", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093389-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 French Division 2, Overview\nIt was contested by 48 teams, and CS Sedan Ardennes, Valenciennes and RC Strasbourg won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093390-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 French Rugby Union Championship\nThe 1971-72 French Rugby Union Championship was contested by 64 teams divided in 8 pools. The first four of each pool, were qualified for the \"last 32\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093390-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 French Rugby Union Championship\nThe B\u00e9ziers won the Championship beating Brive in the final, holding his title..", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093390-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 French Rugby Union Championship, Qualification round\nIn bold the clubs qualified for the next round. The teams are listed according to the final ranking", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 60], "content_span": [61, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093391-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team\nThe 1971\u201372 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team represented Georgetown University during the 1971\u201372 NCAA University Division college basketball season. John Magee coached them in his sixth and final season as head coach. The team was an independent and played its home games at McDonough Gymnasium on the Georgetown campus in Washington, D.C.. It finished the season with a record of 3-23 and therefore was not ranked in the Top 20 in the Associated Press Poll or Coaches' Poll at any time and had no post-season play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093391-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap\nForward Art White, thought at the time to have been the greatest player in Georgetown history, had left the team at the end of the previous season because of academic difficulties, and he sat out this season entirely. Magee's relationship with his players had begun to unravel the previous year, when the 1970-71 team had followed up the 1969-70 team's appearance in the 1970 National Invitation Tournament with a disappointing performance that Magee blamed on the players \u2013 including the once highly regarded White \u2013 although he reserved praise for then-junior forward Mike Laughna. In all, Georgetown lost all but two of its top nine scorers from the 1970-71 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 60], "content_span": [61, 729]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093391-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap\nMagee's relationship with his players continued to deteriorate this year, but that and the loss of scorers were not the 1971-72 squad's only problems. Athletic director Robert Sigholtz had committed the Hoyas to a schedule that included only 10 home games and forced the team to play nine straight road games between December 13, 1971, and January 22, 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 60], "content_span": [61, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093391-0002-0001", "contents": "1971\u201372 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap\nMagee, working in the last year of his contract with no sign of the university offering an extension, openly feuded with Sigholtz over this schedule and over whether or not Sigholz had provided Magee with an adequate recruiting budget, which totaled only $5,140.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 60], "content_span": [61, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093391-0002-0002", "contents": "1971\u201372 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap\nAfter Laughna, now a senior and the team's captain, said in an interview with The Washington Post that Georgetown did not seem to spend very much of the revenue it earned from the basketball team on the basketball program itself, Sigholtz responded with an ineffective late-season news conference that failed to address Laughna's comments and deflected criticism onto Magee, blaming him for the unfavorable schedule and for not using fully the recruiting tools he had available to him. Observers took away little more than the impression that the Georgetown athletic department was deeply troubled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 60], "content_span": [61, 659]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093391-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap\nUnder these difficult circumstances, Mike Laughna put in a creditable performance on the court during the otherwise dismal season, with 25 points and 11 rebounds at Texas, 22 points and 12 rebounds three days later at San Francisco, and 24 points and 15 rebounds against George Washington, He passed Jim Barry as the top scorer in Georgetown history on March 4, 1972, during a loss at Boston College in the final game of the season and of his collegiate career, and finished with 1,234 career points. Despite his efforts, the team won only one game each in December, January, and February.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 60], "content_span": [61, 650]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093391-0004-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap\nThe 1971-72 team's .115 winning percentage was the worst in Georgetown men's basketball history and well below the previous worst of .238 set by the 5-16 team of 1930-31. Magee resigned two weeks after Sigholtz's news conference after a six-year tenure as head coach which saw two winning seasons and one post-season tournament appearance. Sigholtz resigned nine days after Magee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 60], "content_span": [61, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093391-0005-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap\nAlthough it was not known at the time, the 1971-72 season brought a 25-year stretch of mostly undistinguished basketball at Georgetown to an end. Although the team had appeared in the National Invitation Tournament in 1953 and 1970, between the 1947-48 season and the end of this season, Georgetown had posted an overall record under .500 and its total of 296 wins during those 25 seasons was the lowest among the 32 Catholic universities playing Division I college basketball in the United States. The team also had had no NCAA Tournament appearances since 1943. The arrival of John Thompson, Jr., as head coach the following season, however, would begin Georgetown's rise to the status of national basketball power.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 60], "content_span": [61, 778]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093392-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Golden State Warriors season\nThe 1971\u201372 NBA season was the Warriors' 26th season in the NBA, the first as the Golden State Warriors in Oakland, and 10th in the San Francisco Bay Area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093393-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Gonzaga Bulldogs men's basketball team\nThe 1971\u201372 Gonzaga Bulldogs men's basketball team represented Gonzaga University during the 1971\u201372 NCAA University Division basketball season. Members of the Big Sky Conference, the Bulldogs were led by Hank Anderson in his twenty-first season as their head coach. They played their home games on campus at Kennedy Pavilion in Spokane, Washington. They were 14\u201312 overall and 8\u20136 in conference play, in a three-way tie for second place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093393-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Gonzaga Bulldogs men's basketball team\nJunior forward Joe Clayton was selected to the all-conference team and junior center Greg Sten was second team. Senior guard Chris Nickola and sophomore guard Skip Molitor were honorable mention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093393-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Gonzaga Bulldogs men's basketball team\nAfter over two decades at Gonzaga, Anderson left in late March to become the head coach at conference rival Montana State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093394-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Greek Football Cup\nThe 1971\u201372 Greek Football Cup was the 30th edition of the Greek Football Cup. The competition culminated with the Greek Cup Final, held at Karaiskakis Stadium, on 5 July 1972. The match was contested by PAOK and Panathinaikos, with PAOK winning by 2\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093394-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Greek Football Cup, Quarter-finals\n*The match was suspended at 89th minute because Aris' players started a fight with the referee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093394-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Greek Football Cup, Final\nThe 28th Greek Cup Final was played at the Karaiskakis Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093395-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Heart of Midlothian F.C. season\nDuring the 1971\u201372 season, Heart of Midlothian F.C. competed in the Scottish First Division, the Scottish Cup, the Scottish League Cup and the Texaco Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093396-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Hellenic Football League\nThe 1971\u201372 Hellenic Football League season was the 19th in the history of the Hellenic Football League, a football competition in England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093396-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Hellenic Football League, Premier Division\nThe Premier Division featured 15 clubs which competed in the division last season, along with two new clubs, promoted from Division One:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093396-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Hellenic Football League, Division One A\nThe Division One A featured 8 clubs which competed in the Division One last season, along with 5 new clubs:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093396-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Hellenic Football League, Division One B\nThe Division One B featured 10 clubs which competed in the Division One last season, along with 4 new clubs:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093397-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Hibernian F.C. season\nDuring the 1971\u201372 season Hibernian, a football club based in Edinburgh, came third out of 18 clubs in the Scottish First Division and reached the final of the Scottish Cup ending up losing 6-1 to Celtic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093398-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Honduran Liga Nacional\nThe 1971\u201372 Honduran Liga Nacional season was the 7th edition of the Honduran Liga Nacional. The format of the tournament remained the same as the previous season. Club Deportivo Olimpia won the title and qualified to the 1972 CONCACAF Champions' Cup along with runners-up C.D.S. Vida.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093399-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Honduran Segunda Divisi\u00f3n\nThe 1971\u201372 Honduran Segunda Divisi\u00f3n was the sixth season of the Honduran Segunda Divisi\u00f3n. Under the management of Alfonso Ucl\u00e9s, Universidad won the tournament after defeating C.D. Victoria in the final series and obtained promotion to the 1972\u201373 Honduran Liga Nacional.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093400-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Hong Kong First Division League\nThe 1971\u201372 Hong Kong First Division League season was the 61st since its establishment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093401-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Houston Rockets season\nThe 1971-72 NBA season was the Rockets' 5th season in the NBA and 1st season in the city of Houston following their relocation from San Diego, where the franchise played its first four seasons prior to moving to becoming the first NBA franchise in Texas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093402-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season\nHuddersfield Town's 1971\u201372 campaign was Town's last season in the Football League's top division. They finished bottom of the table with only 25 points, the same as Nottingham Forest. Town won only 6 matches in the league all season and did not win any games from December to the end of the season. The only bright spark came in the FA Cup campaign which saw Town reach the 6th round, before losing to Birmingham City. Town only scored 6 away goals in 1972, and 2 of those were own goals. This would be the start of Town's slump which would see Town relegated to Division 4 in 1975, and they would not return to the top flight, by then the Premier League, until 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 708]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093402-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Squad at the start of the season\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 73], "content_span": [74, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093402-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Review\nFollowing their first season back in Division 1 for 15 years, Town were hoping to try to reach the summit of English football. This season would be one of Town's worst in their history. Town were bottom of the table all season, with the exception of a small period in September. They had a run of 4 wins in 5 during that time including a 2\u20131 win over rivals Leeds United. Town's last league win on 27 November was a 2\u20131 win over Derby County, who would become champions at the end of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093402-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Review\nTown never won another league game until the next season, but they put on an inspired run in the FA Cup. After beating Division 2 sides Burnley and Fulham, Town hosted West Ham United and put on a thrilling display culminating in a 4\u20132 win over the Hammers. They then lost to Birmingham City in the 6th round and were then promptly relegated to Division 2 with 25 points, the same as Nottingham Forest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093402-0004-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Squad at the end of the season\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 71], "content_span": [72, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093403-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Hunedoara County Championship\nThe 1971\u201372 Hunedoara County Championship was the 4th season of the Liga IV Hunedoara, the fourth tier of the Romanian football league system. The season began on 5 September 1971 and ended on 4 June 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093403-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Hunedoara County Championship, Competition format\nThe format was changed in two series, the Valea Jiului Series with 12 teams and the Valea Mure\u0219ului Series with 14 teams. The winners of the two series qualify for the championship play-off to establish the county champion and Hunedoara County representative at the promotion play-off in Divizia C.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093403-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Hunedoara County Championship, Championship play-off\nDacia Or\u0103\u0219tie won the 1971\u201372 Hunedoara County Championship and qualify for promotion play-off.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 60], "content_span": [61, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093403-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Hunedoara County Championship, Promotion play-off\nChampions of Hunedoara County Championship face champions of Alba County Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093404-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 IHL season\nThe 1971\u201372 IHL season was the 27th season of the International Hockey League, a North American minor professional league. Eight teams participated in the regular season, and the Port Huron Wings won the Turner Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093405-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 IIHF European Cup\nThe 1971\u201372 European Cup was the seventh edition of the European Cup, IIHF's premier European club ice hockey tournament. The season started on August 30, 1971 and finished on December 15, 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093405-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 IIHF European Cup\nThe tournament was won by CSKA Moscow, who beat Bryn\u00e4s IF in the final", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093406-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Idaho State Bengals men's basketball team\nThe 1971\u201372 Idaho State Bengals men's basketball team represented Idaho State University during the 1971\u201372 NCAA University Division basketball season. Led by first-year head coach Jim Killingsworth, the Bengals played their home games on campus at the ISU Minidome in Pocatello.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093406-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Idaho State Bengals men's basketball team\nIdaho State finished the regular season at 14\u201312 overall, with a 8\u20136 record in the Big Sky Conference, runner-up to champion Weber State. The conference tournament debuted four years later, in 1976.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093406-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Idaho State Bengals men's basketball team\nJunior center Ev Fopma was named to the all-conference team; junior guard Edison Hicks was on the second team, while guard Jerry Sabins, forward Mike Solliday, and forward Nick Ysusra were honorable mention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093406-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Idaho State Bengals men's basketball team\nOn Saturday, March 11, the two-year-old Minidome hosted a pair of first-round games in the West regional of the 25-team NCAA Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093407-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Idaho Vandals men's basketball team\nThe 1971\u201372 Idaho Vandals men's basketball team represented the University of Idaho during the 1971\u201372 NCAA University Division basketball season. Members of the Big Sky Conference, the Vandals were led by sixth-year head coach Wayne Anderson and played their home games on campus at the Memorial Gymnasium in Moscow, Idaho. They were 5\u201314 overall and 2\u201312 in conference play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093408-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team\nThe 1971\u201372 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team represented the University of Illinois.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093408-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team, Regular season\nThe 1971-72 Fighting Illini men's basketball season, led by head coach Harv Schmidt, experienced the a tale of two years, 1971 and 1972. The Fighting Illini opened the season December 1, 1971, with a win over Butler and proceeded to win 7 of their next 8 games, finishing 1971 with an 8\u20131 record. That streak would continue into January 1972 for one more game, the opening game of the Big Ten season. After beating Northwestern the Fighting Illini would go on to drop 9 of their next 14 games, finishing the season with a 14\u201310 record, tied for 8th place in the conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 70], "content_span": [71, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093408-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team, Regular season\nThe brightest spot of the season would shine upon junior forward Nick Weatherspoon. Weatherspoon would return from a terrific sophomore campaign where he scored 381 points, averaging 16.5 points per game and collected 246 rebounds. During this season, 1971\u201372, he would score 500 total points, averaging 20.8 points and pull down 262 rebounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 70], "content_span": [71, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093408-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team, Regular season\nThe 1971-72 team's starting lineup included Weatherspoon and Nick Conner at the forward spots, Jim Krelle and Garvin Roberson as guards and Bill Morris at center.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 70], "content_span": [71, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093409-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Illinois State Redbirds men's basketball team\nThe 1971\u201372 Illinois State Redbirds men's basketball team represented Illinois State University during the 1971\u201372 NCAA University Division men's basketball season. The Redbirds, led by second-year head coach Will Robinsion, played their home games at Horton Field House in Normal, Illinois as members of the Conference of Midwestern Universities. They finished the season 16\u201310, 6\u20132 in conference play to finish in second place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093410-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team\nThe 1971\u201372 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team represented Indiana University. Their head coach was Bobby Knight, who was in his 1st year. The team played its home games in the newly constructed Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Indiana, and was a member of the Big Ten Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093410-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team\nThe Hoosiers finished the regular season with an overall record of 17\u20138 and a conference record of 9\u20135, finishing 3rd in the Big Ten Conference. Missing out on the NCAA Tournament, Indiana was invited to play in the National Invitation Tournament; however, the Hoosiers lost in the first round, bringing Knight's first season to an end.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093411-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Indiana Pacers season\nThe 1971\u201372 Indiana Pacers season was the fifth season of the Pacers in the American Basketball Association. The Pacers finished second in the Western Division and won their second ABA title. In the division semifinals, the Pacers required seven games to eliminate the Denver Rockets. In the division finals, the Utah Stars were eliminated in seven games. The New York Nets appeared in the ABA Championships for the first time and were defeated by the Pacers in six games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093411-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Indiana Pacers season, Regular season, Player stats\nNote: GP= Games played; MIN= Minutes; REB= Rebounds; AST= Assists; PTS = Points; AVG = Average", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093412-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Iowa State Cyclones men's basketball team\nThe 1971\u201372 Iowa State Cyclones men's basketball team represented Iowa State University during the 1971\u201372 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Cyclones were coached by Maury John, who was in his first season with the Cyclones. They played their home games at Hilton Coliseum in Ames, Iowa. Hilton Coliseum hosted its first Iowa State men's basketball game on December 2, a 71\u201354 win over Arizona.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093412-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Iowa State Cyclones men's basketball team\nThey finished the season 12\u201314, 5\u20139 in Big Eight play to finish in sixth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093413-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Iraq Central FA First Division\nThe 1971\u201372 Iraq Central FA First Division was the 24th season of the Iraq Central FA League (the top division of football in Baghdad and its neighbouring cities from 1948 to 1973), and the first after the return to the old name of First Division. Unbeaten Aliyat Al-Shorta won their fifth league title and the sixth title for the Police teams that were later replaced in official competitions by the singular club Al-Shorta. Ali Kadhim won both the top scorer and best player awards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093414-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Irish League\nThe Irish League in season 1971\u201372 comprised 12 teams, and Glentoran won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093415-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Israel State Cup\nThe 1971\u201372 Israel State Cup (Hebrew: \u05d2\u05d1\u05d9\u05e2 \u05d4\u05de\u05d3\u05d9\u05e0\u05d4\u200e, Gvia HaMedina) was the 33rd season of Israel's nationwide football cup competition and the 18th after the Israeli Declaration of Independence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093415-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Israel State Cup\nThe competition was won by Hapoel Tel Aviv, who have beaten Hapoel Jerusalem 1\u20130 at the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093416-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Isthmian League\nThe 1971\u201372 season was the 57th in the history of the Isthmian League, an English football competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093416-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Isthmian League\nAt the end of the previous season Maidstone United and Wealdstone switched to the Southern Football League, while Athenian League sides Bishop's Stortford, Hayes and Walton & Hersham were newly admitted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093416-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Isthmian League\nWycombe Wanderers were champions for the second season in a row, winning their fourth Isthmian League title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093417-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Japan Ice Hockey League season\nThe 1971\u201372 Japan Ice Hockey League season was the sixth season of the Japan Ice Hockey League. Five teams participated in the league, and the Seibu Tetsudo won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093418-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Juventus F.C. season\nDuring 1971-72 season Juventus competed in Serie A, Coppa Italia and UEFA Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093418-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Juventus F.C. season, Summary\nJuventus won the domestic league after 5 years, being its 14th league in their history this time with Cestmir Vycpalek as manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093418-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Juventus F.C. season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093419-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 KNVB Cup\nThe 54th edition of the KNVB Cup started on January 9, 1972. The final was played on May 11, 1972: Ajax beat FC Den Haag 3\u20132 and won the cup for the seventh time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093419-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 KNVB Cup, First round\nThe matches of the first round were played on January 9, 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093419-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 KNVB Cup, Round of 16\nThe matches of the round of 16 were played on February 11, 13 and 20, 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093419-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 KNVB Cup, Quarter finals\nThe quarter finals were played on March 15 and 29, 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 32], "content_span": [33, 89]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093419-0004-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 KNVB Cup, Semi-finals\nThe semi-finals were played on April 11 and 12, 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 83]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093419-0005-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 KNVB Cup, Final\nAjax also were the champions of the Eredivisie, thereby taking the double. They would participate in the European Cup, so finalists FC Den Haag would participate in the Cup Winners' Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 23], "content_span": [24, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093420-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team\nThe 1971\u201372 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team represented the University of Kansas during the 1971\u201372 college men's basketball season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093421-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Kentucky Colonels season\nThe 1971\u201372 Kentucky Colonels season was the fifth season of the Colonels in the American Basketball Association. The Colonels won 68 games on the season, en route to their first ever Division title, led by Issel and rookie Artis Gilmore, who like Issel signed a 10 years and $1.5 million contract. Gilmore won both ABA Rookie of the Year and ABA Most Valuable Player, averaging 23.8 points and 17.8 rebounds per game. However the Colonels were upset in 6 games by the New York Nets in the Division Semifinals. Notably, the Colonels played the Baltimore Bullets in the 2nd ever exhibition ABA vs. NBA game on September 22, 1971 in Louisville, Kentucky, winning 111-85.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 701]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093421-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Kentucky Colonels season, Awards and honors\n1972 ABA All-Star Game selections (game played on January 29, 1972 in Louisville, Kentucky)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 51], "content_span": [52, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093422-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team\nThe 1971\u201372 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team represented the University of Kentucky in the 1971\u201372 college basketball season. The team's head coach was Adolph Rupp who was in his last year in coaching because of age of retirement for Kentucky coaches. They played their home games at Memorial Coliseum and were members of the Southeastern Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093423-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Kuwaiti Premier League\nIn the 1971\u201372 Kuwaiti Premier League, Al Kuwait Kaifan won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093424-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 La Liga\nThe 1971\u201372 La Liga was the 41st season since its establishment. The season started on September 4, 1971, and finished on May 14, 1972. It was played by 18 clubs after the expansion from the previous season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093425-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Lancashire Cup\nThe 1971\u201372 Lancashire Cup was the fifty-ninth occasion on which the completion had been held. Wigan won the trophy by beating Widnes by the score of 15-8 in the final. The match was played at Knowsley Road, Eccleston, St Helens, (historically in the county of Lancashire). The attendance was 6,970 and receipts were \u00a32,204.00 (the first final after the UK went decimal)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093425-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Lancashire Cup, Background\nThe total number of teams entering the competition decreased by two down to a total of 14, due to no junior/amateur clubs taking part. The same fixture format was retained, but due to the decrease in the number of participating clubs, resulted in one \u201cblank\u201d or \u201cdummy\u201d fixtures in the first round, and one bye in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093425-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Lancashire Cup, Competition and results, Round 1\nInvolved 7 matches (with one \u201cblank\u201d fixture) and 14 clubs", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 56], "content_span": [57, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093425-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Lancashire Cup, Competition and results, Final, Teams and scorers\nScoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = two (2) points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 73], "content_span": [74, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093425-0004-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Lancashire Cup, Notes and comments\n1 * Knowsley Road was the home ground of St. Helens from 1890 to 2010. The final capacity was in the region of 18,000, although the actual record attendance was 35,695 set on December 26, 1949, for a league game between St Helens and Wigan", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093426-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 League Cup (rugby league)\nThis was the inaugural season for the League Cup and the competition was known as the Players No.6 Trophy for sponsorship reasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093426-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 League Cup (rugby league)\nHalifax won the trophy by beating Wakefield Trinity by the score of 22-11 in the final. The match was played at Odsal in the City of Bradford. The attendance was 7975 and receipts were \u00a32545.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093426-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 League Cup (rugby league), Background\nThe council of the Rugby Football League had been investigating the possibility of another knock-out competition for several seasons, to be similar to the association football league cup competition played for by the Scottish Football Association (first competed for in 1946-47) and The Football Association (first competed for 1961). It was to be a similar knock-out structure to, and to be secondary to, the Challenge Cup. The council voted to introduce the new competition at the same time as sports sponsorship was becoming more prevalent and as a result John Player and Sons, a division of Imperial Tobacco Company, became sponsors, and the competition never became widely known as the \"League Cup\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 749]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093426-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 League Cup (rugby league), Background\nThe competition ran from 1971\u201372 until 1995-96 and was initially intended for the professional clubs plus the two amateur BARLA National Cup finalists. In later seasons the entries were expanded to take in other amateur and French teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093426-0003-0001", "contents": "1971\u201372 League Cup (rugby league), Background\nThe competition was dropped, the main reason being given was due to \"fixture congestion\", when Rugby League became a summer sportThe Rugby League season always (until the onset of \"Summer Rugby\" in 1996) ran from around August-time through to around May-time and this \"League Cup\" competition always took place early in the season, in the Autumn, with the final usually taking place in late January", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093426-0004-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 League Cup (rugby league), Background\nThe competition was variably known, by its sponsorship name, as the Player's No.6 Trophy (1971\u20131977), the John Player Trophy (1977\u20131983), the John Player Special Trophy (1983\u20131989), and the Regal Trophy in 1989.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093426-0005-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 League Cup (rugby league), Competition and Results, Final, Teams and Scorers\nScoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = one (1) point (reduced from this season)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 84], "content_span": [85, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093426-0006-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 League Cup (rugby league), Competition and Results, Prize Money\nAs part of the sponsorship deal and funds, the prize money awarded to the competing teams for this season is as follows\u00a0:-", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 71], "content_span": [72, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093426-0007-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 League Cup (rugby league), Competition and Results, Prize Money\nNote - the author is unable to trace the rest of the award amounts. Can anyone help\u00a0?", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 71], "content_span": [72, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093426-0008-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 League Cup (rugby league), Competition and Results, Player's Top Try Contest\nAs part of the sponsorship deal, a Top Try Contest was held. This involved all the professional first round Players No.6 Trophy Losers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 84], "content_span": [85, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093426-0009-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 League Cup (rugby league), Competition and Results, Player's Top Try Contest\nOne match was played by each club and the four clubs scoring the most tries received prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 84], "content_span": [85, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093426-0010-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 League Cup (rugby league), Competition and Results, Player's Top Try Contest\nThis competition was not a success and was only held for this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 84], "content_span": [85, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093426-0011-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 League Cup (rugby league), Competition and Results, Player's Top Try Contest, The Table\nIn the case of a tie, the deciding items were\u00a0:-", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 95], "content_span": [96, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093426-0012-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 League Cup (rugby league), Competition and Results, Player's Top Try Contest, The Table\nThe table showing finishing positions and the awards were as follows\u00a0:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 95], "content_span": [96, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093426-0013-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 League Cup (rugby league), Competition and Results, Player's Top Try Contest, The Table\nNote * Widnes took 4th place ahead of Dewsbury as they scored more points - and therefore were awarded the prize money", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 95], "content_span": [96, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093426-0014-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 League Cup (rugby league), Notes and comments\n1 * Thames Board Mills were a Junior (amateur) club from Warrington2 * Thames Board Mills opted to play the match at Wilderspool, the home of Warrington3 * Ace Amateurs were a Junior (amateur) club from Hull4 * Ace Amateurs were drawn at Home but agreed to switch the venue to Central Park, the home ground of Wigan5 * Odsal is the home ground of Bradford Northern from 1890 to 2010 and the current capacity is in the region of 26,000, The ground is famous for hosting the largest attendance at an English sports ground when 102,569 (it was reported that over 120,000 actually attended as several areas of boundary fencing collapse under the sheer weight of numbers) attended the replay of the Challenge Cup final on 5 May 1954 to see Halifax v Warrington", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 810]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093427-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 League of Ireland, Overview\nIt was contested by 14 teams, and Waterford won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093428-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Leeds United A.F.C. season\nThe 1971\u201372 season was Leeds United's eighth consecutive season in the Football League First Division, the top tier of English football, where they finished 2nd, one point behind winners Derby County. Alongside the First Division, the club competed in the FA Cup, Football League Cup and the UEFA Cup. Leeds won the FA Cup, beating Arsenal 1\u20130 in the final on 6 May 1972. They were eliminated from the Football League Cup in the third round and were knocked out of the UEFA Cup by Lierse S.K. in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093428-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Leeds United A.F.C. season, Background\nIn March 1961, the club appointed former player Don Revie as manager, following the resignation of Jack Taylor. His stewardship began in adverse circumstances; the club was in financial difficulty and in 1961\u201362 only a win in the final game of the season saved the club from relegation to Division Three. Revie implemented a youth policy and a change of kit colour to an all-white strip in the style of Real Madrid, and Leeds soon won promotion to the First Division in 1963\u201364.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093428-0001-0001", "contents": "1971\u201372 Leeds United A.F.C. season, Background\nLeeds adapted well to the First Division in the 1964\u201365 campaign, finishing second to rivals Manchester United on goal difference. It took the club until 1968 to win their first major honour, winning the League Cup with Terry Cooper scoring the only goal of a 1\u20130 victory in the final against Arsenal. They also won the 1968 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Final, beating Hungarian club Ferencv\u00e1rosi over two legs. Leeds won the first leg 1\u20130, and a month later defended their lead with a 0\u20130 draw in Budapest, before winning the First Division for the first time in the 1968\u201369 campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093428-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Leeds United A.F.C. season, Background\nHaving rejected an offer to manage Birmingham City, Revie chose to remain at Leeds for the 1970\u201371 campaign. Leeds and Arsenal both challenged for the title that season, though it would be the Gunners who would claim the league title, finishing one point ahead of Leeds after the latter lost to West Bromwich Albion following a controversial offside goal. United were also knocked out of the FA Cup by Fourth Division side Colchester United. Leeds again found success in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup though, beating Juventus in the final on away goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093428-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Leeds United A.F.C. season, Season summary\nAs a result of the pitch invasion against West Bromwich Albion, Leeds were banned from playing their first five home games of the 1971\u201372 season at home, and only managed to pick up 2 points from those games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093428-0003-0001", "contents": "1971\u201372 Leeds United A.F.C. season, Season summary\nHowever, they still managed to mount a challenge for the Double; an Allan Clarke goal was enough as Leeds beat Arsenal 1\u20130 in the FA Cup Final, but once again heavy fixture congestion meant that Leeds had to play three crucial games within the space of one week; an away match against Chelsea in the league three days before the FA cup final and they had to play their final league game less than two days after the final, which was away to Wolves. Leeds only had to draw this game to win the title, but they were beaten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093428-0003-0002", "contents": "1971\u201372 Leeds United A.F.C. season, Season summary\nThe league went to Derby County, again by 1 point. Eric Todd of the Guardian wrote on the situation in the week prior to these games: \"If Leeds fail to win either the Cup or the League title they need not blame loss of form. They must blame the system. And if Leeds cannot field a full strength side against Arsenal at Wembley, the crowd can blame the Football League and Chelsea who have decided that their jaunt to the West Indies, or wherever it is, is more important than trying to help Leeds prepare properly for crucial football matches.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093428-0003-0003", "contents": "1971\u201372 Leeds United A.F.C. season, Season summary\nIn later years controversy surrounding the Wolves game would develop into a match-fixing scandal, with accusations directed towards Leeds United captain Billy Bremner. However Bremner would clear his name of these allegations in court, with evidence given for Bremner by Wolves's captain and forward Derek Dougan, who scored the winning goal in the match at Molineux.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093429-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Leicester City F.C. season\nDuring the 1971\u201372 English football season, Leicester City F.C. competed in the Football League First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093429-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Leicester City F.C. season, Season summary\nIn the 1971\u201372 season, Jimmy Bloomfield was appointed as new Leicester boss for the new season, and kept them in the First Division in their first season back in the top flight after a 2-year absence with a satisfying 12th-place finish. Unusually, due to Division One champions Arsenal's commitments in European competition, Division Two winners Leicester were invited to play FA Cup winners Liverpool, beating them 1\u20130 to win the Charity Shield for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093429-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Leicester City F.C. season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093430-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Libyan Premier League\nThe 1971\u201372 Libyan Premier League was the 8th edition of the competition since its inception in 1963.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093430-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Libyan Premier League, Overview\nIt was contested by 11 teams, and Al-Ahly (Benghazi) won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093431-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Liga Alef\nThe 1971\u201372 Liga Alef season saw Maccabi Petah Tikva (champions of the North Division) and Hapoel Marmorek (champions of the South Division) win the title and promotion to Liga Leumit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093432-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Liga Bet\nThe 1971\u201372 Liga Bet season saw Hapoel Safed, Hapoel Givat Haim, Hapoel Ramla and Hapoel Dimona win their regional divisions and promoted to Liga Alef.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093433-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Liga Espa\u00f1ola de Baloncesto\nThe 1971\u201372 Liga Espa\u00f1ola de Baloncesto season was the 16th season of the Liga Espa\u00f1ola de Baloncesto and was played between 9 October 1971 and 27 February 1972. The season ended with Real Madrid winning their 14th title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093433-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Liga Espa\u00f1ola de Baloncesto, Overview before the season\n12 teams joined the league, including two promoted from the 1970\u201371 Segunda Divisi\u00f3n.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 63], "content_span": [64, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093434-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Liga Femenina de Baloncesto\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by Frietjes (talk | contribs) at 16:14, 19 December 2019 (expand templates per Fb team TfD outcome and Fb competition TfD outcome and Fb cl TfD outcome and Fb rbr TfD outcome). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093434-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Liga Femenina de Baloncesto\nThe 1971\u201372 Liga Femenina de Baloncesto was the 9th edition of the Spanish premier women's basketball championship. It took place from 17 October 1971 to 26 March 1972. Twelve teams took part in the championship and Ignis Matar\u00f3 won its first title. Medina La Coru\u00f1a was relegated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093435-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Liga Leumit\nThe 1971\u201372 Liga Leumit season saw Maccabi Tel Aviv win the title, whilst Bnei Yehuda and Hapoel Hadera were both relegated. Yehuda Shaharabani of Hakoah Ramat Gan was the league's top scorer with 21 goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093436-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Lion Shield\nThe 1971\u201372 season of the Lion Shield was the third season of top flight association football competition in Tonga. Kolofo'ou No.1, Veitongo and Ngeleia shared the championship after they all finished tied with 18 points after eleven games. This was Kolofo'ou's third consecutive title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093437-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Liverpool F.C. season\nLiverpool F.C. fought for the league title for the first time in three years, finishing third, albeit just one point behind champions Derby, in a battle that also involved Leeds and Manchester City. Liverpool's only second attempt at the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup ended in disappointment, following an autumn defeat to Bayern Munich. The season saw the breakthrough of youngster Kevin Keegan, the attacking midfielder playing an integral part in the team, assisting several goals and scored nine himself, having been moved to a striking position. It gave them hope that their trophyless run, now in its sixth season, may soon end.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 656]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093437-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Liverpool F.C. season\nAnother player who had come through the youth system and made his debut as a substitute for John Toshack against Manchester United on Easter Monday was Phil Thompson who would become an integral part of the team for the rest of the decade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093438-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Local League\nThe 1971\u201372 season was the second and last season of the Local League of Iranian football. The competition was won by Persepolis Football Club of Tehran.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093438-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Local League, Qualifying Tournament \u2013 Region A, Final\n(P) Taj Tehran and Taj Noshahr Promoted to the Group stage", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 61], "content_span": [62, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093438-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Local League, Qualifying Tournament \u2013 Region B, Final\n(P) Taj Masjed Soleyman and Persepolis Promoted to the Group stage", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 61], "content_span": [62, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093438-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Local League, Qualifying Tournament \u2013 Region C, Final\n(P) Pas Tehran and Sepahan Promoted to the Group stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 61], "content_span": [62, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093438-0004-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Local League, Qualifying Tournament \u2013 Region D, Final\n(P) Jam Abadan and Oghab Tehran Promoted to the Group stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 61], "content_span": [62, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093439-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Los Angeles Kings season\nThe 1971\u201372 Los Angeles Kings season was the Kings' fifth season of operation in the National Hockey League (NHL). The Kings finished in last place in the West Division and did not qualify for the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093439-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Los Angeles Kings season, Transactions\nThe Kings were involved in the following transactions during the 1971\u201372 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093439-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Los Angeles Kings season, Draft picks\nLos Angeles's draft picks at the 1971 NHL Amateur Draft held at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Quebec.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 45], "content_span": [46, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093440-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Los Angeles Lakers season\nDuring the 1971\u201372 season the Los Angeles Lakers won their first National Basketball Association (NBA) title since moving to Los Angeles. The Lakers defeated the New York Knicks in five games to win the title, after going 69\u201313 during the regular-season, a record that stood for 24 seasons until the 1995\u201396 Chicago Bulls went 72\u201310. During the regular season, they would also go on an NBA record 33-game winning streak. The team went on to win 81 regular season and playoff games overall, a record that would last for 14 years until Boston Celtics did it in 1986. In 1996, the 1971-72 Lakers were named as one of the Top 10 Teams in NBA History.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 680]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093440-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Los Angeles Lakers season, Regular season\nSince moving to Los Angeles, the Lakers were repeatedly foiled by the Boston Celtics in their attempts to capture an NBA title. The Lakers lost the championship to them six times in eight years. In 1970, with the aging Celtics out of title contention, the Lakers lost in the NBA finals to the New York Knicks. In 1971, after losing Jerry West to a season-ending injury in February, they lost in the Western Conference finals to the powerful Milwaukee Bucks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093440-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Los Angeles Lakers season, Regular season\nGoing into the 1971\u201372 season, many experts thought the chance at a championship had passed for this aging team. Star players Wilt Chamberlain, Elgin Baylor, and Jerry West were all in their 30s, and had all missed significant time due to injuries in the prior two seasons. The defending champion Milwaukee Bucks, led by superstar Kareem Abdul-Jabbar appeared to be starting a new NBA dynasty. But new coach Bill Sharman still believed the Lakers had the talent to contend. He introduced strict conditioning drills and implemented a running fast break based offense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093440-0002-0001", "contents": "1971\u201372 Los Angeles Lakers season, Regular season\nHe re-tooled Wilt Chamberlain's game to focus on defense, rebounding, and jump starting the fast break with quick outlet passes to guards Jerry West and Gail Goodrich. The only casualty of this system was the aging Baylor, who could not physically handle the up tempo practices and offense and retired 9 games into the season. He was replaced at small forward by Jim McMillian who played at a near all star level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093440-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Los Angeles Lakers season, Regular season\nShortly thereafter, the Lakers strung together a record 33-game win streak. The streak ended on January 9, 1972, against the Milwaukee Bucks. The Lakers and Bucks then staged a season long race for the league's best record, with the Lakers setting a then NBA record with 69 wins (the Bucks had the second best record at 63\u201319).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093440-0004-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Los Angeles Lakers season, NBA finals\nThe Los Angeles Lakers played against the New York Knicks in the NBA finals during the postseason.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093440-0005-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Los Angeles Lakers season, NBA finals, Game 1\nAlthough without Willis Reed because of his knee injury. Jerry Lucas scored 26 points but was only one of several Knicks who was red hot. Bill Bradley hit 11 of 12 shots from the field as New York shot 53 percent for the game. The team took advantage of a nearly perfect first half to jump to a good lead and won easily, 114\u201392. Early in the second half, the Forum crowd began filing out dejectedly. It looked like another Los Angeles fold in the Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093440-0006-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Los Angeles Lakers season, NBA finals, Game 2\nKnicks forward Dave DeBusschere hurt his side and didn't play after the first half. Hairston scored 12 points in the second half, and Los Angeles evened the series with a 106\u201392 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093440-0007-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Los Angeles Lakers season, NBA finals, Game 3\nDeBusschere attempted to play in the first half and missed all six of his field-goal attempts. He was hurting and elected not to play in the second half. DeBusschere explained, \"I didn't feel I was helping the team.\" The Lakers danced out to a 22-point lead and regained the home-court advantage with a 107\u201396 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093440-0008-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Los Angeles Lakers season, NBA finals, Game 4\nThe game went into overtime, but at the end of regulation, Wilt Chamberlain picked up his fifth foul. In 13 NBA seasons, he had never fouled out of a game, a history he was immensely proud of but also one that usually led to him playing less aggressively when he was on the verge of getting a 6th foul. As the press waited for Wilt to take the floor and hurt the Lakers by reverting to a passive style, he instead came out in a shotblocking fury that propelled the Lakers to a 116\u2013111 win. At three games to one, their lead now seemed insurmountable.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093440-0009-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Los Angeles Lakers season, NBA finals, Game 5\nThe Lakers won their sixth NBA championship by the score of 114\u2013100. This was their first championship since moving to Los Angeles in 1960. Jerry West also won his first NBA championship after 12 years of waiting. Wilt Chamberlain scored 24 points and 29 rebounds and earned the NBA Finals MVP Award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093441-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Louisville Cardinals men's basketball team\nThe 1971\u201372 Louisville Cardinals men's basketball team represented the University of Louisville during the 1971\u201372 NCAA Division I men's basketball season, Louisville's 59th season of intercollegiate competition. The Cardinals competed in the Missouri Valley Conference and were coached by Denny Crum, who was in his first season. The team played its home games at Freedom Hall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093441-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Louisville Cardinals men's basketball team\nLouisville defeated Memphis State 83\u201372 in the Missouri Valley Conference playoff to earn an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. They beat Kansas State to win the NCAA Tournament Midwest Regional and advance to the Final Four (their 2nd) where they fell to eventual champion UCLA, 96\u201377. They finished fourth, falling to North Carolina in the third place game 105\u201391. The Cardinals finished with a 26\u20135 (12\u20132) record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093442-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Luxembourg National Division\nThe 1971\u201372 Luxembourg National Division was the 58th season of top level association football in Luxembourg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093442-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Luxembourg National Division, Overview\nIt was performed in 12 teams, and FC Aris Bonnevoie won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093443-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 MJHL season, Champion\nOn March 28, 1972, at home in Dauphin, the Kings rule the roost for the third time in four years, capturing their third Turnbull Memorial Trophy as MJHL Champs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 29], "content_span": [30, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093443-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 MJHL season, League notes\nThe Dauphin Kings established a MJHL record of 40 Wins in a season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093443-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 MJHL season, All-Star game\nOn February 1, the MJHL All-Stars played Toronto Marlboros of the Ontario Hockey League at the Winnipeg Arena. The Marlies led by Steve Shutt's 2 goals edged the All-Stars 8-7. Other Marlies goals were scored by Dave Gardner, Billy Harris, George Ferguson, Dennis Maruk, Tom Thomson, and Kevin Devine. Replying for the All-Stars were Rick Blight with a pair, Don Larway, Steve Craft, Brad Carefoot, Murray Fadden, and Kim Murphy added singles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093444-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Macedonian Republic League\nThe 1971\u201372 Macedonian Republic League was the 28th since its establishment. FK Tikve\u0161 Kavadarci won their 1st championship title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093445-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Magyar Kupa\nThe 1971\u201372 Magyar Kupa (English: Hungarian Cup) was the 32nd season of Hungary's annual knock-out cup football competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093446-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Maltese Premier League\nThe 1971\u201372 Maltese First Division was the 57th season of top-tier football in Malta. It was contested by 10 teams, and Sliema Wanderers F.C. won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093447-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Manchester United F.C. season\nThe 1971\u201372 season was Manchester United's 70th season in the Football League, and their 27th consecutive season in the top division of English football. In a pre-season competition United participated in the Watney Cup, which was contested by the teams that had scored the most goals in each of the four divisions of the Football League the previous season who had not been promoted or admitted to one of the European competitions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093447-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Manchester United F.C. season\nBefore the beginning of the season, on 8 June 1971, Frank O'Farrell was appointed as United manager, more than five months after Wilf McGuinness had been sacked. Sir Matt Busby had returned to the role of manager until the end of the season before returning to his role of director.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093447-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Manchester United F.C. season\nDue to Manchester United being banned from playing their first two home matches in Old Trafford, after hooligans had thrown knives into the away section at a match at the end of the previous season, their opening \"home\" games were played at Anfield and the Victoria Ground.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093447-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Manchester United F.C. season\nO'Farrell's first season as United managed started well, and they were top of the league by Christmas. However, a run of seven successive league defeats after the turn of 1972 dragged them down the table. In January and February 1972, United conceded 16 goals, including 5 at Elland Road. O'Farrell attempted to shore up the leaky defence with the signing of Martin Buchan from Aberdeen for a (then) club record fee of \u00a3125,000. United never recovered their early season form and they could only manage an eighth-place finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093448-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Mansfield Town F.C. season\nThe 1971\u201372 season was Mansfield Town's 35th season in the Football League and 11th in the Third Division, they finished in 21st position with 36 points and were relegated to the Fourth Division on goal average.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093449-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Marquette Warriors men's basketball team\nThe 1971\u201372 Marquette Warriors men's basketball team represented the Marquette University in the 1971\u201372 season. The Warriors finished the regular season with a record of 25\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093450-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Marshall Thundering Herd men's basketball team\nThe 1971\u201372 Marshall Thundering Herd men's basketball team represented Marshall University during the 1971\u201372 NCAA University Division men's basketball season. The Thundering Herd, led by first-year head coach Carl Tacy, played their home games at the Veterans Memorial Fieldhouse as an Independent. They finished the season 23\u20134 and received an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament where they lost to Southwestern Louisiana in the First Round. They finished ranked No. 12 in the AP Poll and No. 18 in the UPI Poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093451-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Memphis Pros season\nThe 1971\u201372 Memphis Pros season was the 2nd and final season of the Pros in the American Basketball Association. By the middle of the season, they were 17\u201325. In the second half of the season, they went 9\u201333, with a 10-game losing streak from February 4 to February 23 being the lowlight. In fact, the team ended the season on a nine-game losing streak. The biggest winning streak was 3, which they accomplished three times in the season. The Pros were 10th in points scored with 107.5 points per game and 6th in points allowed with 113.0 points per game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093451-0000-0001", "contents": "1971\u201372 Memphis Pros season\nOn December 11, 1971, the operation of the franchise was taken over by the league. With the team struggling financially, they were sold on June 13, 1972 to Charles O. Finley, owner of the Oakland Athletics and the Oakland Seals. Soon after they were rebranded as the Memphis Tams, while playing at the same arena as the Pros. In their first season, they lost 60 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093451-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Memphis Pros season, Awards and honors\n1972 ABA All-Star Game selection (game played on January 29, 1972)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093452-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Mersin \u0130dmanyurdu season\nMersin \u0130dmanyurdu (also Mersin \u0130dman Yurdu, Mersin \u0130Y, or M\u0130Y) Sports Club; located in Mersin, east Mediterranean coast of Turkey in 1971\u201372. The 1971\u201372 season was the fifth season of Mersin \u0130dmanyurdu (M\u0130Y) football team in Turkish First Football League, the first level division in Turkey. They finished seventh in the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093452-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Mersin \u0130dmanyurdu season\nClub address was: Bah\u00e7elievler, Silifke Caddesi, Mersin. Tel: 1321. Executive committee: Mehmet Karamehmet (president), \u00dcnal Sakman, Emin Y\u0131ld\u0131z, Orhan Sesimutlu, Erol Tarhan, G\u00fcne\u015f Topsal, \u00c7etin Kocaer, Sezai Sak, \u0130brahim G\u00fcnay, Ayd\u0131n \u00d6zl\u00fc, \u00d6zcan \u00d6zg\u00fcrmen, Kayhan Oktar, M. S\u00f6zmen, C. Baydur, M. \u015eahin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093452-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Mersin \u0130dmanyurdu season\nVice-presidents Erol Tarhan and Mahir Turhan called former coach Turgay \u015eeren back to club but they could not agree. Mersin \u0130dmanyurdu signed a contract with a foreign manager for the first time in its history, Dumitru Teodorescu. Club executives Orhan Mutlu and Sezai Sak signed former Be\u015fikta\u015f coach in \u0130stanbul. However, because M\u0130Y couldn't obtain a work permit for Teodorescu from Romanian Football Federation, they signed with Turgay \u015eeren after the second round. Turgay \u015eeren completed the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093452-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Mersin \u0130dmanyurdu season, Pre-season\nM\u0130Y opened the season on 16.07.1971 with a ceremony in Tevfik S\u0131rr\u0131 G\u00fcr Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093452-0004-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Mersin \u0130dmanyurdu season, 1971\u201372 First League participation\nFirst League was played with 16 teams in its 15th season, 1971\u201372. Last two teams relegated to Second League 1972\u201373. Mersin \u0130Y became 7th with 10 wins. Before the season, team's most scorer player Osman Arpac\u0131o\u011flu was transferred to Fenerbah\u00e7e; in return Zeki Temizer from Fenerbah\u00e7e and G\u00fcven\u00e7 Kurtar from Be\u015fikta\u015f were transferred to Mersin \u0130Y. In that season most scorer players were G\u00fcven\u00e7 Kurtar (12 goals) and Zeki Temizer (8 goals).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 68], "content_span": [69, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093452-0005-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Mersin \u0130dmanyurdu season, 1971\u201372 First League participation, League table\nMersin \u0130Y's league performance in First League in 1971\u201372 season is shown in the following table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 82], "content_span": [83, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093452-0006-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Mersin \u0130dmanyurdu season, 1971\u201372 First League participation, League table\nNote: Won, drawn and lost points are 2, 1 and 0. F belongs to M\u0130Y and A belongs to corresponding team for both home and away matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 82], "content_span": [83, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093452-0007-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Mersin \u0130dmanyurdu season, 1971\u201372 First League participation, Results by round\nResults of games M\u0130Y played in 1971\u201372 First League by rounds:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 86], "content_span": [87, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093452-0008-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Mersin \u0130dmanyurdu season, 1971\u201372 Turkish Cup participation\n1971\u201372 Turkish Cup was played for the 10th season as T\u00fcrkiye Kupas\u0131 by 26 teams. Two elimination rounds and finals were played in two-legs elimination system. Top ten first division teams from previous season participated. Mersin \u0130dmanyurdu did not participate in the Cup because they had finished previous season at 11th place. MKE Ankarag\u00fcc\u00fc won the Cup for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 67], "content_span": [68, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093452-0009-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Mersin \u0130dmanyurdu season, 1971\u201372 squad\nStats are counted for 1971\u201372 First League matches. In the team rosters five substitutes were allowed to appear, two of whom were substitutable. Only the players who appeared in game rosters were included and listed in the order of appearance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093453-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Mexican Primera Divisi\u00f3n season\nStatistics of the Primera Divisi\u00f3n de M\u00e9xico for the 1971\u201372 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093453-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Mexican Primera Divisi\u00f3n season, Overview\nThis season was contested by 18 teams, and Cruz Azul won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093454-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Mexican Segunda Divisi\u00f3n season\nThe 1971\u201372 Segunda Divisi\u00f3n was the 23rd season of the Mexican Segunda Divisi\u00f3n. The season started on 27 October 1971 and concluded on 26 July 1972. It was won by Atlas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093454-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Mexican Segunda Divisi\u00f3n season\nAs of this season the format of the league changed, there were created two groups, the first and second place of each one must play a playoff series for the championship, at the same time the two last teams of each group must play a playoff relegation series. However, the matches between all the teams in the league were maintained.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093455-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team\nThe 1971\u201372 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team represented Michigan State University in the 1971\u201372 NCAA Division I men's basketball season as members of the Big Ten Conference. They played their home games at Jenison Fieldhouse in East Lansing, Michigan and were coached by Gus Ganakas in his third year as head coach of the Spartans. They finished the season 13\u201311, 6\u20138 in Big Ten play to finish in a tie for fifth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093455-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team, Previous season\nThe Spartans finished the 1970\u201371 season 10\u201314, 4\u201310 in Big Ten play to finish in a tie for seventh place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 70], "content_span": [71, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093456-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team\nThe 1971\u201372 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team represented the University of Michigan in intercollegiate college basketball during the 1971\u201372 NCAA University Division men's basketball season. The team played its home games at Crisler Arena on the school's campus in Ann Arbor, Michigan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093456-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team\nUnder the direction of head coach Johnny Orr, the team finished with a 14\u201310 overall record and a 9\u20135 conference record. This tied the team for third in the Big Ten Conference but failed to get an invitation to either the 1972 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament or the 1972 National Invitation Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093456-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team\nWayne Grabiac and Dave Hart served as team captains, while Henry Wilmore earned team MVP. The team earned the Big Ten scoring offense statistical championship with an 81.8 average in conference games. It also led the conference in field goal percentage with a 45.3% in conference games. Additionally, the team led the conference in rebounding with a 51.6 average in conference games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093456-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team\nThe team was in the Associated Press Top Twenty Poll for four of the sixteen weeks of the season, rising as high as number nine after starting the season ranked at number thirteen. However, the team ended the season unranked in both the final UPI Coaches' Poll and the final AP Poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093456-0004-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team\nDuring the season, the team beat two of the four ranked opponents that it faced (#16 Illinois by a 75\u201370 margin on January 11, 1972, at Assembly Hall in Champaign and #6 Ohio State on January 29, 1972, at Crisler Arena by an 88\u201378 margin). The team was led by Consensus second team All-American Wilmore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093456-0005-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team, Team players drafted into the NBA\nFour players from this team were selected in the NBA Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 84], "content_span": [85, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093457-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Midland Football Combination\nThe 1971\u201372 Midland Football Combination season was the 35th in the history of Midland Football Combination, a football competition in England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093457-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Midland Football Combination, Division One\nDivision One featured 17 clubs which competed in the division last season along with one new club:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 50], "content_span": [51, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093458-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Midland Football League\nThe 1971\u201372 Midland Football League season was the 72nd in the history of the Midland Football League, a football competition in England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093458-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Midland Football League, Clubs\nThe league featured 15 clubs which competed in the previous season, along with three new clubs:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 38], "content_span": [39, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093459-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Milwaukee Bucks season\nThe 1971\u201372 Milwaukee Bucks season was the fourth season in franchise history. Led by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the Bucks finished in first place in the Midwest Division. Abdul-Jabbar won the NBA Most Valuable Player Award ahead of Jerry West and Wilt Chamberlain of the Los Angeles Lakers. On January 9, 1972, the Bucks snapped the Los Angeles Lakers 33-game winning streak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093460-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Minnesota North Stars season\nThe 1971\u201372 Minnesota North Stars season was the Stars' fifth season of operation in the National Hockey League (NHL). The Stars finished in second place in the West Division and qualified for the playoffs, where they lost in the first round to the St. Louis Blues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093460-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Minnesota North Stars season, Playoffs, Playoffs\nFor the fourth time in their first five seasons, the North Stars were in the playoffs. Once again, they had a matchup with the Blues in the postseason. The two teams would not meet again in the postseason until 1984.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 56], "content_span": [57, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093460-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Minnesota North Stars season, Draft picks\nMinnesota's draft picks at the 1971 NHL Amateur Draft held at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Quebec.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 49], "content_span": [50, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093461-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Montana Grizzlies basketball team\nThe 1971\u201372 Montana Grizzlies basketball team represented the University of Montana during the 1971\u201372 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. Charter members of the Big Sky Conference, the Grizzlies were led by first-year head coach Jud Heathcote and played their home games on campus at Dahlberg Arena in Missoula, Montana. They finished the regular season at 14\u201311, with a 7\u20137 conference record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093461-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Montana Grizzlies basketball team\nThe Big Sky conference tournament debuted four years later, in 1976.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093461-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Montana Grizzlies basketball team\nHeathcote, an assistant at Washington State under Marv Harshman, was hired in March 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093462-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Montenegrin Republic League\nThe 1971\u201372 Montenegrin Republic League was 27th season of Montenegrin Republic League. Season started in August 1971 and finished in May 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093462-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Montenegrin Republic League, Season\nOn season 1971\u201372, in Montenegrin Republic League participated 12 teams. Among the teams which didn't play during the previous season were three best teams from Regional leagues - Ibar, Brskovo and Grafi\u010dar. After 22 weeks, the title won Jedinstvo. Second-placed was Rudar with equal number of points as Arsenal, but with better goal difference. So, Jedinstvo and Rudar gained promotion to Yugoslav Second League. Two lowest ranked teams - Brskovo and Kom were relegated to Regional leagues (fourth level).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093462-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Montenegrin Republic League, Higher leagues\nOn season 1971\u201372, six Montenegrin teams played in higher leagues of SFR Yugoslavia. Sutjeska was a member of 1971\u201372 Yugoslav First League. Five other teams (Budu\u0107nost, Lov\u0107en, OFK Titograd, Bokelj and Iskra) participated in 1971\u201372 Yugoslav Second League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 51], "content_span": [52, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093463-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Montreal Canadiens season\nThe 1971\u201372 Montreal Canadiens season was the team's 63rd season of play. The Canadiens qualified for the playoffs but were eliminated in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093463-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Montreal Canadiens season, Playoffs\nAfter winning the Stanley Cup the previous season, the Canadiens could not repeat. The Canadiens lost to the New York Rangers in the first round, losing four games to two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093463-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Montreal Canadiens season, Draft picks\nMontreal's draft picks at the 1971 NHL Amateur Draft held at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Quebec.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 46], "content_span": [47, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093464-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Moroccan Throne Cup\nThe 1971\u201372 season of the Moroccan Throne Cup was the 16th edition of the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093464-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Moroccan Throne Cup\nThe two finalists, Chabab Mohamm\u00e9dia and Racing de Casablanca, were both declared winners in the final. Chabab Mohamm\u00e9dia and Racing de Casablanca both won the title for the first time in their history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093464-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Moroccan Throne Cup, Tournament, Final\nThe final between the two winning semi-finalists, Chabab Mohamm\u00e9dia and Racing de Casablanca, did not take place, and both clubs were declared winners in 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093465-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NBA season\nThe 1971\u201372 NBA season was the 26th season of the National Basketball Association. The season ended with the Los Angeles Lakers winning the NBA Championship, beating the New York Knicks 4 games to 1 in the NBA Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093465-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NBA season\nAs the 25th anniversary of the founding of the modern NBA, the league unveiled a new logo, inspired by the logo of Major League Baseball, to commemorate the occasion. It features the white silhouette of a basketball player dribbling, framed by red and blue. Jerry West of the Los Angeles Lakers was used as the model for the logo. Coincidentally, Jerry West would win the only NBA Championship of his career during the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093465-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NBA season, Regular season\nThe Los Angeles Lakers came into the season returning a veteran squad from their playoff run a year before. Nine games into the season, aging and oft injured Elgin Baylor announced his retirement after 13 seasons. He was replaced at the starting small forward spot by Jim McMillian, who would go on to average 18 points per game, third best on the team. Despite Baylor's retirement, the Lakers went on a 33-game winning streak. The Lakers completed two undefeated months, going 14\u20130 in November and 16\u20130 in December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093465-0002-0001", "contents": "1971\u201372 NBA season, Regular season\nAfter winning their first three games in January, the Lakers lost 120\u2013104 to the Milwaukee Bucks. On March 20, 1972, the Lakers beat Golden State by a record 63 points (162\u201399), a mark that would stand until 1991, when Cleveland beat Miami by 68 points (148\u201380). The Lakers finished the season with a record 69 wins, which would stand until the 1995\u201396 season when the Chicago Bulls won 72 regular season games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093465-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NBA season, Regular season\nThe defending champion Milwaukee Bucks won 63 games on the play of renamed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, formerly Lew Alcindor, and Oscar Robertson. The Celtics, led by second year center Dave Cowens, point guard Jo Jo White and 32-year-old swingman John Havlicek won the Atlantic Division with 56 wins. Boston had recovered from the retirement of Bill Russell, K. C. Jones and Sam Jones by winning 12 more games than the previous season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093465-0004-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NBA season, Playoffs\nIn the first round, the Lakers swept the Bulls and Milwaukee defeated Golden State. New York eliminated the Bullets and Boston won against the Atlanta Hawks. In the Western Conference Finals, the Lakers lost game 1 versus the defending champion Bucks at The Forum 93\u201372, a game that saw the Lakers score only 8 points in the third quarter. However, the Lakers led by assist champion Jerry West, leading scorer Gail Goodrich and veteran Wilt Chamberlain would win 4 of the next 5 games and beat Milwaukee in six games. In the Eastern Conference Finals, New York defeated the top-seed Celtics in five games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093465-0005-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NBA season, Playoffs\nIn the NBA Finals, New York won game 1 very easily, but Los Angeles won game 2 106\u201392 to even the series. In game 3, the Lakers jumped out to a 22-point lead and regained home-court advantage with a 107\u201396 win. In game 4, the Knicks forced overtime. At the end of regulation, Wilt Chamberlain was called for his fifth foul. In his first 12 seasons, he had never fouled out of a game. Chamberlain did not foul out and led the Lakers to a 116\u2013111 victory, but he broke his wrist in the overtime period.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093465-0005-0001", "contents": "1971\u201372 NBA season, Playoffs\nThe Lakers held a 3\u20131 series lead going into game 5 in Los Angeles. In game 5, Chamberlain played despite his injury. The score was tied at 53 in the first half, but the Lakers outscored the Knicks 61\u201347 in the second half to win the game and the NBA Championship, 114\u2013100.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093465-0006-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NBA season, NBA awards\nNote: All information on this page were obtained on the History section on or", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093466-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NCAA College Division men's ice hockey season\nThe 1971\u201372 NCAA College Division men's ice hockey season began in November 1971 and concluded in March of the following year. This was the 8th season of second-tier college ice hockey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093466-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NCAA College Division men's ice hockey season, Regular season, Standings\nChampionship: March 8, 1972\u2020 indicates conference regular season champion* indicates conference tournament champion", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 80], "content_span": [81, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093467-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NCAA University Division men's basketball rankings\nThe 1971\u201372 NCAA University Division men's basketball rankings was made up of two human polls, the AP Poll and the Coaches Poll, in addition to various other preseason polls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093468-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NCAA University Division men's basketball season\nThe 1971\u201372 NCAA University Division men's basketball season began in December 1971, progressed through the regular season and conference tournaments, and concluded with the 1972 NCAA University Division Basketball Tournament Championship Game on March 25, 1972, at Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena in Los Angeles, California. The UCLA Bruins won their eighth NCAA national championship with an 81\u201376 victory over the Florida State Seminoles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093468-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NCAA University Division men's basketball season, Season outlook, Pre-season polls\nThe Top 20 from the AP Poll and Coaches Poll during the pre-season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 90], "content_span": [91, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093468-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NCAA University Division men's basketball season, Coaching changes\nA number of teams changed coaches during the season and after it ended.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 74], "content_span": [75, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093469-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NCAA University Division men's ice hockey season\nThe 1971\u201372 NCAA University Division men's ice hockey season began in November 1971 and concluded with the 1972 NCAA University Division Men's Ice Hockey Tournament's championship game on March 18, 1972 at the Boston Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. This was the 25th season in which an NCAA ice hockey championship was held and is the 77th year overall where an NCAA school fielded a team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093469-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NCAA University Division men's ice hockey season\nThis was the first year of play for the CCHA with former independents Ohio State and Saint Louis being joined by new programs from Bowling Green and Ohio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093469-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NCAA University Division men's ice hockey season\nFor the final time the ICAC awarded a trophy to the league champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093469-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NCAA University Division men's ice hockey season, Player stats, Scoring leaders\nThe following players led the league in points at the conclusion of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 87], "content_span": [88, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093469-0004-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NCAA University Division men's ice hockey season, Player stats, Scoring leaders\nGP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalty minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 87], "content_span": [88, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093469-0005-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NCAA University Division men's ice hockey season, Player stats, Leading goaltenders\nThe following goaltenders led the league in goals against average at the end of the regular season while playing at least 33% of their team's total minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 91], "content_span": [92, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093469-0006-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NCAA University Division men's ice hockey season, Player stats, Leading goaltenders\nGP = Games played; Min = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; OT = Overtime/shootout losses; GA = Goals against; SO = Shutouts; SV% = Save percentage; GAA = Goals against average", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 91], "content_span": [92, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093470-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NFL playoffs\nThe National Football League playoffs for the 1971 season began on December 25, 1971. The postseason tournament concluded with the Dallas Cowboys defeating the Miami Dolphins in Super Bowl VI, 24\u20133, on January 16, 1972, at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans, Louisiana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093470-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NFL playoffs\nLike the previous NFL seasons, the home teams in the playoffs were decided based on a yearly divisional rotation, excluding the wild card teams who would always play on the road. It was the first time that the NFL scheduled games on Christmas Day, a decision that drew considerable criticism.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093470-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NFL playoffs, Participants\nWithin each conference, the three division winners and one wild card team (the top non-division winner with the best overall records of all remaining teams in the conference) qualified for the playoffs. The NFL did not use a seeding system until the 1975 season, and instead home teams during the first two rounds of the playoffs alternated by division. Thus it was possible for a team to host another club with a better regular season record. For the Super Bowl, the third and final round played at a neutral site, the designated home team was based on an annual rotation by conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 622]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093470-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NFL playoffs, Schedule\nIn the United States, NBC broadcast the AFC playoff games, while CBS televised the NFC games and Super Bowl VI.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093470-0004-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, December 25, 1971, NFC: Dallas Cowboys 20, Minnesota Vikings 12\nAlthough the Vikings outgained the Cowboys in total yards 311\u2013183, Dallas forced 5 turnovers and converted some of them into 13 points en route to a 20\u201312 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 116], "content_span": [117, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093470-0005-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, December 25, 1971, NFC: Dallas Cowboys 20, Minnesota Vikings 12\nEarly in the first quarter, Cowboys defensive lineman Larry Cole forced a fumble from Dave Osborn that was recovered by fellow lineman Jethro Pugh on the Vikings 36-yard line. Dallas then drove to the Minnesota 19, mainly on the strength of an 18-yard completion from Roger Staubach to Bob Hayes, before defensive tackle Alan Page's 3rd down sack forced them to settle for Mike Clark's 26-yard field goal that gave them a 3-0 lead. The Vikings responded with a 27-yard field goal by Fred Cox that tied the score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 116], "content_span": [117, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093470-0006-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, December 25, 1971, NFC: Dallas Cowboys 20, Minnesota Vikings 12\nIn the second quarter, the Vikings got a big chance to take the lead when quarterback Bob Lee completed a 49-yard pass to Bob Grim on the Dallas 29-yard line. But linebacker Chuck Howley ended the drive with an interception, returning the ball 26 yards to the Vikings 37, and the Cowboys drove to a 44-yard Clark field goal that put them up 6-3. Minnesota had another chance to score as Clint Jones returned the kickoff 61 yards, but all this would result in was 3 incomplete passes and a missed 41-yard field goal attempt by Cox.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 116], "content_span": [117, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093470-0007-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, December 25, 1971, NFC: Dallas Cowboys 20, Minnesota Vikings 12\nEarly in the second half, Cliff Harris intercepted a pass from Lee and returned it 30 yards to the Vikings 13-yard line, setting up Duane Thomas' 13-yard touchdown run to give Dallas a 13\u20133 lead. Minnesota had a big chance to get back in the game when Charlie West returned the ensuing kickoff 51 yards, but this merely resulted in another missed field goal try by Cox, this one a 46-yard attempt. Late the third quarter, Dallas safety Charlie Waters returned a punt 24 yards to the Cowboys 48, sparking their only sustained drive of the second half. Moving the ball 52 yards, including a 30-yard completion from Staubach to Lance Alworth on 3rd and 15, Dallas went up 20-3 on Staubach's 9-yard touchdown pass to Hayes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 116], "content_span": [117, 836]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093470-0008-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, December 25, 1971, NFC: Dallas Cowboys 20, Minnesota Vikings 12\nStill, Minnesota was not quite out of the game. Early in the 4th quarter, Paige sacked Staubach in the end zone for a safety. Then Vikings coach Bud Grant replaced Lee with Gary Cuozzo, who led the team to the Dallas 19 after the free kick. But Cowboys linebacker Lee Roy Jordan made a clutch interception that essentially put the game way. Cuozzo did manage to lead the team to a touchdown on a 6-yard pass to tight end Stu Voigt, making the score 20-12, but by then barely more than 2 minutes remained on the clock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 116], "content_span": [117, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093470-0009-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, December 25, 1971, NFC: Dallas Cowboys 20, Minnesota Vikings 12\nThis was the first postseason meeting between the Cowboys and Vikings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 116], "content_span": [117, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093470-0010-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, December 25, 1971, AFC: Miami Dolphins 27, Kansas City Chiefs 24 (2OT)\nIn the longest NFL game played to date at 82 minutes, 40 seconds (in game time) (and the Chiefs' last game at Municipal Stadium), Miami kicker Garo Yepremian kicked the winning 37-yard field goal after 7:40 of the second overtime period.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 123], "content_span": [124, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093470-0011-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, December 25, 1971, AFC: Miami Dolphins 27, Kansas City Chiefs 24 (2OT)\nThe Chiefs opened up the scoring with Jan Stenerud's 24-yard field goal. Then Chiefs defensive back Willie Lanier intercepted a pass from Bob Griese and returned it 17 yards to set up Len Dawson's 7-yard touchdown pass to Ed Podolak, increasing the lead to 10\u20130. However, Griese rallied the Dolphins back on their next drive, completing a 23-yard pass to Paul Warfield and a 16-yarder to tight end Marv Fleming on the way to Larry Csonka's 1-yard touchdown run. Shortly before halftime, the Dolphins defense recovered a fumble from Podolak deep in Chiefs territory, enabling Garo Yepremian to kick a 14-yard field goal to tie the game, 10-10.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 123], "content_span": [124, 766]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093470-0012-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, December 25, 1971, AFC: Miami Dolphins 27, Kansas City Chiefs 24 (2OT)\nKansas City retook the lead in the third quarter, on a 15-play, 75-yard drive that took 10 minutes off the clock and ended with Jim Otis' 1-yard score. Miami responded quickly though, storming right back to tie the game with a 1-yard touchdown run from Jim Kiick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 123], "content_span": [124, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093470-0013-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, December 25, 1971, AFC: Miami Dolphins 27, Kansas City Chiefs 24 (2OT)\nIn the fourth quarter, Dolphins linebacker Nick Buoniconti recovered a fumble to give his team a big scoring opportunity. But Kansas City took the ball right back when safety Jim Lynch intercepted Griese's pass on the Chiefs 9-yard line. Kansas City then stormed 91 yards, including a 63-yard completion from Dawson to rookie receiver Elmo Wright, to retake the lead, 24\u201317, with Podolak's 3-yard touchdown run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 123], "content_span": [124, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093470-0013-0001", "contents": "1971\u201372 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, December 25, 1971, AFC: Miami Dolphins 27, Kansas City Chiefs 24 (2OT)\nMiami struck right back as Griese completed passes to Warfield for gains of 17 and 26 yards before finishing the 71-yard drive with a 5-yard touchdown pass to Fleming, tying the game at 24 with 1:25 left in regulation. Podolak returned the ensuing kickoff 78 yards to the Dolphins 22-yard line before being shoved out of bounds by Miami's Curtis Johnson, giving Stenerud a chance to win the game for the Chiefs in the final minute of regulation. But he missed the field goal attempt from 32 yards wide right.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 123], "content_span": [124, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093470-0013-0002", "contents": "1971\u201372 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, December 25, 1971, AFC: Miami Dolphins 27, Kansas City Chiefs 24 (2OT)\nThe Chiefs' Dennis Homan made a fair catch of a Larry Seiple punt as time expired in regulation, giving the Chiefs the option to attempt a fair catch kick from 68 yards, which, if good, would have resulted in a game-winning field goal. Fearing a return by Miami speedster Mercury Morris if Stenerud's kick fell short, Kansas City declined, and the game went to overtime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 123], "content_span": [124, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093470-0014-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, December 25, 1971, AFC: Miami Dolphins 27, Kansas City Chiefs 24 (2OT)\nKansas City took the opening kickoff of the first overtime period, and Podolak returned it to the 46-yard line. Kansas City then drove into scoring range, but Stenerud's 42-yard field goal attempt was blocked. Yepremian also attempted a 52-yard field goal later in the period, but it was short. As the first overtime period came to an end, Dolphins safety Jake Scott intercepted a pass from Dawson on the Chiefs 46. But the team was unable to move the ball and had to punt. Following a Kansas City punt, Csonka's 29-yard run set up Yepremian's game-winning score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 123], "content_span": [124, 687]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093470-0015-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, December 25, 1971, AFC: Miami Dolphins 27, Kansas City Chiefs 24 (2OT)\nPodolak's 350 all-purpose yards (8 receptions for 110 yards, 17 carries for 85 yards, 3 kickoff returns for 154 yards, two punt returns for two yards) in this game remain an NFL playoff record, and is still the fourth highest total in NFL history. \"I don't think any one player in a big game, a monumental game like that, had a day like Eddie Podolak had,\" said Chiefs coach Hank Stram after the game. Chiefs running back Wendell Hayes added 100 rushing yards, while Wright caught 3 passes for 104 yards. Dolphins receiver Paul Warfield finished with 7 receptions for a career postseason high 140 yards, while Dolphins linebacker Nick Buoniconti racked up 20 tackles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 123], "content_span": [124, 791]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093470-0016-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, December 25, 1971, AFC: Miami Dolphins 27, Kansas City Chiefs 24 (2OT)\nThis was the first postseason meeting between the Dolphins and Chiefs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 123], "content_span": [124, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093470-0017-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Sunday, December 26, 1971, AFC: Baltimore Colts 20, Cleveland Browns 3\nDon Nottingham scored two touchdowns for the Colts, while their defense limited the Browns to only 165 yards, 11 first downs, and 3 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 113], "content_span": [114, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093470-0018-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Sunday, December 26, 1971, AFC: Baltimore Colts 20, Cleveland Browns 3\nHowever, the Browns had plenty of scoring chances early in the game. On their first series, quarterback Bill Nelsen completed a 39-yard pass to Fair Hooker, but defensive back Rex Kern forced and recovered a fumble from him on the Colts 12-yard line. Baltimore had to punt on their ensuing drive, and Leroy Kelly's 48-yard return gave the Browns a first down on the Colts 4. All the Browns got from this field position though, was a 16-yard field goal attempt from Don Cockroft that was blocked by defensive tackle Bubba Smith (who would also block another field goal later on.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 113], "content_span": [114, 692]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093470-0019-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Sunday, December 26, 1971, AFC: Baltimore Colts 20, Cleveland Browns 3\nAfter the blocked field goal, the Colts drove 93 yards in 17 plays, including a 7-yard run by Nottingham on 4th and inches, to score on Nottingham's 1-yard touchdown run. Later in the second quarter, Baltimore safety Rick Volk intercepted a pass from Nelsen and returned it 37 yards to the Browns 15-yard line, setting up Nottingham's second touchdown run on a 7-yard burst.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 113], "content_span": [114, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093470-0020-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Sunday, December 26, 1971, AFC: Baltimore Colts 20, Cleveland Browns 3\nAfter three consecutive drives in the third quarter ended in turnovers, Cleveland finally got on the board with a 14-yard field goal by Cockroft. But Baltimore stormed right back on 74-yard drive to go up 17-3 on a field goal by Jim O'Brien. O'Brien added a 14-yard field goal in the fourth quarter to finish off the scoring.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 113], "content_span": [114, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093470-0021-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Sunday, December 26, 1971, AFC: Baltimore Colts 20, Cleveland Browns 3\nNottingham was the sole offensive star for either team with 92 rushing yards, 5 receiving yards, and two scores.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 113], "content_span": [114, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093470-0022-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Sunday, December 26, 1971, AFC: Baltimore Colts 20, Cleveland Browns 3\nThis was third postseason meeting between the Colts and Browns. Both teams split their previous two meetings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 113], "content_span": [114, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093470-0023-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Sunday, December 26, 1971, NFC: San Francisco 49ers 24, Washington Redskins 20\nThe 49ers defense made key plays to lead San Francisco to a 24\u201320 victory over the Redskins after trailing 10-3 at the end of the half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 121], "content_span": [122, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093470-0024-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Sunday, December 26, 1971, NFC: San Francisco 49ers 24, Washington Redskins 20\nWashington scored first after Jon Jaqua blocked a punt from Steve Spurrier, enabling his team to take over on the 49ers 28. This set up quarterback Billy Kilmer's 5-yard touchdown pass to tight end Jerry Smith. San Francisco responded with a 23-yard field goal from Bruce Gossett, but Speedy Duncan returned the ensuing kickoff 37 yards to set up a field goal for the Redskins, a 40-yard kick by Curt Knight. With the score at 10-3 and time running out in the half, Washington defensive back Ted Vactor returned a punt 48 yards to the 49ers 11-yard line. But with 32 seconds left, receiver Roy Jefferson was dropped for a 13-yard loss by defensive end Cedrick Hardman on an end around play, and Knight's ensuing field goal attempt was blocked by linebacker Frank Nunley", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 121], "content_span": [122, 891]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093470-0025-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Sunday, December 26, 1971, NFC: San Francisco 49ers 24, Washington Redskins 20\nDuncan returned the second half kickoff 66 yards to the San Francisco 34, but the 49ers made a key defensive stand, stopping Washington on the 12 when Nunley tackled Larry Brown for a 2-yard loss on 4th and inches. Three plays later, facing 3rd down and 1, quarterback John Brodie threw a deep pass that went just over the outstretched arms of defensive back Pat Fischer and into the arms of receiver Gene Washington, who caught the ball in stride at the 40 and took off for a 78-yard touchdown reception. Then on the next series, Roosevelt Taylor's interception set up Bob Windsor's 2-yard touchdown reception to give San Francisco a 17\u201310 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 121], "content_span": [122, 768]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093470-0026-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Sunday, December 26, 1971, NFC: San Francisco 49ers 24, Washington Redskins 20\nDuncan returned the next kickoff 67 yards to set up a 35-yard Knight field goal, making the score 17-13. But with 3:20 left in the game, San Francisco put the game away when defensive tackle Bob Hoskins recovered a bad snap on a Washington punt attempt in the end zone for a touchdown. After this, the Redskins managed to cut the final score to 24-20 on Kilmer's 16-yard pass to Brown in the game's closing seconds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 121], "content_span": [122, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093470-0027-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Sunday, December 26, 1971, NFC: San Francisco 49ers 24, Washington Redskins 20\nBrown rushed for 84 yards, while also catching 6 passes for 62 yards and a touchdown. Kilmer completed 11 of 26 passes for 106 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 1 interception. Duncan set a franchise playoff record with 170 yards on 3 kickoff returns. Brodie finished with 10/19 completions for 176 yards and two touchdowns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 121], "content_span": [122, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093470-0028-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Sunday, December 26, 1971, NFC: San Francisco 49ers 24, Washington Redskins 20\nThis was the first postseason meeting between the Redskins and 49ers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 121], "content_span": [122, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093470-0029-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, January 2, 1972, NFC: Dallas Cowboys 14, San Francisco 49ers 3\nIn the first playoff game at Texas Stadium, the Cowboys defense dominated the 49ers offense by allowing only 61 rushing yards and 9 first downs, and forcing 3 interceptions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 118], "content_span": [119, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093470-0030-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, January 2, 1972, NFC: Dallas Cowboys 14, San Francisco 49ers 3\nIn the second quarter, Dallas defensive end George Andrie intercepted a screen pass from John Brodie and returned it 7 yards to the 49ers 2-yard line to set up Calvin Hill's 1-yard touchdown run. This would be the only score of the game until 6:52 remained in the third quarter, when Brodie's 24-yard completion to tight end Ted Kwalick set up Bruce Gossett's 28-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 118], "content_span": [119, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093470-0031-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, January 2, 1972, NFC: Dallas Cowboys 14, San Francisco 49ers 3\nFollowing a missed 47-yard field goal by Gossett on San Francisco's next drive, Dallas QB Roger Staubach finished the quarter with a 17-yard completion to halfback Dan Reeves. Then he started off the fourth with a 23-yard pass to tight end Billy Truax. Duane Thomas eventually finished the 14-play, 80-yard drive with a 2-yard touchdown run, making the score 14-3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 118], "content_span": [119, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093470-0032-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, January 2, 1972, NFC: Dallas Cowboys 14, San Francisco 49ers 3\nWith 9 minutes left in regulation, the Dallas defense took over the rest of the game, forcing turnovers on San Francisco's last three drives. First, linebacker Chuck Howley broke up a 4th down pass. Then on San Francisco's next possession, Brodie was intercepted by linebacker Lee Roy Jordan. Finally, after Mike Clark's 24-yard field goal attempt was blocked by 49ers linebacker Frank Nunley, safety Cliff Harris picked off a pass from Brodie that enabled Dallas to run out the clock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 118], "content_span": [119, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093470-0033-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, January 2, 1972, NFC: Dallas Cowboys 14, San Francisco 49ers 3\nAfter the game, Dallas received a visit in the locker room from former US President Lyndon Johnson, who told Staubach \"You're the best. They should rename this place Staubach stadium.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 118], "content_span": [119, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093470-0034-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, January 2, 1972, NFC: Dallas Cowboys 14, San Francisco 49ers 3\nThis was the second postseason meeting between the 49ers and Cowboys, with Dallas winning the previous meeting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 118], "content_span": [119, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093470-0035-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, January 2, 1972, AFC: Miami Dolphins 21, Baltimore Colts 0\nAlthough Miami quarterback Bob Griese completed only 4 passes, the Dolphins defense shut out the Colts. Defensive back Dick Anderson intercepted Johnny Unitas three times, returning one of them 62 yards for a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 114], "content_span": [115, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093470-0036-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, January 2, 1972, AFC: Miami Dolphins 21, Baltimore Colts 0\nPaul Warfield recorded a 75-yard touchdown reception midway through the first quarter on the Dolphins second drive. Meanwhile, the Colts managed to move the ball close enough for Jim O'Brien to twice attempt field goals, but he missed both times. In the second quarter, the Colts drove from their own 18 to the Dolphins 9-yard line, featuring a 28-yard reception by Don Nottingham, but on 4th down and 1, Nottingham was stuffed by a gang of Dolphins defenders just inches short of the first down marker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 114], "content_span": [115, 618]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093470-0037-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, January 2, 1972, AFC: Miami Dolphins 21, Baltimore Colts 0\nIn the third quarter, Unitas threw a pass that was deflected by cornerback Curtis Johnson into the hands of Anderson, who took off for a 62-yard scoring return. Then in the fourth quarter, Griese's 50-yard pass to Warfield set up Larry Csonka's 5-yard touchdown run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 114], "content_span": [115, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093470-0038-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, January 2, 1972, AFC: Miami Dolphins 21, Baltimore Colts 0\nThis was the first postseason meeting between the Colts and Dolphins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 114], "content_span": [115, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093470-0039-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NFL playoffs, Super Bowl VI: Dallas Cowboys 24, Miami Dolphins 3\nThis is the only Super Bowl meeting between the Cowboys and Dolphins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 72], "content_span": [73, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093471-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NHL season\nThe 1971\u201372 NHL season was the 55th season of the National Hockey League. Fourteen teams each played 78 games. The Boston Bruins beat the New York Rangers four games to two for their second Stanley Cup in three seasons in the finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093471-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NHL season, Regular season\nAmong notable first year players this season were Montreal's Guy Lafleur, who despite scoring 29 goals was felt lacking in comparison to newly retired superstar Jean Beliveau by the Canadiens' faithful; Buffalo's Rick Martin, who set a new record for goals by a rookie with 44; Gilles Meloche, goaltender for the California Golden Seals who acquired him from Chicago; and Ken Dryden, the sensational new goalie for the Canadiens, who despite winning the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP the previous season was awarded the Calder Memorial Trophy as rookie of the year, on the grounds that he had only played six prior regular season games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 675]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093471-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NHL season, Regular season\n43-year-old Gump Worsley, left unprotected (and unclaimed) in the waiver draft by the Minnesota North Stars, led the league with a 2.12 goals against average. Less fortunately, Philadelphia goaltender Bruce Gamble suffered a heart attack during a 3\u20131 win in Vancouver in February and was forced to retire from hockey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093471-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NHL season, Regular season\nIn what was widely seen as a preemptive move to help forestall the incipient World Hockey Association, the NHL announced that Atlanta and Long Island had been granted expansion franchises to begin play in the 1972\u201373 season. The bids had been hastily put together in comparison with the 1967 and 1970 expansions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093471-0004-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NHL season, Regular season\nMilestones this season included Gerry Cheevers setting an NHL record for the Boston Bruins (which has yet to be surpassed) with 33 straight undefeated games. On February 12, it was Gordie Howe Day in Detroit as his famous #9 was retired. On March 25, Bobby Hull scored his 600th NHL goal in a 5\u20135 tie with Boston at the Boston Garden.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093471-0005-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NHL season, Regular season\nAn exciting scoring race in which Ranger Jean Ratelle had been leading Bruin Phil Esposito was shortcircuited when Ratelle broke his ankle in a game against California, putting him out for over a month of play. Ratelle still ended up third in scoring behind Esposito and Bruin Bobby Orr, while his teammates Vic Hadfield and Rod Gilbert \u2013 all three linemates on the renowned GAG line\u2014finished fourth and fifth. A resurgent Frank Mahovlich, rejuvenated by a trade to Montreal, finished sixth, while Bobby Hull, in his final year in Chicago, finished seventh in points and second to Esposito in goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093471-0006-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NHL season, Regular season\nAlthough they had fallen somewhat from their overwhelming offensive dominance from the previous season, once again the Boston Bruins had the best record in the league, while the Chicago Black Hawks topped the West Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093471-0007-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NHL season, Playoffs, Format change\nIn response to the prior year when the Minnesota North Stars appeared to intentionally lose games to finish fourth in the West instead of third and avoid a tougher match-up with first-place Chicago, and also the Boston Bruins were \"rewarded\" for finishing first in the East with a tough series against eventual Stanley Cup Champion Montreal, the first round match-ups were changed so that the first-place team played the fourth-place team and second played third. Previously, the first-place team played the third-place team and the second-place team played the fourth-place team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 43], "content_span": [44, 624]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093471-0008-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NHL season, Playoffs, Format change\nThis change necessitated a change to the way the semi-final match-ups were determined. Instead of having the winner of the series between the first and third-place East Division teams play the winner of the second and fourth-place West Division teams and the winner of the first versus third-place West Division teams against the winner of the second and fourth-place East Division teams, the semi-final would pit the highest remaining seed in the East Division play the lowest remaining seed from the West and vice versa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 43], "content_span": [44, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093471-0009-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NHL season, Playoffs, Format change\nDespite injuries to several key players, notably leading scorer Jean Ratelle, the New York Rangers beat the defending champions Montreal Canadiens in the first round of the playoffs, with strong play from unheralded players such as Walt Tkaczuk. The Rangers went on the sweep the Chicago Black Hawks in four straight games during the semi-final. Chicago had beaten the Pittsburgh Penguins in four straight games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 43], "content_span": [44, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093471-0010-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NHL season, Playoffs, Format change\nBoston easily handled the Toronto Maple Leafs in five games, facing a St. Louis Blues team that had eked out a hard-fought seven-game victory against the North Stars in the quarter-final. The powerful Bruins set a record for the most goals in a four-game series by pounding the Blues 28\u20138 over a four-game sweep.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 43], "content_span": [44, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093471-0011-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NHL season, Playoffs, Quarterfinals, (E1) Boston Bruins vs. (E4) Toronto Maple Leafs\nThe Boston Bruins finished first in the league with 119 points. The Toronto Maple Leafs finished fourth in the East Division with 80 points. This was the twelfth playoff series between these two teams with Toronto winning eight of the eleven previous series. They last met in the 1969 Stanley Cup Quarterfinals which Boston won in four games. Boston won this year's six-game regular season series earning nine of twelve points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 92], "content_span": [93, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093471-0012-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NHL season, Playoffs, Quarterfinals, (E2) New York Rangers vs. (E3) Montreal Canadiens\nThe New York Rangers finished second in the East Division with 109 points. The Montreal Canadiens finished third with 108 points. This was the tenth playoff series between these two teams with Montreal winning five of the nine previous series. They last met in the 1969 Stanley Cup Quarterfinals which Montreal won in four games. New York won this year's six-game regular season series earning eight of twelve points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 94], "content_span": [95, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093471-0013-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NHL season, Playoffs, Quarterfinals, (W1) Chicago Black Hawks vs. (W4) Pittsburgh Penguins\nThe Chicago Black Hawks finished first in the West Division with 107 points. The Pittsburgh Penguins finished fourth in the West Division with 66 points (winning the tiebreaker with Philadelphia in total goals for 220\u2013200). This was the first playoff series between these two teams. Chicago won this year's six-game regular season series earning eleven of twelve points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 98], "content_span": [99, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093471-0014-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NHL season, Playoffs, Quarterfinals, (W2) Minnesota North Stars vs. (W3) St. Louis Blues\nThe Minnesota North Stars finished second in the West Division with 86 points. The St. Louis Blues finished third with 67 points. This was the fourth playoff meeting between these two teams with St. Louis winning two of the three previous series. They last met in the previous year's Quarterfinals which the North Stars won in six games. Minnesota won four of the six games in this year's regular season series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 96], "content_span": [97, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093471-0015-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NHL season, Playoffs, Quarterfinals, (W2) Minnesota North Stars vs. (W3) St. Louis Blues\nKevin O'Shea's series-winning goal in overtime of Game 7 was the first time in Stanley Cup Playoff history that the road team won Game 7 in overtime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 96], "content_span": [97, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093471-0016-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NHL season, Playoffs, Semifinals, (E1) Boston Bruins vs. (W3) St. Louis Blues\nThis was the second playoff meeting between these two teams. Their only previous series came in the 1970 Stanley Cup Finals which Boston won in four games. Boston won this year's six-game regular season series earning nine of twelve points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 85], "content_span": [86, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093471-0017-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NHL season, Playoffs, Semifinals, (W1) Chicago Black Hawks vs. (E2) New York Rangers\nThis was the fourth playoff meeting between these two teams with Chicago winning all three previous series. They last met in the previous year's Semifinals which the Black Hawks won in seven games. New York won this year's six-game regular season series earning seven of twelve points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 92], "content_span": [93, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093471-0018-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NHL season, Playoffs, Stanley Cup Finals\nThis was the eighth series between these two teams with Boston winning five of the seven previous series. They last met in the 1970 Stanley Cup Quarterfinals which the Bruins won in six games. The Bruins made their twelfth appearance in the Finals; they most recently made the Finals in 1970 where they defeated the St. Louis Blues in four games. This was the New York Rangers eighth Finals appearance and first since 1950 where they lost to the Detroit Red Wings in seven games. Boston won five of the six games in this year's regular season series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 48], "content_span": [49, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093471-0019-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NHL season, Player statistics, Leading goaltenders\nNote: GP = Games played; Min \u2013 Minutes Played; GA = Goals Against; GAA = Goals Against Average; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; SO = Shutouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 58], "content_span": [59, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093471-0020-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NHL season, Debuts\nThe following is a list of players of note who played their first NHL game in 1971\u201372 (listed with their first team, asterisk(*) marks debut in playoffs):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 26], "content_span": [27, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093471-0021-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NHL season, Last games\nThe following is a list of players of note that played their last game in the NHL in 1971\u201372 listed with their last team):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093471-0022-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NHL season, Last games\nNOTE: McKenzie, Green, Tremblay, Fonteyne, Selby, Nesterenko, McDonald, Hicke and Paiement would continue their careers in the World Hockey Association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093472-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NK Hajduk Split season\nThe 1971\u201372 season was the 61st season in Hajduk Split\u2019s history and their 26th season in the Yugoslav First League. Their 1st place finish in the 1970\u201371 season meant it was their 26th successive season playing in the Yugoslav First League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093473-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NTFL season\nThe 1971/72 NTFL season was the 51st season of the Northern Territory Football League (NTFL).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093473-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 NTFL season\nSt Marys have won their eighth premiership title while defeating the Darwin in the grand final by one point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093474-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 National Football League (Ireland)\nThe 1971\u201372 National Football League was the 41st staging of the National Football League (NFL), an annual Gaelic football tournament for the Gaelic Athletic Association county teams of Ireland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093474-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 National Football League (Ireland)\nKerry beat Mayo in the final for the second year in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093474-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 National Football League (Ireland), Format, Round-Robin Format\nEach team played every other team in its division (or group where the division is split) once, either home or away.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 70], "content_span": [71, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093474-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 National Football League (Ireland), Format, Points awarded\n2 points were awarded for a win and 1 for a draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 66], "content_span": [67, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093474-0004-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 National Football League (Ireland), Format, Knockout stage structure\nThe final match-up is: Winner Semi-final 1 v Winner Semi-final 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 76], "content_span": [77, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093474-0005-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 National Football League (Ireland), Format, Separation of teams on equal points\nIn the event that teams finish on equal points, then teams were separated according to points average(goals scored divided by goals conceded).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 87], "content_span": [88, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093475-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 National Hurling League\nThe 1971\u201372 National Hurling League was the 41st season of the National Hurling League (NHL), an annual hurling competition for the GAA county teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093475-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 National Hurling League, Overview, Structure\nThe National Hurling League's top division featured sixteen teams divided into two groups - 1A and 1B. Each group consisted of eight teams. The top two teams in Division 1A advance to the semi-finals. The third- and fourth-placed teams in 1A, as well as the top two from 1B, play in the quarter-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093475-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 National Hurling League, Overview, Overview\nDown at the other end of the tables, Dublin won just one of their group stage games and were relegated to Division 1B. They swapped places with Galway who, having enjoyed an unbeaten run in the group stage, topped Division 1B and gained promotion to the top eight in Division 1A for the following season. Westmeath lost all seven of their group stage games and finished bottom of Division 1B, however, they were not relegated to Division 2 as there was no promotion or relegation between these two separate divisions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 51], "content_span": [52, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093476-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Nationalliga A, Overview\n14 teams contested in the 1971\u201372 Nationalliga A. These were the top 12 teams from the previous 1970\u201371 season and the two newly promoted teams St. Gallen and Grenchen. The championship was played in a double round robin. The champions would qualify for the 1972\u201373 European Cup and the last two teams in the table at the end of the season were to be relegated. Basel remained undefeated in the league during the first 24 rounds. Of their 26 league games Basel won 18, drawing seven, losing just once, scoring 66 goals conceding 28. Basel won the championship four points ahead of Z\u00fcrich and five points ahead of the Grasshoppers. Z\u00fcrich were Swiss Cup winners and qualified for 1972\u201373 Cup Winners' Cup. Grasshopper Club and Lausanne-Sport qualified for 1972\u201373 UEFA Cup. Luzern and Biel-Bienne suffered relegation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 849]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093477-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Nationalliga A season\nThe 1971\u201372 Nationalliga A season was the 34th season of the Nationalliga A, the top level of ice hockey in Switzerland. Eight teams participated in the league, and HC La Chaux-de-Fonds won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093479-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 New York Knicks season\nThe 1971\u201372 New York Knicks season was the 26th season for the team in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Knicks compiled a 48\u201334 record in the regular season to finish second in the Atlantic Division and earn a berth in the NBA Playoffs for the sixth consecutive year. New York had acquired Earl Monroe in a trade with the Baltimore Bullets in November 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093479-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 New York Knicks season\nIn the first round of the playoffs, New York faced the Baltimore Bullets, who had defeated the Knicks in the Eastern Conference Finals the previous year. The Knicks won the series in six games and advanced to the conference finals, where they faced the Boston Celtics. With a 4\u20131 series victory, New York made the NBA Finals for the second time in three seasons. In the Finals, the Knicks were opposed by the Los Angeles Lakers, whom they had beaten in the 1970 NBA Finals. After winning Game 1 of the Finals 114\u201392 in Los Angeles, the Knicks lost the next four games and the series. Willis Reed only played 11 games in the regular season and missed the entirety of the playoffs with a knee injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 729]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093480-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 New York Nets season\nThe 1971\u201372 New York Nets season was the 5th season of the franchise and 4th in New York. They finished 3rd among the six team division, qualifying for the playoffs by nine games for the third straight year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093480-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 New York Nets season\nThe Nets advanced to the ABA Finals, where they lost to the Indiana Pacers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093480-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 New York Nets season\nRick Barry averaged 31.5 points per game in what would be his final season in the ABA. Barry was forced to return to his former NBA team, the Golden State Warriors, due to an injunction issued by the U.S. District Court prohibiting him from playing for any professional team other than the Warriors after his Nets contract ended.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093481-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 New York Rangers season\nThe 1971\u201372 New York Rangers season was the 46th season in franchise history. Jean Ratelle, Vic Hadfield, and Rod Gilbert ranked third, fourth and fifth overall in league scoring. The Rangers qualified for the postseason for the sixth consecutive season. The club made its first appearance in the Stanley Cup final since 1950 but lost in six games to the Boston Bruins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093481-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 New York Rangers season, Player statistics\n\u2020Denotes player spent time with another team before joining Rangers. Stats reflect time with Rangers only. \u2021Traded mid-season. Stats reflect time with Rangers only.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093481-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 New York Rangers season, Draft picks\nNew York's picks at the 1971 NHL Amateur Draft in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093482-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Newport County A.F.C. season\nThe 1971\u201372 season was Newport County's tenth consecutive season in the Football League Fourth Division since relegation at the end of the 1961\u201362 season and their 44th overall in the Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093482-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Newport County A.F.C. season, Season review\nCounty briefly wore tangerine and black striped shorts in February 1972 before fan reaction caused the club to revert to black shorts soon after.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093483-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team\nThe 1971\u201372 North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team represented University of North Carolina. The head coach was Dean Smith. The team played its home games in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and was a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093484-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Northern Football League\nThe 1971\u201372 Northern Football League season was the 74th in the history of Northern Football League, a football competition in England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093484-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Northern Football League, Clubs\nDivision One featured 20 clubs which competed in the league last season, no new clubs joined the division this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093485-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Northern Premier League\nThe 1971\u201372 Northern Premier League was the fourth season of the Northern Premier League, a regional football league in Northern England, the northern areas of the Midlands and North Wales. The season began on 14 August 1971 and concluded on 5 May 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093485-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Northern Premier League, Overview\nThe League was expanded, for the second consecutive season, from twenty-two teams to twenty-four teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093485-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Northern Premier League, Overview, Team changes\nThe following two clubs joined the League at the start of the season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093485-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Northern Premier League, Overview, League table\nThe system of using goal average to separate two teams tied on points was used up until the 1976\u201377 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093485-0004-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Northern Premier League, Cup results, Northern Premier League Shield\nBetween Champions of NPL Premier Division and Winners of the NPL Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093485-0005-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Northern Premier League, Cup results, FA Cup\nOut of the twenty-two clubs from the Northern Premier League, only three teams reached for the second round:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093485-0006-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Northern Premier League, Cup results, FA Trophy\nOut of the twenty-two clubs from the Northern Premier League, only Stafford Rangers and Macclesfield Town reached for the fourth round:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093485-0007-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Northern Premier League, End of the season\nAt the end of the fourth season of the Northern Premier League none of the teams put forward for election received enough votes to be promoted to the Football League. Chorley resigned the league and Kirkby Town was relegated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093485-0008-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Northern Premier League, End of the season, Football League elections\nAlongside the four Football League teams facing re-election, a total of twelve non-League teams applied for election, four of which were from the Northern Premier League. Three out of the four Football League teams were re-elected. Hereford United from the Southern League replaced Barrow from the Football League as they didn't receive enough votes. Barrow was subsequently relegated to the Northern Premier League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 77], "content_span": [78, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093485-0009-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Northern Premier League, End of the season, Promotion and relegation\nThe following two clubs left the league at the end of the season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093485-0010-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Northern Premier League, End of the season, Promotion and relegation\nThe following two clubs joined the league the following season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093486-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Northern Rugby Football League season\nThe 1971\u201372 Northern Rugby Football League season was the 77th season of rugby league football. This season saw the entry of rugby league's first sponsors: Joshua Tetley and John Player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093486-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Northern Rugby Football League season, Season summary\nThis season saw the introduction of the League Cup competition as a major secondary competition to the Challenge Cup. Due to sponsorship it was never commonly known as the League Cup. It began in this year as the Player's No.6 Trophy and finished up as the Regal Trophy before being abandoned after 1995-96 when the sport switched to summer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093486-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Northern Rugby Football League season, Season summary\nLeeds won their third Championship when they beat St. Helens 9-5 in the Championship Final. Leeds also finished the regular season as league leaders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093486-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Northern Rugby Football League season, Season summary\nThe Challenge Cup winners were St. Helens who beat Leeds 16-13 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093486-0004-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Northern Rugby Football League season, Season summary\nPlayer's No.6 Trophy winners were Halifax who beat Wakefield Trinity 22-11 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093486-0005-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Northern Rugby Football League season, Season summary\nWigan beat Widnes 15\u20138 to win the Lancashire County Cup, and Hull Kingston Rovers beat Castleford 11\u20137 to win the Yorkshire County Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093486-0006-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Northern Rugby Football League season, Championship, Final\nLeeds scorers: John Atkinson (1 try), Terry Clawson (3 goals)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 66], "content_span": [67, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093486-0007-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Northern Rugby Football League season, Championship, Final\nSt Helens scorers: Les Greenall (1 try), John Walsh (1 goal)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 66], "content_span": [67, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093486-0008-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Northern Rugby Football League season, Challenge Cup\nThe final was played between St. Helens and Leeds at Wembley Stadium, London on Saturday 13 May 1972, in front of a crowd of 89,495. After leading 12-6 at half time, St Helens beat Leeds 16-13. St Helens scorers were Les Jones (1 try), Graham Rees (1 try), and Kel Coslett (5 goals). St Helens forward Kel Coslett was the man of the match winning the Lance Todd Trophy. This was St Helens\u2019 fourth Cup Final win in eight Final appearances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 60], "content_span": [61, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093487-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Norwegian 1. Divisjon season\nThe 1971\u201372 Norwegian 1. Divisjon season was the 33rd season of ice hockey in Norway. Eight teams participated in the league, and Hasle Loren Idrettslag won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093488-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 OB I bajnoksag season\nThe 1971\u201372 OB I bajnoks\u00e1g season was the 35th season of the OB I bajnoks\u00e1g, the top level of ice hockey in Hungary. Six teams participated in the league, and Ferencvarosi TC won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093489-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 PAOK FC season\nThe 1971\u201372 season was PAOK Football Club's 46th in existence and the club's 13th consecutive season in the top flight of Greek football. The team entered the Greek Football Cup in first round and managed to go all the way and win their first domestic title in club's history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093489-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 PAOK FC season, Players, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 38], "content_span": [39, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093489-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 PAOK FC season, Statistics, Squad statistics\nAppearances denote players in the starting lineup, with the numbers in parentheses denoting appearances as substitute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 52], "content_span": [53, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093490-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. season\nThe 1971\u201372 season was Paris Saint-Germain's 2nd season in existence. PSG mainly played their home league games at the Stade de Paris in Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine, but occasionally at the Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir in Colombes as well, registering an average attendance of 10,030 spectators per match. Guy Crescent presided the club until December 1971, when Henri Patrelle replaced him. The team was coached by Pierre Phelipon, this time exclusively as manager. Jean Djorkaeff was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093490-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. season\nPSG ended their inaugural season in the top flight with a safe 16th place, meaning they would continue in Division 1 next year, but the club was in a delicate financial situation. The Paris City Council offered 850,000 francs to pay the club's debt and save its place in the elite, but in return demanded PSG to adopt the more Parisian name \"Paris Football Club.\" Henri Patrelle refused the name change and the club split on June 1, 1972. Backed by the council, Guy Crescent and Pierre-\u00c9tienne Guyot re-formed Paris FC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093490-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. season\nConsequently, Paris FC remained in Division 1, while Patrelle's Paris Saint-Germain kept their name but were administratively relegated to Division 3, thus losing professional status. Bound by professional contracts with PFC, most of the club's stars, including team captain Jean Djorkaeff and Bernard Guignedoux, continued playing in Division 1. Since only top-tier pro clubs could have a reserve team, PSG took the spot of their development side in the third tier and rebuilt their squad with many upcoming academy players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093490-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. season, Players, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 55], "content_span": [56, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093490-0004-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. season, Transfers, Arrivals\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 60], "content_span": [61, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093490-0005-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. season, Transfers, Departures\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 62], "content_span": [63, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093490-0006-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. season, Kits\nThe club didn't have a shirt sponsor. French sportswear brand Le Coq Sportif was the kit manufacturer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 45], "content_span": [46, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093491-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Philadelphia 76ers season\nThe 1971\u201372 NBA season was the 76ers 23rd season in the NBA and 9th season in Philadelphia. The team finished with a record of 30\u201352 and missed the post season for the 1st time in franchise history, ending an NBA-record streak of 22 consecutive appearances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093491-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Philadelphia 76ers season\nThe team made a major trade to obtain guards Fred Carter and Kevin Loughery from the Baltimore Bullets in exchange for guard Archie Clark and draft picks. At the start of the season the team was 9\u20134 after 13 games but imploded before long.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093491-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Philadelphia 76ers season\nAfter the season Billy Cunningham left for the ABA, Lucious Jackson retired due to nagging injuries & coach Jack Ramsay left to become the head coach of the Buffalo Braves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093492-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Philadelphia Flyers season\nThe 1971\u201372 Philadelphia Flyers season was the Philadelphia Flyers' fifth season in the National Hockey League (NHL). The Flyers missed the playoffs for the second time in three years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093492-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Philadelphia Flyers season, Off-season\nThe Flyers fired head coach Vic Stasiuk on May 27, 1971, after heavy criticism by Flyers players. On June 2, the Flyers hired Fred Shero to replace him. In the previous two seasons Shero had guided two teams to league championships, the Buffalo Bisons of the American Hockey League and the Omaha Knights of the Central Hockey League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093492-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Philadelphia Flyers season, Regular season\nBobby Clarke continued to progress as he led the team in goals (35), assists (46), and points (81) in 1971\u201372 and he became the first Flyer to win an NHL award, the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy for perseverance, sportsmanship and dedication to hockey. However, in the season's final game, the Flyers needed a win or a tie against the second-year Buffalo Sabres to beat out the Pittsburgh Penguins for the final playoff spot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093492-0002-0001", "contents": "1971\u201372 Philadelphia Flyers season, Regular season\nThe score was tied late in the game, but with just four seconds on the clock, former Flyer Gerry Meehan took a shot from just inside the blue line that eluded Flyers goalie Doug Favell. With identical records the playoff berth was determined by 'goals for' and went to the Penguins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093492-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Philadelphia Flyers season, Transactions\nThe Flyers were involved in the following transactions from May 19, 1971, the day after the deciding game of the 1971 Stanley Cup Finals, through May 11, 1972, the day of the deciding game of the 1972 Stanley Cup Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 48], "content_span": [49, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093492-0004-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Philadelphia Flyers season, Transactions, Signings, Free agency\nThe following players were signed by the Flyers via free agency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 71], "content_span": [72, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093492-0005-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Philadelphia Flyers season, Transactions, Signings, Internal\nThe following players were either re-signed by the Flyers or, in the case of the team's selections in the NHL Entry Draft, signed to contracts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 68], "content_span": [69, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093492-0006-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Philadelphia Flyers season, Transactions, Drafts, Intra-League\nThe 1971 NHL Intra-League Draft was held on June 8, 1971. Each NHL team placed 18 skaters and 2 goaltenders on a protected list from which the other teams could not select. It cost $40,000 to make a claim.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 70], "content_span": [71, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093492-0007-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Philadelphia Flyers season, Transactions, Drafts, Reverse\nThe 1971 NHL Reverse Draft was held on June 9, 1971. The Reverse Draft featured American Hockey League (AHL) and Western Hockey League (WHL) teams selecting unprotected players from NHL teams. It cost $15,000 to make a claim.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 65], "content_span": [66, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093492-0008-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Philadelphia Flyers season, Transactions, Departures\nThe following players left the team via free agency, release, or retirement. Players who were under contract and left the team during the season are marked with an asterisk (*).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093492-0009-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Philadelphia Flyers season, Draft picks\nPhiladelphia's picks at the 1971 NHL Amateur Draft, which was held at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Quebec, on June 10, 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 47], "content_span": [48, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093492-0010-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Philadelphia Flyers season, Farm teams\nThe Flyers were affiliated with the Richmond Robins of the AHL, the San Diego Gulls of the WHL, and the Jersey Devils and Salem Rebels of the EHL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093493-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Phoenix Suns season\nThe 1971\u201372 Phoenix Suns season was the fourth season for the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association. With a 49\u201333 record, the Suns hold the NBA record as the team with the best winning percentage to not make the playoffs. The team broke the record they set the previous year with a 48\u201334 finish. Head coach Cotton Fitzsimmons led the Suns in their debut season as members of the Pacific division. All home games were played at Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093493-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Phoenix Suns season\nPaul Silas again led the team in rebounds, averaging 11.9 per game, while also leading the Suns in assists with a 4.3 average. Connie Hawkins's 21 points a game led the club, while Dick Van Arsdale was second with his 19.7 average. Silas averaged 17.5 for the season, while both Clem Haskins and Neal Walk averaged 15.7.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093493-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Phoenix Suns season, Player statistics, Season\n* \u2013 Stats with the Suns. ^ \u2013 Minimum 350 free throw attempts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093494-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Pittsburgh Condors season\nThe 1971\u201372 Pittsburgh Condors season was the 2nd and final season of the Pittsburgh Condors along with the 4th and final season of Pittsburgh involvement in the American Basketball Association. General manager Mark Binstein took over as coach after a 4\u20136 start. By the time the season was half over, the team was 17\u201325. From that point, the team went 8\u201334, with a losing streak of 12 near the end of the season sealing any hope of getting out of the cellar of the Division. One factor was despite being 1st in points scored at 119.2 per game, they were dead last in points allowed, at 126.4 per game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 635]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093494-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Pittsburgh Condors season\nAttendance had simply dried up, with games being moved (with one being moved to Uniontown, 46 miles from Pittsburgh) away from the Arena, with the team unofficially becoming the \"United States Condors\", with one game being played in Birmingham, Alabama. Fittingly, their penultimate game was played in Tucson, Arizona versus the Kentucky Colonels. On March 29, they played (and lost) their final game, 113\u2013128 to the Indiana Pacers. Attempts to move the team failed after the season failed, and the league soon cancelled the franchise, ending pro basketball in Pittsburgh. Since then, no pro basketball team has played in Pittsburgh. The players were dispersed to other teams, with George Thompson going to the Memphis Tams, Mike Lewis to the Carolina Cougars, Skeeter Swift to the Dallas Chaparrals, and Walt Szczerbiak to the Kentucky Colonels.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 881]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093494-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Pittsburgh Condors season, Awards and honors\n1972 ABA All-Star Game selections (game played on January 29, 1972)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 52], "content_span": [53, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093495-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Pittsburgh Penguins season\nThe 1971\u201372 Pittsburgh Penguins season was the franchise's fifth season in the National Hockey League. The team made the playoffs for the second time in franchise history, losing to the Chicago Blackhawks in the first-round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093495-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Player statistics\n\u2020Denotes player spent time with another team before joining the Penguins. Stats reflect time with the Penguins only. \u2021Denotes player was traded mid-season. Stats reflect time with the Penguins only.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093495-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Transactions\nThe Penguins have been involved in the following transactions during the 1971\u201372 season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 48], "content_span": [49, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093496-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Polska Liga Hokejowa season\nThe 1971\u201372 Polska Liga Hokejowa season was the 37th season of the Polska Liga Hokejowa, the top level of ice hockey in Poland. 11 teams participated in the league, and Podhale Nowy Targ won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093497-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Port Vale F.C. season\nThe 1971\u201372 season was Port Vale's 60th season of football in the Football League, and their second successive season (eighth overall) back in the Third Division. Roy Sproson's 22-year career at the club came to an end, in what was an otherwise unremarkable campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093497-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Third Division\nThe pre-season saw the arrival of left-half John Flowers from Doncaster Rovers and full-back Tony Loska from Shrewsbury Town for 'a small fee'. Meanwhile, three players picked up injuries: John James (cartilage), Roy Sproson (ribs), and Stuart Sharratt (ankle); whilst Sammy Morgan threatened to quit altogether after falling out with manager Gordon Lee over his decision to remain resident in Great Yarmouth rather than moving nearer to Burslem. Violence broke out in pre-season games, as the sport was in the grip of hooliganism.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093497-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Third Division\nThe season opened with a 1\u20131 draw with Brighton & Hove Albion in front of just 4,384 fans, causing Lee to warn that such low attendances would require him to sell off the club's best players. By the end of September Vale were performing well on the pitch, and off it had sold the main car park to The Co-operative Group for \u00a330,000. Goals were at a premium despite a 4\u20133 win over York City and 4\u20134 draw with Aston Villa at Vale Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093497-0002-0001", "contents": "1971\u201372 Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Third Division\nSporadic violence continued to break out at many matches, as local businesses had their windows smashed, local residents were menaced and fights broke out. In November, Clint Boulton was sold to Torquay United for \u00a310,000. The next month Lee brought Ray Harford from Mansfield Town for a \u00a35,000 fee, as well as Keith Lindsey from Southend United for 'a small fee'. Vale comfortable in the league, Chairman Graham Bourne resigned in January, along with colleague and fellow director George Sanders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093497-0002-0002", "contents": "1971\u201372 Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Third Division\nThis left the Board of Directors with just two members, one of which, previous chairman Mark Singer, was re-elected as Chairman. The Sentinel's Chris Harper stated that \"Vale will never make progress while they are plagued by trouble at the top\". The team continued with good home form, but invariably lost away from Vale Park. On 16 February, Sammy Morgan scored on his debut for Northern Ireland, and picked up six further caps whilst at the club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093497-0002-0003", "contents": "1971\u201372 Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Third Division\nOn 4 March, only 2,809 bothered to turn out for a 1\u20130 home win over Mansfield Town in strong wind and snow, whilst rivals Stoke City won the 1972 League Cup Final in front of a crowd of nearly 100,000 at Wembley Stadium. Vale went on to go ten games without a win, also scoring just one goal in a run of seven games, to the frustration of their supporters. Despite this, the now annual 'Meet the Manager' evening 'warmed the heart' of Lee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093497-0002-0004", "contents": "1971\u201372 Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Third Division\nA 1\u20130 win over Barnsley at the end of April ensured the club's safety from the drop. On 8 May, Sproson made his farewell competitive appearance for the club in front of only 2,743 supporters, in a 2\u20131 defeat to Rotherham United. Lee angrily declared that \"the attendance was nothing short of a disgrace to mark the end of a legend\". Four days later there was an even smaller turnout for a final day 1\u20131 draw with Rochdale.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093497-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Third Division\nThey finished in fifteenth place with 41 points, 30 of which were won at home. With just 43 goals scored, they had the lowest goal tally outside of the bottom four.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093497-0004-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Finances\nOn the financial side, a drop in average home attendance of over a thousand failed to prevent a profit of \u00a3596. This profit was due to a \u00a310,000 transfer credit and \u00a313,967 worth of donations from the Sportsmen's Association and the Development Fund. The club's total debt stood at \u00a3100,130. Four players were let go at the end of the campaign: Mick Morris (Stafford Rangers), Keith Ball (Stourport), Stuart Sharratt (retired), and John Flowers (Eastwood). Sproson also retired as a player, but stayed on as a scout and coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093497-0005-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Cup competitions\nIn the FA Cup, Vale beat Blackburn Rovers 3\u20131 following a 1\u20131 draw at Ewood Park. A last-minute Sammy Morgan goal then defeated Fourth Division Darlington in the Second Round. Vale then were defeated 3\u20130 at St Andrew's by Second Division Birmingham City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093497-0006-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Cup competitions\nIn the League Cup, Vale made 'their annual early exist', losing 2\u20130 at home to Shrewsbury Town.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093498-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Portland Trail Blazers season\nThe 1971\u201372 season was the Trail Blazers second season in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Geoff Petrie missed 22 games due to injury. Petrie who averaged 24.8 points per game in his rookie season would drop nearly 6 points per game as the Blazers finished with an NBA worst record of 18\u201364. One of the highlights of the season was Sidney Wicks. He would win the Rookie of the Year with a team best 24.5 points per game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093498-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Portland Trail Blazers season\nBefore the start of the season, Blazers guard Rick Adelman was named captain, making him the first in franchise history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093498-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Portland Trail Blazers season\nPortland head coach Rolland Todd was fired on February 2, 1972 and replaced by Stu Inman, the Blazers director of player personnel. Todd's dismissal came in the wake of a 129\u2013117 loss to the Phoenix Suns the day before. Portland players were allegedly upset with team management for placing guard Willie McCarter on waivers. Sidney Wicks was accused by Todd and Inman of playing lackadaisical defense, allowing his opponent Paul Silas to take 30 shots against him. Charlie Yelverton sat on the bench during th U.S. national anthem and did not participate in pre-game warmups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093499-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Primeira Divis\u00e3o\nThe 1971\u201372 Primeira Divis\u00e3o was the 38th season of top-tier football in Portugal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093499-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Primeira Divis\u00e3o, Overview\nIt was contested by 16 teams, and S.L. Benfica won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093500-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Princeton Tigers men's basketball team\nThe 1971\u201372 Princeton Tigers men's basketball team represented the Princeton University in intercollegiate college basketball during the 1971\u201372 NCAA University Division men's basketball season. The head coach was Pete Carril and the team captain was Alfred M. Dufty, Jr.. The team played its home games in the Jadwin Gymnasium on the University campus in Princeton, New Jersey. The team was the runner-up in the Ivy League and earned itself an invitation to the 16-team 1972 National Invitation Tournament. The team was the first Princeton team to participate in the National Invitation Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 646]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093500-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Princeton Tigers men's basketball team\nThe team posted a 20\u20137 overall record and a 12\u20132 conference record. The team won its March 19, 1972, first round contest in the NIT at New York City's Madison Square Garden against the Indiana Hoosiers by a 68\u201360 margin but lost in the quarterfinal round to the Niagara Purple Eagles 65\u201360 on March 21.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093500-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Princeton Tigers men's basketball team\nDuring the season, the team spent three weeks of the sixteen-week season ranked in the Associated Press Top Twenty Poll, peaking at number fourteen and ending the season unranked. The team also finished the season unranked in the final UPI Coaches' Poll. The team was the highest scoring team in school history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093500-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Princeton Tigers men's basketball team\nBrian Taylor, who led the conference in scoring with a 26.2 average in conference games, was selected to the All-Ivy League first team. He was an 1972 NCAA Men's Basketball All-American selection by many organizations: first team (Sporting News); second team (National Association of Basketball Coaches, Converse) and third team (Associated Press, United Press International) as well as a general selection by the Helms Foundation. Taylor was selected in the 1972 NBA Draft by the Seattle SuperSonics with the 23rd overall selection in the 2nd round while Reggie Bird was selected by the Atlanta Hawks with the 55th overall selection in the 4th Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 699]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093501-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 QMJHL season\nThe 1971\u201372 QMJHL season was the third season in the history of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. Ten teams played 62 games each in the schedule. The Cornwall Royals finished first place in the regular season, and won the President's Cup, defeating the Quebec Remparts in the finals. The Royals won the 1972 Memorial Cup, representing the QMJHL at the first Memorial Cup round-robin tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093501-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 QMJHL season, Final standings\nNote: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; Pts = Points; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093501-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 QMJHL season, Scoring leaders\nNote: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalties in minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093501-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 QMJHL season, Playoffs\nJacques Richard was the leading scorer of the playoffs with 37 points (11 goals, 26 assists).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093503-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 RFU Knockout Cup\nThe 1971\u201372 National KO Competition was the first rugby union cup competition (for clubs) in England. Gloucester won the competition defeating Moseley in the final. In the final the Moseley lock Nigel Horton floored Dick Smith (the Gloucester openside) with a punch during the second scrum of the game and was sent off by Ron Lewis the referee. Moseley ended the game with just twelve men after their two flankers, Tim Smith and Ian Pringle, were both carried off injured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093503-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 RFU Knockout Cup\nThe RFU introduced this new challenge cup which quickly emerged as England\u2019s premier Rugby Union club competition event. The final was held at Twickenham Stadium. The principal event for Rugby Union club players at this time had been the County Championship because there was no official league table for clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093504-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Rangers F.C. season\nThe 1971\u201372 season was the 92nd season of competitive football by Rangers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093504-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Rangers F.C. season, Overview\nRangers played a total of 56 competitive matches during the 1971\u201372 season. They won their first and only European trophy this season. The side won the European Cup Winners' Cup in Barcelona, Spain. The match was effectively over by half time thanks to goals from Colin Stein and a double from Willie Johnston. The Soviet team Dynamo Moscow did score twice in the second half but Rangers held on for a famous victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093504-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Rangers F.C. season, Overview\nDomestically, Waddell's side finished a disappointing third in the Scottish League Division One. The club ended the season without the Scottish Cup or League Cup's after being knocked out of the former by Hibernian at the semi-final stage. They never progressed from the sectional rounds in the League Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093505-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Ranji Trophy\nThe 1971\u201372 Ranji Trophy was the 38th season of the Ranji Trophy. Bombay won their 14th title in a row defeating Bengal in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093505-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Ranji Trophy, Knockout stage\n(T) - Advanced to next round by spin of coin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 36], "content_span": [37, 82]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093506-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Real Madrid CF season\nThe 1971\u201372 season is Real Madrid Club de F\u00fatbol's 69th season in existence and the club's 40th consecutive season in the top flight of Spanish football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093506-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Real Madrid CF season, Summary\nDuring summer President Santiago Bernab\u00e9u transferred out several players such as Sanchis, Bueno, Planelles, Gento (retired), Betancort, Calpe, De La Fuente, Jimenez, Esp\u00edldora and Ferm\u00edn. The club new arrivals were goalkeeper Garc\u00eda Rem\u00f3n and a teenage 19-yrs-old forward Santillana in a sign of rejuvenate the squad and a reduced transfers budget for the upcoming years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093506-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Real Madrid CF season, Summary\nThe club won its 15th League title two points above Defending Champions Valencia CF after a 0\u20130 draw of CF Barcelona against C\u00f3rdoba CF at Los Carmenes one round before season finale. The team played the UEFA Cup for the first time and was early eliminated in Eightfinals by Dutch side PSV Eindhoven due to away goals. During June, the squad reached the 1971\u201372 Copa del General\u00edsimo semi-finals being defeated by Valencia CF lost 1\u20130 at Mestalla and a draw 0\u20130 in Madrid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093506-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Real Madrid CF season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093507-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Regionalliga\nThe 1971\u201372 Regionalliga was the ninth season of the Regionalliga, the second tier of the German football league system. The league operated in five regional divisions, Berlin, North, South, Southwest and West. The five league champions and all five runners-up, at the end of the season, entered a promotion play-off to determine the two clubs to move up to the Bundesliga for the next season. The two promotion spots went to the Regionalliga West and Regionalliga S\u00fcd champions Wuppertaler SV and Kickers Offenbach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093507-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Regionalliga, Regionalliga Nord\nThe 1971\u201372 season saw two new clubs in the league, OSV Hannover and Polizei SV Bremen, both promoted from the Amateurliga, while no club had been relegated from the Bundesliga to the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093507-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Regionalliga, Regionalliga Berlin\nThe 1971\u201372 season saw two new clubs in the league, Berliner SV 1892 and Meteor 06 Berlin, both promoted from the Amateurliga Berlin, while no club had been relegated from the Bundesliga to the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093507-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Regionalliga, Regionalliga West\nThe 1971\u201372 season saw four new clubs in the league, Bayer Uerdingen, VfL Klafeld and Arminia G\u00fctersloh, both promoted from the Verbandsliga, while Rot-Wei\u00df Essen had been relegated from the Bundesliga to the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093507-0004-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Regionalliga, Regionalliga S\u00fcdwest\nThe 1971\u201372 season saw two new clubs in the league, Ph\u00f6nix Bellheim and SpVgg Andernach, both promoted from the Amateurliga, while no club had been relegated from the Bundesliga to the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 42], "content_span": [43, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093507-0005-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Regionalliga, Regionalliga S\u00fcd\nThe 1971\u201372 season saw four new clubs in the league, SV Darmstadt 98, SpVgg Bayreuth and SpVgg Ludwigsburg, all three promoted from the Amateurliga, while Kickers Offenbach had been relegated from the Bundesliga to the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 38], "content_span": [39, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093508-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Rheinlandliga\nThe 1971\u201372 Rheinlandliga was the 20th season of the highest amateur class of the Rhineland Football Association under the name of 1. Amateurliga Rheinland. It was a predecessor of today's Rheinlandliga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093508-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Rheinlandliga, Results\nSportfreunde Eisbachtal became Rheinland Champion. VfB Wissen represented Rhineland at the 1972 German Football Amateur Championship and lost early in the preliminary rounds against MTV Ingolstadt (Bavaria). SSV M\u00fclheim, Germania Metternich and newcomer ESG Betzdorf had to move down to the 2. Amateur league. For the following 1972\u201373 season, newcomers from the 2. Amateur League were SV Ehrang, BC Ahrweiler and Eintracht H\u00f6hr-Grenzhausen and from the Regional league, last years champion, SpVgg Andernach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093509-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Rochdale A.F.C. season\nThe 1971\u201372 season saw Rochdale compete for their 3rd consecutive season in the Football League Third Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093510-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Roller Hockey Champions Cup\nThe 1971\u201372 Roller Hockey Champions Cup was the 7th edition of the Roller Hockey Champions Cup organized by CERH.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093510-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Roller Hockey Champions Cup, Teams\nThe champions of the main European leagues, and Reus Deportiu as title holders, played this competition, consisting in a double-legged knockout tournament. As Reus Deportiu was also the Spanish league champions, Noia also joined the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 42], "content_span": [43, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093511-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Romanian Hockey League season\nThe 1971\u201372 Romanian Hockey League season was the 42nd season of the Romanian Hockey League. Eight teams participated in the league, and Dinamo Bucuresti won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093512-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Rugby Union County Championship\nThe 1971\u201372 Rugby Union County Championship was the 72nd edition of England's County Championship rugby union club competition. The competition was no longer the premier club competition because a National Knockout Competition called the John Player Cup had been introduced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093512-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Rugby Union County Championship\nGloucestershire won their tenth title (but first since 1937) after defeating Warwickshire in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093513-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 S.L. Benfica season\nThe 1971\u201372 season was Sport Lisboa e Benfica's 68th season in existence and the club's 38th consecutive season in the top flight of Portuguese football, covering the period from 1 July 1971 to 30 June 1972. Benfica competed domestically in the Primeira Divis\u00e3o and the Ta\u00e7a de Portugal, and participated in the European Cup after winning the previous league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093513-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 S.L. Benfica season\nAfter recovering the title in the past season, Hagan remained for second season. He strengthened his team by adding V\u00edtor Baptista, Artur Correia and Rui Rodrigues. To off-set, Jos\u00e9 Torres departed the club, alongside others, such as Jorge Calado and Jacinto Santos. Benfica began their league campaign by beating Porto in Est\u00e1dio das Antas, only to be stopped a week later by CUF. They responded with an string of consecutive wins that propelled them into first place on 31 October. They drew again in the following week, now with Boavista and were caught at the top.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093513-0001-0001", "contents": "1971\u201372 S.L. Benfica season\nIn the European Cup, Benfica eliminated Wacker in the first round and CSKA Sofia in the second. Domestically, in November, Benfica began a nine-match winning run that allowed them to open a comfortable lead at the top. They drew again in February but that did not stop their momentum, and their continued collecting consecutive wins, five more, until their experienced their first league defeat on 26 March, at the hands of Barreirense. In the European Cup, Benfica faced Feyenoord in the quarter-finals, beating them 5\u20132 on aggregate but were stopped in the semi-finals by Ajax. Afterwards, Benfica sealed their 19th league title and won their sixth double after beating Sporting in the Ta\u00e7a de Portugal Final", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 738]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093513-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary\nBenfica started the new season as reigning Primeira Divis\u00e3o holders after they recovered that honour in 1970\u201371. English manager Jimmy Hagan began his second season in charge, still with Jos\u00e9 Augusto as his assistant. In the transfer window, Benfica's major signings were V\u00edtor Baptista for the offence and Artur Correia and Rui Rodrigues for the defence. Historic player Jos\u00e9 Torres departed the club for Vit\u00f3ria de Set\u00fabal in the deal involving V\u00edtor Baptista. Other departures included Jorge Calado and Jacinto Santos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093513-0002-0001", "contents": "1971\u201372 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary\nThe pre-season began on 20 July with medical tests, and the first preparation game was on 31 July with Arsenal. Afterwards, Benfica went on a tour for England, where they played Arsenal again, among other teams. In late August, Benfica had a second tour, now in Italy and competed in the Ram\u00f3n de Carranza Trophy in Spain. They concluded the preparations by winning the Ta\u00e7a de Honra against Belenenses on 8 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093513-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary\nThe season began on 12 September with visit to Est\u00e1dio das Antas to play Porto. Benfica won 3\u20131 with goals from Eus\u00e9bio and Artur Jorge. Three days later, Benfica started their European Cup campaign with a 4\u20130 win against Wacker. On the 19, Benfica dropped their first points in the league after a surprising 1\u20131 draw with CUF. That left them in fourth place, one-point behind leaders Vit\u00f3ria de Set\u00fabal and Sporting. On 26 September, Benfica defeated Vit\u00f3ria de Set\u00fabal away and pass them on the league table, placing them in third, one-less than leader Sporting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 609]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093513-0003-0001", "contents": "1971\u201372 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary\nThe month closed with another victory in the European Cup, for a 7\u20131 aggregate win against Wacker. In October, Benfica won all of his league matches but only reached first place on the 31 after a home win against Uni\u00e3o de Tomar. In Europe, Benfica faced CSKA Sofia for the second round, beating them 2\u20131 on aggregate and qualifying for the quarter-finals. On 7 November, Benfica played Boavista on the road and drew 2\u20132 and were therefore caught in first place by Sporting. That situation was short lived as Benfica began a winning streak that lasted until February.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093513-0003-0002", "contents": "1971\u201372 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary\nNine consecutive wins, including a 3\u20130 win in Est\u00e1dio de Alvalade against Sporting, allowed Benfica to quickly build a comfortable lead. On match-day 12, the lead already stood at three-points, and Benfica lapped the first half of the Primeira Divis\u00e3o with a five more points than second-place, Vit\u00f3ria de Set\u00fabal. They began the second part of the season by beating Porto in the Cl\u00e1ssico, but two-weeks later, they were finally stopped in the home draw to Vit\u00f3ria de Set\u00fabal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093513-0004-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary\nBenfica responded well and kept on winning, increasing their lead to eight-points by match-day 23 after five consecutive wins. In the European Cup, on 8 March, the team was defeated in first leg of the quarter-finals by Feyenoord. Benfica complained of referee Kunze as Ant\u00f3nio Sim\u00f5es described: \"I never thought I would find a referee like this. Dishonest is all I can say about him.\". On 22 March, Benfica received Feyenoord and won 5\u20131. With the game in 2\u20131 on the 80th minute, which qualified Feyenoord; Benfica scored three goals in the last ten minutes to progress to the semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093513-0004-0001", "contents": "1971\u201372 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary\nThe win was seen as a revenge because Ernst Happel had repeatedly labelled Benfica as an inferior team. Four days later, Benfica lost for the first time in the Primeira Divis\u00e3o. On match-day 24, Barreirense beat Benfica by 1\u20130 and prevented their goal of finishing the league undefeated. Afterwards, Eus\u00e9bio said that the game against Feyenoord could not serve as an excuse. Benfica entered in April still in all competitions and their first match was the semi-finals of the European Cup. Facing another Dutch team, Ajax from Johan Cruyff, Benfica was defeated in Amsterdam by 1\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 625]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093513-0004-0002", "contents": "1971\u201372 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary\nIn the home reception to Ajax, Benfica attempted to qualify for their sixth final, but drew 0\u20130 and were eliminated. Hagan's tactics were blamed by the press for the elimination, while Jaime Gra\u00e7a targeted the referee for annulling a clean goal for Benfica. The team finished the month by playing two matches for the Ta\u00e7a de Portugal. On 23 April, they defeated Cova da Piedade by 6\u20133 for the quarter-finals and on 30, they thrashed Porto by 6\u20130 in the semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093513-0004-0003", "contents": "1971\u201372 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary\nThey ensured their fourth consecutive final and were meeting Sporting in the Ta\u00e7a de Portugal Final, repeating the same teams of the last three finals. The Primeira Divis\u00e3o resumed on 7 May, with Benfica beating Acad\u00e9mica de Coimbra by 3\u20131, thus confirming their 19th league title. With three matches still to go, Benfica tied the season 1960\u201361 for the club record of earliest match-day to win the league. They finished the campaign with 55 points in 60 possible and Artur Jorge was Bola de Prata for league top-scorer with 27 goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093513-0004-0004", "contents": "1971\u201372 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary\nThe season ended on 4 June with the Ta\u00e7a de Portugal Final where Benfica narrowly beat Sporting by 3\u20132. Benfica scored first by Eus\u00e9bio on the 20th minute, but Sporting responded with two goals in the second half. Eus\u00e9bio scored again to level the game on 2 goals on the 69th minute, requiring the need of extra-time, where on the 117th minute, he scored another to seal the win. It was Eus\u00e9bio's first hat-trick in a Ta\u00e7a de Portugal Final. Benfica had won another league and cup double, their six double.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093513-0005-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 S.L. Benfica season, Player statistics\nThe squad for the season consisted of the players listed in the tables below, as well as staff member Jimmy Hagan (manager), Jos\u00e9 Augusto (assistant manager), Fernando Neves (Director of Football).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093513-0006-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 S.L. Benfica season, Player statistics\nNote 1: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093513-0007-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 S.L. Benfica season, Player statistics\nNote 2: Players with squad numbers marked \u2021 joined the club during the 1971-72 season via transfer, with more details in the following section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093514-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 SK Rapid Wien season\nThe 1971\u201372 SK Rapid Wien season was the 74th season in club history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093515-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 SM-sarja season\nThe 1971\u201372 SM-sarja season was the 41st season of the SM-sarja, the top level of ice hockey in Finland. 12 teams participated in the league, and Ilves Tampere won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093516-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Scottish Cup\nThe 1971\u201372 Scottish Cup was the 87th staging of Scotland's most prestigious football knockout competition. The Cup was won by Celtic who defeated Hibernian in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093517-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Scottish Division One\nThe 1971\u201372 Scottish Division One was won by Celtic by ten points over nearest rival Aberdeen. Clyde and Dunfermline finished 17th and 18th respectively and were relegated to the 1972\u201373 Second Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093518-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Scottish Division Two\nThe 1971\u201372 Scottish Second Division was won by Dumbarton who, along with second placed Arbroath, were promoted to the First Division. Hamilton Academical finished bottom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093520-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Scottish Inter-District Championship\nThe 1971\u201372 Scottish Inter-District Championship was a rugby union competition for Scotland's district teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093520-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Scottish Inter-District Championship\nEdinburgh District won the competition after defeating Glasgow District in a play-off.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093521-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Scottish League Cup\nThe 1971\u201372 Scottish League Cup was the twenty-sixth season of Scotland's second football knockout competition. The competition was won by Partick Thistle, who defeated Celtic in the Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093522-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Seattle SuperSonics season\nThe 1971\u201372 Seattle SuperSonics season was the 5th season of the Seattle SuperSonics in the National Basketball Association (NBA). In their third season with Lenny Wilkens as head coach, the Sonics finished the regular season in sixth place in the Western Conference with a 47\u201335 record, their first winning record in franchise history. Wilkens quit as head coach at the end of the season and was replaced by former Dallas Chaparrals coach Tom Nissalke.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093522-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Seattle SuperSonics season, Offseason\nWith the sixth overall pick in the 1971 NBA draft, Seattle selected Fred Brown from the University of Iowa. After months of negotiation (the Kentucky Colonels of the American Basketball Association also selected him in the 1971 ABA Draft), the Sonics signed him to a multi-year contract Brown would go on to have a career spanning 13 seasons with the SuperSonics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093522-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Seattle SuperSonics season, Offseason\nThe Buffalo Braves selected Spencer Haywood with the 30th overall pick and intended to claim rights to the player from the SuperSonics. Matters were taken to court, with the judge ruling in favor of the Seattle franchise. Tensions prior to the trial rose to the point that Buffalo decided to pay expansion fees to every team in the league with the exception of the Sonics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093522-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Seattle SuperSonics season, Offseason, Draft picks\nNote: only draft picks who participated in at least one game in the NBA are listed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093522-0004-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Seattle SuperSonics season, Offseason, Draft picks\nThe Seattle SuperSonics signed their second round pick Jim McDaniels on February. Since McDaniels was under contract with the Carolina Cougars from the American Basketball Association, both teams began a legal battle over the player's contract, with a judge in the King County Superior Court granting permission to McDaniels to play for the Sonics. The Cougars appealed to the Washington Supreme Court but McDaniels stayed in Seattle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093523-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Segunda Divisi\u00f3n\nThe 1971\u201372 Segunda Divisi\u00f3n season was the 41st since its establishment and was played between 4 September 1971 and 1 June 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093523-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Segunda Divisi\u00f3n, Overview before the season\n20 teams joined the league, including two relegated from the 1970\u201371 La Liga and 5 promoted from the 1970\u201371 Tercera Divisi\u00f3n.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 52], "content_span": [53, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093524-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Serie A, Teams\nMantova, Atalanta and Catanzaro had been promoted from Serie B.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 22], "content_span": [23, 86]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093525-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Serie A (basketball)\nThe 1971\u201372 Serie A basketball championship was the 49th season of the Serie A, the highest professional basketball league in Italy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093525-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Serie A (basketball)\nThe regular season ran from 24 October 1971 to 4 April 1972, twelve teams played 22 games each. As Simmenthal Milano and Ignis Varese ended joint first with an equal head-to-head record, a single playoff game decided the title for the second year running. Milano won the game, played in Rome, to break Varese's three-year title streak, taking home their nineteenth overall title (and a spot in the European Champions Cup).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093525-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Serie A (basketball)\nTo accommodate a league expansion to 14 teams due the following year, only one side was relegated that season, newly promoted Stella Azzurra Roma went straight back to the Serie B.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093525-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Serie A (basketball), Preseason\nHolders Ignis Varese were seen as the favourites to retain their title, with habitual rivals Simmenthal Milano \u2013 whom they had beat in a title playoff game the previous season \u2013 as challengers. Ambitious teams Forst Cant\u00f9 and Spl\u00fcgen Venezia could take a few points off the leading duo but were not considered as strong enough to join the title fight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093525-0004-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Serie A (basketball), Preseason\nA Nikoli\u0107 coached Ignis had kept all their major players, with star Mexican Manuel Raga complemented by Italian internationals Dino Meneghin, Ottorino Flaborea, and Ivan Bisson among others. The addition of Tony Gennari and Marino Zanatta (both from Mobilquattro Milano, the re-sponsored All'Onest\u00e0) had created an abundance of star players in their squad, something ironically seen as their only potential weakness.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093525-0005-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Serie A (basketball), Preseason\nSimmenthal, coached by Cesare Rubini, had virtually kept the same squad yet were seen as more potent, with combative American Art Kenney settled in and youngsters Giulio Iellini and Mauro Cerioni more mature.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093525-0006-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Serie A (basketball), Regular season\nSimmenthal's title hopes took a dent when they lost 69-67 away to Forst Cant\u00f9 during the fourth round, leaving Ignis as the only undefeated team at that stage. When the two met in Varese on 9 January 1972, Simmenthal was already in a do-or-die situation, trailing the leaders by four points (having lost again in between, to mid-table Norda Bologna led by league top scorer John Fultz). Ignis' 62-57 win in a nervous game characterized by poor shooting from both sides (Bisson and Renzo Bariviera top-scoring for their respective teams with 16 points each) led some observers to already declare them champions, with their now 6-point lead seen as insurmountable.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 708]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093525-0007-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Serie A (basketball), Regular season\nHowever, the same month, Pierluigi Marzorati and Carlo Recalcati helped Cant\u00f9 end Ignis' four-year invulnerability at home with an 84-83 overtime win that made that claim less certain. Soon after, the leaders lost by a single point again, this time to Venezia after two overtimes, to see their lead on Simmenthal reduced to only two points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093525-0008-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Serie A (basketball), Regular season\nThat gap remained the same until the penultimate round game between the two freshly crowned European champions (Ignis winning the Champions Cup and Simmenthal the Cup Winners' Cup) played on 26 March 1972 in Milan. Contrarily to the previous encounter, the game was reportedly an entertaining affair, Cerioni neutralised a diminished Raga defensively whilst adding 18 points to a vindictive Kenney's 21. Meneghin's 28 points were not enough for a Varese missing the injured Bisson, as they were undone 77-72 to concede their hold on first place. Both teams comfortably won their last round games, which meant they finished as joint leaders, making a one-off playoff game at a neutral venue necessary to decide the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 765]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093525-0009-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Serie A (basketball), Regular season, Individual scoring table\nSource: unofficial statistics compiled by the Giganti del Basket magazine (official statistics started from the 1975\u201376 season).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 70], "content_span": [71, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093525-0010-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Serie A (basketball), Postseason, Title playoff\nThe title-deciding playoff game was played in Rome's Palazzo dello Sport on 4 April 1972 in front of more than 15,000 people. Raga, having returned to fitness, scored a game-high 25 points, with Meneghin adding 22 points for the defending champions as Varese led by 9 points in the first half. Despite this, a team-effort by Simmenthal's mayor players such as Kenney, Giuseppe Brumatti and captain Massimo Masini allowed them to get back in the game, with the teams tied on 60 with only 29 seconds left to play. Barivera scored twice in succession to allow Milano to win the closely contested game and the league title for the first time in five years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 708]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093525-0011-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Serie A (basketball), Italian Cup\nSimmenthal completed the domestic double over Ignis, beating their rivals 81-77 in Turin to lift the cup. As both teams were already qualified for the 1972\u201373 European Champions Cup (Milano through the league and Varese by winning the 1972 edition), the spot in the European Cup Winners' Cup was given to Mobilquattro Milano after they beat Forst Cant\u00f9 84-83 in the third-place game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093526-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Serie A (ice hockey) season\nThe 1971\u201372 Serie A season was the 38th season of the Serie A, the top level of ice hockey in Italy. Eight teams participated in the league, and SG Cortina won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093527-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Serie B\nThe Serie B 1971\u201372 was the fortieth tournament of this competition played in Italy since its creation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093527-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Serie B, Teams\nGenoa, Reggiana and Sorrento had been promoted from Serie C, while Foggia, Lazio and Catania had been relegated from Serie A.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 22], "content_span": [23, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093528-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Serie C\nThe 1971\u201372 Serie C was the thirty-fourth edition of Serie C, the third highest league in the Italian football league system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093529-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Sheffield Shield season\nThe 1971\u201372 Sheffield Shield season was the 70th season of the Sheffield Shield, the domestic first-class cricket competition of Australia. Western Australia won the championship. A new points system was introduced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093530-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Shell Shield season\nThe 1971\u201372 Shell Shield season was the fifth edition of what is now the Regional Four Day Competition, the domestic first-class cricket competition for the countries of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB). The tournament was sponsored by Royal Dutch Shell, with matches played from 21 January to 3 March 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093530-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Shell Shield season\nFive teams contested the competition \u2013 Barbados, the Combined Islands, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago. Barbados were undefeated, winning three of their four matches and drawing the other to claim a third title (and first since the 1966\u201367 season). Jamaican batsman Maurice Foster led the tournament in runs, while Barbadian fast bowler Vanburn Holder was the leading wicket-taker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093530-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Shell Shield season, Statistics, Most runs\nThe top five run-scorers are included in this table, listed by runs scored and then by batting average.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093530-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Shell Shield season, Statistics, Most wickets\nThe top five wicket-takers are listed in this table, listed by wickets taken and then by bowling average.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093531-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 South African cricket season\nThis article is a review of the 1971\u201372 South African cricket season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093531-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 South African cricket season, Events\nThe 1971\u201372 South African cricket season was the first one following the isolation placed on South African cricket as a result of the apartheid policies practised by the South African Government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 44], "content_span": [45, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093531-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 South African cricket season, Events\nA scheduled tour by England to South Africa had been cancelled and so the South African Cricket Association decided on 23 January to extend the Currie Cup, which had nearly been completed, to a full round of home and away matches. A proposed tour of Australia late in 1971-72 was in doubt, and was later called off, and the prospects of future international cricket looked unlikely.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 44], "content_span": [45, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093531-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 South African cricket season, Events\nIn the event, a tour by the New Zealand women's cricket team in 1971-72 proved to be the last official international cricket that South Africa would play until the apartheid laws were repealed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 44], "content_span": [45, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093532-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 South Carolina Gamecocks men's basketball team\nThe 1971\u201372 South Carolina Gamecocks men's basketball team represented the University of South Carolina during the 1971\u201372 NCAA University Division men's basketball season. This was the first year in which South Carolina played as an Independent. South Carolina finished 6th in the AP Poll for the third year in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093533-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 South Pacific cyclone season\nThe 1971\u201372 South Pacific cyclone season, unlike the previous two, was an average season, featuring eleven tropical disturbances, eleven tropical cyclones, and six severe tropical cyclones. The season began only four days after the official start, November 1, and ended very late, on June 5, more than a month after the official end of the season, April 30.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093533-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 South Pacific cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone SP7101\nThis tropical cyclone existed from November 5-12. However, it didn't have a name.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 70], "content_span": [71, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093533-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 South Pacific cyclone season, Systems, Severe Tropical Cyclone Ursula\nCyclone Ursula existed from 2 to 16 December 1971 in the Solomon Islands region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 77], "content_span": [78, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093533-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 South Pacific cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Vivienne\nTropical Cyclone Vivienne existed from December 16-19. It became a Category 1 tropical cyclone ( equivalent to a tropical storm ) on its peak intensity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 72], "content_span": [73, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093533-0004-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 South Pacific cyclone season, Systems, Severe Tropical Cyclone Wendy\nCyclone Wendy was a very intense tropical cyclone that existed from 30 January to 9 February 1972 off the coast of Queensland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 76], "content_span": [77, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093533-0005-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 South Pacific cyclone season, Systems, Severe Tropical Cyclone Gail\nCyclone Gail existed from 11 to 18 April 1972 well off of the coast of Queensland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 75], "content_span": [76, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093533-0006-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 South Pacific cyclone season, Systems, Cyclone Ida\nCyclone Ida existed from 30 May to 3 June 1972 near the Solomon Islands. It caused $70\u00a0million in damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 58], "content_span": [59, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093534-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season\nThe 1971\u201372 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season was a below-average cyclone season. The season officially ran from November 1, 1971, to April 30, 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093534-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Severe Tropical Storm Agnes\nAgnes existed from December 9 to December 24. Rainbands from Agnes affected R\u00e9union while the storm passed to the north.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 84], "content_span": [85, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093534-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Moderate Tropical Storm Dolly\nDolly existed from February 4 to February 9. On February\u00a07, Dolly brushed the southwest coast of R\u00e9union, bringing days of heavy rainfall that reached 774\u00a0mm (30.5\u00a0in) at Piton Tortue. The rains damaged crops and flooded coastal roads. Dolly killed five people on the island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 86], "content_span": [87, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093534-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Eugenie\nRainfall from the storm spread from Swaziland to Durban in South Africa, reaching over 350\u00a0mm (14\u00a0in) near the coast. The rains caused widespread river flooding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 81], "content_span": [82, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093534-0004-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Intense Tropical Cyclone Fabienne\nFabienne existed from February 11 to February 25. On February 18, Fabienne passed just west of Rodrigues, producing wind gusts of 254\u00a0km/h (158\u00a0mph). The storm caused two fatalities on the island, as well as 16\u00a0injuries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 90], "content_span": [91, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093534-0005-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Severe Tropical Storm Tessie\u2013Gigi\nThis system entered the basin on February 27 and became extratropical by February 28.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 90], "content_span": [91, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093534-0006-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Severe Tropical Storm Hermione\nHermione existed from March 1 to March 11. On March 5, Hermione passed north of the Mascarene Islands, producing heavy rainfall on R\u00e9union that reached 757.5\u00a0mm (29.82\u00a0in) at Foc Foc.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 87], "content_span": [88, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093535-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Southern Football League\nThe 1971\u201372 Southern Football League season was the 69th in the history of the league, an English football competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093535-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Southern Football League\nAt the end of the previous season Division One was split into divisions One North and One South with 14 new clubs joining the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093535-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Southern Football League\nChelmsford City won the championship, winning their third Southern League title, whilst Burton Albion, Kettering Town, Ramsgate Athletic and Waterlooville were all promoted to the Premier Division. Eight Southern League clubs applied to join the Football League at the end of the season, Hereford United was elected in favour of Barrow after a tie in the first vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093535-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Southern Football League, Premier Division\nThe Premier Division consisted of 22 clubs, including 18 clubs from the previous season and four new clubs, promoted from Division One:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093535-0004-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Southern Football League, Division One North\nDivision One North consisted of 18 clubs, including eight clubs from the previous season Division One and ten new clubs:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093535-0005-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Southern Football League, Division One South\nDivision One South consisted of 16 clubs, including eight clubs from the previous season Division One and eight new clubs:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093535-0006-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Southern Football League, Division One South\nAt the end of the season Ramsgate Athletic was renamed Ramsgate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093535-0007-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Southern Football League, Football League elections\nAlongside the four League clubs facing re-election, a total of 12 non-League clubs applied for election, eight of which were Southern League clubs. Three League clubs were re-elected, along with Hereford United who were elected in favour of Barrow after a tie in the first vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093536-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Soviet Cup (ice hockey)\nThe 1971\u201372 Soviet Cup was the 14th edition of the Soviet Cup ice hockey tournament. 30 teams participated in the tournament, which was won by Dynamo Moscow, who claimed their second title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093537-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Soviet League season\nThe 1971\u201372 Soviet Championship League season was the 26th season of the Soviet Championship League, the top level of ice hockey in the Soviet Union. Nine teams participated in the league, and CSKA Moscow won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093538-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Spartan League\nThe 1971\u201372 Spartan League season was the 54th in the history of Spartan League. The league consisted of 16 teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093538-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Spartan League, League table\nThe division featured 16 teams, 14 from last season and 2 new teams:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 36], "content_span": [37, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093539-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 St. John's Redmen basketball team\nThe 1971\u201372 St. John's Redmen basketball team represented St. John's University during the 1971\u201372 NCAA University Division men's basketball season. The team was coached by Frank Mulzoff in his second year at the school. St. John's home games are played at Alumni Hall and Madison Square Garden.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093540-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 St. Louis Blues season\nThe 1971\u201372 St. Louis Blues season was the fifth for the franchise in St. Louis, Missouri. The Blues finished the season in third place in the Western Division, with a record of 28 wins, 39 losses and 11 ties, good for 67 points, placing them in the playoffs, where they defeated the Minnesota North Stars 4\u20133 in the first round, before losing to the eventual Stanley Cup champion Boston Bruins in four straight in round two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093540-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 St. Louis Blues season, Draft picks\nThe 1971 NHL Amateur Draft was held on June 10, 1971, at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093541-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Stoke City F.C. season\nThe 1971\u201372 season was Stoke City's 65th season in the Football League and the 41st in the First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093541-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Stoke City F.C. season\nAfter 109 years of trying Stoke City finally won their first major trophy in March 1972 beating Chelsea 2\u20131 in the League Cup final at Wembley. They also reached the semi final of the FA Cup for the second season running and again lost out to Arsenal. Their league campaign obviously took a hit with all the cup matches being played, Stoke finished in 17th position with 35 points. In total Stoke played 71 matches during a very busy season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093541-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Stoke City F.C. season, Season review, League\nThe Stoke fans were confident of seeing more good exciting attacking football again as the 1971\u201372 season commenced but overall league performances were bitterly disappointing, however in the cup competitions Stoke did themselves proud. With the cup matches obviously taking priority Stoke had a back-log of fixtures to play (six games in 17 days) and they failed to win any of them as they finished in 17th position with 35 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093541-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Stoke City F.C. season, Season review, FA Cup\nStoke had another run to the semi-final of the FA Cup after beating lower league sides, Chesterfield, Tranmere Rovers, Hull City and another two matches against Manchester United, Stoke faced Arsenal again. Villa Park hosted the tie and thanks to an own goal from Peter Simpson, Stoke scraped a 1\u20131 draw in a close match. The replay at Goodison Park was controversial. Stoke took an early lead through a penalty, but the \"Gunners\" won a controversial penalty of their own for a handball after a corner that was given despite Gordon Banks appearing to have been fouled beforehand. Arsenal converted the penalty. The \"Gunners\" then started controlling the match and scored a second goal, which nevertheless looked suspiciously offside, and that was how the match ended, as Stoke went down 2\u20131 and their hopes of achieving a Wembley double disappeared.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 903]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093541-0004-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Stoke City F.C. season, Season review, League Cup\nIn the League Cup Stoke ousted Southport and Oxford United and then in the fourth round Stoke visited Old Trafford and held Manchester United to a 1\u20131 draw with John Ritchie cancelling out a goal from Alan Gowling. The replay attracted almost 41,000 fans to the Victoria Ground but this time there was no goals and third game was required. This was again staged at Stoke and two late goals sealed a 2\u20131 victory and passage to the last eight. At this stage of the season matches were coming thick and fast and a 4\u20132 win over Bristol Rovers saw Stoke enter the semi finals of the League Cup where they met West Ham United over two legs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 692]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093541-0005-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Stoke City F.C. season, Season review, League Cup\nNot only was this to be a memorable cup tie for Stoke, the encounter has also been described as \"epic\". In the 1st leg Stoke's hopes of reaching the final seemed to have disappeared when they lost 2\u20131 to home. However at West Ham, Ritchie levelled the aggregated score with 20 minutes left, and with just three of those remaining West Ham were awarded a penalty, a decision which angered Gordon Banks immensely.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093541-0005-0001", "contents": "1971\u201372 Stoke City F.C. season, Season review, League Cup\nThe England 'keeper was so psyched up that he dived and saved Geoff Hurst's spot kick superbly, Banks says that it was his most significant save of his career. And so to a third match, a replay at Hillsborough, was a tense 0\u20130 draw. The fourth meeting was staged at Old Trafford and another bumper crowd turned out to see the two sides do battle in a match that seemed to have everything. Bobby Ferguson, the \"Hammers\" goalkeeper was accidentally kicked on the head by Terry Conroy and Bobby Moore went in goal. He saved a Mike Bernard penalty but was beaten on the rebound. Ferguson returned and the game ebbed and flowed, and either side could have won. In the end it was Stoke with Conroy scoring the winning goal to send City through to their first major final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 823]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093541-0006-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Stoke City F.C. season, Season review, League Cup\nThe final took place on 4 March 1972 at Wembley against Chelsea in front of a crowd 97,852. Stoke showed no big match nerves and took an early lead through Terry Conroy, this prompted a response by Chelsea and just before the interval a rare mistake from Alan Bloor allowed Peter Osgood to level the scores. Stoke were not to be denied and on 73 minutes the veteran George Eastham scored the winning goal to earn Stoke their first major trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093542-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Sussex County Football League\nThe 1971\u201372 Sussex County Football League season was the 47th in the history of Sussex County Football League a football competition in England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093542-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Sussex County Football League, Division One\nDivision One featured 14 clubs which competed in the division last season, along with two new clubs, promoted from Division Two:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 51], "content_span": [52, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093542-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Sussex County Football League, Division Two\nDivision Two featured 14 clubs which competed in the division last season, along with two new clubs, relegated from Division One:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 51], "content_span": [52, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093543-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Swedish Division I season\nThe 1971\u201372 Swedish Division I season was the 28th season of Swedish Division I. Brynas IF won the league title by finishing first in the final round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093544-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Tercera Divisi\u00f3n\nThe 1971\u201372 Tercera Divisi\u00f3n season is the 38th since its establishment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093545-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Texaco Cup\nThe 1971\u201372 Texaco Cup was the second edition of the tournament sponsored by Texaco. It was won by Derby County, who beat Airdrieonians in a two-legged final by 2\u20131 on aggregate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093546-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 The Floridians season\nThe 1971\u201372 The Floridians season was the fourth and final season of American Basketball Association in Florida. For this season, 34 games were played in Miami, with the other home games being played in either Tampa or St. Petersberg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093546-0000-0001", "contents": "1971\u201372 The Floridians season\nThe Floridians edged out the Carolina Cougars for the final playoff spot by one game, with their 116\u2013115 overtime victory proving key to clinching the spot, as their record was 35\u201345 and the Cougars record was at 33\u201349, with the Floridians not only having two more games to play than the Cougars but only needing to win once more to officially clinch, which they did four days later versus the Memphis Pros, 118\u2013107. The team's biggest winning streak all season was 4, with their first half record being 19\u201323.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093546-0000-0002", "contents": "1971\u201372 The Floridians season\nThey went 17\u201325 in the second half of the season, with a season high six game losing streak in that half. They finished 8th in points scored, at 112.8 per game and 8th in points allowed at 114.3 per game. In the Semifinals, they were swept by the Virginia Squires. After the season, the team was disbanded, due to attendance not improving despite trying to appeal to the region. Pro basketball would not return to the area until 1988 with the Miami Heat, who have worn throwback jerseys of the team on occasion as part of \"Hardwood Classics Nights\", doing so for the first time during the 2005\u201306 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093546-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 The Floridians season, Awards and honors\n1972 ABA All-Star Game selections (game played on January 29, 1972)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093547-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Toronto Maple Leafs season\nThe 1971\u201372 Toronto Maple Leafs season was Toronto's 55th season of operation in the National Hockey League (NHL). It was also the fortieth anniversary season of the opening of Maple Leaf Gardens. The Maple Leafs finished fourth, and qualified for the playoffs, losing in the first round to the eventual Stanley Cup champion Boston Bruins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093547-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Toronto Maple Leafs season, Offseason\nIn June, team president Stafford Smythe and vice-president Harold Ballard were arrested for theft and fraud involving funds of Maple Leaf Gardens. They were charged jointly on the theft of $146,000 of funds and securities and Smythe was further charged for defrauding Maple Leaf Gardens of $249,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093547-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Toronto Maple Leafs season, Regular season\nOn October 13, just after the start of the season, Smythe died of complications from a bleeding ulcer. The Leaf's home opener, scheduled for that night was postponed, only the second postponement in Maple Leaf Gardens history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093547-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Toronto Maple Leafs season, Transactions\nThe Maple Leafs have been involved in the following transactions during the 1971-72 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 48], "content_span": [49, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093547-0004-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Toronto Maple Leafs season, Draft picks\nToronto's draft picks at the 1971 NHL Amateur Draft held at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Quebec.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 47], "content_span": [48, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093548-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season\nThe 1971\u201372 season saw Tottenham Hotspur compete in the First Division where they finished 6th in the table. It was also the season where they won the UEFA Cup for the first time beating Wolverhampton Wanderers in an all English final over two legs. In the FA Cup they reach the sixth round where they went away to Leeds United at Elland Road to lose 2\u20131. In the League Cup they reached the Semi\u2013final where they were knocked out by Chelsea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093548-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 44], "content_span": [45, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093549-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 UC Irvine Anteaters men's basketball team\nThe 1970\u201371 UC Irvine Anteaters men's basketball team represented the University of California, Irvine during the 1970\u201371 NCAA College Division men's basketball season. The Anteaters were led by third year head coach Tim Tift and played their home games at Crawford Hall. They were invited to the 1972 NCAA College Division Basketball Tournament where they lost to Southern Colorado in the regional semifinals and UC Riverside in the regional 3rd place game. The anteaters finished the season with an overall record of 16\u201312.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093549-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 UC Irvine Anteaters men's basketball team, Previous Season\nThe 1970\u201371 UC Irvine Anteaters men's basketball team finished the season with a record of 16\u201312 under second year head coach Tim Tift and were not invited to a post season tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 66], "content_span": [67, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093550-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team\nThe 1971\u201372 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team won the National Collegiate Championship on March 25, 1972, in the Los Angeles Sports Arena with an 81\u201376 victory over Florida State. It was the sixth consecutive championship (and eighth in nine years) under John Wooden, in his 25th year as head coach at UCLA. This was the final year that the national championship game was played on Saturday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093550-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team\nThe 1971\u201372 Bruins had an undefeated record of 30\u20130, winning by an average margin of over thirty points. They won all 26 games in the regular season (fourteen in Pac-8 play), then four in the NCAA tournament. This was the 45th consecutive victory in a winning streak that reached 88 games, an NCAA record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093550-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team, Season summary\nSophomore Bill Walton lived up to his advance billing, leading the Bruins to a 30\u20130 record and the National Championship while averaging a double-double (21.1 PPG, 15.5 RPG). Greg Lee and Henry Bibby formed a solid back court, and forwards Keith Wilkes and Larry Farmer were double-digit scorers. Walton's backup, Swen Nater, could have been a star at other schools and went on to a lengthy pro career.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 57], "content_span": [58, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093551-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 UEFA Cup\nThe 1971\u201372 UEFA Cup was the inaugural year of the UEFA Cup (now known as the UEFA Europa League), which effectively replaced the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093551-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 UEFA Cup\nIt was won by English side Tottenham Hotspur over their countrymen Wolverhampton Wanderers 3\u20132 on aggregate after a two-legged final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093551-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 UEFA Cup\nThe tournament was open to the highest-placed European teams that had not qualified for the European Cup or UEFA Cup Winners' Cup. It commenced on 14 September 1971 and concluded on 17 May 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093551-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 UEFA Cup\nA total of 64 football clubs entered the first round draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 75]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093551-0004-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 UEFA Cup\nThe tournament's top scorer was Ludwig Br\u00fcndl of Eintracht Braunschweig with ten goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093551-0005-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 UEFA Cup, First round\nTeams from the same nation could not be drawn against one another.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093551-0006-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 UEFA Cup, First round, Summary\nFirst legs were played on 14\u201316 September 1971 (except one match which was played on 22 September). Second legs were played on 29\u201330 September 1971 (except one match which was played on 6 October).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 38], "content_span": [39, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093551-0007-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 UEFA Cup, First round, Summary\n1 Vllaznia withdrew after Austrian immigration officials declined to issue visas for their team to enter the country. 2 This match was played in Reykjav\u00edk. 3 Chemie Halle withdrew after the first leg following the Hotel 't Silveren Seepaerd fire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 38], "content_span": [39, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093551-0008-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 UEFA Cup, First round, Matches\nVllaznia withdrew after Austrian immigration officials declined to issue visas for their team to enter the country; Rapid Wien were awarded a walkover.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 38], "content_span": [39, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093551-0009-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 UEFA Cup, First round, Matches\n2\u20132 on aggregate; Vit\u00f3ria de Set\u00fabal won on away goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 38], "content_span": [39, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093551-0010-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 UEFA Cup, First round, Matches\nChemie Halle withdrew after the first leg following the Hotel 't Silveren Seepaerd fire. PSV were awarded a walkover.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 38], "content_span": [39, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093551-0011-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 UEFA Cup, Second round\nTeams from the same nation could not be drawn against one another.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 30], "content_span": [31, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093551-0012-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 UEFA Cup, Second round, Summary\nFirst legs were played on 19\u201321 October 1971. Second legs were played on 2\u20134 November 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 39], "content_span": [40, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093551-0013-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 UEFA Cup, Second round, Summary\n1 After the final whistle in the first leg, Panionios fans invaded the pitch and attacked Ferencv\u00e1ros players, match officials and Hungarian police. Panionios were ejected from the competition. 2 This match was played in 's-Hertogenbosch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 39], "content_span": [40, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093551-0014-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 UEFA Cup, Second round, Matches\nAfter the final whistle in the first leg, Panionios fans invaded the pitch and attacked Ferencv\u00e1ros players, match officials and Hungarian police. Panionios were ejected from the competition. Ferencv\u00e1ros were awarded a walkover.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 39], "content_span": [40, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093551-0015-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 UEFA Cup, Third round\nTeams from the same nation could not be drawn against one another.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093551-0016-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 UEFA Cup, Third round, Summary\nFirst legs were played on 23\u201324 November 1971. Second legs were played on 8 and 15 December 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 38], "content_span": [39, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093551-0017-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 UEFA Cup, Quarter-finals, Summary\nFirst legs were played on 23 February, 7 and 9 March 1972. Second legs were played on 7, 21 and 22 March 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 41], "content_span": [42, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093551-0018-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 UEFA Cup, Semi-finals, Summary\nFirst legs were played on 5 April 1972. Second legs were played on 19 April 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 38], "content_span": [39, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093551-0019-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 UEFA Cup, Final, Summary\nFirst leg was played on 3 May 1972. Second leg was played on 17 May 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 32], "content_span": [33, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093552-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 United States network television schedule\nThe following is the 1971\u201372 network television schedule for the three major English language commercial broadcast networks in the United States. The schedule covers primetime hours from September 1971 through August 1972. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series cancelled after the 1970\u201371 season. All times are Eastern and Pacific, with certain exceptions, such as Monday Night Football. This season would be the first time the prime time schedule would be shortened to three hours (with the exception of Sunday and Tuesday), giving the 7:30 p.m. slot back to local stations, as implemented in the Prime Time Access Rule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 724]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093552-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 United States network television schedule\nEach of the 30 highest-rated shows is listed with its rank and rating as determined by Nielsen Media Research.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093552-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 United States network television schedule\nThe Public Broadcasting Service was in operation, but the schedule was set by each local station.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093552-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 United States network television schedule, Sunday\nNote: 60 Minutes aired at 6:00-7:00 pm on CBS from January to June 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 57], "content_span": [58, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093552-0004-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 United States network television schedule, Tuesday\nNote: The NBC 1972 summer series Ponderosa consisted of reruns of Bonanza episodes from the 1967-1970 period. More recent reruns of Bonanza also aired that summer under the show's original name in its regular Sunday evening time slot. NBC Action Playhouse consisted of reruns from Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre, with new introductions by Peter Marshall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 58], "content_span": [59, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093552-0005-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 United States network television schedule, Wednesday\nNote: The ABC 1972 summer series ABC Comedy Hour Presents the Kopykats consisted of reruns of ABC Comedy Hour from earlier in the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 60], "content_span": [61, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093552-0006-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 United States network television schedule, By network, NBC\nNote: The * indicates that the program was introduced in midseason.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 66], "content_span": [67, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093553-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 United States network television schedule (daytime)\nThe 1971\u201372 daytime network television schedule for the three major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the weekday and weekend daytime hours from September 1971 to August 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093553-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 United States network television schedule (daytime), Schedule, Saturday\nIn the News aired after all of CBS' Saturday morning shows except The Bugs Bunny Show, You Are There, and CBS Children's Film Festival.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 79], "content_span": [80, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093553-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 United States network television schedule (daytime), Sources\nCastleman & Podrazik, The TV Schedule Book, McGraw-Hill Paperbacks, 1984", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 68], "content_span": [69, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093554-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 United States network television schedule (late night)\nThese are the late night Monday-Friday schedules on all three networks for each calendar season beginning September 1971. All times are Eastern/Pacific.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093554-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 United States network television schedule (late night)\nTalk/Variety shows are highlighted in yellow, Local News & Programs are highlighted in white.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093555-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Utah Stars season\nThe 1971\u201372 Utah Stars season was the 2nd season of the Stars in Utah and 5th overall in the American Basketball Association. The Stars went 31\u201311 in the first half of the season, while going 29\u201313 in the second half of the season, with a ten-game winning streak near the end of the season. Their biggest losing streak was three, which happened four times during the season. They finished 3rd in points scored at 117.8 per game, and 4th in points allowed at 112.0 per game. The Stars swept the Dallas Chaparrals in the Semifinals but lost to the Indiana Pacers in seven games, denying them a repeat ABA Finals appearance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093555-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Utah Stars season, Awards and honors\n1972 ABA All-Star Game selections (game played on January 29, 1972)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 44], "content_span": [45, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093556-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Vancouver Canucks season\nThe 1971\u201372 Vancouver Canucks season was the Canucks' second season in the NHL. They finished 7th, last, in the East Division. Hal Laycoe, the team's first head coach, was fired after the season concluded and replaced by Vic Stasiuk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093556-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Vancouver Canucks season, Regular season\nThe Canucks opened the season at home against the Toronto Maple Leafs on October 8, 1971. They lost the game 3\u20132, though Jocelyn Guevremont, the team's first draft choice in the 1971 NHL Amateur Draft, scored his first goal. In their game against the Minnesota North Stars on October 20, the Canucks were shutout for the first time, losing 7\u20130. One week later the Canucks played the Maple Leafs and drew them 0\u20130, the first time the team had a shutout of their own; Dunc Wilson was in net for the Canucks, while Bernie Parent was in for the Maple Leafs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093556-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Vancouver Canucks season, Regular season\nDuring his tour of Canada, Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin and his entourage watched the Canucks play the Montreal Canadiens on October 22. They stayed for the first two periods and saw Montreal score four goals en route to winning the game 6\u20130. Frank Mahovlich recorded a hat trick for the Canadiens, while Ken Dryden earned the shutout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093556-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Vancouver Canucks season, Regular season\nWith the season concluded, Hal Laycoe was fired as head coach of the team. He was appointed vice-president of player development and scouting, and Vic Stasiuk was named the new coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093556-0004-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Vancouver Canucks season, Player statistics, Skaters\nNote: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalty Minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093556-0005-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Vancouver Canucks season, Player statistics, Skaters\n\u2020Denotes player spent time with another team before joining Vancouver. Stats reflect time with the Canucks only.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093556-0006-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Vancouver Canucks season, Player statistics, Skaters\n*Denotes player traded by Vancouver midway through the season. Stats reflect time with Canucks only.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 60], "content_span": [61, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093556-0007-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Vancouver Canucks season, Player statistics, Goaltenders\nNote: GP = Games Played; Min = Minutes; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; GA = Goals Against; SO = Shutouts; GAA = Goals Against Average", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 64], "content_span": [65, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093556-0008-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Vancouver Canucks season, Transactions\nThe Canucks were involved in the following transactions during the 1971\u201372 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093556-0009-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Vancouver Canucks season, Draft picks\nVancouver's picks at the 1971 NHL Amateur Draft, held at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 45], "content_span": [46, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093557-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 VfL Bochum season\nThe 1971\u201372 VfL Bochum season was the 34th season in club history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093558-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Virginia Squires season\nThe 1971\u201372 Virginia Squires season was the second season of the Virginia Squires in the American Basketball Association. This was the debut season of future Hall of Famer Julius Erving. In the first half of the season, the Squires were 26\u201316, with a season-high five-game losing streak and one five-game winning streak in that half. In the second half, they went 19\u201323. The Squires finished 2nd in points scored at 118.9 per game, but 9th in points allowed at 118.0 per game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093558-0000-0001", "contents": "1971\u201372 Virginia Squires season\nJust before the season ended, Charlie Scott left the team and joined the NBA's Phoenix Suns, completing a trade with the Boston Celtics (who held his original draft rights) for Paul Silas. Scott set the all-time ABA individual single-season scoring record by averaging 34.6 points per game. In the playoffs, the Squires swept the Floridians (with Game 2 even being broadcast on CBS), but the Squires lost to the New York Nets in the Division Finals. After the season, the Squires stopped playing in Roanoke, electing to focus on Norfolk, Hampton, and Richmond only.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093558-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Virginia Squires season, Awards and honors\n1972 ABA All-Star Game selections (game played on January 29, 1972)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093559-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 WCHL season\nThe 1971\u201372 WCHL season was the sixth season of the Western Canada Hockey League. Twelve teams completed a 68-game season, with the Edmonton Oil Kings winning their second consecutive President's Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093559-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 WCHL season, Regular season, Scoring leaders\nNote: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalties in minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 52], "content_span": [53, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093559-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 WCHL season, All-Star game\nThe 1971\u201372 WCHL All-Star Game was held in Vancouver, British Columbia, with the East Division All-Stars defeating the West Division All-Stars 4\u20132 before a crowd of 5,783.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093560-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 WIHL season\n1971\u201372 was the 25th season of the Western International Hockey League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 91]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093560-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 WIHL season, Playoffs\nThe Cranbrook Royals successfully protested against their loss in the 5th game in the series, resulting in the game being awarded to Cranbrook.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 29], "content_span": [30, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093560-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 WIHL season, Playoffs\nIn the \"best of 7\" final series, the Spokane Jets defeated Nelson Maple Leafs 4 games to 1 (5-3, 5-4, 5-2, 2-3, 5-4). The Spokane Jets advanced to the 1971-72 Western Canada Allan Cup Playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 29], "content_span": [30, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093561-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Washington Huskies men's basketball team\nThe 1971\u201372 Washington Huskies men's basketball team represented the University of Washington for the 1971\u201372 NCAA college basketball season. Led by first-year head coach Marv Harshman, the Huskies were members of the Pacific-8 Conference and played their home games on campus at Hec Edmundson Pavilion in Seattle, Washington.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093561-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Washington Huskies men's basketball team\nThe Huskies were 20\u20136 overall in the regular season and 10\u20134 in conference play, second in the standings; it was Washington's best season in nineteen years. The 25-team NCAA Tournament included only one Pac-8 team, champion UCLA. The Huskies did not play in the 16-team National Invitation Tournament (NIT) because the Pac-8 did not allow it. This rule was changed after this season and USC played in the NIT in 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093561-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Washington Huskies men's basketball team\nPrevious head coach Tex Winter left in May 1971 to become head coach of the NBA's San Diego Rockets, who moved to Houston the next month. Harshman was hired in June, and led the Huskies for fourteen seasons. He was previously the head coach at rival Washington State for thirteen years, preceded by thirteen years at his alma mater, Pacific Lutheran.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093562-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Washington State Cougars men's basketball team\nThe 1971\u201372 Washington State Cougars men's basketball team represented Washington State University for the 1971\u201372 college basketball season. Led by first-year head coach Bob Greenwood, the Cougars were members of the Pacific-8 Conference and played their home games on campus at Bohler Gymnasium in Pullman, Washington.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093562-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Washington State Cougars men's basketball team\nThe Cougars were 11\u201315 overall in the regular season and 3\u201311 in conference play, seventh in the standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093562-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Washington State Cougars men's basketball team\nHired in July to succeed Marv Harshman, Greenwood resigned in mid-March, after just one season. Assistant coach Dale Brown became the head coach at LSU a week later, and freshman coach Homer\u00a0Drew went with him to Baton\u00a0Rouge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093562-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Washington State Cougars men's basketball team\nGeorge Raveling, an assistant at Maryland under Lefty Driesell, was hired by WSU athletic director Ray Nagel a few weeks later in April, and led the Cougar program for eleven years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093563-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Weber State Wildcats men's basketball team\nThe 1971\u201372 Weber State Wildcats men's basketball team represented Weber State College during the 1971\u201372 NCAA University Division basketball season. Members of the Big Sky Conference, the Wildcats were led by first-year head coach Gene Visscher and played their home games on campus at Wildcat Gym in Ogden, Utah. They were 17\u20139 in the regular season and 10\u20134 in conference play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093563-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Weber State Wildcats men's basketball team\nThe conference tournament was four years away, and for the fifth consecutive season, Weber State won the Big Sky title and played in the 25-team NCAA Tournament. In the West regional, the Wildcats defeated #12 Hawaii 91\u201364 in the first round in Pocatello, Idaho, and advanced to the Sweet Sixteen in Provo. Weber fell to eventual champion UCLA by 32 points, then dropped the third place game to San Francisco.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093563-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Weber State Wildcats men's basketball team\nSenior forward Bob Davis was named to the all-conference team; senior forward Jon Knoble and junior guard Brady Small were on the second team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093564-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Welsh Cup\nThe 1971\u201372 FAW Welsh Cup is the 85th season of the annual knockout tournament for competitive football teams in Wales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093564-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Welsh Cup, Fifth round\nTen winners from the Fourth round and six new clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 83]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093565-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 West Ham United F.C. season\nIn the 1971\u201372 season West Ham United played in the First Division of English football, finishing 14th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093565-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 West Ham United F.C. season, Season summary\nThe highlight of West Ham's season came in reaching the semi-finals of the League Cup. After beating title challengers Leeds United and Liverpool, they faced Stoke City in the last four. West Ham won the first leg 2\u20131 away, but were beaten 1\u20130 at Upton Park, with Geoff Hurst having a late penalty saved by his England international team-mate Gordon Banks three minutes from the end.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 51], "content_span": [52, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093565-0001-0001", "contents": "1971\u201372 West Ham United F.C. season, Season summary\nThe teams then drew 0\u20130 after extra time in a replay at Hillsborough, and the tie was eventually decided when Stoke won a dramatic second replay 3\u20132 at Old Trafford, seven weeks after the sides had first met. The game was memorable for Bobby Moore having a stint in goal after West Ham's goalkeeper Bobby Ferguson went off injured, and saving a penalty from Stoke's Mike Bernard, only for Bernard to score from the rebound.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 51], "content_span": [52, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093565-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 West Ham United F.C. season, Season summary\nWest Ham's form suffered after the League Cup defeat, and they won just four more League matches before the end of the season. In the FA Cup, they struggled past non-League Hereford United in a replay, but were then eliminated by relegation-threatened Huddersfield Town in the fifth round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 51], "content_span": [52, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093565-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 West Ham United F.C. season, Season summary\nThis season was the last as West Ham players for club stalwarts Hurst and Harry Redknapp.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 51], "content_span": [52, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093566-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 West Midlands (Regional) League\nThe 1971\u201372 West Midlands (Regional) League season was the 72nd in the history of the West Midlands (Regional) League, an English association football competition for semi-professional and amateur teams based in the West Midlands county, Shropshire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire and southern Staffordshire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093566-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 West Midlands (Regional) League, Premier Division\nThe Premier Division featured 17 clubs which competed in the division last season, along with two new clubs:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 57], "content_span": [58, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093567-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Western Football League\nThe 1971\u201372 season was the 70th in the history of the Western Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093567-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Western Football League\nThe champions for the third time in their history, and the second season in succession, were Bideford.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093567-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Western Football League, Final table\nThe league was reduced from eighteen clubs to fourteen after Andover joined the Southern League, and Bath City Reserves, Bristol City Colts and Plymouth City all left. No new clubs joined.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093568-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers basketball team\nThe 1971\u201372 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers men's basketball team represented Western Kentucky University during the 1971\u201372 NCAA University Division men's basketball season. The Hilltoppers were led by new coach Jim Richards and All-Ohio Valley Conference player Jerry Dunn. WKU finished in a three-way tie for the OVC championship. No conference tournament was held, so a playoff was scheduled to determine which team would go on to the NCAA tournament. The Hilltoppers lost in the playoff to Morehead State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093569-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team\nThe 1971\u20131972 Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team represented University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison. The head coach was John Powless, coaching his fourth season with the Badgers. The team played their home games at the UW Fieldhouse in Madison, Wisconsin and was a member of the Big Ten Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093570-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Yale Bulldogs men's basketball team\nThe 1971\u201372 Yale Bulldogs men's basketball team represented Yale University during the 1971\u201372 men's college basketball season. The Bulldogs, led by 15th year head coach Joe Vancisin, played their home games at John J. Lee Amphitheater of the Payne Whitney Gymnasium and were members of the Ivy League. They finished the season 7\u201317, 5\u20139 in Ivy League play to finish in sixth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093571-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Yorkshire Cup\nThe 1971\u201372 Yorkshire Cup was the sixty-fourth occasion on which the RFL Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093571-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Yorkshire Cup\nHull Kingston Rovers won the trophy by beating Castleford by the score of 11-7. The match was played at Belle Vue, in the City of Wakefield, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 5,536 and receipts were \u00a31,589. The attendance was a Yorkshire Cup final record, the lowest ever, a record which would never be beaten. This is the second time in four seasons that Castleford, (who have never won the trophy, to date) finished as runner-up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093571-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Yorkshire Cup, Competition and results, Round 1\nInvolved either 6 or 7 matches (with one or two byes) and either 14 or 15 Clubs", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 55], "content_span": [56, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093571-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Yorkshire Cup, Competition and results, Final, Teams and Scorers\nScoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = two (2) points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 72], "content_span": [73, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093571-0004-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Yorkshire Cup, Notes and comments\n1 * Leeds did not take part this season due to a dispute with the Yorkshire County Committee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 41], "content_span": [42, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093571-0005-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Yorkshire Cup, Notes and comments\n2 * Bramley and Hull Kingston Rovers proceeded to the second round, whereas Dewsbury did not, however I am unable to find any record of these teams for the first round. Can anyone help", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 41], "content_span": [42, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093571-0006-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Yorkshire Cup, Notes and comments\n3 * Belle Vue is the home ground of Wakefield Trinity with a capacity of approximately 12,500. The record attendance was 37,906 on the 21 March 1936 in the Challenge Cup semi-final between Leeds and Huddersfield", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 41], "content_span": [42, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093571-0007-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Yorkshire Cup, Notes and comments, General information for those unfamiliar\nThe Rugby League Yorkshire Cup competition was a knock-out competition between (mainly professional) rugby league clubs from the county of Yorkshire. The actual area was at times increased to encompass other teams from outside the county such as Newcastle, Mansfield, Coventry, and even London (in the form of Acton & Willesden).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 83], "content_span": [84, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093571-0008-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Yorkshire Cup, Notes and comments, General information for those unfamiliar\nThe Rugby League season always (until the onset of \"Summer Rugby\" in 1996) ran from around August-time through to around May-time and this competition always took place early in the season, in the Autumn, with the final taking place in (or just before) December (The only exception to this was when disruption of the fixture list was caused during, and immediately after, the two World Wars)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 83], "content_span": [84, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093572-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Yorkshire Football League\nThe 1971\u201372 Yorkshire Football League was the 46th season in the history of the Yorkshire Football League, a football competition in England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093572-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Yorkshire Football League, Division One\nDivision One featured 12 clubs which competed in the previous season, along with four new clubs, promoted from Division Two:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093572-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Yorkshire Football League, Division Two\nDivision Two featured nine clubs which competed in the previous season, along with six new clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093572-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Yorkshire Football League, Division Three\nDivision Three featured ten clubs which competed in the previous season, along with four new clubs:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093573-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Yugoslav Cup\nThe 1971\u201372 Yugoslav Cup was the 25th season of the top football knockout competition in SFR Yugoslavia, the Yugoslav Cup (Serbo-Croatian: Kup Jugoslavije), also known as the \"Marshal Tito Cup\" (Kup Mar\u0161ala Tita), since its establishment in 1946.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093573-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Yugoslav Cup, Round of 16\nIn the following tables winning teams are marked in bold; teams from outside top level are marked in italic script.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093574-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Yugoslav First Basketball League\nThe 1971\u201372 Yugoslav First Basketball League season was the 28th season of the Yugoslav First Basketball League, the highest professional basketball league in SFR Yugoslavia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093574-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Yugoslav First Basketball League, Notable events, Early pacesetters: Zvezda, Jugoplastika, and Lokomotiva\nThe season began in early November 1971 with Crvena zvezda, defending champion Jugoplastika, Lokomotiva, and Olimpija tipped as main title contenders by the observers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 113], "content_span": [114, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093574-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Yugoslav First Basketball League, Notable events, Early pacesetters: Zvezda, Jugoplastika, and Lokomotiva\nOlimpija fell out of the title contention almost immediately, recording several losses in their first few games of the season while Crvena zvezda and Lokomotiva jumped to the top of the standings early on. Jugoplastika also kept pace with the standings leaders while Borac \u010ca\u010dak, finding success behind Radmilo Mi\u0161ovi\u0107's scoring exploits, and Radni\u010dki Belgrade became the early season's surprise packages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 113], "content_span": [114, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093574-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Yugoslav First Basketball League, Notable events, Early pacesetters: Zvezda, Jugoplastika, and Lokomotiva\nIn week 4 of the season, Crvena zvezda and Jugoplastika played a hard-fought game in Belgrade's Hala sportova with Zvezda coming out on top 98\u201386. In addition to highly competitive basketball and Zoran Slavni\u0107's exceptional performance, the game is also remembered for the bench-clearing brawl that occurred with four minutes to go in the contest after Jugoplastika's point guard Rato Tvrdi\u0107 punched Zvezda's shooting guard Duci Simonovi\u0107.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 113], "content_span": [114, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093574-0004-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Yugoslav First Basketball League, Notable events, Zadar vs Zvezda on Catholic Christmas 1971\nOn Saturday, 25 December 1971, as part of the season's week 8, KK Zadar and Crvena zvezda played on KK Zadar's home court at Jazine \u2014 a tense and incident-filled contest remembered for the extremely hostile atmosphere with nationalist and sectarian overtones directed towards the visiting team by the home fans. Scheduled to be played on Catholic Christmas \u2014 a holiday not officially celebrated in communist SFR Yugoslavia \u2014 the game featured tensions even before tip off as the visiting Crvena zvezda players and personnel had to be escorted by police from the moment of their arrival in Zadar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 100], "content_span": [101, 696]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093574-0005-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Yugoslav First Basketball League, Notable events, Zadar vs Zvezda on Catholic Christmas 1971\nAs the teams entered the Jazine court before the game, the hosts decided to power off the arena lights while the only light in the hall was provided from the thousands of candles given out to the gathered spectators. Following the tip off, Zadar fans began throwing the said candles onto the court, continuing to do so throughout the game while the referees \u2014 brothers Janko and Petar Kav\u010di\u0107 from Ljubljana \u2014 didn't stop the contest out of fear of enraging the crowd even more. Among the verbal abuse hurled at Zvezda players were hate speech chants \"Srbe na vrbe\". With five minutes to go in the close game, Zadar's best player and leading scorer Josip Gjergja twisted his ankle after stepping on one of the candles littering the court and had to leave the contest. Zvezda ended up winning 60\u201361.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 100], "content_span": [101, 898]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093574-0006-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Yugoslav First Basketball League, Notable events, Zadar vs Zvezda on Catholic Christmas 1971\nAs soon as the game ended, Zvezda players were surrounded by police mid-court as the angry Zadar fans tried to physically accost the visiting team. Shortly, even the army had to be called in as re-enforcement in order to escort the visiting team out of the arena. In the chaos and confusion while the Zvezda players were surrounded by army recruits out on the court, a young Zadar fan got in-between two of the soldiers guarding Zvezda players and stabbed Zvezda's shooting guard Ivan Sarjanovi\u0107 in the upper thigh with a compass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 100], "content_span": [101, 631]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093574-0007-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Yugoslav First Basketball League, Classification, One-game playoff for the championship: Crvena Zvezda vs Jugoplastika: 75-70 OT\nDue to Crvena Zvezda and Jugoplastika being tied for the top spot with identical 17-5 records at the end of the season, the champion was decided in a one-game playoff between the two teams since, as stipulated by the Yugoslav Basketball Federation (KSJ) regulations, points difference wasn't legitimate criteria to determine a league champion in case of a tie at the top. The regulations further stated that the deciding game's venue had to be neutral and mutually agreed upon between the two teams. Crvena Zvezda requested Sarajevo while Jugoplastika wanted Ljubljana. Due to the teams' inability to agree, the venue was decided by coin toss that was won by Jugoplastika.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 136], "content_span": [137, 809]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093574-0008-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Yugoslav First Basketball League, Classification, One-game playoff for the championship: Crvena Zvezda vs Jugoplastika: 75-70 OT\nAccordingly, the game ended up being played in Ljubljana's Hala Tivoli on Thursday, 27 April 1972. In a close game (Jugoplastika was up by four 35\u201339 at halftime), Zvezda's playmaker Zoran Slavni\u0107 hit a shot within final thirty seconds for a 67\u201367 tie at the end of regulation. Zvezda ended up winning 75-70 largely behind Zoran Lazarevi\u0107's 12 points, all of which he scored towards the end of regulation and in overtime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 136], "content_span": [137, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093575-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Yugoslav First League\nThe 1971\u201372 Yugoslav First League season was the 26th season of the First Federal League of Yugoslavia (Serbo-Croatian: Prva savezna liga Jugoslavije), the top level association football competition of SFR Yugoslavia, since its establishment in 1946. A total of 18 teams competed in the league, with the previous season's runners-up \u017deljezni\u010dar Sarajevo winning the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093576-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 Yugoslav Ice Hockey League season\nThe 1971\u201372 Yugoslav Ice Hockey League season was the 30th season of the Yugoslav Ice Hockey League, the top level of ice hockey in Yugoslavia. Six teams participated in the league, and Olimpija have won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093577-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 ice hockey Bundesliga season\nThe 1971\u201372 Ice hockey Bundesliga season was the 14th season of the Ice hockey Bundesliga, the top level of ice hockey in Germany. Nine teams participated in the league, and D\u00fcsseldorfer EG won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093578-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 in Belgian football\nThe 1971\u201372 season was the 69th season of competitive football in Belgium. RSC Anderlechtois won their 15th Division I title and made the double by beating Standard Club Li\u00e9geois in the Belgian Cup final (1-0). Standard Club Li\u00e9geois reached the quarter-finals of the 1971\u201372 European Champion Clubs' Cup and K Lierse SK the quarter-finals of the first ever UEFA Cup. The Belgium national football team qualified for the first time for the European Championship finals, by finishing first of their group and by beating Italy in the second qualifying round. Belgium was subsequently chosen to host the finals, of which they finished 3rd. For the first time, a Belgian Women's First Division championship was played (with three leagues at the top level), won by Astrio Begijnendijk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 808]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093578-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 in Belgian football, Overview\nBelgium finished the first UEFA Euro 1972 qualifying round by losing to Scotland and drawing against Portugal, though their good start (4 wins) was enough to secure the first place in Group 5 with 9 points (2 points ahead of Portugal). Belgium thus qualified for the second qualifying round, to be played against Group 6 winners, Italy, on a home and away basis. The first game ended in a goalless draw, and Belgium qualified for the finals by beating Italy in the second game (2-1).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093578-0001-0001", "contents": "1971\u201372 in Belgian football, Overview\nFor the first time in their history, Belgium would take part in the European Championship finals. Belgium was even chosen to host the finals (two semi-finals, a game for third-place and the final). They lost however in the semifinals to West Germany (1-2) at the Bosuilstadion in Antwerp, but won the game for the third-place against Hungary (2-1). The final was won by West Germany against Soviet Union (3-0). Belgium also started their qualifying campaign for the 1974 FIFA World Cup with two wins over Iceland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093578-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 in Belgian football, Overview\nAt the end of the season, KSV Waregem and KSK Beveren were relegated to Division II, to be replaced by K Berchem Sport and K Beringen FC from Division II. The bottom 2 clubs in Division II (K Waterschei SV Thor Genk and R.C.S. Vervi\u00e9tois) were relegated to Division III, to be replaced by KSC Lokeren and KFC Winterslag (after winning a play-off game 2-1 against VV Patro Eisden) from Division III. The bottom club of each Division III league (K Willebroekse SV, RE Mouscron, KSC Maccabi Voetbal Antwerp and Wavre Sports) were relegated to Promotion, to be replaced by R Jet de Bruxelles, R Stade Waremmien FC, KVV Looi Sport Tessenderlo and Kortrijk Sport from Promotion..", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 711]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093578-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 in Belgian football, European competitions\nStandard Club Li\u00e9geois beat Linfield FC of Northern Ireland in the first round of the 1971\u201372 European Champion Clubs' Cup (won 2-0 at home, 3-2 away), and CSKA Moscow in the second round (lost 0-1 away, won 2-0 at home). In the quarter-finals, Standard lost to FC Internazionale on away goals (lost 0-1 away, won 2-1 at home).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093578-0004-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 in Belgian football, European competitions\nK Beerschot VAV beat Anorthosis Famagusta FC of Cyprus in the first round of the 1971\u201372 European Cup Winners' Cup (won 7-0 at home, 1-0 away) but they lost in the second round to Dynamo Berlin of East Germany (lost both legs 1-3).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093578-0005-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 in Belgian football, European competitions\nThe Inter-Cities Fairs Cup was taken over by UEFA at the start of the season, and was renamed UEFA Cup. The 3 Belgian clubs who qualified for the 1971\u201372 UEFA Cup were RFC Brugeois, RSC Anderlechtois and K Lierse SK. In the first round, K Lierse SK surprisingly beat the last Inter-Cities Fairs Cup winner Leeds United AFC (lost 0-2 at home, won 4-0 away), but RFC Brugeois lost to FK \u017deljezni\u010dar Sarajevo (lost 0-3 away, won 3-1 at home) and RSC Anderlechtois lost to Bologna FC 1909 (drew 1-1 away, lost 0-2 at home).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093578-0005-0001", "contents": "1971\u201372 in Belgian football, European competitions\nIn the second round, K Lierse SK confirmed their good form by eliminating Rosenborg BK of Norway on away goals (lost 1-4 away, won 3-0 at home), then PSV Eindhoven of the Netherlands in the third round (lost 0-1 away, won 4-0 at home). They were only stopped in the quarter-finals by Milan AC (lost 0-2 away, drew 1-1 at home).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093579-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 in English field hockey\nThe 1971\u201372 English Hockey League season took place from September 1971 until April 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093579-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 in English field hockey\nThe principal event was the inaugural Men's Cup (National Clubs Championship) which was won by Hounslow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093579-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 in English field hockey\nThe vast majority of the season consisted of regional leagues. The first National League tournament (The National Inter League Championship) would not be introduced until September 1975.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093580-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 in English football\nThe 1971\u201372 season was the 92nd season of competitive football in England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093580-0001-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 in English football, Honours\nNotes = Number in parentheses is the times that club has won that honour. * indicates new record for competition", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093580-0002-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 in English football, FA Cup\nLeeds United won the FA Cup for the first time in their history by beating the previous year's winners, Arsenal, 1\u20130 in the final at Wembley. Allan Clarke scored the winning goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093580-0003-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 in English football, FA Cup\n1971\u201372 marked the centenary of the FA Cup. Non -League club Hereford United of the Southern League provided one of the shocks of the season by knocking out Newcastle United 2\u20131 after extra time in the 3rd Round Replay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093580-0004-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 in English football, League Cup\nStoke City won the 1972 Football League Cup Final to claim the only major trophy in their history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093580-0005-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 in English football, Football League, First Division\nBrian Clough, 37, won the first major trophy of his managerial career by guiding Derby County to their first league championship. They overcame Leeds United, Liverpool and Manchester City to win a four-horse race, with only a single point separating them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093580-0005-0001", "contents": "1971\u201372 in English football, Football League, First Division\nIt was so close that when Manchester City won their last game of the season \u2013 against Derby on 22 April 1972 \u2013 they were top of the league by a point but had no chance of being champions, as Derby and Liverpool both had games in hand, were still to play each other, and both boasted a superior goal average to City's.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093580-0006-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 in English football, Football League, First Division\nAlthough Derby beat Liverpool to pass Manchester City at the top of the table, Liverpool (two points back) and Leeds (one point back) each still had a game left. Leeds, who had won the FA Cup for the first time of their history, could have completed the double by avoiding defeat against Wolverhampton Wanderers, but instead lost 2\u20131. Liverpool could also have overtaken Derby by defeating Arsenal, but could muster only a 0\u20130 draw. This assured Derby the title by a single point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093580-0007-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 in English football, Football League, First Division\nThere were bribery allegations from The Sun newspaper regarding Leeds's manager Don Revie, who stood accused of attempting to bribe Wolves on the final day of the season. Their captain Billy Bremner won a high court battle to clear his name of the allegations, with evidence provided by the Wolves striker Derek Dougan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093580-0008-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 in English football, Football League, First Division\nStoke City won the League Cup, their first major trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093580-0009-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 in English football, Football League, First Division\nNottingham Forest and Huddersfield Town lost their First Division status. 1971\u201372 was Huddersfield's last season in the top flight until 2017, and within a few seasons they fell into the Fourth Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093580-0010-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 in English football, Football League, Second Division\nNorwich City won the Second Division and were promoted along with Birmingham City. This marked the first time that Norwich City reached the top flight in their history, less than 70 years after the club was founded. Charlton Athletic and Watford were relegated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093580-0011-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 in English football, Football League, Third Division\nAston Villa ended their two-year spell in the Third Division by gaining promotion as champions, and by the end of the decade would be firmly re-established as a First Division club. Brighton & Hove Albion followed Villa into the Second Division. Mansfield Town, Barnsley, Torquay United and Bradford City were relegated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093580-0012-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 in English football, Football League, Fourth Division\nGrimsby Town, Southend United, Brentford and Scunthorpe United were promoted from the Fourth Division. Barrow were voted out of the Football League and replaced by Hereford United, who a short time earlier had achieved a shock FA Cup victory over Newcastle United.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093580-0013-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 in English football, Football League, Fourth Division\nErnie Tagg sacked himself as manager of Crewe Alexandra because he felt that a younger manager should take charge of the club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093580-0014-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 in English football, European competitions\nThe 1972 UEFA Cup Final was the final of the first ever UEFA Cup and was contested by two English teams, Wolverhampton Wanderers and Tottenham Hotspur. Spurs won 2\u20131 in the first leg at the Molineux on 3 May. The second leg, played on 17 May at White Hart Lane, ended 1\u20131. The 3\u20132 aggregate win by Tottenham Hotspur gave them the second European trophy in their history", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093580-0015-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 in English football, Diary of the season\n8 July 1971: Bill Shankly signs a three-year contract as Liverpool manager which will keep him in charge until the end of the 1973\u201374 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093580-0016-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 in English football, Diary of the season\n7 August 1971: The 1971 FA Charity Shield is held, but without reigning League and Cup winners Arsenal, who are on a pre-season tour abroad. The Shield was won by Second Division champions Leicester City, who beat 1971 FA Cup Final runners-up Liverpool with a Steve Whitworth goal; Arsenal were beaten 1\u20130 by Feyenoord.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093580-0017-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 in English football, Diary of the season\n20 August 1971: Manchester United beat Arsenal 3\u20131 in a \"home\" tie, played at Anfield in Liverpool as a result of a ban from hosting their first two home games in Manchester, the second would be held at the Victoria Ground in Stoke-on-Trent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093580-0018-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 in English football, Diary of the season\n6 November 1971: The Manchester derby at Maine Road ends in a 3\u20133 thriller, with debutant 17-year-old winger Sammy McIlroy on the scoresheet for United.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093580-0019-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 in English football, Diary of the season\n27 November 1971: Alan Woodward scores four of the seven Sheffield United put past Ipswich Town without reply, while elsewhere, George Best is the hat-trick hero as Manchester United beat Southampton 5\u20132, and Wolverhampton Wanderers beat West Bromwich Albion 3\u20132 in the Black Country derby.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093580-0020-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 in English football, Diary of the season\n15 December 1971: John Ritchie's goal and a penalty save from Gordon Banks gives Stoke City a replay in the Football League Cup semi-final against West Ham United.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093580-0021-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 in English football, Diary of the season\n31 December 1971: At the end of the year, Manchester United are top of the First Division, three points ahead of Manchester City and four ahead of Leeds United. West Bromwich Albion and Nottingham Forest occupy the relegation places.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093580-0022-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 in English football, Diary of the season\n29 January 1972: In the second League Cup semi-final replay, at Old Trafford, Stoke overcome a West Ham side forced to make Bobby Moore their stand-in goalkeeper, putting them through to the League Cup Final for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093580-0023-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 in English football, Diary of the season\n19 February 1972: Leeds United thrash Manchester United 5\u20131 at Elland Road and are two points behind Manchester City at the top of the table. Manchester United have now lost five League matches in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093580-0024-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 in English football, Diary of the season\n4 March 1972: Leeds United beat Southampton 7\u20130 and will overtake Manchester City at the top of the table if they win their two games in hand. Manchester United are beaten for the sixth consecutive match in the League when they lose 2\u20130 to Tottenham Hotspur.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093580-0025-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 in English football, Diary of the season\n8 March 1972: Rodney Marsh moves from Queens Park Rangers to Manchester City for \u00a3200,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093580-0026-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 in English football, Diary of the season\n31 March 1972: Brian Clough dismisses reports that he is to be Noel Cantwell's successor as Coventry City manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093580-0026-0001", "contents": "1971\u201372 in English football, Diary of the season\nMeanwhile, on the pitch, in the First Division, Leeds' failure to beat West Ham sees them miss the opportunity to top the table, victory for Millwall allows them to ascend to the summit of the Second Division ahead of Norwich City and Birmingham City, Third Division table-toppers Aston Villa pull away from AFC Bournemouth, and Grimsby Town move into second in the bottom tier (behind rivals Scunthorpe United) with a win over Reading, becoming the first League side to score 50 this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093580-0027-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 in English football, Diary of the season\n1 April 1972: Derby County beat Leeds United 2\u20130 and take over at the top of the First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093580-0028-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 in English football, Diary of the season\n26 April 1972: Derby County win the Texaco Cup by beating Airdrieonians 2\u20131 on aggregate. Crystal Palace's 2\u20130 win over Stoke City relegates both Nottingham Forest and Huddersfield Town from the First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093580-0029-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 in English football, Diary of the season\n1 May 1972: Derby County, in their last League game of the season, beat Liverpool 1\u20130. Leeds United beat Chelsea 2\u20130 and will win the title if they can beat Wolverhampton Wanderers in their final fixture.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093580-0030-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 in English football, Diary of the season\n6 May 1972: Leeds United win the FA Cup for the first time in their history by beating Arsenal 1\u20130 in the final at Wembley, with Allan Clarke heading the only goal in the second half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093580-0031-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 in English football, Diary of the season\n8 May 1972: Derby County win the League Championship as neither Leeds United nor Liverpool manage to win their final league games. Leeds would have overtaken Derby on goal average had they drawn with Wolverhampton Wanderers at Molineux, but lose 2-1, while Liverpool draw 0-0 with Arsenal at Highbury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093580-0032-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 in English football, Diary of the season\n11 May 1972: The First Division season ends when Tottenham Hotspur beat Arsenal 2\u20130 in the North London derby at Highbury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093580-0033-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 in English football, National team\nEngland were eliminated from the 1972 European Championships in the quarter-finals after losing 3\u20131 on aggregate over two legs (1\u20133 at Wembley and 0\u20130 in West Berlin) to West Germany, who went on to win the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093581-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 in Scottish football\nThe 1971\u201372 season was the 99th season of competitive football in Scotland and the 75th season of Scottish league football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093582-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201372 snooker season\nThe 1971\u201372 snooker season was a series of snooker tournaments played between March 1971 and April 1972. The following table outlines the results for the season's events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093583-0000-0000", "contents": "1971\u201374 French nuclear tests\nFrance carried out a series of 24 nuclear tests from 1971\u20131974 These tests followed the 1966\u201370 French nuclear tests series and preceded the 1975\u201378 French nuclear tests.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093584-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\n1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1972nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 972nd year of the 2nd\u00a0millennium, the 72nd year of the 20th\u00a0century, and the 3rd year of the 1970s decade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 4], "section_span": [4, 4], "content_span": [5, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093584-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\nWithin the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using mean solar time [the legal time scale], its duration was 31622401.141 seconds of Terrestrial Time (or Ephemeris Time), which is slightly shorter than 1908).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 4], "section_span": [4, 4], "content_span": [5, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093585-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 (album)\n1972 is the fourth album by indie folk musician Josh Rouse. It was released on Rykodisc on August 26, 2003.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093586-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 1. divisjon\nThe 1972 1. divisjon was the 28th completed season of top division football in Norway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093586-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 1. divisjon, Overview\nIt was contested by 12 teams, and Viking FK won the championship, their second league title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 26], "content_span": [27, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093587-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 1000 km Buenos Aires\nThe 1972 Buenos Aires 1000 Kilometers was the opening round of the 1972 World Championship for Makes season. It took place at the Aut\u00f3dromo Oscar Alfredo G\u00e1lvez, Argentina, on January 10, 1972. This would be the last time that the World Championship ran in a South American country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093587-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 1000 km Buenos Aires\nGrand tourer class cars did not participate in this event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 84]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093587-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 1000 km Buenos Aires, Official results\nClass winners in bold. Cars failing to complete 70% of the winner's distance marked as Not Classified (NC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 43], "content_span": [44, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093588-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 2. divisjon\nThe 1972 2. divisjon was a Norwegian second-tier football league season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 89]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093588-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 2. divisjon\nThe league was contested by 35 teams, divided into a total of four groups; A and B (non-Northern Norwegian teams) and two district groups which contained teams from Northern Norway: district IX\u2013X and district XI. The winners of group A and B were promoted to the 1973 1. divisjon, while the winners of the district groups qualified for the Northern Norwegian final. The second placed teams in group A and B met the winner of the district IX\u2013X in a qualification round where the winner was promoted to 1. divisjon. The winner of district XI was not eligible for promotion. The bottom team in group A and B were relegated to the 3. divisjon. The to second last teams in group A and B met in a qualification round where the losing team was relegated to the 3. divisjon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 783]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093588-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 2. divisjon, Overview, Summary\nStart won group A with 24 points. Frigg won group B with 29 points. Both teams promoted to the 1973 1. divisjon. Raufoss won the qualification play-offs and was also promoted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 35], "content_span": [36, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093588-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 2. divisjon, Promotion play-offs, Results\nRaufoss won the qualification round and won promotion to the 1. divisjon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 46], "content_span": [47, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093588-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 2. divisjon, Relegation play-offs, Results, Replay\nBryne won the qualification round and remained in the 2. divisjon. Brummunddal was relegated to the 3. divisjon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 55], "content_span": [56, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093588-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 2. divisjon, Northern Norwegian Final\nA Northern Norwegian Final was played between the winners of the two district groups, Mo and Stein.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 42], "content_span": [43, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093589-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 24 Hours of Le Mans\nThe 1972 24 Hours of Le Mans was the 40th Grand Prix of Endurance, and took place on 10 and 11 June 1972. It was the ninth round of the 1972 World Championship for Makes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093589-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 24 Hours of Le Mans\nThis year's marked the start of a new era with revised Sports-Prototype regulations putting a 3-litre limit on engine size. There was also a significant change to the track with the construction of the new technical section subsequently named the Porsche Curves bypassing the dangerous Maison Blanche corner, which had been the site of many serious accidents in the past.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093589-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 24 Hours of Le Mans\nHaving already won the Manufacturers\u2019 Championship Ferrari chose not to contest the race. Matra were strong favourites for the outright win after not running the other races to focus on its Le Mans preparation. Once the challenge from Alfa Romeo and Lola had dissipated overnight, Matra were able to ease off to secure a popular 1\u20132 victory for the home country \u2013 France's first since 1950. Henri Pescarolo and Graham Hill were the winners, with a healthy 11-lap margin over teammates Fran\u00e7ois Cevert and Howden Ganley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093589-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 24 Hours of Le Mans\nHowever the victory was tarnished by the death of veteran Formula One racer Jo Bonnier who died when his Lola prototype collided with a Ferrari GT and flew over the barriers into the trees on the Sunday morning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093589-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 24 Hours of Le Mans, Regulations\nOnce again, the CSI (Commission Sportive Internationale - the FIA\u2019s regulations body) overhauled its FIA Appendix J, redefining its motorsport categories. The former Group 6 Prototypes and Group 5 Sports categories were combined into a new, third-generation, Group 5 Sports-Prototype class with a 3-litre engine limit (or 2142cc if turbo-powered, using the x1.4 equivalency) with a minimum weight of 650\u00a0kg (1,433\u00a0lb 0.08\u00a0oz). There was also no minimum production required. Not for the last time, the FIA\u2019s idea was to encourage manufacturers to build, develop and use engines based around the current Formula One 3.0-litre standard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 671]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093589-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 24 Hours of Le Mans, Regulations\nRecognising the growing interest in touring car racing, the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO) opened the entry list to Group 2 Special Touring Cars, alongside the Group 4 Special GTs and the new Group 5. Entries for the Group 2 and 4 categories had a 2-litre minimum but no upper limit on engine size. They also revamped the minimum distance and speed requirements. No longer a set lap-time to qualify, all cars had to be within 140% of an average of the three best practice laps put up. Also the sliding scale of target distances was discarded. Now cars had to achieve at least 70% of its class winner to be classified. Therefore the Index of Performance, now redundant, was discontinued. Also, the Index of Thermal Efficiency now only applied to Group 2 and 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 799]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093589-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 24 Hours of Le Mans, Regulations\nBut the biggest change was to the track layout, with a new series of curves being built between Arnage and the Ford chicane bypassing the dangerously fast Maison Blanche section. Financed by Porsche, it therefore became known as the \u201cPorsche curves\u201d. The Ford chicane was also redesigned with a second chicane added just up the track to allow a dedicated pit-lane entrance lane to be built. This allowed cars to decelerate off the racing line and off the main track, greatly increasing safety.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093589-0006-0001", "contents": "1972 24 Hours of Le Mans, Regulations\nAlthough the modifications only added 71\u00a0m (232\u00a0ft 11.28\u00a0in) to the overall track length, there was a noticeable change in lap times and average speed slowing the prototypes' speeds by 30\u00a0km/h (18\u00a0mph). The circuit still had cars using full throttle for over 65% of the lap however.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093589-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 24 Hours of Le Mans, Regulations\nPrizemoney this year included FF80000 (\u00a36400) for outright victory, and half that to the respective winners of the GT category and Index of Thermal Efficiency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093589-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries\nWith the new regulations there were 91 applications, and this led to a solid 66 arriving for practice and for the first time for a few years a full grid of 55 cars took the start.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093589-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries\nIn a major surprise, after winning every round in the Championship to date, and dominating the timing in the Test Weekend in March, Ferrari withdrew its works team less than a fortnight before the race. Having just secured the World Championship title, it claimed the engines on the Group 5 312 PB were only good for the 1000\u00a0km races, and not 24 hours. This did not sound convincing however, since they had achieved a 1\u20132 victory at the 12 Hours of Sebring. Alfa Romeo had voiced the same concern about their engines\u2019 durability but still showed up to Le Mans. John Wyer also chose not to bring his team's Gulf-Mirages because their Weslake V12 engines were not ready and under-prepared.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 723]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093589-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries\nAlthough everyone had been outclassed by the Porsche 917s in 1971, Alfa Romeo had proven the most competitive, even getting three wins that season. For 1972 they had developed the latest iteration of the Tipo 33, the open-top T33/3. Designer Carlo Chiti used a tubular chassis rather than a full monocoque making them narrower and 50\u00a0kg lighter. The 3-litre V8 developed 445\u00a0bhp. The team picked up a number of ex-Porsche drivers for the three cars entered: Vic Elford/Helmut Marko, Rolf Stommelen/\u201dNanni\u201d Galli and Nino Vaccarella/Andrea de Adamich.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093589-0011-0000", "contents": "1972 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries\nMatra, like Jaguar in the 1950s, chose to concentrate its efforts for the prestige of a Le Mans victory. The latest version of the 660, the MS660C had been over a second slower than Ickx's Ferrari at the test weekend. But a new model, the MS670 was entered for the race. The 3-litre V12 was detuned for the race down to 450\u00a0bhp, pushing it to 310\u00a0kp/h (195\u00a0mph) on the Mulsanne Straight. With the French media stirring up a patriotic fervour, team director G\u00e9rard Ducarouge took no chances and bought 4 cars and 60 crew. Aerodynamic long-tail versions were prepared for Jean-Pierre Beltoise/Chris Amon and Fran\u00e7ois Cevert/Howden Ganley while Henri Pescarolo/Graham Hill (back at Le Mans for the first time since 1966) had a short-tail version. The fourth car was the reliable 660C, given to Jean-Pierre Jabouille/ David Hobbs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 860]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093589-0012-0000", "contents": "1972 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries\nPorsche was now focussing its efforts on its 917 Can-Am project. However, Reinhold Joest got considerable factory assistance with his 908 LH entry, and sponsored by ATE. The three-year old car had been owned by Jo Siffert who had been killed less than a year ago, and was loaned from the Schlumpf Collection who held it in tribute to their countryman. It was refitted by Porsche with a new 3-litre engine capable of 360\u00a0bhp. Other customer teams brought Porsche Group 5 cars: the Spanish Escuderia Montjuich had a 908/03, Andr\u00e9 Wicky\u2019s Swiss team had one of several 908/02s as well as an older 907.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093589-0013-0000", "contents": "1972 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries\nJo Bonnier, Lola\u2019s European agent, convinced Eric Broadley to develop a 3-litre version of its successful T210. Designed by Patrick Head and John Barnard, the new T280 used the Cosworth DFV engine. It was very fast and had easily won the four-hour race at the Test Weekend. With works-support, Bonnier entered two cars: one for himself and 1971 winner Gijs van Lennep (released from Mirage for the race) and the other for G\u00e9rard Larrousse/Hughes de Fierlandt. Sponsored by Swiss cheese, they were this year\u2019s art-cars painted up with gruyere cheese-holes. There were also a pair of privateer entries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093589-0014-0000", "contents": "1972 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries\nAfter a positive first run at Le Mans the previous year, Brit Alain de Cadenet decided to build his own car to race. He employed Brabham designer Gordon Murray to build a car around the Cosworth DFV (developing 390\u00a0bhp) and Brabham BT33 suspension. The lightest of the 3-litre prototypes, De Cadenet got sponsorship from Duckhams Oil and the car was just ready in time for the race. Guy Ligier, keen to progress his JS-2 GT racecar, approached Citro\u00ebn about getting a Maserati engine \u2013 whom they had bought out three years previously. They obliged and three 3-litre V6 JS-2s were present. Because insufficient numbers had been produced it had to run in the Group 5 category.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 708]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093589-0015-0000", "contents": "1972 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries\nFerrari had not released its Group 5 car to its customer teams yet, but had been able to homologate the 365 GTB/4 \u201cDaytona\u201d as a GT car, and nine of those cars were entered by the Ferrari agents of six different countries. These comprised Luigi Chinetti\u2019s North American Racing Team (NART), Jacques Swaters\u2019 Ecurie Francorchamps, Georges Filipinetti's Swiss team, Colonel Ronnie Hoare's Maranello Concessionaires from London and Charles Pozzi\u2019s Paris-based team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093589-0016-0000", "contents": "1972 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries\nChevrolet had five entries this year to take on the Ferrari challenge. The French teams of Henri Greder (once again with Marie-Claude Beaumont as his co-driver) and the Ecurie L\u00e9opard returned. American John Greenwood also brought a pair of specially lightened Corvettes that proved to be very fast, reaching 330\u00a0kp/h (210\u00a0mph) on the Mulsanne Straight. They ran on standard BF Goodrich radial road-tyres. Their competitor, Goodyear tyres, had run successfully with the Florida-based English Racing Team winning the GT division at Daytona and Sebring. They asked NART if they could use an entry to get to Le Mans, who agreed as long as the car displayed the Ferrari motif on the side of the car.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 729]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093589-0017-0000", "contents": "1972 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries\nA new manufacturer for Le Mans was the Italian De Tomaso company. The newly homologated Pantera had a Ford 5.3-litre V8, pushing out 330\u00a0bhp was less powerful than the Ferrari and Chevrolet competition. Four cars were entered and the Spanish Escuderia Montjuich ones had strong works support.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093589-0018-0000", "contents": "1972 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries\nIn the smaller GT-category, there were seven Porsche 911s from privateer teams. This year NART ran a Dino 246 on behalf of Ferrari to contest the 2.5-litre class. Once again, NART offered its junior car to winners of the Trofeo Chinetti - a competition for young drivers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093589-0019-0000", "contents": "1972 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries\nThe European Touring Car Championship (ETCC) was proving popular with manufacturers and spectators. When the ACO opened the entry list to Group 2 cars, the Ford-Germany works team calculated that their pace in winning the Spa 24 Hours could get them into the top-10 overall at Le Mans. Three cars were prepared: the Capri RS2600 was refitted with a 2.9-litre V6 that could put out almost 300\u00a0bhp. Its drivers were all Le Mans debutants: current ETCC champion Dieter Glemser with Alex Soler-Roig, Jochen Mass/Hans-Joachim Stuck and Birrell/Bourgoignie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093589-0019-0001", "contents": "1972 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries\nTheir opposition in the ETCC was the Schnitzer Motorsport team running a BMW 2800 CS. Although BMW had recently head-hunted Jochen Neerpasch from Ford-Germany to set up BMW Motorsport, this was essentially a privateer effort for the company's first post-war entry. Despite the BMW's 3-litre engine putting out 340\u00a0bhp, the car was 250\u00a0kg heavier. The other entry was a British entry of an ex-rally Datsun 240Z.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093589-0020-0000", "contents": "1972 24 Hours of Le Mans, Practice\nFerrari was fastest in the test weekend in March with a 3:40.4, but they were a no-show for race-week. On the damp first night of practice on Wednesday, it was Stommelen in the Alfa Romeo and Larrousse in the Bonnier-Lola who set the pace. The session was cut short though by a serious accident when an advertising hoarding blew onto the track. The Thompson/Heinz Corvette was damaged but the next lap the 2-litre GRAC sports-prototype crashed and burst into flames. Driver Lionel Nogh\u00e8s (grandson of Antony Nogh\u00e8s, founder of the Monaco GP), received serious burns to his face.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093589-0020-0001", "contents": "1972 24 Hours of Le Mans, Practice\nMatra went all out on Thursday and salvaged French pride with a 1-2-3 qualification for Cevert (3:42.2), Pescarolo and Beltoise. Stommelen (3:47.9) and Bonnier were next then Elford's and Vaccarella's Alfas in sixth and seventh. The fourth Matra of Jabouille headed Larrousse with the Joest Porsche (4:03.3) and de Cadenet's Duckhams performing impressively for the cars\u2019 age and youth respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093589-0021-0000", "contents": "1972 24 Hours of Le Mans, Practice\nFastest GT was Migault in his Ferrari in 20th (4:21.7), and the best Touring Car was the Capri of Mass/Stuck in 30th (4:25.9). As if to prove a point, the Capris were right among the Daytonas, faster than most of the Corvettes, Panteras and Porsche 911s. Three of the Panteras blew their engines, traced to a faulty batch of pistons from the US. Fastest in the small GT class was the Kremer 911 which did manage an identical time to the Capri (despite reserve driver Bolanos rolling the car in practice). Last on the grid were the young NART drivers in the Dino (4:53.9), getting in when several faster cars were withdrawn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093589-0022-0000", "contents": "1972 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Start\nFor the first time a French President was the honorary starter. In front of Georges Pompidou and a large partisan crowd, Matra started with all four of their French drivers. Pescarolo took the lead from Cevert on the first lap but things started going wrong straight away. On the second lap, Beltoise's engine expired on the front straight and then Bonnier cut through to take the lead on the third lap. During a short rain-shower, Bonnier's teammate de Fierlandt put in some quick laps to take the lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 542]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093589-0022-0001", "contents": "1972 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Start\nBut the Lolas\u2019 smaller fuel-tanks meant they had to pit earlier, and more often, than the other prototypes. After that, it was the Alfa Romeos\u2019 chance to take up the challenge as first Elford, then Stommelen moved up the order. In the GT class, Migault's French Ferrari had the lead until a jammed gearbox sidelined it, whereupon the sister car of Ballot-L\u00e9na/Andruet took over. Three of the Panteras had already retired due to the dodgy pistons \u2013 the remaining one of Claude Dubois being the only one that had not used a new American engine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093589-0023-0000", "contents": "1972 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Start\nAt 6.20pm, the Jabouille/Hobbs Matra 660 ran out of fuel within reach of the pits. Someone had accidentally flicked it across to the reserve tank, which dropped them down to 12th and 5 laps down. After four hours, the two Matra 670s were being pursued by Larrousse in the Lola. Stommelen had been delayed by a fuel-pump change but the Alfas still ran fourth, fifth and seventh split by Joest's Porsche. Weigel's 908/02 was eighth followed by the Duckhams and the charging Matra 660. The Pozzi Ferrari led GT in 12th and the Glemser/Soler-Roig Capri was 15th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093589-0024-0000", "contents": "1972 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Start\nAnother short shower wet the track and de Fierlandt put his car in the sandbank at the Mulsanne corner. He then burnt out an already weakened clutch trying to extricate himself. The Bonnier/van Lennep Lola had also been delayed by gear selection issues and when Bonnier had a tyre blowout at the Mulsanne kink at 320\u00a0kp/h (200\u00a0mph).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093589-0025-0000", "contents": "1972 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Night\nAs night fell and the track dried, Bonnier and van Lennep were putting in quick times to catch up and set the fastest lap of the race with a 3:46.9. At quarter-distance still had the two Matras swapping the lead (89 laps) with a comfortable 3-lap margin over the three Alfa Romeos. Sixth was Joest (84 laps) The Ferraris had a strong hold on GT as the Corvette engines failed; Pozzi leading NART (both 77 laps) while the three Capris were running like clockwork (76 laps).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093589-0026-0000", "contents": "1972 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Night\nBut during the night first Vaccarella then Elford had clutch problems and each lost half an hour as new ones were fitted. So, by half time, at 4am, the Matras were running 1-2-3. The 670s still exchanging the lead at pit stops (178 laps) and the 660 recovering well, having just overtaken the Alfas (running Stommelen, Elford then Vaccarella - all 171 laps). Seventh was Joest's longtail Porsche (167) with the hard-charging Lola back up to eighth, 15 laps behind the leaders. With Weigel's Porsche ninth (161) and the Duckhams tenth (155 laps) the field was now very strung out. Things were still the same in GT \u2013 Pozzi and NART Ferraris on 154 laps, while Mass and Stuck (151) had stolen a 3-lap lead over the team cars in Group 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 771]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093589-0027-0000", "contents": "1972 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Morning\nRight through the night the two leading Matras stayed on the same lap, exchanging places based on pit strategy. A misty dawn broke up the routine, as the Alfa Romeos fell away with their engine issues. The Lola lost over an hour with brake problems and Weigel's Porsche also had clutch problems. Although the BMW had retired with a broken engine there were also cracks in the Capri team too \u2013 Mass/Stuck stopped on the Mulsanne Straight with a broken conrod and Glemser's car needed a differential change.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093589-0028-0000", "contents": "1972 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Morning\nIn the early morning, Bonnier (after being again delayed) was running very fast and had got his Lola back up to eighth. Then at 8.25am, he came up to the Filipinetti Ferrari GTB4 of Florian Vetsch on the straight with 2 slight kinks in it between Mulsanne and Indianapolis, with thick forest on either side. The Ferrari kept its line and, deciding to force an overtake before the curve, his Lola hit the Ferrari at speed and flew 100 metres over the barriers into the trees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093589-0028-0001", "contents": "1972 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Morning\nFellow driver Vic Elford described Bonnier's Lola as \"spinning to the air like a helicopter\". Critically injured, Jo Bonnier died soon afterward. He was a veteran of 13 Le Mans and chairman of the Grand Prix Drivers' Association. Vic Elford, coming upon Vetsch's car on fire, immediately stopped to rescue the driver who had already escaped with burned hands. By coincidence it was right beside a broadcasting television camera. Shaken by the accident, Elford then pulled into the pits to be substituted by Marko, only for them to retire soon after when the replacement clutch packed up. Ninety minutes later the Alfa of Stommelen/Galli also retired with a broken differential, leaving the last Alfa Romeo running in fourth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 764]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093589-0029-0000", "contents": "1972 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Morning\nIt started raining again at 10.30am. The Weigel 907 hit the barrier at the Dunlop Curve while running 7th. Cevert and Ganley lost time in the pits fixing wet electrics. Then just before noon, as the rain got heavier, Ganley was going slowly down the Mulsanne Straight when he was hit from behind by the Corvette of Marie-Claude Beaumont. He made it to the pits to get the rear-end repaired (taking nine minutes), but the Corvette was too badly damaged to continue. This allowed the Pescarolo/Hill car to build a secure lead over Cevert/Ganley and Jabouille/Hobbs, with the Joest Porsche well back in fourth. De Cadenet's Duckhams was doing very well in fifth until a slow brakepad change and bodywork repair dropped behind it the remaining Alfa Romeo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 791]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093589-0030-0000", "contents": "1972 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Finish and post-race\nThe rain returned with two hours to go and created havoc. Cevert, de Adamich and Craft were on slick tyres and all aquaplaned off the track approaching the waterlogged Esses. The Duckhams had the heaviest damage and fell to 12th before getting back on the track for the final lap. As a final twist, the third-placed Jabouille/Hobbs Matra 660 was stopped by gearbox problems with less than 90 minutes remaining, and the Spanish Porsche running 8th was stopped by a wheel-bearing failure in the final minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 52], "content_span": [53, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093589-0031-0000", "contents": "1972 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Finish and post-race\nIn the end, the Matra 670 of Pescarolo and Hill took the chequered flag with a comfortable margin of eleven laps over their teammates Cevert and Ganley. This was the first victory of a French car since the Rosier's Talbot-Lago victory in 1950. It also made Graham Hill the first and, to date, only driver to win the Triple Crown of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the Indianapolis 500 and the Formula One World Championship. Although aware of the bad accident, Hill was only told of Bonnier's death after the race and was deeply affected. They were former teammates, close friends and had been the \u201csenior statesmen\u201d of the Formula One grid in the early 1970s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 52], "content_span": [53, 706]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093589-0032-0000", "contents": "1972 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Finish and post-race\nNine laps further back in third was the unheralded Porsche 908LH driven by Reinhold Joest, Mario Casoni and Michel Weber. It was then a close flurry for the minor places: The sole remaining Alfa Romeo, of Vaccarella and de Adamich finished just a lap ahead of the French Ferrari of Ballot-L\u00e9na/Andruet. Charles Pozzi's car was first GT home and also won the Index of Thermal Efficiency doing about 6.75 mpg. A late-race spin for the NART Ferrari cost it time to repair, finishing two laps further back.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 52], "content_span": [53, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093589-0032-0001", "contents": "1972 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Finish and post-race\nIn a strong performance, five of the nine Ferraris finished, with Mike Parkes\u2019 Filipinetti car just overhauling the Belgian car in the last hour. All the other GT manufacturers had bad races with a number of engine problems. Chevrolet, De Tomaso and Porsche only had a single finisher each. Three months after the race, Porsche unveiled its new 911 customer model: the 2.7-litre Carrera RS to even up the competition in Group 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 52], "content_span": [53, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093589-0033-0000", "contents": "1972 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Finish and post-race\nThe advent of the Group 2 Touring Cars was successful, with two of the Ford Capris finishing, in 10th and 11th. Ren\u00e9 Ligonnet's private entry Lola T290, coming home in 14th became the first Lola to finish at Le Mans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 52], "content_span": [53, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093589-0034-0000", "contents": "1972 24 Hours of Le Mans, Official results, Finishers\nResults taken from Quentin Spurring's book, officially licensed by the ACO Class Winners are in Bold text.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093589-0035-0000", "contents": "1972 24 Hours of Le Mans, Official results, Statistics\nTaken from Quentin Spurring's book, officially licensed by the ACO", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 54], "content_span": [55, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093590-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 ABA All-Star Game\nThe fifth American Basketball Association All-Star Game was played January 29, 1972 at Freedom Hall in Louisville, Kentucky before an audience at 15,738. Joe Mullaney of the Kentucky Colonels coached the East, with LaDell Andersen of the Utah Stars coached the West.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093590-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 ABA All-Star Game\nJim McDaniels scored 18 of his 24 points in the East's 45 point fourth quarter. Dan Issel of the Kentucky Colonels was named MVP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093591-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 ABA Playoffs\nThe 1972 ABA Playoffs was the postseason tournament of the American Basketball Association's 1971\u20131972 season. The tournament concluded with the Western Division champion Indiana Pacers defeating the Eastern Division champion New York Nets, four games to two in the 1972 ABA Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093591-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 ABA Playoffs, Notable events\nThe Kentucky Colonels, despite finishing the season with the best record in the history of the ABA (68-16, .810), winning 8 of 11 regular season games against the New York Nets and finishing 24 games ahead of the Nets in the regular season standings, lost their first round series to the Nets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 33], "content_span": [34, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093591-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 ABA Playoffs, Notable events\nThe Floridians played their final game on April 6, 1972, losing at home in their Eastern Division semifinal series to the Virginia Squires 115-106. The Squires swept the series 4 games to none behind rookie Julius Erving who grabbed at least seventeen rebounds in three of those four games. On June 13, 1972, the league bought the Floridians and disbanded the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 33], "content_span": [34, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093591-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 ABA Playoffs, Notable events\nThe Indiana Pacers became the first team to win a second ABA championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 33], "content_span": [34, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093591-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 ABA Playoffs, Notable events\nFreddie Lewis of the Pacers was the Most Valuable Player of the ABA playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 33], "content_span": [34, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093591-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 ABA Playoffs, Notable events\nThis was the first season in which two future NBA teams met for the ABA Championship. This only happened one other time in the league's history, during its final year in 1976 when the Denver Nuggets edged past the Colonels 4-3 to meet the Nets in the ABA championship series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 33], "content_span": [34, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093591-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 ABA Playoffs, Notable events\nFive of the seven playoff series ended in final games in which the home team lost.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 33], "content_span": [34, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093591-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 ABA Playoffs, Western Division\n(1) Utah Stars vs. (3) Dallas Chaparrals:Stars win series 4-0", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093591-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 ABA Playoffs, Western Division\n(2) Indiana Pacers vs. (4) Denver Rockets:Pacers win series 4-3", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093591-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 ABA Playoffs, Western Division\n(1) Utah Stars vs. (2) Indiana Pacers:Pacers win series 4-3", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093591-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 ABA Playoffs, Eastern Division\n(1) Kentucky Colonels vs. (3) New York Nets:Nets win series 4-2", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093591-0011-0000", "contents": "1972 ABA Playoffs, Eastern Division\n(2) Virginia Squires vs. (4) The Floridians:Squires win series 4-0", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093591-0012-0000", "contents": "1972 ABA Playoffs, Eastern Division\n(1) Virginia Squires vs. (3) New York Nets:Nets win series 4-3", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093591-0013-0000", "contents": "1972 ABA Playoffs, ABA Finals\n(2) Indiana Pacers VS. (3) New York Nets:Pacers win series 4-2", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093592-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 ABC Championship for Women\nThe 1972 Asian Basketball Confederation Championship for Women were held in Taipei, Republic of China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093593-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 ABC Under-18 Championship\nThe 1972 ABC Under-18 Championship was the second edition of the Asian Basketball Confederation (ABC)'s junior championship. The games were held at Manila, Philippines from December 10\u2013December 20, 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093593-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 ABC Under-18 Championship\nThe Philippines were able to retain the championship by sweeping all of their assignments, blasting Taiwan, 95-62, in the final day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093594-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 ABC Under-18 Championship for Women\nThe 1972 ABC Under-18 Championship for Women was the second edition of the Asian Basketball Confederation (ABC)'s junior championship. The games were held at Manila, Philippines from December 10\u2013December 20, 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093594-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 ABC Under-18 Championship for Women\nSouth Korea were able to retain the championship by sweeping all of their assignments, blasting Taiwan, 85-59, in the final day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093595-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 ACC Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 1972 Atlantic Coast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was held in Greensboro, North Carolina, at the Greensboro Coliseum from March 9\u201311. North Carolina defeated Maryland, 73\u201364, to win the championship. Bob McAdoo of North Carolina was named the tournament MVP. With the departure of South Carolina, the ACC was left with seven members, so the top seed received a bye into the semifinals from 1972 through and including 1979.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093596-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 AFC Asian Cup\nThe 1972 AFC Asian Cup was the 5th edition of the men's AFC Asian Cup, a quadrennial international football tournament organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), that was hosted in Thailand (originally in Israel). The finals were held in Thailand between 7 May and 19 May 1972. It was won by Iran.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093597-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 AFC Asian Cup qualification\nQualification for the 1972 AFC Asian Cup finals held in Thailand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093597-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 AFC Asian Cup qualification, Zones\nBrunei\u00a0Burma*\u00a0Hong Kong\u00a0Indonesia\u00a0Khmer Republic\u00a0Laos*\u00a0Malaysia\u00a0Singapore*\u00a0Thailand\u00a0South Vietnam*", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093597-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 AFC Asian Cup qualification, Central Zone\nGroup allocation matches where winners were divided into separate groups", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093597-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 AFC Asian Cup qualification, Western Zone\nGroup allocation matches where winners were divided into separate groups", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093598-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 AFC Asian Cup squads\nSquads for the 1972 AFC Asian Cup played in Thailand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 79]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093599-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 AFC Youth Championship\nThe AFC Youth Championship 1972 was held in Bangkok, Thailand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093600-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 AMA Motocross National Championship season\nThe 1972 AMA Motocross Championship season was the 1st AMA Motocross National Championship season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093600-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 AMA Motocross National Championship season, Summary\n1972 marked the inaugural year for the AMA Motocross National Championship. Brad Lackey dominated the 500cc class ahead of Gary Jones and Wyman Priddy. In 1972, after the season-ending 500cc race on September 2, American riders competing for the AMA national championship continued to accumulate points counting towards the national championship while they competed in the 1972 Trans-AMA motocross series which began on October 1 and hosted visiting European riders from the Motocross World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 56], "content_span": [57, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093600-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 AMA Motocross National Championship season, Summary\nJones claimed the 250cc championship ahead of his Yamaha teammate, Jimmy Weinert.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 56], "content_span": [57, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093601-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 ARFU Asian Rugby Championship\nThe 1972 ARFU Asian Rugby Championship was the 3rd edition of the tournament, and it was played in Hong Kong.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093601-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 ARFU Asian Rugby Championship\nThe seven teams were divided in two pools, with the final between the winner of each pool. Japan won the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093602-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 ATP Buenos Aires \u2013 Singles\nKarl Meiler defeated Guillermo Vilas 6\u20137, 2\u20136, 6\u20134, 6\u20134, 6\u20134 to win the 1972 ATP Buenos Aires singles competition. \u017deljko Franulovi\u0107 was the champion but did not defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093604-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 African Cup of Champions Clubs\nThe African Cup of Champions Clubs 1972 was the 8th edition of the annual international club football competition held in the CAF region (Africa), the African Cup of Champions Clubs. It determined that year's club champion of association football in Africa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093604-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 African Cup of Champions Clubs\nThe tournament was played by 26 teams and used a knock-out format with ties played home and away. Hafia FC from Guinea won the final, becoming CAF club champion for the first time and the first Guinean team to win the trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093604-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 African Cup of Champions Clubs, Second round\n1 After the match had finished 2-0 to Djoliba AC, leaving the aggregate level at 2-2, AS Forces Arm\u00e9es (Dakar) refused to take part in the penalty shootout to protest the officiating; they were ejected from the competition and banned from CAF competitions for three years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 49], "content_span": [50, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093604-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 African Cup of Champions Clubs, Semi-Finals\n1 TP Mazembe refused to play the 2nd leg contesting the eligibility of the referees assigned by CAF; CAF awarded the 2nd leg 2\u20130 by forfeit to Hafia FC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 48], "content_span": [49, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093604-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 African Cup of Champions Clubs, Top scorers\nThe top scorers from the 1972 African Cup of Champions Clubs are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 48], "content_span": [49, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093605-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 African Cup of Nations\nThe 1972 African Cup of Nations was the eighth edition of the Africa Cup of Nations, the association football championship of Africa (CAF). It was hosted by Cameroon, in the cities of Yaound\u00e9 and Douala. Just like in 1970, the field of eight teams was split into two groups of four. The People's Republic of the Congo won its first championship, beating Mali in the final 3\u22122.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093605-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 African Cup of Nations, Venues\nThe competition was played in two venues in Yaound\u00e9 and Douala.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093606-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 African Cup of Nations qualification\nThis page details the process of qualifying for the 1972 African Cup of Nations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093607-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 African Cup of Nations squads\nBelow is a list of squads used in the 1972 African Cup of Nations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093608-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Air Canada Silver Broom\nThe 1972 Air Canada Silver Broom was held at the Olympic Eisstadion in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany from March 19\u201321, 1972. The 1972 Air Canada Silver Broom was the site of the infamous incident that led to the Curse of LaBonte.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093608-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Air Canada Silver Broom, Teams\nSkip : Alex F. TorranceThird: Alex A. TorranceSecond: Robert KirklandLead: Jimmy Waddell", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093608-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Air Canada Silver Broom, Teams\nFourth: Peter Attinger, Jr.Third: Bernhard AttingerSkip: Peter Attinger, Sr.*Lead: Ernst Bosshard", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093608-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Air Canada Silver Broom, Teams\nSkip : Kjell OscariusThird: Tom SchaefferSecond: Bengt OscariusLead: Claes-G\u00f6ran \"Boa\" Carlman", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093608-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Air Canada Silver Broom, The Curse of LaBonte\nThe 1972 Air Canada Silver Broom saw the incident which led to the Curse of LaBonte. In the finals, Canada under Meleschuk was playing the Americans under LaBonte, and Canada was down by two points in the final end. Meleschuck had the hammer and tried to hit out an American stone on the button so that Canada could take two and tie the game. The rock succeeded in knocking out the American stone, but rolled so that it came to be very close to another American rock biting the 8-foot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093608-0004-0001", "contents": "1972 Air Canada Silver Broom, The Curse of LaBonte\nUS third Frank Aasand saw that the American rock was still second shot and jumped in the air to celebrate. LaBonte also followed suit, but slipped and kicked the Canadian stone while Canadian third Dave Romano was still investigating the shot. It was decided that Canada got two points in the 10th end, forcing an extra end in which Canada stole a point and won.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093608-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Air Canada Silver Broom, The Curse of LaBonte\nIt was said that LaBonte placed a curse on Canada, which did not win a world championship until 1980.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093609-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Air Force Falcons football team\nThe 1972 Air Force Falcons football team represented the United States Air Force Academy in the 1972 NCAA University Division football season as an Independent. They were led by fifteenth\u2013year head coach Ben Martin and played their home games at Falcon Stadium in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The Falcons outscored their opponents 303\u2013183 and finished with a record of 6 wins and 4 losses (6\u20134).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093609-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Air Force Falcons football team\nThis was first season for the Commander-in-Chief's Trophy, which matched the three academies annually. Previously, Air Force played Navy in even years and Army in odd years. The Falcons lost both games, and Army beat Navy in December to take the first title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093610-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Akron Zips football team\nThe 1972 Akron Zips football team represented Akron University in the 1972 NCAA College Division football season as an independent. The team was led by 12th-year head coach Gordon K. Larson, in his final season. The Zips played their home games at the Rubber Bowl in Akron, Ohio, finished the season with a record of 3\u20134\u20132, and outscored their opponents 193\u2013148.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093611-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Alabama Crimson Tide football team\nThe 1972 Alabama Crimson Tide football team (variously \"Alabama\", \"UA\" or \"Bama\") represented the University of Alabama in the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. It was the Crimson Tide's 78th overall season and 39th season as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The team was led by head coach Bear Bryant, in his 15th year, and played their home games at Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa and Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama. They finished the season with ten wins and two losses (10\u20132 overall, 7\u20131 in the SEC), as SEC champions and with a loss to Texas in the Cotton Bowl Classic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 643]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093611-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Alabama Crimson Tide football team\nAlabama opened the season with a non-conference victory over Duke. They then shut out Kentucky in their conference opener, and then easily won their next three games, over Vanderbilt, Georgia and Florida. In a top-ten match-up against rival Tennessee, they scored a pair of fourth-quarter touchdowns en route to a 17\u201310 victory. Next, the Crimson Tide defeated Southern Miss and Mississippi State to set up a top-ten match-up against LSU.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093611-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Alabama Crimson Tide football team\nWith a 35\u201321 victory over the Tigers, Alabama captured the SEC championship for the 1972 season. The Crimson Tide next defeated Virginia Tech on homecoming and set up another top ten match-up Iron Bowl to close the regular season. Auburn defeated Alabama behind a pair of fourth-quarter blocked-punt returns in a game referred to as simply \"Punt Bama Punt\". The Crimson Tide then closed their season with a second-consecutive defeat, this time against Texas in the Cotton Bowl Classic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093611-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Duke\nAlabama opened the 1972 season ranked as the No. 7 team in the preseason AP Poll as they entered their game against Duke. At Legion Field, the Crimson Tide scored 21 unanswered points in the second half en route to a 35\u201312 victory over the Blue Devils to open the 1971 season. Alabama opened the game with a 14\u20130 lead after they scored on their first two possessions, on a pair of touchdown runs of eight-yards by Paul Spivey and one-yard by Joe LaBue. However, Duke was able to make the halftime score 14\u201312 after they scored on a pair of Robert Albright touchdown passes. The first was from 11-yards to Mark Landon and the second to Mike Bomgardner from eight-yards out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 61], "content_span": [62, 734]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093611-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Duke\nAfter Terry Davis extended the Crimson Tide lead to 21\u201312 with his two-yard run in the third, Alabama closed the game with a pair of touchdown runs in the fourth quarter. The first was scored by Steve Bisceglia on a 39-yard run and the second by Wilbur Jackson on a 12-yard run. In the game, Alabama outgained the Blue Devils in rushing yards 333 to 156. The victory improved Alabama's all-time record against Duke to 1\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 61], "content_span": [62, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093611-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Kentucky\nComing off their bye week, the Crimson Tide retained their No. 7 team in the AP Poll prior to their game against Kentucky. In what was the first meeting against the Wildcats since their victory in 1947, Alabama won 35\u20130 at Birmingham. The Crimson Tide took a 14\u20130 lead in the first quarter after Terry Davis threw a seven-yard touchdown pass to Wayne Wheeler and then scored himself on a three-yard run. Still up only 14\u20130 as the teams entered the second half, Alabama extended their lead to 21\u20130 on a three-yard Steve Bisceglia touchdown run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 609]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093611-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Kentucky\nThe Crimson Tide then closed the game with a pair of fourth-quarter touchdowns. The first came on a nine-yard Bisceglia run and the second on a 48-yard Gary Rutledge pass to Ralph Stokes that made the final score 35\u20130. In their previous meeting, Kentucky was led by head coach Bear Bryant, who since that time had moved on and was Alabama's head coach for this game. The victory improved Alabama's all-time record against Kentucky 25\u20131\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093611-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Vanderbilt\nAfter their victory over Kentucky, Alabama moved into the No. 6 position in the AP Poll prior to their game against Vanderbilt. Behind a 28-point second quarter, the Crimson Tide defeated the Commodores 48\u201321 in the first Denny Stadium game of the season. After Alabama took a 6\u20130 lead on a four-yard Wilbur Jackson touchdown run, Vanderbilt responded and took a 7\u20136 lead on a one-yard Walter Overton later in the first quarter. The Crimson Tide responded with four touchdowns in the second quarter and took a 34\u20137 halftime lead. The points were scored on runs of three and 16-yards by Ellis Beck, one-yard by Terry Davis and one-yard by Steve Dean.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 67], "content_span": [68, 717]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093611-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Vanderbilt\nIn the second half, both teams traded touchdowns in each of the final two quarters. In the third, Gary Rutledge scored on a seven-yard run for Alabama and Steve Burger responded for Vanderbilt with his three-yard run. Finally in the fourth quarter, Rutledge scored on a five-yard run for the Crimson Tide and Stephen Lainhart followed with a 51-yard touchdown pass to Douglas Martin for the Commodores that made the final score 48\u201321. The victory improved Alabama's all-time record against Vanderbilt to 29\u201317\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 67], "content_span": [68, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093611-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Georgia\nAfter their victory over Vanderbilt, Alabama moved into the No. 4 position in the AP Poll prior to their game against Georgia. Playing for the first time since a loss to Georgia in 1965, the Crimson Tide defeated the Bulldogs 25\u20137 in their first road game of the season. Alabama scored their only points in the first half on a five-yard Wilbur Jackson touchdown run in the first quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093611-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Georgia\nIn the third quarter, Terry Davis first threw a 39-yard touchdown pass to Wayne Wheeler and later scored on a one-yard run that made the score 19\u20130. After Jimmy Poulos scored Georgia's only points with his 17-yard touchdown run in the fourth, Alabama closed the game with a two-yard Steve Bisceglia that made the final score 25\u20137. The victory improved Alabama's all-time record against Georgia to 29\u201319\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093611-0011-0000", "contents": "1972 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Florida\nAfter their victory over Georgia, Alabama moved into the No. 3 position in the AP Poll prior to their game against Florida. Against the Gators, the Crimson Tide rallied from an early 7\u20130 deficit and defeated Florida 24\u20137 at Denny Stadium. Florida took an early 7\u20130 lead behind a 60-yard Nat Moore touchdown run. However, the Gators were unable to score again as Alabama responded with 24 unanswered points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093611-0011-0001", "contents": "1972 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Florida\nAfter a 13-yard Paul Spivey touchdown run tied the game 7\u20137 later in the first, a 31-yard Bill Davis field goal in the second gave the Crimson Tide a 10\u20137 halftime lead. They then closed the game with a pair of touchdown runs that made the final score 24\u20137. The first came on a four-yard Terry Davis run in the third and then on a one-yard Ralph Stokes run in the fourth. The victory improved Alabama's all-time record against Florida to 12\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093611-0012-0000", "contents": "1972 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Tennessee\nAfter their victory over Florida, Alabama retained their No. 3 position and Tennessee moved into the No. 10 position in the AP Poll prior to their game at Neyland Stadium. Against the Volunteers, Alabama scored two touchdowns in the final 2:39 of the game for a 17\u201310, come-from-behind victory at Knoxville. After a scoreless first quarter, the Crimson Tide took a 3\u20130 lead into halftime after Bill Davis connected on a 31-yard field goal in the second. Tennessee then took a 7\u20133 lead on a two-yard Condredge Holloway touchdown run in the third, and extended it to 10\u20133 with a 36-yard Ricky Townsend field goal in the fourth quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 700]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093611-0013-0000", "contents": "1972 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Tennessee\nWith 2:39 left in the game, Alabama took possession at the Vols 48-yard line, and three plays later Wilbur Jackson scored on a two-yard run. On the Tennessee possession that ensued, John Mitchell recovered a Holloway fumble at the Vols' 17-yard line. On the next play, Terry Davis gave Alabama a 17\u201310 lead with his touchdown run with just over one minute left in the game. The victory improved Alabama's all-time record against Tennessee to 25\u201323\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093611-0014-0000", "contents": "1972 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Southern Miss\nAfter their come-from-behind victory over Tennessee, Alabama moved into the No. 2 position in the AP Poll prior to their game against Southern Miss. Although they only led the Golden Eagles 7\u20133 at halftime, 41 second half points resulted in a 48\u201311 Alabama victory at Legion Field. In what was a very low scoring first half, the Crimson Tide scored on a two-yard Steve Bisceglia touchdown run and the Golden Eagles on a 32-yard Ricky Palmer field goal for a 7\u20133 halftime score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 70], "content_span": [71, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093611-0015-0000", "contents": "1972 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Southern Miss\nAlabama then dominated the second half and scored five offensive touchdowns in six total possessions en route to the 48\u201311 victory. Third quarter touchdowns were scored on runs of 12, 16 and five-yards by Bisceglia, Wilbur Jackson and Paul Spivey. Southern Miss responded with their lone points of the second half early in the fourth when Buddy Palazzo connected with Marshall Veal on a 12-yard touchdown pass. The Crimson Tide then closed the game with touchdowns on a 64-yard Gary Rutledge pass to Wayne Wheeler, a 15-yard Robin Cary interception return and on a 13-yard Robert Farley pass to Pete Pappas for the 48\u201311 win. The victory improved Alabama's all-time record against Southern Miss to 13\u20132\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 70], "content_span": [71, 776]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093611-0016-0000", "contents": "1972 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Mississippi State\nAs they entered their game against Mississippi State, Alabama retained their No. 2 position in the AP Poll. Against the Bulldogs, the Crimson Tide won 58\u201314 en route to their 25th consecutive victory at Denny Stadium. Alabama took a 17\u20130 lead in the first quarter behind touchdown runs of 28 and one-yard by Terry Davis and Steve Bisceglia and a 22-yard field goal by Bill Davis. After the Bulldogs responded with a one-yard Wayne Jones touchdown run early in the second, the Crimson Tide extended their lead to 30\u20136 at halftime behind a 15-yard David McMakin blocked punt return and one-yard Ellis Beck touchdown run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 74], "content_span": [75, 693]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093611-0017-0000", "contents": "1972 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Mississippi State\nIn the third, both teams traded touchdowns. Alabama scored first on a 44-yard Davis pass to Wayne Wheeler and State followed with a 47-yard Frank Dowsing punt return that made the score 37\u201314. The Crimson Tide then closed the game with a trio of fourth quarter touchdowns on a 20-yard Gary Rutledge pass to Wheeler and runs of one and two-yards by Robert Farley and Vern Wilmot. The victory improved Alabama's all-time record against Mississippi State to 44\u201310\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 74], "content_span": [75, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093611-0018-0000", "contents": "1972 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, LSU\nAfter their victory over Mississippi State, Alabama retained their No. 2 position and LSU was in the No. 6 position in the AP Poll prior to their match-up at Birmingham. Playing in a regionally televised game on ABC, Alabama defeated the previously undefeated Tigers 35\u201321 at Legion Field and captured the 1972 conference championship. LSU took a 7\u20130 first quarter lead on a 21-yard Bert Jones touchdown pass to Jimmy LeDoux. Alabama responded with a 25-yard Terry Davis touchdown pass to Wayne Wheeler in the second that tied the game 7\u20137 at halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 60], "content_span": [61, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093611-0019-0000", "contents": "1972 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, LSU\nIn the third, the Crimson Tide took a 21\u20137 lead behind touchdowns scored on a 29-yard Davis pass to Wheeler and on a 25-yard Davis run. LSU then cut the lead to 21\u201314 on a five-yard Jones pass to Charles Williamson later in the quarter. In the fourth, Alabama scored on touchdown runs of one and 52-yards by Steve Bisceglia and Joe LaBue, and LSU scored on a three-yard Jones run that made the final score 35\u201321. The victory improved Alabama's all-time record against LSU to 22\u201310\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 60], "content_span": [61, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093611-0020-0000", "contents": "1972 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Virginia Tech\nAfter their victory over LSU, Alabama retained their No. 2 position prior to their match-up against Virginia Tech at Tuscaloosa. After their 52\u201313 victory over the Hokies on homecoming at Tuscaloosa, the Crimson Tide accepted an invitation to play in the Cotton Bowl Classic. Alabama opened with a pair of first quarter touchdowns on runs of 67-yards by Wilbur Jackson and two-yards by Terry Davis. They next extended their lead to 31\u20130 at halftime behind a 36-yard Bill Davis field goal and touchdown runs of nine-yards by Jackson and two-yards by Randy Billingsley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 70], "content_span": [71, 638]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093611-0021-0000", "contents": "1972 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Virginia Tech\nAfter the Crimson Tide extended their lead on a one-yard Steve Bisceglia touchdown run in the third, the Hokies scored their first points on a five-yard J. B. Barber touchdown run that made the score 38\u20136. The game concluded after both teams traded touchdowns in the final quarter. After Gary Rutledge scored for Alabama with his one-yard run, Don Strock threw a ten-yard touchdown pass to Craig Valentine. The Crimson Tide then made the final score 52\u201313 after Robert Farley threw a 21-yard touchdown pass to Pete Pappas late in the fourth quarter. The victory improved Alabama's all-time record against Virginia Tech to 7\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 70], "content_span": [71, 697]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093611-0022-0000", "contents": "1972 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Auburn\nAs they entered their annual rivalry game against Auburn, Alabama retained their No. 2 position and the Tigers were in the No. 9 position in the AP Poll prior to their match-up in the Iron Bowl. In what was one of the most memorable games in the history of the rivalry, Auburn won 17\u201316 after they scored a pair of fourth quarter touchdowns on blocked punt returns in a game subsequently deemed \"Punt Bama Punt\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 63], "content_span": [64, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093611-0022-0001", "contents": "1972 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Auburn\nAfter a scoreless first quarter, Alabama took a 9\u20130 halftime lead after Steve Bisceglia scored on a three-yard touchdown run and Bill Davis connected on a 24-yard field goal. The Crimson Tide extended their lead to 16\u20130 after Wilbur Jackson scored on a six-yard touchdown run in the third before Auburn started their dramatic comeback in the fourth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 63], "content_span": [64, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093611-0023-0000", "contents": "1972 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Auburn\nThe Tigers scored their first points on a 42-yard Gardner Jett field goal that cut the lead to 16\u20133. Late in the quarter, Bill Newton blocked a Greg Gantt punt and David Langner returned it 25-yards for an Auburn touchdown and cut the lead further to 16\u201310. After the Tigers defense forced another Alabama punt on the next series, Newton blocked a second Greg Gantt punt and Langner returned it 20-yards for the 17\u201316 victory. The loss brought Alabama's all-time record against Auburn to 19\u201317\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 63], "content_span": [64, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093611-0024-0000", "contents": "1972 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Texas\nIn what was the finale of the 1972 season, Alabama was upset by the Texas Longhorns 17\u201313 in the Cotton Bowl. The Crimson Tide took a 10\u20130 first quarter lead behind a 50-yard Greg Gantt field goal and a 31-yard Wilbur Jackson touchdown run. Second quarter field goals of 24-yards by Billy Schott of Texas and 30-yards by Bill Davis of Alabama made the halftime score 13\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 62], "content_span": [63, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093611-0025-0000", "contents": "1972 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Texas\nIn the third, the Longhorns scored on a three-yard Alan Lowry touchdown run and Lowey then scored the game-winning points with his 34-yard touchdown run in the fourth. The loss brought Alabama's all-time record against Texas to 0\u20136\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 62], "content_span": [63, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093611-0026-0000", "contents": "1972 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, NFL Draft\nSeveral players that were varsity lettermen from the 1972 squad were drafted into the National Football League (NFL) in the 1973, 1974 and 1975 drafts. These players included:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 50], "content_span": [51, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093611-0027-0000", "contents": "1972 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Freshman squad\nPrior to the 1972 NCAA University Division football season, NCAA rules prohibited freshmen from participating on the varsity team, and as such many schools fielded freshman teams. The Alabama freshman squad was led by coach Clem Gryska for the 1972 season and finished with a record of four wins and one loss (4\u20131). The Baby Tide opened the season with a 14\u20137 loss to Georgia Tech before 7,000 fans at Grant Field. Ray Bolden scored Alabama's only points with his two-yard touchdown run and the offense had six turnovers in the loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 55], "content_span": [56, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093611-0027-0001", "contents": "1972 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Freshman squad\nAlthough they had eight fumbles in their game at Vanderbilt, the Baby Tide won the game 21\u201313. After Vandy took a 7\u20130 lead on a six-yard Larry Polston touchdown run in the first, Alabama responded three minutes later and tied the game when Alan Pizzitola returned an interception 25-yards for a score. The Commodores retook a 13\u20137 lead early in the second quarter after Ed Oaks threw an 18-yard touchdown pass to Matt Gossage and retained their lead through halftime. The Baby Tide then closed the game with a pair of third quarter touchdown runs for the 21\u201313 victory. The first came on a six-yard Joey Bolton run and the second on a five-yard Willy Shelby run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 55], "content_span": [56, 718]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093611-0028-0000", "contents": "1972 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Freshman squad\nIn their first home game of the season, Alabama defeated Tennessee 34\u201321 at Denny Stadium. With just over four minutes left in the game and the score tied 21\u201321, the Baby Tide scores a pair of late touchdowns after Tennessee turnovers for a 34\u201321 victory. Both touchdowns were scored by, Richard Todd first from 35-yards and the second from two-yards out. Against Tulane, Alabama rallied from a 10-point deficit with just under six minutes left in the game for a 21\u201320 victory at Denny Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 55], "content_span": [56, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093611-0028-0001", "contents": "1972 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Freshman squad\nAlabama took a 7\u20130 lead on the third play of the game when Willy Shelby scored on an 82-yard touchdown run. However, The Green Wave responded with a pair of touchdowns on a one-yard Gary Rudick run and a 67-yard Wyatt Washington punt return that made the score 14\u20137 in their favor at the end of the first quarter. A 39-yard Mike Davis field goal cut the Tulane lead to 14\u201310 at halftime. After a one-yard Wally Harris touchdown run early in the fourth extended the Green Wave lead to 20\u201310, Alabama closed the game with a 29-yard Davis field goal and an 11-yard Mike Stock touchdown run for the 21\u201320 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 55], "content_span": [56, 665]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093611-0029-0000", "contents": "1972 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Freshman squad\nIn their final game at Auburn, the Baby Tide for the third consecutive game came from behind and defeated the Tigers 17\u201314. After a scoreless first, a 24-yard Mike Davis field goal gave Alabama a 3\u20130 lead in the second quarter. However, Auburn took a 7 halftime lead after Mitzie Jackson scored on a short run in the final second of the first half. The Tigers then extended their lead to 14\u20133 early in the third quarter when Jack Verucchi scored on a 40-yard touchdown run that capped their opening drive of the second half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 55], "content_span": [56, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093611-0029-0001", "contents": "1972 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Freshman squad\nAlabama then closed the game with touchdowns on a short Richard Todd run in the third and on a Stock run in the fourth. This game also marked the final played by a freshman team at Alabama as the NCAA changed their rules and allowed freshmen to compete with the varsity squad starting in 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 55], "content_span": [56, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093612-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Aldershot bombing\nThe 1972 Aldershot bombing was a car bomb attack by the Official Irish Republican Army (Official IRA) on 22 February 1972 in Aldershot, England. The bomb targeted the headquarters of the British Army's 16th Parachute Brigade and was claimed as a revenge attack for Bloody Sunday. Seven civilian staff (mostly female cleaners) were killed and 19 were wounded. It was the Official IRA's largest attack in Britain during \"the Troubles\" and one of its last major actions before it declared a permanent ceasefire in May 1972. Official IRA member Noel Jenkinson was convicted and imprisoned for his part in the bombing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093612-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Aldershot bombing, Background\nThe 1969 Northern Ireland riots marked the beginning of the conflict known as the Troubles. To maintain law and order in Northern Ireland the British Army was deployed on to its streets in rioting hot-spots such as Derry and Belfast to support the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC). In December 1969 the Irish Republican Army split into two factions \u2013 the Official IRA and the Provisional IRA. Both factions' retaliation against the British Army during the Falls Curfew in Belfast resulted in paramilitary campaigns against the British state's forces commencing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093612-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Aldershot bombing, Background\nOn 30 January 1972, soldiers of the 1st Battalion, Parachute Regiment shot 28 unarmed civilians during a Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march in Derry. Fourteen people died, including teenagers. This incident became known as Bloody Sunday and dramatically increased recruitment to the two IRAs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093612-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Aldershot bombing, The bombing\nThe target of the Official IRA bomb was the headquarters of the 16th Parachute Brigade, elements of which had been involved in the Bloody Sunday shootings. Despite warnings, the 'open' garrison meant there was no security or controlled access to the camp.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 35], "content_span": [36, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093612-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Aldershot bombing, The bombing\nA Ford Cortina car containing a 280 pounds (130\u00a0kg) time bomb was left in the car park, deliberately positioned outside the officer's mess. The bomb exploded at 12:40 pm on 22 February, destroying the officer's mess and wrecking several nearby Army office buildings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 35], "content_span": [36, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093612-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Aldershot bombing, The bombing\nThe soldiers who were the intended targets were not present, as the regiment itself was stationed abroad and most staff officers were in their offices rather than the mess. Nonetheless, seven civilian staff were killed \u2013five female kitchen staff who were leaving the premises, a gardener, and Father Gerard Weston (a Roman Catholic British Army chaplain). Nineteen people were also wounded by the explosion. Aside from the priest Weston (38), the others who died during the attack were the gardener John Haslar (58), the cleaner Jill Mansfield (34); a mother of an eight-year-old boy; as well as four other cleaners named Thelma Bosley (44), Margaret Grant (32), Cherie Munton (20) and Joan Lunn (39).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 35], "content_span": [36, 737]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093612-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Aldershot bombing, The bombing\nOn 23 February, the Official IRA issued a statement claiming that it had carried out the attack in revenge for Bloody Sunday. It added: \"Any civilian casualties would be very much regretted as our target was the officers responsible for the Derry outrages\". The Official IRA also said that the bombing would be the first of many such attacks on the headquarters of British Army regiments serving in Northern Ireland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 35], "content_span": [36, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093612-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Aldershot bombing, Aftermath\nAs the bomb had killed only civilian staff, the Official IRA received harsh and widespread criticism. On 29 May 1972, the Official IRA's leadership called a ceasefire and stated that it would only launch future attacks in self-defence. The Aldershot bombing was believed to have been one of the factors that led to this decision. In November 1972, an OIRA volunteer, Noel Jenkinson, was convicted for his part in the bombing and received a lengthy jail term, dying in prison of heart failure four years later. A Protestant originally from Meath, Jenkinson had been a member of the Committee to Defeat Revisionism, for Communist Unity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 668]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093612-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 Aldershot bombing, Aftermath\nThe remaining conspirators were never captured. The larger and more militant Provisional IRA continued its campaign and also began to attack military and commercial targets in England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093613-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Algerian Cup Final\nThe 1972 Algerian Cup Final was the 9th final of the Algerian Cup. The final took place on June 25, 1972, at Stade du 5 Juillet in Algiers. Hamra Annaba beat USM Alger 2\u20130 to win their first Algerian Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093613-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Algerian Cup Final, Match, Pre-match\nThis final saw Hamra Annaba qualify for the first time to the final, either from the opposite side USM Alger reaching the final for the fourth time in a row and is looking for its first title, The new thing in this final is Stade du 5 Juillet, where it was launched by President Houari Boum\u00e9di\u00e8ne.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093613-0001-0001", "contents": "1972 Algerian Cup Final, Match, Pre-match\nAs for Hamra Annaba's journey to the final, the start was against CA Batna, then against ASPTT Alger, then he faced two clubs from Oran, MC Oran and SCM Oran, to qualify for the semi-final Where faced the defending champions MC Alger and won 2\u20131. As for USM Alger's, the beginning was from Round of 32, against WA Mostaganem, after which he faced MO Constantine and in the Quarter-final they faced USM Bel Abb\u00e8s and won 2\u20130, To qualify for the semi-finals and in a derby match against NA Hussein Dey where did they win with one goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093614-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 All England Badminton Championships\nThe 1972 All England Championships was a badminton tournament held at Wembley Arena, London, England, from 23\u201326 March 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093614-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 All England Badminton Championships, Final results\nNoriko Takagi married and became Noriko Nakayama and Brigitte Potthoff married and became Brigitte Steden.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 55], "content_span": [56, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093615-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 All-Atlantic Coast Conference football team\nThe 1972 All-Atlantic Coast Conference football team consists of American football players chosen by various selectors for their All-Atlantic Coast Conference (\"ACC\") teams for the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. Selectors in 1972 included the United Press International (UPI).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093616-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 All-Big Eight Conference football team\nThe 1972 All-Big Eight Conference football team consists of American football players chosen by various organizations for All-Big Eight Conference teams for the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. The selectors for the 1972 season included the Associated Press (AP).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093617-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 All-Big Ten Conference football team\nThe 1972 All-Big Ten Conference football team consists of American football players chosen by various organizations for All-Big Ten Conference teams for the 1972 Big Ten Conference football season. The teams selected by the Big Ten coaches for the United Press International (UPI) were led by Michigan with seven first-team selections, Michigan State with five first-team selections, and Ohio State with four first-team selections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093617-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 All-Big Ten Conference football team, Key\nAP = Associated Press, selected by the AP's Midwest Football Board", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 46], "content_span": [47, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093617-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 All-Big Ten Conference football team, Key\nUPI = United Press International, selected by the Big Ten Conference coaches", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 46], "content_span": [47, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093618-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 All-Ireland Intermediate Hurling Championship\nThe 1972 All-Ireland Intermediate Hurling Championship was the 12th staging of the All-Ireland hurling championship. The championship ended on 17 September 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093618-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 All-Ireland Intermediate Hurling Championship\nAntrim were the defending champions and successfully retained the title after defeating Galway by 2-13 to 1-9 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093619-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship\nThe 1972 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship was the 41st staging of the All-Ireland Minor Football Championship, the Gaelic Athletic Association's premier inter-county Gaelic football tournament for boys under the age of 18.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093619-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship\nMayo entered the championship as defending champions, however, they were defeated in the Connacht Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093619-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship\nOn 24 September 1972, Cork won the championship following a 3-11 to 2-11 defeat of Tyrone in the All-Ireland final. This was their fifth All-Ireland title overall and their first in three championship seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093620-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship\nThe 1972 All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship was the 42nd staging of the All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship. The championship began on 15 August 1971 and ended on 5 September 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093620-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship\nOn 4 September 1972, Kilkenny won the championship following an 8-7 to 3-9 defeat of Cork in the All-Ireland final. This was their 8th All-Ireland title and their first in ten championship seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093621-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship\nThe 1972 All Ireland Camogie Championship was won by Cork who defeated Killkenny by a four margin in the final for their third successive success of a four-in-a-row. It was the first final in which the new look camogie uniform of the 1970s was used. The match drew an attendance of 4,000. It marked the first appearance in a final of the 15-year-old Angela Downey, arguably the greatest player in the history of camogie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093621-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, Semi-finals\nIt was the second last year before the introduction of the open draw in camogie, Galway were graded junior. Kilkenny, who defeated Wexford 6-4 to 5-6 in the Leinster final with three goals from Maura Cassin and two from Angela Downey, had no opposition in the semi-final. Cork defeated Antrim in the second semi-final with a strong second half performance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 57], "content_span": [58, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093621-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, Final\nIt was a tense final with both free takes Liz Garvan and Ann Carroll missing from positions from which they would normally have scored. Angela Downey scored the first of the game\u2019s three goals for Kilkenny, Liz Garvan scored Cork\u2019s first goal from a free and Ann Carroll scored Cork\u2019s second and deciding goal from a sideline ball. Shortly after the final, Liz Garvan travelled to Zambia to take up a teaching job and was lost to the game. Agnes Hourigan wrote in the Irish Press:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 51], "content_span": [52, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093621-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, Final\nThe pity of yesterday\u2019s game was that it never got off the ground. Both teams seemed to be too tense from the start and though Cork did manage to relax somewhat when they got ahead in the closing stages, one felt, considering the obvious talent of both teams, that the fare provided was only an insipid shadow of what it might have been, The marking was very close throughout, and while it had its moment\u2019s the final never gave us the fast spectacular open play that we had seen earlier in the junior decider. Kilkenny, one felt, did a great deal to beat themselves. They never settled down and even in the second half it was not unusual to see three or four of their players in one another\u2019s way.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 51], "content_span": [52, 749]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093622-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship Final\nThe 1972 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship Final was the 41st All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1972 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, an inter-county camogie tournament for the top teams in Ireland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093622-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship Final\nThe marking was tight on both sides and this impeded the quality of play; Cork won by four points, mostly due to their superior defence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093623-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship Final\nThe 1972 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship final was a hurling match played at Walsh Park on 14 May 1972 to determine the winners of the 1971\u201372 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship, the second season of the All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship, a tournament organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association for the champion clubs of the four provinces of Ireland. The final was contested by Blackrock of Cork and Rathnure of Wexford, with Blackrock winning by 5-13 to 6-9.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093623-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship Final\nThe All-Ireland final between Blackrock and Rathnure was a unique occasion as it was the first ever championship meeting between the two teams. Both sides were appearing in their first All-Ireland final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093623-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship Final\nIn a high-scoring hour of hurling Blackrock survived a late rally by Rathnure to take the All-Ireland title to Cork for the first time. The Leinster champions were in arrears by twelve points at one stage, however, the Rathnure men launched a stunning comeback to cut the deficit down to one point. Two of the scores, a goal and a point, came in the last two minutes of play. The match was not without its talking points. Many of the Rathnure supporters felt that the full sixty minutes had not been played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093623-0002-0001", "contents": "1972 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship Final\nSimilalry, there was a dispute over a first-half point for Blackrock. Referee Noel Dalton awarded the score after both the umpires failed to reach an agreement. In spite of this Blackrock retired at half-time with a deserved 4\u20135 to 3\u20134 lead. Rathnure fought back, however, they squandered some easy chances as Blackrock stubbornly held on. It was a star-studded affair with the Rathnure team having eight inter-county players on the team. Blackrock also had more than their fair share of inter-county stars and held on for a one-point win after an eleven-goal thriller.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 625]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093624-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship\nThe 1972 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship was the 86th staging of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, the Gaelic Athletic Association's premier inter-county Gaelic football tournament. The championship began on 7 May 1972 and ended on 15 October 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093624-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship\nOn 15 October 1972, Offaly won the championship following a 1-19 to 0-13 defeat of Kerry in the All-Ireland final replay. This was their second All-Ireland title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093624-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship\nOffaly's Tony McTague was the championship's top scorer with 0-36. Offaly's Willie Bryan was the choice for Texaco Footballer of the Year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093625-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final\nThe 1972 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final was the 85th All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1972 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, an inter-county Gaelic football tournament for the top teams in Ireland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093625-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Match 1, Summary\nMick O'Dwyer brought the sides level to force a replay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 69], "content_span": [70, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093625-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Match 2, Summary\nThis was Kerry's biggest ever defeat in an All-Ireland Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 69], "content_span": [70, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093625-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Match 2, Summary\nIt was also the last time Micks O'Connell and O'Dwyer played at Croke Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 69], "content_span": [70, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093626-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship\nThe All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship of 1972 was the 85th staging of Ireland's premier hurling knock-out competition. Kilkenny won the championship, beating Cork 3-24 to 5-11 in the final at Croke Park, Dublin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093626-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Format, Overview\nThe All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship of 1972 was run on a provincial basis as usual. It was a knockout tournament with pairings drawn at random in the respective provinces - there were no seeds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 62], "content_span": [63, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093626-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Format, Overview\nEach match was played as a single leg. If a match was drawn there was a replay. If that match ended in a draw a period of extra time was played, however, if both sides were still level at the end of extra time another replay had to take place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 62], "content_span": [63, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093626-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Format, The Championship\nQuarter-final: (1 match) This was a single match between the first two teams drawn from the province of Munster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093626-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Format, The Championship\nSemi-finals: (2 matches) The winner of the lone quarter-final joined the other three Munster teams to make up the semi-final pairings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093626-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Format, The Championship\nFinal: (1 match) The winner of the two semi-finals contested this game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093626-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Format, The Championship\nFirst Round: (1 match) This was a single match between two of the 'weaker' teams drawn from the province of Leinster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093626-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Format, The Championship\nQuarter-finals: (2 matches) The winner of the first round game joined three other Leinster teams to make up the quarter-final pairings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093626-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Format, The Championship\nSemi-finals: (2 matches) The winners of the two quarter-finals joined Kilkenny and Wexford, who received a bye to this stage, to make up the semi-final pairings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093626-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Format, The Championship\nFinal: (1 match) The winner of the two semi-finals contested this game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093626-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Format, The Championship\nQuarter-final: (1 match) This was a single match between Antrim and Galway, two teams who faced no competition in their respective provinces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093626-0011-0000", "contents": "1972 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Format, The Championship\nSemi-finals: (2 matches) The winner of the lone quarter-final joined London and the Munster and Leinster champions to make up the quarter-final pairings. The provincial champions were drawn in opposite semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093626-0012-0000", "contents": "1972 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Format, The Championship\nFinal: (1 match) The winner of the two semi-finals contested this game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093626-0013-0000", "contents": "1972 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Player facts, Debutantes\nThe following players made their d\u00e9but in the 1972 championship:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093626-0014-0000", "contents": "1972 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Player facts, Retirees\nThe following players played their last game in the 1972 championship:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 68], "content_span": [69, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093627-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final\nThe 1972 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final was the 85th All-Ireland Final and the culmination of the 1972 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, an inter-county hurling tournament for the top teams in Ireland. The match was held at Croke Park, Dublin. The match was contested by 1970 winners Cork and 1971 runners-up Kilkenny, and it was refereed by Mick Spain from Offaly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093627-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Background\nThe All-Ireland final was the twelfth meeting of Cork and Kilkenny in a championship decider. Kilkenny held the balance of power in all previous meetings between the two, having recorded seven All-Ireland victories to Cork's five. Cork, however, also defeated Kilkenny in the 1903 All-Ireland 'home' final before putting London to the sword in the 'proper' final. Both sides last met in the All-Ireland final of 1969 when Kilkenny recorded their first championship victory over Cork since 1947. Kilkenny enjoyed a very successful decade in the sixties, claiming championship titles in 1963, 1967 and 1969. Cork's sole All-Ireland title of the decade came in 1966, a full twelve years after their previous All-Ireland triumph. Moreover, Cork had lost the All-Ireland final of 1969 to Kilkenny. The thought of losing a second championship decider in succession to one of their biggest rivals proved a great motivation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 62], "content_span": [63, 980]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093627-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Background\nIn 1970 Cork triumphed over Wexford in the All-Ireland final to claim their 21st title and draw level with Tipperary at the top of hurling's roll of honour. The following year Tipperary defeated Kilkenny to reclaim the top spot with their 22nd championship. A victory for Cork would put them level with Tipp once again, while a victory for Kilkenny would give them their 18th All-Ireland title and would narrow the gap between them and the other two big teams in hurling's trinity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 62], "content_span": [63, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093627-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Pre-match, Referee\nOffaly-based referee Mick Spain was named as the referee for the 1972 All-Ireland final on 25 August 1972. It was his first time refereeing an All-Ireland final; however, he was a regular 'man in the middle' for National Hurling League and Leinster championship games over the previous two years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 70], "content_span": [71, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093627-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Pre-match, Build-up\nThere was much excitement in the buildup to the game with the press extolling the unique glamour of Cork and Kilkenny teams on All-Ireland final day. Everything from the style of hurling to the colour of the team jerseys was analysed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 71], "content_span": [72, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093627-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Match, First half\nThe weather on the day of the final was fine and sunny with the elements combining to provide excellent conditions for hurling. The opening minutes of the game lived up to the expectation that the game was going to be a classic. The opening score of the day came after two minutes for Kilkenny when Mick Crotty sent his shot straight over the bar. Two minutes later Ray Cummins, Cork's Gaelic footballer-cum-hurler, gathered a cross from Justin McCarthy and responded for his team with a superbly executed goal sent low into the Hill 16 net.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 69], "content_span": [70, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093627-0005-0001", "contents": "1972 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Match, First half\nTwo minutes later Kilkenny were back on level terms, courtesy of a huge Pat Henderson free from his own half of the field and the equalizer from Liam 'Chunky' O\u2019Brien. O'Brien gave Kilkenny the lead with another perfect point before Eddie Keher stretched the lead with a 21-yards free. Cork's Charlie McCarthy brought the teams back level with two more points, however, this period of parity was short-lived as Kieran Purcell put Kilkenny ahead once again with a point from play after a quarter-of-an-hour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 69], "content_span": [70, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093627-0005-0002", "contents": "1972 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Match, First half\nThree minutes later Kilkenny 'keeper Noel Skehan brought off a great save from a Charlie McCarthy shot, however, Ray Cummins was standing by to put the ball over the bar. With just over a quarter of the match played Charlie McCarthy found the range with a free and brought the sides level yet again before Ray Cummins put Cork ahead. 'Chunky' O'Brien restored equality with a point, however, Cork soon went to points clear thanks to scores from Mick Malone and Con Roche.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 69], "content_span": [70, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093627-0005-0003", "contents": "1972 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Match, First half\nAfter half-an-hour of play O'Brien landed his fourth of the day to narrow the deficit to just a single point. Two minutes later Cork got a massive boost when a long speculative shot from the wing by Mick Malone deceived Noel Skehan and ended up in the Kilkenny net. Cork's lead was eaten into immediately after the restart when John Kinsella scored his first point of the day to steal one back for 'the Cats'.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 69], "content_span": [70, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093627-0005-0004", "contents": "1972 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Match, First half\nEddie Keher, who had a relatively quiet opening half by his own standards thanks to the close marking of Tony Maher, registered another score for Kilkenny soon afterwards courtesy of a free. Charlie McCarthy replied for Cork, however, Mick Crotty, the man who captured the first score of the half, also captured the last score of the half. Unfortunately, the Cork captain Frank Norberg had to retire injured just before the interval. In spite of this Cork still led by 2\u20138 to 0\u201312 at the short whistle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 69], "content_span": [70, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093627-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Match, Second half\nWhile the first half served up an exciting feast of hurling, the second half truly enshrined the game as one of the classics of the modern era. Three minutes into the second period Eddie Keher opened the scoring when he pointed a free for Kilkenny. Less than two minutes later O'Brien chalked up another score for Kilkenny when he sent over a spectacular point, his fifth of the day. While Kilkenny started better, Cork soon found their way.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 70], "content_span": [71, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093627-0006-0001", "contents": "1972 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Match, Second half\nA great save by 'keeper Noel Skehan was not cleared by the other defenders and Mick Malone came thundering in for his second goal. Soon after Se\u00e1nie O'Leary stretched Cork's lead to four when he pointed from play. By this stage everything was going Cork's way as Cummins tapped over another neat point to increase Cork's lead to five. Eddie Keher reduced the arrears when he captured his first point from play after fifty-three minutes. Just a minute later Keher was moved to the half-forward line where he availed of his new-found freedom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 70], "content_span": [71, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093627-0006-0002", "contents": "1972 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Match, Second half\nIt was here that he did most of the damage and secured one of the greatest goals of all-time. Keher grabbed the sliotar out of the sky after a puck-out from Skehan and raced up the wing in the shadow of the Hogan Stand. From that sideline position Keher pucked the sliotar as if going for a point, however, the sliotar dropped short, deceiving Cork goalkeeper Paddy Barry, and ending up in the net.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 70], "content_span": [71, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093627-0006-0003", "contents": "1972 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Match, Second half\nAfter scoring that goal an almost emotionless Keher simply turned around to go back to his normal playing position with blood pouring out of a cut over his eye. Kilkenny were now only a point behind, however, Cork's reply was instant when Ray Cummins palmed the ball into the Kilkenny net a mere thirty seconds later. Another thirty seconds passed before Se\u00e1nie O'Leary sent the ball into the Kilkenny net for a third goal in two minutes. Straight from the puck-out Con Roche fielded the ball and sent over a magnificent 80-yard shot that had the Cork supporters celebrating.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 70], "content_span": [71, 646]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093627-0006-0004", "contents": "1972 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Match, Second half\nWith thirteen minutes left in the game Cork had an eight-point lead, 5\u201311 to 1-15. Keher responded immediately when he sent a 21-yards free crashing into the Cork net and the comeback was on. From then until the end it was all one-way traffic in favour of Kilkenny. A brace of points brought Cork's lead back to just three before a Frank Cummins solo-run from the heart of midfield resulted in a goal which brought the sides level again. In just eight minutes of play Cork had surrendered their eight-point lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 70], "content_span": [71, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093627-0006-0005", "contents": "1972 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Match, Second half\nWorse was to follow for Cork as Kilkenny took the lead with a Keher point from play. Six more unanswered points were scored by a host of Kilkenny forwards before Mick Spain brought the game to an end. In spite of having a quiet opening half Eddie Keher scored 2\u20139 in all as \u2018the Cats\u2019 reversed an eight-point deficit to win by a comfortable margin of seven. It was one of the greatest comebacks in the history of All-Ireland deciders. The final score was Kilkenny 3-24, Cork 5-11.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 70], "content_span": [71, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093628-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship\nThe 1972 All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship was the ninth staging of the All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship since its establishment by the Gaelic Athletic Association in 1964.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093628-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship\nCork entered the championship as defending champions, however, they were defeated by Kerry in the Munster final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093628-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship\nOn 22 October 1972, Galway won the championship following a 2-6 to 0-7 defeat of Kerry in the All-Ireland final. This was their first All-Ireland title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093629-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship\nThe 1972 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship was the 9th staging of the All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Gaelic Athletic Association in 1964.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093629-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship\nCork were the defending champions, however, they were defeated by Clare in the Munster quarter-final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093629-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship\nOn 10 September 1972, Galway won the championship following a 2-9 to 1-10 defeat of Dublin in the All-Ireland final. This was their first All-Ireland title in the under-21 grade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093630-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship Final\nThe 1972 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship final was a hurling match that was played to determine the winners of the 1972 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship, the 9th season of the All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship, a tournament organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association for the champion teams of the four provinces of Ireland. The final was contested by Galway of Connacht and Dublin of Leinster, with Galway winning by 2-9 to 1-10.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093630-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship Final\nThe All-Ireland final between Galway and Dublin was the first championship meeting between the two teams. Both sides were hoping to win their first All-Ireland title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093630-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship Final\nGalway's All-Ireland victory was their first. They became the fourth team since its inception to win the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093630-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship Final\nDublin's run of bad luck in All-Ireland finals continued. This was their second All-Ireland final defeat in six seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093631-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 All-Pacific-8 Conference football team\nThe 1972 All-Pacific-8 Conference football team consists of American football players chosen for All-Pacific-8 Conference teams for the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. The team was selected by the conference's eight head coaches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093632-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 All-Pro Team\nThe following is a list of players that were named to the Associated Press All-Pro Team, the Newspaper Enterprise Association All-Pro team and the Pro Football Writers Association, and Pro Football Weekly All-Pro teams in 1972. Both first- and second- teams are listed for the AP, NEA, and PFWA teams. These are the four All-Pro teams that are included in the Total Football II: The Official Encyclopedia of the National Football League and compose the Consensus All-pro team for 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093632-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 All-Pro Team, Key\nAP = Associated Press All-Pro team; AP-2 Associated Press Second-team All-Pro; PFWA = Pro Football Writers Association All-Pro team; NEA = Newspaper Enterprise Association All-Pro team. ; NEA-2 Newspaper Enterprise Association Second-team All-Pro; PFW = Pro Football Weekly All-Pro team; t = players tied in votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 22], "content_span": [23, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093633-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 All-SEC football team\nThe 1972 All-SEC football team consists of American football players selected to the All-Southeastern Conference (SEC) chosen by various selectors for the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. Alabama won the conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093633-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 All-SEC football team, Key\nBold = Consensus first-team selection by both AP and UPI", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 31], "content_span": [32, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093634-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 All-Southwest Conference football team\nThe 1972 All-Southwest Conference football team consists of American football players chosen, at each position, as the best players in the Southwest Conference during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. The selectors for the 1972 season included the Associated Press (AP), selected by the conference coaches, and the United Press International (UPI).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093634-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 All-Southwest Conference football team\nThe AP also conducted balloting for coach of the year (Grant Teaff, Baylor), player of the year (running back Roosevelt Leaks of Texas), offensive player of the year (Leaks), defensive player of the year (defensive end Roger Goree of Baylor), and newcomer of the year (Leaks).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093634-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 All-Southwest Conference football team\nThe UPI also conducted balloting for offensive player of the year (Leaks), defensive player of the year (Goree), sophomore player of the year (Leaks), and freshman player of the year (Wayne Morris, SMU). Two players were unanimous choices by the UPI voters: Leaks and offensive tackle Jerry Sisemore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093635-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Allan Cup\nThe 1972 Allan Cup was the Canadian national senior ice hockey championship for the 1971-72 Senior \"A\" season. The event was hosted by the Spokane Jets and Spokane, Washington with Kimberley, British Columbia. The 1972 playoff marked the 64th time that the Allan Cup has been awarded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093636-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Allsvenskan, Overview\nThe league was contested by 12 teams, with \u00c5tvidabergs FF winning the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 26], "content_span": [27, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093637-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Amateur World Series\nThe 1972 Amateur World Series was the 20th Amateur World Series (AWS), an international men's amateur baseball tournament. The tournament was sanctioned by the International Baseball Federation (which titled it the Baseball World Cup as of the 1988 tournament). The tournament took place, for the third time, in Nicaragua, and was won by Nicaragua national baseball team\u00a0\u2013 their 1st championship .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093638-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 American 500\nThe 1972 American 500 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series racing event held on October 22, 1972, at North Carolina Motor Speedway in Rockingham, North Carolina. While not televised, the 1972 American 500 was covered by local radio stations WAYN-AM (900 AM) and WEEB-AM (990 AM).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093638-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 American 500, Race report\n40 American-born drivers qualified for the race. Drivers who failed to qualify were David Ray Boggs, Jimmy Crawford and Elmo Langley. Forty-two thousand people attended. The race's average speed was 118.275 miles per hour (190.345\u00a0km/h) in this 253-minute race. David Pearson's qualifying speed of 137.258 miles per hour or 220.895 kilometres per hour won the pole position. There were four cautions for a of 35 laps. 20 different drivers lead the race. Bobby Allison would defeat Richard Petty by two laps; resulting in Richard Petty's 100th runner up finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093638-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 American 500, Race report\nRon Hutcherson was the last-place finisher of this event; with a racing accident on lap 29 out of 492. Richard Petty, Bobby Allison, and David Pearson dominated the closing laps of this race. Pete Hamilton scored his final top-5 finish. This was his final start of 1972 and he would only make two further starts in 1973, both of which ended in DNFs", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093638-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 American 500, Race report\nHutcherson's racing career would last throughout the course of the 1970s; ending only after the 1979 running of the World 600. Notable crew chiefs for this race were Harry Hyde, Dale Inman, Tom Vandiver, Vic Ballard, and Herb Nab.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093638-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 American 500, Race report\nRewards for this race were $19,400 for the winner ($118,576 when adjusted for inflation) while the last-place finisher brought home $550 ($3,362 when adjusted for inflation). A grand total of $89,450 was offered to the race. ($546,734 when adjusted for inflation).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093638-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 American 500, Race report\nBobby Allison's win at this event would become the tenth win of the 1972 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season. Due to the cash crunch of the 1970s, only five individual owners could afford to employ a NASCAR Cup Series driver for the rest; the rest were all \"proper\" NASCAR teams with more than one person running them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093639-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 American League Championship Series\nThe 1972 American League Championship Series took place between October 7 and 12, 1972. The Oakland Athletics (93\u201362 on the season) played the Detroit Tigers (86\u201370 on the season) for the right to go to the 1972 World Series, with the A's coming out on top in the five-game series, 3\u20132. Games 1 and 2 were played at the Oakland Coliseum, and 3 through 5 were played at Tiger Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093639-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 American League Championship Series, Overview\nThe A's won the first two games of the series at home. One of the Series' most memorable moments came in the seventh inning of Game 2. Bert Campaneris came to bat, having had three hits, two runs scored, and two stolen bases in his first three at-bats in the game. Lerrin LaGrow's first pitch hit Campaneris in the ankle. Campaneris staggered for a moment, glared at LaGrow and then flung his bat toward the mound.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093639-0001-0001", "contents": "1972 American League Championship Series, Overview\nThe bat spiraled at LaGrow 5 feet (1.5\u00a0m) off the ground, but LaGrow ducked, and the bat narrowly missed him, landing a few feet behind the mound. The benches cleared, and while there were no punches thrown or other incidents involving players, Tigers manager Billy Martin had to be restrained by umpires and teammates to prevent him from going after Campaneris. Both LaGrow and Campaneris were suspended for the rest of the ALCS.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093639-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 American League Championship Series, Overview\nAfter Game 2, the Series moved to Detroit, where the Tigers would fight back, winning the next two. Game 4 was one of the best of the early LCS era, going 10 innings, with the Tigers pulling out the victory. After it was 1\u20131 at the end of nine innings, the A's scored two runs in the top of the 10th, and it looked as if the series was over. However, the Tigers responded with three in the bottom of the 10th to win, 4-3. Detroit scored on two singles, a walk, and an error on a potential double play grounder which produced the first run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 590]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093639-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 American League Championship Series, Overview\nWith the bases loaded, Norm Cash walked, forcing in the tying run. With both the A's infield and outfield playing in, Jim Northrup hit a deep fly ball off Dave Hamilton to drive in the winning run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093639-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 American League Championship Series, Overview\nIn Game 5, Blue Moon Odom of the A's would be facing Woodie Fryman of the Tigers. In the second inning on a double steal Reggie Jackson scored from third base but was injured and was out for the season. After two innings, the game was 1\u20131. But by the fourth, it was clear runs wouldn't come easy, so when George Hendrick scored on a Gene Tenace RBI single, the Tigers knew they were in trouble. By the ninth inning, Odom and Vida Blue had combined to pitch seven scoreless innings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093639-0004-0001", "contents": "1972 American League Championship Series, Overview\nWith the A's up 2\u20131, it all came down to the Tigers ninth when they would still face Vida Blue. Norm Cash would single, but that would be it as Tony Taylor would fly to center for the final out. Odom got the win, Blue got the save, and the A's were a World Series team for the first time in Oakland and won the first of three straight American League pennants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093639-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 American League Championship Series, Overview\nMeanwhile, it would be 12 years before Detroit would return to the postseason. The Tigers and A's have since met three times in the postseason, with Detroit winning all three, sweeping the A's in 2006, and winning decisive fifth games in 2012, and 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093639-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 1\nGame 1 pitted ace pitchers Catfish Hunter for the A's and Mickey Lolich for the Tigers, and, as expected, both were brilliant. Norm Cash homered to give the Tigers a 1\u20130 lead in the second inning, and the A's tied it in the third on a Joe Rudi sacrifice fly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093639-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 1\nThe score remained at 1\u20131 until the 11th,inning although the Tigers threatened in their half of the ninth. Duke Sims led off with a double off Hunter. Vida Blue came on in relief to pitch to left-handed hitting Norm Cash. Cash laid down a sacrifice bunt, but reached first when second baseman Ted Kubiak, covering first, dropped Sal Bando's throw. Sims reached third. Rollie Fingers then came in to face pinch hitter Gates Brown and got him on a foul pop fly. Jim Northrup then bounced into a 4\u20136\u20133 double play to end the threat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093639-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 1\nAl Kaline gave the Tigers a 2\u20131 lead in the eleventh with a homer off Fingers and looked like a hero at that point. In the bottom of the 11th, Lolich gave up back-to-back singles to Sal Bando and Mike Epstein. Chuck Seelbach relieved Lolich. Gene Tenace attempted a sacrifice bunt, but third baseman Aurelio Rodr\u00edguez pounced on it and forced Blue Moon Odom, running for Bando, at third. Tigers shortstop Ed Brinkman then fired to first, his throw pulling Dick McAuliffe covering first off the bag. McAuliffe appeared to tag Tenace out, but he was called safe. Gonzalo Marquez pinch hit for Dal Maxvill and grounded a base hit to right, scoring Mike Hegan, running for Epstein, and tying the game. Tenace attempted to advance to third, and Kaline's throw from right field skipped past Rodriguez, allowing Tenace to score and win the game for the A's.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 915]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093639-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 2\nBert Campaneris was a sparkplug from the start. He led off the game for the A's with a single off Woodie Fryman and promptly stole second and third. Joe Rudi then batted him in with a one-out single.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093639-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 2\nThe A's plated four more runs in the fifth when George Hendrick pinch-hit a single and went to second on a Blue Moon Odom sacrifice. Campaneris singled Hendrick to third and Matty Alou singled him in. Chris Zachary relieved Fryman and threw two wild pitches, scoring Campaneris and sending Alou to third. After Rudi walked, Reggie Jackson blasted a two-run double to make it 5\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093639-0011-0000", "contents": "1972 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 2\nOdom got the win for the A's, who now had a 2\u20130 lead, but would play without Campaneris for the remainder of the Championship Series, on account of a suspension he was issued due to the bat-throwing incident described in the Overview above.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093639-0012-0000", "contents": "1972 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 3\nJoe Coleman put the Tigers back into the series by throwing a complete-game, seven-hit shutout, striking out a then ALCS record 14 batters. Coleman was aided by a two-run single in the fourth by Ike Brown and a homer by Bill Freehan in the eighth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093639-0013-0000", "contents": "1972 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 4\nGame 4 was the most exciting of the series. For eight innings it was a tight pitching duel between Game 1 aces Catfish Hunter and Mickey Lolich. The only runs across were a Dick McAuliffe homer for the Tigers in the third and a Mike Epstein homer for the A's -- the only home run Oakland would hit in the series -- in the seventh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093639-0014-0000", "contents": "1972 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 4\nIn the sixth, A's second baseman Dick Green was hurt on a hard slide by Norm Cash trying to break up a double play. A's manager Dick Williams had to move catcher Gene Tenace to second due to no other healthy players available. Tenace had last played second base in high school, and this inexperience would prove costly later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093639-0015-0000", "contents": "1972 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 4\nThe Tigers threatened in both the eighth and ninth innings. In the eighth, McAuliffe walked and was sacrificed to second by Al Kaline. Mickey Stanley reached on an infield hit, sending McAuliffe to third. Rollie Fingers relieved Hunter and Billy Martin called for a suicide squeeze that failed and McAuliffe was thrown out trying to score. Fingers then struck out Bill Freehan for the final out. In the ninth, with two outs, Tony Taylor doubled and Vida Blue intentionally walked Aurelio Rodr\u00edguez. Blue then retired pinch-hitter Willie Horton on a fly to center.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093639-0016-0000", "contents": "1972 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 4\nIn the tenth, the A's took a two-run lead when Gonzalo Marquez continued his pinch-hitting heroics with a one-out single. Matty Alou doubled home Marquez and went to third on the throw home. Ted Kubiak then hit a bloop single to right with Alou scoring for a 3\u20131 lead. After Joe Rudi was retired, Reggie Jackson reached on a throwing error by Rodriguez with Kubiak reaching third. However, no more A's runs scored as Sal Bando made the last out of the inning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093639-0017-0000", "contents": "1972 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 4\nThe Tigers rallied in the bottom of the tenth, starting with singles by McAuliffe and Kaline. A's reliever Joe Horlen wild-pitched the runners to second and third and then walked Gates Brown to load the bases with no outs. Bill Freehan then grounded an apparent double play ball to third, but the inexperienced Tenace at second dropped Sal Bando's throw. McAuliffe scored and everybody was safe. Dave Hamilton then relieved Horlen and promptly walked Norm Cash to tie the game, and then gave up a walk-off single to Jim Northrup, a ball hit over right fielder Matty Alou's head (the outfield was drawn in), scoring Brown with the winning run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 707]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093639-0018-0000", "contents": "1972 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 5\nThe Tigers struck in their half of the first off Blue Moon Odom when Dick McAuliffe led off with a single. After a one-out walk to Duke Sims, a passed ball by Gene Tenace put the runners on second and third. McAuliffe scored when Bill Freehan grounded out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093639-0019-0000", "contents": "1972 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 5\nIn the second, Reggie Jackson led off for the A's with a walk and stole second. Sal Bando's fly to right sent Jackson to third. After Mike Epstein was hit by a Woodie Fryman pitch, Dick Williams ordered a double steal. Jackson collided with Freehan and scored, but, the bad news was, Jackson tore his left hamstring and would be out for the World Series if Oakland won.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093639-0020-0000", "contents": "1972 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 5\nThe A's got the winning tally in the fourth when George Hendrick, Jackson's replacement, reached on a ground ball to shortstop McAuliffe that was ruled a throwing error when Norm Cash's foot was pulled off first base. Cash and Billy Martin argued that the foot never left the base, but to no avail. Bando sacrificed Hendrick to second, and Gene Tenace, making amends for his earlier passed ball, singled Hendrick home for his only hit and RBI of the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093639-0021-0000", "contents": "1972 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 5\nOdom got the win and Vida Blue the save in four innings of relief as the A's, minus Jackson, moved on to the 1972 World Series. It was their first pennant since 1931.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093639-0022-0000", "contents": "1972 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 5\nAs an odd precursor to what would become an explosive relationship years later, Martin visited the A's locker room and consoled Jackson, expressing regret that he would miss the Series. Even without Jackson, the A's went on to beat the Cincinnati Reds in the World Series in seven games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093639-0023-0000", "contents": "1972 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 5\nThe A's won despite a team batting average of .224, superb pitching by Oakland held the Tigers to a meager .198 team batting average in the pitchers-dominated series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093640-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 American Samoan legislative election\nLegislative elections were held in American Samoa on 7 November 1972, alongside a referendum on electing the Governor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093640-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 American Samoan legislative election, Aftermath\nFollowing the elections, Governor John Morse Haydon was called before a Civil Service Commission tribunal, having been charged with attempting to influence the elections by telling voters not to vote for non-Samoan candidates (of which there was only one in the election, Wilbur Reine in Manu'a). When interviewed on the WVUV radio station prior to the elections, Haydon had said he could not give his views on individual candidates as he was bound by the Hatch Act, but that he thought it would be a \"very serious mistake\" for voters to elect a non-Samoan during the transition to self-government. The tribunal ruled that Haydon had not violated the Hatch Act as the intervention was limited to a single interview and had not used his influence over subordinates, and that in borderline cases the First Amendment required ruling in favor of the defendant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 52], "content_span": [53, 909]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093641-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 American Samoan referendum\nA referendum on direct election of governors and vice governors was held in American Samoa on 7 November 1972 alongside legislative elections. Voters were asked to approve a proposal which permitted direct popular election of governors and lieutenant governors. The turnout of 28.20% was very low, and the measure was rejected, with 17.30% voting yes and 82.70 voting no.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093641-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 American Samoan referendum, Aftermath\nFollowing the referendum, Governor John Morse Haydon was called before a Civil Service Commission tribunal, having been charged with pressurising district governors to encourage voters to vote against the proposals, and of using state radio and television to oppose the proposal on the day before the vote and polling day. However, the charges were dismissed as it was determined that Haydon had not violated the Hatch Act of 1939, as it only applied to elections and not referendums.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093641-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 American Samoan referendum, Aftermath\nAn identical measure would be put before voters three more times in 1973, 1974 and August 1976 until it was approved in November 1976.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093642-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 American Soccer League\nStatistics of the American Soccer League II for the 1972 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093643-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Amstel Gold Race\nThe 1972 Amstel Gold Race was the seventh edition of the annual road bicycle race \"Amstel Gold Race\", held on Sunday March 26, 1972, in the Dutch province of Limburg. The race stretched 237 kilometres, with the start in Heerlen and the finish in Meerssen. There were a total number of 97 competitors, and 29 cyclists finished the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093644-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election\nThe 5th Andhrapradesh Legislative Assembly election was held in 1972. It was the fifth after formation of states. Indian National Congress won 219 seats out of 287 seats. While, CPI won 7 seats and Independent won 57 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093644-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election\nThe number of polling stations was 29,721 and the number of electors per polling station was 828.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093644-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, Election Results, CONTESTANTS\nMAXIMUM CONTESTANTS IN A CONSTITUENCY: 9 IN 276 - TUNGATURTHI", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 80], "content_span": [81, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093645-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Anglo-Italian Cup\nThe 1972 Anglo-Italian Cup was the third staging of the Anglo-Italian Cup, an annual association football tournament between clubs from England and Italy. It featured twelve teams \u2014 six from each country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093645-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Anglo-Italian Cup\nThe competition started on 1 June 1972 and concluded on 24 June 1972 with the final match between the winners of the English and Italian sections of the competition. Roma beat the 1971 winners, Blackpool, by three goals to one in the Stadio Olimpico in Rome.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093645-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Anglo-Italian Cup, Details\nThe twelve participating teams were divided into three groups of four, each group comprising two teams from England and two from Italy. Each team played the two teams from the other country, once at home and once away. The teams were then ranked against teams from their own country on a league basis, and the top ranked teams from each country played off in a final for the trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 31], "content_span": [32, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093645-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Anglo-Italian Cup, Final rankings\nTotal points were determined by points gained (two for a win, one for a draw) plus goals scored.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 38], "content_span": [39, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093646-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Anguillian general election\nGeneral elections were held in Anguilla on 24 July 1972. The People's Progressive Party won six of the seven seats and its leader Ronald Webster became chair of the council. Webster was later appointed as the first Chief Minister shortly before the 1976 elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093646-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Anguillian general election, Background\nIn 1971 the British government had taken over direct rule of Anguilla due to disputes over the island remaining part of the Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla federation. The Anguilla Council was created, with seven members elected from single-member constituencies and up to six nominated members.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093646-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Anguillian general election, Results\nOnly one member was nominated to the council, Idalia Gumbs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093647-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Argentine Grand Prix\nThe 1972 Argentine Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at the Buenos Aires circuit on January 23, 1972. It was race 1 of 12 in both the 1972 World Championship of Drivers and the 1972 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers. The 95-lap race was won by Tyrrell driver Jackie Stewart after he started from second position. Denny Hulme finished second for the McLaren team and Ferrari driver Jacky Ickx came in third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093647-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Argentine Grand Prix\nThe race was notable for the d\u00e9but of local driver and future Grand Prix winner Carlos Reutemann, who scored pole position in his Brabham BT34.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093648-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n\nThe 1972 Primera Divisi\u00f3n season was the 81st season of top-flight football in Argentina. San Lorenzo won both tournaments, Metropolitano and Nacional (9th and 10th title), while Banfield and Lan\u00fas were relegated to Primera B.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093649-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Arizona State Sun Devils baseball team\nThe 1972 Arizona State Sun Devils baseball team represented Arizona State University in the 1972 NCAA University Division baseball season. The Sun Devils played their home games at Packard Stadium. The team was coached by Jim Brock in his first season at Arizona State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093649-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Arizona State Sun Devils baseball team\nThe Sun Devils reached the College World Series, finishing as the runner up to Southern California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093650-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Arizona State Sun Devils football team\nThe 1972 Arizona State Sun Devils football team represented Arizona State University in the 1972 NCAA University Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093650-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Arizona State Sun Devils football team, Coaching staff\nAssistants: Don Baker (offensive backfield), Larry Kentera (DE/LB), Jerry Thompson (DL), Al Luginbill (DB), Joe McDonald (WR), Al Tanara (OL), Bill Kajikawa (freshman)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 59], "content_span": [60, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093650-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Arizona State Sun Devils football team, 1972 team players in the NFL\nThe following players were claimed in the 1973 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 73], "content_span": [74, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093651-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Arizona Wildcats football team\nThe 1972 Arizona Wildcats football team represented the University of Arizona in the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. In their fourth and final season under head coach Bob Weber, the Wildcats compiled a 4\u20137 record (4\u20133 against WAC opponents), finished in fourth place in the WAC, and were outscored by their opponents, 271 to 226. The team played its home games in Arizona Stadium in Tucson, Arizona.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093651-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Arizona Wildcats football team\nWeber was fired after the season due to his failure to produce winning teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093651-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Arizona Wildcats football team\nThe team's statistical leaders included Bill Demory with 1,175 passing yards, Bob McCall with 1,148 rushing yards, and Barry Dean with 414 receiving yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093651-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Arizona Wildcats football team, After the season\nSoon after losing to Arizona State, the Wildcats fired Weber and had to search for a new coach. Weber went 16\u201326 at Arizona and lost all four meetings against ASU. The team had been underperforming with Weber in charge and fans called for Weber to fired. Arizona did not post any winning seasons under Weber and that the inability to beat Arizona State was a main reason for his dismissal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 53], "content_span": [54, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093651-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Arizona Wildcats football team, After the season\nAfter a national coaching search, the Wildcats hired Michigan defensive coordinator Jim Young as the new head coach for the 1973 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 53], "content_span": [54, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093652-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Arkansas Razorbacks football team\nThe 1972 Arkansas Razorbacks football team represented the University of Arkansas in the Southwest Conference (SWC) during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. In their 15th year under head coach Frank Broyles, the Razorbacks compiled a 6\u20135 record (3\u20134 against SWC opponents), finished in a tie for fourth place in the SWC, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 228 to 227.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093653-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Arkansas gubernatorial election\nThe 1972 Arkansas gubernatorial election was held on November 7, 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093653-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Arkansas gubernatorial election\nIncumbent Democratic Governor Dale Bumpers defeated Republican nominee Len E. Blaylock with 75.44% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093653-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Arkansas gubernatorial election, Primary elections, Democratic primary, Results\nBumpers avoided a run-off (which would have been held 13 June) by winning with more than 50% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 84], "content_span": [85, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093654-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Army Cadets football team\nThe 1972 Army Cadets football team represented the United States Military Academy during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093655-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Asia Golf Circuit\nThe 1972 Asia Golf Circuit was the eleventh season of golf tournaments that comprised the Asia Golf Circuit, formerly known as the Far East Circuit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093655-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Asia Golf Circuit, Schedule\nThe table below shows the 1972 Asia Golf Circuit schedule. There was one change from the previous season with the Sobu International Open replacing the cancelled Yomiuri International.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093655-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Asia Golf Circuit, Final standings\nThe Asia Golf Circuit standings were based on a points system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093656-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Asian Champion Club Tournament\nThe 1972 Asian Champion Club Tournament was set to be the fifth edition of the annual Asian club football competition hosted by Asian Football Confederation. Seven clubs from seven countries were set to compete in the tournament. The tournament was set to be held in Tehran, Iran in April. Seven clubs were split in two groups and the group winners and the runners-up were set to advance to semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093656-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Asian Champion Club Tournament\nBefore the start of the tournament, Kuwaiti club Al-Qadsia and Lebanese club Racing Beirut refused to commit to playing against Israeli club Maccabi Netanya if the situation arose, for political reasons, and Hong Kong Rangers withdrew from the tournament at short notice due to financial reasons, so the competition was cancelled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093656-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Asian Champion Club Tournament, Groups\nThe draw for the groups split the seven teams into two groups (one group of three, one group of four) before the tournament was cancelled. The top two from each group were supposed to advance to the semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093657-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Asian Table Tennis Championships\nThe 1st Asian Table Tennis Championships 1972 were held in Beijing, China from 2 to 13 September 1972. It was organised by the Chinese Table Tennis Association under the authority of Asian Table Tennis Union (ATTU) and International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093658-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl\nThe 1972 Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl, part of the 1972 bowl game season, took place on December 30, 1972, at the Houston Astrodome in Houston, Texas. The competing teams were the LSU Tigers and Tennessee Volunteers with each team being a member of the Southeastern Conference, although the teams did not meet in the regular season. Tennessee won the game 24\u201317.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093658-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl, Teams, LSU\nThe 1972 LSU Tigers finished the regular season with a 9\u20131\u20131 record with its lone loss coming against Alabama and a tie against Florida. The appearance marked the second for LSU in the Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl, and their eighteenth overall bowl game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093658-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl, Teams, Tennessee\nThe 1972 Tennessee Volunteers finished the regular season with a 9\u20132 record with a loss to both Alabama and Auburn. The appearance marked the second for Tennessee in the Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl, and their nineteenth overall bowl game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 44], "content_span": [45, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093659-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Atlanta Braves season\nThe 1972 Atlanta Braves season was the seventh season in Atlanta along with the 102nd season as a franchise overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093659-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Atlanta Braves season, Regular season, Front-office and managerial turnover\nThe 1972 Braves' 70\u201384 season, following on the heels of a hopeful, 82\u201380 mark in 1971, resulted in the in-season firings of both general manager Paul Richards, on the job since January 1967, and field manager Luman Harris, who was in the midst of his fifth season as the team's skipper. Richards and Harris were a management team that had worked in tandem for 15 years with the Chicago White Sox, Baltimore Orioles and Houston Astros before coming to the Braves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 80], "content_span": [81, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093659-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Atlanta Braves season, Regular season, Front-office and managerial turnover\nAtlanta was 18\u201322 on June 1 when Richards was demoted from GM to special assignment scout; his replacement was another longtime associate, Eddie Robinson, 51, the director of the club's farm system. Harris was fired August 6, with the Braves standing at 47\u201357 (.452), in fourth place in the NL West Division and 16 games behind the Cincinnati Reds. His successor was another internal hire, Eddie Mathews, 40, the team's first-base coach and perennial All-Star third baseman from its glory days in Milwaukee during the 1950s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 80], "content_span": [81, 605]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093659-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Atlanta Braves season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 71], "content_span": [72, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093659-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Atlanta Braves season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093659-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Atlanta Braves season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 69], "content_span": [70, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093659-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Atlanta Braves season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 66], "content_span": [67, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093659-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Atlanta Braves season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 67], "content_span": [68, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093660-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Atlanta Falcons season\nThe 1972 Atlanta Falcons season was the franchise's seventh year in the National Football League (NFL). The team failed to improve on their previous season's output of 7\u20136\u20131, finishing 7\u20137 and failing to reach the playoffs. Standing at 7\u20135 the Falcons traveled to San Francisco with the NFC West division title on the line. However, the Falcons were never in the game and saw their playoff hopes dim with a 20\u20130 shutout loss. Facing the Kansas City Chiefs in their final game of the season, Running Back Dave Hampton surpassed the 1,000-yard mark. However, a play later he was thrown for a six-yard loss to end the season with 995 yards, as the Falcons lost and finished 7\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 703]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093660-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Atlanta Falcons season, Offseason, NFL Draft\nadvantage in time of possession did not score any offensive points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093661-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Atlantic hurricane season\nThe 1972 Atlantic hurricane season was a significantly below average season, having only seven named storms, four fully tropical storms (the fewest since 1930) and three subtropical storms. It officially began on June\u00a01, 1972, and lasted until November\u00a030, 1972. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the Atlantic basin. The first storm, Subtropical Storm Alpha, developed on May\u00a023 off the Southeast United States and struck Florida, causing minor damage and two fatalities. Although several other tropical depressions developed, only Tropical Depression Five is known to have affected land.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 680]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093661-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Atlantic hurricane season\nThe most significant storm of the season was Hurricane Agnes, which at the time was the costliest United States hurricane, until Frederic in 1979. After brushing the western tip of Cuba, the hurricane made landfall on the Florida Panhandle. It caused at least $2.1\u00a0billion (1972\u00a0USD) in damage and 137\u00a0fatalities, mostly from inland flooding in Pennsylvania and New York. The strongest hurricane of the season was Betty, which reached peak winds of 105\u00a0mph (165\u00a0km/h) while west of the Azores. Tropical Storm Carrie passed just offshore of Massachusetts, causing heavy rainfall and resulting in four fatalities, but leaving only $1.78\u00a0million in damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 684]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093661-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Atlantic hurricane season\nThe remaining tropical systems \u2013 Dawn, Charlie, and Delta \u2013 caused no significant effects on land. A strong El Ni\u00f1o kept hurricane activity at a minimum, with only four tropical storms, three subtropical storms, and three hurricanes. It was also one of only five hurricane seasons since 1944 to have no major hurricanes \u2013 the other years being 1968, the 1986, 1994, and 2013. In addition, the season was the first to name subtropical storms, using the Phonetic Alphabet, rather than the standard naming list. Collectively, the storms of the 1972 Atlantic hurricane season resulted in 137\u00a0deaths and over $2.1\u00a0billion in damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093661-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Atlantic hurricane season, Season summary\nThe Atlantic hurricane season officially began on June\u00a01, 1972. Although 19\u00a0tropical cyclones developed, only seven of were named, below the 1950-2000\u00a0average of 9.6\u00a0named storms per season. Of the seven tropical or subtropical storms, three of them strengthened into a hurricane, which is also below average. None of the three hurricane became major hurricanes, which is Category\u00a03 or greater on the Saffir\u2013Simpson hurricane wind scale. Overall, the season was inactive, despite having a similar number of tropical waves as the previous season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093661-0003-0001", "contents": "1972 Atlantic hurricane season, Season summary\nThe lack of activity was attributed to an El Ni\u00f1o \u2013 which causes below normal sea surface temperatures over the eastern Atlantic \u2013 and strong vertical wind shear. One subtropical storm and two hurricanes made landfall during the season and caused at least 137\u00a0fatalities and more than $2.1\u00a0billion in damage. The last storm of the season, Subtropical Storm Delta, became extratropical on November\u00a07, about 23\u00a0days before the official end of hurricane season on November\u00a030.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093661-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Atlantic hurricane season, Season summary\nTropical cyclogenesis first occurred in the month of May, with the development of Subtropical Storm Alpha. The month of June featured three tropical cyclones, including Hurricane Agnes and two tropical depressions. Three more systems formed in July, though all of them failed to reach tropical storm status. August was the most active month of the season, with five systems, including Hurricane Betty, Tropical Storm Carrie, and three tropical depressions. September featured slightly less cyclogenesis, with Hurricane Dawn, Subtropical Storm Charlie, and two tropical depressions. An additional three tropical depressions formed in October. Subtropical Storm Delta was the sole system in November, lasting from November\u00a01 to November\u00a07.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 784]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093661-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Atlantic hurricane season, Season summary\nThe season's activity was reflected with an Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE) rating of 36, the lowest value since 1962. Broadly speaking, ACE is a measure of the power of a tropical or subtropical storm multiplied by the length of time it existed. Therefore, a storm with a longer duration, such as Betty, will have high values of ACE. It is only calculated for full advisories on specific tropical and subtropical systems reaching or exceeding wind speeds of 39\u00a0mph (63\u00a0km/h). Accordingly, tropical depressions are not included here. After the storm has dissipated, typically after the end of the season, the NHC reexamines the data, and produces a final report on each storm. These revisions can lead to a revised ACE total either upward or downward compared to the operational value.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 834]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093661-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Subtropical Storm Alpha\nA subtropical depression developed from a cold-core low pressure area southeast of the Carolinas on May\u00a023. After initially moving northeastward, it turned sharply southward on May\u00a026 due to a building ridge of high pressure. Later that day, the system strengthened into Subtropical Storm Alpha and proceeded to move toward the coast of Georgia. After peaking with maximum sustained winds of 70\u00a0mph (110\u00a0km/h), Alpha began weakening. Late on May\u00a027, the storm made landfall near Brunswick, Georgia, with winds of 45\u00a0mph (75\u00a0km/h). Alpha weakened to a subtropical depression and dissipated after entering the northeastern Gulf of Mexico on May\u00a029.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 711]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093661-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Subtropical Storm Alpha\nRough seas generated by the storm resulted in two people drowning in Florida and halted work to deepen a harbor at the Mayport Naval Station in Jacksonville. Tides along the Georgia coast reached 2 to 3\u00a0ft (0.61 to 0.91\u00a0m) above normal, which caused some flooding and beach erosion. Wind gusts reached 58\u00a0mph (93\u00a0km/h) on Saint Simons Island. The winds knocked down trees and power lines, leaving some people without power in eastern Georgia. Damage was minor but widespread in the state, estimated at over $50,000. Moderate rains spread in coastal areas from South Carolina through southern Florida. North Carolina also experienced about $50,000\u00a0in damage, mostly due to erosion. Alpha was the first named subtropical storm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 790]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093661-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Agnes\nA polar front and an upper trough over the Yucat\u00e1n Peninsula spawned a tropical depression on June\u00a014. The storm emerged into the western Caribbean Sea on June\u00a015, and by the following day, it strengthened into Tropical Storm Agnes. The storm curved northward and brushed western Cuba on June\u00a017. Agnes continued to intensify, and on June\u00a018, it was upgraded to a hurricane. Minimal fluctuations in intensity occurred before the storm made landfall near Panama City, Florida, on June\u00a019. After moving inland, Agnes rapidly weakened and was only a tropical depression when it entered Georgia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 648]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093661-0008-0001", "contents": "1972 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Agnes\nThereafter, weakening slowed as the storm crossed over Georgia and into South Carolina. However, while over eastern North Carolina on June\u00a021, Agnes re-strengthened into a tropical storm, as a result of baroclinic activity. Early the following day, the storm emerged into the Atlantic Ocean before re-curving northwestward and making landfall near New York City as a strong tropical storm. Agnes quickly merged with a non-tropical low pressure system on June\u00a023.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093661-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Agnes\nHeavy rainfall occurred in western Cuba, causing flooding that destroyed 97\u00a0houses, isolated a few cities, and flatted crops in low-lying areas. The storm left seven fatalities. Agnes caused a significant tornado outbreak, with at least 26\u00a0confirmed twisters, 24\u00a0of them in Florida and the other two in Georgia. The tornadoes alone resulted in over $4.5\u00a0million in damage and six fatalities. At least 2,082\u00a0structures in Florida suffered either major damage or were destroyed. About\u00a01,355 other dwellings experienced minor losses. Though Agnes made landfall as a hurricane, no hurricane-force winds were reported.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 670]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093661-0009-0001", "contents": "1972 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Agnes\nAbnormally high tides resulted in extensive damage, especially between Apalachicola and Cedar Key. The storm left nine deaths and approximately $40\u00a0million in damage in Florida. Generally minor effects were also recorded in the states of Alabama, Delaware, Georgia, Ohio, South Carolina, and Tennessee, as well as the New England region. However, one fatality was reported in Delaware and three were recorded in Georgia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093661-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Agnes\nThe most significant effects, by far, occurred in Pennsylvania, mostly due to severe flooding. Precipitation peaked at 18\u00a0in (460\u00a0mm) in Schuylkill County, causing several creeks and rivers crest at record height, including the Delaware, Juniata, Lackawanna, Susquehanna, and West Branch Susquehanna rivers. More than 100,000\u00a0people were forced to leave their homes due to flooding. In the state of Pennsylvania, more than 3,000\u00a0businesses and 68,000\u00a0homes were destroyed, leaving at least 220,000\u00a0people homeless. Agnes remains one of the worst natural disasters in Pennsylvania. New York also suffered severe damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 675]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093661-0010-0001", "contents": "1972 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Agnes\nSimilarly, rivers in the state crested high, including the Allegheny, Chemung, Genesee, Susquehanna, and Tioga rivers. Corning, Elmira, and Olean, as well as many other Southern Tier towns, were severely flooded. Throughout New York, 32,832\u00a0homes were damaged and 628\u00a0others were damaged. A total of 1,547\u00a0small businesses were extensively damaged or demolished. In Canada, a mobile home was toppled, killing two people. Overall, Agnes caused 131\u00a0fatalities and over $2.1\u00a0billion in damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093661-0011-0000", "contents": "1972 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Betty (Bravo)\nAn area of disturbed weather appeared on satellite imagery while forming within an old frontal zone on August\u00a021. At 1200\u00a0UTC on the following day, a subtropical depression developed about 290\u00a0mi (470\u00a0km) north-northeast of Bermuda. The system strengthened slowly as it headed east-northeastward or eastward and by August\u00a024, it became Subtropical Storm Bravo. During the next 24\u00a0hours, minimal intensification occurred. However, a deepening high-level trough and a building ridge enhanced outflow and deep convection on August\u00a025. Additionally, reconnaissance aircraft flights began indicating a transition to a warm-core. Unfavorable northwesterly winds briefly halted further development, though by late on August\u00a026, Bravo resumed acquiring tropical characteristics after another deepening trough accelerated the storm eastward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 897]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093661-0012-0000", "contents": "1972 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Betty (Bravo)\nAfter reconnaissance aircraft reported winds of 98\u00a0mph (158\u00a0km/h) and satellite imagery indicated a storm with a classic cyclonic appearance, Bravo was reclassified as Hurricane Betty while located about 920\u00a0mi (1,480\u00a0km) west of the Azores on August\u00a027. After some further strengthening, Betty attained its peak intensity as a Category\u00a02 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 105\u00a0mph (165\u00a0km/h) and a minimum barometric pressure of 976\u00a0mbar (28.8\u00a0inHg) early on August\u00a028. The hurricane then moved rapidly east-northeastward before decelerating late on the following day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 641]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093661-0012-0001", "contents": "1972 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Betty (Bravo)\nAround that time, northerly winds aloft caused Betty to weaken to a Category\u00a01 hurricane. After briefly moving southward, the storm curved back to a general westward direction and fell to tropical storm intensity on August\u00a031. Later that day, Betty turned northward ahead of a trough and became extratropical about 565\u00a0mi (910\u00a0km) northwest of Corvo Island in the Azores on September\u00a01.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093661-0013-0000", "contents": "1972 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Carrie\nA complex system combining a tropical wave and an upper level low led to the formation of a tropical depression east of Florida on August 29. It managed to become a tropical storm on August\u00a031 and reached initial peak winds of 60\u00a0mph (95\u00a0km/h) later that day. However, upper-level winds increased, causing Carrie to weaken to a minimal tropical storm by September\u00a02. Due to baroclinic processes, Carrie began to re-intensify. As a result, Carrie attained its peak winds of 70\u00a0mph (110\u00a0km/h) just prior to transitioning into an extratropical cyclone on September 3. The extratropical cyclone continued northeastward, and struck eastern Maine on September\u00a04. By the following day, the extratropical cyclone dissipated over the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 811]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093661-0014-0000", "contents": "1972 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Carrie\nCarrie had a minimal impact on the East Coast south of New England, limited to increased swells, gusty winds, and light rainfall. The worst conditions occurred over southeastern New England, where wind gusts reached 84\u00a0mph (135\u00a0km/h) and rainfall exceeded 1\u00a0ft (0.30\u00a0m). Damage was most severe along and slightly inland from the coast. Thousands of people became stranded on offshore islands of Massachusetts after dangerous conditions created by the storm prompted the suspension of steamship service. Overall, damage was generally light, with total monetary losses valued at $1.78\u00a0million. Four deaths were blamed on the storm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 692]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093661-0015-0000", "contents": "1972 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Dawn\nA tropical wave, combined with an upper tropospheric trough, resulted in the development of a tropical depression near Cay Sal Bank, Bahamas, on September\u00a05. Later that day, the depression struck Key Largo, Florida, before moving inland over the mainland of Florida. The storm brought very light rainfall to the state, peaking at 1.19\u00a0in (30\u00a0mm) in Tavernier. The system moved northeastward and soon re-emerged into the Atlantic. While located north of Grand Bahama on September\u00a06, the depression intensified into Tropical Storm Dawn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 590]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093661-0015-0001", "contents": "1972 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Dawn\nOn September\u00a07, a cold low pressure developed near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, which would influence much of Dawn's movement. Around that time, the storm strengthened into a Category\u00a01 hurricane. Dawn then curved west-northwestward on September\u00a08 and peaked with maximum sustained winds of 80\u00a0mph (130\u00a0km/h) and a minimum barometric pressure of 997\u00a0mbar (29.4\u00a0inHg).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093661-0016-0000", "contents": "1972 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Dawn\nWith Dawn appearing as a threat to the Mid-Atlantic, storm and gale warnings were issued from Chincoteague Inlet, Virginia, to Cape May, New Jersey, on September\u00a08. However, the hurricane veered southeastward on September\u00a09 and weakened to a tropical storm. By late on September\u00a010, after the cold low pressure area relinquished influence over Dawn, the cyclone began moving westward, but continued to deteriorate. Dawn weakened to a tropical depression while well east of Georgia late on September\u00a012. The system approached the Sea Islands on September\u00a013, but curved northeastward and remained offshore. Dawn dissipated less than 15\u00a0mi (25\u00a0km) east of Isle of Palms, South Carolina, on September\u00a014. The storm also produced very light rainfall in Georgia and South Carolina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 832]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093661-0017-0000", "contents": "1972 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Subtropical Storm Charlie\nA very small, circular subtropical depression developed about 460\u00a0mi (740\u00a0km) northeast of Bermuda on September\u00a019. Initially, the storm moved north-northeastward and strengthened into Subtropical Storm Charlie early the following day. It then moved quickly northeastward and continued to strengthen. Later on September\u00a020, Charlie peaked with maximum sustained winds of 65\u00a0mph (100\u00a0km/h). The system soon lost tropical characteristics and transitioned into an extratropical cyclone about 630\u00a0mi (1,010\u00a0km) east of Cape Race, Newfoundland, early on September\u00a021. However, the extratropical storm deepened significantly, reaching a barometric pressure of 944\u00a0mbar (27.9\u00a0inHg), a reading typical of a strong Category\u00a03 hurricane. Early on September\u00a022, the extratropical cyclone dissipated over the far north Atlantic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 66], "content_span": [67, 883]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093661-0018-0000", "contents": "1972 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Subtropical Storm Delta\nA southwestward-moving cold-core low pressure area developed into a subtropical depression while located about 950\u00a0mi (1,530\u00a0km) west-southwest of Flores Island in the Azores on November\u00a01. After forming, the system soon strengthened and was upgraded to Subtropical Storm Delta. Early on November\u00a03, Delta attained its peak intensity with maximum sustained winds of 45\u00a0mph (75\u00a0km/h) and a minimum barometric pressure of 1,001\u00a0mbar (29.6\u00a0inHg).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093661-0018-0001", "contents": "1972 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Subtropical Storm Delta\nAround that time, the subtropical storm briefly moved southward, before beginning a general eastward movement on November\u00a04. Delta soon began to weaken and was reduced to a subtropical depression by the following day. It continued eastward until November\u00a06, at which time the storm decelerated and curved northward. Delta dissipated while located about 790\u00a0mi (1,270\u00a0km) southwest of Flores Island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093661-0019-0000", "contents": "1972 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Other systems\nIn addition to the named storms, there were several weak depressions during the season. As Agnes was moving over the southeastern United States, a tropical depression formed approximately 400\u00a0mi (640\u00a0km) southwest of Bermuda on June\u00a019. It moved northeastward and headed toward the island. The depression dissipated later the following day. The next system, numbered Tropical Depression Five, developed offshore North Florida on July\u00a010. Moving generally northward, Tropical Depression Five made landfall near Cape Fear in North Carolina on July\u00a012. The depression dissipated over Virginia about two days later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 666]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093661-0019-0001", "contents": "1972 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Other systems\nGenerally light rainfall was reported in several states, though 8\u00a0in (200\u00a0mm) of precipitation was recorded on Cedar Island, North Carolina. Another tropical depression originated about 430\u00a0mi (690\u00a0km) southwest of Flores Island in the Azores on July\u00a016. It trekked slowly until July\u00a019, at which time the system curved northeastward. Late the following day, the depression dissipated about 225\u00a0mi (360\u00a0km) west of Flores Island. On July\u00a031, a tropical depression formed about 515\u00a0mi (830\u00a0km) southeast of Bermuda. The depression moved southwestward, toward the Bahamas and Lesser Antilles, but dissipated about 225\u00a0mi (360\u00a0km) northeast of Turks and Caicos Islands on August\u00a03.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 733]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093661-0020-0000", "contents": "1972 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Other systems\nA tropical depression developed over Senegal on August\u00a05. Tracking westward, the depression passed south of Cape Verde before dissipating southwest of the islands on August\u00a08. Four days later, another tropical depression originated about 175\u00a0mi (280\u00a0km) east-southeast of Charleston, South Carolina. It moved slowly northeastward and intensified slightly, but dissipated about 210\u00a0mi (340\u00a0km) southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, on August\u00a015. The tenth tropical depression formed on August\u00a016 while offshore Senegal. Moving generally westward, the cyclone crossed through Cape Verde and struck the islands of Fogo and Santiago.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 690]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093661-0020-0001", "contents": "1972 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Other systems\nBy August\u00a018, the depression dissipated. Another tropical depression developed about 800\u00a0mi (1,300\u00a0km) east-southeast of Bermuda on September\u00a03. The system moved northeastward toward the Azores, but degenerated about 750\u00a0mi (1,210\u00a0km) southwest of Flores Island on September\u00a05. The next tropical depression formed on September\u00a020 while located about 570\u00a0mi (920\u00a0km) west-southwest of Cape Verde. The storm tracked generally westward, but then began moving west-northwestward on September\u00a021. Three days later, the depression dissipated about 890\u00a0mi (1,430\u00a0km) east-northeast of Barbados.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 642]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093661-0021-0000", "contents": "1972 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Other systems\nOn October\u00a01, a tropical depression originated about 700\u00a0mi (1,100\u00a0km) east-southeast of Bermuda. The depression trekked generally northward and dissipated about 505\u00a0mi (815\u00a0km) south-southeast of Cape Race, Newfoundland, on October\u00a03. Yet another tropical depression formed about 120\u00a0mi (190\u00a0km) west of Bolama, Guinea-Bissau, on October\u00a05. The depression moved generally westward, before curving to the northwest on October\u00a08. Five days later, it turned northward while well northeast of the Lesser Antilles. By October\u00a014, the system began moving north-northeast. The depression dissipated about 800\u00a0mi (1,300\u00a0km) east-northeast of Bermuda on the following day. Yet another tropical depression formed about 445\u00a0mi (715\u00a0km) southwest of Brava, Cape Verde, on October\u00a016. Initially the depression moved generally west-northwestward and dissipated about halfway between Barbados and Cape Verde.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 949]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093661-0022-0000", "contents": "1972 Atlantic hurricane season, Storm names\nThe following names were used for named storms that formed in the North Atlantic in 1972. Names that were not assigned are marked in gray. Storms were named Agnes, Betty and Dawn for the first time in 1972. The name Agnes was later retired.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093661-0023-0000", "contents": "1972 Atlantic hurricane season, Storm names, Subtropical storm names\nThe following names were used for subtropical storms (sometimes called neutercanes) in the Atlantic basin for this year. This year was the first year to use the NATO phonetic alphabet for these storms. Names that were not assigned are marked in gray.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 68], "content_span": [69, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093661-0024-0000", "contents": "1972 Atlantic hurricane season, Season effects\nThis is a table of the storms in 1972 and their landfall(s), if any. Deaths in parentheses are additional and indirect (an example of an indirect death would be a traffic accident), but are still storm-related. Damage and deaths include totals while the storm was extratropical or a wave or low.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093662-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Auburn Tigers football team\nThe 1972 Auburn Tigers football team under the leadership of coach Ralph \"Shug\" Jordan completed the regular season with a record of 9\u20131, earning them an invitation to the Gator Bowl against Colorado, which they won by a score of 24\u20133. They completed the season with a record of 10\u20131 and ranked #5 in the AP poll and #7 in the UPI.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093662-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Auburn Tigers football team\nFive players were named all-SEC first team for 1972: defensive back Dave Beck, tail back Terry Henley, offensive tackle Mac Lorendo, defensive end Danny Sanspree, and defensive tackle Benny Sivley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093662-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Auburn Tigers football team\nThe famous Punt Bama Punt game took place during the 1972 season, where Auburn, trailing Alabama 16\u20130 with 10 minutes left in the game, came back to win 17\u201316 after scoring a field goal followed by two blocked punts that were returned for touchdowns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093663-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Australia rugby union tour of New Zealand and Fiji\nThe 1972 Australia rugby union tour of New Zealand and Fiji was a series of thirteen rugby union matches, including three tests, played by the Wallabies in New Zealand, plus a one-off test match played by the Wallabies against the Fijians in Fiji. The tour took place in August and September 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093663-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Australia rugby union tour of New Zealand and Fiji\nThe test series in New Zealand was won by the All Blacks with three wins from three matches. The test match in Fiji was won by the Wallabies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093663-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Australia rugby union tour of New Zealand and Fiji, Squad leadership\nThe Wallaby squad was captained by Greg Davis described by Howell as \"a leader of men who believed a leader should lead....a single minded flanker who gave no quarter and asked for none\". Davis was making his seventh and final overseas tour with the Wallabies, his third as captain. Howell writes that for Davis at 33 years and the end of a magnificent career, the seven loss & five win result of the tour was \"a disaster and occasioned Davis' retirement\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 73], "content_span": [74, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093663-0002-0001", "contents": "1972 Australia rugby union tour of New Zealand and Fiji, Squad leadership\nAn injury picked up in New Zealand prevented Davis from leading the side in the Test match in Fiji on the way home. Peter Sullivan led the Wallabies to a narrow 21-19 victory against Fiji. He had already captained Australia in two mid-week games during the New Zealand leg. The third Test in New Zealand, a 38-3 romp by the All Blacks was Greg Davis' last match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 73], "content_span": [74, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093663-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Australia rugby union tour of New Zealand and Fiji, Squad leadership\nJoe French was the Tour Manager. Bob Templeton was the team's coach who carried the traditional touring title of Assistant Manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 73], "content_span": [74, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093664-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Australian Drivers' Championship\nThe 1972 Australian Drivers' Championship was a CAMS sanctioned Australian motor racing title open to Australian Formula 1 and Australian Formula 2 racing cars. It was the 16th Australian Drivers' Championship to be awarded by CAMS. The championship winner, Frank Matich, was awarded the 1972 CAMS Gold Star.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093664-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Australian Drivers' Championship, Calendar\nThe championship was contested over a six-round series with one race per round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093664-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Australian Drivers' Championship, Calendar\nAn additional round, scheduled to be held at Lakeside in Queensland was cancelled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093664-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Australian Drivers' Championship, Points system\nChampionship points were awarded on a 9-6-4-3-2-1 basis for the first six places in each race. Points from the best five results could be retained by each driver.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 52], "content_span": [53, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093665-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Australian Formula 2 Championship\nThe 1972 Australian Formula 2 Championship was a CAMS sanctioned Australian motor racing title open to racing cars complying with Australian Formula 2. It was the sixth Australian Formula 2 Championship. The title was won by Larry Perkins driving an Elfin 600B/E Ford.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093665-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Australian Formula 2 Championship, Calendar\nThe championship was contested over a seven round series with one race per round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093665-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Australian Formula 2 Championship, Calendar\nNote: Rounds 3, 5, 6 & 7 were each run concurrently with rounds of the 1972 Australian Drivers' Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093665-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Australian Formula 2 Championship, Points system\nChampionship points were awarded on a 9-6-4-3-2-1 basis to the first six placegetters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 53], "content_span": [54, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093666-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Australian Grand Prix\nThe 1972 Australian Grand Prix was a motor race for cars complying with the Tasman Formula, which admitted both Formula 5000 and 2-litre racing cars. The race, which was held at Sandown International Raceway on 20 February 1972, had 19 starters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093666-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Australian Grand Prix\nIt was the thirty seventh Australian Grand Prix and doubled as round seven of the 1972 Tasman Series and was held only 3 months after the 1971 race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093666-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Australian Grand Prix\nDefending winner Frank Matich started the race on pole in his Repco Holden powered Matich A50 which had won the 1971 race on debut. New Zealand's Graham McRae started alongside Matich on the front row in his Leda GM1-Chevrolet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093666-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Australian Grand Prix\nMatich led from the start but was out after just 5 laps with a failed scavenge pump. McRae recorded the first of three AGP wins (all won at Sandown) by 3 seconds from the Lola T300-Chevrolet of Frank Gardner who had qualified 3rd. British International driver David Hobbs finished 3rd in his McLaren M18/M22-Chevrolet after starting from 4th on the grid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093666-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Australian Grand Prix\nMcRae's win gave him an unassailable lead in the 1972 Tasman Series points table with one round remaining.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093667-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Australian Manufacturers' Championship\nThe 1972 Australian Manufacturers' Championship was a CAMS sanctioned national motor racing title for car manufacturers. It was contested over a five-round series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093667-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Australian Manufacturers' Championship\nAll rounds were open only to Group E Series Production Touring Cars. Entries were divided into four classes, split via \"CP Units\", where the engine capacity of the vehicle (in litres) was multiplied by the retail price of the vehicle (in dollars) to give a CP (Capacity Price) Units value for each model.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093667-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Australian Manufacturers' Championship\nFor each round other than Bathurst, championship points were awarded 9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 in each classwith bonus points awarded for outright placings on a 4,3,2,1 basis. For the Bathurst round, points were awarded 18,16,14,12,10,8,6,4,2 in each classwith bonus points awarded for outright placings on a 4,3,2,1 basis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093668-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Australian Open\nThe 1972 Australian Open was a tennis tournament played on grass courts at the Kooyong Stadium in Melbourne in Australia and was held from 26 December 1971 to 3 January 1972. It was the 60th edition of the Australian Open and the first Grand Slam of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093668-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Australian Open, Finals, Men's Doubles\nOwen Davidson / Ken Rosewall defeated Ross Case / Geoff Masters 3\u20136, 7\u20136, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 43], "content_span": [44, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093668-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Australian Open, Finals, Women's Doubles\nHelen Gourlay / Kerry Harris defeated Patricia Coleman / Karen Krantzcke 6\u20130, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093670-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Australian Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nSecond-seeded Ken Rosewall was the defending champion, and successfully defended his title, defeating Mal Anderson 7\u20136(7\u20132), 6\u20133, 7\u20135 in the final to win the Men's Singles tennis title at the 1972 Australian Open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093670-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Australian Open \u2013 Men's Singles, Seeds\nThe seeded players are listed below. Ken Rosewall is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 43], "content_span": [44, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093671-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Australian Open \u2013 Women's Doubles\nMargaret Court and Evonne Goolagong were the defending champions but only Goolagong competed that year with Virginia Wade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093671-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Australian Open \u2013 Women's Doubles\nGoolagong and Wade lost in the semifinals to Patricia Coleman and Karen Krantzcke.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093671-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Australian Open \u2013 Women's Doubles\nHelen Gourlay and Kerry Harris won in the final 6\u20130, 6\u20134 against Coleman and Krantzcke.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093671-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Australian Open \u2013 Women's Doubles, Seeds\nChampion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated. All four seeded teams received byes into the quarterfinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 45], "content_span": [46, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093672-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Australian Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nSecond-seeded Virginia Wade won in the final 6\u20134, 6\u20134 against Evonne Goolagong to win the Women's Singles tennis title at the 1972 Australian Open. Margaret Court was the defending champion but did not compete that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093672-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Australian Open \u2013 Women's Singles, Seeds\nA champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 45], "content_span": [46, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093673-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Australian Rally Championship\nThe 1972 Australian Rally Championship was a series of six rallying events held across Australia. It was the fifth season in the history of the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093673-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Australian Rally Championship\nColin Bond and navigator George Shepheard won the Championship for the second year in a row in the Holden Dealer Team Torana GTR XU-1 .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093673-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Australian Rally Championship, Season review\nAfter a late challenge to the HDT Toranas at the 1971 Southern Cross Rally, the works Mitsubishi Galants were expected to do well in the 1972 Australian Rally Championship and pose a major threat to Harry Firth's HDT domination of the series. However it was not to be, as the cars were poorly backed up and suffered from various incidents which cost them the chance of any outright wins. The HDT LJ Torana XU-1's won five of the six rounds, Mitsubishi's best finishes were a second place in the Alpine (for Doug Stewart and Dave Johnson) and thirds in the Warana (Doug Stewart and Dave Johnson) and Snowy Mountains rallies (Doug Chivas and Peter Meyer).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 49], "content_span": [50, 703]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093673-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Australian Rally Championship, Season review\nAnother major challenge was expected from Renault. Their Renault R8 Gordinis had dominated the 1970 season and the new R12 Gordinis were faster and the team was hoping this would ensure some success for 1972. Tom Barr-Smith was second in the Walkerville 500, and Bob Watson managed a third in the Akademos, but other than that it was a disappointing season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 49], "content_span": [50, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093673-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Australian Rally Championship, Season review\nColin Bond and George Shepheard dominated the championship, winning three rounds together and a fourth for Shepheard when he navigated for Frank Kilfoyle in the final round, The Alpine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 49], "content_span": [50, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093673-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Australian Rally Championship, The Rallies\nThe 1972 season featured six events, two each in New South Wales and Victoria; and one each for Queensland and South Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 47], "content_span": [48, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093674-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Australian Sports Car Championship\nThe 1972 Australian Sports Car Championship was an Australian motor racing series for Sports Cars. It was sanctioned by the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport as a national title and was the fourth Australian Sports Car Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093674-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Australian Sports Car Championship\nThe championship was won by John Harvey driving a McLaren M6 Repco.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093674-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Australian Sports Car Championship, Classes and points system\nCars competed in two classes, Over 2500cc and Up to 2500cc.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093674-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Australian Sports Car Championship, Classes and points system\nPoints were awarded on a 9-6-4-3-2-1 basis to the first six placegetters in each class at each round and on a 4-3-2-1 basis to the first four outright placegetters at each round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093675-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Australian Touring Car Championship\nThe 1972 Australian Touring Car Championship was a CAMS sanctioned national motor racing title open to Improved Production Touring Cars and Group E Series Production Touring Cars. The championship, which was the 13th running of the Australian Touring Car Championship, began at Symmons Plains and ended at Oran Park after eight rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093675-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Australian Touring Car Championship\n1972 would be the final time the Improved Production cars would contest the ATCC. From 1973, CAMS introduced a new production based Group C touring car formula. Outright cars like the Ford Mustangs, Chevrolet Camaros, Norm Beechey's Holden Monaro and Ian Geoghegan's Ford XY Falcon GTHO Phase III would be replaced with production based Ford Falcons and Holden Toranas. Many Improved Production cars would end up racing as Sports Sedans in the following years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093675-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Australian Touring Car Championship\nDefending champion Bob Jane won his fourth and final Australian Touring Car Championship in his Chevrolet Camaro ZL-1. Unlike 1971 when Jane's Camaro used the 7.0 litre 427 V8 engine, CAMS rule changes reducing the engine capacity limit to 6000cc him forced to run the 5.7 litre 350 V8. Second in the championship was the Ford Escort Twin Cam Mk.1 of Mike Stillwell whose consistent placings in the under 2.0 litre class saw him finish 11 points behind Jane. Third was Allan Moffat in his Ford Boss 302 Mustang.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093675-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Australian Touring Car Championship\nAlthough he was not classified after not scoring a point, the 1972 championship saw Peter Brock make his ATCC debut driving a Holden LJ Torana GTR XU-1 for Harry Firth's Holden Dealer Team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093675-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Australian Touring Car Championship, Teams and drivers\nThe following drivers competed in the 1972 Australian Touring Car Championship. Only drivers who scored championship points are listed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 59], "content_span": [60, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093675-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Australian Touring Car Championship, Calendar\nThe 1972 Australian Touring Car Championship was contested over an eight-round series with one race per round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093675-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Australian Touring Car Championship, Points system\nChampionship points were awarded on a 9-6-4-3-2-1 basis for the first six placings in each class at each round. In addition, points were awarded on a 4-3-2-1 basis for the first four outright placings, irrespective of class, at each round. The title was awarded to the driver gaining the highest total of points in any seven of the eight rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 55], "content_span": [56, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093676-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Australian federal election\nThe 1972 Australian federal election was held in Australia on 2 December 1972. All 125 seats in the House of Representatives were up for election, as well as a single Senate seat in Queensland. The incumbent Liberal\u2013Country coalition government, led by Prime Minister William McMahon, was defeated by the opposition Labor Party led by Gough Whitlam. Labor's victory ended 23 years of successive Coalition governments that began in 1949 and started the three-year Whitlam Labor Government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093676-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Australian federal election, Issues\nThe 1972 election campaign dealt with a combination of Vietnam and domestic policy issues, and the role of the federal government in resolving these issues. The Coalition of the Liberal and Country parties had been in government for 23 years. Successive Coalition governments promoted conservative economics, trade, and defence. However, Australian economic prosperity during the post-war period of the 1950s and 1960s led to the emergence of a range of \"quality of life\" issues regarding urban development, education, and healthcare. By 1972 these \"quality of life\" issues came to represent a major political problem for the coalition parties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 40], "content_span": [41, 685]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093676-0001-0001", "contents": "1972 Australian federal election, Issues\nTraditionally all of these areas had been handled by the state governments, and the Coalition had always asserted the importance of states rights, a view backed by Liberal state premiers like Robert Askin and Henry Bolte. Between 1966 and 1972, Labor leader Gough Whitlam developed policies designed to deal with the problems of urban and regional development using the financial powers granted to the federal government under the Australian Constitution. As Whitlam put it, Labor focused on \"cities, schools and hospitals\", and these issues were electorally appealing especially to the young and growing baby boomer generation living in the outer suburbs of the major cities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 40], "content_span": [41, 717]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093676-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Australian federal election, Issues\nBy contrast, Coalition policies of conservative economic management, increasing trade, and Australian involvement in the Vietnam War disengaged a significant number of Australian voters. Australian involvement in the Vietnam War was initially popular. However, protests grew as the consequences of the war became apparent and the likelihood of a US-led victory diminished. A major part of the protests were directed at conscripting Australians to fight in the war. Liberal policies on Vietnam focused on the need to contain the spread of communism, but the gradual US and Australian troop withdrawal undermined this position. In 1971, Opposition Leader Gough Whitlam visited China. The Coalition heavily criticised the visit. The criticism soon became an embarrassment when US President Richard Nixon announced he would visit China the following year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 40], "content_span": [41, 892]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093676-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Australian federal election, Issues\nFinally, the incumbent Prime Minister William McMahon was no match for Whitlam, a witty and powerful orator. McMahon's position was precarious to begin with, for he had only emerged as Liberal Leader after a prolonged period of turmoil following the Coalition's unexpectedly poor showing at the half-Senate election held in 1970, and various state elections. In early 1971, Country Party leader John McEwen had retired, to be replaced by Doug Anthony. McEwen, who had disliked McMahon, held a virtual veto over the possibility of his becoming Liberal leader, which he had exercised in 1968.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 40], "content_span": [41, 631]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093676-0003-0001", "contents": "1972 Australian federal election, Issues\nAnthony declared that this veto was no longer in operation, clearing the way for a leadership challenge by McMahon against Prime Minister John Gorton. Gorton survived, but only narrowly, and soon called for a vote of confidence in his leadership. The confidence vote resulted in a tie. Gorton could have continued with the result, but stated \"Well, that is not a vote of confidence, so the party will have to elect a new leader. \", and McMahon won the ensuing leadership spill. This made the Coalition appear weak and divided, and consumed in internal struggles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 40], "content_span": [41, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093676-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Australian federal election, Issues\nMcMahon was further weakened by concerns about inflation and negative press coverage. For example, Rupert Murdoch and his newspaper The Australian supported the ALP. The ALP ran a strong campaign under the famous slogan It's Time \u2013 a slogan which, coupled with its progressive policy programme, gave it great momentum within the electorate after 23 years of Conservative rule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 40], "content_span": [41, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093676-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Australian federal election, Results, Senate\nA special Senate election was held in Queensland to replace Liberal senator Annabelle Rankin, who resigned in 1971. Neville Bonner, who had been appointed to fill the casual vacancy by the Queensland Parliament, won the Senate position \u2013 the first Indigenous Australian elected to parliament. The election was held at the time of the House of Representatives elections as per Section 15 of the Constitution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093676-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Australian federal election, Results, Senate\nOtherwise, no Senate election was held. As of 2020, this is the last Australian federal election that did not have a concurrent half or full Senate election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093676-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Australian federal election, Significance\nThe 1972 election ended 23 years of Liberal-Country rule\u2014the longest unbroken run in government in Australian history. It is also unusual as Whitlam only scraped into office with a thin majority of 9 seats. Typically, elections that produce a change of government in Australia take the form of landslides (as in the elections of 1949, 1975, 1983, 1996, 2007 or 2013, for example). The comparatively small size of Whitlam's win is partly explained by his strong performance at the previous election of 1969, where he achieved a 7 percent swing, gaining 18 seats, from a low of 41 of 124 seats and a 43 percent two-party figure at the 1966 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 694]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093676-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 Australian federal election, Significance\nThe new Labor Government of Gough Whitlam was eager to make long-planned reforms, although it struggled against a lack of experience in its cabinet and the onset of the 1973 oil crisis and 1973\u201375 recession. In addition, the Senate was hostile to Whitlam, with the Coalition and Democratic Labor Parties holding more seats than the ALP, as the term of the Senate at the time was 1971 to 1974. This in particular would make governing difficult and led to the early double dissolution election of 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093677-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Austrian Grand Prix\nThe 1972 Austrian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at \u00d6sterreichring on 13 August 1972. It was race 9 of 12 in both the 1972 World Championship of Drivers and the 1972 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers. The 54-lap race was won by Lotus driver Emerson Fittipaldi after he started from pole position. Denny Hulme finished second for the McLaren team and his teammate Peter Revson came in third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093678-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 BBC2 Floodlit Trophy\n1972 was the eighth occasion on which the BBC2 Floodlit Trophy competition had been held. This year was another new name on the trophyLeigh won the trophy by beating Widnes by the score of 5-0The match was played at Central Park, Wigan, (historically in the county of Lancashire). The attendance was 4,691 and receipts were \u00a31,391This was Leigh's first victory after being runner-up in two of the previous finals", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093678-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 BBC2 Floodlit Trophy, Background\nThis season saw no changes in the entrants, no new members and no withdrawals, the number remaining at eighteen. The format remained the same as the last season with the preliminary round played on a two-legged home and away basis and the rest of the tournament being played on a knock-out basis. The preliminary round involved four clubs, to reduce the numbers to sixteen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093678-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 BBC2 Floodlit Trophy, Competition and results, Preliminary round \u2013 second leg\nInvolved 2 matches and the same 4 Clubs in reverse fixtures", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 82], "content_span": [83, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093678-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 BBC2 Floodlit Trophy, Competition and results, Final, Teams and scorers\nScoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = two (2) points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 76], "content_span": [77, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093678-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 BBC2 Floodlit Trophy, Notes and comments\n1 * Wakefield Trinity, who joined the competition in season 1967-68, win their first game in the competition2 * Keighley (who joined the competition in season 1967-68) win their first match in the competition3 * This match was televised4 * This was the second of only two occasions when the BBC2 Floodlit Trophy final was played on a neutral ground5 * Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990-1991 and 1991-92 give the attendance as 4,691, but RUGBYLEAGUEprojects gives it as 4,8416 * The Widnes official archives give this player, Bob Blackwood as number 3 but Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990-91 and 1991-92 give the position as 47 * The Widnes official archives give this player, Mal Aspey as number 4 but Rothmans Tearbook 1990-91 and 1991-92 give the position as 38 * The Widnes official archives give the stand off (No 6) as Eric Hughes but Rothmans Tearbook 1990-91 and 1991-92 give the player as Ged Lowe9 * Central Park was the home ground of Wigan with a final capacity of 18,000, although the record attendance was 47,747 for Wigan v St Helens 27 March 1959", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 1125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093678-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 BBC2 Floodlit Trophy, Notes and comments, General information for those unfamiliar\nThe Rugby League BBC2 Floodlit Trophy was a knock-out competition sponsored by the BBC and between rugby league clubs, entrance to which was conditional upon the club having floodlights. Most matches were played on an evening, and those of which the second half was televised, were played on a Tuesday evening. Despite the competition being named as 'Floodlit', many matches took place during the afternoons and not under floodlights, and several of the entrants, including Barrow and Bramley did not have adequate lighting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 87], "content_span": [88, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093678-0005-0001", "contents": "1972 BBC2 Floodlit Trophy, Notes and comments, General information for those unfamiliar\nAnd, when in 1973, due to the world oil crisis, the government restricted the use of floodlights in sport, all the matches, including the Trophy final, had to be played in the afternoon rather than at night. The Rugby League season always (until the onset of \"Summer Rugby\" in 1996) ran from around August-time through to around May-time and this competition always took place early in the season, in the Autumn, with the final taking place in December (The only exception to this was when disruption of the fixture list was caused by inclement weather)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 87], "content_span": [88, 641]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093679-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 BC Lions season\nThe 1972 BC Lions finished in fifth place in the Western Conference with a 5\u201311 record and failed to make the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093679-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 BC Lions season\nAfter Paul Brothers was traded to Ottawa late in the 1971 season and Tom Wilkinson was released, sophomore pivot Don Moorhead became the Lions' starting quarterback. While Moorhead threw for 2606 yards, he also threw 17 interceptions and the offence continued to struggle at only 15.9 points per game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093679-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 BC Lions season\nThe lone bright spot on offence was receiver Jim Young. He led the league with 1362 yards receiving and won his second Schenley as Outstanding Canadian. Young was a CFL all-star along with rookie linebacker Ray Nettles, for whom the Lions outbid the Miami Dolphins of the NFL in the off-season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093679-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 BC Lions season\nFor the first season since the 1950s, the team wore orange jerseys at home. The new jerseys had northwestern stripes on each arm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093680-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 BRDC International Trophy\nThe 24th BRDC International Trophy was a non-championship Formula One race held at Silverstone on 23 April 1972. The race was also run to Formula 5000 regulations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093680-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 BRDC International Trophy, Classification\nNote: a blue background indicates a car running under Formula 5000 regulations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093681-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 BYU Cougars football team\nThe 1972 BYU Cougars football team represented Brigham Young University (BYU) for the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. It was their first year under head coach LaVell Edwards and the Cougars finished over .500 for the first time since 1969.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093681-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 BYU Cougars football team, Preseason\nDefensive coordinator LaVell Edwards was promoted to head coach in January to take over for the departed Tommy Hudspeth, who ended up as the head coach at UTEP by season's end.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093681-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 BYU Cougars football team, Preseason\nBYU was returning 28 players from the previous year but Golden Richards would not be one of them. Richards claimed it was because the Cougars were still a run-oriented offense while BYU and Edwards said it was because Richards had trouble keeping with his academics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093681-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 BYU Cougars football team, Awards\nAll-WAC: Dave Atkinson, Dan Hansen, Paul Howard, Paul Linford, Ron Tree, Pete Van Valkenburg", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093682-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Bahamian general election\nGeneral elections were held in the Bahamas on 19 September 1972. The result was a victory for the Progressive Liberal Party, which won 57.9% of the vote and 29 of the 38 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093683-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Bahraini Constituent Assembly election\nConstituent Assembly elections were held in Bahrain on 1 December 1972. All candidates ran as independents. A total of 15,385 votes were cast (although not all constituencies were contested), giving a turnout of 88.5%. However, only 12.5% of the population were registered voters at the time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093683-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Bahraini Constituent Assembly election\nThe constituent assembly was charged with drafting and ratifying a constitution, following Bahrain's independence from Britain in 1971. The law drawn up by the government restricted the electorate to male citizens aged twenty years or over.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093683-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Bahraini Constituent Assembly election\nThe assembly consisted of twenty-two delegates who were elected by the public, along with eight delegates appointed by the Amir, and the twelve members of the royally-appointed Council of Ministers in their ex-officio capacity. Mohammed Hasan Kamaluddin was the youngest member elected at the age of 31.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093683-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Bahraini Constituent Assembly election\nThe constituent assembly and its election were regulated by Legislative Decrees No. 12 and 13 of 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093683-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Bahraini Constituent Assembly election\nThe Constituent Assembly drafted and ratified the 1973 Constitution of Bahrain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093684-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Balkans Cup\nThe 1972 Balkans Cup was an edition of the Balkans Cup, a football competition for representative clubs from the Balkan states. It was contested by 6 teams and Trakia Plovdiv won the trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093685-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Ball State Cardinals football team\nThe 1972 Ball State Cardinals football team was an American football team that represented Ball State University as an independent during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. In its second season under head coach Dave McClain, the team compiled a 5\u20134\u20131 record. The team played its home games at Ball State Stadium in Muncie, Indiana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093686-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Ballon d'Or\nThe 1972 Ballon d'Or, given to the best football player in Europe as judged by a panel of sports journalists from UEFA member countries, was awarded to the West German defender Franz Beckenbauer on 26 December 1972. There were 25 voters, from Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Germany, England, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Ireland, Romania, Soviet Union, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, West Germany and Yugoslavia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093686-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Ballon d'Or\nBeckenbauer became the second West German national and Bayern Munich player to win the trophy after Gerd M\u00fcller (1970).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093687-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Baltimore Colts season\nThe 1972 Baltimore Colts season was the 20th season for the team in the National Football League. They finished with 5 wins and 9 losses, third in the AFC East.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093687-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Baltimore Colts season\nRobert Irsay, who had recently taken over the Los Angeles Rams, traded ownership of the NFL franchises with Colts' owner Carroll Rosenbloom, with players and coaching staffs remaining intact. However, the Colts were getting older and started 1\u20134 before third-year head coach Don McCafferty was fired by new general manager Joe Thomas. In their final nine games under interim head coach John Sandusky, Baltimore won four to finish at 5\u20139, their first losing mark in sixteen years. The entire coaching staff was let go after the season concluded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093687-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Baltimore Colts season, Regular season\nThe season began ominously for the Colts when they were defeated at home on opening day by the St. Louis Cardinals and their journeyman quarterback, Tim Van Galder. In week two, Johnny Unitas threw for 376 yards and three touchdowns, but it was far from enough as Joe Namath threw for 496 yards and six touchdowns to power the New York Jets to a 44\u201334 victory at Memorial Stadium, the Jets' first victory over the Colts since Super Bowl III.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093687-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Baltimore Colts season, Regular season\nIn October, the Colts' season reached its nadir when it was shut out twice at home in a three-week stretch by the Dallas Cowboys, who undoubtedly wanted revenge for their loss to Baltimore in Super Bowl V, and the Miami Dolphins, who were on their way to a 17\u20130 season and their first Super Bowl championship under former Colts coach Don Shula.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093687-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Baltimore Colts season, Regular season\nUnitas, age 39, made his final appearance in Baltimore in the fourth quarter of a 35\u20137 victory over Buffalo on December 3, and threw a 63-yard completion for his 287th career touchdown pass. Two weeks later, he played his final game as a Colt, with a completion and an interception.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093687-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Baltimore Colts season, Regular season\nFor the third consecutive year, the Colts played their season finale at the Orange Bowl in Miami. Only this time, it was not in the postseason, but a humbling 16\u20130 shutout to the Dolphins in Week 14 in a game which was nowhere near as close as the final score. Baltimore ended the 1970 season with a win over the Cowboys in Super Bowl V, and ended the 1971 season with a loss to the Dolphins in the AFC Championship Game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093688-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Baltimore International\nThe 1972 Baltimore International was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Towson State College in Baltimore, Maryland in the United States that was part of the 1972 USLTA Indoor Circuit. It was the inaugural edition of the event and was held from January 7 through January 9, 1972. Second-seeded Ilie N\u0103stase won the singles title and earned $2,550 first-prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093688-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Baltimore International, Finals, Doubles\nJimmy Connors / Haroon Rahim defeated Pierre Barth\u00e8s / Clark Graebner 6\u20133, 3\u20136, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 45], "content_span": [46, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093689-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Baltimore Orioles season\nThe 1972 Baltimore Orioles season was a season in American baseball. It involved the Orioles finishing third in the American League East with a record of 80 wins and 74 losses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093689-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Baltimore Orioles season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093689-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Baltimore Orioles season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093689-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Baltimore Orioles season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093689-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Baltimore Orioles season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093689-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Baltimore Orioles season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093690-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting\nElections to the Baseball Hall of Fame for 1972 followed the system established one year earlier. The Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA) voted by mail to select from recent major league players and elected three: Yogi Berra, Sandy Koufax, and Early Wynn. The Veterans Committee met in closed sessions to consider executives, managers, umpires, and earlier major league players. It also selected three people: Lefty Gomez, Will Harridge, and Ross Youngs. The Negro Leagues Committee met for the second time and selected Josh Gibson and Buck Leonard. A formal induction ceremony was held in Cooperstown, New York, on August 7, 1972, with Commissioner of Baseball Bowie Kuhn presiding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 733]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093690-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, BBWAA election\nThe BBWAA was authorized to elect players active in 1952 or later, but not after 1966; the ballot included candidates from the 1971 ballot who received at least 5% of the vote but were not elected, along with selected players, chosen by a screening committee, whose last appearance was in 1966. All 10-year members of the BBWAA were eligible to vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093690-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, BBWAA election\nVoters were instructed to cast votes for up to 10 candidates; any candidate receiving votes on at least 75% of the ballots would be honored with induction to the Hall. The ballot consisted of 46 players; a total of 396 ballots were cast, with 297 votes required for election. A total of 3,083 individual votes were cast, an average of 7.79 per ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093690-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, BBWAA election\nCandidates who were eligible for the first time are indicated here with a dagger (\u2020). The three candidates who received at least 75% of the vote and were elected are indicated in bold italics; candidates who have since been elected in subsequent elections are indicated in italics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093690-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, BBWAA election\nCharlie Keller was on the ballot for the final time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093690-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, BBWAA election\nPlayers eligible for the first time who were not included on the ballot were: Joe Adcock, Ed Bailey, Don Blasingame, Frank Bolling, Wes Covington, Roger Craig, Del Crandall, Joe Cunningham, Gene Freese, Bob Friend, Jim Gilliam, Ray Herbert, Billy Hoeft, Joey Jay, Eddie Kasko, Marty Keough, H\u00e9ctor L\u00f3pez, Jerry Lynch, Frank Malzone, F\u00e9lix Mantilla, Joe Nuxhall, Bob Purkey, Steve Ridzik, Ed Roebuck, Bob Skinner and Frank Thomas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093690-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, J. G. Taylor Spink Award\nFrank Graham (1893\u20131965) received the J. G. Taylor Spink Award honoring a baseball writer. The award was voted at the December 1971 meeting of the BBWAA, and included in the summer 1972 ceremonies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 62], "content_span": [63, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093691-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Baylor Bears football team\nThe 1972 Baylor Bears football team represented the Baylor University in the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. Grant Teaff was hired to resurrect the moribund football team at Baylor. Baylor originally hired Rudy Feldman from New Mexico, but Feldman quit after one day, leaving the job to Teaff. Baylor had been 7\u201343\u20131 in the five seasons preceding Teaff's arrival. The Bears offense scored 180 points, while the Bears defense allowed 156 points. In the Battle of the Brazos, the Bears beat Texas A&M by a score of 15\u201313.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093692-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Bean Station bus-truck collision\nThe 1972 Bean Station bus-truck collision was a head-on collision involving a double-decker Greyhound bus and a tractor-trailer on U.S. Route 11W in Grainger County, Tennessee, that occurred near the town of Bean Station on the morning of May 13, 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093692-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Bean Station bus-truck collision\nThe accident is the deadliest and one of the worst traffic collisions in the history of Tennessee. The accident led to outcry from politicians and citizens calling for traffic safety and infrastructure improvements, such as highway widenings, and the completion of Interstate 81 in Tennessee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093692-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Bean Station bus-truck collision, Background\nPrevious to the accident, US 11W was known for having a history of high accident and fatality rates throughout several decades, giving the highway the moniker Bloody 11W. The stretch of US 11W between Knoxville and Bristol has been labeled as one of the most dangerous and deadliest stretches of highway in the state of Tennessee and the nation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093692-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Bean Station bus-truck collision, Background\nUS 11W was considered by commuters and truck drivers as the principal route from Bristol to Knoxville, and experienced extreme congestion that was not suitable for its two-lane and curvy design between Knoxville and Bristol, leading to a high amount of fatal collisions and injuries. In a one-year span previous to the 1972 accident, US 11W had experienced 1,068 collisions and 35 fatalities. The disturbing history of the highway soon spiraled merchandising such as bumper stickers regarding its situation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093692-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Bean Station bus-truck collision, Incident\nAround 4:45 a.m, the double-decker bus (a PD-4501 Scenicruiser) operated by Greyhound departed from Knoxville en route to Roanoke, Virginia. The bus had traveled eastward along US-11W for 42.4 miles (68.2\u00a0km) in 50 minutes, averaging a speed of 50 miles per hour (80\u00a0km/h). The tractor-trailer had departed at 8:53\u00a0a.m. on the previous day from a manufacturing facility in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, en route to Memphis. The tractor-trailer had driven 517 miles (832\u00a0km) west in a period of 20.5 hours before reaching the site of the accident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093692-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Bean Station bus-truck collision, Incident\nThe Greyhound bus had approached the site tailing a slow-moving car in the eastbound lane around 5:35\u00a0a.m. The bus then attempted to pass the automobile by crossing into the oncoming westbound lane, into the path of the tractor-trailer. The two vehicles then collided head-on, killing the truck driver, bus driver, and 12 of the bus's passengers instantly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093692-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Bean Station bus-truck collision, Investigation\nThe National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) began an investigation on the crash in 1973 and completed a 38-page report on the collision. The report would be issued to the public in February 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 52], "content_span": [53, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093692-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Bean Station bus-truck collision, Investigation\nThe NTSB concluded that the probable cause of the collision was the Greyhound bus driver's attempt to pass the automobile with the view of the westbound semi-truck being obstructed. The driver also failed to avoid the truck for unknown reasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 52], "content_span": [53, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093692-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 Bean Station bus-truck collision, Investigation\nOn the night previous to the accident, the bus driver checked into a Knoxville hotel around 4 p.m. A night clerk for the hotel had awakened the bus driver at 1 a.m. the day of the accident, and checked out of the hotel one hour later. Following questioning by the NTSB, the clerk offered that the driver had a drowsy appearance on his departure from the hotel. A partial autopsy on the bus driver reported negativity on drug usage. Officials were unable to perform an autopsy on the truck driver following extensive burn damage beyond recognition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 52], "content_span": [53, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093692-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 Bean Station bus-truck collision, Investigation\nWhile the investigation suggested that there were no indications that the design of US 11W or the conditions of the truck and bus contributed to the accident, the possibilities were not entirely ruled out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 52], "content_span": [53, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093692-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 Bean Station bus-truck collision, Investigation\nThe stretch of US 11W were the collision had occurred was not featured with double yellow lines, which possibly led to the bus driver attempting to pass the slow-moving automobile ahead of it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 52], "content_span": [53, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093692-0011-0000", "contents": "1972 Bean Station bus-truck collision, Investigation\nThe lack of restraints for passengers of the bus contributed to several fatalities of those on-board by ejection from the bus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 52], "content_span": [53, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093692-0012-0000", "contents": "1972 Bean Station bus-truck collision, Investigation\nThe NTSB concluded the report with recommendations on seat belt legislation for bus passengers, and impact protection advancements on interior paneling surrounding windows on buses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 52], "content_span": [53, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093692-0013-0000", "contents": "1972 Bean Station bus-truck collision, Aftermath\nLed by the widow of one of the passengers aboard the bus, survivors of the crash and other family members of the victims filed a federal lawsuit against Greyhound Lines for $2.5 million. Courts found Greyhound Lines to be at fault for the accident, regarding the failure to take action on the driver of the bus involved in the accident, who had a history of diabetes, heart and liver disease, and several other severe medical conditions following the investigation by the NTSB and Tennessee officials.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 48], "content_span": [49, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093692-0014-0000", "contents": "1972 Bean Station bus-truck collision, Aftermath\nIn 1973, one year following the accident, Tennessee legislators from the House and Senate chambers formed a special-joint investigation committee into the crisis regarding 11W and its ill-fated past. The committee members billed 11W as one of the 'killer highways' of the United States. The committee held several public forums in cities along the 11W corridor, including Knoxville, Rutledge, Rogersville, and Kingsport. Attendees of the forums had brought up several statements concerning 11W, such as the highway being possibly cursed, first-hand experiences of collisions, and property owners willing to donate land for the widening of the highway in order to prevent further accidents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 48], "content_span": [49, 738]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093692-0015-0000", "contents": "1972 Bean Station bus-truck collision, Aftermath\nIndividuals ranging from activists, state and local politicians, engineers, and journalists considered the collision a call to action for the widening of heavily trafficked highways in the state such as U.S. 11W and the completion of then under construction Interstate 81 from Bristol to Dandridge, which paralled the route of 11W.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 48], "content_span": [49, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093692-0016-0000", "contents": "1972 Bean Station bus-truck collision, Aftermath\nBecause of the heavy truck traffic on that highway (US-11W), it was just a matter of time until something like this happened.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 48], "content_span": [49, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093692-0017-0000", "contents": "1972 Bean Station bus-truck collision, Aftermath\nGovernor Winfield Dunn called for action to widen 11W from two to four lanes in its entirety from Kingsport to Knoxville, stating:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 48], "content_span": [49, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093692-0018-0000", "contents": "1972 Bean Station bus-truck collision, Aftermath\nThe record of Highway 11W is written in tragedy and demands the action of responsible people including the governor, This I intend to do.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 48], "content_span": [49, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093692-0019-0000", "contents": "1972 Bean Station bus-truck collision, Aftermath\nPlans and funding for the four-laning of 11W from Kingsport to Knoxville were established in 1973, but several state and local representatives across various districts in Grainger and Hawkins counties refused the financial aid of the state government for the widening of 11W. After the completion of Interstate 81, congestion and accident count on 11W decreased, but many still called for the widening of the highway, citing its hazardous design.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 48], "content_span": [49, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093692-0020-0000", "contents": "1972 Bean Station bus-truck collision, Aftermath\nAs of 2021, U.S. Route 11W has since been widened to four lanes or five lanes, except for the nearly 30-mile (48\u00a0km) stretch between the municipalities of Blaine and Bean Station in Grainger County, including where the bus-truck collision had occurred. It has been suggested that NIMBYism from property owners in Grainger County has played a significant role in the prevention and postponement of the critical construction plans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 48], "content_span": [49, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093692-0021-0000", "contents": "1972 Bean Station bus-truck collision, Aftermath\nIn 2020, the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) had begun the right-of-way acquisition phase of the 11W widening project between Rutledge and Bean Station, expecting to begin construction in 2021\u20132022.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 48], "content_span": [49, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093693-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Belgian Grand Prix\nThe 1972 Belgian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Nivelles on 4 June 1972. It was race 5 of 12 in both the 1972 World Championship of Drivers and the 1972 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers. The 85-lap race was won by Lotus driver Emerson Fittipaldi after he started from pole position. Fran\u00e7ois Cevert finished second for the Tyrrell team and McLaren driver Denny Hulme came in third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093693-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Belgian Grand Prix\nReigning World Champion Jackie Stewart was a notable absence \u2013 his gruelling schedule of racing in Formula 1, Can-Am and European touring cars, plus promotional events for Tyrrell sponsors Elf and Ford, as well as a sideline of sports commentating on television in the US led to what was originally diagnosed as an ulcer, but was later confirmed as gastritis. Under doctor's orders, he took about three weeks off from everything, canceled his involvement with the Can-Am series and US TV for the remainder of 1972, and was restricting his schedule of everything else.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093694-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Belgian Open Championships\nThe 1972 Belgian Open Championships was a men's tennis tournament staged at the Leopold Club in Brussels, Belgium that was part of the Grand Prix circuit and categorized as a Group C event. The tournament was played on outdoor clay courts and was held from 8 May until 4 May 1972. It was the sixth edition of the tournament and Manuel Orantes won the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093694-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Belgian Open Championships, Finals, Doubles\nManuel Orantes / Juan Gisbert Sr. and Patricio Cornejo / Jaime Fillol 9\u20137, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093695-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Benson & Hedges Cup\nThe 1972 Benson & Hedges Cup was the first competing of cricket's Benson & Hedges Cup. The competition was won by Leicestershire County Cricket Club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093696-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Bermudian general election\nGeneral elections were held in Bermuda on 7 June 1972. The ruling United Bermuda Party remained in power, again winning 30 of the 40 seats in the House of Assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093697-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Big League World Series\nThe 1972 Big League World Series took place from August 14\u201319 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Orlando, Florida defeated Inglewood, California in the championship game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093698-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Big Ten Conference football season\nThe 1972 Big Ten Conference football season was the 77th season of college football played by the member schools of the Big Ten Conference and was a part of the 1972 NCAA University Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093698-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Big Ten Conference football season\nThe 1972 Michigan Wolverines football team, under coach Bo Schembechler, compiled a 10\u20131 record, tied for the Big Ten championship, led the conference in scoring defense (5.2 points allowed per game), and was ranked No. 6 in the final AP and Coaches Polls. Michigan won its first ten games with four conference shutouts, and was ranked No. 3 in the AP Poll prior to its 14\u201311 road loss to Ohio State. Defensive back Randy Logan and offensive tackle Paul Seymour were consensus first-team All-Americans. Schembecher won the first Big Ten Football Coach of the Year award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093698-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Big Ten Conference football season\nThe 1972 Ohio State Buckeyes football team, under head coach Woody Hayes, compiled a 9\u20132 record, tied with Michigan for the Big Ten championship, led the conference in scoring offense (25.5 points per game), and was ranked No. 9 in the final AP Poll. The Buckeyes received the conference's berth in the 1973 Rose Bowl and lost to national champion USC, 42\u201317. Linebacker Randy Gradishar was a consensus first-team All-American.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093698-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Big Ten Conference football season\nPurdue running back Otis Armstrong led the Big Ten with 1,361 rushing yards, received the Chicago Tribune Silver Football as the conference's most valuable player, and was a consensus first-team All-American.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093698-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Results and team statistics\nKeyAP final = Team's rank in the final AP Poll of the 1972 seasonAP high = Team's highest rank in the AP Poll throughout the 1972 seasonPPG = Average of points scored per game; conference leader's average displayed in boldPAG = Average of points allowed per game; conference leader's average displayed in boldMVP = Most valuable player as voted by players on each team as part of the voting process to determine the winner of the Chicago Tribune Silver Football trophy; trophy winner in bold", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 85], "content_span": [86, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093698-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Regular season, September 16\nOn September 16, 1972, the Big Ten football teams played four conference games and two non-conference teams. The non-conference games resulted in one win and one loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 86], "content_span": [87, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093698-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Regular season, September 23\nOn September 23, 1972, the Big Ten football teams played nine non-conference games, resulting in three wins and six losses. Ohio State had a bye week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 86], "content_span": [87, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093698-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Regular season, September 30\nOn September 30, 1972, the Big Ten teams played 10 non-conference games, resulting in four wins and six losses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 86], "content_span": [87, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093698-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Regular season, October 7\nOn October 7, 1972, the Big Ten teams played two conference games and six non-conference games. The non-conference games resulted in three wins and three losses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 83], "content_span": [84, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093698-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Regular season, October 14\nOn October 14, 1972, the Big Ten teams played five conference games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 84], "content_span": [85, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093698-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Regular season, October 21\nOn October 21, 1972, the Big Ten teams played five conference games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 84], "content_span": [85, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093698-0011-0000", "contents": "1972 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Regular season, October 28\nOn October 28, 1972, the Big Ten teams played five conference games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 84], "content_span": [85, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093698-0012-0000", "contents": "1972 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Regular season, November 4\nOn November 4, 1972, the Big Ten teams played five conference games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 84], "content_span": [85, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093698-0013-0000", "contents": "1972 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Regular season, November 11\nOn November 11, 1972, the Big Ten teams played five conference games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 85], "content_span": [86, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093698-0014-0000", "contents": "1972 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Regular season, November 18\nOn November 18, 1972, the Big Ten teams played five conference games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 85], "content_span": [86, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093698-0015-0000", "contents": "1972 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Regular season, November 25\nOn November 25, 1972, the Big Ten teams played five conference games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 85], "content_span": [86, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093698-0016-0000", "contents": "1972 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Bowl games\nOn January 1, 1973, USC defeated Ohio State, 42\u201317, in the 1973 Rose Bowl. USC running back Sam Cunningham scored four touchdowns and was named the player of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 68], "content_span": [69, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093698-0017-0000", "contents": "1972 Big Ten Conference football season, Statistical leaders, Passing yards\n1. Mitch Anderson, Northwestern (1,335)2. Rudy Steiner, Wisconsin (1,080)3. Ted McNulty, Indiana (906)4. Mike Wells, Illinois (837)5. Dennis Franklin, Michigan (818)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 75], "content_span": [76, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093698-0018-0000", "contents": "1972 Big Ten Conference football season, Statistical leaders, Rushing yards\n1. Otis Armstrong, Purdue (1,361)2. John King, Minnesota (1,164)3. Rufus Ferguson, Wisconsin (1,004)4. Archie Griffin, Ohio State (867)5. Champ Henson, Ohio State (795)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 75], "content_span": [76, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093698-0019-0000", "contents": "1972 Big Ten Conference football season, Statistical leaders, Receiving yards\n1. Glenn Scolnik, Indiana (727)2. Jim Lash, Northwestern (667)3. Garvin Roberson, Illinois (569)4. Jeff Mack, Wisconsin (528)5. Billy Joe DuPree, Michigan State (406)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 77], "content_span": [78, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093698-0020-0000", "contents": "1972 Big Ten Conference football season, Statistical leaders, Total yards\n1. Otis Armstrong, Purdue (1,361)2. Dennis Franklin, Michigan (1,315)3. Greg Hare, Ohio State (1,180)4. Mitch Anderson, Northwestern (1,176)5. John King, Minnesota (1,164)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 73], "content_span": [74, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093698-0021-0000", "contents": "1972 Big Ten Conference football season, Statistical leaders, Scoring\n1. Champ Henson, Ohio State (120)2. John King, Minnesota (72)3. Ed Shuttlesworth, Michigan (66)4. Otis Armstrong, Purdue (54)5. Ken Starling, Indiana (48)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 69], "content_span": [70, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093698-0022-0000", "contents": "1972 Big Ten Conference football season, Awards and honors, All-Big Ten honors\nThe following players were picked by the Associated Press (AP) and/or the United Press International (UPI) as first-team players on the 1972 All-Big Ten Conference football team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 78], "content_span": [79, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093698-0023-0000", "contents": "1972 Big Ten Conference football season, Awards and honors, All-American honors\nAt the end of the 1972 season, Big Ten players secured six of the consensus first-team picks for the 1972 College Football All-America Team. The Big Ten's consensus All-Americans were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 79], "content_span": [80, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093698-0024-0000", "contents": "1972 Big Ten Conference football season, Awards and honors, All-American honors\nOther Big Ten players who were named first-team All-Americans by at least one selector were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 79], "content_span": [80, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093698-0025-0000", "contents": "1972 Big Ten Conference football season, Awards and honors, Other awards\nRunning back Otis Armstrong of Purdue finished eighth in the voting for the 1972 Heisman Trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 72], "content_span": [73, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093698-0026-0000", "contents": "1972 Big Ten Conference football season, 1973 NFL Draft\nThe following Big Ten players were among the first 100 picks in the 1973 NFL Draft:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 55], "content_span": [56, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093699-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Bihar Legislative Assembly election\nBihar Legislative Assembly election, 1972 was held in 1972 to elect members to the Bihar Legislative Assembly. This is a list of the results of the 1972 general election to the Legislative Assembly of Bihar, a state in India, including a list of successful candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093699-0000-0001", "contents": "1972 Bihar Legislative Assembly election\nAfter the elections, the Congress emerged as the largest party, and Kedar Pandey was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Bihar (19 March 1972- 02 July 1973), after Abdul Gafoor become the Chief Minister of Bihar from ( 02 July 1973-11 April 1975) and also Jagannath Mishra became the Chief Minister of Bihar from (11 April 1975-30 April 1977 ).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093700-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Birthday Honours\nThe 1972 Queen's Birthday Honours were appointments to orders and decorations of the Commonwealth realms to reward and highlight citizens' good works, on the occasion of the official birthday of Queen Elizabeth II. They were announced in supplements to the London Gazette of 23 May 1972 for the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Mauritius, Fiji, and Barbados. At this time honours for Australians were awarded both in the United Kingdom honours on the advice of the premiers of Australian states, and also in a separate Australia honours list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093700-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Birthday Honours\nThe 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.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093700-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Birthday Honours, United Kingdom and Commonwealth, Royal Victorian Order, Member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO)\nAt this time the two lowest classes of the Royal Victorian Order were \"Member (fourth class)\" and \"Member (fifth class)\", both with post-nominal letters MVO. \"Member (fourth class)\" was renamed \"Lieutenant\" (LVO) from the 1985 New Year Honours onwards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 120], "content_span": [121, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093701-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Birthday Honours (New Zealand)\nThe 1972 Queen's Birthday Honours in New Zealand, celebrating the official birthday of Elizabeth II, were appointments made by the Queen on the advice of the New Zealand government to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by New Zealanders. They were announced on 3 June 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093701-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Birthday Honours (New Zealand)\nThe recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093702-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Black Hills flood\nThe Black Hills Flood of 1972, also known as the Rapid City Flood, was the most detrimental flood in South Dakota history, and one of the deadliest floods in U.S. history. The flood took place on June 9\u201310, 1972 in the Black Hills of Western South Dakota. 15 inches (380\u00a0mm) of rain in a small area over the Black Hills caused Rapid Creek and other waterways to overflow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093702-0000-0001", "contents": "1972 Black Hills flood\nSevere flooding of residential and commercial properties in Rapid City occurred when Canyon Lake Dam became clogged with debris and failed in the late evening hours of June 9 resulting in 238 deaths and 3,057 injuries. Over 1,335 homes and 5,000 automobiles were destroyed. The value of property damage was estimated to be over US$160 million in 1972 dollars ($990\u00a0million in 2020 dollars). Flooding also occurred in Battle, Spring, Bear Butte, and Boxelder creeks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093702-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Black Hills flood, Causes\nA few days before the Rapid City Flood, \"earlier rains had left the soil saturated, increasing the amount of runoff of the flood to come.\" On the afternoon of June 9, substantial rains fell on the area, caused by \"an almost stationary group of thunderstorms.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093702-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Black Hills flood, Causes\nAdditionally, \"a strong low-level easterly flow which forced the moist unstable air up-slope on the hills. This sustained orographic effect helped the air to rise, cool, and release its moisture in repeating thunderstorms. Another contributing factor was the unusually light winds at a higher atmospheric levels which did not disperse the moist air nor move the thunderstorms along to prevent an extreme concentration of rainfall.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093702-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Black Hills flood, Causes\nAccording to Herbert Thompson the air pattern causing this storm was noticed in big measure over the Great Plains, with a minor scale to the east of the Rockies. There were only what appeared to be light winds, so nothing indicated that there was a huge storm underway. Thompson further indicates that a cold high pressure region was pushed from Canada into the Great Lakes region leading into the western part of South Dakota. A \"mesoscale cloud mass\" from Colorado also moved towards Rapid City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093702-0003-0001", "contents": "1972 Black Hills flood, Causes\nOne of the cloud masses amplified the \"mid-level moisture over Rapid City,\" while the other mass caused the pressure to stay, as the high pressure pushed downward, thus creating the right conditions to produce rainfall. The rainfall from the upper \"cloud mass\" above the Black Hills formed into new smaller masses downwind which reprocessed the rain allowing for the constant rainfall. The storm was described by Nair, Hjelmfelt, and Pielke as \"convective cells of high precipitation efficiency a characteristic of tropical precipitation systems. Cloud seeding experiments being conducted by the Institute of Atmospheric Sciences on clouds west of Rapid City were speculated to have contributed to the unusual amount of rain. However, there is no evidence that the two phenomena were related.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 823]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093702-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Black Hills flood, Causes\nThe immense precipitation was based over the \"Rapid, Boxelder, Spring, and Battle Creeks,\" creating run-off, along these creeks which led to flooding throughout the surrounding areas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093702-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Black Hills flood, Causes\nThe intense rain began on the afternoon of June 9 and continued until after midnight on June 10. The immense amount of rain the Black Hills received during the thunderstorms ranged from 4 to 15 inches, causing Rapid Creek and surrounding creeks to overflow and creating massive amounts of runoff that resulted in flood waters. The run-off carried rubble to the Canyon Lake Dam creating a barrier in front of its spillway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093702-0005-0001", "contents": "1972 Black Hills flood, Causes\nThis resulted in the \"increase in depth of water behind the dam of 11 to 12 feet,\" which caused the release of more water adding to the already moving floodwaters. The flash flood hit Rapid City the hardest around midnight on June 9; the flood waters also hit the small town of Keystone nearby.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093702-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Black Hills flood, Damage\nThe flood caused a tremendous amount of damage. Flood waters displaced large rocks, trees, trailers, and vehicles, and carried homes away. In Rapid City the flood resulted in the deaths of \"238 including 5 missing,\" 14 of the deaths were trained professionals. The flood resulted in over 3,000 people being injured. A total of 1,335 homes were ruined, and 2,820 homes were damaged. More than 200 businesses were ruined, and around 5,000 cars were demolished. The damage in Rapid City totaled $66 million in 1972 dollar value.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093702-0006-0001", "contents": "1972 Black Hills flood, Damage\nAs for Keystone, \"eight people were killed and much of the town was washed away.\" The damage in Keystone totaled around $1.5 million. The total cost of the 1972 Black Hills flood totaled $165 million, including infrastructure and utilities. The total amount of rain the Black Hills received was \"800,000 acre feet\" equal to \"1 billion metric tons of water.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093702-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Black Hills flood, Damage\nThe National Weather Service Office (NWS) in Rapid City in 1972 was taking hourly surface observations, issuing local storm warnings and providing local forecasts to the media. The personnel in Rapid City were not properly trained to make forecasts or use the technologies available to them. They lacked access to vital weather information to warn the area citizens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093702-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 Black Hills flood, Then and now\nThe Rapid City National Weather Service is now a forecast office with a full-time staff of meteorologists who issue both forecasts and warnings for northeastern Wyoming and the western third of South Dakota. In 1972, the National Weather Service office in Rapid City did not have a teletype system to broadcast warnings. They instead used a one-way telephone hotline to the media to broadcast the warnings. Today warnings are sent to a regional site where they are sent to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Weather Wire System satellite. NWS forecasters use the state radio system to notify 9-1-1 dispatchers and emergency personnel. This warning is also passed on to the Emergency Alert System (EAS).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 36], "content_span": [37, 763]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093702-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 Black Hills flood, Then and now\nIn the aftermath of the 1972 flood, short-term and long-term programs were put into effect. Many businesses were permitted to stay in the flood plain, but houses and motels were either raised or moved due to the likelihood that a flood would occur while a person may be sleeping. The majority of the flood plain was made into large parks, which have increased in number and have been improved and updated on a continuing basis. Canyon Lake Dam and most bridges were redesigned to prevent debris clogs during flooding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 36], "content_span": [37, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093702-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 Black Hills flood, Victims\nVictims lost precious memories as stated in the Rapid City newspaper. An excerpt from the newspaper reads, \"Operation Family Treasure' may provide hope for people.' For those who have given up all hope about finding a priceless photo album or sheet of important personal papers there may be a happy ending with \"Operation Family Treasure,\" a clearing house for irreplaceable items run by the Rapid City Jaycees in conjunction with the Office of Civil defense. Flood disaster victims advised on tax breaks.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 31], "content_span": [32, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093702-0011-0000", "contents": "1972 Black Hills flood, Victims\n2012 saw the 40 year anniversary of the fateful flood. Survivors remarked on the horrific events. Rita, who was 20 at the time, described the scene, \"There was so many [people] in trees and screaming and crying and the sparks were flying from electric wires, houses were on fire, it was just \u2014 it was hell,\" she says. Rita was seven months pregnant at the time of the tragedy. She describes her fears as, \"I wouldn't wish that upon nobody,\" she says.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 31], "content_span": [32, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093702-0011-0001", "contents": "1972 Black Hills flood, Victims\n\"That's a nightmare and a half to think that you're going to die in water and your mom is gonna go with you and you're trying to do your best to keep your mom alive.\" Rita and her mother were swept against a building and thankfully rescued. There were others with the same nightmares while others were worse. Good Samaritans, like Alex were left to clean up the mess and search for the less fortunate. He describes a gruesome scene, \"I found a boy about 5 years old,\" Alex says. \"He was dead, laying on some debris. I didn't touch him or nothing, I just went back and told the authorities where he was at. Then I quit.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 31], "content_span": [32, 651]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093702-0012-0000", "contents": "1972 Black Hills flood, Victims, Reactions\nOne unidentified resident of Rapid City, which was flooded, spoke to a reporter after the flood. \"...the only thing above water is the hilltops. I guess it just ... I guess we gotta couple troubles.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093702-0013-0000", "contents": "1972 Black Hills flood, Victims, Reactions\nAnother survivor said:\"My house is no more. You can see it over there, there's the, well, there just isn't anything.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093702-0014-0000", "contents": "1972 Black Hills flood, Victims, Reactions\nAnd another unidentified survivor added:\"A man knocked at our door and said, 'Get out as fast as you can.' We grabbed the children and my dad's crippled and we picked him up and put him in the car, and just as we drove out the driveway, a big trailer started floating right across the pathway, and we just made it up the hill and that was all it was. Everything was gone.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093702-0015-0000", "contents": "1972 Black Hills flood, Victims, Reactions\nOne source, Sean Potter, Certified Consulting Meteorologist and Certified Broadcast Meteorologist, wrote, \"I called my best advisor, Mr. Leonard Swanson, the City Public Works Director, and we met at City Hall. Heavy rains were falling, and Mr. Swanson and I drove to Canyon Lake Park where a city worker and his family lived in the park caretaker's home, immediately below the dam. Swanny ordered the caretaker, a Parks Department employee, to immediately take his family, leave their evening meal on the table and get out of the park. The entire family survived the flood. Not a trace of the home (it was city property) or the contents was ever found.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 696]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093703-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Blue Swords\nMedals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles and pair skating.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093704-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Boise State Broncos football team\nThe 1972 Boise State Broncos football team represented Boise State College during the 1972 NCAA College Division football season, the fifth season of Bronco football (at the four-year level) and the third as members of the Big Sky Conference and NCAA. In the College Division, they played their home games on campus at Bronco Stadium in Boise, Idaho.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093704-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Boise State Broncos football team\nLed by fifth-year head coach Tony Knap, the Broncos were 7\u20134 in the regular season and 3\u20133 in conference. The conference losses were the last until 1976.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093704-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Boise State Broncos football team, NFL Draft\nOne Bronco was selected in the 1973 NFL Draft, which lasted seventeen rounds (442 selections).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093705-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Bophuthatswana legislative election\nParliamentary elections were held in Bophuthatswana on 4 October 1972. The Bophuthatswana National Party led by Lucas Mangope won 20 of the 24 elected seats in the Legislative Assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093705-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Bophuthatswana legislative election, Electoral system\nVoters registered themselves by having their reference book stamped, at which time they also chose which polling station they wanted to vote at, as well as which constituency that they wanted to vote in. However, as the reference books were used by the Apartheid authorities in South Africa, the Chief Electoral Officer issued a statement that Tswana living illegally in Soweto would not be transferred to Bophuthatswana if they registered.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 58], "content_span": [59, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093705-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Bophuthatswana legislative election, Electoral system\nThe 24 elected seats in the Assembly were elected in 12 two-member constituencies, whilst a further 48 members were appointed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 58], "content_span": [59, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093705-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Bophuthatswana legislative election, Campaign\nTwo parties were formed prior to the elections; Tidimane Pilane established the Seoposengwe Party in July 1972, whilst Mangope founded the Bophuthatswana National Party (BNP) in August. The Seoposengwe Party's manifesto accepted the concept of separate development, although \"only for the implied promises of handing us both our homeland Forefathers' land and particularly for the promise of granting Bophuthatswana its ultimate Sovereign Independence.\" It opposed the Tswana University proposed by Mangope and called for a focus on adult literacy and free and compulsory education. The party also called for control over mining in the territory, as well as a wholly elected Assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 735]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093705-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Bophuthatswana legislative election, Campaign\nThe BNP manifesto proposed only allowing citizens to qualify for trading rights in the territory and that the government should receive all taxes paid by mining companies. It also called for chiefs to be involved in the territory's politics (according to the constitution, only chiefs could become government ministers), noting \"We have been severely criticized for the large number of designated members [in the assembly], but we believe we must lead our people from what they know to what they do not know\u2014for the concept of a general election is unknown in our traditional administration.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 643]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093705-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Bophuthatswana legislative election, Campaign\nOnly eight of the 12 constituencies were contested. A total of 39 candidates ran for the 16 contested seats, of whom 17 lost their deposits.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093705-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Bophuthatswana legislative election, Results\nUrban areas saw a low turnout (just 15% in Pretoria compared to 45% in rural areas) a factor which favoured the Bophuthatswana National Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093706-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Boston College Eagles football team\nThe 1972 Boston College Eagles football team represented Boston College during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. The Eagles were led by fifth-year head coach Joe Yukica and played their home games at Alumni Stadium in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Boston College finished with a record of 4\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093707-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Boston Red Sox season\nThe 1972 Boston Red Sox season was the 72nd season in the franchise's Major League Baseball history. The Red Sox finished second in the American League East with a record of 85 wins and 70 losses, one-half game behind the Detroit Tigers. Due to the cancellation of games missed during the 1972 Major League Baseball strike, Detroit played (and won) one more game than Boston, allowing them to finish with a record of 86\u201370, winning the division by a half-game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093707-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Boston Red Sox season, Offseason, A bad trade\nAfter the 1971 season, the Red Sox management decided on drastic changes. First there was a trade with the Milwaukee Brewers. George Scott, who had fallen out of favor with the Red Sox management, was packaged with Billy Conigliaro (younger brother of former Red Sox star Tony Conigliaro), outfielders Joe Lahoud and Don Pavletich, pitchers Ken Brett (George Brett's older brother) and Jim Lonborg and exchanged for pitchers Marty Pattin and Lew Krausse Jr. and outfielders Tommy Harper and Pat Skrable. It was a big deal and, as it turned out, a bad one for Boston.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093707-0001-0001", "contents": "1972 Boston Red Sox season, Offseason, A bad trade\nLonborg won 14 games for Milwaukee in 1972, with a 2.83 ERA, and later was traded to the Philadelphia Phillies, where he won 13, 17, 18, 8 and 11 games during five seasons. Scott batted .263, .266, .306, .281 and .285 in his five seasons with the Brewers, driving in 88, 107, 82, 109, and 77 runs during those same years and clouting an average of 23 homers a season, with 36 in 1975 alone. Meanwhile, although Pattin was 17\u201313 for Boston in 1972 a 15\u201315 in 1973, he was then traded away.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093707-0001-0002", "contents": "1972 Boston Red Sox season, Offseason, A bad trade\nHarper batted .254 and .281 in his two years with the Sox before being traded. Skrable, a Triple-A player, did not play professionally after the 1971 season. He refused to report to Boston, and the Red Sox received infielder Bobby Pfeil as compensation; Pfeil finished his career with Boston's Triple-A affiliate in 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093707-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Boston Red Sox season, Regular season\nFollowing the 1972 Major League Baseball strike, Commissioner of Baseball Bowie Kuhn ruled that no games cancelled due to the April strike would be made up. The Red Sox played a total of 155 games of their original 162-game schedule, and finished with a record of 85\u201370. Meanwhile, the Detroit Tigers played 156 games, and finished with a record of 86\u201370. Thus, the Tigers were winners of the AL East, by a half-game over the Red Sox.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093707-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Boston Red Sox season, Regular season\nBoston and Detroit finished their regular-season schedules with a three-game series against each other, played at Tiger Stadium in Detroit. Entering the series, Boston held a half-game lead over Detroit, but Detroit won two of the three games, and the AL East title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093707-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Boston Red Sox season, Regular season\nThe first game of the series included a notable play. In the top of the third inning, Boston trailed, 1\u20130, and had one out with Tommy Harper at third base and Luis Aparicio at first base. Carl Yastrzemski hit a ball that looked to be a triple; Harper scored, but Aparicio fell as he rounded third base. Aparicio got up and retreated to third, but Yastrzemski was already there, causing Yastrzemski to try to return to second, resulting in Yastrzemski being tagged out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093707-0004-0001", "contents": "1972 Boston Red Sox season, Regular season\nThus, instead of having a 2\u20131 lead with one out and a runner at third, Boston had only tied the game and had two outs (albeit still with a runner at third). The next batter, Reggie Smith, struck out to end the inning. Boston was unable to score again, and Detroit went on to win the game, 4\u20131. Aparicio falling as he rounded third base is looked back upon as a key play that could have made a difference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093708-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Boston University Terriers football team\nThe 1972 Boston University Terriers football team was an American football team that represented Boston University as an independent during the 1972 NCAA College Division football season. In their fourth season under head coach Larry Naviaux, the Terriers compiled a 2\u20138 record and were outscored by a total of 281 to 117.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093709-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Bowling Green Falcons football team\nThe 1972 Bowling Green Falcons football team was an American football team that represented Bowling Green University in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. In their fifth season under head coach Don Nehlen, the Falcons compiled a 6\u20133\u20131 record (3\u20131\u20131 against MAC opponents) and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 184 to 127.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093709-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Bowling Green Falcons football team\nThe team's statistical leaders included Reid Lamport and Joe Babics, each with 430 passing yards, Paul Miles with 1,024 rushing yards, and Roger Wallace with 242 receiving yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093710-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Brantford municipal election\nThe 1972 Brantford municipal election was held on December 4, 1972, to elect a mayor, councillors, school trustees, and public utility commissioners in the city of Brantford, Ontario, Canada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093710-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Brantford municipal election\nCharles Bowen was elected to his first term as mayor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 87]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093710-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Brantford municipal election, Results\nNote: Vincent Bucci's city council page indicates that he won the final seat following a recount.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093711-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Brazilian Grand Prix\nThe 1972 Brazilian Grand Prix was a Formula One non-championship race held at Interlagos on 30 March 1972. It was the inaugural Brazilian Grand Prix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093711-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Brazilian Grand Prix\nThis race was held because at that time the FIA regulations required a demonstration race to be held as a quality check, before a Grand Prix was admitted as a championship race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093712-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Bristol Open\nThe 1972 Bristol Open, also known by its sponsored name W.D. & H.O. Wills Open Tournament, was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts. The event was part of the 1972 Commercial Union Assurance Grand Prix circuit and classified as C category. It was played in Bristol, Great Britain and was held from 12 to 17 June 1972. Bob Hewitt won the singles title and earned $7,800 first-prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093712-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Bristol Open, Finals, Doubles\nBob Hewitt / Frew McMillan defeated Clark Graebner / Lew Hoad", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 34], "content_span": [35, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093713-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Bristol Open \u2013 Doubles\nBob Hewitt and Frew McMillan won the title, defeating Clark Graebner and Lew Hoad 6\u20133, 6\u20132 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093714-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Bristol Open \u2013 Singles\nBob Hewitt won the title, defeating Alejandro Olmedo 6\u20134, 6\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093715-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 British Columbia general election\nThe 1972 British Columbia general election for the Canadian province of British Columbia was held to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. The election was called on July 24, 1972, and held on August 30, 1972. The new legislature met for the first time on October 17, 1972. David Barrett led the social democratic New Democratic Party to victory, winning a majority government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093715-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 British Columbia general election\nThe Social Credit Party, led by Premier W.A.C. Bennett, was defeated after governing British Columbia since the 1952 election. Social Credit's share of the popular vote fell by over 15 percentage points, and the party lost 28 of the seats it had won in the previous election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093715-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 British Columbia general election\nThe Liberal Party held onto its five seats, while the Progressive Conservative Party, under the leadership of Derrill Warren, returned to the legislature for the first time since the 1953 election by winning two seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093715-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 British Columbia general election\nIn four ridings and part of a fifth, a referendum was held concurrently with the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093715-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 British Columbia general election\nSocial Credit ran a lackluster campaign beset by gaffes. A week before the general election, cabinet minister Phil Gaglardi remarked to a newspaper that Bennett would resign after the election, calling him \"an old man who doesn't understand what is happening with the young people of this province\". The remark proved damaging, bringing the issue of whether Bennett and his party were worn out after 20 years in office to the forefront of the campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093715-0004-0001", "contents": "1972 British Columbia general election\nA pre-campaign visit by Bennett and his cabinet to New Westminster turned violent after they were confronted by demonstrators, who injured eight ministers, a melee for which Bennett tried to blame Barrett. Shortly after the Social Credit campaign started, Bennett was tricked into shaking hands with current Progressive Conservative leader Derril Warren in front of a photographer from The Province. After the photograph, depicting a smiling Warren and scowling Bennett, was published on The Province's front page, Bennett spent the rest of the campaign antagonising the media, refusing to tell reporters where he was appearing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 667]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093715-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 British Columbia general election\nBarrett benefited from his youth, allowing the media to contrast him with the aged Bennett, and ran a campaign focused on \"people issues\" such as urban transit, public auto insurance, and increased royalties from the province's timber and minerals industries. Late in the campaign, Bennett declared at a Social Credit rally, \"The socialist hordes are at the gates of British Columbia!\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093715-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 British Columbia general election\nAlthough Bennett's campaign had been lacklustre, no commentators anticipated the party's loss. The resulting NDP majority came as a surprise. Historian David J. Mitchell wrote, \"The surprise was not just [the Social Credit] defeat, but its magnitude.\" In his victory speech, Barrett told supporters that ten thousand people had worked for 40 years to get the NDP and its predecessor, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, elected into office, and vowed, \"I will not let their hopes or aspirations down.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093716-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 British Columbia time plebiscite\nThe British Columbia time referendum, 1972 was a referendum held in British Columbia on August 30, 1972, simultaneously with a general election. The actual referendum only took place in four electoral districts and part of a fifth, all located in the northeast or southeast parts of the province. The purpose of the vote was to determine which areas favoured following Mountain Time rather than Pacific Time and whether to follow daylight saving time or not. All areas chose to follow Mountain Time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093716-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 British Columbia time plebiscite, Lead-up\nThe referendum was the result of events in Alberta where, in 1971, Albertans voted to enact daylight saving time. Areas in the Peace River Country and Southeast were economically tied to Alberta, and hence were also on Mountain Time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093716-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 British Columbia time plebiscite, Lead-up\nAre you in favour of Pacific Standard time, including Pacific Daylight Saving time, as it is applicable now throughout the province?", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093716-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 British Columbia time plebiscite, Results\nOnly four ridings and part of a fifth took part in the referendum. The two ridings in the northeastern part of the province were North Peace River and South Peace River. The two ridings in the southeastern part were Columbia River and Kootenay. Residents of Nelson-Creston east of an imaginary line running through Kootenay Lake and the Kootenay River that bisected that riding also took part.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093716-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 British Columbia time plebiscite, Aftermath\nThe result of the referendum was Mountain Time being used instead of Pacific Time in places that rejected Pacific Time (which had been province-wide). Hence, the boundary between time zones in British Columbia ended up being different from the provincial boundary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 48], "content_span": [49, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093716-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 British Columbia time plebiscite, Aftermath\nThe northeast is on Mountain Standard Time year-round, without daylight saving time. In practice, this means that time there is identical with Alberta's in the winter and the rest of BC's in summer. The southeast is similar, with most of the applicable area on Mountain Time and following DST. The Creston area is exceptional, ignoring DST. This puts that town in a situation similar to the northeast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 48], "content_span": [49, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093716-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 British Columbia time plebiscite, Aftermath\nSince the time referendum the issue has flared up in Creston politics at least twice. At least two referendums have been held, neither of which succeeded in changing the status quo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 48], "content_span": [49, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093716-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 British Columbia time plebiscite, Aftermath\nIn 2014 residents of Fort Nelson voted in favour of switching from Pacific Time with DST to year-round Mountain Standard Time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 48], "content_span": [49, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093717-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 British Grand Prix\nThe 1972 British Grand Prix (formally the John Player Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held at Brands Hatch on 15 July 1972. It was race 7 of 12 in both the 1972 World Championship of Drivers and the 1972 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers. The race was won by Brazilian driver Emerson Fittipaldi driving a Lotus 72D.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093717-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 British Grand Prix\nRonnie Peterson suffered an engine failure with less than two laps to go, and crashed into the parked cars of Graham Hill and Fran\u00e7ois Cevert.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093718-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 British Hard Court Championships\nThe 1972 British Hard Court Championships, also known by its sponsored name Rothmans British Hard Court Championships, was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at The West Hants Club in Bournemouth, England. The event was part of the Grand Prix circuit and categorized as B class. The tournament was held from 8 to 13 May 1972. Bob Hewitt and Evonne Goolagong won the singles titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093718-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 British Hard Court Championships, Finals, Men's doubles\nBob Hewitt / Frew McMillan defeated Ilie N\u0103stase / Ion \u0162iriac 8\u20136, 6\u20132, 3\u20136, 4\u20136, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 60], "content_span": [61, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093718-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 British Hard Court Championships, Finals, Women's doubles\nEvonne Goolagong / Helen Gourlay defeated Brenda Kirk / Betty St\u00f6ve 7\u20135, 6\u20131", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 62], "content_span": [63, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093719-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 British League Division Two season\nThe 1972 British League Division Two season was the second tier of motorcycle speedway in Great Britain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093719-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 British League Division Two season, Summary\nThe league still consisted of 17 teams with two teams leaving the league and two teams entering. The Rochdale Hornets had disbanded for good at the end of the previous season, whilst Ipswich Witches moved up to the British League. Two newly created teams Ellesmere Port Gunners and Scunthorpe Saints joined the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093719-0001-0001", "contents": "1972 British League Division Two season, Summary\nThe Romford Bombers promotion and team moved to the West Ham Stadium replacing the defunct West Ham Hammers at the stadium but halfway through the season, they moved again to become Barrow Happy Faces as their sponsor at the time was Duckhams Oil - its happy face logo was prominently displayed on the team's race jackets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093719-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 British League Division Two season, Summary\nCrewe Kings won their first title and completed the league and cup double. Crewe were led by their Australian Phil Crump who finished top of the league averages and won the Riders' Championship. John Jackson also finished with an impressive average, as did their new signing Australian international Garry Flood. Flood would only ride the one season in speedway and would go on to win eight Australian Motocross Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093719-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 British League Division Two season, British League Division Two Knockout Cup\nThe 1972 British League Division Two Knockout Cup (sponsored by the Speedway Express) was the fifth edition of the Knockout Cup for tier two teams. Crewe Kings were the winners of the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 81], "content_span": [82, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093719-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 British League Division Two season, British League Division Two Knockout Cup, Final\nCrewe were declared Knockout Cup Champions, winning on aggregate 89\u201367.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 88], "content_span": [89, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093720-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 British League season\nThe 1972 British League season was the 38th season of the top tier of speedway in the United Kingdom and the eighth season known as the British League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093720-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 British League season, Summary\nIpswich Witches moved up from Division Two but London lost two clubs, when the Wembley Lions and West Ham Hammers closed, reducing the league to eighteen teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093720-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 British League season, Summary\nBelle Vue Aces won their third consecutive title. Their team was littered with great riders including Ivan Mauger, S\u00f6ren Sj\u00f6sten and the young Peter Collins; they were backed up by the consistency of Chris Pusey, Eric Broadbelt, Alan Wilkinson and Ken Eyre, which led to a comfortable title win by a clear 12 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093720-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 British League season, Summary\nOxford Cheetahs had a bizarre season when they were rebranded as Oxford Rebels following a takeover by a new consortium, which included former riders Bob Dugard and Danny Dunton, Dave Lanning and the famous musician Acker Bilk. The team under performed badly finishing 17th from 18 teams despite the new image. To make matters worse they signed a new Norwegian rider Svein Kasa, who was quickly transferred to Glasgow following poor results. He died riding for Glasgow towards the end of the season (on 29 September) at Hampden Park. Kasa clipped Martin Ashby's bike in a race and hit the wooden fence receiving fatal injuries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 663]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093720-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 British League season, Final table\nM = Matches; W = Wins; D = Draws; L = Losses; Pts = Total Points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 39], "content_span": [40, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093720-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 British League season, British League Knockout Cup\nThe 1972 Speedway Star British League Knockout Cup was the 34th edition of the Knockout Cup for tier one teams. Belle Vue were the winners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 55], "content_span": [56, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093720-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 British League season, British League Knockout Cup, Final, Second leg\nBelle Vue Aces were declared Knockout Cup Champions, winning on aggregate 82-73.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 74], "content_span": [75, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093721-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 British Motor Cars Invitational\nThe 1972 British Motor Cars Invitational, also known as the BMC Invitational, was a women's tennis tournament that took place on indoor carpet courts at the Civic Auditorium in San Francisco in the United States. It was the second edition of the event and was held from January 12 through January 15, 1972. First-seeded Billie Jean King won the singles title, her second consecutive at the event, and earned $3,400 first-prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093721-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 British Motor Cars Invitational, Finals, Doubles\nRosie Casals / Virginia Wade defeated Fran\u00e7oise D\u00fcrr / Judy Dalton 6\u20133, 5\u20137, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093722-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 British National Track Championships\nThe 1972 British National Track Championships were a series of track cycling competitions held during the summer of 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093723-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 British Rowing Championships\nThe 1972 National Rowing Championships was the first edition of the National Championships, held from 22\u201323 July 1972 at the National Water Sports Centre in Holme Pierrepont, Nottingham. These inaugural Championships were held at the newly opened National Watersports Centre in Nottingham.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093723-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 British Rowing Championships\nThe Wallingford pair of Tony Norris and Doug Richardson won the junior pair and finished second behind Mike Hart and David Maxwell in the senior pair. Hart & Maxwell would compete at the Olympics shortly afterwards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093724-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 British Saloon Car Championship\nThe 1972 British Saloon Car Championship was the 15th season of the championship. Bill McGovern became the first driver to win three BTCC titles, making it three back-to-back titles with his Sunbeam Imp.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093724-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 British Saloon Car Championship, Calendar and winners\nAll races were held in the United Kingdom. Overall winners in bold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 58], "content_span": [59, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093725-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Brown Bears football team\nThe 1972 Brown Bears football team was an American football team that represented Brown University during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. Brown finished last in the Ivy League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093725-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Brown Bears football team\nIn their sixth and final season under head coach Len Jardine, the Bears compiled a 1\u20138 record and were outscored 301 to 172. Ken Cleplik and Bob Pangia were the team captains.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093725-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Brown Bears football team\nThe Bears' 1\u20136 conference record was the worst in the Ivy League standings. They were outscored by Ivy opponents 250 to 131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093725-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Brown Bears football team\nBrown played its home games at Brown Stadium in Providence, Rhode Island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093726-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Brownlow Medal\nThe 1972 Brownlow Medal was the 45th year the award was presented to the player adjudged the fairest and best player during the Victorian Football League (VFL) home and away season. Len Thompson of the Collingwood Football Club won the medal by polling twenty-five votes during the 1972 VFL season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093727-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Buckeye Tennis Championships\nThe 1972 Buckeye Tennis Championships, als known as the Buckeye Classic, was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Buckeye Boys Ranch in Grove City, Columbus, Ohio in the United States that was part of Group D of the 1972 Grand Prix circuit. It was the third edition of the tournament and was held from July 17 through July 23, 1972. First-seeded Jimmy Connors won the singles title and earned $5,000 first-prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093727-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Buckeye Tennis Championships, Finals, Doubles\nJimmy Connors / Pancho Gonzales defeated Robert McKinley / Dick Stockton 6\u20133, 7\u20135", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093728-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Bucknell Bison football team\nThe 1972 Bucknell Bison football team was an American football team that represented Bucknell University as an independent during the 1972 NCAA College Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093728-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Bucknell Bison football team\nIn their fourth year under head coach Fred Prender, the Bison compiled a 6\u20133 record. Steve Eck and Gerry Solomon were the team captains.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093728-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Bucknell Bison football team\nBucknell played its home games at Memorial Stadium on the university campus in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093729-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Buffalo Bills season\nThe 1972 Buffalo Bills season was the franchise's 3rd season in the National Football League, and the 13th overall. It was also their last season at War Memorial Stadium which had been their home field since the franchise started in 1960.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093729-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Buffalo Bills season, Season summary\nThe 1972 season also marked the return of former Bills coach Lou Saban, who had previously led the team to two AFL Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093729-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Buffalo Bills season, Season summary\nSaban had a new offensive philosophy for Buffalo in 1972: in his first three seasons, former number one overall pick O. J. Simpson had only carried the ball an average of 161 times per season. Saban rushed Simpson 292 times in 1972, the second-most in the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093729-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Buffalo Bills season, Season summary\nDespite losing two starting offensive lineman \u2013 center Bruce Jarvis and guard Jim Reilly\u2014in the season opener, O. J. Simpson still led the league in rushing with 1,251 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093729-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Buffalo Bills season, Season summary\nAlthough the Bills had a potent, yard-gaining rushing attack, they could not put enough points on the scoreboard, scoring only 257 points (18.3 per game) all season, 19th in the league. Furthermore, Buffalo's defense gave up 377 points (23.5 per game), the third-most in the NFL in 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093729-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season\nIn his fourth NFL season, running back O. J. Simpson gained over 1,000 yards rushing for the first time. The 24-23 loss on October 22 to the Miami Dolphins, who would finish with a perfect season, was the closest margin of victory for the Dolphins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093730-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Bulgarian Cup Final\nThe 1972 Bulgarian Cup Final was the 32nd final of the Bulgarian Cup (in this period the tournament was named Cup of the Soviet Army), and was contested between CSKA Sofia and Slavia Sofia on 12 July 1972 at Vasil Levski National Stadium in Sofia. CSKA won the final 3\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093731-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 CARIFTA Games\nThe 1st CARIFTA Games was held in Bridgetown, Barbados on April 1\u20134, 1972. An appraisal of the results has been given on the occasion of 40th anniversary of the games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093731-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 CARIFTA Games, Participation (unofficial)\nDetailed result lists can be found on the \"World Junior Athletics History\" website. There is almost no information on athletes competing in the relay teams. An unofficial count (without relay teams) yields the number of about 67 athletes from about 11 countries: Barbados (12), Bermuda (5), Grenada (6), Guadeloupe (1), Guyana (8), Jamaica (20), Lesser Antilles (1 relay team), Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla (3 relay teams), Saint Lucia (3 relay teams), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (1 + 3 relay teams), Trinidad and Tobago (14).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 46], "content_span": [47, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093731-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 CARIFTA Games, Medal summary\nMedal winners are published by category: Boys under 20 (Junior), and Girls under 20 (Junior). Complete results can be found on the \"World Junior Athletics History\" website.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 33], "content_span": [34, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093732-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 CCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament\nThe 1972 CCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the first CCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament. It was played between March 3 and March 4, 1972, at St. Louis Arena in St. Louis, Missouri. Ohio State won the inaugural tournament, defeating Saint Louis 3\u20130 in the championship game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093732-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 CCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Conference standings\nNote: GP = Games Played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 59], "content_span": [60, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093733-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 CFL Draft\nThe 1972 CFL Draft composed of nine rounds where 70 Canadian football players that were chosen exclusively from eligible Canadian universities. The Montreal Alouettes, who had the worst record in the Eastern Conference in the previous season, had the first overall selection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093734-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 CFL season\nThe 1972 Canadian Football League season is considered to be the 19th season in modern-day Canadian football, although it is officially the 15th Canadian Football League season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093734-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 CFL season, CFL news in 1972\nThe Canadian Football Hall of Fame was officially opened on November 28, 1972, in Hamilton. The Grey Cup game was played on AstroTurf at nearby Ivor Wynne Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 33], "content_span": [34, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093734-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 CFL season, CFL news in 1972\nThe Western Conference Finals were now played under a single-elimination game. The Eastern Conference continued to play a two-game total-point series affair in their Conference Final round until the following season, when it adopted the West's single-game elimination in the Conference Final round as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 33], "content_span": [34, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093734-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 CFL season, Regular season standings, Final regular season standings\nNote: GP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Pts = Points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 73], "content_span": [74, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093734-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 CFL season, Grey Cup playoffs, Conference Finals\nThis game was especially notable for its final play. The game was tied and Saskatchewan attempted a last-second field goal to win, or at least score a single. The kick missed wide, and was recovered by Winnipeg in the end zone. As they were unable to run it out, they punted. The Saskatchewan player who fielded the punt attempted to score a single (winning the game) by punting it through the end zone again, but was unsuccessful, and the punt was fielded by Winnipeg, who punted it out again. The Saskatchewan returner was tackled, ending the play and presumably the game, but a Winnipeg penalty negated the play and gave Saskatchewan another chance. The second Saskatchewan field goal attempt, with no time on the clock, was successful.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 53], "content_span": [54, 793]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093734-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 CFL season, Playoff bracket, Grey Cup Championship\n60th Annual Grey Cup Game: Ivor Wynne Stadium \u2013 Hamilton, Ontario", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 55], "content_span": [56, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093735-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 CONCACAF Champions' Cup\nThe 1972 CONCACAF Champions' Cup was the 8th edition of the annual international club football competition held in the CONCACAF region (North America, Central America and the Caribbean), the CONCACAF Champions' Cup. It determined that year's club champion of association football in the CONCACAF region and was played from 29 October 1971 till 31 January 1972 under the home/away match system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093735-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 CONCACAF Champions' Cup\nThe tournament was split into 2 zones (North, Central American and Caribbean), each one qualifying the winner to the final tournament. CD Olimpia from Honduras won the final, and became for the first time in its history CONCACAF champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093735-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 CONCACAF Champions' Cup, North/Central American Zone\nUnknown if clubs from: Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala United Statesentered the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 57], "content_span": [58, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093736-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 CONCACAF Pre-Olympic Tournament\nThe 1972 CONCACAF Pre-Olympic Tournament was the third edition of the CONCACAF Pre-Olympic Tournament, the quadrennial, international football tournament organised by the CONCACAF to determine which national teams from the North, Central America and Caribbean region qualify for the Olympic football tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093736-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 CONCACAF Pre-Olympic Tournament\nMexico, won their second title, and qualified for the 1972 Summer Olympics together with runners-up United States as CONCACAF representatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093736-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 CONCACAF Pre-Olympic Tournament, Qualified teams for Summer Olympics\nThe following two teams from CONCACAF qualified for the 1972 Summer Olympics, including Mexico which qualified as hosts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 73], "content_span": [74, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093737-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 CONCACAF Pre-Olympic Tournament qualification\nThe qualifying competition for the 1972 CONCACAF Pre-Olympic Tournament determined the four teams for the final tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093738-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Cal Poly Mustangs football team\nThe 1972 Cal Poly Mustangs football team represented California Polytechnic State University during the 1972 NCAA College Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093738-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Cal Poly Mustangs football team\nCal Poly competed in the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA). The team was led by fifth-year head coach Joe Harper and played home games at Mustang Stadium in San Luis Obispo, California. They finished the regular season undefeated, and as a CCAA co-champion. This was their fourth of five consecutive CCAA championships for the Mustangs. At the end of the season, the Mustangs were invited to take part in the College Division western region playoff game, the Camellia Bowl held in Sacramento, California. They played North Dakota on December 10, losing 38\u201321. That gave the Mustangs a final record of eight wins, one loss and one tie (8\u20131\u20131, 3\u20130 CCAA). UPI ranked the Mustangs Number 3 in the final Small College poll for 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 780]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093738-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Cal Poly Mustangs football team, Team players in the NFL\nNo Cal Poly Mustang players were selected in the 1973 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 61], "content_span": [62, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093739-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Cal Poly Pomona Broncos football team\nThe 1972 Cal Poly Pomona Broncos football team represented California State Polytechnic University, Pomona during the 1972 NCAA College Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093739-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Cal Poly Pomona Broncos football team\nCal Poly Pomona competed in the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA). Cal Poly Pomona was led by fourth-year head coach Roy Anderson. They played home games at Kellogg Field in Pomona, California. The Broncos finished the season with a record of four wins and six losses (4\u20136, 0\u20134 CCAA). Overall, the team was outscored by its opponents 222\u2013230 for the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093739-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Cal Poly Pomona Broncos football team, Team players in the NFL\nNo Cal Poly Pomona players were selected in the 1973 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 67], "content_span": [68, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093740-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Cal State Fullerton Titans football team\nThe 1972 Cal State Fullerton Titans football team represented California State University, Fullerton during the 1972 NCAA College Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093740-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Cal State Fullerton Titans football team\nCal State Fullerton competed in the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA). The team was led by first-year head coach Pete Yoder, and played home games at Santa Ana Stadium in Santa Ana, California. They finished the season with a record of seven wins and four losses (7\u20134, 2\u20132 CCAA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093740-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Cal State Fullerton Titans football team, Team players in the NFL\nNo Cal State Fullerton Titans were selected in the 1973 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 70], "content_span": [71, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093741-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Cal State Hayward Pioneers football team\nThe 1972 Cal State Hayward Pioneers football team represented California State University, Hayward in the 1972 NCAA College Division football season. Cal State Hayward competed in the Far Western Conference (FWC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093741-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Cal State Hayward Pioneers football team\nThe Pioneers were led by second-year head coach Bob Rodrigo. They played home games at Pioneer Stadium in Hayward, California. The Pioneers finished the season with a record of two wins and eight losses (2\u20138, 2\u20133 FWC). They were outscored by their opponents 168\u2013348 for the 1972 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093741-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Cal State Hayward Pioneers football team, Team players in the NFL\nNo Cal State Hayward Pioneers players were selected in the 1973 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 70], "content_span": [71, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093742-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Cal State Los Angeles Diablos football team\nThe 1972 Cal State Los Angeles Diablos football team represented California State University, Los Angeles during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093742-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Cal State Los Angeles Diablos football team\nThe Diablos were members of the Pacific Coast Athletic Association in 1972, but they had downgraded their football program to the point where they no longer qualified as a University Division team. The two games they played against PCAA teams (losses to Fresno State and Pacific) did not count in the conference standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093742-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Cal State Los Angeles Diablos football team\nThe Diablos were led by Foster Andersen in his second year as head coach. The team played home games at the Campus Stadium. They finished the season with a record of three wins and seven losses (3\u20137). The Diablos were outscored 155\u2013257 for the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093742-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Cal State Los Angeles Diablos football team, Team players in the NFL\nNo Cal State Los Angeles players were selected in the 1973 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 73], "content_span": [74, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093743-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Cal State Northridge Matadors football team\nThe 1972 Cal State Northridge Matadors football team represented Cal State Northridge during the 1972 NCAA College Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093743-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Cal State Northridge Matadors football team\nCal State Northridge competed in the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA). The 1972 Matadors were led by second-year head coach Rod Humenuik. They played home games at North Campus Stadium in Northridge, California. Cal State Northridge finished the season with a record of six wins and five losses (6\u20135, 1\u20133 CCAA). The Matadors outscored their opponents 375\u2013192 for the season, including holding their opponents under 10 points four times.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093743-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Cal State Northridge Matadors football team, Team players in the NFL\nThe following Cal State Northridge players were selected in the 1973 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 73], "content_span": [74, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093744-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Calder Cup playoffs\nThe 1972 Calder Cup playoffs of the American Hockey League began on April 4, 1972. The eight teams that qualified played best-of-seven series for Division Semifinals and Finals. The division champions played a best-of-seven series for the Calder Cup. The Calder Cup Final ended on May 15, 1972, with the Nova Scotia Voyageurs, in their inaugural season in Nova Scotia, defeating the Baltimore Clippers four games to two to win the Calder Cup for the first time in team history. The Voyageurs also became the first Canadian team to win the Calder Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093744-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Calder Cup playoffs\nBaltimore and Cincinnati set an AHL playoff record for most goals scored by both teams in one game with 18, when Baltimore beat Cincinnati 10-8 in game 5 of the Southern division final. Baltimore's Howie Menard set an AHL record for most points in one playoff game with 7 against Cleveland in game 5 of their Southern division semifinal. Two players have tied this record since then. Nova Scotia's Michel Plasse set an AHL record for lowest goals against average in one playoff, posting a 1.25 GAA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093744-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Calder Cup playoffs, Playoff seeds\nAfter the 1971\u201372 AHL regular season, the top three teams from each division qualified for the playoffs. The Boston Braves finished the regular season with the best overall record, winning the head-to-head tiebreaker with Nova Scotia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093744-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Calder Cup playoffs, Bracket\nIn each round, the higher seed receives home ice advantage, meaning they receive the \"extra\" game on home-ice if the series reaches the maximum number of games. There is no set series format due to arena scheduling conflicts and travel considerations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093745-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Calgary Stampeders season\nThe 1972 Calgary Stampeders finished in 4th place in the Western Conference with a 6\u201310 record and failed to make the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093746-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 California Angels season\nThe 1972 California Angels season involved the Angels finishing 5th in the American League West with a record of 75 wins and 80 losses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093746-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 California Angels season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093746-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 California Angels season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093746-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 California Angels season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093746-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 California Angels season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093746-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 California Angels season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093747-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 California Golden Bears football team\nThe 1972 California Golden Bears football team was an American football team that represented the University of California, Berkeley in the Pacific-8 Conference (Pac-8) during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. In their first year under head coach Mike White, the Golden Bears compiled a 3\u20138 record (3\u20134 against Pac-8 opponents), finished in fifth place in the Pac-8, and were outscored by their opponents by a combined total of 314 to 228.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093747-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 California Golden Bears football team\nThe team's statistical leaders included Steve Bartkowski with 944 passing yards, Steve Kemnitzer with 434 rushing yards, and Steve Sweeney with 785 receiving yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093748-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 California Proposition 11\nProposition 11, sometimes known as the \"Privacy Initiative\" or the \"Right to Privacy Initiative\", was a ballot initiative to amend the constitution of the state of California to include privacy as an inalienable right to citizens in \"Article 1: Declaration of Rights\" of the constitution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093748-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 California Proposition 11\nThe Proposition was co-authored by California State Assemblyman Kenneth Cory (D-Garden Grove) and California State Senator George Moscone (D-San Francisco) as a protective measure against government agencies collecting personal information from citizens. Assemblyman Cory also expressed specific concern for privacy due to the potential threat that new technology had on compromising privacy. Opponents of the measure argued that such an initiative was unnecessary since the courts and State Legislature already had the power to address issues of privacy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093748-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 California Proposition 11\nOn November 7, 1972, the proposition overwhelmingly passed and consequently resulted in explicit references to privacy in the California State Constitution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093749-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 California Proposition 17\nProposition 17 of 1972 was a measure enacted by California voters to reintroduce the death penalty in that state. The California Supreme Court had ruled on February 17, 1972, that capital punishment was contrary to the state constitution. Proposition 17 amended the Constitution of California in order to overturn that decision. It was submitted to a referendum by means of the initiative process, and approved by voters on November 7 with 67.5% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093749-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 California Proposition 17, Background, People v. Anderson\nThe court ruled in People v. Anderson that capital punishment was contrary to Article 1, Section 6 of the state constitution, which forbade \"cruel or unusual punishment\", and was held to be more strict than the similarly worded provision of the Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution that says \"cruel and unusual punishment\". Proposition 17 amended the state constitution by adding Article 1, Section 27, which reads:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093749-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 California Proposition 17, Background, People v. Anderson\nAll statutes of this state in effect on February 17, 1972, requiring, authorizing, imposing, or relating to the death penalty are in full force and effect, subject to legislative amendment or repeal by statute, initiative, or referendum. The death penalty provided for under those statutes shall not be deemed to be, or to constitute, the infliction of cruel or unusual punishments within the meaning of Article I, Section 6 nor shall such punishment for such offenses be deemed to contravene any other provision of this constitution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093749-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 California Proposition 17, Background, People v. Frierson\nIn 1979, it was argued before the California Supreme Court (in People v. Frierson) that Proposition 17 was unconstitutional, as it amounted to a \"revision\" rather than an \"amendment\" of the state constitution, and a revision may not be enacted by an initiative. The court rejected this argument. Justice Stanley Mosk filed a concurring opinion in which he reluctantly agreed with the judgment of the court, but also expressed his dismay at the response of the electorate to Anderson:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093749-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 California Proposition 17, Background, People v. Frierson\nThe people of California responded quickly and emphatically, both directly and through their elected representatives, to callously declare that whatever the trends elsewhere in the nation and the world, society in our state does not deem the retributive extinction of a human life to be either cruel or unusual.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 62], "content_span": [63, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093749-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 California Proposition 17, Aftermath\nDespite Proposition 17, no executions were carried out in California until 1992. This was due to the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the same year in Furman v. Georgia (which temporarily halted capital punishment in the United States) and to extensive litigation that occurred thereafter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093750-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 California Proposition 19\nProposition 19, also known as the California Marijuana Initiative (CMI), was a ballot initiative on the November 7, 1972 California statewide ballot. This was the first attempt to legalize marijuana by ballot measure in the history of the United States. If it had passed, the measure would have removed penalties in the State of California for persons 18 years of age or older for using, possessing, growing, processing, or transporting marijuana for personal use. The California Marijuana Initiative's organizers coordinated a huge grassroots organizing drive to place the measure on the ballot. The initiative qualified for the November statewide ballot in June 1972. The initiative was defeated by the voters with 66.5% No votes to 33.5% Yes votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 782]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093750-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 California Proposition 19\nSupporters of Proposition 19 argued that legalization was supported by scientific research and the government's own experts and that enforcing criminal penalties was costing a fortune in taxpayer dollars and ruining the lives of ordinary people. Opponents contended that marijuana was dangerous and unpredictable and that legalization would encourage drug abuse and damage society.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093750-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 California Proposition 19, Effects of the Bill\nProposition 19 would have legalized the personal use, possession, and manufacture of marijuana by adults in the state of California. It would not have affected existing laws against sales, other commercial activities, and dangerous behavior. The official ballot summary stated that the measure \"Removes state penalties for personal use. Proposes a statute which would provide that no person eighteen years or older shall be punished criminally or denied any right or privilege because of his planting, cultivating, harvesting, drying, processing, otherwise preparing, transporting, possessing or using marijuana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 664]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093750-0002-0001", "contents": "1972 California Proposition 19, Effects of the Bill\nDoes not repeal existing, or limit future, legislation prohibiting persons under the influence of marijuana from engaging in conduct that endangers others.\" Indeed, if Proposition 19 had succeeded in legalizing personal marijuana activities in California, those activities would still have remained criminal violations of Federal law under the Controlled Substances Act.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093750-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 California Proposition 19, Fiscal Impact\nThe cost analysis by California's Legislative Analyst showed no increase in state or local costs. The analysis suggested a potential decrease in state and local criminal justice costs related to marijuana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 45], "content_span": [46, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093750-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 California Proposition 19, Main Arguments\nArguments in favor of Proposition 19 were made by Joel Fort, M.D. (Public Health Specialist and Criminologist; former Consultant on Drug Abuse for the World Health Organization), Mary Jane Fernandez (Educator), and Gordon S. Brownell, J.D. (Former Member of White House Staff [1969-1970]). Arguments opposing Proposition 19 were made by H. L. Richardson (State Senator, 19th District) and Dr. Harden Jones, Ph.D. (Professor of Medical Physics and Physiology; Asst. Director of Donner Laboratory, U.C. Berkeley).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093750-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 California Proposition 19, History\nProposition 19 began in late 1971 as a concept by Foster City attorney Leo Paoli for a ballot initiative to reform California's marijuana laws. Mr. Paoli enlisted the help of Stanford law professor John Kaplan and several leaders of fledgling reform groups including Blair Newman and Mike Aldrich, the founder and the co-director of Amorphia, and Keith Stroup, the founder of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) as well as Russ Gamlin, Michael Walden of Shasta County, and Peter James, a veterans rights advocate with the Northern California Veterans Coalition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093750-0005-0001", "contents": "1972 California Proposition 19, History\nThe reformers agreed upon a legalization measure and formed the California Marijuana Initiative (CMI) to lead the drive to obtain the 326,000 signatures required for the initiative's inclusion on the ballot. CMI's statewide efforts were coordinated by two attorneys with grassroots campaign experience: Robert H. A. Ashford, an anti-war activist, and Gordon Brownell, an ex-Republican campaign strategist. The CMI campaign attracted thousands of volunteers and 522,000 signatures by the June deadline.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093750-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 California Proposition 19, Outcome\nThe California Marijuana Initiative appeared as Proposition 19 on the ballot for California's statewide election held on Tuesday, November 7, 1972. Despite a passionate grassroots movement, supporters of the measure failed to persuade a majority of the electorate and it was defeated. The final voting results were Yes: 2,733,120 (33.5%); No: 5,433,393 (66.5%). However, the initiative did receive 51.26% of the votes in San Francisco County and 71.25% in Berkeley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093751-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Cambodian constitutional referendum\nA constitutional referendum was held in Cambodia on 30 April 1972. The changes were approved by 97.5% of voters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093752-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Cambodian general election\nGeneral elections were held in the Khmer Republic in September 1972, the first after the 1970 coup. Elections for the National Assembly took place on 3 September and were contested by the Social Republican Party and Pracheachon (although the latter only had 10 candidates), whilst they were boycotted by the Republican Party and the Democratic Party in protest at the new electoral law. The SRP won all 126 seats with 99.1% of valid votes. Elections for the Senate were held on 17 September, with the SRP winning all 32 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093753-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Cambodian presidential election\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by Number 57 (talk | contribs) at 19:48, 11 September 2020 (Results). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093753-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Cambodian presidential election\nPresidential elections were held for the first, and to date only time in Cambodia on 4 June 1972, following the toppling of the monarchy and the declaration of the Khmer Republic in the 1970 coup. The result was a victory for Lon Nol, who won 54.9% of the vote. Voter turnout was 57.6%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093755-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Cameroonian constitutional referendum\nA constitutional referendum was held in Cameroon on 20 May 1972. The new constitution would make the country a unitary state, as opposed to the previous federal system, as well as giving more powers to President Ahmadou Ahidjo. It was passed by 99.99% of voters with a 98.2% turnout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093756-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Campeonato Argentino de Rugby\nThe 1972 Campeonato Argentino de Rugby was won by the selection of Buenos Aires that beat in the final the selection of Rosario", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093756-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Campeonato Argentino de Rugby, Knock out stages, Semifinals\nScore system: try = 3 points, conversion=2 point, penalty kick, and kick from mark=3 points. Drop = 3 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 64], "content_span": [65, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093756-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Campeonato Argentino de Rugby, Knock out stages, Semifinals\nBuenos Aires: 15.Dudley Morgan, 14.Mario Walter, 13.Ra\u00fal Matarazzo, 12.Tom\u00e1s Harris Smith 11.Alejandro Albertg, 10.Hugo Porta 9.Adolfo Etchegaray, 8.Jorge Cariacedo 7.Jorge Wittman 6.Hugo Miguens, 5.F.Virasoro 4.Jos\u00e9 J.Fern\u00e1ndez, 3.Mario Carluccio, 2.Ricardo Handley 1.Oscar Carbone. Cordoba: 15. F. Mesquida, 14.H. Espinosa 13.J. Mart\u00ednez, 12.R. Resella 11.C. Antoraz, 10.R Ag\u00fcero, 9.J. Peralta, 8.C. Barbosa, 7.J. Aguad, 6.J. Larson, 5.R. Pesagli 4.R. G\u00f3mez, 3.G. Ribeca, 2.H. Bianchi 1.Carlos Dunn", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 64], "content_span": [65, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093756-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Campeonato Argentino de Rugby, Knock out stages, Semifinals\nSanta F\u00e8: 15.Eduardo Tenka, 14.Alberto Caino, 13.Jorge Rapella, 12.Juli\u00e1n Quevedo, 11.Eduardo Sales, 10.Jorge Cresmann, 9.Juli\u00e1n Legna, 8.Eduardo Ferrari, 7.A. Campanella, 6.Manuel Calentano, 5.Pascual Giardini, 4.Juli\u00e1n Angeletti, 3.Carlos Abut, 2.Jorge Tejerina, 1.Carlos ColomboRosario\u00a0: 15.Lisandro Huljich, 14.Guillermo Blanco, 13.Cesar Blanco, 12.Alfredo Fasse, 11.Carlos Garc\u00eda, 10.Mart\u00edn Escalante, 9.Joaqu\u00edn Scilabria, 8.Sabino Furno, 7.Jorge Fradua, 6.Jos\u00e9 Constante, 5.Mario Bouza, 4.Rub\u00e9n Su\u00e1rez 3.Ricardo Imhoff 2.Miguel Chesta, 2.Eduardo Manini.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 64], "content_span": [65, 650]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093756-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Campeonato Argentino de Rugby, Knock out stages, Final\nBuenos Aires: 15. D. Morgan, 14. A. Altberg, 13. A. Brown, 12. R. Matarazzo, 11. M. Walter, 10H.Porta, 9. A. Etchegaray, 8. H. Miguens, 7. J. Wittman, 6. J. Cariacedo, 5. A. Anthony, 4. J. J. Fern\u00e1ndez, 3.O. Carbone, 2.R. Handley, 1.M. Carluccio. Rosario: 15. J. Seaton, 14. C. Garc\u00eda, 13. C. Blanco, 12. A. Fasce, 11.G. Blanco, 10.J. Scilabra, 9. M. Escalante, 8. J.C. Imhoff, 7. M. Chesta, 6. E. Manini, 5. R. Su\u00e1rez, 4. M. Bouza, 3.S. Furno, 2. J. Fradua, 1.J. Constante.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093757-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie A\nThe 1972 Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie A (officially the Segundo Campeonato Brasileiro de Clubes) was the 16th edition of the Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie A.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093757-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie A, Overview\nThe championship had 26 teams, and Palmeiras won the championship. The championship had four phases.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093758-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie B\nThe football (soccer) Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie B 1972, the second level of Brazilian National League, was played from September 10 to December 17, 1972. The competition had 23 clubs. All of the participating clubs were from the Northeast region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093758-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie B\nSampaio Corr\u00eaa beat Campinense on the finals, and was declared 1972 Brazilian S\u00e9rie B champions. The relegation and promotion system had not been implemented yet, so no clubs were promoted. As the First division of the championship began to grow in number of clubs, this edition of the second division was the last one until 1980.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093759-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Campeonato Carioca\nThe 1972 edition of the Campeonato Carioca kicked off on February 23, 1972 and ended on September 7, 1972. It was organized by FCF (Federa\u00e7\u00e3o Carioca de Futebol, or Carioca Football Federation). Twelve teams participated. Flamengo won the title for the 16th time. no teams were relegated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093760-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Campeonato Ecuatoriano de F\u00fatbol Serie A\nThe 1972 Campeonato Ecuatoriano de F\u00fatbol Serie A, the first division of Ecuadorian football (soccer), was played by 16 teams. The champion was Emelec.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093761-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Campeonato Ga\u00facho\nThe 52nd season of the Campeonato Ga\u00facho kicked off on January 16, 1972, and ended on August 6, 1972. Twenty-five teams participated. Internacional won their 20th title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093762-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Campeonato Paulista\nThe 1972 Campeonato Paulista da Divis\u00e3o Especial de Futebol Profissional, organized by the Federa\u00e7\u00e3o Paulista de Futebol, was the 71st season of S\u00e3o Paulo's top professional football league. Palmeiras won the title for the 16th time. no teams were relegated and the top scorer was S\u00e3o Paulo's Toninho Guerreiro with 17 goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093762-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Campeonato Paulista, Championship\nMuch like in the previous year, a preliminary phase was disputed before the championship proper, in which all teams played against each other twice and the six best teams qualified into the main championship. That phase was to be disputed in the second semester of 1971, by the teams that had been eliminated in that phase in the previous year, the six worst-placed teams in the main championship and Mar\u00edlia, that had been promoted from the Second Level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093762-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Campeonato Paulista, Championship\nIn the championship proper, each team played against the others twice, and the team with the most points won the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093763-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Can-Am season\nThe 1972 Canadian-American Challenge Cup was the seventh season of the Can-Am auto racing series. It consisted of FIA Group 7 racing cars running two-hour sprint events. It began June 11, 1972, and ended October 29, 1972, after nine rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093763-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Can-Am season, Drivers Championship\nPoints are awarded to the top ten finishers in the order of 20-15-12-10-8-6-4-3-2-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 40], "content_span": [41, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093764-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Canadian Grand Prix\nThe 1972 Canadian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Mosport Park on 24 September 1972. It was race 11 of 12 in both the 1972 World Championship of Drivers and the 1972 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers. The 80-lap race was won by Tyrrell driver Jackie Stewart after he started from fifth position. Peter Revson finished second for the McLaren team and his teammate Denny Hulme came in third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093764-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Canadian Grand Prix\nAs the Mont Tremblant circuit had been closed down because of a dispute with the local racing authorities, Mosport Park became the sole host of the Canadian Grand Prix. The circuit had been upgraded to meet modern racing standards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093765-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Canadian federal budget\nThe 1972 Canadian federal budget for fiscal year 1972-1973 was presented by Minister of Finance Edgar Benson in the House of Commons of Canada on 8 May 1972. It was the last budget before the 1972 Canadian federal election, and included tax cuts for corporations, and aid for the elderly and post-secondary students.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093766-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Canadian federal election\nThe 1972 Canadian federal election (formally the 29th Canadian general election) was held on October 30, 1972, to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada of the 29th Parliament of Canada. It resulted in a slim victory for the governing Liberal Party, which won 109 seats, compared to 107 seats for the opposition Progressive Conservatives. A further 48 seats were won by other parties and independents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093766-0000-0001", "contents": "1972 Canadian federal election\nOn election night, the results appeared to give 109 seats to the Tories, but once the counting had finished the next day, the final results gave the Liberals a minority government and left the New Democratic Party led by David Lewis holding the balance of power. See 29th Canadian parliament for a full list of MPs elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093766-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Canadian federal election, Overview\nThe election was the second fought by Liberal leader, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. The Liberals entered the election high in the polls, but the spirit of Trudeaumania had worn off, and a slumping economy hurt his party. The Tories were led by Robert Stanfield, the former premier of Nova Scotia, who had an honest but bumbling image. The Tories tried to capitalize on the public's perception that the Liberals were mismanaging the economy with the slogan, \"A Progressive Conservative government will do better.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093766-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Canadian federal election, Overview\nThe Liberals campaigned on the slogan, \"The Land is Strong\", and television ads illustrating Canada's scenery. The slogan quickly became much derided, and the party had developed few real issues to campaign on. As a result, their entire campaign was viewed as being one of the worst managed in recent decades.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093766-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Canadian federal election, National results\nOne independent candidate was elected: Roch LaSalle was re-elected in his Quebec riding. LaSalle had left the PC caucus to protest the party's failure to recognize Quebec's right to self-determination, and was the only candidate to win the support of the separatist Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093766-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Canadian federal election, National results\nOne candidate with no affiliation was elected: Lucien Lamoureux, in the Ontario riding of Stormont-Dundas-Glengarry. Lamoureux, originally elected as a Liberal, had been serving as Speaker of the House of Commons. He ran without affiliation in order to preserve his impartiality as Speaker. He retired after this Parliament, and did not run in the 1974 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093766-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Canadian federal election, National results\nThe Liberals won a minority government, with the New Democratic Party led by David Lewis holding the balance of power. Requiring NDP support to continue, the government would move to the political left, including the creation of Petro-Canada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093766-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Canadian federal election, National results\nThis was the first of two elections in which the national Social Credit Party of Canada was led by R\u00e9al Caouette. Caouette, who had contested the previous two elections as leader of the breakaway Quebec-based Ralliement cr\u00e9ditiste, had successfully taken over the leadership of the original western-based party and overseen the re-integration of the two factions. He successfully held on to the seats he had previously won under the RC banner, but these were the only ridings Social Credit managed to win as it continued to lose support outside Quebec.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093766-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Canadian federal election, National results\n1 Indicates increase from total Social Credit + Ralliement creditiste seats/vote in 1968.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093766-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 Canadian federal election, National results\n2 Roch LaSalle, who was elected in 1968 as a Progressive Conservative, won re-election as an independent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093766-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 Canadian federal election, National results\n3 Lucien Lamoureux who was elected as a Liberal but served as Speaker of the House, won re-election with no party affiliation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093766-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 Canadian federal election, National results\n4 The Rhinoceros Party ran a total of 12 candidates, but because it was not recognized by Elections Canada as a registered party, its candidates were listed as independents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093767-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Cannes Film Festival\nThe 25th annual Cannes Film Festival was held from 4 to 19 May 1972. The Palme d'Or went to the Italian films The Working Class Goes to Heaven by Elio Petri and The Mattei Affair by Francesco Rosi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093767-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Cannes Film Festival\nThe festival opened with the French film L'aventure, c'est l'aventure by Claude Lelouch and closed with the British film Frenzy by Alfred Hitchcock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093767-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Cannes Film Festival, Jury\nThe following people were appointed as the Jury of the 1972 feature film competition:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 31], "content_span": [32, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093767-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Cannes Film Festival, Official selection, Films out of competition\nThe following films were selected to be screened out of competition:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 71], "content_span": [72, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093767-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Cannes Film Festival, Official selection, Short film competition\nThe following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 69], "content_span": [70, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093767-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Cannes Film Festival, Parallel sections, International Critics' Week\nThe following feature films were screened for the 11th International Critics' Week (11e Semaine de la Critique):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 73], "content_span": [74, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093767-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Cannes Film Festival, Parallel sections, Directors' Fortnight\nThe following films were screened for the 1972 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des R\u00e9alizateurs):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 66], "content_span": [67, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093767-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Cannes Film Festival, Awards, Official awards\nThe following films and people received the 1972 Official selection awards:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 50], "content_span": [51, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093768-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Cardiff City Council election\nThe 1972 Cardiff City Council election was held on Thursday 4 May 1972 to elect councillors to Cardiff City Council in Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales. It took place on the same day as several other county borough elections in Wales and England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093768-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Cardiff City Council election\nThe previous elections to this one were in May 1971. The 1972 election would be the final all-Cardiff election to this Council before the dissolution of the unitary authority and the creation of the new second-tier district authority of Cardiff City Council in 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093768-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Cardiff City Council election\nThe election saw the Labour Party taking a significant number of seats, to cut the Conservative Party majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093768-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Cardiff City Council election, Background\nCardiff County Borough Council had been created in 1889. Cardiff became a city in 1905. Elections to the local authority were held annually, though not all council seats were included in each contest, because each of the three councillors in each ward stood down for election in rotation. The councillors elected in 1972 would only serve for less two years, before the dissolution of the Council in April 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093768-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Cardiff City Council election, Background\nThere were a total of 76 seats on the Council, including 19 aldermen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093768-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Cardiff City Council election, Overview of the result\nNineteen seats in 19 electoral wards were up for election in May 1972. The Labour Party won an additional ten seats on the Council, mainly from the ruling Conservative Party, cutting the Tory majority to 12. One of the gains was in the Whitchurch ward, which until last year had been a Tory stronghold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093768-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Cardiff City Council election, Ward results\nContests for one ward councillor seat took place in each of the nineteen wards at this election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 48], "content_span": [49, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093769-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Caribbean Series\nThe fifteenth edition of the Caribbean Series (Serie del Caribe) was played in 1972. It was held from February 1 through February 6 with the champions teams from Dominican Republic (Aguilas Cibae\u00f1as), Mexico (Algodoneros de Guasave), Puerto Rico (Leones de Ponce) and Venezuela (Tigres de Aragua). The format consisted of 12 games, each team facing the other teams twice. The games were played at Estadio Quisqueya in Santo Domingo, D.R., which boosted capacity to 14.000 seats, and the first pitch was thrown by Joaqu\u00edn Balaguer, by then the President of Dominican Republic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093769-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Caribbean Series, Summary\nPuerto Rico won the Series with a 5-1 record and was managed by Frank Verdi. The Leones de Ponce was in the middle of the pack in runs scored (33), prevailing their strong pitching. The club got a fine offensive performances from 1B and Series Most Valuable Player Carlos May, who won the batting title with a .455 batting average (10-for-22), while three of the four series home runs were belted by outfielders Don Baylor (grand slam), Tommy Cruz and Rusty Torres.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093769-0001-0001", "contents": "1972 Caribbean Series, Summary\nThe pitching staff posted a collective 1.67 ERA, including two shutouts by Gary Neibauer (one-hit) and Daryl Patterson, and received fine efforts from Gary Jones (2-0, 0.81 ERA, 11.0 innings pitched), and Jim Magnuson (1-0, 1.00 ERA). Other significant players in the roster included Sandy Alomar (2B), Bernie Carbo (OF), Pat Corrales (C), Jos\u00e9 Cruz (OF), Jackie Hern\u00e1ndez (SS), Jos\u00e9 Ortiz (OF), Santiago Rosario (PH) and Chris Zachary (P).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093769-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Caribbean Series, Summary\nDominican Republic and Venezuela finished tied for second place with a 3-3 mark.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093769-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Caribbean Series, Summary\nThe Dominican's Aguilas Cibae\u00f1as squad was piloted by Ozzie Virgil. Other than Secundino Almonte (five-hit shutout), Gene Garber (1-1, 2.57 ERA) and Ed Acosta (1-0, 4.97), the pitching staff was inconsistent at times. Two hitters carried much of the offensive weight, RF C\u00e9sar Cede\u00f1o (.348 BA) and LF Adrian Garrett (one home run, four RBI). The team also featured Ps Charlie Hough, Juan Jim\u00e9nez and Ray Newman; C Charlie Sands; IFs Juli\u00e1n Javier, Winston Llenas, Ted Mart\u00ednez and Frank Taveras, and OFs C\u00e9sar Cede\u00f1o, Gene Clines and Sam Mej\u00edas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093769-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Caribbean Series, Summary\nThe Venezuelan Tigres de Aragua debuted in the tournament, being guided by manager/second baseman Rod Carew (.400 BA, .500 SLG); C Faustino Zabala (.333 BA, .476 SLG) and SS Dave Concepci\u00f3n (.348 BA, /435 SLG). The pitching support came from starters Alan Closter (2-0, 3.38 ERA, nine strikeouts in 13 \u2153 IP) Earl Stephenson (1-0, 0/0.00 ERA, 13 strikeouts in 10 \u2154 IP) and Milt Wilcox (1-1, 1.76 ERA, 14 SO), and closer Roberto Mu\u00f1oz (0-1, three saves in five games). The Venezuelan club also featured players as Ps Aurelio Monteagudo and Pablo Torrealba; IFs Brant Alyea, C\u00e9sar Guti\u00e9rrez and Luis Salazar, and OFs Ted Ford, Pat Kelly and C\u00e9sar Tovar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 681]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093769-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Caribbean Series, Summary\nMexico was represented by the Algodoneros de Guasave and finished last at 1-5. The hapless Mexicans were piloted by Vinicio (Chico) Garc\u00eda, as the team scored the fewest runs (12) and set a series record for most consecutive shutouts (2). Thor Skogan did an excellent job, pitching a five-hit shutout in Game 2 and losing a 1-0 decision in Game 9, after allowing just one hit and one unearned run. 3B Celerino S\u00e1nchez (.333) and OF Ram\u00f3n Montoya (.312) led the attack for an otherwise weak offense. Were also included in the roster H\u00e9ctor Espino (IF), Al Hrabosky (P), Sergio Robles (C) and Aurelio Rodr\u00edguez (IF)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093770-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Caribe Hilton Invitational\nThe 1972 Caribe Hilton Invitational was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Caribe Hilton Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico that was part of the 1972 Women's Tennis Circuit. It was the second edition of the tournament in the open era and was held from March 27 through April 2, 1972. Third-seeded Nancy Gunter won the singles title and earned $3,500 first-prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093770-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Caribe Hilton Invitational, Finals, Doubles\nRosemary Casals / Billie Jean King defeated Karen Krantzcke / Judy Tegart-Dalton 6\u20132, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093771-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Carlton Football Club season\nThe 1972 VFL season was the 76th season in the Victorian Football League to be contested by the Carlton Football Club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093771-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Carlton Football Club season\nUnder captain-coach John Nicholls, who assumed the coaching role this season after the departure of dual-premiership coach Ron Barassi at the end of 1971, Carlton won the VFL minor and major premierships, defeating Richmond in the Grand Final. It was the 11th senior VFL premiership in the club's history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093771-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Carlton Football Club season\nFollowing the VFL season, Carlton competed in the Championship of Australia tournament, finishing runner-up to the SANFL's North Adelaide. The club then embarked upon a world tour, playing three exhibition matches overseas against an Australian All-Stars team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093771-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Carlton Football Club season, Club summary\nThe 1972 VFL season was the 76th season of the VFL competition since its inception in 1897; and, having competed in every season, it was also the 76th season contested by the Carlton Football Club. As it had been since 1897, the club's home ground was Princes Park in North Carlton; additionally, it was standard for all clubs in the league at the time to play three or four matches per year at the neutral VFL Park in Mulgrave. In addition to its senior team, Carlton fielded teams in both the VFL reserves and under-19s competitions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093771-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Carlton Football Club season, Club summary, Senior personnel\nGeorge Harris continued as club president through 1972, a position he had held since after the 1964 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 65], "content_span": [66, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093771-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Carlton Football Club season, Club summary, Senior personnel\nFollowing the 1971 season, Ron Barassi stepped down as coach; at the time, he left to focus on his business career, although he ultimately returned to VFL coaching (at North Melbourne) after only a year. Barassi had coached Carlton for seven seasons, and led the team to two senior premierships: 1968 and 1970. John Nicholls, who had been captain since mid-1968, took on Barassi's former role to become captain-coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 65], "content_span": [66, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093771-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Carlton Football Club season, Squad and player statistics for 1972\nThe following is the final senior squad as announced at the start of the 1972 season. Numbers in parentheses represent games played and goals kicked for Carlton in the 1972 VFL premiership season. Only supplementary players who played a senior match during the season are listed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 71], "content_span": [72, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093771-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Carlton Football Club season, Playing list changes\nThe following summarises player transfers to and from the club between the conclusion of the 1971 season and the conclusion of the 1972 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093771-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 Carlton Football Club season, Season summary, Pre-season practice matches\nCarlton played three practice matches during March 1972 \u2013 including, as it turned out, matches against both of the teams it would face in Grand Finals later in the year: Richmond and North Adelaide. Carlton won all three practice matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 78], "content_span": [79, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093771-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 Carlton Football Club season, Season summary, Home-and-away season\nCarlton finished the home-and-away season as the minor premiers in 1972, with a win-loss record of 18\u20133\u20131. The team sat as low as 6th after Round 4 with a record of 2\u20131\u20131, but lost only two of its remaining eighteen matches for the season, moving up to and holding first place from Round 12 until the end of the season. Two of Carlton's three losses were by fewer than six points; a 31-point loss against Richmond in Round 14 was the worst performance of the home-and-away season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 71], "content_span": [72, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093771-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 Carlton Football Club season, Season summary, Home-and-away season\nDespite the strong performance, Carlton was in a constant fight for the minor premiership with Richmond, who finished with a record of 18\u20134\u20130. Richmond drew within half a game of Carlton after beating them in Round 14; both teams then won all of their remaining eight matches, maintaining that half-game margin until the end of the season. Carlton came very close to losing the minor premiership in the final round, eventually beating Footscray by three points with the significant assistance of Footscray's inaccurate goalkicking .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 71], "content_span": [72, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093771-0011-0000", "contents": "1972 Carlton Football Club season, Season summary, Finals series\nUnder the new McIntyre Final Five, Carlton had a bye in the first week of finals, before playing qualifying final winner Richmond in the second semi-final. In a low-scoring match, Carlton held Richmond to only one goal in the first half, but Richmond was able to fight back and level the scores at 8.13 (61); Alex Jesaulenko had an unlikely set shot from 70m after the final siren to attempt win the game, but did not make the distance. The match was replayed the following weekend, and Carlton suffered its heaviest loss of the season, by 41 points. In the preliminary final against St Kilda, Carlton overcome an 11-point half-time deficit to win by 16 points, and to progress to the Grand Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 762]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093771-0012-0000", "contents": "1972 Carlton Football Club season, Season summary, Finals series\nEntering the Grand Final, Richmond was the strong favourite, with bookmakers offering odds of 1\u20132. Richmond had a record of 11\u20130\u20131 from its last twelve games, and had a record of 3\u20130\u20131 in its four games against Carlton for the season, including inflicting Carlton's heaviest two losses. Some commentators thought Carlton was impressive enough against St Kilda to be a chance at winning, but most tipped Richmond for the premiership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093771-0012-0001", "contents": "1972 Carlton Football Club season, Season summary, Finals series\nIn an unprecedentedly high scoring game, Carlton kicked eight goals in the first quarter and ten in the second quarter to set up a match-winning 45-point lead by half-time, which Richmond never challenged; Carlton ultimately won by 27 points. In a strong display from its forwards, Alex Jesaulenko kicked seven goals, and Robert Walls and John Nicholls kicked six each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093771-0013-0000", "contents": "1972 Carlton Football Club season, Season summary, Championship of Australia\nThe 1972 Championship of Australia series was played on the weekend following the VFL Grand Final. The tournament was held at the Adelaide Oval, with two semi-finals played on the Saturday, and the Final and third-place playoff on the Sunday. The tournament was contested by the premiers of the four state leagues: Carlton (VFL), North Adelaide (SANFL), East Perth (WANFL), and City-South (from the NTFA, winner of the Tasmanian State Premiership). The prize for the winning team was $10,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 76], "content_span": [77, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093771-0014-0000", "contents": "1972 Carlton Football Club season, Season summary, Championship of Australia\nCarlton easily accounted for East Perth in its semi-final, a rough game from which several East Perth players earned suspensions. The Grand Final against North Adelaide was a close contest; Carlton held a two-goal lead after five minutes of the final quarter, but did not score again and was overrun by North Adelaide by one point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 76], "content_span": [77, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093771-0015-0000", "contents": "1972 Carlton Football Club season, Season summary, World tour matches\nIn October and November, Carlton and a team of All-Stars embarked upon a world tour, playing three exhibition matches in different countries. The All-Stars won the series 2\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 69], "content_span": [70, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093771-0016-0000", "contents": "1972 Carlton Football Club season, Notable events, World tour\nFrom 22 October until 13 November, the Carlton team went on a three-week world tour. The tour was organised during the season by president George Harris. In addition to a busy social calendar, the tour featured three exhibition matches between Carlton and a team of All-Stars from other senior teams around Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093771-0017-0000", "contents": "1972 Carlton Football Club season, Notable events, World tour\nWhen initially organised, the tour was to have featured matches at: The Oval in London, UK; on a temporary field in Stuttgart, West Germany; and at Lenin Stadium in Moscow, USSR \u2013 however, of these, only the London match went ahead. The Moscow match was abruptly cancelled by the Soviet Union, which cited \"technical reasons\" in its communication to the Australian embassy; Harris arranged for the Russian leg of the tour to instead be played in Athens, Greece. The Stuttgart match was then cancelled when it became apparent that an early winter would render the match unplayable; Harris organised for this leg of the tour to be played in Singapore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 711]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093771-0018-0000", "contents": "1972 Carlton Football Club season, Notable events, World tour\nThe All-Stars team which accompanied Carlton on the tour was announced in July. Twenty-two players were selected, each from a different club: eleven came from the other eleven VFL clubs, five came from SANFL clubs, five came from WAFL clubs and one came from Tasmania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093771-0019-0000", "contents": "1972 Carlton Football Club season, Notable events, World tour\nThe first match was played as originally scheduled at The Oval in London. A purpose-built cricket venue, The Oval was an appropriate size and shape for Australian rules football; the hard centre wicket area was covered over with coir mats for the match. The Prince of Wales was in attendance at the match, and met with the touring party prior to the game. The match drew a crowd of approximately 9,000 people, almost all of whom were Australian expatriates. Carlton won the match 12.12 (84) to 10.18 (78).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093771-0020-0000", "contents": "1972 Carlton Football Club season, Notable events, World tour\nThe second match in Athens was the most bizarre of the tour. The game was played on a soccer pitch, which is both rectangular and significantly smaller than a typical Australian rules football field; to accommodate this, the field for the exhibition match was aligned along the diagonal of the rectangle to maximise its length, and the match was played with eleven players per side instead of eighteen. This resulted in a high-scoring match, the All-Stars winning 19.13 (127) to 19.10 (124); Robert Walls kicked ten goals for Carlton and David Clarke kicked nine for the All-Stars. The attendance of 3,000 was described as being similar in size to that drawn by a midweek soccer match in Athens at the time, and the Greek crowd reportedly supported Carlton because its guernsey matched the Greek national colours of blue and white.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 893]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093771-0021-0000", "contents": "1972 Carlton Football Club season, Notable events, World tour\nThe final match in Singapore was played on a temporary oval field, which was set up on three adjacent soccer pitches. The crowd of 8,500 was mostly a mixture of locals and Australian servicemen based in Singapore. The oppressively humid weather was the most significant difficulty with the match, which was won by the All-Stars, 11.11 (77) to 9.11 (65). Additionally, laws in Singapore at the time prevented men from wearing long hair, so many players on both teams were forced to have haircuts before the tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093771-0022-0000", "contents": "1972 Carlton Football Club season, Notable events, World tour\nUpon return, Harris announced that the club intended to return to Europe for a second tour in 1973, including another match at The Oval, a rescheduled match in Stuttgart, as well as matches in Wales and Ireland; but, the second tour never went ahead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093771-0023-0000", "contents": "1972 Carlton Football Club season, Notable events, Other notable events\nThe most notable absence from the premiership twenty was that of full forward Greg Kennedy. Kennedy was the club's leading goalkicker for the season, and had played 22 matches; but he had kicked only one goal in each of the semi-finals against Richmond.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 71], "content_span": [72, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093771-0023-0001", "contents": "1972 Carlton Football Club season, Notable events, Other notable events\nIn a tactical change, Nicholls shifted Kennedy to 20th man in the preliminary final against St Kilda, and Alex Jesaulenko, who had been playing in the midfield throughout the season, returned to his former position at full-forward and kicked seven goals; so, when Nicholls adopted the same strategy for the Grand Final, there was no longer a role in the team for Kennedy to fill and he was omitted. Kennedy was replaced as 20th man by Garry Crane; Jesaulenko kicked seven goals from full-forward in the Grand Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 71], "content_span": [72, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093771-0024-0000", "contents": "1972 Carlton Football Club season, Leading goalkickers\nFull forward Greg Kennedy was Carlton's leading goalkicker, in his first season of VFL football. Aged 22 at the start of the season, Kennedy was zoned to Carlton from Eaglehawk, after he kicked 139 goals and won the Michelsen Medal as Bendigo Football League best and fairest in 1971. He kicked 76 goals in 22 VFL premiership matches, and a further three goals in the Championship of Australia matches. It was the only time that Kennedy led Carlton's goalkicking in the three seasons he spent with the club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093771-0025-0000", "contents": "1972 Carlton Football Club season, Individual awards and records\nThe Robert Reynolds Trophy for Carlton's senior best and fairest was awarded to Geoff Southby. It was the second consecutive time Southby had won the award, in only his second year at the club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093771-0026-0000", "contents": "1972 Carlton Football Club season, Individual awards and records\nVin Catoggio, who played both under 19s and reserves football for Carlton during the season, was a joint-winner of the Morrish Medal, for the under 19s league best-and-fairest. Catoggio polled 23 votes to tie for the award with Ian Kilmartin (North Melbourne).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093771-0027-0000", "contents": "1972 Carlton Football Club season, Individual awards and records\nGarry Crane was the winner of the Murie Cup, an award which was, at the time, presented by the league to the player who had polled the most combined votes in the Brownlow Medal (seniors), Gardiner Medal (reserves) and Morrish Medal (under 19s), provided he polled votes in at least two of the different grades. Crane, who played in the reserves while recovering from injury for much of the season, polled three Brownlow votes and ten Gardiner votes to win the award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093771-0028-0000", "contents": "1972 Carlton Football Club season, Individual awards and records\nThree Carlton players represented the winning Victorian team in the 1972 Perth Carnival, which was held from 17 to 24 June at Subiaco Oval during the split Round 12 of the VFL season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093771-0029-0000", "contents": "1972 Carlton Football Club season, Individual awards and records\nJesaulenko was selected in the All-Australian Team at the conclusion of the Carnival.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093771-0030-0000", "contents": "1972 Carlton Football Club season, Lower grades\nThe Carlton reserves team finished third out of twelve teams, losing in the preliminary final against Hawthorn. After an average start to the season, the reserves team won its last eight home-and-away matches to finish fifth on the ladder with a record of 14\u20138, only just reaching the final five.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093771-0031-0000", "contents": "1972 Carlton Football Club season, Footnotes\n:1. The date of the match is not explicitly stated in the reference. It is assumed that this match was played on Sunday, consistent with the other matches on the tour; however, the Herald did not report on the game until Tuesday 7 November, so it is possible that the match was played on Monday 6 November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 44], "content_span": [45, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093772-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Carolina 500\nThe 1972 Carolina 500 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series racing event that took place on March 12, 1972, at North Carolina Motor Speedway in Rockingham, North Carolina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093772-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Carolina 500\nFor most of the 1972 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season, Bobby Allison and Richard Petty were considered to be the most dominant of the full-time drivers. David Pearson and Buddy Baker were strong performers who unfortunately didn't compete in enough races to have a chance for championship glory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093772-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Carolina 500\nABC tape-delayed coverage of this race until March 18, 1972, when it was shown as ABC Championship Auto Racing and abbreviated to 90 minutes including commercials.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093772-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Carolina 500, Race report\nWhile the race took place on a paved track spanning 1.017 miles (1.637\u00a0km), it took four hours and twenty-three minutes to complete all 492 laps of the race. Bobby Isaac defeated Richard Petty by at least one lap in front of 42500 people; marking his final career win. Isaac would earn the pole position with a qualifying speed of 137.539 miles per hour (221.348\u00a0km/h). Meanwhile, the average race speed was 113.895 miles per hour (183.296\u00a0km/h). Eight cautions slowed the race for 57 laps. Jimmy Vandiver finished in 3rd place with a ragtag crew of repairmen who had never worked a NASCAR race before and were assembled just hours before the race began; he improved on his qualifying position of 16th place even though he was unable to lead any laps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 782]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093772-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Carolina 500, Race report\nBaker only added this race at the last minute because there were so few other big teams. Baker broke a valve Spring in his 426 wedge and fell out early. Allison dominated the first half of the race and then blew up. Petty had several cut tires and finally broke a rear spring. That left Issac who was running a highly restricted 426 Hemi a clear path to the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093772-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Carolina 500, Race report\nBritish-born competitor Jackie Oliver finished in last place due to an engine issue on the first lap while Canadian-born Les Covey would fail to finish due to a clutch problem on lap 127. The rest of the 40-car grid would have American-born drivers. NASCAR noticed that Allison's car had right side tires on the left side and vice versa after qualifying and told Junior to switch them, he wouldn't because NASCAR didn't even look at any other team, so they put the car in the back to start.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093772-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Carolina 500, Race report\nNeil Castles would record his final top ten ever in his NASCAR Cup Series career.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093772-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Carolina 500, Race report\nOnly manual transmission vehicles were allowed to participate in this race; a policy that NASCAR has retained to the present day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093772-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 Carolina 500, Race report\nEight of NASCAR's most notable crew chiefs of the early-1970s made an appearance for this race; including Harry Hyde, Dale Inman, Tom Vandiver and Lee Gordon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093773-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Centennial Cup\nThe 1972 Centennial Cup is the second Tier II Junior \"A\" 1972 ice hockey National Championship for the Canadian Junior A Hockey League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093773-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Centennial Cup\nThe Centennial Cup was competed for by the winners of the Western Canadian Champions and the Eastern Canadian Champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093773-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Centennial Cup\nThe finals were hosted by the Guelph CMC's in the city of Guelph, Ontario.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093773-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Centennial Cup, History\nGuelph CMC's forward Paul Fendley died days after game four of the championship series after hitting his head on the ice during game four. He was the CMC's leading scorer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 28], "content_span": [29, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093774-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Central American Championships in Athletics\nThe seventh Central American Championships in Athletics were held at the Estadio Revoluci\u00f3n in Ciudad de Panam\u00e1, Panam\u00e1, between November 24-26, 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093774-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Central American Championships in Athletics, Medal summary\nSome results and medal winners could be reconstructed from the archive of Costa Rican newspaper La Naci\u00f3n.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 63], "content_span": [64, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093774-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Central American Championships in Athletics, Medal table (after two days)\nThe table below displays the medal count after 2 of 3 competition days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 78], "content_span": [79, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093775-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Central Michigan Chippewas football team\nThe 1972 Central Michigan Chippewas football team represented Central Michigan University during the 1972 NCAA College Division football season. In their sixth season under head coach Roy Kramer, the Chippewas compiled a 5\u20135\u20131 record and outscored their opponents, 265 to 190.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093775-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Central Michigan Chippewas football team\nOn November 4, 1972, the team played its first game at its new stadium, R. Perry Shorts Stadium. The dedication game drew a crowd of 17,000. The new facility was built at a cost of $2 million and had a seating capacity of 19,875. The Chippewas defeated Illinois State, 28-21, in the dedication game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093775-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Central Michigan Chippewas football team\nThe team's statistical leaders included quarterback Gary Bevington with 834 passing yards, tailback Chuck Markey with 1,513 rushing yards, and Matt Means with 603 receiving yards. Markey received the team's most valuable player award. Means set a school record with 10 receptions in a 34-0 victory over Indiana State on September 30, 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093776-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Championship of Australia\nThe 1972 Championship of Australia was the 16th edition of the Championship of Australia, an ANFC-organised national club Australian rules football tournament between the champion clubs from the VFL, the SANFL, the WANFL and the Tasmanian State Premiership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093776-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Championship of Australia, Fixtures, Championship of Australia Final\nThis Australian rules football competition-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 73], "content_span": [74, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093777-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Charlestown state by-election\nA by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Charlestown on Saturday 18 November 1972. It was triggered by the death of Jack Stewart (Labor).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093778-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Charlotte Tennis Classic\nThe 1972 Charlotte Tennis Classic, also known by its sponsored name North Carolina National Bank Tennis Classic, was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts that was part of the World Championship Tennis (WCT) circuit. It was the second edition of the tournament and was held from April 18 through April 23, 1972 at the Julian J. Clark Tennis Stadium, owned by the Olde Providence Racquet Club in Charlotte, North Carolina in the United States. Second-seeded Ken Rosewall won the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093778-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Charlotte Tennis Classic, Finals, Doubles\nTom Okker / Marty Riessen defeated John Newcombe / Tony Roche 6\u20134, 4\u20136, 7\u20136", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093779-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Charlotte Tennis Classic \u2013 Singles\nSecond-seeded Ken Rosewall won the men's singles title at the 1972 Charlotte Tennis Classic tennis tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093780-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Chatham Cup\nThe 1972 Chatham Cup was the 45th annual nationwide knockout football competition in New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093780-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Chatham Cup\nEarly stages of the competition were run on a regional basis, with the National League teams receiving a bye until the later stages of the competition. In all, 99 teams took part in the competition. Different sources give different numberings for the rounds of the competition: some start round one with the beginning of the regional qualifications; others start numbering from the first national knock-out stage. The former numbering scheme is used in this article.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093780-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Chatham Cup\nThe final saw the end of a Chatham Cup era, being the last final to be held at the Basin Reserve until 1980. The Basin Reserve had been the host of every final since 1928.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093780-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Chatham Cup, The 1972 final\nThe 1972 final was a marathon effort, unprecedented and unequalled in Chatham Cup history. In the days before penalty shoot-outs replays were played if scores were level after extra time. The 1972 final required not one, but two replays, with the first of these being held in Christchurch (the first time that city had been host to a final match). The total aggregate of 13 goals across the three matches was a record for a final - indeed the eight goals in the first match equalled the previous record. In the first match, Christchurch United's Graham Dacombe became the first player to score four goals in one final since John Donovan in 1958. All three matches were refereed by R.W. Harries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 32], "content_span": [33, 727]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093780-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Chatham Cup, The 1972 final\nThe first match was played in typical windy conditions at Wellington. United played with the wind in the first spell and should have had the lead early on when Mount keeper Kevin Curtin appeared to step back across his goal-line when holding onto a Vic Pollard cross. The referee turned down their appeal and the goal was not given. United were soon to gain the lead, however, with the first of Dacombe's four strikes. Two goals from penalties for the Mount, both taken by Ron Armstrong, followed before Dacombe restored the balance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 32], "content_span": [33, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093780-0004-0001", "contents": "1972 Chatham Cup, The 1972 final\nIn the second half Brian Turner put Mount Wellington into the lead for a second time, only for Dacombe to again level before the final whistle. In extra time it was United who took the lead for a second occasion, and it required a late Earle Thomas equaliser to send the tie to a second game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 32], "content_span": [33, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093780-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Chatham Cup, The 1972 final\nThe second match was played on Christchurch United's territory at English Park, the first time a final had ever been played outsider the North Island. Compared with the first match it was a dour game, with only one goal a piece and nowhere near the first tie's excitement. Dennis Tindall opened the scoring for Mount Wellington, and the only other goal of the game was the equaliser from Ian Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 32], "content_span": [33, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093780-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Chatham Cup, The 1972 final\nThe third bout took place at Mount Wellington's Newmarket Park ground, and finally it produced a result. Alan Park opened the scoring for United before the interval, followed in the second spell by Alan Marley. Armstrong pulled one back \u2014 again from the penalty spot \u2014 but that was the last of the scoring. There were vociferous protest from the Mount when substitute Dave Taylor had a late effort disallowed, but in the minds of many this was poetic justice for Pollard's denied effort in the first match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 32], "content_span": [33, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093780-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Chatham Cup, Results, Third Round\n* Won on penalties by Queens Park (4-3) and Rangers (6-5)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 38], "content_span": [39, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093781-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Chattanooga Moccasins football team\nThe 1972 Chattanooga Moccasins football team was an American football team that represented the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga during the 1972 NCAA College Division football season. In their fifth year under head coach Harold Wilkes, the team compiled a 2\u20139 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093782-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Chesterfield 250\nThe 1972 Chesterfield 250 was an endurance race for Series Production Touring Cars complying with CAMS Group E regulations. The race, which was Round 1 of the 1972 Australian Manufacturers' Championship, was held at the Adelaide International Raceway near Virginia in South Australia on 27 August 1972 over 165 laps, totalling 247.5 miles. The field was divided into four classes, split via \"CP Units\", where the engine capacity of the vehicle (in litres) was multiplied by the retail price of the vehicle (in dollars) to give a CP Unit (i.e. Capacity Price Unit) value.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093783-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Chicago Bears season\nThe 1972 Chicago Bears season was their 53rd regular season completed in the National Football League. The team finished with a 4\u20139\u20131 record, another below .500 showing, in head coach Abe Gibron's first season. But they had good success on the QB Rushing. QB Bobby Douglass ran on 143 carries for 972 yards and 8 Touchdowns. This would be later broken by Atlanta Falcons QB Michael Vick who became the first and only Quarterback to run over 1,000 yards in the NFL. Only three other QBs ran for over 1,000 yards in one season, but they were all in the CFL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 581]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093784-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Chicago Cubs season\nThe 1972 Chicago Cubs season was the 101st season of the Chicago Cubs franchise, the 97th in the National League and the 57th at Wrigley Field. The Cubs finished second in the National League East with a record of 85\u201370.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093784-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Chicago Cubs season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 69], "content_span": [70, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093784-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Chicago Cubs season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 62], "content_span": [63, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093784-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Chicago Cubs season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 67], "content_span": [68, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093784-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Chicago Cubs season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 64], "content_span": [65, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093784-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Chicago Cubs season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 65], "content_span": [66, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093785-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Chicago White Sox season\nThe 1972 Chicago White Sox season was the White Sox's 73rd season overall, and 72nd in the American League. They finished with a record 87\u201367, good enough for second place in the American League West, 5\u00bd games behind the first-place Oakland Athletics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093785-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Chicago White Sox season, Player stats, Batting\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs scored; H = Hits; 2B = Doubles; 3B = Triples; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; BB = Base on balls; SO = Strikeouts; AVG = Batting average; SB = Stolen bases", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093785-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Chicago White Sox season, Player stats, Pitching\nNote: W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; SV = Saves; IP = Innings pitched; H = Hits allowed; R = Runs allowed; ER = Earned runs allowed; HR = Home runs allowed; BB = Walks allowed; K = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093786-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Chicago commuter rail crash\nA collision between two commuter trains in Chicago occurred during the cloudy morning rush hour on October 30, 1972, and was the worst such crash in Chicago's history. Illinois Central Gulf train 416, made up of newly purchased Highliners, overshot the 27th Street station on what is now the Metra Electric Line, and the engineer asked and received permission from the train's conductor to back the train to the platform. This move was then made without the flag protection required by the railroad's rules.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093786-0000-0001", "contents": "1972 Chicago commuter rail crash\nHowever, his train had cleared automatic block signals which cleared express train 720, made up of more heavily constructed single level cars, to continue at full speed on the same track. The engineer of the express train did not see the bilevel train backing up until it was too late. When the trains collided, the front car of the express train telescoped the rear car of the bilevel train, killing 45 people and injuring 332.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093787-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Chicago\u2013O'Hare runway collision\nOn December 20, 1972, North Central Airlines Flight 575 and Delta Air Lines Flight 954 collided on a runway at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. Ten people died \u2013 all on the North Central aircraft \u2013 and 17 were injured in the accident. This was the second major airliner accident to happen in Chicago in December 1972; the other was United Airlines Flight 553, which crashed twelve days earlier on approach to Midway Airport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093787-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Chicago\u2013O'Hare runway collision, Flight history, Delta Air Lines Flight 954\nDelta Air Lines Flight 954 was a regularly scheduled flight from Tampa, Florida, to O'Hare International Airport, Chicago, Illinois. The crew consisted of Captain Robert E. McDowell (36), First Officer Harry D. Greenberg (31), and Flight Engineer Claude F. Fletcher (29), as well as four flight attendants. Operating Convair CV-880 N8807E, it departed Tampa at 3:41\u00a0p.m. EST on December 20, 1972, and made a routine flight to Chicago, where it landed on Runway 14L at O'Hare International Airport at 5:55 or 5:56\u00a0p.m. CST. During their approach, the flight crew was informed that Runways 14L and 14R were being used for departures, but were never told that Runway 27L also was being used for departures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 80], "content_span": [81, 784]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093787-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Chicago\u2013O'Hare runway collision, Flight history, Delta Air Lines Flight 954\nConditions at the airport were foggy, with a visibility of about one-quarter mile (0.4\u00a0km). Upon clearing Runway 14L, Flight 954 began taxiing southwest and south toward the terminal, leaving Runway 14L by way of the Bridge Route taxiway. It had already crossed the north\u2013south bridge that carries the taxiway from Runway 14L to the terminal by the time the first officer contacted O'Hare ground control and reported that the aircraft was \"inside [i.e., south of] the bridge\", had not yet received a gate assignment, and needed to wait in a holding area until receiving an assignment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 80], "content_span": [81, 666]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093787-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Chicago\u2013O'Hare runway collision, Flight history, Delta Air Lines Flight 954\nThe ground controller did not hear the words \"inside the bridge,\" and, assuming Flight 954 had just left the end of Runway 14L and was still well north of the bridge, ambiguously instructed it to hold in the \"thirty-two box\", meaning in the controller's mind the 32R run-up pad at the southeast end of Runway 14L, where he assumed the plane to be.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 80], "content_span": [81, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093787-0003-0001", "contents": "1972 Chicago\u2013O'Hare runway collision, Flight history, Delta Air Lines Flight 954\nTo reach the 32R run-up pad, Flight 954 would have had to turn around and return to the end of Runway 14L, where it had just landed, taxiing against the flow of traffic; instead, Flight 954's captain and first officer both assumed that the ground controller understood that they were \"inside the bridge\" and was referring to the 32L run-up pad, which was located at the southeast end of Runway 14R, on the other side of the terminal from the 32R run-up pad. Assuming that they were cleared to taxi to the 32L pad, they proceeded toward it using the Bridge, Outer Circular, and North\u2013South taxiways, via a route that intersected with Runway 27L.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 80], "content_span": [81, 725]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093787-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Chicago\u2013O'Hare runway collision, Flight history, Delta Air Lines Flight 954\nThere was no further communication between Flight 954 and the ground controller. This left the ground controller with the assumption that Flight 954 was holding at the 32R run-up pad and in no danger of conflicting with other traffic and the flight crew with the assumption that they were cleared to taxi to the 32L run-up pad and could cross Runway 27L without danger of a collision with aircraft using that runway. Moreover, Flight 954's flight crew had never received word that Runway 27L was an active runway, and had no reason to anticipate encountering other aircraft while taxiing across it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 80], "content_span": [81, 679]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093787-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Chicago\u2013O'Hare runway collision, Flight history, North Central Airlines Flight 575\nNorth Central Airlines Flight 575 was a regularly scheduled flight originating at O'Hare International Airport and stopping at Madison, Wisconsin, before terminating at Duluth, Minnesota. It was flown by Captain Ordell T. Nordseth (49) and First Officer Gerald Dale Adamson (32). Operating McDonnell Douglas DC-9-31 N954N, the flight received clearance from O'Hare ground control at 5:50\u00a0p.m. CST to taxi to Runway 27L for departure. At 5:58:52.3 p.m. CST the O'Hare local controller cleared Flight 575 into takeoff position on the runway and at 5:59:18\u00a0p.m. CST cleared it for takeoff. At 5:59:24.3 p.m. CST, the captain reported that he was beginning his takeoff roll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 87], "content_span": [88, 759]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093787-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Chicago\u2013O'Hare runway collision, Collision\nAs the North Central DC-9 rolled down the runway, visibility was about 1\u20444 mile (400\u00a0m). It had reached a speed of about 140 knots (160\u00a0mph; 260\u00a0km/h) when its captain, peering ahead into the fog just after 6:00:03\u00a0p.m. CST, spotted Delta Flight 954 on the runway about 1,600 feet (500\u00a0m) ahead. At 6:00:07.2 p.m. CST, Flight 575's captain gave the order \"Pull 'er up!\" and he and the first officer pulled back on their control columns in an attempt to lift their DC-9 over the Delta CV-880. Although the DC-9 lifted into the air, it was too late to avoid contact with the CV-880, and the two aircraft collided at 6:00:08.3 p.m. CST.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 47], "content_span": [48, 681]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093787-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Chicago\u2013O'Hare runway collision, Collision\nThe DC-9 tore off substantial portions of the CV-880's left wing and vertical stabilizer and caused three major compressions in the aft portion of its fuselage. The DC-9's right main landing gear detached during the collision, as did a flap from its right wing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 47], "content_span": [48, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093787-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 Chicago\u2013O'Hare runway collision, Collision\nAfter the collision, the captain of Flight 575 determined that his DC-9 could not remain airborne, and attempted to land back on the runway. When he did, the plane's two remaining landing gear collapsed rearward, and the DC-9 skidded on its belly off Runway 27L, across a grassy area, and onto Runway 32L, where it came to rest. It immediately burst into flames.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 47], "content_span": [48, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093787-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 Chicago\u2013O'Hare runway collision, Collision\nThe crew of Flight 954 apparently were unaware of the approaching DC-9 until hearing it strike their CV-880, and did not see the DC-9 until the first officer observed it crashing on the runway beyond them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 47], "content_span": [48, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093787-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 Chicago\u2013O'Hare runway collision, Aircraft\nThe North Central aircraft involved, McDonnell Douglas DC-9-31 N954N, had been completed on December 27, 1967. It was destroyed in the collision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093787-0011-0000", "contents": "1972 Chicago\u2013O'Hare runway collision, Aircraft\nThe Delta aircraft involved, Convair CV-880 N8807E, had been completed on July 25, 1960. It was substantially damaged.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093787-0012-0000", "contents": "1972 Chicago\u2013O'Hare runway collision, Evacuation, Delta Air Lines Flight 954\nImmediately after the collision, the captain of Flight 954 received reports of a fire aboard the CV-880; he shut down the engines and ordered an immediate emergency evacuation. The crew opened the four emergency doors and deployed the emergency slides, and all aboard the plane were successfully evacuated in about five minutes without further incident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 76], "content_span": [77, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093787-0013-0000", "contents": "1972 Chicago\u2013O'Hare runway collision, Evacuation, North Central Airlines Flight 575\nAfter the DC-9 came to rest on Runway 32L, a fire broke out in the aft part of the plane, the cabin rapidly filled with smoke, and interior illumination in the passenger cabin was poor. The captain pulled the fire extinguisher handles and ordered an emergency evacuation. One passenger opened the right overwing door and escaped that way. One flight attendant opened the left overwing exit, exited the aircraft, and called on passengers to follow her; four passengers escaped via this door.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 83], "content_span": [84, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093787-0013-0001", "contents": "1972 Chicago\u2013O'Hare runway collision, Evacuation, North Central Airlines Flight 575\nThe other flight attendant opened the main entry door and deployed the emergency slide, which did not inflate; she then was pushed out the door, but assisted passengers off the plane from outside the doorway. The captain entered the passenger cabin from the cockpit, calling passengers to come forward, then exited the plane via the main entry door and helped them to the ground before reboarding to assist more passengers off through the main door. The first officer escaped through a cockpit window and assisted passengers out of the aircraft from outside the plane at the main entry door. A total of 27 passengers exited via the main entry door.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 83], "content_span": [84, 732]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093787-0014-0000", "contents": "1972 Chicago\u2013O'Hare runway collision, Rescue response\nDue to the foggy conditions and limited visibility at the airport, it took controllers nearly two minutes to determine that something had happened to North Central Flight 575. Once they did, they alerted the Chicago Fire Department, which arrived at the scene on Runway 32L about a minute later, three minutes after the crash. Employing 11 crash and fire vehicles and two ambulances, the fire department extinguished the fire in about 16 minutes at around 6:19\u00a0p.m. CST.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093787-0015-0000", "contents": "1972 Chicago\u2013O'Hare runway collision, Rescue response\nAlso because of the prevailing poor visibility, controllers and rescue personnel remained unaware of the collision, and Delta Flight 954's involvement, until 6:28\u00a0p.m. CST, 28 minutes after the collision, when fire department personnel discovered the damaged and evacuated CV-880 on the taxiway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093787-0016-0000", "contents": "1972 Chicago\u2013O'Hare runway collision, Casualties, Delta Air Lines Flight 954\nTwo people aboard the Delta CV-880 suffered minor injuries in the collision, but all 93 people aboard evacuated the aircraft without further injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 76], "content_span": [77, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093787-0017-0000", "contents": "1972 Chicago\u2013O'Hare runway collision, Casualties, North Central Airlines Flight 575\nA total of 10 people, all passengers, died aboard the North Central DC-9. Nine of the fatalities occurred in the post-collision fire among people who were unable to evacuate; the tenth person died later. Fifteen people aboard Flight 575 suffered non-fatal injuries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 83], "content_span": [84, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093787-0018-0000", "contents": "1972 Chicago\u2013O'Hare runway collision, Investigation\nThe National Transportation Safety Board released its report on the accident on July 5, 1973. It found that the probable cause of the accident was the failure of the traffic control system to ensure adequate aircraft separation during a period of limited visibility. It noted that non-standard terminology \u2013 used to expedite traffic flow \u2013 was common in communications between controllers and aircrews at O'Hare International Airport and included the omission of words, altered phraseology, and use of colloquialisms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093787-0018-0001", "contents": "1972 Chicago\u2013O'Hare runway collision, Investigation\nIt found that the lack of clarity of wording on the part of the ground controller in his communications with Delta Flight 954 and the Delta crew's failure to request confirmation that their taxiing intentions matched those understood by the ground controller were the major causes of the accident. As a result, the controller was confused as to the location of the Convair CV-880, and neither the controller nor its flight crew realized that they were referring to different run-up pads as the holding area for Delta Flight 954.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093787-0019-0000", "contents": "1972 Chicago\u2013O'Hare runway collision, Investigation\nThe board also found that North Central's training program did not include any practice evacuations in simulated accident conditions, and that this lack of practical training on the part of the DC-9's crew meant that the evacuation of the aircraft took longer than it otherwise might have; the Federal Aviation Administration required that North Central Airlines make improvements. The NTSB also found that ground control radar was not used properly during the incident, as well as that the ground controllers were not required to be qualified in its use; it recommended that O'Hare International Airport adopt the standard method for its use as employed at other airports.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 51], "content_span": [52, 725]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093788-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Chico State Wildcats football team\nThe 1972 Chico State Wildcats football team represented Chico State University during the 1972 NCAA College Division football season. Chico State competed in the Far Western Conference in 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093788-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Chico State Wildcats football team\nThe 1972 Wildcats were led by fifth-year head coach Pete Riehlman. They played home games at University Stadium in Chico, California. Chico State finished the season with a record of four wins and five losses (4\u20135, 2\u20133 FWC). The Wildcats were outscored by their opponents 154\u2013188 for the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093788-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Chico State Wildcats football team, Team players in the NFL\nNo Chico State players were selected in the 1973 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093789-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Cincinnati Bearcats football team\nThe 1972 Cincinnati Bearcats football team represented University of Cincinnati during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. The Bearcats, led by head coach Ray Callahan, participated as independent and played their home games at Nippert Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093790-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Cincinnati Bengals season\nThe 1972 Cincinnati Bengals season was the franchise's 3rd season in the National Football League, and the 5th overall. Starting off the 1972 season winning five of seven games, the Bengals looked primed to win the division as they had in 1970. They lost a key divisional game at Pittsburgh, 40\u201317, followed by a pair of close losses at home against Oakland (20\u201314) and Baltimore 20\u201319.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093790-0000-0001", "contents": "1972 Cincinnati Bengals season\nHead coach Paul Brown gave Ken Anderson the starting quarterback job, and the Bengals responded by winning three out of the last four games giving the Bengals an overall 8\u20136 season, but not good enough for the playoffs once again. Three times in their history, the Bengals have won without scoring a touchdown, including September 24, 1972, when kicker Horst Muhlmann's five field goals (41, 32, 20, 32, 34) fueled a 15\u201310 victory over Pittsburgh at Riverfront Stadium (later renamed Cinergy Field).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093790-0000-0002", "contents": "1972 Cincinnati Bengals season\nTwice in Bengals history, two Cincinnati players have broken the 100-yard rushing mark in the same game, with the first coming October 29, 1972, when fullback Doug Dressler gained 110 yards and halfback Essex Johnson ran for 103 yards in a 30\u20137 win versus Houston. The latest-drafted player ever to make the Bengals roster for a regular-season game was K-P Dave Green of Ohio University. Green was the 418th selection in the 1972 draft, taken in the 17th round. He didn't make the roster in 1972, and had a brief stint (no games played) with Houston in 1973 before being re-acquired by Cincinnati.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093791-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Cincinnati Open\nThe 1972 Cincinnati Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Coney Island in Cincinnati, Ohio in the United States that was part of the 1972 Commercial Union Assurance Grand Prix. It was the 72nd edition of the tournament and was held from July 31 through August 6, 1972. First-seeded Jimmy Connors won the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093791-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Cincinnati Open, Finals, Doubles\nBob Hewitt / Frew McMillan defeated Paul Gerken / Humphrey Hose 7\u20136, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093792-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Cincinnati Reds season\nThe 1972 Cincinnati Reds season consisted of the Reds winning the National League West title with a record of 95\u201359, 10\u00bd games over the Houston Astros and the Los Angeles Dodgers. They defeated the previous year's World Series Champion Pittsburgh Pirates in the 1972 National League Championship Series, but lost to the Oakland Athletics in seven games in the 1972 World Series. The Reds were managed by Sparky Anderson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093792-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Cincinnati Reds season\nThe theme for the Reds was \"Redemption\" after a disastrous 1971 season that saw the Reds fall from a World Series participant in 1970 to a sub .500 team a year later. In fact, the March 13, 1972, Sports Illustrated edition featured the Reds on the front cover headlining \"Redemption for the Reds.\" The Reds won 102 games in 1970, but only 79 a year later. A major catalyst for the Reds, Bobby Tolan, ruptured his Achilles' tendon in the winter of 1971 while playing basketball and he missed the entire '71 MLB season. Nearly every Reds regular, including Pete Rose, Johnny Bench, Tony P\u00e9rez, Bernie Carbo and David Concepcion, had significant decreases in their production from 1970. The lone exception was popular first baseman Lee May, who set career highs in home runs (39) and slugging percentage (.532).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 836]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093792-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Cincinnati Reds season\nReds fans, en masse, were shocked and dismayed when, on November 29, 1971, Cincinnati Reds General Manager Bob Howsam traded May, Gold Glove winning second baseman Tommy Helms and key utility man Jimmy Stewart to division rival Houston Astros for second baseman Joe Morgan, third baseman Denis Menke, pitcher Jack Billingham, little-used reserve outfielder Cesar Geronimo and minor leaguer Ed Armbrister. The trade turned out to be one of the best trades in Reds history. Morgan would escape the cavernous Houston Astrodome to a more hitter-friendly Riverfront Stadium home park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 607]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093792-0002-0001", "contents": "1972 Cincinnati Reds season\nSurrounded by more talent in Cincinnati, Morgan would become one of the more productive power-speed players in the entire decade on his way to eventual induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Morgan and Geronimo would also go on to each win multiple Gold Glove awards, as Geronimo manned right field until 1974 when he would take over in center field. Billingham would go on to win 12 games in 1972 and 50 total in his first three years with the Reds. Billingham's best moments came in the 1972 World Series when he threw 13+2\u20443 innings allowing no earned runs in collecting a win, a save, and a no decision in Game 7.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 648]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093792-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Cincinnati Reds season\nWith Rose, Morgan and a healthy Tolan at the top of the lineup, a rejuvenated Bench was the recipient as the Reds' cleanup hitter. Rebounding from the 1971 disaster when he only drove in 61 runs, Bench slammed 40 home runs and had a major league-best 125 RBI. Bench also walked a career-high 100 times on his way to NL MVP honors, his second in three years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093792-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Cincinnati Reds season\nCincinnati got off to a slow start, winning only eight of their first 21 games before winning nine straight. The Reds were still only 20\u201318 when they went into Houston to play the retooled Astros for a four-game series, May 29 \u2013 June 1, at the Astrodome, a notorious pitchers park. But the Reds scored 39 runs in the series and won all four games. The Reds went into the July 23 All-Star break with a 6\u00bd game lead over the Astros and an 8-game lead over the Dodgers. Neither team seriously threatened the Reds in the second half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093792-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Cincinnati Reds season\nReds ace Gary Nolan won 13 of his 15 decisions by July 13, only 79 games into the season. But Nolan suffered a series of neck and shoulder ailments that forced him out of the All Star game and limited him to a total of 25 starts. He spent much of the second-half on the disabled list resting and then rehabbing. He won two games after the All-Star break. Nolan still finished second in the National League in ERA (1.99) to Philadelphia's Steve Carlton (1.97).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093792-0005-0001", "contents": "1972 Cincinnati Reds season\nMorgan (122 runs scored, 16 home runs, 73 RBI, 58 stolen bases, .292 average) finished fourth in MVP voting, while Rose (107 runs, 198 hits, 11 triples, .307 avg.) and reliever Clay Carroll (37 saves, 2.25 ERA) were 12th and 13th, respectively, in the MVP voting conducted by the Baseball Writers' Association of America.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093792-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Cincinnati Reds season\nThe Reds beat the Pittsburgh Pirates, three games to two, in an exciting 1972 National League Championship Series, the first time in its four-year history the NLCS had gone five games. The World Series against the Oakland A's was equally as epic, with the Reds falling in Game 7, 3\u20132, the sixth game of the series decided by a single run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093792-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 72], "content_span": [73, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093792-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093792-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 70], "content_span": [71, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093792-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 67], "content_span": [68, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093792-0011-0000", "contents": "1972 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 68], "content_span": [69, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093792-0012-0000", "contents": "1972 Cincinnati Reds season, Postseason, 1972 National League Championship Series\nThe Reds rallied to defeat the Pittsburgh Pirates in five games to win the National League title. In Game 5, Johnny Bench's ninth-inning home run tied the game before George Foster scored the game-winner on a wild pitch by Pirates' reliever Bob Moose.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 81], "content_span": [82, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093792-0013-0000", "contents": "1972 Cincinnati Reds season, Postseason, 1972 World Series\nThe Reds were a prohibitive favorite to win the World Series over the Oakland Athletics, who lost top slugger Reggie Jackson to a hamstring injury in the playoffs. But Gene Tenace, who hit just five home runs in the regular season, crushed four against the Reds in a series that saw six of the seven games decided by one run. Oakland dealt the Reds three losses on their home AstroTurf of Riverfront Stadium. Tenace had two hits and two RBI in Game 7 as Oakland scored two in the sixth inning and held on for a 3\u20132 victory for the A's first World Series title since 1930.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093793-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Clean Air Classic\nThe 1972 Clean Air Classic was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament that took place at the Seventh Regiment Armory in New York in the United States. It was sanctioned by the Eastern Lawn Tennis Association but was not part of the official Men's Grand Prix or Women's Tennis Circuit. It was the third edition of the event and was held from December 7 through December 10, 1972. The tournament utilized a distinct scoring system with points instead of the common 0-15-30-40 and a game was won by the first player to reach four points. The singles titles were won by Charlie Pasarell and Virginia Wade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 633]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093793-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Clean Air Classic, Finals, Men's Doubles\nClark Graebner / Frew McMillan defeated Brian Gottfried / Dick Stockton 6\u20133, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 45], "content_span": [46, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093794-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Clemson Tigers football team\nThe 1972 Clemson Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Clemson University in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. In its third and final season under head coach Hootie Ingram, the team compiled a 4\u20137 record (2\u20135 against conference opponents), finished fifth in the ACC, and was outscored by a total of 245 to 143. The team played its home games at Memorial Stadium in Clemson, South Carolina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093794-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Clemson Tigers football team\nHead coach Hootie Ingram resigned shortly after the conclusion of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093794-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Clemson Tigers football team\nWade Hughes, Buddy King, and Frank Wirth were the team captains. The team's statistical leaders included quarterback Ken Pengitore with 831 passing yards, running back Wade Hughes with 761 rushing yards, Dennis Goss with 385 receiving yards, and Heide Davis and Wade Hughes with 30 points scored (5 touchdowns each).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093794-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Clemson Tigers football team\nNo Clemson players were selected by the United Press International as first-team players on the 1972 All-Atlantic Coast Conference football team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093795-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Cleveland Browns season\nThe 1972 Cleveland Browns season was the team's 23rd season with the National Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093795-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Cleveland Browns season, Season summary\n1972 marked the end of a nine-year span in which the Browns made the playoffs seven times; it would be the Browns' last playoff appearance until 1980.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093795-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Cleveland Browns season, Season summary\nThe 1972 Cleveland Browns not only made it to the postseason as a wild card team with a 10\u20134 record, but also nearly pulled off what would have been one of the biggest upsets in team and NFL playoff history. Playing in the AFC divisional round in Miami against a Dolphins team that would go 17\u20130 and win the Super Bowl, the Browns lost 20\u201314 after blowing a 14\u201313 lead midway through the fourth quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093795-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Cleveland Browns season, Season summary\nThe Browns started the year with veteran quarterback Bill Nelsen as their starter; Nelsen had arrived from the Pittsburgh Steelers in a 1968 trade. But Nelsen, who had knee problems, struggled early, and the team followed suit by getting off to a rocky 2\u20133 start. The move was made to start Mike Phipps, drafted in 1970 with the No.3 overall pick the Browns obtained by trading Pro Football Hall of Fame wide receiver Paul Warfield to Miami. Although Phipps didn't have a very good year statistically\u2014he completed only 47.2 percent of his passes and threw for just 13 touchdowns with 16 interceptions\u2014he was able to make plays when he had to.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 687]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093795-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Cleveland Browns season, Season summary\nThe Browns were only 2\u20133 and had been outscored 48\u20137 in their last two games, and 74\u201317 in their three losses, before a six-game winning streak ensued. Included in the streak was a last-second, 26\u201324 comeback win at home over the Steelers, who were trying to win the AFC Central title and make the playoffs for the second time in franchise history and first time since 1947. The Browns finished second to the Steelers (11\u20133) by a game after winning eight of their last nine contests, the only loss being a 30\u20130 decision in the rematch in Pittsburgh. The Browns also turned back the Denver Broncos on the road 27\u201320.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 660]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093795-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Cleveland Browns season, Season summary\nPro Football Hall of Fame running back Leroy Kelly, in his last productive season, rushed for 811 yards. Wide receiver Frank Pitts led the team in receptions with 36, good for eight touchdowns\u2014or 62 percent of the team total of 13. But it was primarily the defense that saved the season for the Browns. The unit gave up over 30 points only twice all year, posted a shutout and kept foes to 17 points or less eight times.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093796-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Cleveland Indians season\nThe 1972 Cleveland Indians season was the 72nd in franchise history. The team finished fifth in the American League East with a record of 72\u201386, 14 games behind the Detroit Tigers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093796-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Cleveland Indians season, Offseason, George Steinbrenner offer\nOn December 6, 1971, George Steinbrenner led a group of investors (including Ted Bonda, Ed Jeffrey, Howard Metzenbaum, Steve O'Neill, Gabe Paul and Al Rosen) that negotiated with Jim Stouffer, the son of Indians owner Vernon Stouffer about the potential purchase of the franchise. The group offered $8.6 million and agreed to absorb $300,000 in debt (Stouffer borrowed against the Indians television contract for 1972). Although Steinbrenner and Jim Stouffer agreed to a sale, Vernon Stouffer disapproved of the deal. He felt that he was able of getting $10 million for the franchise.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 652]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093796-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Cleveland Indians season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093796-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Cleveland Indians season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093796-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Cleveland Indians season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093796-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Cleveland Indians season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093796-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Cleveland Indians season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093797-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Colgate Red Raiders football team\nThe 1972 Colgate Red Raiders football team was an American football team that represented Colgate University as an independent during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. In its fifth season under head coach Neil Wheelwright, the team compiled a 5\u20134\u20131 record. Kenneth Nelson and David Palmer were the team captains.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093797-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Colgate Red Raiders football team\nThe team played its home games at Andy Kerr Stadium in Hamilton, New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093797-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Colgate Red Raiders football team, Leading players\nTwo trophies were awarded to the Red Raiders' most valuable players in 1972:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093798-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 College Baseball All-America Team\nAn All-American team is an honorary sports team composed of the best amateur players of a specific season for each team position\u2014who in turn are given the honorific \"All-America\" and typically referred to as \"All-American athletes\", or simply \"All-Americans\". Although the honorees generally do not compete together as a unit, the term is used in U.S. team sports to refer to players who are selected by members of the national media. Walter Camp selected the first All-America team in the early days of American football in 1889.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093798-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 College Baseball All-America Team\nFrom 1947 to 1980, the American Baseball Coaches Association was the only All-American selector recognized by the NCAA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093799-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 College Football All-America Team\nThe 1972 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans by various organizations and writers that chose College Football All-America Teams in 1972. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) recognizes six selectors as \"official\" for the 1972 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093799-0000-0001", "contents": "1972 College Football All-America Team\nThey are: (1) the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) which selected its team for Kodak based on a vote of the nation's coaches; (2) the Associated Press (AP) selected based on the votes of sports writers at AP newspapers; (3) the Football Writers Association of America (FWAA) selected by the nation's football writers; (4) the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA) selected based on the votes of sports writers at NEA newspapers; (5) the United Press International (UPI) selected based on the votes of sports writers at UPI newspapers; and (6) the Walter Camp Football Foundation (WC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093799-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 College Football All-America Team\nEight players are recognized by the NCAA as unanimous All-America selections. They are: (1) wide receiver and 1972 Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Rodgers of Nebraska; (2) tight end Charles Young of USC; (3) offensive tackle Jerry Sisemore of Texas; (4) offensive guard John Hannah of Alabama; (5) running back Greg Pruitt of Oklahoma; (6) defensive tackle Greg Marx of Notre Dame; (7) middle guard Rich Glover of Nebraska; and (8) defensive back Brad Van Pelt of Michigan State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093799-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 College Football All-America Team, Consensus All-Americans\nThe following chart identifies the NCAA-recognized consensus All-Americans for the year 1972 and displays which first-team designations they received.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 63], "content_span": [64, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093800-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Colorado Buffaloes football team\nThe 1972 Colorado Buffaloes football team represented the University of Colorado at Boulder during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093801-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Colorado State Rams football team\nThe 1972 Colorado State Rams football team was an American football team that represented Colorado State University in the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. In its third and final season under head coach Jerry Wampfler, the team compiled a 1\u201310 record (1\u20134 against WAC opponents). They finished tied with UTEP for last in the WAC, and were outscored by a total of 413 to 128, being shutout in four games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093802-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Columbia Lions football team\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by Jweiss11 (talk | contribs) at 02:50, 10 September 2020 (cat sort key). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093802-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Columbia Lions football team\nThe 1972 Columbia Lions football team was an American football team that represented Columbia University during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. Columbia tied for sixth in the Ivy League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093802-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Columbia Lions football team\nIn their fifth season under head coach Frank Navarro, the Lions compiled a 3\u20135\u20131 record but outscored opponents 143 to 125. Don Jackson, Paul Kaliades and Jesse Parks were the team captains.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093802-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Columbia Lions football team\nThe Lions' 2\u20134\u20131 conference record tied for sixth in the Ivy League standings. Columbia was outscored 118 to 96 by Ivy opponents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093802-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Columbia Lions football team\nColumbia played its home games at Baker Field in Upper Manhattan, in New York City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093803-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Commercial Union Assurance Masters\nThe 1972 Commercial Union Assurance Masters was a tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts at Palau Blaugrana in Barcelona in Spain. It was the 3rd edition of the Masters Grand Prix and was held from November 28 through December 2, 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093803-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Commercial Union Assurance Masters, Final, Singles\nIlie N\u0103stase defeated Stan Smith 6\u20133, 6\u20132, 3\u20136, 2\u20136, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 55], "content_span": [56, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093804-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Commercial Union Assurance Masters \u2013 Singles\nIlie N\u0103stase was the defending champion and won in the final 6\u20133, 6\u20132, 3\u20136, 2\u20136, 6\u20133 against Stan Smith.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093804-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Commercial Union Assurance Masters \u2013 Singles, Draw, Group A\nStandings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-players-ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, or of games won; 5) Steering Committee decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 64], "content_span": [65, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093804-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Commercial Union Assurance Masters \u2013 Singles, Draw, Group B\nStandings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-players-ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, or of games won; 5) Steering Committee decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 64], "content_span": [65, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093805-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Comorian cantonal election\nParliamentary elections were held in the Comoros on 3 December 1972. The result was a victory for the Democratic Rally of the Comorian People\u2013Comorian Democratic Union alliance, which won over 75% of the vote. Turnout was 81.5%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093806-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Connecticut Huskies baseball team\nThe 1972 Connecticut Huskies baseball team represented the University of Connecticut in the 1972 NCAA University Division baseball season. The Huskies were led by Larry Panciera in his 11th year as head coach, and played as part of the Yankee Conference. Connecticut posted a 20\u20137 record, won the Yankee Conference with an undefeated regular season, swept the NCAA District 1 Playoff and reached the 1972 College World Series, their fourth appearance in the penultimate college baseball event. The Huskies won their first game against Texas before falling to eventual champion Southern California in extra innings and being eliminated by Temple the next day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 697]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093807-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Connecticut Huskies football team\nThe 1972 Connecticut Huskies football team represented the University of Connecticut in the 1972 NCAA College Division football season. The Huskies were led by second year head coach Robert Casciola, and completed the season with a record of 4\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093808-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Cook Islands Round Cup\nThe 1972 season of the Cook Islands Round Cup was the third recorded season of top flight association football competition in the Cook Islands, with any results between 1951 and 1969 currently unknown. Titikaveka won the championship, their third recorded championship in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093809-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Cook Islands general election\nGeneral elections were held in the Cook Islands on 11 April 1972. The result was a victory for the ruling Cook Islands Party (CIP), which won 15 of the 22 seats in the Legislative Assembly. The newly formed Democratic Party won seven seats. CIP leader Albert Henry remained Premier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093809-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Cook Islands general election, Background\nThe Assembly elected in May 1968 had a three-year term, with the next elections expected in 1971. However, in March 1969 a bill was approved to extend the parliamentary term to four years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093809-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Cook Islands general election, Campaign\nPrior to the elections the United Cook Islanders party was disbanded, with its members joining the new Democratic Party founded by Thomas Davis after he returned to the Cook Islands from the United States. All candidates except a single independent (Edwin Gold in Mangaia) were from the CIP or Democratic Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093809-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Cook Islands general election, Campaign\nIncumbent MPs standing down included Director for Health and Aitutaki MP Joseph Williams and Teau-o-Tonga MP Teaukara.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093809-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Cook Islands general election, Aftermath\nFollowing the elections, Henry formed a new cabinet, in which he held fifteen portfolios. The other ministers were Inatio Akaruru (Minister of Health), William Estall (Minister of Agriculture, Marketing Board Co-operatives and Shipping), Geoffrey Henry (Minister of Education, Justice, Lands and Survey), Tupua Henry (Minister of Housing, Internal Affairs and Public Works), Tiakana Numanga (Minister of Fisheries and Police) and Apenera Short (Minister of Broadcasting, Electric Power Supply, Government Printer and Newspaper Corporation).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093810-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Copa Fraternidad\nThe Copa Fraternidad 1972 was the second Central American club championship played between 12 clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093811-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Copa Interamericana\nThe 1972 Copa Interamericana was the 3rd. edition of the Copa Interamericana. The final was contested by Argentine Club Atl\u00e9tico Independiente (champion of 1972 Copa Libertadores) and Hondurean side Olimpia (winner of 1972 CONCACAF Champions' Cup). The final was played under a two-leg format in June, 1973. Both matches were held in Honduras.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093811-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Copa Interamericana\nIn the first leg, hosted at Estadio General Francisco Moraz\u00e1n in San Pedro Sula, Independiente beat Olimpia 2\u20131. The second leg, hosted at Estadio Tiburcio Car\u00edas Andino in Tegucigalpa, was also won by the Argentine team by 2\u20130. With an aggregate score of 4\u20131, Independiente won their first Interamericana trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093812-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Copa Libertadores\nThe 1972 Copa Libertadores was the 13th edition of the Copa Libertadores, CONMEBOL's the annual club tournament. Independiente of Argentina defeated Universitario de Deportes of Peru in the finals, and became the second team in the tournament's history to win three title. They would go on and face the winner of the 1971\u201372 European Cup in the Intercontinental Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093812-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Copa Libertadores, Format\nThe tournament was divided into three phases. The first phase had 19 teams divided into four round-robin groups of four and one group of three (defending champions Nacional received a bye to the second phase). Each group had clubs from two countries. The winners of each group advanced the second phase. Five teams joined the defending champions in two round-robin groups of three. The winners of each group advance to play in the finals. The winner of the finals, and tournament champions, are determined by points (two for a win, one for tie).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093812-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Copa Libertadores, First phase\nOne team from each group qualified to the second group stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 35], "content_span": [36, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093813-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Copa Libertadores Finals\nThe 1972 Copa Libertadores de Am\u00e9rica Finals was the final two-legged tie to determine the champion of the 1972 edition of Copa Libertadores. It was contested by Argentine club Independiente and Peruvian club Universitario. The first leg of the tie was played on May 17 at Estadio Nacional in Lima with the second leg played on May 24 at Estadio de Independiente in Avellaneda.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093813-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Copa Libertadores Finals\nIndependiente won 2-1 on aggregate, achieving its third Copa Libertadores title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093814-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Copa Per\u00fa\nThe 1972 Copa Per\u00fa season (Spanish: Copa Per\u00fa 1972), the promotion tournament of Peruvian football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093814-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Copa Per\u00fa\nIn this tournament after many qualification rounds, each one of the 24 departments in which Peru is politically divided, qualify a team. Those teams plus de team relegated from First Division on the last year, enter in two more rounds and finally 6 of them qualify for the Final round, staged in Lima (the capital).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093814-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Copa Per\u00fa\nTwo teams were promoted to play in 1972 First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 70]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093814-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Copa Per\u00fa, Finalists teams\nThe following list shows the teams that qualified for the Final Stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 31], "content_span": [32, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093815-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Copa del General\u00edsimo Final\nThe Copa del General\u00edsimo 1972 Final was the 70th final of the King's Cup. The final was played at Santiago Bernab\u00e9u Stadium in Madrid, on 8 July 1972, being won by Atl\u00e9tico Madrid, who beat Valencia 2\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093816-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Coppa Italia Final\nThe 1972 Coppa Italia Final was the final of the 1971\u201372 Coppa Italia. The match was played on 5 July 1972 between Milan and Napoli. Milan won 2\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093817-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship\nThe 1972 Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship was the 63rd staging of the Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1909. The draw for the opening round fixtures took place at the Cork Convention on 30 January 1972. The championship began on 16 April 1972 and ended on 15 October 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093817-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship\nOn 15 October 1972, Mallow won the championship following a 4-10 to 1-09 defeat of Blackrock in the final. This was their second championship title overall and their first title since 1959.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093818-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Cork Senior Football Championship\nThe 1972 Cork Senior Football Championship was the 84th staging of the Cork Senior Football Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1887. The draw for the opening round fixtures took place on 30 January 1972. The championship began on 7 April 1972 and ended on 19 November 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093818-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Cork Senior Football Championship\nOn 19 November 1972, Nemo Rangers won the championship following a 2-09 to 0-08 defeat of University College Cork in the final. This was their first ever championship title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093818-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Cork Senior Football Championship\nDinny Allen from the Nemo Rangers club was the championship's top scorer with 1-18.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093819-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Cork Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 1972 Cork Senior Hurling Championship was the 84th staging of the Cork Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1887. The championship began on 7 April 1972 and ended on 12 November 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093819-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Cork Senior Hurling Championship\nBlackrock entered the championship as the defending champions, however, they were defeated by St. Finbarr's in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093819-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Cork Senior Hurling Championship\nThe championship was won by Glen Rovers who secured the title following a 3-15 to 1-10 defeat of Youghal in the final. This was their 23rd championship title overall and their first in three years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093819-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Cork Senior Hurling Championship\nPatsy Harte from the Glen Rovers club was the championship's top scorer with 3-14.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093820-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Cornell Big Red football team\nThe 1972 Cornell Big Red football team was an American football team that represented Cornell University during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. A year after winning a share of the Ivy League title, Cornell dropped to a third-place tie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093820-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Cornell Big Red football team\nIn its seventh season under head coach Jack Musick, the team compiled a 6\u20133 record and outscored opponents 238 to 183. Bob Joehl was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093820-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Cornell Big Red football team\nCornell's 4\u20133 conference record tied for third-best in the Ivy League standings. The Big Red outscored Ivy opponents 155 to 154.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093820-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Cornell Big Red football team\nCornell played its home games at Schoellkopf Field in Ithaca, New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093821-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Cotton Bowl Classic\nThe 1972 Cotton Bowl Classic was a college football bowl game between the Penn State Nittany Lions and the Texas Longhorns. The 36th Cotton Bowl Classic, it was played on Saturday, January 1, 1972, at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093821-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Cotton Bowl Classic, Background\nThe Texas Longhorns repeated as Southwest Conference champions and were ranked third in the polls in early October, but consecutive losses (to rival Oklahoma in the Cotton Bowl and to #15 Arkansas in Little Rock) dropped them to 3\u20132 and out of national title contention. Texas won its next five games to gain their fourth straight appearance in the Cotton Bowl, all as SWC champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093821-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Cotton Bowl Classic, Background\nThe independent Nittany Lions had climbed to 10\u20130 and fifth in the rankings before the last game of the regular season, a 31\u201311 upset loss at #12 Tennessee on December 4. (That loss left only Nebraska, Alabama, and Michigan as undefeated, and the first two met for the national title in the Orange Bowl in Miami.) It was Penn State's first Cotton Bowl in 24 years, since 1948.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093821-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Cotton Bowl Classic, Game summary\nThe teams traded field goals and Texas led 6\u20133 at halftime, but the Nittany Lions scored 27 unanswered points in the second half. Penn State running back Lydell Mitchell and quarterback John Hufnagel had touchdown runs while Hufnagel threw a touchdown pass to Scott Skarzynski. Alberto Vitiello had three field goals for the Lions while Steve Valek kicked two for Texas, their only scoring.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093821-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Cotton Bowl Classic, Game summary\nThe convincing win pushed Penn State back up to fifth for the final AP poll, while Texas fell to 18th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093821-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Cotton Bowl Classic, Aftermath\nThe Longhorns went to three more Cotton Bowls in the 1970s, while Penn State returned three years later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093822-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 County Championship\nThe 1972 County Championship was the 73rd officially organised running of the County Championship, and ran from 3 May to 12 September 1972. Warwickshire County Cricket Club claimed their third title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093823-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Coupe de France Final\nThe 1972 Coupe de France Final was a football match held at Parc des Princes, Paris on 4 June 1972, that saw Olympique de Marseille defeat SEC Bastia 2\u20131 thanks to goals by Didier Cou\u00e9cou and Josip Skoblar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093824-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9 Lib\u00e9r\u00e9\nThe 1972 Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9 Lib\u00e9r\u00e9 was the 24th edition of the cycle race and was held from 30 May to 4 June 1972. The race started in Chalon-sur-Sa\u00f4ne and finished at Avignon. The race was won by Luis Oca\u00f1a of the Bic team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093824-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9 Lib\u00e9r\u00e9, Teams\nTen teams, containing a total of 100 riders, participated in the race:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093825-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks season\nThe 1972 Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks season was the sixth in the club's history. They competed in the NSWRFL's 1972 premiership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093826-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Cup of the Ukrainian SSR\nThe Ukrainian Cup 1972 was a football knockout competition conducting by the Football Federation of Ukrainian SSR and was known as the Ukrainian Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093826-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Cup of the Ukrainian SSR\nThe Cup started with the preliminary round on November 4, 1972, and involved the republican level non-amateur clubs. The main event started from the round of 16 on November 8, 1972, when other clubs joined the competition such as Shakhtar, Chornomorets, Metalist, and others, while some of them represented by their second squad. Dynamo Kyiv has chosen not to participate in it since its last winning season in 1948. The competition concluded in just over two weeks in Kiev on November 19. Note that the tournament took place after the Soviet football season was over and was conducted in rather unsupported weather conditions as the cold period in Ukraine starts usually in September or October, depending on location.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 749]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093826-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Cup of the Ukrainian SSR, Teams, Tournament distribution\nThe competition was conducted among 21 Ukrainian clubs of the 1972 Soviet Second League, Zone 1 and all 5 Ukrainian clubs of the 1972 Soviet First League and FC Khimik Zhytomyr. Three more Ukrainian clubs of the Second League Lokomotyv Donetsk, Khimik Severodonetsk and Mayak Kharkiv did not participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093826-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Cup of the Ukrainian SSR, Teams, Other professional teams\nThe four Ukrainian professional teams in the Soviet Top League did not take part in the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093826-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Cup of the Ukrainian SSR, Competition schedule, Final\nAvtomobilist: Zhurba, Kozynets, Bilyi, Kravchuk, Horbach, Pestrykov, Pinchuk, Sladkovskyi (Solovyov, 55), Vasiutyn, Nesmeyan (Kotov, 73), Zelenskyi Head coach: LifshitsShakhtar: Chanov, Yaremchenko, Kurhanov (Horbunov, 74), Belousov, Hubych, Kashchey, Vasin, Konkov, Prokopenko (Shevchuk, 68), Dudynskyi (Kliuchyk, 70), Safonov Head coach: Bazylevych", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093827-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Cupa Rom\u00e2niei Final\nThe 1972 Cupa Rom\u00e2niei Final was the 34th final of Romania's most prestigious football cup competition. It was disputed between Rapid Bucure\u0219ti and Jiul Petro\u015fani, and was won by Rapid Bucure\u0219ti after a game with 2 goals. It was the 8th cup for Rapid Bucure\u0219ti.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093828-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Currie Cup\nThe 1972 Currie Cup was the 34th edition of the Currie Cup, the premier annual domestic rugby union competition in South Africa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093828-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Currie Cup\nThe tournament was won by Transvaal for the sixth time; they beat Eastern Transvaal 25\u201319 in the final in Springs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093829-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Czechoslovak Figure Skating Championships\nThe 1972 Czechoslovak Figure Skating Championships was held on December 18\u201319, 1971 in Karvina. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093830-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 DFB-Pokal Final\nThe 1972 DFB-Pokal Final decided the winner of the 1971\u201372 DFB-Pokal, the 29th season of Germany's knockout football cup competition. It was played on 1 July 1972 at the Niedersachsenstadion in Hanover. Schalke 04 won the match 5\u20130 against 1. FC Kaiserslautern, to claim their 2nd cup title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093830-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 DFB-Pokal Final, Route to the final\nThe DFB-Pokal began with 32 teams in a two-legged knockout cup competition. There were a total of four rounds leading up to the final. Teams were drawn against each other, and following two legs of 90 minutes each, the winner on aggregate would advance. If still tied, 30 minutes of extra time was played. If the score was still level, a penalty shoot-out was used to determine the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 40], "content_span": [41, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093830-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 DFB-Pokal Final, Route to the final\nNote: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 40], "content_span": [41, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093831-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Dahomeyan coup d'\u00e9tat\nThe 1972 Dahomeyan coup d'\u00e9tat was a military coup staged on 26 October 1972 by Major (later General) Mathieu K\u00e9r\u00e9kou, who took control of the Republic of Dahomey and ended a system of government established following the annulled 1970 presidential election, in which three members of the Presidential Council (Hubert Maga, Justin Ahomad\u00e9gb\u00e9-Tom\u00eatin and Sourou-Migan Apithy) were to rotate in power. Ahomad\u00e9gb\u00e9-Tom\u00eatin served as the Chairman at the time of the coup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093831-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Dahomeyan coup d'\u00e9tat, The coup\nThe coup was launched by soldiers of the Ouidah garrison and occurred during a Presidential Council meeting between Maga and Ahomad\u00e9gb\u00e9-Tom\u00eatin. According to reports at the scene, soldiers abruptly arrived in the Cabinet room of the Presidential Palace in the capital Porto-Novo and started firing bullets, but no one was injured. K\u00e9r\u00e9kou led the first armed company of soldiers to break into the meeting, where he declared the end of the Presidential Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093831-0001-0001", "contents": "1972 Dahomeyan coup d'\u00e9tat, The coup\nK\u00e9r\u00e9kou announced the coup on national radio (which later become ORTB) by saying that the \"three headed figure [was] truly a monster\" beset by \"congenital deficiency...notorious inefficiency and...unpardonable incompetence.\" Similarly to the 1963 coup d'\u00e9tat led by Christophe Soglo, the coup was viewed favorably by much of the population of the country. Kerekou named himself the new head of state, appointing military officers to the various ministerial posts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093831-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Dahomeyan coup d'\u00e9tat, Aftermath\nThe members of the Presidential Council and other prominent political figures were arrested and imprisoned or placed under house arrest until 1981. After they were released from house arrest in 1981, Maga, Ahomad\u00e9gb\u00e9-Tom\u00eatin, and Apithy all moved to Paris.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093831-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Dahomeyan coup d'\u00e9tat, Aftermath, Ideological changes\nK\u00e9r\u00e9kou proclaimed the formal accession of his government to Marxism\u2013Leninism on 30 November 1974, in a speech before an assembly of stunned notables in the city of Abomey. He soon aligned Dahomey with the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc. Finally, K\u00e9r\u00e9kou declared the end of the Republic of Dahomey and the establishment of the People's Republic of Benin on 30 November 1975, named after the Kingdom of Benin that had once flourished in the south-central part of neighboring Nigeria. The People's Revolutionary Party of Benin (PRPB), designed as a vanguard party, was created on the same day as the country's only legal party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 58], "content_span": [59, 688]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093832-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Dallas Cowboys season\nThe 1972 Dallas Cowboys season was their 13th in the league. The team failed to improve their previous output of 11\u20133, winning only ten games. They qualified for the playoffs for the seventh consecutive season but settled for the wildcard spot. A pre-season injury to quarterback Roger Staubach and the trade of Duane Thomas (both had been integral figures in the 1971 championship team) hindered the offense (mitigated somewhat since their replacements, Craig Morton and Calvin Hill, were former starters).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093832-0000-0001", "contents": "1972 Dallas Cowboys season\nIn the divisional playoff round, Staubach came off the bench to engineer an improbable 30\u201328 comeback win over the 49ers (Dallas had trailed by 28\u201316 with less than 2 minutes to play). The win over the 49ers still ranks as one of the all-time great Cowboys wins. However, the momentum could not carry them to a victory over Washington in the NFC Championship game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093832-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Dallas Cowboys season, Regular season\nRoger Staubach was lost in the 3rd pre season game with the Los Angeles Rams when Marlin McKeever tackled him. It required him to get a shoulder operation. Veteran backup Quarterback Craig Morton would lead the Cowboys for the 1972 season. When the Cowboys got down in the December 23 playoff game Tom Landry inserted Roger who led them to a come from behind 30\u201328 victory over San Francisco. In 1972 the Cowboys would build up big leads in games only to hang on to win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093832-0001-0001", "contents": "1972 Dallas Cowboys season, Regular season\nSome examples of this would be Monday Night October 30 when they hosted Detroit, the November 5 game in San Diego, a November 12 game at home versus St. Louis, and the December 9 home game against Washington. The December 18, 1972 Sports Illustrated ran a story on the 1972 Dallas Cowboys surrounding their game with the Washington Redskins on pages 20\u201323, and featuring Cowboy middle linebacker #55 Lee Roy Jordan on the cover.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093832-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Dallas Cowboys season, Regular season\nStill another factor in the Cowboys 1972 season was that All Pro defensive tackle Bob Lilly played through an injury to his back for most all of the year, along with a bone spur near his heel and an injured muscle just above his knee. Lilly was furthermore selected for his 10th Pro Bowl but did not play in the game. Lilly had 2 1/2 sacks on the season, while overall the team totaled 32.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093832-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Dallas Cowboys season, Season recap\nThe Dallas Cowboys since its inception have always had cheerleaders, but during the team preparations to defend their World Championship title in 1972, a turning point in cheerleader history would be made with the creation of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, wearing new star spangled uniforms and performing dance routines, instead of the traditional acrobatic displays.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093832-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Dallas Cowboys season, Season recap\nThe Cowboys qualified for the playoffs a record seventh consecutive year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093832-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Dallas Cowboys season, Trivia\nThis season marks the first time in Cowboys history they wore their white jerseys for every game. The second and only other time so far was 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093833-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Danish 1st Division, Overview\nIt was contested by 12 teams, and Vejle Boldklub won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093834-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Danish European Communities membership referendum\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by Monkbot (talk | contribs) at 17:56, 1 January 2020 (\u2192\u200etop: Task 15: language icon template(s) replaced (1\u00d7);). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093834-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Danish European Communities membership referendum\nA referendum on joining the European Economic Community was held in Denmark on 2 October 1972. The result was 63.3% in favour with a turnout of 90.1%. The law that Denmark should be member of the EEC was passed on 11 October 1972, and Denmark became a member on 1 January 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093834-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Danish European Communities membership referendum, Background\nAccording to Article 20, section 2 of the Danish constitution, any law that makes limitations to the sovereignty of the Danish state (as membership of the EEC would) must be passed in the Danish parliament with 5/6 of the parliament's members voting for the law. If a majority of members vote for the law, but not by 5/6 majority, and the government wishes to uphold the suggested law, the law can still be passed in a public referendum, as was the case in the 1972 referendum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 66], "content_span": [67, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093835-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Dartmouth Indians football team\nThe 1972 Dartmouth Indians football team was an American football team that represented Dartmouth College during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. For the fourth straight year, the Indians were Ivy League champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093835-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Dartmouth Indians football team\nIn their second season under head coach Jake Crouthamel, the Indians compiled a 7\u20131\u20131 record and outscored opponents 260 to 168. Robert Norton and Frederick Radke were the team captains.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093835-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Dartmouth Indians football team\nThe Indians' 5\u20131\u20131 conference record was the best in the Ivy League standings, and unlike the previous year, when Dartmouth shared the Ivy League title, in 1972 the team won the league outright. The Indians outscored Ivy opponents 219 to 147.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093835-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Dartmouth Indians football team\nDartmouth played its home games at Memorial Field on the college campus in Hanover, New Hampshire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093836-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Davis Cup\nThe 1972 Davis Cup was the 61st edition of the Davis Cup, the most important tournament between national teams in men's tennis. 55 teams would enter the competition, 33 in the Europe Zone, 11 in the Americas Zone, and 11 in the Eastern Zone. In this year's tournament the Challenge Round was abolished, resulting in the previous year's champion now playing in all matches rather than receiving a bye to the final. Going forward the winner of the Inter-Zonal Zone would now be declared the Davis Cup champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093836-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Davis Cup\nThe United States defeated Chile in the Americas Inter-Zonal final, Australia defeated India in the Eastern Inter-Zonal final, and Romania and Spain were the winners of the two Europe Zones, defeating the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093836-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Davis Cup\nIn the Inter-Zonal Zone, the United States defeated Spain and Romania defeated Australia in the semifinals. The United States then defeated Romania in the final, giving the United States their fifth straight title. The final was played at the Club Sportiv Progresul in Bucharest, Romania on 13\u201315 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093837-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Davis Cup Americas Zone\nThe Americas Zone was one of the three regional zones of the 1972 Davis Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093837-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Davis Cup Americas Zone\n11 teams entered the Americas Zone: 4 teams competed in the North & Central America Zone, while 7 teams competed in the South America Zone. The winner of each sub-zone would play against each other to determine who moved to the Inter-Zonal Zone to compete against the winners of the Eastern Zone and Europe Zone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093837-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Davis Cup Americas Zone\nThe United States defeated Mexico in the North & Central America Zone final, and Chile defeated Brazil in the South America Zone final. In the Americas Inter-Zonal Final, the United States defeated Chile and progressed to the Inter-Zonal Zone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093838-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Davis Cup Eastern Zone\nThe Eastern Zone was one of the three regional zones of the 1972 Davis Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093838-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Davis Cup Eastern Zone\n11 teams entered the Eastern Zone, competing across 2 sub-zones. The winner of each sub-zones would play against each other to determine who would compete in the Inter-Zonal Zone against the winners of the Americas Zone and Europe Zone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093838-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Davis Cup Eastern Zone\nAustralia defeated Japan in the Zone A final, and India defeated Malaysia in the Zone B final. In the Eastern Inter-Zonal final, Australia defeated India and progressed to the Inter-Zonal Zone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093839-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Davis Cup Europe Zone\nThe Europe Zone was one of the three regional zones of the 1972 Davis Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093839-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Davis Cup Europe Zone\n33 teams entered the Europe Zone, competing across 2 sub-zones. The winners of each sub-zone went on to compete in the Inter-Zonal Zone against the winners of the Americas Zone and Eastern Zone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093839-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Davis Cup Europe Zone\nRomania defeated the Soviet Union in the Zone A final, and Spain defeated Czechoslovakia in the Zone B final, resulting in both Romania and Spain progressing to the Inter-Zonal Zone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093840-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Daytona 500\nThe 1972 Daytona 500, the 14th running of the event, was held on February 20, 1972 at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. A. J. Foyt, driving a 1971 Mercury, won the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093840-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Daytona 500\nFirst Daytona 500 starts for David Sisco and Walter Ballard. Only Daytona 500 start for Richard D. Brown, George Altheide, David Ray Boggs, Ed Hessert, Larry Dickson, Jimmy Finger, Mark Donohue, and Raymond Williams. Last Daytona 500 starts for Vic Elford, Henley Grey, Ben Arnold, Bill Seifert, Elmo Langley, and Bill Champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093840-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Daytona 500, Summary\nFoyt drove his number 21 to victory after starting the race from the outside front-row position. There were three cautions flags which slowed the race for a total of 17 laps. Foyt dominated the event, winning by almost two laps over his closest competitor. The victory over Charlie Glotzbach was Foyt's first win of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 25], "content_span": [26, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093840-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Daytona 500, Summary\nThe 1972 Daytona 500 has the distinction of being the event which had the fewest leaders for a NASCAR race held at Daytona International Speedway; with only Foyt, Richard Petty, and Bobby Allison recorded as leading a lap during the competition. The Daytona 500 was the second event held during the 1972 season, and completed in three hours and five minutes with an average speed of 161\u00a0mph. There were a total of 13 lead changes between Foyt, Allison, and Petty throughout the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 25], "content_span": [26, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093840-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Daytona 500, Summary\nFoyt's victory would earn him a spot on the cover of Sports Illustrated, the first time for a reigning Daytona 500 champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 25], "content_span": [26, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093840-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Daytona 500, Summary\nWalter Ballard had a huge crash in this race on lap 16 as a result of getting together with Buddy Baker in the tri-oval. Baker himself would disappear from the race on lap 18. Ballard went upside down after climbing the nose of Baker's car. He rolled into the tri-oval grass and barrel rolled 3 times before coming back onto all fours. Both drivers were uninjured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 25], "content_span": [26, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093840-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Daytona 500, Summary\nRaymond Williams earned the dubious honor of being the only driver ever to both begin and finish in last-place in the same Daytona 500. Also, attrition was through the roof in this race, as only 26 cars even made it 200 miles, just 22 cars ran at least half the race, and just 19 made it 110 laps. Also, the distances between some of the leading finishers were just astounding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 25], "content_span": [26, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093840-0006-0001", "contents": "1972 Daytona 500, Summary\nThird-place finisher Jim Vandiver (and fourth-place Benny Parsons) was six laps/15 miles behind the winner, fifth-place James Hylton was 9 laps/22.5 miles behind, sixth-place Cale Yarborough was 12 laps/30 miles or 6% of the race distance behind, and 10th-place finisher Vic Elford was 18 laps/45 miles or 9% of the race distance behind Foyt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 25], "content_span": [26, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093840-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Daytona 500, Summary\nBobby Isaac won the pole but A.J. Foyt overtook him right at the start although the two fought for the lead on the first lap. As Foyt pulled away Issac's day turned out to be a short one as engine problems put the K&K Insurance Dodge on the trailer before the 10 percent mark of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 25], "content_span": [26, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093841-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team\nThe 1972 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team represented the University of Delaware in the 1972 NCAA College Division football season as an independent. They were led by seventh-year head coach Tubby Raymond and played their home games at Delaware Stadium in Newark, Delaware.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093841-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team\nFollowing their undefeated season, they were named NCAA College Division national champions in both the AP writers' poll and the UPI coaches poll. For the fifth straight year, they also won the Lambert Cup as the best football team from a mid-sized college in the East.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093842-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Delaware State Hornets football team\nThe 1972 Delaware State Hornets football team represented Delaware State College\u2014now known as Delaware State University\u2014as a member of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) in the 1972 NCAA College Division football season. Led by sixth-year head coach Arnold Jeter, the Hornets compiled an overall record of 5\u20134 and a mark of 2\u20134 in conference play, trying for fifth in the MEAC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093843-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Delaware gubernatorial election\nThe 1972 Delaware gubernatorial election was held on November 7, 1972. Democratic nominee Sherman W. Tribbitt defeated incumbent Republican Governor Russell W. Peterson with 51.27% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093843-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Delaware gubernatorial election, Nominations\nFrom 1972 to 1992 Delaware used a system of \u201cchallenge\u201d primaries, in which a candidate for statewide office who received at least 35 percent of the convention vote could challenge the endorsed candidate in a primary. Democratic nominee Tribbitt avoided such a primary in 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 49], "content_span": [50, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093844-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Delhi Metropolitan Council election\nDelhi Metropolitan Council election, 1972 was held in Indian National Capital Territory of Delhi to elect 56 councillors to the Delhi Metropolitan Council. This council had no legislative powers, but only an advisory role in administration of the territory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093844-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Delhi Metropolitan Council election, Results\nThe election elected Second Delhi Metropolitan Council. Mir Mushtaq Ahmed was Chairman of the council, Jag Parvesh Chandra being Deputy Chairman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093845-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Democratic National Convention\nThe 1972 Democratic National Convention was the presidential nominating convention of the Democratic Party for the 1972 presidential election. It was held at Miami Beach Convention Center in Miami Beach, Florida, on July 10\u201313, 1972. Lawrence F. O'Brien served as permanent chairman of the convention, while Yvonne Braithwaite Burke served as vice-chair, becoming the first African American and the first woman of color to hold that position. On the last day of the convention, Lawrence F. O'Brien departed and Burke was left to preside for about fourteen hours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093845-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Democratic National Convention\nThe convention nominated Senator George McGovern of South Dakota for president and Senator Thomas Eagleton of Missouri for vice president. Eagleton withdrew from the race just 19 days later after it was disclosed that he had previously undergone mental health treatment, including electroshock therapy, and he was replaced on the ballot by Sargent Shriver of Maryland, a Kennedy in-law.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093845-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Democratic National Convention\nThe convention, which has been described as \"a disastrous start to the general election campaign\", was one of the most unusual\u2014perhaps the most contentious in the history of the Democratic Party since 1924\u2014with sessions beginning in the early evening and lasting until sunrise the next morning. Previously excluded political activists gained influence at the expense of elected officials and traditional core Democratic constituencies such as organized labor. A protracted vice presidential nominating process delayed McGovern's acceptance speech (which he considered \"the best speech of his life\") until 2:48\u00a0a.m.\u2014after most television viewers had gone to bed. Hunter S. Thompson covered this convention in detail in several articles and in Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 822]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093845-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Democratic National Convention, Delegate selection\nThe 1972 convention was significant as the first implementation of the reforms set by the Commission on Party Structure and Delegate Selection, which McGovern himself had chaired before deciding to run for president. After McGovern resigned from his position as chair, he was replaced as chair by U.S. Representative Donald Fraser, which gave the McGovern\u2013Fraser Commission its name. The 28-member commission was established after the tumultuous 1968 convention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 55], "content_span": [56, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093845-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Democratic National Convention, Delegate selection\nThe commission set guidelines ordering state parties to \"adopt explicit written Party rules governing delegate selection\" and implemented eight \"procedural rules and safeguards\", including the prohibition of proxy voting, the end of the unit rule (winner-take-all primaries) and related practices such as instructing delegations, a new quorum requirement of not less than 40% at all party committee meetings, the removal of all mandatory assessments of delegates and the cap of mandatory participation fees at $10.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 55], "content_span": [56, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093845-0004-0001", "contents": "1972 Democratic National Convention, Delegate selection\nIn addition, there were new rules ensuring that party meetings in non-rural areas were held on uniform dates, at uniform times, and in places of easy access and that adequate public notice of all party meetings concerned with delegate selection was posted. Among the most significant of the changes were new quotas mandating that certain percentages of delegates be women or members of minority groups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 55], "content_span": [56, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093845-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Democratic National Convention, Delegate selection\nAs a result of the new rules, subjects that were previously deemed not fit for political debate, such as abortion and gay rights, now occupied the forefront of political discussion. The new rules for choosing and seating delegates created an unusual number of rules and credentials challenges. Many traditional Democratic groups such as organized labor and big-city political machines had small representation at the convention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 55], "content_span": [56, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093845-0005-0001", "contents": "1972 Democratic National Convention, Delegate selection\nTheir supporters challenged the seating of relative political novices, but for the most part were turned back by the supporters of McGovern, who during the presidential primaries had amassed the most delegates to the convention by using a grassroots campaign that was powered by opposition to the Vietnam War. Many traditional Democratic leaders and politicians felt that McGovern's delegate count did not reflect the wishes of most Democratic voters. Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter helped to spearhead a \"Stop McGovern\" campaign, while at the same time trying to become McGovern's candidate for vice president. The stop-McGovern forces tried unsuccessfully to alter the delegate composition of the California delegation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 55], "content_span": [56, 776]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093845-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Democratic National Convention, Delegate selection\nThe Illinois primary required voters to select individual delegates, not presidential candidates. Most Illinois delegation members were uncommitted and were controlled or influenced by Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley, the leader of the Chicago political machine. The delegation was challenged by McGovern supporters arguing that the results of the primary did not create a diverse enough delegation in terms of women and minorities. The credentials committee, headed by Patricia Roberts Harris, rejected the entire elected delegation, including elected women and minorities, and seated an unelected delegation led by Chicago Alderman William S. Singer and Jesse Jackson, pledged to George McGovern.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 55], "content_span": [56, 753]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093845-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Democratic National Convention, Delegate selection\nThe California primary was \"winner-take-all\", which was contrary to the delegate selection rules. So even though McGovern only won the California primary by a 5% electoral margin, he won all 271 of their delegates to the convention. The anti-McGovern group argued for a proportional distribution of the delegates, while the McGovern forces stressed that the rules for the delegate selection had been set and the Stop McGovern alliance was trying to change the rules after the game. The credentials committee ruled in favor of the anti-McGovern group prior to the convention, leaving McGovern short of a first-ballot majority. However, the committee was overruled by a floor vote on the first day of the convention and a unanimous McGovern delegation was seated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 55], "content_span": [56, 817]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093845-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 Democratic National Convention, Delegate selection\nMcGovern recognized the mixed results of the changes that he made to the Democratic nominating convention, saying, \"I opened the doors of the Democratic Party and 20 million people walked out\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 55], "content_span": [56, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093845-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 Democratic National Convention, Delegate selection\nThe so-called \"magic number\", or number of delegates needed to secure the nomination, was 1,509.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 55], "content_span": [56, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093845-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 Democratic National Convention, Platform\nFormed after \"divisive platform battles\", the 1972 Democratic National Convention's platform has been characterized as \"probably the most liberal one ever adopted by a major party in the United States\". It advocated immediate withdrawal from Vietnam, amnesty for war resisters, the abolition of the draft, a guaranteed job for all Americans (it offered to \"make the government the employer of last resort\"), and a guaranteed family income well above the poverty line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093845-0011-0000", "contents": "1972 Democratic National Convention, Platform, Feminism\nThe Feminist Movement was a major influence on the Democratic platform of 1972, and on the entire convention in general. With renewed vigor, the Democrats reaffirmed their dedication to the Equal Rights Amendment, as did the Republicans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 55], "content_span": [56, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093845-0012-0000", "contents": "1972 Democratic National Convention, Platform, Feminism\nThere were disagreements within the Democrats of the National Women's Political Caucus (NWPC), and the Women's Movement in general, over how to best approach certain issues. At the convention Betty Friedan clashed with Gloria Steinem over the way NWPC women should approach certain issues, and whether or not they should make sure to throw all possible support behind Shirley Chisholm (both women were supporters of Chisholm's presidential campaign).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 55], "content_span": [56, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093845-0013-0000", "contents": "1972 Democratic National Convention, Platform, Feminism\nAs the convention was occurring on Miami Beach, Gloria Steinem chose The Betsy Ross Hotel as headquarters for the National Organization for Women (NOW). Built in 1942, the hotel had been named after Betsy Ross, the Philadelphia seamstress who sewed American Flags.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 55], "content_span": [56, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093845-0014-0000", "contents": "1972 Democratic National Convention, Platform, Feminism\nMcGovern ultimately excised the abortion issue from the party's platform; recent publications show McGovern was deeply conflicted on the issue. Actress and activist Shirley MacLaine, though privately supporting abortion rights, urged the delegates to vote against the plank. Gloria Steinem later wrote this description of the events:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 55], "content_span": [56, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093845-0015-0000", "contents": "1972 Democratic National Convention, Platform, Feminism\nThe consensus of the meeting of women delegates held by the caucus had been to fight for the minority plank on reproductive freedom; indeed our vote had supported the plank nine to one. So fight we did, with three women delegates speaking eloquently in its favor as a constitutional right. One male Right-to-Life zealot spoke against, and Shirley MacLaine also was an opposition speaker, on the grounds that this was a fundamental right but didn't belong in the platform. We made a good showing. Clearly we would have won if McGovern's forces had left their delegates uninstructed and thus able to vote their consciences.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 55], "content_span": [56, 677]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093845-0016-0000", "contents": "1972 Democratic National Convention, Platform, Feminism\nGermaine Greer flatly contradicted Steinem's account. Having recently gained public notoriety for her feminist manifesto The Female Eunuch and sparring with Norman Mailer, Greer was commissioned to cover the convention for Harper's Magazine. Greer criticized Steinem's \"controlled jubilation\" that 38% of the delegates were women, ignoring that \"many delegations had merely stacked themselves with token females... The McGovern machine had already pulled the rug out from under them\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 55], "content_span": [56, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093845-0017-0000", "contents": "1972 Democratic National Convention, Platform, Feminism\nGreer leveled her most searing critique on Steinem for her capitulation on abortion rights. Greer reported, \"Jacqui Ceballos called from the crowd to demand abortion rights on the Democratic platform, but Bella [Abzug] and Gloria stared glassily out into the room\", thus killing the abortion rights platform. Greer asks, \"Why had Bella and Gloria not helped Jacqui to nail him on abortion? What reticence, what loserism had afflicted them?\" The cover of Harper's that month read, \"Womanlike, they did not want to get tough with their man, and so, womanlike, they got screwed\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 55], "content_span": [56, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093845-0018-0000", "contents": "1972 Democratic National Convention, Platform, Gay rights\nA coalition of gay rights groups at the convention \"drew up a proposed platform provision that called for, among other things, repealing laws against homosexuals marrying\". The provision was rejected by a vote of 54\u201334. Afterwards, however, two delegates, Jim Foster and Madeline Davis (the first openly lesbian delegate to a major national political convention), spoke publicly on its behalf.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093845-0019-0000", "contents": "1972 Democratic National Convention, Platform, Desegregation\nThe platform championed busing under its \"Education\" plank, stating, \"Transportation of students is another tool to accomplish desegregation\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 60], "content_span": [61, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093845-0020-0000", "contents": "1972 Democratic National Convention, Platform, Welfare\nIn addition to a guaranteed job for all Americans (it offered to \"make the government the employer of last resort\") and a guaranteed family income above the poverty line, the McGovern platform championed the right of American welfare recipients to be represented by organizations resembling labor unions when dealing with welfare agencies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 54], "content_span": [55, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093845-0021-0000", "contents": "1972 Democratic National Convention, Platform, Welfare\nThe McGovern platform is often criticized as a \"reformist coup\" responsible in large part for the subsequent decline in American liberalism and chasing away the Democratic Party's \"best politicians\". It alienated the \"working- and lower-middle class voters [who] saw [the platform] as threatening to traditional, deeply valued, if inequitable social arrangements\"\u2014so much so that one in three Democrats voted for Nixon, the Republican incumbent, in the presidential election in November. For example:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 54], "content_span": [55, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093845-0022-0000", "contents": "1972 Democratic National Convention, Platform, Welfare\nAlthough the McGovern platform did not promise socialism, it did pledge to eliminate\u2014through government guarantee and dicta\u2014any manifestation of free enterprise that could potentially produce inequality or failure. It promised to use the tax system and federal law enforcement to redistribute income and wealth. And it said the Democrats would study whether corporations should be chartered as federal institutions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 54], "content_span": [55, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093845-0023-0000", "contents": "1972 Democratic National Convention, Platform, Right to be different\nThe Democrats also included \"the right to be different\" in their 1972 platform. According to the party, this right included the right to \"maintain a cultural or ethnic heritage or lifestyle, without being forced into a compelled homogeneity\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 68], "content_span": [69, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093845-0024-0000", "contents": "1972 Democratic National Convention, Running mate\nMost polls showed McGovern running well behind incumbent President Richard Nixon, except when McGovern was paired with Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy. McGovern and his campaign brain trust lobbied Kennedy heavily to accept the bid to be McGovern's running mate, but he continually refused their advances, and instead suggested U.S. Representative (and House Ways and Means Committee chairman) Wilbur Mills of Arkansas and Boston Mayor Kevin White. Offers were then made to Hubert Humphrey, Connecticut Senator Abraham Ribicoff, and Minnesota Senator Walter Mondale, all of whom turned it down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 49], "content_span": [50, 646]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093845-0025-0000", "contents": "1972 Democratic National Convention, Running mate\nMcGovern and his campaign staff felt that a Kennedy-style figure was best to balance the ticket: a Catholic, big city-based leader with strong ties to organized labor and urban political machines. After McGovern informed Kennedy that he was seriously considering Kevin White (who had informed McGovern he was available), the Massachusetts delegation threatened to walk out of the convention if McGovern chose White, an Edmund Muskie supporter who had fought sharply with the McGovern slate during the primary. Immediately, White was dropped from consideration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 49], "content_span": [50, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093845-0026-0000", "contents": "1972 Democratic National Convention, Running mate\nFinally, the vice presidential slot was offered to Senator Thomas Eagleton of Missouri, who was relatively unknown to many of the delegates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 49], "content_span": [50, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093845-0027-0000", "contents": "1972 Democratic National Convention, Running mate\nThe delegates insisted on nominating eight candidates for vice president, including Eagleton, Senator Mike Gravel of Alaska, former Massachusetts Governor Endicott Peabody, and Frances \"Sissy\" Farenthold of the Texas state house: Farenthold was the first serious female candidate for the Democratic vice president nomination since Lena Springs in 1924.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 49], "content_span": [50, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093845-0028-0000", "contents": "1972 Democratic National Convention, Running mate\nBy the time the roll call finally began, many of the delegates were angry and wary after the protracted infighting, and combined with the last-day-of-school atmosphere of the proceedings, caused the vice-presidential balloting to become nothing short of a farce. The delegates cast ballots for a record 79 people, including many not involved in politics, as well as three deceased persons, Chinese leader Mao Zedong, and the fictional Archie Bunker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 49], "content_span": [50, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093845-0029-0000", "contents": "1972 Democratic National Convention, Running mate\nAs the vote went on, Farenthold began to attract an unexpected level of support, eventually leading to something of a grassroots campaign to nominate her over Eagleton. However, this ultimately proved too late and too disorganized to have any serious chance of denying Eagleton the nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 49], "content_span": [50, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093845-0030-0000", "contents": "1972 Democratic National Convention, Running mate\nEventually, Eagleton secured the nomination at 1:40\u00a0AM. This delay forced the acceptance speeches of the candidates to be given well past the television prime time hours, and probably hurt the McGovern campaign by not creating the so-called \"convention bounce\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 49], "content_span": [50, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093845-0031-0000", "contents": "1972 Democratic National Convention, Running mate\nSeveral days after the convention, it was revealed that Senator Eagleton had been hospitalized for depression and had electric shock treatment, and was also rumored to be more than a social drinker. McGovern stood behind his choice and stated that he was behind Senator Eagleton \"1000 percent\". The news media and many political pros, especially in the Democratic Party, lobbied hard for his removal from the ticket.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 49], "content_span": [50, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093845-0032-0000", "contents": "1972 Democratic National Convention, Running mate\nEventually, McGovern felt compelled to accept Senator Eagleton's withdrawal from the ticket. The episode had placed McGovern in a \"no-win\" situation: if he kept Eagleton, the selection did not look good for the decision-making ability of the McGovern team, while if he removed Eagleton, he appeared to be weak and vacillating. Since this incident, front-running presidential candidates have developed short lists of potential running mates, and have meticulously performed background checks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 49], "content_span": [50, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093845-0033-0000", "contents": "1972 Democratic National Convention, Running mate\nMcGovern chose Sargent Shriver as his running mate a few weeks later: the McGovern-Shriver ticket went on to win only two states, and lost the election to incumbents Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew by the largest margin since 1936.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 49], "content_span": [50, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093846-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Democratic Party presidential primaries\nFrom January 24 to June 20, 1972, voters of the Democratic Party chose its nominee for president in the 1972 United States presidential election. Senator George McGovern of South Dakota was selected as the nominee through a series of primary elections, caucuses, and state party conventions, culminating in the 1972 Democratic National Convention held from July 10 to July 13, 1972, in Miami, Florida.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093846-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Background\nAs 1972 approached, President Richard Nixon faced uncertain re-election prospects. Nixon had been elected in 1968 on a platform to end American involvement in Vietnam, but his strategy of gradually handing over operational control of the conflict to the South Vietnamese military (Vietnamization) was proceeding more slowly than planned. Nixon had in fact widened the conflict by invading Cambodia in 1970, a move that ignited criticism in the press and Congress and widespread disorder on college campuses. The Paris Peace Talks had bogged down, dimming hopes for a negotiated settlement to the war.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 657]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093846-0001-0001", "contents": "1972 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Background\nOn the domestic front, a sharp recession in 1969 had shaken investor confidence, and Nixon's plan to control inflation with wage and price controls had failed to meet its objective. The administration's attempt to steer a middle course on issues of busing and affirmative action had displeased liberals and conservatives alike. Republican losses in the 1970 midterm elections further weakened the party's congressional and gubernatorial position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093846-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Background\nAs a result, a large field of Democratic challengers emerged. The establishment favorite for the Democratic nomination was Ed Muskie, the moderate who acquitted himself well as the 1968 Democratic vice-presidential candidate. In August 1971 Harris polling amid a growing economic crisis, Muskie came out on top of incumbent Nixon if the election had been held that day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093846-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Background\nShirley Chisholm announced she would run and became the first black person ever to run for president on a major party ticket and the first woman to run for the Democratic presidential nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093846-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Primary campaign\nPrior to the New Hampshire primary, the \"Canuck Letter\" was published in the Manchester Union-Leader. The letter, later revealed to have been a forgery produced as part of the \"dirty tricks\" campaign by Richard Nixon's staff members, claimed that Muskie had made disparaging remarks about French-Canadians. Subsequently, the paper published an attack on the character of Muskie's wife Jane, reporting that she drank and used off-color language. Muskie made an emotional defense of his wife in a speech outside the newspaper's offices during a snowstorm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 62], "content_span": [63, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093846-0004-0001", "contents": "1972 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Primary campaign\nThough Muskie later stated that what had appeared to the press as tears were actually melted snowflakes, the press reported that Muskie broke down and cried. Muskie did worse than expected in the primary, while McGovern came in a surprisingly close second. McGovern now had the momentum, which was well orchestrated by his campaign manager, Gary Hart.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 62], "content_span": [63, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093846-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Primary campaign\nHubert Humphrey made another run at the nomination, in an era when previous nominees were considered legitimate contenders even after losing a general election (Adlai Stevenson had been successful at being re-nominated by Democrats in 1956, and Nixon by the GOP in 1968). He fell just short in delegates, despite winning the popular vote in the 24 states and the District of Columbia which held preference primary and caucus elections open to the rank and file Democratic voter. His bid to contest the results of the California winner-take-all primary failed. Humphrey, like Senator Henry \"Scoop\" Jackson, was considered the favorite of the party establishment after Muskie's withdrawal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 62], "content_span": [63, 750]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093846-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Primary campaign\nAlabama governor George Wallace, with his \"outsider\" image, did well in the South (he won every county in the Florida primary with the exception of Miami-Dade) and among alienated and dissatisfied voters. What might have become a forceful campaign was cut short when Wallace was shot while campaigning, and left paralyzed in an assassination attempt by Arthur Bremer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 62], "content_span": [63, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093846-0006-0001", "contents": "1972 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Primary campaign\nWithin hours of the assassination attempt, then-President Richard M. Nixon and a top aide dispatched a political operative, E. Howard Hunt, who rushed to Milwaukee, with plans to surreptitiously enter Bremer's apartment, and plant the campaign literature of Democratic contender George McGovern's campaign as a means to drive Wallace supporters away from the Democratic Party and toward Nixon and Republican candidates. Hunt aborted his clandestine operation after the FBI had already sealed off Bremer's apartment prior to his arrival.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 62], "content_span": [63, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093846-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Primary campaign\nChairman of the House Ways and Means Committee Wilbur Mills was drafted by friends and fellow Congressmen to make himself available as a candidate for the primaries. To position himself to appeal to senior citizens during the 1972 presidential campaign, Mills championed the automatic Cost Of Living Adjustment (COLA) to Social Security. He was not strong in the primaries and won 33 votes for president from the delegates at the 1972 Democratic National Convention which nominated Senator George McGovern.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 62], "content_span": [63, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093846-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Primary campaign\nWashington Senator Scoop Jackson was little known nationally when he first ran for President in 1972. McGovern accused Jackson of racism for his opposition to busing. Jackson's high point in the campaign was a distant third in the early Florida primary, but he failed to stand out of the pack of better-known rivals, and only made real news later in the campaign as part of the \"Anybody but McGovern\" coalition, that raised what would be known as the \"Acid, Amnesty and Abortion\" questions about McGovern.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 62], "content_span": [63, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093846-0008-0001", "contents": "1972 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Primary campaign\nJackson suspended active campaigning in May after a weak showing in the Ohio primary and after finishing well behind McGovern, Muskie, George Wallace, and Hubert Humphrey in early primaries. Jackson did re-emerge at the August Democratic convention after runner-up Humphrey dropped out of the race. Jackson's name was placed in nomination by Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter, and he finished second in the delegate roll call, well behind nominee McGovern.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 62], "content_span": [63, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093846-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Primary campaign, Attempted assassination of George Wallace\nWhile campaigning in Laurel, Maryland, on May 15, 1972, Wallace was shot five times by Arthur Bremer. Three others wounded in the shooting also survived. Bremer's diary, published after his arrest as a book titled An Assassin's Diary, showed that Bremer's assassination attempt was not motivated by politics, but by a desire for fame, and that President Nixon had been a possible target. The assassination attempt left Wallace paralyzed for the rest of his life, as one of the bullets had lodged in his spinal column.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 105], "content_span": [106, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093846-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Primary campaign, Attempted assassination of George Wallace\nFollowing the shooting, Wallace won primaries in Maryland and Michigan. Wallace spoke at the Democratic National Convention from his wheelchair in Miami on July 11, 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 105], "content_span": [106, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093846-0011-0000", "contents": "1972 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Primary campaign, Attempted assassination of George Wallace\nWhile Wallace was recovering in Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, Maryland, he was out of Alabama for more than 20 days. The Alabama state constitution required the lieutenant governor, Jere Beasley, to serve as acting governor from June 5 until Wallace's return to Alabama on July 7.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 105], "content_span": [106, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093846-0012-0000", "contents": "1972 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Primary campaign, Attempted assassination of George Wallace\nBremer was sentenced to 53 years in prison for the shooting. He served 35 years of the sentence and was released on parole on November 9, 2007.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 105], "content_span": [106, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093846-0013-0000", "contents": "1972 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Primary campaign, Attempted assassination of George Wallace\nAs a result of the shooting, President Nixon dispatched Secret Service protection to Representatives Shirley Chisholm and Wilbur Mills (two candidates who had not been assigned Secret Service details up to then) as well as Senator Ted Kennedy (though not running, because of his brothers John and Robert having been assassinated).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 105], "content_span": [106, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093846-0014-0000", "contents": "1972 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Primary campaign, Attempted assassination of George Wallace\nWallace did win the Maryland primary and the Michigan primary both held the following day (Tues. May 16), but his near assassination effectively ended his campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 105], "content_span": [106, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093846-0015-0000", "contents": "1972 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Endorsements\nGloria Steinem and Betty Friedan ran as Chisholm delegates in New York. By the 1972 election, the women's movement was rapidly expanding its political power. Steinem, along with Congresswomen Chisholm and Bella Abzug, had founded the National Women's Political Caucus in July 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 58], "content_span": [59, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093846-0016-0000", "contents": "1972 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Endorsements\nNevertheless, Steinem was reluctant to re-join the McGovern campaign. Though she had brought in McGovern's single largest campaign contributor in 1968, she \"still had been treated like a frivolous pariah by much of McGovern's campaign staff.\" And in April 1972, Steinem remarked that he \"still doesn't understand the women's movement.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 58], "content_span": [59, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093846-0017-0000", "contents": "1972 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Endorsements\nEarlier in the primary campaign, Muskie had gained the support of Ohio Governor John Gilligan; Pennsylvania Governor Milton Shapp; Iowa Senator Harold Hughes and United Auto Workers president Leonard Woodcock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 58], "content_span": [59, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093846-0018-0000", "contents": "1972 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Caucuses\nThe Iowa caucus was held first on January 24. Edmund Muskie won 35.5% support, George McGovern 22.6% and 35.8% of delegates were uncommitted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 54], "content_span": [55, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093846-0019-0000", "contents": "1972 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Caucuses\n11 states held caucuses before the 1972 convention in which one candidate captured a majority of support:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 54], "content_span": [55, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093846-0020-0000", "contents": "1972 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Primaries, Analysis\nIn the end, McGovern succeeded in winning the nomination by winning primaries through grass-roots support in spite of establishment opposition. He had led a commission to redesign the Democratic nomination system after the messy and confused nomination struggle and convention of 1968. The fundamental principle of the McGovern-Fraser Commission\u2014that the Democratic primaries should determine the winner of the Democratic nomination\u2014lasted throughout every subsequent nomination contest. However, the new rules angered many prominent Democrats whose influence was marginalized, and those politicians refused to support McGovern's campaign (some even supporting Nixon instead), leaving the McGovern campaign at a significant disadvantage in funding compared to Nixon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 65], "content_span": [66, 832]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093847-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Democratic Party vice presidential candidate selection\nThis article lists those who were potential candidates for the Democratic nomination for Vice President of the United States in the 1972 election. Coming into the 1972 Democratic National Convention, South Dakota Senator George McGovern had the delegate lead, but did not have the presidential nomination locked up. After winning the Democratic nomination for president on July 13, McGovern looked for a running mate. McGovern's first choice for vice president was Ted Kennedy, but Kennedy refused to join the ticket; Minnesota Senator Walter Mondale, Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson, and Connecticut Senator Abraham A. Ribicoff also declined.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 704]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093847-0000-0001", "contents": "1972 Democratic Party vice presidential candidate selection\nMcGovern offered the position to Missouri Senator Thomas Eagleton, who appealed to labor groups and Catholics, two groups that McGovern had alienated during the primary campaign. The ticket of McGovern and Eagleton was nominated by the 1972 Democratic National Convention. Following the convention, it was revealed that in the 1960s, Eagleton had received treatment for depression. Though McGovern considered keeping Eagleton on the ticket, he ultimately chose to replace Eagleton with former Ambassador Sargent Shriver. The McGovern-Shriver ticket lost the presidential election to the Nixon-Agnew ticket. After the controversy surrounding Eagleton, future campaigns spent much more time vetting vice presidential candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 786]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093847-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Democratic Party vice presidential candidate selection, Frances Farenthold\u2019s candidacy\nAt the 1972 Democratic National Convention, there came a grassroots effort to nominate Texas State Representative and unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Texas, Frances Farenthold. She had gained recognition due to her surprising, though unsuccessful, forced run-off against Texas\u2019 incumbent Democratic Governor Dolph Briscoe in the Democratic primaries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 91], "content_span": [92, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093847-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Democratic Party vice presidential candidate selection, Frances Farenthold\u2019s candidacy\nThe effort to nominate her for Vice President came after the realization that Shirley Chisholm, the first major black candidate for President of the United States, would not have the delegates necessary to win the nomination at the convention. Chisholm had had the endorsement of and had helped found the National Women\u2019s Political Caucus, a new organization formed in Washington, D.C. in 1971. Following her convention defeat, the caucus had moved to recruit Farenthold to run for the Vice Presidency. The individual chosen to place Francis \u201cSissy\u201d Farenthold\u2019s name in nomination for Vice President would be Gloria Steinem, the co-founder of Ms. magazine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 91], "content_span": [92, 749]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093847-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Democratic Party vice presidential candidate selection, Frances Farenthold\u2019s candidacy\nAlthough the nomination effort aroused the convention-goers mired in malaise and anger from the difficult 1972 Democratic National Convention, the campaign for her Vice Presidency was highly disorganized and last-minute, without a serious chance at denying Senator Thomas Eagleton his nomination by George McGovern. Despite coming from the state of Texas, the Texas delegation, controlled by Dolph Briscoe, did not support her candidacy. Regardless, the balloting for Vice President finished with Farenthold receiving 405 delegates, and 13.73% of the vote, the second-most of all of the candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 91], "content_span": [92, 690]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093847-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Democratic Party vice presidential candidate selection, Frances Farenthold\u2019s candidacy\nFarenthold was the first serious female candidate for the nomination for Vice President of the United States, by either major political party. She would go on to once again compete with and lose to Dolph Briscoe for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Texas in 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 91], "content_span": [92, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093848-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Denver Broncos season\nThe 1972 Denver Broncos season was the team's 13th season in professional football and third in the National Football League (NFL). Under first-year head coach and general manager John Ralston, the Broncos finished with five wins and nine losses, third in the AFC West Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093848-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Denver Broncos season\nHired in early January, Ralston was previously the head coach for nine years at Stanford University; in his final two seasons, he led the Indians to consecutive Pac-8 titles and upset victories in the Rose Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093849-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Denver Winter Olympics referendum\nThe Denver Winter Olympics referendum was held in 1972 in Colorado following the awarding to Denver of the 1976 Winter Olympics. However, a 300% rise in costs and worries about environmental impact led to Colorado voters' rejection on November 7 by a 3 to 2 margin, of a $5 million bond issue to finance the games with public funds. Through 2020, it remains the only time a city awarded the Games rejected them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093849-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Denver Winter Olympics referendum, Aftermath\nRichard Lamm was an obscure state legislator from Denver when he led the Citizens for Colorado's Future (CCF) campaign; with the referendum's success, he was elected to three terms as governor, serving from 1975 to 1987.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093849-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Denver Winter Olympics referendum, Aftermath\nWithin three months, Innsbruck, Austria was selected as the replacement city, hosting the Winter Olympics for the second time, previously in 1964.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093850-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Detroit Lions season\nThe 1972 Detroit Lions season was their 43rd in the National Football League (NFL). The team improved on their previous season's output of 7\u20136\u20131, winning eight games. The team missed the playoffs for the second straight season. Linebacker Wayne Walker established a new team record for games played at 200. It was also the final season for longtime defensive back Dick LeBeau.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093851-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Detroit Tigers season\nThe 1972 Detroit Tigers won the American League East division championship with a record of 86\u201370 (.551), finishing one-half game ahead of the Boston Red Sox. They played one more game than the Red Sox due to a scheduling quirk caused by the 1972 Major League Baseball strike\u2014a game which turned out to allow them to win the division. They lost the 1972 American League Championship Series to the Oakland A's three games to two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093851-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Detroit Tigers season, Regular season, Season summary\nAfter having a losing record in 1970, the Tigers were reinvigorated in 1971 and 1972 by their fiery manager, Billy Martin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 58], "content_span": [59, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093851-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Detroit Tigers season, Regular season, Season summary\nThe 1972 Tigers were an aging team whose best hitters (Al Kaline and Norm Cash) were both 37 years old. Together with the late-season acquisition of 38-year-old slugger Frank Howard, this led to a group of Tigers batters who were past their prime, and the team finished the year with an anemic .237 batting average\u2014seventh in the AL. Light-hitting third baseman Aurelio Rodr\u00edguez led the team with 142 hits, and the 37-year-olds Kaline and Cash led the way in batting average (Kaline hit .313), RBIs (Cash had 61), and home runs (Cash had 22).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 58], "content_span": [59, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093851-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Detroit Tigers season, Regular season, Season summary\nThe strength of the 1972 team was pitching. The team's ace, Mickey Lolich, won 22 games, struck out 250 batters (2nd best in the AL), and had a 2.50 ERA. Joe Coleman had 19 wins and 222 strikeouts, and the early August acquisition of Woodie Fryman proved to be a key element in a tight pennant race. Between August 1 and 17, the Tigers went 5\u201312, and three of the team's wins were by Fryman. Excluding Fryman's wins, the Tigers were 2\u201312 in the first half of August. In the final two months of the season, Fryman had a 10\u20133 record with a 2.06 ERA (Adjusted ERA+ of 154).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 58], "content_span": [59, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093851-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Detroit Tigers season, Regular season, Season summary\nDefense also played an important role in the team's success. Rodr\u00edguez led AL third basemen with 150 putouts and 348 assists, and shortstop Ed Brinkman won the Gold Glove award and led AL shortstops with a .990 fielding percentage (33 points above the league average). Brinkman set a record going 72 games and 331 total chances without an error from late May through early August. Despite a .205 batting average, Brinkman won the \"Tiger of the Year\" award from the Detroit baseball writers and finished ninth in the American League MVP voting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 58], "content_span": [59, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093851-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Detroit Tigers season, Regular season, Season summary\nThe 1972 Tigers outscored their opponents 558 to 514. The pennant race came down to the final series, a matchup between the first place Red Sox and the second place Tigers. The Tigers won two of three games and finished a half game ahead of the Red Sox. (Because of cancellation of games missed during the early-season strike, the Tigers were scheduled for one game more than the Red Sox.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 58], "content_span": [59, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093851-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Detroit Tigers season, Regular season, Season summary\nDetroit's attendance total of 1,892,386 was tops among the twelve American League teams and second in the majors behind the New York Mets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 58], "content_span": [59, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093851-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 71], "content_span": [72, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093851-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093851-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 69], "content_span": [70, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093851-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 66], "content_span": [67, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093851-0011-0000", "contents": "1972 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W= Wins; L= Losses; SV = Saves; GF = Games finished; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 67], "content_span": [68, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093851-0012-0000", "contents": "1972 Detroit Tigers season, Awards and honors, Players ranking among top 100 all time at position\nThe following members of the 1972 Tigers have been ranked among the Top 100 of all time at their position in The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract in 2001:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 97], "content_span": [98, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093851-0013-0000", "contents": "1972 Detroit Tigers season, Postseason, American League Championship Series\nThe Tigers lost to the Oakland Athletics in the 1972 American League Championship Series, losing three games to two. The A's were 93\u201362 in the regular season and went on to beat the Cincinnati Reds in the 1972 World Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 75], "content_span": [76, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093851-0014-0000", "contents": "1972 Detroit Tigers season, Postseason, American League Championship Series, Game 1\nGame 1 was a pitching duel with 20-game winners, Mickey Lolich (22\u201314) and Catfish Hunter (21\u20137). Norm Cash hit a solo home run in the second inning to put the Tigers ahead, but the A's struck back in the third inning as Bert Campaneris walked, moved to third on a single, and scored on a sacrifice fly by Joe Rudi. The score remained tied, 1\u20131, through ten innings. In the top of the 11th inning, Al Kaline hit a solo home run off Rollie Fingers to put Detroit ahead. After Sal Bando and Mike Epstein singled to open the bottom of the 11th, Chuck Seelbach came on in relief of Lolich who had pitched 10 innings. Gonzalo M\u00e1rquez singled to right, driving in two runs to give the A's the win in Game 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 83], "content_span": [84, 785]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093851-0015-0000", "contents": "1972 Detroit Tigers season, Postseason, American League Championship Series, Game 2\nGame 2 was a lopsided 5\u20130 win for the A's, as Blue Moon Odom (15\u20136) pitched a complete game shutout and held the Tigers to three hits. Woodie Fryman (10\u20133), who had been virtually unhittable in August and September, gave up four runs in 4-1/3 innings. Bert Campaneris singled in the first inning, stole second and third on successive pitches, and then scored on a single by Joe Rudi. Campaneris singled again in the third inning, and singled and scored again in the firth inning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 83], "content_span": [84, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093851-0015-0001", "contents": "1972 Detroit Tigers season, Postseason, American League Championship Series, Game 2\nWhen Campaneris came to bat in the seventh inning, Lerrin LaGrow's first pitch hit Campaneris in the ankle. Campaneris staggered for a moment, glared at LaGrow and then flung his bat toward the mound. The bat spiraled at LaGrow five feet off the ground, but LaGrow ducked, and the bat narrowly missed LaGrow, landing a few feet behind the mound. A bench-clearing brawl ensued, and Tigers manager Billy Martin had to be restrained by umpires and teammates to prevent him from going after Campaneris. Both LaGrow and Campaneris were suspended for the rest of the ALCS.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 83], "content_span": [84, 650]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093851-0016-0000", "contents": "1972 Detroit Tigers season, Postseason, American League Championship Series, Game 3\nThe Series moved to Detroit for the final three games. In Game 3, Joe Coleman (19\u201314) pitched a complete game shutout and set an ALCS record by striking out 14 A's batters. The Tigers won, 3\u20130, as Ike Brown hit a single in the 4th inning that drove in Al Kaline and Bill Freehan. Freehan also hit a home run in the 8th inning to complete the scoring. Ken Holtzman (19\u201311) was the losing pitcher for the A's.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 83], "content_span": [84, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093851-0017-0000", "contents": "1972 Detroit Tigers season, Postseason, American League Championship Series, Game 4\nGame 4 was the most exciting game of the Series and was rated by The Sporting News as one of the five greatest games ever played at Tiger Stadium. The game featured a rematch of Game 1 \u2013 Mickey Lolich for Detroit and Catfish Hunter for Oakland. Detroit took the lead in the 3rd inning on a solo home run by Dick McAuliffe, and Lolich held the A's scoreless through six innings. The A's tied the game, 1\u20131, on a Mike Epstein home run in the 7th inning, and the game went into extra innings with the score tied, 1\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 83], "content_span": [84, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093851-0017-0001", "contents": "1972 Detroit Tigers season, Postseason, American League Championship Series, Game 4\nIn the top of the 10th inning, Chuck Seelbach replaced Lolich and gave up two runs. With the Tigers on the verge of elimination, the Tigers staged a dramatic comeback in the bottom of the 10th inning. Dick McAuliffe and Al Kaline opened the inning with singles, and Gates Brown walked to load the bases with nobody out. Bill Freehan bounced a double play ball to third, but Sal Bando's throw to second baseman Gene Tenace was dropped, allowing McAuliffe to score. Norm Cash walked, and Kaline scored to tie the game at 3\u20133. Jim Northrup ended it with a walk-off game-winning single, as Gates Brown scored the winning run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 83], "content_span": [84, 705]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093851-0018-0000", "contents": "1972 Detroit Tigers season, Postseason, American League Championship Series, Game 5\nThe decisive Game 5 was another pitching duel between Blue Moon Odom and Woodie Fryman. Both teams combined for only nine hits, and the only extra-base hit was a double by Odom. The Tigers scored first in the bottom of the first inning, as Dick McAuliffe singled, moved to second on a walk, moved to third on a passed ball, and scored on a groundball by Bill Freehan. The A's tied in the top of the second inning, as Reggie Jackson walked, stole second base, advanced to third on a fly ball, and then stole home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 83], "content_span": [84, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093851-0018-0001", "contents": "1972 Detroit Tigers season, Postseason, American League Championship Series, Game 5\nIn the fourth inning, George Hendrick reached base on a controversial throwing error (umpire John Rice ruled that first baseman Norm Cash had pulled his foot off the bag but replays showed otherwise). He advanced to second on a bunt, and scored on a Gene Tenace single to left field. Neither team scored a run after the top of the fourth, and the A's won the game, 2\u20131. In the 9th inning, Norm Cash singled, but pinch hitter Mickey Stanley hit into a fielder's choice and Tony Taylor hit a fly ball to center for the final out. Odom and Vida Blue combined to hold the Tigers to five hits. Despite allowing only one earned run, Fryman took the loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 83], "content_span": [84, 732]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093851-0019-0000", "contents": "1972 Detroit Tigers season, Postseason, Postseason player stats, Batting\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 72], "content_span": [73, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093851-0020-0000", "contents": "1972 Detroit Tigers season, Postseason, Postseason player stats, Pitching\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 73], "content_span": [74, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093852-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Drake Bulldogs football team\nThe 1972 Drake Bulldogs football team represented Drake University during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. It was the seventy-ninth year for the football program. The season ended with a 7\u20135 record, capturing the Missouri Valley Conference championship. The Bulldogs participated in the 1972 Pioneer Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093853-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Drexel Dragons football team\nThe 1972 Drexel Dragons football team represented the Drexel University as an independent during the 1972 NCAA College Division football season. Sterling Brown was the team's head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093854-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Duke Blue Devils football team\nThe 1972 Duke Blue Devils football team represented Duke University during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093855-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Dutch Open (tennis)\nThe 1972 Dutch Open was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament staged in Hilversum, Netherlands. The tournament was played on outdoor clay courts and was held from 1 August until 7 August 1972. It was the 16th edition of the tournament and was a non-tour event, i.e. not part of the main men's or women's circuits. John Cooper and Betty St\u00f6ve won the singles titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093855-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Dutch Open (tennis), Finals, Men's Singles\nJohn Cooper defeated Hans Kary 6\u20131, 3\u20136, 12\u201310, 3\u20136, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 47], "content_span": [48, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093855-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Dutch Open (tennis), Finals, Men's Doubles\nRoss Case / Geoff Masters defeated John Cooper Colin Dibley 8\u20136, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 47], "content_span": [48, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093855-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Dutch Open (tennis), Finals, Women's Doubles\nMich\u00e8le Gurdal / Betty St\u00f6ve defeated Lita Liem / Lany Kaligis 6\u20134, 6\u20130", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 49], "content_span": [50, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093855-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Dutch Open (tennis), Finals, Mixed Doubles\nBetty St\u00f6ve / Bob Howe defeated Wendy Turnbull / Colin Dibley 2\u20136, 9\u20137, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 47], "content_span": [48, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093856-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Dutch general election\nEarly general elections were held in the Netherlands on 29 November 1972. The Labour Party (PvdA) remained the largest party, winning 43 of the 150 seats in the House of Representatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093856-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Dutch general election\nThe elections led to a five-party coalition government consisting of the PvdA, the Catholic People's Party, the Anti-Revolutionary Party, the Political Party of Radicals and Democrats 1966 with the PvdA's Joop den Uyl as Prime Minister.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093857-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Dwars door Belgi\u00eb\nThe 1972 Dwars door Belgi\u00eb was the 27th edition of the Dwars door Vlaanderen cycle race and was held on 27 August 1972. The race started and finished in Waregem. The race was won by Marc Demeyer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093858-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 E3 Prijs Vlaanderen\nThe 1972 E3 Harelbeke was the 15th edition of the E3 Harelbeke cycle race and was held on 25 March 1972. The race started and finished in Harelbeke. The race was won by Hubert Hutsebaut.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093859-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament\nThe 1972 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 11th tournament in league history. It was played between March 7 and March 11, 1972. Quarterfinal games were played at home team campus sites, while the 'final four' games were played at the Boston Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. By reaching the championship game both, Boston University and Cornell received invitations to participate in the 1972 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093859-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format\nThe tournament featured three rounds of play, all of which were single-elimination. The top eight teams, based on winning percentage, qualified to participate in the tournament. In the quarterfinals the first seed and eighth seed, the second seed and seventh seed, the third seed and sixth seed and the fourth seed and fifth seed played against one another. In the semifinals, the highest seed plays the lowest remaining seed while the two remaining teams play with the winners advancing to the championship game and the losers advancing to the third place game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093859-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Conference Standings\nNote: GP = Games Played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; Pct. = Winning Percentage; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 66], "content_span": [67, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093860-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 East Carolina Pirates football team\nThe 1972 East Carolina Pirates football team was an American football team that represented East Carolina University as a member of the Southern Conference during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. In their second season under head coach Sonny Randle, the team compiled a 9\u20132 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093861-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 East Texas State Lions football team\nThe 1972 East Texas State Lions football team represented East Texas State University in the 1972 NAIA Division I football season. They were led by head coach Ernest Hawkins, who was in his ninth season at East Texas State. The Lions played their home games at Memorial Stadium and were members of the Lone Star Conference. The Lions won the Lone Star Conference, the NAIA District IV, and the NAIA Division I National Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093861-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 East Texas State Lions football team\nHeading into the 1972 season, the Lions were picked to finish fourth in the conference, and started out the season with 14\u201312 loss to rival Abilene Christian, but then racked up six straight wins to climb into the national polls. Then The Lions were upset by Sul Ross State, dropping them out of the top five in the rankings. The Lions finished the season with wins over Angelo State and Tarleton State. When the final national rankings came out, the Lions were ranked fourth in the nation and invited to the NAIA Division I playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093861-0001-0001", "contents": "1972 East Texas State Lions football team\nIn the semifinal round the Lions faced the top-ranked team in the nation, the Central State Bronchos of Oklahoma. The Lions routed Central State, 54\u20130 in the earning them a spot in Champion Bowl against the second-ranked Carson\u2013Newman. The title game was determined to be played in Commerce. On a bitterly cold December day in front of a packed Memorial Stadium, Hawkins's Lions defeated Carson\u2013Newman, 21\u201318, to claim the national title. Among the players on the team were future National Football League (NFL) players Will Cureton, Harvey Martin, Autry Beamon, Aundra Thompson, and Tim Collier. The Lions were named the National Team of the Year and Hawkins was named both Lone Star Conference Coach of the Year and National Coach of the Year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 787]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093862-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Eastern Illinois Panthers football team\nThe 1972 Eastern Illinois Panthers football team represented Eastern Illinois University as an independent during the 1972 NCAA College Division football season. Led by first-year head coach Jack Dean, the Panthers compiled a record of 1\u20139. They played their home games at O'Brien Stadium in Charleston, Illinois.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093863-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Eastern Michigan Hurons football team\nThe 1972 Eastern Michigan Hurons football team represented Eastern Michigan University as an independent during the 1972 NCAA College Division football season. In their sixth season under head coach Dan Boisture, the Hurons compiled a 6\u20134 record and outscored their opponents, 202 to 162. The team opened the season losing three of its first four games but ended the season with a 5\u20131 record in the final six games, including a 28\u20133 victory over Central Michigan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093864-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Eastern Suburbs season\nThe 1972 Eastern Suburbs season was the 65th in the club's history. They competed in the NSWRFL's 1972 premiership, winning 18 of their 25 matches and finishing runners-up, defeated by Manly-Warringah.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093865-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Edinburgh Corporation election\nAn Election to the Edinburgh Corporation was held on 2 May 1972, alongside municipal elections across Scotland. Of the councils 69 seats, 23 were up for election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093865-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Edinburgh Corporation election\nFollowing the election, with two by-elections pending, Edinburgh Corporation was composed of 33 Labour councillors, 21 Progressives, 9 Conservatives, and 5 Liberals. Labour did particularly well in the 1972 municipal elections across Scotland, and this was also the case in Edinburgh, where the party came close to gaining control of the council for the first time, controlling 33 of the councils 68 seats. The Liberals, with 5 seats, held the balance of power in the new council. Following the election Edinburgh corporation would elect its first Labour Lord Provost; Jack Kane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093865-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Edinburgh Corporation election\nThe election also witnessed the continuation of the decline of the Progressives, who lost 5 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093866-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Eisenhower Trophy\nThe 1972 Eisenhower Trophy took place 18 to 21 October at the Olivos Golf Club in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It was the eighth World Amateur Team Championship for the Eisenhower Trophy. The tournament was a 72-hole stroke play team event with 32 four-man teams. The best three scores for each round counted towards the team total.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093866-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Eisenhower Trophy\nThe United States won the Eisenhower Trophy for the third successive time, finishing five strokes ahead of the silver medalists, Australia. South Africa took the bronze medal while Spain finished fourth. Tony Gresham from Australia had the lowest individual score, one-over-par 285, two strokes better than two Americans, Ben Crenshaw and Vinny Giles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093866-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Eisenhower Trophy, Individual leaders\nThere was no official recognition for the lowest individual scores.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093867-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Emperor's Cup, Overview\nIt was contested by 24 teams. Starting this season, the Japan Soccer League First Division clubs entered automatically while those in the Second Division participated in regional qualifying tournaments with clubs in the regional leagues and with university teams, which lost their automatic spots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093868-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Emperor's Cup Final\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by Monkbot (talk | contribs) at 00:17, 8 January 2020 (\u2192\u200etop: Task 15: language icon template(s) replaced (1\u00d7);). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093868-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Emperor's Cup Final\n1972 Emperor's Cup Final was the 52nd final of the Emperor's Cup competition. The final was played at National Stadium in Tokyo on January 1, 1973. Hitachi won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093868-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Emperor's Cup Final, Overview\nHitachi won their 1st title, by defeating Yanmar Diesel 2\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093869-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 England rugby union tour of South Africa\nThis first tour undertaken by England to South Africa was organised with a demanding schedule, although with only one Test Match. Within two weeks and three days, seven matches were to be played, the first four at sea level, and the final three, including the Test Match, at the altitude in the highveld with only two days to acclimatise before a demanding fixture against Northern Transvaal. From the outset, under captain John Pullin and the management of Alec Lewis and John Elders, there was a buoyant and optimistic spirit in the squad, as if they were determined to erase the memories of the last few seasons of undistinguished English performances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 701]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093869-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 England rugby union tour of South Africa, Test Match\nPiet Greyling led a combination of Springboks who seemed hopelessly unsure of themselves. Dawie Snyman collected all the South African points with three penalties while England, with unspectacular competence, grabbed every scoring chance. Fullback Sam Doble converted a try by wing Alan Morley and also booted four penalties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093870-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 English Greyhound Derby\nThe 1972 Greyhound Derby took place during June with the final being held on 24 June 1972 at White City Stadium. The winner was Patricias Hope and the winning owners Brian Stanley, Gordon Marks and B Marks received \u00a310,952.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093870-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 English Greyhound Derby, Final result, Distances\n3\u00bc, head, 1\u00bc, 1, 3\u00bd (lengths)The distances between the greyhounds are in finishing order and shown in lengths. One length is equal to 0.08 of one second.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093870-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 English Greyhound Derby, Competition Report\nAnte-post favourites were Favourite Rory and Juvenile champion Short Interview. Oaks heroine Decimal Queen and the previous year\u2019s third placed greyhound Leap and Run were two other leading contenders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093870-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 English Greyhound Derby, Competition Report\nThe first round consisted of nine heats and three fast winners were Super Rory (28.59), Suburban Gent (28.65) and Westmead County (28.76), both ante-post favourites went out. When round two got underway Super Rory aged (only 20 months) recorded 28.36 to win heat two by five lengths from Patricias Hope; Westmead County was eliminated in the same heat. Irish entry Proud Life, Bally Lander from Walthamstow and Lucky Punter trained by Peter Hawkesley took the other heat wins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093870-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 English Greyhound Derby, Competition Report\nProud Life won again to claim the first semi-final from Patricias Hope and Micks Pride; hot favourite First Case trained by Tom Johnston Jr could only finish fifth. In the second semi-final Super Rory became the fastest greyhound in the world by setting a time 28.26 sec when winning and bettering his father's (Yellow Printer) time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093870-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 English Greyhound Derby, Competition Report\nAn anonymous offer of \u00a312,000 was followed by a \u00a314,000 by Freddie Warrell for Super Rory but both were turned down and he was sent to traps as the 4-9 favourite for the final. Super Rory failed to trap well after being unsettled by the Derby roar* but Patricias Hope did trap well and went on to record a comfortable victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093870-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 English Greyhound Derby, Competition Report\nNoteDerby roar* (the noise made by the crowd when the electric hare is set in motion)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093871-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 English National Badminton Championships\nThe 1972 English National Badminton Championships were held at the Sussex University Sports Centre, from 10-11 December, 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093872-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 English cricket season\nThe 1972 English cricket season was the 73rd in which the County Championship had been an official competition. There was an increase in limited overs cricket with the introduction of the Benson & Hedges Cup, which was part mini-league and part knockout along the lines of soccer's World Cup competition. It caused another reduction in the number of County Championship matches and the B&H (as it was often called) was never popular among cricket's traditional followers. The tournament lasted until 2002, after which it was effectively replaced by Twenty20. The County Championship was won by Warwickshire for the third time in their history. Australia toured England and the Test series was drawn 2\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 731]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093872-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 English cricket season, Test series\nA very entertaining England v Australia series resulted in a 2\u20132 draw, which meant that England retained the Ashes. There was an outstanding individual performance by Australian seamer Bob Massie who, assisted by heavy atmospheric conditions that enabled him to \"swing\" the ball prodigiously, took 16 wickets in the Lord's Test.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093873-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Espirito Santo Trophy\nThe 1972 Espirito Santo Trophy took place 11\u201314 October at Hindu Country Club in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It was the fifth women's golf World Amateur Team Championship for the Espirito Santo Trophy. The tournament was a 72-hole stroke play team event with 20 three-woman teams. The best two scores for each round counted towards the team total.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093873-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Espirito Santo Trophy\nThe United States won the Trophy, defending their title from two years ago and winning their four consecutive title, beating France by four strokes. France took the silver medal while Sweden, seven strokes further behind, for the first time on the podium in the championship, took the bronze.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093873-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Espirito Santo Trophy, Teams\n20 teams contested the event. Each team had three players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093873-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Espirito Santo Trophy, Individual leaders\nThere was no official recognition for the lowest individual scores.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093874-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Estonian SSR Football Championship\nThe 1972 Estonian SSR Football Championship was won by Baltic Fleet Tallinn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093875-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 EuroHockey Club Champions Cup\nThe 1972 EuroHockey Club Champions Cup was the fourth unofficial edition of Europe's premier field hockey club competition. It took place in Frankfurt, where it was won by host and defending champions SC 1880 Frankfurt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093876-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships\nThe 3rd European Athletics Indoor Championships were held between 11\u201312 March 1972 in Grenoble, France.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093876-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships\nThe track used for the championships was 180 metres long.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093877-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 1500 metres\nThe men's 1500 metres event at the 1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 12 March in Grenoble.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093878-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 3000 metres\nThe men's 3000 metres event at the 1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 12 March in Grenoble.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093879-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 4 \u00d7 360 metres relay\nThe men's 4 \u00d7 360 metres relay event at the 1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 11 March in Grenoble. Each athlete ran two laps of the 180 metres track.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 73], "section_span": [73, 73], "content_span": [74, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093880-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 4 \u00d7 720 metres relay\nThe men's 4 \u00d7 720 metres relay event at the 1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 12 March in Grenoble. 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"contents": "1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's long jump\nThe women's long jump event at the 1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 12 March in Grenoble.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093899-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's shot put\nThe women's shot put event at the 1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 11 March in Grenoble.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093900-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 European Badminton Championships\nThe 3rd European Badminton Championships were held in Karlskrona (Sweden), between 14 and 16 April 1972, and hosted by the European Badminton Union and the Svenska Badmintonf\u00f6rbundet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093901-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 European Cup Final\nThe 1972 European Cup Final was a football match held at De Kuip, Rotterdam, on 31 May 1972, that was contested between AFC Ajax of the Netherlands and Internazionale of Italy to determine the champion of the 1971\u201372 European Cup. Ajax defeated Inter by a score of 2\u20130 to claim their second successive European Cup victory, following their triumph in the 1971 final. Two second-half goals from forward Johan Cruyff provided the margin of victory for the Dutch side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093901-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 European Cup Final\nThis game is often said to be Total Football's greatest moment; Ajax dominated much of the game as Inter defended desperately with their catenaccio strategy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093902-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 European Cup Winners' Cup Final\nThe 1972 European Cup Winners' Cup Final was a football match between Scottish team Rangers and Soviet team Dynamo Moscow. It took place at the Camp Nou in Barcelona on 24 May 1972 in front of a crowd of 24,701. It was the final of the 1971\u201372 European Cup Winners' Cup, one of three football competitions run by UEFA at the time. It was the 12th European Cup Winners' Cup final in history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093902-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 European Cup Winners' Cup Final\nBoth teams had to go through four qualifying rounds to get reach the final. Rangers won three of their four qualifying ties in regulation time, with their second round tie against Sporting CP going into extra time. Dynamo was required to win a penalty shootout to beat Dynamo Berlin in their semi-final. The final was the Rangers' third in European competition, having lost the previous two in 1961 and 1967. This was the first time a Soviet team had reached a European final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093902-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 European Cup Winners' Cup Final\nRangers scored two goals before half time and added a third minutes into the second half. Dynamo pulled a goal back midway through the second half and scored a late second towards the end of the game. The match finished 3-2 to Rangers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093902-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 European Cup Winners' Cup Final\nThe end of the match was overshadowed by a pitch invasion just before full time which it was past 90 mins so the ref blew with fans still on the pitch and with Rangers captain John Greig having to be awarded the trophy inside the stadium buildings. Despite the off field violence the victory is considered to be the greatest in the club's history and the team was given the nickname the Barcelona Bears.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093902-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 European Cup Winners' Cup Final, Route to the final, Rangers\nRangers began their route to the final by beating Stade Rennes 2\u20131 on aggregate. The first leg was drawn 1\u20131 with Willie Johnston scoring for Rangers. Rangers won the return leg 1\u20130 through Alex MacDonald. The second round saw Rangers play Sporting CP from Portugal. Rangers led the first half of the first leg 3\u20130, but lost two goals in the second half to lead 3\u20132 going into the second leg. The second leg finished 3\u20132 to Sporting, 5\u20135 on aggregate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 65], "content_span": [66, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093902-0004-0001", "contents": "1972 European Cup Winners' Cup Final, Route to the final, Rangers\nWillie Henderson scored for Rangers in extra time but Rangers then lost a goal with six minutes left to make it 6\u20136 on aggregate. What followed has been described as being one of the most bizarre incidents in the history of any European tournament. The Dutch referee Laurens van Raavens failed to recognise that Rangers, having scored three away goals to Sporting's two, had won the tie. But the referee made both teams take five penalties each, with Rangers losing the shootout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 65], "content_span": [66, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093902-0004-0002", "contents": "1972 European Cup Winners' Cup Final, Route to the final, Rangers\nAfter Rangers manager Willie Waddell pointed out the away goals rule to UEFA, the referee was overruled, the result overturned and Rangers were heading into the next round. Rangers then played Torino, Italian league leaders at the time, and won 2\u20131 on aggregate. In the semi final Rangers played Bayern Munich, who had beaten Rangers in the final five years previously in Nuremberg. Rangers progressed 3\u20131 on aggregate to reach their third European final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 65], "content_span": [66, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093902-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 European Cup Winners' Cup Final, Route to the final, Dynamo Moscow\nDynamo Moscow began their campaign by defeating Olympiakos 3\u20132 on aggregate, before beating the Turkish side Eski\u015fehirspor 3\u20130. Moscow\u2019s quarter final was against Red Star from Yugoslavia, who had reached the semi final of the European cup the previous year. Moscow made it through 3\u20131 on aggregate again. In the semi final Moscow played Dynamo Berlin from Germany. Scores were drawn 1\u20131 after both the first and second leg. Dynamo Moscow went through after a penalty shootout to become the first Russian club to reach a European final. The Russian players could have been awarded the coveted title Master of Sport, had they won in Barcelona.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 714]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093902-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 European Cup Winners' Cup Final, Match, Background\nDynamo Moscow were the first Soviet team to reach the final of a European football competition and as a result were not used to playing in such a high-profile match. Before the team left Moscow they were presented ideological speeches from Communist Party bosses aimed at motivating the players. Before the event, many concerns were expressed for possible troubles between Spanish police and Russian supporters. Due to the political background of the time in Spain, with the last years of Francisco Franco's right-wing dictatorship. Dynamo Moscow had an array of talented forward players including Gennady Evryuzhihin, Vladimir Kozlov, Anatoly Kozhemyakin, Michail Gershkovich, Anatoly Baydachny and Vladimir Eshtrekov. The manager Konstantin Beskov normally played three or four forwards in all of their matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 869]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093902-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 European Cup Winners' Cup Final, Match, Background\nRangers had played in two previous European finals and were the first Scottish club to do so in 1961. Having been narrowly beaten in 1967 by Bayern Munich, Rangers were wanting to make amends. The previous year 66 Rangers supporters had died in the Ibrox disaster, a memory that was very recent in the minds of the support and the team. Rangers captain John Greig had grown a beard which he explained after Rangers victory against Sporting that it was a good luck omen and he would only shave it off when they were put out of the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093902-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 European Cup Winners' Cup Final, Match, Summary\nDynamo were missing Kozlov and Kozhemyakin through injury and tried to play a more defensive type of game to contain Rangers. Rangers employed an attacking line up and had a two-goal lead by half time. The first was scored by forward Colin Stein with the assist provided by Dave Smith. The second was scored by Willie Johnston after he headed in a Dave Smith pass with six minutes to go before half time. Rangers went 3\u20130 up minutes into the second half as Willie Johnston scored his second after a long kick out by goalkeeper Peter McCloy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093902-0008-0001", "contents": "1972 European Cup Winners' Cup Final, Match, Summary\nDynamo Moscow came back into the match when with thirty minutes left for play Eshtrekov scored after a defensive mistake from the Rangers back line. Dynamo continued to pressure however the Rangers keeper Peter McCloy twice made fine saves from Gershkovich and Sandy Jardine cleared off the line from Evryuzhihin. Moscow found their second with three minutes left with a goal from Makhovikov. Rangers held on to secure their only trophy in Europe in front of almost 25,000 people, albeit there was no award ceremony in the stadium due to the Rangers fans pitch invasion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093902-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 European Cup Winners' Cup Final, Match, Summary\nThe end of the contest was overshadowed by a pitch invasion by hundreds of Rangers supporters one minute before the final whistle, which held the game up for several minutes. In the sixties and seventies it was common to see pitch invasions at matches, including European finals - this generally happened after the end of the game, which was not the case in this match. At the time Spain was still under political oppression by fascist dictator Francisco Franco and revolts were violently repressed by armed Polic\u00eda Armada (Armed Police). In 2015 interview Yozhef Sabo said that the pitch invasion occurred about seven minutes after Eshtrekov scored a goal which caused the game to be paused and then again soon after the Makhovikov's goal after which the referee simply ended the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 839]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093902-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 European Cup Winners' Cup Final, Match, Summary\nWhile it was argued that the pitch invaders may simply have been celebrating victory prematurely due to the misinterpretation of the final whistle (the referee had blown for a throw-in) the Dynamo Moscow team believed that the pitch invasion was a calculated action by the fans designed to stop the Soviet side's momentum. In the final minutes, Dynamo were pressing hard to equalise but the sudden pitch invasion gave the Rangers defenders respite.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093902-0010-0001", "contents": "1972 European Cup Winners' Cup Final, Match, Summary\nColin Stein later reflected on the game and stated that he believed the pitch invasion made it harder for the Rangers side during the final minutes of the game. Dynamo players claimed that they were attacked during this invasion, while bottles were thrown at police, whose actions have been described as heavy-handed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093902-0011-0000", "contents": "1972 European Cup Winners' Cup Final, Match, Summary\nAfter the game's final whistle there was a larger pitch invasion by Rangers supporters and as a result of this the trophy was presented to Rangers captain John Greig inside the stadium buildings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093902-0012-0000", "contents": "1972 European Cup Winners' Cup Final, Aftermath, Rangers reaction to victory\nRangers victory meant that they qualified for the 1972 European Super Cup where they played the 1972 European Cup winners AFC Ajax, however they lost the final 6-3 over two legs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 76], "content_span": [77, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093902-0013-0000", "contents": "1972 European Cup Winners' Cup Final, Aftermath, Rangers reaction to victory\nRangers victory in the final has been heralded as one of the greatest achievements in the club's history. Sandy Jardine who played in the final placed the victory at the very top of the club's achievements. The team that won the final became known as the Barcelona Bears. In 2006 Rangers opened Bar 72 in the Govan stand which was named in honour of the team that won the Cup Winners Cup. In 2012 Rangers celebrated 40 years since winning the trophy by wearing a 2012-13 home strip of a similar style as the one worn during the 1972 final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 76], "content_span": [77, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093902-0014-0000", "contents": "1972 European Cup Winners' Cup Final, Aftermath, Reaction to pitch invasion\nIn the days following the match, Dynamo Moscow and the Soviet FA demanded a replay on the grounds of the pitch invasion which took place before the final whistle. Rangers supporters later complained about the severity and indiscriminate nature of the beatings from the police, in which many jubilant rather than violent supporters were caught up. Veteran Scottish broadcaster Archie MacPherson, who covered the game, has stated that the trouble was \"eminently avoidable\" and relates how Reuters' correspondent at the match remarked to him that, \"What you are seeing down there is Franco's Fascist police in action\". After initially denying his club's culpability, the then Rangers manager Willie Waddell criticised the fans who had invaded the pitch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 75], "content_span": [76, 826]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093902-0015-0000", "contents": "1972 European Cup Winners' Cup Final, Aftermath, Reaction to pitch invasion\nWhile UEFA initially seemed sympathetic with the Russians and some neutral commentators agreed that the game should be replayed, no replay was ever scheduled and Rangers kept the trophy. However, Rangers did lose the right to defend the trophy as they were handed a two-year ban from European competition following their fans' behaviour. This was later reduced to a one-year ban.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 75], "content_span": [76, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093902-0015-0001", "contents": "1972 European Cup Winners' Cup Final, Aftermath, Reaction to pitch invasion\nThis marked the first time in the history of the competition that the winners were banned from playing in Europe the following year and it was suggested that the fan trouble was the first major instance of British football hooliganism to receive widespread attention in continental Europe, contributing to the eventual designation of it as \"the British disease\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 75], "content_span": [76, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093902-0016-0000", "contents": "1972 European Cup Winners' Cup Final, Aftermath, Reaction to pitch invasion\nIn 2015 interview Sabo said that the Scottish players may have been under influence stating that they ate something that made them run around field at high speed, but about half an hour before the end they simply stopped and not just stopped but had a foam coming out of their mouth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 75], "content_span": [76, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093903-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 European Figure Skating Championships\nThe 1972 European Figure Skating Championships was a senior-level international competition held at the Scandinavium in Gothenburg, Sweden on January 11\u201315. Elite senior-level figure skaters from European ISU member nations competed for the title of European Champion in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093903-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 European Figure Skating Championships, Overview\nThe 1970 European bronze medalist, G\u00fcnter Z\u00f6ller, arrived in Gothenburg with the East German team but withdrew before the start of the event after going to the West German embassy to defect.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093903-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 European Figure Skating Championships, Overview\nIn the men's event, the top three after the compulsory figures held their placements for the medals. Ondrej Nepela completed triple salchow and toe loop jumps and finished first ahead of Sergei Chetverukhin, who skated with power, flow, and elegance but fell on a triple salchow attempt. Patrick P\u00e9ra won the bronze medal with no triples at all. Yuri Ovchinnikov placed second in the free skating but was unable to move up to the podium after placing seventh in figures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093903-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 European Figure Skating Championships, Overview\nThe ladies' title was again won by defending champion Beatrix Schuba, who built up such an overwhelming lead in the compulsory figures that she won by a huge margin despite placing 5th in the free skating. Afterwards a German newspaper mocked her as the \"Champion Without a Double Axel\". Rita Trapanese took the silver medal, while Sonja Morgenstern moved up to bronze medal position after winning the free skating with a performance for which she received a 6.0 mark for artistic impression.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093903-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 European Figure Skating Championships, Overview\nIn the pairs event, Irina Rodnina / Alexei Ulanov also successfully defended their title in spite of some small mistakes. Liudmila Smirnova / Andrei Suraikin won the silver with a performance that was considered more artistic, if less difficult, than that of the winners. The third-place team, Manuela Gro\u00df / Uwe Kagelmann, included two throw double axels in their free skating, which at that time was one of the most difficult elements attempted by pair skaters, and unusual enough to draw comment. As Gross was only 14 years old at this time while her partner Kagelmann was a tall grown man of 21, they were one of the first of what later became known as \"one-and-a-half\" or \"flea-and-gorilla\" pair teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 760]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093903-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 European Figure Skating Championships, Overview\nThe dance event was the only discipline in which the title changed hands, as Angelika and Erich Buck unseated the defending champions Lyudmila Pakhomova / Alexander Gorshkov. The bronze medal went to the veteran British competitor Janet Sawbridge, now skating with Peter Dalby. It was Sawbridge's sixth medal at the European championships, achieved with three different partners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093904-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 European Formula Two Championship\nThe 1972 European Formula Two season was contested over 14 rounds. British Mike Hailwood, a previously famous motorcycle racer, was the season champion, driving a Surtees-Ford.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093904-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 European Formula Two Championship, Calendar\nRace 1, 3, 6, 9, 10, 11 and 12 were held in two heats, with results shown in aggregate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093904-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 European Formula Two Championship, Calendar\nRace 2, 4, 5, 7 and 13 were held with two semi-final heats and the final run, with time only shown for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093904-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 European Formula Two Championship, Calendar\nRace 2, 6, 7, 9, 11 and 14 was won by a graded driver, all graded drivers are shown in Italics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093904-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 European Formula Two Championship, Final point standings, Driver\nFor every race points were awarded: 9 points to the winner, 6 for runner-up, 4 for third place, 3 for fourth place, 2 for fifth place and 1 for sixth place. No additional points were awarded. The best 10 results count. No driver had a point deduction.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093904-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 European Formula Two Championship, Final point standings, Driver\nOnly drivers which were not graded were able to score points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093904-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 European Formula Two Championship, Final point standings, Driver\nRace 2 not all points were awarded (not enough finishers).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093905-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 European Judo Championships\nThe 1972 European Judo Championships were the 21st edition of the European Judo Championships, and were held in Voorburg, Netherlands on 13 and 14 May 1971. Championships were subdivided into six individual competitions, and a separate team competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093906-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 European Karate Championships\nThe 1972 European Karate Championships, the 7th edition of the European Karate Championships, was held in Brussels, Belgium from May 2 to 4, 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093907-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 European Rowing Championships\nThe 1972 European Rowing Championships were rowing championships held at the regatta course on the Beetzsee in Brandenburg, which was then located in East Germany. There were five competitions for women only; the events for men were contested at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, instead. As World Rowing Championships were still held at four-year intervals at the time, the European Rowing Championships were open to nations outside of Europe and had become to be regarded as quasi-world championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093907-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 European Rowing Championships\nIt was only in March 1972 that the East German rowing association took on organising the championships that were held from 10 to 13 August 1972 and that saw entries from 20 nations. The first sixteen nations that put their nominations forward were the Soviet Union, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Austria, Sweden, Poland, Denmark, Czechoslovakia, West Germany, the Netherlands, France, Great Britain, Belgium, Australia, and the host East Germany. Later registrations included the United States and New Zealand. The host country held its rowing championships at the same venue a month earlier not just to determine their national champions, but also to find the women that should get nominations for the European championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 759]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093908-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 European Sambo Championships\nThe 1972 European Sambo Championships was the first International Sambo competition of its kind and it was held in Riga, Latvia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093909-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 European Super Cup\nThe 1972 European Super Cup was a football match played over two legs between the winner of the 1971\u201372 European Cup and the winner of the 1971\u201372 European Cup Winners' Cup. The match was proposed by Anton Witkamp of De Telegraaf to decide who was the best club in Europe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093909-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 European Super Cup, History\nIn 1972, Witkamp proposed the idea to Jaap van Praag, the then president of Ajax, who were holders of the European Cup at that time. The idea was then taken to UEFA to seek official endorsement; however Artemio Franchi, the president of UEFA at that time, rejected the idea as the reigning European Cup Winners' Cup champions\u2014Rangers\u2014were serving a one-year ban at the time imposed by UEFA for the alleged misbehaviour of their fans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093909-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 European Super Cup, History\nThe match went ahead, but unofficially as a celebration of the Centenary of Rangers F.C.. The first leg was played on 16 January 1973 and the second on 24 January 1973. Ajax won the tie 6\u20133 on aggregate, beating Rangers both at home and away, 3\u20131 in Glasgow and 3\u20132 in the second leg in Amsterdam. Despite not being officially recognised by UEFA it is often regarded as the first ever European Super Cup match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093910-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 European Tour\nThe 1972 European Tour was a series of golf tournaments that comprised the Professional Golfers' Association (PGA) tournament circuit. It is officially recognised as the first season of the PGA European Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093910-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 European Tour\nHistorically, the PGA's Order of Merit only included tournaments in Great Britain and Ireland, but in 1970 events in continental Europe were included for the first time. The circuit and organisation evolved further over the following years, adopting the name PGA European Golf Tour in 1979.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093910-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 European Tour\nThe Order of Merit was won by England's Peter Oosterhuis, who also led the standings in prize money and stroke average.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093910-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 European Tour, Schedule\nThe table below shows the 1972 European Tour schedule which was made up of 20 tournaments counting for the Order of Merit, and some non-counting tournaments that later became known as \"Approved Special Events\". The schedule included the major national opens around Europe, with other tournaments mostly held in England and Scotland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093910-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 European Tour, Schedule\nThere were several changes from the previous year's British PGA circuit schedule, with the inclusion of the Madrid Open, the Dutch Open and the Lancia d'Oro tournament; they joined the five national opens in continental Europe that were included in 1971. Also added were the John Player Trophy and the Scottish Open, and the returning John Player Classic and Sumrie Better-Ball tournaments; lost from the calendar were the Agfa-Gevaert Tournament, the Classic International, the Daks Tournament and the Gallaher Ulster Open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093910-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 European Tour, Order of Merit\nThe PGA European Tour's money list was known as the \"Order of Merit\". It was based on a points system, which meant that some players could finish lower than others despite accumulating more prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093911-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 European Weightlifting Championships\nThe 1972 European Weightlifting Championships were held in Constan\u0163a, Romania from May 13 to May 21, 1972. This was the 51st edition of the event. There were 157 men in action from 27 nations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093912-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 FA Charity Shield\nThe 1972 FA Charity Shield was contested between Manchester City and Aston Villa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093912-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 FA Charity Shield\nNormally, the Charity Shield would have been contested by the First Division champions and FA Cup holders, who were Derby County and Leeds United respectively, but both declined the chance to play in the Charity Shield. Instead, Manchester City, who had finished in fourth place in the First Division; and Aston Villa, who finished as Third Division champions accepted the invitation to play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093912-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 FA Charity Shield\nThe match was played at Villa Park and Manchester City won 1\u20130, following a penalty from striker Francis Lee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093913-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 FA Cup Final\nThe 1972 FA Cup Final took place on 6 May 1972 at Wembley Stadium. It was the centenary final (although only the 91st final due to the world wars) and the 44th to be played at Wembley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093913-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 FA Cup Final\nIt was contested between cup holders Arsenal, who had won the Football League and the FA Cup the previous season, and Leeds United, who had won the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup and finished second in the league the previous season, but had never won the FA Cup. Arsenal and Leeds became the first clubs to have faced one another in both English domestic cup finals: the two had previously contested the 1968 Football League Cup Final, which Leeds had won, 1\u20130. Arsenal planned to make it the third successive decade for a club to return as Cup-holders and win for a second successive year, as Newcastle United had done in 1952 and Tottenham Hotspur in 1962.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 669]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093913-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 FA Cup Final\nThis final is the origin of the song \"Leeds! Leeds! Leeds!\" (commonly known as \"Marching On Together\"), which was the B-side of Leeds's Cup Final record. The song is still played by United and other Leeds sports teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093913-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 FA Cup Final, Match summary\nThe Leeds duo Mick Jones and Allan 'Sniffer' Clarke combined to produce a goal in the fifty-third minute. Jones sent across a hard, shoulder-high centre and Clarke headed powerfully past Arsenal keeper Geoff Barnett's left hand from fifteen yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 32], "content_span": [33, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093913-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 FA Cup Final, Match summary\nA match that often fell below the highest level began badly with a foul by Clarke on Alan Ball in the first five seconds and the first of four bookings \u2013 Bob McNab bringing down Peter Lorimer as early as the second minute. Neither side played consistently up to their capabilities, yet both had their moments. Charlie George's fierce volley cannoned back off the bar for Arsenal, and both Clarke and Lorimer struck the woodwork for Leeds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 32], "content_span": [33, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093913-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 FA Cup Final, Match summary\nLeeds' jubilation at the end was tempered by a last-minute injury to Mick Jones, who dislocated his elbow and had to be helped up the steps by Norman Hunter to receive his winners' medal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 32], "content_span": [33, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093914-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 FAMAS Awards\nThe 20th Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences Awards Night was held in 1972 for the Outstanding Achievements for the year 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093914-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 FAMAS Awards\nLilet, a Velarde and Associates Productions won the most awards with 6 wins including the FAMAS Award for Best Picture and Best Actress for Celia Rodriguez.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093915-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship\nThe 1972 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship (known at that time as 1972 European Championship for Juniors) was an international basketball competition held in Zadar, SFR Yugoslavia in 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093915-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship, Final standings\nDragan Todori\u0107, Franc Volaj, Milan Grabovac, Dragan Ki\u0107anovi\u0107, Rajko \u017di\u017ei\u0107, Milan Mili\u0107evi\u0107, Boris Beravs, Ratko Kaljevi\u0107, Mirza Deliba\u0161i\u0107, \u010cedomir Perin\u010di\u0107, Branko Macura, and \u017deljko Jerkov. Head Coach: Mirko Novosel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093916-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 FIBA Intercontinental Cup of National Teams\nThe 1972 FIBA Intercontinental Cup of National Teams was a special edition tournament of the FIBA Intercontinental Cup, and the 6th edition of the tournament overall. It took place at Gin\u00e1sio do Ibirapuera, S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093917-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 FIBA Kora\u0107 Cup\nThe 1971-72 FIBA Kora\u0107 Cup was the inaugural edition of FIBA's competition for European basketball non national champions and cup winners, running from 4 January to 7 March 1972. 8 teams took part in the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093917-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 FIBA Kora\u0107 Cup\nLokomotiva from Zagreb defeated OKK Beograd (another Yugoslav club), in a two-legged final to become the competition's first champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093918-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 FIM Motocross World Championship\nThe 1972 FIM Motocross World Championship was the 16th F.I.M. Motocross Racing World Championship season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093918-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 FIM Motocross World Championship, Summary\nRoger De Coster won his second consecutive 500cc world championship for Suzuki ahead of East German rider, Paul Friedrichs and Finnish rider Heikki Mikkola. Jo\u00ebl Robert, claimed his sixth 250cc title, and fifth in a row for the Suzuki factory racing team. Yamaha joined the championship fray with former Husqvarna riders Christer Hammargren and Jaak van Velthoven in the 500cc class and H\u00e5kan Andersson in the 250cc class.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093919-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Federation Cup (tennis)\nThe 1972 Federation Cup was the tenth edition of the most important competition between national teams in women's tennis. 31 nations participated in the tournament, which was held at Ellis Park in Johannesburg, South Africa from 20\u201325 March. South Africa defeated Great Britain in the final, in what was the first final not featuring United States or Australia, giving South Africa their first title. South Africa became the first team other than United States or Australia to win the Fed Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093919-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Federation Cup (tennis), Draw\nAll ties were played at Ellis Park in Johannesburg, South Africa on hard courts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 34], "content_span": [35, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093919-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Federation Cup (tennis), Consolation Round\nTeams which lost in the first or second round of the main draw went on to play in the Consolation Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 47], "content_span": [48, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093920-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Fiesta Bowl\nThe 1972 Fiesta Bowl was the second edition of the college football bowl game, played at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona on Saturday, December\u00a023. Part of the 1972\u201373 bowl game season, it\u00a0matched the unranked Missouri Tigers of the Big Eight Conference and #15 Arizona State Sun Devils of the Western Athletic Conference (WAC). Arizona State never trailed, gained over 700 yards on offense, and won again on its home field, 49\u201335.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093920-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Fiesta Bowl\nThis was the first of two consecutive Fiesta Bowls played at night.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 84]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093920-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Fiesta Bowl, Teams, Missouri\nThe Tigers finished the regular season with a 6\u20135 overall record, 3-4 in the Big Eight Conference, with upset wins over Notre Dame, Colorado, and Iowa\u00a0State. This was Missouri's first bowl appearance in three years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 33], "content_span": [34, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093920-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Fiesta Bowl, Teams, Arizona State\nThe Sun Devils were champions of the WAC for the fourth straight year, the only conference loss was by two points at Wyoming in late September. The other blemish was a home loss to independent Air Force. ASU\u00a0had won the previous year's inaugural Fiesta Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 38], "content_span": [39, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093920-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Fiesta Bowl, Game summary\nTelevised by Hughes, the kickoff on Saturday night was shortly after 6 p.m. MST. It was the only bowl game of the day, played after the first two NFL divisional playoff games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 30], "content_span": [31, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093920-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Fiesta Bowl, Game summary\nArizona State took the lead early with two touchdown runs by All-American halfback Woody Green, taking a 14\u20130 lead at the end of the first. Missouri fullback Don Johnson scored from a yard out to narrow the lead, but ASU responded with fullback Brent McClanahan's one-yard run, followed by Danny White's 34-yard touchdown pass to split end Ed Beverly to increase the lead to 28\u20137 at halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 30], "content_span": [31, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093920-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Fiesta Bowl, Game summary\nMissouri's Chuck Link caught a touchdown pass from quarterback John Cherry to narrow the lead, but the extra point missed, making it only 28\u201313. Not to be deterred, Link caught another touchdown pass and converted the conversion to make it 28\u201321 as the third quarter came to a close.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 30], "content_span": [31, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093920-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Fiesta Bowl, Game summary\nThe Sun Devils struck back, as Green scored his third touchdown of the day to make it 35\u201321. But on the kickoff return, Mike Fink returned it 100 yards to cut the lead back to seven. Beverly caught his second touchdown of the day from White to make it 42\u201328, and after a failed Missouri drive, Green scored his fourth touchdown to give ASU a commanding 49\u201328 lead. Tiger halfback Tommy Reamon had 31-yard touchdown run to make the final score 49\u201335, as ASU won its second straight Fiesta Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 30], "content_span": [31, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093920-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 Fiesta Bowl, Game summary\nASU set two records that still stand for most total yards (718) and first downs (33), which helped them win despite four turnovers compared to Missouri's three, which hurt them more. Green ran for 202 yards on 25 carries (8.1 avg.) for four touchdowns and was named Offensive MVP; in\u00a0addition, backfield mate McClanahan had 171 yards on 26 carries (6.6 avg.) with a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 30], "content_span": [31, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093920-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 Fiesta Bowl, Aftermath\nWhile in the WAC, Arizona State appeared in three more Fiesta Bowls, winning its next two (1973, 1975). Through 2021, Missouri has yet to return to the Fiesta Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 27], "content_span": [28, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093921-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Fijian general election\nGeneral elections were held in Fiji between 15 and 29 April 1972, the first since independence from the United Kingdom in 1970. They were characterised by the lack of rancour between racial groups, typical of the 1966 general election and the 1968 by-elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093921-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Fijian general election\nThe result was a landslide for the Alliance Party of the Prime Minister, Kamisese Mara, which won 33 of the 52 seats, and surprised many observers by capturing almost 25 percent of the Indo-Fijian vote. The Indo-Fijian-dominated National Federation Party led by Sidiq Koya won the remaining 19 seats. The election re-affirmed the political allegiances of the past, with the Alliance Party winning all the Fijian Communal seats with 82% of the vote, as well as all the General Communal seats. The National Federation Party (NFP) won all the Indian Communal sets with 73% of the vote. Voter turnout was 85.2% in the communal seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093921-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Fijian general election, Electoral system\nThe 52-member House of Representatives consisted of 27 members elected from communal constituencies (12 Fijian, 12 Indo-Fijian and three general electors) and 25 members elected from national constituencies (10 Fijian, 10 Indo-Fijian and five general electors), all elected by first-past-the-post voting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093921-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Fijian general election, Electoral system\nVoters could cast up to four votes; one in their own communal constituency, and three in their national constituency, in which they voted for a Fijian, Indo-Fijian and general elector candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093921-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Fijian general election, Aftermath\nFollowing the elections, R. D. Patel of the National Federation Party became Speaker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093921-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Fijian general election, Aftermath\nPrime Minister Mara carried out a cabinet reshuffle, appointing a new cabinet with 14 ministers, an increase from 12 in the previous government. He appointed two members to the Senate \u2013 John Falvey and Penaia Ganilau \u2013 to allow them to join the cabinet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093922-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Fijian local elections\nLocal elections were held in Fiji on 5 November 1972, with voters electing members of the councils of Lautoka and Suva. They were the first local elections after the common electoral roll was introduced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093922-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Fijian local elections, Results\nIn Suva, the Alliance Party won fourteen seats on the City Council and the National Federation Party six, with the Alliance Party's Peter Allan elected mayor. In Lautoka, the National Federation Party won eight seats and the Alliance Party four, with the NFP's Hari Punja elected mayor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093923-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Finnish parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections were held in Finland on 2 and 3 January 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093923-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Finnish parliamentary election, Background\nPrime Minister Ahti Karjalainen's centre-left coalition government lost the Finnish People's Democratic League in March 1971 as they opposed the removal of government subsidies from certain foods whose prices rose, and was forced to resign in October 1971, due to the disagreements between the Social Democratic Party and the Centre Party over the amount of agricultural subsidies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093923-0001-0001", "contents": "1972 Finnish parliamentary election, Background\nAccording to some historians, politicians and journalists, such as Allan Tiitta, Seppo Zetterberg, Johannes Virolainen, Veikko Vennamo and Pekka Hyv\u00e4rinen, an underlying reason for these early parliamentary elections was President Urho Kekkonen's desire to continue in office without regular presidential elections which had been scheduled for 1974. Re -election as President through exceptional means would require a five-sixths majority in Parliament and, according to the above analysts, Kekkonen hoped that such early elections would reduce the number of Finnish Rural Party MPs, and would thus make the exceptional electoral law's passage in Parliament easier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 713]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093923-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Finnish parliamentary election, Background\nKekkonen remembered bitterly the loud and constant criticism of himself and of his foreign policy that Rural Party leader Veikko Vennamo had practised during the 1968 presidential election campaign, and he was determined not to submit himself to such a vicious election campaign this time. Finland was also negotiating a free trade agreement with the European Economic Community, and most Finnish politicians believed that Finland could get a favourable free trade agreement with President Kekkonen's help.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093923-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Finnish parliamentary election, Aftermath\nTo most other parties' surprise, the Rural Party retained their 18 MPs. Government formation was difficult due to partisan bickering and the elections' rather inconclusive results. Rafael Paasio of the Social Democrats formed a minority government of his own party in February 1972, replacing the Helsinki city manager Teuvo Aura's liberal caretaker government. Finally, after tough negotiations, Social Democrat Kalevi Sorsa managed to form a new centre-left majority government that included the Social Democrats, the Centre Party, the Swedish People's Party and the Liberal People's Party in September 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 657]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093923-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Finnish parliamentary election, Aftermath\nPresident Kekkonen's goal of re-election by Parliament was achieved in January 1973. It was helped by the Rural Party splitting as thirteen of their MPs left to form the Finnish People's Unity Party, and by most National Coalition MPs supporting his re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093924-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 First National Tennis Classic\nThe 1972 First National Tennis Classic, also known as the Louisville WCT, was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Louisville Tennis Center in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. It was the third edition of the tournament and was held from July 24 through July 30, 1972. The tournament was part of the 1972 World Championship Tennis circuit and offered total prize money of $50,000. The singles final was won by ninth-seeded Arthur Ashe who earned $10,000 first-prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093924-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 First National Tennis Classic, Finals, Doubles\nJohn Alexander / Phil Dent defeated Arthur Ashe / Bob Lutz 6\u20134, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093925-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Five Nations Championship\nThe 1972 Five Nations Championship was the forty-third series of the rugby union Five Nations Championship. Including the previous incarnations as the Home Nations and Five Nations, this was the seventy-eighth series of the northern hemisphere rugby union championship. The championship was not completed for the first time since World War II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093925-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Five Nations Championship\nScotland and Wales did not travel to Dublin to play Ireland because of the escalating political situation. Although the remaining fixtures of the schedule were fulfilled, as both Ireland and Wales won all their matches, neither could claim the title. To fill the gap of the missing two fixtures, France played a friendly match in Dublin (in addition to the scheduled match in Paris).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093925-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Five Nations Championship\nIn total nine matches were played between 15 January and 29 April. It was contested by England, France, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093925-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Five Nations Championship\nThis was the first Five Nations Championship where a try was worth four points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093925-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Five Nations Championship\nThis tournament saw France play its last matches at its decades-long home ground of Colombes. The opening of the rebuilt Parc des Princes that June saw France move its Five Nations matches to that ground.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093927-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Florida Gators football team\nThe 1972 Florida Gators football team represented the University of Florida during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. The season was the third for Doug Dickey as the head coach of the Florida Gators football team. Dickey's 1972 Florida Gators finished with a 5\u20135\u20131 overall record and a 3\u20133\u20131 Southeastern Conference (SEC) record, tying for sixth among ten SEC teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093927-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Florida Gators football team, Season summary, LSU\nA massive rainstorm inundated Florida Field during the game, allowing a 4\u20134 Florida team to hang close enough with No. 8 LSU to tie the game at 3 with 2:08 left. LSU missed seven field goals during the deluge. The front page of the Youngstown Vindicator reported the next day that during the pre-game invocation, Catholic priest Michael Gannon prayed, \"And if it be Thy will, we'd like You to stop the rain.\" It immediately started raining harder and continued heavily throughout the game", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093928-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Florida State Seminoles football team\nThe 1972 Florida State Seminoles football team represented Florida State University in the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. The Seminoles began the season ranked #19 in the AP poll and rose to #13 (#20, #17, #16, #13 in the second through fifth weeks respectively) before falling out completely following their loss to Florida. They entered again at #17 after their victory against Colorado State, but dropped out again after the loss at Auburn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093929-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Football Cup of Ukrainian SSR among KFK\nThe 1972 Football Cup of Ukrainian SSR among KFK was the annual season of Ukraine's football knockout competition for amateur football teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093930-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Football League Cup Final\nThe 1972 Football League Cup Final took place on 4 March 1972 at Wembley Stadium and was contested by Chelsea and Stoke City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093930-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Football League Cup Final\nChelsea went into the match as strong favourites having won the FA Cup and the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup in the previous two seasons, whereas Stoke were attempting to win their first major trophy. Terry Conroy put Stoke into the lead early on but Chelsea hit back through Peter Osgood just before half time. Stoke got the decisive final goal from veteran George Eastham to end their 109-year wait for a major honour. It remains the club's only major trophy victory; the closest they have come since then to beating this achievement was in 2011 when they lost to Manchester City in the 2011 FA Cup Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093930-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Football League Cup Final, Match review\nBoth sides reached the final after epic semi-final ties with Chelsea beating Tottenham Hotspur and Stoke, West Ham United. The match took place on 4 March 1972 at Wembley Stadium in front of 97,852 with around 35,000 travelling down from Stoke-on-Trent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 44], "content_span": [45, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093930-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Football League Cup Final, Match review\nDespite it being Stoke's first major final they showed no signs of nerves as they took the game to the \"Blues\" and after only five minutes, a long throw-in from Peter Dobing was headed on by Denis Smith. Chelsea's defence panicked and Terry Conroy was quickest to react to put Stoke into the lead. Chelsea improved their game, but it was Stoke who should have scored again with both Dobing and Jimmy Greenhoff being denied by the agile Peter Bonetti. A rare mistake from Alan Bloor inside his own goal-area brought Chelsea an equaliser just before half-time with Peter Osgood taking full advantage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 44], "content_span": [45, 643]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093930-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Football League Cup Final, Match review\nAfter the break Stoke again forced Chelsea back into their own half and although the play became rather scrappy both sides should have scored. But then on 73 minutes George Eastham scored a second goal for Stoke after Greenhoff's shot was only blocked by Bonetti. Gordon Banks made a number of fine saves to keep Stoke's one goal advantage intact and Stoke held out to secure their first major trophy. The club marked the achievement by parading the trophy in an open top bus around Stoke-on-Trent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 44], "content_span": [45, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093931-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Formula One season\nThe 1972 Formula One season was the 26th season of the FIA's Formula One motor racing. It featured the 23rd World Championship of Drivers, the 15th International Cup for F1 Manufacturers and numerous non-championship Formula One races. The World Championship season commenced on 23 January and ended on 8 October after twelve races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093931-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Formula One season\nFor 1972 Team Lotus focused again on the type 72 chassis. Imperial Tobacco continued its sponsorship of the team under its new John Player Special brand. The cars, now often referred to as 'JPS', were fielded in a new black and gold livery. Lotus took the championship by surprise in 1972 with 25-year-old Brazilian driver Emerson Fittipaldi who became the youngest World Champion at that point. Stewart came second in the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093931-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Formula One season\nThis was the first year where all the races were run on circuits with safety features on them, and considerable progress had been made since 1968, the last year where all races were run on circuits with no safety features.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093931-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Formula One season\nThe British Racing Motors (BRM) team took its last victory when Jean-Pierre Beltoise won the rain-affected 1972 Monaco Grand Prix in a BRM P160.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093931-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Formula One season\nThe Dutch Grand Prix was cancelled this year because of safety arrangements that were not completed for the race. It was supposed to be held between the Belgian and French Grand Prix's at the usual location, Zandvoort. Also, a second American motor race called the United States Grand Prix West, originally supposed to be held in April at the Ontario Motor Speedway near Los Angeles, was cancelled. The Mexican Grand Prix was scheduled to be the last race of the season, but it was cancelled after local interest dissipated after the death of Pedro Rodr\u00edguez.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093931-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Formula One season, Calendar, Calendar changes\nThe Argentine Grand Prix returned to the calendar in 1972, It was the first Formula One race in Argentina since 1960, the Aut\u00f3dromo Oscar Alfredo G\u00e1lvez would be used again and was held on 23 January.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093931-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Formula One season, Calendar, Calendar changes\nThe Spanish Grand Prix was moved from Montju\u00efc to Jarama, in keeping with the event-sharing arrangement between the two circuits.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093931-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Formula One season, Calendar, Calendar changes\nThe Belgian Grand Prix returned to the calendar for 1972, the 1971 race was cancelled because of the failure to bring Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps up to mandatory safety standards. The 1972 race was held at the Nivelles-Baulers circuit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093931-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 Formula One season, Calendar, Calendar changes\nThe French Grand Prix was moved from Circuit Paul Ricard to the Charade Circuit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093931-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 Formula One season, Calendar, Calendar changes\nThe British Grand Prix was moved from Silverstone to Brands Hatch, in keeping with the event-sharing arrangement between the two circuits.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093931-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 Formula One season, Calendar, Calendar changes\nThe Canadian Grand Prix was supposed to be held at Circuit Mont-Tremblant was due to host the race in rotation with Mosport Park but the Mont-Tremblant circuit had safety concerns regarding the bitter winters seriously affecting the track surface and a dispute with the local racing authorities there in 1972. Mosport would host the race in 1972 on its intended date.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093931-0011-0000", "contents": "1972 Formula One season, Calendar, Calendar changes\nThe United States Grand Prix West was originally scheduled for 9 April at the Ontario Motor Speedway road course but was cancelled due to the FIA's insistence on circuits holding a test event first.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093931-0012-0000", "contents": "1972 Formula One season, Calendar, Calendar changes\nThe Dutch Grand Prix was originally scheduled for 18 June but was cancelled because of safety upgrades that were not completed at the Zandvoort Circuit in time for the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093931-0013-0000", "contents": "1972 Formula One season, Calendar, Calendar changes\nThe Mexican Grand Prix was originally scheduled for 22 October but was cancelled as interest waned following the death of Pedro Rodr\u00edguez in a sportscar crash in July 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093931-0014-0000", "contents": "1972 Formula One season, Season Review, Race 1: Argentina\nFormula One returned to Argentina in January for the first time since 1960. The short No.9 arena configuration of the Buenos Aires city autodrome was used, and Argentine Carlos Reutemann, in his first ever F1 race, took pole position in a Brabham-Ford/Cosworth. Defending World Champion Jackie Stewart of the UK won in a Tyrrell-Ford/Cosworth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 57], "content_span": [58, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093931-0015-0000", "contents": "1972 Formula One season, Season Review, Race 2: South Africa\nThe South African Grand Prix took place at the Kyalami circuit near Johannesburg in March. Denny Hulme won the race in a McLaren-Ford/Cosworth, which was McLaren's first F1 victory since 1969.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 60], "content_span": [61, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093931-0016-0000", "contents": "1972 Formula One season, Season Review, Race 3: Spain\nWith the cancellation of the United States Grand Prix West at the Ontario Motor Speedway near Los Angeles, Formula One started its 4-month European tour in Spain at the Jarama circuit near Madrid. The Lotus 72, improved after suspension revisions to the chassis to make the car better suited to slick tires, won in the hands of Brazilian Emerson Fittipaldi, in only his second F1 race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 53], "content_span": [54, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093931-0017-0000", "contents": "1972 Formula One season, Season Review, Race 4: Monaco\nThe Monaco Grand Prix in 1972 was run in extremely wet conditions. The circuit had been changed to move the pits from the start-finish line to the harbour straight, though they were moved back to their original location the following year. Frenchman Jean-Pierre Beltoise won his only championship F1 race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093931-0018-0000", "contents": "1972 Formula One season, Season Review, Race 5: Belgium\nThe Belgian Grand Prix took place at the Nivelles circuit just outside Brussels, replacing the Spa-Francorchamps circuit because of safety concerns. Fittipaldi won again in his John Player Lotus 72D.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093931-0019-0000", "contents": "1972 Formula One season, Season Review, Race 6: France\nThere was a four-week break between Grands Prix as the Dutch Grand Prix was cancelled due to safety issues with the Zandvoort circuit. The French Grand Prix was run at the 5.1 mile Charade circuit, consisting of closed-off public roads located in hills surrounding an extinct volcano above Clermont-Ferrand. The circuit's twisty, undulating and sometimes fast nature provided a considerable challenge, and the circuit had been lined with more Armco and had a few more safety features. New Zealander Chris Amon took pole with his new Matra MS120D, ahead of his countryman Denny Hulme in a McLaren.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 651]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093931-0019-0001", "contents": "1972 Formula One season, Season Review, Race 6: France\nAmon led until suffering a puncture, which dropped him to third place, behind Stewart and Fittipaldi \u2013 the former returning from illness after missing the previous race in Belgium. Austrian Helmut Marko was hit and blinded in his left eye by a rock thrown from Fittipaldi's Lotus; the injury ended his racing career. The Charade circuit was never used again for F1, with subsequently planned events being cancelled over safety concerns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093931-0020-0000", "contents": "1972 Formula One season, Season Review, Race 7: Great Britain\nThe British Grand Prix was at Brands Hatch in 1972, and Jacky Ickx in a Ferrari took pole ahead of Fittipaldi and Stewart. Fittipaldi won the race, 4.1 seconds ahead of Stewart.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 61], "content_span": [62, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093931-0021-0000", "contents": "1972 Formula One season, Season Review, Race 8: West Germany\nThe German Grand Prix was held at the 14.2 mile (22.8\u00a0km) N\u00fcrburgring Nordschleife \u2013 the longest, most demanding and most difficult circuit of the year for Formula One. The race distance was extended from 12 to 14 laps, and Jacky Ickx took pole with a record-breaking time of 7 minutes and 7 seconds, ahead of Stewart, Fittipaldi, Swede Ronnie Peterson in a March and Stewart's teammate Francois Cevert in a Tyrrell-Ford/Cosworth. Ickx went on to dominate the race \u2013 he set fastest lap and led from start to finish. Fittipaldi retired with a seized gearbox, and Stewart and Clay Regazzoni in a Ferrari battled until they collided on the last lap at the Hatzenbach. Stewart went off and crashed, but Regazzoni was able to finish behind his teammate Ickx to make it a Ferrari 1\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 60], "content_span": [61, 839]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093931-0022-0000", "contents": "1972 Formula One season, Season Review, Race 9: Austria\nThe Austrian Grand Prix was held at the fastest circuit of the year \u2013 the \u00d6sterreichring in the Styrian mountains. Stewart and Fittipaldi fought for the lead early on, but Stewart, with a new model Tyrrell-Ford/Cosworth 005, eventually fell back and finished 7th, while Fittipaldi won ahead of Denny Hulme and American Peter Revson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093931-0023-0000", "contents": "1972 Formula One season, Season Review, Race 10: Italy\nThe European season concluded four weeks after Austria at the Italian Grand Prix at Monza. The Monza autodrome had been slowed compared to previous years by chicanes fitted just after the pit straight and at what was the flat-out Vialone left hander. Fittipaldi's win in Austria and Stewart's failure to score points meant that Fittipaldi could become World Champion at the race, and after Stewart retired at the start with gearbox failure, he was able to take the win and his first Drivers' Championship. At the age of 25, he was the youngest-ever World Champion, a record not beaten until 2005.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 651]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093931-0024-0000", "contents": "1972 Formula One season, Season Review, Race 11: Canada\nThe Formula One season traditionally concluded in North America, and the first of two North American rounds was in Canada, at the Mosport Park circuit near Toronto. The race was originally supposed to be held at the Circuit Mont-Tremblant in northern Quebec, but a dispute with the local authorities saw the race moved back to Mosport, which had received safety upgrades after a fatal accident during a Formula Ford race during the previous year's event. Jackie Stewart won the race from McLaren drivers Revson and Hulme.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 55], "content_span": [56, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093931-0025-0000", "contents": "1972 Formula One season, Season Review, Race 12: United States\nTwo weeks after Canada, the 12th and last race of the 1972 Formula One season was held at Watkins Glen International circuit in New York State. Stewart won again ahead of his teammate Cevert, in a race that had 31 cars and drivers start the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 62], "content_span": [63, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093931-0026-0000", "contents": "1972 Formula One season, Results and standings, World Drivers' Championship standings\nPoints for the 1972 World Championship of Drivers were awarded on a 9\u20136\u20134\u20133\u20132\u20131 basis to the top six finishers in each race. For classification, only the best five results from the first half of the season and the best five results from the second half of the season could be retained.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 85], "content_span": [86, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093931-0027-0000", "contents": "1972 Formula One season, Results and standings, International Cup for F1 Manufacturers standings\nPoints for the 1972 International Cup for F1 Manufacturers were awarded on a 9\u20136\u20134\u20133\u20132\u20131 basis to the top six finishers in each race. Only the best placed car from each manufacturer was eligible to score points. For classification, only the best five results from the first half of the season and the best five results from the second half of the season could be retained.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 96], "content_span": [97, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093931-0028-0000", "contents": "1972 Formula One season, Results and standings, Non-championship races\nOther Formula One races were also held in 1972, which did not count towards the World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 70], "content_span": [71, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093932-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 France rugby union tour of Australia\nThe 1972 France rugby union tour of Australia was a series of nine matches played by the France national rugby union team in Australia in May and June 1972. The French team went through the tour unbeaten by winning eight of its nine matches and drawing the other. France won the two-match test series against Australia (the Wallabies) 1\u20130 with the other match drawn. As of 2018 this remains France's only series victory on Australian soil.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093933-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 French European Communities enlargement referendum\nA referendum on the enlargement of the EC was held in France on 23 April 1972. Voters were asked whether they approved of Denmark, Ireland, Norway and the United Kingdom joining the EC. (Norway later voted in its own referendum not to join). The proposals were approved by 68.3% of voters, with a turnout of 60.2%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093933-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 French European Communities enlargement referendum\nThe referendum asked: \"Do you agree with the new opportunities opening up in Europe, the draft law submitted to the French people by the President of the Republic, and authorising the ratification of the Treaty concerning the accession of United Kingdom, Denmark, Ireland and Norway to the European Communities?\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093933-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 French European Communities enlargement referendum\nThis was the first referendum to be held in any country relating to an issue regarding the European Communities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093934-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 French Grand Prix\nThe 1972 French Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at the Circuit de Charade in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne, France on 2 July 1972. It was race 6 of 12 in both the 1972 World Championship of Drivers and the 1972 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093934-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 French Grand Prix\nThe Circuit de Charade's natural setting around the base of an extinct volcano created safety concerns due to the dark, volcanic rocks which fell from the mountain onto both sides of the track. Drivers who skirted the track edge would often send rocks flying into the middle of the road and into the path of pursuing competitors. The hazard was highlighted when driver Helmut Marko suffered a career-ending injury during the race, when a stone thrown from Emerson Fittipaldi's Lotus penetrated his helmet visor and blinded him in the left eye. The rocks also meant that tyre punctures were a perennial hazard on the circuit, as was shown when ten competitors suffered punctures during the race. The French Grand Prix was moved to the new Circuit Paul Ricard for 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 790]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093934-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 French Grand Prix\nChris Amon achieved the fifth and final pole position of his career and was leading the race in his Matra until a puncture forced him to pit, leaving Jackie Stewart to win in his Tyrrell-Ford. Fittipaldi finished second, just ahead of a charging Amon, who shattered the circuit's lap record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093935-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 French Open\nThe 1972 French Open was a tennis tournament that took place on the outdoor clay courts at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France. The tournament ran from 22 May until 4 June. It was the 76th staging of the French Open, and the second Grand Slam tennis event of 1972. Andr\u00e9s Gimeno and Billie Jean King won the singles titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093935-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 French Open, Finals, Men's doubles\nBob Hewitt / Frew McMillan defeated Patricio Cornejo / Jaime Fillol, 6\u20133, 8\u20136, 3\u20136, 6\u20131", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 39], "content_span": [40, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093935-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 French Open, Finals, Women's doubles\nBillie Jean King / Betty St\u00f6ve defeated Winnie Shaw / Nell Truman, 6\u20131, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 41], "content_span": [42, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093935-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 French Open, Finals, Mixed doubles\nEvonne Goolagong / Kim Warwick defeated Fran\u00e7oise D\u00fcrr / Jean-Claude Barclay, 6\u20132, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 39], "content_span": [40, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093936-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 French Open \u2013 Men's Doubles\nArthur Ashe and Marty Riessen were the defending champions but none could compete this year, as both players were banned for the Grand Prix tournaments during the dispute between the ILTF and the WCT.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093936-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 French Open \u2013 Men's Doubles\nBob Hewitt and Frew McMillan won the title by defeating Patricio Cornejo and Jaime Fillol 6\u20133, 8\u20136, 3\u20136, 6\u20131 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093936-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 French Open \u2013 Men's Doubles, Seeds\nThe top seven seeds received a bye to the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093937-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 French Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nSixth-seeded Andr\u00e9s Gimeno defeated Patrick Proisy 4\u20136, 6\u20133, 6\u20131, 6\u20131 in the final to win the Men's Singles tennis title at the 1972 French Open. This was his first and only grand slam title and, at the age of 34, he became the oldest first-time grand slam champion in the open era. Jan Kodes was the two-time defending champion, but lost in the quarterfinals to Patrick Proisy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093937-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 French Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nThe French Lawn Tennis Federation halved the size of the draw from 128 to 64 players in an attempt to attract the top players on tour to the tournament; this change was reverted the following year as results were mixed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093937-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 French Open \u2013 Men's Singles, Seeds\nThe seeded players are listed below. Andr\u00e9s Gimeno is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093938-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 French Open \u2013 Men's Singles Qualifying\nPlayers who neither had high enough rankings nor received wild cards to enter the main draw of the annual French Open Tennis Championships participated in a qualifying tournament held in the week before the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093939-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 French Open \u2013 Mixed Doubles\nJean-Claude Barclay and Fran\u00e7oise D\u00fcrr were the defending champions but lost in the final 6\u20132, 6\u20134 against Kim Warwick and Evonne Goolagong.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093940-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 French Open \u2013 Women's Doubles\nThe Women's Doubles tournament at the 1972 French Open was held from 22 May to 4 June 1972 on the outdoor clay courts at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France. The fourth-seeded team of Billie Jean King and Betty St\u00f6ve won the title, defeating the unseeded pair of Winnie Shaw and Nell Truman in the final in straight sets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093941-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 French Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nThird-seeded Billie Jean King defeated defending champion Evonne Goolagong in the final 6\u20133, 6\u20133, to win the Women's Singles title at the 1972 French Open and complete a career Grand Slam in singles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093941-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 French Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nThe French Lawn Tennis Federation halved the size of the draw from 64 to 32 players in an attempt to attract the top players on tour to the tournament; this change was reverted the following year as results were mixed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093941-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 French Open \u2013 Women's Singles, Seeds\nThe seeded players are listed below. Billie Jean King is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093942-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 French Open \u2013 Women's Singles Qualifying\nPlayers who neither had high enough rankings nor received wild cards to enter the main draw of the annual French Open Tennis Championships participated in a qualifying tournament held in the week before the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093943-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 French Polynesian legislative election\nLegislative elections were held in French Polynesia on 10 September 1972 for the Territorial Assembly. Anti -autonomist parties won a majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093943-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 French Polynesian legislative election, Aftermath\nLouis Palmer died in February 1973 and was replaced by Lucien Ratinassamy. Pouvanaa a Oopa resigned during the term of the Territorial Assembly and was replaced by Yannick Amaru. Andr\u00e9 Teikitutoua died shortly before the 1977 elections and was not replaced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 54], "content_span": [55, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093944-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Fresno State Bulldogs football team\nThe 1972 Fresno State Bulldogs football team represented California State University, Fresno during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season as a member of the Pacific Coast Athletic Association. The team was led by head coach Darryl Rogers, in his seventh (and last) year, and they played their home games at Ratcliffe Stadium on the campus of Fresno City College in Fresno, California. They finished the season with a record of six wins, four losses and one tie (6\u20134\u20131, 1\u20133 PCAA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093945-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 GP Ouest\u2013France\nThe 1972 GP Ouest-France was the 36th edition of the GP Ouest-France cycle race and was held on 22 August 1972. The race started and finished in Plouay. The race was won by Robert Bouloux.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093946-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Gambian general election\nGeneral elections were held in the Gambia on 28 and 29 March 1972. They were won by the ruling party, the People's Progressive Party, which took 28 of the 32 elected seats (including five in which its candidates were unopposed).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093947-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Gator Bowl\nThe 1972 Gator Bowl was held on December 30, 1972, at the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, Florida. The sixth-ranked Auburn Tigers defeated the 13th-ranked Colorado Buffaloes by a score of 24\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093947-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Gator Bowl, Game summary\nThe scoring was opened in the second quarter by Auburn, as they converted a 27-yard field goal to take a 3\u20130 lead. They extended their lead to ten as they found the end zone later in the same quarter off of a 1-yard run. They took a 10\u20130 lead into halftime. They controlled the third quarter as well, scoring on a 22-yard pass to take a 17\u20130 lead into the fourth quarter. The Tigers lost their shutout when the Buffaloes hit a 33-yard field goal, but Auburn quickly responded, scoring a 16-yard touchdown pass to make the score 24\u20133. The game finished with the same score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 29], "content_span": [30, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093947-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Gator Bowl, Aftermath\n6th-ranked Auburn rose to #5 following their win; #13 Colorado fell to #16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 26], "content_span": [27, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093948-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Gent\u2013Wevelgem\nThe 1972 Gent\u2013Wevelgem was the 34th edition of the Gent\u2013Wevelgem cycle race and was held on 12 April 1972. The race started in Ghent and finished in Wevelgem. The race was won by Roger Swerts of the Molteni team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093949-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Georgia Bulldogs football team\nThe 1972 Georgia Bulldogs football team represented the Georgia Bulldogs of the University of Georgia during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093950-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team\nThe 1972 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team represented the Georgia Institute of Technology in the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. The Yellow Jackets were led by first-year head coach Bill Fulcher and played their home games at Grant Field in Atlanta. They were invited to the 1972 Liberty Bowl, where they defeated Iowa State, 31\u201330.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093951-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 German Formula Three Championship\nThe 1972 German Formula Three Championship (German: 1972 ADAC Preis der Formel 3) was a multi-event motor racing championship for single-seat open wheel formula racing cars held across Europe. The championship featured drivers competing in two-litre Formula Three racing cars which conformed to the technical regulations, or formula, for the championship. It commenced on 2 April at N\u00fcrburgring and ended at Zolder on 17 September after eight rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093951-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 German Formula Three Championship\nWilli Sommer became a champion. He won three races. Manfred Mohr finished as runner-up, winning the season opener and the season finale. Dieter Kern completed the top-three in the drivers' standings with wins at N\u00fcrburgring and Hockenheimring. Jochen Mass was the only other driver who was able to win a race in the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093952-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 German Grand Prix\nThe 1972 German Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at N\u00fcrburgring on 30 July 1972. It was race 8 of 12 in both the 1972 World Championship of Drivers and the 1972 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093952-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 German Grand Prix\nThe 14-lap race was won by Belgian driver Jacky Ickx, driving a Ferrari. Ickx achieved a Grand Chelem \u2013 taking pole position, leading every lap and setting the fastest lap \u2013 and the fourth at the circuit. It was his eighth, and final, World Championship race victory. Swiss teammate Clay Regazzoni finished second, with Swedish driver Ronnie Peterson third in a March-Ford.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093953-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Gibraltar general election\nEarly general elections were held in Gibraltar on 23 June 1972. The result was a victory for the Association for the Advancement of Civil Rights, which won eight of the 15 seats in the House of Assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093953-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Gibraltar general election, Background\nThe 1969 elections had seen the Association for the Advancement of Civil Rights emerge as the largest party in the legislature, winning seven of the 15 seats. However, the opposition Integration with Britain Party and the Isola Group between them held eight seats, and were able to form a government. However, in 1972 a member of the Isola Group defected, resulting in early elections being called.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093953-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Gibraltar general election, Electoral system\nThe electoral system for the House of Assembly allowed each voter to vote for up to eight candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093954-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Gillette Cup\nThe 1972 Gillette Cup was the tenth Gillette Cup, an English limited overs county cricket tournament. It was held between 5 July and 2 September 1972. The tournament was won by Lancashire County Cricket Club who defeated Warwickshire County Cricket Club by 4 wickets in the final at Lord's.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093954-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Gillette Cup, Format\nThe seventeen first-class counties were joined by five Minor Counties: Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Durham, Oxfordshire and Wiltshire. Teams who won in the first round progressed to the second round. The winners in the second round then progressed to the quarter-final stage. Winners from the quarter-finals then progressed to the semi-finals from which the winners then went on to the final at Lord's which was held on 2 September 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 25], "content_span": [26, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093955-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Gird by-election\nIn June 1972 a by-election was held in for the Gird seat of the Legislative Assembly of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. The by-election was called after the resignation of the sitting MLA Vijaya Raje Scindia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093955-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Gird by-election\nScindia, once the Rajmata of Gwalior, had won both the Gird Legislative Assembly seat as well the Bhind seat of the Lok Sabha (lower house of the parliament of India) in the 1971 general election by impressive margins, standing for the Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS). In the March 1972 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election in Gird she defeated the Indian National Congress candidate Ghuraiya Sarnamsingh with a margin of over 12,000 votes. After the elections she had to choose between the two posts, and decided to retain her Lok Sabha seat and resigned from the Gird Legislative Assembly seat. At the time Gird was seen as a Scindia-BJS stronghold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 676]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093955-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Gird by-election\nThe main contenders of the by-election were Maheshdutta Mishra and Balkrishna Sharma. Mishra was the candidate put forth by Scindia and represented the BJS. Scindia and other prominent BJS personalities conducted speaking tours across the vast constituency to support Mishra's candidacy, at least 50 jeeps were used the purpose. Sharma was a Communist Party of India leader with 35 years experience in working with the peasant movement in the area. The Indian National Congress had declared its support for Sharma's candidature, but local Congress leaders in Gwalior offered little support for him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 620]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093955-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Gird by-election\nThe election was held on 5 June 1972. Sharma narrowly won the seat, largely due to support from the peasants. He got 12,704 votes compared to 11,915 votes for Mishra. There were also six independent candidates in the fray; B. Kushwah (1,868 votes), J. Raosahib (1,682 votes), Nathu (238 votes), Roopchand (110 votes) and G. Sharma (70 votes). All independent candidates lost their deposits.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093955-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Gird by-election\nThe French scholar Christophe Jaffrelot argued that \"[t]he victory of the people's candidate over that of the 'palace' was the abiding image of this contest. Nor must one forget that it happened after the passing of a law establishing a ceiling of 10 acres on landholdings owned by individuals and 15 acres on those owned by families of five individuals, a measure which Congress had promised before the elections and was supported by the CPI.\" According to the publication Link the election outcome was \"a significant event in the anti-feudal wind blowing in the northern districts of Madhya Pradesh\". The election sparked internal dissent within the BJS, with some sectors beginning to call for a break with the relationship with the Scindias.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 767]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093956-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Giro d'Italia\nThe 1972 Giro d'Italia was the 55th\u00a0running of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tours races. The Giro started in Venice on 21 May, with a 5.2\u00a0km (3.2\u00a0mi) prologue and concluded with a 197\u00a0km (122\u00a0mi) mass-start stage, on 11 June. A total of 100 riders from ten teams entered the 20-stage race, that was won by Belgian Eddy Merckx of the Molteni team. The second and third places were taken by Spaniards Jos\u00e9 Manuel Fuente and Francisco Gald\u00f3s, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093956-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Giro d'Italia, Teams\nA total of ten teams were invited to participate in the 1972 Giro d'Italia. Each team sent a squad of ten riders, which meant that the race started with a peloton of 100 cyclists. In total, 63 riders were from Italy, while the remaining 37 riders came from: Belgium (18), Spain (10), Switzerland (6), Sweden (2), and Denmark (1). Of those starting, 21 were riding the Giro d'Italia for the first time. The average age of riders was 27.34 years, ranging from 22\u2013year\u2013old J\u00fcrg Schneider from GBC to 38\u2013year\u2013old Aldo Moser of GBC. The team with the youngest average rider age was Magniflex (25), while the oldest was Salvarani (29). From the riders that began this edition, 69 made it to the finish on the Milan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 25], "content_span": [26, 735]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093956-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Giro d'Italia, Pre-race favorites\nEddy Merckx (Molteni) entered as the unanimous favorite to win the event. He had previously won the race in 1968 and 1970, but did not ride in 1971 in order to race the Tour de France, which he won. Early in the season, he broke a vertebra in a fall during the Paris\u2013Nice. Merckx entered the race as the reigning world champion, with victories at Milan\u2013San Remo and Li\u00e8ge\u2013Bastogne\u2013Li\u00e8ge in the season so far. He was viewed to be in great physical shape coming into the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 38], "content_span": [39, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093956-0002-0001", "contents": "1972 Giro d'Italia, Pre-race favorites\nDespite his success, there were concerns that Merckx's constant racing during the 1969 and 1970 seasons might have diminished his capabilities. The Molteni team was viewed to have strong supports for Merckx with Roger Swerts, Martin Van Den Bossche, and Jozef Spruyt. It was known that Merckx wished to target the upcoming Tour de France and it was thought that he and his team would try to be conservative with their efforts at the Giro. A third victory would tie Merckx with the likes of Giovanni Brunero, Gino Bartali, and Fiorenzo Magni, whom each had won the race three times. Five-time champion Alfredo Binda commented that Merckx's participation \"promises episodes of high competitive value, even if the Belgian is no longer the powerful athlete, almost irresistible from two years ago.\" Binda commented that Merckx is vulnerable when considering his results from the previous season to the current one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 38], "content_span": [39, 949]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093956-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Giro d'Italia, Pre-race favorites\nReigning champion G\u00f6sta Pettersson (Ferretti) was found to be a dangerous opponent. Pettersson's teammate Gianni Motta was also viewed as a general classification threat, which was thought to hinder their chances as Merckx was the sole leader of his Molteni team. The same was thought for the Salvarani team which featured two-time winner Felice Gimondi (1967 and 1969) and Italo Zilioli. Gimondi stated before the race that on the fourth stage where the Blockhaus is climbed, \"you will know what I am worth.\" Binda felt Gimondi had the best chance of all the Italian competitors to win the general classification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 38], "content_span": [39, 653]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093956-0003-0001", "contents": "1972 Giro d'Italia, Pre-race favorites\nSpanish climbers Jos\u00e9 Manuel Fuente and Miguel Mar\u00eda Lasa, both from the KAS team, were expected to disrupt Merckx in the mountains and could challenge for a high general classification ranking. The KAS team was viewed as a strong squad after their stranglehold over the recent Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a where Fuente was victorious, but it was noted that featured minimal competition for the squad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 38], "content_span": [39, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093956-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Giro d'Italia, Pre-race favorites\nOutside contenders for the race were Roger de Vlaeminck (Dreher), Ole Ritter (Dreher), Pierfranco Vianelli (Dreher), and Franco Bitossi (Filotex). De Vlaeminck was viewed as a threat due to his victory at Paris\u2013Roubaix and stage-race Tirreno\u2013Adriatico. He suffered scaphoid fracture before the race and got the cast removed before the race began and started the event with a bandage on his left wrist. He stated he hoped his condition would improve before the race reached the Blockhaus. In addition, one of de Vlaeminck's knees would be operated on in the fall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 38], "content_span": [39, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093956-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Giro d'Italia, Pre-race favorites\nSprinters Marino Basso (Salvarani) and Patrick Sercu (Dreher) were thought to be the favorites to win the opening flat stages. Notable absences from the race included Rik Van Linden (Magniflex) who had injured his foot in the Vuelta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 38], "content_span": [39, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093956-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Giro d'Italia, Route and stages\nRace director Vincenzo Torriani revealed the race route on 28 March 1972 in front of several journalists. Torriani reported that Belgium had expressed interest in hosting the start of the race with a cash incentive, but arrived late in the process and would be considered for the 1973 edition. After the routes announcement in March, it was modified and contained twenty days of racing, with three split stages, which covered a grand total of 3,716\u00a0km (2,309\u00a0mi), which was reduced from the 3,794\u00a0km (2,357\u00a0mi) initially.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 36], "content_span": [37, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093956-0006-0001", "contents": "1972 Giro d'Italia, Route and stages\nThe race featured two rest days, the first of which was used to transfer from Messina to Rome on 30 May. There were eleven stages containing seventeen categorized climbs that awarded points for the mountains classification across eleven stages. In total, the race climbed 24.3\u00a0km (15.1\u00a0mi), 3.4\u00a0km (2.1\u00a0mi) less than the previous year. The average length of each stage was 185.8\u00a0km (115.5\u00a0mi). The route contained three time trial stages for a total of 58\u00a0km (36\u00a0mi).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 36], "content_span": [37, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093956-0006-0002", "contents": "1972 Giro d'Italia, Route and stages\nOne of the days featured two time trials each in Forte dei Marmi, where Torriani pitched the idea that there could be three winners on the stage, one for each winner of the split time trial stage and one winner for the best combined time from both performances. At the initial route announcement there was speculation that a prologue would take place on 20 May in Venice, but it was later reported to have failed because Torriani did not get approval from the Venetian government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 36], "content_span": [37, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093956-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Giro d'Italia, Route and stages\nThe route began in Venice for the first time in race history and traveled south and crossed the Apennines until reaching the edge of the continental section of Italy. The race transferred to Sicily for a stage. Following the conclusion of Messina stage, the race had a rest day that was used to transfer for Rome. The event continued north and reached the Alps before reaching the Alps and making a turn south and west to travel towards Milan for the finish. The entire route crossed through the majority of Italian regions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 36], "content_span": [37, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093956-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 Giro d'Italia, Route and stages\nIt was believed Torriani made the race very mountainous in order to keep Merckx from overly dominating the race. Author William Fotheringham shared that sentiment, specifically stating that Torriani designed the route in order to give Jos\u00e9 Manuel Fuente several opportunities to attack Eddy Merckx. The race was predicted to be under poor weather for the majority of its duration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 36], "content_span": [37, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093956-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 Giro d'Italia, Race overview\nDuring the fourteenth stage, the race jury disqualified Zilioli, Motta and Bitossi, among others.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 33], "content_span": [34, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093956-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 Giro d'Italia, Classification leadership\nThere were three main individual classifications contested in the 1972 Giro d'Italia, as well as a team competition. Two of them awarded jerseys to their leaders. The general classification was the most important and was calculated by adding each rider's finishing times on each stage. The rider with the lowest cumulative time was the winner of the general classification and was considered the overall winner of the Giro. The rider leading the classification wore a pink jersey to signify the classification's leadership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 45], "content_span": [46, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093956-0011-0000", "contents": "1972 Giro d'Italia, Classification leadership\nThe second classification was the points classification. Riders received points for finishing in the top positions in a stage finish, with first place getting the most points, and lower placings getting successively fewer points down to fifteenth place. The rider leading this classification wore a purple (or cyclamen) jersey. The mountains classification was the third classification. In this ranking, points were won by reaching the summit of a climb ahead of other cyclists. Climbs were ranked in first and second categories, the former awarded 50, 30, and 20 points while the latter awarded 30, 20, and 10 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 45], "content_span": [46, 664]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093956-0011-0001", "contents": "1972 Giro d'Italia, Classification leadership\nIn this ranking, points were won by reaching the summit of a climb ahead of other cyclists. Most stages of the race included one or more categorized climbs, in which points were awarded to the riders that reached the summit first. In addition there was the Cima Coppi, the Passo dello Stelvio, which was the highest mountain crossed in this edition of the race. For this designation it gave 200, 100, 80, 70, and 50 points to the first five riders summit the climb. The first rider over the Stelvio was Jos\u00e9 Manuel Fuente.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 45], "content_span": [46, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093956-0012-0000", "contents": "1972 Giro d'Italia, Classification leadership\nThe final classification, the team classification, awarded no jersey to its leaders. This was calculated by adding together points earned by each rider on the team during each stage through the intermediate sprints, the categorized climbs, stage finishes, etc. The team with the most points led the classification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 45], "content_span": [46, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093956-0013-0000", "contents": "1972 Giro d'Italia, Final standings, Minor classifications\nMerckx also won the combination classification which was calculated by totaling each rider's placement in the general, points, and mountains classifications.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 58], "content_span": [59, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093957-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11\nThe 1972 Giro d'Italia was the 55th edition of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Giro began in Venice on 21 May, and Stage 11 occurred on 1 June with a stage to Forte dei Marmi. The race finished in Milan on 11 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093957-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 1\n21 May 1972 \u2014 Venice to Ravenna, 196\u00a0km (122\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093957-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 2\n22 May 1972 \u2014 Ravenna to Fermo, 212\u00a0km (132\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093957-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 3\n23 May 1972 \u2014 Porto San Giorgio to Francavilla al Mare, 205\u00a0km (127\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093957-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 4a\n24 May 1972 \u2014 Francavilla al Mare to Blockhaus, 48\u00a0km (30\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093957-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 4b\n24 May 1972 \u2014 Blockhaus to Foggia, 210\u00a0km (130\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093957-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 5\n25 May 1972 \u2014 Foggia to Montesano sulla Marcellana, 238\u00a0km (148\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093957-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 6\n26 May 1972 \u2014 Montesano sulla Marcellana to Cosenza, 190\u00a0km (120\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093957-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 7\n27 May 1972 \u2014 Cosenza to Catanzaro, 151\u00a0km (94\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093957-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 8\n28 May 1972 \u2014 Catanzaro to Reggio Calabria, 160\u00a0km (99\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093957-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 9\n29 May 1972 \u2014 Messina to Messina, 110\u00a0km (68\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093957-0011-0000", "contents": "1972 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 10\n31 May 1972 \u2014 Rome to Monte Argentario, 166\u00a0km (103\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093957-0012-0000", "contents": "1972 Giro d'Italia, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 11\n1 June 1972 \u2014 Monte Argentario to Forte dei Marmi, 242\u00a0km (150\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093958-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12a to Stage 20\nThe 1972 Giro d'Italia was the 55th edition of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Giro began in Venice on 21 May, and Stage 12a occurred on 2 June with a stage from Forte dei Marmi. The race finished in Milan on 11 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093958-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12a to Stage 20, Stage 12a\n2 June 1972 \u2014 Forte dei Marmi, 20\u00a0km (12\u00a0mi) (ITT)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 52], "content_span": [53, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093958-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12a to Stage 20, Stage 12b\n2 June 1972 \u2014 Forte dei Marmi, 20\u00a0km (12\u00a0mi) (ITT)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 52], "content_span": [53, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093958-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12a to Stage 20, Stage 13\n3 June 1972 \u2014 Forte dei Marmi to Savona, 200\u00a0km (120\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093958-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12a to Stage 20, Stage 14\n4 June 1972 \u2014 Savona to Monte Jafferau, 256\u00a0km (159\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093958-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12a to Stage 20, Stage 15\n6 June 1972 \u2014 Parabiago to Parabiago, 168\u00a0km (104\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093958-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12a to Stage 20, Stage 16\n7 June 1972 \u2014 Parabiago to Livigno, 256\u00a0km (159\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093958-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12a to Stage 20, Stage 17\n8 June 1972 \u2014 Livigno to Passo dello Stelvio, 88\u00a0km (55\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093958-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12a to Stage 20, Stage 18\n9 June 1972 \u2014 Sulden to Asiago, 223\u00a0km (139\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093958-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12a to Stage 20, Stage 19a\n10 June 1972 \u2014 Asiago to Arco, 163\u00a0km (101\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 52], "content_span": [53, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093958-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12a to Stage 20, Stage 19b\n10 June 1972 \u2014 Arco to Arco, 18\u00a0km (11\u00a0mi) (ITT)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 52], "content_span": [53, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093958-0011-0000", "contents": "1972 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12a to Stage 20, Stage 20\n11 June 1972 \u2014 Arco to Milan, 185\u00a0km (115\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 51], "content_span": [52, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093959-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Giro di Lombardia\nThe 1972 Giro di Lombardia was the 66th edition of the Giro di Lombardia cycle race and was held on 7 October 1972. The race started in Milan and finished in Como. The race was won by Eddy Merckx of the Molteni team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093960-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Goa, Daman and Diu Legislative Assembly election\nGoa, Daman & Diu Legislative Assembly election, 1972 was held in Indian Union territory of Goa, Daman and Diu in 1972, to elect 30 members to the Goa, Daman & Diu Legislative Assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093961-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Golden Gate Pacific Coast Classic\nThe 1972 Golden Gate Pacific Coast Classic, also known as the Pacific Coast Championships, was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Golden Gate Fields in Albany, California in the United States. The event was part of Group C of the 1972 Commercial Union Assurance Grand Prix circuit. It was the 82nd edition of the tournament and ran from September 25 through October 1, 1972. Jimmy Connors won the singles title and earned $8,000 first-prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093961-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Golden Gate Pacific Coast Classic, Finals, Doubles\nFrew McMillan / Bob Hewitt defeated Bj\u00f6rn Borg / Ove Nils Bengtson 6\u20132, 2\u20136, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093962-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Golden Helmet (Poland)\nThe Golden Helmet (Polish: Turniej o Z\u0142oty Kask, ZK) is an annual motorcycle speedway event, and has been organized by the Polish Motor Union (PZM) since 1961. Currently the race is held in PC Team 3rd from last season (previously Wroc\u0142aw), with the top twelve riders in the Extraleague and the top four riders in the First League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093962-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Golden Helmet (Poland)\n1972 Golden Helmet season was the 12th since its establishment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 91]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093962-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Golden Helmet (Poland), Final classification\nNote: Result from final score was subtracted with two the weakest events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093963-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Governor General's Awards\nEach winner of the 1972 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit was selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093964-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Grambling Tigers football team\nThe 1972 Grambling Tigers football team represented Grambling College (now known as Grambling State University) as a member of the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) during the 1972 NCAA College Division football season. In its 30th season under head coach Eddie Robinson, Grambling compiled an 11\u20132 record (5\u20131 against conference opponents), tied for the SWAC championship, defeated North Carolina Central in the Pelican Bowl, and outscored opponents by a total of 346 to 123. The team was recognized as the 1972 black college football national champion and was ranked No. 8 by the Associated Press in the final 1972 NCAA College Division football rankings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 699]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093965-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Grand National\nThe 1972 Grand National was the 126th renewal of the Grand National horse race that took place at Aintree near Liverpool, England, on 8 April 1972. The winner was Well To Do, whose price went down from 33\u20131 to 14-1 the day before. Former winner Gay Trip was second, and there was a dead-heat for third place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093965-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Grand National\nThe winning colours of Capt Tim Forster were - crimson, gold sleeves, hooped cap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093965-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Grand National, Media coverage\nDavid Coleman presented Grand National Grandstand on the BBC for the thirteenth year (his twelfth). Peter O'Sullevan, John Hanmer (first National), and Julian Wilson formed the commentary team. The three of them would go on to cover 21 National's together. Peter Bromley remained the voice on BBC radio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093966-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Grand Prix (tennis)\nThe 1972 Commercial Union Assurance Grand Prix was a professional tennis circuit held that year and organized by the International Lawn Tennis Federation (ILTF). It consisted of 33 Grand Prix tournaments in different categories including three of the four Grand Slam tournaments and was followed by a season-ending Masters tournament. The circuit ran from February through November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093966-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Grand Prix (tennis)\nThe 1972 Grand Prix circuit ran in competition with the 1972 World Championship Tennis circuit and, to a lesser extent, with the smaller 1972 USLTA Indoor Circuit. In July 1971 at its annual meeting, the ILTF voted to ban all WCT contract professionals from their tournaments and facilities from the beginning of 1972 onwards. This meant that leading WCT players such as Rod Laver, Ken Rosewall, Arthur Ashe and John Newcombe did not initially have permission to compete in the Grand Prix circuit and Newcombe could not defend his two consecutive Wimbledon titles of 1970 and 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093966-0001-0001", "contents": "1972 Grand Prix (tennis)\nIn April 1972, however, an agreement was reached between the ILTF and WCT that divided the 1973 tour in a WCT circuit that ran from January through April and a Grand Prix circuit that was scheduled for the rest of the year. Under the agreement the players contracted by the WCT could play in the Grand Prix events as of September 1972. The deal was ratified at the annual ILTF meeting in July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093966-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Grand Prix (tennis), Schedule, November\n* Tournaments combined with a women's Grand Prix tour event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093966-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Grand Prix (tennis), Standings\nCliff Richey, Roscoe Tanner, Alex Metreveli, Tom Okker and Arthur Ashe played too few Grand Prix tournaments to qualify for prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093966-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Grand Prix (tennis), List of tournament winners\nThe list of winners and number of singles titles won, alphabetically by last name:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 52], "content_span": [53, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093966-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Grand Prix (tennis), List of tournament winners\nThe following players won their first Grand Prix title in 1972:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 52], "content_span": [53, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093967-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Grand Prix German Open\nThe 1972 Grand Prix German Open was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament played on outdoor red clay courts. It was the 64th edition of the event and was part of the 1972 Commercial Union Assurance Grand Prix circuit. It took place at the Am Rothenbaum in Hamburg, West Germany, from 5 June through 11 June 1972. Manuel Orantes and Helga Masthoff won the singles titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093967-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Grand Prix German Open, Finals, Men's doubles\nJan Kode\u0161 / Ilie N\u0103stase defeated Bob Hewitt / Ion \u0162iriac 4\u20136, 6\u20130, 3\u20136, 6\u20132, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093967-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Grand Prix German Open, Finals, Women's doubles\nHelga Masthoff / Heide Orth defeated Wendy Overton / Valerie Ziegenfuss 6\u20133, 2\u20136, 6\u20130", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093967-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Grand Prix German Open, Finals, Mixed doubles\nHelga Masthoff / J\u00fcrgen Fassbender defeated Helga Masthoff / Hans-J\u00fcrgen Pohmann 6\u20134, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093968-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season\nThe 1972 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season was the 24th F.I.M. Road Racing World Championship Grand Prix season. The season consisted of twelve Grand Prix races in six classes: 500cc, 350cc, 250cc, 125cc, 50cc and Sidecars 500cc. It began on 30 April, with West German Grand Prix and ended with Spanish Grand Prix on 23 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093968-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, Season summary\nAnother year, another championship for Giacomo Agostini, claiming a record 11 victories to take his seventh consecutive 500cc crown for MV Agusta. Things were tighter in the 350cc class with Jarno Saarinen giving Agostini a strong challenge by winning three races, including a victory at the German Grand Prix held at the daunting N\u00fcrburgring race track, where Saarinen defeated Agostini for the first time in a head to head race. Saarinen also scored a double victory at the Czechoslovakian Grand Prix with victories in both the 250cc and 350cc classes. The threat from Saarinen's two stroke Yamaha was so strong that the previously dominant MV Agusta factory was forced to produce a new 350cc motorcycle for Agostini.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 56], "content_span": [57, 776]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093968-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, Season summary\nIn the 250cc division, Saarinen would win a tight race in a season-long battle with Renzo Pasolini and Rod Gould. Angel Nieto claimed a double, winning the 125cc and 50cc championships for Derbi before the Spanish factory announced its pull out from Grand Prix racing. The Yamaha factory won its first-ever 500cc Grand Prix race at the season ending Spanish Grand Prix at Jarama when Chas Mortimer won the race after Agostini sat out the event after already winning the championship,", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 56], "content_span": [57, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093968-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, Season summary\nThis would be the final season for the East German Grand Prix as a championship race, as SED officials, troubled by fans singing Das Lied der Deutschen (the West German national anthem) after Dieter Braun's victory the previous season, limited entries to only Eastern Bloc nations beginning in 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 56], "content_span": [57, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093968-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, 1972 Grand Prix season calendar, Scoring system\nPoints were awarded to the top ten finishers in each race. Only the best of five races were counted on 50cc and Sidecars championships, while in the 125cc, 250cc, 350cc and 500cc championships, the best of seven races were counted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 89], "content_span": [90, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093969-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Grantland Rice Bowl\nThe 1972 Grantland Rice Bowl was an NCAA College Division game following the 1972 season, between the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs and the Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles. Louisiana Tech quarterback Denny Duron was named outstanding offensive player, while his teammate linebacker Joe McNeely was named outstanding defensive player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093969-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Grantland Rice Bowl, Notable participants\nLouisiana Tech wide receiver Roger Carr was selected in the 1974 NFL Draft, while defensive end Fred Dean and running back Roland Harper were selected in the 1975 NFL Draft, and tight end Mike Barber was selected in the 1976 NFL Draft. Carr, Dean, Harper, Barber, and Joe McNeely are inductees of their university's athletic hall of fame, as is head coach Maxie Lambright. Dean is an inductee of both the College Football Hall of Fame and the Pro Football Hall of Fame.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 46], "content_span": [47, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093969-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Grantland Rice Bowl, Notable participants\nTennessee Tech linebackers Jim Youngblood and Mike Hennigan were selected in the 1973 NFL Draft. Youngblood, Hennigan, defensive back John Fitzpatrick, and guard Howard Cochran are inductees of their university's sports hall of fame, as is head coach Don Wade. Youngblood is an inductee of the College Football Hall of Fame.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 46], "content_span": [47, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093969-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Grantland Rice Bowl, Further reading\nThis college football bowl article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 41], "content_span": [42, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093970-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Great Daylight Fireball\nThe Great Daylight Fireball (or US19720810) was an Earth-grazing fireball that passed within 57 kilometres (35\u00a0mi; 187,000\u00a0ft) of Earth's surface at 20:29 UTC on August 10, 1972. It entered Earth's atmosphere at a speed of 15 kilometres per second (9.3\u00a0mi/s) in daylight over Utah, United States (14:30 local time) and passed northwards leaving the atmosphere over Alberta, Canada. It was seen by many people and recorded on film and by space-borne sensors. An eyewitness to the event, located in Missoula, Montana, saw the object pass directly overhead and heard a double sonic boom. The smoke trail lingered in the atmosphere for several minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 677]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093970-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Great Daylight Fireball\nThe atmospheric pass modified the object's mass and orbit around the Sun, but it is probably still in an Earth-crossing orbit and is thought to have passed close to Earth again in August 1997. However IAU's website states that these \"suggestions have not been substantiated\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093970-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Great Daylight Fireball, Description\nAnalysis of its appearance and trajectory showed the object was about 3\u201314\u00a0m (10\u201345\u00a0ft) in diameter, depending on whether it was a comet made of ice or a stony and therefore denser asteroid. Other sources identified it as an Apollo asteroid in an Earth-crossing orbit that would make a subsequent close approach to Earth in August 1997. In 1994, Czech astronomer Zden\u011bk Ceplecha reanalysed the data and suggested the passage would have reduced the asteroid's mass to about a third or half of its original mass (reducing its diameter to 2\u201310 metres (6.6\u201332.8\u00a0ft)).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 605]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093970-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Great Daylight Fireball, Description\nThe object was tracked by military surveillance systems and sufficient data obtained to determine its orbit both before and after its 100-second passage through Earth's atmosphere. Its velocity was reduced by about 800 metres per second (2,600\u00a0ft/s) and the encounter significantly changed its orbital inclination from 15 degrees to 7 degrees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093970-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Great Daylight Fireball, In popular culture\nThe US19720810 meteoroid is described in the preface of the first chapter of Arthur C. Clarke's The Hammer of God.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093970-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Great Daylight Fireball, In popular culture\nThe clip featuring the fireball is shown in the 1994 made-for-TV film Without Warning, in which it is described as a 1,640-foot (500-meter) asteroid narrowly missing the Earth by just thousands of feet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093971-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Green Bay Packers season\nThe 1972 Green Bay Packers season was their 54th season overall and their 52nd season in the National Football League. The team finished with a 10\u20134 record under second-year head coach Dan Devine, earning them the NFC Central division title. The Packers returned to the playoffs after a four-year drought (and qualified for the first time since Vince Lombardi departed as head coach); their most recent division title was in 1967, completing that postseason with a decisive win in Super Bowl II in January 1968.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093971-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Green Bay Packers season\nIn 1972, Green Bay entered the penultimate regular season game at Minnesota on December 10 with an 8\u20134 record. The Vikings (7\u20135) had won the season's earlier game at Lambeau Field in Green Bay by breaking a fourth quarter tie with two interceptions for touchdowns. This time, the Packers overcame a 7\u20130 halftime deficit at Metropolitan Stadium with 23 unanswered points to clinch the division title. Running back John Brockington became the first in NFL history to rush for 1,000 yards in each of his first two seasons, and did it again the following season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093971-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Green Bay Packers season\nPlacekicker Chester Marcol established an NFL rookie record for field goals in a season (since broken). It was the fifteenth and final season of hall of fame linebacker Ray Nitschke.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093971-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Green Bay Packers season\nThe Packers' next division title came 23 years later, in 1995.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093971-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Green Bay Packers season, Offseason\nIn February 1972, running back (and punter) Donny Anderson was traded to the St. Louis Cardinals for MacArthur Lane. Hall of Fame quarterback Bart Starr retired as a player in July; he was the quarterbacks coach and play caller in 1972. (He then pursued business interests and was a color analyst for CBS, then returned to the Packers as their head coach in the 1975 season.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093971-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season, Playoffs\nGreen Bay met the NFC East champion Washington Redskins (11\u20133) in the divisional playoffs on Christmas Eve at RFK Stadium. The Packers practiced the week before at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The two teams had played four weeks earlier at the same venue; the Redskins won by five points on November 26, and were favored by in the playoff game by 4\u00bd points. The results were similar, as Green Bay scored first but lost again in D.C., this time by thirteen points, 16\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093972-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Greenlandic Football Championship\nThe 1972 Greenlandic Football Championship was the 2nd edition of the Greenlandic Football Championship. The final round was held in Nuuk. It was the first football championship won by Gr\u00f8nlands Seminarius Sportklub and the second national title in its history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093973-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Grenadian general election\nGeneral elections were held in Grenada on 28 February 1972. The result was a victory for the Grenada United Labour Party, which won 13 of the 15 seats. Voter turnout was 83.5%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093974-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election\nThe 4th Gujarat Legislative Assembly election was held in 1972. Indian National Congress won 140 seats out of 168 seats. While, NCO won 16 seats. Congress performed better in this election and gained 47 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093974-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election\nTotal of 852 men and 21 women contested the election. Total 167 men and 1 woman won in the elections. The number of polling stations was 17,994 and the number of electors per polling station was 695. 1 . BJS 100 3 69 643032 9.29% 15.03%2 . CPI 11 1 10 32439 0.47% 7.00%3 . CPM 4 0 4 15500 0.22% 9.57%4 . INC 168 140 1 3527035 50.93% 50.93%5 . NCO 138 16 29 1626736 23.49% 28.95%6 . SOP 15 0 12 50009 0.72% 9.11%7 . SWA 47 0 42 123589 1.78% 6.32%483 160 167 6018340 86.91%STATE PARTIES8 . RSP 1 0 0 8649 0.12% 22.33%1 0 0 8649 0.12%REGISTERED (Unrecognised) PARTIES9 . HMS 1 0 1 136 0.00% 0.35%1 0 1 136 0.00%INDEPENDENTS10 . IND 337 8 299 897584 12.96% 15.54%337 8 299 897584 12.96%", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 725]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093975-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Hamilton Tiger-Cats season\nThe 1972 Hamilton Tiger-Cats season was the 15th season for the team in the Canadian Football League and their 23rd overall. The Tiger-Cats finished in 1st place in the Eastern Conference with an 11\u20133 record and won the Grey Cup over the Saskatchewan Roughriders. Ralph Sazio became Tiger-Cats President in 1972, the year in which Hamilton hosted and won the Grey Cup. In 1972, Tony Gabriel improved his receiving numbers to 49 catches for 733 yards, finishing second in the East in passes caught. It would be Tommy Joe Coffey's final season with the Tiger-Cats. Ellison Kelly would be in his final season with the Tiger-Cats. During his 13-year career, he never missed a game, playing in 175 consecutive regular season games. Joe Zuger left the Tiger-Cats to play for the Detroit Lions of the NFL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 830]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093976-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Hardie-Ferodo 500\nThe 1972 Hardie-Ferodo 500 was an endurance motor race open to Group E Series Production Touring Cars. The race was held on 1 October 1972 at the Mount Panorama Circuit just outside Bathurst in New South Wales, Australia. Cars competed in four classes defined by Capacity Price Units, where the engine capacity, expressed in litres (to three decimal places), was multiplied by the purchase price in Australian dollars to arrive at a CP value for each vehicle. It was the 13th running of the Bathurst 500 race and the last to be held over the original distance of 500 miles. It was also the last to allow drivers to compete for the full distance without a relief driver. The race was the third round of the 1972 Australian Manufacturers' Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 773]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093976-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Hardie-Ferodo 500\nThe race was memorable as the first time rain had significantly affected the race. It was won by Peter Brock driving a Holden Dealer Team prepared Holden Torana, the first of Brock's record nine victories.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093976-0001-0001", "contents": "1972 Hardie-Ferodo 500\nBrock finished a lap ahead of Queensland racer John French driving a Ford XY Falcon GT-HO Phase III, this despite Brock being penalised one minute at his last pit stop for starting his car while the HDT crew were still re-fueling (under the ARDC's race regulations of the day, car engines had to be switched off during pit stops and could only be restarted once the re-fueling had been completed). A further lap behind was the Chrysler Valiant Charger of Doug Chivas. It was the only time the big three manufacturers of Australia in the 1960s and 1970s all had representatives in the top three finishers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 627]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093976-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Hardie-Ferodo 500\nPole sitter and winner of the previous two Bathurst 500's, Allan Moffat, had a race he would rather forget. After dicing for the lead with Brock in the early laps, Moffat spun his Works Phase III Falcon at Sulman Park on top of The Mountain in the wet conditions. Although he would fight his way back, he would twice be penalised one minute for restarting his car during pit stops before the re-fueling had been completed. Later in the race the Falcon would also encounter brake problems and Moffat dropped back to finish the race in 9th place, 8 laps down on Brock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093976-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Hardie-Ferodo 500\n1969 Hardie-Ferodo 500 winner Colin Bond's race ended early when he rolled his Holden Dealer Team Torana on lap 3 while in 4th place. 1967 winner Fred Gibson also rolled his Works GTHO Falcon at McPhillamy Park in the early wet conditions after being forced offline when lapping a slower car. The Falcon spun into the bank and rolled onto its roof on lap 22.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093976-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Hardie-Ferodo 500, Class structure, Class A\nThe smallest class was for under 3000 CP units. It was made up of Chrysler Valiant Galant, Datsun 1200, Fiat 850 and Mazda 1300.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 48], "content_span": [49, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093976-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Hardie-Ferodo 500, Class structure, Class B\nThe 3001 to 9000 CP units class saw a mix of Datsun 1600, Fiat 124 Sport, Ford Escort, 2.8 litre Holden Torana and Mazda RX-2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 48], "content_span": [49, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093976-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Hardie-Ferodo 500, Class structure, Class C\nThe 9001 to 18000 CP units class featured Alfa Romeo GTV 1750, E38 version of the Chrysler Valiant Charger and 3.3 litre Holden Torana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 48], "content_span": [49, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093976-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Hardie-Ferodo 500, Class structure, Class D\nFor cars over 18001 CP units, the class consisted only of E49 version of the Chrysler Valiant Charger and Ford Falcon GT-HO.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 48], "content_span": [49, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093977-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Hardy Cup\nThe 1972 Hardy Cup was the 1972 edition of the Canadian intermediate senior ice hockey championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093978-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Harlem mosque incident\nThe 1972 Harlem mosque shooting occurred on April 14, 1972, when a New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer was shot and fatally wounded at the Nation of Islam Mosque No. 7 in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, United States. The officer responded to a fake emergency call, but was shot and died from his wounds six days later. The incident sparked political and public outcry about mishandling of the incident by the NYPD and the administration of Mayor John V. Lindsay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093978-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Harlem mosque incident, The incident\nOn April 14, 1972, a 10-13, or officer's call for assistance, from a man claiming to be a Detective Thomas was received by police. The call came from 102 West 116th Street, the Nation of Islam Mosque No. 7, where Malcolm X was once minister before his conversion to Sunni Islam. Officers Phillip Cardillo and Vito Navarra of the New York City Police Department's 28th Precinct responded, entering the mosque.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093978-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Harlem mosque incident, The incident\nWhen they arrived, they heard scuffling on the floor above. As they made their way to a staircase they were intercepted by fifteen to twenty men who forced the officers to retreat down the stairs and back into the hallway. Officers Victor Padilla and Ivan Negron, of the 25th Precinct, arrived and entered the premises. The four officers were outnumbered and were then attacked. Navarra was able to escape as a steel door was closed, trapping Cardillo, Padilla and Negron.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093978-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Harlem mosque incident, The incident\nAccording to the NYPD, the officers were attacked by around fifteen to twenty congregants, were beaten, and stripped of their guns. Padilla was then beaten and blackjacked into semi-consciousness while his partner fought off several men who were trying to grab his revolver. With his back to the door, Negron suddenly heard shots. He turned and saw a man with a gun in his hand who seemed to be getting up from the floor where Cardillo now lay shot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093978-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Harlem mosque incident, The incident\nCardillo had been assaulted, stripped of his firearm and was shot at point-blank range. Negron, managing to free himself from his attackers, drew his revolver and fired three shots. It is not known if the man with the gun was hit; he escaped. Officer Rudy Andre of the 28th Precinct broke the glass on the front metal door and saw the patrolmen inside on their backs. He fired several shots through the broken glass into the hallway which scattered the men who had been assaulting the officers, thus enabling Negron to unbolt the double metal door. During the melee, Cardillo and Padilla were seriously injured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 653]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093978-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Harlem mosque incident, The incident\nMosque representatives maintained that the officers entered with guns drawn and interrupted prayer despite repeated requests to leave their guns outside. During the initial attempt to enter the mosque, police officers, including Navarra, claimed that prior to being forced out, they witnessed a man named Louis 17X Dupree standing over the dying Cardillo with a gun in hand. After reinforcements arrived, allowing police to retake the mosque, Dupree and several others were initially arrested at the scene. However, before Dupree could be taken into custody, Louis Farrakhan and Congressman Charles Rangel arrived at the scene, threatening a riot if Dupree was not released.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 716]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093978-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Harlem mosque incident, The incident\nThe NYPD's chief of detectives, Albert Seedman, was the ranking officer at the scene. He said years afterwards that he called Chief Inspector Michael Codd from the basement and asked for two busloads of police cadets, to be armed only with nightsticks, to keep the peace outside. Codd, Seedman said, refused, hung up the phone, and would not take Seedman's subsequent calls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093978-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Harlem mosque incident, The incident\nSoon after, more officers arrived on the scene. An angry mob began to form around the police barricade, and began pelting officers with projectiles and calling them \"pigs.\" Several high ranking police officials ordered all officers out of the mosque and sent away all white officers. It was hours later before 300\u2013500 people were able to peacefully exit from the mosque after negotiations. Due to the lower police force and a still angry crowd, police abandoned the scene.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093978-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 Harlem mosque incident, The incident\nA promise was made by Rangel and Farrakhan, according to Seedman, that Dupree and the other suspects would turn themselves in to the 24th police precinct the following day, though none ever did. Rangel denies making such a promise. A new police policy was summarily enacted, identifying the mosque as a \"sensitive location,\" thus preventing an investigation into the shooting for two years. Officer Cardillo died six days later at St. Luke's Hospital as a result of his wounds. In a decided break with tradition, neither mayor John V. Lindsay nor the police commissioner at the time, Patrick V. Murphy, attended officer Cardillo's funeral.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 681]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093978-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 Harlem mosque incident, The incident\nThe 'Detective Thomas' from the original false alarm 10-13 call was never identified. Many of the officers of the NYPD, including Detective Randy Jurgensen who was the Cardillo case's lead detective, believed the fake call to be either a diversion or a trap, possibly set by elements of the Black Liberation Army, which the NYPD blamed for numerous murders of police officers. Others have suggested that the fake call was a pretext call from an FBI informant, intended to spark dissent under the COINTELPRO program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093978-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 Harlem mosque incident, The incident\nAccording to Cardillo's family, police investigators failed to follow procedure in investigating the shooting. Due to political pressure, officers in the basement directed by Chief Seedman released a dozen suspects in the shooting without identifying them. The release of the suspects severely hampered the investigation. Farrakhan later stated that the officers \"charged into our temple like criminals and were treated like criminals.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093978-0011-0000", "contents": "1972 Harlem mosque incident, Trial\nTwo years after the shooting, prosecutors brought charges against the mosque school's dean, Louis 17X Dupree, after an informant who witnessed the incident testified against him. Subsequent to the first trial culminating in a hung jury, Dupree was acquitted at the second, largely because ballistic evidence could not be recovered and Dupree's attorneys made the argument that either Cardillo shot himself or that he was shot by another police officer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093978-0012-0000", "contents": "1972 Harlem mosque incident, Aftermath\nIn 2012, local police officers proposed to the Manhattan Community Board 10 that part of the street in front of the mosque be renamed after Officer Cardillo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093978-0013-0000", "contents": "1972 Harlem mosque incident, Aftermath\nAlbert Seedman said he decided to retire that day, as he was walking back to his car and dodging bricks being thrown at him. He claimed at the time that his retirement had nothing to do with the incident. In 2012, however, a year before his death, he admitted that his disgust with Codd's refusal to provide the extra officers was his real reason, and he did not want to say so at the time because \"I loved the police department so much that I couldn't drag it through the dirt by saying what those bastards did.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093979-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Harvard Crimson football team\nThe 1972 Harvard Crimson football team was an American football team that represented Harvard University during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. Harvard finished fifth in the Ivy League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093979-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Harvard Crimson football team\nIn their second year under head coach Joe Restic, the Crimson compiled a 4\u20134\u20131 record and outscored opponents 198 to 186. Theodore DeMars was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093979-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Harvard Crimson football team\nHarvard's 3\u20133\u20131 conference record placed fifth in the Ivy League standings. The Crimson outscored Ivy opponents 146 to 144.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093979-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Harvard Crimson football team\nHarvard played its home games at Harvard Stadium in the Allston neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093980-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Haryana Legislative Assembly election\nLegislative Assembly elections were held in Haryana on 11 March 1972 to elect all 81 members of the Haryana Legislative Assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093981-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Hawaii Rainbows football team\nThe 1972 Hawaii Rainbows football team represented the University of Hawai\u02bbi at M\u0101noa as an independent during the 1972 NCAA College Division football season. In their fifth season under head coach Dave Holmes, the Rainbows compiled a 8\u20133 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093982-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Hawthorn Football Club season\nThe 1972 season was the Hawthorn Football Club's 48th season in the Victorian Football League and 71st overall. Hawthorn entered the season as the defending VFL Premiers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093983-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election\nLegislative Assembly elections were held in Himachal Pradesh in 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093984-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Holy Cross Crusaders football team\nThe 1972 Holy Cross Crusaders football team was an American football team that represented the College of the Holy Cross during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. Ed Doherty returned for his second year as head coach. The team compiled a record of 5\u20134\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093984-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Holy Cross Crusaders football team\nHoly Cross competed as an independent despite having joined the Yankee Conference in 1971. Because their previous scheduling commitments for the 1972 season would not have allowed them to play the full Yankee round-robin, the Crusaders were excluded from the Yankee Conference football championship. Nonetheless, Holy Cross coaches participated in the conference's preseason media night, expressing their enthusiasm about full participation in league play in the coming years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093984-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Holy Cross Crusaders football team\nThree months later, college officials had a different view of the future. Having made the decision to admit women to what had formerly been an all-male college, administrators worried that soon there would not be enough men on campus to stay competitive in the full range of Yankee Conference sports. On November 14, with the football season still in progress, they made the announcement that Holy Cross would withdraw from the Yankee Conference, effective immediately.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093984-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Holy Cross Crusaders football team\nAs in 1971, Holy Cross played two longstanding Yankee Conference opponents in 1972, beating Massachusetts days before the withdrawal announcement, and Connecticut a couple weeks after. Neither game was considered a conference matchup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093984-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Holy Cross Crusaders football team\nAll home games were played at Fitton Field on the Holy Cross campus in Worcester, Massachusetts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093985-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Honduran Cup\nThe 1972 Honduran Cup was the second edition of the Honduran Cup, the tournament was renamed Copa Jefe de Estado due to political reasons; Espa\u00f1a won the trophy and Marath\u00f3n was runner-up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093985-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Honduran Cup, Group stage\nThe ten participant clubs were divided into two groups of three (3) and one group of four (4). Due to the uneven number of teams on each group, the top two from group C (which contained 4 teams) advanced directly to the final round. Meanwhile, groups A and B (containing only 3 teams) had the winners advancing directly and the runners-up facing in a one leg play-off match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093985-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Honduran Cup, Group stage, Group A\nAfter a 3-way tie in points between all group contenders, a full rematch was scheduled between all three clubs. The games were all re-played on 19 November at Estadio Tiburcio Car\u00edas Andino with a duration of 30 minutes each. The re-match results were as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 39], "content_span": [40, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093986-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Hong Kong landslides\nA series of major landslides occurred in Hong Kong in June 1972. Several apartment complexes and houses were wiped out, and at least 156 people lost their lives. The landslides had been caused by waterlogged soils in the area, a result of Typhoon Rose bringing unusually heavy rainfall in August 1971 as well as heavy rainstorms hitting Hong Kong on the days preceding the landslides.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093986-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Hong Kong landslides, Background\nPo Shan Road in the Mid-Levels was the site of the largest major landslide to occur in June 1972. The area in general had long been susceptible to landslips and rockfall since it was developed; several other major landslides had occurred at or near Po Shan Road before 1972. These included a large landslip in 1925, which caused many deaths, as well as large but relatively undamaging landslides in 1941, 1950 and 1966. Most of these had been caused by heavy rainstorms, in a similar manner to the 1972 landslides. Shiu Fai Terrace, another site of landslips, had been leased in 1920 and the number and height of buildings that could be built on it had been restricted, probably decreasing the death toll of the 1972 disasters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 765]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093986-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Hong Kong landslides, Background\nOn 18 June, to cope with the disasters, all British Forces in the colony were mobilised, all police and fire services leave was cancelled, and the Civil Aid Service and Auxiliary Medical Services were called to assist in rescue operations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093986-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Hong Kong landslides, Shiu Fai Terrace\nMultiple landslides also occurred at Shiu Fai Terrace in Wan Chai. In total, three large landslips occurred over a continuous area on June 16. They were not as large as the Po Shan Road disaster but altogether affected a greater area. Several were killed by the landslips.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 43], "content_span": [44, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093986-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Hong Kong landslides, Shiu Fai Terrace\nThroughout June 1972, multiple incidents of landslides occurred throughout Hong Kong, especially in Wan Chai. In total, combined with the Po Shan and Shiu Fai landslides, the landslips killed around 148 people. While they severely crippled infrastructure and emergency services through Hong Kong, the landslides of 1972 have led to improved guidelines for hillside excavation and safety and rescue procedures, and no such disaster has caused such a large loss of life in Hong Kong since.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 43], "content_span": [44, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093986-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Hong Kong landslides, Sau Mau Ping landslide\nAt midday on 18 June, a landslide buried a squatter village at the Sau Mau Ping licensed area, killing 71. The mud spilled over Tsui Ping Road into the Kwun Tong Resettlement Estate. Resettlement Department staff and fathers of the adjacent Kwun Tong Maryknoll College launched the rescue operation. They were joined by 600 personnel from the army, police, fire services, Civil Aid Service, and Auxiliary Medical Service. Many of those killed were children. Survivors were billeted at the Kun Tong Police Station and the Sau Mau Ping Resettlement Estate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093986-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Hong Kong landslides, Sau Mau Ping landslide\nThe collapsed hill slope was reconstructed with a gentler grade. The disaster site is now home to the Sau Mau Ping Memorial Park, opened 1976.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093986-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Hong Kong landslides, Po Shan Road landslide\nOn June 16, 1972, several minor slips of mud were noticed along Po Shan Road. The road was blocked off by falling mud at a construction site and several cracks started to appear in a retaining wall. Inspections were performed on many structures but as it was raining, ultimately no major evacuation or alert measures were undertaken. On June 17, a slip had occurred over the whole width of the cut slope at the southern face of Inland Lot 2260 on Po Shan Road, carrying away nearly all the bamboo framing and metal sheet covering. In addition, authorities noticed severe subsidence of several buildings around IL 2260. Residents were then urged to leave their houses and apartments as a precaution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 749]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093986-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 Hong Kong landslides, Po Shan Road landslide\nOn June 18, it was still raining, and the situation had gotten worse. Cracks continued to appear in retaining walls, and mud had started to fall on nearby Conduit Road. Po Shan Road was cordoned off to the public and nearby apartments were evacuated as it quickly became apparent that a large landslide would soon occur.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093986-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 Hong Kong landslides, Po Shan Road landslide\nA little after 5 p.m. that day, a huge mass of rocks, mud and vegetation suddenly broke free and slid down the side of IL 2260, breaking through a retaining wall on Kotewall Road and completely blocking Conduit Road. There were no deaths directly resulting from this slip, however. Then, some time after 8 p.m., an even larger landslip occurred starting at IL 2260 and, in less than ten seconds, cleared a path from Po Shan Road to Kotewall Road, destroying several houses and retaining walls in the process. Upon hitting Kotewall Road, the slip knocked Kotewall Court (the only well-lit building in the area at the time) completely off of its foundation and collapsed several flats at Robinson Road and Babington Path. 67 people were killed and 20 were injured in less than a minute", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 833]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093986-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 Hong Kong landslides, Po Shan Road landslide\nBecause of the lack of lighting and the rain, as well as the fact that much of the transportation network had been destroyed, rescue efforts were initially sporadic and hampered. Some landslips continued to occur, causing withdrawals of emergency personnel. More than an hour had passed when the first survivors were pulled from the rubble, at 9:24. Eventually, however, most known survivors had been rescued in the next several days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 49], "content_span": [50, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093987-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Houston Astros season\nThe 1972 Houston Astros season was a season in American baseball. The team finished second in the National League West with a record of 84\u201369, 10\u00bd games behind the Cincinnati Reds and just a percentage point ahead of the Los Angeles Dodgers. The 1972 season was the first winning season in Astros history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093987-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Houston Astros season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 71], "content_span": [72, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093987-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Houston Astros season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093987-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Houston Astros season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 69], "content_span": [70, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093987-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Houston Astros season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 66], "content_span": [67, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093987-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Houston Astros season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 67], "content_span": [68, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093988-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Houston Cougars football team\nThe 1972 Houston Cougars football team represented the University of Houston during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093989-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Houston Oilers season\nThe 1972 Houston Oilers season was their 13th season overall and third with the league. The team failed to improve on their previous season's output of 4\u20139\u20131, winning only one game. They missed the playoffs for the third consecutive season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093989-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Houston Oilers season\nThe low point of the season came in week four, a 34\u20130 loss on Monday Night Football to the Oakland Raiders. With the game out of hand, ABC cameras panned the stands at the Astrodome and found a man who appeared to be sleeping. When he realized the camera was on him, he shot the finger at the camera. When the camera discovered the sleeping fan, Howard Cosell intoned, \u201cRight there, is a vivid pictureization of the excitement...\u201d. Don Meredith shot back when the fan flipped the bird, \u201cThey\u2019re number one in the nation!\u201d.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093989-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Houston Oilers season\nPerhaps another low point for the Oilers was the final game of the season against the Cincinnati Bengals. The Oilers lost that game by a score of 61\u201317, the worst loss for the team in its history up to that point; exactly 17 years later, the Oilers lost 61\u20137 to the Bengals in Cincinnati to shatter that dubious mark. The 61 points were the second most points any NFL team had ever allowed since the merger, one fewer than the Philadelphia Eagles allowed to the New York Giants three weeks earlier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093989-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Houston Oilers season\nCoincidentally, the Eagles defeated the Oilers 18\u201317 in the Astrodome two weeks before losing 62\u201310 to the Giants despite not scoring a touchdown, with Tom Dempsey connecting on six field goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093989-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Houston Oilers season\nAfter their win over the New York Jets 26\u201320 in week 3 (one week after Joe Namath threw for 496 yards and six touchdowns to defeat the Baltimore Colts), the Oilers did not win another game until week 8 of next season, when they shocked the Baltimore Colts 31\u201327 on the road. Sandwiched between these two games was an 18-game losing streak, which was an NFL record at the time; it was eclipsed by the 0\u201326 start experienced by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 1976 and 1977.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093989-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Houston Oilers season, Regular season, Game Summaries, Week 4: Oakland Raiders\nDespite the Oilers finishing with an astounding -1 yard in net passing, this week four game on Monday Night Football had a more competitive beginning than the results showed, as Houston played strong defense early in the game. With Oakland leading just 3\u20130 in the first half, the Oilers had two takeaways deep in Raiders territory, but failed to score points each time. In the first quarter, Oakland's George Atkinson bobbled a punt catch right into the hands of Houston's Willie Rodgers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 83], "content_span": [84, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093989-0005-0001", "contents": "1972 Houston Oilers season, Regular season, Game Summaries, Week 4: Oakland Raiders\nRodgers took it to the end zone, but the play was brought back to the spot of the turnover, as a muffed punt recovery cannot be advanced in NFL rules. The Oilers advanced into field goal range after taking over, but were stopped there when the Raiders got away with blatantly holding TE Alvin Reed on third down. Houston tried a fake field goal, but still were left scoreless when it failed. On their ensuing drive, Oakland was forced to punt, but the Oilers blocked it on the first play of the second quarter and recovered near the goal line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 83], "content_span": [84, 627]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093989-0005-0002", "contents": "1972 Houston Oilers season, Regular season, Game Summaries, Week 4: Oakland Raiders\nAgain they were held scoreless when Dan Pastorini was lifted very high into the air on a remarkable defensive play on first down, and sacked back at the 17-yard line by Gus Otto on second down. The Raiders blocked the following field goal attempt even though the placehold was only at the 29-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 83], "content_span": [84, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093989-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Houston Oilers season, Regular season, Game Summaries, Week 4: Oakland Raiders\nThe trading of turnovers continued through the second quarter, as promising Raiders rookie Cliff Branch fumbled the ball away across midfield. The Oilers got into field goal range again, only to be intercepted just outside the red zone on a tipped pass over the defensive line. After trading punts a few times, Pastorini threw another interception just before halftime. The Raiders took over at the Oilers' 16-yard line with nine seconds left in the half, but scored on first down as Daryle Lamonica found Fred Biletnikoff in the right corner of the end zone for a 10\u20130 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 83], "content_span": [84, 659]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093989-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Houston Oilers season, Regular season, Game Summaries, Week 4: Oakland Raiders\nThe first half ended on a suitably bizarre kickoff by the Raiders that hit an Oilers player at mid-field and ricocheted back to Raiders territory. Oakland gained possession, but no time remained.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 83], "content_span": [84, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093989-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 Houston Oilers season, Regular season, Game Summaries, Week 4: Oakland Raiders\nThe miscues kept coming in the second half. First the Oilers nearly botched receiving the second half kickoff, then the Raiders forced them to punt, only for the Raiders to muff the punt and give possession back to the Oilers. Their drive ended with the third blocked field goal of the game, which was downed all the way back at the Oilers 23-yard line. The Raiders added a field goal with this possession.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 83], "content_span": [84, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093989-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 Houston Oilers season, Regular season, Game Summaries, Week 4: Oakland Raiders\nFinally, the Raiders turned the game into a blowout in the fourth quarter with touchdown passes by both Daryle Lamonica and Ken Stabler and a rushing TD by Clarence Davis. However, to the very end, neither team played a clean game. By the time it was 27\u20130 and Houston backup Kent Nix was put in, Houston had thrown four interceptions, Oakland had committed four fumbles, and the teams had three blocked field goals and a blocked punt combined. Nix promptly added a fifth interception upon entering the game, when his receiver stumbled. By the time of Houston's final possession, a fan was caught shooting the middle finger at the camera on the MNF broadcast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 83], "content_span": [84, 742]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093990-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Humboldt State Lumberjacks football team\nThe 1972 Humboldt State Lumberjacks football team represented Humboldt State University during the 1972 NCAA College Division football season. Humboldt State competed in the Far Western Conference (FWC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093990-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Humboldt State Lumberjacks football team\nThe 1972 Lumberjacks were led by seventh-year head coach Bud Van Deren. They played home games at the Redwood Bowl in Arcata, California. Humboldt State finished with a record of seven wins and three losses (7\u20133, 4\u20131 FWC). The Lumberjacks outscored their opponents 262\u2013215 for the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093990-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Humboldt State Lumberjacks football team, Team players in the NFL\nNo Humboldt State players were selected in the 1973 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 70], "content_span": [71, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093991-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 IHF Olympic African qualification tournament\nThe 1972 IHF Olympic African qualification tournament was held in the Tunisia. The winner of the tournament qualified for the 1972 Summer Olympics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093991-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 IHF Olympic African qualification tournament, Matches\nSome results were published in a Swiss newspapers. The winner of the other games were derived from the two standings table. And the results of the Algerian team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 58], "content_span": [59, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093991-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 IHF Olympic African qualification tournament, Roaster of Algeria\nHachemi, Zoheir Negli, Amara, Farouk Bouzrar, Boukhobza, Lamdjadani, Bouras, Larbaoui", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 69], "content_span": [70, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093992-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 IHF Olympic American qualification tournament\nThe 1972 IHF Olympic American qualification tournament was held in the United States. The winner of the tournament qualified for the 1972 Summer Olympics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093993-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 IIHF European U19 Championship\nThe 1972 IIHF European U19 Championship was the fifth playing of the IIHF European Junior Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093993-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 IIHF European U19 Championship, Group A\nPlayed in Boden, Lule\u00e5, and Skellefte\u00e5, Sweden, from March 26 to April 2, 1972", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093994-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 IMSA GT Championship\nThe 1972 Camel GT Challenge season was the 2nd season of the IMSA GT Championship auto racing series. It was for Grand Tourer-style racing cars which ran in the GTO and GTU classes, as well as former Trans Am Series cars in the TO and TU classes. It began December 4, 1971, and ended November 19, 1972, after ten rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093994-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 IMSA GT Championship, Constructors' Championship\nPoints are awarded to the top six in each class in the order of 9-6-4-3-2-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 53], "content_span": [54, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093995-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 ISF Men's World Championship\nThe 1972 ISF Men's World Championship was an international softball tournament. The tournament was held at the Rodriguez Sports Center in Marikina, Rizal, Philippines. It was the 3rd time the World Championship took place and the first time the Philippines to host the tournament. Ten nations competed, including defending champions United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093996-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Ice Hockey World Championships\nThe 1972 Ice Hockey World Championships was the 39th edition of the Ice Hockey World Championships. The tournament was held in Prague, Czechoslovakia from 7 to 22 April 1972, and the Czechoslovakia national team won the tournament, the third time they had done so and first since 1949, ending the Soviet Union's streak of nine consecutive titles. In addition it was the Czechoslovaks' 12th European title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093996-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Ice Hockey World Championships\nFor the first time, a separate tournament is held for both the World Championships and the Winter Olympics. Previously, the Winter Olympics tournament was held in lieu of a world championships, with the winner being declared world champion for that year. It also marked the first time in international ice hockey that all goaltenders were required to wear face masks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093996-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Ice Hockey World Championships\nThe American team, who had won the Silver medal earlier in the year at the Olympics, could not even win the 'B' pool, losing to Poland in their final game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093996-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Ice Hockey World Championships, World Championship Group B (Romania)\nPoland was promoted to Group A, both Norway and France were relegated to Group C. The French team boycotted the tournament in a protest over their federation's failure to finance the team's participation in the Sapporo Olympics", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 73], "content_span": [74, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093996-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Ice Hockey World Championships, World Championship Group C (Romania)\nPlayed in Miercurea-Ciuc from 3 March to the 12th. The Chinese won their first game ever played in a World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 73], "content_span": [74, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093996-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Ice Hockey World Championships, Ranking and statistics, European championships final standings\nThe final standings of the European championships according to IIHF:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 99], "content_span": [100, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093997-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Icelandic Cup\nThe 1972 Icelandic Cup was the 13th edition of the National Football Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093997-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Icelandic Cup\nIt took place between 19 June 1972 and 12 November 1972, with the final played at Melav\u00f6llur in Reykjavik.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093997-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Icelandic Cup\nThe Cup was important, as the winner qualified for the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup. (If a club won both the league and the cup, the losing finalists would take their place in the Cup Winners' Cup).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093997-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Icelandic Cup\nClubs from the 1. Deild did not enter until the last 16, while clubs from lower divisions had already played 3 preliminary rounds. In case of a draw, the match was replayed at the ground of the other team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093997-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Icelandic Cup\n\u00cdBV Vestmannaeyjar won their second Icelandic Cup, after winning the 1968 Icelandic Cup and beating 2. Deild club FH Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093998-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Icelandic presidential election\nPresidential elections were scheduled to be held in Iceland in 1972. However, incumbent President Kristj\u00e1n Eldj\u00e1rn was the only candidate, and the election was uncontested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093999-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Idaho Vandals football team\nThe 1972 Idaho Vandals football team represented the University of Idaho in the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. The Vandals were led by third-year head coach Don Robbins and were members of the Big Sky Conference. They played their home games at new Idaho Stadium, an unlit outdoor facility on campus in Moscow, Idaho.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093999-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Idaho Vandals football team, Season\nWith quarterbacks Rick Seefried, Dave Comstock, and Ross Goddard running the offense, the Vandals were defending Big Sky champions. They were 4\u20137 overall and 2\u20133 in the Big Sky in 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 40], "content_span": [41, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093999-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Idaho Vandals football team, Season\nIn the Battle of the Palouse, Idaho suffered a fifth straight loss to neighbor Washington State of the Pac-8, falling 35\u201314 at the new Martin Stadium in Pullman on October 7.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 40], "content_span": [41, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093999-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Idaho Vandals football team, Season\nIn their second game with new rival Boise State, the Vandals won 22\u201321 in the rain at Bronco Stadium on November 25 to even up the series; Idaho did not schedule Northern Arizona until 1975 and played only five games in conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 40], "content_span": [41, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093999-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Idaho Vandals football team, University division\nThrough 1977, the Big Sky was a college division (renamed Division II in 1973) conference for football, except for university division (Division I) member Idaho, which moved down to the new Division I-AA in 1978. Idaho maintained its upper division status in the NCAA by playing university division non-conference opponents (and was ineligible for the college division postseason).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093999-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Idaho Vandals football team, University division\nAfter the season in November, the Big Sky denied Idaho's request for additional football scholarships (75 vs. 62) for 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 53], "content_span": [54, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093999-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Idaho Vandals football team, All-conference\nThe Vandal co-captains, center Ken Muhlbeier and linebacker Rand Marquess, were selected to the Big Sky all-conference team. Three Idaho players were named to the second team: running back Bernie Rembert, tight end Darrell Burchfeld, and defensive end Alofa Tauvage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093999-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Idaho Vandals football team, NFL Draft\nOne Vandal senior was selected in the 1973 NFL Draft, which lasted seventeen rounds (442 selections).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00093999-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 Idaho Vandals football team, NFL Draft\nTwo juniors were selected in the following year's draft in 1974, which lasted seventeen rounds (442 selections).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094000-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Illinois Fighting Illini football team\nThe 1972 Illinois Fighting Illini football team was an American football team that represented the University of Illinois during the 1972 Big Ten Conference football season. In their second year under head coach Bob Blackman, the Illini compiled a 3\u20138 record and finished in a tie for sixth place in the Big Ten Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094000-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Illinois Fighting Illini football team\nThe team's offensive leaders were quarterback Mike Wells with 837 passing yards, running back George Uremovich with 611 rushing yards, and wide receiver Garvin Roberson with 569 receiving yards. Center Larry McCarren and defensive end Larry Allen were selected as the team's most valuable players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094001-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Illinois elections\nElections were held in Illinois on Tuesday, November 7, 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 85]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094001-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Illinois elections, Election information, Turnout\nTurnout in the primary election was 39.90%, with a total of 2,228,605 ballots cast. 1,563,193 Democratic and 665,412 Republican primary ballots were cast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094001-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Illinois elections, Election information, Turnout\nTurnout during the general election was 78.52%, with 4,880,213 ballots cast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094001-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Illinois elections, Federal elections, United States President\nIllinois voted for the Republican ticket of Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 67], "content_span": [68, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094001-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Illinois elections, Federal elections, United States House\nAll 24 Illinois seats in the United States House of Representatives were up for election in 1972. Seats had seen redistricting due to the results of the 1970 United States Census. Illinois did not lose any congressional seats during reapportionment. As of 2020, this is the last time that Illinois has not lost any congressional districts during a post-census reapportionment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 63], "content_span": [64, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094001-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Illinois elections, Federal elections, United States House\nBefore the election, both the Democratic and Republican parties held 12 seats from Illinois. In 1972, Republicans won 14 seats, while Democrats won 10 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 63], "content_span": [64, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094001-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Illinois elections, State elections, Governor and Lieutenant Governor\nIncumbent Republican Richard B. Ogilvie lost to Democrat Dan Walker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 74], "content_span": [75, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094001-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Illinois elections, State elections, Governor and Lieutenant Governor\nIncumbent Lieutenant Governor Paul Simon did not seek reelection to a second term, instead opting to (ultimately unsuccessfully) seek the Democratic nomination for governor. Democrat Neil Hartigan was elected to succeed him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 74], "content_span": [75, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094001-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 Illinois elections, State elections, Governor and Lieutenant Governor\nThis was the first gubernatorial elections in which gubernatorial and lieutenant gubernatorial candidates were elected on a ticket in the general election, per the 1970 Constitution of Illinois.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 74], "content_span": [75, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094001-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 Illinois elections, State elections, Attorney General\nIncumbent Attorney General William J. Scott, a Republican, was elected to a second term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 58], "content_span": [59, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094001-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 Illinois elections, State elections, Attorney General, Democratic primary\nIllinois State Senator Thomas G. Lyons won the Democratic primary, running unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 78], "content_span": [79, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094001-0011-0000", "contents": "1972 Illinois elections, State elections, Attorney General, Republican primary\nIncumbent William J. Scott won the Republican primary, running unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 78], "content_span": [79, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094001-0012-0000", "contents": "1972 Illinois elections, State elections, Secretary of State\nIncumbent Secretary of State John W. Lewis Jr., a Republican, had been appointed in 1970. He did not seek reelection. Democrat Michael Howlett was elected to succeed him in office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 60], "content_span": [61, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094001-0013-0000", "contents": "1972 Illinois elections, State elections, Secretary of State, Democratic primary\nIllinois Auditor of Public Accounts Michael J. Howlett won the Democratic primary, running unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 80], "content_span": [81, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094001-0014-0000", "contents": "1972 Illinois elections, State elections, Comptroller\nComptroller was a newly-formed office, created by the 1970 Constitution of Illinois to replace the office of Auditor of Public Accounts, of which the outgoing incumbent was Democrat Michael Howlett, who instead opted to run for Secretary of State. Republican George W. Lindberg was elected the inaugural Illinois Comptroller.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 53], "content_span": [54, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094001-0015-0000", "contents": "1972 Illinois elections, State elections, State Senate\nSeats of the Illinois Senate were up for election in 1972. Republicans flipped control of the chamber.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 54], "content_span": [55, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094001-0016-0000", "contents": "1972 Illinois elections, State elections, State House of Representatives\nSeats in the Illinois House of Representatives were up for election in 1972. Republicans retained control of the chamber.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 72], "content_span": [73, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094001-0017-0000", "contents": "1972 Illinois elections, State elections, Trustees of University of Illinois\nAn election was held for three of nine seats for Trustees of University of Illinois system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 76], "content_span": [77, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094001-0018-0000", "contents": "1972 Illinois elections, State elections, Trustees of University of Illinois\nThe election saw the reelection of three-term former member Republican Park Livingston and first-term Republican incumbent Ralph Crane Hahn, as well as the election of new Republican member Jane S. Hayes Rader.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 76], "content_span": [77, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094001-0019-0000", "contents": "1972 Illinois elections, State elections, Trustees of University of Illinois\nDemocratic incumbent Robert B. Pogue (elected in a special election two years earlier) lost reelection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 76], "content_span": [77, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094002-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Illinois gubernatorial election\nThe 1972 Illinois gubernatorial election was held in Illinois on November 7, 1972. The Republican nominee, incumbent Governor Richard B. Ogilvie lost reelection to the Democratic candidate, Dan Walker, who became the state's last Democratic governor of the 20th century.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094002-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Illinois gubernatorial election\nThis was the first election in which the lieutenant governor of Illinois ran on a ticket with the gubernatorial candidate for the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094002-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Illinois gubernatorial election, Election information\nThis was the first gubernatorial elections in which gubernatorial and lieutenant gubernatorial candidates were elected on a ticket in the general election, per the 1970 Constitution of Illinois.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 58], "content_span": [59, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094002-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Illinois gubernatorial election, Election information\nThe election coincided with those for federal offices (United States President, Senate, and House) and those for other state offices. The election was part of the 1972 Illinois elections. Walker was the last Democrat to be elected governor of Illinois until Rod Blagojevich in 2002.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 58], "content_span": [59, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094002-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Illinois gubernatorial election, Election information, Turnout\nTurnout in the primaries saw 36.09% in the gubernatorial primaries, with a total of 2,015,694 votes cast, and 30.46% in the lieutenant gubernatorial primary, with 1,701,418 votes cast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 67], "content_span": [68, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094002-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Illinois gubernatorial election, Election information, Turnout\nTurnout during the general election was 75.28%, with 4,679,043 votes cast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 67], "content_span": [68, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094002-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Illinois gubernatorial election, Democratic primaries, Governor\nIn an upset, Dan Walker won a close primary against then-Lt. Governor Paul Simon. Paul Simon had been the candidate slated by the state party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 68], "content_span": [69, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094002-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Illinois gubernatorial election, Democratic primaries, Lieutenant Governor\nNeil Hartigan, the candidate slated by the state party, defeated Carbondale mayor Neal Eckert, Walker's declared preferred running-mate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 79], "content_span": [80, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094002-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 Illinois gubernatorial election, Republican primary, Governor\nOgilvie won renomination easily. His main rival, John M. Mathis was a favorite son of the Peoria area, and fared poorly elsewhere.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094002-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 Illinois gubernatorial election, Republican primary, Lieutenant Governor\nJames D. Nowlan won the Republican primary for Lieutenant Governor, running unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 77], "content_span": [78, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094003-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Independent Press-Telegram Championships\nThe 1972 Independent Press-Telegram Championships was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Long Beach City College Gym in Long Beach, California in the United States that was part of the 1972 WT Pro Tour. It was the second edition of the tournament and was held from January 19 through January 13, 1972. A capacity crowd of 2,200 spectators watched second-seeded Rosemary Casals win the singles title and earn $3,400 first-prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094003-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Independent Press-Telegram Championships, Finals, Doubles\nRosemary Casals / Virginia Wade defeated Helen Gourlay / Karen Krantzcke 6\u20134, 5\u20137, 7\u20135", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 62], "content_span": [63, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094004-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Indian Rajya Sabha elections\nRajya Sabha elections were held in 1972, to elect members of the Rajya Sabha, Indian Parliament's upper chamber.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094004-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Indian Rajya Sabha elections, Elections\nElections were held in 1972 to elect members from various states. The list is incomplete.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 44], "content_span": [45, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094004-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Indian Rajya Sabha elections, Elections, Members elected\nThe following members are elected in the elections held in 1972. They are members for the term 1972-78 and retire in year 1978, except in case of the resignation or death before the term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094004-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Indian Rajya Sabha elections, Bye-elections\nThe following bye elections were held in the year 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094005-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Indiana Hoosiers football team\nThe 1972 Indiana Hoosiers football team represented the Indiana Hoosiers in the 1972 Big Ten Conference football season. The Hoosiers played their home games at Memorial Stadium in Bloomington, Indiana. The team was coached by John Pont, in his eighth and final year as head coach of the Hoosiers, before being fired at the end of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094006-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Indiana State Sycamores football team\nThe 1972 Indiana State Sycamores football team represented Indiana State University in the 1972 NCAA College Division football season. It was the seventh and final season for head coach Jerry Huntsman. He won his fifth homecoming contest in front of a record crowd (17,230). The Sycamores finished the season on a five-game winning streak, narrowly missing a bid to the Boardwalk Bowl; they outscored the opposition 236\u2013141. Huntsman referred to it as his best team at Indiana State. Three Sycamores were named All-Americans after the season; Bob Poss, (offensive guard) was selected for the Associated Press\u2019 2nd Team; Seniors Willie Lee (fullback) and John Karazsia (linebacker) were Honorable Mentions on the Associated Press team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 778]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094006-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Indiana State Sycamores football team\nLee staged a memorable senior campaign, establishing school records in yard rushing (957), touchdowns (13) and points (78). He had four 100+ yard rushing games, while the rest of the team combined for three. He led all Indiana collegiate players in scoring, while leading the Sycamores' rushing attack to a school record in rushing offense (2,647 yards). Lee was drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers but would sign instead with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094006-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Indiana State Sycamores football team\nJunior Rick Murphy, a defensive back, led the nation in return yardage; he went on to a career in the World Football League (WFL).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094007-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Indiana gubernatorial election\nThe 1972 Indiana gubernatorial election was held on November 7, 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094007-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Indiana gubernatorial election\nAlthough during the same election cycle Indiana voters approved a constitutional amendment allowing the governor to serve in office for eight out of 12 years, incumbent Republican Governor Edgar Whitcomb was term-limited due to having been elected under the prior version of the constitution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094007-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Indiana gubernatorial election\nRepublican nominee, Speaker of the Indiana House of Representatives Otis Bowen defeated Democratic nominee Matthew E. Welsh with 56.77% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094007-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Indiana gubernatorial election, Nominations\nUntil 1976, all nominations for statewide office in Indiana were made by state conventions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 48], "content_span": [49, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094007-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Indiana gubernatorial election, Nominations, Democratic nomination, Results\nMatthew E. Welsh, former Governor def. Larry A. Conrad, Secretary of State", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094008-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Indianapolis 500\nThe 56th 500 Mile International Sweepstakes was held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana, on Saturday, May 27, 1972. The race is notable in that for the first time, the cars were permitted bolt-on wings, and speeds climbed dramatically. Bobby Unser won the pole position at a then-remarkable speed of 195.940\u00a0mph (315.3\u00a0km/h) for four laps, breaking Peter Revson's track record of 178.696\u00a0mph (287.6\u00a0km/h) from 1971 by 17.244\u00a0mph (27.8\u00a0km/h) \u2013 the largest one-year track record increase in Indy history. The race average speed of 162.962\u00a0mph (262.3\u00a0km/h) was also a new record, which stood until 1984.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 643]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094008-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Indianapolis 500\nGary Bettenhausen led 138 laps until his car suffered ignition trouble on lap 176, and he coasted to the pits. Jerry Grant took over the lead, but pitted for a new tire and fuel on lap 188 in teammate Bobby Unser's pit - for which he was later disqualified. Bettenhausen's Penske teammate Mark Donohue won the race, after leading only the final 13 laps. It was owner Roger Penske's first of eighteen Indy 500 victories (as of 2019) and the first victory for a McLaren chassis at Indy. Al Unser Sr., who won the race in 1970 and 1971, was looking to become the first driver in history to \"three-peat\" at the Indianapolis 500. He fell short, but his runner-up finish ties for the best three-year span (1st-1st-2nd) in Indy history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 751]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094008-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Indianapolis 500\nFor the first time, Jim Nabors was invited to sing \"Back Home Again in Indiana\" during the pre-race ceremonies. Nabors accepted and performed with little rehearsal and was warmly received. It was the beginning of a 36-year tradition, where Nabors performed nearly every year from 1972 through 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094008-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Indianapolis 500\nThe 1972 race was the first to utilize the Electro-PACER Light system to facilitate the yellow light periods. Speedway officials still did not utilize the pace car during cautions, and this enforcement tool would be used at Indy for seven years, albeit not without controversy in subsequent races. This system was similar in concept to systems such as the Virtual Safety Car and the \"Slow zone\" that became popular in the 2010s. Although the technology for the Electro-PACER system was primitive compared to the later systems used over forty years later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094008-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Indianapolis 500\nAfter the decade of the 1960s saw numerous drivers from Europe and other nationalities, the 1972 race was the first since 1962 and the last to have an all-American lineup. Mario Andretti who was born in Istria (part of Italy at the time) was a naturalized U.S. citizen at the time of this race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094008-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Indianapolis 500, Race schedule\nFollowing the pattern set in 1970 and 1971, the race was scheduled for the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend. This would be the final Indy 500 scheduled for a Saturday (the 1986 race was held on a Saturday due to a week-long rain delay). Falling on May 27, it was also the earliest calendar date that race had been held up to that point. In 1973, the race would be scheduled for Monday, and starting in 1974, the race would permanently move to the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094008-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Indianapolis 500, Race schedule\nOn Sunday May 28, the annual 500 Victory Banquet was held at the newly completed Indiana Convention Center for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094008-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Indianapolis 500, Race schedule\n* Includes days where trackactivity was significantlylimited due to rain", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094008-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 Indianapolis 500, Practice and time trials\nIn 1972, for the first time, USAC allowed bolt-on wings to be affixed the cars. Previously, \"wings\" were required to be integral parts of the car's bodywork. Downforce levels increased by significant margins, and speeds climbed substantially during practice. During a tire test in March, Bobby Unser reportedly drove a lap of 190.8\u00a0mph, the first driver ever to lap the Speedway unofficially at over 190\u00a0mph.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 47], "content_span": [48, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094008-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 Indianapolis 500, Practice and time trials\nThe existing official track record going into the month had been set by Peter Revson in 1971 at 179.354\u00a0mph. During the first week of practice, the stage was set for record speeds early on. During the first day the track was available, Sunday April 30, Jim Malloy became the first driver to break the 180\u00a0mph barrier in practice, at 181.415\u00a0mph. Later in the week, Malloy ran a practice lap of 188.048\u00a0mph, by far an unofficial track record. By the end of the first week of practice, 11 drivers had practiced over 180\u00a0mph.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 47], "content_span": [48, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094008-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 Indianapolis 500, Practice and time trials\nDuring the second week of practice, Gary Bettenhausen turned a lap of 190.315\u00a0mph on Sunday May 7. He became the first driver ever of the month to break 190\u00a0mph. Two days later, Bettenhausen was over 191\u00a0mph. Not to be upstaged, on Wednesday May 10, Bobby Unser blistered the track at 194.721\u00a0mph.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 47], "content_span": [48, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094008-0011-0000", "contents": "1972 Indianapolis 500, Practice and time trials\nBy the eve of pole day, three drivers had cracked the 190\u00a0mph barrier in practice, and more than a dozen had practiced faster than the existing qualifying record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 47], "content_span": [48, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094008-0012-0000", "contents": "1972 Indianapolis 500, Practice and time trials, First day time trials \u2013 Saturday May 13\nPole day time trials were scheduled for Saturday May 13, however, rain kept the track closed most of the day. The track opened briefly for practice, and at 5:50\u00a0p.m. time trials began. Three cars made it on the track, but none of them completed runs. A. J. Foyt was the last car out, but he blew his engine in turn two right after taking the green flag.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 88], "content_span": [89, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094008-0013-0000", "contents": "1972 Indianapolis 500, Practice and time trials, Second day time trials \u2013 Sunday May 14\nPole qualifying was moved into Sunday, and the qualifying line picked up where it had left off the day before. The track opened for practice promptly at 9 a.m. At 10:21\u00a0a.m., Jim Malloy slid high exiting turn 3, and hit the outside wall in the north short chute. He suffered fractured arms and legs, burns, and was in critical condition. Four days later, Malloy would die from his injuries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 87], "content_span": [88, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094008-0014-0000", "contents": "1972 Indianapolis 500, Practice and time trials, Second day time trials \u2013 Sunday May 14\nAfter the Malloy crash, rain closed the track until 2:30\u00a0p.m. Bill Vukovich II was the first driver to make a qualifying attempt. His first lap of 185.797\u00a0mph was a new one-lap track record, and the first official lap at Indy over 180\u00a0mph. However, he did a 360\u00b0 spin in turn one, and came to rest against the outside wall on the second lap, and the run was for naught. Mike Mosley went out next, but the car quit on the final lap. More rain fell, and the track closed for another hour to wait out the shower.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 87], "content_span": [88, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094008-0015-0000", "contents": "1972 Indianapolis 500, Practice and time trials, Second day time trials \u2013 Sunday May 14\nAt 4:15\u00a0p.m., Joe Leonard (185.223\u00a0mph) became the first driver to complete a qualifying run. He set one and four-lap records, but they would not last long. Mario Andretti (187.617\u00a0mph) was the next car out, and he took over the top spot temporarily, also breaking the track record in the process.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 87], "content_span": [88, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094008-0016-0000", "contents": "1972 Indianapolis 500, Practice and time trials, Second day time trials \u2013 Sunday May 14\nShortly before 5\u00a0p.m., Bobby Unser took to the track. He set new all-time one and four-lap qualifying records, becoming the first driver to officially break the 190\u00a0mph barrier at Indianapolis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 87], "content_span": [88, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094008-0017-0000", "contents": "1972 Indianapolis 500, Practice and time trials, Second day time trials \u2013 Sunday May 14\nUnser established himself as the man to beat for the pole position. He shattered the previous year's track record by over 17\u00a0mph. Twelve cars completed runs and the 6 o'clock gun closed the track with six cars still left in line. The pole position round would be stretched into the following weekend. Among those not yet on the track were Mark Donohue and Peter Revson. After blowing his engine Saturday, A. J. Foyt was ineligible for the pole, and was not yet in the field either.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 87], "content_span": [88, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094008-0018-0000", "contents": "1972 Indianapolis 500, Practice and time trials, Third Day \u2013 Saturday May 20\nSix cars entered the day still eligible for the pole round, and five of those made attempts. Mark Donohue put himself on the front row with a run of 191.408\u00a0mph. Moments later, Peter Revson put himself second with a run of 192.885\u00a0mph. Bobby Unser held on to the pole position, and the front of the field was set. For the first time since 1940\u20131941, the same three drivers qualified on the front row in consecutive years. Unser, Revson, and Donohue started on the front row (albeit in different order) in 1971 as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 76], "content_span": [77, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094008-0019-0000", "contents": "1972 Indianapolis 500, Practice and time trials, Third Day \u2013 Saturday May 20\nAt 11:30\u00a0a.m., \"third day\" qualifying commenced. A. J. Foyt put his car solidly in the field with 188.996\u00a0mph. Two-time defending race winner Al Unser, Sr. also qualified. The fastest of the \"third day\" qualifiers would be Jerry Grant, with a run of 189.294\u00a0mph.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 76], "content_span": [77, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094008-0020-0000", "contents": "1972 Indianapolis 500, Practice and time trials, Third Day \u2013 Saturday May 20\nAt the end of the day, the field was filled to 27 cars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 76], "content_span": [77, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094008-0021-0000", "contents": "1972 Indianapolis 500, Practice and time trials, Bump Day \u2013 Sunday May 21 (Jim Hurtubise \"Beer engine\")\nAfter blowing five engines during the month, Gordon Johncock finally put a car in the field, with a comfortable 188.511\u00a0mph.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 103], "content_span": [104, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094008-0022-0000", "contents": "1972 Indianapolis 500, Practice and time trials, Bump Day \u2013 Sunday May 21 (Jim Hurtubise \"Beer engine\")\nAt 5 p.m., Salt Walther filled the field to 33 cars. Wally Dallenbach (178.423\u00a0mph) was now on the bubble. Dallenbach survived three attempts, but was bumped by Cale Yarborough with a half-hour remaining. Yarborough (178.864\u00a0mph) now found himself on the bubble. An agonizing final 25 minutes saw six drivers try to bump him out. One by one, they each fell short. Seconds before the 6 o'clock gun, Wally Dallenbach got in a back-up car for one last chance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 103], "content_span": [104, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094008-0022-0001", "contents": "1972 Indianapolis 500, Practice and time trials, Bump Day \u2013 Sunday May 21 (Jim Hurtubise \"Beer engine\")\nHis first two laps were just shy of bumping in, and on his third lap, the car began smoking, and he was forced to pull into the pits. The field was set with Yarborough making the field. All 33 cars in the field qualified faster than the pole car from the previous year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 103], "content_span": [104, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094008-0023-0000", "contents": "1972 Indianapolis 500, Practice and time trials, Bump Day \u2013 Sunday May 21 (Jim Hurtubise \"Beer engine\")\nAs the attention on the track was focusing on Cale Yarborough, Jim Hurtubise wheeled his Gohr Distributing-sponsored Mallard roadster in the qualifying line shortly before the closing deadline of 6 p.m. Gohr Distributing was a Buffalo-area beer distributor for various brands of beer, and they promoted the Miller High Life on the car. with Miller High Life chosen as the brand to promote. Since Hurtubise had already qualified himself, when asked why he was putting the car in line, he claimed he 'might put someone else in it,' a practice that was commonplace at the time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 103], "content_span": [104, 678]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094008-0023-0001", "contents": "1972 Indianapolis 500, Practice and time trials, Bump Day \u2013 Sunday May 21 (Jim Hurtubise \"Beer engine\")\nHurtubise had become known for last-minute (unsuccessful) qualifying efforts in his obsolete front-engined roadster, usually to the delight of fans, but sometimes drawing the ire of others. The time expired before he got anywhere near the front of the line. In fact, he purposely timed his queuing so he would not make it to the front. The engine cover was then removed to reveal that Offenhauser engine that should have been in the car had no engine at all.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 103], "content_span": [104, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094008-0023-0002", "contents": "1972 Indianapolis 500, Practice and time trials, Bump Day \u2013 Sunday May 21 (Jim Hurtubise \"Beer engine\")\nInstead it had a plastic-lined trough filled with ice and a number of chilled bottles of his sponsor's product, which he shared with the other pit crews and race officials. Most in attendance found the gesture to be humorous, however, some officials were not amused. Some were even becoming skeptical before he opened the cover, as already melting ice was leaving a trail of water visible on the pit lane beneath the car. It would be the first of several run-ins Hurtubise would have with USAC officials.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 103], "content_span": [104, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094008-0023-0003", "contents": "1972 Indianapolis 500, Practice and time trials, Bump Day \u2013 Sunday May 21 (Jim Hurtubise \"Beer engine\")\nThis type of stall tactic infuriated officials, which made further rule changes to prevent this ruse. (In modern times, alcohol is now prohibited in the pit area owing to WADA Code that prohibits alcohol among participants in motorsport events.) As a result, cars are now subject to cursory inspection, even before arriving at the official technical inspection area, and must obtain a sticker from officials to notify officials the car has been approved before entering the qualifying line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 103], "content_span": [104, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094008-0024-0000", "contents": "1972 Indianapolis 500, Practice and time trials, Carburetion Day\nDuring practice on May 16, Art Pollard wrecked his qualified car. The team was forced to replace it with a back-up car. Pollard, however, suffered a fractured leg, and was out for the month. The team hired Wally Dallenbach (who had been bumped) to drive as a substitute. For race day, the car was moved to the 33rd starting position due to the car/driver change.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 64], "content_span": [65, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094008-0025-0000", "contents": "1972 Indianapolis 500, Practice and time trials, Carburetion Day\nThe final practice session was scheduled for Wednesday May 24 from 1-4 p.m. Gordon Johncock (186.4\u00a0mph) was the fastest car of the day. No accidents were reported, and two drivers (John Mahler and Carl Williams) skipped the session altogether.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 64], "content_span": [65, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094008-0026-0000", "contents": "1972 Indianapolis 500, Practice and time trials, Carburetion Day, Electro-PACER Light System / Rule changes\nThe Carburetion Day practice session was expanded to allow the drivers more opportunity to practice under the new Electro-PACER Light system. The new devices were installed around the track to facilitate enforcement of the caution periods. At the time, the pace car was not utilized during caution periods, nor did the field pack up under yellow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 107], "content_span": [108, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094008-0027-0000", "contents": "1972 Indianapolis 500, Practice and time trials, Carburetion Day, Electro-PACER Light System / Rule changes\nThe PACER system featured a series of eight message panels situated around the track at equal intervals. They were programmed to enforce an 80\u00a0mph speed limit during caution periods. Drivers were instructed to hold their position under yellow, and each message board around the track would display a number from 1 to 9, illustrating the gap between themselves and the car in front of him. The goal and the requirement was to keep the numbers consistent at all of the boards around the entire circuit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 107], "content_span": [108, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094008-0027-0001", "contents": "1972 Indianapolis 500, Practice and time trials, Carburetion Day, Electro-PACER Light System / Rule changes\nFor instance, if a driver saw a \"7\" on the first board he encountered, he was to drive at such a speed that would display a \"7\" at all of the boards around the circuit for the remainder of the caution period. If he saw a \"6\" on the next board, it indicated that he was going too fast, and he would have to slow down a bit. If it displayed an \"8\" on the next board, that meant he was driving too slow, and needed to speed up slightly. Officials were stationed around the track to observe and issue penalties for violating the PACER system, which could mean a one-lap penalty for repeated abuse.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 107], "content_span": [108, 701]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094008-0028-0000", "contents": "1972 Indianapolis 500, Practice and time trials, Carburetion Day, Electro-PACER Light System / Rule changes\nThe Electro-PACER Light system would be used at Indianapolis from 1972 through 1978. Despite its seemingly simple format and instructions, it would be the source of ire and controversy during the years that it was used. Some drivers discovered and exploited loopholes in the system, and officials would find it more difficult to police than they expected. The PACER system would be a primitive precursor to later systems such as the Virtual Safety Car and \"Slow Zones\" introduced in the 2010s in Formula One and at Le Mans, respectively. In the end, the drivers themselves lobbied for the pack-up rule during caution periods, and it was finally adopted in 1979.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 107], "content_span": [108, 769]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094008-0029-0000", "contents": "1972 Indianapolis 500, Practice and time trials, Carburetion Day, Electro-PACER Light System / Rule changes\nOne additional rule change for 1972 involved the mandatory pit stops. A minimum of four pit stops (fuel hookup required) was required for 1972. The change was up from two pit stops in 1965\u20131967, and up from three in 1968\u20131971. Individual tire changes were still optional, but the rapidly increasing speeds from 1972 on would generate greater tire wear. As a result, tire changes became increasingly necessary and more common. Several drivers won the race in the 1960s without changing any tires, but no longer would that be practical nor feasible.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 107], "content_span": [108, 655]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094008-0030-0000", "contents": "1972 Indianapolis 500, Race summary, Pre-race ceremonies \u2014 Jim Nabors\nOn race morning, track president Tony Hulman was reportedly chatting with William F. Harrah, owner of Harrah's casino. Jim Nabors was accompanying Harrah as a guest at the race. Hulman recognized Nabors, and asked him if he wanted to 'sing the song' during the pre-race ceremonies. Believing that Hulman was talking about \"The Star-Spangled Banner\", Nabors agreed, and walked over to arrange with the Purdue Band. Nabors asked the band leader what key they were going to play, and it was not until that moment that he was informed he was going to be singing \"Back Home Again in Indiana\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 69], "content_span": [70, 657]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094008-0030-0001", "contents": "1972 Indianapolis 500, Race summary, Pre-race ceremonies \u2014 Jim Nabors\nA surprised Nabors quickly jotted the lyrics down on a sheet of paper, climbed up on a ladder, and performed the song unrehearsed. Although some contemporary accounts vary, it was nevertheless the beginning of a 36-year tradition that would see Nabors perform the song at Indianapolis nearly every year through 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 69], "content_span": [70, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094008-0031-0000", "contents": "1972 Indianapolis 500, Race summary, Start\nTony Hulman gave the command to start engines, and the field began to pull away for two pace laps. After the pace car crash a year earlier, the veteran driver Jim Rathmann was assigned the pace car driving duties. The passengers in the Hurst/Olds pace car included Tony Hulman, astronaut Pete Conrad, Chris Schenkel of ABC Sports, Bob Draper (Hurst), and Dolly Cole (wife of GM executive Ed Cole), believed to be the first woman ever to ride in the pace car.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 42], "content_span": [43, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094008-0032-0000", "contents": "1972 Indianapolis 500, Race summary, Start\nAs the field pushed off from the starting grid, A. J. Foyt's car stalled and failed to pull away. His crew hurriedly wheeled the car to the south end of the pit, and tried to figure out what was wrong with the machine. With the rest of the field gone, Foyt was possibly out of the race before the green flag. As the field was coming out of turn four, the starter held up one finger, indicating that the pace car should take the field on a second pace lap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 42], "content_span": [43, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094008-0032-0001", "contents": "1972 Indianapolis 500, Race summary, Start\nHowever, at that moment the crew got Foyt's car running, and quickly pushed him away. The starter waved the pace car off the track and abruptly dropped the green flag, catching many drivers in the wrong gear to go racing and making for a ragged start. With Foyt slowly coming up to speed on the apron, the field blasted by him into turn one. Just as the race went green, rookie Salt Walther dropped out from a parts failure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 42], "content_span": [43, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094008-0033-0000", "contents": "1972 Indianapolis 500, Race summary, First half\nBobby Unser grabbed the lead in the first turn, and led the first 30 laps. Unser set a blistering pace with Mark Donohue and Jerry Grant running close behind. On lap 31, Bobby Unser slowed and headed to the pits with a broken ignition rotor. Unser was out of the race, and Gary Bettenhausen took the lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 47], "content_span": [48, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094008-0034-0000", "contents": "1972 Indianapolis 500, Race summary, First half\nA. J. Foyt was forced to play catch-up from the onset, but was running fast laps in the 180\u00a0mph range. His day was short, however, as he blew the turbocharger. After several lengthy pit stops, Foyt dropped out of the race. Among the early outs were Peter Revson (started 2nd) and Johnny Rutherford (started 8th). During a pit stop around lap 42, Jerry Grant and Mark Donohue battled side-by-side as they exited their stalls, and Donohue nearly crashed into the scoring pylon. Meanwhile, a fire broke out in the pit area of Wally Dallenbach, but he was able to continue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 47], "content_span": [48, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094008-0035-0000", "contents": "1972 Indianapolis 500, Race summary, First half\nMike Mosley took the lead on lap 54. Two laps later, he lost a wheel and crashed into the outside wall in turn four. The impact ruptured the fuel tank, and the car caught fire as it slid down the mainstretch. Mosley unbuckled before the car came to a rest and jumped from the car trying to put out the flames. Mosley suffered burns but was not seriously injured. It was the second year in a row Mosley wrecked out in the fourth turn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 47], "content_span": [48, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094008-0036-0000", "contents": "1972 Indianapolis 500, Race summary, First half\nOn lap 81, for the second time, Wally Dallenbach had a fire in the pits.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 47], "content_span": [48, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094008-0037-0000", "contents": "1972 Indianapolis 500, Race summary, First half\nAt the halfway point, 13 cars were out of the race. Gary Bettenhausen continued to dominate the race, and led at the halfway point. After completing 94 laps, Jim Hurtubise ran out of fuel in turn two. When the safety truck went to tow him back to the pits, they proceeded to tow him through the infield and the garage area gate rather than directly around the track back to his pit stall. He refueled and rejoined the race, but was subsequently disqualified for leaving the race track. Some feel it was a \"payback\" gesture by USAC for Hurtubise's antics on bump day regarding his 'beer engine.'", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 47], "content_span": [48, 642]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094008-0038-0000", "contents": "1972 Indianapolis 500, Race summary, Second half\nGary Bettenhausen continued to lead, pushing record speeds. Attrition began to take its toll on the field. By the 400-mile mark, eighteen cars were out of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 48], "content_span": [49, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094008-0039-0000", "contents": "1972 Indianapolis 500, Race summary, Second half\nLee Kunzman lost a wheel in turn two, bringing out a yellow light.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 48], "content_span": [49, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094008-0040-0000", "contents": "1972 Indianapolis 500, Race summary, Second half\nWally Dallenbach had his third fire in the pits on lap 151. The final round of scheduled pit stops occurred for the leaders around laps 160-165. Bettenhausen pitted first on lap 162, briefly giving the lead over to Jerry Grant. When Grant pitted four laps later, his long pit stop relinquished the lead back to Bettenhausen. Grant himself later theorized that, because he was running a high line to improve his Eagle-Offy's handling, he might have picked up debris that caused a puncture of his right-front tire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 48], "content_span": [49, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094008-0041-0000", "contents": "1972 Indianapolis 500, Race summary, Second half\nThe yellow light came on with about 27 laps to go for debris on the backstretch. When the green light came back on, Gary Bettenhausen's car seemed to hesitate. With 25 laps to go, Bettenhausen suddenly started slowing in the north end of the track. After leading 138 laps, his car quit with ignition trouble. He limped around very slowly for handful of laps, then parked the car in the pits. Jerry Grant blasted by to take the lead, and Mark Donohue was now in second place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 48], "content_span": [49, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094008-0042-0000", "contents": "1972 Indianapolis 500, Race summary, Finish\nWith 13 laps to go, Jerry Grant led Mark Donohue and Al Unser, Sr. Grant was forced to the pits for a bad tire on lap 188. Grant entered the pit area, but he overshot his own pit stall and pulled into the pit box of his teammate Bobby Unser. Grant's crew carried their equipment to Unser's pit and changed Grant's right front tire, and in the confusion Unser's crew refuelled Grant's car with fuel from Unser's pit tank. By the time Grant went back out on the race track he had lost the lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 43], "content_span": [44, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094008-0043-0000", "contents": "1972 Indianapolis 500, Race summary, Finish\nWith Grant's unscheduled pit stop, Mark Donohue took the lead on lap 188, and Grant dropped to second place on the track. Donohue had about a 1-lap lead over Grant, and third place Al Unser was two laps down. Mike Hiss spun in the southchute between turns 1 and 2 on lap 194, but did not hit the wall. Hiss continued, and the yellow light was on for less than one lap. The green flag came back out with five laps to go.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 43], "content_span": [44, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094008-0044-0000", "contents": "1972 Indianapolis 500, Race summary, Finish\nDonohue led the final 13 laps, and scored his first Indy 500 victory, and the first victory for car owner Roger Penske. Per the rules of the time, the remainder of the field was permitted to continue racing for about five minutes after Donohue took the checkered flag. During that time, Sam Posey and Mario Andretti made pit stops, with Posey taking on fuel and returning to the track to place 5th. Andretti was out of fuel, and dropped from 5th to 8th in the final standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 43], "content_span": [44, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094008-0045-0000", "contents": "1972 Indianapolis 500, Race summary, Finish\nIn the immediate aftermath of the finish, USAC official Frank Delroy announced there would be no penalty for Grant pitting in the wrong stall. The initial ruling was that no fuel flowed into the tank. However, the decision would be further investigated during the evening, and a final ruling would be made when official results posted at 8:00\u00a0a.m. the next morning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 43], "content_span": [44, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094008-0046-0000", "contents": "1972 Indianapolis 500, Post race, Jerry Grant penalty\nAfter the race, USAC officials penalized Jerry Grant for taking fuel from Bobby Unser's pit tank. They disqualified him from that point on, and erased the final 12 laps from his tally. He was officially scored as out of the race with 188 laps completed. The penalty elevated Al Unser, Sr. to second place, and dropped Grant to 12th finishing position. According to the rules, each car was allotted a strict limit of only 250 gallons of methanol in their pit-side tank (not including the fuel in the car at the start of the race) to complete the full 500 miles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 53], "content_span": [54, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094008-0047-0000", "contents": "1972 Indianapolis 500, Post race, Jerry Grant penalty\nThe details of the pit snafu were never fully explained, and remains a topic of discussion amongst historians and fans. The team maintained that fueling the car was an unintentional mistake, however, others felt otherwise. It has also been reported by some witnesses that Grant was directed into Unser's pit stall by the crew, while others believe Grant simply overshot his own stall. Several possible theories emerged, with one prevailing opinion suggesting that Grant's car was out of fuel, and his pit-side tank was also empty, due to running high turbocharger boost during the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 53], "content_span": [54, 640]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094008-0047-0001", "contents": "1972 Indianapolis 500, Post race, Jerry Grant penalty\nGrant supposedly needed fuel to make it to the finish, and since Bobby Unser dropped out early, his pit-side tank was still full. It was thought that Grant deliberately stopped in Unser's pit, aware of the predicament, and knowing Unser's tank would fill his car sufficiently and quicker. Another claim was made to Grant's defense that while the fuel hose was admittedly hooked up, no fuel actually flowed into the car. This claim was quickly dismissed. Grant maintained later in life the infraction was unintentional, maintained his innocence, and felt the penalty was unjust.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 53], "content_span": [54, 631]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094008-0048-0000", "contents": "1972 Indianapolis 500, Post race, Post-race notes\nMark Donohue won the race leading only the final 13 laps, the third-lowest total in Indy history to that point (Joe Dawson led two laps in 1912, and Graham Hill led ten laps in 1966). The race was slowed five times for caution for only 20 minutes. Donohue's average speed of 162.962\u00a0mph set a new race record that would last until 1984.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 49], "content_span": [50, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094008-0049-0000", "contents": "1972 Indianapolis 500, Post race, Post-race notes\nVanguard Racing (of which Leonard W. Miller was involved), became the first African American-owned team to enter a car in the Indy 500. John Mahler (who was white) served as the driver. He dropped out after 99 laps with a broken piston.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 49], "content_span": [50, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094008-0050-0000", "contents": "1972 Indianapolis 500, Race results\nDonohue finished the race distance with a time of 3:04:05.54. The top four racers were given additional time after his finish to complete the 500 mile race distance; 5th place and below was flagged off the track without having done so.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 35], "content_span": [36, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094008-0051-0000", "contents": "1972 Indianapolis 500, Pace car\nThe Pace Car was a 1972 Hurst/Olds convertible with a Hurst Performance modified 455 cubic inch W-30 engine built to pre-smog high compression 1970 specs. It was equipped with a TH-400 transmission and a \"His and Hers\" Hurst Dual Gate shifter, plus a 3.42 rear axle ratio. An all aluminum W-27 differential cover was used for weight and cooling purposes. Mark Donohue was given the car for winning the race that day. About 629 of these cars were built for public consumption of which 130 were convertibles, 220 with sunroofs and the remaining 279 being hardtops.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094008-0051-0001", "contents": "1972 Indianapolis 500, Pace car\nAlmost all of these Pace Car replicas had the less powerful L-75 455 engine and 3.23 axle. A W-30 (L-77) could be ordered but only with 1972 specs netting 300HP with only 8.5 compression. All were painted Cameo white and carried unique 3M Firefrost Gold reflective fade out(pin dotted) laser stripes. In addition to this package, special Indy Pace Car decals with festival stickers could be ordered with large H/O stickers adorning the quarter panels.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094008-0052-0000", "contents": "1972 Indianapolis 500, Broadcasting, Radio\nThe race was carried live on the IMS Radio Network. It was carried on over 1,200 affiliates, including shortwave transmission to Japan, Vietnam, the Arctic and Antarctic. The broadcast reached an estimated 100 million listeners worldwide. Sid Collins served as chief announcer and Len Sutton served as \"driver expert\" for the seventh and final time. At the conclusion of the race, Lou Palmer reported from victory lane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 42], "content_span": [43, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094008-0053-0000", "contents": "1972 Indianapolis 500, Broadcasting, Radio\nSid Collins celebrated his milestone 25th year as chief announcer. During the pre-race coverage, Governor Edgar Whitcomb presented Collins with the Distinguished Hoosier Award, a recognition from American Forces Network, and a personalized letter of recognition from President Richard Nixon. Indianapolis mayor Dick Lugar likewise presented Collins with a silver microphone and declared May 27, 1972, as \"Sid Collins Day.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 42], "content_span": [43, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094008-0054-0000", "contents": "1972 Indianapolis 500, Broadcasting, Radio\nThe entire on-air crew remained mostly consistent from 1966\u201371. Bob Forbes was assigned as \"wireless\" microphone, covering the garages and roving reports. For 1972, the pre-race coverage expanded from 30 minutes to 45 minutes and came on-air at 10:15\u00a0a.m. local time. Howdy Bell's vantage point in turn two (an observation spot against the outside of the retaining wall), would be the final time reporting from that location. Starting in 1973, the vantage point would move to the new VIP Suites.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 42], "content_span": [43, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094008-0055-0000", "contents": "1972 Indianapolis 500, Broadcasting, Radio\nJim Shelton (born May 27, 1919), who was reporting his 23rd race on the crew, was also celebrating his 53rd birthday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 42], "content_span": [43, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094008-0056-0000", "contents": "1972 Indianapolis 500, Broadcasting, Radio\nChief Announcer: Sid CollinsDriver expert: Len SuttonStatistician: John DeCampHistorian: Donald Davidson", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 42], "content_span": [43, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094008-0057-0000", "contents": "1972 Indianapolis 500, Broadcasting, Radio\nTurn 1: Mike AhernTurn 2: Howdy BellBackstretch: Doug ZinkTurn 3: Ron CarrellTurn 4: Jim Shelton", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 42], "content_span": [43, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094008-0058-0000", "contents": "1972 Indianapolis 500, Broadcasting, Television\nThe race was carried in the United States on ABC Sports on a same-day tape delay basis. The race was held in the afternoon, and the broadcast aired in prime time later in the day. The two and a half hour broadcast was hosted by Chris Schenkel. Jim McKay and Jackie Stewart served as booth announcers. Chris Economaki was one of the pit reporters. Keith Jackson and Stu Nahan hosted a separate 30-minute trackside report before the ABC telecast that was available to some viewers on the west coast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 47], "content_span": [48, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094009-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Individual Ice Speedway World Championship\nThe 1972 Individual Ice Speedway World Championship was the seventh edition of the World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094009-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Individual Ice Speedway World Championship\nThe winner was Gabdrakhman Kadyrov of the Soviet Union for the fifth time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094010-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Individual Long Track World Championship\nThe 1972 Individual Long Track World Championship was the second edition of the FIM speedway Individual Long Track World Championship. The event was held on 9 July 1972 in M\u00fchldorf, West Germany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094010-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Individual Long Track World Championship\nThe world title was won by Ivan Mauger of New Zealand for a second successive year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094011-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Individual Speedway World Championship\nThe 1972 Individual Speedway World Championship was the 27th edition of the official World Championship to determine the world champion rider.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094011-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Individual Speedway World Championship\nThe 1972 final attendance at Wembley Stadium was 75,000. New Zealander Ivan Mauger joined Barry Briggs on four title wins (2nd only behind Ove Fundin) by defeating Bernt Persson in a run-off after both riders finished on 13 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094011-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Individual Speedway World Championship\nIn heat five, Briggs was involved in an accident which all but ended his speedway career. Going into the first turn his front wheel was hit by Bernt Persson's bike which caused him to fall. He was then hit by the Russian riders Grigory Khlinovsky and Valery Gordeev. Briggs suffered a severe hand injury and lost the index finger on his left hand which caused him to temporarily retire from racing. Briggs had been considered one of the pre-meeting favourites and his favouritism had been firmed when he had beaten fellow New Zealander Ivan Mauger in heat 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094011-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Individual Speedway World Championship\nTo the boos of the 75,000 strong Wembley crowd, FIM referee Georg Traunspurger did not exclude Persson. Defending champion Ole Olsen was unlucky not to retain his title because in his first ride (heat 4) while challenging Swede Christer L\u00f6fqvist he fell and would score no points. He won his next four rides to finish in a clear third place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094011-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Individual Speedway World Championship, Fourth Round, British/Commonwealth Final\nm - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022 t - exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022 x - other exclusion \u2022 e - retired or mechanical failure \u2022 f - fell \u2022 ns - non-starter \u2022 nc - non-classify", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 85], "content_span": [86, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094011-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Individual Speedway World Championship, Fourth Round, European Final\nm - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022 t - exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022 x - other exclusion \u2022 e - retired or mechanical failure \u2022 f - fell \u2022 ns - non-starter \u2022 nc - non-classify", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 73], "content_span": [74, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094011-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Individual Speedway World Championship, World Final\nm - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022 t - exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022 x - other exclusion \u2022 e - retired or mechanical failure \u2022 f - fell \u2022 ns - non-starter \u2022 nc - non-classify", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 56], "content_span": [57, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094012-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Intercontinental Cup\nThe 1972 Intercontinental Cup was an association football tie held over two legs in September 1972 between the winners of the 1971\u201372 European Cup, Ajax, and the winners of the 1972 Copa Libertadores, Independiente.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094012-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Intercontinental Cup\nThe first leg was held on 6 September 1972 at Independiente Stadium (La Doble Visera), home of Independiente, and ended in a 1\u20131 draw, with goals from Johan Cruyff and Francisco S\u00e1. The return leg was held on 28 September 1972 at the Olympic Stadium, which was won by Ajax 3\u20130. Therefore the Dutch side won their first Intercontinental Cup trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094012-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Intercontinental Cup, Overview\nThe match was notable for being the first and only time Johan Cruyff played in Argentina, as he would not join the trip with the Netherlands national team to the 1978 FIFA World Cup where the Dutch team reached the final. Ajax arrived in Argentina bringing their own cook and food. Some Dutch supporters had previously arrived not only to watch the match but on a tourist trip to known Buenos Aires sites.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094012-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Intercontinental Cup, Overview\nThe early goal by Cruyff (who might have fouled Independiente defender Miguel Angel L\u00f3pez and or might have been fouled by Miguel Angel L\u00f3pez before scoring) dictated the direction of the match. Since that, Independiente's style of play turned towards toughness to stop Ajax players. As a result, Cruyff had to leave the field after a hard tackle by defender Dante M\u00edrcoli. At the end of the first half, the Ajax players were so angry at Independiente players' violence that they refused to take to the field for the second half. Their coach \u0218tefan Kov\u00e1cs had to implore them to play on.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094012-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Intercontinental Cup, Overview\nAfter the match, the Ajax players complained about the violence shown by their rivals. Forward Sjaak Swart defined rival defender Ricardo Pavoni as \"a gangster\", also stating \"he believes he is Carlos Monz\u00f3n\" to describe the Uruguayan's stiffness. In the same line, Ajax manager Kovacs added his testimony saying: \"This was not football but war.... In Amsterdam, Independiente will have serious troubles. One of them, our magnificent pitch so they are not used to play on those surfaces. This pitch (Independiente Stadium) is not suitable to play football\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094012-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Intercontinental Cup, Overview\nSome football personalities attended the match in Avellaneda, being president of Real Madrid CF Santiago Bernab\u00e9u one of the most notable visitors. Once the match ended, Bernab\u00e9u said:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094012-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Intercontinental Cup, Overview\nIndependiente was in control of the game in the second half, and I don't understand how they did not realise the short height of their players affected them to compete against the Dutch players. They are prepared for those emergencies and closed files to resist Independiente's attack. The local team lacked the time and luck to win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094012-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Intercontinental Cup, Overview\nIn the second leg held in Amsterdam, Ajax made a great performance, showing all their virtues to easily defeat Independiente 3\u20130, threfore winning their first Intercontinental trophy 2\u20131 on points (4\u20131 on aggregate).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094013-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 International Cross Country Championships\nThe 1972 International Cross Country Championships was held in Cambridge, England, at the Coldhams Common on 18 March 1972. A report on the men's event was given in the Glasgow Herald. This was the last competition organized by the International Cross Country Union (ICCU). The organization of the event was transferred to the IAAF as recommended as a result of the meeting of the IAAF cross-country committee that year in London. It was continued as IAAF World Cross Country Championships. From then on, the event was open for all IAAF members whereas before, non-ICCU members were only allowed to compete after special invitation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 679]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094013-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 International Cross Country Championships\nComplete results for men, junior men, women, medallists, and the results of British athletes were published.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094013-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 International Cross Country Championships, Participation\nAn unofficial count yields the participation of 200 athletes from 15 countries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 61], "content_span": [62, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094014-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 International Gold Cup\nThe 19th International Gold Cup was a non-championship Formula One race, which was held on the Oulton Park circuit, located near Tarporley, Cheshire, England on 29 May 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094014-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 International Gold Cup, Report, Entry\nThe race had been brought forward to the Bank Holiday weekend in the hope of attracting more entries. However, a competing Formula Two race at Crystal Palace took away some potential entrants. As a result, ten of the cars that had competed in the European Formula 5000 round earlier in the day joined the eight Formula One cars on the grid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094014-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 International Gold Cup, Report, Entry\nAlthough the race regularly attracted the top teams from across Britain and Europe, the increasing costs of F1 and more countries wishing to have their own Grand Prix, the Gold Cup fell by wayside with this being the last true F1 race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 42], "content_span": [43, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094014-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 International Gold Cup, Report, Qualifying\nPeter Gethin took pole position for the Marlboro BRM, in their BRM P160B, averaging a speed of 117.433\u00a0mph. Denny Hulme in a McLaren M19A was second fastest, just 0.2 of a second behind. The fastest of the F5000 cars was Alan Rollinson in fifth, in his Alan McKechnie Racing Lola-Chevrolet T300.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094014-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 International Gold Cup, Report, Race\nThe race was held over 40 laps of the Oulton Park circuit. Denny Hulme took the winner spoils for Yardley Team McLaren, driving their McLaren-Cosworth M19A. Hulme won in a time of 1hr 24.400mins., averaging a speed of 115.408\u00a0mph. The second car home was that of Emerson Fittipaldi, for the John Player Team Lotus in their Cosworth powered Lotus 72D. The podium was completed by Tim Schenken, in a Surtees-Cosworth TS9B for Team Surtees outfit albeit one lap adrift. The first F5000 car home was that of Brian Redman in a Sid Taylor Racing entered, Chevron-Chevrolet B24 in fourth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094015-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Intertoto Cup\nIn the 1972 Intertoto Cup no knock-out rounds were contested, and therefore no winner was declared.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094015-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Intertoto Cup, Group stage\nThe teams were divided into eight groups of four teams each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094016-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Iowa Hawkeyes baseball team\nThe 1972 Iowa Hawkeyes baseball team represented the University of Iowa in the 1972 NCAA University Division baseball season. The head coach was Duane Banks, serving his 3rd year. The Hawkeyes finished the season in 7th place in the 1972 College World Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094017-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Iowa Hawkeyes football team\nThe 1972 Iowa Hawkeyes football team represented the University of Iowa in the 1972 Big Ten Conference football season. This was the first season the Hawkeyes played home games in Nile Kinnick Stadium (named for Iowa's only Heisman Trophy winner Nile Kinnick). The stadium was called \"Iowa Stadium\" from the 1929-1971 seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094018-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Iowa Senate election\nThe 1972 Iowa State Senate elections took place as part of the biennial 1972 United States elections. Iowa voters elected state senators in all of the state senate's 50 districts\u2014the 25 even-numbered seats were up for regularly-scheduled four-year terms and, due to the oddities of redistricting following the 1970 Census, the 25 odd-numbered seats were up for shortened two-year terms. State senators typically serve four-year terms in the Iowa State Senate, with half of the seats traditionally up for election each cycle. The decennial census and redistricting process causes one cycle each decade to be disrupted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 643]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094018-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Iowa Senate election\nThe Iowa General Assembly provides statewide maps of each district. To compare the effect of the 1971 redistricting process on the location of each district, contrast the with the .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094018-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Iowa Senate election\nThe primary election on June 6, 1972 determined which candidates appeared on the November 7, 1972 general election ballot. The Iowa Secretary of State only provides the names of candidates who ran in the 1972 primaries and does not report vote tallies. The primary candidates' names can be obtained here. General election results can be obtained here.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094018-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Iowa Senate election\nFollowing the previous election, Republicans had control of the Iowa state Senate with 38 seats to Democrats' 12 seats. In March 1971, a special election in district 11 resulted in G. William \"Bill\" Gross flipping a seat in favor of the Democrats. Therefore, on election day in November 1972, Republicans controlled 37 seats and Democrats had 13.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094018-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Iowa Senate election\nTo claim control of the chamber from Republicans, the Democrats needed to net 13 Senate seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094018-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Iowa Senate election\nRepublicans maintained control of the Iowa State Senate following the 1972 general election with the balance of power shifting to Republicans holding 28 seats and Democrats having 22 seats (a net gain of 9 seats for the Democrats).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094019-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Iowa State Cyclones football team\nThe 1972 Iowa State Cyclones football team represented Iowa State University in the Big Eight Conference during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. In their fifth and final year under head coach Johnny Majors, the Cyclones compiled a 5\u20136\u20131 record (2\u20134\u20131 against conference opponents), finished in seventh place in the conference, and outscored opponents by a combined total of 319 to 238. They played their home games at Clyde Williams Field in Ames, Iowa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094019-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Iowa State Cyclones football team, Game summaries, at Colorado State\nTo open the 1972 season, Iowa State went on the road to shutout the Colorado State Rams 41\u20130, the first of three games against Western Athletic Conference (WAC) opponents. The first quarter of the game was a stalemate, but the rushing ability of tailback Jerry Moses powered an 86-yard drive that concluded in a four-yard touchdown run on a sneak play by George Amundson in the first minutes of the second quarter. George Amundson completed 12 of 126 passes for 171 yards, throwing three touchdowns and running for another.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 73], "content_span": [74, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094019-0001-0001", "contents": "1972 Iowa State Cyclones football team, Game summaries, at Colorado State\nDon Greenwood, who started at tight end after Keith Krepfle cracked a neck vertebrae during practice the previous week, caught six passes for 80 yards, including a seven-yard touchdown reception. Moses, who gained 66 yards in twelve carries, suffered a knee injury early in the second quarter and was replaced by Mike Strachan, who had 143 yards in seven carries, including a 24-yard run to set up the third Iowa State touchdown. In the final minutes of the blowout, backup quarterback Wayne Stanley came in and ran for 53 yards, including the final touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 73], "content_span": [74, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094019-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Iowa State Cyclones football team, Game summaries, Utah\nAt its home opener, Iowa State came back from a 14\u201316 halftime deficit against Utah to score 28 unanswered points, defeating the WAC team 44\u201322. Amundson ran for two touchdowns and threw to Greenwood for two others.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094019-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Iowa State Cyclones football team, Game summaries, New Mexico\nIn its second home game against a WAC opponent, Iowa State shutout New Mexico 31\u20130. After its third victory, Iowa State was ranked in the AP Top 20 Poll for the first time in the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094019-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Iowa State Cyclones football team, Game summaries, at Colorado\nComing off of a bye week, 18th-ranked Iowa State went on the road as a 13-point underdog for its first Big Eight conference game, suffering its first loss against 13th-ranked Colorado, 22\u201334. The ranked vs. ranked matchup was attended by a sellout crowd of over 51,000, the largest sporting event in the state of Colorado to that date. The Buffaloes gained a 14\u20130 lead on the first two drives and never let the Cyclones get closer than seven points for the rest of the game. The Cyclones were stymied by penalties on both sides of the ball, with nine for 121 yards, including a defensive offsides on a Buffaloes field goal attempt that kept the Colorado drive alive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 734]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094019-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Iowa State Cyclones football team, Game summaries, Kansas State\nIowa State recovered from their loss to Colorado to blow out Kansas State at home 55\u201322.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094019-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Iowa State Cyclones football team, Game summaries, at Kansas\nIowa State went on the road to blow out Kansas 34\u20138 in the latter's homecoming game. The Cyclones were heavy favorites against the Jayhawks, who were 2\u20134 but winless in conference play. Kansas quarterback David Jaynes returned from injury for the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094019-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Iowa State Cyclones football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma\nIn front of an overflow crowd of over 36,000, Iowa State suffered its first home loss in its homecoming game, falling to two-touchdown favorite No. 7 Oklahoma 6\u201320. Both offenses were hampered by the muddy turf, soaked from a week of rain due to Iowa State's lack of a tarp. Leon Crosswhite and Greg Pruitt combined for over 200 rush yards to establish the dominant Sooners ball control offense, while the Oklahoma defense held Strachan to 50.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094019-0007-0001", "contents": "1972 Iowa State Cyclones football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma\nThe Sooners scored first at the beginning of the second quarter when Crosswhite carried for a touchdown on a drive kept alive by a pair of completions from Dave Robertson to John Carroll. Later in the second quarter, a pair of long runs by Amundson and Strachan brought the Cyclones to the Sooner 20. The Sooners defense stiffened there and Amundson slipped while fading on third down. Goedjen kicked a 38-yard field goal to put the Cyclones on the board with nearly five minutes left.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094019-0007-0002", "contents": "1972 Iowa State Cyclones football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma\nThe Sooners then marched down the field but stalled near the goal line in the final seconds of the half. Larry Hunt and Steve Burns tacked Robertson for a loss, forcing the Sooners to settle for a Rick Fulcher field goal to bring their lead to 10\u20133 at the half. In the final minutes of the fourth quarter, Robertson ran for 55 yards on a third and long to the Cyclone 3-yard line before a Pruitt touchdown run put the game out of reach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094019-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 Iowa State Cyclones football team, Game summaries, Nebraska\nIowa State came close to upsetting No. 3 Nebraska at home but tied at 23 instead due to a missed game-ending extra point by kicker Tom Goedjen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094019-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 Iowa State Cyclones football team, Game summaries, at Missouri\nIowa State was upset on the road by No. 19 Missouri 5\u20136. Their only points came on a Goedjen field goal towards the end of the first quarter and a safety on a blocked punt towards the end of the third. After Goedjen missed three field goal attempts, Majors elected to go for it with his team on 4th and goal from the Missouri two-yard line with six minutes left in the 4th quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094019-0009-0001", "contents": "1972 Iowa State Cyclones football team, Game summaries, at Missouri\nAmundson attempted to run the ball in for the touchdown but was taken down for a loss, and Missouri went on to cap their drive with the game-winning field goal by Greg Hill. Despite their loss, they were invited to the 1972 Liberty Bowl to face Georgia Tech after the other teams being considered for the bowl bid also suffered defeats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094019-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 Iowa State Cyclones football team, Game summaries, at Oklahoma State\nHeading to Lewis Field to face the Oklahoma State Cowboys in the Cyclones' conference finale, Majors sought to avoid another embarrassing defeat before the Liberty Bowl. Although the seventeenth-ranked Cyclones were favored by a touchdown, the 5\u20134 Cowboys were eager to obtain their first winning season since 1959, secure third place in the Big Eight standings, and avenge their 55\u20130 loss to the Cyclones in the previous season. Despite early-season upsets of bowl-bound Colorado and Missouri teams, the Cowboys, led by first-year head coach Dave Smith, had not received a bowl invitation and desired to prove their fitness for one. Running a wishbone offense, the Cowboys ranked 4th nationally in rushing yards, powered by quarterback Brent Blackman and running backs George Palmer and Fountain Smith.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 73], "content_span": [74, 877]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094019-0011-0000", "contents": "1972 Iowa State Cyclones football team, Game summaries, at Oklahoma State\nThe Cyclones started hot with a 28-yard completion from Amundson to Moses on the first play of the game, and got a first down at the Cowboys 26 on a 15-yard Strachan run. The game soon went downhill when the Cowboys' Bob Shepard recovered a Larry Marquardt fumble at the Cowboys 22. On second down, the Cowboys ran a prearranged sleeper pass trick play in which they lined up after a quick huddle before Blackman surprised the Cyclones defense with a pass to Tom Stremme, who had not huddled and was uncovered in the flat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 73], "content_span": [74, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094019-0011-0001", "contents": "1972 Iowa State Cyclones football team, Game summaries, at Oklahoma State\nStremme ran for 64 yards before John Schweizer tackled him at the Cyclones 11, saving the touchdown. A Smith run punched the ball in for the touchdown, but Eddie Garrett missed the extra point. Majors challenged the trick play but the referees upheld their decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 73], "content_span": [74, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094019-0011-0002", "contents": "1972 Iowa State Cyclones football team, Game summaries, at Oklahoma State\nThree plays after the kickoff, Amundson lost the ball when he was hit by Doug Tarrant and it was recovered by Jay Cruse who returned it to the Cyclones 4. Alton Gerard punched the ball in for a touchdown and Blackman converted on a run to put the Cowboys up 14\u20130 in the first five minutes of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 73], "content_span": [74, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094019-0012-0000", "contents": "1972 Iowa State Cyclones football team, Game summaries, at Oklahoma State\nIowa State rallied after Steve Burns recovered a Palmer fumble on the Cyclones 39 and marched 61 yards in 13 plays down the field to score on an Amundson screen pass to Krepfle towards the end of the first quarter. Another Cowboys fumble, this time by Smith, was recovered by Ted Jornov near midfield, allowing the Cyclones drive 51 yards in seven plays to tie the game with a 25-yard touchdown pass from Amundson to Willie Jones in the first minute of the second quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 73], "content_span": [74, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094019-0012-0001", "contents": "1972 Iowa State Cyclones football team, Game summaries, at Oklahoma State\nHowever, Amundson was picked off by Lee Stover halfway through the quarter, giving the Cowboys offense starting field position at the Cyclone 39. Overcoming two illegal procedure penalties, the Cowboys drove in on a Palmer run for a 21\u201314 halftime lead after Blackman lateraled to Smith for a large gain. The third quarter was scoreless, but in the fourth the Cowboys exploded for 24 points on a Palmer touchdown run, a Garrett field goal, an Alfred Nelms touchdown run, and a Blackman touchdown run to seal their 45\u201314 victory. With the blowout loss, the Cyclones fell to sixth in the conference and were dropped from both polls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 73], "content_span": [74, 704]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094019-0013-0000", "contents": "1972 Iowa State Cyclones football team, Game summaries, at San Diego State\nIn the final regular season game, Iowa State was upset on the road 14\u201327 by Pacific Coast Athletic Association champions San Diego State, who were 22-point underdogs. The momentum of the game shifted on the first play of the fourth quarter when a 45-yard Goedjen field goal attempt was blocked by Joe Lavender and returned for a touchdown by Bill Ferguson, tying the game at 14. Phil Danowsky returned the kickoff but fumbled the ball, which was recovered by Ken Jackson to give San Diego State excellent field position at the Iowa State 39-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 74], "content_span": [75, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094019-0013-0001", "contents": "1972 Iowa State Cyclones football team, Game summaries, at San Diego State\nIn three plays, San Diego State quarterback Jesse Freitas passed to Isaac Curtis for the touchdown, giving the Aztecs a 21\u201314 lead. The Aztecs clinched their victory with 4:56 left in the game after Rick Ash intercepted Amundson on the Iowa State 30, and Frank Miller ran for a 1-yard touchdown in four plays to finish the San Diego State scoring drive. The Cyclones thus finished the regular season with a 5\u20135\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 74], "content_span": [75, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094020-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Iowa gubernatorial election\nThe 1972 Iowa gubernatorial election was held on November 7, 1972. Incumbent Republican Robert D. Ray defeated Democratic nominee Paul Franzenburg with 58.43% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094020-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Iowa gubernatorial election\nThis was the last gubernatorial election in Iowa in which either party won every county.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094021-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Iran blizzard\nThe Iran blizzard of February 1972 was the deadliest blizzard in history. A week-long period of low temperatures and severe winter storms, lasting 3\u20139 February 1972, resulted in the deaths of over 4,000 people. Storms dumped more than 3 metres (9.8\u00a0ft) of snow across rural areas in northwestern, central and southern Iran.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094021-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Iran blizzard\nSouthern Iran received as much as 8 metres (26\u00a0ft) of snow, burying at least 4,000 individuals. According to contemporary reports by the newspaper Ettela'at, the city of Ardakan and outlying villages were hardest hit, with no survivors in Kakkan or Kumar. In the northwest, near the border with Turkey, the village of Sheklab and its 100 inhabitants were buried.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094021-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Iran blizzard, Meteorological progression\nA series of snowstorms at the end of January had already accumulated over western Iran. Passing from Azerbaijan to Iran between February 3 and 8, the blizzard left 7.988 meters of snow, which is equivalent to a 2 and-a-half story building. The wind and snow resulted in the breakage of trees and power lines. The snow buried rails, roads, and many villages, in addition to crushing vehicles beneath its weight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 46], "content_span": [47, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094021-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Iran blizzard, Meteorological progression\nAt the height of the storm, authorities estimated that a region including all of western Iran was beneath the snow for a week. The supply of food and medicine was exhausted and the temperature plummeted to -25\u00b0C, which rendered the survival of the snowstorm's victims uncertain. Furthermore, a flu epidemic had begun to hit rural areas at the start of winter, already claiming several lives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 46], "content_span": [47, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094021-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Iran blizzard, Meteorological progression\nOn February 9, during a 24-hour lull, rescue helicopters were able to reach part of the region. Where there were villages, first-aid workers found large snowdrifts; when dug up, frozen corpses were often uncovered. In the village of Sheklab, they recovered 18 bodies before another blizzard struck on February 11. The rescue workers were forced to evacuate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 46], "content_span": [47, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094021-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Iran blizzard, Meteorological progression\nArmy helicopters left behind two tons of provisions, in the form of bread and dates, scattered on snowdrifts around villages. This was done in the hope that the inhabitants could resupply themselves if they were able to dig a tunnel out of their locations. However, few people were able to benefit from this. Out of Sheklab's 100 inhabitants, no one survived.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 46], "content_span": [47, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094022-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Iranian local elections\nThe third local elections in Iran were held on 3 October 1972 to elect the members of city and town municipal councils. As expected, the New Iran Party overtook the People's Party to win 80% of the vote. Out of 3,786 seats nationwide, they won 3,246.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094022-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Iranian local elections\nPeople's Party won only 1.5% of total votes in Tehran, while in the provinces New Iran Party had more than 90% of the popular vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094023-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Irish Greyhound Derby\nThe 1972 Irish Greyhound Derby took place during June and July with the final being held at Shelbourne Park in Dublin on 19 July 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094023-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Irish Greyhound Derby\nThe winner Catsrock Daisy won \u00a35,000 and was trained by Gay McKenna, owned by Matt Bruton & Cyril Scotland and bred by Mrs Ann Relis. The competition was sponsored by Carrolls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094023-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Irish Greyhound Derby, Competition Report\nGay McKenna of Dublin had already secured three Irish Derby titles when he sent a team to the 1972 event, in an attempt to emulate his brother in law Tom Lynch, and secure a fourth crown. Two bitches called Congress Daisy and Catsrock Daisy were considered serious contenders for McKenna and would provide the opposition for English raider Suburban Gent, double St Leger champion Time Up Please, Itsachampion and the previous year's finalists Gahans Wood and Butlers Glen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094023-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Irish Greyhound Derby, Competition Report\nIn the first round Congress Daisy recorded the fastest time of 29.15 closely followed by other winners Moordyk Sandy (29.18), Bedhust (29.20) and Eighthouses (29.20). In round two Catsrock Daisy (the recent Easter Cup winner when trained by Sammy Easton) set the best time of 29.04. Congress Daisy recorded 29.11 and Ballykilty won in 29.18.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094023-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Irish Greyhound Derby, Competition Report\nIn the first semi-final Ballykilty beat Agamemnon in 29.14 but the old campaigner Kerryman (who was unbeaten going into the semis) failed to make the final again. Bedehust beat Catsrock Daisy in the second semi to remain unbeaten whilst a third race that was marred by trouble, ended with victory for Butlers Glen from Waggy Champion. In the third semi both Time Up Please and Congress Daisy were surprise eliminations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094023-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Irish Greyhound Derby, Competition Report\nThe undefeated Bedhust was found to be lame and was withdrawn from the final which left Catsrock Daisy as the even money favourite and duly wrapped up that fourth title for McKenna. She broke well from the traps and maintained a lead all the way. Waggy Champion finished strongly to finish second and only lose by a neck. Catsrock Daisy was found to have broken a toe following the victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094024-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Isle of Man TT\nThe 1972 Isle of Man TT motorcycle races were held between 5\u20139 June 1972. It was the fifth round of the FIM Motorcycle Grand Prix World Championship (now MotoGP).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094024-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Isle of Man TT\nA fatal accident this year led, some years later, to the end of the Isle of Man TT as a FIM championship race. The Ultra-Lightweight race was held on the last day of the event in heavy rain, and Gilberto Parlotti crashed fatally at the Verandah section of the circuit 29 miles into his second lap; the Italian rider was 31 years old.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094024-0001-0001", "contents": "1972 Isle of Man TT\nAfter the death of Parlotti, his friend, Giacomo Agostini, an Italian MV Agusta rider, 9-time TT winner and a ten time 350cc and 500cc world champion, announced that he would never return to the Isle of Man to race. He considered the course too dangerous for international competition. As the years went on more top riders joined Agostini's boycott and in 1976 it was announced that the TT would be removed from the championship calendar. The British round of the FIM championship was held at Silverstone Circuit on the mainland from 1977 onwards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094024-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Isle of Man TT\nIn the last race of the 1972 event, Agostini won his 10th TT - the most for a non-British rider.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094024-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Isle of Man TT, 1972 Isle of Man Junior TT 350cc final standings\nMonday 5 June 1972 \u2013 5 Laps (188.65\u00a0Miles) Mountain Course.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 69], "content_span": [70, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094024-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Isle of Man TT, 1972 Isle of Man Sidecar 500cc TT final standings\nMonday 5 June 1972 \u2013 3 Laps (113.00\u00a0Miles) Mountain Course.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 70], "content_span": [71, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094024-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Isle of Man TT, 1972 Isle of Man Lightweight TT 250cc final standings\nWednesday 7 June 1972 \u2013 4 Laps (150.92\u00a0Miles) Mountain Course.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 74], "content_span": [75, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094024-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Isle of Man TT, 1972 Isle of Man Ultra-Lightweight TT 125cc final standings\nFriday 9 June 1972 \u2013 3 Laps (113.00\u00a0Miles) Mountain Course.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 80], "content_span": [81, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094024-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Isle of Man TT, 1972 Isle of Man Senior TT 500cc final standings\nFriday 9 June 1972 \u2013 6 Laps (236.38\u00a0Miles) Mountain Course.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 69], "content_span": [70, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094024-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 Isle of Man TT, Non-championship races, 1972 Isle of Man Production 750 cc TT final standings\nSaturday 3 June 1972 \u2013 4 Laps (150.92\u00a0Miles) Mountain Course.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 98], "content_span": [99, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094024-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 Isle of Man TT, Non-championship races, 1972 Isle of Man Production 500 cc TT final standings\nSaturday 3 June 1972 \u2013 4 Laps (150.92\u00a0Miles) Mountain Course.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 98], "content_span": [99, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094024-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 Isle of Man TT, Non-championship races, 1972 Isle of Man Production 250 cc TT final standings\nSaturday 3 June 1972 \u2013 4 Laps (150.92\u00a0Miles) Mountain Course.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 98], "content_span": [99, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094024-0011-0000", "contents": "1972 Isle of Man TT, Non-championship races, 1972 Isle of Man Sidecar 750cc TT final standings\nSaturday 3 June 1972 \u2013 3 Laps (113.00\u00a0Miles) Mountain Course.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 94], "content_span": [95, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094024-0012-0000", "contents": "1972 Isle of Man TT, Non-championship races, 1972 Isle of Man Formula 750 cc TT final standings\nMonday 5 June 1972 \u2013 5 Laps (188.65\u00a0Miles) Mountain Course.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 95], "content_span": [96, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094025-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Israeli air raid in Syria and Lebanon\nOn 8 September 1972, Israeli planes bombed ten Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) bases in Syria and Lebanon as a response to the Munich massacre that took place on 6 September, perpetrated by Black September, a Palestinian terrorist organization active since 1970. Estimates of the number and identity of casualties vary widely, with several sources giving a figure as high as 200 militants and 11 Lebanese civilians. Seven bases were attacked in Syria and three in Lebanon. A short dogfight between Israeli and Syrian fighters resulted in three Syrian jets being downed. The main rail link between Syria and Beirut was cut and targets in Latakia were also attacked.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 715]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094025-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Israeli air raid in Syria and Lebanon\nOn 11 September, a UN Security Council resolution demanding a halt to Israeli raids was vetoed by the United States, after the Soviet Union and China had vetoed amendments that would have also applied the resolution to terrorist activities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094025-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Israeli air raid in Syria and Lebanon\nOn 16 September, three Israeli armored columns crossed into southern Lebanon, with air support, to search for PLO bases. It destroyed at least 130 houses suspected of housing PLO militants. 45 militants were killed in this operation and 16 were captured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094026-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Italian Athletics Championships\nThe 1972 Italian Athletics Championships was the 62nd edition of the Italian Athletics Championships and were held in Rome (track & field events).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094027-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Italian Athletics Indoor Championships\n1972 Italian Athletics Indoor Championships was the 3rd edition of the Italian Athletics Indoor Championships and were held in Genoa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094028-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Italian Grand Prix\nThe 1972 Italian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Monza on 10 September 1972. It was race 10 of 12 in both the 1972 World Championship of Drivers and the 1972 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094028-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Italian Grand Prix\nBefore the race, the Monza circuit was modified with the addition of two chicanes, one before the Curva Grande and one at the site of the old Curva Vialone, in order to reduce speeds in the interests of safety. Team Lotus was forced to run only one car because Emerson Fittipaldi's Lotus 72D was seriously damaged in an accident while being transported to Monza. Fittipaldi raced another 72D, but with specifications very close to the 1970 model", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094028-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Italian Grand Prix\nThe 55-lap race was won by Brazilian driver Emerson Fittipaldi, driving a Lotus-Ford, after he started from sixth position. With the win, Fittipaldi sealed the Drivers' Championship, becoming the youngest ever champion at 25 years and 273 days until superseded by Fernando Alonso at 24 years and 59 days in 2005; Lotus also secured the Manufacturers' Cup. Englishman Mike Hailwood finished second in a Surtees-Ford, with New Zealander Denny Hulme third in a McLaren-Ford.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094028-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Italian Grand Prix\nThe race marked the last win for American tyre manufacturer Firestone in Formula One. It was also the last race in which 1964 World Champion John Surtees competed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094029-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Italian Open (tennis)\nThe 1972 Italian Open was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament that was played by men on outdoor clay courts at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy. The men's and women's tournament were part of the 1972 Commercial Union Assurance Grand Prix. It was the 29th edition of the tournament and was held from 24 April through 2 May 1972. The singles titles were won by Manuel Orantes and Linda Tuero.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094029-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Italian Open (tennis), Finals, Men's doubles\nIlie N\u0103stase / Ion \u0162iriac defeated Lew Hoad / Frew McMillan 3\u20136, 3\u20136, 6\u20134, 6\u20133, 5\u20133, ret.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094029-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Italian Open (tennis), Finals, Women's doubles\nLesley Hunt / Olga Morozova defeated Gail Chanfreau / Rosalba Vido 6\u20133, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094030-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Italian Republic Grand Prix\nThe 1972 Italian Republic Grand Prix was a non-championship Formula One race held at Vallelunga Circuit on June 18, 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094031-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Italian Senate election in Lombardy\nLombardy elected its sixth delegation to the Italian Senate on May 19, 1972. This election was a part of national Italian general election of 1972 even if, according to the Italian Constitution, every senatorial challenge in each Region is a single and independent race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094031-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Italian Senate election in Lombardy\nThe election was won by the centrist Christian Democracy, as it happened at national level. Seven Lombard provinces gave a majority or at least a plurality to the winning party, while the agricultural Province of Pavia and Province of Mantua preferred the Italian Communist Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094031-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Italian Senate election in Lombardy, Background\nThis election was quite a copy of the previous one. The Italian Liberal Party was the sole loser, to its left to the Italian Republican Party and to its right to the Italian Social Movement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094031-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Italian Senate election in Lombardy, Electoral system\nThe electoral system for the Senate was a strange hybrid which established a form of proportional representation into FPTP-like constituencies. A candidate needed a landslide victory of more than 65% of votes to obtain a direct mandate. All constituencies where this result was not reached entered into an at-large calculation based upon the D'Hondt method to distribute the seats between the parties, and candidates with the best percentages of suffrages inside their party list were elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 58], "content_span": [59, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094032-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Italian general election\nGeneral elections were held in Italy on 7 May 1972, to select the sixth Republican Parliament. The Christian Democracy (DC) remained stable with around 38% of the votes, as did the Communist Party (PCI) which obtained the same 27% it had in 1968. The Socialist Party (PSI) continued in its decline, reducing to less than 10%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094032-0000-0001", "contents": "1972 Italian general election\nThe most important growth was that of the post-fascist Italian Social Movement, which nearly doubled its votes from 4.5% to about 9%, after its leader Giorgio Almirante launched the formula of the National Right, proposing his party as the sole group of the Italian right wing. After a dismaying result of less than 2%, against the 4.5% of 1968, the Italian Socialist Party of Proletarian Unity was disbanded; a majority of its members joined the PCI.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094032-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Italian general election, Electoral system\nThe electoral system for the Chamber of Deputies was pure party-list proportional representation. Italian provinces were grouped into 32 constituencies, each electing a group of candidates. At constituency level, seats were divided between open lists using the largest remainder method with Imperiali quota. Remaining votes and seats were transferred at national level, where they were divided using the Hare quota, and automatically distributed to best losers into the local lists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094032-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Italian general election, Electoral system\nFor the Senate, 237 single-seat constituencies were established, even if the assembly had risen to 315 members. The candidates needed a landslide victory of two-thirds of votes to be automatically elected, a goal which could be reached only by the German minorities in South Tirol. All remaining votes and seats were grouped in party lists and regional constituencies, where a D'Hondt method was used: inside the lists, candidates with the best percentages were elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 47], "content_span": [48, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094032-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Italian general election, Historical background\nThe period of the late 1960s\u20131970s came to be known as the Opposti Estremismi, (from left-wing and right-wing extremists riots), later renamed anni di piombo (\"years of lead\") because of a wave of bombings and shootings \u2014 the first victim of this period was Antonio Annarumma, a policeman, killed on 12 November 1969 in Milan during a left-wing demonstration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094032-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Italian general election, Historical background\nIn December, four bombings struck the Monument of Vittorio Emanuele II in Rome (Altare della Patria), the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, and in Milan the Banca Commerciale and the Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura. The latter bombing, known as the Piazza Fontana bombing of 12 December 1969, killed 17 and injured 88.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094032-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Italian general election, Historical background\nCommunist Secretary Luigi Longo suffered a stroke in late 1968; although partially recovering in the following months, from February 1969 he was assisted in most decisions by Enrico Berlinguer acting as cive-secretary. Longo resigned the position of party secretary in 1972, supporting the choice of Berlinguer as his successor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094032-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Italian general election, Historical background\nBerlinguer's unexpected stance made waves: he gave the strongest speech by a major Communist leader ever heard in Moscow. He refused to \"excommunicate\" the Chinese communists, and directly told Leonid Brezhnev that the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Warsaw Pact countries (which he termed the \"tragedy in Prague\") had made clear the considerable differences within the Communist movement on fundamental questions such as national sovereignty, socialist democracy, and the freedom of culture.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094032-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Italian general election, Historical background\nArturo Michelini, leader of the Italian Social Movement, died in 1969, and the party's first and charismatic leader Giorgio Almirante regained control. He attempted to revitalise the party by pursuing an aggressive policy against left-wing student uprisings; the 1968 student movement had been devastating for the party's youth organisation. Following Michelini's failed approach of inserimento, Almirante introduced a double strategy of hard anti-systemic discourse combined with the creation of a broader \"National Right\" (Destra Nazionale) coalition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094032-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 Italian general election, Results\nMathematically, the election seemed to give the same results of four years before, the three major parties receiving quite the same preferences. However, the success of the operation of the National Right by anti-constitutional, neo-fascist MSI, gave a golden share to the PSI, because the Christian Democrats had no more possibilities to look at their right to build a democratic government, the alliance with the Socialists becoming quite obliged. Incumbent Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti tried to continue his centrist strategy, but his attempt only lasted a year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 607]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094032-0008-0001", "contents": "1972 Italian general election, Results\nFormer Premier Mariano Rumor so returned at the head of the government with his traditional centre-left alliance between DC, PSI, PSDI and PRI, but he was abandoned by the Republicans after eight months. He continued with a new squad, but he couldn't withstand the shocks deriving by the divorce referendum of 1974. After the consequent great controversies between Catholics and secularists, former Premier Aldo Moro persuaded the Socialists to accept a minority government composed only of the Christian Democrats and the Republicans. However, new problem arose from the regional elections of 1975, which marked a great success of the left, which consequently called for new national elections. When the Republicans too left Moro in 1976, no possibilities of a new government remained, and an early general election was found necessary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 876]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094033-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Italian general election in Veneto\nThe Italian general election of 1972 took place on 7 May 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094033-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Italian general election in Veneto\nIn Veneto Christian Democracy was, as usual, the largest party with 53.0% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094034-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Jai Andhra movement\nJai Andhra movement is a 1972 political movement in support for the creation of Andhra state in the light of injustices felt by the people of the Coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema Regions. This was after the HC and SC upheld the Mulki rules in existence at the time. This disenfranchised a vast majority of the population of the state from obtaining jobs in their own state capital. In ensuing protests and police firing eight people were killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094034-0000-0001", "contents": "1972 Jai Andhra movement\nProminent leaders from Coastal Andhra: Tenneti Viswanadham, Raja Sagi Suryanarayana Raju, Gouthu Latchanna, Jupudi Yegnanarayana, N. Srinivasulu Reddy, B. V. Subba Reddy, Kakani Venkataratnam, Vasantha Nageswara Rao, M. Venkaiah Naidu, Nissankararao Ventakaratnam, prominent student leader from Andhra University, and many others participated in the agitation. It was a sequel to the 1969 Telangana movement. Over 400 people sacrificed their lives for the movement. One of the main opinions expressed was \"Development is seen only in and around Hyderabad and it is time the coastal districts also develop rapidly\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 639]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094034-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Jai Andhra movement, Grievances of the Andhra Regions\nPeople from the Andhra and Rayalaseema regions felt that Mulki rules were unfair to them and they were \"being treated like aliens in their own land\". The agitators, most of whom were students, felt that the Mulki rules in place were unjust, unfortunate and further deepened the rift between Telangana and other regions. The proponents of separate Andhra Pradesh viewed their demand as logical in light of the separate Telangana movement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 58], "content_span": [59, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094034-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Jai Andhra movement, The movement\nUnder the Mulki rules in force at the time, anyone who had lived in Hyderabad for 15 years was considered a local, and was thus eligible for certain government posts. When the Supreme Court upheld the Mulki rules at the end of 1972, the Jai Andhra movement, with the aim of re-forming a separate state of Andhra, was started in Coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema regions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094034-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Jai Andhra movement, The movement\nIn 1972, Gouthu Latchanna took a leading role in the Jai Andhra movement started by students of Andhra University demanding the division of Andhra Pradesh into old Andhra state and Telangana state on the issue of \"Mulkhi\" rules. He was imprisoned in Mushirabad Central Jail and released in 1973. All the ministers hailing from the Andhra region in the PV Narasimha Rao Govt. resigned, and formed a parallel Government with Vijayawada as the Capital. BV Subba Reddy was elected as the Chief Minister and Kakani Venkataratnam was the Deputy CM. The parallel govt was run for a few months, even after the PV Narasimha Rao Govt. was replaced by President's rule. The movement subsided only after Indira Gandhi came up with the 6-point formula to resolve the crisis to everyone's satisfaction.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 827]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094034-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Jai Andhra movement, Police firing\nThirteen people killed in 3 places in Andhra on 21 November during the bandh call given by student body. In the police firing eight people were killed on 23 December in Vijayawada. Kakani Venkataratnam, a former minister, died of shock at the height of separate Andhra agitation on 25 December 1972, when eight people were killed in police firing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094034-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Jai Andhra movement, Aftermath\nRemoval of Mulkhi rules and all other demands were met and a six-point formula was put in place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094034-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Jai Andhra movement, Aftermath\nAfter nine ministers from Seemandhra region in the P. V. Narasimha Rao cabinet resigned, he had to resign as Chief minister of Andhra Pradesh on 10 January 1973, and President's rule was imposed in the state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094035-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Jakarta Anniversary Tournament\nThe 1972 Jakarta Anniversary Tournament was an invitational association football tournament held from June 5 to 20 in Jakarta, Indonesia. Ten teams participated in that edition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094036-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Jamaican general election\nGeneral elections were held in Jamaica on 29 February 1972. The result was a victory for the People's National Party, which won 37 of the 53 seats. Voter turnout was 78.9%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094037-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly election\nElections for the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir were held over January 1972. Syed Mir Qasim was appointed Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir. For the first time, women entered the Jammu and Kashmir assembly in the 1972 assembly elections. That year, ten women filed their nominations, six of them contested and four won. This made the percentage of women legislators 5.33% in the Jammu Kashmir assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094037-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly election, Aftermath\nIn 1971 an insurrection broke out in erstwhile East Pakistan, and subsequently war broke out between India and Pakistan which ended in the creation of Bangladesh. Sheikh Abdullah, watching the alarming turn of events in the subcontinent, realized that for the survival of this region there was an urgent need to stop pursuing confrontational politics and promoting the solution of issues by a process of reconciliation and dialogue rather than confrontation. Critics of the sheikh hold the view that he sold the goal of a plebiscite for gaining the chief minister's chair.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 63], "content_span": [64, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094037-0001-0001", "contents": "1972 Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly election, Aftermath\nHe started talks with Prime Minister Indira Gandhi for normalizing the situation in the region and came to an accord called 1974 Indira-Sheikh accord by giving up the demand for a plebiscite instead of the people being given the right to self-rule by a democratically elected government (as envisaged under article 370 of the Constitution of India) rather than the puppet government which till then ruled. Syed Mir Qasim most famously offered to resign from the office of the chief minister to encourage and institutionalize the landmark 1974 Indira-Sheikh accord in 1975.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 63], "content_span": [64, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094038-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Japan Series\nThe 1972 Japan Series was the 23rd edition of Nippon Professional Baseball's postseason championship series. It matched the Central League champion Yomiuri Giants against the Pacific League champion Hankyu Braves. This was the fifth time in the last six years that the two teams had met in the Japan Series, with the Giants having won all previous matchups. The Giants defeated the Braves in five games to win their eighth consecutive title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094039-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Japan Soccer League\nThe 1972 season in Japanese football introduced a Second Division to the Japan Soccer League. Nine clubs were chosen from the 1971 Japanese Regional Leagues; when Nagoya Mutual Bank resigned from the League, a tenth club was chosen from the Kansai League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094039-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Japan Soccer League, League tables, JSL First Division\nNo relegation took place as the First Division was being expanded to 10 clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 59], "content_span": [60, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094039-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Japan Soccer League, League tables, JSL Second Division\nToyota Motors, later one of the Japanese big names as Nagoya Grampus, was crowned the inaugural Second Division champion. Tanabe Pharmaceutical, a club from Osaka, followed them into the expanded 10-team First Division. No relegations took place, to keep the Second Division at 10 clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 60], "content_span": [61, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094040-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Japan national football team\nThis page records the details of the Japan national football team in 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094042-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Japanese general election\nGeneral elections were held in Japan on 10 December 1972. The result was a victory for the Liberal Democratic Party, which won 271 of the 491 seats. Voter turnout was 71.76%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094043-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 John Player League\nThe 1972 John Player League was the fourth competing of what was generally known as the Sunday League. The competition was won for the first time by Kent County Cricket Club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094045-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 KFK competitions (Ukraine)\nThe 1972 KFK competitions in Ukraine were part of the 1972 Soviet KFK competitions that were conducted in the Soviet Union. It was 9th season of the KFK in Ukraine since its introduction in 1964.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094045-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 KFK competitions (Ukraine), Promotion\nNone of KFK teams were promoted to the 1973 Soviet Second League, Zone 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094045-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 KFK competitions (Ukraine), Promotion\nHowever, to the Class B were promoted following teams that did not participate in the KFK competitions:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094046-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Kansas City Chiefs season\nThe 1972 Kansas City Chiefs season was the franchise's 3rd season in the National Football League, the 10th as the Kansas City Chiefs, and the 13th overall. It would begin with the Chiefs moving into the newly constructed Arrowhead Stadium and ended with an 8\u20136 record and second-place finish in the AFC West.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094046-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Kansas City Chiefs season\nThe Chiefs introduced the newly completed Arrowhead Stadium to the general public. The last original member of the 1960 Dallas Texans team departed on July 12 when safety Johnny Robinson announced his retirement at training camp. Meanwhile, starting quarterback Len Dawson ended speculation about his retirement by signing a two-year contract. Franchise owner Lamar Hunt became the first AFL figure to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame on July 29.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094046-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Kansas City Chiefs season\nAfter two different construction strikes and a myriad of other delays, Arrowhead Stadium was officially dedicated on August 12, when the Chiefs registered a 24\u201314 preseason victory against the St. Louis Cardinals. Running back Ed Podolak scored the first touchdown in the facility. Regular season ticket prices for the team's first season at Arrowhead were USD$8 for box seats and $7 for reserved seating.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094046-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Kansas City Chiefs season\nOn September 17, the Chiefs lost a 20\u201310 decision against Miami (the first win in Miami's perfect season) in the first official game at the new Arrowhead Stadium, in front of a crowd of 79,829. A standing-room-only crowd of 82,094 was in attendance for a 27\u201314 victory against Oakland on November 5, the largest \u201cin-house\u201d attendance total for an NFL contest in Arrowhead's history. After a 5\u20133 start, a three-game losing streak effectively eliminated the club from playoff contention. An 8\u20136 record was only good enough for a second-place finish in the AFC West behind Oakland. Linebacker Willie Lanier became the first Chiefs player to receive the prestigious NFL Man of the Year Award in the offseason.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 736]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094046-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Kansas City Chiefs season\nIn week six, the Chiefs dropped a shocking 21\u201320 decision at home to the lowly Philadelphia Eagles, who entered the game 0\u20135 and would win only once more (also a one-point victory over the Houston Oilers, who finished 1\u201313). It would be the only time the Chiefs and Eagles met until 1992, and Kansas City would never visit Philadelphia before 1998.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094047-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Kansas City Royals season\nThe 1972 Kansas City Royals season was their fourth in Major League Baseball. The Royals finished fourth in the American League West at 76-78, 16 1/2 games behind the Oakland Athletics. John Mayberry, in his first season with Kansas City, led the team with 25 home runs and 100 runs batted in. Mayberry was the first Royals player to drive in at least 100 runs in a season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094047-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Kansas City Royals season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 75], "content_span": [76, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094047-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Kansas City Royals season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 68], "content_span": [69, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094047-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Kansas City Royals season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 73], "content_span": [74, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094047-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Kansas City Royals season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 70], "content_span": [71, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094047-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Kansas City Royals season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 71], "content_span": [72, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094048-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Kansas Jayhawks football team\nThe 1972 Kansas Jayhawks football team represented the University of Kansas in the Big Eight Conference during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. In their second season under head coach Don Fambrough, the Jayhawks compiled a 4\u20137 record (2\u20135 against conference opponents), finished in seventh place in the conference, and were outscored by opponents by a combined total of 305 to 208. They played their home games at Memorial Stadium in Lawrence, Kansas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094048-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Kansas Jayhawks football team\nThe team's statistical leaders included David Jaynes with 2,253 passing yards, Jerome Nellums with 684 rushing yards and Bruce Adams with 704 receiving yards. Don Perkins and Pat Ryan were the team captains.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094049-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Kansas State Wildcats football team\nThe 1972 Kansas State Wildcats football team represented Kansas State University in the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. The team's head football coach was Vince Gibson. The Wildcats played their home games in KSU Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094050-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Kansas gubernatorial election\nThe 1972 Kansas gubernatorial election was held on November 7, 1972. Incumbent Democrat Robert Docking defeated Republican nominee Morris Kay with 62.0% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094051-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Kent State Golden Flashes football team\nThe 1972 Kent State Golden Flashes football team represented Kent State University in the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. The Golden Flashes offense scored 191 points while the defense allowed 196 points. Led by head coach Don James, the Golden Flashes participated in the Tangerine Bowl. Future college head coaches Nick Saban (Alabama) and Gary Pinkel (Missouri) played on the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094052-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Kentucky Derby\nThe 1972 Kentucky Derby was the 98th running of the Kentucky Derby. The race took place on May 6, 1972, with 130,564 people in attendance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094053-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Kentucky Wildcats football team\nThe 1972 Kentucky Wildcats football team represented the University of Kentucky in the Southeastern Conference during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094054-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 1972 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship was the 78th staging of the Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Kilkenny County Board. The draw for the first-round fixtures took place on 2 March 1972. The championship began on 14 May 1972 and ended on 29 October 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094054-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship\nFenians won the championship after a 3-10 to 1-06 defeat of Bennettsbridge in the final. It was their second championship title overall and their first in two championship seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094055-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 King's Cup\nThe 1972 King's Cup finals were held from November 18 to November 28, 1972, once again in Bangkok. This was the 5th edition of the international football competition. South Korea were set to defend the title they won in 1969, 1970 and 1971", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094055-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 King's Cup\nThe tournaments schedule was changed from previous editions and only featured one group with 5 teams. The winners and runners up entered a final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094056-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Kingston-upon-Thames by-election\nThe Kingston-upon-Thames by-election of 4 May 1972 was held after Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) John Boyd-Carpenter was appointed chairman of the Civil Aviation Authority. The seat was retained by the Conservatives, with Norman Lamont winning. He held the seat for 25 years until it was abolished in 1997. (Lamont is best known for serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer 1990\u20131993, during the Premiership of John Major.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094057-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 K\u00f6nigs Wusterhausen air disaster\nThe 1972 K\u00f6nigs Wusterhausen air disaster occurred on 14 August when an Interflug Ilyushin Il-62 crashed shortly after take-off from Berlin-Sch\u00f6nefeld Airport in Sch\u00f6nefeld, East Germany, on a holiday charter flight to Burgas, Bulgaria. The accident was caused by a fire in the aft cargo bay. All 156 passengers and crew died. To date, it is the deadliest aviation accident in Germany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094057-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 K\u00f6nigs Wusterhausen air disaster, Aircraft and crew\nThe aircraft was a Soviet-built Ilyushin IL-62 aircraft, registered DM-SEA, powered by four Kuznetsov NK-8 engines. It first flew in April 1970, and up until the accident had acquired 3,520 flight-time hours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 56], "content_span": [57, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094057-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 K\u00f6nigs Wusterhausen air disaster, Aircraft and crew\nThe aircrew consisted of 51-year-old captain Heinz Pfaff, 35-year-old first officer Lothar Walther, 32-year-old flight engineer Ingolf Stein, and 38-year-old navigator Achim Flilenius. The flight crew members had 8,100, 6,041, 2,258, and 8,570 hours of experience, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 56], "content_span": [57, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094057-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 K\u00f6nigs Wusterhausen air disaster, Crash\nThe Interflug flight left Berlin-Sch\u00f6nefeld Airport at 16:30 local time. Because of the summer holiday, the number of passengers \u2013 mainly tourists bound for the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast \u2013 almost reached the full capacity of the airliner. Takeoff proceeded normally, and the aircraft then headed southeast towards Czechoslovakia, now the Czech Republic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 44], "content_span": [45, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094057-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 K\u00f6nigs Wusterhausen air disaster, Crash\nAt 16:43, thirteen minutes into the flight and 8,900 metres (29,200\u00a0ft) above the city of Cottbus, East Germany, the crew reported problems with the elevator; the aircraft was by this time approximately 10 degrees off its designated route. The flight requested a return to Sch\u00f6nefeld but didn't think the situation critical enough for an immediate landing at the nearest airport. At 16:51, the crew carried out a fuel dump to decrease landing weight. Meanwhile, flight attendants reported smoke in the rear section of the cabin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 44], "content_span": [45, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094057-0004-0001", "contents": "1972 K\u00f6nigs Wusterhausen air disaster, Crash\nWith Berlin-Sch\u00f6nefeld Airport already in sight a few kilometres south, the flight issued a mayday at 16:59:25, indicating problems controlling the aircraft's altitude. At this time, the flight crew was likely unaware that the fire had been consuming portions of the rear of the aircraft. A few seconds later, the tail section, weakened by the fire, separated from the aircraft, causing it to enter an uncontrolled descent. Due to the forces of the dive, the rest of the aircraft broke up in mid-air, the debris landing in the town of K\u00f6nigs Wusterhausen, East Germany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 44], "content_span": [45, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094057-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 K\u00f6nigs Wusterhausen air disaster, Cause\nThe pilot's last messages suggested that a fire in the rear of the aircraft was responsible for the accident. This part of the aircraft was not accessible from the cabin and had no smoke detectors, so the crew was unable to immediately grasp the severity of the situation. The fire was caused by a hot-air tube leak, through which air heated to some 300\u00a0\u00b0C (570\u00a0\u00b0F) escaped, damaging the insulation of electrical wires and the aircraft flight control system. After takeoff, the resulting short circuit caused 2,000\u00a0\u00b0C (3,600\u00a0\u00b0F) sparks, lighting a fire in Cargo Bay 4. The fire then spread until smoke reached the passenger cabin and the fuselage was weakened. Ultimately, the tail section failed in flight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 44], "content_span": [45, 752]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094057-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 K\u00f6nigs Wusterhausen air disaster, Memorial\nAt the Wildau Cemetery, close to K\u00f6nigs Wusterhausen, a memorial commemorates the victims whose names are written on a black stone marker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094058-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 LFF Lyga\nThe 1972 LFF Lyga was the 51st season of the LFF Lyga football competition in Lithuania. It was contested by 15 teams, and Nevezis Kedainiai won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094059-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 LPGA Championship\nThe 1972 LPGA Championship was the 18th LPGA Championship, held June 8\u201311 at Pleasant Valley Country Club in Sutton, Massachusetts, southeast of Worcester.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094059-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 LPGA Championship\nKathy Ahern shot a final round 69 (\u22124) to win her only major title, six strokes ahead of runner-up Jane Blalock. Ahern began the final round with a one-stroke lead over three players; after five straight birdies on the front nine, she had a six-stroke lead and shot even par on the final nine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094059-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 LPGA Championship\nThree weeks later, Ahern was a runner-up by a stroke at the U.S. Women's Open at Winged Foot, then won the week after at the George Washington Classic near Philadelphia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094060-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 LPGA Tour\nThe 1972 LPGA Tour was the 23rd season since the LPGA Tour officially began in 1950. The season ran from January 5 to November 5. The season consisted of 29 official money events. Kathy Whitworth won the most tournaments, five. Whitworth led the money list with earnings of $65,063.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094060-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 LPGA Tour\nThe season saw the first tournament with a $100,000 purse, the Dinah Shore Colgate Winner's Circle ($110,000). It also saw the first player to win over $50,000 in a season, Whitworth. There were two first-time winners in 1972: Betty Burfeindt and Betsy Cullen. This season saw the return, for 1972 only, of the LPGA major, the Titleholders Championship. It also saw the last of Betsy Rawls' 55 LPGA wins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094060-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 LPGA Tour, Tournament results\nThe following table shows all the official money events for the 1972 season. \"Date\" is the ending date of the tournament. The numbers in parentheses after the winners' names are the number of wins they had on the tour up to and including that event. Majors are shown in bold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094060-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 LPGA Tour, Jane Blalock suspension and lawsuit\nAfter she finished the second round of the Bluegrass Invitational held in Louisville, Kentucky, Jane Blalock was disqualified for signing an incorrect scorecard. Tourney director Gene McAuliff said Blalock did not mark her ball properly on the 17th green and then failed to take a two-stroke penalty for the infraction as required.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 51], "content_span": [52, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094060-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 LPGA Tour, Jane Blalock suspension and lawsuit\nLess than two weeks later, the LPGA executive board suspended Blalock for one year \"for actions inconsistent with the code of ethics of the organization\". The executive board claimed Blalock had been under suspicion for over a year, that she had moved her ball illegally on multiple occasions and that there were witnesses to these happenings, plus that Blalock had admitted to her guilt. Twenty-seven other LPGA Tour players signed a petition arguing that probation, a fine, and disqualification from the Louisville tournament were not enough punishment. LPGA Executive Director Bud Erickson asked Blalock to feign a back injury so to avoid bad publicity but she refused.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 51], "content_span": [52, 724]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094060-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 LPGA Tour, Jane Blalock suspension and lawsuit\nFellow LPGA Tour golfer Sandra Palmer defended Blalock. In addition to saying she had never seen Blalock commit any rules violations, Palmer stated she didn't understand why the alleged infractions weren't reported at the time they happened and why other players signed Blalock's scorecards without reporting the incidents. Palmer also said, \"If you see an infraction of the rules, you should point it out immediately. You don't wait until three years later to report something. Once you've signed that card, you're as guilty as the person who committed the violation.\" The LPGA executive went on to warn Palmer in regards to her statements. Palmer was also placed on probation for one year by the LPGA Tour and ordered not to make further statements of support for Jane Blalock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 51], "content_span": [52, 832]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094060-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 LPGA Tour, Jane Blalock suspension and lawsuit\nJane Blalock filed a lawsuit against the LPGA Tour. In the suit, Blalock's lawyers motioned the court asking that Blalock be allowed to continue playing while the suit was resolved. U.S. District Court Judge Charles A. Moye Jr. granted the motion. Moye did however rule that any money Blalock earned while her case was being resolved would be placed in a court trust. Blalock went on to win two more times in 1972, at the Dallas Civitan Open and the Lady Errol Classic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 51], "content_span": [52, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094061-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 LSU Tigers football team\nThe 1972 LSU Tigers football team represented Louisiana State University during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094061-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 LSU Tigers football team\nLSU and Southeastern Conference rival Ole Miss became the last major universities to desegregate their varsity football squads this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094061-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 LSU Tigers football team\nLSU introduced a new helmet logo, a tiger head above the letters \"LSU\" inside a purple circle, a logo which was used through 1976. Also, player names were placed on jerseys for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094061-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 LSU Tigers football team, Season summary, Ole Miss\nBert Jones set school career records for completions, touchdowns and total offense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094062-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 La Fl\u00e8che Wallonne\nThe 1972 La Fl\u00e8che Wallonne was the 36th edition of La Fl\u00e8che Wallonne cycle race and was held on 23 April 1972. The race started in Verviers and finished in Marcinelle. The race was won by Eddy Merckx of the Molteni team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094063-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Labour Party Shadow Cabinet election\nElections to the Labour Party's Shadow Cabinet (more formally, its \"Parliamentary Committee\") occurred in November 1972. In addition to the 12 members elected, the Leader (Harold Wilson), Deputy Leader (Edward Short), Labour Chief Whip (Bob Mellish), Chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party (Douglas Houghton), Labour Leader in the House of Lords (Baron Shackleton), and Labour Chief Whip in the Lords (Baron Beswick) were automatically members. The Labour Lords elected one further member, Baron Champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094063-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Labour Party Shadow Cabinet election\nThere was a tie for twelfth place, which required a run-off election between Peter Shore and John Silkin. However, Silkin withdrew, leaving Shore to take the final place in the cabinet, without an election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094064-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Labour Party deputy leadership election\nThe 1972 Labour Party deputy leadership election took place in April 1972 after Roy Jenkins resigned as deputy leader over the decision to hold a referendum on Britain's entry into the Common Market.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094064-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Labour Party deputy leadership election\nEdward Short, formerly Education Secretary in the government of Harold Wilson, was regarded as a \"unity\" candidate, and won the election over his main rival, the left-winger Michael Foot, who had unsuccessfully stood for the deputy leadership in 1970 and 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094064-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Labour Party deputy leadership election, Results\nAs a result of the first round, Crosland was eliminated. The remaining two candidates would face each other in a second round. The next day's The Glasgow Herald reported that both Short and Crosland attracted more votes than had been expected and that Short was the favourite to pick up most of Crosland's votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 53], "content_span": [54, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094064-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Labour Party deputy leadership election, Results\nReporting on the result, The Glasgow Herald's political correspondent John Warden stated that Short was \"reckoned to be the least divisive of the three candidates for the post\". The same report noted that Short called for \"unity and toleration in the Labour Party\" in the wake of his victory. An editorial in the same newspaper argued the result was a foregone conclusion after the first ballot, but warned that be settling for a compromise candidate \"Labour may not have solved their difficulties\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 53], "content_span": [54, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094064-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Labour Party deputy leadership election, References, Sources\nThis United Kingdom election-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 65], "content_span": [66, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094065-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Lafayette Leopards football team\nThe 1972 Lafayette Leopards football team was an American football team that represented Lafayette College as an independent during the 1972 NCAA College Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094065-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Lafayette Leopards football team\nIn their second year under head coach Neil Putnam, the Leopards compiled a 3\u20137 record. Steven Huntzinger and Donald Meyer were the team captains.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094065-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Lafayette Leopards football team\nLafayette played its home games at Fisher Field on College Hill in Easton, Pennsylvania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094066-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Lake Winnebago mid-air collision\nOn June 29, 1972, North Central Airlines Flight 290 collided in mid-air with Air Wisconsin Flight 671 over Lake Winnebago near Appleton, Wisconsin, in the United States. Both aircraft crashed into the lake, killing all 13 people on board.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094066-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Lake Winnebago mid-air collision, Flight history, North Central Airlines Flight 290\nNorth Central Airlines Flight 290 was a regularly scheduled flight which usually originated in Houghton, Michigan, and stopped at Ironwood, Michigan, and Green Bay, Oshkosh, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, before terminating at Chicago, Illinois. On June 29, 1972, bad weather in northern Michigan necessitated cancellation of the Houghton-Ironwood and Ironwood-Green Bay legs, and the flight originated at Green Bay, using a replacement crew sent from Chicago to Green Bay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 88], "content_span": [89, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094066-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Lake Winnebago mid-air collision, Flight history, North Central Airlines Flight 290\nThe flight, a Convair CV-580, departed Green Bay at around 10:30\u00a0a.m. CDT, proceeding to Oshkosh under visual flight rules (VFR). At 10:36:11\u00a0a.m. CDT, the air traffic controller at Oshkosh cleared Flight 290 to land. The flight crew's acknowledgment five seconds later was the last communication with North Central Flight 290.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 88], "content_span": [89, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094066-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Lake Winnebago mid-air collision, Flight history, Air Wisconsin Flight 671\nAir Wisconsin Flight 671 was a regularly scheduled flight from Chicago, Illinois, to Appleton, Wisconsin, with a stopover at Sheboygan County Memorial Airport west of Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Operating a de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter, it departed Chicago at 9:28\u00a0a.m. CDT on June 29, 1972, bound for Sheboygan under an instrument flight rules (IFR) plan; en route, the flight crew abandoned its IFR plan and completed the first leg of the flight under VFR.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 79], "content_span": [80, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094066-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Lake Winnebago mid-air collision, Flight history, Air Wisconsin Flight 671\nThe flight departed Sheboygan 13 minutes late, at 10:23\u00a0a.m. CDT, bound for Appleton, operating under VFR. At about 10:30\u00a0a.m. CDT, the flight crew contacted the Air Wisconsin office in Appleton, stating that they anticipated arriving at Appleton at 10:44\u00a0a.m. CDT. This was the last communication with Air Wisconsin Flight 671.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 79], "content_span": [80, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094066-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Lake Winnebago mid-air collision, Collision\nOperating in bright sunshine beneath a scattered cloud layer, Flights 290 and 671 collided at 10:36:47\u00a0a.m. CDT over Wisconsin's Lake Winnebago about 6 nautical miles (6.9\u00a0mi; 11\u00a0km) south of Appleton and 2.5 nautical miles (2.9\u00a0mi; 4.6\u00a0km) east of Neenah, Wisconsin, at an altitude of about 2,500 feet (762 m). A mid-air explosion and fire ensued, and both aircraft crashed into the lake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 48], "content_span": [49, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094066-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Lake Winnebago mid-air collision, Collision\nThe National Transportation Safety Board noted that the North Central crew would have had to look toward the sun to see the approaching Air Wisconsin plane and concluded that they took no evasive action. Some eyewitnesses believed that the Air Wisconsin Twin Otter began a turn seconds before the collision, but the NTSB did not find sufficient evidence to conclude that the Air Wisconsin crew took evasive action. The rate of closure during the final five seconds before the collision was 688\u00a0ft/s (469\u00a0mph; 755\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 48], "content_span": [49, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094066-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Lake Winnebago mid-air collision, Aircraft\nThe North Central aircraft involved, N50858, had been completed as a Convair CV-340/440 on May 25, 1953; it later was converted to CV-580 standard. The Air Wisconsin Twin Otter had been completed on October 6, 1966. Both aircraft were destroyed by the collision and subsequent water impact. Their wreckage was found on the lake bottom scattered over an area roughly one mile (1.6\u00a0km) long by one-half mile (0.8\u00a0km) wide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094066-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 Lake Winnebago mid-air collision, Casualties\nThe North Central plane had two passengers and a crew of three \u2013 Captain James Cuzzort, First Officer Alton Laabs, and Flight Attendant Frances Rabb; on board, while the Air Wisconsin flight was carrying six passengers and a crew of two \u2013 Captain David Jacobs and First Officer Michael Gaffin. All 13 people aboard the two planes died in the collision and subsequent crash, and the NTSB observed that the accident was not survivable.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094066-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 Lake Winnebago mid-air collision, Investigation\nThe National Transportation Safety Board released its report on the accident on April 25, 1973. It was \"unable to determine why each crew failed to see and avoid the other aircraft,\" and concluded that the crash resulted from \"the failure of both flight crews to detect visually the other aircraft in sufficient time to initiate evasive action,\" and stated that it believed \"that the ability of both crews to detect the other aircraft in time to avoid a collision was reduced because of the atmospheric conditions and human visual limitations.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 52], "content_span": [53, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094066-0009-0001", "contents": "1972 Lake Winnebago mid-air collision, Investigation\nThe NTSB speculated that both flight crews could have been scanning instruments in preparation for descent to their respective destinations at the time of the collision, and this could have reduced their chances of spotting one another. The report also noted that the decision by both flight crews to fly under VFR rather than IFR and the fact that neither captain requested in-flight advisories deprived both aircraft of air traffic control support, and that such support to even one of the aircraft would have ensured sufficient separation to avoid a collision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 52], "content_span": [53, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094066-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 Lake Winnebago mid-air collision, Investigation\nThe NTSB recommended that the Federal Aviation Administration create a standardized method for training and grading flight crews in visual search techniques and time-sharing between instrument checks and visual searches, and that the FAA expedite the development of anticollision systems.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 52], "content_span": [53, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094067-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Lamar Cardinals football team\nThe 1972 Lamar Cardinals football team represented Lamar University in the 1972 NCAA College Division football season as a member of the Southland Conference. The Cardinals played their home games at Cardinal Stadium now named Provost Umphrey Stadium in Beaumont, Texas. The team finished the season with an 8\u20133 overall record and a 3\u20132 conference record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094068-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Language violence in Sindh\n1972 Language violence in Sindh occurred starting on 7 July 1972 when the Sindh Assembly passed The Sind Teaching, Promotion and Use of Sindhi Language Bill, 1972 which established Sindhi language as the sole official language of the province resulting in language violence in Sindh, Pakistan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094068-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Language violence in Sindh\nThe proclamation of Sindhi as the official language of Sindh caused the Daily Jang, an Urdu language newspaper in Karachi, to publish a full-page story on their front page surrounded by a banner with the statement \"Urdu ka janaza hai zara dhoom se nikle\" (It is the funeral of Urdu thus should be a flaunting one) by Rais Amrohvi. Due to the clashes, Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto compromised and announced that Urdu and Sindhi will both be official languages of Sindh. The making of Sindhi as an equal language to Urdu for official purposes frustrated the Urdu-speaking people as they did not speak the Sindhi language.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 657]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094069-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Laotian parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections were held in Laos on 2 January 1972 to elect members of the National Assembly, the lower chamber of Parliament. The elections were contested by around 200 candidates, and more than two-thirds of incumbent MPs lost their seats. Voter turnout was 67.8%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094069-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Laotian parliamentary election\nThis would be the last election held in Laos before the Communists seized power in 1975. To date, it is also the last contested election held in the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094070-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Latvian SSR Higher League\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by Frietjes (talk | contribs) at 16:16, 17 February 2020 (\u2192\u200eLeague standings). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094070-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Latvian SSR Higher League, Overview\nIt was contested by 13 teams, and Jurnieks won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094071-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Lebanese general election\nGeneral elections were held in Lebanon between 16 and 30 April 1972. Independent candidates won the majority of seats, although most of them were considered members of various blocs. Voter turnout was 54.4%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094071-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Lebanese general election, Background\nAccording to the 1960 constitution, the 99 seats were divided amongst ethnic and religious groups:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094071-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Lebanese general election, Results\nThe majority of MPs \u2013 63 of the 100 \u2013 were elected as independents. However, 52 of them were considered to be members of parliamentary blocs, including 9 in the Faranjiyyah bloc, 9 in the Skaff bloc, 7 in the Assad bloc (which also included the 2 Democratic Socialist Party MPs), 7 in the Karami bloc, 6 in the Hamada bloc, 4 in the Armenian Revolutionary Federation block (which also included the party's single MP), 4 in the Arslan bloc, 3 in the Jumblatt bloc (which also included the five Progressive Socialist Party MPs) and 3 in the Salam bloc.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 590]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094072-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Lebanese general election in Beirut III\nVoting to elect five members of the Lebanese parliament took place in the Beirut III district (one of three electoral districts in the city) in 1972, as part of the national general election of that year. Beirut III, consisting of the predominantly Muslim part of the city, had 4 Sunni Muslim seats and 1 Greek Orthodox seat (for more information about the Lebanese election system, see Elections in Lebanon).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094072-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Lebanese general election in Beirut III\nThe election in Beirut III was fiercely contested, with small margins between winning and losing sides. Two lists of candidates were in the fray in Beirut III, a list led by incumbent Prime Minister of Lebanon Saeb Salam and a list led by former Prime Minister Abdallah El-Yafi. There were also a number of independent candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094072-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Lebanese general election in Beirut III\nThe election of Nasserist politician Najah Wakim, a leader of the Union of Working People's Forces, for the Greek Orthodox seat was one of the big surprises of the 1972 election. He did not run on any of the major lists, but Wakim unseated the veteran Greek Orthodox politician Nasim Majdalani. The Greek Orthodox community held a demonstration protesting against Wakim's election, arguing that he had been elected by Sunni voters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094072-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Lebanese general election in Beirut III, Results\nIn addition to the candidates in the table above, there were eight Sunni and three Greek Orthodox candidates that each received less than 4,000 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 53], "content_span": [54, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094073-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Leeds City Council election\nThe final Leeds municipal elections were held on 5 May 1972, with a third of the councillors up for re-election. The wide-reaching reforms set out in the Local Government Act 1972 had scheduled the council's abolition to coincide with its replacement by the enlarged successor Leeds metropolitan district on 1 April 1974. Prior to the election, a by-election had resulted in Labour gaining the seat in Castleton from the Liberals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094073-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Leeds City Council election\nLabour repeated all of the gains of the previous year's gains (in the 1971 Leeds City Council election), with the exceptions of the Castleton and Osmondthorpe seats - both of which they already held; the latter being their solitary gain in the 1969 election. Much like Labour's performance in the 1969 election, the Conservatives halted their decline - at least in vote share (like Labour, their total vote actually fell a further 5,000, setting a new party low). Having won full representation in West Hunslet, the Liberals defended the seat and retained their total of four. Turnout fell to 34.4%, from 37.8% the year before.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 660]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094073-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Leeds City Council election\nThe reaction from the Labour leader, Albert King, was one of contentment: \"This is a satisfactory evening for us, and the gains were more or less in line with what I expected\". The Conservatives meanwhile were reported to be relieved, with their leader Frank Marshall commenting that the results were better than expected a couple of months ago, and pointing to a significantly reduced Labour vote in Burley from the year before as a reason for optimism for the future.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094073-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Leeds City Council election\nThe sixteen gains for Labour were enough to re-take control of the council from the Conservatives for its last years of existence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094073-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Leeds City Council election, Election result\nThe result had the following consequences for the total number of seats on the Council after the elections:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094074-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Lehigh Engineers football team\nThe 1972 Lehigh Engineers football team was an American football team that represented Lehigh University as an independent during the 1972 NCAA College Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094074-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Lehigh Engineers football team\nIn their eighth year under head coach Fred Dunlap, the Engineers compiled a 5\u20136 record. Tom Benfield and Brian Derwin were the team captains.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094074-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Lehigh Engineers football team\nAfter a decisive victory over Hofstra to start the season, the Engineers briefly appeared in the national NCAA College Division coaches poll, ranking No. 12. A loss to No. 1 Delaware in their second matchup dropped them to No. 20, and a loss the next week to Rutgers pushed Lehigh out of the top 20 altogether. Lehigh remained unranked the rest of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094074-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Lehigh Engineers football team\nLehigh played its home games at Taylor Stadium on the university campus in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094075-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Liberal Party of Australia leadership election\nAn election for the leadership of the Liberal Party of Australia took place on 20 December 1972, following former Prime Minister William McMahon's resignation after his defeat at the 1972 federal election. Billy Snedden was successful in winning the leadership, narrowly beating Nigel Bowen by 30 votes to 29 on the fifth ballot. The previous ballot was tied at 29 each, with one MP not voting. James Killen, John Gorton, and Malcolm Fraser had earlier been eliminated from contention, in that order.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094077-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Liberian constitutional referendum\nA constitutional referendum was held in Liberia on 4 April 1972. The changes to the constitution would lower the voting age from 21 to 18, and had been announced by President William Tolbert shortly after taking office. On 15 February the date of the referendum was set to coincide with a by-election for the Vice Presidency. The change required a two-thirds majority in favour, and was approved by voters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094078-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Liberty Bowl\nThe 1972 Liberty Bowl was a college football postseason bowl game played on December 18, 1972, in Memphis, Tennessee. In the 14th edition of the Liberty Bowl, the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets defeated the Iowa State Cyclones, 31\u201330.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094078-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Liberty Bowl, Background\nThe Cyclones finished 5th in the Big Eight Conference, after falling from 8\u20134 to 5\u20135\u20131 in their second straight bowl appearance. The Yellow Jackets were in a bowl for the third straight year under first year head coach Bill Fulcher. This was the first Liberty Bowl for both teams. The game was nationally televised in primetime on ABC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094078-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Liberty Bowl, Game summary\nAn Iowa State fumble led to a Cam Bonifay field goal to make it 3-0 Georgia Tech less than two minutes into the game. Iowa State responded with two touchdowns in the first quarter, one of them on a George Amundson touchdown pass and the other on a Moses Moore touchdown run. Jimmy Robinson caught a touchdown pass from backup quarterback Jim Stevens to make it 14-9 midway through the second quarter. Gary Faulkner returned an interception for a touchdown to make it 17-14 with 1:46 remaining in the 1st half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 31], "content_span": [32, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094078-0002-0001", "contents": "1972 Liberty Bowl, Game summary\nBut on the ensuing kickoff return, Moore returned it 93 yards for a touchdown to make it 21-17 at halftime. Rob Healy caught a touchdown pass from Stevens to make it 24-21 Georgia Tech. Iowa State responded with a Goedjen field goal with 1:40 remaining in the third to make it a 24-24 tie going into the final quarter. Kevin McNamara caught a touchdown pass from Stevens to make it 31-24 with 11:28 remaining. On a pitchout pass attempt by Stevens, the Cyclones recovered the ball at the Jacket 33 with the chance to tie/win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 31], "content_span": [32, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094078-0002-0002", "contents": "1972 Liberty Bowl, Game summary\nAn Ike Harris touchdown from George Amundson had made it 31-30 with 1:36 to go. But on the ensuing two-point conversion, Amundson threw the ball away, and Mark Fields recovered the ensuing onside kick for Georgia Tech to clinch the game. Jim Stevens completed 12 of 15 passes for 157 yards and three touchdowns and was named Most Valuable Player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 31], "content_span": [32, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094078-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Liberty Bowl, Aftermath\nMajors announced that he would leave Iowa State to coach Pittsburgh, and he was replaced by Earle Bruce. Fulcher left Georgia Tech the following season. While Georgia Tech has not returned to the Liberty Bowl since this game, Iowa State returned in 2012 and 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 28], "content_span": [29, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094079-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Liechtenstein Landtag size referendum\nA referendum on increasing the number of members of the Landtag from 15 to 21 was held in Liechtenstein on 2 July 1972. As happened in 1945, the proposal was rejected by voters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094080-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito season\nLiga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito's 1972 season was the club's 42nd year of existence, the 19th year in professional football and the 13th in the top level of professional football in Ecuador.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094081-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 1972 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship was the 78th staging of the Limerick Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Limerick County Board in 1887.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094081-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship\nOn 10 December 1972, South Liberties won the championship after a 4-08 to 1-05 defeat of Patrickswell in the final. It was their fourth championship title overall and their first championship title since 1890.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094082-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Little League World Series\nThe 1972 Little League World Series took place between August 22 and August 26 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. The Taipei Little League of Taipei City, Taiwan, defeated the Edison Little League of Hammond, Indiana, in the championship game of the 26th Little League World Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094083-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Liverpool City Council election\nElections to Liverpool City Council were held on 3 May 1972. One seat in each of the forty wards was up for election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094083-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Liverpool City Council election, Ward results\nThis data is compared with the election results for 1969, when the councillors were elected for a three-year term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 50], "content_span": [51, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094084-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Li\u00e8ge\u2013Bastogne\u2013Li\u00e8ge\nThe 1972 Li\u00e8ge\u2013Bastogne\u2013Li\u00e8ge was the 58th edition of the Li\u00e8ge\u2013Bastogne\u2013Li\u00e8ge cycle race and was held on 20 April 1972. The race started and finished in Li\u00e8ge. The race was won by Eddy Merckx of the Molteni team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094085-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Long Beach State 49ers football team\nThe 1972 Long Beach State 49ers football team represented California State University, Long Beach during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094085-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Long Beach State 49ers football team\nCal State Long Beach competed in the Pacific Coast Athletic Association. The team was led by fourth year head coach Jim Stangeland, and played the majority of their home games at Anaheim Stadium in Anaheim, California. One home game was played at Veterans Stadium adjacent to the campus of Long Beach City College in Long Beach, California, and another at Falcon Stadium at Cerritos College in Norwalk, California. They finished the season with a record of five wins and six losses (5\u20136, 1\u20133 PCAA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094086-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Los Angeles Dodgers season\nThe 1972 Los Angeles Dodgers finished the season 85\u201370, good for second place in the National League West division. This was the first season where the players' last names appeared on the back of the uniforms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094086-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094086-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 69], "content_span": [70, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094086-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 74], "content_span": [75, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094086-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 71], "content_span": [72, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094086-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 72], "content_span": [73, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094086-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Los Angeles Dodgers season, 1972 Major League Baseball draft\nThis was the eighth year of a Major League Baseball Draft. The Dodgers drafted 42 players in the June draft and eight in the January draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 65], "content_span": [66, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094086-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Los Angeles Dodgers season, 1972 Major League Baseball draft\nThis was a weak draft class whose most notable player was Dennis Lewallyn, a pitcher who played for the Dodgers and two other teams from 1975 to 1981 with a 4\u20134 record and 4.48 ERA. The top draft pick was shortstop John Harbin from Newberry College who played in only 83 games in the Dodgers farm system in 1972 and was quickly out of baseball.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 65], "content_span": [66, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094087-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Los Angeles Rams season\nThe 1972 Los Angeles Rams season was the team's 35th year with the National Football League and the 27th season in Los Angeles. The Rams looked to improve on their 8\u20135\u20131 record from 1971 and make the playoffs for the first time since 1969. After a win against the New Orleans Saints at home, the Rams tied the Chicago Bears, 13\u201313, their third straight season with a tie. This was followed by an embarrassing loss to the Atlanta Falcons, 31\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094087-0000-0001", "contents": "1972 Los Angeles Rams season\nHowever, the Rams would then pick up their winning ways, beating the San Francisco 49ers 31\u20137 at home, the Philadelphia Eagles 34\u20133 in Philly, and the Cincinnati Bengals 15\u201312 at home. However, following this three-game winning streak, the Rams struggled, losing several close games as they lost five of their last six to end the season 6\u20137\u20131. This was the last time the Rams missed the playoffs until 1981, as they started a dynasty the next season that won the NFC West seven consecutive times, from 1973\u20131979. They also finished in second place in 1980.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094087-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Los Angeles Rams season\nAfter two seasons as head coach of the Rams, Tommy Prothro was dismissed in late January 1973 and succeeded by Chuck Knox, previously the offensive line coach of the Detroit Lions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094087-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Los Angeles Rams season, Offseason\nOn July 13, 1972, Robert Irsay and Willard Keland bought the Los Angeles Rams from the estate of Dan Reeves and transferred ownership to Carroll Rosenbloom, in exchange for ownership of the Baltimore Colts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094088-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Louisiana Tech Bulldogs football team\nThe 1972 Louisiana Tech Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented Louisiana Tech University as a member of the Southland Conference during the 1972 NCAA College Division football season. In their sixth year under head coach Maxie Lambright, the team compiled a 12\u20130 record, were National Football Foundation College Division national champion, NCAA College Division Mideast Region champion, Southland Conference champion, and defeated Tennessee Tech in the Grantland Rice Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094089-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Louisiana gubernatorial election\nThe 1972 Louisiana gubernatorial election was held on February 1, 1972. Edwin Edwards defeated Republican candidate David Treen to become Governor of Louisiana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094089-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Louisiana gubernatorial election\nParty primaries were held on November 6, 1971 and a run-off was held for the Democratic nomination on December 18, 1971. These were the last closed primaries for Governor of Louisiana before the state adopted its current primary election system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094089-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Louisiana gubernatorial election, Democratic primary, Campaign\nEarly in the campaign, conventional wisdom of many political analysts predicted that the race's top candidates would be Gillis Long, Jimmie Davis, and C.C. \"Taddy\" Aycock. However, the two candidates to make the runoff, Edwin Edwards and J. Bennett Johnston, were relative newcomers to the Louisiana political scene.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094089-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Louisiana gubernatorial election, Democratic primary, Campaign\nCousins Gillis and Speedy Long both ran in a rematch of their 1964 primary race for Congress when Speedy defeated Gillis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094090-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Louisville Cardinals football team\nThe 1972 Louisville Cardinals football team represented the University of Louisville in the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. In their fourth season and final season under head coach Lee Corso, the Cardinals compiled a 9\u20131 record (4\u20131 MVC, tied first), and were ranked eighteenth in the final AP Poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094090-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Louisville Cardinals football team\nCorso's overall record in four seasons was 28\u201311\u20133 (.702). After the season in early January, he left for Indiana in the Big Ten Conference, and assistant T. W. Alley, age 30, was promoted to head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094091-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Macdonald Brier\nThe 1972 Macdonald Brier, Canada's national men's curling championship was held March 6\u201311 at the St. John's Arena in St. John's, Newfoundland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094091-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Macdonald Brier\nManitoba, skipped by Orest Meleschuk easily won the event, after posting a 9-1 round robin record, only losing to Quebec's Bill Kent rink, which finished second. Meleschuk and his rink of Dave Romano, John Hanesiak and Pat Hailley went on to win a gold medal at the 1972 Air Canada Silver Broom World Curling Championship, amidst controversy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094092-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Macdonald Lassies Championship\nThe 1972 Macdonald Lassies Championship, Canada's national women's curling championship was held February 28 to March 2 at the Saskatoon Arena, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. It was the first year the event was sponsored by Macdonald Tobacco, which was also the main sponsor of the Brier at the time, Canada's men's curling championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094092-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Macdonald Lassies Championship\nTeam Saskatchewan, skipped by the hometown Vera Pezer rink won the title, by finishing with the best round robin record of 8-1. It was the fourth straight title for Saskatchewan, and second straight for the Pezer rink.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094092-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Macdonald Lassies Championship\nThe attendance for the week was 15,714, a record at the time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094092-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Macdonald Lassies Championship, Teams\nSkip : Polly BeatonThird: Doreen DesHarnais Second: Jan Blingert Lead: Terry Kope", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 42], "content_span": [43, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094092-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Macdonald Lassies Championship, Teams\nSkip : Sharon Bettesworth Third: Barbara BentonSecond: Kay Minchin Lead: Sheila Reeves", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 42], "content_span": [43, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094092-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Macdonald Lassies Championship, Teams\nSkip : Audrey Williamson Third: Mabel Mitchell Second: Florence Yeo Lead: Dru Dickens", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 42], "content_span": [43, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094092-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Macdonald Lassies Championship, Teams\nSkip : Sheila McLeod Third: Barbara DouglasSecond: Ann Robinson Lead: Isabelle Lougheed", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 42], "content_span": [43, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094092-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Macdonald Lassies Championship, Teams\nSkip : Sue-Anne Bartlett Third: Ann Bright Second: Frances Hiscock Lead: Mavis Pike", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 42], "content_span": [43, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094092-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 Macdonald Lassies Championship, Teams\nSkip : Helen Rowe Third: Rita Williams Second: Sharon Nelson Lead: Maureen Banyard", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 42], "content_span": [43, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094092-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 Macdonald Lassies Championship, Teams\nSkip : Helen Sillman Third: Norma KnudsonSecond: Marilyn Walker Lead: Elaine Tetley", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 42], "content_span": [43, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094092-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 Macdonald Lassies Championship, Teams\nSkip : Marie Toole Third: Jennie BoomhowerSecond: Cathy Dillon Lead: Pauline Johnston", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 42], "content_span": [43, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094093-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election\nElections to the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly were held in 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094093-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly election\nThese were the elections to the legislative assembly having 296 seats in undivided Madhya Pradesh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094094-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election\nMaharashtra State Assembly election, 1972 was held in Indian state of Maharashtra in 1972, to elect 270 members to the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094094-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election, Results\nIndian National Congress won most number of seats and a clear majority. Vasantrao Naik, the incumbent Chief Minister was reelected for the post. S. K. Wankhede became Speaker of the Legislative Assembly and RamkrishnaVyankatesh Bet became Deputy Speaker. Dinkar Balu Patil was Leader of the Opposition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 55], "content_span": [56, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094095-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Maine Black Bears football team\nThe 1972 Maine Black Bears football team was an American football team that represented the University of Maine as a member of the Yankee Conference during the 1972 NCAA College Division football season. In its sixth season under head coach Walter Abbott, the team compiled a 3\u20136 record (1\u20134 against conference opponents) and finished fifth out of six teams in the Yankee Conference. James Reid and Robert McConnell were the team captains.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094096-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Major League Baseball All-Star Game\nThe 1972 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, the 43rd such game, was played on July 25, 1972. The all-stars from the American League and the National League faced each other at Atlanta Stadium, home of the Atlanta Braves. The National League came away with a 4\u20133 win in 10 innings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094096-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Major League Baseball All-Star Game\nThis was the third All-Star Game hosted by the Braves (1936 and 1955), but the first All-Star Game to be hosted by the team in Atlanta (the previous two being hosted in their previous homes of Boston and Milwaukee, respectively). This would be the only All-Star Game played in Atlanta Stadium, as the Braves had moved to Turner Field when the exhibition returned to Atlanta in 2000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094096-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Major League Baseball All-Star Game\nAfter seeing their 8 All-Star Game winning streak ended in 1971, the game would mark the start of an 11-game winning streak for the NL, the longest winning streak by either league in the exhibition's history. This was also the final All-Star Game for Roberto Clemente before his death in a plane crash on New Year's Eve.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094096-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, American League roster\nThe American League roster included 13 future Hall of Fame players and coaches, denoted in italics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094096-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, National League roster\nThe National League roster included 16 future Hall of Fame players and coaches, denoted in italics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094096-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Starting lineups\nWhile the starters were elected by the fans, the batting orders and starting pitchers were selected by the managers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 58], "content_span": [59, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094096-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Scoring summary\nThe American League opened the game's scoring in the top of the third, with Steve Blass in to relieve Bob Gibson. Bill Freehan walked, and advanced to second base on a sacrifice bunt by Jim Palmer. Rod Carew singled, allowing Freehan to score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094096-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Scoring summary\nThe National League would not answer until the bottom of the sixth inning, with Gaylord Perry pitching in relief. With two outs, C\u00e9sar Cede\u00f1o singled. Hank Aaron then hit a two-run home run to give the National League the lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094096-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Scoring summary\nThe AL would respond in the top of the eighth inning against Bill Stoneman in his second inning of relief. Carlton Fisk singled, and after a strikeout, Cookie Rojas (pinch hitting for Rod Carew) hit a two-run home run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094096-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Scoring summary\nWilbur Wood was in his second inning of relief when, in the bottom of the ninth inning, the National League evened the score. Billy Williams and Manny Sanguill\u00e9n hit back-to-back singles, with Sanguillen's sending Williams to third base. Lee May hit into a fielder's choice, forcing Sanguillen out at second, but permitting Williams to score. After Ron Santo grounded into a double play, the score was tied at 3, forcing extra innings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094096-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Scoring summary\nIn the bottom of the tenth inning, Dave McNally came on in relief for the AL. The first batter he faced, Nate Colbert (pinch hitting for Tug McGraw), walked. Colbert advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt by Chris Speier. Joe Morgan singled, scoring Colbert and ending the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094096-0011-0000", "contents": "1972 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Game notes and records\nTug McGraw was credited with the win. Dave McNally was charged with the loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094096-0012-0000", "contents": "1972 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Game notes and records\nThis was the fifth All-Star Game to reach extra innings. After this one, the National League was 5\u20130 in those extra inning games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094096-0013-0000", "contents": "1972 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Game notes and records\nThe home run hit by Hank Aaron was the last one in an All-Star Game by a player from the host team for 25 years. This did not happen again until Sandy Alomar, Jr. of the Cleveland Indians homered at Jacobs Field in the 1997 All-Star Game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094096-0014-0000", "contents": "1972 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Game notes and records\nThe homer by Cookie Rojas, a native of Cuba, was the first one ever hit in an All-Star Game for the American League by a player who was born outside the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094096-0015-0000", "contents": "1972 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Game notes and records\nNate Colbert, who scored the winning run, brought the wrong uniform with him to Atlanta. The San Diego Padres' slugger donned his road jersey with SAN DIEGO on it instead of his home one with PADRES on it. Both of San Diego's jerseys in 1972 and 1973 were gold. Seven days after the All-Star Game, Colbert racked up 13 RBI in a doubleheader vs. the Braves in the same stadium, setting a Major League record for a twinbill which was tied in 1993 by Mark Whiten for the St. Louis Cardinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094096-0016-0000", "contents": "1972 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Game notes and records\nWith Toby Harrah injured, the Texas Rangers did not have an active player on the AL squad in their first season in Arlington, Texas. The Rangers were originally the second incarnation of the Washington Senators, leaving the nation's capital in November 1971 after 11 seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094096-0017-0000", "contents": "1972 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Game notes and records\nPlayers from the Red Sox and Giants debuted double-knit uniforms in this game. After the Pirates (1970), Cardinals and Orioles (each in 1971) were the first teams to switch, two-thirds of MLB (16 of 24) donned new double-knits to begin 1972. The three remaining teams wearing flannels full-time, the Expos, Royals and Yankees, switched to double-kits to start 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094097-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Major League Baseball draft, First round selections\nThe following are the first round picks in the 1972 Major League Baseball draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 56], "content_span": [57, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094097-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Major League Baseball draft, Background\nThe Montreal Expos had perhaps their best draft in franchise history. The Expos grabbed outfielder Ellis Valentine in round two of the June regular phase and then selected catcher Gary Carter one round later. The Pirates also did well, selecting pitcher John Candelaria in round two and second baseman Willie Randolph in round seven.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094097-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Major League Baseball draft, Background\nSome of the significant picks from the regular phase in June included Dennis Eckersley and Rick Manning (Cleveland). Scott McGregor (New York Yankees) in round one. Also selected in the first round were Chet Lemon (Oakland), Larry Christenson (Philadelphia) and the number one pick, Dave Roberts (San Diego). Roberts went directly to the Padres starting third base position from the University of Oregon campus. The biggest steal was pulled off by the Texas Rangers when they selected infielder Mike Hargrove from Northwestern State University in the 25th round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 607]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094097-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Major League Baseball draft, Background\nJerry Manuel and Mike Ondina became the first pair of high school teammates to be drafted in the first round of a Major League draft. Both attended Cordova High School in Rancho Cordova, California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094098-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Major League Baseball season\nThe 1972 Major League Baseball season was the first to have games cancelled by a player strike. It was also the last season in which American League pitchers would hit for themselves on a regular basis; the designated hitter rule would go into effect the following season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094098-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Major League Baseball season, Labor strike and more moving\n1972 was affected by a players' strike over pension and salary arbitration. The strike erased the first week and a half of the season, and the Leagues decided to just excise the lost portion of the season with no makeups. As a result, an uneven number of games were lost by each team; some as few as six, some as many as nine. The lack of makeups, even when they affected the playoffs, led to the Boston Red Sox losing the American League East by half a game to the Detroit Tigers, who played one more game (156 to 155).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094098-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Major League Baseball season, Labor strike and more moving\n1972 marked the first year for the Texas Rangers, who had moved to Arlington from Washington, D.C. (where they played as the Washington Senators) after the 1971 season. The team was one of the worst ever fielded by the franchise, losing 100 games for the first time since 1964. Manager Ted Williams hated it in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, and resigned at the end of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094098-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Major League Baseball season, Labor strike and more moving\nTo make room for the Rangers in the American League West Division, one of the teams already in that division would have to switch to the East Division. Technically, both the Chicago White Sox and the Milwaukee Brewers were the easternmost teams in the West Division, but only one of them could move, although the Minnesota Twins lobbied to keep the Rangers in the East because it wanted both the Brewers and White Sox as division rivals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094098-0003-0001", "contents": "1972 Major League Baseball season, Labor strike and more moving\nIt was decided that Milwaukee, as the newer franchise, would make the move, even though the White Sox wanted to go to the East since five of the league's original franchises were in that division, and that the Cubs were in the National League East.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094098-0003-0002", "contents": "1972 Major League Baseball season, Labor strike and more moving\nThe Brewers would become division rivals of the Twins and White Sox in 1994 with the formation of the American League Central, but this would last only through 1997, when Milwaukee transferred to the National League and became a division rival of the Cubs (the Brewers and Twins continue to face each other every year through interleague play).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094098-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Major League Baseball season, Labor strike and more moving\n1972 would mark the Kansas City Royals' final year at Kansas City Municipal Stadium, as the next year they would move to Royals Stadium at the Truman Sports Complex in eastern Kansas City. The Royals had hoped to move out of Municipal after the 1971 season, but a series of labor strikes forced the team to spend one more year at the old facility, which hosted the Athletics from 1955-67 (and the National Football League's Chiefs from 1963-71).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094098-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Major League Baseball season, Labor strike and more moving\nMost teams (16 of 24) switched from wool flannel uniforms to double knit uniforms made of nylon and rayon at the outset of 1972. The Pirates were first to adopt double knits when they moved from Forbes Field to Three Rivers Stadium in July 1970. The Cardinals switched at the start of the 1971 season, and the Orioles gradually phased out their flannels throughout 1971, becoming all-double knit in time for the postseason.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094098-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Major League Baseball season, Labor strike and more moving\nThe Giants wore flannels until midseason, going to double knits at home only; the flannels would not be phased out for the road uniforms until 1973. The Red Sox switched to double knits midway through 1972. Only the Royals, Expos and Yankees wore flannels full-time during the 1972 season, and all three converted to double knits for 1973 (the Royals waited to switch uniforms until their new stadium opened).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094098-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Major League Baseball season, Labor strike and more moving\nThe World Series was won by the Oakland Athletics, the first of three straight behind the bats of Reggie Jackson and Bert Campaneris, and the pitching cadre of Catfish Hunter, Rollie Fingers, and Vida Blue. Jackie Robinson, the first black player in MLB history, threw out the first pitch prior to Game 2 in what would be his last public appearance. He died two days after the series ended at age 53 due to complications from diabetes and heart failure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094098-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 Major League Baseball season, Labor strike and more moving\nThe year ended on a sad note when Roberto Clemente died in an airplane crash off the coast of San Juan, Puerto Rico, on New Year's Eve, while participating in aid efforts after the 1972 Nicaragua earthquake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 63], "content_span": [64, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094099-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Major League Baseball strike\nThe 1972 Major League Baseball strike was the first players' strike in Major League Baseball history. The strike occurred from April 1 to 13, 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094099-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Major League Baseball strike, Overview, Agreement and number of games missed\nBaseball resumed when the owners and players agreed on a $500,000 increase in pension fund payments. Owners agreed to add salary arbitration to the Collective Bargaining Agreement. The 86 games that were missed over the 13-day period were never played because the league refused to pay the players for the time they were on strike. As a result, the Houston Astros and San Diego Padres each played only 153 games, nine fewer than normal. Most other teams lost anywhere from six to eight games. They also lost $5,000,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 81], "content_span": [82, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094099-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Major League Baseball strike, Overview, Major effects from the uneven schedule\nOne major effect of the uneven schedule was that the Detroit Tigers played one more game than the Boston Red Sox, which enabled Detroit (with a record of 86\u201370) to win the American League East by \u00bd game over Boston (with a record of 85\u201370). Detroit won the division on the next-to-last day of the season when they beat Boston, 3\u20131, at Tiger Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 83], "content_span": [84, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094100-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Malagasy military rule referendum\nA referendum on military rule was held in Madagascar on 8 October 1972. It followed General Gabriel Ramanantsoa taking power from elected President Philibert Tsiranana in May, and Ramanantsoa's proposals for a five-year transition period during which the National Assembly would be suspended. The plans were approved by 94.43% of voters, with an 84% voter turnout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094101-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Malagasy presidential election\nPresidential elections were held in Madagascar on 30 January 1972. Incumbent President Philibert Tsiranana of the Social Democratic Party was the only candidate, and won the approval of 99.7% of voters. However, public unrest led to him handing over power to General Gabriel Ramanantsoa. Ramanantsoa put forward proposals for a five-year transition period during which the National Assembly would be suspended. The plans were approved in a referendum later in the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094102-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Manila bombings\nThe 1972 Manila bombings were a series of \"about twenty explosions which took place in various locations in Metro Manila in the months after the Plaza Miranda bombing and immediately preceding Ferdinand Marcos' proclamation of Martial Law\". The first of these bombings took place on March 15, 1972, and the last took place on September 11, 1972 - twelve days before martial law was announced on September 23 of that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094102-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Manila bombings\nThe Marcos administration officially attributed the explosions communist \"urban guerillas\", and Marcos included them in the list of \"inciting events\" which served as rationalizations for his declaration of Martial Law. Marcos' political opposition at the time questioned the attribution of the explosions to the communists, noting that the only suspects caught in connection to the explosions were linked to the Philippine Constabulary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094102-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Manila bombings, Explosion incidents\nThe sites of the 1972 Manila bombings included the Palace Theater and Joe's Department Store on Carriedo Street, both in Manila; the offices of the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT), Filipinas Orient Airways, and Philippine American Life and General Insurance Company (PhilamLife); the Cubao branch of the Philippine Trust Company (now known as PhilTrust Bank); the Senate Publication Division and the Philippine Sugar Institute in Quezon City, and the South Vietnamese embassy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094102-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Manila bombings, Explosion incidents\nHowever, only one of these incidents - the one in the Carriedo shopping mall - went beyond damage to property; one woman was killed and about 40 persons were injured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094102-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Manila bombings, Suspects, Communist guerillas\nThe Marcos regime officially attributed the explosions communist \"urban guerillas\", referring to the earliest recruits of the Communist Party of the Philippines, which had split from the Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas about five years before.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 51], "content_span": [52, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094102-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Manila bombings, Suspects, Government agents\nOpposition senator Benigno Aquino Jr. noted with suspicion that with the Carriedo incident as the only exception, \"the bombings had all been timed for maximum publicity and nothing more.\" He also noted that \"one of the two arrested bombing suspects was a PC (Philippine Constabulary, now the Philippine National Police) sergeant who was employed at the Firearms and Explosive Section of the PC.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 49], "content_span": [50, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094103-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles season\nThe 1972 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles season was the 26th in the club's history since their entry into the then New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership in 1947. After 5 previous Grand Final losses, the Sea Eagles broke through for their first premiership win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094103-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles season\nThe 1972 Sea Eagles were coached by former Australian international and Manly fullback Ron Willey. Captaining the side was long serving hooker Fred Jones. The club competed in the New South Wales Rugby Football League's 1972 Premiership season and played its home games at the 20,000 capacity Brookvale Oval.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094103-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles season, Finals, Grand Final\nAfter twenty-five years in the competition and five Grand Final losses, Manly finally broke through to win the club's first NSWRFL premiership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 59], "content_span": [60, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094103-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles season, Finals, Grand Final\nIn a controversial match, the Sea-Eagles downed the Eastern Suburbs Roosters 19 to 14, thus shedding their 'bridesmaids' tag. The Roosters were highly critical of referee Keith Page after the match, claiming both of Manly's tries shouldn't have been awarded. To add to their rage, Easts crossed for 2 tries that were disallowed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 59], "content_span": [60, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094103-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles season, Finals, Grand Final\nA dour first half saw the teams go to the break at 4-all, before a try by hooker Fred Jones put Manly ahead. Jones appeared to drop the ball as he attempted to ground it, but was awarded the try nonetheless. For his part Jones contends that he did place the ball with downward pressure. Midway through the second half, controversy flared again when Manly centre Ray Branighan appeared to stop over the Eastern Suburbs try line after accepting what looked like a forward pass from prop Bill Hamilton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 59], "content_span": [60, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094103-0004-0001", "contents": "1972 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles season, Finals, Grand Final\nHowever, referee Page allowed it and the Manly fans began celebrating, knowing that at 19-4 their first premiership victory was assured. Although Easts fought back with two late tries to John Ballesty and Bill Mullins and brought the score to 19-14, time ran out for the Roosters and Manly had won their first ever premiership in first grade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 59], "content_span": [60, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094103-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles season, Finals, Grand Final\nIn the end, it was Manly's part-time goal kicker Ray Branighan who proved the difference, kicking 6 goals from 8 attempts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 59], "content_span": [60, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094103-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles season, Player statistics\nNote: Games and (sub) show total games played, e.g. 1 (1) is 2 games played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 57], "content_span": [58, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094104-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Marshall Thundering Herd football team\nThe 1972 Marshall Thundering Herd football team was an American football team that represented Marshall University as an independent during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. In its second season under head coach Jack Lengyel, the team compiled a 2\u20138 record and was outscored by a total of 254 to 93. The team played its home games at Fairfield Stadium in Huntington, West Virginia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094105-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Maryland Terrapins football team\nThe 1972 Maryland Terrapins football team represented the University of Maryland in the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. In their first season under head coach Jerry Claiborne, the Terrapins compiled a 5\u20135\u20131 record (3\u20132\u20131 in conference), finished in third place in the Atlantic Coast Conference, and outscored their opponents 243 to 217. The team's statistical leaders included Bob Avellini with 1,251 passing yards, Louis Carter with 474 rushing yards, and Don Ratliff with 515 receiving yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094106-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Masters Tournament\nThe 1972 Masters Tournament was the 36th Masters Tournament, held April 6\u20139 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094106-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Masters Tournament\nJack Nicklaus opened with a 68 and led wire-to-wire to win the fourth of his six Masters titles, three strokes ahead of three runners-up. It was the tenth of 18 major titles as a professional for Nicklaus, who also won the U.S. Open in 1972 and was the runner-up at the Open Championship in Scotland, one stroke behind Lee Trevino.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094106-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Masters Tournament\nIt was the first Masters played without founder Bobby Jones, who died in December 1971 at age 69. This Masters was also the debut of twenty-year-old Ben Crenshaw of the University of Texas, a future two-time champion who was low amateur at 295 (T19).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094106-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Masters Tournament\nBanned from the last five Masters, commentator Jack Whitaker returned to the CBS telecast in 1972. At the end of the 18-hole Monday playoff in 1966, he had referred to the portion of the gallery trailing the players as a \"mob.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094106-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Masters Tournament\nNicklaus became the third wire-to-wire winner in Masters history, following Craig Wood in 1941 and Arnold Palmer in 1960. Through 2016, there have been five; the next were Raymond Floyd in 1976 and Jordan Spieth in 2015.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094106-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Masters Tournament, Field\nGeorge Archer (9,11), Billy Casper (8,10,11,12), Charles Coody (8,12), Doug Ford, Bob Goalby (11), Ralph Guldahl, Herman Keiser, Jack Nicklaus (2,3,4,8,9,10,11,12), Arnold Palmer (8,11,12), Gary Player (3,8,10,11), Gene Sarazen, Sam Snead, Art Wall Jr.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094106-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Masters Tournament, Field\nJulius Boros, Raymond Floyd (8,9), Don January (8), Dave Stockton (8,11,12)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094106-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Masters Tournament, Field\nRick Bendall (a), Ben Crenshaw (a), Tom Culligan (a), Vinny Giles (7,a), Jim McLean (a), Eddie Pearce (a), Marty West (a)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094106-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 Masters Tournament, Field\nWilliam C. Campbell (a), John Farquhar (a), Jim Gabrielsen (a), Bill Hyndman (a), Tom Kite (a), Jim Simons (9,a)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094106-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 Masters Tournament, Field\nTommy Aaron, Frank Beard (11,12), Dave Eichelberger (11), Al Geiberger, Bert Greene, Hale Irwin (11), Dick Lotz, Steve Melnyk, Johnny Miller (9,11), Bobby Mitchell (11), Bob Murphy, Ken Still, Tom Weiskopf (11)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094106-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 Masters Tournament, Field\nJim Colbert, Jerry Heard (11), Larry Hinson, Jerry McGee, Bobby Nichols, Chi-Chi Rodr\u00edguez, Bob Rosburg (11), Lanny Wadkins, Bert Yancey", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094106-0011-0000", "contents": "1972 Masters Tournament, Field\nMiller Barber (11,12), Tommy Bolt, Gibby Gilbert, Dave Hill, Jim Jamieson", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094106-0012-0000", "contents": "1972 Masters Tournament, Field\nHomero Blancas, Gardner Dickinson (12), Hubert Green, Paul Harney, Labron Harris Jr., Grier Jones, DeWitt Weaver", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094106-0013-0000", "contents": "1972 Masters Tournament, Field\nHarry Bannerman, Brian Barnes, Bob Charles (9), Bobby Cole (9), Gary Cowan (5,6,a), Bruce Crampton (8,11), Roberto De Vicenzo (3,8), Bruce Devlin (8), David Graham, Hsieh Yung-yo, Tony Jacklin (2,3,11), Takaaki Kono, Lu Liang-Huan, Peter Oosterhuis, Masashi Ozaki, Ram\u00f3n Sota", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094107-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Maureen Connolly Brinker International\nThe 1972 Maureen Connolly Brinker International was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the T-BAR-M Racquet Club in Dallas, Texas in the United States that was part of the 1972 WT Pro Tour. It was the inaugural edition of the tournament and was held from March 7 through March 12, 1972. Unseeded Nancy Gunter won the singles title and earned $11,000 first-prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094107-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Maureen Connolly Brinker International, Finals, Doubles\nRosemary Casals / Billie Jean King defeated Judy Tegart / Fran\u00e7oise D\u00fcrr 6\u20133, 4\u20136, 7\u20135", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 60], "content_span": [61, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094108-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Meath Intermediate Football Championship\nThe 1972 Meath Intermediate Football Championship is the 46th edition of the Meath GAA's premier club Gaelic football tournament for intermediate graded teams in County Meath, Ireland. The tournament consists of 23 teams. The championship starts with a group stage and then progresses to a knock out stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094108-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Meath Intermediate Football Championship\nDrumree were relegated from the S.F.C. the previous year after 2 years as a top flight club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094108-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Meath Intermediate Football Championship\nDonaghmore and Boardsmill were promoted after claiming the 1971 Meath Junior Football Championship title and Junior 'A' Divisional runners-up spot respectively. St. Brigid's were also promoted after plying their trade in the Junior B (or Division II) ranks in 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094108-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Meath Intermediate Football Championship\nOn 1 October 1972, Summerhill claimed their 1st Intermediate championship title when they defeated Martry 3-7 to 2-4 in the final in Pairc Tailteann, and thus returned the top flight of Meath club football, only their third period in the top flight and third year in total.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094108-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Meath Intermediate Football Championship\nSt. Colmcille's were relegated to the 1973 J.F.C. after just two years in the middle grade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094108-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Meath Intermediate Football Championship, Team changes\nThe following teams have changed division since the 1971 championship season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 59], "content_span": [60, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094108-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Meath Intermediate Football Championship, Group stage\nThere are 2 groups called Group A and B. The top two finishers in each group will qualify for the Semi-Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 58], "content_span": [59, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094108-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Meath Intermediate Football Championship, Group stage\nOn 28 August, the County Board invoked Bye Law 62 which states that all teams already out of contention for championship honours be eliminated or have no bearing on the outcome. This was invoked due to the severe time limit for the completion of fixtures.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 58], "content_span": [59, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094108-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 Meath Intermediate Football Championship, Knock-out Stages\nThe teams in the Quarter-Finals are the first and second placed teams from each group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 63], "content_span": [64, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094109-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Meath Senior Football Championship\nThe 1972 Meath Senior Football Championship is the 80th edition of the Meath GAA's premier club Gaelic football tournament for senior graded teams in County Meath, Ireland. The tournament consists of 15 teams, with the winner going on to represent Meath in the Leinster Senior Club Football Championship. The championship starts with a group stage and then progresses to a knock out stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094109-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Meath Senior Football Championship\nThis season saw Ballivor's return to the top flight after claiming the 1971 Meath Intermediate Football Championship title..", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094109-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Meath Senior Football Championship\nKilbride were the defending champions after they defeated Skryne in the previous years final after a replay, however this season relinquished their crown which they held for 3 consecutive years when failing to progress past the Group stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094109-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Meath Senior Football Championship\nSt. Vincent's applied to be regraded to the 1973 I.F.C. at the end of the campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094109-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Meath Senior Football Championship\nOn 5 November 1972, Seneschalstown won their 1st ever Meath S.F.C. title when they defeated Navan O'Mahonys 0-11 to 1-5 in the final replay in Pairc Tailteann. Mickey Collins raised the Keegan Cup for the Furze men.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094109-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Meath Senior Football Championship, Team Changes\nThe following teams have changed division since the 1971 championship season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 53], "content_span": [54, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094109-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Meath Senior Football Championship, Knock-out Stages\nThe winners and runners up of each group qualify for the semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 57], "content_span": [58, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094110-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Meghalaya Legislative Assembly election\nThe 1972 Meghalaya Legislative Assembly election was held on 9 March 1972. These were Meghalaya's first Legislative Assembly elections, following the creation of the state on 21 January 1972. 59 men and one woman, Percylina Marak, were elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094110-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Meghalaya Legislative Assembly election, Results\nThe Hill State People's Democratic Party won 8 seats, but the party's representatives were recorded as independents in the official statistical report of the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 53], "content_span": [54, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094111-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Meistaradeildin, Overview\nIt was contested by 6 teams, and K\u00cd Klaksv\u00edk won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094112-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Memorial Cup\nThe 1972 Memorial Cup occurred May 8\u201314 at the Ottawa Civic Centre in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It was the 54th annual Memorial Cup competition, organized by the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association (CAHA) to determine the champion of major junior A ice hockey. Participating teams were the winners of the Ontario Hockey Association, Quebec Major Junior Hockey League and Western Hockey League which were the Peterborough Petes, Cornwall Royals and Edmonton Oil Kings. Cornwall won their 1st Memorial Cup, defeating Peterborough in the final game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094112-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Memorial Cup\nThe format for the Memorial Cup finals was changed from an Eastern Canada versus Western Canada final, into a round-robin format involving three league champions. CAHA past-president Earl Dawson served as chairman of the 1972 event. Coaches of the three league champions were opposed to the new format, and felt that a short series put extra pressure on players and lacked the environment of a home game during the playoffs. Despite the initial criticism, the new format became financially viable and was retained until the 1983 Memorial Cup when a fourth team was added.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094112-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Memorial Cup, Teams, Cornwall Royals\nThe Cornwall Royals represented the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League at the 1972 Memorial Cup. The Royals had the best record in the QMJHL during the 1971-72 season at 47-13-2, earning 96 points, and the Jean Rougeau Trophy, awarded to the regular season champions of the league. Cornwall led the QMJHL with 361 goals for, and allowed the fewest goals against with 182. In the QMJHL quarter-finals, the Royals swept the Verdun Maple Leafs in four games. In the QMJHL semi-finals, Cornwall defeated the Shawinigan Bruins four games to one, advancing to the President's Cup. In the QMJHL finals against the Quebec Remparts, the Royals won the series with four wins, two losses and a tie, winning the league championship, and earning a berth at the 1972 Memorial Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 807]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094112-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Memorial Cup, Teams, Cornwall Royals\nGerry Teeple led the Royals offensively, scoring a team high 57 goals and 128 points in 56 games. Teeple won the Frank J. Selke Memorial Trophy, awarded to the Most Sportsmanlike Player in the League. His 128 points ranked him fourth in the league scoring race. Blair MacDonald had a very solid season, scoring 45 goals and 90 points in 61 games, becoming one of the top prospects in junior hockey. During the season, the Royals acquired Dave Johnson from the Verdun Maple Leafs. In 47 games with Cornwall, Johnson scored 42 goals and 81 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094112-0003-0001", "contents": "1972 Memorial Cup, Teams, Cornwall Royals\nJohnson led the Royals in post-season scoring, earning 11 goals and 23 points in 16 games. Rookie defenseman Bob Murray scored 14 goals and 63 points in 62 games, winning the Michel Bergeron Trophy as Rookie of the Year. In goal, the Royals were led by Richard Brodeur, who finished the season with a 43-13-2 record with a 2.91 GAA and a .914 save percentage. Brodeur was awarded the Jacques Plante Memorial Trophy as the top goaltender in the QMJHL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094112-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Memorial Cup, Teams, Cornwall Royals\nThe 1972 Memorial Cup represented the first time in club history that the Royals would compete for the trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094112-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Memorial Cup, Teams, Edmonton Oil Kings\nThe Edmonton Oil Kings represented the Western Canada Hockey League at the 1972 Memorial Cup. The Oil Kings had a very successful regular season during the 1971-72, earning a record of 44-22-2 for 90 points, and second place in the West Division. Edmonton was the third highest scoring team in the WCHL with 320 goals. The Oil Kings allowed 246 goals, which ranked them in fourth. The Oil Kings opened the post-season with a four-game to one West Division semi-finals victory over the New Westminster Bruins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 44], "content_span": [45, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094112-0005-0001", "contents": "1972 Memorial Cup, Teams, Edmonton Oil Kings\nIn the West Division finals against the first place Calgary Centennials, the Oil Kings completed the upset, winning four games to two, advancing to the WCHL finals. In the final round, the Oil Kings defeated the Regina Pats four games to one to win the President's Cup, and earning a berth in the 1972 Memorial Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 44], "content_span": [45, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094112-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Memorial Cup, Teams, Edmonton Oil Kings\nDon Kozak led the Oil Kings with 55 goals and 105 points in 68 games during the regular season. Darcy Rota also cracked the 50 goal and 100 point plateau, as Rota scored 51 goals and tied Kozak for the team lead in points with 105. Fred Comrie scored 20 goals and 71 points in 66 games, finishing third in the team scoring race, while Terry Smith scored 33 goals and 59 points in 66 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 44], "content_span": [45, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094112-0006-0001", "contents": "1972 Memorial Cup, Teams, Edmonton Oil Kings\nBrian Ogilvie, acquired by the Oil Kings from the Vancouver Nats during the regular season, scored 23 goals and 55 points in 33 games with Edmonton. Defenseman Phil Russell led the defense with 14 goals, 59 points and 331 penalty minutes in 65 games. In goal, the Oil Kings split goaltending duties between Doug Soetaert and Larry Hendrick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 44], "content_span": [45, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094112-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Memorial Cup, Teams, Edmonton Oil Kings\nThe 1972 Memorial Cup was the fourth time in team history that the Oil Kings competed for the Cup. The club had won the Memorial Cup twice, in 1963 and 1966. Edmonton also participated in the 1954 Memorial Cup, where the lost in the finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 44], "content_span": [45, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094112-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 Memorial Cup, Teams, Peterborough Petes\nThe Peterborough Petes represented the Ontario Hockey Association at the 1972 Memorial Cup tournament. The Petes had a solid regular season, earning a record of 34-20-9 for 77 points, and finished third in the ten team league. The Petes scored 292 goals, which ranked them fourth in the OHA, while the club allowed 227 goals, the second fewest in the league. In the post-season, Peterborough defeated the St. Catharines Black Hawks eight points to two in the OHA quarter-finals. In the OHA semi-finals, Peterborough faced the best team in the league, the Toronto Marlboros. The Petes defeated the heavily favoured Marlboros eight points to two, setting up a match-up against the Ottawa 67's in the final round. Peterborough won the J. Ross Robertson Cup, defeating the 67's eight points to zero, earning a berth in the 1972 Memorial Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 44], "content_span": [45, 882]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094112-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 Memorial Cup, Teams, Peterborough Petes\nThe Petes offense was led by Doug Gibson, who led the club with 51 goals and 99 points in 63 games. Gibson's goal total was the sixth highest in the league. Gibson continued to score in the post-season, earning 16 goals and 29 points in 15 games to lead the club in scoring. Paul Raymer scored 27 goals and 69 points in 49 games, while Ron Lalonde earned 26 goals and 63 points in 58 games. Defenseman Bob Neely was acquired by the Petes during the regular season in a trade with the Hamilton Red Wings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 44], "content_span": [45, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094112-0009-0001", "contents": "1972 Memorial Cup, Teams, Peterborough Petes\nNeely led the Petes defense with eight goals and 30 points in 32 games. Colin Campbell provided toughness on the blue line, as in 50 games, he scored two goals and 25 points, as well as registering 158 penalty minutes. Mike Veisor handled the goaltending duties for the Petes. In 15 post-season games, Veisor had a GAA of 2.13.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 44], "content_span": [45, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094112-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 Memorial Cup, Teams, Peterborough Petes\nThe 1972 Memorial Cup was the second time that the Petes competed for the Cup. At the 1959 Memorial Cup, Peterborough lost to the Winnipeg Braves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 44], "content_span": [45, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094113-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Memphis State Tigers football team\nThe 1972 Memphis State Tigers football team represented Memphis State University (now known as the University of Memphis) as an independent during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. In its first season under head coach Fred Pancoast, the team compiled a 5\u20135\u20131 record (3\u20132 against conference opponents), finished in fifth place out of eight teams in the MVC, and outscored all opponents by a total of 265 to 254. The team played its home games at Memphis Memorial Stadium in Memphis, Tennessee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094113-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Memphis State Tigers football team\nThe team's statistical leaders included Al Harvey with 961 passing yards, Dornell Harris with 698 rushing yards, Stan Davis with 476 receiving yards, and Dan Darby with 42 points scored.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094114-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Men of the Midlands\nThe 1972 Men of the Midlands was a professional invitational snooker tournament, that took place from 3 January to 20 March 1972. The tournament was won by Alex Higgins, who defeated John Spencer 4\u20132 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094114-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Men of the Midlands\nThe competition featured a round-robin group stage, with four players progressing into the semi-finals. Higgins won 4\u20130 against Ray Reardon in one semi final, and Spencer defeated Graham Miles 4\u20130 in the other.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094114-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Men of the Midlands\nHiggins won the first frame of the final, after Spencer missed an easy pink, and Spencer won the second frame. In the third, Higgins made breaks of 37 and 28 to win. The fourth frame saw both players miss changes to win, with Higgins eventually taking it with a break of 48. Spencer compiled a 58 break in winning the fifth frame, before Higgins won the sixth, with breaks of 24, 20 and 27, to win the match 4\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094114-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Men of the Midlands\nThe tournament was sponsored by Mitchells and Butlers, who provided a prize fund of \u00a31,000. Higgins received \u00a3300 as winner, and Spencer took \u00a3225 as runner-up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094115-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Men's British Open Squash Championship\nThe 1972 Benson and Hedges British Open Championship was held at the Abbeydale Park Squash Club]] in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094115-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Men's British Open Squash Championship, Draw and results, Main draw\nEighth seed Mohamed Yasin (Pakistan) withdrew before the tournament started.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 72], "content_span": [73, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094116-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Merdeka Tournament\nThe 1972 Merdeka Tournament was held from 12 July to 29 July 1972 in Malaysia. Twelve teams from 11 nations participated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094117-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Merthyr Tydfil by-election\nThe Merthyr Tydfil by-election of 13 April 1972 was held after the death of S. O. Davies on 25 February the same year. The Labour Party won the by-election in what had traditionally been a safe seat, although Davies had been elected in the 1970 general election as an Independent after he had been deselected due to his age.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094118-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Mestaruussarja, Overview\nIt was contested by 12 teams, and TPS Turku won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 29], "content_span": [30, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094119-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Miami Dolphins season\nThe 1972 Miami Dolphins season was the team's seventh season, and third season in the National Football League (NFL). The 1972 Dolphins are the only NFL team to win the Super Bowl with a perfect season. The undefeated campaign was led by coach Don Shula and notable players Bob Griese, Earl Morrall, and Larry Csonka. The 1972 Dolphins went 14\u20130 in the regular season and won all three postseason games, including Super Bowl VII against the Washington Redskins, to finish 17\u20130. By going 14-0, they improved on their 10-3-1 record from the previous season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094119-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Miami Dolphins season\nThe team remains the only NFL team to complete an entire season undefeated and untied from the opening game through the Super Bowl (or championship game). The closest team to repeating this feat was the 2007 New England Patriots, who recorded the most wins in a season in NFL history by going 18\u20130 before losing to the New York Giants in Super Bowl XLII (the Dolphins won 18 straight through and until the first week of the 1973 season). Besides the 1972 Dolphins and 2007 Patriots, the only other team to complete the regular season undefeated and untied is the Chicago Bears, who accomplished the feat in both 1934 and 1942, but those teams failed to win the NFL Championship Game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 710]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094119-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Miami Dolphins season\nDuring the 1972 season, Griese's ankle was broken in Week 5 as he was sacked by San Diego Chargers defensive tackle Ron East and defensive end Deacon Jones. He was replaced by Morrall for the rest of the regular season. Griese returned as a substitute in the final regular season game against the Baltimore Colts, relieved Morrall for the second half of the AFC Championship Game against the Pittsburgh Steelers and started in Super Bowl VII.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094119-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Miami Dolphins season\nThe Dolphins clinched the AFC East title in Week 10. On the ground, running backs Csonka and Mercury Morris became the first teammates to each rush for 1,000 yards in a season. Paul Warfield led the receivers, averaging over 20 yards per catch on 29 receptions. The offensive line included future Hall of Fame members Jim Langer, who played every down during the season, and Larry Little and Pro Bowler Norm Evans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094119-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Miami Dolphins season\nThe 1972 Dolphins defensive unit was the league's best. It is often called the \"No-Name Defense\", a moniker coined by Cowboys coach Tom Landry in an interview, because the Dolphins' offense received much more publicity. It was led by linebacker Nick Buoniconti, end Bill Stanfill, tackle Manny Fernandez, and safeties Dick Anderson and Jake Scott. In all, nine players\u2014Csonka, Morris, Warfield, Little, Evans, Buoniconti, Stanfill, Anderson, and Scott\u2014were selected to the Pro Bowl, and Little, Morrall, Stanfill, and Anderson were named first-team All-Pro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094119-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Miami Dolphins season\nOn August 20, 2013, four decades after the perfect season, President Barack Obama hosted the 1972 Dolphins, noting that they \"never got their White House visit.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094119-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Miami Dolphins season\nIn 2007, the Dolphins went 1\u201315, becoming the second team since the AFL\u2013NFL merger to have both an undefeated season and a one-win season; the Patriots, who went 16\u20130 in the 2007 regular season, had accomplished this the previous day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094119-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Miami Dolphins season, Background\nThe Miami Dolphins entered their seventh season in 1972. In the first four seasons, George Wilson served as the head coach, compiling a record of 15-39-2, but was fired in February\u00a01970 and replaced by Don Shula. Despite his poor results as head coach, Wilson acquired many players who contributed to the Dolphins' success in the early 1970s. For instance, the Dolphins' 1967 draft picks included quarterback Bob Griese and punter Larry Seiple, the 1968 draft added fullback Larry Csonka and running back Jim Kiick, and defensive end Bill Stanfill and running back Mercury Morris were drafted in 1969.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 640]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094119-0007-0001", "contents": "1972 Miami Dolphins season, Background\nThe Dolphins also signed an important undrafted player in 1968, defensive tackle Manny Fernandez. Wilson traded for linebacker Nick Buoniconti and guard Larry Little in 1969, and for wide receiver Paul Warfield in 1970, less than a month before being fired. Mostly because of the acquisitions that he had made during his tenure as head coach, Wilson would initially be resentful of the Dolphins' success in first few years after being fired, believing that he had been fired prematurely and that Shula had inherited a \"ready-made team.\" However, tensions between Wilson and Shula disappeared after the team won Super Bowl VII, and Wilson congratulated Shula and invited him to play at his golf course.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 740]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094119-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 Miami Dolphins season, Background\nAmong the first moves Shula made as head coach was assembling a coaching staff. By April 20, 1970, he had hired Bill Arnsparger as defensive coordinator, Monte Clark as offensive line coach, Mike Scarry as defensive line coach, Howard Schnellenberger as offensive coordinator, and Carl Taseff as offensive backs coach, while defensive backs coach Tom Keane, a holdover from the Wilson era, remained on the coaching staff. All of these key members of the coaching staff would be retained through the 1972 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094119-0008-0001", "contents": "1972 Miami Dolphins season, Background\nIn the 1970 draft, the Dolphins added players such as tight end Jim Mandich, cornerback Tim Foley, and safety Jake Scott. Future Hall of Fame center Jim Langer, who went undrafted, was signed, while guard Bob Kuechenberg was acquired during free agency. The 1970 team was greatly improved from the previous season, posting a 10\u20134 record and reaching the playoffs for the first time in franchise history, but losing to the Oakland Raiders 21-14 in their postseason debut. Notable additions to the team via the 1971 draft included defensive end Vern Den Herder and wide receiver Otto Stowe. Before the season, one important trade saw the Dolphins acquire linebacker Bob Matheson. After posting a 10-3-1 regular season record in 1971, the Dolphins advanced much further in the postseason, reaching Super Bowl VI. However, they suffered an embarrassing 24-3 loss to the Dallas Cowboys.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 920]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094119-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 Miami Dolphins season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1: at Kansas City Chiefs\nThe Dolphins' 1972 regular season began with a road match against the Kansas City Chiefs \u2013 the first regular season game ever played at Arrowhead Stadium. Previously, the two teams met in Kansas City during the Divisional Round of the 1971\u201372 playoffs, which saw the Dolphins defeat the Chiefs in the longest game in NFL history. Miami held Kansas City scoreless until the third quarter in this game. During the Chiefs first possession, running back Ed Podolak fumbled the football, which was recovered by Miami safety Dick Anderson. The turnover led to a 57-yard, seven play drive, capped by a 14-yard touchdown pass from Bob Griese to Marlin Briscoe. With 4:12 remaining in the first quarter, the Chiefs attempted to score a field goal, but Dolphins defensive back Lloyd Mumphord blocked Jan Stenerud's kick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 89], "content_span": [90, 900]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094119-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 Miami Dolphins season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1: at Kansas City Chiefs\nLate in the second quarter, the Dolphins scored twice within a span of 37\u00a0seconds \u2013 a 47-yard field goal by Garo Yepremian and then a 2-yard run from Larry Csonka following an interception by Jake Scott. After possessing a halftime lead of 17\u20130, Miami scored again in the third quarter with another field goal by Yepremian. Later in the third quarter, the Chiefs got on the board with a 40-yard field goal by Jan Stenerud. In the fourth quarter, Kansas City scored again with a touchdown pass from Len Dawson to Willie Frazier. However, the Chiefs were unable to gain additional points thereafter, resulting in the Dolphins winning 20\u201310.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 89], "content_span": [90, 728]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094119-0011-0000", "contents": "1972 Miami Dolphins season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 2: vs. Houston Oilers\nIn week 2, the Dolphins played against the Houston Oilers at the Orange Bowl. A newly installed Poly-Turf field and intermittent rains led to slippery conditions. Less than two minutes into the game, Oilers running back Hoyle Granger fumbled at the Houston 14-yard line, while Dolphins defensive end Bill Stanfill recovered the ball and returned it to the Houston 1-yard line. Miami running back Jim Kiick then scored a touchdown on a 1-yard run. Only a few minutes later, Houston quarterback Dan Pastorini muffed the ball in punt formation at the Houston 30-yard line and lost possession.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 86], "content_span": [87, 676]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094119-0011-0001", "contents": "1972 Miami Dolphins season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 2: vs. Houston Oilers\nThe Dolphins scored again four plays later, capped by a Mercury Morris 2-yard rush, though Garo Yepremian's extra point attempt was blocked, his first miss after 75\u00a0consecutive successful attempts. After regaining possession, Miami engineered another four play scoring drive, which included a 30-yard pass from Bob Griese to Paul Warfield and ended with a Larry Csonka 4-yard rush. The Dolphins led 20\u20130 at halftime. Of note, Pastorini completed just three out of ten passes in the first half for a dismal -10\u00a0yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 86], "content_span": [87, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094119-0012-0000", "contents": "1972 Miami Dolphins season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 2: vs. Houston Oilers\nMiami increased their lead further to 27-0\u00a0less than six minutes into the third quarter, the end result of a 76-yard, nine play drive capped off by a 2-yard rush by Griese. Houston then finally scored after Pastorini threw a touchdown pass to Charlie Joiner for 82\u00a0yards. However, Skip Butler missed the extra point attempt. On the Dolphins next possession, Morris fumbled and defensive tackle Ron Billingsley of the Oilers recovered. Three plays later, a Willie Rodgers 1-yard rush cut Miami's lead to 27\u201313. The Dolphins would score again, though, in the fourth quarter after a 14\u00a0play drive that lasted almost seven minutes and concluded with a 6-yard pass from Griese to Kiick. Miami effectively sealed the game on Houston's next possession when cornerback Tim Foley intercepted Pastorini. The Dolphins won 34\u201313.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 86], "content_span": [87, 904]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094119-0013-0000", "contents": "1972 Miami Dolphins season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 3: at Minnesota Vikings\nThe Dolphins traveled to Metropolitan Stadium in Minnesota for a match against the Vikings in week 9. Miami trailed Minnesota for much of the game. In the first quarter, the Vikings scored a touchdown via a 56-yard pass from quarterback Fran Tarkenton to wide receiver John Gilliam. With no further scoring in the first or second quarters, the Vikings led 7\u20130 at halftime. As Tarkenton attempted another pass to Gilliam early in the third quarter, cornerback Tim Foley intercepted and returned the ball to Minnesota's 37-yard line. Dolphins kicker Garo Yepremian kicked a 51-yard field goal and later a 42-yard field goal with 5:23 left in the third quarter after Miami re-gained possession. The Vikings then executed an 80-yard, 13-play drive which consumed all time remaining in the third quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 88], "content_span": [89, 888]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094119-0014-0000", "contents": "1972 Miami Dolphins season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 3: at Minnesota Vikings\nAs the fourth quarter started, Minnesota scored a touchdown via a 1-yard run by running back Bill Brown, with the score being 14\u20136. After the Dolphins re-gained possession, Vikings linebacker Roy Winston intercepted Bob Griese. However, the No-Name Defense stopped Minnesota's subsequent drive with two sacks on Tarkenton. Miami's next drive, which included a 22-yard double reverse pass from wide receiver Marlin Briscoe to tight end Jim Mandich, ended with a 51-yard field goal by Yepremian. The Dolphins defense then stalled the Vikings next drive and took possession at the Miami 41-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 88], "content_span": [89, 686]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094119-0014-0001", "contents": "1972 Miami Dolphins season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 3: at Minnesota Vikings\nAfter 39\u00a0seconds, 6\u00a0plays, and a penalty for roughing the passer, Miami scored a touchdown \u2013 a 3-yard pass from Grise to Mandich. The Dolphins thus took a 16\u201314 lead. With one minute and twenty-eight seconds left, the Vikings attempted to reach field goal range. With little time left, Tarkenton threw a Hail Mary pass at the Minnesota 28-yard line, but was intercepted by Dolphins defensive back Lloyd Mumphord. Miami won by a score of 16\u201314, sacking Tarkenton five times, and improved to 3\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 88], "content_span": [89, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094119-0015-0000", "contents": "1972 Miami Dolphins season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 4: at New York Jets\nThe Dolphins then traveled to Shea Stadium in New York to face the Jets in week 3. In the game's opening drive, New York moved the ball 65\u00a0yards for a touchdown. Although running back Cliff McClain fumbled, Jets guard Randy Rasmussen recovered the ball in the end zone. New York maintained their 7\u20130 lead until about one minute into the second quarter, when a 16-yard touchdown pass from Dolphins quarterback Bob Griese to wide receiver Howard Twilley and an extra point by Garo Yepremian tied the game. Another touchdown via a 6-yard rush by Miami running back Jim Kiick allowed the Dolphins to take a 14\u20137 lead with 2:30 left in the second quarter. Neither team scored again before halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 84], "content_span": [85, 778]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094119-0016-0000", "contents": "1972 Miami Dolphins season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 4: at New York Jets\nA 27-yard field goal by Yepremian in the third quarter increased Miami's lead to 10\u00a0points. During New York's subsequent drive, Jets quarterback Joe Namath completed a pass to tight end Jerome Barkum, who took the ball for 52\u00a0yards until being tackled at the Miami 1-yard line by Dolphins safety Jake Scott. However, three failed attempts at entering the end zone and two penalties against the Jets forced them to settle for an 18-yard Bobby Howfield field goal, cutting the deficit against the Dolphins to 17\u201310.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 84], "content_span": [85, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094119-0016-0001", "contents": "1972 Miami Dolphins season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 4: at New York Jets\nEarly in the fourth quarter, Miami orchestrated a 60-yard, 8\u00a0play drive that included a 23-yard pass from Griese to wide receiver Paul Warfield, while a significant pass interference penalty against Steve Tannen of the Jets moved the ball to New York's 4-yard line. Eventually, the Dolphins scored with a 3-yard rush by Kiick. Later in the fourth quarter, Miami fumbled a punt, allowing New York to begin their next drive at the Dolphins 20-yard line. Five plays later, the Jets scored a touchdown via a 1-yard rush by Emerson Boozer, cutting Miami's lead to 24\u201317. However, a 43-yard field goal by Yepremian allowed the Dolphins to win with a score of 27\u201317.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 84], "content_span": [85, 744]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094119-0017-0000", "contents": "1972 Miami Dolphins season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 5: vs. San Diego Chargers\nIn the fifth week, Miami returned home to host the San Diego Chargers. The Dolphins scored first on a 37-yard field goal by Garo Yepremian, though the Chargers would respond with a 12-yard field goal by Dennis Partee to tie the game at 3\u20133 to end the first quarter. In the second quarter, Miami scored a touchdown when safety Dick Anderson recovered a fumble and ran 35\u00a0yards to the end zone. The Dolphins then scored another touchdown in the second quarter via an 18-yard pass from quarterback Earl Morrall to wide receiver Howard Twilley, ending the first half with Miami leading 17\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 90], "content_span": [91, 678]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094119-0018-0000", "contents": "1972 Miami Dolphins season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 5: vs. San Diego Chargers\nMiami also scored a touchdown in the third quarter. A 19-yard touchdown pass from Morrall to wide receiver Paul Warfield increased the Dolphins lead to 24\u20133. San Diego cut the deficit to 24\u201310 after a 3-yard touchdown pass from quarterback John Hadl to running back Cid Edwards. However, the Chargers could not complete a comeback. Miami's win-loss record improved to 5\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 90], "content_span": [91, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094119-0019-0000", "contents": "1972 Miami Dolphins season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 5: vs. San Diego Chargers\nThe game is noted for an injury to Dolphins quarterback Bob Griese. Early in the first quarter, Chargers defensive tackle Ron East and defensive end Deacon Jones sacked Griese. He suffered a serious ankle injury and would not play again for the remainder of the regular season. Griese was replaced by 38-year old Morrall before returning in the AFC championship game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 90], "content_span": [91, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094119-0020-0000", "contents": "1972 Miami Dolphins season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 6: vs. Buffalo Bills\nThe Dolphins remained at home during week 6 for a game against the intradivisional rival Buffalo Bills. Miami scored a touchdown on the opening drive, capped off by a 5-yard run by Mercury Morris. After regaining possession later in the first quarter, the Dolphins managed to reach the Bills 7-yard line. However, four failed attempts at reaching the end zone gave the Bills possession again. Then, in the second quarter, Dolphins running back Jim Kiick fumbled the ball, recovered by Alvin Wyatt of the Bills. This ultimately set up a 35-yard field goal by Buffalo's John Leypoldt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 668]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094119-0020-0001", "contents": "1972 Miami Dolphins season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 6: vs. Buffalo Bills\nShortly after, Bills linebacker Ken Lee intercepted a pass from Earl Morrall and returned it for a touchdown. Late in the second quarter, Morrall attempted to throw a lateral pass, but fumbled and Buffalo defensive tackle Don Croft secured the ball. Leypoldt then kicked a 34-yard field goal, allowing the Bills to lead 13\u20137 at halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094119-0021-0000", "contents": "1972 Miami Dolphins season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 6: vs. Buffalo Bills\nDolphins tackle Manny Fernandez strip-sacked Bills quarterback Dennis Shaw at the Buffalo 10-yard line on the first play of the third quarter. Miami fullback Larry Csonka then ran 10\u00a0yards into the end zone, allowing the Dolphins to take a 14\u201313 lead. A few minutes after this transpired, Dolphins cornerback Curtis Johnson blocked a punt by Spike Jones of the Bills. After the Dolphins were penalized four times on that drive (a loss of 33 yards), Garo Yepremian kicked a 54-yard field goal, the longest in franchise history until Pete Stoyanovich's 59-yard field goal in 1989.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 664]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094119-0021-0001", "contents": "1972 Miami Dolphins season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 6: vs. Buffalo Bills\nThe fourth quarter began with a 45-yard field goal by Leypoldt, cutting Miami's lead to 17\u201316. With 9:18 remaining in the final period, the Dolphins scored again with a 15-yard run by Morris, amassing 106 rushing yards in the game. Later, the Bills capped off a touchdown-scoring drive with a 6-yard pass from quarterback Mike Taliaferro to fullback Jim Braxton. However, with only about one minute remaining by then, the Dolphins won the game by a score of 24\u201323.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094119-0022-0000", "contents": "1972 Miami Dolphins season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 7: at Baltimore Colts\nThe Dolphins then traveled to Memorial Stadium in Baltimore for a match against the Colts on October\u00a029. Miami scored in the first quarter on an 80-yard drive that included a 20-yard pass from quarterback Earl Morrall to wide receiver Howard Twilley, a 32-yard rush by running back Larry Csonka, a 19-yard rush by running back Mercury Morris, and finally a 1-yard rush by Csonka for a touchdown. Garo Yepremian's extra point allowed the Dolphins to take a 7\u20130 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 86], "content_span": [87, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094119-0022-0001", "contents": "1972 Miami Dolphins season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 7: at Baltimore Colts\nDolphins cornerback Curtis Johnson blocked a punt by David Lee of the Colts and recovered the football at Baltimore's 22-yard line. A few plays later, at 3rd and 15 on Baltimore's 27-yard line, Morrall threw the ball to wide receiver Marlin Briscoe, who then threw a pass to wide receiver Paul Warfield at the 1-yard line. Csonka then ran 1-yard for a touchdown, but defensive tackle Jim Bailey blocked Yepremian's extra point attempt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 86], "content_span": [87, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094119-0023-0000", "contents": "1972 Miami Dolphins season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 7: at Baltimore Colts\nLater in the second quarter, Dolphins defensive back Lloyd Mumphord blocked Boris Shlapak's field goal attempt. The second quarter then ended after Yepremian kicked a 24-yard field goal. The Dolphins led 16-0 after the first half. The game's final score occurred in the third quarter. Bruce Laird of the Colts was returning a punt but fumbled the ball, which was recovered by Hubert Ginn of the Dolphins at Baltimore's 20\u00a0yard line. After a few more plays, Morris scored a 7-yard rushing touchdown, followed by a Yepremian extra point. Miami won the game with a score of 23-0 and improved to 7\u20130 at the halfway point of the regular season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 86], "content_span": [87, 726]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094119-0024-0000", "contents": "1972 Miami Dolphins season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 8: at Buffalo Bills\nFor week 8, the Dolphins traveled to War Memorial Stadium in Buffalo to take on the Bills on November\u00a05. A Garo Yepremian 33-yard field goal allowed Miami to take an early 3\u20130 lead. The Bills then overtook the Dolphins on a drive capped off by quarterback Dennis Shaw throwing a 13-yard pass to running back Randy Jackson, although John Leypoldt's extra point attempt would be blocked. Buffalo now led Miami by a score of 6\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 84], "content_span": [85, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094119-0024-0001", "contents": "1972 Miami Dolphins season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 8: at Buffalo Bills\nHowever, the Dolphins reclaimed the lead on a possession culminating in a 22-yard run by running back Mercury Morris, followed by an extra point by Yepremian. Miami increased their lead further early in the second quarter with a pair of Yepremian field goals from 17\u00a0yards and 16\u00a0yards. Shortly thereafter, Dolphins quarterback Earl Morrall was intercepted by Bills safety Tony Greene and returned for a touchdown, narrowing Miami's lead to 16\u201313. This would be the final score of the first half, as Miami halted another scoring attempt by Buffalo when cornerback Tim Foley intercepted Shaw at Miami's 20-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 84], "content_span": [85, 700]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094119-0025-0000", "contents": "1972 Miami Dolphins season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 8: at Buffalo Bills\nMiami increased their lead again in the third quarter with a 7-yard pass from Morrall to tight end Marv Fleming. The antecedent drive included several long runs and an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty against the Bills. Later in the third quarter, Leypoldt kicked a 28-yard field goal, cutting their deficit to 23\u201316 at the end of the period. However, in the fourth quarter, the Dolphins put together another scoring drive that included a 26-yard pass from Morrall to Morris and then 4-yard rush by Morris for the touchdown. With neither team able to accumulate more points after that drive, the game ended as a 30-16\u00a0win for the Dolphins. Of note, Morris surpassed 100\u00a0rushing yards in a game for only the second time in his professional football career.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 84], "content_span": [85, 839]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094119-0026-0000", "contents": "1972 Miami Dolphins season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 9: vs. New England Patriots\nFollowing their win against the Buffalo Bills, the Dolphins hosted the New England Patriots at the Orange Bowl for Week 9. Miami annihilated New England both offensively and defensively. On the third play of the game, Dolphins safety Dick Anderson intercepted Patriots quarterback Jim Plunkett at New England's 26-yard line. Anderson returned the ball to the New England 4-yard line before fumbling. Although it appeared that the Patriots may have recovered the fumble, the officiating crew ruled that they did not. Dolphins running back Mercury Morris then scored a touchdown on a 4-yard rush. On just the fifth offensive play for the Dolphins, Morris again scored a 4-yard rushing touchdown. Miami scored on every possession they had during the first half, leading the Patriots 31\u20130 at intermission.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 92], "content_span": [93, 894]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094119-0027-0000", "contents": "1972 Miami Dolphins season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 9: vs. New England Patriots\nIn the third quarter, Morrall threw a 16-yard pass to Marlin Briscoe, increasing the Dolphins lead to 38\u20130. By the beginning of the fourth quarter, with little doubt about which team would win, Dolphins quarterback Jim Del Gazio replaced Morrall. Del Gazio threw two touchdown passes in the final quarter \u2013 a 51-yard pass to Briscoe and a 39-yard pass to Jim Mandich. The Dolphins did not allow the Patriots to score throughout the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 92], "content_span": [93, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094119-0028-0000", "contents": "1972 Miami Dolphins season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 9: vs. New England Patriots\nThe final score of 52\u20130 in favor of Miami remains the most lopsided win for either team in the history of the Dolphins\u2013Patriots rivalry. Miami totaled 482\u00a0yards, far higher than New England's 169\u00a0yards. Morrall passed for 162 yards, while Del Gazio passed for 145. The Dolphins defense limited the Patriots to just 77\u00a0net passing yards and 92\u00a0rushing yards, including four sacks against Plunkett for a loss of 40\u00a0yards. Morris, the leading rusher of the game, accumulated 90\u00a0rushing yards and 35\u00a0receiving yards; he scored 3\u00a0rushing touchdowns. With the victory, the Dolphins improved to 9\u20130. Don Shula became the 9th head coach in NFL history to win at least 100 regular season games, but the first to do so in only 10 seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 92], "content_span": [93, 821]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094119-0029-0000", "contents": "1972 Miami Dolphins season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 10 vs. New York Jets\nThe Dolphins then returned home in week 10 for their second matchup against the Jets. Near the beginning of the first quarter, Dolphins safety Dick Anderson intercepted Jets quarterback Joe Namath's first pass of that game. After seven more plays, Miami scored on a 9-yard pass from quarterback Earl Morrall to wide receiver Howard Twilley. New York responded with an 80-yard drive that included several short passes from Namath, before eventually ending with a 1-yard rushing touchdown by fullback John Riggins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094119-0029-0001", "contents": "1972 Miami Dolphins season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 10 vs. New York Jets\nIn the game's second quarter, Morrall fumbled on a lateral pass, with the ball being recovered by cornerback Earlie Thomas of the Jets at the Dolphins 38-yard line. Within a few plays, the Jets scored another touchdown via a 28-yard pass from Namath to wide receiver Rich Caster. New York increased their lead on Miami to 17\u20137 after Bobby Howfield kicked a 33-yard field goal. However, the Dolphins cut the Jets lead to 17\u201314 just before halftime on a drive that ended with a 1-yard run by running back Mercury Morris.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094119-0030-0000", "contents": "1972 Miami Dolphins season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 10 vs. New York Jets\nEarly in the third quarter, Morrall rushed for 31\u00a0yards for a touchdown. Miami then led New York by 21\u201317. The Jets reclaimed the lead later in the third quarter on a drive that ended with a 4-yard pass from Namath to tight end Wayne Stewart. However, in the game's final quarter, Anderson landed on the ball after Jets running back Cliff McClain fumbled it at New York's 27-yard line. On the fourth play after the fumble, Morris managed to run 14\u00a0yards to the end zone. Miami would ultimately win the game by a score of 28\u201324 and improve to 10\u20130. With the victory, the Dolphins also clinched the AFC East title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 85], "content_span": [86, 698]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094119-0031-0000", "contents": "1972 Miami Dolphins season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 11 vs. St. Louis Cardinals\nThe Dolphins remained at home at the Orange Bowl in Week 11 for a Monday Night Football game against the St. Louis Cardinals. Dolphins safety Dick Anderson intercepted St. Louis quarterback Gary Cuozzo's first pass of the game at the Cardinal's 29-yard line. On the sixth play following the interception, Dolphins running back Jim Kiick reached the end zone on a 2-yard run. Miami led St. Louis 7\u20130 following the first quarter. Both teams scored a field goal in the second quarter, from 49-yards and 25-yards by Jim Bakken of the Cardinals and Garo Yepremian of the Dolphins, respectively. At half time, Miami led St. Louis by a score of 10\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 91], "content_span": [92, 735]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094119-0032-0000", "contents": "1972 Miami Dolphins season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 11 vs. St. Louis Cardinals\nThe Dolphins would widen their lead by two touchdowns in the third quarter. First, Miami scored on a 37-yard pass from quarterback Earl Morrall to wide receiver Otto Stowe. Later in the quarter, Dolphins cornerback Lloyd Mumphord intercepted Cardinals quarterback Jim Hart and returned the ball for a touchdown. Miami now led by 24\u20133 after the third quarter. St. Louis finally responded again in the fourth quarter via a 2-yard rush by running back Leon Burns. However, the Dolphins then scored another touchdown on a drive capped off by a 27-yard pass from Morrall to Stowe. Miami won the game by a score of 31\u201310.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 91], "content_span": [92, 707]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094119-0033-0000", "contents": "1972 Miami Dolphins season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 12 at New England Patriots\nIn Week 12, the Dolphins traveled to Schaefer Stadium for their second matchup of the season against the Patriots. The only score in the first quarter was 36-yard field goal by Miami's Garo Yepremian. The Dolphins increased their lead further in the second quarter, with a 10-yard field goal by Yepremian and a 1-yard rush by running back Jim Kiick on a drive that spanned 89\u00a0yards. New England responded late in the second quarter via a 36-yard pass from quarterback Jim Plunkett to wide receiver Tom Reynolds. The Dolphins led by a score of 13\u20137 at halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 91], "content_span": [92, 652]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094119-0034-0000", "contents": "1972 Miami Dolphins season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 12 at New England Patriots\nEarly in the third quarter, Miami defensive Vern Den Herder intercepted a pass by Plunkett and reached New England's 11-yard line before the play ended. The Dolphins soon scored another touchdown when quarterback Earl Morrall threw a 3-yard pass to tight end Jim Mandich. Later in the third quarter, Yepremian kicked a 18-yard field goal. Dolphins linebacker Doug Swift intercepted Plunkett on New England's next possession. On the fifth play following the interception, Miami scored on a 14-yard pass from Morrall to wide receiver Marlin Briscoe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 91], "content_span": [92, 639]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094119-0034-0001", "contents": "1972 Miami Dolphins season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 12 at New England Patriots\nMiami added another touchdown early in the fourth quarter via an 8-yard rush by running back Hubert Ginn. At this point, the Dolphins led by 37\u20137. The Patriots scored two touchdowns in the fourth quarter, the first being an 8-yard pass from quarterback Brian Dowling to running back John Tarver and the second being a 1-yard rush by Dowling. The game ended with a 37\u201321 victory for the Dolphins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 91], "content_span": [92, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094119-0035-0000", "contents": "1972 Miami Dolphins season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 12 at New England Patriots\nWith the win, the Dolphins became only the third team in NFL history to win at least 12 consecutive games, after the 1934 Chicago Bears and 1969 Minnesota Vikings. Also of note, running back Larry Csonka surpassed 1,000\u00a0rushing yards on the season during this game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 91], "content_span": [92, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094119-0036-0000", "contents": "1972 Miami Dolphins season, Urban legend\nThere is an urban legend that every season, whenever the last remaining undefeated NFL team loses its first game, all the surviving members of the 1972 Miami Dolphins open bottles of champagne in celebration. Coach Don Shula tried to play down the myth by saying that two players, Dick Anderson and Nick Buoniconti, who live near each other, sometimes have a toast together. However, in a college football broadcast on ABC following the loss of an undefeated team, Bob Griese commented that he called former Dolphins, and they had Diet Cokes together.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094119-0037-0000", "contents": "1972 Miami Dolphins season, Urban legend\nThe NFL capitalized on the legend during a commercial that aired during Super Bowl LIII commemorating the 100th year of the NFL. The commercial featured \"44 of the greatest NFL athletes\" at a formal dinner event with the attendees dressed in black tie. Cacophony breaks out, and three members of the 1972 Dolphins, Larry Little, Paul Warfield, Larry Csonka, are shown casually sitting at a table together uniquely dressed in aqua-colored formal coats, and all three are drinking champagne, laughing at the chaos happening around them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094119-0038-0000", "contents": "1972 Miami Dolphins season, The perfect season\nThe 1972 Miami Dolphins were the first team to execute a perfect regular season in the post-merger NFL. They are the only team in NFL history to go undefeated and untied in the regular season and postseason.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094119-0039-0000", "contents": "1972 Miami Dolphins season, The perfect season\nAfter their loss to the Dallas Cowboys in Super Bowl VI (Miami's only loss during calendar year 1972), Don Shula had vowed to not only reach the Super Bowl again but to win it. He forced the team to watch film of the loss twice while at training camp. Shula would later go on to say:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094119-0040-0000", "contents": "1972 Miami Dolphins season, The perfect season\nI think that's when we all came together for what was going happen for the next two years. What I stressed in the locker room was that we wanted to make sure this wouldn\u2019t happen again. Our goal was not to go to the Super Bowl but to win it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094119-0041-0000", "contents": "1972 Miami Dolphins season, The perfect season\nAn enduring controversy is based on the argument that the 1972 Dolphins played a soft schedule not possible under the current scheduling formula. Prior to the implementation of position scheduling in 1978, opponents were set by the NFL on a rotating basis. The Dolphins\u2019 1972 regular-season opponents posted an aggregate winning percentage of .397, and only two had winning records for that season (both the Kansas City Chiefs and New York Giants finished 8\u20136). However, this does not constitute any record; the 1975 Minnesota Vikings, who began 10\u20130 and finished 12\u20132, played 14 opponents with an average winning percentage of .332, and nine of their games were against teams 4\u201310 or worse.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 738]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094119-0042-0000", "contents": "1972 Miami Dolphins season, The perfect season\nThe Dolphins were beneficiaries of a weak AFC East that saw the Colts lapse from a perennial contender into a three-year stretch in which they would win only 11 games; a Bills team yet to find its legs with O. J. Simpson and the return of coach Lou Saban; a dysfunctional Patriots organization that had little to no talent to surround former No. 1 overall draft choice Jim Plunkett; and a Jets squad with a porous defense, offsetting the benefits of Joe Namath remaining healthy throughout the season and an emerging John Riggins in the running game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094119-0042-0001", "contents": "1972 Miami Dolphins season, The perfect season\nMiami also caught a scheduling break by facing an Oilers team that was in the midst of back-to-back 1\u201313 seasons, a Chargers team beginning a run of four consecutive seasons in the AFC West cellar, and a Cardinals team that appeared to lack direction by rotating its starting quarterbacks instead of giving the job full-time to Jim Hart. The Dolphins also caught the Vikings in the midst of a massive transformation following the return of Fran Tarkenton, missing the playoffs for the only time between 1968 and 1978, finishing 7\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094119-0043-0000", "contents": "1972 Miami Dolphins season, The perfect season\nThe NFL's rules at the time forced the undefeated Dolphins (14\u20130) to play the Steelers (11\u20133) in Pittsburgh for the AFC Championship Game. Subsequent rule changes have since changed the playoff structure so that this would never happen again. Since the 1975 season, teams that have won their division and have had a superior record than their opponent (as was the case with the 1972 Dolphins when they faced the Steelers) would play their postseason games at home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094119-0044-0000", "contents": "1972 Miami Dolphins season, The perfect season\nThe 1972 Dolphins consisted mostly of the same core of players that it possessed from 1970 through 1974 and was the most dominant NFL team during that stretch. In those five seasons, the Dolphins reached the playoffs all five years, won three AFC Championships, two Super Bowls and went undefeated and untied while winning the Super Bowl in 1972. They posted a record of 65\u201315\u20131, and were also the fastest franchise to win a Super Bowl after franchise inception and joining the NFL (seven years after starting in the AFL, three years after becoming a member of the NFL).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094119-0045-0000", "contents": "1972 Miami Dolphins season, Television coverage\nFans in the Miami area could not view the team's home games on television, as 1972 was the final year in which all NFL home games were blacked out on local television even if the stadium had sold out. To view the team's home games, Dolphins fans in the Miami-Dade area would have to attend home games in person or travel to outside markets such as Orlando and Jacksonville to watch the games on television.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 47], "content_span": [48, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094119-0046-0000", "contents": "1972 Miami Dolphins season, Television coverage\nSuper Bowl VII was the first game to be televised in the market of origin under new rules that would come into effect the following season requiring games to be sold out within 72 hours of kickoff time to be aired in the market of origin (these blackout rules were lifted in 2015). As all Super Bowls (except Super Bowl I) have sold out, none have been blacked out since.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 47], "content_span": [48, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094119-0047-0000", "contents": "1972 Miami Dolphins season, Television coverage\nPresident Richard Nixon, many of his White House staff, and members of Congress were angered by the blackout rules, as they could not watch the home games of the Dolphins\u2019 eventual Super Bowl opponent, the Redskins, even though all games at RFK Stadium had been sold out since 1966.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 47], "content_span": [48, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094119-0048-0000", "contents": "1972 Miami Dolphins season, 2013 White House visit\nFour decades later, on August 20, 2013, the team was invited by President Barack Obama to visit the White House. Obama noted that the team \"never got their White House visit.\" Asked why the team had not been invited by President Richard Nixon in 1973, Larry Csonka stated that he did not feel neglected as it had not been a regular occurrence at the time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094119-0048-0001", "contents": "1972 Miami Dolphins season, 2013 White House visit\nHowever, MSNBC reported that this was a deliberate snub by Nixon, who was a Redskins fan, even though Nixon owned a vacation home in nearby Key Biscayne, Florida and telephoned Shula only hours after the Dolphins defeated the Colts in the 1971 AFC Championship game to suggest a play for Miami to use in Super Bowl VI (a down-and-out pass to Warfield that was broken up by Cowboys safety Cornell Green). Obama had previously invited the 1985 Bears to the White House, as their original visit had been canceled because of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094119-0048-0002", "contents": "1972 Miami Dolphins season, 2013 White House visit\nObama, a Chicago resident and Bears fan, had called the 1985 Bears the greatest team ever, but during the Dolphins' visit, he called his own words into question, also noting that the 1985 Bears' only defeat came at the hands of the Dolphins. Bob Kuechenberg, Jim Langer, and Manny Fernandez all refused to attend because of their political differences with the Obama administration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094120-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Miami Gatos season\nThe 1972 Miami Gatos season was the first and only season of the new team, and the club's sixth season in professional soccer. It is also the first ever incarnation of the club's new name. Previously, they were known as the Washington Darts. This year, the team finished in fourth place in the Southern Division. They did not make the North American Soccer League playoffs. At the end of the year the club folded the team, relocated to a new stadium, rebranded themselves, and fielded a new team for the 1973 season called the Miami Toros.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094120-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Miami Gatos season, Competitions, NASL regular season\nW = Wins, L = Losses, T= Ties, GF = Goals For, GA = Goals Against, PT= point system", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 58], "content_span": [59, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094120-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Miami Gatos season, Competitions, NASL regular season\n6 points for a win, 3 points for a tie,0 points for a loss,1 point for each goal scored up to three per game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 58], "content_span": [59, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094121-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Miami Hurricanes football team\nThe 1972 Miami Hurricanes football team represented the University of Miami as an independent during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. Led by second-year head coach Fran Curci, the Hurricanes played their home games at the Miami Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida. Miami finished the season with a record of 5\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094122-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Miami Redskins football team\nThe 1972 Miami Redskins football team was an American football team that represented Miami University in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. In their fourth season under head coach Bill Mallory, Miami compiled a 7\u20133 record (2\u20133 against MAC opponents), finished in a tie for fourth place in the MAC, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 207 to 117. The team's defense allowed only 11.7 points per game, which ranked 12th among 128 NCAA University Division football teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094122-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Miami Redskins football team\nThe team's statistical leaders included quarterback Steve Williams with 676 passing yards, tailback Bob Hitchens with 1,370 rushing yards, and John Viher with 414 receiving yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094122-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Miami Redskins football team\nHitchens won the Miami most valuable player award and the MAC Offensive Player of the Year award. Mike Poff and Bob Williams were the team captains.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094123-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Michigan State Spartans football team\nThe 1972 Michigan State Spartans football team represented Michigan State University in the 1972 Big Ten Conference football season. In their 19th season under head coach Duffy Daugherty, the Spartans compiled a 5\u20135\u20131 overall record (5\u20132\u20131 against Big Ten opponents) and finished in fourth place in the Big Ten Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094123-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Michigan State Spartans football team\nFive Spartans were selected by either the Associated Press (AP) or the United Press International (UPI) as first-team players on the 1972 All-Big Ten Conference football team: tight end Billy Joe Dupree (AP-2, UPI-1); offensive guard Joe DeLamielleure (AP-1, UPI-1); linebacker Gail Clark (AP-1, UPI-1); and defensive backs Bill Simpson (AP-1, UPI-1) and Brad Van Pelt (AP-1, UPI-1).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094123-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Michigan State Spartans football team\nOn November 3, 1972, Duffy Daugherty announced that he would resign as Michigan State's head football coach at the end of the 1972 season. In 19 years as the head coach, he compiled a 109\u201369\u20135 record and won two Big Ten championships. Denny Stolz, who had been the Spartans' defensive coordinator for two years, was hired in December 1972 to replace Daugherty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094123-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Michigan State Spartans football team, Game summaries, Michigan\nOn October 14, 1972, Michigan State lost to Michigan, 10\u20130, in front of a crowd of 103,735 at Michigan Stadium. The game was Michigan's first shutout victory over Michigan State since 1947. Michigan scored on a 22-yard field goal by Mike Lantry in the second quarter and a 58-yard touchdown run by Gil Chapman in the fourth quarter. The Wolverines totaled 334 rushing yards, including 107 by Ed Shuttlesworth, 81 by Chuck Heater, and 64 by Dennis Franklin. The Spartans had a 24-yard touchdown run called back due to a clipping penalty, and their only other scoring threat ended when a hit from Dave Brown forced the Spartans' ball carrier to fumble into the end zone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 68], "content_span": [69, 737]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094124-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Michigan Wolverines football team\nThe 1972 Michigan Wolverines football team was an American football team that represented the University of Michigan in the 1972 Big Ten Conference football season. In their fourth season under head coach Bo Schembechler, the Wolverines compiled a 10\u20131 record, outscored opponents 264\u201357, and were ranked sixth in both final polls (Coaches and AP). Offensive guard Tom Coyle and defensive back Randy Logan were the team captains.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094124-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Michigan Wolverines football team\nMichigan won its first ten games with four conference shutouts (Northwestern, Michigan State, Minnesota, Iowa), and was ranked third in the AP Poll prior to its 14\u201311 road loss to rival Ohio State in late November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094124-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Michigan Wolverines football team\nTwo Wolverines were consensus first-team All-Americans \u2013 senior team captain Randy Logan and offensive tackle Paul Seymour. Schembecher won the first Big Ten Football Coach of the Year Award based on a poll of news media covering the conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094124-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Preseason\nThe 1971 team compiled an 11\u20131 record, outscored opponents 421 to 83, won the Big Ten Conference championship, and was ranked #4 in the final Coaches Poll and #6 in the final AP Poll. The Wolverines lost 13 starters from the 1971 team, including Mike Taylor, a consensus All-American linebacker, Reggie McKenzie, a consensus All-American at offensive guard, Billy Taylor, who set Michigan's career rushing record with 3,072 yards, and defensive back Thom Darden.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094124-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Preseason\nOn offense, the Wolverines' priorities going into the 1972 season included the development of a passing game, as Tom Slade, Larry Cipa and Kevin Casey had combined for less than 700 passing yards in 1971. Shortly before the season opener, coach Schembechler announced that sophomore Dennis Franklin would be the starting quarterback.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094124-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Preseason\nWith the loss of Billy Taylor, the Wolverines lacked a power running attack, and another priority was the development of a speed and quickness attack led by Gil Chapman and Harry Banks. The highlight of the spring game was a 60-yard pass play from Franklin to Chapman. Schembechler was quoted as saying of Chapman, \"He's the fastest player I've ever had at Michigan.\" Alan \"Cowboy\" Walker, who gained 403 yards in 1971, had been expected to be the Wolverines' lead tailback, but he quit the team before the season started.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094124-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Preseason\nTwo days before the season opener, former Michigan head coach Harry Kipke died at age 73.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094124-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Northwestern\nOn September 16, Michigan opened its 1972 season with a 7\u20130 victory over Northwestern before a crowd of 71,757 at Michigan Stadium. The Wolverines had been favored by 21 points, and their seven-point tally was the fewest scored by a Michigan team since 1967.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094124-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Northwestern\nMichigan's seven points were scored on a 21-yard touchdown pass from Dennis Franklin to Bo Rather and an extra point kick by Mike Lantry. Michigan's touchdown was set up by an interception by Michigan linebacker Craig Mutch which he returned 18 yards to Northwestern's 31-yard line. Coach Schembechler called Mutch's interception the \"key play of the game.\" Ed Shuttlesworth led Michigan's ground game with 75 yards on 17 carries. Northwestern's Jim Trimble rushed for 103 yards on 20 carries. The game featured two firsts in Michigan football history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 621]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094124-0008-0001", "contents": "1972 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Northwestern\nFirst, Dennis Franklin, starting his first game, became the first African-American quarterback to play for Michigan; Franklin completed four of nine passes for 60 yards and a touchdown. Second, the game was the first played in front of a sexually integrated Michigan Marching Band. Prior to 1972, the band had been an all-male unit. The 1972 band included six female musicians and a female twirler.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094124-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at UCLA\nOn September 23, #11 Michigan defeated #6 UCLA, 26\u20139, in front of a crowd of 57,129 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. UCLA was led by quarterback Mark Harmon, a junior college transfer and the son of Michigan legend Tom Harmon, and had opened the season two weeks earlier with a late night home upset of #1 Nebraska, halting the Huskers' unbeaten streak at 32 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 63], "content_span": [64, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094124-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at UCLA\nMichigan rushed for 381 yards, including 115 yards and two touchdowns by Ed Shuttlesworth, 78 yards and a touchdown by Harry Banks, 75 yards by Dennis Franklin, and 26 yards and a touchdown by Clint Haslerig. Mike Lantry successfully converted two of four extra point kicks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 63], "content_span": [64, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094124-0011-0000", "contents": "1972 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Tulane\nOn September 30, Michigan defeated Tulane, 41\u20137, in front of a crowd of 84,162 at Michigan Stadium. Michigan rushed for 298 yards, including 151 yards and three touchdowns by Ed Shuttlesworth, 51 yards by Chuck Heater, and 17 yards and a touchdown by Bob Thornbladh. Three Michigan quarterbacks also completed five of 12 passes for 50 yards. In addition, Gil Chapman returned a punt 49 yards and Randy Logan returned an interception 32 yards for touchdowns. Chapman returned seven punts in all for 90 yards. On defense, Michigan held Tulane to 56 rushing yards. Tulane did not score until the fourth quarter against Michigan's second- and third-string players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 723]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094124-0012-0000", "contents": "1972 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Navy\nOn October 7, Michigan defeated Navy, 35\u20137, in front of a crowd of 81,131 at Michigan Stadium. Quarterback Dennis Franklin ran six yards around the left end for the first touchdown in the second quarter. Michigan scored 28 points in the third quarter. The quarter began with Navy's Ike Owens fumbling the opening kickoff after being hit by defensive end Mark Jacoby. Franklin then threw a nine-yard touchdown pass to Bo Rather. Four minutes later, Dave Brown scored on an 83-yard punt return for touchdown, tying a Michigan school record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094124-0012-0001", "contents": "1972 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Navy\nChuck Heater scored next on a 13-yard run around left end on an option pitchout from Franklin. Michigan scored its fourth touchdown of the third quarter on a 10-yard touchdown pass from Franklin to Paul Seal. Mike Lantry successfully converted five of five extra points. Michigan led 35-0 at the end of the third quarter, but Navy scored a late touchdown on a short pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094124-0013-0000", "contents": "1972 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Michigan State\nOn October 14, Michigan defeated Michigan State, 10\u20130, in front of a crowd of 103,735 at Michigan Stadium. The game was Michigan's first shutout victory over Michigan since 1947. Michigan scored on a 22-yard field goal by Mike Lantry in the second quarter and a 58-yard touchdown run by Gil Chapman in the fourth quarter. The Wolverines totaled 334 rushing yards, including 107 by Ed Shuttlesworth, 81 by Chuck Heater, and 64 by Dennis Franklin. The Spartans had a 24-yard touchdown run called back due to a clipping penalty, and their only other scoring threat ended when a hit from Dave Brown forced the Spartans' ball carrier to fumble into the end zone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 728]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094124-0014-0000", "contents": "1972 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Illinois\nOn October 20, Michigan defeated Illinois, 31\u20137, in front of a crowd of 64,290 for the homecoming game at Memorial Stadium in Champaign, Illinois. The victory was Michigan's sixth in a row against Illinois. Sophomore tailback Chuck Heater led Michigan's rushing attack with 155 yards on 29 carries with touchdown runs in the first and second quarters. Quarterback Dennis Franklin completed seven of 12 passes for 105 yards, but he also had three turnovers \u2013 a fumble on the first play from scrimmage and two interceptions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 590]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094124-0014-0001", "contents": "1972 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Illinois\nEd Shuttlesworth contributed 70 rushing yards on 12 carries with a touchdown in the second quarter. Mike Lantry added a 31-yard field goal in the second quarter, and Michigan led 24-0 at halftime. Illinois scored late in the third quarter on an 18-yard run by George Uremovich, and Gil Chapman responded with a 73-yard kickoff return after the Illini touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094124-0015-0000", "contents": "1972 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Minnesota\nOn October 28, 1972, Michigan defeated Minnesota, 42\u20130, in front of a crowd of 84,190 at Michigan Stadium. Michigan's 42 points were its highest total of the season. Fullback Ed Shuttlesworth rushed for 86 yards on 19 carries and scored Michigan's first four touchdowns. Quarterback Dennis Franklin completed five of eight passes for 94 yards, rushed for 58 yards and scored a touchdown. Placekicker Mike Lantry converted all six extra points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094124-0016-0000", "contents": "1972 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Indiana\nOn November 4, Michigan defeated Indiana, 21\u20137, in front of a crowd of 41,336 on \"a dull, overcast day\" at Memorial Stadium, Bloomington, Indiana. Michigan's offense fumbled five times, playing without the team's leading rusher, Ed Shuttlesworth. Adding to the offensive woes, Dennis Franklin completed only two of 14 passes for 27 yards. Franklin ran nine yards for a touchdown in the second quarter, but Indiana tied the game at 7\u20137 early in the fourth quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094124-0016-0001", "contents": "1972 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Indiana\nLater in the fourth quarter, Michigan regained the lead on a 12-yard touchdown run by Franklin and then extended the lead on a 10-yard touchdown run by Chuck Heater. Bob Thornbladh, playing for the injured Shuttlesworth at fullback, was Michigan's leading rusher with 97 yards on 25 carries. Franklin totaled 85 rushing yards and two touchdowns on 24 carries. Mike Lantry kicked three extra points but missed a field goal attempt. After the game, coach Schembechler praised the defense, but called it \"the poorest offensive game of the year.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 609]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094124-0017-0000", "contents": "1972 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 9: at Iowa\nOn November 11, Michigan defeated Iowa, 31\u20130, in front of a crowd of 43,176 at the recently renamed Kinnick Stadium in Iowa City. Quarterback Dennis Franklin completed six of 11 passes for 107 yards and threw touchdown passes covering 15 yards to Paul Seal and 37 yards to Gil Chapman. Franklin also rushed for 37 yards and a touchdown. Bob Thornbladh, playing in place of injured Ed Shuttlesworth at fullback, rushed for 98 yards and scored a touchdown. Mike Lantry added a 30-yard field goal and four extra points. With Ohio State losing to Michigan State on the same afternoon, the victory over Iowa gave undefeated Michigan sole possession of first place in the Big Ten Conference standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 767]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094124-0018-0000", "contents": "1972 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 10: Purdue\nOn November 18, Michigan defeated Purdue, 9\u20136, in front of a crowd of 88,423 at Michigan Stadium. Purdue featured College Football Hall of Famers Dave Butz and Otis Armstrong, quarterback Gary Danielson, and receiver Darryl Stingley. Purdue took a 3\u20130 lead at halftime. Michigan scored a touchdown on its opening drive of the third quarter (an 11-yard pass from Dennis Franklin to Paul Seal), but Mike Lantry missed the extra point kick. At the end of the third quarter, Purdue kicked its second field goal to tie the game at 6\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094124-0018-0001", "contents": "1972 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 10: Purdue\nWith three minutes left in the game, the score remained a tie with Purdue having possession. At that point, Michigan's wolfman and co-captain Randy Logan intercepted a Danielson pass at Michigan's 40-yard line. From there, Dennis Franklin scrambled 19 yards to Purdue's 41-yard line. Tailback Chuck Heater advanced the ball to the Purdue 19-yard line with a 22-yard run. On fourth down, with 64 seconds left in the game, Mike Lantry, a Vietnam veteran who had earlier missed an extra point kick and squibbed a kickoff, kicked a 30-yard field goal to put Michigan in the lead. Purdue's defense held Michigan to 100 rushing yards, including 35 yards for Heater and 34 yards for Bob Thornbladh. Dennis Franklin completed 10 of 15 passes for 143 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 820]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094124-0019-0000", "contents": "1972 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Ohio State\nOn November 25, Michigan, ranked #3 in the AP Poll, lost 14\u201311 at #9 Ohio State in front of a crowd of 87,040 at Ohio Stadium. The game is one of the classic matches in The Ten Year War between head coaches Schembechler and Woody Hayes. Michigan had defeated Ohio State the prior year by a 10\u20137 score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094124-0020-0000", "contents": "1972 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Ohio State\nMike Lantry missed on 44-yard field goal attempt in the first quarter, but made a 35-yarder in the second quarter. Ohio State took the lead later in the quarter on a one-yard touchdown run by Champ Henson. Shortly before halftime, Michigan drove the ball to the Ohio State one-yard line, but the Ohio State held on three rushes inside the one-yard line, and Dennis Franklin then fumbled on fourth down at the two-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094124-0021-0000", "contents": "1972 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Ohio State\nOhio State extended its lead to 14\u20133 on a 30-yard touchdown run by Archie Griffin in the third quarter. Later in the third quarter, Ed Shuttlesworth scored with a one-yard run on fourth down. Dennis Franklin completed a pass to Clint Haslerig for a two-point conversion, cutting Ohio State's lead to three points. In a memorable goal-line stand in the fourth quarter, Michigan running back Harry Banks crossed the goal line on a second effort, but the officials ruled the play had been whistled dead inside the one-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094124-0021-0001", "contents": "1972 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Ohio State\nCoach Schembechler opted not to kick a field goal that would have tied the game and sent the Wolverines to the 1973 Rose Bowl. Instead, Schembechler called for a quarterback sneak on fourth down, and Randy Gradishar stopped Franklin short of the goal line. The Buckeyes' fans rushed onto the field and tore down the goal posts with 13 seconds remaining.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094124-0022-0000", "contents": "1972 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Ohio State\nFranklin completed 13 of 23 passes for 160 yards and also rushed for 30 yards. Michigan's defense held Ohio State to one pass completion, and the Wolverines out-gained the Buckeyes with 344 yards of total offense to 179 for Ohio State. However, Michigan's inability to score on two drives inside the Ohio State five-yard line gave the victory to the Buckeyes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094124-0023-0000", "contents": "1972 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Post-season\nPrior to the 1975 season, the Big Ten and Pac-8 conferences allowed only one postseason participant each, for the Rose Bowl. With a 10\u20131 record in 1972, Michigan did not play in a bowl game, despite its top ten ranking (#8 AP, #6 UPI) at the end of the regular season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094124-0024-0000", "contents": "1972 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Post-season\nTwo Michigan players, defensive back Randy Logan and offensive tackle Paul Seymour, were consensus first-team selections for the 1972 College Football All-America Team. In addition, 11 Michigan players received honors on the 1972 All-Big Ten Conference football team: Seymour (AP-1, UPI-1), Logan (AP-1, UPI-1), offensive guard Tom Coyle (AP-1, UPI-1), defensive lineman Fred Grambau (AP-1, UPI-1), defensive back Dave Brown, (AP-2, UPI-1), defensive end Clint Spearman (UPI-1), fullback Ed Shuttlesworth (UPI-1), quarterback Dennis Franklin (AP-2, UPI-2), linebacker Tom Kee (AP-2, UPI-2), offensive tackle Jim Coode (UPI-2), and center Bill Hart (AP-2).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 723]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094124-0025-0000", "contents": "1972 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Post-season\nAt the Michigan football bust in Detroit on December 4, Randy Logan was presented with the Lewis B. Hyde Memorial Award as the most valuable player on the 1972 team, based on the vote of his teammates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094124-0026-0000", "contents": "1972 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Post-season\nOn December 11, Michigan's defensive coordinator Jim Young was hired as the head coach for the University of Arizona Wildcats football team. Offensive line coach Larry Smith and graduate assistant Mike Hankwitz also left the Michigan staff in December 1972 to join Young in Arizona. Four weeks later, Michigan hired Jack Harbaugh as its defensive backs coach, beginning a long connection between the Harbaugh family and the Michigan football program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094124-0027-0000", "contents": "1972 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Post-season\nOn January 3, 1973, the Associated Press released its final rankings for the 1972 season. Undefeated USC received all fifty first-place votes, with Michigan ranked sixth and Ohio State ninth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094124-0028-0000", "contents": "1972 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Post-season\nOn January 24, 1973, Schembecher was announced as the winner of the first Big Ten Football Coach of the Year Award. The award was based on a poll of news media covering the conference. Three days later, Michigan athletic director Don Canham announced that Schembechler, who had compiled a 38-6 record in his first four seasons at Michigan, had been granted a new five-year contract.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094124-0029-0000", "contents": "1972 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Post-season, NFL Draft\nIn the 1973 NFL Draft, the following Michigan players were selected:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 78], "content_span": [79, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094124-0030-0000", "contents": "1972 Michigan Wolverines football team, Players, Offensive letter winners\nThe following players won varsity letters for their participation on the team's offensive unit. Players who were starters in at least half of the team's games are shown with their names in bold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 73], "content_span": [74, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094124-0031-0000", "contents": "1972 Michigan Wolverines football team, Players, Defensive letter winners\nThe following players won varsity letters for their participation on the team's defensive unit. Players who were starters in at least half of the team's games are shown with their names in bold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 73], "content_span": [74, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094124-0032-0000", "contents": "1972 Michigan Wolverines football team, Players, Others\nThe following players did not win varsity letters, but participated as backups or as members of the junior varsity (JV) or all freshman (AF) teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094125-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Milan\u2013San Remo\nThe 1972 Milan\u2013San Remo was the 63rd edition of the Milan\u2013San Remo cycle race and was held on 18 March 1972. The race started in Milan and finished in San Remo. The race was won by Eddy Merckx of the Molteni team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094126-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Miller High Life 500\nThe 1972 Miller High Life 500 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series racing event that took place on March 5, 1972, at Ontario Motor Speedway in Ontario, California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094126-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Miller High Life 500, Race report\nTwo hundred laps took place on a paved track spanning 2.500 miles (4.023\u00a0km); the race was resolved in three hours and fifty-six minutes. With a purse larger than the previous month's Daytona 500, 113 cars were waiting in line to compete in three qualifying sessions to fill the 51-car grid. An unprecedented number of teams failed to qualify for the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094126-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Miller High Life 500, Race report\nGiven the economic outlook of that era, it was amazing that 113 cars would try to earn a spot on the racing grid (with only a 45% chance of actually qualifying for the race). All of the drivers who qualified were born in the United States. Clem Proctor won the 100-lap Sportsman race that was held the day before this race in a 1963 Thunderbird.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094126-0002-0001", "contents": "1972 Miller High Life 500, Race report\nThe 1971 winner George Follmer withdrew after his owner had a dispute with the way NASCAR was inspecting the cars, seems like only two cars (Follmer's and Sonny Easley's) were being checked with templates as both were 1968 models and everything else was older. This would be the first of five consecutive races where the pole winner won the race, only time in NASCAR this has happened.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094126-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Miller High Life 500, Race report\nFoyt was ridiculously faster than my Chevy down the straights.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094126-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Miller High Life 500, Race report\nA. J. Foyt defeated Bobby Allison by 4.2 seconds in front of nearly 69,000 live spectators. This victory would be as equally impressive as his wins at the 1964 Firecracker 400 and the 1972 Daytona 500. The pole position was achieved by the race winner qualifying at a speed of 153.217 miles per hour (246.579\u00a0km/h). Four cautions slowed the race for 31 laps and the average racing speed was 127.082 miles per hour (204.519\u00a0km/h). Jim Vandiver would earn the last-place finish due to an engine issue on the very first lap of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094126-0004-0001", "contents": "1972 Miller High Life 500, Race report\nCountry music legend Marty Robbins would compete in this race in a 1972 Dodge Charger vehicle; he started in 22nd and ended in 8th place. After the race, Robbins was named as the \"Sportsman of the Race.\" The winner's purse for the 1972 Miller High Life 500 was $31,695 ($193,725.29 when adjusted for inflation).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094126-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Miller High Life 500, Race report\nDrivers that retired from NASCAR after this race were: Cliff Garner, Ron Gautsche, Les Loeser, and Don White. The drivers who commenced their NASCAR Cup Series careers during this race were: Carl Adams, Bill Butts, former USAC Championship Car series driver George Follmer, and Jim Whitt. Follmer would eventually go back to USAC Championship Car racing for its 1974 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094126-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Miller High Life 500, Race report\nNotable crew chiefs who actively participated in the race were Richard Elder, Junie Donvaley, Harry Hyde, Dale Inman, and Tom Vandiver.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094126-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Miller High Life 500, Race report, Qualifying\nFailed to qualify: Pat Fay (#99), Bill Shirey (#74), Perry Cottingham (#73), Dale Lee (#65), Tru Cheek (#62), Don Graham (#57W), Ken Shoemaker (#56), Jerry Barnett (#55), John Fairchild (#50), Sam Stanley (#47W), Bill Seifert (#45), D.K. Ulrich (#40), George Wiltshire (#39), Jimmy Insolo (#38), Joe Frasson (#78), Marion Collins (#78W), Dick May (#84), Richard Childress (#96), Harry Jefferson (#94), Larry Smith (#92), Verlin Eaker (#91), Richard D. Brown (#91), Bill Dennis (#90), Clint Hutchins (#89W), Les Covey (#89), Mike Saint (#88W), Ron Keselowski (#88), Allen Jennings (#86), Dan Geiger (#85), Harry Schilling (#84W), Don Tarr (#37), Frank Burnett (#36), Ed Negre (#8), Bob England (#8W), Steve Pfeifer (#08), Ivan Baldwin (#07), Charlie Glotzbach (#6), Jerry Oliver (#6W), Neil Castles (#06), Doc Faustina (#5), John Sears (#4), Emiliano Zapata (#04), Tommy Gale (#03), Johnny Steele (#2), Frank James (#00W), John Lyons (#9), Phillip Pedlar (#11W), Larry Esau (#12W), Bub Strickler (#35), Gene Riniker (#34W), Wendell Scott (#34), Glenn Francis (#33), Johnny Halford (#32), Carl Joiner (#26), Chuck Hetrick (#25W), Jabe Thomas (#25), Jim Gilliam (#24W), Nels Miller (#21W), Paul Dorrity (#15), Arnie Krueger (#14W), Willie McNeal (#14), Bobby Mausgrover (#00)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 50], "content_span": [51, 1323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094127-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Milwaukee Brewers season\nThe 1972 Milwaukee Brewers season involved the Brewers' finishing sixth in the American League East with a record of 65 wins and 91 losses. Because of the move of the Washington Senators to Texas, the Brewers shifted from the AL West to the AL East.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094127-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Milwaukee Brewers season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094127-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Milwaukee Brewers season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094127-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Milwaukee Brewers season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094127-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Milwaukee Brewers season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; Games started; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094127-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Milwaukee Brewers season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings Pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094127-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Milwaukee Brewers season, Farm system\nThe Brewers' farm system consisted of four minor league affiliates in 1972. The Evansville Triplets won the American Association championship, and the Danville Warriors won the Midwest League championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 42], "content_span": [43, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094128-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Milwaukee Panthers football team\nThe 1972 Milwaukee Panthers football team represented the University of Wisconsin\u2013Milwaukee in the 1972 NCAA College Division football season. The Panthers offense scored 150 points while the defense allowed 103 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094129-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team\nThe 1972 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team represented the University of Minnesota in the 1972 Big Ten Conference football season. In their first year under head coach Cal Stoll, the Golden Gophers compiled a 4\u20137 record and were outscored by their opponents by a combined total of 304 to 185.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094129-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team\nFullback John King received the team's Most Valuable Player award. King was also named All-Big Ten first team. Defensive back Tim Alderson was named All-Big Ten second team. Offensive lineman Doug Kingsriter was named Academic All-Big Ten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094129-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team\nTotal attendance for the season was 221,553, which averaged to 36,925. The season high for attendance was against Iowa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094130-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Minnesota Twins season\nThe 1972 Minnesota Twins finished 77\u201377, third in the American League West.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094130-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Minnesota Twins season, Regular season\nOn May 12, in a twenty-two inning match which concluded a day later, Danny Thompson went 0 for 10 with a sacrifice bunt, dropping his batting average 39 points over one game. He and C\u00e9sar Tovar set a team record with their eleven plate appearances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094130-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Minnesota Twins season, Regular season\nAfter a slow start, manager Bill Rigney was replaced by Frank Quilici in early July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094130-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Minnesota Twins season, Regular season\nOn July 9, Rich Reese hit his third pinch-hit grand slam home run, tying a major league record in doing so.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094130-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Minnesota Twins season, Regular season\nRothsay, Minnesota, native Dave Goltz made his major league debut on July 18 \u2013 he is the first Minnesotan drafted by the Minnesota Twins to make the big league club. He gave up one hit in 3\u2154 innings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094130-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Minnesota Twins season, Regular season\nOnly one Twin made the All-Star Game: second baseman Rod Carew.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094130-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Minnesota Twins season, Regular season\nOn July 31, pitcher Bert Blyleven gave up two inside-the-park home runs, both to the Chicago White Sox Dick Allen. When this next occurs in the major leagues (October 4, 1986), Blyleven is again on the mound. But the feat is accomplished this time by his Minnesota teammate Greg Gagne.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094130-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Minnesota Twins season, Regular season\nWhen C\u00e9sar Tovar hit for the cycle on September 19, he finished with a game-ending home run. The only other player to do that in history was Ken Boyer (1961). In later years, and after such a hit became known as a \"walk-off home run\", the feat was duplicated by George Brett (1979), Dwight Evans (1984), and Carlos Gonz\u00e1lez (2010). Tovar is just the second Twin to hit for the cycle, after Rod Carew in 1970; eight more Twins will do so by 2009.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094130-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 Minnesota Twins season, Regular season\nCarew won his second AL batting title with a .318 average. Bobby Darwin showed potential as a hitter with 22 HR and 80 RBI, but that did not make up for age and injuries taking their toll on other players. (Those numbers were also suppressed by his Twins-record 145 strikeouts.) Harmon Killebrew hit 26 HR (4th in the league) but drove in only 75 runs. Tony Oliva's bad knees limited him to only 10 games. C\u00e9sar Tovar led the team with 86 runs scored. Four pitchers had double digit wins: Bert Blyleven (17\u201317), Dick Woodson (14\u201314), Jim Perry (13\u201316), and Jim Kaat (10\u20132). Kaat also won his 11th Gold Glove Award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094130-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 Minnesota Twins season, Regular season\n797,901 fans attended Twins games, the seventh highest total in the American League. It was almost half the number of fans that had attended just a few seasons earlier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094130-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 Minnesota Twins season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 72], "content_span": [73, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094130-0011-0000", "contents": "1972 Minnesota Twins season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094130-0012-0000", "contents": "1972 Minnesota Twins season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 70], "content_span": [71, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094130-0013-0000", "contents": "1972 Minnesota Twins season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 67], "content_span": [68, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094130-0014-0000", "contents": "1972 Minnesota Twins season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 68], "content_span": [69, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094131-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Minnesota Vikings season\nThe 1972 season was the Minnesota Vikings' 12th in the National Football League. It marked the return of Fran Tarkenton to the Vikings after he had been traded to the New York Giants in 1967. In return, Minnesota sent three players to the Giants (Norm Snead, Bob Grim and Vince Clements), plus first- and second-round draft picks. Tarkenton's return also resulted in Gary Cuozzo, who had been with the team since 1968, being traded to the St. Louis Cardinals in a deal that sent wide receiver John Gilliam to the Vikings along with second- and fourth-round draft picks in 1973. Cardinals coach Bob Hollway was familiar with Cuozzo, having served as Minnesota's defensive coordinator under Bud Grant prior to leaving for St. Louis in 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 768]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094131-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Minnesota Vikings season\nThe Vikings finished with a record of seven wins and seven losses, 4 games worse than their 11\u20133 record from 1971. This would be one of only two times during the 1970s in which the Vikings failed to reach the playoffs, as they would win the NFC Central six straight years from 1973\u20131978 before posting a 7\u20139 record in 1979.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094131-0001-0001", "contents": "1972 Minnesota Vikings season\nThe Vikings started the season with just one win in their first four games, including a surprising 19-17 loss to the lightly-regarded Cardinals in week four, when Gary Cuozzo bested his former team as Vikings kicker Fred Cox hit the upright on a potential game-winning field goal. The team recovered from their slow start, winning five of their next six to sit at 6\u20134. However, the Vikings would lose three of their final four games to finish the season at an even 7\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094131-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 3: vs. Miami Dolphins\nThe Dolphins traveled to Metropolitan Stadium in Minnesota for a match against the Vikings in week 9. Miami trailed Minnesota for much of the game. In the first quarter, the Vikings scored a touchdown via a 56-yard pass from quarterback Fran Tarkenton to wide receiver John Gilliam. With no further scoring in the first or second quarters, the Vikings led 7\u20130 at halftime. As Tarkenton attempted another pass to Gilliam early in the third quarter, cornerback Tim Foley intercepted and returned the ball to Minnesota's 37-yard line. Dolphins kicker Garo Yepremian kicked a 51-yard field goal and later a 42-yard field goal with 5:23 left in the third quarter after Miami re-gained possession. The Vikings then executed an 80-yard, 13-play drive which consumed all time remaining in the third quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 89], "content_span": [90, 889]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094131-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 3: vs. Miami Dolphins\nAs the fourth quarter started, Minnesota scored a touchdown via a 1-yard run by running back Bill Brown, with the score being 14\u20136. After the Dolphins re-gained possession, Vikings linebacker Roy Winston intercepted Bob Griese. However, the No-Name Defense stopped Minnesota's subsequent drive with two sacks on Tarkenton. Miami's next drive, which included a 22-yard double reverse pass from wide receiver Marlin Briscoe to tight end Jim Mandich, ended with a 51-yard field goal by Yepremian. The Dolphins defense then stalled the Vikings next drive and took possession at the Miami 41-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 89], "content_span": [90, 687]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094131-0003-0001", "contents": "1972 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 3: vs. Miami Dolphins\nAfter 39\u00a0seconds, 6\u00a0plays, and a penalty for roughing the passer, Miami scored a touchdown \u2013 a 3-yard pass from Grise to Mandich. The Dolphins thus took a 16\u201314 lead. With one minute and twenty-eight seconds left, the Vikings attempted to reach field goal range. With little time left, Tarkenton threw a Hail Mary pass at the Minnesota 28-yard line, but was intercepted by Dolphins defensive back Lloyd Mumphord. Miami won by a score of 16\u201314, sacking Tarkenton five times, and improved to 3\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 89], "content_span": [90, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094131-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 11: at Pittsburgh Steelers\nPittsburgh came into the game 5\u20130 at home for the season, while Minnesota was riding a four-game win streak. It was quite windy in the stadium at gametime, as the ball blew off the tee twice during the opening kickoff. Once it was kicked, the Vikings began with a good return to their own 45-yard line, but went three-and-out. They got the ball back quickly on the Steelers' opening drive, as John Fuqua fumbled the ball on a bad exchange, recovered by Carl Eller at the Pittsburgh 20.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 94], "content_span": [95, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094131-0004-0001", "contents": "1972 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 11: at Pittsburgh Steelers\nThe possession led to a 24-yard field goal after Minnesota only gained three yards. The Vikings followed with a low kickoff due to the wind conditions, and Pittsburgh started again from their own 48, but punted without a first down. The Vikings got the game rolling in an unusual way, extending their possession when Ed Marinaro fumbled a catch and teammate John Gilliam ran it across the 50-yard line. Despite a good drive, the Vikings were held scoreless after failing to gain a foot on a fourth down attempt at the 8. The Steelers then punted again, and late in the first quarter got a turnover at the Vikings' 12 when Bill Brown fumbled. Franco Harris scored untouched on the next play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 94], "content_span": [95, 785]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094131-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 11: at Pittsburgh Steelers\nThe Vikings continued their miscues in the second quarter, as their possession stalled with penalties and the snap was bobbled on the punt, although punter Mike Eischeid performed a fantastic improvised punt while scrambling. It began raining at this point, and after a Steelers punt, the Vikings drove all the way to the 4-yard line, only to settle for a bobbled field goal attempt for a turnover. The Steelers gave it back on an interception by Charlie West, but a field goal attempt by the Vikings from 50 missed badly. The half ended with the Steelers holding a 7\u20133 lead despite the Vikings holding a 140\u201384 edge in total yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 94], "content_span": [95, 727]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094131-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 11: at Pittsburgh Steelers\nThe second half started with a Steelers punt, and then a Vikings punt which the Steelers fumbled at their own 47 after a good return. The Vikings recovered and drove to the 7-yard line but, incredibly, they again bobbled a field goal attempt and again failed to gain any points. On the following Steelers possession, they hit on a big play with a swing pass to Ron Shanklin, which went from their own 39 to the Vikings 19 and set up a field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 94], "content_span": [95, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094131-0006-0001", "contents": "1972 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 11: at Pittsburgh Steelers\nThe teams each traded punts twice, until the Vikings neared the goal line again on a 63-yard catch-and-run by John Gilliam. They finally found the end zone with the next play on a swing pass to tight end Stu Voigt, tying the score at 10\u201310 with about nine minutes left in the fourth quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 94], "content_span": [95, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094131-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 11: at Pittsburgh Steelers\nThe Steelers quickly responded with a 61-yard Franco Harris run to the 1-yard line, giving Harris 100-plus rushing yards for the fifth consecutive game. The Steelers scored with a QB sneak by Terry Bradshaw on the following play. The extra point was blocked, and the Steelers led 16\u201310. They quickly got the ball back, taking Minnesota's punt to the Vikings 39, but were held to a missed field goal attempt. The Vikings then took their last meaningful shot, but failed on fourth down at their own 29. The Steelers then sealed the game with a touchdown catch by Frank Lewis, making the final 23\u201310.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 94], "content_span": [95, 692]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094132-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Mississippi State Bulldogs football team\nThe 1972 Mississippi State Bulldogs football team represented Mississippi State University during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. After the season, head coach Charles Shira, who had compiled a 16\u201345\u20132 record over six seasons, stepped down and focused solely on athletic director duties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094133-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Missouri Southern Lions football team\nThe 1972 Missouri Southern Lions football team represented Missouri Southern State College during the 1972 NAIA Division II football season, and completed the 6th season of Lion football at the senior college level. The Lions played their home games in Joplin, Missouri. The 1972 team came off a 4\u20136 record from the prior season. The 1972 team was headed by coach Jim Frazier. The team finished the regular season with an undefeated 10\u20130 record and made the program's first appearance in the NAIA playoffs. They won their first NAIA Division II Football National Championship with a 21\u201314 win over Northwestern College.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 662]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094134-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Missouri Tigers football team\nThe 1972 Missouri Tigers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Missouri in the Big Eight Conference (Big 8) during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. The team compiled a 6\u20136 record (3\u20134 against Big 8 opponents), finished in a tie for fourth place in the Big 8, and was outscored by opponents by a combined total of 311 to 219. Al Onofrio was the head coach for the second of seven seasons. The team played its home games at Faurot Field in Columbia, Missouri.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094134-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Missouri Tigers football team\nThe team's statistical leaders included Tommy Reamon with 454 rushing yards, John Cherry with 861 passing yards and 1,094 yards of total offense, Jon Bastable with 362 receiving yards, and Greg Hill with 61 points scored.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094135-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Missouri gubernatorial election\nThe 1972 Missouri gubernatorial election was held on November 7, 1972, and resulted in a victory for the Republican nominee, incumbent State Auditor of Missouri Kit Bond, over the Democratic nominee, Edward L. Dowd, and Nonpartisan Paul J. Leonard. Joseph P. Teasdale was a candidate for the Democratic Party nomination, before winning the nomination in the 1976 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094136-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Missouri lieutenant gubernatorial election\nThe 1972 Missouri lieutenant gubernatorial election was held on November 7, 1972. Republican nominee Bill Phelps narrowly defeated Democratic nominee Jack J. Schramm with 50.14% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094137-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Mizoram Legislative Assembly election\nThe first elections to the Mizoram Legislative Assembly were held on 8 April 1972 to elect members of the 30 constituencies in Mizoram, India. After the elections, C. Chhunga was appointed as the first Chief Minister of Mizoram.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094137-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Mizoram Legislative Assembly election\nMizoram in Northeast India was, in 1972, a newly created Union Territory, after the passing of the North-Eastern Areas (Reorganisation) Act, 1971. It was assigned a Legislative Assembly of 30 members.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094138-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Monaco Grand Prix\nThe 1972 Monaco Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Monaco on May 14, 1972. It was race 4 of 12 in both the 1972 World Championship of Drivers and the 1972 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers. The track was substantially modified from 1971, in the interest of safety. The pits were moved to the harbor front, between the chicane and Tabac, and a new chicane was placed near Tabac. Jean-Pierre Beltoise's victory was the only one of his Formula One World Championship career, and the last for BRM.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094139-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Mongolian National Championship\nThe 1972 Mongolian National Championship was the ninth recorded edition of the Mongolian National Championship for football, with the first tournament taking place in 1955 and no tournament held the previous year. It would appear however that championships were contested between 1956 and 1963, as sources note that a team called Aldar won the title on numerous occasions during that time. Nonetheless, the 1971 national championship was won by Khudulmur (literally: Labour or Workers and also romanised as H\u00f6d\u00f6lm\u00f6r), their third title following victory in the 1964 and 1966 championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094140-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Montana Grizzlies football team\nThe 1972 Montana Grizzlies football team was an American football team that represented the University of Montana in the Big Sky Conference during the 1972 NCAA College Division football season. In their sixth year under head coach Jack Swarthout, the team compiled an 3\u20138 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094141-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Montana State Bobcats football team\nThe 1972 Montana State Bobcats football team was an American football team that represented Montana State University in the Big Sky Conference during the 1972 NCAA College Division football season. In their second season under head coach Sonny Holland, the Bobcats compiled an 8\u20133 record (5\u20131 against Big Sky opponents) and won the Big Sky championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094142-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Montana gubernatorial election\nThe 1972 Montana gubernatorial election took place on November 7, 1972. Incumbent Governor of Montana Forrest H. Anderson, who was first elected in 1968, declined to seek re-election. Thomas Lee Judge, the Lieutenant Governor of Montana, won a competitive Democratic primary, and moved on to the general election, where he faced Ed Smith, a rancher and the Republican nominee. Although then-President Richard Nixon won the state in a landslide in that year's presidential election, Judge managed to handily defeat Smith, winning his first of two terms as governor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094143-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Monte Carlo Open\nThe 1972 Monte Carlo Open was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Monte Carlo Country Club in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France. The tournament was part of the WCT Tour, which was incorporated into the 1972 Commercial Union Assurance Grand Prix circuit. It was the 66th edition of the event and was held from 27 March through 3 April 1972. Ilie N\u0103stase won the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094143-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Monte Carlo Open, Finals, Doubles\nPatrice Beust / Daniel Contet defeated Ji\u0159\u00ed H\u0159ebec / Franti\u0161ek P\u00e1la 3\u20136, 6\u20131, 12\u201310, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 38], "content_span": [39, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094144-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Expos season\nThe 1972 Montreal Expos season was the fourth season in the history of the franchise. The Expos finished in fifth place in the National League East with a record of 70\u201386, 26\u00bd games behind the Pittsburgh Pirates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094144-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Expos season, Spring training\nThe Expos held spring training at West Palm Beach Municipal Stadium in West Palm Beach, Florida, a facility they shared with the Atlanta Braves. It was their fourth season at the stadium. The following season, the Expos would move their spring training activities to City Island Ball Park in Daytona Beach, Florida, where they would train through 1980 before returning to West Palm Beach Municipal Stadium for the 1981 through 1997 seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 43], "content_span": [44, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094144-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Expos season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 71], "content_span": [72, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094144-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Expos season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094144-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Expos season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 69], "content_span": [70, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094144-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Expos season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 66], "content_span": [67, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094144-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Expos season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 67], "content_span": [68, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery\nThe 1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery, sometimes called the Skylight Caper, took place very early in the morning of September 4 of that year. Three armed robbers used a skylight under repair to gain entry to the museum from its roof, tied up the three guards on duty, and left on foot with 18 paintings, including a rare Rembrandt landscape and works by Jan Brueghel the Elder, Corot, Delacroix, Rubens, and Thomas Gainsborough, as well as some figurines and jewellery. One of the Brueghels was returned by the thieves as an initiative to start ransom negotiations. None of the other paintings has ever been recovered and the robbers have never been arrested or even publicly identified, although there is at least one informal suspect.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 786]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery\nCollectively, the missing paintings have been valued at $11.7 million in 2017 dollars; although their value may have diminished since the theft as scholars have called the attribution of some of the works into question. However, the Rembrandt alone has been valued at $1 million; in 2003 The Globe and Mail estimated it to have appreciated in value to $20 million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0001-0001", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery\nThe thieves appeared to know what works they were looking for; many of the works had been part of Masterpieces from Montreal, a travelling exhibition that had been to many museums in the U.S. and Canada prior to Expo 67, as well as some other special exhibits put on by the museum in the preceding years. It is not only the largest art theft in Canada but the largest theft in Canadian history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery\nInvestigation of the crime proved difficult in the early going, since it occurred over the Labour Day holiday weekend, when many of the museum's officials including its director were vacationing far away from Montreal. It was further complicated by continuing news coverage of the Blue Bird Caf\u00e9 fire, Montreal's deadliest arson, three days earlier, dominating the headlines; the next day the killings of Israeli athletes by Palestinian terrorists at the Olympics in Munich further diminished media coverage. A sting operation conceived after the thieves returned the Brueghel (later reattributed to his students) and mailed photos of the other works to the museum seeking a ransom payment went awry; a later attempt to negotiate their return cost the museum $10,000 with no results.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 825]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery\nThe thieves took advantage of weakened security, resulting from the renovations at the museum, which had left the skylight's alarm disabled. The renovations and the security flaws were themselves a consequence of the museum's tightening finances, which had worsened during the 1960s as many of the wealthy Anglophone community in Montreal that had supported the museum since its founding in 1860 began to leave for Toronto due to increasing concerns over Quebec separatism, especially after terrorist acts by the Front de lib\u00e9ration du Qu\u00e9bec had led to martial law in the Montreal area two years earlier. S\u00fbret\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Interpol continue to investigate the crime. Theories as to who might be responsible have ranged from the Montreal Mafia to Quebec separatists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 846]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery, Background\nThe Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) was established in 1860 as the Art Association of Montreal, to encourage art appreciation in the city. It did not start to exhibit works until the late 1870s and 1880s, when wealthy patrons who had prospered from Canada's industrialization began to donate both cash and works, and it was soon able to build Canada's first space explicitly intended for the exhibition of art. In 1913 it built what is currently its main building, now known as the Michal and Renata Hornstein Pavilion, on Sherbrooke Street in the neighborhood known even today as the Golden Square Mile, because it was home to many of the wealthiest and most successful families in Canada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 748]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery, Background\nThese patrons were predominantly of British descent, all members of Montreal's Anglophone elite. At the end of the 1950s, their political and economic domination of the city began to yield to its majority Francophone population, as Quebec separatism began to gain political influence in the province as a whole. Fearing the consequences should the province succeed in seceding, and mindful of the terrorist attacks of the Front de lib\u00e9ration du Qu\u00e9bec which had led to martial law being declared in the city in 1970, the Anglophone elite began leaving the city over the course of the 1960s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery, Background\nThis slowly deprived the museum of much of its traditional financial support. In 1957, Bill Bantey, a former journalist who was appointed the museum's head of public relations, began reaching out for the first time in its history to Francophones, with some success. But the contributions from newer philanthropists in the city were not as much as their predecessors had been able to give, and public funds from the province only covered 40 percent of the museum's annual budget.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery, Background\nAs a result, the museum was having to cut back financially in the early 1970s, going from a strictly private institution to a semi-public nonprofit organization. The museum needed to expand, and it needed to renovate the 1913 William Sutherland Maxwell Beaux-Arts building on Sherbrooke Street. The latter was particularly unsuited to the demands of a late-20th century art museum, with many cramped rooms and corridors. The museum planned to close it in 1973 for a three-year renovation project.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery, Background, Previous thefts and attempts\nOn two prior occasions thieves took, or attempted to take, works from the museum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 83], "content_span": [84, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery, Background, Previous thefts and attempts\nOne night in 1933, a person who had hidden in the museum overnight passed 14 paintings, mostly by Canadian artists, to someone else through an open window in the women's lavatory. Later the museum received a ransom note asking $10,000 for the return of the paintings. Three months later, the English-language Montreal Star and the French La Presse each received half of one of the paintings in the mail. A note along with them said if a ransom of 25 percent of the remaining paintings' total value was not paid, they too would be returned in pieces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 83], "content_span": [84, 633]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery, Background, Previous thefts and attempts\nThe paintings were recovered before that could occur when Paul Thouin, a petty criminal, was arrested after burglarizing a rail freight car. During interrogation, he confessed to stealing the paintings and led police to where he had buried them, wrapped in a tarpaulin with newspapers, in a one-metre-deep (3\u00a0ft) sandpit near the village of L'\u00c9piphanie a short distance northeast of Montreal. Thouin, who had shot and killed a police officer attempting to apprehend him in a railroad warehouse, was reportedly terrified at the prospect of being returned to prison for what would likely be a very long time. He committed suicide by poisoning himself with a concealed dose of strychnine in the police lockup that night, before he could stand trial.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 83], "content_span": [84, 830]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0011-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery, Background, Previous thefts and attempts\nA gang of armed robbers attempted to steal some van Gogh paintings during a special exhibition of the artist's work at the museum in 1960. They were foiled and escaped. They have never been identified.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 83], "content_span": [84, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0012-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery, Background, Labour Day weekend 1972 in Montreal\nIn Montreal, Labour Day weekend of 1972 began with two major news events, neither of them well-received. On the night of Friday, September 1, four men who had been refused entry to a downtown country-and-western bar for being too intoxicated retaliated by setting the club's steps afire; the ensuing blaze killed 37, making it the deadliest fire in the city in 45 years. On the following evening, the Soviet national hockey team defeated their Canadian counterparts 7\u20133 in the first game of the Summit Series at the Montreal Forum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 90], "content_span": [91, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0012-0001", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery, Background, Labour Day weekend 1972 in Montreal\nCanadians, who had expected their team, composed of National Hockey League stars, to overwhelmingly defeat the Soviets, who had only begun competing in international ice hockey a quarter-century earlier, at what Canadians considered their national sport were stunned. Fans in Montreal were eagerly looking ahead to the next game in the series, to be held Monday evening in Toronto.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 90], "content_span": [91, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0013-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery, Background, Labour Day weekend 1972 in Montreal\nAt the museum, the board president, director, and director of security were all on vacation in either the United States or Mexico for the holiday weekend. Bantey, the public relations director, was the most senior official in charge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 90], "content_span": [91, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0014-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery, Robbery\nShortly after midnight on the morning of September 4, police believe, a group of three men gathered out in front of the museum on Sherbrooke Street. They went to the museum's west wall, between it and the Church of St. Andrew and St. Paul. One of the men, who had the same sort of pick-equipped boots used by utility-company workers to climb telephone poles, went up a tree next to the museum and got high enough in it to gain access to the roof. He was able to find a ladder, and lowered it to the other two, who climbed up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 50], "content_span": [51, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0015-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery, Robbery\nOnce the group was on the roof, they went to a skylight that had been covered by a plastic sheet in the course of some ongoing work. They opened the skylight, without setting off any alarm as the plastic sheet had rendered it inoperative, and lowered a 15-metre (49\u00a0ft) nylon rope to the museum's second floor. All three slid down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 50], "content_span": [51, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0016-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery, Robbery\nIt had taken them almost an hour and a half to gain entry to the museum. Shortly after they did, around 1:30\u00a0a.m., one of the three guards on duty was walking to the kitchen to get some tea. He encountered the thieves, their faces covered by ski masks, who fired both barrels of a pump action shotgun into the ceiling to get his attention and made him lie down on the floor. The noise brought the other two guards, who were unable to overpower the thieves, and soon all three guards were taken to a lecture hall where they were bound and gagged.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 50], "content_span": [51, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0017-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery, Robbery\nThere, one of the robbers, who carried a .38-caliber Smith & Wesson handgun, stood guard while the other two removed paintings, jewellery and figurines from their displays and brought them to the museum's shipping department. The thieves originally seemed to have planned to leave via the same skylight they had come in through, but eventually concluded it would take too much time to put together a system of pulleys to get themselves and the stolen artwork out. After finding that one of the guards had a set of keys to one of the museum's panel trucks, they decided instead to flee that way.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 50], "content_span": [51, 645]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0018-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery, Robbery\nHowever, this alternative also went awry. They chose to exit through one of the museum's side entrances, where an alarm went off as they did so. Leaving half their take behind, they fled on foot down Sherbrooke.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 50], "content_span": [51, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0019-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery, Robbery\nBack at the museum, one of the guards worked to free himself. An hour after the robbery ended, around 3 a.m., he succeeded and called Bill Bantey, who told him to call the police. He arrived shortly after the police, along with Ruth Jackson, the museum's curator of decorative arts. After surveying the broken frames, smashed display cases and general disorder the thieves had left, they found that 18 paintings and 38 other pieces had been taken. Collectively they estimated the value of the stolen work at $2 million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 50], "content_span": [51, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0020-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery, Works stolen\nAll of the stolen paintings were by European artists from the 17th through 19th centuries:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 55], "content_span": [56, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0021-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery, Works stolen\nMost of the paintings taken were small works around a foot (31\u00a0cm) along their longest dimension; the three smallest (the Brueghels and Millet's La barrateuse) were less than 80 square inches (520\u00a0cm2), smaller than a standard letter-size piece of paper. The largest was the Courbet, at 28\u200b7\u20448 by 36\u200b1\u20448 inches (73.34 by 91.76\u00a0cm), with the Gainsborough and Corot's Dreamer close behind. It was possible that when the thieves ran away each of them held a batch of smaller paintings in one hand and a larger one in the other.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 55], "content_span": [56, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0022-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery, Works stolen\nThe thieves also took 38 pieces of jewellery and figurines. Among the former pieces were an 18th-century gold watch once owned by the wife of Jacques Viger, Montreal's first mayor; a 19th-century French blue enamel latch box set with diamonds and two 17th-century Spanish pendants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 55], "content_span": [56, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0023-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery, Investigation\nLater that morning, Bantey, who had covered the crime beat in Montreal as a journalist prior to his tenure at the museum, held a news conference to discuss the theft. He identified all the stolen works and described how the robbers had entered the museum and taken them. \"They did show quite discriminating taste,\" he told reporters, \"though as far as the objects are concerned, they could do with more art and historical training.\" In their haste to leave, he noted, the thieves had left behind another Rembrandt as well as works by El Greco, Picasso and Tintoretto that they could as easily have taken.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 56], "content_span": [57, 661]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0024-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery, Investigation\nThe news conference was initially effective in publicizing the theft. It, as well as lists of the stolen paintings, were reported as front-page news in many major newspapers across the U.S. and Canada the next morning. As soon as they learned of the theft, Montreal police had also put out the alert to the crossings along the U.S. border, about 60 kilometres (37\u00a0mi) from Montreal, to look out for the thieves and/or the paintings should anyone attempt to take them to New York City, 530 kilometres (330\u00a0mi) farther south.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 56], "content_span": [57, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0025-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery, Investigation\nHowever, further publicity that might have drawn attention to the theft and perhaps helped solve it was stymied by news events of September 5. At that year's Summer Olympics in Munich, Palestinian terrorists with Black September took 11 Israeli athletes hostage, eventually killing them along with a German police officer, the following day. Those events were of particular interest in Montreal since the city was preparing to host the next Olympics, and as a result further news about the art theft got less priority in the media. The investigation would continue, however.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 56], "content_span": [57, 631]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0026-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery, Investigation\nFrom interviews with the three guards, police learned that there had been three thieves. The guards saw two of them, describing them as both about 5\u00a0feet 6\u00a0inches (168\u00a0cm) in height. One spoke French and the other English. The guards also reported that the two spoke with a third, also a Francophone, whom they never were able to see.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 56], "content_span": [57, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0027-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery, Investigation\nInvestigators were immediately struck by the similarity to another recent art theft in the Montreal area. On August 30, another group of three thieves had broken into the summer home of Agnes Meldrum, wife of a Montreal moving-company owner, in Oka, roughly 30 kilometres (20 miles) west of the city. They had all climbed up a 200-metre (600-foot) cliff from a powerboat on Lake of Two Mountains to do so. Witnesses said that while they wore hoods to prevent identification, two spoke French and the other, English. Once inside the home they stole paintings worth $50,000 in total.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 56], "content_span": [57, 638]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0028-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery, Investigation, Inside-job theory\nThe presence of two Francophones and one Anglophone, plus the climbing skills involved, led the chief investigator on the case to believe the thieves involved in both incidents had been local, and possibly the same. That, and their apparent knowledge of the skylight's non-functional alarm, had at first fostered a theory that someone on the inside at the museum had aided the thieves in some way. This is a common phenomenon when museums are robbed; two New York City detectives who specialized in art crime said as much when commenting about the Montreal case later in 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 75], "content_span": [76, 652]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0029-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery, Investigation, Inside-job theory\nHowever, the Montreal police considered that speculation too broad to be helpful in focusing their investigation, and evidence did not bear it out. While it was possible that the thieves had indeed actively involved someone working on the skylight, it was as possible that they, or others involved with them, had learned of the security flaw through an overheard remark somewhere. An intense investigation of the workers involved with the skylight did not find any evidence they had passed information about it to anyone criminally inclined.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 75], "content_span": [76, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0030-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery, Investigation, Inside-job theory\nIt was also seen as possible that the robbers had learned of the skylight flaw by simply reconnoitering their target. Roughly two weeks before the theft, someone reported encountering two men sitting on chairs on the roof, wearing sunglasses and smoking. When questioned by the person who reported the incident, they claimed to be museum employees. But when investigators looked for the chairs on the roof after the theft, they could not be found. Likewise, no fingerprints or other evidence was left on either the ladder or nylon rope.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 75], "content_span": [76, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0031-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery, Investigation, Inside-job theory\nTheories of an inside job were also undermined by the thieves' poorly planned exit. After abandoning their improvised plan to leave by the same skylight when they realized it would take too long to set up a system of pulleys, they instead chose to try to flee in one of the museum's trucks. If they had based that alternative on inside information they had obtained, they would have known how to disable the alarm they set off on the side entrance before opening it. And even if they had not chosen to do so, they would have known it did not sound anywhere else besides the museum\u2014and thus not have abandoned half of what they had stolen to escape on foot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 75], "content_span": [76, 732]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0032-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery, Investigation, Selection of works\nWhile the jewellery and figurines seem to have been chosen only because they could be easily carried, the paintings stolen seem to have been a matter of choice. Their small size, in addition to making them easy to carry and conceal, would also facilitate quick sales. The robbers, and any dealer working with them, might, investigators have speculated, have been looking to sell to private collectors who display their paintings in their homes. Indeed, the pairs of small paintings with similar subject matter by the same artist\u2014Brueghel, Corot, Millet and Vincent\u2014would be excellent choices to decorate a room.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 76], "content_span": [77, 688]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0033-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery, Investigation, Selection of works\nInterest in art in recent years had driven up prices, a phenomenon which had been widely reported in both French- and English-language media, and the thieves would have known even if they had no interest in art what collectors were willing to pay large sums for. Some art dealers in the Montreal area refused to discuss their business with police absent a legal order such as a subpoena or warrant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 76], "content_span": [77, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0033-0001", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery, Investigation, Selection of works\nAround Christmas 1972, a Montreal Gazette columnist reported that, in fact, most of the paintings had been delivered to the homes of wealthy collectors in Mount Royal, with a small portion diverted to the U.S. This led police to interrogate two unnamed individuals, but no new leads developed as a result.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 76], "content_span": [77, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0034-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery, Investigation, Selection of works\nThe robbers might not even have had to visit the museum to decide what works to take. Half of those they did keep when they ran away had been in Masterpieces from Montreal, a travelling exhibition that had been to several cities in the U.S. during the year before Expo 67. The Rembrandt had been included in a 1969 exhibit to commemorate the tricentennial of the artist's death, and the following year many of the French paintings had been in another exhibit that the press in that language gave great attention to.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 76], "content_span": [77, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0035-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery, Investigation, Selection of works\nAll those works in the special exhibitions would have been depicted in handbooks or catalogues produced in association with them. Only the Brueghels, the Rubens and the Vincent portraits had not been included in those exhibits nor mentioned in any publication save the museum's own catalogue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 76], "content_span": [77, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0036-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery, Investigation, Possible early suspects\nEarly in their investigation, the police began looking into a group of students at the nearby \u00c9cole des beaux-arts de Montr\u00e9al. Mostly French-speaking, they had often visited the museum but had frequently been asked to leave before its official closing time so that the mostly English-speaking staff could take their tea. This had engendered considerable resentment on the students' part.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 81], "content_span": [82, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0037-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery, Investigation, Possible early suspects\nPolice kept five of these students under 24-hour surveillance for two weeks. Eventually they decided they could not find any evidence, and dropped that part of the investigation. Alain Lacoursi\u00e8re, an art-theft specialist with the Montreal police who investigated the cold case in later years, by his own account taking it over just before the files were slated to be shredded in 1984, believes the students were not involved. \"This crime was organized with a guy in charge who was 35 to 40 years old,\" well past his student years, he said in 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 81], "content_span": [82, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0038-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery, Ransom negotiations and recovery attempts\nIn many art thefts the thieves seek ransom payments in return for the stolen works, and this happened twice in the MMFA thefts. Within a week of the robbery museum director David Giles Carter received a phone call from, he believed, one of the thieves. A man with a gravelly voice and an accent Carter described as \"European\" gave him directions to a phone booth near McGill University, near which one of the stolen pendants was found.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 84], "content_span": [85, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0039-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery, Ransom negotiations and recovery attempts\nSoon afterwards, a brown manila Port of Montreal envelope arrived at the museum with snapshots of the stolen paintings. Carter nicknamed the thief \"Port of Montreal\" as a result, and dialogue was opened up between the museum and the thieves to negotiate a ransom. At first the thieves demanded $500,000, about a quarter of the works' stated value; later they halved that.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 84], "content_span": [85, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0040-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery, Ransom negotiations and recovery attempts\nCarter demanded the thieves, or whoever it was negotiating on their behalf, give more proof they had the paintings than snapshots. In response, they told the museum's security director to go to a locker in Montreal Central Station. Inside, he found the Brueghel Landscape with Buildings and Wagon. It is the only one of the stolen paintings that has so far been recovered.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 84], "content_span": [85, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0041-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery, Ransom negotiations and recovery attempts\nAs a result of these negotiations, approximately a month later the museum's insurance companies and the Montreal police set up a sting operation. An undercover detective posed as an insurance adjustor and agreed to meet the thieves or their representative in an empty field in one of the city's suburbs, where he hoped the thieves would believe he was ready to hand over $5,000 for another one of the paintings. However, when one of the local police cruisers passed by, completely unaware of the plans, the thieves apparently came to realize what was actually going on and never met the undercover officer. The next day they called Carter and complained that they had been set up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 84], "content_span": [85, 765]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0042-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery, Ransom negotiations and recovery attempts\nLacoursi\u00e8re believes that it was actually the museum and the police who were being set up. The field the robbers had chosen as the meeting site had few nearby houses at the time and could easily have been monitored from some distance away, allowing the robbers to detect even the more subtle police presence necessary to support a sting operation. \"It was all a smokescreen\", he says. Since the thieves never reopened negotiations afterwards, he believes they never had any intention of returning the paintings at the time and were using the purported ransom negotiations as a diversion while they bought themselves more time to sell or otherwise dispose of the paintings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 84], "content_span": [85, 757]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0043-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery, Ransom negotiations and recovery attempts\nThe second attempt took place the following year. A few months after the museum closed for its three-year renovation project in May 1973, a caller to a member of the museum's board said he would share where the paintings were hidden for $10,000. Andr\u00e9 DeQuoy, one of the adjusters handling the case, was involved in the discussion and made it clear that while the insurance companies would pay for information leading to the discovery of the painting, they would not pay for the paintings themselves. After he agreed to deliver it personally to the source, the board made the money available.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 84], "content_span": [85, 677]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0044-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery, Ransom negotiations and recovery attempts\nThe caller had instructed DeQuoy, who was being discreetly followed by police, to go to a certain phone booth in downtown Montreal one afternoon. From there the caller sent him to other phone booths elsewhere in the city, such as the Blue Bonnets race track, on St. Laurent Boulevard and at the Henri-Bourassa station on the Montreal Metro. The caller then informed DeQuoy that he had picked up the police tail and DeQuoy was to return to his office and await further instructions while the caller had the unmarked car called off.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 84], "content_span": [85, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0045-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery, Ransom negotiations and recovery attempts\nDeQuoy did, and an hour later the caller said the police had been taken care of. Again he was sent out to phone booths, ultimately traveling back and forth across the island of Montreal to 11 of them, until at 4 a.m. the next morning he was told he could leave the envelope at the base of a sign in a vacant lot on St. Martin Boulevard, then return to the Henri-Bourassa phone booth where the caller would contact him again with the location of the paintings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 84], "content_span": [85, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0046-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery, Ransom negotiations and recovery attempts\nWhile DeQuoy waited for the call, he let the police know where he had been all night. But the caller never called, so the adjustor returned to his office. At 8 a.m. the caller called him there and told him the paintings were in a motel in Laval, north of Montreal. An intensive search of the building, however, produced neither the paintings nor any sign they had ever been there. The $10,000 was not recovered.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 84], "content_span": [85, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0047-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery, Later developments\nDue to the minimal news coverage, in January 1973 Bill Bantey put together a circular, Attention: Stolen, depicting the stolen paintings and giving information such as their dimensions, in English and French. The idea was to distribute it widely throughout the international art community and familiarize possible buyers with the stolen works, a practice that was not common in art thefts at the time as most museums preferred to keep the news of their victimization to themselves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 61], "content_span": [62, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0047-0001", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery, Later developments\nMajor auction houses like Sotheby's and Christie's would not routinely check for whether art offered for sale through them was on lists of stolen works until 1985. \"[We hope that] the works become so catalogued and so well-known that it would be unlikely that any collector or museum buyer could innocently purchase them,\" Bantey told the Gazette.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 61], "content_span": [62, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0048-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery, Later developments\nThe museum and investigators did not make the ransom negotiations in the year after the thefts public knowledge until ten years later. \"For years we thought our chances of recovery were better keeping everything quiet,\" said one police detective, explaining the decision. \"But now our hopes are small. Maybe this will stimulate interest and produce something.\" But while it did allow police to confirm what they have only described as \"certain facts\", those have apparently not led to any progress in the case.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 61], "content_span": [62, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0049-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery, Later developments\nThe recovered Brueghel was kept in storage at the museum by Ruth Jackson for ten years until a new frame could be purchased, after which it was returned to the place it had been exhibited prior to the theft. However, it was later determined that it was not by Brueghel but one of his students; Lacoursi\u00e8re believes the thieves may have chosen to return it due to doubts about its authenticity. It nevertheless remains on exhibit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 61], "content_span": [62, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0050-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery, Later developments\nA similar fate befell the painting the museum bought with the money it received from its insurers. A group of 20 of them paid out nearly $2 million to settle the claim; they in turn posted a $50,000 reward for the return of the paintings, which under the terms of the insurance policies they legally owned as a result of paying the theft claim. The museum used the money to purchase a Rubens, The Leopards, which the museum promoted as the largest Rubens exhibited in Canada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 61], "content_span": [62, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0050-0001", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery, Later developments\nBut like the Brueghel, it was later reattributed to the painter's assistants, after a conservationist determined that its red pigments were mixed four decades after Rubens' death, reducing its value and interest to museumgoers. On the 35th anniversary of the robbery, in 2007, the museum thus returned it to storage and has never put it on display again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 61], "content_span": [62, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0051-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery, Later developments\nEven the attribution of some of the stolen work has been called into question. When the de Heems were being prepared for their inclusion in Masterpieces from Montreal, a Parisian art historian the museum contacted suggested that they were in fact the work of another Dutch master, Evert Collier. The Rembrandt landscape, while indeed signed and dated by the artist, is one that both he and his students frequently returned to as a subject, and some historians are not entirely confident the painting was his even with the signature. The Gainsborough portrait, too, may in fact be the work of Joshua Reynolds, Gainsborough's rival, since its subject, Thomas Fletcher, is shown wearing a Madras regimental uniform, which he only started wearing in 1771, three years before his portrait was painted by Reynolds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 61], "content_span": [62, 870]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0052-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery, Later developments\nIn 1992, on the 20th anniversary of the theft, a Radio-Canada story reported that the insurance companies now considered the paintings' value to have appreciated to $20 million. They had consequently increased the reward offer to $100,000. On behalf of the Montreal police, Lacoursi\u00e8re, who began investigating art crime in 1994, offered an additional million in 1999. No one has yet come forward to claim these rewards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 61], "content_span": [62, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0053-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery, Later developments\nLacoursi\u00e8re has had some promising leads over the years that have yielded nothing. He has been told that the paintings, or some of them, are in Italy, and that two Montreal men in the French city of Nice were possible suspects. One heroin addict he interviewed in Vancouver seemed to have inside information about the robbery, but everything he knew had been previously reported in the media; when he was asked about two details that police have withheld since only the actual robbers would know them, he was unable to do so.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 61], "content_span": [62, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0054-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery, Later developments, \"Smith\"\nOne lead, however, has not been so easy for Lacoursi\u00e8re to dismiss. In 1998, a dealer he had gotten to know introduced him to a man who has been identified publicly only by the pseudonym \"Smith\". Smith told the detective he, too, had been a student at the \u00c9cole des beaux-arts at the time of the theft, explaining to him the tension between the students and museum staff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 70], "content_span": [71, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0055-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery, Later developments, \"Smith\"\nIn the course of their initial conversation, Lacoursi\u00e8re quickly came to believe Smith knew a great deal about the robbery, perhaps more than the police did. Although Smith said he had not been one of the five students kept under surveillance afterward, he told the detective that the rope used by the thieves to enter from the skylight was not gray as had been reported at the time, but yellow like the ones used at the school building. However, upon reviewing the original file and talking with one of the original investigators, Lacoursi\u00e8re found that any information on the colour of the rope had been deliberately withheld by police in order to confirm any later confessions or statements by possible suspects. He considered Smith's statements \"highly suspicious\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 70], "content_span": [71, 840]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0056-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery, Later developments, \"Smith\"\nLacoursi\u00e8re investigated Smith's background, and found that a year after finishing his five-year course at the school, Smith had spent a quarter of a million dollars to buy himself a house and a local woodworking company. Lacoursi\u00e8re could not determine how Smith might have acquired that amount of money at such a relatively young age. He implied in 2010 it might have been from selling the stolen work.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 70], "content_span": [71, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0057-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery, Later developments, \"Smith\"\nAccording to Lacoursi\u00e8re, Smith even told him that he would at some point in the future tell him something about the robbery. In 2007, during the filming of \"L'Colombe d'art\" (\"The Colombo of Art\"), a Radio-Canada special on his career as an art-theft detective, Lacoursi\u00e8re visited Smith and offered him the million-dollar cheque on camera. Smith, however, simply laughed, and invited the camera crew into his house so they could see for themselves that he had none of the stolen paintings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 70], "content_span": [71, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0058-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery, Later developments, \"Smith\"\nIn 2010, Quebec journalist Sylvain Larocque interviewed Smith by telephone. While he again denied any role in the theft himself, he claimed that professors and porters at the Universit\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al, which the \u00c9cole des beaux-arts had been merged into in 1969, were behind the robbery. They were possibly, he claimed, the same people behind a robbery at the university a few weeks earlier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 70], "content_span": [71, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0059-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery, Later developments, \"Smith\"\nThe following year Lacoursi\u00e8re received a link to a video in an email from Smith, possibly intended to tease the detective, who by then had retired. It was a Mercedes-Benz advertisement from Hong Kong in which bank robbers steal a briefcase from a bank vault, then escape in a Mercedes. They elude capture but leave the briefcase behind; inside is a long-lost stolen da Vinci painting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 70], "content_span": [71, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0060-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery, Theories of the paintings' current whereabouts\nThe robbery is now largely forgotten, except by the insurance companies and police, who continue to search. \"Like a death in the family, you have to let it drop,\" Bantey says. However, in 2009, Paul Lavall\u00e9e, the museum's director at the time, said it continues to affect the museum, since it might not be able to reclaim the works even if they were recovered. \"[W]e would be strapped for funds,\" he said, even if the insurer offered them to the museum at a discount.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 89], "content_span": [90, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0061-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery, Theories of the paintings' current whereabouts\nIt is possible the paintings may have been destroyed to prevent them from being used as evidence against those in possession of them. But Lacoursi\u00e8re believes they were likely sold through smaller dealers who may not have known they were stolen, or cared if they did, to collectors who likewise keep them private, especially today, since they cannot sell them. He also notes that criminal organizations have found stolen art useful in other ways.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 89], "content_span": [90, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0061-0001", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery, Theories of the paintings' current whereabouts\nDuring the 1994\u20132002 Quebec Biker war, he recalls, he learned that one member of the Montreal-area Hells Angels served as a fence for art thieves, selling stolen art to the Italian Mafia at 10 percent of its price, who in turn used the names of dead residents of the affluent suburb of Westmount on faked provenance forms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 89], "content_span": [90, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0062-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery, Theories of the paintings' current whereabouts\nWhile it is not believed likely that the original robbers were affiliated with organized crime, the ransom attempts may point in that direction. The Port of Montreal envelope in which the snapshots of the stolen art was sent may suggest the involvement of the West End Gang, an Irish-dominated group that is one of Canada's oldest and strongest criminal organizations, which has historically been based in the city's port. Bantey, however, doubts this based on his familiarity with the city's criminal element from his journalism days. \"[They] were interested in prostitution and drugs\" exclusively at the time, he says, and no one involved would have had the expertise required to pull off the robbery. Nor does he believe the thieves were motivated by separatism or any other political cause, just a desire to enrich themselves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 89], "content_span": [90, 920]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0063-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery, Theories of the paintings' current whereabouts\nDespite some suggestions the paintings, assuming they still exist, are still in Montreal, or elsewhere in Canada or the U.S. or Europe, the investigators who will discuss this believe the art has been moved to Latin America. Lacoursi\u00e8re notes that many of the West End Gang often spend their winters in, and retire to, Costa Rica. Police there have not responded to requests for assistance from their counterparts in Montreal. Bantey believes the paintings are in South America somewhere. \"I've heard several people I respect say that.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 89], "content_span": [90, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094145-0064-0000", "contents": "1972 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts robbery, Theories of the paintings' current whereabouts\nThe police files on the robbery remain closed to public inspection as the case is still considered open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 89], "content_span": [90, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094146-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Moroccan constitutional referendum\nA constitutional referendum was held in Morocco on 1 March 1972. The new constitution replaced that approved by referendum in 1970, and was drawn up after an attempted coup in July 1971 forced King Hassan II to accept the need for a broader government (the previous constitution had limited directly elected seats to only 90 of the 240 in Parliament).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094146-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Moroccan constitutional referendum\nThe constitution was approved by 98.8% of voters with a 93% turnout, and was promulgated on 10 March. Elections were scheduled for May. However, they were then indefinitely postponed, and did not take place until 1977.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094147-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Moroccan coup d'\u00e9tat attempt\nThe 1972 Moroccan coup attempt was an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate King Hassan II of Morocco on 16 August 1972. The attempted coup d'\u00e9tat occurred in Morocco when a rebel faction within the Moroccan military attempted to shoot down an aircraft carrying the Moroccan king, Hassan II. The attempt was orchestrated by General Mohamed Oufkir, a close advisor to King Hassan. He was assisted by Mohamed Amekrane, commander of the Moroccan air force base at Kenitra. On August 16, four Northrop F-5 jets, acting on Oufkir's orders, intercepted Hassan's Boeing 727 as it returned from France. Reportedly, King Hassan grabbed the radio and told the rebel pilots, \"Stop firing! The tyrant is dead!\" Fooled, the rebel pilots broke off their attack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 779]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094147-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Moroccan coup d'\u00e9tat attempt\nHassan's plane, which had been strafed by air force jets, killing eight and injuring 40, landed safely at Rabat's airport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094147-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Moroccan coup d'\u00e9tat attempt, Background\nThe coup occurred a year after another attempted military coup against Hassan II's regime. 250 rebels based in the Ahermoumou cadet training school attacked the king's palace on his 42nd birthday, killing 91 people and injuring 133. Oufkir had gained power after the coup in 1971, moving from the Minister of Interior to Defence. Many had believed he planned the first coup to facilitate this rise.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094147-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Moroccan coup d'\u00e9tat attempt, Attack\nOn 16 August 1972, as Hassan was returning to Morocco from a personal visit to France, four air force pilots, flying Northrop F-5 fighter jets, attacked the Boeing 727. The planes shot holes through the fuselage, killing some passengers. One plane broke off, strafing a nearby airfield and killing many on the ground.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 41], "content_span": [42, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094147-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Moroccan coup d'\u00e9tat attempt, Attack\nAllegedly, the rebel pilots broke off their attack on the king's aircraft after the king himself grabbed the radio and told the rebel pilots, \"Stop firing! The tyrant is dead!\" Believing their mission to have been accomplished, the rebel pilots broke off their attack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 41], "content_span": [42, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094147-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Moroccan coup d'\u00e9tat attempt, Attack\nEight passengers on the royal jet were killed and 40 injured, however, the jet was able to land safely at Rabat airport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 41], "content_span": [42, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094147-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Moroccan coup d'\u00e9tat attempt, Aftermath\nKenitra Air Base, where most of the rebellious air force officers were based, was surrounded and hundreds arrested. Oufkir was found dead of multiple gunshot wounds later on 16 August, ostensibly from suicide. Many of his relatives were imprisoned, not being released until 1991, speculated to be because of international criticism for possible human rights abuses. General Amekrane fled to Gibraltar after the coup's failure; he failed to receive asylum and was extradited back to Morocco where he was executed by firing squad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 44], "content_span": [45, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094148-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Mosman state by-election\nA by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Mosman on Saturday, 29 July 1972. It was triggered by the retirement of the former Leader of the New South Wales Liberal Party and Minister of the Crown, Pat Morton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094148-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Mosman state by-election\nThe seat was subsequently won by David Arblaster (Liberal). Despite Mosman being a safe Liberal seat, the Labor Party fielded a candidate. The Liberal primary vote fell 11.1% compared to the previous year's general election. The same four parties contested both.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094148-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Mosman state by-election, Background\nThe seat of Mosman, a traditionally safe Liberal seat, had been held since 1947 by Pat Morton, who became Leader of the Liberal Party in 1955 until being deposed in 1959 by Robert Askin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094148-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Mosman state by-election, Background\nAs a Minister for Highways and Local Government in the Askin Government from 1965, Morton gained a reputation as being a strong advocate for allowing free enterprise and business to take precedence over planning controls and government regulation. His time as Minister was marked by increasing strains on state infrastructure and his pro-development stance was largely attributed as an attempt to alleviate these problems.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094148-0003-0001", "contents": "1972 Mosman state by-election, Background\nDespite this, Morton and his State Planning Authority were continuously criticised for not being totally accountable to the public, particularly as the pro-business Sydney Commissioners worked side by side with the Planning authority to increase developments in the Sydney CBD to their highest levels ever, embodied by the construction of the MLC Centre, the demolition of the Theatre Royal, Sydney and the Australia Hotel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094148-0003-0002", "contents": "1972 Mosman state by-election, Background\nAmong the most controversial schemes undertaken by his government were also a massive freeway system that was planned to be driven through the hearts of historic inner-city suburbs including Glebe and Newtown and an equally ambitious scheme of 'slum clearance' that would have brought about the wholesale destruction of the historic areas of Woolloomooloo and The Rocks. This eventually culminated in the 1970s Green ban movement led by the secretary of the NSW Builders' Labourers Federation, Jack Mundey, to protect the architectural heritage of Sydney.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094148-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Mosman state by-election, Background\nAt the 1971 election, Askin's majority was reduced by four seats to the Labor Party under Pat Hills. Morton retained his seat, despite his primary vote falling to 62.7% from 73.5% in the 1968 election. Morton remained as member until 16 June 1972, when he retired from parliament. At the time of his departure it had been rumoured that he had been threatening to dismiss Blacktown City Council if they did not stop blocking a $200 million development in Mount Druitt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094148-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Mosman state by-election, Results\nThe Liberal Party retained the seat, albeit on a significantly reduced margin, due in part to several major party candidates splitting the Liberal vote. The Liberal candidate, David Arblaster, emerged with 51% of the primary vote against Labor candidate and founding member of the Women's Electoral Lobby, Anne Conlon. Neil Mackerras, brother of prominent psephologist Malcolm Mackerras and orchestra conductor Sir Charles Mackerras, stood as the Democratic Labor Party candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094149-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Mr. Olympia\nThe 1972 Mr. Olympia contest was an IFBB professional bodybuilding competition held in October 1972 at the Handelshof in Essen, West Germany. It was the 8th Mr. Olympia competition held.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094150-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Murshidabad by-election\nIn March 15, 1972 a by-election was held in for the Murshidabad seat in the Lok Sabha (lower house of the parliament of India). The by-election was called after the death of the sitting Member of Parliament Chowdhury Abu Taleb.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094150-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Murshidabad by-election\nThe election was won by Muhammad Khoda Baksh of the Indian National Congress (I).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094151-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Mysore Legislative Assembly election\nThe 1972 Mysore State Legislative Assembly election was held in the Indian state of Mysore (currently Karnataka) to elect 216 members to the Mysore Legislative Assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094152-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 NAIA Division I football season\nThe 1972 NAIA Division I football season was the 17th season of college football sponsored by the NAIA and the third season of the league's two-division structure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094152-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 NAIA Division I football season\nThe season was played from August to November 1972 and culminated in the 1972 NAIA Champion Bowl, played on December 9, 1972 in Commerce, Texas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094152-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 NAIA Division I football season\nEast Texas State (now Texas A&M\u2013Commerce) defeated Carson\u2013Newman in the Division I Championship Bowl, 21\u201318, to win their first NAIA national title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094153-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 NAIA Division II football season\nThe 1972 NAIA Division II football season was the 17th season of college football sponsored by the NAIA and the third season of play of the NAIA's lower division for football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094153-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 NAIA Division II football season\nThe season was played from August to November 1972 and culminated in the 1972 NAIA Division II Football National Championship, played on December 9, 1972 in Joplin, Missouri on the campus of Missouri Southern State College.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094153-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 NAIA Division II football season\nMissouri Southern defeated Northwestern (IA) in the championship game, 21\u201314, to win their first NAIA national title. As of 2015, this was the earliest championship to feature a team that remains a NAIA member.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094154-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 NAIA Ice Hockey Championship\nThe 1972 NAIA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament involved four schools playing in single-elimination bracket to determine the national champion of men's NAIA college ice hockey. The 1972 tournament was the fifth men's ice hockey tournament to be sponsored by the NAIA. The tournament began on March 4, 1972, and ended with the championship game on March 5.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094154-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 NAIA Ice Hockey Championship\nGustavus Adolphus attended the tournament for the fifth straight year with Lake Superior State making a fourth tournament appearance; both University of Wisconsin\u2013Superior and University of St. Thomas made the tournament for the first time. Lake Superior State reached the championship game for the fourth year in program history. Led my head coach Ron Mason, the Lakers defeated Gustavus Adolphus to win the team's first national championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094155-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 NAIA Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 1972 NAIA Men's Basketball Tournament was held in March at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri. The 35th annual NAIA basketball tournament featured 32 teams playing in a single-elimination format.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094155-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 NAIA Men's Basketball Tournament\nThis year was the first and only tournament since seeding began in 1957 that all 4 top seeded teams made it to the national semi-finals. Seeding was changed in 2016, so each bracket is now seeded 1 thru 8. Kentucky State becomes the second team to win three in a row, joining Tennessee State (1957, 1958, 1959).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094155-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 NAIA Men's Basketball Tournament, 1972 NAIA bracket, 3rd place game\nThe third place game featured the losing teams from the national semifinalist to determine 3rd and 4th places in the tournament. This game was played until 1988.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 72], "content_span": [73, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094156-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 NASCAR Winston Cup Series\nThe 1972 NASCAR Winston Cup Series was the 24th season of professional stock car racing in the United States and the 1st modern-era NASCAR Cup series season. The season began on Sunday January 23 and ended on Sunday November 12. Richard Petty won his second consecutive Winston Cup Championship and fourth overall. Larry Smith was named NASCAR Rookie of the Year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094156-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 NASCAR Winston Cup Series\nThis season is considered to be the first of NASCAR's \"modern era\". The number of races was reduced from 48 to 31, all dirt tracks were removed from the schedule, and a minimum race distance of 250 miles (402\u00a0km) was established for oval tracks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094156-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Race summaries\nPetty won the Grand National title over Allison by 128 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094157-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 NBA All-Star Game\nThe 22nd NBA All-Star Game was played on January 18, 1972, at The Forum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094158-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 NBA Finals\nThe 1972 NBA World Championship Series was the championship round played at the conclusion of the 1971\u201372 National Basketball Association (NBA) season. The Western Conference champion Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Eastern Conference champion New York Knicks in five games. The Lakers got their first NBA championship since the franchise moved to Los Angeles from Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was a rematch of the 1970 NBA Finals that the Knicks had won in a full seven-game series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094158-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 NBA Finals\nThis season's team won a then NBA-record 69 regular season games, including 33 wins in a row -- a record which still stands. The 69 wins would remain a record for the most wins in a season until the 1995\u201396 Chicago Bulls (who were coached by former Knicks player Phil Jackson) broke it en route to a 72-win season that also resulted in a championship of their own.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094158-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 NBA Finals\nThey were led by Wilt Chamberlain, the NBA's top rebounder that season. Guards Gail Goodrich and Jerry West were each among the NBA's top ten scorers that season, spearheading the NBA's top offense at 121 points per game. West also led the NBA in assists. The Lakers as a team led all NBA teams in rebounds and assists that season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094158-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 NBA Finals\nLos Angeles had swept a solid 57-win Chicago Bulls team in the playoffs' opening round, then defeated the defending champion Milwaukee Bucks (record of 63\u201319) in six games to win the Western Conference. That historic series had matched Chamberlain against Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and West against Oscar Robertson. Having defeated tough Milwaukee, 48-win New York figured to be an easy formality for the Lakers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094158-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 NBA Finals\nNew York was a top defensive team that allowed just 98.2 points per game and made 47% of their shots as a team. They had defeated the 38-win Baltimore Bullets and then upset the 56-win Boston Celtics to win the Eastern Conference final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094158-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 NBA Finals\nThis was the first of 23 consecutive championship series officiated by Jake O'Donnell. In the previous three seasons, O'Donnell could not work the playoffs due to his duties as an American League umpire. He resigned from umpiring after working the 1971 American League Championship Series to become a full-time NBA official, working through the second round of the 1995 playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094158-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 NBA Finals, Game-by-game summary, Game 1\n[ Willis Reed]] was out with a knee injury, but his replacement, Jerry Lucas, scored 26 points on 13 of 21 shooting to lead the Knicks to the win in the series opener. Lucas, a 6'9\" center, was an excellent outside shooter. Chamberlain would not pursue him far from the basket and preferred to position for rebounds instead. The intelligent Lucas exploited this fact. But Lucas was not the only Knick who was red hot. Bill Bradley hit 11 of 12 shots from the field as New York shot 53 percent as a team for the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 45], "content_span": [46, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094158-0006-0001", "contents": "1972 NBA Finals, Game-by-game summary, Game 1\nThe team took advantage of a nearly perfect first half to jump to a good lead and won easily, 114-92. New York hit 16 of their first 20 shots and led after each quarter. The win was considered a surprising upset. Dave DeBusschere added 19 points and 18 rebounds. Walt Frazier triple-doubled with 14 points, 11 assists and 12 rebounds. The high-scoring Lakers backcourt of Jerry West and Gail Goodrich shot a cold 11 of 37, and no Los Angeles players took up their slack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 45], "content_span": [46, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094158-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 NBA Finals, Game-by-game summary, Game 2\nHeavily criticized for their Game 1 loss in the home opener, the Lakers looked to avenge themselves on their home court again. But at halftime, the Lakers' lead was just 51-50. Knicks forward DeBusschere, straining in position battles against the gigantic Chamberlain, hurt his side and did not play after the first half. The loss of DeBusschere, a key New York rebounder and defender, would badly hurt the team's chances from this point forward. He had played 43 minutes in Game 1, and the Knicks relied on him heavily. Also playing hurt was New York guard Earl Monroe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 45], "content_span": [46, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094158-0007-0001", "contents": "1972 NBA Finals, Game-by-game summary, Game 2\nThe Lakers' Gail Goodrich took advantage and netted 31 points. The still cold-shooting West simply passed and had 13 assists. Chamberlain took advantage of DeBusschere's absence and pulled down 24 rebounds, controlling the middle at both ends of the court. Lucas had foul trouble and sat much of the third quarter, with New York scoring just 11 points in the period. A New York rally in the fourth quarter could not stop a 105-92 Los Angeles win to even the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 45], "content_span": [46, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094158-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 NBA Finals, Game-by-game summary, Game 2\nBoth teams used short rotations during the series. Los Angeles played each of its starters 40 minutes or more in Game 2, with Chamberlain playing all 48. New York figured to do the same, but now had to deal with injury issues to DeBusschere and Monroe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 45], "content_span": [46, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094158-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 NBA Finals, Game-by-game summary, Game 3\nDespite injury issues, New York fans were optimistic as the series now headed to Madison Square Garden, where the Knicks went 5-0 vs. the Bullets and Celtics en route to the Finals. The Knicks had gotten their ' split ' in two games in Los Angeles, and now had a chance to take control of the series. DeBusschere gamely attempted to play in the first half, but simply could not overcome his injury. He missed all six of his field-goal attempts. He was hurting and elected not to play in the second half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 45], "content_span": [46, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094158-0009-0001", "contents": "1972 NBA Finals, Game-by-game summary, Game 3\nDeBusschere explained: \"I didn't feel I was helping the team\". Lucas, the star of Game 1, tried to take up DeBusschere's slack. He hit 11 of 21 shots for 23 total points and 14 rebounds in 47 minutes of play. He also added a team-high six assists. Frazier added 25 points himself. Bradley went a cold 5 of 17. The Lakers led 52-47 at the half, and with DeBusschere out, took over the game again in the third quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 45], "content_span": [46, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094158-0009-0002", "contents": "1972 NBA Finals, Game-by-game summary, Game 3\nChamberlain and Laker forward Happy Hairston collected 20 rebounds apiece, with the Laker giant also adding 26 points on 9 of 10 shooting. West and Goodrich combined for 46 points, and Los Angeles danced out to a 22-point lead and took a 2-1 lead in the series with a 107-96 win. Nineteen thousand five-hundred New York fans watched the contest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 45], "content_span": [46, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094158-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 NBA Finals, Game-by-game summary, Game 4\nThe Knicks felt that Game 4 was a must-win game. DeBusschere vowed to play, lasting 48 minutes and pulling down a team-high 13 rebounds. New York led 56-53 at the half. After an even third quarter, the Lakers rallied in the fourth. West made a clutch basket to give the Lakers the lead with seconds left, but a Frazier tip-in over Chamberlain evened the score. West missed at the buzzer, sending the game into overtime tied 101-101. The Lakers would outscore New York 15-10 in the extra frame to win 116-111 and take a commanding 3-1 series lead back to Los Angeles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 45], "content_span": [46, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094158-0011-0000", "contents": "1972 NBA Finals, Game-by-game summary, Game 4\nAll five Los Angeles starters played at least 45 minutes in Game 4, with Lakers coach Bill Sharman using just seven players total. Chamberlain played all 53 minutes and had 24 rebounds. The Laker starting guards combined for 56 points to again key the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 45], "content_span": [46, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094158-0012-0000", "contents": "1972 NBA Finals, Game-by-game summary, Game 4\nIn the game New York had two players that played at least 50 minutes. Lucas played all 53 minutes, and had 25 points on 11-22 shooting, with 11 assists and eight rebounds. Frazier had 24 points, eight rebounds and eight assists in 50 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 45], "content_span": [46, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094158-0013-0000", "contents": "1972 NBA Finals, Game-by-game summary, Game 5\nThe Lakers returned home looking to win their first title in Los Angeles. After playing to a 53-all tie at halftime, The Lakers finally pulled away from the tired Knicks in the second half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 45], "content_span": [46, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094158-0014-0000", "contents": "1972 NBA Finals, Game-by-game summary, Game 5\nChamberlain dominated the middle, flirting with what would've been a quadruple-double with 24 points, 29 rebounds, eight blocks and eight assists in 47 minutes. Blocked shots were not an official NBA stat at that time, but ABC announcer Keith Jackson counted them up during the broadcast. West and Goodrich combined for 48 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 45], "content_span": [46, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094158-0015-0000", "contents": "1972 NBA Finals, Game-by-game summary, Game 5\nWalt Frazier had 27 points, 10 assists, and seven rebounds in 47 minutes for the Knicks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 45], "content_span": [46, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094158-0016-0000", "contents": "1972 NBA Finals, Game-by-game summary, Game 5\nThe Lakers won 114-100 to claim their first NBA Championship in Los Angeles. For the series, Chamberlain averaged 19.4 points and 23.2 rebounds and was named Finals Most Valuable Player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 45], "content_span": [46, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094158-0017-0000", "contents": "1972 NBA Finals, Game-by-game summary, Game 5\nWest had averaged 19.8 points and 8.8 assists, and Goodrich averaged 25.2 points for the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 45], "content_span": [46, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094158-0018-0000", "contents": "1972 NBA Finals, Aftermath\nThe teams would meet again in the finals the following year, as the Knicks would get their revenge. In a reversal of the 1972 series, the Knicks would win four in a row after losing the opener to win their second NBA title in four years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 26], "content_span": [27, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094159-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 NBA draft\nThe 1972 NBA draft was the 26th annual draft of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The draft was held on April 10 and 15, 1972 before the 1972\u201373 season. In this draft, 17 NBA teams took turns selecting amateur U.S. college basketball players and other eligible players, including international players. The first two picks in the draft belonged to the teams that finished last in each conference, with the order determined by a coin flip. The Portland Trail Blazers won the coin flip and were awarded the first overall pick, while the Buffalo Braves were awarded the second pick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094159-0000-0001", "contents": "1972 NBA draft\nThe remaining first-round picks and the subsequent rounds were assigned to teams in reverse order of their win\u2013loss record in the previous season. As a result of last year's supplemental hardship draft, the Cincinnati Royals, the Atlanta Hawks, the Golden State Warriors and the Baltimore Bullets forfeited their first round picks, while the Los Angeles Lakers forfeited their fourth round pick. Prior to the start of the season, the Cincinnati Royals relocated and became the Kansas City-Omaha Kings. The draft consisted of 18 rounds comprising the selection of 198 players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 590]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094159-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 NBA draft, Draft selections and draftee career notes\nA player who had finished his four-year college eligibility was eligible for selection. If a player left college early, he would not be eligible for selection until his college class graduated. Before the draft, eight college underclassmen were declared eligible for selection under the \"hardship\" rule, a similar case in which Spencer Haywood successfully argued in his court case against the NBA which allowed him to play in the NBA before his college class graduated. These players had applied and gave evidence of financial hardship to the league, which granted them the right to start earning their living by starting their professional careers earlier. This was the first draft where college underclassmen were allowed to enter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 57], "content_span": [58, 792]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094159-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 NBA draft, Draft selections and draftee career notes\nLaRue Martin from Loyola University Chicago was selected first overall by the Portland Trail Blazers. Bob McAdoo, a college junior from the University of North Carolina, was selected second by the Buffalo Braves, and went on to win the Rookie of the Year Award in his first season. McAdoo, 10th pick Paul Westphal, and 12th pick Julius Erving have been inducted to the Basketball Hall of Fame, and Erving was also named to the list of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History announced at the league's 50th anniversary in 1996.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 57], "content_span": [58, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094159-0002-0001", "contents": "1972 NBA draft, Draft selections and draftee career notes\nMcAdoo was a 3-time NBA Scoring champion, and NBA championship with the Los Angeles Lakers in 1982 and 1985. He won the Most Valuable Player Award in 1975, had two All-NBA Team selections, and was a five-time All-Star. Erving had left college in 1971 to play professionally in the American Basketball Association (ABA) with the Virginia Squires. He joined the NBA in 1976 after both leagues merged, playing 11 seasons with the Philadelphia 76ers. An NBA champion in 1983, he was MVP in 1981, won three ABA Most Valuable Player Awards, was All-ABA five times and All-NBA seven, and an ABA All-Star five times and NBA All-Star eleven.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 57], "content_span": [58, 690]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094159-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 NBA draft, Draft selections and draftee career notes\nPaul Westphal, the 10th pick, was named All-NBA four times, an All-Star five, and on the 1974 NBA championship Boston Celtics. After retiring as a player, he went on to coach three NBA teams, most recently the Sacramento Kings. The 16th pick, Jim Price, and 34th pick, Don Buse, were also selected to an All-Star Game. Chris Ford, the 17th pick, won the NBA championship in 1981 with the Celtics. After retiring as a player, he went on to coach four NBA teams, including the Celtics. Ralph Simpson, the 11th pick, had left college in 1970 to play professionally in the ABA with Denver Rockets. He was selected to five ABA All-Star Games and four All-ABA Teams before he joined the NBA in 1976.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 57], "content_span": [58, 751]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094159-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 NBA draft, Draft selections and draftee career notes\nLaRue Martin is considered one of the biggest draft busts in NBA history. Martin only lasted four seasons in the league with a career scoring average of 5.3. Martin and eight other first-round picks all had insignificant contributions to the league; none of them had career scoring averages above 9 points per game and only one of them lasted more than six seasons in the NBA. Two of the first-round picks, Erving and Simpson, had already played in the ABA before the draft. They stayed there until both leagues merged in 1976 and only Simpson played for the team that he got drafted to.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 57], "content_span": [58, 645]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094159-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 NBA draft, Draft selections and draftee career notes\nIn the tenth round, the Portland Trail Blazers selected Kre\u0161imir \u0106osi\u0107 from Brigham Young University with the 144th pick. However, he opted to play another season in college before returning to Yugoslavia in 1973. \u0106osi\u0107, who was also selected in the fifth round of the 1973 Draft, had a successful career in Europe, winning numerous league and club titles, as well as six gold medals with the Yugoslavian national team. For his achievements, he has been inducted to the Basketball Hall of Fame. He has also been inducted by the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) to the FIBA Hall of Fame.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 57], "content_span": [58, 654]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094159-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 NBA draft, Other picks\nThe following list includes other draft picks who have appeared in at least one NBA game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094160-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 NBA playoffs\nThe 1972 NBA playoffs was the postseason tournament of the National Basketball Association's 1971\u201372 season. The tournament concluded with the Western Conference champion Los Angeles Lakers defeating the Eastern Conference champion New York Knicks 4 games to 1 in the NBA Finals. Wilt Chamberlain was named NBA Finals MVP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094160-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 NBA playoffs\nThe Lakers finished the regular season with the best record in NBA history at 69\u201313, a mark that was unequalled until the 1996 Bulls finished 72\u201310. Led by Chamberlain and Jerry West, the Lakers won their first title in Los Angeles; their last title was in 1954 as the Minneapolis Lakers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094160-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 NBA playoffs\nThe Lakers won their first NBA Finals in their last nine appearances without superstar Elgin Baylor, who had played in each of the preceding eight losses. He retired nine games into the season because of ongoing knee problems.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094160-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 NBA playoffs\nThe Conference Semifinals series between the Bullets and Knicks would be the last NBA playoff series in which the team with the inferior regular season record held home-court advantage based on division champions holding home-court advantage over a division runner-up through the Conference Finals. Although from 1977\u20132015, division champions were either automatically seeded higher than non-division champions or guaranteed a minimum seed regardless of record. However, home-court advantage would be based on regular season record, with division champion status being used as a possible tiebreaker to determine seeding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 638]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094160-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 NBA playoffs, Conference Semifinals, Eastern Conference Semifinals, (A1) Boston Celtics vs. (C2) Atlanta Hawks\nThis was the fifth playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Celtics winning three of the four meetings while the Hawks were based in St. Louis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 115], "content_span": [116, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094160-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 NBA playoffs, Conference Semifinals, Eastern Conference Semifinals, (C1) Baltimore Bullets vs. (A2) New York Knicks\nThis was the fourth playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Knicks winning two of the previous three meetings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 120], "content_span": [121, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094160-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 NBA playoffs, Conference Semifinals, Western Conference Semifinals, (P1) Los Angeles Lakers vs. (M2) Chicago Bulls\nThis was the third playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Lakers winning both prior meetings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 119], "content_span": [120, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094160-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 NBA playoffs, Conference Semifinals, Western Conference Semifinals, (M1) Milwaukee Bucks vs. (P2) Golden State Warriors\nThis was the second playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Bucks winning the first meeting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 124], "content_span": [125, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094160-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 NBA playoffs, Conference Finals, Eastern Conference Finals, (A1) Boston Celtics vs. (A2) New York Knicks\nThis was the eighth playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Celtics winning four of the first seven meetings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 109], "content_span": [110, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094160-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 NBA playoffs, Conference Finals, Western Conference Finals, (P1) Los Angeles Lakers vs. (M1) Milwaukee Bucks\nThis was the second playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Bucks winning the first meeting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 113], "content_span": [114, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094160-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 NBA playoffs, NBA Finals: (P1) Los Angeles Lakers vs. (A2) New York Knicks\nThis was the fourth playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Lakers winning two of the first three meetings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 79], "content_span": [80, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094161-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 NC State Wolfpack football team\nThe 1972 NC State Wolfpack football team represented North Carolina State University during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. The Wolfpack were led by first-year head coach Lou Holtz and played their home games at Carter Stadium in Raleigh, North Carolina. They competed as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference, finishing in second. NC State was invited to the 1972 Peach Bowl in Atlanta, where they defeated West Virginia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094162-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA College Division Baseball Tournament\nThe 1972 NCAA College Division Baseball Tournament decided the champion of baseball at the NCAA College Division level for the 1972 season. This was the fifth such tournament for the College Division, having separated from the University Division in 1957. It was also the first held in Springfield, Illinois, having spent the first four years in Springfield, Missouri. The Florida Southern Moccasins won the championship by defeating the Valley State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094162-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA College Division Baseball Tournament, Format\nTwenty one teams were selected to participate, divided into four regions. Two regions consisted of six teams, another had five, and the Midwest had four. Each region completed a double-elimination round, with the winners advancing to the finals. The finals, made up of the four regional champions, also competed in a double-elimination format.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 54], "content_span": [55, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094163-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA College Division Basketball Tournament\nThe 1972 NCAA College Division Basketball Tournament involved 36 schools playing in a single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA\u00a0College Division\u00a0college basketball as a culmination of the 1971-72 NCAA College Division men's basketball season. It was won by Roanoke College, with Roanoke's Hal Johnston named the Most Outstanding Player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094164-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA College Division football rankings\nThe 1972 NCAA College Division football rankings are from the United Press International poll of College Division head coaches and from the Associated Press poll of sportswriters and broadcasters. The 1972 NCAA College Division football season was the 15th year UPI published a Coaches Poll and the 13th year for the AP. Both polls started to use the term \"College Division\" in 1972, but many of the referenced publications continued to use the \"Small College\" terminology.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094164-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA College Division football rankings\n1972 was the last year the polls would be used to crown a national \"Small College\" or \"College Division\" champion. In 1973, season-ending playoffs were begun to determine a champion for \"Division II\". The UPI and AP continued publishing \"College Division\" polls through the 1974 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094165-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA College Division football season\nThe 1972 NCAA College Division football season was the 17th and final season of college football in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association at the NCAA College Division level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094165-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA College Division football season, Rankings\nCollege Division teams (also referred to as \"small college\") were ranked in polls by the AP (a panel of writers) and by UPI (coaches). The national champion(s) for each season were determined by the final poll rankings, published at or near the end of the regular season, before any bowl games were played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094165-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA College Division football season, Rankings, College Division final polls\nBoth the UPI and AP panels ranked Delaware (10\u20130) first, followed by Louisiana Tech (11\u20130), and Cal Poly (8\u20130\u20131). Louisiana Tech later defeated Tennessee Tech in the Grantland Rice Bowl, while Cal Poly lost to North Dakota in the Camellia Bowl. Delaware declined an invitation to face UMass (7\u20132) in the Boardwalk Bowl, and did not play in the postseason.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 82], "content_span": [83, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094165-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA College Division football season, Bowl games\nThe postseason consisted of four bowl games as regional finals, all played on December 10.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094165-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA College Division football season, Bowl games, Black college national championship\nGrambling defeated North Carolina Central in the inaugural Pelican Bowl to capture the black college football national championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 91], "content_span": [92, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094166-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship\nThe 1972 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Tournament was the second annual NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship tournament. This was the last NCAA championship in which the Wingate Memorial Trophy was also presented to the national champion. Prior to NCAA Lacrosse Championships, the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA) awarded the Wingate Memorial Trophy to the NCAA annual champion based on regular season records.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094166-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament overview\nThe 1972 NCAA Division I tournament championship game was played at University of Maryland in front of 7,001 fans. As in 1971, teams were first selected from the college lacrosse divisions, and then at-large teams were chosen. Army, Navy, Maryland and Johns Hopkins were selected as \"seeded\" picks. And Virginia, Cortland, Rutgers and Washington & Lee were picked as the at-large teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 69], "content_span": [70, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094166-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament overview\nThe Virginia Cavaliers led by coach Glenn Thiel (future head coach at Penn State) with an 11-4 record, defeated Johns Hopkins 13 to 12. Virginia had USILA player of the year Pete Eldredge, who finished with four goals in the finals scoring the game winner with four minutes left in the fourth quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 69], "content_span": [70, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094166-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament overview\nMaryland, the pre-tournament favorite and host team, fell in the semifinals to Johns Hopkins, 9-6, before 8,000 fans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 69], "content_span": [70, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094166-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament overview\nThe victory gave Virginia its first NCAA national title in lacrosse, but it was the school's third overall lacrosse title including USILA titles in 1952 and 1970. The victory also gave Virginia its first official NCAA national title in any sport, as the NCAA only unofficially recognizes Virginia's national championship in boxing from 1938. The Cavaliers had lost to Hopkins, Maryland and Navy during the regular season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 69], "content_span": [70, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094166-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament overview\nThe Cavaliers survived a late rush by Jack Thomas, who with 12\u00a0seconds left in the game appeared to have a clear shot at the net. Bob Scott however had, unknown to the ball players called a timeout, negating what would have been a last-second game-tying attempt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 69], "content_span": [70, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094166-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament overview\nThis tournament saw the entry in the tournament of two early innovative lacrosse programs, Cortland State and Washington and Lee. Cortland was notable for going 14-2 that season while knocking off defending champion Cornell, Syracuse and Navy, and earning the number 3 seed in the tournament. Cortland was coached by Jack Emmer who later took Washington and Lee to consecutive NCAAs before moving on to be the longtime coach at Army.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 69], "content_span": [70, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094166-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament overview\nPaced by veterans Jay Connor, Tom Duquette, Pete Eldredge and Chip Barker as well as freshman Richie Werner, Virginia got the winning goal from Eldredge, unassisted with 4:11 left in the contest. Maryland, the pre-tourney favorite, fell in the semifinals to Johns Hopkins 9\u20136. Connor, the tourney\u2019s leading scorer, set a meet record for assists. Maryland\u2019s John Kaestner broke the single-game assist mark. Virginia and Johns Hopkins combined to shatter all three of the tournament records for shots on goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 69], "content_span": [70, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094166-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament overview\nIn the first round, Jack Emmer's Cortland team edged Navy 10 to 9 in double overtime, led by Paul Wehrum's 3 goals. Cortland scored three goals in the fourth quarter to erase a 9\u20136 deficit and won the game despite being outshot by Navy 57\u201328.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 69], "content_span": [70, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094167-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA Division II Men's Soccer Championship\nThe 1972 NCAA Division II Men's Soccer Championship (then named the NCAA College Division Men's Soccer Championship) was the inaugural Division II men's college soccer tournament held by the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Since 1959, all schools had competed in a single division. The SIU Edwardsville Cougars won their first NCAA title in any sport by defeating the Oneonta Red Dragons in the championship game, 1-0. The final match was played on December 9, 1972, in Edwardsville, Illinois, at SIUE's Cougar Field, which also hosted the Division I College Cup in 1970 and 1975.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 638]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094167-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA Division II Men's Soccer Championship, Division change\n1972 was the only year that this tournament was known as the \"College Division Men's Soccer Championship.\" In 1973, the NCAA renamed the University Division as Division I and the College Division as Division II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 64], "content_span": [65, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094167-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA Division II Men's Soccer Championship, Division change\nSeveral of the teams in the new Division II that placed a high emphasis on their soccer programs, including both SIUE and Oneonta, moved to Division I after only one season, taking advantage of a then-current NCAA rule that allowed a Division II school to play one sport in Division I and a Division I school to play one sport in Division II. As a result, seven of the twenty-four teams in the 1972 College Division tournament were among the twenty-four teams in the 1973 Division I tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 64], "content_span": [65, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094167-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA Division II Men's Soccer Championship, Division change\nAlthough four of the seven teams have since stepped down to a lower division, five other schools in the 1972 tournament have since moved up to Division I. These are: Akron, Cal State Fullerton, Eastern Illinois, Hartford, and Loyola Maryland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 64], "content_span": [65, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094168-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships\nThe 1972 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships were contested March 10\u221211, 1972 at Cobo Arena in Detroit, Michigan at the eighth annual NCAA-sanctioned track meet to determine the individual and team national champions of men's collegiate indoor track and field events in the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094168-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships\nUSC topped the team standings, the Trojans' second indoor team title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094168-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships, Qualification\nUnlike other NCAA-sponsored sports, there were not separate University Division and College Division championships for indoor track and field until 1985. As such, all athletes and teams from University and College Division programs were eligible to compete.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 61], "content_span": [62, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094169-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans\nThe consensus 1972 College Basketball All-American team, as determined by aggregating the results of four major All-American teams. To earn \"consensus\" status, a player must win honors from a majority of the following teams: the Associated Press, the USBWA, The United Press International and the National Association of Basketball Coaches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094170-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA Men's Volleyball Tournament\nThe 1972 NCAA Men's Volleyball Tournament was the third annual tournament to determine the national champion of NCAA men's college volleyball. The tournament was played at Irving Gymnasium at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. Like the previous year, the format of this championship consisted of a preliminary, four-team round robin to determine seeding for a subsequent single-elimination tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094170-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA Men's Volleyball Tournament\nUCLA defeated San Diego State, 3\u20132 (10\u201315, 9\u201315, 15\u20139, 15\u201310, 15\u20137), in the championship match to win their third consecutive national title. UCLA's Dick Irvin was named the Most Outstanding Player of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094170-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA Men's Volleyball Tournament, Qualification\nUntil the creation of the NCAA Men's Division III Volleyball Championship in 2012, there was only a single national championship for men's volleyball. As such, all NCAA men's volleyball programs (whether from the University Division, or the College Division) were eligible. A total of 4 teams were invited to contest this championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 52], "content_span": [53, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094171-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship\nThe 1972 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship was the fourth annual NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship to determine the national champion of NCAA men's college water polo. Tournament matches were played at the Armond H. Seidler Natatorium in Albuquerque, New Mexico during December 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094171-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship\nUCLA defeated UC Irvine in the final, 10\u20135, to win their third, and second consecutive, national title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094171-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship\nThe leading scorer for the tournament was Jim Kruse from UC Irvine (31 goals). The Most Outstanding Player of the tournament was Eric Lindroth from UCLA. Additionally, an All-Tournament Team was named for the first time this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094171-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship, Qualification\nSince there has only ever been one single national championship for water polo, all NCAA men's water polo programs (whether from Division I, Division II, or Division III) were eligible. A total of 8 teams were invited to contest this championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 54], "content_span": [55, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094172-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA Skiing Championships\nThe 1972 NCAA Skiing Championships were contested in Winter Park, Colorado at the nineteenth annual NCAA-sanctioned ski tournament to determine the individual and team national champions of men's collegiate alpine, cross country skiing, and ski jumping in the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094172-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA Skiing Championships\nHost Colorado, coached by alumnus Bill Marolt, captured their third national championship (and first since 1960), finishing 5.2 points ahead of three-time defending champion Denver in the team standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094172-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA Skiing Championships\nColorado's Mike Porcarelli reclaimed the slalom and alpine titles he won two years earlier; the repeat champions were Otto Tschudi of Denver in downhill and Bruce Cunningham of New Hampshire in Nordic combined. Denver's Odd Hammernes won his second jumping title, three years after the first.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094172-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA Skiing Championships\nIn the downhill race, Utah sophomore David Novelle was killed after he lost a ski, went off the course, and collided with a tree. As a result, the Utah team withdrew from the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094172-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA Skiing Championships, Venue\nThis year's championships were held March 16\u201318 in Colorado at Winter Park, west of Denver.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 37], "content_span": [38, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094172-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA Skiing Championships, Venue\nThe nineteenth edition, these were the sixth NCAA Championships in Colorado and the third at Winter Park (1956, 1959); the others were at Crested Butte (1966) and Steamboat Springs (1968, 1969).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 37], "content_span": [38, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094173-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA University Division Baseball Tournament\nThe 1972 NCAA University Division Baseball Tournament was played at the end of the 1972 NCAA University Division baseball season to determine the national champion of college baseball. The tournament concluded with eight teams competing in the College World Series, a double-elimination tournament in its twenty-sixth year. Eight regional districts sent representatives to the College World Series with preliminary rounds within each district serving to determine each representative. These events would later become known as regionals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094173-0000-0001", "contents": "1972 NCAA University Division Baseball Tournament\nEach district had its own format for selecting teams, resulting in 28 teams participating in the tournament at the conclusion of their regular season, and in some cases, after a conference tournament. The twenty-sixth tournament's champion was Southern California, coached by Rod Dedeaux. The Most Outstanding Player was Russ McQueen of the University of Southern California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094173-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA University Division Baseball Tournament, Regionals\nThe opening rounds of the tournament were played across eight district sites across the country, each consisting of between two and six teams. The winners of each District advanced to the College World Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 60], "content_span": [61, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094173-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA University Division Baseball Tournament, College World Series, Tournament Notes\nSouthern California becomes the first team to win three consecutive College World Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 89], "content_span": [90, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094174-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA University Division Basketball Tournament\nThe 1972 NCAA University Division Basketball Tournament involved 25 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of NCAA University Division (now Division I) college basketball. It began on Saturday, March 11, and ended with the championship game in Los Angeles on Saturday, March 25. A total of 29 games were played, including a third place game in each region and a national third place game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094174-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA University Division Basketball Tournament\nLed by longtime head coach John Wooden, the undefeated UCLA Bruins won the national title with an 81\u201376 victory in the final game over Florida State, coached by Hugh Durham. Sophomore center Bill Walton of UCLA was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player; the first of two consecutive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094174-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA University Division Basketball Tournament\nIn a historically significant note, the Southwestern Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns made the tournament in their first season of eligibility for postseason play; the next to achieve this feat was North Dakota State in 2009. SW Louisiana also made the tournament in 1973, but due to major infractions that resulted in the basketball program receiving the NCAA death penalty (and very nearly expelled from the NCAA altogether), both appearances have since been vacated and the records expunged.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094174-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA University Division Basketball Tournament\nThis was the last year in which the championship game was played on Saturday; it moved to Monday night in 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094174-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA University Division Basketball Tournament, Schedule and venues\nThe following are the sites that were selected to host each round of the 1972 tournament:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 72], "content_span": [73, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094174-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA University Division Basketball Tournament, Schedule and venues\nRegional Semifinals, 3rd Place Games, and Finals (Sweet Sixteen and Elite Eight)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 72], "content_span": [73, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094174-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA University Division Basketball Tournament, Schedule and venues\nNational Semifinals, 3rd Place Game, and Championship (Final Four and Championship)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 72], "content_span": [73, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094174-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA University Division Basketball Tournament, Schedule and venues\nFor the second time, the city of Los Angeles and the LA Memorial Sports Arena hosted the Final Four. To date, this is the last Final Four to be held in the city, although the city and region continue to host games to this day. The tournament saw five new venues and three new host cities used for the first time. For the first time, the tournament came to the campus of Iowa State University and the Hilton Coliseum, then in its first year of operation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 72], "content_span": [73, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094174-0007-0001", "contents": "1972 NCAA University Division Basketball Tournament, Schedule and venues\nThe first games held in the state of Tennessee were held this year at the Stokely Athletic Center on the campus of the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. For the third time, games were held in the state of Virginia, this time at William & Mary Hall on the campus of the College of William & Mary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 72], "content_span": [73, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094174-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA University Division Basketball Tournament, Schedule and venues\nGames were held at the brand-new Marriott Center, then the largest basketball arena in the country, on the campus of Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, replacing the Smith Fieldhouse. And at Idaho State University in Pocatello, games were held in the two-year-old Minidome, having previously been played at Reed Gym in 1957. To date, this is the last time games were held at either the Hilton Coliseum or at Jadwin Gymnasium on the campus of Princeton University, the only Ivy League gymnasium other than the Palestra used in the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 72], "content_span": [73, 620]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094175-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA University Division Cross Country Championships\nThe 1972 NCAA University Division Cross Country Championships were the 34th annual cross country meet to determine the team and individual national champions of men's collegiate cross country running in the United States. Held on November 20, 1972, the meet was hosted by the University of Houston at the Glenbrook Golf Course in Houston, Texas. The distance for this race was 6 miles (9.7 kilometers).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094175-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA University Division Cross Country Championships\nAll NCAA University Division members were eligible to qualify for the meet. In total, 25 teams and 241 individual runners contested this championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094175-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA University Division Cross Country Championships\nThe team national championship was won by the Tennessee Volunteers, their first title. The individual championship was won by Neil Cusack, from East Tennessee State, with a time of 28:23.00.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094176-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA University Division Golf Championship\nThe 1972 NCAA University Division Golf Championship was the 34th annual NCAA-sanctioned golf tournament to determine the individual and team national champions of men's collegiate golf in the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094176-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA University Division Golf Championship\nThe tournament was held at the Cape Coral Golf Club in Cape Coral, Florida.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094176-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA University Division Golf Championship\nDefending champions Texas won the team championship, the Longhorns' second NCAA title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094177-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA University Division Men's Ice Hockey Tournament\nThe 1972 NCAA Men's University Division Ice Hockey Tournament was the culmination of the 1971\u201372 NCAA University Division men's ice hockey season, the 25th such tournament in NCAA history. It was held between March 16 and 18, 1972, and concluded with Boston University defeating Cornell 4-0. All games were played at the Boston Garden in Boston, Massachusetts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094177-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA University Division Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Qualifying teams\nFour teams qualified for the tournament, two each from the eastern and western regions. The ECAC tournament champion and the two WCHA tournament co-champions received automatic bids into the tournament. An at-large bid was offered to a second eastern team based upon both their ECAC tournament finish as well as their regular season record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 75], "content_span": [76, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094177-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA University Division Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format\nThe ECAC champion was seeded as the top eastern team while the WCHA co-champion with the better regular season record was given the top western seed. The second eastern seed was slotted to play the top western seed and vice versa. All games were played at the Boston Garden. All matches were Single-game eliminations with the semifinal winners advancing to the national championship game and the losers playing in a consolation game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 65], "content_span": [66, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094178-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA University Division Outdoor Track and Field Championships\nThe 1972 NCAA University Division Outdoor Track and Field Championships were contested June 1\u22123 at the 50th annual NCAA-sanctioned track meet to determine the individual and team national champions of men's collegiate University Division outdoor track and field events in the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [67, 67], "content_span": [68, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094178-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA University Division Outdoor Track and Field Championships\nThis year's outdoor meet was hosted by the University of Oregon at Hayward Field in Eugene, OR.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [67, 67], "content_span": [68, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094178-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA University Division Outdoor Track and Field Championships\nUCLA easily finished atop the team standings, capturing their second consecutive, and fourth overall, team national title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [67, 67], "content_span": [68, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094179-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA University Division Soccer Tournament\nThe 1972 NCAA University Division Men's Soccer Tournament was the fourteenth organized men's college soccer tournament by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, to determine the top University Division college soccer team in the United States. The Saint Louis Billikens won their ninth national title by defeating the UCLA Bruins in the championship game, 4\u20132. The final match was played on December 29, 1972, in Miami, Florida, at the Miami Orange Bowl for the second straight year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094179-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA University Division Soccer Tournament\nThe NCAA College Division Men's Soccer Championship (now known as Division II) was held for the first time in 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094180-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA University Division Swimming and Diving Championships\nThe 1972 NCAA University Division Swimming and Diving Championships were contested in March 1972 at Crandall Pool at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York at the 49th annual NCAA-sanctioned swim meet to determine the team and individual national champions of University Division men's collegiate swimming and diving in the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094180-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA University Division Swimming and Diving Championships\nIndiana again topped the team standings, the Hoosiers' fifth consecutive and fifth overall title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094181-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA University Division Tennis Championships\nThe 1972 NCAA University Division Tennis Championships were the 27th annual tournaments to determine the national champions of NCAA University Division men's singles, doubles, and team collegiate tennis in the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094181-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA University Division Tennis Championships\nTrinity (TX) captured the team championship, the Tigers' first such title. Trinity finished six points ahead of Stanford in the final team standings (36\u201330).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094181-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA University Division Tennis Championships, Host site\nThis year's tournaments were contested at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 61], "content_span": [62, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094181-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA University Division Tennis Championships, Team scoring\nUntil 1977, the men's team championship was determined by points awarded based on individual performances in the singles and doubles events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 64], "content_span": [65, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094182-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA University Division Wrestling Championships\nThe 1972 NCAA University Division Wrestling Championships were the 42nd NCAA University Division Wrestling Championships to be held. The University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland hosted the tournament at Cole Field House.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094182-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA University Division Wrestling Championships\nIowa State was took home the team championship with 103 points and three individual champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094182-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA University Division Wrestling Championships\nWade Schalles of Clarion was named the Most Outstanding Wrestler and John Panning of Minnesota received the Gorriaran Award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094183-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA University Division baseball rankings\nThe following poll makes up the 1971 NCAA University Division baseball rankings. Collegiate Baseball Newspaper published its first human poll of the top 20 teams in college baseball in 1957, and expanded to rank the top 30 teams in 1961.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094183-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA University Division baseball rankings, Collegiate Baseball\nCurrently, only the final poll from the 1972 season is available.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 68], "content_span": [69, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094184-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA University Division baseball season\nThe 1972 NCAA University Division baseball season, play of college baseball in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) began in the spring of 1972. The season progressed through the regular season and concluded with the 1972 College World Series. The College World Series, held for the twenty sixth time in 1972, consisted of one team from each of eight geographical districts and was held in Omaha, Nebraska at Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium as a double-elimination tournament. Southern California claimed the championship for the third year in a row, en route to five consecutive titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 673]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094184-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA University Division baseball season, Conference winners\nThis is a partial list of conference champions from the 1972 season. Each of the eight geographical districts chose, by various methods, the team that would represent them in the NCAA Tournament. 13 teams earned automatic bids by winning their conference championship while 15 teams earned at-large selections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 65], "content_span": [66, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094184-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA University Division baseball season, College World Series\nThe 1972 season marked the twenty sixth NCAA Baseball Tournament, which culminated with the eight team College World Series. The College World Series was held in Omaha, Nebraska. The eight teams played a double-elimination format, with Southern California claiming their eighth championship, and third in a row, with a 1\u20130 win over Arizona State in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 67], "content_span": [68, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094185-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA University Division football rankings\nTwo human polls comprised the 1972 NCAA University Division football rankings. Unlike most sports, college football's governing body, the NCAA, does not bestow a national championship, instead that title is bestowed by one or more different polling agencies. There are two main weekly polls that begin in the preseason\u2014the AP Poll and the Coaches' Poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094185-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA University Division football rankings, UPI Coaches' poll\nThe final UPI Coaches Poll was released prior to the bowl games, in early December. USC was a unanimous selection, with all 35 first-place votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 66], "content_span": [67, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094186-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA University Division football season\nThe 1972 NCAA University Division football season saw the USC Trojans, coached by John McKay, go undefeated and win the national championship as the unanimous choice of the 50 AP panelists. Eighth-ranked in the preseason, the Trojans were narrowly voted No. 1 in the first AP poll, and stayed out front for the rest of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094186-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA University Division football season\nPrior to the 1972 season, two programs were elevated to the University Division. The new programs were Long Beach State and Tampa. The change brought the total number of programs in the University Division to 121.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094186-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA University Division football season\nDuring the 20th century, the NCAA had no playoff for the major college football teams in the University Division, which became Division I in 1973 (and Division I-A in 1978). The NCAA Football Guide, however, did note an \"unofficial national champion\" based on the top ranked teams in the \"wire service\" (AP and UPI) polls. The \"writers' poll\" by Associated Press (AP) was the most popular, followed by the \"coaches' poll\" by United Press International) (UPI).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094186-0002-0001", "contents": "1972 NCAA University Division football season\nThrough the 1973 season, the UPI issued its final poll in early December before the bowls, but since 1968 (and 1965) the AP Trophy was withheld until the postseason was completed. The AP poll in 1972 consisted of the votes of fifty sportswriters, though not all of them voted in every poll. Those who cast votes would give their opinion of the ten best teams. Under a point system of twenty points for first place, nineteen for second, etc., the \"overall\" ranking was determined.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094186-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA University Division football season\nThis season was historically significant because it was the first in which freshmen were eligible to play varsity football in the University Division. The\u00a0NCAA had historically prohibited freshmen from varsity competition, except during the United States involvement in World War II and the Korean War. In 1968, the NCAA allowed freshman eligibility in the University Division in all sports, except football and basketball, and extended the rule to those sports effective with the 1972\u201373 academic year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094186-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA University Division football season, Conference and program changes, NCAA structure\nThis was the last season for the \"University\" and \"College\" divisions. For the 1973 season, the NCAA created the three-division structure that exists today with teams and conferences designated accordingly:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 93], "content_span": [94, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094186-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA University Division football season, Conference and program changes, NCAA structure\nFive years later in 1978, Division I was subdivided (for football only) into I-A and I-AA. In 2006, these were renamed Division I FBS and FCS, respectively. Many of the teams and conferences now in FCS (Big Sky, Ohio Valley, SWAC, Yankee) were initially in Division II and moved up to I-AA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 93], "content_span": [94, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094186-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA University Division football season, November\nIn 1972, only the Rose Bowl (Big Ten vs. Pac-8) and Cotton Bowl (SWC winner) had rigid conference tie-ins. Thus, Big 8 champion Oklahoma passed up an Orange Bowl invitation to play in the Sugar Bowl, while SEC champion Alabama passed the Sugar to meet Texas in the Cotton. For the first time, the Sugar Bowl was played at night on New Year's Eve, rather than New Year's Day afternoon. With two consecutive victories in the Orange Bowl, No. 9 Nebraska was invited to a third against No. 12 Notre Dame.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 55], "content_span": [56, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094186-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA University Division football season, Bowl games, Major bowls\nThe final AP poll in January was: 1. USC (12\u20130), 2. Oklahoma (11\u20131), 3. Texas (10\u20131), 4. Nebraska (9\u20132\u20131), 5. Auburn (10\u20131)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 70], "content_span": [71, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094186-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 NCAA University Division football season, Heisman Trophy\nThe Big Eight Conference dominated the Heisman race in 1972,as the top three were from Nebraska & Oklahoma:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094187-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 NFL Draft\nThe 1972 NFL draft was held February 1\u20132, 1972, at the Essex House in New York City, New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094187-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 NFL Draft\nDuring round 17, after Falcons coach Norm Van Brocklin yelled to his staff \"Do we want the roughest, toughest s.o.b. in the draft?! \", the team drafted the then-64-year-old actor John Wayne, \"of Fort Apache State\" (Wayne actually played football at USC); NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle disallowed the selection, however.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094188-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 NFL season\nThe 1972 NFL season was the 53rd regular season of the National Football League. The Miami Dolphins became the first (and to date the only) NFL team to finish a championship season undefeated and untied when they beat the Washington Redskins in Super Bowl VII. The Dolphins not only led the NFL in points scored, while their defense led the league in fewest points allowed, the roster would also featured two running backs to gain 1,000 rushing yards in the same season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094188-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 NFL season, Colts and Rams exchange owners\nOn July 13, Robert Irsay and Willard Keland bought the Los Angeles Rams from the estate of Dan Reeves and transferred ownership to Carroll Rosenbloom, in exchange for ownership of the Baltimore Colts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 47], "content_span": [48, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094188-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 NFL season, Draft\nThe 1972 NFL Draft was held from February 1 to 2, 1972 at New York City\u2019s Essex House. With the first pick, the Buffalo Bills selected defensive end Walt Patulski from the University of Notre Dame.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 22], "content_span": [23, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094188-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 NFL season, New officials\nReferee Jack Vest, the referee for Super Bowl II, the 1969 AFL championship game and 1971 AFC championship game, was killed in a June motorcycle accident. Chuck Heberling was promoted from line judge to fill the vacancy and kept Vest's crew intact. Heberling's line judge vacancy was filled by Red Cashion, who was promoted to referee in 1976 and worked in the league through 1996, earning assignment to Super Bowl XX and Super Bowl XXX.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 30], "content_span": [31, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094188-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 NFL season, Division races\nFrom 1970 through 2002, there were three divisions (East, Central and West) in each conference. The winners of each division, and a fourth \"wild card\" team based on the best non-division winner, qualified for the playoffs. The tiebreaker rules were changed to start with head-to-head competition, followed by division records, common opponents records, and conference play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094189-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 NHL Amateur Draft\nThe 1972 NHL Amateur Draft was the 10th NHL Entry Draft. It was held at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Quebec.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094189-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 NHL Amateur Draft, Selections by round\nBelow are listed the selections in the 1972 NHL amateur draft. The expansion Islanders won the first pick by a coin toss between themselves and the Flames.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 43], "content_span": [44, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094190-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 NHL Expansion Draft\nThe 1972 NHL Expansion Draft was held on June 6, 1972. The draft took place to fill the rosters of the league's two then-new expansion teams for the 1972\u201373 season, the New York Islanders and the Atlanta Flames.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094190-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 NHL Expansion Draft, Rules\nEach expansion team was to select twenty-one players from the established clubs, three players from each of the fourteen existing teams: two goaltenders and nineteen skaters. Thus, a total of 42 players were selected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 31], "content_span": [32, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094190-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 NHL Expansion Draft, Rules\nThe existing teams could protect two goalies and fifteen skaters. First-year pros were exempt. The existing teams could lose only a maximum of three players, including a maximum of one goaltender. The Seals, Canadiens, Flyers and Blues could exempt themselves from losing a goaltender because they had each lost a goalie in the 1970 Expansion Draft; however, the Canadiens and Blues chose to expose a goalie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 31], "content_span": [32, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094190-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 NHL Expansion Draft, Rules\nIn the first two rounds, goaltenders were selected; skaters were selected in rounds three through twenty-one. After each of the first, third and subsequent rounds in which any of the established teams lost a player, the team in question moved one unprotected player to their protected list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 31], "content_span": [32, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094190-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 NHL Expansion Draft, Rules\nThe draft order was to be determined by two coin tosses: one for the expansion draft and the other for the amateur draft. The two general managers, Cliff Fletcher for the Flames and Bill Torrey for the Islanders, agreed to have a single coin toss for first overall in the amateur draft. The winner would pick first in the amateur draft and the first choice of skaters in the expansion draft. The loser would have the first choice of goaltenders and the first choice in the inter-league draft (drafting minor-league professionals). The Islanders won the toss to select first in the amateur draft leaving the Flames to pick first in the expansion draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 31], "content_span": [32, 683]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094190-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 NHL Expansion Draft, Rules, Protected lists\nBoston: goaltenders - Gerry Cheevers and Eddie Johnston; skaters - Don Awrey, Garnet Bailey, Johnny Bucyk, Wayne Cashman, Phil Esposito, Ken Hodge, Don Marcotte, Fred O'Donnell, Ron Plumb, Bobby Orr, Derek Sanderson, Dallas Smith, Fred Stanfield, Carol Vadnais and Mike Walton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094190-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 NHL Expansion Draft, Rules, Protected lists\nBuffalo: goaltenders - Roger Crozier and Dave Dryden; skaters - Steve Atkinson, Mike Byers, Butch Deadmarsh, Al Hamilton, Tim Horton, Jim Lorentz, Don Luce, Ray McKay, Gerry Meehan, Gilbert Perreault, Tracy Pratt, Rene Robert, Paul Terbenche, Jim Watson and Randy Wyrozub.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094190-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 NHL Expansion Draft, Rules, Protected lists\nCalifornia goaltenders - exempt; skaters - Ivan Boldirev, Gary Croteau, Stan Gilbertson, Joey Johnston, Pete Laframboise, Reggie Leach, Bert Marshall, Walt McKechnie, Gerry Pinder, Dick Redmond, Bobby Sheehan, Paul Shmyr, Rick Smith, Bob Stewart and Tom Webster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094190-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 NHL Expansion Draft, Rules, Protected lists\nChicago: goaltenders - Tony Esposito and Gary Smith; skaters - Christian Bordeleau, J. P. Bordeleau, Bobby Hull, Dennis Hull, Doug Jarrett, Jerry Korab, Cliff Koroll, Darryl Maggs, Keith Magnuson, Chico Maki, Pit Martin, Stan Mikita, Jim Pappin, Pat Stapleton and Bill White.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094190-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 NHL Expansion Draft, Rules, Protected lists\nDetroit: goaltenders - Andy Brown and Al Smith; skaters - Red Berenson, Gary Bergman, Arnie Brown, Guy Charron, Bill Collins, Alex Delvecchio, Gary Doak, Tim Ecclestone, Tom Gilmore, Larry Johnston, Al Karlander, Serge Lajeunesse, Nick Libett, Mickey Redmond and Ron Stackhouse.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094190-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 NHL Expansion Draft, Rules, Protected lists\nLos Angeles: goaltenders - Gary Edwards and Rogie Vachon; skaters - Ralph Backstrom, Doug Barrie, Serge Bernier, Bob Berry, Larry Brown, Mike Corrigan, Paul Curtis, Butch Goring, Jim Johnson, Real Lemieux, Bill Lesuk, Barry Long, Gilles Marotte, Doug Volmar and Juha Widing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094190-0011-0000", "contents": "1972 NHL Expansion Draft, Rules, Protected lists\nMinnesota: goaltenders - Cesare Maniago and Gump Worsley; skaters - Fred Barrett, Jude Drouin, Barry Gibbs, Bill Goldsworthy, Danny Grant, Ted Harris, Buster Harvey, Dennis Hextall, Doug Mohns, Lou Nanne, Bob Nevin, Dennis O'Brien, Murray Oliver, J. P. Parise and Tom Reid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094190-0012-0000", "contents": "1972 NHL Expansion Draft, Rules, Protected lists\nMontreal: goaltenders - Ken Dryden and Michel Plasse; skaters - Pierre Bouchard, Yvan Cournoyer, Terry Harper, Rejean Houle, Jacques Laperriere, Guy Lapointe, Claude Larose, Jacques Lemaire, Frank Mahovlich, Pete Mahovlich, Henri Richard, Jim Roberts, Serge Savard, Marc Tardif and J. C. Tremblay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094190-0013-0000", "contents": "1972 NHL Expansion Draft, Rules, Protected lists\nNY Rangers: goaltenders - Eddie Giacomin and Gilles Villemure; skaters - Ab DeMarco, Jim Dorey, Bill Fairbairn, Rod Gilbert, Vic Hadfield, Ted Irvine, Bruce MacGregor, Jim Neilson, Brad Park, Jean Ratelle, Dale Rolfe, Bobby Rousseau, Rod Seiling, Pete Stemkowski and Walt Tkaczuk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094190-0014-0000", "contents": "1972 NHL Expansion Draft, Rules, Protected lists\nPhiladelphia: goaltenders - exempt; skaters - Barry Ashbee, Willie Brossart, Bobby Clarke, Bill Clement, Gary Dornhoefer, Rick Foley, Bob Kelly, Ross Lonsberry, Rick MacLeish, Simon Nolet, Jean Potvin, Don Saleski, Dave Schultz, Ed Van Impe and Joe Watson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094190-0015-0000", "contents": "1972 NHL Expansion Draft, Rules, Protected lists\nPittsburgh: goaltenders - Cam Newton and Jim Rutherford; skaters - Syl Apps Jr, Larry Bignell, Dave Burrows, Steve Cardwell, Darryl Edestrand, Nick Harbaruk, Bryan Hextall Jr, Sheldon Kannegiesser, Rick Kessell, Al McDonough, Greg Polis, Jean Pronovost, Duane Rupp, Ron Schock and Bryan Watson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094190-0016-0000", "contents": "1972 NHL Expansion Draft, Rules, Protected lists\nSt. Louis: goaltenders - Jacques Caron and Peter McDuffe; skaters - Curt Bennett, Andre Dupont, Jack Egers, Chris Evans, Fran Huck, Mike Murphy, Danny O'Shea, Kevin O'Shea, Barclay Plager, Bob Plager, Phil Roberto, Gary Sabourin, Frank St. Marseille, Floyd Thomson and Garry Unger.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094190-0017-0000", "contents": "1972 NHL Expansion Draft, Rules, Protected lists\nToronto: goaltenders - Bernie Parent and Jacques Plante; skaters - Bobby Baun, Ron Ellis, Brian Glennie, Jim Harrison, Paul Henderson, Pierre Jarry, Dave Keon, Rick Ley, Jim McKenny, Garry Monahan, Mike Pelyk, Larry Pleau, Darryl Sittler, Errol Thompson and Norm Ullman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094190-0018-0000", "contents": "1972 NHL Expansion Draft, Rules, Protected lists\nVancouver: goaltenders - George Gardner and Dunc Wilson; skaters - Dave Balon, Gregg Boddy, Andre Boudrias, Dave Dunn, Jim Hargreaves, Dennis Kearns, Orland Kurtenbach, Wayne Maki, Gerry O'Flaherty, Rosie Paiement, Poul Popiel, Bobby Schmautz, Dale Tallon, Don Tannahill and Barry Wilkins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094191-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 NSWRFL season\nThe 1972 New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership was the 65th season of Sydney's professional rugby league football competition, Australia's first. Twelve teams, including six of 1908's foundation clubs and another six from across Sydney, competed for the J. J. Giltinan Shield during the season, which culminated in a grand final match between the Manly-Warringah and Eastern Suburbs clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094191-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 NSWRFL season, Season summary\nThe 1972 season's Rothmans Medal winner was Western Suburbs' halfback Tommy Raudonikis. Rugby League Week awarded their player of the year award to Eastern Suburbs' five-eighth John Ballesty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094191-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 NSWRFL season, Season summary\nThis season, for the first time since 1966, Souths would fail to reach the grand final, and for the first time since 1948 the Grand Final did not feature either Souths or St George.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094191-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 NSWRFL season, Season summary\nFollowing the grand final, several players travelled to France to represent Australia in the 1972 Rugby League World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094191-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 NSWRFL season, Season summary, Teams\n6th seasonGround: Endeavour FieldCoach: Tommy BishopCaptain: Cliff Watson / Ken Maddison", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 41], "content_span": [42, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094191-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 NSWRFL season, Season summary, Teams\n65th seasonGround: Lidcombe Oval, Pratten ParkCoach: Don ParishCaptain: Tom Raudonikis", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 41], "content_span": [42, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094191-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 NSWRFL season, Regular season\nBold\u00a0\u2013 Home gameX\u00a0\u2013 ByeOpponent for round listed above margin", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094191-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 NSWRFL season, Grand final\nAfter twenty-five years in the competition and five Grand Final losses, Manly finally broke through to win the club's first NSWRFL premiership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094191-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 NSWRFL season, Grand final\nIn a controversial match, the Sea-Eagles downed the Eastern Suburbs Roosters 19 to 14, thus shedding their 'bridesmaids' tag. The Roosters were highly critical of referee Keith Page after the match, claiming both of Manly's tries shouldn't have been awarded. To add to their rage, Easts crossed for two tries that were disallowed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094191-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 NSWRFL season, Grand final\nA dour first half saw the teams go to the break tied 4\u20134, before a try by hooker Fred Jones put Manly ahead. Jones appeared to drop the ball as he attempted to ground it, but was awarded a try nonetheless. For his part Jones contends that he did place the ball with downward pressure. Midway through the second half, controversy flared again when Manly centre Ray Branighan appeared to stop over the Eastern Suburbs try line after accepting what looked like a forward pass from prop Bill Hamilton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094191-0009-0001", "contents": "1972 NSWRFL season, Grand final\nHowever, referee Page allowed it and the Manly fans began celebrating, knowing that at 19\u20134 their first premiership victory was assured. Although Easts fought back with two late tries to John Ballesty and Bill Mullins and brought the score to 19\u201314, time ran out for the Roosters and Manly had won their first ever premiership in first grade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094191-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 NSWRFL season, Grand final\nIn the end, it was Manly's part-time goal kicker Ray Branighan who proved the difference, kicking six goals from eight attempts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094191-0011-0000", "contents": "1972 NSWRFL season, Grand final\nManly-Warringah 19 (Tries: Fred Jones, Ray Branighan. Goals: Ray Branighan 6. Field Goal: Bob Fulton)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094191-0012-0000", "contents": "1972 NSWRFL season, Grand final\nEastern Suburbs 14 (Tries: John Ballesty, Bill Mullins. Goals: Allan McKean 4)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094192-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 National Challenge Cup\nThe 1972 National Challenge Cup was the 59th edition of the United States Soccer Football Association's annual open soccer championship. Teams from the North American Soccer League declined to participate. Elizabeth S.C. defeated the San Pedro Yugoslavs in the final game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094193-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 National Invitation Tournament\nThe 1972 National Invitation Tournament was the 1972 edition of the annual NCAA college basketball competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094193-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 National Invitation Tournament, Selected teams\nBelow is a list of the 16 teams selected for the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 51], "content_span": [52, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094194-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 National League Championship Series\nThe 1972 National League Championship Series was played between the Cincinnati Reds and the Pittsburgh Pirates from October 7 to 11. It was the fourth NLCS. Cincinnati won the series three games to two to advance to the World Series against the Oakland Athletics. The Reds became the first team in major league history to advance to the World Series without the best record in their respective league, made possible by the Junior and Senior Circuits each splitting into two divisions in 1969. In the previous three post seasons, the team with the best record in each league advanced to the World Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094194-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 National League Championship Series\nThe 1972 NLCS ended with a dramatic ninth inning rally in the fifth and deciding game. The series was also notable as the last on-field appearance by Pittsburgh's future Hall of Famer Roberto Clemente, who would die in a plane crash on December 31.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094194-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 1\nThe Reds got a first-inning homer from second baseman Joe Morgan to take a short-lived 1\u20130 lead. But Pittsburgh bounced back with three in the bottom of the inning, highlighted by an RBI triple from Al Oliver and an RBI double from Willie Stargell. Pittsburgh never looked back, getting a two-run homer from Oliver in the fifth and coasting to the win behind the strong pitching of Steve Blass. The frustrated Reds ultimately stranded 11 baserunners, and their manager Sparky Anderson was ejected in the fourth inning. The time of game was a brisk 1 hour and 57 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 635]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094194-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 2\nCincinnati bounced back to even the series in Game\u00a02. Pittsburgh starter Bob Moose allowed five consecutive hits to start the game. Bobby Tolan and Tony P\u00e9rez both hit two-run doubles to give the Reds a 4\u20130 lead and chase Moose. The Pittsburgh bullpen stopped the Reds offense, though, and the Pirates came back to make it a 4\u20133 game with single runs in the fourth, fifth and sixth, as Milt May, Roberto Clemente and Dave Cash picked up RBIs. Joe Morgan homered in the eighth to give the Reds a crucial insurance run, and Cincinnati reliever Tom Hall finished a long and strong relief stint to get the victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 675]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094194-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 3\nThe series moved to Cincinnati and produced a tense, low-scoring contest. Cincinnati's Darrell Chaney and Bobby Tolan hit RBI singles in the bottom of the third to give the Reds a 2-0 lead. In the fifth, Pittsburgh catcher Manny Sanguill\u00e9n homered to cut the lead in half, and Rennie Stennett tied the game at 2 in the seventh with an RBI single. The Pirates scored the go-ahead run in the eighth on a groundout by Sanguillen. Pirates closer Dave Giusti, came on in the eighth to shut the door on the Reds and earn the save.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094194-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 4\nThe Reds evened the series in Game\u00a04 behind a sparkling two-hitter from left-handed hurler Ross Grimsley. The Reds scored three runs off Pirates starter Dock Ellis, aided by Pittsburgh errors in the first and fourth. Grimsley singled in another run in the sixth and the Reds eventually added three more. The run support was more than enough for Grimsley as he held the typically potent Pirates' offense in check. He yielded just two hits, both by Roberto Clemente. Pittsburgh got its lone run on a seventh-inning homer by Clemente.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094194-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 5\nGame\u00a05 proved to be one of the more memorable postseason contests in baseball history. After rain delayed the start of the game for 90 minutes, Pittsburgh took an early 2\u20130 lead with second-inning RBIs from Richie Hebner and Dave Cash. The Reds got one back in the third on an RBI double by Pete Rose. But Pittsburgh inched further ahead with another run-scoring hit from Cash in the fourth. C\u00e9sar Ger\u00f3nimo cut the Pirates' lead to 3\u20132 with a homer in the fifth. The Pirates held onto their 1-run margin until a dramatic bottom of the ninth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094194-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 5\nWith the defending World Series champion Pirates three outs away from returning to defend their title, Reds catcher Johnny Bench homered off Pittsburgh closer Dave Giusti to tie the game. Tony P\u00e9rez singled and was replaced by pinch-runner George Foster. Denis Menke followed with another single as Foster moved to second base. With the count 2-0 on Geronimo, Giusti was replaced with Game\u00a02 starter Bob Moose. Geronimo's fly ball out advanced Foster to third base, but Moose induced shortstop Darrell Chaney to pop out as Foster stayed at third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094194-0007-0001", "contents": "1972 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 5\nJust when it looked like Moose may wiggle out of a tough two-on, no out situation, he uncorked a wild pitch to pinch-hitter Hal McRae scoring Foster with the winning run, as the hometown fans and the Reds players celebrated a return to the World Series to face the Oakland A's. It was only the second time a postseason series ended on a wild pitch, the other being the 1927 World Series in which the Pirates lost to the Yankees in a four-game sweep.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094195-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 National Soccer League season\nThe 1972 National Soccer League season was the forty-ninth season under the National Soccer League (NSL) name. The season began in late April and concluded in October with the Canadian Open Cup final. Toronto Croatia successfully defended their regular season title for the third consecutive season with an undefeated regular season streak. Toronto would also defeat the Serbian White Eagles for the NSL Cup. The Croatians would secure a treble by winning the Open Canada Cup against Vancouver Columbus. In the playoffs Toronto Italia defeated the Serbian White Eagles for the NSL Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094195-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 National Soccer League season, Overview\nThe ownership of the National Soccer League (NSL) were in discussions with the British Columbia Premier League with the intention of forming a western division, but the project failed to materialize. The membership in the NSL increased to 15 clubs with the return of Toronto Italia, and the acceptance of the Hamilton Italo-Canadians. The return of Toronto Italia further intensified the rivalry between the NSL and the Toronto Metros of the North American Soccer League as the Italian diaspora played a decisive factor in the potential increase in match attendance. Another point of contention between the Metros and the NSL was a dispute stemming from a potential player raid on the NSL's youth division. The Hamilton club was granted a NSL franchise, and had credentials in the Inter-City Soccer League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 851]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094195-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 National Soccer League season, Overview\nThe league became once more centered in Southern Ontario as it lost its presence in Northern Ontario with the departure of Sudbury City. The NSL began to experience an increase in match attendance since their initial decrease and stagnation in the mid 1960s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094195-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 National Soccer League season, Canadian Open Cup\nThe Canadian Open Cup was a tournament organized by the National Soccer League in 1971 where the NSL champion would face the Challenge Trophy winners to determine the best team throughout the country. Toronto Croatia were the NSL representative for the second consecutive year while their opponents were the British Columbia Premier League champions Vancouver Columbus. New Westminster Blues were the 1972 Challenge Trophy winners, but declined the invitation which allowed Vancouver Columbus to compete for the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094196-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 National Society of Film Critics Awards\nThe 7th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 29 December 1972, honored the best filmmaking of 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094196-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 National Society of Film Critics Awards\nThe member critics voting were Hollis Alpert of World, Gary Arnold of The Washington Post, Vincent Canby of The New York Times, Charles Champlin of the Los Angeles Times, Jay Cocks of Time, Judith Crist of New York, David Denby of The Atlantic, Bernard Drew of the Gannett News Service, Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times, Joseph Gelmis of Newsday, Penelope Gilliatt of The New Yorker, Roger Greenspun of The New York Times, Molly Haskell of The Village Voice, Pauline Kael of The New Yorker, Michael Korda of Glamour, Arthur Knight of Saturday Review, Thomas Meehan of Saturday Review, William S. Pechter of Commentary, Andrew Sarris of The Village Voice, Richard Schickel of Life, Bruce Williamson of Playboy, and Paul D. Zimmerman of Newsweek.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 793]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094196-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Picture\n2. The Godfather (28 points) 3. Cries and Whispers (25 points) 4. The Emigrants (13 points) 5. The Sorrow and the Pity (9 points)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 67], "content_span": [68, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094196-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Director\n2. Francis Ford Coppola \u2013 The Godfather (25 points) 3. Ingmar Bergman \u2013 Cries and Whispers (24 points) 4. Jan Troell \u2013 The Emigrants (9 points)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 68], "content_span": [69, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094196-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Actor\n2. Marlon Brando \u2013 The Godfather (21 points) 3. Peter O'Toole \u2013 The Ruling Class (13 points) 4. Alec McCowen \u2013 Travels with My Aunt (9 points)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 65], "content_span": [66, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094196-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Actress\n2. Harriet Andersson \u2013 Cries and Whispers (23 points) 3. Bulle Ogier \u2013 La Salamandre and L'amour fou (20 points) 4. Janet Suzman \u2013 A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (16 points) 5. Liza Minnelli \u2013 Cabaret (9 points)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 67], "content_span": [68, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094196-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Supporting Actor (tie)\n3. Robert Duvall \u2013 The Godfather (14 points) 4. Barry Foster \u2013 Frenzy (13 points)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 82], "content_span": [83, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094196-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Supporting Actress\n2. Ida Lupino \u2013 Junior Bonner (11 points) 2. Susan Tyrrell \u2013 Fat City (11 points) 4. Cybill Shepherd \u2013 The Heartbreak Kid (10 points) 5. Harriet Andersson \u2013 Cries and Whispers (9 points)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 78], "content_span": [79, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094196-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Screenplay\n2. Luis Bu\u00f1uel and Jean-Claude Carri\u00e8re \u2013 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (20 points) 3. John Berger and Alain Tanner \u2013 La Salamandre (11 points) 4. Jan Troell and Bengt Forslund \u2013 The Emigrants (9 points) 4. Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo \u2013 The Godfather (9 points)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094196-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 National Society of Film Critics Awards, Winners, Best Cinematography\n2. Vilmos Zsigmond \u2013 Images (25 points) 3. Gordon Willis \u2013 The Godfather (22 points) 4. Geoffrey Unsworth \u2013 Cabaret (11 points)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 74], "content_span": [75, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094197-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Navy Midshipmen football team\nThe 1972 Navy Midshipmen football team represented the United States Naval Academy (USNA) as an independent during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. The team was led by fourth-year head coach Rick Forzano.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094198-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team\nThe 1972 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team represented the University of Nebraska in the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. The team was coached by Bob Devaney, in his eleventh and final season with the Huskers, and played their home games in Memorial Stadium in Lincoln.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094198-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team\nNebraska, national champions in 1970 and 1971, entered the season top-ranked in the polls, with a 23-game winning streak and a 32-game unbeaten streak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094198-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Roster\nAlward, Tom #63 (So.) LGAnderson, Bill #97 (So.) MGAnderson, Dan #67 (Jr.) RGAnderson, Frosty #89 (Jr.) SEAustin, Al #78 (Jr.) RTBahe, Ritch #24 (So.) WBBell, John #66 (Jr.) MGBeran, Mike #62 (Sr.) RGBlahak, Joe #27 (Sr.) LCBBorg, Randy #19 (Jr.) RCBBranch, Jim #51 (Sr.) LBButts, Randy #36 (Jr.) IBCarstens, Jim #47 (Sr.) FBColeman, Ron #9 (So.) TECostanzo, Rich #77 (So.) RTCrenshaw, Marvin #70 (So.) RTDamkroger, Maury #46 (Jr.) FBDavis, Tony #26 (So.) IBDeNell, Jake #6 (So.) RCBDixon, Gary #22 (Sr.) IBDoak, Mark #71 (So.) LTDrinkwalter, Bob #92 (So.) RGDuda, Rich #50 (So.) CDumler, Doug #54 (Sr.) CDutton, John #90 (Jr.) DTFischer, Pat #33 (Jr.) LCBFuller, Bruce #5 (So.) LCBGarson, Glen #39 (Jr.) WBGlover, Rich #79 (Sr.) MGGoeller, Dave #28 (Jr.) IBHarper, Willie #81 (Sr.) DEHegener, Stan #64 (So.) RGHenrichs, Dennis #75 (So.) LT", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 888]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094198-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Roster\nHeydorff, Mark #2 (Jr.) SHill, Jeff #8 (So.) SEHumm, Dave #12 (So.) QBHumm, Tom #32 (So.) WBHunter, Ken #78 (So.) MGHyland, John #58 (Sr.) DEJanssen, Bill #55 (Sr.) DTJenkins, Brad #87 (So.) SEJohnson, Ardell #29 (So.) RCBJohnson, Monte #37 (Sr.) DTJones, Chuck #35 (So.) LCBKinsel, John #53 (Sr.) CKnudsen, Tom #73 (Jr.) MGKyros, George #18 (So.) SLackovic, Tim #80 (So.) SELeonardi, Chad #61 (So.) LGList, Jerry #85 (Sr.) TELoewenstein, Ron #4 (So.) MONLongwell, Brent #86 (Jr.) TELuck, Terry #11 (So.) QBLynch, Dan #96 (So.) DTManstedt, Steve #82 (Jr.) DEMason, Dave #25 (Sr.) MONMazon, Frank #31 (So.) RCBMcGuire, Tim #93 (So.) LGMcKinley, Kim #65 (So.) DTMeyer, Bob #98 (So.) DEMills, George #69 (So.) DTMoran, Jeff #30 (So.) WBMushinskie, Larry #88 (So.) TENelson, Bob #57 (So.) LBNorrie, Rod #94 (So.) DTO'Connell, John #34 (Jr.) SOffner, Mike #95 (So.) DE", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 911]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094198-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Roster\nO'Holleran, Mike #38 (So.) FBOlds, Bill #44 (Sr.) FBOsborne, Mike #99 (So.) DTPate, Tom #68 (So.) DEPeterson, Matt #7 (So.) SEPitts, John #56 (Sr.) LBPotter, Dana #10 (So.) QBPowell, Ralph #41 (Jr.) FBRedding, Dave #91 (So.) DERevelle, Bob #84 (So.) SERighetti, Phil #74 (Sr.) LTRodgers, Johnny #20 (Sr.) WBRogers, Terry #40 (So.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094198-0004-0001", "contents": "1972 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Roster\nMONRunty, Steve #13 (Jr.) QBRutan, Bob #15 (So.) QBRuud, Tom #45 (So.) LBSanger, Rich #43 (Jr.) P/PKSchmit, Bob #23 (Jr.) LBSeeton, Jim #16 (So.) SSloey, Bill #42 (Sr.) LBStarkebaum, John #48 (So.) MONStinner, John #3 (Jr.) LBStrong, Jon #49 (Jr.) LBThornton, Bob #17 (Jr.) SWestbrook, Don #21 (So.) IBWhite, Daryl #72 (Jr.) LTWieser, Steve #83 (So.) DEWolfe, Bob #76 (Jr.) LGYaralian, Zaven #1 (Jr.) RCBYoung, Vic #52 (So.) CZanrosso, Dennis #59 (Jr.) C", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094198-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, UCLA\nUnranked UCLA, sporting their new wishbone offense led by junior college transfer Mark Harmon, handed #1 Nebraska its first loss in 33 games, and broke Nebraska's 23-game winning streak, both at that time active NCAA records. The Cornhuskers were upset in Los Angeles after suffering four fumbles and giving up two interceptions, though the game was not decided until UCLA's Efren Herrera kicked a field goal to break the tie with just 22 seconds remaining. The upset loss dropped Nebraska from first to tenth in the AP Poll rankings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 61], "content_span": [62, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094198-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Texas A&M\nDue to a stadium expansion completed over the summer, Nebraska's home opener drew record attendance with slightly more than 76,000 spectators. Nebraska recovered from the loss to UCLA with a dominant 37\u20137 victory over Texas A&M, whose sole touchdown came late in the 4th quarter against Cornhusker reserves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094198-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Army\nNebraska entirely stomped Army, with the Cornhusker reserves taking over in the 3rd quarter behind a very comfortable lead, and the Black Knights' lone score to prevent the shutout came on a 10-yard pass reception with just 35 seconds left to play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 61], "content_span": [62, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094198-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Minnesota\nFor the third straight week, Nebraska dominated the game in every way, shutting out Minnesota while piling up 542 yards of offense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094198-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Missouri\nNebraska was not affected by the week off, and thoroughly pounded Missouri 62-0. Although the scoreboard and statistics might suggest Missouri was out of their league against Nebraska, the Tigers went on after this painful shutout to upset Notre Dame and Colorado in their next two games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094198-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Kansas\nThe shutouts and domination continued, as Nebraska scored at will against Kansas in Lawrence, and held the Jayhawks to just 63 total yards of offense and only 4 1st downs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 63], "content_span": [64, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094198-0011-0000", "contents": "1972 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma State\nNebraska tied a 1937 NCAA record of 4 straight shutouts, and although Oklahoma State was not as easy to push around as the previous three opponents, the Cornhuskers still had little trouble getting the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 71], "content_span": [72, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094198-0012-0000", "contents": "1972 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Colorado\nColorado attempted to put some more challenge into the event than Nebraska had been seeing in recent games, and was even able to draw back from a 0-19 deficit to get within 9 by halftime and end Nebraska's shutout streak, but it was all Cornhusker points the rest of the way. Still, the Blackshirts mourned the end of their touchdown-free stretch at 17 quarters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094198-0013-0000", "contents": "1972 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Iowa State\nIowa State pretty much ended any Nebraska hopes for another national title, as the Cornhuskers gave up two interceptions and six fumbles to help the Cyclones stay in the game. Nebraska came back from behind to pull ahead 20-17 in the 4th, and padded the lead with a field goal when the clock was down to just 1:03, but Iowa State stormed back down the field to score again with 0:23 remaining, and would have won the game outright if the subsequent PAT had not failed and ended the game tied at 23.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 67], "content_span": [68, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094198-0014-0000", "contents": "1972 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Kansas State\nNebraska put up Coach Devaney's 100th career win as the Cornhuskers easily trampled Kansas State in Lincoln and had reserves in the game for playing time while cruising behind a comfortable 38-0 lead even prior to the half. The Wildcats finally put up a touchdown with just over 6 minutes remaining to play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 69], "content_span": [70, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094198-0015-0000", "contents": "1972 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma\nIt looked like Nebraska's day on Thanksgiving in Devaney's final home game as head coach. They led at the half and were up 14\u20130 in the 3rd, but underdog Oklahoma scored seventeen unanswered points for the win; Nebraska's three-year home winning streak, which began in September 1969, ended at 23 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094198-0016-0000", "contents": "1972 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Notre Dame\nHeisman Trophy winner Johnny Rodgers was shifted from WB to IB for the 1973 Orange Bowl, and flashed brilliance as he ran for three touchdowns, caught a touchdown pass, and also threw a fifth touchdown. The Cornhuskers scored with ease and often against the stunned Fighting Irish, who were unable to put any points up of their own until the 4th quarter. This was head coach Bob Devaney's final game, a third straight Orange Bowl victory, and second straight Orange Bowl rout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 67], "content_span": [68, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094198-0017-0000", "contents": "1972 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, 1972 Team Players in the NFL\nThe 1972 Nebraska Cornhuskers seniors selected in the 1973 NFL Draft:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 69], "content_span": [70, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094198-0018-0000", "contents": "1972 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, 1972 Team Players in the NFL\nThe 1972 Nebraska Cornhuskers juniors selected in the following year's 1974 NFL Draft:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 69], "content_span": [70, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094198-0019-0000", "contents": "1972 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, 1972 Team Players in the NFL\nThe 1972 Nebraska Cornhuskers sophomores selected in the 1975 NFL Draft:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 69], "content_span": [70, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094198-0020-0000", "contents": "1972 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, 1972 Team Players in the NFL, NFL and Pro Players\nThe following is a list of 1972 Nebraska playerswho joined a professional team as draftees or free agents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 90], "content_span": [91, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094199-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Nevada Wolf Pack football team\nThe 1972 Nevada Wolf Pack football team represented the University of Nevada, Reno during the 1972 NCAA College Division football season. Nevada competed as an independent. The Wolf Pack were led by fourth-year head coach Jerry Scattini and played their home games at Mackay Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094200-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 New Caledonian legislative election\nLegislative elections were held in New Caledonia on 10 September 1972. They had originally been scheduled for July, but were postponed by the French government. Anti -autonomist parties won 18 of the 35 seats, with the previously dominant Caledonian Union reduced from the 22 seats it won in 1967 to only 12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094200-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 New Caledonian legislative election, Background\nPrior to the elections, the Caledonian Union (UC) held 12 seats in the 35-member Territorial Assembly, the Caledonian Liberal Movement (a breakaway from the UC) seven, the Democratic Union five, the Multi-Racial Union four, the Democratic and Social Agreement four, the Association of French Caledonians and Loyalists one, the Civic Union one and the Caledonian Popular Movement one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 52], "content_span": [53, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094200-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 New Caledonian legislative election, Campaign\nNine parties contested the elections, with eleven lists running in the South constituency covering Noum\u00e9a.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094200-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 New Caledonian legislative election, Results\nPro -autonomy parties (the Caledonian Union and Multi-Racial Union) won seventeen seats, with anti-autonomist parties (the Democratic and Social Agreement, the Caledonian Liberal Movement, Democratic Union, Caledonian Popular Movement and AICLO) winning eighteen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094200-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 New Caledonian legislative election, Aftermath\nAlthough anti-autonomist parties won a one-seat majority, by early 1973 autonomist parties held 20 of the 35 seats following the defection of three members, including Fredy Gosse.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 51], "content_span": [52, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094200-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 New Caledonian legislative election, Aftermath\nGeorges Chatenay resigned from the Assembly in March 1974 and was replaced by Joseph Tidjine. Gosse resigned in May 1974 and was replaced by Evenor de Greslan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 51], "content_span": [52, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094201-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 New England Patriots season\nThe 1972 New England Patriots season was the franchise's third season in the National Football League and 13th overall. The Patriots ended the season with a record of three wins and eleven losses and finished last in the AFC East Division. The Patriots continued their period of futility as they slumped to another horrendous record of 3\u201311, and missed the playoffs for the ninth straight season. After being embarrassed 31\u20137 in their home opener against Cincinnati, the Patriots would win their next two games against Atlanta and Washington.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094201-0000-0001", "contents": "1972 New England Patriots season\nHowever, the Patriots would continue their mid-season misery, as they would lose nine consecutive games to slide to 2\u201310 before winning their first (and only) road game against the New Orleans Saints. New England went winless against AFC opponents. Besides their embarrassing home-opening loss, the Patriots had plenty of other bad moments during the season. One good example was a 52\u20130 thrashing given to them by the powerful Miami Dolphins. The loss went down as the worst loss in Patriots history and the most points ever allowed in a game in franchise history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094201-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 New England Patriots season\nAlthough they won three games, the 1972 Patriots had the second-worst point differential (minus-254) of any team in a 14-game NFL season, ahead of only the expansion 1976 Buccaneers. The 1972 Patriots had the franchise\u2019s worst point differential until the 1990 team was outscored by 265 points (181\u2013446) in a 1\u201315 season. They lost eight of their fourteen games by three touchdowns or more, and their first two wins were by a single point. Pro Football Reference argues that the 1970 and 1972 Patriots were, owing to the tough schedule of the 1990 team, the weakest Patriot teams ever, and rivalled only by the 1991 Colts and 2009 Rams as the weakest team by an established franchise since the NFL\u2013AFL merger.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 742]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094202-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 New Hampshire Wildcats football team\nThe 1972 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 1972 NCAA College Division football season. In its first year under head coach Bill Bowes, the team compiled a 4\u20135 record (2\u20133 against conference opponents) and finished fourth out of six teams in the Yankee Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094203-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 New Hampshire gubernatorial election\nThe 1972 New Hampshire gubernatorial election was held on November 7, 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094203-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 New Hampshire gubernatorial election\nIncumbent Republican Governor Walter R. Peterson Jr. was defeated for renomination in the Republican primary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094203-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 New Hampshire gubernatorial election\nRepublican nominee Meldrim Thomson Jr. defeated Democratic nominee Roger J. Crowley with 41.38% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094204-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 New Mexico Lobos football team\nThe 1972 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 1972 NCAA University Division football season. In their fifth season under head coach Rudy Feldman, the Lobos compiled a 3\u20138 record (2\u20134 against WAC opponents) and were outscored by a total of 327 to 208.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094204-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 New Mexico Lobos football team\nJohn Urban and George Oakes were the team captains. The team's statistical leaders included Bruce Boone with 540 passing yards, Fred Henry with 977 rushing yards and 36 points, and Ken Smith with 382 receiving yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094205-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 New Mexico State Aggies football team\nThe 1972 New Mexico State Aggies football team was an American football team that represented New Mexico State University in the Missouri Valley Conference during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. In their fifth year under head coach Jim Wood, the Aggies compiled a 2\u20139 record. The team played its home games at Memorial Stadium in Las Cruces, New Mexico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094206-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 New Orleans Saints season\nThe 1972 New Orleans Saints season was the team's sixth as a member of the National Football League (NFL). They failed to improve on their previous season\u2019s output of 4\u20138\u20132, winning only two games. The team failed to qualify for the playoffs for the sixth consecutive season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094206-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 New Orleans Saints season\nThe Saints suffered through their second 2\u201311\u20131 season in three years, tying with the Philadelphia Eagles for the second worst record in the league, only surpassed by the Houston Oilers\u2019 1\u201313. It would be their worst until they went 2\u201312 in 1975.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094207-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 New Year Honours\nThe New Year Honours 1972 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 in supplements to the London Gazette of 31 December 1971 to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094207-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 New Year Honours\nAt this time honours for Australians were awarded both in the United Kingdom honours, on the advice of the premiers of Australian states, and also in a separate Australia honours list.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094207-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 New Year Honours\nThe 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.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094207-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 New Year Honours, United Kingdom and Commonwealth, Royal Victorian Order, Member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO)\nAt this time the two lowest classes of the Royal Victorian Order were \"Member (fourth class)\" and \"Member (fifth class)\", both with post-nominal letters MVO. \"Member (fourth class)\" was renamed \"Lieutenant\" (LVO) from the 1985 New Year Honours onwards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 120], "content_span": [121, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094208-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 New Year Honours (New Zealand)\nThe 1972 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 1971 and the beginning of 1972, and were announced on 1 January 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094208-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 New Year Honours (New Zealand)\nThe recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094209-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 New York City Marathon\nThe 1972 New York City Marathon was the 3rd edition of the New York City Marathon and took place in New York City on 3 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094209-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 New York City Marathon\nA total of 187 marathon runners finished the race, including 185 men and two women.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094210-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 New York Cosmos season\nThe 1972 New York Cosmos season was the second season for the New York Cosmos in the now-defunct North American Soccer League. In the Cosmos' second year of existence, the club finished 1st in the Northern Division and 1st in the overall league table. In the playoffs, the Cosmos defeated the Dallas Tornado in the semifinal and the St. Louis Stars in the final, winning their first league championship and completing the first double by a club in the national era.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094210-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 New York Cosmos season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094210-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 New York Cosmos season, Results, Regular season\nPld = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, D = Draws, GF = Goals For, GA = Goals Against, Pts = Points6 points for a win, 3 points for a draw, 0 points for a loss, 1 point for each goal scored (up to three per game).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094211-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 New York Film Critics Circle Awards\nThe 38th New York Film Critics Circle Awards, announced on 3 January 1973, honored the best filmmaking of 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094212-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 New York Giants season\nThe 1972 New York Giants season was the franchise's 48th season in the National Football League (NFL). The Giants had an 8\u20136 record and finished in third place in the National Football Conference East Division, three games behind the Washington Redskins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094212-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 New York Giants season\nThe Giants had two first-round selections in the 1972 NFL Draft, and chose Eldridge Small and Larry Jacobson with the 17th and 24th overall picks, respectively. Before the season, New York traded their starting quarterback, Fran Tarkenton, to the Minnesota Vikings for a package of players and draft picks that included quarterback Norm Snead, who led the league in pass completion average in 1972. The Giants lost twice to open the season, but went on a four-game winning streak afterwards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094212-0001-0001", "contents": "1972 New York Giants season\nIn their 11th game, the Giants defeated the Philadelphia Eagles 62\u201310, setting the franchise record for the most points scored in a game; it was also an Eagles record for the most points allowed. The victory put the team at 7\u20134 and in contention for a playoff berth. Two losses ended their postseason chances, but New York beat the Dallas Cowboys in the final game of the season to finish with eight wins in fourteen games. Halfback Ron Johnson scored nine touchdowns on running plays to top the NFL, and his 1,182 rushing yards broke the Giants' single-season record. This was the last winning season for the Giants until 1981.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 656]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094213-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 New York Jets season\nThe 1972 New York Jets season was the 13th season for the team and the third in the National Football League. It began with the team trying to improve upon its 6\u20138 record from 1971 under legendary head coach Weeb Ewbank. The Jets star quarterback Joe Namath was healthy for a full season for the first time in three years but the rest of the squad was decimated by injuries and, after a strong start, the Jets finished with a record of 7\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094213-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 New York Jets season\nDuring the 1972 preseason, a squad composed of the Jets\u2019 rookies defeated the Long Island Chiefs of the Seaboard Football League 29\u20133. (In 1974, the Houston Oilers rookie squad played a preseason game vs the minor league San Antonio Toros)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094213-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 New York Jets season\nNamath threw for 496 yards and six touchdowns (on just 15 of 28 passes) in a 44\u201334 victory over the Baltimore Colts in Broadway Joe\u2019s first appearance at Baltimore\u2019s Memorial Stadium in week two, but the next week, the Jets were humbled 26\u201320 by the Houston Oilers, the Oilers' only victory of 1972 and their last before embarking on an 18-game losing streak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094213-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 New York Jets season\nThey Jets were eliminated from playoff contention in the season\u2019s thirteenth week, a Monday Night Game with the Raiders in which a battered and bruised Namath threw for 403 yards and nearly pulled off the upset. After the game Raiders coach John Madden went into the Jets locker room and shook Namath\u2019s hand out of respect; it was the only time in his coaching career Madden ever did that. Eliminated from postseason play, the Jets\u2019 coaches decided Namath would sit out the final game of the season to make sure no serious injuries were incurred prior to the 1973 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094213-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 New York Jets season, Offseason, Game summaries, Week 2: at Baltimore Colts\nThe rivalry between Joe Namath and Johnny Unitas had never resulted in both quarterbacks meeting for a full game until this meeting. Namath and Unitas exploded to a combined 872 passing yards. Namath threw for 496 yards and six touchdowns despite only 15 completions in 28 attempts. Unitas scored twice but was sacked six times. Don McCauley also scored twice for the Colts as the Jets won 44\u201334.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 80], "content_span": [81, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094214-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 New York Mets season\nThe 1972 New York Mets season was the 11th regular season for the Mets, who played home games at Shea Stadium. Led by manager Yogi Berra, the team had an 83\u201373 record and finished in third place in the National League's Eastern Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094214-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 New York Mets season, Offseason, Death of Gil Hodges\nOn April 2, 1972, Gil Hodges and his coaches Rube Walker, Joe Pignatano and Eddie Yost, were in West Palm Beach, Florida. As they were returning to their motel after a round of golf, Hodges suddenly collapsed, falling backward and cracking his head open. Hodges was dead of a heart attack, two days short of his forty-eighth birthday. The Mets wore a black-armband on the left sleeves of their uniform jerseys during the 1972 season in honor of Hodges.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 57], "content_span": [58, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094214-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 New York Mets season, Offseason, A new man in charge\nOn April 6, the Mets announced their new manager, Yogi Berra. The announcement of Berra's appointment was accompanied by another; the Mets had traded outfielder Ken Singleton, infielder Tim Foli, and first baseman-outfielder Mike Jorgensen to the Montreal Expos for hard-hitting star outfielder Rusty Staub. In Staub, the Mets had a bona fide smacker, a .311-hitting, 97-RBI man the year before with Montreal. Also joining the club this year was John Milner, a left-handed, power-hitting, first baseman-outfielder.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 57], "content_span": [58, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094214-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 New York Mets season, Regular season, Season summary, \"Say Hey\" is back in New York\nOn May 11, the Mets added another \"new\" face to the team. In a move seasoned with sentiment more than anything else, they acquired Willie Mays form the San Francisco Giants for pitcher Charlie Williams and cash.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 88], "content_span": [89, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094214-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 New York Mets season, Regular season, Season summary, \"Say Hey\" is back in New York\nThe acquisition of Mays had been a longtime dream of that old New York Giants fan, Mrs. Joan Payson. With Willie no longer pulling the weight of his large contract, Giants owner Horace Stoneham made him available, and Mrs. Payson could not resist.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 88], "content_span": [89, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094214-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 New York Mets season, Regular season, Season summary, \"Say Hey\" is back in New York\nHe was, of course, no longer the fabled Willie Mays, the greatest player since Joe DiMaggio, and some said, maybe the greatest ever, which gave him value as a drawing card. He was 41 years old, slowed down considerably in the field and at the plate, no longer possessing that cannon of an arm. He was, in truth, something of a liability now in center and it was more prudent to play him at first base.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 88], "content_span": [89, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094214-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 New York Mets season, Regular season, Season summary, A sizzling start, then they fizzled\nThe club got off to a sizzling start in 1972, playing better than .700 ball through early June, peaking at 25-7 (.781) on May 21, leading the Pirates by 6 games. But soon after, a series of disabling injuries to Staub, Bud Harrelson, Jerry Grote, and Cleon Jones brought the team up short and dropped them into their third consecutive third-place finish, 13.5 behind Pittsburgh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 94], "content_span": [95, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094214-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 New York Mets season, Regular season, Season summary, A sizzling start, then they fizzled\nDespite a promising start, the season ending on a highly disappointing note. Jim Fregosi, who suffered a broken thumb in spring training, never got on track and continued the third-base jinx with a .232 batting average. Ken Boswell hit just .211 and the club was ready to give up on him. John Milner flashed some power with 17 homers but batted only .238. Tommie Agee, unhappy at being displaced in center by Mays now and then, batted .227, and the club already had his ticket punched. Staub, limited to just 66 games because of a broken hand, hit .293 and was sorely missed. Mays batted a respectable .267, but his fielding deficiencies were now glaring.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 94], "content_span": [95, 750]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094214-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 New York Mets season, Regular season, Season summary, A sizzling start, then they fizzled\nTom Seaver was 21\u201312, Jim McAndrew 11\u20138, Jerry Koosman 11\u201312, while Rookie of the Year Jon Matlack was 15\u201310. Gary Gentry slumped to 7\u201310, leaving his employers disenchanted. Tug McGraw continued as the bullpen ace, with 8 wins and 27 saves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 94], "content_span": [95, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094214-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 New York Mets season, Regular season, Season summary, Witnessing history\nOn September 30, Matlack made the trivia lists when he served up a double to Pittsburgh legend Roberto Clemente. It was the Pirate great's 3,000th and last big-league hit. On New Year's Eve, Clemente lost his life when the plane on which he was taking food and medical supplies to earthquake-smashed Managua, Nicaragua, crashed into the ocean soon after taking off from San Juan, Puerto Rico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 77], "content_span": [78, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094214-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 New York Mets season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 70], "content_span": [71, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094214-0011-0000", "contents": "1972 New York Mets season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 63], "content_span": [64, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094214-0012-0000", "contents": "1972 New York Mets season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 68], "content_span": [69, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094214-0013-0000", "contents": "1972 New York Mets season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 65], "content_span": [66, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094214-0014-0000", "contents": "1972 New York Mets season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 66], "content_span": [67, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094215-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 New York Yankees season\nThe 1972 New York Yankees season was the 70th season for the Yankees in New York, and the 72nd season overall. The team finished with a record of 79\u201376, finishing 6\u00bd games behind the Detroit Tigers. New York was managed by Ralph Houk. The Yankees played at Yankee Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094215-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 New York Yankees season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 73], "content_span": [74, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094215-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 New York Yankees season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 66], "content_span": [67, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094215-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 New York Yankees season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 71], "content_span": [72, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094215-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 New York Yankees season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 68], "content_span": [69, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094215-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 New York Yankees season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 69], "content_span": [70, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094216-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 New York state election, Background\nJudges John F. Scileppi, Francis Bergan, and James Gibson would reach the constitutional age limit of 70 years at the end of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094216-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 New York state election, Background\nThe 1972 New York state election was held on November 7, 1972, to elect three judges of the New York Court of Appeals, as well as all members of the New York State Assembly and the New York State Senate. Despite efforts by Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller and others, no woman was designated by any party for the Court of Appeals. Family Judge Nanette Dembitz was fourth placed in the vote of the Democratic State Committee, and challenged the party designees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094216-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 New York state election, Nominations, Democratic primary\nThe Democratic State Committee met on April 3, and designated Appellate Justices Lawrence H. Cooke and M. Henry Martuscello; and Supreme Court Justice Bernard S. Meyer for the Court of Appeals. On April 14, Family Court Judge Nanette Dembitz announced her challenge to the designees,. and a primary was held on June 20.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 61], "content_span": [62, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094216-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 New York state election, Nominations, Other parties\nThe Republican State Committee met on April 3 at Albany, New York, and designated Appellate Justice Dominick L. Gabrielli, Supreme Court Justice Sol Wachler and lawyer Hugh R. Jones, President of the New York State Bar Association, for the Court of Appeals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 56], "content_span": [57, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094216-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 New York state election, Nominations, Other parties\nThe Liberal State Committee met on April 3, and designated Democrats M. Henry Martuscello and Bernard S. Meyer; and Republican Sol Wachtler for the Court of Appeals. Martuscello lost the Democratic nomination in the primary, and ran on the Liberal ticket only.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 56], "content_span": [57, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094216-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 New York state election, Nominations, Other parties\nThe Conservative State Committee met on April 4, and designated Republicans Dominick L. Gabrielli and Hugh R. Jones, and Democrat Lawrence H. Cooke for the Court of Appeals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 56], "content_span": [57, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094216-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 New York state election, Nominations, Other parties\nThe designees of the Republican, Liberal and Conservative parties were not challenged in primaries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 56], "content_span": [57, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094217-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 New Zealand Grand Prix\nThe 1972 New Zealand Grand Prix was a race held at the Pukekohe Park Raceway on 8 January 1972. The race had 20 starters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094217-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 New Zealand Grand Prix\nIt was the 18th New Zealand Grand Prix, and doubled as the first round of the 1972 Tasman Series. Australian Frank Gardner won his first NZGP in his McLaren Formula 5000 ahead of British Grand Prix motorcycle racing champion Mike Hailwood. The first New Zealand driver to finish was Robbie Francevic in the McLaren Formula 5000 who came in 9th place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094217-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 New Zealand Grand Prix\nThe race saw the death of Bryan Faloon who died after an accident on the back straight with Graeme Lawrence in the closing laps of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094218-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 New Zealand National Party leadership election\nThe New Zealand National Party leadership election was held to determine the leadership of the New Zealand National Party. The election was won by Karori MP Jack Marshall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094218-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 New Zealand National Party leadership election, Background\nDespite seeming likely that National would go on to lose the 1969 election, it won an unexpected fourth term. Prime Minister Keith Holyoake believed Finance Minister Robert Muldoon was mostly to thank for the victory after his strong promotions of National's economic record and plans during the election campaign. As such, there was much press speculation that Muldoon rather than Jack Marshall might go on to succeed Holyoake as National's leader. Despite winning in 1969, National was embarrassed in 1970 from a huge by-election defeat triggering the media to speculate when Holyoake would retire. By this stage even Marshall, his long-serving loyal deputy, was also in private encouraging him to retire. However it was not until early 1972 that Holyoake finally did step down as leader.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 63], "content_span": [64, 854]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094218-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 New Zealand National Party leadership election, Candidates, Jack Marshall\nMarshall had been the deputy leader of National since 1957. By 1972 Holyoake increasingly relied on him to do a bulk of the government workload. He served as Deputy Prime Minister, Attorney-General, Minister of Justice and later Minister of Customs, Minister of Immigration and Minister of Labour as well. Many thought that after fifteen years as deputy to Holyoake, Marshall had earned his chance to lead the National Party, despite criticisms that he was too old and in too poor health (Marshall had suffered a near fatal heart attack in Tehran several years earlier).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 78], "content_span": [79, 649]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094218-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 New Zealand National Party leadership election, Candidates, Robert Muldoon\nMuldoon was a high-profile member of the National Party. He had served as Minister of Finance under Holyoake since 1967. Unlike the more reserved personalities of Holyoake and Marshall he was a popular figure with the public and adapted well to the new media of television coverage that other politicians, notably Holyoake, struggled with. As a result, he was largely credited with National's shock win in 1969. Muldoon's supporters in caucus tried to discourage him from standing for the leadership saying that not only was Marshall sure to win, but that National would likely lose the impending election so he should wait until after the election, but Muldoon ignored their advice and challenged anyway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 79], "content_span": [80, 785]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094218-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 New Zealand National Party leadership election, Result\nThe election was conducted through a members ballot by National's parliamentary caucus. The following table gives the ballot results:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 59], "content_span": [60, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094218-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 New Zealand National Party leadership election, Aftermath\nMarshall reshuffled cabinet in an attempt to project National as having a new look and direction. However both press and public alike continued to view National as a government twelve years old, despite Marshall's changes. Muldoon was elected unopposed as deputy leader and was utilised by Marshall in advertising campaigns alongside himself in acknowledgement of Muldoon's popularity. Despite this, National went on to lose, as many had anticipated, the 1972 election in a landslide and Marshall became Leader of the Opposition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 62], "content_span": [63, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094219-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 New Zealand National Soccer League\nThe 1972 New Zealand National Soccer League was the third season of a nationwide round-robin club competition in New Zealand football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094219-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 New Zealand National Soccer League, Promotion and relegation\nWestern Suburbs FC finished last in the 1971 league, and joined the winners of the Northern, Central, and Southern leagues \u2014 Takapuna City (North Shore), Waterside (Wellington), and New Brighton (Christchurch) respectively \u2014 in a play-off series to decide the team which would be granted entry to the national league. Teams all played each other in home and away ties, as a result of which New Brighton gained entry to the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094219-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 New Zealand National Soccer League, Promotion and relegation\nThere were two further changes to the league from the previous year; Dunedin Suburbs disbanded as a team, their place being taken by the Caversham side who had been instrumental in this short-lived union, and Mount Albert-Ponsonby also renamed themselves - briefly - as Auckland City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094219-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 New Zealand National Soccer League, Team performance\nA very close finish to the season saw three teams at the top finish within one point of each other. Again it was Auckland teams plus Christchurch United who dominated the table, with Mount Wellington finishing strongly to pip Blockhouse Bay to the title. The Mount's win was largely the work of coach Ken Armstrong, and was underpinned by an excellent home record, with eight wins and one solitary loss. Blockhouse Bay's Ian Ormond was by far the league's top scorer, his 22 goals being one more than the entire Auckland City tally. A final match scoreless draw against Gisborne City was to cost them the league. They led the table at that point, but Mount Wellington won its two outstanding matches to take the trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 57], "content_span": [58, 777]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094219-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 New Zealand National Soccer League, Team performance\nChristchurch United and Eastern Suburbs both held the lead at different points of the season, but a poor finish to the season for Suburbs saw them drop to fourth. Gisborne City's mid-table finish was the result of good home form but poor away form. Gisborne's season saw the arrival of a man who would have a big influence on New Zealand football, Kevin Fallon, who played his first game in the league mid-season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 57], "content_span": [58, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094219-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 New Zealand National Soccer League, Team performance\nThe two Wellingtonian teams, Stop Out and Wellington City again struggled, neither of them looking like title contenders, but improving on their previous league seasons. Caversham started brightly with five wins in its first seven games, but that's where their form ran out, and they managed just three points in the rest of the season. They were safe from relegation, however, since the bottom two clubs both had far worse seasons. New Brighton only managed one win all season, and only survived in the league through Auckland City's worse goal record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 57], "content_span": [58, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094220-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 New Zealand Open\nThe 1972 New Zealand Open, also known as Benson and Hedges Open for sponsorship reasons, was a combined men's and women's professional tennis tournament held at the Stanley Street Courts in Auckland, New Zealand. It was an independent event, i.e. not part of the 1972 Grand Prix or 1972 World Championship Tennis circuit. The tournament was played on outdoor grass courts and was held from 7 December through 12 December 1971. Ray Ruffels and Kerry Melville won the singles titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094220-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 New Zealand Open, Finals, Women's Doubles\nRosie Casals / Billie Jean King defeated Judy Dalton / Fran\u00e7oise D\u00fcrr 7\u20136, 4\u20136, 7\u20135", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 46], "content_span": [47, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094221-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 New Zealand eight\nThe 1972 New Zealand eight was a team of Olympic gold medallists in rowing from New Zealand, having previously won the 1971 European Rowing Championships. At the time, the eight was regarded as the blue ribbon class of rowing, and the sport still had amateur-status in New Zealand, unlike many other nations competing in rowing. After a disappointing Olympic performance at the 1968 Summer Olympics by the New Zealand eight, national selectors Rusty Robertson, Don Rowlands, and Fred Strachan were tasked with assembling a new crew. Robertson was also the team's coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094221-0000-0001", "contents": "1972 New Zealand eight\nThe next time a New Zealand eight competed was at the 1970 World Rowing Championships, where they came third. The team was once again significantly changed for the next rowing season, with the 1971 edition of the European Rowing Championships and other international regattas beforehand seen as the ultimate test for the 1972 Summer Olympics. The team put up an impressive performance, beat the highly favoured East German eight, and became European champion; at the time the win was regarded to hold world championship status.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094221-0000-0002", "contents": "1972 New Zealand eight\nNo further changes were made to the team, not even their seating position, for the 1972 season. Despite a shoe-string budget, financial constraints, and all rowers working part-time, the 1971 success was repeated and the team won Olympic gold in Munich. The president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Avery Brundage, was a zealous advocate of amateurism; he was so impressed by the New Zealand performance that he insisted on handing out the gold medals himself. During the medal ceremony, much to almost everybody's surprise, \"God Defend New Zealand\" was played instead of the national anthem, \"God Save the Queen\". It was the impetus for a campaign to make \"God Defend New Zealand\" the New Zealand anthem, and in 1977 it was gazetted as having equal status to the traditional anthem.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 821]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094221-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 New Zealand eight\nThe team won some significant awards and recognition for its successes. The rules of the \"Sportsman of the Year Award\" had to be changed so that a team could win the supreme award; this was awarded after their European championship win. Brundage also awarded the Taher Pacha Trophy to the team for distinction in amateur sport in 1971. After the Olympic success, the team was again awarded \"Sportsman of the Year\"; the first time a back-to-back award had been handed out. Rowlands, their manager, was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 1973 New Year Honours. Over time, coach Robertson, manager Rowlands, and then the team as a whole were inducted into the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 744]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094221-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 New Zealand eight, Background\nThere were expectations for the New Zealand eight to win a medal at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, but the team came fourth and this was regarded as a failure. The situation was the opposite for the other New Zealand boat in Mexico. The coxed four was technically a spare, the crew had travelled to be available as a reserve for the eight team. The coxed four won an unexpected gold medal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094221-0002-0001", "contents": "1972 New Zealand eight, Background\nGetting the amateur rowers to Mexico had required a massive fund-raising exercise and the New Zealand rowing association was in no position to send rowers to any international regattas in 1969, but targeted the 1970 World Rowing Championships in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. At the time, the eight was seen as the most important boat class, and three from the Mexico eight trained for the 1970 world championships: Wybo Veldman, John Hunter, and Gil Cawood. Most of the crew of the 1968 coxed four made another four members: Warren Cole, Dick Joyce, Dudley Storey, and cox Simon Dickie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 625]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094221-0002-0002", "contents": "1972 New Zealand eight, Background\nThe team was complemented by experienced sculler Murray Watkinson and a young Gary Robertson. Ross Collinge from the Mexico coxed four had attended the trials but missed selection. After having won both its heat and the semifinal in Canada (beating the Soviet Union and West Germany in the latter), the boat came third. East Germany dominated, and the Soviet Union was a mere 0.2\u00a0seconds ahead the New Zealand boat. The team did not gel, and Watkinson's selection became regarded as a mistake; as a single sculler, he had become used to \"doing his thing in his own time\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094221-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 New Zealand eight, Background\nThe officials at the time were Rusty Robertson as coach, Don Rowlands as manager, fund-raiser and organiser, and Fred Strachan as strategist. The coach was the uncle of the youngest crew member, Gary Robertson. Robertson had been appointed coach in 1967 and it was then that the national training centre relocated from Auckland to Christchurch, under great controversy. Kerrs Reach on Christchurch's Avon River was more convenient to reach for Dunedin-based Strachan than Auckland, and coach Robertson embarked on a daily drive from Oamaru\u2014a 500 kilometres (310\u00a0mi) return journey\u2013after work whenever there was a training day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 661]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094221-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 New Zealand eight, 1971 European Rowing Championships\nThe 1971 European Rowing Championships were seen as an important stepping stone in the preparation for the 1972 Olympic Games at Munich. The intention was to select a crew and then make minimal changes prior to Munich. At the time, both the World Rowing Championships and the Summer Olympic Games were held at four-year intervals, and the annual European Rowing Championships in the in-between years were regarded as having quasi-world championship status. Rowing officials decided Watkinson would revert to single sculls, and for Storey to return to the coxed four. Cawood was no longer available.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 58], "content_span": [59, 657]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094221-0004-0001", "contents": "1972 New Zealand eight, 1971 European Rowing Championships\nThe three were replaced by three developing rowers\u2014Lindsay Wilson, Joe Earl, and Trevor Coker\u2014and they were teamed with the other young rower, Gary Robertson, to form the bow of the boat. The biggest selection surprise was Earl, as he had just turned 18. Although coached by Strachan at St. Andrew's College in Christchurch and known to all but one of the selectors, Earl himself doubted that he would have been chosen ahead of more experienced oarsmen. The experienced rowers chosen for the stern\u2014Cole, Veldman, Joyce, and Hunter\u2014were kept from the 1970 crew.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 58], "content_span": [59, 619]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094221-0004-0002", "contents": "1972 New Zealand eight, 1971 European Rowing Championships\nThe day before the team was to assemble in Christchurch for their first training, Cole pulled out for family reasons. Tony Hurt from Auckland was chosen to replace him. Joyce was the initial stroke, but this did not work out. He was replaced by Hurt who, although from a sculling background and, at 183 centimetres (6\u00a0ft 0\u00a0in) and 83 kilograms (13.1\u00a0st) small for a rower, worked out well for the team. Veldman called him \"a brilliant stroke\". On Sunday afternoon, the four stern rowers and their bow counterparts would race each other in coxless fours. Dickie recalls that the experienced rowers in the stern had a slight edge, but they did not win every time, and there was great rivalry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 58], "content_span": [59, 749]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094221-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 New Zealand eight, 1971 European Rowing Championships\nThe crew arrived in Europe to find that both their new four and eight Italian Donoratico boats were unsatisfactory. Joyce applied his engineering skills and moved all seats backwards, and that improved the boats' performances. Regattas were rowed in Duisburg and Klagenfurt, and the New Zealanders set new course records at both venues. At the European Rowing Championships, held at the Danish Lake Bagsv\u00e6rd north of Copenhagen, the favoured East Germans, but also the West Germans, also set new course records in their heat, only to be bettered by the New Zealanders in their heat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 58], "content_span": [59, 641]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094221-0005-0001", "contents": "1972 New Zealand eight, 1971 European Rowing Championships\nIn the semi-final, New Zealand faced the Soviet Union, the team that had narrowly beaten them for second place at the 1970 World Championships. Both New Zealand and East Germany won their semi-finals in convincing style. The East Germans were the favourites, being the incumbent European and World champions, and they had not been beaten in five years since they came together in age-group competitions. They were full-time athletes, nominally employed by the Police. Veldman described them as being like clones, as their rowers were well matched in height and arm length.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 58], "content_span": [59, 631]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094221-0005-0002", "contents": "1972 New Zealand eight, 1971 European Rowing Championships\nThere were also rumours of doping, something that would not be confirmed in its full effect across all sports until 1993. The race strategy for the Danish final, where the New Zealand eight would meet the favourites East Germany for the first time, was simple: sprint for the first 500\u00a0metres and then somehow hang on to win. Joyce later explained that they all knew that if the East Germans would get in front, they would never get past them again. Throughout the race, the New Zealanders were always ahead. They won with a time of 5:33.92, closely followed by East Germany in 5:34.32, and the Soviet Union in 5:39.74 well back.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 58], "content_span": [59, 688]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094221-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 New Zealand eight, 1971 European Rowing Championships\nRowlands saw Thomas Keller, the president of the international rowing organisation FISA, shed tears of delight. Avery Brundage, the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), awarded the team the Taher Pacha Trophy (also known as the Mohammed Taher Trophy) for distinction in amateur sport. In November 1971, the team won the \"Sportsman of the Year Award\"; it is now known as the \"Supreme Award\" at the Halberg Awards. The rules had to be altered so that the award could be given to a team. It was the first time that the award was won for rowing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 58], "content_span": [59, 619]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094221-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 New Zealand eight, 1972 Summer Olympics\nFor the next rowing season, Strachan became manager in place of Rowlands. Trials were held in March 1972 in Wanganui, the traditional location for national trials, with the Whanganui River offering good rowing opportunities. Whilst there was an expectation that the crew would stay together, Gary Robertson was personally uncertain of his place and believed that Storey would take his seat. Cole tried to get back into the team but was unsuccessful. Ultimately the team remained unchanged from the previous season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 44], "content_span": [45, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094221-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 New Zealand eight, 1972 Summer Olympics\nOne of Strachan's first tasks was to unite the rowing fraternity at their annual general meeting behind the plan to send an eight to the Olympics. He was given support, but it was mostly left to the team and their organisers to raise the approximately $25,000 needed for the seven weeks in Europe. To keep costs down, Strachan organised for the rowers to stay in the Bavarian town of Lenggries, about an hour's drive away from the Munich regatta course. Whilst there were no dedicated rowing facilities in Lenggries, the Sylvenstein Reservoir provided good training opportunities. Beyond that, the locals were brilliant hosts and many friendships formed at the time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 44], "content_span": [45, 711]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094221-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 New Zealand eight, 1972 Summer Olympics\nThe team management had again ordered a shell from Donoratico, and they delivered them two boats; one built exactly as ordered, but a second that the manufacturer thought would finally address all the teams' desires. In addition, they had a Karlisch shell built by Empacher available to them, but it was not well liked. The team preferred the second Donoratico but their coach thought the Karlisch was superior. Again, Joyce was asked to use his engineering skills to make some modifications. A day after he had finished, one of the seats in the Donoratico collapsed and left that boat unusable. From then on, the Karlisch was used.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 44], "content_span": [45, 677]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094221-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 New Zealand eight, 1972 Summer Olympics\nThe first regatta in Germany was a warm-up event at the Olympic rowing course. The New Zealanders, still using their Donoratico, were beaten by the American team. At the next regatta in Hanover, the Americans were beaten by a two\u2013second margin, and the next day the New Zealanders beat the Australian team (second at the 1968 Olympics). A few days out from the Olympics, Earl received news that his father had died on his way to Munich.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 44], "content_span": [45, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094221-0010-0001", "contents": "1972 New Zealand eight, 1972 Summer Olympics\nWhilst doctors had advised against travel due to a weak heart, his parents went nonetheless and his father died when they were in Italy. Earl still went ahead with the competition, and Strachan remarked later that \"he still performed\". The funeral had to wait until the rowers had returned to New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 44], "content_span": [45, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094221-0011-0000", "contents": "1972 New Zealand eight, 1972 Summer Olympics\nWhen the Olympic racing started, the New Zealanders won their heat comfortably. There was a false start caused by one of the officials, for which the New Zealanders received an official apology \u2013 unlike the other crews, they had not heard the recall bell and started racing in earnest. In the real heat, they eased off after the first 1000\u00a0metres but still won by 11\u00a0seconds. The semi-final was more of a challenge, with a long delay due to wind that was affecting different lanes with varying intensity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 44], "content_span": [45, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094221-0011-0001", "contents": "1972 New Zealand eight, 1972 Summer Olympics\nThe West German crew, the 1968 Olympic champions, had a more sheltered lane and overtook the New Zealand crew at half-way point when the boat was hit by a gust of wind. Robertson, the coach, was livid about the conditions they had to row in, and he decided to knock the other teams' confidence through some mind games. It was announced to the media that the New Zealanders would do some 500\u00a0metre sprints on the regatta course. It worked, and between 50 and 60 people with stop watches turned up to measure the performance. Robertson explained his strategy in his usual straightforward manner:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 44], "content_span": [45, 638]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094221-0012-0000", "contents": "1972 New Zealand eight, 1972 Summer Olympics\nWe're bloody good and they [the opposition] had better know they [the New Zealand eight] are bloody good, because it's too late for them to do anything about it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 44], "content_span": [45, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094221-0013-0000", "contents": "1972 New Zealand eight, 1972 Summer Olympics\nThe rowers themselves played their own game. Their apartment in the Olympic Village was near the entrance and other teams had to walk past. The New Zealanders were on a one-can-of-beer-a-day ration and timed drinking those when others teams went past, stacking the empties, and\u2014in typical New Zealand fashion\u2014they went around the village barefoot. The German media soon wrote about the partying New Zealanders, and this evoked a discussion in West Germany how it could be possible for those larrikins to \"beat our boys?\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 44], "content_span": [45, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094221-0014-0000", "contents": "1972 New Zealand eight, 1972 Summer Olympics\nThe final was rowed on 2 September; an hour earlier, the New Zealand coxless four had won silver. The New Zealand eight dominated its race to the extent that the interesting part was who would take silver and bronze. Four countries battled for the lower medals: East Germany, West Germany, the USA and the Soviet Union. In the end, it came to a photo finish, with the United States declared silver medallist, 0.06\u00a0seconds ahead of East Germany. For the New Zealanders, everybody was in sync.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 44], "content_span": [45, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094221-0014-0001", "contents": "1972 New Zealand eight, 1972 Summer Olympics\nVeldman later commented that he had had harder races at club level; it was like having \"created a big flywheel\". Some of the team later said that their 1971 gold medal win was the \"finer display\" of their skill. The outgoing IOC president, Brundage, was not scheduled to present the medals but insisted on doing so. And the most memorable moment was yet to come \u2013 the crew standing on the victory dais overcome with emotion and \"bawling like babies\" is one of New Zealand's most memorable sporting moments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 44], "content_span": [45, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094221-0014-0002", "contents": "1972 New Zealand eight, 1972 Summer Olympics\nThe occasion was made more poignant by \"God Defend New Zealand\" being played rather than the traditional \"God Save the Queen\". This was not yet the New Zealand anthem and it thus contravened Olympic rules. The New Zealand Olympic liaison officer, Hans Lennarz, is credited with having organised this, and it contributed to the emotion of the occasion. Collinge was the only one who knew that the new anthem would be played, as he had by chance been in the main stadium when the German army band rehearsed it, but he had chosen not to tell anyone about it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 44], "content_span": [45, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094221-0014-0003", "contents": "1972 New Zealand eight, 1972 Summer Olympics\nIt is often reported that this was the first time that \"God Defend New Zealand\" was played at the Olympics, even by the book written about the new anthem, but this is incorrect. For reasons unknown, both anthems had been performed 20 years earlier\u2014one after the other\u2014in Helsinki at the medal ceremony for Yvette Williams' victory in the 1952 long jump.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 44], "content_span": [45, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094221-0015-0000", "contents": "1972 New Zealand eight, 1972 Summer Olympics\nThe two rowing medals won in Munich made up a large part of the New Zealand team's medal haul. There was only one other medal won in Munich across the 14 sports in which the country competed with 89 athletes, and that was an athletics bronze by Rod Dixon in the men's 1500 metres. It was the last time an Olympic rowing race was won in a wooden boat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 44], "content_span": [45, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094221-0015-0001", "contents": "1972 New Zealand eight, 1972 Summer Olympics\nWhilst the previous year, the New Zealanders had left Denmark the day after the competition, this time they stayed on as their competition had been held in the first week of the Olympics. This provided the opportunity to get to know other rowers on a social basis, and the East Germans invited the other medallists to a garden party at their apartment in the Olympic Village. Dickie, a \"larger-than-life personality\", was the life of the party and organised drinking games for the three teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 44], "content_span": [45, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094221-0016-0000", "contents": "1972 New Zealand eight, Aftermath\nThe team would never row competitively together after Munich, but they would again win the \"Sportsman of the Year Award\"; it was the first time that the award had been won twice in a row. Hurt retired from competitive rowing, and the others were broken up for different boats. New Zealand did not enter an eight at the 1973 European Rowing Championships in Moscow, but had a coxed four (which included Robertson and Earl) and a coxless pair (including Veldman, who returned with a silver medal). An eight was next compiled for the 1974 World Rowing Championships in Lucerne, Switzerland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 621]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094221-0016-0001", "contents": "1972 New Zealand eight, Aftermath\nFour of the 1971\u201372 team were included: Hurt, Wilson, Coker, and Earl. The boat won a bronze medal, beaten by the United States and Great Britain. Hurt's recollection of the race is that they were the last boat out, as they weren't ready and still trying to straighten the boat. They never settled properly and thus couldn't catch the leading teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094221-0017-0000", "contents": "1972 New Zealand eight, Aftermath\nSubsequent to the 1972 Olympics, a campaign started to make \"God Defend New Zealand\" the national anthem. It was gazetted as the country's second national anthem on 21 November 1977, on equal standing with \"God Save the Queen\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094221-0018-0000", "contents": "1972 New Zealand eight, Aftermath\nRowlands, the manager for the 1972 team, was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 1973 New Year Honours for services to rowing. In 1990, the team was inducted into the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame. The citation reads in part:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094221-0019-0000", "contents": "1972 New Zealand eight, Aftermath\nTheir win, their manner in achieving it and their laid-bare emotion on the victory dais when God Defend New Zealand was played at their Olympic victory ceremony was a seminal moment in New Zealand sport, one of those moments which for years later people can recall as if it was yesterday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094221-0020-0000", "contents": "1972 New Zealand eight, Aftermath\nTheir coach, Rusty Robertson, and their manager, Don Rowlands, were also inducted into the Hall of Fame.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094221-0021-0000", "contents": "1972 New Zealand eight, Aftermath\nThe original intention was to sell the New Zealand boats in Europe before leaving for home, but the historical significance of the Karlisch hull was recognised and the boat returned to New Zealand. It was used by the Auckland Rowing Club as a training boat for many years. In 1996, the Karlisch was bought by the Stevenson family and donated to the New Zealand Maritime Museum. After the boat was owned by the museum, the team members went out for a row on Waitemat\u0101 Harbour. Only Coker was missing\u2014he had died in 1981 from a brain tumour\u2014but his son took his place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094221-0022-0000", "contents": "1972 New Zealand eight, Aftermath\nThe eight surviving members of the 1972 team carried the Commonwealth Games flag into Mount Smart Stadium at the opening ceremony of the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland. When the 2007 World Rowing Championships were again held in Munich, Chris Nilsson\u2014who in 1972 had been a member of the coxed four but was by then a rowing coach\u2014arranged for the New Zealand team to stay at Lenggries once more, rekindling old friendships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094221-0023-0000", "contents": "1972 New Zealand eight, Aftermath\nIn 1980, the German publishing house Rowohlt Verlag published a book of lists\u2014Rowohlts Bunte Liste\u2014modelled on the 1977 American bestseller The Book of Lists. The German sports journalist Karl-Heinrich von Groddeck, himself a rower at three Olympic Games, was asked to compile a list of the ten best coxed eight crews of all times. He put the Deutschland-Achter of 1960, with which he himself won an Olympic gold medal, in second place, but put the 1972 New Zealand eight in top spot. In 2008, New Zealand sports journalist Joseph Romanos picked the 1972 gold medal win as New Zealand's best ever team performance at the Olympic Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 669]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094221-0024-0000", "contents": "1972 New Zealand eight, Individuals\nThe table below shows the individuals who were involved in the 1971 and 1972 campaigns either as athletes or officials. Two of the officials and two of the rowers have since died. The most recent to die was Dickie in December 2017 amidst the team organising a reunion in conjunction with the next Halberg Awards presentation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 35], "content_span": [36, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094222-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 New Zealand gallantry awards\nThe 1972 New Zealand gallantry awards were announced via two Special Honours Lists dated 7 March and 27 July 1972, and recognised five New Zealand military personnel for gallant and distinguished service during operations in Vietnam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094223-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 New Zealand general election\nThe New Zealand general election of 1972 was held on 25 November to elect MPs to the 37th session of the New Zealand Parliament. The Labour Party, led by Norman Kirk, defeated the governing National Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094223-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 New Zealand general election, Background\nThe National Party had been in office since the 1960 election, when it had defeated the ruling Labour Party, led by Walter Nash. The Second Labour Government was the shortest-lasting of all New Zealand governments to that day; in contrast, the Second National Government, led for the majority of its tenure by Keith Holyoake, would be re-elected three times. National's policies were focused around stability and a \"steady as she goes\" approach, but Holyoake's Government was increasingly perceived as tired and worn-out. In February 1972, Holyoake stood aside and was replaced by his deputy, Jack Marshall, who took steps to reinvigorate the party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 695]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094223-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 New Zealand general election, Background\nMeanwhile, Norman Kirk had been at the helm of Labour since 1965. In this time, he had been modernising and updating the Labour Party, but narrowly lost the 1969 election. Kirk slimmed and dressed to improve his image, and visited several overseas Labour parties to broaden his knowledge. He activated a \"spokesman\" or shadow cabinet system to spread the responsibility, but it was difficult to avoid one composed largely of Auckland and Christchurch members. Despite the improvements, commentators speculated whether National would pull off another cliffhanger victory. Economic recession and voter fatigue had hurt National at the polls. Labour's slogan was \"It's Time \u2013 Time for a change, time for Labour\", which expertly captured the national mood.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 798]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094223-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 New Zealand general election, Background\nA deciding election issue was the proposed raising of the levels of lakes Manapouri and Te Anau as part of the construction of the Manapouri Power Station to supply the aluminium smelter in Bluff with electricity. National wanted to proceed with the work but Labour pledged to keep the lake levels as they are. It became a deciding issue, with four National incumbents from Otago and Southland losing their electorates (Awarua, Invercargill, Otago Central, and Oamaru).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094223-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 New Zealand general election, Background, MPs retiring in 1972\nNine National MPs and one Labour MP intended to retire at the end of the 36th Parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 67], "content_span": [68, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094223-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 New Zealand general election, Background, 1972 electoral redistribution\nSince the 1969 election, the number of electorates in the South Island was fixed at 25, with continued faster population growth in the North Island leading to an increase in the number of general electorates. Including the four M\u0101ori electorates, there had been 80 electorates since the 1902 election. This increased to 84 electorates through the 1969 election. The 1972 electoral redistribution saw three additional general seats created for the North Island, bringing the total number of electorates to 87.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 76], "content_span": [77, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094223-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 New Zealand general election, Background, 1972 electoral redistribution\nTogether with increased urbanisation in Christchurch and Nelson, the changes proved very disruptive to existing electorates. Only two South Island electorates were not altered by the redistribution (Clutha and Lyttelton). Only eight of the North Island electorates were not altered (Franklin, Gisborne, Hobson, Island Bay, Miramar, North Shore, Tamaki, and Wairarapa).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 76], "content_span": [77, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094223-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 New Zealand general election, Background, 1972 electoral redistribution\nIn the South Island, three electorates were abolished (Buller, Westland, and Selwyn), and three electorates were newly created (Rakaia, Tasman, and West Coast). In the North Island, five electorates were abolished (Hauraki, Marsden, Otaki, Waimarino, and Waitomo), two electorates were recreated (Coromandel and Otahuhu), and six electorates were newly created (East Coast Bays, Hamilton East, Kapiti, King Country, Ruahine, and Whangarei).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 76], "content_span": [77, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094223-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 New Zealand general election, Election day\nThe date for the 1972 elections was 25 November, a Saturday. 1,583,256 people were registered to vote. There was a turnout of 89.1%, slightly higher than the previous election and considerably higher than the following one. The number of electorates being contested was 87.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094223-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 New Zealand general election, Results\nThe 1972 election saw the Labour Party defeat the governing National Party, winning 55 seats to National's 32. Labour was therefore able to form its first government since 1960, with Norman Kirk becoming Prime Minister. The second National government thus gave way to the third Labour government. No minor parties managed to gain seats, and no independents were elected. There were 1,583,256 electors on the roll, with 1,401,152 (88.50%) voting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094223-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 New Zealand general election, Results, Votes summary\nThe table below shows the results of the 1972 general election:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094224-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 New Zealand rugby league season\nThe 1972 New Zealand rugby league season was the 65th season of rugby league that had been played in New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094224-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 New Zealand rugby league season, International competitions\nNew Zealand toured Australia, losing the series 0\u20132. The team was coached by Lory Blanchard. They then headed to Great Britain and France for the World Cup. The Kiwis lost to Great Britain, Australia and France. The World Cup team was coached by Des Barchard and managed by Trevor Wellsmore and consisted of: Mocky Brereton, Bill Burgoyne, Roy Christian, Tony Coll, Warren Collicoat, Graeme Cooksley, Murray Eade, Doug Gailey, Peter Gurnick, Don Mann, Mita Mohi, John O'Sullivan, Phillip Orchard, Bob Paul, Brian Tracey, Rodney Walker, John Whittaker, Dennis Williams and John Wilson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 649]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094224-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 New Zealand rugby league season, International competitions\nAuckland lost to Queensland 18\u201317. Canterbury lost to the Western Suburbs Magpies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094224-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 New Zealand rugby league season, International competitions\nNew Zealand M\u0101ori defeated Pakeha 18\u201313. M\u0101ori included Roy Christian.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094224-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 New Zealand rugby league season, International competitions\nJohn Whittaker won the New Zealand Rugby League's player of the year award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094224-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 New Zealand rugby league season, National competitions, Rugby League Cup\nWest Coast again held the Rugby League Cup at the end of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 77], "content_span": [78, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094224-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 New Zealand rugby league season, National competitions, Inter-district competition\nAuckland won the Rothmans trophy, beating Waikato 20-11, Wellington 41-13 and drawing with Canterbury 16-all.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 87], "content_span": [88, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094224-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 New Zealand rugby league season, National competitions, Inter-district competition\nAuckland included Warren Collicoat, Dave Sorensen, Ray Williams and Ken Stirling. John Whittaker played for Wellington.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 87], "content_span": [88, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094224-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Auckland\nPonsonby won the Auckland Rugby League's Fox Memorial Trophy, defeating Ellerslie 14-12 in the grand final. They completed \"the treble\" by also winning the Stormont Shield and Roope Rooster in the same season. Ellerslie won the Rukutai Shield, Otahuhu won the Kiwi Shield, Richmond won the Sharman Cup and Mount Roskill won the Norton Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 65], "content_span": [66, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094224-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Auckland\nBill Harford (Te Atatu)\twon the Lipscombe Cup, Murray Eade (Ellerslie) won the Rothville Trophy, Peter Gurnick (Otahuhu) and Len Hall (Ellerslie) won the Bert Humphries Memorial while Hall also won the Tetley Trophy. Bruce Rowe (Ellerslie) won the Painter Rosebowl Trophy and Don Mann (Ponsonby) won the Hyland Memorial Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 65], "content_span": [66, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094224-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Canterbury\nPapanui won the Canterbury Rugby League's Pat Smith Challenge Trophy, defeating Marist-Western Suburbs 27-9. Marist-Western Suburbs had won the Massetti Cup while Hornby won the Gore Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 67], "content_span": [68, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094224-0011-0000", "contents": "1972 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Canterbury\nPapanui also regained the Thacker Shield for Canterbury after the West Coast clubs had held it for eight years. They defeated Waro-Rakau 22-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 67], "content_span": [68, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094224-0012-0000", "contents": "1972 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Canterbury\nMita Mohi (Marist-Western) and Ivan Reuben (Kaiapoi) shared the D.V. Syme Rosebowl while Phil Brown (Marist-Western) won the A.G.Bailey Challenge Cup (tries) and Michael O'Donnell (Marist-Western) and Trevor Williams (Hornby) shared the Turner and Le Brun Cup. Rodney Walker played for Papanui.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 67], "content_span": [68, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094224-0013-0000", "contents": "1972 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Canterbury\nThe Canterbury Rugby League had been granted use of a field on Hagley Park for the first time in years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 67], "content_span": [68, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094225-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Newfoundland general election\nThe 1972 Newfoundland general election was held on 24 March 1972 to elect members of the 36th General Assembly of Newfoundland. It was won by the Progressive Conservative party. In the district of Labrador South, the election was a virtual tie between two candidates and had to be declared void. In a subsequent by-election, the seat was taken by a member of the Labrador Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094226-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Newport County Borough Council election\nThe 1972 Newport County Borough Council election was held on Thursday 4 May 1972 to elect councillors to the Newport County Borough Council in Newport, Monmouthshire. It took place on the same day as other district and county borough council elections in England and Wales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094226-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Newport County Borough Council election\nThese were the final elections to the county borough council, which would be replaced on 1 April 1974. The previous all-council election took place in May 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094226-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Newport County Borough Council election\nThe 1972 election saw the Labour Party make major gains.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094226-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Newport County Borough Council election, Background\nNewport County Borough was created in 1891 and abolished for 22 years from 1974, following local government reorganisation enacted by the Local Government Act 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094226-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Newport County Borough Council election, Background\nEach of the county borough's electoral divisions was represented by three councillors, who stood down in turn for re-election, hence would each sit for a three year term. The council also consisted of 13 aldermen, who were elected by the councillors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094226-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Newport County Borough Council election, Overview of the result\nAt this election Labour won nine of the 14 available seats from the Conservative Party and won a further seat held by a Ratepayer councillor. They increased their majority on the Council to 26.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 68], "content_span": [69, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094226-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Newport County Borough Council election, Overview of the result\nThe composition of the Council following the election was 39 Labour members, 12 Conservatives and one Ratepayer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 68], "content_span": [69, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094226-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Newport County Borough Council election, Ward results\nContests for one of the seats took place in 12 wards, though in Allt-yr-yn two seats were contested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 58], "content_span": [59, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094227-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Nicaragua earthquake\nThe 1972 Nicaragua earthquake occurred at 12:29:44\u00a0a.m. local time (06:29:44 UTC) on December 23 near Managua, the capital of Nicaragua. It had a moment magnitude of 6.3 and a maximum MSK intensity of IX (Destructive). The epicenter was 28 kilometers northeast of the city centre and a depth of about 10 kilometers. The earthquake caused widespread casualties among Managua's residents: 4,000\u201311,000 were killed, 20,000 were injured and over 300,000 were left homeless.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094227-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Nicaragua earthquake, Tectonic setting\nManagua, which lies on the southern shore of Lake Xolotl\u00e1n, near the western coast of Nicaragua, is situated within an active volcanic zone known as the Central American Volcanic Chain. The city has a long history of volcanic and seismic activity which arise from the relative movements of two crustal plates which intersect near the southwestern border of Central America. The Cocos plate, located east of the East Pacific Rise, is moving northeastward and is slowly being submerged under the Caribbean Plate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 43], "content_span": [44, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094227-0001-0001", "contents": "1972 Nicaragua earthquake, Tectonic setting\nThe zone of dipping is initiated at the surface of the Middle America Trench, which extends 4 to 5 kilometers deep along the Pacific Coast from Mexico to Costa Rica. But rather than a simple crustal movement between the two plates the earthquake was believed to have been caused by a shallow adjustment to geological pressure at the south western corner of the Caribbean plate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 43], "content_span": [44, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094227-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Nicaragua earthquake, Damage\nThe earthquake severely damaged 27 square kilometres (10\u00a0sq\u00a0mi) and destroyed 13 square kilometres (5.0\u00a0sq\u00a0mi) in the city centre. The majority of the buildings in the central business district sustained significant structural damage including a 19-story building, one 15-story building, approximately 5 buildings that were 7 to 9 stories tall and more than 25 buildings that were from 3 to 6 stories tall. Much of the damage arose from seismic ground movement which occurred within 10\u201315 seconds of the main shock. The majority of the factories and smaller buildings were severely damaged.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 624]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094227-0002-0001", "contents": "1972 Nicaragua earthquake, Damage\nMany of the houses and small shops were over 40 years old and constructed using a local method called taquezal (or talquezal), in which the timber framed walls are filled with stone and finished with plaster, covered by roofs of unmortared clay tile. The design is very susceptible to earthquake damage. An estimated 53,000 homes in the city were damaged. The water and electrical power networks were severely damaged and more than a week after the earthquake only 10% of the city had any working water service.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094227-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Nicaragua earthquake, Surface faulting\nOne of the most significant geological effects of the 1972 Nicaragua earthquake quake was surface faulting. Examination of the fault lines indicated a lateral motion moving in a northeasterly direction and aftershock data has revealed at least one of the faults extends from the surface to a depth of 8 to 10 kilometers beneath the city of Managua.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 43], "content_span": [44, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094227-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Nicaragua earthquake, Aftershocks\nWithin an hour after the main shock, two aftershocks, one of magnitude 5.0 and the other 5.2, occurred at 1:18\u00a0a.m. and 1:20\u00a0a.m.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094227-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Nicaragua earthquake, Response\nTwo-thirds of Managua's 1,000,000 residents were displaced and faced food shortage and disease, and dry-season winds worsened the problem with fires created by the disaster. Because of the damaging effects of the earthquake, many of the emergency services in the city were operating at a seriously lower level than normal. The earthquake destroyed all the fire-fighting equipment available, and fires were prevalent in some areas for several days. All four main hospitals, which before the disaster had 1,650 beds, were unserviceable.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094227-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Nicaragua earthquake, Response\nThe Nicaraguan government appealed for aid, and the government accepted aid from countries like the United States and Mexico and some 25 other countries, worth millions of dollars. Despite this and the magnitude of the devastation, the aid was not distributed well and the ruling Liberal-Conservative Junta, led by President Anastasio Somoza Debayle, was the target of criticism and was accused of stockpiling foreign aid which never reached the victims of the earthquake. It was because of these reports that the Puerto Rican baseball star Roberto Clemente chose to personally accompany the fourth of a number of relief flights he had organized. That flight crashed on December 31, 1972, killing Clemente among others.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 755]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094227-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Nicaragua earthquake, Response\nAnother difficulty was that much of the material aid donated was inappropriate for the needs of the affected Nicaraguans, including such items as winter clothes (Managua's climate is tropical) and frozen TV dinners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094227-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 Nicaragua earthquake, Response\nIt was later claimed that Somoza and his associates had used foreign aid for their own gain. Opposition to the regime, which had begun to surface before the earthquake, increased quickly among the lower classes and even among members of the upper and middle classes fed up with Somoza's corruption. This grew into a revolt that became the Nicaraguan Revolution, in which Somoza was overthrown in 1979.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094227-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 Nicaragua earthquake, Response\nBecause of the extent of the damage, the faulty underground terrain, the misappropriation of aid, and the subsequent revolution and 11-year civil war, much of the city centre remained ruined for almost 20 years. Reconstruction only began in earnest in the 1990s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094227-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 Nicaragua earthquake, Aftermath\nThe earthquake changed the face of Managua during its decades of recovery. The city center is no longer clearly defined, as buildings have been constructed away from the city center. During the massive evacuations, the displaced residents set up camp around water resources and areas that remained somewhat unaffected. Although Managua remains Central America's second largest capital and metropolitan area, the bulk of its residents reside in barrios or neighborhoods that are of considerable distance from the city center. Today, in place of the large buildings that used to exist in the center, the government set up the \"Plaza de la Fe\" (Faith Square) in honor of Pope John Paul II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 723]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094228-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Nicaraguan Constitutional Assembly election\nConstitutional Assembly elections were held in Nicaragua on 6 February 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094229-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Nice International Championships\nThe 1972 Nice International Championships, was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Nice Lawn Tennis Club in Nice, France that was part of Group D of the 1972 Grand Prix circuit. It was the second edition of the tournament and was held from 17 April until 23 April 1972. Ilie N\u0103stase won the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094229-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Nice International Championships, Finals, Doubles\nJan Kode\u0161 / Stan Smith defeated Frew McMillan / Ilie N\u0103stase 6\u20133, 6\u20133, 7\u20135", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 54], "content_span": [55, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094230-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Nicholls State Colonels football team\nThe 1972 Nicholls State Colonels football team represented Nicholls State University as a member of the Gulf South Conference (GSC) during the 1972 NCAA College Division football season. Led by first-year head coach Gary Kinchen, the Colonels compiled an overall record of 3\u20138 with a mark of 1\u20135 in conference play, tying seventh place in the GSC. Nicholls State played their home games at Colonel Stadium in Thibodaux, Louisiana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094231-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Nippon Professional Baseball season\nThe 1972 Nippon Professional Baseball season was the 23rd season of operation of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094232-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Niuean general election\nGeneral elections were held in Niue on 18 March 1972. Only five of the eleven constituencies were contested, with the candidates in the other six constituencies elected unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094232-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Niuean general election, Aftermath\nFollowing the elections, Robert Rex was re-elected as Leader of Government Business and formed an Executive Council of four members.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094232-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Niuean general election, Aftermath\nShortly after the elections concluded, a Select Committee for Constitutional Development was established to look at issues including land laws and the future relationship with New Zealand. This led to a referendum on self-governance in 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094233-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Non-Aligned Foreign Ministers Conference\nThe Non-Aligned Foreign Ministers Conference was held in Georgetown, Guyana from 8 August to 12 August 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094233-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Non-Aligned Foreign Ministers Conference\nIt was attended by delegations from 59 Non-Aligned Movement member countries, 12 delegations of observers and 8 guests. The Royal Government of National Union of Cambodia was recognized as the sole legitimate representative of Cambodia and to the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Viet Nam was admitted as a full member. Delegates from Indonesia, Malaysia, and Lao staged a protest walk-out to convey dissatisfaction with this decision. China's renewed interest in the movement was tied with growing need for support against the USSR, and returning the favor for admission to the United Nations, with votes mostly coming from non-aligned nations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 720]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094233-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Non-Aligned Foreign Ministers Conference\nThe conference adopted an Action Programme for Economic Co-operation called the \"Georgetown Declaration\". The meeting included a call for resolution in the Middle East and the withdrawal of Israel from Arab territories. Also, a proposal was endorsed for a meeting of non-aligned ministers prior to any United Nations General Assembly meetings in order to \"coordinate their positions\" as well as establish annual meetings of heads of state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094233-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Non-Aligned Foreign Ministers Conference, Commemorative statue\nDuring the conference, a monument to the four founders of the Non-Aligned Movement - President Nasser of Egypt, President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Jawaharlal Nehru of India and President Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia - was erected in Company Path Garden and was unveiled by the then President, Arthur Chung. Each bust was sculpted in the home country of their likeness, and the quartz base from the Mazaruni area, and decorated with jasper from Orinduik Falls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 67], "content_span": [68, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094234-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 North American Soccer League season\nStatistics of North American Soccer League in season 1972. This was the 5th season of the NASL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094234-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 North American Soccer League season, Overview\nEight teams took part in the league with the New York Cosmos winning the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094234-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 North American Soccer League season, Changes from previous season, Rules changes\nThe league changed its offside rule during the season on June 26. They created a \"Blue Line\" which was an offside line across the field, 35\u00a0yards from the goal line. Thereafter, no player could be offside unless he had crossed the 35-yard line. This made the NASL unique in the soccer world; the league received temporary approval for the change from FIFA on an experimental basis only. The league also switched the playoff format to single-match elimination contests rather than series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 85], "content_span": [86, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094234-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 North American Soccer League season, Regular season\nW = Wins, L = Losses, T= Ties, GF = Goals For, GA = Goals Against, PT= point system", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 56], "content_span": [57, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094234-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 North American Soccer League season, Regular season\n6\u00a0points for a win,3\u00a0points for a tie,0\u00a0points for a loss,1\u00a0point for each goal scored up to three per game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 56], "content_span": [57, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094234-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 North American Soccer League season, Playoffs\nAll playoff games in all rounds including the NASL Final were single game elimination match ups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094235-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 North Carolina Tar Heels football team\nThe 1972 North Carolina Tar Heels football team represented the North Carolina Tar Heels of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. The team won its second consecutive Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) championship, going 6\u20130 in conference play, and played in the 1972 Sun Bowl, defeating Texas Tech by a score of 32\u201328. The Tar Heels ended the year ranked 12th in the AP Poll with an 11\u20131 record\u2014the lone loss coming at Ohio State in their fourth game. This was the first of only four seasons where North Carolina was able to win 11 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094236-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 North Carolina gubernatorial election\nThe 1972 North Carolina gubernatorial election was held on November 7, 1972. Republican nominee James Holshouser defeated Democratic nominee Skipper Bowles with 51% of the vote. Holshouser thus became the first Republican elected governor of the state in the 20th century.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094237-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 North Carolina lieutenant gubernatorial election\nThe 1972 North Carolina lieutenant gubernatorial election was held on November 7, 1972. Democratic nominee Jim Hunt defeated Republican nominee John A. Walker with 56.69% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094238-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 North Dakota Fighting Sioux football team\nThe 1972 North Dakota Fighting Sioux football team, also known as the Nodaks, was an American football team that represented the University of North Dakota in the North Central Conference (NCC) during the 1972 NCAA College Division football season. In its fifth year under head coach Jerry Olson, the team compiled a 10\u20131 record (6\u20131 against NCC opponents), tied for the NCC championship, defeated Cal Poly in the Camellia Bowl, and outscored opponents by a total of 423 to 161. The team played its home games at Memorial Stadium in Grand Forks, North Dakota.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094239-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 North Dakota State Bison football team\nThe 1972 North Dakota State Bison football team was an American football team that represented North Dakota State University during the 1972 NCAA College Division football season as a member of the North Central Conference. In their seventh year under head coach Ron Erhardt, the team compiled a 8\u20132 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094240-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 North Dakota gubernatorial election\nThe 1972 North Dakota gubernatorial election was held on November 7, 1972. Democratic nominee Arthur A. Link defeated Republican nominee Richard F. Larsen with 51.04% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094241-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 North Indian Ocean cyclone season\nThe 1972 North Indian Ocean cyclone season was part of the annual cycle of tropical cyclone formation. The season had no official bounds, but cyclones tend to form between April and December. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northern Indian Ocean. There are two main seas in the North Indian Ocean\u2014the Bay of Bengal to the east of the Indian subcontinent and the Arabian Sea to the west of India.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094241-0000-0001", "contents": "1972 North Indian Ocean cyclone season\nThe official Regional Specialized Meteorological Centre in this basin is the India Meteorological Department (IMD), while the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) releases unofficial advisories. An average of five tropical cyclones form in the North Indian Ocean every season with peaks in May and November. Cyclones occurring between the meridians 45\u00b0E and 100\u00b0E are included in the season by the IMD.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094241-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Cyclone Nine (09B)\nThis storm was formed on 7 September, possibly due to a storm's remnant from the West Pacific Ocean. it gradually intensified to a Very Severe Cyclonic Storm by 9 September. The storm made landfall at Ichhapuram in Andhra Pradesh on 10 September. Due to the storm, 100 people and 8000 cattle were perished. Puri in Odisha recorded gust winds up to 185 kmph. Heavy damages to agricultural crops took place at Odisha and Andhra Pradesh. Nearly 2 lakh people were affected by the storm. Ganjam District in Odisha was the worst affected by the storm. It was one of the most intense cyclones to hit India in the month of September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 694]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094241-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Cyclone Ten (10B)\nThis cyclone was formed on 20 September and intensified to a Very Severe Cyclonic Storm despite being present over the upwelled waters due to Cyclone 09B. It made landfall at Gopalpur in Odisha on 22 September and dissipated by the next day. Wind gusts of up to 140 kmph were recorded at the time of landfall. Despite severe damage to crops and houses, no deaths due to the storm were reported.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094241-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Cyclone Fourteen (14B)\nThis cyclone was formed on 15 November and gradually intensified to a Severe Cyclonic Storm. After making an erratic loop, the storm made landfall at Sriharikota on 22 November. The lowest pressure was 983 hPa and wind gusts of up to 165 kmph were measured by the ship ATAF. 80 people were reportedly killed due to the storm. Several trees were uprooted and thousands of people were rendered homeless.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 71], "content_span": [72, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094241-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Cyclone Sixteen (16B)\nThis storm has killed 80\u00a0people and 150\u00a0cattle. 30,000 people were rendered homeless. Cuddalore recorded gust winds up to 150 kmph at the time of landfall. Total damages in Indian Rupees were estimated to be 40 crores. The cyclone is visible on The Blue Marble photo taken by Apollo 17.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094242-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 North Korean local elections\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by Jamc2 (talk | contribs) at 13:35, 17 June 2020 (+Category:December 1972 events in Asia; \u00b1Category:1972 elections in Asia using HotCat). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094242-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 North Korean local elections\nElections to provincial, city, county and district people's assemblies were held in North Korea on December 12, 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094242-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 North Korean local elections\nIn the elections, 3,185 provincial people's assembly deputies, and 24,784 city, county and district people's assembly deputies were elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094242-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 North Korean local elections\nVoter turnout was reported as 100%, with candidates receiving a 100% approval rate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094242-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 North Korean local elections\nThe elections were held synchronously with the election to the fifth Supreme People's Assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094243-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 North Korean parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections were held in North Korea on 12 December 1972. Only one candidate was presented in each constituency, all of which were selected by the Workers' Party of Korea, although some ran under the banner of other parties or state organisations to give the illusion of democracy. Voter turnout was reported to be 100%, with 100% voting in favour of the candidates presented.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094243-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 North Korean parliamentary election\nIn the first session, between 25 and 28 December 1972, the SPA approved a new constitution, put into force a presidential system, with Kim Il-sung elected as president. Main topics were \"The Adoptation of the Socialist Construction and of the Presidential System\" and \"Let Us Further Strengthen the Socialist System of Our Country\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094243-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 North Korean parliamentary election\nThe election were held synchronously with the elections to the provincial, city and county people's assemblies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094244-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Northeast Louisiana Indians football team\nThe 1972 Northeast Louisiana Indians football team was an American football team that represented Northeast Louisiana University (now known as the University of Louisiana at Monroe) as an independent during the 1972 NCAA College Division football season. In their first year under head coach Ollie Keller, the team compiled a 3\u20137 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094245-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Northern 300\nThe 1972 Northern 300 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series racing event that took place on July 16, 1972, at Trenton Speedway in Trenton, New Jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094245-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Northern 300, Background\nThe first race at the Fairgrounds was held on September 24, 1900, but there was no further racing there until 1907. Regular racing began in 1912 and continued until 1941. A new 1 mile dirt oval was opened in 1946. In 1957 the track was paved. It operated in that configuration until 1968 when the track was expanded to 1.5 miles (2.41\u00a0km) and a \"kidney bean\" shape with a 20\u00b0 right-hand dogleg on the back stretch and a wider turn 3 & 4 complex than turns 1 & 2. The track closed in 1980 and the Fairgrounds itself closed 3 years later. The former site of the speedway is now occupied by the Grounds for Sculpture, a UPS shipping facility, and the housing development known as \"Hamilton Lakes\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 724]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094245-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Northern 300, Summary\nBobby Allison defeated Bobby Isaac by 1.4 seconds after two hours and fifty-seven seconds of racing. There were nine lead changes and five cautions for 21 laps. Notable crew chiefs at the race were Steve Gray, Harry Hyde, Dale Inman, Vic Ballard, Lee Gordon, and Herb Nab.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 26], "content_span": [27, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094245-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Northern 300, Summary\nTwenty thousand people attended this live event to witness average speeds of 114.03 miles per hour (183.51\u00a0km/h). Isaac qualified for the pole position with an impressive speed of 133.126 miles per hour (214.246\u00a0km/h) on a paved oval track spanning 1.500 miles (2.414\u00a0km). A.J. Cox received the last-place finish due to overheating while Bill Shirey was disqualified for entering pit road in reverse; he was involved in the first caution of the day, having spun on John Sears' oil and went to pit lane for repairs in the opposite direction of traffic flow. The other drivers in the top ten were: Richard Petty, Fred Lorenzen, Cecil Gordon, James Hylton, Larry Smith, Benny Parsons, Raymond Williams, and Walter Ballard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 26], "content_span": [27, 746]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094245-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Northern 300, Summary\nWhile the complete purse of this racing event was an impressive $35,675 ($220,719.55 when adjusted for inflation), the race winner actually received only $7,900 of that prize money ($48,876.93 when adjusted for inflation).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 26], "content_span": [27, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094245-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Northern 300, Summary\nThe Plymouth Superbirds and Dodge Chargers that competed in this race were equipped with special wings to demonstrate their status as muscle cars. A 1972 Chevrolet Chevelle would become the make and model to win this racing event; defeating a 1972 Dodge Charger in the process.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 26], "content_span": [27, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094245-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Northern 300, Summary\nBob Greenley would compete in his only NASCAR Cup Series race here along with Fred Drake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 26], "content_span": [27, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094246-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Northern Illinois Huskies football team\nThe 1972 Northern Illinois Huskies football team represented Northern Illinois University in the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. The Huskies competed in the highest division of football at the time: Division I, also known as the University Division, where they competed among the Independents schools of the league. They were led by head coach Jerry Ippoliti, his second season with the team and the first NIU coach with a winning record in Division I football. They played their home games at Huskie Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094247-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Northwestern Wildcats football team\nThe 1972 Northwestern Wildcats team represented Northwestern University during the 1972 Big Ten Conference football season. In their ninth and final year under head coach Alex Agase, the Wildcats compiled a 2\u20139 record (1\u20138 against Big Ten Conference opponents) and finished in last place in the Big Ten Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094247-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Northwestern Wildcats football team\nThe team's offensive leaders were quarterback Mitch Anderson with 1,335 passing yards, Greg Boykin with 625 rushing yards, and Jim Lash with 667 receiving yards. Five Northwestern player received All-Big Ten honors. They are: (1) tight end Steve Craig (AP-1, UPI-1); (2) split end Jim Lash (UPI-1); (3) defensive back Greg Strunk (AP-2, UPI-2); (4) defensive lineman Jim Anderson (AP-2); and (5) running back Greg Boykin (AP-2).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094248-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Norwegian European Communities membership referendum\nA referendum on whether Norway should join the European Community was held on 25 September 1972. After a long period of heated debate, the \"No\" side won with 53.5 per cent of the vote. Prime Minister Trygve Bratteli resigned as a result of the defeat. This was Norway's second attempt at becoming a member, after having been rejected by France in 1962 and again temporarily in 1967, but the first attempt with a referendum on a set of fully negotiated accession terms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094248-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Norwegian European Communities membership referendum\nA 1994 referendum on entry into what had become the European Union also resulted in the rejection of membership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094249-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Norwegian Football Cup\nBrann won the Norwegian Cup by beating Rosenborg 1\u20130 on 22 October. The goal scorer for Brann was Jan Erik Osland who scored in the 13th minute. 17\u00a0700 spectators watched the game at Ullev\u00e5l stadion in Oslo. The referee was Kjell Wahlen. This was the third time Brann won the Norwegian Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094249-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Norwegian Football Cup\nBrann's winning squad: Oddvar Tr\u00e6\u00e6n, Helge Karlsen, Rune Pedersen, Ole Kobbeltvedt, Tore Nordtvedt, Frode Larsen (Torgeir Hauge 60), Erling Mikkelsen (Atle Bilsback 75), Arnfinn Espeseth, Roald Jensen, Kjell \u00d8yas\u00e6ter and Jan Erik Osland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094249-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Norwegian Football Cup\nRosenborg's squad: \u00d8ivind Brynte Torp, Erling Meirik, K\u00e5re R\u00f8nnes, Bj\u00f8rn Rime, \u00d8ystein Wormdal, Jan Christiansen, Anders Farstad, Tore Lindseth, Harald Sunde, Bj\u00f8rn Wirkola and Arne Hanssen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094250-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team\nThe 1972 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team represented the University of Notre Dame during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094251-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Oakland Athletics season\nThe 1972 Oakland Athletics season involved the A's winning the American League West with a record of 93 wins and 62 losses. In the playoffs, they defeated the Detroit Tigers in a five-game ALCS, followed by a seven-game World Series, in which they defeated the Cincinnati Reds for their first World Championship since 1930, when the club was in Philadelphia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094251-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Oakland Athletics season, Regular season\nIn 1972, the A's began wearing solid green or solid gold jerseys, with contrasting white pants, at a time when most other teams wore all-white uniforms at home and all-grey ones on the road. Similar to more colorful amateur softball uniforms, they were considered a radical departure for their time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094251-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Oakland Athletics season, Regular season\nFurthermore, in conjunction with a Moustache Day promotion, Finley offered $500 to any player who grew a moustache by Father's Day, at a time when every other team forbade facial hair. When Father's Day arrived, every member of the team collected a bonus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094251-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Oakland Athletics season, Regular season, Changing the nickname\nThe nickname \"A's\" has long been used interchangeably with \"Athletics\", dating to the team's early days when headline writers wanted a way to shorten the name. Starting in 1972, the team nickname was officially \"Oakland A's.\" The Commissioner's Trophy, given out annually to the winner of baseball's World Series, still listed the team's name as the \"Oakland Athletics\" on the gold-plated pennant representing the Oakland franchise.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 68], "content_span": [69, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094251-0003-0001", "contents": "1972 Oakland Athletics season, Regular season, Changing the nickname\nAccording to Bill Libby's Book, Charlie O and the Angry A's, owner Charlie O. Finley banned the word \"Athletics\" from the club's name because he felt that name was too closely associated with former Philadelphia Athletics owner Connie Mack, and he wanted the name \"Oakland A's\" to become just as closely associated with himself. The name also vaguely suggested the name of the old minor league Oakland Oaks, which were alternatively called the \"Acorns\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 68], "content_span": [69, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094251-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Oakland Athletics season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094251-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Oakland Athletics season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094251-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Oakland Athletics season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094251-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Oakland Athletics season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094251-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 Oakland Athletics season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094251-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 Oakland Athletics season, Postseason, World Series\nIn 1972, the A's won their first league pennant since 1931 and faced the Cincinnati Reds in the World Series. The A's seven-game victory over the heavily favored Reds gave the team its first World Series Championship since 1930.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094251-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 Oakland Athletics season, Postseason, World Series\nOf the four wins against the Reds, three of them occurred in Cincinnati, and all four Series victories were by a single run. Gene Tenace hit four home runs and drove in nine runs to power the A's offense, and was named the series Most Valuable Player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094251-0011-0000", "contents": "1972 Oakland Athletics season, Postseason, World Series, Composite Box\n1972 World Series (4\u20133): Oakland Athletics (A.L.) over Cincinnati Reds (N.L.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094252-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Oakland Raiders season\nThe 1972 Oakland Raiders season was the team's 13th season. The Raiders won the AFC West for the second time in three seasons. They lost in the AFC Division Round to the Pittsburgh Steelers when Franco Harris scored the game-winning touchdown on the Immaculate Reception. The Raiders still dispute that this was an illegal touchdown to this day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094253-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 October Revolution Parade\nThe 1972 October Revolution Parade was held in commemoration of the 55th anniversary of the 1917 October Revolution and the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Soviet Union in 1922. Notable attendees were Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev and Soviet Prime Minister Nikolai Podgorny. The parade's commander was Colonel General Vladimir Govorov, the Commander of Troops of the Moscow Military District, while its presiding officer was Marshal of the Soviet Union Andrei Grechko.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094253-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 October Revolution Parade, Overview\nIt was the 100th Soviet military parade to be held on Red Square. The parade's de facto motto was \"On Red Square under the Red Banner\". Both active personnel and veterans participated in the march, with participants from various republics including Ukrainians, Moldovans, Lithuanians, Armenians and Kazakhs. Revolution Day was also celebrated in Leningrad with a military parade on Palace Square, inspected by the commander of the Leningrad Military District, Lieutenant General Ivan Shavrov. Participants received commemorative badges and special thanks Colonel General Govorov and members of the District Military Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 665]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094253-0001-0001", "contents": "1972 October Revolution Parade, Overview\nThe badge is a gilded eight-pointed star with faceted beams, with a circle formed by the ribbon of the Order of Lenin in the center of the star. The silhouette of a modern tank is depicted in the background and in the upper right corner, there is the inscription \u201c100th parade\u201d. On November 3, 2007, graduates of the Kalinin (now Tver) Suvorov Military and Nakhimov Naval Schools who participated in the 100th military parade gathered for the first time on Red Square on the occasion o the parade's 35th anniversary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094253-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 October Revolution Parade, Parade Units, Mobile Column\nThe parade's mobile column exhibited military equipment, prominently including Katyusha rocket launchers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 59], "content_span": [60, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094254-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Ohio Bobcats football team\nThe 1972 Ohio Bobcats football team was an American football team that represented Ohio University in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. In their 15th season under head coach Bill Hess, the Bobcats compiled a 3\u20138 record (1\u20134 against MAC opponents), finished in sixth place, and were outscored by all opponents by a combined total of 321 to 185.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094255-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Ohio State Buckeyes football team\nThe 1972 Ohio State Buckeyes football team was an American football team that represented the Ohio State University in the 1972 Big Ten Conference football season. The Buckeyes compiled a 9\u20132 record, including the 1973 Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, where they lost 42\u201317 to the USC Trojans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094255-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Ohio State Buckeyes football team, Game summaries, North Carolina\nOhio State was the only team to beat the Tar Heels in 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094255-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Ohio State Buckeyes football team, Game summaries, North Carolina\nArchie Griffin set the school single game rushing record in just his second game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094255-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Ohio State Buckeyes football team, Game summaries, Michigan\nOhio State made two goal line stands, one in each half, to hold on to the 14-11 victory. The first came just before halftime as Dennis Franklin fumbled on fourth down at the two. In the fourth quarter, Randy Gradishar stopped Franklin on a sneak from the one. The Buckeyes' fans tore down the goal posts with 13 seconds remaining.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094256-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Oklahoma Sooners football team\nThe 1972 Oklahoma Sooners football team represented the University of Oklahoma in the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. Oklahoma was a member of the Big Eight Conference and played its home games in Oklahoma Memorial Stadium, where it has played its home games since 1923. The team posted an 11\u20131 overall record and were 6\u20131 in conference, later changed to 8\u20134 and 3\u20134. This was Chuck Fairbanks' last season as Sooner head coach; he left for the New England Patriots of the NFL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094256-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Oklahoma Sooners football team\nThe Sooners' 1972 record is marred by the use of an ineligible player. In self-reporting the violations to the NCAA, Oklahoma voluntarily forfeited eight games. The NCAA later penalized the program by reducing scholarships, TV appearances and bowl appearances. In 2008 a blogger for Washington, DC TV station WJLA stated, \"The NCAA claims that according to a now-retired statistician of the era, and a review of its database (which the NCAA admits might not be totally complete) that forfeits were NOT part of the NCAA sanctions levied against the Sooners.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094256-0001-0001", "contents": "1972 Oklahoma Sooners football team\nA commenter stated, \"The 1972 forfeits by Oklahoma were sanctioned by The Big Eight. As such Oklahoma's conference record was adjusted, while their overall record was not. In older Oklahoma media guide ... Oklahoma would show their record as 11-1 with a 3-4 conference record (reflecting 3 forfeits, despite the original 7 or 8 forfeited. ...) Also, if you check the media guides of the teams Oklahoma \"forfeited\" to, Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma State, you'll not[e] similar adjustments. Each team didn't change their overall record, but changed their conference record.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 609]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094256-0001-0002", "contents": "1972 Oklahoma Sooners football team\nOklahoma had used players (including Kerry Jackson, the team's first black quarterback) with falsified transcripts and on April 18, 1973, voluntarily forfeited eight games. Eventually, the Big Eight sanctioned the forfeit of three conference victories (Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma State), but Oklahoma now recognizes these as wins and claims the 1972 conference title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094256-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Oklahoma Sooners football team\nOklahoma was led by four All-Americans: Rod Shoate (OU's second three-time All-American), Greg Pruitt, Tom Brahaney and Derland Moore. This was the first season that the Selmon brothers Lucious, Lee Roy and Dewey, all eventual All-Americans, anchored the defensive line. The Sooners played seven ranked opponents (In order, #10 Texas, #9 Colorado, #14 Iowa State, #14 Missouri, #5 Nebraska, #20 Oklahoma State, and #5 Penn State), and four of these opponents finished the season ranked. Oklahoma's only loss on the field was in the fifth game against Colorado. The team concluded its season with a 14\u20130 victory over Penn State in the Sugar Bowl on New Year's Eve.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 699]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094256-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Oklahoma Sooners football team\nPruitt led the Sooners in rushing with 1024 yards, Dave Robertson led in passing with 1136 yards, and Tinker Owens led in receiving(for the first of four consecutive seasons) with 430 yards. Pruitt led in scoring with 86 points, Shoate in tackles with 145, and Dan Ruster in interceptions with seven.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094256-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Oklahoma Sooners football team\nThe 1972 Sooners twice posted 37 first downs, which was a school record that stood for 16 seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094256-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Postseason, NFL draft\nThe following players were drafted into the National Football League following the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 58], "content_span": [59, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094257-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Oklahoma State Cowboys football team\nThe 1972 Oklahoma State Cowboys football team represented Oklahoma State University in the Big Eight Conference during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. In their first and only season under head coach Dave Smith, the Cowboys compiled a 6\u20135 record (4\u20133 against conference opponents), tied for third place in the conference, and outscored opponents by a combined total of 259 to 203.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094257-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Oklahoma State Cowboys football team\nThe team's statistical leaders included George Palmer with 937 rushing yards, Brent Blackman with 572 passing yards, Steve Pettes with 154 receiving yards, and Alton Gerard with 42 points scored.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094257-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Oklahoma State Cowboys football team\nThe team played its home games at Lewis Field in Stillwater, Oklahoma.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094258-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Old Dominion 500\nThe 1972 Old Dominion 500 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series racing event that was held on September 24, 1972, at Martinsville Speedway in Martinsville, Virginia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094258-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Old Dominion 500\nThe race car drivers still had to commute to the races using the same stock cars that competed in a typical weekend's race through a policy of homologation (and under their own power). This policy was in effect until roughly 1975. By 1980, NASCAR had completely stopped tracking the year model of all the vehicles and most teams did not take stock cars to the track under their own power anymore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094258-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Old Dominion 500, Background\nMartinsville Speedway is one of five short tracks to hold NASCAR races. The standard track at Martinsville Speedway is a four-turn short track oval that is 0.526 miles (0.847\u00a0km) long. The track's turns are banked at eleven degrees, while the front stretch, the location of the finish line, is banked at zero degrees. The back stretch also has a zero degree banking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094258-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Old Dominion 500, Race report\nFive hundred laps were done on a paved track spanning 0.525 miles (0.845\u00a0km) in a time of three hours and forty-five minutes. Richard Petty would defeat Bobby Allison by a time of six seconds in front of 31,000 live audience members; making this race the closest Bobby Allison ever came to winning at Martinsville. Although Cecil Gordon had a competitive finish of 10th place during this event, his lackluster performance during the 1972 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season would eventually cost him a shot at winning the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 34], "content_span": [35, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094258-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Old Dominion 500, Race report\nExactly ten minutes from the race along with a flyover by the local military jets were used in the 1973 American film The Last American Hero. While Richard Petty and Bobby Allison got filmed most of the time, a moment involving Ray Hendrick's #2 vehicle crashing on lap 311 was also a notable event during the filming.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 34], "content_span": [35, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094258-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Old Dominion 500, Race report\nAllison would earn the pole position with a speed of 85.89 miles per hour (138.23\u00a0km/h). The average speed of the race, however, would be a mere 69.989 miles per hour (112.636\u00a0km/h). Eight cautions slowed the race for 58 laps in the entire race. All thirty-six of the qualifying drivers on the grid were male and born somewhere in the United States of America. Originally, 56 drivers auditioned for this race; including Joe Frasson, who was one of the ones who failed to qualify.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 34], "content_span": [35, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094258-0005-0001", "contents": "1972 Old Dominion 500, Race report\nBill Shirey would be the unfortunate last-place finisher due to an overheating issue on lap 19. Fred Lorenzen would retire from NASCAR after this race. This was also LeeRoy Yarbrough's last race, never to be heard from again until his death. He ran most of the last two seasons in non-competitive cars yet he was one of the most fearless racers ever.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 34], "content_span": [35, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094258-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Old Dominion 500, Race report\nRichard Petty would go on to win the championship shortly after this race was over while Bobby Allison would find a new employer named Ralph Moody for the 1973 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season. The total purse of this racing event was $46,650 ($288,621 when considering inflation); the first-place finisher received $7,350 ($45,474 when considering inflation) while the last-place finisher received $425 ($2,629 when considering inflation).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 34], "content_span": [35, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094258-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Old Dominion 500, Race report\nSix of NASCAR's most notable crew chiefs were on attendance for this race; including Harry Hyde, Dale Inman, Vic Ballard and Lee Gordon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 34], "content_span": [35, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094258-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 Old Dominion 500, Race report, Technological concerns\nImprovements in tire and engine technology in the early 1970s had made NASCAR Cup Series vehicles overpowered compared to the limited space that Martinsville Speedway had for breathing space. Further technological advancements by 2013 have caused further concern for driver safety at Martinsville; indicating that the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series may have to use restrictor plates in Martinsville if tire/engine technology keeps its current pace of development.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 58], "content_span": [59, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094259-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Ole Miss Rebels baseball team\nThe 1972 Ole Miss Rebels baseball team represented the University of Mississippi in the 1972 NCAA University Division baseball season. The Rebels played their home games at Swayze Field. The team was coached by Jake Gibbs in his 1st year as head coach at Ole Miss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094259-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Ole Miss Rebels baseball team\nThe Rebels won the District III Playoff to advance to the College World Series, where they were defeated by the Texas Longhorns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094260-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Ole Miss Rebels football team\nThe 1972 Ole Miss Rebels football team represented the University of Mississippi during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. The Rebels were led by second-year head coach Billy Kinard and played their home games at Hemingway Stadium in Oxford, Mississippi and Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium in Jackson. They competed as members of the Southeastern Conference, finishing tied for seventh with a record of 5\u20135 (2\u20135 SEC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094260-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Ole Miss Rebels football team\nThis was the first of 11 consecutive seasons in which the Rebels did not play in a bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094261-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Olympic Men's Basketball Final\nThe 1972 Olympic men's basketball final was one of the most dramatic events in Olympic history and was the first ever loss for Team USA since the sport began Olympic play at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. The United States team had won the previous seven gold medals at the Olympics, and was among the contenders to win another in Munich at the 1972 Summer Olympics. Both the U.S. and the Soviet Union convincingly won their first eight games of the tournament. The US team put its overall Olympic record at 63\u20130 and advanced to the final against the USSR.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094261-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Olympic Men's Basketball Final, Background\nThe United States and Soviet Union sporting rivalry reached its peak during the Cold War. The U.S. men's team was considered a favorite in the run-up to the 1972 Games. Since the first Olympic basketball tournament at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, the Americans had not lost a single game, winning seven consecutive gold medals in dominating fashion. Their record reached an unprecedented 63\u20130 before the final game. Since the 1952 tournament the Soviet team challenged the Americans, winning silver in 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964 and bronze in 1968. Outside of the Olympics, the Soviets had already defeated the U.S. team in FIBA World Championship play (at the 1959 world tournament and the 1963 world tournament). However, the Americans never sent their best collegiate players to that tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 842]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094261-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Olympic Men's Basketball Final, Background\nThe Olympics strictly prohibited any involvement of professional athletes at the time. The Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc countries used that rule to their advantage, listing all their top players as soldiers or workers, which allowed them to breach the amateur rules. Western experts classified these athletes as professionals. On the other hand, leading American players were unable to play in the Olympics as they were officially professional and played in the NBA. That disadvantage had not prevented the Americans from winning the first seven Olympic basketball tournaments without a single defeat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 656]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094261-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Olympic Men's Basketball Final, Background\nThe confrontation of the Soviet Union and United States on the basketball court was deeply connected to the confrontation on the political front. Many American viewers assumed the 1972 Games were openly anti-American. There were rumors that the Communist party had bribed the officials because they wanted the USSR to win 50 gold medals at these Olympics in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Soviet Union.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094261-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Olympic Men's Basketball Final, Preparation\nThe United States team was the youngest in history. American players usually participated in the Olympics once before turning pro, and the U.S. team always had new players every four years. The 1972 team did not have a clear leader. Bill Walton, then a rising star, declined an invitation to participate. Nevertheless, the team was heavily favored, featuring such players as Doug Collins and Tommy Burleson (the tallest player among all teams).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 48], "content_span": [49, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094261-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Olympic Men's Basketball Final, Preparation\nThe young American team was confronted by a veteran Soviet team, featuring stars Sergei Belov, Modestas Paulauskas, and Alexander Belov. The players had played together for more than seven years. For Gennadi Volnov it was the fourth Olympic appearance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 48], "content_span": [49, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094261-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Olympic Men's Basketball Final, Road to the final\nThe basketball gold medal was the last in contention. The Soviets were clearly ahead in the medal standings, but for political reasons they needed to win 50 golds (having 49 before the final match).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 54], "content_span": [55, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094261-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Olympic Men's Basketball Final, Road to the final\nBoth teams reached the final without any trouble. For the U.S. team the hardest game was against Brazil which it won 61\u201354. Soviets faced some problems against Puerto Rico (100\u201387) and Cuba in the semifinal (67\u201361).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 54], "content_span": [55, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094261-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 Olympic Men's Basketball Final, During the game\nThe Soviets surprised the Americans early, led by Sergei Belov. The Soviets kept the Americans 4\u20138 points behind during the first half. At half-time the score was 26\u201321.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094261-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 Olympic Men's Basketball Final, During the game\nIn the second half the Soviets provoked Dwight Jones, the leading scorer of the U.S. team. On the 28th minute during a loose ball scuffle he was assailed by Mikheil Korkia and responded. Both players were ejected. After this, Ivan Dvorny was also disqualified for protesting from the bench. The Soviets benefited from the double ejection, as they deemed Korkia less significant for them than Jones was to the Americans. The next minute Alexander Belov violently injured Jim Brewer during the free-throw, and Brewer was unable to continue playing. The referees failed to properly assess the flagrant foul.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 657]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094261-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 Olympic Men's Basketball Final, During the game\nWith ten minutes left, the Soviets increased their lead to ten points. The Americans began to press, and led by Kevin Joyce were able to cut down Soviets' lead to one with thirty eight seconds left. With seven seconds to play, Doug Collins stole Alexander Belov's cross-court pass at half court and was fouled hard by Zurab Sakandelidze as he drove toward the basket, being knocked down into the basket stanchion. With three seconds remaining on the game clock, Collins was awarded two free throws and sank the first to tie the score at 49.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094261-0010-0001", "contents": "1972 Olympic Men's Basketball Final, During the game\nJust as Collins lifted the ball to begin his shooting motion in attempting the second free throw, the horn from the scorer's table sounded, marking the beginning of a chain of events that left the game's final three seconds mired in controversy. Lead referee Renato Righetto turned away from the free throw attempt upon hearing the horn, but failed to stop play. Collins never broke his shooting motion and continued with his second free throw, scoring to put the U.S. ahead by a score of 50\u201349.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094261-0011-0000", "contents": "1972 Olympic Men's Basketball Final, Controversy, First inbounds play\nImmediately following Collins' second free throw, with the ball then being a \"live\" ball under the rules at the time, Soviet assistant coach Sergei Bashkin charged out of the team's designated bench area to the scorer's table. He asserted that head coach Vladimir Kondrashin had called for a time-out, which should have been awarded prior to the second free throw, but that it had not been granted to them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 69], "content_span": [70, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094261-0011-0001", "contents": "1972 Olympic Men's Basketball Final, Controversy, First inbounds play\nSince a time-out could not legally be called after the second free throw, however, the Soviet players had to immediately inbound the live ball without a pre-planned play for the final three seconds. Alzhan Zharmukhamedov inbounded the ball to Sergei Belov, who began to dribble up the sideline, but the disturbance at the scorer's table led Righetto to stop play just as Belov approached mid-court. The game clock was stopped with one second remaining.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 69], "content_span": [70, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094261-0012-0000", "contents": "1972 Olympic Men's Basketball Final, Controversy, First inbounds play\nWhen play was stopped, the Soviets pressed their argument about the time-out, with Kondrashin and Bashkin claiming that it had been called as soon as Collins was fouled. By the rules at that time, a time-out could be requested either by informing the scorer's table directly, or by pressing the button of an electronic signaling device, which in turn would illuminate a light bulb at the scorer's table to alert the officials there of the coach's desire for a time-out. According to Kondrashin, he requested his time-out by pressing the button.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 69], "content_span": [70, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094261-0012-0001", "contents": "1972 Olympic Men's Basketball Final, Controversy, First inbounds play\nAlso by the rules at the time, upon calling a time-out prior to free throws, the coach was allowed to choose to have it awarded either before the first free throw or between the two free throws; he said he had chosen to take it between the two free throws. The game's referees, however, were not informed of a Soviet time-out request prior to giving the ball to Collins for the second free throw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 69], "content_span": [70, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094261-0013-0000", "contents": "1972 Olympic Men's Basketball Final, Controversy, First inbounds play\nWith regard to the resulting questions of whether he had ever actually made a proper time-out signal, Kondrashin claimed to have later seen a film of the events that he said showed the light bulb illuminating, as well as an official at the scorer's table nodding toward him in apparent recognition of the request. Regarding what happened next and his choice of when to take the requested time-out, Kondrashin said that the officials at the scorer's table \"wanted to give me the time-out before the first free throw; of course I refused.\" However, Hans Tenschert, the game's official scorekeeper, later blamed the Soviet coaches, claiming that they mishandled their signaling device and were therefore late in pressing it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 69], "content_span": [70, 791]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094261-0014-0000", "contents": "1972 Olympic Men's Basketball Final, Controversy, First inbounds play\nThe unexplained horn that sounded as Collins was shooting the second free throw may have happened because the scorer's table had recognized the Soviet time-out request at the last moment and was attempting to stop the second free throw to award it. Renato William Jones, the secretary general of FIBA at the time, later asserted that the problem had indeed been a human error at the scorer's table which resulted in the time-out request being relayed too late to the on-court officials. Despite Kondrashin's and Jones' assurances, the Americans have expressed doubt that the time-out was really called. They have also argued that regardless of whether a time-out may have been missed, the ball became live upon Collins' second free throw, and as such, a technical foul should have been assessed against the Soviets because their coach left the designated bench area during live play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 69], "content_span": [70, 953]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094261-0015-0000", "contents": "1972 Olympic Men's Basketball Final, Controversy, First inbounds play\nAccording to Righetto, after considering the Soviet arguments, the official decision was to deny the time-out. The protest later filed by the United States also mentioned that the game's official score sheet included no indication of a time-out being granted in the last three seconds. Collins has also confirmed that officially, the time-out was not awarded, which meant that Collins' second free throw counted and that neither team was to be allowed to substitute players when play resumed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 69], "content_span": [70, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094261-0015-0001", "contents": "1972 Olympic Men's Basketball Final, Controversy, First inbounds play\nFurther indicators that no time-out was officially granted to the Soviets can be found in the existing television footage of the game, which includes shots of the scoreboard, both before the incident and at the game's conclusion, with the scoreboard indicating each time that Soviets had one time-out remaining. During the period between the game's interruption and resumption, the footage also does not include the sound of the scorer's table horn that typically would be used to signal both the start and the end of an officially charged time-out. However, even without being granted an official time-out, the minute-long delay to restore order on the court and determine how to proceed still gave the Soviet coaches time to confer with their players and devise a planned inbounds play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 69], "content_span": [70, 858]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094261-0016-0000", "contents": "1972 Olympic Men's Basketball Final, Controversy, First inbounds play\nFurthermore, although Bashkin's actions had caused the game to be stopped with one second remaining on the clock, the officials decided neither to resume play from that point, nor to assess a technical foul against him for having interrupted the play. They instead wiped out the play altogether, ruling that the entire inbounds sequence would be replayed from the point immediately following the second free throw and that the game clock would thus be reset to three seconds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 69], "content_span": [70, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094261-0016-0001", "contents": "1972 Olympic Men's Basketball Final, Controversy, First inbounds play\nJones, who had had a contentious relationship with American basketball officials for a number of years, came down from the stands to the court to contribute to the officials' ruling, and he insisted upon a complete replay of the final three seconds. According to Tenschert, Righetto had initially declared that play would resume with just one second remaining, only to be overruled by Jones. Jones later acknowledged that under the Olympic regulations, he had no authority to make rulings about a game in progress, though he maintained that resetting the clock was the correct course of action.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 69], "content_span": [70, 664]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094261-0016-0002", "contents": "1972 Olympic Men's Basketball Final, Controversy, First inbounds play\nEd Steitz who, over the course of his basketball career, served both as the president of USA Basketball and as a member of FIBA's Technical Committee, claimed that years after the game, Jones privately confided that with the clock reset still leaving only three seconds to play, he had not expected the Soviets would actually be able to score within that time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 69], "content_span": [70, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094261-0017-0000", "contents": "1972 Olympic Men's Basketball Final, Controversy, Second inbounds play\nThe players were brought back into position for a second inbounds play. However, instead of Zharmukhamedov returning to throw the inbounds pass, Kondrashin managed to substitute Ivan Edeshko into the game in Zharmukhamedov's place. Kondrashin's plan was to have Edeshko attempt a length-of-the-court pass to center Alexander Belov near the American basket, confident that Belov could catch any pass thrown accurately to him there and feeling that Edeshko was the player most skilled in executing such a pass. The two players had successfully run much the same play for CSKA Moscow team the preceding year to claim the Soviet Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 70], "content_span": [71, 709]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094261-0017-0001", "contents": "1972 Olympic Men's Basketball Final, Controversy, Second inbounds play\nUnder the Olympic rules, substitutions were not to have been allowed without the granting of the time-out, but the referees resumed the game, failing to notice this issue and also not noticing that clock operator Andre Chopard was still working on getting the game clock set to three seconds. The ball was given to Edeshko to start play, with the scoreboard clock actually showing 50 seconds remaining.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 70], "content_span": [71, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094261-0018-0000", "contents": "1972 Olympic Men's Basketball Final, Controversy, Second inbounds play\nEdeshko was defended at the end line by American center Tom McMillen. With his 6\u00a0ft 11\u00a0in (2.11\u00a0m) frame, McMillen aggressively challenged Edeshko's inbounds attempt, making it difficult for Edeshko to pass the ball into play. Edeshko ultimately made only a short pass to teammate Modestas Paulauskas standing in the Soviet backcourt. Paulauskas then immediately relayed a pass toward Belov at the other end of the court. But the horn sounded, with the pass barely out of Paulauskas's hand. The pass then missed its mark and was uneventfully tipped off the backboard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 70], "content_span": [71, 638]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094261-0018-0001", "contents": "1972 Olympic Men's Basketball Final, Controversy, Second inbounds play\nThe players, the announcers of both television broadcasts, and the majority of the spectators in the arena all interpreted the sound of the horn, combined with the sight of a failed Soviet pass, as the end of the game. People flooded the court and the U.S. team began a joyful celebration of its apparent one-point victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 70], "content_span": [71, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094261-0019-0000", "contents": "1972 Olympic Men's Basketball Final, Controversy, Second inbounds play\nWith Jones still involved in the process, the officials once again ordered the court to be cleared, the players to be brought back into position, the clock to be reset, and the final three seconds be replayed. The public speaker announced, \"Please go out. There are another three seconds left.\" Furious over the decision to deny the U.S. victory and allow the Soviets yet a third inbounds play, the U.S. coaches briefly considered unilaterally declaring the game to be over by pulling their team off the floor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 70], "content_span": [71, 581]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094261-0019-0001", "contents": "1972 Olympic Men's Basketball Final, Controversy, Second inbounds play\nHowever, head coach \"Hank\" Iba was concerned that such an action would leave the U.S. vulnerable to a Soviet appeal, which might lead to a ruling that the U.S. had forfeited the game. U.S. assistant coach John Bach reported that Jones threatened him directly with such a forfeiture should the U.S. team not return to the floor. In finally deciding to comply with the officials, Iba reportedly told his coaching staff, \"I don't want to lose this game later tonight, sitting on my butt.\" Some commentators suggest that their decision turned out to cost the Americans the game, and the gold medal, for the Americans were at the time in good terms with the international basketball federation, implying that walking off the court at this point would have guaranteed them the victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 70], "content_span": [71, 850]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094261-0020-0000", "contents": "1972 Olympic Men's Basketball Final, Controversy, Third inbounds play\nOn the third inbound try, McMillen was again assigned to use his height to challenge Edeshko's inbound pass. However, as official Artenik Arabadjian prepared to put the ball into play, he gestured to McMillen. McMillen responded by backing several feet away from Edeshko, which gave Edeshko a clear view and unobstructed path to throw a long pass down the court. McMillen later said that Arabadjian had instructed him to back away from Edeshko.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 69], "content_span": [70, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094261-0020-0001", "contents": "1972 Olympic Men's Basketball Final, Controversy, Third inbounds play\nMcMillen said that despite the fact that there was no rule which would require him to do so, he decided to comply, fearing that if he did not, Arabadjian might assess a technical foul against him. For his part, Arabadjian has denied that his gesture was intended to instruct McMillen to back away from Edeshko.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 69], "content_span": [70, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094261-0021-0000", "contents": "1972 Olympic Men's Basketball Final, Controversy, Third inbounds play\nIn any event, McMillen's repositioning left no American defender to challenge Edeshko's pass. Unlike the previous play, where he had been forced to make a short pass into the backcourt, Edeshko now had a clear line to throw the ball the length of the court toward Alexander Belov. Edeshko would later confirm that McMillen's backing away made it easy for him to throw the long pass downcourt. In the Soviet Union, Edeshko's throw would eventually come to be known as \"the golden pass\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 69], "content_span": [70, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094261-0022-0000", "contents": "1972 Olympic Men's Basketball Final, Controversy, Third inbounds play\nThe images of the play broadcast on American television by the ABC network have led to the question of whether Edeshko might have stepped on the end line\u2014meaning that he should have been called for a violation\u2014as he made his pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 69], "content_span": [70, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094261-0023-0000", "contents": "1972 Olympic Men's Basketball Final, Controversy, Third inbounds play\nAs Edeshko's full-court pass came down, Belov, Kevin Joyce and Jim Forbes all leapt for the ball near the basket. Belov caught the ball in the air, and as the three men landed, Joyce's momentum carried him out of bounds, while Forbes came down off-balance and fell to the floor beneath the basket. Belov then gathered himself and made an uncontested layup, scoring the winning points as the horn sounded for the last time. After jubilantly sprinting to the other end of the court, Belov was mobbed by his delirious teammates who dogpiled atop him in celebration. American coaches and players argued with the game officials for several minutes, but to no avail, as the Soviets were declared the victors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 69], "content_span": [70, 772]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094261-0024-0000", "contents": "1972 Olympic Men's Basketball Final, United States protest\nBy some accounts, at the end of the game, Righetto refused to sign the official scoring sheet in an act of protest. Herbert Mols, serving as the resident manager of the U.S. team, and U.S. Olympic Basketball Committee chairman MK Summers, filed a detailed protest, which was heard by FIBA's five-member jury of appeal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 58], "content_span": [59, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094261-0024-0001", "contents": "1972 Olympic Men's Basketball Final, United States protest\nMols and Summers contended that the final three seconds of the 40-minute game were consumed by the two seconds that elapsed on the first inbounds play and the one second that elapsed on the second play, thus marking the legal end of the game at that point and a United States victory by the score of 50\u201349.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 58], "content_span": [59, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094261-0024-0002", "contents": "1972 Olympic Men's Basketball Final, United States protest\nThe protest asserted that allowing a third inbounds play with the clock reset to three seconds brought the total elapsed game time to 40 minutes and three seconds, in violation of FIBA rules which specified the length of a game to be 40 minutes. The jury ultimately voted down the protest and awarded the gold medals to the Soviet team. At the ensuing press conference, Mols engaged in an animated argument with the jury's chairman, Ferenc Hepp of Hungary, about the propriety of resetting the clock to three seconds. Tenschert also angrily dissented with the jury's ruling, declaring, \"Under FIBA rules, the United States won.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 58], "content_span": [59, 687]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094261-0025-0000", "contents": "1972 Olympic Men's Basketball Final, United States protest\nIn announcing the verdict, Hepp steadfastly refused to provide the specifics of the vote count, acknowledging only that the decision was not unanimous. With three of the five jury members, including Hepp, being from Soviet-allied nations, this fueled speculation that the tally had been 3\u20132 and perhaps based more upon Cold War politics than upon the FIBA rulebook.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 58], "content_span": [59, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094261-0025-0001", "contents": "1972 Olympic Men's Basketball Final, United States protest\nThis view was further suggested when jury members Rafael Lopez and Claudio Coccia \u2014 from US-allied Puerto Rico and Italy, respectively \u2014 each reportedly confirmed having voted for the United States, thus indicating that pro-Soviet votes could have come only from Hepp of Hungary, Adam Bag\u0142ajewski of Poland, and Andres Keiser of Cuba. Nonetheless, Hepp, the only one who had seen all five votes of the secret ballot, maintained his refusal to divulge the specific votes of any of the panel members, beyond later granting that his own vote was in favor of the Soviets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 58], "content_span": [59, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094261-0025-0002", "contents": "1972 Olympic Men's Basketball Final, United States protest\nDespite this absence of confirmation from Hepp, it has become generally accepted and reported as fact that there indeed was a 3\u20132 vote that matched the political alliances of the time. Aside from potential political motivations, Mols suggested that panel members feared retribution from Jones were they to have deemed his decision regarding the game clock to be incorrect. In any event, the U.S. players did not accept the jury's verdict, voting unanimously to refuse their silver medals, and the team did not attend the medal ceremony. The silver medals are still kept in a vault in Lausanne, Switzerland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 58], "content_span": [59, 665]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094261-0026-0000", "contents": "1972 Olympic Men's Basketball Final, United States protest\nAfter the conclusion of the games, the United States Olympic Committee launched another appeal, this time to the executive committee of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). It received the support of Righetto, who was quoted saying the Soviet victory was \"completely irregular, and outsides the rules of the game of basketball\". Righetto criticized Jones's insistence that the clock be reset to three seconds, and offered that he felt it would have been more fair to have instead resumed play with only the one second on the clock that had been remaining when play was suspended.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 58], "content_span": [59, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094261-0026-0001", "contents": "1972 Olympic Men's Basketball Final, United States protest\nRighetto also asserted that the initial confusion was partially attributable to a language barrier, as he, a Brazilian, spoke Portuguese, but those working the scorer's table spoke only German. Also supporting the U.S. appeal was Chopard, who noted that in his 12 years of service as a timekeeper, Jones' order to put elapsed time back onto the clock was unprecedented. The appeal was unsuccessful, however, as in February 1973, the IOC ruled that matter fell under FIBA's jurisdiction.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 58], "content_span": [59, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094261-0027-0000", "contents": "1972 Olympic Men's Basketball Final, Aftermath\nIn the ensuing years, USA Basketball has periodically contacted the 1972 U.S. team members on behalf of the IOC to offer them the opportunity to change their stance and accept the silver medals, possibly being granted an official ceremony awarding them. In 1992, team member Ed Ratleff said that although he did not personally want the medal, his wife felt very strongly about his accepting it and being able to show it to their children.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094261-0027-0001", "contents": "1972 Olympic Men's Basketball Final, Aftermath\nHe said that his vote would be to accept the medal, but that he was casting his vote that way only in deference to her wishes. In a 2012 interview with Todd Jones of The Columbus Dispatch, Ratleff emphasized that the desire to accept the silver medal was his wife's, not his. Since divorced, he affirmed his intention never to accept it. The ten remaining team members each told the magazine that they would vote to refuse the acceptance of silver medals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094261-0028-0000", "contents": "1972 Olympic Men's Basketball Final, Aftermath\nWith regard to awarding the medals, the IOC has insisted that for such an action, the entire team would need to consent unanimously. Kenny Davis reported that he had gone so far as to have a clause put into his will forbidding his wife, children or descendants from ever accepting the silver medal after his death. In 2012, Davis organized a reunion of the 12 team members\u2014the first time they had all been together since 1972\u2014and reported that after some discussion, the group was unanimous in its rejection of the silver medals. \"In basketball, there's one winner,\" he said. \"By the rules of that game, we won.\" The gathering included a group round-table interview of the players that was documented in the ESPN 30 for 30 short film Silver Reunion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 796]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094261-0029-0000", "contents": "1972 Olympic Men's Basketball Final, Aftermath\nWhen the IOC chose to resolve the figure skating scandal at the 2002 Winter Olympics by awarding duplicate gold medals to the original silver medalists, Tom McMillen, who had gone on to become a United States congressman, appealed to the IOC, requesting that the committee revisit its 1972 decision to declare the U.S. team to be the silver medalists of the men's basketball event. The 2002 decision arose because a French judge had been unduly pressured by the Russian officials to inflate the scores of the Russian pair. The American appeal argued that Jones' unauthorized intervention in 1972 brought similar undue pressure upon the officiating crew of that game. According to McMillen, the IOC did not respond to his appeal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 775]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094261-0030-0000", "contents": "1972 Olympic Men's Basketball Final, Aftermath\nIn the Soviet Union, the outcome of the game was heralded and the players celebrated as heroes, with comparatively little attention given to the controversy surrounding the team's victory. When asked about the subject, Soviet team members have indicated that they view their triumph as having been achieved legitimately. Edeshko and Sergei Belov, in particular, have been critical of the Americans for refusing to accept having lost, with Edeshko saying that he regrets that others may feel the Soviets' gold medals were undeserved, but that he harbors no such doubts himself. From his perspective as coach, Kondrashin acknowledged that the controversy did somewhat diminish his enjoyment of the triumph. However, he still cited the victory as the greatest accomplishment of his basketball career.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 844]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094261-0031-0000", "contents": "1972 Olympic Men's Basketball Final, Cultural references\nThe game and its controversies are presented from a Russian point of view as part of the 2017 Russian sport drama film Going Vertical (Russian: \u0414\u0432\u0438\u0436\u0435\u043d\u0438\u0435 \u0432\u0432\u0435\u0440\u0445, romanized:\u00a0Dvizhenie vverkh).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 56], "content_span": [57, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094261-0032-0000", "contents": "1972 Olympic Men's Basketball Final, Cultural references\nThe game is presented from an American point of view in the ESPN documentaries Silver Reunion (2013; part of 30 for 30), and Episode 2 of Basketball: A Love Story (2018).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 56], "content_span": [57, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094262-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Olympics Black Power salute\nThe 1972 Olympics Black Power Salute was a political protest by two U.S. Olympic runners, Vincent Matthews and Wayne Collett, during the medal ceremony for the Men's 400 metres at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany. This event is sometimes referred to as \"The Forgotten Protest.\" It came four years after the 1968 Olympics Black Power salute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094262-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Olympics Black Power salute, Before the games\nMatthews was a 1968 Olympian who had retired. He was frustrated by problems that included having to pay for his own travel to the U.S. Trials.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094262-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Olympics Black Power salute, Protest\nIn the Men's 400 metres, Matthews won gold and Collett won silver.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094262-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Olympics Black Power salute, Protest\nDuring the medal ceremony, both runners refused to stand at attention for the U.S. national anthem. They subsequently stroked their beards, and twirled their medals as they left the stadium. The German crowd booed both runners for their display.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094262-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Olympics Black Power salute, Media reaction\nThe Associated Press described the casual behavior of Matthews and Collett during the playing of the anthem as \"disrespectful,\" and described the event as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094262-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Olympics Black Power salute, Media reaction\nCollett, bare-footed, leaped from the No. 2 tier to the No. 1 stand beside his teammate. They stood sideways to the flag, twirling their medals, with Matthews stroking his chin. Their shoulders slumped, neither stood erect nor looked at the flag. ... As whistles and catcalls continued, Collett raised a clenched fist to the crowd before entering the portal of the dressing room.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094262-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Olympics Black Power salute, Media reaction\nRobert Markus reported in the Chicago Tribune on September 9, 1972:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094262-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Olympics Black Power salute, Media reaction\n[ Matthews] was angry at Coach Bill Bowerman\u2014as most of the U.S. trackmen seem to be\u2014because Bowerman had hinted he would like to remove him from the place he had earned in the 400-meter field. He was angry that he had been forced to train on his own in unsuitable facilities, had to travel 4 or 5 times from N.Y. to the west coast in order to get any kind of competition, and had been put down by some of the press as a drag on America's hopes for a 400-meter sweep.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094262-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 Olympics Black Power salute, Media reaction\nMatthews said his and Collett's actions were directed at the U.S. coaching staff, not the flag or the National Anthem. \"We were just mad about a lot of things. We didn't think it would blow up like this. We were asked to apologize. I'm not really sorry for what I did. I'm sorry for the way people took it [hoots and whistles from the stands when the anthem finished]. What I tried to get across to the Olympic Committee was if it was pre-meditated I could have done something better than that. It was just something that happened. We didn't realize the implications to the people in the stands.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 645]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094262-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 Olympics Black Power salute, Media reaction\nIn an interview after the medal ceremony with the American Broadcasting Company, Collett said the national anthem meant nothing to him. He explained that he had felt unable to honor the anthem, because of the struggle faced by African Americans at the time: \"I couldn't stand there and sing the words because I don't believe they're true. I wish they were. I believe we have the potential to have a beautiful country, but I don't think we do.\" The pair were banned from future Olympic competition by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094262-0009-0001", "contents": "1972 Olympics Black Power salute, Media reaction\nIOC president Avery Brundage deemed it to be a domestic political statement unfit for the apolitical, international forum the Olympic Games were intended to be. Since John Smith had pulled a hamstring 80 meters into the final while leading and had been ruled unfit to run, the U.S. were now unable to field a team in the 4 \u00d7 400 meter relay and were forced to scratch from the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094262-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 Olympics Black Power salute, Media reaction, Athlete statements\nI wasn't acting any differently than I usually do, but we were like goldfish in a fishbowl, in front of all those people. If they wanted me to stand at attention, I could've probably done that, but it wouldn't be me, and I was led to believe that the Olympics was for the athlete. We consider ourselves athletes, not politicians, or marching bands. Our athletic competition was over, and we were both happy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 68], "content_span": [69, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094262-0011-0000", "contents": "1972 Olympics Black Power salute, After the games\nBoth runners received a lifelong ban from the IOC. This banning forced the US to scratch from the 4 \u00d7 400 meter relay where the Americans would be favored to win. Both runners were eventually elected to the Black Olympian Hall of Fame. This display by the athletes would be overshadowed by the Munich massacre. Collett went on to become a lawyer. In 2011, Matthews was elected to the USATF Hall of Fame.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094263-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Omloop Het Volk\nThe 1972 Omloop Het Volk was the 27th edition of the Omloop Het Volk cycle race and was held on 4 March 1972. The race started and finished in Ghent. The race was won by Frans Verbeeck.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094264-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Ontario municipal elections\nMunicipalities across the Canadian province of Ontario held elections on December 4, 1972, to elect mayors, reeves, councillors, and school trustees. Some municipalities also held votes for utility commissioners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094264-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Ontario municipal elections\nThe most closely watched contest was in Toronto, where Red Tory candidate David Crombie was elected as mayor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094265-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Open Championship\nThe 1972 Open Championship was the 101st Open Championship, held 12\u201315 July at Muirfield Golf Links in Gullane, East Lothian, Scotland. Lee Trevino won his second straight Claret Jug, the first to successfully defend his title since Arnold Palmer in 1962. Trevino finished one stroke ahead of runner-up Jack Nicklaus, ending his bid for the Grand Slam. Nicklaus had won the first two majors in 1972 and was the odds-on favorite at Muirfield, where he won his first Open in 1966. He also held the PGA Championship title from February 1971; a win at Muirfield and he would become the first to hold all four major titles at once.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 649]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094265-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Open Championship\nSix strokes back at even-par after 54 holes, Nicklaus shot a final round 66 (\u22125) on Saturday to tie the course record, but played the final three holes at one-over par. Trevino posted his own 66 in the third round and held on with an even-par 71, which included a chip-in for par at 17, to gain the fourth of his six major titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094265-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Open Championship\nIt was the third of four times that Nicklaus was a runner-up to Trevino in a major championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094265-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Open Championship\nTrevino's win concluded a stretch where American-born golfers won eight consecutive major championship. This is the fourth-longest stretch in history for American-born golfers after stretches that ended at the 1930 Open Championship, 1947 U.S. Open, and the 1977 PGA Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094265-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Open Championship\nThirty years later, Tiger Woods became the first since Nicklaus to win the first two major tournaments of the year. His bid for a Grand Slam in 2002 also ended at Muirfield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094265-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Open Championship, Round summaries, Second round\nAmateurs: Foster (+7), Mosey (+8), Revell (+9), Stephen (+9), Campbell (+11), Homer (+11), Gradwell (+13), Elson (+14), Bonallack (+15), Clark (+15), Berry (+19), Gray (+20).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 53], "content_span": [54, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094266-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Orange Bowl\nThe 1972 Orange Bowl was the 38th edition of the college football bowl game, played at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida, on Saturday, January 1. The final game of the 1971\u201372 bowl season, it matched the top-ranked Nebraska Cornhuskers of the Big Eight Conference and the #2 Alabama Crimson Tide of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). Both teams were undefeated; Nebraska, the defending national champion, built a large lead in the first half and won 38\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094266-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Orange Bowl, Game summary\nSix-point favorite Nebraska entered the game on a 31-game unbeaten streak, and scored first on a two-yard touchdown run by Jeff Kinney. Future Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Rodgers scored on a 77-yard punt return on the final play of the first quarter, as Nebraska led 14\u20130. In the second quarter, quarterback Jerry Tagge and Gary Dixon added touchdown runs of one and two yards respectively, as Nebraska led convincingly 28\u20130 with over eight minutes remaining in the first half. There was no additional scoring before halftime as the Husker defense stifled the Tide's previously potent Wishbone offense with All-American running back Johnny Musso.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 30], "content_span": [31, 678]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094266-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Orange Bowl, Game summary\nIn the third quarter, Bama's Terry Davis scored on a three\u2013yard touchdown run making the score 28\u20136, eliminating the shutout. Nebraska's Rich Sanger kicked a 21-yard field goal at the end of the third quarter, and a one-yard touchdown run by reserve senior QB Van Brownson made the final score 38\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 30], "content_span": [31, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094266-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Orange Bowl, Game summary\nWith top-ranked Nebraska's 32-point victory, the 1972 Orange Bowl was one of the most lopsided meetings of #1 vs #2, specifically in a season-ending bowl game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 30], "content_span": [31, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094266-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Orange Bowl, Final polls\nNebraska (13\u20130) was first in both major polls and was the consensus national champion, having defeated the next three teams in the final AP Poll released on January 3: Oklahoma, Colorado, and Alabama. The Huskers earned all 55 first-place votes in the AP poll; in the UPI coaches poll released in early December, they received 29 of the 31 first-place votes, with the other two to Alabama.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094267-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Oregon State Beavers football team\nThe 1972 Oregon State Beavers football team represented Oregon State University in the Pacific-8 Conference (Pac-8) during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. In their eighth season under head coach Dee Andros, the Beavers compiled a 2\u20139 record (1\u20136 in Pac-8, last), and were outscored 295\u00a0to\u00a0131. They\u00a0played four home games on campus at Parker Stadium in Corvallis, with one at Civic\u00a0Stadium in\u00a0Portland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094267-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Oregon State Beavers football team\nThe loss to rival Oregon was Andros' first setback in the Civil War game, and the Ducks' first win over the Beavers in nine years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094268-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Oregon Webfoots football team\nThe 1972 Oregon Webfoots football team represented the University of Oregon in the Pacific-8 Conference during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. Home games were played in Eugene at Autzen Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094268-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Oregon Webfoots football team\nLed by first-year head coach Dick Enright, the Ducks were 4\u20137 overall (2\u20135 in Pac-8, tied for sixth), and were outscored 285\u00a0to\u00a0194. Oregon met five ranked teams and won once. In the Civil\u00a0War at Parker Stadium in Corvallis, the Ducks broke an eight-game losing streak against Oregon State, beating OSU head coach Dee Andros for the first time in the series. Previously the offensive line coach, Enright was promoted in early February, two weeks after the resignation of Jerry\u00a0Frei.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094268-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Oregon Webfoots football team\nOregon was led on the field by senior quarterback Dan Fouts, a three-year starter who was selected in the third round of the 1973\u00a0NFL\u00a0Draft, 64th\u00a0overall. He\u00a0played fifteen seasons in the NFL for the San\u00a0Diego Chargers and is a member of the Pro\u00a0Football Hall\u00a0of\u00a0Fame.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094268-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Oregon Webfoots football team, Season summary, Oregon State\nOregon's first win over its in-state rival in nine years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 64], "content_span": [65, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094268-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Oregon Webfoots football team, All-conference\nTwo Oregon seniors were named to the All-Pac-8 team: quarterback Dan Fouts and wide receiver Greg Specht.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094268-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Oregon Webfoots football team, NFL Draft\nThree Oregon seniors were selected in the draft; center Chuck Bradley (52nd), tackle Tim Stokes (60th), and quarterback Dan\u00a0Fouts\u00a0(64th).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094269-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Orsz\u00e1gos Bajnoks\u00e1g I (men's water polo)\n1972 Orsz\u00e1gos Bajnoks\u00e1g I (men's water polo) was the 66th water polo championship in Hungary. There were ten teams who played two-round match for the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094269-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Orsz\u00e1gos Bajnoks\u00e1g I (men's water polo), Final list\n* M: Matches W: Win D: Drawn L: Lost G+: Goals earned G-: Goals got P: Point", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094270-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Ottawa Rough Riders season\nThe 1972 Ottawa Rough Riders finished the season in 2nd place in the Eastern Conference with an 11\u20133 record, with all three losses coming at the hands of the 1st place Hamilton Tiger-Cats. The team lost in the Eastern Finals series to those same Tiger-Cats by a total points score of 30\u201327.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094271-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Ottawa municipal election\nThe city of Ottawa, Canada held municipal elections on December 4, 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094271-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Ottawa municipal election\nController Pierre Benoit is easily elected without significant opposition. Ottawa's city council is divided in two, as this marks the first election where only one alderman is elected from each ward, as opposed to two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094271-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Ottawa municipal election, City council\n*Official results published on December 7. A recount held on December 27 indicated Robert had only won by 12 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 44], "content_span": [45, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094272-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 PGA Championship\nThe 1972 PGA Championship was the 54th PGA Championship, played August 3\u20136 at Oakland Hills Country Club in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb northwest of Detroit. Gary Player won his second PGA Championship with a total of 281 (+1), two strokes ahead of runners-up Tommy Aaron and Jim Jamieson. It was the sixth of Player's nine major titles, but his first in over four years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094272-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 PGA Championship\nThe PGA Championship returned to the month of August in 1972 after being played in late February in 1971 in Florida.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094272-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 PGA Championship\nDefending champion Jack Nicklaus, winner of the year's Masters and U.S. Open and runner-up in the British Open, finished six strokes back in a tie for thirteenth place. He regained the title the following year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094272-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 PGA Championship\nIt was the fifth major championship held on the South Course, which previously hosted the U.S. Open in 1924, 1937, 1951, and 1961. It later hosted the PGA Championship in 1979 and 2008, the U.S. Open in 1985 and 1996, and the Ryder Cup in 2004.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094273-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 PGA Tour\nThe 1972 PGA Tour season was played from January 6 to December 3. The season consisted of 47 official money events. Jack Nicklaus won the most tournaments, seven, and there were five first-time winners. The tournament results and award winners are listed below.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094273-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 PGA Tour, Tournament results\nThe following table shows all the official money events for the 1972 season. \"Date\" is the ending date of the tournament. The numbers in parentheses after the winners' names are the number of wins they had on the tour up to and including that event. Majors are shown in bold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 33], "content_span": [34, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094273-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 PGA Tour, Rogelio Gonzales suspension\nAt the Greater New Orleans Open, Tour rookie golfer from Colombia Rogelio Gonzales was disqualified after it was learned he had changed his scorecard earlier in the tournament. In addition to his disqualification, the PGA Tour lifted Gonzales playing privileges.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 42], "content_span": [43, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094274-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates\nThis is a list of the 1972 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094274-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates\nThe event was held at Silverado Country Club, South course, in Napa, California in late October/early November. After three 72-hole regional qualifiers, there were 81 players in the 108-hole final qualifying tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094274-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates\nLarry Stubblefield and John Adams tied for the lead and Stubblefield won a sudden-death playoff for the top position. 25 players earned their tour card.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094274-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates\nJoe Inman, who recently graduated from Wake Forest University, participated in his first Q-school. However, he did not successfully graduate onto the PGA Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094275-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific Southwest Open\nThe 1972 Pacific Southwest Open was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Los Angeles Tennis Center in Los Angeles, California in the United States. The tournament was classified as Grade A and was part of the Grand Prix tennis circuit. It was the 46th edition of the tournament and ran from September 18 through September 24, 1972. Third-seeded Stan Smith won the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094275-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific Southwest Open, Finals, Doubles\nJimmy Connors / Pancho Gonzales defeated Ismail El Shafei / Brian Fairlie 6\u20133, 7\u20136", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 44], "content_span": [45, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094276-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific Tigers football team\nThe 1972 Pacific Tigers football team represented the University of the Pacific (UOP) in the 1972 NCAA University Division football season as a member of the Pacific Coast Athletic Association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094276-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific Tigers football team\nThe team was led by head coach Chester Caddas, in his first year, and played home games at Pacific Memorial Stadium in Stockton, California. They finished the season with a record of eight wins and three losses (8\u20133, 3\u20131 PCAA). The Tigers outscored their opponents 232\u2013176 for the entire season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094276-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific Tigers football team, Team players in the NFL\nNo UOP players were selected in the 1973 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 58], "content_span": [59, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094277-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific hurricane season\nThe 1972 Pacific hurricane season was an ongoing event in tropical cyclone meteorology. There were few notable storms this year. Only one person was killed and storm effects were almost not serious at all. The most notable systems were Hurricane Celeste and Joanne. Celeste was the strongest storm of the season, and caused heavy damage to Johnston Atoll. Hurricane Joanne brought gale-force winds to the Continental United States and caused flooding in Arizona and northern Mexico, which killed one person. The only other system to directly impact land was Hurricane Annette.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094277-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific hurricane season\nThe season began on May 15, 1972, in the east Pacific, and on June 1, 1972, in the central Pacific. It ended on November 30, 1972. These dates conventionally delimit the period of time when tropical cyclones form in the east Pacific Ocean. This season had a below average number of storms. There were twenty tropical cyclones, four of which were in the central Pacific. Of those, four were tropical storms, eight were hurricanes, and four were major hurricanes that reached Category\u00a03 or higher on the Saffir\u2013Simpson hurricane scale. In the central Pacific, two tropical storms and two tropical depressions formed. One of the depressions and one of the storms crossed the International Date Line to become typhoons in the 1972 Pacific typhoon season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 780]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094277-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific hurricane season, Timeline\nThe season began from the formation of the pre-Annette tropical depression on June 1, and ended with Tropical Storm Liza losing its circulation on November 15. This is a span of 167\u00a0days. In the eastern north Pacific, one storm formed in May, one each in June and July, six in August, two in September, and one in November. In the central north Pacific, one storm formed in each of September and November. This season is tied with the 1977 and 1996 seasons for fewest tropical storms to form in July. It also shares the record for busiest November in the central Pacific with the 1982 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094277-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific hurricane season, Systems\nOf this season's fourteen named tropical cyclones, twelve formed in the eastern Pacific and two in the central. Both central Pacific tropical cyclones were tropical storms. Of the eastern Pacific systems, four were tropical storms and eight were hurricanes. Of those eight hurricanes, four were major hurricanes because they peaked as Category\u00a03 or higher on the Saffir\u2013Simpson hurricane scale. Although these totals are below the modern long-term averages of fifteen named storms, nine hurricanes, and four major hurricanes, At the time, 1972 was the central north Pacific's busiest known season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094277-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Annette\nOn June 1, a tropical disturbance organized into a tropical storm. It slowly moved north and then recurved to the northeast as it accelerated slightly. It intensified into a hurricane on June 4. It remained at that strength for one day. Annette then began weakening. As a tropical storm, Annette made landfall in southeast of Manzanillo on June 7. The next day, it dissipated inland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094277-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Annette\nAnnette brought several days of rainy weather to parts of Mexico. However, no deaths or damage were attributed to this tropical cyclone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094277-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Depression Two\nTropical Depression Two existed from June 27 to June 28. It paralleled the coast of Mexico without making landfall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 63], "content_span": [64, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094277-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Depression Three\nTropical Depression Three formed on July 4 and dissipated two days later. It moved westward while out to sea and never approached land.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094277-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Bonny\nOnly July 27, fifty days after the dissipation of Tropical Depression Annette, an area of clouds southwest of Manzanillo developed a closed circulation and became a tropical depression. The next day, it strengthened into a tropical storm. Heading generally west northwest, Bonny peaked in intensity on July 28. It weakened after that, and dissipated July 30. Bonny never came near land and caused no known impact.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094277-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Celeste\nOn August 6, a tropical disturbance developed into a tropical storm, skipping the depression stage. It edged south until August 8. At that point, it turned to the west. It would continue in that general direction until it dissipated. Celeste intensified into a hurricane on August 10. It then left the Eastern Pacific Hurricane Center's area of responsibility and entered the central Pacific. Celeste continued intensifying and eventually peaked as a Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir\u2013Simpson hurricane scale. Celeste's Category 4 winds and central pressure of 940\u00a0millibars (940\u00a0hPa) made it the most intense cyclone of the season. After that, Celeste steadily weakened. After turning north, it dissipated on August 22 due to wind shear.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 797]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094277-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Celeste\nCeleste harassed several ships during its existence. The most serious incident involved a sailing vessel called the Regina Marina. On August 9, that ship was flooded and had to issue a distress call. It was spotted by a hurricane hunter and was reached and towed to safety by another ship, the Vishea Trith, and later on, the USCGC Mellon. Two people aboard the Regina Marina were treated for injuries. Celeste passed close to Johnston Atoll and was the first recorded hurricane to hit that island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094277-0010-0001", "contents": "1972 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Celeste\nMany buildings on the weather station on the island lost roof tiles, and parts of most buildings were sandblasted by the wind. Celeste brought the highest recorded sustained winds in the station's thirteen years of operation, and the lowest barometric pressure ever recorded at Johnston at the time. A total of 6.21 inches (160\u00a0mm) of rain was recorded by a rain gauge; this may be an underestimate due to the gauge's funnel being partly blocked by a lump of coral. Program 437, an anti-satellite weapons system, was destroyed by the hurricane. On Johnston, no casualties were reported due to evacuations of the island's inhabitants. High waves also pounded the Puna, Kau, and South Kona Coasts of the Big Island. An exact estimate of damage is not available.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 817]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094277-0011-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Celeste\nAt the time, Celeste was longest-lasting Pacific hurricane with a lifespan of 16.25 days; that record was tied next season by Hurricane Doreen and outrun by Hurricane Fico in 1978. It is the ninth-longest lasting Pacific hurricane, tied with Kenneth (2005) and 1973's Doreen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094277-0012-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Diana\nOn August 11, a tropical storm formed. It headed to the west northwest and strengthened into a hurricane on August 12. Diana then turned to the northwest, and peaked in intensity on August 1. It then headed west, and crossed into the central Pacific as a Category 1 hurricane. Shortly after crossing the basin boundary on a path directly towards the Hawaiian Islands, Diana weakened into a tropical storm. On August 18, Diana turned to the northwest. It dissipated two days later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094277-0013-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Diana\nDiana threatened the Hawaiian Islands enough to warrant the issuance of a tropical storm warning. Although it never made landfall, Diana dumped very heavy rain on the Big Island, though without flooding; the highest total was 10 inches (250\u00a0mm) somewhere northeast of Hilo. At Vacationland, surf swept four homes off their foundations, doing extensive damage to one of them. Another home was flooded. Debris was carried inland, and 200 feet (60\u00a0m) of private roads were washed away. The cost of damage to the extensively damaged house was $75,000 (1972 USD; $464,021 2021\u00a0USD), furnishings excluded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 655]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094277-0014-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Estelle\nA swirl of thunderstorms near Clipperton Island became a tropical depression on August 15. It moved generally northwest. The depression strengthened into a tropical storm on August 16. Estelle continued to intensify, and became a hurricane on August 19. After peaking the next day, Estelle slowly weakened. It became a tropical storm on August 20 and dissipated two days later. Hurricane Estelle spent its entire life well away from inhabited land, and consequently caused no deaths or damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094277-0015-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Fernanda\nAn area of disturbed weather was witnessed well south of mainland Mexico on August 18. The system developed into a tropical storm on August 20. It slowly strengthened, moving generally west-northwest, and became a hurricane on August 22. It continued strengthening, and was briefly a Category\u00a03 major hurricane on 24. Fernanda weakened after that, and it was a tropical storm by the time it crossed 140\u00b0W and entered the central Pacific. It remained at a steady intensity until it rapidly weakened when north of Kauai on September 1. A flash flood on Waipio Stream in the Big Island's Kohala Mountains may have been due to Fernanda. Other than that, this tropical cyclone caused no known impact.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 754]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094277-0016-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Gwen\nOn August 22, a tropical depression formed from a disturbance. It immediately strengthened into a storm and was named Gwen. Gwen moved generally northwest, paralleling the coast of Mexico, and intensified into a hurricane on August 24. It then spent a few days heading west-northwest before resuming its original course. The hurricane became a major hurricane on August 27. After retaining that intensity for over a day, it rapidly weakened. Gwen became a tropical storm on August 29, weakened into a depression the next day, and dissipated just after that. Hurricane Gwen caused some concern for high surf in California, including a forecast for storm surge, but only the high surf materialized. Hurricane Gwen caused no deaths or damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 794]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094277-0017-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Hyacinth\nA circulation south of the Gulf of Tehuantepec organized into a tropical depression on August 28. It moved west for a day and then turned to the west northwest. It intensified into a tropical storm on August 29 and a hurricane the next day. Hyacinth peaked as a Category\u00a03 major hurricane on August 31 through September 1. It then weakened. It also began to recurve to the north and then the northeast. Hyacinth reached its westernmost point on September 4 while a tropical storm. On September 6, it weakened into a tropical depression. It then made landfall north of San Diego, California, as a depression later that day, but it was nearly dissipated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 711]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094277-0018-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Hyacinth\nHyacinth caused increased surf along the coast of California, but was otherwise without serious effects. Tropical Depression Hyacinth's landfall was the first in California since 1939.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094277-0019-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Iva\nSouth of Salina Cruz, a tropical depression formed on September 14. It paralleled the coast of Mexico until it strengthened into a tropical storm on September 16. Iva spent three days barely moving. On August 19, Iva got caught in the trade winds, headed westwards out to sea, and promptly weakened into a depression. By September 22 it was just a mass of clouds. Iva did not come near land and had no appreciable impact.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094277-0020-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm June\nA northwestward-moving disturbance in the Intertropical Convergence Zone developed into a tropical depression on September 24 and a storm two days later. It never strengthened much, and rapidly weakened on September 28. Tropical Storm June passed southwest of Johnston Island on September 27, but was too feeble to cause damage, only bringing gusty breezes and some rain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094277-0021-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Late September/Early October Tropical Depression\nA tropical depression formed September 28 east of the Hawaiian Islands. It headed towards the archipelago and dissipated on the afternoon of October 3. Later that day, its remnants dumped up to 10.5\u00a0in (270\u00a0mm) of rain on the mountains of the Big Island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 88], "content_span": [89, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094277-0022-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Joanne\nA westward-moving area of squalls south of Mexico organized into a tropical depression on September 30. It then strengthened into a tropical storm and was named Joanne. Joanne moved west northwest, and intensified into a hurricane on October 1. It then peaked as a Category\u00a02 hurricane on October 2. Joanne then slowed down and began to recurve, first to the north, and then the north northeast. While accelerating in that direction, Joanne made landfall near Laguna Chapala on the Baja California Peninsula as a tropical storm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094277-0022-0001", "contents": "1972 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Joanne\nJoanne managed to retain a closed circulation and bring tropical storm force winds to Arizona, the first recorded time that had happened. The tropical storm dissipated inland over Sonora on October 7. Joanne is one of only four known Pacific hurricanes to bring gale-force winds to the Continental United States, and was the first since the 1939 California tropical storm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094277-0023-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Joanne\nHeavy rainfall was reported throughout Arizona. Over 5 inches (100\u00a0mm) was measured at the Mogollon Rim. Heavy rains were recorded elsewhere in the region. The rains caused flooding in the areas of Clifton, Duncan, and Safford. The highest total in Mexico was 9.45\u00a0in (240\u00a0mm) in San Felipe/Mexicali, while the highest total in the United States was 4.34\u00a0in (110\u00a0mm) in Sierra Ancha. Joanne also caused heavy surf in California. A young man in Phoenix was electrocuted and killed when he attempted to remove a downed power line from his car.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094277-0024-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Depression Thirteen\nTropical Depression Thirteen formed on October 12. It first headed southwest, then west, and performed a cyclonic loop. It headed north before sharply recurving. It dissipated on October 18.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 68], "content_span": [69, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094277-0025-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Kathleen\nOn October 18, a vortex in the Intertropical Convergence Zone was determined to be a tropical storm through the use of satellite pictures. Kathleen was a tropical storm for only eighteen hours before weakening into a tropical depression and recurving to the northeast. The tropical cyclone dissipated on October 19 while out to sea west of Puerto Vallarta. No deaths or damages were reported.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 63], "content_span": [64, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094277-0026-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Depression Olga\nJust east of the dateline, the northern hemisphere component of a \"cyclone twin\" formed into a tropical depression October 16. After crossing the dateline, it intensified into Tropical Storm Olga of the 1972 Pacific typhoon season. After passing through the Marshalls as a tropical storm, Olga intensified into a typhoon on October 25. It then swung through part of the Northern Marianas Islands before it was absorbed by a front near Honsh\u016b on October 29. As the NMI had already been hit by Typhoon Marie three weeks earlier, little damage was reported.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 619]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094277-0027-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Ruby\nAn area of enhanced convection in the ITCZ close to the equator formed into a tropical depression on November 11. It headed north northwest, and intensified into Tropical Storm Ruby on November 13. Ruby then abruptly turned west and crossed the dateline, briefly reaching hurricane status. After becoming a typhoon just after crossing the dateline, the first time that had happened since 1967, Ruby steadily strengthened and eventually peaked as a moderately intense typhoon on November 16 while east of Taongi Atoll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094277-0027-0001", "contents": "1972 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Ruby\nIt then steadily weakened as it headed west northwest, and wind shear destroyed the cyclone on November 20 when it was east of the Northern Marianas Islands. Ruby caused no deaths or damage. Of note is the fact that on November 17, Ruby had a central pressure of 983\u00a0mb (983\u00a0hPa), which is high for a 100-knot typhoon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094277-0028-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Liza\nA tropical depression formed south of the Gulf of Tehuantepec on November 13. It headed nearly due east and intensified into Tropical Storm Liza on November 14. Liza degenerated into a tropical wave the next day. No deaths or damages were reported. Liza was a tropical storm for less than a day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094277-0029-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Depression Sixteen\nTropical Depression Sixteen formed on November 20. It briefly headed north and then turned to the west. It dissipated on November 21.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094277-0030-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific hurricane season, Storm names\nThese names were used for storms that formed in the east Pacific Ocean this season. It is the same list used in the 1968 season. No names were retired, so this list was used again in the 1976 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 42], "content_span": [43, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094277-0031-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific hurricane season, Storm names\nThe central Pacific used names and numbers from the west Pacific's typhoon list. Two names\u2014June and Ruby\u2014were required. Of the eleven hurricane seasons from 1970 to 1981 where central Pacific cyclones were named using the west Pacific list, this is the first and only one to use multiple names.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 42], "content_span": [43, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094277-0032-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific hurricane season, Season effects\nThis is a table of all of the storms in the 1973 Pacific hurricane season. It includes their durations, peak intensities, names, landfall(s), damages, and death totals. Deaths in parentheses are additional and indirect (an example of an indirect death would be a traffic accident), but are still storm-related. Damage and deaths include totals while the storm was extratropical or a wave or a low. All damages are in 1972 US dollars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094278-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific typhoon season\nThe 1972 Pacific typhoon season was an above average season, producing 31 tropical storms, 24 typhoons and 2 intense typhoons. It has no official bounds; it ran year-round in 1972, but most tropical cyclones tend to form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean between June and December. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094278-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific typhoon season\nThe scope of this article is limited to the Pacific Ocean, north of the equator and west of the International Date Line. Storms that form east of the date line and north of the equator are called hurricanes; see 1972 Pacific hurricane season. Tropical Storms formed in the entire west Pacific basin were assigned a name by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center. Tropical depressions in this basin have the \"W\" suffix added to their number. Tropical depressions that enter or form in the Philippine area of responsibility are assigned a name by PAGASA (the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration. This can often result in the same storm having two names.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 714]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094278-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific typhoon season, Systems\nA total of 36\u00a0tropical depressions formed this year in the Western Pacific, of which 30 became tropical storms. Twenty-two storms reached typhoon intensity, of which two reached super typhoon strength.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094278-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Kit (Asiang\u2013Biring)\nA tropical disturbance generated by an upper tropospheric low in the mid-Pacific trough moved westward through the Caroline Islands, slowly organizing into Tropical Depression 1W on January 5. The depression quickly strengthened, reaching tropical storm status later that day and becoming a typhoon on the 6th as it neared the Philippines. Kit rapidly intensified on the 6th and 7th to a 140\u00a0mph (230\u00a0km/h) typhoon, the strongest ever in January, but its inflow was cut off to the west, weakening the typhoon as it continued westward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094278-0003-0001", "contents": "1972 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Kit (Asiang\u2013Biring)\nKit hit the eastern Philippines as a 100\u00a0mph (200\u00a0km/h) typhoon on January 7, and turned north through the archipelago in response to a break in the subtropical ridge. This brought Kit eastward then southward, where after completing its large loop it dissipated on January 15, just 170 nautical miles (310\u00a0km) from its starting location.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094278-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Kit (Asiang\u2013Biring)\nThis unusual, unexpected, and unseasonably strong typhoon killed 204 people and caused nearly $23\u00a0million in damage (1972\u00a0USD) in the Philippines. The destruction was mostly due to rains and flooding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094278-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Depression 02W\nTropical Depression 02W was a weak system that existed near the equator, doing a loop then traveling eastwards as a disturbance before dissipating.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094278-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Lola\nThe northern hemisphere part of a \"cyclone twin\" developed into a tropical depression west of Kwajalein on May 29. It headed west and slowly strengthened. As it turned to the northwest and then the north northeast, it reached its maximum intensity on June 5. It continued heading north northeast, steadily weakened, and went extratropical on June 7.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094278-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Lola\nLola passed close enough to some of the islands in Micronesia to cause damage. Two fishermen were reported missing. Wind and waves caused $18\u00a0thousand (1972 USD) in damage to Pohnpei and nearby atolls. They also destroyed the fresh water system, causing a shortage of drinking water. On Pingelap and Mokil, sixty houses were destroyed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094278-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Storm Nina\nTropical Storm Nina formed as a disturbance heading westwards. It briefly became a tropical depression south of Guam, but it weakened back to a disturbance as it turned back eastwards. As it traveled eastwards, it reintensified, becoming a tropical storm late on the 3rd while far east-southeast of Guam. It did not last, though, weakening back to a disturbance on the 4th and dissipating on the 5th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 57], "content_span": [58, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094278-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Storm Mamie\nTropical Storm Mamie formed as a disturbance over the Philippines. It traveled westwards, becoming a tropical depression over the South China Sea, and then becoming a tropical storm on the 1st. The tropical storm made landfall in Vietnam late on the 3rd. It weakened to a tropical depression over land, and it became non-tropical as it went offshore. The extratropical remnants of Mamie traveled northeastwards along the Chinese coast, finally dissipating over Hokkaido.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094278-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Ora (Konsing)\nTyphoon Ora, which formed on June 22, crossed the northern Philippines on the 24th and 25th as an 85\u00a0mph (137\u00a0km/h) typhoon. It weakened over land, but restrengthened in the South China Sea to a 90\u00a0mph (140\u00a0km/h) typhoon before hitting southern China on June 27. An unusual feature about Ora was while crossing the South China Sea, it never featured a wall cloud, even though it had winds of typhoon strength.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094278-0011-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Ora (Konsing)\nOra caused heavy damage to the Manila area in the Philippines. It killed 131 people, including four who died when a ferry in the Bicol region capsized. In Manila Harbor, several ships were blown ashore. All in all, Ora left 385 thousand people homeless and caused $15\u00a0million (1972\u00a0USD) in damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094278-0012-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Phyllis\nTropical Storm Phyllis, which formed on July 5, quickly intensified from late on July 9 to early July 11 to a 140\u00a0mph (230\u00a0km/h) typhoon. The typhoon turned to the northwest, steadily weakening as it approached Japan. Phyllis struck southeastern Japan on July 15 as a tropical storm, and became extratropical that night.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094278-0013-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Phyllis\nIn Japan, Phyllis caused 3 deaths, more than 300 landslides, and flooded more than 6000 homes. Overall damage was moderate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094278-0014-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Rita (Gloring)\nThe near-equatorial trough spawned four tropical cyclones on July 5, one of which would become Super Typhoon Rita. Having originated over the open Western Pacific, the depression tracked westward, becoming a tropical storm on July 7 and a typhoon the next day. Rita quickly intensified, reaching super typhoon strength on July 10 and a peak of 165\u00a0mph (266\u00a0km/h) on July 11. The typhoon stalled and weakened over the next two days as it headed to the northeast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094278-0014-0001", "contents": "1972 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Rita (Gloring)\nOn the July 15 and July 16, Rita again stalled, weakening down to 75\u00a0mph (121\u00a0km/h), as Tropical Storm Phyllis swung around its circulation and struck Japan. Rita then turned to the north, where it was able to restrengthen. Typhoon Tess at that time was just located some 800\u00a0nm east of Rita. A Fujiwhara interaction took place, forcing Rita executed a large loop from July 21 to July 25. In that loop the Rita caught USS Alamo and USS Juneau as they sought to evade to the south after dropping of US Marines and equipment in Okinawa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094278-0014-0002", "contents": "1972 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Rita (Gloring)\nBoth ships weathered the storm but Alamo sustained minor damage in the plunging seas. After looping and passing Okinawa, she continued to the northwest and began to accelerate as she entered a confluent zone created by a trough over Manchuria and a building ridge over the Sea of Japan. She passed by western South Korea, made landfall at Shidao port, Shandong and then weakened into a tropical storm. Rita entered the Gulf of Chihli, hit northeastern China, and dissipated over the Yanshan mountain northwest of Peking, China on the night of July 27.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094278-0015-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Rita (Gloring)\nRita's large size and long life caused heavy rains throughout the areas it hit. Rita and Tropical Storm Susan's presence strengthened the southwest monsoon flow over Luzon, where torrential rains occurring between July 17 and July 21 lead to disastrous flooding which killed 214 and with over $150\u00a0million in damage. Near Guam, on July 8, the typhoon caused an Air Force Boeing B-52 to crash into the ocean, killing one member of its six-man crew.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094278-0015-0001", "contents": "1972 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Rita (Gloring)\nThe remaining crew members were rescued by a US Navy nuclear attack submarine which surfaced in the roiling seas and literally fished the men out by using a line attached to a periscope and reeling them in as the boat rolled in the seas. In Taiwan, heavy rains caused landslides, one of which derailed a train, killing three. In Korea, eight people were killed, more fifty small vessels were lost, and more than two hundred buildings were destroyed. In the Ryukyu Islands, three people were killed. Crop damage was heavy, numerous boats were sunk, and several highways were blocked by mudslides.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 656]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094278-0016-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Rita (Gloring)\nRita killed 229 people, making it this season's deadliest typhoon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094278-0017-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Susan (Edeng)\nA disturbance in the ITCZ became a tropical depression on July 5. It headed northwest over the Philippines. It intensified into a tropical storm almost immediately after entering the South China Sea on July 8. It then turned north, and erratically drifted and looped for four days. On July 11, Susan became a typhoon. On July 14, Susan moved close to the Taiwan Strait. It made landfall on the coast of Fujian province, and dissipated inland on July 15.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094278-0018-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Susan (Edeng)\nSusan caused heavy waves on the western coast of Luzon. Along with Super Typhoon Rita, Susan altered the monsoon winds over the Philippines, which caused flooding that killed 214 people; however, as Rita was primarily responsible for these conditions, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center attributes these deaths to the former system. By itself, Susan killed four people in Taiwan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094278-0019-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Tess\nThe same near-equatorial trough that developed Rita also developed Typhoon Tess. Tess, having developed on July 7 near the Marshall Islands, tracked westward, reaching typhoon status on July 12. Over the next two days, as Tess turned to the northwest, it rapidly intensified to a 145\u00a0mph (233\u00a0km/h) typhoon. Steadily weakening as it continued northwestward, Tess bent back to the west in response to the building of a high pressure cell over Japan. The Fujiwhara effect between Tess and Rita brought 75\u00a0mph (121\u00a0km/h) Typhoon Tess into Japan on July 23. After dissipating over Sea of Japan, Tess continued northward, and merged with a front south of Vladivostok on July 25.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 724]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094278-0020-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Tess\nIn Japan, Tess caused strong flooding and strong surf. This killed 29 people, with 20 missing. These casualties were mostly swimmers caught in the surf.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094278-0021-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Viola\nTyphoon Viola (classified as a tropical storm by the JTWC) spent its entire life far offshore. Its precursor disturbance formed south of Wake Island on the 21st, and it traveled westwards then northwards at around 160 degrees west, before turning back eastwards on the 24th and eventually becoming extratropical on the 26th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094278-0022-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Tropical Storm Winnie (Isang)\nTropical Storm Winnie formed as a disturbance far east of the Philippines. The disturbance did a small loop, then headed northwestwards, intensifying into a tropical storm at midnight on the 30th. It continued, traveling north of the island of Taiwan before making landfall in China on the 1st of August. The storm quickly weakened into a disturbance, which traveled slowly inland before dissipating.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 67], "content_span": [68, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094278-0023-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Alice\nA tropical disturbance emerged from the ITCZ on July 29 and passed through the Marshalls. It became a tropical depression on July 30 and a tropical storm the next day. It and headed in the direction of Japan. Alice became a typhoon on August 2 and reached its maximum intensity on August 4 while southwest of Marcus. As Alice continued approaching Japan, it steadily weakened. It recurved, brushed Honshu, and went extratropical on August 8. It never made landfall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094278-0024-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Alice\nWaves generated by Alice's storm surge caused a river to overflow in Iwaki, which affected three hundred houses. No one was killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094278-0025-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Betty (Maring)\nA tropical depression formed near the Caroline Islands on August 8. It passed through the Marianas Islands after becoming a tropical storm. Betty turned to the west and peaked as a super typhoon on August 15. It turned to more to the west northwest, passed over the southern Ryukyus and just north of Taiwan, and made landfall on the coast China on August 17. It rapidly weakened inland, and dissipated the next day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094278-0026-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Betty (Maring)\nBetty had minimal effects in the Ryukyu Islands. In the Philippines, it enhanced monsoon rains. This caused flooding, which killed seven people in Ilocos Sur. Four other people were presumed dead after a light aircraft went missing. In Taiwan, rains were heavy. The resulting floods in Sanchong District stranded 300\u00a0thousand people, and washed out roads and railways. More than 220 houses were totally destroyed, with at least another 130 badly damaged. Betty killed eighteen people in Taiwan, and twenty-nine overall. The total cost of damage is unknown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094278-0027-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Cora\nA disturbance west of Luzon became a tropical depression on August 22. It headed into the South China Sea and strengthened into a tropical storm. As it approached Hainan, it became only the fourth August tropical cyclone to intensify into a typhoon in the South China Sea since 1945. It made landfall on Hainan on August 28, emerged into the Gulf of Tonkin, and made a second landfall north of Haiphong. Cora had dissipated inland by August 29.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094278-0028-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Severe Tropical Storm Doris\nTropical Storm Doris stayed far from land. It formed far north of Wake Island and traveled north, becoming a tropical storm on the 26th, but it became extratropical on the 29th and dissipated shortly thereafter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094278-0029-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Elsie\nWest of Leyte Gulf, a tropical depression formed on August 30. It intensified into a tropical storm after entering the South China Sea. It strengthened into a typhoon on September 1 and slowed down. It made landfall in northern South Vietnam on September 4. It rapidly weakened inland but kept its identity. It transited the Indochina Peninsula and emerged into the Bay of Bengal on September 7, becoming Tropical Cyclone 24-72 of the 1972 North Indian Ocean cyclone season. Ex-Elsie gradually restrengthened as it crossed the Bay of Bengal. It made landfall on the coast of India on September 10 and rapidly dissipated inland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 679]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094278-0030-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Elsie\nWhile crossing Thailand, Elsie caused heavy flooding. No other impact was reported to the JTWC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094278-0031-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Flossie (Nitang)\nTyphoon Flossie formed as a disturbance west of Guam late on the 5th of September. The system intensified into a tropical storm just before landfall on Luzon. The cyclone then traveled slowly across the South China Sea, becoming a low-level typhoon before making landfall in Vietnam on the 16th. It weakened to a tropical depression as it crossed Vietnam, but it reintensified after entering the Bay of Bengal as Tropical Cyclone 25-72.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 62], "content_span": [63, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094278-0032-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Helen (Paring)\nTyphoon Helen was the most destructive tropical cyclone to strike Japan during the 1972 Pacific typhoon season. Originating from a tropical disturbance on September\u00a011 near the Northern Mariana Islands, Helen gradually intensified as it moved northwestward. By September\u00a014, it reached typhoon strength and soon turned northeast towards Japan. Accelerating due to a trough over the East China Sea, Helen rapidly approached the country and made landfall near Cape Kushimoto as a Category\u00a03-equivalent typhoon on the Saffir\u2013Simpson hurricane scale. Later that day, a weakened Helen emerged into the Sea of Japan. After merging with an upper-level low, the storm transitioned into an extratropical cyclone on September\u00a019 and was last noted two days later after moving through southern Hokkaido.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 853]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094278-0033-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Helen (Paring)\nIn Japan, Typhoon Helen produced torrential rain, peaking at 790\u00a0mm (31\u00a0in) in Hokkaido, and damaging winds that caused widespread damage. A total of 4,213 homes were destroyed and another 146,547 were damaged as a result of flash flooding and landslides. Numerous vessels ran aground due to rough seas associated with the storm, including several thousand ton cargo freighters. In all, 87 fatalities and $102\u00a0million in damage was attributed to Typhoon Helen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094278-0034-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Marie\nTyphoon Marie formed on October 4 and tracked westwards, while it intensified into a category 4 typhoon. Soon after reaching peak intensity, Marie weakened and turned northward and affected the northern Soviet Union and Japan until it transitioned into an extratropical cyclone on October 16. Marie did not inflict much damage during its 12-day duration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 51], "content_span": [52, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094278-0035-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Therese (Undang)\nTyphoon Therese, having developed on November 30, struck the Philippines on December 3. After crossing the islands, the typhoon reached a peak of 120\u00a0mph (190\u00a0km/h) winds in the South China Sea, a rare event for December. Therese's intensity fluctuated as it continued westward, and hit eastern South Vietnam on the 9th as a 115\u00a0mph (185\u00a0km/h) typhoon. Therese dissipated on the 12th, after causing 90 deaths and extensive damage on its path.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 62], "content_span": [63, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094278-0036-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific typhoon season, Storm names\nDuring the season 29 named tropical cyclones developed in the Western Pacific and were named by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center, when it was determined that they had become tropical storms. These names were contributed to a revised list from late 1950.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094278-0037-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific typhoon season, Storm names\nTwo Central Pacific system developed, Tropical Storms June and Ruby. The naming policy at the time was to use Western Pacific names the Central Pacific.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094278-0038-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific typhoon season, Storm names, Philippines\nThe Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration uses its own naming scheme for tropical cyclones in their area of responsibility. PAGASA assigns names to tropical depressions that form within their area of responsibility and any tropical cyclone that might move into their area of responsibility. Should the list of names for a given year prove to be insufficient, names are taken from an auxiliary list, the first 6 of which are published each year before the season starts. Names not retired from this list will be used again in the 1976 season. This is the same list used for the 1968 season. PAGASA uses its own naming scheme that starts in the Filipino alphabet, with names of Filipino female names ending with \"ng\" (A, B, K, D, etc.). Names that were not assigned/going to use are marked in gray.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 889]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094278-0039-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific typhoon season, Season effects\nThis table will list all the storms that developed in the northwestern Pacific Ocean west of the International Date Line and north of the equator during 1972. It will include their intensity, duration, name, areas affected, deaths, missing persons (in parentheses), and damage totals. Classification and intensity values will be based on estimations conducted by the JMA, however due to lack of information around this time sustained winds were recorded by the JTWC. All damage figures will be in 1972\u00a0USD. Damages and deaths from a storm will include when the storm was a precursor wave or an extratropical low.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 656]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094279-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Pacific-8 Conference football season\nThe 1972 Pacific-8 Conference football season took place during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. The conference featured the eventual national champions in USC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094280-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Palanca Awards\nThe Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature winners in the year 1972 (rank, title of winning entry, name of author).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094280-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Palanca Awards, English Division\nThird Prize: \"After This, Our Exile\" by Elsa M. Coscolluela", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094281-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Palestine Cup of Nations\nThe 1972 Palestine Cup was the 1st edition of the Palestine Cup of Nations, it was held in Baghdad, Iraq between 1 January and 14 January. The tournament apparently acted as replacement for the Arab Nations Cup (or was just another name for it), which was otherwise not held between 1966 and 1985. Nine nations took part in the competition of which Egypt won.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094282-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Palestine Cup of Nations squads\nBelow are the squads for the 1972 Palestine Cup of Nations, hosted in Iraq, and which took place between 1 and 25 January 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094283-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Panamanian parliamentary election\nThe Panama held a parliamentary election on 6 August 1972, electing both a new National Assembly of Community Representatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094283-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Panamanian parliamentary election\nNo elections were held under the military government until April 1970, when the town of San Miguelito, incorporated as the country's sixty-fourth municipal district, was allowed to elect a mayor, treasurer, and municipal council. Candidates nominated by trade groups and other nonpartisan bodies were elected indirectly by a council that had been elected by neighborhood councils. Subsequently, the new system was extended throughout the country, and in 1972 the National Assembly of Community Representatives met in Panama City to confirm Torrijos's role as head of government and to approve a new constitution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 651]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094283-0001-0001", "contents": "1972 Panamanian parliamentary election\nThe new document greatly expanded governmental powers at the expense of civil liberties. The state also was empowered to \"oversee the rational distribution of land\" and, in general, to regulate or initiate economic activities. In a reference to the Canal Zone, the Constitution also declared the ceding of national territory to any foreign country to be illegal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094283-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Panamanian parliamentary election\nThe old National Assembly associated with the influence of the traditional parties was abolished and replaced with a National Assembly of Community Representatives (Corregimientos). This new Assembly contained 505 members elected from the small subdistricts into which Panama had been divided during colonial times.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094283-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Panamanian parliamentary election\nThe traditional political parties were banned from electoral participation, and short legislative sessions ensured that there would be no time to mount meaningful challenges to military executive authority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094283-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Panamanian parliamentary election\nWhile the Liberals and Paname\u00f1istas boycotted the elections for representatives to the Assembly of Corregimientos, the People\u2019s Party of Panama (PPP) ran 120 candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094283-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Panamanian parliamentary election\nMeeting in September the Assembly acclaimed Gen. Torrijos as \u2018the Supreme leader of the Panamanian Revolution\u2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094283-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Panamanian parliamentary election\nThe 1972 constitution, which created this new \u2018popular legislature,\u2019 also recognized the central role within the executive branch of General Torrijos and the defense forces. The impotency of the president within this new constitutional structure was best expressed by the fact that he could neither appoint nor remove military personnel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094284-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Panamanian presidential election\nPanama held a presidential election on October 10, 1972, electing both a new President and Vice President of the Republic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094284-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Panamanian presidential election\nOn October 10, 1972 the National Assembly of Community Representatives elected Demetrio B. Lakas president and Arturo Sucre Pereira as Vice-President for a six-year term (1972-1978).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094285-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Papua New Guinean general election\nGeneral elections were held in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea between 19 February and 11 March 1972. They saw the election of the country's first female MP, Josephine Abaijah.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094285-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Papua New Guinean general election, Electoral system\nThe House of Assembly was expanded from 94 to 107 members, consisting of 100 elected members, four civil servants and three members nominated by members of the House to represent special interest groups. The 100 elected members were elected from 82 open constituencies and 18 regional constituencies, from each of which a single member was elected by single transferable vote. Voters could vote for a candidate in both their local open constituency and the regional constituency covering their area. Candidacy in the regional constituencies was limited to people who had received the Intermediate Certificate (or an equivalent) from school.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 57], "content_span": [58, 698]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094285-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Papua New Guinean general election, Electoral system\nPrior to the elections, the voting age was lowered from 21 to 18. A total of 1,384,780 voters were enrolled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 57], "content_span": [58, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094285-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Papua New Guinean general election, Electoral system\nTo reduce the reliance on 'whispered' votes (in which illiterate voters told polling officials who they wished to vote for), photos of the candidates were added to ballot papers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 57], "content_span": [58, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094285-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Papua New Guinean general election, Campaign\nA total of 611 candidates contested the 100 seats in the House of Assembly, of which four were women and 74 were incumbents running for re-election. Two seats \u2013 East Sepik Regional and West Sepik Coastal Open \u2013 had only one candidate, both of whom (Michael Somare of the Pangu Party and Brere Awol respectively) were returned unopposed. Incumbent MP for Morobe Regional, Tony Voutas, chose not to run after becoming an official within the Pangu Party. Other incumbents stepping down included Percy Chatterton (Moresby Open).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094285-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Papua New Guinean general election, Results\nOnly 38 of the 72 incumbents that contested the elections were re-elected. The new House of Assembly had 37 members of the United Party, 11 from the People's Progress Party, 18 members of the Pangu Party, 8 members of the Niugini National Party, and 3 from the Mataungan Association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094285-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Papua New Guinean general election, Aftermath\nFollowing the elections Michael Somare was able to form a coalition government including his Pangu Party, the People's Progress Party, the Niugini National Party, the Mataungan Association and a group of independents led by John Guise. Somare's bloc nominated Perry Kwan for the post of Speaker; Kwan won by a vote of 49\u201348 against United Party candidate Matthias Toliman. However, Kwan resigned from the post June, saying he was too inexperienced for the role. Barry Holloway was elected to replace him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 50], "content_span": [51, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094285-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Papua New Guinean general election, Aftermath\nA new government was formed led by Somare as Deputy Chairman of the Administrator's Executive Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 50], "content_span": [51, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094286-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Paris Open\nThe 1972 Paris Open, also known as the Jean Becker Open Championships, was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts. The event was part of the Grand Prix circuit and classified as a B category tournament. It was the 3rd edition of the Paris Open (later known as the Paris Masters) and took place at the Palais omnisports de Paris-Bercy in Paris, France, from October 30 through November 5, 1972. Stan Smith won the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094286-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Paris Open, Finals, Doubles\nPierre Barthes / Fran\u00e7ois Jauffret defeated Andr\u00e9s Gimeno / Juan Gisbert, Sr. 6\u20133, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094287-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Paris Open \u2013 Doubles, Seeds\nChampion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated. All four seeded teams received byes to the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094288-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Paris Open \u2013 Singles\nStan Smith won in the final, 6\u20132, 6\u20132, 7\u20135, against Andr\u00e9s Gimeno.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094288-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Paris Open \u2013 Singles, Seeds\nA champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094289-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Paris\u2013Nice\nThe 1972 Paris\u2013Nice was the 30th edition of the Paris\u2013Nice cycle race and was held from 9 March to 16 March 1972. The race started in Paris and finished in Nice. The race was won by Raymond Poulidor of the Gan team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094290-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Paris\u2013Roubaix\nThe 1972 Paris\u2013Roubaix, the 70th edition of the Paris\u2013Roubaix race taking place on 16 April 1972, marked the real beginning of Roger De Vlaeminck's mastery of the cobbles of the north. De Vlaeminck had already placed second two years earlier, but in 1972 there was no stopping Mr. Paris-Roubaix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094290-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Paris\u2013Roubaix\nMost of the race were undertaken under terrible weather condition with low temperatures and rain. The usual spectacle in the Arenberg Forest was there once more, and this year enhanced by the conditions that made the passage very difficult. A massive 40 rider crash took amongst others Eddy Merckx down. Due to the harshness of the weather and the scrutinizing pace in the Arenberg forest just 49 of the starting 160 riders finished the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094290-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Paris\u2013Roubaix\nAfter the crashes in the Arenberg forest a 17 rider group formed with De Vlaeminck pushing the pace and gradually dropping riders on the cobbled sections. With 50\u00a0km to go Willy Van Malderghem and Alain Santy broke away and at one time held almost a two-minute lead. On his own De Vlaeminck caught first Santy, then Van Malderghem and proceeded alone onto the velodrome in Roubaix with a convincing margin of nearly two minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094291-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Paris\u2013Tours\nThe 1972 Paris\u2013Tours was the 66th edition of the Paris\u2013Tours cycle race and was held on 1 October 1972. The race started in Paris and finished in Tours. The race was won by No\u00ebl Vantyghem.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094292-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Pau Grand Prix\nThe 1972 Pau Grand Prix was a Formula Two motor race held on 5 May 1972 at the Pau circuit, in Pau, Pyr\u00e9n\u00e9es-Atlantiques, France. The Grand Prix was won by Peter Gethin, driving the Chevron B20. Patrick Depailler finished second and David Purley third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094293-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Peach Bowl\nThe 1972 Peach Bowl was a college football postseason bowl game between the NC State Wolfpack and the West Virginia Mountaineers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094293-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Peach Bowl, Background\nThe Wolfpack finished 2nd in the Atlantic Coast Conference in Holtz's first year with the team. This was their first bowl game since 1967. West Virginia made their first bowl since the 1969 Peach Bowl in the 3rd year of Bobby Bowden as coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094293-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Peach Bowl, Aftermath\nThe Wolfpack made five more bowl games in the decade, including the Peach Bowl in 1975, which also had the Mountaineers as the opponent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 26], "content_span": [27, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094294-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Penn Quakers football team\nThe 1972 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1972 NCAA University Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094295-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Penn State Nittany Lions football team\nThe 1972 Penn State Nittany Lions represented Pennsylvania State University in the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. As a result of using ineligible players, the Oklahoma Sooners were ordered to forfeit seven wins from their 1972 season, including their on-field win over the Nittany Lions. However, Paterno and Penn State refused to accept the forfeit, and the bowl game is officially recorded as a loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094295-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Post season, NFL Draft\nFive Nittany Lions were drafted in the 1973 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 67], "content_span": [68, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094296-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Perth Carnival\nThe 1972 Perth Carnival was the 18th edition of the Australian National Football Carnival, an Australian rules football interstate competition. It was the last of the traditional single-city round-robin carnivals in the residential qualification era of interstate football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094296-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Perth Carnival\nFour teams took part, Victoria, Western Australia, South Australia and Tasmania, with each playing one another once in a round robin format. Victoria won the Carnival after finishing as the only undefeated team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094296-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Perth Carnival\nPeter McKenna was the most successful goal kicker with 19 goals, followed by Glynn Hewitt and Phil Tierney who kicked 11 each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094296-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Perth Carnival, All-Australian team\nIn 1972 the All-Australian team was picked based on the Perth Carnival.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094296-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Perth Carnival, Tassie Medal\nKen McAullay of Western Australia won the Tassie Medal with 17 votes, eight more than the runner-up Len Thompson received.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094297-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Peruvian Segunda Divisi\u00f3n\nThe 1972 Peruvian Segunda Divisi\u00f3n, the second division of Peruvian football (soccer), was played by 11 teams. The tournament winner, Atl\u00e9tico Chalaco was promoted to the 1973 Torneo Descentralizado.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094298-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Philadelphia Eagles season\nThe 1972 Philadelphia Eagles season was the franchise's 40th season in the National Football League. They failed to improve on their previous output of 6\u20137\u20131, winning only two games. The team failed to qualify for the playoffs for the twelfth consecutive season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094298-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Philadelphia Eagles season\nBoth of the Eagles' victories were one-point decisions on the road vs. AFC teams, 21\u201320 over the Kansas City Chiefs and 18\u201317 over the Houston Oilers, a victory which cost the Eagles the #1 selection in the 1973 NFL Draft. The meeting with the Chiefs was the last until 1992, and Kansas City did not come to Philadelphia until 1998.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094298-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Philadelphia Eagles season\nFollowing the disastrous season, the third with three wins or fewer since 1968, general manager Pete Retzlaff resigned, and coach Ed Khayat was fired by owner Leonard Tose.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094298-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Philadelphia Eagles season, Offseason\nThe Eagles held training camp at Albright College in Reading, Pennsylvania. This was last year there. The next year, they moved camp to Widener University in Chester, Pennsylvania only 7 miles from Veterans Stadium where they played their home games in Philadelphia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094298-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Philadelphia Eagles season, Offseason, NFL Draft\nThe 1972 NFL Draft was held on February 1\u20132, 1972. the draft was 17 rounds and a total of 443 players were chosen", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094298-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Philadelphia Eagles season, Offseason, NFL Draft\nThe Eagle chose John Reaves a quarterback from the University of Florida with the 14th pick in the 1st round. They would have the pick 14th in the 17 rounds. They chose 17 players in this year's draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094298-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Philadelphia Eagles season, Offseason, NFL Draft\nThe number 1 overall pick went to the Buffalo Bills who chose Walt Patulski a Defensive end out of the University of Notre DameIn the 2nd round with the 40th pick, Atlanta Falcons took 1971 Heisman Trophy winner Pat Sullivan a Quarterback out of Auburn University", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094298-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Philadelphia Eagles season, Offseason, Player selections\nThe table shows the Eagles selections and what picks they had that were traded away and the team that ended up with that pick. It is possible the Eagles' pick ended up with this team via another team that the Eagles made a trade with. Not shown are acquired picks that the Eagles traded away.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 61], "content_span": [62, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094298-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 Philadelphia Eagles season, Regular season\nOn November 12, Tom Dempsey kicked six field goals in one game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094298-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 Philadelphia Eagles season, Game recaps\nA recap of the scoring plays and the game scores by quarters during the year. The record after the team's name reflects this games outcome also.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094298-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 Philadelphia Eagles season, Game recaps, Week 9\nPlayed at Houston Astrodome on AstroTurf in 72F degrees indoors", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094298-0011-0000", "contents": "1972 Philadelphia Eagles season, Game recaps, Week 11\nPlayed at Yankee Stadium on grass in 50F degrees with a 15 MPH wind", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094298-0012-0000", "contents": "1972 Philadelphia Eagles season, Game recaps, Week 11\nNOTE: The game was not televised by CBS after striking International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers members cut the transmission cables in The Bronx.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094298-0013-0000", "contents": "1972 Philadelphia Eagles season, Postseason\nAt the 1972 season end head coach Ed Khayat is fired. Mike McCormack, a Washington Redskins assistant coach from 1965 to 1972, was hired in his place. Khayat was never an NFL head coach again, although he was head coach of the New Orleans Night of the Arena Football League in 1991.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094299-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Philadelphia Phillies season\nThe 1972 Philadelphia Phillies season saw the team finish with a record of 59\u201397, last place in the National League East.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094299-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Philadelphia Phillies season, Offseason\nThe Phils made perhaps one of the most significant trades in their history on February 25, when they traded Rick Wise to the St. Louis Cardinals for Steve Carlton. Both teams were engaged in difficult contract negotiations with each pitcher. Carlton went on to win four Cy Young Awards with the Phillies, and Wise continued a solid career. Carlton won his first Cy Young Award on the 1972 Phillies who won only 59 games. Carlton was 27\u201310 and the team was 30\u201385 when Carlton did not pitch. No pitcher in the twentieth century has won as high a proportion of his team's victories (45.8%). Carlton also led the N.L. in ERA (1.97), strikeouts (310), and innings pitched (346).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 44], "content_span": [45, 718]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094299-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Philadelphia Phillies season, Regular season\nDuring the season, Steve Carlton became the last pitcher to win at least 25 games in one season for the Phillies in the 20th century.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094299-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Philadelphia Phillies season, Regular season\nOn July 10, manager Frank Lucchesi was fired with the team at 26\u201350. Paul Owens, who had been promoted from farm director to GM a month earlier, became manager as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094299-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Philadelphia Phillies season, Regular season\nThe Padres came close to a no-hitter against the Phillies on July 18, 1972; Steve Arlin came within one out before a ninth-inning two-out single by Denny Doyle broke up the bid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094299-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Philadelphia Phillies season, Regular season\nThe Phillies had hosted the 1952 All-Star Game, played July 9, 1952 at Shibe Park. The American League won 3 to 2 in five innings; the first rain shortened All-Star Game. The Phillies held their promotional Old-Timers Game on August 19, 1972. The Phillies invited all of the players from the 1952 game back to Philadelphia to complete the last four innings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094299-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Philadelphia Phillies season, Regular season\nMike Schmidt made his major league debut on September 12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094299-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 78], "content_span": [79, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094299-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 71], "content_span": [72, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094299-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 76], "content_span": [77, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094299-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 73], "content_span": [74, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094299-0011-0000", "contents": "1972 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 74], "content_span": [75, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094300-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Phillip Island 500K\nThe 1972 Phillip Island 500K was an endurance motor race open to Group E Series Production Touring Cars. The event, which was Heat 4 of the 1972 Australian Manufacturers' Championship, was held on 21 October 1972 at the Phillip Island circuit in Victoria, Australia over a distance of 318 miles (512\u00a0km).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094300-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Phillip Island 500K, Class Structure\nAs a heat of the 1972 Australian Manufacturers' Championship, the race featured four classes defined by \"Capacity Price Units\". The CP Unit value for each car was assessed by multiplying the engine capacity (in litres) by the Sydney retail price (in Australian dollars).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 41], "content_span": [42, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094301-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Piccadilly World Match Play Championship\nThe 1972 Piccadilly World Match Play Championship was the ninth World Match Play Championship. It was played from Thursday 12 to Saturday 14 October on the West Course at Wentworth. Eight players competed in a straight knock-out competition, with each match contested over 36 holes. The champion received \u00a38,500 out of a total prize fund of \u00a325,000. In the final, Tom Weiskopf beat Lee Trevino 4 & 3 to win the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094301-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Piccadilly World Match Play Championship\nGrier Jones was a surprise invitee for the event. Relatively unknown in Europe, he had won two events on the 1972 PGA Tour and runner-up in two others. He met Tony Jacklin in the first round and lost 7 & 6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094301-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Piccadilly World Match Play Championship\nPeter Oosterhuis beat defending champion Gary Player in the first round. Oosterhuis won four of the first five holes and went 5 up after an eagle at the 12th. Player won three of the remaining holes to go to lunch only two holes down and had levelled the match by the 13th hole of the afternoon round. Oosterhuis holed a 30-foot putt at the 16th and eventually won by one hole.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094301-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Piccadilly World Match Play Championship, Prize money\nThe winner received \u00a38,500, the runner-up \u00a34,500, the losing semi-finalists \u00a33,000 and the first round losers \u00a31,500, making a total prize fund of \u00a325,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 58], "content_span": [59, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094302-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Pioneer Bowl\nThe 1972 Pioneer Bowl was a college football bowl game in Texas, played between the Drake Bulldogs and Tennessee State at Memorial Stadium in Wichita Falls. The second edition of the Pioneer Bowl, it was one of four regional finals in the College Division played on December 9. The division became Division II (and III) the following season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094302-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Pioneer Bowl\nTennessee State jumped out early and built a 22\u20130 halftime lead; each team scored a second half touchdown and the final score was 29\u20137. It was the Tigers' fourth consecutive bowl win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094303-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Pittsburgh Panthers football team\nThe 1972 Pittsburgh Panthers football team represented the University of Pittsburgh in the 1972 NCAA University Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094304-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Pittsburgh Pirates season\nThe 1972 Pittsburgh Pirates season was the 91st season of the Pittsburgh Pirates franchise; the 86th in the National League. The defending World Series champion Pirates finished first in the National League East with an MLB-best record of 96\u201359. The team was defeated three games to two by the Cincinnati Reds in the 1972 National League Championship Series. Despite losing the series, the Pirates put up a good fight, unlike the last time the two teams met in the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094304-0000-0001", "contents": "1972 Pittsburgh Pirates season\nIn game 5, the Pirates led 3-2 in the 9th inning, and were 3 outs away from pulling off a major upset over the Reds. All looked good until the Pirates collapsed in the 9th inning and allowed 2 runs to score, with the walkoff run coming on a wild pitch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094304-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 75], "content_span": [76, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094304-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 68], "content_span": [69, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094304-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 73], "content_span": [74, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094304-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 70], "content_span": [71, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094304-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 71], "content_span": [72, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094305-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Pittsburgh Steelers season\nThe 1972 Pittsburgh Steelers season was the team's 40th in the National Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094305-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Pittsburgh Steelers season\nThe team posted a record of 11\u20133 in 1972, and won their first-ever AFC Central Division title. It was the team's third-ever postseason appearance, its first postseason appearance in ten seasons (the Playoff Bowl for third place in the league), and only its second playoff game since 1947. This season is famous for the Immaculate Reception, where the Steelers beat the Oakland Raiders in the playoffs 13-7 on a last second touchdown by Franco Harris.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094305-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Pittsburgh Steelers season\nThe rebuilding of the franchise that began in 1969 with the hiring of Chuck Noll finally came to fruition in his fourth year. After winning only one game in his first year in 1969 the team that showed steady improvement broke through in 1972 and made the playoffs for the first time since 1947. Their 3 losses were by a combined 11 points. The division title was the first in team history, as was the appearance in the AFC Championship game which they lost to the undefeated Miami Dolphins 21-17. It was the first of 8 straight playoff appearances for the Steelers that led to 4 Super Bowl Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094305-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1: vs. Oakland Raiders\nThe Steelers were able to start off against the Raiders at home scoring 17 unanswered points (2TDs/PATs and a FG) and eventually ended up defeating the team by 6 for a 34\u201328 victory and a 1\u20130 start.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 92], "content_span": [93, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094305-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 12: vs. Cleveland Browns\nFranco Harris breaks Jim Brown's record for consecutive 100 yd games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 94], "content_span": [95, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094305-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 14: San Diego Chargers\nThe Pittsburgh Steelers clinched their first AFC Central Division title. The day before the game Frank Sinatra is inducted into Franco's Italian Army.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 92], "content_span": [93, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094306-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Polish legislative election\nParliamentary elections were held in Poland on 19 March 1972. The results, like with the other elections in communist Poland, were controlled by the communist government. The results of the 1965 election would be duplicated, exactly, by the 1969 and 1972 elections. The results of the next, 1976 election, would be only marginally different.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094306-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Polish legislative election, Results\nAs the other parties and \"independents\" were subordinate to PZPR, its control of the Sejm was total.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094307-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Portland\u2013Vancouver tornadoes\nAn unusually intense squall line with embedded strong tornadoes struck Oregon and Washington on Wednesday, April 5, 1972. Of the four tornadoes, the most catastrophic event was a deadly F3 tornado that struck Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington, the first F3 tornado to strike Oregon since June 3, 1894. Dubbed the 1972 Portland\u2013Vancouver Tornado, the tornado tracked 8.7 miles (14.0\u00a0km) across the heavily populated Portland\u2013Vancouver metropolitan area, causing heavy damage, killing six people, and injuring 300 while causing $25.25 million (1972 USD) in damage. It was the deadliest tornado in the United States in 1972 and remains the deadliest tornado in the history of the Pacific Northwest. In all, the outbreak killed six, injured 301, and caused $25.55 million in damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 822]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094307-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Portland\u2013Vancouver tornadoes, Meteorological synopsis\nA sharp cold front triggered an intense squall line that moved into the Pacific Northwest during the late morning hours of April 5, 1972. After moving inland, the storms produced strong winds, large hail, and tornadoes to the region. Weakening of the storms did not take place until late that evening; by then storms had moved over 50 miles (80\u00a0km) inland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 58], "content_span": [59, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094307-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Portland\u2013Vancouver tornadoes, Confirmed tornadoes, Portland, Oregon/Vancouver, Washington\nThe National Weather Service tracked a very turbulent squall line of thunderstorms moving northeasterly across Portland, Oregon, the strongest of which was near the city of Tigard. The tornado formed from this storm and touched down near the edge of the Columbia River, moving 1\u00bd miles before crossing the river. The tornado was difficult to observe because of the fog and the mud and flying debris drawn up by the tornado. After making landfall on the Washington side of the river, it continued its 9-mile (14\u00a0km) journey before dissipating. The storm was classed as a tornado by the National Weather Service on April 6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 94], "content_span": [95, 716]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094307-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Portland\u2013Vancouver tornadoes, Confirmed tornadoes, Portland, Oregon/Vancouver, Washington\nIn Portland, Oregon, the tornado damaged four boat moorings and 50 small boats. Damage in Oregon from the tornado totaled up to $250,000 (1972 USD). Vancouver, Washington suffered the most significant damage from the tornado. The tornado struck east Vancouver at 12:51\u00a0p.m. (PST) on April 5, 1972, where it destroyed a grocery store, along with Peter S. Ogden Elementary School injuring 70 students. Nearby, the storm demolished a bowling alley, a drive-in theater screen and damaged around 100 homes, some severely. Trees and power lines were downed and several vehicles were flipped as well. The Oregon National Guard and the Oregon State Police crossed the state border to help transport the injured and direct traffic in the aftermath of the tornado.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 94], "content_span": [95, 849]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094307-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Portland\u2013Vancouver tornadoes, Non-tornadic events\nHigh winds brought by the thunderstorms caused minimal tree damage. In Tigard, the thunderstorm that spawned the tornado tore the roof off a warehouse and damaged several parked cars. A pressure jump of 0.12 inches (3.0\u00a0mm) was recorded by the National Weather Service. The Portland, Oregon National Weather Service office, approximately one mile east of the tornado touchdown, recorded winds gusting up to 63\u00a0mph (101\u00a0km/h). Another weather station reported sustained winds of 80\u00a0mph (130\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094307-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Portland\u2013Vancouver tornadoes, Aftermath\nOverall, the Portland\u2013Vancouver F3 tornado killed six people and left $25.25 million (1972 USD) in damage. The small outbreak was the deadliest and most significant tornado event to occur in the Pacific Northwest, with winds of up to 206 miles per hour (332\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 44], "content_span": [45, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094308-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Portuguese Guinea National Assembly election\nIndirect elections to a National Assembly were held in the parts of Portuguese Guinea held by the rebel African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) between August and October 1972, but not in the Portuguese-controlled areas of Bissau, Bolama, the Bissagos Islands and Bafat\u00e1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094308-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Portuguese Guinea National Assembly election\nA single list of PAIGC candidates for Regional Councils was approved by 97% of voters with a 93.4% turnout. The number of people voting was approximately 32% of the voting-age population.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094308-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Portuguese Guinea National Assembly election, Electoral system\nVoters elected 273 members of 11 regional councils. The elected councillors then convened to elect 91 members of the 120-seat National Assembly. The remaining 29 seats were to represent the four regions still under Portuguese control, and these members were chosen by the PAIGC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 67], "content_span": [68, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094308-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Portuguese Guinea National Assembly election, Electoral system\nThe elections took six weeks, with ballot papers carried around the country on foot. The ballot papers had been printed in neighbouring Guinea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 67], "content_span": [68, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094308-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Portuguese Guinea National Assembly election, Aftermath\nThe new National Assembly met for the first time in Boe on 24 September 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 60], "content_span": [61, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094309-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Portuguese presidential election\nPresidential elections under the Estado Novo regime was held for the last time on 25 July 1972, the only one not controlled by late Prime Minister Ant\u00f3nio de Oliveira Salazar, with the last elections for the National Assembly held the following year, less than a year before the Carnation Revolution. Incumbent President and former Naval Minister Am\u00e9rico Thomaz of the ruling People's National Action was endorsed by a uniform National Assembly for a third seven-year term, which would have ended in 25 July 1979.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094310-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Pot Black\nThe 1972 Pot Black was a professional invitational snooker tournament, which was broadcast in 1972. The tournament was held in Birmingham, and featured six professional players. All matches were one-frame shoot-outs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094310-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Pot Black\nBroadcasts were on BBC2 and started at 21:00 on Wednesday 12 April 1972 The tournament this year was reduced to 6 players. There was a qualifying stage in which each competitor played three matches. The leading four then played in a round-robin group with the top two players qualifying for the final. Alan Weeks presented the programme with Ted Lowe as commentator and Sydney Lee as referee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094310-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Pot Black\nThe tournament featured its first overseas player making his TV debut, Australia's Eddie Charlton who went on to win the tournament beating Ray Reardon 88\u201327 in the final broadcast on 26 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094311-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Prague Skate\nThe 1972 Prague Skate was a senior international figure skating competition held 11\u201312 November 1972 in Czechoslovakia. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles and ladies' singles. Gold in both categories went to skaters from the United States. Future Olympic champion Dorothy Hamill won the ladies' title ahead of West Germany's Gerti Schanderl and Canada's Daria Prychun. Gordon McKellen took the men's title while Zden\u011bk Pazd\u00edrek of Czechoslovakia and Jacques Mrozek of France took silver and bronze, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094312-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Preakness Stakes\nThe 1972 Preakness Stakes was the 97th running of the $200,000 Preakness Stakes thoroughbred horse race. The race took place on May 20, 1972, and was televised in the United States on the CBS television network. Bee Bee Bee, who was jockeyed by Eldon Nelson, won the race by one and one half lengths over runner-up No Le Hace. Approximate post time was 5:40\u00a0p.m. Eastern Time. The race was run on a sloppy track in a final time of 1:55-3/5. The Maryland Jockey Club reported total attendance of 48,721, this is recorded as third highest on the list of American thoroughbred racing top attended events for North America in 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 649]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094313-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 President's Cup Football Tournament\nThe 1972 President Park's Cup Asian Football Tournament (Korean: \uc81c2\ud68c \ubc15\ub300\ud1b5\ub839\ucef5 \uc7c1\ud0c8 \uc544\uc2dc\uc544\ucd95\uad6c\ub300\ud68c) was the second competition of Korea Cup. The competition was held from 20 to 30 September 1972, and was won by Burma for the second time, who defeated Indonesia in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094314-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Primera Divisi\u00f3n de Chile\nThe 1972 Campeonato Nacional de F\u00fatbol Profesional, was the 40st season of top-flight football in Chile. Colo-Colo won their eleventh title following a 1\u20131 draw against Huachipato in the championship 33rd matchday on December 16, 1972, also qualifying to the 1973 Copa Libertadores.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094315-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Princeton Tigers football team\nThe 1972 Princeton Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Princeton University during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. Princeton finished sixth in the Ivy League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094315-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Princeton Tigers football team\nIn their fourth and final year under head coach Jake McCandless, the Tigers compiled a 3\u20135\u20131 record and were outscored 161 to 118. Michael L. Kincaid was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094315-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Princeton Tigers football team\nPrinceton's 2\u20134\u20131 conference record tied for sixth in the Ivy League standings. The Tigers were outscored 120 to 87 by Ivy opponents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094315-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Princeton Tigers football team\nPrinceton played its home games at Palmer Stadium on the university campus in Princeton, New Jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094316-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe\nThe 1972 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe was a horse race held at Longchamp on Sunday 8 October 1972. It was the 51st running of the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094316-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe\nThe winner was Margit Batthyany's San San, an American-bred three-year-old filly trained in France by Angel Penna Sr. and ridden by Freddy Head. San San was the first filly to win the race since La Sorellina in 1953. Head had previously won the race on Bon Mot in 1966 whilst Batthyany and Penna were winning the race for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094316-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, The contenders\nIn French racing, horses in the same ownership are usually \"coupled\" and treated as a single entry for betting purposes. The favourite for the race was the three-year-old colt Hard To Beat, winner of the Grand Crit\u00e9rium, Prix Lupin, Prix du Jockey Club and Prix Niel. Next in the betting was the three-horse Nelson Bunker Hunt entry comprising Roberto (Epsom Derby, Benson and Hedges Gold Cup), Rescousse (Prix de Diane) and Pleben (Grand Prix de Paris). Apart from Roberto, Ireland was also represented by Boucher, the winner of the St Leger.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 590]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094316-0002-0001", "contents": "1972 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, The contenders\nThe three British challengers were Erimo Hawk (Ascot Gold Cup), Parnell (Irish St Leger) and Steel Pulse (Irish Derby). Other international contenders were My Mourne from Spain and Mejiro Musashi from Japan. The other French-trained runners included Sharapour (Prix Dollar), San San (Prix Vermeille), Regal Exception (Irish Oaks), Mister Sic Top (Prix d'Ispahan) and Homeric.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094316-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, The contenders\nHard To Beat started at odds of 1.2/1 ahead of the Bunker Hunt entry on 4.5/1. Parnell was next in the betting on 9.5/1, with Boucher and Sharapour on 17/1 and San San on 18.5/1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094316-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, The race\nRoberto took the lead soon after the start and set an exceptionally fast pace from Regal Exception and the Argentinian-bred Snow Castle with the back markers in the early stages including My Mourne, Mejiro Musashi and San San. Entering the final turn, Roberto maintained a one length advantage over Regal Exception, followed in order by Snow Castle, Parnell, Sharapour, Boucher, Hard To Beat and Homeric as San San and Rescousse began to make progress from the rear of the field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094316-0004-0001", "contents": "1972 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, The race\nIn the straight Roberto and Regal Exception battled for the lead ahead of Homeric but San San was now making rapid headway on the outside. As Roberto dropped back and Regal Exception began to struggle the race looked to have devolved into a two-horse contest between San San and Homeric in the last 100 metres. San San got the better of Homeric and then held of the late challenge of Rescousse to win by one and a half lengths and half a length. Regal Exception held on to take fourth ahead of the 84/1 outsider Card King and Sharapour. Roberto faded into seventh, but was still the first three-year-old to cross the line, a length in front of Hard To Beat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 698]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094317-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Prize of Moscow News\nThe 1972 Prize of Moscow News was the seventh edition of an international figure skating competition organized in Moscow, Soviet Union. It was held December 9\u201313, 1972. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating and ice dancing. Sergei Chetverukhin won the men's title for the third consecutive year. Canada's Cathy Lee Irwin took the ladies' title ahead of West Germany's Isabel de Navarre and the Soviet Union's Tatiana Oleneva. Irina Vorobieva / Alexander Vlasov defeated Olympic champions Ludmila Belousova / Oleg Protopopov for gold in the pairs' category. In the ice dancing category, world champions Lyudmila Pakhomova / Alexander Gorshkov won their fourth gold medal at the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 758]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094318-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Pro Bowl\nThe 1972 Pro Bowl was the NFL's 22nd annual all-star game which featured the outstanding performers from the 1971 season. The game was played on January 23, 1972, at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California. The final Score was AFC 26, NFC 13. The Kansas City Chiefs swept the Most Valuable Player (MVP) awards, with placekicker Jan Stenerud named the game's offensive MVP and Willie Lanier selected as the defensive MVP. This was the last NFL game overall played with the hashmarks (also called the inbound lines) set at 40 feet apart (20 yards from the sidelines); the next season, they were brought in to 18\u200b1\u20442 feet, the width of the goalposts, where they still stand to this day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 714]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094318-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Pro Bowl\nAttendance at the game was 53,647. Don McCafferty of the Baltimore Colts coached the AFC while the NFC was led by the San Francisco 49ers' Dick Nolan. The referee was Ben Dreith.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094319-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Puerto Rican general election\nThe 1972 Puerto Rican general elections were held in Puerto Rico on 7 November 1972. Rafael Hern\u00e1ndez Col\u00f3n of the Popular Democratic Party (PPD) was elected Governor, whilst the PPD also won a majority of the seats in the House of Representatives and the Senate. Voter turnout was 80.4%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094320-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Puerto Rico DC-7 crash\nThe 1972 Puerto Rico DC-7 crash was an aviation accident that occurred on December 31, 1972, in Carolina, Puerto Rico. As a result of inadequate maintenance, the aircraft's No. 2 engine failed after takeoff. After initiating a turn to return to the airport, the aircraft eventually descended into, or attempted to ditch into, the ocean a mile offshore. All five people on board died, including baseball legend Roberto Clemente.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094320-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Puerto Rico DC-7 crash, Background\nRoberto Clemente was a baseball star for the Pittsburgh Pirates, with whom he had won two World Series championships. On September 30, 1972, in his final at-bat, he had become only the 11th player in Major League Baseball history to collect 3,000 hits.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094320-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Puerto Rico DC-7 crash, Background\nIn October 1972, Clemente traveled to Managua, Nicaragua to coach the Puerto Rico national baseball team in the Baseball World Cup. On December 23, a 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck Managua, devastating the city and killing approximately 5,000 people. Many countries sent aid to Nicaragua, inspiring Clemente to contribute to the relief effort with his own money and to personally supervise the delivery of goods. Clemente had also been convinced to become involved by local television show host, reporter and celebrity Luis Vigoreaux.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094320-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Puerto Rico DC-7 crash, Background\nClemente had previously sent three cargo planes and a ship to help the Nicaraguans, but heard reports that the military had seized the goods intended for the earthquake victims. Suspecting profiteering by the military, he chartered a fourth plane so that he could visit Nicaragua and directly confront the military leader, believing that as a celebrity he could not be harmed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094320-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Puerto Rico DC-7 crash, Accident\nThe accident caused the deaths of all five people on board, including Clemente. The airplane crashed immediately after takeoff from Isla Verde International Airport, flying into the ocean at the adjacent area known as Pi\u00f1ones.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094320-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Puerto Rico DC-7 crash, Accident, Cargo carrier\nClemente and a relief committee had leased the aircraft for $4,000 from a local airline, American Air Express Leasing Company, which was owned by a 27-year-old Puerto Rican named Arthur J. Rivera.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094320-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Puerto Rico DC-7 crash, Accident, Cargo carrier\nUnknown to Clemente or to the pilot, the four-engine Douglas DC-7 had suffered a non-fatal taxiway accident just 29 days before the fateful flight took place. This accident damaged the No. 2 and No. 3 propeller blades and the No. 3 engine cooler scoop. Advised to replace one of the engines, Rivera pressed his mechanics to do what they could to inspect the engine and keep it in service, but after inspecting the engines, the mechanics could not find a reason to justify replacing one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094320-0006-0001", "contents": "1972 Puerto Rico DC-7 crash, Accident, Cargo carrier\nThe standard procedure after the sudden stop of a piston engine is to disassemble the engine to magnaflux its parts for cracks, but this was not done. An FAA maintenance inspector inspected the propeller shaft limits after the sudden stoppage repairs and found them within tolerances, though a later report said that he merely witnessed the inspection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094320-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Puerto Rico DC-7 crash, Accident, Cargo carrier\nThe post-war era in which cargo carriers operated surplus piston-driven prop planes was at its end, as high maintenance costs restricted the ability to keep up with newer aircraft technology. Rivera had just regained his FAA clearance to operate a cargo plane, claiming that it was his only livelihood. Struggling to keep American Air Express Leasing afloat against a tide of change in the airline industry, he began to cut corners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094320-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 Puerto Rico DC-7 crash, Accident, Bad omens\nClemente's father, his wife Vera and son Roberto, Jr. warned him that they had bad feelings and premonitions about the flight, and just a few days before the flight, Clemente had a dream about overlooking his own funeral. However, Clemente insisted on conducting the planned relief mission and taking off on December 31 as planned, despite bad weather having hit the area near Isla Verde International Airport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094320-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 Puerto Rico DC-7 crash, Accident, Crew\nAfter volunteers spent most of the afternoon loading the aircraft, pilot Jerry Hill boarded the plane as the sole member of the flight crew. Owner Rivera sat in the co-pilot's seat, though he was only certified to fly the twin-engine Douglas DC-3, which had Pratt Whitney Twin Wasp engines. Rivera may not have understood the added complexity of the DC-7\u2019s Wright R-3350 Duplex-Cyclone engine, which was nearly twice the size and power. Fransisco Matias, a fill-in mechanic employed by another airline who was moonlighting with several other mechanics for cargo carriers at the same airport, sat in the flight engineer's seat because Rivera and Hill had made several unsuccessful attempts to secure a flight engineer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 761]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094320-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 Puerto Rico DC-7 crash, Accident, Crew\nHill, a well-qualified, seasoned pilot, was in command. He had been found by chance several days earlier while watching the plane being loaded. After another pilot had failed to show from a waitlist of itinerant pilots, Hill flew back from Miami on short notice. He sat in the plane for the first time the previous morning of the flight, and slept all day in a crew bunk to rest for the flight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094320-0011-0000", "contents": "1972 Puerto Rico DC-7 crash, Accident, Crew\nThis was the aircraft's first flight since Rivera had purchased it several months earlier, and it was the first time that the pilot had flown with either Rivera or Francisco. Clemente boarded with associate Angel Lozano around the same time as the aircraft's crew.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094320-0012-0000", "contents": "1972 Puerto Rico DC-7 crash, Accident, Loaded aircraft weight\nNational Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigators later estimated that the aircraft's gross weight at takeoff was 148,943 pounds, based on a fuel receipt and customs declaration. The plane had been loaded by a ground crew led by a qualified loadmaster. The calculation was based on the following estimates and measurements:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094320-0013-0000", "contents": "1972 Puerto Rico DC-7 crash, Accident, Loaded aircraft weight\nAt its takeoff weight, the aircraft was three percent (4,193 pounds) over the 144,750-pound maximum takeoff weight for a DC-7C. The crew submitted a flight plan with a cargo weight of 38,288 pounds (including crew and reserve fuel); without fuel, that resulted in a takeoff weight of 116,110 pounds, which was under the 144,750-pound limit. At a minimum, the 1,420-mile one-way flight would need 14,240 pounds of fuel, which would mean a takeoff weight of 130,350 pounds, again under the limit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094320-0013-0001", "contents": "1972 Puerto Rico DC-7 crash, Accident, Loaded aircraft weight\nWith a one-way fuel load, the pilot would have to divert to somewhere such as San Jos\u00e9, Costa Rica or Panama City to refuel for the return leg. It is possible that the flight's fuel was donated, and there would be a challenge finding fuel in the devastated city of Managua. This left the investigators to guess how much fuel was actually on board, stating that \"The actual weight and balance computation made by the crew was not found.\" Secondary documents indicated that enough fuel for a round trip was purchased and presumably loaded onto the plane,", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094320-0014-0000", "contents": "1972 Puerto Rico DC-7 crash, Accident, Weight calculations\nThe commercial airline industry of the 1970s used general factors in calculating takeoff weight and maximum weight limits. However, applying more current scientific knowledge may lead to a more accurate estimate of the aircraft's takeoff weight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094320-0015-0000", "contents": "1972 Puerto Rico DC-7 crash, Accident, Weight calculations\nThe aircraft's fuel weight was a focus of conjecture. The investigation found evidence that the aircraft was fueled for a round trip. The investigators calculated the weight of that fuel and pushed the aircraft weight to 148,943 pounds. The 1,420-mile distance to Nicaragua was less than half the 3,605-mile range of a fully loaded DC-7C, which holds 7,825 gallons of fuel. At takeoff, the plane was filled to 60% of fuel capacity. However, the 1972 investigation was limited, because at the time, the effect of temperature on fuel density and weight was not well understood by the airline industry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094320-0015-0001", "contents": "1972 Puerto Rico DC-7 crash, Accident, Weight calculations\nDepending on temperature, gasoline ranges from under six pounds per gallon to 6.75 pounds per gallon at 60\u00a0\u00b0F. The fuel needed for the four-hour flight to Nicaragua and four-hour return to Puerto Rico was somewhere between 28,480 and 32,400 pounds, a 3,900-pound difference. Puerto Rico has a hot climate, with the December temperature usually above 80\u00a0\u00b0F, so the fuel would have actually weighed on the low side. The estimated 4,193 pounds by which the flight was overweight is equivalent to 707 gallons of fuel, 9% of a DC-7's fuel capacity, sufficient for an hour of flight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094320-0016-0000", "contents": "1972 Puerto Rico DC-7 crash, Accident, Weight calculations\nAnother concept introduced after the 1970s is zero-fuel weight, the total weight of the airplane and all its contents minus the total weight of the usable fuel on board. The weight of fuel in the wings has less of a structural effect than that of the fuselage\u2014modern planes have a zero-fuel weight that allows for increasing the maximum takeoff weight when that weight is in fuel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094320-0017-0000", "contents": "1972 Puerto Rico DC-7 crash, Accident, Weight calculations\nAir density affects the maximum takeoff weight. Colder air provides more buoyancy, more engine performance and a wider safe engine operating band. The later takeoff time meant the air temperature was 76\u00a0\u00b0F, 10\u00a0\u00b0F cooler than daytime evening air. The cooler, denser air provided both better buoyancy and increased engine performance, which at sea level provides a considerable increase to the aircraft's weight capacity (a DC-7C could see a 7,000-pound change with a 10\u00b0 drop in air temperature).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094320-0018-0000", "contents": "1972 Puerto Rico DC-7 crash, Accident, Weight calculations\nThe flight might not have been overloaded after all. Regardless, Hill would not have known the concepts of fuel density, zero-fuel weight or air buoyancy adjustment, though by experience he should have become familiar with the engine performance change. The NTSB investigators found that while weight was a factor in the accident, it was not the cause.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094320-0019-0000", "contents": "1972 Puerto Rico DC-7 crash, Accident, Weight calculations\nA more interesting calculation is that the plane could not have landed with both a full cargo load and enough fuel for a return trip; if at takeoff the aircraft was 148,943 pounds, then in Nicaragua it would have landed after burning 14,240 pounds of fuel and would weigh 134,700 pounds, which is 25,700 pounds over the landing-weight limit. To land at a specified weight and have return fuel would limit the cargo to 12,600 pounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094320-0020-0000", "contents": "1972 Puerto Rico DC-7 crash, Accident, Weight calculations\nThe takeoff and landing limits are commercial peacetime limits, but war emergency load limits may be up to 20% higher. The war emergency takeoff limit would be 178,000 pounds and the landing limit would be 160,000; the DC-7C was within those limits, which are set for new military aircraft receiving military maintenance. Hill would have been aware of these emergency cargo limits from his time as a U.S. Air Force major flying the Douglas C-124 Globemaster II on a transpacific route (possibly the Douglas C-74 Globemaster). Whether the Nicaraguan earthquake relief was an event allowing for emergency cargo limits is an open question.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 695]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094320-0021-0000", "contents": "1972 Puerto Rico DC-7 crash, Accident, Weight calculations\nClemente's wife said she was concerned that the plane seemed old and overloaded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 58], "content_span": [59, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094320-0022-0000", "contents": "1972 Puerto Rico DC-7 crash, Accident, Safety oversight\nAs air traffic control is merely responsible for directing traffic and cannot be expected to determine if a flight should take off, a lawsuit was brought charging that the FAA should have prohibited the takeoff. The FAA argued that the aircraft was overloaded rather than mechanically unsound. The court ruled that because the FAA had not inspected planes at that airport previously, it was not liable, despite its knowledge of the aircraft's condition and its failure to act. The court stated that the takeoff decision is ultimately the pilot's responsibility, though it did not find Hill at fault.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 55], "content_span": [56, 655]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094320-0023-0000", "contents": "1972 Puerto Rico DC-7 crash, Accident, Takeoff\nOn the dark, moonless night of December 31, 1972, at 9:11\u00a0p.m. local time, after the previously aborted takeoff and additional mechanical work, the plane taxied around the airport's runway 7. By then the weather had cleared and visibility was at 10 miles, with only a few clouds visible.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094320-0024-0000", "contents": "1972 Puerto Rico DC-7 crash, Accident, Takeoff\nAfter engine run-up by the crew, the flight was cleared for takeoff at 9:20:30 p.m. for the four-hour flight to Nicaragua. The aircraft took an exceptionally long takeoff roll and gained very little altitude. A left turn was commenced towards the north, and at 9:23:15\u00a0p.m., the San Juan tower received the following transmission: \"N500AE coming back around.\" To land safely, the aircraft would have first needed to dump 32,000 pounds of fuel; as a typical dump rate is one to two tons of fuel per minute, this process would have taken between 16 and 32 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 609]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094320-0025-0000", "contents": "1972 Puerto Rico DC-7 crash, Accident, Takeoff\nAt or soon after the time of the last radio transmission, the plane experienced a catastrophic failure of engine No. 2 . It is possible that engine No. 3 was also lost. Engines 2 and 3 are closest to the fuselage and contain the hydraulic pumps. If both were lost, the pilot would be forced to rely on a controls reversion system. With reduced control and possibly loss of electrical power, the pilot was then faced with the challenge of ditching the aircraft into the sea while maintaining a relation to the horizon over water on a moonless night. In this scenario, the aircraft was essentially unflyable.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 653]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094320-0026-0000", "contents": "1972 Puerto Rico DC-7 crash, Accident, Takeoff\nWith an engine lost, the airplane slowly descended and about 10 to 30 seconds later crashed into the Atlantic Ocean at a point approximately 11\u20442 miles offshore, and 21\u20442 miles on the 040-degree radial from the western end of Runway 25. In that time, 500 to 2,000 pounds of fuel would have dumped. In the last seconds of flight, ground effect would have kept the plane aloft, skimming the wave tops.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094320-0027-0000", "contents": "1972 Puerto Rico DC-7 crash, Accident, Takeoff\nDelgado Cintr\u00f3n, a mechanic who witnessed the takeoff from the ground at the airport, testified that the engines sounded even and normal. However, the plane was too low at 25 feet off the ground. Other witnesses estimated that the plane gained altitude to 100 feet. After the aircraft was out of sight behind trees, the engines sounded fine and then, a few seconds later, Cintr\u00f3n heard three backfires and a large explosion, which he thought was the impact with the ocean, followed by silence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094320-0028-0000", "contents": "1972 Puerto Rico DC-7 crash, Accident, Issues with engine design\nThat a DC-7 had lost an engine on takeoff was not unexpected. During World War II, twice as many aircraft were lost because of problems with the same type of engine (in aircraft such as the Boeing B-29 Superfortress) as were lost to enemy fire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 64], "content_span": [65, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094320-0029-0000", "contents": "1972 Puerto Rico DC-7 crash, Accident, Issues with engine design\nThe Wright R-3350 engine that powered the DC-7 had started as a problematic multi-row radial design that was rushed into wartime production. In post-war civilian use, those problems continued, and aircraft with this engine were less favored for commercial flights and often were converted to cargo planes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 64], "content_span": [65, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094320-0030-0000", "contents": "1972 Puerto Rico DC-7 crash, Accident, Issues with engine design\nClemente would have had no reason to have known the history of the R-3350, but Captain Hill would have had a good understanding from over 12,000 flight hours piloting multi-row, piston-powered, radial-engine aircraft over his nearly 30-year career, including the DC-4, DC-6, DC-7, C-46 and the USAF Globemaster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 64], "content_span": [65, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094320-0031-0000", "contents": "1972 Puerto Rico DC-7 crash, Accident, Issues with engine design\nAn issue related to the cooling of additional rows of radial cylinders in multi-row radial engines was understood and well known. A key concern was a lean air/fuel condition causing detonation because of the high supercharger boost on such engines, which by itself and with cooling issues was dangerous. Problems with cooling had plagued the engine since its use in the hot Pacific climate during World War II, prompting the military to add an air scoop to the top of the engine cowling that directed air to cool the back cylinders. Those problems only added to the engine's sensitivity to detonation, particularly on takeoff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 64], "content_span": [65, 691]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094320-0032-0000", "contents": "1972 Puerto Rico DC-7 crash, Recovery\nRecovery efforts started almost immediately after the aircraft went down. By 11:00\u00a0p.m., radio and television stations across Puerto Rico were informing the public about the accident. A crowd formed around Pi\u00f1ones Beach, many of whom tried to help search efforts. Of the five people on board the plane, only Hill's body was recovered.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094320-0033-0000", "contents": "1972 Puerto Rico DC-7 crash, Recovery\nBecause of extremely rough surface conditions and poor underwater visibility, the wreckage site was not discovered until January 4, 1973. On or after January 7, divers from a naval ship reported that the aircraft wreckage was scattered throughout the bottom of the ocean at a depth of 100 to 130 feet, in an area of approximately four acres. The aircraft was broken into several sections, most of them badly crushed or demolished. Both wings were separated from the fuselage. The cockpit area forward of the main junction box was destroyed and the instrument panel and mechanical controls were missing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 640]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094320-0033-0001", "contents": "1972 Puerto Rico DC-7 crash, Recovery\nThe nose gear assembly was retracted. All four engines were accounted for, but none of them was found attached to the wing structure. Two of the engines were together at a distance of approximately 200 feet from the right wing, which itself was upside down on the left side of a fuselage section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094320-0034-0000", "contents": "1972 Puerto Rico DC-7 crash, Recovery\nThree engines were recovered from the ocean floor on January 11, 1973, including Nos. 2 and 3. A review of the engine log books showed that the engines had received 100-hour inspections four and five months earlier and prior to being purchased by Rivera. All spark plugs in engines 3 and 4, and a few cylinders in engines 2, 3 and 4, were replaced. During the previous flight in September, the No. 3 engine was shut down and feathered as a result of spark plug fouling.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094320-0035-0000", "contents": "1972 Puerto Rico DC-7 crash, Recovery\nPart of the fuselage and the tail of the airplane were also found.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094320-0036-0000", "contents": "1972 Puerto Rico DC-7 crash, Aircraft\nThe accident aircraft was a Douglas DC-7CF, a freighter conversion of the DC-7 (cn/msn 45130/823), registered in the United States as N500AE. The aircraft first flew in 1957.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094320-0037-0000", "contents": "1972 Puerto Rico DC-7 crash, Causes\nThe NTSB concluded that after a failure of one engine the plane had inadequate power to maintain altitude during a turn (suggesting that the pilot could not dump fuel fast enough to achieve a weight-to-power ratio that allowed level flight). After a few miles, the plane flew into the ocean on a moonless night.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094320-0037-0001", "contents": "1972 Puerto Rico DC-7 crash, Causes\nThe lack of a horizon possibly prevented the pilot from realizing the altitude loss from only 100 feet over the ocean, which would have indicated a need to prepare for a water landing with reduced engine power on splashdown (the engines appear to have been at full power, and fuselage damage indicated an aircraft at higher speed).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094320-0038-0000", "contents": "1972 Puerto Rico DC-7 crash, Causes\nAn unexplored scenario is that, following an engine loss, the pilot began fuel dumping to lighten the aircraft. The prop wash dispersed the fuel, and given the low elevation, formed a thermobaric weapon that was ignited by the burning engine. The resulting air burst destroyed the aircraft. The DC-7 contained fuel-dumping facilities. A hazard of fuel dumping is ignition of the fuel, and precautions are taken to eliminate all sources of ignition, and also to prevent turbulence that mixes the fuel with air. Aircraft do not typically explode on impact, and in this case the plane would have been more or less in level controlled flight into the water. An air burst explains the explosion heard after an engine fire was seen, as well as the heavy destruction of the fuselage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 812]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094320-0039-0000", "contents": "1972 Puerto Rico DC-7 crash, Causes\nA scenario considered by investigators but later dismissed involved a load shift on turning, which careened the plane into a wing strike with water, cartwheeling the plane along the surface. Two engines were found several hundred feet directly ahead of the wing, indicating a level entry into the water.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094320-0040-0000", "contents": "1972 Puerto Rico DC-7 crash, Causes\nThe cause of the crash could not be determined precisely because of the difficulties encountered while attempting to recover the wreckage. Probable causes were attributed to lean detonation, poor maintenance, excessive wear in engine components, engine damage from a previous taxiing accident that was not repaired, an uncertified co-pilot, an uncertified flight engineer, a 4,000-pound fuel overload and inadequate crew preparation in correcting these issues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094320-0041-0000", "contents": "1972 Puerto Rico DC-7 crash, Causes\nComplete power loss\u2014complete engine failure/flameout - 1 engine (No. 2)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094320-0042-0000", "contents": "1972 Puerto Rico DC-7 crash, Causes\nPartial power loss\u2014partial loss of power - 1 engine (No. 3) (presumably because of a lack of adequate power for three engines)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094320-0043-0000", "contents": "1972 Puerto Rico DC-7 crash, In popular culture\nThe crash is referred to in the 2011 film The Ides of March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094321-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Pulau Ubin murder\nOn 22 April 1972, Poon Sai Im, a 58-year-old provisions shop owner who lived in Pulau Ubin, Singapore, was ambushed by two men, who had gone from the mainland to the island to rob her of money, cigarettes and gold items. When one of Poon's attackers went into the room to look for valuables, the other attacker, 19-year-old Mohamed Yasin bin Hussin, alias Rosli, took upon himself to rape the victim and while doing so caused the elderly victim to die from fatal rib fractures (caused by Yasin sitting on top of her). Both men were eventually arrested nine months after the case and tried for murder.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094321-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Pulau Ubin murder\nYasin was initially found guilty of murder and subjected to the death sentence (the other man was convicted of and jailed for robbery), but before he could be executed, Yasin won his appeal to the Privy Council in London. He was subsequently taken to court to be tried for rape and consequently spent ten years in prison before his release in 1983. Yasin's case was a subject of debate and question in Singapore's criminal law regarding the definition of murder under Section 300(c) of the Penal Code, in which the offence of murder constitutes one's intentional causing of fatal injuries to a person despite having no intention to kill.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 660]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094321-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Pulau Ubin murder, Pulau Ubin murder\nIn early April 1972, Mohamed Yasin bin Hussin (born 1953; died unknown), alias Rosli, then 19 years old, formed an intention to rob a 58-year-old shop owner from Pulau Ubin. The shop owner was a widow named Poon Sai Im, who made a living by selling provisions in a shophouse. Her business had earned her quite some profit that considered her a rich person.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094321-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Pulau Ubin murder, Pulau Ubin murder\nHaving knew that Poon was quite wealthy and kept a lot of money in her house, Yasin approached his friend and fellow labourer, 25-year-old Harun bin Ripin (born 1946; died unknown) to join him in the robbery attempt. Harun initially neither agreed nor declined the request, but eventually on 22 April 1972, he agreed to go along with Yasin's plan. A third man, only known as Maarof, was initially also approached to join the both of them, but he declined, saying that he was not interested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094321-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Pulau Ubin murder, Pulau Ubin murder\nThat night, Yasin and Harun rowed a sampan boat from Changi Point Jetty to Pulau Ubin, and both arrived at the beach nearby Poon\u2019s house. After reaching the house, Harun devised a plan to lure Poon out of the hut. Yasin then executed the plan and went to Poon\u2019s chicken pen where he disturbed the chickens, which led to Poon unlocking her door and came out. Upon the appearance of the woman, Yasin and Harun made their move and caught hold of Poon and covered her mouth to prevent her from shouting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094321-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Pulau Ubin murder, Pulau Ubin murder\nAs the two men brought her inside the house and pinned her down, Harun left Yasin alone to go search for items to steal in the other parts of the house. As Yasin was struggling to restrain Poon, he looked down and noticed that Poon\u2019s baggy trousers had slipped off her waist, exposing her naked lower half. Upon caught sight of it, the teenager formed an impulse to have sexual penetration and thus began to take off his trousers to rape the elderly woman. During which, Yasin had sat onto the chest of the victim and covered her mouth to stop her from calling for help. It was after he finished raping the woman, when 19-year-old Yasin noticed that Poon had become motionless and stopped moving.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 738]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094321-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Pulau Ubin murder, Pulau Ubin murder\nJust at this moment, Harun returned to the kitchen with $40 in cash, 10 packets of cigarettes and a gold ring. Upon seeing Poon\u2019s motionless body, he asked Yasin what had happened. After Yasin told him that he had raped the woman, the two men examined Poon and realised that she was dead. After which, the pair quickly took the corpse to the sea, and they splashed seawater on the deceased Poon\u2019s face to revive her, and it failed. The men quickly boarded their sampan and took the body with them. It was in the ocean that both Yasin and Harun disposed of the 58-year-old woman\u2019s corpse into the sea before they returned to Singapore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 676]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094321-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Pulau Ubin murder, Discovery of the victim and cause of death\nThe next day, on 23 April 1972, Poon\u2019s youngest daughter Lim Ah Moi went to her mother\u2019s house and found that her mother was missing. She informed her boatman husband Ng Tan Tee, alias Tong San, about this and found her house ransacked. The couple then reported it to the police.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 66], "content_span": [67, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094321-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 Pulau Ubin murder, Discovery of the victim and cause of death\nA day later, a fisherman fished out a semi-nude body of a woman and reported it to the police. The police managed to identify the deceased woman as the missing Poon Sai Im. Initially, the police presumed that she may have accidentally drowned in the sea, but when the body was taken to Outram Hospital for an autopsy, the truth came out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 66], "content_span": [67, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094321-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 Pulau Ubin murder, Discovery of the victim and cause of death\nForensic pathologist and professor Chao Tzee Cheng, who was the coroner that examined Poon\u2019s corpse, found that the woman was not dead by drowning but by murder. He found a total of nine fractures on the victim\u2019s ribs, which he ascertained as the cause of death as these fractures were sufficient to cause cardiac arrest and thus lead to death given her age and the bones\u2019 resulting fragility. These fractures were caused by compressions applied on her chest, which was actually a result of Yasin sitting on Poon's chest while he restrained and raped her before her death.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 66], "content_span": [67, 639]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094321-0009-0001", "contents": "1972 Pulau Ubin murder, Discovery of the victim and cause of death\nProfessor Chao also found bruises on her face and wrists, which were defensive injuries caused by Poon trying to defend herself against her attacker(s) and her being punched or hit by a blunt object. He also told police that the woman was sexually assaulted, as there were abrasions and injuries on her vaginal wall and bruises on her thighs, showing that someone used force to pry her thighs open and presumably raped her. These were presented in the forensic report which Professor Chao submitted to the courts. Police investigations took place but there was no progress for the next nine months due to the lack of clues in the case.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 66], "content_span": [67, 702]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094321-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 Pulau Ubin murder, Yasin and Harun\u2019s murder trial, Arrest and legal proceedings\nNine months later, on 9 February 1973, when he was arrested for another crime, 26-year-old Harun surprised his police interrogators by confessing to them about his involvement in the then-unsolved Pulau Ubin robbery. He also named Yasin as his accomplice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 84], "content_span": [85, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094321-0011-0000", "contents": "1972 Pulau Ubin murder, Yasin and Harun\u2019s murder trial, Arrest and legal proceedings\nThis confession led to Yasin's arrest the next day, and the two men were charged with the murder of Poon Sai Im (murder was, back then, a hanging offence). They were tried together in the same trial in the High Court of mainland Singapore for this particular case. Maarof, the third man, was initially also arrested but subsequently, the police released him as he was found to be not involved in the robbery or murder.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 84], "content_span": [85, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094321-0012-0000", "contents": "1972 Pulau Ubin murder, Yasin and Harun\u2019s murder trial, Arrest and legal proceedings\nInitially, during their interrogations and pre-trial conferences, both Yasin and Harun admitted to their respective roles in the robbery and murder of Poon. However, as the men\u2019s trial started on 5 March 1974, the pair denied that they gave their statements voluntarily and they were being induced by the police interrogators to give them these statements as part of a deal to avoid the death penalty, and to face only charges of robbery and rape.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 84], "content_span": [85, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094321-0012-0001", "contents": "1972 Pulau Ubin murder, Yasin and Harun\u2019s murder trial, Arrest and legal proceedings\nYasin even said he was forced to sign to acknowledge the statements under the threat that the police officers would physically assault him if he did not do so. Later, after a trial within a trial, the two judges hearing the case - Choor Singh and A. V. Winslow - ruled that these statements should be admitted as evidence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 84], "content_span": [85, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094321-0013-0000", "contents": "1972 Pulau Ubin murder, Yasin and Harun\u2019s murder trial, Arrest and legal proceedings\nAfter the prosecution presented its case, and after the pathologist Chao gave his evidence to the courts, both Yasin and Harun were told to give their defence. Yasin made an unsworn statement on the dock, claiming that he did not rape the victim despite what he had admitted to in his statements. He also stated he did not intend to cause death and only wanted to cover Poon\u2019s mouth to prevent her from shouting. On the other hand, Harun stated he only intended to steal from Poon and not to kill anyone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 84], "content_span": [85, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094321-0013-0001", "contents": "1972 Pulau Ubin murder, Yasin and Harun\u2019s murder trial, Arrest and legal proceedings\nThe lawyers of Yasin and Harun emphasised in their closing submissions that their clients only intended to commit theft and their lack of weapons showed that they had not planned violence. Harun\u2019s lawyer Nathan Isaac also raised the fact that his client was not aware of what Yasin did to the widow before her death. Yasin\u2019s lawyer G Raman also stated that there was no evidence to prove that the fatal rib fractures were caused intentionally by Yasin, or furthermore, had even been caused by Yasin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 84], "content_span": [85, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094321-0014-0000", "contents": "1972 Pulau Ubin murder, Yasin and Harun\u2019s murder trial, Arrest and legal proceedings\nIn rebuttal, the prosecution, led by Deputy Public Prosecutor (DPP) Pala Krishnan argued that regardless of whether the two defendants were armed, as long as there was evidence to show that the pair\u2019s common intention was robbery and the injuries inflicted by Yasin upon Poon were sufficient in the ordinary cause of nature to cause death, then the two would be guilty of murder.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 84], "content_span": [85, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094321-0015-0000", "contents": "1972 Pulau Ubin murder, Yasin and Harun\u2019s murder trial, Sentences\nOn 15 March 1974, at the end of the trial, the two judges released their verdict, with Justice Winslow pronouncing the written verdict in court.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 65], "content_span": [66, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094321-0016-0000", "contents": "1972 Pulau Ubin murder, Yasin and Harun\u2019s murder trial, Sentences\nIn their judgement, both Justices Winslow and Singh were satisfied that the fatal injury was intentionally inflicted upon the victim by Yasin, and such injury was sufficient in the ordinary cause of nature to cause death. They were also satisfied that the two men had shared a common intention to commit robbery by together luring Poon out of her house.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 65], "content_span": [66, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094321-0016-0001", "contents": "1972 Pulau Ubin murder, Yasin and Harun\u2019s murder trial, Sentences\nThey also noted the fact that while Harun was inside the other room looking for valuables, Yasin had raped Poon while restraining the woman during the robbery and Harun\u2019s absence, and so the two judges cannot rule out the theory that Yasin had caused the nine fatal rib fractures on Poon in furtherance of his intention to rape the elderly woman, leading to her death.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 65], "content_span": [66, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094321-0017-0000", "contents": "1972 Pulau Ubin murder, Yasin and Harun\u2019s murder trial, Sentences\nAside from this, given the facts of the case, the judges found that Harun could not be held liable for a conviction of murder by being guilty through the legal definition of common intention given that Yasin did the killing through his own individual impulse to commit sexual assault, hence they find 28-year-old Harun guilty of robbery by night, and sentenced him to 12 years\u2019 imprisonment and 12 strokes of the cane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 65], "content_span": [66, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094321-0018-0000", "contents": "1972 Pulau Ubin murder, Yasin and Harun\u2019s murder trial, Sentences\nAs for Yasin, he was found guilty of murder for causing Poon\u2019s death, and the two judges hereby sentenced him to death by hanging. Yasin was promptly placed on death row in Changi Prison with 14 other inmates waiting to be executed (among them were the seven adult culprits of the 1971 Gold Bars triple murders).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 65], "content_span": [66, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094321-0019-0000", "contents": "1972 Pulau Ubin murder, Yasin's appeal and Privy Council's reprieve\nAfter he was sentenced to death, Yasin submitted an appeal against the death sentence to the Court of Appeal. On 4 November 1974, however, the three judges hearing the appeal - T Kulasekaram, Tan Ah Tah and Wee Chong Jin (also Chief Justice of Singapore) - found that there was no doubt that Yasin had intentionally caused the nine fatal broken rib injuries on 58-year-old Poon, which therefore fitted the definition of murder under Section 300(c) of the Penal Code and thus appropriate for Yasin to be convicted of murder by application of the law. They also accepted the forensic evidence by Professor Chao, as argued by prosecutor Glenn Knight (who replaced Pala Krishnan and assigned the case), that the fractures were caused by compression of the chest with some force, This compelled the judges to dismiss Yasin\u2019s appeal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 67], "content_span": [68, 895]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094321-0020-0000", "contents": "1972 Pulau Ubin murder, Yasin's appeal and Privy Council's reprieve\nAfter the failure of his appeal at the Court of Appeal, Yasin was left with two remaining avenues of appeal - one was to the Privy Council in London and another was to appeal for a pardon from the President of Singapore - which would enable him to escape the gallows if successful. Yasin was later granted leave to appeal to the Privy Council, which heard his appeal on 17 May 1975.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 67], "content_span": [68, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094321-0021-0000", "contents": "1972 Pulau Ubin murder, Yasin's appeal and Privy Council's reprieve\nOn 4 February 1976, Singapore\u2019s national newspaper The Straits Times reported that Yasin had successfully escaped the death sentence when the Privy Council allowed his appeal against the death sentence. In their verdict, the three Privy Council judges, led by Lord Diplock, found that there was no evidence to suggest that Yasin had intended to cause the death of Poon when he sat on her chest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 67], "content_span": [68, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094321-0021-0001", "contents": "1972 Pulau Ubin murder, Yasin's appeal and Privy Council's reprieve\nThey also said that while the prosecution had duly proven that Yasin knew what he was doing and intended to sit on the chest (which was voluntary), they commented that it failed to give rise to the contention that Yasin had intended to cause the fatal rib fractures on Poon or knew that the injuries he caused to the victim would be sufficient to kill her.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 67], "content_span": [68, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094321-0022-0000", "contents": "1972 Pulau Ubin murder, Yasin's appeal and Privy Council's reprieve\nThe three Lords further scrutinized the case and stated that the prosecution\u2019s burden of proof was to show that Yasin had indeed sat on the chest of Poon to stop her from struggling and in the process, intentionally caused the grave injuries that were medically possible to cause the death of someone of Poon\u2019s original age and build even if Yasin himself genuinely did not have the medical knowledge of what he was doing, and they said the prosecution failed to fulfill it, since there was no evidence of whether Yasin had indeed sat on Poon\u2019s chest and the judges only inferred that Yasin did so from the forensic evidence provided by Professor Chao.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 67], "content_span": [68, 720]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094321-0023-0000", "contents": "1972 Pulau Ubin murder, Yasin's appeal and Privy Council's reprieve\nAs such, the Privy Council from London dismissed the murder charge and revoked Yasin\u2019s death sentence. Instead, they found him guilty of causing death by a rash or negligent act not amounting to culpable homicide under Section 304A of the Penal Code. The case was remitted back to the Court of Appeal in Singapore for re-sentencing. It was also confirmed that Yasin would be facing a re-trial for the rape of Poon while causing her to die.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 67], "content_span": [68, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094321-0024-0000", "contents": "1972 Pulau Ubin murder, Yasin's appeal and Privy Council's reprieve\nOn 18 May 1976, Yasin was sentenced to the maximum of two years\u2019 imprisonment for the reduced charge he was convicted of.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 67], "content_span": [68, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094321-0025-0000", "contents": "1972 Pulau Ubin murder, Re-trial of Yasin for rape\nFollowing the reprieve from death row by the Privy Council, Yasin was soon brought back to court in Singapore, with the prosecution charged him with raping Poon. DPP Sant Singh became in charge of the case, and defence lawyer Murugason became Yasin's new lawyer for the retrial.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 50], "content_span": [51, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094321-0026-0000", "contents": "1972 Pulau Ubin murder, Re-trial of Yasin for rape\nYasin claimed trial in the High Court for rape on 9 May 1977. His former accomplice Harun, who was then serving his 12-year sentence in Changi Prison, was called by the prosecution to be a witness against Yasin. Harun, who took the stand on 11 May 1977, told the court that Yasin had done the act while he was in another room ransacking for valuables, and claimed that when he returned, he asked Yasin what happened, with Yasin replying to him that he had intercourse with the woman. Yasin denied telling Harun that he had sexually penetrated the elderly woman, and insisted that he had not raped the woman and only intended to come to Pulau Ubin with Harun to steal from Poon, who kept a lot of cash in her home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 50], "content_span": [51, 764]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094321-0027-0000", "contents": "1972 Pulau Ubin murder, Re-trial of Yasin for rape\nOn 12 May 1977, Yasin\u2019s trial for rape ended. High Court judge A. P. Rajah determined that Yasin had indeed intended to have sex with Poon against her will. Despite so, Justice Rajah fell short of finding Yasin fully guilty of rape and instead convict the former labourer of attempted rape, as from the nature of the forensic evidence, he was not entirely satisfied that Yasin had sexual intercourse with the victim while she was still alive, and thus gave Yasin the benefit of the doubt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 50], "content_span": [51, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094321-0027-0001", "contents": "1972 Pulau Ubin murder, Re-trial of Yasin for rape\nDespite not finding him guilty of rape, Justice Rajah admonished Yasin for committing such an atrocious crime on the unfortunate Poon, in his own words, \u201cHowever, I find that you manifested this intention to have intercourse with the woman, and in furtherance of your intention, you did a number of acts against the deceased with a view to attaining your objective.\u201d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 50], "content_span": [51, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094321-0028-0000", "contents": "1972 Pulau Ubin murder, Re-trial of Yasin for rape\nFor his conviction of attempted rape, Yasin was sentenced to eight years\u2019 imprisonment for the crime. The sentence was backdated to the date of his arrest on 10 February 1973. The two-year sentence which Yasin received for killing Poon was to run consecutively with the term of eight years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 50], "content_span": [51, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094321-0029-0000", "contents": "1972 Pulau Ubin murder, Release and aftermath, Release from prison\nAccording to prison statistics released by True Files, it was revealed that after serving a total of 10 years in prison since 1973, Yasin was released in 1983 after serving his full sentence for the rape and murder of Poon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 66], "content_span": [67, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094321-0030-0000", "contents": "1972 Pulau Ubin murder, Release and aftermath, Release from prison\nAfter his release in 1983, Yasin led a low-profile life and his whereabouts were unknown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 66], "content_span": [67, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094321-0031-0000", "contents": "1972 Pulau Ubin murder, Release and aftermath, Release from prison\nSimilarly, Yasin\u2019s former accomplice Harun was released in 1985 after spending 12 years (his full sentence) in Changi Prison.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 66], "content_span": [67, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094321-0032-0000", "contents": "1972 Pulau Ubin murder, Release and aftermath, Abolition of avenue of appeal to the Privy Council\nIn the aftermath of Yasin's case, Singapore continued its legal avenue to appeal to the Privy Council regarding its cases. It was only in April 1994 that this avenue was finally abolished, leaving only the Court of Appeal of Singapore, the highest court of Singapore, as the final avenue where all criminals, including death row inmates, could appeal against the verdicts of the lower courts of the nation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 97], "content_span": [98, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094321-0033-0000", "contents": "1972 Pulau Ubin murder, Release and aftermath, Abolition of avenue of appeal to the Privy Council\nMany lawyers reportedly did not react negatively to the abolition, as the general feeling among the legal community was that Singapore, as an independent and sovereign nation, should not rely on foreign jurisdictions to decide their own cases and the judges from London might not be willing to be involved in the legal developments of Singapore and its cases.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 97], "content_span": [98, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094321-0034-0000", "contents": "1972 Pulau Ubin murder, Release and aftermath, In the media\nMore than 32 years after the murder of Poon Sai Im, the case of Yasin and Harun were re-enacted in Singaporean crime show True Files. It aired as the sixth episode of the show\u2019s third season on 29 November 2004, and was currently viewable via meWATCH since 5 February 2016. Yasin\u2019s former lawyer G Raman, and Sant Singh, the former prosecutor who prosecuted Yasin for rape, were both interviewed on-screen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 59], "content_span": [60, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094321-0035-0000", "contents": "1972 Pulau Ubin murder, Release and aftermath, In the media\nG Raman, who was interviewed first, stated that he actually felt relieved that his former client, who did not intend to cause death, was being spared from the gallows, though he simultaneously felt disturbed as a life had been lost. He said that because of this, even if he had escaped the death penalty, Yasin would not escape the condemnation which society would hold against him for killing a person.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 59], "content_span": [60, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094321-0036-0000", "contents": "1972 Pulau Ubin murder, Release and aftermath, In the media\nSant Singh, who was interviewed last, told the interviewers that even till today, he firmly believed that Yasin was not remorseful at all for murdering and raping Poon, from how he denied till the end that he sexually assaulted the elderly woman before he caused her to die on that night of 22 April 1972. He said that it was a hideous crime for raping a woman, especially an elderly woman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 59], "content_span": [60, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094321-0037-0000", "contents": "1972 Pulau Ubin murder, Release and aftermath, In the media\nIn the True Files episode, a notable criminal lawyer named Subhas Anandan was also interviewed. Although he was not involved in the case, Subhas gave his analysis of Yasin\u2019s case and explained the apparent differences between British law and Singaporean law (which was inherited from the British since its colonial period). He stated that some countries required a motive to find a person guilty of murder, while Singapore did not need to prove any motive behind a murder to find a person guilty, as long as there is an intention to cause death or any bodily injury resulting in death. He stated that the Privy Council back then may have felt that Yasin never intended to cause the fatal injury and thus it cannot constitute as an offence of murder and concluded that the woman had just unfortunately died.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 59], "content_span": [60, 866]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094321-0038-0000", "contents": "1972 Pulau Ubin murder, Release and aftermath, In the media\nAnother crime show The Whispers of the Dead, which featured the notable cases of Professor Chao, who died in 2000, has also featured the case of Yasin and the autopsy of Poon. In this re-enactment, Yasin\u2019s identity was changed to Ibrahim, in order to protect his identity and fictionalize the real-life events featured in the episode. Similarly, Poon\u2019s name was changed to Lau Siew Hwa and Harun\u2019s name was changed to Shahul for these purposes. The episode was broadcast in 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 59], "content_span": [60, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094321-0039-0000", "contents": "1972 Pulau Ubin murder, Release and aftermath, In the media\nA webpage dedicated to the late Professor Chao, titled Dead Men Do Tell Tales, was published after his passing in 2000, and it recounted some of the notable cases he performed autopsies in and cracked before. The Pulau Ubin murder in 1972 was included among the recounted cases. In this article, Yasin's name was changed to Abdul Rahim, and Harun was renamed as Mansur. The victim's name was changed to Choo Lay Kim. The changes in the identity were possibly made to protect the identities of those involved, but one sentence had, by error, mentioned Yasin's real name.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 59], "content_span": [60, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094321-0040-0000", "contents": "1972 Pulau Ubin murder, Release and aftermath, In the media\nProfessor Chao's comments on Yasin's case were also published in the article, and he said (extracted from the website):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 59], "content_span": [60, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094321-0041-0000", "contents": "1972 Pulau Ubin murder, Release and aftermath, In the media\n\"...if there had been no autopsy, (Poon) might have been certified as having died by drowning. There would have been no charge of murder, no case would have gone up to the Privy Council, and (Yasin) would not have been charged with and finally convicted for rape instead.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 59], "content_span": [60, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094321-0042-0000", "contents": "1972 Pulau Ubin murder, Significance of case\nIn the aftermath of Yasin\u2019s case, the Privy Council\u2019s verdict, titled Mohamed Yasin bin Hussin v Public Prosecutor, became one of the notable judgements that questioned the context, definition and existence of murder under Section 300(c) of the Penal Code (under which Yasin was originally convicted of).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 44], "content_span": [45, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094321-0043-0000", "contents": "1972 Pulau Ubin murder, Significance of case\nOriginal text of Section 300(c) (Extracted from the Penal Code):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 44], "content_span": [45, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094321-0044-0000", "contents": "1972 Pulau Ubin murder, Significance of case\n(c): if it is done with the intention of causing bodily injury to any person, and the bodily injury intended to be inflicted is sufficient in the ordinary course of nature to cause death", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 44], "content_span": [45, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094321-0045-0000", "contents": "1972 Pulau Ubin murder, Significance of case\nThere were discussions related to the Privy Council\u2019s verdict regarding the need to find a person guilty of murder with no intention to kill. The verdict by the Privy Council was in the direction of a \u201cprecise injury\u201d approach, which was produced by the three Lords who felt there was a lack of intention on Yasin\u2019s part to cause the precise injuries to cause Poon\u2019s death.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 44], "content_span": [45, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094321-0045-0001", "contents": "1972 Pulau Ubin murder, Significance of case\nIt contradicted the Singaporean courts\u2019 normal procedure to convict a person of murder with a \u201cbroad injury\u201d approach, which they adopted from an Indian court case verdict Virsa Singh v the State of Punjabi relating to find a person guilty of intentionally inflicting a serious injury which is sufficient to kill regardless of whether he/she knew the fatality of the injury even if he/she had no intention to kill, leading to confusion among the judges in Singapore", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 44], "content_span": [45, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094321-0046-0000", "contents": "1972 Pulau Ubin murder, Significance of case\nBeing constantly cited in later murder verdicts in later years since 1976, the Yasin verdict was one of the judgements in which it questioned the problematic application of Section 300(c) in court cases to find a person guilty of murder with no intention to cause death, and its wording gave rise to ambiguity to its real definition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 44], "content_span": [45, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094321-0046-0001", "contents": "1972 Pulau Ubin murder, Significance of case\nOther cases like Lim Poh Lye and Tan Chee Wee had also, like Yasin\u2019s case, asked such a question about the section, and it contained the judges\u2019 own reservations about sentencing an offender, who never intended to kill in the first place or had any knowledge that death would arise from the injuries caused, to death for murder. There was also some criticism directed at the Yasin verdict for not giving a precise explanation about the precise injury approach or its decision, in relation to the context of Section 300(c) (eg. Tan Cheow Bok v PP).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 44], "content_span": [45, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094321-0047-0000", "contents": "1972 Pulau Ubin murder, Significance of case\nThe Privy Council\u2019s verdict over Yasin\u2019s case is included as a case study in the syllabus of Singapore\u2019s law courses in universities like National University of Singapore and Singapore Management University. It is also included as one of the subjects tested in the bar examinations in Singapore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 44], "content_span": [45, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094323-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Punjab Legislative Assembly election\nLegislative Assembly elections were held in the Indian state of Punjab in 1972 to elect the members of the Punjab Legislative Assembly. President's rule was imposed before the election. Chief Minister Zail Singh was elected as the leader of the ruling party. Major opposition party was Shiromani Akali Dal led by leader of Opposition Parkash Singh Badal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094324-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Purdue Boilermakers football team\nThe 1972 Purdue Boilermakers football team represented Purdue University during the 1972 Big Ten Conference football season. It was Bob DeMoss' final season as head coach of the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094324-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Purdue Boilermakers football team\nThis was the first time Purdue played an 11-game schedule. Every Big Ten team except the Boilermakers and Ohio State added an 11th game for the first time in 1971. The Buckeyes did not play an 11-game slate until 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094324-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Purdue Boilermakers football team, Game summaries, Indiana\nOtis Armstrong carried 32 times for 276 yards, breaking his own single-game school rushing record (233) and passing Wisconsin's Alan Ameche for most career rushing yards in the Big Ten with 3,316.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 63], "content_span": [64, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094325-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Qatari coup d'\u00e9tat\nThe 1972 Qatari coup d'\u00e9tat was a bloodless palace coup that took place in Qatar on 22 February 1972. The coup was carried out by then heir apparent and Prime Minister Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, who took control of the country while his cousin, Emir Ahmad bin Ali Al Thani, was on a visit to Iran.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094325-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Qatari coup d'\u00e9tat\nWhile many Western news outlets referred to the event as a coup, the Qatari population merely considered it to be a succession of power.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094325-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Qatari coup d'\u00e9tat, Aftermath\nThe initial activity of the new Emir was the process of the reorganization of the government. The process saw a dramatic shift in the hierarchy of authority. Khalifa bin Hamad immensely reduced the traditional powers afforded to the heir apparent while projecting all of the power onto himself. He appointed Suhaim bin Hamad Al Thani as Minister of Foreign Affairs; he also appointed an adviser to himself regarding the day-to-day affairs. Furthermore, he limited the financial privileges of members of the ruling Al Thani family.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094325-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Qatari coup d'\u00e9tat, Aftermath\nAfter his deposition, the former Emir lived in exile in Dubai, United Arab Emirates and choose to remain in exile until his death in 1977.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094326-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Qir earthquake\nThe 1972 Qir earthquake occurred at 05:36 local time (02:06 UTC) on April 10, 1972. It had a magnitude of 6.7 on the moment magnitude scale and a maximum perceived intensity of IX (Violent) on the Mercalli intensity scale. The epicentre was in the province of Fars in southern Iran. The earthquake caused the destruction of Qir and serious damage to towns and villages in the surrounding area. The estimated number of deaths is 5,374, with a further 1,710 injured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094326-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Qir earthquake, Tectonic setting\nThe earthquake occurred in the Fars Domain of the Zagros fold and thrust belt, which forms part of the collisional zone between the Arabian Plate and the Eurasian Plate. The Fars Domain lies at the southeastern end of the Zagros and is part of the 'simply folded belt', which is characterised by detachment folding over the late Neoproterozoic to Early Cambrian Hormuz salt layer. Most earthquakes have epicenters beneath the salt layer and are thought to represent reverse faulting in the underlying basement, possibly involving the reactivation of older rift faults.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094326-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Qir earthquake, Earthquake\nThe earthquake is thought to have been caused by rupture along a WNW-ESE trending reverse fault. The focal mechanism suggests that the reverse fault is moderately-dipping to either south or north.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094326-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Qir earthquake, Earthquake\nThe earthquake was preceded by a series of foreshocks in March 1972, which caused some of the inhabitants of Hingam and Karzin to move out of their houses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094326-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Qir earthquake, Damage\nInitial casualty reports (compiled on April 28, 1972) showed that there were 3,399 deaths in Qir (two-thirds of the population), with a further 889 injured. There were 400 deaths in Gavakei (almost half of the population) and a further 300 in Bian (a third of the population) and 150 in Sekehravan (about a quarter of the population). The total number of deaths based on initial reports was 5,374 with a further 1,710 injured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094326-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Qir earthquake, Damage\nThe methods of construction used in that affected area led to the high levels of damage. Most buildings were built of adobe brick with a relatively heavy flat roof of thick date palm beams resting directly on the brick walls. The addition of layers of mud and straw for waterproofing increased the load on the walls. These structures have a very low resistance to earthquake shaking and most of the deaths occurred due to the collapse of such buildings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094326-0005-0001", "contents": "1972 Qir earthquake, Damage\nMore modern types of construction generally fared little better, as they were not properly engineered and lacked many of the elements that would have made them more resistant. Even some of the engineered buildings were badly damaged due to poor design and construction techniques, such as a lack of anchoring between the steel roof I-beams and the reinforced concrete tie-beams on which they rested. One structure, the Shahabad bridge that was well-engineered and constructed using modern techniques, was almost undamaged, compared to the adobe houses in a neighbouring village, all of which collapsed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094326-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Qir earthquake, Damage\nThe earthquake caused damage to qanats (water tunnels), with the destruction of 180 wells. The flow of some springs was disrupted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094327-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Queen's Club Championships\nThe 1972 Queen's Club Championships, also known by its sponsored name Rothmans London Grass Court Championships, was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament played on grass courts at the Queen's Club in London in the United Kingdom that was part of the 1972 Commercial Union Assurance Grand Prix and the 1972 Virginia Slims Circuit. The tournament was held from 19 June through 24 June 1972. In the semifinal of the men's singles event 44-year old Pancho Gonzales was leading by a set against John Paish when he was disqualified by the tournament referee after an argument over the replacement of a linesman. Jimmy Connors and Chris Evert won the singles titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 702]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094327-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Queen's Club Championships, Finals, Men's Doubles\nJim McManus / Jim Osborne defeated J\u00fcrgen Fassbender / Karl Meiler 4\u20136, 6\u20133, 7\u20135", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094327-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Queen's Club Championships, Finals, Women's Doubles\nRosie Casals / Billie Jean King defeated Brenda Kirk / Pat Walkden 5\u20137, 6\u20130, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 56], "content_span": [57, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094328-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Queen's Club Championships \u2013 Men's Doubles\nTom Okker and Marty Riessen were the defending champions, but did not participate this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094328-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Queen's Club Championships \u2013 Men's Doubles\nJim McManus and Jim Osborne won the title, defeating J\u00fcrgen Fassbender and Karl Meiler 4\u20136, 6\u20133, 7\u20135 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094329-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Queen's Club Championships \u2013 Men's Singles\nStan Smith was the defending champion, but lost in the quarterfinals this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094329-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Queen's Club Championships \u2013 Men's Singles\nJimmy Connors won the title, defeating John Paish 6\u20132, 6\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094330-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Queensland state election\nElections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 27 May 1972 to elect the 82 members of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094330-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Queensland state election\nThe Country-Liberal Coalition won its sixth consecutive victory since it won government in 1957 and also its second victory under Joh Bjelke-Petersen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094330-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Queensland state election, Results\nQueensland state election, 27 May 1972Legislative Assembly << 1969\u20131974 >>", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094331-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Race of Champions\nThe 1972 Race of Champions was a non-championship Formula One race held at Brands Hatch on 19 March 1972. The race was also open to Formula 5000 cars. F1 driver Emerson Fittipaldi qualified on pole, set fastest lap and won. Alan Rollinson was the best-placed F5000 finisher, and tenth overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094331-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Race of Champions, Classification\n1McRae withdrew in protest after having had his win in the F5000 Championship race overturned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 38], "content_span": [39, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094332-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Railway Cup Hurling Championship\nThe 1972 Railway Cup Hurling Championship was the 46th series of the Railway Cup, an annual hurling tournament and organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association. The tournament took place between 26 January and 17 March 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094332-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Railway Cup Hurling Championship\nFor the first time ever five teams participated. These included the four historic provinces of Ireland, Connacht, Leinster, Munster and Ulster, as well as a team representing the Combined Universities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094332-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Railway Cup Hurling Championship, Participants\nSince the inaugural tournament in 1927 Connacht, Leinster and Munster had participated in every running of the championship since then. Ulster joined the tournament in 1944 and immediately became regular participants. In late 1971 an application from the Universities' Council to enter a Combined Universities team in both the hurling and Gaelic football Railway Cup competitions was discussed by the Central Council of the GAA. The proposal was readily accepted and the Combined Universities team was permitted to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 51], "content_span": [52, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094332-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Railway Cup Hurling Championship, Media coverage\nThe Railway Cup final was broadcast live and in colour on RT\u00c9 Television.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094333-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Rainier International Tennis Classic\nThe 1972 Rainier International Tennis Classic was a men's tennis tournament staged Seattle, Washington in the United States that was part of the Grand Prix circuit and categorized as a Group C event. The tournament was played on outdoor hard courts and was held from September 11 until September 17, 1972. It was the inaugural edition of the tournament and Ilie N\u0103stase won the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094333-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Rainier International Tennis Classic, Finals, Doubles\nGeoff Masters / Ross Case defeated Jean-Baptiste Chanfreau / Wanaro N'Godrella 4\u20136, 7\u20136, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094334-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Rebel 400\nThe 1972 Rebel 400 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series event that was held on April 16, 1972 at Darlington Speedway in Darlington, South Carolina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094335-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Republic of the Congo coup d'\u00e9tat attempt\nOn February 22, 1972 a faction loyal to Ange Diawara attempted a coup against President Marien Ngouabi. Joachim Yhombi-Opango was instrumental in ending the coup. The musician Franklin Boukaka was killed in the coup, as was former Minister \u00c9lie Th\u00e9ophile Itsihou. After more than a year of evading capture Diawara was ambushed and killed in April 1973 by forces loyal to Ngouabi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094336-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Republican National Convention\nThe 1972 National Convention of the Republican Party of the United States was held from August 21 to August 23, 1972, at the Miami Beach Convention Center in Miami Beach, Florida. It nominated President Richard M. Nixon and Vice President Spiro T. Agnew for reelection. The convention was chaired by then-U.S. House Minority Leader and future Nixon successor Gerald Ford of Michigan. It was the fifth time Nixon had been nominated on the Republican ticket for vice president (1952 and 1956) or president (1960 and 1968). Hence, Nixon's five appearances on his party's ticket matched the major-party American standard of Franklin D. Roosevelt, a Democrat who had been nominated for vice president once (in 1920) and president four times (in 1932, 1936, 1940 and 1944).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 803]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094336-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Republican National Convention, Site selection\nSan Diego, California, had originally been selected as host city for the convention on July 23, 1971, with the event expected to take place at the San Diego Sports Arena. Columnist Jack Anderson, however, discovered a memo written by Dita Beard, a lobbyist for the International Telephone and Telegraph Corp., suggesting the company pledge $400,000 toward the San Diego bid in return for the U.S. Department of Justice settling its antitrust case against ITT.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 51], "content_span": [52, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094336-0001-0001", "contents": "1972 Republican National Convention, Site selection\nFearing scandal, and citing labor and cost concerns, the GOP transferred the event\u2014scarcely three months before it was to begin\u2014to Miami Beach, which was also hosting the Democratic National Convention. It was the sixth and, to date, last time both the Republican and Democratic national party conventions were held in the same city; Chicago had hosted double conventions in 1884, 1932, 1944, and 1952, and Philadelphia in 1948. The RNC did not come to San Diego until 1996.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 51], "content_span": [52, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094336-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Republican National Convention, Speeches\nThe convention set a new standard, as it was scripted as a media event to an unprecedented degree.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094336-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Republican National Convention, Speeches\nThe keynote address, by Anne Armstrong of Texas, was the first national convention keynote delivered by a woman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094336-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Republican National Convention, Speeches\nFirst Lady Pat Nixon became the first Republican First Lady, and the first First Lady in over 25 years, to address a party's national convention. Her speech set the standard for future convention speeches by political spouses. Republican First Ladies Nancy Reagan, Barbara Bush, Laura Bush and Melania Trump, among others, have all followed in this tradition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094336-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Republican National Convention, Balloting\nNixon easily turned back primary challenges from the right, in the person of U.S. Representative John M. Ashbrook of Ohio and, from the left, Representative Pete McCloskey of California. However, under New Mexico state law, McCloskey had earned one delegate, which the convention refused to seat, fearing that the delegate might put McCloskey's name in nomination and give an anti-war speech. U.S. Representative (and delegate) Manuel Lujan of New Mexico, a staunch Nixon supporter, decided to honor state law by voting for McCloskey himself. The final result was that Nixon received 1,347 votes to one for McCloskey and none for Ashbrook. Throughout the precisely scripted convention, delegates chanted \"Four more years! Four more years!\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 786]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094336-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Republican National Convention, Balloting\nSpiro Agnew was re-nominated for vice president with 1,345 votes, against one vote for television journalist David Brinkley and two abstentions. The NBC network, for which Brinkley worked, had some \"Brinkley for Vice President\" buttons made, which the news team wore as a joke.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094336-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Republican National Convention, Protest activity\nThe convention was targeted for widespread protests, particularly against the Vietnam War, and the Nixon administration made efforts to suppress it. This tension was captured by Top Value Television in the independent documentary Four More Years, which juxtaposes shots of the protests outside the convention with the internal politics of the convention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 53], "content_span": [54, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094336-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 Republican National Convention, Protest activity\nIn 2005, files released under a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit revealed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation monitored former Beatle John Lennon after he was invited to play for Yippie protests. The surveillance of Lennon later concluded that he was not a dangerous revolutionary, being \"constantly under the influence of narcotics.\" The U.S. Justice Department indicted Scott Camil, John Kniffen, Alton Foss, Donald Perdue, William Patterson, Stan Michelsen, Peter Mahoney and John Briggs\u2014collectively known as the Gainesville Eight\u2014on charges of conspiracy to disrupt the Convention. All were exonerated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 53], "content_span": [54, 668]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094336-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 Republican National Convention, Protest activity\nOliver Stone's film Born on the Fourth of July, based on Ron Kovic's autobiography of the same name, depicts Kovic and fellow Vietnam Veterans Against the War activists Bobby Muller, Bill Wieman and Mark Clevinger being spat upon at the convention. The scene was not in Kovic's autobiography, but was taken almost frame for frame and word by word from a documentary film made at the 1972 Republican Convention titled \"Operation Last Patrol\" by filmmaker and actor Frank Cavestani and photo journalist Cathrine Leroy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 53], "content_span": [54, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094337-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Republican Party presidential primaries\nFrom March 7 to June 6, 1972, voters of the Republican Party chose its nominee for president in the 1972 United States presidential election. Incumbent President Richard Nixon was again selected as the nominee through a series of primary elections and caucuses culminating in the 1972 Republican National Convention held from August 21 to August 23, 1972, in Miami, Florida.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094337-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Republican Party presidential primaries, Primary race\nNixon was a popular incumbent president in 1972, as he seemed to have reached d\u00e9tente with China and the USSR. He shrugged off the first glimmers of what, after the election, became the massive Watergate scandal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 58], "content_span": [59, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094337-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Republican Party presidential primaries, Primary race\nPolls showed that Nixon had a strong lead. He was challenged by two minor candidates, liberal Pete McCloskey of California and conservative John Ashbrook of Ohio. McCloskey ran as an anti-Vietnam war candidate dedicated to a much more clearer liberal position compared to Nixon's ambiguity approach within the party, while Ashbrook was dedicated to a much more clearer conservative position than Nixon and opposed Nixon's d\u00e9tente policies towards China and the Soviet Union. In the New Hampshire primary McCloskey's platform of peace garnered 19.7% of the vote to Nixon's 67.9%, with Ashbrook receiving 10.9% and comedian Pat Paulsen receiving 1.1%. Having previously stated that he would withdraw from the race had he not achieved 20% of the vote, McCloskey did so.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 58], "content_span": [59, 825]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094337-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Republican Party presidential primaries, Primary race\nNixon won 1,347 of the 1,348 delegates to the GOP convention, with McCloskey receiving the vote of one delegate from New Mexico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 58], "content_span": [59, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094338-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Rhode Island Rams football team\nThe 1972 Rhode Island Rams football team was an American football team that represented the University of Rhode Island as a member of the Yankee Conference during the 1972 NCAA College Division football season. In its third season under head coach Jack Gregory, the team compiled a 3\u20137 record (0\u20135 against conference opponents), finished in sixth/last place in the Yankee Conference, and was outscored by a total of 199 to 146. The team played its home games at Meade Stadium in Kingston, Rhode Island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094339-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Rhode Island gubernatorial election\nThe 1972 Rhode Island gubernatorial election was held on November 7, 1972. Democratic nominee Philip Noel defeated Republican nominee Herbert F. DeSimone with 52.55% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094340-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Rice Owls football team\nThe 1972 Rice Owls football team was an American football team that represented Rice University in the Southwest Conference during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. In their first year under head coach Al Conover, the team compiled a 5\u20135\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094341-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 River Oaks Tennis Tournament\nThe 1972 River Oaks Tennis Tournament, also known as the River Oaks Invitational, was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the River Oaks Country Club in Houston, Texas, U.S. in the United States. It was the 38th edition of the tournament and was held from April 3 through April 9, 1972. The tournament was part of the 1972 World Championship Tennis circuit and offered total prize money of $50,000. The singles title was won by first-seeded Rod Laver who earned $10,000 first-prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094341-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 River Oaks Tennis Tournament, Finals, Doubles\nRoy Emerson / Rod Laver defeated Ken Rosewall / Fred Stolle 6\u20133, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094342-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 River Oaks Tennis Tournament \u2013 Singles\nFirst-seeded Rod Laver won the men's singles title at the 1972 River Oaks Tennis Tournament tennis tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094343-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Road Atlanta Can-Am\nThe 1972 Road Atlanta Can-Am race was the second round of the 1972 Can-Am season. It was held July 9, 1972, at Road Atlanta in Braselton, Georgia. It was the third Can-Am race held at the track.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094344-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Rochdale by-election\nThe Rochdale by-election, 1972, was a parliamentary by-election held on 26 October 1972 for the British House of Commons constituency of Rochdale.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094344-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Rochdale by-election\nThe by-election took place during the 1970s Liberal revival, in one of the fewLabour-held seats in which the Liberal Party was in second place. This was the first Liberal gain during the 1970\u20131974 Parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094344-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Rochdale by-election, Previous MP\nThe seat had become vacant when the constituency's Labour Member of Parliament (MP), John \"Jack\" McCann (4 December 1910 \u2013 16 July 1972), died.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094344-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Rochdale by-election, Previous MP\nMcCann first contested the Rochdale seat for Parliament in 1955 without success. He was first elected in a 1958 by-election following the death of the sitting Conservative MP Wentworth Schofield. In that by-election the Liberal candidate had finished second, during the late 1950s Liberal revival that culminated in the victory at the 1958 Torrington by-election, the next month. The Liberals had finished second to McCann in three out of the four subsequent general elections, including that of 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094344-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Rochdale by-election, Candidates\nFour candidates were nominated. The list below is set out in descending order of the number of votes received at the by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094344-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Rochdale by-election, Candidates\nThe Liberal Party candidate was Cyril Smith (28 June 1928 \u2013 3 September 2010). He was a prominent local politician, who had been a Labour Mayor of the town in 1966\u201367. Smith joined the Liberal Party in 1967. He had finished second in the seat at the 1970 United Kingdom general election. Smith won the by-election and retained the constituency until he retired from Parliament in 1992. He was the Liberal Chief Whip 1975\u201376.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094344-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Rochdale by-election, Candidates\nRepresenting the Labour Party was Lawrence Cunliffe (born 25 March 1929). He again contested Rochdale in the February 1974 general election. Cunliffe was elected MP for Leigh in 1979 and sat for the seat until he retired in 2001.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094344-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Rochdale by-election, Candidates\nThe Conservative candidate was David Trippier, born in 1946. He was a stockbroker and Rochdale councillor. He contested Oldham West in both 1974 general elections. Trippier became the Member of Parliament for Rossendale from 1979 to 1983, and for Rossendale and Darwen from 1983 until he lost his seat in 1992.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094344-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 Rochdale by-election, Candidates\nJim Merrick, the chairman of the British Campaign to Stop Immigration, was from Bradford and issued leaflets headed \"Enoch is right\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094345-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Roller Hockey World Cup\nThe 1972 Roller Hockey World Cup was the twentieth roller hockey world cup, organized by the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de Roller Sports. It was contested by 12 national teams (6 from Europe, 2 from South America, 2 from Oceania, 1 from North America and 1 from Asia). All the games were played in the city of A Coru\u00f1a, in Spain, the chosen city to host the World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094346-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Rose Bowl\nThe 1972 Rose Bowl was the 58th edition of the college football bowl game, played at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, on Saturday, January 1. The\u00a0Stanford Indians of the Pacific-8 Conference upset the undefeated and fourth-ranked Michigan Wolverines of the Big Ten Conference by a point, 13\u201312, repeating as Rose Bowl champions. The\u00a0Player of the Game was Stanford quarterback Don\u00a0Bunce.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094346-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Rose Bowl, Teams, Michigan Wolverines\nMichigan started the season with a 21\u20136 win at preseason #20 Northwestern. They rose to as high as second in the rankings by winning their next eight games by a combined score of 358\u201340, including three straight shutouts over non-conference opponents (Virginia, UCLA, Navy) by an aggregate of 134\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 42], "content_span": [43, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094346-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Rose Bowl, Teams, Michigan Wolverines\nBut the Wolverines were almost caught looking ahead to their showdown with rival Ohio State, and escaped with a 20\u201317 win at Purdue. They then beat the unranked Buckeyes 10\u20137 to finish as undefeated Big Ten champions. It was the Wolverines' first undefeated regular season in 33 years, and they made their second appearance in the Rose Bowl under third-year coach Bo Schembechler.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 42], "content_span": [43, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094346-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Rose Bowl, Teams, Stanford Indians\nThe Indians had won the previous year's Rose Bowl behind the heroics of Heisman Trophy winner Jim Plunkett, who was the first pick of the 1971 NFL Draft. Plunkett's backup Don Bunce, running back Jackie Brown, and the \"Thunderchickens\" defense, led Indians to an 8\u20133 record in 1971 and a return appearance in the Rose Bowl. Stanford's key wins came against Dan Fouts and Oregon (38\u201317), at USC (33\u201318), and at eleventh-ranked Washington (17\u20136), led by quarterback Sonny\u00a0Sixkiller.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 39], "content_span": [40, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094346-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Rose Bowl, Teams, Stanford Indians\nStanford concluded the regular season with three home games, the first over struggling UCLA, a 20\u20139 win that was tied at three at halftime. However, they were caught looking ahead to the Rose Bowl decider vs. rival California, and were upset by San Jose State 13\u201312, a non-conference game in which kicker Rod Garcia missed all five kicks; four field goal attempts and an extra point try. They rebounded and ended the regular season with a 14\u20130 shutout over archrival Cal to secure the Pac-8 title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 39], "content_span": [40, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094346-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Rose Bowl, Teams, Stanford Indians\nThis Rose Bowl was the last football game that Stanford played as the \"Indians,\" which was abolished by the university in March 1972, after objections from Native American students and a vote by the student senate. Stanford's athletic teams became the \"Cardinals,\" referring to the school's primary\u00a0color; it\u00a0was reduced to the singular \"Cardinal\" in\u00a01982.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 39], "content_span": [40, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094346-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Rose Bowl, Game summary\nMichigan came into the game on New Year's Day ranked fourth, but had little hope of winning the national championship as #1 Nebraska was facing #2 Alabama in the Orange Bowl that night (won by Nebraska, 38\u20136). It was the first Rose Bowl meeting between the two schools since the inaugural seventy years earlier in 1902, in which Michigan crushed Stanford 49\u20130. In the 1972 rematch, Michigan was favored by 10\u00bd points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 28], "content_span": [29, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094346-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Rose Bowl, Game summary\nThe game started slowly, as rain the previous week had made the turf soggy and both teams showed stout defense. In the first quarter, Stanford placekicker Rod Garcia attempted field goals from 52 and 55 yards, but missed both. Michigan kicker Dana Coin made a 30-yard field goal in the second quarter for the only score in the first half. In the first series of the second half, Stanford stopped the Wolverines on 4th and 1 at Stanford's 4-yard line, then marched down to tie the game on Garcia's 42-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 28], "content_span": [29, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094346-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 Rose Bowl, Game summary\nAs the fourth quarter began, Michigan's Fritz Seyferth scored on a one-yard dive to put Michigan up 10\u20133. After Stanford got the ball back, they faced fourth and ten from their own 33. Coach Ralston called for a fake punt, with Jim Kehl receiving the snap and handing the ball forward to Jackie Brown, through his legs; he ran 33 yards for a first down, and followed up a minute later with a 24-yard touchdown run to tie the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 28], "content_span": [29, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094346-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 Rose Bowl, Game summary\nLate in the fourth quarter, Michigan recovered a Stanford fumble near midfield. Facing fourth down with time running down, the Wolverines attempted a 46-yard field goal. The kick was short and right, and Stanford safety Jim Ferguson caught the ball and attempted to run it out of the end zone. He advanced to the seven but cut to the center and retreated; he was knocked back into the end zone by Ed Shuttlesworth for a controversial Michigan safety, as replays seemed to show that Ferguson's forward progress was to the 3-yard line. The official that made the call was back judge William Quimby of the Big Ten. This made the score 12\u201310 with just over three minutes to play, and Michigan due to get the ball on a free kick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 28], "content_span": [29, 753]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094346-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 Rose Bowl, Game summary\nFollowing the free kick from the twenty, Michigan started from their own 45; they kept the ball on the ground but the Indians held for a three-and-out, and Stanford called a timeout prior to the punt. They got the ball back on their own 22-yard line with 1:48 to go. Bunce then threw five consecutive completions to take Stanford to the Michigan 17 with 22 seconds left. The Indians ran two more running plays followed by timeouts to get to the 14-yard-line with sixteen seconds left, and Garcia successfully kicked a 31-yard field goal to give Stanford its first lead and a 13\u201312 upset.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 28], "content_span": [29, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094346-0011-0000", "contents": "1972 Rose Bowl, Aftermath\nThis was the final Rose Bowl contested under the Big Ten's \"no-repeat\" policy, which prohibited conference teams from appearing in the game in back-to-back seasons. The no-repeat rule was repealed December 9, 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 25], "content_span": [26, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094346-0012-0000", "contents": "1972 Rose Bowl, Aftermath\nBunce finished 24 of 44 for 290 yards and was named the game's MVP. He played one year of professional football in the Canadian Football League before leaving football to become a successful orthopedic surgeon, eventually serving as team doctor for Stanford's football team from 1982 to 1992. The game was the last football game Stanford played as the \"Indians\", becoming the \"Cardinals\" the following year before eventually becoming the singular \"Cardinal\" (the color) by 1981. Stanford would not return to the Rose Bowl until 2000 and did not win another Rose Bowl until 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 25], "content_span": [26, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094346-0013-0000", "contents": "1972 Rose Bowl, Aftermath\nTwo Indians were top 10 selections in the 1972 NFL Draft. Offensive tackle Greg Sampson went sixth overall to the Houston Oilers, and linebacker Jeff Siemon went 10th to the Minnesota Vikings. Siemon was the Vikings' starting middle linebacker in three Super Bowl losses (VIII, IX and XI, the last of which was the first Super Bowl played at the Rose Bowl stadium) and played 11 seasons for the club. Sampson played seven seasons in Houston and had a role in the 1974 film The Longest Yard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 25], "content_span": [26, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094346-0014-0000", "contents": "1972 Rose Bowl, Aftermath\nRalston departed Palo Alto shortly after the Rose Bowl to accept the head coaching position of the National Football League's Denver Broncos, continuing a trend of college coaches moving to the NFL which began the previous year with Dan Devine (Missouri to the Green Bay Packers) and Tommy Prothro (UCLA Bruins to the Los Angeles Rams), and continued with Chuck Fairbanks (Oklahoma to the New England Patriots), Don Coryell (San Diego State to the St. Louis Cardinals), Rick Forzano (Navy to the Detroit Lions), Lou Holtz (North Carolina State to the New York Jets), John McKay (USC to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers) and Dick Vermeil (UCLA to the Philadelphia Eagles).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 25], "content_span": [26, 689]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094346-0014-0001", "contents": "1972 Rose Bowl, Aftermath\nThe Broncos did not make the playoffs during any of Ralston's five seasons (1972\u20131976), but he acquired many of the players who formed the nucleus of Denver's legendary \"Orange Crush\" defense which led the franchise to Super Bowl XII under rookie coach Red Miller in 1977. Under Ralston, the Broncos experienced their first winning season, a 7\u20135\u20132 campaign in 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 25], "content_span": [26, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094346-0015-0000", "contents": "1972 Rose Bowl, Aftermath\nMichigan fell to sixth in the AP poll, trailing three schools from the Big Eight Conference (Nebraska, Oklahoma, Colorado), Alabama, and Penn State. The Wolverines did not play in a bowl game in 1972, 1973, or 1974, despite a regular season record of 30\u20132\u20131 in that period. Michigan was done in (a) by an 0\u20132\u20131 record vs. Ohio State, with the losses, both in Columbus, by a combined five points, and (b) the Big Ten's \"Rose Bowl or No Bowl\" policy, also observed by the Pac-8, which was rescinded before the 1975 season. This allowed an 8\u20131\u20132 Michigan team (which again lost to Ohio State) the opportunity to play in the Orange Bowl. The Wolverines and Buckeyes tied 10\u201310 in 1973, but Ohio State received the Rose Bowl berth on a 6\u20134 vote of Big Ten athletic directors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 25], "content_span": [26, 796]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094346-0016-0000", "contents": "1972 Rose Bowl, Aftermath\nSchembechler's Wolverines returned to three consecutive Rose Bowls from 1977 to 1979, but lost all three (by 8, 7, and 7 points). In 1981, the Wolverines finally won their first bowl game under the legendary coach, breaking a six-game losing streak in the Rose Bowl by the Big Ten. Fittingly, Schembechler's 21-year career at Michigan ended with a loss in the 1990 Rose Bowl, leaving him 2\u20138 in the \"Grandaddy Of Them\u00a0All,\" as he finished with a 2\u20138 record in Rose Bowls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 25], "content_span": [26, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094346-0017-0000", "contents": "1972 Rose Bowl, Aftermath\nReferee Jerry Markbreit later became the first to serve as referee in four Super Bowls (XVII, XXI, XXVI, XXIX; the first two in Pasadena) during his 23-year NFL officiating career (1976\u201398), but this was his only bowl game as a college official. William Quimby, the back judge who made the controversial safety call against Stanford, later officiated in the NFL for many years, working Super Bowl XIX following the 1984 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 25], "content_span": [26, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094347-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Rothmans Canadian Open\nThe 1972 Rothmans Canadian Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Toronto Cricket Skating and Curling Club in Toronto in Canada that was part of the 1972 Commercial Union Assurance Grand Prix The men's tournament was categorized as a Grade A tournament, the second-highest category, while the women's competition was a Grade D event. The tournament was held from August 14 through August 20, 1972. Ilie N\u0103stase and Evonne Goolagong won the singles titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094347-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Rothmans Canadian Open, Finals, Men's Doubles\nIlie N\u0103stase / Ion \u0162iriac defeated Jan Kode\u0161 / Jan Kukal 7\u20136, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094347-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Rothmans Canadian Open, Finals, Women's Doubles\nMargaret Court / Evonne Goolagong defeated Brenda Kirk / Pat Walkden 3\u20136, 6\u20133, 7\u20135", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094348-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Rothmans F5000 European Championship\nThe 1972 Rothmans F5000 European Championship was a motor racing series for Formula 5000 cars. The series was organized in the United Kingdom by the British Racing and Sports Car Club but also included rounds in Belgium and Ireland. It was the fourth European Formula 5000 Championship, and the second to be contested under the Rothmans F5000 European Championship name. The championship was won by Gijs van Lennep, driving a Surtees TS11 and a McLaren M18.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094348-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Rothmans F5000 European Championship, Points system\nChampionship points were awarded on a 9-6-4-3-2-1 basis for the first six places at each of the first thirteen rounds and on an 18-12-10-8-6-4-2 basis for the first six places at the final round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 56], "content_span": [57, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094349-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Rothmans International Tennis Tournament\nThe 1972 Rothmans International Tennis Tournament was a men's professional tennis tournament held on indoor carpet courts in the Royal Albert Hall in London, England. It was the third edition of the tournament and was held from 18 to 22 January 1972. It was a non-tour event, i.e. not part of either the 1972 Grand Prix or 1972 World Championship Tennis circuit. Cliff Richey won the singles title and $6,960 in prize money after defeating Clark Graebner in a three-hour-and-six-minute final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094349-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Rothmans International Tennis Tournament, Finals, Doubles\nClark Graebner / Tom Gorman defeated Bob Hewitt / Frew McMillan 6\u20137, 7\u20135, 6\u20134, 4\u20136, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 62], "content_span": [63, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094350-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Rotterdam Indoors\nThe 1972 Rotterdam Indoors was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts. It was the inaugural edition of the event known that year as the Rotterdam Indoors, and was part of the 1972 World Championship Tennis circuit. It took place at the Rotterdam Ahoy indoor sporting arena in Rotterdam, Netherlands, from 12 November through 18 November 1972. Second-seeded Arthur Ashe won the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094350-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Rotterdam Indoors\nThe singles field included Toronto, Las Vegas, St. Louis, Fort Worth, Alamo, Vancouver and Gothenburg WCT champion John Newcombe, US Open runner-up, Louisville and Montreal WCT titlist Arthur Ashe, and Chicago WCT winner, Boston WCT and Stockholm finalist Tom Okker. Also lined up were Briton Robin Drysdale, Cleveland WCT champion Mark Cox, Robert Lutz, Marty Riessen and Nikola Pili\u0107.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094350-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Rotterdam Indoors, Finals, Doubles\nRoy Emerson / John Newcombe defeated Arthur Ashe / Robert Lutz, 6\u20132, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094351-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Rotterdam Indoors \u2013 Doubles\nRoy Emerson and John Newcombe won in the final 6\u20132, 6\u20133, against Arthur Ashe and Robert Lutz.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094352-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Rotterdam Indoors \u2013 Singles\nArthur Ashe won the singles title of the 1972 Rotterdam Indoors defeating Tom Okker in the final 3\u20136, 6\u20132, 6\u20131. Mark Cox won the match for third place against John Newcombe 6\u20133, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094353-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Rugby League World Cup\nThe sixth Rugby League World Cup was held in France in October and November 1972. Australia started as the favourites to retain the trophy they had won just two years previously. New Zealand had beaten all three of the other nations in 1971 and France were expected to be tough opponents on their home soil. In the event Great Britain confounded most expectations by running out worthy winners and levelling their tally of World Cup wins at 3\u20133 with the Australians.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094353-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Rugby League World Cup\nThe final was held at Stade Gerland in Lyon. Great Britain played Australia and in the end, with scores level and unchanged after extra time, claimed the cup on league placing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094353-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Rugby League World Cup\nThis was the last World Cup to be played under the four-tackle rule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094353-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Rugby League World Cup, Results, Final\nThe French public seemed uninterested in a final that did not involve the home team, as just over 4,200 spectators turned up. The game will always be remembered by the British for their captain Clive Sullivan's wonderful long distance try and by the Australians for perhaps \"the greatest try never scored\", later shown on TV to be legitimately scored by Australian fullback Graeme Langlands but disallowed by French referee Georges Jameau. Mike Stephenson scored the 73rd-minute try that helped Great Britain level the scores and secure the World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094353-0003-0001", "contents": "1972 Rugby League World Cup, Results, Final\nHad Aussie winger Ray Branighan succeeded with a 79th-minute penalty or Bob Fulton landed one of three drop goal attempts in the last five minutes, the cup could easily have gone to Australia. But for the first time in the competition's history the scores were level at full-time. An additional twenty minutes extra time was played, but no further score resulted, and Great Britain were awarded the cup by virtue of a better position in the table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094354-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Rugby League World Cup Final\nThe 1972 Rugby League World Cup Final was the conclusive game of the 1972 Rugby League World Cup tournament and was played between Great Britain and Australia on 11 November 1972 at the Stade de Gerland ground in Lyon, France. The final was played before 4,231 fans who witnessed what is (as of 2020) the last British team to win the Rugby League World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094354-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Rugby League World Cup Final, Background\nThe 1972 Rugby League World Cup was the sixth staging of the Rugby League World Cup since its inauguration in 1954, and the first since the 1970 tournament. The tournament was held in the France from 28 October, culminating in the final between Great Britain and Australia on 11 November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094354-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Rugby League World Cup Final, Match details\nThe French public seemed uninterested in a final that did not involve the home team, as less than 4,500 spectators turned up. Indeed, out of the seven games in the World Cup tournament, including the final, the only games that drew over 10,000 fans were two of the three games in which the French team played. The Final actually drew the lowest attendance of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094354-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Rugby League World Cup Final, Match details\nThe game will always be remembered by the British for their captain Clive Sullivan's wonderful long distance try and by the Australians for perhaps \"the greatest try never scored\", later shown on TV to be legitimately scored by Australian fullback Graeme Langlands who chased and dived to catch Dennis Ward's bomb in mid-air, but it disallowed by French referee Georges Jameau who believed the Australian captain to be offside. Mike Stephenson scored the 73rd-minute try that helped Great Britain level the scores and secure the World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094354-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Rugby League World Cup Final, Match details\nHad Aussie winger Ray Branighan succeeded with a 79th-minute penalty or Bob Fulton landed one of three drop goal attempts in the last five minutes, the cup could easily have gone to Australia. But for the first time in the competition's history the scores were level at full-time. An additional twenty minutes extra time was played, but no further score resulted, and Great Britain were awarded the cup by virtue of a better position in the table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094355-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Rugby League World Cup group stage\nThe 1972 Rugby League World Cup group stage was the main component of the 1972 Rugby League World Cup, with the top two nations qualifying for the World Cup Final. The group consisted of hosts France as well as Australia, Great Britain and New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094355-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Rugby League World Cup group stage, Matches, France vs New Zealand\nFrance kicked off the tournament by sharing six tries with the Kiwis but a massive penalty count in their favour allowed the French to dictate play, their five goals and a drop goal to none by the Kiwis proving decisive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 71], "content_span": [72, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094355-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Rugby League World Cup group stage, Matches, Great Britain vs Australia\nAt Perpignan a monumental struggle finally went Britain's way 27\u201321 against the Kangaroos, for whom Bob Fulton grabbed three tries in a lost cause.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 76], "content_span": [77, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094355-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Rugby League World Cup group stage, Matches, France vs Great Britain\nGreat Britain overcame France 13\u20134 to qualify for the final with outstanding second-rower Phil Lowe scoring two tries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 73], "content_span": [74, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094355-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Rugby League World Cup group stage, Matches, Australia vs New Zealand\nNew Zealand gave Australia a hard time, the first half being scoreless, before going down 9\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 74], "content_span": [75, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094355-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Rugby League World Cup group stage, Matches, Great Britain vs New Zealand\nGreat Britain hammered New Zealand 53\u201319, a World Cup record score, with young stand-off John Holmes collecting 26 points (10 goals, 2 tries) \u2013 another World Cup record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 78], "content_span": [79, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094355-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Rugby League World Cup group stage, Matches, France vs Australia\nAustralia had to beat France at Toulouse to reach the final in the last game of the preliminaries, a task which proved well within their capabilities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 69], "content_span": [70, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094356-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Rugby League World Cup squads\nThis is a list of the teams which took part at the 1972 Rugby League World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094357-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Ruisui earthquake\nThe 1972 Ruisui earthquake (also known as the 1972 Juisui earthquake) occurred on April 24 at 17:57 local time. The magnitude of this earthquake was given as Ms 7.2 by the United States Geological Survey and ML 6.9 by the Central Weather Bureau of Taiwan. The epicenter was located near Ruisui Township, Hualien County, Taiwan. The intensity was shindo 4 in Taipei and Hualien. Five people were reported dead. The Ruisui Bridge (Chinese: \u745e\u7a57\u5927\u6a4b) was destroyed. The water treatment plant in Ruisui was damaged.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094357-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Ruisui earthquake\nThis earthquake was caused by the Juisui Fault with a vertical movement of 70 centimeters (28\u00a0in). The Juisui Fault is a segment of the 150 kilometers (93\u00a0mi) long Longitudinal Valley Fault, which is a left-lateral fault with a reverse component. The boundary between the Eurasian Plate and the Philippine Plate lies along the Longitudinal Valley Fault.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094358-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Rutgers Scarlet Knights football team\nThe 1972 Rutgers Scarlet Knights football team represented Rutgers University in the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. In their 13th and final season under head coach John F. Bateman, the Scarlet Knights compiled a 7\u20134 record. The team outscored its opponents 290 to 171. The team's statistical leaders included Leo Gasienica with 1,409 passing yards, J. J. Jennings with 1,262 rushing yards, and Tom Sweeney with 369 receiving yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094358-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Rutgers Scarlet Knights football team\nThe Scarlet Knights played their home games at Rutgers Stadium in Piscataway, New Jersey, across the river from the university's main campus in New Brunswick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094359-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 SANFL Grand Final\nThe 1972 SANFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football competition. North Adelaide beat Port Adelaide by 128 to 72.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094360-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 SANFL season\nThe 1972 South Australian National Football League season was the 93rd season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094361-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 SCCA Formula Super Vee season\nThe 1972 SCCA Formula Super Vee season was the second season of the Sports Car Club of America sanctioned Formula Super Vee championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094362-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 SCCA L&M Continental 5000 Championship\nThe 1972 SCCA L&M Continental 5000 Championship was the Sports Car Club of America's sixth annual professional open-wheel auto racing series. It was open to Formula 5000 cars, these being Formula SCCA Class A open-wheel, single-seat cars with 5000cc restricted design engines or 3000cc unrestricted design engines. The championship as won by New Zealand driver Graham McRae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094362-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 SCCA L&M Continental 5000 Championship, Race schedule\nThe championship was contested over eight races with two heats per race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 58], "content_span": [59, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094362-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 SCCA L&M Continental 5000 Championship, Points system\nChampionship points were awarded to drivers on a 20-15-12-10-8-6-4-3-2-1 basis for the first ten places in each race, those places having been determined from the results of the two heats. Total points for each driver were based on the best six finishes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 58], "content_span": [59, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094363-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 SMU Mustangs football team\nThe 1972 SMU Mustangs football team represented Southern Methodist University during the 1972 college football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094364-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Sacramento Canadair Sabre accident\nOn September 24, 1972, a privately owned Canadair Sabre Mk. 5 jet, piloted by Richard Bingham, failed to take off while leaving the \"Golden West Sport Aviation Air Show\" at Sacramento Executive Airport in Sacramento, California, United States. The airplane crashed into a Farrell's Ice Cream Parlor. Twenty-two people died and 28 were injured including the pilot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094364-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Sacramento Canadair Sabre accident, Accident\nThe crash occurred on September 24, 1972, at approximately 4:25 pm. The Canadair Sabre failed to gain sufficient altitude upon takeoff, with eyewitnesses suggesting the nose was over-rotated. The F-86 Sabre has a dangerous and often fatal handling characteristic upon takeoff if the nose is raised prematurely from the runway. This handling characteristic of the F-86 was acknowledged from the early 1950s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094364-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Sacramento Canadair Sabre accident, Accident\nThe aircraft over-ran the runway, struck an earthen berm, and ripped through a chain link fence. Two external underwing fuel tanks ruptured and ignited upon impact with the fence, creating a massive fireball. The plane continued across Freeport Boulevard, crashing into a moving car, and struck at 150 miles per hour (240\u00a0km/h) a Farrell's Ice Cream Parlor. Occupants of the parlor included the Sacramento 49ers junior football team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094364-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Sacramento Canadair Sabre accident, Accident\nTwenty-two people died, including 12 children. An eight-year-old survivor of the accident lost nine family members: both parents, two brothers, a sister, two grandparents and two cousins. A family of four also died in the accident. Two people were killed in the car struck on Freeport Boulevard. Immediately after the crash an elderly couple trying to cross the street to the crash site were struck by a vehicle, killing the wife.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094364-0003-0001", "contents": "1972 Sacramento Canadair Sabre accident, Accident\nThe crash could have claimed many more lives if the external fuel tanks had not ruptured prior to impact, or if the jet had not been slowed by hitting the moving car and other vehicles parked in front of the restaurant. Bingham, the pilot, suffered a broken leg and a broken arm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094364-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Sacramento Canadair Sabre accident, Aircraft\nThe Canadair Sabre was a single-engine jet fighter built for the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1954. This Sabre was withdrawn from service in 1961 and placed in long-term storage. It was sold as surplus in the United States in 1971 and was bought by Spectrum Air, Inc., of Novato, California, in the same year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094364-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Sacramento Canadair Sabre accident, Aftermath\nThe National Transportation Safety Board concluded that the accident was a result of pilot error due to lack of experience on the jet. Bingham had logged fewer than four hours flying time in the Sabre. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) modified the rules governing the flight of ex-military jets over densely populated areas and mandated clearance for such flights. Pilot requirements were also tightened: they would require a checkout by the manufacturer or military, and take-offs and landings would have to be observed by an FAA inspector to confirm proficiency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 50], "content_span": [51, 624]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094364-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Sacramento Canadair Sabre accident, Aftermath\nThe Firefighters Burn Institute was instituted a year after the crash, funded from donations given to local firefighters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 50], "content_span": [51, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094364-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Sacramento Canadair Sabre accident, Memorial\nIn 2002, a memorial was built at the site of the accident (now part of Freeport Square Shopping Center) and dedicated in March 2003. It consists of: a rose garden with two benches, a fountain, a concrete marker and two metal plaques with the names of those who died.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094364-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 Sacramento Canadair Sabre accident, Memorial\nIn 2012, a service to commemorate the 40th anniversary was held to remember the victims of the accident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094365-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Sacramento State Hornets football team\nThe 1972 Sacramento State Hornets football team represented Sacramento State University during the 1972 NCAA College Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094365-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Sacramento State Hornets football team\nSacramento State competed in the Far Western Conference (FWC). The Hornets were led by head coach Ray Clemons in his twelfth season. They played home games at Hornet Stadium in Sacramento, California. The team finished the season with a record of two wins and eight losses (2\u20138, 1\u20134 FWC). Overall, the team was outscored by its opponents 107\u2013188 for the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094365-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Sacramento State Hornets football team, Team players in the NFL\nNo Sacramento State players were selected in the 1973 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 68], "content_span": [69, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094366-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Saint Louis Billikens men's soccer team\nThe 1972 Saint Louis Billikens men's soccer team represented Saint Louis University during the 1972 NCAA University Division soccer season. The Billikens won their ninth NCAA title this season. It was the fifteenth ever season the Billikens fielded a men's varsity soccer team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094367-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Salvadoran Primera Divisi\u00f3n\nThe 1972 Primera Divisi\u00f3n was the 31st season of the Primera Divisi\u00f3n de F\u00fatbol de El Salvador, the top tier of football in El Salvador. C.D. \u00c1guila won their 6th national title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094368-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Salvadoran coup d'\u00e9tat attempt\nThe 1972 Salvadoran coup d'\u00e9tat attempt occurred from 25 to 26 March 1972 when young military officers attempted to overthrow the government of Fidel S\u00e1nchez Hern\u00e1ndez, prevent the presidency of Arturo Armando Molina, and proclaim Jos\u00e9 Napole\u00f3n Duarte as President of El Salvador. The coup was suppressed and its leaders were exiled from the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094368-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Salvadoran coup d'\u00e9tat attempt, Background\nThe 1972 Salvadoran presidential election was scheduled for 20 February 1972. The ruling National Conciliation Party (PCN) selected Colonel Arturo Armando Molina as its candidate for the election while the National Opposing Union (UNO), a coalition of the Christian Democratic Party, the National Revolutionary Movement, and the Nationalist Democratic Union, selected Jos\u00e9 Napole\u00f3n Duarte as its candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094368-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Salvadoran coup d'\u00e9tat attempt, Background\nThe election of 1972 was compared to the 1970 Chilean presidential election where socialist candidate Salvador Allende was elected as President of Chile. The ruling military dictatorship was concerned about the influence of the Communist Party of El Salvador (PCES) and the Catholic Church in national politics and they believed that Duarte and other members of UNO had communist sympathies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094368-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Salvadoran coup d'\u00e9tat attempt, Background\nOn election day, the PCN expected to win the election, but Duarte over-performed in San Salvador and offset the PCN's rural stronghold. Poll watchers claimed the final vote tally to count 327,000 votes for Duarte and 318,000 votes for Molina. The government suspended the results of the election and instructed the Legislative Assembly to elect the President. The PCN had an overwhelming majority in the Legislative Assembly and elected Molina as president on 25 February, effectively canceling the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094368-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Salvadoran coup d'\u00e9tat attempt, Coup\nThe Military Youth of El Salvador did not approve of the result of the election and attempted to revert the decision of the Legislative Assembly. On the morning of 25 March, Colonel Benjamin Mej\u00eda declared that the Military Youth was in rebellion, including the Artillery Regiment and the barracks of San Carlos and El Zapote, and announced the establishment of the Revolutionary Junta. The Revolutionary Junta intended to install Duarte as President of El Salvador, deposing incumbent President Fidel S\u00e1nchez Hern\u00e1ndez whose term would expire on 1 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 41], "content_span": [42, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094368-0004-0001", "contents": "1972 Salvadoran coup d'\u00e9tat attempt, Coup\nS\u00e1nchez Hern\u00e1ndez was taken hostage by the Military Youth, but they had failed to gather the support of the rest of the Armed Forces of El Salvador. The Salvadoran Air Force began bombing the capital and rebel positions, and although there were some protestors in favor of the rebels, there were more protesting in favor of the government. Duarte made a radio broadcast at noon calling for civilians to evacuate San Salvador, but his broadcast failed to evoke a reaction from the citizens. Duarte sought refuge in the Venezuelan embassy in San Salvador but he was eventually captured by the National Security Agency of El Salvador (ANSESAL) after they broke into the embassy. The coup failed by the next day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 41], "content_span": [42, 750]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094368-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Salvadoran coup d'\u00e9tat attempt, Aftermath\nAfter the coup, Duarte was tortured and exiled to Guatemala, and later to Venezuela. Mej\u00eda was exiled and later assassinated in 1981 by forces of the Revolutionary Government Junta. Molina assumed office on 1 July and would rule the nation until 1977 when he was succeeded by Carlos Humberto Romero.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094369-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Salvadoran legislative election\nLegislative elections were held in El Salvador on 12 March 1972. The result was a victory for the National Conciliation Party, which won 39 of the 52 seats. However, the election was marred by massive fraud and the Central Election Council disqualified the candidates of the opposition National Opposing Union (an alliance of the Christian Democratic Party, the National Revolutionary Movement and the Nationalist Democratic Union) in five out of fourteen constituencies. Voter turnout was 56.7%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094370-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Salvadoran presidential election\nPresidential elections were held in El Salvador on 20 February 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094370-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Salvadoran presidential election\nThe result was a victory for Arturo Armando Molina of the Party of National Conciliation (PCN), who received 43.4% of the vote. However, the election was characterised by massive fraud. The PCN had faced a strong challenge from left- and right-wing opposition, and as a result had tried to rig the election by holding the presidential elections two weeks before the legislative election (which took place on 12 March) to ensure that if Molina failed to pass the 50% mark, the Legislative Assembly would still be under PCN control to approve him as president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094370-0001-0001", "contents": "1972 Salvadoran presidential election\nDespite their attempts to stuff ballot boxes, it looked for a while as though Jos\u00e9 Napole\u00f3n Duarte of the opposition National Opposing Union (UNO, a coalition of the Christian Democratic Party National Revolutionary Movement and Nationalist Democratic Union) had been victorious after the Central Election Board in San Salvador issued a statement that Duarte had won by around 6,000 votes. However, this was followed by a three-day news blackout, after which a revised set of figures was announced giving a narrow victory to Molina, meaning that the Legislative Assembly (with a PCN majority) would choose the president. The opposition walked out of the vote, resulting in Molina being elected by 31 votes to zero.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 752]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094371-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 San Diego Chargers season\nThe 1972 San Diego Chargers season was the franchise's third season in the National Football League (NFL), and its 13th overall. The team failed to improve on their 6\u20138 record in 1971. The Chargers would get off to a poor start, as they were devoured 34-3 in their season opener at San Francisco. After their week 2 win against the Denver Broncos, the Chargers would play to a 17-17 draw with another cross-state rival, the Oakland Raiders. It was San Diego's fourth tie in 3 seasons (they tied 3 times in 1970).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094371-0000-0001", "contents": "1972 San Diego Chargers season\nEven after they defeated the Baltimore Colts in the week following the tie, the Bolts would stumble the rest of the year, winning only 2 more games en route to a 4-9-1 season. This squad featured several players like Duane Thomas, Tim Rossovich, Dave Costa and John Mackey who were unwanted by most of the other NFL teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094371-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 San Diego Chargers season, Notable events\nIn their last game for the year, the Chargers became the thirty-third team in the NFL or leagues that merged with the NFL to score only a safety in a full game. This unusual occurrence has been repeated only five times since: by the 1980 Buffalo Bills, the 1983 Minnesota Vikings, the 1993 Cincinnati Bengals, the 2011 Atlanta Falcons (the only team to do so in a playoff game) and the 2013 Jacksonville Jaguars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094372-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 San Diego Padres season\nThe 1972 San Diego Padres season was the fourth season in franchise history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094372-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 San Diego Padres season, Regular season\nUntil 2021, no Padres pitcher had ever thrown a no-hitter. On July 18 against the Philadelphia Phillies, Steve Arlin came within one out of a no-hitter before a Denny Doyle single broke up the bid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094372-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 San Diego Padres season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 73], "content_span": [74, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094372-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 San Diego Padres season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 66], "content_span": [67, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094372-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 San Diego Padres season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 71], "content_span": [72, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094372-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 San Diego Padres season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 68], "content_span": [69, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094372-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 San Diego Padres season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 69], "content_span": [70, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094372-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 San Diego Padres season, Awards and honors\nColbert scored the winning run, but he brought the wrong uniform with him to Atlanta. The San Diego Padres' slugger donned his road jersey with SAN DIEGO on it instead of his home one with PADRES on it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 47], "content_span": [48, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094373-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 San Diego State Aztecs football team\nThe 1972 San Diego State Aztecs football team represented California State University San Diego during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season as a member of the Pacific Coast Athletic Association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094373-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 San Diego State Aztecs football team\nThe team was led by head coach Don Coryell, in his twelfth (and final) year, and played home games at San Diego Stadium in San Diego, California. They finished the season as Conference Champion, with a record of ten wins and one loss (10\u20131, 4\u20130 PCAA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094373-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 San Diego State Aztecs football team\nIn his twelve years at San Diego State, coach Coryell had an overall record of 104\u201319\u20132 and a winning percentage of .840. The total wins, winning percentage, and games coached are all San Diego State coaching records. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1999 and was the first coach to win more than 100 games at both the collegiate and professional level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094373-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 San Diego State Aztecs football team, Team players in the NFL\nThe following finished their college career in 1972, were not drafted, but played in the NFL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 66], "content_span": [67, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094374-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 San Francisco 49ers season\nThe 1972 San Francisco 49ers season was the franchise's 23rd season in the National Football League and their 27th overall.. The 49ers appeared in the playoffs for the third consecutive year. After an early-season injury to Quarterback John Brodie, Steve Spurrier stepped in and turned things around with brilliant performances to get the 49ers back in the playoff picture by going 5-2-1 over eight games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094374-0000-0001", "contents": "1972 San Francisco 49ers season\nIn the last game of the season, Brodie returned in the 4th Quarter and threw two touchdown passes to lead the 49ers to a 20\u201317 victory over the Minnesota Vikings, as the 49ers won the third straight Division Title with an 8-5-1 record. In the Divisional Playoffs at Candlestick, the 49ers looked poised for a return to the NFC Championship, leading the Dallas Cowboys 28-13 entering the 4th Quarter. However, the Cowboys would score 17 points to break the hearts of San Francisco again. This would mark the last playoff appearance for the 49ers until 1981.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094375-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 San Francisco Giants season\nThe 1972 San Francisco Giants season was the Giants' 90th year in Major League Baseball, their 15th year in San Francisco, and their 13th at Candlestick Park. The Giants finished in fifth place in the National League West with a record of 69\u201386. It was their first losing season in San Francisco and the franchise's first losing season since 1957, which was the franchise's final year in New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094375-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 San Francisco Giants season, Regular season\nFranchise legend Willie Mays was traded to the New York Mets for Charlie Williams and US$50,000. At the time, the Giants franchise was losing money. Owner Horace Stoneham could not guarantee Mays an income after retirement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094375-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 San Francisco Giants season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 77], "content_span": [78, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094375-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 San Francisco Giants season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 70], "content_span": [71, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094375-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 San Francisco Giants season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 75], "content_span": [76, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094375-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 San Francisco Giants season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 72], "content_span": [73, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094375-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 San Francisco Giants season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 73], "content_span": [74, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094376-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 San Francisco State Gators football team\nThe 1972 San Francisco State Gators football team represented San Francisco State University during the 1972 NCAA College Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094376-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 San Francisco State Gators football team\nSan Francisco State competed in the Far Western Conference (FWC). The Gators were led by head coach Vic Rowen in his 12th year at the helm. They played home games at Cox Stadium in San Francisco, California. The team finished the regular season with a record of three wins and eight losses (3\u20138, 1\u20134 FWC). For the season the team was outscored by its opponents 250\u2013323.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094376-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 San Francisco State Gators football team, Team players in the NFL\nNo San Francisco State players were selected in the 1973 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 70], "content_span": [71, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094377-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 San Jose State Spartans football team\nThe 1972 San Jose State Spartans football team represented California State University, San Jose during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season as a member of the Pacific Coast Athletic Association. The team was led by third year head coach DeWayne \"Dewey\" King. They played home games at Spartan Stadium in San Jose, California. The Spartans finished the season with a record of four wins, seven losses (4\u20137, 1\u20133 PCAA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094378-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Sandown 250\nThe 1972 Sandown 250 was an endurance motor race for Group E Series Production Touring Cars. It was held on 10 September 1972 over 130 laps of the Sandown circuit in Victoria, Australia, a total distance of 250 miles (403\u00a0km). The race was Heat 2 of the 1972 Australian Manufacturers' Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094378-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Sandown 250, Class Structure\nAs a heat of the 1972 Australian Manufacturers' Championship, the race featured four classes defined by \"Capacity Price Units\". The CP Unit value for each car was assessed by multiplying the engine capacity (in litres) by the Sydney retail price (in Australian dollars).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 33], "content_span": [34, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094378-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Sandown 250, Results\nNote: Of the 43 starters, 22 were classified as finishers and 2 completed insufficient laps to be classified.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 25], "content_span": [26, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094379-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Scheldeprijs\nThe 1972 Scheldeprijs was the 59th edition of the Scheldeprijs cycle race and was held on 1 August 1972. The race was won by Eddy Merckx.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094380-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Scottish League Cup Final\nThe 1972 Scottish League Cup Final was played on 9 December 1972 and was the final of the 27th Scottish League Cup competition. It was contested by Hibernian and Celtic. Hibs won the match 2\u20131, thanks to goals by Jimmy O'Rourke and Pat Stanton. This meant that Hibs won their first major national cup competition since the 1902 Scottish Cup, and it was their first cup win at Hampden Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094381-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Scottish local elections\nThe Labour Party built upon their success in the 1971 local elections, coming close to winning control of all four Scottish cities: they fell short in Edinburgh by two seats. One of their other gains was in Greenock, which had been the only council controlled by the Liberal Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094381-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Scottish local elections\nThe Scottish National Party suffered a disastrous result, losing their last remaining ward in Shettleston, Glasgow, for instance, although they increased their majority in their last remaining stronghold of Cumbernauld. Similarly, the Progressives lost all three of the seats they were defending in Glasgow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094382-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Segunda Divisi\u00f3n de Chile\nThe 1972 Segunda Divisi\u00f3n de Chile was the 21st season of the Segunda Divisi\u00f3n de Chile.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094383-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Senior League World Series\nThe 1972 Senior League World Series was a baseball tournament for children aged 13 to 16 years old. It took place from August 15\u201320 in Gary, Indiana, United States. Pingtung, Taiwan defeated Oxnard, California in the championship game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094383-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Senior League World Series\nThis year featured the debut of the Far East Region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 84]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094384-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Sheffield City Council election\nThe final Municipal elections for Sheffield - soon to be abolished by the Local Government Act 1972 - were held in May 1972, with one third up for vote, as well as an extra vacancy in Brightside.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094384-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Sheffield City Council election\nThe election seen Labour further their stranglehold on the council with four gains from the Conservatives, as they repeated the previous year's wins. One of the notable casualties from last year, Irvine Patnick, managed re-election via re-location to the safe Conservative ward of Broomhill. The Liberals, standing the lowest number of candidates (3) in over a decade, were rewarded for focusing their efforts on retaining their sole representation on the council, as they easily defended their by-election-won seat of Burngreave, more than sextupling their majority there. Labour were reported to be overjoyed to see the return of former councillor, and veteran of the party, Joe Albaya in Intake, after over a decade's absence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 766]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094384-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Sheffield City Council election, Election result\nThe result had the following consequences for the total number of seats on the Council after the elections:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094385-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Sindhi Language Bill\nSindhi Language Bill, 1972 was introduced by the Chief Minister Mumtaz Bhutto on July 3, 1972 in the Sindh Assembly, Pakistan. The 1972 Language violence in Sindh occurred starting on July 7, 1972, when the Sindh Assembly passed the Sind Teaching, Promotion and Use of Sindhi Language Bill, 1972 which established Sindhi language as the sole official language of the province resulting in language violence in Sindh. Due to the clashes, Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto compromised and announced that Urdu and Sindhi will both be official languages of Sindh. The making of Sindhi as an equal language to Urdu for official purposes frustrated the Urdu-speaking people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 695]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094385-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Sindhi Language Bill, Clauses, Clause 6\nSubject to the provisions of the Constitution, Government may makearrangements for progressive use of Sindhi language in offices anddepartments of Government including Courts and Assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 44], "content_span": [45, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094386-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Singapore Grand Prix\nThe 1972 Singapore Grand Prix was a motor race held at the Thomson Road Grand Prix circuit in Singapore on 2 April 1972. The race, which was staged over 50 laps, was the seventh Singapore Grand Prix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094386-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Singapore Grand Prix\nThe race was won by Australian Max Stewart driving a Mildren-Ford.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094387-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Singaporean general election\nGeneral elections were held in Singapore on 2 September 1972. The result was a fourth victory for the People's Action Party, which won all 65 seats, the second of four consecutive elections in which they repeated the feat. Voter turnout was 93.5% in the 57 constituencies (which represented 812,926 voters) that were contested, with PAP candidates elected unopposed in the other eight, which represents 95,456 voters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094387-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Singaporean general election, Electoral system\nThe 65 members of Parliament were elected in 65 single-member constituencies, an increase from 58 in the 1968 elections. Like the previous elections, boundaries and constituencies were carved due to development or population; the newly added constituencies were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094387-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Singaporean general election, Campaign\nUnlike the previous elections in 1968, which saw the PAP returning to power after nomination day due to low number of contests (seven out of 58 seats), this election saw contests in all but eight seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094387-0002-0001", "contents": "1972 Singaporean general election, Campaign\nBarisan Sosialis renounced its boycott strategy and attempted to make a comeback, while the Workers' Party saw its rejuvenation with the introduction of its new secretary-general, also lawyer and former district judge, J. B. Jeyaretnam (who would later become the inaugural opposition Member of Parliament in 1981); former leader and ex-Chief Minister David Marshall contemplated standing as an independent, but ultimately did not run due to a stingray wound. PAP candidate and architect Ong Teng Cheong, who made his debut in the election, would later serve as a Deputy Prime Minister and also the first-elected (and fifth) President of Singapore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 692]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094387-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Singaporean general election, Campaign\nDescribing the alternative opposition parties as having lost their credibility with swerving political manoeuvres, coupled with Singapore's strong economic progress and successful housing development, the PAP declared that Singaporeans no longer saw need for political diversity, claiming that this led to squabbling that would impede its effective governance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094387-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Singaporean general election, Results\nDespite expectations that the PAP would not coast to victory and Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew even anticipating that the PAP winning around 45 seats would be a convincing victory, the PAP still managed to capture every seat in Parliament for the second time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094388-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Skipper Chrysler 6 Hour Le Mans\nThe 1972 Skipper Chrysler 6 Hour Le Mans was an endurance motor race for Sports Open, Sports Closed, Improved Production Touring Cars & Series Production Touring Cars. The event was staged by the W.A. Sporting Car Club at the Wanneroo Park Circuit in Western Australia on Sunday 4 June 1972. It was the 18th and final 6 Hour Le Mans race to be held.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094389-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Sligo Senior Football Championship\nThis is a round-up of the 1972 Sligo Senior Football Championship. Curry were champions in this year, claiming their second title in a decade, after defeating Enniscrone in the final. The holders, St. Patrick's, were surprisingly defeated in the opening round by Mullinabreena, which was their only Championship loss between 1970 and 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094389-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Sligo Senior Football Championship, Sligo Senior Football Championship Final\nTeam:T. DuffyP. CollearyP. DoohanM. CollearyA. BrennanJ. KivlehanA. ColleranT. CollearyJ. StensonA. CollearyJ. CollearyD. BrennanC. BrennanO. HenryM. Marren", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 81], "content_span": [82, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094389-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Sligo Senior Football Championship, Sligo Senior Football Championship Final\nTeam:M. JacobP. McManusA. CaffreyE. MurphyP. O'BrienL. CaffreyE. HarteK. KilcawleyP.J. KavanaghP. TigheB. Murphy (Capt.) B. FlynnE. O'DowdJ. McManusJ. Fleming", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 81], "content_span": [82, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094390-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 South African Gazelles rugby union tour in Argentina\nThe 1972 South African Gazelles rugby union tour in Argentina was a series of matches played by the Gazelles (Under-24 South African selection) in Argentina, between September and November 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094390-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 South African Gazelles rugby union tour in Argentina\nIt was the second tour of Argentina by this selection, after the 1966 tour and the fourth of a South African team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094390-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 South African Gazelles rugby union tour in Argentina\nThe series between \"Gazelles\" and \"Pumas\" (Argentina national team) was tied with a victory for both. In fact, the second test played on 4 November was the first victory ever of a national team over a South African side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094390-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 South African Gazelles rugby union tour in Argentina, Match summary\nComplete list of matches played by the South Africa u24 in Argentina:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 72], "content_span": [73, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094390-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 South African Gazelles rugby union tour in Argentina, Match details\nReport of all the matches played by the Gazelles in Argentina:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 72], "content_span": [73, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094390-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 South African Gazelles rugby union tour in Argentina, Match details\nSan Isidro Club: J.Caballero; M.Walter, F.Ciro, R.Matarazzo, J.Otaola; F.G.Victorica, M.Cutler; R.Lucke, J.Cariacedo, M.Iglesias (capt. ); J.Rodr\u00edguez Jurado, A.Anthony; F.Lafuente, O.Rocha, A.Orz\u00e1bal. Gazelles: R.Carlson; J.Germishuys, J.Jansen, J.Schlebusch, A.Swartz; J.Snyman, P.Bayvel; J.Verster; D.MacDonald, M.du Plessis; J.van Aswegen (capt. ), K.de Klerk; J.Strauss, H.Reyneke, N.Bezuidenhout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 72], "content_span": [73, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094390-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 South African Gazelles rugby union tour in Argentina, Match details\nSur: P.Peterson; P.Fasano, D.Guevara, J.C.Legorburu, M.Vila; T.Greig, M.Ritacop; J.Legorburu, O.Siepe, R.Dau; A.Subotta, A.Morbillo; A.Borromel, D.L\u00f3pez, C.Sozzani. Gazelles: J.Snyman, C.Fourie, P.Cronje, F.du Toit, A.Swartz; D.Snyman, B.Borgen; M.Eloff, D.MacDonald, J.van Eyk, J.van Aswegen (capt. ), J.Kritzinger, C.van Jaarsveld, A.Kruger, J.le Roux.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 72], "content_span": [73, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094390-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 South African Gazelles rugby union tour in Argentina, Match details\nMar del Plata: J.Viders; J.Prieto, C.Sosa, A.Uriaguereca, D.Fillippa; R.L \u0301Erario, R.Caparelli; R. Isabella, M.Riego, E.Feuillasier; D.Cordasco, W.Heath; C.Bonomo, N.Bosso, A.Bibbo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 72], "content_span": [73, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094390-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 South African Gazelles rugby union tour in Argentina, Match details\nGazelles: C.Claasen, C.Fourie, P.Cronje, F.du Toit, J.Schlebusch, D.Snyman, P.Bayvel, J.Verster, M.du Plessis, M.Eloff, J.Kritzinger, K.de Klerk, N.Bezuidenhout, A.Kruger, J.Strauss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 72], "content_span": [73, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094390-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 South African Gazelles rugby union tour in Argentina, Match details\nCuyo: E.Gandia; M.Brandi, R.Tarquini, O.Terranova (D.Mu\u00f1iz), A: Dora; C: Navessi, L.Chacon; J.Nazassi, J.Navessi, J.P.Irrazabal; E.S\u00e1nchez, A.Cataneo; R.Iraneta, L.Ramos, R.Fariello. Gazelles: R.Carlson, A.Read, P.Cronje, A.Swartz, C.Fourie, J.Snyman, B.Borgen, M.du Plessis, D.MacDonald, J.van Aswegen (capt. ), K.de Klerk, J.Kritzinger, C.van Jaarsveld, A.Kruger, J.le Roux.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 72], "content_span": [73, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094390-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 South African Gazelles rugby union tour in Argentina, Match details\nC\u00f3rdoba: F.Mezquida; C.Antoraz, J.B.Mart\u00ednez, R.Resella, G.Pispiero; R: Ag\u00fcero, N.Trebucq; J.Aguad, J.Aguad, J.Peralta, C.Sosa; R.Pasaglia, J.Larson; R.P.Dun, H.Bianchi, A.Paz. Gazelles: C.Claasen, J.Germishuys, F.du Toit, A.Read, J.Jansen, J.Snyman, P.Bayvel, J.van Aswegen (capt. ), M.Eloff, J.Verster, K.de Klerk, J.Kritzinger, C.van Jaarsveld, H.Reyneke, J.Strauss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 72], "content_span": [73, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094390-0011-0000", "contents": "1972 South African Gazelles rugby union tour in Argentina, Match details\nTucum\u00e1n: J.Buccetto; J.Rojas, A.Fagalde, H.Navajas, C: Cisint; L.Castillo, C.Nieva; Bach, J.Ghiringheli (capt. ), J.Veglia; O.Ferrari, J.Iramain; J.Maxud, R.Rold\u00e1n, C.Bonanno. Gazelles: R.Carlson, C.Fourie, P.Cronje, A.Read, A.Swartz, D.Snyman, P.Bayvel, J.van Aswegen, M.du Plessis, J.Verster; K.de Klerk, M.Eloff, N: Bezuidenhout, H.Reyneke, J.le Roux.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 72], "content_span": [73, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094390-0012-0000", "contents": "1972 South African Gazelles rugby union tour in Argentina, Match details\nSalta: J.Eaton; H.Fern\u00e1ndez Bravo, S.Pintos, H.Medina, M.Molina; G: Lamarca, R.Bordieu; J.Biasutti, G.Smith, O.Cardoso; L.Grand Jean, C.Fern\u00e1ndez; M.S\u00e1nchez, E.Zancona, E.Araoz. Gazelles: R.Carlson, J.Jansen, P.Cronje, F.Du Toit, G.Germishuys, D.Snyman, P.Bayvel, J.Verster, M.du Plessis, C.van Jaarsveld, K.de Klerk, J.Kritzinger, N.Bezuidenhout, H.Reyneke, J.le Roux (Eloff).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 72], "content_span": [73, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094390-0013-0000", "contents": "1972 South African Gazelles rugby union tour in Argentina, Match details\nArgentina: D.Morgan; A.Altberg, R.Matarazzo, A.Travaglini, E.Morgan; H.Porta, A.Etchegaray (capt. ); J.Whitman, H.Miguens, J.Cariacedo; J.Fern\u00e1ndez, A.Anthony; F.Ins\u00faa, R.Handley, R.Foster. Gazelles: R.Carlson, P.Cronje, F.Du Toit, A.Swartz, D.Snyman, P.Bayvel, J.van Aswegen(capt. ), M.du Plessis, J.Verster; K.de Klerk, J.Kritzinger, N.Bezuidenhout, H.Reyneke, J.le Roux.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 72], "content_span": [73, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094390-0014-0000", "contents": "1972 South African Gazelles rugby union tour in Argentina, Match details\nSanta Fe: E.Tenca; J.Trapaga, A.Caino, J.Rapela, C.Ibaquuer; J.Krezcam, A.Zilonka; A.Campanella, M.Celentano, O.Zitelli; P.Giardini, J.Sofredini; G.Abud, J.Tejerina, J.C.Colombo. Gazelles: C.Claasen, J.Germishuys, A.Swartz, A.Read, C.Fourie, J.Snyman, P.Bayvel, J.van Aswegen (capt. ), M.du Plessis, J.Verster, M.Eloff, J.Kritzinger; J.van Jaarsveld, A.Kruger, J.Strauss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 72], "content_span": [73, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094390-0015-0000", "contents": "1972 South African Gazelles rugby union tour in Argentina, Match details\nBuenos Aires: R.Espagnol; G.P\u00e9rez Leiros, L.Esteras, M.Dantilongue, A.Altberg; T.Harris Smith, L.Gradin (capt. ); N.Carbone, M.Morgan, M.Iglesias; R: Castro, J: Virasoro; O.Carbone, J.Dumas, M.Carluccio. Gazelles: R.Carlson, C.Fourie, F.Du Toit, J.Jansen, A.Swartz; J.Snyman, P.Bayvel, J.Verster, M.du Plessis, M.Eloff, K.de Klerk, J.Kritzinger, J.van Jaarsveld, H.Reyneke, J.le Roux.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 72], "content_span": [73, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094390-0016-0000", "contents": "1972 South African Gazelles rugby union tour in Argentina, Match details\nRosario: J.Uljich; C: Garc\u00eda, G.Torneo, G.Seaton, A.Kniht, J.Escalante, R.Castagna; M.Chesta, M.Boaza, R.Imhoff; R.Su\u00e1rez, M.Senatore; J.G\u00f3mez Keny, J.Constante, S.Furno. Gazelles: R.Carlson, C.Fourie, P.Cronje, A.Read, J.Germishuys, J.Snyman, B.Borge,; M.Eloff, M.du Plessis, J.Verster; K.de Klerk, J.Kritzinger, J.van Jaarsveld, A.Kruger, J.Strauss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 72], "content_span": [73, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094390-0017-0000", "contents": "1972 South African Gazelles rugby union tour in Argentina, Match details\nArgentina: D.Morgan; A: Altberg, R.Matarazzo, A: Travaglini, E.Morgan; H.Porta, A.Etchegaray (capt. ); J.Wittman, H.Miguens, J.Cariacedo; J.Fern\u00e1ndez, A.Anthony; F.Ins\u00faa, R.Handley, R.Foster. Gazelles: R.Carlson (J.Snyman), C.Fourie, P.Cronje, F.du Toit, A.Swartz; D.Snyman, B.Borgen, J.van Aswegen (capt. ), M.du Plessis, J.Verster; K.de Klerk, J.Kritzinger, J.le Roux, H.Reyneke, J.van Jaarsveld.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 72], "content_span": [73, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094391-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 South African Grand Prix\nThe 1972 South African Grand Prix, formally the Sixth AA Grand Prix of South Africa (Afrikaans: Sesde AA Suid-Afrikaanse Grand Prix), was a Formula One motor race held at Kyalami on 4 March 1972. It was race 2 of 12 in both the 1972 World Championship of Drivers and the 1972 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers. The 79-lap race was won by McLaren driver Denny Hulme after he started from fifth position. Emerson Fittipaldi finished second for the Lotus team and McLaren driver Peter Revson came in third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094391-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 South African Grand Prix, Report, Entry\nA total of 27 cars were entered for this race. Although there was more than a month between the Argentine Grand Prix and South Africa, most cars were transported direct to Kyalami from Buenos Aires. There were few changes in the entry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094391-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 South African Grand Prix, Report, Entry\nHaving missed the trip to Argentina due to a clashing Formula 5000 race, Mike Hailwood returned to Team Surtees. Jean-Pierre Beltoise also missed Buenos Aires, due to legal problems following an accident that had claimed the life of Ignazio Giunti in January 1971. Team Williams ran a second March-Cosworth for rising star Carlos Pace alongside their regular driver, Henri Pescarolo. A new team arrived in South Africa, the Team Eifelland Caravans outfit making its first appearance with Rolf Stommelen down to drive. As usual for Kyalami, the field was bolstered by local entries: Dave Charlton in a Lucky Strike-sponsored Lotus 72D, and pair of cars from Team Gunston for John Love (Surtees TS9) and Willie Ferguson (Brabham BT33).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 778]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094391-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 South African Grand Prix, Report, Qualifying\nThe reigning World Champion, and winner of the opening round, Jackie Stewart secured pole position, for Elf Team Tyrrell, averaging a speed of 119.221\u00a0mph. Stewart beat Clay Regazzoni (Ferrari) and Emerson Fittipaldi (Lotus) by a few tenth of a second. Mike Hailwood was next up on the second row, joined by Denny Hulme in his McLaren M19A. A pair of Ferrari 312B2 were on row three, with Mario Andretti ahead of Jacky Ickx. They were joined by Fran\u00e7ois Cevert in the second Tyrrell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094391-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 South African Grand Prix, Report, Race\nThe race was held over 79 laps of the Kyalami circuit. At the start, Denny Hulme briefly held the lead before Jackie Stewart moved ahead, meanwhile Clay Regazzoni had a bad get away and was back in the midfield. The Tyrrell 003 of Stewart quickly built a lead while the battle for second between Hulme, Emerson Fittipaldi and Mike Hailwood detached itself from the rest of the field. The Yardley Team McLaren of Hulme began to overheat and this saw him dropped behind his rivals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094391-0004-0001", "contents": "1972 South African Grand Prix, Report, Race\nHailwood, a few laps later, was able to pass Fittipaldi to move up to second and began to challenge Stewart for the lead. On lap 28, the rear suspension of Hailwood's Surtees TS9B failed and he retired from the race. Although this left Fittipaldi to attack Stewart, the Tyrrell driver stayed ahead, only to suffer a gearbox failure on lap 45. Fittipaldi inherited the lead, with Hulme right on his tail. The Brazilian now ran into handling problems and this enable Hulme to regain the lead on lap 57, from which he would go to win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094391-0004-0002", "contents": "1972 South African Grand Prix, Report, Race\nFittipaldi was still in a strong second place as the gap between him and the third place, Chris Amon was large. The gap became even bigger where Amon's Matra MS120C developed a serious vibration. This saw him drop down the order and finish 3 laps adrift in 15th. Third place thus went to the second McLaren, of Peter Revson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094391-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 South African Grand Prix, Report, Race\nHulme won in a time of 1hr 45.49.1mins., averaging a speed of 114.898\u00a0mph, and was over 14 seconds ahead of Fititpaldi. Revson was a further 12.7 seconds behind. Only other drivers to complete the full race distance were Mario Andretti (Ferrari) and Ronnie Peterson (March). This victory gave Hulme a six-point the lead in the World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094392-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 South African Open (tennis)\nThe 1972 South African Open, also known by its sponsored name South African Breweries Open, was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Ellis Park Tennis Stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa that was part of the 1972 Commercial Union Assurance Grand Prix. It was the 69th edition of the tournament and was held from 8 April through 13 April 1972. The tournament had a record attendance of 85,000. World Championship Tennis (WCT) players were barred from participating in the event. Cliff Richey won the men's singles titles and the accompanying \u00a32,570 first-prize money while Evonne Goolagong earned \u00a31,030 first-prize money for her singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 726]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094392-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 South African Open (tennis), Finals, Men's Doubles\nBob Hewitt / Frew McMillan defeated Georges Goven / Ray Moore 6\u20132, 6\u20132, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094392-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 South African Open (tennis), Finals, Women's Doubles\nEvonne Goolagong / Helen Gourlay defeated Winnie Shaw / Joyce Williams 6\u20134, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 57], "content_span": [58, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094392-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 South African Open (tennis), Finals, Mixed Doubles\nVirginia Wade / Martin Mulligan defeated Patricia Pretorius / Frew McMillan 6\u20130, 4\u20136, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094393-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 South American Junior Championships in Athletics\nThe ninth South American Junior Championships in Athletics were held in Asunci\u00f3n, Paraguay from October 21\u201325, 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094393-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 South American Junior Championships in Athletics, Participation (unofficial)\nDetailed result lists can be found on the \"World Junior Athletics History\" website. An unofficial count yields the number of about 194 athletes from about 8 countries: Argentina (40), Brazil (32), Chile (33), Colombia (22), Ecuador (6), Paraguay (24), Peru (22), Uruguay (15).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 81], "content_span": [82, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094393-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 South American Junior Championships in Athletics, Medal summary\nMedal winners are published for men and womenComplete results can be found on the \"World Junior Athletics History\" website.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 68], "content_span": [69, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094394-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 South American Open (tennis)\nThe 1972 South American Open was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts in Buenos Aires, Argentina from 27 November through 1 December 1972. It was held the fifth edition of the tournament and was a non-tour event, i.e. not part of the Grand Prix tennis circuit. Karl Meiler won the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094394-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 South American Open (tennis), Finals, Singles\nKarl Meiler defeated Guillermo Vilas 6\u20137, 2\u20136, 6\u20134, 6\u20134, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094394-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 South American Open (tennis), Finals, Doubles\nJaime Fillol / Jaime Pinto-Bravo defeated Iv\u00e1n Molina / Barry Phillips-Moore 2\u20136, 7\u20136, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094395-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 South Australian Tennis Championships\nThe 1972 South Australian Championships was a combined men's and women's Grand Prix tennis tournament held in Adelaide, Australia and played on outdoor grass courts. The tournament was held from 17 January through 23 January 1972. Alex Metreveli and Evonne Goolagong won the singles titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094396-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 South Australian Tennis Championships \u2013 Men's Singles\nAlex Metreveli defeated Kim Warwick, 6\u20133, 6\u20133, 7\u20136, to win the 1972 South Australian Tennis Championships singles event. The First Round was the best of 3 sets, while all other rounds were the best of 5 sets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094397-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 South Carolina Gamecocks football team\nThe 1972 South Carolina Gamecocks football team represented the University of South Carolina as an independent in the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. The Gamecocks finished the season 4\u20137 overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094397-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 South Carolina Gamecocks football team\nSouth Carolina did not play Atlantic Coast Conference teams Duke, Maryland and North Carolina. The Gamecocks were ACC members from its formation in 1953 through the 1970-71 academic year. South Carolina was a football independent in 1971, but played all seven ACC schools.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094398-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 South Dakota Coyotes football team\nThe 1972 South Dakota Coyotes football team was an American football team that represented the University of South Dakota in the North Central Conference (NCC) during the 1972 NCAA College Division football season. In its seventh season under head coach Joe Salem, the team compiled a 9\u20131 record (6\u20131 against NCC opponents), tied for the NCC championship, and outscored opponents by a total of 296 to 144. The team played its home games at Inman Field in Vermillion, South Dakota.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094399-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 South Dakota gubernatorial election\nThe 1972 South Dakota gubernatorial election was held on November 7, 1972, to elect a Governor of South Dakota. It was the last election in South Dakota to elect the governor for a two-year term after a 1972 state constitutional amendment established a four-year term. Democratic nominee Richard F. Kneip was re-elected, defeating Republican nominee Carveth Thompson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094400-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 South Korean constitutional referendum\nA constitutional referendum was held in South Korea on 21 November 1972. President Park Chung-hee had suspended the constitution and dissolved the National Assembly in October. Work began almost immediately on a new constitution. The finished product, the Yushin Constitution, was a severely authoritarian document that dramatically expanded the president's powers and allowed him to run for an unlimited number of six-year terms. For all intents and purposes, the document concentrated all governing power in Park's hands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094400-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 South Korean constitutional referendum\nAccording to official figures, the new document was approved by 92.3% of voters, with a turnout of 91.9%. The adoption of the constitution upon the announcement of the official referendum results ushered in the Fourth Republic of South Korea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094401-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 South Korean presidential election\nPresidential elections were held in South Korea in December 1972 following the promulgation of the Yushin Constitution, which created the National Conference for Unification, a body whose functions included being an electoral college for presidential elections. Incumbent President Park Chung-hee claimed that Western-style liberal democracy would bring more chaos to the economically struggling nation than it could afford. In contrast, he argued that the Yushin system created a \"Korean-style democracy\" with a strong, unchallenged presidency. He argued this system was necessary to keep the country stable.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 649]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094401-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 South Korean presidential election, National Conference for Unification election\nThe 2,359 members of the first National Conference for Unification were elected to their six-year term on 5 December 1972, with a voter turnout of 70%. All candidates were required to run as independents. The Constitution gave the body many powers, such as forming policies related to inter-Korean relationship, and determining the president as well as one-third of the National Assembly. However, the body was little more than a figurehead, as all of its actions were controlled by the president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 85], "content_span": [86, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094401-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 South Korean presidential election, National Conference for Unification election\nThe newly sworn-in members of the National Conference for Unification convened on 23 December to elect Park to a fourth term as president. With no opposition candidates, Park was elected with the support of 2,357 out of the 2,359 delegates. The elections were regarded as a formality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 85], "content_span": [86, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094401-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 South Korean presidential election, Presidential election\nIn order to be elected, a candidate had to receive the vote of over 50% of the incumbent members of the National Council for Unification. With 2,359 delegates in office, Park had to receive at least 1,180 votes to be elected. He received 2,357 votes, 99.92% of the total possible.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 62], "content_span": [63, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094401-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 South Korean presidential election, Presidential election\nAs there was only one candidate registered, the only way the deputies could vote against Park was by casting invalid ballots. One of the two deputies who did that, Song Dong-heon from Daejeon-1 District, revealed later in his life that he purposefully wrote \"\ubc15\uc815\uc758\" (Park Chung-ee) instead of \"\ubc15\uc815\ud76c\" (Park Chung-hee) on his ballot in order to protest the dictatorial regime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 62], "content_span": [63, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094402-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 South Pacific Touring Series\nThe 1972 South Pacific Touring Series was an Australian motor racing competition for Group E Series Production Touring Cars. It was the third running of an annual series which had first been contested as the 1970 Tasman Touring Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094402-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 South Pacific Touring Series\nThe series was won by John Goss driving for McLeod Ford in a Ford Falcon GTHO.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094402-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 South Pacific Touring Series, Schedule\nEach round was held as a support race to a round of the 1972 Tasman Championship for Drivers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094402-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 South Pacific Touring Series, Classes\nCompeting cars were classified into four classes according to an assessed C.P. Units value for each vehicle. Under this system, the engine capacity of the car (in litres) was multiplied by the retail price of the car (in Australian dollars) to arrive at a CP Unit value.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094402-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 South Pacific Touring Series, Points system\nPoints were awarded on a 4,3,2,1 basis for the first four outright places at each round. In addition, points were awarded on a 9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 basis for the first nine places in each class at each round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094402-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 South Pacific Touring Series, Points system\nPoints were only awarded to a driver conditional upon them competing in the same make and model of car entered by the same entrant in all four rounds of the series. The series win was awarded to a driver and entrant, who both received equal recognition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094403-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 1972 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament took place from March 2\u20134, 1972 at the Greenville Memorial Auditorium in Greenville, South Carolina. The East Carolina Pirates, led by head coach Tom Quinn, won their first Southern Conference title and received the automatic berth to the 1972 NCAA Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094403-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Format\nAll of the conference's eight members were eligible for the tournament. Teams were seeded based on conference winning percentage. The tournament used a preset bracket consisting of three rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 60], "content_span": [61, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094404-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Southern Illinois Salukis football team\nThe 1972 Southern Illinois Salukis football team was an American football team that represented Southern Illinois University (now known as Southern Illinois University Carbondale) as an independent during the 1972 NCAA College Division football season. Under sixth-year head coach Dick Towers, the team compiled a 1\u20138\u20131 record. The team played its home games at McAndrew Stadium in Carbondale, Illinois.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094405-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Southern Miss Golden Eagles football team\nThe 1972 Southern Miss Golden Eagles football team was an American football team that represented the University of Southern Mississippi as an independent during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. In their fourth year under head coach P. W. Underwood, the team compiled a 3\u20137\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094406-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Southwark by-election\nThe Southwark by-election, 1972 was a by-election held on 4 May 1972 for the British House of Commons constituency of Southwark. The by-election was triggered by the resignation of the serving Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP), Ray Gunter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094406-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Southwark by-election\nThe election was won by Harry Lamborn of the Labour Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 85]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094406-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Southwark by-election, Candidates\nThe Labour candidate was Harry Lamborn, who represented the constituency on the Greater London Council, of which he was Deputy Chair. The Conservative candidate was Jeffrey Gordon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094406-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Southwark by-election, Candidates\nGunter, who had resigned over the issue of the Common Market, had had a majority of nearly 10,000 and the seat was expected to remain a Labour one. Lamborn was described as 'a fervent anti-marketeer'. His main platform was opposition to the Government's Housing Finance Bill, which was expected to raise rents for council tenants. The constituency was reported as having more rented accommodation than any other in the country. The third candidate was an independent, Brian McDermott, who stood as the Actors Anti-Heath's Union-Bashing Tactics candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094406-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Southwark by-election, Polling\nPolling took place on the same day as the local elections outside London, in which Labour made very large gains. Labour won the seat comfortably with a swing of 11 per cent. The Conservatives took some comfort from the fact that in the by-election for the safe Kingston seat the same day, they retained it against only a small swing to Labour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094407-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Southwestern Louisiana Bulldogs football team\nThe 1972 Southwestern Louisiana Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented the University of Southwestern Louisiana (now known as the University of Louisiana at Lafayette) in the Southland Conference during the 1972 NCAA College Division football season. In their twelfth year under head coach Russ Faulkinberry, the team compiled an 5\u20136 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094408-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Soviet Cup\nThe 1972 Soviet Cup was an association football cup competition of the Soviet Union. The winner of the competition, Torpedo Moscow qualified for the continental tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094409-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Soviet First League\nThe 1972 Soviet First League was the second season of the Soviet First League and the 32nd season of the Soviet second tier league competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094410-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Soviet Second League\n1972 Soviet Second League was a Soviet competition in the Soviet Second League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094411-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Soviet Second League, Zone 1\nThe 1972 Football Championship of Ukrainian SSR was the 42nd season of association football competition of the Ukrainian SSR, which was part of the Soviet Second League in Zone 1. The season started on 6 April 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094411-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Soviet Second League, Zone 1\nThe 1972 Football Championship of Ukrainian SSR was won by FC Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094412-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Soviet Top League, Overview\nSixteen (16) teams competed for the championships, and Zarya Voroshilovgrad won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094413-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Soviet nuclear tests\nThe Soviet Union's 1972 nuclear test series was a group of 24 nuclear tests conducted in 1972. These tests followed the 1971 Soviet nuclear tests series and preceded the 1973 Soviet nuclear tests series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094414-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Spanish Grand Prix\nThe 1972 Spanish Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Jarama on May 1, 1972. It was race 3 of 12 in both the 1972 World Championship of Drivers and the 1972 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers. The race marked the first time two brothers raced together in F1 simultaneously, Emerson and Wilson Fittipaldi. The elder Fittipaldi was a last-minute substitute for Brabham's Carlos Reutemann, who had injured his ankle in a Formula 2 race the previous weekend at Thruxton, England. The 90-lap race was won by Lotus driver Emerson Fittipaldi after he started from third position. Jacky Ickx finished second for the Ferrari team and his teammate Clay Regazzoni came in third. After the race the World Drivers' Championship was tied at 15 points between Emerson Fittipaldi and Denny Hulme.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 828]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094415-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Speedway World Pairs Championship\nThe 1972 Speedway World Pairs Championship was the third FIM Speedway World Pairs Championship. The final took place in Bor\u00e5s, Sweden. The championship was won by England (24 points) who beat New Zealand after Run-Off (24 points also) and Sweden B (22 points) who beat Sweden A after a run-off.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094415-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Speedway World Pairs Championship, World final\nm - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022 t - exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022 x - other exclusion \u2022 e - retired or mechanical failure \u2022 f - fellns - non-starter \u2022 nc - non-classify", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 51], "content_span": [52, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094416-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Speedway World Team Cup\nThe 1972 Speedway World Team Cup was the 13th edition of the FIM Speedway World Team Cup to determine the team world champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094416-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Speedway World Team Cup\nThe final took place at the Olching Speedwaybahn in Olching, West Germany. The title was won by Great Britain for the third time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094416-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Speedway World Team Cup, World final\nIvan Mauger - 11John Louis - 9Ray Wilson - 8Terry Betts - 8Ronnie Moore - dnr", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094416-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Speedway World Team Cup, World final\nAnatoly Kuzmin - 6Viktor Kalmykov - 5Viktor Trofimov - 5Grigory Khlinovsky - 5Valery Gordeev - dnr", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094416-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Speedway World Team Cup, World final\nZenon Plech - 7Henryk Gl\u00fccklich - 6Pawe\u0142 Waloszek - 5Zdzis\u0142aw Dobrucki - 3Marek Cie\u015blak - 0", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094416-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Speedway World Team Cup, World final\nChrister L\u00f6fqvist - 6Anders Michanek - 4Tommy Jansson 4Jan Simensen 3G\u00f6te Nordin 1", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094416-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Speedway World Team Cup, World final\nRun-off for silverSoviet Union 7 (Kalmykov 3, Kuzmin 2, Khlinovsky 1, Trofimov 1) bt Poland 5 (Waloszek 3, Plech 2, Gl\u00fccklich 0, Dobrucki 0)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094417-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 St. Louis Cardinals (NFL) season\nThe 1972 St. Louis Cardinals season was the team's 53rd year with the National Football League and thirteenth in St. Louis. On September 2, Bill Bidwill purchased the stock of his brother Charles \"Stormy\" Bidwill to become sole owner of the Cardinals. The adopted sons of Charles and Violet Bidwill, the two had co-owned the team since their mother's death in January 1962.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094417-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 St. Louis Cardinals (NFL) season\nAfter starting at 2\u20132, with wins over 1970 and 1971 playoff participants Baltimore and Minnesota, the Cardinals went 0\u20137\u20131, then won their final two games over the Rams and Eagles to finish at 4\u20139\u20131 for the second consecutive season and third time in the past four. Second-year head coach Bob Hollway was fired December 18, the day after the regular season finale, succeeded a month later by San Diego State head coach Don Coryell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094418-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 St. Louis Cardinals season\nThe 1972 St. Louis Cardinals season was the team's 91st season in St. Louis, Missouri and its 81st season in the National League. The Cardinals went 75\u201381 during the season and finished fourth in the National League East, 21\u00bd games behind the Pittsburgh Pirates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094418-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094418-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 69], "content_span": [70, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094418-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 74], "content_span": [75, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094418-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 71], "content_span": [72, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094418-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 72], "content_span": [73, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094419-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Stanford Cardinals football team\nThe 1972 Stanford Cardinals football team represented Stanford University in the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. Following the departure of head coach John Ralston for the Denver Broncos in early January, defensive backs coach Jack Christiansen was promoted to head coach. Stanford finished at 6\u20135, but were 2\u20135 in Pacific-8 Conference play, tied for sixth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094419-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Stanford Cardinals football team\nThe school changed its nickname from \"Indians\" to \"Cardinals\" in March after objections from Native American students and a vote by the student senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094420-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Stanley Cup Finals\nThe 1972 Stanley Cup Finals was the championship series of the National Hockey League's (NHL) 1971\u201372 season, and the culmination of the 1972 Stanley Cup playoffs. It was contested between the Boston Bruins and the New York Rangers. It was the Rangers first appearance in the finals since 1950. The Bruins were making their first appearance since their victory in the 1970 Finals. It was the second Boston-New York Final series, the other being the 1929 Finals. The Bruins won the best-of-seven series, four games to two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094420-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Stanley Cup Finals\nThis was only the second Stanley Cup Final contested by New York in which the Rangers hosted all of their home games. The first such Final, held in 1929, had lasted only two games. All other previous Finals contested by the Rangers had partly or entirely coincided with an annual circus formerly held at Madison Square Garden, compelling the Rangers to play Finals games at neutral sites and/or at the venues of their opponents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094420-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Stanley Cup Finals, Paths to the Finals\nBoston defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs 4\u20131 and the St. Louis Blues 4\u20130 to advance to the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094420-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Stanley Cup Finals, Paths to the Finals\nNew York defeated the defending champion Montreal Canadiens 4\u20132 and the Chicago Black Hawks 4\u20130 to set up an \"Original Six\" final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094420-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries\nBobby Orr, who tallied 4 goals and 4 assists in the series, won the Conn Smythe Trophy for the second time. It was also Orr's second Cup-clinching goal, having accomplished both feats in the 1970 finals. Phil Esposito had 41 shots in the series but was held without a goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094420-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game one\nGame one in Boston saw both teams play poorly. The Bruins at one point led 5\u20131 as Ken Hodge completed a hat trick, and Hodge and Derek Sanderson scored short-handed goals on the same Ranger power play at the end of the first period. However, the Rangers tied the game with goals from Gilbert, Hatfield, Tkaczuk, and Bruce MacGregor. With 2:16 remaining in the third period, Garnet \"Ace\" Bailey beat Rangers star defenseman Brad Park to have the Bruins prevail 6\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094420-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game one\nGary Doak of the Rangers was ejected from the game after a heated argument with referee Bill Friday over a penalty he received at 18:50 of the first period.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094420-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game two\nGame two had Gilles Villemure replace Ed Giacomin in goal for the Rangers. He played well, but the Bruins did too and won 2\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094420-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game three\nIn New York, Giacomin was back in goal for game three as the Rangers won 5\u20132. Brad Park opened the scoring with a power play goal and scored another in the first period. Rod Gilbert also had two goals in the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094420-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game four\nGiacomin was having trouble with a knee he injured during the Chicago series and lost game four 3\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094420-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game five\nGame five in Boston had Villemure again replace Giacomin. Boston led 2\u20131 after two periods. However, Bobby Rousseau scored twice in the third period, his second at 12:45 turned out to be the winner in a 3\u20132 win for the Rangers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094420-0011-0000", "contents": "1972 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries, Game six\nGame six in New York saw Boston play flawlessly and Gerry Cheevers picked up a shutout, 3\u20130. Bobby Orr's first-period marker ended up standing as the Stanley Cup-winning goal, and he also assisted on the Bruins' second goal. Orr spent 10 minutes in the penalty box after arguing with referee Art Skov but upon his return on the ice played a crucial role in killing off a penalty to the Bruins. Wayne Cashman scored two goals, one of which trickled in behind Gilles Villemure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094420-0012-0000", "contents": "1972 Stanley Cup Finals, Broadcasting\nHockey Night in Canada moved all playoff coverage from CBC to CTV (in actuality, MacLaren Advertising, Ltd., the actual rights holders of HNIC at the time, worked out arrangements with CTV to move the full NHL playoffs there) to avoid conflict with the lengthy NABET strike against the CBC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094420-0013-0000", "contents": "1972 Stanley Cup Finals, Broadcasting\nIn the United States, CBS took a rather calculated risk in not televising the game five match on May 9 (CBS aired regular programming, including the original Hawaii Five-O in that time period on that Tuesday night). This was despite the fact that game five was a potential clincher with the Bruins up three games to one on the Rangers. CBS ultimately lucked out (since the Rangers won game five 3-2), and televised the clincher (game six) on Thursday night, May 11.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094420-0014-0000", "contents": "1972 Stanley Cup Finals, Stanley Cup engraving\nThe 1972 Stanley Cup was presented to Bruins alternate captain Johnny Bucyk by NHL President Clarence Campbell following the Bruins 3\u20130 win over the Rangers in game six.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 46], "content_span": [47, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094420-0015-0000", "contents": "1972 Stanley Cup Finals, Stanley Cup engraving\nThe following Bruins players and staff had their names engraved on the Stanley Cup", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 46], "content_span": [47, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094420-0016-0000", "contents": "1972 Stanley Cup Finals, Stanley Cup engraving, Stanley Cup engraving\nThe Boston Bruins' name was misspelled as BQSTQN BRUINS with two \"Q\"s instead of \"O\"s. This error was corrected on the replica cup created in 1992\u201393.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 69], "content_span": [70, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094421-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Star World Championships\nThe 1972 Star World Championships were held at Puerto Azul in Naiguat\u00e1, Venezuela in 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094422-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Stockholm Open\nThe 1972 Stockholm Open was a men's tennis tournament played on hard courts and part of the 1972 Commercial Union Assurance Grand Prix and took place at the Kungliga tennishallen in Stockholm, Sweden. It was the fourth edition of the tournament and was held from 4 November through 10 November 1972. Stan Smith won the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094422-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Stockholm Open, Finals, Doubles\nTom Okker / Marty Riessen defeated Roy Emerson / Colin Dibley, 7\u20135, 7\u20136", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094423-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Stockholm Open \u2013 Doubles\nTom Gorman and Stan Smith were the defending champions, but lost in the semifinals this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094423-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Stockholm Open \u2013 Doubles\nTom Okker and Marty Riessen won the title, defeating Roy Emerson and Colin Dibley 7\u20135, 7\u20136 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094424-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Stockholm Open \u2013 Singles\nArthur Ashe was the defending champion, but did not participate this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094424-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Stockholm Open \u2013 Singles\nStan Smith won the title, defeating Tom Okker 6\u20134, 6\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094426-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Sugar Bowl (December)\nThe 1972 Sugar Bowl (December) was the 39th edition of the college football bowl game, played at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans, Louisiana, on Sunday, December\u00a031. Part of the 1972\u201373 bowl game season, it\u00a0featured the second-ranked Oklahoma Sooners of the Big Eight Conference and the independent #5 Penn State Nittany Lions. It\u00a0was played for the first time on New Year's Eve, at night, and Oklahoma shut out Penn State, 14\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094426-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Sugar Bowl (December)\nThe shutout was the first for Penn State in over six years, and it was their first bowl loss in a\u00a0decade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094426-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Sugar Bowl (December)\nThis was the only Sugar Bowl between 1950 and January 1995 without a team from the Southeastern Conference (SEC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094426-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Sugar Bowl (December), Teams, Oklahoma\nThe Sooners' only loss was at Colorado. They broke a three-year losing streak to rival Nebraska.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 43], "content_span": [44, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094426-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Sugar Bowl (December), Teams, Penn State\nAfter dropping their opener at Tennessee, Penn State had won ten straight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094426-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Sugar Bowl (December), Game summary\nThe game kicked off on New Year's Eve at 8 pm CST. ABC rejected the Sugar Bowl's request for a 7 pm CST kickoff in order to televise The F.B.I. New Orleans and Baton Rouge were blacked out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094426-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Sugar Bowl (December), Game summary\nPenn State was without their leading rusher, junior running back John Cappelletti, who was suffering from a virus and a temperature of 102\u00a0\u00b0F (39\u00a0\u00b0C). Without the future Heisman Trophy winner, the Lions' defense was forced to step up and it held the Sooners explosive Wishbone offense to only 14 points while forcing eight fumbles, recovering five. However, Oklahoma out gained the Lions 543 to 196 yards, 278 to 49 on the ground.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094426-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Sugar Bowl (December), Aftermath\nOklahoma was forced to forfeit nine games from the 1972 season after they had used two ineligible freshmen. Despite the forfeit, Penn State refused to accept the win in the 1972 Sugar Bowl, thus the NCAA does not recognize the Penn State forfeit win over Oklahoma. The NCAA also stated that forfeits were not part of the NCAA sanctions levied against the Sooners. The NCAA says it only restricted OU's scholarships, TV appearances, and bowl appearances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094426-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 Sugar Bowl (December), Aftermath\nThe scandal however, prevented the Sooners from playing in bowl games for two seasons after Chuck Fairbanks's departure to the New England Patriots. Offensive coordinator Barry Switzer, who spearheaded Oklahoma's adoption of the Wishbone formation during the 1970 season, succeeded Fairbanks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094426-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 Sugar Bowl (December), Aftermath\nThe 1974 Sooners were named national champions by the Associated Press, but could not be ranked by the coaches' poll, due to a rule adopted following the 1973 season by the American Football Coaches Association which prohibited teams on major NCAA probation from the rankings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094426-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 Sugar Bowl (December), Aftermath\nThe Sooners were allowed to appear on television in 1973, but were banned in 1974 and the 1975 regular season. Oklahoma returned to television with the Orange Bowl on January 1, 1976, when it defeated Michigan 14-6 to secure its second consecutive national championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094426-0011-0000", "contents": "1972 Sugar Bowl (December), Aftermath\nOklahoma did not return to the Sugar Bowl until after the 2003 season, losing in the Bowl Championship Series championship game to LSU 21-14.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094426-0012-0000", "contents": "1972 Sugar Bowl (December), Aftermath\nPenn State lost the Sugar Bowl twice more in the 1970s to Alabama before breaking through vs. Georgia in the 1983 game to win the national championship for 1982.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094427-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Sugar Bowl (January)\nThe 1972 Sugar Bowl (January) was the 38th edition of the college football bowl game, played at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans, Louisiana, on Saturday, January\u00a01. It\u00a0featured the third-ranked Oklahoma Sooners of the Big Eight Conference and the #5 Auburn Tigers of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The favored Sooners won 40\u201322.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094427-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Sugar Bowl (January)\nThis\u00a0was the last Sugar Bowl played in January until 1977, as it moved to New Year's Eve night for the next four\u00a0editions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094427-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Sugar Bowl (January), Teams\nAlthough the runner-up in their respective conferences, both teams were ranked in the top five in the polls, as this game was a tale of duality. Both teams averaged over 300 yards on the season, though Oklahoma's record setting 566 yards a game was more notable than Auburn's 393. Both teams started the season 9\u20130, with both teams losing late in the season to their respective arch-rivals, who were likewise undefeated and untied.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094427-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Sugar Bowl (January), Teams, Oklahoma\nOn Thanksgiving day, Oklahoma lost a late lead to visiting #1 Nebraska in a memorable game, and fell from second to third in the rankings. This was the Sooners' fourth appearance in the Sugar Bowl, but first since 1951.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 42], "content_span": [43, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094427-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Sugar Bowl (January), Teams, Auburn\nAuburn lost 31\u20137 to Alabama in late November; they remained at fifth in the rankings and were invited to their first Sugar Bowl. Alabama and Nebraska matched up in the Orange Bowl for the national championship, essentially making this a runner-up game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 40], "content_span": [41, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094427-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Sugar Bowl (January), Game summary\nTelevised by ABC, the kickoff was in the morning at 11 a.m. CST, two hours before the Cotton Bowl on\u00a0CBS.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094427-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Sugar Bowl (January), Game summary\nThough he threw only four passes (with one completion), Oklahoma quarterback Jack Mildren used his legs to help win the game and the MVP award, running thirty times for 149 yards and three touchdowns. Leon Crosswhite helped start the scoring with a touchdown run on OU's first drive. Mildren scored three straight touchdown runs to make it 25\u20130 by the second quarter and after a punt return touchdown by Joe Wylie, it was 31\u20130 at halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094427-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Sugar Bowl (January), Game summary\nSooner kicker John Carroll made a 53-yard field goal before Auburn finally got on the scoreboard with a touchdown run by fullback Harry Unger, and the score was 34\u20137 after three quarters. The Sooners responded as halfback Greg Pruitt made it an even forty points, and Auburn then scored two late touchdowns. The first was a pass from Heisman Trophy winner Pat Sullivan to Sandy Cannon with less than four minutes remaining, and Unger added another on the ground to complete the scoring at 40\u201322. Oklahoma had more yards, fewer turnovers (2 to 3), and more first downs, and won their first Sugar Bowl since 1950.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 651]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094427-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 Sugar Bowl (January), Aftermath\nOklahoma moved up to second in the final AP poll, followed by Colorado, the only time the top three teams were from the same conference. Alabama fell to fourth and Auburn dropped to twelfth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094427-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 Sugar Bowl (January), Aftermath\nThe Sooners returned to the Sugar Bowl in December and defeated Penn State, becoming the only school to win the same bowl game twice in a calendar year. Auburn waited twelve years for their next Sugar Bowl, a victory over Michigan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094428-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Suisse Open Gstaad\nThe 1972 Suisse Open Gstaad was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts in Gstaad, Switzerland. It was the 27th edition of the tournament and was held from 10 July until 16 July 1972. The tournament was part of the Grand Prix tennis circuit and was categorized as a Group C event. Andr\u00e9s Gimeno won the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094428-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Suisse Open Gstaad, Finals, Doubles\nAndr\u00e9s Gimeno / Antonio Mu\u00f1oz defeated Adriano Panatta / Ion \u021airiac 9\u20138, 4\u20136, 6\u20131, 7\u20135", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 40], "content_span": [41, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094429-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Suisse Open Gstaad \u2013 Singles\nJohn Newcombe was the defending champion but he did not take part in the 1972 edition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094429-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Suisse Open Gstaad \u2013 Singles\nAndr\u00e9s Gimeno won the title, defeating Adriano Panatta in the final 7\u20135, 9\u20138, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094430-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Summer Olympics\nThe 1972 Summer Olympics (German: Olympische Sommerspiele 1972), officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad (German: Spiele der XX. Olympiade) and commonly known as Munich 1972 (German: M\u00fcnchen 1972), was an international multi-sport event held in Munich, Bavaria, West Germany, from 26 August to 11 September 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094430-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Summer Olympics\nThe event was overshadowed by the Munich massacre in the second week, in which eleven Israeli athletes and coaches and a West German police officer at Olympic village were killed by Palestinian Black September members.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094430-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Summer Olympics\nThe 1972 Summer Olympics were the second Summer Olympics to be held in Germany, after the 1936 Games in Berlin, which had taken place under the Nazi regime. The West German Government had been eager to have the Munich Olympics present a democratic and optimistic Germany to the world, as shown by the Games' official motto, \"Die Heiteren Spiele\", or \"the cheerful Games\". The logo of the Games was a blue solar logo (the \"Bright Sun\") by Otl Aicher, the designer and director of the visual conception commission. The hostesses wore sky-blue dirndls as a promotion of Bavarian cultural heritage. The Olympic mascot, the dachshund \"Waldi\", was the first officially named Olympic mascot. The Olympic Fanfare was composed by Herbert Rehbein. The Soviet Union won the most gold and overall medals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 813]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094430-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Summer Olympics\nThe Olympic Park (Olympiapark) is based on Frei Otto's plans and after the Games became a Munich landmark. The competition sites, designed by architect G\u00fcnther Behnisch, included the Olympic swimming hall, the Olympics Hall (Olympiahalle, a multipurpose facility) and the Olympic Stadium (Olympiastadion), and an Olympic village very close to the park. The design of the stadium was considered revolutionary, with sweeping canopies of acrylic glass stabilized by metal ropes, used on such a large scale for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094430-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Summer Olympics, Host city selection\nMunich won its Olympic bid on April 26, 1966, at the 64th IOC Session at Rome, Italy, over bids presented by Detroit, Madrid, and Montr\u00e9al. Montr\u00e9al would eventually host the following Olympic games in 1976.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094430-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Summer Olympics, Munich massacre\nThe Games were largely overshadowed by what has come to be known as the \"Munich massacre\". Just before dawn on September 5, a group of eight members of the Palestinian Black September terrorist organization broke into the Olympic Village and took eleven Israeli athletes, coaches and officials hostage in their apartments. Two of the hostages who resisted were killed in the first moments of the break-in; the subsequent standoff in the Olympic Village lasted for almost 18 hours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094430-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Summer Olympics, Munich massacre\nLate in the evening of September 5 that same day, the terrorists and their nine remaining hostages were transferred by helicopter to the military airport of F\u00fcrstenfeldbruck, ostensibly to board a plane bound for an undetermined Arab country. The German authorities planned to ambush them there, but underestimated the numbers of their opposition and were thus undermanned. During a botched rescue attempt, all of the Israeli hostages were killed. Four of them were shot, then incinerated when one of the terrorists detonated a grenade inside the helicopter in which the hostages were sitting. The 5 remaining hostages were then shot and killed with a machine gun.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 702]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094430-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Summer Olympics, Munich massacre\n\"Our worst fears have been realized tonight. They have now said that there were 11 hostages. Two were killed in their rooms, yesterday morning. Nine were killed at the airport, tonight. They\u2019re all gone.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094430-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 Summer Olympics, Munich massacre\n\u2014After a series of conflicting reports and rumours, Jim McKay of ABC brought the news at 3:24 a.m. local time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094430-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 Summer Olympics, Munich massacre\nAll but three of the terrorists were killed as well. Although arrested and imprisoned pending trial, they were released by the West German government on October 29, 1972, in exchange for the hijacked Lufthansa Flight 615. Two of those three were supposedly hunted down and assassinated later by the Mossad. Jamal Al-Gashey, who is believed to be the sole survivor, is still living today in hiding in an unspecified African country with his wife and two children.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094430-0009-0001", "contents": "1972 Summer Olympics, Munich massacre\nThe Olympic events were suspended several hours after the initial attack, but once the incident was concluded, Avery Brundage, the International Olympic Committee president, declared that \"the Games must go on\". A memorial ceremony was then held in the Olympic stadium, and the competitions resumed after a stoppage of 34 hours. The attack prompted heightened security at subsequent Olympics beginning with the 1976 Winter Olympics. Security at Olympics was heightened further beginning with the 2002 Winter Olympics, as they were the first to take place after the 2001 September 11 attacks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094430-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 Summer Olympics, Munich massacre\nThe massacre led the German federal government to re-examine its anti-terrorism policies, which at the time were dominated by a pacifist approach adopted after World War II. This led to the creation of the elite counter-terrorist unit GSG 9, similar to the British SAS. It also led Israel to launch a campaign known as Operation Wrath of God, in which those suspected of involvement were systematically tracked down and assassinated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094430-0011-0000", "contents": "1972 Summer Olympics, Munich massacre\nThe events of the Munich massacre were chronicled in the Oscar-winning documentary, One Day in September. An account of the aftermath is also dramatized in three films: the 1976 made-for-TV movie 21 Hours at Munich, the 1986 made-for-TV movie Sword of Gideon and Steven Spielberg's 2005 film Munich. In her film 1972, Artist Sarah Morris interviews Dr. Georg Sieber, a former police psychiatrist who advised the Olympics' security team, about the events and aftermath of Black September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094430-0012-0000", "contents": "1972 Summer Olympics, Cost\nThe Oxford Olympics Study established the outturn cost of the Munich 1972 Summer Olympics at US$1.0 billion in 2015-dollars. This includes sports-related costs only, that is, (i) operational costs incurred by the organizing committee for the purpose of staging the Games, e.g., expenditures for technology, transportation, workforce, administration, security, catering, ceremonies, and medical services, and (ii) direct capital costs incurred by the host city and country or private investors to build, e.g., the competition venues, the Olympic village, international broadcast center, and media and press center, which are required to host the Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 26], "content_span": [27, 678]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094430-0012-0001", "contents": "1972 Summer Olympics, Cost\nIndirect capital costs are not included, such as for road, rail, or airport infrastructure, or for hotel upgrades or other business investment incurred in preparation for the Games but not directly related to staging the Games. The cost for Munich 1972 compares with costs of US$4.6 billion for Rio 2016, US$15 billion for London 2012 (the most costly Summer Olympics to date) and US$21 billion for Sochi 2014 \u2014 the most expensive Olympic Games in history. Average cost for Summer Games since 1960 is US$5.2 billion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 26], "content_span": [27, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094430-0013-0000", "contents": "1972 Summer Olympics, Sports\nThe 1972 Summer Olympic programme featured 195 events in the following 21 sports:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 28], "content_span": [29, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094430-0014-0000", "contents": "1972 Summer Olympics, Participating National Olympic Committees\nEleven nations made their first Olympic appearance in Munich: Albania, Dahomey (now Benin), Gabon, North Korea, Lesotho, Malawi, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Swaziland, Togo, Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 63], "content_span": [64, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094430-0015-0000", "contents": "1972 Summer Olympics, Participating National Olympic Committees\nRhodesia's invitation to take part in the 1972 Summer Games was withdrawn by the International Olympic Committee four days before the opening ceremony, in response to African countries' (such as Ethiopia and Kenya) protests against the Rhodesian government. (Rhodesia did, however, compete in the 1972 Summer Paralympics, held a little earlier in Heidelberg.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 63], "content_span": [64, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094430-0016-0000", "contents": "1972 Summer Olympics, Calendar\n\u2021 No medals were awarded on 5 September as all Olympic competitions were suspended during the day although events that were being held at the time of the suspension were allowed to finish to their conclusion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094430-0017-0000", "contents": "1972 Summer Olympics, Calendar\nNote: The Memorial service was held in the Olympic Stadium on 6 September which was attended by 80,000 spectators and 3,000 athletes. Following this all Olympic competitions were then allowed to resume after a 34 hour suspension.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094430-0018-0000", "contents": "1972 Summer Olympics, Medal count\nThese are the top ten nations that won medals at the 1972 Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094430-0019-0000", "contents": "1972 Summer Olympics, Doping\nThe report, titled \"Doping in Germany from 1950 to today\", details how the West German government helped fund a wide-scale doping program. Doping of West German athletes was prevalent at the Munich Games of 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 28], "content_span": [29, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094431-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Summer Olympics medal table\nThe 1972 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad, took place in Munich, West Germany, from 26 August through 11 September 1972. A total of 7,134 athletes from 121 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) competed in 195 events from 23 sports.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094431-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Summer Olympics medal table\nMen's indoor handball, slalom canoeing and kayaking all made their Olympic debuts, while archery returned to the Olympic program after a 52-year hiatus. Rhodesia, like South Africa, was still segregated in 1972 and yet the International Olympic Committee (IOC) voted to invite Rhodesia to the 1972 Games. Eventually, African nations protested this invitation and threatened to boycott the Games. Three days before the opening ceremonies the IOC voted to rescind their invitation and exclude the Rhodesian athletes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094431-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Summer Olympics medal table\nThe Games were largely overshadowed by what has come to be known as the Munich massacre. On September 5 a group of eight Palestinian terrorists belonging to the Black September Organization broke into the Olympic Village and took nine Israeli athletes, coaches and officials hostage in their apartments. Two of the hostages who resisted were killed in the first moments of the break-in; the subsequent standoff in the Olympic Village lasted for almost 18 hours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094431-0002-0001", "contents": "1972 Summer Olympics medal table\nLate in the evening of September 5, the terrorists and their hostages were transferred by helicopter to the military airport of F\u00fcrstenfeldbruck, ostensibly to board a plane bound for an undetermined Arab country. The German authorities planned to ambush them there, but underestimated the number of terrorists and were thus undermanned. During a botched rescue attempt, all of the Israeli hostages were killed. Four of them were shot, then incinerated when one of the terrorists detonated a grenade inside the helicopter in which the hostages were sitting. The five remaining hostages were then machine-gunned by another terrorist.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 665]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094431-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Summer Olympics medal table\nAthletes from 48 NOCs won medals, leaving 73 NOCs unrepresented on the medal table. The Soviet Union edged the United States in total (99 to 94) and gold medals (50 to 33). Another notable rivalry took place between East and West Germany. Led by gymnast Karin Janz, who won two golds, two silvers and one bronze, East Germany (66 total and 20 gold medals) beat West Germany (13 gold and 40 total medals) to third place in the total medal count.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094431-0003-0001", "contents": "1972 Summer Olympics medal table\nEast Germany would nearly overtake the United States in 1976, and then finish second in the medal count in 1980 and 1988. American swimmer Mark Spitz won seven events, breaking the record for most gold medals by a single athlete in a single Olympic Games. Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut delivered another memorable performance. She entered the Olympics as an alternate on the Soviet gymnastics team, and replaced an injured teammate before the start of the competition. Korbut performed magnificently during the team competition and captured the global television audience with her personality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094431-0003-0002", "contents": "1972 Summer Olympics medal table\nShe helped the Soviet team win its sixth straight Olympic title and went on to win two more individual gold medals and one silver. Japanese gymnast Sawao Kato won three gold and two silver medals, including the men's individual all-around title. This was the second individual all-around title for Kato, after 1968. Kato would go on to take silver in the all-around competition in 1976 to cap an Olympic career medal total of eight golds, three silvers and one bronze. Finnish runner Lasse Vir\u00e9n won both the 5,000 and 10,000\u00a0metre races. The 10,000\u00a0metres was won in dramatic fashion after he recovered from a fall to win and set a world record. He would repeat the double at the 1976 Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 725]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094431-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Summer Olympics medal table, Medal table\nThe medal table is based on information provided by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and is consistent with IOC convention in its published medal tables. By default, the table is ordered by the number of gold medals won by an NOC. The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals. If nations are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 45], "content_span": [46, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094432-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Summer Olympics national flag bearers\nDuring the Parade of Nations section of the 1972 Summer Olympics opening ceremony, athletes from each country participating in the Olympics paraded in the arena, preceded by their flag. The flag was borne by a sportsperson from that country chosen either by the National Olympic Committee or by the athletes themselves to represent their country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094432-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Summer Olympics national flag bearers, Parade order\nAs the nation of the first modern Olympic Games, Greece entered the stadium first; whereas, the host nation West Germany marched last, according with tradition and IOC guidelines. Announcers in the stadium read off the names of the marching nations in the host country's language, German, by actor and television personality Joachim Fuchsberger and music during the parade of nations is composed by Kurt Edelhagen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 56], "content_span": [57, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094432-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Summer Olympics national flag bearers, Parade order\nWhilst most countries entered under their short names, a few entered under acronym or alternative names, mostly due to political and naming disputes. The People's Republic of the Congo entered as Congo (Kongo instead of Volksrepublik Kongo), South Korea (Republic of Korea) entered as Korea instead of Republik Korea, Taiwan (Republic of China) entered as Republik China, and South Vietnam (Republic of Vietnam) entered as Vietnam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 56], "content_span": [57, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094432-0002-0001", "contents": "1972 Summer Olympics national flag bearers, Parade order\nAcronyms used during the ceremony like East Germany (German Democratic Republic), North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) and Soviet Union (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) entered respectively as DDR (Deutsche Demokratische Republik), DVR Korea (Demokratische Volksrepublik Korea) and UdSSR (Union der Sozialistischen Sowjeterepubliken), United States in other hand entered the same as English, USA instead of its full German name Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, and host nation West Germany (Federal Republic of Germany) entered as Germany (Deutschland instead of Bundesrepublik Deutschland or its acronym BRD) to avoid with the two Germanies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 56], "content_span": [57, 718]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094432-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Summer Olympics national flag bearers, Parade order\nA record of 121 nations entered the stadium with a combined total of 7,134 athletes. Eleven nations made their Olympic debut, namely Albania, Dahomey (now Benin), Gabon, North Korea, Lesotho, Malawi, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Swaziland, Togo, Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso). Rhodesia's invitation to take part in the 1972 Summer Games was withdrawn by the International Olympic Committee four days before the opening ceremony, in response to African countries' (such as Ethiopia and Kenya) protests against the Rhodesian government. (Rhodesia did, however, compete in the 1972 Summer Paralympics, held a little earlier in Heidelberg.) Rhodesian athletes would have been marched between Republic of China and Romania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 56], "content_span": [57, 770]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094432-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Summer Olympics national flag bearers, List\nThe following is a list of each country's announced flag bearer. The list is sorted by the order in which each nation appears in the parade of nations. The names are given in their official designations by the IOC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 48], "content_span": [49, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094432-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Summer Olympics national flag bearers, List\nThis table is sortable by country name (in German), the flag bearer's name, and the flag bearer's sport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 48], "content_span": [49, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094433-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Summer Paralympics\nThe 1972 Summer Paralympics (German: Paralympische Sommerspiele 1972), the fourth edition of the Paralympic Games, were held in Heidelberg, West Germany, from 2 to 11 August 1972. The games ended 15 days before the 1972 Summer Olympics held in Munich, also in West Germany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094433-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Summer Paralympics, Sports\nAs with previous Paralympics, the 1972 games were intended for wheelchair athletes only. However, demonstration events such as goalball and a 100 m sprint for the visually impaired allowed visually impaired competitors to participate for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094433-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Summer Paralympics, Medal table\nThe top ten listed NOCs by number of gold medals are listed below. The host nation, West Germany, is highlighted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 36], "content_span": [37, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094433-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Summer Paralympics, Participating delegations\nForty-one delegations took part in the Heidelberg Paralympics. Bahamas, Brazil, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, Hong Kong, Hungary, Kenya, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, Poland, Romania, Uganda and Yugoslavia competed for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094433-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Summer Paralympics, Participating delegations\nSouth Africa was competing at the Paralympics for the third time. Although banned from the Olympic Games due to its policy of apartheid, it was not banned from the Paralympics until 1980, and West Germany, as host country, did not object to its participation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094433-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Summer Paralympics, Participating delegations\nRhodesia competed for the last time. Its invitation to take part in the 1972 Summer Olympics was withdrawn by the International Olympic Committee four days before the opening ceremony, in response to African countries' protests against the Rhodesian government. But as the Paralympics that year were held before the Olympics (and independently from them), Rhodesia was able to take part in the 1972 Paralympic Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094434-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Summer Paralympics medal table\nThe 21st International Stoke Mandeville Games, later known as the 1972 Summer Paralympics (also known as the XXI World Games for the Paralysed) was an international multi-sport event held in Heidelberg, West Germany, from August 2 to 11, 1972, in which athletes with physical disabilities competed against one another. The German Disabled Sports Association planned to stage the Games in Munich following the 1972 Olympic Games, however the Olympic village in Munich was designated to be closed and converted into private apartments. The organisers tried to arrange for alternative accommodation for the athletes but when this was not possible the city of Heidelberg stepped in with an invite to stage the Games at the University of Heidelberg's Institute for Physical Training.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 814]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094434-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Summer Paralympics medal table\nIn total 575 medals were awarded in 187 events in 10 different sports. Of the 42 competing National Paralympic Committees (NPCs) 31 won at least one medal. The host nation won the most gold medals, with 28, and the United States won the most total medals with 74. Rhodesia competed at these Games, winning 12 medals, but did not take part at the 1972 Summer Olympics after their invitation was withdrawn by the International Olympic Committee, four days before the opening ceremony, in response to African countries' protests against the Rhodesian regime. This medal table ranks the competing NPCs by the number of gold medals won by their athletes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 685]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094434-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Summer Paralympics medal table\nNotable gold medallists included Canadian Eugene Reimer, who set a world record in discus with a throw of 29.91 metres and also won a gold medal in the pentathlon and silver in the 4\u00d760 metres wheelchair relay. A crowd of 4,000 watched the United States defeat defending champions Israel 59\u201358 to take the gold medal in men's wheelchair basketball. Zipora Rubin-Rosenbaum of Israel won a gold medal in the women's javelin throw 5 event, with a new world record of 18.50 metres, and also won a silver medal in the shot put.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094434-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Summer Paralympics medal table, Medal table\nThe ranking in this table is based on information provided by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and is consistent with IPC convention in its published medal tables. By default, the table is ordered by the number of gold medals the athletes from a nation have won (in this context, a \"nation\" is an entity represented by a NPC). The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals. If nations are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically by IPC country code.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 48], "content_span": [49, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094434-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Summer Paralympics medal table, Medal table\nTwo bronze medals were awarded in each table tennis and lawn bowls event. Some athletics and swimming events did not award silver or bronze medals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 48], "content_span": [49, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094435-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Sun Bowl\nThe 1972 Sun Bowl was a college football postseason bowl game that featured the North Carolina Tar Heels and the Texas Tech Red Raiders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094435-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Sun Bowl, Background\nA 29-14 loss to #5 Ohio State proved to be the Tar Heels' only loss of the season, as they went undefeated in conference play to win the Atlantic Coast Conference title for the second straight year. As for the Red Raiders, they had finished tied for second in the Southwest Conference, with a 24-14 loss to Arkansas on Thanksgiving especially damaging, as Tech had been ranked #20 before the loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 25], "content_span": [26, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094435-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Sun Bowl, Game summary\nEllis Alexander gave the Tar Heels a 3-0 lead on his 32 yard field goal in the first quarter. A Dick Oliver 22 yard touchdown run made it 9-0 (with a missed extra point) in the 2nd. The Red Raiders scored a passing touchdown by Pat Barnes in the 2nd quarter to make it 9-7 at halftime. However, a touchdown they didn't make turned out to be important.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 27], "content_span": [28, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094435-0002-0001", "contents": "1972 Sun Bowl, Game summary\nOn a North Carolina punt in the 2nd quarter, the kick was blocked and Red Raider Donald Rives returned it for an apparent touchdown, but it was called back due to a unsportsmanlike conduct penalty on a Tech coach being on the field during play. They took the lead on two touchdown runs by George Smith to make it 21-9. North Carolina responded with two touchdowns of their own. The first came on a Ted Leverenz touchdown catch from Nick Vidnovic touchdown pass from 62 yards out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 27], "content_span": [28, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094435-0002-0002", "contents": "1972 Sun Bowl, Game summary\nThe second came in the 4th quarter on a Billy Hite touchdown run, with the successful conversion making it 24-21. Tech responded Smith's third touchdown of the game to make it 28-24 with 7:41 left. Vidnovic and Leverenz responded once again with a touchdown throw that gave them the lead with a minute to go. When the Red Raiders got the ball back, Barnes was sacked in the endzone, making the score 32-28 as the Tar Heels ran out the rest of the clock to clinch the victory. Despite his team losing, George Smith was named MVP on 172 yards on 14 carries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 27], "content_span": [28, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094435-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Sun Bowl, Aftermath\nThe Tar Heels returned to the Sun Bowl two years later. The Red Raiders returned in 1993.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 24], "content_span": [25, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094436-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Sutton and Cheam by-election\nThe Sutton and Cheam by-election of 7 December 1972 was held after Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) Richard Sharples was appointed Governor of Bermuda. In a defeat for Edward Heath's government the seat was taken by the Liberals. This was the second Liberal gain during the 1970\u20131974 Parliament, during which they gained five seats overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094437-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Swazi general election\nGeneral elections were held in Swaziland between 16 and 17 May 1972. The result was a third successive victory for the royalist Imbokodvo National Movement, which won 78% of the vote and 21 of the 24 seats, based on a voter turnout of 74.0%. The Ngwane National Liberatory Congress won three seats, but five days after the election one of its successful candidates was served with a deportation order as an \"undesirable alien\". Although he subsequently won a High Court ruling against the order, in November the parliament created a tribunal through which his citizenship was revoked.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094437-0000-0001", "contents": "1972 Swazi general election\nThe Appeal Court declared the act unconstitutional, and on 12 April 1973 the parliament passed a motion that \"called on the king to devise ways and means of dealing with the crisis\". The result was that King Sobhuza suspended the constitution, dismissed Parliament, banned all political parties and became an absolute monarch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094438-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Swedish Open\nThe 1972 Swedish Open was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts held in B\u00e5stad, Sweden. It was classified as a Group C category tournament and was part of the 1972 Grand Prix circuit. It was the 25th edition of the tournament and was held from 17 July until 23 July 1972. Manuel Orantes won the singles title. No doubles event was held that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094439-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Swedish Pro Tennis Championships\nThe 1972 Swedish Pro Tennis Championships was a tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts. It was the 1st edition of Swedish Pro Tennis Championships, and was part of the 1972 World Championship Tennis circuit. It took place at the Scandinavium in Gothenburg, Sweden, from 30 October until 5 November 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094439-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Swedish Pro Tennis Championships\nThe singles line up featured Toronto, Las Vegas, St. Louis, Fort Worth, Alamo and Vancouver WCT winner John Newcombe, US Open runner-up, Louisville and Montreal WCT champion Arthur Ashe, and Chicago WCT finalist, Boston WCT and Stockholm finalist Tom Okker. Also competing were Cleveland WCT winner Mark Cox, Richmond, Miami, Las Vegas and Alamo WCT runner-up Cliff Drysdale, Marty Riessen, Robert Lutz and Nikola Pili\u0107.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094439-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Swedish Pro Tennis Championships, Finals, Doubles\nTom Okker / Marty Riessen defeated Ismail El Shafei / Brian Fairlie, 6\u20132, 7\u20136", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 54], "content_span": [55, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094440-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Swedish Pro Tennis Championships \u2013 Doubles\nTom Okker and Marty Riessen won in the final 6\u20132, 7\u20136, against Ismail El Shafei and Brian Fairlie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094441-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Swedish Pro Tennis Championships \u2013 Singles\nJohn Newcombe won in the final 6\u20130, 6\u20133, 6\u20131, against Roy Emerson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094442-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Swedish football Division 2\nStatistics of Swedish football Division 2 for the 1972 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094443-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Swiss League Cup\nThe 1972 Swiss League Cup was the inaugural Swiss League Cup competition. It was played in the summer of 1972 as a pre-season tournament to the 1972\u201373 Swiss football season. It was won by FC Basel who defeated FC Winterthur 4\u20131 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094443-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Swiss League Cup, Final\nThe final took place on 11 November 1972 at Letzigrund in Z\u00fcrich", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 93]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094444-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Swiss referendums\nSeven referendums were held in Switzerland in 1972. The first two were held on 5 March on a popular initiative on the promotion of housebuilding (and a counter-proposal) and on an amendment to the Swiss Federal Constitution to protect tenants. The popular initiative was rejected, whilst the constitutional amendment was approved. The third and fourth were held on 4 June on measures to stabilise the federal construction market and protecting currency, both of which were approved.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094444-0000-0001", "contents": "1972 Swiss referendums\nThe fifth was held on 24 September on a popular initiative for enhanced arms control and a ban on weapon exports, but was narrowly rejected. The final two were held on 3 December on a popular initiative on introducing a \"people's pension\" (and a counterproposal) and on an agreement with the European Community. The pensions initiative was rejected, whilst the agreement was approved.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094445-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Syracuse Orangemen football team\nThe 1972 Syracuse Orangemen football team represented Syracuse University during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. The team was led by 24th-year head coach Ben Schwartzwalder and played their home games at Archbold Stadium in Syracuse, New York. The team finished with a record of 5\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094446-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 S\u00e3o Paulo FC season\nThe 1972 football season was S\u00e3o Paulo's 43rd season since club's existence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094447-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 TAA Formula Ford Driver to Europe Series\nThe 1972 TAA Formula Ford Driver to Europe Series was an Australian motor racing competition open to Formula Ford racing cars. It was the third annual Australian national series for Formula Fords.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094447-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 TAA Formula Ford Driver to Europe Series\nThe series was won by Bob Skelton driving a Bowin P4a.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094447-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 TAA Formula Ford Driver to Europe Series, Points system\nSeries points were awarded on a 10-9-8-76-5-4-3-2-1 basis for the first ten positions in each round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 60], "content_span": [61, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094447-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 TAA Formula Ford Driver to Europe Series, Points system\nOnly the best three scores in Victorian races and the best three scores in New South Wales races were considered for each driver.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 60], "content_span": [61, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094448-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 TANFL season\nThe 1972 Tasmanian Australian National Football League (TANFL) premiership season was an Australian rules football competition staged in Hobart, Tasmania over twenty (20) roster rounds and four finals series matches between 1 April and 16 September 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094448-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 TANFL season, Participating Clubs, Interstate Matches\nSee : 1972 Australian National Football CarnivalMatch One (Saturday, 17 June 1972)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 58], "content_span": [59, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094448-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 TANFL season, 1972 TANFL Ladder, Grand Final\nSource: All scores and statistics courtesy of the Hobart Mercury and Saturday Evening Mercury (SEM) publications.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 49], "content_span": [50, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094449-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 TCU Horned Frogs football team\nThe 1972 TCU Horned Frogs football team represented Texas Christian University (TCU) in the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. The Horned Frogs finished the season 5\u20136 overall and 2\u20135 in the Southwest Conference. The team was coached by Billy Tohill, in his second year as head coach. The Frogs played their home games in Amon G. Carter Stadium, which is located on campus in Fort Worth, Texas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094450-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Taiwanese legislative election\nThe second supplementary elections took place for the National Assembly and Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China (Taiwan) on 23 December 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094450-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Taiwanese legislative election, Background\nCompared with the first supplementary election the number of eligible seats for the National Assembly had been increased from 15 to 53 and for the Legislative Yuan from 11 to 51. Of these, 36 seats for the Legislative Yuan represented Taiwan Province, Kinmen and Matsu, and the special municipality of Taipei and were to be elected directly. The remaining 15 seats for the Legislative Yuan represented overseas nationals and were chosen by the President.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094450-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Taiwanese legislative election, Results\nTurnout for the supplementary election of the National Assembly was 68.35% and 68.18% for the Legislative Yuan. Of the newly elected members to the National Assembly 43 belonged to the Kuomintang and 10 were independent. Of the 36 elected delegates to the Legislative Yuan 30 belonged to the Kuomintang, 5 were independent and 1 belonged to the Chinese Youth Party. All representatives chosen were born Taiwanese except for 10 (5 in each of the legislative bodies) who were from the Mainland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094450-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Taiwanese legislative election, Further reading\nCopper, John F. and George P. Chen (1984), Taiwan\u2019s Elections. Political Development and Democratization in the Republic of China, [Baltimore, Md. ], Occasional Papers/Reprints Series in Contemporary Asian Studies, no. 5-1984 (64), ISBN\u00a00-942182-66-9", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094451-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Taiwanese presidential election\nIndirect elections were held for the presidency and vice-presidency of the government of the Republic of China on Taiwan on March 21, 1972. The vote took place at the Chung-Shan Building in Yangmingshan, Taipei. Incumbent President Chiang Kai-shek, aged 85, was re-elected for the fifth term with his Vice President Yen Chia-kan. President Chiang died in office on April 5, 1975. Vice President Yen Chia-kan then sworn in as the President.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094451-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Taiwanese presidential election, Electors\nThe election was conducted by the National Assembly in its meeting place Chung-Shan Building in Yangmingshan, Taipei. According to the Temporary Provisions against the Communist Rebellion, National Assembly delegates elected in the following elections were eligible to vote:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094451-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Taiwanese presidential election, Electors\nIn total, there were 1,344 delegates reported to the secretariat to attend this fifth session of the first National Assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094452-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Talladega 500\nThe 1972 Talladega 500 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series race that took place on August 6, 1972, at Talladega Superspeedway in Talladega, Alabama.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094452-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Talladega 500, Background\nTalladega Superspeedway, originally known as Alabama International Motor Superspeedway (AIMS), is a motorsports complex located north of Talladega, Alabama. It is located on the former Anniston Air Force Base in the small city of Lincoln. The track is a Tri-oval and was constructed by International Speedway Corporation, a business controlled by the France Family, in the 1960s. Talladega is most known for its steep banking and the unique location of the start/finish line - located just past the exit to pit road. The track currently hosts the NASCAR series such as the Monster Energy Cup Series, Xfinity Series, and the Camping World Truck Series. Talladega Superspeedway is the longest NASCAR oval with a length of 2.66 miles (4.28\u00a0km), and the track at its peak had a seating capacity of 175,000 spectators.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 844]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094452-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Talladega 500, Race report\nBobby Isaac won the pole at a speed of 190.677 miles per hour (306.865\u00a0km/h). Taking place on August 6, 1972, at Talladega Superspeedway in Talladega, Alabama, the race took three hours and twenty-two minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094452-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Talladega 500, Race report\nJames Hylton won the race; collecting $24,865 ($151,979 when adjusted for inflation). This was a controversial race because NASCAR used treaded tires and it was disastrous for most teams. Hylton won because he didn't have the money to buy the new tires and used old nontreaded tires. Darrell Waltrip would lead his first laps of his NASCAR Winston Cup Series career.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094452-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Talladega 500, Race report\nThe drivers who were using old tires had a huge advantage, Waltrip was one of them as was eventual winner James Hylton. Waltrip actually led 7 laps before his engine blew up. All was not bad for Waltrip who was short on funds at the time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094452-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Talladega 500, Race report\nMany drivers were out of the race by lap 5 because of a big crash. By the day's end, only 18 cars finished the race and only two cars finished on the lead lap. One lap 188, Hylton and ARCA legend Ramo Stott battled to the finish. Hylton won the race by less than one second. Third-place finisher Bobby Allison was five laps down. It was Hylton's second and final win in NASCAR.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094452-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Talladega 500, Race report\nNotable crew chiefs at this race; Jake Elder, Harry Hyde, Dale Inman and Lee Gordon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094453-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Tampa Spartans football team\nThe 1972 Tampa Spartans football team represented the University of Tampa in the 1972 NCAA College Division football season. It was the Spartans' 36th season and they competed as an NCAA College Division independent. The team was led by head coach Earle Bruce, in his first and only year, and played their home games at Tampa Stadium in Tampa, Florida. They finished with a record of ten wins and two losses (10\u20132) and with a victory in the Tangerine Bowl over Kent State, which featured future Pro Football Hall of Fame linebacker Jack Lambert and future Missouri coach Gary Pinkel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094453-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Tampa Spartans football team\nBruce was hired on February 2, 1972, to serve as the replacement for Bill Fulcher who resigned to become the head coach at Georgia Tech. Bruce departed following the season to become head coach at Iowa State after Johnny Majors was named coach at Pittsburgh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094453-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Tampa Spartans football team\nThe Spartans' notable players included John Matuszak, who was selected first overall by the Houston Oilers in the 1973 NFL Draft and later won two Super Bowls with the Oakland Raiders; Freddie Solomon, a receiver on two Super Bowl champion teams with the San Francisco 49ers in the 1980s; and Paul Orndorff, who went on to stardom in the World Wrestling Federation as \"Mr. Wonderful\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094454-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Tangerine Bowl\nThe 1972 Tangerine Bowl, part of the 1972 bowl game season, took place on December 29, 1972, at the Tangerine Bowl stadium in Orlando, Florida. The competing teams were the Tampa Spartans, that competed as a College Division Independent, and the Kent State Golden Flashes, that competed as a member of the Mid-American Conference (MAC). In the game, Tampa took a 21\u20130 halftime lead, and then held off a Golden Flashes comeback to win 21\u201318.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094454-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Tangerine Bowl\nThe game featured two eventual College Football Hall of Fame coaches, Earle Bruce at Tampa and Don James at Kent State. Other players of note that played in the game included eventual Alabama head coach Nick Saban, Missouri head coach Gary Pinkel and Pro Football Hall of Fame linebacker Jack Lambert for Kent State and eventual number one NFL Draft pick John Matuszak for Tampa. Tampa's Paul Orndorff would go on to have a successful professional wrestling career.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094454-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Tangerine Bowl, Teams, Tampa\nThe Spartans entered their game against Bowling Green with an overall record of seven wins and two losses (7\u20132), and it was speculated the winner of the game would be invited to compete in the Tangerine Bowl. This was the case as a Falcons victory would give them the MAC championship and an automatic bid to the game thus making a rematch against the Spartans unlikely. Tampa did win the game 29\u201322, and on November 20, they accepted a bid to play in the Tangerine Bowl. The appearance marked the first for the Spartans in a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) sanctioned bowl game and their first postseason appearance since their victory in the 1954 Cigar Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 710]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094454-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Tangerine Bowl, Teams, Kent State\nThe Golden Flashes entered their game against Toledo with an overall record of five wins, four losses and one tie (5\u20134\u20131). With a victory over the Rockets, Kent State won their first all-time MAC Championship and secured the league's automatic bid to the Tangerine Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094454-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Tangerine Bowl, Game summary\nThe 1972 edition of the Tangerine Bowl kicked off at 8:00\u00a0p.m. before what was the largest crowd to date for the game. The Spartans took a 14\u20130 first quarter lead on a pair of Buddy Carter touchdown passes to Paul Orndorff. The first was set up after Gerald Tinker fumbled a punt at the Flashes' 15-yard line that was recovered by Terry Grantham. On the next play, Tampa led 7\u20130 with Orndorff's 15-yard touchdown reception.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094454-0004-0001", "contents": "1972 Tangerine Bowl, Game summary\nLater in the quarter, the second Spartans touchdown was set up by a Tommy Thomas interception return of a Greg Kokal pass to the Kent 38-yard line. Two plays later, Tampa led 14\u20130 with Orndorff's 35-yard touchdown reception. Tampa's final touchdown drive of the night was again set up by a Kent turnover. For the second time, Kokal threw an interception, and on the drive that followed Freddie Solomon gained 60 yards on five carries that included the final two for a touchdown and a 21\u20130 halftime lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094454-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Tangerine Bowl, Game summary\nKent responded in the third quarter with their first touchdown on a 76-yard Kokal pass to Tinker, and after a missed extra point the score was 21\u20136. A pair of fourth-quarter touchdowns on a ten-yard Kokal pass to Dooner and on a 78-yard Renard Harmon punt return made the final score 21\u201318. For his performance of 103 yards on 14 carries and a touchdown, Freddie Solomon was named outstanding back of the game, along with Kent State's Jack Lambert who was named outstanding lineman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094455-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Tanglewood International Tennis Classic\nThe 1972 Tanglewood International Tennis Classic was a men's tennis tournament held at Tanglewood Park in Clemmons, North Carolina in the United States that was part of the Grand Prix circuit and categorized as a Group D event. The tournament was played on outdoor clay courts and was held from July 24 through July 30, 1972. It was the second edition of the tournament and Bob Hewitt won the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094455-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Tanglewood International Tennis Classic, Finals, Doubles\nBob Hewitt / Andrew Pattison defeated Jim McManus / Jim Osborne 6\u20134, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 61], "content_span": [62, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094456-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Taroom explosion\nThe 1972 Taroom explosion occurred after a truck carrying ammonium nitrate, an explosive and fertilizer, caught fire on 30 August 1972 near Taroom, Central Queensland, Australia. The explosion, on the Fitzroy Developmental Road near Stonecroft Station, 90 kilometres north-west of Taroom, killed three men.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094456-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Taroom explosion, Summary\n25-year-old truck driver Ronald Holzberger had left East Botany on 28 August 1972 with a 21 tonne (23 tons) load of Nitropril, Imperial Chemical Industries' brand of a pourous type of ammonium nitrate. Used extensively as an explosive in open-cut mining, the load was destined for the Goonyella coalfields.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094456-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Taroom explosion, Summary\nHis younger brother Bill Holzberger was driving another truck, loaded with 11 tonnes (12 tons) of the same chemical.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094456-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Taroom explosion, Summary\nHowever, upon reaching Taroom, the two brothers decided to swap vehicles after Bill Holzberger had complained about his truck becoming difficult to operate due to electrical issues. Bill Holzberger, now driving the heavier load, then continued on ahead of his brother who was now driving behind with the 11 tonne load.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094456-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Taroom explosion, Summary\nAbout an hour after continuing the journey, the truck Ronald Holzberger was now driving caught fire. He pulled the burning truck over, parked it to the side of the road and salvaged some personal belongings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094456-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Taroom explosion, Summary\nNearby, two brothers from Stonecroft Station, 20-year-old Evan Becker and 18-year-old Douglas Becker, saw the smoke from a distance and rode to the scene on their motorbikes to investigate and to render assistance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094456-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Taroom explosion, Summary\nNot realising the danger they were in, the three men were standing near the burning truck when the ammonium nitrate ignited and caused a massive explosion which was heard in the towns of Moura and Theodore where it shook houses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094456-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Taroom explosion, Summary\nThe blast killed all three men and caused a crater in the road which measured two metres deep, five metres wide and 20 metres long.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094456-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 Taroom explosion, Summary\nThe International TranStar truck cab and the trailer were completely destroyed and debris was scattered up to two kilometres away. The explosion also started a bushfire which burnt out over 800 hectares of land.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094456-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 Taroom explosion, Summary\nThe deaths of the two brothers in the explosion was yet another hardship for the Becker family. Evan and Douglas Becker's two brothers Russell and Owen had suffered polio as children and their sister Kay had died as a child in 1951 after developing encephalitis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094456-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 Taroom explosion, Legacy\nOn 30 March 2013, a memorial was unveiled and dedicated in a ceremony held at the site of the explosion. It had been erected with the assistance of the Taroom Historical Society and Banana Shire Council and was dedicated by Heather Becker, a liturgical assistant at the Holy Trinity Church in Taroom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094456-0011-0000", "contents": "1972 Taroom explosion, Legacy\nThe memorial site includes the truck's bullbar which was recovered 200 metres north of the blast site, which has been cemented in as part of the memorial.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094456-0012-0000", "contents": "1972 Taroom explosion, Legacy\nThe ceremony was attended by over 100 people including Bill Holzberger and members of the Becker family.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094456-0013-0000", "contents": "1972 Taroom explosion, Legacy\nAnother ammonium nitrate explosion, very reminiscent of the Taroom incident, occurred on 5 September 2014 at Angellala Creek on the Mitchell Highway near Wyandra, Queensland when another burning truck triggered another massive explosion. Some media reports mentioned the 1972 Taroom incident in their reporting of the 2014 explosion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094456-0014-0000", "contents": "1972 Taroom explosion, Legacy\nBoth the Taroom and Wyandra incidents have been referenced by international media when reporting on ammonium nitrate disasters, such as the 2020 Beirut explosion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094457-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Tasman Series\nThe 1972 Tasman Series was a motor racing competition staged in New Zealand and Australia for racing cars complying with the Tasman Formula. The series, which began on 8 January and ended on 27 February after eight races, was the ninth annual Tasman Series. It was won by Graham McRae of New Zealand, driving a Leda GM1 Chevrolet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094457-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Tasman Series, Points system\nSeries points were awarded at each round on the following basis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 33], "content_span": [34, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094458-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Tasmanian state election\nThe Tasmanian state election, 1972 was held on 22 April 1972 in the Australian state of Tasmania to elect 35 members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly. The election used the Hare-Clark proportional representation system \u2014 seven members were elected from each of five electorates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094458-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Tasmanian state election\nThe one-term Liberal government of Premier Angus Bethune had collapsed following the withdrawal of support by Kevin Lyons. The opposition Labor Party, led by Eric Reece, gained a clear majority and won the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094458-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Tasmanian state election, Background\nThe 1969 election had resulted in a hung parliament, with the deadlock broken when Kevin Lyons of the Centre Party formed a coalition government with Angus Bethune's Liberal Party. On 15 March 1972, Lyons resigned as Deputy Premier and effectively dissolved the Liberal-Centre coalition. The resulting instability triggered an election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094458-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Tasmanian state election, Background\nThe 1972 election was also notable due to the emergence and candidacy of the United Tasmania Group, the world's first Green party, formed to campaign against the proposed damming of Lake Pedder.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094458-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Tasmanian state election, Results\nThe Liberals lost three seats, giving Labor a clear majority. Eric Reece was sworn in as Premier of Tasmania for a second time on 3 May 1972. Eric Reece also received the highest personal vote ever in Braddon, gaining 14,790 votes, or 35.4% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094458-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Tasmanian state election, Results\nThe United Tasmania Group gained a respectable 3.9% of the vote, failing to gain a seat in the parliament and to stop the damming of Lake Pedder, but their efforts paved the way for the Tasmanian Greens to become a significant force in Tasmanian politics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094458-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Tasmanian state election, Results\nTasmanian state election, 22 April 1972House of Assembly << 1969\u20131976 >>", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094459-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Ta\u00e7a de Portugal Final\nThe 1972 Ta\u00e7a de Portugal Final was the final match of the 1971\u201372 Ta\u00e7a de Portugal, the 32nd season of the Ta\u00e7a de Portugal, the premier Portuguese football cup competition organized by the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF). The match was played on 4 June 1972 at the Est\u00e1dio Nacional in Oeiras, and opposed two Primeira Liga sides: Benfica and Sporting CP. Benfica defeated Sporting CP 3\u20132 to claim a fifteenth Ta\u00e7a de Portugal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094460-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Temple Owls football team\nThe 1972 Temple Owls football team was an American football team that represented Temple University as an independent during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. In its third season under head coach Wayne Hardin, the team compiled a 5\u20134 record and was outscored by a total of 176 to 164. The team played its home games at Temple Stadium in Philadelphia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094460-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Temple Owls football team\nThe team's statistical leaders included Doug Shobert with 1,416 passing yards, Paul Loughran with 593 rushing yards and 36 points scored, and Clint Graves with 707 receiving yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094461-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Tennessee Volunteers football team\nThe 1972 Tennessee Volunteers football team (variously \"Tennessee\", \"UT\" or the \"Vols\") represented the University of Tennessee in the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. Playing as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC), the team was led by head coach Bill Battle, in his third year, and played their home games at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, Tennessee. They finished the season with a record of ten wins and two losses (10\u20132 overall, 4\u20132 in the SEC) and a victory over LSU in the 1972 Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl. The Volunteers offense scored 297 points while the defense allowed 100 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 648]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094462-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Texas 500\nThe 1972 Texas 500 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series racing event that took place on November 12, 1972, at Texas World Speedway in College Station, Texas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094462-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Texas 500\nThe race car drivers still had to commute to the races using the same stock cars that competed in a typical weekend's race through a policy of homologation (and under their own power). This policy was in effect until roughly 1975. By 1980, NASCAR had completely stopped tracking the year model of all the vehicles and most teams did not take stock cars to the track under their own power anymore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094462-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Texas 500, Race report\nThe race was 250 laps on a paved track spanning 2 miles (3.2\u00a0km) in front of 33,000 live spectators. It took exactly 3 hours and 24 seconds for Buddy Baker to defeat A. J. Foyt by \u00bd of a car length. Baker's victory played a role in making 1972 the first NASCAR Cup Series season without any first-time Cup series winners. Foyt had earned the pole position with a speed of 170.273 miles per hour (274.028\u00a0km/h) during the qualifying runs even though the actual race speeds approached 147.059 miles per hour (236.669\u00a0km/h). Five cautions slowed the race for 29 laps. All the 44 drivers on the racing grid were American-born males.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 656]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094462-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Texas 500, Race report\nBill Seifert of the famous Giachetti Brothers (headed by Richard Giachetti) finished the race in the last-place position due to a clutch problem in the first lap of the race. Bill Champion had engine issues on lap 16 while Earle Canavan had windshield issues on lap 30. Ron Keselowski would ruin his vehicle's engine on lap 38 while Bill Hollar did the same thing on lap 68. Frank Warren would ruin his vehicle's engine on lap 92. Jabe Thomas noticed that his vehicle's suspension acted strangely on lap 93.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094462-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Texas 500, Race report\nH.B. Bailey would lose the rear end of his vehicle on lap 106. Gordon Johncock's engine expired on lap 182. Once Buddy Arrington dropped out with engine failure after completing 184 laps, Petty had locked up a 33rd-place finish. Petty only needed to complete 190 laps to clinch the championship; becoming the champion on lap 191. Clarence Lovell's engine stopped working on lap 196 while Paul Feldner's engine stopped working on lap 198. Larry Smith had identical problems to Lovell and Feldner on lap 199. Johnny Rutherford had to stop racing due to a problematic engine on lap 224.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094462-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Texas 500, Race report\nSeven notable crew chiefs were recorded as participating in the event; including Dale Inman and Harry Hyde. Paul Feldner and Bill Shirey would retire from the NASCAR Winston Cup Series after this event while Rick Newsom would make his introduction into professional stock car racing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094462-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Texas 500, Race report\nOnly manual transmission vehicles were allowed to participate in this race; a policy that NASCAR has retained to the present day. Unfortunately, this race broke Bobby Allison's streak of leading a lap from the 1971 Southern 500 all the way to the 1972 American 500. This streak would be known as the \"Joe DiMaggio Streak\" after the famous baseball player, and it has not been accomplished by any driver after this date.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094462-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Texas 500, Race report\nIndividual prize winnings for each driver ranged from the winner's share of $14,920 ($92,309 when considering inflation) to the last-place finishers' share of just $705 ($4,362 when considering inflation). The total prize purse for this racing event was locked in at $88,270 ($546,122 when considering inflation).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094463-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Texas A&M Aggies football team\nThe 1972 Texas A&M Aggies football team represented Texas A&M University in the 1972 NCAA University Division football season as a member of the Southwest Conference (SWC). The Aggies were led by head coach Emory Bellard in his first season and finished with a record of three wins and eight losses (3\u20138 overall, 2\u20135 in the SWC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094464-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Texas Longhorns baseball team\nThe 1972 Texas Longhorns baseball team represented the University of Texas at Austin in the 1972 NCAA University Division baseball season. The Longhorns played their home games at Clark Field. The team was coached by Cliff Gustafson in his 5th season at Texas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094464-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Texas Longhorns baseball team\nThe Longhorns reached the College World Series, finishing tied for third with wins over Ole Miss and Oklahoma and losses to Connecticut and a ten-inning loss to eventual champion Southern California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094465-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Texas Longhorns football team\nThe 1972 Texas Longhorns football team represented the University of Texas at Austin in the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. The Longhorns finished the regular season with a 9\u20131 record and defeated Alabama in the Cotton Bowl Classic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094466-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Texas Rangers season\nThe Texas Rangers 1972 season involved the Rangers finishing sixth in the American League West with a record of 54 wins and 100 losses. This was the Rangers' first season in Texas, as well as the club's first year in the AL West, after playing their first 11 seasons in Washington, D.C., and from 1969 to 1971 in the American League East. The Rangers were dead last in batting in the major leagues with a .217 team batting average. They failed to record an extra-base hit in 38 of their 154 games, the most of any team in the live-ball era (1920 onwards).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 581]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094466-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Texas Rangers season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs scored; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; SB = Stolen bases", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 70], "content_span": [71, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094466-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Texas Rangers season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs scored; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; SB = Stolen bases", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 63], "content_span": [64, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094466-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Texas Rangers season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 68], "content_span": [69, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094466-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Texas Rangers season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 65], "content_span": [66, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094466-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Texas Rangers season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 66], "content_span": [67, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094467-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team\nThe 1972 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team represented Texas Tech University in the Southwest Conference during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. In their third season under head coach Jim Carlen, the Red Raiders compiled an 8\u20134 record (4\u20133 against conference opponents), tied for second place in the conference, and outscored opponents by a combined total of 282 to 188. The team's statistical leaders included Joe Barnes with 1,142 passing yards, George Smith with 740 rushing yards, and Andre Tillman with 285 receiving yards. The team played its home games at Clifford B. & Audrey Jones Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 661]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094468-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Texas gubernatorial election\nThe 1972 Texas gubernatorial election was held on November 7, 1972, to elect the Governor of Texas. Incumbent Democratic Governor Preston Smith was running for reelection, but was defeated in the Democratic primary by businessman Dolph Briscoe. Briscoe went on to win the election by a relatively small margin, winning 48% of the vote to Republican Henry Grover's 45%. Raza Unida candidate Ramsey Muniz won 6%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094468-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Texas gubernatorial election\nThe 1972 election marked the last time that a gubernatorial election was held concurrently with a presidential election and the last time that a governor was elected for a two-year term. Smith became one of five consecutive incumbent Texas governors to lose re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094469-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Texas\u2013Arlington Mavericks football team\nThe 1972 Texas\u2013Arlington Mavericks football team was an American football team that represented the University of Texas at Arlington in the Southland Conference during the 1972 NCAA College Division football season. In their second year under head coach John Symank, the team compiled a 5\u20136 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094470-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Thailand Regional Games\nThe 6th Thailand National Games (Thai:\u0e01\u0e35\u0e2c\u0e32\u0e40\u0e02\u0e15\u0e41\u0e2b\u0e48\u0e07\u0e1b\u0e23\u0e30\u0e40\u0e17\u0e28\u0e44\u0e17\u0e22 \u0e04\u0e23\u0e31\u0e49\u0e07\u0e17\u0e35\u0e48 6, also known as the 1972 National Games and the 1972 Interprovincial Games) were held in Ratchaburi, Thailand from 2 to 8 December 1972, with contests in 12 sports. These games were the first competition of the new region, Bangkok, formerly part of region 1, and the new member of region 3, Yasothon, formerly part of Ubon Ratchathani.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094470-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Thailand Regional Games, Emblem\nThe emblem of the 1972 Thailand National Games was a brown rhombus, with the emblem of Sports Authority of Thailand inside, surrounded by the text", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094470-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Thailand Regional Games, Emblem\n\u0e2d\u0e2a\u0e01\u0e17 \u0e01\u0e35\u0e2c\u0e32\u0e40\u0e02\u0e15\u0e41\u0e2b\u0e48\u0e07\u0e1b\u0e23\u0e30\u0e40\u0e17\u0e28\u0e44\u0e17\u0e22 \u0e04\u0e23\u0e31\u0e49\u0e07\u0e17\u0e35\u0e48 \u0e56 \u0e23\u0e32\u0e0a\u0e1a\u0e38\u0e23\u0e35 \u0e52\u0e55\u0e51\u0e55SAT 6th Inter-Provincial Games, Ratchaburi 1972", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094470-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Thailand Regional Games, Participating regions\nThe 8th Thailand National Games represented 10 regions from 71 provinces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094470-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Thailand Regional Games, Sports\nThe 1972 Thailand National Games featured 10 Olympic sports contested at the 1973 Southeast Asian Peninsular Games, 1974 Asian Games and 1972 Summer Olympics. In addition, four non-Olympic sports was featured: badminton, sepak takraw, table tennis and tennis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094471-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Thandwe crash\nThe 1972 Thandwe crash occurred on 16 August in Burma. Shortly after the flight departed Thandwe Airport on its initial climb, the scheduled passenger flight for Burma Airways carrying 27 passengers and four crew suddenly fell from the sky and crashed into the sea, killing all four crew and all but three passengers. It was the first fatal accident for Burma Airways.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094472-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 The Citadel Bulldogs football team\nThe 1972 The Citadel Bulldogs football team represented The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina in the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. Red Parker served as head coach for the seventh season. The Bulldogs played as members of the Southern Conference and played home games at Johnson Hagood Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094473-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 1972 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship was the 82nd staging of the Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Tipperary County Board in 1887.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094473-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship\nRoscrea won the championship after a 5-08 to 3-06 defeat of Borris-Ileigh in the final at Semple Stadium. It was their fourth championship title overall and their first title in two years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094474-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Tirreno\u2013Adriatico\nThe 1972 Tirreno\u2013Adriatico was the seventh edition of the Tirreno\u2013Adriatico cycle race and was held from 13 March to 17 March 1972. The race started in Ladispoli and finished in San Benedetto del Tronto. The race was won by Roger De Vlaeminck.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094475-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Titleholders Championship\nThe 1972 Titleholders Championship was contested from May 26\u201329 at Pine Needles Lodge and Golf Club in Southern Pines, North Carolina. It was the 28th and final edition of the Titleholders Championship, following a six-year hiatus. It was the only edition not played at the Augusta Country Club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094476-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Togolese presidential referendum\nA referendum on coup leader Gnassingb\u00e9 Eyad\u00e9ma remaining president was held in Togo on 9 January 1972. Eyad\u00e9ma had overthrown the government in 1967 and installed himself as president on 14 April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094476-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Togolese presidential referendum\nVoters were asked the question \"Do you want General Eyad\u00e9ma to continue the functions of president of the republic entrusted to him by the army and the people?\" The result was reported to be 99.9% of voters in favour with a 97.8% turnout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094477-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Toledo Rockets football team\nThe 1972 Toledo Rockets football team was an American football team that represented the University of Toledo in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) during the 1972 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their second season under head coach Jack Murphy, the Rockets compiled a 6\u20135 record (2\u20133 against MAC opponents), finished in a tie for fourth place in the MAC, and were outscored by all opponents by a combined total of 210 to 196.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094478-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Torneo Descentralizado\nThe 1972 Torneo Descentralizado, the top category of Peruvian football, was played by 16 teams. The season was divided into 3 stages. The first stage was contested in two groups: Metropolitan (teams from Lima and Callao) and Regional (teams from the rest of the country); each group winner qualified for the Championship Group. The second stage was the Descentralised (league tournament); the top 4 qualified for the Championship Group and the bottom 2 were relegated. Championship Group was contested by 6 teams in Lima; neither team carried their previous records. The national champion was Sporting Cristal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 638]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094479-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Torneo God\u00f3\nThe 1972 Torneo God\u00f3 or Trofeo Conde de God\u00f3 was a men's tennis tournament that took place on outdoor clay courts in Barcelona, Spain. It was the 19th edition of the tournament and was part of the 1972 Grand Prix circuit. It was held from 16 October until 23 October 1972. Fifth-seeded Jan Kode\u0161 won the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094479-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Torneo God\u00f3, Finals, Doubles\nJuan Gisbert / Manuel Orantes defeated Frew McMillan / Ilie N\u0103stase 6\u20133, 3\u20136, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 33], "content_span": [34, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094480-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Torneo di Viareggio\nThe 1972 winners of the Torneo di Viareggio (in English, the Viareggio Tournament, officially the Viareggio Cup World Football Tournament Coppa Carnevale), the annual youth football tournament held in Viareggio, Tuscany, are listed below.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094480-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Torneo di Viareggio, Format\nThe 16 teams are organized in knockout rounds. The round of 16 are played in two-legs, while the rest of the rounds are single tie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094481-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Toronto Argonauts season\nThe 1972 Toronto Argonauts finished in fourth place in the Eastern Conference with a 3\u201311 record and failed to make the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094482-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Toronto municipal election\nThe 1972 Toronto municipal election was held December 4, 1972, to elect the governments of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the five other boroughs, and the government of Metro Toronto as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094482-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Toronto municipal election\nThe election was overshadowed by the 1972 federal election held October 30 and the American elections held November 7, but it resulted in a dramatic change in the city government. Four new mayors were elected, and 17 of 32 Metro seats were held by newcomers. In the City of Toronto, control of city council was won by the reform faction and reform leader David Crombie was elected mayor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094482-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Toronto municipal election\nAs in the 1969 election many of the central debates were over proposed megaprojects. The Spadina Expressway had been halted in 1971, but some wanted it built. The debate over the Scarborough Expressway was also one of the central issues in the east end.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094482-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Toronto municipal election\nAn IBM 370-155 was used by the Star to process the results.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 91]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094482-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Toronto municipal election, Toronto, Mayoral election\nIncumbent mayor William Dennison chose not to turn for reelection. The three main candidates vying to replace him were city councillors David Rotenberg, David Crombie, and Tony O'Donohue. O'Donohue and Rotenberg were veteran councillors. Rotenberg had been on council ten years and had served as Deputy Mayor. He also won the endorsement of the Toronto Star. Crombie had been elected to city council only three years earlier, previously serving as a professor at Ryerson Polytechnic Institute. He was a moderate member of the reform faction on council, willing to compromise with the Old Guard. A fourth notable candidate was Toronto Sun columnist Paul Rimstead, who ran a semi-serious campaign based on law and order policies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 786]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094482-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Toronto municipal election, Toronto, Mayoral election\nCrombie dominated the affluent midtown and North Toronto wards, and also carried the east end of the city. O'Donohue won the heavily ethnic, working class wards of the west end.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 58], "content_span": [59, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094482-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Toronto municipal election, City council\nTwo aldermen were elected per Ward. The alderman with the most votes was declared Senior Alderman and sat on both Toronto City Council and Metro Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 45], "content_span": [46, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094482-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Toronto municipal election, City council\nThe council elected in 1969 was split into two factions. The dominant group, commonly referred to as the 'Old Guard,' were 12 councillors who generally sided with developers and supported plans for urban renewal and new expressways. The opposition faction was made up of seven members who supported the reform movement. The reformers won a clear victory. Only four Old Guard aldermen were reelected: William Boytchuk, Joseph Piccininni, Fred Beavis, and Thomas Clifford. The reform faction won five new seats, giving them an overall majority on council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 45], "content_span": [46, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094482-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 Toronto municipal election, Etobicoke, Etobicoke Board of Control (4 elected)\n(Source: \"How the voting went throughout Etobicoke\", Toronto Star, pg 13, December 5, 1972)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 82], "content_span": [83, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094482-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 Toronto municipal election, North York, Mayor\nLastman is elected mayor for the first time and serves until 1997.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094482-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 Toronto municipal election, North York, North York Board of Control (4 elected)\nPaul Godfrey was appointed to the Board of Control by North York Council in 1970, following the death of Controller John Booth. He was returned to the Board of Control in 1972, his first time being elected to the body. In 1973, he resigned to become Metro Chairman. Barbara Greene is elected in an upset victory after running to protest a by-law which made it illegal for unrelated roommates to share a house or apartment if the neighbourhood was zoned for single family dwellings. She is not only the first woman ever elected to North York's Board of Control but she and her roommate, Kate Hayhurst who ran for alderman and Betty Sutherland who was also elected as an alderman in 1972 are the first three women ever elected to North York council", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 84], "content_span": [85, 831]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094482-0011-0000", "contents": "1972 Toronto municipal election, York, Board of Control (2 elected)\n(Source: Toronto Star, page 12, December 5, 1972; \"The Star's suggestions for Monday's elections\", Toronto Star, December 2, 1972, page 20)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 67], "content_span": [68, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094483-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Tour de France\nThe 1972 Tour de France was the 59th edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. It took place from 1 to 22 July, with 20 stages covering a distance of 3,846\u00a0km (2,390\u00a0mi). The long awaited clash between Eddy Merckx and Luis Oca\u00f1a after Oca\u00f1a crashed on Col de Ment\u00e9 in the 1971 Tour de France. After riding strongly in the first two weeks of the race and being the closest GC contender to Merckx, Luis Oca\u00f1a crashed once more, in the Pyrenees, leaving Merckx to battle Cyrille Guimard for the win. Guimard, having won four stages, had to leave the race after stage 17 in second place (he already was 7:58 behind at that point), but was given the combativity award after the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 717]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094483-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Tour de France, Teams\nThe 1972 Tour started with 12 teams, each with 11 cyclists, a total of 132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 26], "content_span": [27, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094483-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Tour de France, Pre-race favourites\nIn the previous year, Luis Oca\u00f1a was on his way to beat Eddy Merckx, when he fell as leader and had to give up. Everybody expected Merckx and Ocana to battle for the victory in 1972. Ocana felt that he could have won the 1971 Tour, and Merckx did not like the comments that he did not deserve the 1971 victory, and both wanted to show their strengths. Merckx had won important races before the Tour started, including the 1972 Giro d'Italia, and was also the reigning world champion. Ocana had won less races, but won the Criterium du Dauphin\u00e9 Lib\u00e9r\u00e9. The most important other participants were considered Raymond Poulidor, Felice Gimondi, Joop Zoetemelk and Bernard Th\u00e9venet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 717]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094483-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Tour de France, Pre-race favourites\nJos\u00e9 Manuel Fuente, who had won the 1972 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a and finished second in the 1972 Giro d'Italia, did not compete, as his team decided they had already been in too many hard races. Herman Van Springel had announced four days prior to the Tour that he would leave his team after his contract would end at the end of 1972. His team then removed him from the Tour squad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094483-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Tour de France, Route and stages\nFor the first time since 1947, the Tour de France was entirely in France. The highest point of elevation in the race was 2,556\u00a0m (8,386\u00a0ft) at the summit tunnel of the Col du Galibier mountain pass on stage 14a.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094483-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Tour de France, Route and stages\nThree days before the Tour started on 1 July, the schedule was changed: the final time trial was split, with the first 42\u00a0km as a time trial in the morning, and the last 89\u00a0km as a mass-start stage in the afternoon. There were two rest days, in Bayonne and Orci\u00e8res.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094483-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Tour de France, Race overview\nMerckx won the prologue, beating his rivals by some seconds. In the first stage, Cyrille Guimard won the sprint, and because of the bonification seconds took over the leader's jersey in the general classification. In the next stages, Merckx tried to win back time by winning bonification seconds in intermediate sprints and at the finish, but Guimard used the same tactic. Merckx won back the first position thanks to the bonification seconds after the team time trial in stage 3b, but lost it again in the fourth stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094483-0006-0001", "contents": "1972 Tour de France, Race overview\nMerckx won the time trial in the second part of the fifth stage, but Guimard came third, retaining the lead. After the sixth stage, Guimard was 11 seconds ahead of Merckx. The third place was occupied by a teammate of Merckx, and Oca\u00f1a was in fourth place, one minute behind Guimard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094483-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Tour de France, Race overview\nIn the seventh stage, the Tour reached the Pyrenees. Oca\u00f1a attacked two times, and the second time only Merckx could follow. When Oca\u00f1a punctured, and later crashed with Thevenet, Merckx was away without him. Another group, including Zoetemelk and Guimard, had reached Merckx, and crossed the finish line together. Ocana finished in sixth place, losing 1 minute and 49 seconds. Thevenet lost more than six minutes that stage, and lost all hope of winning. He was taken to the hospital to see if the crash had caused serious injuries, but could start the next stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094483-0007-0001", "contents": "1972 Tour de France, Race overview\nIn the eighth stage, Lucien Van Impe attacked on the last climb. Merckx caught him and won the stage, with Ocana only eight seconds behind him. Guimard lost three minutes, and Merckx overtook him in the general classification. In the ninth stage, Roger Pingeon left the race. He did not play an important role in the general classification, but his team expected him to help his teammate Thevenet in the rest of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094483-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 Tour de France, Race overview\nThe eleventh stage ended with the climb up to Mont Ventoux. After Merckx' team had pushed the pace such that most cyclists in the peloton had dropped, Ocana attacked four times. Every time, Merckx was able to chase him, together with only Poulidor. Poulidor then attacked, but could not get away. Some other cyclists were able to get back, including Thevenet. Thevenet then attacked, and left the others behind, winning the stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094483-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 Tour de France, Race overview\nMerckx expected Ocana to attack in the twelfth stage, so he stayed with him. When Joaquim Agostinho and Lucien Van Impe attacked, Merckx let them go and stayed with Ocana, as Merckx only cared about Ocana; he did not want Ocana to win back time, and did not want him to win the stage which could give him inspiration in the next stages. On the thirteenth stage, Merckx' team first set a pace that eliminated all but 16 cyclists at the start of the climb of the Vars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094483-0009-0001", "contents": "1972 Tour de France, Race overview\nRaymond Delisle escaped from that group, but Merckx and Agostinho chased and passed him after the summit. On the way down, Guimard was able to catch Merckx, who had dropped Delisle and Agostinho. Climbing the Izoard, Merckx dropped Guimard, and soloed to the victory. By then, Merckx was leading the general classification firmly, almost five minutes ahead of Ocana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094483-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 Tour de France, Race overview\nThe first part of the fourteenth stage was also won by Merckx, who outsprinted Zoetemelk. Ocana lost two minutes, and Guimard overtook him in the general classification. In the second part of the fourteenth stage, Ocana lost more than five minutes. Guimard and Merckx sprinted for the stage victory, and the photo finish gave the victory to Guimard. Ocana left the race after that stage; he had contracted a lung infection after his fall in the seventh stage. The stage ended with two laps of 1800\u00a0m; when it was found out that one group had missed one lap, the rules said that this group would have to ride that lap again, but the jury decided to use the times clocked after the first lap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 725]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094483-0011-0000", "contents": "1972 Tour de France, Race overview\nThe fifteenth stage was also narrowly won by Guimard; Merckx had already raised one hand to cheer. In the seventeenth stage, Guimard struggled with his health. He needed medical attention during the entire stage, and lost two minutes on the final climb. After 10\u00a0km in the eighteenth stage, he left the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094483-0012-0000", "contents": "1972 Tour de France, Race overview\nMerckx was now leading by more than ten minutes, and was certain to win the race. The second place was still not certain; Poulidor and Gimondi were separated only by one second. In the time trial on the last day, won by Merckx, the decision fell: Gimondi came in second, Poulidor fourth, and Gimondi overtook Poulidor in the general classification. After the finish in Paris, Merckx gave the green jersey that he received for winning the points classification to Guimard, who otherwise would have been the winner of that classification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094483-0013-0000", "contents": "1972 Tour de France, Race overview, Doping\nGuimard had been treated by Bernard Sainz. After Guimard left the race, there were rumours that Guimard had been using doping in the last days of the Tour; to end these rumours, he requested that after the eighteenth stage, he would also be checked for doping.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 42], "content_span": [43, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094483-0014-0000", "contents": "1972 Tour de France, Race overview, Doping\nIn 2000, Sainz wrote the book \"The stunning revelation of Dr. Mabuse\", where he denied that he was responsible.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 42], "content_span": [43, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094483-0015-0000", "contents": "1972 Tour de France, Race overview, Doping\nLater that year, Eddy Merckx finished second in the athlete of the year poll, behind Mark Spitz.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 42], "content_span": [43, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094483-0016-0000", "contents": "1972 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes\nThere were several classifications in the 1972 Tour de France, three of them awarding jerseys to their leaders. The most important was the general classification, calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage. The cyclist with the least accumulated time was the race leader, identified by the yellow jersey; the winner of this classification is considered the winner of the Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094483-0017-0000", "contents": "1972 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes\nAdditionally, there was a points classification, where cyclists got points for finishing among the best in a stage finish, or in intermediate sprints. The cyclist with the most points lead the classification, and was identified with a green jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094483-0018-0000", "contents": "1972 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes\nThere was also a mountains classification. The organisation had categorised some climbs as either first, second, third, or fourth-category; points for this classification were won by the first cyclists that reached the top of these climbs first, with more points available for the higher-categorised climbs. The cyclist with the most points lead the classification, but was not identified with a jersey in 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094483-0019-0000", "contents": "1972 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes\nAnother classification was the combination classification. This classification was calculated as a combination of the other classifications, its leader wore the white jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094483-0020-0000", "contents": "1972 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes\nThe fifth individual classification was the intermediate sprints classification. This classification had similar rules as the points classification, but only points were awarded on intermediate sprints. In 1972, this classification had no associated jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094483-0021-0000", "contents": "1972 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes\nFor the team classification, the times of the best three cyclists per team on each stage were added; the leading team was the team with the lowest total time. The riders in the team that led this classification wore yellow caps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094483-0022-0000", "contents": "1972 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes\nIn addition, there was a combativity award, in which a jury composed of journalists gave points after mass-start stages to the cyclist they considered most combative. The split stages each had a combined winner. At the conclusion of the Tour, Cyrille Guimard won the overall super-combativity award, also decided by journalists. Three further daily individual awards were given for good humour, teamwork and elegance. Overall awards were given for these also, with Bernard Th\u00e9venet seen as the funniest, Martin Van Den Bossche the best teammate and Felice Gimondi the most elegant. The Souvenir Henri Desgrange was given to the first rider to pass the memorial to Tour founder Henri Desgrange near the summit of the Col du Galibier on stage 14a. This prize was won by Joop Zoetemelk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 847]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094484-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Tour de Romandie\nThe 1972 Tour de Romandie was the 26th edition of the Tour de Romandie cycle race and was held from 10 May to 14 May 1972. The race started and finished in Geneva. The race was won by Bernard Th\u00e9venet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094485-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Tour de Suisse\nThe 1972 Tour de Suisse was the 36th edition of the Tour de Suisse cycle race and was held from 15 June to 23 June 1972. The race started in Z\u00fcrich and finished in Olten. The race was won by Louis Pfenninger of the Zonca team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094486-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Tour of Flanders\nThe 56th running of the Tour of Flanders cycling race in Belgium was held on Sunday 9 April 1972. Belgian Eric Leman won ahead of Andr\u00e9 Dierickx and Frans Verbeeck, winning the classic for the second time. The race started in Ghent and finished in Gentbrugge. 80 out of 171 riders arrived.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094486-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Tour of Flanders, Course\nThe race was run in bad weather, leading to a group of 30. Eddy Merckx and Eric Leman broke away from the group, but Felice Gimondi brought the rest back. Merckx, suffering severe back pain, was forced to walk up the Muur van Geraardsbergen, but returned afterwards. At 10\u00a0km from the finish, a group of seven was formed, sprinting for the win. Leman narrowly beat Andr\u00e9 Dierickx. Merckx finished seventh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094487-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Tour of the Basque Country\nThe 1972 Tour of the Basque Country was the 12th edition of the Tour of the Basque Country cycle race and was held from 19 April to 23 April 1972. The race started and finished in Eibar. The race was won by Jos\u00e9 Antonio Gonz\u00e1lez Linares of the Kas team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094488-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Trampoline World Championships\nThe 7th Trampoline World Championships were held in Stuttgart, West Germany on September 23, 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094489-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Trans-AMA motocross series\nThe 1972 Trans-AMA motocross series was the third annual international series established by the American Motorcyclist Association as a pilot event to help establish motocross in the United States. The motocross series was an invitational based on a 500cc engine displacement formula, run on American tracks featuring the top riders from the F.I.M. world championship against the top American riders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094489-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Trans-AMA motocross series\nSwedish Maico factory rider \u00c5ke Jonsson dominated the championship, winning nine consecutive overall wins. 500cc world champion, Roger De Coster and Heikki Mikkola placed second and third overall, claiming one victory apiece to start off the series before Jonsson began his winning streak. Brad Lackey was the highest-placing American rider, finishing the series sixth overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094490-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Trans-American Sedan Championship\nThe 1972 Trans-American Championship was the seventh running of the Sports Car Club of America's Trans-Am Series. The first seven rounds used split classes, while the last four classes had the Under 2500cc class only. Milt Minter brought Pontiac its first win, at Mid-Ohio. George Follmer and American Motors won the over 2.5L division, while John Morton led Datsun to the championship title of the \"Two-Five Challenge\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094490-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Trans-American Sedan Championship\n1972 is considered to be the end of the series' \"golden era\". From 1973 onward, Trans Am would evolve into a lesser clone of the rival IMSA GT Championship, with similarly modified cars, but with a more conventional focus with vehicles such as the Chevrolet Beretta being used. IMSA GT's focus on exotic cars such as Ferraris and Porsches provided a more adaptable format, in comparison to Trans Am's reliance on domestic performance sedans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094490-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Trans-American Sedan Championship, Championships, Manufacturers' championships\nOnly the highest-finishing car scored points for the manufacturer. The points system was as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 83], "content_span": [84, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094491-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Tripura Legislative Assembly election\nTripura was recognized as a state in India on January 21, 1972. Before that, Tripura was a Union Territory. The first Legislative Assembly Election as a state was held on March 11, 1972. The 1972 Tripura Legislative Assembly election took place in a single phase to elect the Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) from each of the 60 Assembly Constituencies (ACs) in Tripura, India.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094491-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Tripura Legislative Assembly election\nIndian National Congress led by Sukhamoy Sen Gupta, won 41 seats and formed a Government in Tripura", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094491-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Tripura Legislative Assembly election, Highlights\nElection to the Tripura Legislative Assembly were held on March 11, 1972. The election were held in a single phase for all the 60 assembly constituencies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094491-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Tripura Legislative Assembly election, Government formation\nIndian National Congress,(INC) won 41 out of 60 seats in the Legislative Assembly. The CPI-M won 18 seats in the Legislative Assembly. Sukhamoy Sen Gupta of the INC formed a government as Chief Minister on March 20, 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 64], "content_span": [65, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094491-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Tripura Legislative Assembly election, Government formation\nPrafulla Kumar Das formed a government as Chief Minister on April 1, 1977.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 64], "content_span": [65, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094491-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Tripura Legislative Assembly election, Government formation\nRadhika Ranjan Gupta formed a coalition government with the Janata Party,(JP) and the Left Front,(LF) on July 26, 1977. Chief Minister Radhika Ranjan Gupta resigned, and the state of Tripura was placed under presidential rule from November 5, 1977 to January 5, 1978.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 64], "content_span": [65, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094492-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections were held in the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands on 7 November 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094492-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands parliamentary election, Electoral system\nThe bicameral Congress consisted of a 12-member Senate with two members from each of the six districts and a 21-member House of Representatives with seats apportioned to each district based on their population \u2013 five from Truk, four from the Marshall Islands and Ponape, three from the Mariana Islands and Palau and two from Yap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 84], "content_span": [85, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094492-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands parliamentary election, Electoral system\nElections were held every two years in November of even-numbered years, with all members of the House of Representatives and half the Senate (one member from each district) renewed at each election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 84], "content_span": [85, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094492-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands parliamentary election, Aftermath\nFollowing the elections, Tosiwo Nakayama became President of the Senate, whilst Bethwel Henry was re-elected Speaker of the House of Representatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [68, 77], "content_span": [78, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094493-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team\nThe 1972 Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team represented the University of Tulsa during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. The Golden Hurricane compiled a 4\u20137 record, 3\u20131 against conference opponents, and finished in fourth place in the Missouri Valley Conference. The team began the season in its third year under Claude \"Hoot\" Gibson and went 1\u20135 in games under Gibson. Prior to the end of the season, Gibson was replaced by F. A. Dry and went 3\u20132 under Dry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094493-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team\nThe team's statistical leaders included Todd Starks with 1,201 passing yards, Ed White with 675 rushing yards, and Drew Pearson with 690 receiving yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094494-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 U.S. Clay Court Championships\nThe 1972 U.S. Clay Court Championships was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament that was part of the 1972 Grand Prix circuit. The event was held in Indianapolis, USA and played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 4th edition of the tournament in the Open Era and was held in from 7 August through 13 August 1972. Bob Hewitt and Chris Evert won the singles titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094494-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 U.S. Clay Court Championships, Finals, Men's Doubles\nBob Hewitt / Frew McMillan defeated Jaime Fillol / Patricio Cornejo 6\u20132, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 57], "content_span": [58, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094494-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 U.S. Clay Court Championships, Finals, Women's Doubles\nEvonne Goolagong / Lesley Hunt defeated Margaret Court / Pam Teeguarden 6\u20132, 6\u20131", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094495-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 U.S. National Indoor Tennis Championships\nThe 1972 U.S. National Indoor Tennis Championships was a men's tennis tournament held in Salisbury, Maryland. The event was part of the 1972 USLTA Indoor Circuit and was also a Grade B event on the 1972 Grand Prix Circuit. The tournament was held from February 13 through February 20, 1994, and played on indoor hard courts. First-seeded national Stan Smith won the singles title and $9,000 first-prize money as well as 50 Grand Prix ranking points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094495-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 U.S. National Indoor Tennis Championships, Finals, Doubles\nIon \u021airiac / Ilie N\u0103stase defeated Andr\u00e9s Gimeno / Manuel Orantes 7\u20135, 7\u20135", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 63], "content_span": [64, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094496-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 U.S. Open (golf)\nThe 1972 U.S. Open was the 72nd U.S. Open, held June 15\u201318 at Pebble Beach Golf Links in Pebble Beach, California. Jack Nicklaus, age 32, captured his third U.S. Open title, three strokes ahead of runner-up Bruce Crampton. This was the first of six major championships held to date at Pebble Beach: five U.S. Opens and the PGA Championship in 1977.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094496-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 U.S. Open (golf)\nScoring conditions during the final round were extremely difficult; the average was 78.8, the highest in post-war U.S. Open history. Nicklaus' 290 (+2) was the second-highest winning score during that span. It was Nicklaus' eleventh career major championship as a professional, tying the record of Walter Hagen. When combined with his two U.S. Amateur wins, it was his thirteenth major, equaling Bobby Jones for most all-time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094496-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 U.S. Open (golf)\nDefending champion Lee Trevino had been hospitalized in Texas for several days for bronchitis and pneumonia; he was released on Tuesday, two days before the first round, and tied for fourth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094496-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 U.S. Open (golf)\nIt was the second consecutive major title for Nicklaus, who won the Masters in April. Previous winners of the first two majors of the year were Craig Wood (1941), Ben Hogan (1951, 1953), and Arnold Palmer (1960); later champions of both were Tiger Woods (2002) and Jordan Spieth (2015). In addition, Nicklaus held the PGA Championship title from February 1971; four weeks later, he was the runner-up by a single stroke at the Open Championship at Muirfield, Scotland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094496-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 U.S. Open (golf)\nNicklaus won seven additional majors, the last at the Masters fourteen years later in 1986 at age 46.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094496-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, Final round\nIn high winds, Nicklaus was even par on the front nine; after a double-bogey at the tenth, Arnold Palmer and Bruce Crampton trailed by just two shots. Palmer had a chance to tie Nicklaus at the 14th, but he missed a 10-footer (3 m) for birdie. Down by one stroke, Palmer bogeyed the next two holes and finished with a final-round 76, four shots behind.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094496-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, Final round\nWith a three-shot lead over Crampton on the tee of the par-3 17th, Nicklaus hit one of his most famous shots. His 1-iron went directly at the pin, bounced once, struck the flagstick, and settled inches from the hole for a tap-in birdie. With the lead at four strokes on the final tee, he bogeyed for 74 (+2) and the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094497-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 U.S. Pro Tennis Championships\nThe 1972 U.S. Pro Tennis Championships was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Longwood Cricket Club in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States and was part of the 1972 World Championship Tennis circuit. It was the 45th edition of the tournament and was held from July 31 through August 6, 1972. Bob Lutz defeated John Newcombe, Rod Laver and Cliff Drysdale prior to beating Tom Okker in the Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094497-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 U.S. Pro Tennis Championships, Finals, Doubles\nJohn Newcombe / Tony Roche defeated Arthur Ashe / Bob Lutz, 6\u20133, 1\u20136, 7\u20136", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094498-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 U.S. Pro Tennis Championships \u2013 Doubles\nThe 1972 U.S. Pro Tennis Championships was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Longwood Cricket Club in Boston, United States and was part of the 1972 World Championship Tennis circuit. It was the 45th edition of the tournament and was held from August 7 through August 13, 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094499-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 U.S. Pro Tennis Championships \u2013 Singles\nThe 1972 U.S. Pro Tennis Championships was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Longwood Cricket Club in Boston, United States and was part of the 1972 World Championship Tennis circuit. It was the 45th edition of the tournament and was held from August 7 through August 13, 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094500-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 U.S. Professional Indoor\nThe 1972 U.S. Professional Indoor was a WCT men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts. It was played at the Wachovia Spectrum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States. It was the fifth edition of the tournament and was held from February 8 through February 13, 1972. Total attendance for the tournament was 57,882. First-seeded Rod Laver won the singles title, his third at the event after 1969 and 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094500-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 U.S. Professional Indoor, Finals, Doubles\nArthur Ashe / Robert Lutz defeated John Newcombe / Tony Roche 6\u20133, 6\u20137, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094501-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 U.S. Professional Indoor \u2013 Doubles\nArthur Ashe and Robert Lutz won the title, defeating John Newcombe and Tony Roche 6\u20133, 6\u20137, 6\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094502-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 U.S. Professional Indoor \u2013 Singles\nJohn Newcombe was the defending champion, but lost in the second round this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094502-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 U.S. Professional Indoor \u2013 Singles\nRod Laver won the title, defeating Ken Rosewall 4\u20136, 6\u20132, 6\u20132, 6\u20132 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094503-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 U.S. Women's Open\nThe 1972 U.S. Women's Open was the 27th U.S. Women's Open, held June 29 to July 2 at the East Course of Winged Foot Golf Club in Mamaroneck, New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094503-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 U.S. Women's Open\nSusie Berning won the second of her three U.S. Women's Open titles, a stroke ahead of runners-up Kathy Ahern, Pam Barnett, and Judy Rankin. Berning opened with a 79 (+7) and started the final round at 228 (+12), four strokes behind 54-hole leader Barnett. Berning carded a one-under 71 for the third of her four major wins. Defending champion JoAnne Carner finished at 312 (+24), thirteen strokes back.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094503-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 U.S. Women's Open\nWith a winner's share of $6,000, the 1972 edition was the first to exceed that of the inaugural championship in 1946, the only one conducted as a match play event. The course conditions at Winged Foot were soft, affected by the recent heavy rains of tropical storm Agnes, originally a hurricane. Two-time champion Louise Suggs made the cut at age 48.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094503-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 U.S. Women's Open\nThe championship was previously held at the East Course in 1957; the adjacent West Course has hosted many major championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094504-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 UC Davis Aggies football team\nThe 1972 UC Davis football team represented the University of California, Davis in the 1972 NCAA College Division football season. UC Davis competed in the Far Western Conference (FWC). The UC Davis sports teams were commonly called the \u201cCal Aggies\u201d from 1924 until the mid 1970s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094504-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 UC Davis Aggies football team\nThe Aggies were led by head coach Jim Sochor in his third year. They played home games at Toomey Field. UC Davis finished the season as champion of the FWC for the 2nd consecutive season and it was their 3rd consecutive winning season. The Aggies finished the regular season with a record of six wins, one loss and two ties (6\u20131\u20132, 5\u20130 FWC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094504-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 UC Davis Aggies football team\nAt the end of the season, UC Davis was invited to play in one of the four College Division regional finals, the Boardwalk Bowl. The Aggies lost to UMass in the game, bringing their final record to six wins, two losses and two ties (6\u20132\u20132, 5\u20130 FWC). The Aggies outscored their opponents 278\u2013228 for the 1972 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094504-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 UC Davis Aggies football team, NFL Draft\nNo UC Davis Aggies players were selected in the 1973 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094505-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 UC Riverside Highlanders football team\nThe 1972 UC Riverside Highlanders football team represented UC Riverside during the 1972 NCAA College Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094505-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 UC Riverside Highlanders football team\nUC Riverside competed in the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA). The team was led by first-year head coach Wayne Howard. They played home games at Highlander Stadium in Riverside, California. The Highlanders finished the season as CCAA co-champion, with a record of nine wins and one loss (9\u20131, 3\u20130 CCAA). Overall, the team outscored its opponents 207\u2013113 for the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094505-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 UC Riverside Highlanders football team, Team players in the NFL\nNo UC Riverside players were selected in the 1973 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 68], "content_span": [69, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094506-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 UCI Road World Championships\nThe 1972 UCI Road World Championships took place on the 6 August 1972 in Gap, France. Only two professional races took place due to the Munich Olympics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094507-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 UCI Road World Championships \u2013 Men's road race\nThe men's road race at the 1972 UCI Road World Championships was the 39th edition of the event. The race took place on Sunday 6 August 1972 in Gap, France. The race was won by Marino Basso of Italy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094508-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 UCI Track Cycling World Championships\nThe 1972 UCI Track Cycling World Championships were the World Championship for track cycling. They took place in Marseille, France in 1972. Due to the 1972 Summer Olympics only six events were contested, 4 for men (3 for professionals, 1 for amateurs) and 2 for women.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094509-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 UCLA Bruins football team\nThe 1972 UCLA Bruins football team represented University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. Members of the Pacific-8 Conference, the Bruins were led by second-year head coach Pepper Rodgers and played their home games at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094509-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 UCLA Bruins football team\nThe new quarterback this season was Mark Harmon, a junior college transfer and son of Heisman Trophy winner Tom Harmon. In his first game for the Bruins, Harmon led the wishbone offense and gained a late night upset of top-ranked Nebraska at the Coliseum. An 18-point underdog, UCLA was never behind; Nebraska had five turnovers but fought back to tie the score before halftime at ten and again early in the fourth quarter at seventeen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094509-0001-0001", "contents": "1972 UCLA Bruins football team\nIn their final drive, Harmon drove UCLA into field goal range and Efren Herrera made a 29-yarder in the final half minute for the 20\u201317 win. It halted the two-time defending national champion Huskers' unbeaten streak at 32 games and vaulted the previously unranked Bruins (2\u20137\u20131 in 1971) to eighth in the AP Poll, as Nebraska slid to tenth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094509-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 UCLA Bruins football team\nTwo weeks later, the Bruins lost at home to Michigan, but then won six straight and improved to 8\u20131 overall. An upset loss to Washington at Husky Stadium in Seattle and an expected one to top-ranked rival USC in the Coliseum ended UCLA's season at 8\u20133. The Pac-8 runner-up, they were ranked fifteenth in the final AP poll; the conference did not allow a second bowl team until the 1975 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094510-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 UEFA Cup Final\nThe 1972 UEFA Cup Final was the final of the first UEFA Cup football tournament. It was a two-legged contest played on 3 May and 17 May 1972 between two English clubs, Wolverhampton Wanderers and Tottenham Hotspur. This was the first UEFA club competition final to feature two teams from the same association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094510-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 UEFA Cup Final\nTottenham Hotspur won the tie 3\u20132 on aggregate. A 2\u20131 victory away from home in the first leg proved decisive for them, with Martin Chivers scoring a remarkable late winner, firing in an unstoppable shot from 25 yards. They then held Wolves to a 1\u20131 draw in the second leg to win the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094510-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 UEFA Cup Final, Road to the final\nNote: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094511-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 UEFA European Under-18 Championship\nThe UEFA European Under-18 Championship 1972 Final Tournament was a youth football tournament held in Spain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094511-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 UEFA European Under-18 Championship, Qualification, Round 1\nFor this round \u00a0Belgium, \u00a0East Germany, \u00a0Wales and \u00a0Soviet Union received a Bye.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094511-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 UEFA European Under-18 Championship, Teams\nThe following teams entered the tournament. Six teams qualified (Q) and ten teams entered without playing qualification matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 47], "content_span": [48, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094512-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 UEFA European Under-23 Championship\nThe 1972 UEFA European Under-23 Championship, which spanned two years (1970\u201372) had 23 entrants. Czechoslovakia U-23s won the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094512-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 UEFA European Under-23 Championship\nThe 23 national teams were divided into eight groups. The group winners played off against each other on a two-legged home-and-away basis until the winner was decided. There was no finals tournament or 3rd-place playoff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094512-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 UEFA European Under-23 Championship, Qualifying Stage, Draw\nThe allocation of teams into qualifying groups was based on that of UEFA Euro 1972 qualifying tournament with several changes, reflecting the absence of some nations:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094513-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year\nThe 1972 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year was the 46th year of greyhound racing in the United Kingdom and Ireland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094513-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary\nThe industry continued to suffer from multiple track closures, particularly those with a Greyhound Racing Association (GRA) link. The closures were a combination of the GRA Property Trust's intentions and reduced attendances blamed on competition from betting shops. The performances of Patricias Hope and Sherrys Prince brought enjoyment to the industry, during a turbulent period and both wrote themselves into the history books.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094513-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary\nThe annual National Greyhound Racing Club (NGRC) returns were released, with totalisator turnover at \u00a354,401,529 and attendances recorded at 6,279,898 from 5592 meetings. Government tote tax was reduced from 5% to 4%. The National Greyhound Racing Club and National Greyhound Racing Society amalgamated to form one controlling body called the National Greyhound Racing Club Ltd.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094513-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Tracks\nThe last meeting was held at the 100,000 capacity West Ham Stadium, on 26 May, the GRA Property Trust sold the venue during a property boom. The prestigious Cesarewitch was transferred to GRA sister track Belle Vue and the Cambridgeshire switched to White City. Trainers Colin West, Ted Parker, Sidney Mann and Kenric Appleton all joined other GRA tracks, while Noreen Collin joined Walthamstow. GRA was losing its status as greyhound racing's most respected company due to the fact that they were actively buying tracks to sell for development and boost their Greyhound Property Trust share prices.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094513-0003-0001", "contents": "1972 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Tracks\nThey had recently purchased three tracks Carntyne Stadium, White City Stadium (Liverpool) and Portsmouth Stadium for the sole purpose of selling them for lucrative commercial properties. They also sealed a deal that brought Wimbledon Stadium fully under the GRA banner. Carntyne in Glasgow was the first track to suffer closure during May.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094513-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Tracks\nHendon Greyhound Stadium closed two days after West Ham, to make way for the new Brent Cross Shopping Centre. Milton Keynes Greyhound Stadium (also known as Bletchley or Groveway) joined the NGRC banner after switching from its independent status. Scotland and Glasgow lost two tracks, Carntyne and the White City Stadium, Glasgow which was demolished to make way for the M8 motorway. Two other popular tracks Clapton Stadium and Rayleigh Weir Stadium were both in danger of shutting after being purchased by property developers but they were at least operating for the present. Rayleigh promoter Tom Stanley admitted the offer for the 12 acre Essex site was too good to refuse.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 726]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094513-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Tracks\nIndependent tracks Tams Brig and Pennycross in Plymouth both closed, the former was replaced by a curling rink. Preston suffered a major fire that would require a total rebuild of the stand and tote equipment. To compound issues, government power cuts were frequent in January and February which forced many tracks to cut their racing schedules.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094513-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, News\nGRA Director of Racing, Major Percy Brown retired after 40 years in the sport, he had started as Racing Manager in 1931 at Belle Vue, his replacement was Arthur Aldridge. Owlerton Racing Manager Sam Vinter also retired after 40 years\u2019 service. Harringay became the home of Greyhound racing on London Weekend Television's World of Sport for the next decade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 45], "content_span": [46, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094513-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, News\nCatford was the first London stadium to attempt eight dog racing; the track was substantially altered with steep banking on the bends at significant cost. Public acceptance never came through and the experiment would finish by the end of the year. The NGRC also relaxed the rule that previously did not allow any NGRC owner or trainer to attend an independent track. Although they could now attend, they were still not allowed to run their greyhounds on independent tracks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 45], "content_span": [46, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094513-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, News\nTrainer John Coleman departed Romford after being appointed at Wembley. Oxford trainer Bernard Cousins was killed in a car crash along with two of his greyhounds. Dolores Rocket's litter brother Come On Wonder broke the track records at West Ham (550y) and Crayford (700y) before being disqualified and going on to race on the independent circuits winning the Henlow Derby and Ashfield St Leger.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 45], "content_span": [46, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094513-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Competitions\nA new event the Sussex Cup was introduced at Brighton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 53], "content_span": [54, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094513-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Competitions\nThe Grand National at White City arrived in April and Sherrys Prince qualified for the final amidst huge interest from the greyhound public, this remarkable hurdler went to the traps as 5-4 favourite and recorded his third successive title. The brindle dog whelped in April 1967 was owned by Mrs Joyce Matthews and had been schooled for hurdles in 1969 after finishing his flat career. He ran in 105 hurdle races winning 70 and finishing second 15 times and set 15 track records and all of this was achieved despite a broken hock in the final of the 1970 Scottish Grand National and a serious kidney infection in 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 53], "content_span": [54, 672]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094513-0011-0000", "contents": "1972 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Competitions\nDerby champion Patricias Hope was aimed at both the Welsh Greyhound Derby and Scottish Greyhound Derby in an attempt to emulate the only previous triple crown winners Trev's Perfection and Mile Bush Pride. The white and fawn dog owned by Gordon and Basil Marks and trained by Adam Jackson defeated a first class field at Cardiff that included Super Rory, Decimal Queen and Pall Mall Stakes champion Camira Story. By the end of July Patricias Hope became the third greyhound to achieve the magical Triple Crown feat after winning the Scottish Derby final. Super Rory had broken the track record in the semi-finals but lost yet again to Patricias Hope in the final, the latter was sent back to Ireland for stud duties for six months.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 53], "content_span": [54, 785]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094513-0012-0000", "contents": "1972 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Competitions\nCricket Bunny trained by Joe Booth denied Don't Gambol a third successive Scurry Gold Cup triumph and then won the Laurels at Wimbledon. The husband and wife team of Nick and Natalie Savva bred litters with a prefix called Westmead, a name that would become synonymous over the next forty years. Their first classic success came with Westmead Lane in the Cesarewitch, an event that was now held over the marathon distance at Belle Vue and not West Ham.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 53], "content_span": [54, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094513-0013-0000", "contents": "1972 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Competitions\nRamdeen Stuart is bought for 260 guineas at the Shelbourne Park sales, he joined trainer Norman Oliver and by the end of the year won the St Leger at Wembley, the Steward's Cup at Wimbledon over 700 yards, the Scottish St Leger and Ben Truman Stakes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 53], "content_span": [54, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094513-0014-0000", "contents": "1972 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Ireland\nNewbridge Greyhound Stadium opened in County Kildare four years after the old track had closed at St Conleth's Park. Gay McKenna secured a record fourth Irish Greyhound Derby title with Catsrock Daisy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094514-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 UMass Minutemen football team\nThe 1972 UMass Minutemen football team represented the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the 1972 NCAA College Division football season as a member of the Yankee Conference. The team was coached by Dick MacPherson and played its home games at Alumni Stadium in Hadley, Massachusetts. The 1972 season was the first in which Massachusetts was named the \"Minutemen,\" as the university had changed their nickname from the \"Redmen\" due to changing attitudes regarding the use of Native American-themed mascots in sports.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094514-0000-0001", "contents": "1972 UMass Minutemen football team\nIt was also the last season of the NCAA's University and College Division setup, as they would split athletics into three numbered divisions in 1973, with UMass moving into Division II. Massachusetts performed strongly enough in the regular season to earn a spot in the 1972 Boardwalk Bowl, which at the time served as the NCAA College Division East championship game. The team defeated UC Davis by a score of 35-14, and finished the season with a record of 9\u20132 overall and 5\u20130 in conference play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094515-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 UNLV Rebels football team\nThe 1972 UNLV Rebels football team was an American football team that represented the University of Nevada, Las Vegas as an independent during the 1972 NCAA College Division football season. In their fifth year under head coach Bill Ireland, the team compiled an 1\u201310 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094516-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 US Figure Skating Championships\nThe 1972 U.S. Figure Skating Championships was held from January 13\u201316 at the Long Beach Arena in Long Beach, California. Medals were awarded in three colors: gold (first), silver (second), and bronze (third) in four disciplines \u2013 men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing \u2013 across three levels: senior, junior, and novice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094516-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 US Figure Skating Championships\nThe event determined the U.S. teams for the 1972 Winter Olympics and 1972 World Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094516-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 US Figure Skating Championships\nThe 1972 Championships marked the introduction of a significant innovation: the use of a computer to calculate the competition results for the first time at the U.S. Championships. The initial version of the scoring software, called \"Hal\", was written by volunteer Al Beard in FORTRAN, and ran via a remote terminal link on a time-sharing system donated by Honeywell in Minneapolis, where Beard was employed. Although the computer results were used for public announcements of the results, the rules of the time actually required hand computation of the official results, so this was done after the fact.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 641]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094516-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 US Figure Skating Championships, Senior results, Men\nThe men's competition saw something of an upset as defending champion John Misha Petkevich had a poor free skating, missing both his triple salchow and triple loop jumps. Kenneth Shelley, on the other hand, had one of the best performances of his career, allowing him to take the title with the first-place votes of 4 of the 7 judges. He became the first skater to win national titles in both senior men and pairs since 1941, and the first in postwar history to qualify for the Winter Olympics in two disciplines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 57], "content_span": [58, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094516-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 US Figure Skating Championships, Senior results, Ladies\nIn compulsory figures, Julie Lynn Holmes took the lead over Janet Lynn. But Lynn easily won the free skating with a faultless performance while Holmes skated cautiously. Second place in the free skating went to Dorothy Hamill, who probably performed the most difficult program but nonetheless could not overcome her deficit in the figures to reach the podium. Suna Murray captured the bronze medal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 60], "content_span": [61, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094516-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 US Figure Skating Championships, Senior results, Pairs\nThe previous years' champions JoJo Starbuck / Kenneth Shelley easily defended their title without serious challenge. The pairs competition this year was notable for the new and innovative lifts performed by the second-place team Melissa Militano / Mark Militano as well as by Starbuck / Shelley. The Militanos also included a throw double axel and side-by-side double axels in their program, elements that only a few top pairs in the world were attempting in this era, but they could not match the speed and unison of the champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 59], "content_span": [60, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094516-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 US Figure Skating Championships, Senior results, Ice dancing (Gold dance)\nThe previous years' champions Judy Schwomeyer / Jim Sladky easily defended their title without serious challenge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 78], "content_span": [79, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094517-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 US Open (tennis)\nThe 1972 US Open was a tennis tournament that took place on the outdoor grass courts at the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, Queens, in New York City, USA. The tournament ran from 28 August until 10 September. It was the 92nd staging of the US Open, and the fourth Grand Slam tennis event of 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094517-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 US Open (tennis), Finals, Men's singles\nIlie N\u0103stase defeated Arthur Ashe, 3\u20136, 6\u20133, 6\u20137(1\u20135), 6\u20134, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 44], "content_span": [45, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094517-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 US Open (tennis), Finals, Men's doubles\nCliff Drysdale / Roger Taylor defeated Owen Davidson / John Newcombe, 6\u20134, 7\u20136, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 44], "content_span": [45, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094517-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 US Open (tennis), Finals, Women's doubles\nFran\u00e7oise D\u00fcrr / Betty St\u00f6ve defeated Margaret Court / Virginia Wade, 6\u20133, 1\u20136, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 46], "content_span": [47, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094517-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 US Open (tennis), Finals, Mixed doubles\nMargaret Court / Marty Riessen defeated Rosemary Casals / Ilie N\u0103stase, 6\u20133, 7\u20135", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 44], "content_span": [45, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094518-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 US Open \u2013 Men's Doubles\nJohn Newcombe and Roger Taylor were the defending US Open men's doubles champions, but did not defend their title as a team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094518-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 US Open \u2013 Men's Doubles\nSixth-seeded Cliff Drysdale and Roger Taylor won the title by defeating unseeded Owen Davidson and John Newcombe 6\u20134, 7\u20136, 6\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094519-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 US Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nIlie N\u0103stase defeated Arthur Ashe 3\u20136, 6\u20133, 6\u20137(1\u20135), 6\u20134, 6\u20133 in the final to win the Men's Singles tennis title at the 1972 US Open. Stan Smith was the defending champion but lost in the quarterfinals to Arthur Ashe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094519-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 US Open \u2013 Men's Singles\n12-time major champion Roy Emerson made his last appearance at a Grand Slam tournament, losing in the 1st round to compatriot Fred Stolle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094519-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 US Open \u2013 Men's Singles, Seeds\nThe seeded players are listed below. Ilie N\u0103stase is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094520-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 US Open \u2013 Mixed Doubles\nOwen Davidson and Billie Jean King were the defending champions but lost in the semifinals to Ilie N\u0103stase and Rosemary Casals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094520-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 US Open \u2013 Mixed Doubles\nMarty Riessen and Margaret Court won in the final 6\u20133, 7\u20135 against Ilie N\u0103stase and Rosemary Casals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094521-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 US Open \u2013 Women's Doubles\nRosemary Casals and Judy Dalton were the defending champions but Judy Dalton did not compete this year. Rosemary Casals teamed up with Billie Jean King and lost in semifinals to Fran\u00e7oise D\u00fcrr and Betty St\u00f6ve.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094521-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 US Open \u2013 Women's Doubles\nFran\u00e7oise D\u00fcrr and Betty St\u00f6ve won the title by defeating Margaret Court and Virginia Wade 6\u20133, 1\u20136, 6\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094522-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 US Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nBillie Jean King successfully defended her title, defeating Kerry Melville 6\u20133, 7\u20135 in the final to win the Women's Singles tennis title at the 1972 US Open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094522-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 US Open \u2013 Women's Singles, Seeds\nThe seeded players are listed below. Billie Jean King is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 37], "content_span": [38, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094523-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships\nThe Men's 1972 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships took place between June 16-18 at Husky Stadium on the campus of University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. It is the only time this championship has been held in the state of Washington. The Women's Championships took place at Citizens Field in Canton, Ohio. The meet was organized by the Amateur Athletic Union.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094524-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 USAC Championship Car season\nThe 1972 USAC Championship Car season consisted of ten races, beginning in Avondale, Arizona on March 18 and concluding at the same location on November 4. The USAC National Champion was Joe Leonard and the Indianapolis 500 winner was Mark Donohue. Jim Malloy was killed at Indianapolis in practice; he was 40 years old.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094524-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 USAC Championship Car season\nAfter sponsoring the USAC Championship Trail in 1970-1971, Marlboro dropped out of the sport for 1972. After only two seasons as title sponsor, the company became angered when rival Viceroy was signed on to sponsor Vel's Parnelli Jones Racing, at the time dubbed the \"super team\" of the series. Without any exclusivity clause, managers at Marlboro deemed the situation \"impractical and untenable,\" and abruptly quit. Marlboro would not return to Indy car racing until 1986.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094524-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 USAC Championship Car season, Schedule and results\nIn the fall of 1971, a tentative schedule held the possibility of returning road courses to the championship schedule. Races at Colorado, Donnybrook, Bridgehampton, Road Atlanta, Mosport, as well as a return to Rafaela, Argentina, and a new \"Florida 500\" at the proposed \"Florida International Raceway\", were all part of an early press release. However, all road courses were ultimately left off, the Argentina race was discontinued, and the Florida race course was never built.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 55], "content_span": [56, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094525-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 USC Trojans baseball team\nThe 1972 USC Trojans baseball team represented the University of Southern California in the 1972 NCAA University Division baseball season. The team was coached Rod Dedeaux in his 31st season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094525-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 USC Trojans baseball team\nThe Trojans won the College World Series, defeating the Arizona State Sun Devils in the championship game, winning their third of five consecutive national championships, and fourth in five years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094525-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 USC Trojans baseball team, Trojans in the 1972 MLB Draft\nThe following members of the USC baseball program were drafted in the 1972 Major League Baseball Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094526-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 USC Trojans football team\nThe 1972 USC Trojans football team represented the University of Southern California during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. The Trojans won all twelve games and were consensus national champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094526-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 USC Trojans football team, Game summaries, Arkansas\nTailback Rod McNeill, who sat out the previous year with a hip injury, led the Trojans with 117 yards on 28 carries while Mike Rae, a backup for two seasons, completed 18 of 24 passes for 269 yards and in the second half completed nine straight passes at one point in his first start.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094526-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 USC Trojans football team, Game summaries, Oregon\nOn a very rainy and cold day, the Trojans were held to their lowest score of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094526-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 USC Trojans football team, NFL Draft\nTen Trojans were selected in the 1973 NFL Draft, with three in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094527-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 USLTA Indoor Circuit\nThe 1972 USLTA Indoor Circuit was a professional tennis circuit held in the United States that year. It consisted of eight tournaments and was organized by Bill Riordan and sanctioned by the United States Lawn Tennis Association (USLTA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094527-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 USLTA Indoor Circuit\nPlayers who reached at least the quarter-finals of the six top tournaments received ranking points. Ilie N\u0103stase won the first prize of $15,000 from a total bonus pool of $50,000 which was linked to the Boise Cascade Classic series of 13 U.S. indoor tournaments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094528-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 USSR Chess Championship\nThe 1972 Soviet Chess Championship was the 40th edition of USSR Chess Championship. Held from 16 November to 19 December 1972 in Baku. The tournament was won by Mikhail Tal. The final were preceded by semifinals events at Chelyabinsk, Uzhgorod, Kaliningrad and Odessa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094529-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 UTEP Miners football team\nThe 1972 UTEP Miners football team was an American football team that represented the University of Texas at El Paso in the Western Athletic Conference during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. After a 1\u20135 start to the season, eighth-year head coach Bobby Dobbs resigned and was replaced with offensive coordinator Tommy Hudspeth. The Miners then ended the season with one win and three more losses and finished with an 2\u20138 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094530-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Uber Cup\nThe 1972 Uber Cup was the fifth edition of the Uber Cup, the women's badminton team competition. The tournament took place in the 1971-1972 badminton season, 17 countries competed. Japan won its third title in the Uber Cup, after beating the Indonesia team 6-1 in the Final Round in Tokyo, Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094530-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Uber Cup, Teams\n17 teams from 4 regions took part in the competition. As defending champion, Japan skipped the qualifications and played directly in the final round of the inter-zone ties (team matches), effectively the semifinals of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 20], "content_span": [21, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094530-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Uber Cup, Teams\nFrom the qualifying rounds, four countries progressed to the inter-zone ties. From the Australasian zone, New Zealand advanced to the next round after beating Australia 4-3. From the Asian zone the Indonesia team advanced to the inter-zone ties with a w/o against Thailand. In the European zone final Denmark defeated England 5-2. From the Pan American zone, Canada beating United States with 6-1", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 20], "content_span": [21, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094530-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Uber Cup, Final round\nJapan won the Uber Cup title for the third consecutive time, after beating Indonesia in the final for the second consecutive time. Indonesia got its point from third singles player Intan Nurtjahja who won the first match of the tie. Japan's Noriko Nakayama, n\u00e9e Noriko Takagi, remained undefeated in Uber Cup singles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 26], "content_span": [27, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094531-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United Bank Classic\nThe 1972 United Bank Classic, also known as the Denver WCT, was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts in Denver, Colorado in the United States that was part of the 1972 World Championship Tennis circuit. It was the inaugural edition of the tournament and took place from April 24 through April 30, 1972. First-seeded Rod Laver won the first edition of both the doubles and singles competition. There was criticism by players, including Arthur Ashe, that the playing conditions on the Sporface carpet courts were too fast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094531-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United Bank Classic, Finals, Doubles\nRoy Emerson / Rod Laver defeated John Newcombe / Tony Roche, 6\u20132, 5\u20137, 7\u20136", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 41], "content_span": [42, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094532-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United Bank Classic \u2013 Singles\nFirst-seeded Rod Laver won the men's singles title at the 1972 United Bank Classic tennis tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094533-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United Kingdom local elections\nLocal elections were held in borough and district councils in the United Kingdom in 1972, during the life of the Conservative government of Edward Heath. They were the last such elections in England and Wales to be held prior to major structural changes to councils brought about by the Local Government Act 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094533-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United Kingdom local elections\nThe council seats up for election were previously fought in 1969, when the opposition Labour Party had been in government and had suffered poor results. It was therefore expected Labour would make substantial gains in 1972, although the Conservative position in opinion polls had improved somewhat since the 1971 local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094533-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 United Kingdom local elections\nLabour won the bulk of councils, although the continued existence of Conservative aldermen prevented their dominance being as great as the Conservatives' had been in 1969 (aldermen would be abolished by the Local Government Act in 1974 [1978 in Greater London]). The presence of Conservative aldermen deprived Labour of overall control in Cardiff, Huddersfield, Ipswich, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northampton, Oxford, Southampton, Wolverhampton and York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094533-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 United Kingdom local elections\nSince the 1971 local elections, the average swing from Labour to Conservative was 3.4%, which represented a recovery in votes of nearly a third of Conservative losses incurred between the 1970 and 1971 local elections. Their recovery was lower in areas that had been most badly affected by unemployment (1.4% in Wales, 0.7% in Scotland and 2.1% in England north of a line between Morecambe Bay and the river Wear).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094533-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 United Kingdom local elections\nThe Liberal Party's vote share increased 2.5% on 1971. They were strengthened in Liverpool and managed to retain once safe Labour wards in Birmingham, Leeds and Sheffield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094533-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 United Kingdom local elections\nThe Scottish National Party lost votes; Plaid Cymru retained its small vote. The anti-immigration National Front polled 11% in the wards it contested in Bradford (down from 15% in 1971) and 8% of the wards it contested in Leicester.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094534-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United Malays National Organisation leadership election\nA leadership election was held by the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) party on 25 June 1972. It was won by incumbent Prime Minister and acting President of UMNO, Abdul Razak Hussein.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094535-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United Nations Security Council election\nThe 1972 United Nations Security Council election was held on 20 October 1972 during the Twenty-seventh session of the United Nations General Assembly, held at United Nations Headquarters in New York City. The General Assembly elected Australia, Austria, Indonesia, Kenya, and Peru, as the five new non-permanent members of the UN Security Council for two-year mandates commencing on 1 January 1973. In addition, Austria, Indonesia and Kenya were elected into the council for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094535-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United Nations Security Council election, Rules\nThe Security Council has 15 seats, filled by five permanent members and ten non-permanent members. Each year, half of the non-permanent members are elected for two-year terms. A sitting member may not immediately run for re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 52], "content_span": [53, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094535-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 United Nations Security Council election, Rules\nIn accordance with the rules whereby the ten non-permanent UNSC seats rotate among the various regional blocs into which UN member states traditionally divide themselves for voting and representation purposes, the five available seats are allocated as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 52], "content_span": [53, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094535-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 United Nations Security Council election, Rules\nTo be elected, a candidate must receive a two-thirds majority of those present and voting. If the vote is inconclusive after the first round, three rounds of restricted voting shall take place, followed by three rounds of unrestricted voting, and so on, until a result has been obtained. In restricted voting, only official candidates may be voted on, while in unrestricted voting, any member of the given regional group, with the exception of current Council members, may be voted on.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 52], "content_span": [53, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094535-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 United Nations Security Council election, Result\nThe election was managed by then-President of the United Nations General Assembly Stanis\u0142aw Trepczy\u0144ski of Poland. The United Nations had 132 member states at this time (for a timeline of UN membership, see Enlargement of the United Nations). There were no nomination prior to the vote. Delegates were to write the names of the five member states they wished elected on the ballot papers. Voting was conducted on a single ballot. Ballots containing more states from a certain region than seats allocated to that region were invalidated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 590]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094536-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Grand Prix\nThe 1972 United States Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on October 8, 1972, at the Watkins Glen Grand Prix Race Course in Watkins Glen, New York. It was race 12 of 12 in both the 1972 World Championship of Drivers and the 1972 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers. The 59-lap race was won by Tyrrell driver Jackie Stewart after he started from pole position. His teammate Fran\u00e7ois Cevert finished second and McLaren driver Denny Hulme came in third. This was the debut race of the future world champion Jody Scheckter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094536-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Grand Prix, Summary\nJackie Stewart, having just lost his World Champion's crown to Emerson Fittipaldi, assertedhis intentions to get it back, as he dominated the entire weekend with pole, win and fastest lap and completed a sweep of the North American races. It was the twenty-second victory of the Scot's career, and his fourth in 1972. Teammate Fran\u00e7ois Cevert completed the one-two finish for Tyrrell, five seconds ahead of Denny Hulme's McLaren.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094536-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Grand Prix, Summary\nThe then-staggering amount of $275,000 in prize money attracted 31 entries for the last race of the year. Rain and cold winds harried the drivers in qualifying, and Friday's times determined the grid. Stewart took the pole with a time of 1:40.481, ahead of the McLarens of American Peter Revson and Hulme. A third McLaren, driven by South African Jody Scheckter in his F1 debut, was eighth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094536-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Grand Prix, Summary\nThe Goodyear teams seemed to be enjoying quite an advantage, some saying as much as one and a half to two seconds per lap in qualifying. Firestone had intended to close its European Racing Division, and their teams were using up old stock that had been produced some time before. Rob Walker said that his team's tires had been manufactured for the Austrian Grand Prix, one of the hottest races of the year, and he was not surprised that they would not work in the 40-degree temperatures at The Glen! After practice, however, a telegram was received from Firestone HQ in Akron saying that, because of all the letters they had received begging them to continue, they would be racing in the following season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 744]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094536-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Grand Prix, Summary\nSunday began bright and sunny, but by the time the cars assembled on the grid, the skies were threatening rain. Stewart jumped quickly off the grid and immediately began to pull away from the rest of the field. Mario Andretti charged from his tenth place grid position up the inside of the first corner in his Ferrari, and banged wheels with Carlos Reutemann's Brabham and Revson's McLaren. Andretti continued, to the delight of the crowd, now in seventh behind the Ferraris of Jacky Ickx and Clay Regazzoni. Reutemann followed in eighth with a broken nose, while Revson pitted at the end of the lap to have his front wing straightened.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 675]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094536-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Grand Prix, Summary\nStewart was three seconds clear of Hulme after one lap, and five seconds up after two. Fittipaldi, up to third after the first lap, immediately knew that his car was not right. His right rear tire began deflating on lap five, and when two replacements quickly did the same thing, the team realized that a misaligned suspension was the problem, and he retired. On lap 20, Stewart's lead was 20 seconds, and it was clear that any battle on this day would be for second place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094536-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Grand Prix, Summary\nWith Fittipaldi out and Reutemann forced to stop for a new nose cone, the second Tyrrell of Fran\u00e7ois Cevert was now in third and closing on Hulme. Scheckter was comfortably ahead of Ickx, but the Belgian was quickly being caught by Ronnie Peterson. On Saturday, in the rain, Peterson had crashed his March heavily, and the mechanics initially said that it was unrepairable. They decided to attempt to rebuild it in time for the race, and after starting in 26th position, Peterson was now the most impressive driver on the track, apart from race-leader Stewart.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094536-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Grand Prix, Summary\nAt about half-distance, Cevert got by Hulme for second place, and Peterson passed Ickx for fifth. On lap 40, a brief shower suddenly soaked Turn one. Scheckter, running marvellously in fourth place, was caught out by the slippery surface in the downhill, 90-degree right-hander and spun his McLaren up onto the bank. Ickx, in the meantime, repassed Peterson to take the position vacated by Scheckter. Andretti had been struggling with the performance of his tires, but now found them better on the wet track and increased his pace.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094536-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Grand Prix, Summary\nOn the last lap, with Stewart coasting home 40 seconds ahead of Cevert, Ickx's Ferrari began trailing smoke. Peterson pulled alongside him and signalled frantically at the back of the car. The Swede's gamesmanship worked, as Peterson beat the Ferrari to the line by just over half a second to take fourth place!", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094536-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Grand Prix, Summary\nRevson had passed both Andretti and Mike Hailwood on consecutive laps for sixth place, but with five laps remaining, an ignition wire parted and his brilliant drive ended. When Hailwood was unable to avoid the spinning Marches of Mike Beuttler and Niki Lauda just three laps from the flag, Andretti inherited sixth place and the final point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094536-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Grand Prix, Summary\nAfter the finish, the two leading Tyrrells, plus Patrick Depailler's seventh place sister car, entered the pit lane together in a show of strength, having earned team owner Ken Tyrrell a then-record reward of $97,500.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094537-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States House of Representatives election in Alaska\nThe 1972 United States House of Representatives election in Alaska was held on November 7, 1972, to elect the United States Representative from Alaska's at-large congressional district. Incumbent Democratic Representative Nick Begich went missing shortly before the general election, but still defeated Republican nominee Don Young.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094537-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States House of Representatives election in Alaska, Primary\nOn February 10, 1972, incumbent Representative Nick Begich announced that he would seek reelection to the House of Representatives. He had considered running for the Democratic senatorial nomination against Republican Senator Ted Stevens, but chose to run for reelection and reaffirmed his intention on March 27.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 71], "content_span": [72, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094537-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 United States House of Representatives election in Alaska, Primary\nOn April 7, Don Young, a member of the Alaska Senate, stated that he was considering running for the Republican nomination for Alaska's congressional district. At the Republican Party's state convention, the party gave its support to Young, although he had not formally announced his candidacy for the House of Representatives. On May 22, Young announced his candidacy after filing to run in Juneau.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 71], "content_span": [72, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094537-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 United States House of Representatives election in Alaska, Primary\nOn June 1, Bruce Dickerson Stevens filed to run for the Republican nomination, but did not actively campaign in the primary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 71], "content_span": [72, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094537-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 United States House of Representatives election in Alaska, Primary\nOn August 22, the open primary was held in which Begich placed first with nearly 70% of the popular vote, Young placed second with 25.60%, and Stevens placed third with less than 5%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 71], "content_span": [72, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094537-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 United States House of Representatives election in Alaska, General election\nOn September 6, 1972, Young challenged Begich to debate him, and Begich accepted on September 14. Four or five debates were planned to be held between Begich and Young, but Begich disappeared on October 16, while traveling by airplane with House Majority Leader Hale Boggs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 80], "content_span": [81, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094537-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 United States House of Representatives election in Alaska, General election\nOn October 19, Young suspended his campaign activities until Begich was found, but later resumed campaigning on October 28. Young stated that he believed that he was \"doing what I think is best for the state\" as if Begich was never found or discovered to have died then Alaska could not have a representative for six months until a special election was held to fill Begich's vacancy. House Minority Leader Gerald Ford stated that Alaska would possibly risk its seniority in the House of Representatives and House committee assignments if Young was not elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 80], "content_span": [81, 641]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094537-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 United States House of Representatives election in Alaska, General election\nHowever, despite Young and Ford's statements, Begich won reelection with 56.24% of the popular vote against Young's 43.76%. Begich never reappeared and was declared dead in absentia in December 1972. His body was never found.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 80], "content_span": [81, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094538-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States House of Representatives election in District of Columbia\nThe 1972 congressional election for the Delegate from the District of Columbia was held on November 7, 1972. The winner of the race was Walter E. Fauntroy (D), who won his first re-election after winning the special election in the previous year. All elected members would serve in 93rd United States Congress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 76], "section_span": [76, 76], "content_span": [77, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094538-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States House of Representatives election in District of Columbia\nThe non-voting delegate to the United States House of Representatives from the District of Columbia is elected for two-year terms, as are all other Representatives and Delegates minus the Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico, who is elected to a four-year term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 76], "section_span": [76, 76], "content_span": [77, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094538-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 United States House of Representatives election in District of Columbia, Candidates\nWalter E. Fauntroy, a Democrat, sought re-election for his second term to the United States House of Representatives. Fauntroy was opposed in this election by Republican challenger William Chin-Lee who received 25.12%, and Statehood Party candidate Charles I. Cassell who received 11.92%. This resulted in Fauntroy being elected with 60.64% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 76], "section_span": [78, 88], "content_span": [89, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094539-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States House of Representatives election in North Dakota\nNorth Dakota was reduced to one seat, to be elected at-large. One of the incumbents ran and won election to represent the state. The other retired to run for Governor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [68, 68], "content_span": [69, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094540-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States House of Representatives election in Puerto Rico\nThe election for Resident Commissioner to the United States House of Representatives took place on November 7, 1972, the same day as the larger Puerto Rican general election and the United States elections, 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [67, 67], "content_span": [68, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094541-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States House of Representatives election in Vermont\nIncumbent Republican Richard W. Mallary beat Democrat William H. Meyer, 65.0% \u2013 35.0%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094542-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States House of Representatives election in Wyoming\nIncumbent Democrat Teno Roncalio was elected over Republican William Kidd, 51.7% to 48.3%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094543-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States House of Representatives elections\nThe 1972 United States House of Representatives elections coincided with the landslide reelection victory of President Richard M. Nixon. Nixon's Republican Party managed to gain a net of twelve House of Representatives seats from the Democratic Party, although the Democrats retained a majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094543-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States House of Representatives elections\nThis was the first election in which citizens at least 18 years of age (instead of 21 and older) could vote, due to the recent passage of the 26th Amendment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094543-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 United States House of Representatives elections\nAs of 2021, this is the last congressional election in which Democrats won a house seat in Alaska.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094543-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 United States House of Representatives elections, Special elections\nSix special elections were also held throughout the year, six before November and one concurrent with the November general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 72], "content_span": [73, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094543-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 United States House of Representatives elections, Alabama\nAlabama was reapportioned from 8 to 7 seats and eliminated the old 3rd district, dividing it between the old 2nd and 4th and making compensating boundary changes elsewhere.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 62], "content_span": [63, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094543-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 United States House of Representatives elections, Alaska\nIncumbent Nick Begich won re-election three weeks after having disappeared in a plane crash October 16; challenger Don Young would later win a March special election after Begich was declared dead on December 29.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 61], "content_span": [62, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094543-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 United States House of Representatives elections, Arizona\nArizona was reapportioned from 3 seats to 4 and carved a new district in the Phoenix suburbs and the northeast from parts of the existing districts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 62], "content_span": [63, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094543-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 United States House of Representatives elections, California\nCalifornia was reapportioned from 38 to 43 seats, adding one seat in the Bay Area, one in the Central Valley, and 3 in southern California; three went to Democrats, two to Republicans. Despite a retirement and two lost renominations, both parties held their seats in this election, bringing the Democrats up from 20 seats to 23 and the Republicans up from 18 seats to 20.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 65], "content_span": [66, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094543-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 United States House of Representatives elections, Colorado\nColorado was reapportioned from 4 to 5 seats, constructing a new 5th district east and south of Denver.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 63], "content_span": [64, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094543-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 United States House of Representatives elections, Florida\nFlorida was reapportioned from 12 to 15 seats, adding a seat in central and two in south Florida.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 62], "content_span": [63, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094543-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 United States House of Representatives elections, Iowa\nIowa was reapportioned from 7 seats to 6, dividing the old 5th district around Des Moines between its neighbors. Its incumbent, Neal Smith, won again in the south-central Iowa 4th district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 59], "content_span": [60, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094543-0011-0000", "contents": "1972 United States House of Representatives elections, Louisiana\nLouisiana stayed at eight house seats following the 1970 census, but the Eighth District's boundaries were radically altered. New governor Edwin W. Edwards ordered the district to take in territory far to the south and east of its traditional base of Alexandria, which included many African-American and progressive white voters. The change was largely regarded as an election deal between Edwards and former Rep. Gillis Long, who finished third in the Democratic Primary in the 1971 Louisiana Governor's Election. Long easily won back the Eighth District seat he lost in 1964.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 64], "content_span": [65, 643]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094543-0012-0000", "contents": "1972 United States House of Representatives elections, Maryland\nMaryland's redistricting eliminated a seat in Baltimore in favor of an additional seat in the DC suburbs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 63], "content_span": [64, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094543-0013-0000", "contents": "1972 United States House of Representatives elections, Non-voting delegates\nThe non-voting delegate to the House of Representatives from the District of Columbia is elected for two-year terms, as are all other Representatives and Delegates minus the Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico, who is elected to a four-year term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 75], "content_span": [76, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094543-0014-0000", "contents": "1972 United States House of Representatives elections, Non-voting delegates, District of Columbia\nThe election for the Delegate from the District of Columbia featured winner Walter E. Fauntroy (D), who won his first re-election after winning the special election in the previous year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 97], "content_span": [98, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094543-0015-0000", "contents": "1972 United States House of Representatives elections, Non-voting delegates, District of Columbia\nWalter E. Fauntroy, a Democrat, sought re-election for his second term to the United States House of Representatives. Fauntroy was opposed in this election by Republican challenger William Chin-Lee who received 25.12%, and Statehood Party candidate Charles I. Cassell who received 11.92%. This resulted in Fauntroy being elected with 60.64% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 97], "content_span": [98, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094543-0016-0000", "contents": "1972 United States House of Representatives elections, Non-voting delegates, United States Virgin Islands\nDemocrat Ron de Lugo was elected as the first delegate from United States Virgin Islands's at-large congressional district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 105], "content_span": [106, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094544-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States House of Representatives elections in California\nThe United States House of Representatives elections in California, 1972 was an election for California's delegation to the United States House of Representatives, which occurred as part of the general election of the House of Representatives on November 7, 1972. California gained 5 seats as a result of the 1970 Census, three of which were won by Democrats and two by Republicans. Of California's existing House seats, none switched parties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [67, 67], "content_span": [68, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094544-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States House of Representatives elections in California, Results\nFinal results from the Clerk of the House of Representatives:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [69, 76], "content_span": [77, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094547-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States House of Representatives elections in Iowa\nIowa was reapportioned from 7 seats to 6, dividing the old 5th district around Des Moines between its neighbors. Its incumbent, Neal Smith, won again in the south-central Iowa 4th district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094550-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States House of Representatives elections in Louisiana\nLouisiana stayed at eight house seats following the 1970 census, but the Eighth District's boundaries were radically altered. New governor Edwin W. Edwards ordered the district to take in territory far to the south and east of its traditional base of Alexandria, which included many African-American and progressive white voters. The change was largely regarded as an election deal between Edwards and former Rep. Gillis Long, who finished third in the Democratic Primary in the 1971 Louisiana Governor's Election. Long easily won back the Eighth District seat he lost in 1964.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 645]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094551-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States House of Representatives elections in Maine\nOne of the two Maine incumbents was re-elected and the other retired.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094552-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States House of Representatives elections in Maryland\nThe 1972 congressional elections in Maryland were held on November 7, 1972, to determine who will represent the state of Maryland in the United States House of Representatives. Maryland has eight seats in the House, apportioned according to the 1970 United States Census. Representatives are elected for two-year terms; those elected served in the 93rd Congress from January 3, 1973 until January 3, 1975.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094556-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States House of Representatives elections in Mississippi\nOnly 2 of the 5 Mississippi incumbents were re-elected; the other 3 retired. The two Republican freshmen, Thad Cochran and Trent Lott, served Mississippi in the United States Senate together from 1989 to 2007.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [68, 68], "content_span": [69, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094569-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina\nThe 1972 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina were held on November 7, 1972 to select six Representatives for two-year terms from the state of South Carolina. The primary elections were held on August 29 and the runoff elections were held two weeks later on September 12. Five incumbents were re-elected and the only change was in the 6th district where Republican Edward Lunn Young succeeded Democrat John L. McMillan, who was defeated in the Democratic primary. The composition of the state delegation after the elections was four Democrats and two Republicans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [71, 71], "content_span": [72, 665]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094569-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 1st congressional district\nIncumbent Democratic Congressman Mendel Jackson Davis of the 1st congressional district, in office since 1971, won the Democratic primary and defeated Republican Sidi Limehouse in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 99], "content_span": [100, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094569-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 2nd congressional district\nIncumbent Republican Congressman Floyd Spence of the 2nd congressional district, in office since 1971, was unopposed in his bid for re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 99], "content_span": [100, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094569-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 3rd congressional district\nIncumbent Democratic Congressman William Jennings Bryan Dorn of the 3rd congressional district, in office since 1951, defeated Republican challenger Ray Ethridge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 99], "content_span": [100, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094569-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 4th congressional district\nIncumbent Democratic Congressman James R. Mann of the 4th congressional district, in office since 1969, defeated Republican challenger Wayne N. Whatley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 99], "content_span": [100, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094569-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 5th congressional district\nIncumbent Democratic Congressman Thomas S. Gettys of the 5th congressional district, in office since 1964, defeated Republican challenger B. Leonard Phillips.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 99], "content_span": [100, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094569-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 6th congressional district\nIncumbent Democratic Congressman John L. McMillan of the 6th congressional district, in office since 1939, was defeated in the Democratic primary. Republican Edward Lunn Young defeated Democrat John Jenrette in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 71], "section_span": [73, 99], "content_span": [100, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094570-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States House of Representatives elections in South Dakota\nOf the 2 South Dakota incumbents, 1 was re-elected and 1 retired.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 69], "section_span": [69, 69], "content_span": [70, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094571-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States House of Representatives elections in Tennessee\nOf the 9 Tennessee incumbents, 7 were re-elected, 1 retired, and 1 lost re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094572-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States House of Representatives elections in Texas\nOf the 22 Texas incumbents, 19 were re-elected, 1 retired, and 2 lost re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094573-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States House of Representatives elections in Utah\nOf the 2 Utah incumbents, 1 was re-elected and 1 lost re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 61], "section_span": [61, 61], "content_span": [62, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094574-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States House of Representatives elections in Virginia\nThe 1972 United States House of Representatives elections in Virginia were held on November 7, 1972 to determine who will represent the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States House of Representatives. Virginia had ten seats in the House, apportioned according to the 1970 United States Census. Representatives are elected for two-year terms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094575-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States House of Representatives elections in Washington\nOf the 7 Washington incumbents, 6 were re-elected and 1 retired.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [67, 67], "content_span": [68, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094576-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States House of Representatives elections in West Virginia\nOf the 5 West Virginia incumbents, 4 were re-elected and 1 lost renomination in a redistricting contest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 70], "section_span": [70, 70], "content_span": [71, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094577-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States House of Representatives elections in Wisconsin\nOf the 10 Wisconsin incumbents, 8 were re-elected, 1 retired, and 1 lost re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094578-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Olympic Trials (track and field)\nThe Men's 1972 United States Olympic Trials for track and field were held from June 29 to July 9 at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon, organized by the AAU. These were the first trials with no preliminary events; athletes merely had to meet the qualification standard in their event. This was also the last time the Women's Olympic Trials were held separately, and the ten-day competition in Eugene was held over eleven days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094578-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Olympic Trials (track and field)\nThe women's trials were held separately over two days (July 7\u20138) in Frederick, Maryland, under less elegant conditions at Governor Thomas Johnson High School. There were no wind readings taken during the events that normally require them; while photo-finish equipment was available in Eugene to separate close finishes, it was not available when needed in Frederick. As a consequence, the women's 100 meter race had to declare a tie for second place and was only able to assess one hand time for the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094578-0001-0001", "contents": "1972 United States Olympic Trials (track and field)\nWillye White, who qualified for her fifth Olympics at this meet, later complained that \"We did poorly at the Olympics because of poor conditions; lack of meets, lack of qualified coaches, and lack of fairness. For example, the nationals and Olympic Trials were conducted on tracks that were not superior, and the team was not in Munich early enough to adjust to the climate and time changes.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094578-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Olympic Trials (track and field)\nThe pentathlon took place in New Mexico at Los Alamos on June 23 and 24 and allowed two Canadian athletes to participate. The Canadian athletes finished in the first two positions but did not displace the selection of the American team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094579-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in Alabama\nThe 1972 United States Senate election in Alabama was held on November 7, 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094579-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in Alabama\nIncumbent Senator John Sparkman was re-elected to a fifth term in office over Postmaster General Winton Blount.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094580-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in Alaska\nThe 1972 United States Senate election in Alaska was held on November 7, 1972. Republican U.S. Senator Ted Stevens, who was first elected to complete the unexpired term of Bob Bartlett was re-elected to a full term in office over Democrat Gene Guess.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094581-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in Arkansas\nThe 1972 United States Senate election in Arkansas took place on November 7, 1972. Incumbent U.S. Senator John L. McClellan was re-elected to a sixth term in office, defeating U.S. Representative David Pryor in a hotly contested primary. In the general election, McClellan easily defeated Republican physician Wayne Babbitt. This was McClellan's final campaign; he died in his sleep in 1977. Pryor was elected Governor of Arkansas in 1974 and won the race to succeed McClellan in 1978.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094581-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in Arkansas, Democratic primary, Run-off results\nSince no candidate received a majority in the initial primary, a run-off election was held on June 13 between McClellan and Pryor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 83], "content_span": [84, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094582-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in Colorado\nThe 1972 United States Senate election in Colorado took place on November 7, 1972. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Gordon Allott ran for re-election to a fourth term, but was narrowly defeated by Democratic former State Representative Floyd Haskell. This would be the last time until 2008 that a Democrat was elected to the Class 2 Senate seat from Colorado.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094582-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in Colorado, Democratic primary, Results\nFloyd Haskell, a former State Representative who had served as a Republican from 1965\u201367, but had left the party in 1970 over opposition to the Vietnam War, won the primary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 75], "content_span": [76, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094583-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in Delaware\nThe 1972 United States Senate election in Delaware was held November 7, 1972. Incumbent Republican United States Senator J. Caleb Boggs ran for a third term in the United States Senate. Boggs faced off against Joe Biden, a New Castle County Councilman. Though Boggs was expected to easily win a third term over Biden, the election ended up being the closest Senate election of the year. Biden narrowly defeated Boggs by 3,162 votes, winning his first of seven U.S. Senate elections. This is the only time Biden lost Sussex County in his seven elections to the Senate. Biden would later be elected vice president in 2008 and president in 2020. Biden became the youngest senator since Rush Holt won in West Virginia in 1934.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 769]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094583-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in Delaware, General election, Campaign\nLongtime Delaware political figure and incumbent Republican Senator J. Caleb Boggs was considering retirement, which would likely have left U.S. Representative Pete du Pont and Wilmington Mayor Harry G. Haskell Jr. in a divisive Senate primary fight. To avoid a potential primary, U.S. President Richard Nixon helped convince Boggs to run again with full party support.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 74], "content_span": [75, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094583-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in Delaware, General election, Campaign\nAside from Biden, a New Castle County Councilman, no Democrats wanted to challenge Boggs. Biden's campaign had virtually no money and was given no chance of winning. The campaign was managed by Biden's sister, Valerie Biden Owens (who would go on to manage his future campaigns), was staffed by other members of the Biden family, and relied upon handed-out newsprint position papers. Biden did receive some assistance from the AFL\u2013CIO and from Democratic pollster Patrick Caddell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 74], "content_span": [75, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094583-0002-0001", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in Delaware, General election, Campaign\nBiden's campaign focused on withdrawal from Vietnam, the environment, civil rights, mass transit, more equitable taxation, health care, the public's dissatisfaction with politics-as-usual, and \"change\". Biden would be against giving amnesty to draft dodgers. Despite not supporting the legalization of Marijuana, he would say in a campaign ad that: \"the possession of marijuana is a misdemeanor\u2014a minor offense. The police should treat it that way, and devote the greater part of their efforts to heroin. \".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 74], "content_span": [75, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094583-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in Delaware, General election, Campaign\nDuring the summer, Biden trailed Boggs by almost 30\u00a0percentage points; however, Biden's energy level, attractive young family, and ability to connect with voters' emotions gave him an advantage over the ready-to-retire Boggs. John Marttila would serve as one of his consultants and had previously worked for Robert Drinan's campaign for the US House of Representatives. Biden's campaign was described as having \"no money to speak of.\" and relied on positions papers in newspapers and a few campaign advertisements on the radio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 74], "content_span": [75, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094583-0003-0001", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in Delaware, General election, Campaign\nOne notable advertisement used by the Biden campaign was a brochure printed in newspaper format that contrasted the world view of the two candidates, e.g., (full page) \"To Cale Boggs an unfair tax was the 1948 poll tax\"; (opposite page) \"To Joe Biden an unfair tax is the 1972 income tax.\" On November 7, 1972, Biden upset Boggs by a margin of 3,162 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 74], "content_span": [75, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094583-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in Delaware, General election, Campaign\nBiden would vary his messaging during campaign events throughout the state as well. For example, in the southern parts of the state his pitch would be: \u201cthirty years ago, caring for the environment meant picking up bottles and beer cans on Rehoboth Beach \u2026 and now it means saving the beach.\u201d while in the northern parts of the state in the Wilmington area it would be \u201cin 1950, Cale Boggs promised to keep highways growing; in 1970 Joe Biden promises to keep trees growing.\u201d.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 74], "content_span": [75, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094583-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in Delaware, General election, Campaign\nA few weeks later on December 18, 1972, Biden\u2019s wife and daughter died in a car crash which injured his sons. Biden was contemplating resigning the Senate and told his brother to talk with governor-elect Sherman W. Tribbitt on his successor. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield persuaded Biden to stay in the Senate for at least six months. Biden was sworn in at the hospital where his sons were recovering. Biden would hold the seat up until his election as Vice President 36 years later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 74], "content_span": [75, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094583-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in Delaware, General election, Campaign\nAt the time of the 1972 election, Biden was 29 years old. He turned 30\u2014the minimum age for a U.S. senator\u2014on November 20, 1972, in time for the Senate term beginning January 3, 1973. At the commencement of his Senate term, Biden was the sixth-youngest U.S. Senator in history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 74], "content_span": [75, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094583-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in Delaware, General election, Campaign\nA 2004 book contained a story, allegedly from Frank Sheeran, that in the week prior to Election Day an unidentified lawyer approached Sheeran about preventing the distribution of the local paper because Senator Boggs was running an advertisement unflattering to Biden. Sheeran claimed that he organized a work stoppage, and that Teamsters truck drivers refused to cross a picket line, so the papers were not delivered. The credibility of Sheeran's account has been called into serious question. It conflicts directly with articles in the Wilmington News Journal on the strike, published on November 6 and November 22, 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 74], "content_span": [75, 698]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094583-0007-0001", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in Delaware, General election, Campaign\nThe paper was not printed on the days in question because the Printers Union briefly joined the strike. The paper's deliveries were not shut down for a week, but for two days. The picket line did not come down on the day after the election; rather, the Guild remained on strike until November 22.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 74], "content_span": [75, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094583-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in Delaware, General election, Campaign\nBiden was elected President of the United States in November 2020 at age 77. Because of mail-in voting his victory was not official until November 7, 5 days after conventional voting began and the 48th anniversary of his Senate election over Boggs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 74], "content_span": [75, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094584-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in Georgia\nThe 1972 United States Senate election in Georgia took place on November 7, 1972, as one of that year's United States Senate elections. It was held concurrently with the 1972 presidential election. This seat had opened up following the death of Richard B. Russell in 1971. Shortly thereafter, Governor of Georgia Jimmy Carter appointed David H. Gambrell to fill Russell's vacant seat. The Democratic Party nominee was Sam Nunn, a conservative Democrat and member of the Georgia House of Representatives, and the Republican Party nominated Fletcher Thompson, the Representative from the Atlanta-area 5th congressional district of Georgia. In the primary, Nunn emerged victorious from a crowded field of Democratic candidates, including Gambrell and former Georgia Governor Ernest Vandiver. Despite President Richard Nixon defeating George McGovern in Georgia in the presidential election on the same day, Nunn defeated Thompson in the general election 54% to 46%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 1008]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094584-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in Georgia, Primaries\nA total of fifteen candidates ran for the Democratic nomination, including incumbent Gambrell, Nunn, former governor Ernest Vandiver, segregationist J.B. Stoner, and civil rights activist Hosea Williams. In the initial round of voting on August 8, 1972, Gambrell finished first with 31.4% of the vote, followed by Nunn with 23.1%. Because no candidate received an outright majority, a runoff was held on August 29, which Nunn won.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 56], "content_span": [57, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094584-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in Georgia, General election, Campaign\nThe 1972 race focused more on candidates than on issues. Both Nunn and Thompson tried to align themselves with politicians who were viewed favorably in Georgia, and to dissociate themselves from those who were viewed unfavorably. Nunn, for example, harshly criticized his own party's nominee for President, George McGovern, pledging not to vote for him in that year's presidential election. Nunn suggested he might cast a write-in vote for George Wallace instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 73], "content_span": [74, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094584-0002-0001", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in Georgia, General election, Campaign\nThompson, by contrast, tried to associate himself with President Richard Nixon, who was polling far ahead of McGovern in Georgia; he also distributed posters across the state linking Nunn to McGovern. As Jon Nordheimer noted in the New York Times several weeks before the election, \"This maneuvering has become so frenzied, in fact, that the relative popularity of the President, Senator McGovern and Governor Wallace might seem to be the only real issues of the campaign.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 73], "content_span": [74, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094584-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in Georgia, General election, Campaign\nAmong the issues that the candidates focused on during the campaign was Jane Fonda's controversial visit to Vietnam. Thompson, then a member of the House Internal Security Committee, tried unsuccessfully to persuade his colleagues on the Committee to issue a subpoena against Fonda to answer his accusation that she had committed treason. Fonda did not testify, but A. William Olson did, to the effect that the United States Department of Justice had found no reason to prosecute Fonda for either treason or for violating the Logan Act.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 73], "content_span": [74, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094584-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in Georgia, General election, Campaign\nNunn's campaign was much more organized than was Thompson's. Nunn had support from numerous prominent Democrats from his state, including Gambrell, Carter, and Vandiver. By contrast, Thompson's campaign was \"almost literally a one-man effort\", and he started the race with virtually no footprint outside of his own district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 73], "content_span": [74, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094584-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in Georgia, General election, Endorsements\nNunn was endorsed by almost every establishment Democrat in Georgia, with the notable exception of Lieutenant Governor Lester Maddox, who did not endorse a candidate in the general election. Maddox did, however, support Nunn in his primary challenge to Gambrell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 77], "content_span": [78, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094584-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in Georgia, General election, Endorsements\nThompson tried to tie himself to Nixon, in the hopes of benefiting from Nixon's expected strong performance in Georgia. Nevertheless, Nixon declined to endorse Thompson when he visited Atlanta several weeks before the election. Some speculated that this may have been because the Nixon campaign was pessimistic about Thompson's chances. Instead of Nixon, both Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater, a former Republican presidential nominee, and Vice President Spiro Agnew threw their support behind Thompson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 77], "content_span": [78, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094584-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in Georgia, Aftermath\nBy defeating Thompson in the general election, Nunn became the first Democrat to win a Senate race in Georgia despite losing the white vote. Nunn's narrow victory over Thompson reflected a continuing decline in the Democratic Party's influence in Georgia, despite Nixon's landslide victory over McGovern there in the same year. Watergate further reduced the party's popularity in the state in 1974, and in that year's gubernatorial election, Republican gubernatorial candidate Ronnie Thompson lost with only 30% of the vote. When Newt Gingrich first ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 1974, he tried to model his campaign on Nunn's successful one in 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 56], "content_span": [57, 712]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094585-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in Idaho\nThe 1972 United States Senate election in Idaho took place on November 7, 1972. Incumbent Republican Senator Leonard B. Jordan did not run for re-election. Republican U.S. Representative James A. McClure was elected to succeed him over Democrat Bud Davis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094586-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in Illinois\nThe 1972 United States Senate election in Illinois took place on November 7, 1972. Incumbent Republican United States Senator Charles H. Percy sought re-election to the United States Senate. Percy was opposed by Democratic nominee Roman Pucinski, a United States Congressman from Illinois's 11th congressional district, whom he was able to defeat handily to win a second term. As of 2021, this is the last time a Republican was elected to the U.S. Senate from Illinois during a presidential election year, and the last time an Illinois Republican won a Senate election by double digits.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 633]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094586-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in Illinois, Election information\nThe primary (held on March 21) and general election coincided with those for House and state elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 68], "content_span": [69, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094586-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in Illinois, Election information, Turnout\nTurnout in the primaries was 31.40%, with a total of 1,753,727 votes cast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 77], "content_span": [78, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094586-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in Illinois, Election information, Turnout\nTurnout during the general election was 51.24%, with 3,184,764 votes cast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 77], "content_span": [78, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094586-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in Illinois, Election information, Turnout\nTurnout in both the primary and general election was significantly less than those for coinciding statewide races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 77], "content_span": [78, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094586-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in Illinois, Democratic primary\nCongressman Roman Pucinski defeated Dakin Williams in the Democratic primary. Williams was a prosecutor who was the younger brother of playwright Tennessee Williams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 66], "content_span": [67, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094586-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in Illinois, Republican primary\nIncumbent Charles H. Percy was renominated without opposition in the Republican primary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 66], "content_span": [67, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094587-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in Iowa\nThe 1972 United States Senate election in Iowa took place on November 7, 1972. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Jack Miller ran for re-election to a third term but was defeated by Democrat Dick Clark.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094588-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in Kansas\nThe 1972 United States Senate election in Kansas took place on November 7, 1972, concurrently with the U.S. presidential election as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states as well as elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094588-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in Kansas\nIncumbent Republican U.S. Senator James B. Pearson defeated Democratic nominee Arch O. Tetzlaff with 71.42% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094588-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in Kansas, Bibliography\nThis Kansas elections-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 58], "content_span": [59, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094589-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in Kentucky\nThe 1972 United States Senate election in Kentucky took place on November 7, 1972. Incumbent Republican Senator John Sherman Cooper retired, and Democratic State Senator Walter Dee Huddleston narrowly won the open seat over former Republican Governor Louie Nunn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094590-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in Louisiana\nThe 1972 United States Senate election in Louisiana was held on November 9, 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094590-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in Louisiana\nFormer State Representative J. Bennett Johnston was elected to the Senate to succeed First Lady of Louisiana Elaine Edwards, who had been appointed by her husband on an interim basis following the death of Senator Allen Ellender. Following Johnston's victory in the general election, Elaine Edwards resigned and Governor Edwin Edwards appointed Johnston, so that he could gain seniority in the Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094590-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in Louisiana, Democratic primary, Candidates, Deceased\nSenator Ellender died July 27, a few weeks before the August 19 primary, but his name remained on the ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 89], "content_span": [90, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094590-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in Louisiana, Republican primary, Results\nFollowing Ellender's death, the Republican Party replaced presumptive nominee Charles McLean with attorney and New Orleans mayoral candidate Ben Toledano. Toledano was unopposed for the Republican nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 76], "content_span": [77, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094590-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in Louisiana, Independents and third parties, Independent\nFollowing Ellender's death, former Governor John McKeithen joined the race as an independent candidate. He initially hoped to enter the race as a Democrat but was barred by party leaders from entering the primary. He campaigned against the Democratic Party's presidential nominee, George McGovern.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 92], "content_span": [93, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094590-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in Louisiana, General election, Campaign\nThe sudden death of Ellender and the independent candidacy of former Governor McKeithen made this a rare competitive general election in Louisiana. The Republican Party had not seriously contested one of Louisiana's Senate seats since Reconstruction, and Republican leaders believed McKeithen's presence in the race could split the Democratic vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 75], "content_span": [76, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094590-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in Louisiana, General election, Campaign\nMcKeithen ran a populist, agrarian campaign against Johnston, citing his own investment in the state's agriculture industry and attempting to portray Johnston as an urban elitist, similar to McKeithen's campaign against former New Orleans Mayor deLesseps Story Morrison in the 1963-64 governor's race. All three major candidates supported President Nixon's handling of the Vietnam War.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 75], "content_span": [76, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094591-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in Maine\nThe 1972 United States Senate election in Maine was held on November 7, 1972. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Margaret Chase Smith ran for re-election to a fifth term, but was defeated by Democrat William Hathaway. As of 2021, this is the last time the Democrats won the Class 2 Senate seat from Maine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094592-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in Massachusetts\nThe United States Senate election of 1972 in Massachusetts was held on November 7, 1972 with the incumbent Republican Senator Edward Brooke defeating his challengers. As of 2021, this is the last time the Republicans won the Class 2 U.S. Senate seat in Massachusetts, and the last time a Republican won a full U.S. Senate term in the state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094592-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in Massachusetts, External links and references\nThis Massachusetts elections\u2013related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 82], "content_span": [83, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094593-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in Michigan\nThe 1972 United States Senate election in Michigan was held on November 7, 1972. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator and Senate Minority Whip Robert P. Griffin ran for re-election to a second term, won reelection defeating the Democratic candidate, and Michigan Attorney General Frank J. Kelley. As of 2021, this is the last time the Republicans won the Class 2 Senate seat in Michigan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094594-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in Minnesota\nThe 1972 United States Senate election in Minnesota took place on November 7, 1972. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Walter Mondale won re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094595-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in Mississippi\nThe 1972 United States Senate election in Mississippi was held on November 7, 1972. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator James Eastland won re-election to his sixth term. As of 2021, this is the last time that the Democrats won the Class 2 Senate seat in Mississippi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094595-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in Mississippi, Republican primary, Campaign\nMeredith ran as an anti-Nixon candidate, while Carmichael supported President Nixon's re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 79], "content_span": [80, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094596-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in Montana\nThe 1972 United States Senate election in Montana took place on November 7, 1972. Incumbent United States Senator Lee Metcalf, who was first elected to the Senate in 1960 and was re-elected in 1966, ran for re-election. After winning the Democratic primary, he moved on to the general election, where he faced Hank Hibbard, a State Senator and the Republican nominee. Following a close campaign, Metcalf managed to narrowly win re-election to his third term in the Senate over Hibbard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094597-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in Nebraska\nThe 1972 Nebraska United States Senate election was held on November 7, 1972 to select the U.S. Senator from the state of Nebraska. Republican U.S. Senator Carl Curtis won re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094598-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in New Hampshire\nThe 1972 United States Senate election in New Hampshire took place on November 7, 1972. Incumbent Democratic Senator Thomas J. McIntyre won re-election to a second full term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094599-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in New Jersey\nThe 1972 United States Senate election in New Jersey was held on November 7, 1972. Incumbent Republican Clifford P. Case defeated Democratic nominee Paul J. Krebs with 62.46% of the vote. As of 2021, this is the last time the Republicans won a U.S. Senate election in New Jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094600-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in New Mexico\nThe 1972 United States Senate election in New Mexico took place on November 7, 1972. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Clinton Presba Anderson did not run for re-election. Republican Pete Domenici defeated Democrat Jack Daniels to win the open seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094601-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in North Carolina\nThe North Carolina United States Senate election of 1972 was held on 7 November 1972 as part of the nationwide elections to the Senate, and coinciding with the 1972 presidential election. The general election was fought between the Republican nominee Jesse Helms and the Democratic nominee Rep. Nick Galifianakis. Helms won the election, becoming the first Republican to win a Senate seat in North Carolina in the twentieth century.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094601-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in North Carolina\nThree-term Representative Nick Galifianakis defeated two-term incumbent Senator B. Everett Jordan in the second ballot in the Democratic primary. Galifianakis was seen as an anti-establishment liberal in North Carolina, although an opponent of busing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094602-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in Oklahoma\nThe 1972 United States Senate election in Oklahoma took place on November 7, 1972. The incumbent Democratic Senator, Fred R. Harris, had retired to run for president. The open seat was won by Republican Dewey F. Bartlett, who defeated Democratic nominee Ed Edmondson. His victory underperformed Richard Nixon's, who defeated George McGovern by 49.7% in the state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094603-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in Oregon\nThe 1972 United States Senate election in Oregon took place on November 7, 1972. Incumbent Republican Senator Mark Hatfield was re-elected to a second term in office, defeating Democrat Wayne Morse.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094604-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in Rhode Island\nThe 1972 United States Senate election in Rhode Island took place on November 7, 1972. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Claiborne Pell successfully sought re-election, defeating Republican John Chafee in the closest race of Pell's Senate career. Chafee was elected to Rhode Island's other Senate seat in 1976, and was colleagues with Pell until the latter's retirement in 1996.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094605-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in South Carolina\nThe 1972 South Carolina United States Senate election was held on November 7, 1972 to select the U.S. Senator from the state of South Carolina. Popular incumbent Republican Senator Strom Thurmond easily defeated Democratic challenger Eugene N. Zeigler.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094605-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in South Carolina, Democratic primary\nThe South Carolina Democratic Party held their primary for governor on August 29, 1972. Eugene N. Zeigler, a state senator from Florence, defeated John Bolt Culbertson to become the Democratic nominee in the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 72], "content_span": [73, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094605-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in South Carolina, Republican primary\nSenator Strom Thurmond faced no opposition from South Carolina Republicans and avoided a primary election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 72], "content_span": [73, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094605-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in South Carolina, General election campaign\nThe general election campaign was a lackluster affair as Thurmond was heavily favored to win re-election and he outspent Zeigler by a margin of four to one. However, Thurmond's re-election was almost derailed when his hometown newspaper, the Edgefield Advertiser, ran the headline \"SEN. THURMOND IS UNPRINCIPLED WITH COLORED OFFSPRING WHILE PARADING AS A DEVOUT SEGREGATIONIST\" on the October 11 front page. The Thurmond campaign fiercely denied that he had sired a black child and claimed that it was a dirty trick being played by the Zeigler campaign. While the allegation ultimately proved true, at the time it served to galvanize voters for Thurmond.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 79], "content_span": [80, 734]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094606-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in South Dakota\nThe 1972 United States Senate election in South Dakota took place on November 7, 1972, concurrently with the U.S. presidential election as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states as well as elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094606-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in South Dakota\nIncumbent Republican U.S. Senator Karl E. Mundt, who had suffered a severe stroke in 1969, did not run for re-election to a fifth term and was succeeded by Democratic nominee James Abourezk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094606-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in South Dakota\nDespite Abourezk's 14 point win, Democratic senator from South Dakota George McGovern, who was running concurrently in the 1972 United States presidential election, lost his home state by a margin of 8.6 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094606-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in South Dakota, Primary elections, Republican primary, Results\nA state convention was held June 26 to determine the party's nominee as no candidate received the 35% required for nomination under the state's primary law. Hirsch was nominated at this convention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 98], "content_span": [99, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094606-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in South Dakota, Bibliography\nThis South Dakota elections-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 64], "content_span": [65, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094607-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in Tennessee\nThe 1972 United States Senate election in Tennessee took place on November 7, 1972, concurrently with the U.S. presidential election as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states as well as elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Howard Baker won re-election to a second term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094608-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in Texas\nThe 1972 United States Senate election in Texas was held on November 7, 1972. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator John Tower won re-election to a third term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094608-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in Texas, Democratic primary, Results\nAlthough he received over one million votes, Yarborough was 269 short of a majority. He and Sanders advanced to a runoff election held June 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 72], "content_span": [73, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094609-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in Virginia\nThe 1972 United States Senate election in Virginia was held on November 7, 1972. Republican U.S. Representative William L. Scott defeated incumbent Democratic Senator William Spong, Jr.. Scott was the first Republican U.S. Senator from Virginia to be elected in over a century, as the most recent Republican Senator was John F. Lewis, who had held the seat during the Reconstruction era. This is the last time a candidate not named Warner won this seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094610-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in West Virginia\nThe 1972 United States Senate election in West Virginia took place on November 7, 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094611-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate election in Wyoming\nThe 1972 United States Senate election in Wyoming was held on November 7, 1972. Incumbent Republican Senator Clifford Hansen ran for re-election to a second term. He was challenged by Democratic nominee Mike Vinich, a former aide to Congressman Teno Roncalio and a bar owner in Hudson. As Hansen ran for re-election, President Richard Nixon was overwhelmingly defeating Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern in Wyoming. Hansen managed to outperform even Nixon, winning his second term in a landslide over Vinich.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094612-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate elections\nThe 1972 United States Senate elections coincided with the landslide re-election of Republican President Richard Nixon. Despite Nixon's landslide victory, Democrats increased their majority by two seats. After the elections, Democrats held 56 seats and Republicans held 42 seats, with 1 Conservative and 1 independent senator. These were the first elections in which all citizens at least 18 years of age (instead of 21 and older) could vote due to the 1971 passage of the 26th Amendment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094612-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate elections\nAs of 2021, this is the last cycle in which a Republican won a Senate election in New Jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094612-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate elections, Gains and losses\nThe Democrats picked up open seats in Kentucky and South Dakota, and defeated four incumbent senators: Gordon Allott of Colorado, J. Caleb Boggs of Delaware, Jack Miller of Iowa, and Margaret Chase Smith of Maine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 53], "content_span": [54, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094612-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate elections, Gains and losses\nThe Republicans picked up open seats in New Mexico, North Carolina and Oklahoma, and defeated one incumbent, William B. Spong Jr. of Virginia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 53], "content_span": [54, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094612-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate elections, Race summaries, Special elections during the 92nd Congress\nIn these special elections, the winner was seated during 1972 or before January 3, 1973; ordered by election date, then state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 95], "content_span": [96, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094612-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate elections, Race summaries, Elections leading to the next Congress\nIn these general elections, the winners were elected for the term beginning January 3, 1973; ordered by state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 91], "content_span": [92, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094612-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate elections, Colorado\nIncumbent Republican Gordon Allott was defeated by Floyd K. Haskell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094612-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate elections, Delaware\nIncumbent Republican J. Caleb Boggs, running for a third term, faced off against future President Joe Biden, then a New Castle County Councilman. Though Boggs was expected to easily win a third term over the then-unknown Biden, it ended up being the closest Senate election in 1972, and Biden narrowly beat out Boggs by a little over three thousand votes, winning what would be his first of seven terms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094612-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate elections, Delaware\nBoggs, a longtime Delaware political figure, was considering retirement which would likely have led to a primary campaign between two Republicans, U.S. Representative Pete du Pont and Wilmington Mayor Harry G. Haskell Jr.. To avoid the anticipated divisive primary fight, U.S. President Richard M. Nixon helped convince Boggs to run again with full party support.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094612-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate elections, Delaware\nNo other Democrat wanted to run against Boggs besides Biden. Biden's campaign had virtually no money and was given no chance of winning. It was managed by his sister Valerie Biden Owens (who would go on to manage his future campaigns as well) and staffed by other members of his family, and relied upon handed-out newsprint position papers. Biden did receive some assistance from the AFL-CIO and Democratic pollster Patrick Caddell. Biden's campaign issues focused on withdrawal from Vietnam, the environment, civil rights, mass transit, more equitable taxation, health care, the public's dissatisfaction with politics-as-usual, and \"change\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 688]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094612-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate elections, Delaware\nDuring the summer Biden trailed by almost 30\u00a0percentage points, but his energetic campaign, his attractive young family, and his ability to connect with voters' emotions gave the surging Biden an advantage over the ready-to-retire Boggs. Biden won the November 7, 1972 election in an upset by a margin of 3,162 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094612-0011-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate elections, Delaware\nAt the time of the election Biden was a little less than 30 years old; age 30 is a constitutional requirement for the U.S. Senate, and he reached that on November 20, in time for the Senate term beginning January 3. After his election he became the sixth-youngest senator in history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094612-0012-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate elections, Georgia\nSeven-term Democrat Richard Russell Jr. died January 21, 1971 and Governor of Georgia Jimmy Carter appointed Democrat David H. Gambrell, the chair of the Georgia Democratic Party as interim senator, pending a special election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094612-0013-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate elections, Georgia\nSam Nunn, a Democratic member of the Georgia House of Representatives, won both the special and the regular elections. Nunn beat Gambrell in the August 29 special and regular primary run-off elections and he then beat Republican congressman Fletcher Thompson in the November 3 special and regular general elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094612-0014-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate elections, Idaho\nThe incumbent Republican Leonard B. Jordan retired, and was succeeded by James A. McClure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 42], "content_span": [43, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094612-0015-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate elections, Illinois\nIncumbent Republican Charles H. Percy sought re-election. Percy was opposed by: Democratic nominee Roman Pucinski, a Congressman from Illinois's 11th congressional district, Edward C. Gross (SL) and Arnold Becchetti (C). Percy handily won a second term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094612-0016-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate elections, Iowa\nThe incumbent Republican Jack Miller was defeated by Dick Clark.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 41], "content_span": [42, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094612-0017-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate elections, Kentucky\nThe incumbent Republican John Sherman Cooper retired, and was succeeded by Democrat Walter Dee Huddleston.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094612-0018-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate elections, Louisiana\nIn the midst of his campaign for a seventh term, Allen J. Ellender, the President Pro Tempore and chairman of the Appropriations Committee, suffered a fatal heart attack on July 27, 23 days prior to the Democratic primary. Ellender, first elected in 1936 as the permanent successor to the assassinated Huey P. Long, was slated to face former state senator and 1971 gubernatorial candidate J. Bennett Johnston and minor candidate Frank Allen in the primary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094612-0019-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate elections, Louisiana\nGovernor Edwin Washington Edwards, who defeated Johnston by less than 4,500 votes in the 1971 Democratic runoff, nominated his wife, Elaine Edwards, to fill the remainder of Ellender's term, with the agreement Mrs. Edwards would resign immediately following the general election to allow the winner to gain seniority over other new senators.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094612-0020-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate elections, Louisiana\nOn the same day as Edwards' inauguration on Capitol Hill, the Louisiana Democratic Party rejected a challenge by former Governor John McKeithen to reopen qualifying following Ellender's death, ordering the primary to be held August 19 as scheduled, ignoring an opinion to the contrary by Louisiana Attorney General William J. Guste Jr. Ellender's name was not removed from the ballot and he received 10 percent of the primary vote as a tribute. McKeithen, whose eight-year gubernatorial tenure ended May 9, 1972, ran as an independent with support of the Ellender family, incensed by Johnston's primary challenge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 660]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094612-0021-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate elections, Louisiana\nJohnston easily won the Democratic primary, nullifying the need for a September 30 runoff. In the general election, the Shreveport native trounced McKeithen by 32 points to win the first of his four terms. He was sworn in November 13, 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094612-0022-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate elections, Maine\nIncumbent Republican Margaret Chase Smith ran for re-election to a fifth term, but was defeated by Democrat William Hathaway, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Maine's 2nd congressional district.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 42], "content_span": [43, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094612-0023-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate elections, Massachusetts\nIncumbent Republican Edward Brooke, first elected in 1966 as the first African-American elected to the Senate by popular vote, defeated his challengers, among them: John J. Droney, the Middlesex County District Attorney.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 50], "content_span": [51, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094612-0024-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate elections, Minnesota\nIncumbent Democrat Walter Mondale, who was originally appointed in 1964 (to fill the vacancy create when Hubert Humphrey was elected to the office of Vice President) and elected to a full term in 1966, defeated Republican challenger Phil Hansen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094612-0025-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate elections, Montana\nIncumbent Democrat Lee Metcalf, who was first elected to the Senate in 1960 and was re-elected in 1966, ran for re-election. After winning the Democratic primary, he moved on to the general election, where he faced Hank Hibbard, a State senator and the Republican nominee. Following a close campaign, Metcalf managed to narrowly win re-election to his third term in the Senate over Hibbard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094612-0026-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate elections, Nebraska\nIncumbent Republican Carl Curtis won re-election over former congressman Terry Carpenter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094612-0027-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate elections, New Mexico\nThe incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Clinton Presba Anderson retired, and was succeeded by Republican Pete Domenici.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094612-0028-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate elections, North Carolina\nThe incumbent Democratic senator B. Everett Jordan was defeated in the primary by Nick Galifianakis. Galifianakis went on to lose the election to Jesse Helms, making Helms the first Republican Senator from the state in the 20th century.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 51], "content_span": [52, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094612-0029-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate elections, Oklahoma\nThe incumbent Democratic Senator Fred R. Harris retired, and was succeeded by Republican Dewey F. Bartlett.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094612-0030-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate elections, South Dakota\nThe incumbent Republican Karl E. Mundt retired, and was succeeded by James Abourezk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 49], "content_span": [50, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094612-0031-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate elections, Tennessee\nOne-term Republican Howard Baker was re-elected. He defeated Democrat Ray Blanton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 46], "content_span": [47, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094612-0032-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate elections, Vermont (special)\nThe special election was held January 7, 1972. Incumbent Republican Robert Stafford, appointed in September 1971 to fill the vacancy created by the death of Winston L. Prouty, successfully ran for re-election to the remainder of Prouty's term. Stafford defeated Democratic candidate Randolph T. Major. Bernie Sanders, the Liberty Union candidate, was later elected to this seat in 2006, serving as an Independent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 54], "content_span": [55, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094612-0033-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate elections, Virginia\nThe incumbent Democratic senator William B. Spong Jr. was defeated by Republican William L. Scott, making Scott the first Republican Senator from the state since John F. Lewis in 1870.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094613-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Senate special election in Vermont\nThe 1972 United States Senate special election in Vermont took place on January 7, 1972. Incumbent Republican Robert Stafford, appointed in September 1971 to fill the vacancy created by the death of Winston L. Prouty, successfully ran for election to the remainder of Prouty's term in the United States Senate. Stafford defeated Democratic candidate Randolph T. Major. Liberty Union candidate Bernie Sanders received 2% of the vote and was later elected to this seat in 2006 as an independent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094614-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Virgin Islands constitutional referendum\nA constitutional referendum was held in the United States Virgin Islands on 7 November 1972. Federal law passed by the United States Congress suggested that a second Constitutional Convention be called after the failure of the previous proposed constitution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094614-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States Virgin Islands constitutional referendum\nWhilst the new constitution received a majority of votes in favour, turnout was too low and it did not enter into force.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094615-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States elections\nThe 1972 United States elections was held on November 7, and elected the members of the 93rd United States Congress. The election took place during the later stages of the Vietnam War. The Republican Party won a landslide victory in the presidential election and picked up seats in the House, but the Democratic Party easily retained control of Congress. This was the first election after the ratification of the 26th Amendment granted the right to vote to those aged 18\u201320.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094615-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States elections\nIncumbent Republican President Richard Nixon won re-election, defeating Democratic Senator George McGovern from South Dakota. Nixon won a landslide victory, taking just under 61% of the popular vote and winning every state but Massachusetts and Washington, D.C. Libertarian John Hospers won the electoral vote of one faithless elector, making him the most recent member of a third party to win an electoral vote. McGovern won the Democratic nomination after defeating Washington Senator Henry M. Jackson, Alabama Governor George Wallace, and New York Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm. This was the first presidential election after the McGovern\u2013Fraser Commission (which McGovern himself had chaired) caused an increase in the number of states holding primary elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 796]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094615-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 United States elections\nIn the House, the Republican Party picked up twelve seats, but Democrats easily retained a majority. In the Senate, the Democratic Party picked up two seats, increasing their majority. The House elections took place after the 1970 United States Census and the subsequent Congressional re-apportionment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094615-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 United States elections\nJoe Biden, the 46th President of the United States (2021\u2013present) and 47th Vice President of the United States (2009\u20132017), first won election to the United States Senate, defeating J. Caleb Boggs in the 1972 U.S. Senate election in Delaware.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094615-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 United States elections\nIn the gubernatorial elections, Democrats won a net gain of one seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094616-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States gubernatorial elections\nUnited States gubernatorial elections were held 7 November 1972 in 18 states and two territories, concurrent with the House, Senate elections and presidential election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094616-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States gubernatorial elections\nGubernatorial elections were also held in Iowa, Kansas, South Dakota, and Texas. In these states, they were the last elections on a two-year cycle, before switching to a four-year term for governors (see 1970 United States gubernatorial elections for more information).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094616-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 United States gubernatorial elections, Arkansas\nIn Arkansas, Dale Bumpers was re-elected to another two-year term in a landslide. Arkansas had two-year terms for governors until 1984, when the state switched to four-year terms for governors with Amendment 63.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094616-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 United States gubernatorial elections, Delaware and Illinois\nIn Delaware and Illinois, Republicans Russell W. Peterson and Richard B. Ogilvie were defeated by Democrats Sherman Willard Tribbitt and Dan Walker, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 65], "content_span": [66, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094616-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 United States gubernatorial elections, Indiana\nIndiana changed the rules so that governors could serve two back-to-back four-year terms in 1972, but the amendment didn't take place until November 1972. This ruling in effect said that Edgar Whitcomb was not eligible for another term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 51], "content_span": [52, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094616-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 United States gubernatorial elections, Iowa\nIn Iowa, Republican incumbent governor Robert D. Ray won a third two-year term, defeating Democratic challenger Paul Franzenburg, whom Ray had defeated for governor four years earlier. This was the last gubernatorial election in Iowa where the winner served a two-year term; starting with the 1974 election, governors would serve a four-year term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 48], "content_span": [49, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094616-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 United States gubernatorial elections, Kansas\nIn Kansas, incumbent governor Robert Docking won a fourth two-year term. Beginning with the 1974 election, governors in Kansas would serve a four-year term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 50], "content_span": [51, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094616-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 United States gubernatorial elections, Missouri\nIn Missouri, during Governor Warren Hearnes' term, the rules were changed so that governors were allowed two back-to-back four-year terms. By the 1972 race, Hearnes had served two terms and was term-limited.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 52], "content_span": [53, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094616-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 United States gubernatorial elections, Montana\nIn Montana, a new state constitution in 1972 allowed unlimited four-year terms for a governor. Anderson did not run for another term because of health issues, and this bad health was considered the motive behind his suicide in 1989.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 51], "content_span": [52, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094616-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 United States gubernatorial elections, North Carolina\nIn North Carolina, governors weren't allowed two consecutive terms in a row until 1977, thus term-limiting Scott.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 58], "content_span": [59, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094616-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 United States gubernatorial elections, Rhode Island\nIn Rhode Island, governors served two-year terms until 1994, when the state switched to four-year terms for governors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 56], "content_span": [57, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094616-0011-0000", "contents": "1972 United States gubernatorial elections, Texas\nIn Texas, the defeat of Smith has been considered a casualty of the Sharpstown Scandal. Texas also had a system of governors serving two-year terms until 1974, when the state switched to four-year terms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 49], "content_span": [50, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094617-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States men's Olympic basketball team\nThe 1972 United States men's Olympic basketball team represented the United States at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany. Led by Tom Henderson and Dwight Jones, the team would go on to win the silver medal. In the final game of the Olympics, Team USA controversially lost for the first time in Summer Olympic Games competition, and ended their 63-game winning streak (the streak began in the 1936 Summer Olympics).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094617-0000-0001", "contents": "1972 United States men's Olympic basketball team\nIt is important to note that the Soviet team that defeated the Americans featured international veterans, who had been playing together for years in their domestic pro league and international tournaments, while the American team was barred from sending players that had already played in the NBA, and used collegians instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094618-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election\nThe 1972 United States presidential election was the 47th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 7, 1972. Incumbent Republican President Richard Nixon from California defeated Democratic U.S. Senator George McGovern of South Dakota. Until the 1984 election, this was the largest margin of victory in the Electoral College for a Republican in a U.S. presidential election, and as of 2020 it remains the largest margin of the popular vote won by any Republican presidential candidate. It was the first time when California had more electoral votes than New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094618-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election\nNixon easily swept aside challenges from two Republican congressmen in the 1972 Republican primaries to win re-nomination. McGovern, who had played a significant role in changing the Democratic nomination system after the 1968 election, mobilized the anti-Vietnam War movement and other liberal supporters to win his party's nomination. Among the candidates he defeated were early front-runner Edmund Muskie, 1968 nominee Hubert Humphrey, and Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, the first African-American to run for a major party's presidential nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094618-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election\nNixon emphasized the strong economy and his success in foreign affairs, while McGovern ran on a platform calling for an immediate end to the Vietnam War, and the institution of a guaranteed minimum income. Nixon maintained a large and consistent lead in polling. Separately, Nixon's reelection committee broke into the Watergate complex to wiretap the Democratic National Committee's headquarters, a scandal that would later be known as \"Watergate\". McGovern's campaign was seriously damaged by the revelation that his running mate, Thomas Eagleton, had undergone electroconvulsive therapy as a treatment for depression. Eagleton was replaced on the ballot by Sargent Shriver.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 717]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094618-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election\nNixon won the election in a landslide, taking 60.7% of the popular vote and carrying 49 states while being the first Republican to sweep the South. McGovern took just 37.5% of the popular vote, while John G. Schmitz of the American Independent Party won 1.4% of the vote. Nixon received almost 18\u00a0million more votes than McGovern, and he holds the record for the widest popular vote margin in any post\u2013World War II United States presidential election. The 1972 presidential election was the first since the ratification of the 26th Amendment, which lowered the voting age from 21 to 18.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 627]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094618-0003-0001", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election\nWithin two years of the election, both Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned from office: the former in August 1974, due to Watergate, the latter in October 1973, due to a separate corruption charge. Gerald Ford succeeded Agnew as vice president, then in the following year succeeded Nixon as president, making him the only U.S. president in history not to be elected to the office on a presidential ticket.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094618-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election\nAs of 2021, this was the last time that Minnesota voted for the Republican candidate in a presidential election, the longest such streak for any state, and only once since then have Rhode Island and Hawaii done so, when they voted for Ronald Reagan in the 1984 election. This was also the most recent presidential election in which the entire Midwest was won by a single candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094618-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election\nDespite this election delivering Nixon's greatest electoral triumph, Nixon later wrote in his memoirs that \"it was one of the most frustrating and in many ways the least satisfying of all.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094618-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election, Republican nomination, Primaries\nRichard Nixon was a popular incumbent president in 1972, as he was credited with opening the People's Republic of China as a result of his visit that year, and achieving d\u00e9tente with the Soviet Union. Polls showed that Nixon held a strong lead in the Republican primaries. He was challenged by two candidates, liberal Pete McCloskey from California and conservative John Ashbrook from Ohio. McCloskey ran as an anti-war candidate, while Ashbrook opposed Nixon's d\u00e9tente policies towards China and the Soviet Union. In the New Hampshire primary McCloskey garnered 19.8% of the vote to Nixon's 67.6%, with Ashbrook receiving 9.7%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 74], "content_span": [75, 703]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094618-0006-0001", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election, Republican nomination, Primaries\nNixon won 1323 of the 1324 delegates to the Republican convention, with McCloskey receiving the vote of one delegate from New Mexico. Vice President Spiro Agnew was re-nominated by acclamation; while both the party's moderate wing and Nixon himself had wanted to replace him with a new running-mate (the moderates favoring Nelson Rockefeller, and Nixon favoring John Connally), it was ultimately concluded that such action would incur too great a risk of losing Agnew's base of conservative supporters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 74], "content_span": [75, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094618-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election, Republican nomination, Convention\nSeven members of Vietnam Veterans Against the War were brought on federal charges for conspiring to disrupt the Republican convention. They were acquitted by a federal jury in Gainesville, Florida.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 75], "content_span": [76, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094618-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election, Democratic nomination\nOverall, fifteen people declared their candidacy for the Democratic Party nomination. They were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 63], "content_span": [64, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094618-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election, Democratic nomination, Primaries\nSenate Majority Whip Ted Kennedy, the youngest brother of late President John F. Kennedy and late United States Senator Robert F. Kennedy, was the favorite to win the 1972\u00a0nomination, but he announced he would not be a candidate. The favorite for the Democratic nomination then became Senator Ed Muskie, the 1968 vice-presidential nominee. Muskie's momentum collapsed just prior to the New Hampshire primary, when the so-called \"Canuck letter\" was published in the Manchester Union-Leader.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 74], "content_span": [75, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094618-0009-0001", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election, Democratic nomination, Primaries\nThe letter, actually a forgery from Nixon's \"dirty tricks\" unit, claimed that Muskie had made disparaging remarks about French-Canadians\u00a0\u2013 a remark likely to injure Muskie's support among the French-American population in northern New England. Subsequently, the paper published an attack on the character of Muskie's wife Jane, reporting that she drank and used off-color language during the campaign. Muskie made an emotional defense of his wife in a speech outside the newspaper's offices during a snowstorm. Though Muskie later stated that what had appeared to the press as tears were actually melted snowflakes, the press reported that Muskie broke down and cried, shattering the candidate's image as calm and reasoned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 74], "content_span": [75, 798]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094618-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election, Democratic nomination, Primaries\nNearly two years before the election, South Dakota Senator George McGovern entered the race as an anti-war, progressive candidate. McGovern was able to pull together support from the anti-war movement and other grassroots support to win the nomination in a primary system he had played a significant part in designing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 74], "content_span": [75, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094618-0011-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election, Democratic nomination, Primaries\nOn January 25, 1972, New York Representative Shirley Chisholm announced she would run, and became the first African-American woman to run for the Democratic or Republican presidential nomination. Hawaii Representative Patsy Mink also announced she would run, and became the first Asian American to run for the Democratic presidential nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 74], "content_span": [75, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094618-0012-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election, Democratic nomination, Primaries\nOn April 25, George McGovern won the Massachusetts primary. Two days later, journalist Robert Novak quoted a \"Democratic senator\" later revealed to be Thomas Eagleton as saying: \"The people don't know McGovern is for amnesty, abortion, and legalization of pot. Once middle America \u2013 Catholic middle America, in particular \u2013 finds this out, he's dead.\" The label stuck and McGovern became known as the candidate of \"amnesty, abortion, and acid\". It became Humphrey's battle cry to stop McGovern\u2014especially in the Nebraska primary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 74], "content_span": [75, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094618-0013-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election, Democratic nomination, Primaries\nAlabama Governor George Wallace, an anti-integrationist, did well in the South (winning nearly every county in the Florida primary) and among alienated and dissatisfied voters in the North. What might have become a forceful campaign was cut short when Wallace was shot in an assassination attempt by Arthur Bremer on May 15. Wallace was struck by five bullets and left paralyzed from the waist down. The day after the assassination attempt, Wallace won the Michigan and Maryland primaries, but the shooting effectively ended his campaign and he pulled out in July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 74], "content_span": [75, 639]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094618-0014-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election, Democratic nomination, Primaries\nIn the end, McGovern won the nomination by winning primaries through grassroots support in spite of establishment opposition. McGovern had led a commission to re-design the Democratic nomination system after the divisive nomination struggle and convention of 1968. However, the new rules angered many prominent Democrats whose influence was marginalized and those politicians refused to support McGovern's campaign (some even supporting Nixon instead), leaving the McGovern campaign at a significant disadvantage in funding compared to Nixon. Some of the principles of the McGovern Commission have lasted throughout every subsequent nomination contest, but the Hunt Commission instituted the selection of Superdelegates a decade later in order to reduce the nomination chances of outsiders like McGovern and Carter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 74], "content_span": [75, 890]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094618-0015-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election, Democratic nomination, Vice presidential vote\nMost polls showed McGovern running well behind incumbent President Richard Nixon, except when McGovern was paired with Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy. McGovern and his campaign brain trust lobbied Kennedy heavily to accept the bid to be McGovern's running mate, but he continually refused their advances, and instead suggested U.S. Representative (and House Ways and Means Committee chairman) Wilbur Mills of Arkansas and Boston Mayor Kevin White. Offers were then made to Hubert Humphrey, Connecticut Senator Abraham Ribicoff, and Minnesota Senator Walter Mondale, all of whom turned it down. Finally, the vice presidential slot was offered to Senator Thomas Eagleton of Missouri, who accepted the offer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 87], "content_span": [88, 796]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094618-0016-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election, Democratic nomination, Vice presidential vote\nWith hundreds of delegates displeased with McGovern, the vote to ratify Eagleton's candidacy was chaotic, with at least three other candidates having their names put into nomination and votes scattered over 70 candidates. A grassroots attempt to displace Eagleton in favor of Texas state representative Frances Farenthold gained significant traction, though was ultimately unable to change the outcome of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 87], "content_span": [88, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094618-0017-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election, Democratic nomination, Vice presidential vote\nThe vice-presidential balloting went on so long that McGovern and Eagleton were forced to begin making their acceptance speeches at around 2 am, local time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 87], "content_span": [88, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094618-0018-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election, Democratic nomination, Vice presidential vote\nAfter the convention ended, it was discovered that Eagleton had undergone psychiatric electroshock therapy for depression and had concealed this information from McGovern. A Time magazine poll taken at the time found that 77 percent of the respondents said, \"Eagleton's medical record would not affect their vote.\" Nonetheless, the press made frequent references to his \"shock therapy\", and McGovern feared that this would detract from his campaign platform. McGovern subsequently consulted confidentially with preeminent psychiatrists, including Eagleton's own doctors, who advised him that a recurrence of Eagleton's depression was possible and could endanger the country should Eagleton become president. McGovern had initially claimed that he would back Eagleton \"1000 percent\", only to ask Eagleton to withdraw three days later. This perceived lack of conviction in sticking with his running mate was disastrous for the McGovern campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 87], "content_span": [88, 1031]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094618-0019-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election, Democratic nomination, Vice presidential vote\nMcGovern later approached six different prominent Democrats to run for vice-president: Ted Kennedy, Edmund Muskie, Hubert Humphrey, Abraham Ribicoff, Larry O'Brien and Reubin Askew. All six declined. Sargent Shriver, brother-in-law to John, Robert, and Ted Kennedy, former Ambassador to France and former Director of the Peace Corps, later accepted. He was officially nominated by a special session of the Democratic National Committee. By this time, McGovern's poll ratings had plunged from 41 to 24 percent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 87], "content_span": [88, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094618-0020-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election, Third parties\nThe only major third party candidate in the 1972 election was conservative Republican Representative John G. Schmitz, who ran on the American Independent Party ticket (the party on whose ballot George Wallace ran in 1968). He was on the ballot in 32 states and received 1,099,482 votes. Unlike Wallace, however, he did not win a majority of votes cast in any state, and received no electoral votes, although he did finish ahead of McGovern in four of the most conservative Idaho counties. Schmitz's performance in archconservative Jefferson County was the best by a third-party Presidential candidate in any free or postbellum state county since 1936 when William Lemke reached over twenty-eight percent of the vote in the North Dakota counties of Burke, Sheridan and Hettinger.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 55], "content_span": [56, 834]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094618-0021-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election, Third parties\nJohn Hospers and Tonie Nathan of the newly formed Libertarian Party were on the ballot only in Colorado and Washington, but were official write-in candidates in four others, and received 3,674 votes, winning no states. However, they did receive one Electoral College vote from Virginia from a Republican faithless elector (see below). The Libertarian vice-presidential nominee Theodora \"Tonie\" Nathan became the first Jew and the first woman in U.S. history to receive an Electoral College vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 55], "content_span": [56, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094618-0022-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election, Third parties\nLinda Jenness was nominated by the Socialist Workers Party, with Andrew Pulley as her running-mate. Benjamin Spock and Julius Hobson were nominated for president and vice-president, respectively, by the People's Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 55], "content_span": [56, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094618-0023-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election, General election, Campaign\nMcGovern ran on a platform of immediately ending the Vietnam War and instituting guaranteed minimum incomes for the nation's poor. His campaign was harmed by his views during the primaries (which alienated many powerful Democrats), the perception that his foreign policy was too extreme, and the Eagleton debacle. With McGovern's campaign weakened by these factors, the Republicans successfully portrayed him as a radical left-wing extremist incompetent to serve as president. Nixon led in the polls by large margins throughout the entire campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094618-0023-0001", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election, General election, Campaign\nWith an enormous fundraising advantage and a comfortable lead in the polls, Nixon concentrated on large rallies and focused speeches to closed, select audiences, leaving much of the retail campaigning to surrogates like Vice President Agnew. Nixon did not, by design, try to extend his coattails to Republican congressional or gubernatorial candidates, preferring to pad his own margin of victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 68], "content_span": [69, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094618-0024-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election, General election, Results\nNixon's percentage of the popular vote was only marginally less than Lyndon Johnson's record in the 1964 election, and his margin of victory was slightly larger. Nixon won a majority vote in 49 states, including McGovern's home state of South Dakota. Only Massachusetts and the District of Columbia voted for the challenger, resulting in an even more lopsided Electoral College tally. McGovern garnered only 37.5 percent of the national popular vote, the lowest share received by a Democratic Party nominee since John W. Davis won only 28.8 percent of the vote in the 1924 election. The only major party candidate since 1972 to receive less than 40 percent of the vote was Republican incumbent President George H. W. Bush who won 37.4 percent of the vote in the 1992 election, a race that (as in 1924) was complicated by a strong third party vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 915]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094618-0025-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election, General election, Results\nAlthough the McGovern campaign believed that its candidate had a better chance of defeating Nixon because of the new Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution that lowered the national voting age to 18 from 21, most of the youth vote went to Nixon. This was the first election in American history in which a Republican candidate carried every single Southern state, continuing the region's transformation from a Democratic bastion into a Republican stronghold as Arkansas was carried by a Republican presidential candidate for the first time in a century.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 638]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094618-0025-0001", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election, General election, Results\nBy this time, all the Southern states, except Arkansas and Texas, had been carried by a Republican in either the previous election or the one in 1964 (although Republican candidates carried Texas in 1928, 1952 and 1956). As a result of this election, Massachusetts became the only state that Nixon did not carry in any of the three presidential elections in which he was a candidate. This is one of only two elections since 1856 that Massachusetts and Rhode Island did not support the same candidate. The other election which the two states did not do so is 1980.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 631]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094618-0026-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election, General election, Results\nThis presidential election was the first since 1808 in which New York did not have the largest number of electors in the Electoral College, having fallen to 41 electors vs. California's 45. Additionally, through 2020 it remains the last one in which Minnesota was carried by the Republican candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094618-0027-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election, General election, Results\nMcGovern won a mere 130 counties, plus the District of Columbia and four county-equivalents in Alaska, easily the fewest counties won by any major-party presidential nominee since the advent of popular presidential elections. In nineteen states, McGovern failed to carry a single county; he carried a mere one county-equivalent in a further nine states, and just two counties in a further seven.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094618-0027-0001", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election, General election, Results\nIn contrast to Walter Mondale's narrow 1984 win in Minnesota, McGovern comfortably did win Massachusetts, but lost every other state by no less than five percentage points as well as 45 states by more than ten percentage points \u2013 the exceptions being Massachusetts, Minnesota, Rhode Island, Wisconsin, and his home state of South Dakota. This election also made Nixon the second former vice president in American history to serve two terms back-to-back, after Thomas Jefferson in 1800 and 1804. Since McGovern carried only one state, bumper stickers reading \"Nixon 49 America 1\", \"Don't Blame Me I'm From Massachusetts\" and \"Massachusetts: The One And Only\" were popular for a short time in Massachusetts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 773]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094618-0028-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election, General election, Results\nNixon managed to win 18% of the African American vote (Gerald Ford would get 16% in 1976). He also remains the only Republican in modern times to threaten the oldest extant Democratic stronghold of South Texas: this is the last election when the Republicans have won Hidalgo or Dimmit counties, the only time Republicans have won La Salle County between William McKinley in 1900 and Donald Trump in 2020, and one of only two occasions since Theodore Roosevelt in 1904 that Republicans have gained a majority in Presidio County. More significantly, the 1972 election was the most recent time several highly populous urban counties \u2013 including Cook in Illinois, Orleans in Louisiana, Hennepin in Minnesota, Cuyahoga in Ohio, Durham in North Carolina, Queens in New York and Prince George's in Maryland \u2013 have voted Republican.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 892]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094618-0029-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election, General election, Results\nNixon, who became term-limited under the provisions of the Twenty-second Amendment as a result of his victory, became the first (and, as of 2020, only) presidential candidate to win a significant number of electoral votes in three presidential elections since ratification of that Amendment. Prior to ratification of the Twenty-second Amendment, three other presidential candidates (Andrew Jackson, Grover Cleveland and Franklin D. Roosevelt) also polled significant electoral votes in at least three elections (unlike Nixon, Jackson, Cleveland and Roosevelt also won the popular vote at least three times although only Roosevelt was elected President more than twice). Counting Nixon's successful runs for vice president in the 1950s, he matched Franklin Roosevelt's achievements of winning the presidency or vice-presidency in four elections (and polling significant electoral votes in five) while overreaching Roosevelt by winning electoral votes for president or vice president in every state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 1065]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094618-0030-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election, General election, Results\nResults by county, shaded according to winning candidate's percentage of the vote", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094618-0031-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election, General election, Results, Results by state\nFor the first time since 1828 Maine allowed its electoral votes to be split between candidates. Two electoral votes were awarded to the winner of the statewide race and one electoral vote to the winner of each congressional district. This was the first time the Congressional District Method had been used since Michigan used it in 1892. Nixon won all four votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 85], "content_span": [86, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094618-0032-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election, General election, Close states\nStates where margin of victory was more than 5 percentage points, but less than 10 percentage points (43 electoral votes):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094618-0033-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election, General election, Voter demographics\nNixon won 36 percent of the Democratic vote, according to an exit poll conducted for CBS News by George Fine Research, Inc. This represents more than twice the percentage of voters who typically defect from their party in presidential elections. Nixon also became the first Republican presidential candidate in American history to win the Roman Catholic vote (53\u201346), and the first in recent history to win the blue-collar vote, which he won by a 5-to-4 margin. McGovern narrowly won the union vote (50\u201348), though this difference was within the survey's margin of error of 2 percentage points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 78], "content_span": [79, 673]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094618-0033-0001", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election, General election, Voter demographics\nMcGovern also narrowly won the youth vote (i.e. those aged 18 to 24) 52\u201346, a narrower margin than many of his strategists had predicted. Early on, the McGovern campaign also significantly overestimated the number of young people who would vote in the election: they predicted that 18 million would have voted in total, but exit polls indicate that the actual number was about 12 million. McGovern did win comfortably among both African-American and Jewish voters, but by somewhat smaller margins than usual for a Democratic candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 78], "content_span": [79, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094618-0034-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election, Post-election investigations into the Watergate break-in\nOn June 17, 1972, five months before election day, five men broke into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate hotel in Washington, D.C.; the resulting investigation led to the revelation of attempted cover-ups of the break-in within the Nixon administration. What became known as the Watergate scandal eroded President Nixon's public and political support in his second term, and he resigned on August 9, 1974, in the face of probable impeachment by the House of Representatives and removal from office by the Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 98], "content_span": [99, 641]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094618-0035-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election, Post-election investigations into the Watergate break-in\nAs part of the continuing Watergate investigation in 1974\u201375, federal prosecutors offered companies that had given illegal campaign contributions to President Nixon's re-election campaign lenient sentences if they came forward. Many companies complied, including Northrop Grumman, 3M, American Airlines and Braniff Airlines. By 1976, prosecutors had convicted 18 American corporations of contributing illegally to Nixon's campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 98], "content_span": [99, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094619-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Alabama\nThe 1972 United States presidential election in Alabama was held on November 7, 1972. Incumbent President Richard Nixon won Alabama, winning 72.43% of the vote to George McGovern's 25.54%. This is also the best showing in the state by a Republican presidential candidate. As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election in which Dallas County, Hale County, Russell County, and Perry County voted for the Republican candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094619-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Alabama\nWith 72.43% of the popular vote, Alabama would prove to be Nixon's fourth strongest state in the 1972 election after Mississippi, Georgia and Oklahoma.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094620-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Alaska\nThe 1972 United States presidential election in Alaska took place on November 7, 1972, as part of the 1972 United States presidential election. Voters chose three representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094620-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Alaska\nAlaska was won by incumbent President Richard Nixon (R-California) with 58.1% of the popular vote against George McGovern (D-South Dakota) with 34.6%. Although Alaska has only voted Democratic once, which was for Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964, during the state's first four presidential elections Alaska was no more Republican than the nation at-large: indeed owing to a fairly strong third-party campaign Nixon won 2.57 percent less of the vote in Alaska that over the entire country, although McGovern received 2.88 percent less than his national share. McGovern won small majorities in Kusilvak and Bethel Census Areas, and the Democrats also received a plurality in North Slope Borough. Elsewhere, Nixon carried every borough and census area, with as typical the Republicans\u2019 most dominant showings being in the relatively heavily populated areas around Anchorage and Matanuska-Susitna Borough.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 946]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094620-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Alaska\nNixon ultimately won the national vote as well, defeating McGovern and winning re-election. Representative John G. Schmitz (R-California) ran under the American Independent Party ticket. While Alaska would prove to be Schmitz's second strongest state after Idaho, he failed to equal the success of George Wallace\u2019s campaign in the previous election. This is the one and only time that Alaska voted to the left of Hawaii.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094621-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Arizona\nThe 1972 United States presidential election in Arizona took place on November 7, 1972, as part of the 1972 United States presidential election. State voters chose six representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094621-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Arizona\nArizona was won by incumbent President Richard Nixon (R\u2013California), with 61.64% of the popular vote, against George McGovern (D\u2013South Dakota), with 30.38% of the popular vote. Linda Jenness and John G. Schmitz, the only other candidates on the ballot, combined for just over 52,000 votes and over seven percent of Arizona's popular vote. Even in a huge landslide, this result left Arizona seven percentage points more Republican than the nation at-large.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094621-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Arizona\nIn a state that would reflect McGovern's national results, the Democratic nominee won only one county in Arizona: heavily unionized Greenlee County, where no Republican had won before this nor would win until George W. Bush in 2000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094621-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Arizona\nThe massive surge in ballots for the socialist candidate (there had been only 85 in 1968, now there were nearly 31,000) was due to a ballot error in Pima County. Linda Jenness, the Socialist Workers candidate, was only 31 and thus was deemed ineligible to be put on the ballot. Instead, the names of her six electors were listed. However, the layout of the ballot was what caused the confusion. Atop the ballot was \"President of the United States (Vote for one)\" with the given options of Nixon, McGovern, and Schmitz.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094621-0003-0001", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Arizona\nBelow that was \"Presidential Electors (Vote for six),\" and the names of the six Socialist Worker's electors. The text labelling the as \"Socialist Worker's Party\" was only half as small as the instructions to vote for six, and thus 28,000 voters followed both instructions, likely perceiving the Socialist Electors as being part of a separate race. The Secretary of State, Wesley Bolin, and Attorney General, Gary Nelson, at first agreed the ballots ought to be thrown out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094621-0003-0002", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Arizona\nPima county election chief David O'Hern and county attorney Rose Silver believed the ballots should be counted since the Socialist Workers candidate had been disqualified. In the end, that was the line of thinking taken, and the votes were counted for both the candidates they were cast for. This resulted not only in an increase in the state's total by some 28,000, but that in some Democratic southside precincts, the Socialist ticket outperformed Nixon and was the only place the landslide victor came third anywhere in the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094622-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Arkansas\nThe 1972 United States presidential election in Arkansas took place on November 7, 1972, as part of the 1972 United States presidential election. State voters chose six representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094622-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Arkansas\nArkansas was won by incumbent President Richard Nixon (R\u2013California), with 68.82% of the popular vote, against George McGovern (D\u2013South Dakota), with 30.71% of the popular vote. John G. Schmitz was the only other candidate on the ballot, and, as the candidate for the American Independent Party, he received just over three thousand votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094622-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Arkansas\nIn a state that would reflect McGovern's national results, the Democratic nominee did not win a single county in Arkansas. This marked the first time that Arkansas had voted Republican in a presidential election since Ulysses S. Grant carried the state in 1872, and remains the best showing in the state by a Republican presidential candidate. As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election in which Phillips County, Jefferson County, Lee County, Chicot County, and Desha County voted for a Republican presidential candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094623-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in California\nThe 1972 United States presidential election in California took place on November 7, 1972 as part of the 1972 United States presidential election. State voters chose 45 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094623-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in California\nCalifornia voted for the Republican incumbent, Richard Nixon, over the Democratic challenger, South Dakota Senator George McGovern. Nixon took 55.00% of the vote to McGovern's 41.54%, a margin of 13.46%. Although California was Richard Nixon's home state, his performance in the state was somewhat underwhelming, as California's result was about 9% more Democratic than the nation as a whole.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094623-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in California\nNixon had previously won California against John F. Kennedy in 1960 and then against Hubert Humphrey in 1968.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094623-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in California\nThis was the first presidential election in which California had the most electoral college votes as a result of the 1970 census, a status it has maintained ever since.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094624-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Colorado\nThe 1972 United States presidential election in Colorado took place on November 7, 1972, as part of the 1972 United States presidential election. State voters chose seven representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094624-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Colorado\nColorado voted for the Republican incumbent, Richard Nixon, over the Democratic challenger, South Dakota Senator George McGovern. Nixon took 62.61% of the vote to McGovern's 34.59%, a margin of 28.01 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094624-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Colorado\nLike most of the rest of the Mountain West, Colorado voted powerfully Republican in 1972, giving Nixon a margin in excess of his national margin by 4.8%. Nevertheless, Pitkin County, home to Aspen, shifted powerfully against the national trend, switching from supporting Nixon in 1968 to supporting McGovern in 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094625-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Connecticut\nThe 1972 United States presidential election in Connecticut took place on November 7, 1972. All 50 states and the District of Columbia were part of the 1972 United States presidential election. Connecticut voters chose eight electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094625-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Connecticut\nConnecticut was won by the Republican nominees, incumbent President Richard Nixon of California and his running mate Vice President Spiro Agnew of Maryland. Nixon and Agnew defeated the Democratic nominees, Senator George McGovern of South Dakota and his running mate U.S. Ambassador Sargent Shriver of Maryland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094625-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Connecticut\nNixon carried Connecticut with 58.57% of the vote to McGovern's 40.13%, a victory margin of 18.44%. He won every county in the state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094625-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Connecticut\nAs of 2020, this was the most recent presidential election in which the Republican nominee carried the cities of Bridgeport and New London.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094626-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Delaware\nThe 1972 United States presidential election in Delaware took place on November 7, 1972. All 50 states and the District of Columbia were part of the 1972 United States presidential election. State voters chose three electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094626-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Delaware\nDelaware was won by the Republican nominees, incumbent President Richard Nixon of California and his running mate Vice President Spiro Agnew of Maryland. Nixon and Agnew defeated the Democratic nominees, Senator George McGovern of South Dakota and his running mate U.S. Ambassador Sargent Shriver of Maryland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094626-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Delaware\nNixon carried Delaware with 59.60% of the vote to McGovern's 39.18%, a victory margin of 20.42%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094627-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Florida\nThe 1972 United States presidential election in Florida was held on November 7, 1972, as part of the concurrent United States presidential election. Florida voters chose seventeen electors, or representatives to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094627-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Florida, Background\nAfter having been among the strongest parts of the Democratic \"Solid South\" between 1892 and 1944 \u2013 except when vehement pineywoods anti-Catholicism and extensive urban Republican voting gave the state's electoral votes to Herbert Hoover in 1928 \u2013 Florida turned into a Republican-leaning state at presidential level from 1948 due to the growth of a strongly business-oriented society in newer South Florida following World War II. Aided by this vote, the Republicans carried Florida in all three presidential elections from 1952 to 1960, despite losing the entire northern half of the state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 63], "content_span": [64, 656]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094627-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Florida, Background\nThe civil rights movement of the 1960s saw a dramatic change in the next two elections. The classically Deep Southern northern part of the state, affected by turmoil over school and university desegregation, went powerfully to the staunch conservative Republican Barry Goldwater after having resisted the GOP in the previous four elections, and then turned to the segregationist candidacy of former and future Alabama Governor George Wallace in 1968. Contrastingly, the southern urban areas that had supported the Republicans between 1948 and 1960 contained huge numbers of former Northern retirees hostile to Goldwater's proposed privatization of Social Security, and turned to Lyndon Johnson and then Richard Nixon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 63], "content_span": [64, 781]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094627-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Florida, Background\nThe 1972 Democratic presidential primary in Florida saw Wallace easily carry the state and every county bar Dade, in a ballot that also featured a referendum on court-ordered busing. This referendum revealed that more three-fourths of the state's voters supported a constitutional ban on busing. The party primaries that year were especially divisive over the busing issue. John Lindsay, plus eventual party nominee George McGovern were supporters of busing who accused even their moderate rivals Hubert Humphrey and \"Scoop\" Jackson of being covert racists for their opposition thereto. As it turned out, Wallace \u2013 the opponent most feared by Nixon \u2013 was paralyzed by an attempted assassination in May, and McGovern won the nomination via powerful support in midwestern and Pacific States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 63], "content_span": [64, 853]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094627-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Florida, Background\nOnce McGovern won the nomination, he offered Florida Governor Reubin Askew the vice-presidential slot, but Askew turned the position down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 63], "content_span": [64, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094627-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Florida, Primaries, Democratic\nGeorge Wallace would win a majority of the Democratic Primary vote in all of the counties in the state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 74], "content_span": [75, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094627-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Florida, Primaries, Republican\nRichard Nixon would end up winning a majority of the vote in all counties except for Desoto County.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 74], "content_span": [75, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094627-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Florida, Vote\nIncumbent President Nixon overwhelmingly won the state of Florida with 71.91% of the vote, carrying all of Florida's 67 counties and seventeen electoral votes. Nixon's victory in Florida made it his fifth strongest state after Mississippi, Georgia, Oklahoma and Alabama. McGovern reached 40% of the vote only in Dade County with its substantial Jewish and Latin populations, plus Alachua County with its large population of liberal college students who were a major base for his candidacy \u2013 and the Democratic candidate only reached thirty percent of the vote in four other counties. Nixon's message enabled him to capture virtually all of the Wallace vote from 1968, as shown by the fact that pineywoods Holmes County, which had been Wallace's fifth-strongest county in 1968, was to be Nixon's fourth-best county in 1972 with over 92% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 57], "content_span": [58, 906]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094627-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Florida, Vote\nIn addition to hostility towards busing and the \"acid, amnesty and abortion\" policies which Nixon consistently accused McGovern of despite eventual running mate Sargent Shriver being firmly opposed to abortion, the Democratic campaign in Florida was also crippled by McGovern's policy of normalizing relationships with Fidel Castro's Cuba. Relationships with Cuba were a hotbed issue in the most liberal and least Southern region of the state around Miami, and drove even many voters who had supported Humphrey in 1968 to Nixon and the Republican Party. This allowed the GOP to carry Monroe County, which had consistently voted Democratic since 1888, by over 45%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 57], "content_span": [58, 721]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094627-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Florida, Vote\nAs of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election in which Gadsden County voted for a Republican presidential candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 57], "content_span": [58, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094628-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Georgia\nThe 1972 United States presidential election in Georgia took place on November 7, 1972, as part of the 1972 United States presidential election. Georgia voters chose 12 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094628-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Georgia\nGeorgia was won by incumbent President Richard Nixon (R\u2013California), with 75.04% of the popular vote, against George McGovern (D\u2013South Dakota), with 24.65% of the popular vote. This made Georgia, even amidst a Republican landslide, 26% more Republican than the nation at-large and made it Nixon's second strongest state in the 1972 election. Although Mississippi was to give Nixon an even larger margin, in the 11 subsequent presidential elections only 1 statewide result \u2013 Ronald Reagan\u2019s victory in Utah in 1980 \u2013 has provided so large a margin. This is also the best showing in the state by a Republican presidential candidate, as not even Ronald Reagan would win the state popular vote by 70%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 749]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094628-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Georgia\nIn the South, McGovern was universally viewed as a left-wing extremist because of his support for busing and civil rights, plus his opposition to the Vietnam War, support for granting amnesty to draft dodgers and support for a $1,000 giveaway to each American as a solution to poverty. Many, especially Republican campaigners, also believed McGovern would legalize abortion and illicit drugs if he were elected \u2013 despite the fact that his running mate Sargent Shriver was firmly pro-life.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094628-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Georgia\nIn a state that would reflect McGovern's national results, the Democratic nominee did not win a single county in Georgia. Despite overwhelming Democratic dominance of the state for over a century, owing to the Republican leanings of several pro-Union North Georgia counties, chiefly Fannin but also Towns and Pickens, this was the first time any candidate had swept every Georgia county. Even more unusual, every county in the state would go on to vote for the Democratic candidate, Jimmy Carter (a Georgia native and former Georgia governor), in the next presidential election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094628-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Georgia\nThe 1972 election constitutes the only time Hancock County has not voted Democratic since 1852. It is the last time the following counties have ever voted Republican: Calhoun, Clay, Fulton (which contains the state's largest city, Atlanta), Macon, Stewart, Talbot, Taliaferro, and Warren.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094629-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Hawaii\nThe 1972 United States presidential election in Hawaii took place on November 7, 1972. All 50 states and the District of Columbia, were part of the 1972 United States presidential election. Hawaii voters chose 4 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094629-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Hawaii\nHawaii was won by incumbent United States President Richard Nixon of California, who was running against former Senator George McGovern of South Dakota. Nixon ran for a second time with former Governor Spiro Agnew of Maryland, and McGovern ran with former U.S. Ambassador to France Sargent Shriver of Maryland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094629-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Hawaii\nNixon won the election in Hawaii with a decisive 25-point landslide, with a clear majority in all four counties. Nixon was the first Republican to win the state of Hawaii and the only one until Ronald Reagan won the state in 1984. It is the last occasion, and the only one apart from a very marginal case in 1960, when Hawaii has narrowly voted more Republican than the nation as a whole \u2013 since then it has become consistently one of the \"bluest\" states in the nation. This is also the one and only time that Hawaii voted to the right of Alaska.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094630-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Idaho\nThe 1972 United States presidential election in Idaho took place on November 7, 1972, as part of the 1972 United States presidential election. Idaho voters chose four representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094630-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Idaho\nIdaho was won by incumbent President Richard Nixon (R\u2013California), with 64.2 percent of the popular vote, against George McGovern (D\u2013South Dakota), with 26.0% of the popular vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094630-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Idaho\nIn a state that would reflect McGovern's national results, the Democratic nominee did not win a single county in Idaho. In fact, John G. Schmitz, running under the \"American Independent\" banner as a remnant of George Wallace's 1968 campaign, ran second ahead of McGovern in Fremont, Jefferson, Lemhi and Madison Counties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094630-0002-0001", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Idaho\nAlthough due to the salience of the civil rights issue there had occurred numerous cases of unpledged and \"Dixiecrat\" candidates receiving almost the entire vote of Deep Southern counties, and a smaller number in other antebellum slave states, Schmitz' performances in Jefferson County was the best by a third-party presidential candidate in any non-Southern county since 1936 when William Lemke reached over twenty-eight percent of the vote in the North Dakota counties of Burke, Sheridan and Hettinger. With 9.30% of the popular vote, Idaho would be Schmitz's strongest state in the 1972 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 649]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094630-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Idaho\nNixon was the first Republican to sweep all Idaho's counties since Warren G. Harding in 1920, the first to carry Clearwater and Lewis Counties since Herbert Hoover in 1928, whilst the previous occasion the Republicans had won adjacent Nez Perce County was Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094631-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Illinois\nThe 1972 United States presidential election in Illinois was held on November 7, 1972 as part of the 1972 United States presidential election. Incumbent President Richard Nixon won the state of Illinois with 59.03 percent of the vote, carrying the state's 26 electoral votes. He defeated his main opponent, Democratic candidate George McGovern in Illinois by a large margin of 18.52%, which still left Illinois 4.63% more Democratic than the nation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094631-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Illinois\nNixon won all but one of Illinois\u2019 102 counties. The solitary exception was Jackson County, home to Southern Illinois University Carbondale, which notably had voted for Nixon in the previous election and was one of only five counties outside McGovern\u2019s home state to switch from Republican to Democratic at this election. This election is the most recent in which Cook County voted Republican, the only Republican victory in St. Clair County since Calvin Coolidge in 1924, and the last until 2016 when Alexander County supported a Republican nominee. Nixon's 2,788,179 votes is the most received by a Republican presidential candidate in the state's history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 711]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094631-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Illinois, Election information\nThe primaries and general elections coincided with those for other federal offices (Senate and House) and those for state offices.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 74], "content_span": [75, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094631-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Illinois, Election information, Turnout\nTurnout in the primaries was 22.54%, with a total of 1,258,713 votes cast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 83], "content_span": [84, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094631-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Illinois, Election information, Turnout\nTurnout in the general election was 75.99%, with a total of 4,723,236 votes cast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 83], "content_span": [84, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094631-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Illinois, Primaries\nState-run primaries were held for the Democratic and Republican parties on March 21.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 63], "content_span": [64, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094631-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Illinois, Primaries, Democratic\nThe 1972 Illinois Democratic presidential primary was held on March 21, 1972 in the U.S. state of Illinois as one of the Democratic Party's statewide nomination contests ahead of the 1972 presidential election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 75], "content_span": [76, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094631-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Illinois, Primaries, Democratic\nThe popular vote was a \"beauty contest\". Delegates were instead selected by direct-vote in each congressional districts on delegate candidates, who had either pledged to support a candidate or been uncommitted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 75], "content_span": [76, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094631-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Illinois, Primaries, Republican\nThe 1972 Illinois Republican presidential primary was held on March 21, 1972 in the U.S. state of Illinois as one of the Republican Party's statewide nomination contests ahead of the 1972 presidential election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 75], "content_span": [76, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094631-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Illinois, Primaries, Republican\nThe popular vote was a \"beauty contest\". Delegates were instead selected by direct-vote in each congressional districts on delegate candidates, who had either pledged to support a candidate or been uncommitted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 75], "content_span": [76, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094632-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Indiana\nThe 1972 United States presidential election in Indiana took place on November 7, 1972. All fifty states and the District of Columbia were part of the 1972 United States presidential election. State voters chose 13 electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094632-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Indiana\nIndiana was won by the Republican nominees, incumbent President Richard Nixon of California and his running mate Vice President Spiro Agnew of Maryland. Nixon and Agnew defeated the Democratic nominees, Senator George McGovern of South Dakota and his running mate U.S. Ambassador Sargent Shriver of Maryland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094632-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Indiana\nNixon carried Indiana with 66.11% of the vote to McGovern's 33.34%, a victory margin of 32.77%. Although Indiana is one of the most reliable Republican states in the country, this is the only occasion where a Republican candidate (indeed, where any Presidential candidate) carried every county in the state. As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last time a Republican won Democratic-leaning Lake County in the northwestern corner of the state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094633-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Iowa\nThe 1972 United States presidential election in Iowa took place on November 7, 1972. All 50 states and the District of Columbia were part of the 1972 United States presidential election. Iowa voters chose eight electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094633-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Iowa\nIowa was won by the Republican nominees, incumbent President Richard Nixon of California and his running mate Vice President Spiro Agnew of Maryland. Nixon and Agnew defeated the Democratic nominees, Senator George McGovern of South Dakota and his running mate U.S. Ambassador Sargent Shriver of Maryland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094633-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Iowa\nNixon carried Iowa with 57.61 percent of the vote to McGovern's 40.48 percent, a victory margin of 17.13 percent. This would be the last time until Donald Trump in 2016 when a Republican presidential candidate won Wapello County and Des Moines County.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094634-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Kansas\nThe 1972 United States presidential election in Kansas took place on November 7, 1972. All fifty states and the District of Columbia, were part of the 1972 United States presidential election. Voters chose seven electors to the Electoral College, which voted for President and Vice President.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094634-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Kansas\nKansas was won by incumbent Republican President Richard Nixon by a landslide of 38 points; Nixon succeeded in securing re-election against Democratic Senator George McGovern of South Dakota. Nixon ran with Vice President, and former Maryland Governor, Spiro Agnew for vice president, and McGovern ran with United States Ambassador Sargent Shriver for vice president. In the midst of a nationwide Republican landslide, Nixon took 67.66 percent of Kansas\u2019 vote to McGovern's 29.50%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094634-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Kansas\nKansas voters turned out heavily for Nixon, who won every county in the state. McGovern's loss was heavily influenced by his portrayal as a left-wing extremist by the Republican Party throughout the campaign. As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election \u2013 and the sole election since 1932 \u2013 that the Republican presidential nominee carried Wyandotte County, home to Kansas City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094635-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Kentucky\nThe 1972 United States presidential election in Kentucky took place on November 7, 1972, as part of the 1972 United States presidential election. Kentucky voters chose 9 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. These electors at the time were Frank Stubblefield (D), Romano L. Mazzoli (D), Gene Snyder (R), Tim Lee Carter (R), William P. Curlin Jr. (D), Carl D. Perkins (D), John Sherman Cooper (R), Marlow W. Cook (R).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094635-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Kentucky\nKentucky was won by incumbent President Richard Nixon (R\u2013California), with 63.77 percent of the popular vote, against George McGovern (D\u2013South Dakota), with 34.77%. Nixon won 112 out of 120 counties in the state of Kentucky. Kentucky had voted Republican in the previous election, 1968, but did not continue with that pattern into the 1976 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094635-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Kentucky\nThis was the first time a Republican ever carried every county in, or even won at all, the Jackson Purchase region of Kentucky.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094636-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Louisiana\nThe 1972 United States presidential election in Louisiana took place on November 7, 1972. All 50 states and the District of Columbia were part of the 1972 United States presidential election. State voters chose ten electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094636-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Louisiana\nLouisiana was won by the Republican nominees, incumbent President Richard Nixon of California and his running mate Vice President Spiro Agnew of Maryland. Nixon and Agnew defeated the Democratic nominees, Senator George McGovern of South Dakota and his running mate U.S. Ambassador Sargent Shriver of Maryland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094636-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Louisiana\nNixon carried Louisiana with 65.32% of the vote to McGovern's 28.35%, a victory margin of 36.97%. In a state that would reflect McGovern's national results, the Democratic candidate only won one parish (West Feliciana) in Louisiana. As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election when Iberville Parish, Madison Parish, St. James Parish, St. Helena Parish, and East Carroll Parish voted for a Republican presidential candidate. This is also the last time the city of New Orleans has voted Republican.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094636-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Louisiana\nWith 4.95 percent of the popular vote, Louisiana would prove to be American Party candidate John G. Schmitz\u2019 fifth strongest state after Idaho, Alaska, Utah and Oregon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094637-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Maine\nThe 1972 United States presidential election in Maine took place on November 7, 1972, as part of the 1972 United States presidential election which was held throughout all fifty states and the District of Columbia. Voters chose four representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094637-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Maine\nMaine was won by the incumbent Republican president Richard Nixon by a landslide 23 point margin over his Democratic challenger, Senator George McGovern of South Dakota. Nixon took 61.46% of the vote, totaling up to 256,458 votes, to McGovern\u2019s 38.48%, and 160,584 votes. In the midst of Nixon\u2019s massive 49-state landslide victory, Maine voted almost exactly as the country did, only voting about 0.7% more Republican than the nation as a whole.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094637-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Maine\nRichard Nixon swept every county in the state except for Androscoggin, where McGovern won by a mere 103 votes. Androscoggin was the solitary county McGovern won in the Northeast outside Massachusetts or the metropolises of New York and Philadelphia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094637-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Maine\nNixon's victory was the first of five consecutive Republican victories in the state, as Maine would not vote for a Democratic candidate again until Bill Clinton in 1992. Since then it has become a safe Democratic state, not being seriously competitive until 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094637-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Maine\nSince 1972 no presidential candidate of either party has surpassed Nixon\u2019s 61.46% of the vote in Maine (the closest being Ronald Reagan\u2019s 60.83% in 1984).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094638-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Maryland\nThe 1972 United States presidential election in Maryland was held on November 7, 1972 as part of the 1972 United States presidential election. Both the Democratic and Republican (Sargent Shriver and Spiro Agnew, respectively) Vice Presidential nominees were from Maryland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094638-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Maryland\nMaryland was won by incumbent President Richard Nixon of California and Vice President Spiro Agnew (a Maryland native), winning 61.26% of the vote to George McGovern and Shriver's 37.36%. Nixon won every county-equivalent in the state except Baltimore City. He won over 77% of the vote in Carroll County, and over 70% in 9 counties overall. This is the last time Prince George's County has voted Republican in a presidential election, and the last of only 6 occasions since the emergence of the Republican Party that Maryland has voted more Republican than the nation as a whole.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094638-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Maryland\nOf his three presidential campaigns, this is the only time in which Nixon carried the home state of his running mate. Nixon failed to carry Maryland in 1968 and in 1960 did not carry Massachusetts, the home state of his then running mate Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094639-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Massachusetts\nThe 1972 United States presidential election in Massachusetts took place on November 7, 1972, as part of the 1972 United States presidential election, which was held throughout all 50 states and D.C.. Voters chose 14 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094639-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Massachusetts\nMassachusetts voted for the Democratic nominee, Senator George McGovern of South Dakota, over incumbent Republican President Richard Nixon of California. McGovern's running mate was U.S. Ambassador Sargent Shriver of Maryland, who had replaced Senator Thomas Eagleton during the campaign, while Nixon ran with incumbent Vice President Spiro Agnew of Maryland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094639-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Massachusetts\nMcGovern carried Massachusetts with 54.20% of the vote to Nixon's 45.23%, a Democratic victory margin of 8.97%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094639-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Massachusetts\nIn the midst of a massive nationwide Republican landslide in which Richard Nixon had carried 49 states, Massachusetts proved to be the only state in the nation that would cast its electoral votes for George McGovern, joined by the District of Columbia. McGovern also carried the state by a surprisingly comfortable nine-point margin, making the state 32% more Democratic than the national average in the 1972 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094639-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Massachusetts\nMcGovern, a staunch liberal Democrat best known for his strong principled opposition to the Vietnam War, was painted by the Nixon campaign as an extremist too far to the left of the American mainstream at the time, and this paid off in delivering Nixon a nationwide re-election landslide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094639-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Massachusetts\nPrior to 1972, Massachusetts had been a Democratic-leaning state since 1928, and a Democratic stronghold since 1960. But McGovern's comfortable victory in 1972 still stands out, as many other traditional Democratic strongholds abandoned the Democrats in 1972. For example, Nixon took neighboring Rhode Island by six points, even though it normally voted similarly to Massachusetts. J. Anthony Lukas noted that many New Yorkers felt that Ted Kennedy's outsize money and influence in Massachusetts played a major role in keeping the state in the Democratic column, summing up this explanation simply as \"Teddy did it\". Kennedy was also the brother-in-law of Democratic vice presidential nominee Shriver.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 759]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094639-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Massachusetts\nOn the county map, McGovern carried 9 of the state's 14 counties, including the most heavily populated parts of the state. The state's capital and largest city, Boston, would prove to be a McGovern stronghold; voters in Suffolk County, where Boston is located, cast 66% of the vote for McGovern. Boston is one of the few areas in the country where McGovern actually outperformed Jimmy Carter\u2019s performance four years later in 1976; while Carter won narrow popular and electoral victories nationally, he carried Suffolk County with only 61%. On the other hand, though Ronald Reagan would carry the state twice, this election remains the last time Dukes County, which had never voted Democratic before Lyndon B. Johnson\u2019s landslide in 1964, has voted Republican.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 818]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094639-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Massachusetts\nThe results in 1972 made Massachusetts the only state which Richard Nixon never carried in any of his three presidential campaigns. It voted for its native son John F. Kennedy when he defeated Nixon in 1960, and Hubert Humphrey when he lost to Nixon in 1968.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094639-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Massachusetts, \"Don't blame me! I'm from Massachusetts\"\nAfter Nixon was re-elected, he would later resign only a year and a half into his second term due to his involvement in the Watergate scandal and the illegal activities he committed. Afterwards, a bumper sticker with the words \"Don't blame me! I'm from Massachusetts\" became a symbol of the sentiments felt by Massachusetts residents after the Watergate scandal and Nixon's resignation due to criminal activity, it served as a proverbial message to the other 49 states not to \"blame them\" for Nixon's election, as Massachusetts was the only state that voted against Nixon's re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 99], "content_span": [100, 686]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094640-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Michigan\nThe 1972 United States presidential election in Michigan took place on November 7, 1972, as part of the 1972 United States presidential election. Voters chose 21 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094640-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Michigan\nMichigan was won by incumbent President Richard Nixon (R\u2013California), with 56.20% of the popular vote, against George McGovern (D\u2013South Dakota), with 41.81% of the popular vote. John G. Schmitz was the only other candidate on the ballot, and, as the candidate for the American Independent Party, he received over 63,000 votes. This result nonetheless made Michigan 8% more Democratic than the nation-at-large.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094640-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Michigan\nDelta, Lake, Washtenaw, and Wayne counties were the only four of Michigan's 83 counties to vote for McGovern. Washtenaw was one of only five counties outside of South Dakota (McGovern's home state) to vote for McGovern after voting for Richard Nixon in 1968. Nixon became the first Republican to win the White House without carrying Washtenaw since Benjamin Harrison in 1888.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094641-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Minnesota\nThe 1972 United States presidential election in Minnesota took place on November 7, 1972 as part of the 1972 United States presidential election. Voters chose ten electors, or representatives to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094641-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Minnesota\nMinnesota was won by the Republican Party candidate, incumbent President Richard Nixon, who won the state over U.S. Senator George McGovern of South Dakota by a margin of 95,923 votes, or 5.51%, the closest state in the election. This result made Minnesota a staggering 15% more Democratic than the nation as a whole. Nixon went on to win the election nationally, by a landslide margin of 23.15% of the popular vote. McGovern carried only Massachusetts and the District of Columbia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094641-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Minnesota\nThe 1972 election was the last time Minnesota\u2014a state which has generally favored Democrats since the New Deal\u2014was carried by a Republican. This state would go on to have the longest streak voting for Democrats out of any starting after this election, as every other state would be won by Ronald Reagan in the landslide year of 1984. During Nixon's second term as President, the Watergate scandal resulted in the loss of the Republican Party's credibility both nationally and in Minnesota. The damage caused by Watergate was so pronounced that the Republican Party of Minnesota was forced to rebrand itself as the \"Independent-Republican Party\" from 1975 to 1995 in order to distance itself from the national Republican Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 780]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094641-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Minnesota\nNixon also remains the last Republican to carry heavily populated Hennepin County, with 1972 also the last time that county did not vote the same as neighboring Ramsey County.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094642-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Mississippi\nThe 1972 United States presidential election in Mississippi was held on November 7, 1972. Incumbent President Nixon won the state of Mississippi with 78.20% of the vote, his most overwhelming dominance in any of the fifty states, carrying the Magnolia State's seven electoral votes. Nixon defeated McGovern by a whopping margin of 58.57%, a larger margin than McGovern's in the District of Columbia, and a margin never equalled in any state since and exceeded by any Republican nominee in the party's history only five times. This also marked the first time since 1944 that the state was on the winning side of the presidential election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 693]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094642-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Mississippi\nMcGovern carried only three counties \u2013 Claiborne, Holmes and Jefferson \u2013 all of which have overwhelming majority black populations. In archconservative, racially sensitive Mississippi, McGovern was universally viewed as a left-wing extremist because of his support for busing and civil rights, plus his opposition to the Vietnam War, support for granting amnesty to draft dodgers and support for a thousand-dollar giveaway to each American as a solution to poverty. Many, especially Republican campaigners, also believed McGovern would legalize abortion and illicit drugs if he were elected \u2013 despite the fact that his running mate Sargent Shriver was firmly pro-life.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 724]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094642-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Mississippi\nConsequently, the proportion of white voters supporting McGovern was utterly negligible, and even the newly enfranchised and loyally Democratic African-American population did not accept McGovern's radical ideas, with the result that for the second time in three elections one of the historically strongest members of the former Democratic Solid South became the most Republican state in the nation. Even in a huge landslide, Mississippi voted 34% more Republican than the nation at-large. As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election in which the following counties voted for a Republican presidential candidate: Marshall, Quitman, Bolivar, Sharkey, Wilkinson, Humphreys, Coahoma, Noxubee, and Tunica.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 777]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094643-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Missouri\nThe 1972 United States presidential election in Missouri took place on November 7, 1972. All fifty states and the District of Columbia were part of the 1972 United States presidential election. Voters chose 12 electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094643-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Missouri\nMissouri was won by the Republican nominees, incumbent President Richard Nixon of California and his running mate Vice President Spiro Agnew of Maryland. Nixon and Agnew defeated the Democratic nominees, Senator George McGovern of South Dakota and his running mate U.S. Ambassador Sargent Shriver of Maryland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094643-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Missouri\nIn a state substantially part of the conservative South, McGovern was viewed by many voters as a left-wing extremist because of his support for busing and civil rights, plus his opposition to the Vietnam War, support for granting amnesty to draft dodgers and support for a thousand-dollar giveaway to each American as a solution to poverty. Many, especially Republican campaigners, also believed McGovern would legalise abortion and illicit drugs if he were elected \u2013 despite the fact that his running mate Sargent Shriver was firmly pro-life. These fears of McGovern's social radicalism were especially pronounced amongst poorer whites, who were abundant in the southern part of Missouri.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 742]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094643-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Missouri\nNixon carried Missouri with 62.29% of the vote to McGovern's 37.71%, a victory margin of 24.58%. Nixon won all but two jurisdictions: Monroe County and St. Louis City, and was the first Republican to ever carry southern secessionist Mississippi County and Maries County, the first since Abraham Lincoln in 1864 to carry \u201cLittle Dixie\u201d Howard and Randolph Counties, and the first since Ulysses S. Grant in 1868 to carry Lewis, Lincoln, Ralls and Ray Counties. As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election in which Jackson County, which contains most of Kansas City, as well as Independence, the hometown of former Democratic president Harry S. Truman (who died seven weeks after the election), voted for a Republican presidential candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 811]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094644-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Montana\nThe 1972 United States presidential election in Montana took place on November 7, 1972, and was part of the 1972 United States presidential election. Voters chose four representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094644-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Montana\nMontana strongly voted for the Republican nominee, President Richard Nixon, over the Democratic nominee, Senator George McGovern. Nixon won Montana by a margin of 20.08%; however McGovern still did 0.4% better than he did nationally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094645-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Nebraska\nThe 1972 United States presidential election in Nebraska took place on November 7, 1972, as part of the 1972 United States presidential election. Voters chose five representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094645-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Nebraska\nNebraska was won by incumbent President Richard Nixon (R\u2013California), with 70.5% of the popular vote, against George McGovern (D\u2013South Dakota), with 29.5% of the popular vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094645-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Nebraska\nIn a state that would reflect McGovern's national results, the Democratic nominee did not win a single county in Nebraska. Out of Nixon's three campaigns, this was the only one in which Nebraska was not his strongest state, although he did outperform his past two performances here in popular vote percentage. Instead, Nebraska was his seventh strongest state after Mississippi, Georgia, Oklahoma, Alabama, Florida, and South Carolina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094646-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Nevada\nThe 1972 United States presidential election in Nevada took place on November 7, 1972. All fifty states and the District of Columbia were part of the 1972 United States presidential election. State voters chose three electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094646-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Nevada, Background\nSince being won for the third time by William Jennings Bryan whose populism had attracted a state heavily dependent upon silver mining, Nevada had been a consistent bellwether swing state, although it had been trending Republican since World War II as air conditioning led to the development of Las Vegas as a \u201cSun Belt\u201d city. Richard Nixon had narrowly lost this heavily Catholic state to John F. Kennedy in 1960, but would comfortably defeat both Hubert Humphrey and George Wallace in 1968. However, the Democrats had rebounded in 1970 to regain the governorship, although the party lost the attorney general position for the first time since 1890.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 62], "content_span": [63, 713]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094646-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Nevada, Background\nNevada held no Democratic primary in 1972, and once McGovern's nomination was an established fact every poll suggested Nixon would win the state very easily, typically by around a two-to-one margin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 62], "content_span": [63, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094646-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Nevada, Vote\nNevada was won by the Republican nominees, incumbent President Richard Nixon of California and his running mate Vice President Spiro Agnew of Maryland. Nixon and Agnew defeated the Democratic nominees, Senator George McGovern of South Dakota and his running mate U.S. Ambassador Sargent Shriver of Maryland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 56], "content_span": [57, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094646-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Nevada, Vote\nNixon carried Nevada with 63.68% of the vote to McGovern's 36.32%, a victory margin of 27.36%. In a state that would reflect McGovern's national results, the Democratic nominee did not win a single county in Nevada, making Nixon only the second Republican after Theodore Roosevelt in 1904 to sweep all Nevada's counties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 56], "content_span": [57, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094647-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in New Hampshire\nThe 1972 United States presidential election in New Hampshire took place on November 7, 1972, as part of the 1972 United States presidential election, which was held throughout all 50 states and D.C. Voters chose four representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094647-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in New Hampshire\nNew Hampshire was won by the Republican nominees, incumbent President Richard Nixon of California and his running mate incumbent Vice President Spiro Agnew of Maryland. Nixon and Agnew defeated the Democratic nominees, Senator George McGovern of South Dakota and his running mate United States Ambassador Sargent Shriver of Maryland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094647-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in New Hampshire\nNixon took 63.98% of the vote to McGovern's 34.85%, a margin of 29.12%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094647-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in New Hampshire\nNew Hampshire in this era normally leaned Republican, having not gone Democratic since the nationwide Democratic landslide of 1964.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094647-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in New Hampshire\nAs Nixon won re-election nationally in a 49-state landslide, New Hampshire easily remained in the Republican column, with McGovern's only victories coming from neighboring Massachusetts and the District of Columbia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094647-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in New Hampshire\nOn the county map, Nixon swept all 10 of the state's counties, breaking 60% in 7 of them. As in previous elections, Carroll County and Belknap County were the most Republican counties in the state, both voting over 70% for Nixon. McGovern's strongest county was Strafford County, where he managed 41.3% of the vote to Nixon's 57.8%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094647-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in New Hampshire\nAmidst Nixon's landslide nationwide win, New Hampshire would weigh in as almost 6% more Republican than the national average, and would be the most Republican state in the Northeast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094647-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in New Hampshire\nNixon had previously won New Hampshire in both 1960 and 1968.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094648-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in New Jersey\nThe 1972 United States presidential election in New Jersey took place on November 7, 1972. All 50 states and the District of Columbia were part of the 1972 United States presidential election. Voters chose 17 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094648-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in New Jersey\nNew Jersey was won by the Republican nominees, incumbent President Richard Nixon of California and his running mate incumbent Vice President Spiro Agnew of Maryland. Nixon and Agnew defeated the Democratic nominees, Senator George McGovern of South Dakota and his running mate United States Ambassador Sargent Shriver of Maryland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094648-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in New Jersey\nNixon carried New Jersey with 61.57% to McGovern's 36.77%, a margin of 24.80%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094648-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in New Jersey\nNixon swept every county in New Jersey, including even traditional Democratic strongholds like Essex County, Mercer County, and Hudson County. Nixon's unique nationwide appeal to working-class Democrats in 1972 was most evident in his performance in Hudson County; the traditionally heavily Democratic county, which Nixon had lost decisively with less than forty percent of the vote in both 1960 and 1968, went to Nixon in 1972 by a 60\u201339 margin. This remains the last election in which a Republican presidential nominee has won Essex County, although it was still McGovern's strongest, only narrowly going to Nixon by a 50\u201348 margin. Mercer County was the second-closest, with Nixon winning it, 52\u201347. Nixon's strongest county was rural Sussex County, where he received 74% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 842]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094648-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in New Jersey\nNew Jersey in this era was a swing state with a slight Republican lean, and this pattern continued with the results of 1972. In the midst of nationwide Republican landslide, New Jersey voted basically how the nation voted, its result being 1% more Republican than the national average.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094648-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in New Jersey\nThis was the third time in five presidential elections (1956\u201372) that the winning candidate swept New Jersey's counties in an election, having also happened in 1956 and 1964. It had only happened once before, when Warren G. Harding achieved it in 1920 and, as of 2020, has not happened since.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094649-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in New Mexico\nThe 1972 United States presidential election in New Mexico took place on November 7, 1972. This was the fifteenth Presidential Election which New Mexico participated in.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094649-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in New Mexico\nAll fifty states plus The District of Columbia, were part of this presidential election. State voters chose four electors to represent them in the Electoral College, who voted for the President and Vice President. South Dakota Senator George McGovern was nominated to run against Nixon, and was defeated in one of the most lopsided elections in United States history. McGovern lost every state except Massachusetts to Nixon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094649-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in New Mexico\nNew Mexico was won by President Richard Nixon by a 24-point landslide, mirroring the national popular vote margin by a near perfect amount. McGovern won only two counties: he comfortably won Rio Arriba County by 12.6 percentage points, and also won San Miguel County by 2.5 percentage points. The 1972 election remains the last when Santa Fe, Taos or Mora Counties provided a Republican majority or plurality, and Nixon won Mora County by a mere thirty votes. At the other extreme, solidly Republican Lea County in the Plains region was won by Nixon by 55.4 percent, and Lincoln County, which had not voted Democrat since Franklin Roosevelt\u2019s 1936 landslide, by 55.9 percent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 730]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094649-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in New Mexico\nThis was the fifteenth Presidential Election which New Mexico participated in.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094650-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in New York\nThe 1972 United States presidential election in New York took place on November 7, 1972. All 50 states and the District of Columbia, were part of the 1972 United States presidential election. Voters chose 41 electors to the Electoral College, which voted for President and Vice President.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094650-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in New York\nNew York was won by incumbent Republican President Richard Nixon, who succeeded in securing re-election against Democratic Senator George McGovern of South Dakota. Nixon ran with Vice President, and former Maryland Governor, Spiro Agnew for vice president, and McGovern ran with United States Ambassador Sargent Shriver for vice president. In the midst of a nationwide Republican landslide, Nixon took 58.54% of the vote in New York State to McGovern's 41.21%, a margin of 17.34%. New York weighed in for this election as more Democratic than the national average by about 6%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094650-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in New York\nNearly all counties in New York State turned out for Nixon, and only the New York City boroughs of the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Manhattan voted for McGovern. McGovern was able to win New York City as a whole with victories in three boroughs, taking two-thirds of the vote in Manhattan and also winning the Bronx and Brooklyn, however Nixon was able to put in a relatively strong performance citywide, winning Queens and Staten Island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094650-0002-0001", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in New York\n1972 remains the last election in which a Republican presidential nominee has won the borough of Queens, a heavily populated county historically key to Republican competition in New York. This was also the last election in which a Republican presidential nominee has won the upstate counties of Erie County, where the city of Buffalo is located, and Albany County, where the state capital of Albany is located (and in turn, the last Republican to win every county of upstate New York). All three of these counties have become solidly Democratic in the years that have followed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094650-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in New York\nThe presidential election of 1972 was an extremely partisan election for New York, with 99.75% of the electorate voting either Republican or Democrat. Having delivered as President a period of relative economic stability and growth, and showing promising movements towards peace in Vietnam, Nixon was able to gain reelection with electors from every State in the U.S., except Massachusetts and the District of Columbia. The Vietnam War continued to be a strong issue during this election, with both candidates declaring desire to end the conflict.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094650-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in New York\nThis was the first election since 1808 in which New York did not have the largest number of electors in the Electoral College, having fallen to 41 electors versus California's 45 as a result of the 1970 census. It is also the only presidential election since 1948 in which New York did not vote the same as Massachusetts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094651-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in North Carolina\nThe 1972 United States presidential election in North Carolina took place on November 7, 1972, as part of the 1972 United States presidential election. Voters chose 13 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094651-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in North Carolina\nNorth Carolina voted strongly for Republican nominee President Richard Nixon, over Democratic nominee Senator George McGovern. North Carolina voted overwhelmingly for President Nixon, who won 69.46% to 28.89%, one of the biggest margins in the country. This is the most Republican result in North Carolina presidential history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094651-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in North Carolina\nMcGovern won only the typically extremely strong Democratic counties of Northampton and Orange \u2013 two counties with a record of having voted Democratic at every election since 1900, apart from Orange County\u2019s vote against the Catholic Al Smith in 1928. Even in these counties, where most Democratic candidates expect to receive well over sixty percent of the vote and Walter Mondale in his disastrous 1984 loss won by over 13 percent, McGovern won by only 236 votes in Northampton County and 1,002 out of over 23,000 in Orange County.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094651-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in North Carolina\nIn the process Nixon managed to challenge the long-established Democratic bastion in the state\u2019s northeast, which rivals South Texas as the longest-lived extant Democrat stronghold in the entire United States. It is the only time since 1900 that Hoke, Hertford and Bertie Counties have voted against the Democratic candidate, the only time that Durham and Washington Counties has voted for the Republican candidate since 1928, and the only time Anson, Halifax, Warren and Edgecombe Counties have supported a Republican candidate since 1896.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094651-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in North Carolina\nThis is the first election in which a presidential candidate won North Carolina with more than 1,000,000 votes. This is also the best Republican presidential election performance in the history of the state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094652-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in North Dakota\nThe 1972 United States presidential election in North Dakota took place on November 7, 1972, as part of the 1972 United States presidential election. Voters chose three representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094652-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in North Dakota\nNorth Dakota was won by incumbent President Richard Nixon (R\u2013California), with 62.07 percent of the popular vote, against George McGovern (D\u2013South Dakota), with 35.79 percent of the popular vote, a 26.28 percent margin of victory. Three other candidates were on the ballot as independents, but only California Congressman John G. Schmitz received a significant vote tally, although even Schmitz received just 2.01 percent of North Dakota's total.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094652-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in North Dakota\nIn a state that would reflect McGovern's national results, the Democratic nominee only won one county (Rolette) in North Dakota.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094653-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Ohio\nThe 1972 United States presidential election in Ohio took place on November 7, 1972. All 50 states and the District of Columbia were part of the 1972 United States presidential election. State voters chose 25 electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094653-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Ohio\nOhio was won by incumbent President Richard Nixon (R) by a margin of 21.56%. Nixon won every county in the state except Lucas and Athens Counties, which McGovern won by only 0.95% and 1.22% respectively, and gained a majority in all eighty-six winning counties except Cuyahoga, Mahoning and Summit Counties. Nixon's biggest win was in Union County where he obtained 75.89 percent of the vote. Nonetheless, this result made Ohio 3% more Democratic than the nation-at-large.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094653-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Ohio\nThis was the last occasion until 2012 that Belmont, Jefferson and Monroe Counties voted for a Republican presidential candidate, the last until 2016 that Trumbull County would vote Republican, the last until 2020 that Mahoning County would do so, and remains the last to date where Cuyahoga County has supported the Republican candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094654-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Oklahoma\nThe 1972 United States presidential election in Oklahoma was held on November 7, 1972 as part of the 1972 United States presidential election. Voters chose eight electors, or representatives to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094654-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Oklahoma\nOklahoma voted in a landslide for incumbent Republican President Richard Nixon over his Democratic challenger George McGovern. Nixon's winning margin of 49.70 percentage points made Oklahoma his third-strongest state, behind Mississippi and Georgia, and 26.55 percentage points more Republican than the nation at-large. Although in the twenty-first century Oklahoma has rivaled Wyoming, Utah, Idaho and increasingly West Virginia as the most Republican state in the nation, no presidential candidate in Oklahoma has ever equaled Nixon's margin of victory. Indeed, in the eleven presidential elections since this one, only twice has any state been carried by a larger percentage margin \u2013 both by Ronald Reagan in Utah, as part of the 1980 and 1984 elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 810]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094654-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Oklahoma\nNixon carried with over sixty percent of the vote all seventy-seven counties in the state, four years after he had won the Sooner State despite finishing behind both Democrat Hubert Humphrey and American Independent George Wallace in Love, McCurtain and Pushmataha Counties. American Independent John G. Schmitz was the only other candidate on the ballot, and he received 2.30 percent of the vote, although managing over eleven percent in the Panhandle county of Cimmaron. Nixon's feat of winning every county in Oklahoma would not be achieved by a Republican again until George W. Bush in 2004.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 648]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094654-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Oklahoma\nIn archconservative Oklahoma, McGovern was uniformly viewed as a left-wing extremist because of his support for busing and civil rights, plus his opposition to the Vietnam War, support for granting amnesty to draft dodgers and support for a thousand-dollar giveaway to each American as a solution to poverty. Many, especially Republican campaigners, also believed McGovern would legalise abortion and illicit drugs if he were elected \u2013 despite the fact that his running mate Sargent Shriver was firmly pro-life.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094654-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Oklahoma\nConsequently, even the most loyal Southern Democrats from the southeastern part of the state almost completely deserted their traditional party for Nixon: Bryan, Choctaw, Coal, Johnston, and the above-mention Love and McCurtain Counties deserted their traditional Democratic Party for the first time ever. Nixon also almost completely captured the twenty percent of Oklahoman voters who had supported Wallace in 1968: exit polls suggested he won them over McGovern by a ratio of ten to one, and in the two Wallace counties of Pushmataha and Atoka Nixon totaled over seventy percent of the vote vis-\u00e0-vis less than thirty in 1968.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 682]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094655-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Oregon\nThe 1972 United States presidential election in Oregon took place on November 7, 1972. All fifty states and the District of Columbia were part of the 1972 United States presidential election. Voters chose six electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094655-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Oregon\nOregon was won by the Republican nominees, incumbent President Richard Nixon of California and his running mate Vice President Spiro Agnew of Maryland. Nixon and Agnew defeated the Democratic nominees, Senator George McGovern of South Dakota and his running mate U.S. Ambassador Sargent Shriver of Maryland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094655-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Oregon\nNixon carried Oregon with 52.45% of the vote to McGovern's 42.33%, a victory margin of 10.12%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094655-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Oregon\nIndependent candidate John G. Schmitz would carry 4.98% of the popular vote in Oregon, which would make the state his fourth strongest after Idaho, Alaska and Utah.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094656-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania\nThe 1972 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania took place on November 7, 1972, and was part of the 1972 United States presidential election. Voters chose 27 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094656-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Pennsylvania\nPennsylvania strongly voted for the Republican nominee, President Richard Nixon, over the Democratic nominee, Senator George McGovern. Nixon won Pennsylvania by a large margin of 19.98%, winning every county except for Philadelphia. This result nonetheless was over 3% more Democratic than the nation at-large. As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election in which Allegheny County voted Republican, and the last time that county did not vote the same as Philadelphia. As of 2020, this marked the last time when the Republican presidential nominee carried the state by more than 10 percentage points and the most recent time when any presidential candidate won the state by over 15 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 766]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094657-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Rhode Island\nThe 1972 United States presidential election in Rhode Island took place on November 7, 1972 as part of the 1972 United States presidential election. Voters chose four representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094657-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Rhode Island\nRhode Island voted for the Republican incumbent, Richard Nixon, over the Democratic challenger, South Dakota Senator George McGovern. Nixon took 53.00% of the vote to McGovern's 46.81%, a margin of 6.19%. However this result made Rhode Island almost 14 points more Democratic than the nation as a whole. This was the first election in 116 years in which Rhode Island did not vote for the same candidate as neighbouring Massachusetts, which has recurred only in 1980.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094657-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Rhode Island\nAs of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election in which Providence County voted for the Republican candidate, and Nixon won the county by only 186 votes. This was the last presidential election where a Republican presidential candidate was able to win every county in the state of Rhode Island and also the last time a Republican presidential candidate won East Providence and North Providence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094658-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in South Carolina\nThe 1972 United States presidential election in South Carolina took place on November 7, 1972. All 50 states and the District of Columbia were part of the 1972 United States presidential election. South Carolina voters chose 8 electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094658-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in South Carolina\nSouth Carolina overwhelmingly voted for the Republican nominees, incumbent President Richard Nixon of California and his running mate Vice President Spiro Agnew of Maryland. Nixon and Agnew defeated the Democratic nominees, Senator George McGovern of South Dakota and his running mate U.S. Ambassador Sargent Shriver of Maryland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094658-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in South Carolina\nNixon carried South Carolina with 70.58% of the vote to McGovern's 27.92%, a victory margin of 42.66%. This election provided the Republican Party with its best presidential result in South Carolina since Reconstruction and constitutes the only presidential election where the Republican candidate carried every county in the state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094658-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in South Carolina\nThis is the only time, as of the 2020 presidential election, that Marlboro County has voted for a Republican presidential candidate since that county was founded in 1896, and the first time the Wallace counties of Union and Cherokee had ever voted Republican. It is the last time, as of the 2020 presidential election, when Orangeburg County, Williamsburg County, Marion County, Jasper County, Fairfield County, Hampton County, Lee County, and Allendale County have voted for a Republican presidential candidate. McCormick County would not vote Republican again until Donald Trump in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 648]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094659-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in South Dakota\nThe 1972 United States presidential election in South Dakota took place on November 7, 1972, as part of the 1972 United States presidential election. Voters chose four representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094659-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in South Dakota\nSouth Dakota was the home state of George McGovern, the Democratic Party nominee in the 1972 United States presidential election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094659-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in South Dakota\nAlthough McGovern, a member of the liberal wing of his party in a relatively conservative state, was at the time of the election a popular two-term Senator, having won re-election in 1968 with 56.8% of the vote, he lost the presidential vote here to incumbent Republican President Richard Nixon. McGovern's loss was heavily influenced by voter opposition to his supposedly far-left ideology. Despite his loss in South Dakota, it was the only state that voted more Democratic in 1972 than it had in 1968.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094659-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in South Dakota\nMcGovern's loss of South Dakota made him the second candidate in four years to lose his state of birth (in 1968 Hubert Humphrey also lost South Dakota, where he was born) and residence (also in 1968 Richard Nixon lost New York, where he then lived). McGovern remained the last candidate to lose his state of residence until 2000, when Al Gore lost Tennessee. Mitt Romney would also lose his then-home state of Massachusetts in 2012 to Barack Obama, and Donald Trump would lose his home state of New York in 2016, to Hillary Clinton (who also hailed from New York).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 621]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094659-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in South Dakota\nDespite South Dakota weighing in as nearly 15 points more Democratic than the national average for this election, it is actually tied for the longest Republican streak since 1964.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094660-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Tennessee\nThe 1972 United States presidential election in Tennessee took place on November 7, 1972, as part of the 1972 United States presidential election. Tennessee voters chose 10 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094660-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Tennessee\nTennessee was won by incumbent President Richard Nixon (R\u2013California), with 67.70% of the popular vote, against George McGovern (D\u2013South Dakota), with 29.75% of the popular vote. John G. Schmitz was the only other candidate on the ballot, and, as the candidate for the American Party, he received over 30,000 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094660-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Tennessee\nStewart, Houston, Perry, Lewis, and Jackson counties were the only five of Tennessee's ninety-five counties to vote for McGovern. As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the best showing of any Republican candidate in the state. This is also the last election in which Haywood County voted for a Republican presidential candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094661-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Texas\nThe 1972 United States presidential election in Texas was held on November 7, 1972, as part of the 1972 United States presidential election. Incumbent Republican President Richard Nixon overwhelmingly won the state of Texas with 66.20% of the vote, to the Democratic Party candidate George McGovern\u2019s 33.24%, thus giving him the state\u2019s 26 electoral votes. This was the first time a Republican won the state of Texas since Texas-born Dwight D. Eisenhower won it in 1956.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094661-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Texas\nNixon\u2019s win in Texas made him the first ever Republican presidential candidate to break sixty percent of Texas\u2019 popular vote in a presidential election, surpassing former President Dwight D. Eisenhower's performance of 55.26% in 1956, and even native son Lyndon B. Johnson\u2019s 63.32% in 1964. Nixon is so far the only Republican candidate to break 65% of the state\u2019s popular vote. At the county level, 246 of Texas\u2019 254 counties voted for Nixon, all by wide margins except heavily black Robertson County where Nixon won by a single vote. Nixon won 22 of Texas\u2019 24 congressional districts \u2013 with the 18th (Harris County) and 20th (Bexar County) constituting the only congressional districts McGovern won anywhere in the former Confederacy. McGovern, however, did not win either county each of these districts were located in.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 872]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094661-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Texas\nMcGovern's only county wins came from the south Texas region along the U.S.-Mexico border and Cottle County in the northern part of the state, though even his performances here were underwhelming.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094661-0002-0001", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Texas\nIn fact, in the oldest extant Democratic stronghold in the entire United States, Nixon became the solitary Republican since Theodore Roosevelt carried the county in 1904 to win La Salle County, the only Republican since Herbert Hoover in 1928 to carry Hidalgo County, the only Republican since Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952 to win Dimmit County, one of only two Republicans since the county was founded in 1911 (following Eisenhower in 1956) to carry Jim Wells County and the only Republican apart from Eisenhower's two victories there to win Wilacy County since it was created in 1921.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 635]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094661-0002-0002", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Texas\nThis is also the last election at which Zavala County has voted Republican, though that county did so even in 1960. Duval County, however, gave McGovern over 85 percent of the vote, which was the highest percentage of votes he received in any county nationally. 1972 was the third successive election when Duval proved the most Democratic county in the nation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094661-0002-0003", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Texas\nTaking the region of South Texas to include all the above-mentioned counties (La Salle, Hidalgo, Dimmit, Jim Wells, Wilacy, Zavala, & Duval) as well as Maverick, Frio, Webb, Zapata, Jim Hogg, Starr, Brooks, Cameron, Kenedy, Kleberg, Nueces, and San Patricio, Nixon is to date the only Republican or non-Democrat to win a majority of said counties since Texas achieved statehood in 1848.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094661-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Texas\nNixon had previously narrowly lost Texas to John F. Kennedy in 1960 and had lost it narrowly again to Hubert Humphrey in 1968. However, as with the rest of the country in 1972, with the exception of Massachusetts and Washington, D.C., Texas voted for the Republican ticket of incumbent Nixon and Agnew.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094661-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Texas\nAs of the 2020 presidential election, this is the best Republican election performance in Texas, as well as the last time every single county in the Texas Triangle was won by the Republican candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094661-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Texas, McGovern campaign\nIn the national race, McGovern was constantly portrayed throughout the election campaign as being a left-wing extremist because of his support for busing and civil rights, plus his opposition to the Vietnam War, support for granting amnesty to draft dodgers. and support for a thousand-dollar giveaway to each American as a solution to poverty. McGovern was also viewed as inconsistent following the replacement of his first running mate, Thomas Eagleton, while many Republican campaigners believed McGovern would legalize abortion and illicit drugs if he were elected \u2013 despite the fact that his ultimate running mate Sargent Shriver was firmly pro-life.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 68], "content_span": [69, 724]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094661-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Texas, McGovern campaign\nMcGovern's Texas campaign was managed by Bill Clinton. Senator Lloyd Bentsen had originally been asked to manage the Texas campaign, but declined.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 68], "content_span": [69, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094661-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Texas, McGovern campaign\nWhile those working on the campaign expected McGovern to lose in Texas, they aimed to decrease his margin of defeat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 68], "content_span": [69, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094661-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Texas, McGovern campaign\nMcGovern's campaign received little support from Democratic statewide officeholders. Additionally, Dolph Briscoe, the Democratic nominee in the coinciding 1972 Texas gubernatorial election refused to make any campaign appearances alongside McGovern. One of the few statewide office holders to support McGovern's campaign was Texas Land Commissioner Bob Armstrong. Lloyd Bentsen also endorsed McGovern.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 68], "content_span": [69, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094661-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Texas, McGovern campaign\nGonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson would occasionally observe the Texas campaign operation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 68], "content_span": [69, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094661-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Texas, McGovern campaign\nIn addition to manager Bill Clinton, a future United States president, and his then-girlfriend (and future wife) Hillary, a future Democratic Party presidential nominee herself, there were a number of individuals who worked on McGovern's Texas campaign effort who would later achieve individual notability.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 68], "content_span": [69, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094661-0011-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Texas, McGovern campaign, Role of the Clintons\nBill Clinton, and his then-girlfriend (and future wife) Hillary (both Yale Law School students at the time) had both moved to Austin to work on the Texas McGovern campaign. Bill had originally planned to begin working as a southern states coordinator for the McGovern campaign during the summer of 1971. However, he postponed those plans in order to spend that summer with Hillary, who had taken a summer job in California. The following summer, Bill took a job as the state manager of McGovern's campaign in Texas. He asked Hillary if she would be interested in joining him there. In her memoir Living History, Hillary recalled, \"Bill asked if I wanted to go too. I did, but only if I had a specific job.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 90], "content_span": [91, 797]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094661-0012-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Texas, McGovern campaign, Role of the Clintons\nHillary was tasked with registering black and Hispanic voters in South Texas on behalf of the Democratic National Committee. With the 1972 election being the first in which 18 year-olds were able to vote, the task of voter registration was much greater than in other years. In addition to registering voters, as a law student, Clinton was utilized as a legal resource.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 90], "content_span": [91, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094661-0013-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Texas, McGovern campaign, Role of the Clintons\nHillary worked alongside Sara Ehrman, with whom she bonded. She also bonded with Betsey Wright while working on the campaign, with whom she frequently would travel to Barton Springs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 90], "content_span": [91, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094661-0014-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Texas, McGovern campaign, Role of the Clintons\nBill, meanwhile, worked closely with Eddie Bernice Johnson. He also worked with Ron Kirk (future mayor of Dallas), Ann Richards (future governor of Texas). He additionally worked with Steven Spielberg who, at the time, was a little-known television producer. He traveled frequently across the state to organize events and to hang posters in county courthouses. He spent considerable time in Dallas, where he had an office in the campaign's local headquarters on Lemmon Avenue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 90], "content_span": [91, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094661-0015-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Texas, McGovern campaign, Role of the Clintons\nThe Clintons worked with Garry Mauro, a University of Texas Law School student, on the campaign. Mauro would go on to later serve as Texas Land Commissioner, and would head Bill's 1992 campaign in Texas. They also worked alongside future Austin advertising executives Roy Spence and Judy Trabulsi, who would both go on to work on Bill Clinton's presidential campaigns. Spence would also work as a media adviser to Hillary in her 2008 presidential campaign, while Trablusi supported the candidacy of Barack Obama. Both worked in support of her 2016 presidential campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 90], "content_span": [91, 661]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094661-0016-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Texas, McGovern campaign, Role of the Clintons\nWhile working in Texas, the Clintons also networked with some donors that would later contribute to their own campaigns for political office, such as Bernard Rapoport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 90], "content_span": [91, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094661-0017-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Texas, McGovern campaign, Role of the Clintons\nOccasionally, Bill would receive phone calls from former president Lyndon B. Johnson, who would inquire about the campaign effort and offer advice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 90], "content_span": [91, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094661-0018-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Texas, McGovern campaign, Role of the Clintons\nBoth Clintons were absent from attending their fall classes that term in order to work for the campaign. However, they both managed to ace their finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 90], "content_span": [91, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094661-0019-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Texas, Nixon campaign\nIncumbent president Richard Nixon emphasized on a good economy and his successes in foreign affairs, such as coming near to ending American involvement in the Vietnam War and establishing relations with China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 65], "content_span": [66, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094661-0020-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Texas, Nixon campaign\nNixon had the support of former Democratic Texas governor John Connally, who headed the group Democrats for Nixon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 65], "content_span": [66, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094662-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Utah\nThe 1972 United States presidential election in Utah took place on November 7, 1972, as part of the 1972 United States presidential election. Voters chose four representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094662-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Utah\nUtah overwhelmingly voted for incumbent President Richard Nixon (R-California) with over 67 percent of the popular vote, beating Democratic South Dakota Senator George McGovern with a margin of over forty percent, carrying every county in the state. Nixon carried every county with over sixty percent of the vote except for Carbon County, which had typically been the most Democratic area of the state. U.S. Representative John G. Schmitz (R-California) of the American Independent Party received 5.97 percent of the popular vote, and his results in Utah proved to be his third strongest state in the 1972 election after Idaho and Alaska.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 687]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094663-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Vermont\nThe 1972 United States presidential election in Vermont took place on November 7, 1972, as part of the 1972 United States presidential election which was held throughout all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Voters chose three representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094663-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Vermont\nVermont voted for incumbent Republican President Richard Nixon of California and his running mate Vice President Spiro Agnew of Maryland, defeating Democratic Senator George McGovern of South Dakota and his running mate U.S. Ambassador Sargent Shriver of Maryland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094663-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Vermont\nNixon took 62.66% of the vote to McGovern's 36.47%, a margin of 26.20%. Coming in a distant third was the People's Party candidate famed pediatrician Dr. Benjamin Spock, who took 0.54% in Vermont on the Liberty Union ballot line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094663-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Vermont\nVermont historically was a bastion of liberal Northeastern Republicanism, and by 1972 the Green Mountain State had gone Republican in every presidential election since the founding of the Republican Party, except in the Democratic landslide of 1964, when the GOP had nominated staunch conservative Barry Goldwater.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094663-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Vermont\nRichard Nixon was seen as a mainstream moderate Republican, and while winning nationally in a massive 49-state landslide, he easily held onto Vermont's three electoral votes. The only state McGovern carried was neighboring Massachusetts, along with the District of Columbia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094663-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Vermont\nAs Nixon won a historic landslide nationally, Vermont weighed in as about 2% more Republican than the nation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094663-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Vermont\nNixon won every county in Vermont, and broke 60% in every county except for Chittenden County, the most populous county, home to the state's largest city, Burlington. Though the state wouldn't vote for another Democratic presidential candidate until 1992, no subsequent Republican who won the state was able to match Nixon's 62% vote share.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094663-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Vermont\nRichard Nixon had previously won the Green Mountain State against John F. Kennedy in 1960 and then again against Hubert Humphrey in 1968.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094664-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Virginia\nThe 1972 United States presidential election in Virginia took place on November 7, 1972. All 50 states and the District of Columbia were part of the 1972 United States presidential election. Virginia voters chose 12 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president of the United States. This was also the first presidential election after the passage of the Twenty-sixth Amendment, which decreased the voting age from 21 to 18.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094664-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Virginia\nVirginia was won by incumbent United States President Richard Nixon of California with 67.84% of the vote, against South Dakota Senator George McGovern of the Democratic Party. Nixon also won the national election with 60.67% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094664-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Virginia\nIn strict accordance with national trends, McGovern carried just one county or independent city in Virginia \u2013 however, that county, Charles City County, saw McGovern receive over 67% of the vote, and was his fourth-strongest county in the country. As of the 2020 presidential election, this constitutes the last occasion the Republican Party has carried Brunswick County, Greensville County, Surry County, Sussex County, and the cities of Charlottesville, Norfolk, Petersburg, Portsmouth and Richmond.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094664-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Virginia\nHowever, Nixon did not win all of the electoral votes in Virginia because one of his pledged electors, Roger MacBride, instead cast his vote for Libertarian candidate John Hospers and his running mate, Tonie Nathan. Although Hospers was not on the ballot in Virginia, MacBride's vote was the first electoral vote ever cast for a female candidate (Nathan); MacBride was subsequently nominated as the Libertarian candidate for President in the next election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094665-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Washington (state)\nThe 1972 United States presidential election in Washington took place on November 7, 1972 as part of the 1972 United States presidential election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094665-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Washington (state)\nWashington voted for the Republican incumbent, Richard Nixon, over the Democratic challenger, South Dakota Senator George McGovern. Nixon took 56.92% of the vote to McGovern's 38.64%, a margin of 18.28%, which still made the state 4.87% more Democratic than the nation at-large.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094665-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Washington (state)\nNixon won every county except heavily unionized Grays Harbor and Pacific Counties, in the process being the first Republican to carry Wahkiakum County (another heavily unionized timber county), Kitsap County and Snohomish County since Herbert Hoover in 1928.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094666-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in West Virginia\nThe 1972 United States presidential election in West Virginia took place on November 7, 1972, as part of the 1972 United States presidential election. West Virginia voters chose six representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094666-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in West Virginia\nWest Virginia was won by incumbent President Richard Nixon (R\u2013California), with 63.61% of the popular vote, against George McGovern (D\u2013South Dakota), with 36.39% of the popular vote. Nixon won every county in the state except for Logan County, which McGovern won 51.3%-48.7%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094667-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Wisconsin\nThe 1972 United States presidential election in Wisconsin was held on November 7, 1972 as part of the 1972 United States presidential election. Incumbent President Richard Nixon won the state of Wisconsin with 53.40 percent of the vote, carrying the state's 11 electoral votes, although Wisconsin was the fifth most Democratic state during the election, voting 13.48 points more Democratic than the nation as a whole. In no other election since the emergence of the Republican Party has Wisconsin voted so much more Democratic than the country as a whole.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 609]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094667-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Wisconsin\nMcGovern won seven counties (out of 131 county-equivalents including three in Alaska that he won nationally) receiving as usual his highest vote in almost wholly Native American Menominee County where he won 62.3 percent of the vote. McGovern and Shriver also achieved clear majorities in Milwaukee, Dane, Ashland, Douglas and Portage Counties, and Rusk County by 1.1 points. Nixon won Manitowoc County by one hundred and ten votes, achieved pluralities in Pepin, Chippewa and Forest Counties, and won majorities in the remaining seventy-eight \u2013 the largest being in Waupaca County where Nixon won by forty-two percentage points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 683]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094667-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Wisconsin\nNixon became the first Republican since Warren G. Harding in 1920 to win Iron County, and was the last Republican until Donald Trump in 2016 to win Pepin and Kenosha Counties, and remains the last Republican to claim Bayfield County.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094668-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Wyoming\nThe 1972 United States presidential election in Wyoming took place on November 7, 1972. All 50 states and the District of Columbia were part of the 1972 United States presidential election. State voters chose three electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094668-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Wyoming\nWyoming was won by the Republican nominees, incumbent President Richard Nixon of California and his running mate Vice President Spiro Agnew of Maryland. Nixon and Agnew defeated the Democratic nominees, Senator George McGovern of South Dakota and his running mate U.S. Ambassador Sargent Shriver of Maryland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094668-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in Wyoming\nNixon carried Wyoming with 69.01 percent of the vote to McGovern's 30.47 percent, a victory margin of 38.54 points. In a state that would reflect McGovern's national results, the Democratic nominee did not win a single county in Wyoming, making Nixon the first Republican to carry Sweetwater County and to carry all Wyoming\u2019s counties since Warren G. Harding in 1920.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094669-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in the District of Columbia\nThe 1972 United States presidential election in the District of Columbia took place on November 7, 1972, as part of the 1972 United States presidential election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. Washington, D.C. voters chose 3 electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote pitting incumbent Republican President Richard Nixon and his running mate, incumbent Vice President Spiro Agnew, against Democratic challenger and Senator George McGovern from South Dakota and his running mate, former United States Ambassador to France Sargent Shriver.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [68, 68], "content_span": [69, 669]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094669-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 United States presidential election in the District of Columbia\nMcGovern won D.C. by an overwhelming margin, receiving 78.10% of the vote. Along with Massachusetts, the District of Columbia was the only political district with electoral votes in the country that voted for George McGovern in the general election. This is the only time in history that a Republican presidential nominee has received more than 20% of the vote in D.C. and, in turn, the only time that the Democratic margin of victory was less than 60%. This was also the first presidential election where the Democratic candidate did not earn at least 80% of the vote, with Jimmy Carter repeating that feat in 1980 due to a strong third party showing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 68], "section_span": [68, 68], "content_span": [69, 721]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094670-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Uruguayan Primera Divisi\u00f3n, Overview\nIt was contested by 12 teams, and Nacional won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094671-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Utah State Aggies football team\nThe 1972 Utah State Aggies football team represented Utah State University in the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. Led by sixth-year head coach Chuck Mills, the team played its home games at Romney Stadium in Logan, Utah. Competing as an NCAA University Division independent, the team compiled an 8\u20133 record and finished the season ranked number 17 in the Coaches Poll. This was the last time Utah State finished ranked in either the Coaches Poll or AP Poll until the 2012 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094672-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Utah Utes football team\nThe 1972 Utah Utes football team was an American football team that represented the University of Utah during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. Head coach Bill Meek led the team to a 5\u20132 mark in the WAC and 6\u20135 overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094673-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Utah gubernatorial election\nThe 1972 Utah gubernatorial election was held on November 7, 1972. Democratic incumbent Cal Rampton defeated Republican nominee Nicholas L. Strike with 69.68% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094673-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Utah gubernatorial election, Campaign\nIt is suggested that Rampton, as a moderate Democrat, was acceptable enough to Utah's Republican Party that in both the 1968 and 1972 elections, they put forward only token candidates. By October 1972, Rampton was seen as very likely to win, with his election appearing \"assured\" according to The New York Times.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094674-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Uxbridge by-election\nThe Uxbridge by-election was held on 7 December 1972 after Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) Charles Curran had died on 16 September of the same year. The seat was retained by the Conservatives by Michael Shersby. Shersby would hold the seat until his sudden death just days after the 1997 general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094674-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Uxbridge by-election, Candidates\nThe by-election was contested by seven candidates, with each of the three major parliamentary parties offering candidates, three others coming from extra-parliamentary right-wing groups and a final candidate who was effectively an independent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094674-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Uxbridge by-election, Candidates\nJohn Clifton was the candidate for the far-right National Front. He was the party's organiser for South-West London and was also close to the local branch of the Monday Club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094674-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Uxbridge by-election, Candidates\nDennis Herbert Harmston ran for the Union Movement, a far-right pro-European unity party led by Oswald Mosley. Known as \"Big Dan\", Harmston, who worked in the management of Smithfield Market, was a long-term supporter of Mosley. He later became known as a supporter of Enoch Powell, leading the Smithfield porters in a pro-Powell march following the Rivers of Blood speech.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094674-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Uxbridge by-election, Candidates\nAnother fringe rightist party, the National Independence Party, also stood with Clare Macdonald as their candidate. Macdonald had been a member of the National Front but had switched allegiance when former Front leader John O'Brien was forced out of the group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094674-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Uxbridge by-election, Candidates\nMichael Shersby was the candidate for the Conservative Party. He had worked in industry for a number of years with the sugar company Tate & Lyle whilst also serving as a Conservative member of Westminster City Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094674-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Uxbridge by-election, Candidates\nReginald Simmerson ran under the title \"Democratic Conservative against the Common Market\". Simmerson was a regular by-election candidate who campaigned against British membership of the European Community. Following his death in 1998 the Anti- Common Market League established a prize in his memory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094674-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Uxbridge by-election, Candidates\nIan Stuart was the candidate for the Liberal Party. A cargo-handler by profession and the chairman of the Joint Shop Stewards Liaison Committee, he was educated at Lewes Old Grammar School.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094674-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 Uxbridge by-election, Candidates\nManuela Sykes was chosen as the candidate for the Labour Party. Sykes had been a long-standing member of the Liberal Party and had been a candidate for them in a number of parliamentary elections before defecting to Labour. She too served as a member of Westminster Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094674-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 Uxbridge by-election, Results\nThe Conservatives retained the seat, albeit with a reduced majority and vote share. However the by-election was more noted for the comparatively high share won by the National Front in what was their \"first dramatic by-election result\". The party had campaigned at unprecedented levels, bringing in as any as 100 canvassers to get their message out to voters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 34], "content_span": [35, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094675-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 VFA season\nThe 1972 Victorian Football Association season was the 91st season of the top division of the Australian rules football competition, and the twelfth season of second division competition. The Division 1 premiership was won by the Oakleigh Football Club, after it defeated Dandenong in the Grand Final on 24 September by 44 points; it was Oakleigh's sixth and final Division 1 premiership. The Division 2 premiership was won by Geelong West, which went undefeated through the season with an overall record of 20\u20130, becoming the first team since North Melbourne in 1918 to complete a perfect season; overall, it was the club's third Division 2 premiership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 670]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094675-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 VFA season, Division 1\nThe Division 1 home-and-away season was played over 18 rounds; the top four then contested the finals under the Page\u2013McIntyre system. The finals were played at the St Kilda Cricket Ground.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094675-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 VFA season, Division 2\nThe Division 2 home-and-away season was played over eighteen rounds; the top four then contested the finals under the Page\u2013McIntyre system; all finals were played on Sundays at Toorak Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094675-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 VFA season, Notable events, Geelong West's perfect season\nGeelong West won all twenty games it played during the 1972 season, becoming the third team to complete a perfect season in Association history. It was the first time the feat had been achieved since North Melbourne in 1918, and the last time it was achieved until Port Melbourne in 2011. Geelong West entered the season after being relegated from Division 1 at the end of 1971, although it was not disgraced during that season, as its win-loss record of 6\u201312 was at the time the best ever for a wooden-spooner. Geelong West's Thirds team was also unbeaten during the 1972 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 62], "content_span": [63, 643]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094675-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 VFA season, Notable events, Geelong West's perfect season\nGeelong West's unbeaten record hides the fact that it was very evenly matched with runners-up Caulfield; three of Geelong West's four wins against Caulfield, including both finals, were by a goal or less:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 62], "content_span": [63, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094675-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 VFA season, Notable events, Lightning premiership\nIn 1972, the Association established a post-season lightning premiership, contested by the twelve teams which did not reach the finals (six from each division). Matches were played as curtain-raisers to senior finals matches on Sundays, and were played at half the length of a normal match over two periods of play. The format of the competition was knock-out, and was arranged such that the Division 1 teams competed separately to the Division 2 teams up to the semi-final stage; then, the semi-final stage was contested by three Division 1 teams and one Division 2 team. The post-season lightning premiership was contested from 1972 until 1979.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 54], "content_span": [55, 701]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094676-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 VFL Grand Final\nThe 1972 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Richmond Football Club and Carlton Football Club at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 7 October 1972. It was the 76th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1972 VFL season. The match, attended by 112,393 spectators, was won by Carlton by a margin of 27 points, marking that club's 11th premiership victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094676-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 VFL Grand Final, Background\nAt the conclusion of the regular home-and-away season, Carlton had finished first on the ladder with 18 wins, 3 losses and a draw. Richmond had finished second with 18 wins and 4 losses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094676-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 VFL Grand Final, Background\nIn the finals series leading up to the Grand Final, Richmond defeated Collingwood by 44 points in the Qualifying Final before meeting Carlton in the Second Semi Final. This game resulted in a draw, with both teams scoring 8.13 (61). In the Second Semi Final Replay, Richmond won comfortably by 41 points, sending them straight through to the Grand Final. Carlton then beat St Kilda by 16 points to match up with Richmond once again in the premiership decider.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094676-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 VFL Grand Final, Background\nRichmond went into the Grand Final as the clear favourites. Even though Carlton finished on top of the ladder, they had lost twice to Richmond during the regular season, and then were thrashed in the Second Semi Final replay. The statistics lent further weight to Richmond's favouritism; Carlton had not beaten the Tigers in a final since 1920.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094676-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 VFL Grand Final, Background\nAs Richmond coach Tom Hafey recalled: \"We were expected to kill [Carlton] in the grand final.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094676-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 VFL Grand Final, Match summary\nThe 1972 Grand Final was played under dull skies but on a superb MCG surface. Carlton made eight positional changes to its team, the most notable was that of captain-coach John Nicholls, who put himself in the forward pocket, and gave first ruck responsibilities to Peter \"Percy\" Jones.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 35], "content_span": [36, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094676-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 VFL Grand Final, Match summary\nLess than two minutes into the game, Trevor Keogh opened the scoring for Carlton before goals to Barry Richardson and Neil Balme put Richmond in front. But then Carlton kicked the next four goals \u2013 two of them to Nicholls \u2013 and would never again relinquish the lead. At quarter time, Carlton led by 18 points, having kicked 8.4 (52), a record first-quarter score for a Grand Final, to 5.4 (34). Some thirteen goals had been scored, and it wouldn't end there.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 35], "content_span": [36, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094676-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 VFL Grand Final, Match summary\nAs good as Carlton had played in the first quarter, they were even better in the second. Although Kevin Morris opened the scoring within 30 seconds to cut the margin to 12 points, the Blues responded by kicking four goals in four minutes. By the 23-minute mark of the quarter, the Blues had kicked eight goals to reach 100 points. At the main break, Carlton led by 45 points, 18.6 (114) to 10.9 (69). Richmond had still managed to score five goals for the quarter, but Carlton were unstoppable, kicking a record ten goals for the quarter. The only worry was on the injury front; David McKay had had his jaw broken in two places by Balme, and Vin Waite had been stretchered off with a broken ankle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 35], "content_span": [36, 733]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094676-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 VFL Grand Final, Match summary\nAnd when Syd Jackson kicked truly at the 30-minute mark of the third quarter, the Blues had broken the record for the highest score in a Grand Final with still over a quarter to play. At the last change, Carlton held a 54-point lead, 25.9 (159) to 15.15 (105).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 35], "content_span": [36, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094676-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 VFL Grand Final, Match summary\nExactly 50 goals were kicked in the game, with the teams compiling a combined score of 50.27 (327). This was, at the time, the highest scoring game in VFL history, Grand Final or otherwise, and has been bettered only seven times since. Carlton's score of 28.9 (177) remains the highest in Grand Final history, and Richmond's 22.18 (150) remains the highest losing score in a Grand Final. Richmond's score was the tenth highest score of the season: only in 1924, 1937, 1940, 1954, 1962, 1976 and 2001 have other teams lost matches with scores among the ten highest of a season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 35], "content_span": [36, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094676-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 VFL Grand Final, Match summary\nCarlton vice-captain Robert Walls was unanimously rated best on ground, kicking six goals and directly assisting in seven others. Ruckman Peter \"Percy\" Jones played arguably his finest game for Carlton, while Alex Jesaulenko kicked seven goals and John Nicholls bagged six. Richmond had eleven individual goal-kickers, with Neil Balme kicking five.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 35], "content_span": [36, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094676-0011-0000", "contents": "1972 VFL Grand Final, Match summary\nCarlton's opening term score of 8.4 (52) and second term score of 10.2 (62) set the records for the best first and second quarter scores in Grand Final history (Hawthorn would later equal the first quarter score in the 1989 VFL Grand Final).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 35], "content_span": [36, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094676-0012-0000", "contents": "1972 VFL Grand Final, Epilogue\nThe 1972 premiership victory was John Nicholls' finest moment, cementing his place in football history as one of the great strategists. After being mocked by opponents and berated by critics following Carlton's thrashing in the Second Semi Final, Nicholls knew that the only way to beat Richmond was to outscore them. In another tactical move, Nicholls decided not to implement the planned game changes in the Preliminary final against St Kilda, thus keeping Richmond in the dark about his intentions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094676-0012-0001", "contents": "1972 VFL Grand Final, Epilogue\nInstead, he trusted his players to beat the Saints playing their orthodox game, and also credited his senior players for understanding and executing the plan. On the day Nicholls launched the plan by loading the forward line with his best players and instructing the team to play a fast, direct game that would not allow Richmond to settle. Nicholls was also aware that in the 25 games that both Richmond and Carlton had played in 1972 leading up to the Grand Final, Richmond had conceded nearly 500 more points than Carlton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094676-0013-0000", "contents": "1972 VFL Grand Final, Epilogue\nThe unsuspecting Tigers fielded the same six defenders that had held Carlton to nine goals in the Second Semi Final replay two weeks earlier. Nicholls put himself in the forward pocket against Ray Boyanich and made him pay for loose play by kicking six goals, three of them in the first quarter. Afterwards Nicholls said it was the easiest physical game he had played in.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094676-0014-0000", "contents": "1972 VFL Grand Final, Epilogue\nFull -back Dick Clay described the loss as \"surreal\", Francis Bourke as \"almost eerie\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094676-0015-0000", "contents": "1972 VFL Grand Final, Epilogue\nIf this was Nicholls' finest moment, it was also the worst day of Richmond coach Tom Hafey's career.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094676-0016-0000", "contents": "1972 VFL Grand Final, Epilogue\nSeveral days after the match, chief football writer for The Age Percy Beames wrote that losing the Semi Final replay was the best thing that could have happened to Carlton. He reasoned that:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094676-0017-0000", "contents": "1972 VFL Grand Final, Epilogue\n[ Carlton] would have gone into the Grand Final under-conditioned, and would not have learned the lessons that brought the Tigers undone [... In addition,] Carlton would have been lulled into the belief that its best chance of winning the premiership rested in retaining its players in the same positions they occupied throughout the season. Until then, the Blues had argued that it was because of this that they had finished on top of the ladder. No one believed this after the Richmond thrashing -- least of all Nicholls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094676-0018-0000", "contents": "1972 VFL Grand Final, Epilogue\nThis was the first of two consecutive Grand Finals to be contested between these teams. In the 1973 VFL Grand Final the fortunes were reversed, with Richmond running out winners by a margin of 30 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094677-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 VFL season\nThe 1972 Victorian Football League season was the 76th season of the elite Australian rules football competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094677-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 VFL season, Premiership season\nIn 1972, the VFL competition consisted of twelve teams of 18 on-the-field players each, plus two substitute players, known as the 19th man and the 20th man. A player could be substituted for any reason; however, once substituted, a player could not return to the field of play under any circumstances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094677-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 VFL season, Premiership season\nTeams played each other in a home-and-away season of 22 rounds; matches 12 to 22 were the \"home-and-way reverse\" of matches 1 to 11.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094677-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 VFL season, Premiership season\nOnce the 22 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1972 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the McIntyre \"Final Five\" system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094677-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 VFL season, Grand final\nCarlton defeated Richmond 28.9 (177) to 22.18 (150), in front of a crowd of 112393 people. (For an explanation of scoring see Australian rules football).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 28], "content_span": [29, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094678-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 VIII FIBA International Christmas Tournament\nThe 1972 VIII FIBA International Christmas Tournament \"Trofeo Raimundo Saporta\" was the 8th edition of the FIBA International Christmas Tournament. It took place at Sports City of Real Madrid Pavilion, Madrid, Spain, on 24, 25 and 26 December 1972 with the participations of Real Madrid (champions of the 1971\u201372 Liga Espa\u00f1ola de Baloncesto), Palmeiras, Virginia Cavaliers and Estudiantes Monteverde.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094679-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Vanderbilt Commodores football team\nThe 1972 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represented Vanderbilt University in the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. The Commodores were led by head coach Bill Pace in his sixth season and finished the season with a record of three wins and eight losses (3\u20138 overall, 0\u20136 in the SEC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094680-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Venezuelan Primera Divisi\u00f3n season\nThe 1972 season of the Venezuelan Primera Divisi\u00f3n, the top category of Venezuelan football, was played by 9 teams. The national champions were Deportivo Italia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094681-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Vermont Catamounts football team\nThe 1972 Vermont Catamounts football team was an American football team that represented the University of Vermont in the Yankee Conference during the 1972 NCAA College Division football season. In their first year under head coach Carl Falivene, the team compiled a 4\u20135 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094682-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Vermont gubernatorial election\nThe 1972 Vermont gubernatorial election took place on November 7, 1972. The incumbent Republican Gov. Deane C. Davis was not a candidate for re-election to another term as Governor of Vermont. The Democratic nominee, Thomas P. Salmon, defeated the Republican nominee, Luther F. Hackett, to become his successor. Future U.S. senator and presidential candidate Bernie Sanders ran as a member of the Liberty Union Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094683-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Villanova Wildcats football team\nThe 1972 Villanova Wildcats football team represented the Villanova University during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. The head coach was Lou Ferry, coaching his third season with the Wildcats. The team played their home games at Villanova Stadium in Villanova, Pennsylvania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094684-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Vincentian general election\nGeneral elections were held in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines on 7 April 1972. The result was a tie between the People's Political Party and the Saint Vincent Labour Party, which both won six seats. Despite being a former member of the SVLP (which had received a majority of the public vote), the sole independent MP James Fitz-Allen Mitchell formed a government with the PPP. Voter turnout was 75.6%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094685-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Virginia Cavaliers football team\nThe 1972 Virginia Cavaliers football team represented the University of Virginia during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. The Cavaliers were led by second-year head coach Don Lawrence and played their home games at Scott Stadium in Charlottesville, Virginia. They competed as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference, finishing tied for last.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094686-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Virginia Slims Championships\nThe 1972 Virgin Slims Championships were the first season-ending championships of the Virginia Slims Circuit (a precursor to the WTA Tour), the annual tennis tournament for the best female tennis players in singles on the 1972 Virginia Slims circuit. The singles-only tournament was played on outdoor clay courts and was held from October 9 through October 15, 1972, at the Boca Raton Hotel & Club in Boca Raton, United States. Fourth-seeded Chris Evert won the title but had to return the first place prize money of $25,000 as she was not yet 18 years old and therefore was classified as an amateur.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094687-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Virginia Slims Championships \u2013 Singles\nFourth-seeded Chris Evert became the first champion of the season-ending Virginia Slims Championships tennis tournament, defeating Kerry Melville in the final 7\u20135, 6\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094688-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Virginia Slims Masters\nThe 1972 Virginia Slims Masters was a women's singles tennis tournament played on outdoor clay court at the Bartlett Park Tennis Center in St. Petersburg, Florida in the United States. The event was part of the 1972 WT Woman's Pro Tour. It was the second edition of the tournament and was held from April 11 through April 16, 1972. Second-seeded Nancy Gunter won the singles title and earned $3,400 first-prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094688-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Virginia Slims Masters, Finals, Doubles\nKaren Krantzcke / Wendy Overton defeated Judy Tegart / Fran\u00e7oise D\u00fcrr 7\u20135, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 44], "content_span": [45, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094689-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Virginia Slims of Denver\nThe 1972 Virginia Slims of Denver, also known as the Virginia Slims Denver International, was a women's tennis tournament played on hard court at the South High School in Denver, Colorado in the United States that was part of the 1972 WT Pro Tour. It was the inaugural edition of the tournament and was held from August 14 through August 20, 1972. Third-seeded Nancy Richey Gunter won the singles title and earned $6,000 first-prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094689-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Virginia Slims of Denver, Finals, Singles\nNancy Richey Gunter defeated Billie Jean King 1\u20136, 6\u20134, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094689-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Virginia Slims of Denver, Finals, Doubles\nFran\u00e7oise D\u00fcrr / Lesley Hunt defeated Helen Gourlay / Karen Krantzcke 6\u20130, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094690-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Virginia Slims of Indianapolis\nThe 1972 Virginia Slims of Indianapolis was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum in Indianapolis, Indiana in the United States that was part of the 1972 Virginia Slims Circuit. It was the inaugural edition of the tournament and was held from May 3 through May 6, 1972. The qualifying event for the singles competition took place on May 1 and May 2, 1972 at the Indianapolis Racquet Club. First-seeded Billie Jean King won the singles title and earned $4,000 first-prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094690-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Virginia Slims of Indianapolis, Finals, Doubles\nRosemary Casals / Karen Krantzcke defeated Judy Dalton / Fran\u00e7oise D\u00fcrr 6\u20133, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094691-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Virginia Slims of Jacksonville\nThe 1972 Virginia Slims of Jacksonville was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor clay courts at the Deerwood Club in Jacksonville, Florida in the United States that was part of the 1972 Women's Tennis Circuit. It was the inaugural edition of the tournament and was held from April 4 through April 9, 1972. Unseeded Marie Neumannov\u00e1 won the singles title and earned $3,400 first-prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094691-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Virginia Slims of Jacksonville, Finals, Doubles\nJudy Dalton / Karen Krantzcke defeated Vicki Berner / Billie Jean King 7\u20135, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094692-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Virginia Slims of Newport\nThe 1972 Virginia Slims of Newport, was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts at the Newport Casino in Newport, Rhode Island in the United States that was part of the 1972 Virginia Slims World Championship Series. It was the second edition of the tournament and was held from August 22 through August 26, 1972. Sixth-seeded Margaret Court won the singles title and earned $3,400 first-prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094692-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Virginia Slims of Newport, Finals, Doubles\nMargaret Court / Lesley Hunt defeated Rosemary Casals / Billie Jean King 6\u20132, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094693-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Virginia Slims of Oklahoma City\nThe 1972 Virginia Slims of Oklahoma City was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Frederickson Field House Arena in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in the United States that was part of the 1972 WT Pro Tour. It was the second and last edition of the tournament and was held from February 16 through February 19, 1972. Third-seeded Rosie Casals won the singles title and earned $4,000 first-prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094693-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Virginia Slims of Oklahoma City, Finals, Doubles\nRosie Casals / Billie Jean King defeated Judy Dalton / Fran\u00e7oise D\u00fcrr 6\u20137(4\u20135), 7\u20136(5\u20132), 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094694-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Virginia Slims of Richmond\nThe 1972 Virginia Slims of Richmond was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor clay courts at the Westwood Racquet Club in Richmond, Virginia in the United States that was part of the 1972 Women's Tennis Circuit. It was the second edition of the tournament and was held from March 21 through March 26, 1972. Third-seeded Billie Jean King won the singles title and earned $3,400 first-prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094694-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Virginia Slims of Richmond, Finals, Doubles\nRosie Casals / Billie Jean King defeated Judy Dalton / Karen Krantzcke 7\u20135, 7\u20136", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094695-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Virginia Slims of Washington\nThe 1972 Virginia Slims of Washington was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Linden Hill Racquet Club in Bethesda, Maryland in the United States that was part of the 1972 Women's Tennis Circuit. It was the inaugural edition of the tournament and was held from February 24 through February 29, 1972. Unseeded Nancy Gunter won the singles title and earned $3,500 first-prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094695-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Virginia Slims of Washington, Finals, Doubles\nWendy Overton / Valerie Ziegenfuss defeated Judy Tegart / Fran\u00e7oise D\u00fcrr 7\u20135, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094696-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Virginia Slims of Washington \u2013 Singles\nUnseeded Nancy Gunter won the singles title of the 1972 Virginia Slims of Washington tennis tournament, defeating second-seeded Chris Evert in the final 7\u20136(5\u20131), 6\u20132. The competition was played on indoor carpet courts at the Linden Hill Racquet Club in Bethesda, Maryland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094697-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Virginia Tech Gobblers football team\nThe 1972 Virginia Tech Gobblers football team represented Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in the 1972 NCAA University Division football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094697-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Virginia Tech Gobblers football team, Players\nThe following players were members of the 1972 football team according to the roster published in the 1973 edition of The Bugle, the Virginia Tech yearbook.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 50], "content_span": [51, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094698-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Virginia ballot measures\nThe 1972 Virginia State Elections took place on Election Day, November 7, 1972, the same day as the U.S. Presidential, U.S. Senate, U.S. House elections in the state. The only statewide elections on the ballot were two constitutional referendums to amend the Virginia State Constitution. All referendums were referred to the voters by the Virginia General Assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094698-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Virginia ballot measures, Question 1\nThis amendment asked voters to reduce the minimum age for qualified voters of the State from 21 to 18. This amendment was introduced in order to synchronize Virginia State Constitution with the U.S. Constitution following the recent passage of the 26th Amendment in 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094698-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Virginia ballot measures, Question 2\nThis amendment asked voters to extend in the legal definition of \"city\" to any incorporated community which became a city as provided by law before 12 P.M. on July 1, 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094699-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Volta a Catalunya\nThe 1972 Volta a Catalunya was the 52nd edition of the Volta a Catalunya cycle race and was held from 12 September to 17 September 1972. The race started in Tremp and finished in Badalona. The race was won by Felice Gimondi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094700-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a\nThe 27th Edition Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a (Tour of Spain), a long-distance bicycle stage race and one of the three grand tours, was held from 27 April to 14 May 1972. It consisted of 17 stages covering a total of 3,079.3\u00a0km (1,913.4\u00a0mi), and was won by Jos\u00e9 Manuel Fuente of the Kas-Kaskol cycling team. Fuente also won the mountains classification while Domingo Perurena won the points classification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094701-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 WANFL season\nThe 1972 WANFL season was the 88th season of the various incarnations of the Western Australian National Football League. It saw East Perth, after five Grand Final losses in six seasons and a frustrating seven since their last premiership in 1959, break the drought against a Claremont team that had achieved its first minor premiership since Johnny Leonard\u2019s days, despite kicking into the wind after winning the toss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094701-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 WANFL season\nThe two clubs established their supremacy from early in the season, and the battle for the last place in the four was won by reigning premiers West Perth despite losing eight of their last ten matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094701-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 WANFL season\n1971 preliminary finalists East Fremantle, equal favourites for the premiership with Claremont in the pre-season were affected by form lapses and controversial behaviour by coach Alan Joyce, who in June refused to allow Old Easts players selected in the state team to train there rather than at East Fremantle Oval.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094701-0002-0001", "contents": "1972 WANFL season\nA game behind the Cardinals after eleven matches, the blue and whites could themselves win only thrice, whilst South Fremantle in a rebuilding phase under Mal Atwell and without key players Hassa Mann, Graham Scott and Len Clark lost nine on end but did uncover players like Bruce Monteath who would help them become a WA(N)FL power between 1975 and 1983.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094701-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 WANFL season\nAn unfancied but revitalised Perth under captain-coach Barry Cable were the Tigers\u2019 and Royals\u2019 nearest rival but could not win any of seven matches against them, whilst Subiaco, fancied before the season and showing an innovative \"Think Subi\" campaign but affected by off-field disputes involving the sacking of returning veteran Cam Blakemore, were last or second-last for eight rounds before a five-game winning streak had them theoretically in contention for the four with two rounds to play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094701-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 WANFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 7\nPerth overcome a wayward start (nine unbroken behinds in the first quarter) in slippery conditions to show they are back as a force after a poor 1971. Rookie Geoff Watt silences Mel Whinnen and the Cardinals fail completely in attack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 48], "content_span": [49, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094701-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 WANFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 17\nThe return of controversial coach Joyce to the playing field at full-forward revitalises East Fremantle\u2019s attack and leaves them merely 1.87 percent shy of fourth position, whilst centre half-back Eddie Donnes decimates West Perth\u2019s forward line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 49], "content_span": [50, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094701-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 WANFL season, Finals, First semi-final\nPerth overcomes a slow start \u2013 not goalling in the initial forty minutes \u2013 and West Perth\u2019s greater pace to win well thanks to the Cardinals\u2019 wasteful use of their greater possession.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 43], "content_span": [44, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094701-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 WANFL season, Finals, Second semi-final\nEast Perth\u2019s ability to counter Claremont\u2019s anticipated roving superiority ensures they come home for a surprise win in showery and windy conditions. Dick Michalczyk at centre-half-back dominates the Claremont attack and shows the move of Ken McAullay to a flank was justified.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 44], "content_span": [45, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094701-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 WANFL season, Finals, Preliminary final\nClaremont respond to coach Howell\u2019s overhaul due to their outplaying of the Demons\u2019 ruck division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 44], "content_span": [45, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094701-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 WANFL season, Finals, Grand Final\nControversy over the possible replacement of Brown by Kevin Murray is overcome in a dour win in strong winds and rain based around solid teamwork and the strikepower of Gary Bygraves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 38], "content_span": [39, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094701-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 WANFL season, Notes\nThis policy was made illegal in 1973 when a \u2018centre diamond\u2019 (later the current centre square) was introduced, within with no team could place more than four players during a centre bounce.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 24], "content_span": [25, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094702-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament\nThe 1972 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 13th conference playoff in league history. The tournament was played between March 7 and March 11, 1972. All games were played at home team campus sites, including each of the two regional final series. By winning the regional tournaments, both Wisconsin and Denver were invited to participate in the 1972 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094702-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament\nThough not official designations, Wisconsin is considered as the East Regional Champion\u2020 and Denver as the West Regional Champion\u2021.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094702-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format\nThe top eight teams in the WCHA, according to their final conference standings, were eligible for the tournament and were seeded No. 1 through No. 8. In the first round the first and eighth seeds, the second and seventh seeds, the third and sixth seeds and the fourth and fifth seeds were matched in two-game series where the school that scored the higher number of goals was declared the winner. After the first round the remaining teams were reseeded No. 1 through No. 4 according to their final conference standings and advanced to the second round. In the second round the first and fourth seeds and the second and third seeds competed in an additional two-game, total goal series with the winners of each being declared as co-conference champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 45], "content_span": [46, 798]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094702-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format, Conference Standings\nNote: GP = Games Played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094703-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team\nThe 1972 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team was an American football team that represented Wake Forest University during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. In their first and only season under head coach Tom Harper, the Demon Deacons compiled a 2\u20139 record and finished in a tie for last place in the Atlantic Coast Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094704-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Washington Huskies football team\nThe 1972 Washington Huskies football team was an American football team that represented the University of Washington during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. In its 16th season under head coach Jim Owens, the team compiled an 8\u20133 record, finished in a tie for third place in the Pacific-8 Conference, and outscored its opponents by a combined total of 208 to 204.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094704-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Washington Huskies football team\nDefensive back Bill Cahill and quarterback Sonny Sixkiller were the team captains, and defensive back Calvin Jones was selected as the team's most valuable player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094704-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Washington Huskies football team\nA top ten pick in the preseason, the Huskies were undefeated after five games and ranked twelfth in the AP Poll, but Sixkiller suffered ankle and knee injuries early in the Stanford game in mid-October. Quarterbacks Greg Collins, Dennis Fitzpatrick, and Mark Backman then led the offense, with losses at Stanford and #1 USC, followed by consecutive wins over California and Oregon State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094704-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Washington Huskies football team\nSixkiller returned to the lineup for senior day at Husky Stadium on November 11 and Washington beat #8\u00a0UCLA, but dropped the Apple\u00a0Cup to #20 Washington State at\u00a0Spokane. The Pac-8 did not allow a second bowl team until the 1975\u00a0season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094704-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Washington Huskies football team, NFL Draft selections\nSix University of Washington Huskies were selected in the 1973 NFL Draft, which lasted seventeen rounds with 442 selections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 59], "content_span": [60, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094705-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Washington Initiative 276\nInitiative to the People 276 (or the Public Disclosure Act) was a law approved by the people of Washington in a vote (plebiscite) held in 1972. The law required the state government to establish the Washington State Public Disclosure Commission in order to provide information to the public about campaign fundraising and expenditures The initiative was passed by the people at the same time as the November 1972 general election, by a margin of 72.02% to 27.98%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094705-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Washington Initiative 276\nThe law has since been superseded by the Washington Public Records Act. The current law on the subject is codified in the Revised Code (RCW), Chapter 42, Section 56.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094705-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Washington Initiative 276, Full title\nThe official long title of the Public Disclosure Act was", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094705-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Washington Initiative 276, Full title\nAn ACT relating to campaign financing, activities of lobbyists, access to public records, and financial affairs of elective officers and candidates; requiring disclosure of sources of campaign contributions, objects of campaign expenditures, and amounts thereof; limiting campaign expenditures; regulating the activities of lobbyists and requiring reports of their expenditures; restricting use of public funds to influence legislative decisions; governing access to public records; specifying the manner in which public agencies will maintain such records; requiring disclosure of elective officials' and candidates' financial interests and activities; establishing a public disclosure commission to administer the act; and providing civil penalties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 794]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094706-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Washington Redskins season\nThe 1972 Washington Redskins season was the team's 41st, and 36th in Washington, D.C. The Redskins were trying to build on the success of the previous season, in which they had made the postseason for the first time in 26 seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094706-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Washington Redskins season\nHead coach George Allen, in just his second season with the team, took the Redskins to their first Super Bowl. The team, who had missed the postseason in the entirety of the 1950s and 1960s, won its first postseason game since 1943, and appeared in its first league championship game since 1945.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094706-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Washington Redskins season\nThe NFC champion Redskins would ultimately lose a very close Super Bowl VII, 14\u20137, to the undefeated Miami Dolphins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094706-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Washington Redskins season\nThe 1972 season was the first in which the team wore its former logo, which featured a Native American head in profile within a gold circle. With the Washington Senators relocating to Texas in 1971 and the Baltimore Bullets not relocating until the summer of 1973, the 1972 Redskins were at the time the D.C. area's only team playing in one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094707-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Washington Star International\nThe 1972 Washington Star International was a men's tennis tournament that was played on outdoor clay courts at the Washington Tennis Stadium in Washington, D.C.. The event was part of the 1972 World Championship Tennis circuit. It was the fourth edition of the tournament and was held from July 17 through July 23, 1972. Tony Roche won the singles title after surviving a match point in the final against Marty Riessen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094707-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Washington Star International, Finals, Doubles\nTom Okker / Marty Riessen defeated John Newcombe / Tony Roche 3\u20136, 6\u20133, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094708-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Washington State Cougars football team\nThe 1972 Washington State Cougars football team was an American football team that represented Washington State University in the Pacific-8 Conference (Pac-8) during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. In their fifth season under head coach Jim Sweeney, the Cougars compiled a 7\u20134 record (4\u20133 in the Pac-8, tied for 3rd), and outscored their opponents 274 to 241.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094708-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Washington State Cougars football team\nThe team's statistical leaders included Ty Payne with 1,349 passing yards, Ken Grandberry with 833 rushing yards, and Brock Aynsley with 344 receiving yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094708-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Washington State Cougars football team\nMartin Stadium made its debut in late September and hosted four games; top-ranked USC was played in Seattle (at Husky Stadium), and the Apple Cup was at Joe Albi Stadium in Spokane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094708-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Washington State Cougars football team\nWashington State won their first Apple Cup in four years over favored #17 Washington, dealing Husky quarterback Sonny Sixkiller a 27\u201310 loss in his final collegiate game. The Cougars finished in the top twenty in both major polls; the Pac-8 did not allow a second bowl team until the 1975 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094708-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Washington State Cougars football team, All-conference\nTwo Washington State players, both offensive linemen, were named to the all-conference team: senior tackle Bill Moos and sophomore guard Steve Ostermann. On the second team (honorable mention) was linebacker Clyde Warehime. Ostermann returned to the first team in 1973 and\u00a01974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 59], "content_span": [60, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094709-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Washington gubernatorial election\nThe 1972 Washington gubernatorial election was held on November\u00a07, 1972. Incumbent Governor of Washington Daniel J. Evans, who was first elected eight years earlier, and then re-elected in 1968, was eligible for re-election, as Washington does not have gubernatorial term limits.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094709-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Washington gubernatorial election\nA total of nine candidates filed for the primary on September 19. In the general election, incumbent Republican Governor Evans was challenged by former Governor Albert Rosellini, who ran as a Democrat, and by businessman Vick Gould, who ran with the Taxpayers' Party, a third party of Gould's own creation. Evans and Rosellini received 24.66% and 30.27% of the votes in the primary, respectively. On election day, Evans defeated Rosellini by a comfortable margin of 50.78%-42.82% in a rematch of the 1964 contest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094710-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Waterford Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 1972 Waterford Senior Hurling Championship was the 72nd staging of the Waterford Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Waterford County Board in 1897. The draw for the opening round fixtures took place on 28 February 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094710-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Waterford Senior Hurling Championship\nOn 10 September 1972, Mount Sion won the championship after a 2-10 to 2-08 defeat of Dunhill in the final. This was their 22nd championship title overall and their first title since 1969.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094711-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election\nLegislative Assembly elections were held in the Indian state of West Bengal on March 11, 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094711-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, Background\nThe election was the 4th assembly election in West Bengal within six years. President's Rule had been introduced soon after the 1971 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094711-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, Contenders\nThere were two main fronts in the election; the alliance between the Congress(R) and CPI and the alliance led by CPI(M). The Congress(R)-CPI alliance was known as the Progressive Democratic Alliance. The PDA had a seven-point programme. At the time of the election Indira Gandhi's popularity peaked, with the victory in the Bangladesh Liberation War and electoral promises of land reform. The CPI had also gained significant prestige in West Bengal due to the Soviet support to the Bangladeshi cause in the war.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094711-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, Contenders\nThe CPI(M)-led alliance included the Revolutionary Socialist Party, the Socialist Unity Centre, the Revolutionary Communist Party of India, the Marxist Forward Bloc, the Workers Party of India, the Biplobi Bangla Congress and some independents. Just before the vote there was a seat-sharing arrangement between the CPI(M)-led alliance and the All India Forward Bloc. A minor third front, the West Bengal Democratic Alliance, was led by the Congress (O) and included Sushil Kumar Dhara's Bangla Congress faction, the rebel Samyukta Socialist Party faction and the Indian Awami League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 642]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094711-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, Results\nThe Congress(R)-CPI alliance won an overwhelming majority in the assembly and formed a new state government, led by Siddhartha Shankar Ray. Several Indian Youth Congress leaders were found among the newly elected legislators. 14 CPI(M) candidates were declared elected, but they refused to participate in the Legislative Assembly during the period of 1972-1977 as they accused that the elections had been rigged.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 55], "content_span": [56, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094711-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, Reception\nWhile there were several killings during the election campaign, electoral violence had declined compared to previous elections in West Bengal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 57], "content_span": [58, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094711-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, Reception\nThe elections were marred by accusations of rigging. CPI(M) and its allies refused to accept the election result. The left parties argued that in 172 constituencies the election had not been free and fair, accusing the Congress(R) of letting loose 'semi-fascist terror' in West Bengal. They protested by interrupting the President's speech in the Lok Sabha and in the Rajya Sabha. The Congress(O) also made accusations of rigging. The former Chief Minister Prafulla Chandra Sen on the other hand alleged that the election had been rigged in at least 45 constituencies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 57], "content_span": [58, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094712-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 West German federal election\nFederal elections were held in West Germany on 19 November 1972 to elect the members of the 7th Bundestag. In the first snap elections since the resumption of democratic elections in 1949, the Social Democratic Party became the largest party in the Bundestag for the first time since 1930, winning 230 of the 496 seats. The coalition with the Free Democratic Party was resumed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094712-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 West German federal election, Campaign\nThe Social-liberal coalition of SPD and FDP had lost its majority after several Bundestag MPs (like former FDP ministers Erich Mende and Heinz Starke or SPD partisan Herbert Hupka) had left their party and become members of the CDU/CSU opposition to protest against Chancellor Willy Brandt's Neue Ostpolitik, especially against the de facto recognition of the Oder-Neisse line by the 1970 Treaty of Warsaw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094712-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 West German federal election, Campaign\nOn 27 April 1972 the opposition had tried to have CDU leader Rainer Barzel elected new chancellor in a motion of no confidence, but Barzel surprisingly missed the majority in the Bundestag by two votes. Rumours that at least one member of CDU/CSU faction had been paid by the East German Stasi intelligence service were confirmed by Markus Wolf, former head of the Hauptverwaltung Aufkl\u00e4rung, in 1997. Nevertheless, the following budget debates revealed that the government's majority was lost and only the upcoming organisation of the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich delayed the arrangement of new elections. On 22 September 1972 Chancellor Brandt deliberately lost a vote of confidence, allowing President Gustav Heinemann to dissolve the Bundestag the next day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 807]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094712-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 West German federal election, Campaign\nIn the tense campaign, the CDU/CSU attacked Brandt as being too lenient towards Eastern Europe and having the wrong ideas on the economy. SPD and FDP benefited from the enormous personal popularity of the chancellor, laureate of the 1971 Nobel Peace Prize. He gained the support by numerous celebrities of the West German culture and media scene (e.g. G\u00fcnter Grass), expressed by the slogan Willy w\u00e4hlen! (\"Vote for Willy! \").", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094712-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 West German federal election, Results\nVoter turnout was 91.1%, the highest ever since 1949. In 1970 the voting age had been lowered from 21 to 18.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094712-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 West German federal election, Results\nThe SPD celebrated their best result ever, representing the largest faction in the German parliament for the first time since the 1930 Reichstag elections. It enabled the party to nominate Annemarie Renger for President of the Bundestag; she was the first Social Democrat and also the first woman to hold this office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 42], "content_span": [43, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094712-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 West German federal election, Post-election\nOn 14 December 1972 the Bundestag MPs of the social-liberal coalition re-elected Willy Brandt chancellor. His Cabinet Brandt II returned to government the next day, again with FDP chairman Walter Scheel as vice-chancellor and foreign minister. Defeated Rainer Barzel resigned as CDU chairman on 9 May 1973; he was succeeded by Helmut Kohl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094712-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 West German federal election, Post-election\nOn 7 May 1974, Brandt would resign in the course of the Guillaume Affair, after one of his personal aides had been unmasked as a Stasi agent. The coalition continued under his party fellow Helmut Schmidt, while Brandt remained SPD chairman until 1987.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094713-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 West Virginia Mountaineers football team\nThe 1972 West Virginia Mountaineers football team represented West Virginia University in the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. It was the Mountaineers' 80th overall season and they competed as an independent. The team was led by head coach Bobby Bowden, in his third year, and played their home games at Mountaineer Field in Morgantown, West Virginia. They finished the season with a record of 8\u20134 with a loss against NC State in the Peach Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094714-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 West Virginia gubernatorial election\nThe 1972 West Virginia gubernatorial election took place on November 7, 1972, to elect the governor of West Virginia. Incumbent governor Arch A. Moore, Jr. successfully ran for reelection to a second term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094714-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 West Virginia gubernatorial election\nBoth the primaries and general election were held in the aftermath of the Buffalo Creek flood and a movement to abolish strip mining in the state. Democratic nominee Jay Rockefeller campaigned on a proposal to abolish strip mining entirely if elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094715-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers football team\nThe 1972 Western Kentucky football team represented Western Kentucky University during the 1972 NCAA College Division football season. The team was led by head coach Jimmy Feix and finished second in the Ohio Valley Conference (OVC)after winning the conference championship the previous two years. The team roster included future National Football League (NFL) players Virgil Livers, John Bushong, Clarence \"Jazz\" Jackson, Brad Watson, and Mike McCoy. Andrew Francis, Jackson, McCoy, and Watson were selected to the All-OVC team. The coaching staff included future NFL coach Romeo Crennel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094716-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Western Michigan Broncos football team\nThe 1972 Western Michigan Broncos football team represented Western Michigan University in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) during the 1972 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their ninth season under head coach Bill Doolittle, the Broncos compiled a 7\u20133\u20131 record (2\u20132\u20131 against MAC opponents), finished in third place in the MAC, and outscored their opponents, 229 to 201. The team played its home games at Waldo Stadium in Kalamazoo, Michigan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094716-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Western Michigan Broncos football team\nThe team's statistical leaders included Steve Doolittle with 518 passing yards, Larry Cates with 660 rushing yards, and Bob Gavinski with 290 receiving yards. Defensive tackle Bernard Thomas and tight end Keith Pretty were the team captains. Linebacker Dominic Riggio received the team's most outstanding player award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094717-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Whitbread Awards\nThe Whitbread Awards (1971\u20132005), called Costa Book Awards since 2006, are literary awards in the United Kingdom, awarded both for high literary merit but also for works considered enjoyable reading. This page gives details of the awards given in the year 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094718-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Wichita State Shockers football team\nThe 1972 Wichita Shockers football team was an American football team that represented Wichita State University as a member of the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. In its third season under head coach Bob Seaman, the team compiled a 6\u20135 record (2\u20134 against conference opponents), finished in sixth place out of eight teams in the MVC and was outscored by a total of 228 to 156. The team played its home games at Cessna Stadium in Wichita, Kansas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094718-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Wichita State Shockers football team\nThe 1972 season was the Shockers' first with a winning record since 1963. In the seven prior seasons, the program had compiled an 11\u201357 record and sustained tragedy in the 1970 Wichita State University football team plane crash.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094718-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Wichita State Shockers football team\nThe team's statistical leaders included Tom Owen with 689 passing yards, Don Gilley with 446 rushing yards, Eddie Plopa with 269 receiving yards, and Don Burford and Don Gilley with 24 points each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094719-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Wightman Cup\nThe 1972 Wightman Cup was the 44th edition of the annual women's team tennis competition between the United States and Great Britain. It was held at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London in England in the United Kingdom. A women's tennis pioneer, Edythe Ann (Sullivan) McGoldrick, led the U.S. Wightman Cup tennis team as captain in the cup's 50th year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094720-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 William & Mary Indians football team\nThe 1972 William & Mary Indians football team represented the College of William & Mary as a member of the Southern Conference (SoCon) during the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. Led by Jim Root in his first year as head coach, William & Mary finished the season 5\u20136 overall and 4\u20132 in SoCon play to place third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094721-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Wimbledon Championships\nThe 1972 Wimbledon Championships was a tennis tournament that took place on the outdoor grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The tournament was scheduled to be held from Monday 26 June until Saturday 8 July 1972 but rain on the final Saturday meant that the men's singles, women's doubles and mixed doubles finals were played on Sunday 9 July. It was the first time in the tournament's history that finals were played on a Sunday. It was the 86th staging of the Wimbledon Championships, and the third Grand Slam tennis event of 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 624]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094721-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Wimbledon Championships\nDue to the International Lawn Tennis Federation (ILTF) ban on World Championship Tennis (WCT) contract players competing in their tournaments, the reigning men's singles champion John Newcombe was prevented from defending his title. Other players banned from competing included Rod Laver, Ken Rosewall and Arthur Ashe among others. Stan Smith and Billie Jean King won the singles titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094721-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Wimbledon Championships, Prize money\nThe total prize money for the 1972 championships was \u00a350,330. The winner of the men's title earned \u00a35,000 while the women's singles champion earned \u00a32,400.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094721-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Wimbledon Championships, Champions, Seniors, Men's Singles\nStan Smith defeated Ilie N\u0103stase, 4\u20136, 6\u20133, 6\u20133, 4\u20136, 7\u20135", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 63], "content_span": [64, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094721-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Wimbledon Championships, Champions, Seniors, Men's Doubles\nBob Hewitt / Frew McMillan defeated Stan Smith / Erik van Dillen, 6\u20132, 6\u20132, 9\u20137", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 63], "content_span": [64, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094721-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Wimbledon Championships, Champions, Seniors, Women's Doubles\nBillie Jean King / Betty St\u00f6ve defeated Fran\u00e7oise D\u00fcrr / Judy Dalton, 6\u20132, 4\u20136, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 65], "content_span": [66, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094721-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Wimbledon Championships, Champions, Seniors, Mixed Doubles\nIlie N\u0103stase / Rosie Casals defeated Kim Warwick / Evonne Goolagong, 6\u20134, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 63], "content_span": [64, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094722-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Boys' Singles\nBj\u00f6rn Borg defeated Buster Mottram in the final, 6\u20133, 4\u20136, 7\u20135 to win the Boys' Singles tennis title at the 1972 Wimbledon Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094723-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Girls' Singles\nIlana Kloss defeated Glynis Coles in the final, 6\u20134, 4\u20136, 6\u20134 to win the Girls' Singles tennis title at the 1972 Wimbledon Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094724-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's Doubles\nRoy Emerson and Rod Laver were prevented from defending their title due to the International Lawn Tennis Federation ban on World Championship Tennis contract players competing in their tournaments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094724-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's Doubles\nBob Hewitt and Frew McMillan defeated Arthur Ashe and Dennis Ralston in the final, 4\u20136, 9\u20137, 6\u20138, 6\u20134, 6\u20134 to win the Gentlemen's Doubles title at the 1972 Wimbledon Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094724-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's Doubles, Seeds\nClick on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 51], "content_span": [52, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094725-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's Singles\nStan Smith defeated Ilie N\u0103stase in the final, 4\u20136, 6\u20133, 6\u20133, 4\u20136, 7\u20135 to win the Gentlemen's Singles tennis title at the 1972 Wimbledon Championships. It was his only Wimbledon singles title, and his second and final major singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094725-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's Singles\nDefending champion John Newcombe was prevented from defending his title due to the International Lawn Tennis Federation ban on World Championship Tennis-contracted players competing in its tournaments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094725-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's Singles, Seeds\nClick on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 51], "content_span": [52, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094726-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's Singles Qualifying\nPlayers who neither had high enough rankings nor received wild cards to enter the main draw of the annual Wimbledon Tennis Championships participated in a qualifying tournament held one week before the event. Two players withdrew from the main draw after qualifying had commenced, leading to the two highest ranked players who lost in the final qualifying round to be entered into the main draw as lucky losers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094727-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Mixed Doubles\nOwen Davidson and Billie Jean King were the defending champions, but Davidson did not compete. King partnered with Clark Graebner but lost in the semifinals to Ilie N\u0103stase and Rosie Casals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094727-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Mixed Doubles\nN\u0103stase and Casals defeated Kim Warwick and Evonne Goolagong in the final, 6\u20134, 6\u20134 to win the Mixed Doubles tennis title at the 1972 Wimbledon Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094727-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Mixed Doubles, Seeds\nClick on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 51], "content_span": [52, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094728-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Women's Doubles\nRosie Casals and Billie Jean King were the defending champions, but decided not to play together. Casals partnered with Virginia Wade but lost in the semifinals to Judy Dalton and Fran\u00e7oise D\u00fcrr.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094728-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Women's Doubles\nKing and her partner Betty St\u00f6ve defeated Dalton and D\u00fcrr in the final, 6\u20132, 4\u20136, 6\u20133 to win the Ladies' Doubles tennis title at the 1972 Wimbledon Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094728-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Women's Doubles, Seeds\nClick on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 53], "content_span": [54, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094729-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Women's Singles\nBillie Jean King defeated the defending champion Evonne Goolagong in the final, 6\u20133, 6\u20133 to win the Ladies' Singles tennis title at the 1972 Wimbledon Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094729-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Women's Singles, Seeds\nClick on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 53], "content_span": [54, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094730-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Women's Singles Qualifying\nPlayers who neither had high enough rankings nor received wild cards to enter the main draw of the annual Wimbledon Tennis Championships participated in a qualifying tournament held one week before the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094731-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Wings Tour Bus\nThe 1972 Wings Tour Bus or WNO 481 is a Bristol double-decker bus built in 1953. Originally used in Essex and Norfolk, it was painted in psychedelic colours and was used by Paul McCartney's band Wings during their 1972 Wings Over Europe Tour in place of a conventional bus. After returning to service, it was subsequently repainted as it was during the tour and put on display outside a rock cafe in Tenerife in the early 1990s, ending up in a garden for many years before being transported back to the UK in 2017 for restoration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094731-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Wings Tour Bus, Service use\nThe double-decker bus has a Bristol Commercial Vehicles KSW5G chassis, with a body from Eastern Coach Works. It was built in 1953, registered with the DVLA in November 1953, and originally had a closed upper deck.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094731-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Wings Tour Bus, Service use\nIt was originally used in Essex and Norfolk in the 1950s\u201360s for local bus routes. It entered service with Eastern National Omnibus Company in Chelmsford, and was painted plain green. In 1966 the upper deck roof was removed, turning it into an open top bus, and it was repainted cream with a green trim. In this form it was primarily used by Eastern National for regular service routes in seaside areas during the summer months.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094731-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Wings Tour Bus, Service use\nThe bus was sold to Eastern Counties Omnibus Company in 1968, with the green trim repainted maroon red. It was sold again to a dealer in July 1971, and was bought by Halls Coaches, painted red and grey, and used under the brand Valliant Silverline up until June 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094731-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Wings Tour Bus, Wings Tour bus\nRather than using a normal tour bus for the 1972 Wings Over Europe Tour, his first major tour after the break-up of the Beatles, McCartney bought the bus and painted it in psychedelic colours, with the tour name shown in a blue sky over snow-capped mountains, the band's logo above the windscreen, and the band members names stenciled on the back in the order Paul & Linda McCartney; Denny Laine; Henry McCullough; and Denny Seiwell. It was a similar idea to the Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour and Cliff Richard's Summer Holiday from the 1960s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094731-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Wings Tour Bus, Wings Tour bus\nThe seats on the top deck were removed, with mattresses and bean bags for the band and their families to lounge and sleep on (although the band stayed in hotels during the tour), and was also used as a playpen for their children while on the move. The downstairs was carpeted, with four original seats at the front, bunk beds for the kids, and a fully-functioning kitchen in the rear, and there was a stereo. The McCartneys also had a double bed in the bus, which they tried to take into various hotels during the tour. The Wings logo on the rear was made of wood. It was designed by Tom Salter, of the Gear shop on Carnaby Street, with the work carried out in a London Transport garage in Staines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 734]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094731-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Wings Tour Bus, Wings Tour bus\n\"Quite a mad thing to do, to put a playpen on the top deck of the bus and put all the children in there. It's not what you'd expect from a normal band. But we weren't a normal band.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094731-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Wings Tour Bus, Wings Tour bus\nMcCartney wanted to have a good time during the tour, noting as the tour began that \"We never had time to do that in the Beatle days.\" In particular, he liked the idea of being out in the sun while traveling rather than stuck inside a vehicle in the heat of July and August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094731-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 Wings Tour Bus, Wings Tour bus\nThe bus visited 25 cities in 9 countries, for 25 concerts in July and August 1972, covering 7,500 miles (12,100\u00a0km). The concert locations were printed and displayed in the bus's spinning destination indicator. The bus had a top speed of 38 miles per hour (61\u00a0km/h), making it, in the view of author Howard Sounes, \"no doubt huge fun ... [ but] a slow and inefficient way to navigate the continent.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094731-0008-0001", "contents": "1972 Wings Tour Bus, Wings Tour bus\nWings member Seiwell later recalled cars zipping by them on European motorways and said of the bus, \"It was quite nice, but it didn't make a lot of sense.\" The bus traveled in convoy with a crew tour bus. Whenever it looked like the buses would not arrive at the venue on time for a concert, a convoy of other vehicles would be sent from the venue to collect them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094731-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 Wings Tour Bus, Wings Tour bus\nDuring the tour, the band and McCartneys stayed in luxury hotels rather than in the bus (with hotel extras costing the band most of their wages during the tour). Most of the adults on the bus also smoked cannabis, but rather than storing the drugs on the bus and risking taking them through customs they were regularly posted from England, which caused problems during the tour as the Swedish police discovered the scheme. This prevented the tour from going on to the USA and Japan, and it concluded in Berlin on 24 August 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094731-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 Wings Tour Bus, Later history\nThe bus subsequently re-entered service. Halls Coaches was bought by Tricentrol around August 1973, and the bus was repainted mustard gold and moved to Dunstable. It was scheduled to be scrapped in 1982, when Roger White from St Albans purchased it for \u00a33,000, and repainted it as it had been during the Wings tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094731-0010-0001", "contents": "1972 Wings Tour Bus, Later history\nIn 1989 it was repainted red and white, and was used in the BAFTA Great British London-Cannes Film Rally in May 1989, and the Southend Bus Rally in 1989, before being repainted with the Wings livery for the third time (and the last time it was repainted) for the Beatles Amsterdam Convention in April 1993.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094731-0011-0000", "contents": "1972 Wings Tour Bus, Later history\nIn August 1993, the bus was put up for auction, with the Wings livery. Its value was estimated as \u00a325,000\u2013\u00a330,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094731-0012-0000", "contents": "1972 Wings Tour Bus, Later history\nThe bus was displayed outside of a rock cafe in Tenerife, however it blocked light from the cafe, and it was moved to the cafe owner's garden in La Caldera del Rey, Adeje, where it was left to decay. It was spotted there by Justin James in 2007, who bought it even though he did not know what he would do with it. Moving the bus to Oxfordshire in the UK took eight years, partly due to the difficulty in removing it from the garden, which required using cranes. In October 2017 it was loaded onto the Monte Alegre for transport from Algeciras to Felixstowe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094731-0013-0000", "contents": "1972 Wings Tour Bus, Later history\nIn 2017, McCartney tweeted to say that he had heard it was back in the UK, and to ask its whereabouts, with a reply from James that it was in Oxfordshire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094731-0014-0000", "contents": "1972 Wings Tour Bus, Later history\nIn 2019 it was put up for auction in Merseyside by Omega Auctions, as part of a Beatles-themed auction, with an estimated selling price of \u00a315,000\u2013\u00a325,000. This was because James's plans to use it for musical children's tours did not work out, and he was emigrating to Australia. He estimated that he had spent around \u00a325,000 on the bus at that point, and said that any profit would go to the charity he was a trustee of, Arms Around the Child. The bus was auctioned with the owner's paperwork, but without an MOT. However, no bids were received and the bus went unsold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 605]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094731-0015-0000", "contents": "1972 Wings Tour Bus, Later history\nIt was subsequently bought by Tom Jennings who set up the 1972 Wings Tour Bus Supporters Club, who fundraised for its restoration. The bus is now being restored in Bristol. A digital 3D model of the bus exists. Although some museums expressed interest in having it as an exhibition, Jennings intends that it would be used on the road again after restoration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094732-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Winston 500\nThe 1972 Winston 500 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series race on May 7, 1972, at Alabama International Motor Speedway in Talladega, Alabama.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094732-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Winston 500, Background\nTalladega Superspeedway, originally known as Alabama International Motor Superspeedway (AIMS), is a motorsports complex located north of Talladega, Alabama. It is located on the former Anniston Air Force Base in the small city of Lincoln. The track is a Tri-oval and was constructed by International Speedway Corporation, a business controlled by the France Family, in the 1960s. Talladega is most known for its steep banking and the unique location of the start/finish line - located just past the exit to pit road. The track currently hosts the NASCAR series such as the Monster Energy Cup Series, Xfinity Series, and the Camping World Truck Series. Talladega Superspeedway is the longest NASCAR oval with a length of 2.66 miles (4.28\u00a0km), and the track at its peak had a seating capacity of 175,000 spectators.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 842]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094732-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Winston 500, Race report\nThe grand marshal for the event was Auburn football head coach, Ralph \"Shug\" Jordan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094732-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Winston 500, Race report\nThere were fifty drivers on the grid. It took three hours and forty-five minutes for 188 laps of racing. There were nine cautions for 62 laps with 53 lead changes. David Pearson defeated Bobby Isaac by almost five seconds. More than 71000 people would see 500.1 miles or 804.8 kilometres of racing action with an average speed of 134.4 miles per hour (216.3\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094732-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Winston 500, Race report\nBobby Isaac would win the pole position at 192.498 miles per hour (309.796\u00a0km/h) during qualifying. There were many mechanical failures in the race including the rear end failures and an incident involving a windshield. Marty Robbins, who was also a country music star, dropped out of the race after 179 laps; after his top speed proved to be substantially faster than that he achieved in qualifying and being in position to pass the leaders, he confessed to altering his restrictor plate and was disqualified and listed as finishing in last place, declining Rookie of the Race honors. Other notable drivers were: Richard Petty, LeeRoy Yarbrough, Elmo Langley, Coo Coo Marlin, and Neil Castles. Darrell Waltrip would make his NASCAR debut in this race and finish in 38th after starting 25th. Clarence Lovell would also make his introduction to NASCAR during this race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 899]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094732-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Winston 500, Race report\nHad Bobby Allison not had this one bad finish here at Talladega, he would've had 20 top-10 finishes in a row. The only thing is, his cars had engine problems in the long races. All three engine failures occurred at the 500-mile races of Rockingham, Talladega, and Dover. Even when his engines were being strained at the long races, he still did well, getting top-5 finishes at most of the 500+ mile races that season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094732-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Winston 500, Race report\nNotable crew chiefs for this race were Jake Elder, Steven Gray, Harry Hyde, Dale Inman, Tom Vandiver and Herb Nab. Inman, Hyde, and Wood would help maintain the vehicles for the winner, the runner-up, and the fifth-place finisher of this race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094732-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Winston 500, Race report\nJames Hylton would lose his points lead to Richard Petty after this race. The winner of the race would receive $23,745 in total winnings ($145,134 when adjusted for inflation) while the last-place finisher won $745 for a disqualification ($4,554 when adjusted for inflation).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094733-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Winter Olympics\nThe 1972 Winter Olympics, officially the XI Olympic Winter Games (Japanese: \u7b2c11\u56de\u30aa\u30ea\u30f3\u30d4\u30c3\u30af\u51ac\u5b63\u7af6\u6280\u5927\u4f1a, Hepburn: Dai J\u016bichi-kai Orinpikku T\u014dkiky\u014dgi Taikai) and commonly known as Sapporo 1972 (Japanese: \u672d\u5e4c1972), was a winter multi-sport event held from February 3 to February 13, 1972, in Sapporo, Hokkaid\u014d, Japan. It was the first Winter Olympic Games to take place outside Europe and North America.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094733-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Winter Olympics, Host city selection\nSapporo first won the rights to host the 1940 Winter Olympics, but Japan resigned as the Games' host after its 1937 invasion of China. The 1940 Games were later cancelled. All the cities awarded Games that were cancelled due to war have since hosted the Games (London, Tokyo, Helsinki, Sapporo and Cortina d'Ampezzo).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094733-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Winter Olympics, Host city selection\nSapporo competed with Banff, Lahti, and Salt Lake City. The Games were awarded at the 64th IOC Session in Rome, Italy, on April 26, 1966.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094733-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Winter Olympics, Host city selection\nIn preparation, the Japanese constructed new largescale facilities at Sapporo and conducted a trial run a full year in advance of the Games. An international sport week was held in February, 1971, to assess the city's preparations as well as \"to test its civic mettle and hospitality\", and this effort was acclaimed by Olympic observers as \"a complete success\". The development of new infrastructure proved to be a huge boon for the Sapporo economy: by the time of the Games, the national government had invested some US$500 million in upgrades, including a new subway. The Games' organizers themselves turned a healthy profit in part because they arranged a record $8.47\u00a0million for broadcast rights.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 743]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094733-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Winter Olympics, Venues\n1 New facilities constructed in preparation for the Olympic Games. 2 Existing facilities modified or refurbished in preparation for the Olympic Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 28], "content_span": [29, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094733-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Winter Olympics, Sports\nThere were 35 events contested in 6 sports (10 disciplines).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 28], "content_span": [29, 89]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094733-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Winter Olympics, Participating nations\n35 nations participated in the 1972 Winter Olympics. The Republic of China (commonly known as Taiwan) and the Philippines participated in their first Winter Olympic Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 43], "content_span": [44, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094733-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Winter Olympics, Medal count\nThese are the top eleven nations that won medals at these Games. The host nation Japan finished 11th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094734-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Winter Olympics medal table\nThe 1972 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XI Olympic Winter Games, was a winter multi-sport event held in Sapporo, Japan, from 3 to 13 February 1972. A total of 1,006 athletes representing 35 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated in 35 events from 10 different sports and disciplines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094734-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Winter Olympics medal table\nSeventeen NOCs won at least one medal and fourteen of them collected at least one gold. The Soviet Union finished at the top of the gold and overall medal counts with 8 and 16, respectively. Along with Norway, the Soviet team also won the most silver medals (5). East Germany, which ended the Games behind the Soviet Union with 14 medals, secured the most bronzes (7). The host nation, Japan, won a record total of three medals (one of each color), which included its first Winter Olympics gold medal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094734-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Winter Olympics medal table\nThree NOCs won a single medal: Canada (silver), Poland and Spain (gold). For the last two, these were their first-ever gold medals at the Winter Olympics, and in the case of Spain, it was its first medal. This was Canada's weakest result since the 1936 Winter Olympics, when its athletes also brought home a single silver medal. The NOCs from the Republic of China and the Philippines sent athletes to the Winter Olympics for the first time, but failed to win any medals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094734-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Winter Olympics medal table, Highlights\nHosting the Olympic Winter Games for the first time, Japan's record consisted of a single medal: a silver in alpine skiing at the 1956 Winter Olympics. In Sapporo, Yukio Kasaya, Akitsugu Konno, and Seiji Aochi won the ski jumping normal hill (70\u00a0m) gold, silver, and bronze medal, respectively. Kasaya's gold was Japan's first-ever at the Winter Games. This result would persist as the country's best for the next 20 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094734-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Winter Olympics medal table, Highlights\nWojciech Fortuna of Poland won the ski jumping's large hill (90\u00a0m) event, while Spain's Francisco Fern\u00e1ndez Ochoa prevailed in the alpine skiing's men's slalom, thus becoming their respective countries' first Winter Olympic champions. Ochoa's gold medal was also Spain's first medal at the Winter Games. Karen Magnussen's silver in the figure skating singles competition was Canada's sole medal and reflected what was the NOC's weakest performance since the 1936 Winter Games. For the first time in its history, a delegation from Finland concluded its participation at the Winter Olympics without gold medals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 654]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094734-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Winter Olympics medal table, Highlights\nSix Soviet Union medals were won by two cross-country skiers: Galina Kulakova, who took gold in both women's individual distances and in the relay event; and Vyacheslav Vedenin, who won the 30\u00a0km\u2014becoming the first Soviet skier to win an individual Olympic title\u2014and the relay events, and came third in the 50\u00a0km. East German lugers won eight medals for their NOC by taking every medal in the men's and women's singles, and placing two teams in the top three of the doubles event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094734-0005-0001", "contents": "1972 Winter Olympics medal table, Highlights\nPaul Hildgartner and Walter Plaikner of Italy were the only non-East German athletes to win a luge medal, as they shared the doubles gold with Horst H\u00f6rnlein and Reinhard Bredow. Italy's other gold medal was won by Gustav Th\u00f6ni in the men's giant slalom; he also took silver in the men's slalom, thus contributing two of his country's five medals. Marie-Theres Nadig skied her way to victory in the women's downhill and giant slalom events, winning half of Switzerland's gold medals and helping her country achieve its best result at that time. Two-time world figure skating champion Ondrej Nepela added the Olympic men's singles title to his career and guaranteed Czechoslovakia's second and last gold medal in its Winter Olympics history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 785]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094734-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Winter Olympics medal table, Highlights\nHalf of the United States' eight medals were obtained in women's speed skating: Anne Henning won a gold in the 500\u00a0m and a bronze in the 1000\u00a0m, while Dianne Holum grabbed a gold in the 1500\u00a0m and a silver in the 3000\u00a0m. Also in this discipline, Ard Schenk (three golds), Stien Baas-Kaiser (one gold and one silver), Atje Keulen-Deelstra (one silver and two bronzes), and Kees Verkerk (one silver) were responsible for all nine medals for the Netherlands. This was the best performance by a Dutch delegation at the Winter Olympics, and it took 26 years to be improved, when the Games returned to Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 648]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094734-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Winter Olympics medal table, Medal table\nThe medal table is based on information provided by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and is consistent with IOC convention in its published medal tables. By default, the table is ordered by the number of gold medals won by an NOC. The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals. If nations are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 45], "content_span": [46, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094734-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 Winter Olympics medal table, Medal table\nIn the doubles event in luge, two gold medals were awarded for a first place tie and, consequently, no silver medal was awarded. This explains the 36 gold and 34 silver medals distributed during the Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 45], "content_span": [46, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094735-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Winter Universiade\nThe 1972 Winter Universiade, the VII Winter Universiade, took place in Lake Placid, New York, United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094736-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Wisconsin Badgers football team\nThe 1972 Wisconsin Badgers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison in the 1972 Big Ten Conference football season. In their third year under head coach John Jardine, the Badgers compiled a 4\u20137 record (2\u20136 against conference opponents) and finished in ninth place in the Big Ten Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094736-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Wisconsin Badgers football team\nRufus Ferguson led the team with 1,004 rushing yards, was selected as the team's most valuable player, and was chosen by the Associated Press (AP) as a first-team running back, and by the United Press International (UPI) as a second-team running back, on the 1972 All-Big Ten Conference football team. Three other Wisconsin players received All-Big Ten honors: center Mike Webster (UPI-2); offensive guard Keith Nosbusch (AP-2, UPI-2); linebacker Dave Lokanc (AP-1, UPI-2).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094736-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Wisconsin Badgers football team, Players in the 1973 NFL Draft\nThe following Wisconsin players were selected in the 1973 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 67], "content_span": [68, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094737-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Women's British Open Squash Championship\nThe 1972 Women's Open Squash Championships was held at the BP Club in Lower Sydenham, London from 4\u20139 March 1972.Heather McKay (n\u00e9e Blundell) won her eleventh consecutive title defeating Kathy Malan in the final. This surpassed the previous record of ten wins set by Janet Morgan from 1950 through to 1959.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094738-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Women's College World Series\nThe 1972 Women's College World Series (WCWS) was contested among 16 college softball teams on May 18\u201321 in Omaha, Nebraska. This fourth WCWS was notable for the only appearance of a team from outside the United States, as the team from Tokyo\u2013Nihon University of Japan proved to be a hit with both spectators and the other teams in the tournament. Three-time defending champion John F. Kennedy College was excluded from the tournament by an organizational rule change the previous month. The new rule prohibited a team from appearing in the WCWS if it gave scholarships to any women athletes, not just softball players (JFK College openly awarded women's basketball scholarships). JFK never returned to the WCWS, and the school closed just three years later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 792]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094738-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Women's College World Series, Teams\nThe Arizona State Sun Devilettes defeated Tokyo\u2013Nihon narrowly in the winners' bracket semi-final, 2\u20131, and split the tournament final, 0\u20131 and 8\u20135, with the if-necessary game requiring 11 innings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094739-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Women's Grand Prix (tennis)\nThe 1972 Commercial Union Assurance Grand Prix was a tennis circuit administered by the International Lawn Tennis Federation which served as a forerunner to the current Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) World Tour and the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) Tour. The circuit consisted of the four modern Grand Slam tournaments and open tournaments recognised by the ILTF. This article covers all tournaments that were part of that year's Women's Grand Prix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094739-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Women's Grand Prix (tennis), Standings, Statistical Information\nThe list of winners and number of titles won, last name alphabetically:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 68], "content_span": [69, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094740-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Women's Tennis Circuit\nThe 1972 Women's Tennis Circuit was composed of the second annual Virginia Slims Circuit, a tour of tennis tournaments for female tennis players, sponsored by Virginia Slims cigarettes and the Commercial Union Assurance Grand Prix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094740-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Women's Tennis Circuit, Schedule\nThis is a calendar of all events sponsored by Virginia Slims in the year 1972, with player progression documented from the quarterfinals stage. The table also includes the Grand Slam tournaments, the 1972 Virginia Slims Championships and the 1972 Federation Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094740-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Women's Tennis Circuit, Statistical information\nThese tables present the number of singles (S), doubles (D), and mixed doubles (X) titles won by each player and each nation during the 1972 Virginia Slims Circuit. They also include data for the Grand Slam tournaments and the year-end championships. The table is sorted by:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094740-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Women's Tennis Circuit, Statistical information\n1) total number of titles (a doubles title won by two players representing the same nation counts as only one win for the nation);2) highest amount of highest category tournaments (for example, having a single Grand Slam gives preference over any kind of combination without a Grand Slam title);3) a singles > doubles > mixed doubles hierarchy;4) alphabetical order (by family names for players).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094741-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 World 600\nThe 1972 World 600, the 13th running of the event, was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series racing event that was held on May 28, 1972, at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina. Wendell Scott was promised a good car, what he actually got was a hunk of junk. In practice, the car was 9 miles per hour off the pace; this led to jeers from his fellow drivers that he just could not drive the best level of equipment that was available at the time. Bobby Allison climbed in the car afterward and went the same speed while Wendell did the best he could with it until the engine grenaded. This resulted in Wendell obtaining a result of 22nd place DNF on lap 283.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 676]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094741-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 World 600\nSouth Carolina's blue laws were in full force during the era of the race. The pace car driver was Robert \"Bob\" Colvin who nearly got arrested for violating the \"blue laws\" before he found out that they were for someone else's bad checks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094741-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 World 600\nIn addition to watching the event live, NASCAR followers who either lived or visited the Concord, North Carolina region could listen to it on their transistor radios.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094741-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 World 600, Race report\nIt took four hours and thirteen minutes to race 400 spanning 1.500 miles (2.414\u00a0km) per lap. Amateur home video helped capture the most important 49\u00a0minutes of this event. Three cautions were waved for 24 laps. More than 80,000 spectators would see Buddy Baker defeat Bobby Allison by 24\u00a0seconds at speeds averaging 142.555 miles per hour or 229.420 kilometres per hour. The pole position speed would be 158.162 miles per hour or 254.537 kilometres per hour. Jim Vandiver would become the last-place finisher due to a transmission problem on lap 11.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094741-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 World 600, Race report\nJames Hylton became the lowest-finishing driver to finish this race. Richard Petty would suffer an engine problem. His first win from the World 600 (now Coca-Cola 600) series of racing events would come in 1975. Larry Smith, who would go on to become NASCAR's Rookie of the Year, finished sixth in this race. A Rookie of the Year from 1957, Ken Rush, would make his final NASCAR Cup Series appearance in this event. He would make a 29th-place finish out of a 31st place start.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094741-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 World 600, Race report\nOut of the 40-car grid, all except Formula 1 driver Jackie Oliver were born in the United States. Oliver was born in Walton-on-Thames, England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094741-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 World 600, Race report\nNotable crew chiefs included Harry Hyde, Dale Inman, Tom Vandiver, Darrell Bryant, and Lee Gordon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094741-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 World 600, Finishing order\n* Driver failed to finish race \u2020 signifies that the driver is known to be deceased", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 31], "content_span": [32, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094742-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 World Allround Speed Skating Championships\nThe World Allround Speed Skating Championships for Men took place on 19 and 20 February 1972 in Oslo at the Bislett stadion ice rink.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094742-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 World Allround Speed Skating Championships\nThe title holder and winner was Ard Schenk who prolonged his title to become the third speed skater to win the world allround title three times in a row, equaling the performances of Oscar Mathisen and Hjalmar Andersen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094743-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 World Allround Speed Skating Championships for women\nThe 33rd edition of the World Allround Speed Skating Championships took place on 4 and 5 March in Heerenveen at the Thialf ice rink.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094744-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 World Amateur Snooker Championship\nThe 1972 World Amateur Snooker Championship was the fifth edition of the tournament that later became known as the IBSF World Snooker Championship. The 1972 tournament was played in venues in Wales from 4 to 20 January 1973. Ray Edmonds defeated Mannie Francisco 11\u201310 in the final to win the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094744-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 World Amateur Snooker Championship, Tournament summary\nThe first World Amateur Snooker Championship was held in 1963. Jonathan Barron, who won the title in 1970, was the defending champion for 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094744-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 World Amateur Snooker Championship, Tournament summary\nThe tournament was held at venues in Wrexham, Cardiff, and Aberdare from 4 to 20 January 1973. There were four round-robin groups, with the top two players from each group progressing to a second round-robin stage. The top two players from the second-stage groups progressed to the knockout stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094744-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 World Amateur Snooker Championship, Tournament summary\nRay Edmonds defeated Mannie Francisco 11\u201310 in the final to win the title. The final was held on 19 and 20 January, at Sophia Gardens Pavillion, Cardiff. Edmonds was 1\u20136 behind at the end of the first day's play, but won five of the seven frames in the afternoon session on 20 January to reduce his deficit to two frames at 6\u20138. Franscico won the first frame of the third session to lead 9\u20136, before Edmonds levelled the match at 9\u20139. Edmonds took the lead at 10\u20139, but Francisco forced a deciding frame by winning the twentieth frame. Edmonds won the last frame to claim victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 640]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094744-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 World Amateur Snooker Championship, Tournament summary\nEdmonds made the highest break of the tournament, 101, during the first group stage; and the highest break of the final, 40.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094744-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 World Amateur Snooker Championship, Qualifying groups\nThe final tables are shown below. Players in bold qualified for the next round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 58], "content_span": [59, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094745-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 World Championship Tennis Finals\nThe 1972 World Championship Tennis Finals was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts. It was the 2nd edition of the WCT Finals and was the season-ending tournament of the 1972 World Championship Tennis circuit. The top eight points winners of the circuit qualified for the tournament which was played at the Moody Coliseum in Dallas, Texas in the United States and ran from May 8 through May 14, 1972. Ken Rosewall won the singles title and the $50,000 first prize.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094745-0000-0001", "contents": "1972 World Championship Tennis Finals\nThe final was broadcast live in the United States by NBC and watched by an estimated 21.3 million viewers. In his book, The Education of a Tennis Player, finalist Rod Laver commented \"I think if one match can be said to have made tennis in the United States, this was it. \".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094745-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 World Championship Tennis Finals, Final, Singles\nKen Rosewall defeated Rod Laver 4\u20136, 6\u20130, 6\u20133, 6\u20137(3\u20137), 7\u20136(7\u20135)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094746-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 World Championship Tennis Finals \u2013 Singles\nIn the 1972 World Championship Tennis Finals - Singles, Ken Rosewall was the defending champion, having previously won the tennis competition, and won in the final 4\u20136, 6\u20130, 6\u20133, 6\u20137(3\u20137), 7\u20136(7\u20135) against Rod Laver. Of particular note, the final is credited as the \"match that made tennis in the United States\" because its unprecedented domestic television audience of 23 million fueled a massive increase in the sport's popularity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094746-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 World Championship Tennis Finals \u2013 Singles, Seeds\nA champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 54], "content_span": [55, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094747-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 World Championship Tennis Winter Finals\nThe 1972 World Championship Tennis Winter Finals was a tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts. It was the 1st edition of the WCT Winter Finals and was part of the 1972 World Championship Tennis circuit. It was played in the EUR district of Rome in Italy and began on November 26, 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094747-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 World Championship Tennis Winter Finals, Champions, Men's Singles\nArthur Ashe defeated Robert Lutz 6\u20132, 3\u20136, 6\u20133, 3\u20136, 7\u20136", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094748-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 World Championship Tennis Winter Finals \u2013 Singles\nArthur Ashe won in the final of the 1972 World Championship Tennis Winter Finals 6\u20132, 3\u20136, 6\u20133, 3\u20136, 7\u20136 against Robert Lutz.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094748-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 World Championship Tennis Winter Finals \u2013 Singles, Seeds\nA champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 61], "content_span": [62, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094749-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 World Championship Tennis circuit\nThe 1972 World Championship Tennis circuit was one of the two rival professional male tennis circuits of 1972. It was organized by World Championship Tennis (WCT). The circuit included twenty-three regular events, and two circuit finals, one taking place in May, counting for the second half of the 1971 season, and the first part of the 1972 season, and a smaller one taking place in November, counting for the second half of the 1972 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094749-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 World Championship Tennis circuit, Schedule\nThis is the complete schedule of events on the 1972 WCT circuit, with player progression documented until the quarterfinals stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094749-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 World Championship Tennis circuit, Statistical information\nThese tables present the number of singles (S), and doubles (D) titles won by each player and each nation during the season, within all the tournament categories of the 1972 WCT circuit: the WCT Finals, and the regular series tournaments. The players/nations are sorted by: 1) total number of titles (a doubles title won by two players representing the same nation counts as only one win for the nation); 2) importance of those titles (a WCT Finals win equalling two regular tournaments wins); 3) a singles > doubles hierarchy; 4) alphabetical order (by family names for players).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 63], "content_span": [64, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094749-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 World Championship Tennis circuit, Standings\nThese are the standings of the top twenty singles players on the WCT circuit, at the end of the 1971 World Championship Tennis circuit, and after each edition of the WCT Finals in the 1972 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094750-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 World Championship Victory Race\nThe 2nd World Championship Victory Race, formally the John Player Challenge Trophy, was a motor race, run to Formula One rules, held on 22 October 1972 at Brands Hatch, Kent. The race was run over 40 laps of the circuit. Jean-Pierre Beltoise won in his BRM P180. The entry included several Formula 5000 cars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094751-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 World Cup (men's golf)\nThe 1972 World Cup took place 9\u201312 November at Royal Melbourne Golf Club in Melbourne, Australia. It was the 20th World Cup event. The tournament was a stroke play team event, shortened from 72 holes, after the second round, scheduled on Friday, was cancelled due to bad weather, to 54 holes with 43 teams. Each team consisted of two players from a country. The combined score of each team determined the team results. The Republic of China team of Hsieh Min-Nan and Lu Liang-Huan won by two strokes over the Japan team of Takaaki Kono and Takashi Murakami. The individual competition was won by Hsieh two strokes ahead of Kono. This was the first team victory for the Republic of China, also known as Taiwan, in the history of the World Cup, founded in 1953 and until 1967 named the Canada Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 823]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094752-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 World Field Archery Championships\nThe 1972 World Field Archery Championships were held in Gorizia, Italy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094753-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 World Figure Skating Championships\nThe 1972 World Figure Skating Championships were held at the Stampede Corral in Calgary, Canada from March 7 to 11. At the event, sanctioned by the International Skating Union, medals were awarded in men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094753-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 World Figure Skating Championships\nThe ISU Representative was John R. Shoemaker (United States) and the ISU Technical Delegates were Hermann Schiechtl (West Germany) and Donald H. Gilchrist (Canada).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094753-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 World Figure Skating Championships\nA day before the start of the competition, Irina Rodnina / Alexei Ulanov had an accident on a lift; she was hospitalized with a concussion and an intracranial hematoma but went on to compete and win the gold medal. It was Rodnina/Ulanov's final competition together; he would team up with the silver medalist, Lyudmila Smirnova.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094754-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 World Karate Championships\nThe 1972 World Karate Championships are the 2nd edition of the World Karate Championships, and were held in Stade Pierre de Coubertin, Paris, France on April 21 and April 22, 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094755-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 World Orienteering Championships\nThe 4th World Orienteering Championships were held in Star\u00e9 Splavy, Czechoslovakia, 14\u201316 September 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094755-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 World Orienteering Championships\nThe championships had four events; individual contests for men and women, and relays for men and women.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094756-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 World Outdoor Bowls Championship\nThe 1972 Men's World Outdoor Bowls Championship was held at Beach House Park in Worthing, England, from 5\u201317 June 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094756-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 World Outdoor Bowls Championship\nMaldwyn Evans won the singles which was held in a round robin format. The Pairs Gold was won by Hong Kong, the Triples Gold by the United States and the Fours Gold went to England. Scotland lifted the Leonard Trophy with just one point more than South Africa and the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094757-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 World Series\nThe 1972 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1972 season. The 69th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff between the American League champion Oakland Athletics and the National League champion Cincinnati Reds. The Athletics won in seven games. It was the first World Series championship for the Athletics since 1930.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094757-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 World Series\nThese two teams met again in the World Series 18 years later in 1990. Their managers would meet again in the Fall Classic 12 years later in 1984, helming different teams and swapping leagues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094757-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 World Series, Background\nThe A's won the American League West division by 5\u00bd games over the Chicago White Sox, then defeated the Detroit Tigers three games to two in the American League Championship Series. The Cincinnati Reds won the National League West division by 10+1\u20442 games over both the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Houston Astros. The Reds dethroned the defending World Series champion Pittsburgh Pirates three games to two in the National League Championship Series, marking the first year in which an LCS series in either league went the full five games since divisional play was introduced in 1969.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094757-0002-0001", "contents": "1972 World Series, Background\nThe Reds [95\u201359 (.617)] won one fewer game than the Pirates [96\u201359 (.619)] during the strike-reduced regular season and became the first team in MLB history to reach the World Series without having the best record in its respective league. In each of the first six League Championship Series, the team with the better record advanced to the World Series. (The A's (93\u201362 (.600)) had the best record in the American League in 1972, but the AL pennant winner the next three seasons did not.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094757-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 World Series, Background\nThis was Cincinnati's second trip to the World Series in three years, previously falling to Baltimore in five games in 1970. It was Oakland's first-ever trip to the Series, and the first for the franchise since 1931, when the team was located in Philadelphia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094757-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 World Series, Background\nThis was a matchup of the two premier MLB dynasties of the 1970s, with the Reds winning two World Series (1975\u201376) in four WS appearances, while the A's won three straight (1972\u201374). Iconoclastic club owner Charlie Finley's \"Swingin' A's\" featured day-glo uniforms, white shoes, much facial hair, colorful nicknames, and explosive personalities, while \"The Big Red Machine\" was a more traditional franchise with a more traditional look (including a facial-hair ban)\u2014and an everyday lineup with three future Hall of Famers as well as all-time hits king, Pete Rose. The Series was dubbed \"The Hairs vs. the Squares.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094757-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 World Series, Background\nOakland played the Series without its star outfielder Reggie Jackson, who was injured (pulled hamstring) stealing home in the second inning of the final game of the ALCS at Detroit on October 12. Left-handed reliever Darold Knowles was also missing for the A's, breaking his thumb on September 27, less than three weeks before the Series opener.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094757-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 World Series, Background\nWith Jackson out, the Athletics were decided underdogs. George Hendrick was inserted into center field for Jackson. And while Hendrick only went 2-for-15 (.133 avg. ), unheralded catcher Gene Tenace stepped up. Tenace had a poor regular season, hitting only .225 with five home runs. He was even worse in the AL Championship series against Detroit, going 1 for 17 (.059), although his one hit drove in the go-ahead run in Game 5. In the World Series however, Tenace was spectacular, hitting four home runs equaling the World Series mark set by Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Hank Bauer. He also had nine RBI in the Series\u2014no other Oakland player had more than one. Tenace was voted World Series MVP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 725]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094757-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 World Series, Background\nBy contrast, the stellar Oakland pitching kept the middle of the Reds lineup quiet for most of the series. Johnny Bench (.270 avg., 40 HR, 125 RBI, NL MVP), Tony P\u00e9rez (.283 avg., 21 HR, 90 RBI), and Denis Menke (9 HR, 50 RBI), combined for only two homers and five RBI the entire Series. Perez did lead both teams with 10 hits and a .435 batting average, but all 10 hits were singles. It didn't help that the Reds' \"table-setters,\" Pete Rose and Joe Morgan were a combined 1 for 28 through the first four games, when the Reds lost three of those games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094757-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 World Series, Background\nThe teams were fairly equal statistically, each club totaling 46 hits with the same .209 batting average (the combined batting averages were the lowest recorded in a 7-game World Series). The Reds outscored the A's by five runs, 21\u201316, but all four of their losses were by a single run. Six of the seven games in the series were decided by one run, marking perhaps the most closely contested World Series in history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094757-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 World Series, Matchups, Game 1\nOakland jumped out to a one-game series lead behind catcher Gene Tenace, who hit a home run in each of his first two at-bats. Tenace became the first player ever to homer in his two initial Series plate appearances, a feat later matched by Andruw Jones of the Atlanta Braves in 1996. Only two Oakland players collected hits, a pair each from Tenace and Bert Campaneris. The A's received a combined four innings of shutout relief from Rollie Fingers and Vida Blue to secure the victory for starter Ken Holtzman. Blue stranded the potential tying run at third base to end the game by inducing Pete Rose to ground out to second base.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 666]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094757-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 World Series, Matchups, Game 2\nThe Game 2 hero was A's left fielder Joe Rudi, who smacked a home run and added a sparkling, game-saving catch up against the wall in the ninth inning on a ball hit by Denis Menke. Catfish Hunter pitched eight strong innings, consistently wiggling out of trouble, and also added an RBI single in the second off Ross Grimsley. The Reds' failure to produce in the clutch was as much the story as Rudi's heroics as Cincinnati had leadoff baserunners in five innings but only scored a run in the ninth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094757-0011-0000", "contents": "1972 World Series, Matchups, Game 2\nIn the ninth, Tony P\u00e9rez led off with a base hit before Rudi's catch of Menke's drive for the first out. Oakland first baseman Mike Hegan then made another great defensive play when C\u00e9sar Ger\u00f3nimo, the next Reds hitter, lined a shot that appeared headed down the line for extra bases. Hegan dove for the ball, knocked it down, and dove for the bag, barely beating Geronimo. P\u00e9rez took second and scored on a Hal McRae single through the middle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094757-0011-0001", "contents": "1972 World Series, Matchups, Game 2\nRollie Fingers then relieved Hunter and induced pinch hitter Juli\u00e1n Javier to pop out to Hegan in foul territory to end the game. The World Series home loss was Reds' seventh-straight, which included three in the 1961 World Series against the New York Yankees (at Crosley Field) and two in the 1970 World Series against the Baltimore Orioles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094757-0012-0000", "contents": "1972 World Series, Matchups, Game 2\nJackie Robinson, the first black major league player of the modern era, made his final public appearance in Cincinnati before Game 2 (he died nine days later). In a brief speech, he expressed his desire to see a black manager in Major League Baseball, a color barrier that had not yet been broken. Two years later, Frank Robinson was hired in October 1974 to manage the Cleveland Indians to break that barrier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094757-0013-0000", "contents": "1972 World Series, Matchups, Game 3\nHeavy storms delayed Game 3 by a day, but the Reds got back into the series behind a strong performance from starter Jack Billingham, who held the A's to three hits in eight innings. The Reds pushed across the game's only run in the seventh when C\u00e9sar Ger\u00f3nimo singled home Tony P\u00e9rez. P\u00e9rez scored despite slipping on the still damp grass as he rounded third. Oakland shortstop Bert Campaneris was apparently unaware that Perez had slipped; otherwise, it appeared Campaneris may have had a play at the plate. Clay Carroll pitched the ninth for the save.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 590]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094757-0014-0000", "contents": "1972 World Series, Matchups, Game 3\nA rare trick play occurred in the eighth inning. The Reds had Joe Morgan on third and Bobby Tolan on first base with Rollie Fingers pitching to NL MVP Johnny Bench. Fingers pitched carefully to Bench before Tolan stole second base on ball three. After the stolen base, with the count 3\u20132 on Bench, A's manager Dick Williams visited the mound. After a long discussion, he motioned for an intentional walk to Bench. A's catcher Gene Tenace stood to catch ball four, but at the last second returned to his crouch as Fingers delivered a strike on the outside corner. Bench watched the pitch go by for strike three.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 646]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094757-0015-0000", "contents": "1972 World Series, Matchups, Game 4\nA very pivotal game in the series, and it was Gene Tenace and Oakland non-starters who came through in the ninth inning to rally the Athletics to victory to put the A's up 3 games to 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094757-0016-0000", "contents": "1972 World Series, Matchups, Game 4\nThe game was a pitchers' duel between a pair of left-handed starters: Cincinnati's Don Gullett and Oakland's Ken Holtzman. Through seven innings, the game's lone run was a result of a fifth-inning home run by Tenace, his third homer of the series. With two outs in the top of the eighth inning and Dave Concepci\u00f3n on second base, A's manager Dick Williams replaced Holtzman with left-hander Vida Blue to face left-handed hitters Joe Morgan and Bobby Tolan. Blue walked Morgan and allowed a clutch two-run double to Tolan, giving Cincinnati the lead as the Reds seemed poised to tie the series at 2 games apiece.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094757-0017-0000", "contents": "1972 World Series, Matchups, Game 4\nIn the bottom of the ninth, however, with one out, the A's strung together four consecutive hits to score two runs. Pinch hitter Gonzalo M\u00e1rquez singled, Tenace followed with a single, Don Mincher followed with another pinch-hit single scoring pinch-runner Allan Lewis to tie the game before a third pinch-hitter, \u00c1ngel Mangual, singled off Clay Carroll to score Tenace with the game-winner to put Oakland up three games to one. It was the first time that a team collected three pinch hits in the same World Series inning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094757-0018-0000", "contents": "1972 World Series, Matchups, Game 5\nUp three games to one and with ace Catfish Hunter on the mound, the A's looked poised to close out Cincinnati. Compounding problems for the Reds, their ace pitcher Gary Nolan, who had been battling shoulder and neck issues during the second half of the regular season, was unable to pitch Game 5, forcing part-time starter Jim McGlothlin to start instead. But two of the struggling Reds, Pete Rose and Joe Morgan who were a combined 1 for 28 at the plate in the first four games, stepped up to make key plays. Rose led off the game with a home run, and he would also drive in the game-winning run in the ninth inning. The game ended dramatically when Morgan threw out the potential game-tying run at the plate as the Reds staved off elimination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 781]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094757-0019-0000", "contents": "1972 World Series, Matchups, Game 5\nTrailing 1\u20130 in the second, Gene Tenace hit his fourth home run of the series, a three-run shot, to put Oakland up by two. McGlothlin was removed after pitching just three innings. The Reds cut the lead to 3\u20132 in the fourth on a home run by Denis Menke. Gonzalo Marquez put the A's back in front by two runs with a pinch-hit RBI single in the fourth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094757-0020-0000", "contents": "1972 World Series, Matchups, Game 5\nThe Reds continued to answer. With two outs in the fifth, Joe Morgan walked. With a 3\u20132 count on Bobby Tolan, Morgan broke for second and was able to score when Tolan lined a base hit into right-center field. The speedy Morgan and Tolan collaborated once again in the eighth. Morgan again walked, stole second and scored on another Tolan single to tie the game at four.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094757-0021-0000", "contents": "1972 World Series, Matchups, Game 5\nIn the ninth, Rose singled in the go-ahead run to give the Reds a 5-4 lead. Game 3 starter Jack Billingham came in to relieve in the ninth, but the A's put runners on the corners with one out. Bert Campaneris hit a foul pop behind first base that Tony P\u00e9rez drifted back and appeared to call for. But second baseman Morgan raced over, waved Perez off, caught the ball, slipped on the grass but got up and fired a throw to nail pinch runner Blue Moon Odom, who had tagged from third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094757-0022-0000", "contents": "1972 World Series, Matchups, Game 5\nThe Friday afternoon contest was the last non-weekend World Series day game. The three games in Oakland had all been scheduled to be played at night, but Game 3 was rained out, forcing Game 5 to be played on a Friday, originally scheduled as a travel day. The game was played in the afternoon (1 p.m. PT) to allow ample time for the teams to travel to Cincinnati for Game 6 the next day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094757-0023-0000", "contents": "1972 World Series, Matchups, Game 6\nBack at the friendly confines of Riverfront Stadium, the Reds tied the series at three games apiece with a rout. Johnny Bench, who had no RBI in the series to that point, broke a scoreless tie in the fourth with a homer off starter Vida Blue. The A's fought back on a Dick Green RBI double in their half of the fifth, but from then on it was all Reds. Dave Concepci\u00f3n had a sacrifice fly in the fifth, and Tony P\u00e9rez an RBI single in the sixth (his first RBI of the Series). The Reds then broke it open with a five-run seventh an RBI single by Joe Morgan and a pair of two-run singles by Bobby Tolan and C\u00e9sar Ger\u00f3nimo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 655]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094757-0024-0000", "contents": "1972 World Series, Matchups, Game 7\nGene Tenace capped a spectacular World Series with two hits, two RBI and he also scored the game-winning run in the sixth inning on Sal Bando's double.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094757-0025-0000", "contents": "1972 World Series, Matchups, Game 7\nOakland scored an unearned run in the first inning off Jack Billingham when Reds center fielder Bobby Tolan misplayed a fly ball by Mangual into a three-base error. Mangual scored on a two-out single by Tenace on a ball that hit a seam in the Astroturf and bounced over the head of third baseman Denis Menke. The Reds tied the game in the fifth on a bases loaded sacrifice fly to the center field wall by Hal McRae. However, McRae was pinch hitting for Billingham who had allowed no earned runs in 13+2\u20443 innings in the series against the A's.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094757-0025-0001", "contents": "1972 World Series, Matchups, Game 7\nHis replacement in the sixth inning, Pedro Borb\u00f3n, surrendered RBI doubles to Tenace and Bando. Bando's drive appeared catchable, but Tolan pulled up short of the wall due to a strained hamstring and the ball went over Tolan to the base of the wall. He was later removed from the game on a double switch. The Reds closed to within 3\u20132 in the eighth on a sacrifice fly by Perez, but A's closer Rollie Fingers shut down the Reds in the ninth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094757-0026-0000", "contents": "1972 World Series, Matchups, Game 7\nThe World Series victory for the Oakland A's was the first for the franchise since the days of Connie Mack when the team was in Philadelphia and had won in 1930. The victory ensured manager Dick Williams' return for another year. It was the Athletics' sixth World Series title, and the first of three consecutive titles. This was the last time to date that an American League team had won a World Series Game 7 on the road until 2017, when the Houston Astros did so in Los Angeles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094757-0027-0000", "contents": "1972 World Series, Composite box\n1972 World Series (4\u20133): Oakland Athletics (A.L.) over Cincinnati Reds (N.L.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 32], "content_span": [33, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094757-0028-0000", "contents": "1972 World Series, Broadcasting\nNBC aired the series on both television and radio. Curt Gowdy (on TV) and Jim Simpson (on radio) alternated play-by-play with team announcers Al Michaels (Reds) and Monte Moore (Athletics).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 31], "content_span": [32, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094757-0029-0000", "contents": "1972 World Series, Broadcasting\nTony Kubek, who had served as an in-the-stands reporter for NBC's four previous World Series telecasts, was promoted to the booth as a color analyst, becoming the first former player to serve in that capacity since Joe Garagiola in 1961.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 31], "content_span": [32, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094758-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 World Series of Poker\nThe 1972 World Series of Poker (WSOP) was a series of poker tournaments held during early May 1972 at the Binion's Horseshoe in Las Vegas, Nevada. It was the 3rd annual installment of the World Series of Poker, and also the 2nd one to feature the freezeout structure. In comparison with the previous year's series, the number of events was cut back and the buy-ins were raised, resulting in 1 preliminary event and the Main Event both having the same buy-in of $10K (equals about $54K in 2011 U.S. dollars).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094758-0000-0001", "contents": "1972 World Series of Poker\nThe preliminary event featured 5-card stud poker and was won by Bill Boyd, the same man who won the 1971 5-card stud preliminary event. The previous years' double champion Johnny Moss was defeated early in the main event and Thomas \"Amarillo Slim\" Preston went on to win the tournament after a series of deals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094758-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 World Series of Poker, Preliminary event\nThe preliminary event had a very small turnout, featuring only last year's 5-card stud champion Bill Boyd, and an unknown player. The event was played out on May 7th, and Boyd relieved the other player of his money, cashing for $20K. Boyd went on to win 2 more 5-card stud events in 1973 and 1974 until 5-card stud was dropped from the WSOP slate due to waning popularity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 45], "content_span": [46, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094758-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 World Series of Poker, Main event\n12 people were slated to appear at the main event, but due to reportedly attractive side cash games only 8 of them appeared at the tables on May 11th, the date the event was scheduled to run. Half of each player's $10K buy-in was covered by Benny Binion, who was looking to gain publicity from the event and thus draw bigger crowds into Binion's Horseshoe. The winner of previous 2 WSOP main events, Johnny Moss, took an early lead in the tournament, but soon ended up eliminated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094758-0002-0001", "contents": "1972 World Series of Poker, Main event\nMoss hit a set of deuces with 2-2 on a 9-7-2 flop and after a 10 came on the turn, he got all-in versus Doyle Brunson's pocket aces. However, Brunson hit a 3rd A on the river to win the hand. Moss had almost no chips left and got eliminated shortly afterwards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094758-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 World Series of Poker, Main event\nWith 4 players left on the 2nd day of the tournament, Amarillo Slim, the would-be champion, was very short-stacked with less than 2,000 chips. Beating Brunson's pocket 10 with trip 5s on a 5-5-3 flop, Slim made his way back into the game and soon saw Jack Straus eliminated. With only 3 players (William \"Puggy\" Pearson, Brunson and Slim) remaining, Jack Binion led news reporters and a TV crew to the poker table. At that point, Brunson and Pearson announced they did not want to win the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094758-0003-0001", "contents": "1972 World Series of Poker, Main event\nBrunson was not only afraid of not being let in on future lucrative cash games if he were to be pronounced the world champion of poker, but also of a tax audit. The players struck a deal whereupon Pearson and Brunson would let Slim win the tournament, but in return they would take the cash value of their current chip stacks from Slim's prize.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094758-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 World Series of Poker, Main event\nJack Binion was very cross with the outcome, as players openly changed their play to let Slim win. He held a meeting with the players in the Sombrero room of the Binion's Horseshoe, demanding that players resume fair play. Brunson laid out his reasons and Binion allowed him to withdraw from the tournament and cash his chips, while the reason for Brunson's departure was reported to be an stomachache. The sum that Brunson received in the end is disputed; some sources lay out figures as low as $20K, while according to Des Wilson, Brunson might have left the tournament with as much as half the prizepool.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 646]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094758-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 World Series of Poker, Main event\nAfter Brunson left, Pearson and Slim resumed play. According to Slim, Pearson was not content with the deal and was still trying to win the tournament, but in the end Jack Binion reportedly persuaded him to soft-play Slim and thus throw the match for publicity reasons. In the final hand, Pearson raised to 700 chips with 6-6 (of unknown suits) and Slim called with K\u2665\u00a0J\u2666. A flop of K-8-8 was seen. Slim pushed his 51K-chip stack in the pot and Pearson promptly called, both players getting all their chips in the pot. Turn and river (poker) were a deuce and an 8, respectively, and Slim won with a bigger full house. However, in the end, according to The Hendon Mob, Slim walked away from the table with winnings of mere $15K, only 3 times his investment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 795]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094758-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 World Series of Poker, Main event\n\"[Pearson] was trying [to win the tournament] right up to the last 30 minutes. That\u2019s when it happened. They knew they couldn\u2019t get any publicity out of it if Doyle [Brunson] won it. That\u2019s not putting Doyle down \u2013 Doyle just wasn\u2019t a talker in those days. And Puggy [Pearson] wouldn\u2019t have been a good choice because about half the people he had screwed over the years were bound to say a few things. So I was the pick for winning it.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094758-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 World Series of Poker, Aftermath\nAfter winning the tournament, Amarillo Slim was invited to Johnny Carson's The Tonight Show on June 12 the same year. Slim later made 10 more appearances on The Tonight Show, an appearance on CBS's Hour, and a cameo in the 1974 film California Split. His life story inspired the Kenny Rogers's song The Gambler. Slim's large media exposure contributed to the recognizance of the World Series of Poker and the popularization of poker in mainstream U.S. media and popular culture. The next year's WSOP was covered by CBS and over 7,000 newspaper articles were written about it. Time magazine featured an article on Amarillo Slim with an excerpt about WSOP and rules of poker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 711]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094759-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 World Snooker Championship\nThe 1972 World Snooker Championship (also known as 1972 Park Drive World Snooker Championship for sponsorship reasons) was a professional snooker tournament that took place between March 1971 and 26 February 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094759-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 World Snooker Championship\nAlex Higgins won his first World title beating John Spencer 37\u201332 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094760-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 World Sportscar Championship\nThe 1972 World Championship for Makes and International Grand Touring Trophy seasons were the 20th season of the FIA World Sportscar Championship. It was a series for FIA Group 5 Sports Cars and FIA Group 4 Grand Touring Cars. It ran from 9 January 1972 to 22 July 1972, and was composed of 11 races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094760-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 World Sportscar Championship, Season results\nPoints were awarded to the top 10 finishers in the order of 20-15-12-10-8-6-4-3-2-1. Manufacturers were only given points for their highest finishing car; any other cars from that manufacturer were merely skipped in the awarding of points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094760-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 World Sportscar Championship, Manufacturers Championships, Overall Manufacturers Championship\nGroup 5 Sports Cars and Group 4 Grand Touring Cars were awarded points for the overall championship, but the GT class also had their own separate award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 98], "content_span": [99, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094760-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 World Sportscar Championship, Manufacturers Championships, Overall Manufacturers Championship\nCars participating in races that were not included in the Sports or GT classes (such as Group 2 Touring Cars) were skipped when awarding points for the overall championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 98], "content_span": [99, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094760-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 World Sportscar Championship, Manufacturers Championships, Overall Manufacturers Championship\nOnly the best 8 points finishes counted towards the championship, with any other points earned not included in the total. Discarded points are shown in brackets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 98], "content_span": [99, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094760-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 World Sportscar Championship, Manufacturers Championships, GT Manufacturers Trophy\nThe GT class did not participate in Rounds 1 and 4. Only the best 7 finishes counted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 87], "content_span": [88, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094761-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 World Weightlifting Championships\nThe 1972 Men's World Weightlifting Championships were held in Munich, West Germany from August 27 to September 6, 1972. There were 188 men in action from 54 nations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094761-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 World Weightlifting Championships\nThis tournament was a part of 1972 Summer Olympics but counted as World Weightlifting Championships too. Only total medals counted for Olympic Games while Snatch and Clean & Jerk medals counted for the World Weightlifting Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094761-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 World Weightlifting Championships, Medal table\nRanking by all medals: Big (Total result) and Small (Press, Snatch and Clean & Jerk)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 51], "content_span": [52, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094762-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Wyoming Cowboys football team\nThe 1972 Wyoming Cowboys football team represented the University of Wyoming in the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. The Cowboys were led by second-year head coach Fritz Shurmur and played their home games at War Memorial Stadium in Laramie, Wyoming. They finished the season with a 4\u20137 record overall and a 3\u20134 record in the Western Athletic Conference to finish 5th in the conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094763-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Yale Bulldogs football team\nThe 1972 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1972 NCAA University Division football season. The Bulldogs were led by eighth year head coach Carmen Cozza, played their home games at the Yale Bowl and finished in second place in the Ivy League with a 5\u20132 record, 7\u20132 overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094764-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 Yugoslav smallpox outbreak\nThe 1972 Yugoslav smallpox outbreak was the last outbreak of smallpox in Europe. It was centered in SAP Kosovo and Belgrade, Serbia and the capital city respectively of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. A Muslim pilgrim had contracted the smallpox virus in the Middle East. Upon returning to his home in Kosovo, he started the epidemic in which 175 people were infected, killing 35. The epidemic was efficiently contained by enforced quarantine and mass vaccination. The 1982 film Variola Vera is based on the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094764-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 Yugoslav smallpox outbreak, Background\nBy 1972 the disease was considered to be eradicated in Europe. The population of Yugoslavia had been regularly vaccinated for 50 years, and the last case was reported in 1930. This was the major cause of the initial slow reaction by doctors, who did not promptly recognize the disease.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094764-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 Yugoslav smallpox outbreak, Background\nIn October 1970, an Afghan family went on pilgrimage from Afghanistan, where smallpox was endemic, to Mashhad in Iran, triggering an epidemic of smallpox in Iran that would last until September 1972. By late 1971, smallpox-infected pilgrims had carried smallpox from Iran into Syria and Iraq.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094764-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 Yugoslav smallpox outbreak, Outbreak\nIn early 1972, a 38-year-old Kosovo Albanian Muslim clergyman named Ibrahim Hoti, from Damnjane near \u0110akovica, Kosovo, undertook the Hajj. He visited holy sites in Iraq, where cases of smallpox were known. He returned home on February 15. The following morning he suffered aches and was tired, but attributed this to the long bus journey. Hoti soon realized he had an infection, but, after feeling feverish for a couple of days and developing a rash, he recovered - probably because he had been vaccinated two months earlier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094764-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 Yugoslav smallpox outbreak, Outbreak\nOn March 3, Latif Mumd\u017ei\u0107, a thirty-year-old teacher, who had just arrived in \u0110akovica to attend school, fell ill. He had no known direct contact with Hoti. He may have been infected by one of the clergyman's friends or relatives who visited during his illness, or simply by passing the clergyman in the street. When Mumd\u017ei\u0107 visited the local medical center two days later, doctors attempted to treat his fever with penicillin (smallpox is a virus, so this was ineffective).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094764-0004-0001", "contents": "1972 Yugoslav smallpox outbreak, Outbreak\nHis condition did not improve, and after a couple of days, his brother took him to the hospital in \u010ca\u010dak, 150\u00a0km to the north in Serbia. The doctors there could not help him, so he was transferred by ambulance to the central hospital in Belgrade. On March 9, Mumd\u017ei\u0107 was shown to medical students and staff as a case of an atypical reaction to penicillin, which was a plausible explanation for his condition. On the following day, Mumd\u017ei\u0107 suffered massive internal bleeding and, despite efforts to save his life, died that evening.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094764-0004-0002", "contents": "1972 Yugoslav smallpox outbreak, Outbreak\nThe cause of death was listed as \"reaction to penicillin\". In fact, he had contracted black pox, a highly contagious form of smallpox. Before his death, Mumd\u017ei\u0107 directly infected 38 people (including nine doctors and nurses), eight of whom died. A few days after Mumd\u017ei\u0107's death, 140 smallpox cases erupted across Kosovo province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094764-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 Yugoslav smallpox outbreak, Reaction\nThe government's reaction was swift. Martial law was declared on March 16. Measures included cordons sanitaires of villages and neighborhoods, roadblocks, a prohibition of public assembly, closure of borders and prohibition of all non-essential travel. Hotels were requisitioned for quarantines in which 10,000 people who may have been in contact with the virus were held under guard by the army.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094764-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 Yugoslav smallpox outbreak, Reaction\nMumd\u017ei\u0107's brother developed a smallpox rash on March 20, resulting in medical authorities realizing that Mumd\u017ei\u0107 had died of smallpox. The authorities undertook massive revaccination of the population, helped by the World Health Organization (WHO), \"almost the entire Yugoslavian population of 18 million people was vaccinated\". Leading experts on smallpox were flown in to help, including Donald Henderson and Don Francis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094764-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 Yugoslav smallpox outbreak, Reaction\nBy mid-May, the outbreak was contained and the country returned to normal life. During the epidemic, 175 people contracted smallpox and 35 died.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094764-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 Yugoslav smallpox outbreak, Legacy\nThe Yugoslav government received international praise for the successful containment of the epidemic, which was one of the finest hours for Donald Henderson and WHO, as well as one of the crucial steps in the eradication of smallpox.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094764-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 Yugoslav smallpox outbreak, Legacy\nIn 1982, Serbian director Goran Markovi\u0107 made the film Variola Vera about a hospital under quarantine during the epidemic. In 2002, the BBC screened a television drama called Smallpox 2002, which was partly inspired by the events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings\nBetween 26 November 1972 and 20 January 1973, there were four paramilitary bombings in the centre of Dublin, Ireland. Three civilians were killed and 185 people were injured. No group ever claimed responsibility for the attacks and nobody was ever charged in connection with the bombings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0000-0001", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings\nThe first bombing in Burgh Quay may have been carried out by former associates of the Littlejohn brothers who were Secret Intelligence Service provocateurs, in a successful attempt to provoke an Irish government clampdown against the Provisional IRA, while the other three bombings were possibly perpetrated by loyalist paramilitaries, specifically the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), with British military or intelligence assistance. The UVF claimed in 1993 to have carried out the 1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombings which incurred the greatest loss of life in a single day throughout the 30-year conflict known as the Troubles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 656]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings\nOn 1 December 1972, when two separate car bombs exploded in Eden Quay and Sackville Place, D\u00e1il \u00c9ireann was debating a bill to amend the Offences Against the State Act which would enact stricter measures against the Provisional IRA and other paramilitary groups. As a result of the two bombings, which killed two men and wounded 131, the D\u00e1il voted for the amendment, which introduced special emergency powers to combat the IRA. It is believed that the 26 November and 1 December bombings were executed to influence the outcome of the voting. Irish Supreme Court Justice Henry Barron commissioned an official inquiry into the bombings. The findings were published in a report in November 2004.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 723]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, Background\nThe bombings in Dublin occurred at the end of what was the bloodiest year in the entire 30-year-old religious-political conflict known as the Troubles, which had erupted at the end of the 1960s. Following the Bloody Sunday incident in Derry on 30 January 1972 when the British Army's Parachute Regiment shot dead 14 unarmed Catholic civilians during an anti-internment demonstration, a torrent of anti-British sentiment was unleashed in Ireland and beyond. An angry crowd in Dublin attacked the British embassy and burnt it to the ground.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 581]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0002-0001", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, Background\nThe Official IRA responded with the 1972 Aldershot Bombing in England, at the headquarters of the Parachute Regiment. This attack killed seven civilians. In retaliation for the shootings in Derry, the Provisional IRA escalated its armed campaign with a series of bombings across Northern Ireland which led to a high number of civilian casualties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, Background\nFour days after the Donegall Street bombing in central Belfast on 20 March which killed seven people, British Prime Minister Edward Heath announced the suspension of the 50-year-old Stormont parliament and the imposition of Direct Rule from London. This caused Ulster loyalists and unionists throughout Northern Ireland to feel profoundly angry, shocked, and betrayed; moreover, they considered it to have been another \"sign of continuing Government weakness in the face of IRA violence\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0003-0001", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, Background\nOn 29 May, the Official IRA declared a ceasefire, this was followed on 27 June by the Provisional IRA also declaring a ceasefire which loyalists regarded with suspicion, fearing it would lead to the British Government doing a secret deal resulting in a united Ireland. Representatives of the IRA and British Government held unprecedented secret talks in England, but these proved unsuccessful and the Provisional IRA's ceasefire ended in early July after a confrontation with the British Army in Belfast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, Background\nWhen the IRA exploded 22 bombs across Belfast in what became known as Bloody Friday, many Ulster Protestants, after seeing the televised carnage of victims' remains being scraped off the street and poured into plastic bags, rushed to join paramilitary organisations such as the legal Ulster Defence Association (UDA) or the illegal Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). The bombings also led the British Army to launch Operation Motorman, which saw the arrival of an addition 4,000 troops to assist in the recapture of the mostly IRA-controlled \"no-go areas\" in Belfast and Derry. The dismantling of these \"no-go\" areas, which had been set up by residents in certain nationalist/republican districts to prevent access by the security forces, effectively prohibited the IRA from enjoying the same operational freedom it had known prior to the implementation of Operation Motorman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 913]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, Background\nThe UVF was led by Gusty Spence, who was imprisoned since 1966 for a sectarian murder. In July 1972, his associates on the outside staged a fake kidnapping while Spence was on bail and he was at liberty for four months. During this period he organised the UVF into brigades, battalions, companies and platoons. These were all subordinate to the Brigade Staff (Belfast leadership) based on the loyalist Shankill Road.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0005-0001", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, Background\nHe also managed to obtain an arsenal of sophisticated guns and ammunition after a raid on King's Park camp, an Ulster Defence Regiment/Territorial Army depot in Lurgan by an armed UVF gang. The UVF also stole twenty tons of ammonium nitrate from the Belfast Docks. During the spring and summer of 1972, the UDA set up barricades and no-go areas in Belfast and paraded through the city centre in a massive show of strength.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, Background\nWilliam Craig, leader of the Unionist Vanguard movement, addressed a meeting of right-wing MPs in Westminster who belonged to the Monday Club on 19 October during which he claimed he could mobilise 80,000 men who \"are prepared to come out and shoot and kill\". On 28 October a bomb was found in Dublin's busy Connolly Station and fire-bombs detonated inside four Dublin hotels. On 4 November Spence was recaptured in Belfast by the British Army.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, Background\nThe Irish Government began its clampdown against the IRA in that same year. On 19 November the Provisional IRA's Chief of Staff, Sean MacStiofain was arrested in Dublin and immediately went on a hunger and thirst strike. The same month, a controversial amendment to the Offences Against the State Act, giving the Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na special powers to deal with the IRA and other subversives was brought before D\u00e1il \u00c9ireann.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, Background, Keith and Kenneth Littlejohn\nOn 12 October 1972, an armed gang executed what was at the time the biggest bank robbery in Irish history. The robbery was carried out at the Allied Irish Bank's Grafton Street branch and the gang made off with \u00a367,000. Four days later, Garda officers raided the Drumcondra residence of two Englishmen, brothers Kenneth and Keith Littlejohn where they recovered \u00a311,000 of the sum taken. The brothers were arrested in England on 19 October and were flown to Ireland in March 1973 following the issuing of an extradition warrant from Dublin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 71], "content_span": [72, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0008-0001", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, Background, Keith and Kenneth Littlejohn\nPrior to and during their trial, the brothers claimed to be MI6/Official IRA double-agents who were introduced to the British security forces by Pamela Dillon, Lady Onslow, the Anglo-Irish ex-wife of William Onslow, 6th Earl of Onslow. She had become acquainted with Keith Littlejohn through her work with the ex-Borstal organisation \"Teamwork Associates\" in London.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 71], "content_span": [72, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, Background, Keith and Kenneth Littlejohn\nKeith Littlejohn had spent time in Borstal, whilst Kenneth had served a prison sentence from 1965 to 1968 for robbery. During an encounter with Lady Onslow, Keith told her that his brother Kenneth \"had information about arms and sources of arms for the IRA which might be of interest to Her Majesty's Government. He would be prepared to make this information available only if he could be seen by a Minister whose face he could recognise from having seen him on television\". She passed on Keith Littlejohn's words to her friend, Lord Carrington, the Secretary of State for Defence. A meeting took place between Kenneth Littlejohn and the Under Secretary of State for Defence, Geoffrey Johnson Smith, at her London flat on 22 November 1971. After Littlejohn had told Johnson Smith what he knew about the IRA, Johnson Smith then put him in \"touch with the appropriate authorities\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 71], "content_span": [72, 951]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, Background, Keith and Kenneth Littlejohn\nThe Littlejohns claimed they were ordered to infiltrate the Official IRA and after this was accomplished, they were instructed by the British Ministry of Defence to act as agent provocateurs by carrying out robberies and other acts of violence in the Republic of Ireland to provoke the Irish Government into taking a stronger stance against the IRA and other republican subversives. The Ministry of Defence issued a statement acknowledging to having met Kenneth Littlejohn once to discuss information he had in his possession regarding the IRA but denied that he had worked for the Ministry and denied British Government involvement in the Dublin bank robbery.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 71], "content_span": [72, 732]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0011-0000", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, Background, Keith and Kenneth Littlejohn\nThe Official IRA, while admitting to having been acquainted with the Littlejohns after the brothers arrived in Newry in 1972, denied the brothers had ever been members of the OIRA. The Littlejohns were found guilty of bank robbery on 3 August 1973 and sentenced to imprisonment; Kenneth received 20 years and Keith 15 years. The brothers escaped from Dublin's Mountjoy Prison in 1974. In 1975, Lady Onslow received minor injuries when she opened a letter bomb which failed to detonate properly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 71], "content_span": [72, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0012-0000", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, The bombings, 26 November 1972, Burgh Quay\nThe first of the four bombs exploded on Sunday 26 November 1972 at 1.25 a.m. outside the rear exit door of the Film Centre Cinema, O'Connell Bridge House during a late night showing of a film. The bomb went off in the laneway connecting Burgh Quay with Leinster Market injuring 40 people, some very badly, including facial, leg and serious bowel wounds. There were 156 patrons and three employees inside the cinema at the time of the blast, although were no fatalities. The force of the explosion hurled customers out of their seats and onto the floor. There was much panic as people, fearing a second bomb would explode in their midst, rushed to escape from the crowded cinema. Shops and buildings in the immediate vicinity received extensive damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 73], "content_span": [74, 825]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0013-0000", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, The bombings, 26 November 1972, Burgh Quay\nThe area was sealed off by the Garda and they launched an investigation; a ballistic officer determined that the explosion's epicentre had been on a doorstep outside an emergency door leading to the laneway. However, no trace of the bomb or explosives used were ever found at the scene. The Garda\u00ed interviewed a number of witnesses who came forward alleging to have seen the bombers in the laneway prior to the explosion and although photofits of the suspects were drawn up, the bombers were never apprehended. The Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na believed the bombing was carried out by republican subversives, including former associates of the Littlejohn brothers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 73], "content_span": [74, 723]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0014-0000", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, The bombings, 26 November 1972, Burgh Quay\nThe night following the bombing an eight-man IRA unit unsuccessfully tried to free MacStiofain, who had been taken to Dublin's Mater Hospital for treatment due to adverse effects of his hunger and thirst strike on his health. The ward in which he was kept was under heavy police guard. The armed IRA unit exchanged shots with two members of the Garda Special Branch; one detective, two civilians and one of the IRA gang suffered minor injuries from gunfire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 73], "content_span": [74, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0015-0000", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, The bombings, 1 December 1972, Eden Quay and Sackville Place\nOn Friday, 1 December 1972 at 19:58 a blue Hillman Avenger, registration number OGX 782 K, exploded at 29 Eden Quay close to Liberty Hall tower block. The blast blew the Avenger apart and what remained of the vehicle was catapulted 18 feet away to rest outside an optician's office. A wall of flame shot up which was visible to people across the Liffey river on the opposite Burgh Quay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 91], "content_span": [92, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0015-0001", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, The bombings, 1 December 1972, Eden Quay and Sackville Place\nSix cars parked in the vicinity of the Avenger were set on fire, and piled on top of each other; most of the windows of Liberty Hall and other nearby buildings imploded and the edifices were damaged. Although a number of people suffered injuries \u2013 some horrific \u2013 nobody was killed. One of the injured included a pregnant woman. Customers inside the quayside \"Liffey Bar\", near the explosion's epicentre, were hurt by flying glass and some had open head wounds. Following the explosion, a huge crowd of people hurried to the scene where police and ambulances had already arrived.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 91], "content_span": [92, 671]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0016-0000", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, The bombings, 1 December 1972, Eden Quay and Sackville Place\nAt exactly the same time the carbomb detonated in Eden Quay, the Belfast Newsletter received a telephone call from a man using a coin box speaking with a \"Belfast English\" type of accent. He issued a warning that two bombs would explode in Dublin. He gave the locations as Liberty Hall and Abbey Street behind Clerys department store. The newspaper immediately phoned the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), who in turn relayed the warnings to the Garda Control Room Dublin Castle at 20:08. A team of Garda\u00ed were sent to investigate the area around Sackville Place and Earl Street.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 91], "content_span": [92, 670]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0017-0000", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, The bombings, 1 December 1972, Eden Quay and Sackville Place\nA policeman ran into a CI\u00c9 company canteen in Earl Place warning the employees inside to clear the building as there was a bomb scare. Just after the building was evacuated, at 20:16 a silver-grey Ford Escort, registration number 955 1VZ, exploded in Sackville Place 40 feet away from its intersection with Marlborough Street, throwing people up in the air and in all directions, killing two CI\u00c9 employees who moments before had left the canteen. The victims were George Bradshaw (30), a bus driver and Thomas Duffy (23), a bus conductor. Both men were married with children.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 91], "content_span": [92, 667]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0017-0001", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, The bombings, 1 December 1972, Eden Quay and Sackville Place\nBradshaw, whose body was rendered unrecognisable by the effects of the blast, died of severe head injuries and Duffy was killed by a flying metal fragment which had lacerated his aorta. Henry Kilduff, a CI\u00c9 bus driver later told Garda\u00ed that he had seen Bradshaw and Duffy 10 or 20 yards away walking down Sackville Place towards Marlborough Street when the carbomb exploded beside them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 91], "content_span": [92, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0018-0000", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, The bombings, 1 December 1972, Eden Quay and Sackville Place\nDenis Gibney, another co-worker, informed police that Bradshaw had been headed in the direction of Liberty Hall after hearing that a bomb had gone off near there. Bradshaw was found lying badly mangled beside a damaged car and was carried into a ruined shop front where a priest performed last rites. As at Eden Quay, the Sackville Place bombing caused considerable damage to buildings and vehicles near the blast's epicentre. Sackville Place is a narrow street off O'Connell Street, Dublin's main thoroughfare. There was further panic amongst the survivors when the petrol tank inside the burning bomb car exploded. A total of 131 people were injured in both explosions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 91], "content_span": [92, 763]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0019-0000", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, The bombings, 1 December 1972, Eden Quay and Sackville Place\nThe two bombings had immediate political ramifications. Just as the bombs were exploding in the city centre, D\u00e1il \u00c9ireann was debating the controversial bill to amend the Offences Against the State Act, which would enact stricter measures against the Provisional IRA and other paramilitary groups. As a result of the two attacks, the D\u00e1il voted for the amendment which introduced special emergency powers to combat the IRA. In particular this meant that a member of the IRA or any other paramilitary group could be sentenced on the sworn evidence of a senior Garda officer in front of three judges. Before the bombings, many commentators had actually believed the bill \u2013 considered by some to be 'draconian' \u2013 would be defeated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 91], "content_span": [92, 820]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0020-0000", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, The bombings, 1 December 1972, Eden Quay and Sackville Place\nThirteen days after the double-bombing, three incendiary devices were found in Dublin \u2013 one inside Clerys department store and the other two in the toilets of the \"Premier Bar\" in Sackville Place. The devices had failed to explode. According to journalists Jim Cusack and Henry McDonald, the devices were planted by the same UVF bomb unit that was responsible for the Eden Quay and Sackville Place car bombs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 91], "content_span": [92, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0021-0000", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, The bombings, 20 January 1973, Sackville Place\nOn Saturday 20 January 1973 at 15:08, a male caller with an English accent rang the telephone exchange in Exchequer Street, Dublin, with the following bomb warning: \"Listen love, there is a bomb in O'Connell Street at the Bridge\". Although the call was placed from a coin box in the Dublin area, the exact location was never determined. The telephonist immediately contacted the Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na. The streets of central Dublin were more crowded than usual as Ireland was playing the All Blacks at an international rugby match being held that afternoon in Lansdowne Road.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 77], "content_span": [78, 646]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0022-0000", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, The bombings, 20 January 1973, Sackville Place\nAt 15:18, a man leaving Kilmartin's betting shop in Sackville Place noticed smoke or steam emanating from the boot of a red Vauxhall Victor car parked outside Egan's pub facing the direction of O'Connell Street. Its registration number was EOI 1229. About five seconds later the bomb inside the red car's boot exploded, scattering sections of the vehicle and throwing the man to his feet. The explosion was so powerful that it hurled the car's roof over adjacent Abbey Street where it landed in Harbour Place; the right hand rear hub and axle sections were blasted through a metal grill on a shop window.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 77], "content_span": [78, 682]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0023-0000", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, The bombings, 20 January 1973, Sackville Place\nA CI\u00c9 bus conductor, 21-year-old Thomas Douglas, originally from Stirling, Scotland, was passing the betting shop just as the bomb went off and the force of the blast hurled him through a shop front window where he died minutes later of shock and h\u00e6morrhage from the multiple injuries he received in the explosion. The entire shop front was devastated and spattered with blood. Fourteen people were badly injured in the bombing which caused bedlam as hysterical Saturday afternoon shoppers sought to flee the area in panic and confusion. The carbomb detonated at almost the exact location of 1 December bomb.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 77], "content_span": [78, 686]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0023-0001", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, The bombings, 20 January 1973, Sackville Place\nLater eyewitness accounts suggested it had been parked at the kerb several hours before it exploded. According to journalists Jim Cusack and Henry McDonald in their book UVF, the bomb was designed to cause widespread chaos and alarm throughout the city, and to inflict massive injuries upon shoppers and pedestrians as Saturday has traditionally been the busiest shopping day of the week for Dubliners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 77], "content_span": [78, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0024-0000", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, Garda investigation\nNo paramilitary organisation claimed responsibility for any of the bombings. The two bomb sites at Eden Quay and Sackville Place were carefully examined by members of the Garda Ballistics, Mapping, Fingerprint and Photographic sections. An Irish Army EOD officer was also part of the team. They first examined the wreckage of the bomb cars and craters left by the blasts. It was suggested that the explosives used in both attacks were of the Chlorate or Nitrate type. The concentration of blast damage to the rear section of both vehicles suggested that the bombs were placed in either the boots or behind the back seats. It was determined that timing devices were used in both the Eden Quay and the Sackville Place bombings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 776]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0025-0000", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, Garda investigation\nGarda Detective Sergeant Eamon \u00d3 Fiach\u00e1in, the head deputy of the Ballistics Section of the Garda Technical Bureau had been inside Eason's Book Shop in O'Connell Street when the bomb went off on 20 January. He immediately rushed to the scene in Sackville Place and made an examination of the area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0025-0001", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, Garda investigation\nAs he measured the distance of the crater and inspected the damage done to the surrounding buildings, he discovered that the wreckage of the bomb car had been moved from the exact spot where it had detonated to allow the passage of Fire Brigade engines and ambulance workers to remove the dead and injured. Upon close inspection of the car, the section showing the greatest blast intensity led him to judge that the centre of the explosion took place on the driver's side in the rear of the vehicle, between the boot and the rear of the rear bench seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0025-0002", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, Garda investigation\nHe suggested the explosion itself was caused by a nitrate bomb. Among the debris he found a fragment of a test tube with traces of a white crystalline deposit. It was taken for analysis. The wreckage of the bomb car was also conveyed to the Garda Depot for technical examination. No conclusion was ever drawn as to the composition of the three bombs at Eden Quay and Sackville Place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 50], "content_span": [51, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0026-0000", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, Garda investigation, The bomb cars\nRegarding the two bomb cars which exploded on 1 December 1972, Garda investigators in Belfast discovered that both vehicles had been hired in that city on 30 November 1972 by a man aged about 40 using the stolen driver's licence in the name of Joseph Fleming with an address in Derby, England. It transpired that Fleming's car had been stolen from a carpark in Ballymoney, County Antrim on 11 August 1972 and his documents including the driving licence had been taken as well. The Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na was satisfied that Fleming had had nothing to do with the two bombings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 633]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0026-0001", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, Garda investigation, The bomb cars\nDescriptions of the man who hired the Ford Escort at Moley's car hire firm in Belfast's Victoria Square at 9.00 a.m. were provided. His accent was described as having been that of a cultured Englishman or a Belfast man who had spent time in England. The same man hired the Avenger at 11:30 from Avis car rentals at Aldergrove Airport. As with Moley's, the man used the Fleming driver's licence and paid with English bank notes rather than notes issued by banks in Northern Ireland. Police also discovered that Fleming's licence had been used on other occasions to hire cars. These other vehicles may have been scouting and getaway cars for the bombing team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 723]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0027-0000", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, Garda investigation, The bomb cars\nThe Vauxhall Victor had been hired at noon on 19 January 1973 from Belfast Car Hire (Inc.) in Grovenor Road. The following morning at 08:30 as the hirer was driving along Agnes Street, off the Shankill Road, it was hijacked by two men. He was taken away by the hijackers and held hostage inside a building until 15:00 After receiving instructions by the hijackers to report the car theft to the Tennent Street RUC station, the man was deposited at the junction of Twaddell Avenue and Ballygomartin Road. At 15:20, he walked inside the RUC station as instructed where he made a statement to the police regarding the hijacking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 691]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0028-0000", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, Garda investigation, The bomb cars\nThe Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na interviewed a number of witnesses who had seen the bomb cars at various locations in the Dublin area and en route. The original Northern Ireland registration plates had been retained on all three vehicles. The eyewitnesses gave descriptions of the cars' drivers and passengers which were used to make up photofits. The timing of the sightings of the cars used in the 1 December attacks indicated that the bombers had driven the vehicles down to Dublin on 30 November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0028-0001", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, Garda investigation, The bomb cars\nA Garda standing outside the Drogheda Garda station on 20 January had registered all the vehicles with Northern Ireland and English registration plates. He had noted down the registration number of the red Vauxhall as it passed through Drogheda heading south towards Dublin at about 12:12; although he hadn't taken notice of the driver's appearance nor observed whether there were any passengers inside. The cars preceding and following the Vauxhall were subsequently traced, but their occupants were found to have had no connection to the Dublin attacks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 621]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0029-0000", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, Garda investigation, The bomb cars\nThe suspects' photofits were circulated around hotels, guesthouses as well as bus, rail, air and train termini \u2013 all possible places where the suspects may have been observed. A photofit of the man who hired the cars in Belfast was passed on by Garda\u00ed to the British Defence Forces. The Garda enquiries did not yield results and the bombers were never apprehended. No one has ever been charged in connection with the bombings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0030-0000", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, Allegations, The Ulster Volunteer Force\nSuspicion initially fell on the Provisional IRA and other republican groups. Shortly afterwards, however the blame shifted to loyalist paramilitary organisations, in particular, the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). Garda\u00ed received a telephone call from a male caller in Belfast who gave the names of five men who he claimed were responsible for 20 January carbomb. The caller said that the five men were originally from Belfast's Sailortown area but had since relocated to new housing estates in the city. It is not known what action, if any, was ever undertaken by the Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na to follow up this telephone call.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 686]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0031-0000", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, Allegations, The Ulster Volunteer Force\nOn 3 February 1973, a Garda Inspector informed the Superintendent of B District, Dublin that he had received confidential information from a reliable source confirming that 1 December and 20 January bombings had been perpetrated by the UVF. This source provided the following information specifically regarding 20 January attack: \"A young man named from the Shankill Road area of Belfast planted the last car bomb in Sackville Place. This man should not be confused with ... who is one of the leaders of the UDA organisation in Belfast\". This pertinent information was passed on to the RUC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 661]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0031-0001", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, Allegations, The Ulster Volunteer Force\nThe latter sent a reply back to the Garda\u00ed on 12 April 1973 claiming to have \"no hard evidence\" on the perpetrators of the Dublin bombings. It continued to state: \"We do have two persons named...from the area you mention who are believed to have UVF connections. They are fairly seasoned, the younger of the two being 40 years of age and I note you describe the person as being a young man...\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0032-0000", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, Allegations, The Ulster Volunteer Force\nThe UVF have never admitted responsibility for the bombings as they later did for the 1974 Dublin and Monaghan explosions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0033-0000", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, Allegations, British Army Intelligence\nThere were strong allegations that British Army Intelligence assisted the loyalists in carrying out the bombings, as part of a covert operation to influence the outcome of the voting in the D\u00e1il regarding the amendment to the Offences Against the State Act.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0034-0000", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, Allegations, British Army Intelligence\nA Dublin taxi driver made a statement to the Garda\u00ed on the morning of 2 December regarding a passenger he picked up in Lower Baggot Street at 2.20 a.m. The passenger had a military-style haircut and spoke with an English accent. He first asked to be driven to the bomb sites and then wished to be driven north to Derry for the sum of \u00a340. The driver agreed and they headed north.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0034-0001", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, Allegations, British Army Intelligence\nThey were stopped at a Garda checkpoint at Slane and both men were questioned; when the Garda asked the passenger his name he replied \"Major Glover\", giving an address in London, and informed the policeman he was going to Enniskillen Barracks. During the course of the journey the man claimed he was a Major in British Intelligence and told the taxi driver that the bombings were carried out by MI5, adding that there were British soldiers in disguise in Dublin. The man also warned him that the \"might of the British Army would cause more bombs in Dublin\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 627]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0035-0000", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, Allegations, British Army Intelligence\nUpon reaching Enniskillen, the taxi driver was ordered down a dead-end road and the passenger told him if he wanted to get out alive he was to hand over all his money. After the frightened driver did as he was instructed he let the passenger off outside the Enniskillen RUC barracks and quickly drove back to Dublin. On 15 August 1973, at the Dundalk horse races, the taxi driver recognised the man and told a Garda Sergeant who arrested him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0035-0001", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, Allegations, British Army Intelligence\nIt emerged that the Englishman, who frequently visited Dublin, was mentally unstable with a criminal record for indecent behaviour and assaults against the police. His name was not Glover, he had never served with the British Armed Forces and there was no evidence to connect him with any of the bombings in Dublin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0036-0000", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, Allegations, British Army Intelligence\nAn anonymous letter was sent to the editor of the Irish Times on 7 December 1972, six days after the double-bombing; it claimed that", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0037-0000", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, Allegations, British Army Intelligence\nThe bomb explosions in Dublin were not the result of action by the IRA, UDR, UVF or any other farcical Irish organisation. Five members of the British Armed Forces were involved and they left Dublin not by car or train to Ulster but by plane to Heathrow", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0038-0000", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, Allegations, British Army Intelligence\nThe sender of the letter was never traced. A copy of the letter and envelope in which it was sent was attached to the Garda investigation report.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0039-0000", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, Allegations, British Army Intelligence\nOn 18 December 1972, an Englishman named John Wyman was arrested under Section 30 of the Offences Against the State Act, 1963 and sent to Dublin's Bridewell Garda station for questioning. It was discovered that he was an agent working for British Intelligence services and had inveigled Detective Garda Patrick Crinnion from C3 Branch into providing him with classified Garda documents containing information on the IRA. Both men were charged with various offences under the Act and sentenced to three months imprisonment. Neither man was linked to the bombings, nor to the Littlejohns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 656]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0040-0000", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, Allegations, British Army Intelligence\nThe Taoiseach at the time, Jack Lynch echoed these suspicions against British Intelligence in a televised interview he gave in 1973:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0041-0000", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, Allegations, British Army Intelligence\nWell, my suspicions naturally are aroused more \u2013 we have no, as I said, indication who was responsible; and as it is now well known, a lot of people in Ireland believe that many of these unexplained activities and actions could well be related to British Intelligence or other activities of that nature.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0042-0000", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, Allegations, British Army Intelligence\nThese allegations of British Intelligence involvement have continued to persist even to the present day, despite the lack of evidence against British Army Intelligence or the security forces in Northern Ireland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0043-0000", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, Allegations, Jim Hanna\nJournalist Joe Tiernan published allegations that the UVF's Belfast Brigade had carried out 1 December 1972 and 20 January 1973 bombings and that the bombing unit was led by Jim Hanna, Billy Mitchell and Ken Gibson. These men were all high-ranking UVF members, and Hanna, who had a seat on the Brigade Staff (UVF leadership) was described by Martin Dillon in his book, The Dirty War as the senior UVF commander in 1973. Tiernan also suggested that the bombing unit was controlled and directed by officers from the British Army Intelligence community operating from Army Headquarters in Lisburn. Tiernan was told by Billy Mitchell in interviews conducted in the 1990s that Hanna was \"run as an agent\" by four officers from Army Intelligence based at Lisburn, naming them as two captains, one lieutenant, and an SAS officer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 876]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0044-0000", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, Allegations, Jim Hanna\nTiernan's allegations regarding Jim Hanna were published in 2004 in the Barron Report, which consisted of the findings of an official inquiry into the Dublin bombings of 1972 and 1973 commissioned by Irish Supreme Court Justice Henry Barron. Cathal Goulding, former Chief of Staff of the Official IRA told Tiernan in an interview that Hanna had personally admitted to him his leading role in the bombings. Tiernan published the following allegations regarding Hanna in a book he wrote about the 1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombings:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0045-0000", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, Allegations, Jim Hanna\nThroughout 1972/73 he [Goulding] and a number of his Official IRA colleagues held a series of meetings with UVF men, both in Belfast and Dublin, to discuss mutual working-class issues such as poverty, unemployment and bad housing in August 1973 a meeting to discuss such issues was held in the \"West County Hotel\" outside Dublin, attended by high-powered delegations from both organisations ... Towards the end of the evening, according to Goulding, Jim Hanna pulled him to one side and told him he wished to speak to him in confidence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 590]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0045-0001", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, Allegations, Jim Hanna\n\"He asked me if we, the Official IRA, would be willing to carry out bank robberies here in the South, and they, the UVF, would claim them. Then, if we wished, they would carry out similar robberies in the North and we could claim them. He said Army Intelligence officers he was in contact with in the North had asked him to put the proposition to us as they were anxious to bring about a situation in the South where the Dublin government would be forced to introduce internment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0045-0002", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, Allegations, Jim Hanna\nWhen I refused to accept his proposition, as we were already on ceasefire, he put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Look there's no problem. You see the car bombs in Dublin over the last year, well we planted those bombs and the Army provided us with the cars. There's no problem'. When I asked him how the bombings were carried out, he said the 1972 bombs were placed in false petrol tanks in both cars. He said they travelled down the main road from Belfast to Dublin and were stopped at a Garda checkpoint at Swords [North County Dublin] but because the cars were not reported stolen and the Garda\u00ed found nothing suspicious in them they were allowed to proceed.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 720]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0046-0000", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, Allegations, Jim Hanna\nThere was no mention in the Garda files of the cars used in the 1 December bombings as having been stopped at a Garda checkpoint in Swords or anywhere in the Republic of Ireland either that day or the previous day. Physically, Hanna was tall with red hair. He was about 25 years old at the time of the bombings. None of the eyewitness accounts mention a red-haired man in his mid-twenties as either a driver or passenger of the bomb cars seen in Dublin before the explosions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0046-0001", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, Allegations, Jim Hanna\nJournalist Kevin Myers, who knew Hanna quite well, confirmed that Hanna was the senior military commander in the UVF during this time period with links to British Army Intelligence. However, while he acknowledged the possibility that Hanna had carried out the Dublin bombings, he suggested that he was a \"fantasist\" who often \"embellished or made up stories to make himself seem more impressive\". Tiernan also alleged that Billy Mitchell was involved in the 1974 Dublin bombings, in which 26 people died.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0047-0000", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, Allegations, Jim Hanna\nJim Hanna was shot dead in April 1974 by UVF associates in an internal dispute. Mitchell, Ken Gibson and Cathal Goulding are also deceased. Gibson had succeeded Hanna as the UVF Chief of Staff following his killing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0048-0000", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, Allegations, Albert Baker's claims\nAlbert Baker, known by the nickname of \"Ginger\", was a former British Army soldier who deserted his regiment in July 1972 to join the then legal UDA. He was the ringleader of an East Belfast UDA unit known as the \"Romper Room\" gang which carried out a series of brutal \"romperings\". These were beatings and torture sessions followed by killings in UDA punishment centres called \"Romper Rooms\" after the children's television programme of the same name. He was convicted in 1973 of four sectarian murders and sentenced to 25 years imprisonment which he served in England rather than Northern Ireland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 665]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0048-0001", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, Allegations, Albert Baker's claims\nIn 1974, at the murder trial of James McCartan (one of his victims), he testified against his former UDA colleagues, however the evidence he produced was dismissed as \"unreliable\" by the trial judge and the case subsequently dismissed. Whilst in prison he made a number of allegations against RUC collusion in loyalist paramilitary attacks. He also claimed that the UDA had perpetrated the 1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, adding that one of the bombers was a member of the UDA's Inner Council, two others have since been imprisoned for other offences, and another has been shot dead. Baker's brother told journalist Frank Doherty of the Sunday World, that Albert claimed he had delivered explosions for the bombings from the UDA Londonderry Brigade and drove them from Eglington, County Londonderry down to the bombing team in Belfast. This unit then drove the carbombs to Dublin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 945]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0049-0000", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, Allegations, Albert Baker's claims\nAccording to information given to Frank Doherty by members of Baker's family, 1 December bombings were planned by the UDA in the \"Rangers Club\", Chadolly Street in east Belfast's Newtownards Road area. One of the cars which had detonated in Dublin had been hired from a Belfast car firm by a \"well-dressed Englishman\" using a stolen driver's licence in the name of Joseph Fleming. Doherty claimed the \"well-dressed Englishman\" was a senior UDA member who was originally from England but was living in east Belfast in 1972. He had connections with Albert Baker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0050-0000", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, Allegations, Albert Baker's claims\nThe UDA leadership had publicly threatened to launch attacks in the Republic of Ireland with the aim of forcing the Irish Government into taking a more \"hardline stance towards the IRA\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 65], "content_span": [66, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0051-0000", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, 1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombings\nThe four bombings in Dublin were not the last. On 17 May 1974 during the evening rush hour, two units from the UVF's Belfast and Mid-Ulster Brigades exploded three no-warning carbombs in central Dublin, killing 26 civilians and injuring close to 300. Ninety minutes later, a fourth car bomb went off in Monaghan, killing another seven people. The Dublin bombs detonated in Parnell Street, Talbot Street, and South Leinster Street \u2013 all located in the city centre. The bomb in Monaghan exploded in North Street.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0051-0001", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, 1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombings\nAccording to Joe Tiernan, RUC Special Patrol Group officer John Weir, and British Army psychological warfare operative, Colin Wallace, the bombings were organised by the Mid-Ulster UVF brigadier, Billy Hanna, who personally led the Dublin bombing teams. Hanna (no relation to Jim), a former sergeant in the Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) who had won the Military Medal for gallantry in the Korean War, had founded the brigade in his hometown of Lurgan in 1972. Senior UVF member Robin Jackson also helped carry out the Dublin attacks. Tiernan suggested that the bombs were transported to Dublin by Jackson in his poultry lorry with Hanna as his passenger. After Billy Hanna was shot dead outside his home in July 1975, Jackson assumed command of the Mid-Ulster UVF.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 829]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0052-0000", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, 1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombings\nAs in 1972 and 1973, nobody was ever charged in connection with the bombings which had been carried out on the third day of the Ulster Workers' Council Strike, however on 15 July 1993, the UVF issued a statement claiming responsibility for the attacks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0053-0000", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, Later years\nIn 2003, a bronze memorial sculpture, dedicated to the three victims of the 1972 and 1973 bombings, was unveiled in Sackville Place at its junction with Marlborough Street. The sculpture, entitled \"Fallen Bouquet\", is set into the pavement and was designed by Thomas Duffy, posthumously born son of the bus conductor killed in the 1 December attack, whose widow had been pregnant. It was commissioned by Dublin City Council and CI\u00c9.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 42], "content_span": [43, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0054-0000", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, Later years\nIrish Supreme Court Justice Henry Barron commissioned an official inquiry into the bombings. The findings were published in a report in November 2004. The Inquiry concluded that it \"seemed more likely than not\" that the bombing of the Film Centre Cinema on 26 November 1972 was \"carried out by Republican subversives as a response to a Government 'crackdown' on the IRA and their associates\" and to influence the outcome of the voting in the D\u00e1il regarding the passage of the controversial amendment to the Offences Against the State Acts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 42], "content_span": [43, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094765-0055-0000", "contents": "1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings, Later years\nRegarding 1 December 1972 and 20 January 1973 carbombings, the Inquiry concluded that confidential information obtained by the Garda\u00ed indicated the three attacks were perpetrated by the UVF, \"but no evidence was ever found to confirm this. Nor was there any evidence to suggest the involvement of members of the security forces in the attacks\". The Dublin City Coroner's Court held an inquest in February 2005 into the deaths of George Bradshaw, Thomas Duffy, and Thomas Douglas. The jury of three men and four women returned a verdict of unlawful killing by persons or persons unknown for the three dead men.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 42], "content_span": [43, 652]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094766-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 bombings in Italy\nThe October 21\u201322, 1972 bombings in Italy were nine terrorist attacks that took place during the night. The target of the attacks were a number of trains headed to Reggio Calabria, bringing workers to the city for the protest march scheduled for the next day. The attack was part of a larger set of bombings perpetrated by neo-fascist terrorists belonging to the National Vanguard, linked to the Movimento Sociale Italiano party and Francesco Franco, leader of the revolt in Reggio Calabria sparked by the choice of Catanzaro as regional capital.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094766-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 bombings in Italy, Political situation\nIn July 1970, after the decision from the Italian Government to make Catanzaro regional capital of Calabria instead of Reggio Calabria a major protest strike begun in Reggio, led by both leftists and right-wing workers unions. After five days of rioting, the right-wing National Italian Workers' Union (CISNAL), led by Francesco Ciccio Franco, took the lead of the revolt, turning it to a full revolt against police forces and the formerly allied leftist unions, and became the informal leader of the rebel Action Committee and of the revolt. The Italian Communist Party (PCI), the main leftist party of the country, dissociated itself from the protest after it turned violent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 43], "content_span": [44, 721]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094766-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 bombings in Italy, Political situation\nOn July 22, 1970, a bomb exploded on \"Treno del Sole\", the Palermo-Turin train, in the Calabrian city of Gioia Tauro, killing 6 persons and wounding 136. The Gioia Tauro massacre was linked to the revolt. In 1993, a former member of the 'Ndrangheta (a Mafia-type criminal organisation based in Calabria), Giacomo Lauro, said he had supplied the explosives to people linked to the leaders of the revolt. On February 4, 1971, one was killed and 13 people were injured when three grenades were thrown into a crowd demonstrating outside the headquarters of the neo-fascist Italian Social Movement in Catanzaro. By their own admission, many of the urban-guerilla style actions during the revolt were coordinated and led by members of National Vanguard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 43], "content_span": [44, 791]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094766-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 bombings in Italy, Political situation\nIn February 1971, the revolt was suppressed. Prime minister Emilio Colombo offered to build the Fifth Steelwork Centre in Reggio including a railroad stump and the port in Gioia Tauro, an investment of 3 billion lire which would create 10,000 jobs, which softened the people of Reggio and helped to quell the revolt. The issue of Calabria's capital was resolved by a Solomonic decision: Catanzaro and Reggio Calabria became Calabria's joint regional capitals, Catanzaro as the seat of the regional administration and Reggio Calabria as the seat of the regional parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 43], "content_span": [44, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094766-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 bombings in Italy, Political situation\nThe revolt ended up by being taken over by neo-fascists (relevant was also the role of the militant neo-fascist movement National Vanguard) and led to unexpected electoral fortunes for the Italian Social Movement at the Italian general election in May 1972, when Franco was elected senator. The neo-fascists benefitted, because the Christian Democrats were divided, and the PCI supported the suppression of the riots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 43], "content_span": [44, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094766-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 bombings in Italy, Workers protest\nThe leftist unions led by the Italian General Confederation of Labour, who abandoned the revolt after the first five days due to violence and exploitation by the neo-fascists, set up a workers march in Reggio on October 22, 1972, named Conferenza del Mezzogiorno, in order to show the city that workers from the whole country were supporting their requests but rejecting the means of violence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094766-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 bombings in Italy, Workers protest\nOn a less evident level, the unions desire was to weaken the apparent influence of CISNAL and Francesco Franco, demonstrating that the majority of workers were with them. For the first time in Italian unions history, a major national rally was held in southern Italy. The industrial powerhouse of the country was in the north, while the political hub is in the center, so the southern part was usually underrepresented in the unionist action.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094766-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 bombings in Italy, Workers protest\nTwenty trains were chartered to bring workers from northern and central Italy, especially from the FIAT plant in Turin. One thousand shipbuilders from Genova Ansaldo shipyards booked a whole ship for their trip.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094766-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 bombings in Italy, Bombs\nIn order to impair the rally, right-wing terrorists placed bombs on the railway. The track in Cassino was bombed. Some trains were assaulted by people while crossing stations, some of them trying to join the protest, some trying to infiltrate the workers as agent provocateur. Taunts from some bystanders to the workers, as Roman salutes and insults, were a common occurrence during the trip.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094766-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 bombings in Italy, Bombs\nIn Priverno-Fossanova station, near Latina, a bomb blew up on a train coming from Bologna, causing only five injured. A new train was brought, and the workers continued their trip. A bomb was detonated on the stairs of the Palace of Justice of Latina. Two bombs exploded in Roccella Jonica, destroying two pylons of the telephone lines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094766-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 bombings in Italy, Bombs\nOn the Rome\u2013Reggio Calabria railway a bomb is detonated in the Valmontone station. After the explosion, police found another unexploded device at the entrance of the Palmi gallery. Between Lamezia Terme and San Pietro a Maida another bomb exploded damaging the railway track. Near Gioia Tauro, the town of the Freccia del Sud massacre, two explosive devices were found on the railway tracks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094766-0011-0000", "contents": "1972 bombings in Italy, Bombs\nDespite the bombings and the disruptions of rail service, over 40,000 people managed to reach Reggio Calabria. The unionist organizers were under great strain, fearing attacks or bombings on the march course, and were doubtful if marching was a sound thing to do after the attacks. Some workers begun the march autonomously, and were followed by the rest of the crowd. The parade received some stone throwing from provokers, but resisted responding to the violence. Ultimately, the protest became a strong message to the city and a great blow to Franco's power, effectively closing an age of turmoil in the city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 29], "content_span": [30, 642]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094766-0012-0000", "contents": "1972 bombings in Italy, Aftermath\nAccording to the neo-fascist activist Vincenzo Vinciguerra, who at the time belonged to National Vanguard, the group had been responsible for the bombs. Senator Francesco Ciccio Franco was investigated for distributing leaflets hostile to the anti-fascist demonstration. Subsequent judicial investigations of charges of provocation and terrorism ended with his acquittal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 33], "content_span": [34, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094766-0013-0000", "contents": "1972 bombings in Italy, In popular culture\nSongwriter Giovanna Marini dedicated a song to the event, entitled \"I treni per Reggio Calabria\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094767-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in Afghanistan, Incumbents\nDomestic politics are overshadowed by economic hardship resulting from the worst drought the country has ever experienced. The lack of rain over large areas in 1971 has decimated the sheep population, which constitute the principal source of protein for a meat-eating nation; food crops also suffered severely. The year 1972 brings little relief, and the flow of people into Pakistan and Iran in quest of food continues. Both these countries again respond generously to the government's appeal for external assistance, and later in the year UN agencies give substantial help.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 607]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094767-0000-0001", "contents": "1972 in Afghanistan, Incumbents\nEven so, by the fall the situation in some provinces, particularly Ghor, becomes desperate. Some 50,000-100,000 people, many of them women and children, face starvation. At this juncture, the UN Children's Emergency Fund rushes food, medicine, and clothing to the distressed area, and many people who would otherwise have perished are kept alive. The king and his government work tirelessly to overcome the national emergency, but the country's resources are still limited, communication with many outlying regions is not easy, and effective relief work is handicapped by local traditions of autonomy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 633]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094767-0000-0002", "contents": "1972 in Afghanistan, Incumbents\nOne bright spot is the growing importance of the tourist industry. Foreign travelers naturally follow the excellent roads, constructed mainly with Soviet and U.S. help, that link the major cities, and are little tempted to go beyond the direct overland route from Europe to India and Nepal, in which Afghanistan is an essential link. Thus they are little affected by the distress in the outlying areas, and the foreign exchange that they bring into the country proves invaluable to the government. In foreign affairs Afghanistan's traditional policy of neutrality is strictly observed, and relations with all its neighbours remain friendly. No attempt is made to take advantage of Pakistan's difficulties, but, at the same time, economic and cultural contacts with India continue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 812]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094767-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 in Afghanistan, December 1972\nAfter a massive vote of no confidence in the lower house of parliament, King Zahir Shah accepts the resignation of the government of Abdul Zahir, which had come under severe criticism for its alleged failure to cope with the emergency. The king appoints Mohammad Musa Shafiq to form a new administration which takes office later in the month.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094767-0001-0001", "contents": "1972 in Afghanistan, December 1972\nShafiq had been prominent in shaping the constitution of 1964, which banned members of the royal family from public office, and had thereby brought to an end the quasi-dictatorship of Gen. Sardar Mohammad Daud Khan, the king's cousin and brother-in-law, who had virtually ruled Afghanistan from 1953 to 1963. The new prime minister sets to work to deal with the economic crisis, mobilizing young officials, students, and army officers into a relief corps to distribute the foreign aid that pours into the country from the U.S. and from international agencies. Even so, it is estimated that approximately 80,000 people have died of starvation before supplies could reach them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 710]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094768-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in American television\nThis is a\u00a0list of\u00a0American television-related events in 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 89]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094769-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in Australia\nThe following lists events that happened during 1972 in Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 84]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094770-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in Australian literature\nThis article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094770-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 in Australian literature, Births\nA list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1972 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094770-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 in Australian literature, Deaths\nA list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1972 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094772-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in Bangladesh\n1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1972nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 972nd year of the 2nd\u00a0millennium, the 72nd year of the 20th\u00a0century, and the 3rd year of the 1970s decade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094772-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 in Bangladesh\nThe year 1972 was the first year after the independence of Bangladesh. It was also the first year of the first post-independence government in Bangladesh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094772-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 in Bangladesh, Economy\nNote: For the year 1972 average official exchange rate for BDT was 7.70 per US$.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 27], "content_span": [28, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094773-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in Belgian television\nThis is a list of Belgian television related events from 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 89]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094773-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 in Belgian television, Deaths\nThis Belgian television-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094776-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in Brazilian football\nThe following article presents a summary of the 1972 football (soccer) season in Brazil, which was the 71st season of competitive football in the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094776-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 in Brazilian football, Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie B\nSampaio Corr\u00eaa declared as the Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie B champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 57], "content_span": [58, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094776-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 in Brazilian football, Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie B, Promotion\nNo club was promoted to the following year's first level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 68], "content_span": [69, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094776-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 in Brazilian football, Brazil national team\nThe following table lists all the games played by the Brazil national football team in official competitions and friendly matches during 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094777-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in Brazilian television\nThis is a list of Brazilian television related events from 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 93]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094778-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in British music\nThis is a summary of 1972 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094778-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 in British music, Year-end charts, Best-selling albums\nA list of the top twenty best-selling albums of 1972 was published in the issue of Record Mirror dated 13 January 1973, and a top fifty was later reproduced in the first edition of the BPI Year Book in 1976. However, in 2007 the Official Charts Company published album chart histories for each year from 1956 to 1977, researched by historian Sharon Mawer, and included an updated list of the top ten best-selling albums for each year based on the new research. The updated top ten for 1972 is shown in the table below.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 59], "content_span": [60, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094779-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in British radio\nThis is a list of events in British radio during 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 76]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094780-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in British television\nThis is a list of British television related events from 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 89]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094782-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in Burundi\nThe following lists events that happened during 1972 in Burundi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 80]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094783-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in Cambodia\nThe following lists events that happened during 1972 in the Khmer Republic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094785-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in Canadian television\nThe following is a list of events affecting Canadian television in 1972. Events listed include television show debuts, finales, cancellations, and channel launches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094786-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in Cape Verde\nThe following lists events that happened during 1972 in Cape Verde.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 86]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094787-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in Chile\nThe following lists events that happened during 1972 in Chile.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 76]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094789-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in Croatian television\nThis is a list of Croatian television related events from 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 91]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094789-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 in Croatian television, Deaths\nThis Croatian television-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094791-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in Danish television\nThis is a list of Danish television related events from 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 87]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094792-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in Denmark, Events\n14 January: Fredrick IX of Denmark dies. He is succeeded by his oldest daughter, Margrethe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 23], "content_span": [24, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094793-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in Dutch television\nThis is a list of Dutch television related events from 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 85]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094794-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in Estonia\nThis article lists events that occurred during 1972 in Estonia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 79]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094795-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in Estonian television\nThis is a list of Estonian television related events from 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 91]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094797-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in German television\nThis is a list of German television related events from 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 87]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094799-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in Iceland\nThe following lists events that happened in 1972 in Iceland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 76]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094800-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in India\nEvents in the year 1972 in the Republic of India.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 63]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094801-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in Iran\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by MrLinkinPark333 (talk | contribs) at 00:59, 24 June 2020 (content added at 22:35, February 20, 2015 in this article was copied from April 1972). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094801-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 in Iran\nThe following lists events that happened during 1972 in Iran.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 74]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094802-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in Iraq\nThe following lists events that happened during 1972 in the Iraqi Republic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094804-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in Irish television\nThe following is a list of events relating to television in Ireland from 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094805-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in Israel, Events, Israeli\u2013Palestinian conflict\nThe most prominent events related to the Israeli\u2013Palestinian conflict which occurred during 1972 include:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 52], "content_span": [53, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094805-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 in Israel, Events, Israeli\u2013Palestinian conflict\nThe most prominent Palestinian terror attacks committed against Israelis during 1972 include:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 52], "content_span": [53, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094805-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 in Israel, Events, Israeli\u2013Palestinian conflict\nThe most prominent Israeli military counter-terrorism operations (military campaigns and military operations) carried out against Palestinian militants during 1972 include:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 52], "content_span": [53, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094806-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in Italian television\nThis is a list of Italian television related events from 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 89]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094808-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in Japan\nEvents in the year 1972 in Japan. It corresponds to Sh\u014dwa 47 (\u662d\u548c47\u5e74) in the Japanese calendar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094809-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in Japanese football\n1972 in Japanese football is an overview of events relating to football in the Japanese culture.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094813-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in LGBT rights\nThis is a list of notable events in the history of LGBT rights that took place in the year 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094814-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in Laos\nThe following lists events that happened during 1972 in Laos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 74]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094815-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in Libya\nThe following lists events that happened in 1972 in Libya.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 72]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094816-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in Luxembourg\nThe following lists events that happened during 1972 in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094818-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in Malaysia\nThis article lists important figures and events in Malaysian public affairs during the year 1972, together with births and deaths of notable Malaysians.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094820-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in Michigan\nThe Associated Press (AP) and United Press International (UPI) each selected the top news stories in Michigan for 1972 as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094820-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 in Michigan\nThe AP and UPI also selected the state's top sports stories as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094820-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 in Michigan, Population\nIn the 1970 United States Census, Michigan was recorded as having a population of 8,875,083 persons, ranking as the seventh most populous state in the country. By 1980, the state's population had grown 4.4% to 9,262,078 persons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094820-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 in Michigan, Population, Cities\nThe following is a list of cities in Michigan with a population of at least 70,000 based on 1970 U.S. Census data. Historic census data from 1960 and 1980 is included to reflect trends in population increases or decreases. Cities that are part of the Detroit metropolitan area are shaded in tan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 36], "content_span": [37, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094820-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 in Michigan, Population, Counties\nThe following is a list of counties in Michigan with populations of at least 120,000 based on 1970 U.S. Census data. Historic census data from 1960 and 1980 are included to reflect trends in population increases or decreases. Counties that are part of the Detroit metropolitan area are shaded in tan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 38], "content_span": [39, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094820-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 in Michigan, Music\nThe following albums by Michigan artists were released in 1972:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 23], "content_span": [24, 87]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094821-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in New Zealand\nThe following lists events that happened during 1972 in New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094821-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 in New Zealand, Incumbents, Government\nThe 36th Parliament of New Zealand concluded. A general election was held on 8 December and saw the second National government defeated by a large margin, with the Labour Party winning 55 of 87 seats in Parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 43], "content_span": [44, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094821-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 in New Zealand, Arts and literature, Radio and Television\nSee : 1972 in New Zealand television, 1972 in television, List of TVNZ television programming, Category:Television in New Zealand, Category:New Zealand television shows, Public broadcasting in New Zealand", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 62], "content_span": [63, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094821-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 in New Zealand, Arts and literature, Film\nSee : Category:1972 film awards, 1972 in film, List of New Zealand feature films, Cinema of New Zealand, Category:1972 films", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 46], "content_span": [47, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094822-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in North Korea, Events\nJuly 4th North\u2013South Korea Joint Statement1972 North Korean parliamentary election", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094825-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in Norwegian football\nThe 1972 season was the 67th season of competitive football in Norway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094825-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 in Norwegian football\nViking FK won the title on goal difference with Fredrikstad FK finishing runners-up, while Jan Erik Osland's goal gave SK Brann a 1\u20130 win over Rosenborg BK in the Norwegian cup final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094826-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in Norwegian music\nThe following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 1972 in Norwegian music.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094828-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in Peru\nThis article lists events from the year 1972 in Peru.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 66]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094829-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in Philippine television\nThe following is a list of events affecting Philippine television in 1972. Events listed include television show debuts, finales, cancellations, and channel launches, closures and rebrandings, as well as information about controversies and carriage disputes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094830-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in Portugal, Arts and entertainment\nPortugal participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 1972, with Carlos Mendes and the song \"A festa da vida\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094830-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 in Portugal, Sport\nIn association football, for the first-tier league seasons, see 1971\u201372 Primeira Divis\u00e3o and 1972\u201373 Primeira Divis\u00e3o; for the Ta\u00e7a de Portugal seasons, see 1971\u201372 Ta\u00e7a de Portugal and 1972\u201373 Ta\u00e7a de Portugal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 23], "content_span": [24, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094831-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in Rhodesia\nThe following lists events that happened during 1972 in Rhodesia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 82]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094833-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in Scottish television\nThis is a list of events in Scottish television from 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 86]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094834-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in Singapore\nThe following lists events that happened during 1972 in Singapore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 84]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094835-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in South Africa\nThe following lists events that happened during 1972 in South Africa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094839-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in Swedish football\nThe 1972 season in Swedish football, starting April 1972 and ending November 1972:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094840-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in Taiwan\nEvents from the year 1972 in Taiwan, Republic of China. This year is numbered Minguo 61 according to the official Republic of China calendar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094841-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in Thailand\nThe year 1972 was the 191st year of the Rattanakosin Kingdom of Thailand. It was the 27th year in the reign of King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX), and is reckoned as year 2515 in the Buddhist Era.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094841-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 in Thailand, Incumbents\nThis Thailand-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094843-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in Wales\nThis article is about the particular significance of the year 1972 to Wales and its people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094844-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in Zaire\nThe following lists events that happened during 1972 in Zaire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 76]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094844-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 in Zaire, Sources\nThis year in Africa article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 22], "content_span": [23, 89]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094847-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in architecture\nThe year 1972 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094849-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in association football\nThe following are the football (soccer) events of the year 1972 throughout the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094850-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in aviation\nThis is a list of aviation-related events from 1972. This particular year remains the deadliest year in commercial aviation history since 1942; 2,313 people were killed in aviation accidents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094851-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in baseball\nThe following are the baseball events of the year 1972 throughout the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094851-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 in baseball, Labor strife and more moving\n1972 was tainted by a players' strike over pension and salary arbitration. The strike erased the first week and a half of the season, and the Leagues decided to just excise the lost portion of the season with no makeups. As a result, an uneven number of games were cancelled for each team; some as few as six, some as many as nine. The lack of makeups of those games, even when they affected playoffs, led to the Boston Red Sox losing the American League East by half a game to the Detroit Tigers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 46], "content_span": [47, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094851-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 in baseball, Labor strife and more moving\n1972 marked the first year for the Texas Rangers, who had moved to Arlington from Washington, D.C. (where they played as the Washington Senators), after the 1971 season. There would be no baseball in D.C. until 2005. The team was one of the worst ever fielded by the franchise, losing 100 games for the first time since 1964. Manager Ted Williams hated living in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, and resigned at the end of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 46], "content_span": [47, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094851-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 in baseball, Labor strife and more moving\n1972 would mark the Kansas City Royals' final year at Kansas City Municipal Stadium, as the next year they would move to Royals Stadium (later named Kauffman Stadium) at the Truman Sports Complex in suburban Kansas City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 46], "content_span": [47, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094851-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 in baseball, Labor strife and more moving\nThe World Series was won by the Oakland Athletics, the first of three straight behind the bats of Reggie Jackson and Bert Campaneris, and the pitching cadre of Catfish Hunter, Rollie Fingers and Vida Blue. The year ended on a sad note when Roberto Clemente died in an airplane crash off the coast of San Juan, Puerto Rico, on New Year's Eve, while participating in aid efforts after the 1972 Nicaragua earthquake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 46], "content_span": [47, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094853-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in comics\nNotable events of 1972 in comics. See also List of years in comics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 82]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094853-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 in comics, Awards, Goethe Awards\nPublished in The Buyer's Guide to Comics Fandom (TBG) #38 (June 15, 1973) (for comics published in 1972). Ballots were printed in TBG, Comic Crusader, The Comic Reader, the Gazette Advertiser, The Menomonee Falls Gazette, and Rocket's Blast Comicollector. 1,011 fans cast their votes. Winners in each category are listed in boldface, along with other fan-selected nominees in order of finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 37], "content_span": [38, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094854-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in country music\nThis is a list of notable events in country music that took place in the year 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094855-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in film, Highest-grossing films (U.S.)\nThe top ten 1972 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 43], "content_span": [44, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094856-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in fine arts of the Soviet Union\nThe year 1972 was marked by many events that left an imprint on the history of Soviet and Russian Fine Arts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094857-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in games\nThis page lists board and card games, wargames, and miniatures games published in 1972. For video and console games, see 1972 in video gaming.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094858-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in heavy metal music\nThis is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094859-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in ice hockey\nThe following is a chronicle of events during the year 1972 in ice hockey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 93]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094860-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in jazz\nThis is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 76]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094861-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in literature\nThis article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094862-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in motorsport\nThe following is an overview of the events of 1972 in motorsport including the major racing events, motorsport venues that were opened and closed during a year, championships and non-championship events that were established and disestablished in a year, and births and deaths of racing drivers and other motorsport people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094862-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 in motorsport, Annual events\nThe calendar includes only annual major non-championship events or annual events that had significance separate from the championship. For the dates of the championship events see related season articles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 33], "content_span": [34, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094863-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in music\nThis is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 89]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094863-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 in music, Biggest hit singles\nThe following songs achieved the highest in the charts of 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 34], "content_span": [35, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094864-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in paleontology\nPaleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. This includes the study of body fossils, tracks (ichnites), burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces (coprolites), palynomorphs and chemical residues. Because humans have encountered fossils for millennia, paleontology has a long history both before and after becoming formalized as a science. This article records significant discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094864-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 in paleontology, Archosauromorphs, Newly named birds\nAn Anatidae, this is the type species of the new genus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 57], "content_span": [58, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094864-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 in paleontology, Archosauromorphs, Newly named birds\nA Corvidae, this is the type species of the new genus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 57], "content_span": [58, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094864-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 in paleontology, Archosauromorphs, Newly named birds\nA Spheniscidae, placed in synonymy with Paraptenodytes robustus (Ameghino, 1895) by Carolina Acosta Hospitaleche, 2005, but Sara Bertelli, Norberto P. Giannini & Daniel T. Ksepka, 2006 disagree with her and say it needs another genus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 57], "content_span": [58, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094864-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 in paleontology, Archosauromorphs, Newly named birds\nA Gruidae, transferred to the genus Grus by J\u00ed\u0159\u00ed Ml\u00edkovsk\u00fd, 2002.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 57], "content_span": [58, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094864-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 in paleontology, Archosauromorphs, Newly named birds\nA Corvidae, sometimes placed in the genus Calocitta G. R. Gray, 1841.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 57], "content_span": [58, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094864-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 in paleontology, Archosauromorphs, Newly named birds\nA Phasianidae, this is the type species of the new genus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 57], "content_span": [58, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094864-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 in paleontology, Archosauromorphs, Newly named birds\nA Strigidae, transferred to and made the type species of the new genus Alasio by Jir\u00ed Ml\u00edkovsk\u00fd, 1998.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 57], "content_span": [58, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094864-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 in paleontology, Archosauromorphs, Newly named birds\nA Rallidae, transferred to the genus Palaeoaramides Lambrecht, 1933 by Storrs L. Olson, 1977. Subsequently, made the type species of a separate genus Mioporphyrula by Zelenkov (2015).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 57], "content_span": [58, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094865-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in poetry\nNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094865-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 in poetry, Works published in English\nListed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 42], "content_span": [43, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094865-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 in poetry, Works published in other languages\nListed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 50], "content_span": [51, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094865-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 in poetry, Deaths\nBirth years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 22], "content_span": [23, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094866-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in professional wrestling\n1972 in professional wrestling describes the year's events in the world of professional wrestling.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094868-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in rail transport\nThis article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094869-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in science\nThe year 1972 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094870-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in spaceflight\n1972 saw humanity's last crewed mission to the Moon of the 20th century, Apollo 17.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094871-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in sports\n1972 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 73]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094872-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in television\nThe year 1972 involved some significant events in television. Below is a list of notable television-related events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094873-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in the European Communities\nThe signing of the treaties of accession by Denmark, United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland and Norway occurred on 22 January. While Norwegian voters later in the year rejected the treaty in a referendum later that year, the three other states joined the EC on 1 January 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094874-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Philippines\n1972 in the Philippines details events of note that happened in the Philippines in the year 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094875-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in the United Arab Emirates\nThe following lists events that happened during 1972 in the United Arab Emirates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War\n1972 in the Vietnam War saw foreign involvement in South Vietnam slowly declining. Two allies, New Zealand and Thailand, which had each contributed military contingents, left South Vietnam this year. The United States continued to participate in combat, primarily with air power to assist the South Vietnamese army, while negotiators in Paris tried to hammer out a peace agreement and withdrawal strategy for the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, January\nU.S. military personnel in South Vietnam numbered 133,200, a reduction from more than 500,000 in 1968.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, January\nThe North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) Campaign Z threatened the Royal Lao Army base at Long Tieng but was eventually repelled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, January\nThe Cambodian Khmer National Army (ANK) withdrew from the town of Ponhea Kraek (Krek) near the Fishhook abandoning the last remaining road link between Cambodia and South Vietnam. Further south in the Parrot's Beak the South Vietnamese Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) began Operation Prek Ta against the PAVN in that area of Cambodia. The objective of the offensive was to disrupt the preparations of the North Vietnamese for an anticipated offensive on T\u1ebft, 15 February.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, January\nLe Duc Tho, Politburo member and secret negotiator for North Vietnam in the Paris peace talks, cabled the head of Central Office for South Vietnam (COSVN) in South Vietnam that \"we and the enemy are preparing for a ferocious confrontation ... during the upcoming spring and summer.\" In addition to supporting the PAVN troops in South Vietnam, Tho instructed COSVN to devote attention to attacking the Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS) pacification program] and to the political struggle in the cities of South Vietnam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, January\nPresident Richard Nixon announced that 70,000 American troops would be pulled out of South Vietnam by 1 May, cutting the existing force of 139,000 by half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, January\nLeaders of 46 Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish organizations met in Kansas City and asked for the withdrawal of American military personnel from South Vietnam and a cut-off in aid to the South Vietnamese government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, January\nThe head of Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV), General Creighton Abrams cabled Washington that \"the enemy [North Vietnam] is preparing and positioning his forces for a major offensive.... There is no doubt this is to be a major campaign.\" Abrams requested additional authority to use U.S. American air power to mount an effective defense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, January\nPresident Nixon revealed that National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger had been meeting secretly with North Vietnamese representatives for more than 2 years. He also revealed the U.S. peace plan that had been proposed to Hanoi. Nixon proposed that, within six months of an agreement, all U.S. military be withdrawn from South Vietnam, Prisoners of War exchanged, an internationally supervised cease fire implemented, and a presidential election held in South Vietnam. Nixon did not demand the withdrawal of North Vietnamese military forces from South Vietnam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, January\nIn a performance at a White House gala dinner by the Ray Conniff Singers, one of the singers, Carole Feraci, held up a banner reading \"Stop the Killing\" and said \"President Nixon, stop bombing human beings, animals and vegetation. You go to church on Sundays and pray to Jesus Christ, if Jesus Christ were here tonight, you would not dare to drop another bomb.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, January\nNorth Vietnam criticized the U.S. for making public the details of secret peace talks. North Vietnam introduced its peace plan which demanded the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of U.S. military personnel from South Vietnam and the resignation of the Thieu government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0011-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, January\nDavid Morrell's novel First Blood about a troubled homeless Vietnam veteran named Rambo is published. In October 1982 the film adaptation First Blood was released.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0012-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, February\nPresident Nixon approved additional authority to General Abrams in South Vietnam to use American power to counter the anticipated North Vietnamese offensive. Specifically, the President acknowledged the growing threat from North Vietnamese surface-to-air missiles (SAM) and authorized the United States Air Force (USAF) to strike against SAM sites in the southern part of North Vietnam and neighboring Laos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0013-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, February\nThe last of Thailand's 12,000 troops in South Vietnam depart to return home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0014-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, February\nPresident Nixon ordered the draw down of USAF assets halted and the reassignment (Operation Bullet Shot) of 150 B-52 heavy bombers to Andersen Air Force Base in Guam and U-Tapao Royal Thai Navy Airfield in Thailand in anticipation of the PAVN offensive in South Vietnam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0015-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, February\nOperation Strength was an RLA offensive against PAVN forces in northern Laos to drawn forces away from besieging Long Tieng.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0016-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, February\nU.S. and Republic of Vietnam Air Force (RVNAF) aircraft completed a 24-hour period of bombing strikes against North Vietnam, with almost 400 bombing strikes carried out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0017-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, February\nG. McMurtrie Godley, U.S. Ambassador to Laos, responded negatively to a proposal by the White House, Defense Department, State Department and CIA that Laotian and Thai troops and American CIA operatives be withdrawn from Long Tieng, the headquarters of Laotian resistance to the communist Pathet Lao and PAVN. Godley argued that withdrawing from Long Tieng would plunge the United States into \"an abyss\" and be \"a dramatic military setback and political disequilibrium at the time of the President's visit to Peking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0018-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, February\nOperation Sinsay was a planned RLA offensive that was pre-empted by a PAVN attack the reached Pakse, but RLA forces were then deployed to attack the PAVN lines of communications forcing their withdrawal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0019-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, February\nWashington responded to Ambassador Godley in Laos conceding that it was \"not in position to give you detailed tactical instructions from this distance.\" The Department of Defense maintained that Godley should be ordered to \"thin out\" the forces defending Long Tieng. The State Department, CIA, and White House disagreed and left the proposed thinning out to Godley's discretion. Godley chose to defend Long Tieng and the town was held for another three years until the final Communist victory in Laos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0020-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, February\nOn this day and the five previous days the U.S. conducted the heaviest U.S. bombing raids of the war to date. The targets were PAVN and Viet Cong (VC) bases and infiltration routes into South Vietnam. The bombing was aimed at disrupting PAVN/VC preparations for the anticipated T\u1ebft offensive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0021-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, February\nThe T\u1ebft holiday in Vietnam. The anticipated T\u1ebft offensive by the PAVN/VC did not occur.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0022-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, February\nThree U.S. warplanes were shot down over North Vietnam in raids to destroy artillery positions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0023-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, February\nNixon arrived in Beijing, China and met with Mao Zedong in the first direct face to face meeting between a Chinese Communist leader and an American President. North Vietnam feared that the Americans and Chinese would come up with a deal disadvantageous to North Vietnam. With the relationship of the United States improving with both the Soviet Union and China the Vietnam War \"began to seem an irrelevant, troublesome historical leftover that might endanger the new relationships.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0024-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, February\nThe North Vietnamese and VC delegations walked out of the Paris Peace Talks in protest at the recent upsurge in U.S. bombing. They would return to the negotiations the following week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0025-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, February\nThe Republic of Korea (South Korea) completed the withdrawal of its Marine brigade from South Vietnam. Two Republic of Korea Army divisions totaling 36,000 men remained in South Vietnam. The United States financed the South Korean military force.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0026-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, March\nOperation Strength II was an RLA offensive designed to draw PAVN forces away from besieging Long Tieng. The operation failed to divert PAVN forces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0027-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, March\nU.S. bombing of anti-aircraft installations extended up to 120 miles (190\u00a0km) north of the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). The 86 air raids carried out in North Vietnam so far in 1972 equaled the number of air raids against North Vietnam during all of 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0028-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, March\nThe U.S. 101st Airborne Division left South Vietnam, the last U.S. ground combat division to be withdrawn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0029-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, March\nThe Khmer Rouge bombarded the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh with artillery, killing more than 100 civilians. This was the heaviest attack on Phnom Penh since the Cambodian Civil War began in 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0030-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, March\nThe Lavelle Affair began when USAF General John D. Lavelle, commander of Seventh Air Force, was accused of breaching the rules of engagement for reconnaissance patrols and protective reaction strikes over North Vietnam, allowing the falsifying of records to show that U.S. aircraft had been fired on and so allowing them to hit North Vietnamese targets. Lavelle would be forced to retire as a Major General and was replaced by General John W. Vogt, Jr. on 10 April.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0031-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, March\nThe PAVN 101D Regiment attacked the ARVN 42nd Ranger Group at Kompong Trach in Cambodia. Each side reinforced and the fighting continued until the end of April when the ARVN withdrew having inflicted heavy losses on the PAVN 1st Division. The battle was the first phase of the Easter Offensive in southern Cambodia and the Mekong Delta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0032-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, March\nThe United States boycotted peace negotiations in Paris with the North Vietnamese, citing the failure of North Vietnam to negotiate seriously.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0033-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, March\nThe long anticipated offensive by the PAVN/VC began. Called the Nguy\u1ec5n Hu\u1ec7 Offensive or Chi\u1ebfn d\u1ecbch Xu\u00e2n h\u00e8 1972 in Vietnamese and the Easter Offensive in English, three PAVN divisions (30,000\u201340,000 men) with support from tanks and artillery crossed the DMZ or came from Laos to the west to attack the ARVN 3rd Division. Although a North Vietnamese offensive had been expected, the invasion across the DMZ was a surprise and the ARVN was ill-prepared. Several small firebases were overrun within hours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0034-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, March\nNorth Vietnam's military objectives in launching what would be a three-pronged offensive were the capture of the cities of Quang Tri in the northern part of South Vietnam, Kontum in the Central Highlands and An Loc in the south.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0035-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, April\nOperation Fa Ngum was an RLA operation to capture the villages of Ban Ngik and Laongam as bases for incursions onto the Ho Chi Minh Trail. The RLA captured Laongam, but were repulsed by the PAVN in their attacks on Ban Ngik.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0036-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, April\nARVN forces numbering about 1,500 soldiers at Camp Carroll, a former United States Marine Corps base a few miles south of the DMZ, surrendered to the PAVN. Camp Carroll was important to South Vietnam because of its M107 175\u00a0mm artillery with a range of up to 20 miles (32\u00a0km). The capture of Camp Carroll gave the PAVN control of western Qu\u1ea3ng Tr\u1ecb Province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0037-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, April\nWith the city of \u0110\u00f4ng H\u00e0 near the DMZ threatened, Nixon authorized U.S. naval vessels offshore to strike at the PAVN with warplanes and naval gunfire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0038-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, April\nLieutenant Colonel Iceal Hambleton was the sole survivor of an EB-66 shot down near \u0110\u00f4ng H\u00e0. His rescue was the longest and most costly search and rescue mission during the war resulting in the loss of five aircraft, 11 U.S. killed and two captured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0039-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, April\nNixon authorized increased bombing of PAVN troops in South Vietnam and B-52 strikes against North Vietnam. He said, \"These bastards have never been bombed like they're going to be bombed this time.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0040-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, April\nThe PAVN attacked South Vietnamese positions in northern Binh Dinh province from their stronghold in the An Lao Valley. U.S. and South Vietnamese forces had contested the An Lao valley with the PAVN 3rd Division since Operation Masher in January 1966. PAVN/VC forces overran many ARVN positions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0041-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, April\nThe second prong of the Easter Offensive was the movement across the border from Cambodia of the VC 5th Division and an attack on 4,000 ARVN defenders at the Battle of Loc Ninh. L\u1ed9c Ninh was a small district town in B\u00ecnh Long Province, approximately 75 miles (121\u00a0km) north of Saigon. Nearly all of the ARVN defenders were killed or surrendered.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0042-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, April\nProceeding southward from the L\u1ed9c Ninh, PAVN/VC soldiers succeeded in surrounding the city of An L\u1ed9c, the capital of B\u00ecnh Long Province and the objective of the southern prong of the Easter Offensive. The defenders of An L\u1ed9c would henceforth be supplied and reinforced by air.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0043-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, April\nIn Washington, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger warned Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin that the U.S. might take \"drastic measures to end the [Vietnam] war once and for all.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0044-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, April\nFor the first time since November 1968, U.S. B-52s bombed North Vietnam in Operation Freedom Train. Their priority targets were SAM sites. The U.S. called the SAM sites \"the most sophisticated air defenses in the history of air warfare.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0045-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, April\nA PAVN rocket attack on Da Nang Air Base killed 14 Vietnamese civilians.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0046-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, April\nThe United States Senate voted 68\u201316 to approve the War Powers Act, which would limit the power of the President to commit American forces to hostilities without Congressional approval. The legislation then moved on to the House.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0047-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, April\nAfter several days of artillery strikes, the PAVN attacked An L\u1ed9c with tanks and infantry. They were halted at the city outskirts by ARVN defenders and heavy air attacks by the United States. The Battle of An L\u1ed9c became a siege that lasted for 66 days and culminated in a victory for South Vietnam. North Vietnam devoted 35,000 soldiers to the battle and siege. The victory at An L\u1ed9c halted the PAVN advance towards Saigon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0048-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, April\nThe U.S. carried out heavy B-52 and fighter bomber strikes against Hanoi and Haiphong in Operation Freedom Porch. Nixon said, \"we really left them our calling card this weekend.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0049-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, April\nAnti -war demonstrators protested the bombing of North Vietnam throughout the United States. Hundreds of protesters were arrested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0050-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, April\nSeveral Vietnam People's Air Force (VPAF) MiG-17F fighter-bombers attacked United States Navy warships in the Battle of \u0110\u1ed3ng H\u1edbi. This was the first air attack on U.S. warships of the Vietnam War. A gun mount on the USS\u00a0Higbee was destroyed. The U.S. navy sunk several motor torpedo boats and shot down several VPAF planes and also engaged shore batteries in North Vietnam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0051-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, April\nPresident Nixon announced that American troops would be reduced in numbers in South Vietnam from 69,000 on this date to 49,000 by 1 July. Many of those being withdrawn from South Vietnam went to Thailand to prosecute the air war from there. USAF strength in Thailand increased from 32,000 to 45,000. In addition, four additional aircraft carriers were stationed off the coast of Vietnam and the number of B-52s stationed in Thailand and Guam was increased from 50 to 200.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0052-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, April\nSecretary of State Kissinger visited Moscow and met with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev to prepare for an upcoming summit meeting between Nixon and Brezhnev. Nixon instructed Kissinger that his top priority was to get Soviet cooperation in seeking an agreement to end hostilities in South Vietnam. Brezhnev said he would use Soviet influence but he could not dictate to North Vietnam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0053-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, April\n100,000 people in various cities around the United States protest increased bombing by the US in Vietnam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0054-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, April\nThe PAVN uses AT-3 Sagger anti-tank guided missiles for the first time in combat, attacking the ARVN 20th Tank Regiment destroying one M48A3 and one M113 armored cavalry assault vehicle (ACAV) and damaging a second ACAV.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0055-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, April\nAfter preliminary encounters, the third prong of the Easter Offensive began in the Central Highlands. The PAVN 2nd Division supported by tanks attacked the ARVN 47th Regiment, 22nd Division at T\u00e2n C\u1ea3nh Base Camp. By nightfall on 24 April, the PAVN had overrun Tan Canh and nearby Dak To II Base Camp and the 22nd Division had disintegrated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0056-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, April\nThe U.S. 1st Combat Aerial TOW Team arrived in South Vietnam to test the new BGM-71 TOW anti-armor missile under combat conditions. The team consisted of two UH-1B helicopters each mounting the XM26 TOW weapons system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0057-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, April\nDa Nang Air Base was hit by PAVN 122mm rockets prompting a call for Marines to provide base security and on 25 May the 3rd Battalion, 9th Marines was deployed to the base.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0058-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, April\nThe United States Joint Chiefs of Staff assessed the performance of South Vietnamese armed forces thus far in the Easter offensive as \"encouraging.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0059-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, April\nThe first kill is made by a PAVN SA-7 Man-portable air-defense system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0060-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, April\nApproximately 2,000 South Vietnamese civilians are killed by indiscriminate PAVN artillery fire as they fled Qu\u1ea3ng Tr\u1ecb along Highway 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0061-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, May\nThe city of Qu\u1ea3ng Tr\u1ecb was captured by the PAVN, the only provincial capital to fall to them during the Easter Offensive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 28], "content_span": [29, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0062-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, May\nThe preceding week saw South Vietnamese casualties, especially near Qu\u1ea3ng Tr\u1ecb, reach their highest level of the entire Vietnam War. The ARVN 3rd and 22nd Divisions had disintegrated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 28], "content_span": [29, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0063-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, May\nIn the first combat kill using the TOW missile the U.S. 1st Combat Aerial TOW Team destroyed an American-made M41 operated by the PAVN near An L\u1ed9c.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 28], "content_span": [29, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0064-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, May\nLieutenant General Ng\u00f4 Quang Tr\u01b0\u1edfng assumed command of I Corps replacing the ineffectual General Ho\u00e0ng Xu\u00e2n L\u00e3m.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 28], "content_span": [29, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0065-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, May\nThe Paris Peace Talks were suspended indefinitely after the United States and South Vietnam pulled out because of \"a lack of progress\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 28], "content_span": [29, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0066-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, May\nUnited Press International photographer David Hume Kennerly is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for his photos taken in Cambodia and South Vietnam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 28], "content_span": [29, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0067-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, May\nNixon withdrew his demand for a withdrawal of all North Vietnamese forces from South Vietnam as a precondition for a peace agreement. Nixon proposed that all US POWs be released and an internationally supervised cease fire take place. The U.S. would cease bombing and withdraw from South Vietnam within six months after those conditions were met.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 28], "content_span": [29, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0068-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, May\nNixon also announced Operation Pocket Money, the mining of Haiphong and other North Vietnamese harbors, calculating correcting that he could take such a step without endangering the U.S.'s improving relationships with China and the Soviet Union. Nixon's action inspired an outbreak of anti-Vietnam War protests around the U.S. with 1,800 arrests of protesters reported.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 28], "content_span": [29, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0069-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, May\nRear Admiral Rembrandt C. Robinson and two others were killed when their helicopter crashed while landing on USS\u00a0Providence in the Gulf of Tonkin. He was the only U.S. Navy Flag officer killed in the war.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 28], "content_span": [29, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0070-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, May\nThe PAVN 203rd Tank Regiment attacked Ben Het Camp. ARVN Rangers destroyed the first three PT-76 tanks with BGM-71 TOW missiles, thereby breaking up the attack. The Rangers spent the rest of the day stabilising the perimeter ultimately destroying 11 tanks and killing over 100 PAVN.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 28], "content_span": [29, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0071-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, May\nLieutenant Duke Cunningham and Lieutenant William P. Driscoll of VF-96 become the only U.S. Navy aces of the war scoring their third, fourth and fifth kills of MiG-17s in a single mission. Their F-4J was then hit by a SAM-2 missile and they ejected successfully over the Gulf of Tonkin and were rescued.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 28], "content_span": [29, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0072-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, May\nU.S. aircraft achieve their highest number of aerial kills of the war, downing 11 VPAF jets (seven MiG-17s and four MiG-21s)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 28], "content_span": [29, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0073-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, May\nA U.S. Army CH-47A crashed near Saigon killing all 34 onboard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 28], "content_span": [29, 91]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0074-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, May\nUSAF First Lieutenant Michael Blassie of the 8th Special Operations Squadron was killed when his A-37B Dragonfly was shot down near An L\u1ed9c. His remains and some personal effects were recovered from the crash site by the ARVN five months later and turned over to the U.S. military. The remains were later reclassified as unknown and on 17 May 1984 his remains were designated as the Vietnam Unknown service member. On 28 May 1984 his remains were entombed at Arlington National Cemetery. The remains were exhumed on 14 May 1988 and identified as Blassie through DNA testing. Later in 1988 he was reburied at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 28], "content_span": [29, 673]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0075-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, May\nChina condemned the mining of North Vietnamese ports and pledged ongoing support for North Vietnam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 28], "content_span": [29, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0076-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, May\nThe Thanh H\u00f3a Bridge in North Vietnam was destroyed by laser-guided bombs, \"accomplishing in a single mission what seven years of nonprecision bombing had failed to do\". The U.S. had first bombed the 540-foot-long (160\u00a0m) concrete and steel structure in 1965.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 28], "content_span": [29, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0077-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, May\nIn one of the largest and most intense battles of the Easter Offensive, PAVN forces assaulted the city of Kontum and the nearby South Vietnamese base in the Battle of Kontum. Intensive U.S. airstrikes helped the ARVN fend off the PAVN and retain control of the city and nearby area although fighting in the area would continue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 28], "content_span": [29, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0078-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, May\nOperation Enhance began with the objective of replacing material and equipment expended or lost by South Vietnam during the Eastern Offensive. From May to October under Operation Enhance, the U.S. provided the South Vietnamese armed forces with artillery and anti-tank weapons, 69 helicopters, 55 jet fighters, 100 other aircraft and seven patrol boats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 28], "content_span": [29, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0079-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, May\nVice President Spiro T. Agnew, Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker and Abrams met with Thieu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 28], "content_span": [29, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0080-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, May\nNixon began a state visit to the Soviet Union. The visit was part of his strategy to improve relations with both the Soviet Union and China in order to pressure North Vietnam to accept peace on terms acceptable to the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 28], "content_span": [29, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0081-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, May\nThe 39th Rangers capture two SA-7 missile launchers, one was immediately sent to the U.S. for evaluation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 28], "content_span": [29, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0082-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, June\nUSAF Major Roger Locher, whose F-4D had been shot down on 10 May, was finally rescued after 23 days behind enemy lines. He was 60 miles (97\u00a0km) northwest of Hanoi and within 5 miles (8.0\u00a0km) of the heavily defended Y\u00ean B\u00e1i Air Base. His time behind enemy lines and successful rescue was a record for the war and was the farthest penetration of an American search and rescue operation into North Vietnam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0083-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, June\nOperation Thunderhead was a secret combat mission conducted by U.S. Navy SEAL Team One and Underwater Demolition Team (UDT)-11 in 1972. The mission was conducted off the coast of North Vietnam to rescue two U.S. airmen said to be escaping from a prisoner of war prison in Hanoi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0084-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, June\nThe first presidential election held in the Khmer Republic resulted in a victory for the incumbent, Lon Nol, although counting within the capital Phnom Penh showed a majority for challenger In Tam. Lon Nol ordered the FANK to collect and count the poll results from the countryside, where In Tam had had greater support, and was soon declared the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0085-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, June\nAn Air America C-46 crashed on approach to Pleiku Air Base killing all 32 onboard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0086-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, June\nA South Vietnamese village outside of Tr\u1ea3ng B\u00e0ng District was bombed with napalm in an errant air strike by the RVNAF. Nick Ut took a photograph that became an iconic symbol of the horrors of war. The wirephoto, published on the front pages of newspapers that evening and the next morning showed children crying in pain from their burns, including a 9-year-old girl, Phan Th\u1ecb Kim Ph\u00fac, who had torn her clothes off after catching fire. The image would win a Pulitzer Prize.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0087-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, June\nJohn Paul Vann died in a helicopter crash in South Vietnam. Vann, a retired U.S. army Colonel and head of CORDS for the Central Highlands, had directed the defense of Kontum. During his years in Vietnam Vann had acquired much influence and fame and his funeral in Washington was attended by a who's who of U.S. civilian and military leaders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0088-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, June\nCathay Pacific Flight 700Z, operated by a Convair 880 (VR-HFZ) from Bangkok to Hong Kong, disintegrated and crashed while the aircraft was flying at 29,000 feet (8,800\u00a0m) over Pleiku after a bomb exploded in a suitcase placed under a seat in the cabin, killing all 81 people on board.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0089-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, June\nOperation Black Lion was an RLA counter-offensive against a PAVN offensive at Khong Sedone. The RLA succeeded in capturing Salavan, but failed to capture Paksan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0090-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, June\nBurglars break into the Democratic National Committee's headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington D.C., starting what would become the Watergate scandal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0091-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, June\nIn order to reestablish Soviet supply lines to North Vietnam, China agreed that Soviet bloc ships could unload supplies at Chinese ports which would then be moved by rail into North Vietnam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0092-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, June\nResponding to a U.S. request for a resumption of secret negotiations, North Vietnam. responded that \"clothed by its goodwill, [it] agrees to private meetings.\" The meetings between Kissinger and Le Duc Tho would begin on 19 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0093-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, June\nThe 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division commanded by Brigadier General James F. Hamlet was stood down at Bien Hoa Air Base in a ceremony attended by Abrams and Lieutenant General Nguy\u1ec5n V\u0103n Minh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0094-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, June\nUnited States Marine Corps aircraft begin operating from Royal Thai Air Base Nam Phong hitting targets in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0095-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, June\nThe South Vietnamese Senate passed a bill authorizing Thieu to rule by decree for six months.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0096-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, June\nThe Second Battle of Qu\u1ea3ng Tr\u1ecb (Vietnamese: Th\u00e0nh c\u1ed5 Qu\u1ea3ng Tr\u1ecb) began on June 28 and lasted 81 days until September 16, 1972, when the ARVN defeated the PAVN and recaptured most of the province.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0097-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, June\nThe 196th Infantry Brigade departs South Vietnam becoming the last U.S. combat brigade to leave.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0098-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, June\nGeneral Frederick C. Weyand assumes command of MACV from General Abrams who is promoted to Chief of Staff of the United States Army.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0099-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, July\nBrigadier General Richard J. Tallman dies of wounds from PAVN artillery fire in the Battle of An L\u1ed9c. He was the last U.S. general officer to be killed in action during the war.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0100-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, July\nA USMC CH-53D was hit by an SA-7 and crashed near Qu\u1ea3ng Tr\u1ecb, killing 3 crewmen and 45 South Vietnamese Marines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0101-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, July\nCorrespondent Alexander D. Shimkin was killed in a PAVN ambush in Qu\u1ea3ng Tr\u1ecb Province. He had earlier raised concerns about potential indiscriminate fire during Operation Speedy Express.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0102-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, July\nActress Jane Fonda posed for photographs at a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun near Hanoi. Pictures of the actress ran worldwide the next day and earned her the nickname \"Hanoi Jane\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0103-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, July\nThe U.S. destroyer USS\u00a0Warrington was damaged beyond repair by two underwater explosions while operating in the Gulf of Tonkin. The blasts were believed to have been caused by American naval mines that had washed away after having been laid in North Vietnam's ports. The Warrington was towed to Subic Bay Naval Base and decommissioned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0104-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, August\nThieu passed a decree law restricting newspaper and magazine publishing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0105-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, August\nTask Force Gimlet, Delta Company, 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry undertook the last patrol by U.S. troops in the war to seek out PAVN/VC forces firiing rockets at the city of Da Nang. Two U.S. soldiers were wounded by booby traps. The unit was relieved by ARVN soldiers. Task Force Gimlet departed South Vietnam on 11 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0106-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, August\nOperation Phou Phiang II was an RLA operation to relieve the PAVN siege of Long Tieng. Five columns of RLA/Thai forces attacked PAVN forces but all were defeated despite intensive U.S. air support.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0107-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, August\nThe ARVN 18th Division recapture Qu\u1ea7n L\u1ee3i Base Camp from the PAVN, using TOW missiles and M-202 rockets to destroy the base's concrete bunkers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0108-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, August\nThe last U.S. ground combat unit, the 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment stood down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0109-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, August\nW. Averell Harriman and Cyrus Vance, the two original U.S. negotiators at the Paris Peace Talks, said in a press conference that President Nixon had missed an opportunity in 1969 to end the Vietnam War, at a time when the North Vietnamese had withdrawn most of its combat troops from South Vietnam's northernmost provinces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0110-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, August\nC-130E Hercules #62-1853 of the 776th Tactical Airlift Squadron was shot down on takeoff from S\u00f3c Tr\u0103ng Airfield, killing 30 of 44 passengers and crew on board.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0111-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, August\nFormer U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark returned from North Vietnam, where he had traveled as a private individual as part of a factfinding group. Clark said that he had confirmed that the United States was bombing hospitals and dikes, and that he had been told that American prisoners \"will be released immediately when we stop this senseless, murderous bombing and end the war and get out, get home, and get to the business of building the peace and giving happiness to little children around the world\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0112-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, August\nFollowing an artillery barrage the PAVN 711th Division attacked and captured Firebase Ross, including 15-20 of the then secret TOW missiles among the abandoned equipment. The ARVN 4th Regiment recaptured Ross on 9 September 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0113-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, August\nUSAF Captain R. Stephen Ritchie became the first USAF ace of the war after downing his fifth VPAF MiG-21 in combat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0114-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, August\nPresident Nixon announced that 12,000 more U.S. soldiers would be withdrawn from South Vietnam over a three-month period, with only 27,000 remaining by 1 December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0115-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, August\nAmbassador Bunker said to President Nixon that the South Vietnamese \"fear they are not yet well enough organized to compete politically with such a tough, disciplined organization\", e.g. North Vietnam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0116-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, September\nAdmiral Noel Gayler becomes Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Command (CINCPAC) replacing Admiral John S. McCain Jr..", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0117-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, September\nThe elections for the Khmer Republic's 126-member National Assembly took place. Because of a presidential decree designed to give President Lon Nol's Social Republican Party an advantage, the other parties withdrew from participating. The Socio-Republicans won all 126 seats on what was claimed to be a 78% turnout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0118-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, September\nUSAF Captain Charles B. DeBellevue became the last and highest scoring U.S. ace of the war with his fifth and sixth MiG kills.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0119-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, September\nSouth Vietnamese Marines recaptured Qu\u1ea3ng Tr\u1ecb from the PAVN. Qu\u1ea3ng Tr\u1ecb had been the only provincial capital to fall to the North Vietnamese in the Easter Offensive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0120-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, September\nNorth Vietnamese negotiators in Paris hinted for the first time that they could accept a peace agreement with the United States that did not require the ouster of South Vietnamese President Nguy\u1ec5n V\u0103n Thi\u1ec7u.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0121-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, September\nThe PAVN 1st Regiment, 2nd Division attacked M\u1ed9 \u0110\u1ee9c District with mortars and rockets followed by a ground attack. The attack was repulsed with the loss of one U.S. adviser, 70 ARVN and over 600 PAVN killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0122-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, September\nIn the first release of prisoners of war since 1969, North Vietnam released three American prisoners, Navy Lieutenants Norris Charles and Markham Gartley and Air Force Major Edward Elias were provided civilian clothes and then allowed to stay in Hanoi with an American welcoming team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0123-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, September\nNorth Vietnamese negotiators in Paris proposed that a \"Provisional Government of National Concord\" be formed in South Vietnam to organize elections leading to the union of South and North Vietnam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0124-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, October\nAn explosion on board the USS\u00a0Newport News operating off the coast of South Vietnam killed 19 sailors and injured ten others.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0125-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, October\nIn Paris, Le Duc Tho gave Kissinger documents outlining the North Vietnamese proposal for a peace agreement in Vietnam. The proposal dropped demands for the ouster of President Thi\u1ec7u and called for the withdrawal of all American troops, the release of all American prisoners of war and a cease fire \"in place\" which would allow PAVN soldiers in South Vietnam to remain there. A tentative text was agreed upon by both sides.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0126-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, October\nKissinger met with Nixon in Washington to explain the draft peace agreement with North Vietnam. Nixon approved the agreement subject to the agreement of President Thi\u1ec7u.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0127-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, October\nA race riot on the USS\u00a0Kitty Hawk operating on Yankee Station resulted in 46 crewman injured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0128-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, October\nOperation Black Lion III was an RLA offensive to capture Salavan and Paksan. The RLA were initially successful in capturing both cities but were ejected from Paksan by the PAVN in February.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0129-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, October\nOperation Enhance Plus began with the objective of providing additional military equipment and support to South Vietnam. Over the next two months the U.S. gave South Vietnam 234 jet fighter planes, 32 transport planes, 277 helicopters, 72 tanks, 117 armored personnel carriers, artillery and 1,726 trucks. The cost of the equipment was more than $750 million ($5.7 billion in 2015 dollars). Moreover, most of the U.S. supplied equipment of two departing South Korean divisions (approximately 38,000 men) was also given to South Vietnam. In addition, the U.S. transferred title of its military bases and all the equipment on the bases to South Vietnam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 684]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0130-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, October\nAfter meeting with Kissinger and despite a letter of support from Nixon, President Thi\u1ec7u said he would never sign the draft peace agreement with North Vietnam. He demanded that all PAVN soldiers be required to leave South Vietnam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0131-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, October\nKissinger in Saigon cabled Nixon in Washington, \"While we have a moral case for bombing North Vietnam when it does not accept our proposals, it seems to be really stretching the point to bomb North Vietnam when it has accepted our proposals and South Vietnam has not.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0132-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, October\nThe United States halted bombing of North Vietnam above the 20th parallel, bringing to a close Operation Linebacker after nearly six months.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0133-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, October\nNorth Vietnam broadcast publicly the terms of the draft peace agreement and accused the United States of negotiating in bad faith.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0134-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, October\nIn Washington, despite the opposition of South Vietnam to the draft peace agreement and the charges by North Vietnam that the U.S. was negotiating in bad faith, Kissinger declared \"peace was at hand\" in Vietnam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0135-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, October\nCampaign 972 was a PAVN offensive that effectively succeeded in cutting Laos in two. The operation ended with the ceasefire pursuant to the Vientiane Treaty ending the Laotian Civil War.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0136-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, October\nOne of the final American special forces operations of the war takes place in an intelligence-gathering mission near C\u1eeda Vi\u1ec7t Naval Base, Navy SEAL petty officer Michael E. Thornton saves the life of his commanding officer, Lieutenant Thomas R. Norris; he would later be awarded the Medal of Honor, the latest action in the war for which it was awarded. There were only a dozen Navy SEALs still in Vietnam at the time of the mission.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0137-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, November\nLong Binh Post, the largest U.S. base in South Vietnam, is handed over to the South Vietnamese.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0138-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, November\nIn an attempt to overcome President Thi\u1ec7u's objection to the draft peace agreement, Nixon wrote him that \"You have my absolute assurance that if Hanoi fails to abide by the terms of this agreement, it is my intention to take swift and severe retaliatory action.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0139-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, November\nKissinger returned to Paris to meet with Le Duc Tho. Tho accused Kissinger of deception. Kissinger introduced Thi\u1ec7u's objections to the draft peace agreement. Both North Vietnam and South Vietnam were intransigent, the North Vietnamese demanding the agreement be signed as agreed with the United States, South Vietnam demanding changes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0140-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, November\nThe first B-52 to be downed by enemy fire in the war was hit by a SAM while on a raid over Vinh. The crew was forced to abandon the damaged aircraft over Thailand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0141-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, November\nAnticipating that the peace agreement would require release of all political prisoners, the government of South Vietnam began charging people detained for political reasons with petty crimes, thus ensuring their continued incarceration. Amnesty International estimated that South Vietnam had imprisoned 200,000 people for political reasons, and would release only 5,000 after the peace agreement came into effect.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0142-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, December\nKissinger returned to Paris for further meetings with Le Duc Tho. The negotiations went nowhere and Kissinger returned to Washington on 13 December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0143-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, December\nPresident Thi\u1ec7u announced that he still opposed the \"false peace\" in the draft peace agreement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0144-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, December\nNixon met Kissinger and Presidential military aide General Alexander Haig in Washington and the three of them agreed on an intensified bombing campaign against North Vietnam to, in the words of Haig, \"strike hard ... and keep on striking until the enemy's will was broken.\" The weapon of choice would be the B-52, which had never been used before to strike targets in the vicinity of Hanoi and the city of Haiphong.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0145-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, December\nAll members of the New Zealand armed forces were withdrawn from South Vietnam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0146-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, December\nAt a press conference, speaking of the negotiations with North Vietnam Kissinger said that \"the United States will not be blackmailed into an agreement.\" Kissinger also warned South Vietnam that \"no other party will have a veto over our actions.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0147-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, December\nAmerican warplanes dropped mines off the coast of North Vietnam to prevent ship travel to and from the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0148-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, December\nOperation Linebacker II began. Better known as the \"Christmas bombings\", 129 B-52s and smaller tactical aircraft struck at targets in North Vietnam, including around the city of Hanoi. North Vietnam shot down three B-52s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0149-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, December\nMilitary adviser Alexander Haig met with Thi\u1ec7u in Saigon to deliver a letter from Nixon. Nixon said it was his \"irrevocable intention\" to achieve a peace agreement with North Vietnam, preferably with the cooperation of South Vietnam, \"but, if necessary, alone.\" He pledged continue military support to South Vietnam if Hanoi violated the agreement. Haig told Thi\u1ec7u, \"Under no circumstances will President Nixon accept a veto from Saigon in regard to a peace agreement.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0150-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, December\nNorth Vietnamese coastal artillery fire hits the USS\u00a0Goldsborough killing three crewmen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0151-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, December\nNorth Vietnamese negotiator Xuan Thuy responded to Kissinger's remarks of 16 December. He criticized the U.S. for attempting to introduce changes to the draft peace agreement of October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0152-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, December\nThi\u1ec7u kept Haig waiting for five hours before seeing him. He attempted to persuade Haig that the U.S. should require the withdrawal of all PAVN soldiers from South Vietnam in any peace agreement. Haig suggested to Nixon that if a peace agreement was not reached the U.S. could consider a unilateral disengagement from South Vietnam in exchange for the return of American POWs by North Vietnam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0153-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, December\nNorth Vietnam shot down six B-52s, but depleted their supply of SAMs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0154-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, December\nFearing additional losses, the U.S. deployed only 30 B-52s to bomb mostly around Hanoi and Haiphong. Nevertheless, four B-52s were hit by missiles. B-52 crew members complained that the flight patterns assigned to them increased their risk. Flight patterns were changed for subsequent days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0155-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, December\nNixon offered to suspend the U.S. bombing north of the 20th parallel on 31 December if Hanoi agreed to a 3 January meeting in Paris.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0156-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, December\nThe Bach Mai Hospital in Hanoi was struck by seven bombs killing 18 people. The U.S. aircraft were targeting the adjacent Bach Mai Airfield, the VPAF's air defense command and control center.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0157-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, December\nOpposition to the bombing was extensive among American politicians. In the Senate 45 Senators responding to a poll opposed the bombing as compared to 19 who supported it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0158-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, December\nAfter a Christmas truce, the U.S. conducted the largest B-52 raid of the war utilizing 120 B-52s. The U.S. lost 2 airplanes. 215 civilians were killed by bombs dropped on a heavily populated area of Hanoi. North Vietnam proposed a resumption of peace talks on January 8.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0159-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, December\nThi\u1ec7u issued decree law 60 which effectively banned all parties other than the Democracy Party, forcing all his political opposition to dissolve or go underground.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0160-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, December\nThe last bombs of Operation Linebacker II fell near Hanoi, although the U.S. continued light bombing south of the 20th parallel. Of 200 B-52s engaged in the operation, the U.S. said that 15 were shot down as well as 11 other aircraft, while Hanoi claimed that 34 B-52s had been shot down. 61 B-52 crewmen were killed, captured, or missing. Prior to Linebacker II, during seven years of bombing, only one B-52 had been shot down. Destruction of North Vietnam's military and industrial capacity was substantial. North Vietnam said that 1,623 civilians had been killed in Hanoi and Haiphong although most civilians had been evacuated from the cities before the bombing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 700]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0161-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, December\nDue to the Operation Linebacker II bombings, 80 percent of North Vietnam's electrical power production capability had been eliminated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0162-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, December\nNixon warned North Vietnam that the bombing would resume if the peace talks collapsed again. North Vietnam declared victory and claimed that heavy losses of American aircraft was the motive behind the bombing halt. General Maxwell Taylor, former Ambassador to South Vietnam, said terminating America's commitment to South Vietnam even without a peace agreement should be considered by the President.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094878-0163-0000", "contents": "1972 in the Vietnam War, December\nOperation Maharat II was an RLA offensive to seize the intersection of Routes 7 and 13 from the Pathet Lao. The Pathet Lao withdrew in the face of overwhelming RLA forces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094879-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in the environment\nThis is a list of notable events relating to the environment in 1972. They relate to environmental law, conservation, environmentalism and environmental issues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094880-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 in video games\n1972 saw the release of the first commercially successful video arcade game, Pong, and the first video game console, the Magnavox Odyssey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094880-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 in video games, Best-selling arcade video games\nThe following titles were the best-selling arcade video games of 1972 in the United States, according to annual arcade cabinet sales figures provided by Ralph H. Baer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 52], "content_span": [53, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094881-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 invasion of Uganda\nThe 1972 invasion of Uganda was an armed attempt by Ugandan insurgents, supported by Tanzania, to overthrow the regime of Idi Amin. Under the orders of former Ugandan President Milton Obote, insurgents launched an invasion of southern Uganda with limited Tanzanian support in September 1972. The rebel force mostly consisted of the \"People's Army\" whose forces were mainly loyal to Obote, but also included guerillas led by Yoweri Museveni.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094881-0000-0001", "contents": "1972 invasion of Uganda\nThe operation was hampered by problems from the start, as a planned rebel commando raid had to be aborted, Amin was warned of the impending invasion, and the rebels lacked numbers, training, and equipment. Regardless, the militants occupied a few towns in southern Uganda at the invasion's start. However, no major popular uprising erupted as Obote had hoped.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094881-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 invasion of Uganda\nWithout mass civilian support and outnumbered as well as outgunned, the rebels were mostly defeated by Amin's loyalists within hours. Most insurgents were killed or captured, while the rest fled in disarray back to Tanzania. Reinforced by allied Libyan and PLO troops, the Ugandan security forces launched operations to hunt down and destroy rebel stragglers, while initiating political purges against suspected Obote supporters. Meanwhile, Amin ordered his air force to retaliate by bombing Tanzania, prompting the latter to mobilize its army along the border.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094881-0001-0001", "contents": "1972 invasion of Uganda\nBefore the conflict could escalate into a full war between Uganda and Tanzania, the two countries agreed to a ceasefire under Somali mediation, and subsequently ratified a treaty in Mogadishu to defuse tensions. Despite this, the conflict greatly worsened the already poor relations between Uganda and Tanzania, and ultimately contributed to the Uganda\u2013Tanzania War.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094881-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 invasion of Uganda, Background\nIn 1971, a military coup overthrew the President of Uganda, Milton Obote. Colonel Idi Amin installed himself as new Ugandan President and ruled the country under a repressive dictatorship. However, this takeover was initially welcomed by many Ugandans, as Obote had become deeply unpopular in sections of the country's population and Amin presented himself as reformer. He freed several opposition figures who had been imprisoned under Obote, including Shaban Opolot, Grace Ibingira, and Benedicto Kiwanuka.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094881-0002-0001", "contents": "1972 invasion of Uganda, Background\nThe coup resulted in a deterioration of relations with neighbouring Tanzania, as Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere withheld diplomatic recognition of the new government and offered asylum to Obote and his supporters. After the coup, Amin launched purges of his enemies, and empowered his own followers to consolidate his regime. The country's military, officially known as Uganda Army (UA), was most affected by this development. Much of its leadership was killed or expelled, while members of ethnic and religious groups supportive of Amin were recruited and promoted en masse.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094881-0002-0002", "contents": "1972 invasion of Uganda, Background\nA large number of soldiers and opposition figures targeted by the purges consequently fled into exile. They set up training camps and organized militant groups in Sudan and Tanzania. Sudanese President Jaafar Nimeiry opposed Amin due to his support for Sudanese Anyanya rebels, while Tanzanian President Nyerere had close ties with Obote and had supported his socialist orientation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094881-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 invasion of Uganda, Background\nAs a result, relations between Uganda and Tanzania became increasingly tense. Nyerere frequently denounced Amin's regime, and Amin made repeated threats to invade Tanzania. The situation was further complicated due to a border dispute, as Uganda claimed that the Kagera Salient\u2014a 720 square miles (1,900\u00a0km2) stretch of land between the official border and the Kagera River 18 miles (29\u00a0km) to the south, should be placed under its jurisdiction, maintaining that the river made for a more logical border.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094881-0003-0001", "contents": "1972 invasion of Uganda, Background\nThe border had originally been negotiated by British and German colonial officials before World War I. In addition to the Kagera Salient, Amin also harbored hopes of acquiring a corridor to the Indian Ocean. Accordingly, he contemplated plans of conquering Tanzania's north, including the harbor town of Tanga. Following an armed clash between soldiers along the countries' common border a few months after the coup, Amin issued rules of engagement which clarified that the Uganda Army was only allowed to attack Tanzania in retaliation or if he gave orders to do so. Regardless, his political stance remained highly aggressive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 664]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094881-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 invasion of Uganda, Background\nAt the same time, the Ugandan exiles plotted to overthrow Amin with Tanzanian support. One of the first groups to act was Yoweri Museveni's yet-unnamed militant group. It infiltrated Uganda and attempted to establish a guerrilla base at Mount Elgon in 1971, but the militants were discovered and arrested by security forces. Despite being opposed to Obote and his policies, Museveni and his small group of comrades subsequently decided to team up with the former president, viewing Amin as the greater threat. As time went on, Obote's rebel alliance suffered several setbacks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094881-0004-0001", "contents": "1972 invasion of Uganda, Background\nObote had already planned simultaneous invasions from Sudan and Tanzania to take place in August 1971, but this operation was cancelled due to Nyerere's fear of British and Israeli support for Amin, doubts by the Tanzania People's Defence Force's (TPDF) high command about the invasions' chances of success, and inter-rebel feuds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094881-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 invasion of Uganda, Background\nIn early 1972, Amin reportedly requested Israeli aid for an invasion of Tanzania. When the Israeli government refused to provide weaponry for this plan, the Ugandan President responded by severing diplomatic ties and allying with anti-Israeli forces such as Libya under Muammar Gaddafi and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Amin also stopped assisting the Anyanya rebels and signed a deal with Sudan, after which the country expelled most Ugandan insurgents from its soil. Sudan-based Obote loyalists had to be evacuated through Kenya to Tanzania; on the way, many died.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094881-0005-0001", "contents": "1972 invasion of Uganda, Background\nThe survivors joined the few hundred already stationed at Kigwa in the Tabora Region. A few rebels remained in southern Sudan, and attempted an invasion of Uganda in April 1972. The operation was easily crushed by the Uganda Army. In August 1972, Amin ordered the expulsion of Asians from Uganda, confiscating their wealth and claiming that he was redistributing it to other Ugandans. This move was very popular locally, and distracted the population from the ongoing economic crisis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094881-0005-0002", "contents": "1972 invasion of Uganda, Background\nThere were growing fears among the rebels and the Tanzanian government that delaying a major rebel invasion continued to dimish its chances of success, while Nyerere was informed that Uganda had joined an international plot to overthrow him. As a result, the Tanzanian President finally signed off a rebel invasion of Uganda for 15 September 1972. Meanwhile, Obote had amassed a force of about 1,300 ex-soldiers who had escaped into exile. His followers were known as the \"Uganda People's Liberation Front\" (UPLF).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094881-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 invasion of Uganda, Prelude\nObote's plan for the invasion was complete by 10 September: First, the rebels would \"borrow\" an East African Airways McDonnell Douglas DC-9 and use it to transport 80 commandos to Entebbe Airport. These rebels would capture the airport, march on Kampala, and capture its radio station to broadcast a prerecorded message by Obote. The former president hoped that this would inspire an uprising by civilians and soldiers. Meanwhile, two strike teams of insurgents would cross the border from Tanzania and attack the important towns of Mbarara and Masaka in southern Uganda.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094881-0006-0001", "contents": "1972 invasion of Uganda, Prelude\nAfter securing these, the rebel ground forces would push on towards Kampala, Mubende, and Fort Portal. The western team targeted Mbarara would attack from the rebel camp at Kigwe, while the team attacking Masaka would start at the Handeni rebel camp. The Voice of Uganda, the Ugandan state newspaper, claimed Tanzanian intelligence director Lawrence Gama was involved in the invasion's planning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094881-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 invasion of Uganda, Prelude\nAt the same time, the TPDF supplied Museveni's force with guns and assisted them to conduct forays into Uganda to set up anti-Amin cells such as the \"Temporary Committee\" based in Kampala. Museveni told the Tanzanians that these missions were a great success and that several thousand people were willing to revolt in the Mbarara area. However, he was generally critical of \"putschist solutions\", believing that Amin could only be toppled through long-term guerrilla war.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094881-0007-0001", "contents": "1972 invasion of Uganda, Prelude\nOn 14 September, Museveni was informed of the invasion plans by the Tanzanian defense minister who told him that trucks were already on the way to transport his rebels from their camp to the border. The battle plans presumed that Museveni's undercover network would produce a large number of rebels to assist the invasion. Museveni later claimed that he had not been the one to promise a large fifth column in Uganda.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094881-0007-0002", "contents": "1972 invasion of Uganda, Prelude\nAs a proof, he pointed at the short notice he was given of the invasion, which made it impossible for him to prepare his underground network for an uprising. Museveni argued that Obote had deliberately overplayed the extent of his insider contacts to convince the Tanzanians of greenlighting the invasion. In general, there were reportedly strong tensions within the rebel alliance, as members of Obote's faction treated Museveni's group \"as enemies\". Following his capture during the invasion, rebel Alex Ojera also told his Ugandan interrogators that the insurgents had been affected by tribalism, as Bantu, Acholi, and Lango militants distrusted each other.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 693]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094881-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 invasion of Uganda, Prelude\nAmin was informed that a rebel invasion was being organized, and prepared for this possibility by strengthening his southern defenses. The South African magazine Drum stated that the Kenyan intelligence agency was reportedly responsible for leaking the invasion plans, while researcher A. Kasozi argued that information had been leaked by Baganda civilians in southern Uganda who opposed Obote. Journalist Faustin Mugabe held Ugandan spies in Tanzania responsible for uncovering the rebel plans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094881-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 invasion of Uganda, Invasion, Initial rebel operations\nFrom the beginning, the invasion was a \"fiasco\" and \"disaster\". Ugandan historian Samwiri Karugire described it as \"One of those rare events in military history. A perfect failure.\" The DC-9 airplane never arrived at Entebbe. Obote had selected James Lalobo, a son of a friend to fly the aircraft despite him lacking exerience. Although the DC-9 was successfully stolen with support by the Tanzanian intelligence from the Dar es Salaam Airport, the pilot failed to retract its landing gear.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 59], "content_span": [60, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094881-0009-0001", "contents": "1972 invasion of Uganda, Invasion, Initial rebel operations\nIn his attempt to temporarily stop at Kilimanjaro International Airport to pick up the commandos on 15 September, he landed at too high a speed, destroying the DC-9's tires. The raid on Entebbe had to be cancelled, while journalists got wind of the events at Kilimanjaro. A newspaper, the Uganda Argus, promptly ran an article titled \"Pilot vanishes in DC-9 mystery\", alerting Amin that a rebel operation was imminent. He put his southern commanders on alert, sending Simba Battalion commander Ali Fadhul to assess the situation at the border.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 59], "content_span": [60, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094881-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 invasion of Uganda, Invasion, Initial rebel operations\nDespite having lost the surprise element, the ground invasions continued. Having dubbed his force the \"People's Army\" or \"people's army forces\", Obote and the rebel factions under his leadership launched the invasion on 17 September. The entire rebel force was 1,340 to about 1,500 fighters strong. The main rebel group crossed the border at 5:30 a.m. after killing several border guards, and captured Mutukula. It was supposed to target Masaka, about 1,000 fighters strong, and led by Captain Anach or Lieutenant Colonel David Oyite-Ojok and Tito Okello. The main group initially made good progress, overwhelmining a few small groups of soldiers and capturing some military equipment. After being informed of the rebels crossing the Ugandan border, Gaddafi pledged support to his ally Amin, and ordered an intervention force to be sent to Uganda.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 59], "content_span": [60, 907]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094881-0011-0000", "contents": "1972 invasion of Uganda, Invasion, Initial rebel operations\nThe western rebel force, led by Captain Oyile, Lieutnant Okot, and Lieutnant Okumu, crossed the border at 7 a.m, behind schedule. Armed with a few sub-machine guns, recoilless rifles, and rockets, it consisted of about 300 to 350 guerrillas and included Museveni's small force of 40 militants. The western group was troubled by internal problems from the start. Whereas the Obote loyalists were wearing uniforms and expecting an easy victory, Museveni's group wore civilian clothing to fight as guerrillas. Several members of the western group expressed doubts about their outdated weaponry and their small numbers compared to the Uganda Army.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 59], "content_span": [60, 703]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094881-0011-0001", "contents": "1972 invasion of Uganda, Invasion, Initial rebel operations\nSome militants in the group were even unarmed. The group also had problems with their trucks, slowing their progress. However, the group initially destroyed a Ugandan border post, killing four guards. After advancing 8.7 miles (14\u00a0km) into Uganda proper, the rebels encountered a Land Rover with eight soldiers who were killed in a firefight at Kaberebere. Despite this easy victory, some rebels were so inexperienced that they already broke during this clash and fled into the hills. The remainder continued their advance. They also ran into Fadhul, but they failed to recognize him in his civilian car.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 59], "content_span": [60, 664]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094881-0011-0002", "contents": "1972 invasion of Uganda, Invasion, Initial rebel operations\nThe commander sped past the insurgents and then informed Amin by telephone of the rebels' numbers and location. According to the Ugandan government, the rebels occupied Kyotera, Kakuto and Kalisizo. Tanzanian radio reports also claimed that Kisenyi and Umburra had been captured by rebels. A few civilians reacted to the western insurgent group by raising the flags of the Uganda People's Congress, Obote's party. However, contrary to Museveni's hopes, no grand rebellion erupted in the Mbarara area to support the invasion. Most civilians were still supportive of Amin at the time, especially due to his ongoing expulsion of the Ugandan Asians from the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 59], "content_span": [60, 722]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094881-0012-0000", "contents": "1972 invasion of Uganda, Invasion, Initial rebel operations\nMeanwhile, the Ugandan government loyalists reacted by organizing their defenses. At 9 a.m. the Simba Battalion's second-in-command Yusuf Gowon raised the alarm at the Mbarara barracks, and ordered most of his troops to take up defensive positions. He also dispatched several jeeps to guard the road at the barracks. The western strike team of insurgents arrived at Mbarara at 10:30 a.m., where they destroyed a few roadblocks and an abandoned jeep before moving to assault the town's barracks. Without proper supplies, badly trained and lacking experienced leadership, the rebels failed to capture the Mbarara barracks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 59], "content_span": [60, 680]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094881-0012-0001", "contents": "1972 invasion of Uganda, Invasion, Initial rebel operations\nAs soon as they approached the garrison, an army jeep opened fire with a recoilless rifle and destroyed a rebel truck. The entire insurgent advance promptly fell into disarray. Captain Oyile \"disappeared\", while several militants fled into the nearby woods. Museveni and thirty of his guerrillas advanced up to the barracks' gates, taking cover at an anthill and firing at the soldiers. Another group of rebels took position at a mosque and fired at the barracks with a mortar. Some rebels attempted to climb across a wire fence which surrounded the barracks, but were easily killed by Gowon's troops.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 59], "content_span": [60, 661]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094881-0012-0002", "contents": "1972 invasion of Uganda, Invasion, Initial rebel operations\nAfter an hour of fighting, the rebels retreated. As the remaining rebels were left mostly leaderless, Museveni took command and led the survivors back to the Tanzanian border. They were pursued by Gowon's troops. Many more rebels were killed during the retreat than during the battle at Mbarara. Several insurgents attempted to hide with local civilians, including Oyile, Okot, and Okumu, only to be handed over to the Uganda Army.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 59], "content_span": [60, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094881-0013-0000", "contents": "1972 invasion of Uganda, Invasion, Initial rebel operations\nThe eastern rebel force was stopped at Kiziba by a large Uganda Army contingent. The government forces included tanks and armoured personnel carriers. As the rebels lacked weaponry to overcome the government forces, and also ran out of ammunition, they quickly broke off the attack. About 169 rebels were killed in this clash. Having suffered heavy losses, they retreated under the cover of darkness.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 59], "content_span": [60, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094881-0014-0000", "contents": "1972 invasion of Uganda, Invasion, Rebel retreat and border clashes\nBy early 18 September, the rebels were in full retreat. Only 46 insurgents belonging to the Mbarara strike force reportedly reached the Tanzanian border on that day. At least 100 insurgents of this group were killed and several others captured to be later executed. The casualties included important members of Museveni's faction such as Mwesigwa Black and Omongin Raila. Government loyalists fully retook Mbarara, Kalisizo and Kyotera, while Mutukula remained outside Uganda Army control. One group of about 500 rebels retreated into the marshes between Masaka and the Tanzanian border, where they dug in. Informants in Tanzania claimed that these insurgents were provided with fresh supplies, equipment, and some reinforcements from Tanzania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 67], "content_span": [68, 812]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094881-0015-0000", "contents": "1972 invasion of Uganda, Invasion, Rebel retreat and border clashes\nAmin blamed Nyerere for backing and arming his enemies, and claimed that 1,000 Tanzanian soldiers had been part of the invasion force. He retaliated by ordering his air force to bomb Tanzanian border towns. The Uganda Army Air Force targeted Mwanza and Bukoba from 18 to 20 September, claiming to have destroyed insurgent camps there. The TPDF moved its 4th battalion and a mortar company to safeguard the border. Amin also accused Israel, Britain, and India of supporting the attack, and the rebels of being in the pocket of the unpopular Ugandan Asians. A Uganda Army spokesman stated that three white Israeli mercenaries had been working with the insurgents and killed during the invasion, with foreign observers fearing that these \"mercenaries\" had actually been white civilians caught in the crossfire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 67], "content_span": [68, 875]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094881-0016-0000", "contents": "1972 invasion of Uganda, Invasion, Rebel retreat and border clashes\nOn 19 September, President Amin declared \"complete victory\" over the insurgents, despite the latter still holding some areas. He publicly claimed that his troops had secured a copy of the rebels' battle plans, and falsely stated that the insurgents had intended to massacre certain tribes and professions. Enraged, groups of civilians banded together and began to hunt for rebel stragglers, lynching those whom they captured. Some civilians used the opportunity to settle grudges, trying to frame innocents as insurgent supporters. The official mopping-up operations and purges of pro-rebel elements were entrusted to Fadhul, Gowon, and Isaac Maliyamungu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 67], "content_span": [68, 723]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094881-0016-0001", "contents": "1972 invasion of Uganda, Invasion, Rebel retreat and border clashes\nFadhul was entrusted with the countryside, Gowon was responsible for Mbarara, and Maliyamungu organized the purges in Masaka. The State Research Centre (SRC) played a major role in rounding up suspected anti-Amin elements. At Mbarara, an ad hoc court was set up presided over by Gowon; several suspected rebels were sentenced to death, although others were found innocent and freed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 67], "content_span": [68, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094881-0017-0000", "contents": "1972 invasion of Uganda, Invasion, Rebel retreat and border clashes\nOn 20 September, five Libyan Lockheed C-130 Hercules carrying 399 soldiers and military equpiment crossed into Sudanese airspace in an attempt to reach Uganda. They were forced by Sudanese jets to land in Khartoum, where the Sudanese authorities confiscated their weaponry and instructed them to return to Libya. The C-130 pilots assured the Sudanese that they would follow these instructions, but then continued their flight to Uganda, flying below the Sudanese radar. The Libyans landed in Entebbe on 21 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 67], "content_span": [68, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094881-0017-0001", "contents": "1972 invasion of Uganda, Invasion, Rebel retreat and border clashes\nDespite them arriving too late to offer \"meaningful assistance\" in the fighting against the rebels, their presence boosted Amin's local image. Libya also sent some Palestine Liberation Organization commandos, and a MiG jet to assist Amin. On 24 September, the Ugandan government claimed that guerrillas were still controlling the towns of Mutukula and Kikagati. Amin claimed on 28 September that about 50 guerrillas remained on Ugandan soil, encircled by Uganda Army troops. By the next day, foreign journalists stated that the fighting had mostly ceased.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 67], "content_span": [68, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094881-0018-0000", "contents": "1972 invasion of Uganda, International reactions and mediation\nThe invasion and the Tanzanian support for the insurgents were internationally condemned, especially by the Organisation of African Unity (OAU). Nigeria, Guinea, Libya, and Egypt openly condemned the Tanzanian training and arming of Ugandan rebels. In response, Tanzania People's Defence Force (TPDF) commander Major General Mrisho Sarakikya denied any Tanzanian involvement in the rebel operation. Nyerere also sent a telegram to OAU chairman Hassan II of Morocco protesting against the Ugandan airstrikes targeting Tanzanian towns. To avoid open war, the OAU requested third-party countries to mediate between Uganda and Tanzania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 62], "content_span": [63, 695]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094881-0018-0001", "contents": "1972 invasion of Uganda, International reactions and mediation\nThe OAU initially approached Kenyan President Jomo Kenyatta, but he and his government refused to get involved in the dispute. Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, Algerian President Houari Boum\u00e9di\u00e8ne and Guinean President Ahmed S\u00e9kou Tour\u00e9 offered to organize the mediation, while Egypt contacted Tanzanian Foreign Minister John Malecela to seek a peaceful solution. However, a five-point peace plan by Somali President Siad Barre was the most positively received proposal in Uganda as well as Tanzania, though Amin initially continued his aggressive rhetoric while Ugandan and Tanzanian representatives met in the Somali capital Mogadishu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 62], "content_span": [63, 703]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094881-0019-0000", "contents": "1972 invasion of Uganda, Aftermath\nThough his commanders urged him to respond in kind to the Ugandan attacks at the border, Nyerere agreed to the mediation overseen by Siad Barre, which resulted in the signing of the Mogadishu Agreement, which stipulated that Ugandan and Tanzanian forces had to withdraw to positions at least 6.2 miles (10\u00a0km) away from the border and refrain from supporting opposition forces that targeted each other's governments. The Ugandan rebel camp at Handeni was closed, and the Obote loyalists were resettled to Tabora in central Tanzania where they were supposed to live as tobacco farmers from then on. The agreement was signed on 5 October 1972. Despite this, Amin and Nyerere remained deeply hostile.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 732]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094881-0020-0000", "contents": "1972 invasion of Uganda, Aftermath\nOverall, the rebels were completely defeated and suffered heavy losses including hundreds killed. The Daily Monitor put the insurgent losses at 454 dead. The Uganda Army admitted that nine soldiers had been killed. According to the Ugandan government, about 150 Ugandan civilians had died during the invasion. Between nine and 20 Tanzanian civilians were killed during the Ugandan airstrikes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094881-0021-0000", "contents": "1972 invasion of Uganda, Aftermath\nAfter the invasion Amin posed with several captured rebels on television. Several alleged guerrillas were later secretly or publicly executed including Captain Oyile, former Information Minister Alex Ojera, Picho Ali, and former Deputy Minister of Cooperatives Joshua Wakholi. Amin also used the invasion as an opportunity to kill political opponents, regardless of whether they had supported the rebel attack or not. Hundreds of people belonging to the country's civilian elite were arrested and killed across the country. These purges were led by the Military Police, SRC, and Public Safety Unit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 633]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094881-0021-0001", "contents": "1972 invasion of Uganda, Aftermath\nBenedicto Kiwanuka (whom Amin had freed in 1971 and appointed Chief Justice of Uganda) was among those murdered in the rebel attack's aftermath. There were numerous executions of suspected Uganda People's Congress supporters in the Masaka and Mbarara areas, and many imprisoned opposition figures were also killed. Many Ugandans were shocked at the mass killings following the invasion, as they had still considered Amin to be the \"reformer and messiah\" as whom he had previously presented himself.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094881-0021-0002", "contents": "1972 invasion of Uganda, Aftermath\nAmin also ordered an acceleration of the expulsion of Asians from Uganda in response to the invasion, and purged the police as well as the Uganda Army of suspected disloyal elements. Several ethnic Baganda officers were forcibly disappeared, while the President was publicly \"lashing out\" against Acholi and Langi soldiers, ordering them to \"stop their dirty activities\". The 1972 invasion is regarded in Uganda as the turning point at which Amin's regime became much more violent than before, becoming more paranoid and more willing to outright murder civilians.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094881-0021-0003", "contents": "1972 invasion of Uganda, Aftermath\nEven though the purges were an attempt to stabilize the Ugandan government so that it became less vulnerable to external attacks, the killings damaged its reputation and popularity. As a result, Amin came to rely even more on terror to stay in power. Researcher Alicia Decker concluded that the terror ultimately \"devoured his regime from within\". Amin's popularity also suffered when the expulsion of Ugandan Asians proved to cause severe long-term problems, greatly harming the country's economy and international reputation. About twenty thousand Ugandans fled the country, resettling in Tanzania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 635]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094881-0022-0000", "contents": "1972 invasion of Uganda, Aftermath\nInsurgent activity against Amin continued, and Nyerere informed the Ugandan rebels that anti-Amin activities would be tolerated in Tanzania despite the Mogadishu Agreement. The Tanzanian President asked the insurgents to stay mostly cladestine and not inform him of their operations. Tanzania also continued to treat Obote like a head of state. However, the failed invasion caused great disagreements among the anti-Amin opposition, as rebel leaders blamed each other for the defeat. Obote never forgave Museveni for the fact that the popular uprising at Mbarara had not occurred as he had allegedly promised.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094881-0022-0001", "contents": "1972 invasion of Uganda, Aftermath\nIn early 1973, Museveni officially announced the formation of the \"Front for National Salvation\" (FRONASA), while Obote reorganized and rebuilt his guerrilla force. FRONASA, Obote's rebels, and other militant factions took part in the Uganda\u2013Tanzania War of 1978\u201379 which resulted in Amin's overthrow. Obote subsequently returned to power in the disputed 1980 Ugandan general elections, causing several opposition groups to take up arms. In the course of the Ugandan Bush War, Museveni's National Resistance Movement emerged victorious and he became Ugandan President in 1986.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094882-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 unrest in Lithuania\n1972 unrest in Lithuanian SSR, sometimes titled as Kaunas' Spring, took place on May 18\u201319, 1972, in Kaunas, Lithuania, Soviet Union. It was sparked by the self-immolation of a 19-year-old student named Romas Kalanta in protest against the Soviet regime and the subsequent ban authorities imposed on members of the public attending Kalanta's funeral. As a result, thousands of young demonstrators gathered in the central street of Kaunas, Laisv\u0117s Al\u0117ja in anti-government protests that started on May 18 and were suppressed by Soviet troops on May 19 .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094882-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 unrest in Lithuania, The wave of protests\nOn May 14, 1972, a 19-year-old high school student named Romas Kalanta poured three liters of gasoline on himself and set himself on fire in the square adjoining Laisv\u0117s Al\u0117ja in front of the Kaunas Musical Theatre where, in 1940, the People's Seimas had declared the establishment of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic. Before his suicide, Kalanta left a notebook with a brief note that read \"blame only the regime for my death\". It was only in 1990, when Lithuania declared its independence, that the contents of this note became publicly known.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 46], "content_span": [47, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094882-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 unrest in Lithuania, The wave of protests\nKalanta died fourteen hours later in hospital. On May 18, the Soviet authorities brought Kalanta's burial forward by two hours to prevent publicity. However, it provoked even bigger outrage among the gathered people, mostly high school students and young workers and developed into a politically charged riot, which was forcibly dispersed by KGB, militsiya, and Internal Troops. A spontaneous rally resulted in the disruption of traffic in the city centre, as well as four shop windows being smashed, five Militsiya officers injured and one Militsiya motorcycle burnt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 46], "content_span": [47, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094882-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 unrest in Lithuania, The wave of protests\nThe next day, about 3,000 people marched along Laisv\u0117s Al\u0117ja, of which 402 were arrested. The New York Times reported numerous injuries and one death among Soviet troops.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 46], "content_span": [47, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094882-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 unrest in Lithuania, The wave of protests\nOf the arrested, over half were under 20 years old and about a quarter belonged to the youth branch of the Communist Party. In an effort to distract from the political nature of the protests, the arrested people were charged with hooliganism. 50 people faced civil charges, while ten faced criminal prosecution. Eventually, eight people were sentenced to between one and two years in prison. Demonstrations spread to other cities in the Lithuanian SSR as well, and altogether 108 people were arrested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 46], "content_span": [47, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094882-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 unrest in Lithuania, The wave of protests\nThese mass demonstrations were on a scale that had not been seen since 1956 and were ultimately suppressed by squads of KGB, Militsiya and Internal Troops.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 46], "content_span": [47, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094882-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 unrest in Lithuania, Aftermath\nPublic agitation continued throughout 1972 and 1973 as the KGB registered 3\u20134 times more various anti-Soviet incidents. Lithuania recorded 13 other suicides by fire in 1972, including 24-year-old V. Stonys in Var\u0117na on May 29, 60-year-old A. Andriu\u0161kevi\u010dius in Kaunas on June 3, 62-year-old Zali\u0161auskas on June 10, and 40-year-old Juozapas Baracevi\u010dius in \u0160iauliai on June 22.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094882-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 unrest in Lithuania, Aftermath\nThe crackdown on demonstrations was followed by increased censorship, and youth organisations and gatherings came under more thorough surveillance. Lithuanian SSR officials blamed \"so-called followers of the hippie movement\" for organising the riots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094882-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 unrest in Lithuania, Aftermath\nThere were some rallies by the Lithuanian diaspora in other countries, such as the United States, in support of the demonstrations. The political \u00e9migr\u00e9 Vytautas Alantas published a book dedicated to the events under the title Romas Kalanta: The Living Torches in the Nemunas Valley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094882-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 unrest in Lithuania, Commemoration of events\nThe day when Romas Kalanta died and the subsequent demonstrations are called \"kalantin\u0117s\" and is observed annually in Kaunas. There is a monument for Romas Kalanta at the place where he self-immolated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 49], "content_span": [50, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094882-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 unrest in Lithuania, In the popular culture\nA 1990 Lithuanian drama film The Children from the Hotel America depicts some scenes from the Kaunas' demonstrations. A 2017 Lithuanian drama film Emilija contains a self-immolation scene, the course of events in the city centre and the subsequent crackdown by the militsia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 48], "content_span": [49, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094883-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 visit by Richard Nixon to China\nU.S. President Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to the People's Republic of China (PRC) was an important strategic and diplomatic overture that marked the culmination of the Nixon administration's resumption of harmonious relations between the United States and mainland China after years of diplomatic isolation. The seven-day official visit to three Chinese cities was the first time a U.S. president had visited the PRC; Nixon's arrival in Beijing ended 25 years of no communication or diplomatic ties between the two countries and was the key step in normalizing relations between the U.S. and the PRC. Nixon visited the PRC to gain more leverage over relations with the Soviet Union. The normalization of ties culminated in 1979, when the U.S. established full diplomatic relations with the PRC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 831]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094883-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 visit by Richard Nixon to China\nWhen the Communist Party of China gained power over mainland China in 1949 and the Kuomintang fled to the island of Taiwan, the United States allied with, and recognized, the Republic of China as the sole government of China. Before his election as president in 1968, former Vice President Richard Nixon hinted at establishing a new relationship with the PRC. Early in his first term, Nixon, through his National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger, sent subtle overtures hinting at warmer relations to the PRC government. After a series of these overtures by both countries, Kissinger flew on secret diplomatic missions to Beijing in 1971, where he met with Premier Zhou Enlai. On July 15, 1971, the President shocked the world by announcing on live television that he would visit the PRC the following year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 843]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094883-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 visit by Richard Nixon to China\nThe week-long visit, from February 21 to 28, 1972, allowed the American public to view images of China for the first time in over two decades. Throughout the week the President and his senior advisers engaged in substantive discussions with the PRC leadership, including a meeting with Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Chairman Mao Zedong, while First Lady Pat Nixon toured schools, factories and hospitals in the cities of Beijing, Hangzhou and Shanghai with the large American press corps in tow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094883-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 visit by Richard Nixon to China\nNixon dubbed his visit \"the week that changed the world\", a descriptor that continues to echo in the political lexicon. Repercussions of the Nixon visit continue to this day; while near-immediate results included a significant shift in the Cold War balance\u2014driving a wedge between the Soviet Union and China, resulting in significant Soviet concessions to the U.S.\u2014the trip spawned China's opening to the world and economic parity with capitalist countries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094883-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 visit by Richard Nixon to China, Visit, Historical background\nImproved relations with the Soviet Union and the PRC are often cited as the most successful diplomatic achievements of Nixon's presidency. After World War II, Americans saw relations between the United States and the Soviet Union deteriorating, the Soviets consolidating communist allies over much of Eastern Europe, and the potential victory of Communist forces in the Chinese Civil War. The American ruling class was concerned that communists might dominate schools or labor unions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094883-0005-0000", "contents": "1972 visit by Richard Nixon to China, Visit, Historical background\nIn China, from the beginning of the Sino-Soviet split in 1956, there was a perceived necessity for external allies to counterbalance the power of the Soviet Union. While the split was originally motivated, in part, by Mao's view of the Soviets as too accommodating toward the US, eventually he came to view the Soviet Union as a greater threat to China's position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094883-0006-0000", "contents": "1972 visit by Richard Nixon to China, Visit, Historical background\nThe reason for opening up China was for the U.S. to gain more leverage over relations with the Soviet Union. Resolving the Vietnam War was a particularly important factor. National Security Council staffer (and later U.S. Ambassador to China) Winston Lord noted:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094883-0007-0000", "contents": "1972 visit by Richard Nixon to China, Visit, Historical background\nFirst, an opening to China would give us more flexibility on the world scene generally. We wouldn't just be dealing with Moscow. We could deal with Eastern Europe, of course, and we could deal with China because the former Communist Bloc was no longer a bloc. Kissinger wanted more flexibility, generally. Secondly, by opening relations with China we would catch Russia's attention and get more leverage on them through playing this obvious, China card.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094883-0007-0001", "contents": "1972 visit by Richard Nixon to China, Visit, Historical background\nThe idea would be to improve relations with Moscow, hoping to stir a little bit of its paranoia by dealing with China, never getting so engaged with China that we would turn Russia into a hostile enemy but enough to get the attention of the Russians. This effort worked dramatically after Kissinger's secret trip to China. Thirdly, Kissinger and Nixon wanted to get help in resolving the Vietnam War. By dealing with Russia and with China we hoped to put pressure on Hanoi to negotiate seriously.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094883-0007-0002", "contents": "1972 visit by Richard Nixon to China, Visit, Historical background\nAt a maximum, we tried to get Russia and China to slow down the provision of aid to North Vietnam somewhat. More realistically and at a minimum, we sought to persuade Russia and China to encourage Hanoi to make a deal with the United States and give Hanoi a sense of isolation because their two, big patrons were dealing with us.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094883-0007-0003", "contents": "1972 visit by Richard Nixon to China, Visit, Historical background\nIndeed, by their willingness to engage in summit meetings with us, with Nixon going to China in February 1972, and to Moscow in May 1972, the Russians and Chinese were beginning to place a higher priority on their bilateral relations with us than on their dealings with their friends in Hanoi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094883-0008-0000", "contents": "1972 visit by Richard Nixon to China, Visit, Historical background\nOne of the main reasons Richard Nixon became the 1952 vice-presidential candidate on the Dwight Eisenhower ticket was his strong anti-communist stance. Despite this, in 1972 Nixon became the first U.S. president to visit mainland China while in office. Ulysses S. Grant visited China on a world tour after leaving office. Herbert Hoover lived in China briefly in 1899 before becoming president. Eisenhower made a state visit to Taiwan in 1960, during the period when the United States recognized the Republic of China government in Taipei as the sole government of China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 638]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094883-0009-0000", "contents": "1972 visit by Richard Nixon to China, Visit, Readiness\nIn July 1971, President Nixon's National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger secretly visited Beijing during a trip to Pakistan, and laid the groundwork for Nixon's visit to China. This meeting was arranged and facilitated by Pakistan through its strong diplomatic channels with China. Transcripts of White House meetings and once confidential documents show Nixon began working to open a channel of communication with Beijing from his first day in the White House. For this ambitious goal to be reached President Nixon had carried out a series of carefully calibrated moves through Communist China's allies Romania and Pakistan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 681]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094883-0010-0000", "contents": "1972 visit by Richard Nixon to China, Travel to China\nPresident Nixon, his wife, and their entourage left the White House on February 17, 1972, spending a night in Kaneohe Marine Corps Air Station, Oahu, Hawaii. They arrived the next day in Guam at 5 pm, where they spent the night at Nimitz Hill, the residence of the Commander, Naval Forces, Marianas. The next morning, February 21, at 7 am the Nixons left Guam for Shanghai. After 4 hours in the air, the Nixons arrived in Shanghai. From Shanghai, the Nixons traveled to Beijing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094883-0011-0000", "contents": "1972 visit by Richard Nixon to China, Travel to China, Meeting with Mao\nFrom February 21 to 28, 1972, U.S. President Richard Nixon traveled to Beijing, Hangzhou, and Shanghai. Almost as soon as the American president arrived in the Chinese capital, CCP Chairman Mao Zedong summoned him for a quick meeting. Secretary of State William P. Rogers was excluded from this meeting and the only other American present besides Kissinger was Kissinger's assistant Winston Lord. To avoid embarrassing Rogers, Lord was cropped out of all the official photographs of the meeting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094883-0012-0000", "contents": "1972 visit by Richard Nixon to China, Travel to China, Meeting with Mao\nThey figured that it was humiliating enough that the National Security Adviser was with the President at this historic meeting, but the Secretary of State was not. To add on top of that the fact that the Special Assistant to the National Security Adviser was there as a third person but the Secretary of State was not was too much, even for them. The Chinese clearly must have been puzzled by this, but they readily went along with this request.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094883-0013-0000", "contents": "1972 visit by Richard Nixon to China, Travel to China, Meeting with Mao\nAlthough Nixon was in China for a week, this would be his only meeting with the top Chinese leader.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094883-0014-0000", "contents": "1972 visit by Richard Nixon to China, Travel to China, Meeting with Mao\nUnknown to Nixon and the rest of the American diplomats at the time, Mao was in poor health and he had been hospitalized for several weeks up to only nine days before Nixon's arrival. Nevertheless, Mao felt well enough to insist to his officials that he would meet with Nixon upon his arrival. Upon being introduced to Nixon for the first time, Mao, speaking through his translator, said to Nixon: \"I believe our old friend Chiang Kai-shek would not approve of this\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094883-0015-0000", "contents": "1972 visit by Richard Nixon to China, Travel to China, Meeting with Mao\nThe meeting lasted for about an hour. I remember distinctly, coming out of the meeting somewhat disappointed. I was impressed with the physical impact of Mao. It was also clear that this man was tough, ruthless, and came from a peasant background, in contrast to the elegant, Mandarin quality of Zhou Enlai. However, I thought that the conversation was somewhat episodic and not very full. Kissinger had sort of the same reaction as I did.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094883-0015-0001", "contents": "1972 visit by Richard Nixon to China, Travel to China, Meeting with Mao\nMao was speaking, as he usually did, in simple brush strokes, whereas we were used to the formal, elegant and somewhat lengthy presentations of Zhou Enlai. Mao would just throw in a few sentences; a few brush strokes. He went from topic to topic in rather a casual way. ... However, as we thought about it, and certainly by the end of the trip, we realized in fact that Mao had put in a very skillful performance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094883-0015-0002", "contents": "1972 visit by Richard Nixon to China, Travel to China, Meeting with Mao\nIn his understated and unorthodox way he had set forth the main lines of Chinese policy, he had made clear the features that he considered very important, and that other things could fall into place. Mao was self-deprecating, even though he had a tremendous ego. He had some humor. He had gotten through his agenda purposefully, even though it seemed casual and episodic. He had managed to cover the main points. I still don't think that it was one of the great conversations of all time. However, I think that Mao was much more purposeful and skillful than we gave him credit for at first.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 662]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094883-0016-0000", "contents": "1972 visit by Richard Nixon to China, Travel to China, Meeting with Mao\nNixon held many meetings with Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai during the trip, which included visits to the Great Wall, Hangzhou, and Shanghai. Nixon's porcelain swans statue, a gift to Mao, was presented along the way in the gift-giving ceremony. After his trip, the United States and the PRC governments issued the Shanghai Communiqu\u00e9, a statement of their foreign policy views and a document that has remained the basis of Sino-American bilateral relations. Kissinger stated that the U.S. also intended to pull all its forces out of the island of Taiwan. In the communiqu\u00e9, both nations pledged to work toward the full normalization of diplomatic policy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 71], "content_span": [72, 724]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094883-0017-0000", "contents": "1972 visit by Richard Nixon to China, Travel to China, Results\nThe Chinese agreed to a peaceful settlement of the Taiwan question. The statement enabled the U.S. and PRC to temporarily set aside the \"crucial question obstructing the normalization of relations\" concerning the political status of Taiwan and to open trade and other contacts. However, the U.S. continued to maintain official relations with the government of the Republic of China in Taiwan and did not break off until 1979, when the U.S. established full diplomatic relations with the PRC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 62], "content_span": [63, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094883-0018-0000", "contents": "1972 visit by Richard Nixon to China, Travel to China, Results\nWhile in Shanghai, Nixon spoke about what this meant for the two countries in the future:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 62], "content_span": [63, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094883-0019-0000", "contents": "1972 visit by Richard Nixon to China, Travel to China, Results\nThis was the week that changed the world, as what we have said in that Communique is not nearly as important as what we will do in the years ahead to build a bridge across 16,000 miles and 22 years of hostilities which have divided us in the past. And what we have said today is that we shall build that bridge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 62], "content_span": [63, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094883-0020-0000", "contents": "1972 visit by Richard Nixon to China, Travel to China, Results\nNixon and his aides carefully planned the trip to have the biggest possible impact on television audiences in the United States. The media coverage of the trip was overwhelmingly positive. Later interviews with correspondents who traveled with the President show how eager they were to be on the trip, which some labeled the most important summit meeting ever.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 62], "content_span": [63, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094883-0021-0000", "contents": "1972 visit by Richard Nixon to China, Travel to China, Results\nJohn T. Downey and Richard Fecteau, CIA operatives who were held captive in China from November 1952, were released after Nixon's visit to China.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 62], "content_span": [63, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094883-0022-0000", "contents": "1972 visit by Richard Nixon to China, Travel to China, Results, Aftermath\nNixon's visit to China was well-planned. The media presented Nixon communicating with Chinese government officials, attending dinners, and being accorded tours with other people of influence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 73], "content_span": [74, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094883-0023-0000", "contents": "1972 visit by Richard Nixon to China, Travel to China, Results, Aftermath\nMax Frankel of The New York Times received the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for his coverage of the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 73], "content_span": [74, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094883-0024-0000", "contents": "1972 visit by Richard Nixon to China, Travel to China, Results, Aftermath\nThe visit inspired John Adams' 1987 opera Nixon in China. It was also the subject of a PBS documentary film, American Experience: Nixon's China Game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 73], "content_span": [74, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094883-0025-0000", "contents": "1972 visit by Richard Nixon to China, Travel to China, Results, Aftermath\nNixon's visit played a role in leading to the September 1972 Japan-China Joint Communiqu\u00e9. In his discussion with Japanese PM Kakuei Tanaka, Mao Zedong said, \"I told Nixon, 'I voted for you when you ran for President. You still don't know.'\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 73], "content_span": [74, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094884-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 visit by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto to the Soviet Union\nIn March 1972, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, president of Pakistan, visited the Soviet Union to help normalize formal relations between the two countries. Bhutto engaged in substantive discussions with Soviet leaders in Moscow, including meeting with Chairman Alexei Kosygin and Secretary-General Leonid Brezhnev.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094884-0001-0000", "contents": "1972 visit by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto to the Soviet Union\nEven before being elected on a socialist platform in 1971, Bhutto had spoken of the necessity of independent foreign policy and stronger relations with the Soviet Union, which had been fractured during the direct war with India and the Indo-Soviet Treaty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094884-0002-0000", "contents": "1972 visit by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto to the Soviet Union\nThe meeting was marked as a reconciliation between the states and as a restoration of industrial co-operation. It also signaled a wider shift towards an independent foreign policy, in particular to reduce Pakistan's dependence on the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094884-0003-0000", "contents": "1972 visit by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto to the Soviet Union\nHeld from 2 March till 5 March 1972, the meeting also strengthened trade between the two states. Trade was increased from 36.2\u00a0million rubles (\u0420\u0443\u0431\u043b\u044c) to 92.3\u00a0million rubles. The repercussions of Bhutto's visit were vast, including the \u20a8.4.5\u00a0billion worth of Pakistan Steel Mills established in Karachi, the Guddo Thermal Power Plant, and Pakistan's official departure from the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) and the Central Treaty Organization (CENTO).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094884-0004-0000", "contents": "1972 visit by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto to the Soviet Union\nIn 1974, Bhutto again visited Moscow as part of a goodwill mission, aimed at strengthening ties. That visit yielded mixed results: the Pakistan Steel Mills were established and inaugurated in 1985; however, the closer ties with China, difficulties with India and Afghanistan, and the discovery of Soviet arms negatively impacted relations between Pakistan and Soviet Union. Relations between the two countries would quickly sour after Bhutto was deposed and executed by the pro-American General Zia ul Haq, who aligned Pakistan with the US in support of the Afghan Mujahideen to resist the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979\u20131988.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 688]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094885-0000-0000", "contents": "1972 \u00darvalsdeild, Overview\nIt was contested by 8 teams, and Fram won the championship. \u00cdBV's T\u00f3mas P\u00e1lsson was the top scorer with 15 goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 26], "content_span": [27, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094886-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u20131973 Cypriot ecclesiastical coup attempt\nThe Ecclesiastical coup is the name given to the events staged by three bishops of the Orthodox Church of Cyprus against the President of the Republic of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios III, in the period from March 1972 to July 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094886-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u20131973 Cypriot ecclesiastical coup attempt, Background\nAt the session of the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church of Cyprus held on 2 March 1972, Metropolitan Gennadios (Machairiotis) of Paphos, Metropolitan Anthemos (Machairiotis) of Kition and Metropolitan Kyprianos (Kyriakides) of Kyrenia tabled a motion proposing that Archbishop Makarios III resign the Presidency of the Republic of Cyprus. They held that the holding of secular office by a cleric was against the canons of the Church. The Synod released an announcement reporting the position of the bishops, and stating that the Archbishop would announce his response at a later time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 643]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094886-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u20131973 Cypriot ecclesiastical coup attempt, Background\nMakarios issued his response on 19 March. In it he accused the three bishops of having conspired among themselves and with other people outside the church, hinting at the Junta of the Colonels ruling Greece at the time, and at George Grivas, leader of the EOKA guerrilla organization, who had secretly returned to Cyprus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094886-0002-0001", "contents": "1972\u20131973 Cypriot ecclesiastical coup attempt, Background\nMakarios argued that the office of President of the Republic of Cyprus could not be called secular at a time when the Orthodox Greeks of Cyprus were struggling for their national survival, and that in the circumstances the holding of secular office did not confer on the Archbishop any personal reward, but was an onerous and bitter duty which he could not shirk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094886-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u20131973 Cypriot ecclesiastical coup attempt, Background\nThe bishops maintained their position and the crisis continued. It finally came to a climax after the unopposed re-election of Makarios to the Presidency of the Republic of Cyprus on 8 February 1973. The three bishops summoned Makarios to account for himself before an extraordinary session of the Holy Synod which they called for 7 March 1973. Makarios replied on 6 March, stating that the Synod the three bishops had called was unconstitutional and therefore any decision it reached would be invalid. The three bishops met among themselves and decided to defrock Makarios.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094886-0004-0000", "contents": "1972\u20131973 Cypriot ecclesiastical coup attempt, Background\nMakarios called a Major Synod comprising representatives from all Orthodox Patriarchates. They all responded, except the Church of Greece and the Ecumenical Patriarchate whose seat is in Istanbul, Turkey. The Major Synod convened on 5\u20136 July 1973. It decided to annul the defrocking of Makarios, and to call the three bishops to audience so they could express their views. The three bishops refused to attend the Major Synod, which convened again on 14 July and defrocked them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094886-0005-0000", "contents": "1972\u20131973 Cypriot ecclesiastical coup attempt, Return of the bishops in the 1974 secular coup\nWhen Makarios was forced to flee the island after the military coup of 15 July 1974, the three defrocked bishops entered the limelight again. The coup leaders, having appointed Nikos Giorgades Sampson as President of the Republic, also installed Gennadios as the new Archbishop of Cyprus. Sampson was sworn in as president in a ceremony conducted by Gennadios in the presence of Kyprianos and Anthemos. However, the coupist government collapsed on 23 July as a result of the Turkish military invasion of Cyprus on 20 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 93], "content_span": [94, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094886-0005-0001", "contents": "1972\u20131973 Cypriot ecclesiastical coup attempt, Return of the bishops in the 1974 secular coup\nGlafkos Klerides, as Speaker of the House of Representatives, constitutionally took over the powers of the President in the absence of Makarios, but agreed to be sworn in as President before Gennadios, an action which Klerides's detractors suggest was indicative of a pro-coupist orientation on his part at the time. With the return of Makarios to the Presidency and the Archbishopric in December 1974, the three defrocked bishops faded from the political scene.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 93], "content_span": [94, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094887-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u20131973 Mark Twain Awards\nThe Mark Twain Readers Award is given annually to a book for children in grades four through six.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094888-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u20131975 Bangladesh insurgency\n1972\u20131975 Bangladesh insurgency refers to the period after the independence of Bangladesh when left-wing insurgents, particularly the Gonobahini fought against the government of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094888-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u20131975 Bangladesh insurgency\nThe government responded by forming the Jatiya Rakkhi Bahini, which began a crackdown on the general populace. The force became involved in numerous charges of human rights abuse including political killings, shooting by death squads, and rape.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094888-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u20131975 Bangladesh insurgency, Background\nIn 1972, Jatiyo Samajtantrik Dal was formed when it split from Bangladesh Chhatra League, the student wing of the Bangladesh Awami League, under the leadership of Serajul Alam Khan, M. A. Jalil, ASM Abdur Rab and Shahjahan Siraj. Its armed wing, Gonobahini, led by Colonel Abu Taher and Hasanul Haq Inu, began an armed campaign against the government of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in order to establish scientific socialism and a Marxist state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094888-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u20131975 Bangladesh insurgency, Political killings\nAnthony Mascarenhas states that by the end of 1973, the number of politically motivated murders in Bangladesh after independence was over 2000. The victims included some members of parliament and many of the murders were resulted of intra-party conflicts within the Awami League. The Gonobahini also killed numerous Bangladesh Chhatra League and Awami League members.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 51], "content_span": [52, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094888-0004-0000", "contents": "1972\u20131975 Bangladesh insurgency, Political killings\nOn the other hand, Maoists such as Siraj Sikder of the Purba Banglar Sarbahara Party and Abdul Haq began attacking the government and people whom they considered \"class enemies\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 51], "content_span": [52, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094888-0005-0000", "contents": "1972\u20131975 Bangladesh insurgency, Political killings\nThe government responded by forming the Jatiya Rakkhi Bahini. Anthony Mascarenhas claimed that within three years, deaths of mostly Jatiyo Samajtantrik Dal members reached 30,000, all of which were killed by the Jatiya Rakkhi Bahini.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 51], "content_span": [52, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094888-0006-0000", "contents": "1972\u20131975 Bangladesh insurgency, End of insurgency\nAfter being de facto ruler of the nation, Ziaur Rahman realized that the disorder set off by the soldiers' mutiny had to be suppressed firmly if discipline was to be restored in the army. Ziaur Rahman declared martial law, cracked down on the Jatiyo Samajtantrik Dal, Abu Taher was sentenced to death and other party figures had various terms of imprisonment slapped on them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094888-0007-0000", "contents": "1972\u20131975 Bangladesh insurgency, Legacy\nHuman Rights Watch states that institutionalized violence committed by the Jatiya Rakkhi Bahini during the insurgency, established the culture of impunity and widespread prevalence of abuses by security forces in independent Bangladesh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094889-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u20131979 (Vol. 2)\n1972\u20131979 (Vol. 2), released in 1999 by Peace Records, is one of many compilations by American doom metal band Pentagram featuring material recorded during the 1970s. Comments by Pentagram frontman Bobby Liebling regarding Peace Records indicate that this album is a bootleg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094890-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u20131979 (album)\n1972\u20131979 is the first of many compilations featuring 1970s material of American doom metal band Pentagram. It was released by Peace Records in 1993. Pentagram frontman Bobby Leibling stated in a 2004 interview with Hellride Music that he gave permission for 500 copies to be issued, but had not received any royalties for this release. Most of the material was later released by Relapse Records on the First Daze Here and First Daze Here Too compilations. The mix of \"Smokescreen\" included on the 1972-1979 LP is different from the version included on the Relapse compilations and was not released on any other compilation after 1993.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 653]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094891-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 1. Slovensk\u00e1 n\u00e1rodn\u00e1 hokejov\u00e1 liga season\nThe 1972\u201373 1. Slovensk\u00e1 n\u00e1rodn\u00e1 hokejov\u00e1 liga season was the 4th season of the 1. Slovensk\u00e1 n\u00e1rodn\u00e1 hokejov\u00e1 liga, the second level of ice hockey in Czechoslovakia alongside the 1. \u010cesk\u00e1 n\u00e1rodn\u00ed hokejov\u00e1 liga. 12 teams participated in the league, and TJ Lokomot\u00edva Bu\u010dina Zvolen won the championship. TJ ZPA Pre\u0161ov and VTJ Dukla Trnava relegated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094892-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 1.Lig\nStatistics of the Turkish First Football League for the 1972\u201373 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 85]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094892-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 1.Lig, Overview\nIt was contested by 16 teams, and Galatasaray S.K. won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 23], "content_span": [24, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094893-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 1re s\u00e9rie season\nThe 1972\u201373 1re s\u00e9rie season was the 52nd season of the 1re s\u00e9rie, the top level of ice hockey in France. Chamonix Hockey Club won their 28th league title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094894-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 A Group\nStatistics of Bulgarian A Football Group in the 1972\u20131973 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 81]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094894-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 A Group, Overview\nIt was contested by 18 teams, and CSKA Sofia won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 25], "content_span": [26, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094895-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 ABA season\nThe 1972\u201373 ABA season was the sixth season of the American Basketball Association. The Pittsburgh Condors and The Floridians had folded, leaving the league with nine teams. However, the ABA decided to (for the first and only time) award an expansion franchise to Dr. Leonard Bloom (President and CEO of the United States Capital Corporation) for $1 million to play in San Diego, California, named the San Diego Conquistadors (however due to a feud they did not play in San Diego Sports Arena, instead playing at Peterson Gym).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094895-0000-0001", "contents": "1972\u201373 ABA season\nSubsequently, this meant that the Memphis Tams (formerly the Memphis Pros) would move to the Eastern Division. Once again, the best regular season team did not win the ABA Finals, with the Indiana Pacers (who had the 4th best record), led by playoff MVP George McGinnis, winning the championship, 4 games to 3 over the Kentucky Colonels.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094896-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 AHL season\nThe 1972\u201373 AHL season was the 37th season of the American Hockey League. Twelve teams played 76 games each in the schedule. The Cincinnati Swords finished first overall in the regular season, and won the Calder Cup championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094896-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 AHL season, Final standings\nNote: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; Pts = Points;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 35], "content_span": [36, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094896-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 AHL season, Scoring leaders\nNote: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalty minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 35], "content_span": [36, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094897-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Albanian Cup\n1972\u201373 Albanian Cup (Albanian: Kupa e Shqip\u00ebris\u00eb) was the twenty-first season of Albania's annual cup competition. It began on August 1972 with the First Round and ended on May 1973 with the Final match. The winners of the competition qualified for the 1973-74 first round of the UEFA Cup. KS Vllaznia were the defending champions, having won their second Albanian Cup last season. The cup was won by KF Partizani.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094897-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Albanian Cup\nThe rounds were played in a two-legged format similar to those of European competitions. If the aggregated score was tied after both games, the team with the higher number of away goals advanced. If the number of away goals was equal in both games, the match was decided by extra time and a penalty shootout, if necessary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094897-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Albanian Cup, Second round\nIn this round entered the 16 winners from the previous round. First and second legs were played on January 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094897-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Albanian Cup, Quarter finals\nIn this round entered the 8 winners from the previous round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 36], "content_span": [37, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094897-0004-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Albanian Cup, Semifinals\nIn this round entered the four winners from the previous round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094898-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Albanian National Championship\nThe 1972\u201373 Albanian National Championship was the 34th season of the Albanian National Championship, the top professional league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 1930.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094898-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Albanian National Championship, Overview\nIt was contested by 14 teams, and Dinamo Tirana won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094898-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Albanian National Championship, League table\nNote: 'Traktori' is Lushnja, 'Labinoti' is Elbasani, '17 N\u00ebntori' is Tirana, 'Lokomotiva Durr\u00ebs' is Teuta", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 52], "content_span": [53, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094899-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Alberta Oilers season\nThe 1972\u201373 Alberta Oilers season was the Oilers' first season, as one of twelve inaugural franchises of the now-defunct World Hockey Association (WHA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094899-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Alberta Oilers season, Regular season\nThe Oilers victory over the Ottawa Nationals on October 11, 1972, was the first game in league history, with Ron Anderson scoring the first goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094899-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Alberta Oilers season, Regular season\nJim Harrison led the team in scoring, with 39 goals and 86 points. On January 30, 1973, in an 11\u20133 defeat of the New York Raiders, Harrison set a major professional hockey record with 10 points (3G, 7A) in a single game. That feat was later matched by Darryl Sittler on February 7, 1976, in a National Hockey League game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094899-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Alberta Oilers season, Regular season\nThe Oilers posted a winning record in the regular season, with 38 wins, 37 losses and 3 ties. The Minnesota Fighting Saints finished with an identical record, so a single game playoff was contested to decide fourth place in the Western Division. The Fighting Saints defeated the Oilers 4\u20132 on a neutral site rink (in Calgary), ending the Oilers season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094899-0004-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Alberta Oilers season, Schedule and results\nLegend: \u00a0\u00a0Win (2 points)\u00a0\u00a0Loss (0 points)\u00a0\u00a0Tie (1 point)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 51], "content_span": [52, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094899-0005-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Alberta Oilers season, Playoffs\nThe Oilers and the Minnesota Fighting Saints were tied at the end of the season. They had the same number of victories and points, and they had both won four games against each other. Subsequently, it was decided that the two teams would play a one-game playoff to decide the final spot in the playoffs, to be played in Calgary. The Oilers lost the game, and the Fighting Saints went on to play in the Quarterfinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094899-0006-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Alberta Oilers season, Player statistics, Skaters\nNote: GP = Games Played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalties In Minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094899-0007-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Alberta Oilers season, Player statistics, Skaters\n\u2020Denotes player traded to the Oilers mid-season. \u2021Denotes player traded away mid-season. Statistics for all players reflect only games played with the Oilers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094899-0008-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Alberta Oilers season, Player statistics, Goaltenders\nNote: GP = Games played; TOI = Time on ice (minutes); W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; GA = Goals against; SO = Shutouts; SV% = Save percentage; GAA = Goals against average", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094899-0009-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Alberta Oilers season, Awards and records\nFour Oilers were selected to play in the mid-season All-Star Game on January 6:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094899-0010-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Alberta Oilers season, Transactions, Draft picks\nThe WHA General Player Draft was held on February 12\u201313, 1972 to stock each new WHA team with their initial rosters. The Oilers selected four NHL players with their \"priority\" selections:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094899-0011-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Alberta Oilers season, Transactions, Draft picks\nUllman and MacGregor would eventually play for the Oilers, but not for the 1972\u201373 season. Both were Edmonton-born players who finished their playing careers with the Oilers after long NHL careers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094899-0012-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Alberta Oilers season, Transactions, Draft picks\nThe Oilers selected an additional 96 players in subsequent rounds of the draft. Of those, 22 players would play for the Oilers, 16 in the 1972\u201373 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094900-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Algerian Championnat National\nThe 1972\u20131973 Algerian Championnat National was the 11th season of the Algerian Championnat National since its establishment in 1962. A total of 16 teams contested the league, with MC Alger as the defending champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094901-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Algerian Cup\nThe 1972\u201373 Algerian Cup is the 11th edition of the Algerian Cup. Hamra Annaba are the defending champions, having beaten USM Alger 2\u20130 in the previous season's final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094902-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship\nThe 1972\u201373 All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship was the third staging of the All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship since its establishment by the Gaelic Athletic Association in 1970-71.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094902-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship\nBellaghy were the defending champions, however, they failed to qualify after being beaten by Ballinascreen in the Derry County Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094902-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship\nOn 24 June 1973, Nemo Rangers won the championship following a 4-16 to 0-10 defeat of St. Vincent's in the All-Ireland final replay at Semple Stadium. It was their first ever championship title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094903-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship\nThe 1972-73 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship was the third staging of the All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship, the Gaelic Athletic Association's premier inter-county club hurling tournament. The championship began on 26 November 1972 and ended on 9 December 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094903-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship\nBlackrock of Cork were the defending champions, however, they failed to qualify after being defeated by St. Finbarr's in the opening round of the Cork Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094903-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship\nOn 9 December 1973, Glen Rovers won the championship after a 2-18 to 2-08 defeat of St. Rynagh's in the All-Ireland final. It was their first ever championship title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094904-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Allsvenskan (men's handball)\nThe 1972\u201373 Allsvenskan was the 39th season of the top division of Swedish handball. 10 teams competed in the league. IF Saab won the regular season and also won the playoffs to claim their second Swedish title. IF Guif and IFK Liding\u00f6 were relegated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094905-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Alpha Ethniki\nThe 1972\u201373 Alpha Ethniki was the 37th season of the highest football league of Greece. The season began on 17 September 1972 and ended on 3 June 1973. Olympiacos won their 18th Greek title and their first one in six years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094905-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Alpha Ethniki\nThe point system was: Win: 3 points - Draw: 2 points - Loss: 1 point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 91]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094906-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Arad County Championship\nThe 1972\u201373 Arad County Championship was the 5th season of the Liga IV Arad, the fourth tier of the Romanian football league system. Cri\u0219ana Sebi\u0219 was crowned as county champion and promoted to 1973\u201374 Divizia C.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094907-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Arsenal F.C. season\nDuring the 1972\u201373 English football season, Arsenal F.C. competed in the Football League First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094907-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Arsenal F.C. season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094908-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Aston Villa F.C. season\nThe 1972\u201373 English football season was Aston Villa's 73rd season in the Football League, this season playing in the Football League Second Division. Under manager Vic Crowe Aston Villa won promotion in the previous season as champions with a record 70 points, and thus ended their two-year spell in the Third Division. By the end of the decade they would be firmly re-established as a First Division club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094909-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Athenian League\nThe 1972\u201373 Athenian League season was the 50th in the history of Athenian League. The league consisted of 46 teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094909-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Athenian League, Premier Division\nThe division featured two new teams, promoted from last season's Division One:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 41], "content_span": [42, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094910-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Atlanta Flames season\nThe 1972\u201373 Atlanta Flames season was the inaugural season for the Flames' franchise.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094910-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Atlanta Flames season, Regular season\nWhen it was first announced that Atlanta would have an NHL franchise many hockey observers thought that a team based in the southern United States was a ludicrous and foolish move, especially since the talent pool had been diluted by repeated expansion and the upstart WHA. Nevertheless, the team quickly began front office operations, naming young St. Louis Blues assistant general manager Cliff Fletcher as general manager. Soon after, Fletcher had found the team its first coach: former Canadiens star forward Bernie \"Boom-Boom\" Geoffrion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094910-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Atlanta Flames season, Regular season\nThe team was a pleasant surprise in its first season on the ice, its success built on new star goaltenders Dan Bouchard and Phil Myre, solid defensemen such as Randy Manery and Pat Quinn, and forwards Rey Comeau, (captain) Keith McCreary, Larry Romanchych and Bob Leiter. Despite its inexperience as a team, the Flames were quite successful in the beginning of their rookie season, posting a 20\u201319\u20138 record by January 19, 1973, off the success of their young goaltending tandem. However, they lost 19 of their last 31 games, finishing out of the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094910-0002-0001", "contents": "1972\u201373 Atlanta Flames season, Regular season\nPart of the problem as that in defiance of all geographic reality, the Flames were placed in the West Division\u2014saddling them with some of the longest road trips in the league\u2014and ultimately, the team's excellent defense and goaltending were sabotaged by its lack of goalscoring, finishing second worst in the NHL in that category. However, their 65 points were 35 better than the Islanders, who toiled at the bottom of the East Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094910-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Atlanta Flames season, Player statistics, Skaters\nNote: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalty minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094910-0004-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Atlanta Flames season, Player statistics, Skaters\n\u2020Denotes player spent time with another team before joining Atlanta. Stats reflect time with the Flames only. \u2021Traded mid-season", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094910-0005-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Atlanta Flames season, Player statistics, Goaltending\nNote: GP = Games played; TOI = Time on ice (minutes); W = Wins; L = Losses; OT = Overtime/shootout losses; GA = Goals against; SO = Shutouts; GAA = Goals against average", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094910-0006-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Atlanta Flames season, Transactions\nThe Flames were involved in the following transactions during the 1972\u201373 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094911-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Atlanta Hawks season\nThe 1972\u201373 NBA season was the Hawks' 24th season in the NBA and fifth season in Atlanta. The team moved their home games from the Alexander Memorial Coliseum to The Omni Coliseum. The Hawks registered a 46\u201336 record during the regular-season, but went 2\u20134 against the Boston Celtics in postseason.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094912-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Australian region cyclone season\nThe 1972\u201373 Australian region cyclone season was an above-average tropical cyclone season, in terms of activity. Additionally, it is also the deadliest tropical cyclone season recorded in the Australian region, with Cyclone Flores killing an estimated 1,650 people alone, making Flores the single-deadliest tropical cyclone recorded in the entire Southern Hemisphere.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094912-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Ivy-Beatrice\nTropical Cyclone Ivy developed over the eastern Indian Ocean on December\u00a07. The cyclone entered the southwest Indian Ocean basin after crossing 80\u00b0E and was renamed Beatrice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 80], "content_span": [81, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094912-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Severe Tropical Cyclone Jean\nOn January\u00a010, Jean developed northwest of Western Australia. It strengthened into a Category\u00a04 severe tropical cyclone, before being last noted on January\u00a017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 79], "content_span": [80, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094912-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Severe Tropical Cyclone Kerry\nAt Wickham on 21 January 1973 more than 30 houses were partly unroofed and some houses received major damage. There was no damage to buildings in Dampier, Roebourne or Karratha as the cyclone crossed the coast well to the east. Kerry passed close to a number of oil-drilling rigs causing damage and lost productivity time that cost over one million dollars. Maximum recorded gust was 140\u00a0km/h at Cape Lambert.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 80], "content_span": [81, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094912-0004-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Leila-Gertrude\nTropical Cyclone Leila formed offshore Western Australia on January\u00a021. Moving generally westward, the storm crossed 80\u00b0E on January\u00a023 and was renamed Gertrude.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 82], "content_span": [83, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094912-0005-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Severe Tropical Cyclone Adeline\nTropical Cyclone Adeline developed in the Gulf of Carpentaria on January\u00a027. Moving south-southwestward, Adeline made landfall near the Northern Territory-Queensland border, shortly before dissipating on January\u00a029.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 82], "content_span": [83, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094912-0006-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Maud\nTropical Cyclone Maud existed offshore Western Australia from January\u00a028 to January\u00a031.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094912-0007-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Kristy\nTropical Cyclone Kristy developed southwest of the Solomon Islands on February\u00a024. Heading generally southward, Kristy dissipated well east of New South Wales on March\u00a01.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 74], "content_span": [75, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094912-0008-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Severe Tropical Cyclone Leah\nThe next system, Cyclone Leah, formed near the coast of Western Australia on February\u00a027. Moving southwestward, Leah eventually dissipated on March\u00a011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 79], "content_span": [80, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094912-0009-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Severe Tropical Cyclone Madge\nCyclone Madge originated in the vicinity of the Solomon Islands on February\u00a028. Tracking west-southwestward, Madge struck the Cape York Peninsula early on March\u00a04. By late the following day, the cyclone made landfall near Numbulwar, Northern Territory. Moving across Northern Territory and Queensland, Madge emerged into the Indian Ocean on March\u00a010. The storm headed generally westward for the next several days, until dissipating on March\u00a018.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 80], "content_span": [81, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094912-0010-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Severe Tropical Cyclone Nellie\nOn March\u00a013, Cyclone Nellie formed offshore Queensland. It moved generally west-southwestward before dissipated on March\u00a023.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 81], "content_span": [82, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094912-0011-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Bella\nCyclone Bella developed over the Arafura Sea on March\u00a020. It struck North Territory before dissipating on March\u00a025.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 73], "content_span": [74, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094912-0012-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Paula\nThe next system, Cyclone Paula, formed southwest of Indonesia on March\u00a026. Paula moved southwestward and dissipated about six days later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 73], "content_span": [74, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094912-0013-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Severe Tropical Cyclone Flores\nThe strongest tropical cyclone of the season developed in the Banda Sea on April\u00a026. The storm peaked with a barometric pressure of 950\u00a0mbar (28\u00a0inHg). The storm struck the island of Flores before dissipating on April\u00a029. Widespread destruction of houses, schools, and bridges was reported in four of the island's districts. 53 on Flores were killed, and 21 perished in the sinking of a Timorese fishing ship, the Oarbiru. Additionally, over 1,500 fisherman were reported lost at sea. The area's remoteness kept information about the cyclone's effects from reaching the news for over a month. The storm killed a total of 1,650 people, making it the deadliest tropical cyclone recorded in the Southern Hemisphere.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 81], "content_span": [82, 794]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094912-0014-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Severe Tropical Cyclone Marcelle\nMarcelle, the final tropical cyclone of the season, developed well west of Indonesia on April\u00a029. The storm struck near Busselton, Western Australia late on May\u00a07. Marcelle dissipated well south of Australia about two days later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 83], "content_span": [84, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094913-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Austrian Hockey League season\nThe 1972\u201373 Austrian Hockey League season was the 43rd season of the Austrian Hockey League, the top level of ice hockey in Austria. Eight teams participated in the league, and EC KAC won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094914-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Austrian football championship, Overview\nIt was contested by 16 teams, and FC Wacker Innsbruck won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094916-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Baltimore Bullets season\nIn the 1972\u201373 NBA season, their tenth and final season in Baltimore, Maryland, the Bullets were led by seventh-year head coach Gene Shue and won a third consecutive Central Division title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094916-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Baltimore Bullets season\nPrior to the season in June, forward Elvin Hayes was acquired in a trade from the Houston Rockets, for forward Jack Marin and draft picks. In the 1972 draft in April, Baltimore selected point guard Kevin Porter in the third round. After a slow start, the Bullets had a strong 10\u20134 record in December. In the playoffs, they faced their playoff rivals the New York Knicks, and fell in five games in the conference semi-finals; the Knicks went on to win the NBA title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094916-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Baltimore Bullets season\nFollowing the season, the Bullets made a short move to the new Capital Centre in Landover, a suburb east of Washington, D.C., and became the Capital Bullets. The Bullets would later play 35 regular season games in Baltimore from the 1988\u201389 through 1996\u201397 seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094917-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Banks Trophy\nThe 1972\u201373 Banks Trophy was the inaugural edition of what is now the Regional Super50, the domestic limited-overs cricket competition for the countries of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB). It was the only season of the competition to carry that name.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094917-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Banks Trophy\nFour teams contested the tournament \u2013 Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago. The Combined Islands, the only other team in West Indian domestic cricket at the time, did not participate, as the Windward Islands were playing a multi-day fixture against the touring Australians at the same time. The Banks Trophy was played as a knock-out tournament over a single weekend, from 13 to 15 April 1973. All matches were played at Kensington Oval, in Bridgetown, Barbados, and had a duration of 40 overs. In the tournament final, Barbados narrowly defeated Guyana, winning by only nine runs. A number of players in the Banks Trophy went on to play a key role in the West Indian team that won the inaugural World Cup in 1975.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 749]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094918-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Bayernliga\nThe 1972\u201373 season of the Bayernliga, the third tier of the German football league system in the state of Bavaria at the time, was the 28th season of the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094918-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Bayernliga, Overview\nThe league champions FC Augsburg, winning their first Bayernliga title, were promoted to the Regionalliga S\u00fcd. FC Augsburg formed four years earlier in a merger of BC Augsburg and the football department of TSV Schwaben Augsburg, would go on to win the Regionalliga S\u00fcd in the following season and narrowly miss out on Bundesliga promotion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094918-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Bayernliga, Overview\nRunners-up ESV Ingolstadt qualified for the German amateur championship, where the club was eliminated by eventual winners SpVgg Bad Homburg in the semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094918-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Bayernliga, Overview\nThe bottom three teams in the league were directly relegated. For FC Lichtenfels it marked the end of 27 consecutive seasons in the league, having been promoted to the Bayernliga in 1946. Lichtenfels would never return to the Bayernliga again while of the other two clubs, ASV Neumarkt would win direct promotion back to the league the following season and 1. FC N\u00fcrnberg Amateure would return in 1980.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094918-0004-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Bayernliga, Overview\nNorbert Knopf of FC Herzogenaurach was the top scorer of the league with 30 goals, the second time he finished as the best scorer of the league after 1970\u201371.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094918-0005-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Bayernliga, Table\nThe 1972\u201373 season saw four new clubs in the league, ASV Herzogenaurach, BSC Sendling and 1. FC Bayreuth, all promoted from the Landesliga Bayern, while ESV Ingolstadt had been relegated from the Regionalliga S\u00fcd to the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 25], "content_span": [26, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094918-0006-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Bayernliga, Table\nIngolstadt had been playing in the Regionalliga for the previous four seasons after a Bayernliga championship in 1968, while Bayreuth returned after having been relegated from the league in 1970. Sending had last played in the Bayernliga in 1958 while Herzogenaurach was promoted to the league for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 25], "content_span": [26, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094919-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Belgian First Division\nStatistics of Belgian First Division in the 1972\u201373 season for association football clubs in Belgium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094919-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Belgian First Division, Overview\nIt was contested by 16 teams, and Club Brugge K.V. won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094920-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Birmingham City F.C. season\nThe 1972\u201373 Football League season was Birmingham City Football Club's 70th in the Football League and their 39th in the First Division, to which they were promoted as Second Division runners-up in 1971\u201372. After spending much of the season in the lower reaches of the table, eight wins and a draw from the last ten matches brought them up to tenth position in the 22-team division. They entered the 1972\u201373 FA Cup at the third round proper and lost in that round to Swindon Town, and entered the League Cup in the second round, eliminated in the fourth by Blackpool.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094920-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Birmingham City F.C. season\nTwenty-seven players made at least one appearance in nationally organised first-team competition, and there were fourteen different goalscorers. Centre-forward Bob Latchford played in all but one of the 48 first-team matches over the season, and finished as leading goalscorer with 20 goals, of which 19 came in league competition. The home attendance in First Division matches never fell below 30,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094921-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Blackpool F.C. season\nThe 1972\u201373 season was Blackpool F.C. 's 65th season (62nd consecutive) in the Football League. It was also the 75th anniversary season of their debut in the Football League. They competed in the 22-team Division Two, then the second tier of English football, finishing seventh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094921-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Blackpool F.C. season\nBlackpool's third and final appearance in the Anglo-Italian Cup ended at the fourth-round stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094921-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Blackpool F.C. season\nBob Stokoe resigned as manager in November, to take charge at Sunderland. He was succeeded by Harry Potts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094921-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Blackpool F.C. season\nAlan Suddick was the club's top scorer, with thirteen goals (ten in the league, one in the FA Cup and two in the League Cup). Alan Ainscow was the joint-top scorer in the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094922-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Boise State Broncos men's basketball team\nThe 1972\u201373 Boise State Broncos men's basketball team represented Boise State College during the 1972\u201373 NCAA University Division basketball season. The Broncos were led by eighth-year head coach Murray Satterfield, and played their home games on campus at Bronco Gymnasium in Boise, Idaho.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094922-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Boise State Broncos men's basketball team\nThey finished the regular season at 11\u201315 overall, with a 5\u20139 record in the Big Sky Conference, sixth in the standings. Satterfield resigned in mid-January when the Broncos were 6\u20138 (0\u20132 in Big Sky), and assistant Bus Connor was promoted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094922-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Boise State Broncos men's basketball team\nNo Broncos were named to the all-conference team. There was no conference tournament, which debuted three years later in 1976.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094923-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Boston Bruins season\nThe 1972\u201373 Boston Bruins season was the Bruins' 49th season in the NHL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094924-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Boston Celtics season\nThe 1972\u201373 Boston Celtics season was their 27th in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Celtics finished the season with the best record in the league, and currently in franchise history, at 68\u201314. Third-year forward Dave Cowens won the NBA Most Valuable Player Award ahead of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Tiny Archibald. They also won the Atlantic Division for the second consecutive season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094924-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Boston Celtics season\nIn the Eastern Conference Finals, the Celtics lost to the eventual NBA champion New York Knicks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094925-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Bradford City A.F.C. season\nThe 1972\u201373 Bradford City A.F.C. season was the 60th in the club's history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094925-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Bradford City A.F.C. season\nThe club finished 16th in Division Four, reached the 4th round of the FA Cup, and the 2nd round of the League Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094926-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Brentford F.C. season\nDuring the 1972\u201373 English football season, Brentford competed in the Football League Third Division. The early-season departures of goalscorers John O'Mara and Bobby Ross and 15 consecutive away league defeats led to Brentford's relegation straight back to the Fourth Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094926-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\nBrentford's promotion to the Third Division at the end of the 1971\u201372 season meant that the club would compete in the third-tier for the first time since 1965\u201366. Self-imposed financial austerity since the club's relegation to the Fourth Division had enabled the club's large debts to be paid off, but despite promotion and increasing attendances, manager Frank Blunstone would again be forced to maintain a small playing squad. Blunstone turned down the chance to become assistant manager at Everton during the off-season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094926-0001-0001", "contents": "1972\u201373 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\nReleased in the wake of the promotion were defender Steven Tom, midfielder Brian Turner and winger Gordon Neilson and in came amateur goalkeeper Paul Priddy, midfielders David Court and Alan Murray, winger David Jenkins and Stewart Houston's loan was turned into a permanent transfer for a \u00a315,000 fee. The Brentford youth team was also reactivated after being disbanded due to the budget cuts of 1967, with Kevin Harding, Richard Poole and Graham Pearce being taken on as apprentices. Gary Huxley would win an England Youth cap during the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094926-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\nDespite losing and drawing the first two league matches of the season, three consecutive wins put Brentford in 2nd position by 2 September 1972. 10 days later, forward John O'Mara, the previous season's Gallagher's Divisional Footballer Of The Year, was sold to Third Division rivals Blackburn Rovers for a club-record \u00a350,000 fee. Given that Chelsea had recently paid Southend United \u00a3100,000 for 25-goal forward Bill Garner, it was felt amongst the Brentford supporters that O'Mara had been sold cheaply. The loss of O'Mara's goals and the departure of captain Bobby Ross shortly afterwards contributed a great deal to Brentford's relegation at the end of the season, given that the two players had scored over half of Brentford's goals during the previous campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 814]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094926-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\nBy early October 1972, Brentford were in the bottom-six of the Third Division, but a profit of nearly \u00a380,000 from the first eight league matches of the season and the \u00a350,000 from the sale of John O'Mara allowed manager Frank Blunstone to pay \u00a310,000 for Carlisle United forward Stan Webb. By mid-December, Blunstone had just 12 fit players available and despite spending over a further \u00a325,000 on attackers Roger Cross, Barry Salvage and Andy Woon, Brentford's slide towards relegation continued through the early months of 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094926-0003-0001", "contents": "1972\u201373 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\nThe mid-season signings failed to help arrest the slump and Brentford were relegated after taking just two points from the final six matches of the season. Aside from the lack of goals (winger John Docherty top-scored with 8), Brentford lost 15 consecutive away league matches during the season, a new club record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094927-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 British Home Championship\nThe 1972\u201373 British Home Championship international Home Nations football tournament was, like its predecessor in 1972, a victim of The Troubles in Northern Ireland which had erupted following Bloody Sunday the previous year. As with the previous year in the rugby union 1972 Five Nations Championship, threats were made by Republican activists against visiting British teams, which in this year meant England and Wales. To prevent violence but keep the tournament running, Northern Ireland's \"home\" games were transferred to Goodison Park, the home of Everton F.C. in Liverpool in England. This step meant that Ireland played just a short ferry ride from Belfast (where the match was originally scheduled) in a city with a substantial Irish population, but where the police were able to exercise a greater measure of control over who was able to attend.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 888]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094927-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 British Home Championship\nThe shift to England did not substantially hinder the Irish, who claimed a rare and respectable second place behind England, who achieved yet another whitewash of their near neighbours. Beating the Irish in Liverpool to match Scotland's win over Wales, England then inflicted defeat on the same team at Wembley, whilst the Irish recovered from their first game to beat the Scots in Scotland. In the final two games, Northern Ireland beat Wales, setting up a close encounter in the final game, in which the winner would take the tournament but a draw would benefit the Irish. The game was a close encounter, made more interesting by an English 5\u20130 thrashing of Scotland two months earlier in a testimonial match celebrating one hundred years of international football. England however, eventually triumphed by a single goal from Martin Peters, winning the trophy for another year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 913]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094928-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 British Ice Hockey season\nThe 1972\u201373 British Ice Hockey season featured the Northern League for teams from Scotland and the north of England and the Southern League for teams from the rest of England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094928-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 British Ice Hockey season\nDundee Rockets won the Northern League and Altrincham Aces won the Southern League. Whitley Warriors won the Icy Smith Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094929-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Buffalo Braves season\nDespite finishing with a worse record than their previous 2 seasons, their 21\u201361 record was good enough for 3rd place. The Braves showed improvement under new Coach Jack Ramsay. Rookie center Bob McAdoo provided the silver lining by winning the Rookie of the Year Award with 18.0 points per game and 9.1 rebounds per game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094929-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Buffalo Braves season\nDuring the fifth game of the season versus the Boston Celtics on October 20, 1972, the team set an NBA record which still stands for most points in a single quarter with 58, and still managed to lose 126-118.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094929-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Buffalo Braves season, Player statistics\nNote: GP= Games Played; MPG = Minutes per game; FG% = Field goal percentage; FT% = Free throw percentage; RPG = Rebounds per game; APG = Assists per game; PPG = Points per game", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094929-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Buffalo Braves season, Transactions\nThe Braves were involved in the following transactions during the 1972\u201373 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094930-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Buffalo Sabres season\nThe 1972\u201373 Buffalo Sabres season was the Sabres' third season of operation in the National Hockey League. The team made it to the playoffs for the first time, but lost in the first round to Montreal, four games to two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094930-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Buffalo Sabres season, Offseason\nThe Sabres added future Hall of Fame defenseman Tim Horton in the intra-league draft. In the Amateur Draft, the Sabres picked defenseman Jim Schoenfeld as their first-round pick, fifth over-all.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094930-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Buffalo Sabres season, Schedule and results, Playoffs\nThe 1972\u201373 season saw the Sabres qualify for the Stanley Cup Playoffs for the first time. The team would ultimately lose to the eventual Stanley Cup Champion Montreal Canadiens in 6 games. After falling behind three games to none the Sabres won two straight to earn a final home game that was memorable for the \"Thank you Sabres\" chant from the end of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094930-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Buffalo Sabres season, Player statistics\nNote: Pos = Position; GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/- = plus/minus; PIM = Penalty minutes; PPG = Power-play goals; SHG = Short-handed goals; GWG = Game-winning goals\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0MIN = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; GA = Goals-against; GAA = Goals-against average; SO = Shutouts;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 48], "content_span": [49, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094930-0004-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Buffalo Sabres season, Farm teams\nThe 1972\u201373 AHL season was a successful one for the Sabres' AHL affiliate, the Cincinnati Swords. The Swords would finish first overall in the regular season with a 54\u201317\u20135 record. They would go on to win the Calder Cup in the playoffs losing only 3 games in the 3 round best-of-7 event. It would be the only championship won by the team in its short existence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094931-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Bulgarian Cup\nThe 1972\u201373 Bulgarian Cup was the 33rd season of the Bulgarian Cup (in this period the tournament was named Cup of the Soviet Army). CSKA Sofia won the competition, beating Beroe Stara Zagora 2\u20131 in the final at the Vasil Levski National Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094932-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Bulgarian Hockey League season\nThe 1972\u201373 Bulgarian Hockey League season was the 21st season of the Bulgarian Hockey League, the top level of ice hockey in Bulgaria. Seven teams participated in the league, and HK CSKA Sofia won the championship, making it their 16th win at the time. HK CSKA Sofia also won the championship 2 seasons prior and would go on to win the next 2 seasons as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094933-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Bundesliga\nThe 1972\u201373 Bundesliga was the tenth season of the Bundesliga, West Germany's premier football league. It began on 16 September 1972 and ended on 9 June 1973. FC Bayern Munich were the defending champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094933-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Bundesliga, Competition modus\nEvery team played two games against each other team, one at home and one away. Teams received two points for a win and one point for a draw. If two or more teams were tied on points, places were determined by goal difference and, if still tied, by goals scored. The team with the most points were crowned champions while the two teams with the fewest points were relegated to their respective Regionalliga divisions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 37], "content_span": [38, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094933-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Bundesliga, Team changes to 1971\u201372\nBorussia Dortmund were relegated to the Regionalliga after finishing in 17th place. They were accompanied by Arminia Bielefeld, who were demoted by the DFB for playing a key role in the 1971 match fixing scandal (although their playing record would have relegated them anyway). Both teams were replaced by Wuppertaler SV and Kickers Offenbach, who won their respective promotion play-off groups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 43], "content_span": [44, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094933-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Bundesliga, Champion squad\nDefenders: Franz Beckenbauer (34 / 6); Johnny Hansen (34 / 1); Hans-Georg Schwarzenbeck (34 / 1); Paul Breitner (32 / 4); Gernot Rohr (3); G\u00fcnther Rybarczyk (2). Midfielders: Uli Hoene\u00df (34 / 17); Franz Roth (32 / 5); Franz Krauthausen (29 / 4); Rainer Zobel (28 / 2). Forwards: Gerd M\u00fcller (33 / 36); Bernd D\u00fcrnberger (31 / 3); Wilhelm Hoffmann (24 / 9); Edgar Schneider (16 / 3); Hans J\u00f6rg (3); Herbert Zimmermann (1). (league appearances and goals listed in brackets)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094933-0004-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Bundesliga, Champion squad\nOn the roster but have not played in a league game: Manfred Seifert; Zlatko \u0160kori\u0107 ; Matthias Obermeier; Georg Wei\u00df; Wolfgang S\u00fchnholz; Martin Wildgruber.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094934-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 CHL season\nThe 1972\u201373 CHL season was the tenth season of the Central Hockey League, a North American minor professional league. Four teams participated in the regular season, and the Omaha Knights won the league title. The league played an inter-locking schedule with the Western Hockey League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094935-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 California Golden Seals season\nThe 1972\u201373 California Golden Seals season was the California Golden Seals' sixth season in the National Hockey League (NHL). The Seals were hit particularly hard by defections to the new World Hockey Association, dropping 12 points from the previous year and returning to the basement of the West Division. The Seals had the second worst record in the National Hockey League with a 13\u201355\u201310 record, the only team they finished ahead of was the expansion New York Islanders. Making things even worse was that they finished behind the one of the two expansion clubs that season, the Atlanta Flames.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094935-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 California Golden Seals season, Player statistics, Skaters\nNote: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalties in minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094935-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 California Golden Seals season, Player statistics, Skaters\n\u2020Denotes player spent time with another team before joining Seals. Stats reflect time with the Seals only. \u2021Traded mid-season", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094935-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 California Golden Seals season, Player statistics, Goaltenders\nNote: GP = Games played; TOI = Time on ice (minutes); W= Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; GA = Goals against; SO = Shutouts; GAA = Goals against average", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094935-0004-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 California Golden Seals season, Transactions\nThe Seals were involved in the following transactions during the 1972\u201373 season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 52], "content_span": [53, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094936-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Cambridge United F.C. season\nThe 1972\u201373 season was Cambridge United's 3rd season in the Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094936-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Cambridge United F.C. season\nCambridge had a fine season finishing in 3rd position and thus gaining promotion to the Third Division after only three seasons in the Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094937-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Cardiff City F.C. season\nThe 1972\u201373 season was Cardiff City F.C. 's 46th season in the Football League. They competed in the 22-team Division Two, then the second tier of English football, finishing twentieth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094937-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Cardiff City F.C. season\nThe season also saw Cardiff-born Phil Dwyer, who would go on to break the club's appearance record, make his debut for the club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094937-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Cardiff City F.C. season, Players\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094938-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Carlisle United F.C. season\nFor the 1972\u201373 season, Carlisle United F.C. competed in Football League Division Two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094939-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Carolina Cougars season\nThe 1972\u201373 Carolina Cougars season was the 4th season of the Cougars in the American Basketball Association. The Cougars finished 2nd in points per game with 115.6 points per game and 5th in points allowed with 110.7 points per game. By the time the season was half over, the team was 28\u201314, with a season best eleven game winning streak occurring during that span, while they went 29\u201313 in the second half. The biggest losing streak was 4, which occurred after they had already won over 50 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094939-0000-0001", "contents": "1972\u201373 Carolina Cougars season\nThey clinched the best record in the Eastern Division after beating the San Diego Conquistadors on March 25, 1973, with their 57th victory, is tied for 9th most by a team in one ABA season. In the playoffs, they beat the New York Nets in five games to go to the Division Finals with a chance to go to the ABA Finals. But the Cougars failed to advance, losing to the Kentucky Colonels in seven games, with the final one in their home court.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094939-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Carolina Cougars season, Awards and honors\n1973 ABA All-Star Game selections (game played on February 6, 1973)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094940-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Celtic F.C. season\nDuring the 1972\u201373 Scottish football season, Celtic competed in Scottish Division One.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094941-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Challenge Cup\nThe 1972\u201373 Challenge Cup was the 72nd staging of rugby league's oldest knockout competition, the Challenge Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094941-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Challenge Cup\nThe final was contested by Featherstone Rovers and Bradford Northern at Wembley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094941-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Challenge Cup\nFeatherstone Rovers beat Bradford Northern 33-14 at Wembley in front of a crowd of 72,395.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094941-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Challenge Cup\nThe winner of the Lance Todd Trophy was the Featherstone scrum-half, Steve Nash.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094941-0004-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Challenge Cup\nCyril Kellett scored 8-conversions for Featherstone Rovers, the most in a Challenge Cup Final until it was equalled by Iestyn Harris in 1999.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094942-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Chester F.C. season\nThe 1972\u201373 season was the 35th season of competitive association football in the Football League played by Chester, an English club based in Chester, Cheshire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094942-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Chester F.C. season\nAlso, it was the 15th season spent in the Fourth Division after its creation. Alongside competing in the Football League the club also participated in the FA Cup, Football League Cup and the Welsh Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094943-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Chicago Black Hawks season\nThe 1972\u201373 Chicago Black Hawks season was the Hawks' 47th season in the NHL, and the club was coming off their third consecutive first-place finish in 1971\u201372, as they finished on top of the West Division with a 46\u201317\u201315 record, tying a club record with 107 points. The Hawks swept the Pittsburgh Penguins in the NHL quarter-finals before they were swept by the New York Rangers in the semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094943-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Chicago Black Hawks season\nDuring the off-season, the Black Hawks lost Bobby Hull to the Winnipeg Jets in the newly created World Hockey Association, who signed him to the first $1 million contract in hockey history. The NHL also expanded once again, as the New York Islanders joined the East Division, while the Atlanta Flames were placed in the West.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094943-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Chicago Black Hawks season\nChicago, dealing with the loss of Hull, got off to a quick start of the season, winning their first four games, before sliding into a slump that saw their record fall to 7\u20137\u20132. The club broke out of its slump, won 14 of the next 18 games, and took hold of the top spot in the West Division. The Hawks then cruised to their fourth-straight first-place finish, as they had a record of 42\u201327\u20139, earning 93 points, which was their lowest point total since missing the playoffs in the 1968\u201369 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094943-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Chicago Black Hawks season\nOffensively, the Black Hawks were led by Jim Pappin, who had a career season, scoring 41 goals and 92 points. Pit Martin earned 61 assists and 90 points, while Dennis Hull scored 39 goals and 90 points. Stan Mikita earned 83 points despite missing 21 games due to injuries. Bill White lead the defense, registering 47 points, while Pat Stapleton scored 10 goals and 31 points. Rookie Phil Russell had a team-high 156 penalty minutes, and had a +31 rating, which tied him with Mikita for the team lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094943-0004-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Chicago Black Hawks season\nIn goal, Tony Esposito led the club with 32 victories and a 2.51 GAA, along with four shutouts while appearing in 56 games. Backup goaltender Gary Smith won 10 games while having a 3.54 GAA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094943-0005-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Chicago Black Hawks season\nThe Hawks opened the playoffs against the St. Louis Blues, who had a record of 32\u201334\u201312, earning 76 points, while placing fourth in the West Division. The series opened with two games at Chicago Stadium, and the Black Hawks easily defeated the Blues in the series opener, winning 7\u20131, before shutting out St. Louis, 1\u20130, in the second game to take an early series lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094943-0005-0001", "contents": "1972\u201373 Chicago Black Hawks season\nThe series shifted to the St. Louis Arena for the next two games; however, Chicago took a 3\u20130 series lead, winning 5\u20132 in the third game, but the Blues avoided the sweep, winning 5\u20133 in the fourth game. Chicago returned home for the fifth game, and easily took care of St. Louis, thumping the Blues 6\u20131 to win the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094943-0006-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Chicago Black Hawks season\nChicago's next opponent was the New York Rangers, who had finished the season with a 47\u201323\u20138 record, earning 102 points, and a third-place finish in the East Division. The Rangers defeated the defending Stanley Cup champions, the Boston Bruins in their first playoff series. Since the Black Hawks won their division, they were given home ice advantage in the series. The series opened up with two games at Chicago Stadium, but it was the Rangers who struck first, winning the series opener by a 4\u20131 score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094943-0006-0001", "contents": "1972\u201373 Chicago Black Hawks season\nThe Black Hawks rebounded in the second game, holding off New York for a 5\u20134 victory to even the series. The series moved to Madison Square Garden for the next two games, and it would be the Hawks who took control of the series, defeating the Rangers 2\u20131 and 3\u20131 to take a 3\u20131 series lead back to Chicago for the fifth game. The Black Hawks stayed hot, and easily beat the Rangers 4\u20131 to win the series and advance to the Stanley Cup finals for the second time in three years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094943-0007-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Chicago Black Hawks season\nThe Hawks opponent in the 1973 Stanley Cup finals was the Montreal Canadiens, who were the best team in the league during the regular season, as they had a 52\u201310\u201316 record, earning 120 points. The Canadiens had defeated the Buffalo Sabres and Philadelphia Flyers to earn a spot in the finals. The series opened at the Montreal Forum, and the powerful Canadiens easily won the first game by an 8\u20133 score, followed by a 4\u20131 win in the second game to take a 2\u20130 series lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094943-0007-0001", "contents": "1972\u201373 Chicago Black Hawks season\nThe finals shifted to Chicago Stadium for the next two games, and the Hawks cut into the Canadiens series lead with a 7\u20134 victory in the third game. Montreal rebounded in the fourth game though, shutting out Chicago 4\u20130 to take a 3\u20131 series lead. The fifth game returned to Montreal; however, the Black Hawks stayed alive with a wild 8\u20137 victory, cutting the Canadiens lead to 3\u20132 in the series. In the sixth game back in Chicago, Montreal rebounded, defeating the Hawks, 6\u20134, to win the Stanley Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094943-0008-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Chicago Black Hawks season, Draft picks\nChicago's draft picks at the 1972 NHL Amateur Draft held at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Quebec.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 47], "content_span": [48, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094944-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Chicago Bulls season\nThe 1972-73 NBA season was the Bulls' 7th season in the NBA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 89]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094945-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Chicago Cougars season, Player stats\nNote: Pos = Position; GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/- = plus/minus; PIM = Penalty minutes; PPG = Power-play goals; SHG = Short-handed goals; GWG = Game-winning goals\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0MIN = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; GA = Goals-against; GAA = Goals-against average; SO = Shutouts;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 44], "content_span": [45, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094946-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Cleveland Cavaliers season\nThe 1972\u201373 Cleveland Cavaliers season was the third season of NBA basketball in Cleveland, Ohio. The Cavaliers finished the season with a 32\u201350 record, finishing last in the Central Division and 6th Eastern Conference. This was the 2nd consecutive year with a total win increase. Lenny Wilkens led the team in assists and was named an All-Star.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094946-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Cleveland Cavaliers season, Offseason, Trades\nAugust 23: Guard Lenny Wilkens and forward Barry Clemens obtained from the Seattle SuperSonics in exchange for guard Butch Beard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094946-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Cleveland Cavaliers season, Offseason, Trades\nSeptember 21: Cavaliers trade the rights to 1971 second-round draft choice Steve Hawes to the Houston Rockets in exchange for a future undisclosed draft choice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094947-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Cleveland Crusaders season\nThe 1972\u201373 Cleveland Crusaders season was the first season of operation of the new Cleveland Crusaders in the new World Hockey Association. The team qualified for the playoffs and won its first series, before losing in the Division semi-final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094947-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Cleveland Crusaders season, Player stats\nNote: Pos = Position; GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/- = plus/minus; PIM = Penalty minutes; PPG = Power-play goals; SHG = Short-handed goals; GWG = Game-winning goals\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0MIN = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; GA = Goals-against; GAA = Goals-against average; SO = Shutouts;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 48], "content_span": [49, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094948-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Clydebank F.C. season\nThe 1972\u201373 season was Clydebank's seventh season in the Scottish Football League. They competed in the Scottish League Division Two where they finished 17th in the table, Scottish League Cup and Scottish Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094949-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Colchester United F.C. season\nThe 1972\u201373 season was Colchester United's 31st season in their history and their fifth successive season in the fourth tier of English football, the Fourth Division. Alongside competing in the Fourth Division, the club also participated in the FA Cup and the League Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094949-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Colchester United F.C. season\nManager Dick Graham resigned early in the new season, following two and four defeats wins in the opening six games of the campaign. Jim Smith was appointed his successor in early October, but his first win didn't arrive until mid-November. Colchester endured a very poor season, and were required to seek re-election after finishing 22nd in the league table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094949-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Colchester United F.C. season\nColchester suffered an early exit in the cup competitions as they were defeated in the first round of the League Cup by Gillingham, and the second round of the FA Cup by Bournemouth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094949-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Colchester United F.C. season, Season overview\nColchester United held its annual general meeting in September 1972. Following questioning of his tactics by a shareholder, an incensed Dick Graham tendered his resignation as manager. The club had achieved two wins in the first six games of the season, but the other four matches ended in defeat. Dennis Mochan was appointed caretaker manager until a permanent replacement could be found. He took charge of five games, but was unable to improve Colchester's fortunes, with two draws and three defeats in his five games at the helm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 54], "content_span": [55, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094949-0003-0001", "contents": "1972\u201373 Colchester United F.C. season, Season overview\nAn unknown Jim Smith, then-manager of Northern Premier League side Boston United who had just led the team to the title, was appointed Graham's replacement. With Colchester bottom of the Football League after 13 matches with six points, Smith's influence gave United an initial boost, earning the Manager of the Month award for lifting the club off the bottom of the table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 54], "content_span": [55, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094949-0004-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Colchester United F.C. season, Season overview\nOne of Smith's early pieces of business was signing his former Boston forward Bobby Svarc for \u00a36,000 just before Christmas. However, his goalscoring influence did not immediately show, returning eight goals in 20 league outings. Fortunes did not improve for the U's as they finished the season in 22nd position and were required to seek re-election from the Football League. Colchester earned a maximum 48 votes from their fellow League clubs to retain Football League status for another season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 54], "content_span": [55, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094949-0005-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Colchester United F.C. season, Squad statistics, Player debuts\nPlayers making their first-team Colchester United debut in a fully competitive match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094950-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Connecticut Huskies men's basketball team\nThe 1972\u201373 Connecticut Huskies men's basketball team represented the University of Connecticut in the 1972\u201373 collegiate men's basketball season. The Huskies completed the season with a 15\u201310 overall record. The Huskies were members of the Yankee Conference, where they ended the season with a 9\u20133 record. The Huskies played their home games at Hugh S. Greer Field House in Storrs, Connecticut, and were led by fourth-year head coach Dee Rowe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094951-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Copa del General\u00edsimo\nThe 1972\u201373 Copa del General\u00edsimo was the 71st staging of the Spanish Cup. The competition began on 20 September 1972 and concluded on 29 June 1973 with the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094952-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Coppa Italia\nThe 1972\u201373 Coppa Italia was the 26th Coppa Italia, the major Italian domestic cup. The competition was won by Milan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094953-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Coupe de France\nThe 1972\u201373 Coupe de France was its 56th edition. It was won by Olympique Lyonnais which defeated FC Nantes in the Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094954-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Cuban National Series\nThe lions of Industriales won its fifth Cuban National Series, outdistancing Habana and two-time defending champion Azucareros over the 78-game season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094955-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Cupa Rom\u00e2niei\nThe 1972\u201373 Cupa Rom\u00e2niei was the 35th edition of Romania's most prestigious football cup competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094955-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Cupa Rom\u00e2niei\nThe title was won by Chimia R\u00e2mnicu V\u00e2lcea against Constructorul Gala\u021bi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094955-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Cupa Rom\u00e2niei, Format\nIn the first round proper, two pots were made, first pot with Divizia A teams and other teams till 16 and the second pot with the rest of teams qualified in this phase. Each tie is played as a single leg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094955-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Cupa Rom\u00e2niei, Format\nFirst round proper matches are played on the ground of the lowest ranked team, then from the second round proper the matches are played on a neutral location.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094955-0004-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Cupa Rom\u00e2niei, Format\nIn the first round proper, if a match is drawn after 90 minutes, the game goes in extra time, and if the scored is still tight after 120 minutes, the team who played away will qualify.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094955-0005-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Cupa Rom\u00e2niei, Format\nFrom the second round proper, if a match is drawn after 90 minutes, the game goes in extra time, and if the scored is still tight after 120 minutes, then the team from the lower division will qualify. If the teams are from the same division, the winner will be established at penalty kicks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094955-0006-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Cupa Rom\u00e2niei, Format\nIn the final, if a match is drawn after 90 minutes, the game goes in extra time, and if the scored is still tight after 120 minutes, a replay will be played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094955-0007-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Cupa Rom\u00e2niei, Format\nFrom the first edition, the teams from Divizia A entered in competition in sixteen finals, rule which remained till today.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094956-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Cypriot Cup\nThe 1972\u201373 Cypriot Cup was the 31st edition of the Cypriot Cup. A total of 36 clubs entered the competition. It began on 13 May 1973 with the preliminary round and concluded on 17 June 1973 with the final which was held at GSP Stadium. APOEL won their 8th Cypriot Cup trophy after beating Pezoporikos Larnaca 1\u20130 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094956-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Cypriot Cup, Format\nIn the 1972\u201373 Cypriot Cup, participated all the teams of the Cypriot First Division, the Cypriot Second Division and 8 of the 14 teams of the Cypriot Third Division (first eight of the league table; cup took place after the end of the league).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094956-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Cypriot Cup, Format\nThe competition consisted of six knock-out rounds. In all rounds each tie was played as a single leg and was held at the home ground of the one of the two teams, according to the draw results. Each tie winner was qualifying to the next round. If a match was drawn, extra time was following. If extra time was drawn, there was a replay at the ground of the team who were away for the first game. If the rematch was also drawn, then extra time was following and if the match remained drawn after extra time the winner was decided by penalty shoot-out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094956-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Cypriot Cup, Format\nThe cup winner secured a place in the 1973\u201374 European Cup Winners' Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094956-0004-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Cypriot Cup, Preliminary round\nIn the preliminary round participated 8 teams of 1973\u201374 Cypriot Third Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094956-0005-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Cypriot Cup, First round\n14 clubs from the 1973\u201374 Cypriot First Division and 12 clubs from the 1973\u201374 Cypriot Second Division were added.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094957-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Cypriot First Division, Overview\nIt was contested by 14 teams, and APOEL F.C. won the championship. AC Omonia participated in the Greek championship as the previous year's champions. They finished in 18th position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094958-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Cypriot Second Division\nThe 1972\u201373 Cypriot Second Division was the 18th season of the Cypriot second-level football league. APOP Paphos FC won their 3rd title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094958-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Cypriot Second Division, Format\nFourteen teams participated in the 1972\u201373 Cypriot Second Division. All teams played against each other twice, once at their home and once away. The team with the most points at the end of the season crowned champions. The first team was promoted to 1973\u201374 Cypriot First Division. The last team was relegated to the 1973\u201374 Cypriot Third Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094959-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Cypriot Third Division\nThe 1972\u201373 Cypriot Third Division was the 3rd season of the Cypriot third-level football league. Neos Aionas Trikomou won their 1st title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094959-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Cypriot Third Division, Format\nFourteen teams participated in the 1972\u201373 Cypriot Third Division. All teams played against each other twice, once at their home and once away. The team with the most points at the end of the season crowned champions. The first team was promoted to 1973\u201374 Cypriot Second Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094959-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Cypriot Third Division, Format, Point system\nTeams received two points for a win, one point for a draw and zero points for a loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094960-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Czechoslovak Extraliga season\nThe 1972\u201373 Czechoslovak Extraliga season was the 30th season of the Czechoslovak Extraliga, the top level of ice hockey in Czechoslovakia. 10 teams participated in the league, and Tesla Pardubice won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094961-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Czechoslovak First League, Overview\nIt was contested by 16 teams, and FC Spartak Trnava won the championship. Ladislav J\u00f3zsa was the league's top scorer with 21 goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094962-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 DDR-Oberliga\nThe 1972\u201373 DDR-Oberliga was the 24th season of the DDR-Oberliga, the first tier of league football in East Germany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094962-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 DDR-Oberliga\nThe league was contested by fourteen teams. Dynamo Dresden won the championship, the club's third of eight East German championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094962-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 DDR-Oberliga\nHans-J\u00fcrgen Kreische of Dynamo Dresden was the league's top scorer with 26 goals, the third of a record four top scorer finishes for Kreische, with him also winning the seasons East German Footballer of the year award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094962-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 DDR-Oberliga\nOn the strength of the 1972\u201373 title Dresden qualified for the 1973\u201374 European Cup where the club was knocked out by Bundesliga champions FC Bayern Munich in the second round. It was the first time the East and West German champions were drawn against each other in an UEFA competition and resulted in a close contest, Bayern winning 7\u20136 on aggregate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094962-0003-0001", "contents": "1972\u201373 DDR-Oberliga\nThird-placed club 1. FC Magdeburg qualified for the 1973\u201374 European Cup Winners' Cup as the seasons FDGB-Pokal winners and won the competition after a 2\u20130 final victory over AC Milan, the greatest success of any East German club in Europe. Second-placed FC Carl Zeiss Jena qualified for the 1973\u201374 UEFA Cup where it was knocked out in the second round by Ruch Chorz\u00f3w while fourth-placed 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig lost to Tottenham Hotspur in the semi-finals, having previously overcome Fortuna D\u00fcsseldorf in the third round in another German East-West encounter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094962-0004-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 DDR-Oberliga, Table\nThe 1972\u201373 season saw two newly promoted clubs BSG Chemie Leipzig and FC Rot-Weiss Erfurt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 27], "content_span": [28, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094963-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 DDR-Oberliga (ice hockey) season\nThe 1972\u201373 DDR-Oberliga season was the 25th season of the DDR-Oberliga, the top level of ice hockey in East Germany. Two teams participated in the league, and SG Dynamo Wei\u00dfwasser won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094964-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 DFB-Ligapokal\nThe 1972\u201373 DFB-Ligapokal was the first season of the DFB Ligapokal. It began on 5 July 1972 and ended on 6 June 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094965-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 DFB-Pokal\nThe 1972\u201373 DFB-Pokal was the 30th season of the annual German football cup competition. It began on 10 December 1972 and ended on 23 June 1973. 32 teams competed in the tournament of five rounds. As in the year before, the knock-out rounds were played over two legs, but the final was decided in a single game. In the memorable cup final, Borussia M\u00f6nchengladbach defeated 1. FC K\u00f6ln 2\u20131 after extra time, with G\u00fcnter Netzer substituting himself in before scoring the winning goal for Borussia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094966-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dallas Chaparrals season\nThe 1972\u201373 Dallas Chaparrals season was the sixth and final season of the Chaparrals in the American Basketball Association. The Chaps failed to make the playoffs for the first time in franchise history, finishing dead last, though they missed the final playoff spot by just two games. Low attendance that had been a problem for most of their tenure led to an agreement from the owners to a San Antonio group led by Angelo Drossos, John Schaefer and Red McCombs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094966-0000-0001", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dallas Chaparrals season\nPart of this \"lend-lease\" deal involved the group being leased the team to play in San Antonio for three years, and if the team was not purchased by the end of the agreement (1975), it would be returned to Dallas. However, the first season in San Antonio turned out to be a roaring success, and the group decided to buy the team outright and keep the team in San Antonio, which managed to join the NBA when the two leagues merged in 1976. Dallas would not have a pro basketball season until 1980-81, when the Mavericks began play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094966-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dallas Chaparrals season, Awards and honors\n1973 ABA All-Star Game selections (game played on February 6, 1973)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 51], "content_span": [52, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094967-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Danish 1. division season\nThe 1972\u201373 Danish 1. division season was the 16th season of ice hockey in Denmark. Ten teams participated in the league, and Herning IK won the championship. IK Aalborg was relegated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094968-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Denver Rockets season\nThe 1972\u201373 ABA season was the sixth season of the Denver Rockets. They ended with a 47-37 record, good for third place. They lost in the Division Semifinals to the Indiana Pacers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094969-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Derby County F.C. season\nDuring the 1972\u201373 English football season, Derby County F.C. competed in the Football League First Division. As the reigning champions of the First Division, Derby would represent England in the European Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094969-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Derby County F.C. season, Season summary\nDerby County were unable to retain their title and finished in 7th place, one point off qualification for the UEFA Cup. This slump was in part due to the club's poor away form, winning only four matches away from home all season - one of the matches lost was a 5\u20130 defeat at Leeds United, the loss only serving to intensify the rivalry between Clough and United manager Don Revie. The club had better success in the European Cup, reaching the semi-finals before being knocked out by Juventus; Clough accused Juventus of bribing the match officials (describing the Italians as \"cheating bastards\" at the end of the first leg match in Turin).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 689]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094969-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Derby County F.C. season, Season summary\nAt the end of the season, Kevin Hector was voted Derby's Player of the Year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094969-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Derby County F.C. season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094969-0004-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Derby County F.C. season, Transfers, In\nDerby broke the English transfer record with the signing of half-back David Nish, from Midland rivals Leicester City, for \u00a3225,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094970-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Detroit Pistons season\nFollowing are the results of the 1972\u201373 season of the Detroit Pistons, the franchise of the National Basketball Association based in Detroit, Michigan. The 1972\u201373 NBA season was the Pistons' 25th season in the NBA and 16th season in the city of Detroit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094971-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Detroit Red Wings season\nThe 1972\u201373 Detroit Red Wings season was the franchise's 47th season of operation in the National Hockey League, 41st season as the Red Wings. The team placed fifth and missed the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094971-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Detroit Red Wings season, Player statistics, Regular season\nNote: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/- = Plus-minus PIM = Penalty minutes; PPG = Power-play goals; SHG = Short-handed goals; GWG = Game-winning goals;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0MIN = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; GA = Goals against; GAA = Goals-against average; SO = Shutouts;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 67], "content_span": [68, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094971-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Detroit Red Wings season, Draft picks\nDetroit's draft picks at the 1972 NHL Amateur Draft held at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Quebec.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 45], "content_span": [46, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094972-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Divizia A\nThe 1972\u201373 Divizia A was the fifty-fifth season of Divizia A, the top-level football league of Romania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094972-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Divizia A, Champion squad\nGoalkeepers: Mircea Constantinescu (10 / 0); Constantin Eftimescu (1 / 0); Iosif Cavai (12 / 0); Adrian R\u0103mureanu (8 / 0). Defenders: Florin Cheran (16 / 0); Vasile Dobr\u0103u (27 / 0); Gabriel Sandu (28 / 0); Augustin Deleanu (23 / 0); Nicolae Petre (10 / 0); Alexandru S\u0103tm\u0103reanu (16 / 0); Vasile Cosma (6 / 1); Teodor Lucu\u021b\u0103 (5 / 0). Midfielders: Mircea Stoenescu (8 / 1); Cornel Dinu (23 / 2); Ion Batacliu (3 / 0). Forwards: Mircea Lucescu (28 / 12); Radu Nunweiller (30 / 7); Florea Dumitrache (26 / 15); Florian Dumitrescu (26 / 5); Alexandru Moldovan (25 / 2); Viorel S\u0103lceanu (17 / 2); Doru Popescu (24 / 4); Marin Ro\u0219u (2 / 0). (league appearances and goals listed in brackets)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 33], "content_span": [34, 717]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094973-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Divizia B\nThe 1972\u201373 Divizia B was the 33rd season of the second tier of the Romanian football league system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094973-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Divizia B\nThe format has been maintained to two series, each of them having 16 teams. At the end of the season the winners of the series promoted to Divizia A and none of the teams relegated to Divizia C due to expansion of the league starting with the 1973\u201374 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094974-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Divizia C\nThe 1972\u201373 Divizia C was the 17th season of Liga III, the third tier of the Romanian football league system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094974-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Divizia C, Team changes, Renamed teams\nChimia Suceava was renamed as CSM Suceava. ITA Pa\u0219cani was moved from Pa\u0219cani to Ia\u0219i and was renamed as ITA Ia\u0219i. Automobilul Foc\u0219ani was renamed as Unirea Foc\u0219ani. \u0218oimii Buz\u0103u was moved from Buz\u0103u to Bucure\u0219ti and was renamed as \u0218oimii Tarom Bucure\u0219ti. SUT Gala\u021bi was renamed as Constructorul Gala\u021bi. Dacia Gala\u021bi was renamed as O\u021belul Gala\u021bi. Unirea Tricolor Br\u0103ila was renamed as Chimia Br\u0103ila. Metalurgistul Br\u0103ila was renamed as Viitorul Br\u0103ila. Comer\u021bul Alexandria was renamed as Automatica Alexandria. Sporting Ro\u0219iori was renamed as CFR Ro\u0219iori. Gorjul T\u00e2rgu Jiu was renamed as Cimentul T\u00e2rgu Jiu. Foresta Susenii B\u00e2rg\u0103ului was moved from Susenii B\u00e2rg\u0103ului to Bistri\u021ba and was renamed as Foresta Bistri\u021ba. Politehnica Bra\u0219ov was renamed as CSU Bra\u0219ov. Independen\u021ba Sibiu was moved from Sibiu to Cisn\u0103die and was renamed as Independen\u021ba Cisn\u0103die.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 46], "content_span": [47, 902]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094975-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Drexel Dragons men's basketball team\nThe 1972\u201373 Drexel Dragons men's basketball team represented Drexel University during the 1972\u201373 men's basketball season. The Dragons, led by 2nd year head coach Ray Haesler, played their home games at the 32nd Street Armory and were members of the University\u2013Eastern division of the Middle Atlantic Conferences (MAC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094975-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Drexel Dragons men's basketball team\nThe team finished the season 14\u20137, and finished in 5th place in the MAC University\u2013Eastern Division in the regular season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094976-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team\nThe 1972\u201373 Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team represented Duke University in the 1972\u201373 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The head coach was Bucky Waters and the team finished the season with an overall record of 12\u201314 and did not qualify for the NCAA tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094977-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Duleep Trophy\nThe 1972\u201373 Duleep Trophy was the 12th season of the Duleep Trophy, a first-class cricket tournament contested by five zonal teams of India: Central Zone, East Zone, North Zone, South Zone and West Zone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094977-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Duleep Trophy\nWest Zone won the title, defeating Central Zone in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 83]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094978-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dumbarton F.C. season\nThe 1972\u201373 season was Dumbarton's official centenary year and the 89th football season in which Dumbarton competed at a Scottish national level, entering the Scottish Football League, the Scottish Cup and the Scottish League Cup. In addition Dumbarton played in the Drybrough Cup and the Stirlingshire Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094978-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, Players\nThe first season back in the 'big time' for over 50 years began with very few changes to the playing staff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094978-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, Players\nAll the first XI from the Second Division winning side had been retained, including Britain's top scorer for the past two seasons, Kenny Wilson. There were just three acquisitions made during the close season to bolster the defence\u2013 Willie Whigham came from Middlesbrough as back up for Lawrie Williams 'between the sticks', Denis Ruddy from neighbours Clydebank and most significantly former Celtic full back John Cushley from Dunfermline Athletic .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094978-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, July\nThe season opened on 29 July with the two top scoring sides in Scotland from the previous season meeting at Parkhead in a Drybrough Cup tie with Celtic just squeezing past Dumbarton 2\u20131 in front of 28,000 fans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094978-0004-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, August\nOn 7 August touring English Second Division side Carlisle United visited Boghead and after an entertaining game Dumbarton ran out 3\u20132 winners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094978-0005-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, August\nThe League Cup campaign began on 12 August and saw Dumbarton drawn against fellow First Division sides Hearts and Airdrie together with Second Division Berwick Rangers. With the top two qualifying from each section hopes were high that progress could be made and these hopes were enhanced when Hearts were defeated 1\u20130 at Boghead. Despite losing to Berwick Rangers midweek at Sheilfield by the same score, a 4\u20131 home win over Airdrie on 19 August put things back on track. The win was not without its issues as new signing John Cushley suffered a broken cheekbone, which would keep him out for a number of weeks, with Roy McCormack joining him on the injury list with a bruised ankle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 743]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094978-0006-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, August\nNonetheless two draws were subsequently earned \u2013 2\u20132 against Berwick at home and 1\u20131 against Hearts at Tynecastle \u2013 and although the final qualifying tie against Airdrie at Broomfield on 30 August was lost 2\u20131, the 6 points gained was sufficient to go forward to the knock out stages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094978-0007-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, September\n2 September marked Dumbarton's first league game in the top division for 50 years, but it was not to be a happy return. Partick Thistle at Firhill proved to be a tough team to crack and Dumbarton left having been defeated 4\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094978-0008-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, September\nA week later at Boghead, Falkirk were the visitors and with both sets of forwards goal shy the game ended in a tame 0\u20130 draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094978-0009-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, September\nOn 16 September it was back to Tynecastle to meet Hearts, but this time on league business \u2013 and it was the home team who claimed the 2 points in a 1\u20130 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094978-0010-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, September\nFour days later Dumbarton entertained Dundee in the first leg of the second round in the League cup, and with the return of Cushley, the problems in front of goal over the past few weeks were forgotten as Dumbarton strolled to a 3\u20130 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094978-0011-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, September\nThe following Saturday Boghead was again the venue, with Aberdeen visiting on league duty. The new confidence appeared to be continuing as Dumbarton led 1\u20130 at halftime, but a second half fight back meant the Dons left with both points after a 2\u20131 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094978-0012-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, September\nThe bad news continued through the weekend as it was announced that ace striker Kenny Wilson had been transferred to Carlisle United for a club record fee of \u00a340,000. Kenny had signed from St Johnstone on a free transfer in July 1970 and had scored 87 goals in 101 appearances \u2013 his departure created a huge void which would be difficult to fill.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094978-0013-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, September\nAnd that was only too evident in the following league match on 30 September against Arbroath where the lack of an effective front man meant Dumbarton could only manage a 0\u20130 draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094978-0014-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, September\nThe top of the league at the end of September looked busy with no fewer than four teams with 8 points \u2013 Celtic, Aberdeen, Hibernian and Dundee United. Dumbarton had yet to win and were in 15th place with 2 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094978-0015-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, October\nThe departure of Kenny Wilson ensured that the Dumbarton management team were on the search for a suitable replacement, and an offer was made to Crystal Palace for the former Lisbon Lion Willie Wallace.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094978-0016-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, October\nWhile Wallace considered matters, Dumbarton played Dundee in the return leg of the second round in the League Cup. Unfortunately the Sons were unable to hold back a rampant Dundee who chalked up a 4\u20130 victory, to win the tie 4\u20133 on aggregate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094978-0017-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, October\nOn 7 October, Dumbarton made the journey to Muirton Park to play St Johnstone in the league. New boy Tom McAdam stepped up from the reserves and was one of the scorers in a 2\u20130 win \u2013 the first for Dumbarton in the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094978-0018-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, October\nThe following week, Dumbarton entertained Dundee at Boghead. Willie Wallace had now joined and played a superb game on the wing, while teenager McAdam notched his second goal in two games in a 2\u20132 draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094978-0019-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, October\nOn 21 October, it was a trip to Broomfield in a league game against Airdrie, and it was '3-for-3' for young McAdam together with a Roy McCormack double that snatched both points in a 3\u20132 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094978-0020-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, October\nIn the final league game of October, Dumbarton attempted to get that elusive first league win at Boghead but a goal three minutes from time rescued a point for Hibernian in a 2\u20132 draw. Nevertheless, Tom McAdam kept his 'goal a game' run going.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094978-0021-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, October\nOn 30 October Dumbarton played Alloa in a Stirlingshire Cup tie and won easily 4-2 \u2013 with that man McAdam notching his fifth goal in five games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094978-0022-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, October\nSo the league at the end of October saw Celtic on top with 15 points, one ahead of Dundee United. Dumbarton had climbed to 13th with 8 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094978-0023-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, November\nThe first weekend in November saw Dumbarton visit Methil for a league game against East Fife. Unfortunately two uncharacteristic lapses by Lawrie Williams cost the Sons dearly and despite an 87th-minute goal from McAdam Dumbarton slipped to a 2\u20131 defeat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094978-0024-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, November\nOn 11 November it was a trip to Rugby park to play Kilmarnock, and after an eventless first half the home side looked to have wrapped up the points with two quick fire goals at the start of the second half, but McCormack and then McAdam scored to earn Dumbarton a point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094978-0025-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, November\nA week later Dumbarton looked to break their winless league streak at home with a game against Morton, and despite two goals from Tom McAdam (9 goals in 8 games) the Sons had to settle for a 2\u20132 draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094978-0026-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, November\nThe final league game of November was a visit to Ibrox where despite a McCormack equaliser 15 minutes into the second half, Rangers stamina proved too much as the game went on and they eventually won 3\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094978-0027-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, November\nSo at the end of the month Celtic still were ahead on 23 points but pulling ahead \u2013 4 points now in front of Hibernian. Dumbarton maintained 13th place with 10 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094978-0028-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, December\nA week after the Rangers game, Dumbarton faced the other half of the Old Firm at Boghead, but this time there was no question as to the outcome as Celtic outclassed the Sons from the start and ran out 6\u20131 victors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094978-0029-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, December\nOn 9 December Dumbarton appeared to be suffering from a hang over from the previous week and never got going against Ayr United at Somerset Park, losing out 2\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094978-0030-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, December\nThe following week Motherwell visited Boghead and in a game which turned into a pantomime due to the state of the pitch, skills were at a premium and a 0\u20130 draw was probably a fair result.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094978-0031-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, December\nOn the day before Christmas Eve, it was a visit to Tannadice and at half time Dundee United appeared to be giving their presents early as Dumbarton led by 2 own goals to 1. However, they were not to make the same mistakes in the second half, and eventually it was the home side who were to win 3\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094978-0032-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, December\nThe final league game of 1972, and of Dumbarton's centenary year, was played out at Boghead against Partick Thistle. A home victory in the league was still proving elusive and at half time it looked like the wait may have to go on as the Jags led 2\u20131. However 3 goals in the second half brought the year to a satisfactory end with a 4\u20132 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094978-0033-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, December\nSo as 1972 came to an end Celtic still headed the league with 28 points, but their lead over Hibernian had been cut to 2 points. Dumbarton had dropped to 14th place with 13 points, but importantly 6 points clear of relegation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094978-0034-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, January\nThe first game of 1973 saw the visit of Hearts to Boghead, but there was to be no continuation of home success as Dumbarrton suffered a 2\u20130 defeat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094978-0035-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, January\nThe team were to be hit with further bad news as it was announced that manager Jackie Stewart had agreed to take over at rivals St Johnstone. However assistant manager Alex Wright (formerly boss at St Mirren and Dunfermline) was the obvious choice to take over the reins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094978-0036-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, January\nOn 20 January Dumbarton visited Gayfield to face Arbroath in the league and in a game spoiled by the blustery wing it was the home team who came out on top 2\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094978-0037-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, January\nThe final game of January saw the return of Jackie Stewart to Boghead with his new team St Johnstone and despite having most of the play Dumbarton could only manage a 1\u20131 draw. In fact it could have been worse had St Johnstone scored from a soft penalty awarded 16 minutes from time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094978-0038-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, January\nSo as January came to a close Rangers had taken over at the top with 35 points, 3 points ahead of Celtic but with 3 more games played. Dumbarton had now slipped to 16th with 14 points \u2013 perilously close to the relegation places just 2 ahead of Kilmarnock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094978-0039-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, February\nThe first game of February was a Scottish Cup third round tie against Cowdenbeath at Boghead. A 4\u20131 victory was recorded but it was not as comfortable as it looked as at 2\u20131 Cowdenbeath were still in the game until the 3rd and 4th goals were scored in the final 6 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094978-0040-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, February\nA midweek league tie was next on 6 February against Falkirk at Brockville, and in a game where defences were on top it was Falkirk who claimed a 2\u20130 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094978-0041-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, February\nOn 10 February Dundee was the destination on league business, and in a game which looked destined to finish 0\u20130 Dundee scored twice in 2 minutes with just 10 minutes left. Davie Wilson's 86th minute counter was not enough to save a point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094978-0042-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, February\nWith relegation worries prominent, Dumbarton made a double signing on 15 February, with Ross Mathie coming from Kilmarnock and Brian Heron from Motherwell for an estimated total fee of \u00a325,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094978-0043-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, February\nThese new signings had their first chance to show their skills in a midweek tie against Aberdeen at Pittodrie on 20 February but it was Aberdeen who ran out easy 6\u20130 winners. Relegation was fast becoming a reality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094978-0044-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, February\nIt was Scottish Cup fourth round business the following weekend with the visit of Partick Thistle to Boghead. Despite the gift of an own goal in the first minute, Dumbarton had to rely on an 81st-minute goal from Charlie Gallagher to salvage a 2\u20132 draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094978-0045-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, February\nFour days later the replay took place at Firhill and it was the home team who eased into the next round with a 3\u20131 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094978-0046-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, February\nThe league at the end of February still saw Rangers on top with 39 points, with Celtic just 1 behind with a game in hand, while Dumbarton remained in 16th but only 1 point in front of Kilmarnock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094978-0047-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, March\nAs Alex Wright officially took over the manager's position, next up on 3 March was Hibernian at Easter Road in the league and the home team made no mistake handing out a 5\u20130 thrashing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094978-0048-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, March\nThe midweek game that followed took on great significance as it was against fellow strugglers Airdrie. A win would take Dumbarton out of the relegation places above Kilmarnock. However, the home frailties that had plagued most of the season returned, with Airdrie leaving with both points after a 5\u20133 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094978-0049-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, March\nThere was a further chance to ease relegation worries with a game against East Fife on 10 March. Dumbaton had all the play but a magnificent performance from the Fifers goalkeeper meant that just a 0\u20130 draw was achieved.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094978-0050-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, March\nThe next game saw Kilmarnock visit Dumbarton with anything but a win almost closing the door on any chances of survival \u2013 but with new signings Mathie and Heron scoring two goals each, Dumbarton produced a superb performance to leapfrog Kilmarnock out of the relegation spots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094978-0051-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, March\nOn 20 March the league concerns were put to one side as Dumbarton gave a number of the second string players a chance against a strong Falkirk side in the semi final of the Stirlingshire Cup, eventually coming out on top 2\u20131 \u2013 a young schoolboy signing John Bourke scoring one of the goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094978-0052-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, March\nFour days later Dumbarton were at Cappielow to play Morton in the league and with a brave second half comeback managed to secure a vital point in a 1\u20131 draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094978-0053-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, March\nThe final game of March on the final day of the month brought Rangers to Boghead, who were involved in their own tussle at the top of the league against Celtic. Three goals in the first 22 minutes were enough to see Rangers win the tie 2-1 \u2013 but with the effort put in during the second half Dumbarton deserved better.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094978-0054-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, March\nAs the league reached its final stages Rangers unbeaten run since December saw them on 49 points, now 2 ahead of Celtic with a game more played. Dumbarton remained in 16th place with 18 points, now ahead of Kilmarnock on just goal difference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094978-0055-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, April\nThe first game of April was played against Ayr United on 14 April at Boghead. A Roy McCormack strike in the 13th minute was looking good enough to take both points, but a harmless-looking chip from Ayr substitute Campbell slipped through Willie Whigham's fingers, and Dumbarton had to settle for a point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094978-0056-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, April\nThe following midweek involved a visit to Celtic Park, and the champions elect were in no mood to take matters easy \u2013 brushing Dumbarton aside easily 5\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094978-0057-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, April\nThe penultimate league game on 21 April was against Motherwell at Fir Park, and Dumbarton knew that by trailing Kilmarnock by 2 points, something had to be taken from the game. A battling performance resulted in a 2\u20130 win and kept alive their First Division hopes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094978-0058-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, April\nAnother midweek game took place on two days later with a game at Boghead against East Stirling in the Stirlingshire Cup final. Tom McAdam was the hero with four goals in a 6\u20130 rout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094978-0059-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, April\nSo it was that Dumbarton entered into the final league match on 28 April at Boghead against Dundee United knowing that they had to better any result gained by Kilmarnock. At half time things looked bleak as while Dumbarton led 2\u20131, Kilmarnock were beating Falkirk 2\u20130. However, a further two second-half goals, giving Dumbarton a superb 4\u20131 win, was enough to push Kilmarnock into relegation as they could only manage a 2\u20132 draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094978-0060-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, April\nAt the other end of the table, Celtic won their eighth title in a row, pipping Rangers by a single point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094978-0061-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, May\nOn 9 May Davie Wilson retired from playing and took up the position of assistant manager at the club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094978-0062-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the season, May\nA number of player milestones were reached during the season. Johnny Graham made his 200th appearance for Dumbarton (on 4 October against Dundee) In addition no fewer than 5 players made their 'century' of appearances in a Dumbarton shirt, as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094978-0063-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dumbarton F.C. season, Reserve team\nDumbarton competed in the Scottish Reserve League, and with 9 wins and 10 draws from 34 matches, finished 12th of 18.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094978-0064-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dumbarton F.C. season, Reserve team\nFor the first time in a decade, Dumbarton also entered the Scottish Second XI Cup, and reached the third round before losing out to Dundee by the only goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094979-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dundee F.C. season\nThe 1972\u201373 season was the 71st season in which Dundee competed at a Scottish national level, playing in Division One, where the club would finish in 5th place for the third consecutive season. Domestically, Dundee would also compete in both the Scottish League Cup and the Scottish Cup, where they would get knocked out by Celtic in both the quarter-finals of the League Cup and the semi-finals of the Scottish Cup, with both ties requiring replays. Dundee would also compete in the Texaco Cup, where they would be knocked out by Norwich City in the 1st round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094980-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dundee United F.C. season\nThe 1972\u201373 season was the 64th year of football played by Dundee United, and covers the period from 1 July 1972 to 30 June 1973. United finished in seventh place in the First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094980-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dundee United F.C. season, Match results\nDundee United played a total of 45 competitive matches during the 1972\u201373 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094980-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Dundee United F.C. season, Match results, Legend\nAll results are written with Dundee United's score first. Own goals in italics", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094981-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Eerste Divisie\nThe Dutch Eerste Divisie in the 1972\u201373 season was contested by 20 teams, one less than in the previous year. This was due to the merger of Blauw-Wit Amsterdam with eredivisie-club DWS to form FC Amsterdam. Roda JC won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094981-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Eerste Divisie\nIt was the first season in which a promotion competition was held. In this promotion competition, four period winners (the best teams during each of the four quarters of the regular competition) played for promotion to the eredivisie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094981-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Eerste Divisie, New entrants\nDFC changed their name to FC Dordrecht for this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 36], "content_span": [37, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094981-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Eerste Divisie, Promotion competition\nIn the promotion competition, four period winners (the best teams during each of the four quarters of the regular competition) played for promotion to the Eredivisie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 45], "content_span": [46, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094982-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Egyptian Premier League\nThe 1972\u201373 Egyptian Premier League, was the 18th season of the Egyptian Premier League, the top Egyptian professional league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 1948. The season started on 6 October 1972 and concluded on 22 April 1973. Ghazl El Mahalla managed to win the league for the first time in the club's history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094982-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Egyptian Premier League, League table\n(C)= Champion, (R)= Relegated, Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; \u00b1 = Goal difference; Pts = Points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 45], "content_span": [46, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094983-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Ekstraklasa\nThe 1972\u201373 I liga was the 47th season of the Polish Football Championship and the 39th season of the I liga, the top Polish professional league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 1927. The league was operated by the Polish Football Association (PZPN).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094983-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Ekstraklasa\nThe champions were Stal Mielec, who won their 1st Polish title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 83]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094983-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Ekstraklasa, Competition modus\nThe season started on 26 July 1972 and concluded on 24 June 1973 (autumn-spring league). The season was played as a round-robin tournament. The team at the top of the standings won the league title. A total of 14 teams participated, 12 of which competed in the league during the 1971\u201372 season, while the remaining two were promoted from the 1971\u201372 II liga. Each team played a total of 26 matches, half at home and half away, two games against each other team. Teams received two points for a win and one point for a draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094983-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Ekstraklasa, Playoff relegation\nAt the end of the first and second division season, the play-off was played between:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 39], "content_span": [40, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094984-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Eredivisie\nThe Eredivisie is a football league in the Netherlands. In the 1972\u20131973 season it was contested by 18 teams. Ajax won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094985-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Eredivisie (ice hockey) season\nThe 1972\u201373 Eredivisie season was the 13th season of the Eredivisie, the top level of ice hockey in the Netherlands. Seven teams participated in the league, and the Tilburg Trappers won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094986-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Essex Senior Football League\nThe 1972\u201373 Essex Senior Football League season was the second in the history of Essex Senior Football League, a football competition in England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094986-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Essex Senior Football League, Clubs\nThe league featured eight clubs which competed in the league last season, along with three new clubs:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 43], "content_span": [44, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094987-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 European Cup\nThe 1972\u201373 season of the European Cup football club tournament was won for the third consecutive time by Ajax in the final against Juventus at Red Star Stadium in Belgrade. The win by Ajax resulted in the fourth consecutive championship by a Dutch team. As they were the only Dutch club this time and neither Albania nor Northern Ireland sent their champions, the number of clubs playing dropped to 30.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094987-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 European Cup, First round, Second leg\nThe game was annulled because the referee ended the shoot-out prematurely after Panathinaikos fourth penalty was saved by Bulgarian goalkeeper. Panathinaikos complained to UEFA and the match was annulled and replayed the following month.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094987-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 European Cup, Quarter-finals, Second leg\nJuventus 2\u20132 \u00dajpesti D\u00f3zsa on aggregate. Juventus won on away goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 48], "content_span": [49, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094987-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 European Cup, Top scorers\nThe top scorers from the 1972\u201373 European Cup are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094988-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 European Cup (handball)\nThe 1972\u201373 European Cup was the 13th edition of Europe's premier club handball tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094989-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 European Cup Winners' Cup\nThe 1972\u201373 European Cup Winners' Cup football club tournament was won by Milan after a 1\u20130 victory against Leeds United at the Kaftanzoglio Stadium, Thessaloniki, Greece.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094989-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 European Cup Winners' Cup\nCompetition holders Rangers would have been eligible to compete in the Cup Winners' Cup, but were banned from European competition in the 1972\u201373 season due to the violent disturbances at the 1972 European Cup Winners' Cup Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094989-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 European Cup Winners' Cup, Second round, Second leg\nHajduk Split 3\u20133 Wrexham on aggregate. Hajduk Split won on an away goals rule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 59], "content_span": [60, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094990-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Everton F.C. season\nDuring the 1972\u201373 English football season, Everton F.C. competed in the Football League First Division. They finished 17th in the table with 37 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094990-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Everton F.C. season, Final league table\nP = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; GA = Goal average; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094991-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 FA Cup\nThe 1972\u201373 FA Cup was the 92nd season of the world's oldest football cup competition, the Football Association Challenge Cup, commonly known as the FA Cup. Second Division Sunderland won the competition for the second time, beating Leeds United 1\u20130 in the final at Wembley, London with a goal from Ian Porterfield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094991-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 FA Cup\nMatches were scheduled to be played at the stadium of the team named first on the date specified for each round, which was always a Saturday. Some matches, however, might be rescheduled for other days if there were clashes with games for other competitions or the weather was inclement. If scores were level after 90 minutes had been played, a replay would take place at the stadium of the second-named team later the same week. If the replayed match was drawn further replays would be held until a winner was determined. If scores were level after 90 minutes had been played in a replay, a 30-minute period of extra time would be played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 653]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094991-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 FA Cup, Results, First Round Proper\nAt this stage clubs from the Football League Third and Fourth Divisions joined those non-league clubs having come through the qualifying rounds. Matches were scheduled to be played on Saturday, 18 November 1972. Nine matches were drawn, of which one went to a second replay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 43], "content_span": [44, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094991-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 FA Cup, Results, Second Round Proper\nThe matches were scheduled for Saturday, 9 December 1972, with the exception of the Walsall\u2013Charlton Athletic game which was played three days later. Five matches were drawn, with replays taking place later the same week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 44], "content_span": [45, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094991-0004-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 FA Cup, Results, Third Round Proper\nThe 44 First and Second Division clubs entered the competition at this stage. The matches were scheduled Saturday, 13 January 1973, with the exception of the Reading\u2013Doncaster Rovers game, which was played on the following Wednesday. Eleven matches were drawn, of which two required a second replay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 43], "content_span": [44, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094991-0005-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 FA Cup, Results, Fourth Round Proper\nThe matches were scheduled for Saturday, 3 February 1973. Five matches were drawn, of which two required a second replay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 44], "content_span": [45, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094991-0006-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 FA Cup, Results, Fifth Round Proper\nThe matches were scheduled for Saturday, 24 February 1973 with one replay played three days later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 43], "content_span": [44, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094991-0007-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 FA Cup, Results, Sixth Round Proper\nThe four quarter-final ties were played on the 17 March 1973. There was one replay three days later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 43], "content_span": [44, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094991-0008-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 FA Cup, Results, Semi-finals\nThe semi-final matches were played on Saturday, 7 April 1973 with no replays being needed. Sunderland and Leeds United won their respective matches to go on to the final at Wembley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094991-0009-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 FA Cup, Results, Third place playoff\nBetween 1970 and 1974, a third place playoff between the two losing semi-finalists was held.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 44], "content_span": [45, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094991-0010-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 FA Cup, Results, Final\nThe final took place on Saturday, 5 May 1973 at Wembley and ended in a victory for Sunderland over Leeds United by one goal to nil. The attendance was 100,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 30], "content_span": [31, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094992-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 FA Cup qualifying rounds\nThe FA Cup 1972\u201373 is the 92nd season of the world's oldest football knockout competition; The Football Association Challenge Cup, or FA Cup for short. The large number of clubs entering the tournament from lower down the English football league system meant that the competition started with a number of preliminary and qualifying rounds. The 30 victorious teams from the Fourth Round Qualifying progressed to the First Round Proper.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094992-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 FA Cup qualifying rounds, 1972\u201373 FA Cup\nSee 1972-73 FA Cup for details of the rounds from the First Round Proper onwards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094993-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 FA Trophy\nThe 1972\u201373 FA Trophy was the fourth season of the FA Trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 79]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094994-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 FC Barcelona season\nThe 1972\u201373 season was the 74th season for FC Barcelona.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 84]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094994-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 FC Barcelona season, Results\n23-08-72 . Joan Gamper Trophy BARCELONA-VASCO DA GAMA 0-0 /5-4/ PENALTY", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094995-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 FC Basel season\nThe 1972\u201373 season was Fussball Club Basel 1893's 79th season in their existence. It was their 27th consecutive season in the top flight of Swiss football after their promotion the season 1945\u201346. They played their home games in the St. Jakob Stadium. F\u00e9lix Musfeld was the club's chairman for the third year in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094995-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 FC Basel season, Overview, Pre-season\nThe previous season was the last one as activ footballer for Helmut Benthaus. He ended his playing career, but continued with Basel as team manager. This was his eighth season as manager. There were only small amendments to the squad during the pre-season. Roland Paolucci was loaned out to Winterthur and Stefan Reisch left the team and moved on to Kickers W\u00fcrzburg where he ended his active playing career. Basel did not transfer any players and Benthaus relied on young players who came up from the reserve team to help, when needed in the first team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094995-0001-0001", "contents": "1972\u201373 FC Basel season, Overview, Pre-season\nBasel played a total of 55 matches during this season. 26 of these games were in the domestic league championship, seven of these games were in the Swiss Cup, four in the Swiss League Cup, two were in the European Cup, four were in the Cup of the Alps and 12 were friendly matches. Of these 12 test games four were won, four were drawn and four were lost. Three test matches were played at home in the St. Jakob Stadium and nine were played away.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094995-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 FC Basel season, Overview, Domestic league\n14 teams contested in the 1972\u201373 Nationalliga A. These were the top 12 teams from the previous 1971\u201372 season and the two newly promoted teams Chiasso and Fribourg. The championship was played in a double round robin. The champions would qualify for the 1973\u201374 European Cup, the second and third placed teams were to qualify for 1973\u201374 UEFA Cup and the last two teams in the table at the end of the season were to be relegated. Basel started the league season badly, losing the first two games and drawing the next two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094995-0002-0001", "contents": "1972\u201373 FC Basel season, Overview, Domestic league\nThe first victory was recorded in the fifth round and during the next nine rounds Basel won eight games. After the winter break Basel were only defeated once. They won the championship four points ahead of Grasshopper Club and six ahead of the Sion. Basel won 17 of their 26 league games, drew five and lost four. They scored a total of 57 goals conceding 30. Ottmar Hitzfeld was the league's joint top goal scorer with Ove Grahn of Lausanne-Sports both with 18 league goals. Basels second top scorer was Walter Balmer who managed 11 league goals. The average attendance at the 13 league home matches was 13'153 spectators. The highest attendance was 28,000 on 14 April in the game against Grasshopper Club and the secpnd highest attendance was 26,000 on 2 May against Z\u00fcrich.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 827]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094995-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 FC Basel season, Overview, Swiss Cup and League Cup\nIn the Swiss Cup Basel played the round of 32 on 5 November 1972 at home to Martigny-Sports in the St. Jakob Stadium. The round of 16 match on 26 November 1972 was played away against BSC Young Boys and Basel left the Wankdorf Stadium with a 4\u20130 victory. The quarter-finals were two legged fixtures, the first leg played on 10 December 1972 in Stadio Comunale was won 2\u20130 against Chiasso and the second leg played one week later was won 5\u20133. The semi-finals were also two legged fixtures. Basel were matched against Biel-Bienne and won 6\u20131 on aggregate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 59], "content_span": [60, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094995-0003-0001", "contents": "1972\u201373 FC Basel season, Overview, Swiss Cup and League Cup\nWalter Balmer scored a hattrick in the home game. The final was played on 23 April 1973 in the Wankdorf Stadium against Z\u00fcrich. The game ended goalless after 90 minutes. In extra time Peter Marti (92) and Fritz K\u00fcnzli (101) scored the goals to give Z\u00fcrich the title for the second consecutive time in a final against Basel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 59], "content_span": [60, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094995-0004-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 FC Basel season, Overview, Swiss Cup and League Cup\nThe 1972 Swiss League Cup was the inaugural Swiss League Cup competition. It was played in the summer of 1972 as a pre-season tournament to the 1972\u201373 Swiss football season. Basel beat Servette 8\u20130, Lausanne Sports 2\u20131 aet and Sion 6\u20131 to reach the final. This was won by Basel who defeated FC Winterthur 4\u20131 in the final which took place on 11 November 1972 at the Letzigrund in Z\u00fcrich. Ottmar Hitzfeld scored a hattick in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 59], "content_span": [60, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094995-0005-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 FC Basel season, Overview, European Cup and Cup of the Alps\nBasel were beaten by \u00dajpesti D\u00f3zsa 2\u20130 in the first leg of the first round of the 1972\u201373 European Cup away from home in the Ferenc Szusza Stadium. The return match was on 27 September 1972 in St. Jakob Stadium. Basel won 3\u20132, the goals coming from Ren\u00e9 Hasler (65) and Walter Balmer (75 + 83), but they were beaten 4\u20133 on aggregate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 67], "content_span": [68, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094995-0006-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 FC Basel season, Overview, European Cup and Cup of the Alps\nIn the 1972 Cup of the Alps Basel played twice against Olympique Lyonnais, losing the away tie, winning at home game. They played twice against Bordeaux, winning the away game but losing the home game, but because Bordeaux won their other two games they continued to the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 67], "content_span": [68, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094995-0007-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 FC Basel season, Players\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094995-0008-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 FC Basel season, Players\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094996-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 FC Bayern Munich season\nThe 1972\u201373 FC Bayern Munich season was the club's eighth season in Bundesliga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094997-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 FC Dinamo Bucure\u0219ti season\nThe 1972\u201373 season was FC Dinamo Bucure\u0219ti's 24th season in Divizia A. With a new manager, Ion Nunweiller, Dinamo competed with Universitatea Craiova for the championship until the last day, winning the title after a defeat suffered by Craiova away at UTA. In the Romanian Cup, Dinamo was eliminated by the third division side Constructorul Gala\u0163i.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094997-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 FC Dinamo Bucure\u0219ti season, Squad\nGoalkeepers: Mircea Constantinescu (10 / 0); Constantin Eftimescu (1 / 0); Iosif Cavai (12 / 0); Adrian R\u0103mureanu (8 / 0). Defenders: Florin Cheran (16 / 0); Vasile Dobr\u0103u (27 / 0); Gabriel Sandu (28 / 0); Augustin Deleanu (23 / 0); Nicolae Petre (10 / 0); Alexandru S\u0103tm\u0103reanu (16 / 0); Vasile Cosma (6 / 1); Teodor Lucu\u021b\u0103 (5 / 0). Midfielders: Mircea Stoenescu (8 / 1); Cornel Dinu (23 / 2); Ion Batacliu (3 / 0). Forwards: Mircea Lucescu (28 / 12); Radu Nunweiller (30 / 7); Florea Dumitrache (26 / 15); Florian Dumitrescu (26 / 5); Alexandru Moldovan (25 / 2); Viorel S\u0103lceanu (17 / 2); Doru Popescu (24 / 4); Marin Ro\u0219u (2 / 0). (league appearances and goals listed in brackets)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 725]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094997-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 FC Dinamo Bucure\u0219ti season, Transfers\nEmil Dumitriu is transferred to Rapid. Teodor Lucu\u021b\u0103 is promoted from the youth team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094998-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 FDGB-Pokal\nThe 1972\u201373 season was the 22nd competition for the FDGB-Pokal, the national football cup competition of East Germany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094998-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 FDGB-Pokal\nAs the second-tier DDR-Liga had been enlarged to 58 teams in the previous season, the competition had to be held in a new format. The first round proper was held \u2014 after a play-off between Zentronik S\u00f6mmerda and HFC Chemie II \u2014 with 72 teams: 15 Bezirkspokal winners (designated with an asterisk), 55 DDR-Liga teams and the two teams relegated from the DDR-Oberliga in the 1971\u201372 season, Stahl Riesa and Vorw\u00e4rts Stralsund.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094998-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 FDGB-Pokal\nAfter an intermediate round that saw the seven remaining Bezirkspokal winners and the 29 surviving DDR-Liga teams, the 14 current DDR-Oberliga teams joined in the second round proper. Only two Bezirkspokal winners (Wismut Gera II and Fortschritt Krumhermersdorf) took part in this round, together with 16 second-tier teams. Both Bezirkspokal winners were eliminated, as well as three top-flight teams: Sachsenring Zwickau, Vorw\u00e4rts Frankfurt and Wismut Aue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094998-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 FDGB-Pokal\nIn contrast to the first rounds, the fixtures in the round of last 16, the quarter- and semi-finals were played over two legs. If scores were level, extra time and a penalty shoot-out followed. The away goals rule was applied as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094998-0004-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 FDGB-Pokal\nThe reserve team of F.C. Hansa Rostock was the only second-tier club not eliminated in the round of last 16 and thus the club entered the quarter-finals with two teams. Hansa had eliminated defending champions FC Carl Zeiss Jena, but went out in the quarter final against 1. FC Magdeburg. Last year's finalist and new DDR-Oberliga champion Dynamo Dresden went out in the quarter finals against 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig who went on to beat Berliner FC Dynamo to reach the final against 1. FC Magdeburg in Dessau. Magdeburg had beaten fellow DDR-Oberliga side FC Rot-Wei\u00df Erfurt to secure their fourth final appearance since 1964 (as SC Aufbau Magdeburg).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 672]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094998-0005-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 FDGB-Pokal, Final, Match report\nThe 22nd FDGB-Pokal final saw two DDR-Oberliga teams face each other. Magdeburg were lying in third place while Leipzig occupied the 8th rank. But in the match Lokomotive Leipzig began with a powerful attacking run on Magdeburg's goal. They were rewarded with the early lead when Frenzel scored off Matoul's header. Ten minutes later Magdeburg's Achtel scratched the ball off the goal line. This was a wake-up call for FCM who now had their first opportunity, but Sparwasser missed narrowly in the 18th minute. Just one minute later, Magdeburg sweeper Zapf did better and headed home a Seguin corner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 39], "content_span": [40, 640]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094998-0005-0001", "contents": "1972\u201373 FDGB-Pokal, Final, Match report\nThe match now turned in Magdeburg's favor, with their defense gaining control over Leipzig's forwards Matoul and Frenzel and on the other hand their forward Sparwasser becoming more and more of a threat to his opponent Geisler. Consequently, it was Sparwasser who put Magdeburg in the lead after a through ball from Enge. Leipzig's spirit thus rekindled led to an equaliser after Enge's backpass was intercepted by Leipzig's Altmann. Both teams now showed their willingness to end the game in regular time with opportunities on both sides.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 39], "content_span": [40, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094998-0005-0002", "contents": "1972\u201373 FDGB-Pokal, Final, Match report\nThree minutes before the end of 90 minutes Magdeburg's Enge and Sparwasser again started a nice attacking move. Defender Enge started his run at his own goal line, crossed immaculately to Sparwasser, and the striker scored the winning goal, earning his club the fourth FDGB-Pokal title after 1964, 1965 and 1969.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 39], "content_span": [40, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094999-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 FIBA European Champions Cup\nThe 1972\u201373 FIBA European Champions Cup was the 16th installment of the European top-tier level professional basketball club competition FIBA European Champions Cup (now called EuroLeague). The Final was held at the Country Hall du Sart Tilman, in Li\u00e8ge, Belgium, on March 22, 1973. It was won by Ignis Varese for the second time in a row. They defeated CSKA Moscow in the finals, by a result of 71\u201366.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094999-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 FIBA European Champions Cup, First round\n*Jeunesse Sportivo Alep withdrew before the first leg and Partizani Tirana received a forfeit (2\u20130) in both games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 48], "content_span": [49, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00094999-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 FIBA European Champions Cup, Quarterfinals group stage\nThe quarterfinals were played with a round-robin system, in which every Two Game series (TGS) constituted as one game for the record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 62], "content_span": [63, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095000-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup\nThe 1972\u201373 FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup was the seventh edition of FIBA's 2nd-tier level European-wide professional club basketball competition, contested between national domestic cup champions, running from 18 October 1972, to 21 March 1973. It was contested by 26 teams, five more than in the previous edition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095000-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup\n1971 runner-up Spartak Leningrad, defeated Jugoplastika in the final, to become the first Soviet League team to win the competition, ending a 3-year period of Italian League dominance. It was the second straight final lost by a Yugoslav League team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095000-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup, Quarterfinals\nThe quarter finals were played with a round-robin system, in which every Two Game series (TGS) constituted as one game for the record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 53], "content_span": [54, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095001-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 FIBA Women's European Champions Cup\nThe 1972\u201373 FIBA Women's European Champions Cup was the thirteenth edition of FIBA Europe's competition for women's basketball national champion clubs, running from November 1972 to March 1973. Daugava Riga defeated Clermont UC in the final to win its tenth title in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095002-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 FIBA Women's European Cup Winners' Cup\nThe 1972\u201373 FIBA Women's European Cup Winners' Cup, running from November 1972 to March 1973, was the second edition of FIBA Europe's second-tier competition for women's basketball clubs, subsequently renamed Ronchetti Cup. Defending champion Spartak Leningrad won its second title beating Slavia Prague in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095003-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 FIRA Nations Cup\nThe Nations Cup 1972-73 was the 13th edition of a European rugby union championship for national teams, and eighth (and last) with the formula and the name of \"Nations Cup\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095003-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 FIRA Nations Cup\nThe tournament was won by France, who won all their three games, with Romania, Spain and Morocco.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095004-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup\nThe 7th World Cup season began in December 1972 in France and concluded in March 1973 in the United States. Gustav Th\u00f6ni of Italy won his third consecutive overall title and Annemarie Pr\u00f6ll of Austria won the women's overall title, her third of five consecutive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095004-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, Men, Overall\nThe Men's Overall World Cup 1972/73 was divided into three periods. From the first 5 races the best 3 results count, from the next 9 races (Race No 6 to No 14) the best 5 results count and from the last 10 races the best 6 results count. Two racers had a point deduction. Gustav Th\u00f6ni won his third Overall World Cup in a row!", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095004-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, Men, Downhill\nIn Men's Downhill World Cup 1972/73 the best 5 results count. Three racers had a point deduction, which are given in ().", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095004-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, Men, Giant Slalom\nIn Men's Giant Slalom World Cup 1972/73 the best 5 results count. One racers had a point deduction, which is given in (). In every race there was a different winner!", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 51], "content_span": [52, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095004-0004-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, Men, Slalom\nIn Men's Slalom World Cup 1972/73 the best 5 results count. Three racers had a point deduction, which are given in ().", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 45], "content_span": [46, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095004-0005-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, Ladies, Overall\nThe Women's Overall World Cup 1972/73 was most likely also divided into periods.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095004-0006-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, Ladies, Downhill\nIn Women's Downhill World Cup 1972/73 the best 5 results counted. Five racers had a point deduction, which are given in (). Annemarie Pr\u00f6ll won all competitions and won the cup with maximum points. She won her third Downhill World Cup in a row. The Austrians won 21 out of 24 available podium-places. Only Jacqueline Rouvier from France was able to climb on the podium with them three times.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095004-0007-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, Ladies, Giant Slalom\nIn Women's Giant Slalom World Cup 1972/73 the best 5 results count. Five racers had a point deduction, which are given in ().", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095004-0008-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, Ladies, Slalom\nIn Women's Slalom World Cup 1972/73 the best 5 results count. Three racers a had point deduction, which are given in ().", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095005-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 FK Partizan season\nThe 1972\u201373 season was the 27th season in FK Partizan's existence. This article shows player statistics and matches that the club played during the 1972\u201373 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095006-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Football League\nThe 1972\u201373 season was the 74th completed season of The Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095006-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Football League\nLiverpool championship win meant they claimed their first trophy since 1966 in Bill Shankly's penultimate season as manager despite competition from Arsenal, Leeds United, Ipswich Town and Wolverhampton Wanderers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095006-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Football League\nManchester United sacked manager Frank O'Farrell after 18 months in charge. He had been unable to mount a title challenge. Tommy Docherty, the 44-year-old Scottish national coach and former Aston Villa manager, was appointed as his successor. Bobby Charlton and Denis Law both played their last games for the club while George Best's appearances were becoming increasingly rare.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095006-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Football League\nBurnley and Queens Park Rangers won promotion to the First Division. Huddersfield Town's decline continued as they slid into the Third Division, where they were joined by Brighton & Hove Albion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095006-0004-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Football League\nBolton Wanderers and Notts County occupied the two promotion places in the Third Division. Rotherham United, Brentford, Swansea City and Scunthorpe United were relegated to the Fourth Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095006-0005-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Football League\nHereford United were promoted from the Fourth Division in their first season as a Football League club. They had been elected to the Football League a year earlier after winning the Southern League and achieving a shock win over Newcastle United in the FA Cup. They were joined in the promotion zone by champions Southport, Cambridge United and Aldershot. Newport County missed promotion only on goal average. There were no arrivals or departures in the league for 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095006-0006-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Football League, Final league tables and results\nThe tables below are reproduced here in the exact form that they can be found at website and in Rothmans Book of Football League Records 1888\u201389 to 1978\u201379, with home and away statistics separated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095006-0007-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Football League, Final league tables and results\nBeginning with the season 1894\u201395, clubs finishing level on points were separated according to goal average (goals scored divided by goals conceded), or more properly put, goal ratio. In case one or more teams had the same goal difference, this system favoured those teams who had scored fewer goals. The goal average system was eventually scrapped beginning with the 1976\u201377 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095006-0008-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Football League, Final league tables and results\nSince the Fourth Division was established in the 1958\u201359 season, the bottom four teams of that division have been required to apply for re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095007-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Football League Cup\nThe 1972\u201373 Football League Cup was the 13th season of the Football League Cup, a knock-out competition for England's top 92 football clubs. The tournament started on 15 August 1972 and ended with the final at Wembley on 3 March 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095007-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Football League Cup\nTottenham Hotspur won the tournament after defeating Norwich City in the final at Wembley Stadium, London.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095007-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Football League Cup, Final\nThe final was held at Wembley Stadium, London on 3 March 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095007-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Football League Cup, Final\nThe 1973 Football League Cup Final was won by Tottenham Hotspur. Spurs beat Norwich City 1\u20130 at Wembley Stadium, Ralph Coates with the goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095008-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Football League First Division\nStatistics of Football League First Division in the 1972\u201373 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095008-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Football League First Division, Overview\nLiverpool won the First Division title for the eighth time in the club's history that season. They made sure of the title with a 0\u20130 draw against Leicester City at Anfield and finished the season three points ahead of title challengers Arsenal. Crystal Palace were relegated on 24 April, after losing 2\u20131 at relegation rivals Norwich City. West Bromwich Albion joined them the next day after losing 2\u20131 at home to Manchester City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095010-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 French Division 1\nFC Nantes won Division 1 season 1972/1973 of the French Association Football League with 55 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095010-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 French Division 1, Final table\nPromoted from Division 2, who will play in Division 1 season 1973/1974", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095011-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 French Division 2, Overview\nIt was contested by 36 teams, and Lens and AS Troyes won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095012-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 French Rugby Union Championship\nThe 1972-73 French Rugby Union Championship was contested by 64 teams divided in 8 pools.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095012-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 French Rugby Union Championship\nThe first four of each pool, were qualified for the knockout stages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095012-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 French Rugby Union Championship\nThe Stadoceste won the champsionship beating Dax in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095012-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 French Rugby Union Championship\nIt was the first title after World War II for Stadoceste.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095012-0004-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 French Rugby Union Championship, Qualification round\nIn bold the clubs qualified for the next round. The teams are listed according to the final ranking", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 60], "content_span": [61, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095013-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Galatasaray S.K. season\nThe 1972\u201373 season was Galatasaray's 69th in existence and the 15th consecutive season in the 1. Lig. This article shows statistics of the club's players in the season, and also lists all matches that the club have played in the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095014-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team\nThe 1972\u201373 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team represented Georgetown University during the 1972\u201373 NCAA University Division college basketball season. John Thompson, coached them in his first season as head coach. The team was an independent and played its home games at McDonough Gymnasium on the Georgetown campus in Washington, D.C.. It finished the season with a record of 12-14 \u2013 a significant improvement over the previous season's record \u2013 was not ranked in the Top 20 in the Associated Press Poll or Coaches' Poll at any time, and had no post-season play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095014-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, John Thompson arrives\nThe 29-year-old Thompson was only the third African-American head coach in the history of NCAA Division basketball and was the first to take charge of a major college basketball program. He had been a star player for Washington, D.C.'s Archbishop Carroll High School and for Providence College, had played for two successful seasons with the Boston Celtics in the National Basketball Association, and then had returned to Washington, D.C., to coach St. Anthony's High School to a record of 122-28 in six seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 69], "content_span": [70, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095014-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, John Thompson arrives\nAt Georgetown, Thompson inherited a team that had gone 3-23 the previous season, the culmination of a 25-year stretch of mostly undistinguished basketball at Georgetown. Although the team had appeared in the National Invitation Tournament in 1953 and 1970, between the 1947-48 season and the end of the previous season Georgetown had posted an overall record under .500 and its total of 296 wins during those 25 seasons was the lowest among the 32 Catholic universities playing Division I college basketball in the United States. The team also had had no NCAA Tournament appearances since 1943.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 69], "content_span": [70, 664]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095014-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, John Thompson arrives\nThompson's arrival heralded the school's rise to the status of a national basketball power; the 12-14 record this season was a significant improvement over the 3-23 finish of the previous year, and the 1972-73 squad was the last Georgetown men's basketball team to finish with a losing record until the 1998\u201399 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 69], "content_span": [70, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095014-0003-0001", "contents": "1972\u201373 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, John Thompson arrives\nGeorgetown had hired Thompson in the hope that he could guide the Hoyas to an \"occasional\" National Invitation Tournament (NIT) appearance, but during his 26\u00bd seasons as head coach he would lead the Hoyas to 24 straight post-season tournaments \u2013 19 NCAA Tournaments and five NITs \u2013 from the 1974-75 to the 1997-98 seasons, and to the national championship in the 1983-84 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 69], "content_span": [70, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095014-0004-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap\nThompson's first recruiting class consisted of five players. One of them was center Merlin Wilson, who had played for him at St. Anthony's and followed him to Georgetown to play college basketball. Wilson scored 24 points in the season opener against Saint Francis. At Loyola, the Hoyas outrebounded the Greyhounds 65-33, and Wilson pulled down 24 of Georgetown's rebounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 60], "content_span": [61, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095014-0004-0001", "contents": "1972\u201373 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap\nBy mid-season, Wilson was averaging 12 points and 13 rebounds a game, a level of play unknown at Georgetown for many years, and was among the top ten college players in rebounds; a Tampa Tribune columnist wrote that the Hoyas were \"a team destined to be one of the next great powers in college basketball\" because of Wilson's talent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 60], "content_span": [61, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095014-0004-0002", "contents": "1972\u201373 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap\nHe scored 25 points and had 17 rebounds and eight blocks against Navy, had a 17-point, 17-rebound performance against Fordham in a big win, and had 15 points and 16 rebounds against St. Mary's in the last home game of the season. He finished the season as the team's leader in scoring and rebounds, and was ranked 14th in the United States with 14.1 rebounds per game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 60], "content_span": [61, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095014-0005-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap\nAnother major Thompson recruit for his first season as a collegiate head coach was guard Jonathan Smith. Smith, like Wilson, had played for Thompson at St. Anthony's and followed him to Georgetown. Although some observers expected Smith to be a reserve, he quickly emerged as a major force for the Hoyas, scoring a career-high 25 points twice during the season, against Penn State and George Washington. Smith finished the season second on the team only to Wilson in scoring.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 60], "content_span": [61, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095015-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Golden State Warriors season\nThe 1972\u201373 NBA season was the Warriors' 27th season in the NBA and 11th in the San Francisco Bay Area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095016-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Gonzaga Bulldogs men's basketball team\nThe 1972\u201373 Gonzaga Bulldogs men's basketball team represented Gonzaga University during the 1972\u201373 NCAA University Division basketball season. Members of the Big Sky Conference, the Bulldogs were led by first-year head coach Adrian Buoncristiani and played their home games on campus at Kennedy Pavilion in Spokane, Washington. They were 14\u201312 overall and 6\u20138 in conference play, in fifth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095016-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Gonzaga Bulldogs men's basketball team\nSenior forward Greg Sten led the Big Sky in scoring and was selected to the all-conference team; senior forward Joe Clayton was second team and junior center Stewart Morrill was honorable mention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095016-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Gonzaga Bulldogs men's basketball team\nPreviously an assistant coach at UC Santa Barbara. Buoncristiani succeeded Hank Anderson, who left Gonzaga after 21 years as head coach for a similar position at Montana State in Bozeman, a conference rival. Less than a week after accepting the job in April, Buoncristiani was involved in a traffic accident in Spokane in which his car was demolished, but \"ABC\" escaped with only minor injuries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095017-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Greek Football Cup\nThe 1972\u201373 Greek Football Cup was the 31st edition of the Greek Football Cup. The competition culminated with the Greek Cup Final, held at Karaiskakis Stadium, on 17 June 1973. The match was contested by Olympiacos and PAOK, with Olympiacos winning by 1\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095017-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Greek Football Cup, First round\n18 clubs from Alpha Ethniki and 32 clubs from Beta Ethniki entered the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 39], "content_span": [40, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095017-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Greek Football Cup, Final\nThe 29th Greek Cup Final was played at the Karaiskakis Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095018-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Heart of Midlothian F.C. season\nDuring the 1972\u201373 season, Heart of Midlothian F.C. competed in the Scottish First Division, the Scottish Cup, the Scottish League Cup, the Texaco Cup and the East of Scotland Shield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095019-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Hellenic Football League\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by Denebleo (talk | contribs) at 17:15, 26 September 2021 (\u2192\u200eDivision Two). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095019-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Hellenic Football League\nThe 1972\u201373 Hellenic Football League season was the 20th in the history of the Hellenic Football League, a football competition in England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095019-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Hellenic Football League, Premier Division\nThe Premier Division featured 15 clubs which competed in the division last season, along with two new clubs:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095019-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Hellenic Football League, Division One\nThe Division One featured 16 clubs, including 14 clubs from the previous season's Division One A and Division One B and 2 clubs relegated from the Premier Division:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095019-0004-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Hellenic Football League, Division Two\nThe Division Two featured 11 clubs, including 8 clubs relegated from the previous season's Division One A and Division One B and 3 clubs joined Division Two:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095020-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Hibernian F.C. season\nDuring the 1972\u201373 season Hibernian, a football club based in Edinburgh, came third out of 18 clubs in the Scottish First Division, reached the fourth round of the Scottish Cup, the quarter-final of the European Cup Winners' Cup and won their first Scottish League Cup and the Drybrough Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095021-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Honduran Liga Nacional\nThe 1972\u201373 Honduran Liga Nacional season was expected to be the 8th edition of the Honduran Liga Nacional. However, on 12 August 1972, due to economic problems the tournament was cancelled after nine weeks completed. It's unclear how Club Deportivo Olimpia and C.D.S. Vida obtained berths to the 1973 CONCACAF Champions' Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095022-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Honduran Segunda Divisi\u00f3n\nThe 1972\u201373 Honduran Segunda Divisi\u00f3n was scheduled to be the seventh season of the Honduran Segunda Divisi\u00f3n. However, the season was cancelled due to a national football strike. No team was promoted to the 1973\u201374 Honduran Liga Nacional", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095023-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Hong Kong First Division League\nThe 1972\u201373 Hong Kong First Division League season was the 62nd since its establishment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095024-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Houston Aeros season\nThe 1972\u201373 Houston Aeros season was the Houston Aeros first season of operation in the newly created World Hockey Association (WHA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095024-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Houston Aeros season, Player stats\nNote: Pos = Position; GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/- = plus/minus; PIM = Penalty minutes; PPG = Power-play goals; SHG = Short-handed goals; GWG = Game-winning goals\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0MIN = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; GA = Goals-against; GAA = Goals-against average; SO = Shutouts;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 42], "content_span": [43, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095025-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Houston Rockets season\nThe 1972-73 NBA season was the Rockets' 6th season in the NBA and 2nd season in the city of Houston.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095026-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season\nHuddersfield Town's 1972\u201373 campaign saw Town get relegated for the second season in a row, which saw them drop into the 3rd Division for the first time in their history. Despite the 17 goals of new signing Alan Gowling from Manchester United, Town were relegated by goal average from Cardiff City, who were beaten by Town to the 1st Division title in 1924.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095026-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Squad at the start of the season\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 73], "content_span": [74, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095026-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Review\nFollowing the relegation of Town from 1st Division at the end of the previous season, Town's three most experienced players, Trevor Cherry, Roy Ellam and Frank Worthington all left for pastures new, but the money received from their transfers was used to sign the experience of Alan Gowling from Manchester United and Graham Pugh from Sheffield Wednesday. However, a rise back up to Division 1 had a bad start, with Town drawing most of their opening matches and not making any realistic ground on any of the promotion chasing teams such as Burnley and Queens Park Rangers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 621]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095026-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Review\nTown had only 7 wins in the league by the end of the season, with Town needing to win the last game of the season at home to Portsmouth to have any chance of Town avoiding the unthinkable drop to Division 3. Town beat Pompey 2\u20130 thanks to goals from Mick Fairclough and new signing Phil Summerill gave Town the needed win, but they had to wait on other results to go their way. Cardiff City got their needed result from their game in hand, which relegated Town on goal average. It was revenge on Town, who pipped Cardiff to the 1st Division title in 1924. They finished 21st with 33 points, getting relegated to Division 3 with Brighton & Hove Albion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 699]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095026-0004-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Squad at the end of the season\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 71], "content_span": [72, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095027-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Hunedoara County Championship\nThe 1972\u201373 Hunedoara County Championship was the 5th season of the Liga IV Hunedoara, the fourth tier of the Romanian football league system. The season began on 3 September 1972 and ended on 10 June 1973. Dacia Or\u0103\u0219tie won the county championship and promoted in Divizia C without promotion play-off due to the expansion of third tier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095027-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Hunedoara County Championship, Competition format\nThe format has been maintained to two series, but the number of teams from each series was changed, the Valea Jiului Series with 10 teams and the Valea Mure\u0219ului Series with 16 teams. The winners of the two series qualify for the championship play-off to establish the county champion and Hunedoara County representative at the promotion play-off in Divizia C.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 57], "content_span": [58, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095027-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Hunedoara County Championship, Championship play-off\nDacia Or\u0103\u0219tie won the 1972\u201373 Hunedoara County Championship and promoted to 1973\u201374 Divizia C.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 60], "content_span": [61, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095028-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 IHL season\nThe 1972\u201373 IHL season was the 28th season of the International Hockey League, a North American minor professional league. Nine teams participated in the regular season, and the Fort Wayne Komets won the Turner Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095029-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 IIHF European Cup\nThe 1972\u201373 European Cup was the eighth edition of the European Cup, IIHF's premier European club ice hockey tournament. The season started on October, 1972 and finished on August 20, 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095029-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 IIHF European Cup\nThe tournament was won by CSKA Moscow, who beat Bryn\u00e4s IF in the final", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095030-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Idaho State Bengals men's basketball team\nThe 1972\u201373 Idaho State Bengals men's basketball team represented Idaho State University during the 1972\u201373 NCAA University Division basketball season. Led by second-year head coach Jim Killingsworth, the Bengals played their home games on campus at the ISU Minidome in Pocatello.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095030-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Idaho State Bengals men's basketball team\nIdaho State finished the regular season at 18\u20138 overall, with a 10\u20134 record in the Big Sky Conference, runner-up to champion Weber State. The conference tournament debuted three years later, in 1976.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095030-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Idaho State Bengals men's basketball team\nSenior forward Ev Fopma was named to the all-conference team, and senior guard Edison Hicks was on the second team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095031-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Idaho Vandals men's basketball team\nThe 1972\u201373 Idaho Vandals men's basketball team represented the University of Idaho during the 1972\u201373 NCAA University Division basketball season. Members of the Big Sky Conference, the Vandals were led by seventh-year head coach Wayne Anderson and played their home games on campus at the Memorial Gymnasium in Moscow, Idaho. They were 7\u201319 overall and 3\u201311 in conference play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095031-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Idaho Vandals men's basketball team\nNo Vandals were named to the all-conference team; junior forward Steve Ton, junior guard Tyrone Fitzpatrick, and freshman guard Steve Weist were honorable mention. Weist was brought up from the freshman team in late January.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095032-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team\nThe 1972\u201373 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team represented the University of Illinois.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095032-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team, Regular season\nHead coach Harv Schmidt entered his sixth season with the Fighting Illini with high expectations. The 1971-72 team returned one of the top senior athletes in the country, Nick Weatherspoon. As a sophomore, Weatherspoon scored 381 points, averaging 16.5 points per game, while collecting 246 rebounds. His junior year was even better, scoring 500 total points, averaging 20.8 points and pulling down 262 rebounds. Nothing, however, would be better than Weatherspoon's senior year. During this season he would score 600 points, averaging 25.0 points per game, while amassing 295 total rebounds. Weatherspoon remains as number 11 on the all-time leading scores list at the University of Illinois, only surpassed by players that completed four years of varsity basketball. His three year average of 20.9 points per game and 11.3 rebounds per game still remain number one for the Fighting Illini.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 70], "content_span": [71, 962]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095032-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team, Regular season\nThe 1972-73 team's starting lineup included Weatherspoon and Rick Schmidt at the forward spots, Jeff Dawson and Otho Tucker as guards and Nick Conner at center. The roster included the teams first 7 foot tall player, Bill Rucks a freshman from Waukegan High School.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 70], "content_span": [71, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095033-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Illinois State Redbirds men's basketball team\nThe 1972\u201373 Illinois State Redbirds men's basketball team represented Illinois State University during the 1972\u201373 NCAA University Division men's basketball season. The Redbirds, led by third-year head coach Will Robinson, played their home games at Horton Field House in Normal, Illinois and competed as an independent (not a member of a conference). They finished the season 13\u201312.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095034-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team\nThe 1972\u201373 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team represented Indiana University. Their head coach was Bobby Knight, who was in his 2nd year. The team played its home games in Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Indiana, and was a member of the Big Ten Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095034-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team\nThe Hoosiers finished the regular season with an overall record of 22\u20136 and a conference record of 11\u20133, finishing 1st in the Big Ten Conference. After a quick first-round exit during the 1972 NIT, Indiana was invited to participate in the 1973 NCAA Tournament, where Bobby Knight and the Hoosiers advanced to the Final Four. IU lost to the UCLA Bruins who went on to win their 7th straight national title; however, IU secured third place after beating Providence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095035-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Indiana Pacers season\nThe 1972\u201373 Indiana Pacers season was Indiana's sixth season in the ABA and sixth as a team. The Pacers finished second in the Western Division and won their third ABA title. In a rematch of the 1972 division semifinals, the Pacers eliminated the Denver Rockets. After defeating the Rockets in five games, the Pacers eliminated the Utah Stars in six games. The Eastern Division champion Kentucky Colonels appeared in the ABA Championships for the second time and were defeated by the Pacers in seven games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095035-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Indiana Pacers season, Regular season, Player stats\nNote: GP= Games played; MIN= Minutes; REB= Rebounds; AST= Assists; STL = Steals; BLK = Blocks; PTS = Points; AVG = Average", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095036-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Iowa State Cyclones men's basketball team\nThe 1972\u201373 Iowa State Cyclones men's basketball team represented Iowa State University during the 1972\u201373 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Cyclones were coached by Maury John, who was in his second season with the Cyclones. They played their home games at Hilton Coliseum in Ames, Iowa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095036-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Iowa State Cyclones men's basketball team\nThey finished the season 16\u201310, 7\u20137 in Big Eight play to finish in fifth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095037-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Iran 2nd Division\nThe following is the standings of the Iran Football's 2nd Division 1972\u201373 football season. In 1973 the Taj Ahvaz was promoted to the Takht Jamshid Cup, but league rules allowed for only one team of the same name to participate, therefore Taj Tehran, remained in the league, and Taj Ahvaz F.C. was forced to stay in the lower leagues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095038-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Iraq Central FA First Division\nThe 1972\u201373 Iraq Central FA First Division was the 25th and last season of the Iraq Central FA League (the top division of football in Baghdad and its neighbouring cities from 1948 to 1973); it began on 16 October 1972. The first half of the season concluded on 31 December 1972 at which point the season was ended; this was due to scheduling difficulties with the Iraq national and military teams' matches that caused the cancellation of the second half of the season. Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya, who led the table at the halfway point having won all of their seven games, were thus crowned champions for their fourth league title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 662]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095038-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Iraq Central FA First Division\nAfter the premature end to the season, the Iraq Central Football Association organised the Independent Baghdad Tournament between the same eight teams to allow them to continue playing matches in the absence of their national team and military team players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095038-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Iraq Central FA First Division\nThe Central FA League along with the Basra League, Kirkuk League and Mosul League were replaced by a nationwide league, the Iraqi National League (Institutions), from the following season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095039-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Irish League\nThe Irish League in season 1972\u201373 comprised 12 teams, and Crusaders won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095040-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Israel State Cup\nThe 1972\u201373 Israel State Cup (Hebrew: \u05d2\u05d1\u05d9\u05e2 \u05d4\u05de\u05d3\u05d9\u05e0\u05d4\u200e, Gvia HaMedina) was the 34th season of Israel's nationwide football cup competition and the 19th after the Israeli Declaration of Independence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095040-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Israel State Cup\nStarting with this edition, later rounds, which involved Liga Leumit clubs, were played as two-legged ties, up to the final, which remained a single match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095040-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Israel State Cup\nThe competition was won by last year's finalist, Hapoel Jerusalem, who have beaten this season's league champions, Hakoah Maccabi Ramat Gan 2\u20130 at the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095041-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Isthmian League\nThe 1972\u201373 season was the 58th in the history of the Isthmian League, an English football competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095041-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Isthmian League\nThe league expanded up to 22 clubs after the Athenian League club Leatherhead was newly admitted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095041-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Isthmian League\nHendon were champions, winning their second Isthmian League title. It was the last Isthmian League season, consisting of a single division, as before the next season sixteen clubs joined the league and formed a new Second Division. It was also the last season in which the Isthmian League used two points for a win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095042-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Japan Ice Hockey League season\nThe 1972\u201373 Japan Ice Hockey League season was the seventh season of the Japan Ice Hockey League. Five teams participated in the league, and the Seibu Tetsudo won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095043-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Juventus F.C. season\nDuring 1972\u201373 season Juventus competed in Serie A, Coppa Italia and European Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095043-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Juventus F.C. season, Summary\nCestmir Vycpalek added 30-yrs-old goalkeeper Dino Zoff and veteran forward Jos\u00e9 Altafini from S.S.C. Napoli to the team seeking to retain the league and the European Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095043-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Juventus F.C. season, Summary\nThe team won the league, however lost the finals of European Cup against Johan Cruijff's Ajax and Coppa Italia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095043-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Juventus F.C. season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095044-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 KNVB Cup\nThe KNVB Cup 1972\u201373 (55th edition) started on October 29, 1972. The final was held on May 31, 1973, with NAC beating NEC 2\u20130 and winning the cup for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095045-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Kansas City\u2013Omaha Kings season\nThe 1972\u201373 NBA season was the Kings 24th season in the NBA and their first season in the cities of Kansas City and Omaha. This season, Nate Archibald won the scoring and assist titles and made the All-NBA 1st Team, but the Kings missed the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095046-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team\nThe 1972\u201373 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team represented the University of Kansas during the 1972\u201373 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095047-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Karnataka State Film Awards\nThe Karnataka State Film Awards 1972\u201373, presented by Government of Karnataka, to felicitate the best of Kannada Cinema released in the year 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095048-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Kentucky Colonels season\nThe 1972\u201373 Kentucky Colonels season was the sixth season of the Colonels in the American Basketball Association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095048-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Kentucky Colonels season, Awards and honors\n1973 ABA All-Star Game selections (game played on February 6, 1973)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 51], "content_span": [52, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095049-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team\nThe 1972\u201373 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team represented the University of Kentucky in the 1972\u201373 college basketball season. The team's head coach was Joe B. Hall, who was in his first season, taking over for Adolph Rupp. They played their home games at Memorial Coliseum and were members of the Southeastern Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095051-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 La Liga\nThe 1972\u201373 La Liga was the 42nd season since its establishment. It started on September 2, 1972, and finished on May 20, 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095052-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Lancashire Cup\nThe 1972\u201373 Lancashire Cup was the sixtieth occasion on which the competition was held. Salford won the trophy by beating Swinton by the score of 25-11 in the final. The match was played at Wilderspool, Warrington, (historically in the county of Lancashire). The attendance was 6,865 and receipts were \u00a33,321.00", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095052-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Lancashire Cup, Background\nThe total number of teams entering the competition remained at last season\u2019s total of 14 with no junior/amateur clubs taking part. The same fixture format was retained, but due to the decrease in the number of participating clubs, resulted in one \"blank\" or \"dummy\" fixtures in the first round, and one bye in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095052-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Lancashire Cup, Competition and results, Round 1\nInvolved 7 matches (with one \"blank\" fixture) and 14 clubs", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 56], "content_span": [57, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095052-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Lancashire Cup, Competition and results, Final, Teams and Scorers\nScoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = two (2) points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 73], "content_span": [74, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095052-0004-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Lancashire Cup, Notes and comments\n1 * The score of 13-2 is shows in the official St. Helens archives and also in the official Widnes archives . RUGBYLEAGUEproject shows the score as being 11-22 * Wilderspool was the home ground of Warrington from 1883 to the end of the 2003 Summer season when they moved into the new purpose built Halliwell Jones Stadium. Wilderspool remained as a sports/Ruugby League ground and is/was used by Woolston Rovers/Warrington Wizards junior club. The ground had a final capacity of 9,000 although the record attendance was set in a Challenge cup third round match on 13 March 1948 when 34,304 spectators saw Warrington lose to Wigan 10-13.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 679]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095053-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 League Cup (rugby league)\nThis was the second season of the League Cup, which was known as the Players No.6 Trophy for sponsorship reasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095053-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 League Cup (rugby league)\nLeeds won the trophy by beating Salford 12-7 in the final. The match was played at Fartown, Huddersfield. The attendance was 10,102 and receipts were \u00a34563.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095053-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 League Cup (rugby league), Background\nThis season saw no changes in the entrants, no new members and no withdrawals, the number remaining at thirty-two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095053-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 League Cup (rugby league), Competition and Results, Final, Teams and Scorers\nScoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = one (1) point", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 84], "content_span": [85, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095053-0004-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 League Cup (rugby league), Competition and Results, Prize Money\nAs part of the sponsorship deal and funds, the prize money awarded to the competing teams for this season is as follows\u00a0:-", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 71], "content_span": [72, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095053-0005-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 League Cup (rugby league), Competition and Results, Prize Money\nNote - the author is unable to trace the award amounts for this season. Can anyone help\u00a0?", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 71], "content_span": [72, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095053-0006-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 League Cup (rugby league), Notes and comments\n1 * Pilkington Recs are a Junior (amateur) club from St Helens, home ground was City Road until they moved to Ruskin Drive from 2011-12 2 * Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990-1991, Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991-1992, and RUGBYLEAGUEproject give the score as 26-5 but News of the World Football Annual 1973-74 gives the score as 28-53 * highest score to date4 * Dewsbury Celtic are a Junior (amateur) club from Dewsbury, home ground is Crow Nest Park5 * RUGBYLEAGUEproject gives score as 10-28 but the Wigan official archives and 100 Years of Rugby.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095053-0006-0001", "contents": "1972\u201373 League Cup (rugby league), Notes and comments\nThe History of Wakefield Trinity 1873-1973 and Wakefield until I die all give the score as 10-346 * News of the World Football Annual 1973-74 gives score as 24-3 but both RUGBYLEAGUEproject and Wigan official archives give it as 24-87 * Abandoned after 22 Minutes due to Fog with the score at 4-2 - Result declared void8 * NO mention on Hull official website of any replay9 * News of the World Football Annual 1973-74 gives the score as 30-2 but both RUGBYLEAGUEproject and Wigan official archives give it as 39-210 * Fartown was the home ground of Huddersfield from 1878 to the end of the 1991-92 season to Huddersfield Town FC's Leeds Road stadium, and then to the McAlpine Stadium in 1994.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 748]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095053-0006-0002", "contents": "1972\u201373 League Cup (rugby league), Notes and comments\nFartown remained as a sports/Rugby League ground but is now rather dilapidated, and is only used for staging amateur rugby league games. Due to lack of maintenance, terrace closures and finally major storm damage closing one of the stands in 1986, the final ground capacity had been reduced to just a few thousands although the record attendance was set in a Challenge cup semi-final on 19 April 1947 when a crowd of 35,136 saw Leeds beat Wakefield Trinity 21-0", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095053-0007-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 League Cup (rugby league), Notes and comments, General information for those unfamiliar\nThe council of the Rugby Football League voted to introduce a new competition, to be similar to The Football Association and Scottish Football Association's \"League Cup\". It was to be a similar knock-out structure to, and to be secondary to, the Challenge Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 95], "content_span": [96, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095053-0007-0001", "contents": "1972\u201373 League Cup (rugby league), Notes and comments, General information for those unfamiliar\nAs this was being formulated, sports sponsorship was becoming more prevalent and as a result John Player and Sons, a division of Imperial Tobacco Company, became sponsors, and the competition never became widely known as the \"League Cup\" The competition ran from 1971-72 until 1995-96 and was initially intended for the professional clubs plus the two amateur BARLA National Cup finalists. In later seasons the entries were expanded to take in other amateur and French teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 95], "content_span": [96, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095053-0007-0002", "contents": "1972\u201373 League Cup (rugby league), Notes and comments, General information for those unfamiliar\nThe competition was dropped due to \"fixture congestion\" when Rugby League became a summer sportThe Rugby League season always (until the onset of \"Summer Rugby\" in 1996) ran from around August-time through to around May-time and this competition always took place early in the season, in the Autumn, with the final usually taking place in late January The competition was variably known, by its sponsorship name, as the Player's No.6 Trophy (1971\u20131977), the John Player Trophy (1977\u20131983), the John Player Special Trophy (1983\u20131989), and the Regal Trophy in 1989.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 95], "content_span": [96, 659]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095054-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 League of Ireland, Overview\nIt was contested by 14 teams, and Waterford won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095055-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Leicester City F.C. season\nDuring the 1972\u201373 English football season, Leicester City F.C. competed in the Football League First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095055-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Leicester City F.C. season, Season summary\nThe 1972\u201373 season was a disappointing one for the Foxes, finishing in 16th place in the final standings. Their only highlights during the season were a 3-2 win over champions Liverpool at Filbert Street with a Keith Weller hat-trick after being 2-0 down and also holding them to a 0-0 draw at Anfield on the final day. Results generally though throughout were poor and Leicester at one point were bottom at end of November. A lack of goals as well were hard to come by but their tight defence with the experience of Cross and Manley proved dividends and the Foxes ensured survival with a solid run of just 2 defeats in their final 12 league games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 699]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095055-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Leicester City F.C. season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095056-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Libyan Premier League\nThe 1972\u201373 Libyan Premier League was the 9th edition of the competition since its inception in 1963.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095056-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Libyan Premier League, Overview\nIt was contested by 11 teams, and Al-Ahly (Tripoli) won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095057-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Liga Alef\nThe 1972\u201373 Liga Alef season saw Hapoel Hadera (champions of the North Division) and Bnei Yehuda (champions of the South Division) promoted to Liga Leumit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095058-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Liga Bet\nThe 1972\u201373 Liga Bet season saw Hapoel Kiryat Ata, Hapoel Netanya, Maccabi Holon and SK Nes Tziona win their regional divisions and promoted to Liga Alef.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095059-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Liga Espa\u00f1ola de Baloncesto\nThe 1972\u201373 Liga Espa\u00f1ola de Baloncesto season was the 17th season of the Liga Espa\u00f1ola de Baloncesto and was played between 28 October 1972 and 27 May 1973. The season ended with Real Madrid winning their 15th title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095059-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Liga Espa\u00f1ola de Baloncesto, Overview before the season\n16 teams joined the league, including four promoted from the 1971\u201372 Segunda Divisi\u00f3n.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 63], "content_span": [64, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095060-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Liga Femenina de Baloncesto\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by Frietjes (talk | contribs) at 16:19, 19 December 2019 (expand templates per Fb team TfD outcome and Fb competition TfD outcome and Fb cl TfD outcome and Fb rbr TfD outcome). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095060-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Liga Femenina de Baloncesto\nThe 1972\u201373 Liga Femenina de Baloncesto was the 10th edition of the Spanish premier women's basketball championship. It took place from 8 October 1972 to 25 March 1973. Twelve teams took part in the championship and Ignis Matar\u00f3 won its second title. Medina Almudena was relegated, Filosof\u00eda and Standard too after losing the promotion. \u00c1guilas Schweppes renounced at the end of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095061-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Liga Leumit\nThe 1972\u201373 Liga Leumit season saw Hakoah Ramat Gan win their second title, whilst Shimshon Tel Aviv and Hapoel Marmorek (in their first, and to date, only season in the top division) were relegated. Moshe Romano of Beitar Tel Aviv was the league's top scorer with 18 goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095062-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Liga Nacional de Hockey Hielo season\nThe 1972\u201373 Superliga Espanola de Hockey Hielo season was the first season of the Superliga Espanola de Hockey Hielo, the top level of ice hockey in Spain. Six teams participated in the league, and Real Sociedad won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095063-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Liverpool F.C. season\nAfter seven years of not winning any trophies Liverpool F.C. won both the Football League and the UEFA Cup in an extremely successful season, the highlight of Bill Shankly's managerial career. The rebuilding of the team from the one that served so well in the 1960s that had been fully realised.mavi\u015fe 1.90 m boyundad\u0131r", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095063-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Liverpool F.C. season\nThe league which they came so close to winning the year before, had finally been conquered by winning the title by three points from Arsenal. The signing of Peter Cormack from Nottingham Forest during the summer of 1972 would also be another great signing. On 30 December 1972 Liverpool beat Crystal Palace at Anfield to make it 21 consecutive home wins in the league. This was the longest run in English top-flight history until it was surpassed by J\u00fcrgen Klopp\u2019s Liverpool who made it 22 consecutive home wins in March 2020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095063-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Liverpool F.C. season\nThe UEFA Cup would also be the beginning of their dominance of regularly winning European trophies as well. Overcoming the previous season's winners Tottenham Hotspur in the Semi-Finals and over a two legged final overcoming Borussia M\u00f6nchengladbach three-two on aggregate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095063-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Liverpool F.C. season\nThe emergence of Kevin Keegan and Ray Clemence in the team would also see them start their international careers, with them both making their England debuts in the World Cup qualifier against Wales on 15 November 1972 alongside Emlyn Hughes already established in the England team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095064-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Los Angeles Kings season\nThe 1972\u201373 Los Angeles Kings season was the Kings' sixth season in the National Hockey League. The team did not qualify for the playoffs and finished in sixth place out of eight teams in the West Division, only three points behind fourth place, the final playoff position. Kings' captain Bob Pulford retired from play before the season and took over as the Kings' head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095064-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Los Angeles Kings season, Regular season\nBob Pulford became full-time head coach and instituted a disciplined defense oriented system. Consequently, the Kings allowed 60 fewer goals than in 1971\u201372. Their penalty killing, once the worst in the NHL, was led by Jimmy Peters and Real Lemieux and was the best in the league. Offensively, the Kings were led by \"The Hot Line,\" which consisted of Juha Widing, Bob Berry, and Mike Corrigan; they combined for 89 goals and 112 assists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095064-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Los Angeles Kings season, Regular season\nAfter starting 1\u20136, the Kings went on a club record 8-game winning streak. But from early January through February, they endured a 4\u201313\u20135 stretch that saw them fall from 4th to 7th place. They got hot again in March, going 6\u20134\u20132 to get within 2 points of the 4th place St. Louis Blues, who held the final playoff spot with 3 games to play. But L.A. suffered two straight disastrous losses to the last place California Golden Seals, and fell to 6th, missing the playoffs by 3 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095064-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Los Angeles Kings season, Transactions\nThe Kings were involved in the following transactions during the 1972\u201373 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095064-0004-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Los Angeles Kings season, Draft picks\nLos Angeles's draft picks at the 1972 NHL Amateur Draft held at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Quebec.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 45], "content_span": [46, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095065-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Los Angeles Lakers season\nThe 1972\u201373 NBA season was the Lakers' 25th season in the NBA and 13th season in Los Angeles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095065-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Los Angeles Lakers season\nDuring the previous season (1971-1972), the Lakers had posted the longest winning streak in NBA history with 33 straight victories. In the 1972 NBA Finals, the Lakers had defeated New York Knicks in five games to win their sixth NBA Championship. However, even though the Lakers managed to make to the NBA Finals for a second consecutive time, they proved unable to repeat as champions. The Knicks defeated them in five games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095065-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Los Angeles Lakers season, Regular season\nThe defending champion Lakers returned intact, albeit another year older. They staged another season long battle for best record in the Western Conference with the Milwaukee Bucks. Both teams ended up with 60\u201322 records and they split their regular season matchups, winning three games apiece. At the time, the NBA had no tiebreaking formula beyond head to head record. In a special league meeting, they attempted to schedule a tiebreaking game between the two teams. However, the players' union intervened and demanded the players be paid an extra 1/82 share of the salaries; the owners objected so ultimately the tie was broken by a coin flip, which was won by Milwaukee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 723]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095066-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Los Angeles Sharks season, Offseason\nThe WHA awarded a franchise to Los Angeles and it was originally called the \"Los Angeles Aces,\" while the San Francisco franchise was called the Sharks. However, when funding fell through and the San Francisco franchise was then moved to Quebec to become the Nordiques, the Los Angeles group took the name Sharks and created the stylized menacing shark logo. The team colors of red and black were based on the original nickname \"aces\", being that the two colors in a deck of cards are red and black.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 44], "content_span": [45, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095066-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Los Angeles Sharks season, Regular season\nThe Sharks hung around the .500 mark for much of the season. The Winnipeg Jets, led by Bobby Hull, were clearly the class of the WHA's Western Division. Four teams (the Houston Aeros, Minnesota Fighting Saints, Alberta Oilers, and Sharks staged a season long see-saw battle for 2nd through 5th place, with only the top four making the playoffs (The Chicago Cougars finished in a distant 6th place).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095066-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Los Angeles Sharks season, Regular season\nThe Sharks strength was their defense, which ranked 3rd in the league. Bart Crashley, Gerry Odrowski, and Jim Watson anchored the blue line. George Gardner (GAA 3.30) was a capable #1 goalie for the first half of the season, while 32-year-old rookie Russ Gillow (2.91 GAA) took over the top spot for most of the second half. In fact, Gillow was second in the WHA to Gerry Cheevers in GAA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095066-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Los Angeles Sharks season, Regular season\nThe offense had quality but lacked depth. It was led by 43 goal scorer Gary Veneruzzo while Alton White was 2nd on the team in goals with 20. Veneruzzo also led the team in points with 73, followed by playmaking center J.P. LeBlanc (19 goals and 50 assists for 69 points), and defenseman Bart Crashley, who anchored the power play and chipped in 18 goals and 27 assists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095066-0004-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Los Angeles Sharks season, Regular season\nSharks special teams were solid, ranking 4th in the league in power play and 5th in penalty killing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095066-0005-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Los Angeles Sharks season, Regular season\nUltimately, the Sharks went 6\u20133\u20131 in their last 10 games, including winning their last two to climb from 5th place to 3rd.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095066-0006-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Los Angeles Sharks season, Playoffs\nThe Sharks' 3rd place finish enabled them to avoid a first round matchup with Bobby Hull's powerful Winnipeg Jets and earned them a series with the 2nd place Houston Aeros, who finished 2 points ahead of the Sharks in the standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095066-0007-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Los Angeles Sharks season, Playoffs\nAfter opening in Houston with an uninspired 7\u20132 loss, the Sharks bounced back to win game two by a 4\u20132 score. Heading back to L.A. with a split, the Sharks won a thrilling game three by a score of 3\u20132; goalie Russ Gillow made several spectacular saves to preserve the win. The turning point was game four. The clubs battled through regulation tied at 2; if the Sharks scored the next goal, they would have a commanding 3\u20131 series lead but if Houston scored, the series would be tied going back to Houston.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095066-0007-0001", "contents": "1972\u201373 Los Angeles Sharks season, Playoffs\nWinger Murray Hall scored for Houston, and the Sharks didn't win another game, losing game five 6\u20133 and game six, 3\u20132. After the series, coach Terry Slater was criticized for starting George Gardner in games 1 and 5 despite the fact Gillow played better the second half of the season. Gardner was pulled in game 1 (a 7\u20132 loss) and did not play well in game 5 (a 6\u20133 loss). Garnder's GAA for the series was 5.69 while Gillow's was 2.91. Slater stated he wanted the veteran Gardner to start game 1 over the rookie Gillow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095066-0008-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Los Angeles Sharks season, Player stats\nNote: Pos = Position; GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/- = plus/minus; PIM = Penalty minutes; PPG = Power-play goals; SHG = Short-handed goals; GWG = Game-winning goals\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0MIN = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; GA = Goals-against; GAA = Goals-against average; SO = Shutouts;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095066-0009-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Los Angeles Sharks season, Draft picks\n3rd round, 8th pick (32nd overall pick) \u2013 Robert Klein, D \u2013 Kamloops", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 46], "content_span": [47, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095067-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Luxembourg National Division\nThe 1972\u201373 Luxembourg National Division was the 59th season of top level association football in Luxembourg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095067-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Luxembourg National Division, Overview\nIt was performed in 12 teams, and Jeunesse Esch won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095068-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 MJHL season, Champion\nOn April 1, 1973, before a capacity crowd at St. James, the Portage Terriers captured the Turnbull Memorial Trophy as MJHL Champs. On April 18, 1973, the Terriers were declared winners of the Anavet Cup after the Humboldt Broncos of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League withdrew from the series. On May 3, 1973, in Portage, the Terriers won the Abbott Cup advancing to the national final by defeating the Penticton Broncos of the British Columbia Hockey League. At the Winnipeg Arena on May 14, 1973, the Portage Terriers were crowned national champs defeating the Pembroke Lumber Kings of the Central Junior A Hockey League to claim the Centennial Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 29], "content_span": [30, 684]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095068-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 MJHL season, League notes\nThe 1973 Portage Terriers were inducted into the Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095068-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 MJHL season, All-Star game\nOn February 3, the MJHL staged its Allstar game at Portage with the North Division whipping their South Division counterparts 3-0. Neither team was able to score in the close checking first period, the North went ahead 1-0 in the middle stanza and added two more goals in the final period. Scoring for the North were Murray Thompson, Randy Hextall, and Kelly Secord.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095069-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Macedonian Republic League\nThe 1972\u201373 Macedonian Republic League was the 29th since its establishment. FK Rabotnichki won their 8th championship title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095070-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Magyar Kupa\nThe 1972\u201373 Magyar Kupa (English: Hungarian Cup) was the 33rd season of Hungary's annual knock-out cup football competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095071-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Maltese Premier League\nThe 1972\u201373 Maltese First Division was the 58th season of top-tier football in Malta. It was contested by 10 teams, and Floriana F.C. won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095072-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Manchester United F.C. season\nThe 1972\u201373 season was Manchester United's 71st season in the Football League, and their 28th consecutive season in the top division of English football. For the first and only season United took part in the Anglo-Italian Cup, the 1973 version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095072-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Manchester United F.C. season\nIn September 1972, Frank O'Farrell signed Welsh international centre-forward Wyn Davies from Manchester City for a fee of \u00a360,000. The signing paid immediate dividends with Davies scoring on his United debut in a 3-0 win against Derby County. Shortly afterwards, O'Farrell paid Bournemouth, then in the Third Division, a reported \u00a3194,445 for the services of striker, Ted MacDougall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095072-0001-0001", "contents": "1972\u201373 Manchester United F.C. season\nDespite these signings, United's results were poor and on 19 December 1972, Frank O'Farrell was sacked as United manager following a 5\u20130 defeat at Crystal Palace that had left them in real danger of relegation, with little improvement having been made on United's dismal nine-match winless start to the league campaign. On the same day, the club's directors also announced that the errant George Best would not be playing for them again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095072-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Manchester United F.C. season\nThree days later Tommy Docherty was appointed as the new manager, after he resigned from the Scotland national team, and he guided United to survival. He also restored George Best to the team. Docherty's guided United to 18th place in the final table, after they managed seven league victories following his appointment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095072-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Manchester United F.C. season\nUnited struggled to find goals in the league, only managing 44 from 42 games, with Bobby Charlton - in his final season as a player before retiring - topping the club's goalscoring charts with a mere six goals in the First Division. Denis Law, who had rarely played this season, was given a free transfer at the end of the campaign after 11 years with the club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095073-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Mansfield Town F.C. season\nThe 1972\u201373 season was Mansfield Town's 36th season in the Football League and 4th in the Fourth Division, they finished in 6th position with 54 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095074-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Memphis State Tigers men's basketball team\nThe 1972\u201373 Memphis State Tigers men's basketball team represented Memphis State University as a member of the Missouri Valley Conference during the 1972\u201373 men's college basketball season. The team was led by third-year head coach Gene Bartow and played their home games at Mid-South Coliseum in Memphis, Tennessee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095074-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Memphis State Tigers men's basketball team\nAs MVC champions, the Tigers participated in the 1973 NCAA Tournament. They defeated South Carolina and Kansas State to reach the first Final Four in program history. After a win over Providence to reach the National Championship Game, Memphis State was defeated by unbeaten, 6-time defending National champion UCLA, 87\u201366. The team finished with a 24\u20136 record (12\u20132 MVC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095075-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Memphis Tams season\nThe 1972\u201373 Memphis Tams season was the 1st season of the Tams and 3rd overall season of American Basketball Association basketball in Memphis. After two seasons as the Memphis Pros with middling profits, Charles O. Finley bought the team on June 13, 1972. He proceeded to rebrand the team like his other teams that he had owned (the Oakland Athletics and the Oakland Seals), changing the colors of the team to Kelly Green, California Gold, and Polar Bear White.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095075-0000-0001", "contents": "1972\u201373 Memphis Tams season\nThe team's name was picked from an array of 20,000 postcards sent by fans, with the winner being given a $2,500 prize, which turned out to be Tams. Tams was meant to stand for the fans that resided in Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi, with a tam-o-shanter hat being the main logo. In fact during the first ever game on October 12, 1972, the entire team came out wearing the hats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095075-0000-0002", "contents": "1972\u201373 Memphis Tams season\nFinley also had a hand in the combinations of uniform colors worn, in part due to there every top and trunk being either green, gold, or white, with one notable combo being yellow tops with white trunks. For all of the flair the team had with uniforms, it did not translate into success on the court nor for attendance. By December, Finley tried to have negotiations to move the team to St. Paul, Minnesota, and Ron Franz was cut before Christmas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095075-0000-0003", "contents": "1972\u201373 Memphis Tams season\nThe Tams were 6th in points scored at 111.5 per game but were dead last in points allowed at 118.1 per game. They had two instances of 10 game losing streaks, with the Tams going a month between wins, losing 15 straight games from February 25 to March 24. By the time the streak ended, they had been eliminated from making the playoffs. They were the first team to lose 60 games since the Miami Floridians in 1969.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095075-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Memphis Tams season, Awards and honors\n1973 ABA All-Star Game selection (game played on February 6, 1973)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095076-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Mersin \u0130dmanyurdu season\nMersin \u0130dmanyurdu (also Mersin \u0130dman Yurdu, Mersin \u0130Y, or M\u0130Y) Sports Club; located in Mersin, east Mediterranean coast of Turkey in 1972\u201373. The 1972\u201373 season was the sixth season of Mersin \u0130dmanyurdu (M\u0130Y) football team in Turkish First Football League, the first level division in Turkey. They finished 11th in the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095076-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Mersin \u0130dmanyurdu season\nPresident was Mehmet Karamehmet. Vice president was Sezai Sak. General captain was Necati Bolkan. Governor of Mersin Bayram Turan\u00e7etin gave a speech before the game played on December 25, 1972, against MKE Ankarag\u00fcc\u00fc, inviting fans to support the team. Coach was Turgay \u015eeren. \u015eeren completed first half and resigned after a home lost against Eski\u015fehirspor on 17th round. Naz\u0131m Koka replaced him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095076-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Mersin \u0130dmanyurdu season\nIn Turkish Cup the team was eliminated to Gaziantepspor at 2nd round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095076-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Mersin \u0130dmanyurdu season, 1972\u201373 First League participation\nFirst League was played with 16 teams in its 16th season, 1972\u201373. Last two teams relegated to Second League 1973\u201374. Mersin \u0130Y became 11th with 8 wins. Zeki Temizer was the most scorer player with 8 goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 68], "content_span": [69, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095076-0004-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Mersin \u0130dmanyurdu season, 1972\u201373 First League participation, League table\nMersin \u0130Y's league performance in First League in 1972\u201373 season is shown in the following table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 82], "content_span": [83, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095076-0005-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Mersin \u0130dmanyurdu season, 1972\u201373 First League participation, League table\nNote: Won, drawn and lost points are 2, 1 and 0. F belongs to M\u0130Y and A belongs to corresponding team for both home and away matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 82], "content_span": [83, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095076-0006-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Mersin \u0130dmanyurdu season, 1972\u201373 First League participation, Results by round\nResults of games M\u0130Y played in 1972\u201373 First League by rounds:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 86], "content_span": [87, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095076-0007-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Mersin \u0130dmanyurdu season, 1972\u201373 Turkish Cup participation\n1972\u201373 Turkish Cup was played for the 11th season as T\u00fcrkiye Kupas\u0131 by 26 teams. Two elimination rounds and finals were played in two-legs elimination system. Mersin \u0130dmanyurdu participated in 1972\u201373 Turkish Cup from the first round and was eliminated at second round by Gaziantepspor. Gaziantepspor was eliminated at quarter-finals. Galatasaray won the Cup for the 5th time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 67], "content_span": [68, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095076-0008-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Mersin \u0130dmanyurdu season, 1972\u201373 Turkish Cup participation, Cup track\nThe drawings and results Mersin \u0130dmanyurdu (M\u0130Y) followed in 1972\u201373 Turkish Cup are shown in the following table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 78], "content_span": [79, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095076-0009-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Mersin \u0130dmanyurdu season, 1972\u201373 Turkish Cup participation, Game details\nMersin \u0130dmanyurdu (M\u0130Y) 1972\u201373 Turkish Cup game reports is shown in the following table. Kick off times are in EET and EEST.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 81], "content_span": [82, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095076-0010-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Mersin \u0130dmanyurdu season, 1972\u201373 squad\nStats are counted for 1972\u201373 First League matches and 1972\u201373 Turkish Cup (T\u00fcrkiye Kupas\u0131) matches. In the team rosters five substitutes were allowed to appear, two of whom were substitutable. Only the players who appeared in game rosters were included and listed in the order of appearance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095077-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Mexican Primera Divisi\u00f3n season\nStatistics of the Primera Divisi\u00f3n de M\u00e9xico for the 1972\u201373 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095077-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Mexican Primera Divisi\u00f3n season, Overview\nIt was contested by 18 teams, and Cruz Azul won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095077-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Mexican Primera Divisi\u00f3n season, Relegation Playoff, Relegation Final\nZacatepec won 1-0 in aggregate. Pachuca was relegated to Segunda Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 77], "content_span": [78, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095078-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Mexican Segunda Divisi\u00f3n season\nThe 1972\u201373 Segunda Divisi\u00f3n was the 24th season of the Mexican Segunda Divisi\u00f3n. The season started on 26 November 1972 and concluded on 5 July 1973. It was won by Ciudad Madero.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095078-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Mexican Segunda Divisi\u00f3n season\nAs of this season, the promotion playoff was established between the Second and Third Division. The penultimate and antepenultimate classified of this category had to play a series against the second and third place of the Third Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095079-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team\nThe 1972\u201373 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team represented Michigan State University in the 1972\u201373 NCAA Division I men's basketball season as members of the Big Ten Conference. They played their home games at Jenison Fieldhouse in East Lansing, Michigan and were coached by Gus Ganakas in his fourth year as head coach of the Spartans. They finished the season 13\u201311, 6\u20138 in Big Ten play to finish in a tie for sixth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095079-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team, Previous season\nThe Spartans finished the 1971\u201372 season 13\u201311, 6\u20138 in Big Ten play to finish in a tie for fifth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 70], "content_span": [71, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095080-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team\nThe 1972\u201373 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team represented the University of Michigan in intercollegiate college basketball during the 1972\u201373 season. The team played its home games in the Crisler Arena in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and was a member of the Big Ten Conference. Under the direction of head coach Johnny Orr, the team finished tied for sixth in the Big Ten Conference. The team failed to earn an invitation to either the 1978 National Invitation Tournament or the 1978 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament. The team was ranked in the Associated Press Top Twenty-Five Poll for three of the season's fifteen weeks, reaching a number 18 ranking on December 5, 1977, and falling out after the December 12, 1977, poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 786]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095080-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team, Team players drafted into the NBA\nSix players from this team were selected in the NBA Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 84], "content_span": [85, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095081-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Midland Football Combination\nThe 1972\u201373 Midland Football Combination season was the 36th in the history of Midland Football Combination, a football competition in England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095081-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Midland Football Combination, Division One\nDivision One featured 17 clubs which competed in the division last season along with one new club:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 50], "content_span": [51, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095082-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Midland Football League\nThe 1972\u201373 Midland Football League season was the 73rd in the history of the Midland Football League, a football competition in England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095082-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Midland Football League, Clubs\nThe league featured 15 clubs which competed in the previous season, along with three new clubs:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 38], "content_span": [39, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095083-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Milwaukee Bucks season\nThe 1972\u201373 NBA season was the Bucks' fifth season in the NBA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 93]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095084-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Minnesota Fighting Saints season\nThe 1972\u201373 Minnesota Fighting Saints season was their first season of operation in the newly created World Hockey Association (WHA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095084-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Minnesota Fighting Saints season, Playoffs\nThe Oilers and the Minnesota Fighting Saints were tied at the end of the season. They had the same number of victories and points, and they had both won four games against each other. Subsequently, it was decided that the two teams would play a one game playoff to decide the final spot in the playoffs, to be played in Calgary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095084-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Minnesota Fighting Saints season, Player stats\nNote: Pos = Position; GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/- = plus/minus; PIM = Penalty minutes; PPG = Power-play goals; SHG = Short-handed goals; GWG = Game-winning goals\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0MIN = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; GA = Goals-against; GAA = Goals-against average; SO = Shutouts;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 54], "content_span": [55, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095085-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Minnesota North Stars season\nThe 1972\u201373 Minnesota North Stars season was the North Stars' sixth season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095085-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Minnesota North Stars season\nCoached by Jack Gordon, the team compiled a record of 37\u201330\u201311 for 85 points, to finish the regular season 3rd in the West Division. In the playoffs they lost the quarter-finals 4\u20132 to the Philadelphia Flyers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095085-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Minnesota North Stars season, Draft picks\nMinnesota's draft picks at the 1972 NHL Amateur Draft held at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Quebec.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 49], "content_span": [50, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095086-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Montana Grizzlies basketball team\nThe 1972\u201373 Montana Grizzlies basketball team represented the University of Montana during the 1972\u201373 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. Charter members of the Big Sky Conference, the Grizzlies were led by second-year head coach Jud Heathcote and played their home games on campus at Dahlberg Arena in Missoula, Montana. They finished the regular season at 13\u201313, with a 7\u20137 conference record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095086-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Montana Grizzlies basketball team\nThe Big Sky conference tournament debuted three years later, in 1976.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095086-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Montana Grizzlies basketball team\nSenior guard Mike Murray was named to the all-conference team and was the conference runner-up in scoring.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095087-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Montenegrin Republic League\nThe 1972\u201373 Montenegrin Republic League was the 28th season of Montenegrin Republic League. The season started in August 1972 and finished in June 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095087-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Montenegrin Republic League, Season\nFor the first time in competition history, on season 1972\u201373, in Montenegrin Republic League participated 14 teams. Among the teams which didn't play on previous season was Iskra (relegated from Yugoslav Second League) and five best teams from Regional leagues - Mogren, Petrovac, De\u010di\u0107, Zeta and Jezero. After 26 weeks, the title won Iskra. Second-placed was Petrovac with one point less than title winner. But, due to changes in the system of Yugoslav Second League, which predicted two instead four groups from season 1973\u201374, no one was promoted to higher rank. Two lowest ranked teams - Mogren, Arsenal and De\u010di\u0107 were relegated to Regional leagues (fourth level).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 712]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095087-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Montenegrin Republic League, Higher leagues\nOn season 1972\u201373, seven Montenegrin teams played in higher leagues of SFR Yugoslavia. Sutjeska was a member of 1972\u201373 Yugoslav First League. Five other teams (Budu\u0107nost, Lov\u0107en, OFK Titograd, Bokelj, Rudar and Jedinstvo) participated in 1972\u201373 Yugoslav Second League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 51], "content_span": [52, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095088-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Montreal Canadiens season\nThe 1972\u201373 Montreal Canadiens season, the club's 64th season, led to the Canadiens winning their 18th Stanley Cup in club history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095088-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Montreal Canadiens season, Regular season\nRookie goalie Wayne Thomas left his mark in Canadiens history by becoming only the second goaltender in over 50 seasons to record a shutout (3\u20130) in his NHL debut against Vancouver on January 14, 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095088-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Montreal Canadiens season, Playoffs\nThe Canadiens met the Buffalo Sabres making their playoff debut in the first round, defeating the Sabres four games to two. In the second round, the Canadiens defeated the Philadelphia Flyers who had beaten the Minnesota North Stars, winning the series four games to one to advance to the finals against the Chicago Black Hawks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095088-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Montreal Canadiens season, Montreal Canadiens 1973 Stanley Cup champions, Players\n\u2020 left off cup, but included on the team picture.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 89], "content_span": [90, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095088-0004-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Montreal Canadiens season, Montreal Canadiens 1973 Stanley Cup champions, Stanley Cup engraving\nMurray Wilson's name was misspelled in 1973, 1976, 1977 as MURRY WILSON missing an \"A\". Murray Wilson was spelled correctly on the Stanley Cup in 1978. Wilson's name was also spelled correctly all 4 times on the Hockey Hall of Fame's Residential Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 103], "content_span": [104, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095088-0005-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Montreal Canadiens season, Montreal Canadiens 1973 Stanley Cup champions, Stanley Cup engraving\nOn the second model of the Stanley Cup created in 1992\u201393 Bob Murdoch's name was spelled BOB MURDOCK with a \"K\" instead of a \"H\". His name was correct on the original engraving in 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 103], "content_span": [104, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095088-0006-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Montreal Canadiens season, Draft picks\nMontreal's draft picks at the 1972 NHL Amateur Draft held at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Quebec.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 46], "content_span": [47, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095089-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Moroccan Throne Cup\nThe 1972\u201373 season of the Moroccan Throne Cup is the 17th edition of the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095089-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Moroccan Throne Cup\nFath Union Sport won the cup, beating Ittihad Khemisset 3\u20132 in the final, played for the first time at the Stade Al Inbia\u00e2te in Agadir. Fath Union Sport won the competition for the second time in their history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095089-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Moroccan Throne Cup, Tournament, Final\nThe final took place between the two winning semi-finalists, Fath Union Sport and Ittihad Khemisset, on 22 July 1973 at the Stade Al Inbia\u00e2te in Agadir.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095090-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Motherwell F.C. season\nThe 1972\u201373 season was Motherwell's 4th consecutive season in the top division of Scottish football after being promoted from the Scottish Second Division in 1969.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095091-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NBA season\nThe 1972\u201373 NBA season was the 27th season of the National Basketball Association. The season ended with the New York Knicks winning the NBA Championship, beating the Los Angeles Lakers 4 games to 1 in the NBA Finals. This would be Wilt Chamberlain's final season playing in the NBA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095091-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NBA season, Season recap, Setting the scene\nThis season began in the wake of the remarkable victory of the Los Angeles Lakers, who ended an agonizing decade of runner-up finishes with their first NBA title on the West Coast. It was also the first Laker title since George Mikan over fifteen years previous. The '71-'72 title had come after a tremendous Western Conference Finals with Milwaukee and their superstar center, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the former title-winning Lew Alcindor. A Laker and Bucks rematch in the playoffs figured to decide the next championship just as it had the last two. The East, clearly the dominant half of the league for so long, looked to be the weaker half again at the start of this season as they had the last two years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 51], "content_span": [52, 758]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095091-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NBA season, Season recap, Eastern Conference\nIt was the East that provided the season's top record. The Boston Celtics won 68 of 82 NBA games, one of the greatest records in history, two more than Milwaukee two years before, and just one less than Los Angeles the previous year. The new Celtics were a year older, with young star Dave Cowens at center and Jo Jo White as point guard. Cowens was the team's anchor at center, third in the league in both rebounds and minutes played while scoring 20.5 points per game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 52], "content_span": [53, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095091-0002-0001", "contents": "1972\u201373 NBA season, Season recap, Eastern Conference\nA physical, active defender as well, Cowens made NBA observers marvel at his energy level and intensity. At 6' 9, he cast a huge presence for his team. Longtime star John Havlicek was still the team's leader, leading the team in scoring, assists and steals. Along with Cowens up front, Boston had tabbed Paul Silas from Phoenix to take the load off of \"Hondo\" inside. The results included more shots tried and made, more rebounds and more assists than any other NBA team this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 52], "content_span": [53, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095091-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NBA season, Season recap, Eastern Conference\nIn the East, Boston drew an Atlanta team with 46 wins, led by high scorers Lou Hudson and Pete Maravich, who scored 29.7 and 26.2 points per game respectively. Richie Guerin was again the head coach with the small rotation of minutes. Boston jumped on them big early on to win the series four games to two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 52], "content_span": [53, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095091-0004-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NBA season, Season recap, Eastern Conference\nJust under the radar was another tough New York \u2013 Baltimore matchup. Both teams had over 50 wins and looked very comparable. Baltimore had added big man Elvin Hayes to help Wes Unseld on the boards and Archie Clark in the scoring column. Yet the Knicks, with 57 wins, did not play around with the Bullets, winning the series 4-1. The Knicks, with three key big men well past age 30, were supporting All-Pro guard Walt Frazier this year in hopes of one last shot at the top themselves. They again had the league's top defense. Now another hotly debated Boston-New York matchup loomed in the East final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 52], "content_span": [53, 654]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095091-0005-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NBA season, Season recap, Eastern Conference\nBoston was again the favorite over New York, though many still remembered New York's underdog romp the year before. Leaving little to chance, Boston pounded them 134-109 at home in Game One. New York repaid the favor in Game Two, 129-96. Then, the Knicks stole one in Boston before a double-overtime contest in Game Four at Madison Square Garden. New York hung on to win that as well. New York was up 3\u20131, but coach Tom Heinsohn's team rallied to win a one-pointer in Game Five, and then Game Six to force a seventh game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 52], "content_span": [53, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095091-0005-0001", "contents": "1972\u201373 NBA season, Season recap, Eastern Conference\nBut John Havlicek had a badly injured shoulder, playing with a sling and was now shooting left-handed. Because of Havlicek's injury, New York easily handled Boston to complete the series victory, becoming the 1st NBA road team to win Game 7 after leading series 3\u20131. It was a tough break for Havlicek, who would burn to return the following year, while New York was back in the NBA Finals for the third time in four years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 52], "content_span": [53, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095091-0006-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NBA season, Season recap, Western Conference\nThe Lakers got another rebounding title from Wilt Chamberlain, the eleventh of his colossal career. Wilt also sank an unreal 72.7% of his shots, though he continued to shoot less and less. Chamberlain averaged 13.2 points per game, a far cry from his 50 points per game twelve years before. However, Wilt knew he was part of a team concept that was a proven winner. Jerry West and Gail Goodrich were the scorers again, with Jim McMillian the ready third threat. The Lakers lost key rebounder Happy Hairston after 28 games, but brought over rebounding legend Bill Bridges from crumbling Philadelphia. The Lakers eventually won 60 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 52], "content_span": [53, 689]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095091-0007-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NBA season, Season recap, Western Conference\nMilwaukee got another huge year from Abdul-Jabbar, who looked again to be the NBA's top player. His 30.2 points per game were second in the league, and he was fourth in rebounds. Only one player, Kansas City's Nate Archibald, scored more points. Only two, Archibald and Seattle's Spencer Haywood, tried more shots. But Abdul-Jabbar sank 55% of his shots, tops among high-scoring NBA shooters, and likely again blocked more shots than any big man in the league. The seven footer also added five assists per game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 52], "content_span": [53, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095091-0007-0001", "contents": "1972\u201373 NBA season, Season recap, Western Conference\nA balanced cast of Bucks supported Abdul-Jabbar en route to another 60-win campaign, their third straight. But both teams were showing some gray streaks as West, Chamberlain, and Oscar Robertson, all all-time greats, were each clearly approaching the end of remarkable careers. The three 60-win monsters drew most of the attention as playoff time arrived, which again rigidly followed the NBA's four divisions. All of the NBA's eight winning teams neatly made the field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 52], "content_span": [53, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095091-0008-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NBA season, Season recap, Western Conference\nLos Angeles would again turn away a solid Dick Motta coached Chicago club. The series went the full seven games, which showed the Lakers had clearly dropped a couple notches. Game one had been an overtime affair, while LA needed their fourth home game to win Game Seven 95-92. Chicago, like Baltimore and Atlanta, had become the solid second-tier team that could not get past the giants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 52], "content_span": [53, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095091-0009-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NBA season, Season recap, Western Conference\nMilwaukee looked to be that fourth giant as they met the 47-win Golden State Warriors. Nate Thurmond wanted to prove he could defend the league's best center and he surely did, dropping Abdul-Jabbar's scoring by eight points and shooting by 12% in the series. Rick Barry had finally rejoined his NBA team from five years ago also, and Clyde Lee starred as well helping Thurmond to a 4\u20132 series win that wasn't really very close. Game Six ended 100\u201386. Milwaukee's Robertson saw a solid series fall short.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 52], "content_span": [53, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095091-0010-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NBA season, Season recap, Western Conference\nMeanwhile, Los Angeles was resting, having used three 20-point scorers and Chamberlain's dominance inside to brush off Golden State 4-1. Al Attles' Warriors may still have been celebrating their win over Milwaukee. Game Three was a huge 126-70 Laker win in Oakland. The Warriors won Game Four, but all it did was force the series back to Southern California, where the Lakers clinched in Game Five.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 52], "content_span": [53, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095091-0011-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NBA season, Season recap, The NBA Finals\nThe NBA had their third New York \u2013 Los Angeles matchup in four years, which marked this remarkable period in media attention. Chamberlain was the giant favorite again at age 36, a role which rarely suited him. Meanwhile, New York used a tandem at center. Thick Willis Reed, sore knees and all, had been kept fresh for the playoffs thanks to Jerry Lucas, primarily a center once again. The two had come to be known as 'Willis Lucas' averaging 22 points and 15 rebounds a game combined during the year. Neither were great shot blockers but both were smart, tough and unselfish, a trait also shared by forward Dave DeBusschere, who was still a very key part of the Knicks success.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 48], "content_span": [49, 727]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095091-0012-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NBA season, Season recap, The NBA Finals\nLike Robertson, Jerry West reached for the greatness of years past and found some of it gone forever. Earl Monroe eagerly gave Gail Goodrich a better match this time as well. Chamberlain chose not to shoot again, scoring just 10.4 per game in the playoffs for another enigmatic performance that again gave his opponents their opening.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 48], "content_span": [49, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095091-0013-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NBA season, Season recap, The NBA Finals\nLos Angeles edged out a win in Game One at home. After that, the team concept of New York took over to win the remaining four games. It was clearly revenge for the year before. In a year highlighted by the graying of some of the game's greatest players, New York's three big men had keyed an impressive title run past tough rivals and two 60-win teams to cap impressive careers. For Chamberlain and West, it was one more runner-up finish for the road.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 48], "content_span": [49, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095091-0014-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NBA season, NBA awards\nNote: All information on this page were obtained on the History section on", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095092-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NCAA College Division men's ice hockey season\nThe 1972\u201373 NCAA College Division men's ice hockey season began in November 1972 and concluded in March of the following year. This was the 9th season of second-tier college ice hockey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095093-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NCAA University Division men's basketball rankings\nThe 1972\u201373 NCAA University Division men's basketball rankings was made up of two human polls, the AP Poll and the Coaches Poll, in addition to various other preseason polls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095094-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NCAA University Division men's basketball season\nThe 1972\u201373 NCAA University Division men's basketball season began in November 1972, progressed through the regular season and conference tournaments, and concluded with the 1973 NCAA University Division Basketball Tournament Championship Game on March 26, 1973, at St. Louis Arena in St. Louis, Missouri. The UCLA Bruins won their ninth NCAA national championship with an 87\u201366 victory over the Memphis State Tigers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095094-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NCAA University Division men's basketball season, Season outlook, Pre-season polls\nThe Top 20 from the AP Poll and Coaches Poll during the pre-season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 90], "content_span": [91, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095094-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NCAA University Division men's basketball season, Coaching changes\nA number of teams changed coaches during the season and after it ended.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 74], "content_span": [75, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095095-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NCAA University Division men's ice hockey season\nThe 1972\u201373 NCAA University Division men's ice hockey season began in November 1972 and concluded with the 1973 NCAA University Division Men's Ice Hockey Tournament's championship game on March 17, 1973 at the Boston Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. This was the 26th season in which an NCAA ice hockey championship was held and is the 78th year overall where an NCAA school fielded a team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095095-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NCAA University Division men's ice hockey season\nAfter the season Denver's participation in the NCAA tournament was vacated due to violations of NCAA regulations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095095-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NCAA University Division men's ice hockey season\nAfter the season Army was classified as a Division II squad as part of the NCAA's numerical classification system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095095-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NCAA University Division men's ice hockey season\nLake Superior State began to sponsor their ice hockey program and the team was promptly admitted into the CCHA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095095-0004-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NCAA University Division men's ice hockey season, Regular season, Season tournaments\n\u2020Boston University won the tournament but was forced to forfeit each of the three games played after the conclusion of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 92], "content_span": [93, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095095-0005-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NCAA University Division men's ice hockey season, 1973 NCAA Tournament\nNote: * denotes overtime period(s)Note: \u2020 Denver's participation was later vacated due to NCAA violations", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 78], "content_span": [79, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095095-0006-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NCAA University Division men's ice hockey season, Player stats, Scoring leaders\nThe following players led the league in points at the conclusion of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 87], "content_span": [88, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095095-0007-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NCAA University Division men's ice hockey season, Player stats, Scoring leaders\nGP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalty minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 87], "content_span": [88, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095095-0008-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NCAA University Division men's ice hockey season, Player stats, Leading goaltenders\nThe following goaltenders led the league in goals against average at the end of the regular season while playing at least 33% of their team's total minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 91], "content_span": [92, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095095-0009-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NCAA University Division men's ice hockey season, Player stats, Leading goaltenders\nGP = Games played; Min = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; OT = Overtime/shootout losses; GA = Goals against; SO = Shutouts; SV% = Save percentage; GAA = Goals against average", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 91], "content_span": [92, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095096-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NFL playoffs\nThe National Football League playoffs for the 1972 season began on December 23, 1972. The postseason tournament concluded with the Miami Dolphins defeating the Washington Redskins in Super Bowl VII, 14\u20137, on January 14, 1973, at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California, becoming the only NFL team to finish a championship season undefeated and untied.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095096-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NFL playoffs\nLike the previous NFL seasons, the home teams in the playoffs were decided based on a yearly divisional rotation, excluding the wild card teams who would always play on the road and would not play against their own division champion in the playoffs unless they both made it to the Conference Championship, they would not be paired with each other in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095096-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NFL playoffs, Participants\nWithin each conference, the three division winners and one wild card team (the top non-division winner with the best overall records of all remaining teams in the conference) qualified for the playoffs. The NFL did not use a seeding system until the 1975 season, and instead home teams during the first two rounds of the playoffs alternated by division. Thus it was possible for a team to host another club with a better regular season record. For the Super Bowl, the third and final round played at a neutral site, the designated home team was based on an annual rotation by conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 622]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095096-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NFL playoffs, Schedule\nIn the United States, CBS televised the NFC playoff games, while NBC broadcast the AFC games and Super Bowl VII.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095096-0004-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, December 23, 1972, AFC: Pittsburgh Steelers 13, Oakland Raiders 7\nSteelers fullback Franco Harris scored the winning touchdown on what became known as the Immaculate Reception. In a game that was mostly dominated by defense, the contest remained scoreless throughout the first half. On the opening drive of the second half, Pittsburgh drove 67 yards to take a 3\u20130 lead on Roy Gerela's 18-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 118], "content_span": [119, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095096-0004-0001", "contents": "1972\u201373 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, December 23, 1972, AFC: Pittsburgh Steelers 13, Oakland Raiders 7\nFollowing two Raiders drives that were shut down by Jack Ham's interception and a fumble recovery by Glen Edwards, Steelers defensive back Mike Wagner fell on a fumble by quarterback Ken Stabler (who had replaced injured starter Daryle Lamonica earlier in the game) at the Oakland 35. Five plays later, Gerela kicked a 29-yard field goal that gave Pittsburgh a 6\u20130 lead in the fourth quarter. Stabler responded by leading his team 80 yards to score on a 30-yard touchdown run with 1:13 left in the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 118], "content_span": [119, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095096-0005-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, December 23, 1972, AFC: Pittsburgh Steelers 13, Oakland Raiders 7\nFacing fourth and ten on their own 40-yard line with 22 seconds left, Steelers quarterback Terry Bradshaw threw the ball toward running back John \"Frenchy\" Fuqua. But the pass bounced off Raiders safety Jack Tatum and was caught by Harris, who then ran the rest of the way downfield to score a 60-yard touchdown that gave the Steelers a 12\u20137 lead with five seconds left in the game. The play was controversial, as Tatum insisted the ball had bounced off Fuqua, not himself, which would have made the reception illegal under the rules of the time. Replays showing the play are inconclusive as to which player touched the ball (or if both of them did)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 118], "content_span": [119, 768]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095096-0006-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, December 23, 1972, AFC: Pittsburgh Steelers 13, Oakland Raiders 7\nHarris was the sole offensive star of the game, rushing for 64 yards and catching 4 passes for 96 yards and a touchdown. The Raiders managed just 216 yards and started 8 of their 12 drives inside their own 22-yard line, mainly due to excellent punting from Pittsburgh's Bobby Walden, who averaged over 48 yards per punt on his 6 kicks and set AFC playoff records with punts of 62 and 59 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 118], "content_span": [119, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095096-0007-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, December 23, 1972, AFC: Pittsburgh Steelers 13, Oakland Raiders 7\nThis was the first postseason meeting between the Raiders and Steelers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 118], "content_span": [119, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095096-0008-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, December 23, 1972, NFC: Dallas Cowboys 30, San Francisco 49ers 28\nBackup quarterback Roger Staubach led the Cowboys to score 17 unanswered points in the fourth quarter to overcome a 28\u201313 San Francisco lead and five turnovers. This was the third consecutive year Dallas eliminated San Francisco from the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 118], "content_span": [119, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095096-0009-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, December 23, 1972, NFC: Dallas Cowboys 30, San Francisco 49ers 28\nThe 49ers jumped to a 7\u20130 early lead when Vic Washington returned the opening kickoff 97 yards for a touchdown. Dallas cut the deficit to 7\u20133 with kicker Toni Fritsch's 37-yard field goal. In the second quarter, 49ers receiver Gene Washington's 52-yard reception moved the ball deep into Dallas territory, only to have Cowboys cornerback Charlie Waters end the drive with an interception on the 1-yard line. But shortly after the turnover, Dallas quarterback Craig Morton lost a fumble while being hit by Windlan Hall and Tommy Hart, which linebacker Ed Beard recovered on the Cowboys 15-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 118], "content_span": [119, 717]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095096-0009-0001", "contents": "1972\u201373 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, December 23, 1972, NFC: Dallas Cowboys 30, San Francisco 49ers 28\nThis led to Larry Schreiber's 1-yard touchdown run, making the score 14\u20133. Later in the quarter, Morton was intercepted by linebacker Skip Vanderbundt on the Dallas 32, setting up Schreiber's second rushing touchdown that increased the lead to 21\u20133. But Morton rallied his team back with 10 unanswered points, Fritsch's 45-yard field goal and Lance Alworth's 28-yard touchdown reception, cutting the deficit to 21\u201313.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 118], "content_span": [119, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095096-0010-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, December 23, 1972, NFC: Dallas Cowboys 30, San Francisco 49ers 28\nIn the second half, the Niners blew a chance to increase their lead when Bruce Gossett missed a 40-yard field goal attempt, but then got the ball back on Vanderbundt's second interception. Dallas managed to force a punt, which Jim McCann sent out of bounds at the Cowboys 5-yard line. A few plays later, defensive tackle Charlie Krueger stripped the ball from running back Calvin Hill on the 1 and the 49ers recovered, leading to Schreiber's third 1-yard touchdown run giving his team a commanding 28\u201313 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 118], "content_span": [119, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095096-0011-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, December 23, 1972, NFC: Dallas Cowboys 30, San Francisco 49ers 28\nShortly before the end of the third quarter, coach Tom Landry replaced Morton with Roger Staubach, but it didn't seem to help. On his first drive, Staubach lost a fumble while being tackled by Bob Hoskins. San Francisco was in prime position to put the game away with another score, but they couldn't get the ball into the end zone and Gossett missed a 32-yard field goal attempt, causing a huge reversal of momentum. Now with the ball, Hill ripped off a 48-yard gain on a draw play to set up Fritsch's 27-yard field goal, trimming the lead to 28\u201316.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 118], "content_span": [119, 669]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095096-0011-0001", "contents": "1972\u201373 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, December 23, 1972, NFC: Dallas Cowboys 30, San Francisco 49ers 28\nLater in the quarter, a poor punt from McCann gave Dallas the ball at the 49ers 45-yard line. Staubach then led the team to the end zone, completing two passes to fullback Walt Garrison for 16 yards and two more to Billy Parks, the second a 20-yard touchdown completion to cut the score to 28\u201323 with less than two minutes left.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 118], "content_span": [119, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095096-0012-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, December 23, 1972, NFC: Dallas Cowboys 30, San Francisco 49ers 28\nWith time running out, Dallas had to attempt an onside kick. 49ers receiver Preston Riley briefly handled the ball, but couldn't hang on and it was recovered by Cowboys defensive back Mel Renfro. On the first play after the recovery, Staubach gained 21 yards on a quarterback scramble. Then he found Parks for a 19-yard gain before running out of bounds at the San Francisco 10-yard line. On the next play, Staubach threw a 10-yard touchdown pass to receiver Ron Sellers, giving Dallas a 30\u201328 lead with just 52 seconds left.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 118], "content_span": [119, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095096-0012-0001", "contents": "1972\u201373 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, December 23, 1972, NFC: Dallas Cowboys 30, San Francisco 49ers 28\nHowever, the 49ers were not quite out of the game. Needing only a field goal to win, Brodie completed three consecutive passes, but a 23-yard completion to Riley that would have put the 49ers in field goal range was eliminated by a holding penalty, and Brodie was intercepted by Waters on the next play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 118], "content_span": [119, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095096-0013-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, December 23, 1972, NFC: Dallas Cowboys 30, San Francisco 49ers 28\nThis game would mark the end of the four-year battle for the starting quarterback position on Dallas between Morton and Staubach. With his outstanding performance of 12/20 completions for 172 yards and 2 touchdowns, with no interceptions and 23 rushing yards in just over one quarter of play, Staubach became the Cowboys' permanent starter and would not relinquish the position until the end of his career after the 1979 season, while Morton was traded to the New York Giants in 1974 and later became the starting quarterback of the Denver Broncos. Morton and Staubach would later meet again and face off against each other in Super Bowl XII. The 49ers would not return to postseason play until 1981.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 118], "content_span": [119, 819]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095096-0014-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, December 23, 1972, NFC: Dallas Cowboys 30, San Francisco 49ers 28\nDallas' comeback from an 18-point deficit was the second largest comeback in NFL postseason history at the time. The Cowboys outgained the 49ers in total yards 402\u2013255, and first downs 22\u201313, although they lost five turnovers and their quarterbacks were sacked five times. Brodie was not sacked at all. Hill finished the game with a career postseason high 125 rushing yards, and one reception for six yards. Parks caught 7 passes for 136 yards. Vic Washington had 200 all-purpose yards (3 KR for 136 yards, 56 rushing yards, 1 rec for 8 yards) Defensive end Cedrick Hardman had 3.5 sacks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 118], "content_span": [119, 707]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095096-0015-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, December 23, 1972, NFC: Dallas Cowboys 30, San Francisco 49ers 28\nThis was the third overall postseason meeting, and third such meeting in as many years between the Cowboys and 49ers. Both previous meetings had been in the NFC Championship Game, and were both won by Dallas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 118], "content_span": [119, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095096-0016-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Sunday, December 24, 1972, NFC: Washington Redskins 16, Green Bay Packers 3\nUsing a five-man defensive line, the Redskins limited the Packers to only a field goal and held Green Bay running back John Brockington (who rushed for 1,027 yards during the season) to just 9 yards on 13 carries. Meanwhile, Washington kicker Curt Knight scored 3 field goals, while running back Larry Brown, who had missed the last two games of the season with a knee injury, returned to rush for 101 yards, his 7th 100-yard game of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 118], "content_span": [119, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095096-0017-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Sunday, December 24, 1972, NFC: Washington Redskins 16, Green Bay Packers 3\nThe Packers scored first on Chester Marcol's 17-yard field goal in the second quarter. But then Redskins quarterback Billy Kilmer threw a 32-yard touchdown pass to Roy Jefferson. With 33 seconds left in the first half, Knight kicked a 42-yard field goal to give Washington a 10\u20133 halftime lead. The Redskins then dominated the second half, with Knight adding two more field goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 118], "content_span": [119, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095096-0018-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Sunday, December 24, 1972, NFC: Washington Redskins 16, Green Bay Packers 3\nThis was the second postseason meeting between the Packers and Redskins. Green Bay won the only prior meeting when the Redskins were based in Boston.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 118], "content_span": [119, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095096-0019-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Sunday, December 24, 1972, AFC: Miami Dolphins 20, Cleveland Browns 14\nDespite being 13-point favorites, Miami found themselves trailing 14-13 midway through the 4th quarter due to a Browns touchdown drive. The Dolphins proved up to the challenge, as they responded by driving 80 yards to retake the lead on an 8-yard rushing touchdown by Jim Kiick with less than 5 minutes left in regulation to keep the Dolphins' hopes alive for an undefeated season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 113], "content_span": [114, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095096-0020-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Sunday, December 24, 1972, AFC: Miami Dolphins 20, Cleveland Browns 14\nAfter punting on their opening drive, Miami got an early scoring opportunity when linebacker Doug Swift intercepted a pass from Browns quarterback Mike Phipps, giving the Dolphins a first down on the Browns 40-yard line. But Miami could only gain 1 yard over the next three plays and failed to score when Garo Yepremian missed a 46-yard field goal attempt. Their first score would come later, when Charlie Babb blocked a Cleveland punt, picked it up, and returned it for a touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 113], "content_span": [114, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095096-0020-0001", "contents": "1972\u201373 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Sunday, December 24, 1972, AFC: Miami Dolphins 20, Cleveland Browns 14\nFollowing another Cleveland punt, Miami increased their lead to 10-0 by driving 51 yards, featuring a 21-yard run by receiver Paul Warfield on an end around play, and scoring on Yepremian's 40-yard field goal. Cleveland responded with a pair of runs for 32 total yards by Bo Scott and a 25-yard scramble by Phipps, giving the team a first down on the Dolphins 25-yard line. But once again they failed to score as the drive ended with an interception by Dolphins cornerback Curtis Johnson, who returned the ball 33 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 113], "content_span": [114, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095096-0021-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Sunday, December 24, 1972, AFC: Miami Dolphins 20, Cleveland Browns 14\nUltimately, there would be no scoring in the second quarter, despite numerous chances for Miami. All the Dolphins got out of Johnson's interception return was a missed 53-yard field goal attempt by Yepremian. Later on, Browns punter Don Cockroft fumbled a high snap and was downed on the Cleveland 39 after he recovered the ball. But after a 15-yard holding penalty, a 9-yard loss on a sack by Browns lineman Walter Johnson, and a 12-yard loss on a run by Mercury Morris, the Dolphins found themselves pushed well out of scoring range. Miami defensive back Dick Anderson later intercepted a pass from Phipps, but Yepremian's eventual field goal attempt was eliminated by a penalty on the last play of the first half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 113], "content_span": [114, 830]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095096-0022-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Sunday, December 24, 1972, AFC: Miami Dolphins 20, Cleveland Browns 14\nCleveland finally got on the board on their second drive of the third quarter, following a 38-yard punt return by Thom Darden that gave the team a first down on the Dolphins 44-yard line. Phipps completed a 21-yard pass to tight end Milt Morin on the first play, and eventually finished the drive with a 5-yard touchdown run, making the score 10\u20137. Kiick racked up 26 yards on 4 carries on Miami's ensuing drive, but on his 5th carry, he lost a fumble that was recovered by Browns linebacker Charlie Hall. Following a Browns punt, Kiick picked up 12 yards on two carries, while Morris rushed twice for 24 yards to set up Yepremian's 46-yard field goal, increasing Miami's lead to 13\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 113], "content_span": [114, 799]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095096-0023-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Sunday, December 24, 1972, AFC: Miami Dolphins 20, Cleveland Browns 14\nOn the Browns ensuing drive, Phipps picked up 14 yards on a scramble and then completed an 18-yard pass to receiver Fair Hooker on a drive to the Dolphins 38. Anderson initially shut down the drive with an interception, but he fumbled the ball during the return, and Hooker recovered it for Cleveland on the Miami 30-yard line. Two plays later, Phipps completed a 27-yard touchdown pass to Hooker, giving the Browns their first lead of the game, 14\u201313, just under seven minutes into the fourth quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 113], "content_span": [114, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095096-0024-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Sunday, December 24, 1972, AFC: Miami Dolphins 20, Cleveland Browns 14\nWith their undefeated season on the line, Miami responded by driving 80 yards in six plays for the game winning score. Quarterback Earl Morrall completed passes to Warfield for gains of 15 and 35 yards, while Morris added a 12-yard carry. A pass interference penalty on linebacker Bill Andrews gave the Dolphins a first down on Cleveland's 8-yard line, and Kiick scored the go-ahead touchdown run on the next play, giving Miami a 20\u201314 lead with 4:49 left in the game. Cleveland had two more chances to mount a comeback, but their first drive resulted in a punt, and on their final drive, Doug Swift recorded his second interception of the game, enabling Miami to run out the clock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 113], "content_span": [114, 796]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095096-0025-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Sunday, December 24, 1972, AFC: Miami Dolphins 20, Cleveland Browns 14\nMiami intercepted 5 of Phipps' passes and amassed 198 rushing yards. Neither team's quarterback had much success. Phipps completed just 9 of 23 passes for 131 yards and one touchdown, while Morrall completed only 6/13 passes for 88 yards. Scott was the Browns top performer with 94 rushing yards and 4 receptions for 30. \u201cThe best thing for us was to get behind,\u201d said Miami fullback Larry Csonka after the game. \u201cIt got very quiet and somebody said \u2018If we\u2019re gonna get anything done, now\u2019s the time to do it\u2019. It got done.\u201d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 113], "content_span": [114, 638]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095096-0026-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Sunday, December 24, 1972, AFC: Miami Dolphins 20, Cleveland Browns 14\nThis was the first postseason meeting between the Browns and Dolphins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 113], "content_span": [114, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095096-0027-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, December 31, 1972, AFC: Miami Dolphins 21, Pittsburgh Steelers 17\nThe Dolphins continued their unbeaten streak as quarterback Bob Griese, who had not started a game since week 5, took over the starting spot and led the team to two touchdowns in the second half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 121], "content_span": [122, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095096-0028-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, December 31, 1972, AFC: Miami Dolphins 21, Pittsburgh Steelers 17\nThings started well for Pittsburgh as safety Glen Edwards intercepted a pass from Earl Morrall on the opening drive and returned it 28 yards to the Dolphins 48. Steelers running back Franco Harris subsequently gained 35 yards on 7 carries as the team drove to a third and 2 on the Miami 3-yard line. On the next play, Pittsburgh quarterback Terry Bradshaw fumbled the ball as he tried to run into the end zone, but offensive lineman Gerry Mullins recovered it for a touchdown, giving the Steelers an early 7\u20130 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 121], "content_span": [122, 638]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095096-0028-0001", "contents": "1972\u201373 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, December 31, 1972, AFC: Miami Dolphins 21, Pittsburgh Steelers 17\nUnfortunately for the Steelers, Bradshaw was injured on the play and did not return until the fourth quarter. The Dolphins tied the game after punter Larry Seiple's 37-yard run on a fake punt set up Morrall's 9-yard touchdown pass to fullback Larry Csonka. The score would remain tied 7\u20137 at the end of the first half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 121], "content_span": [122, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095096-0029-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, December 31, 1972, AFC: Miami Dolphins 21, Pittsburgh Steelers 17\nOn the opening drive of the third quarter, Steelers quarterback Terry Hanratty completed passes to John McMakin and Ron Shanklin for gains of 22 and 24 yards, while John Fuqua added 24 yards on a draw play as the team drove to a 14-yard field goal by Roy Gerela, putting them up 10\u20137. At this point, Bob Griese, who had been sidelined with a broken leg for 10 weeks, replaced Morrall and threw a 52-yard completion to Paul Warfield on his first pass attempt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 121], "content_span": [122, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095096-0029-0001", "contents": "1972\u201373 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, December 31, 1972, AFC: Miami Dolphins 21, Pittsburgh Steelers 17\nMiami also caught a break on the drive when an offsides penalty against Pittsburgh wiped out an interception by linebacker Jack Ham. Eventually, Jim Kiick finished the 11-play, 80-yard drive with a 2-yard touchdown run, giving the Dolphins their first lead at 14\u201310. Near the end of the third quarter, Seiple's 33-yard punt gave Pittsburgh a first down on the Miami 48. Harris ran for 7 yards on the first play, but this was followed by two incompletions and Gerela's 48-yard field goal attempt was blocked.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 121], "content_span": [122, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095096-0030-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, December 31, 1972, AFC: Miami Dolphins 21, Pittsburgh Steelers 17\nTaking over on the Steelers' 49 after the blocked field goal, the Dolphins drove 49 yards on an 11-play drive that only had one pass play. Kiick finished it off with a 3-yard touchdown run, giving Miami a 21-10 fourth quarter lead. However, Bradshaw returned to the game for the Steelers' next drive and quickly led them to a score. He started the drive with a 9-yard pass to tight end Larry Brown, and followed it up with consecutive 25-yard completions to Al Young and Shanklin. On the fourth play of the possession, he threw a 12-yard touchdown pass to Young, cutting the score to 21\u201317. But on Pittsburgh's last two drives, he threw interceptions to Miami linebackers Nick Buoniconti and Mike Kolen, enabling the Dolphins to run out the rest of the clock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 121], "content_span": [122, 881]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095096-0031-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, December 31, 1972, AFC: Miami Dolphins 21, Pittsburgh Steelers 17\nThis was the first postseason meeting between the Dolphins and Steelers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 121], "content_span": [122, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095096-0032-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, December 31, 1972, NFC: Washington Redskins 26, Dallas Cowboys 3\nCharley Taylor led the Redskins to the victory by recording 7 receptions for 146 yards and 2 touchdowns. Washington massively outgained Dallas in total yards (316\u2013169), first downs (16\u20138), and third-down conversions (10/18\u20133/12), while holding them to a single field goal and shutting them out in the second half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 120], "content_span": [121, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095096-0033-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, December 31, 1972, NFC: Washington Redskins 26, Dallas Cowboys 3\nHowever, the game seemed close before the final period. Washington took the opening kickoff and drove to the Cowboys 31-yard line, but Larry Brown lost a fumble there and safety Cliff Harris recovered the ball. However, Dallas fared no better, and ended up running just six plays in the entire quarter. Following a punt, Washington scored on a 13-play, 9-minute drive, with Brown rushing for 31 yards and catching a pass for 9. Curt Knight finished the drive with an 18-yard field goal in the second quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 120], "content_span": [121, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095096-0033-0001", "contents": "1972\u201373 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, December 31, 1972, NFC: Washington Redskins 26, Dallas Cowboys 3\nLater on, Redskins quarterback Billy Kilmer smoked the Cowboys with a 51-yard completion to Taylor, and eventually scored on a 15-yard touchdown pass to Taylor that gave his team a 10\u20130 lead. Near the end of the half, Dallas quarterback Roger Staubach's 29-yard run set up a Toni Fritsch field goal from 35 yards, cutting the score to 10\u20133. Fritsch later got another attempt on the last play before halftime, but missed a 23-yard attempt, his first miss of the season from under 30 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 120], "content_span": [121, 609]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095096-0034-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, December 31, 1972, NFC: Washington Redskins 26, Dallas Cowboys 3\nThe third quarter was scoreless, with Dallas unable to move the ball past their own 30-yard line, but they still had a few chances to score. At one point, Kilmer fumbled the ball at his own 32-yard line, and it rolled all the way back to the 18, but Washington recovered it. Mike Bragg's ensuing punt went 36 yards to the Dallas 44, but defensive back Charlie Waters lost five yards while attempting a return and a clipping penalty cost them another 15, pushing the Cowboys all the way back to the 24. To make matters worse, Waters (who was a starter on defense) suffered a broken arm on the play and had to miss the rest of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 120], "content_span": [121, 755]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095096-0035-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, December 31, 1972, NFC: Washington Redskins 26, Dallas Cowboys 3\nTaylor had already had an excellent game while being covered by Waters, and now that he was matched up against second stringer Mark Washington, Kilmer sensed a huge opportunity to break the game open. On their next drive, he completed four passes, the last a 45-yard touchdown bomb to Taylor on the second play of the fourth quarter, increasing Washington's lead to 17\u20133. The Redskins then dominated the rest of the game, scoring with field goals from Knight on each of their next three drives to make the final score 26\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 120], "content_span": [121, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095096-0036-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, December 31, 1972, NFC: Washington Redskins 26, Dallas Cowboys 3\nKnight had a dismal season, making just 14 of 30 field goal attempts, but he had proven to be unusually effective in the playoffs, making all three of his kicks against Green Bay in the divisional round. On this day, he came through with another big performance, finishing a perfect 4/4 by making his final three field goals from 39, 46, and 45 yards. Kilmer also had one of the best performances of his career, completing 14 of 18 passes for 194 yards and two touchdowns with no interceptions, while also rushing for 15 yards. Brown was the top rusher of the game with 88 yards, and caught 2 passes for 16. Staubach completed just 9 of 20 passes for 98 yards, and was the Cowboys leading rusher with 5 carries for 59 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 120], "content_span": [121, 845]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095096-0037-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, December 31, 1972, NFC: Washington Redskins 26, Dallas Cowboys 3\nThis was the first postseason meeting between the Cowboys and Redskins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 120], "content_span": [121, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095096-0038-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NFL playoffs, Super Bowl VII: Miami Dolphins 14, Washington Redskins 7\nThis was the first Super Bowl meeting between the Dolphins and Redskins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 78], "content_span": [79, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095097-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NHL season\nThe 1972\u201373 NHL season was the 56th season of the National Hockey League. Sixteen teams each played 78 games. Two new teams, the New York Islanders and the Atlanta Flames, made their debuts. The Montreal Canadiens won the Stanley Cup by beating the Chicago Black Hawks four games to two in the Stanley Cup Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095097-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NHL season, Pre-season\nPrior to the start of the season, the 1972 Summit Series took place. It was the first ever meeting between Soviet Union and NHL calibre Canadian ice hockey players. Canada expected to easily beat the Soviets, but were shocked to find themselves with a losing record of one win, two losses, and a tie after four games in Canada. In game four, which Canada lost 5\u20133, Vancouver fans echoed the rest of Canada's thoughts of Team Canada's poor performance by booing them off the ice. The final four games were played in the Soviet Union. Canada lost game five, but won the last three for a final record of four wins, three losses, and a tie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 667]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095097-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NHL season, Pre-season\nFor the first time since the collapse of the Western Hockey League in 1926, the National Hockey League had serious competition. A new professional hockey league, the World Hockey Association, made its season debut with 12 new teams, half of which were based in cities with existing NHL teams. Unlike the Western Hockey League, though, the new World Hockey Association would not challenge for the Stanley Cup. In response to the new league, the NHL hastily added two new teams in an unplanned expansion, the New York Islanders and Atlanta Flames, in an attempt to exclude the WHA from newly constructed arenas in those markets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 657]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095097-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NHL season, Pre-season\nIn February 1972, the Miami Screaming Eagles of the WHA signed Bernie Parent to a contract, and when Bobby Hull was signed on June 27, 1972, to play with the Winnipeg Jets, the Chicago Black Hawks sued, claiming a violation of the reserve clause in NHL contracts. Others soon followed Hull to the WHA, including, J. C. Tremblay, Ted Green, Gerry Cheevers and Johnny McKenzie. In the expansion draft, the New York Islanders and Atlanta Flames made their picks and eleven Islander players skipped off to the WHA. The California Golden Seals, chafing under the unorthodox ownership of the unpopular Charlie Finley, were also a victim of the WHA, losing eight key players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 699]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095097-0004-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NHL season, Regular season\nThe Montreal Canadiens took over first place in the East Division and the league from the Boston Bruins while for the third consecutive season the Chicago Black Hawks dominated the West Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095097-0005-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NHL season, Playoffs\nNo teams in the playoffs swept their opponents, the last time this would happen until 1991, and no series required the maximum number of games, the last time this has happened to date. In addition, the Chicago Black Hawks reached the Stanley Cup Finals without a captain, the last time this would happen until 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095097-0006-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NHL season, Playoffs, Quarterfinals, (E1) Montreal Canadiens vs. (E4) Buffalo Sabres\nThe Montreal Canadiens finished first in the league with 120 points. The Buffalo Sabres finished fourth with 88 points. This was the first playoff meeting between these two teams. This was the Buffalo Sabres' first playoff appearance in their third season since entering the league in the 1970\u201371 NHL season. Montreal won the five-game regular season series earning six of ten points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 92], "content_span": [93, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095097-0007-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NHL season, Playoffs, Quarterfinals, (E2) Boston Bruins vs. (E3) New York Rangers\nThe Boston Bruins finished second in the East Division with 107 points. The New York Rangers finished third in the East Division with 102 points. This was the ninth playoff meeting between these two teams with Boston winning six of the eight previous series. They last met in the previous year's Stanley Cup Finals which Boston won in six games. The teams split this year's six-game regular season series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 89], "content_span": [90, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095097-0008-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NHL season, Playoffs, Quarterfinals, (W1) Chicago Black Hawks vs. (W4) St. Louis Blues\nThe Chicago Black Hawks finished first in the West Division with 93 points. The St. Louis Blues finished fourth in the West Division with 76 points. This was the first playoff meeting between these two teams. The teams split this year's six-game regular season series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 94], "content_span": [95, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095097-0009-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NHL season, Playoffs, Quarterfinals, (W2) Philadelphia Flyers vs. (W3) Minnesota North Stars\nThe Philadelphia Flyers and Minnesota North Stars finished tied for second in the West Division each with 85 points (Philadelphia won the tiebreaker in total goals for 296\u2013254). This was the first playoff meeting between these two teams. Philadelphia won three of the five games in this year's regular season series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 100], "content_span": [101, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095097-0010-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NHL season, Playoffs, Semifinals, (E1) Montreal Canadiens vs. (W3) Philadelphia Flyers\nThis was the first playoff meeting between these two teams. The teams split this year's five-game regular season series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 94], "content_span": [95, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095097-0011-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NHL season, Playoffs, Semifinals, (W1) Chicago Black Hawks vs. (E3) New York Rangers\nThis was the fifth playoff meeting between these two teams with Chicago winning three of the four previous series. They last met in the previous year's Stanley Cup Semifinals which New York won in a four-game sweep. The teams split this year's five-game regular season series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 92], "content_span": [93, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095097-0012-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NHL season, Playoffs, Stanley Cup Finals\nIt was the 16th playoff meeting between these two teams. Montreal lead 10\u20135 in their previous meetings. This was a rematch of the 1971 Stanley Cup Finals, which Montreal won in seven games. Chicago won three of the five games in this year's regular season series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 48], "content_span": [49, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095097-0013-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NHL season, Player statistics, Leading goaltenders\nNote: GP = Games played; Min \u2013 Minutes Played; GA = Goals Against; GAA = Goals Against Average; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; SO = Shutouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 58], "content_span": [59, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095097-0014-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NHL season, Debuts\nThe following is a list of players of note who played their first NHL game in 1972\u201373 (listed with their first team, asterisk(*) marks debut in playoffs):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 26], "content_span": [27, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095097-0015-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NHL season, Last games\nThe following is a list of players of note that played their last game in the NHL in 1972\u201373 (listed with their last team):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095097-0016-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NHL season, Last games\nNOTE: Plante, Stapleton, Backstrom, Howell and Balon would finish their major professional careers in the World Hockey Association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095098-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NK Hajduk Split season\nThe 1972\u201373 season was the 62nd season in Hajduk Split\u2019s history and their 27th season in the Yugoslav First League. Their 10th place finish in the 1971\u201372 season meant it was their 27th successive season playing in the Yugoslav First League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095099-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NTFL season\nThe 1972/73 NTFL season was the 52nd season of the Northern Territory Football League (NTFL).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095099-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 NTFL season\nDarwin have won there 19th premiership title while defeating St Marys in the grand final by 30 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095100-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 National Basketball League season\nThe 1972\u201373 National Basketball League season was the inaugural season of the newly formulated National Basketball League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095100-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 National Basketball League season\nBy 1972, the Scots had their own thriving National League, though also competing in the \"Rose Bowl\", but when a London team, Sutton, defeated Edinburgh's Boroughmuir Barrs in the 1972 Final, the Basketball Association decided that it was time to relaunch the idea of an English National League. Therefore, the National Basketball League was inaugurated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095100-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 National Basketball League season\nLiverpool were formed by a flamboyant owner called Vaughan Thomas who ran the Sports Education Department at Liverpool Polytechnic and they were the first club to incorporate a sponsor's name into their title, Bruno Roughcut tobacco from WD & HO Wills. They were also the first club to import an American, Larry Meek, specifically to play basketball. They played their home games at the Deeside Leisure Centre.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095101-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 National Football League (Ireland)\nThe 1972\u201373 National Football League was the 42nd staging of the National Football League (NFL), an annual Gaelic football tournament for the Gaelic Athletic Association county teams of Ireland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095101-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 National Football League (Ireland)\nKerry beat Offaly in the final to complete a three-in-a-row, captain Brendan Lynch scoring 2-3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095101-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 National Football League (Ireland), Format, Round-Robin Format\nEach team played every other team in its division (or group where the division is split) once, either home or away.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 70], "content_span": [71, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095101-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 National Football League (Ireland), Format, Points awarded\n2 points were awarded for a win and 1 for a draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 66], "content_span": [67, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095101-0004-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 National Football League (Ireland), Format, Knockout phase structure\nThe final match-up is: Winner Semi-final 1 v Winner Semi-final 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 76], "content_span": [77, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095102-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 National Hurling League\nThe 1972\u201373 National Hurling League was the 42nd season of the National Hurling League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095102-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 National Hurling League, Division 1\nCork came into the season as defending champions of the 1971-72 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095102-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 National Hurling League, Division 1\nOn 13 May 1973, Wexford won the title following a 4-13 to 3-7 win over Limerick in the final. It was their fourth league title overall and their first since 1966-67.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095102-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 National Hurling League, Division 1\nTipperary's Francis Loughnane was the Division 1 top scorer with 5-55.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095103-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Nationalliga A, Overview\n14 teams contested in the 1972\u201373 Nationalliga A. These were the top 12 teams from the previous 1971\u201372 season and the two newly promoted teams Chiasso and Fribourg. The championship was played in a double round robin. The champions would qualify for the 1973\u201374 European Cup, the second and third placed teams were to qualify for 1973\u201374 UEFA Cup and the last two teams in the table at the end of the season were to be relegated. Basel won the championship four points ahead of Grasshopper Club and six ahead of the Sion. Basel won 17 of their 26 league games, drew five and lost four. They scored a total of 57 goals conceding 30. Ottmar Hitzfeld (Basel) was joint leagues top goal scorer with Ove Grahn of Lausanne-Sports both with 18 league goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 784]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095104-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Nationalliga A season\nThe 1972\u201373 Nationalliga A season was the 35th season of the Nationalliga A, the top level of ice hockey in Switzerland. Eight teams participated in the league, and HC La Chaux-de-Fonds won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095106-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 New England Whalers season\nThe 1972\u201373 New England Whalers season was the Whalers' first season (based in Boston). The Whalers were competitive from the start, placing first in the Eastern Division to qualify for the playoffs. They then won three playoff series to become the first winner of the Avco World Trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095107-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 New York Islanders season\nThe 1972\u201373 New York Islanders season was the first season in the franchise's history. At the beginning of 1972, Gordie Howe was offered the job as first head coach of the New York Islanders, but turned it down. The Islanders were coached by Phil Goyette (6\u201338\u20134) and Earl Ingarfield (6\u201322\u20132). Overall, the team finished in last place with an appalling 12\u201360\u20136 record, unable to qualify for the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095107-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 New York Islanders season, Regular season\nWith the impending start of the World Hockey Association in the fall of 1972, the upstart league had plans to place its New York team in the brand-new Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Nassau County. However, Nassau County officials did not consider the WHA a professional league and wanted nothing to do with the upstart New York Raiders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095107-0001-0001", "contents": "1972\u201373 New York Islanders season, Regular season\nThe only legal way to keep the Raiders out of the Coliseum was to get an NHL team to play there, so William Shea, who had helped bring the New York Mets to the area a decade earlier, was pressed into service once again. Shea found a receptive ear in league president Clarence Campbell, who did not want the additional competition in the New York area. So, despite having expanded to 14 teams just two years before, the NHL hastily awarded a Long Island-based franchise to clothing manufacturer Roy Boe, owner of the American Basketball Association's New York Nets. A second expansion franchise was awarded to Atlanta (the Flames) at the same time to balance the schedule. The new team was widely expected to take the Long Island Ducks name used by an Eastern Hockey League franchise; the more geographically expansive \"New York Islanders\" came largely as a surprise.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 916]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095107-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 New York Islanders season, Regular season\nThe fledgling Islanders, who were soon nicknamed the Isles by the local newspapers, had an extra burden to pay in the form of a $4\u00a0million territorial fee to the nearby New York Rangers. True to their name, the New York Islanders officially represent New York (city and state), with their nickname and logo denoting their current arena location and fan heartbed; but their support has also naturally come from the boroughs, upstate, Connecticut, and elsewhere in the metro area. This geographical backdrop set the stage for one of the NHL's fiercest and most celebrated regional rivalries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 639]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095107-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 New York Islanders season, Regular season\nWhile the Islanders secured veteran forward Ed Westfall from the Boston Bruins in the 1972 NHL Expansion Draft, junior league star Billy Harris in the 1972 NHL Amateur Draft, and a few other respectable players, several other draftees jumped to the WHA. Unlike most other expansion teams' general managers, Islanders' GM Bill Torrey didn't make many trades for veteran players in the early years. Rather than pursue a \"win now\" strategy of getting a few veterans to boost attendance (a tactic which proved disastrous for many teams in the long run), Torrey was committed to building through the draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 651]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095107-0004-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 New York Islanders season, Regular season\nIn the team's first season, young players such as goaltender Billy Smith (the team's second pick in the expansion draft) and forwards Bob Nystrom and Lorne Henning were given chances to prove themselves in the NHL. However, this young and inexperienced expansion team posted a record of 12\u201360\u20136, one of the worst in NHL history. The lone highlight of the season came on January 18, when the lowly Islanders upset the defending Stanley Cup champion Boston Bruins on the road 9\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095107-0005-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 New York Islanders season, Regular season\nPhil Goyette was fired midway through the season, and replaced with Earl Ingarfield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095107-0006-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 New York Islanders season, Player statistics, Forwards\nNote: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalty minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095107-0007-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 New York Islanders season, Player statistics, Defencemen\nNote: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalty minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095107-0008-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 New York Islanders season, Player statistics, Goaltending\nNote: GP= Games played; MIN = Minutes; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; SO = Shutouts; GA = Goals against; GAA = Goals against average", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 65], "content_span": [66, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095108-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 New York Knicks season\nThe 1972\u201373 New York Knicks season was the 27th season of NBA basketball in New York City. The Knicks captured their second NBA title as they defeated the Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA Finals, four games to one, which was exactly the same count the Knicks lost to the Lakers a year earlier. To date this is the last Knicks' championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095108-0000-0001", "contents": "1972\u201373 New York Knicks season\nBesides being the last Knicks team to win a championship, the team is also remembered for the deep roster of future Hall of Fame players, which included Dave DeBusschere, Walt \"Clyde\" Frazier, Jerry Lucas, Earl \"The Pearl\" Monroe, Willis Reed, Future U.S. Senator Bill Bradley, and future Hall of Fame coach Phil Jackson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095108-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 New York Knicks season, Draft picks\nNote: This is not an extensive list; it only covers the first and second rounds, and any other players picked by the franchise that played at least one game in the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095108-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 New York Knicks season, Media, Local TV\nSome New York Knicks TV Games never aired on WOR-TV because of broadcast conflict with the New York Rangers (NHL).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095108-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 New York Knicks season, Media, Local radio\nSome New York Knicks radio games never aired on WNBC\u2013AM because of broadcast conflict with the New York Rangers (NHL).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 50], "content_span": [51, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095108-0004-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 New York Knicks season, 24th NBA All-Star Game\nNew York Knicks NBA All-Star representatives at the 1973 NBA All-Star Game in Chicago, Illinois at Chicago Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 54], "content_span": [55, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095108-0005-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 New York Knicks season, Transactions\nTransactions listed are from July 1, 1972 to June 30, 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 44], "content_span": [45, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095109-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 New York Nets season\nThe 1972\u201373 New York Nets season was the sixth season of the franchise.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095110-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 New York Raiders season, Player stats\nNote: Pos = Position; GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/- = plus/minus; PIM = Penalty minutes; PPG = Power-play goals; SHG = Short-handed goals; GWG = Game-winning goals\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0MIN = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; GA = Goals-against; GAA = Goals-against average; SO = Shutouts;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 45], "content_span": [46, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095111-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 New York Rangers season\nThe 1972\u201373 New York Rangers season was the 47th season for the team in the National Hockey League (NHL).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095111-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 New York Rangers season, Player statistics\n\u2020Denotes player spent time with another team before joining Rangers. Stats reflect time with Rangers only. \u2021Traded mid-season. Stats reflect time with Rangers only.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095111-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 New York Rangers season, Transactions\nThe Rangers defense lost their gifted-defenseman, Brad Park due to a knee injury that occurred on 11/15/72 against the Flyers, which forced him out of the lineup for the next 18 games. Looking to plug that hole, they searched around the league for another talented-defenseman but prospects were sparse. So, on 11/28/72, they settled on veteran defenseman Ron Harris of the Flames who had minimal offensive skills but played a physical checking game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 45], "content_span": [46, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095111-0002-0001", "contents": "1972\u201373 New York Rangers season, Transactions\nA 26-year-old forward, by the name of Curt Bennett was still scoreless with the Rangers while mostly sitting on the bench, so he was sent to the Flames in exchange. Both guys ultimately paid dividends for their new teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 45], "content_span": [46, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095111-0002-0002", "contents": "1972\u201373 New York Rangers season, Transactions\nHarris was instrumental in winning key games for the Rangers in different ways such as: against the rival-Bruins in game #2 of the 1973 playoffs, he threw a legal, rolling, hip-check at Phil Esposito which injured him, thus, sinking the hopes of the Bruins since they lost that playoff series; plus then, in a key 1974 playoff game against the Canadians, Harris scored the game-winning goal in overtime which eventually sparked the Rangers in winning that playoff series. Likewise, the Flames cashed in on Curt Bennett since he finally and quickly matured with them by becoming an excellent goal-scorer and their toughest fighter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 45], "content_span": [46, 676]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095111-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 New York Rangers season, Draft picks\nNew York's picks at the 1972 NHL Amateur Draft in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095112-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 New Zealand rugby union tour of Britain, Ireland, France and North America\nThe 1972\u201373 New Zealand rugby union tour of the Britain, Ireland, France and North America was a collection of rugby union test match games undertaken by the All Blacks against England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and France. The tour also took in several matches against British, Irish, French and North American club, county and invitational teams. This was the seventh tour of the Northern Hemisphere. It was also the first time the All Blacks lost to the invitational Barbarians team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 82], "section_span": [82, 82], "content_span": [83, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095112-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 New Zealand rugby union tour of Britain, Ireland, France and North America\nIn the club matches, the team only lost to Llanelli, North-Western Counties, Midland Counties (West), and the Barbarians, and drew with Munster. In the tests played the team won against Wales, Scotland and England, drew with Ireland and lost to France. This was their fifth \"Grand Slam tour\" after 1905\u201306 (Lost to Wales), 1935\u201336 (Lost to Wales and England), 1953\u201354 (Lost to Wales), 1963\u201364 (Drew with Scotland). They had to wait until 1978 for a \"Grand Slam\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 82], "section_span": [82, 82], "content_span": [83, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095113-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Newport County A.F.C. season\nThe 1972\u201373 season was Newport County's 11th consecutive season in the Football League Fourth Division since relegation at the end of the 1961\u201362 season and their 45th overall in the Football League. County missed out on promotion by the narrowest of margins: their goal average of 1.46 being inferior to that of Aldershot's 1.58 \u2013 both teams having finished level on points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095114-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team\nThe 1972\u201373 North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team represented the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during the 1972\u201373 men's college basketball season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095115-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Northern Football League\nThe 1972\u201373 Northern Football League season was the 75th in the history of Northern Football League, a football competition in England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095115-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Northern Football League, Clubs\nDivision One featured 20 clubs which competed in the league last season, no new clubs joined the division this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095116-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Northern Premier League\nThe 1972\u201373 Northern Premier League was the fifth season of the Northern Premier League, a regional football league in Northern England, the northern areas of the Midlands and North Wales. The season began on 12 August 1972 and concluded on 4 May 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095116-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Northern Premier League, Overview\nThe League featured twenty-four teams for the second consecutive season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095116-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Northern Premier League, Overview, Team changes\nThe following two clubs left the League at the end of the previous season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095116-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Northern Premier League, Overview, Team changes\nThe following two clubs joined the League at the start of the season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095116-0004-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Northern Premier League, Overview, League table\nThe system of using goal average to separate two teams tied on points was used up until the 1976\u201377 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095116-0005-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Northern Premier League, Cup results, Northern Premier League Shield\nBetween Champions of NPL Premier Division and Winners of the NPL Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095116-0006-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Northern Premier League, Cup results, FA Cup\nOut of the twenty-four clubs from the Northern Premier League, only three teams reached the second round:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095116-0007-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Northern Premier League, Cup results, FA Trophy\nOut of the twenty-four clubs from the Northern Premier League, five teams reached the fourth round:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095116-0008-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Northern Premier League, End of the season\nAt the end of the fifth season of the Northern Premier League none of the teams put forward for election received enough votes to be promoted to the Football League. Ellesmere Port Town resigned the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095116-0009-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Northern Premier League, End of the season, Football League elections\nAlongside the four Football League teams facing re-election, a total of ten non-League teams applied for election, two of which were from the Northern Premier League. All four Football League teams were re-elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 77], "content_span": [78, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095116-0010-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Northern Premier League, End of the season, Promotion and relegation\nThe following club left the league at the end of the season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095117-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Northern Rugby Football League season\nThe 1972\u201373 Northern Rugby Football League season was the 78th season of rugby league football played in England. It would also be the last season whereby the British championship was decided by a play-off system until Super League III in 1998. Dewsbury were crowned champions after defeating Leeds in the Final. The 1972-73 season was also punctuated by the 1972 Rugby League World Cup which was played in France in October and November. At the end of this season the league re-formed into two divisions. The top 16 in the championship would form Division 1 and the bottom 14 Division 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095117-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Northern Rugby Football League season, Season summary\nSalford's David Watkins set the record for most goals (including drop goals) in a season with 221. Also, on 19 August 1972, Watkins started his record scoring streak which lasted until 25 April 1974. He totalled 929 points from 41 tries and 403 goals in 92 consecutive matches for one club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095117-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Northern Rugby Football League season, Season summary\n1972-73 also saw the Wigan club celebrate its centenary, having been formed as Wigan F.C. on 21 November 1872. During the season they played a special Centenary Celebration match against an \"Australians\" side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095117-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Northern Rugby Football League season, Season summary\nHunslet disbanded at the end of the season, reforming as New Hunslet for the 1973\u201374 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095117-0004-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Northern Rugby Football League season, Season summary\nSalford beat Swinton 25\u201311 to win the Lancashire County Cup, and Leeds beat Dewsbury 36\u20139 to win the Yorkshire County Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095117-0005-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Northern Rugby Football League season, Championship, Final\nThe 1973 Final was to be the last time a play-off system would be used to determine the British champions until 1998's Super League season. The match was played on 19 May 1973 at Bradford's Odsal Stadium between the previous season's champions, Leeds and first-time finalists, Dewsbury. Dewsbury had suffered a county cup record defeat 36-9 at the hands of Leeds in the Yorkshire County Cup Final earlier in the season. Also Leeds had finished 3rd on the ladder and Dewsbury 8th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 66], "content_span": [67, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095117-0005-0001", "contents": "1972\u201373 Northern Rugby Football League season, Championship, Final\nHowever, Dewsbury opened up a 12-4 lead by the interval with tries by the hooker Mike Stephenson and Allan Agar and two goals and a drop-goal from the boot of centre Nigel Stephenson. Leeds captain Alan Hardisty was sent off for the first time in his career for a high tackle on John Bates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 66], "content_span": [67, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095117-0006-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Northern Rugby Football League season, Championship, Final\nA second try from Mike Stephenson on 44 minutes extended Dewsbury's lead and though Leeds hit back with tries by Graham Eccles, Phil Cookson and Les Dyl, it was not to be with Nigel Stephenson converting his own try to complete a resounding 22-13 success. Leading journalist Jack Winstanley wrote at the time: \"Dewsbury's win sprung from a superb team effort that paid ample tribute to the coaching and inspiration of (coach) Tommy Smales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 66], "content_span": [67, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095117-0006-0001", "contents": "1972\u201373 Northern Rugby Football League season, Championship, Final\nThey bewildered a jaded Leeds outfit with a series of scissors moves and dummy passes that might have looked grossly over-elaborate had they not worked to such perfection.\" The Harry Sunderland Trophy for man-of-the-match went to Mike Stephenson. Greg Ashcroft, Jeff Grayshon and Alan Bates also played in the champion Dewsbury side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 66], "content_span": [67, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095117-0007-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Northern Rugby Football League season, Challenge Cup\nThe 1973 Challenge Cup Final was won by Featherstone Rovers who beat Bradford Northern 33-14 at Wembley Saturday 12 May 1973 before a crowd of 72,395. Featherstone Rovers' Great Britain scrum half-back, Steve Nash put in a man-of-the-match performance to win the Lance Todd Trophy. Cyril Kellett scored 8-conversions for Featherstone Rovers, the most in a Challenge Cup Final (equalled by Iestyn Harris in 1999).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 60], "content_span": [61, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095118-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Norwegian 1. Divisjon season\nThe 1972\u201373 Norwegian 1. Divisjon season was the 34th season of ice hockey in Norway. Eight teams participated in the league, and Valerenga Ishockey won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095119-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 OB I bajnoksag season\nThe 1972\u201373 OB I bajnoks\u00e1g season was the 36th season of the OB I bajnoks\u00e1g, the top level of ice hockey in Hungary. Five teams participated in the league, and Ferencvarosi TC won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095120-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Ottawa Nationals season\nThe 1972\u201373 Ottawa Nationals season was the Nationals' only season, as they were one of the original teams in the newly created WHA. The Nationals played most of the season in Ottawa, but transferred their playoff games to Toronto. Due to low attendance in Ottawa, an arena lease dispute, and much better attendance in their two playoff games in Toronto, where they averaged over 5000 fans per game, the Nationals relocated to Toronto permanently beginning in the next season. The club was renamed the Toronto Toros.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095120-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Ottawa Nationals season, Offseason\nThe Nationals were originally owned by Doug Michel, with rumours he would place the team in either Hamilton or Toronto, however, and he placed the club in Ottawa. After the team was placed to play in Ottawa, Nick Trbovich became the majority owner, with Michel running hockey operations. The club was placed in the six team Eastern Division, with the top four clubs earning a playoff berth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095120-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Ottawa Nationals season, Offseason\nThe Nationals hired former Toronto Maple Leaf Billy Harris to coach the team. Ottawa's most significant signing was Wayne Carleton, who had previously played with the Maple Leafs, Boston Bruins and California Golden Seals in the NHL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095120-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Ottawa Nationals season, Regular season\nThe first game in WHA history was a match between the Nationals and the Alberta Oilers at the Civic Centre, which Alberta won 7-4, on October 11, 1972. Ottawa recorded their first victory in their fourth game, a 6-2 decision over the Chicago Cougars. The Nationals reached a season high two games over .500 with a 12-10-1 record, before falling into a long slump in which the club won only seven games in their next 31, and dropped into last place in the Eastern Division. Ottawa would play very good hockey down the stretch, winning two-thirds of its remaining games, and finished the season at 35-39-4, earning 74 points and the fourth and final playoff position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 713]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095120-0004-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Ottawa Nationals season, Regular season\nAttendance was an issue for the club, as they drew an average of just over 3000 fans per game, competing against the very popular Ottawa 67's OHA team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095120-0005-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Ottawa Nationals season, Regular season\nOffensively, Ottawa was led by Carleton, who scored a team high 42 goals and 49 assists for 91 points, which ranked him tenth in league scoring. Twenty-year-old Gavin Kirk earned 68 points in 78 games, while Bob Charlebois earned 64 points. Brian Gibbons had 42 points to lead the team's defencemen, while Rick Cunningham had a team high 121 penalty minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095120-0006-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Ottawa Nationals season, Regular season\nIn goal, Gilles Gratton had the majority of playing time, winning 25 games and posting a 3.71 GAA. Veteran Les Binkley backed him up, earning 10 wins and a GAA of 3.72.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095120-0007-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Ottawa Nationals season, Playoffs\nThe Nationals would open the playoffs with a best of seven series against the New England Whalers, who had a league high 94 points. The series opened up with two games in New England, and the Whalers took advantage of their home ice, defeating Ottawa 6-3 and 4-3 to take a two game series lead. The series moved to Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto, as the Nationals ownership decided to move their playoff games from Ottawa due to attendance problems.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095120-0007-0001", "contents": "1972\u201373 Ottawa Nationals season, Playoffs\nThe Nationals use their \"home ice\" advantage in the third game, defeating the Whalers 4-2 to get back into the series, however, New England easily defeated Ottawa in the fourth game 7-3 to take a 3-1 series lead. The Whalers would close out the series in the fifth game back in New England, as they beat Ottawa 5-4 in overtime to eliminate the Nationals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095121-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 PAOK FC season\nThe 1972\u201373 season was PAOK Football Club's 47th in existence and the club's 14th consecutive season in the top flight of Greek football. The team entered the Greek Football Cup in first round, and also faced Rapid Wien in the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095121-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 PAOK FC season, Players, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 38], "content_span": [39, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095121-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 PAOK FC season, Statistics, Squad statistics\nAppearances denote players in the starting lineup, with the numbers in parentheses denoting appearances as substitute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 52], "content_span": [53, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095122-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. season\nThe 1972\u201373 season was Paris Saint-Germain's 3rd season in existence. PSG played their home league games at the Stade Municipal Georges Lef\u00e8vre in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, registering an average attendance of 679 spectators per match. The club was presided by Henri Patrelle and the team was managed by Robert Vicot. Camille Choquier was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095122-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. season\nThe club split on June 1, 1972. Paris FC remained in Division 1, while Paris Saint-Germain kept their name but were administratively relegated to Division 3, thus losing professional status. Bound by professional contracts with PFC, most of the club's stars, including team captain Jean Djorkaeff and Bernard Guignedoux, continued playing in Division 1. Since only top-tier pro clubs could have a reserve team, PSG took the spot of their development side in the third tier and rebuilt their squad with many upcoming academy players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095122-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. season\nAs a result, Paris Saint-Germain began the new season with a young but talented squad that would star in the club's forthcoming back-to-back promotions. Some of these gifted youngsters included Christian Andr\u00e9, \u00c9ric Renaut, Othniel Dossevi, Michel Marella and Jacques Laposte. PSG would finish second in Group West, six points behind Quevilly, missing out on promotion by little. Quevilly had to dissolve due to financial problems shortly after the end of the season and PSG took their place in Division 2 by default.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095122-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. season, Players, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 55], "content_span": [56, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095122-0004-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. season, Transfers, Arrivals\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 60], "content_span": [61, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095122-0005-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. season, Transfers, Departures\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 62], "content_span": [63, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095122-0006-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. season, Kits\nCanadian grocery store chain Montreal was the shirt sponsor. French sportswear brand Le Coq Sportif was the kit manufacturer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 45], "content_span": [46, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095123-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Partick Thistle F.C. season\nThe 1972\u201373 season was Partick Thistle's 2nd consecutive season in the top division of Scottish football after being promoted from the Scottish Second Division in 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095124-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Philadelphia 76ers season\nThe 1972\u201373 Philadelphia 76ers season was their 24th season in the NBA and tenth in Philadelphia. Coming off a 30\u201352 record in the previous season, the 76ers lost their first 15 games of the season and a few months later, went on a then-record 20 game losing streak in a single season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095124-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Philadelphia 76ers season\nTheir record following the 20 game losing streak was 4\u201358, and the team at that point had just lost 34 of 35 games. The 76ers finished the season with a 9\u201373 record, earning the nickname from the skeptical Philadelphia media of the \"Nine and 73-ers.\" The 76ers finished an NBA-record 59 games behind the Atlantic Division champion Boston Celtics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095124-0001-0001", "contents": "1972\u201373 Philadelphia 76ers season\nThese 9 wins by this 1972\u201373 squad is the 4th fewest in NBA history (to the 6 games won by the Providence Steamrollers in the 48-game 1947\u201348 season, the 7 games won by the Charlotte Bobcats in the lockout-shortened 66-game 2011\u201312 season and the 8 games won by the Vancouver Grizzlies in the lockout-shortened 50-game 1998\u201399 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095124-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Philadelphia 76ers season\nThe 73 losses, although threatened many times (including by the 2015\u201316 Sixers, who themselves lost 72 that season), remains the all-time low-water mark for any NBA franchise in an 82-game non-lockout season. The 76ers .110 winning percentage was the all-time worst mark in the NBA until the 2011\u201312 Charlotte Bobcats finished with a .106 winning percentage, whilst their \u221212.1 points per game point differential has been underdone only by the 2011\u201312 Bobcats (\u221213.9 points per game) and the 1992\u201393 Dallas Mavericks (\u221215.2 points per game). Only six seasons earlier, the 76ers had set the NBA record for most wins in a season and the highest winning percentage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 696]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095124-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Philadelphia 76ers season, Offseason\nThe Sixers ownership offered the head coaching job to Marquette University head coach Al McGuire, and former University of Kentucky head coach Adolph Rupp, who was seventy years old at the time. Both refused the job. Only Hal Greer remained on the roster from the 1966\u20131967 NBA Championship Team. The 1972\u201373 season would be his last in the NBA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 44], "content_span": [45, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095124-0004-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Philadelphia 76ers season, Season\nBy the start of the 1972\u201373 season, most of the core of the 76ers 1966-67 championship team was gone. In the 1972 offseason, coach Jack Ramsay left to coach the Buffalo Braves, while a court order allowed All-Star forward Billy Cunningham to bolt to the ABA. Only Hal Greer, who was 36 years old, remained. Poor trades and draft selections over the years left the team with only a few quality players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 41], "content_span": [42, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095124-0005-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Philadelphia 76ers season, Season\nThe 76ers finished the 1971\u201372 season with a 30\u201352 record and could not find a coach for the upcoming season. In desperation, management placed an ad in The Philadelphia Inquirer for a head coach. A friend of Irv Kosloff recommended Roy Rubin, the head coach at LIU Brooklyn Blackbirds. While Rubin had 11 years coaching in college basketball, he had no professional or major college experience to draw on.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 41], "content_span": [42, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095124-0006-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Philadelphia 76ers season, Season\nThe Sixers, whose roster included the likes of Manny Leaks, Jeff Halliburton, Mike Price, John Q. Trapp and Dave Sorenson, started the season 0\u201315 and later lost 20 consecutive games. Players criticized Rubin for his sloppy practices and the lack of meaningful comments during time-outs and breaks. Dave Wohl, who was traded to Portland, called Rubin a \u2018con man\u2019. With the club record at 4\u201347, Rubin was fired and replaced by Sixers player Kevin Loughery. The team\u2019s performance improved slightly, going 5\u201326 with a .161 winning percentage, compared with Rubin's .078 mark.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 41], "content_span": [42, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095124-0007-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Philadelphia 76ers season, Season\nIn their 1st win of the season (a 114\u2013112 victory over Houston), coach Rubin actually injured himself by pulling a leg muscle. The top statistical leaders were Fred Carter (who led the team with 20 points per game), Tom Van Arsdale (with 17.7 points per game), and Leroy Ellis (with 13.7 points and 10.8 rebounds per game).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 41], "content_span": [42, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095124-0008-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Philadelphia 76ers season, Season\nAs bad as their season was, it would have been far worse if not for a 5\u20132 run the team put together in the last two weeks of February 1973. By Valentine's Day 1973 the 76ers' record stood at 4\u201358 or a .065 winning percentage which actually put on a pace to finish with an unimaginable 5\u201377 record. However, the team surprisingly won 5 of their next 7 games against some of the best competition in the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 41], "content_span": [42, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095124-0008-0001", "contents": "1972\u201373 Philadelphia 76ers season, Season\n3 of those 5 wins came against teams that would eventually win fifty or more games that year \u2013 Baltimore, the 60-win Milwaukee Bucks and the 57\u201325 eventual NBA Champion New York Knicks. They improved to 9\u201360 and actually doubled their winning percentage (up from .065 to .130 during that run.) However, the 76ers lost their remaining 13 games to finish 9\u201373. Before the 1972\u201373 season the previous mark for fewest wins in an 82-game schedule was 15, and no subsequent NBA team won fewer than 22 until the 1979\u201380 Detroit Pistons who finished 16\u201366.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 41], "content_span": [42, 590]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095124-0009-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Philadelphia 76ers season, Season, Anatomy of a demise\nTwo and a half months after Philadelphia's collapse against the Boston Celtics in the 1968 NBA Playoffs, Wilt Chamberlain was traded to the Los Angeles Lakers. In return, the Sixers received Darrall Imhoff, Archie Clark and Jerry Chambers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095124-0010-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Philadelphia 76ers season, Season, Anatomy of a demise\nThe background of the deal can be traced back to Sixers owners Ike Richman and Irv Kosloff. Chamberlain indicated that Richman promised him part ownership of the club, but Richman died before the deal was completed. When Kosloff became sole owner, he refused to honor the agreement Chamberlain had reached with Richman. This infuriated Chamberlain, and he contemplated retirement or bolting to the ABA. Chamberlain then expressed a desire to play in Los Angeles and suggested a trade. On paper, the deal made some sense from the Sixers' perspective, since general manager Jack Ramsay was not willing to risk letting Chamberlain get away for nothing. In the long run, however, the Sixers didn't get nearly enough in return.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 785]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095124-0011-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Philadelphia 76ers season, Season, Anatomy of a demise\nAfter the 1967\u201368 season, head coach Alex Hannum bolted to the ABA, and Ramsay named himself head coach. He decided that Clark, Imhoff and Chambers would be part of a smaller, quicker, fast-breaking team. This plan had never truly materialized. Imhoff spent only 2 seasons with the 76ers, Clark spent three, while Chambers never played for Philadelphia after spending two years in the military before being traded. Luke Jackson, Chamberlain's intended successor, suffered a major injury in the 1968-69 season and was never the same player after that. Chet Walker was dealt to the Chicago Bulls for Jim Washington, a role player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 691]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095124-0012-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Philadelphia 76ers season, Season, Anatomy of a demise\nAnother contributing factor to the poor season was Philadelphia's first-round draft choices from 1967 through 1972. Selections such as Craig Raymond, Shaler Halimon, Bud Ogden, Harris Ahmad, Al Henry, Dana Lewis and Fred Boyd made no impact with the club, while Philadelphia passed on drafting future stars such as Nate Archibald and Calvin Murphy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095124-0013-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Philadelphia 76ers season, Season, Anatomy of a demise\nRamsay did coax 55 victories out of the 1st 76ers team he coached in 1968\u201369. That number dipped into the 40s for the next 2 seasons, and sunk even further to 30 in 1971\u201372\u2014the 1st time they had missed the playoffs in franchise history (dating back to their tenure as the Syracuse Nationals).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 62], "content_span": [63, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095125-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Philadelphia Blazers season\nThe 1972\u201373 Philadelphia Blazers season was the first season of the Blazers' franchise in the World Hockey Association. It would also be the only season of the Blazers in Philadelphia, as the team relocated to Vancouver for the following season. The Blazers finished third and qualified for the playoffs losing in the first round to the Cleveland Crusaders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095125-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Philadelphia Blazers season, Player stats\nNote: Pos = Position; GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/- = plus/minus; PIM = Penalty minutes; PPG = Power-play goals; SHG = Short-handed goals; GWG = Game-winning goals\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0MIN = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; GA = Goals-against; GAA = Goals-against average; SO = Shutouts;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 49], "content_span": [50, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095125-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Philadelphia Blazers season, Draft picks\nPhiladelphia's picks at the WHA General Player Draft, which was held in Anaheim, California on February 12\u201313, 1972. The team participated in the draft as the Miami Screaming Eagles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 48], "content_span": [49, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095126-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Philadelphia Flyers season\nThe 1972\u201373 Philadelphia Flyers season was the Philadelphia Flyers' sixth season in the National Hockey League (NHL). The Flyers earned the nickname \"Broad Street Bullies\" en route to their first winning season and first playoff series victory, beating the Minnesota North Stars, before losing in the semi-finals to the Montreal Canadiens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095126-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Philadelphia Flyers season, Regular season\nIt was during the 1972\u201373 season that the Flyers shed the mediocre expansion team label by recording their first winning season and becoming known as the intimidating \"Broad Street Bullies\", a nickname coined by Jack Chevalier and Pete Cafone of the Philadelphia Bulletin on January 3, 1973 after a 3\u20131 brawling victory over the Atlanta Flames that led Chevalier to write in his game account, \"The image of the fightin' Flyers spreading gradually around the NHL, and people are dreaming up wild nicknames. They're the Mean Machine, the Bullies of Broad Street and Freddy's Philistines.\" Cafone wrote the accompanying headline, \"Broad Street Bullies Muscle Atlanta\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 716]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095126-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Philadelphia Flyers season, Regular season\nThat same month Bobby Clarke was the youngest player (at that time) in NHL history to be named team captain, replacing Ed Van Impe who had stepped aside in favor of Clarke. Rick MacLeish became the first Flyer to score 50 goals in a season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095126-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Philadelphia Flyers season, Regular season\nAfter the season, Clarke was awarded the Hart Memorial Trophy as the NHL's Most Valuable Player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095126-0004-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Philadelphia Flyers season, Playoffs\nAn overtime goal by Gary Dornhoefer in Game 5 turned the tide of their first round series with the Minnesota North Stars in the Flyers' favor, as the Flyers got their first playoff series win in six games. The goal was later immortalized as a bronze statue on the south side of the Spectrum. They were outmatched in the semi-finals by the Montreal Canadiens, however, losing in five games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095126-0005-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Philadelphia Flyers season, Transactions\nThe Flyers were involved in the following transactions from May 12, 1972, the day after the deciding game of the 1972 Stanley Cup Finals, through May 10, 1973, the day of the deciding game of the 1973 Stanley Cup Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 48], "content_span": [49, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095126-0006-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Philadelphia Flyers season, Transactions, Signings, Free agency\nThe following players were signed by the Flyers via free agency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 71], "content_span": [72, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095126-0007-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Philadelphia Flyers season, Transactions, Signings, Internal\nThe following players were either re-signed by the Flyers or, in the case of the team's selections in the NHL Entry Draft, signed to contracts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 68], "content_span": [69, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095126-0008-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Philadelphia Flyers season, Transactions, Drafts, Intra-League\nThe 1972 NHL Intra-League Draft was held on June 5, 1972. Each NHL team placed 18 players on a protected list from which the other teams could not select. It cost $40,000 to make a claim. The Flyers were not involved in any selections during the draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 70], "content_span": [71, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095126-0009-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Philadelphia Flyers season, Transactions, Drafts, Expansion\nThe 1972 NHL Expansion Draft was held on June 6, 1972. It featured two expansion teams, the Atlanta Flames and New York Islanders, selecting players from the 14 existing NHL teams. Each NHL team placed 15 skaters and 2 goaltenders on a protected list from which the two expansion teams could not select. The Flyers were one of four teams exempted from protecting goaltenders since they lost a goaltender in the 1970 NHL Expansion Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 67], "content_span": [68, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095126-0010-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Philadelphia Flyers season, Transactions, Drafts, Reverse\nThe 1972 NHL Reverse Draft was held on June 8, 1972. The Reverse Draft featured American Hockey League (AHL) and Western Hockey League (WHL) teams selecting unprotected players from NHL teams. It cost $15,000 to make a claim.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 65], "content_span": [66, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095126-0011-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Philadelphia Flyers season, Transactions, Departures\nThe following players left the team via free agency, release, or retirement. Players who were under contract and left the team during the season are marked with an asterisk (*).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095126-0012-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Philadelphia Flyers season, Draft picks\nPhiladelphia's picks at the 1972 NHL Amateur Draft, which was held at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Quebec, on June 8, 1972. The Flyers traded their tenth round pick, 148th overall, to the Minnesota North Stars for cash during the draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 47], "content_span": [48, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095126-0013-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Philadelphia Flyers season, Farm teams\nThe Flyers were affiliated with the Richmond Robins of the AHL, the San Diego Gulls of the WHL, and the Jersey Devils of the EHL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095127-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Phoenix Suns season\nThe 1972\u201373 Phoenix Suns season was the fifth for the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association. The season began under head coach Butch Van Breda Kolff for the first seven games, before Jerry Colangelo finished coaching duties for the team. All home games were played at Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095127-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Phoenix Suns season\nCharlie Scott had played in six games for the Suns one season ago, after a late-season switch to the NBA from the ABA, and his first full season with the Suns was arguably his best. Scott was named to his first NBA All-Star Team, joining teammate Connie Hawkins, who was selected to his fourth and final All-Star Game of his NBA career. In addition to Scott leading the Suns with his 6.1 assist per game average, his 2,048-season-point total was fifth in the league (and the only 2,000+-point season of his career).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095127-0001-0001", "contents": "1972\u201373 Phoenix Suns season\nHis average of 25.3 points per contest was sixth-best in the NBA. Center Neal Walk averaged career-bests in both points and rebounds, averaging 20.2 and 12.5 on the season. Walk's rebounding average was just shy of Paul Silas's franchise record of 12.5. Dick Van Arsdale averaged 18.4 points on the season, while Connie Hawkins contributed 16.1 per contest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095128-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Pittsburgh Penguins season\nThe 1972\u201373 Pittsburgh Penguins season was the franchise's sixth season in the National Hockey League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095128-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Player statistics\n\u2020Denotes player spent time with another team before joining the Penguins. Stats reflect time with the Penguins only. \u2021Denotes player was traded mid-season. Stats reflect time with the Penguins only.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095128-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Transactions\nThe Penguins were involved in the following transactions during the 1972\u201373 season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 48], "content_span": [49, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095129-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Polska Liga Hokejowa season\nThe 1972\u201373 Polska Liga Hokejowa season was the 38th season of the Polska Liga Hokejowa, the top level of ice hockey in Poland. 10 teams participated in the league, and Podhale Nowy Targ won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095130-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Port Vale F.C. season\nThe 1972\u201373 season was Port Vale's 61st season of football in the Football League, and their third successive season (ninth overall) in the Third Division. Their promotion efforts ended with a sixth-place finish, whilst in the two cup competitions they lost out to Newcastle United and West Ham United. Opposition managers condemned the players as overly physical, whilst off the pitch there were sporadic scenes of violence as football hooliganism gripped the club, and the sport in general.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095130-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Third Division\nThe pre-season saw Gordon Lee make a number of big signings. The most significant was the signing of Ray Williams from Stafford Rangers, who had scored 47 goals for the non-league club the previous season. Williams cost Vale \u00a33,000 and was on a wage of \u00a340 a week (plus incentives). Also arriving was midfielder Freddie Goodwin (Southport); 'controversial' goalkeeper Alan Boswell (Bolton Wanderers); young midfielder Colin Tartt (Alsager College); and trialist goalkeeper Reg Edwards (Nuneaton Borough). Ticket prices were raised to between 40 and 60 pence, whilst season tickets were priced between \u00a38 and \u00a310.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 668]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095130-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Third Division\nThe season opened with six victories in eight league games, though the third match was a huge 7\u20130 defeat at Millmoor to Rotherham United \u2013 the defeat was blamed on Boswell. After mid-September the \"Valiants\" struggled to score, and recorded six draws in eight games, though they remained in the top three. The club spent \u00a38,500 on new floodlights and a public address system, however attendances dropped off from the crucial 6,000 break-even number. Lee complained about the lack of support, and said \"the people here are not genuinely interested in league football\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095130-0002-0001", "contents": "1972\u201373 Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Third Division\nOffered the management position at Shrewsbury Town, he rejected the offer as he believed the club 'lacked potential' and that he had a 'feeling of loyalty towards the [Vale] players'. Going into the Christmas period Brian Horton was struck by injury, and the team struggled, heading down the league with inconsistent play. In January, Lee sold John James to Chester for \u00a35,000, Ray Harford to Colchester United for \u00a31,750, and Keith Lindsey to Gillingham for \u00a3750. To keep up the promotion bid, in February he spent \u00a32,250 to bring 'pacey' striker John Woodward from Walsall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 631]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095130-0002-0002", "contents": "1972\u201373 Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Third Division\nVale began to pick up wins, though their 2\u20131 win over Blackburn Rovers led to them being branded by Rovers manager Ken Furphy as 'a brutal and physical side'. Vale lifted themselves into third place, though were out of the race after a 'shattering' 5\u20130 defeat to Southend United at Roots Hall. Their final home game of the season was a 2\u20132 draw with champions Bolton Wanderers, in which 'frenzied scenes' included police dogs separating the two sets of fans at the Bycars End, two attempted pitch invasions, and the referee kicked to the ground at the final whistle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 622]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095130-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Third Division\nThey finished in sixth spot with 53 points, four short of promoted Notts County. The 69 goals conceded tally was higher than that of all but the bottom two clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095130-0004-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Finances\nOn the financial side, a \u00a314,304 profit was made after donations of \u00a316,029 from the Sportsmen's Association and the Development Fund. Gate receipts had risen massively from \u00a336,323 to \u00a367,202. The wage bill stood at \u00a359,663, whilst the club's debt was at \u00a344,721, along with \u00a357,860 owed to the directors. At the end of the season Freddie Goodwin was let go, and he joined Macclesfield Town.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095130-0005-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Cup competitions\nIn the FA Cup, Vale progressed past Fourth Division Southport and then Third Division Wrexham with home victories. In the Third Round they faced West Ham United at Vale Park, where the \"Hammers\" won 'an epic battle' 1\u20130 in front of a season-best crowd of 20,619. The match raised \u00a38,600, but also the issue of violence, as two Londoners were stabbed, two policemen seriously assaulted, and thirty fans ejected from the stadium. West Ham manager Ron Greenwood claimed that the Vale players attempted 'the most blatant calculated intimidation I have ever seen anywhere in the world'.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 640]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095130-0006-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Cup competitions\nIn the League Cup, the club recorded their first ever away victory in the competition with a 1\u20130 win over Tranmere Rovers at Prenton Park. The Second Round held a home tie with First Division Newcastle United, and the \"Magpies\" left Stoke-on-Trent having won 3\u20131 in front of 10,370 spectators.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095131-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Portland Trail Blazers season\nThe 1972\u201373 season was the third season of the Portland Trail Blazers in the National Basketball Association (NBA). After finishing the previous season at 18\u201364, the Blazers earned the first overall selection in the 1972 NBA Draft, and infamously picked LaRue Martin over future Hall-of-Famer Bob McAdoo. LaRue would average seven points per game over a four-season NBA career. The Blazers finished at 21\u201361, a marginal three-game improvement from the previous season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095131-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Portland Trail Blazers season, Draft picks\nNote: This is not a complete list; only the first two rounds are covered, as well as any other picks by the franchise who played at least one NBA game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 50], "content_span": [51, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095132-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Primeira Divis\u00e3o\nThe 1972\u201373 Primeira Divis\u00e3o was the 39th season of top-tier football in Portugal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095132-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Primeira Divis\u00e3o, Overview\nIt was contested by 16 teams. S.L. Benfica won the championship, with 28 victories, 0 losses and 2 draws.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095133-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Providence Friars men's basketball team\nThe 1972\u201373 Providence Friars men's basketball team represented Providence College in the 1972\u201373 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Friars, led by fourth-year head coach Dave Gavitt, played their home games at the Providence Civic Center. They finished the season 27\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095133-0000-0001", "contents": "1972\u201373 Providence Friars men's basketball team\nThey received an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament where they defeated Saint Joseph's in the East Region first round to advance to the East Regional Semifinals where they defeated Penn advanced to the East Regional Finals where they defeated Maryland to advance to the Final Four for the first time in school history, where they lost to Memphis State in the National Semifinals and lost to Indiana in the National Third Place game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095134-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 QMJHL season\nThe 1972\u201373 QMJHL season was the fourth season in the history of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. The summer of 1972 saw the departure of the Saint-J\u00e9r\u00f4me Alouettes and the Verdun Maple Leafs from the league, reducing the circuit to eight teams. In an off-season lawsuit between the QMJHL and the OHA, the QMJHL gained a team, when the Montreal Junior Canadiens transferred leagues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095134-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 QMJHL season\nMichel Bri\u00e8re Memorial Trophy is first awarded to the league's most valuable player in honour of Michel Bri\u00e8re, who was killed in a car accident. Nine teams played 64 games each in the schedule. The Quebec Remparts finished first place in the regular season, and won the President's Cup, defeating the Cornwall Royals in the finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095134-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 QMJHL season, Final standings\nNote: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; Pts = Points; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095134-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 QMJHL season, Scoring leaders\nNote: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalties in minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095134-0004-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 QMJHL season, Playoffs\nAndre Savard was the leading scorer of the playoffs with 42 points (18 goals, 24 assists).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095136-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Quebec Nordiques season\nThe 1972\u201373 Quebec Nordiques season was the Nordiques' first season, as they were one of the original teams in the newly created WHA. The Nordiques franchise was originally awarded to a group in San Francisco, California, and was named the San Francisco Sharks, however, funding collapsed prior to the start of the season, and the WHA sold the organization to a Quebec City group led by Marcel Aubut and Paul Racine. They named the club the Nordiques due to the northern location of the team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095136-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Quebec Nordiques season, Regular season\nThe Nordiques would name former Montreal Canadiens great Maurice Richard the head coach of the club, and played their first ever game on October 11, 1972, losing 2\u20130 on the road to the Cleveland Crusaders. The Nordiques would win their home opener, shutting out the Alberta Oilers 6\u20130 at Le Colis\u00e9e. After the game, Richard would step down from head coaching duties, as he was not comfortable doing the job, and Maurice Filion would take over. The Nords would end up just missing the playoffs, finishing the year with a 33\u201340\u20135 record, earning them 71 points, 3 behind the Ottawa Nationals for the final playoff position in the Eastern Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 693]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095136-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Quebec Nordiques season, Regular season\nOffensively, Quebec was led by defenceman J. C. Tremblay, who led the WHA in assists with 75 and led the Nordiques with 89 points. Alain Caron would score a team high 36 goals. Michel Parizeau and Andre Gaudette would each break the 70 point barrier, recording 73 points and 71 respectively. Pierre Roy would lead the club with 169 penalty minutes, while Michel Rouleau would get 142 in 52 games after being acquired by the Philadelphia Blazers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095136-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Quebec Nordiques season, Regular season\nIn goal, Serge Aubry would get the majority of playing time, earning a club high 25 wins and a team best 3.60 GAA along with 2 shutouts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 47], "content_span": [48, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095137-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 RFU Knockout Cup\nThe 1972\u201373 RFU Knockout Cup was the second edition of England's premier rugby union club competition at the time. Coventry won the competition defeating Bristol in the final. In the final John Pullin was stretchered off after only a few minutes with a leg injury that resulted in Bristol playing most of the match with 14 men. The final was held at Twickenham Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095138-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Rangers F.C. season\nThe 1972\u201373 season was the 93rd season of competitive football by Rangers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095138-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Rangers F.C. season, Overview\nRangers played a total of 53 competitive matches during the 1972\u201373 season. The season was the club's centenary year. After a stuttering start to the league campaign, three defeats and a draw from the first six matches, the sides fortunes greatly improved. From October to the end of the season Rangers suffered only one league defeat, at home to Hearts on 2 December 1972, and went on a run of sixteen wins. However this run was not enough to become league champions as the side finished second, one point behind Celtic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095138-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Rangers F.C. season, Overview\nIn the cup competitions, the Scottish Cup campaign was to culminate in a 3\u20132 win over Celtic. The final was attended by Princess Alexandra along with 122,714 other spectators. It was Rangers first Scottish Cup win in seven years. The League Cup run was ended in the semi-finals at the hands of Hibernian after a 1\u20130 defeat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095138-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Rangers F.C. season, Overview\nThis season also saw Rangers compete in the first ever European Super Cup. The side played the European Cup holders Ajax in January 1973. The Dutch side were the only continental opposition the side faced that season due to the club's European competition ban. In the end Ajax proved too strong and recorded a 6\u20133 aggregate win, with Rangers losing 1\u20133 at Ibrox and 3\u20132 in Amsterdam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095139-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Ranji Trophy\nThe 1972\u201373 Ranji Trophy was the 39th season of the Ranji Trophy. Bombay won their 15th title in a row defeating Tamil Nadu in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095139-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Ranji Trophy, Knockout stage\n(T) - Advanced to next round by spin of coin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 36], "content_span": [37, 82]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095140-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Real Madrid CF season\nThe 1972\u201373 season is Real Madrid Club de F\u00fatbol's 70th season in existence and the club's 41st consecutive season in the top flight of Spanish football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095140-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Real Madrid CF season, Summary\nThe club finished a disappointing fourth in the league five points behind champions Atl\u00e9tico Madrid. Meanwhile, in the Copa del General\u00edsimo the team was eliminated early in the eightfinals by Sporting Gij\u00f3n, losing the away game 0\u20131 and achieving a miserable draw 1\u20131 at Santiago Bernab\u00e9u Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095140-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Real Madrid CF season, Summary\nDuring February Santiago Bernabeu visited Israel and gave a medal to Moshe Dayan a gesture which severed relations with Francisco Franco and becoming crutial to deny Governmente support for a new stadium project.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095140-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Real Madrid CF season, Summary\nThe squad reached the semi-finals of the European Cup where it was defeated twice by the defending champions and future winners Ajax Amsterdam who would go on to repeat their success in the following season, making it three in a row. President Santiago Bernab\u00e9u attended the Final himself expecting to sign Ajax starplayer Johan Cruyff who instead was ultimately signed by archrivals CF Barcelona during the summer transfer window.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095140-0004-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Real Madrid CF season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095141-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Regionalliga\nThe 1972\u201373 Regionalliga was the tenth season of the Regionalliga, the second tier of the German football league system. The league operated in five regional divisions, Berlin, North, South, Southwest and West. The five league champions and all five runners-up, at the end of the season, entered a promotion play-off to determine the two clubs to move up to the Bundesliga for the next season. Both promotion spots went to the Regionalliga West with Rot-Wei\u00df Essen and Fortuna K\u00f6ln promoted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095141-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Regionalliga, Regionalliga Nord\nThe 1972\u201373 season saw two new clubs in the league, VfB Oldenburg and SV Meppen, both promoted from the Amateurliga, while no club had been relegated from the Bundesliga to the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095141-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Regionalliga, Regionalliga Berlin\nThe 1972\u201373 season saw two new clubs in the league, BFC Preussen and Rot-Wei\u00df Neuk\u00f6lln, both promoted from the Amateurliga Berlin, while no club had been relegated from the Bundesliga to the league. The league played a home-and-away round, after which it was split into a championship and relegation round. Former Bundesliga club Tasmania 1900 Berlin became insolvent at the end of the 1972\u201373 season and folded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095141-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Regionalliga, Regionalliga West\nThe 1972\u201373 season saw four new clubs in the league, 1. FC M\u00fclheim and Sportfreunde Siegen, both promoted from the Verbandsliga, while Arminia Bielefeld, as part of the Bundesliga scandal, and Borussia Dortmund had been relegated from the Bundesliga to the league. Eintracht Gelsenkirchen merged at the end of the 1972\u201373 season with STV Horst-Emscher to form Eintracht Gelsenkirchen-Horst.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095141-0004-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Regionalliga, Regionalliga S\u00fcdwest\nThe 1972\u201373 season saw two new clubs in the league, VfB Theley and Sportfreunde Eisbachtal, both promoted from the Amateurliga, while no club had been relegated from the Bundesliga to the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 42], "content_span": [43, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095141-0005-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Regionalliga, Regionalliga S\u00fcd\nThe 1972\u201373 season saw three new clubs in the league, SV Waldhof Mannheim, VfR Oli B\u00fcrstadt and FC Wacker M\u00fcnchen, all three promoted from the Amateurliga, while no club had been relegated from the Bundesliga to the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 38], "content_span": [39, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095142-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Rheinlandliga\nThe 1972\u201373 Rheinlandliga was the 21st season of the highest amateur class of the Rhineland Football Association under the name of 1. Amateurliga Rheinland. It was a predecessor of today's Rheinlandliga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095142-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Rheinlandliga, Results\nLast years relegation team from the Regional League, SpVgg Andernach, became Rhineland champion. SC Oberlahnstein represented Rhineland in the 1973 German Soccer Amateur Championship and lost in the second round to the amateurs of 1. FC Kaiserslautern (S\u00fcdwest). All three newcomers, Eintracht H\u00f6hr-Grenzhausen, Ahrweiler BC and SV Ehrang moved down 2. Amateur league. For the following 1973\u201374 season, SV Speicher, TuS Mayen and SV Ellingen came up from the 2. Amateur League, as well as a descendant from the Regional league, Eintracht Trier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095142-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Rheinlandliga, Results\nSC Oberlahnstein and SV Niederlahnstein merged after the season to become SG Eintracht Lahnstein.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095143-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Rochdale A.F.C. season\nThe 1972\u201373 season saw Rochdale compete for their 4th consecutive season in the Football League Third Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095144-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Roller Hockey Champions Cup\nThe 1972\u201373 Roller Hockey Champions Cup was the 8th edition of the Roller Hockey Champions Cup organized by CERH.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095144-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Roller Hockey Champions Cup, Teams\nThe champions of the main European leagues, and Reus Deportiu as title holders, played this competition, consisting in a double-legged knockout tournament. As Reus Deportiu was also the Spanish league champions, Barcelona also joined the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 42], "content_span": [43, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095145-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Romanian Hockey League season\nThe 1972\u201373 Romanian Hockey League season was the 43rd season of the Romanian Hockey League. Four teams participated in the league, and Dinamo Bucuresti won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095146-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Rugby Union County Championship\nThe 1972\u201373 Rugby Union County Championship was the 73rd edition of England's County Championship rugby union club competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095146-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Rugby Union County Championship\nLancashire won their ninth title after defeating Gloucestershire in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095147-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 S.L. Benfica season\nThe 1972\u201373 season was Sport Lisboa e Benfica's 69th season in existence and the club's 39th consecutive season in the top flight of Portuguese football, covering the period from 1 July 1972 to 30 June 1973. Benfica competed domestically in the Primeira Divis\u00e3o and the Ta\u00e7a de Portugal, and participated in the European Cup after winning the previous league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095147-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 S.L. Benfica season\nAfter securing back-to-back league titles, Jimmy Hagan remained for a third year. Benfica signed Manuel Bento, Nelinho and brought back Augusto Matine. A late start to the pre-season did not hurt Benfica domestically, who started his league campaign with easy wins. However, in the European Cup, after passing Malm\u00f6 FF, they lost 3\u20130 on aggregate with Derby County in the second round and were knocked-out. Leaving only the domestic competitions to battle for, Benfica kept his winning pace and recorded win after win, despite difficult wins against Porto in November and CUF in December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095147-0001-0001", "contents": "1972\u201373 S.L. Benfica season\nLapping the first half of the season with 15 wins in 15 games, Benfica already had an eight-point lead over second place Belenenses. Another hard-fought win followed with Beira-Mar in January, but Benfica remained undisturbed and with 23 consecutive wins, they won their 20th league title on 11 March. They were finally stopped by Porto in Est\u00e1dio das Antas on 1 April, but still a European record for most consecutive domestic wins with 29, dating back to April 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095147-0001-0002", "contents": "1972\u201373 S.L. Benfica season\nA week later, they also lost their domestic invincibility when Leix\u00f5es defeated them for the Portuguese Cup, ending over one-year of undefeated streak. In final part of the season, Benfica drew again with Atl\u00e9tico but remained undefeated winning 28 games in 30, setting a record for longest distance for second place with 18 points. Eus\u00e9bio with 40 goals was the European Golden Shoe for his second time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095147-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary\nBenfica started the new season as back-to-back champions and Ta\u00e7a de Portugal holders. For the third year of Jimmy Hagan, Benfica made some squad adjustments, signing a promising young goalkeeper; Manuel Bento, another right winger; Nelinho and bringing back Augusto Matine, who excelled at Vit\u00f3ria de Set\u00fabal. Hagan's staff also changed, with assistant manager Jos\u00e9 Augusto resigning, being replaced by Fernando Cabrita. The pre-season only started on 16 August because 12 players of Benfica took part in the Brazil Independence Cup, so their vacation was pushed forward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095147-0002-0001", "contents": "1972\u201373 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary\nAt the end of the competition on 9 July, they all returned to Benfica to play two friendlies with Sporting in Foxborough, Massachusetts, on 16 and 23 July. Benfica's preparations included the Ram\u00f3n de Carranza Trophy on 26 and 27 August, and they completed the pre-season with a tour in Indonesia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095147-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary\nThe league campaign started on 9 September, with a home win with Leix\u00f5es. On the following Wednesday, Benfica also began his European Cup campaign, losing 1\u20130 with Malm\u00f6 FF. In the return leg, Benfica beat them by 4\u20131 and qualified for the second round. In the domestic campaign, on 8 October, Benfica defeated Sporting by 4\u20131 with four goals from Eus\u00e9bio. With the win, Benfica opened a two-point lead over their rivals. They continued on their winning run, beating Belenenses at home by 5\u20130 on match-day 7. With seven wins in seven matches, their lead was now three points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 619]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095147-0003-0001", "contents": "1972\u201373 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary\nBack on the European stage, Benfica visited Baseball Ground to face Derby County on 25 October. Three first-half goals from Derby County surprised Benfica, who failed to react and lost 3\u20130. Before the second leg, Benfica played the Cl\u00e1ssico with Porto for the Primeira Divis\u00e3o. Porto scored first and was winning by 2\u20130 until the 78th minute, when Benfica scored the 1\u20132 with the result eventually being a 3\u20132 win for Benfica. Three days later, on 8 November, Benfica was knocked-out of the European Cup after a 0\u20130 draw with Derby County.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095147-0003-0002", "contents": "1972\u201373 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary\nNow solely focused on the league campaign, Benfica kept their winning record in November after beating Vit\u00f3ria de Guimar\u00e3es, ending the month with a six-point lead over Belenenses. In early December, the team was nearly stopped by CUF, if it was not for a 90th-minute goal from Eus\u00e9bio. On 17 December, Benfica finished the first half of the season with an away win against Montijo. Accounting for wins all the matches played, Benfica had now an eight-point lead over second place Belenenses and had scored 49 goals and conceded just five. Before closing December, Benfica conquered another Ta\u00e7a de Honra by beating Atl\u00e9tico on penalties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 682]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095147-0004-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary\nIn the opening month of 1973, Benfica again experienced a difficult away win, the opponent being Beira-Mar. Artur Jorge scored the winning goal on the 87th minute. With 18 wins in 18 match-days, Benfica's lead at this point was nine points. They closed the month with an away win in Est\u00e1dio de Alvalade against Sporting. Benfica had now a 10-point advantage over Belenenses and 16 over Sporting. In February, the team went on a tour in South east Asia, playing in Hong Kong, Macau and Jakarta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095147-0004-0001", "contents": "1972\u201373 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary\nThe Primeira Divis\u00e3o resumed in latter part of the month and for the last match in February, Benfica visited Est\u00e1dio do Restelo to face Belenenses. They defeated them by 2\u20130. With 22 wins in 22 matches, Benfica's lead was now 13 points. On 11 March, on match-day 23, Benfica beat Vit\u00f3ria de Set\u00fabal at home by 3\u20130. With a 14\u2013point lead with seven match-days to go, Benfica secured their 20th league title after 23 consecutive wins. Having already won the league, Benfica visited Est\u00e1dio das Antas on 1 April, to play Porto.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095147-0004-0002", "contents": "1972\u201373 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary\nThey drew 2\u20132 after an controversial late penalty signalled by Ant\u00f3nio Garrido, stopping their winning run. Still, Benfica had set a European record for consecutive wins in domestic league. It had started on 9 April 1972, on match-day 25 from 1971\u201372 and lasted nearly a full year. Competition continued on 8 April, with Benfica facing Leix\u00f5es for the Portuguese Cup. They lost 2\u20130 and ended one-year and 13 days of domestic invincibility. The final part of the season was solely focused on making Eus\u00e9bio win the European Golden Shoe, as M\u00fcller was his main contestant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095147-0004-0003", "contents": "1972\u201373 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary\nAfter another four wins and second draw, with Atl\u00e9tico, M\u00fcller and Eus\u00e9bio were tied with 36 goals, leaving everything for the last match-day. With four goals in a 6\u20130 win over Montijo, Eus\u00e9bio reached 40 and confirmed his second Golden Shoe. Benfica had ended the league undefeated with 28 wins and two draws, 58 points in 60 possible, 18 points ahead of second place, setting a new domestic record for difference over second place. They also scored 101 goals and conceded only 13, a goal difference of 88 goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095147-0005-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 S.L. Benfica season, Player statistics\nThe squad for the season consisted of the players listed in the tables below, as well as staff member Jimmy Hagan (manager), Fernando Cabrita (assistant manager), Fernando Neves (Director of Football).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095147-0006-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 S.L. Benfica season, Player statistics\nNote 1: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095147-0007-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 S.L. Benfica season, Player statistics\nNote 2: Players with squad numbers marked \u2021 joined the club during the 1972-73 season via transfer, with more details in the following section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095148-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 SK Rapid Wien season\nThe 1972\u201373 SK Rapid Wien season was the 75th season in club history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095149-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 SM-sarja season\nThe 1972\u201373 SM-sarja season was the 42nd season of the SM-sarja, the top level of ice hockey in Finland. 10 teams participated in the league, and Jokerit Helsinki won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095150-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 San Diego Conquistadors season\nThe 1972\u201373 San Diego Conquistadors season was the 1st season of the San Diego Conquistadors in the American Basketball Association. The Conquistadors were the first and only expansion team of the ABA, made to make the league have 10 teams, with Dr. Leonard Bloom granted a team for $1 million. But a feud with Peter Graham, proprietor of the San Diego Sports Arena due to Graham being bitter for not being granted the team meant that the team would play their games in the 3,200 capacity Peterson Gym.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095150-0000-0001", "contents": "1972\u201373 San Diego Conquistadors season\nThe first game was a Friday night on October 13, 1972 versus the Denver Rockets, which they lost 100\u2013109. The Conquistadors had a 16\u201326 first half of the season, with a ten-game losing streak in that half. In the second half, they went 21\u201321, with a nine-game losing streak in there, though they have a five-game winning streak near the end of the season that rose their win total from 25 to 30. The Q's managed to get into the playoffs due to the Dallas Chaparrals losing to the Denver Rockets on March 25. They finished 9th in points scored with 109.0 points per game and 7th in points allowed with 113.2 points per game. They faced off against the Utah Stars in the playoffs, but they were swept in four games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 752]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095150-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 San Diego Conquistadors season, Awards and honors\n1973 ABA All-Star Game selections (game played on February 6, 1973)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 57], "content_span": [58, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095151-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Scottish Cup\nThe 1972\u201373 Scottish Cup was the 88th staging of Scotland's most prestigious football knockout competition. The Cup was won by Rangers who defeated Celtic in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095152-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Scottish Division One\nThe 1972\u201373 Scottish Division One was won by Celtic, one point ahead of their nearest rival Rangers. Kilmarnock and Airdrieonians finished 17th and 18th respectively and were relegated to the 1973\u201374 Second Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095153-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Scottish Division Two\nThe 1972\u201373 Scottish Second Division was won by Clyde who, along with second placed Dunfermline Athletic, were promoted to the First Division. Brechin City finished bottom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095155-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Scottish Inter-District Championship\nThe 1972\u201373 Scottish Inter-District Championship was a rugby union competition for Scotland's district teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095155-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Scottish Inter-District Championship\nEdinburgh District and Glasgow District shared the competition with 2 wins and 1 loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095155-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Scottish Inter-District Championship\nNorth and Midlands beat South of Scotland for the first time since 1958.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095156-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Scottish League Cup\nThe 1972\u201373 Scottish League Cup was the twenty-seventh season of Scotland's second football knockout competition. The competition was won by Hibernian, who defeated Celtic in the Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095157-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Seattle SuperSonics season\nThe 1972\u201373 Seattle SuperSonics season was the 6th season of the Seattle SuperSonics in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The team finished the regular season in 6th place in the Western Conference with a 26\u201356 record, 21 wins behind the one obtained in their previous season. Head coach Tom Nissalke was fired by the team in January after a 13\u201332 start and was replaced by his assistant Bucky Buckwalter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095157-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Seattle SuperSonics season, Offseason\nThe offseason trade that sent player-coach Lenny Wilkens to the Cleveland Cavaliers was received with shock from fans and the player himself. The trade also sent Barry Clemens to the Cavaliers and brought All-Star Butch Beard to the Sonics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095157-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Seattle SuperSonics season, Offseason\nThe signing of free agent John Brisker cost the SuperSonics a $10,000 fine and the resignation of their 1973 first round draft pick to the Philadelphia 76ers for violation of league rules that prohibited the team to approach Brisker without contacting the Sixers, who selected him in a supplemental draft in 1969 and held the rights to the player. However, Seattle regained its first round pick after an appeal and the Sonics' second round selection was given to the 76ers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095157-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Seattle SuperSonics season, Offseason, Draft picks\nNote: only draft picks who participated in at least one game in the NBA are listed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095158-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Segunda Divisi\u00f3n\nThe 1972\u201373 Segunda Divisi\u00f3n season saw 20 teams participate in the second flight Spanish league. Real Murcia, Elche CF and Racing de Santander were promoted to Primera Divisi\u00f3n. CD Logro\u00f1\u00e9s, Pontevedra CF, Cultural Leonesa and CD Mestalla were relegated to Tercera Divisi\u00f3n.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095159-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Serie A, Teams\nTernana, Lazio and Palermo had been promoted from Serie B.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 22], "content_span": [23, 81]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095160-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Serie A (basketball)\nThe 1972\u201373 Serie A basketball championship was the 50th season of the Serie A, the highest professional basketball league in Italy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095160-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Serie A (basketball)\nThe regular season ran from 22 October 1972 to 22 April 1973, an expanded league saw fourteen teams play 26 games each. As Ignis Varese and Simmenthal Milano ended joint first with an equal head-to-head record, a single playoff game decided the title for the third year running. Varese won the game, played in Bologna, to reclaim the title from Milano, earning their sixth overall title (and a spot in the European Champions Cup).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095160-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Serie A (basketball), Preseason\nPerennial powerhouses Simmenthal Milano and Ignis Varese were seen as even-matched overwhelming favourites to fight for the title, which Milano had won the previous season following a title playoff game against Ignis. Aspiring team Forst Cant\u00f9, on the back of a good season that had seen them beat Ignis away, were touted as a possible third powerhouse that could join the title fight. At the other end of the spectrum, promoted sides Gamma Varese and Brill Cagliari were the favourites to go back down, with Gorena Padova and Partenope Napoli to possibly join them in the relegation fight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095160-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Serie A (basketball), Preseason\nThe most important squad change saw American Bob Morse replace star Mexican Manuel Raga as Ignis' sole foreigner in the league (they were both allowed to play in European competition) with his adaptation or lack of crucial to their title chances. Though they had lost substitute Tony Gennari to Spl\u00fcgen Venezia, the Nikoli\u0107 coached team had otherwise kept their major Italians such as Dino Meneghin. Simmenthal, coached by Cesare Rubini, trusted their all-action American Art Kenney and their young Italians such as Giulio Iellini and Renzo Bariviera, whilst the form of an ageing Massimo Masini could prove important. The upstarts from Cant\u00f9 meanwhile, counted on the combination of American center Bob Lienhard with promising Italians Pierluigi Marzorati and Carlo Recalcati, whilst Mobilquattro Milano made an important signing in Chuck Jura.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 887]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095160-0004-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Serie A (basketball), Preseason\nLeague regulations called for all clubs to play in arenas holding at least 3,500 spectators but four clubs (Cant\u00f9, Padova, Venezia and Sacl\u00e0 Asti) were given exemptions for the season though their arenas fell short of requirements (Asti's arena hosting only 700 for example).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095160-0005-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Serie A (basketball), Regular season\nThe three favourites initially comfortably raced into a shared lead, this changed with Simmenthal's upset in the fifth round to mid-table Spl\u00fcgen Venezia led by American Steve Hawes and Gennari. The Milanese would recover however, decisively downing Cant\u00f9 87-76 in the first clash between the three top sides on 10 December, using the same starting five (Kenney, Iellini, Masini, Bariviera and Giuseppe Brumatti) for 40 minutes to stifle their opponents' scoring.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095160-0006-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Serie A (basketball), Regular season\nAfter Ignis also downed Cant\u00f9, the title chase reverted to the usual two-horse race between them and Simmenthal, with a clash in Milan on 14 January 1973. The home-side eked out a close 76-72 to go level on points with Ignis. In a game of two halves \u2013 with an entertaining first half (42-40) and a scrappy second one \u2013 Simmenthal won the game on the back of good performances both in attack and defense from Barivera (23 points), Masini and a diminished Kenney (both 14 points). Ignis, meanwhile, relied too heavily on the selfish Morse \u2013 leading the league in scoring \u2013 who scored 29 points (on 14 for 23 shooting) but played his teammates ouf of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 702]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095160-0007-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Serie A (basketball), Regular season\nThe next rounds saw the status quo remain, with the most notable event being an Ignis' 25-point victory over Simmenthal, though this time in the European Champions Cup first semi-final in early March. Ignis played modest Brill Cagliari (before last in the league) in between the two semi-finals, with fatigue and lack of focus certainly playing a part in the surprising 75-76 defeat to the Sardinians that saw Simmenthal overtake them and move into first place by two points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095160-0008-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Serie A (basketball), Regular season\nAfter both beat Cant\u00f9 anew, the title was to be decided once again by the return match between the powerhouses on 18 April, this time in Varese, with the home-team \u2013 unbeaten against Simmenthal at home for nearly eight years \u2013 confident of winning. That prediction proved to be correct as the newly crowned European Champions took the game 90-79, helped by two scoring performances by Ivan Bisson (34 points) and Morse (30 points).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095160-0008-0001", "contents": "1972\u201373 Serie A (basketball), Regular season\nSimmenthal and Varese traded blows equally during the first two quarters, before Kenney struck Meneghin whilst they were fighting for a ball, leaving him with a bloodied nose that took him off the court for the game. Tensions flared after this incident, with the public raging after both the referees (who left the American unpunished) and Kenney, who dominated Meneghin's replacement Ottorino Flaborea to grab offensive rebounds and push Milano in front. However the same Kenney's departure from the court seven minutes into the second half for five fouls, followed three minutes later by Masini for the same reasons, decisively changed the flow of the game in Varese's favour, they soon took a ten-point lead they would not relinquish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 782]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095160-0009-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Serie A (basketball), Regular season\nThe last round unsurprisingly saw both win their games to finish on the same points and head-to-head record, once again creating the need for a one-off play-off game to crown the champion (the third such occurrence in as many years).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095160-0010-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Serie A (basketball), Regular season, Individual scoring table\nSource: unofficial statistics compiled by the Giganti del Basket magazine (official statistics started from the 1975\u201376 season).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 70], "content_span": [71, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095160-0011-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Serie A (basketball), Postseason, Title playoff\nThe title-deciding playoff game was played in Bologna's Palazzo dello Sport on 25 April 1973 in front of 7,000 people. Simmenthal first took a 10-6 lead on the back of Bariviera's efficient marking of Morse, staying ahead for nearly all the first half before Marino Zanatta put Ignis in front 16 minutes in (30-29). The same Zanatta picked up his fourth foul soon after and his absence in defense saw Simmenthal push in front, taking a 63-54 lead 33 minutes in.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095160-0011-0001", "contents": "1972\u201373 Serie A (basketball), Postseason, Title playoff\nHowever, a minute later Kenney departed after committing his fifth foul, followed two minutes later by Bariviera with the score (68-63) still favouring the Milanese though the loss of two of their forwards put them on the back foot. Ignis took advantage of the height differential and their forwards, Meneghin (playing with a face mask to protect his nose), Morse (top-scorer with 31 points) and Bisson (marked by a 12\u00a0cm smaller Brumatti) scored seemingly at will, equalising (68-68) two minutes from the end before racing home to a 74-70 win to claim the title back from Simmenthal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 640]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095160-0012-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Serie A (basketball), Italian Cup\nHolders Simmenthal were surprisingly sent crashing out at the quarterfinal stage by Sacl\u00e0 who were joined in the Brescia-based final four by another promoted side, Cagliari, with the other semi-final pitting Varese against Cant\u00f9. Sacl\u00e0 and Ignis made it to the final, which was easily won 94-65 by the Italian champions, who added the cup to their domestic, European and Intercontinental titles. As they were already qualified for the 1973\u201374 European Champions Cup, Asti took their place in the European Cup Winners' Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095161-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Serie A (ice hockey) season\nThe 1972\u201373 Serie A season was the 39th season of the Serie A, the top level of ice hockey in Italy. Nine teams participated in the league, and HC Bolzano won the championship by defeating SG Cortina in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095162-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Serie B\nThe Serie B 1972\u201373 was the forty-first tournament of this competition played in Italy since its creation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095162-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Serie B, Teams\nLecco, Ascoli and Brindisi had been promoted from Serie C, while Catanzaro, Mantova and Varese had been relegated from Serie A.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 22], "content_span": [23, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095163-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Serie C\nThe 1972\u201373 Serie C was the thirty-fifth edition of Serie C, the third highest league in the Italian football league system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095164-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Serie D\nThe 1972\u201373 Serie D was the twenty-third edition of Serie D, the fourth highest league in the Italian football league system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095164-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Serie D\nA total of 162 teams contested the league, divided into nine groups (in Italian: Gironi) of 18 teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095165-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Sheffield Shield season\nThe 1972\u201373 Sheffield Shield season was the 71st season of the Sheffield Shield, the domestic first-class cricket competition of Australia. Western Australia won the championship. The points system changed with ten points now awarded for a win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095166-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Shell Shield season\nThe 1972\u201373 Shell Shield season was the seventh edition of what is now the Regional Four Day Competition, the domestic first-class cricket competition for the countries of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB). The tournament was sponsored by Royal Dutch Shell, with matches played from 6 January to 1 March 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095166-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Shell Shield season\nFive teams contested the competition \u2013 Barbados, the Combined Islands, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago. Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago were both undefeated, either winning or drawing all of their games, but Guyana finished with more points, claiming their maiden title. Jamaican batsman Maurice Foster led the tournament in runs for a second consecutive season, while Guyanese off-spinner Lance Gibbs was the leading wicket-taker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095166-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Shell Shield season, Statistics, Most runs\nThe top five run-scorers are included in this table, listed by runs scored and then by batting average.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095166-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Shell Shield season, Statistics, Most wickets\nThe top five wicket-takers are listed in this table, listed by wickets taken and then by bowling average.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095167-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 South Carolina Gamecocks men's basketball team\nThe 1972\u201373 South Carolina Gamecocks men's basketball team represented the University of South Carolina during the 1972\u201373 men's college basketball season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095168-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 South Pacific cyclone season\nThe 1972\u201373 South Pacific cyclone season ran year-round from July 1 to June 30. Tropical cyclone activity in the Southern Hemisphere reaches its peak from mid-February to early March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095168-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 South Pacific cyclone season, Systems, Severe Tropical Cyclone Bebe\nTropical Cyclone Bebe was a pre-season storm that impacted the Gilbert, Ellice, and Fiji island groups. First spotted on October\u00a020, the system intensified and grew in size through October\u00a022. Its course began along a south-southwest trajectory before recurving near the 14th\u00a0parallel south, which resulted in a south-southeast motion through the western portion of the Fiji island group. It became the first cyclone to impact Fiji since 1952. On October\u00a024, winds of 150 knots (280\u00a0km/h) or more were reported on Rotuma and Viti Levu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 75], "content_span": [76, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095168-0001-0001", "contents": "1972\u201373 South Pacific cyclone season, Systems, Severe Tropical Cyclone Bebe\nCyclone Bebe passed through Funafuti on Saturday 21st and Sunday 22 October 1972. At about 4 p.m. on the 21st, sea water was bubbling through the coral on the airfield with the water reaching a height of about 4\u00a0\u20135 feet high. The Ellice Islands Colony's ship Moanaraoi was in the lagoon and survived, however 3 tuna boats were wrecked. Waves broke over the atoll. Five people died, two adults and a 3 month old child were swept away by waves, and two sailors from the tuna boats were drowned. Cyclone Bebe knocked down 90% of the houses and trees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 75], "content_span": [76, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095168-0001-0002", "contents": "1972\u201373 South Pacific cyclone season, Systems, Severe Tropical Cyclone Bebe\nThe storm surge created a wall of coral rubble along the ocean side of Funafuti and Funafala that was about ten to twelve miles long, and about ten to twenty feet thick at the bottom. The cyclone submerged Funafuti and sources of drinking water were contaminated as a result of the system's storm surge and fresh water flooding. After passing by the archipelago, Bebe transitioned into an extratropical cyclone, with the remnants last noted on October 28. A total of 28\u00a0people died and thousands were left homeless. Damages totaled $20\u00a0million (1972 USD).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 75], "content_span": [76, 631]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095169-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season\nThe 1972\u201373 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season was an above-average cyclone season. The season officially ran from November 1, 1972, to April 30, 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095169-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Severe Tropical Storm Ariane\nAriana passed north of Mauritius and later executed a loop southeast of the island. The storm brought heavy rainfall and wind gusts of 92\u00a0km/h (57\u00a0mph).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 85], "content_span": [86, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095169-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Moderate Tropical Storm Charlotte\nCharlotte passed just southwest of R\u00e9union on January 8, producing 102\u00a0km/h (63\u00a0mph) wind gusts, as well as heavy rainfall reaching 813\u00a0mm (32.0\u00a0in) at Riviere de L'Est. The rains damaged crops and flooded roads, which killed one person due to drowning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 90], "content_span": [91, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095169-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Moderate Tropical Storm Dorothee\nDorothee produced a series of thunderstorms on R\u00e9union while the storm passed to the southwest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 89], "content_span": [90, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095169-0004-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Intense Tropical Cyclone Leila\u2013Gertrude\nCyclone Gertrude brushed eastern Rodrigues on January 31, producing 169\u00a0km/h (105\u00a0mph), as well as 296.4\u00a0mm (11.67\u00a0in) of rainfall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 96], "content_span": [97, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095169-0005-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Severe Tropical Storm Hortense\nOn February 2, Hortense passed south of R\u00e9union, bringing rainfall to the island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 87], "content_span": [88, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095169-0006-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Jessy\nOn February 21, Jessy struck Rodrigues, bringing heavy rainfall and 221\u00a0km/h (137\u00a0mph) wind gusts, causing power outages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 79], "content_span": [80, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095169-0007-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Very Intense Tropical Cyclone Lydie\nThis is the first \"Very intense tropical cyclone\" in the South-West Indian Ocean.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 92], "content_span": [93, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095169-0008-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Very Intense Tropical Cyclone Lydie\nOn March\u00a010, Lydie passed west of R\u00e9union, producing wind gusts of 162\u00a0km/h (101\u00a0mph) in the mountainous peaks. For four days, the storm dropped heavy rainfall on the island, reaching 655\u00a0mm (25.8\u00a0in). Flooding killed 10\u00a0people on the island, and caused crop damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 92], "content_span": [93, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095170-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Southern Football League\nThe 1972\u201373 Southern Football League season was the 70th in the history of the league, an English football competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095170-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Southern Football League\nKettering Town won the championship, winning their third Southern League title, whilst Atherstone Town, Grantham, Maidstone United and Tonbridge were all promoted to the Premier Division. Eight Southern League clubs applied to join the Football League at the end of the season, but none were successful.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095170-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Southern Football League, Premier Division\nThe Premier Division consisted of 22 clubs, including 18 clubs from the previous season and four new clubs:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095170-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Southern Football League, Division One North\nDivision One North consisted of 22 clubs, including 13 clubs from the previous season and nine new clubs:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095170-0004-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Southern Football League, Division One North\nAt the end of the season Lockheed Leamington was renamed AP Leamington.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095170-0005-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Southern Football League, Division One South\nDivision One South consisted of 22 clubs, including 13 clubs from the previous season and nine new clubs:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095170-0006-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Southern Football League, Football League elections\nAlongside the four League clubs facing re-election, a total of 10 non-League clubs applied for election, eight of which were Southern League clubs. All the League clubs were re-elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095171-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Soviet Cup (ice hockey)\nThe 1972\u201373 Soviet Cup was the 15th edition of the Soviet Cup ice hockey tournament. 28 teams participated in the tournament, which was won by CSKA Moscow, who claimed their ninth title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095172-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Soviet League season\nThe 1972\u201373 Soviet Championship League season was the 27th season of the Soviet Championship League, the top level of ice hockey in the Soviet Union. Nine teams participated in the league, and CSKA Moscow won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095173-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Spartan League\nThe 1972\u201373 Spartan League season was the 55th in the history of Spartan League. The league consisted of 18 teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095173-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Spartan League, League table\nThe division featured 18 teams, 16 from last season and 2 new teams:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 36], "content_span": [37, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095174-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 St. John's Redmen basketball team\nThe 1972\u201373 St. John's Redmen basketball team represented St. John's University during the 1972\u201373 NCAA University Division men's basketball season. The team was coached by Frank Mulzoff in his third year at the school. St. John's home games are played at Alumni Hall and Madison Square Garden.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095175-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 St. Louis Blues season\nThe 1972\u201373 St. Louis Blues season was the St. Louis Blues' sixth season in the National Hockey League (NHL).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095175-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 St. Louis Blues season, Playoffs\nDespite having a 32\u201334\u201312 record, the Blues managed to clinch a playoff spot. However, they lost in the first round to the Chicago Blackhawks 4\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095176-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Stoke City F.C. season\nThe 1972\u201373 season was Stoke City's 66th season in the Football League and the 42nd in the First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095176-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Stoke City F.C. season\nAfter the jubilation of last season's success the club was able to sign world cup winner Geoff Hurst which boosted season ticket sales. They also entered European competition for the first time losing 5\u20133 on aggregate to German side 1. FC Kaiserslautern. Stoke failed to build on last season and had to settle for a mid table position of 15th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095176-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Stoke City F.C. season, Season review, League\nAfter winning the League Cup last season there was a number of notable departures during the early part of the season. They sold Mike Bernard to Everton for a record \u00a3140,000, with the money being spent on Jimmy Robertson from Ipswich Town and World Cup winner Geoff Hurst from West Ham United. Stoke now had an abundance of attacking talent but both Harry Burrows and Peter Dobing decided to retire during the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095176-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Stoke City F.C. season, Season review, League\nThe arrival of Hurst certainly boosted season ticket sales and a record takings were banked before a ball was kicked prior to the start of the 1972\u201373 season. It proved that the public of Stoke-on-Trent were now right behind the team but despite high hopes and expectations, the \"Potters\" started the new campaign rather poorly and found themselves in the bottom six. Stoke's immediate plans were hit when on the Sunday morning of 22 October 1972 after visiting the Victoria Ground for treatment Gordon Banks crashed his car on the way home and effectively ended his career.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095176-0003-0001", "contents": "1972\u201373 Stoke City F.C. season, Season review, League\nSuch was the scale of Banks' presence his condition was headline news. Realising that Banks was to be out of action for quite some time Waddington moved in for Scotland international Bobby Clark, but the deal fell through as he failed to impress the Stoke directors. Mike McDonald was signed instead from Clydebank as cover for John Farmer after it was learnt that Banks had lost an eye and would never play competitive football again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095176-0004-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Stoke City F.C. season, Season review, League\nGeorge Eastham returned to the club in February after spending time doing coaching work in South Africa, he added his experience to the cause as he helped Stoke to recover and take 15th place. Three players reached double figures in the league scoring charts this term, Jimmy Greenhoff (16), John Ritchie (14) and Geoff Hurst (10) as Stoke scored 61 goals. They ended the season with a tour of Oceania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095176-0005-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Stoke City F.C. season, Season review, FA Cup\nIn the FA Cup Stoke went out in the third round losing 3\u20132 to Manchester City at Maine Road.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095176-0006-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Stoke City F.C. season, Season review, League Cup\nAs holders of the League Cup, Stoke started off with high hopes of retaining the trophy and they began with good wins over Sunderland (3\u20130) and Ipswich Town (2\u20131) but a bad night at Notts County (1\u20133) in the fourth round put paid to any hopes of a return to Wembley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095176-0007-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Stoke City F.C. season, Season review, UEFA Cup\nTheir success in the 1972 Football League Cup Final, had placed them into a European competition for the first time, and they drew little known West German side 1. FC Kaiserslautern in the first round. A comfortable 3\u20131 home win was achieved in the first leg and two weeks later Waddington favoured a defensive team for the match at the Fritz-Walter-Stadion. The plan backed fired and Stoke were crushed 4\u20130 with John Ritchie being sent-off just seconds after being brought on as a substitute without even touching the ball.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 55], "content_span": [56, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095177-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Sussex County Football League\nThe 1972\u201373 Sussex County Football League season was the 48th in the history of Sussex County Football League a football competition in England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095177-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Sussex County Football League, Division One\nDivision One featured 13 clubs which competed in the division last season, along with two new clubs, promoted from Division Two:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 51], "content_span": [52, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095177-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Sussex County Football League, Division Two\nDivision Two featured twelve clubs which competed in the division last season, along with one new club, relegated from Division One:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 51], "content_span": [52, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095178-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Swedish Division I season\nThe 1972\u201373 Swedish Division I season was the 29th season of Swedish Division I. Leksands IF won the league title by finishing first in the final round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095179-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Tercera Divisi\u00f3n\nThe 1972\u201373 Tercera Divisi\u00f3n season is the 39th since its establishment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095180-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Texaco Cup\nThe 1972\u201373 Texaco Cup was the third edition of the tournament sponsored by Texaco. It was won by Ipswich Town, who beat Norwich City in a two-legged final by 4\u20132 on aggregate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095181-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Texas Tech Red Raiders basketball team\nThe 1972\u201373 Texas Tech Red Raiders men's basketball team represented Texas Tech University in the Southwest Conference during the 1972\u201373 NCAA University Division men's basketball season. The head coach was Gerald Myers, his 3rd year with the team. The Red Raiders played their home games in the Lubbock Municipal Coliseum in Lubbock, Texas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095182-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Toronto Maple Leafs season\nThe 1972\u201373 Toronto Maple Leafs season was Toronto's 56th season in the National Hockey League (NHL). The Leafs slipped to sixth place in the East and missed the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095182-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Toronto Maple Leafs season, Offseason\nToronto lost Bernie Parent, Rick Ley, Brad Selwood, Guy Trottier and Larry Pleau, who jumped to the new World Hockey Association (WHA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095182-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Toronto Maple Leafs season, Transactions\nThe Maple Leafs have been involved in the following transactions during the 1972\u201373 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 48], "content_span": [49, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095182-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Toronto Maple Leafs season, Draft picks\nToronto's draft picks at the 1972 NHL Amateur Draft held at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Quebec.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 47], "content_span": [48, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095183-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season\nThe 1972\u201373 saw Tottenham compete in the Football League First Division, the FA Cup the League Cup and the UEFA Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095183-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season, Season summary\nIn the league Tottenham finished in 8th place. In FA Cup the club entered the competition in the third round with an away game against Margate which Tottenham won 6\u20130. In round four Tottenham were drawn against Derby County, with the first game being a draw it required a reply which went to White Hart Lane. In the match Derby came back from 3\u20131 down to win the match on 5\u20133 knocking Tottenham out of the competition. This season saw Tottenham win the League Cup for the second time in their history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095183-0001-0001", "contents": "1972\u201373 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season, Season summary\nThey entered the competition in the second round and made it all the way to the final to face Norwich City. In the final Ralph Coates came off the bench to score the only goal in the game to win the trophy. This also allowed Tottenham to qualify to play in the 1973\u201374 UEFA Cup competition. In the UEFA Cup they reached the semi-finals where they faced Liverpool over the two legs, the first game Liverpool won 1-0 and the second game Tottenham won 2\u20131, leaving a scoreline of 2\u20132 aggregate. However Tottenham were knocked out on the away-goals rule and Liverpool went on the win the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 650]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095183-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 44], "content_span": [45, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095183-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season, Preseason and friendlies\nBefore the season started Tottenham played three away games against Bournemouth, Aton Villa and Scottish club Celtic. Also during the season Spurs played a testimonial match against Dutch side Feyenoord, in honour of Jimmy Greaves which was played at Wembley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 63], "content_span": [64, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095183-0004-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season, Appearances\nSources: League and FA Cup statistics, Europe, UEFA.com\u00a0; League Cup, 11v11.com", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 50], "content_span": [51, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095184-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 UC Irvine Anteaters men's basketball team\nThe 1972\u201373 UC Irvine Anteaters men's basketball team represented the University of California, Irvine during the 1972\u201373 NCAA College Division men's basketball season. The Anteaters were led by fourth year head coach Tim Tift and played their home games at Crawford Hall. The Anteaters finished the season with an overall record of 15\u201313 and were not invited to a post season tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095184-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 UC Irvine Anteaters men's basketball team, Previous season\nThe 1971\u201372 UC Irvine Anteaters men's basketball team finished the season with a record of 16\u201312. They were invited to the 1972 NCAA College Division Basketball Tournament where they lost to Southern Colorado in the regional semifinals and UC Riverside in the regional 3rd place game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 66], "content_span": [67, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095185-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team\nThe 1972\u201373 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team went undefeated again at 30\u20130 and claimed a seventh consecutive national championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095185-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team\nIn the title game of the NCAA Tournament at St. Louis, junior center Bill Walton scored 44 points (21 of 22 field goal attempts) with thirteen rebounds as the top-ranked Bruins defeated #12 Memphis State, 87\u201366. Some regard this as the greatest ever offensive performance in American college basketball. Tied at 39 at halftime, the Bruins dominated the second half and outscored the Tigers, 48\u201327.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095185-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team\nUCLA set a new NCAA record of 75 consecutive wins and a three-season composite record of 89\u20131 (.989).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095186-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 UEFA Cup\nThe 1972\u201373 UEFA Cup was won by Liverpool against Borussia M\u00f6nchengladbach which was played over two legs. The first leg was played at Anfield in Liverpool where Liverpool won the match 3\u20130. The second leg moved to Germany where M\u00f6nchengladbach won the match 2\u20130 for a final out come of 3\u20132 on aggregate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095186-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 UEFA Cup, Second round, Second leg\n2\u20132 on aggregate; Vit\u00f3ria de Set\u00fabal won on away goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 42], "content_span": [43, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095187-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 United Counties League\nThe 1972\u201373 United Counties League season was the 66th in the history of the United Counties League, a football competition in England. At the end of the previous season leagues top division was renamed Premier Division, while lower divisions was renamed Division One and Division Two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095187-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 United Counties League, Premier Division\nThe Premier Division featured 14 clubs which competed in the division last season, along with two new clubs:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095187-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 United Counties League, Division One\nThe previous season Division Two changed name to Division One before this season. The Division One featured 17 clubs which competed in the Division Two last season, along with 2 new clubs:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 44], "content_span": [45, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095187-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 United Counties League, Division Two\nThe previous season Division Three changed name to Division Two before this season. The Division Two featured 18 clubs which competed in the Division Three last season, no new clubs joined the division this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 44], "content_span": [45, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095188-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 United States network television schedule\nThe following is the 1972\u201373 network television schedule for the three major English language commercial broadcast networks in the United States. The schedule covers primetime hours from September 1972 through August 1973. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series cancelled after the 1971\u201372 season. All times are Eastern and Pacific, with certain exceptions, such as Monday Night Football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095188-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 United States network television schedule\nEach of the 30 highest-rated shows is listed with its rank and rating as determined by Nielsen Media Research.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095188-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 United States network television schedule\nNote: This was the first full season in which all networks, on every day of the week except for Sunday, started airing programs at 8:00 instead of 7:30, as dictated by the FCC under its Prime Time Access Rule, intended to increase diversity in programming.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095188-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 United States network television schedule\nPBS is not included; member stations have local flexibility over most of their schedules and broadcast times for network shows may vary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095188-0004-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 United States network television schedule, Sunday\nNote: 60 Minutes aired at 6:00-7:00 pm on CBS from January to June 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 57], "content_span": [58, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095188-0005-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 United States network television schedule, Wednesday\nNote: Dan August consisted of reruns of the 1970-1971 ABC series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 60], "content_span": [61, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095188-0006-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 United States network television schedule, Friday\nNote: Ghost Story was retooled slightly and retitled Circle of Fear (under the same production team) with the episode broadcast January 5, 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 57], "content_span": [58, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095188-0007-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 United States network television schedule, By network, NBC\nNote: The * indicates that the program was introduced in midseason.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 66], "content_span": [67, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095189-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 United States network television schedule (daytime)\nThe 1972\u201373 daytime network television schedule for the three major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the weekday and weekend daytime hours from September 1972 to August 1973. All times are Eastern and Pacific.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095189-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 United States network television schedule (daytime)\nTalk shows are highlighted in yellow, local programming is white, reruns of older programming are orange, game shows are pink, soap operas are chartreuse, news programs are gold, children's shows are light purple and sports programs are light blue. New series are highlighted in bold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095189-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 United States network television schedule (daytime), Saturday\nIn the News aired after all of CBS' Saturday morning shows except Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, and CBS Children's Film Festival. ABC debuts Multiplication Rock (a series of three-minute animated educational shorts shown in between programs) on January 6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 69], "content_span": [70, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095189-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 United States network television schedule (daytime), Sources\nCastleman & Podrazik, The TV Schedule Book, McGraw-Hill Paperbacks, 1984.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [61, 68], "content_span": [69, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095190-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 United States network television schedule (late night)\nThese are the late night Monday-Friday schedules on all three networks for each calendar season beginning September 1972. All times are Eastern/Pacific.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095190-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 United States network television schedule (late night)\nTalk/Variety shows are highlighted in yellow, Local News & Programs are highlighted in white.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095191-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Utah Stars season\nThe 1972\u201373 Utah Stars season was the 3rd season of the Stars in Utah and 6th overall in the American Basketball Association. They finished 1st in points scored at 115.6 per game, and 3rd in points allowed at 110.0 per game. In the first half of the season, they were 26\u201316, with a ten game winning streak in that half, along with a five game losing streak, both team highs for the season. In the second half, they went 29\u201313. In the playoffs, the Stars swept the San Diego Conquistadors in the Semifinals, but they lost to the Indiana Pacers in the Division Finals. After the season, Andersen resigned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095191-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Utah Stars season, Awards and honors\n1973 ABA All-Star Game selections (game played on February 6, 1973)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 44], "content_span": [45, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095192-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Vancouver Canucks season\nThe 1972\u201373 Vancouver Canucks season was the team's 3rd in the NHL. Vancouver finished 7th in the East Division for the second consecutive season, failing to reach the playoffs again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095192-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Vancouver Canucks season, Draft picks\nVancouver's picks at the 1972 NHL Amateur Draft. The draft was held at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Quebec.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 45], "content_span": [46, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095193-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 VfL Bochum season\nThe 1972\u201373 VfL Bochum season was the 35th season in club history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095194-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Virginia Squires season\nThe 1972\u201373 Virginia Squires season was the third season of the Virginia Squires in the American Basketball Association. The Squires had one of their victories due to forfeit, on October 26, when the Denver Rockets forfeited to them. The Squires had a 21\u201321 first half with, a five-game winning streak in that half. In the second half, they finished the same, though they did lose five straight games near the end of the season. They finished 4th in points scored at 114.1 per game and 8th in points allowed at 114.4 per game. This was the debut season of future Hall of Famer George Gervin. In the Division Semifinals, the Squires lost in five games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 683]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095194-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Virginia Squires season, Awards and honors\n1973 ABA All-Star Game selections (game played on February 6, 1973)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095195-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 WCHL season\nThe 1972\u201373 WCHL season was the seventh season of the Western Canada Hockey League. Twelve teams completed a 68-game season, with the Medicine Hat Tigers winning the President's Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095195-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 WCHL season, Regular season, Scoring leaders\nNote: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalties in minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 52], "content_span": [53, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095195-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 WCHL season, All-Star game\nThe 1972\u201373 WCHL All-Star Game was held in Medicine Hat, Alberta, with the West Division All-Stars defeating the East Division All-Stars 6\u20131 before a crowd of 5,336.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095196-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 WHA All-Star Game\nThe 1972\u201373 World Hockey Association All-Star Game was held in the Le Colis\u00e9e in Quebec City, home of the Quebec Nordiques, on January 6, 1973. The East All-Stars defeated the West All-Stars 5\u20132. Wayne Carleton was named the game's most valuable player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095196-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 WHA All-Star Game, Team Lineups, West All-Stars\nG = Goaltender; D = Defenceman; C = Center; LW = Left Wing; RW = Right Wing", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 55], "content_span": [56, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095197-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 WHA season\nThe 1972\u201373 WHA season was the first season of the World Hockey Association (WHA). Twelve teams played 78 games each. The league was officially incorporated in June of 1971 by Gary Davidson and Dennis A. Murphy and promised to ice twelve teams in various markets around Canada and the United States. The league championship trophy, the Avco World Trophy, was donated by AVCO Financial Services Corporation along with $500,000. The New England Whalers won the first Avco World Trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095197-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 WHA season, 1972 General Player Draft\nThe WHA's inaugural player draft was held in Anaheim, California on February 12 and 13, 1972. All 12 WHA franchises took part in the draft. There were no drafting constraints, and the WHA teams selected players from all levels of play, including established National Hockey League players, minor leaguers, college, junior players, Europeans, and even retired players. The first player selected in the general draft was United States men's national ice hockey team member Henry Boucha, taken by the Minnesota Fighting Saints (who also selected the Governor of Minnesota, Wendell Anderson, with a late pick).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 45], "content_span": [46, 652]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095197-0001-0001", "contents": "1972\u201373 WHA season, 1972 General Player Draft\nAfter 70 rounds the Winnipeg Jets selected Soviet premier Alexei Kosygin and then stopped participating in the draft, while the other teams continued making selections. This process continued, with teams arbitrarily dropping out from the draft, while others kept going, until attrition finally ended the process. The final two teams participating in this draft were the Dayton Aeros and the Los Angeles Sharks. In all, just under 1100 selections were made by the 12 teams, who could now focus their efforts on signing players for the first season of play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 45], "content_span": [46, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095197-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 WHA season, Regular season summary\nThe first WHA games, on October 11, 1972, were won by the Alberta Oilers 7-4 over the Ottawa Nationals and the Cleveland Crusaders 2-0 over the Quebec Nordiques.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 42], "content_span": [43, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095197-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 WHA season, Regular season summary\nThe WHA was split into two divisions, the Eastern Division and the Western Division. Each division sported six teams. The New England Whalers led the Eastern Division and had the best record in the league. The other playoff qualifiers in the East were Cleveland, Philadelphia, and Ottawa. The Winnipeg Jets led the Western Division and had the second best record in the league. Behind Winnipeg, the West had a thrilling race with four teams fighting for three playoff spots, trading second through fifth place all season. Houston won three of its last four games to finish second with 82 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 42], "content_span": [43, 638]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095197-0003-0001", "contents": "1972\u201373 WHA season, Regular season summary\nWith two games remaining, Minnesota had 79 points, Alberta had 77, and Los Angeles had 76. Los Angeles won their last two games to finish third, while Minnesota and Alberta both lost their next to last game of the season, setting up a final game showdown in Minnesota against each other with Minnesota two points ahead of Alberta. Alberta won the game 5-3, so both teams finished with identical records. The league now faced a dilemma. The first standings tiebreaker was number of wins, and the teams both had 38.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 42], "content_span": [43, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095197-0003-0002", "contents": "1972\u201373 WHA season, Regular season summary\nThe second tiebreaker was head to head record and the teams split their eight games with four wins apiece. The league by-laws did not specify further tiebreakers. In the NHL, the next two tie breakers were goal differential and goals scored, both of which favored Alberta. But because the WHA by-laws did not specify additional tiebreakers, the league Board of Governors met to decide how to break the tie. They ultimately decided on a 1-game playoff at a neutral site. The Alberta Oilers missed the playoffs, despite having a superior goal-differential to the Minnesota Fighting Saints, because they lost the neutral-site, tie-breaking game against the Saints in Calgary by a score of 4-2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 42], "content_span": [43, 733]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095197-0004-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 WHA season, Regular season summary, Final standings\nGP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against, PIM = Penalties in minutesTeams that qualifies for the playoffs are highlighted in bold", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 59], "content_span": [60, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095197-0005-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 WHA season, Player stats, Scoring leaders\nGP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalty minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 49], "content_span": [50, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095197-0006-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 WHA season, Player stats, Leading goaltenders\nGP = Games played; Min = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties, GA = Goals against; GA = Goals against; SO = Shutouts; SV% = Save percentage; GAA = Goals against average", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 53], "content_span": [54, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095197-0007-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 WHA season, All-star game\nThe WHA held its first all-star game on January 6, 1973, in Quebec City. The attendance of 5,435 was lower than expected, perhaps because it was locally televised and Quebec City was hit by a major snow storm. The East defeated the West 6-2. Wayne Carleton of the Ottawa Nationals was named the game MVP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 33], "content_span": [34, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095197-0008-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 WHA season, All-star game\nDuring the all-star break, the WHA Players' Association was officially formed, with Curt Leichner of Portland as general counsel and Bill Hicke of the Alberta Oilers as president.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 33], "content_span": [34, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095197-0009-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 WHA season, Playoff summary\nCompared to the thrilling race in the West Division, the playoffs were unexciting in that the team with the better record won every series and only one series went beyond 5 games. That was the West semifinal between Houston and Los Angeles. After getting blown out in game one in Houston by a score of 7-2, Los Angeles rallied to win game two 4-2 and even the series. The Sharks then won a thrilling game three in L.A. 3-2. Game 4 was the turning point of the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 35], "content_span": [36, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095197-0009-0001", "contents": "1972\u201373 WHA season, Playoff summary\nThe teams headed into overtime tied at 2; a Houston goal would even the series while a Los Angeles goal would give the Sharks a commanding 3-1 series lead. The Aeros scored in overtime to even the series, then won game 5 in Houston, 6-3. Game six in L.A. was another thriller, with Houston scoring late to win the game 3-2 and win the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 35], "content_span": [36, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095197-0010-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 WHA season, Avco World Trophy playoffs, Avco World Trophy finals\nNew England Whalers defeated the Winnipeg Jets, 4 games to 1. The Whalers defeated the Jets 9 to 6 in the deciding game, with Larry Pleau scoring a hat trick. Upon their win, The Avco World Trophy had not yet been completed. As a result, the Whalers skated their victory lap with their divisional trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 72], "content_span": [73, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095197-0011-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 WHA season, Debuts\nThe following is a list of players of note who played their first major professional game in 1972\u201373 (listed with their first team, asterisk(*) marks debut in playoffs):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 26], "content_span": [27, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095197-0012-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 WHA season, Last game\nThe following is a list of players of note who played their final major professional game in 1972\u201373:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 29], "content_span": [30, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095198-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 WHL season\nThe 1972\u201373 WHL season was the 21st season of the Western Hockey League. The Phoenix Roadrunners were the President's Cup champions as they beat the Salt Lake Golden Eagles in four games in the final series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095198-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 WHL season, Playoffs\nThe Phoenix Roadrunners win the President's Cup 4 games to 0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095199-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 WIHL season\n1972\u201373 was the 26th season of the Western International Hockey League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 91]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095199-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 WIHL season, Playoffs\nIn the \"Best of 7\" final series, the Spokane Jets defeated Trail Smoke Eaters 4 games to 1 (7-3, 2-3, 3-2, 8-2, 9-4). The Spokane Jets advanced to the 1972-73 Western Canada Allan Cup Playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 29], "content_span": [30, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095200-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Washington Huskies men's basketball team\nThe 1972\u201373 Washington Huskies men's basketball team represented the University of Washington for the 1972\u201373 NCAA college basketball season. Led by second-year head coach Marv Harshman, the Huskies were members of the Pacific-8 Conference and played their home games on campus at Hec Edmundson Pavilion in Seattle, Washington.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095200-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Washington Huskies men's basketball team\nThe Huskies were 16\u201311 overall in the regular season and 6\u20138 in conference play, tied for fifth in the standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095201-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Washington State Cougars men's basketball team\nThe 1972\u201373 Washington State Cougars men's basketball team represented Washington State University for the 1972\u201373 NCAA University Division men's basketball season. Led by first-year head coach George Raveling, the Cougars were members of the Pacific-8 Conference and played their home games on campus at Bohler Gymnasium in Pullman, Washington.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095201-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Washington State Cougars men's basketball team\nThe Cougars were 6\u201320 overall in the regular season and 2\u201312 in conference play, last in the standings. The two conference wins were both at home: Stanford in early January in Raveling's Pac-8 debut, and Oregon State in March. This was the last season for varsity basketball at Bohler Gym; the Performing Arts Center (now Beasley Coliseum) opened in June 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095201-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Washington State Cougars men's basketball team\nRaveling was hired in April 1972; he was previously an assistant at Maryland under Lefty Driesell, and led the Cougar program for eleven seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095202-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Weber State Wildcats men's basketball team\nThe 1972\u201373 Weber State Wildcats men's basketball team represented Weber State College during the 1972\u201373 NCAA University Division basketball season. Members of the Big Sky Conference, the Wildcats were led by second-year head coach Gene Visscher and played their home games on campus at Wildcat Gym in Ogden, Utah. They were 20\u20136 in the regular season and 13\u20131 in conference play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095202-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Weber State Wildcats men's basketball team\nThe conference tournament was three years away, and for the sixth consecutive season, Weber State won the Big Sky title and played in the 25-team NCAA Tournament. In the West regional at nearby Logan, they met Jerry Tarkanian's fourth-ranked Long Beach State 49ers in the first round for the third time in the four years. The Wildcats led by two points at the half, but lost by a dozen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095202-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Weber State Wildcats men's basketball team\nWeber's next NCAA appearance was five years later in 1978.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095202-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Weber State Wildcats men's basketball team\nSenior center Rich Cooper and senior guard Brady Small were named to the all-conference team; junior guard Dan Dion and senior forward Ken Gubler were on the second team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095203-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Welsh Cup\nThe 1973\u201374 FAW Welsh Cup is the 86th season of the annual knockout tournament for competitive football teams in Wales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095203-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Welsh Cup, Fourth round\nNine winners from the Third round and seven new clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 31], "content_span": [32, 86]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095204-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 West Ham United F.C. season\nIn the 1972\u201373 season West Ham United finished sixth in the First Division, their highest League position under the management of Ron Greenwood and the joint-highest in their history at that time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095204-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 West Ham United F.C. season, Season summary\nPop Robson was the First Division's top scorer with 28 League goals, including eight doubles and a hat-trick, just one behind the post-war club record held by Geoff Hurst, who had left the Hammers for Stoke City the previous summer. In February 1973, Bobby Moore overtook Jimmy Ruffell's West Ham appearance record. He won his hundredth England cap in the same month.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 51], "content_span": [52, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095204-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 West Ham United F.C. season, Season summary\nWest Ham continued their poor Cup record from previous seasons by losing in both the FA Cup and the League Cup to lower League opposition. Second Division Hull City beat them in the fourth round of the FA Cup, and the Hammers suffered a humiliating defeat at Fourth Division Stockport County in the League Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 51], "content_span": [52, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095205-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 West Midlands (Regional) League\nThe 1972\u201373 West Midlands (Regional) League season was the 73rd in the history of the West Midlands (Regional) League, an English association football competition for semi-professional and amateur teams based in the West Midlands county, Shropshire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire and southern Staffordshire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095205-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 West Midlands (Regional) League, Premier Division\nThe Premier Division featured 12 clubs which competed in the division last season, along with four new clubs:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 57], "content_span": [58, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095206-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Western Football League\nThe 1972\u201373 season was the 71st in the history of the Western Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095206-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Western Football League\nThe champions for the first time in their history were Devizes Town.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095206-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Western Football League, Final table\nThe league was increased from fourteen clubs to sixteen after Bideford, Dorchester Town and Minehead joined the Southern League, and five new clubs joined:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095207-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Winnipeg Jets season\nThe 1972\u201373 Winnipeg Jets season was their first season in the World Hockey Association (WHA). The Jets' first player signed was Norm Beaudin (\"the Original Jet\") and their first major signing was Bobby Hull.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095207-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Winnipeg Jets season, Offseason, Bobby Hull\nLong unhappy because of his relatively poor salary in the period when he was hockey's preeminent superstar, Hull responded to overtures from the upstart World Hockey Association's Winnipeg Jets in 1972 by jesting that he'd jump to them for a million dollars, a sum then considered absurd.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095207-0001-0001", "contents": "1972\u201373 Winnipeg Jets season, Offseason, Bobby Hull\nGathering the other league owners together to contribute to the unprecedented amount on the grounds that inking such a major star would give instant credibility to the new rival league that was competing directly against the entrenched NHL, Jets' owner Ben Hatskin agreed to the sum and signed Hull for a contract worth $1,000,000 over ten years. Although his debut with Winnipeg was held up in litigation by the NHL, Hull instantly became the WHA's greatest star.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095207-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Winnipeg Jets season, Regular season\nWhen the Jets played their first game on October 12 in New York against the Raiders, the Jets were without Bobby Hull. He was in court battling his former team, the Chicago Black Hawks over his new contract. The Jets would still win that first game 6\u20134. Three days later, the Jets would make their home debut losing to the Alberta Oilers 5\u20132. Bobby Hull won his court battle and joined the Jets 15 games into the season. Bobby Hull captured the WHA's first MVP award, by scoring 51 goals. The Jets won the Western Division with a 43\u201331\u20134 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 590]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095207-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Winnipeg Jets season, Playoffs\nIn the playoffs, the Jets would beat the Minnesota Fighting Saints in 5 games. In the second round of the playoffs, the Jets beat the Houston Aeros in 4 straight to reach the Avco World Trophy finals. In the finals, the Jets were beaten by the New England Whalers in 5 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095207-0004-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Winnipeg Jets season, Player statistics, Forwards\nNote: GP= Games played; G= Goals; A= Assists; PTS = Points; PIM = Points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 57], "content_span": [58, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095207-0005-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Winnipeg Jets season, Player statistics, Defencemen\nNote: GP= Games played; G= Goals; A= Assists; PTS = Points; PIM = Points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 59], "content_span": [60, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095207-0006-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Winnipeg Jets season, Player statistics, Goaltending\nNote: GP= Games played; MIN= Minutes; W= Wins; L= Losses; T = Ties; SO = Shutouts; GAA = Goals Against", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 60], "content_span": [61, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095208-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team\nThe 1972\u20131973 Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team represented University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison. The head coach was John Powless, coaching his fifth season with the Badgers. The team played their home games at the UW Fieldhouse in Madison, Wisconsin and was a member of the Big Ten Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095209-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Wisconsin Badgers men's ice hockey season\nThe 1972\u201373 Wisconsin Badgers men's ice hockey team represented the University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison in college ice hockey. In its seventh year under head coach Bob Johnson, the team compiled a 29\u20139\u20132 record (18\u20139\u20131 against Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) opponents) and outscored all opponents 217 to 139. The Badgers received one of the WCHA's automatic bids to the 1973 NCAA University Division Men's Ice Hockey Tournament by winning the 1973 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament. They defeated the Cornell Big Red in the Frozen Four semifinals and then beat WCHA-rival Denver Pioneers 4\u20132 to win their first national championship in Boston, Massachusetts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 717]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095209-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Wisconsin Badgers men's ice hockey season\nForward Dean Talafous was chosen as the Most Outstanding Player in the NCAA Tournament. He had the winning goal in both of Wisconsin's victories as well as a tying score in the waning moments of the Badgers' semifinal match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095209-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Wisconsin Badgers men's ice hockey season, Season\nComing off of a then-season-best 27 wins, and second NCAA tournament appearance in three years, Wisconsin was looking to take the final step towards winning a national championship. After losing to a dismal Colorado College team in their first game, Bob Johnson's Badgers went on an eleven-game tear and announced themselves as early-season contenders. In hindsight their 11-1 record was a bit misleading due to having faced CC and Michigan (the two worst WCHA teams) four times each as well as a series against 15th-place Colgate, going 9-1 in those games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 57], "content_span": [58, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095209-0002-0001", "contents": "1972\u201373 Wisconsin Badgers men's ice hockey season, Season\nOnce Wisconsin began to face difficult opponents their record came back to earth. While their overall mark dipped as the season wore on, Wisconsin's home record remained in the stratosphere, not dropping a single match at the Dane County Coliseum until March and finishing with an astounding 17-1 record at home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 57], "content_span": [58, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095209-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Wisconsin Badgers men's ice hockey season, Season\nKey to the Badgers' success was a very evenly distributed offense. While none of Wisconsin's players finished anywhere near the top of the NCAA leaderboard, the team produced five 20-goal scorers and a further five 10-goal scorers, a feat some NHL teams struggle to achieve in twice as many games. The balanced Badger attack kept Wisconsin alive as they slowly dipped in the standings especially with their trouble on the road. After Minnesota ended Wisconsin's winning streak the Badgers won the St. Louis Invitational Tournament over the Christmas break but split the next two true away series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 57], "content_span": [58, 654]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095209-0003-0001", "contents": "1972\u201373 Wisconsin Badgers men's ice hockey season, Season\nStarting with a loss to Michigan State on January 13 the Badgers dropped the final five road games and were in jeopardy of slipping to 4th in the conference when the Golden Gophers beat them at home in the penultimate game of the regular season. A win in the last match, however, kept them tied with Michigan State in the standings and with the tie-breakers in Wisconsin's favor the Badgers were able to avoid a potential matchup with league-leading Denver in the WCHA tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 57], "content_span": [58, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095209-0004-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Wisconsin Badgers men's ice hockey season, Season\nWisconsin began the conference tournament facing Minnesota and got a measure of revenge for earlier struggles with a pair of two-goal victories. The second round saw the Badgers pitted against Notre Dame and, because of a weekend sweep by the Fighting Irish at the end of February, Wisconsin was forced to face their foe in the opponent's building. Despite the game technically being a neutral-site meeting the hostile crowd let everyone know was favored. The two teams battled to a 4-4 tie in the first game, leaving the second match as a winner-take-all affair. Miraculously Wisconsin proved the victor with a 4-3 score and won their way into the NCAA tournament for the third time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 57], "content_span": [58, 742]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095209-0005-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Wisconsin Badgers men's ice hockey season, Season\nFor their first match Wisconsin was set against the powerhouse ECAC Hockey champion Cornell Big Red. The boys from Ithaca possessed one of the strongest defenses in the nation, surrendering only 83 goals in 27 games en route to posting a 23-3-1 record. The favored Big Red didn't disappoint, scoring the opening goal 40 seconds into the game. After a second marker in the first frame and another 30 seconds into the middle period the Badgers were behind the eight-ball.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 57], "content_span": [58, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095209-0005-0001", "contents": "1972\u201373 Wisconsin Badgers men's ice hockey season, Season\nCornell score yet again four minutes later and before the game was even half over the Badger's already appeared to have been defeated. The decentralized Badger attack finally made itself known in the second half of period two with a pair of markers to cut Cornell's lead in half. With the Wisconsin faithful chanting 'SIEVE' at Dave Elenbaas Cornell didn't seem to mind and scored their third goal in the first minute of a period to take a 5-2 lead. Somehow, despite being outplayed, Wisconsin pulled to within one with goals at 12- and 3-minutes to play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 57], "content_span": [58, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095209-0005-0002", "contents": "1972\u201373 Wisconsin Badgers men's ice hockey season, Season\nWith time winding down the Badgers furiously fired the puck and with five seconds left on the clock Dean Talafous notched the tying goal and sent the building into a frenzy. The overtime session saw several opportunities by both squads but as fatigue began to set in mistakes were made and just before the first extra frame ended a trio of Badgers rushed towards the goal. Elenbaas tried to meet them head-on but the puck found its way onto the stick of Talafous who shot it into the net and allowed Wisconsin to capture an improbable 6-5 overtime win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 57], "content_span": [58, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095209-0006-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Wisconsin Badgers men's ice hockey season, Season\nIn Wisconsin's first championship game they faced the other top team in the NCAA, Denver. The Pioneers possessed an even stingier defense, led by WCHA Most Valuable Player and All-American Ron Grahame. While Denver had a good offense and four First Team All-WCHA players, the Badgers' unheralded bunch had combined to score more than Denver had and managed to earn two Second Team positions. The Badgers got out to an early lead just over three minutes into the game but the Pioneers responded with one of their own less than a minute later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 57], "content_span": [58, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095209-0006-0001", "contents": "1972\u201373 Wisconsin Badgers men's ice hockey season, Season\nWhile the play favored Wisconsin the score didn't and Denver was able to take a lead with a power play marker 54 seconds into the second period. just over three minutes later Bob Young took Denver's only penalty of the game and it proved a costly one as Wisconsin was able to tie the score on the ensuing man-advantage. Just over four minutes after that Dean Talafous scored his third goal of the tournament to put the Badgers into the lead for the second time. The score remained that way until the third minute of the final period when Jim Johnston gave Wisconsin a two-goal lead. Denver was unable to match the Badger's fervor and Jim Makey's stellar goaltending allowed Wisconsin to skate off with their first National Title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 57], "content_span": [58, 787]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095209-0007-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Wisconsin Badgers men's ice hockey season, Season\nWisconsin's win brought the crown back to the WCHA for the first time in four seasons and started a five-year run of western dominance where no eastern team could even make the title match. Dean Talafous scored both game-winning goals for the Badgers as well as notching the tying marker in the semifinal so it came with no surprise that he was named as the tournament's Most Outstanding Player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 57], "content_span": [58, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095209-0007-0001", "contents": "1972\u201373 Wisconsin Badgers men's ice hockey season, Season\nAlong with Talafous, Jim Makey, John Taft and Stan Hinkley were named to the All-Tournament Team After the tournament had ended the NCAA wanted to enforce a new policy that would make students who had played for Canadian junior team ineligible as they received a nominal stipend for room and board which the NCAA considered a payment making those players professionals. To ease the transition the NCAA told the universities that they wanted their programs to declare their own players ineligible and afterwards the NCAA would restore status to the players, effectively 'grandfathering' in the prohibition on major junior players. While most teams, including Wisconsin, acquiesced to the NCAA, Denver refused to follow suit and had their players not only ruled ineligible but their participation in the 1973 tournament vacated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 57], "content_span": [58, 884]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095209-0008-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Wisconsin Badgers men's ice hockey season, Standings, Schedule\nDuring the season, Wisconsin compiled a 29\u201310\u20132 record, the best year the program had produced to that point. Its schedule was as follows.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 70], "content_span": [71, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095209-0009-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Wisconsin Badgers men's ice hockey season, Standings, Schedule\n* Denotes overtime periods\u2020 WCHA game\u2021 Big Ten and WCHA game% St. Louis Invitational Tournament", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 70], "content_span": [71, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095209-0010-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Wisconsin Badgers men's ice hockey season, National championship, (W1) Denver vs. (W2) Wisconsin\nJim Makey, John Taft, Stan Hinkley and Dean Talafous were named to the All-Tournament Team", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 104], "content_span": [105, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095210-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Yorkshire Cup\nThe 1972\u201373 Yorkshire Cup was the sixty-fifth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095210-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Yorkshire Cup\nLeeds winning the trophy by beating Dewsbury by the score of 36-9 in what would be Dewsbury's last appearance in a Yorkshire Cup final", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095210-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Yorkshire Cup\nThe match was played at Odsal in the City of Bradford, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 7,806 and receipts were \u00a32,659", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095210-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Yorkshire Cup\nThis was Leeds third victory (and the first of two consecutive victories) in what would be eight times in the space of thirteen seasons", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095210-0004-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Yorkshire Cup, Background\nThis season there were no junior/amateur clubs taking part, no new entrants and no \"leavers\" and so the total of entries remained the same at sixteen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095210-0005-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Yorkshire Cup, Background\nThis in turn resulted in no byes in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 86]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095210-0006-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Yorkshire Cup, Competition and Results, Final, Teams and Scorers\nScoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = one (1) point", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 72], "content_span": [73, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095210-0007-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Yorkshire Cup, Notes and comments\n1 * Odsal is the home ground of Bradford Northern from 1890 to 2010 and the current capacity is in the region of 26,000, The ground is famous for hosting the largest attendance at an English sports ground when 102,569 (it was reported that over 120,000 actually attended as several areas of boundary fencing collapse under the sheer weight of numbers) attended the replay of the Challenge Cup final on 5 May 1954 to see Halifax v Warrington.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 41], "content_span": [42, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095210-0008-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Yorkshire Cup, Notes and comments, General information for those unfamiliar\nThe Rugby League Yorkshire Cup competition was a knock-out competition between (mainly professional) rugby league clubs from the county of Yorkshire. The actual area was at times increased to encompass other teams from outside the county such as Newcastle, Mansfield, Coventry, and even London (in the form of Acton & Willesden).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 83], "content_span": [84, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095210-0009-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Yorkshire Cup, Notes and comments, General information for those unfamiliar\nThe Rugby League season always (until the onset of \"Summer Rugby\" in 1996) ran from around August-time through to around May-time and this competition always took place early in the season, in the Autumn, with the final taking place in (or just before) December (The only exception to this was when disruption of the fixture list was caused during, and immediately after, the two World Wars)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 83], "content_span": [84, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095211-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Yorkshire Football League\nThe 1972\u201373 Yorkshire Football League was the 47th season in the history of the Yorkshire Football League, a football competition in England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095211-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Yorkshire Football League, Division One\nDivision One featured 12 clubs which competed in the previous season, along with four new clubs, promoted from Division Two:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095211-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Yorkshire Football League, Division Two\nDivision Two featured nine clubs which competed in the previous season, along with seven new clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095211-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Yorkshire Football League, Division Three\nDivision Three featured ten clubs which competed in the previous season, along with six new clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095212-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Yugoslav First Basketball League\nThe 1972\u201373 Yugoslav First Basketball League season was the 29th season of the Yugoslav First Basketball League, the highest professional basketball league in SFR Yugoslavia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095213-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Yugoslav First League\nThe 1972\u201373 Yugoslav First League season was the 27th season of the First Federal League of Yugoslavia (Serbo-Croatian Latin: Prva savezna liga Jugoslavije), the top level association football competition of SFR Yugoslavia, since its establishment in 1946. A total of 18 teams competed in the league, with the previous season's runners-up Red Star winning the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095213-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Yugoslav First League, Teams\nA total of eighteen teams contested the league, including sixteen sides from the 1971\u201372 season and two sides promoted from the 1971\u201372 Yugoslav Second League (YSL) as winners of the two second level divisions East and West. The league was contested in a double round robin format, with each club playing every other club twice, for a total of 34 rounds. Two points were awarded for wins and one point for draws.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095213-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Yugoslav First League, Teams\nRadni\u010dki Kragujevac and NK Maribor were relegated from the 1971\u201372 Yugoslav First League after finishing the season in bottom two places of the league table. The two clubs promoted to top level were Bor and Spartak Subotica.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095213-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Yugoslav First League, Winning squad\nZoran Antonijevi\u0107Jovan A\u0107imovi\u0107Zoran BingulacVladislav Bogi\u0107evi\u0107Kiro Doj\u010dinovskiRatomir Dujkovi\u0107Milovan \u0110ori\u0107Slobodan Jankovi\u0107\u017divorad Jefti\u0107Nikola Jovanovi\u0107Stanislav Karasi Mihalj KeriBranko KlenkovskiPetar Krivoku\u0107aVojin Lazarevi\u0107Du\u0161an Nikoli\u0107Mile Novkovi\u0107Miroslav Pavlovi\u0107Aleksandar Panajotovi\u0107Vladimir Petrovi\u0107 Ognjan Petrovi\u0107 Sead Su\u0161i\u0107Zoran Filipovi\u0107 Dragan D\u017eaji\u0107", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095214-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 Yugoslav Ice Hockey League season\nThe 1972\u201373 Yugoslav Ice Hockey League season was the 31st season of the Yugoslav Ice Hockey League, the top level of ice hockey in Yugoslavia. Four teams participated in the league, and Jesenice have won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095215-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 ice hockey Bundesliga season\nThe 1972\u201373 Ice hockey Bundesliga season was the 15th season of the Ice hockey Bundesliga, the top level of ice hockey in Germany. 11 teams participated in the league, and EV Fussen won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095216-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 in Belgian football\nThe 1972\u201373 season was the 70th season of competitive football in Belgium. Club Brugge KV won their second Division I title, 53 years after their first title in 1919\u201320. RSC Anderlechtois won the Belgian Cup against Standard Club Li\u00e9geois (2-1). The Belgium national football team continued their 1974 FIFA World Cup qualification campaign with a win in Norway and a draw at home against the Netherlands. The Belgian Women's First Division was won for the second time by Astrio Begijnendijk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095216-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 in Belgian football, Overview\nBelgium continued their qualifying campaign for the 1974 FIFA World Cup with a win over Norway and a draw against the Netherlands. At the end of the season, Belgium was first of Group 3 with 7 points in 4 matches, ahead of the Netherlands (3 points in 2 matches), Norway (2 points in 3 matches) and Iceland (0 points in 3 matches).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095216-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 in Belgian football, Overview\nAt the end of the season, RU Saint-Gilloise and R Crossing Club de Schaerbeek were relegated to Division II, to be replaced by SK Beveren-Waas and KSV Waregem from Division II. The bottom 2 clubs in Division II (R Tilleur FC and RAA Louvi\u00e9roise) were relegated to Division III, to be replaced by K Olse Merksem SC and ASV Oostende KM from Division III. The bottom club of each Division III league (RFC S\u00e9r\u00e9sien, R Herve FC, FC Vigor Wuitens Hamme and RRC Gent) were relegated to Promotion, to be replaced by AS Herstalienne, KFC Eendracht Zele, K Alt-Hoeselt VV and FC Denderleeuw from Promotion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095216-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 in Belgian football, European competitions\nRSC Anderlechtois beat Vejle Boldklub of Denmark in the first round of the 1972\u201373 European Champion Clubs' Cup (won 4\u20132 at home, 3\u20130 away) but lost in the second round to FC Spartak Trnava of Czechoslovakia (lost both legs 0-1).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095216-0004-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 in Belgian football, European competitions\nStandard Club Li\u00e9geois entered the 1972\u201373 European Cup Winners' Cup as Cup finalist, since the Cup winner RSC Anderlechtois was also qualified for the Champion Clubs' Cup. They were defeated in the first round by Sparta Prague of Czechoslovakia (won 1\u20130 at home, lost 2\u20134 away).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095216-0005-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 in Belgian football, European competitions\nOnly 2 Belgian clubs were invited to the 1972\u201373 UEFA Cup: Club Brugge KV and RR White. Club Brugge KV reached the second round by eliminating \u00c5tvidabergs FF of Sweden (won 5\u20133 away, lost 1\u20132 at home) but RR White lost to Grupo Desportivo Cuf of Portugal in the first round (lost 0\u20131 at home, 0\u20132 away). In the second round, Club Brugge KV lost to FC Porto of Portugal (lost 0\u20133 away, won 3\u20132 at home).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095217-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 in English field hockey\nThe 1972\u201373 English Hockey League season took place from September 1972 until May 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095217-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 in English field hockey\nThe principal event was the Men's Cup (National Clubs Championship) which was won by Hounslow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095217-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 in English field hockey\nThe vast majority of the season consisted of regional leagues. The first National League tournament (The National Inter League Championship) would not be introduced until September 1975.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095218-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 in English football\nThe 1972\u201373 season was the 93rd season of competitive football in England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095218-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 in English football, Honours\nNotes = Number in parentheses is the times that club has won that honour. * indicates new record for competition", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095218-0002-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 in English football, Football League\nThe Football League announced that a three-up, three-down system would operate between the top three divisions from the following season, rather than the traditional two-up, two-down system. The four-up, four-down system between the Third and Fourth Divisions would continue, as would the re-election system between the league's bottom four clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 44], "content_span": [45, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095218-0003-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 in English football, Football League, First Division\nLiverpool won the championship (their first in 7 years) in Bill Shankly's penultimate season as manager despite competition from Arsenal, Leeds United, Ipswich Town and Wolverhampton Wanderers. Arsenal actually led by a point with six matches to play, but a dismal 1-3-2 record down the stretch cost them the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095218-0004-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 in English football, Football League, First Division\nManchester United sacked manager Frank O'Farrell after 18 months in charge, following a terrible first half of the season which left them in serious danger of relegation only five years after their European Cup victory. Tommy Docherty, the 44-year-old Scottish national coach and former Aston Villa manager, was appointed as his successor, and steered them to survival. Neighbours Manchester City had a similarly poor campaign and were nearly relegated only a year after narrowly missing out on the title, but recovered well to finish safely in mid-table after manager Malcolm Allison was replaced by Johnny Hart late in the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 693]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095218-0005-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 in English football, Football League, First Division\nWest Bromwich Albion were relegated to Division Two for the first time since 1949, ultimately being left to rue losing five games in a row at the end of the season; winning just two of those games would have seen them survive. Crystal Palace, who had spent the previous few years battling against the odds on a limited budget, finally succumbed to relegation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095218-0006-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 in English football, Football League, Second Division\nBurnley and Queens Park Rangers won promotion to the First Division. Huddersfield Town's decline continued as they slid into the Third Division, where they were joined by Brighton & Hove Albion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095218-0007-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 in English football, Football League, Third Division\nBolton Wanderers and Notts County occupied the two promotion places in the Third Division. Rotherham United, Brentford, Swansea City and Scunthorpe United were relegated to the Fourth Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095218-0008-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 in English football, Football League, Fourth Division\nHereford United were promoted from the Fourth Division in their first season as a Football League club. They had been elected to the Football League a year earlier after finishing as runners-up to Chelmsford City in the Southern League and achieving a shock win over Newcastle United in the FA Cup. They were joined in the promotion zone by champions Southport, Cambridge United and Aldershot. Newport County missed promotion only on goal average. There were no arrivals or departures in the league for 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095218-0009-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 in English football, FA Cup\nAn Ian Porterfield goal saw Sunderland achieve a famous 1\u20130 win over Leeds United in the FA Cup final. Sunderland's team, managed by Bob Stokoe, did not contain any full internationals, whereas Don Revie's Leeds side were all internationals. Sunderland goalkeeper Jim Montgomery also received plaudits after a good performance featuring a noted double-save from Trevor Cherry and Peter Lorimer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095218-0010-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 in English football, FA Cup\nWolverhampton Wanderers beat Arsenal 3\u20131 at Highbury in a third-place playoff, held three months after the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095218-0011-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 in English football, League Cup\nTottenham Hotspur's Bill Nicholson guided his club to a League Cup triumph, beating Norwich City 1\u20130 in the final, and in the process added another trophy to the club's ever-growing list of honours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095218-0012-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 in English football, European Football\nDerby County lost to the eventual finals runner-up Juventus by an aggregate score of 3\u20131 in the semifinals of the European Cup. Leeds United lost a controversial European Cup Winners Cup Final against AC Milan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095219-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 in Scottish football\nThe 1972\u201373 season was the 100th season of competitive football in Scotland and the 76th season of Scottish league football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095220-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201373 snooker season\nThe 1972\u201373 snooker season was a series of snooker tournaments played between July 1972 and April 1973. The following table outlines the results for the season's events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095221-0000-0000", "contents": "1972\u201377 Nordic Football Championship\nThe 1972\u201377 Nordic Football Championship was the eleventh Nordic Football Championship staged. Four Nordic countries participated: Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. Sweden won the tournament, its ninth Nordic Championship win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095221-0001-0000", "contents": "1972\u201377 Nordic Football Championship, Table\nThe table is compiled by awarding two points for a victory, one point for a draw, and no points for a loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 43], "content_span": [44, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095222-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\n1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1973rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 973rd year of the 2nd\u00a0millennium, the 73rd year of the 20th\u00a0century, and the 4th year of the 1970s decade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 4], "section_span": [4, 4], "content_span": [5, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095223-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 (album)\n1973 is the second full-length studio album by Seirom, released on November 9, 2012 by Aurora Borealis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095224-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 (song)\n\"1973\" is a song by the English recording artist James Blunt. It was released as the lead single from his second studio album, All the Lost Souls (2007).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [11, 11], "content_span": [12, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095224-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 (song)\nFirst performed by James Blunt during his autumn 2006 North American tour, \"1973\" was released for radio play on 23 July 2007, to selected radio stations around the world. It was made available for download exclusively from the Verizon Wireless network in the United States on the same date. Starting on 7 August 2007, the song was made widely available for digital download, with physical releases being made available from 3 September 2007. The single peaked at number four on the UK Singles Chart.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [11, 11], "content_span": [12, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095224-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 (song), Background\n\"1973\" was written by James Blunt and Mark Batson. \"He was trying to write an English singer-songwriter song, and I was trying the Dr. Dre end of the scale\", says Blunt. The song was inspired by the club scene in Ibiza, where Blunt maintains a residence and enjoys the social scene. The song has been remixed by Pete Tong and Dave Spoon as part of their Ibiza 2007 Remix Project, and Tong started playing the remix in July 2007 when acting as DJ at Pacha, the Ibiza club that inspired the song and opened in 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 23], "content_span": [24, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095224-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 (song), Background\nThe lyrics include references to a few American popular songs: \"As Time Goes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 23], "content_span": [24, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095224-0003-0001", "contents": "1973 (song), Background\nBy\", written in 1931 by Herman Hupfeld and popularised by Dooley Wilson playing the character of 'Sam' in the 1942 film Casablanca; \"It's the Same Old Song\", written by the legendary songwriting team Holland\u2013Dozier\u2013Holland and recorded in 1965 on the Motown label by the Four Tops; \"Here We Go Again\", popularised in 1967 by Ray Charles and re-popularized as a duet with Norah Jones upon the 2005 posthumous release of Charles' masterwork album, Genius Loves Company, and; \"I Can See Clearly Now\", written and recorded by Johnny Nash, a song which spent November at the No. 1 spot of the Billboard Hot 100 in 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 23], "content_span": [24, 638]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095224-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 (song), Release\nThe single was released on three physical formats. CD1 features a brand new track, \"Dear Katie\", which was written by Blunt's long-time keyboardist Paul Beard. Beard also provides backing vocals for the song. CD2 includes a live version of \"Annie\", the video for \"1973\", plus a further new track, \"So Happy\", which was written by Felix Howard and Blunt. The 7\" vinyl also includes \"So Happy\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 20], "content_span": [21, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095224-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 (song), Music video\nThe video (directed by Paul R Brown), in which a modern-day Blunt strolls among '70s street scenes, reflects the song's nostalgic tone. \"The '70s sound like they were a time of excess and great flamboyance\", he says, \"but a sense of fun as well.\" The video was shot in the Universal Studios Lot in Los Angeles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 24], "content_span": [25, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095224-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 (song), Reception\nBillboard reviewer Chuck Taylor said that the song's \"[m]idtempo pacing\" resembles 10,000 Maniacs's \"Trouble Me\", a song from the band's 1989 album Blind Man's Zoo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 22], "content_span": [23, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095224-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 (song), Chart performance\nThe song debuted at number 10 on the UK Singles Chart, then peaked at number four, making it Blunt's third top 10 single and his fifth-released single debuting in the UK Singles Chart. In Switzerland, the song debuted at number one, making it his second top 10 hit. It also peaked at number one in Venezuela. In the U.S., the song made its first appearance on the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles, where it peaked at number two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 30], "content_span": [31, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095224-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 (song), Chart performance\nIt debuted and peaked at number 73 on the Billboard Hot 100 the week of 6 October 2007 just after the release of the parent album All the Lost Souls on 14 September 2007, spending just three contiguous weeks on the chart and exiting at number 100.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 30], "content_span": [31, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095224-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 (song), Chart performance\nThe song peaked at number 60 on the Pop 100. From number 86, the song made a jump to number two on Billboard's Eurochart Hot 100 Singles, then peaked at number one on 29 September and 6 October 2007.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 30], "content_span": [31, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095224-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 (song), Certifications\n* Sales figures based on certification alone.^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 11], "section_span": [13, 27], "content_span": [28, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095225-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 1. divisjon\nThe 1973 1. divisjon was the 29th completed season of top division football in Norway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095225-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 1. divisjon, Overview\nIt was contested by 12 teams, and Viking FK won the championship, their second consecutive league title and their third top-flight title overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 26], "content_span": [27, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095225-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 1. divisjon, Overview\nFredrikstad, who was the only remaining team to have played all 28 completed seasons in the top division, was relegated in the end of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 26], "content_span": [27, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095226-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 1000 Lakes Rally\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by Cs-wolves (talk | contribs) at 19:56, 17 November 2019 (wp:datescript-assisted date/terms audit; see wp:unlinkdates, wp:overlink). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095226-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 1000 Lakes Rally\nThe 1973 1000 Lakes Rally (formally the 23rd 1000 Lakes Rally) was the 23rd running of the 1000 Lakes Rally (currently known as the Rally Finland), and the eighth round of the inaugural World Rally Championship season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095226-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 1000 Lakes Rally, Report\nRun in early August in central Finland, this rally marked a distinct change from the previous event in the series, the 33 Rajd Polski. Unlike that event, in which only three teams survived to the finish, Finland saw 55 teams finish the rally, a success rate of almost exactly 50% of the total entries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095226-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 1000 Lakes Rally, Report\nIn 1973, and for several years afterward, only manufacturers were given points for finishes in WRC events. Finland hosted Ford Motor Company's first ever win of the World Rally Championship. Championship front runners Alpine Renault and Fiat were conspicuous by their absence, with neither gaining points during the round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095227-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 2. divisjon\nThe 1973 2. divisjon was a Norwegian second-tier football league season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 89]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095227-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 2. divisjon\nThe league was contested by 36 teams, divided into a total of four groups; A and B (non-Northern Norwegian teams) and two district groups which contained teams from Northern Norway: district IX\u2013X and district XI. The winners of group A and B were promoted to the 1974 1. divisjon, while the winners of the district groups qualified for the Northern Norwegian final. The second placed teams in group A and B met the winner of the district IX\u2013X in a qualification round where the winner was promoted to 1. divisjon. The winner of district XI was not eligible for promotion. The bottom two teams inn all groups were relegated to the 3. divisjon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 659]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095227-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 2. divisjon, Overview, Summary\nSarpsborg FK won group A. Molde won group B with two matches to spare. Both teams promoted to the 1974 1. divisjon. V\u00e5lerengen won the qualification play-offs and was also promoted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 35], "content_span": [36, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095227-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 2. divisjon, Promotion play-offs, Results\nV\u00e5lerengen won the qualification round and won promotion to the 1. divisjon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 46], "content_span": [47, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095227-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 2. divisjon, Northern Norwegian Final\nA Northern Norwegian Final was played between the winners of the two district groups, Mj\u00f8lner and Kirkenes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 42], "content_span": [43, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095228-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 24 Hours of Daytona\nThe 1973 24 Hours of Daytona was a 24-hour endurance sports car race held on February 3\u20134, 1973 at the Daytona International Speedway road course. The race served as the opening round of the 1973 World Sportscar Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095228-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 24 Hours of Daytona\nVictory overall and in the Sport 3000 class went to the No. 59 Brumos Racing Porsche 911 Carrera RSR driven by Peter Gregg and Hurley Haywood. Victory in the Grand Touring +2000 class went to the No. 22 North American Racing Team Ferrari Daytona driven by Fran\u00e7ois Migault and Milt Minter. Victory in the Touring 5000 class went to the No. 9 Ray Kessler, Inc. Chevrolet Camaro driven by Ray Kessler, Richie Panch, and Wilbur Pickett. Victory in the Grand Touring 2000 class went to the No. 62 Bob Bergstrom Porsche 911 driven by Bob Bergstrom and Jim Cook. Victory in the Sports 2000 class went to the No. 10 Shierson Racing Chevron B19 driven by Bill Barber and Charlie Kemp. Victory in the Touring 2000 class went to the No. 84 Andy Petery BMW 2002 driven by Andy Petery and Hans Ziereis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 815]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095229-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 24 Hours of Le Mans\nThe 1973 24 Hours of Le Mans was the 41st Grand Prix of Endurance and took place on 9 and 10 June 1973. It was the eighth round of the 1973 World Championship of Makes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095229-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 24 Hours of Le Mans\nThe race promised to be close, with Ferrari, Matra and Porsche all having two wins in the championship along with a surprise victory for Mirage at Spa. It did indeed turn out to be one of the most tense Le Mans, with the race won in the pits as both Ferrari and Matra took turns in the lead only to be stymied by mechanical failures. All three Ferraris had time in the lead, but as mechanical issues overtook them it was the Matra of Henri Pescarolo and G\u00e9rard Larrousse, despite its own tribulations, that took the chequered flag. In the end it was a comfortable six-lap margin over the second-placed Ferrari of Merzario and Pace with the Matra of Jabouille/Jaussaud third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 699]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095229-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 24 Hours of Le Mans\nThere was a certain symmetry for a French car and a French team winning the fiftieth anniversary of the first 24 Hours of Le Mans. Ferrari did win the GT category after a close tussle with Porsche, and BMW had the only finisher in the Group 2 Touring Car category.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095229-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 24 Hours of Le Mans, Regulations\nIn the second year of the new regulations, there were no changes. This year the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO) extended the eligible classes to eight with an extra one each in Group 5 and 2. Reserves were not kept, rather the ACO selected the 55 starters from those who arrived taking into account the results of the Four-Hour race at the Test Weekend.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095229-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 24 Hours of Le Mans, Regulations\n1973 was the 50th anniversary of the first race and there was much pomp and celebration. Included in this were races for pre-war and post-war cars and the first parade of historic Le Mans competitors. The French Post Office issued a special commemorative stamp.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095229-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries\nThe ACO received 112 applications. Even though Autodelta, the Alfa Romeo works team withdrew just days before the event there were 61 cars present for practice on race-week. With Sports-prototypes from Matra, Ferrari, Mirage and Ligier as well as Ford and BMW in Group 2, there were 22 \u2018works\u2019 entries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095229-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries\nAfter a distinct lack of success, Matra withdrew from Formula One to concentrate on contesting the World Championship of Makes against Ferrari. Its new longtail MS670B was made lighter, more aerodynamic and, importantly, equipped with Porsche \"Type 1983\" gearboxes. The V12 engine was tuned back to put out 450\u00a0bhp. and the car now ran on 13\u201d tyres instead of the former 15\u201d. Adding two cars to their regular Championship team made a strong 4-car challenge in an all-French driver line-up. Jean-Pierre Beltoise and Fran\u00e7ois Cevert were constantly quickest but pushed their car hard, whereas Henri Pescarolo/G\u00e9rard Larrousse drove with endurance in mind, having got both of Matras victories to date. A third 670B was prepared for Jean-Pierre Jabouille/Jean-Pierre Jaussaud while Patrick Depailler/Bob Wollek had an older MS670.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 860]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095229-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries\nAfter a dominant 1972 season, Ferrari was having a much tougher time this year, despite having come from the latest round with a 1\u20132 victory at the N\u00fcrburgring. With the championship carefully balanced, the works team arrived in force with proven reliability. The latest iteration of the 312PB was wider and longer to take bigger tyres and improve handling. The aerodynamic longtail chassis increased speed on Le Mans\u2019 big straights while the improved V12 was now capable of 460\u00a0bhp in race-trim. The regular team driver pairings of Jacky Ickx/Brian Redman (who had both Ferrari victories this year) and Arturo Merzario/Carlos Pace were augmented by Carlos Reutemann/Tim Schenken.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 714]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095229-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries\nAfter 1971 John Wyer had retired from racing. However, he had started plans for his own car-design and convinced Gulf Oil to back the project. Former Ford engineer Len Bailey designed the Mirage M6 based around the Cosworth DFV engine. However, the engine was renowned for vibration and being hard on components so a V12 engine was commissioned from Weslake for a new coup\u00e9. But continual unreliability meant the Weslake project was shelved and the team focused on improving the V8 spyder refitted with ZF gearboxes, buoyed by a 1-2 result at Spa. Their drivers were Derek Bell/Howden Ganley and Mike Hailwood/John Watson (nursing a broken leg)/Vern Schuppan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 693]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095229-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries\nAlfa Romeo was more affected than Ferrari by the strikes and social troubles in Italy. Autodelta, the Alfa works team, felt their new 500\u00a0bhp flat-12 powered car was still unprepared for 24 hours and did not enter. But they were represented by their customer team, Scuderia Brescia Corse, with a V8 T33/3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095229-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries\nLola did return to Le Mans after a promising, but tragic, race the previous year. The Scuderia Filipinetti had taken over Jo Bonnier\u2019s team after his death. Despite the Swiss team\u2019s owner Georges Filipinetti dying in May from a heart attack, a car was entered for Jean-Louis Lafosse and Hughes de Fierlandt. An ex-Bonnier Lola was also run by former hill-climb champion Daniel Rouveyran. Alain de Cadenet also returned to Le Mans after a strong run the previous year in his Duckhams-Cosworth, paired again with Chris Craft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095229-0010-0001", "contents": "1973 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries\nThe body was redesigned to be more aerodynamic although no high-speed testing had been able to be done. Ligier finally had the improved Citroen-Maserati V6 engine, now capable of 330\u00a0bhp and three cars were entered for the race, including one for Guy Ligier himself, with Jacques Laffite. Filling out the Group 5 field were four older Porsche 908s, including the regular entries from the Spanish Escuderia Montju\u00efch and Swiss Andr\u00e9 Wicky.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095229-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries\nThe 2-litre Group 5 class was well represented this year. The Chevron chassis was designed to accommodate a variety of engines and five were entered. Cosworth recommended an engine rebuild of their 2-litre FVC engine after only four hours of racing, so running 24 hours was problematic. They were up against a French ACE, a Lola and an old Porsche 910. Perhaps the most interesting entry was the first Japanese car to race at Le Mans, and with the first Japanese drivers. Shin Kato\u2019s Sigma was powered by a Mazda Wankel twin-rotary engine. With a claimed performance of 260\u00a0bhp it was calculated as a 2292cc equivalent. Three were built for the Japanese series and one came to Le Mans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 719]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095229-0012-0000", "contents": "1973 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries\nOnce again it was Ferrari versus Chevrolet in the GTS Group 4. The 365 GTB/4 \u201cDaytona\u201d now developed 440\u00a0bhp and nine were entered by the customer teams, many with works-prepared engines. Vic Elford was coaxed out of semi-retirement by the French Charles Pozzi team and there were four from the North American Racing Team (NART) including their young drivers\u2019 Trofeo car (managed by Phil Hill). Four Corvettes were entered: the two French cars of Henri Greder and the Ecurie L\u00e9opard. John Greenwood arrived with two cars, one carrying a special alloy 7-litre engine boosted to put out 700\u00a0bhp.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 627]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095229-0013-0000", "contents": "1973 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries\nPorsche came to Le Mans with its bigger, burlier version of the 911 to take on the big cars in Group 4. Before homologation was granted it had a surprise win at Sebring beating the Group 5, and followed it up in what was to be the final Targa Florio. The Carrera RS was lightened, with a big rear spoiler and flared wheel-arches to take wider 11\u201d tyres. The engine had been bored out to 2.7-litres, and now produced 240\u00a0bhp. The RSR-variant had a bigger 2.8-litre engine good for 300\u00a0bhp.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095229-0013-0001", "contents": "1973 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries\nThe Martini International team returned, led by David Yorke (former team manager at JW Automotive) and with works support, had two experimental versions capable of 320\u00a0bhp in the Sports category. Further lightened, they had 14\u201d tyres and were driven by Gijs van Lennep/Herbert M\u00fcller and Reinhold Joest/Claude Haldi. Additionally, a squadron of eleven standard 911 GTs arrived for practice from privateer teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095229-0014-0000", "contents": "1973 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries\nIn Group 2, the European Touring Car Championship (ETCC) was again very popular with top drivers and close racing, and the mighty battle between the works teams of BMW and Ford spilled over into Le Mans. Ford Germany arrived with three 3-litre Capris for drivers Dieter Glemser/John Fitzpatrick, Gerry Birrell/Hans Heyer and Helmuth Koinigg/Jean Vinatier. In response, BMW turned up with the 3.0 CSL run by its newly set up BMW Motorsport works team under Jochen Neerpasch (formerly at Ford). The car had a more powerful 360\u00a0bhp over the Capri's 300\u00a0bhp. Their drivers were Chris Amon/Hans-Joachim Stuck and Toine Hezemans/Dieter Quester with a third for the Wicky Racing Team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 711]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095229-0015-0000", "contents": "1973 24 Hours of Le Mans, Practice\nAt the March test weekend, Beltoise put in a time for the Matra four seconds faster than Ferrari had 12 months earlier. Ferrari, citing labour strikes in Italy, did not attend. But Merzario and Ickx immediately set the pace on Wednesday night when official practice started. The only other sub-3:40 time was from the Cevert/Beltoise Matra; in fact these two works teams filled the top seven spots on the grid. Next were the two Gulf Mirages and the Gitanes Lola in tenth. None of the teams had been trying too hard to compete for a top time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095229-0015-0001", "contents": "1973 24 Hours of Le Mans, Practice\nThe smaller teams had a far tougher time. Both the Duckhams and the Ligiers were suffering from unstable aerodynamics. The Duckhams was running over ten seconds slower than it had the previous year. In the small-engine class, the Spanish Chevron was 13th (4:11.0) just ahead of the Sigma rotary (4:11.1). The Porsche RSR prototypes were slower than their test weekend times, until van Lennep found performance improved with narrower rear tyres. M\u00fcller recorded a 4:14.9 to be 18th on the grid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095229-0015-0002", "contents": "1973 24 Hours of Le Mans, Practice\nSeveral incidents gave the mechanics all-nighter repair jobs: John Watson's Mirage spun in the Porsche curves and the rear section lifted and clouted him on the head; Lola had a tyre blowout rip up the rear bodywork and Ferrari got an urgent call from the factory saying the valve springs were set wrong needing 48 changes per engine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095229-0016-0000", "contents": "1973 24 Hours of Le Mans, Practice\nIt was close in the Group 2 and 4 categories with only three seconds covering the best Ferraris, Porsches, Fords and BMWs. Quickest was Glemser in the Ford Capri (4:16.0 for 22nd) ahead of Elford's Ferrari. The Corvettes were off the pace with Greenwood's being the best with a 4:19.6. His special-engine car was disqualified by the officials after Don Yenko had had an accident doing illegal road-testing on public roads after a full differential change. His daughter, also in the car, was taken to the hospital for stitches. The Kremer-Porsche caught fire when oil leaked onto the hot exhaust, necessitating a full engine-change, and Walter Brun put the Wicky-BMW into the Armco at the chicane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 731]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095229-0017-0000", "contents": "1973 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Start\nBright sunshine in race week became dark clouds on Saturday morning, however by 4pm it was sunny again. Honorary starter this year was Sylvain Floirat, President of Matra. From the first lap, Merzario was bolting ahead, sent out as the \u2018hare\u2019 to lead the Matras into a race \u2013 a role he relished. However none of the other teams took the bait. A number of cars were coming in immediately with problems: Reinhold Joest's Martini Porsche with gearbox problems and the Grossman Ferrari with a puncture. Hailwood's Mirage had no clutch and Amon's BMW on had fifth gear. The Gitanes Lola, the Duckhams and the Sigma also all had early issues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 674]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095229-0018-0000", "contents": "1973 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Start\nBy the pit stops around the end of the first hour, Merzario had built a significant lead but already needed to change brakepads. After the first driver changes, Carlos Pace only got six laps in the Ferrari until he had to stop, partly soaked in petrol from a split fuel tank, losing six laps. Matra was now 1-2-3 with Cevert leading from Larrousse and Wollek, chased by Reutemann in the Ferrari. While the Matras were all running at the same speed, the Ferraris had a variety of strategies. Carlos Reutemann and Tim Schenken were running among the Matras. Jacky Ickx and Brian Redman were running with the slowest 3-litre cars, the Lolas and the Alfa Romeo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 695]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095229-0019-0000", "contents": "1973 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Start\nAfter four hours, Jaussaud's front tyre blew out while going down the Mulsanne Straight. Ten laps were lost repairing the suspension. Less than an hour later, Beltoise had almost the same thing happen, and his Matra lost eight laps. As the Pescarolo/Larrousse car had been delayed fixing its brakes the lead fell to the Wollek/Depailler Matra. Then at 9.30pm, their car was in the pits with a terminal oil-pump problem and suddenly the Matra challenge was looking very shaky.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095229-0019-0001", "contents": "1973 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Start\nAt the same time, the GT-leading Sam Posey\u2019s NART Ferrari lost five minutes in a poor pitstop, allowing the Charles Pozzi car of Elford/Ballot-L\u00e9na to take the category lead. These cars were all having a close running battle with the Martini Porsche, the Spanish 908, the Maublanc Chevron 2-litre and the fastest Capri.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095229-0020-0000", "contents": "1973 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Night\nSo by 10pm after six hours, it was now the Schenken/Reutemann Ferrari leading from Pescarolo/Larrousse. Third was Ickx/Redman, hitherto run conservatively, ahead of the Hailwood/Watson/Schuppan Mirage, Merzario's Ferrari and the Brescia Alfa Romeo. Wollek's Matra was 7th and the M\u00fcller/van Lennep Porsche 8th. Then when Pescarolo was delayed again, this time by a faulty gear selector, Ferrari was running 1\u20132. Both Merzario and Cevert were pushing their cars hard to make up lost time and just before midnight, Cevert put in the fastest lap of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095229-0021-0000", "contents": "1973 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Night\nSoon after midnight, Schuppan went wide at Tertre Rouge, hit the barrier and rolled his Mirage. The Merzario/Pace Ferrari was back in the pits, this time for 40 minutes replacing a slipping clutch. The Elford/Ballot-L\u00e9na spent 11 minutes changing brakepads, allowing the NART Ferrari through to the GT-lead again. In Group 2, all three Fords had been badly as night fell. The Birrell/Heyer car was out early, and its drivers transferred to the other team cars. The Glemser/Fitzpatrick car had got as high as tenth with the Hezemans/Quester BMW close by in 12th. Both cars were delayed before midnight and spent the rest of the night working back through the field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 702]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095229-0022-0000", "contents": "1973 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Night\nThen at 2.30am the leader was stopped out on the track by a broken conrod, and soon after Beltoise's Matra (now running 5th) again had a tyre blow out on it but this time it threw him into the guard-rails. So at half-time, Ickx was leading Pescarolo by two laps, while 8 laps further back Facetti in the surprising Alfa Romeo was ahead of Merzario and the Martini Porsche. After all the mechanical problems with the Group 5 cars, the NART Ferrari 365 was sixth leading the GTs, hounded by the Kremer and Sonauto Porsches and Elford's Ferrari. Ecuadorian Guillermo Ortega's privateer Porsche 908 rounded out the top-10.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 656]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095229-0023-0000", "contents": "1973 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Morning\nDawn came with mist and a light drizzle, but cleared to be another sunny day. But then after leading for seven hours, the lead Ferrari started sounding rough and just after 9am Redman brought it in with a split exhaust header. Coincidentally, a lap later Pescarolo also came in, with brake problems. It was the Matra that got back out into the lead just 15 seconds before the Ferrari. Mid -morning the third-placed Alfa Romeo's gearbox's broke. Seventy minutes were spent repairing it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095229-0024-0000", "contents": "1973 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Morning\nIn the GT race, the NART Ferrari was running sixth and still held a narrow lead over the Kremer Porsche, made easier when the Porsche lost time in the early morning with a jammed brake calliper and detached exhaust. The Gregg/Chasseuil Sonauto Porsche was in 8th overall at 6am when a puncture on the Mulsanne Straight damaged the suspension dropping down the order. They were not alone, as most of the GT field had serious problems in the morning. In Group 2, it was resolved when the remaining Ford of Glemser/Fitzpatrick/Heyer got a broken conrod at 10.40am, leaving the BMW as the last Group 2 car running.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 650]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095229-0025-0000", "contents": "1973 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Morning\nThen at 11am Minter bought the GT-leading Ferrari from 7th, smoking badly from a cracked piston. At the same time Ickx brought the pursuing Ferrari in with a split fuel cell like its sister-car had had earlier, costing 25 minutes and six laps to repair. But an hour later the Matra's starter motor failed in a regular pit-stop costing 20 minutes, and it was even once again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095229-0026-0000", "contents": "1973 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Finish and post-race\nFinally, with barely 90 minutes to go, the Ickx/Redman Ferrari was out \u2013 another conrod had broken and the car was wheeled away to a standing ovation from the crowd in the grandstand opposite. After that Pescarolo and Larrousse were able to ease off and cruise to the finish. In the end they finished six laps ahead of the Merzario/Pace Ferrari. Eighteen laps further back (and still not overtaken Ickx's retired Ferrari on distance) was the recovering Matra of Jabouille/Jaussaud.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 52], "content_span": [53, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095229-0027-0000", "contents": "1973 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Finish and post-race\nIn a very close finish, the French Ferrari of Elford/Ballot-L\u00e9na was sixth, barely a lap ahead of the hard-charging Kremer Porsche, with Ortega's privateer Porsche 908 between them. Ninth was the other Pozzi Ferrari of Serpaggi/Dolhem with Georg Loos\u2019 Porsche RSR in tenth. The Brescia Corse Alfa Romeo had had a troubled end to the race with gearbox, clutch then fuel-pump issues after a solid first half but eventually got home in 15th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 52], "content_span": [53, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095229-0028-0000", "contents": "1973 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Finish and post-race\nAfter the win at Le Mans, Matra stormed home in the Championship winning the next two rounds. The final round in Argentina was cancelled due to lack of support, giving Matra the championship with five victories (all to Pescarolo/Larrousse) to Ferrari's two. In the European GT season it was Claude Ballot-L\u00e9na and Clemens Schickentanz, both driving Porsche RSRs who shared the championship on equal points. Toine Hezemans won the European Touring Car Championship for BMW. Later in the summer, \u201cPesca\u201d and Larrousse came back to Le Mans to be presented with the Legion d\u2019Honneur, France's highest order of merit. Still to date, 1973 was the final time that both the Scuderia Ferrari works team and Alfa Romeo have raced at Le Mans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 52], "content_span": [53, 784]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095229-0029-0000", "contents": "1973 24 Hours of Le Mans, Official results, Finishers\nResults taken from Quentin Spurring's book, officially licensed by the ACO Class Winners are in Bold text.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095229-0030-0000", "contents": "1973 24 Hours of Le Mans, Official results, Statistics\nTaken from Quentin Spurring's book, officially licensed by the ACO", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 54], "content_span": [55, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095230-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 ABA All-Star Game\nThe sixth American Basketball Association All-Star Game was played February 6, 1973 at Salt Palace in Salt Lake City, Utah before an audience at 12,556. Larry Brown of the Carolina Cougars coached the East, with LaDell Andersen of the Utah Stars coached the West. Warren Jabali of the Denver Rockets was named MVP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095231-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 ABA Playoffs\nThe 1973 ABA Playoffs was the postseason tournament of the American Basketball Association's 1972-1973 season. The tournament concluded with the Western Division champion Indiana Pacers defeating the Eastern Division champion Kentucky Colonels, four games to three in the ABA Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095231-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 ABA Playoffs, Notable events\nThe teams with the three best records in the ABA that year failed to win the championship. The Carolina Cougars had the league's best record at 57-27 (.679), one game ahead of the Kentucky Colonels (56-28, .667) in the Eastern Division. The Utah Stars won the Western Division with a record of 55-29 (.655), four games ahead of the Indiana Pacers, who won the league championship after posting a regular season record of 51-33 (.607).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 33], "content_span": [34, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095231-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 ABA Playoffs, Notable events\nThe Pacers became the first team to win a third ABA championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 33], "content_span": [34, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095231-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 ABA Playoffs, Notable events\nThe Colonels became the first team to lose two separate ABA championship series. The series also marked the second time in three years that the Colonels lost the ABA finals 4 games to 3; the same happened at the end of the 1971 ABA Playoffs against the Utah Stars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 33], "content_span": [34, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095231-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 ABA Playoffs, Notable events\nTwo years after the 1973 finals the Colonels and Pacers would meet again at the end of the 1975 ABA Playoffs with the Colonels winning the championship series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 33], "content_span": [34, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095231-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 ABA Playoffs, Notable events\nThe Pacers' George McGinnis was the Most Valuable Player of the ABA playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 33], "content_span": [34, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095231-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 ABA Playoffs, Western Division\n(1) Utah Stars vs. (4) San Diego Conquistadors:Stars win series 4-0", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095231-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 ABA Playoffs, Western Division\n(2) Indiana Pacers vs. (3) Denver Rockets:Pacers win series 4-1", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095231-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 ABA Playoffs, Western Division\n(1) Utah Stars vs. (2) Indiana Pacers:Pacers win series 4-2", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095231-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 ABA Playoffs, Eastern Division\n(1) Carolina Cougars vs. (4) New York Nets:Cougars win series 4-1", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095231-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 ABA Playoffs, Eastern Division\n(2) Kentucky Colonels vs. (3) Virginia Squires:Colonels win series 4-1", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095231-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 ABA Playoffs, Eastern Division\n(1) Carolina Cougars vs. (2) Kentucky Colonels:Colonels win series 4-3", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095231-0012-0000", "contents": "1973 ABA Playoffs, ABA Finals\n(2) Kentucky Colonels VS. (2) Indiana Pacers:Pacers win series 4-3", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095232-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 ABC Championship\nThe 1973 Asian Basketball Confederation Championship for Men were held in Manila, Philippines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095233-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 ACC Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 1973 Atlantic Coast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was held in Greensboro, North Carolina, at the Greensboro Coliseum from March 8\u201310. NC State defeated Maryland, 76\u201374, to win the championship. Tommy Burleson of NC State was named the tournament MVP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095234-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 AFC Youth Championship\nThe 1973 AFC Youth Championship was held in Tehran, Iran.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 85]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095235-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 AMA Motocross National Championship season\nThe 1973 AMA Motocross Championship season was the 2nd AMA Motocross National Championship season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095235-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 AMA Motocross National Championship season, Summary\nThe sport of motocross experienced explosive growth in 1973 and motorcycle manufacturers sought to capitalize on the expanding market with all four Japanese manufacturers fielding factory-backed teams alongside their European counterparts. Pierre Karsmakers from the Netherlands dominated the 1973 500cc national championship, winning seven of 12 AMA Nationals and claimed 17 victories in 36 races overall. Karsmakers is credited with helping raise the level of American motocross by stressing the importance of physical fitness and machine preparation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 56], "content_span": [57, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095235-0001-0001", "contents": "1973 AMA Motocross National Championship season, Summary\n1973 marked a turning point in American motocross when Jimmy Weinert became the first American rider to defeat the then-dominant European riders in the Trans-AMA Motocross Series at Lake Whitney Ranch in Texas. His victory showed that the level of American motocross had begun to compare with the level of European motocross.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 56], "content_span": [57, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095235-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 AMA Motocross National Championship season, Summary\nAs in the 1973 season, after the season-ending 500cc race on September 9, American riders competing for the AMA national championship continued to accumulate points counting towards the national championship while they competed in the 1973 Trans-AMA motocross series which began on September 23rd and hosted visiting European riders from the Motocross World Championship. Although Karsmakers was a Dutch citizen, he was competing under an AMA license so, he was listed as the \"Top American\" finisher in the Trans-AMA series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 56], "content_span": [57, 581]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095235-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 AMA Motocross National Championship season, Summary\nAfter winning the 1972 250cc national championship on a Yamaha, Gary Jones was hired by Honda to help develop their new Honda CR250M motocross bike for the 1973 season. He did so successfully to win his second consecutive 250cc national title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 56], "content_span": [57, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095236-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Aberdeen Corporation election\nAn election to the Aberdeen Corporation was held on 1 May 1973, alongside municipal elections across Scotland. 12 of the corporation's 36 seats were up for election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095236-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Aberdeen Corporation election\nThe election saw Labour remain in control of the corporation, winning 6 seats, giving them a total of 23. The Conservative won 5 seats, including one gained from 89-year-old Independent councillor George Roberts, contributing to a total of 12 after the election. Nigel Lindsay caused a major upset when he became the first ever Liberal to be elected to the corporation, unseating the Labour group's leader Thomas Paine in St Machar ward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095238-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Acropolis Rally\nThe 1973 Acropolis Rally (formally the 21st Acropolis Rally) was the sixth round of the inaugural World Rally Championship season. Run in late-May on the punishing hot gravel roads of central Greece, the Acropolis is a long-standing event on the WRC calendar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095238-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Acropolis Rally, Report\nIn 1973, and for several years afterward, only manufacturers were given points for finishes in WRC events. In Greece, the Alpine Renault team had another strong showing, with their fourth win of the year. Driver Jean-Luc Th\u00e9rier became the first driver to win two WRC rallies with his victory here.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 28], "content_span": [29, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095239-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Adur District Council election\nThe first elections to the newly created Adur District Council established by the Local Government Act 1972 in England and Wales were held 7 June 1973. Overall turnout was recorded at 46.6%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095240-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Afars and Issas legislative election\nTerritorial Council elections were held in the French Territory of the Afars and the Issas on 18 November 1973. The result was a victory for the \"Majority\" group of candidates, who were supportive of the government of Ali Aref Bourhan and mainly Afars. The other two groupings of candidates were \"Moderation Opposition\", who supported opposition leader Hassan Gouled Aptidon (mostly Issas and Somalis), and other opposition groups. Voter turnout was 75.6%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095241-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Afghan coup d'\u00e9tat\nThe 1973 Afghan coup d'\u00e9tat was a coup d'\u00e9tat led by Army General and prince Mohammed Daoud Khan against his cousin, King Mohammed Zahir Shah, on 17 July 1973, which resulted in the establishment of the Republic of Afghanistan under a one-party system led by Daoud Khan. For the coup, Daoud Khan led forces in Kabul along with then-chief of staff General Abdul Karim Mustaghni, to overthrow the monarchy while the King was convalescing abroad in Ischia, Italy. Daoud Khan was assisted by Army officers and civil servants from the Parcham faction of the PDPA, including Air Force colonel Abdul Qadir.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095241-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Afghan coup d'\u00e9tat\nKing Zahir Shah decided not to retaliate and he formally abdicated on August 24, remaining in Italy in exile. More than two centuries of royal rule (since the founding of the Durrani Empire in 1747) ended with the coup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095241-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Afghan coup d'\u00e9tat\nSeven loyalist police officers and one tank commander were killed in what was described at the time by staff from the United States National Security Council as a \"well planned and swiftly executed coup\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095241-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Afghan coup d'\u00e9tat, Background\nZahir Shah had ruled as King since 1933, and his cousin Prince Daoud Khan had served as Prime Minister from 1953 to 1963. Daoud Khan had strained relations with the King and he was also unable to hold political office after the 1964 constitution, which barred members of the Barakzai dynasty. Some believe the King did this on purpose because of Daoud Khan's strong pro-Pashtunistan views, which he deemed too radical and led to political rifts with Pakistan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095241-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Afghan coup d'\u00e9tat, Background\nDaoud Khan took the opportunity during growing discontent from the public over the failure of reforms by five successive governments since a parliamentary monarchy was formed in 1964, including the King's failure to promulgate the Political Parties Law, Provincial Councils Law, and Municipal Councils Act, all of which were passed by parliament. Another reason was the poor response to the famine in 1971\u201372 that is believed to have killed thousands in the central and north-western parts of the country, particularly Ghor Province - causing the resignation of Prime Minister Abdul Zahir's government. Circa 1972 people were unhappy with the parliament's ineffectiveness and lack of leadership, leading to growing various political movements at universities. Daoud Khan's internal disputes with the King has also been cited as a possible reason of his decision to launch a coup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 915]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095241-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Afghan coup d'\u00e9tat, Background\nSome scholars and historians have suggested a possible involvement of the Soviet Union in the coup, although this is not particularly evident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095241-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Afghan coup d'\u00e9tat, The coup\nKing Zahir Shah left Afghanistan for London, via Rome, on the morning of June 25, 1973 for hemorrhaging treatment after injuring his eye. After treatment he went back to Italy spending time in the island of Ischia. Mohammed Daoud Khan along with several hundred of his supporters from the Army launched the coup in the morning of July 17; within hours and without any armed resistance, the monarchy ended and Khan announced the new republic through Radio Afghanistan at 7 in the morning. Staff from the United States National Security Council described it as a \"well planned and swiftly executed coup.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095241-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Afghan coup d'\u00e9tat, The coup\nThe only casualties were 7 police officers at a station, who mistook the rebels for a hostile force; and a tank commander who drowned in the Kabul River after swerving off the road trying to avoid colliding with a bus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095241-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Afghan coup d'\u00e9tat, Aftermath\nDespite being part of the Musahiban Barakzai dynasty, Daoud Khan abolished the monarchy and created a new Republic instead, declaring himself as head of state and head of government, foreign minister and head of the Army. The royal Arg (palace) in Kabul became the official presidential residence. In a radio address, he called the coup a \"national and progressive revolution\", calling the King's rule \u201ccorrupt and effete\u201d and vowed to replace it with \u201cgenuine democracy\u201d. He pledged to continue Afghanistan's long-standing policy of neutrality. The Soviet Union and India diplomatically recognized the new government on July 19.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 664]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095241-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Afghan coup d'\u00e9tat, Aftermath\nDaoud Khan's links to Marxism, and the Parchamite support in his military coup, led to some suspecting it as being a communist takeover. In order to prevent opposition, he assured continuity of religious and cultural heritage, as demonstrated in the Republican Decrees created in July 1973. Upon coming to power, Daoud Khan disbanded the parliament and the judiciary, with direct executive rule established. Despite his socialist views, Khan did not bring drastic change to the economic system and maintained connections with the Cold War superpowers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095241-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 Afghan coup d'\u00e9tat, Aftermath\nA loya jirga was convened following the Constitutional Assembly election in January 1977, and approved a new constitution creating a presidential one-party state, with strong powers to the head of state. Daoud started re-approaching the United States and Pakistan, which contributed to the deterioration of his relations with the Soviet Union and the PDPA communists. Eventually he was overthrown and killed during the Saur Revolution in 1978, including by several high-ranking civilian and military people who helped him get to power in 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095242-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 African Cup of Champions Clubs\nThe African Cup of Champions Clubs 1973 was the 9th edition of the annual international club football competition held in the CAF region (Africa), the African Cup of Champions Clubs. It determined that year's club champion of association football in Africa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095242-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 African Cup of Champions Clubs\nThe tournament was played by 24 teams and used a knock-out format with ties played home and away. AS Vita Club from Zaire won the final, and became CAF club champion for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095242-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 African Cup of Champions Clubs, Second round\n1 Mighty Jets were forced to withdraw as they could not afford the cost of travel to Zaire for the first leg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 49], "content_span": [50, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095242-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 African Cup of Champions Clubs, Top scorers\nThe top scorers from the 1973 African Cup of Champions Clubs are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 48], "content_span": [49, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095243-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Air Canada Silver Broom\nThe 1973 Air Canada Silver Broom was held at the Regina Exhibition Stadium in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada from March 19\u201324, 1973. The tournament was won by Sweden, with a team from Djursholms CK.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095243-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Air Canada Silver Broom, Teams\nSkip : Renato GhezzeThird: Paolo da RosSecond: Lino Mariani MaierLead: Andrea Pavani", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095243-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Air Canada Silver Broom, Teams\nSkip : Alex F. TorranceThird: Alex A. TorranceSecond: Tom McGregorLead: Willie Kerr", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095244-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Air Force Falcons football team\nThe 1973 Air Force Falcons football team represented the United States Air Force Academy in the 1973 NCAA Division I football season as an independent. They were led by sixteenth\u2013year head coach Ben Martin and played their home games at Falcon Stadium in Colorado Springs, Colorado. They were outscored by their opponents 223\u2013239 and finished with a record of 6 wins and 4 losses (6\u20134) for a third consecutive season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095245-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Akron Zips football team\nThe 1973 Akron Zips football team represented Akron University in the 1973 NCAA Division II football season as an independent. Led by first-year head coach Jim Dennison, the Zips played their home games at the Rubber Bowl in Akron, Ohio. They finished the season with a record of 6\u20135 and outscored their opponents 289\u2013203.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095246-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Alabama Crimson Tide football team\nThe 1973 Alabama Crimson Tide football team (variously \"Alabama\", \"UA\" or \"Bama\") represented the University of Alabama in the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. It was the Crimson Tide's 79th overall and 40th season as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The team was led by head coach Bear Bryant, in his 16th year at his alma mater and 29th overall as a head coach, and played their home games at Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa and Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama. They finished season with eleven wins and one loss (11\u20131 overall, 8\u20130 in the SEC), as SEC champions and with a loss to Notre Dame in the Sugar Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 671]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095246-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Alabama Crimson Tide football team\nAlthough they lost in the Sugar Bowl, Alabama was recognized as national champions by the Coaches' Poll (UPI) as their selection was made prior to bowl season at the time (the UPI started to issue its final poll after the bowl games beginning in 1974). Notre Dame was awarded the national championship by the Associated Press.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095246-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Alabama Crimson Tide football team\nThe Crimson Tide opened the season with a victory at Birmingham over California. The next week, they defeated Kentucky in what was Bryant's first game in Lexington since he resigned as head coach of the Wildcats after their 1953 season. After they defeated Vanderbilt for their second shutout of the season, Alabama defeated Georgia in the first Tuscaloosa game of the season and followed that with a victory at Florida before what was the largest crowd to date at Florida Field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095246-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Alabama Crimson Tide football team\nAgainst Tennessee, Alabama defeated their rivals behind three fourth quarter touchdowns and extended their record to 6\u20130. The following week, the Crimson Tide shattered numerous offensive records with their 77\u20136 blowout win over Virginia Tech. After victories over both Mississippi State at Jackson and Miami on homecoming, Alabama then captured their third consecutive SEC championship with their win over LSU. Alabama then closed the season with a win over Auburn in the Iron Bowl to close the regular season, but then lost to Notre Dame in the Sugar Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095246-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, California\nAs they entered the 1973 season, Alabama was ranked as the No. 6 team in the first AP Poll prior to their season opener against California. Playing in the evening at Legion Field, the Crimson Tide utilized 70 players and set a school record for total offense with this 66\u20130 shutout of the Golden Bears. Alabama took a 14\u20130 first quarter lead behind touchdowns scored on a two-yard Wilbur Jackson run and a 32-yard pass from Gary Rutledge to Johnny Sharpless. They then extended their lead to 21\u20130 at halftime behind a 16-yard touchdown pass from Richard Todd to George Pugh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 67], "content_span": [68, 642]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095246-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, California\nThe Crimson Tide continued their dominance over the Golden Bears through the second half where they outscored their opponent 45\u20130. In the third, Alabama scored on a three-yard James Taylor run, a 21-yard Bill Davis field goal and on a 46-yard touchdown pass from Richard Todd to Darrell Owen. In the fourth, Alabama closed with touchdowns on a Harris fumble recovery, and 18-yard run by John Boles and runs of 32 and five-yards by Willie Shelby. The 667 yards of total offense set a new school record and the 66 points were the most scored by the Crimson Tide since their 66\u20130 victory over Richmond in 1961. The victory improved Alabama's all-time record against California to 1\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 67], "content_span": [68, 749]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095246-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Kentucky\nAfter their victory over California to open the season, Alabama moved from the No. 6 to No. 4 position in the AP Poll prior to their game at Kentucky. In what was Bear Bryant's first game at Lexington since he resigned as the Wildcats head coach following their 1953 season, the Crimson Tide came from behind and won 28\u201314. After a scoreless first quarter, Kentucky took a 14\u20130 halftime lead behind second quarter touchdowns on a four-yard Sonny Collins run and a 14-yard Ernie Lewis pass to Jack Alvarez.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095246-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Kentucky\nThe Crimson Tide started their comeback on the first play of the third quarter when Willie Shelby returned the second half kickoff 100-yards for a touchdown. Touchdown runs of three-yards by Wilbur Jackson and six-yards by Gary Rutledge gave Alabama a 21\u201314 lead as they entered the fourth quarter. In the fourth, Shelby scored his second touchdown on a two-yard run that made the final score 28\u201314. The victory improved Alabama's all-time record against Kentucky 26\u20131\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095246-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Vanderbilt\nAfter their closer than expected victory over Kentucky, Alabama dropped into the No. 5 position in the AP Poll prior to their game against Vanderbilt. Against the Commodores, the Crimson Tide scored on eight of their eleven offensive possessions en route to a 44\u20130 shutout at Nashville. Alabama took a 17\u20130 lead in the first quarter behind a 14-yard Gary Rutledge touchdown pass to Wayne Wheeler, a 35-yard Bill Davis field goal and a 13-yard Randy Billingsley touchdown run. They then extended their lead to 27\u20130 at halftime behind a 13-yard Mike Stock touchdown run and a 22-yard Davis field goal as time expired in the second quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 67], "content_span": [68, 705]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095246-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Vanderbilt\nAlabama closed the game with a four-yard Ellis Beck touchdown run and 34-yard Davis field goal in the third and a one-yard Stock run in the fourth for the 44\u20130 win. The game marked the first time Bryant coached against his former quarterback Steve Sloan who was the Commodores. The victory improved Alabama's all-time record against Vanderbilt to 30\u201317\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 67], "content_span": [68, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095246-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Georgia\nAfter their victory over Vanderbilt, Alabama moved into the No. 3 position in the AP Poll prior to their game against Georgia. Playing in their first Denny Stadium game of the season, the Crimson Tide came-from-behind and defeated the Bulldogs 28\u201314 at Tuscaloosa. After each team traded first quarter field goals, Alabama took a 13\u20133 halftime lead behind an eight-yard Randy Billingsley touchdown run and a 39-yard Bill Davis field goal in the second quarter. In the third, Georgia cut the lead to 13\u20135 after Kirk Price blocked a Greg Gantt punt out of the endzone for a safety.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095246-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Georgia\nThe Bulldogs next scored early in the fourth on a 37-yard Allan Leavitt field goal and on an eight-yard Jimmy Poulos touchdown run and took a 14\u201313 lead. Alabama retook the lead late in the fourth on an eight-yard Gary Rutledge touchdown run. Their defense then forced four consecutive Georgia incompletions on the possession that ensued. Billingsley then gave the Crimson Tide the 28\u201314 win with his 17-yard run in the final minute of the game. The victory improved Alabama's all-time record against Georgia to 30\u201319\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095246-0012-0000", "contents": "1973 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Florida\nAfter their victory over Georgia, Alabama retained their No. 3 position in the AP Poll prior to their game against Florida. Before what was then the largest crowd in the history of Florida Field, the Crimson Tide defeated the Gators 35\u201314 at Gainesville. Alabama took a 7\u20130 lead in the first quarter after Tyrone King recovered a blocked punt in the endzone for a touchdown. They then extended their lead to 21\u20130 with second quarter touchdown runs from one-yard by Richard Todd and 11-yards by Calvin Culliver.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095246-0013-0000", "contents": "1973 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Florida\nDown by three scores, the Gators rallied with a pair of David Bowden touchdown passes that cut the Crimson Tide lead to 21\u201314 by the third quarter. The first was from 16-yards to Lee McGriff and the second from two-yards to Thomas Clifford. Alabama then closed the game with fourth quarter touchdown runs of 13-yards from Culliver and six-yards by Wilbur Jackson for the 35\u201314 win. The victory improved Alabama's all-time record against Florida to 13\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095246-0014-0000", "contents": "1973 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Tennessee\nAfter their victory over Florida, Alabama moved into the No. 2 position and Tennessee moved into the No. 10 position in the AP Poll prior to their game at Legion Field. Against the Volunteers, the Crimson Tide scored three touchdowns in the final quarter of the game for a 42\u201321, victory at Birmingham before a nationally televised audience. Alabama opened the game with an 80-yard Gary Rutledge touchdown pass to Wayne Wheeler for a 7\u20130 lead on their first offensive possession.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095246-0014-0001", "contents": "1973 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Tennessee\nAfter Wilbur Jackson extended their lead to 14\u20130 with his seven-yard run, Tennessee scored their first points on a 20-yard Condredge Holloway pass to John Yarbrough that made the score 14\u20137 at the end of the first. The Crimson Tide next took a 21\u201314 lead into halftime after Richard Todd threw an 11-yard touchdown pass to Willie Shelby and Holloway scored on a six-yard run for the Vols.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095246-0015-0000", "contents": "1973 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Tennessee\nTennessee then managed to tie the game 21\u201321 with the lone third quarter points on a 64-yard Holloway touchdown pass to Mitchell Gravitt. Alabama responded with three fourth quarter touchdowns en route to the 42\u201321 win. the first came on a 64-yard Robin Cary punt return, an 80-yard Wilbur Jackson run and a three-yard Paul Spivey run. The victory improved Alabama's all-time record against Tennessee to 26\u201323\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095246-0016-0000", "contents": "1973 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Virginia Tech\nAfter their victory over Tennessee, Alabama retained their No. 2 position prior to their out of conference match-up against Virginia Tech at Denny Stadium. Against the Gobblers, the Crimson Tide set several team, conference and national offensive records with this 77\u20136 blowout at Tuscaloosa. Alabama opened the game with a pair of first quarter touchdown runs from 51-yards by Wilbur Jackson and two-yards from Randy Billingsley for a 14\u20130 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 70], "content_span": [71, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095246-0016-0001", "contents": "1973 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Virginia Tech\nIn the second, the Crimson Tide extended their lead to 35\u20130 after Ralph Stokes scored on a seven-yard run, Conley Duncan recovered a fumble in the endzone and Richard Todd threw a 28-yard touchdown pass to Darrell Owen before the Hokies scored their only points of the contest. With just under a minute to play in the first half, Phil Rogers scored Tech's only points with his six-yard touchdown run. However, Alabama responded on their next offensive play with an 80-yard James Taylor touchdown run for a 42\u20136 halftime lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 70], "content_span": [71, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095246-0017-0000", "contents": "1973 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Virginia Tech\nThe Crimson Tide continued their scoring into the second half with another four touchdowns in the third quarter. They came on runs of seven-yards by Billingsley, nine-yards by Todd, 14-yards by Jack O'Rear and 86-yards by Calvin Culliver. O'Rear then scored the final points of the game with his 28-yard touchdown run in the fourth that made the final score 77\u20136. Records set in the game included the most total offensive yards in SEC history with 828 and the most rushing yards in NCAA history for a single game with 743.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 70], "content_span": [71, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095246-0017-0001", "contents": "1973 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Virginia Tech\nThe 828 yards of total offense for the game also eclipsed the previous record of 667 yards set against California to open the season, and the 77 points also represented the first time the Crimson Tide reached 70 points in a game since their 1945 season. Additionally, four Alabama backs rushed for over 100 yards with 142 yards from Taylor, 138 from Jackson, 127 yards from Culliver and 102 yards from Todd. The victory improved Alabama's all-time record against Virginia Tech to 8\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 70], "content_span": [71, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095246-0018-0000", "contents": "1973 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Mississippi State\nAs they entered their game against Mississippi State, Alabama retained their No. 2 position in the AP Poll. Favored by 28 points as they entered the game, the Crimson Tide shutout the Bulldogs 35\u20130 at Jackson. On the second offensive play of the game, Alabama took a 7\u20130 lead behind a 38-yard Randy Billingsley touchdown run. State then held the Crimson Tide to only a pair of Bill Davis field goals from 33 and 27-yards for a 13\u20130 Alabama lead at halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 74], "content_span": [75, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095246-0019-0000", "contents": "1973 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Mississippi State\nThe Crimson Tide then closed the game with three second half touchdowns for the 35\u20130 win. Willie Shelby scored on a 29-yard run in the third and Wilbur Jackson and Ralph Stokes scored on runs of six and one-yard in the fourth. In the game, Sam Nichols missed a pair of field goals for the Bulldogs from 30 and 32-yards that would have prevented the shutout. The victory improved Alabama's all-time record against Mississippi State to 45\u201310\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 74], "content_span": [75, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095246-0020-0000", "contents": "1973 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Miami\nAs they entered their game against Miami, Alabama retained their No. 2 position in the AP Poll for a fourth consecutive week. On homecoming in Tuscaloosa, Alabama defeated Hurricanes 43\u201313 and after the victory accepted an invitation to compete in the Sugar Bowl. Alabama scored their first points early in the game when Greg Montgomery blocked a Miami punt out of the endzone for a safety. They then extended their lead to 15\u20130 by the end of the first behind a two-yard Gary Rutledge run and a 69-yard Rutledge pass to John Sharpless. Willie Shelby then made the halftime score 22\u20130 with his 52-yard punt return.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 62], "content_span": [63, 676]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095246-0021-0000", "contents": "1973 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Miami\nMiami scored their first points early in the third on a three-yard Woody Thompson touchdown run. However, Alabama responded later in the quarter with a nine-yard Rutledge touchdown pass to Darrell Owen and made the score 29\u20136. In the final quarter, the Crimson Tide closed with a five-yard James Taylor touchdown run and a 62-yard John Boles punt return. The Hurricanes then scored the final points of the game on a 78-yard Coy Hall touchdown pass to Steve Marcantonio that made the final score 43\u201313. The victory improved Alabama's all-time record against Miami to 10\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 62], "content_span": [63, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095246-0022-0000", "contents": "1973 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, LSU\nAfter their victory over Miami, Alabama retained their No. 2 position and LSU was in the No. 7 position in the AP Poll prior to their match-up at Baton Rouge on Thanksgiving Day. Playing in a regionally televised game on ABC, Alabama defeated the previously undefeated Tigers 21\u20137 and secured both the 500th win in the history of Crimson Tide football and captured the 1973 conference championship. After a scoreless first quarter, Alabama took a 14\u20130 halftime lead with a pair of touchdowns in the second quarter. The first came on a 19-yard Gary Rutledge run and the second on a 49-yard Rutledge pass to George Pugh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 60], "content_span": [61, 679]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095246-0023-0000", "contents": "1973 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, LSU\nIn the third, the Crimson Tide extended their lead to 21\u20130 after Rutledge threw a 77-yard touchdown pass to Wayne Wheeler. LSU answered early in the fourth with their only points on a 40-yard Brad Davis run that made the final score 21\u20137. The victory improved Alabama's all-time record against LSU to 23\u201310\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 60], "content_span": [61, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095246-0024-0000", "contents": "1973 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Auburn\nAs they entered their annual rivalry game against Auburn, Alabama moved into the No. 1 position in the AP Poll prior to their match-up in the Iron Bowl. Seeking to avenge their loss from the previous season to the Tigers the Crimson Tide were dominant in this 35\u20130 shutout at Legion Field. Alabama took a 14\u20130 lead in the first quarter behind touchdown runs of seven-yards by Randy Billingsley and of one-yard by Gary Rutledge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 63], "content_span": [64, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095246-0025-0000", "contents": "1973 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Auburn\nAfter a scoreless second, Rutledge scored his second rushing touchdown early in the third on a three-yard run for a 21\u20130 lead. The Crimson Tide then closed the game with touchdown runs of 14-yards by Wilbur Jackson and eight-yards by James Taylor for the 35\u20130 win. The victory improved Alabama's all-time record against Auburn to 20\u201317\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 63], "content_span": [64, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095246-0026-0000", "contents": "1973 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Notre Dame\nAt the conclusion of the regular season, Alabama was selected as national champions in the UPI Coaches' Poll. However, the Crimson Tide would not win the AP championship as they lost 24\u201323 against Notre Dame in what was a classic Sugar Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 67], "content_span": [68, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095246-0027-0000", "contents": "1973 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Notre Dame\nNotre Dame checked into the locker room at halftime up 14\u201310, the big play coming on a 93-yard kickoff return for a touchdown by Al Hunter. Each team scored a touchdown in the third quarter, that left the Irish up 21\u201317 going into the fourth. Alabama took a 23\u201321 lead on a fleaflicker touchdown pass from running back Mike Strock back to quarterback Richard Todd. However, Bill Davis missed the extra point and Alabama was up by only two. Notre Dame drove the ball downfield and kicked a 19-yard field goal to go up 24\u201323 with 4:26 to go.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 67], "content_span": [68, 607]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095246-0027-0001", "contents": "1973 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, Game summaries, Notre Dame\nBama could not answer, but the punt left Notre Dame backed up to their own goal. With time ticking away and Notre Dame facing a third and eight, Alabama had a chance to get the ball back in excellent field position, but Irish QB Tom Clements threw a 35-yard pass to tight end Robin Webber and Notre Dame held on to win the game and the AP national championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 67], "content_span": [68, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095246-0028-0000", "contents": "1973 Alabama Crimson Tide football team, NFL Draft\nSeveral players that were varsity lettermen from the 1973 squad were drafted into the National Football League (NFL) in the 1974, 1975 and 1976 drafts. These players included:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 50], "content_span": [51, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095247-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Alamo 500\nThe 1973 Alamo 500 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series racing event that took place on June 10, 1973, at Texas World Speedway in College Station, Texas. Speeds for this race would reach an average of 142.114 miles per hour (228.710\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095247-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Alamo 500\nThe race car drivers still had to commute to the races using the same stock cars that competed in a typical weekend's race through a policy of homologation (and under their own power). This policy was in effect until roughly 1975. By 1980, NASCAR had completely stopped tracking the year model of all the vehicles and most teams did not take stock cars to the track under their own power anymore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095247-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Alamo 500, Race report\nIt took three hours and twenty-six minutes to resolve a race spanning 250 laps. Richard Petty defeated Darrell Waltrip by at least two laps in front of 27000 people; Waltrip's second-place run was just his second-ever Winston Cup \"top five\" finish and his first on a superspeedway. There were always large margins of victory at Texas World Speedway because of many long green-flag runs. Drivers were either became very cautious or very lucky and they managed to avoid having to deal with relatively long yellow-flag runs. Five cautions were handed out by NASCAR officials for 27 laps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095247-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Alamo 500, Race report\nTwenty-eight lead changes were reported amongst five leaders. Nearly two years later, Darrell Waltrip would actually win a superspeedway race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095247-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Alamo 500, Race report\nOnly manual transmission vehicles were allowed to participate in this race; a policy that NASCAR has retained to the present day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095247-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Alamo 500, Race report\nBuddy Baker would earn the pole position with a speed of 169.248 miles per hour (272.378\u00a0km/h). J.D. McDuffie would make a top-ten finish here; a rare occurrence considering that he finished last-place the most often. Richie Panch would become the last-place finisher of the race due to an ignition problem on the first lap. This would be the last race done at Texas World Speedway until the 1979 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season. There were 38 American-born drivers on the racing grid. Bob Whitlow and Ed Sczech would make their NASCAR debuts at this racing event; Whitlow was driving a second car for Ed Negre.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 640]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095247-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Alamo 500, Race report\nPetty would receive a prize amount of $17,820 for winning the race ($102,632 when considering inflation) while Panch would collect a mere $920 as his \"reward\" for finishing in last place ($5,299 when considering inflation).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095247-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Alamo 500, Race report\nNotable crew chiefs who fully participated in this race were Tim Brewer, Jake Elder, Travis Carter, Harry Hyde, Dale Inman, and Bud Moore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095247-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Alamo 500, Finishing order\n\u2020 signifies that the driver is known to be deceased * Driver failed to finish race", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 31], "content_span": [32, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095248-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Alaska's at-large congressional district special election\nThe 1973 Alaska's at-large congressional district special election was held on March 6, 1973, to elect the United States Representative from Alaska's at-large congressional district. Incumbent Democratic Representative Nick Begich had won reelection in 1972, but had gone missing shortly before the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095248-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Alaska's at-large congressional district special election\nBegich's seat was declared vacant by a jury and a special election was ordered by Governor William A. Egan. Don Young, who had lost to Begich in 1972, won the Republican nomination without opposition while Emil Notti defeated Chancy Croft and Pegge Begich for the Democratic nomination. In the general election Young defeated Notti.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095248-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Alaska's at-large congressional district special election, Background\nRepresentative Nick Begich disappeared while traveling on an airplane with House Majority Leader Hale Boggs on October 16, 1972, and was never found. However, despite his disappearance Begich defeated Don Young in the House of Representatives election. On November 24, the United States Air Force announced that it would suspend the air search for Begich and Boggs after no traces of the missing plane had been found after 3,600 hours of searching had covered 325,000 square miles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 74], "content_span": [75, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095248-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Alaska's at-large congressional district special election, Background\nFollowing his defeat Young asked Governor William A. Egan to call a special legislative session to speed up the process of the special election to fill Begich's vacant seat. According to Alaskan law a special election must be called by the governor within sixty to ninety days after a vacancy is declared. Three petitions calling for a presumptive death hearing for Begich were filed in the Juneau District Court, and was later transferred to Anchorage. On December 12, the six-member jury deliberated for twenty minutes before ruling that Begich and two other people onboard the plane were presumably dead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 74], "content_span": [75, 682]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095248-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Alaska's at-large congressional district special election, Background\nOn December 29, Governor Egan announced that the special election would be held on March 6, 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 74], "content_span": [75, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095248-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Alaska's at-large congressional district special election, Democratic nomination\nOn November 7, 1972, after voting in the 1972 election, Pegge Begich, the wife of Nick Begich, stated that she was open to running in a special election to fill her husband's vacant seat. Peggy later announced that she would seek the Democratic nomination \"if and when a vacancy occurs\". On December 20, she stated that she would spend $40,000 to $60,000 on the campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 85], "content_span": [86, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095248-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Alaska's at-large congressional district special election, Democratic nomination\nThe Anchorage Daily News released a poll of 22 of the 29 members of the Democratic State Central Committee. Eleven members supported state Senator Chancy Croft, eight were undecided, and three supported Pegge Begich. On December 7, Croft announced that he would seek the Democratic nomination for the special election. On January 5, 1973, Emil Notti, chairman of the Alaska Democratic Party, announced that he would seek the Democratic nomination for the special election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 85], "content_span": [86, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095248-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Alaska's at-large congressional district special election, Democratic nomination\nFifty-one Democrats filed a lawsuit on December 5, to prevent the Democratic State Central Committee from choosing the special election candidate at a meeting. On December 7, Judge Edmond W. Burke granted a preliminary injunction while Notti filed an appeal. On December 28, the Alaska Supreme Court ruled against Notti's appeal which forced the Democratic Party to select its candidate at a convention. The court ruled that a committee meeting to select the candidate would be a violation of the principle of one man, one vote. Another attempt was made to appeal the ruling prohibiting the selection of a candidate at a committee meeting, but the courts ruled in favor of the 51 Democrats again on January 10, 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 85], "content_span": [86, 802]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095248-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Alaska's at-large congressional district special election, Democratic nomination\nOn January 14, 1973, the Democratic state convention was held at the Gold Rush Hotel in Anchorage, Alaska. Notti won on the third ballot with 108.5 delegate votes against Croft's 90.4 votes. On January 17, Notti selected Begich to serve as the chairwoman of his campaign. Following the convention Democratic National committeeman Cliff Warren announced that he would drop his appeal to the ruling baring a committee meeting to select the party's special election candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 85], "content_span": [86, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095248-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Alaska's at-large congressional district special election, Republican nomination\nFormer Governor Keith Harvey Miller, Anchorage Mayor George M. Sullivan, former Commissioner of Natural Resources Tom Kelley, and state senators Clifford Groh and Lowell Thomas Jr., who had been speculated as possible candidates for the Republican nomination in the special election, announced that they would support Don Young for the Republican nomination. However, Sullivan and Groh stated that they would be interested in running if Young were to withdraw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 85], "content_span": [86, 546]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095248-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 Alaska's at-large congressional district special election, Republican nomination\nOn December 2, 1972, the Alaska Republican Central Committee, with eight committee members present and eight committee members voting by proxy, voted unanimously to give Young the Republican nomination for the special election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 85], "content_span": [86, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095248-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 Alaska's at-large congressional district special election, Republican nomination\nOn December 13, the Republican Party filed a lawsuit to receive clarification on Judge Edmond W. Burke's ruling that the Democratic candidate for the special election could only be nominated at a convention and not by the Democratic Central Committee. The Alaskan government filed a motion to dismiss the Republican lawsuit stating that there was no conflict for the court to resolve, and on December 29, Judge Everett W. Hepp dismissed the lawsuit. Jack Coghill, the chairman of the Alaska Republican Party, stated that as the lawsuit was dismissed that the Republicans would not need to hold a convention to select their special election candidate as their method of selection for Young was not contested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 85], "content_span": [86, 793]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095248-0012-0000", "contents": "1973 Alaska's at-large congressional district special election, General election\nOn January 9, 1973, Don Young filed to run in the special election, and stated that environmental issues and how Alaska utilizes its natural resources would be the major issues during the campaign. Young also stated that he would not resign from the state senate, but he would limit campaigning to the weekends when the state legislature was not in session. Jack Coghill served as the chairman of Young's campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 80], "content_span": [81, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095248-0013-0000", "contents": "1973 Alaska's at-large congressional district special election, General election\nYoung stated that he was promised seats on the House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries and the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs by the Republican leadership. Young showed a telegram signed by House Minority Leader Gerald Ford showing the promise. Emil Notti stated that Speaker of the House Carl Albert and House Majority Leader Tip O'Neill promised him a seat on the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 80], "content_span": [81, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095248-0014-0000", "contents": "1973 Alaska's at-large congressional district special election, General election\nOn March 6, Young narrowly defeated Notti by 2,000 votes with 35,044 (51.41%) to 33,123 (48.59%) votes. Young was inaugurated into the House of Representatives on March 14. He would continue to be reelected and became the longest serving Republican member of the House of Representatives in 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [64, 80], "content_span": [81, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095249-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Algerian Cup Final\nThe 1973 Algerian Cup Final was the 11th final of the Algerian Cup. The final took place on June 19, 1973, at Stade 5 Juillet 1962 in Algiers with kick-off at 21:00. MC Alger beat USM Alger 4\u20132 after extra time to win their second Algerian Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095250-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 All England Badminton Championships\nThe 1973 All England Championships was a badminton tournament held at Wembley Arena, London, England, from 21\u201324 March 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095251-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Africa Games\nThe 2nd All-Africa Games \u2013 Lagos 1973 were played from January 7, 1973, to January 18, 1973, in Lagos, Nigeria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095251-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Africa Games\nAfter the success of the first African Games, the organizing bodies awarded the second games to Bamako, Mali to be held in 1969. A military coup disrupted the plans and the organizers moved the games to Lagos, Nigeria to be held in 1971. The games were postponed once again and finally opened in January 1973. A torch was lit in Brazzaville a week before the games and transported to Lagos as a symbol of the continuity of the games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095251-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Africa Games\nSecurity again was very tight at the games. This time in response to the massacre of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games just four short months before.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095251-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Africa Games\nSports heroes from around the world including Abebe Bikila, Pel\u00e9, Muhammad Ali, and Jesse Owens were invited to attend the opening ceremonies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095251-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Africa Games\nBen Jipcho, Kenya's 3000 meter silver medalist at the Munich Olympics, tied the world record in the steeplechase with a run of 8:20.8. Tanzania's newcomer Filbert Bayi stunned the veteran favorite Kip Keino in the 1500 meters in 3:37.18.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095251-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Africa Games\nAfrican nations continued to put pressure on South Africa which was not invited to participate due to their apartheid policies. Rhodesia was also not invited.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095251-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Africa Games\nAt the closing ceremonies the torch was passed to Algiers, Algeria to begin preparations for the IIIrd All-Africa Games in 1978.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095251-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Africa Games, Athletics\nOnly one athlete defended his title from the 1965 Games, namely Malian discus thrower Namakoro Niar\u00e9. Three athletes, one male and two female, won more than one event:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095251-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Africa Games, Athletics\nSeveral women's events was added. These were 200 metres, 400 metres, 800 metres, 1500 metres, discus throw, shot put and 4 x 400 metres relay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095251-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Africa Games, Soccer\nThe soccer tournament was won by the host country Nigeria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095252-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Atlantic Coast Conference football team\nThe 1973 All-Atlantic Coast Conference football team consists of American football players chosen by the Atlantic Coast Sports Writers Association (ACS) as the best at each position in Atlantic Coast Conference (\"ACC\") during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095253-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Big Eight Conference football team\nThe 1973 All-Big Eight Conference football team consists of American football players chosen by various organizations for All-Big Eight Conference teams for the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. The selectors for the 1973 season included the Associated Press (AP).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095254-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Big Ten Conference football team\nThe 1973 All-Big Ten Conference football team consists of American football players chosen by various organizations for All-Big Ten Conference teams for the 1973 Big Ten Conference football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095254-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Big Ten Conference football team, Key\nUPI = United Press International, selected by the conference coaches", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 46], "content_span": [47, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095254-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Big Ten Conference football team, Key\nBold = Consensus first-team selection of both AP and UPI", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 46], "content_span": [47, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095255-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Intermediate Hurling Championship\nThe 1973 All-Ireland Intermediate Hurling Championship was the 13th staging of the All-Ireland hurling championship. The championship ended on 16 September 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095255-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Intermediate Hurling Championship\nTipperary were the defending champions, however, they did not field a team in the championship. Kilkenny won the title after defeating London by 5\u201315 to 2\u20139 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095256-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship\nThe 1973 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship was the 42nd staging of the All-Ireland Minor Football Championship, the Gaelic Athletic Association's premier inter-county Gaelic football tournament for boys under the age of 18.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095256-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship\nCork entered the championship as defending champions, however, they were defeated by Tyrone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095256-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Minor Football Championship\nOn 23 September 1973, Tyrone won the championship following a 2-11 to 1-6 defeat of Kildare in the All-Ireland final. This was their third All-Ireland title overall and their first in 25 championship seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095257-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship\nThe 1973 All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship was the 43rd staging of the All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship. The championship began on 5 August 1973 and ended on 2 September 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095257-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship\nOn 2 September 1973, Kilkenny won the championship following a 4-5 to 3-7 defeat of Galway in the All-Ireland final. This was their 9th All-Ireland title and their second championship title in succession.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095258-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship\nThe 1973 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship was the high point of the 1973 season. The championship was won by Cork who defeated Antrim by a single point margin in the final for their fourth successive success. The match drew an attendance of 4,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095258-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, Semi-finals\nAntrim seemed to have taken a firm grip of the semi-final when Chris O'Boyle, who had just come on as substitute, got a goal to put them seven points clear near the interval. This setback roused Wexford who retaliated with a well taken goal by Mary Sheil but still trailed by 1-5 to 1-1 at half time. Marking as far closer in the second half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 57], "content_span": [58, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095258-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, Final\nAfter a match marred by heavy rain, Antrim failed in a dramatic bid for an equaliser at the end of the final. Agnes Hourigan wrote in the Irish Press:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 51], "content_span": [52, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095258-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, Final\nOver the 50 minutes Antrim had slightly the better of the play territorially and missed many second half scoring chance, were desperately unlucky not to snatch a draw in the dying seconds. Cork seemed to have the tenth title wrapped up when Ann Phelan goalled just three minutes from time and Marion McCarthy promptly pointed a 30 with just over two minute remaining to put the holders four points clear after Antrim had leveled the scores in a great rally. Then the Ulster champions came again. Mair\u00e9ad McAtamney shot low from a free.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 51], "content_span": [52, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095258-0003-0001", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, Final\nThe ball was diverted out for a 30, which the Antrim captain took and crashed the ball to the back of the Cork net, to reduce the margin to a point with the last minute ticking away. Back came Antrim in a last attack. Full forward Lily Scullion seemed to be brought down in possession, but instead of awarding a free referee Phyllis Breslin, who was right on the spot, threw in the ball. A Cork back cleared to touch. Mair\u00e9ad McAtamney took the line ball about 25 yards out and sent it sailing for the Cork posts but the leather went inches wide in that brave bid for the balancing point, the long whistle blew on the puckout and Cork were champions again.<", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 51], "content_span": [52, 709]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095258-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, Assessment\nBoth teams were evenly matched throughout the field. The Irish Independent noted:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095258-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, Assessment\nFast, spectacular, open camogie, fine striking and superb ball control by both side were features of the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095258-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, Assessment\nForm start to finish, the crowd was spellbound by the play of both sides and it was a pity that one of them had to lose.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095258-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, Assessment\nThe players managed to continue to serve up brilliant camogie even as the ball and the pitch became slippery. Had the rain not come just five minutes before the interval, this must surely have gone on record as the greatest camogie final ever played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095258-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, Assessment\nAntrim were the last team to wear the old style tunic in a major final. Cork were the first county to win the senior and junior finals on the same day. Cally Riordan (Youghal) won medals with both teams, playing on the junior team and coming on as a sub for the seniors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095259-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship Final\nThe 1973 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship Final was the 42nd All-Ireland Final and the deciding match of the 1973 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship, an inter-county camogie tournament for the top teams in Ireland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095259-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship Final\nCork won by the narrowest of margins, with Ann Phelan scoring 2-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095260-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship Final\nThe 1973 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship final was a hurling match played at Croke Park on 9 December 1973 to determine the winners of the 1972\u201373 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship, the third season of the All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship, a tournament organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association for the champion clubs of the four provinces of Ireland. The final was contested by Glen Rovers of Cork and St. Rynagh's of Offaly, with Glen Rovers winning by 2-18 to 2-8.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095260-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship Final\nThe All-Ireland final between Glen Rovers and St. Rynagh's was a unique occasion as it was the first ever championship meeting between the two teams. It remains their only championship meeting. Both sides were hoping to win the title for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095260-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship Final\nThe game was a disappointing end to a controversial championship. Glen Rovers had earlier been awarded the All-Ireland title by a committee, however, the club preferred to contest the game and win it on the field of play. Only a few hundred spectators turned out at GAA headquarters to witness a game that lacked any entertainment value. St. Rynagh's were described as being inferior to Glen Rovers. The Offaly men repeatedly missed chances in the opening thirty minutes as the Glen played into a blinding sun towards the canal end.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095260-0002-0001", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship Final\nGoalkeeper Finbarr O'Neill saved Glen Rovers on a number of occasions and the Cork team had a 1\u201310 to 1\u20133 lead at the interval. St. Rynaghs' six first-half wides did not help the situation. Glen Rovers stretched their lead to eleven points just after the restart. Basil Johnson got a goal for St. Rynagh's, however, it was too little too late as Glen Rovers won by 2\u201318 to 2\u20138.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095260-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship Final\nSt. Rynaghs' All-Ireland defeat was the second of two All-Ireland defeats in three years. They remain a team who has contested All-Ireland deciders but has never claimed the ultimate prize.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095261-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship\nThe 1973 All-Ireland Football Championship was the 87th staging of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, the Gaelic Athletic Association's premier inter-county Gaelic football tournament. The championship began on 13 May 1973 and ended on 23 September 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095261-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship\nOffaly were the defending champions but were defeated by Galway in the All-Ireland semi-final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095261-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship\nOn 23 September 1973, Cork won the championship following a 3-17 to 2-13 defeat of Galway in the All-Ireland final. This was their 4th All-Ireland title, their first in 28 championship seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095261-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship\nOffaly's Tony McTague was the championship's top scorer with 1-25. Cork's Billy Morgan was the choice for Texaco Footballer of the Year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095262-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final\nThe 1973 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final was a Gaelic football match played at Croke Park on 23 September 1973 to determine the winners of the 1973 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, the 87th season of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, a tournament organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association for the champions of the four provinces of Ireland. The final was contested by Galway of Connacht and Cork of Munster, with Cork winning by 3\u201317 to 2\u201313.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095262-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final\nCork's All-Ireland victory was their first since 1945. The win gave them their fourth All-Ireland title over all and put them joint sixth on the all-time roll of honour along with Kildare and Tipperary. The game, which remains the highest scoring All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final in history, also marked the emergence of a nineteen-year-old Jimmy Barry-Murphy onto the national stage. Barry-Murphy finished the game with 2\u20131 (seven points).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095262-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final\nGalway's All-Ireland defeat was their second as part of a hat-trick of All-Ireland defeats between 1971 and 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095262-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final\nWriters such as John D. Hickey and Martin Breheny have praised the manner in which the game was played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095262-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Match, Summary\nThe game was expected to be an open affair and so it proved, with Cork taking the initiative early on. Dinny Long's centre was punched against the crossbar by Jimmy Barrett; however, 19-year-old Jimmy Barry-Murphy was alert to the rebound and pounced for a well-taken goal after just two minutes. With their confidence boosted, the Cork forwards settled quickly and scores came freely. At the other end of the field, Cork's John Coleman curbed the threat of Galway captain and centre-forward Liam Sammon. Cork led at the interval by 1\u201310 to 0\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 67], "content_span": [68, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095262-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Match, Summary\nThe second half produced the unusually high tally of 4\u201314 with each side landing 2\u20137. Cork were slow to find the target after the interval; however, once Dinny Long scored a difficult free from under the Hogan Stand and Ray Cummins followed suit from the other side they appeared to be coasting to victory. A Galway revival saw them cut the margin to just three points when Tom Naughton scored a goal, but Cork's response was controlled and efficient. Ray Cummins steadied Cork with three points in quick succession before setting up Jimmy Barry-Murphy for the clinching goal. Johnny Hughes pulled one back for the men from the West; however, it was as close as they got and the Leesiders closed out the contest with their third goal, scored by Jimmy Barrett.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 67], "content_span": [68, 827]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095262-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Match, Summary\nThe 1973 All-Ireland decider holds the record as the final which produced the highest cumulative score with 5\u201330 (i.e. 45 points). At the time, Cork's tally of 3\u201317 was the highest in a final; however, Dublin bettered this by one point four years later when they recorded 5\u201312 against Armagh. Galway's tally of 2\u201313 remains the highest by a losing finalist.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 67], "content_span": [68, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095262-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Match, Summary\nDue to the similarity of the colour of their jerseys a change was necessary. This was done in a bid to aid television viewers who may have been watching in black and white. A coin toss decided that Cork would wear a reversal of their usual jerseys. To help prepare for the All-Ireland final, Cork trained in the jerseys of Tyrone, whom they had beaten in the All-Ireland semi-final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 67], "content_span": [68, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095262-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Post-match\nIt would be another quarter of a century before Galway won another All-Ireland, doing so in 1998. Before that they would appear in the finals of 1974 and 1983. Cork had to wait sixteen years to win another All-Ireland title, doing so in 1989.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 63], "content_span": [64, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095262-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, Post-match\nJohn D. Hickey, writing afterwards in the Irish Independent, described it as \"one of the most honest and most wholesome games I have seen\". In 2018, Martin Breheny listed this as the sixth greatest All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, describing it as a game \"played in a wonderful spirit, with open, attacking football the priority for both teams\" and noting that it marked the emergence of a nineteen-year-old Jimmy Barry-Murphy onto the national stage; this was Barry-Murphy's only All-Ireland football title - the rest were in hurling.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 63], "content_span": [64, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095263-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship\nThe All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship 1973 was the 87th series of the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Ireland's premier hurling knock-out competition. Limerick won the championship, beating Kilkenny 1-21 to 1-14 in the final at Croke Park, Dublin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095263-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Format, Overview\nThe All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship of 1973 was run on a provincial basis as usual. It was a knockout tournament with pairings drawn at random in the respective provinces - there were no seeds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 62], "content_span": [63, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095263-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Format, Overview\nEach match was played as a single leg. If a match was drawn there was a replay. If both sides were still level at the end of that game another replay had to take place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 62], "content_span": [63, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095263-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Format, The Championship\nQuarter-final: (1 match) This was a single match between the first two teams drawn from the province of Munster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095263-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Format, The Championship\nSemi-finals: (2 matches) The winner of the lone quarter-final joined the other three Munster teams to make up the semi-final pairings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095263-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Format, The Championship\nFinal: (1 match) The winner of the two semi-finals contested this game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095263-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Format, The Championship\nFirst Round: (1 match) This was a single match between two of the 'weaker' teams drawn from the province of Leinster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095263-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Format, The Championship\nQuarter-finals: (2 matches) The winner of the first-round game joined three other Leinster teams to make up the two quarter-final pairings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095263-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Format, The Championship\nSemi-finals: (2 matches) The winners of the two quarter-finals joined Kilkenny and Wexford, who received a bye to this stage, to make up the semi-final pairings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095263-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Format, The Championship\nFinal: (1 match) The winner of the two semi-finals contested this game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095263-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Format, The Championship\nQuarter-final: (1 match) This was a single match between London and Galway, two teams who faced no competition in their respective provinces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095263-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Format, The Championship\nSemi-final: (1 matches) The winner of the lone quarter-final joined the Munster champions to make up the semi-final pairing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095263-0012-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Format, The Championship\nFinal: (1 match) The winner of the lone semi-final contested this game with the Leinster champions receiving a bye into the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095263-0013-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Player facts, Debutantes\nThe following players made their d\u00e9but in the 1973 championship:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 70], "content_span": [71, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095263-0014-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, Player facts, Retirees\nThe following players played their last game in the 1973 championship:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 68], "content_span": [69, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095264-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final\nThe 1973 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final was the 86th All-Ireland Final and the culmination of the 1973 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, an inter-county hurling tournament for the top teams in Ireland. The match was held at Croke Park, Dublin, on 2 September 1973, between Limerick and Kilkenny. The Leinster champions lost to their Munster opponents on a score line of 1-21 to 1-14.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095264-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Background\nThis was Kilkenny's third consecutive appearance in an All-Ireland final. After losing to Tipperary in 1971, 'the Cats' defeated Cork to take their eighteenth championship title in 1972. Limerick, having won the Munster title for the first time since 1955, were lining out in a first All-Ireland final since 1940 when they claimed their sixth championship crown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 62], "content_span": [63, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095264-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, Background\nThe two teams last met in a major game in the semi-final of the 1971-1972 National Hurling League. Limerick were the winners on that occasion with a score line of 3-13 to 2-13. Both teams last met in the championship in the 1940 All-Ireland final when Limerick won. The 1973 All-Ireland final was the sixth championship clash between the two. Limerick had three victories - the All-Ireland finals of 1897, 1936 and 1940 - while Kilkenny defeated Limerick in the finals of 1933 and 1935.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 62], "content_span": [63, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095264-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, All-Ireland final, Overview\nSunday 2 September was the date of the 1973 All-Ireland senior hurling final at Croke Park. Limerick were playing at the famous stadium for the first time in eighteen years, while for Kilkenny Croke Park was regarded as a home away from home due to the frequency of their visits.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 79], "content_span": [80, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095264-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, All-Ireland final, Overview\nLimerick undoubtedly started the game as rank outsiders against a Kilkenny team regarded as one of the greatest of all-time; however, \u2018the Cats\u2019 suffered an amazing streak of bad luck. Between the Leinster and All-Ireland deciders Kilkenny lost many of their key players for one reason or another. \u00c9amonn Morrissey was forced to emigrate to Australia, Jim Treacy was ruled out due to injury, Kieran Purcell couldn\u2019t play because of appendicitis and star forward Eddie Keher couldn\u2019t play because of a broken collar bone. Limerick saw their chance and made a masterful selectorial decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 79], "content_span": [80, 669]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095264-0004-0001", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, All-Ireland final, Overview\nWith Keher and Purcell sidelined Pat Delaney would take up the mantle as Kilkenny\u2019s chief scorer. Delaney was an exceptional half-forward who was far too quick for most defenders. Instead of using a defender to mark him the Limerick selectors moved \u00c9amonn Cregan from the forwards back to centre-back where he was charged with the task of nullifying the Kilkenny marksman. Limerick also had serious losses that day. Mickey Graham, who broke his leg in the National League Final that year, was thus a spectator.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 79], "content_span": [80, 590]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095264-0004-0002", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, All-Ireland final, Overview\nJim O'Donnell, was also injured and was man of the match in the first round v Clare that year and Mick O'Loughlin who would have been their first choice corner back, but could not commit himself to the cause that year were also out. Leonard Enright, who would subsequently win 3 All Stars in his early thirties was engaged in other sports in '73 and thus also unavailable.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 79], "content_span": [80, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095264-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, All-Ireland final, Overview\nThe weather on the day of the final was wet, with heavy showers falling before and during the match. Because of this the pitch was extremely slippery while the sliotar was also difficult to control.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 79], "content_span": [80, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095264-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, All-Ireland final, Match report\nAt 3:15pm Mick Slattery of Clare threw in the sliotar and the game was on. The opening forty minutes saw Kilkenny set the standard. Pat Delaney, in spite of \u00c9amonn Cregan doing an excellent man-marking job, scored the opening goal of the game to give Kilkenny the lead. Twice Limerick fell behind in the opening half and twice they fought back. At one stage they trailed by 1-5 to 0-3, however, they held Kilkenny scoreless for two nine-minute spells in the first-half. At the short whistle Limerick were very much on top and left the pitch leading by 0-12 to 1-7.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 83], "content_span": [84, 648]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095264-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, All-Ireland final, Match report\nFive minutes after the restart Kilkenny levelled the scores courtesy of points by Claus Dunne and Liam \u2018Chunky\u2019 O\u2019Brien. A minute later \u2018the Cats\u2019 went a point ahead when Limerick \u2018keeper S\u00e9amus Horgan brought off a remarkable save from a palmed shot by Mick Crotty. Although the attempt on goal was blocked, the sliotar flew over the bar for a Kilkenny point. Shortly afterwards Richie Bennis had the sides level when he converted a free from forty yards out. A minute later Limerick secured the match-winning score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 83], "content_span": [84, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095264-0007-0001", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final, All-Ireland final, Match report\nA puck-out from Kilkenny \u2018keeper Noel Skehan was quickly sent back in his direction by Liam O'Donoghue. Skehan saved the shot but Mossie Dowling and Ned Rea were waiting for the rebound. Dowling became the Limerick hero as he turned the sliotar past Skehan and into the net. Although the match was far from over this was the vital score that gave Limerick the title. The entire second-half saw Limerick show their supremacy. Kilkenny were held scoreless for twenty-three minutes during the second-half while Limerick went on a point-scoring spree for the final quarter. Midfield marshal Richie Bennis finished the game with ten points to his name as Limerick claimed their seventh All-Ireland crown with a 1-21 to 1-14 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 83], "content_span": [84, 811]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095265-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship\nThe 1973 All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship was the 10th staging of the All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship since its establishment by the Gaelic Athletic Association in 1964.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095265-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship\nGalway entered the championship as defending champions, however, they were defeated by Mayo in the Connacht final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095265-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship\nOn 16 September 1973, Kerry won the championship following a 2-13 to 0-13 defeat of Mayo in the All-Ireland final. This was their second All-Ireland title overall and their first in nine championship seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095266-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship\nThe 1973 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship was the 10th staging of the All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Gaelic Athletic Association in 1964.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095266-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship\nGalway were the defending champions, however, they were defeated by Cork in the All-Ireland semi-final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095266-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship\nOn 11 November 1973, Cork won the championship following a 2-10 to 4-2 defeat of Wexford in the All-Ireland final. This was their sixth All-Ireland title in the grade and their fifth in six championship seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095267-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship Final\nThe 1973 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship final was a hurling match that was played at P\u00e1irc D\u00e1ibh\u00edn, Carrick-on-Suir on 11 November 1973 to determine the winners of the 1973 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship, the 8th season of the All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship, a tournament organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association for the champion teams of the four provinces of Ireland. The final was contested by Cork of Munster and Wexford of Leinster, with Cork winning by 2-10 to 4-2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095267-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship Final\nThe All-Ireland final between Cork and Wexford was their eighth championship meeting. Cork were hoping to win their sixth title over all. Wexford were hoping to win their second All-Ireland title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095267-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship Final\nWexford's run of bad luck in All-Ireland finals continued. After winning their sole title in 1965, defeat in 1973 marked their fifth loss in an All-Ireland decider since that victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095268-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Pacific-8 Conference football team\nThe 1973 All-Pacific-8 Conference football team consists of American football players chosen by various organizations for All-Pacific-8 Conference teams for the 1973 NCAA Division I football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095269-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Pro Team\nThe following is a list of players that were named to the Associated Press All-Pro Team, the Newspaper Enterprise Association All-Pro team and the Pro Football Writers Association, and Pro Football Weekly All-Pro teams in 1973. Both first- and second- teams are listed for the AP, NEA, and PFWA teams. These are the four All-Pro teams that are included in the Total Football II: The Official Encyclopedia of the National Football League and compose the Consensus All-pro team for 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095269-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Pro Team, Teams\nChris Hanburger, Washington Redskins (AP, NEA, PFW)Dave Wilcox, San Francisco 49ers (NEA, PFWA, PFW)Isiah Robertson, Los Angeles Rams (AP, PFWA)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 24], "content_span": [25, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095269-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Pro Team, Key\nAP = Associated Press All-Pro team; AP-2 Associated Press Second-team All-Pro; PFWA = Pro Football Writers Association All-Pro team; NEA = Newspaper Enterprise Association All-Pro team. ; NEA-2 Newspaper Enterprise Association Second-team All-Pro; PFW = Pro Football Weekly All-Pro team; t = players tied in votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 22], "content_span": [23, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095270-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 All-SEC football team\nThe 1973 All-SEC football team consists of American football players selected to the All-Southeastern Conference (SEC) chosen by various selectors for the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. Alabama won the conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095270-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 All-SEC football team, Key\nBold = Consensus first-team selection by both AP and UPI", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 31], "content_span": [32, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095271-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Southwest Conference football team\nThe 1973 All-Southwest Conference football team consists of American football players chosen, at each position, as the best players in the Southwest Conference during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. The selectors for the 1973 season included the Associated Press (AP) and the United Press International (UPI).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095271-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Southwest Conference football team\nTexas running back Roosevelt Leaks set the conference single-season record with 1,415 rushing yards in 1973 and was selected as the player of the year by the AP and the offensive player of the year by the UPI.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095271-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 All-Southwest Conference football team\nThe AP also conducted balloting for coach of the year (Jim Carlen, Texas Tech) and newcomer of the year (Larry Isaac, Texas Tech). And the UPI selected a defensive player of the year (linebacker Ed Simonini, Texas A&M) and a freshman player of the year (quarterback David Walker, Texas A&M).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095272-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Allan Cup\nThe 1973 Allan Cup was the Canadian national senior ice hockey championship for the 1972-73 Senior \"A\" season. The event was hosted by the Orillia Terriers and Orillia, Ontario. The 1973 playoff marked the 65th time that the Allan Cup has been awarded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095273-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Allsvenskan, Overview\nThe league was contested by 14 teams, with \u00c5tvidabergs FF winning the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 26], "content_span": [27, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095274-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Amateur World Series (in Cuba)\nThe 1973 Amateur World Series run by FIBA is listed in the history books as \"Amateur World Series XXI\" or \"Baseball World Cup XXI\" even though the event numbered \"XXII\" actually had begun and finished earlier - the 1973 Amateur World Series run by rival group FEMBA. Once the two organizations reconciled later in the decade, the current numbering system was put into place. The FIBA 1973 Amateur World Series was held in Havana, Cuba from November 25 through December 9, 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095275-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Amateur World Series (in Nicaragua)\nThe 1973 Amateur World Series run by FEMBA ran parrelel to the 1973 Amateur World Series run by the FIBA in a period of international baseball conflict. Though the FEMBA event started and ended earlier, it went into the history books post-reconciliation as \"Amateur World Series XXII\" while the FIBA event was known as \"Amateur World Series XXI\". The FEMBA Series was held in Managua, Nicaragua from November 22 through December 5.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095276-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 American 500\nThe 1973 American 500 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series racing event that took place on October 21, 1973, at North Carolina Motor Speedway in Rockingham, North Carolina. This event would mark the only instance that a NASCAR Cup Series season would end at Rockingham Speedway. Having a 43-car racing grid was a very infrequent case during this era of NASCAR racing. Today, it forms the mandated standards that NASCAR developed over the years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095276-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 American 500\nThis is also the earliest in the year a Cup season has finished since the inaugural season in 1949, and the last time there have been no races in November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095276-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 American 500\n1973 would become the \"year of the smaller engine\" while declining sponsorship interests for the drivers resulted in NASCAR keeping the bigger gas-guzzling engines from being abolished from the sport. Following this race, NASCAR started to tighten up on their pre-race inspections as a precautionary measure to ensure that only legal racing components are being used.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095276-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 American 500, Background\nNorth Carolina Motor Speedway is a closed racetrack located near Rockingham, North Carolina. It is affectionately known as \"The Rock\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095276-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 American 500, Race report\nDavid Pearson would defeat Buddy Baker by at least one lap after nearly four hours and fifteen minutes of racing. While the green flag was waved at noon, the checkered flag wasn't officially waved until 4:15 PM. An incredible number of people would show up for the race; exactly 48,000 people would see 20 different lead changes and five caution flags for a staggering distance of 36 laps. While the average speed of the race was 117.749 miles per hour (189.499\u00a0km/h), Richard Petty would clinch the pole position in qualifying for his amazing run that reached 135.748 miles per hour (218.465\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095276-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 American 500, Race report\nPearson ended the 1973 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season with 18 starts and 11 wins. Every time Pearson was running at the end of a race he finished either 1st, 2nd, or 3rd while leading led 2,658 of 5,338 laps in the process.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095276-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 American 500, Race report\nThe complete racing grid was 43 American-born drivers; including the last-place finisher Frank Warren who crashed on lap 13 out of the 492 laps that made up the advertised distance. Benny Parsons would return to the track after being a part of that lap 13 crash which destroyed the whole right side of his car. Travis Carter, his crew and volunteers, including Ralph Moody and his staff of 20 people managed to complete repairs to Parsons's car in an hour and eight minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095276-0006-0001", "contents": "1973 American 500, Race report\nThey had to replace a rear axle, rear suspension, sidebars, braking system, and roll bar cage, cannibalizing parts from a car that did not qualify for the race. He was able to return to the race 136 laps down, to cheers. Parsons would encounter some vibration issues on lap 308 that would knock him out of the race. Even with the DNF, he would slide into a comfortable 28th-place finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095276-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 American 500, Race report\nOnly manual transmission vehicles were allowed to participate in this race; a policy that NASCAR has retained to the present day. Other notable drivers in this race included Darrell Waltrip, Elmo Langley, and Richard Childress (now the owner of Richard Childress Racing). Eddie Bond, John Sears, and Paul Tyler would retire from NASCAR after this racing event. Souvenir racing programs were sold at the event for the then-inexpensive cost of $2 USD per copy ($11.52 when adjusted for inflation).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095276-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 American 500, Race report\nBenny Parsons would eventually win the Winston Cup Championship after this race by a mere 67 points over runner-up Cale Yarborough. Even though Parsons would finish in 28th during the race in his Chevrolet Chevelle Laguna machine, Yarborough's third-place finish would not earn him enough points to overtake the championship lead. Individual race winnings for this event varied in grandeur from the winner's share of $16,795 ($96,729 when adjusted for inflation) to the last-place finisher's share of $485 ($2,793 when adjusted for inflation). NASCAR officials allowed a grand total of $99,715 to be given to the finishers of this racing event ($574,296 when adjusted for inflation).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 714]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095277-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 American League Championship Series\nThe 1973 American League Championship Series took place between October 6 and 11, 1973. The Oakland Athletics defeated the Baltimore Orioles, three games to two. Games\u00a01 and 2 were played in Memorial Stadium in Baltimore; Games\u00a03\u20135 were played at the Oakland Coliseum. It was the second match-up between the two teams in the ALCS.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095277-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 1\nIn Game\u00a01, Jim Palmer spent 16 minutes retiring the side in the top of the first inning. He walked the first two batters and struck out the next three. The Orioles went to work against lefty Vida Blue and his successor, Horacio Pi\u00f1a in the bottom half. Merv Rettenmund singled and Paul Blair walked before Tommy Davis's RBI double put the Orioles up 1\u20130. Don Baylor then walked and one out later, Earl Williams's two-run single knocked Pina out of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095277-0001-0001", "contents": "1973 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 1\nAndy Etchebarren was hit by a pitch to load the bases and Mark Belanger's RBI single made it 4\u20130 Orioles. They added to their lead on Etchebarren's RBI single in the seventh and Baylor's RBI single in the eighth, both with two on off of Blue Moon Odom. It was more than they needed as Palmer pitched a five-hit shutout, striking out 12 A's along the way.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095277-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 2\nThe Orioles' ALCS winning streak was snapped at 10 in Game 2. Bert Campaneris led off the game with a home run off of Dave McNally, but the Orioles tied the game in the bottom of the first when Al Bumbry drew to leadoff walk, moved to third on a single and scored on Tommy Davis's groundout. Back-to-back home runs leading off the sixth by Joe Rudi and Sal Bando off of McNally put the A's up 3\u20131. In the bottom half, the Orioles got back-to-back leadoff singles before Earl Williams's one-out RBI double cut Oakland's lead to 3\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095277-0002-0001", "contents": "1973 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 2\nBando's second home run of the game in the eighth off of McNally padded Oakland's lead to 5\u20132. The Orioles hit two singles in the bottom half off of Catfish Hunter, who was relieved by Rollie Fingers and Brooks Robinson's RBI single made it 5\u20133 Oakland, but they got that run back in the ninth when Angel Mangual hit a leadoff single off of Bob Reynolds, moved to third on a sacrifice bunt and passed ball, and scored on Campaneris's single. Hunter, who served up so many during the season that he threatened an A.L. record, allowed none as the A's evened the series as the two teams headed to Oakland for Game\u00a03.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 678]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095277-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 3\nThe third game, postponed a day by the lack of a dome\u2014the postponement trigged a rhubarb between A.L. President Joe Cronin and A's President Charlie Finley\u2014was played at Oakland and produced a brilliant pitching battle between a pair of southpaws, Mike Cuellar of Baltimore and Ken Holtzman. Up to that point, Cuellar had allowed only three hits. he had a one-hit shutout for the first seven innings as he carefully nursed a 1\u20130 lead given him by Earl Williams' homer in the second inning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095277-0003-0001", "contents": "1973 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 3\nBut in the eighth, pinch-hitter Jes\u00fas Alou singled and pinch-runner Allan Lewis was sacrificed to second by Mike Andrews. The play was controversial in that Cuellar appeared to have a force out at second base, but he ignored catcher Etchebarren's yells and took the safe out at first. This proved costly as, one out later, Joe Rudi singled home Lewis to tie the score. Bert Campaneris, first man up in the 11th, snapped a 1\u20131 tie by hitting Cuellar's second pitch over the left-field fence for a home run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095277-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 4\nIn Game\u00a04, The A's knocked out Jim Palmer with a three-run outburst in the second inning. After a leadoff double and subsequent single, Ray Fosse's double scored two and Dick Green's double scored another. The A's made it 4\u20130 in the sixth on Fosse's bases-loaded sacrifice fly off of Bob Reynolds. Vida Blue pitched six shutout innings before falling apart in the seventh. Earl Williams drew a base on balls with one out and Don Baylor followed with a single. Brooks Robinson came through with a run-producing single and Andy Etchebarren hit the next pitch for a home run, making the score 4\u20134. The next inning, Bobby Grich hit a home run off Rollie Fingers and that, coupled with Grant Jackson's stout relief pitching, gave the game to the Orioles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 814]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095277-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 5\nA surprisingly small crowd of 24,265 showed up for the final game and they saw Catfish Hunter pitch a five-hit shutout, winning 3\u20130. The A's first run in the game come in the third inning when Ray Fosse reached first on an error by third baseman Brooks Robinson, moved to second on a sacrifice bunt, and scored on a single by Joe Rudi. Right-hander Doyle Alexander lasted only until the fourth inning. In that frame he was the victim of a single by Gene Tenace, who scored on a triple by Vic Davalillo before Jesus Alou added an RBI single. He was relieved by Palmer, who shut out Oakland the rest of the way, but the Orioles were helpless against Hunter's powerful pitching as the A's advanced to the World Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 780]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095277-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 American League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 5\nPitching dominated the 5-game set, the victorious A's batting only .200 while the O's hit just .211.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095278-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 American Samoan constitutional referendum\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by Number 57 (talk | contribs) at 15:32, 1 March 2020 (\u2192\u200eResults: +). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095278-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 American Samoan constitutional referendum\nA constitutional referendum was held in American Samoa on 6 November 1973. Voters were asked to whether they approved of a new constitution, The new constitution provided for the direct election of the Governor and Lieutenant Governor, a doubling of the salaries for members of the Fono, issuing government bonds to raise money, and decentralising some powers to counties and villages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095278-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 American Samoan constitutional referendum\nAs with the previous referendum in 1972, the proposals were rejected, with 34% in favour and 66% against.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095278-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 American Samoan constitutional referendum, Results\nThe new constitution was expected to be approved, but was rejected by nearly two-thirds of voters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 55], "content_span": [56, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095278-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 American Samoan constitutional referendum, Aftermath\nAn identical measure on directly electing the Governor would be put before voters two more times in 1974 and August 1976 until it was approved in November 1976.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 57], "content_span": [58, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095279-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 American Soccer League\nStatistics of the American Soccer League II for the 1973 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095280-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Amstel Gold Race\nThe 1973 Amstel Gold Race was the eighth edition of the annual road bicycle race \"Amstel Gold Race\", held on Sunday April 7, 1973, in the Dutch provinces of Limburg. The race stretched 238 kilometres, with the start in Heerlen and the finish in Meerssen. There were a total of 165 competitors, and 28 cyclists finished the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095281-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Anglo-Italian Cup\nThe 1973 Anglo-Italian Cup was the fourth Anglo-Italian Cup competition. The European football competition was played between eight clubs from England and eight clubs from Italy and was the last professional Anglo-Italian Cup until it was re-incarnated in 1992.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095281-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Anglo-Italian Cup, Format\nFor the competition there were eight English teams and eight Italian teams. These teams were split into two groups consisting of four English and four Italian teams each. Each team played against the four teams in their group from the opposing nation. In each group, the best team from each nation progressed to the semi-finals. The semi-finals were two-leg matches played between each nation's group winners. The winner of each nation's semi-final then met in a final. Two points were awarded for a win and one point for a draw but, unlike the previous tournaments, points were no longer awarded for each goal scored. The draw for the group matches took place in Milan on 7 February 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 720]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095282-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Angolan Legislative Assembly election\nElections to a Legislative Assembly were held for the first and only time in Portuguese Angola between 19 and 27 March 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095282-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Angolan Legislative Assembly election, Background\nOn 2 May 1972 the Portuguese National Assembly passed the Organic Law for the Overseas Territories, which provided for greater autonomy for overseas territories. Angola was to have a 53-member Legislative Assembly, of which 32 would be elected. The remainder would be nominated by public services, religious groups and business groups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095282-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Angolan Legislative Assembly election, Background\nCandidates were required to be Portuguese citizens who had lived in Angola for more than three years and be able to read and write Portuguese. Voters were required to be literate. As the Portuguese constitution banned political parties at the time, the majority of candidates were put forward by the ruling People's National Action movement, although some civic associations were allowed to nominate candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095282-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Angolan Legislative Assembly election, Results\nOut of a total population of 5,673,046, only 584,000 people registered to vote. Voter turnout was 85.6%. The elected members included 29 whites and 24 blacks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 51], "content_span": [52, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095283-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Antrim District Council election\nElections to Antrim District Council were held on 30 May 1973 on the same day as the other Northern Irish local government elections. The election used three district electoral areas to elect a total of 15 councillors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095283-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Antrim District Council election, Districts results, Area A\n1973: 2 x UUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x Independent, 1 x Independent Nationalist", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095283-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Antrim District Council election, Districts results, Area C\n1973: 3 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Vanguard", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095284-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Ards Borough Council election\nElections to Ards Borough Council were held on 30 May 1973 on the same day as the other Northern Irish local government elections. The election used three district electoral areas to elect a total of 17 councillors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095284-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Ards Borough Council election\nThe elections were the first following the reorganisation of local government in Northern Ireland, brought about by the Local Government (Boundaries) Act (Northern Ireland) 1971 & Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972, which replaced the previous FPTP ward system with a new system of proportional representation using multi-member district electoral areas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095284-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Ards Borough Council election, Districts results, Area B\n1973: 3 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x NILP, 1 x Loyalist Coalition", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 61], "content_span": [62, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095284-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Ards Borough Council election, Districts results, Area C\n1973: 2 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Independent Unionist", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 61], "content_span": [62, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095285-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Argentina rugby union tour of Ireland and Scotland\nThe 1973 Argentina rugby union tour of Scotland and Ireland was a series of eight matches played by the Argentina national rugby union team (the Pumas) in Scotland and Ireland in October and November 1973. The Pumas won only of two of their matches, lost four and drew the others; they lost both of their international matches, against Ireland and Scotland. Neither Ireland nor Scotland regarded the matches as full internationals and did not award caps for the games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095285-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Argentina rugby union tour of Ireland and Scotland\nA Match in England was cancelled after that in May the Rugby Football Union cancelled a tour of the English national team in Argentina, worried about the political situation in the South American country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095285-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Argentina rugby union tour of Ireland and Scotland, Results\nMunster: D.Spring; P.Pratt, P.Parfrey, S.Dennison, P.Lavery; B.Mc Gann (capt. ), D.Canniffe; J.Buckley, T.Moore, S.Deering; M.Keane, B.Foley; J.Me Loughlin, P.Wheland, P.O'Callaghan. Argentina: A.Rodr\u00edguez Jurado; E.Morgan, R.Matarazzo, A.Travaglini, G.P\u00e9rez Leir\u00f3s; H.Porta, A.Etchegaray; J.Carracedo, R.Sanz, H.Miguens (capt. ); J.Virasoro, J.Fern\u00e1ndez; F.Ins\u00faa, G.Casas, M.Carluccio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 64], "content_span": [65, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095285-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Argentina rugby union tour of Ireland and Scotland, Results\nUlster: G.Crothers; J.Miles.R.Patterson, R.Milliken, W.Mac Mas\u00acter; A.Harrison, W.Oakes; A.S.Mac Kinney, H.Steele, J.Davison; R.Hakin, W.J.McBride (capt. ); R.Clegg, K.Kennedy, P.Aghew. Argentina: Alonso; R.Matarazzo, A.Travaglini, A.Rodriguez Jurado, E.Morgan; T.Harris Smith, L.Grad\u00edn; J.Carracedo, H.Miguens (capt. ), N.Carbone; J.Virasoro, J.Fern\u00e1ndez; M.Carluccio, J.Dumas, R.Far\u00edello.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 64], "content_span": [65, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095285-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Argentina rugby union tour of Ireland and Scotland, Results\nConnacht: T.Corley; P.Flynn, N.Jennings, J.Kerin, M.Connolly; C.Smyth, M.Mahoney; T.Cuningham, M.Casserley, M.Staple\u00acton; M.Me Hugh, L.Galvin (capt. ); D.Frawley, B.Troy, P.Me Loughlin. Argentina: M.Alonso; A.Altberg.,R.Matarazzo , A.Ro\u00acdriguez Jurado, E.Morgan; H.Porta (T.Harr\u00eds Sm\u00edth), A.Etchegaray; J.Fern\u00e1ndez, H.Miguens (capt. ), N.Carbone; C.Bottarini, J.Virasoro; F.Ins\u00faa, G.Casas, R.Fariello.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 64], "content_span": [65, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095285-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Argentina rugby union tour of Ireland and Scotland, Results\nGlasgow-Edinburgh: A.Irvine; R.Hannah, M.Hunter, I.Forisyth, L.Dick (G.Hogg); D.Reid, D.W.Morgan; G.Strachan (A.Fraser), W.Watson, J.Dixon; R.Wright, G.Brown; A.B.Carmichael, R.Balfour, A.Wilson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 64], "content_span": [65, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095285-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Argentina rugby union tour of Ireland and Scotland, Results\nArgentina: M.Alonso; A.Altberg, R.Matarazzo, A.Travaglini, E.Morgan; T.Harris Smith, L.Grad\u00edn; J.Carracedo, R.Sanz, H.Miguens (capt. ); J.Virasoro, J.Fern\u00e1ndez; R.Fariello, J.Dumas, M.Carluccio (F.Ins\u00faa).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 64], "content_span": [65, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095285-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Argentina rugby union tour of Ireland and Scotland, Results\nSouth of Scotland A.Brown A.Gill, J.Renwick, A.Cronston, A.White; C.Telfer, R.Laidlaw; C.Hegarty, C.Oliver, W.Davies; H.Bar\u00acnes, J.Scott; E.Pender, C.Anderson, N.Suddon", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 64], "content_span": [65, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095285-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Argentina rugby union tour of Ireland and Scotland, Results\nArgentina: M.Alonso; A.Travaglini, A.Brown (R.Matarazzo), A.Rodr\u00edguez Jurado, E.Morgan; T.Harris Smith, L.Grad\u00edn; N.Carbone, R.Sanz, H.Miguens (capt. ); J.Fern\u00e1ndez, J.Virasoro; R.Fariello, J.Dumas, M.Giargia (F.Ins\u00faa).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 64], "content_span": [65, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095285-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Argentina rugby union tour of Ireland and Scotland, Results\nNorth of Scotland: D.Aitchison; T.D.Dunlop, M.B.Paul, J.Adams, J.McGregory; D.Arneil e I.McRae; 1.Coull, David Leslie, Nairn McEwan; George Mackie, C.Snape; J.Braid, J.Hardie (S.Frazer), M.Clark.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 64], "content_span": [65, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095285-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 Argentina rugby union tour of Ireland and Scotland, Results\nArgentina: A.Rodr\u00edguez Jurado; G.P\u00e9rez Leir\u00f3s, A.Travaglini, E.Morgan, L.Grad\u00edn; H.Porta, A.Etchegaray; J.Carracedo, H.Miguens (capt. ), N.Carbone; C.Bottarini, J.Fern\u00e1ndez; F.Ins\u00faa, G.Casas, R.Fariello.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [57, 64], "content_span": [65, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095286-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Argentine Grand Prix\nThe 1973 Argentine Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at the Buenos Aires circuit on 28 January 1973. It was race 1 of 15 in both the 1973 World Championship of Drivers and the 1973 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers. The 96-lap race was won by Lotus driver Emerson Fittipaldi after he started from second position. Fran\u00e7ois Cevert finished second for the Tyrrell team and his teammate Jackie Stewart came in third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095287-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Argentine Primera Divisi\u00f3n\nThe 1973 Primera Divisi\u00f3n season was the 82nd season of top-flight football in Argentina. Hurac\u00e1n won the Metropolitano (5th title) while Rosario Central won the Nacional (2nd title).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095288-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Arizona State Sun Devils baseball team\nThe 1973 Arizona State Sun Devils baseball team represented Arizona State University in the 1973 NCAA University Division baseball season. The Sun Devils played their home games at Packard Stadium. The team was coached by Jim Brock in his second season at Arizona State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095288-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Arizona State Sun Devils baseball team\nThe Sun Devils reached the College World Series, finishing as the runner up to Southern California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095289-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Arizona State Sun Devils football team\nThe 1973 Arizona State Sun Devils football team represented Arizona State University in the 1973 NCAA Division I football season and outscored its opponents 519 to 171. Led by 16th-year head coach Frank Kush, the Sun Devils stayed home and won the Fiesta Bowl to finish at 11\u20131 and ninth in the final AP poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095289-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Arizona State Sun Devils football team, Season summary, Arizona\nArizona State clinches a share of WAC title and third straight trip to the Fiesta Bowl. Morris Owens went over 1,000 yards receiving for the season while both Woody Green and Benny Malone surpassed the same mark in rushing yardage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 68], "content_span": [69, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095289-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Arizona State Sun Devils football team, NFL draft\nFour Sun Devils were selected in the 1974 NFL Draft, which lasted seventeen rounds (442 selections).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 54], "content_span": [55, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095290-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Arizona Wildcats football team\nThe 1973 Arizona Wildcats football team represented the University of Arizona during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. Led by Jim Young in his first year, the Wildcats shared the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) championship with rival Arizona State, with ASU winning the head-to-head matchup to clinch the conference\u2019s bowl bid and Arizona was left out of the postseason as a result.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095290-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Arizona Wildcats football team\nYoung was brought in by Arizona to replace Bob Weber, who was fired after the 1972 season. The Wildcats believed that Young would rebuild the team and to return them to their winning ways.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095291-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Arkansas Razorbacks football team\nThe 1973 Arkansas Razorbacks football team represented the University of Arkansas in the Southwest Conference (SWC) during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. In their 16th year under head coach Frank Broyles, the Razorbacks compiled a 5\u20135\u20131 record (3\u20133\u20131 against SWC opponents), finished in a tie for fourth place in the SWC, and were outscored by their opponents by a combined total of 184 to 124.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095291-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Arkansas Razorbacks football team\nRunning back Dickey Morton averaged 118 yards per game on the ground, the ninth highest average in the nation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095291-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Arkansas Razorbacks football team, Game summaries, TCU\nQuarterback Mike Kirkland threw for one touchdown and ran for another in Arkansas' 15th straight win over TCU. It was the SWC opener for both teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 59], "content_span": [60, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095292-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Armagh District Council election\nElections to Armagh District Council were held on 30 May 1973 on the same day as the other Northern Irish local government elections. The election used four district electoral areas to elect a total of 20 councillors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095292-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Armagh District Council election, Districts results, Area A\n1973: 2 x UUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x Independent", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095292-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Armagh District Council election, Districts results, Area C\n1973: 2 x SDLP, 2 x UUP, 1 x Alliance", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095293-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Armidale state by-election\nA by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Armidale on 17 February 1973 because of the resignation of Davis Hughes (Country) who had accepted the position of Agent-General in London.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095294-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Army Cadets football team\nThe 1973 Army Cadets football team represented the United States Military Academy in the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. In their eighth and final year under head coach Tom Cahill, the Cadets compiled an 0\u201310 record and were outscored by their opponents by a combined total of 382 to 67. In the annual Army\u2013Navy Game, the Cadets lost to the Midshipmen by a 53 to 0 score and also lost to Notre Dame by a 62 to 3 score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095294-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Army Cadets football team\nNo Army players were selected as first-team players on the 1973 College Football All-America Team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095295-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Aryamehr Cup\nThe 1973 Aryamehr Cup was a men's professional tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Imperial Country Club in Tehran in Iran. The event was part of the 1973 Commercial Union Assurance Grand Prix as a Group A category event. It was the second edition of the tournament was held from 22 October through 28 October 1973. Ra\u00fal Ram\u00edrez won the singles title and the trophy and first\u2013prize cheque for $9,000 was presented by Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095295-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Aryamehr Cup, Finals, Doubles\nRod Laver / John Newcombe defeated Ross Case / Geoff Masters 7\u20136, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 34], "content_span": [35, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095296-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Asia Golf Circuit\nThe 1973 Asia Golf Circuit was the 12th season of golf tournaments that comprised the Asia Golf Circuit, formerly known as the Far East Circuit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095296-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Asia Golf Circuit\nAustralian Graham Marsh won the circuit overall prize for the second year running.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095296-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Asia Golf Circuit, Schedule\nThe table below shows the 1973 Asia Golf Circuit schedule. The only scheduling change from 1972 was the Hong Kong tournament moved to an early date.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095296-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Asia Golf Circuit, Final standings\nThe Asia Golf Circuit standings were based on a points system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095297-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Asian Amateur Boxing Championships\nThe 6th edition of the Men's Asian Amateur Boxing Championships was held from 3 to 9 May 1973 in Bangkok, Thailand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095298-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Asian Athletics Championships\nThe inaugural Asian Athletics Championships were held in 1973 at the Rodriguez Sports Center in Marikina, Rizal, Philippines from November 18\u201323, 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095299-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Asian Baseball Championship\nThe 1973 Asian Baseball Championship was the tenth continental tournament held by the Baseball Federation of Asia. The tournament was held in Manila, Philippines for the fourth time. The tournament was won by Japan; their seventh Asian Championship. Defending champions South Korea (2nd), Taiwan (3rd), Philippines (4th) and Australia (5th) were the other participants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095300-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl\nThe 1973 Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl, part of the 1973 bowl game season, took place on December 29, 1973, at the Houston Astrodome in Houston, Texas. The competing teams were the Tulane Green Wave and Houston Cougars, with each competing as a football independent. Houston won the game 47\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095300-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl, Teams, Houston\nThe 1973 Houston squad finished the regular season with a 10\u20131 record with its lone loss coming against Auburn. The 10\u20131 record was the best recorded in the school's history to that point. The appearance marked the third for Houston in the Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl, and their fifth overall bowl game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095300-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl, Teams, Tulane\nThe 1973 Tulane squad finished the regular season with a 9\u20132 record with losses coming against Kentucky and Maryland. Prior to victory over Vanderbilt, the Green Wave accepted an invitation to play in the Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl. The appearance marked the first for Tulane in the Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl, and their fifth overall bowl game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 41], "content_span": [42, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095301-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Athens Hellinikon International Airport attack\nThe 1973 Hellinikon International Airport attack was an attack at the Hellinikon International Airport at Athens, Greece. The attackers were two Arabs, members of the Palestinian militant organization Black September. The militants used sub-machine guns and grenades against the passengers waiting at the passengers lounge. The attackers took hostages before they finally surrendered to the Greek police. It is believed that the gunmen wanted to hijack a plane, but they decided to attack when they were about to be searched by a Greek security inspector before boarding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095301-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Athens Hellinikon International Airport attack, Background\nIn December 1968, two Arabs made the El Al Flight 253 attack. The attackers had been arrested by the Greek authorities and said that their mission was to destroy an El Al's Boeing 707 plane and kill all the passengers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 63], "content_span": [64, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095301-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Athens Hellinikon International Airport attack, Background\nIn August 1969, there was the TWA Flight 840 hijacking.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 63], "content_span": [64, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095301-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Athens Hellinikon International Airport attack, Background\nIn November 1969, two Arabs grenade attacked the El Al offices at Athens destroying part of the offices, injuring 14 people and killing a two years old baby. They had been arrested by the Greek authorities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 63], "content_span": [64, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095301-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Athens Hellinikon International Airport attack, Background\nIn December 1969 three other Arabs had been arrested by the Greek authorities before being able to hijack a TWA flight and they confessed that they were members of the Palestine Liberation Organization and arrived in Athens from Beirut for this mission.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 63], "content_span": [64, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095301-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Athens Hellinikon International Airport attack, Background\nIn 1970, six Arabs from the Palestinian Popular Struggle Front hijacked an Olympic Airways's Boeing 727 (Flight 255) on its way from Beirut to Athens, demanding the release of the seven Arab guerrillas held in Greek jail. After an International Red Cross plea for the lives of the hostages, the Greek authorities promised to release the seven Arabs in one month's time. After refueled, the hijackers released the passengers but held hostage the crew and a Red Cross representative and flew to Cairo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 63], "content_span": [64, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095301-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Athens Hellinikon International Airport attack, Background\nIn 1972 and 1973, the Black September group have done terrorist attack in different countries, including the Munich massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics, the Israeli Bangkok Embassy hostage crisis, the Sabena Flight 571, the Attack on the Saudi embassy in Khartoum and the 1973 New York City bomb plot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 63], "content_span": [64, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095301-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Athens Hellinikon International Airport attack, Background\nIn addition, in July 1973, an armed Palestinian with sub-machine gun, grenades and revolvers tried unsuccessfully to attack the Athens office of the El Al Israel Airlines. After his unsuccessful attack, he held 17 people hostages (including children) in a hotel nearby, threatening to kill them all including himself, and demanded a safe passage to the Middle East. He was deported to Kuwait.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 63], "content_span": [64, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095301-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Athens Hellinikon International Airport attack, Attack\nThe two Arabs, according to the Greek prosecutor were: Shafik el Arid (22 years old) and Tallal Khantouran (21 or 22 years old) both from Jordan, arrived in Athens the same day (5 August) from Beirut, Lebanon in order to make the attack. They had traveled to Athens again at 3 August from Benghazi, Libya to survey the transit lounge. Their orders were to attack Israel bound passengers of any nationality travelling by any airline.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 59], "content_span": [60, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095301-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Athens Hellinikon International Airport attack, Attack\nThe attackers opened fire and threw grenades to the crowd, killing 3, injuring 55 (including five police officers) and destroying parts of the building. Then, they took 35 hostages and held them for more than two hours before surrendering to the police.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 59], "content_span": [60, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095301-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 Athens Hellinikon International Airport attack, Attack\nTheir target was a flight for Tel Aviv, but they made a mistake and attacked the passengers for a flight to New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 59], "content_span": [60, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095301-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 Athens Hellinikon International Airport attack, Aftermath\nThe Greek Government protested to Arab ambassadors and asked them \u201cto cooperate in order to avert such actions in the future.\u201d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 62], "content_span": [63, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095301-0012-0000", "contents": "1973 Athens Hellinikon International Airport attack, Aftermath, Lufthansa plane hijack\nIn December 1973, there was the 1973 Rome airport attacks and hijacking. The hijackers demanded from the Greek government the release of the two terrorists. After failing to persuade the Greek authorities on releasing the terrorists, they limited their demands to just refuel and leave.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 86], "content_span": [87, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095301-0013-0000", "contents": "1973 Athens Hellinikon International Airport attack, Aftermath, Courts decision\nThe Greek courts charged them with \u201cpremeditated homicide of a particularly odious nature, three counts; attempted homicide and grievous bodily injuries, 55 counts; considerable damage to foreign property and public utilities; illegal detention of persons; obstructing aerial communications and creating disorder in an airport, and illegal possession and use of weapons\u201d and in January 1974 they sentenced to death.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 79], "content_span": [80, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095301-0014-0000", "contents": "1973 Athens Hellinikon International Airport attack, Aftermath, Hostage in Pakistan\nIn February 1974, three guerrillas armed with pistols, grenades and plastic bombs hijacked the Greek freighter Vori, holding Greeks as hostages at Karachi, Pakistan, and demanded the release of the attackers. They threatened to blow up the ship and kill the hostages. They said that they were members of the Muslim International Guerrillas, a group which was active in the Philippines and Indonesia. The Palestine Liberation Organization officials from the Karachi office went to meet with the guerrillas in order to help with the negotiations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 83], "content_span": [84, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095301-0015-0000", "contents": "1973 Athens Hellinikon International Airport attack, Aftermath, Hostage in Pakistan\nThey eventually released the hostages and in return the Greek government changed the sentence of the Athens attackers from death to life imprisonment. One of the hostages said that the gunmen were under the impression that the terrorists in Athens would be released.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 83], "content_span": [84, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095301-0016-0000", "contents": "1973 Athens Hellinikon International Airport attack, Aftermath, Hostage in Pakistan\nAfter they released the hostages, the guerrillas, accompanied by the Libyan and Egyptian ambassadors, boarded a Pakistan International Airlines Boeing 707 and traveled to Egypt. From there they took another flight to Libya. Egyptian authorities said that all three were identified as Pakistanis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 83], "content_span": [84, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095301-0017-0000", "contents": "1973 Athens Hellinikon International Airport attack, Aftermath, Deportation to Libya\nIn May 1974, the Greek government decided to deport the two terrorists to Libya. Israel protested saying that their release would encourage terrorism.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 85], "content_span": [86, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095302-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Atlanta 500\nThe 1973 Atlanta 500 was the sixth race in the NASCAR 1973 Winston Cup Series, held on April 1, 1973, at Atlanta International Raceway in Hampton, Georgia. The race took three hours and thirty-four minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095302-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Atlanta 500\nAttendance to this event has varying estimates. Many racing statistic archives list it at 46,000 people; the Associated Press reported a figure of 72,000 the day after the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095302-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Atlanta 500, Car flip world record\nAt this event, daredevil Dusty Russell flipped a stock car in the air and landed 157 feet after a five foot ramp, in what was then a world record. He suffered a broken nose.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 39], "content_span": [40, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095302-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Atlanta 500, Race report\nNo time trials were conducted due to weather. The average speed of the race was 139.351 miles per hour (224.264\u00a0km/h). Famous teams like Wood Brothers Racing, Nord Krauskopf's K&K Insurance Racing along with Penske Racing South would make their early impressions on the sport with their massive budgets and corporate sponsors paying for new tires and engines instead of an individual owner or driver. There were only five traditional single-car owners at this race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095302-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Atlanta 500, Race report\nSouvenir programs were sold at this event for $2 USD ($11.52 when adjusted for inflation).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095302-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Atlanta 500, Race report\nDavid Pearson defeated Bobby Isaac in his 1971 Mercury Cyclone by two laps; Four cautions slowed the race for 31 laps. This would be David Pearson's second win in 1973 when he won 11 races of the 18 he entered.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095302-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Atlanta 500, Race report\nTony Bettenhausen, Jr. was the last-place finisher due to an oil leak on lap 9 out of 328. After Darrell Waltrip's car was eliminated from the race (he charged to fifth place but was involved in a crash with Richard Petty and Buddy Baker), he substituted for A.J. Foyt. Pete Hamilton and Mark Donohue would retire from NASCAR after this race while Charles Barrett and Bettenhausen, Jr. would make their introductions to the Cup Series during this race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095302-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Atlanta 500, Race report\nThe winner received $16,625 in race winnings ($95,750 when adjusted for inflation) while the last place finisher received $900 ($5,183 when adjusted for inflation). The total prize purse was $103,485 ($596,008 when adjusted for inflation).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095302-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Atlanta 500, Race report\nNotable crew chiefs who participated in this race included Tim Brewer, Jake Elder, Travis Carter, Harry Hyde, Dale Inman, Tom Vandiver, and Bud Moore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095302-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Atlanta 500, Race report, Starting grid\nFailed to qualify: Eddie Bond (#0), Tony Bettenhausen Jr (#38), John Utsman (#49)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 44], "content_span": [45, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095303-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Atlanta Braves season\nThe 1973 Atlanta Braves season was the eighth season in Atlanta along with the 103rd season as a franchise overall. The highlight of the season was Hank Aaron finishing the season just one home run short of Babe Ruth as baseball's all-time home run king. The 1973 Atlanta Braves were the first team to boast three 40 home run hitters. They were Aaron, Darrell Evans, and Davey Johnson. Of note, it marked the first time in Johnson's career that he hit 40 home runs in one season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095303-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Atlanta Braves season, Regular season, Hank Aaron's Chase for the Record\nAt the age of 39, Aaron managed to slug 40 home runs in 392 at bats, ending the season with 713, which at that time one home run short of the record. He hit home run number 713 on September 29, 1973, and with one day remaining in the season, many expected him to tie the record. But in his final game that year, playing against the Houston Astros (led by manager Leo Durocher, who had once roomed with Babe Ruth), he was unable to hit one out of the park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 77], "content_span": [78, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095303-0001-0001", "contents": "1973 Atlanta Braves season, Regular season, Hank Aaron's Chase for the Record\nAfter the game, Aaron stated that his only fear was that he might not live to see the 1974 season. That statement was not just about the death threats: one year earlier, September 30, 1972, was the last day that the legendary Roberto Clemente ever played, as he perished in the offseason.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 77], "content_span": [78, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095303-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Atlanta Braves season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 71], "content_span": [72, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095303-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Atlanta Braves season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095303-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Atlanta Braves season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 69], "content_span": [70, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095303-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Atlanta Braves season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 66], "content_span": [67, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095303-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Atlanta Braves season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 67], "content_span": [68, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095304-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Atlanta Falcons season\nThe 1973 Atlanta Falcons season was the franchise's eighth year in the National Football League (NFL). The team improved on their previous season's output of 7\u20137 and achieved their best record until 1980, but failed to reach a maiden playoff berth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095304-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Atlanta Falcons season\nDespite entering the last month of the regular season at 8\u20133, they were upset by the Buffalo Bills, forcing them into a race with the Washington Redskins for the wild card playoff spot. The NFL's tiebreaker format at the time, which favored teams with the best combined scoring offense and defense, necessitated a blowout win over a Cardinals team that had won only one of its last ten and was playing an unknown quarterback, Gary Keithley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095304-0001-0001", "contents": "1973 Atlanta Falcons season\nHowever, while Keithley completed only ten of 32 passes (he and Falcons quarterback Bob Lee recorded a 0.0 passer rating in the game), the Falcons were instead blown out 32\u201310 at home courtesy of an unexpected Cardinals rushing game and six field goals from Jim Bakken. Although the Falcons won the regular season finale to end the season at 9\u20135, they lost the wild card tiebreaker to the 10\u20134 Redskins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095304-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Atlanta Falcons season\nA highlight for the 1973 Falcons was defeating the Vikings when that team was 9\u20130 and looking at emulating the previous season\u2018s Dolphins\u2019 perfect season. Despite the Falcons\u2019 success between 2008 and 2012, this was the last time the Falcons defeated the last unbeaten NFL team until they defeated the 14\u20130 Carolina Panthers in week 16 of the 2015 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095305-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Atlanta mayoral election\nThe 1973 Atlanta mayoral election was held on October 16, 1973, in Atlanta, Georgia. Vice Mayor Maynard Jackson was elected as the city's first African-American mayor, defeating incumbent Mayor Sam Massell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095305-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Atlanta mayoral election\nIn the primary election that preceded the general election, Jackson finished first with 46.4 percent of the vote. Massell finished second with 19.9 percent, followed closely by former United States Representative Charles Weltner with 19.1 percent. Former State of Georgia Department of Industry and Trade Deputy Commissioner Harold A. Dye finished with 8.4 percent and State Senator Leroy Johnson finished with 3.9 percent. Other candidates were former Atlanta Police Officer John Chambers, Socialist Workers Party activist Debby Bustin, Hare Krishna community leader William Ogle, attorney John Genins, Betty Morrison, Ernest Moschella and write-in candidate Howard Tucker. Jackson then defeated incumbent Mayor Sam Massell in a runoff election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 776]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095305-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Atlanta mayoral election\nIn the same election, Atlanta voters elected Alderman Wyche Fowler as President of the Atlanta City Council. Fowler defeated Reverend Hosea Williams in a runoff election. In the primary election, Fowler and Williams finished first and second, respectively, followed by former Alderman Wade Mitchell and Rector Robert B. Hunter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095305-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Atlanta mayoral election\nThe 1973 election saw a rise in the influence of African-American politicians in Atlanta. Five new black City Council members were added to create a 9-9 split, while two black women were elected to the Atlanta Board of Education for a 5-4 black majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095305-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Atlanta mayoral election, Background\nSam Massell was elected mayor of Atlanta in 1970. The first Jewish mayor of Atlanta, he had gained the support of Leroy Johnson of the Atlanta Negro Voter's League, helping Massell win 90 percent of Atlanta's black vote. Massell was the first Atlanta mayor to receive more votes from black voters than white voters. Shortly after his election, Massell clashed with his vice mayor Maynard Jackson when Jackson tried to handle negotiations during a strike by Atlanta sanitation employees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095305-0004-0001", "contents": "1973 Atlanta mayoral election, Background\nJackson was fond of speaking to the local media about racial inequalities within Atlanta's government, but Massell complained that Jackson was \"playing to the gallery\". In October 1971, Massell gave a speech to Atlanta's black community, exhorting them to \"think white\" to halt the flight of white Atlantans to the suburbs. With this speech, Massell alienated key members of the black community; his speech was criticized by John Lewis and alderman Henry Dodson. Meanwhile, the Atlanta Urban League resisted Maynard Jackson's attempts to gain support for his campaign until he showed them the results of a Cambridge Survey Research poll that demonstrated he could win 54 percent of the total vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 739]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095305-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Atlanta mayoral election, Mayoral primary\nThe primary election was held on October 2, 1973. Jackson received the most votes with 46.4 percent. Massell finished second with 19.9 percent, and Charles Weltner earned 19.1 percent. Harold A. Dye finished with 8.4 percent of the vote and Leroy Johnson finished with 3.9 percent. Since Maynard Jackson finished 3,500 votes under the majority required for a win, he faced Massell in a runoff election. Jackson received over 80 percent of the black vote in the primary; he received less than 5 percent of the white vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095305-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Atlanta mayoral election, Mayoral runoff election\nFor the runoff election, Massell changed his slogan to \"Atlanta's Too Young to Die\" and ran a series of print and television ads depicting Atlanta under Maynard Jackson as a barren wasteland. He also appeared on WQXI and labelled Jackson and his political ally Hosea Williams as racists. Massell ran a second ad campaign, naming himself as \"Atlanta's Greatest Black Leader\" who \"Doesn't Happen To Be Black\". As a result of Massell's campaigning tactics, the Atlanta Constitution and the Atlanta Journal changed their endorsements to Jackson. Jackson gave speeches urging racial unity and campaigned for the runoff in black churches. In the days leading up to the runoff, Jackson's staffers called local radio stations and warned that black turnout was expected to be low.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 826]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095305-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Atlanta mayoral election, Mayoral runoff election\nThe mayoral runoff election was held between incumbent Mayor Sam Massell and Maynard Jackson on October 16, 1973. Early returns demonstrated that Jackson was scoring 20 percent in white districts and 95 percent in some black districts. By 11:00 pm, it became clear that Jackson had won, and he delivered his acceptance speech at the Sheraton Biltmore ballroom. Jackson received 95 percent of the black vote and 21 percent of the white vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095306-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Atlantic Coast Conference Baseball Tournament\nThe 1973 Atlantic Coast Conference Baseball Tournament was the inaugural Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) baseball tournament. It was held in Chapel Hill, NC from April 19 \u2013 April 22, 1973. NC State won the tournament and earned the ACC's automatic bid to the 1973 NCAA University Division Baseball Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095307-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Atlantic hurricane season\nThe 1973 Atlantic hurricane season was the first season to use the Saffir\u2013Simpson hurricane scale, a scale developed in 1971 by Herbert Saffir and Robert Simpson to rate the intensity of tropical cyclones. The season produced 24 tropical and subtropical cyclones, of which only 8 reached storm intensity, 4 became hurricanes, and only 1 reached major hurricane status. Although more active than the 1972 season, 1973 brought few storms of note. Nearly half of the season's storms affected land, one of which resulted in severe damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095307-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Atlantic hurricane season\nThe season officially began on June 1, 1973, and lasted until November 30, 1973. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the Atlantic basin. However, the first system formed on April\u00a018, more than a month before the official start. Three more depressions formed before June\u00a01; however, none attained storm intensity. The first named storm of the year was Hurricane Alice which formed on July\u00a01 and became the first known cyclone to affect Bermuda during July. More than a month later, the second hurricane, Brenda, formed and was considered the worst storm to strike Mexico along the eastern coast of the Bay of Campeche, killing 10 people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 726]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095307-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Atlantic hurricane season\nLater in August, Tropical Storm Christine became the easternmost forming tropical cyclone on record when it formed over Guinea. The most intense storm of the season was Hurricane Ellen, a Category 3 cyclone that remained over open water. The final named storm was meteorologically significant in that it became the first recorded tropical cyclone to transition into a subtropical cyclone. No names were retired during the season; however, due to the addition of male names into the list of Atlantic hurricane names in 1979, several of the names were removed and have not been used since.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 618]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095307-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Atlantic hurricane season, Season summary\nThe first storm of the 1973 hurricane season, forming in mid-April, developed more than a month before the official start of the season. Several other short-lived, weak depressions formed before and during June; however, none reached storm intensity. The first named storm, Alice, formed on July\u00a01. Tracking generally to the north, Alice also became the first hurricane of the season as well as the first known cyclone to impact Bermuda during July. Shortly after Alice dissipated over Atlantic Canada, another depression formed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095307-0003-0001", "contents": "1973 Atlantic hurricane season, Season summary\nBy the end of July, two more non-developing depressions formed and the first subtropical cyclone, given the name Alfa, developed off the east coast of the United States. This storm was short-lived and dissipated on August\u00a02 just offshore southern Maine. The first half August was relatively quiet, with only one depression forming. However, later in the month, the season's second hurricane, Brenda, formed in the northwestern Caribbean. Peaking just below Category 2 status on the newly introduced Saffir\u2013Simpson hurricane scale, Brenda made the first recorded landfall in the Mexican State of Campeche.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 651]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095307-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Atlantic hurricane season, Season summary\nLater in August, Tropical Storm Christine became the easternmost forming tropical cyclone in the Atlantic basin on record, developing over the western African country of Guinea on August\u00a025. The system traveled for several thousand miles before dissipating in the eastern Caribbean Sea in early September. At the start of the month, a new tropical storm formed in the Gulf of Mexico. This storm, named Delia, became the first known cyclone to make landfall in the same city twice. After moving inland a second time, Delia eventually dissipated on September\u00a07.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095307-0004-0001", "contents": "1973 Atlantic hurricane season, Season summary\nAs Delia dissipated another depression formed in the same region, eventually making landfall in the same city as Delia, Freeport, Texas. Another brief depression formed several days later. On September\u00a013, the strongest storm of the season, Ellen, formed over the eastern Atlantic. After tracking northwest for several days, Ellen eventually attained hurricane status as it turned westward. Several days later, the hurricane turned northeast due to an approaching frontal system. Shortly before becoming extratropical, Ellen reached major hurricane intensity at a record northerly latitude.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095307-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Atlantic hurricane season, Season summary\nIn late September, a brief depression affected northern Florida before dissipating. After a week of inactivity, the second subtropical storm of the year formed over the central Atlantic. This storm, named Bravo, gradually intensified, becoming fully tropical, at which time it was renamed Fran, a few days later. Upon being renamed, Fran had intensified into a hurricane and maintained this intensity for several days before dissipating east of the Azores on October\u00a012. A few days after Fran dissipated, the final named storm of the year formed in the central Caribbean Sea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 622]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095307-0005-0001", "contents": "1973 Atlantic hurricane season, Season summary\nA slow moving system, Gilda gradually intensified just below hurricane-intensity before striking Cuba and moving over the Bahamas. A few days after passing through the islands, Gilda became the first storm on record to transition from a tropical cyclone into a subtropical cyclone. A large storm, Gilda eventually became extratropical near Atlantic Canada and dissipated later that month. Around the time Gilda was dissipating, a weak depression briefly existed near the Azores. The final storm of the year was a strong depression in the southern Caribbean Sea. This system was active for less than two days but may have briefly attained tropical storm intensity as it made landfall in southern Nicaragua.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 752]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095307-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Alice\nThe first named storm formed out of the interaction between tropical wave and a mid-level tropospheric trough northeast of the Bahamas in late-June. A well-defined circulation became apparent by June\u00a030 and satellite images depicted cyclonic banding features. The following day, the system intensified into a tropical depression and shortly thereafter became a tropical storm as reconnaissance aircraft recorded gale-force winds. An area of high pressure to the east of Alice steered the storm generally to the north. Decreasing wind shear allowed the storm to become increasingly organized and a well-defined eye developed by July\u00a03. By this time, reconnaissance had determined that the storm had intensified into a hurricane, with maximum winds reaching 80\u00a0mph (130\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 831]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095307-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Alice\nOn July\u00a04, the storm reached its peak intensity with winds of 90\u00a0mph (150\u00a0km/h) and a barometric pressure of 986 mbar (hPa; 29.12\u00a0inHg), as the eastern portion of the eyewall brushed Bermuda. After passing the island, Alice began to accelerate in response to a mid-level trough over the eastern United States and weakened. By July\u00a06, winds head decreased below hurricane intensity as the storm neared Atlantic Canada. Later that day, Alice made landfall in eastern Newfoundland with winds of 60\u00a0mph (95\u00a0km/h), before transitioning into an extratropical cyclone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 618]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095307-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Alice\nDuring its passage of Bermuda, Alice produced sustained winds up to 75\u00a0mph (120\u00a0km/h) and gusts to 87\u00a0mph (140\u00a0km/h). No major damage was recorded on the island, though the winds blew down a few trees and powerlines. The heavy rainfall, peaking at 4.57\u00a0in (116\u00a0mm), ended a three-month drought in Bermuda. Although Alice tracked through Atlantic Canada, no impact was recorded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095307-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Subtropical Storm Alfa\nDuring late July, an upper-level low, with a non-tropical cold core, formed near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina and tracked southward. Gradually, the circulation lowered to the surface and developed subtropical characteristics. On July\u00a031, the system attained gale-force winds off the Mid-Atlantic coast and was named Alfa, the first name from the list of subtropical storm names for the 1973 season. Tracking north-northeast, the system intensified very little as it paralleled the coastline. By August\u00a01, the system weakened below subtropical storm intensity as it neared New England. The following day, Alfa dissipated just off the southern coast of Maine. The only effects from Alfa was light to moderate rainfall in New England, peaking at 5.03\u00a0in (128\u00a0mm) in Turners Falls, Massachusetts. Most of southern Maine recorded around 1\u00a0in (25\u00a0mm), with a maximum of 2.59\u00a0in (66\u00a0mm) in Saco.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 63], "content_span": [64, 953]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095307-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Brenda\nHurricane Brenda originated from a tropical wave that moved off the western coast of Africa on August\u00a09; however, the initial wave quickly weakened upon entering the Atlantic Ocean. By August\u00a013, the wave began to regenerate as it passed through the Lesser Antilles. Several days later, convection associated with the system consolidated into a central, organized mass and on August\u00a018, the system had become sufficiently organized to be declared a tropical depression while situated near the Yucat\u00e1n Channel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095307-0010-0001", "contents": "1973 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Brenda\nEarly the next day, the depression strengthened into Tropical Storm Brenda as it made landfall in the northern portion of the Yucat\u00e1n Peninsula. After moving inland, a strong ridge of high pressure over Texas forced the storm to take an unusual track, eventually leading it to enter the Bay of Campeche on August\u00a020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095307-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Brenda\nOnce back over water, Brenda began to intensify, attaining hurricane status late on August\u00a020. The next day, a well-defined eye had developed and the storm attained its peak intensity as a high-end Category 1 hurricane with winds of 90\u00a0mph (150\u00a0km/h) and a minimum pressure of 977 mbar (hPa; 28.85\u00a0inHg). The storm made landfall later that day near Ciudad del Carmen, Mexico at this intensity, becoming the first hurricane on record to strike the region. After moving inland, Brenda rapidly weakened to a depression by the morning of August\u00a022 and dissipated later that day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095307-0012-0000", "contents": "1973 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Brenda\nAlready suffering from severe flooding that killed at least 18 people and left 200,000 homeless, Hurricane Brenda worsened the situation with torrential rainfall and additional flooding. The storm killed at least 10 people in the country. Following the damage wrought by Brenda, a large earthquake struck the region, hampering relief efforts and collapsing numerous structures. Winds on land gusted up to 112\u00a0mph (180\u00a0km/h), leading to severe wind damage. Two of the fatalities occurred in Campeche after 80% of the city was flooded. This was considered the worst flooding in the city in over 25 years. An estimated 2,000 people were left homeless as a direct result of Brenda throughout Mexico. Offshore, a freighter with 25 crewman became trapped in the storm after its engines failed. They were safely rescued several days later once the storm had dissipated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 920]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095307-0013-0000", "contents": "1973 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Christine\nThe easternmost forming Atlantic tropical cyclone on record at the time, being surpassed by Subtropical Storm Alpha in 2020, Tropical Storm Christine, originated as a tropical wave over Africa in mid-August. As it neared the Atlantic Ocean, the wave spawned a tropical depression at 14.0\u00b0W, over the country of Guinea, unlike most cyclone producing waves which travel several hundred miles over water before spawning a depression. Although it was already a depression, advisories on the storm were not issued until August\u00a030, five days after its formation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 622]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095307-0013-0001", "contents": "1973 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Christine\nFor several days, the depression maintained its intensity as it steadily tracked west across the Atlantic. It eventually attained tropical storm intensity on August\u00a028. Despite the lack of aircraft reconnaissance in the region, the intensity was determined by wind readings from a German cargo ship that passed through the storm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095307-0014-0000", "contents": "1973 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Christine\nOn August\u00a030, the first reconnaissance mission into the storm found tropical storm-force winds and the first advisory was issued that day, immediately declaring the system as Tropical Storm Christine. Three days later, Christine attained its peak intensity just below hurricane-status with winds of 70\u00a0mph (110\u00a0km/h) and a minimum pressure of 996 mbar (hPa; 29.41\u00a0inHg). Shortly thereafter, increasing wind shear caused the storm to weaken as it neared the Leeward Islands. As it passed over Antigua on September\u00a03, Christine weakened to a tropical depression and eventually dissipated near the Dominican Republic later that day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 695]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095307-0015-0000", "contents": "1973 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Christine\nDuring its passage through the Leeward Islands, Christine produced torrential rainfall, peaking at 11.74\u00a0in (298\u00a0mm) in southeastern Puerto Rico. These rains led to flooding on several islands. One person was killed during the storm after being electrocuted by a downed power line on a flooded road. Schools were closed ahead of the storm in Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands as a precaution following the issuance of flood warnings. Six scientists had to be evacuated from the small island of Aves once the storm posed a threat to them. No major damage was reported on any of the affected islands in the wake of Christine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 65], "content_span": [66, 704]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095307-0016-0000", "contents": "1973 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Delia\nOn August\u00a027, a tropical wave formed over the central Caribbean and tracked towards the west-northwest. The system gradually developed organized shower and thunderstorm activity. By September\u00a01, a tropical depression developed from the wave. By September\u00a03, the depression had intensified into a tropical storm, receiving the name Delia, and began tracking more towards the west. A complex steering pattern began to take place later on that day, resulting in the creation of a more hostile environment for tropical cyclones in the Gulf of Mexico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095307-0016-0001", "contents": "1973 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Delia\nAs Delia neared the Texas coastline, it managed to intensify into a strong tropical storm with winds of 70\u00a0mph (110\u00a0km/h). The lowest pressure was recorded at 986 mbar (hPa; 29.12\u00a0inHg) at this time. Shortly thereafter, the cyclone made its first landfall in Freeport, Texas late on September\u00a04. After executing a counterclockwise loop, the storm made landfall in Freeport again on September\u00a05. After moving inland, the storm quickly weakened, becoming a depression on September\u00a06 before dissipating early the next day over northern Mexico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095307-0017-0000", "contents": "1973 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Delia\nDue to the erratic track of the storm along the Texas coastline, widespread heavy rains fell in areas near the storm and in Louisiana. Tides up to 6\u00a0ft (1.8\u00a0m), in addition to rainfall up to 13.9\u00a0in (350\u00a0mm), caused significant flooding in the Galveston-Freeport area. Up to $3\u00a0million was reported in damages to homes due to the flooding. Throughout Louisiana, there was substantial flooding of farmland. Damages to crops amounted to $3\u00a0million. In addition to the flooding rains produced by Delia, eight tornadoes also touched down due to the storm, injuring four people. Five people were killed during Delia, two drowned during floods, two died in a car accident and the other died from a heart attack while boarding up his home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 794]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095307-0018-0000", "contents": "1973 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Depression Eleven\nOn September\u00a06, a tropical depression formed over the northwestern Caribbean Sea within a trough of low pressure extended southeastward from Delia, which was situated over southeast Texas at the time. The depression remained weak until it reached the Texas coastline on September\u00a010. Once onshore, it produced significant rainfall, causing significant damage that was attributed to Tropical Storm Delia. After turning northeast and tracking inland, the depression quickly increased in forward speed before dissipating over North Carolina on September\u00a014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 67], "content_span": [68, 622]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095307-0019-0000", "contents": "1973 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Depression Eleven\nAlong the coasts of Texas and Louisiana, the depression produced significant amounts of rainfall, peaking at 11.15\u00a0in (283\u00a0mm) near Freeport. Several areas in southern Louisiana recorded rainfall exceeding 5\u00a0in (130\u00a0mm) with a maximum amount of 9.2\u00a0in (230\u00a0mm) falling in Kinder. Significant rainfall was also recorded in the Carolinas and Georgia, with numerous areas recording over 3\u00a0in (76\u00a0mm). A maximum of 9.35\u00a0in (237\u00a0mm) fell near Whitmire, South Carolina before the system dissipated. In all, the depression resulted in an additional $22\u00a0million in crop losses in southern Louisiana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 67], "content_span": [68, 659]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095307-0020-0000", "contents": "1973 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Ellen\nThe strongest storm of the season, Hurricane Ellen, began as a tropical wave that moved off the western coast of Africa on September\u00a013. On the following day, the wave spawned an area of low pressure south of the Cape Verde Islands that quickly became a tropical depression. Tracking northeast, the system intensified into a tropical storm on September\u00a015 after sustained winds of 45\u00a0mph (75\u00a0km/h) were reported by a French naval vessel; however, due to sparse data on the storm, the first advisory on Ellen was not issued for two more days. A slightly elongated storm, Ellen gradually intensified over the open Atlantic and was steered by two troughs of low pressure. On September\u00a018, the storm took a nearly due west track and the system became increasingly organized, with an ill-defined eye becoming present on satellite imagery.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 890]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095307-0021-0000", "contents": "1973 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Ellen\nThe next day, Ellen intensified into a hurricane before taking a sharp turn to the north-northwest in response to a weak trough moving northeast from the Bahamas. Gradually, the hurricane turned more towards the northeast and began to accelerate as well as intensify. Despite being at an unusually high latitude for development, the storm underwent a brief period of rapid intensification, strengthening into a Category 3 hurricane on September\u00a023. At that time, Ellen attained its peak intensity with winds of 115\u00a0mph (185\u00a0km/h) and a minimum pressure of 962 mbar (hPa; 28.41\u00a0inHg).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 640]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095307-0021-0001", "contents": "1973 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Ellen\nUpon attaining this intensity at 42.1\u00b0N, Ellen had become a major hurricane farther north than any other tropical cyclone on record, and is one of two storms to become a major hurricane north of 38\u00b0N, the other being Hurricane Alex in 2004. Shortly after peaking, Ellen transitioned into an extratropical cyclone before merging with a frontal system several hundred miles east of Newfoundland on September\u00a023.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095307-0022-0000", "contents": "1973 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Ellen\nHurricane Ellen was photographed by the Skylab 3 mission from orbit, from the Skylab space station.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 56], "content_span": [57, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095307-0023-0000", "contents": "1973 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Depression Thirteen\nOn September\u00a024, a depression formed northeast of the Bahamas. The following day, the NHC issued their first advisory on the system, declaring it a subtropical depression. The depression was displayed an asymmetrical structure, with most winds being recorded up to 300\u00a0mi (480\u00a0km) north of the center. Later that day, the subtropical depression organized into a tropical depression. Upon doing so, the NHC issued small craft advisories for coastal areas between North Carolina and St. Augustine, Florida. Tracking north-northwestward in response to a break in a subtropical ridge to the north, the depression eventually made landfall near Marineland, Florida and quickly weakened, dissipating before reaching the Gulf of Mexico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 69], "content_span": [70, 798]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095307-0024-0000", "contents": "1973 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Depression Thirteen\nHeavy rain fell in association with the depression in parts of Florida and Georgia. A maximum of 6.74\u00a0in (171\u00a0mm) fell in Orlando while several other areas recorded over 3\u00a0in (76\u00a0mm) of rain. Over land, wind gusts reached 40\u00a0mph (65\u00a0km/h) in some locations. Offshore, swells produced by the system reached 10\u00a0ft (3.0\u00a0m), impacting several vessels in the region. Minor beach erosion and coastal flooding was reported in parts of South Carolina as a result of the storm. In parts of coastal Georgia, high water resulted in several road closures and flooded a few homes. Police officers in Savannah reported that wave were topping the local seawall; however, no damage was reported.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 69], "content_span": [70, 749]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095307-0025-0000", "contents": "1973 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Fran (Bravo)\nThe final hurricane of the season, Fran, originated from an area of convection north of Hispaniola on October\u00a01. By October\u00a04, the system interacted with a mid-tropospheric trough near the southeast United States, resulting in the formation of a surface low. Tracking eastward, showers and thunderstorms began to develop around the circulation; however, the structure of the system was not fully tropical. Late on October\u00a08, the cyclone had become sufficiently organized to be classified a subtropical depression. Cold air from the remnants of a cold front became entrained within the circulation; however, the cold air gradually warmed. The following day, winds increased to gale-force and the depression was upgraded to a subtropical storm, at which time it was given the name Bravo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 63], "content_span": [64, 849]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095307-0026-0000", "contents": "1973 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Fran (Bravo)\nBy October\u00a010, Bravo had intensified substantially, as hurricane hunters recorded hurricane-force winds roughly 15\u00a0mi (25\u00a0km) from the center of the storm. Following this finding, the National Hurricane Center reclassified the system as a tropical system and renamed it Fran, dropping its previous designation of Bravo. Steered generally eastward by a deep surface low in the westerlies, Fran accelerated towards the Azores Islands. Shortly after bypassing the islands on October\u00a012, the central pressure of Fran decreased to 978 mbar (hPa; 28.88\u00a0inHg), the lowest recorded in relation to the hurricane. Shortly after reaching this intensity, the hurricane transitioned into an extratropical cyclone and quickly merged with a cold front off the coast of France. Although Fran passed near the Azores, no impact was recorded on any of the islands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 63], "content_span": [64, 909]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095307-0027-0000", "contents": "1973 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Gilda\nThe precursor to Tropical Storm Gilda was a large convective system partially due to a tropical wave. It gradually became better organized over the northwestern Caribbean Sea, and on October 15, a tropical depression formed off the coast of Nicaragua. As it drifted to the northeast, it strengthened to a tropical storm, peaking at 70\u00a0mph (110\u00a0km/h) winds. Before it hit the coast of Cuba, it weakened enough to cause only minor damage. By the time it struck the island, it had become very disorganized in nature.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095307-0028-0000", "contents": "1973 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Gilda\nOn October\u00a024, cool, dry air entered the newly developed convection, and as a result it transitioned into a subtropical cyclone. Gilda became the first tropical system to pass through a subtropical stage prior to becoming extratropical. The large circulation continued northeast before becoming extratropical on October\u00a027. The remnants of Gilda intensified as they tracked near Atlantic Canada, attaining a central pressure of 968 mbar (hPa; 28.59\u00a0inHg) near Cape Race, Newfoundland. The system eventually dissipated near southern Greenland on October\u00a029.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 618]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095307-0029-0000", "contents": "1973 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Gilda\nGilda caused heavy rain and mudslides in Jamaica, destroying six homes and killing six people. In Cuba, Gilda dropped over 6\u00a0in (150\u00a0mm) of rain, while 60\u00a0mph (95\u00a0km/h) winds were reported in the northern part of the country. In the Bahamas, Gilda caused significant crop damage from heavy rainfall and high tides. The storm's persistent strong currents and easterly winds caused moderate beach erosion on the East Coast of the United States, mostly along the Florida coast. The extratropical remnants of the storm produced hurricane-force wind gusts over parts of Atlantic Canada, peaking at 75\u00a0mph (120\u00a0km/h); however, no damage was reported.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 706]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095307-0030-0000", "contents": "1973 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Other storms\nIn addition to the eight named storms of 1973 and two notable tropical depressions, there were several minor systems that were classified as depressions by the National Hurricane Center. The first four systems of the year were not classified as fully tropical, rather they were associated with the remnants of decaying cold fronts. On April\u00a018, the first of these depressions formed northeast of the Bahamas and tracked in a curved motion before dissipating over open water on April\u00a021.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095307-0030-0001", "contents": "1973 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Other storms\nSeveral days later, on April\u00a024, another depression formed in the same general region; however, this system was shorter lived and dissipated two days later without significant movement. On May\u00a02, another partially tropical system formed over open waters. The cyclone tracked northeast and dissipated late on May\u00a05 east-southeast of the Azores. On May\u00a011, a brief depression formed near Bermuda but dissipated the following day. Roughly a week into the official hurricane season, the fifth depression of the year formed just offshore southeast Florida, near Miami. The system tracked northwest across the peninsula and briefly entered the Gulf of Mexico on June\u00a08 before making landfall along the Florida Panhandle. The depression eventually dissipate on June\u00a010 over South Carolina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 836]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095307-0031-0000", "contents": "1973 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Other storms\nOn June\u00a023, another depression formed along Florida, this time just onshore near the Georgia border. The system slowly tracked northeastward before dissipating on June\u00a026 southeast of the North\u2013South Carolina border. As Hurricane Alice neared Bermuda on July\u00a09, a depression formed near the east coast of the United States; however, the storm dissipated the following day. On July\u00a019, the first Cape Verde storm formed over the central Atlantic. This system did not intensify, remaining a weak depression and dissipated on July\u00a021 without affecting land.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095307-0031-0001", "contents": "1973 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Other storms\nThe next day, a new depression formed over the southwestern Caribbean Sea near the coast of Nicaragua. The depression tracked over Central America, briefly moving back over water in the Gulf of Honduras before making a second landfall in Belize. The system persisted over land for a few days before entering the eastern Pacific late on July\u00a025.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095307-0032-0000", "contents": "1973 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Other storms\nOnly one non-developing depression formed during the month of August, an unusually eastward forming system. The depression was first identified just offshore eastern Africa on August\u00a08, near where Tropical Storm Christine formed later in the month. Tracking rapidly towards the west, the depression dissipated on August\u00a011 over open waters. In addition to the two notable tropical depressions and two named storms in September, a slow-moving depression formed south-southeast of Bermuda on September\u00a08. Tracking generally northward, the depression dissipated early on September\u00a010 without affecting land.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095307-0032-0001", "contents": "1973 Atlantic hurricane season, Systems, Other storms\nUpon the declaration of Hurricane Fran on October\u00a010, a new depression formed southwest of the strengthening hurricane. This system rapidly tracked northeast and dissipated two days later. Later that month, a slow-moving depression formed near the Azores. This system tracked southeast and dissipated on October\u00a030 without affecting land. The final system of the year formed near the northern coast of Panama on November\u00a017. The depression was noted as a \"...strong depression...\" by the National Hurricane Center and may have briefly attained tropical storm intensity before making landfall in northern Costa Rica on November\u00a018; the system dissipated later that day over land.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 732]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095307-0033-0000", "contents": "1973 Atlantic hurricane season, Storm names\nThe following names were used for named storms (tropical storms and hurricanes) that formed in the North Atlantic in 1973. Storms were named Christine, Delia, Ellen and Fran for the first time in 1973. Due to the relatively minimal impact caused by storms during the season, no names were retired in the spring of 1974; however, due to the addition of male names in 1979, the list was removed and replaced with a new set of names. Fran, Kate, Rose, and Sally got placed onto the modern lists, with Fran being retired after 1996.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095307-0034-0000", "contents": "1973 Atlantic hurricane season, Storm names, Subtropical storm names\nThe following names were used for subtropical storms in the Atlantic basin for this year. This year was the second and last year to use the phonetic alphabet. Although a storm was given the name Bravo, it was renamed Fran after acquiring tropical characteristics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 68], "content_span": [69, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095307-0035-0000", "contents": "1973 Atlantic hurricane season, Season effects\nThis is a table of the storms in 1973 and their landfall(s), if any. Deaths in parentheses are additional and indirect (an example of an indirect death would be a traffic accident), but are still storm-related. Damage and deaths include totals while the storm was extratropical or a wave or low.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095308-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Auburn Tigers football team\nThe 1973 Auburn Tigers football team achieved an overall record of 6\u20136 and 2\u20135 in the SEC under head coach Ralph \"Shug\" Jordan. They were invited to the 1973 Sun Bowl where they lost to Missouri 17\u201334.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095308-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Auburn Tigers football team\nOn September 13, 1973, the Thursday before Auburn's first home game of the season, Auburn's home stadium, known up to that time as Cliff Hare Stadium, was renamed in honor of the Ralph Jordan, marking the first time a stadium has been renamed for an active coach. Harry Philpott, President of Auburn University at that time, said \"Renaming the stadium is really in keeping with the outstanding job Coach Jordan has done during his outstanding career\", adding that, \"It also brings together two great eras of athletic achievement.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095308-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Auburn Tigers football team\nFour players were named to the All-SEC first team for 1973: Benny Sivley (DT), Steve Taylor (C), Mike Fuller (DB), and David Langner (DB).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095308-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Auburn Tigers football team\nOn December 1, Alabama avenged their stunning loss the previous year in the Iron Bowl game that became known as \"Punt Bama Punt\" by shutting out Auburn 35\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095309-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Australia rugby union tour of Europe\nThe 1973 Australia rugby union tour of Europe was a series of nine matches played by the Australia national rugby union team (the Wallabies) in England and Wales in October and November 1973. The Wallabies won only of three of their matches, lost five and drew the other one; they lost both of their international matches, against Wales and England. The final match with Italy, is not considered as a capped Test match by Australian Rugby Union", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095310-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian Drivers' Championship\nThe 1973 Australian Drivers' Championship was a CAMS sanctioned national motor racing title open to drivers of Australian Formula 1 and Australian Formula 2 cars. It was the seventeenth Australian Drivers' Championship and the championship winner was awarded the 1973 CAMS \"Gold Star\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095310-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian Drivers' Championship\nThe championship was won by John McCormack driving an Elfin MR5 Repco Holden.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095310-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian Drivers' Championship, Schedule\nThe championship was contested over a five-round series with one race per round. There was to be a round at Symmons Plains on 23 September in an event shared with the 1973 Australian Formula 2 Championship. However, as just four Formula 5000 cars were entered, organisers decided to run the event only for Formula Two cars. There was also originally to be an event at Warwick Farm before that facility closed suddenly earlier in 1973. As a result of these cancellations, a second event was added at Phillip Island in late November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095310-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian Drivers' Championship, Points system\nChampionship points were awarded on a 9\u20136\u20134\u20133\u20132\u20131 basis for the top six places in each round with all rounds counting towards each driver's points total. Only drivers holding a CAMS General Competition License were eligible to score points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 52], "content_span": [53, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095310-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian Drivers' Championship, Results\nNote: The Australian Grand Prix was won by New Zealander Graham McRae. However, as the Australian Drivers' Championship was open only to holders of a CAMS General Competition License, 9 points were awarded to the highest placed eligible driver, John McCormack, 6 points to the second highest placed eligible driver etc.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095310-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian Drivers' Championship, Championship name\nConditions for the championship were promulgated by CAMS under the name \"Australian Formula 1 Championship \u2013 Gold Star Award\", with mention of the requirement for the phrase \"Australian Champion Driver\" to be reserved exclusively for the winner of the CAMS Gold Star. Historic records published by CAMS use the term Australian Drivers' Championship and that title has been used here.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 56], "content_span": [57, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095311-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian Formula 2 Championship\nThe 1973 Australian Formula 2 Championship was a CAMS sanctioned motor racing title open to Australian Formula 2 racing cars. It was the seventh Australian Formula 2 Championship to be awarded by CAMS.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095311-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian Formula 2 Championship\nThe championship was dominated by multiple-championship winning driver Leo Geoghegan, who scored a perfect 54 points from six round wins over the course of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095311-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian Formula 2 Championship, Calendar\nThe championship was contested over a seven-round series with one race per round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095311-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian Formula 2 Championship, Points system\nChampionship points were awarded on a 9-6-4-3-2-1 basis to the first six eligible finishers at each round. Only holders of a General Competition License issued by CAMS were eligible for points and each driver could retain points only from his/her best six round results.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 53], "content_span": [54, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095312-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian Grand Prix\nThe 1973 Australian Grand Prix was a race for Australian Formula 1 and Australian Formula 2 racing cars, the former class incorporating Formula 5000 cars. It was held on 4 November at Sandown and was the second AGP in a row to be held at that circuit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095312-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian Grand Prix\nIt was the thirty eighth Australian Grand Prix and doubled as round four of the 1973 Australian Drivers' Championship. Defending winner Graham McRae won his second AGP ahead of John McCormack and Johnnie Walker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095313-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian Indoor Championships\nThe 1973 Australian Indoor Championships was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts at the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney, Australia. It was part of the 1973 Commercial Union Assurance Grand Prix as a Group B category tournament. The tournament was held from 4 November through 11 November 1973. Rod Laver won the singles title and the accompanying $10,000 first-prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095313-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian Indoor Championships, Finals, Singles\nRod Laver defeated John Newcombe 3\u20136, 7\u20135, 6\u20133, 3\u20136, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095313-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian Indoor Championships, Finals, Doubles\nRod Laver / John Newcombe defeated Mal Anderson / Ken Rosewall 7\u20136, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095314-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian Indoor Championships \u2013 Doubles\nRod Laver and John Newcombe won in the final 7\u20136, 6\u20132 against Malcolm Anderson and Ken Rosewall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095315-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian Indoor Championships \u2013 Singles\nRod Laver won in the final of the Australian Indoor Tennis Championships singles event 3\u20136, 7\u20135, 6\u20133, 3\u20136, 6\u20134 against John Newcombe. Ken Rosewall won the play-off match for third place against Phil Dent in three sets, 4\u20136, 6\u20133, 6\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095316-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian Manufacturers' Championship\nThe 1973 Australian Manufacturers' Championship was a CAMS sanctioned motor racing title for automobile manufacturers. It was the third Australian Manufacturers' Championship and the first to be contested with Group C Touring Cars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095316-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian Manufacturers' Championship, Points system\nChampionship points were awarded on a 9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis for the first nine positions in each class plus 4-3-2-1 for the first four outright positions for all rounds except the Bathurst round. For the Bathurst round only, championship points were awarded on an 18-16-14-12-10-8-6-4-2 basis for the first nine positions in each class plus 4-3-2-1 for the first four outright positions. Only the best placed car from each manufacturer in each class at each round was eligible to score points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 58], "content_span": [59, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095317-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian Open\nThe 1973 Australian Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts at the Kooyong Stadium in Melbourne in Australia and was held from 26 December 1972 to 1 January 1973. It was the 61st edition of the Australian Open and the first Grand Slam tournament of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095317-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian Open, Seniors, Men's doubles\nJohn Newcombe / Malcolm Anderson defeated John Alexander / Phil Dent, 6\u20133, 6\u20134, 7\u20136", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 44], "content_span": [45, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095317-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian Open, Seniors, Women's doubles\nMargaret Court / Virginia Wade defeated Kerry Harris / Kerry Melville, 6\u20134, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 46], "content_span": [47, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095319-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nSecond-seeded John Newcombe defeated Onny Parun 6\u20133, 6\u20137, 7\u20135, 6\u20131 in the final to win the Men's Singles tennis title at the 1973 Australian Open. Ken Rosewall was the two time defending champion, but was upset in the second round by unseeded Karl Meiler.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095319-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nThe format was the first round was best of 3 sets and the rest of the tournament was best of 5 sets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095319-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian Open \u2013 Men's Singles, Seeds\nThe seeded players are listed below. John Newcombe is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 43], "content_span": [44, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095321-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nFirst-seeded Margaret Court defeated Evonne Goolagong 6\u20134, 7\u20135 in the final to win the Women's Singles tennis title at the 1973 Australian Open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095321-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian Open \u2013 Women's Singles, Seeds\nThe seeded players are listed below. Margaret Court is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 45], "content_span": [46, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095322-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian Rally Championship\nThe 1973 Australian Rally Championship was a series of six rallying events held across Australia. It was the sixth season in the history of the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095322-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian Rally Championship\nPeter Lang and navigator Warwick Smith in the Holden Torana GTR XU-1 were the winners of the 1973 Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095322-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian Rally Championship, Season review\nThe sixth Australian Rally Championship was decided over six events, staged across the Eastern States of Australia with two events each in New South Wales and Victoria and one each in Queensland and South Australia. The series saw more domination from the Holden Torana GTR XU-1's which won all six rounds, three wins for Peter Lang/Warwick Smith, two wins for Colin Bond/George Shepheard and one win for Steward McLeod/Adrian Mortimer. Lang and Smith managed high placings in the events that they didn't win and thus convincingly took out the 1973 championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 49], "content_span": [50, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095322-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian Rally Championship, The Rallies\nThe six events of the 1973 season were as follows.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 47], "content_span": [48, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095322-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian Rally Championship, The Rallies, Round Six \u2013 Golden Alpine Rally\nNote that Kilfoyle and Osborne won this event outright in a works Datsun 180B SSS but were ineligible for ARC points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 80], "content_span": [81, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095323-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian Sports Car Championship\nThe 1973 Australian Sports Car Championship was a CAMS sanctioned motor racing title open to Group A Sports Cars and Group D Production Sports Cars. It was the fifth Australian Sports Car Championship. The title was won by South Australian Phil Moore, driving a 2.5 litre Repco V8 - engined Elfin 360.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095323-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian Sports Car Championship, Calendar\nThe championship was contested over a six round series with one race per round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095323-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian Sports Car Championship, Classes and points system\nChampionship points were allocated on a 9-6-4-3-2-1 basis to the first six place-getters in each class at each round. Additional points were awarded on a 4-3-2-1 basis to the first four outright place-getters, regardless of class, at each round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095323-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian Sports Car Championship, Results\nOnly the top ten championship positions are shown in the above table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095324-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian Touring Car Championship\nThe 1973 Australian Touring Car Championship was the 14th running of the Australian Touring Car Championship. It began at Symmons Plains on 5 March 1973 and ended at Warwick Farm after eight rounds. The series was won by Allan Moffat in a Ford Falcon GTHO Phase III.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095324-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian Touring Car Championship\nThe night before Round 6 of the series at the Adelaide International Raceway, Moffat's GTHO Falcon was stolen from Stillwell Ford in the northern Adelaide suburb of Medindie. Rather than see Moffat out of the race (he was the series points leader at the time having won the opening 4 rounds and finishing 3rd in round 5), Murray Carter loaned Moffat his GTHO Falcon for the race. Peter Brock won the race while Moffat kept his points lead by finishing second. Moffat's stolen Falcon was later found abandoned in the Adelaide Hills where the thieves who had taken it for a \"joy ride\" dumped it when it ran out of fuel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095324-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian Touring Car Championship, Teams and drivers\nThe following drivers competed in the 1973 ATCC. The series consisted of eight rounds held in six different states.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 59], "content_span": [60, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095324-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian Touring Car Championship, Calendar\nThe 1973 Australian Touring Car Championship consisted of eight rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095324-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian Touring Car Championship, Drivers Championship\nPoints were awarded 4-3-2-1 for the first four race positions, and then 9-6-4-3-2-1 for the top 6 of each class.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 62], "content_span": [63, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095325-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian referendum\nThe 1973 Australian Referendum was held on 8 December 1973. It contained two referendum questions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095326-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian referendum (Incomes)\nThe Constitution Alteration (Incomes) 1973 was a referendum proposed by the Australian Labor Party in December 1973 which sought to alter section 51 of the Australian Constitution to give the Commonwealth legislative power over incomes. The Whitlam government's most prominent reason for posing this amendment was the issue of inflation, as they argued that with government power over incomes, inflation would be better managed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095326-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian referendum (Incomes)\nThe proposal did not pass due to a majority 'no' vote from all states. This referendum was extremely unpopular and had the lowest percentage of public support when compared to any other referendum held in Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095326-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian referendum (Incomes), Question\nDo you approve the proposed law for the alteration of the Constitution entitled \"An Act to alter the Constitution so as to enable the Australian Parliament to make laws with respect to incomes\"?", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095326-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian referendum (Incomes), Background, Economic Context\nInflation escalated rapidly from the early 1970s to 1980s. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) in 1970 was 3.5% pa but quickly rose to 15.3% pa in 1975, indicating a significant increase in the rate of inflation. In addition, a supply shock hit the Australian economy with the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) strikes and \"Oil Shock\", which not only led to an increase in oil prices but an international recession. The Australian economy became increasingly unstable within the global context. Significant pressure was placed on the Whitlam government to overcome these economic issues and restabilise the economy resulting in the 1973 Referendum (Incomes), Whitlam\u2019s main attempt to control inflation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 788]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095326-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian referendum (Incomes), Background, Political Context\nThe Whitlam government held power from 1972-1975, and was the first Labor government to be elected in 23 years. Whitlam\u2019s government was prone to criticism over the number of policies his government tried to implement in a short period of time. Whitlam was also frequently criticised by some media, economists and the public for his management of the economy, especially in a time of economic crisis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 67], "content_span": [68, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095326-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian referendum (Incomes), Background, Political Context\nMany Australians supported Whitlam for his charisma and charm, believing he made positive impacts on Australia. Whilst others believed that he failed to effectively govern Australia, especially economically. ABC political journalist Annabel Crabb stated that it was Whitlam\u2019s \"irrepressible curiosity and quest for wisdom in his life\" that was so appealing. However, some Australian commentators, such as Andrew Bolt, argue that this charisma was not enough, and that Whitlam governed \"chaotically\" as Prime Minister. Whitlam\u2019s government remained controversial, especially in regard to its economic decisions and support for First Nations Australians. This overall controversy meant that there was no likely outcome for Whitlam\u2019s 1973 Income referendum, especially considering the failed history of many Australian referendums.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 67], "content_span": [68, 896]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095326-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian referendum (Incomes), Public Opinion and Polls\nAt the beginning of the campaign before any major press or debates surrounding the income referendum, public opinion polls revealed that three states (NSW, VIC, and SA) would potentially vote \u2018Yes\u2019. However, as more press was garnered and Whitlam and Snedden began to make their cases for and against, public approval dwindled significantly, and polls suggested that no state was predicted to vote \u2018Yes\u2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 62], "content_span": [63, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095326-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian referendum (Incomes), Public Opinion and Polls\nThe McNair Gallup opinion poll was published in the Melbourne Herald in October 1973. This poll was conducted before the referendum campaign had properly begun and therefore only showed early opinions. It contained the following data:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 62], "content_span": [63, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095326-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian referendum (Incomes), Public Opinion and Polls\nThe Bulletin opinion poll was conducted in mid-November 1973, published on 8 December 1973 and indicated the following spread of public opinion:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 62], "content_span": [63, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095326-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian referendum (Incomes), Public Opinion and Polls\nThe Age opinion poll was conducted on 6 December 1973 and revealed the following data:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 62], "content_span": [63, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095326-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian referendum (Incomes), Public Opinion and Polls\nThis level of opposition to the referendum was a result of many factors. The referendum was posed at a time when Whitlam\u2019s government was dealing with the Watergate scandal as well as anxieties surrounding the conflict in Vietnam. Much of the Australian public blamed Whitlam for these issues and were therefore less willing to place more power and trust in his government. Furthermore, polls suggested the public felt that the Whitlam government was not being clear enough about how the Labor government intended to use its power over income and believed their campaign to be unconvincing and vague. The general public confusion surrounding the referendum was emphasised by newspapers and journalists, such as Kenneth Davidson from The Australian, reporting that the parties themselves were confused about how income powers would be exercised.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 62], "content_span": [63, 907]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095326-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian referendum (Incomes), Public Opinion and Polls\nThe Sydney Morning Herald stated that incomes were a particularly personal and \"hip pocket\" issue for Australians, justifying the large degree of hesitation and apprehension around the proposed bill, revealed in numerous public opinion polls. The Sydney Morning Herald also argued that due to the personal nature of this referendum, The Liberal Party has been using this apprehension to foster a sense of fear, promoting a \"When in doubt vote No\" campaign. Public opinion polls revealed that the public had a general lack of understanding of the implications of the referendum and an overall ambivalent attitude towards the income referendum. The public's general lack of understanding, and their ambivalent attitude surrounding the incomes referendum was reflected throughout much of the campaign, revealed in many public opinion polls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 62], "content_span": [63, 900]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095326-0012-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian referendum (Incomes), Support and Opposition\nWhitlam\u2019s Labor government proposed this bill and argued the \u2018Yes\u2019 case. Snedden\u2019s Liberal party was the opposing party, arguing \u2018No\u2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 60], "content_span": [61, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095326-0013-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian referendum (Incomes), Support and Opposition, Labor (Support)\nThe main arguments from Whitlam\u2019s Labor government in support of increasing income power were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 77], "content_span": [78, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095326-0014-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian referendum (Incomes), Support and Opposition, Liberal (Opposition)\nThe main arguments in opposition to the increase of income power from Snedden\u2019s Liberal party were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 82], "content_span": [83, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095326-0015-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian referendum (Incomes), Support and Opposition, Other Opposition\nThe Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU), and other trade unions, almost unanimously advocated for a \u2018No\u2019 vote to federal powers over incomes. The leader of the ACTU, Bob Hawke, had significant influence in leading the trade union campaigns against the income referendum. Their main concerns focused on what those powers could be used for in the future by non-labor governments and they did not believe wages should be controlled by the federal government. The unions did not believe that the proposed powers would be effective in controlling inflation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 78], "content_span": [79, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095326-0016-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian referendum (Incomes), Support and Opposition, Other Opposition\nOther minor political parties including the Country Party, led by Doug Anthony, also voted and supported the \u2018No\u2019 campaign as they believed that by controlling incomes and capping wages it would be more difficult to maintain productive workplaces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 78], "content_span": [79, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095326-0017-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian referendum (Incomes), Support and Opposition, Other Support\nWhilst the support for the passing of the income referendum did fall in the minority, some economists and academics in support of increasing income controls, such as Stephen J. Turnovsky and Michael Parkin, believed that the government had little choice to do anything else. Their views were that if the government did not increase their controls over income, they would have to allow for unemployment to grow and the economy to stagnate. However, they believed that if they didn\u2019t gain control over incomes, inflation would be likely to continue escalating.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 75], "content_span": [76, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095326-0018-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian referendum (Incomes), Support and Opposition, Other Support\nEconomists from The Australian Economic Review acknowledged that inflation in Australia in 1973 was a result of a \u2018wage-price spiral\u2019. They argued that the increasing price levels in Australia resulted in the Australian public demanding higher wages, thus, resulting in a 'wage-price spiral'. Many economists, including those at The Australian Economic Review, argued that if the Whitlam government did not step in and take control over incomes and manage this \u2018wage-price spiral\u2019, inflation would continue to escalate, and the public would be negatively impacted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 75], "content_span": [76, 640]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095326-0019-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian referendum (Incomes), Results\nThe 1973 Referendum (Incomes) failed to achieve a \u2018Yes\u2019 majority from any state. 34.42% of voters voted \u2018Yes\u2019 to the incomes question with a minority of 2 191 770 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095326-0020-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian referendum (Incomes), Aftermath, Legacy\nDue to the failure of this referendum and the majority opposition towards increased controls over income, the Labor government were unable gain control over incomes. Whitlam\u2019s main impact on issues surrounding income was the implementation of universal healthcare and policies to improve social housing. Both of these reforms aimed to give more equal opportunities to those with lower incomes, however, they could not manage inflation. Academic Joan Rydon, writing in 1974, asserted that \"Already the referendum seems to have faded into the past. \", indicating the insignificant legacy of this referendum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 55], "content_span": [56, 661]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095326-0021-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian referendum (Incomes), Aftermath, Reasons for Rejection\nThe rejection of the income referendum was believed to be due to a multitude of reasons. Alec Robertson, a political journalist for Tribune, the newspaper for the Communist Party of Australia, stated that this rejection of the referendum would significantly impact Australians on lower wages. This was due to the disproportionate impact that inflation, and particularly 'stagflation', had on those with lower socio-economic statuses as unemployment increased along with the increase of prices. Furthermore, Robertson argued that a major reason that this referendum did not pass was due to the Labor government\u2019s insistence on posing two referendum questions at once.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 70], "content_span": [71, 737]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095326-0021-0001", "contents": "1973 Australian referendum (Incomes), Aftermath, Reasons for Rejection\nOne question on government control over prices and one on incomes. Robertson asserted that \"workers were torn between loyalty to the Labor Government and loyalty to the trade union movement.\" He believed that if one question had been asked, this would have allowed the government to gain some economic controls to manage inflation as there would have been less confusion and the public would have been less divided.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 70], "content_span": [71, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095326-0022-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian referendum (Incomes), Aftermath, Reasons for Rejection\nFor the Whitlam government, the failure of this referendum was a clear sign that no other referendum proposed by his government, succeeding the 1973 referendum, would have any hope of passing. This referendum ultimately served to affirm the notion that the Australian constitution is notoriously difficult to amend, and continued the history of failed referendums. Of the twenty seven referendums posed since Federation in 1901, the incomes referendum was the twenty second failed referendum. It also became the most unpopular\u00a0referendum in Australian history, with the lowest amount of support from voters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 70], "content_span": [71, 678]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095326-0023-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian referendum (Incomes), Aftermath, Economic Trajectory\nInflation continued to escalate rapidly, exacerbated by a \u2018wages explosion\u2019 in 1974. Inflation levels peaked at 19 percent in 1974 and continued to remain at a high level for the next two decades. Economists, such as Richard Holden, in hindsight, view Whitlam\u2019s increase in government spending after the failed referendum to be a large failing by the Labor government. Holden believed that Whitlam only served to worsen the inflation crisis and \u2018wage price spiral\u2019 at the time with his economic management.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 68], "content_span": [69, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095326-0023-0001", "contents": "1973 Australian referendum (Incomes), Aftermath, Economic Trajectory\nThe rejection of Whitlam's 1973 income referendum gave way to later policies that attempted to manage the Australian economy such as the 1975 Wage Indexation Policy. This policy was in response to rapidly increasing wages and attempted to restrict any further growth. However, Bruce Hockman, former Chief Economist at the Australian Bureau of Statistics, argues that this indexation policy only ended up \"locking in inflation in the long run\". The Australian economy fell into a greater recession from 1982-83.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 68], "content_span": [69, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095327-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian referendum (Prices)\nThe Constitution Alteration (Prices) 1973 was a bill proposing amendments to section 51 of the Australian Constitution which would give the Commonwealth legislative power over prices. The proposed changes to the constitution were not upheld, with Australians voting against the constitutional alteration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095327-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian referendum (Prices)\nThe Whitlam Government proposed the amendments to the constitution reasoning that by granting increased power to federal government over prices they would be able to control inflation, which at the time was increasing significantly. However, it was ultimately determined by the voters that this was an unnecessary intervention by government, with concerns raised about the future possibility of the abuse of such powers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095327-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian referendum (Prices), Background, Economic context\nThe economic context that led to the eventual proposition of the 1973 Prices Referendum was driven by numerous economic factors. A resource boom derived from the demands of Japanese industrialisation and increased capital inflows due to the Australian dollar being perceived as undervalued drove Australia's economy in the early 1970s. These factors contributed to an economic environment in 1971 that was generally considered strong, with the AUD rising to $1.40, unemployment at 2% and economic growth rising 5% per year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 65], "content_span": [66, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095327-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian referendum (Prices), Background, Economic context\nHowever, in the same period, inflation rose steadily to 7.3% as average weekly earnings rose to over 10% per annum. Australia's inflation post World War II averaged around 2%. Therefore, this increase in inflation was very significant at the time. Fiscal policy was expansionary with concerns over the slow rise of unemployment. The Whitlam Labor government announced tax cuts, along with spending on education, health, urban development and the environment. Additionally, Whitlam's government supported pay rises, improvements in working conditions and gender equality in income. This led to an increase in minimum wage for women by 75% and 100% for men.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 65], "content_span": [66, 721]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095327-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian referendum (Prices), Background, Economic context\nIn 1973, average weekly earnings had increased to 15.3% driven by wage decisions and consequently the inflation rate began to push double figures. In October 1973, the Arab-Israel conflict quadrupled world oil prices, triggering global high unemployment and high inflation or \"stagflation\". Australia's own inflation rate rose to 10.1% in 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 65], "content_span": [66, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095327-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian referendum (Prices), Background, Political context\nBy 1973, Gough Whitlam's government was under growing pressure to slow the rising inflation. Snedden's Liberal party opposition accused Whitlam of allowing inflation to get out of control, while instead spending extensively on social issues like education and health. They also criticised Labor as hypocritical, because as the opposition Labor scrutinised the Liberal government for not acting on inflation which at the time was in a more stable state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095327-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian referendum (Prices), Background, Political context\nWhitlam argued the Labor Party had inherited 'stagflation' from the previous government who had instigated wage rises and created circumstances for an overvalued dollar. Whitlam offered several policies to address the issue, such as famously cutting tariffs by 25% across the board. In August 1973, Whitlam introduced legislation that established the Prices Justification Tribunal, which ultimately scrutinised price changes by large corporations. Although this provided the federal government with some general powers on pricing, the Prices Justification Tribunal was not given the power to act on decisions found from their enquiries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 703]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095327-0006-0001", "contents": "1973 Australian referendum (Prices), Background, Political context\nOpponents of the tribunal criticised its ineffectiveness, arguing that the tribunal had no real power in effecting market prices and thus curbing inflation. The ineffective nature of the tribunal was under fire with Snedden ironically calling it the Prices \"Exemption\" Tribunal. However, supporters of the tribunal argued that it was effective in holding back price rises. The first Prices Justification Tribunal Annual Report identified the difference between prices originally proposed to the tribunal and the prices found to be justified by the tribunal was $253 million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 641]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095327-0006-0002", "contents": "1973 Australian referendum (Prices), Background, Political context\nAdditionally, the existence of the tribunal made companies more cautious about price rises, although the effect of this is unquantifiable. In a ploy to boost the effectiveness of the tribunal and silence critics, Whitlam on 22 September proposed the Prices Referendum that sought to give power to Australian Parliament to control prices as one element in an anti-inflationary strategy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 66], "content_span": [67, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095327-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian referendum (Prices), Question\nDo you approve the proposed law for the alteration of the Constitution entitled \"An Act to alter the Constitution so as to enable the Australian Parliament to control prices\"?", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095327-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian referendum (Prices), Public opinion polls\nNumerous polls were published before the referendum by reputable polling organisations. Overwhelmingly, these public opinion polls predicted that voting intentions were to affirm the referendum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095327-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian referendum (Prices), Public opinion polls\nA poll published in The Age on 6 December predicted:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095327-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian referendum (Prices), Public opinion polls\nAnother poll was taken by the McNair Gallup Poll on 23 October, which was published in The Herald. It must be noted that this poll was taken early in the referendum campaign and thus may not have captured accurate public voting intentions. The poll predicted:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095327-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian referendum (Prices), Public opinion polls\nMorgan Polls published a poll in The Bulletin in mid-November. This poll predicted:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 57], "content_span": [58, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095327-0012-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian referendum (Prices), Arguments for and against, Major political parties\nThe referendum was debated primarily on party lines, with Whitlam's Labor Party proposing the \"Yes\" case and Snedden's Liberal Party proposing the \"No\" case.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 87], "content_span": [88, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095327-0013-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian referendum (Prices), Arguments for and against, Major political parties\nA Melbourne-based newspaper, The Age, summarised the debate: \"If you hate inflation, love your country and trust Gough Whitlam, vote \"yes\"... If you hate controls, fear the unknown and believe Bill Snedden, vote \"no\"...\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 87], "content_span": [88, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095327-0014-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian referendum (Prices), Arguments for and against, Minor parties\nOther minor party stances included support for the proposal by the Australia Party and Aarons Communist Party. Opposition to the proposed changes were supported by the Democratic Labour Party and Maoists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 77], "content_span": [78, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095327-0015-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian referendum (Prices), Arguments for and against, Organised groups\nGroups other than political parties took clear sides in regard to the proposal outside of Parliament. It is a common occurrence for organised groups to participate actively in referendum's, where they usually would not in general elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095327-0016-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian referendum (Prices), Arguments for and against, Organised groups\nTrade unions such as the ACTU and Queensland Trades and Labour Unions along with other unions generally advocated in favour of the proposed change. Strong public promotion and advertisement in opposition to the proposed changes came from organisation that considered the government's control of prices a direct threat to their industry. Such organisations included the Chamber of Commerce, Chamber of Manufacturers, Real Estate Institutes, the Wool Growers and Grazer\u2019s Association, the NSW Institute of Public Affairs and various other organisations that had vested interest in the proposal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 80], "content_span": [81, 673]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095327-0017-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian referendum (Prices), Results\nBefore the 1977 Australian Referendum citizens living in Australian Territories were not able to vote in referendums.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095327-0018-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian referendum (Prices), Aftermath, Prices Justification Tribunal\nFollowing the failed referendum in 1974 Whitlam further strengthened the powers of the Prices Justification Tribunal. The power was extended so that the tribunal could inquire and report on prices charged by a company irrespective of their annual turnover. Where previously the tribunal could only inquire and report on companies with annual turnover of $20 million or more. These changes were aimed at examining retail prices and the price of imported goods, which were previously not examined by the tribunal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 77], "content_span": [78, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095327-0018-0001", "contents": "1973 Australian referendum (Prices), Aftermath, Prices Justification Tribunal\nHowever, the jurisdiction of the tribunal was not extended to make the findings of inquiries mandatory for companies to comply with. Therefore, the tribunal was scrutinised for lacking the appropriate power to make real economic differences. Additionally, separate legislation that gave pricing power to state governments such as New South Wales, South Australia, Australian Capital Territory and Northern Territory meant that giving the tribunal further power over prices would contradict this existing legislation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 77], "content_span": [78, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095327-0019-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian referendum (Prices), Aftermath, Prices Justification Tribunal\nThe coverage and role of the Prices Justification Tribunal was reduced, as Fraser's Liberal party took office in 1975. In addition to scrutiny over the ineffective nature of the tribunal, concerns were raised about compliance costs, the overlapping of the tribunals operations with existing government bodies and the effect of the tribunal on industry efficiency and investment decisions. The tribunal was ultimately abolished in 1981.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 77], "content_span": [78, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095327-0020-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian referendum (Prices), Aftermath, Economic policy\nThe rejection of the referendum and the ultimate reduction of the Prices Justification Tribunal, meant that other economic policies took greater credence. As such two key economic policies were adopted; monetary targeting and indexation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 63], "content_span": [64, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095327-0021-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian referendum (Prices), Aftermath, Economic policy\nFollowing the global trend of inflation targeting, the Reserve Bank of Australia employed a loose form of monetary targeting. The policy objective was to reduce the rate of increase in domestic prices. From 1976 to 1985, between which monetary targeting was employed, the inflation rate decreased from 13% to 8.4%. Although the decline in inflation would suggest this policy was a success, the policy relied on a consistent and stable relationship between growth rates and price changes. However, this period proved this consistent relationship was not the case suggesting a causal link between the decrease in domestic prices and monetary targeting. This led to the RBA's ultimate transition to inflation targeting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 63], "content_span": [64, 780]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095327-0022-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian referendum (Prices), Aftermath, Economic policy\nIndexation was adopted by the Arbitration Commission in 1975, on the basis that it would restrain wage increases. Indexation linked wage increases to past price increases. Inflation began to decrease with the establishment of indexation, decreasing from a peak of nearly 20% in 1975 to 10% by 1977. This showed the effectiveness of wage indexation in constraining wage increases. However, after 1977 wages rapidly increased due to pressure from unions who argued that wage increases were falling behind cost of living increases. The Arbitration Commission was unable to keep relevant parties in agreement with its indexation approach. As such indexation was abolished in 1981.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 63], "content_span": [64, 740]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095327-0023-0000", "contents": "1973 Australian referendum (Prices), Aftermath, Economic policy\nAlthough these policies had contributed to decreasing the inflation rate to 10% in 1977, further success proved difficult. In 1977 Australia experienced high economic growth and rising oil prices which forced an increase in inflation before it was back under control.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 63], "content_span": [64, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095328-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Austrian Alpine Rally\nThe 1973 Austrian Rally (formally the 44. Austrian Alpine Rally) was the ninth round of the inaugural World Rally Championship season. Run in mid-September around Baden, Austria, the rally was entirely on gravel surface special stages. 1973 would be the only year to see the WRC hold an event in Austria, despite the strong presence of Austrian drivers in the series through the present.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095328-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Austrian Alpine Rally, Report\nIn 1973, and for several years afterward, only manufacturers were given points for finishes in WRC events. Austria hosted BMW's first ever win of the World Rally Championship, with front-runners Alpine-Renault, Saab, and Fiat also making strong bids for points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095329-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Austrian Grand Prix\nThe 1973 Austrian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at \u00d6sterreichring on 19 August 1973. It was race 12 of 15 in both the 1973 World Championship of Drivers and the 1973 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095329-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Austrian Grand Prix\nThe 54-lap race was won by Swedish driver Ronnie Peterson, driving a Lotus-Ford, after he started from second position. Scotland's Jackie Stewart achieved his final podium finish, coming second in his Tyrrell-Ford, while Brazil's Carlos Pace achieved his first, coming third in a Surtees-Ford.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095329-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Austrian Grand Prix\nNiki Lauda was forced to miss his home race after breaking his wrist at the N\u00fcrburgring two weeks previously. BRM did not replace him for the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095330-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 BBC2 Floodlit Trophy\n1973 BBC2 Floodlit Trophy was the ninth occasion on which the BBC2 Floodlit Trophy competition had been held.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095330-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 BBC2 Floodlit Trophy\nThis year there was another new name on the trophy when Bramley won the trophy by beating Widnes by the score of 15-7.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095330-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 BBC2 Floodlit Trophy\nThe match was played at Naughton Park, Widnes, Cheshire (but historically in the county of Lancashire). The attendance was 4,542 and receipts were \u00a31538.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095330-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 BBC2 Floodlit Trophy\nBramley perennial strugglers, had been expected to just make up the numbers against high-flying Widnes, but instead they showed what self-belief, commitment and hard work could do. The result was totally unexpected and is still one of the greatest shocks in Rugby League history. Bramley had joined the Rugby League for the 1896-97 season, the second season in its existence, and in the 77 years since, this was the first trophy the club had ever won. It would also be the only trophy before leaving the league at the end of the 1999 season. This was also the second consecutive season in which Widnes had finished as runners-up in the BBC Floodlit Trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 683]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095330-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 BBC2 Floodlit Trophy, Background\nThis was the year in which the Arab-Israeli war created an oil crisis, which together with the miner's work to rule, caused the Brish Government to ban the use of floodlights in sport on 13 November. This in turn resulted in many of the matches in the Floodlit Trophy, including the final, being played in the afternoon rather than at night.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095330-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 BBC2 Floodlit Trophy, Background\nThis season saw three new clubs join the tournament. These were Bramley, Dewsbury and Whitehaven which increased the number of entrants by three, to a new high total of twenty-one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095330-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 BBC2 Floodlit Trophy, Background\nThe format remained the same as the last season with the preliminary round played on a two-legged home and away basis and the rest of the tournament being played on a knock-out basis. The preliminary round now involved ten clubs, to reduce the numbers taking part in the competition proper to just sixteen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095330-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 BBC2 Floodlit Trophy, Competition and results, Preliminary round \u2013 second leg\nInvolved 5 matches and the same 10 Clubs in reverse fixtures", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 82], "content_span": [83, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095330-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 BBC2 Floodlit Trophy, Competition and results, Final, Teams and scorers\nScoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = two (2) points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 76], "content_span": [77, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095330-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 BBC2 Floodlit Trophy, Notes and comments\n1 * The John Player Yearbook 1974\u201375 gives the attendance as 3,000, but the official St. Helens archives gives it as 2,0002 * At the time this was the highest aggregate score and was never to be beaten3 * This match was televised4 * Bramley join the competition and play first game in the competition5 * The John Player Yearbook 1974\u201375 gives the attendance as 1,500, but the official St. Helens archives gives it as 2,1086 * Whitehaven join the competition and play first game in the competition7 * Salford, who joined the competition in season 1966-67, win their first game in the competition8 * Dewsbury join the competition and play first game in the competition9 * Bramley play their first game at home in the competitiona * There appears to be even more confusion about the attendance than normal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 856]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095330-0009-0001", "contents": "1973 BBC2 Floodlit Trophy, Notes and comments\nThe Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990-1991 and 1991-92 gives it 4,422, the RUGBYLEAGUEprojects as 4,542, The John Player Yearbook 1974\u201375 as 4,000, and the Daily Mirror of 19 December 1973 as 4,500b * The Winning score and margin were a new record for the final, to datec * The final was played in daylight because of restrictions on the use of electricity and floodlights in sportd * Bramley had joined the Rugby League for the 1896-97 season, the second season in its existence, and in the 77 years since, this was the first trophy the club had ever won.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095330-0009-0002", "contents": "1973 BBC2 Floodlit Trophy, Notes and comments\nIt would also be the only trophy before leaving the league at the end of the 1999 seasone * Naughton Park was the home ground of Hull Kingston Rovers from 1895 to 1997, when a new stadium was built on the same site. The final capacity was estimated to be under 10,000 although the record attendance was 24,205 set on 16 February 1961 in a match v St. Helens", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095330-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 BBC2 Floodlit Trophy, Notes and comments, General information for those unfamiliar\nThe Rugby League BBC2 Floodlit Trophy was a knock-out competition sponsored by the BBC and between rugby league clubs, entrance to which was conditional upon the club having floodlights. Most matches were played on an evening, and those of which the second half was televised, were played on a Tuesday evening. Despite the competition being named as 'Floodlit', many matches took place during the afternoons and not under floodlights, and several of the entrants, including Barrow and Bramley did not have adequate lighting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 87], "content_span": [88, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095330-0010-0001", "contents": "1973 BBC2 Floodlit Trophy, Notes and comments, General information for those unfamiliar\nAnd, when in 1973, due to the world oil crisis, the government restricted the use of floodlights in sport, all the matches, including the Trophy final, had to be played in the afternoon rather than at night. The Rugby League season always (until the onset of \"Summer Rugby\" in 1996) ran from around August-time through to around May-time and this competition always took place early in the season, in the Autumn, with the final taking place in December (The only exception to this was when disruption of the fixture list was caused by inclement weather)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 87], "content_span": [88, 641]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095331-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 BC Lions season\nThe 1973 BC Lions finished in third place in the Western Conference with a 5\u20139\u20132 record. They beat the Calgary Stampeders in the final game of the regular season to make the playoffs. However, the Lions would lose to Saskatchewan in the Western Semi-Final 33\u201313.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095331-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 BC Lions season\nIn April, the Lions traded star fullback Jim Evenson to Ottawa. This would result in more carries for sophomore Johnny Musso, star running back from University of Alabama, who the Lions outbid the Chicago Bears of the NFL in 1972. Musso didn't disappoint as he ran for 1029 yards in 1973, had 475 yards receiving and scored 10 touchdowns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095331-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 BC Lions season\nThird year starting quarterback Don Moorhead split time with back-up Karl Douglas as the Lions tried to find the solution to their stagnant offence which produced only 16.3 points per game. In aggregate, both quarterbacks could only generate eight touchdowns through the air all season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095331-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 BC Lions season\nSophomore linebacker Ray Nettles won the Schenley award for Most Outstanding Defensive Player and was the only Lion named to the CFL all-star team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095331-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 BC Lions season\nLinebacker Greg Findlay retired after 12 seasons and 178 games for the Lions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095332-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 BRDC International Trophy\nThe 25th BRDC International Trophy was a non-championship Formula One race held at Silverstone on 8 April 1973. The race was run in connection with a Formula 5000 event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095333-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 BYU Cougars football team\nThe 1973 BYU Cougars football team represented Brigham Young University during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. The Cougars were led by second-year head coach LaVell Edwards and played their home games at Cougar Stadium in Provo, Utah. The team competed as a member of the Western Athletic Conference, finishing tied for fourth with a conference record of 3\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095333-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 BYU Cougars football team, Game summaries, Utah\nThe first half was played in a blinding snowstorm. Gary Sheide tied the WAC single-season touchdown record of 21 in the third quarter shared by Virgil Carter (1966) and Danny White (1972). It was the most points BYU had scored against Utah to date.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095334-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Bahraini general election\nGeneral elections were held in Bahrain for the first time on 12 December 1973. 30 seats out of the 44-seated unicameral National Assembly were contested, the other 14 were ex officio. Of the 24,883 registered voters, 19,509 cast a ballot, giving a voter turnout of 78.4%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095334-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Bahraini general election\nTwo distinct political blocs amongst the elected members; the \"People's Bloc\" consisted of eight Shia and Sunni members elected from urban areas and associated with left-wing and nationalist organizations, including the Popular Front for the Liberation of Bahrain, the National Liberation Front \u2013 Bahrain or the Baathist movement. The 'Religious Bloc' was made up of six Shia members mostly from rural constituencies. The remaining members were independents with shifting positions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095334-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Bahraini general election, Electoral system\nThe elections were held under the 1973 constitution. The 44-seat National Assembly had thirty members elected by a franchise restricted to male citizens, with an additional 14 ministers of the royally-appointed government becoming ex officio members.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095334-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Bahraini general election, Aftermath\nIn 1975 the Assembly was dissolved by the then ruler Sheikh Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa because it refused to pass the government sponsored State Security Law of 1974. Isa subsequently refused to allow the Assembly to meet again or hold elections during his lifetime. The next parliamentary elections were held in 2002 after a gap of 27 years. During that period, Bahrain was run by the royally-appointed government under emergency laws.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095335-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Balcatta state by-election\nA by-election for the seat of Balcatta in the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia was held on 28 July 1973. It was triggered by the resignation of Herb Graham, the deputy premier in the Labor government of John Tonkin, on 30 May 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095335-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Balcatta state by-election\nLike the earlier 1971 Ascot by-election, the Balcatta by-election was of great importance to the Labor Party, as a loss would have seen it reduced to minority government. The party retained the seat despite a 16.5-point negative swing, with Brian Burke (a future premier) outpolling the Liberal candidate, Neil Beck, by only 30 votes on the two-party-preferred count. Burke had been behind Beck on first preferences, but passed him after the preferences of the Australia Party candidate were distributed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095335-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Balcatta state by-election, Background\nHerb Graham had held Balcatta for the Labor Party since the seat's re-creation at the 1962 state election, and had served in parliament since 1943. He was made deputy premier under John Tonkin following Labor's victory at the 1971 election, but the pair had frequent differences of opinion. Graham resigned from parliament on 30 May 1973 and was instead appointed chairman of the Licensing Court of Western Australia. After his resignation, the writ for the by-election was issued on 1 June, with the close of nominations on 28 June. Polling day was on 28 July, with the writ returned on 17 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 642]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095335-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Balcatta state by-election, Aftermath\nThe Tonkin government was defeated at the 1974 state election, which also saw Balcatta abolished in a redistribution. Burke transferred to the seat of Balga, and remained in parliament until his retirement in 1988. He was elected leader of the Labor Party in 1981, and became premier at the 1983 state election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095336-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Balkans Cup\nThe 1973 Balkans Cup was an edition of the Balkans Cup, a football competition for representative clubs from the Balkan states. It was contested by 6 teams and Lokomotiv Sofia won the trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095337-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Ball State Cardinals football team\nThe 1973 Ball State Cardinals football team was an American football team that represented Ball State University in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. In its third season under head coach Dave McClain, the team compiled a 5\u20135\u20131 record (\u2013 against conference opponents). The team played its home games at Ball State Stadium in Muncie, Indiana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095338-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Ballon d'Or\nThe 1973 Ballon d'Or, given to the best football player in Europe as judged by a panel of sports journalists from UEFA member countries, was awarded to Dutch midfielder Johan Cruyff, for the second time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095339-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Ballymena Borough Council election\nElections to Ballymena Borough Council were held on 30 May 1973 on the same day as the other Northern Irish local government elections. The election used four district electoral areas to elect a total of 21 councillors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095339-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Ballymena Borough Council election, Districts results, Area A\n1973: 2 x UUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x Independent Unionist", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095339-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Ballymena Borough Council election, Districts results, Area B\n1973: 2 x UUP, 2 x Independent Unionist, 1 x DUP, 1 x Independent", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095339-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Ballymena Borough Council election, Districts results, Area C\n1973: 3 x UUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x Vanguard", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095339-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Ballymena Borough Council election, Districts results, Area D\n1973: 3 x UUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Independent", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095340-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Ballymoney District Council election\nElections to Ballymoney Borough Council were held on 30 May 1973 on the same day as the other Northern Irish local government elections. The election used three district electoral areas to elect a total of 16 councillors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095340-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Ballymoney District Council election, Districts results, Area A\n1973: 1 x DUP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Independent Unionist, 1 x Independent", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 68], "content_span": [69, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095340-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Ballymoney District Council election, Districts results, Area B\n1973: 3 x UUP, 2 x SDLP, 2 x Independent Unionist, 1 x Independent Nationalist", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 68], "content_span": [69, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095340-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Ballymoney District Council election, Districts results, Area C\n1973: 2 x Independent, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Independent Unionist", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 68], "content_span": [69, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095341-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Baltimore Colts season\nThe 1973 Baltimore Colts season was the 21st season for the team in the National Football League. Under first-year head coach Howard Schnellenberger, the Colts finished with a record of 4 wins and 10 losses, tied for fourth in the AFC East with the New York Jets. The Colts lost the tiebreaker to the New York based on head-to-head series (0\u20132).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095341-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Baltimore Colts season\nBaltimore was the only team to lose to the Houston Oilers, bowing 31\u201327 in week eight at home. The Oilers broke an 18-game losing streak with the victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095341-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Baltimore Colts season\nHired in February, Schnellenberger was previously the offensive coordinator with the Super Bowl champion Miami Dolphins, who went undefeated in 1972 under head coach Don Shula.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095341-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Baltimore Colts season\nThis was the first year since 1955 in which long-time quarterback Johnny Unitas was not on the Baltimore roster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095341-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Baltimore Colts season, Regular season\nBefore the season, the Colts traded long-time quarterback Johnny Unitas to the San Diego Chargers. Unitas had been splitting quarterback duties with Earl Morrall and Marty Domres over the past few seasons; he played one season for San Diego and retired.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095342-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Baltimore International\nThe 1973 Baltimore International was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Towson State College in Baltimore, Maryland in the United States that was part of the 1973 USLTA Indoor Circuit. It was the second edition of the event and was held from January 3 through January 7, 1973. First-seeded Jimmy Connors won the singles title and earned $3,500 first-prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095342-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Baltimore International, Finals, Doubles\nJimmy Connors / Clark Graebner defeated Sandy Mayer / Paul Gerken 3\u20136, 6\u20132, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 45], "content_span": [46, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095343-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Baltimore Orioles season\nThe 1973 Baltimore Orioles season was a season in American baseball. It involved the Orioles finishing first in the American League East with a record of 97 wins and 65 losses. They went on to lose to the Oakland Athletics in the 1973 American League Championship Series, three games to two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095343-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Baltimore Orioles season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095343-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Baltimore Orioles season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095343-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Baltimore Orioles season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095343-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Baltimore Orioles season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095343-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Baltimore Orioles season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095344-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Banbridge District Council election\nElections to Banbridge District Council were held on 30 May 1973 on the same day as the other Northern Irish local government elections. The election used two district electoral areas to elect a total of 15 councillors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095344-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Banbridge District Council election, Districts results, Area A\n1973: 4 x UUP, 2 x Independent Nationalist, 1 x Independent Unionist", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095345-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Bandy World Championship\nThe 1973 Bandy World Championship was the eighth Bandy World Championship and was contested between four men's bandy playing nations. The championship was played in Moscow and Krasnogorsk (Soviet Union) on February 17\u201324, 1973. The Soviet Union became champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095346-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Bangladeshi general election\nGeneral elections were held in newly independent Bangladesh on 7 March 1973. The result was a victory for the Bangladesh Awami League, who won 293 of the 300 seats, including eleven constituencies where they were elected unopposed without a vote. Voter turnout was 54.9%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095347-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Barnett Bank Classic\nThe 1973 Barnett Bank Classic was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Miami Jockey Club in Miami, Florida in the United States that was part of the 1973 Virginia Slims World Championship Series. It was the second edition of the tournament and was held from February 6 through February 11, 1973. Second-seeded Margaret Court won the singles title and earned $7,000 first-prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095347-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Barnett Bank Classic, Finals, Doubles\nFran\u00e7oise D\u00fcrr / Betty St\u00f6ve defeated Rosie Casals / Billie Jean King 4\u20136, 6\u20132, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 42], "content_span": [43, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095348-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council election\nThe first elections to the newly created Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council were held on 10 May 1973, with the entirety of the 60 seat council - three seats for each of the 20 wards - up for vote. The Local Government Act 1972 stipulated that the elected members were to shadow and eventually take over from the predecessor corporation on 1 April 1974. The order in which the councillors were elected dictated their term serving, with third-place candidates serving two years and up for re-election in 1975, second-placed three years expiring in 1976 and 1st-placed five years until 1978.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 643]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095348-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council election\nThe election resulted in Labour gaining control of the council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095349-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting\nElections to the Baseball Hall of Fame for 1973 followed the system in place since 1971, plus the special election of Roberto Clemente, who had died in a plane crash on New Year's Eve. The Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA) voted by mail to select from recent major league players and elected Warren Spahn. The Veterans Committee met in closed sessions to consider executives, managers, umpires, and earlier major league players. It selected three people: Billy Evans, George Kelly, and Mickey Welch. The Negro Leagues Committee also met in person and selected Monte Irvin. A formal induction ceremony was held in Cooperstown, New York, on August 6, 1973, with Commissioner of Baseball Bowie Kuhn presiding.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 758]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095349-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, BBWAA election\nThe BBWAA was authorized to elect players active in 1953 or later, but not after 1967; the ballot included candidates from the 1972 ballot who received at least 5% of the vote but were not elected, along with selected players, chosen by a screening committee, whose last appearance was in 1967. All 10-year members of the BBWAA were eligible to vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095349-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, BBWAA election\nVoters were instructed to cast votes for up to 10 candidates; any candidate receiving votes on at least 75% of the ballots would be honored with induction to the Hall. The ballot consisted of 44 players; a total of 380 ballots were cast, with 285 votes required for election. A total of 3,044 individual votes were cast, an average of 8.01 per ballot. Those candidates receiving less than 5% of the vote will not appear on future BBWAA ballots but may eventually be considered by the Veterans Committee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095349-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, BBWAA election\nCandidates who were eligible for the first time are indicated here with a dagger (\u2020). The one candidate who received at least 75% of the vote and was elected is indicated in bold italics; candidates who have since been elected in subsequent elections are indicated in italics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095349-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, BBWAA election\nJohnny Mize, Marty Marion, Dom DiMaggio, Bobo Newsom, Dutch Leonard and Harry Brecheen were on the ballot for the final time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095349-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, BBWAA election\nThe newly-eligible players included 24 All-Stars, 16 of whom were not included on the ballot, representing a total of 95 All-Star selections. Among the new candidates were 17-time All-Star Warren Spahn, 10-time All-Star Whitey Ford, 9-time All-Star Smoky Burgess, 8-time All-Star Dick Groat and Bill Skowron, 7-time All-Star Robin Roberts and 5-time All-Star Earl Battey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095349-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, BBWAA election\nPlayers eligible for the first time who were not included on the ballot were: Joey Amalfitano, Earl Battey, Jackie Brandt, Eddie Bressoud, Bob Buhl, Don Demeter, Rub\u00e9n G\u00f3mez, Jim King, Johnny Klippstein, Jim Landis, Barry Latman, Charley Lau, Bob Lillis, Jerry Lumpe, Billy O'Dell, Jim O'Toole, Jim Owens, Jimmy Piersall, Andre Rodgers, Johnny Romano, Jack Sanford, Bob Shaw, Bill Skowron, Ralph Terry and Hal Woodeshick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095349-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, BBWAA election\nOn March 20, the BBWAA held a special election for Roberto Clemente, who had died in a plane crash on December 31, 1972. Clemente was elected after receiving 393 votes out of 420 ballots cast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095349-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, J. G. Taylor Spink Award\nDan Daniel (1890\u20131981), Fred Lieb (1888\u20131980) and J. Roy Stockton (1892\u20131972) received the J. G. Taylor Spink Award honoring baseball writers. The awards were voted at the December 1972 meeting of the BBWAA, and included in the summer 1973 ceremonies. Daniel and Lieb, the first living recipients of the award, accepted in person.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 62], "content_span": [63, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095350-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Basildon District Council election\nThe 1973 Basildon Borough Council election were the first elections to the newly created Basildon District Council took place on 7 June 1973 . This was on the same day as other local elections. The Local Government Act 1972 stipulated that the elected members were to shadow and eventually take over from the predecessor corporation on 1 April 1974. The election resulted in Labour gaining control of the council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095351-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Bassetlaw District Council election\nThe 1973 Bassetlaw District Council election took place on 7 June 1973, to elect all 51 members of Bassetlaw District Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections. The election resulted in the Labour Party winning a majority of seats on the council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095351-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Bassetlaw District Council election\nThis was the first election to elect members of the new district council for Bassetlaw following its creation by the Local Government Act 1972. The council acted as a shadow authority until 1 April 1974, when it gained control over local government functions from its predecessor authorities; the East Retford Rural District, the Municipal Borough of East Retford, the Municipal Borough of Worksop and the Worksop Rural District councils.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095352-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Bath City Council election\nThe 1973 Bath City Council election was held on Thursday 10 May 1973 to elect councillors to the new Bath City Council in England. It took place on the same day as other district council elections in the United Kingdom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095352-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Bath City Council election\nThese were the first elections to the new district council, which would come into effect on 1 April 1974. Future elections would take place every three years, with the next election scheduled for 6 May 1976.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095352-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Bath City Council election\nThe 1973 election saw no party take overall control of the council, with the Conservatives being the largest party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095353-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Baylor Bears football team\nThe 1973 Baylor Bears football team represented the Baylor University in the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. The Bears finished in eighth place in the Southwestern Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095354-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Bedford District Council election\nThe 1973 Bedford District Council election took place on 10 May 1973 to elect members of Bedford District Council in England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095354-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Bedford District Council election, Overall Results\nA total of 32,885 valid votes were cast. The turnout was 37.8%", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095355-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Belfast City Council election\nElections to Belfast City Council were held on 30 May 1973 on the same day as the other Northern Irish local government elections. The election used eight district electoral areas to elect a total of 51 councillors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095355-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Belfast City Council election\nThe elections were the first following the reorganisation of local government in Northern Ireland, brought about by the Local Government (Boundaries) Act (Northern Ireland) 1971 & Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972, which replaced the previous FPTP ward system with a new system of proportional representation using multi-member district electoral areas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095355-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Belfast City Council election\nThe Ulster Unionist Party maintained its position as the largest party, winning just short of a majority, and William Christie continued as Lord Mayor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095355-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Belfast City Council election, Districts results, Area A\n1973: 4 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Vanguard, 1 x NILP", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 61], "content_span": [62, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095355-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Belfast City Council election, Districts results, Area B\n1973: 5 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x United Loyalist", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 61], "content_span": [62, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095355-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Belfast City Council election, Districts results, Area D\n1973: 4 x SDLP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Republican Clubs", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 61], "content_span": [62, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095355-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Belfast City Council election, Districts results, Area E\n1973: 1 x UUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x NILP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x United Loyalist, 1 x Independent Unionist", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 61], "content_span": [62, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095355-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Belfast City Council election, Districts results, Area F\n1973: 3 x UUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x DUP, 1 x Republican Clubs", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 61], "content_span": [62, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095355-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Belfast City Council election, Districts results, Area G\n1973: 3 x UUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Independent Unionist", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 61], "content_span": [62, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095355-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Belfast City Council election, Districts results, Area H\n1973: 5 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x SDLP", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 61], "content_span": [62, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095356-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Belgian Grand Prix\nThe 1973 Belgian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Zolder on 20 May 1973. It was race 5 of 15 in both the 1973 World Championship of Drivers and the 1973 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers. The race was won by British driver Jackie Stewart driving a Tyrrell 006.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095356-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Belgian Grand Prix\nThe entire Zolder track had to be resurfaced a week before the actual Grand Prix after a few drivers such as Jackie Stewart, Emerson Fittipaldi and Fran\u00e7ois Cevert walked around the track to inspect it. They found that the track started to break up as a result of a previous race, and the track owners immediately decided to resurface the track, only a week before the Grand Prix. Cevert, Fittipaldi and Stewart refused to drive on the track because of the danger, and Cevert responded to the FIA that they would attempt to cancel the race if the owners did not do a good enough job of fixing the track.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 627]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095356-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Belgian Grand Prix\nFuture world champion Niki Lauda took his first ever career points here, by finishing in fifth place in his BRM.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095356-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Belgian Grand Prix\nThis race saw the end of teams' numbers changing from race to race - the numbers teams raced with at Zolder lasted until the end of the season. For 1974, the finishing positions in the Constructors' Championship were used to allocate the numbers, after which teams did not change numbers unless they won the Drivers' Championship (or signed the current World Champion).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095357-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Belmont Stakes\nThe 1973 Belmont Stakes was the 105th running of the Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York, held on June 9, 1973. Facing a field of five horses, Secretariat won by 31 lengths, the largest margin of victory in Belmont history, in front of a crowd of 69,138 spectators. His winning time of 2 minutes and 24 seconds still stands as the American record for a mile and a half on dirt. The event was televised and broadcast over the radio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095357-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Belmont Stakes\nSecretariat was widely viewed as the favorite to win by most sportswriters and people; however, the added distance and the possibility of running too slow for a distance or running too fast too soon could potentially cause him to lose. Out of the starting gate, Secretariat and Sham traded the lead. Around the three-quarters mile marker Sham began to fade and Secretariat began to extend an advantage. Twice a Prince and My Gallant overtook Sham to take second and third, respectively. Sham finished last, behind Pvt. Smiles, who was in last before Sham slowed severely.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095357-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Belmont Stakes\nThe victory in the Belmont, when combined with Secretariat's previous victories in the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes, meant he completed the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing. This was significant, as he was the ninth horse to complete the feat and broke a 25-year drought where no horse had completed the achievement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095357-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Belmont Stakes, Pre-race coverage\nSecretariat, Sham, Pvt. Smiles, and My Gallant were the first four horses to be entered into the Belmont Stakes. Secretariat, winner of both the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes, was the odds on favorite to win the event. The added distance of the Belmont when compared to the Derby and Preakness was found to be one potential reason for Secretariat to lose the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095357-0003-0001", "contents": "1973 Belmont Stakes, Pre-race coverage\nSteve Cady of The New York Times wrote that Secretariat could be defeated if the pace of the race went too fast or was too slow for too long, in both of which scenarios he felt Sham would win. Sham received significant attention as well and was thought to be the second best horse, along with having the potential of becoming the first horse to be runner-up in all the Triple Crown races. My Gallant was considered the best of the rest, especially as he was the progeny of Gallant Man, who set the Belmont Stakes course record of 2:26+3\u20445 in the 1957 edition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095357-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Belmont Stakes, Pre-race coverage\nKnightly Dawn was entered into the race on June 6 and was thought to bring early speed to the race and alter the way it would be run. Before Knightly Dawn's entry, Secretariat was speculated to lead from the race's start. With the presence of Knightly Dawn, William Boniface of The Baltimore Sun believed that Secretariat would have to run faster earlier on, thus making the final half-mile more unpredictable. Pancho Martin, the trainer of Knightly Dawn, said he would only run the horse if it rained as Knightly Dawn's only previous success had been in the Jersey Derby on a sloppy track. However, Knightly Dawn was scratched prior to race day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 685]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095357-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Belmont Stakes, Pre-race coverage\nThere was much speculation going into the Stakes over Secretariat's bid for the Triple Crown. Since 1948, when Citation achieved the feat, there had been six horses that had won both the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes before failing in the Belmont Stakes. When comparing Secretariat to those six horses' health and fitness before the Belmont Stakes, writer Boniface felt Secretariat was in the best shape, almost as good as when he entered the Kentucky Derby weeks prior. Just days before the Belmont, Secretariat ran five furlongs in just under a minute in a morning workout. Following that, Secretariat's jockey Ron Turcotte told reporters that Secretariat was ready for a top charge on Saturday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 746]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095357-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Belmont Stakes, Event details\nPost time for the race was 5:38 PM EDT. It was televised by CBS, and aired on CBS Radio. All jockeys competing were 126 pounds (57\u00a0kg). The weather during the race was clear and the course conditions were fast. The scratch of Knightly Dawn before the race was held reduced the purse to $150,200, which was awarded to the first through fourth-place finishers in the sums of $90,120, $33,044, $18,024, and $9,012, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095357-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Belmont Stakes, Event details\nAttendance figures were speculated to be around 70,000 leading up to the race, which was accurate as the official attendance for the event was reported to be 69,138. This became the second-most attended Belmont Stakes at the time, after the 1971 race that had 82,694 in attendance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095357-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Belmont Stakes, Race summary\nOut of the starting gate, Secretariat and Sham raced evenly through the first turn. Through a half-mile, the two were even. Entering the backstretch and approaching three-quarters of a mile, Secretariat began to distance himself as Sham began to fade, ultimately finishing last. It was later discovered that Sham had suffered a hairline fracture of his right front cannon bone during the race, which ended his racing career.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095357-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Belmont Stakes, Race summary\nSecretariat continued to extend his advantage for the rest of the race, finishing 31 lengths over the second-place finisher, Twice a Prince. Twice a Prince started slowly and moved along the rail until reaching second position, passing Sham and outpacing My Gallant. Track announcer Chic Anderson described Secretariat's move from the backstretch with the famous call, \"Secretariat is widening now. He is moving like a tremendous machine!\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095357-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 Belmont Stakes, Race summary\nSecretariat set the Belmont Stakes track record at 2:24 and the record for largest margin of victory. Secretariat also broke the American record for a mile-and-a-half on a dirt track, breaking the previous record of 2:26+1\u20445, set by Going Abroad in 1964.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095357-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 Belmont Stakes, Results\nPost positions: 1. Secretariat, 2. Pvt. Smiles, 3. My Gallant, Knightly Dawn, 4. Twice a Prince, 5. Sham", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 28], "content_span": [29, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095357-0012-0000", "contents": "1973 Belmont Stakes, Analysis\nNeil Milbert of the Chicago Tribune wrote that Secretariat \"ran what may have been the greatest horse race in history.\" When asked about Secretariat's margin of victory, trainer Lucien Laurin stated: \"Naturally, not that big!\" He further commented on Sham's performance saying \"The horse we had to kill, we did.\" My Gallant's jockey \u00c1ngel Cordero Jr. said Secretariat was \"just like a car.\" Secretariat's jockey Ron Turcotte told the press that he saw the timer on the track hit 2:20 and he told himself \"Oh I can make it\" and continued to press Secretariat forward to break the course record. The UPI wrote that Secretariat's performance in the race put him in the ranks of the greatest race horses of all-time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 29], "content_span": [30, 742]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095357-0013-0000", "contents": "1973 Belmont Stakes, Analysis\nThat day at Belmont Park, $7.9 million was wagered on the nine races that were held during the day, which includes $2.2 million from off-track betting. A total of $5.6 million was bet through the mutuels that day. The Stakes itself had $519,689 bet on it. Bettors holding 5,617 winning parimutuel tickets on Secretariat never redeemed them, presumably keeping them as souvenirs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 29], "content_span": [30, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095357-0014-0000", "contents": "1973 Belmont Stakes, Aftermath\nThrough his combined victories at the Belmont Stakes, Preakness Stakes, and Kentucky Derby, Secretariat became the ninth horse to complete the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing, and the first horse since Citation in 1948, ending a 25-year period without a Triple Crown winner. Secretariat's times in all three Triple Crown races were course records and still stand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095357-0015-0000", "contents": "1973 Belmont Stakes, Aftermath\nFollowing the Belmont, Secretariat was allowed several weeks rest before entering a few more competitions and then starting his a career as a stud, where he had been syndicated for close to $6.08 million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095357-0016-0000", "contents": "1973 Belmont Stakes, Aftermath\nIn part due to accomplishing the Triple Crown and winning other races during the 1973 calendar season, Secretariat won Horse of the Year for the second consecutive year. In addition, he also won Eclipse Awards as the American Champion Three-Year-Old Male Horse and the American Champion Male Turf Horse. He was inducted to the Thoroughbred Horse Racing Hall of Fame in 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095357-0017-0000", "contents": "1973 Belmont Stakes, Aftermath\nAlthough Secretariat sired several successful racehorses, he ultimately was most influential through his daughters' offspring. His daughters produced several notable sires, and through them Secretariat appears in the pedigree of many modern champions. Secretariat died in 1989 due to laminitis, at age 19. He is recognized as the greatest horse in racing history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095357-0018-0000", "contents": "1973 Belmont Stakes, Aftermath\nIn 2013, the 40th anniversary of his Belmont win was commemorated by the New York Racing Association by placing a blue-and-white checkered pole (the colors of Meadow Stable) at the Belmont track, located 253\u00a0feet 2\u00a0inches (77.17\u00a0m) from the finish line to mark the 31-length margin of victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095358-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Benson & Hedges Cup\nThe 1973 Benson & Hedges Cup was the second competing of cricket\u2019s Benson & Hedges Cup. The competition was won by Kent County Cricket Club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095359-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Berlin Open\nThe 1973 Berlin Open was a men's tennis tournament staged in Berlin, West Germany. The men's event was part of the Grand Prix circuit and categorized in Group C. The tournament was played on outdoor clay courts and was held from 4 June until 11 June 1973. It was the inaugural edition of the tournament and Hans-J\u00fcrgen Pohmann won the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095359-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Berlin Open, Finals, Doubles\nJ\u00fcrgen Fassbender / Hans-J\u00fcrgen Pohmann defeated Ra\u00fal Ram\u00edrez / Joaquin Loyo-Mayo 4\u20136, 6\u20134, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 33], "content_span": [34, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095360-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Berwick-upon-Tweed by-election\nThe Berwick-upon-Tweed by-election, 1973 was a parliamentary by-election held on 8 November 1973 for the House of Commons constituency of Berwick-upon-Tweed. It was one of four UK by-elections held on the same day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095360-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Berwick-upon-Tweed by-election\nThe by-election took place during the 1970s Liberal Party revival. This was the fifth Liberal gain during the 1970-1974 Parliament. Although largely overshadowed by the Scottish National Party's spectacular victory in Glasgow Govan on the same day, it was the narrowest by-election result since the Carmarthen by-election in 1928, forty-five years earlier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095360-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Berwick-upon-Tweed by-election, Previous MP\nThe seat had become vacant when the constituency's Conservative Member of Parliament (MP), Antony Claud Frederick Lambton, resigned following a private scandal. To resign from the House of Commons he asked to be appointed to the sinecure office of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds, which appointment was made on 1 June 1973. The Stewardship is a notional office of profit under the Crown, appointment to which vacates an MPs seat in Parliament. Lambton, a Conservative, had been MP for the constituency since 1951.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 48], "content_span": [49, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095360-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Berwick-upon-Tweed by-election, Previous MP\nAntony Lambton (10 July 1922 \u2013 30 December 2006), was briefly the 6th Earl of Durham in 1970 but disclaimed that title to remain in the House of Commons. He was known before 1970 by the courtesy title of Viscount Lambton, a style he continued to claim after renouncing his peerage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 48], "content_span": [49, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095360-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Berwick-upon-Tweed by-election, Candidates\nFive candidates were nominated. The list below is set out in descending order of the number of votes received at the by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095360-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Berwick-upon-Tweed by-election, Candidates\n1. The Liberal Party candidate was Alan James Beith, born on 20 April 1943. He was a lecturer in politics and a local Councillor. Beith had contested the constituency in the 1970 general election, finishing third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095360-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Berwick-upon-Tweed by-election, Candidates\nBeith won the by-election and retained the seat until his retirement in 2015, and by the 2010 election was the longest serving Liberal Democrat MP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095360-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Berwick-upon-Tweed by-election, Candidates\nBeith was the Liberal Party Chief Whip 1977-1985 and Deputy Leader 1985-1988. Following the formation of the (Social and) Liberal Democrats in 1988, he contested the party leadership. Beith subsequently became Deputy Leader of the Parliamentary Party, a post he held from 1992 until 2003.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095360-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Berwick-upon-Tweed by-election, Candidates\n2. The Conservative candidate was J.D.M. Hardie. He had previously contested the Scottish seats of West Stirlingshire in 1966 and Berwickshire and East Lothian in 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095360-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Berwick-upon-Tweed by-election, Candidates\nAfter losing the by-election, Hardie again contested the seat in the February 1974 general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095360-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 Berwick-upon-Tweed by-election, Candidates\n3. The Labour Party was represented by Dr Gordon Johnston Adam, a mining engineer (born 28 March 1934). At the 1966 general election, Adam was the Labour Party candidate for the Tynemouth constituency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095360-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 Berwick-upon-Tweed by-election, Candidates\nIn August 1973, he was chosen to fight the byelection in Berwick-upon-Tweed, and decided to focus on the issues of housing and prices. The Times Diary noted that Labour had drafted 13 professionals in to lead their campaign but described Adam as \"a charm-free technocrat\". Adam saw Labour overtaken by the Liberal Party who narrowly won the seat; he took comfort that the Labour vote had held firm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095360-0012-0000", "contents": "1973 Berwick-upon-Tweed by-election, Candidates\nAdam again contested the constituency in the February 1974 general election. He was a member of the European Parliament from 1979 until he retired in 2004 (apart from six months in 1999).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095360-0013-0000", "contents": "1973 Berwick-upon-Tweed by-election, Candidates\n4. T.G. Symonds was an Independent candidate. Tim Symonds then joined the Liberal Party and became the Liberal Parliamentary candidate in Newcastle East in the late-1974 general election. In 1980 he co-founded with Lesley Abdela the all-Party 300 Group for Women in Politics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095360-0014-0000", "contents": "1973 Berwick-upon-Tweed by-election, Candidates\n5. Robert Goodall was an Independent candidate. He had previously contested West Derbyshire in 1944, 1945 and 1967, and the 1971 Macclesfield by-election, finishing bottom of the poll each time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095361-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Big League World Series\nThe 1973 Big League World Series took place from August 14\u201318 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States. Lincolnwood, Illinois defeated Orange County, California twice in the championship game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095362-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Big Ten Conference football season\nThe 1973 Big Ten Conference football season was the 78th season of college football played by the member schools of the Big Ten Conference and was a part of the 1973 NCAA Division I football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095362-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Big Ten Conference football season\nThe 1973 Ohio State Buckeyes football team, under head coach Woody Hayes, and the 1973 Michigan Wolverines football team, under head coach Bo Schembechler, compiled identical 10\u20130\u20131 records and tied for the Big Ten championship. Ohio State was ranked No. 2 in the final AP Poll, and Michigan was ranked No. 6. Ohio State led the conference in both scoring offense (37.5 points per game) and scoring defense (5.8 points allowed per game).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095362-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Big Ten Conference football season\nThe regular season ended with a 10\u201310 tie between Michigan and Ohio State. When the game ended in a tie, the Big Ten athletic directors voted, 6\u20134, to send Ohio State to the Rose Bowl. Michigan athletic officials and fans were outraged, with even the Vice President of the United States, Gerald Ford, speaking out against the decision. Ohio State defeated USC, 42\u201321, in the 1974 Rose Bowl. Two selectors, the National Championship Foundation and the Poling System, recognize Michigan as a co-national champion for the 1973 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095362-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Big Ten Conference football season\nThe Big Ten statistical leaders in 1973 included Ohio State running back Archie Griffin with 1,577 rushing yards. Griffin also won the Chicago Tribune Silver Football as the Big Ten's most valuable player. Four Big Ten players were recognized as consensus first-team All-Americans: Randy Gradishar and John Hicks of Ohio State and Dave Gallagher and Dave Brown of Michigan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095362-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Results and team statistics\nKeyAP final = Team's rank in the final AP Poll of the 1973 seasonAP high = Team's highest rank in the AP Poll throughout the 1973 seasonPPG = Average of points scored per game; conference leader's average displayed in boldPAG = Average of points allowed per game; conference leader's average displayed in boldMVP = Most valuable player as voted by players on each team as part of the voting process to determine the winner of the Chicago Tribune Silver Football trophy; trophy winner in bold", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 85], "content_span": [86, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095362-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Pre-season\nFour Big Ten teams changed head coaches between the 1972 and 1973 seasons, as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 68], "content_span": [69, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095362-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Regular season, September 15\nOn September 15, 1973, the Big Ten football teams opened the season with five conference games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 86], "content_span": [87, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095362-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Regular season, September 22\nOn September 22, 1973, the Big Ten teams played nine non-conference games, resulting in four wins and five losses. Ohio State had a bye week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 86], "content_span": [87, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095362-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Regular season, September 29\nOn September 29, 1973, the Big Ten teams played 10 non-conference games, resulting in three wins and seven losses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 86], "content_span": [87, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095362-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Regular season, October 6\nOn October 6, 1973, the Big Ten teams played 10 non-conference games, resulting in five wins and five losses. After concluding three weeks of non-conference play, the Big Ten teams had compiled a 12\u201317 non-conference record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 83], "content_span": [84, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095362-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Regular season, October 13\nOn October 13, 1973, the Big Ten teams played five conference games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 84], "content_span": [85, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095362-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Regular season, October 20\nOn October 20, 1973, the Big Ten teams played five conference games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 84], "content_span": [85, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095362-0012-0000", "contents": "1973 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Regular season, October 27\nOn October 27, 1973, the Big Ten teams played five conference games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 84], "content_span": [85, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095362-0013-0000", "contents": "1973 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Regular season, November 3\nOn November 3, 1973, the Big Ten teams played five conference games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 84], "content_span": [85, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095362-0014-0000", "contents": "1973 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Regular season, November 10\nOn November 10, 1973, the Big Ten teams played five conference games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 85], "content_span": [86, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095362-0015-0000", "contents": "1973 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Regular season, November 17\nOn November 17, 1973, the Big Ten teams played five conference games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 85], "content_span": [86, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095362-0016-0000", "contents": "1973 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Regular season, November 24\nOn November 24, 1973, the Big Ten teams played five conference games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 85], "content_span": [86, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095362-0017-0000", "contents": "1973 Big Ten Conference football season, Season overview, Bowl games\nOn January 1, 1974, Ohio State (ranked No. 4 in the AP Poll) defeated USC (ranked No. 7), 42\u201321. Pete Johnson scored three touchdowns, and Archie Griffin capped the scoring with a 47-yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 68], "content_span": [69, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095362-0018-0000", "contents": "1973 Big Ten Conference football season, Statistical leaders, Passing yards\n1. Mitch Anderson, Northwestern (1,224)2. Gregg Bohlig, Wisconsin (1,211)3. Jeff Hollenbach, Illinois (916)4. Willie Jones, Indiana (881)5. Bo Bobrowski, Purdue (849)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 75], "content_span": [76, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095362-0019-0000", "contents": "1973 Big Ten Conference football season, Statistical leaders, Rushing yards\n1. Archie Griffin, Ohio State (1,577)2. Billy Marek, Wisconsin (1,207)3. Stan Key, Northwestern (894)4. Rick Upchurch, Minnesota (841)5. Ed Shuttlesworth, Michigan (745)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 75], "content_span": [76, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095362-0020-0000", "contents": "1973 Big Ten Conference football season, Statistical leaders, Receiving yards\n1. Trent Smock, Indiana (505)2. Steve Craig, Northwestern (479)3. Garvin Roberson, Illinois (416)3. Mike Flanagan, Indiana (416)5. Brian Rollins, Iowa (408)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 77], "content_span": [78, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095362-0021-0000", "contents": "1973 Big Ten Conference football season, Statistical leaders, Total offense\n1. Bo Bobrowski, Purdue (274)2. Mitch Anderson, Northwestern (253)3. Archie Griffin, Ohio State (247)4. Billy Marek, Wisconsin (241)5. Jeff Hollenbach, Illinois (233)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 75], "content_span": [76, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095362-0022-0000", "contents": "1973 Big Ten Conference football season, Statistical leaders, Passing efficiency rating\n1. Gregg Bohlig, Wisconsin (112.9)2. Mitch Anderson, Northwestern (109.3)3. Jeff Hollenbach, Illinois (79.5)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 87], "content_span": [88, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095362-0023-0000", "contents": "1973 Big Ten Conference football season, Statistical leaders, Rushing yards per attempts\n1. Archie Griffin, Ohio State (6.4)2. Rick Upchurch, Minnesota (6.0)3. Chuck Heater, Michigan (5.8)4. Cornelius Greene, Ohio State (5.7)5. Ken Starch, Wisconsin (5.4)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 88], "content_span": [89, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095362-0024-0000", "contents": "1973 Big Ten Conference football season, Statistical leaders, Yards per reception\n1. Garvin Roberson, Illinois (16.6)2. Steve Craig, Northwestern (16.0)3. Trent Smock, Indiana (14.0)4. Mike Flanagan, Indiana (12.6)5. Brian Rollins, Iowa (12.4)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 81], "content_span": [82, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095362-0025-0000", "contents": "1973 Big Ten Conference football season, Statistical leaders, Points scored\n1. Billy Marek, Wisconsin (84)1. Bruce Elia, Ohio State (84)3. Cornelius Greene, Ohio State (72)4. Rick Upchurch, Minnesota (54)4. Ed Shuttlesworth, Michigan (54)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 75], "content_span": [76, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095362-0026-0000", "contents": "1973 Big Ten Conference football season, Awards and honors, All-Big Ten honors\nThe following players were picked by the Associated Press (AP) and/or the United Press International (UPI) as first-team players on the 1973 All-Big Ten Conference football team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 78], "content_span": [79, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095362-0027-0000", "contents": "1973 Big Ten Conference football season, Awards and honors, All-American honors\nAt the end of the 1973 season, Big Ten players secured four of the consensus first-team picks for the 1973 College Football All-America Team. The Big Ten's consensus All-Americans were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 79], "content_span": [80, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095362-0028-0000", "contents": "1973 Big Ten Conference football season, Awards and honors, All-American honors\nOther Big Ten players who were named first-team All-Americans by at least one selector were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 79], "content_span": [80, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095362-0029-0000", "contents": "1973 Big Ten Conference football season, Awards and honors, Other awards\nThree Ohio State players finished among the top six in the voting for the 1973 Heisman Trophy: John Hicks (second); Archie Griffin (fifth); and Randy Gradishar (sixth).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 72], "content_span": [73, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095362-0030-0000", "contents": "1973 Big Ten Conference football season, 1974 NFL Draft\nThe 1974 NFL Draft was held in New York on January 29\u201330, 1974. The following players were among the first 100 picks:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 55], "content_span": [56, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095363-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Birthday Honours\nThe Queen's Birthday Honours 1973 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 published on 2 June 1973 for the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Mauritius, and Fiji.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095363-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Birthday Honours\nThe 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.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095364-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Birthday Honours (New Zealand)\nThe 1973 Queen's Birthday Honours in New Zealand, celebrating the official birthday of Elizabeth II, were appointments made by the Queen on the advice of the New Zealand government to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by New Zealanders. They were announced on 2 June 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095364-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Birthday Honours (New Zealand)\nThe recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095365-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Blue Swords\nMedals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles and pair skating.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095366-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Boise State Broncos football team\nThe 1973 Boise State Broncos football team represented Boise State College during the 1973 NCAA Division II football season, the sixth season of Bronco football (at the four-year level) and the first in the newly reorganized Division II. The Broncos were in their fourth year as members of the Big Sky Conference (and NCAA) and played their home games on campus at Bronco Stadium in Boise, Idaho.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095366-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Boise State Broncos football team\nLed by sixth-year head coach Tony Knap, the Broncos were 9\u20132 in the regular season and undefeated in conference (6\u20130) to win their first Big Sky title. Invited to the inaugural eight-team Division II playoffs, BSC hosted a 53\u201310 quarterfinal win over South Dakota. In the semifinals, the Broncos lost 38\u201334 to Louisiana Tech in the Pioneer Bowl in Texas, giving up a touchdown in the final seconds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095366-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Boise State Broncos football team, NFL Draft\nThree Broncos were selected in the 1974 NFL Draft, which lasted seventeen rounds (442 selections).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095367-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Bolivarian Games\nThe VII Bolivarian Games (Spanish: Juegos Bolivarianos) were a multi-sport event held between February 17 - March 3, 1973, at the Estadio Revoluci\u00f3n in Panama City, Panama. The Games were organized by the Bolivarian Sports Organization (ODEBO). Ecuador was the only eligible country not to send a delegation because of \"internal problems\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095367-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Bolivarian Games\nThe Games were officially opened by Panamanian president Demetrio Basilio Lakas. Torch lighter was long distance runner Faustino L\u00f3pez, who won the gold medal in the 5000 metres event at the 1951 Bolivarian Games. The athlete's oath was sworn by gymnast Xenia Moreno.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095367-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Bolivarian Games\nA detailed history of the early editions of the Bolivarian Games between 1938 and 1989 was published in a book written (in Spanish) by Jos\u00e9 Gamarra Zorrilla, former president of the Bolivian Olympic Committee, and first president (1976-1982) of ODESUR.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095367-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Bolivarian Games, Participation\nAbout 1200 Athletes from 5 countries were reported to participate:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095367-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Bolivarian Games, Medal count\nThe medal count for these Games is tabulated below. A slightly different number of medals was published elsewhere. This table is sorted by the number of gold medals earned by each country. The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next, and then the number of bronze medals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 34], "content_span": [35, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095368-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council election\nThe first elections to Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council were held on Thursday, 10 May 1973, with the entirety of the 69 seat council - three seats for each of the 23 wards - up for vote. It was the first council election as the newly formed metropolitan borough under a new constitution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095368-0000-0001", "contents": "1973 Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council election\nThe Local Government Act 1972 stipulated that the elected members were to shadow and eventually take over from the County Borough of Bolton, the Municipal Borough of Farnworth, the Urban Districts of Blackrod, Horwich, Kearsley, Little Lever, and Westhoughton, and the southern part of Turton Urban District on 1 April 1974. The order in which the councillors were elected dictated their term serving, with third-place candidates serving two years and up for re-election in 1975, second-placed three years expiring in 1976 and 1st-placed five years until 1978.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095368-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council election\nThe Conservative Party took control of the new Council by a majority of 1. The Leader of the Council was Councillor John Hanscomb, who held this position until Labour took control in 1980.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095369-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Boston College Eagles football team\nThe 1973 Boston College Eagles football team represented Boston College during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. The Eagles were led by sixth-year head coach Joe Yukica and played their home games at Alumni Stadium in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Boston College finished with a record of 7\u20134 but were not invited to a bowl game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095370-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Boston Red Sox season\nThe 1973 Boston Red Sox season was the 73rd season in the franchise's Major League Baseball history. The Red Sox finished second in the American League East with a record of 89 wins and 73 losses, eight games behind the Baltimore Orioles. The team was managed by Eddie Kasko until he was reassigned at the end of September; third-base coach Eddie Popowski managed the team in their final contest of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095370-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Boston Red Sox season, Player statistics, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 76], "content_span": [77, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095370-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Boston Red Sox season, Player statistics, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 69], "content_span": [70, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095370-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Boston Red Sox season, Player statistics, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 74], "content_span": [75, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095370-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Boston Red Sox season, Player statistics, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 71], "content_span": [72, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095370-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Boston Red Sox season, Player statistics, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 72], "content_span": [73, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095371-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Boston University Terriers football team\nThe 1973 Boston University Terriers football team was an American football team that represented Boston University as a member of the Yankee Conference during the 1973 NCAA Division II football season. In their first season under head coach Paul Kemp, the Terriers compiled a 3\u20137 record (1\u20134 against conference opponents) and were outscored by a total of 170 to 95.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095371-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Boston University Terriers football team\nBoston University played its home games on Nickerson Field, which was part of the Case Sports Complex and was formerly known as Braves Field, the home of the Boston Braves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095372-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Boundary Treaty between Uruguay and Argentina\nThe Treaty between Uruguay and Argentina concerning the Rio de la Plata and the Corresponding Maritime Boundary was signed in Montevideo on 19 November 1973 by Dr. Juan Carlos Blanco Estrad\u00e9, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Uruguay and Mr. Alberto J. Vignes, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Worship of Argentina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095372-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Boundary Treaty between Uruguay and Argentina\nThe treaty provides the geographic coordinates for the boundary points in the Rio de la Plata, affords the status of Mart\u00edn Garc\u00eda Island and other islands in the Rio de la Plata, designates Isla Martin Garcia as the seat of an Administrative Commission for the Rio de la Plata (Spanish: Comisi\u00f3n Administradora del R\u00edo de la Plata, CARP), and regulates the adjacent maritime front.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095372-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Boundary Treaty between Uruguay and Argentina\nThere are two kinds of zones in the Rio de la Plata, the zones of exclusive jurisdiction and the zone of common jurisdiction. In zones considered to be of exclusive jurisdiction, each Party may exert its authority without interference from the other. In the common zones these jurisdictions may be exercised concurrently and by the CARP. The inner waters of both countries are drawn intentionally to let the navigable waterways within the common zones.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095372-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Boundary Treaty between Uruguay and Argentina\nThis combined definition of the boundary led to the Mart\u00edn Garc\u00eda canal dispute and the Uruguay River pulp mill dispute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095373-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Bowling Green Falcons football team\nThe 1973 Bowling Green Falcons football team was an American football team that represented Bowling Green University in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. In their sixth season under head coach Don Nehlen, the Falcons compiled a 7\u20133 record (2\u20133 against MAC opponents), finished in a tie for third place in the MAC, and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 266 to 209.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095373-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Bowling Green Falcons football team\nThe team's statistical leaders included Reid Lamport with 1,084 passing yards, Paul Miles with 1,030 rushing yards, and Roger Wallace with 587 receiving yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095374-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Brazilian Grand Prix\nThe 1973 Brazilian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Interlagos on February 11, 1973. It was race 2 of 15 in both the 1973 World Championship of Drivers and the 1973 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers. It was also the first ever world championship race to be held in Brazil. The race was won by home town hero Emerson Fittipaldi after starting from first row beside Ronnie Peterson, who claimed the first pole position in his Formula One career, both driving Lotus. Jackie Stewart finished in second position, driving a Tyrrell. Denny Hulme finished in third position, driving a McLaren.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 640]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095375-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Bristol City Council election\nThe 1973 Bristol City Council election took place on 7 June 1973 to elect members of Bristol City Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections. Voting took place across 28 wards, each electing 3 Councillors. Following the Local Government Act 1972, this was the first election to the new non-metropolitan district council for Bristol, which came into being on 1 April the following year. Labour took control of the Council after winning a comfortable majority of seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095375-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Bristol City Council election\nThe National Front stood in four wards in this election", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095376-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 British Grand Prix\nThe 1973 British Grand Prix (formally the John Player Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held at Silverstone on 14 July 1973. It was race 9 of 15 in both the 1973 World Championship of Drivers and the 1973 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095376-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 British Grand Prix\nThe race is known for the first lap pile-up which ultimately caused eleven cars to retire. The accident happened when Jody Scheckter, running fourth in his McLaren, spun across the track at Woodcote Corner at the end of the first lap, causing many other cars to collide and crash. The incident eliminated nine cars, including all three works Surtees cars, while Brabham driver Andrea de Adamich suffered a broken ankle that ended his F1 career. The race was stopped at the end of the second lap, before being restarted over the original 67-lap distance with 18 of the original 29 cars (David Purley and Graham McRae having also retired in separate incidents).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 683]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095376-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 British Grand Prix\nOn the first start, a swift start by Jackie Stewart brought him from fourth to first in less than half a lap. At Becketts Corner, Stewart out-braked race leader Ronnie Peterson and took the lead. However, the massive pile-up at the end of the first lap caused the race to be restarted and Stewart had to start from fourth again. This time it was Niki Lauda who had an excellent start and moved up behind Peterson into second, with Stewart third. Stewart passed Lauda on lap 2, and charged after Peterson. On lap 6, Stewart again tried to pass Peterson for the lead, but the Swedish driver shut the door; Stewart lost control of his Tyrrell and spun off into the thick grass. Although he was able to continue, Stewart ended up finishing 10th, one lap down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 779]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095376-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 British Grand Prix\nAnother notable drive came from James Hunt in his Hesketh Racing March, who ran fourth for most of the race and was part of a four-way battle for the lead between himself, Peterson, Denny Hulme and Peter Revson. American driver Revson took his first Grand Prix victory by 2.8 seconds from Peterson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095376-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 British Grand Prix\nThe pile-up was to be a factor in this being the last World Championship F1 race held on the original Silverstone layout: a chicane would be added at Woodcote shortly before the next British Grand Prix at Silverstone two years later. MotoGP, which would come to Silverstone from the Isle of Man in 1977, would use the original layout until 1986.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095376-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 British Grand Prix, Race, First start and multi-car pileup\nThe race started at 2.00pm local time, it featured the most cars to start a grand prix as it featured 28 cars in rows of three by two. Ronnie Peterson led away but a very quick start by Jackie Stewart brought him from fourth to second but passed Peterson to take the lead at Beckets. Carlos Reutemann was in third with Denny Hulme and Jody Scheckter behind him. As the exited Woodcote corner to complete the first lap, Stewart led Peterson and Reutemann but carnage was happening behind them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 63], "content_span": [64, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095376-0005-0001", "contents": "1973 British Grand Prix, Race, First start and multi-car pileup\nScheckter tried to pass Hulme on the outside Scheckter's car went wide and spun right across the track and it hit the retaining wall of the pits and bounced back into the middle of the track. Hulme escaped undamaged, Francois Cevert, James Hunt, Peter Revson and Clay Regazzoni also went by. The big one then happened as Scheckter's car ricocheted back from the pit wall, Revson struck Scheckter's rear wing and then all hell broke loose as the rest of the field crashed into the wrecks or dodged about to miss the wreckage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 63], "content_span": [64, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095376-0005-0002", "contents": "1973 British Grand Prix, Race, First start and multi-car pileup\nNine cars were involved in the resulting carnage, Andrea de Adamich had crashed headlong into the barriers on the outside of the track and he was trapped in the cockpit of his Brabham with a broken ankle. Apart from minor bruises and shakings no-one else was hurt but the Surtees cars of Mike Hailwood, Carlos Pace and Jochen Mass were smashed up. The Shadow's were also involved, Jackie Oliver's car was wrecked, George Follmer's car was ripped open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 63], "content_span": [64, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095376-0005-0003", "contents": "1973 British Grand Prix, Race, First start and multi-car pileup\nThe Embassy Hill-entered Shadow of Graham Hill was struck in the rear and a wishbone broken, but Hill drove it round back to the pits under its own power. The BRM of Jean-Pierre Beltoise and the works March of Roger Williamson were wrecked, as was the McLaren of Scheckter. The race organisation acted instantly and the race was red flagged indicating without argument or discussion that the race was stopped and would be started again later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 63], "content_span": [64, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095376-0005-0004", "contents": "1973 British Grand Prix, Race, First start and multi-car pileup\nMeanwhile, those ahead of the accident were still racing, until they ended the lap, when they all came to a rapid stop at the scene of the crash. It took 30 minutes to release de Adamich from the wreckage of the Brabham plus an hour to clear away the wrecked cars and the debris. The cars that escaped were wheeled back to the starting grid and Hill's Shadow was repaired in the pits, and Niki Lauda's BRM that had been in the pits all the time had a new drive-shaft fitted. Hunt's March needed a new airbox as his original one was damaged in the wreck and borrowed Mike Beuttler's airbox from his car.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 63], "content_span": [64, 666]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095376-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 British Grand Prix, Race, Second start\nDrivers were allowed to use spare cars but none were used, Lauda's BRM and Hill's Shadow having been repaired during the red flag period. Non -starters included de Adamich who had been taken to hospital, Scheckter who was barred by McLaren as several team bosses including John Surtees wanted to throw him out for causing the crash, Graham McRae's Iso-Marlboro which had a throttle issue and couldn't restart, and David Purley's March which had spun off before the big one and didn't restart.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095376-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 British Grand Prix, Race, Second start\nOther drivers who did not take the restart included Oliver, Follmer, Beltoise, Williamson, Purley, Pace, Hailwood, and Mass. It was 3.30 p.m. before the track was clear and there were nineteen starters ready for the restart over the original distance on 67 laps. At 3:35pm the depleted field moved up on to the starting grid. Everyone took up their original positions, leaving gaps for those who had been eliminated. This time it was Lauda who had an excellent start and moved up behind Peterson into second, with Stewart third. Stewart passed Lauda on lap 2 and charged after Peterson. On lap 6, Stewart again tried to pass Peterson for the lead, but the Swedish driver shut the door; Stewart lost control of his Tyrrell and spun off into the thick grass. Although he was able to continue, Stewart ended up finishing 10th, one lap down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 881]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095377-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 British Hard Court Championships\nThe 1973 British Hard Court Championships, also known by its sponsored name Rothmans British Hard Court Championships, was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at The West Hants Club in Bournemouth, England. The event was part of the Grand Prix circuit and the event was categorized as B class for the men and C class for the women. The tournament was held from 7 May through 12 May 1973. Adriano Panatta and Virginia Wade won the singles titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095377-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 British Hard Court Championships, Finals, Men's doubles\nJuan Gisbert / Ilie N\u0103stase defeated Adriano Panatta / Ion \u0162iriac 6\u20134, 8\u20136", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 60], "content_span": [61, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095377-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 British Hard Court Championships, Finals, Women's doubles\nPatricia Coleman / Wendy Turnbull defeated Evonne Goolagong / Janet Young 7\u20135, 7\u20135", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 62], "content_span": [63, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095377-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 British Hard Court Championships, Finals, Mixed doubles\nVirginia Wade / Frew McMillan defeated Bernard Mitton / Ilana Kloss 6\u20132, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 60], "content_span": [61, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095378-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 British League Division Two season\nThe 1973 British League Division Two season was the second tier of motorcycle speedway in Great Britain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095378-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 British League Division Two season, Summary\nThe 1973 season saw the league expanded to 18 teams with the addition of Chesterton Potters. The team had last raced during the 1963 Provincial Speedway League season under the name of the Stoke Potters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095378-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 British League Division Two season, Summary\nBoston Barracudas won their first title and went on to win the league and cup double. Boston had finished runner-up to Crewe Kings the previous season, with decent season averages recorded by five riders Arthur Price, Jim Ryman, Carl Glover, Russ Osborne and Ray Bales and with a largely unchanged team went one place better by sealing the league title. Boston won easily, 14 points clear of their nearest rival and four of the five riders improved their averages from 1972. Arthur Price also won the Riders' Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095378-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 British League Division Two season, British League Division Two Knockout Cup\nThe 1973 British League Division Two Knockout Cup was the sixth edition of the Knockout Cup for tier two teams. Boston Barracudas were the winners of the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 81], "content_span": [82, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095378-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 British League Division Two season, British League Division Two Knockout Cup, Final\nBoston were declared Knockout Cup Champions, winning on aggregate 89\u201366.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 88], "content_span": [89, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095379-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 British League season\nThe 1973 British League season was the 39th season of the top tier of speedway in the United Kingdom and the ninth season known as the British League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095379-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 British League season, Summary\nThe Reading Racers won their first title, ending the dominance of Belle Vue Aces who could only finish in sixth place. Swede Anders Michanek was in imperious form, going undefeated at Reading Stadium (which was in its final year as a venue). He finished with a 11.36 average ahead of the four time world champion Ivan Mauger on 11.29. In addition to Michanek the Reading team was boosted by high scoring from Norwegian Dag L\u00f6vaas and Australian Geoff Curtis. In a sensational finish to the 1973 Knockout Cup final Reading were beaten by Belle Vue in a run-off for the Cup after an aggregate draw over two legs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 646]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095379-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 British League season, Summary\nReading's success had a sour note after the season had finished when Geoff Curtis returned to Australia for the Australian season and was killed in a race at the Sydney Showground in December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095379-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 British League season, Final table\nM = Matches; W = Wins; D = Draws; L = Losses; Pts = Total Points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 39], "content_span": [40, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095379-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 British League season, Leading riders\nBoth Michanek and Mauger recorded perfect 12 point average scores at home for the season, meaning they were unbeaten by any opposing rider on their own track in League competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095379-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 British League season, British League Knockout Cup\nThe 1973 Speedway Star British League Knockout Cup was the 35th edition of the Knockout Cup for tier one teams. Belle Vue were the winners after Peter Collins of Belle Vue defeated Anders Michanek of Reading in a race-off because the tie had finished 78-78 on aggregate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 55], "content_span": [56, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095380-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 British Motor Cars Invitational\nThe British Motor Cars Invitational, also known as the 1973 BMC Invitational, was a women's tennis tournament that took place on indoor carpet courts at the Civic Auditorium in San Francisco in the United States. It was the third edition of the event and was held from January 16 through January 20, 1973. The singles final was watched by 5,3000 spectators who saw second-seeded Margaret Court win the title, earning $6,000 first-prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095380-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 British Motor Cars Invitational, Finals, Doubles\nMargaret Court / Lesley Hunt defeated Wendy Overton / Valerie Ziegenfuss 6\u20131, 7\u20135", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095381-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 British Motor Cars of Los Angeles\nThe 1973 British Motor Cars of Los Angeles was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at The Forum in Los Angeles, California in the United States that was part of the 1973 Virginia Slims World Championship Series. The event had previously been held in Long Beach. It was the third edition of the tournament and was held from January 23 through January 27, 1973. The final was watched by 2,693 spectators who saw first-seeded Margaret Court win the singles title and earn $6,000 first-prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095381-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 British Motor Cars of Los Angeles, Finals, Doubles\nRosemary Casals / Julie Heldman defeated Margaret Court / Lesley Hunt walkover", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095382-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 British National Track Championships\nThe 1973 British National Track Championships were a series of track cycling competitions held from 28 July - 4 August 1973 at the Leicester Velodrome.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095383-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 British Rowing Championships\nThe 1973 National Rowing Championships was the second edition of the National Championships, held from 21\u201322 July 1973 at the National Water Sports Centre in Holme Pierrepont, Nottingham.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095384-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 British Saloon Car Championship\nThe 1973 British Saloon Car Championship was the 16th season of the championship. Frank Gardner became the second driver to win three BTCC titles, driving a Chevrolet Camaro.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095384-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 British Saloon Car Championship, Calendar & Winners\nAll races were held in the United Kingdom. Overall winners in bold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 56], "content_span": [57, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095385-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Brown Bears football team\nThe 1973 Brown Bears football team was an American football team that represented Brown University during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. After seven years of last- or second-to-last-place finishes, Brown rose to fifth place in the Ivy League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095385-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Brown Bears football team\nIn their first season under head coach John Anderson, the Bears compiled a 4\u20133\u20131 record and outscored opponents 183 to 163. B. Ball was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095385-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Brown Bears football team\nThe Bears' 4\u20133 conference record placed fifth in the Ivy League standings, the team's best showing since 1964. They outscored Ivy opponents 163 to 143.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095385-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Brown Bears football team\nBrown played its home games at Brown Stadium in Providence, Rhode Island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095386-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Brownlow Medal\nThe 1973 Brownlow Medal was the 46th year the award was presented to the player adjudged the fairest and best player during the Victorian Football League (VFL) home and away season. Keith Greig of the North Melbourne Football Club won the medal by polling twenty-seven votes during the 1973 VFL season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095387-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Broxbourne Borough Council election\nThe Broxbourne Council election, 1973 was held to elect council members of the Broxbourne Borough Council, the local government authority of the borough of Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095387-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Broxbourne Borough Council election, Results summary\nThe first election for Broxbourne Borough Council took place on 7 June 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095387-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Broxbourne Borough Council election, Results summary\nBroxbourne Borough Council was created by the Local Government Act 1972 as a successor authority to:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095387-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Broxbourne Borough Council election, Results summary\nFrom the date of the election until 1 April 1974 Broxbourne Borough Council acted as a \"shadow authority\" to Cheshunt UDC and Hoddesdon UDC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095387-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Broxbourne Borough Council election, Results summary\nIn 3 wards (Cheshunt North, Hoddesdon Northern and Theobalds) 4 council seats were contested", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095387-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Broxbourne Borough Council election, Results summary\nIn the remaining 9 wards 3 council seats were contested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095387-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Broxbourne Borough Council election, Results summary\nThe political balance of the newly formed Borough Council was", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095388-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Buckeye Tennis Championships\nThe 1973 Buckeye Tennis Championships was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Buckeye Boys Ranch in Grove City, Columbus, Ohio in the United States that was part of Group C of the 1973 Grand Prix circuit. It was the fourth edition of the tournament and was held from July 30 through August 5, 1973. First-seeded Jimmy Connors won his second consecutive singles title at the event and earned $5,000 first-prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095388-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Buckeye Tennis Championships, Finals, Doubles\nGerald Battrick / Graham Stilwell defeated Colin Dibley / Charlie Pasarell 6\u20134, 7\u20136", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095389-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Bucknell Bison football team\nThe 1973 Bucknell Bison football team was an American football team that represented Bucknell University as an independent during the 1973 NCAA Division II football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095389-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Bucknell Bison football team\nIn their fifth year under head coach Fred Prender, the Bison compiled a 3\u20134\u20132 record. John Dailey and Carl Probst were the team captains.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095389-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Bucknell Bison football team\nBucknell played its home games at Memorial Stadium on the university campus in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095390-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Buffalo Bills season\nThe 1973 Buffalo Bills season was the 14th season for the team and their fourth season in the National Football League (NFL). The Bills finished in second place in the AFC East division and finished the 1973 NFL season with a record of 9 wins and 5 losses, the team's first winning record since 1966.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095390-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Buffalo Bills season\nHead coach Lou Saban began the second season of his second tenure with the Bills. Saban had previously led the team to the 1964 and 1965 AFL championships. It was the first season that the team played in Rich Stadium (now \"Highmark Stadium\") after thirteen years playing at War Memorial Stadium (\"The Rockpile\").", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095390-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Buffalo Bills season\nThe Bills were returning from 1\u201313 and 4\u20139\u20131 records in 1971 and 1972, respectively. Incumbent starting quarterback Dennis Shaw found himself in a battle with rookie Joe Ferguson for the starting job.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095390-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Buffalo Bills season\nThe season was defined by O. J. Simpson. The fifth-year running back became the first player in NFL history to rush for 2,000\u00a0yards in a season. Behind Simpson's record-setting season, the Bills set an NFL record for most team rushing yards in a 14-game season, with 3,088 and averaged 5.1 yards per carry, higher than every Super Bowl championship team in all of league history. Simpson was returning from his best professional season, in which he earned his first All-Pro recognition and first rushing title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095390-0003-0001", "contents": "1973 Buffalo Bills season\nIn addition to establishing a then-record for single-season rushing yardage, with 2,003, Simpson established the single-season record for rushing yards gained per game (143.1 yards per game on 23.7 rushes per game, an average of six yards per carry), which still stands. The explosive offense centered on O. J. Simpson was nicknamed the \"Electric Company\" for its ability to turn on \"The Juice\" (i.e. \"O. J.\" Simpson)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095390-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Buffalo Bills season, Electric Company Era Begins\nAlthough some describe the entire 1970s decade as the Electric Company era, the 1973 season marked a new era in Bills history and is regarded by many as the beginning of the Electric Company era of the mid-1970s. The team ushered in a new stadium, new uniforms and a transformed team built through the draft and a few key trades. With all the emphasis on rushing the team would only post two 100-yard receiving efforts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 54], "content_span": [55, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095390-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Buffalo Bills season, Electric Company Era Begins\nThe Bills started the season 4\u20131 and then lost four of their next five before winning their final 4 games. Rookie quarterback Joe Ferguson, who eventually would be the Bills starting quarterback for 12 seasons, started all 14 games at quarterback. Dennis Shaw who had been the starter the previous three seasons, saw action in four games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 54], "content_span": [55, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095390-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Buffalo Bills season, Simpson's Record-Breaking year\nRunning back O. J. Simpson broke the 2,000-yard barrier for rushing yards in a season, and was voted NFL Most Valuable Player. Simpson began and ended the fourteen-game season with bookend five-game streaks where he ran for at least 100 yards. 1973 was the fifth of nine consecutive seasons that Simpson led the team in rushing yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 57], "content_span": [58, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095390-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Buffalo Bills season, Simpson's Record-Breaking year\nIt was also the first time Simpson would lead the NFL in rushing touchdowns, first time he would lead the league in yards from scrimmage and the second time he would lead the league in rushing yards. (Although Simpson posted a career best 6.0\u00a0yards per carry in 1973, he was surpassed by Mercury Morris who posted a 6.4\u00a0yards per carry average for the 1973 Miami Dolphins. The only season that Simpson led the league in yards per carry was two years later when he averaged 5.5\u00a0yards per carry.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 57], "content_span": [58, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095390-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Buffalo Bills season, Simpson's Record-Breaking year\nAlthough Simpson's 2003\u00a0yard total has now been eclipsed by 5 other runners, as of 2010, his 143.1\u00a0yards per game remains an NFL single-season record due to being achieved in a fourteen-game season. (All subsequent 2,000-yard seasons took place in 16 games.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 57], "content_span": [58, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095390-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Buffalo Bills season, Offensive firepower\nThe \"Electric Company\" of Simpson, Jim Braxton, and rookie Paul Seymour and Joe DeLamielleure led a dramatic turnaround on the field. The \"Electric Company\" was the nickname of the offensive line (OG Reggie McKenzie, OT Dave Foley, Centers Mike Montler and Bruce Jarvis OG Joe DeLamielleure and OT Donnie Green) which \"turned on the Juice\" (i.e. O. J. Simpson). The offensive guards were a pair of young future All-Pro performers: Pro Football Hall of Famer DeLamielleure (drafted 26th overall in 1973) and College Football Hall of Famer McKenzie (drafted 27th overall in 1972).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 46], "content_span": [47, 625]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095390-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 Buffalo Bills season, Offensive firepower\nPaul Seymour, who would play his entire career with the Bills, became the team's starting tight end. Seymour had been an All-American tackle for Michigan after having played two season at tight end. Seymour went on to start at tight end for a total of five seasons. replacing former tight end Jan White.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 46], "content_span": [47, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095390-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 Buffalo Bills season, Offensive firepower\nRunning backs Braxton and Larry Watkins shared the fullback duties with each accumulating over 400\u00a0yards rushing. Braxton's 4.6\u00a0yards per carry were eighth-most in the NFL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 46], "content_span": [47, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095390-0012-0000", "contents": "1973 Buffalo Bills season, Offensive firepower\nWide receiver Bob Chandler led the team in receiving yards, the first of four years he would do so. During the season, Wallace Francis, who finished second in the league in kickoff return average, was the only player in the league to return two kickoffs for touchdowns. John Leypoldt's 70% field goal percentage ranked fifth in the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 46], "content_span": [47, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095390-0013-0000", "contents": "1973 Buffalo Bills season, Awards, Accolades and Legacy\nThe 1973 Bills had three participants in the 1974 Pro Bowl and two members of the All-Pro team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 55], "content_span": [56, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095390-0014-0000", "contents": "1973 Buffalo Bills season, Awards, Accolades and Legacy\n1973 was the second Pro Bowl and first All-Pro season for cornerback Robert James. Offensive tackle Foley was also voted to the Pro Bowl. Guard McKenzie's was voted to the All-Pro team. Simpson made this third Pro Bowl and second All-Pro team. Both Simpson and James were returning Pro Bowl selections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 55], "content_span": [56, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095390-0015-0000", "contents": "1973 Buffalo Bills season, Awards, Accolades and Legacy\nThe team was featured in the video game Madden NFL '96 as one of the game's \"classic\" teams, along with 1990\u20131993 Bills, who won four consecutive AFC Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 55], "content_span": [56, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095390-0016-0000", "contents": "1973 Buffalo Bills season, Offseason\nOn April 19, 1973, the Bills traded linebackers Edgar Chandler and Jeff Lyman and fullback Wayne Patrick to the New England Patriots for linebacker Jim Cheyunski and offensive linemen Halvor Hagen and Mike Montler. Although Patrick had been the Bills' Fullback, he lost the starting job to Jim Braxton in 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095390-0017-0000", "contents": "1973 Buffalo Bills season, Offseason\nThe Bills also acquired of the Miami Dolphins' top draft selection Mike Kadish in exchange for offensive lineman Irv Goode. The Bills traded defensive tackle Al Cowlings to Houston in exchange for defensive end Earl Edwards. Long-time Bills linebacker Mike Stratton, who had spent the last ten seasons with Buffalo, left the team to play his final season with the San Diego Chargers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095390-0018-0000", "contents": "1973 Buffalo Bills season, Offseason, NFL draft\nThe team drafted several players in the 1973 NFL Draft who contributed to the offense as starters during this record-setting season. Offensive linemen Paul Seymour and Joe DeLamielleure became cornerstones of the Bills' \"Electric Company\" offensive line. DeLamielleure was voted to five consecutive Pro Bowls for the Bills (1975\u20131979), to the NFL 1970s All-Decade Team, and to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2003.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 47], "content_span": [48, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095390-0019-0000", "contents": "1973 Buffalo Bills season, Offseason, NFL draft\nQuarterback Joe Ferguson played 164 games at quarterback in 12 seasons for the Bills, a franchise-record. Ferguson retired as the team's all-time leading passer, and his 27,590 passing yards are still second in franchise history behind Hall of Famer Jim Kelly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 47], "content_span": [48, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095390-0020-0000", "contents": "1973 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, O. J. Simpson\nO. J. Simpson had three 200-yard rushing games, six 150-yard rushing games and eleven 100-yard rushing games. He only had 30 rushes in a game twice all season, but totaled 2,003 yards due to a 6.0 yards-per-carry average. Over the course of the season Simpson also caught six pass receptions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 56], "content_span": [57, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095390-0021-0000", "contents": "1973 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1\nSimpson rushed for 250\u00a0yards on 29 carries, setting a new NFL single-game rushing record. He surpassed Willie Ellison's 247-yard performance in 1971. Although the Bills had gone 0\u20136 in their exhibition schedule, they started the season with a 31\u201313 victory in Chuck Fairbanks's debut as New England Patriots coach. Simpson scored on an 80-yard run in the first quarter and a 22-yard run in the third quarter. Backup back Larry Watkins also had a strong day with 105 rushing yards and two touchdowns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 65], "content_span": [66, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095390-0022-0000", "contents": "1973 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 2\nThe Bills surrendered an opening kickoff return touchdown, 3 quarterback sacks and 4 interceptions, despite 103\u00a0yards rushing by Simpson and 118\u00a0yards receiving by Hill. The Bills surrendered 27 consecutive points after Simpson tied the score 7\u20137 with a 6-yard second quarter run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 65], "content_span": [66, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095390-0023-0000", "contents": "1973 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 3\nThe Bills' Rich Stadium debut was a sellout of 80,200 with 2595 no-shows. Simpson rushed for 123\u00a0yards, giving him 476 in his first three games. The Bills scored on three Leypoldt field goals. He made a 42-yarder in the first quarter and added two more in the fourth quarter. The Jets almost became the Bills' first shutout victim since 1965, but Al Woodall (playing in place of an injured Joe Namath) hit Jerome Barkum for 34\u00a0yards with two seconds left.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 65], "content_span": [66, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095390-0024-0000", "contents": "1973 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 4\nThe Bills opted for a 47-yard Leypoldt field goal with four minutes remaining after driving 42\u00a0yards to Eagles' 40-yard-line. The score held up in the final minutes. On the day, Simpson's 171-yard rushing performance offset a pair of 100-yard performances by Tom Sullivan and Norm Bulaich.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 65], "content_span": [66, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095390-0025-0000", "contents": "1973 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 5\nO. J. posted 166 yards, giving him his fifth 100-yard rushing effort in five games and giving him 813 for the season. The Colts had given Simpson 1-yard losses on his first two carries. Ferguson got the scoring started by connecting with Larry Watkins for 10-yards and later scored on a 1-yard quarterback keeper. Simpson scored on a 3-yard run in the third quarter and on a 78-yard run in the fourth \"thrilled a crowd of 78,875\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 65], "content_span": [66, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095390-0026-0000", "contents": "1973 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 6\nMiami took over first place in the AFC East by halting Simpson's streak of consecutive 100-yard performances. They held him to 55\u00a0yards on 14 carries before he left the game with an ankle sprain in the fourth quarter. Miami posted a 21-point second quarter highlighted by a pair of touchdown passes from Bob Griese to Jim Mandich. The Bills made no first downs in the first half. Leypoldt and Garo Yepremian opened and closed the scoring by swapping field goals. The Dolphins' other touchdown came when a 21-yard Paul Warfield reception set up a Mercury Morris 4-yard touchdown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 65], "content_span": [66, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095390-0027-0000", "contents": "1973 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 7\nSimpson set an NFL record for yards in the first seven games by surpassing 1,000\u00a0yards with a 157-yard effort. His total of 1,025 was 54 ahead of Brown's pace. Simpson set the NFL single-game record for carries with 39 surpassing the 38 by Jim Nance in 1966 and Harry Newman in 1934. In the game, the Chiefs fumbled on their opening possession on their own 15-yard-line, leading to a Bills touchdown on four consecutive rushes. Three plays into the Chiefs' second possession Cheyunski intercepted Len Dawson and returned it 31\u00a0yards to the 4-yard-line leading to another Simpson score, giving them a 14\u20130 lead 3:37 into the game. Leypoldt added three field goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 65], "content_span": [66, 729]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095390-0028-0000", "contents": "1973 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 8\nSimpson had totaled 1025\u00a0yards in the first half of the season, which was ahead of the 971 Brown had gained in his first seven games. The Saints posted all their scoring in the first half and kept the Bills to under 200\u00a0yards of total offense while shutting them out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 65], "content_span": [66, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095390-0029-0000", "contents": "1973 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 9\nSimpson posted 99\u00a0yards on 20 carries including a 32-yard game-tying touchdown run in the third quarter. He had a 1,203 total for nine games. It appeared the game would end in a tie until the Bengals' Horst Muhlmann made a 33-yard field goal with three seconds remaining.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 65], "content_span": [66, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095390-0030-0000", "contents": "1973 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 10\nThe Dolphins clinched the East Division title with a 17\u20130 shutout of the Bills. Miami's first touchdown drive included two fourth-and-one conversions by Jim Kiick. With Miami leading 10\u20130, Buffalo drove from their own 20-yard-line to the Dolphins' 4-yard-line and then turned the ball over on downs four plays later at the 1-yard-line. In the game, the Bills were shut out despite a pair of 100-yard rushing efforts by Simpson and Braxton who posted 120 and 119\u00a0yards respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 66], "content_span": [67, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095390-0031-0000", "contents": "1973 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 11\nThe Bills built a 10\u20137 halftime lead on the strength of a 58-yard Simpson touchdown run. Marty Domres connected with Tom Mitchell and George Hunt added a field goal to give Baltimore a 17\u201310 lead. Late in the game the Colts gave the Bills good field position following an 18-yard punt by David Lee. Ferguson passed for 38-yards to Bob Chandler to tie the score with 1:34 remaining. Then Dwight Harrison recorded a 31-yard interception return with 1:11 remaining to give the Bills their final margin of victory. The game marked only the second and final time all season the Bills passed for 100\u00a0yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 66], "content_span": [67, 667]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095390-0032-0000", "contents": "1973 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 12\nBraxton, who totaled 80\u00a0yards on 23 carries accounted for both of the Bills' touchdowns. Simpson posted 137\u00a0yards on 24 carries. The Falcon's scoring came from future Bills kicker Nick Mike-Mayer who posted two field goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 66], "content_span": [67, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095390-0033-0000", "contents": "1973 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 13\nAfter New England posted a first-quarter field goal, Francis returned the kickoff 90\u00a0yards to give the Bills a lead they would not relinquish. Simpson posted 219\u00a0yards on 22 carries including a 6-yard touchdown that put the Bills ahead 14\u20133 in the second quarter. Chandler caught two touchdown passes from Ferguson and Leypoldt added three field goals. The effort earned Simpson his third NFL Offensive Player of the Week honor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 66], "content_span": [67, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095390-0034-0000", "contents": "1973 Buffalo Bills season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 14 at Jets\nSimpson entered the final game needing 61\u00a0yards to eclipse Brown's record of 1863\u00a0yards and the team entered the game needing 177 rushing yards to break the team record of 2960 set by the 1972 Miami Dolphins. He posted 200\u00a0yards on 34 carries to bring his total to 2003 in Weeb Ewbank's final game as Jets coach. He became the first to accumulate 200\u00a0yards in a game three times in a season. In O. J. 's post-game press conference, he brought the entire Electric Company to meet the media. Before he would field any questions, he introduced each of his teammates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 74], "content_span": [75, 638]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095391-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Bulgarian Cup Final\nThe 1973 Bulgarian Cup Final was the 33rd final of the Bulgarian Cup (in this period the tournament was named Cup of the Soviet Army), and was contested between CSKA Sofia and Beroe Stara Zagora on 3 June 1973 at Vasil Levski National Stadium in Sofia. CSKA won the final 2\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095392-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Burmese constitutional referendum\nA constitutional referendum was held in Burma on 15 December 1973. The new constitution was approved by 94.5% of voters, with voter turnout reported to be 95.5%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095393-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Byron state by-election\nA by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Byron on 17 February 1973 because of the resignation of Stanley Stephens (Country).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095394-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 CARIFTA Games\nThe 2nd CARIFTA Games was held in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago on May 4\u20135, 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095394-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 CARIFTA Games, Participation (unofficial)\nDetailed result lists can be found on the \"World Junior Athletics History\" website. An unofficial count yields the number of about 137 athletes (116 junior (under-20) and 21 youth (under-17)) from about 10 countries: Bahamas (8), Barbados (26), Bermuda (19), Grenada (9), Guyana (10), Jamaica (32), Lesser Antilles (2), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (3), Trinidad and Tobago (27), US Virgin Islands (1).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 46], "content_span": [47, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095394-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 CARIFTA Games, Medal summary\nMedal winners are published by category: Boys under 20 (Junior), Girls under 20 (Junior), Boys under 17 (Youth), and Girls under 17 (Youth),Complete results can be found on the \"World Junior Athletics History\" website.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 33], "content_span": [34, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095395-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 CCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament\nThe 1973 CCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the second CCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament. It was played between March 2 and March 4, 1973, at St. Louis Arena in St. Louis, Missouri. Bowling Green won the tournament, finishing the round robin with a 2\u20130 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095395-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 CCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Conference standings\nNote: GP = Games Played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 59], "content_span": [60, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095396-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 CECAFA Cup\nThe 1973 CECAFA Cup was the inaugural edition of the CECAFA Cup, and was held in Uganda. The CECAFA Cup is considered Africa's oldest football tournament, and involves teams from Central and Southern Africa. The matches in the 1973 tournament were played from 22 September 1973 until 29 September 1973. The tournament was originally the Gossage Cup, contested by the four nations of Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and Zanzibar, running from 1929 until 1965.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095396-0000-0001", "contents": "1973 CECAFA Cup\nIn 1967, this became the East and Central African Senior Challenge Cup, often shortened to simply the Challenge Cup, which was competed for five years, until 1971, before the CECAFA Cup was introduced in 1973. Uganda, the hosts, won the Cup, beating Tanzania 2\u20131 in the final. The tournament lacked a third-place play-off, so the runners-up in the group stages, Kenya and Zambia, shared third place. After Uganda and Zambia drew in the group stages with the same number of points, goals conceded and goals scored, a play-off occurred, which Uganda won. The tournament has been expanded, and the modern-day tournament consists of 12 different teams (Ethiopia, South Sudan, Burundi, Rwanda, Sudan, and Eritrea have joined since 1973).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 748]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095396-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 CECAFA Cup, Participants\nSix nations competed: the original four teams from the Gossage Cup, plus two more teams:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 29], "content_span": [30, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095396-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 CECAFA Cup, Group stages\nThe group stage began on 22 September and ended on 28 September with Group A's play-off. The matchdays alternated between group A and group B throughout the week, finishing with the group A play-off. After the end of the scheduled matches in group A, Uganda and Zanzibar were level on the traditional deciders listed below, so to decide which team qualified for the final a play-off was arranged, won by Uganda.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 29], "content_span": [30, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095396-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 CECAFA Cup, Group stages\nIf two or more teams are equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following criteria are applied to determine the rankings (in descending order):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 29], "content_span": [30, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095396-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 CECAFA Cup, Final rankings\nTeams are ranked using the same tie-breaking criteria as in the group stage, except for the top four teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095397-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 CFL Draft\nThe 1973 CFL Draft composed of nine rounds where 93 Canadian football players were chosen from eligible Canadian universities and, for the first time, Canadian players playing in the NCAA. Prior to 1973, teams were given exclusive signing privileges to Canadian players who attended U.S. schools based on the territory he was domiciled. After the draft was expanded to include NCAA schools, teams were also permitted to exempt from the draft and select players from their area, regardless of where they attended school.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095397-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 CFL Draft, 2nd Round\n13. British Columbia Lions Bob Helman TB North Dakota State", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 25], "content_span": [26, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095398-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 CFL season\nThe 1973 Canadian Football League season is considered to be the 20th season in modern-day Canadian football, although it is officially the 16th Canadian Football League season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095398-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 CFL season, CFL News in 1973\nBoth the Western and Eastern Conferences adopt the same playoff procedure, consisting of the second place teams in each conference hosting the third place teams in the conference semifinal games and the first place teams hosting the semi-finals' winners in the conference finals. All rounds now consisted of single-game playoffs, as opposed to a two-game total point series (although this format would return in use by what was by then the East Division in 1986 only); the West adopted this format the previous year. Other than the addition of the crossover rule in 1997, this playoff format is in still in use in the CFL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 33], "content_span": [34, 656]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095398-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 CFL season, CFL News in 1973\nThis was the final season where the conferences would play seasons of different lengths. The Eastern Conference would expand its schedule to sixteen games for 1974. Somewhat ironically, this was also the most recent season (as of 2017) where a fourth-placed Eastern team would earn more points (despite playing fewer games) than the third placed Western team - the scenario which triggers a \"crossover\" under the current playoff format.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 33], "content_span": [34, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095398-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 CFL season, Regular season standings, Final regular season standings\nNote: GP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Pts = Points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 73], "content_span": [74, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095398-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 CFL season, Grey Cup playoffs\nThe Ottawa Rough Riders are the 1973 Grey Cup champions, defeating the Edmonton Eskimos, 22\u201318, at Toronto's Exhibition Stadium. Ottawa's Charlie Brandon (DE) was named the Grey Cup's Most Valuable Player, while Edmonton's Garry Lefebvre (DB) was named Grey Cup's Most Valuable Canadian.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 34], "content_span": [35, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095399-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 CONCACAF Champions' Cup\nThe 1973 CONCACAF Champions' Cup was the 9th edition of the annual international club football competition held in the CONCACAF region (North America, Central America and the Caribbean), the CONCACAF Champions' Cup. It determined that year's club champion of association football in the CONCACAF region. The tournament was played by 16 teams of 9 countries from 1 June till 3 August 1973 with the matches in the tournament played under the home/away match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095399-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 CONCACAF Champions' Cup\nThe teams were split into zones (North American, Central American and Caribbean), each one qualifying the winner to participate in the final tournament. As no clubs entered in the North American section, the winner of the two remaining zones gained the qualification to the final, but both Central American teams withdrew; therefore the final was scratched and the Caribbean winner, Transvaal from Suriname, won the tournament, becoming CONCACAF champion for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095399-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 CONCACAF Champions' Cup, Central American Zone, First Round\nSaprissa, Alajuelense and Comunicaciones advanced to the Central American Zone second round. 1 CSD Municipal later withdrew. 2 The match was abandoned in the 68th minute with Alajuelense leading 1\u20130 due to torrential rain which flooded the pitch; the result was allowed to stand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 64], "content_span": [65, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095399-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 CONCACAF Champions' Cup, Central American Zone, Second Round\n1Deportivo Santa Cecilia replaced Municipal, who withdrew. Saprissa and Alajuelense advance to the Central American Zone third round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 65], "content_span": [66, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095399-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 CONCACAF Champions' Cup, Caribbean Zone, Fourth Round\n1apparently Devonshire Colts were reinstated; as meanwhile all clubs from the Northern and Central section had withdrawn,", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095399-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 CONCACAF Champions' Cup, CONCACAF Final Round\nThe final was scratched and Transvaal were declared CONCACAF champions as Central American finalist Saprissa withdrew.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095400-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 CONCACAF Championship\nThe 1973 CONCACAF Championship, the sixth edition of the CONCACAF Championship, was held in Haiti from 29 November to 18 December. All matches were played at Stade Sylvio Cator in Port-au-Prince. This is the first edition to double as qualification for the World Cup. Haiti became winners for the first time in the CONCACAF region and qualified for West Germany '74. The North, Central American and Caribbean zone was allocated 1 place (out of 16) in the World Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095401-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 CONCACAF Championship qualification\nThe 1973 CONCACAF Championship qualification consisted of a single round of play. The 14 teams were divided into 6 groups of 2 or 3 teams (four groups with 2 teams and two groups with 3 teams). The teams would play against each other on a home-and-away basis. The group winners would then advance to the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095401-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 CONCACAF Championship qualification, Results, Group 4\nJamaica withdrew, so Netherlands Antilles advance to the tournament automatically.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 58], "content_span": [59, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095403-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Cal Poly Mustangs football team\nThe 1973 Cal Poly Mustangs football team represented California Polytechnic State University during the 1973 NCAA Division II football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095403-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Cal Poly Mustangs football team\nCal Poly competed in the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA). The team was led by sixth-year head coach Joe Harper and played home games at Mustang Stadium in San Luis Obispo, California. They finished the regular season as CCAA champion with a record of nine wins and one loss (9\u20131, 4\u20130 CCAA). This was the fifth of five consecutive CCAA championships for the Mustangs. UPI ranked the Mustangs Number 9 in the final Small College poll for 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095403-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Cal Poly Mustangs football team, Team players in the NFL\nNo Cal Poly Mustang players were selected in the 1974 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 61], "content_span": [62, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095404-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Cal Poly Pomona Broncos football team\nThe 1973 Cal Poly Pomona Broncos football team represented California State Polytechnic University, Pomona during the 1973 NCAA Division II football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095404-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Cal Poly Pomona Broncos football team\nCal Poly Pomona competed in the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA). Cal Poly Pomona was led by fifth-year head coach Roy Anderson. They played home games at Kellogg Field in Pomona, California. The Broncos finished the season with a record of four wins, six losses and one tie (4\u20136\u20131, 1\u20133 CCAA). Overall, the team was outscored by its opponents 210\u2013286 for the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095404-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Cal Poly Pomona Broncos football team, Team players in the NFL\nNo Cal Poly Pomona players were selected in the 1974 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 67], "content_span": [68, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095405-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Cal State Fullerton Titans football team\nThe 1973 Cal State Fullerton Titans football team represented California State University, Fullerton during the 1973 NCAA Division II football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095405-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Cal State Fullerton Titans football team\nCal State Fullerton competed in the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA). This was their last year in the CCAA, as they moved to the Pacific Coast Athletic Association (PCAA) the following year. The team was led by second-year head coach Pete Yoder, and played home games at Santa Ana Stadium in Santa Ana, California. They finished the season with a record of seven wins and four losses (7\u20134, 1\u20133 CCAA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095405-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Cal State Fullerton Titans football team, Team players in the NFL\nNo Cal State Fullerton Titans were selected in the 1974 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 70], "content_span": [71, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095406-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Cal State Hayward Pioneers football team\nThe 1973 Cal State Hayward Pioneers football team represented California State University, Hayward in the 1973 NCAA Division II football season. Cal State Hayward competed in the Far Western Conference (FWC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095406-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Cal State Hayward Pioneers football team\nThe Pioneers were led by third-year head coach Bob Rodrigo. They played home games at Pioneer Stadium in Hayward, California. The Pioneers finished the season with a record of three wins and seven losses (3\u20137, 2\u20133 FWC). They were outscored by their opponents 168\u2013348 for the 1973 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095406-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Cal State Hayward Pioneers football team, Team players in the NFL\nNo Cal State Hayward Pioneers players were selected in the 1974 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 70], "content_span": [71, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095407-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Cal State Los Angeles Diablos football team\nThe 1973 Cal State Los Angeles Diablos football team represented California State University, Los Angeles during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095407-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Cal State Los Angeles Diablos football team\nThe Diablos were still members of the Pacific Coast Athletic Association in 1973. As in 1972, since they had downgraded their football program to the point where they no longer qualified as a University Division team, the one game they played against a PCAA team (a loss to Pacific) did not count in the conference standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095407-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Cal State Los Angeles Diablos football team\nThe Diablos were led by Foster Andersen in his third year as head coach. The team played home games at the Campus Field in Los Angeles. They finished the season with a record of four wins, six losses and one tie (4\u20136\u20131). The Diablos were outscored 281\u2013320 for the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095407-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Cal State Los Angeles Diablos football team, Team players in the NFL\nNo Cal State Los Angeles players were selected in the 1974 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 73], "content_span": [74, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095408-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Cal State Northridge Matadors football team\nThe 1973 Cal State Northridge Matadors football team represented Cal State Northridge during the 1973 NCAA Division II football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095408-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Cal State Northridge Matadors football team\nCal State Northridge competed in the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA). The 1973 Matadors were led by first-year head coach Gary Torgeson. They played home games at North Campus Stadium in Northridge, California. Cal State Northridge finished the season with a record of two wins and nine losses (2\u20139, 1\u20133 CCAA). The Matadors were outscored by their opponents 200\u2013456 for the season, including giving up over 50 points four times during the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095408-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Cal State Northridge Matadors football team, Team players in the NFL\nNo Cal State Northridge players were selected in the 1974 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 73], "content_span": [74, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095409-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Calder Cup playoffs\nThe 1973 Calder Cup playoffs of the American Hockey League began on April 3, 1973. The eight teams that qualified played best-of-seven series for Division Semifinals and Finals. The division champions played a best-of-seven series for the Calder Cup. The Calder Cup Final ended on May 15, 1973, with the Cincinnati Swords defeating the Nova Scotia Voyageurs four games to one to win the only Calder Cup in team history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095409-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Calder Cup playoffs, Playoff seeds\nAfter the 1972\u201373 AHL regular season, the top three teams from each division qualified for the playoffs. The Cincinnati Swords finished the regular season with the best overall record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095409-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Calder Cup playoffs, Bracket\nIn each round, the team that earned more points during the regular season receives home ice advantage, meaning they receive the \"extra\" game on home-ice if the series reaches the maximum number of games. There is no set series format due to arena scheduling conflicts and travel considerations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095410-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council election\nThe first elections to the newly created Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council were held on 10 May 1973, with the entirety of the 51 seat council \u2014 three seats for each of the 17 wards \u2014 up for vote. The Local Government Act 1972 stipulated that the elected members were to shadow and eventually take over from the predecessor corporation on 1 April 1974. The order in which the councillors were elected dictated their term serving, with third-place candidates serving two years and up for re-election in 1975, second-placed three years expiring in 1976 and 1st-placed five years until 1978.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095410-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council election\nAs well as replacing the County Borough of Halifax, the new council included:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095410-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council election\nIn May 1974 a by-election for the Brighouse ward occurred to replace the Conservative councillor G. Wood. The by-election was won by the Labour candidate M. Cunningham.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095411-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Calgary Stampeders season\nThe 1973 Calgary Stampeders finished in 4th place in the Western Conference with a 6\u201310 record and failed to make the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095412-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 California Angels season\nThe 1973 California Angels season involved the Angels finishing fourth in the American League West with a record of 79 wins and 83 losses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095412-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 California Angels season, Regular season\n1973 was an eventful season for Angels pitcher Nolan Ryan. On May 15, Ryan threw the first no-hitter of his career. On July 3, he struck out Sal Bando of the Oakland Athletics for the 1000th strikeout in his career. Twelve days later, Ryan threw a second no-hitter, becoming the fifth pitcher in major league history to throw two no-hitters in one season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095412-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 California Angels season, Regular season\nFor the year, Ryan set what is, as of 2020, the post-1900 Major League Baseball record for most strikeouts in a season with 383, topping Sandy Koufax's 1965 mark by one. (The all-time record belongs to Matt Kilroy, who struck out 513 batters in 1886). In the process, he struck out at least 10 batters in 23 different games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095412-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 California Angels season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095412-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 California Angels season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095412-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 California Angels season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095412-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 California Angels season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095412-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 California Angels season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095413-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 California Golden Bears football team\nThe 1973 California Golden Bears football team was an American football team that represented the University of California, Berkeley in the Pacific-8 Conference (Pac-8) during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. In their second year under head coach Mike White, the Golden Bears compiled a 4\u20137 record (2\u20135 against Pac-8 opponents), finished in a tie for fifth place in the Pac-8, and were outscored by their opponents by a combined total of 380 to 245.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095413-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 California Golden Bears football team\nThe team's statistical leaders included Vince Ferragamo with 1,014 passing yards (Steve Bartkowski added 910 passing yards), Chuck Muncie with 801 rushing yards, and Wesley Walker with 361 receiving yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095413-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 California Golden Bears football team, Game summaries, Washington\nCal gained 625 yards of total offense, the second best in school history. Steve Bartkowski came off the bench when Vince Ferragamo was shaken up with the Golden Bears ahead 21\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 70], "content_span": [71, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095414-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Camellia Bowl\nThe 1973 Camellia Bowl was the NCAA Division II Football Championship game following the 1973 season, between the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs and the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095414-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Camellia Bowl, Notable participants\nNotable participants for Louisiana Tech include Fred Dean, Roger Carr, Pat Tilley, Roland Harper, Mike Barber, John Henry White, Billy Ryckman, Maxie Lambright, Mickey Slaughter, Pat Patterson, and Pat Collins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 40], "content_span": [41, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095416-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Cameroonian parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections were held in Cameroon on 18 May 1973, the first since the promulgation of the country's new constitution approved in a referendum the previous year. The country was a one-party state at the time, with the Cameroonian National Union as the sole legal party. 2,600 candidates ran for a place on the CNU list, with 120 eventually winning a place on it, equal to the number seats available in the enlarged National Assembly, winning all of them with a 98.4% turnout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095417-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Campeonato Argentino de Rugby\nThe 1973 Campeonato Argentino de Rugby was won by the selection of Buenos Aires that beat in the final the selection of Uni\u00f3n de Rugby de Rosario", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095417-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Campeonato Argentino de Rugby, That year in Argentina rugby union, International\nThe UAR contested the decision and the RFU offered to play a match in Twickenham on 1 December, at the end of the Argentina's tour of Scotland and Ireland, but the UAR refuse this proposal considering the decision \"unilateral, hasty, and based on wrong information about the situation of Argentine Republic \u2026 \"-", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 85], "content_span": [86, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095417-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Campeonato Argentino de Rugby, That year in Argentina rugby union, International\nThe tour were replaced with by a tour of Romania. The UAR, as retaliation, forbid to any Club o Provincial selection to visit England", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 85], "content_span": [86, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095417-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Campeonato Argentino de Rugby, Knock out stages, Semifinals\nSistema di punteggio: meta = 4 punti, Trasformazione=2 punti .Punizione and calcio da mark= 3 punti. drop = 3 punti.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 64], "content_span": [65, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095417-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Campeonato Argentino de Rugby, Knock out stages, Semifinals\nBuenos Aires :Dudley Morgan, Alejandro Altberg, Arturo Rodr\u00edguez Jurado, Roberto Matarazzo, Eduardo Morgan, Hugo Porta, Luis Grad\u00edn, Jorge Carracedo, Hugo Miguens, Miguel Iglesias, Jos\u00e9 Virasoro, Jos\u00e9 Fern\u00e1ndez, Mario Carluccio, Juan Dumas, Fernando Ins\u00faa. Rosario: Angel Rodr\u00edguez, Carlos Garc\u00eda, Ricardo Muzzio, C\u00e9sar Blanco, Andr\u00e9s Knight, Javier Escalante, Ricardo Castagna, Eduardo Mainini, Ricardo Covella, V\u00edctor Macat, Osvaldo Galesio, Juan Mangiamelli, Alejandro Risler, Jos\u00e9 Costant\u00e9, Miguel Senatore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 64], "content_span": [65, 605]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095417-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Campeonato Argentino de Rugby, Knock out stages, Semifinals\nCordoba: E. Mezquida, C. Pispiero, J. Mart\u00ednez, N. Trebuq, D. Claver\u00eda, M. Bernis Sales, C. Bergallo, R. Byleveld, L. Dom\u00ednguez, C. Cotonaro, R. Campra, R. Passaglia, J. Ruggero, H. Bianchi, A. Cossini. Cuyo:' J. Castro, C. Dor\u00e1, O. Terranova, D. Mu\u00f1iz, M. Brandi, C. Navesi, L. Chac\u00f3n, J. Navesi, J. Nasazzi, R. Ituarte, R. Catt\u00e1neo, E. S\u00e1nchez, R. Fariello, L. M. Ramos, J. Cribelli.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 64], "content_span": [65, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095417-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Campeonato Argentino de Rugby, Knock out stages, Final\nBuenos Aires :Dudley Morgan, Roberto Matarazzo, Alejandro Travaglini, Arturo Rodr\u00edguez jurado, Eduardo Morgan, Hugo Porta, Luis Grad\u00edn, Miguel Iglesias, Hugo Miguens, Jorge Carracedo, Jos\u00e9 Virasoro, Jos\u00e9 Fern\u00e1ndez, Mario Carluccio, Juan Dumas, Fernando Ins\u00faa. Cuyo\u00a0: Ernesto Naveyra, Julio Villanueva, Ricardo Tarquini, Daniel Mu\u00f1iz, Miguel Brandi, Carlos Navesi, Luis Chac\u00f3n, Luis Crivelli, Luis Ramos, Roberto Fariello, Eduardo S\u00e1nchez, Alfredo Catt\u00e1neo, Jorge Navesi, Jorge Nasazzi, Ra\u00fal Ituarte.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095418-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie A\nThe 1973 Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie A, (officially the Terceiro Campeonato Nacional de Clubes) was the 17th edition of the Campeonato Brasileiro S\u00e9rie A.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095419-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Campeonato Carioca\nThe 1973 edition of the Campeonato Carioca kicked off on March 10, 1973 and ended on August 22, 1973. It was organized by FCF (Federa\u00e7\u00e3o Carioca de Futebol, or Carioca Football Federation). Twelve teams participated. Fluminense won the title for the 21st time. no teams were relegated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095420-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Campeonato Ga\u00facho\nThe 53rd season of the Campeonato Ga\u00facho kicked off on August 13, 1972, and ended on August 5, 1973. Twenty-two teams participated. Internacional won their 21st title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095421-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Campeonato Paulista\nThe 1973 Campeonato Paulista da Divis\u00e3o Especial de Futebol Profissional, organized by the Federa\u00e7\u00e3o Paulista de Futebol, was the 72nd season of S\u00e3o Paulo's top professional football league. Portuguesa and Santos split the title, with the former winning it for the 3rd time and the latter for the 13th. no teams were relegated and the top scorer was Santos' Pel\u00e9 with 11 goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095421-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Campeonato Paulista, Championship\nMuch like in the previous year, a preliminary phase was disputed before the championship proper, in which all teams played against each other twice and the six best teams qualified into the main championship. That phase was to be disputed in the second semester of 1972, by the teams that had been eliminated in that phase in the previous year and the six worst-placed teams in the main championship", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095421-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Campeonato Paulista, Championship\nThe championship proper was divided into two rounds, in which each team played against each other once, and the winner of each round qualified to the Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095421-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Campeonato Paulista, Championship, Finals\nThe finals would be disputed in an only match, with extra time in case of a tie, and penalties if the tie persisted. However, after Portuguesa's third shot, when Santos led by 2-0, referee Armando Marques mistakenly sounded the whistle, even though there were still two shots left for each team, and there was still the possibility of Portuguesa tying. When the referee realized his mistake, Portuguesa's players had already left the stadium, and in the very same night, the Federation proclaimed both clubs to have won the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 46], "content_span": [47, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095422-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Campeonato da 1\u00aa Divis\u00e3o do Futebol\nStatistics of Campeonato da 1\u00aa Divis\u00e3o do Futebol in the 1973 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095423-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Can-Am season\nThe 1973 Canadian-American Challenge Cup was the eighth season of the Can-Am auto racing series. It consisted of FIA Group 7 racing cars running two-hour sprint events. It began June 10, 1973, and ended October 28, 1973, after eight rounds. The season came amid the Oil Crisis, which ended interest in performance cars after an already-declining market over a several-year period. The golden age of the Trans Am Series ended after the 1972 season, leaving Can Am and Formula 5000 as the frontrunners of the SCCA. The season was also the penultimate season of the series, which would fold after 1974 before being revived in an entirely reworked series based on F5000 a few years later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 703]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095423-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Can-Am season, Schedule\nFor 1973, the schedule was altered as the season continued on. The first race ran in a standard, single race format. Rounds two through four ran as two heats, with the results being determined by combined results. Rounds five through eight ran a Sprint qualifying heat first to determine the starting order for the Cup event. The results of the Sprint and Cup were not combined.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095423-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Can-Am season, Drivers Championship\nPoints are awarded to the top ten finishers in the order of 20-15-12-10-8-6-4-3-2-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 40], "content_span": [41, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095424-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Canadian Grand Prix\nThe 1973 Canadian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Mosport Park on 23 September 1973. It was race 14 of 15 in both the 1973 World Championship of Drivers and the 1973 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095424-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Canadian Grand Prix\nThe 80-lap race was won by Peter Revson, driving a McLaren M23, after starting from second on the grid. This turned out to be Revson's last victory and podium finish in Formula One. As of the conclusion of the 2020 Formula One World Championship, this is the last Grand Prix to be won by a driver born in the USA. Emerson Fittipaldi took second position for Team Lotus, while Jackie Oliver took third in a Shadow, his first podium in five years and his last of all.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095424-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Canadian Grand Prix\nThis was also the 99th and last race start of triple world champion Jackie Stewart.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095424-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Canadian Grand Prix, Report\nThis was the first Grand Prix to feature a car with the number 0, the car in question being the McLaren of Jody Scheckter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095424-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Canadian Grand Prix, Report\nThe race began in very wet conditions, which caused a number of incidents later in the race. Fran\u00e7ois Cevert and Scheckter collided on the 32nd lap, resulting in the deployment of a safety car for the first time in Formula One history (although it would not be until twenty years later, in 1993, when these cars were given an official role). The car in question was a yellow Porsche 914 driven by former F1 privateer Eppie Wietzes. Wietzes stayed in front of Howden Ganley's Iso-Marlboro by mistake, which allowed several drivers, including eventual winner Revson, to gain a lap on the field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 625]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095424-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Canadian Grand Prix, Report\nPit stops at the time were unusual. Formula One had only recently switched to slick tyres but the drying conditions necessitated stops mid-race. The small pit lane at Mosport became busy, with a number of drivers heading into the pit lane only to have to drive through as there was no room for them to be serviced. Ganley realised the problem and waited until team-mate Tim Schenken had made his stop, making him one of the last to stop.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095424-0005-0001", "contents": "1973 Canadian Grand Prix, Report\nThe pit stops caused significant confusion, with some believing the leader to be Ganley and others, including Team Lotus manager Colin Chapman, believing it to be Fittipaldi. Chapman even went as far as to perform his traditional victory celebration of tossing his cap in the air at the end of what he believed to be the 80th lap, even though Fittipaldi was not shown the checkered flag. After a long pause, the starter waved the flag over a group of cars consisting of Ganley, Hailwood, Revson and Hunt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095424-0005-0002", "contents": "1973 Canadian Grand Prix, Report\nDespite seeing the flag first, Ganley did not believe he had won the race, despite lap charts kept by the team showing him leading. The officials then announced Revson as the winner after a long confusion which included protests from Ganley's then girlfriend (later wife) who had been keeping the team's lap chart. Ganley maintains he feels he won the race, citing the fact official lap charts have him pitting when he did not.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095425-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce bank robbery\nThe 1973 Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce bank robbery occurred in Kenora, Ontario, Canada on May 10, 1973. A robber entered the bank with firearms, a bomb, and bags to hold money. Upon leaving the bank, accompanied by an undercover police officer, he was shot by a police sniper and the bomb detonated. The robber was killed and the officer injured. The robber has never been identified.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095425-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce bank robbery, Events\nOn May 10, 1973 a man wearing a black balaclava mask entered the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce in Kenora armed with a rifle, a pistol and a homemade bomb consisting of six sticks of dynamite. He held a dead man's switch in his teeth to detonate the bomb. He demanded his shoulder bag and three duffel bags be filled with money. A police officer, constable Don Millard, volunteered to pose as a getaway truck driver. As the pair carried the bags outside, a police sniper shot the robber triggering the bomb and killing the bomber. Constable Millard was injured but partially shielded from the blast by the large duffel bag of money he was carrying, and went on to a career as a firefighter. The street was showered with over $100,000 of cash - virtually all of which was returned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 60], "content_span": [61, 845]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095425-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce bank robbery, Aftermath and mystery about bomber's identity\nThe bomber's wallet was recovered containing a pair of handcuff keys, 176 dollars, and a receipt from the Kenricia Hotel. He had checked into the hotel under the name Paul Higgins with a false address on April 23, two days before apparently taking a bus to Winnipeg. He left a steamer trunk - which also bore the name \"P. Higgins\" - stored at the hotel. He checked back in on May 5.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 99], "content_span": [100, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095425-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce bank robbery, Aftermath and mystery about bomber's identity\nThe perpetrator wore a mask during the robbery and his features were destroyed in the explosion. 19-year-old Joe Ralko, who wrote a book based on the incident, had seen the man in town in the days beforehand and described him as being in his 40s, with brown hair and a reddish-colored beard. An initial suspect was dismissed when DNA samples from his brother did not match those taken from the crime scene, and was later found to be alive and well in France.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 99], "content_span": [100, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095425-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce bank robbery, Aftermath and mystery about bomber's identity\nJoe Ralko's book, The Devil's Gap: The Untold Story of Canada's First Suicide Bomber, was released in 2017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 99], "content_span": [100, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095425-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce bank robbery, Aftermath and mystery about bomber's identity\nThe unidentified man is buried in an unmarked grave in Kenora Cemetery.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 99], "content_span": [100, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095426-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Canadian federal budget\nThe Canadian federal budget for fiscal year 1973-1974 was presented by Minister of Finance John Turner in the House of Commons of Canada on 19 February 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095427-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Cannes Film Festival\nThe 26th Cannes Film Festival was held from 10 to 25 May 1973. The Grand Prix du Festival International du Film went to Scarecrow by Jerry Schatzberg and The Hireling by Alan Bridges. At this festival two new non-competitive sections were added: '\u00c9tude et documents' and 'Perspectives du Cin\u00e9ma Fran\u00e7ais' (which is started by the French Film Directors' Society and runs until 1991).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095427-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Cannes Film Festival\nThe festival opened with Godspell, directed by David Greene and closed with Lady Sings the Blues, directed by Sidney J. Furie. Swastika, a documentary by Philippe Mora, got negative reactions and caused disturbance among audience by showing Adolf Hitler's daily and social life. The Holy Mountain by Alejandro Jodorowsky, created controversy at the festival due to its depiction of extreme violence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095427-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Cannes Film Festival, Jury\nThe following people were appointed as the Jury of the 1973 feature film competition:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 31], "content_span": [32, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095427-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Cannes Film Festival, Official selection, In competition - Feature film\nThe following feature films competed for the Grand Prix International du Festival:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 76], "content_span": [77, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095427-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Cannes Film Festival, Official selection, Films out of competition\nThe following films were selected to be screened out of competition:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 71], "content_span": [72, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095427-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Cannes Film Festival, Official selection, Short film competition\nThe following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 69], "content_span": [70, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095427-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Cannes Film Festival, Parallel sections, International Critics' Week\nThe following feature films were screened for the 12th International Critics' Week (12e Semaine de la Critique):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 73], "content_span": [74, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095427-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Cannes Film Festival, Parallel sections, Directors' Fortnight\nThe following films were screened for the 1973 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des R\u00e9alizateurs):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 66], "content_span": [67, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095427-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Cannes Film Festival, Awards, Official awards\nThe following films and people received the 1973 Official selection awards:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 50], "content_span": [51, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095428-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Capital City 500\nThe 1973 Capital City 500 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series race that took place on September 9, 1973, at Richmond Fairgrounds Raceway (now Richmond Raceway) in Richmond, Virginia. Richard Petty won the race by two laps after leading 429 of 500 laps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095428-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Capital City 500, Race report\nRichard Petty defeated Cale Yarborough by at least two laps in front of 18000 spectators; five of which were by at least one lap. After running second to Bobby Allison in the spring 1974 race, he won again in the fall 1974 and spring 1975 races, the latter by six laps. It took four hours and thirteen minutes to finish the 500-lap race with the track spanning exactly 0.542 miles (0.872\u00a0km). Petty had won six other races at this track before extending his lucky streak to 7 at the end of this event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 34], "content_span": [35, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095428-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Capital City 500, Race report\nBobby Allison acquired the pole position with a qualifying speed of 90.245 miles per hour (145.235\u00a0km/h). The average race speed was 63.215 miles per hour (101.735\u00a0km/h). Five cautions slowed the race for 123 laps. Baxter Price finished in last-place due to a crash that also took out nine other cars at the start of lap 4. Out of the 34 races on the grid, 33 were born in the United States while Vic Parsons was born in Canada. J.D. McDuffie, Richard Childress and Darrell Waltrip also participated in this race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 34], "content_span": [35, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095428-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Capital City 500, Race report\nNearly a quarter of the race was run under the yellow flag despite the fact that there were only five caution periods during the race. There were threatening skies from the green flag; causing most of the race to be done under the yellow flag. No attempt was made to postpone the race or to call it \"official.\" A record amount of 86 laps were done under caution until the skies became blue again. Besides the weather, a red flag also held up the race for 70 minutes as Price and Bill Champion, who was also involved in a fiery crash had to go to the hospital for their respective injuries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 34], "content_span": [35, 624]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095428-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Capital City 500, Race report\nPost-race coverage was done by the local newspaper The Daily Times-News from Burlington, North Carolina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 34], "content_span": [35, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095429-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Cardiff City Council election\nThe 1973 Cardiff City Council election was held on Thursday 10 May 1973 to elect councillors to the new Cardiff District Council (later to become known as Cardiff City Council) in Cardiff, Wales. It took place on the same day as other district council elections in the United Kingdom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095429-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Cardiff City Council election\nThese were the first elections to the new district council, which would come into effect on 1 April 1974. The previous all-Cardiff elections to the old Cardiff City Council took place in May 1972. Future elections would take place every three years, with the next election scheduled for 6 May 1976.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095429-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Cardiff City Council election\nThe 1973 election saw the Labour Party win a significant majority on the Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095429-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Cardiff City Council election, Background\nPreviously a unitary authority from 1889, Cardiff's council was to become a second-tier district authority to South Glamorgan County Council from 1 April 1974. This followed local government reorganisation enacted by the Local Government Act 1972. The 1973 election was the first to the new local authority, with councillors acting in a shadow capacity until April 1974. The election to South Glamorgan County Council had taken place in April 1973, with many Cardiff councillors standing for election to this authority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095429-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Cardiff City Council election, Background\nUntil 1973, elections to Cardiff City Council had been annual, with each of the three ward councillors standing down for election in rotation. In May 1973 all ward councillors were elected at the same election, to sit for three years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095429-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Cardiff City Council election, Wards\nThe wards to the new council remained the same in 1973 as the previous Cardiff City Council, but with the addition of two new wards: Lisvane, Llanedeyrn and St Mellons (1 seat); and Radyr, St Fagans, Tongwynlais (2 seats). Fourteen of the wards continued to have three councillors, but five wards had their representation doubled to six councillors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095429-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Cardiff City Council election, Wards\nThe position of alderman was to be abolished, with all members of the new council being elected ward councillors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095429-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Cardiff City Council election, Results\nContests took place in all except one of the wards at this election. (a)Labour won control of the new council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 43], "content_span": [44, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095429-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Cardiff City Council election, Results by ward, Whitchurch\no = sitting councillor on (pre-1974) Cardiff City Council A = sitting alderman on (pre 1974) Cardiff City Council + = elected as councillor to South Glamorgan County Council in April 1973", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 63], "content_span": [64, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095430-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Caribbean Series\nThe sixteenth edition of the Caribbean Series (Serie del Caribe) was played in 1973. It was held from February 1 through February 6 with the champions teams from Dominican Republic (Tigres del Licey), Mexico (Yaquis de Obreg\u00f3n), Puerto Rico (Cangrejeros de Santurce) and Venezuela (Leones del Caracas). The format consisted of 12 games, each team facing the other teams twice, and the games were played at UCV Stadium in Caracas, Venezuela. The Series was played to honor the memory of Roberto Clemente, who died on December 31, 1972, during a humanitarian mission to assist victims of the 1972 Nicaragua earthquake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 638]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095430-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Caribbean Series, Summary\nThe powerful Dominican Republic team, managed by Tommy Lasorda, captured the competition with a 5-1 record, with the only defeat coming from Venezuela in Game 4. The Dominicans hit a collective .329 average, committed only three errors, and outscored their rivals 44-19. Pedro Borb\u00f3n (2-0) led the pitching staff, while OFs Jes\u00fas Alou and Manny Mota tied in the race for the batting title, with a .500 average (12-for-24). SS Bobby Valentine, who provided opportune hitting and a sharp defense, was named Series Most Valuable Player. The team also featured Ps Bruce Ellingsen, Lerrin LaGrow, Charlie Hough and Dick Tidrow; C Steve Yeager; IFs Jim Spencer (1B), Ted Mart\u00ednez (2B) and Steve Garvey (3B), and OFs Elvio Jim\u00e9nez and Von Joshua.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 770]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095430-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Caribbean Series, Summary\nThe Puerto Rico and Venezuela teams, managed by Frank Robinson and Ozzie Virgil respectively, were not rivals for the Dominicans and tied in second place with a 3-3 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095430-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Caribbean Series, Summary\nPuerto Rico's victories came behind pitching efforts from Doyle Alexander, (2-0, 1.20 ERA, 13.0 IP) and Juan Pizarro (1-1, 5.25 ERA, 12.0 IP). Other significant players in the roster included Ps Lloyd Allen, Roger Moret, Bob Reynolds, Ram\u00f3n Hern\u00e1ndez and Mike Strahler; C Elrod Hendricks; IFs Tony P\u00e9rez (1B), Jerry DaVanon (2B), Ron Cey (3B) and Juan Ben\u00edquez (SS); Ofs Don Baylor (LF), Jos\u00e9 Cruz (CF) and Willie Crawford, and utilities Julio Gotay (IF) and Angel Mangual (OF).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095430-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Caribbean Series, Summary\nVenezuela divided wins and losses against each team. RF C\u00e9sar Tovar (.385 BA) and 1B Gonzalo M\u00e1rquez (.381 BA) paced the offense, while Diego Segu\u00ed pitched a complete game, seven-hit shutout with 15 strikeouts. Other support came from P Milt Wilcox (1-1, 3.27 ERA), 3B Manny Trillo (.476 SLG, five RBI) and C Joe Ferguson (.423 SLG, five RBI). The rest of the roster included P Ed Acosta, OF Tony Armas, SS Bert Campaneris, P Reggie Cleveland, CF V\u00edctor Davalillo, OF Bobby Darwin, 2B Gustavo Gil, C Dave Ricketts and P Ed Sprague, among others.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095430-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Caribbean Series, Summary\nThe Mexicans, with Dave Garcia at the helm, posted a 1-5 record and finished in last place. Their only victory came against Venezuela, 3\u20131, behind the combined pitching performance of the Romo brothers (Vicente and Enrique) and closer Al Hrabosky. Also in the roster were 1B Jim Campanis, Ps Maximino Le\u00f3n and Rich Troedson, 3B Dave Hilton, and OF Matt Alexander.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095431-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Carmarthen District Council election\nThe first election to Carmarthen District Council following the re-organization of local government in Wales was held in May 1973. It was followed by the 1976 election. On the same day there were elections to the other local authorities and community councils in Wales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095432-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Carrickfergus Borough Council election\nElections to Carrickfergus Borough Council were held on 30 May 1973 on the same day as the other Northern Irish local government elections. The election used three district electoral areas to elect a total of 15 councillors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095432-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Carrickfergus Borough Council election, Districts results, Area A\n1973: 2 x UUP, 1 x United Loyalist, 1 x Alliance", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 70], "content_span": [71, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095432-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Carrickfergus Borough Council election, Districts results, Area B\n1973: 2 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x United Loyalist, 1 x Independent", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 70], "content_span": [71, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095432-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Carrickfergus Borough Council election, Districts results, Area C\n1973: 2 x United Loyalist, 1 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Loyalist", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 70], "content_span": [71, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095433-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Castlereagh District Council election\nElections to Castlereagh Borough Council were held on 30 May 1973 on the same day as the other Northern Irish local government elections. The election used three district electoral areas to elect a total of 19 councillors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095433-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Castlereagh District Council election, Districts results, Area A\n1973: 3 x UUP, 2 x Alliance, 1 x United Loyalist", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 69], "content_span": [70, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095433-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Castlereagh District Council election, Districts results, Area B\n1973: 4 x UUP, 2 x Alliance, 1 x United Loyalist, 1 x Loyalist Coalition", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 69], "content_span": [70, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095433-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Castlereagh District Council election, Districts results, Area C\n1973: 3 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Independent", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 69], "content_span": [70, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095434-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Centennial Cup\nThe 1973 Centennial Cup is the third Tier II Junior \"A\" 1973 ice hockey National Championship for the Canadian Junior A Hockey League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095434-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Centennial Cup\nThe Centennial Cup was competed for by the winners of the Western Canadian Champions and the Eastern Canadian Champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095434-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Centennial Cup\nThe finals were hosted by the Portage la Prairie Terriers in the city of Brandon, Manitoba and Winnipeg Arena.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095435-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Central American Games\nThe I Central American Games (Spanish: I Juegos Deportivos Centroamericanos) was a multi-sport event that took place between 24 November - 2 December 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095435-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Central American Games\nThe games were officially opened by Guatemalan Education Minister Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre. Long distance runner Mateo Flores was honoured to light the torch in the stadium bearing his name. The flame was ignited before in Q'umarkaj, one of the ancient cultural Mayan centers located in El Quich\u00e9, Guatemala.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095435-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Central American Games\nMar\u00eda del Milagro Par\u00eds from Costa Rica won 13 gold and 1 silver medals in the swimming contests, and was chosen as the best athlete of the games by the journalists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095435-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Central American Games, Medal table\nThe table below is taken from El Diario de Hoy, San Salvador, El Salvador, from El Nuevo Diario, Managua, Nicaragua, and from the archives of La Naci\u00f3n, San Jos\u00e9, Costa Rica.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095436-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics\nThe 1973 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics were held at the Estadio Jos\u00e9 Pachencho Romero in Maracaibo, Venezuela between 26\u201329 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095437-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics \u2013 Results\nThese are the partial results of the 1973 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics which took place between July 26 and 29 1973 in Maracaibo, Venezuela.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 72], "section_span": [72, 72], "content_span": [73, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095438-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Central Michigan Chippewas football team\nThe 1973 Central Michigan Chippewas football team represented Central Michigan University during the 1973 NCAA Division II football season. In their seventh season under head coach Roy Kramer, the Chippewas compiled a 7\u20134 record and outscored their opponents, 197 to 151. The team played its home games in Perry Shorts Stadium in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, with attendance of 78,547 in five home games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095438-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Central Michigan Chippewas football team\nThe team's statistical leaders included quarterback Mike Franckowiak with 655 passing yards, running back Jim Sandy with 1,168 rushing yards, and Matt Means with 553 receiving yards. Sandy received the team's most valuable player award. George Duranko set a school record with a 100-yard interception return against Eastern Michigan on November 10, 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095439-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Ceredigion District Council election\nThe first election to Ceredigion District Council was held in April 1973. It was followed by the 1976 election. On the same day there were elections to the other local authorities and community councils in Wales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095440-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Championship of Australia\nThe 1973 Championship of Australia was the 17th edition of the Championship of Australia, an ANFC-organised national club Australian rules football tournament between the champion clubs from the VFL, the SANFL, the WANFL and the Tasmanian State Premiership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095440-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Championship of Australia, Fixtures, Championship of Australia Final\nThis Australian rules football competition-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 73], "content_span": [74, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095441-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Charlotte Tennis Classic\nThe 1973 Charlotte Tennis Classic, also known by its sponsored name North Carolina National Bank Tennis Classic, was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts that was part of group B of the World Championship Tennis (WCT) circuit. It was the third edition of the tournament and was held from April 17 through April 22, 1973 at the Julian J. Clark Tennis Stadium on the grounds of the Olde Providence Racquet Club in Charlotte, North Carolina in the United States. First-seeded Ken Rosewall won his second successive singles title at the event and earned $10,000 first-prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095441-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Charlotte Tennis Classic, Finals, Doubles\nTom Okker / Marty Riessen defeated Tom Gorman / Erik van Dillen 7\u20136, 3\u20136, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095442-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Chatham Cup\nThe 1973 Chatham Cup was the 46th annual nationwide knockout football competition in New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095442-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Chatham Cup\nThe organisation of the cup was changed from previous years, with early stages being run in three large zones (northern, central, and southern), rather than by individual associations as had previously been the case. National League teams received a bye until the later stages of the competition. In all, 103 teams took part in the competition. Note: Different sources give different numberings for the rounds of the competition: some start round one with the beginning of the regional qualifications; others start numbering from the first national knock-out stage. The former numbering scheme is used in this article.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 635]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095442-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Chatham Cup, The 1973 final\nThe final was moved from the Basin Reserve for the first time since 1928, excluding replays. The 1973 final was - also excluding replays - the first to be held outside Wellington. Part of the reason for the move was because - for the first time ever - both finalists came from Auckland. This was only the second time (after 1971) that both finalists had come from the same urban area. The venue was to alternate between Auckland and Christchurch for several years from 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 32], "content_span": [33, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095442-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Chatham Cup, The 1973 final\nMount Wellington made up for their narrow loss in the marathon final of the 1972 Chatham Cup by inflicting a sound defeat on their neighbours from across the Waitemat\u0101 Harbour. Coach Ken Armstrong added to his impressive tally of cup victories both on and off the field. Shore's cause was not helped when keeper Turner had to be substituted early on after an injury, but even without this handicap the Mount would have proven the stronger side. All the goals came from Mount Wellington's players, with two from Dave Taylor and one from John Houghton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 32], "content_span": [33, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095442-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Chatham Cup, Results, Third Round\n* Won on penalties by Rangers (4-3), Manurewa (6-5), and North End (6-5)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 38], "content_span": [39, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095443-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Chattanooga Moccasins football team\nThe 1973 Chattanooga Moccasins football team was an American football team that represented the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga during the 1973 NCAA Division II football season. In their first year under head coach Joe Morrison, the team compiled a 4\u20137 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095444-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Chester-le-Street by-election\nThe Chester-le-Street by-election, 1973 was a parliamentary by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Chester-le-Street on 1 March 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095444-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Chester-le-Street by-election, Vacancy\nThe by-election had been caused by the death aged 60 years on 28 October 1972 of the sitting Labour Member of Parliament (MP) Norman Pentland. Pentland had held Chester-le-Street since himself winning a by-election there on 27 September 1956.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 43], "content_span": [44, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095444-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Chester-le-Street by-election, Candidates\nThe Labour Party chose Giles Radice, the then Head of the Research Department of the General and Municipal Workers Union as their candidate. The Conservatives selected merchant banker Neil Balfour and the Liberals adopted George Suggett, an antique dealer from Newbury in Berkshire but who had been born in the constituency and who was the son of a Durham miner. The Liberals had not contested any Parliamentary election in Chester-le-Street since the 1929 general election. Suggett himself had previously stood for the Newbury seat in 1945 as a member of the Common Wealth Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 627]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095444-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Chester-le-Street by-election, Previous general election\nThe contest in Chester-le-Street at the 1970 general election had been a straight fight between Labour and Conservative parties at which Norman Pentland had a healthy majority of 20,331 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 61], "content_span": [62, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095444-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Chester-le-Street by-election, Political background to the by-election\nBy any measure Chester-le-Street was a very safe Labour seat and the party had held it for nearly 70 years. At a time of Conservative government which was proving difficult for Prime Minister Edward Heath, damaged politically as he was by a series of economic and social problems there was no expectation of a serious challenge for Tory candidate Neil Balfour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 75], "content_span": [76, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095444-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Chester-le-Street by-election, Political background to the by-election\nThe by-election came at a better time for the Liberal Party. The Liberals had won two by-elections at the end of 1972; the first at Rochdale had been won from Labour by Cyril Smith, the second at Sutton and Cheam had been captured from the Conservatives. Cook & Ramsden characterise 1972-73 as a time of Liberal surge. Further by-election success would follow for the Liberals during the 1970-1974 Parliament. Further difficulties would also follow for Labour with the by-election at Lincoln which was held on the same day as Chester-le-Street.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 75], "content_span": [76, 620]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095444-0005-0001", "contents": "1973 Chester-le-Street by-election, Political background to the by-election\nThis resulted in the return to Parliament of Dick Taverne standing for election as Democratic Labour candidate, having fallen out with his local Constituency Labour Party. The problems Labour experienced in Lincoln, particularly in relation to the pro-European views of people like Taverne and Roy Jenkins, have been cited as an early example of the kind of problems which led ultimately to the split in the Labour Party in 1981 and the formation of the Social Democratic Party. In July 1974 similar trouble emerged for Labour with the defection to the Liberals of Christopher Mayhew, Labour MP for Woolwich East.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 75], "content_span": [76, 689]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095444-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Chester-le-Street by-election, By-election issues\nLabour fought on the poor record of the Conservative government. The Tories highlighted improvements in pensions and government investment in regional development in the North East of England. The Liberals were starting from scratch in their campaign and attacked Labour for its complacency in an area which it was alleged they took their support for granted and the Conservatives on their performance on questions such as poverty and unemployment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 54], "content_span": [55, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095444-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Chester-le-Street by-election, By-election issues, Nomination of Giles Radice\nAn issue which surfaced during the campaign and which caused a great deal of bitterness was the question of how Labour candidate Giles Radice had been selected. The New Statesman magazine published an article on 23 February 1973, written by journalist Richard West, alleging that officials of the General and Municipal Workers Union had systematically gained control of the Chester-le-Street Constituency Labour Party and had in effect gerrymandered their representation in the division to obtain more votes than affiliated branches of other trade unions. In his article West claimed that the union's tactics had proved unpopular and divisive inside the local Labour party with 'loyal party workers' and some groups, such as the women's section, being particularly disgruntled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 82], "content_span": [83, 860]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095444-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Chester-le-Street by-election, By-election issues, Liberal 'smears'\nIn the aftermath of this controversy, Labour turned its attack on the campaign of the Liberal candidate, accusing George Suggett of trying to smear Giles Radice personally and of trying to capitalise unfairly on the nomination issue. At the declaration of the votes, Radice announced that whereas the Conservatives had conducted a clean and honest campaign, he was not going to comment on the approach of his other opponent. As Suggett tried to make his speech after the declaration he was constantly heckled and jeered by the Labour supporters, who were later silent for the speech of Neil Balfour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 72], "content_span": [73, 672]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095444-0008-0001", "contents": "1973 Chester-le-Street by-election, By-election issues, Liberal 'smears'\nSuggett denied he had smeared Radice and invited the press to review his election literature and campaign speeches for any evidence of misconduct. He said the real reason was so angry was that the Liberals had \"broken the weighbridge on which the Labour majority in Chester-le-Street used to be weighed\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 72], "content_span": [73, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095444-0008-0002", "contents": "1973 Chester-le-Street by-election, By-election issues, Liberal 'smears'\nCyril Smith, who had campaigned for Suggett in the by-election, recalled later that he deliberately, if obliquely, had raised the issue of political corruption by mentioning in a speech at the opening of the campaign the T. Dan Smith affair and how it was uncovering new instances of corruption amongst Labour councillors in the North East, including one from Chester-le-Street who later went to prison. As far as the Liberal Party was concerned, commented Smith, this was legitimate political meat and needed no apology.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 72], "content_span": [73, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095444-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Chester-le-Street by-election, The result\nRadice held the seat for Labour with a majority of 7,066 over Suggett, having taken 53% of the poll. Balfour came third, losing his deposit. Radice went on to represent Chester-le-Street in the Labour interest until the seat was abolished in 1983. He was then selected as Labour candidate for North Durham the successor seat which included large parts of the old Chester-le-Street constituency, until he stood down from Parliament at the 2001 general election. Neil Balfour fought Chester-le-Street again at the February 1974 general election again coming third behind the Liberals. Perhaps bruised by the attacks upon him, Suggett does not appear to have been a candidate at any further Parliamentary elections but played an active but more backroom role in Newbury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 814]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095445-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Chicago Bears season\nThe 1973 Chicago Bears season was their 54th regular season completed in the National Football League. The team finished with a 3\u201311 record, the second worst showing in franchise history until 43 years later in 2016, when the team finished 3\u201313.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095446-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Chicago Cubs season\nThe 1973 Chicago Cubs season was the 102nd season of the Chicago Cubs franchise, the 98th in the National League and the 58th at Wrigley Field. The Cubs finished fifth in the National League East with a record of 77\u201384.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095446-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Chicago Cubs season, Regular season\nAfter a strong finish to the 1972 season, the Cubs dominated the National League East for the first half of 1973. On June 29, they were 47\u201331 with an 8.5 game lead in the National League East. But then the Cubs fell into a deep swoon, losing 33 of their next 42 games, including 11 straight losses from August 4\u201316, to fall below .500 and out of the division lead. However, the rest of the division was so mediocre that it was nicknamed the \"National League Least\", enabling the Cubs to stay in contention even as they remained below .500.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095446-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Chicago Cubs season, Regular season\nIn fact, 1973 was the only season between 1945 and 1984 in which the Cubs were still in contention on the last day of the regular season, September 30. Due to several rainouts, the Cubs still had four games to play against the first place Mets, so double headers were scheduled for September 30 and October 1, the day after the end of the season. If the Cubs were to win all four games, there could have been an unprecedented five-way tie for first place, with each team having a below .500 record of 80\u201382 (also unprecedented). It would have taken at least three days of games to break a five-way tie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 643]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095446-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Chicago Cubs season, Regular season\nRain was still in the forecast for both days, and with Wrigley Field having no lights, National League president Chub Feeney ordered both double headers to start at 10AM (again, unprecedented), making it clear that the umpires would wait out any rain as long as there was daylight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095446-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Chicago Cubs season, Regular season\nThe Cubs won the first game on September 30, and suddenly it seemed possible that the most unusual end to any season of baseball might happen. But the Mets won the second game, eliminating three of the teams, including the Cubs. On a dismal October 1, in light cold rain, the Mets won the first game and clinched the NL East. The second game was immediately canceled. Milt Pappas was scheduled to pitch for the Cubs in the second game, and the cancellation cost him his chance for his 100th victory in the National League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095446-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Chicago Cubs season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 69], "content_span": [70, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095446-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Chicago Cubs season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 62], "content_span": [63, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095446-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Chicago Cubs season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 67], "content_span": [68, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095446-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Chicago Cubs season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 64], "content_span": [65, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095446-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Chicago Cubs season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 65], "content_span": [66, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095447-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Chicago White Sox season\nThe 1973 Chicago White Sox season was the team's 73rd season in the major leagues, and its 74th season overall. They finished with a record 77\u201385, good enough for fifth place in the American League West, 17 games behind the first-place Oakland Athletics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095447-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Chicago White Sox season, Player stats, Batting\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs scored; H = Hits; 2B = Doubles; 3B = Triples; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; BB = Base on balls; SO = Strikeouts; AVG = Batting average; SB = Stolen bases", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 52], "content_span": [53, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095447-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Chicago White Sox season, Player stats, Pitching\nNote: W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; SV = Saves; IP = Innings pitched; H = Hits allowed; R = Runs allowed; ER = Earned runs allowed; HR = Home runs allowed; BB = Walks allowed; K = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095448-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Chichester District Council election\nElections to Chichester District Council in West Sussex, United Kingdom were held on 7 June 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095448-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Chichester District Council election\nThe whole council was up for election and resulted in no overall control.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095449-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Chico State Wildcats football team\nThe 1973 Chico State Wildcats football team represented Chico State University during the 1973 NCAA Division II football season. Chico State competed in the Far Western Conference in 1973. They played home games at University Stadium in Chico, California. This was the first year the stadium was named University Stadium. With the school's change to University status in 1972, the stadium was renamed from \"College Field\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095449-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Chico State Wildcats football team\nThe 1973 Wildcats were led by sixth-year head coach Pete Riehlman. Chico State finished the season as co-champion of the FWC, with a record of seven wins and three losses (7\u20133, 4\u20131 FWC). The Wildcats outscored their opponents 185\u2013152 for the season. This was the last season coach Riehlman was at the helm. In his six years, the Wildcats compiled a record of 41\u201320, a .672 winning percentage. That's the highest winning percentage of any head coach in Chico State's history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095449-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Chico State Wildcats football team, Team players in the NFL\nNo Chico State players were selected in the 1974 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095449-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Chico State Wildcats football team, Team players in the NFL\nThe following finished their Chico State career in 1973, were not drafted, but played in the NFL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 64], "content_span": [65, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat\nThe 1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat was a military coup in Chile that deposed the Popular Unity government of President Salvador Allende. On 11 September 1973, after an extended period of social unrest and political tension between the opposition-controlled Congress and the socialist President, as well as economic war ordered by U.S. President Richard Nixon, a group of military officers led by General Augusto Pinochet seized power in a coup, ending civilian rule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat\nThe military established a junta that suspended all political activity in Chile and repressed left-wing movements, especially communist and socialist parties and the Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR). Pinochet rose to supreme power within a year of the coup and was formally declared President of Chile in late 1974. The Nixon administration, which had worked to create the conditions for the coup, promptly recognized the junta government and supported it in consolidating power.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat\nDuring the air raids and ground attacks that preceded the coup, Allende gave his final speech, vowing to stay in the presidential palace and refusing offers of safe passage should he choose exile over confrontation. Direct witness accounts of Allende's death agree that he killed himself in the palace.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat\nBefore the coup, Chile had been hailed as a beacon of democracy and political stability for decades, a period in which the rest of South America had been plagued by military juntas and caudillismo. The collapse of Chilean democracy ended a succession of democratic governments in Chile, which had held democratic elections since 1932. Historian Peter Winn characterised the 1973 coup as one of the most violent events in the history of Chile. A weak insurgent movement against the Pinochet regime was maintained inside Chile by elements sympathetic to the former Allende government. An internationally supported plebiscite in 1988 held under the auspices of the military dictatorship was followed by a peaceful transition to an elected civilian government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 781]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat\nDue to occurring on the same date as the September 11 attacks in 2001, the coup has often been referred to as \"the other 9/11\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Political background\nAllende contested the 1970 presidential election with Jorge Alessandri Rodriguez of the National Party and Radomiro Tomic of the Christian Democratic Party. Allende received 36.6% of the vote. Alessandri was a very close second with 35.3%, and Tomic third with 28.1%. Although Allende received the highest number of votes, according to the Chilean constitution and since none of the candidates won by an absolute majority, the National Congress had to decide among the candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 46], "content_span": [47, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Political background\nThe 1925 constitution did not allow a person to be president for two consecutive terms. The incumbent president, Eduardo Frei Montalva, was therefore ineligible as a candidate. The CIA's \"Track I\" operation was a plan to influence the Congress to choose Alessandri, who would resign after a short time in office, forcing a second election. Frei would then be eligible to run. Alessandri announced on 9 September that if Congress chose him, he would resign. Allende signed a Statute of Constitutional Guarantees, which stated that he would follow the constitution during his presidency trying to shore up support for his candidacy. Congress then decided on Allende.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 46], "content_span": [47, 711]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Political background\nThe U.S. feared the example of a \"well-functioning socialist experiment\" in the region and exerted diplomatic, economic, and covert pressure upon Chile's elected socialist government. At the end of 1971, the Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro made a four-week state visit to Chile, alarming American observers worried about the \"Chilean Way to Socialism\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 46], "content_span": [47, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Political background\nIn 1972, Economics Minister Pedro Vuskovic adopted monetary policies that increased the amount of circulating currency and devalued the escudo, which increased inflation to 140 percent in 1972 and engendered a black market economy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 46], "content_span": [47, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Political background\nIn October 1972, Chile suffered the first of many strikes. Among the participants were small-scale businessmen, some professional unions, and student groups. Its leaders \u2013 Vilar\u00edn, Jaime Guzm\u00e1n, Rafael Cumsille, Guillermo Elton, Eduardo Arriagada \u2013 expected to depose the elected government. Other than damaging the national economy, the principal effect of the 24-day strike was drawing Army head, Gen. Carlos Prats, into the government as Interior Minister, an appeasement to the right wing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 46], "content_span": [47, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0009-0001", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Political background\n(Gen. Prats had succeeded Army head Gen. Ren\u00e9 Schneider after his assassination on 24 October 1970 by a group led by Gen. Roberto Viaux, whom the Central Intelligence Agency had not attempted to discourage.) Gen. Prats supported the legalist Schneider Doctrine and refused military involvement in a coup d'\u00e9tat against President Allende.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 46], "content_span": [47, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Political background\nDespite the declining economy, President Allende's Popular Unity coalition increased its vote to 43.2% in the March 1973 parliamentary elections; but, by then, the informal alliance between Popular Unity and the Christian Democrats ended. The Christian Democrats allied with the right-wing National Party, who were opposed to Allende's government; the two right-wing parties formed the Confederation of Democracy (CODE). The internecine parliamentary conflict between the legislature and the executive branch paralyzed the activities of government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 46], "content_span": [47, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Political background\nAllende began to fear his opponents, convinced they were plotting his assassination. Using his daughter as a messenger, he explained the situation to Fidel Castro. Castro gave four pieces of advice: convince technicians to stay in Chile, sell only copper for US dollars, do not engage in extreme revolutionary acts which would give opponents an excuse to wreck or control the economy, and maintain a proper relationship with the Chilean military until local militias could be established and consolidated. Allende attempted to follow Castro's advice, but the latter two recommendations proved difficult.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 46], "content_span": [47, 650]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0012-0000", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Political background, The military prior to the coup\nPrior to the coup, the Chilean military had undergone a process of de-politicization since the 1920s, when military personnel participated in government positions. Subsequently, most military officers remained under-funded, having only subsistence salaries. Because of the low salaries, the military spent much time in military leisure-time facilities (e.g. country clubs) where they met other officers and their families. The military remained apart from society, and was to some degree an endogamous group as officers frequently married the sisters of their comrades or the daughters of high-ranked older officers. Many officers also had relatives in the military.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 78], "content_span": [79, 745]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0012-0001", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Political background, The military prior to the coup\nIn 1969 elements of the military made their first act of rebellion in 40 years when they participated in the Tacnazo insurrection. The Tacnazo was not a proper coup, but a protest against under-funding. In retrospect General Carlos Prats considered that Christian Democrats who were in power in 1969 committed the error of not taking the military's grievances seriously.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 78], "content_span": [79, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0013-0000", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Political background, The military prior to the coup\nGovernments of Brazil (1964), Argentina (1966), Peru (1968), and Bolivia (1969) were all overthrown in coups and replaced by military governments. In June 1973 Uruguay joined the coup d'\u00e9tat wave that swept through the region. The poor conditions of the Chilean military contrasted with the change of fortune the military of neighboring countries experienced as they came to power in coups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 78], "content_span": [79, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0014-0000", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Political background, The military prior to the coup\nDuring the decades prior to the coup, the military became influenced by the United States' anti-communist ideology in the context of various cooperation programs including the US Army School of the Americas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 78], "content_span": [79, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0015-0000", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Crisis\nOn 29 June 1973, Colonel Roberto Souper surrounded the La Moneda presidential palace with his tank regiment and failed to depose the Allende Government. That failed coup d\u2019\u00e9tat \u2013 known as the Tanquetazo tank putsch \u2013 had been organized by the nationalist \"Fatherland and Liberty\" paramilitary group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0016-0000", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Crisis\nIn August 1973, a constitutional crisis occurred; the Supreme Court publicly complained about the government's inability to enforce the law of the land. On 22 August, the Chamber of Deputies (with the Christian Democrats united with the National Party) accused the government of unconstitutional acts and called upon the military to enforce constitutional order.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0017-0000", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Crisis\nFor months, the government had feared calling upon the Carabineros national police, suspecting them of disloyalty. On 9 August, Allende appointed General Carlos Prats as Minister of Defense. He was forced to resign both as defense minister and as the Army commander-in-chief on 24 August 1973, embarrassed by the Alejandrina Cox incident and a public protest of the wives of his generals at his house. General Augusto Pinochet replaced him as Army commander-in-chief the same day. In late August 1973, 100,000 Chilean women congregated at Plaza de la Constituci\u00f3n to protest against the government for the rising cost and increasing shortages of food and fuels, but they were dispersed with tear gas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 733]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0018-0000", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Crisis, Chamber of Deputies' resolution\nOn 22 August 1973, with the support of the Christian Democrats and National Party members, the Chamber of Deputies passed 81\u201347 a resolution that asked \"the President of the Republic, Ministers of State, and members of the Armed and Police Forces\" to \"put an immediate end\" to \"breach[es of] the Constitution . . . with the goal of redirecting government activity toward the path of Law and ensuring the Constitutional order of our Nation, and the essential underpinnings of democratic co-existence among Chileans.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 65], "content_span": [66, 581]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0019-0000", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Crisis, Chamber of Deputies' resolution\nThe resolution declared that the Allende Government sought \". . . to conquer absolute power with the obvious purpose of subjecting all citizens to the strictest political and economic control by the State . . . [ with] the goal of establishing a totalitarian system\", claiming it had made \"violations of the Constitution . . . a permanent system of conduct.\" Essentially, most of the accusations were about the government disregarding the separation of powers, and arrogating legislative and judicial prerogatives to the executive branch of government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 65], "content_span": [66, 618]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0019-0001", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Crisis, Chamber of Deputies' resolution\nFinally, the resolution condemned the \"creation and development of government-protected armed groups, which . . . are headed towards a confrontation with the armed forces\". President Allende's efforts to re-organize the military and the police forces were characterised as \"notorious attempts to use the armed and police forces for partisan ends, destroy their institutional hierarchy, and politically infiltrate their ranks\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 65], "content_span": [66, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0020-0000", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Crisis, Chamber of Deputies' resolution\nIt can be argued that the resolution called upon the armed forces to overthrow the government if it did not comply, as follows: \"To present the President of the Republic, Ministers of State, and members of the Armed and Police Forces with the grave breakdown of the legal and constitutional order ... it is their duty to put an immediate end to all situations herein referred to that breach the Constitution and the laws of the land with the aim of redirecting government activity toward the path of Law.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 65], "content_span": [66, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0021-0000", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Crisis, President Allende's response\nTwo days later, on 24 August 1973, President Allende responded, characterising the Congress' declaration as \"destined to damage the country\u2019s prestige abroad and create internal confusion\", predicting \"It will facilitate the seditious intention of certain sectors\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 62], "content_span": [63, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0021-0001", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Crisis, President Allende's response\nHe noted that the declaration had not obtained the two-thirds Senate majority \"constitutionally required\" to convict the president of abuse of power: essentially, the Congress was \"invoking the intervention of the armed forces and of Order against a democratically elected government\" and \"subordinat[ing] political representation of national sovereignty to the armed institutions, which neither can nor ought to assume either political functions or the representation of the popular will\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 62], "content_span": [63, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0022-0000", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Crisis, President Allende's response\nAllende argued he had obeyed constitutional means for including military men to the cabinet \"at the service of civic peace and national security, defending republican institutions against insurrection and terrorism\". In contrast, he said that Congress was promoting a coup d\u2019\u00e9tat or civil war with a declaration \"full of affirmations that had already been refuted before-hand\" and which, in substance and process (directly handing it to the ministers rather than directly handing it to the President) violated a dozen articles of the Constitution. He further argued that the legislature was usurping the government's executive function.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 62], "content_span": [63, 699]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0023-0000", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Crisis, President Allende's response\nPresident Allende wrote: \"Chilean democracy is a conquest by all of the people. It is neither the work nor the gift of the exploiting classes, and it will be defended by those who, with sacrifices accumulated over generations, have imposed it . . . With a tranquil conscience . . . I sustain that never before has Chile had a more democratic government than that over which I have the honor to preside . . . I solemnly reiterate my decision to develop democracy and a state of law to their ultimate consequences . . . Parliament has made itself a bastion against the transformations . . . and has done everything it can to perturb the functioning of the finances and of the institutions, sterilizing all creative initiatives\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 62], "content_span": [63, 789]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0024-0000", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Crisis, President Allende's response\nAdding that economic and political means would be needed to relieve the country's current crisis, and that the Congress was obstructing said means\u2014having already \"paralyzed\" the State\u2014they sought to \"destroy\" it. He concluded by calling upon \"the workers, all democrats and patriots\" to join him in defending the Chilean Constitution and the \"revolutionary process\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 62], "content_span": [63, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0025-0000", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Foreign involvement, United States\nLike Caesar peering into the colonies from distant Rome, Nixon said the choice of government by the Chileans was unacceptable to the president of the United States. The attitude in the White House seemed to be, \"If in the wake of Vietnam I can no longer send in the Marines, then I will send in the CIA. \"\u2014Senator Frank Church, 1976", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 60], "content_span": [61, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0026-0000", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Foreign involvement, United States\nMany people in different parts of the world immediately suspected the U.S. of foul play. In early newspaper reports, the U.S. denied any involvement or previous knowledge of the coup. Prompted by an incriminating New York Times article, the U.S. Senate opened an investigation into U.S. interference in Chile. A report prepared by the United States Intelligence Community in 2000, at the direction of the National Intelligence Council, that echoed the Church committee, states that", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 60], "content_span": [61, 542]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0027-0000", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Foreign involvement, United States\nAlthough CIA did not instigate the coup that ended Allende's government on 11 September 1973, it was aware of coup-plotting by the military, had ongoing intelligence collection relationships with some plotters, and\u2014because CIA did not discourage the takeover and had sought to instigate a coup in 1970\u2014probably appeared to condone it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 60], "content_span": [61, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0028-0000", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Foreign involvement, United States\nThe report stated that the CIA \"actively supported the military Junta after the overthrow of Allende but did not assist Pinochet to assume the Presidency.\" After a review of recordings of telephone conversations between Nixon and Henry Kissinger, Robert Dallek concluded that both of them used the CIA to actively destabilize the Allende government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 60], "content_span": [61, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0028-0001", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Foreign involvement, United States\nIn one particular conversation about the news of Allende's overthrow, Kissinger complained about the lack of recognition of the American role in the overthrow of a \"communist\" government, upon which Nixon remarked, \"Well, we didn't \u2013 as you know \u2013 our hand doesn't show on this one.\" A later CIA report contended that US agents maintained close ties with the Chilean military to collect intelligence but no effort was made to assist them and \"under no circumstances attempted to influence them.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 60], "content_span": [61, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0029-0000", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Foreign involvement, United States\nHistorian Peter Winn found \"extensive evidence\" of United States complicity in the coup. He states that its covert support was crucial to engineering the coup, as well as for the consolidation of power by the Pinochet regime following the takeover. Winn documents an extensive CIA operation to fabricate reports of a coup against Allende, as justification for the imposition of military rule. Peter Kornbluh asserts that the CIA destabilized Chile and helped create the conditions for the coup, citing documents declassified by the Clinton administration. Other authors point to the involvement of the Defense Intelligence Agency, agents of which allegedly secured the missiles used to bombard the La Moneda Palace.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 60], "content_span": [61, 776]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0030-0000", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Foreign involvement, United States\nThe U.S. Government's hostility to the election of Allende in 1970 in Chile was substantiated in documents declassified during the Clinton administration, which show that CIA covert operatives were inserted in Chile in order to prevent a Marxist government from arising and for the purpose of spreading anti-Allende propaganda. As described in the Church Committee report, the CIA was involved in multiple plots designed to remove Allende and then let the Chileans vote in a new election where he would not be a candidate. The first, non-military, approach involved attempting a constitutional coup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 60], "content_span": [61, 660]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0030-0001", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Foreign involvement, United States\nThis was known as the Track I approach, in which the CIA, with the approval of the 40 Committee, attempted to bribe the Chilean legislature, tried to influence public opinion against Allende, and provided funding to strikes designed to coerce him into resigning. It also attempted to get congress to confirm Jorge Alessandri as the winner of the presidential election. Alessandri, who was an accessory to the conspiracy, was ready to then resign and call for fresh elections. This approach completely failed in 1970 and was not attempted again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 60], "content_span": [61, 605]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0031-0000", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Foreign involvement, United States\nThe other approach of the CIA in 1970 (but not later), also known as the Track II approach, was an attempt to encourage a military coup by creating a climate of crisis across the country. A CIA telegram to the Chile station stated: \u201cIt is firm and continuing policy that Allende be overthrown by a coup. It would be much preferable to have this transpire prior to 24 October but efforts in this regard will continue vigorously beyond this date. We are to continue to generate maximum pressure toward this end utilizing every appropriate resource.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 60], "content_span": [61, 607]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0031-0001", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Foreign involvement, United States\nIt is imperative that these actions be implemented clandestinely and securely so that the USG and American hand be well hidden.\u201d False flag operatives contacted senior Chilean military officers and informed them that the U.S. would actively support a coup, but would revoke all military aid if such a coup did not happen. In addition, the CIA gave extensive support for black propaganda against Allende, channeled mostly through El Mercurio. Financial assistance was also given to Allende's political opponents, and for organizing strikes and unrest to destabilize the government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 60], "content_span": [61, 641]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0031-0002", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Foreign involvement, United States\nBy 1970, the U.S. manufacturing company ITT Corporation owned 70% of Chitelco (the Chilean Telephone Company), and also funded El Mercurio. The CIA used ITT as a means of disguising the source of the illegitimate funding Allende's opponents received. On 28 September 1973, unknown bombers bombed ITT's headquarters in New York City, supposedly in retaliation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 60], "content_span": [61, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0032-0000", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Foreign involvement, United States\nAccording to an article written by lifelong CIA operative Jack Devine, although it was widely reported that the CIA was directly involved in orchestrating and carrying out the coup, subsequently released sources suggest a much reduced role of the US government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 60], "content_span": [61, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0033-0000", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Foreign involvement, Australian\nAn Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS) station was established in Chile at the Australian embassy in July 1971 at the request of the CIA and authorised by then Liberal Party Foreign Minister William McMahon. Newly elected Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam was informed of the operation in February 1973 and signed a document ordering the closure of the operation several weeks later. It appears, however, the last ASIS agent did not leave Chile until October 1973, one month after the coup d'\u00e9tat had brought down the Allende Government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 57], "content_span": [58, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0033-0001", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Foreign involvement, Australian\nThere were also two officers of Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), Australia's internal security service, who were based in Santiago working as migration officers during this period. The failure of timely closure of Australia's covert operations was one of the reasons for the sacking of the Director of ASIS on 21 October 1975. This took effect on 7 November, just four days before Prime Minister's Whitlam's own dismissal in the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis with allegations of CIA political interference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 57], "content_span": [58, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0034-0000", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Foreign involvement, Australian\nIn June 2021, Clinton Fernandes, a former intelligence analyst, announced that he was trying to confirm the rumours of Australia's involvement in the coup by fighting for the declassification of key documents. On 10 September 2021, the day before the 48th anniversary of the coup, declassified documents confirmed that McMahon did indeed approve the CIA's request to conduct covert operations in Chile.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 57], "content_span": [58, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0035-0000", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Military action\nBy 7:00\u00a0am on 11 September 1973, a date chosen to match the historical coup of 12 September 1924, the Navy captured Valpara\u00edso, strategically stationing ships and marine infantry in the central coast and closed radio and television networks. The Province Prefect informed President Allende of the Navy's actions; immediately, the president went to the presidential palace with his bodyguards, the \"Group of Personal Friends\" (GAP). By 8:00\u00a0am, the Army had closed most radio and television stations in Santiago city; the Air Force bombed the remaining active stations; the President received incomplete information, and was convinced that only a sector of the Navy conspired against him and his government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 41], "content_span": [42, 748]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0036-0000", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Military action\nPresident Allende and Defense Minister Orlando Letelier were unable to communicate with military leaders. Admiral Montero, the Navy's commander and an Allende loyalist, was rendered incommunicado; his telephone service was cut and his cars were sabotaged before the coup d\u2019\u00e9tat, to ensure he could not thwart the opposition. Leadership of the Navy was transferred to Jos\u00e9 Toribio Merino, planner of the coup d\u2019\u00e9tat and executive officer to Adm. Montero. Augusto Pinochet, General of the Army, and Gustavo Leigh, General of the Air Force, did not answer Allende's telephone calls to them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 41], "content_span": [42, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0036-0001", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Military action\nThe General Director of the Carabineros (uniformed police), Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Sep\u00falveda, and the head of the Investigations Police (plain clothes detectives), Alfredo Joignant answered Allende's calls and immediately went to the La Moneda presidential palace. When Defense Minister Letelier arrived at the Ministry of Defense, controlled by Adm. Patricio Carvajal, he was arrested as the first prisoner of the coup d\u2019\u00e9tat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 41], "content_span": [42, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0037-0000", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Military action\nDespite evidence that all branches of the Chilean armed forces were involved in the coup, Allende hoped that some units remained loyal to the government. Allende was convinced of Pinochet's loyalty, telling a reporter that the coup d\u2019\u00e9tat leaders must have imprisoned the general. Only at 8:30\u00a0am, when the armed forces declared their control of Chile and that Allende was deposed, did the president grasp the magnitude of the military's rebellion. Despite the lack of any military support, Allende refused to resign his office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 41], "content_span": [42, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0038-0000", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Military action\nAt approx. 9:00 the carabineros of the La Moneda left the building. By 9:00\u00a0am, the armed forces controlled Chile, except for the city centre of the capital, Santiago. Allende refused to surrender, despite the military's declaring they would bomb the La Moneda presidential palace if he resisted being deposed. The Socialist Party along with his Cuban advisors proposed to Allende that he escape to the San Joaqu\u00edn industrial zone in southern Santiago, to later re-group and lead a counter-coup d\u2019\u00e9tat; the president rejected the proposition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 41], "content_span": [42, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0038-0001", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Military action\nAccording to Tanya Harmer, Allende's refusal to lead an insurgency against the coup is evidence of his unrelenting desire to bring about change through non-violent methods. The military attempted negotiations with Allende, but the President refused to resign, citing his constitutional duty to remain in office. Finally, Allende gave a farewell speech, telling the nation of the coup d\u2019\u00e9tat and his refusal to resign his elected office under threat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 41], "content_span": [42, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0039-0000", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Military action\nLeigh ordered the presidential palace bombed, but was told the Air Force's Hawker Hunter jet aircraft would take forty minutes to arrive. Pinochet ordered an armoured and infantry force under General Sergio Arellano to advance upon the La Moneda presidential palace. When the troops moved forward, they were forced to retreat after coming under fire from GAP snipers perched on rooftops. General Arellano called for helicopter gunship support from the commander of the Chilean Army Puma helicopter squadron and the troops were able to advance again. Chilean Air Force aircraft soon arrived to provide close air support for the assault (by bombing the Palace), but the defenders did not surrender until nearly 2:30\u00a0pm. First reports said the 65-year-old president had died fighting troops, but later police sources reported he had committed suicide.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 41], "content_span": [42, 890]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0040-0000", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Casualties\nIn the first months after the coup d\u2019\u00e9tat, the military killed thousands of Chilean leftists, both real and suspected, or forced their \"disappearance\". The military imprisoned 40,000 political enemies in the National Stadium of Chile; among the tortured and killed desaparecidos (disappeared) were the U.S. citizens Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi. In October 1973, the Chilean songwriter V\u00edctor Jara was murdered, along with 70 other people in a series of killings perpetrated by the death squad Caravan of Death (Caravana de la Muerte).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0041-0000", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Casualties\nThe government arrested some 130,000 people in a three-year period; the dead and disappeared numbered thousands in the first months of the military government. Those include the British physician Sheila Cassidy, who survived to publicize in the UK the human rights violations in Chile. Among those detained was Alberto Bachelet (father of future Chilean President Michelle Bachelet), an Air Force official; he was tortured and died on 12 March 1974, the right-wing newspaper, El Mercurio, reported that Mr Bachelet died after a basketball game, citing his poor cardiac health. Michelle Bachelet and her mother were imprisoned and tortured in the Villa Grimaldi detention and torture centre on 10 January 1975.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 746]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0042-0000", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Casualties\nAfter Gen. Pinochet lost the election in the 1988 plebiscite, the Rettig Commission, a multi-partisan truth commission, in 1991 reported the location of torture and detention centers, among others, Colonia Dignidad, the tall ship Esmeralda and V\u00edctor Jara Stadium. Later, in November 2004, the Valech Report confirmed the number as fewer than 3,000 killed, and reduced the number of cases of forced disappearance; but some 28,000 people were arrested, imprisoned, and tortured. Sixty individuals died as a direct result of fighting on 11 September, although the MIR and GAP continued to fight the following day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 648]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0042-0001", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Casualties\nIn all, 46 of Allende's guard (the GAP, Grupo de Amigos Personales) were killed, some of them in combat with the soldiers that took the Moneda. Allende's Cuban-trained guard would have had about 300 elite commando-trained GAP fighters at the time of the coup, but the use of brute military force, especially the use of Hawker Hunters, may have handicapped many GAP fighters from further action.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0043-0000", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Casualties\nAccording to official reports prepared after the return of democracy, at La Moneda only two people died: President Allende and the journalist Augusto Olivares (both by suicide). Two more were injured, Antonio Aguirre and Osvaldo Ramos, both members of President Allende's entourage; they would later be allegedly kidnapped from the hospital and disappeared. In November 2006, the Associated Press noted that more than 15 bodyguards and aides were taken from the palace during the coup and are still unaccounted for; in 2006 Augusto Pinochet was indicted for two of their deaths.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0044-0000", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Casualties\nOn the military side, there were 34 deaths: two army sergeants, three army corporals, four army privates, 2 navy lieutenants, 1 navy corporal, 4 naval cadets, 3 navy conscripts and 15 carabineros. In mid-September, the Chilean military junta claimed its troops suffered another 16 dead and 100 injured by gunfire in mopping-up operations against Allende supporters, and Pinochet said: \"sadly there are still some armed groups who insist on attacking, which means that the military rules of wartime apply to them.\" A press photographer also died in the crossfire while attempting to cover the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 635]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0044-0001", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Casualties\nOn 23 October 1973, 23-year-old army corporal Benjam\u00edn Alfredo Jaramillo Ruz, who was serving with the Cazadores, became the first fatal casualty of the counterinsurgency operations in the mountainous area of Alquihue in Valdivia after being shot by a sniper. The Chilean Army suffered 12 killed in various clashes with MIR guerrillas and GAP fighters in October 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0045-0000", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Casualties\nWhile fatalities in the battle during the coup might have been relatively small, the Chilean security forces sustained 162 dead in the three following months as a result of continued resistance, and tens of thousands of people were arrested during the coup and held in the National Stadium. This was because the plans for the coup called for the arrest of every man, woman and child on the streets the morning of 11 September. Of these approximately 40,000 to 50,000 perfunctory arrests, several hundred individuals would later be detained, questioned, tortured, and in some cases murdered. While these deaths did not occur before the surrender of Allende's forces, they occurred as a direct result of arrests and round-ups during the coup's military action.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 795]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0046-0000", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Allende's death\nPresident Allende died in La Moneda during the coup. The junta officially declared that he committed suicide with a rifle given to him by Fidel Castro, two doctors from the infirmary of La Moneda stated that they witnessed the suicide, and an autopsy labelled Allende's death a suicide. Vice Admiral Patricio Carvajal, one of the primary instigators of the coup, claimed that \"Allende committed suicide and is dead now.\" Patricio Guijon, one of the president's doctors, had testified to witnessing Allende shoot himself under the chin with the rifle while seated on a sofa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 41], "content_span": [42, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0047-0000", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Allende's death\nAt the time, few of Allende's supporters believed the explanation that Allende had killed himself. Allende's body was exhumed in May 2011. The exhumation was requested by members of the Allende family, including his daughter Isabel who viewed the question of her father's death as \"an insult to scientific intelligence.\" A scientific autopsy was performed and the autopsy team delivered a unanimous finding on 19 July 2011 that Allende committed suicide using an AK-47 rifle. The team was composed of international forensic experts to assure an independent evaluation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 41], "content_span": [42, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0048-0000", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Allende's death\nHowever, on 31 May 2011, Chile's state television station reported that a top-secret military account of Allende's death had been discovered in the home of a former military justice official. The 300-page document was found only when the house was destroyed in the 2010 Chilean earthquake. After reviewing the report, two forensic experts told Televisi\u00f3n Nacional de Chile \"that they are inclined to conclude that Allende was assassinated.\" Two forensics experts said they believed he was shot with a small-calibre weapon prior to the AK-47. One expert, Luis Ravanal, noted the lack of blood on his collar, sweater and throat suggested someone else fired the AK-47 when he was already dead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 41], "content_span": [42, 732]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0049-0000", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Allende's death\nAllende's widow and family escaped the military government and were accepted for exile in Mexico, where they remained for 17 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 41], "content_span": [42, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0050-0000", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Aftermath, Installing a new regime\nOn 13 September, the Junta dissolved Congress, outlawed the parties that had been part of the Popular Unity coalition, and all political activity was declared \"in recess\". The military government took control of all media, including the radio broadcasting that Allende attempted to use to give his final speech to the nation. It is not known how many Chileans actually heard the last words of Allende as he spoke them, but a transcript and audio of the speech survived the military government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 60], "content_span": [61, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0050-0001", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Aftermath, Installing a new regime\nChilean scholar Lidia M. Baltra details how the military took control of the media platforms and turned them into their own \"propaganda machine.\" The only two newspapers that were allowed to continue publishing after the military takeover were El Mercurio and La Tercera de la Hora, both of which were anti-Allende under his leadership. The dictatorship's silencing of the leftist point of view extended past the media and into \"every discourse that expressed any resistance to the regime.\" An example of this is the torturing and death of folk singer Victor Jara.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 60], "content_span": [61, 625]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0050-0002", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Aftermath, Installing a new regime\nThe military government detained Jara in the days following the coup. He, along with many other leftists, was held in Estadio Nacional, or the National Stadium of Chile in the capital of Santiago. Initially, the Junta tried to silence him by crushing his hands, but ultimately he was murdered. Immediately after the coup the military sought television host Don Francisco to have him report on the events. Don Francisco declined the offer, encouraging the captain that had approached him to take the role of reporter himself.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 60], "content_span": [61, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0051-0000", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Aftermath, Installing a new regime\nInitially, there were four leaders of the junta: In addition to General Augusto Pinochet, from the Army, there were General Gustavo Leigh Guzm\u00e1n, of the Air Force; Admiral Jos\u00e9 Toribio Merino Castro, of the Navy (who replaced Constitutionalist Admiral Ra\u00fal Montero); and General Director C\u00e9sar Mendoza Dur\u00e1n, of the National Police (Carabineros de Chile) (who replaced Constitutionalist General Director Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Sep\u00falveda). Coup leaders soon decided against a rotating presidency and named General Pinochet permanent head of the junta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 60], "content_span": [61, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0052-0000", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Aftermath, Installing a new regime\nIn the months that followed the coup, the junta, with authoring work by historian Gonzalo Vial and Admiral Patricio Carvajal, published a book titled El Libro Blanco del cambio de gobierno en Chile (commonly known as El Libro Blanco, \"The White Book of the Change of Government in Chile\"), where they attempted to justify the coup by claiming that they were in fact anticipating a self-coup (the alleged Plan Zeta, or Plan Z) that Allende's government or its associates were purportedly preparing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 60], "content_span": [61, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0052-0001", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Aftermath, Installing a new regime\nHistorian Peter Winn states that the Central Intelligence Agency had an extensive part to play in fabricating the conspiracy and in selling it to the press, both in Chile and internationally. Although later discredited and officially recognized as the product of political propaganda, Gonzalo Vial has pointed to the similarities between the alleged Plan Z and other existing paramilitary plans of the Popular Unity parties in support of its legitimacy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 60], "content_span": [61, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0053-0000", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Aftermath, Installing a new regime\nOne of the first measures of the dictatorship was to set up a Secretar\u00eda Nacional de la Juventud (SNJ, National Youth Office). This was done on 28 October 1973, even before the Declaration of Principles of the junta made in March 1974. This was a way of mobilizing sympathetic elements of the civil society in support for the dictatorship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 60], "content_span": [61, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0054-0000", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Aftermath, Continued violence\nThe newspaper La Tercera published on its front page a photograph showing prisoners at the Quiriquina Island Camp who had been captured during the fighting in Concepci\u00f3n. The photograph's caption stated that some of the detained were local leaders of the \"Unidad Popular\" while others were \"extremists who had attacked the armed forces with firearms\". The photo is reproduced in Docuscanner. This is consistent with reports in newspapers and broadcasts in Concepci\u00f3n about the activities of the Armed Forces, which mentioned clashes with \"extremists\" on several occasions from 11 to 14 September. Nocturnal skirmishes took place around the Hotel Alonso de Ercilla in Colo Colo and San Mart\u00edn Street, one block away from the Army and military police administrative headquarters. A recently published testimony about the clashes in Concepcion offers several plausible explanations for the reticence of witnesses to these actions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 55], "content_span": [56, 983]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0055-0000", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Aftermath, Continued violence\nBesides political leaders and participants, the coup also affected many everyday Chilean citizens. Thousands were killed, went missing, and were injured. Because of the political instability in their country, many relocated elsewhere. Canada, among other countries, became a main point of refuge for many Chilean citizens. Through an operation known as \"Special Movement Chile\", more than 7,000 Chileans were relocated to Canada in the months following 11 September 1973. These refugees are now known as Chilean Canadian people and have a population of over 38,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 55], "content_span": [56, 621]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0056-0000", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Aftermath, Continued violence\nThe U.S. view of the coup continues to spark controversy. Beginning in late 2014 in response to a request by then Senate Armed Services Committee Chair Carl Levin, United States Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM) William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies (CHDS), located at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C., has been under investigation by the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 55], "content_span": [56, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0056-0001", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Aftermath, Continued violence\nInsider national security whistleblower complaints included that the Center knowingly protected a CHDS professor from Chile who was a former top advisor to Pinochet after belonging to the Direcci\u00f3n de Inteligencia Nacional / DINA state terrorist organization (whose attack against a former Chilean foreign minister in 1976 in Washington, D.C. resulted in two deaths, including that of an American).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 55], "content_span": [56, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0056-0002", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Aftermath, Continued violence\n\"Reports that NDU hired foreign military officers with histories of involvement in human rights abuses, including torture and extra-judicial killings of civilians, are stunning, and they are repulsive\", said Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, the author of the \"Leahy Law\" prohibiting U.S. assistance to military units and members of foreign security forces that violate human rights.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 55], "content_span": [56, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0057-0000", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Aftermath, Continued violence\nRoberto Thieme, the military leader of Fatherland and Liberty, who was imprisoned on 11 September was shocked to hear about the degree of violence the coup was carried out with. Despite being an arduous opponent of Unidad Popular he had expected a cleaner coup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 55], "content_span": [56, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0058-0000", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Aftermath, International reaction\nPresident of Argentina Juan Domingo Per\u00f3n condemned the coup calling it a \"fatality for the continent\". Before the coup Per\u00f3n had warned the more radical of his followers to stay calm and \"not do as Allende\". Argentine students protested the coup at the Chilean embassy in Buenos Aires, where part of them chanted that they were \"ready to cross the Andes\" (dispuestos a cruzar la cordillera).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 59], "content_span": [60, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0059-0000", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Commemoration\nThe commemoration of the coup is associated to competing narratives on its cause and effects. The coup has been commemorated by detractors and supporters in various ways.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0060-0000", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Commemoration\nOn 11 September 1975 Pinochet lit the Llama de la Libertad (lit. Flame of Liberty) to commemorate the coup. This flame was extinguished in 2004. Avenida Nueva Providencia in Providencia, Santiago, was renamed Avenida 11 de Septiembre in 1980. In the 30th anniversary of the coup President Ricardo Lagos inaugurated the Morand\u00e9 80 entrance to La Moneda. This entrance to the presidential palace had been erased during the repairs the dictatorship did to the building after the bombing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0061-0000", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Commemoration, 40th anniversary\nThe 40th anniversary of the coup in 2013 was particularly intense. That year the name of Avenida 11 de Septiembre was reversed to the original Avenida Nueva Providencia. The Association of Chilean Magistrates issued a public statement in early September 2013 recognizing the past unwillingness of judges to protect those persecuted by dictatorship. On 11 September 2013 hundreds of Chileans posed as dead in the streets of Santiago in remembrance of the ones \"disappeared\" by the dictatorship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 57], "content_span": [58, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0062-0000", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Commemoration, 40th anniversary\nThe centre-left opposition refused to attend the commemoration event organized by Sebasti\u00e1n Pi\u00f1era's right-wing government organizing instead a separate event. Osvaldo Andrade of the Socialist Party explained that attendance was not viable as Pi\u00f1era's government was \"packed with passive accomplices\" of the dictatorship. Some right-wing politicians also declined the invitation. Presidential candidate Michelle Bachelet planned to spend the day visiting Museum of Memory and Human Rights. President Pi\u00f1era held an unusual speech in which he denounced \"passive accomplices\" like news reporters who deliberately changed or omitted the truth and judges who rejected recursos de amparos that could have saved lives. People who knew things or could have known things but decided to stay quiet were also criticized as passive accomplices in Pi\u00f1era's speech.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 57], "content_span": [58, 910]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095450-0063-0000", "contents": "1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat, Commemoration, 40th anniversary\nA number of new films, theatre plays, and photography expositions were held to cast light on the abuses and censorship of the dictatorship. The number of new books published on the subject in 2013 was such that it constituted an editorial boom. The Museum of Memory and Human Rights also displayed a collection of declassified CIA, FBI, Defense Department, and White House records illustrating the U.S. role in the dictatorship and the coup. Conferences and seminaries on the subject of coup were also held. Various series and interviews with politicians on the subject of the coup and the dictatorship were aired on Chilean TV in 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 57], "content_span": [58, 694]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095451-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Chilean parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections were held in Chile on 4 March 1973. The Confederation of Democracy alliance won a majority of seats in both the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095451-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Chilean parliamentary election, Electoral system\nThe term length for Senators was eight years, with around half of the Senators elected every four years. This election saw 25 of the 50 Senate seats up for election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 53], "content_span": [54, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095452-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Cincinnati Bearcats football team\nThe 1973 Cincinnati Bearcats football team represented University of Cincinnati during 1973 NCAA Division I football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095453-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Cincinnati Bengals season\nThe 1973 Cincinnati Bengals season was the franchise's 4th season in the National Football League, and the 6th overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095453-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Cincinnati Bengals season\nThe Bengals split their first eight games, then swept their last six to win their second AFC Central Division title. Cincinnati for the second time made the playoffs, losing to the eventual Super Bowl winner (Miami 34\u201316) for the second time as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095453-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Cincinnati Bengals season\nRB Essex Johnson became the first Bengal to achieve 100+ yards rushing and receiving in the same game. He rushed for 121 yards on 21 carries and got 116 yards on two receptions on Sep 30, 1973 at San Diego. Perhaps one of the best marks of the season for the Bengals was giving the eventual NFC Champion Vikings their most lopsided loss of the season 27-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095454-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Cincinnati Open\nThe 1973 Cincinnati Open was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Queen City Racquet Club in Sharonville, Ohio in the United States that was part of the 1973 Commercial Union Assurance Grand Prix. The tournament was held from August 6 through August 12, 1973. Ilie N\u0103stase and Evonne Goolagong won the singles titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095454-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Cincinnati Open, Finals, Men's Doubles\nJohn Alexander / Phil Dent defeated Brian Gottfried / Ra\u00fal Ram\u00edrez 1\u20136, 7\u20136, 7\u20136", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 43], "content_span": [44, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095454-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Cincinnati Open, Finals, Women's Doubles\nIlana Kloss / Pat Pretorius defeated Evonne Goolagong / Janet Young 7\u20136, 3\u20136, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 45], "content_span": [46, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095455-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Cincinnati Reds season\nThe 1973 Cincinnati Reds season consisted of the Reds winning the National League West with a Major League-best record of 99\u201363, 3\u00bd games ahead of the Los Angeles Dodgers, before losing the NLCS to the New York Mets in five games. The Reds were managed by Sparky Anderson, and played their home games at Riverfront Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095455-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Cincinnati Reds season\nThe Reds were coming off a devastating loss in seven games to the underdog Oakland Athletics in the 1972 World Series. The offseason did not start well for the Reds. In the winter, a growth was removed from the lung of Cincinnati's star catcher, Johnny Bench. While Bench played the entire 1973 season, his power numbers dropped from 40 home runs in 1972 to 25 in '73. He never again reached the 40 homer mark, something he accomplished in two of the three seasons prior to the surgery.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095455-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Cincinnati Reds season\nComing into the season, the defending NL Champion Reds were still favored to win the strong NL West against the likes of the Houston Astros, the Los Angeles Dodgers, and the San Francisco Giants. The Reds' lineup returned virtually intact, with the exception of third base where the Reds tried to make a third baseman out of rookie Dan Driessen, a solid hitter (.301 average) who had played mostly first base in the minor leagues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095455-0002-0001", "contents": "1973 Cincinnati Reds season\nWith Tony P\u00e9rez fully entrenched at first base, the Reds wanted to get Driessen's bat in the lineup and his playing time was at the expense of the anemic hitting Denis Menke (.191), although the Reds were sacrificing defense with Driessen at the hot corner. The other change was at shortstop, where Dave Concepci\u00f3n emerged from a 1972 timeshare with Darrel Chaney to full-time starter, finally realizing his potential in his fourth year in the majors. Concepci\u00f3n was outstanding both at bat and in the field and was named to the NL All-Star team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095455-0002-0002", "contents": "1973 Cincinnati Reds season\nBut two days before the mid-summer classic on July 22, in a game against the Montreal Expos, Concepci\u00f3n broke his ankle sliding into third base after moving from first base on a Menke base hit, and missed the second half of the season. Concepci\u00f3n was batting .287, with eight home runs, 46 RBI, 39 runs scored and 22 stolen bases, all career highs despite missing almost half the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095455-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Cincinnati Reds season\nThe Reds had other hurdles to overcome. Cincinnati's pitching ace, Gary Nolan (15\u20135, 1.99 ERA in '72), suffered from a sore arm that limited him to two starts and 10 innings pitched before it was discovered he had a torn ligament in his right elbow. The injury would force Nolan to also miss the entire 1974 season. There was also an issue with centerfielder Bobby Tolan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095455-0003-0001", "contents": "1973 Cincinnati Reds season\nHe slumped badly to .206, became a malcontent, and had several squabbles with members of Reds management, who were still unhappy with his 1971 basketball injury that cost him that season as well as Tolan's error in Game 7 of the 1972 World Series against Oakland that was arguably the key play in that game. Tolan went AWOL for two days in August 1973, and broke team rules by growing a beard. On September 27, the team suspended Tolan for the remainder of the season including the NLCS.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095455-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Cincinnati Reds season\nThe Reds started well, and were 25\u201316 about a quarter of the way through the season and led the second-place Dodgers by a 1\u00bd games on May 23. But with Tolan, Menke and Bench mired in slumps and some of the Reds starting pitchers struggling, the Reds began to flounder. Reds general manager Bob Howsam determined the Reds offense would eventually come around, but the pitching staff needed help. With Nolan sidelined indefinitely and starters Jim McGlothlin (ineffectiveness) and Roger Nelson (injuries) struggling, Howsam traded for San Diego Padres left-hander Fred Norman on June 12. At the time of the trade, the 5-foot-8 lefty was 1\u20137 for the last-place Padres, but Norman would go 12\u20136 in 24 starts for the Reds to provide a major boost.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 770]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095455-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Cincinnati Reds season\nThe Reds were still in a slump when they met the Dodgers for a July 1, doubleheader in Cincinnati. The Reds were 39\u201337 and trailed the Dodgers (51\u201327) by 11 games. Just as they had done 12 years earlier, the Reds swept the Dodgers in a doubleheader to jumpstart their pennant hopes. In Game 1, Cincinnati's third-string catcher, Hal King, belted a game-winning, three-run home run with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning off Don Sutton to give the Reds a 4\u20133 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095455-0005-0001", "contents": "1973 Cincinnati Reds season\nIn Game 2, Tony P\u00e9rez singled in the game-winner off knuckleball specialist Charlie Hough in the bottom of the 10th as the Reds won 3\u20132. The doubleheader sweep was part of a stretch where Cincinnati won 10 of 11 games and by July 10, had cut the Dodgers' lead to 4\u00bd games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095455-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Cincinnati Reds season\nBoth teams stayed close throughout the season, but on Aug. 29, the Reds beat Pittsburgh, 5\u20133, to begin a seven-game winning streak. After losing two to the Braves, the Reds began another seven-game winning streak to gain some space between the Dodgers. Los Angeles came into Cincinnati for a two-game series, Sept. 11\u201312, trailing the Reds by 3 games with 18 left on the schedule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095455-0006-0001", "contents": "1973 Cincinnati Reds season\nA two-run home run by rookie Ken Griffey was the big hit in the Reds' 6\u20133 victory on Sept. 11, and the Reds completed the sweep the next day as Jack Billingham hurled a complete-game and, the typically poor hitter (.065 average), also belted a bases-clearing double off LA starter Claude Osteen in a 7\u20133 victory. The Dodgers left Cincinnati trailing by five games. On Sept. 24, the Reds beat San Diego, 2\u20131, to clinch their second-straight division title and third in four years. It sent the Reds to the 1973 NLCS against the New York Mets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095455-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Cincinnati Reds season\nThe Reds offense was led by Pete Rose (team-record 230 hits, 115 runs scored, an NL best .338 batting average), Joe Morgan (116 runs, 26 home runs, 82 RBI, 67 stolen bases, .290 avg.) and Perez (.314, 27, 101). Rose was voted the National League MVP, while Morgan finished fourth and Perez seventh in a vote by the Baseball Writers' Association of America.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095455-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Cincinnati Reds season\nJack Billingham emerged as the staff ace, leading the National League in both innings pitched (293) and shutouts (7) to go with 19 victories, while young lefty Don Gullett won 11 of his last 12 decisions to finish 18\u20138.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095455-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Cincinnati Reds season\nFuture stars Griffey and George Foster also played well in short stays with the Reds. Griffey batted .384 in 86 at bats in his major league debut, while Foster hit .282 and smacked four home runs in just 39 at bats. Journeyman third-string catcher Hal King also emerged as an unsung hero. King hit three pinch hit home runs, all of which either tied or won games late including a three-run home run off Los Angeles Dodger starter Don Sutton on July 1 to win a game for the Reds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095455-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 72], "content_span": [73, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095455-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095455-0012-0000", "contents": "1973 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 70], "content_span": [71, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095455-0013-0000", "contents": "1973 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 67], "content_span": [68, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095455-0014-0000", "contents": "1973 Cincinnati Reds season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 68], "content_span": [69, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095455-0015-0000", "contents": "1973 Cincinnati Reds season, 1973 National League Championship Series\nThe Reds lost the National League Championship Series to the Mets 3 games to 2 despite heroics by Rose and Bench in Game 1 and Rose again in Game 4. Rose's eighth-inning home run against Tom Seaver tied the score at 1\u20131 and Bench won it in the 9th with another solo home run. Rose also hit a game-winning home run in the 12th-inning to tie the series at 2\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 69], "content_span": [70, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095455-0015-0001", "contents": "1973 Cincinnati Reds season, 1973 National League Championship Series\nDuring Game Three of the series, Rose got into a fight with the popular Mets shortstop Bud Harrelson while trying to break up a double play; the fight resulted in a bench-clearing brawl. The umpires threatened the Mets with forfeiting the game, after fans responded by hurling garbage from the stands at Rose, causing the Reds team to leave the field until order was restored.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 69], "content_span": [70, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095456-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Ciskei legislative election\nParliamentary elections were held in Ciskei between 19 and 23 February 1973. As there were no political parties at the time, all candidates ran as independents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095456-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Ciskei legislative election, Electoral system\nThe Legislative Assembly had a total of 50 seats, 20 of which were elected and 30 of which were reserved for appointed chiefs. The country was divided into nine districts for the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095456-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Ciskei legislative election, Aftermath\nIn June 1975, the High Court annulled the election of four members, including Chief Minister Lennox Sebe due to election irregularities in Zwelitsha, making Sebe ineligible to hold the post of Chief Minister. He was subsequently re-elected in a by-election on 24 October 1975 and reassumed office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095457-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council election\nThe first elections to the newly created City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council were held on 10 May 1973, with the entirety of the 93 seat council - three seats for each of the 31 wards - up for vote. The Local Government Act 1972 stipulated that the elected members were to shadow and eventually take over from the predecessor corporation on 1 April 1974. The order in which the councillors were elected dictated their term serving, with third-place candidates serving two years and up for re-election in 1975, second-placed three years expiring in 1976 and 1st-placed five years until 1978.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 661]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095457-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council election\nAs well as replacing the County Borough of Bradford, the new council included:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [60, 60], "content_span": [61, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095457-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council election, Election result\nThis result had the following consequences for the total number of seats on the Council after the elections:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 60], "section_span": [62, 77], "content_span": [78, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095458-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 City of Lincoln Council election\nThe 1973 City of Lincoln Council election were the first elections to the newly created City of Lincoln Council and took place on 7 June 1973. This was on the same day as other local elections. The Local Government Act 1972 stipulated that the elected members were to shadow and eventually take over from the predecessor corporation on 1 April 1974. The election resulted in the Democratic Labour Party gaining control of the council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095459-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Clemson Tigers football team\nThe 1973 Clemson Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Clemson University in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. In its first season under head coach Red Parker, the team compiled a 5\u20136 record (4\u20132 against conference opponents), finished third in the ACC, and was outscored by a total of 263 to 231. The team played its home games at Memorial Stadium in Clemson, South Carolina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095459-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Clemson Tigers football team\nMike Buckner and quarterback Ken Pengitore were the team captains. The team's statistical leaders included Ken Pengitore with 1,370 passing yards, running back Smiley Sanders with 627 rushing yards and 60 point scored (10 touchdowns), and Gordy Bengel with 358 receiving yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095460-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Cleveland Browns season\nThe 1973 Cleveland Browns season was the team's 24th season with the National Football League. After a solid 1972 season, which included a playoff appearance, the Browns got off to a solid start, winning three of their first four games on the way to a 7-3-1 start. However, the Browns did not win another game the rest of the season and settled for third place with a 7-5-2 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095461-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Cleveland Indians season\nThe 1973 Cleveland Indians season was the 73rd in the franchise's history. The club finished in sixth place in the American League East.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095461-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Cleveland Indians season, Offseason\nIn January, Vernon Stouffer sold the Cleveland Indians to Nick Mileti for $10 million. It was $1.4 million more than the group led by George Steinbrenner had offered in December 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095461-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Cleveland Indians season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095461-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Cleveland Indians season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095461-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Cleveland Indians season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095461-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Cleveland Indians season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095461-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Cleveland Indians season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095462-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Cleveland mayoral election\nThe Cleveland mayoral election of 1973 saw the reelection of Ralph Perk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095462-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Cleveland mayoral election\nThis was the first Cleveland mayoral election to use a nonpartisan system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095462-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Cleveland mayoral election, General election\nOn October 11, James M. Carney withdrew from the race, citing \"personal\" reasons. Carney's campaign committee selected then-City Council Clerk Mercedes Cotner to replace him on the ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095463-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Coleraine Borough Council election\nElections to Coleraine Borough Council were held on 30 May 1973 on the same day as the other Northern Irish local government elections. The election used three district electoral areas to elect a total of 20 councillors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095463-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Coleraine Borough Council election, Districts results, Area A\n1973: 4 x UUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Independent Unionist", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095463-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Coleraine Borough Council election, Districts results, Area C\n1973: 4 x UUP, 2 x Independent, 1 x Alliance", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095464-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Coleraine bombings\nOn 12 June 1973 the Provisional IRA detonated two carbombs in Coleraine, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. The first bomb exploded at 3:00 pm on Railway Road, killing six people and injuring 33; several lost limbs and were left disabled for life. A second bomb exploded five minutes later at Hanover Place. This did not cause any injuries, although it added to the panic and confusion in the area. The IRA had sent a warning for the second bomb but said it had mistakenly given the wrong location for the first.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095464-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Coleraine bombings\nAs the six victims had all been Protestant, the bombings brought about a violent backlash from loyalist paramilitaries, who swiftly retaliated by unleashing a series of sectarian killings of Catholics that culminated in the double killing of Senator Paddy Wilson and Irene Andrews on 26 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095464-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Coleraine bombings\nSinn F\u00e9in councillor Sean McGlinchey, brother of Dominic McGlinchey, later INLA Chief of Staff, was convicted of planting the bomb and spent 18 years in prison. He was elected mayor of Limavady Borough Council in 2011.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095464-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Coleraine bombings\nIn his book Years of Darkness: The Troubles Remembered, academic Gordon Gillespie described the attacks as \"a forgotten massacre\" of the Troubles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095464-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Coleraine bombings, The bombings\nOn 12 June 1973, two cars stolen from south County Londonderry were packed with explosives and driven by an Active Service Unit (ASU) of the South Derry Provisional IRA to the mainly-Protestant town of Coleraine. The carbombs were parked on Railway Road and Hanover Place. Two warnings made to the Telephone Exchange at 2.30 p.m. named the location for the Hanover Place device and for another bomb on Society Street, which later \"proved to be a hoax\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095464-0004-0001", "contents": "1973 Coleraine bombings, The bombings\nAt about 3.00 p.m. a Ford Cortina containing a 100\u2013150 pound (45\u201368\u00a0kg) bomb exploded outside a wine shop on Railway Road, killing six pensioners (four women and two men) and injuring 33 people, a number of them schoolchildren. The six pensioners\u2014Elizabeth Craigmile (76), Robert Scott (72), Dinah Campbell (72), Francis Campbell (70), Nan Davis (60), and Elizabeth Palmer (60)\u2014were all Protestant. Elizabeth Craigmile, the Campbells and their daughter Hilary had been on a day outing and were returning home to Belfast when the bomb had gone off; they were beside the carbomb at the moment of detonation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 643]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095464-0004-0002", "contents": "1973 Coleraine bombings, The bombings\nSome of the dead had been blown to bits and Hilary Campbell lost a limb. Several of the wounded were maimed and left crippled for life. The bomb left a deep crater in the road and the wine shop was engulfed in flames; it also caused considerable damage to vehicles and other buildings in the vicinity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095464-0004-0003", "contents": "1973 Coleraine bombings, The bombings\nRailway Road was a scene of carnage and devastation with the mangled wreckage of the Ford Cortina resting in the middle of the street, the bodies of the dead and injured lying in pools of blood amongst the fallen masonry and roof slates, and shards of glass from blown-out windows blanketing the ground. Rescue workers who arrived at the scene spoke of \"utter confusion\" with many people \"wandering around in a state of severe shock\". Five minutes later, the second bomb went off in the forecourt of Stuart's Garage in Hanover Place. Although this explosion caused no injuries, it added to the panic and confusion yielded by the first bomb.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 678]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095464-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Coleraine bombings, The bombings\nDavid Gilmour, a former councillor who works as a researcher for Unionist politician George Robinson, was caught up in the bombing. Gilmour, aged ten at the time, escaped injury along with his mother. Both had been sitting a car parked directly across from the Ford Cortina containing the bomb. At the precise moment the bomb detonated another car had passed between the two cars, shielding Gilmour and his mother from the full force of the blast, although their car was badly damaged.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095464-0005-0001", "contents": "1973 Coleraine bombings, The bombings\nHe recalled that when the bomb exploded everything had gone black, \"deeper and darker than black - the blackness only punctuated by pinpricks of orange\". He later learnt that these orange pinpricks were most likely metal fragments from the exploded car or embers from the fertiliser that had been used to make the bomb. In the immediate aftermath of the blast, there had been several seconds of \"deathly silence\" before \"all hell broke loose\", with hysterical people rushing from the scene and others going to tend the wounded who were screaming in agony.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095464-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Coleraine bombings, The bombings\nThe Provisional IRA claimed responsibility for the bombings but said they had mistakenly given the wrong location for the carbomb on Railway Road when they sent their telephoned warning to the security forces. Gordon Gillespie alleged that no warning was given for the first bomb, adding \"this led to speculation that the bombers intention was to draw people towards the bomb in Railway Road and inflict as many casualties as possible\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095464-0006-0001", "contents": "1973 Coleraine bombings, The bombings\nGillespie also suggested that the death toll would have likely been much higher had the bomb gone off 15 minutes later when girls from a nearby high school would have been leaving the school and walking along the street. The IRA member who planted the bomb, Sean McGlinchey, said that he had been forced to abandon the car on Railway Road. He explained that he arrived in Coleraine to find that the town had a new one-way traffic system, of which his superiors had not informed him. The bomb was primed, on a short fuse and he was \"in the wrong place at the wrong time in the one-way system\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095464-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Coleraine bombings, Loyalist reaction\nAs all the victims had been Protestant, there was a violent backlash from loyalist paramilitaries. In May or June 1973, Ulster Defence Association (UDA) leaders decided that the organization should use the covername \"Ulster Freedom Fighters\" (UFF) when it wished to claim responsibility for its attacks. This was spurred by fears that the government would outlaw the UDA. The \"UFF's\" first attacks were in response to the Coleraine bombings. It sought retaliation against the Catholic community, which they believed supported the IRA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095464-0007-0001", "contents": "1973 Coleraine bombings, Loyalist reaction\nFour days after the bombing, the new leadership convened in Belfast and ordered its units to avenge the six Protestant pensioners by killing a Catholic. Jim Light was one of the UDA/UFF members who was instructed to execute the killing. He later told British journalist Peter Taylor that he had felt sick upon hearing about the pensioners killed in the Coleraine bombing: \"They'd probably spent all their lives doing their day's work and were on an outing enjoying themselves. They were coming home and were blown to bits\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095464-0007-0002", "contents": "1973 Coleraine bombings, Loyalist reaction\nLight and other UDA/UFF members went to Irish nationalist Andersonstown in west Belfast where they could be certain of finding a Catholic victim. They chose 17-year-old Daniel Rouse, who was kidnapped from the street where he had been walking and driven away to a field. Rouse was then shot through the head at point-blank range by Light. He had no IRA or Irish republican connections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095464-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Coleraine bombings, Loyalist reaction\nThe next day, the body of 25-year-old Catholic man Joseph Kelly was found at Corr's Corner, near the Belfast-Larne Road. He had been shot. The UFF claimed the killing in a telephone call to a Belfast newspaper office using the words: \"We have assassinated an IRA man on the way to Larne. We gave him two in the head and one in the back. He is dead\". They did not directly refer to the Coleraine bombings, but rather claimed it was in retaliation for the killing of Michael Wilson, brother-in-law of UDA leader Tommy Herron. The UDA/UFF held the IRA responsible for Wilson's killing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 625]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095464-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Coleraine bombings, Loyalist reaction\nOn 18 June the UFF claimed responsibility for throwing a bomb from a car at the \"Meeting of the Waters\", a nationalist pub on Manor Street, North Belfast. One man was seriously injured in the attack. The UFF said it attacked the pub because it was a \"known haunt of Catholics and republicans\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095464-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 Coleraine bombings, Loyalist reaction\nOn 26 June, the UFF perpetrated a double killing that shocked Northern Ireland with its savagery. Catholic Senator Paddy Wilson and his Protestant friend Irene Andrews were repeatedly stabbed to death in a frenzied attack. Their mutilated bodies were found by the security forces at a quarry off the Hightown Road near Cavehill following a telephone call by the UFF using its codename \"Captain Black\". UFF founder and leader John White was later convicted of the murders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095464-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 Coleraine bombings, Convictions\nOn 6 July 1973, a 22-year-old woman and 19-year-old man, both charged with the murder of the six pensioners, were assaulted and abused by an angry crowd of 150 people outside Coleraine courthouse. Eggs were hurled at them as they left the building following their second court appearance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 36], "content_span": [37, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095464-0012-0000", "contents": "1973 Coleraine bombings, Convictions\nIn January 1974, the woman was acquitted of the charges against her. However, her boyfriend received an eight-year prison sentence for his part in the attacks and the leader of the bomb team, 18-year-old Sean McGlinchey, was convicted of planting the Railway Road bomb. He was sentenced to 18 years imprisonment inside the Maze Prison for the six murders. McGlinchey is the younger brother of former INLA Chief of Staff Dominic McGlinchey. Upon his release from the Maze he became a Sinn F\u00e9in councillor and in 2011 was elected mayor of Limavady. He has repeatedly said that he deeply regretted the bombing in Coleraine, stating", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 36], "content_span": [37, 665]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095464-0013-0000", "contents": "1973 Coleraine bombings, Convictions\nWhat happened is my responsibility, those were my actions. If I had known innocent people would be killed I would never have done it. I regret the deaths and I have apologised.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 36], "content_span": [37, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095464-0014-0000", "contents": "1973 Coleraine bombings, Convictions\nShortly after becoming mayor he met Jean Jefferson, whose aunt was killed and her father horribly disfigured in the bombing. She said of McGlinchey: \"I was very impressed with somebody, who at 18 had made the wrong choice, the wrong decision, maybe to some extent been used and abused, and who is now spending his life putting back into the community more than what he ever got out of it\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 36], "content_span": [37, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095464-0015-0000", "contents": "1973 Coleraine bombings, Convictions\nIn his book Years of Darkness: The Troubles Remembered, academic and writer Gordon Gillespie described the Coleraine bombings as \"a forgotten massacre\" of the Troubles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 36], "content_span": [37, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095465-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Colgate Red Raiders football team\nThe 1973 Colgate Red Raiders football team was an American football team that represented Colgate University as an independent during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. In its sixth season under head coach Neil Wheelwright, the team compiled a 5\u20135 record. Rick Horton and Tom Parr were the team captains.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095465-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Colgate Red Raiders football team\nThe team played its home games at Andy Kerr Stadium in Hamilton, New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095465-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Colgate Red Raiders football team, Leading players\nTwo trophies were awarded to the Red Raiders' most valuable players in 1973:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095466-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Colima earthquake\nOn January 30, at 15:01 (UTC\u20136), a magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck 43 km beneath the Sierra Madre del Sur range in the Mexican states of Colima, Jalisco and Michoac\u00e1n. On the Mercalli intensity scale, the earthquake reached a maximum intensity of X (Extreme), causing serious damage in the region. At least 56 people were killed and about 390 were injured. The event is commonly referred to as the Colima earthquake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095466-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Colima earthquake, Tectonic setting\nOff the west coast of Mexico is the Middle America Trench; a convergent plate boundary where the Cocos and Rivera plates subducts beneath the North American Plate at a rate of ~6-9 cm/yr. The interface of this plate boundary is a huge thrust fault known as a megathrust which occasionally produces large megathrust earthquakes and tsunamis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 40], "content_span": [41, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095466-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Colima earthquake, Earthquake\nThe January 30 earthquake ruptured a shallow-angle section of the megathrust near a triple junction with the Rivera Plate. Its location places it very close to the rupture patch from the 1941 earthquake. The depth of the event varies between authors, from as shallow as 8 km to 35 km, while the USGS-ANSS event page places it at 43 km.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095466-0002-0001", "contents": "1973 Colima earthquake, Earthquake\nIt is estimated that a 145 km by 85 km section of the subduction zone was involved in the rupture which propagated at a velocity of 2.7 km/s. Rupture occurred the subduction interface at between 5 km and 27 km depth. Prior to the earthquake, that section of the subduction zone was designated a seismic gap which has not experience any earthquakes in recent memory. The Mexico City earthquake rupture would overlap that of the 1973 quake 12 years later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095466-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Colima earthquake, Earthquake, Tsunami\nA moderate tsunami with amplitudes of 0.40 to 1.16 meters was observed along the Mexican coast. Tidal gauges in Hawaii also recorded the tsunami at 0.21 meter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 43], "content_span": [44, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095466-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Colima earthquake, Impact\nThe earthquake was powerful enough to be felt across the country to the Gulf of Mexico. Severe shaking and heavy damages were limited to the states of Colima, Jalisco and Michoac\u00e1n. Fifty six people died and 390 were injured by this event. Tecom\u00e1n and Coahuayana suffered significant damages from the violent ground motions. Landslides and ground fissures were discovered along the relatively unpopulated coasts of Michoac\u00e1n. Water, electricity and telephone lives were cut throughout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095466-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Colima earthquake, Impact\nAn elementary school in Manzanillo, Colima sustained significant structural damage after the quake. The school building rocked so violently that many eyewitnesses thought the structure would collapse. Damage was so severe that the building was determined unsafe for use and demolished. In another partof the city, an obelisk partially collapsed, with only three quarters of the structure remaining.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095466-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Colima earthquake, Impact\nA highway which connected Manzanillo with Salagua and Santiago in Colima suffered major damages including large fissures which opened in the asphalt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095466-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Colima earthquake, Impact\nIn Mexico City, the earthquake was felt strongly in the north and western part of the city for at least 40 seconds. It caused mass hysteria and light damages to high-rise buildings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095467-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 College Baseball All-America Team\nAn All-American team is an honorary sports team composed of the best amateur players of a specific season for each team position\u2014who in turn are given the honorific \"All-America\" and typically referred to as \"All-American athletes\", or simply \"All-Americans\". Although the honorees generally do not compete together as a unit, the term is used in U.S. team sports to refer to players who are selected by members of the national media. Walter Camp selected the first All-America team in the early days of American football in 1889.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095467-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 College Baseball All-America Team\nFrom 1947 to 1980, the American Baseball Coaches Association was the only All-American selector recognized by the NCAA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095468-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 College Football All-America Team\nThe 1973 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans by various organizations and writers that chose College Football All-America Teams in 1973. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) recognizes six selectors as \"official\" for the 1973 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095468-0000-0001", "contents": "1973 College Football All-America Team\nThey are: (1) the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) which selected its team for Kodak based on a vote of the nation's coaches; (2) the Associated Press (AP) selected based on the votes of sports writers at AP newspapers; (3) the Football Writers Association of America (FWAA) selected by the nation's football writers; (4) the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA) selected based on the votes of sports writers at NEA newspapers; (5) the United Press International (UPI) selected based on the votes of sports writers at UPI newspapers; and (6) the Walter Camp Football Foundation (WC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095468-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 College Football All-America Team\nFive players are recognized by the NCAA as unanimous All-America selections. They are: (1) running back and 1973 Heisman Trophy winner John Cappelletti of Penn State; (2) offensive tackle John Hicks of Ohio State; (3) defensive end John Dutton of Nebraska; (4) middle guard Lucious Selmon of Oklahoma; and (5) linebacker Randy Gradishar of Ohio State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095468-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 College Football All-America Team, Consensus All-Americans\nThe following chart identifies the NCAA-recognized consensus All-Americans for the year 1973 and displays which first-team designations they received.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 63], "content_span": [64, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095469-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Colorado Buffaloes football team\nThe 1973 Colorado Buffaloes football team represented the University of Colorado, Boulder during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095470-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Colorado State Rams football team\nThe 1973 Colorado State Rams football team represented Colorado State University in the Western Athletic Conference during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. In their first season under head coach Sark Arslanian, the Rams compiled a 5\u20136 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095471-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Columbia Lions football team\nThe 1973 Columbia Lions football team was an American football team that represented Columbia University during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. Columbia finished second-to-last in the Ivy League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095471-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Columbia Lions football team\nIn their sixth and final season under head coach Frank Navarro, the Lions compiled a 1\u20137\u20131 record and were outscored 274 to 58. Mike Evans and Ted Gregory were the team captains.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095471-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Columbia Lions football team\nThe Lions' 1\u20136 conference record placed seventh in the Ivy League standings. Columbia was outscored 246 to 56 by Ivy opponents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095471-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Columbia Lions football team\nColumbia played its home games at Baker Field in Upper Manhattan, in New York City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095472-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Commercial Union Assurance Masters\nThe 1973 Commercial Union Assurance Masters was a tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts @ Hynes Auditorium in Boston, Massachusetts in the United States. Mateflex is a soft plastic, interlocking tile court, with the slower ball speed of clay but the low maintenance of a hard surface. It was the 4th edition of the Masters Grand Prix and was held from December 4 through December 8, 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095473-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Commercial Union Assurance Masters \u2013 Singles\nIlie N\u0103stase was the defending champion and won in the final 6\u20133, 7\u20135, 4\u20136, 6\u20133 against Tom Okker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095473-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Commercial Union Assurance Masters \u2013 Singles, Draw, Blue Group\nStandings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-players-ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, or of games won; 5) Steering Committee decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 67], "content_span": [68, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095473-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Commercial Union Assurance Masters \u2013 Singles, Draw, White Group\nStandings are determined by: 1) Number of wins; 2) Number of matches; 3) In two-players-ties, head-to-head records; 4) In three-players-ties, percentage of sets won, or of games won; 5) Steering Committee decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 68], "content_span": [69, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095474-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting\nThe 1973 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting was the second Meeting of the Heads of Government of the Commonwealth of Nations. It was held in Ottawa, Canada, between 2 August and 10 August 1973, and hosted by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095474-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting\nThe summit issued a Statement on Nuclear Weapon Tests that affirmed \"the unfailing support of Commonwealth governments for the international Treaty banning nuclear weapon tests in the atmosphere, in outer space and under water. It appeals, furthermore, to the international community for a total ban on nuclear weapon tests in any environment.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095474-0001-0001", "contents": "1973 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting\nAlso discussed were changing relationships among United States, the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China, regional security, disarmament, the situation in the Middle East and South East Asia (i.e., the Vietnam War), the proposed creation of a peace zone in the Indian Ocean and the situation in Southern Africa and in particular Rhodesia's white minority rule government. Also discussed was the desirability of a worldwide expansion of trade through the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and negotiations between the European Economic Community and developing countries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095474-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting\nBesides the policy topics discussed, the CHOGM saw a number of incidental, but lasting, innovations that helped define the work of the Commonwealth. The leaders held a private session in Mont-Tremblant, beginning the tradition of the 'retreat', whereby, in addition to the executive sessions, the heads of government leave the host city, taking only their spouses and one advisor each, to be isolated from outside influences and to discuss on less formal terms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095474-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting\nThe Commonwealth flag emerged from pennants that were designed to be displayed on the leaders' cars in Ottawa. Designed by Trudeau and Commonwealth Secretary-General Arnold Smith (a fellow Canadian), the flag was officially adopted three years later, on 26 March 1976. Although the Royal Commonwealth Society petitioned the CHOGM to discuss creating a uniformly-observed Commonwealth Day, this would eventually be discussed, at the proposal of the Canadian delegation, at the 1975 Meeting, and the Canadian proposals adopted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095474-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting\nQueen Elizabeth did not attend the 1971 conference but attended the Ottawa conference on the advice of Prime Minister Trudeau, despite being advised against attending by British prime minister Edward Heath. She would attend all subsequent CHOGMs until absenting herself in 2013 when she began to refrain from long distance travel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095475-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Connecticut Huskies football team\nThe 1973 Connecticut Huskies football team represented the University of Connecticut in the 1973 NCAA Division II football season. The Huskies were led by first-year head coach Larry Naviaux, and completed the season with a record of 8\u20132\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095476-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Constitution of Bahrain\nThe 1973 Constitution of Bahrain was the first of two constitutions of Bahrain. It was in effect from December 1973 to August 1975.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095476-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Constitution of Bahrain, Background and drafting\nOn December 16, 1971, the day Bahrain formally became independent of the United Kingdom (Bahrain technically gained its independence earlier in the year, on August 15), Shaykh Isa ibn Salman announced that the country would have a constitutional form of government. Six months later, he issued a decree providing for the election of representatives to a Constituent Assembly, charged with drafting and ratifying a constitution. The assembly was to consist of twenty-two elected delegates plus twenty additional members, including eight delegates appointed by the emir and the twelve members at the time of the Council of Ministers. The election, which was held in December 1972, was the first national election in Bahrain's history. The electorate was restricted to native-born male citizens aged twenty years and older.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 874]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095476-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Constitution of Bahrain, Background and drafting\nThe relative openness of political debate permitted during the election campaign for the twenty-two contested Constituent Assembly seats encouraged individuals dissatisfied with the lack of democratic rights to demand more civil liberties. The primary focus of concern was the 1965 Law of Public Security, a series of three emiri decrees that authorized the ruler to maintain indefinitely a virtual state of emergency in order to protect national security from suspected foreign and domestic enemies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095476-0002-0001", "contents": "1973 Constitution of Bahrain, Background and drafting\nA group of mostly university-educated professionals, led by Abd al Aziz Shamlan, unsuccessfully petitioned the emir to rescind the law's harshest provisions, especially those pertaining to arrest and detention. They believed these measures had been used arbitrarily to silence dissent and peaceful opposition. Several women's groups also organized to protest the exclusion of women from the franchise. They presented a petition to the emir requesting support for extending voting rights to female citizens, but they failed to receive a positive response.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095476-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Constitution of Bahrain, Background and drafting\nThe Constituent Assembly was in session during most of 1973 drafting the constitution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095476-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Constitution of Bahrain, The Constitution\nThe constitution, enacted by emiri decree in December 1973, contained 108 articles. It provided for an advisory legislative body, the National Assembly, consisting of thirty members elected for four-year terms, plus all the members of the Council of Ministers whose terms were not fixed, as ex officio members. The assembly was not empowered to initiate or enact legislation, but it was authorized to give advice and consent to laws proposed by the Council of Ministers. The assembly had the right to question individual ministers about policies and to withdraw confidence from any minister except the prime minister. The constitution stipulated that the emir could dissolve the assembly at his discretion, provided he make public the grounds for so doing. If the assembly were dissolved by decree, new elections had to take place within two months or the dissolution would be invalidated and the dismissed members reinstated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 46], "content_span": [47, 973]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095476-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Constitution of Bahrain, Election under the 1973 Constitution and suspension of the 1973 Constitution\nThe 1973 Bahraini general election was the only election held under the 1973 Constitution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 106], "content_span": [107, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095476-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Constitution of Bahrain, Election under the 1973 Constitution and suspension of the 1973 Constitution\nThe emir dissolved the National Assembly in August 1975, citing its inability to cooperate with the government. Although the constitution stipulated that new elections had to take place within two months of a dissolution, this did not occur. One year later, in August 1976, Shaykh Isa ibn Salman announced that the National Assembly would remain dissolved indefinitely.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 106], "content_span": [107, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095476-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Constitution of Bahrain, Election under the 1973 Constitution and suspension of the 1973 Constitution\nThe country was governed under emergency laws from 1975 to 2002.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 106], "content_span": [107, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095477-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Cook Islands Round Cup\nThe 1973 season of the Cook Islands Round Cup was the fourth recorded season of top flight association football competition in the Cook Islands, with any results between 1951 and 1969 currently unknown. Titikaveka won the championship, their fourth recorded championship in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095478-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Cookstown District Council election\nElections to Cookstown District Council were held on 30 May 1973 on the same day as the other Northern Irish local government elections. The election used three district electoral areas to elect a total of 15 councillors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095478-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Cookstown District Council election, Districts results, Area A\n1973: 2 x UUP, 1 x Loyalist Coalition, 1 x Republican Clubs, 1 x Independent Nationalist", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095478-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Cookstown District Council election, Districts results, Area B\n1973: 3 x UUP, 2 x SDLP, 1 x Independent Nationalist", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095479-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Copa Fraternidad\nThe Copa Fraternidad 1973 was the third Central American club championship played between 6 clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095480-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Copa Libertadores\nCopa Libertadores 1973 was won by defending champions Independiente of Argentina after defeating Colo Colo of Chile in a third decisive game. The third match which ended 2-1 in extra time was necessary after the previous two leg matches ended in draws.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095481-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Copa Libertadores Finals\nThe 1973 Copa Libertadores Finals was the final two-legged tie to determine the 1973 Copa Libertadores champion. It was contested by Argentine club Independiente and Chilean club Colo-Colo. The first leg of the tie was played on 22 May at Avellaneda' home field, with the second leg played on 29 May at Santiago de Chile'.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095481-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Copa Libertadores Finals\nIndependiente won the series after winning a tie-breaking playoff 2-1 at Montevideo's Estadio Centenario, achieving their fourth Libertadores trophy. The final was controversial, with Chilean media and some Colo Colo players complaining about the referees, accusing them to having been bribed to favour Independiente.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095482-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Copa Per\u00fa\nThe 1973 Copa Per\u00fa season (Spanish: Copa Per\u00fa 1973), the promotion tournament of Peruvian football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095482-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Copa Per\u00fa\nIn this tournament after many qualification rounds, each one of the 24 departments in which Peru is politically divided, qualify a team. Those teams plus de team relegated from First Division on the last year, enter in two more rounds and finally 6 of them qualify for the Final round, staged in Lima (the capital).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095482-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Copa Per\u00fa\nThree teams were promoted to play in 1973 First Division. Although finishing in last place, CNI was promoted as the Peruvian government issued a decree stating that the oriental zone of the country (from where |CNI came) should have a team in First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095482-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Copa Per\u00fa, Finalists teams\nThe following list shows the teams that qualified for the Final Stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 31], "content_span": [32, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095483-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Copa del General\u00edsimo Final\nThe Copa del General\u00edsimo 1973 Final was the 71st final of the King's Cup. The final was played at Vicente Calder\u00f3n Stadium in Madrid, on 29 June 1973, being won by Athletic Bilbao, who beat Castell\u00f3n 2-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095484-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Coppa Italia Final\nThe 1973 Coppa Italia Final was the final of the 1972\u201373 Coppa Italia. The match was played on 1 July 1973 between Milan and Juventus. Milan won 5\u20132 on penalties after the match ended 1\u20131 after extra time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095485-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Corby District Council election\nThe 1973 Corby District Council election were the first elections to the newly created Corby District Council took place on 7 June 1973 . This was on the same day as other local elections. The Local Government Act 1972 stipulated that the elected members were to shadow and eventually take over from the predecessor corporation on 1 April 1974. The election resulted in Labour gaining control of the council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095486-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship\nThe 1973 Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship was the 64th staging of the Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1909. The draw for the opening round fixtures took place at the Cork Convention on 28 January 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095486-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Cork Intermediate Hurling Championship\nOn 22 July 1973, Cloughduv won the championship following a 2-09 to 2-05 defeat of Blackrock in the final at P\u00e1irc U\u00ed Chonaill. This was their third championship title overall and their first title since 1941.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095487-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Cork Senior Football Championship\nThe 1973 Cork Senior Football Championship was the 85th staging of the Cork Senior Football Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1887. The draw for the opening round fixtures took place on 28 January 1973. The championship began on 1 April 1973 and ended on 30 September 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095487-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Cork Senior Football Championship\nNemo Rangers entered the championship as the defending champions, however, they were defeated by St. Finbarr's in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095487-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Cork Senior Football Championship\nOn 30 September 1973, University College Cork won the championship following a 3-08 to 1-10 defeat of Carbery in the final. This was their 8th championship title overall and their first since 1969.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095487-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Cork Senior Football Championship\nMillstreet's Jim Kenneally was the championship's top scorer with 3-20.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095488-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Cork Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 1973 Cork Senior Hurling Championship was the 85th staging of the Cork Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Cork County Board in 1887. The draw for the opening fixtures took place on 28 January 1973. The championship began on 8 April 1973 ended on 14 October 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095488-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Cork Senior Hurling Championship\nOn 14 October 1973, Blackrock won the championship following a 2\u201312 to 2\u201310 defeat Glen Rovers in the final. This was their 25th championship title overall and their second title in three years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095488-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Cork Senior Hurling Championship\nGlen Rovers' Tom Buckley was the championship's top scorer with 2-22.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095488-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Cork Senior Hurling Championship, Format\nAt the Cork County Convention on 28 January 1973, it was decided to introduce a system of seeding. As a result of this the four semi-finalists from the 1972 championship were automatically guaranteed a place in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 45], "content_span": [46, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095489-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Cornell Big Red football team\nThe 1973 Cornell Big Red football team was an American football team that represented Cornell University during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. Cornell finished sixth in the Ivy League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095489-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Cornell Big Red football team\nIn its eighth season under head coach Jack Musick, the team compiled a 3\u20135\u20131 record but outscored opponents 170 to 154. Bob Lally was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095489-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Cornell Big Red football team\nCornell's 2\u20135 conference record placed sixth in the Ivy League standings. The Big Red outscored Ivy opponents 128 to 126.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095489-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Cornell Big Red football team\nCornell played its home games at Schoellkopf Field in Ithaca, New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095490-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Cornwall County Council election\nElections to Cornwall County Council were held on 12 April 1973. This was on the same day as other UK county council elections. The whole council of 79 members was up for election and the council fell under the control of Independents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095491-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Costa Rican census\nThe Costa Rica 1973 Census was elaborated by then Direcci\u00f3n General de Estad\u00edstica y Censos, predecessor of current National Institute of Statistics and Census. The total population was at the moment 1,871,780.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095492-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Cotton Bowl Classic\nThe 1973 Cotton Bowl Classic, part of the 1972 bowl game season, took place on January 1, 1973, at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas. The competing teams were the Alabama Crimson Tide, representing the Southeastern Conference (SEC), and the Texas Longhorns, representing the Southwest Conference (SWC). Texas won the game by a final score of 17\u201313.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095492-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Cotton Bowl Classic, Teams, Alabama\nThe 1972 Alabama squad finished the regular season with a 10\u20131 record and as conference champions. Their only loss came against Auburn in the Iron Bowl by a final score of 17\u201316 in the famous Punt Bama Punt game. Following their victory over Virginia Tech, university officials announced they accepted an invitation to play in the Cotton Bowl. The appearance marked the fourth for Alabama in the Cotton Bowl, their 26th overall bowl game appearance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 40], "content_span": [41, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095492-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Cotton Bowl Classic, Teams, Texas\nThe 1972 Texas squad finished the regular season with a 9\u20131 record. Their only loss came against Oklahoma in the Red River Rivalry by a final score of 27\u20130. Following their victory over TCU, university officials announced they accepted an invitation to play in the Cotton Bowl. The appearance marked the fourteenth for Texas in the Cotton Bowl, their 20th overall bowl game appearance and their fifth straight Cotton Bowl appearance after winning their fifth straight Southwest Conference championship by going undefeated in conference play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095492-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Cotton Bowl Classic, Game summary\nAlabama opened the game by going up 10\u20130 as a result of a pair of Alan Lowry interceptions. Steve Wade made both interceptions for the Crimson Tide, and the first resulted in a 50-yard Greg Gantt field goal and the second a 31-yard Wilbur Jackson touchdown. After trading field goals in the second quarter, Alabama took a 13\u20133 lead at the half. In the second half, the Texas defense shutout the Alabama offense, and a pair of rushing touchdowns from Longhorn quarterback Alan Lowry from three and 34-yards sealed the 17\u201313 Texas victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095493-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 County Championship\nThe 1973 County Championship was the 74th officially organised running of the County Championship. Hampshire won the Championship title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095494-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Coupe de France Final\nThe 1973 Coupe de France Final was a football match held at Parc des Princes, Paris on June 17, 1973, that saw Olympique Lyonnais defeat FC Nantes 2\u20131 thanks to goals by Dobrivoje Trivi\u0107 and Bernard Lacombe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095495-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Craigavon Borough Council election\nElections to Craigavon Borough Council were held on 30 May 1973 on the same day as the other Northern Irish local government elections. The election used four district electoral areas to elect a total of 25 councillors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095495-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Craigavon Borough Council election, Districts results, Area A\n1973: 1 x SDLP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x DUP, 1 x Independent Nationalist", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095495-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Craigavon Borough Council election, Districts results, Area B\n1973: 2 x UUP, 2 x Alliance, 2 x Vanguard, 1 x Independent Unionist", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095495-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Craigavon Borough Council election, Districts results, Area C\n1973: 3 x UUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Vanguard", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095495-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Craigavon Borough Council election, Districts results, Area D\n1973: 4 x UUP, 2 x DUP, 1 x Vanguard", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095496-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Craven International Championships\nThe 1973 Craven International Championships, was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Nice Lawn Tennis Club in Nice, France that was part of the Rothmans Spring Mediterranean Circuit. It was the third edition of the tournament and was held from 9 April until 15 April 1973. Manuel Orantes won the title and earned $4,000 first-prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095496-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Craven International Championships, Finals, Singles\nManuel Orantes defeated Adriano Panatta 7\u20136, 5\u20137, 4\u20136, 7\u20136, 12\u201310", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 56], "content_span": [57, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095496-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Craven International Championships, Finals, Doubles\nManuel Orantes / Juan Gisbert Sr. defeated Patrice Beust / Daniel Contet 7\u20135, 6\u20131", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 56], "content_span": [57, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095497-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9 Lib\u00e9r\u00e9\nThe 1973 Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9 Lib\u00e9r\u00e9 was the 25th edition of the cycle race and was held from 28 May to 4 June 1973. The race started in Thonon and finished at Saint-\u00c9tienne. The race was won by Luis Oca\u00f1a of the Bic team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095497-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9 Lib\u00e9r\u00e9, Teams\nTen teams, containing a total of 100 riders, participated in the race:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095498-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks season\nThe 1973 Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks season was the seventh in the club's history. They competed in the New South Wales Rugby Football League's 1973 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095498-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks season\nThree Cronulla players, Ken Maddison, Greg Pierce and Steve Rogers were selected to make their international representative debuts for Australia in 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095499-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Cumbria County Council election\nElections to Cumbria County Council were held on 12 April 1973. This was on the same day as other UK county council elections. The whole council of 82 members was up for election and the council fell under no overall control.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095499-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Cumbria County Council election\nThe election was the first to take place to the new non-metropolitan county council of Cumbria as defined by the Local Government Act 1972, which had reformed local government in England and Wales. The council acted as a \"shadow authority\" until 1 April 1974, when it gained control from its predecessor county councils, Cumberland, Westmorland County Council, and parts of Lancashire and the West Riding of Yorkshire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095500-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Cup of the Ukrainian SSR\nThe Ukrainian Cup 1973 was a football knockout competition conducting by the Football Federation of Ukrainian SSR and was known as the Ukrainian Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095500-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Cup of the Ukrainian SSR\nThe Cup started with the preliminary round on November 1, 1973, and involved the republican level non-amateur clubs. The main event started from the round of 16 on November 6, 1973, when the inter-republican clubs joined the competition such as Chornomorets, Metalist, and others, while some of them represented by their second squad. Dynamo Kyiv has chosen not to participate in it since its last winning season in 1948. Also the last season champions FC Avtomobilist Zhytomyr entered the competition at the Round of 16, however they were eliminated in the quarterfinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095500-0001-0001", "contents": "1973 Cup of the Ukrainian SSR\nUnlike the previous edition the tournament introduced a penalty shootout which replaced the method of a game replay. The competition concluded in two and half weeks in Kiev on November 18. Note that the tournament took place after the Soviet football season was over and was conducted in rather unsupported weather conditions as the cold period in Ukraine starts usually in September or October, depending on location.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095500-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Cup of the Ukrainian SSR, Teams, Tournament distribution\nThe competition was conducted among all 23 Ukrainian clubs of the 1973 Soviet Second League, Zone 1 and all 4 Ukrainian clubs of the 1973 Soviet First League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095500-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Cup of the Ukrainian SSR, Teams, Other professional teams\nThe five Ukrainian professional teams in the Soviet Top League did not take part in the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095500-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Cup of the Ukrainian SSR, Competition schedule, Final\nThe final was held on November 18, 1973, in Kiev. Remarkable is the fact that the final involved participation of such players as Taras Shuliatytsky, Oleksandr Ischenko, and others well known players of that time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095501-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Cupa Rom\u00e2niei Final\nThe 1973 Cupa Rom\u00e2niei Final was the 35th final of Romania's most prestigious football cup competition. It was disputed between Chimia R\u00e2mnicu V\u00e2lcea and Constructorul Gala\u021bi, and was won by Chimia R\u00e2mnicu V\u00e2lcea after a replay. It was the 1st cup for Chimia R\u00e2mnicu V\u00e2lcea.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095501-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Cupa Rom\u00e2niei Final\nBoth teams played in 1\u20134\u20132\u20134 formula, 1 GK, 4 DF, 2 MF and 4 FW.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 89]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095501-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Cupa Rom\u00e2niei Final\nThe 1973 Cupa Rom\u00e2niei Final was the 3rd final in the history of the Romanian Cup when the winner established after a replay. The other two finals with replay(s) were played in 1934 and 1940.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095501-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Cupa Rom\u00e2niei Final\nThis final remained in history because it was the first one with no club from Divizia A in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095501-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Cupa Rom\u00e2niei Final\nThe final is also known as \"Finala descul\u021bilor\" (English: \"The final of the poor\") because the team from R\u00e2mnicu V\u00e2lcea was playing in Divizia B and the team from Gala\u021bi was playing in Divizia C at the time of the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095501-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Cupa Rom\u00e2niei Final\nChimia R\u00e2mnicu V\u00e2lcea became the third club representing Divizia B which won the Romanian Cup final, after Metalul Re\u0219i\u021ba which accomplished this in 1954, and Arie\u0219ul Turda which accomplished this in 1961. Constructorul Gala\u021bi became the second club representing Divizia C that reached the Romanian Cup final, after Foresta F\u0103lticeni in 1967.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095501-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Cupa Rom\u00e2niei Final\nConstructorul Gala\u021bi become the champion of 1972\u201373 Divizia C at the end of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095502-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Currie Cup\nThe 1973 Currie Cup was the 35th edition of the Currie Cup, the premier annual domestic rugby union competition in South Africa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095502-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Currie Cup\nThe tournament was won by Northern Transvaal for the sixth time; they beat Free State 30\u201322 in the final in Pretoria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095503-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Cypriot presidential election\nPresidential elections were due to be held in Cyprus on 18 February 1973. However, as incumbent President Makarios III was the only candidate, the elections were not held and Makarios III was automatically declared the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095503-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Cypriot presidential election\nA separate election for Vice President of Cyprus took place. Rauf Denkta\u015f stood unopposed and was elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095503-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Cypriot presidential election, Electoral system\nThe elections were held using a two-round system; if no candidate received over 50% of the vote in the first round, a second round was to be held between the top two candidates. The constitution required the President of Cyprus to be a Greek Cypriot and the Vice-President to be a Turkish Cypriot. Greek Cypriots elected the President and Turkish Cypriots elected the Vice-President.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 52], "content_span": [53, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095504-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Czechoslovak Figure Skating Championships\nThe 1973 Czechoslovak Figure Skating Championships was held on January 13\u201314, 1973 in Liptovsky Mikulas. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095505-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Czechoslovak presidential election\nThe 1973 Czechoslovak presidential election took place on 22 March 1973. Ludv\u00edk Svoboda was elected for his second term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095505-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Czechoslovak presidential election, Background\nSvoboda was the president since 1968. His first term expired in 1973. He was nominated as the only candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095506-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 DFB-Ligapokal Final\nThe 1973 DFB-Ligapokal Final decided the winner of the 1972\u201373 DFB-Ligapokal, a knockout football cup competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095506-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 DFB-Ligapokal Final\nThe match was played on 6 June 1973 at the Volksparkstadion in Hamburg. Hamburger SV won the match 4\u20130 against Borussia M\u00f6nchengladbach for the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095506-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 DFB-Ligapokal Final, Route to the final\nThe DFB-Ligapokal began with the group stage. Four teams would play each other in a home and away format, with the group winners advancing to the knockout stage. The knockout stage, beginning with the quarter-finals was a knockout cup competition. Teams would play each other home and away, and the winner on aggregate would advance. If tied on aggregate, extra time was used to determine the winner. If still tied, a replay would be necessary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095506-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 DFB-Ligapokal Final, Route to the final\nNote: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 44], "content_span": [45, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095507-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 DFB-Pokal Final\nThe 1973 DFB-Pokal Final, which decided the winner of the 1972\u201373 DFB-Pokal, took place on 23 June 1973 between Borussia M\u00f6nchengladbach and 1. FC K\u00f6ln in the Rheinstadion in D\u00fcsseldorf. The sports magazine kicker described it as one of the \"best, highest energy, and exciting\" DFB-Pokal matches ever played. It was in this match that G\u00fcnter Netzer famously substituted himself on. Shortly after this, Netzer scored what would be the winning goal for Borussia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095507-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 DFB-Pokal Final\nAs winners, M\u00f6nchengladbach qualified for the 1973\u201374 European Cup Winners' Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095507-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 DFB-Pokal Final, Background\nGladbach coach Hennes Weisweiler in nine years had raised Gladbach from the second tier of German football to top European football. A large contribution to this success was due to G\u00fcnter Netzer, who Weisweiler shared a love-hate relationship. However, in the 1972\u201373 season, Netzer was plagued with weaknesses and injuries, and Borussia finished a somewhat disappointing fifth place in the Bundesliga. Shortly before the match, news broke that Netzer would transfer to Real Madrid in the summer, making the match his farwell for Borussia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095507-0002-0001", "contents": "1973 DFB-Pokal Final, Background\nThe day before the final, Weisweiler announced that Netzer would not be in the starting lineup, as Weisweiler was already planning for Netzer's absence. To Weisweiler, Netzer replied, \"that's brave of you\". At the same time Netzer had to admit internally that the decision was justified due to concerns over his fitness. For his replacement, Weisweiler brought on Herbert Wimmer as central midfielder and team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095507-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 DFB-Pokal Final, Background\n1. FC K\u00f6ln had made the cup final thrice in the previous five seasons, winning once, and went into the match as a slight favourites.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095507-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 DFB-Pokal Final, Route to the final\nThe DFB-Pokal began with 32 teams in a two-legged knockout cup competition. There were a total of four rounds leading up to the final. Teams were drawn against each other, and following two legs of 90 minutes each, the winner on aggregate would advance. If still tied, 30 minutes of extra time was played. If the score was still level, a penalty shoot-out was used to determine the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 40], "content_span": [41, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095507-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 DFB-Pokal Final, Route to the final\nNote: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 40], "content_span": [41, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095507-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 DFB-Pokal Final, Match, Summary\nGladbach went ahead 24 minutes in via a goal by Herbert Wimmer, but just before the break, the K\u00f6ln found an equaliser through Herbert Neumann. Netzer was on the bench, but the Borussia fans demanded he be substituted on. Cameras were trained on him, watching his every movement. During the entire first half, spectators at the Rheinstadion demanded to see Netzer subbed in. At half-time Weisweiler wanted to substitute Netzer on, but he rejected this, saying, \"better that it not be me\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 36], "content_span": [37, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095507-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 DFB-Pokal Final, Match, Summary\nIn the 58th minute, Gladbach attacker Jupp Heynckes was fouled by Jupp Kapellmann inside the box, and referee Kurt Tschenscher awarded a penalty. Contrary to the old football rule, Heynckes himself took the penalty, and saw it saved by K\u00f6ln goalkeeper Gerhard Welz. Protests that Welz had moved too early were dismissed by the referee. Further into the second half, K\u00f6ln twice hit the crossbar via J\u00fcrgen Glowacz in the 67th minute and Heinz Flohe in the 81st minutes. In the 86th minute, a shot by Gladbach's Heynckes also hit the woodwork. However, at the end of 90 minutes the score remained level at 1\u20131, and extra time was required.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 36], "content_span": [37, 674]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095507-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 DFB-Pokal Final, Match, Summary\nAs the game went to extra time, Netzer spoke to the exhausted Christian Kulik, asking whether he still felt fit. Upon Kulik expressing doubt, Netzer took off his training jacket, went to Weisweiler, and informed him that he would be substituting himself in for Kulik, saying \"I'll play now then\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 36], "content_span": [37, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095507-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 DFB-Pokal Final, Match, Summary\nIn the 94th minute, minutes after his substitution, Netzer scored what would be the winning goal with his second touch of the match following a wall pass with teammate Rainer Bonhof. Netzer later admitted that he took the ball \"completely wrong\" with the outer instep, thereby out of reach of the keeper Welz. He called it \"the luckiest moment of my football career\", because it was \"meant\" to go awry. His winning goal was later voted Goal of the Month for June 1971 and Goal of the Year for 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 36], "content_span": [37, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095507-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 DFB-Pokal Final, Impact\nNetzer's goal was chosen as goal of the month, and he was named German footballer of the year for a second consecutive year. Netzer moved to Real Madrid, playing for them until 1976, where he twice won the Spanish cup and league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 28], "content_span": [29, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095507-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 DFB-Pokal Final, Impact\nWeisweiler compensated with the loss of Netzer with young players as Borussia went on to win the Bundesliga and the UEFA Cup in 1975.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 28], "content_span": [29, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095507-0012-0000", "contents": "1973 DFB-Pokal Final, Impact\n1. FC K\u00f6ln did not win a second DFB-Pokal title until 1977, after Weisweiler had taken over there as coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 28], "content_span": [29, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095508-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Dallas Cowboys season\nThe 1973 Dallas Cowboys season was their 14th in the league. The team matched their previous output of 10\u20134. They qualified for the playoffs for the eighth straight season. After a 4-3 start the Cowboys won six of their last seven games to win the NFC East with a solid 10-4 record. In the Divisional Playoffs the Cowboys beat the Los Angeles Rams 27-16 in Texas Stadium to earn their fourth straight Championship Game Appearance. However, not even the home crowd at Texas Stadium could help the Cowboys as they fell to the Minnesota Vikings 27-10.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095508-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Dallas Cowboys season, Publications\nThe Football Encyclopedia ISBN\u00a00-312-11435-4Total Football ISBN\u00a00-06-270170- 3Cowboys Have Always Been My Heroes ISBN\u00a00-446-51950-2", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 40], "content_span": [41, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095509-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Danish 1st Division, Overview\nIt was contested by 12 teams, and Hvidovre IF won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095510-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Danish general election\nGeneral elections were held in Denmark on 4 December 1973 and in the Faroe Islands on 13 December. It has since been referred to as the Landslide Election (Danish: Jordskredsvalget), as five new or previously unrepresented parties won seats, and more than half the members of the parliament were replaced. The Social Democratic Party, which had led a minority government until this election, lost a third of their seats. After the election Poul Hartling, the leader of the liberal Venstre, formed the smallest minority government in Denmark's history with only 22 seats, supported by the Progress Party, the Conservative People's Party, the Social Liberal Party, the Centre Democrats and the Christian People's Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 746]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095510-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Danish general election\nVoter turnout was 88.7% in Denmark proper, 54.6% in the Faroe Islands and 66.0% in Greenland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095511-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Dartmouth Indians football team\nThe 1973 Dartmouth Indians football team was an American football team that represented Dartmouth College during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. Dartmouth was the outright Ivy League champion for the second straight year, and claimed a share of the title for a fifth straight year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095511-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Dartmouth Indians football team\nIn their third season under head coach Jake Crouthamel, the Indians compiled a 6\u20133 record and outscored opponents 184 to 119. Thomas C. Csatari and Herbert Hopkins were the team captains.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095511-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Dartmouth Indians football team\nThe Indians' 6\u20131 conference record was the best in the Ivy League. Dartmouth outscored Ivy opponents 175 to 99.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095511-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Dartmouth Indians football team\nThis would be the last season for the \"Dartmouth Indians\" team name. In 1974, the college trustees ruled \"use of the [Indian] symbol in any form to be inconsistent with present institutional and academic objectives of the college in advancing Native American education.\" That fall, all Dartmouth teams changed their name to \"Big Green\", which had long been used by the press as an alternative nickname for Dartmouth athletics teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095511-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Dartmouth Indians football team\nDartmouth played its home games at Memorial Field on the college campus in Hanover, New Hampshire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095512-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Davis Cup\nThe 1973 Davis Cup was the 62nd edition of the Davis Cup, the most important tournament between national teams in men's tennis. 53 teams entered the competition, 31 in the Europe Zone, 12 in the Americas Zone, and 10 in the Eastern Zone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095512-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Davis Cup\nFor the first time, preliminary rounds were used in every zone, effectively giving byes through the first two rounds of competition to the previous year's finalists from the American and Eastern zones, and to the previous year's semifinalists from the European zones. This year's competition also marked the first time that professional tennis players were allowed to compete.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095512-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Davis Cup\nThe United States defeated Chile in the Americas Inter-Zonal final, Australia defeated India in the Eastern Zone final, and Czechoslovakia and Romania were the winners of the two Europe Zones, defeating the Soviet Union and Italy respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095512-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Davis Cup\nIn the Inter-Zonal Zone, Australia defeated Czechoslovakia and the United States defeated Romania in the semifinals. Australia then defeated the United States in the final, breaking the defending champions' 5-year winning run. The final was held at the Public Auditorium in Cleveland, Ohio, United States on 30 November-2 December. It marked the first time that the final was held indoors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095512-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Davis Cup, Americas Zone, Americas Inter-Zonal Final\nThe doubles match between Smith/van Dillen and Cornejo/Fillol set the Davis Cup record for the most games in a doubles rubber (122). The second set, which went to 37-39, set the record for the most games played in a set (76).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 57], "content_span": [58, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095513-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Davis Cup Americas Zone\nThe Americas Zone was one of the three regional zones of the 1973 Davis Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095513-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Davis Cup Americas Zone\n12 teams entered the Americas Zone split across two sub-zones, the North & Central America Zone and the South America Zone. 5 teams played in each of the sub-zone's preliminary rounds, with two teams progressing to each sub-zone's main draw to join the previous year's finalists the United States and Chile. The winners of each sub-zone main draw then played against each other to determine who moved to the Inter-Zonal Zone to compete against the winners of the Eastern Zone and Europe Zone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095513-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Davis Cup Americas Zone\nThe United States defeated Mexico in the North & Central America Zone final, and Chile defeated Argentina in the South America Zone final. In the Americas Inter-Zonal Final, the United States defeated Chile and progressed to the Inter-Zonal Zone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095513-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Davis Cup Americas Zone, Americas Inter-Zonal Final\nThe doubles match between Smith/van Dillen and Cornejo/Fillol set the Davis Cup record for the most games in a doubles rubber (122). The second set, which went to 37-39, set the record for the most games played in a set (76).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 56], "content_span": [57, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095514-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Davis Cup Eastern Zone\nThe Eastern Zone was one of the three regional zones of the 1973 Davis Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095514-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Davis Cup Eastern Zone\n10 teams entered the Eastern Zone, with 8 teams competing in the preliminary round to join the previous year's finalists Australia and India in the main draw. The winner of the main draw went on to compete in the Inter-Zonal Zone against the winners of the Americas Zone and Europe Zone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095514-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Davis Cup Eastern Zone\nAustralia defeated India in the final and progressed to the Inter-Zonal Zone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095515-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Davis Cup Europe Zone\nThe Europe Zone was one of the three regional zones of the 1973 Davis Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095515-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Davis Cup Europe Zone\n31 teams entered the Europe Zone, competing across 2 sub-zones. 14 teams competed in the preliminary rounds, with the winners progressing to the main draw and joining the remaining 17 teams. The winners of each sub-zone went on to compete in the Inter-Zonal Zone against the winners of the Americas Zone and Eastern Zone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095515-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Davis Cup Europe Zone\nRomania defeated the Soviet Union in the Zone A final, and Czechoslovakia defeated Italy in the Zone B final, resulting in both Romania and Czechoslovakia progressing to the Inter-Zonal Zone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095516-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Daytona 500\nThe 1973 Daytona 500, the 15th running of the event, was won by Richard Petty on February 18, 1973, at Daytona International Raceway in Daytona Beach, Florida.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095516-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Daytona 500\nFour cautions slowed the race for 28 laps. A crowd of over one hundred thousand came to see a field of 38 American and two Canadians (Earl Ross and Vic Parsons). The average speed for the race was 157.205 miles per hour (252.997\u00a0km/h) while Buddy Baker achieved the pole position with a speed of 185.662 miles per hour (298.794\u00a0km/h). Bobby Isaac would finish second to Richard Petty by more than two laps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095516-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Daytona 500\nBoth Hollar and Jett participated in qualifying and were supposed to start in the 125s (Hollar was supposed to start 38th in race 1 and Jett was supposed to start 26th in race 2), but for whatever reason neither driver ended up participating.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095516-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Daytona 500, Background\nDaytona International Speedway is a race track in Daytona Beach, Florida, that is one of six superspeedways to hold NASCAR races, the others being Michigan International Speedway, Auto Club Speedway, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Pocono Raceway and Talladega Superspeedway. The standard track at Daytona is a four-turn superspeedway that is 2.5 miles (4.0\u00a0km) long. The track also features two other layouts that utilize portions of the primary high speed tri-oval, such as a 3.56-mile (5.73\u00a0km) sports car course and a 2.95-mile (4.75\u00a0km) motorcycle course. The track's 180-acre (73\u00a0ha) infield includes the 29-acre (12\u00a0ha) Lake Lloyd, which has hosted powerboat racing. The speedway is owned and operated by International Speedway Corporation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 773]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095516-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Daytona 500, Background\nThe track was built by NASCAR founder Bill France Sr. to host racing that was being held at the former Daytona Beach Road Course and opened with the first Daytona 500 in 1959. The speedway has been renovated three times, with the infield renovated in 2004, and the track repaved in 1978 and 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095516-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Daytona 500, Background\nThe Daytona 500 is regarded as the most important and prestigious race on the NASCAR calendar. It is also the series' first race of the year; this phenomenon is virtually unique in sports, which tend to have championships or other major events at the end of the season rather than the start. Since 1995, U.S. television ratings for the Daytona 500 have been the highest for any auto race of the year, surpassing the traditional leader, the Indianapolis 500 which in turn greatly surpasses the Daytona 500 in in-track attendance and international viewing. The 2006 Daytona 500 attracted the sixth largest average live global TV audience of any sporting event that year with 20 million viewers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 721]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095516-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Daytona 500, Speedweeks\n32-year-old Buddy Baker believed it was finally his year. He had won the pole (see above), and in the first Twin 125 race, Baker fought off the effects of an ear infection and beat Cale Yarborough, 1968 champion of the Daytona 500, in a sprinted duel. In that first race, a 26-year-old Tennessee rookie named Darrell Waltrip, had one of the most impressive runs. Driving his own 1971 Mercury, Waltrip finished sixth and captured the eleventh starting spot for his first 500.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095516-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Daytona 500, Speedweeks\nAnother Tennessee driver stole the spotlight that day, Coo Coo Marlin, a 41-year-old journeyman whose best finish in four previous 500s was 18th, shocked the crowd by passing David Pearson with 6 laps to go to win the second twin 125. Richard Petty finished fourth in the first Twin 125 and was not happy with his Dodge until his crew made major suspension changes the day before the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095516-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Daytona 500, Race Summary\nRace morning dawned gray and rainy. Similar to the 1979 race, the race was started under caution and began with 13 laps under yellow to have the cars help dry the track. Once under green Baker led the first 33 laps as Yarborough, Petty, Issac, and Pearson clung tenaciously to him. Petty lead for the first time on lap 37. But as the race continued, Baker took over. He took the lead from Issac on lap 40 and led 17 circuits. Then he led laps 71 through 102 before Yarborough squeezed past. But Baker took over again on lap 109.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 30], "content_span": [31, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095516-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Daytona 500, Race Summary\nBy this time, Petty was out of sequence with the field. he cut a right rear tire on lap 88 and was forced to the pits. he lost a lap. He would make up the lap when the leaders pitted, but lose it when he pitted again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 30], "content_span": [31, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095516-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 Daytona 500, Race Summary\nWith 50 laps to go, Baker was in front. He had dominated, leading 119 of the first 150 circuits, even as Yarborough stubbornly hung with him. As usual, engine problems took their toll. Pete Hamilton the 1970 winner who had qualified second, was first out on lap 33. David Pearson's engine expired after 63 laps. Bobby Allison and Coo Coo Marlin's engines also blew.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 30], "content_span": [31, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095516-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 Daytona 500, Race Summary\nOn lap 155, John Utsman's engine blew and he spun just past the finish line. Petty was back on the lead lap with Baker, but about to head for the pits. Petty just missed the spinning car. The yellow flag gave Petty another break. It allowed him to pit with Baker and remain on the lead lap. Meanwhile, Yarborough's engine quit during the caution period. He was out of the race. Yarborough had led six times for 25 laps and his spirited challenge of Baker had kept the fans entertained all afternoon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 30], "content_span": [31, 530]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095516-0012-0000", "contents": "1973 Daytona 500, Race Summary\nNow it was down to Petty and Baker. They were the only drivers still on the lead lap. Baker led laps 165 through 184, but both drivers needed one more quick stop for fuel. Petty came in first. He waited until the last moment before diving off turn four on lap 189 and screamed into his pit. Petty's car spewed tire smoke as he slid to a perfect stop. Five gallons and 8.4 seconds later, Petty was on his way.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 30], "content_span": [31, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095516-0013-0000", "contents": "1973 Daytona 500, Race Summary\nBaker came in the next lap. He did not enter the pits as quickly. His stop took 9.9 seconds. When both cars reached full speed, Petty had a 4.4-second lead. Baker immediately began closing the gap. With six laps remaining, he was only 2.5 seconds behind. Suddenly, Baker's engine blew. It was over.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 30], "content_span": [31, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095516-0014-0000", "contents": "1973 Daytona 500, Race Summary\nPetty won his fourth Daytona 500, he would win three more. Waltrip finished his first 500 in 12th. His first and only Daytona 500 win didn't come until 1989.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 30], "content_span": [31, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095516-0015-0000", "contents": "1973 Daytona 500, Race Summary\nFirst Daytona 500 starts for Hershel McGriff, Darrell Waltrip, Ed Negre, John Utsman, Marty Robbins, and Earl Ross. Only Daytona 500 starts for Vic Parsons and Larry Smith. Last Daytona 500 starts for Jabe Thomas, Ray Elder, Ron Keselowski, Maynard Troyer, John Sears, Red Farmer, Tiny Lund, Neil Castles, Gordon Johncock, and Pete Hamilton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 30], "content_span": [31, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095517-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 DeKalb\u2013Peachtree Airport Learjet crash\nOn February 26, 1973, a private Learjet 24 crashed shortly after take-off from DeKalb\u2013Peachtree Airport in Chamblee, Georgia, United States. The aircraft, registration N454RN, owned by a private corporation, struck birds shortly after lifting off. Air traffic control advised the flight crew of smoke trailing from their left engine; the crew said they would not be able to return to the airport. The aircraft impacted the roof of an apartment building and came to rest in a ravine. All five passengers and two crew members aboard the aircraft were killed; a person in the apartment building suffered severe burns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095517-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 DeKalb\u2013Peachtree Airport Learjet crash\nA subsequent investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) confirmed the aircraft had impacted birds during take-off. Due to loss of power in the left engine, the flight crew were unable to control their aircraft before it struck the roof of the apartment building. The investigation further determined the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and officials at DeKalb\u2013Peachtree Airport were aware of the danger of birds at the airport after a landfill site had opened in the vicinity of the airport ten years before the accident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095517-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 DeKalb\u2013Peachtree Airport Learjet crash, Accident\nThe Learjet 24, registration N454RN, used for the flight between Chamblee, Georgia, and Miami, Florida, had been manufactured in 1966, and had accumulated 4,041\u00a0flying hours. Powered by two General Electric CJ610-4 turbojet engines, the aircraft was registered to Machinery Buyers Corporation, an Atlanta firm. A spokesperson for the company later told the Daily Record the aircraft was to pick up a customer in Miami. The flight crew consisted of captain Ernest Sellfors, aged 31, and first officer David Phillips, aged 27.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 53], "content_span": [54, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095517-0002-0001", "contents": "1973 DeKalb\u2013Peachtree Airport Learjet crash, Accident\nSellfors was permitted to fly Learjet\u00a024, Learjet 23 and Hawker Siddeley\u00a0125 aircraft, and had a total of 5,600\u00a0flying hours, of which 2,150 were in jet aircraft. Phillips had begun flying in the Learjet\u00a024 several weeks before the accident, and had accumulated a total of 4,000\u00a0flying hours in other aircraft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 53], "content_span": [54, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095517-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 DeKalb\u2013Peachtree Airport Learjet crash, Accident\nThe weather around the time of the accident was overcast, with a ceiling of 500 feet (150\u00a0m). Visibility was 4 miles (6.4\u00a0km), with a 4-knot wind at 60\u00a0degrees. At 10:10 Eastern Standard Time, air traffic control cleared the aircraft to take off from Runway\u00a020L of DeKalb\u2013Peachtree Airport. Witnesses told the NTSB the take-off path of the aircraft appeared to be normal, but it was trailing smoke when it crossed the airport perimeter. Controllers in the air traffic control tower observed the smoke and radioed the aircraft to notify them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 53], "content_span": [54, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095517-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 DeKalb\u2013Peachtree Airport Learjet crash, Accident\nWitnesses also said they heard two explosive noises, the first as the aircraft \"crossed the airport boundary and the second when the aircraft was about halfway between the airport and the crash site.\" Although most witnesses described the smoke as white or grey, two witnesses said black smoke and flames were visible at the rear of the aircraft. According to witness statements, the aircraft climbed to a height of between 250 feet (76\u00a0m) and 300 feet (91\u00a0m), before the nose began to rise. One said the aircraft was \"wobbling\" and another said they thought the aircraft had stalled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 53], "content_span": [54, 638]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095517-0004-0001", "contents": "1973 DeKalb\u2013Peachtree Airport Learjet crash, Accident\nThe aircraft impacted with the roof of a three-storey apartment building before it crashed into a wooded ravine approximately 250 feet from busy Buford Highway, a major Atlanta road lined with apartments. All five passengers and two crew members were killed in the accident, and an individual on the ground, standing in a parking lot, sustained serious burns from aviation fuel and remained in a critical condition for a day after the accident. The apartment building was damaged, and several parked vehicles destroyed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 53], "content_span": [54, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095517-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 DeKalb\u2013Peachtree Airport Learjet crash, Investigation, Bird strikes\nUpon reaching the accident site, investigators from the NTSB found both engines, the wings and empennage had separated from the fuselage, which had largely been consumed by fire. It was clear to investigators the aircraft had encountered a bird strike upon take-off. One pilot who landed at around the time the Learjet took off told the Gadsden Times, \"Just as we came across the runway it was almost black with birds. They swarmed and parted as we went through them.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 72], "content_span": [73, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095517-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 DeKalb\u2013Peachtree Airport Learjet crash, Investigation, Bird strikes\nAnalysis of the cockpit area found there was bird residue and feathers on the windshield and center post. The remains of 15\u00a0cowbirds were found within 150 feet (46\u00a0m) of the end of Runway 20L. These birds, the NTSB found, had collided with the aircraft structure. Examination of the two engines found evidence of foreign objects, which consisted of minute fragments of feathers. The objects had blocked cooling ports, and had damaged the rotor assembly inside the engine. It was found the left engine had encountered 14 separate bird strikes and the right engine had encountered five.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 72], "content_span": [73, 657]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095517-0006-0001", "contents": "1973 DeKalb\u2013Peachtree Airport Learjet crash, Investigation, Bird strikes\nWhen the birds entered the engine, they caused the compressors to stall; these were the two loud bangs the witnesses heard as the aircraft took off. As the aircraft passed over the perimeter fence, the left engine flamed out, and the trail of smoke was unburned fuel passing through the hot combustion and turbine sections. Investigators determined it was possible the flight crew had managed to restart the left engine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 72], "content_span": [73, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095517-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 DeKalb\u2013Peachtree Airport Learjet crash, Investigation, Bird strikes\nTo pass certification, the General Electric CJ610 turbojet engine underwent bird strike testing, during which chloroformed birds are passed through a test engine. However, the damage to both engines was, according to the NTSB, \"considerably heavier\" than it had been in the test engine. Because of the failure of the left engine, and the severe damage to the right engine, the aircraft was unable to remain airborne.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 72], "content_span": [73, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095517-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 DeKalb\u2013Peachtree Airport Learjet crash, Investigation, The airport\nFormerly a military base, DeKalb\u2013Peachtree Airport came under control of the DeKalb County government in 1960 for use as a civil airport. The County government told the FAA they would \"take action to restrict the use of land adjacent to or in the immediate vicinity of the airport to activities and purposes compatible with normal airport operations including landing and take-off of aircraft.\" However, in the summer of 1962, ten years before the accident, a sanitary landfill site was opened in the vicinity of the airport. The NTSB report suggests birds were regularly attracted to the landfill site.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 71], "content_span": [72, 675]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095517-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 DeKalb\u2013Peachtree Airport Learjet crash, Investigation, The airport\nIn 1970, the FAA contacted the County government and alerted them to the potential risk of a bird strike at the airport. \"In February 1971, the FAA was advised by the County that the dump would be closed by August 1972,\" as stated in the NTSB accident report. However, the landfill site was not closed in 1972, and remained open at the time of the accident. Investigators concluded it was likely the dump was a factor in the accident: \"There is little doubt that the municipal dump located adjacent to the airport property attracts birds which are a serious hazard to aircraft.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 71], "content_span": [72, 650]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095517-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 DeKalb\u2013Peachtree Airport Learjet crash, Investigation, The airport\nFurthermore, the NTSB concluded the FAA had not intervened to take action with regards to the dump. \"In following up on the compliance requirements for airports developed or improved with Federal funds, the FAA did not take adequate measures, in accordance with existing statues, to assure that the hazard was removed from the vicinity of the airport.\" The NTSB was reportedly \"concerned because responsible authorities had not taken due cognizance of the bird hazards to aircraft at the DeKalb\u2013Peachtree Airport.\" The final report stated,", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 71], "content_span": [72, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095517-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 DeKalb\u2013Peachtree Airport Learjet crash, Investigation, The airport\nMany airports are confronted with perennial or seasonal bird problems, and all such airports should employ methods to minimize the hazard. Public and private studies have shown that the elimination of food and water sources in the vicinity of airports is the most effective means of combating the bird hazard. Open garbage dumps attract birds, and the location of these facilities around airports is not compatible with normal airport operations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 71], "content_span": [72, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095517-0012-0000", "contents": "1973 DeKalb\u2013Peachtree Airport Learjet crash, Investigation, Conclusions\nThe final NTSB accident report concluded the probable cause of the accident was the loss of power due to a bird strike to both engines. The risk of bird strikes was, the Board found, magnified by the landfill site located adjacent to the airport. The FAA and airport authorities were both aware of the danger, and did not act on the information. The final report stated,", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 71], "content_span": [72, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095517-0013-0000", "contents": "1973 DeKalb\u2013Peachtree Airport Learjet crash, Investigation, Conclusions\nThe National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was the loss of engine thrust during take-off due to ingestion of birds by the engines, resulting in loss of control of the airplane. The Federal Aviation Administration and the Airport Authority were aware of the bird hazard at the airport; however, contrary to previous commitments, the airport management did not take positive action to remove the bird hazard from the airport environment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 71], "content_span": [72, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095517-0014-0000", "contents": "1973 DeKalb\u2013Peachtree Airport Learjet crash, Investigation, Recommendations\nIn the aftermath of the accident, the NTSB made several recommendations. They recommended the FAA \"develop and implement a procedure for more stringent and continued surveillance\" of airports which develop properties adjacent to the flight paths of aircraft, and \"impose timely sanctions against operators of facilities which receive Federal aid and do not fully comply with the requirements imposed upon them.\" They also advised the FAA to circulate material around airports warning authorities of the dangers posed by landfill sites in the vicinity of runways.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 75], "content_span": [76, 640]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095518-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team\nThe 1973 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens football team represented the University Of Delaware during the 1973 NCAA Division II football season as an independent. The Hens completed the 85th season of Delaware football, and their first as members of the reorganized NCAA Division II. The Hens played their home games in at Delaware Stadium in Newark, Delaware. The 1973 team came off an undefeated 10\u20130 record from the previous season. The 1973 team was led by coach Tubby Raymond. The team finished the regular season with an 8\u20133 record and made the inaugural NCAA Division II playoffs. However, the Hens lost to Grambling State 17\u20138 in the first round, the Boardwalk Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 716]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095519-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Delaware State Hornets football team\nThe 1973 Delaware State Hornets football team represented Delaware State College\u2014now known as Delaware State University\u2014as a member of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) in the 1973 NCAA Division II football season. Led by seventh-year head coach Arnold Jeter, the Hornets compiled an overall record of 0\u201311 and a mark of 0\u20136 in conference play, placing last out of seven teams in the MEAC. Their 0\u201311 record is tied for the worst in school history, with 1998 and 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095520-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Denmark Open\nThe 1973 Denmark Open in Badminton took place from 12 to 17 March 1973 in Copenhagen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095521-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Denver Broncos season\nThe 1973 Denver Broncos season was the team's 14th year in professional football and its fourth with the National Football League (NFL). Led by second-year head coach and general manager John Ralston, the Broncos posted a winning record for the first time in franchise history, with seven wins, five losses, and two ties, which tied for sixth-best in the conference. Denver tied for second in the AFC West (third with tiebreaker), 1\u00bd games behind the Oakland Raiders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095521-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Denver Broncos season\nOne of the ties, in their first-ever game with the Cardinals, was the nearest they came to losing to that franchise until 2010, and also their only NFL appearance in St. Louis until 2000 against the relocated Rams at Edward Jones Dome.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095522-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Denver WCT\nThe 1973 Denver WCT, also known as the 1973 United Bank Tennis Classic for sponsorship reasons, was the second edition of the tennis event. It was held on indoor carpet courts in Denver, Colorado. The tournament was held between the April 23 and April 30, 1973. The tournament was part of the World Championship Tennis tour, and was part of the Group B circuit. As a result the defending champions Rod Laver, of the doubles and singles, along with his doubles partner Roy Emerson, were ineligible to compete. Ninth-seeded Mark Cox won the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095522-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Denver WCT, Finals, Doubles\nArthur Ashe / Roscoe Tanner defeated Tom Okker / Marty Riessen 3\u20136, 6\u20133, 7\u20136", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095523-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Derby Borough Council election\nThe 1973 Derby Borough Council election took place on 7 June 1973 to elect members of Derby Borough Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections. Voting took place across 18 wards, each electing 3 Councillors. Following the Local Government Act 1972, this was the first election to the new non-metropolitan district council for Derby, which came into being on 1 April the following year. The Labour Party took control of the Council after winning a majority of seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095524-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Detroit Lions season\nThe 1973 Detroit Lions season was their 44th in the league. Don McCafferty, who served as an assistant under Don Shula during Shula's stint as head coach of the Baltimore Colts, and whom as head coach himself coached the Colts to a Super Bowl V victory over the Dallas Cowboys, would replace Joe Schmidt as head coach. However, the team would still fail to improve on their previous season's output of 8\u20135\u20131, finishing a mediocre 6\u20137\u20131. The team missed the playoffs for the third straight season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095525-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Detroit Tigers season\nThe 1973 Detroit Tigers compiled a record of 85\u201377. They finished in 3rd place in the AL East, 12 games behind the Baltimore Orioles. They were outscored by their opponents 674 to 642.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095525-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 71], "content_span": [72, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095525-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095525-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 69], "content_span": [70, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095525-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 66], "content_span": [67, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095525-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Detroit Tigers season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; GF = Games finished; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 67], "content_span": [68, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095525-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Detroit Tigers season, Awards and honors, Players ranking among top 100 all time at position\nThe following members of the 1975 Detroit Tigers are among the Top 100 of all time at their position, as ranked by The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract in 2001:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 97], "content_span": [98, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095526-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Dinefwr Borough Council election\nThe first election to Dinefwr Borough Council following the re-organization of local government in Wales was held in May 1973. It was followed by the 1976 election. On the same day there was UK Local elections to the other local authorities and community councils in Wales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095527-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Dixie 500\nThe 1973 Dixie 500 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series racing event that took place on July 22, 1973, at Atlanta International Raceway in Hampton, Georgia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095527-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Dixie 500, Background\nAtlanta International Raceway (now Atlanta Motor Speedway) is one of ten current intermediate tracks to hold NASCAR races; the others are Charlotte Motor Speedway, Chicagoland Speedway, Darlington Raceway, Homestead Miami Speedway, Kansas Speedway, Kentucky Speedway, Las Vegas Motor Speedway, New Hampshire Motor Speedway, and Texas Motor Speedway. However, at the time, only Charlotte and Darlington were built.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 26], "content_span": [27, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095527-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Dixie 500, Background\nThe layout at Atlanta International Speedway at the time was a four-turn traditional oval track that is 1.54 miles (2.48\u00a0km) long. The track's turns are banked at twenty-four degrees, while the front stretch, the location of the finish line, and the back stretch are banked at five.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 26], "content_span": [27, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095527-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Dixie 500, Race report\nIt took three hours and fifty minutes for David Pearson to defeat Cale Yarborough by more than one lap. Pearson would take home $16,650 in prize money ($97,066.75 when adjusted for inflation) while last-place finisher Charles Barrett would receive $880 ($5,130.25 when adjusted for inflation).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095527-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Dixie 500, Race report\nThough running a limited schedule, this was David Pearson's ninth win in the last ten races that he and the Wood Brothers entered, with a second in the other race. In the NASCAR Cup Series after 1972, nobody has ever matched this.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095527-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Dixie 500, Race report\nMaybe the most impressive finish for Jabe Thomas, finishing 9th in a 40 car field at Atlanta. He had higher finishes but many were at small tracks no longer used after 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095527-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Dixie 500, Race report\nFourteen lead changes were exchanged among six drivers (Richard Petty, Bobby Allison, Bobby Isaac, Cale Yarborough, Donnie Allison, and David Pearson). Six cautions lasted 47 laps and the average speed of the race was 130.211 miles per hour or 209.554 kilometres per hour. Thirty-thousand people would see a racing grid of 39 American drivers and one Canadian driver (Vic Parsons). Richard Petty would win the pole position with a speed of 157.163 miles per hour or 252.929 kilometres per hour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095527-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Dixie 500, Race report, Qualifying\nFailed to qualify: Phil Finney (#80), Richard D. Brown (#44)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 39], "content_span": [40, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095527-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Dixie 500, Finishing order\n* Driver failed to finish race \u2020 signifies that the driver is known to be deceased", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 31], "content_span": [32, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095528-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Down District Council election\nElections to Down District Council were held on 30 May 1973 on the same day as the other Northern Irish local government elections. The election used three district electoral areas to elect a total of 20 councillors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095528-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Down District Council election, Districts results, Area A\n1973: 4 x UUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Vanguard", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 62], "content_span": [63, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095528-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Down District Council election, Districts results, Area B\n1973: 3 x SDLP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Independent", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 62], "content_span": [63, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095529-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Drexel Dragons football team\nThe 1973 Drexel Dragons football team represented Drexel University during the 1973 NCAA Division II football season. Sterling Brown was the team's head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095530-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Duke Blue Devils football team\nThe 1973 Duke Blue Devils football team represented Duke University during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095531-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Dundee Corporation election\nAn election to the Dundee Corporation was held on 1 May 1973, alongside municipal elections across Scotland. 13 of the corporation's 36 seats were up for election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095531-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Dundee Corporation election\nThe election saw Labour manage to hold on to its slim majority over the Progressives on the corporation, with 18 of the council's 36 seats. No seats changed hands, with the Progressives remaining on 17, and 1 Independent. Two Labour Councillors, William Millar and ex-Baillie John Stewart in Lochee and Douglas wards respectively, were deselected by Labour as candidates and ran as independents instead. Neither were re-elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095532-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Dundee East by-election\nThere was a by-election for Dundee East, in Scotland, on 1 March 1973. It was one of three UK parliamentary by-elections held on that day. It was caused by the appointment of George Thomson as a European commissioner. George Machin retained the seat for Labour, but only narrowly. There was a strong showing by the Scottish National Party, which prefigured their serious breakthrough at the Govan by-election later in the year, and the two general elections of 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095532-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Dundee East by-election, Background\nThomson had represented the seat since winning it in a a by-election in 1952. Since the seat's creation in 1950 it had returned Labour members, and until the 1970 general election Labour's majorities over the second placed Conservative candidates had ranged from a low of 3,805 votes in 1951 to a high of 8,126 at the 1952 by-election. However in 1970 the Labour vote share fell below 50% for the first time and Thomson's majority over the second-placed Conservative candidate Allan Stewart was 2,798 votes, the lowest yet seen in the seat. At the same contest the SNP, who had previously only contested the seat at the 1952 by-election, had come third with 8.9% of the votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 717]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095532-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Dundee East by-election, Background\nDundee's Lord Provost William Fitzgerald was chosen as the Conservative candidate by the Dundee Conservative and Unionist Association from a short leet of six. During the campaign Fitzgerald pledged action to try to prevent the loss of 70 jobs at the local Robb Caledon shipyard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095532-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Dundee East by-election, Background\nThe contest was viewed as three way fight, although the Conservatives and Labour claimed it was a contest between their candidates. Fitzgerald's election was considered possible if his party's vote held and the SNP gained from Labour. However, SNP canvassers reportedly thought they could win enough votes to repeat their surprise victory at Hamilton in 1967. The Liberal candidate Nathaniel Gordon also hoped he could pull off a shock result, but this was widely doubted. Nonetheless, Liberal leader Jeremy Thorpe came to Dundee to campaign for Gordon. There was some speculation that the Labour vote may be hurt by the fact that Machin was from Sheffield and an English candidate in a Scottish seat had angered some local Labour supporters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 783]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095532-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Dundee East by-election, Aftermath\nWhile Labour were reported to be relieved to hold the seat, it was noted that the result showed the SNP were still an electoral force. Machin's victory speech was reportedly disrupted by 'the angry shouts of Scottish Nationalist supporters' and he faced 'chants of \"Go back to Yorkshire\" and \"Go home, Englishman\". An editorial in The Glasgow Herald attributed part of the SNP's success to the issue of oil and opined that had a Public Accounts Committee report which was critical of some aspects of the Conservative Government's handling of oil policy been published earlier, the SNP might have won the seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 649]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095532-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Dundee East by-election, Aftermath\nUltimately, Machin's success was short lived as Wilson built on his performance and captured the seat in the February general election the following year. He would hold it until 1987.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095533-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Dungannon District Council election\nElections to Dungannon District Council were held on 30 May 1973 on the same day as the other Northern Irish local government elections. The election used four district electoral areas to elect a total of 20 councillors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095533-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Dungannon District Council election, Districts results, Area A\n1973: 3 x UUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Unity", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095533-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Dungannon District Council election, Districts results, Area B\n1973: 2 x SDLP, 2 x Independent Republican, 1 x UUP", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095533-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Dungannon District Council election, Districts results, Area D\n1973: 3 x UUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Unity", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095534-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Durban strikes\nThe 1973 Durban strikes, also commonly referred to as the Durban Moment were a series of labour disputes and worker-led demonstrations held in Durban in 1973. Underpaid, black African workers across various sectors deliberately withheld their labour in an attempt to demand higher wages and better working conditions. Beginning on 9 January 1973, mass strikes broke out in Durban and continued for three months until the end of March. The strikes involved roughly 60 000 black African workers and impacted more than 100 firms. The highest number of strikes occurred on the outskirts of Durban in textile, metal and chemical plants. Although the number of strikes declined after March, 100 000 black African and Indian workers were reported to have taken some form of industrial action by the end of 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 824]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095534-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Durban strikes\nThe 1973 Durban strikes were seen as a form of \"mass civil disobedience\" as it was illegal for black Africans, under the Native Labour (Settlement of Disputes) Act, 1953 to strike in South Africa during this time. The 1973 Durban strikes were significant as they contributed to the formation of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) in 1985 and the growth of South Africa's anti-apartheid trade union movement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095534-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Durban strikes, Background, Wages and Working Conditions (early 1970s)\nIn 1970, approximately 80 percent of jobs within South Africa's private sector paid black African workers below the poverty datum line which was set at R18 per week in Durban. This, combined with rising inflationary pressures, made it difficult for black African workers to earn a subsistence income. The common consensus amongst state officials, employers and the National Development and Management Fund (NDMF) was that black African workers needed to increase productivity before they could be granted higher wages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 75], "content_span": [76, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095534-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Durban strikes, Background, South Africa's Industrial Relations System (early 1970s)\nUnlike Whites, Coloureds and Indians which were governed by the Industrial Conciliation Act, 1956, South Africa's industrial relations system did not legally recognise black African workers as 'employees' in the early 1970s. The 1953 Native Labour (Settlement of Disputes) Act prevented black African workers from joining registered trade unions (including mixed race unions). Without access to the same legal mechanisms given to Whites, Coloureds and Indians, black African workers had limited opportunities to engage in collective bargaining with their employers. Instead of trade unions, black African workers were restricted to plant-based works committees supervised by the Central Native Labour Board.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 89], "content_span": [90, 797]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095534-0003-0001", "contents": "1973 Durban strikes, Background, South Africa's Industrial Relations System (early 1970s)\nWorks committees were designed to pass on workplace grievances expressed by African workers to employers or Native Labour Officers. Marais Viljoen, the Minister of Labour, announced in parliament that the establishment and effectiveness of works committees would result in black African workers losing interest in trade unions. By January 1973, Durban reportedly had only two plant-based works committees. The Native Labour (Settlement of Disputes) Act also made it illegal for black African workers to strike. Consequences for doing so involved arrest, imprisonment and the risk of black African migrant workers being deported to the reserves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 89], "content_span": [90, 734]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095534-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Durban strikes, Strikes (January - March 1973), January\nCoronation Tile and Brick, a brickworks company, was the first to be affected by the strikes. At 3am on 9 January 1973, black African migrant workers at the Number One plant were woken up by a group of colleagues and told to meet at a local sports field instead of going to work. Black African workers from the surrounding depots were informed by word-of-mouth and persuaded to join. 1500 black African workers marched to the sports field, carrying sticks and chanting: \"Man is dead but his spirit still lives\" in Zulu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 60], "content_span": [61, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095534-0004-0001", "contents": "1973 Durban strikes, Strikes (January - March 1973), January\nThe strikes, most of whom were earning R8.97 per week, demanded to be paid R20, just slightly above the poverty datum line which was set at R18 per week in Durban. Continuing for two days, it was reported that strikers reluctantly returned to work after Goodwill Zwelethini, the Zulu king, delivered a speech urging them to do so and promising to negotiate on their behalf. On 18 January, management responded by increasing pay to R11.50 per week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 60], "content_span": [61, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095534-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Durban strikes, Strikes (January - March 1973), January\nImmediately thereafter, on 10 January, 70 black African workers at A.J. Keeler, a transport company, stopped working for 45 minutes and demanded a R2 wage increase. This was rejected by management on the grounds that workers were already receiving above the legal minimum wage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 60], "content_span": [61, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095534-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Durban strikes, Strikes (January - March 1973), January\nFollowing this, on 11 January, T.W. Becket & Co was the next company to be affected by the strikes. 150 black African workers stopped working in demand for a R3 per week wage increase. The company refused and threatened to fire those who continued striking, enlisting the police and the Department of Labour for additional support. Despite management's threats, 100 workers refused to return to work and continued striking. It wasn't until management's offer to take back workers without any change in pay was rejected on 25 January that the company agreed to the R3 wage increase.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 60], "content_span": [61, 642]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095534-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Durban strikes, Strikes (January - March 1973), January\nThe strikes hit six companies within the first week of January. The main companies to be affected were those in the marine and transports sectors. By the end of January, the number of companies affected by the strikes totalled 29. Out of these, the Frame Group, which owned multiple textile factories across Durban, experienced the largest strikes. Beginning on Thursday, 25 January workers at the Frametex factory in New Germany (who were allegedly being paid between R5 and R9 per week) went on strike in demand for R20 per week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 60], "content_span": [61, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095534-0007-0001", "contents": "1973 Durban strikes, Strikes (January - March 1973), January\nThe following day, the strike spread to four other textile mills owned by the Frame Group. The strike continued for a couple of days and involved between 6000 and 7000 black African and Indian workers. Strikers returned to work after management agreed to increase pay by R1.75 and R3 per week. By the end of January, every textile factory belonging to the Frame Group in Natal had been affected by the strikes, bringing production to a complete standstill.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 60], "content_span": [61, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095534-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Durban strikes, Strikes (January - March 1973), February\nOn 5 February, 3000 black African municipal workers, including street cleaners and refuse collectors, went on strike and demanded wage increases of up to R10 per week, bringing Durban's essential services to a halt. The next day, the number of strikers increased to 13 000. Management responded by offering to increase pay from R13 to R15 per week. This was rejected by workers. The strike grew as black African workers from other factories and areas of Natal, such as Pietermaritzburg and Port Shepstone, joined municipal workers. 30 000 people allegedly took part in the strike. Black African municipal workers returned to work on 8 February.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 61], "content_span": [62, 706]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095534-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Durban strikes, Strikes (January - March 1973), March\nAlthough sporadic strikes by black African workers occurred during March, the strike wave reportedly died down after the end of February. The initial strikes of 1973 were fairly small. Despite this, they had a ripple effect and were described by the Institute of Education (IIE) as a \"series of spontaneous actions by workers, which spread by imitation.\" Most of the strikes were of short duration, with less than half of them continuing for more than two days. By the end of March, approximately 60 000 black African workers had taken part in the strikes, affecting more than 146 firms.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 58], "content_span": [59, 646]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095534-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 Durban strikes, Responses and Reactions, Response from Employers\nThere were mixed responses from employers. Some companies sought immediate settlement in order to appease strikers, whilst others resisted. Some employers increased wage levels before workers took action in order to prevent similar outbreaks. Companies affected by the strikes were told to contact the Department of Labour and the police (in the case of violence) by the Durban Chamber of Commerce. Employers were advised by the Department of Labour not to bargain with strikers, to avoid responding to requests until they returned to work, and to deny compensation for time not spent at work. Most of the strike-affected companies responded by increasing wages. Although many companies threatened to fire workers, this was seldom the case. A lack of communication between workers and employers was viewed as one of the main causes of the strikes amongst employers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 69], "content_span": [70, 935]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095534-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 Durban strikes, Responses and Reactions, Response from Police\nThe police were present throughout the duration of the strikes. However, they rarely intervened and were reportedly told to use only minimum force when required. For the most part, strikers were described as \"generally good-natured\" and non-violent. Despite it being illegal for black Africans to strike under the 1973 Native Labour (Settlement of Disputes) Act, only 353 arrests were made by the end of 1973. It is noted amongst scholars that if police had intervened, matters would have escalated and become dangerous. Employers and members of parliament insisted that \"agitators\" were responsible for causing the strikes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 66], "content_span": [67, 691]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095534-0011-0001", "contents": "1973 Durban strikes, Responses and Reactions, Response from Police\nMarais Viljoen, the Minister of Labour, blamed the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS), the Black Workers' Project (BWP) and the Trade Union Council of South Africa for the labour disputes and made reference to how agitators were planning on taking down the State. Despite this, police claimed there to be \"no evidence of an organisation behind the strikes.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 66], "content_span": [67, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095534-0012-0000", "contents": "1973 Durban strikes, Responses and Reactions, Public and Media Response\nThe 1973 Durban strikes sparked widespread media attention. A number of local and state media reports, including those released by Rapport and SABC, were sympathetic towards black African workers and held employers responsible for low wage levels. On 30 January 1973, the Johannesburg Star published an article which stated, \"If labour peace is to be restored...employers will have to take the initiative and raise pay at least to a survival level, and R5 a week is not that.\" Philip Frame, the owner of the Frame Group, received considerable media backlash during the time of the strikes, as did the Minister of Labour who was criticised by the press for blaming agitators for the cause of the strikes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 71], "content_span": [72, 775]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095534-0013-0000", "contents": "1973 Durban strikes, Legacy and Aftermath, Immediate Aftermath\nIn 1973, Minister of Labour, Marais Viljoen, amended the Native Labour (Settlement of Disputes) Act, 1953 to the Bantu Labour (Settlement of Disputes) Act. The changes made it legal for black African workers to strike for the first time in three decades. Recognition of black trade unions, on the other hand, remained \"out of the question.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 62], "content_span": [63, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095534-0014-0000", "contents": "1973 Durban strikes, Legacy and Aftermath, Immediate Aftermath\nAfter the strikes, many companies and state officials pushed for the expansion of plant-based 'works committees' and 'liaison committees' to enhance communication between employers and workers and improve shop-floor governance. With liaison committees, half of the members could be elected by employers. These alleged improvements were largely frowned upon by black African workers and labour activists as they were seen as an attempt to restrict the unionisation of black African workers and to maintain employer control.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 62], "content_span": [63, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095534-0015-0000", "contents": "1973 Durban strikes, Legacy and Aftermath, Union Activity\nThe strike wave of 1973 resulted in a dramatic resurgence of union activity in South Africa as black African workers joined newly established, unauthorised unions. Five black unions, with approximately 11 000 members, were reported in 1975. These unions operated with plant-based works committees and successfully managed to get shop-stewards onto liaison committees which, in turn, made it harder for employers to ignore the interests of black African workers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 57], "content_span": [58, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095534-0016-0000", "contents": "1973 Durban strikes, Legacy and Aftermath, Union Activity\nThese unions joined together to form the Federation of South African Trade Unions (FOSATU), and the Council of Unions of South Africa (CUSA) in 1979. Later, in 1985, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and the National Council of Trade Unions (NACTU) was established. On 1 May 1979, amendments were made to the Labour Relations Act, otherwise known as the Wiehahn Commission. The Wiehahn Commission made it possible for black trade unions to receive limited State recognition. The 1973 Durban strikes are widely cited by academics as a turning point in South Africa's industrial relations system as it gave rise to the black trade union movement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 57], "content_span": [58, 720]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095535-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Dutch Grand Prix\nThe 1973 Dutch Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Zandvoort on July 29, 1973. It was race 10 of 15 in both the 1973 World Championship of Drivers and the 1973 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers. Zandvoort returned to the Formula One calendar following a year's absence for extensive safety upgrades to the race track including new asphalt, new barriers and a new race control tower.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095535-0000-0001", "contents": "1973 Dutch Grand Prix\nJackie Stewart won the race, this Grand Prix being fourth of five wins for Stewart during the 1973 Formula One season, and he became the most successful Formula One driver of all time with his 26th Grand Prix victory, surpassing Jim Clark's record of 25 victories. Stewart's friend and future world champion James Hunt scored his first podium finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095535-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Dutch Grand Prix\nDriver Roger Williamson was killed in the race; this was the first of two driver fatalities in the 1973 season. Fran\u00e7ois Cevert, who took the podium in second place at this race, would later perish during practice for the 1973 United States Grand Prix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095535-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Dutch Grand Prix, Death of Roger Williamson\nOn the eighth lap of the race through the high speed esses near the Tunnel Oost (East Tunnel) right-hand corner, a suspected tyre failure caused Williamson's car to pitch into the barriers at high speed, and be catapulted 300 yards (275 m) across the track, eventually coming to rest upside down against the barriers on the other side. The petrol tank had ignited whilst being scraped along the track, and the car caught fire. Williamson had not been seriously injured by the impact, but was trapped in the car. The race was not stopped and continued with a local yellow at the scene, a fact which would become significant over the next few minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 48], "content_span": [49, 698]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095535-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Dutch Grand Prix, Death of Roger Williamson\nFellow driver David Purley, who witnessed Williamson's impact, almost immediately pulled his car over on the opposite side of the track, then ran across the live racetrack to assist him. Williamson was heard shouting to Purley to get him out of the car as Purley tried in vain to turn the car upright. There appeared to have been ample time to right the car and pull Williamson out, but as desperately as he tried, Purley was unable to do it by himself, and the marshals, who were not wearing flame retardant overalls, were unable to help due to the intense heat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 48], "content_span": [49, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095535-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Dutch Grand Prix, Death of Roger Williamson\nRace control assumed that it was Purley's car that had crashed and that the driver had escaped unharmed. Many drivers who saw Purley waving them down to stop later claimed that they assumed Purley to be trying to put a fire out from his own car, having safely exited it, and thus did not know that a second driver had been involved. As a result, the race continued at full pace while Purley desperately tried to save the life of Williamson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 48], "content_span": [49, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095535-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Dutch Grand Prix, Death of Roger Williamson\nThere was only a single fire extinguisher in the area, and it was not enough to put out the fire. With the car still burning upside-down, the situation became hopeless, and the distraught Purley was led away by a marshal. As can be seen in the race footage, some spectators breached the safety fences in order to assist Williamson, but were likewise unable to get close to the upturned car due to the heat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 48], "content_span": [49, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095535-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Dutch Grand Prix, Death of Roger Williamson\nWith the race still on, it took some eight minutes for a fire truck to completely travel around the circuit with the flow of race traffic. By the time the car was eventually righted, and the fire extinguished, Williamson had died of asphyxiation. A blanket was thrown over the burnt-out wreck with Williamson still inside, and the race carried on.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 48], "content_span": [49, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095535-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Dutch Grand Prix, Death of Roger Williamson\nPurley was awarded the George Medal for his brave actions in trying to save his fellow sportsman. Williamson's remains were later cremated and his ashes transferred to an undisclosed location.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 48], "content_span": [49, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095535-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Dutch Grand Prix, Death of Roger Williamson\nIn an otherwise uneventful race, Jackie Stewart won his 26th career Grand Prix and broke Jim Clark's 5-year-old record of the most career Grand Prix victories.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 48], "content_span": [49, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095536-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Dutch Open (tennis)\nThe 1973 Dutch Open was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament staged in Hilversum, Netherlands. The men's event was part of the Grand Prix circuit and categorized in Group C. The tournament was played on outdoor clay courts and was held from 16 July to 23 July 1973. It was the 17th edition of the tournament. Tom Okker and Betty St\u00f6ve won the singles titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095536-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Dutch Open (tennis), Finals, Men's Singles\nTom Okker defeated Andr\u00e9s Gimeno 2\u20136, 6\u20134, 6\u20134, 6\u20137, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 47], "content_span": [48, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095536-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Dutch Open (tennis), Finals, Men's Doubles\nIv\u00e1n Molina / Allan Stone defeated Andr\u00e9s Gimeno / Antonio Mu\u00f1oz 4\u20136, 7\u20136, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 47], "content_span": [48, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095536-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Dutch Open (tennis), Finals, Women's Doubles\nBetty St\u00f6ve / Helga Masthoff defeated Trudy Walhof / Brigitte Cuypers 6\u20132, 7\u20136", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 49], "content_span": [50, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095536-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Dutch Open (tennis), Finals, Mixed Doubles\nTine Zwaan / Geoff Masters defeated Betty St\u00f6ve / Geoff Masters 6\u20131, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 47], "content_span": [48, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095537-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Dwars door Belgi\u00eb\nThe 1973 Dwars door Belgi\u00eb was the 28th edition of the Dwars door Vlaanderen cycle race and was held on 25 March 1973. The race started and finished in Waregem. The race was won by Roger Loysch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095538-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Dyfed County Council election\nThe first election to Dyfed County Council was held in April 1973. It was followed by the 1977 election. The vast majority of the councillors elected had been members of one of the three previous county authorities which were merged to create Dyfed, namely Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire, and Pembrokeshire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095538-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Dyfed County Council election, Overview, Cardiganshire\nThere were fifteen wards in Cardiganshire. Eight of these were won by Liberal candidates even though the parliamentary constituency was held by Labour since 1966.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095538-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Dyfed County Council election, Overview, Carmarthenshire\nThe first elections, in line with the traditional pattern of local government in west Wales, resulted in an Independent majority. These Independents were, by and large, genuinely unattached to any political grouping. Of the political parties, Labour comfortably had the largest number of seats but were to be consistently outvoted by the Independents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 61], "content_span": [62, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095538-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Dyfed County Council election, Overview, Carmarthenshire\nIn the urban part of Carmarthenshire the contests were, in the main, between Labour candidates and one other opponent. In the rural areas, however, several Independent members of the former Carmarthenshire County Council, including aldermen, fought each other. In several cases, once these initial contests had taken place, the Independent councillor was returned unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 61], "content_span": [62, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095538-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Dyfed County Council election, Overview, Carmarthenshire\nThe most significant contest, which attracted press coverage, was at Llangadog (Llandeilo No. 6 Ward) where the President of Plaid Cymru, Gwynfor Evans, a member of Carmarthenshire Council since 1949 was defeated by an Independent. The results for Plaid Cymru were disappointing and their one success in Carmarthen Rural No. 7 (the Whitland area) was partly caused by the non-Plaid vote being split between two Independent candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 61], "content_span": [62, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095539-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 E3 Prijs Vlaanderen\nThe 1973 E3 Harelbeke was the 16th edition of the E3 Harelbeke cycle race and was held on 24 March 1973. The race started and finished in Harelbeke. The race was won by Willy In 't Ven.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095540-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament\nThe 1973 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 12th tournament in league history. It was played between March 6 and March 10, 1973. Quarterfinal games were played at home team campus sites, while the 'final four' games were played at the Boston Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. By reaching the championship game both, Cornell and Boston College received invitations to participate in the 1973 NCAA University Division Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095540-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format\nThe tournament featured three rounds of play, all of which were single-elimination. The top eight teams, based on winning percentage, qualified to participate in the tournament. In the quarterfinals the first seed and eighth seed, the second seed and seventh seed, the third seed and sixth seed and the fourth seed and fifth seed played against one another. In the semifinals, the highest seed plays the lowest remaining seed while the two remaining teams play with the winners advancing to the championship game and the losers advancing to the third place game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095540-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 ECAC Hockey Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Conference Standings\nNote: GP = Games Played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; Pct. = Winning Percentage; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 66], "content_span": [67, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095541-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 East Carolina Pirates football team\nThe 1973 East Carolina Pirates football team was an American football team that represented East Carolina University as a member of the Southern Conference during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. In their third season under head coach Sonny Randle, the team compiled a 9\u20132 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095542-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Eastern Illinois Panthers football team\nThe 1973 Eastern Illinois Panthers football team represented Eastern Illinois University as an independent during the 1973 NCAA Division II football season. The Panthers played their home games at O'Brien Stadium in Charleston, Illinois.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095543-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Eastern Michigan Hurons football team\nThe 1973 Eastern Michigan Hurons football team represented Eastern Michigan University as an independent during the 1973 NCAA Division II football season. In their seventh and final season under head coach Dan Boisture, the Hurons compiled a 6\u20134 record and outscored their opponents, 265 to 190. The team's victories included games against Louisiana Tech (21\u201319), Youngstown State (42\u20132), and Weber State (44\u20137).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095543-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Eastern Michigan Hurons football team\nIn February 1974, coach Boisture left Eastern Michigan to coach the Detroit Wheels in the World Football League. The Wheels shared Rynearson Stadium with the Hurons during the 1974 season, compiled a 1\u201313 record, and folded before the season had ended.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095544-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Edinburgh Corporation election\nAn Election to the Edinburgh Corporation was held on 1 May 1973, alongside municipal elections across Scotland. Of the councils 69 seats, 26 were up for election. Labour, despite needing only 1 gain to take control of the council, failed to do so, preventing them from a historic win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095544-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Edinburgh Corporation election\nFollowing the election, with two by-elections pending, Edinburgh Corporation was composed of 34 Labour councillors, 21 Conservatives, and 7 Liberals, with 5 others.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095544-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Edinburgh Corporation election\nBy this point only a small rump Progressive party remained on the council, with the bulk of Progressive councillors having joined the Conservatives. A small number, such as Mrs Catherine Filsell (a former Progressive leader), had joined Labour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095545-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Edinburgh North by-election\nA by-election for the House of Commons of the UK Parliament took place in Edinburgh North on 8 November 1973. Alexander Fletcher retained the seat for the Conservatives, after his predecessor became Duke of Buccleuch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095545-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Edinburgh North by-election\nOne of four UK parliamentary by-elections taking place that day, and one of two in Scotland; it was overshadowed in the media by the surprise SNP victory in Glasgow Govan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095545-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Edinburgh North by-election\nPrior to the by-election, an opinion poll for The Glasgow Herald had predicted that the Conservatives would hold the seat with Labour in second place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095545-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Edinburgh North by-election, Reaction\nIn the aftermath of his victory, the winning Conservative candidate, Alex Fletcher, said that he considered the result to be \"a tremendous vote of confidence in the Government from the people of Edinburgh.\" Labour's candidate, Robert Cairns, said his campaign had \"under-estimated the solidarity of the Tory vote\" and that some Labour voters had switched to the SNP. William Wolfe said he was \"very pleased\" that the SNP had established a stronghold in a constituency it had not previously contested. For the Liberal, Ronald Guild described the result as \"a sad day for Scotland\" and stated his belief that it meant that the Kilbrandon Report was \"as good as buried\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 710]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095545-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Edinburgh North by-election, Reaction\nAn editorial in the following day's The Glasgow Herald said that the by-election results in Govan and Edinburgh \"were the worst ever for the Labour Party in Scotland.\" It argued that in addition to the loss of what was considered a safe seat in Govan, \"the failure of Labour to improve on their position in North Edinburgh\" was significant given the perceived \"unpopularity of the Government over prices.\" It noted that while Labour had lost out to the SNP the Conservatives in Edinburgh had kept the SNP and the Liberals \"in also-ran spots.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095546-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Emperor's Cup, Overview\nIt was contested by 26 teams, and Mitsubishi Motors won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095547-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Emperor's Cup Final\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by Monkbot (talk | contribs) at 00:17, 8 January 2020 (\u2192\u200etop: Task 15: language icon template(s) replaced (1\u00d7);). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095547-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Emperor's Cup Final\n1973 Emperor's Cup Final was the 53rd final of the Emperor's Cup competition. The final was played at National Stadium in Tokyo on January 1, 1974. Mitsubishi Motors won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095547-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Emperor's Cup Final, Overview\nMitsubishi Motors won their 2nd title, by defeating defending champion Hitachi 2\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095548-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 England rugby union tour of Fiji and New Zealand\nThe 1973 England rugby union tour of Fiji and New Zealand was a series of matches played by the England national rugby union team in Fiji and New Zealand in August and September 1973. England played five games, including a test match against the New Zealand national rugby union team and a match against the Fiji national rugby union team for which England did not award full international caps. England beat Fiji by only a single point and lost all three matches against New Zealand provincial teams but completed the tour with their first win against New Zealand since 1936.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095548-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 England rugby union tour of Fiji and New Zealand\nThis tour was hastily organised when a planned tour of Argentina was cancelled due to terrorist threats against the players. A squad of 25 was selected, all but three capped, and nine of whom (six in the pack) had played in the match against the All Blacks at Twickenham nine months previously, in January 1973. David Duckham and Stack Stevens had been, with John Pullin, on the 1971 Lions tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095549-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 English Greyhound Derby\nThe 1973 Spillers Greyhound Derby took place in June, with the final being held on 23 June 1973 at White City Stadium. The winning greyhood was Patricias Hope and the winning owners Gordon Marks, B Marks and John O'Connor received \u00a312,500. The competition was sponsored by the Spillers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095549-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 English Greyhound Derby, Final result, Distances\n\u00bd, neck, neck, 4\u00bc, Dis (lengths)The distances between the greyhounds are in finishing order and shown in lengths. One length is equal to 0.08 of one second.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 53], "content_span": [54, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095549-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 English Greyhound Derby, Competition Report\nA new sponsor was secured for the Derby in the form of Spillers Foods, famous for the Winalot brand and they would offer record prize money. The total fund was \u00a322,000, with \u00a312,500 going to the winner with the race being broadcast live and in colour by World of Sport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095549-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 English Greyhound Derby, Competition Report\nPeoples favourite Patricias Hope returned from stud duties (where he had covered some 36 bitches) in an attempt to become only the second greyhound to successfully defend the title after Mick the Miller. John O'Connor from Cork had taken over Brian Stanley's share of the white and fawn dog and would train him for the duration of the competition. The event attracted 151 entries with the market leaders including Ramdeen Stuart, Irish entry Westpark Mustard, Oaks champion Miss Ross, Northern based Pit Lamp and Priory Hill, Grand National winner Killone Flash, Pall Mall Stakes champion Forest Noble, Juvenile winner Black Banjo and Edinburgh Cup and Circuit winner Say Little.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 728]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095549-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 English Greyhound Derby, Competition Report\nThere were 26 qualifying trials to reduce the entries to just 48 starters. In the qualifying rounds Dunmore Spring Cup winner Suburban Gent recorded the fastest time of 28.80 but suffered an injury in the first round and would take no further part. Of the market leaders Patricias Hope went fastest in the first round heats with only Ramdeen Stuart, Black Banjo and Say Little surviving to round two. The second round draw threw up a very strong heat which ended with Say Little holding off Patricias Hope with Ramdeen Stuart going out. The first semi-final was secured by Forest Noble from Softly and Say Little in a very competitive race. The second semi saw Breakaway Town take a short head victory from Black Banjo, third place went to Patricias Hope keeping his dream alive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 828]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095549-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 English Greyhound Derby, Competition Report\nIn the final Say Little had been well-backed at 50-1 ante-post in his home village of Hill Ridware near Uttoxeter, was sent off 6-4 favourite. Both Say Little and Patricias Hope started well missing crowding at the first bend. Patricias Hope gained a lead before Softly showed good back straight pace to pass Say Little. The pair remained behind Patricias Hope and Forest Noble began to make a move, but Patricias Hope held on in a thrilling finish to win by a half a length in 28.68sec, four hounds finished within 10 spots of each other.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095549-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 English Greyhound Derby, Competition Report\nPatricias Hope had emulated Mick the Miller's achievement of 1930 becoming only the second greyhound to win the English Greyhound Derby twice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 48], "content_span": [49, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095550-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 English National Badminton Championships\nThe 1973 English National Badminton Championships were held in Redbridge Sports Centre, London, from 8-9 December, 1972. The men's singles defending champion Derek Talbot fell ill during the event and subsequently withdrew.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095551-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 English cricket season\nThe 1973 English cricket season was the 74th in which the County Championship had been an official competition. Hampshire win the championship and Kent dominated the limited overs tournaments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095551-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 English cricket season, Test series\n1973 saw New Zealand and West Indies tour England. Whilst beating New Zealand 2-0 in the three match series, England went down 2-0 to the West Indies, losing the final test by an innings and 226 runs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095552-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Equatorial Guinean constitutional referendum\nA constitutional referendum was held in Equatorial Guinea on 29 July 1973. The new constitution would make the country a one-party state with the newly formed United National Workers' Party as the sole legal party. The officially reported results indicated that the change was approved by 99% of voters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095553-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Equatorial Guinean legislative election\nParliamentary elections were held in Equatorial Guinea on 16 December 1973. The new constitution approved in a referendum the same year provided for a 60-seat People's National Assembly. The United National Workers' Party (PUNT) was the sole legal party at the time, as the 1973 constitution had made the country a one-party state. The PUNT presented a single list of 60 candidates for the 60 seats, which was approved by voters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095554-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Erewash District Council election\nElections to Erewash District Council were held on 10 May 1973 as part of nationwide local elections. The new district was formed by the merger of the Borough of Ilkeston, the Long Eaton urban district and the parishes of Breadsall, Breaston, Dale Abbey, Draycott and Church Wilne, Hopwell, Little Eaton, Morley, Ockbrook, Risley, Sandiacre, Stanley, Stanton by Dale and West Hallam from the South East Derbyshire Rural District. The new council became a shadow authority before taking over from the existing local authorities on 1 April 1974. The election saw the Labour Party gain control of the Council. Erewash District Council was granted Borough Status in 1975 and from thereon became known as Erewash Borough Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 763]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095555-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Estonian SSR Football Championship\nThe 1979 Estonian SSR Football Championship was won by Narva Kreenholm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095556-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Ethiopian general election\nGeneral elections were held in Ethiopia between 23 June and 7 July 1973, to elect all 250 members of the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the Ethiopian parliament (the upper house, the Senate, consisted of 125 senators appointed by the Emperor). These were the last elections to be held under imperial rule in Ethiopia. The elections were called after the parliament elected in 1969 was dissolved. Prior to the dissolution of the old parliament, the Emperor Haile Selassie had put forward a proposal for land reform, including a new system of land taxation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095556-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Ethiopian general election\nSince no political parties were allowed per the 1955 constitution, only independent candidates contested the polls. All Ethiopian citizens aged 21 years and above were eligible to vote. In total the number of registered voters numbered around 7.3 million. Some 4,234,000 registered voters took part in the polls. The highest voter turnout (around 66%) was noted amongst the younger generation, aged 25 to 35.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095556-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Ethiopian general election\nEach electoral district, covering a population of around 200,000, was represented by two deputies. Towns with a population of above 30,000 had an additional deputy and then yet another deputy for every additional 50,000 inhabitants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095556-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Ethiopian general election\n1,500 candidates stood in the elections. Candidates had to the Ethiopians by birth, at least 25 years old and registered as residents in the constituency they contested. A candidate also needed to own real property worth E$ 1,000 and personal property of E$ 2,000. 60% of the deputies elected were newcomers to the parliament, as many incumbent deputies either chose not to contest or had been defeated in the polls. Overall, there was a trend of pro-land reform incumbents being defeated and anti-land reform candidates getting elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095556-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Ethiopian general election\nAfter the elections, Endelkachew Makonnen became Prime Minister of the country. The deputies were elected for a four-year term, which was interrupted by the overthrow of the imperial regime in 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095557-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 EuroHockey Club Champions Cup\nThe 1973 EuroHockey Club Champions Cup was the fifth and last unofficial edition of Europe's premier field hockey club competition. It took place in Frankfurt as a group stage, which was won once again by SC 1880 Frankfurt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095558-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 European Amateur Boxing Championships\nThe 1973 European Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Belgrade, Yugoslavia from 1 to 9 June. The 20th edition of the bi-annual competition was organised by the European governing body for amateur boxing, EABA. There were 148 fighters from 22 countries participating.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095559-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 European Amateur Team Championship\nThe 1973 European Amateur Team Championship took place 28 June \u2013 1 July at Penina Golf & Resort in Portim\u00e3o, Algarve, Portugal. It was the eighth men's golf European Amateur Team Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095559-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 European Amateur Team Championship\nThe tournament was played at the resort's 18-hole Championship Course, originally called The Penina, founded by John Stilwell and designed by Sir Henry Cotton. The course was set up with par 35 over the first nine holes and par 38 on the second nine, finishing with two par 5 holes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095559-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 European Amateur Team Championship\nAll participating teams played one qualification round of stroke-play with six players, counted the five best scores for each team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095559-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 European Amateur Team Championship\nThe eight best teams formed flight A, in knock-out match-play over the next three days. The teams were seeded based on their positions after the stroke play. The first placed team were drawn to play the quarter final against the eight placed team, the second against the seventh, the third against the sixth and the fourth against the fifth. In each match between two nation teams, two 18-hole foursome games and five 18-hole single games were played. Teams were allowed to use six players during the team matches, selecting four of them in the morning foursome matches and five players in to the afternoon single matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 662]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095559-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 European Amateur Team Championship\nThe six teams placed 9\u201314 in the qualification stroke-play formed Flight B and the four teams placed 15\u201318 formed Flight C, to play similar knock-out play to decide their final positions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095559-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 European Amateur Team Championship\nThe whether was warm and sunny during the whole tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095559-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 European Amateur Team Championship\nDefending champions England won the gold medal, earning their fourth title, beating, just as at the previous event, Scotland in the final, this time with 4\u20133. Team Sweden, earned the bronze on third place, after beating Spain 4\u20133 in the bronze match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095559-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 European Amateur Team Championship\nIndividual leaders in the opening 18-hole stroke-play qualifying competition was John Davies, England, Yves Hofstetter, Switzerland and Willie Milne, Scotland, tied first, each with a score of 2-under-par 71. There was no official award for the lowest individual scores.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095559-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 European Amateur Team Championship, Teams\n18 nation teams contested the event. Each team consisted of six players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 46], "content_span": [47, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095559-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 European Amateur Team Championship, Results\n* Note: In the event of a tie the order was determined by the better non-counting score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095559-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 European Amateur Team Championship, Results\nNote: There was no official award for the lowest individual scores.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095560-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 European Athletics Indoor Championships\nThe 4th European Athletics Indoor Championships were held between 10 and 11 March 1973 in Rotterdam, Netherlands at the Ahoy arena.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095560-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 European Athletics Indoor Championships\nThe track used for the championships was 170 metres long.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095561-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 1500 metres\nThe men's 1500 metres event at the 1973 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 10 and 11 March in Rotterdam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095561-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 1500 metres, Results, Heats\nFirst 3 from each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 80], "content_span": [81, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095562-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 3000 metres\nThe men's 3000 metres event at the 1973 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 10 and 11 March in Rotterdam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095562-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 3000 metres, Results, Heats\nFirst 3 from each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 80], "content_span": [81, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095563-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 4 \u00d7 340 metres relay\nThe men's 4 \u00d7 340 metres relay event at the 1973 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 10 March in Rotterdam. Each athlete ran two laps of the 170 metres track.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 73], "section_span": [73, 73], "content_span": [74, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095564-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 4 \u00d7 680 metres relay\nThe men's 4 \u00d7 680 metres relay event at the 1973 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 11 March in Rotterdam. Each athlete ran four laps of the 170 metres track.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 73], "section_span": [73, 73], "content_span": [74, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095565-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 400 metres\nThe men's 400 metres event at the 1973 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 10 and 11 March in Rotterdam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095565-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 400 metres, Results, Heats\nFirst 2 from each heat (Q) qualified directly for the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 79], "content_span": [80, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095565-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Men's 400 metres, Results, Semifinals\nFirst 2 from each heat (Q) qualified directly for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": 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There were only three participants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 66], "section_span": [66, 66], "content_span": [67, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095575-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 4 \u00d7 170 metres relay\nThe women's 4 \u00d7 170 metres relay event at the 1973 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 10 March in Rotterdam. Each athlete ran one lap of the 170 metres track.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 75], "section_span": [75, 75], "content_span": [76, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095576-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 4 \u00d7 340 metres relay\nThe women's 4 \u00d7 340 metres relay event at the 1973 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 11 March in Rotterdam. Each athlete ran two laps of the 170 metres track.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 75], "section_span": [75, 75], "content_span": [76, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095577-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 400 metres\nThe women's 400 metres event at the 1973 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 10 and 11 March in Rotterdam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095577-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 400 metres, Results, Heats\nFirst 2 from each heat (Q) qualified directly for the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 81], "content_span": [82, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095577-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 400 metres, Results, Semifinals\nFirst 2 from each heat (Q) qualified directly for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 86], "content_span": [87, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095578-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 60 metres\nThe women's 60 metres event at the 1973 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 11 March in Rotterdam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095578-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 60 metres, Results, Heats\nFirst 2 from each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 80], "content_span": [81, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095578-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 60 metres, Results, Semifinals\nFirst 3 from each heat (Q) qualified directly for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [66, 85], "content_span": [86, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095579-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 60 metres hurdles\nThe women's 60 metres hurdles event at the 1973 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 10 March in Rotterdam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 72], "section_span": [72, 72], "content_span": [73, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095579-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 60 metres hurdles, Results, Heats\nFirst 4 from each heat (Q) qualified directly for the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 72], "section_span": [74, 88], "content_span": [89, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095579-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 60 metres hurdles, Results, Semifinals\nFirst 3 from each heat (Q) qualified directly for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 72], "section_span": [74, 93], "content_span": [94, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095580-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 800 metres\nThe women's 800 metres event at the 1973 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 10 and 11 March in Rotterdam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095580-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's 800 metres, Results, Heats\nFirst 3 from each heat (Q) qualified directly for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 81], "content_span": [82, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095581-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's high jump\nThe women's high jump event at the 1973 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 11 March in Rotterdam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095582-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's long jump\nThe men's long jump event at the 1973 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 10 March in Rotterdam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 64], "section_span": [64, 64], "content_span": [65, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095583-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 European Athletics Indoor Championships \u2013 Women's shot put\nThe women's shot put event at the 1973 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 10 March in Rotterdam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095584-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 European Athletics Junior Championships\nThe 1973 European Athletics Junior Championships was the second edition of the biennial athletics competition for European athletes aged under twenty. It was held in Duisburg, West Germany between 24 and 26 August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095585-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 European Baseball Championship\nThe 1973 European Baseball Championship was held in the Netherlands and was won by the Netherlands for the third time in a row. Italy finished as runner-up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095586-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 European Cup (athletics)\nThe 1973 European Cup was the 4th edition of the European Cup of athletics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095587-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 European Cup Final\nThe 1973 European Cup Final was a football match held at the Red Star Stadium, Belgrade, on 30 May 1973, in which Ajax of the Netherlands defeated Juventus of Italy 1\u20130. A goal from Johnny Rep four minutes into the match was enough for Ajax to claim their third consecutive European Cup. This victory meant that Ajax had earned the privilege of keeping the trophy permanently. Juventus, however, got revenge 23 years later beating Ajax in the 1996 final in Rome.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095588-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 European Cup Winners' Cup Final\nThe 1973 European Cup Winners' Cup Final was the final football match of the 1972\u201373 European Cup Winners' Cup and the 13th European Cup Winners' Cup final. It was contested between Milan of Italy and Leeds United of England, and was held at Kaftanzoglio Stadium in Thessaloniki, Greece. Milan won the match 1\u20130 thanks to a goal by Luciano Chiarugi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095588-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 European Cup Winners' Cup Final\nThe Greek crowd at the final reacted to perceived bias towards Milan by referee Christos Michas by throwing missiles during the victors' lap of honour, but despite protests, the result was not overturned. UEFA later banned Michas for life due to match fixing, although his role in this match was not investigated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095588-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 European Cup Winners' Cup Final\nLeeds, who perceived referee Christos Michas to have made a number of unfair decisions, attempted to gain a replay but UEFA denied the request. In recent times Richard Corbett, an MEP for Yorkshire and the Humber, petitioned UEFA for a revocation of the Milan title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095589-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 European Figure Skating Championships\nThe 1973 European Figure Skating Championships was a senior-level international competition held in Cologne, West Germany from February 6 to 11, 1973. Elite senior-level figure skaters from European ISU member nations competed for the title of European Champion in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095590-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 European Formula Two Championship\nThe 1973 European Formula Two season was contested over 17 rounds. STP March Racing Team driver Jean-Pierre Jarier clinched the championship title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095590-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 European Formula Two Championship, Calendar\nRace 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 15 and 17 were held in two heats, with results shown in aggregate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095590-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 European Formula Two Championship, Calendar\nRace 3, 5, 9 and 12 were held with two semi-final heats and the final run, with time only shown for the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095590-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 European Formula Two Championship, Calendar\nRace 3, 4, 5 and 15 were won by graded drivers, all graded drivers are shown in Italics", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095590-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 European Formula Two Championship, Final point standings, Driver\nFor every race points were awarded: 9 points to the winner, 6 for runner-up, 4 for third place, 3 for fourth place, 2 for fifth place and 1 for sixth place. No additional points were awarded. All scores from basic events counts: Race No. 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 11, 13, 16 and 17. Also the first four starts (not scores) in the complementary races counts: Race No. 1, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14 and 15. But only the first result in any country of the complementary races counts. Three drivers had a point deduction, which are given in ().", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095590-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 European Formula Two Championship, Final point standings, Driver\nOnly drivers which were not graded were able to score points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095590-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 European Formula Two Championship, Final point standings, Driver\nRace 6 and 15 not all points were awarded (not enough finishers).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095590-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 European Formula Two Championship, Final point standings, Driver\nVittorio Brambilla had nine points deducted for his win at Austria, because this was his fifth start in a complementary race. He had also raced in race No. 1, 5, 8 and 10.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095590-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 European Formula Two Championship, Final point standings, Driver\nBill Gubelmann had two points deducted for his fifth place at Karlskoga, because this was his second start in a complementary race in Sweden. He had also raced in race No. 6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095590-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 European Formula Two Championship, Final point standings, Driver\nTom Pryce had nine points deducted for his win at Norisring, because this was his second start in a complementary race in Germany. He had also raced in race No. 8.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 69], "content_span": [70, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095591-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 European Judo Championships\nThe 1973 European Judo Championships were the 22nd edition of the European Judo Championships, and were held in Madrid, Spain on 13\u00a0May 1973. Championships were subdivided into six individual competitions, and a separate team competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095592-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 European Junior Badminton Championships\nThe 1973 European Junior Badminton Championships was the third edition of the European Junior Badminton Championships. It was held in Edinburgh, Scotland, in the month of April. Danish players won both the singles disciplines and mixed doubles while England won Girls' doubles, and Sweden won Boys' doubles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095593-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 European Karate Championships\nThe 1975 European Karate Championships, the 8th edition, was held in Valencia, Spain from May 5 to 7, 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095594-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 European Rowing Championships\nThe 1973 European Rowing Championships were rowing championships held at the regatta course on the Krylatskoye Rowing Canal in Moscow, Soviet Union. The competition was the first use of the venue. There were seven competitions for men and five for women. World Rowing Championships were held, up until 1974, at four-year intervals, and the European Rowing Championships were open to nations outside of Europe and had become to be regarded as quasi-world championships. From 1974 the world championships changed to an annual schedule, and the European Rowing Championships were discontinued. It was only in 2006 that the International Rowing Federation (FISA) decided to re-establish the European Rowing Championships, with the 2007 event the first regatta after the hiatus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 808]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095594-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 European Rowing Championships\nWomen competed in Moscow from 23 to 26 August. Their event overlapped with the 1973 Summer Universiade that was also held in the city. Twenty nations nominated women to the competition, but only 18 nations had their women compete with a total of 53 boats (W1x: 14 boats; W2x: 11 boats; W4x+: 10 boats; W4+: 10 boats; W8+: 8 boats). At the time, there was an expectation that rowing for women would be included in the 1976 Olympic programme, and it was expected that women would compete at the 1974 World Rowing Championships. For that reason, East Germany had decided to put forward younger rowers so that they would have become experienced by 1976. Women competed over a distance of 1000\u00a0meters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 731]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095594-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 European Rowing Championships\nMen competed from 29 August to 2 September, and 29 countries representing 4 continents nominated 109 boats. Men competed over a distance of 2000\u00a0metres.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095595-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 European Running Target Championships\nThe 1973 European Running Target Championships was the 3rd edition of the running target competition, European Running Target Championships, organised by the International Shooting Sport Federation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095596-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 European Super Cup\nThe 1973 European Super Cup was played between 1972\u201373 European Cup winners Ajax and 1972\u201373 European Cup Winners' Cup winners Milan, with Ajax winning 6\u20131 on aggregate, making it the worst defeat for an Italian team in an UEFA competition final. Unlike future Super Cup matches, the 1973 edition took place at the start of the following calendar year rather than the start of the following season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095597-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 European Tour\nThe 1973 European Tour was a series of golf tournaments that comprised the Professional Golfers' Association (PGA) tournament circuit. It is officially recognised as the second season of the PGA European Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095597-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 European Tour\nHistorically, the PGA's Order of Merit only included tournaments in Great Britain and Ireland, but in 1970 events in continental Europe were included for the first time. The circuit and organisation evolved further over the following years, adopting the name PGA European Golf Tour in 1979.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095597-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 European Tour\nThe Order of Merit was won by England's Peter Oosterhuis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 76]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095597-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 European Tour, Schedule\nThe table below shows the 1973 European Tour schedule which was made up of 21 tournaments counting for the Order of Merit, and some non-counting tournaments that later became known as \"Approved Special Events\". The schedule included the major national opens around Europe, with other tournaments mostly held in England, Scotland and Wales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095597-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 European Tour, Schedule\nThere were three changes from the previous season, with the addition of the Portuguese Open and the Scandinavian Enterprise Open, and the loss of the John Player Trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095597-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 European Tour, Order of Merit\nThe PGA European Tour's money list was known as the \"Order of Merit\". It was based on a points system, which meant that some players could finish lower than others despite accumulating more prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095598-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 European Weightlifting Championships\nThe 1973 European Weightlifting Championships were held in Madrid, Spain from June 10 to June 18, 1973. This was the 52nd edition of the event. There were 130 men in action from 23 nations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095599-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships\nThe 9th European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships were held in London.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095600-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 FA Charity Shield\nThe 1973 FA Charity Shield was contested between Burnley and Manchester City in a fixture that took place at Maine Road. For the third consecutive year, neither the reigning Division One champions (Liverpool) nor the reigning FA Cup holders (Sunderland) chose to compete; instead, Burnley, the reigning Second Division champions, were invited to play Manchester City, the reigning holders of the Shield", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095600-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 FA Charity Shield\nBurnley won the match 1\u20130 thanks to a goal from defender Colin Waldron.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095601-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 FA Cup Final\nThe 1973 FA Cup Final was the 92nd final of the FA Cup. It took place on 5 May 1973 at Wembley Stadium and was contested between Leeds United, the previous season's winners and one of the dominant teams in English football at the time, and Sunderland, then playing in the Second Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095601-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 FA Cup Final\nIn one of the biggest shocks in the history of the competition, Sunderland won 1\u20130 to become the first Second Division side to lift the Cup since West Bromwich Albion in 1931. It remains Sunderland's only major trophy since World War II. Sunderland's team were the only FA Cup winners of the 20th century not to field any full internationals, although some of their players were capped later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095601-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 FA Cup Final, Road to Wembley\nLeeds UnitedHome teams listed first. Round 3: Norwich City 1\u20131 Leeds United", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 34], "content_span": [35, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095601-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 FA Cup Final, Road to Wembley\nSunderlandHome teams listed first. Round 3: Notts County 1\u20131 Sunderland", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 34], "content_span": [35, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095601-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 FA Cup Final, Match summary\nSunderland established their tactics immediately from the kick-off and refused to be intimidated by their more illustrious opponents, tackling fiercely and defiantly with an unremitting determination. Leeds looked anxious, lacking their usual composure. The match itself was decided by two crucial moments that would be talked about for years to come.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 32], "content_span": [33, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095601-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 FA Cup Final, Match summary\nAfter 32 minutes Sunderland took the lead when Vic Halom chested down a corner from Billy Hughes. Assisted by Dave Watson between two defenders, the deflected high ball was controlled by Ian Porterfield who shot home from 12 yards. Leeds, shocked, battled back with predictable determination. Sunderland\u2019s goalkeeper Jimmy Montgomery was outstanding, defying Leeds with a string of fine saves and preserving his team\u2019s lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 32], "content_span": [33, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095601-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 FA Cup Final, Match summary\nThe turning point of the match came midway through the second half. Montgomery dived to palm away a close range header from Trevor Cherry. It fell into the path of Lorimer who blasted goalward from 10 yards but Montgomery managed to divert the ball on to the underside of the bar and Malone scrambled the ball clear. The save has been compared with that made by England\u2019s Gordon Banks in the 1970 FIFA World Cup match against Brazil.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 32], "content_span": [33, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095601-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 FA Cup Final, Match summary\nThe North East team survived more pressure from Leeds to secure a notable upset.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 32], "content_span": [33, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095601-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 FA Cup Final, Match summary\nThe 1973 showpiece is the last FA Cup final to be played with an orange ball.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 32], "content_span": [33, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095601-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 FA Cup Final, Match summary\nSunderland's FA Cup record, \"Sunderland All the Way\", was recorded by comedian Bobby Knoxall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 32], "content_span": [33, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095602-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 FA Trophy Final\nThe 1973 FA Trophy Final was a football match between Scarborough and Wigan Athletic on 28 April 1973 at the Wembley Stadium, London. It was the final match of the 1972\u201373 FA Trophy, the fourth season of the FA Trophy, The Football Association's cup competition for non-league clubs in the English football league system. Both teams were making their first appearance in the final and it was the first in the competition's history to not feature a team from the Southern League. The match was won 2\u20131 by Scarborough after extra time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095603-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 FAMAS Awards\nThe 21st Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences Awards Night was held in 1973 for the Outstanding Achievements for the year 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095603-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 FAMAS Awards\nKill the Pushers of JE Productions won the most coveted FAMAS Award for Best Picture award. It was also the first time that the academy gave two best actress award to Vilma Santos for Dama de Noche and Boots Anson Roa for Tatay na si Erap. The FAMAS was rocked by a terrible scandal, because a tie was unheard of, the public dissented the vote. Therefore, for the next years, the FAMAS invited film critics to be members of its nominating and awarding committee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095604-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship\nThe 1973 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship (known at that time as 1973 European Championship for Cadets) was the second edition of the FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship. The cities of Summonte and Angri, in Italy, hosted the tournament. The Soviet Union won their first title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095604-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship, Preliminary round\nThe sixteen teams were allocated in two groups of eight teams each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 57], "content_span": [58, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095605-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 FIBA Intercontinental Cup\nThe 1973 FIBA Intercontinental Cup William Jones was the 7th edition of the FIBA Intercontinental Cup for men's basketball clubs. It took place at Gin\u00e1sio do Ibirapuera, S\u00e3o Paulo. From the FIBA European Champions Cup participated Ignis Varese and Jugoplastika, from the South American Club Championship participated S\u00edrio and Vaqueros de Bayam\u00f3n, and from the NABL participated the Lexington Marathon Oilers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095606-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 FIBA Kora\u0107 Cup\nThe 1973 FIBA Kora\u0107 Cup was the second edition of FIBA's competition, running from 9 January to 27 March 1973. It was contested by 12 teams, four more than in the previous edition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095606-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 FIBA Kora\u0107 Cup\nBirra Forst Cant\u00f9 defeated Maes Pils in the final to become the competition's first Italian champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095606-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 FIBA Kora\u0107 Cup, Round of 12\nThe round of 12 were played with a round-robin system, in which every Two Game series (TGS) constituted as one game for the record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095607-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 FIM Motocross World Championship\nThe 1973 FIM Motocross World Championship was the 17th F.I.M. Motocross Racing World Championship season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095607-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 FIM Motocross World Championship, Summary, 500cc championship\nRoger De Coster won his third consecutive 500cc world championship for Suzuki ahead of West German rider, Willy Bauer. The championship wasn't decided until the final race in the Netherlands, when Bauer suffered a mechanical breakdown, losing the championship to De Coster by two points. Kawasaki joined the world championships with Brad Lackey in the 500cc class and Torleif Hansen in the 250cc class.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 66], "content_span": [67, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095607-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 FIM Motocross World Championship, Summary, 500cc championship\nSuzuki's defense of the 500cc world championship was dealt a setback when, the FIM announced a new motorcycle minimum weight limit of 209 pounds just before the start of the season. European motorcycle manufacturers competing in the championship complained to the FIM that Suzuki was spending millions of dollars to build lightweight motorcycles that the smaller European manufacturers found impossible to compete with. Suzuki had already developed and built their race bikes so, there was no time to build new bikes. As a result, Suzuki resorted to adding ballast to the bikes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 66], "content_span": [67, 645]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095607-0002-0001", "contents": "1973 FIM Motocross World Championship, Summary, 500cc championship\nUnfortunately, these alterations threw the bikes out of balance and caused them to lose traction. To make matters worse, Maico and Yamaha had developed new rear suspensions with longer travel which helped transfer power to the rear wheel over rough terrain. The Suzuki management felt they were being unjustly treated by the FIM and were slow to react to developments by the other manufacturers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 66], "content_span": [67, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095607-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 FIM Motocross World Championship, Summary, 500cc championship\nMost of the Western European riders boycotted the Austrian 500cc round due to heavy snow on the track. As the season got underway, Yamaha's new \"monoshock\" rear suspension began to make an impact with Christer Hammargren winning a moto and Jaak van Velthoven taking the overall win at the Finnish Grand Prix. De Coster won both motos of the Italian Grand Prix but, Bauer came back with a hard fought victory in Czechoslovakia, relegating De Coster to second place in both motos and took the lead in the championship points tally.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 66], "content_span": [67, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095607-0003-0001", "contents": "1973 FIM Motocross World Championship, Summary, 500cc championship\nBauer then took control of the championship by winning 5 out of the next 6 motos. Suzuki management's frustration at their perceived unfair treatment led to a lapse in support and, Suzuki team riders De Coster and Sylvain Geboers then took matters into their own hands by modifying their motorcycle's frames and developed new rear suspensions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 66], "content_span": [67, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095607-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 FIM Motocross World Championship, Summary, 500cc championship\nGoing into the final race of the season at Sint Anthonis, Holland, Bauer was still holding the points lead but, the Suzukis were showing improvement. The Sint Anthonis track was composed of deep sand which robbed engines of power and increased fuel consumption. A Suzuki engineer calculated that their bike's gas tanks did not have sufficient capacity to finish the race. De Coster then took one of their tanks and drove two and a half hours to have the tank modified to increase its volume. He then drove back in time for the race. Despite having little sleep, De Coster scored two fourth-place finishes while Bauer suffered a mechanical failure handing De Coster his third consecutive 500cc world championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 66], "content_span": [67, 779]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095607-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 FIM Motocross World Championship, Summary, 250cc championship\nH\u00e5kan Andersson won the 250cc world championship to give Yamaha its first motocross world championship. Yamaha's new and innovative rear suspension with a single shock absorber made its debut at the third round in Belgium and was proven to be successful when Andersson won the overall victory. The new suspension design would go on to revolutionize the sport. Jim Pomeroy riding a privateer Bultaco, became the first American rider to win an overall victory in an FIM Motocross Grand Prix race when he won the season opening Spanish Grand Prix. His victory also marked the first Grand Prix victory for the Bultaco factory. Competitors from nine different manufacturers placed in the top ten of the 250cc championship final standings, reflecting the thriving vitality of the sport of motocross.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 66], "content_span": [67, 860]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095608-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Cup\nThe 1973 FIVB Women's World Cup was held on 19\u201328 October 1973 in Uruguay. It was the first edition of the tournament and is the only edition of the tournament to have been hosted by a country other than Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095609-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Family Circle Cup\nThe 1973 Family Circle Cup was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Sea Pines Plantation on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina in the United States. The event was part of the 1973 Virginia Slims Circuit. It was the inaugural edition of the tournament and was held from May 1 through May 5, 1973. Fourth-seeded Rosemary Casals won the singles title and earned $30,000 first-prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095609-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Family Circle Cup, Finals, Doubles\nFran\u00e7oise D\u00fcrr / Betty St\u00f6ve defeated Rosemary Casals / Billie Jean King 3\u20136, 6\u20134, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 39], "content_span": [40, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095610-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Faroese alcohol referendum\nA referendum on creating a state monopoly on alcoholic beverages was held in the Faroe Islands on 8 November 1973. The proposal was rejected by 62% of voters, equating to 37.7% of registered voters, above the 33% quorum required for rejection. Prohibition was eventually lifted in 1992.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095610-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Faroese alcohol referendum, Background\nIn 1907 the L\u00f8gting voted to hold a consultative referendum on banning alcoholic drinks. The result was a strong \"yes\" vote, with over 95% of voters voting for prohibition. As a result, a ban on the serving and trade in beverages with an alcoholic content above 2% was introduced the following year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095611-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Federation Cup (tennis)\nThe 1973 Federation Cup was the 11th edition of the most important competition between national teams in women's tennis. 30 nations participated in the tournament, which was held at the Bad Homburg Tennis Club in Bad Homburg, West Germany from 30 April\u20136 May. Australia defeated South Africa in the final, winning the title without losing a rubber.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095611-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Federation Cup (tennis), Draw\nAll ties were played at the Bad Homburg Tennis Club in Bad Homburg, West Germany on clay courts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 34], "content_span": [35, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095611-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Federation Cup (tennis), Consolation Round\nTeams which lost in the first or second round of the main draw went on to play in the Consolation Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 47], "content_span": [48, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095612-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Fenland District Council election\nThe 1973 Fenland District Council election took place on 7 June 1973 to elect members for Fenland District Council in the Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England. The Conservative Party became the largest bloc on the new council, with half the seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095612-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Fenland District Council election, Summary\nAt the first meeting of the council, Edward Morris (Independent) was elected chairman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 47], "content_span": [48, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095612-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Fenland District Council election, Ward results\nFor 1 April 1974 (first election 7 June 1973) to 6 May 1976:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 52], "content_span": [53, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095613-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Fermanagh District Council election\nElections to Fermanagh District Council were held on 30 May 1973 on the same day as the other Northern Irish local government elections. The election used five district electoral areas to elect a total of 20 councillors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095613-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Fermanagh District Council election, Districts results, Area A\n1973: 2 x Unity, 1 x Independent Unionist, 1 x Independent Nationalist", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095613-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Fermanagh District Council election, Districts results, Area C\n1973: 2 x UUP, 1 x Unity, 1 x Independent Nationalist", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095613-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Fermanagh District Council election, Districts results, Area E\n1973: 2 x SDLP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Independent Unionist", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095614-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Fiesta Bowl\nThe 1973 Fiesta Bowl was the third edition of the college football bowl game, played at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona on Friday, December\u00a021. Part of the 1973\u201374 bowl game season, it\u00a0matched the unranked independent Pittsburgh Panthers and #10 Arizona State Sun Devils of the Western Athletic Conference (WAC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095614-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Fiesta Bowl\nAfter falling behind early, favored Arizona State pulled away in the fourth quarter and won again on its home field, 28\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095614-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Fiesta Bowl, Teams, Pittsburgh\nIn their first year under head coach Johnny Majors, the Panthers were ranked twice in the AP poll in November (at\u00a0#20), but lost the next game (Notre Dame, Penn State). This was Pittsburgh's first bowl appearance in seventeen years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 35], "content_span": [36, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095614-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Fiesta Bowl, Teams, Arizona State\nThe Sun Devils were co-champions of the WAC, the sole loss was an upset at Utah; ASU defeated rival Arizona in the late November to clinch the share. This\u00a0was their fifth straight WAC title and third consecutive Fiesta Bowl appearance; they had won the first two editions (1971,\u00a01972).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 38], "content_span": [39, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095614-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Fiesta Bowl, Game summary\nTelevised by Mizlou, the kickoff on Friday night was shortly after 6 p.m. MST. It was the Fiesta Bowl's second night game, and the last until January 1987.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 30], "content_span": [31, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095614-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Fiesta Bowl, Game summary\nAll-American freshman halfback Tony Dorsett gave Pittsburgh an early lead on his three-yard touchdown run. Arizona State responded, as its All-American halfback Woody Green ran it in from three yards to make it 7\u20137 at the end of the first quarter; the second quarter was scoreless.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 30], "content_span": [31, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095614-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Fiesta Bowl, Game summary\nA field goal by Danny Kush gave Arizona State a 10\u20137 lead after three quarters. Split end Greg Hudson increased the lead with a 38-yard touchdown reception from quarterback Danny White, and Green (who had 25 rushes for 131 yards) added two more touchdown runs. The\u00a0game had thirteen punts and fourteen turnovers, with eight each by Pittsburgh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 30], "content_span": [31, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095614-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Fiesta Bowl, Game summary\nHudson had eight receptions for 186 yards and was the offensive player of the game; cornerback Mike Haynes had two interceptions and took the defensive honor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 30], "content_span": [31, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095614-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Fiesta Bowl, Aftermath\nWhile in the WAC, Arizona State returned to the Fiesta Bowl twice more, in 1975 and 1977, their sole defeat. Pittsburgh came back in 1979 with another heralded freshman, quarterback Dan Marino, and won.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 27], "content_span": [28, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095615-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 First Federal of Sarasota Open\nThe First Federal of Sarasota Open, also known as the Virginia Slims of Sarasota, was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor green clay courts at the Bath & Racquet Club in Sarasota, Florida in the United States that was part of the USLTA circuit which was in turn part of the 1973 Commercial Union Grand Prix circuit. It was the inaugural edition of the tournament and was held from April 5 through April 8, 1973. First-seeded Chris Evert won the singles title and earned $5,000 first-prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095615-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 First Federal of Sarasota Open, Finals, Doubles\nPatti Hogan / Sharon Walsh defeated Martina Navratilova / Marie Neumannov\u00e1 4\u20136, 6\u20130, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095616-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Five Nations Championship\nThe 1973 Five Nations Championship was the forty-fourth series of the rugby union Five Nations Championship. Including the previous incarnations as the Home Nations and Five Nations, this was the seventy-ninth series of the northern hemisphere rugby union championship. Ten matches were played between 13 January and 14 April. It was contested by England, France, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095616-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Five Nations Championship\nAs each nation won their two home matches (and therefore lost their two away matches), the championship was shared between all five teams; no further tie-break was applied to separate teams finishing level on match points. This was the only time that the Five Nations championship finished in a five-way tie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095616-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Five Nations Championship\nDue to the Troubles occurring in Ireland, which had resulted in the loss of over 100 British soldiers in 1972 and the potential security risks, both Scotland and Wales had refused to play Ireland in Dublin in 1972. Defying expectations to the contrary, England agreed to travel in 1973. Despite a poor performance, resulting in an 18-9 loss, the crowd in the Lansdowne Road stadium gave a standing ovation to the England team. England captain John Pullin delivered a quip at a post-match dinner - \"Well we might not be any good but at least we turned up\" - to great applause.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095618-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Flores cyclone\nThe 1973 Flores cyclone was the deadliest known tropical cyclone in the Southern Hemisphere, having killed 1,653\u00a0people in Indonesia in April\u00a01973. The cyclone formed in the Banda Sea on 26\u00a0April as a tropical low. It intensified as it moved in a west-southwest direction, before shifting to the south. On 29\u00a0April, the cyclone struck the north coast of the island of Flores, dissipating the next day. The cyclone killed 1,500\u00a0fishermen on Palu'e island. The cyclone dropped heavy rainfall across Flores, causing deadly flash flooding that damaged buildings and roads.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095618-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Flores cyclone, Meteorological history\nOn 26 April, a tropical low formed in the Banda Sea in the waters of eastern Indonesia. According to Australia's Bureau of Meteorology BoM, the low moved to the west-southwest and intensified, although this was based on a later analysis. As the storm was outside of the agency's jurisdiction, the BoM did not issue warnings on the system at the time. The low attained gale-force winds late on 27\u00a0April as it moved into the Flores Sea. Late the next day, the storm turned southwestward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 43], "content_span": [44, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095618-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Flores cyclone, Meteorological history\nThe BoM estimated that the storm reached peak intensity early on 29\u00a0April, assessing it as a Category\u00a03 on the Australian tropical cyclone intensity scale, with maximum sustained winds of 150\u00a0km/h (90\u00a0mph). While near peak intensity, the small tropical cyclone had eye embedded within a central dense overcast, 295\u00a0km (185\u00a0mi) in diameter. The cyclone made landfall on the northern coast of the Indonesian island of Flores. After crossing the island, the cyclone dissipated on 30\u00a0April near Flores' southern coast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 43], "content_span": [44, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095618-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Flores cyclone, Impact\nIn the Flores Sea, the cyclone capsized a 500\u00a0ton freighter O Arbiru, based out of Portuguese Timor, which was delivering a rice shipment from Bangkok. Of the crew of 24\u00a0people, only one person survived. On Palu'e island alone, the cyclone killed 1,500\u00a0fishermen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095618-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Flores cyclone, Impact\nNews of the disaster in Flores took a month to reach authorities in Indonesia, due to lack of communications and the remoteness of the island. Across the region, the cyclone killed 1,653\u00a0people, making it the deadliest tropical cyclone recorded in the Southern Hemisphere. The storm lashed the coast with a storm surge, which newspapers described as a \"tidal wave\". In Ngada Regency, high waves drowned 24\u00a0people. Another 10\u00a0people were killed in Manggarai Regency. For three days, the storm dropped heavy rainfall across Flores, which produced deadly flash flooding that washed away rice fields, livestock, and entire homes. The cyclone wrecked schools, homes, dams, and bridges. The storm also wrecked government buildings, with heavy damage reported in the regional capital of Ende.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 813]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095618-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Flores cyclone, Impact\nAfter the floods, the Indonesian government constructed the Sutami Weir, which was finished in 1975. The weir controlled the water flow on the island and helped irrigate 6,500\u00a0ha (16,000 acres) of rice paddy fields.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095619-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Florida Gators football team\nThe 1973 Florida Gators football team represented the University of Florida during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. The season was Doug Dickey's fourth as the Florida Gators football team's head coach. Dickey's 1973 Florida Gators finished with a 7\u20135 overall record and a 3\u20134 Southeastern Conference (SEC) record, tying for fifth among ten SEC teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095619-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Florida Gators football team\nThe Tangerine Bowl was temporarily moved from Orlando to Gainesville as the completion of the Citrus Bowl expansion was delayed. The fans were greeted by a record cold snap, with gametime temperatures at 25 degrees Fahrenheit (minus-4 degrees Celsius); the cold weather benefited the visiting Miami Redskins, who won 16\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095619-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Florida Gators football team, Season summary, Auburn\nDon Gaffney made the start, becoming the first black quarterback in school history, and Florida won at Jordan\u2013Hare Stadium for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095619-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Florida Gators football team, Season summary, at Miami (FL)\nFlorida's defense held the Hurricanes out of the end zone from the five-yard line with 33 seconds left in the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 64], "content_span": [65, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095620-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Florida State Seminoles football team\nThe 1973 Florida State Seminoles football team represented Florida State University in the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. Led by head coach Larry Jones the Seminoles finished the season winless with a record of 0\u201311.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095621-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Football Cup of Ukrainian SSR among KFK\nThe 1973 Football Cup of Ukrainian SSR among KFK was the annual season of Ukraine's football knockout competition for amateur football teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095622-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Football League Cup Final\nThe 1973 Football League Cup Final was held on 3 March 1973 and was won by Tottenham Hotspur. Spurs beat Norwich City 1\u20130 at the old Wembley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095622-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Football League Cup Final, Match, Summary\nThe only goal of the game was scored by substitute Ralph Coates in the 72nd minute with a low right foot shot to the left corner of the net from just outside the penalty area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095623-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Formula 750 season\nThe 1973 Formula 750 season was the first season of the FIM Formula 750 Prize. The series had previously been run as a British competition under ACU rules. Ten races were held over seven rounds. Although disqualified at Silverstone for using a different bike in the second race, Barry Sheene won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095623-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Formula 750 season, Calendar\nThe Ontario Motor Speedway in California, US was scheduled to hold a round in May 1973. Due to financial difficulties and management changes the event was rescheduled to October. The FIM rules are that a race date cannot be changed once the calendar is ratified so would not sanction the race. The race was therefore run as an AMA Road Race National not a F750 event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095623-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Formula 750 season, Points system\nPoints for each event were awarded as below, events at Imola, Silverstone and Hockenheim consisted of two races and points were awarded by aggregate times of the two. At Hockenheim, Jack Findlay won the first race but fell in the second. As there was no aggregate time over the two rounds for him he wasn't awarded points. Suzuki objected and the points awarded were based on positions in each race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 38], "content_span": [39, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095623-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Formula 750 season, Points system\nOnly the four best results achieved by a rider counted towards the championship standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 38], "content_span": [39, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095624-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Formula One season\nThe 1973 Formula One season was the 27th season of FIA Formula One motor racing. It featured the 1973 World Championship of Drivers and the 1973 International Cup for F1 Manufacturers, which were contested concurrently over a fifteen-race series that commenced on 28 January and ended on 7 October. There were two new races for the 1973 season \u2013 the Brazilian Grand Prix at Interlagos in S\u00e3o Paulo and the Swedish Grand Prix at Anderstorp. The season also included two non-championship races which were open to both Formula One and Formula 5000 cars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095624-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Formula One season\nThe World Championship of Drivers was won by Jackie Stewart, driving for Elf Team Tyrrell, and the International Cup for F1 Manufacturers by John Player Team Lotus. In the World Championship, Lotus teammates Emerson Fittipaldi and Ronnie Peterson raced each other while Stewart was supported at Tyrrell by Fran\u00e7ois Cevert. Stewart took the Drivers' title at the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, but then at the final race of the season, the United States Grand Prix at Watkins Glen, Cevert crashed during Saturday practice in the notorious 'Esses' and was killed instantly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095624-0001-0001", "contents": "1973 Formula One season\nStewart and Tyrrell withdrew from the race, handing the Manufacturers' title to Lotus. At the end of the season Stewart made public his decision to retire, a decision that had been made before the US Grand Prix. By the end of the 1973 season the best car on the track was probably the new McLaren M23, a wedge-shaped car following the same concept as the Lotus 72 but with more conventional suspension and up-to-date aerodynamics. The 1973 season marked the debut of future world champion James Hunt at the Monaco Grand Prix driving a privateer March 731 entered by Hesketh Racing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 605]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095624-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Formula One season\nThe 1973 season saw the intervention of a Safety Car in Formula One for the first time, in the form of a Porsche 914 at the Canadian Grand Prix. However, this safety concept would not be officially introduced until twenty years later, in 1993. As well as Cevert, Briton Roger Williamson was also killed during the season, in a crash at the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095624-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Formula One season\nAnother change to the rules introduced this season was the cars doing a full warm-up lap before the race. Prior to this, tracks included a dummy grid a short distance behind a grid proper, and the cars would simply move from one to the other to begin the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095624-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Formula One season\nIt was also this season that the numbering system for teams was formalised. In the second race of the season in Brazil, team-mates were paired - Lotus drivers 1 and 2; Tyrrell's 3 and 4 and so on - though the numbers assigned to each team still changed for a couple of races until the fifth race, the Belgian Grand Prix, at which the order was set for the rest of the season. For 1974, the numbers were assigned based on finishing positions in the 1973 constructor's championship, after which teams did not change numbers unless they won the drivers' championship (or signed the current world champion), or if a team dropped out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 653]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095624-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Formula One season, Drivers and constructors\nThe following teams and drivers contested the 1973 World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095624-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Formula One season, Calendar, Calendar changes\nThe Spanish Grand Prix was moved from Jarama to Montju\u00efc, in keeping with the event-sharing arrangement between the two circuits.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095624-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Formula One season, Calendar, Calendar changes\nThe Brazilian Grand Prix hosted its first World Championship Grand Prix in 1973. The race was held at Autodromo de Interlagos on 11 February.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095624-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Formula One season, Calendar, Calendar changes\nThe Belgian Grand Prix and Monaco Grand Prix swapped places on the calendar so that the Monaco round follows the Belgian Grand Prix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095624-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Formula One season, Calendar, Calendar changes\nThe Belgian Grand Prix was moved from Nivelles-Baulers to Circuit Zolder, in keeping with the event-sharing arrangement between the two circuits. It also carried the title of European Grand Prix for 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095624-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 Formula One season, Calendar, Calendar changes\nThe Swedish Grand Prix hosted its first World Championship Grand Prix in 1973. The race was held at Scandinavian Raceway on 17 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095624-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 Formula One season, Calendar, Calendar changes\nThe French Grand Prix was moved from Charade Circuit to Paul Ricard Circuit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095624-0012-0000", "contents": "1973 Formula One season, Calendar, Calendar changes\nThe British Grand Prix was moved from Brands Hatch to Silverstone, in keeping with the event-sharing arrangement between the two circuits.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095624-0013-0000", "contents": "1973 Formula One season, Calendar, Calendar changes\nThe Dutch Grand Prix returned to the calendar in 1973, it was cancelled in 1972 due to because of safety upgrades that were not completed at the Zandvoort Circuit in time for the 1972 race. The upgrade were ready including new asphalt, new barriers and a new race control tower for the race on 29 July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 51], "content_span": [52, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095624-0014-0000", "contents": "1973 Formula One season, Results and standings, Grands Prix\nThe following races counted towards both the 1973 World Championship of Drivers and the 1973 International Cup for F1 Manufacturers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 59], "content_span": [60, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095624-0015-0000", "contents": "1973 Formula One season, Results and standings, World Drivers' Championship standings\nPoints were awarded on a 9\u20136\u20134\u20133\u20132\u20131 basis to the first six finishers in each race. For classification, only the seven best results from the first eight races and the six best results from the last seven races were retained. Drivers who scored an equal number of points were awarded equal championship classifications, regardless of the relative number of wins, second places, etc. scored by each driver. The FIA did not award a championship classification to those drivers who did not score points in the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 85], "content_span": [86, 605]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095624-0016-0000", "contents": "1973 Formula One season, Results and standings, World Drivers' Championship standings\n\u2020 Cevert suffered a fatal accident in qualifying for the United States Grand Prix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 85], "content_span": [86, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095624-0017-0000", "contents": "1973 Formula One season, Results and standings, International Cup for F1 Manufacturers standings\nPoints were awarded on a 9\u20136\u20134\u20133\u20132\u20131 basis to the first six finishers in each race. Points were only awarded for the position filled by the best placed car from each manufacturer. For classification, only the seven best results from the first eight races and the six best results from the last seven races were retained, Points in the table outside of the parentheses are the points which contributed to the championship, points within parentheses show the total points scored.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 96], "content_span": [97, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095624-0018-0000", "contents": "1973 Formula One season, Results and standings, International Cup for F1 Manufacturers standings\nEnsign, which did not score points during the championship, was not given a classification in the official FIA results.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 96], "content_span": [97, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095624-0019-0000", "contents": "1973 Formula One season, Results and standings, Non-championship races\nThe 1973 Formula One season included two non-championship races which were open to both Formula One and Formula 5000 cars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 70], "content_span": [71, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095625-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 French Grand Prix\nThe 1973 French Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at the Paul Ricard Circuit on July 1, 1973. It was race 8 of 15 in both the 1973 World Championship of Drivers and the 1973 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095625-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 French Grand Prix, Race, Controversy\nThis race was notable for a collision involving Jody Scheckter and Emerson Fittipaldi. Scheckter, who was given an opportunity to drive a factory McLaren for this event was leading from the start in just his third Formula One race. On lap 41, Fittipaldi had closed and attempted to pass the South African, but Scheckter closed the door and they made heavy contact, forcing Emerson into retirement. Scheckter continued but retired shortly afterwards with suspension damage. Fittipaldi ran to the McLaren pits, eventually resulting in fierce words between the two drivers. Scheckter claimed years later that Fittipaldi had called him a 'young hooligan' for his role in the incident. Many drivers wanted him banned from the sport, but McLaren instead decided to put him on the sidelines for a number of races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 41], "content_span": [42, 848]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095625-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 French Grand Prix, Race, Results\nMeanwhile, after so many promising races turned to nothing, Swedish driver Ronnie Peterson finally celebrated victory for the first time in his career, driving a Lotus. Tyrrell driver Fran\u00e7ois Cevert finished in second place, whilst Carlos Reutemann finished in third place, driving a Brabham, followed by Jackie Stewart's Tyrrell in fourth, Jacky Ickx fifth for Ferrari, and James Hunt scoring his first point of his F1 career driving a Hesketh-owned March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 37], "content_span": [38, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095626-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 French Open\nThe 1973 French Open was a tennis tournament that took place on the outdoor clay courts at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France. The tournament ran from 21 May until 3 June. It was the 77th staging of the French Open, and the second Grand Slam tennis event of 1973. Ilie N\u0103stase and Margaret Court won the singles titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095626-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 French Open, Finals, Men's doubles\nJohn Newcombe / Tom Okker defeated Jimmy Connors / Ilie N\u0103stase, 6\u20131, 3\u20136, 6\u20133, 5\u20137, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 39], "content_span": [40, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095626-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 French Open, Finals, Women's doubles\nMargaret Court / Virginia Wade defeated Fran\u00e7oise D\u00fcrr / Betty St\u00f6ve, 6\u20132, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 41], "content_span": [42, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095626-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 French Open, Finals, Mixed doubles\nFran\u00e7oise D\u00fcrr / Jean-Claude Barclay defeated Betty St\u00f6ve / Patrice Dominguez, 6\u20131, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 39], "content_span": [40, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095627-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 French Open \u2013 Men's Doubles\nBob Hewitt and Frew McMillan were the defending champions but only Frew McMillan competed that year with Bob Carmichael. Bob Carmichael and Frew McMillan lost in the semifinals to John Newcombe and Tom Okker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095627-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 French Open \u2013 Men's Doubles\nJohn Newcombe and Tom Okker won in the final 6\u20131, 3\u20136, 6\u20133, 5\u20137, 6\u20134 against Jimmy Connors and Ilie N\u0103stase.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095628-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 French Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nSecond-seeded Ilie N\u0103stase defeated Nikola Pili\u0107 6\u20133, 6\u20133, 6\u20130 in the final to win the Men's Singles tennis title at the 1973 French Open. The tournament was also the first Grand Slam that Bj\u00f6rn Borg competed in. Andres Gimeno was the defending champion, but lost in the second round to future champion Guillermo Vilas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095628-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 French Open \u2013 Men's Singles, Seeds\nThe seeded players are listed below. Ilie N\u0103stase is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095629-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 French Open \u2013 Men's Singles Qualifying\nPlayers who neither had high enough rankings nor received wild cards to enter the main draw of the annual French Open Tennis Championships participated in a qualifying tournament held in the week before the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095630-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 French Open \u2013 Mixed Doubles\nKim Warwick and Evonne Goolagong were the defending champions but both players chose not to participate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095630-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 French Open \u2013 Mixed Doubles\nJean-Claude Barclay and Fran\u00e7oise D\u00fcrr won in the final 6\u20131, 6\u20134 against Patrice Dominguez and Betty St\u00f6ve.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095631-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 French Open \u2013 Women's Doubles\nBillie Jean King and Betty St\u00f6ve were the defending champions but only Betty St\u00f6ve competed that year with Fran\u00e7oise D\u00fcrr.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095631-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 French Open \u2013 Women's Doubles\nFran\u00e7oise D\u00fcrr and Betty St\u00f6ve lost in the final 6\u20132, 6\u20133 against Margaret Court and Virginia Wade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095632-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 French Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nFirst-seeded Margaret Court defeated Chris Evert 6\u20137(5\u20137), 7\u20136(8\u20136), 6\u20134 in the final to win the Women's Singles tennis title at the 1973 French Open. It was Evert's first appearance at the French Open.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095632-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 French Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nReigning champion Billie Jean King didn't defend her title. This tournament was notable for being the first Grand Slam appearance of future world No. 1 Martina Navratilova. She reached the quarterfinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095632-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 French Open \u2013 Women's Singles, Seeds\nThe seeded players are listed below. Margaret Court is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095633-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 French Open \u2013 Women's Singles Qualifying\nPlayers who neither had high enough rankings nor received wild cards to enter the main draw of the annual French Open Tennis Championships participated in a qualifying tournament held in the week before the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095634-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 French cantonal elections\nCantonale elections to renew canton general councillors were held in France on 23 and 30 September 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095634-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 French cantonal elections, Electoral system\nThe cantonales elections use the same system as the regional or legislative elections. There is a 10% threshold (10% of registered voters) needed to proceed to the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095634-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 French cantonal elections, Sources\nAlain Lancelot, Les \u00e9lections sous la Ve R\u00e9publique, PUF, Paris, 1988", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095635-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 French legislative election\nFrench legislative elections took place on 4 and 11 March 1973 to elect the fifth National Assembly of the Fifth Republic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095635-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 French legislative election\nIn order to end the May 1968 crisis, President Charles de Gaulle dissolved the National Assembly and his party, the Gaullist Party Union of Democrats for the Republic (UDR), obtained the absolute majority of the seats. Nevertheless, the failure of his 1969 referendum caused his resignation. His former Prime minister Georges Pompidou was elected President of France.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095635-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 French legislative election\nIn order to respond to the discontent expressed during May 1968, Jacques Chaban-Delmas, the left-wing Gaullist who led the cabinet, promoted a programme of reforms for the advent of a \"New Society\", which advocated social dialogue and political liberalisation. This worried the conservative part of the Presidential Majority and Pompidou himself. Furthermore, Chaban-Delmas was accused, by the presidential circle, to want strengthen his powers to the detriment of Pompidou. In 1972, Chaban-Delmas is replaced by Pierre Messmer, a classical and conservative Gaullist.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095635-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 French legislative election\nAfter Gaston Defferre's catastrophic result in the 1969 presidential election, the SFIO was replaced by the Socialist Party (PS), formed by the SFIO's merger with an array of political clubs on the democratic left. Two years later, Fran\u00e7ois Mitterrand's Convention of Republican Institutions joined the PS. He took the party's lead during the Epinay Congress, and proposed to form an alliance with the French Communist Party (PCF). In order to prepare the legislative elections, Communists and Socialists signed the Programme commun.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095635-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 French legislative election\nThe Radical Party split over the question of the Programme commun. The left-wing minority joined the \"Union of Left\" and founded the Movement of the Radical-Socialist Left (MGRS). The majority created the Reforming Movement with a part of the center-right. This new group claimed its independence towards the \"Union of Left\" and the Presidential Majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095635-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 French legislative election\nThe Programme commun was the main issue of the campaign. Its defenders pleaded the necessity to nationalize banks and companies which were in a situation of monopoly. The members of the Presidential Majority denounced a collectivist project and warned against the participation of Communists in the government if the Left won. The Reforming Movement tried to express a third way rejecting the Marxism of the Left and the Euroscepticism of the Gaullists. But, it was obliged to link with the Right to obtain parliamentary seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095635-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 French legislative election\nWhilst the left won an increased number of votes and MPs, the Presidential Majority won the election. The Gaullist UDR lost one third of its parliamentary seats due to the growth of the Left and electoral agreements with its allies, the Independent Republicans and Centre, Democracy and Progress. Messmer was confirmed as Prime Minister.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095636-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 French legislative election in Afars and Issas\nElections to the French National Assembly were held in French Somaliland on 4 March 1973 as part of the wider French parliamentary elections. Omar Farah Iltireh was elected as the territory's MP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095637-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 French legislative election in the Comoros\nElections to the French National Assembly were held in the Comoros on 4 March 1973 as part of the wider French parliamentary elections. The result was a victory for the List for the French Republic, which won both seats. The seats were taken by Mohamed Dahalani and Mohamed Ahmed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095638-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Fresno State Bulldogs football team\nThe 1973 Fresno State Bulldogs football team represented California State University, Fresno during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season as a member of the Pacific Coast Athletic Association. The team was led by head coach J. R. Boone, in his first year, and they played their home games at Ratcliffe Stadium on the campus of Fresno City College in Fresno, California. They finished the season with a record of two wins and nine losses (2\u20139, 1\u20133 PCAA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095638-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Fresno State Bulldogs football team, Team players in the NFL\nNo Fresno State Bulldogs were selected in the 1974 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 65], "content_span": [66, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095639-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Friuli-Venezia Giulia regional election\nThe Friuli-Venezia Giulia regional election of 1973 took place on 17 June 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095639-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Friuli-Venezia Giulia regional election, Events\nChristian Democracy was by far the largest party, largely ahead of the Italian Communist Party which came second. After the election Christian Democrat Antonio Comelli formed a government with the Italian Socialist Party (which left in 1975), the Italian Democratic Socialist Party and the Italian Republican Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095640-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Gabonese general election\nGeneral elections were held in Gabon on 25 February 1973 to elect a President and the National Assembly. The country was a one-party state at the time, with the Gabonese Democratic Party as the sole legal party. GDP leader and incumbent president Omar Bongo was the only candidate in the presidential election, and was elected unopposed. In the National Assembly election the GDP put forward a list of 70 candidates for the 70 seats in the expanded Assembly. Voter turnout was 97.8%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095641-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Gator Bowl\nThe 1973 Gator Bowl was an American college football bowl game played on December 29, 1973, at Gator Bowl Stadium in Jacksonville, Florida. The game pitted the Texas Tech Red Raiders and the Tennessee Volunteers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095641-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Gator Bowl, Background\nThe Red Raiders started the season 2\u20131, losing to #14 Texas in Austin 28\u201312. They would promptly win the rest of their regular season games, finishing with 10 victories (though not a Southwest Conference title), the first time that happened since 1953, which also culminated in a Gator Bowl appearance. This was their third bowl game in three years along with their first Gator Bowl since 1965.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095641-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Gator Bowl, Background\nThe Volunteers started the season with five straight victories before facing off against #2 Alabama, which they lost 42\u201321. A win over TCU was followed by losses to Georgia and Ole Miss that dropped them out of the rankings. Victories over Kentucky and Vanderbilt to end the season got them back into the polls as they limped to a fourth place finish in the Southeastern Conference, though they were invited to a bowl game for the seventh straight year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095641-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Gator Bowl, Game summary\nJoe Barnes went 8-of-11 for 154 yards while throwing for two touchdowns and rushing the ball 73 yards on 16 carries for a touchdown as the Red Raiders outran the Volunteers 276 to 153, while turning the ball over only once. Tennessee threw for 190 yards over Tech's 154, but they turned the ball over twice. Haskel Stanback rushed for 95 yards on 19 carries for the Vols.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 29], "content_span": [30, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095641-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Gator Bowl, Aftermath\nThe Red Raiders would make three more bowl games in the decade, though they did not win another bowl game until 1989. The Red Raiders did not return to the Gator Bowl again until 2008. The Volunteers made two more bowl games in the decade, splitting the two games. The Volunteers did not return to the Gator Bowl again until 1994.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 26], "content_span": [27, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095642-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Gazankulu legislative election\nParliamentary elections were held in Gazankulu on 17 October 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095642-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Gazankulu legislative election, Electoral system\nThe election was made on the basis of 26 seats. In addition, there were 42 ex-officio seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 53], "content_span": [54, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095643-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Gent\u2013Wevelgem\nThe 1973 Gent\u2013Wevelgem was the 35th edition of the Gent\u2013Wevelgem cycle race and was held on 3 April 1973. The race started in Ghent and finished in Wevelgem. The race was won by Eddy Merckx of the Molteni team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095644-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Georgia Bulldogs football team\nThe 1973 Georgia Bulldogs football team represented the Georgia Bulldogs of the University of Georgia during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095644-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Game summaries, Tennessee\nAndy Johnson scored the game-winning touchdown in the final minute after Tennessee went for it on a fourth-and-two at their own 28 with 2:32 remaining.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 62], "content_span": [63, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095645-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team\nThe 1973 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team represented the Georgia Institute of Technology during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. The Yellow Jackets were led by head coach Bill Fulcher, in his second and final year with the team, and played their home games at Grant Field in Atlanta. Fulcher resigned as head coach at the end of the season, claiming that he simply didn't enjoy the job.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095646-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 German Formula Three Championship\nThe 1973 German Formula Three Championship (German: 1973 ADAC Preis der Formel 3) was a multi-event motor racing championship for single-seat open wheel formula racing cars held across Europe. The championship featured drivers competing in two-litre Formula Three racing cars which conformed to the technical regulations, or formula, for the championship. It commenced on 1 April at N\u00fcrburgring and ended at Mainz-Finthen on 9 September after five rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095646-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 German Formula Three Championship\nWilli Deutsch became a champion. He won three races. Dieter Kern finished as runner-up. Thomas Betzler completed the top-three in the drivers' standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095646-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 German Formula Three Championship, Calendar\nAll rounds were held in West Germany, excepting Zolder round which held in Belgium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095647-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 German Grand Prix\nThe 1973 German Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at N\u00fcrburgring on 5 August 1973. It was race 11 of 15 in both the 1973 World Championship of Drivers and the 1973 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095647-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 German Grand Prix\nThe 14-lap race was won from pole position by Jackie Stewart, driving a Tyrrell-Ford. It was Stewart's 27th and final Grand Prix victory, a record that would stand until 1987. Teammate Fran\u00e7ois Cevert finished second, with Jacky Ickx third in a McLaren-Ford.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095647-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 German Grand Prix\nThe works March team did not participate in this race following the accident at the Dutch Grand Prix the previous weekend that had claimed the life of Roger Williamson. The Ferrari, Ensign, Tecno and Hesketh teams also did not participate. To boost the field, the McLaren, Brabham and Surtees teams all entered three cars: Ferrari released Ickx to drive the third McLaren; Rolf Stommelen drove the third Brabham in place of the injured Andrea de Adamich; and Jochen Mass drove the third Surtees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095647-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 German Grand Prix\nNiki Lauda crashed at Kesselchen on Lap 2 and injured his wrist; he had to miss the subsequent race, the Austrian Grand Prix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095647-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 German Grand Prix\nThe race was rebroadcast in 2003 in the USA on Speed Channel as a special broadcast of their Formula 1 retrospective, Formula One Decade. Commentary was by Jackie Stewart and David Hobbs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095648-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 German Open (tennis)\nThe 1973 German Open was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 66th edition of the event and was part of the 1973 Commercial Union Assurance Grand Prix circuit. It took place at the Am Rothenbaum in Hamburg, West Germany, from 11 June until 17 June 1973. Eddie Dibbs and Helga Masthoff won the singles titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095648-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 German Open (tennis), Finals, Men's Doubles\nJ\u00fcrgen Fassbender / Hans-J\u00fcrgen Pohmann defeated Manuel Orantes / Ion \u021airiac 7\u20136, 7\u20136, 7\u20136", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 48], "content_span": [49, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095648-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 German Open (tennis), Finals, Women's Doubles\nHelga Masthoff / Heide Orth defeated Kristien Kemmer / Laura Rossouw 6\u20131, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 50], "content_span": [51, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095649-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Gillette Cup\nThe 1973 Gillette Cup was the eleventh Gillette Cup, an English limited overs county cricket tournament. It was held between 30 June and 1 September 1973. The tournament was won by Gloucestershire County Cricket Club who defeated Sussex County Cricket Club by 40 runs in the final at Lord's.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095649-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Gillette Cup, Format\nThe seventeen first-class counties, were joined by five Minor Counties: Bedfordshire, Dorset, Durham, Staffordshire and Wiltshire. Teams who won in the first round progressed to the second round. The winners in the second round then progressed to the quarter-final stage. Winners from the quarter-finals then progressed to the semi-finals from which the winners then went on to the final at Lord's which was held on 1 September 1973. The tournament was notable for Durham (then a minor county) defeating Yorkshire. In doing so, Durham became the first ever minor county to beat a first class county in this competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 25], "content_span": [26, 645]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095650-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Giro d'Italia\nThe 1973 Giro d'Italia was the 56th\u00a0running of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tours races. The Giro started in Verviers, Belgium, on 18 May, with a 5.2\u00a0km (3.2\u00a0mi) prologue and concluded with a 197\u00a0km (122\u00a0mi) mass-start stage, on 9 June. A total of 140 riders from fourteen teams entered the 20-stage race, that was won by Belgian Eddy Merckx of the Molteni team. The second and third places were taken by Italians Felice Gimondi and Giovanni Battaglin, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095650-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Giro d'Italia\nIn addition to the general classification, Merckx won the points classification. Amongst the other classifications that the race awarded, Jos\u00e9 Manuel Fuente of KAS won the mountains classification. Molteni finished as the winners of the team points classification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095650-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Giro d'Italia, Teams\nA total of fourteen teams were invited to participate in the 1973 Giro d'Italia. Each team sent a squad of ten riders, which meant that the race started with a peloton of 140 cyclists. From the riders that began this edition, 113 made it to the finish on the Trieste.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 25], "content_span": [26, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095650-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Giro d'Italia, Pre-race favorites\nReigning and three-time champion Eddy Merckx (Molteni) announced he would race both the Vuelta a Espana and Giro. The break between these two races was only five days. Despite this, and coming off a victory at the Vuelta, Merckx entered the race favorite. Juan Del Bosque of El Mundo Deportivo stated that with the easy route, it won't make Merckx exert much effort to win for a fourth time. Merckx was believed to have a very strong team supporting him at the race, including the likes of Roger Swerts, Victor Van Schil, and Jos Deschoenmaecker, among others.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 38], "content_span": [39, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095650-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Giro d'Italia, Pre-race favorites\nFelice Gimondi (Bianchi), who won the race in 1967 and 1969, was not viewed to be in good condition entering the race. Despite this he was still viewed as a contender for the overall crown. Molteni director Giorgio Albani felt Merckx's strongest competitor would be Gimondi. Albani elaborated that the Spaniards Jos\u00e9 Manuel Fuente, Francisco Gald\u00f3s, and Santiago Lazcano were all dangerous riders in the mountains, but not threats for the overall crown. The KAS team was regarded as a strong opponent to the Molteni squad because of their climbing prowess.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 38], "content_span": [39, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095650-0004-0001", "contents": "1973 Giro d'Italia, Pre-race favorites\nSpecifically, the writer felt Fuente had performed very little during the 1973 campaign. One writer found Roger de Vlaeminck (Brooklyn) to be a dark horse for the general classification, while another source felt he would be Merckx's biggest threat. Fuente ordered a bike from Faliero Maso (who made bikes for Fausto Coppi) which was said to be a very light bike which should give him more stability.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 38], "content_span": [39, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095650-0004-0002", "contents": "1973 Giro d'Italia, Pre-race favorites\nFormer winner Gianni Motta (Zonca) also competed in the race and was viewed as a capable rider, but noted that his performances were irregular and his season had been lackluster up to that point. 1971 winner G\u00f6sta Pettersson (Ferretti), was viewed as a challenger for the general classification, but one writer felt he lost his \"punch.\" Italo Zilioli (Dreher), Franco Bitossi (Sammontana), and Michele Dancelli (Scic) were other Italian riders that had chances to place high in the general classification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 38], "content_span": [39, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095650-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Giro d'Italia, Pre-race favorites\nMarino Basso (Bianchi), Gerben Karstens (Ovest Rokado), Rik Van Linden (Ovest Rokado), Patrick Sercu (Brooklyn), and Bitossi were thought to be the riders that would contend for the stages that finished in bunch sprints. Van Linden and Sercu had beaten the reigning world champion Basso several times during the season so far and one writer stated that he \"will have a lot to do if he wants to be worthy of his rainbow jersey.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 38], "content_span": [39, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095650-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Giro d'Italia, Pre-race favorites\nFrench filmmaker Claude Lelouch announced he would be making a film that centered around Merckx, which would incorporate footage from the Vuelta a Espana earlier in the year, along with this Giro d'Italia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 38], "content_span": [39, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095650-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Giro d'Italia, Route and stages\nPrior to 1973, there were rumors that the race would be starting in Belgium. Race director Vincenzo Torriani revealed the race route on 5 March 1973. The route was announced to be 3,777\u00a0km (2,347\u00a0mi) over the course of twenty stages that included one individual time trial, while it began with a prologue around Verviers, Wallonia. The race was regarded to have six flat stages and eight \"wavy\" stages. There were eleven stages containing twenty categorized climbs that awarded points for the mountains classification, with no summit finishes in the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 36], "content_span": [37, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095650-0007-0001", "contents": "1973 Giro d'Italia, Route and stages\nIn total, the race climbed 22.3\u00a0km (13.9\u00a0mi), 2.4\u00a0km (1.5\u00a0mi) less than the previous year. The average length of each stage was 188.85\u00a0km (117.35\u00a0mi). The route did feature two rest days, on 23 May in Aosta and 4 June in Forte dei Marmi. When compared to the previous year's race, the race was 52\u00a0km (32\u00a0mi) longer, included a prologue, two less individual time trails, four less summit finishes, and had the same number of rest days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 36], "content_span": [37, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095650-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Giro d'Italia, Route and stages\nThe route was announced to start in Verviers, before heading towards Italy, passing through The Netherlands, West Germany, Luxembourg, France, and Switzerland. It was branded the \"Tour of Europe.\" It was reported that roughly 50 million liras were paid to the Giro d'Italia from Verviers, Cologne, and the European Economic Community. The transfer from Strasbourg to Geneva was over 400\u00a0km (250\u00a0mi). The route notably finished in Trieste, rather than in Milan, the normal finish for the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 36], "content_span": [37, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095650-0008-0001", "contents": "1973 Giro d'Italia, Route and stages\nIn addition, the route did not visit the Italian islands of Sardinia and Sicily, to which Squibbs from L'Impartial stated that \"no one will complain\" with regards to Sardinia, while Sicily he felt made the tifosi in various areas of the region \"scream.\" The route as a whole does not venture into the southern half of Italy. It was believed to be that the reason for the avoidance of Milan and other larger cities in the 1973 route came from their large unruly crowds and recent social unrest. The Dolomites were featured in the last two stages of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 36], "content_span": [37, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095650-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Giro d'Italia, Route and stages\nUpon release of the route in March, some thought it was not a difficult route and Torriani did not want to give Merckx an advantage. Gino Sala of l'Unita wrote following the route's initial reveal that Torriani may throw in some obstacles before the race started that were not in the presented route in March. With the announcement of the route that traveled through so many European nations, Sala speculated that Tour de France organizer Felix Levitan would try to one-up the Giro for their 1974 race. Squibbs felt the route was well balanced and intelligently designed and thought the harder portions reserved for the very end would make the race garner more interest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 36], "content_span": [37, 707]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095650-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 Giro d'Italia, Classification leadership\nThere were three main individual classifications contested in the 1973 Giro d'Italia, as well as a team competition. Three of them awarded jerseys to their leaders. The general classification was the most important and was calculated by adding each rider's finishing times on each stage. The rider with the lowest cumulative time was the winner of the general classification and was considered the overall winner of the Giro. The rider leading the classification wore a pink jersey to signify the classification's leadership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 45], "content_span": [46, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095650-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 Giro d'Italia, Classification leadership\nThe second classification was the points classification. Riders received points for finishing in the top positions in a stage finish, with first place getting the most points, and lower placings getting successively fewer points. The rider leading this classification wore a purple (or cyclamen) jersey. The mountains classification was the third classification and its leader was designated by a green jersey. In this ranking, points were won by reaching the summit of a climb ahead of other cyclists. Each climb was ranked as either first, second or third category, with more points available for higher category climbs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 45], "content_span": [46, 668]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095650-0011-0001", "contents": "1973 Giro d'Italia, Classification leadership\nMost stages of the race included one or more categorized climbs, in which points were awarded to the riders that reached the summit first. The Cima Coppi, the race's highest point of elevation, awarded more points than the other first category climbs. The Cima Coppi for this Giro was the Passo di Giau. The first rider to cross the Passo di Giau was Spanish rider Jos\u00e9 Manuel Fuente.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 45], "content_span": [46, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095650-0012-0000", "contents": "1973 Giro d'Italia, Classification leadership\nThe final classification, the team classification, awarded no jersey to its leaders. This was calculated by adding together points earned by each rider on the team during each stage through the intermediate sprints, the categorized climbs, stage finishes, etc. The team with the most points led the classification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 45], "content_span": [46, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095650-0013-0000", "contents": "1973 Giro d'Italia, Classification leadership\nThere were other minor classifications within the race, including the neo-professional competition. The classification was determined in the same way as the general classification, but considering only neo-professional cyclists (in their first three years of professional racing). The combination classification was a points classification that was tabulated by adding the ranks of a riders position in the general, points, and mountains classifications.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 45], "content_span": [46, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095650-0014-0000", "contents": "1973 Giro d'Italia, Aftermath\nThe race is documented in J\u00f8rgen Leth's 1973 film Stars and Watercarriers (Stjernerne og Vandb\u00e6rerne).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 29], "content_span": [30, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095651-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Giro d'Italia, Prologue to Stage 10\nThe 1973 Giro d'Italia was the 56th edition of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Giro began with a prologue two-man team time trial in Verviers on 18 May, and Stage 10 occurred on 29 May with a stage to Lanciano. The race finished in Trieste on 9 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095651-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Giro d'Italia, Prologue to Stage 10, Prologue\n18 May 1973 \u2014 Verviers, 5.2\u00a0km (3.2\u00a0mi) (TTT)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095651-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Giro d'Italia, Prologue to Stage 10, Stage 1\n19 May 1973 \u2014 Verviers to Cologne, 137\u00a0km (85\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095651-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Giro d'Italia, Prologue to Stage 10, Stage 2\n20 May 1973 \u2014 Cologne to Luxembourg, 227\u00a0km (141\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095651-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Giro d'Italia, Prologue to Stage 10, Stage 3\n21 May 1973 \u2014 Luxembourg to Strasbourg, 239\u00a0km (149\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095651-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Giro d'Italia, Prologue to Stage 10, Stage 4\n22 May 1973 \u2014 Geneva to Aosta, 163\u00a0km (101\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095651-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Giro d'Italia, Prologue to Stage 10, Stage 5\n24 May 1973 \u2014 St. Vincent to Milan, 173\u00a0km (107\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095651-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Giro d'Italia, Prologue to Stage 10, Stage 6\n25 May 1973 \u2014 Milan to Iseo, 144\u00a0km (89\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 93]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095651-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Giro d'Italia, Prologue to Stage 10, Stage 7\n26 May 1973 \u2014 Iseo to Lido delle Nazioni, 248\u00a0km (154\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095651-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Giro d'Italia, Prologue to Stage 10, Stage 8\n27 May 1973 \u2014 Lido delle Nazioni to Monte Carpegna, 156\u00a0km (97\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095651-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 Giro d'Italia, Prologue to Stage 10, Stage 9\n28 May 1973 \u2014 Carpegna to Alba Adriatica, 243\u00a0km (151\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095651-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 Giro d'Italia, Prologue to Stage 10, Stage 10\n29 May 1973 \u2014 Alba Adriatica to Lanciano, 174\u00a0km (108\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095652-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Giro d'Italia, Stage 11 to Stage 20\nThe 1973 Giro d'Italia was the 56th edition of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Giro began with a prologue two-man team time trial in Verviers on 18 May, and Stage 11 occurred on 30 May with a stage from Lanciano. The race finished in Trieste on 9 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095652-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Giro d'Italia, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 11\n30 May 1973 \u2014 Lanciano to Benevento, 230\u00a0km (140\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095652-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Giro d'Italia, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 12\n31 May 1973 \u2014 Benevento to Fiuggi, 236\u00a0km (147\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095652-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Giro d'Italia, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 13\n1 June 1973 \u2014 Fiuggi to Bolsena, 215\u00a0km (134\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095652-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Giro d'Italia, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 14\n2 June 1973 \u2014 Bolsena to Florence, 202\u00a0km (126\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095652-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Giro d'Italia, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 15\n3 June 1973 \u2014 Florence to Forte dei Marmi, 150\u00a0km (93\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095652-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Giro d'Italia, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 16\n5 June 1973 \u2014 Forte dei Marmi to Forte dei Marmi, 37\u00a0km (23\u00a0mi) (ITT)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095652-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Giro d'Italia, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 17\n6 June 1973 \u2014 Forte dei Marmi to Verona, 244\u00a0km (152\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095652-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Giro d'Italia, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 18\n7 June 1973 \u2014 Verona to Andalo, 173\u00a0km (107\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095652-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Giro d'Italia, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 19\n8 June 1973 \u2014 Andalo to Auronzo di Cadore, 208\u00a0km (129\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095652-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 Giro d'Italia, Stage 11 to Stage 20, Stage 20\n9 June 1973 \u2014 Auronzo di Cadore to Trieste, 197\u00a0km (122\u00a0mi)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095653-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Giro di Lombardia\nThe 1973 Giro di Lombardia was the 67th edition of the Giro di Lombardia cycle race and was held on 13 October 1973. The race started in Milan and finished in Como. The race was won by Felice Gimondi of the Bianchi team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095654-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Gitchie Manitou murders\nThe 1973 Gitchie Manitou murders involved an attack on a group of five teenagers at Gitchie Manitou State Preserve in Lyon County, Iowa. Four of the teenagers were killed and a fifth was kidnapped and raped. Allen, James, and David Fryer were later convicted of the crimes and sentenced to life in prison. The attack took place on November 17, 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095654-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Gitchie Manitou murders, Background\nOn the evening of November 17, 1973, five teenagers from Sioux Falls, South Dakota were attacked by a group of three brothers. Four of the teenagers were killed and one was kidnapped and raped. Those killed were Roger Essem (male, 17), Stewart Baade (male, 18), Dana Baade (male, 14), and Michael Hadrath (male, 15). Sandra Cheskey (female, 13) was raped, but survived the attack. Her testimony was instrumental in bringing the perpetrators to justice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095654-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Gitchie Manitou murders, Background\nThe perpetrators of this slaying were Allen Fryer (male, 29), David Fryer (male, 24), and James Fryer (male 21) of Sioux Falls, South Dakota.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095654-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Gitchie Manitou murders, The Murders\nThe Fryer brothers were in Gitchie Manitou State Preserve looking for illumination to poach deer and happened upon the victims sitting around a campfire, singing. David Fryer was sent to spy on the group and reported back to his brothers that the teenagers had marijuana. The brothers conferred and decided to take the victims' marijuana by impersonating narcotics officers. Testimony at the trial indicated that the Fryers apparently thought narcotics agents were allowed to indiscriminately kill drug users.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095654-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Gitchie Manitou murders, The Murders\nAfter getting shotguns from their truck, Allen, James, and David Fryer positioned themselves on a ridge overlooking the victims and opened fire. Roger Essem was killed immediately and Stewart Baade fell wounded. At this point, the remaining teenagers took cover in the trees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095654-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Gitchie Manitou murders, The Murders\nThe Fryers ordered the teenagers to come out of the trees, so Michael Hadrath and Sandra Cheskey emerged together and asked the Fryers who they thought they were. Allen Fryer then shot Hadrath in the arm and said that they were police officers. Hadrath and Cheskey fell to the ground, but were forced to get up by Allen Fryer who said they were playing dead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095654-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Gitchie Manitou murders, The Murders\nAllen and David Fryer forced Dana Baade, Michael Hadrath, and Sandra Cheskey along a trail away from the campfire. Sandra Cheskey was tied up and placed in the victims' van. During this time, Stewart Baade was also brought back to the van from where he had been wounded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095654-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Gitchie Manitou murders, The Murders\nAllen Fryer then drove away in the van with Sandra Cheskey, leaving Stewart Baade, Dana Baade, and Michael Hadrath standing near the road with James and David Fryer. After Allen left, James and David Fryer killed the three teenagers with shotguns. The bodies were discovered the next day by a couple from Sioux Falls, SD who drove to the park while trying out their new car. Roger Essems' body wasn't discovered until the following day because it was left lying by the campfire, the site of the first encounter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095654-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Gitchie Manitou murders, The Murders\nAllen Fryer told Sandra Cheskey that he was a police officer while they drove around, that he was \"The Boss\", and that the other two would do as he instructed them. After a short time, James and David Fryer met them on the road in the pickup. Allen and Sandy got into the truck, and the group drove to a farm. At this point, James Fryer raped Sandra Cheskey. Early the next morning, Allen filled the vehicle's tank with gasoline from a large red fuel tank then drove Cheskey home, still under the pretense of being a police officer, saying that Sandra was \"too young to get busted\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 624]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095654-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Gitchie Manitou murders, Investigation\nBecause of Sandra's composure and bluntness about the rape, and all the details she remembered especially well for someone at such young age (13) some investigators questioned her credibility. She was interviewed many times and passed a polygraph test.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 43], "content_span": [44, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095654-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 Gitchie Manitou murders, Investigation\nOn November 29, 1973, Sandra Cheskey was accompanied by Craig Vinson (Lyon County, Iowa, Sheriff) as they drove around the countryside looking for the farm house where Sandy was held captive and raped. Near Hartford, South Dakota, she recognized the farmhouse by the large red fuel tank that stood next to the garage. The farm was owned by Allen Fryer's employer, a local farmer. By a chance, Allen Fryer then drove by in the same blue pickup that was used the night of the murders. Sandy told Sheriff Vinson \"That's him. That's the boss.\" Law enforcement quickly pulled the truck over and arrested Allen Fryer. David and James Fryer were also arrested shortly thereafter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 43], "content_span": [44, 716]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095654-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 Gitchie Manitou murders, Investigation\nAllen Fryer claimed that Cheskey's friends were the ones shooting at him and his brothers the night of the murders and they \"accidentally\" killed someone. By Allen's 3rd interview he told the truth but was still trying to justify their action saying the 5 teens had been drinking and smoking marijuana, and the Fryer brothers wanted to steal it. David Fryer told a similar story, and then later changed his story to what really happened.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 43], "content_span": [44, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095654-0012-0000", "contents": "1973 Gitchie Manitou murders, Investigation\nNovember 30, 1973, Cheskey identified both David and James Fryer in a lineup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 43], "content_span": [44, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095654-0013-0000", "contents": "1973 Gitchie Manitou murders, Investigation\nThe interview with James Fryer was much different, as he immediately turned the blame to his brothers. He also confirmed David Fryer's story believing the teens had been smoking marijuana, that Allen Fryer was pretending to be a detective, and that Cheskey was laughing, having a good time, and willingly had sex with David and James. James also blamed his brother for killing all four of the teenage boys. James Fryer was serving time in jail during the time of the murders, but was enrolled in the Work Release Program. Instead of going back to jail, David called the jail impersonating his boss saying James needed to work an extra shift, and instead James went off with his brothers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 43], "content_span": [44, 731]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095654-0014-0000", "contents": "1973 Gitchie Manitou murders, Investigation\nAllen and David Fryer were moved from Sioux Falls, SD to Lyon County Jail in Rock Rapids, Iowa. James Fryer remained in Sioux Falls because he was currently serving a jail sentence. On December 1st, 1973, all three brothers were arraigned and charged with four counts of murder. Bond was set at $400,000 per man, amounting to $100,000 for each boy slain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 43], "content_span": [44, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095654-0015-0000", "contents": "1973 Gitchie Manitou murders, Trial\nSandra Cheskey's testimony was instrumental, as it comprised the bulk of evidence against the Fryer brothers during the 18 months of trial. There were some issues at the trial involving confusion by Cheskey, most of which can be attributed to her age at the time (13).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095654-0016-0000", "contents": "1973 Gitchie Manitou murders, Trial\nOn February 12, 1974, David Fryer pled guilty to the open charge of murder, guilty to three charges of murder, and one charge of manslaughter. David admitted to killing Stewart Baade (18). The judge sentenced David to life in prison without the possibility of parole, for which he replied \"no\". David said, \"If all my appeals fail, I'll actually write the governor and ask for the death penalty. I won't live out my life in jail. Keeping me locked up for life can't turn around what happened. It can't bring those people back.\" In 2016, David asked the Parole Board to over turn the \"without possibility of parole\", and it was denied after a testimony by Cheskey and Mike Hadrath's sister Lynette.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 733]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095654-0017-0000", "contents": "1973 Gitchie Manitou murders, Trial\nAllen Fryer was subjected to psychiatric testing, and was found fit to stand trial. February 1974, Allen began his trial at the Lyon County Court House. May 20, 1974, Allen was found guilty of four counts of first degree murder and was sentenced to four consecutive life terms in prison.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095654-0018-0000", "contents": "1973 Gitchie Manitou murders, Trial\nJames Fryer agreed to extradition from Sioux Falls, SD to Iowa, but later fought the extradition thinking he might end up back out on the streets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095654-0019-0000", "contents": "1973 Gitchie Manitou murders, Trial\nOn June 18, 1974, after Allen Fryer's trial, he and James Fryer escaped from the Lyon County Jail, stole a vehicle, and fled the state. They were arrested in Gillette, Wyoming, and brought back to face federal charges.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095654-0020-0000", "contents": "1973 Gitchie Manitou murders, Trial\nJames' trial began December 3, 1974 in Lyon County at , Iowa where a state psychiatrist determined James had an IQ of 85 and poorly controlled his behavior. December 30, 1974 James Fryer was found guilty of three charges of first degree murder and one charge of manslaughter. Because James was going to be serving life in jail without parole the District Attorney believed there was no need to subject Cheskey to a rape trial.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095654-0021-0000", "contents": "1973 Gitchie Manitou murders, Trial\nAll three of the Fryer brothers were sentenced to life without the possibility of parole, and all appeals fell through for all Fryer brothers. Allen is serving his life sentence at the Penitentiary in Anamosa, Iowa. David and James are currently serving their life sentences at the Fort Dodge Correctional Facility in Fort Dodge, Iowa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095654-0022-0000", "contents": "1973 Gitchie Manitou murders, Further reading\nIn addition to Allen Fryer v. Nix (mentioned below), the following decisions provide a great deal of background for the 1973 murder case:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 45], "content_span": [46, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095655-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Glasgow Corporation election\nAn Election to Glasgow City Council was held on 1 May 1973, alongside municipal elections across Scotland. Of the councils 113 seats, 37 were up for election. Labour managed to increase its majority on the council to 55.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095655-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Glasgow Corporation election\nFollowing the election, Glasgow Corporation was composed of 83 Labour councillors, 25 Conservatives, 3 Progressives, and 2 ex officio members.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095655-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Glasgow Corporation election\nTurnout was 183,308, out of a total electorate of 601,506 (30.47% turnout).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095656-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Glasgow Govan by-election\nThe Glasgow Govan by-election was held on 8 November 1973, following the death of John Rankin, Labour Party Member of Parliament for the Glasgow Govan constituency. Rankin had died one month earlier, on 8 October 1973. Rankin had held the seat since 1955. With the exception of a narrow Conservative victory in 1950, the seat had been solidly Labour-held since 1918. For the by-election the Labour Party nominated Harry Selby, a veteran activist in Glasgow and a former Trotskyist. It was later reported that Selby's selection had been controversial with some Labour members who felt that at the age of 61 he was too old to be starting a parliamentary career.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 690]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095656-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Glasgow Govan by-election\nThe Conservative Party, long the main opposition in the constituency, nominated John Mair, but as they were in mid-term government, they expected little from the election. Party support had also suffered after refusing the important local employer Upper Clyde Shipbuilders a government loan to continue operations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095656-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Glasgow Govan by-election\nThe Scottish National Party (SNP) had barely won 10% of the vote in the constituency at the 1970 general election. Nonetheless, nationalist sentiment had increased following the discovery of North Sea Oil, and the party had performed very well in the 1971 Stirling and Falkirk by-election, and the 1973 Dundee East by-election. The SNP nominated the young teacher Margo MacDonald.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095656-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Glasgow Govan by-election\nThe Liberal Party, despite having held the constituency for considerable periods prior to 1918, had little base in Glasgow and had not even contested it in 1970. They stood Peter McMillan. The withdrawal of the Liberal Party allowed the Communist Party of Great Britain to poll fourth in 1970, with only 326 votes. With such a low count, they chose not to contest the 1973 by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095656-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Glasgow Govan by-election, Results\nMacDonald won a shock victory for the SNP; this was the party's fourth Parliamentary election victory, after the 1945 Motherwell by-election, the 1967 Hamilton by-election, and the Western Isles seat in 1970. The party gained an additional 31.2% of the vote, and MacDonald sat alongside Donald Stewart, SNP MP for the Western Isles, in the British House of Commons. The Glasgow Herald described the result as a \"debacle\" for Labour, which proved that \"no Labour seat is safe from Nationalist assault.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095656-0004-0001", "contents": "1973 Glasgow Govan by-election, Results\nAn editorial in the same newspaper on the morning after the result was announced said that the defeat in Govan, which had been thought to be a safe seat, and the failure of Labour to make up ground on the Conservatives in the Edinburgh North by-election on the same day, \"were the worst ever\" by-election results \"for the Labour Party in Scotland.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095656-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Glasgow Govan by-election, Results\nThe Labour vote fell sharply, in an ominous defeat for the party, given that a general election was expected soon. The Conservative vote halved, and the party lost its deposit, placing only just ahead of the Liberals. however the Conservative performance in Govan was eclipsed by the party holding Edinburgh North fairly comfortably.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095656-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Glasgow Govan by-election, Results\nIn the aftermath of the defeat it was reported that there was criticism of the Labour members of Glasgow Croporation for failing to support Selby's campaign. The leader of the Labour group on the Council, the Rev. Geoffrey Shaw conceded that there had been an element of complacency about the campaign, though argued that this was among the Labour Party as a whole, rather than just among councillors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095656-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Glasgow Govan by-election, Results\nMacDonald lost the seat at the February 1974 general election to Selby, who himself stood down after only five years. However, the SNP were able to win seven other seats at the 1974 election, and established themselves as a permanent grouping in the British Parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 39], "content_span": [40, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095657-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Gloucester City Council election\nThe 1973 Gloucester City Council election took place on 5 May 1973 to elect members of Gloucester City Council in England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095658-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Golden Helmet (Poland)\nThe Golden Helmet (Polish: Turniej o Z\u0142oty Kask, ZK) is an annual motorcycle speedway event, and has been organized by the Polish Motor Union (PZM) since 1961. Currently the race is held in PC Team 3rd from last season (previously Wroc\u0142aw), with the top twelve riders in the Extraleague and the top four riders in the First League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095658-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Golden Helmet (Poland)\n1973 Golden Helmet season was the 13th since its establishment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 91]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095658-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Golden Helmet (Poland), Final classification\nNote: Result from final score was subtracted with two the weakest events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095659-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Governor General's Awards\nEach winner of the 1973 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit was selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095660-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Gozo Civic Council referendum\nThe Gozo Civil Council (Abolition) Referendum was held in Malta on 11 November 1973. The referendum was facultative and non-binding and only voters registered in Gozo were allowed to vote, and is to date the only non-national referendum to have been held in the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095660-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Gozo Civic Council referendum, Background\nGozo Civic Council had been set up as a statutory local Government in the island of Gozo on 14 April 1961, the first experiment in civil local government in Malta since the French occupation of 1798-1800. The law authorised the Council to raise taxes, although it never actually made use of this power.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095660-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Gozo Civic Council referendum, Background\nIn 1971 the Labour Party was voted into office. As its support in Gozo was weak and it favoured a more centralised administration it proposed a referendum on the abolishment of the Council putting emphasis on the unpopular possibility of it raising taxes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095660-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Gozo Civic Council referendum, Question\nDo you want Gozo to remain different from Malta, that is, not only having its own representatives in Parliament, chosen from Gozo, but also representatives in the Gozo Civic Council which, amongst other powers, has that of imposing special taxes on the Gozitans to be spent according to the wishes of the people of Gozo?", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095660-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Gozo Civic Council referendum, Outcome\nDespite the exceptionally low turnout of just 1.25%, the Government proceeded with its plans to abolish the Gozo Civic Council. Government administration in Gozo was centralised in Valletta and Gozitan affairs became the direct responsibility of the Office of the Prime Minister.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 43], "content_span": [44, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095660-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Gozo Civic Council referendum, Outcome\nIn the mid-1980s attempts were made to set up a Gozo committee, chaired by the Prime Minister and with the Gozitan Members of Parliament as members. However, it was only in 1987 that the Ministry of Gozo was set up (demoted to a Parliamentary Secretariat between 1996 and 1998). Local government in the Gozitan localities was restored with the introduction of Local councils in 1993 with Gozo having 14 councils.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 43], "content_span": [44, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095660-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Gozo Civic Council referendum, Outcome\nA Gozo Regional Committee was created by Act No. XVI of 2009, and was formally constituted in 2012.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 43], "content_span": [44, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095661-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Grambling Tigers football team\nThe 1973 Grambling Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Grambling College (now known as Grambling State University) as a member of the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) during the 1973 NCAA Division II football season. In its 31st season under head coach Eddie Robinson, Grambling compiled a 10\u20133 record (5\u20131 against conference opponents), tied for the SWAC championship, and outscored opponents by a total of 339 to 176. In two post-season games, the Tigers defeated Delaware in the Boardwalk Bowl and lost to Western Kentucky in the Grantland Rice Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095662-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Grand National\nThe 1973 Grand National was the 127th renewal of the Grand National horse race that took place at the Aintree Racecourse near Liverpool, England, on 31 March 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095662-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Grand National\nThe race is best remembered for being the first of Red Rum's three Grand National wins; Red Rum also broke the record set by Reynoldstown in 1935, and in doing so staged a spectacular comeback to beat Crisp on the run-in after having trailed by 15 lengths at the final fence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095662-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Grand National\nCommentator Peter O'Sullevan describes the climax of the 1973 National", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095662-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Grand National\nBefore the off, Red Rum was 9/1 joint-favourite with Crisp to win the race. However, by the time the runners had reached The Chair the Australian chaser Crisp, who was carrying the top weight of 12 stone, had already built up a significant lead and appeared unstoppable. For much of the initial stages, Crisp's closest challenger was Bill Shoemark on Grey Sombrero, but he fell at The Chair, giving Crisp an even greater lead which had grown to 20 lengths by the end of the first circuit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095662-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Grand National\nCrisp's jockey Richard Pitman later recalled that at Becher's Brook on the second circuit, fallen jockey David Nicholson shouted at him: \"Richard, you're 33 lengths clear, kick on and you'll win!\" At the same time, he heard the Tannoy commentator Michael O'Hehir declare: \"And Red Rum is coming out of the pack, Brian Fletcher is kicking him hard!\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095662-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Grand National\nAt the 30th and final fence, Crisp was still 15 lengths ahead of Red Rum, ridden by Fletcher and given 10 stone 5\u00a0lb by the handicapper. However, Crisp was beginning to tire badly on the 494-yard run-in, carrying 23\u00a0lb more than his nearest rival. Red Rum made up considerable ground, and two strides from the finishing post he pipped Crisp by a mere three-quarters of a length in a record time of nine minutes, 1.9 seconds (a record which would stand until 1990).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095662-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Grand National\nThe third horse, L'Escargot, who would win the National two years later, was 25 lengths adrift at the finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095662-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Grand National\nThere was one equine fatality during the race when Grey Sombrero fell at The Chair whilst leading the pursuit of Crisp. He suffered a broken leg and was euthanised, becoming the first fatal casualty of the Grand National since Racoon in 1970. Grey Sombrero is one of three horses to have been fatally injured while jumping The Chair in the Grand National (the others were Land Lark in 1975 and Kintai in 1979).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095662-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Grand National\n1973 is often considered among the greatest Grand Nationals of all time, and the dramatic final-stretch battle between the two greats Crisp and Red Rum has also been described as one of the greatest sporting moments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095662-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Grand National, Media coverage and aftermath\nDavid Coleman presented the BBC's coverage in a special edition of Grandstand. Grandstand would also show the international rugby union match between Scotland and The President's XV from Murrayfield, along with a preview of the big heavyweight bout from San Diego between Muhammad Ali and Ken Norton, that was shown later on BBC 1 in a Sportsnight special. Unfortunately, Grey Sombrero, who had fallen at the 15th fence was badly injured and had to be euthanized.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 49], "content_span": [50, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095663-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Grand Prix (tennis)\nThe 1973 Commercial Union Assurance Grand Prix was a tennis circuit administered by the International Lawn Tennis Federation (ILTF) which served as a forerunner to the current Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) World Tour and the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) Tour. The circuit consisted of the four modern Grand Slam tournaments and open tournaments recognised by the ILTF. This article covers all tournaments that were part of that year's Men's Grand Prix. Bonus points were awarded to players who were nominated to play in certain 1973 Davis Cup ties and who miss tournaments through competing in those ties. The Commercial Union Assurance Masters is included in this calendar but did not count towards the Grand Prix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 756]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095663-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Grand Prix (tennis), Grand Prix points system\nThe tournaments listed above were divided into four groups. Group AA consisted of the Triple Crown \u2013 the French Open, the Wimbledon Championships and the US Open \u2013 while the other tournaments were divided into Groups A, B and C by prize money and draw size. Points were allocated based on these groups and the finishing position of a player in a tournament. No points were awarded to first round losers and ties were settled by the number of tournaments played. The points allocation is listed below:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 50], "content_span": [51, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095663-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Grand Prix (tennis), Grand Prix rankings\n1) Ilie Nastase 610 points, 2) John Newcombe 512.5 points, 3)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 45], "content_span": [46, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095663-0002-0001", "contents": "1973 Grand Prix (tennis), Grand Prix rankings\nTom Okker 498 points, 4) Jimmy Connors 383 points, 5) Manuel Orantes 358.5 points, 6) Jan Kodes 315 points, 7) Stan Smith 274 points, 8) Tom Gorman 270 points, 9) Bj\u00f6rn Borg 240 points, 10) Arthur Ashe 236 points, 11) Rod Laver 230 points, 12) Nikki Pilic 210 points, 13) Jaime Fillol 203 points, 14) Raul Ramirez 186.5 points, 15) Onny Parun 177 points, 16) Vijay Amritraj 169.5 points, 17) Ken Rosewall 169 points, 18) Eddie Dibbs 155 points, 19) Karl Meiler 155 points, 20) Marty Riessen 141 points, 21) Alex Metreveli 141 points, 22) Jiri Hrebec 131 points, 23) Ross Case 126 points, 24) Roger Taylor 126 points, 25) Guillermo Vilas 121 points, 26) Adriano Panatta 119 points, 27) Brian Gottfried 118 points, 28) Mark Cox 118 points, 29) Jurgen Fassbender 115 points, 30) Charles Pasarell 112 points, 31) Cliff Drysdale 112 points, 32) Paolo Bertolucci 104 points, 33) Geoff Masters 100 points, 34) Ray Moore 98 points, 35) John Alexander 98 points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 45], "content_span": [46, 998]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095663-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Grand Prix (tennis), ATP rankings\nOn 23 August 1973 the Association of Tennis Professionals published its first list of computer rankings, using points averages rather than points totals in their calculations. These are the ATP Rankings of the top twenty singles players in the first list and at the end of the 1973 season, with numbers of ranking points, points averages, numbers of tournaments played, year-end rankings in 1973, highest and lowest positions during the season and number of spots gained or lost from the first rankings to the year-end rankings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 38], "content_span": [39, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095664-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season\nThe 1973 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season was the 25th F.I.M. Road Racing World Championship season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095664-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, Season summary\nMV Agusta teammates Phil Read and Giacomo Agostini battled it out for supremacy of the 500cc class but the season was overshadowed by the deaths of Jarno Saarinen and Renzo Pasolini at the Italian round at Monza. The 500cc title runner-up, Kim Newcombe, also died at a non-championship race at Silverstone late in the year. Agostini claimed his 13th championship in the 350cc class. In the 250cc class, West German Dieter Braun won the crown for Yamaha. Kent Andersson gave Yamaha another title in the 125cc class while Kreidler dominated the 50cc class after the Derbi factory pulled out of racing with Dutchman Jan de Vries taking the crown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 56], "content_span": [57, 700]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095665-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Grantland Rice Bowl\nThe 1973 Grantland Rice Bowl was an NCAA Division II game following the 1973 season, between the Grambling Tigers (now the Grambling State Tigers) and the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers. This was the first year that the game served as a national semifinal for Division II \u2013 in prior years it had been the Mideast regional championship for the College Division. This was the last time that the game was played at BREC Memorial Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095665-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Grantland Rice Bowl, Notable participants\nWestern Kentucky defensive back Mike McCoy and running back Clarence Jackson were selected in the 1974 NFL Draft. Defensive back Virgil Livers and defensive end John Bushong were selected in the 1975 NFL Draft. McCoy, Jackson, Livers, linebacker Rick Green, wide receiver Porter Williams, and head coach Jimmy Feix are inductees of the WKU Athletic Hall of Fame.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 46], "content_span": [47, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095665-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Grantland Rice Bowl, Notable participants\nGrambling defensive end Charles Battle, defensive back Bill Bryant, defensive end Ezil Bibbs, and tight end Oliver Alexander were selected in the 1974 NFL Draft. Defensive tackle Gary Johnson, defensive end Bob Barber, and defensive end Jesse O'Neal were selected in the 1975 NFL Draft. Grambling players selected in the 1976 NFL Draft include cornerback James Hunter, wide receiver Sammy White, tight end Ron Singleton, and linebacker Robert Pennywell. Johnson, Hunter, White, and head coach Eddie Robinson are inductees of the Grambling Legends Sports Hall of Fame. Johnson and Robinson are inductees of the College Football Hall of Fame.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 46], "content_span": [47, 687]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095665-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Grantland Rice Bowl, Further reading\nThis college football bowl article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 41], "content_span": [42, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095666-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Greater London Council election\nThe fourth election to the Greater London Council was held on 12 April 1973. Labour won a large majority of 58 seats to 32 for the Conservatives; the Liberals also won their first two seats on the council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095666-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Greater London Council election, Electoral arrangements\nAs there had been a boundary commission report with new Parliamentary constituencies which coincided with the border of Greater London, the electoral system was changed (as had always been intended) so that the GLC was elected from single member electoral divisions which were identical with the Parliamentary constituencies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 60], "content_span": [61, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095666-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Greater London Council election, Results\nWith an electorate of 5,313,470, there was a turnout of 36.8%. In addition to the 92 councillors, there were sixteen Aldermen who divided 9 Labour and 6 Conservative, so that Labour actually had 67 seats to 38 for the Conservatives following the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095666-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Greater London Council election, Results\nAmong those who were first elected to the GLC in 1973 were Ken Livingstone (Labour, Lambeth, Norwood), later to lead it, Andrew McIntosh (Labour, Haringey, Tottenham) who was his brief moderate rival for the Labour leadership, and Serge Lourie (Labour, Havering Hornchurch), who became a founder member of the SDP and Leader of the LB Richmond upon Thames in 2001.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095666-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Greater London Council election, By-elections 1973\u20131977\nThe first by-election of the term was caused by the court voiding the election in Croydon North East (see Morgan v Simpson). On 5 September 1974 the former Conservative member Billie Morgan regained the seat she had narrowly lost. Labour retained seats in Greenwich on 24 October 1974 and Dagenham on 30 January 1975 caused by the deaths of sitting councillors. The Conservatives kept their seat in Finchley on 15 May 1975 caused by the resignation of Roland Freeman and St. Marylebone on 8 April 1976 caused by the resignation of former GLC leader Desmond Plummer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 60], "content_span": [61, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095667-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Greater Manchester County Council election\nLocal elections to Greater Manchester County Council, a Metropolitan County Council encompassing Greater Manchester, were held on 12 April 1973. This was the first election held for the authority, having been established by operation of the Local Government Act 1972. Following the election the Labour Party assumed control of the Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095668-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Greek republic referendum\nA constitutional referendum was held in Greece on 29 July 1973. The amendments would confirm the abolition (on 1 June) of the monarchy by the military junta and establish a republic. The proposal was approved by 78.6% of voters with a turnout of 75.0%. This initiated the first period of the Metapolitefsi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095668-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Greek republic referendum, Background\nThe military junta had ruled Greece since a group of middle-ranking officers, under the leadership of Colonel Georgios Papadopoulos, staged a coup on 21 April 1967. King Constantine II reluctantly endorsed the coup, but started preparing for a counter-coup by elements of the armed forces loyal to him. This counter-coup was launched on 13 December 1967 and failed, forcing the king and most of the royal family to flee to Italy. Greece remained a kingdom, with the king's functions exercised by a junta-appointed regent without sanction from the king, a post held until 1972 by General Georgios Zoitakis, and then assumed by an increasingly dominant Papadopoulos, who also held the position of prime minister and several ministerial posts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 783]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095668-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Greek republic referendum, Background\nIn May 1973, however, a wide-ranging anti-junta movement was discovered and suppressed, just before its outbreak, among the ranks of the mostly royalist Navy. One ship, however, the destroyer Velos did actually mutiny, and upon reaching Italy, the captain Nikolaos Pappas and 31 officers and crew disembarked and asked for political asylum, creating worldwide interest. The failed Navy revolt demonstrated that even after six years of junta \"normality\", the opposition had not died off, and that it existed even amongst large parts of the armed forces, which were the regime's main internal supporter. This revelation created a major crisis for the junta leadership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 709]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095668-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Greek republic referendum, Background\nPapadopoulos, in a move which would bolster his own authority, deposed the king. On 1 June, a Constituent Act was proclaimed, which declared Greece a presidential republic, with Papadopoulos as president. The act was to be confirmed by a plebiscite, which was held on 29 July 1973. The defunct political parties and their leaders urged for a \"No\" as a sign of opposition to the regime, but the vote was tightly controlled by the junta, and the results were predictably favourable to the regime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 42], "content_span": [43, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095668-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Greek republic referendum, Aftermath\nColonel Papadopoulos promised a return to democratic and parliamentary rule, based on the provisions of the new Constitution, and appointed Spyros Markezinis as Prime Minister, and he called elections for February 10, 1974. His attempt at controlled democratisation failed after the Athens Polytechnic uprising and the hardliners' coup under Dimitrios Ioannidis that followed. The forms of the Republic were maintained until the final collapse of the junta in July 1974, and on 8 December 1974, another referendum was held, in which the Greek people confirmed the abolition of the monarchy, and the establishment of the current Third Hellenic Republic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 694]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095669-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Green Bay Packers season\nThe 1973 Green Bay Packers season was their 55th season overall and their 53rd season in the National Football League. The defending division champions posted a 5\u20137\u20132 record under third-year head coach Dan Devine, earning them a third-place finish in the NFC Central division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095669-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Green Bay Packers season, Offseason\nPro Football Hall of Fame linebacker Ray Nitschke retired during training camp in late August. Bart Starr left as quarterbacks coach to other business interests, which included a network broadcasting position with CBS.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 40], "content_span": [41, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095670-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Greenlandic Football Championship\nThe 1973 Greenlandic Football Championship was the 3rd edition of the Greenlandic Football Championship. With the final round being held in Nuuk. Which was won by Gr\u00f8nlands Seminarius Sportklub, the third national title in its history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095671-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Grote Prijs Jef Scherens\nThe 1973 Grote Prijs Jef Scherens was the ninth edition of the Grote Prijs Jef Scherens cycle race and was held on 16 September 1973. The race started and finished in Leuven. The race was won by Jan van Katwijk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095672-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Guildford Borough Council election\nThe first ever Guildford Borough Council full-council elections were held on 7 June 1973. The Conservatives won control of the council with a majority of 16, winning 29 of the 42 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095672-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Guildford Borough Council election\nThe Local Government Act 1972 decreed that a new Guildford Borough Council was to replace the previous two councils for the area, namely the town council, Guildford Municipal Borough Council, and the council for the rural area surrounding Guildford, Guildford Rural District Council. The wards used for this election were largely based on the previously wards used by Guildford Municipal Borough Council and the parish boundaries of Guildford Rural District Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095672-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Guildford Borough Council election\nThere was some alteration to the wards in the run up to the election, but full scale rewarding would only be implemented in time for the 1976 council elections. Changes included Friary ward and St Nicolas ward being merged with 3 councillors for the new joint ward; they had previously been separate wards with 3 councillors each on Guildford Municipal Borough Council. Holy Trinity ward and Stoughton ward each saw the number of councillors represent them reduce from 3 to 2. Merrow and Burpham ward, which at this point included much of what was from 1976 onwards to become the Christchurch ward, saw its representation increase from 3 to 5 councillors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 695]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095672-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Guildford Borough Council election\nThe new council was initially to be elected once every 3 years (this was to change to once every 4 years from 1979 onwards). This replaced the annual elections, where one third of councillors were elected each year, which had previously been used for elections to Guildford Municipal Borough Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095672-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Guildford Borough Council election\nGoing into the election the councillors for the town wards under the old Guildford Municipal Borough Council were as follows - Friary (2 Lib, 1 Lab), St Nicolas (2 Lib, 1 Con), Stoke (3 Lab), Westborough (3 Lab), Holy Trinity (3 Con), Merrow & Burpham (3 Con), Onslow (3 Con), Stoughton (3 Con). Thus Friary & St Nicolas was predominately Liberal, Stoke and Westborough were Labour plus Holy Trinity, Merrow & Burpham, Onslow and Stoughton were Conservative going into the election. With one exception those allegiances were maintained in the 1973 council elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095672-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Guildford Borough Council election\nThe Liberals took all 3 councillors for the new Friary & St Nicolas ward. Labour retained all 6 councillors in its two strongholds Stoke and Westborough. The Conservatives won all the seats in Merrow & Burpham, Onslow and Stoughton wards. However, in Holy Trinity ward a change to previous voting behaviour occurred in that an official Liberal Party candidate took a seat for the first time in Holy Trinity's history; the ward having been created in 1899. This resulted in Holy Trinity ward being split 1 Conservative, 1 Liberal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095672-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Guildford Borough Council election\nAll bar 3 of the councillors elected for wards within the area formerly covered by Guildford Rural District Council were Conservatives. The three exceptions were 2 Independents were returned for Albury, Shere & St Martha's, plus one of the three councillors elected for East Clandon, West Clandon, East Horsley & West Horsley was a Liberal, the other two being Conservatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095672-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Guildford Borough Council election\nOverall the election results were Conservatives 29, Labour 6, Liberals 5, Independents 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095673-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Guyanese general election\nGeneral elections were held in Guyana on 17 July 1973. The result was a victory for the People's National Congress, which won 37 of the 53 seats. However, the PNC's victory was the result of fraud as the government had direct control of the elections. Voter turnout was 81.0%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095674-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Gwent County Council election\nThe 1973 Gwent County Council election was held on Thursday 12 April 1973 to elect councillors to the new Gwent County Council, governing the new county of Gwent, Wales. It took place on the same day as other county council elections in the United Kingdom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095674-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Gwent County Council election\nThese were the first elections to the new county council, which would come into effect on 1 April 1974. Future elections would take place every four years, with the next one scheduled for April 1977.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095674-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Gwent County Council election\nThe 1973 election saw the Labour Party win a strong majority on the Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095674-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Gwent County Council election, Background\nGwent was created following local government reorganisation enacted by the Local Government Act 1972. It covered the area of Monmouthshire and Newport County Borough, which would be transferred from England to Wales in 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095674-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Gwent County Council election, Background\nThe 1973 elections were the first to the new local authorities, with councillors acting in a shadow capacity until 1 April 1974 when the new councils took full effect.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095674-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Gwent County Council election, Background\nThe position of alderman on the local authorities was abolished, with all members of the new councils being elected ward councillors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095674-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Gwent County Council election, Overview of the result\nSeventy-eight Gwent County Council seats in 66 electoral wards were up for election in April 1973. Labour overall increased its presence in comparison with the old councils, though there were some close battles between Labour, the Liberals and Independents in some wards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095674-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Gwent County Council election, Overview of the result\nIn Cwmbran Labour did not fare so well, with an Independent and a Ratepayer candidate winning seats, and the Conservatives polling strongly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 58], "content_span": [59, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095674-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Gwent County Council election, Ward results\nContests took place in 49 wards, with candidates in seventeen of the wards being elected unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 48], "content_span": [49, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095674-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Gwent County Council election, Ward results, Old Cwmbran (1 seat)\nCouncillor Rex was a credit company agent and had been a member of Cwmbran Urban Council for 16 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 70], "content_span": [71, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095674-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 Gwent County Council election, Ward results, Panteg East (1 seat)\nThis was local newspaper reporter Don Touhig's first ever election, which he won by over 700 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 70], "content_span": [71, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095674-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 Gwent County Council election, Ward results, Pontnewydd (1 seat)\nCouncillor Pritchard was General Secretary of the Monmouthshire Federation of Ratepayers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 69], "content_span": [70, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095674-0012-0000", "contents": "1973 Gwent County Council election, Ward results, Tredegar Central and West (1 seat)\nBill Harry had been one of four Monmouthshire county councillors in Tredegar for 13 years, but Gwent County Council would only have three Tredegar county councillors, with Harry being the loser against Angus Donaldson who was a sitting Liberal Monmouthshire councillor for Tredegar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 84], "content_span": [85, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095674-0013-0000", "contents": "1973 Gwent County Council election, Ward results, Victoria (1 seat)\nPercy Jones, an alderman and former major of Newport County Borough had been a council member in Newport for 20 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 67], "content_span": [68, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095675-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Gwyn Staley 400\nThe 1973 Gwyn Staley 400 was a NASCAR NASCAR Cup Series racing event that took place at North Wilkesboro Speedway on April 8, 1973, in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095675-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Gwyn Staley 400, Background\nThree drivers entered the 1970 Wilkes 400 in a very close points race. Bobby Isaac was just ahead of James Hylton, and Bobby Allison was close behind. But Richard Petty, who was out of the points because of a shoulder injury suffered at Darlington in May, was considered the favorite to win the race. Isaac started from the pole for a record-tying fourth consecutive time, matching Fred Lorenzen and Herb Thomas with a qualifying lap time of 21.346 seconds / 105.406\u00a0mph.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095675-0001-0001", "contents": "1973 Gwyn Staley 400, Background\nFans were given quite a show as Isaac and Petty exchanged the lead a total of 11 times throughout the race. Isaac, in the Nord Krauskopf's K&K Insurance Dodge, led 179 laps and took the win by six car lengths over Petty. Petty, who had started the race in third position led the most laps in the race with 216. Bobby Allison started fourth and finished fourth behind his brother, Donnie Allison. And Hylton finished fifth at the end of day. Isaac advanced to become the 1970 Winston Cup Champion at season's end, with Allison being the runner-up in points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095675-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Gwyn Staley 400, Background\nBad weather in 1971 caused the Wilkes 400 to be postponed to November 21. Due to the Grand National Series' struggling car counts, cars from NASCAR's Grand American Series were allowed to run in this race. Charlie Glotzbach broke the track record in qualifying at 20.919 seconds / 107.558\u00a0mph. It was the first lap ever run under 21 seconds at North Wilkesboro, ending Bobby Isaac's run of five consecutive poles at the track. Tiny Lund, driving a 1970 Camaro, qualified sixth and led just seven laps on his way to the victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095675-0002-0001", "contents": "1973 Gwyn Staley 400, Background\nLund also won another race driving the Camaro that season at Hickory. Glotzbach finished second, six seconds behind Lund, after leading 76 laps in the race. Richard Petty started from the outside pole and led 306 laps to finish third. Dave Marcis finished fourth, two laps down, and Benny Parsons rounded out the top five. Bobby Allison was the only other driver to lead, running 11 laps out front before losing an engine prior to the half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095675-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Gwyn Staley 400, Background\nThe Wilkes 400 in 1972 was one of the wildest finishes in NASCAR Cup Series history. Buddy Baker won the pole in the No. 71 K&K Insurance Dodge owned by Nord Krauskopf, but he only led the first lap of the race. Richard Petty and Bobby Allison swapped the lead for the rest of the race, beating and banging each other for the win. At times was more of a demolition derby than a race. Both cars were destroyed by the end, with Allison's car noticeably smoking. This was the peak of the Petty-Allison rivalry. Petty was declared the winner, but in Victory Lane, a fan tried to attack him. But he was defended by his helmet-wielding brother, Maurice Petty. This was Richard Petty's last of 137 wins in a Plymouth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 743]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095675-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Gwyn Staley 400, Race report\nSixteen thousand people watched Richard Petty defeat Benny Parsons by at least four laps; resulting in his 151st NASCAR Winston Cup Series win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095675-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Gwyn Staley 400, Race report\nDue to haphazard adjustments to the vehicles' setup prior to qualifying, Junior Johnson failed to qualify at his home track and Cale Yarborough struggled the whole distance of the race; finishing in an unusually low sixth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095675-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Gwyn Staley 400, Race report\nA little known fact about this race was that Benny Parsons was the president of a Parent-Teacher Association (based out of an Ellerbe, North Carolina, elementary school) and a NASCAR champion at the same time. Out of the drivers in the 30-car grid, 28 of them were American-born while two were Canadian (Vic Parsons and Yvon Duhamel - a French Canadian from Quebec who finished 10th in his only NASCAR start of any form).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095675-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Gwyn Staley 400, Race report\nRick Newsom would end up being the last-place finisher with an engine problem on lap 2. Cecil Gordon was on the lead lap late in the race until a flat tire on a restart cost him a top 3 finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095675-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Gwyn Staley 400, Race report\nNotable crew chiefs who actively participated in the race were Tim Brewer, Travis Carter, Harry Hyde, Dale Inman, Vic Ballard, Lee Gordon and Bud Moore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095676-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Haitian parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections were held in Haiti on 11 February 1973. Over 300 candidates contested the election, all of whom were members of the National Unity Party and supporters of President Jean-Claude Duvalier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095677-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Hamilton Tiger-Cats season\nThe 1973 Hamilton Tiger-Cats season was the 16th season for the team in the Canadian Football League and their 24th overall. The Tiger-Cats finished in 4th place in the Eastern Conference with a 7\u20137 record and missed the playoffs for only the second time since the inception of the Tiger-Cats in 1950. In May 1973 the club was sold to Mr. Michael G. DeGroote, chairman and chief executive officer of Laidlaw Transportation Limited.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095678-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Hanafi Muslim massacre\nThe 1973 Hanafi Muslim massacre took place on the afternoon of January 18, 1973. Two men and a boy were shot to death. Four other children ranging in age from nine days to ten years old were drowned. Two others were severely injured. The murders took place at 7700 16th Street NW, a Washington, D.C. house purchased for a group of Hanafi Muslims to use as the \"Hanafi American Mussulman's Rifle and Pistol Club\". The property was purchased and donated by then Milwaukee Bucks basketball player, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095678-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Hanafi Muslim massacre\nThe target of the attack was Hamaas Abdul Khaalis, the son-in-law of Reginald Hawkins. Khaalis had written and sent fifty letters calling Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad \"guilty of 'fooling and deceiving people - robbing them of their money, and besides that dooming them to Hell.'\" The letters were mailed to ministers of all fifty mosques of the Nation of Islam, a sect that Khaalis had infiltrated and in which he had been a leader in the 1950s. The letters were also critical of Wallace D. Fard and urged the ministers to leave the sect.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095678-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Hanafi Muslim massacre, Background\nAt the time of the murders Black Muslims were known as the Nation of Islam (NOI) and then changed their name to World Community Islam in the West.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095678-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Hanafi Muslim massacre, Background\nHamaas Abdul Khaalis was originally a Roman Catholic and Seventh-day Adventist born in Gary, Indiana as Ernest Timothy McGhee. He converted to Sunni Islam and on the advice of his Islamic teacher, Tasibur Uddein Rahman infiltrated the Black Muslims. He changed his name to Ernest 2x McGhee and served as principal of the sect's school, and then went on to become Elijah Muhammad's national secretary at their Chicago national headquarters from 1954-1957. In an interview, Khaalis said, \"Elijah once said that I was next in line to him, that it was me, not Malcolm X.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095678-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Hanafi Muslim massacre, Background\nIn 1957 he was demoted or lost influence in a dispute possibly after unsuccessfully trying to convince Muhammad to change the direction of the movement. He then moved to New York City where he ran the Hanafi Madh-hab center in Harlem under his Sunni Muslim name Hamaas Abdul Khaalis. In New York, he continued trying to convince members to defect from Muhammad. In 1970, Khaalis converted basketball star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who was formerly known as Lew Alcindor. In 1971 Jabbar donated a $78,000 field stone mansion for Khaalis' headquarters in Washington, D.C.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095678-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Hanafi Muslim massacre, Background\nPolice believed the continued efforts to convert people in New York to be a reason for the growing conflict between Sunni Muslims and Black Muslims, and may have contributed to the murders. In an interview Khaalis spoke of Malcolm X, \"When Malcolm was killed I was teaching him the Sunni way,\" and \"He used to come to my house on Long Island and we would sit in his car for hours. He would meet me after he left the temple. Never in public because he knew they were after him. He was saying the wrong things.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095678-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Hanafi Muslim massacre, Massacre\nOn January 12, 1973 several Black Mafia affiliates traveled to Washington, D.C and scouted the home. Then on January 17, 1973, Ronald Harvey, John Clark, James \"Bubbles\" Price, John Griffin, Theodore Moody, William Christian, and Jerome Sinclair traveled in two vehicles from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095678-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Hanafi Muslim massacre, Massacre\nOne of the men called claiming to be interested in purchasing literature about the Hanafi and arranged to come to the residence to purchase the literature. Two of them came to purchase material. Khaalis' son, Daud, left the room to get changed, and upon his return he was told, \"This is a stick up.\" The two men then let five or six additional people into the residence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095678-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Hanafi Muslim massacre, Massacre\nDaud was killed first. He was taken to the third floor and shot. Abdu Nur was shot in a bedroom. Bibi Khaalis, one of Hamaas' wives, was forced to watch them drown two of the children in an upstairs bathtub and she was also taken to the basement where she was forced to watch them drown her nine day old granddaughter in a sink. Then Bibi was bound, gagged, and shot eight times.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095678-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Hanafi Muslim massacre, Massacre\nAmina, Khaalis' daughter, was put in a closet and shot three times. She was told, \"You know your father wrote those letters, don't you? Don't you know he can't do anything like that?\" Unsure if she was dead, she was shot two more times, and then the gun jammed. Amina survived the shooting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095678-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 Hanafi Muslim massacre, Massacre\nKareem Abdul-Jabbar was a pallbearer at the funeral for Khaalis' children.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095678-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 Hanafi Muslim massacre, Trials\nH. Price, 23, Jerome Sinclair, 22, also known as Jerome 5X; John W. Griffin, 28, also known as Omar Jamal; John W. Clark, 31; Thomas Moody, 20; and William Christian, 29, were indicted. They all had extensive police records and, with the exception of Christian, they all had served prison sentences at Holmesburg Prison.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095678-0012-0000", "contents": "1973 Hanafi Muslim massacre, Trials\nOf the six defendants, one was acquitted when a key witness, Price, an unindicted co-conspirator, refused to testify. Price was not happy with the lifestyle afforded as a protected witness. Price also thought that if he could get out from the witness protection program he could reintegrate with his black Muslim brothers and they would stop threatening violence against him. Then Minister Louis Farrakhan on behalf of Elijah Muhammad, aired a threat during his radio broadcast:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095678-0013-0000", "contents": "1973 Hanafi Muslim massacre, Trials\nLet this be a warning to the opponents of Muhammad. Let this be a warning to those of you who would be used as an instrument of a wicked government against our rise. Be careful, because when the government is tired of using you, they're going to dump you back into the laps of your people. And although Elijah Muhammad is a merciful man and will say, \"Come in,\" and forgive you, yet in the ranks of black people today there are younger men and women rising up who have no forgiveness in them for traitors and stool pigeons. And they will execute you as soon as your identity is known. Be careful because nothing shall prevent the rise of the messiah, The Nation of Islam, and the black man the world over.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 741]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095678-0014-0000", "contents": "1973 Hanafi Muslim massacre, Trials\nThis broadcast led Price to refuse to testify. He was later murdered in Holmesburg prison, where he was housed with other Black Muslims.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095678-0015-0000", "contents": "1973 Hanafi Muslim massacre, Trials\nAnother defendant was granted a retrial after the jury had found him guilty, which ended in a mistrial because Amina Khaalis, a survivor of the massacre and the daughter of the Hanafi leader, refused to be cross-examined as she had \"suffered irreparable psychological trauma\" and it was thought that it was \"highly probable\" that she would suffer psychiatric injury if she were to testify again about the murders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095678-0016-0000", "contents": "1973 Hanafi Muslim massacre, Trials\nOne of the men indicted, Ronald Harvey, was also indicted for the Camden, New Jersey murder of Major Coxson, a flamboyant black businessman and unsuccessful candidate for mayor of Camden.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095678-0017-0000", "contents": "1973 Hanafi Muslim massacre, Aftermath\nIn 1977, Hamaas Abdul Khaalis led an attack in Washington, D.C., the 1977 Hanafi Siege. He said that the purpose of the siege was to bring attention to the murders of his wife, two children, and nine-day-old grandchild, and the shooting of his daughter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095678-0018-0000", "contents": "1973 Hanafi Muslim massacre, Aftermath\nThe murder brought attention to the armed conflict between Sunni Muslims and Nation of Islam Muslims. Sunni Muslims believe Nation of Islam Muslims changed the doctrines of Islam by excluding whites and by accepting Elijah Muhammad as a messenger of Allah. Sunnis believe that Islam is color-blind and that whites can become Muslim. They also believe that Muhammad was the last messenger of Allah.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 38], "content_span": [39, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095679-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Hardie-Ferodo 1000\nThe 1973 Hardie-Ferodo 1000 was the 14th running of the Bathurst 1000 touring car race. This was the first race to be held under the new metricised distance of 1000 kilometres, rather than the 500 miles previously contested. It was held on 30 September 1973 at the Mount Panorama Circuit just outside Bathurst. The race was open to cars eligible to the locally developed CAMS Group C touring car regulations with four engine capacity based classes and it was the 3rd round of the 1973 Australian Manufacturers' Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095679-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Hardie-Ferodo 1000\nAllan Moffat claimed his third win in the event and the long-awaited first win for Ian Geoghegan driving a Ford Falcon GT. It was also the seventh and final win for the factory Ford Australia racing team. Peter Brock and Doug Chivas dropped from contention after their Holden Torana ran out of fuel, forcing Chivas to push the car uphill along the pit lane to make it to the Holden Dealer Team pit bay. Brock and Chivas finished on the same lap as Moffat and Ian Geoghegan, ahead of their teammates Colin Bond and Leo Geoghegan, also on the same lap, in third position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095679-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Hardie-Ferodo 1000, Class structure, Class A\nThe smallest class was for under 1300cc engine capacity. It was made up of Datsun 1200, Fiat 128, Honda Civic, Morris Cooper S and Renault R8.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095679-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Hardie-Ferodo 1000, Class structure, Class B\nThe under two litre class saw a mix of Alfa Romeo GTV 2000, Datsun 180B, Ford Escort, Mazda RX-3 and Subaru 1400 GSR.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095679-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Hardie-Ferodo 1000, Class structure, Class C\nThe under three litre class featured 2.8 litre Holden Torana and Mazda RX-2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095679-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Hardie-Ferodo 1000, Class structure, Class D\nFor cars over three litres of engine capacity, the class consisted of Chrysler Valiant Charger, Ford Falcon, Holden Monaro and the larger engined Toranas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 49], "content_span": [50, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095679-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Hardie-Ferodo 1000, Race\nPole sitter Goss got off to a great start leading the Falcons of Moffat, French and Gibson from Brock's Torana. Gibson went out early with engine trouble and French made an unscheduled stop. This left Goss to make his first stop on lap 43 with a 40 second lead over Moffat and Brock, the later pair hardly separated by more than a few seconds until Moffat spun at Griffins on lap 44, losing about 20 seconds before making his first stop on lap 45 where he handed over to Geoghegan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095679-0006-0001", "contents": "1973 Hardie-Ferodo 1000, Race\nBrock stopped on lap 54 and handed the car over to Chivas, whom they hoped could run the car long enough to only make one more pitstop in the race and one less than the Falcons, despite Brock reporting that the fuel gauge on the car had failed. Bond momentarily took the lead of the race until making his stop on lap 61, well past a third distance proving that the Torana could do the race on just two stops.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095679-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Hardie-Ferodo 1000, Race\nDespite Moffat's spin and the Torana having a minute shorter pitstop than the Falcon, Geoghegan made up the difference to Chivas - taking second place from brother Leo Geoghegan (driving with Bond) and then retaking the lead of the race on lap 78. Bartlett (driving with early leader Goss) pitted on the same lap but Goss would be involved in a collision with Garth's overturned Torana and pitted for repairs on lap 105 putting them out of contention. Geoghegan was able to build a lead over Chivas before stopping and handing the car back to Moffat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095679-0007-0001", "contents": "1973 Hardie-Ferodo 1000, Race\nChivas held a 1'40\" advantage over Moffat some time after the stop and was given the instruction from his pit board to \"get max laps\" only to run out of fuel on the top of the mountain and coast back to the pit entry. However, with the start of pitlane being uphill Chivas had to climb out and push the car, he also had to do this unassisted on penalty of disqualification until he himself had gotten the car far enough for his team to be allowed to assist. Moffat and Leo Geoghegan both passed Chivas as he strained to slowly push the car against the gradient after a long stint at the wheel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095679-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Hardie-Ferodo 1000, Race\nMoffat made his final stop on lap 123 of just 1'24\", which was over a minute faster than his first, and was able to resume still leading Bond's Torana and cruise home to victory, the only danger being the #35 Mazda RX-2 rolling over ahead of him on his final lap. Any chance of Brock putting pressure back on Moffat was thwarted by the need to make a 15 second stop for more fuel on lap 147.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095679-0008-0001", "contents": "1973 Hardie-Ferodo 1000, Race\nHe did however regain second place when Bond's left rear tyre blew across the top and he had to make an unscheduled stop of 30 seconds. Brock would have his own tyre failure with the right rear blowing out on the final lap but he continued to the finish at pace knowing the car only had to survive the remainder of that lap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095679-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Hardie-Ferodo 1000, Race\nAlthough the best surviving highlight reel of the day available now clearly promotes the narrative of a certain Holden victory being lost due to miscalculation (Chivas running out of fuel) this is questionable at best with the benefit of hindsight (the film is credited to General Motors and their sponsors at the time).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095679-0009-0001", "contents": "1973 Hardie-Ferodo 1000, Race\nClearly Moffat slowed significantly when no longer challenged for the race lead, so while it is possible he may have had his own trouble if pressed harder, it is certainly a hollow claim that because Brock and Chivas were able to finish within a lap of Moffat and Geoghegan despite running out of fuel they lost a certain race win. The race pace of the Torana's may have been compromised by trying to run to only two stops with Geoghegan able to make up about two and a quarter minutes over Chivas in his stint alone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095679-0009-0002", "contents": "1973 Hardie-Ferodo 1000, Race\nBrock was the only driver to not haemorrhage time to the race winner but never got close to achieving the fuel economy required for his strategy to work, falling short on both his stints by as much as 16 laps. Brock obviously would have had to slow significantly more to complete the required laps. The real victim of this narrative is the incredible effort by John Goss not being a bigger part of the story.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095679-0009-0003", "contents": "1973 Hardie-Ferodo 1000, Race\nDespite Goss building his race car in his spare time he was able to take pole position, set a new lap record and lead the factory entered cars by 40 seconds at his first pitstop. If not for some small exhaust issue, and a collision with a car that had illegally re-joined the race (after being towed), the 1973 Hardie-Ferodo 1000 may well have been celebrated as a Goss/Bartlett victory in the David versus Goliath style.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095680-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Hardy Cup\nThe 1973 Hardy Cup was the 1973 edition of the Canadian intermediate senior ice hockey championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095680-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Hardy Cup, Final\nWinning RosterJim AndrewDoug BrittonArt Coleman (asst. manager)Vic ComeauJohn DaltonPhil DoironBlair ForsytheNorm GuimondAlfie HandrahanBob HolderJohn JarvisWayne JohnsonRay LapointeLincoln MacKenzieDoug MacPhee (coach)Gary MarshGary McGrawTony McGuireDave NicholsonEarl RiceBill SmallGerard SmithWayne TaylorBarry SmithJack Woodhouse (manager)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 21], "content_span": [22, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095681-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Harlow District Council election\nThe 1973 Harlow District Council election were the first elections to the newly created Harlow District Council took place on 7 June 1973 . This was on the same day as other local elections. The Local Government Act 1972 stipulated that the elected members were to shadow and eventually take over from the predecessor corporation on 1 April 1974. The election resulted in Labour gaining control of the council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095682-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Harvard Crimson football team\nThe 1973 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University in the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. They were led by third-year head coach Joseph Restic and played in the Ivy League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095683-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Hawaii Rainbows football team\nThe 1973 Hawaii Rainbows football team represented the University of Hawai\u02bbi at M\u0101noa as an independent during the 1973 NCAA Division II football season. In their sixth season under head coach Dave Holmes, the Rainbows compiled a 9\u20132 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095684-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Hawkesbury state by-election\nA by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Hawkesbury on Saturday, 17 February 1973. It was triggered by the resignation of Bernie Deane (Liberal).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095685-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Hawthorn Football Club season\nThe 1973 season was the Hawthorn Football Club's 49th season in the Victorian Football League and 72nd overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095686-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 High Peak Borough Council election\nThe first elections to High Peak Borough Council in Derbyshire, England were held in 1973. The Borough Council was formed by absorbing the municipal boroughs of Buxton and Glossop, the urban districts of New Mills and Whaley Bridge, and the rural districts of Chapel-en-le-Frith and Tintwistle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095686-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 High Peak Borough Council election\nAs it was a new borough, all of the council was up for election. No party got an overall majority of councillors, meaning that the council became no overall control.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095687-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Holy Cross Crusaders football team\nThe 1973 Holy Cross Crusaders football team was an American football team that represented the College of the Holy Cross as an independent during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. Ed Doherty returned for his third year as head coach. The team compiled a record of 5\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095687-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Holy Cross Crusaders football team\nAll home games were played at Fitton Field on the Holy Cross campus in Worcester, Massachusetts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095688-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Honduran Segunda Divisi\u00f3n\nThe 1973 Honduran Segunda Divisi\u00f3n was the seventh season of the Honduran Segunda Divisi\u00f3n. Under the management of Alfonso Ucl\u00e9s, C.D. Federal won the tournament after defeating San Pedro in the final series and obtained promotion to the 1974\u201375 Honduran Liga Nacional.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095689-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Hong Kong municipal election\nThe 1973 Urban Council election was held on 7 March 1973 for the 7 of the 12 elected seats of the Urban Council of Hong Kong.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095689-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Hong Kong municipal election\nTwo new elected seats were created in the election. 8,675 eligible voters cast their votes, the turnout rate was 27.64%. The Reform Club of Hong Kong won four of the seven seats and the Hong Kong Civic Association won the other three. Candidates from the Reform Club, Tsin Sai-nin and Patrick Wong won the two new seats, with Wong Pun-cheuk secured the last seat of two-year term, different from the rest of the four-year terms seats. Tsin and Wong later resigned from the Reform Club in 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095690-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Horsham District Council election\nThe 1973 Horsham District Council election was the first ever for the council and took place on 7 June 1973 to elect members of Horsham District Council in England. It was held on the same day as other local elections. Independent councillors secured a majority of two with 23 seats, the Conservatives won 17 and the Liberal Party won 2. Labour also took part in the elections, fielding candidates in Horsham South & Horsham North only. The Liberal Party were successful in Broadbridge Heath and they were able to secure a seat in Storrington.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095690-0000-0001", "contents": "1973 Horsham District Council election\nThe Conservative Party achieved good results in some rural areas but they were able to win the vast amount of their seats in the town. Independent councillors won a majority of seats in the villages in the district, sometimes unopposed, some later stood as a Conservative candidate three years later in the next set of elections for the Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095691-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Houston Astros season\nThe 1973 Houston Astros season was a season in American baseball. The team finished fourth in the National League West with a record of 82\u201380, 17 games behind the Cincinnati Reds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095691-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Houston Astros season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 71], "content_span": [72, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095691-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Houston Astros season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095691-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Houston Astros season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 69], "content_span": [70, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095691-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Houston Astros season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 66], "content_span": [67, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095691-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Houston Astros season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 67], "content_span": [68, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095692-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Houston Cougars football team\nThe 1973 Houston Cougars football team, also known as the Houston Cougars, Houston, or UH, represented the University of Houston in the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. It was the 28th year of season play for Houston. The team was coached by 12th-year head coach Bill Yeoman who was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2001. The team played its home games in the Astrodome, a 50,000-person capacity stadium off-campus in Houston at the Astrodomain. Houston competed as a member of the NCAA in the University Division, independent of any athletic conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095692-0000-0001", "contents": "1973 Houston Cougars football team\nIt was their fourteenth year of doing so. The Cougars had been admitted to the Southwest Conference two years prior, but were ineligible for conference play until the 1976 season. After completion of the regular season, the Cougars were invited to the Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl where they defeated the Tulane Green Wave.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095693-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Houston Oilers season\nThe 1973 Houston Oilers season was their fourth season in the National Football League and their 14th in competition overall. The team matched their previous season\u2019s output of 1\u201313, and they missed the playoffs for the fourth consecutive season. Their eighteen consecutive losses after winning the third game in 1972 was an NFL record beaten only by the expansion Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 1976 and 1977 and the Detroit Lions from the last game of 2007 until the third game of 2009, including their 0\u201316 season of 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095693-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Houston Oilers season\nCoach Bill Peterson left the team after an 0\u20135 start, and was replaced by coaching veteran Sid Gillman, who went 1\u20138 to finish the season. Peterson finished his NFL coaching career with a 1-18 record. The one win is the fewest for any head coach in NFL history. The Oilers\u2019 offense struggled in 1973, ranking last in rushing yards (1388), second worst in yards per play (3.9), and third-worst in both total yards (3307) and first downs (tied at 193).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095693-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Houston Oilers season\nThe 1973 Oilers had one of the worst defenses of all time, statistically; they gave up 447 points during the season, the most ever for a 14-game season in the merger era (1970\u20131977). Only three teams gave up more points in a 14-game season: the 1966 Giants, the 1963 Broncos, and the 1961 Raiders. Their point-differential of \u2212248 points was the worst in the league that year, and remains one of the ten worst in NFL history. (The second-worst team, the Philadelphia Eagles, gave up 393 points, or 3.8 fewer points per game.) Houston also gave up a league-high 26 touchdown passes in 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095693-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Houston Oilers season\nThey are also the most recent franchise in the NFL to have back-to-back one-win seasons; in fact since 1974 not a single NFL franchise again suffered multiple one- or no-win seasons in a non-strike season, until the Cleveland Browns did so in 2016 and 2017. Since the NFL developed a uniform schedule in 1936, the only other time a franchise has had back-to-back one-win seasons has been the 1949 and 1950 Baltimore Colts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095694-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Hove by-election\nThe Hove by-election was held on 8 November 1973 for the British House of Commons constituency of Hove in East Sussex.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095694-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Hove by-election\nThe by-election was caused by the death of Conservative Party Member of Parliament Martin Maddan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095694-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Hove by-election\nHove was a safe Conservative seat, having been held by the party since its creation for the 1950 general election. At the 1970 general election, the Conservatives had won over two-thirds of the votes cast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095694-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Hove by-election\nThe Conservative candidate was Tim Sainsbury, a member of the board of supermarket chain J Sainsbury plc. Former Labour Party MP Desmond Donnelly was unsuccessful in getting the Conservative nomination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095694-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Hove by-election\nLabour, who had put up the only other candidate in 1970, stood Ronald Wallis. The Liberal Party, who had not stood a candidate in 1970, but had won 16% of the vote in 1966, stood New Zealand-born Des Wilson, one of the founders of Shelter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095694-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Hove by-election\nTwo other candidates stood. The far right National Front stood John Harrison-Broadley, a former Royal Air Force Squadron Leader and bobsleigh champion, while the Maoist Communist Party of England (Marxist-Leninist) stood Carole Reakes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095694-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Hove by-election, Results\nSainsbury held the seat for the Conservatives, although the party now gained less than half of the votes cast. This was largely due to a strong result for Wilson, who took the Liberals into second place, while the Labour vote fell sharply; Labour in fact lost their deposit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095694-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Hove by-election, Results\nSainsbury held the seat until he stood down at the 1997 general election. Wilson became the Vice Chair of the Liberal Party, and later the Campaign Director for the Liberal Democrats at the 1992 general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095695-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Humboldt State Lumberjacks football team\nThe 1973 Humboldt State Lumberjacks football team represented Humboldt State University during the 1973 NCAA Division II football season. Humboldt State competed in the Far Western Conference (FWC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095695-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Humboldt State Lumberjacks football team\nThe 1973 Lumberjacks were led by eighth-year head coach Bud Van Deren. They played home games at the Redwood Bowl in Arcata, California. Humboldt State finished with a record of two wins, six losses and two ties (2\u20136\u20132, 1\u20134 FWC). The Lumberjacks were outscored by their opponents 123\u2013212 for the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095695-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Humboldt State Lumberjacks football team, Team players in the NFL\nThe following Humboldt State players were selected in the 1974 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 70], "content_span": [71, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095695-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Humboldt State Lumberjacks football team, Team players in the NFL\nThe following finished their college career in 1973, were not drafted, but played in the NFL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 70], "content_span": [71, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095696-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 IAAF World Cross Country Championships\nThe 1973 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held in Waregem, Belgium, at the Hippodroom Waregem on March 17, 1973. A report on the event was given in the Glasgow Herald.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095696-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 IAAF World Cross Country Championships\nComplete results for men, junior men, women, medallists, and the results of British athletes were published.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095696-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, Participation\nAn unofficial count yields the participation of 286 athletes from 21 countries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 58], "content_span": [59, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095697-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 IAAF World Cross Country Championships \u2013 Junior men's race\nThe Junior men's race at the 1973 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held in Waregem, Belgium, at the Hippodroom Waregem on March 17, 1973. A report on the event was given in the Glasgow Herald.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095697-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 IAAF World Cross Country Championships \u2013 Junior men's race\nComplete results, medallists, and the results of British athletes were published.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095697-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 IAAF World Cross Country Championships \u2013 Junior men's race, Participation\nAn unofficial count yields the participation of 55 athletes from 12 countries in the Junior men's race. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 78], "content_span": [79, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095698-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 IAAF World Cross Country Championships \u2013 Senior men's race\nThe Senior men's race at the 1973 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held in Waregem, Belgium, at the Hippodroom Waregem on March 17, 1973. A report on the event was given in the Glasgow Herald.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095698-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 IAAF World Cross Country Championships \u2013 Senior men's race\nComplete results, medallists, and the results of British athletes were published.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095698-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 IAAF World Cross Country Championships \u2013 Senior men's race, Participation\nAn unofficial count yields the participation of 156 athletes from 19 countries in the Senior men's race, one athlete less than the official number published.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [65, 78], "content_span": [79, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095699-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 IAAF World Cross Country Championships \u2013 Senior women's race\nThe Senior women's race at the 1973 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held in Waregem, Belgium, at the Hippodroom Waregem on March 17, 1973. A report on the event was given in the Glasgow Herald.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095699-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 IAAF World Cross Country Championships \u2013 Senior women's race\nComplete results, medallists, and the results of British athletes were published.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [65, 65], "content_span": [66, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095699-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 IAAF World Cross Country Championships \u2013 Senior women's race, Participation\nAn unofficial count yields the participation of 75 athletes from 16 countries in the Senior women's race. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 65], "section_span": [67, 80], "content_span": [81, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095700-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 IAAF World Race Walking Cup\nThe 1973 IAAF World Race Walking Cup was held in Lugano, Switzerland, on October 12\u201313, 1973. The event was also known as Lugano Trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095700-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 IAAF World Race Walking Cup, Results, Team\nThe team rankings, named Lugano Trophy, combined the 20km and 50km events team results.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095700-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 IAAF World Race Walking Cup, Participation\nThe participation of 68 athletes from 9 countries is reported.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095700-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 IAAF World Race Walking Cup, Qualifying Rounds\nFrom 1961 to 1985 there were qualifying rounds with the first two winners proceeding to the final. This year, the German Democratic Republic, the Soviet Union, the Federal Republic of Germany, the United States, and Canada proceeded directly to the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 51], "content_span": [52, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095701-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships\nThe 1973 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships were held in Muotathal, Switzerland under the auspices of International Canoe Federation. It was the 13th edition. A record nine nations won medals at the championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095702-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships\nThe 1973 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships were held in Tampere, Finland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095702-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships\nThe men's competition consisted of six Canadian (single paddle, open boat) and nine kayak events. Three events were held for the women, all in kayak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095703-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 IIHF European U19 Championship\nThe 1973 IIHF European U19 Championship was the sixth playing of the IIHF European Junior Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095704-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 IMSA GT Championship\nThe 1973 Camel GT season was the 3rd season of the IMSA GT Championship auto racing series. It was for Grand Tourer-style racing cars which ran in the GTO and GTU classes, as well as former Trans Am Series cars in the TO and TU classes. It began March 24, 1973, and ended November 25, 1973, after ten rounds. This year marked the decline of Trans Am and the beginning of it and IMSA GT becoming nigh indistinguishable.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095704-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 IMSA GT Championship, Schedule\nSome events were run twice, with each running counting as one round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095705-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 IX FIBA International Christmas Tournament\nThe 1973 IX FIBA International Christmas Tournament \"Trofeo Raimundo Saporta\" was the 9th edition of the FIBA International Christmas Tournament. It took place at Sports City of Real Madrid Pavilion, Madrid, Spain, on 24, 25 and 26 December 1973 with the participations of Real Madrid (champions of the 1972\u201373 Liga Espa\u00f1ola de Baloncesto), Puerto Rico, Juventud Schweppes (semifinalists of the 1972\u201373 FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup) and Obras Sanitarias.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095706-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Ice Hockey World Championships\nThe 1973 Ice Hockey World Championships were the 40th Ice Hockey World Championships and the 51st European Championships of ice hockey. The tournament took place in the Soviet Union from 31 March to 15 April and the games were played at the Palace of Sports of the Central Lenin Stadium in Moscow.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095706-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Ice Hockey World Championships\nSix teams took part in the main tournament, with each team playing each other twice. The Soviet Union took back their world title and became World Champions for the twelfth time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095706-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Ice Hockey World Championships, World Championship Group B (Austria)\nPlayed in Graz, 22 to 31 March. The Austrian team was coached by Father David Bauer who had established the Canada men's national ice hockey team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 73], "content_span": [74, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095706-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Ice Hockey World Championships, World Championship Group B (Austria)\nEast Germany was promoted to Group A, both Switzerland and Italy were relegated to group C. Rating Austria, Japan and Switzerland against each other head to head, they each had two points, Austria had a goal differential of +2, Japan +1, and Switzerland -3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 73], "content_span": [74, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095706-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Ice Hockey World Championships, World Championship Group C (Netherlands)\nPlayed in Geleen, Rotterdam, Nijmegen, Utrecht, Tilburg and The Hague, from 9 to 18 March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 77], "content_span": [78, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095706-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Ice Hockey World Championships, Ranking and statistics, European championships final standings\nThe final standings of the European championships according to IIHF:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 99], "content_span": [100, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095707-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Icelandic Cup\nThe 1973 Icelandic Cup was the 14th edition of the National Football Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095707-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Icelandic Cup\nIt took place between 13 June 1973 and 13 September 1973, with the final played at Laugardalsv\u00f6llur in Reykjavik. The cup was important, as winners qualified for the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup (if a club won both the league and the cup, the defeated finalists would take their place in the Cup Winners' Cup).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095707-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Icelandic Cup\nClubs from the 1. Deild entered in the last 16, with clubs from lower tiers entering in the three preliminary rounds. Teams played one-legged matches. In case of a draw, the match was replayed at the opposition's ground.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095707-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Icelandic Cup\nFram Reykjavik won their second Icelandic Cup, beating \u00cdBK Keflav\u00edk in the final. The club therefore qualified for Europe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095708-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Idaho Vandals football team\nThe 1973 Idaho Vandals football team represented the University of Idaho in the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. The Vandals were led by fourth-year head coach Don Robbins and were members of the Big Sky Conference, then in Division II. They played their home games at new Idaho Stadium, an unlit outdoor facility on campus in Moscow, Idaho.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095708-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Idaho Vandals football team, Season\nWith quarterbacks Rick Seefried, Dave Comstock, and Dennis Ballock running the veer offense, the Vandals were 4\u20137 overall and 3\u20132 in the Big Sky.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 40], "content_span": [41, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095708-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Idaho Vandals football team, Season\nIn the Battle of the Palouse, Idaho suffered a sixth straight loss to neighbor Washington State of the Pac-8, falling 51\u201324 at Martin Stadium in Pullman on September 29.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 40], "content_span": [41, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095708-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Idaho Vandals football team, Season\nIn their third game with new rival Boise State and first in Moscow, the Vandals fell at home 47\u201324 on September 15; this was the only outdoor meeting in Moscow in the series. The Broncos went on to win the first of three consecutive conference championships. Idaho did not schedule Northern Arizona until 1975 and both played only five games in conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 40], "content_span": [41, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095708-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Idaho Vandals football team, Season\nAt the conclusion of the season, Robbins' contract was not renewed. He was succeeded by Ed Troxel, a Vandal assistant coach since 1967 and also the head coach of the track team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 40], "content_span": [41, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095708-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Idaho Vandals football team, Division I\nThrough 1977, the Big Sky was a Division II conference for football, except for Division I member Idaho, which moved down to I-AA in 1978. Idaho maintained its upper division status in the NCAA by playing Division I non-conference opponents (and was ineligible for the Division II postseason).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095708-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Idaho Vandals football team, All-conference\nFour Vandals were selected to the Big Sky all-conference team: tight end Bill Kashetta, defensive tackle Lloyd Grimsrud, cornerback Randy Hall and safety Bucky Bruns. Three were named to the second team (honorable mention): running back Mark Fredback, wide receiver Tim Coles, and offensive tackle Bob Van Duyne.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095708-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Idaho Vandals football team, NFL Draft\nTwo Vandal seniors were selected in the 1974 NFL Draft, which lasted seventeen rounds (442 selections).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095709-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Illinois Fighting Illini football team\nThe 1973 Illinois Fighting Illini football team was an American football team that represented the University of Illinois in the 1973 Big Ten Conference football season. In their third year under head coach Bob Blackman, the Illini compiled a 5\u20136 record and finished in a four-way tie for fourth place in the Big Ten Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095709-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Illinois Fighting Illini football team\nThe team's offensive leaders were quarterback Jeff Hollenbach with 916 passing yards, running back George Uremovich with 519 rushing yards, and wide receiver Garvin Roberson with 416 receiving yards. Halfback Eddie Jenkins and defensive end Octavus Morgan were selected as the team's most valuable players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095710-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Indian Open\nThe 1973 Indian Open was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts in New Delhi, India. It was the inaugural edition of the event and was held from 15 October through 20 October 1973. The tournament was part of the Group B tier of the Grand Prix tennis circuit. Vijay Amritraj won the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095710-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Indian Open, Finals, Singles\nVijay Amritraj defeated Mal Anderson 6\u20134, 5\u20137, 8\u20139, 6\u20133, 11\u20139", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 33], "content_span": [34, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095710-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Indian Open, Finals, Doubles\nJim McManus / Ra\u00fal Ram\u00edrez defeated Anand Amritraj / Vijay Amritraj 6\u20132, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 33], "content_span": [34, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095711-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Indian Rajya Sabha elections\nRajya Sabha elections were held on various dates in 1973, to elect members of the Rajya Sabha, Indian Parliament's upper chamber.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095711-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Indian Rajya Sabha elections, Elections, Members elected\nThe following members are elected in the elections held in 1973. They are members for the term 1973-1979 and retire in year 1979, except in case of the resignation or death before the term. The list is incomplete.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 61], "content_span": [62, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095711-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Indian Rajya Sabha elections, Bye-elections\nThe following bye elections were held in the year 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095712-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Indiana Hoosiers football team\nThe 1973 Indiana Hoosiers football team represented the Indiana Hoosiers in the 1973 Big Ten Conference football season. The Hoosiers played their home games at Memorial Stadium in Bloomington, Indiana. The team was coached by Lee Corso, in his first year as head coach of the Hoosiers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500\nThe 57th 500 Mile International Sweepstakes was held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana, on Wednesday, May 30, 1973. The race was held over three days due to rain and suffered two major accidents. Three competitors - two drivers and one pit crew member - died during the month as a result of accidents, and another driver was critically injured. After 133 laps (332+1\u20442\u00a0mi (535.1\u00a0km)), rain halted the race, and Gordon Johncock was declared the winner, the first of his two Indy triumphs (1973, 1982).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500\nGoing into the month, the mood was bright and excitement was high for record speeds. Competitors, media, and fans were eagerly anticipating the possibility of breaking the elusive and daunting 200\u00a0mph (321.9\u00a0km/h) barrier during time trials. The month took a tragic turn, however, when driver Art Pollard died in a crash during a practice session on May 12, 1973. Later that same day, Johnny Rutherford set a new track record during time trials. His best lap at 199.071\u00a0mph (320.4\u00a0km/h) fell just short of breaking the highly sought-after speed barrier. Despite Rutherford's headlines on pole day, the mood meanwhile around the garage area was becoming anxious and uncertain. Fears were growing about rising speeds and safety. Inclement weather was also interfering.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 788]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500\nThe race was scheduled for Monday May 28, but was aborted due to a major accident at the start. Driver David \"Salt\" Walther was critically injured and numerous spectators in the track boxes and first few rows of the Paddock grandstands with burns, required hospitalization, some in critical condition; with the blast of heat felt as much as 100 yards away. Although it doesn't show up on the TV broadcasts and films, the fireball actually was a somewhat bluish flame, from eyewitness accounts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0002-0001", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500\nAlso, rain mercifully washed out the day during the red flag period, as two vertical stanchions of the outside catchfence were broken and needed to be repaired before any racing could resume. Rain also washed out any chance to hold the race on Tuesday May 29 as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0002-0002", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500\nOnly a fraction of the typical Indy crowd arrived to watch the race by the time it was run on Wednesday May 30; and in fact since schools were closed in Speedway and within a few miles around west Indianapolis due to traffic, many hundreds of schoolkids and parents were bussed in to fill the grandstands for free.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500\nThe Wednesday race suffered two separate fatal accidents. The first involved driver David \"Swede\" Savage; the second, Graham McRae pit crew member Armando Teran, STP teammate to Savage when he stepped out into the pit lane and was hit by a safety truck going in the wrong direction. Both occurred at lap 59 of the race. Owing to the tragic circumstances, relentless weather problems, rain-shortened finish, and overall glum mood during the month, the 1973 race is widely considered the worst year for the running of the Indianapolis 500. In contemporary accounts, the race had been called \"jinxed\" by Dan Gurney, Chris Economaki, and Jim McKay. Statistically, it was the track's deadliest month of May since 1937. Even almost a half-century later, .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 771]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500\nNational media opinions, as well as those from team owners and crew, were highly critical in the aftermath of the race, focusing namely on inadequate safety measures. The circumstances led to sweeping rule changes by USAC, some made effective for the Domino's Pizza 500 at Pocono Raceway four weeks later. Numerous safety improvements were made to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway track itself that were completed for 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500\nOff the track, the Speedway had completed construction of its first VIP Suites outside of turn two. Following in the footsteps of Ontario Motor Speedway, Indianapolis becomes the second major racing facility to feature luxury boxes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Race schedule\nIn 1971, the Uniform Monday Holiday Act took effect, moving Memorial Day from the fixed date of May 30 to the final Monday in May. For 1971 and 1972, the race was held on the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend. The Speedway still maintained a policy of not racing on Sunday, and for 1973, the race was scheduled for the Monday Memorial Day holiday itself. The change was made after requests from spectators, many complaining that it was inconvenient to the many people who had to work on Saturdays.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Race schedule\nThe 500 Festival Committee had a desire to move their annual parade downtown to Saturday afternoon. Previously it had been held at night during the week. For 1973, the parade was held Saturday, the public driver's meeting was scheduled for Sunday, and the race was scheduled for Monday. A decision was made that starting in 1974, the race would ultimately move to Sunday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Race schedule\n* Includes days where trackactivity was significantlylimited due to rain", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Practice and time trials, Practice\nJust one year prior, USAC began allowing bolt-on wings. The increased downforce increased lap speeds nearly 30\u00a0mph (48\u00a0km/h) in just three years. The dramatic rise went from 170\u00a0mph (274\u00a0km/h) in 1970, to flirting with the 200\u00a0mph (320\u00a0km/h) barrier for 1973. During Goodyear tire tests in late March, Gordon Johncock set an unofficial track record of 199.4\u00a0mph (320.9\u00a0km/h). Experts and officials agree that the safety features in the cars were not prepared for the speeds attained.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 57], "content_span": [58, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0009-0001", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Practice and time trials, Practice\nIn addition, engine development with the turbocharged version of the venerable I-4 Offenhauser had resulted in horsepower readings in high-boost qualifying trim in excess of 1,100\u00a0hp (820\u00a0kW). According to Mario Andretti, this was sufficient to induce rear wheelspin on the 1\u20448\u00a0mi (200\u00a0m) \"short chutes\" between turns 1 and 2 and turns 3 and 4\u2014an unnerving sensation for even the bravest, most skilled and experienced of drivers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 57], "content_span": [58, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Practice and time trials, Practice\nThe track opened on Saturday April 28 with Gary Bettenhausen earning the honor of first driver on the track. Rain and winds plagued practice during the first week, while drivers started creeping up the speed chart. On Monday April 30, chief steward Harlan Fengler lifted the 180\u00a0mph (290\u00a0km/h) speed limit and speeds climbed quickly. Gordon Johncock set an unofficial lap of over 190\u00a0mph (310\u00a0km/h) to set the early pace. Johnny Rutherford was another member of the \"190\u00a0mph club\" with several laps in the mid-190\u00a0mph range. On May 5, Swede Savage upped the speed chart to 197.802\u00a0mph (318.331\u00a0km/h), inching closer to the elusive 200\u00a0mph (320\u00a0km/h) mark.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 57], "content_span": [58, 713]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Practice and time trials, Practice\nOn Sunday May 6, three drivers left the grounds to race in the NASCAR Winston 500 at Talladega. A huge crash, described as the worst crash in the history of NASCAR, put Bobby Allison and Gordon Johncock out of that race. Dick Simon, however, escaped the incident, with Simon coming home 7th. All three returned to qualify at Indy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 57], "content_span": [58, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0012-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Practice and time trials, Practice\nRain and high winds kept speeds down in the second week of practice. Mario Andretti turned a lap of 192.967\u00a0mph (310.550\u00a0km/h) on Thursday May 10. The final day of practice before pole day was Friday May 11. From April 28\u2014May 11, there were only three accidents reported in practice that involved wall contact, none of which caused serious injuries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 57], "content_span": [58, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0013-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Practice and time trials, Practice\nBy the eve of pole day, no drivers had eclipsed the 200\u00a0mph (320\u00a0km/h) barrier according to published reports, but conditions were favorable for pole day, and anticipation was high.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 57], "content_span": [58, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0014-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Practice and time trials, Pole Day \u2013 Saturday May 12 \u2013 Death of Art Pollard\nPole day dawned sunny with high temperatures in the 70\u00a0\u00b0F (21\u00a0\u00b0C). Brief showers caused officials to turn on the yellow light a few times during the day, but they did not significantly affect the proceedings. An enormous crowd estimated at 250,000 arrived, anticipating the first ever 200\u00a0mph lap at Indy. Practice opened promptly at 9:00\u00a0a.m., but was quickly marred by the crash of Art Pollard. At 9:37\u00a0a.m., Pollard hit the outside wall in turn 1, spun to the inside, then flipped over, coming to a rest in turn two with flames and heavy damage. Pollard's injuries were reported to include pulmonary damage due to flame inhalation, third degree burns on both hands, face and neck, a fractured right arm, a fractured leg, and a severe spinal injury. He was pronounced dead at Methodist Hospital approximately one hour and three minutes after the crash.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 98], "content_span": [99, 953]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0015-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Practice and time trials, Pole Day \u2013 Saturday May 12 \u2013 Death of Art Pollard\nDespite the crash, time trials began on time at 11 a.m. Peter Revson was the first driver in the field, with a fast run of 192.606\u00a0mph (309.969\u00a0km/h). The next car out, Gary Bettenhausen, upped the mark to 195.599\u00a0mph (314.786\u00a0km/h), just short of the existing track record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 98], "content_span": [99, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0016-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Practice and time trials, Pole Day \u2013 Saturday May 12 \u2013 Death of Art Pollard\nAt 12:29\u00a0p.m., Swede Savage took to the track, and was the first to set records. His first lap of 197.152\u00a0mph (317.285\u00a0km/h) set a one-lap record, and his four-lap speed of 196.582\u00a0mph (316.368\u00a0km/h) was also a record. The result put him tentatively on the pole.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 98], "content_span": [99, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0017-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Practice and time trials, Pole Day \u2013 Saturday May 12 \u2013 Death of Art Pollard\nAt 1:37\u00a0p.m., Johnny Rutherford took to the track, and electrified the crowd into a frenzy. His third lap of 199.071\u00a0mph (320.374\u00a0km/h) was just 0.21 seconds shy of the elusive 200\u00a0mph (320\u00a0km/h) barrier. his four-lap average of 198.413\u00a0mph (319.315\u00a0km/h) secured the pole position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 98], "content_span": [99, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0018-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Practice and time trials, Pole Day \u2013 Saturday May 12 \u2013 Death of Art Pollard\nDefending race winner Mark Donohue squeezed onto the front row with a run of 197.413\u00a0mph (317.705\u00a0km/h). In the final hour, Bobby Unser was the last driver of the day with a shot at history. He came close to Rutherford, but his four-lap average of 198.183\u00a0mph (318.945\u00a0km/h) was good enough only for second starting position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 98], "content_span": [99, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0019-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Practice and time trials, Pole Day \u2013 Saturday May 12 \u2013 Death of Art Pollard\nAt the end of the day, the field was filled to 24 cars. A. J. Foyt (188.927\u00a0mph\u00a0[304.049\u00a0km/h]) and Sam Posey (187.921\u00a0mph\u00a0[302.430\u00a0km/h]) were the two slowest. Foyt, who was over 192\u00a0mph (309\u00a0km/h) during the week, waved off once, and had to settle for a slow run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 98], "content_span": [99, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0020-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Practice and time trials, Second day \u2013 Sunday May 13\nA fairly busy second day of time trials saw six cars added to the field without incident. John Martin (194.384\u00a0mph\u00a0[312.831\u00a0km/h]) was the fastest of the day. Posey and Foyt were still the two slowest cars in the field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 75], "content_span": [76, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0021-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Practice and time trials, Third Day \u2013 Saturday May 19\nRain kept cars off the track for most of the day. Lightning, hail, and a tornado warning, emptied the grandstands at 3 p.m. In the final ten minutes, two cars (Tom Bigelow and Sammy Sessions) made it out on the track for qualifying attempts, but neither were successful. Bigelow spun on his warm up lap, and Sessions waved off.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 76], "content_span": [77, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0022-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Practice and time trials, Bump Day \u2013 Sunday May 20\nWith three spots left open in the field, the final day of time trials was expected to be busy, but saw only moderate action. Sammy Sessions was the first car out, and completed his run, slightly slower than his run a day earlier. After a down period in the mid-afternoon, the field was filled to 33 cars at 5:37\u00a0p.m. Tom Bigelow was on the bubble.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 73], "content_span": [74, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0023-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Practice and time trials, Bump Day \u2013 Sunday May 20\nWith 15 minutes left in the day. Jim McElreath bumped out Tom Bigelow. Sam Posey was now on the bubble. Next out was Jim Hurtubise, but he was 4\u00a0mph (6.4\u00a0km/h) too slow. With one minute left before the 6 o'clock gun, George Snider got in a Foyt backup car. A fast run of 190.355\u00a0mph (306.347\u00a0km/h) bumped Posey, and the field was set.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 73], "content_span": [74, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0024-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Rain delay, Monday May 28 \u2013 Salt Walther crash\nOn race day, a crowd estimated at 350,000 waited as morning rain delayed the proceedings for four hours and four minutes from its original scheduled time of 11:00\u00a0a.m. Tony Hulman gave the command to start engines just after 3:00\u00a0p.m., and the field pulled away for the pace laps. Bob Harkey's car did not fire, and his crew wheeled the car back to the pits. It was discovered earlier in the day that the engine had failed, and rather than withdraw (and give their starting spot to Tom Bigelow, the first alternate), the crew gridded the car as normal. They worked on the car briefly to give the impression that the engine failed when the starting command was given.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 69], "content_span": [70, 736]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0025-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Rain delay, Monday May 28 \u2013 Salt Walther crash\nAt the start, race starter Pat Vidan erroneously threw the green flag a lap early, triggering an 11-car accident on the main stretch approximately 200 yards past the start/finish line, which halted the race immediately. As the green flag fell, Steve Krisiloff's car developed ignition problems and slowed on the front straightaway, falling back to parallel with the fifth row by the time he crossed the start/finish line. This caused the rest of the field behind Krisiloff to shuffle towards the outside to avoid the slowing car.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 69], "content_span": [70, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0025-0001", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Rain delay, Monday May 28 \u2013 Salt Walther crash\nSeconds later in the sixth row, just past the start/finish line, Salt Walther tangled wheels with Jerry Grant, climbed over Grant's left-front wheel, overturned in the air and slammed into the catch fence. The car cut a 70\u00a0ft (21\u00a0m) chunk out of the fence on impact, breaking two 4 inch steel stanchions before being thrown back onto the track by the reinforcing cables positioned behind the fence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 69], "content_span": [70, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0025-0002", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Rain delay, Monday May 28 \u2013 Salt Walther crash\nThe impact ripped open Walther's both fuel tanks, sending 75 gallons of flaming methanol into the grandstand in a massive pale blue fireball (not apparent on TV or film footage) and dousing many spectators; with the blast of heat felt at least 100 yards away in the Paddock grandstand and Track Boxes, per eyewitness accounts. Eleven grandstand spectators were injured, and nine required hospitalization. As the front of Walther's car dug into the fence, the nose was also sheared off and Walther's legs were exposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 69], "content_span": [70, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0025-0003", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Rain delay, Monday May 28 \u2013 Salt Walther crash\nThe car landed back on the racing surface upside-down, and spun wildly down the main stretch, spraying burning fuel in all directions. The spinning car was hit by at least two other cars, and a total of at least ten other cars became involved in the crash, including: Wally Dallenbach, Mike Hiss, Lee Kunzman, John Martin, David Hobbs, Mike Mosley, Jim McElreath and Dick Simon. Several cars were damaged extensively, and debris and burning fuel now littered the track. Kunzman later recalled that he thought he had been blinded by hitting the burning fuel until his car stopped and he flipped up his visor, as the intense heat had crinkled it so severely, he could not see where he was going.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 69], "content_span": [70, 763]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0026-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Rain delay, Monday May 28 \u2013 Salt Walther crash\nWalther's car came to rest upside-down near the pit exit. Walther suffered severe burns and injuries to his hands. Meanwhile, Bobby Unser had grabbed the race lead going into turn one, ahead of pole-sitter Johnny Rutherford. The race was immediately red-flagged, and the start was negated. The cars that had avoided the wreck parked at the head of the front stretch, and were eventually wheeled back to the pits. Safety crews attended to the crash scene, aided injured spectators, and also started repairing the catch fence and stanchions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 69], "content_span": [70, 609]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0026-0001", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Rain delay, Monday May 28 \u2013 Salt Walther crash\nThe other drivers involved in the crash suffered only minor injuries (one report listed John Martin, Mike Hiss and Lee Kunzman as being treated for minor injuries at the track field hospital and released); Walther was transported to Methodist Hospital and remained hospitalized for months thereafter. Before all the cleanup and the repairs to the catchfence and two broken stanchions completed, rain mercifully began to fall again. The rest of the day was washed out, and officials rescheduled the start for 9:00\u00a0a.m. Tuesday, causing the crowd to gasp when PA announcer Tom Carnegie announced the earlier start time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 69], "content_span": [70, 687]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0027-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Rain delay, Tuesday May 29\nOn Tuesday May 29, the scheduled start time of the race was 9:00\u00a0a.m. At dawn, the skies were reported as clear, but soon after, rain fell in the morning hours, delaying any attempt to start until 10:15\u00a0a.m. Attendance was visibly down from Monday and estimated at approximately 175,000\u2013200,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 49], "content_span": [50, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0028-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Rain delay, Tuesday May 29\nOfficials announced that the race would restart from scratch, and the single lap driven by some of the cars on Monday would not count in the scoring. Cars were gridded in their original starting positions, without Walther, who was credited with 33rd place. All cars involved in Monday's crash were allowed to make repairs, and Bob Harkey's team installed a new engine. Therefore, Tuesday's race start had 32 of the 33 race entrants ready.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 49], "content_span": [50, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0029-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Rain delay, Tuesday May 29\nA heated pre-race meeting was held with the drivers and officials, and the subject of the crash and the speed of the pace car at the start was the focus. Drivers were complaining that the pace of the start (80\u00a0mph (130\u00a0km/h)) was too slow, and pointed to the ragged start of 1972 as well as reason to increase the pace car speed to 100\u00a0mph (160\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 49], "content_span": [50, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0030-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Rain delay, Tuesday May 29\nThe command to fire engines was given a shortly after 10 o'clock, and the field of 32 pulled away for the warm-up laps. On the second parade lap, a light rain began to fall, and the track was red-flagged. The cars were halted on the main stretch to wait out the shower. Rain continued to fall most of the day. Many fans headed for the exits, and crews wheeled the cars back to the garage area yet again. During the delay, a pick-up soccer game broke out on the pit lane. At 1:48\u00a0p.m., the race was postponed until Wednesday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 49], "content_span": [50, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0031-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Rain delay, Wednesday May 30\nOn Wednesday, morning rain threatened to wash out the race for an unprecedented third day in a row. The start time was once again slated for 9:00\u00a0a.m., but again the participants and spectators had to wait. Estimates put the Wednesday attendance as low as 20,000, 35,000, or 50\u201360,000, and rain check tickets were no longer asked for at the gate. However, at least one estimate put the total attendance at 125,000 once the race got going.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0031-0001", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Rain delay, Wednesday May 30\nIn addition since schools were closed on the west side of Indianapolis and in the town of Speedway due to traffic jams, school busloads of kids and parents were offered free rides to the Speedway to help fill the grandstands. After over two days of rainy revelry, the infield was overwhelmed with mud and garbage. Uncharacteristic of the normally well\u2013groomed Speedway, the grandstands and bathrooms were littered with trash, walkways and grass parking lots were flooded. The infamous Snake Pit was described as a \"bog.\" The health department overseeing the race even threatened to keep the race from running at all if it was rained out again on Wednesday, due to the deteriorating conditions of the infield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 760]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0032-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Rain delay, Wednesday May 30\nThe mood around the garage area was glum. Crews were exhausted, and drivers were apprehensive. It was now the longest rain delay in Indy 500 history to-date. Johnny Rutherford later quipped that if a poll had been taken around the garage area, the consensus would have been to leave and move on to the next race, The Rex Mays 150, at The Milwaukee Mile. Media had already nicknamed the race the \"72 Hours of Indianapolis\", a play on the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The cars had sat mostly idle for the past nine days (except for the traditional Carburetion Day practice), raising separate concerns about potential mechanical and handling problems.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 692]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0033-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Rain delay, Wednesday May 30\nThe delays at Indianapolis were beginning to have cascade effects on the schedule. Owing to the delay, USAC elected to postpone the next race of the season, The Rex Mays 150, at The Milwaukee Mile from June 3 to June 10.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0034-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Rain delay, Wednesday May 30\nAround midday, the sun finally came out for a few hours, and the track surface dried enough for a race start at 2:10\u00a0p.m.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0035-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Race running, Start\nOn the pace lap, the car of David Hobbs' Penske McLaren Offy began smoking heavily. He pitted, and later rejoined the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 42], "content_span": [43, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0036-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Race running, Start\nThe first 58 laps were run with only two brief cautions, for minor incidents. However, there was considerable attrition. Bobby Unser took the lead at the start, and led the first 39 laps. Bobby Allison blew his engine at the completion of the first lap, Peter Revson brushed the wall in turn four on lap 3, and Mario Andretti broke a piston on lap 4, driving for Parnelli Jones's no. 11 car.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 42], "content_span": [43, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0037-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Race running, Start\nThe first yellow light came out on lap 17 when Bob Harkey's engine seized. It spilled oil, causing him to spin out and stall on the backstretch. 1972 winner Mark Donohue' #66 Penske McLaren Offy was the only one of the leaders that chose to pit during the yellow. Bobby Unser continued to lead, with Gordon Johncock running second, and Johnny Rutherford third. A. J. Foyt coasted to a stop in the pits after 37 laps with a broken rod bolt. Bobby Unser made his first pit stop on lap 40, briefly handing the lead to Johncock. Unser's pit stop dragged on for almost 45 seconds, and Swede Savage took over third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 42], "content_span": [43, 652]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0038-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Race running, Start\nJohncock led laps 40\u201342, then made a pit stop. The lead was assumed by Swede Savage on lap 43, with Al Unser now second. Joe Leonard brought out the yellow for two minutes when he spun on lap 45 in the north chute between turns 3 and 4. Savage and Al Unser battled closely for several laps, with the lapped car of Roger McCluskey also in the mix. Unser was able to get by McCluskey on the backstretch on lap 53. He then made a slingshot pass around Savage for the lead going into turn one on lap 54.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 42], "content_span": [43, 542]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0039-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Race running, Start\nOn lap 55, Johnny Rutherford was given the black flag and went to the pits to check for leaking fluid. At the same time, Mark Donohue's car slowed and he went to the pits (and later dropped out) with a bad piston in what was his final 500.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 42], "content_span": [43, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0040-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Race running, Start\nBy lap 57, only 22 cars of the starting field of 33 were on track.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 42], "content_span": [43, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0041-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Race running, Swede Savage crash and death of Armando Teran\nOn the 57th lap, Swede Savage made a pit stop. His car was filled with 70\u00a0US\u00a0gal (260\u00a0L) of methanol and fitted with a new right rear tire. On lap 59, Savage was in 2nd place, a few seconds behind race leader Al Unser. As Unser committed to a lap 59 pit stop ahead of him, Savage lost control of his car as he exited turn four. The car twitched back and forth, and then slid across to the inside of the track at nearly top speed. It hit the angled inside wall nearly head-on.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 82], "content_span": [83, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0041-0001", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Race running, Swede Savage crash and death of Armando Teran\nThe force of the impact, with the car carrying a full load of fuel in both tanks, caused the car to explode in a plume of flame. The force of the fuel exploding was so great that some structural rivets were blown rearward out of the car. The engine and transaxle tumbled end-over-end to the pit lane entrance while Savage, still strapped in his seat, was thrown back across the circuit. Savage came to rest adjacent to the outer retaining wall, fully conscious and completely exposed while he sat in a pool of flaming methanol fuel. The other cars on the track quickly stopped in turn four, as the track was completely blocked with debris and fire. A red flag stopped the race at 3:05\u00a0p.m..", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 82], "content_span": [83, 773]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0042-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Race running, Swede Savage crash and death of Armando Teran\nTrack and safety crews immediately descended onto the crash scene to aid Savage. One fire truck, driven by fire/safety truck driver Jerry Flake, was signaled to head to the scene by Cleon Reynolds, the Chief of the Speedway Fire Department. Flake was stationed at the south end of the pits, and had to traverse the pit lane 'against traffic' to reach the Savage crash as quickly as possible.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 82], "content_span": [83, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0042-0001", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Race running, Swede Savage crash and death of Armando Teran\nDriving a safety vehicle against the flow of racing and pit traffic was permissible in the USAC safety rules of 1973, and Reynolds' hand signal to Flake specifically instructed him to do exactly this. Flake reported \"laying on the horn\" and slow progress through the pit lane as people were in the way.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 82], "content_span": [83, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0043-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Race running, Swede Savage crash and death of Armando Teran\nAs Flake began speeding toward Savage's crash via the pit lane, numerous pit crew members from several teams moved to cross pit lane, toward the grass infield at trackside. Among those who did was George Bignotti, chief mechanic for Gordon Johncock, and 22-year-old Armando Teran, pit board man for Graham McRae. \"I had just crossed the lane\", Bignotti begins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 82], "content_span": [83, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0043-0001", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Race running, Swede Savage crash and death of Armando Teran\nFlake, driving northbound in pit lane at high speed, describes what he saw: \"All of a sudden things cleared up on the pit road and I had a clear shot all the way up to Savage's car which I could see burning. Then out of nowhere, a guy was in front of me...\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 82], "content_span": [83, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0044-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Race running, Swede Savage crash and death of Armando Teran\nFlake's truck struck Teran, his body tossed about 50\u00a0ft (15\u00a0m), an impact violent enough to knock him out of his shoes. As Bignotti relays it, \"I heard the car coming, and \u2014 whap \u2014 it hit him\". The incident was easily seen by thousands of spectators, as it occurred on the pit lane at the start/finish line. Teran suffered crushed ribs and a broken skull, and although he lived through the initial impact, he died shortly afterward after being transported to Methodist Hospital.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 82], "content_span": [83, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0045-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Race running, Swede Savage crash and death of Armando Teran\nIt was erroneously reported by media that Flake was at fault in the Teran collision because of driving against racing traffic; in 1973, safety trucks were permitted by USAC to drive in the opposite direction of the racing cars as Flake had done. The following year, USAC specifically prohibited safety trucks from driving in the opposite direction. For Teran's part, there was no rule forbidding him from leaving the pit wall, as a team's pit board, or \"chalkboard\" man, either. [ WARNING: There are several gruesome YouTube videos showing Teran tumbling and the massive dent in the front of the safety truck.]", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 82], "content_span": [83, 693]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0046-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Race running, Finish\nSavage was taken to the hospital with third degree burns and flame inhalation, but was in stable condition. One hour and eleven minutes after the accident, the debris was cleaned up, and the race was resumed. After witnessing the Savage crash, a disconsolate George Snider decided to climb out of his car for the day, and turned it over to A. J. Foyt, his car owner. Foyt himself had already dropped out on lap 37, and was standing by in case he was needed for relief.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 43], "content_span": [44, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0047-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Race running, Finish\nThe race restarted with Al Unser leading, and attrition continued to take a toll on the field. On lap 73, Jimmy Caruthers blew his engine, and a connecting rod flew out, punctured, and violently blew his right front tire on the main stretch. He was able to maintain control of the car, and coasted around to the pit area. Al Unser's day ended with a blown engine on lap 75, and Gordon Johncock, another of Savage's Patrick Racing/STP teammates, assumed the lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 43], "content_span": [44, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0048-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Race running, Finish\nIn quick succession, seven cars dropped out between laps 91 and 101, including Bobby Unser, A. J. Foyt (in George Snider's car), and Dick Simon. The race finally reached the halfway point, and became official upon the completion of lap 101. By this time, only eleven cars were still running, just two on the lead lap. Gordon Johncock was leading and Bill Vukovich II had climbed all the way up to second position. Track officials began assembling victory lane, as dark skies were looming, evening was soon approaching, and they did not expect the race to go the full distance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 43], "content_span": [44, 620]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0049-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Race running, Finish\nJerry Karl, after about two hours of repairs in the pits, rejoined the race running over 100 laps down. He was able to move up to 26th place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 43], "content_span": [44, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0050-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Race running, Finish\nOn the 129th lap a light rain began to fall, and the yellow light came on with Gordon Johncock leading. Only eleven cars were still on the track. After 133 laps, at about 5:30\u00a0p.m., the rain started to fall much harder, forcing the race to be stopped by red flag. Although officials had not yet decided to call the race, it was obvious to most teams that the race was over and Johncock's Patrick Racing crew began to celebrate, along with a post-race winner's interview with a mostly despondent co-owner Andy Granatelli. A short time later, officials declared the race complete, with Johncock the winner. Johncock led the most laps with a total of 64.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 43], "content_span": [44, 695]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0051-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Race running, Finish\nThe 1973 race was the shortest \"500\" on record at the time (332.5\u00a0mi\u00a0[535.1\u00a0km]), with the exception of the 1916 race, which was actually scheduled for 300\u00a0mi (480\u00a0km). Three years later, the 1976 race was halted at an even shorter distance of 255\u00a0mi (410\u00a0km), just past the halfway point when the race became official on lap 101.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 43], "content_span": [44, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0052-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Race running, Finish\nThe traditional victory banquet was canceled, and the victory celebration was fairly brief and muted. Johncock left the track soon after the race to visit Savage at the hospital, along with team owner Pat Patrick. Johncock and Patrick, and a few other crew members ended the day with a \"victory dinner\" which consisted of fast food hamburgers at the Burger Chef just east of the Speedway on Georgetown Road.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 43], "content_span": [44, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0053-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Aftermath\nThe race and its safety concerns caused immediate uproar among racing owners, crew, and track owners. Two days after the race, team owner Andy Granatelli (whose car, driven by Johncock, won the race), declared that he would withdraw from USAC racing in 1974 unless changes were made. On June 2, Dr. Joseph Mattioli, owner of Pocono International Raceway, was calling for USAC to make changes \"(restricting) speeds of the race car so that we can once again have auto races that are competitive, exciting, and relatively safe\" for the next 500-mile race on the USAC schedule in early July.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 620]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0054-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Aftermath\nUSAC acted quickly. On the evening of June 2, 1973, the weekend after the race, USAC held an unscheduled meeting, revising rules. The large rear wings used in 1972\u201373 were cut back in size from 64 to 55\u00a0in (160 to 140\u00a0cm), fuel tank capacity was drastically reduced from 75 to 40\u00a0US\u00a0gal (280 to 150\u00a0L) with the single tank mandated to be placed in the left sidepod, and the allowable fuel to be consumed in a 500-mile race was reduced from 375 to 340\u00a0US\u00a0gal (1,420 to 1,290\u00a0L).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0054-0001", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Aftermath\nThose changes were designed to slow the cars down. USAC also created a rule specifically disallowing the pit sign carrier from leaving his post as Teran did, for the duration of a race. (The pit signs have been replaced by two-way radio communication, and after 2013 were prohibited during the race.) All of these rule changes were effective as of the Domino's Pizza 500 at Pocono Raceway to be held on July 1, 1973. USAC also delayed the Rex Mays 150 race in Milwaukee one week, to June 9\u201310, because of the lengthy delay in running the Indianapolis 500 race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0055-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Aftermath\nOn July 2, 33 days after his on track injury, Swede Savage died in the hospital from complications arising from his injuries and treatment. The true cause of his death remains a point of dispute. It had been widely reported that Savage's death was caused kidney failure, while others have said that Savage died from lung failure due to flame inhalation. Dr. Steve Olvey, Savage's attending physician (and later CART's director of medical affairs), claimed in his book Rapid Response that the real cause of death was complications related to contaminated plasma.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0055-0001", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Aftermath\nOlvey claimed that Savage contracted hepatitis B from a transfusion, causing his liver to fail. According to Savage's father, the percentage of oxygen they were giving Swede just prior to his death, due to the damage to his lungs from the flames inhaled from the accident, was such that there was no way he could have survived, even if he had not contracted hepatitis B. Lung failure was repeated as the cause of death by Savage's daughter Angela in a May 2015 interview.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0056-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Aftermath\nAt the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, several safety changes were made for the 1974 race. The angled inside wall at the northwest corner of the track (which had also played a role in the Dave MacDonald/Eddie Sachs double-fatality in 1964) was removed, and the pit entrance was widened. Retaining walls were heightened and catch fences were improved around the track. A flag stand for the race starter and other officials was built over the outside wall of the track directly above the start-finish line (previously the starter was positioned down at the inside wall of the track itself).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 618]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0056-0001", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Aftermath\nIn addition, some spectator areas were moved back away from the track, and all of the rows of Track Box seats along the front stretch were removed. Starter Pat Vidan, who erroneously threw the green flag a lap early, was fired, and replaced by Shim Malone; and Chief Steward Harlan Fengler was also fired. There was not another on-track fatality at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway until 1982 in which Gordon Smiley died in qualifying. Gordon Johncock also won that race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0057-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Aftermath\nIn 1994 at the inaugural Brickyard 400 it was noted by many first time NASCAR stock car race attendees that the rule of safety vehicles going the wrong way was not a speedway rule, as unlike USAC across all series they sanction, NASCAR shamefully did not ban the practice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0058-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Aftermath\nAs of 2019, Savage's death in 1973 is the last fatality at the Speedway that occurred as a result of a crash during the race itself. It would not be until the death of Peter Lenz at the 2010 MotoGP race weekend that a fatality occurred during an actual race at the Speedway again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 32], "content_span": [33, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0059-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Broadcasting, Radio\nThe race was carried live on the IMS Radio Network. Sid Collins served as chief announcer and Fred Agabashian served as \"driver expert\", replacing Len Sutton. Fred Agabashian returned after a six-year absence. The race was held over three days, and the network covered activities live on all three days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 42], "content_span": [43, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0060-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Broadcasting, Radio\nThis would be Mike Ahern's final race with the network crew. For 1973, the turn two reporting location was moved to the new VIP Suites, which had just been constructed. Bob Forbes served as wireless roving reporter, concentrating on the garage area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 42], "content_span": [43, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0061-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Broadcasting, Radio\nAt the conclusion of the race, Lou Palmer reported from victory lane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 42], "content_span": [43, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0062-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Broadcasting, Radio\nChief Announcer: Sid CollinsDriver expert: Fred AgabashianStatistician: John DeCampHistorian: Donald Davidson", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 42], "content_span": [43, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0063-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Broadcasting, Radio\nTurn 1: Mike AhernTurn 2: Howdy BellBackstretch: Doug ZinkTurn 3: Ron CarrellTurn 4: Jim Shelton", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 42], "content_span": [43, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0064-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Broadcasting, Television\nThe race was carried in the United States on ABC Sports on a same-day tape delay basis. The race was scheduled to air on Monday May 28 at 9 p.m. EDT for a two-hour same-day tape delay broadcast. However, the race suffered the crash of Salt Walther and rain prevented it from being restarted. The network showed a brief clip of Walther's crash, then filled the rest of the timeslot with a movie instead. On Tuesday May 29, the race was to be rescheduled for 9 a.m., but it was again rained out as well. On Wednesday May 30, the race was finally held, and ABC planned to air the broadcast in primetime on Wednesday night at 8 p.m. EDT. The broadcast featured a rebroadcast of Monday's aborted attempt at a start, as well as the conclusion on Wednesday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 47], "content_span": [48, 798]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0065-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Broadcasting, Television\nAnalyst Jackie Stewart was to be the color commentator, but was only able to be at the grounds on Monday and Tuesday as he left the Speedway Wednesday for Formula One commitments at the 1973 Monaco Grand Prix. Chris Economaki substituted for Stewart in the booth on Wednesday. On Wednesday, Chris Schenkel rode and reported from inside the pace car.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 47], "content_span": [48, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0066-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Broadcasting, Television\nBecause of the long delay after Swede Savage's accident, some of the later portions of the race were still being edited as the beginning of the race was being broadcast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 47], "content_span": [48, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0067-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Broadcasting, Television\nThe race was billed on ABC as \"Goodyear Presents the Indianapolis 500 Race\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 47], "content_span": [48, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0068-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Broadcasting, Television\nThe broadcast re-aired on ESPN Classic for the first time on August 12, 2011. The broadcast was slightly edited from the original airing, as a scene in the immediate aftermath of Armando Teran's fatal accident was omitted (but is still available on YouTube). The broadcast was shown again on ESPN Classic on May 30, 2013 (the 40th anniversary).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 47], "content_span": [48, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0069-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Broadcasting, Television\nHost: Chris SchenkelAnnouncer: Jim McKayColor: Jackie Stewart (Mon. & Tues.)Color: Chris Economaki (Wed.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 47], "content_span": [48, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0070-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Documentary films\nSeveral documentary films were also produced discussing the 1973 Indianapolis 500. These include:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0071-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Documentary films\nThe 200 MPH Barrier, narrated by Ralph Camargo, Dynamic Films (for Ashland Oil)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0072-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Documentary films\nCatastrophe (1977), narrated by William Conrad (the 1973 Indianapolis 500 is one of the film's subjects)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0073-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Documentary films\nFire and Rain, for the STP-sponsored Patrick Racing teams (Johncock, McRae, Savage), Allend'or Productions", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095713-0074-0000", "contents": "1973 Indianapolis 500, Documentary films\nThe Indianapolis 500: The 70s, narrated by Tom Carnegie (1973 was featured including interviews by the drivers who were there)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095714-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Individual Ice Speedway World Championship\nThe 1973 Individual Ice Speedway World Championship was the eighth edition of the World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095714-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Individual Ice Speedway World Championship\nThe winner was Gabdrakhman Kadyrov of the Soviet Union for the sixth time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095715-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Individual Long Track World Championship\nThe 1973 Individual Long Track World Championship was the third edition of the FIM speedway Individual Long Track World Championship. The event was held on 20 September 1973 in Oslo, Norway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095715-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Individual Long Track World Championship\nThe defending champion Ivan Mauger failed to qualify for the semi-final round after being eliminated in a qualifying round. The world title was won by Ole Olsen of Denmark.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095716-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Individual Speedway World Championship\nThe 1973 Individual Speedway World Championship was the 28th edition of the official World Championship to determine the world champion rider.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095716-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Individual Speedway World Championship\nThe 1973 World Final was won by Polish rider Jerzy Szczakiel following a run-off in with defending champion Ivan Mauger after both riders had finished on 13 points. On the second lap of the run-off, Mauger fell in turn 3 after trying a risky passing move leaving Szczakiel to win easily. Another Polish rider, Zenon Plech finished third. Rank outsider Szczakiel, who had finished last with no points scored in his only other World Final appearance in Sweden in 1971, rode the meeting of his life and was only beaten in his final two rides before defeating Mauger in the run-off.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 622]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095716-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Individual Speedway World Championship\nThe final, held at the Silesian Stadium in Chorz\u00f3w, Poland, is believed to have been held in front of the largest crowd in world speedway history, estimated to be around 130,000, though some reports put the size of the crowd as anywhere from 90,000 to 120,000. The previous record for a final was 95,000 during the 1938 Individual Speedway World Championship at Wembley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095716-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Individual Speedway World Championship, Format changes\nThe format of the Championship changed for the 1973 event. This time the Polish riders were allowed five places in the World Final to be held in Poland. All other nations had to go through the European Final route to provide the remaining 11 riders for the World Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 59], "content_span": [60, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095716-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Individual Speedway World Championship, Second Round, British/Commonwealth Final\nm - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022 t - exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022 x - other exclusion \u2022 e - retired or mechanical failure \u2022 f - fell \u2022 ns - non-starter \u2022 nc - non-classify", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 85], "content_span": [86, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095716-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Individual Speedway World Championship, Second Round, Nordic Final\nm - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022 t - exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022 x - other exclusion \u2022 e - retired or mechanical failure \u2022 f - fell \u2022 ns - non-starter \u2022 nc - non-classify", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 71], "content_span": [72, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095716-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Individual Speedway World Championship, Third Round, British/Commonwealth/Nordic Final\nm - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022 t - exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022 x - other exclusion \u2022 e - retired or mechanical failure \u2022 f - fell \u2022 ns - non-starter \u2022 nc - non-classify", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 91], "content_span": [92, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095716-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Individual Speedway World Championship, Third Round, Continental Final\nm - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022 t - exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022 x - other exclusion \u2022 e - retired or mechanical failure \u2022 f - fell \u2022 ns - non-starter \u2022 nc - non-classify", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 75], "content_span": [76, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095716-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Individual Speedway World Championship, Fourth Round, European Final\nm - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022 t - exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022 x - other exclusion \u2022 e - retired or mechanical failure \u2022 f - fell \u2022 ns - non-starter \u2022 nc - non-classify", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 73], "content_span": [74, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095716-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Individual Speedway World Championship, World Final, Final Controversy\nThe Final was surrounded by controversy, with decisions made by Georg Traunspurger, the referee assigned to the meeting by the FIM, seeming to favour the Polish riders. One of his decisions was to have 2nd reserve Andrzej Wyglenda of Poland race in Heat 16 in front of 1st reserve Tommy Jansson of Sweden (after Bernt Persson of Sweden was unable to ride), making it four Polish riders in the race. In the race, second placed Edward Jancarz, who led for the first three laps, seemed to let Zenon Plech take the lead in the final turn, allowing Plech, who had more points at that stage of the meeting, to collect another three points for the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 75], "content_span": [76, 721]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095716-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 Individual Speedway World Championship, World Final, Final Controversy\nHis most controversial decision was to exclude Soviet rider Grigory Khlinovsky from heat 19. Khlinovsky had attempted to pass on the inside of Zenon Plech for the lead going into the back straight of the last lap. As he was passed by the Russian, Plech lost control of his bike and fell. Despite protests from riders and the Soviet officials Khlinovskywas excluded and England's Peter Collins, who was in 3rd place at the time of the crash, was awarded the heat win, Plech, who didn't actually finish the race, was awarded 2nd.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 75], "content_span": [76, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095716-0010-0001", "contents": "1973 Individual Speedway World Championship, World Final, Final Controversy\nThe result of the two points he gained for second place allowed Plech to finish a clear third in the championship. Had Khlinovsky been the winner of the heat, he would have ended on 13 points, which would have put him in the run-off for the title with Szczakiel and Mauger.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 75], "content_span": [76, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095716-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 Individual Speedway World Championship, World Final, Final Controversy\nBritish television commentator Dave Lanning called the ruling \"The craziest piece of speedway regulations in the history of World Championship racing\", before adding that \"It seems to me that the authorities here in Katowice are making up the rules to suit themselves to get their boys a world title.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 75], "content_span": [76, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095716-0012-0000", "contents": "1973 Individual Speedway World Championship, World Final, Final result\nm - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022 t - exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022 x - other exclusion \u2022 e - retired or mechanical failure \u2022 f - fell \u2022 ns - non-starter \u2022 nc - non-classify", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 70], "content_span": [71, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095717-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Intercontinental Cup\nThe 1973 Intercontinental Cup was an association football match played on 28 November 1973 between Juventus, runners-up of the 1972\u201373 European Cup, and Independiente, winners of the 1973 Copa Libertadores. The match was played at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome. It was Juventus' first appearance into the competition and Independiente's fourth appearance after the defeats against Internazionale in 1964 and 1965 and against Ajax in 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095717-0000-0001", "contents": "1973 Intercontinental Cup\nDespite initially refusing to participate in the competition, Juventus replaced Ajax as representative UEFA team in the competition after Ajax as the European champions declined to contest a possible meeting in South America officially for financial reasons. The Cup was played in a single match instead of a two-legged final as happened in the previous and following years until 1979.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095717-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Intercontinental Cup, Background\nIndependiente was the 1973 Copa Libertadores title holder after beating Chilean club Colo-Colo with a goal in extra time. The Intercontinental Cup was a long longing for the club so they had lost the previous final v Dutch team Ajax \u2013led by Johan Cruyff, most of its players would were part of the Netherlands national team that showed the revolutionary tactical theory (called the \"total Football\") at the 1974 FIFA World Cup \u2013 just one year before and had the opportunity to take revenge of that defeat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095717-0001-0001", "contents": "1973 Intercontinental Cup, Background\nNevertheless, the Dutch club refused to play the 1973 edition alleging they didn't want to suffer the \"rough game\" of the Argentine team again. Therefore, the runner-up of 1972\u201373 European Cup, Juventus, took Ajax's place to contest the competition. The Italian club refused to come to Buenos Aires, putting as a condition to play a unique match at Rome. Independiente executives accepted it, scheduling the match for November 28, 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095717-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Intercontinental Cup, Background\nJos\u00e9 Pastoriza, who had been the captain and leader of the Copa Libertadores winning team, did not play the match because he was transferred to AS Monaco short before the final in Rome.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 37], "content_span": [38, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095717-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Intercontinental Cup, Match, Summary\nDuring the match, dominated by the Italian team, the Bianconeri had several opportunities to take the lead with two shots on the cross, a penalty kick, drawn by Cuccureddu, ended up over the bar and a shot in the last minutes of the race, which was blocked by the goalkeeper Santoro in daring action. Ten minutes from the end, an own goal by Gentile in a Bochini's shot, the only significant offensive action made by Independiente in the match, was decisive for the victory of the Diablos Rojos (\"Red Devils\").", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095717-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Intercontinental Cup, Aftermath\nIt was the first Intercontinental Cup won by Independiente (and the third won by an Argentine club after Racing and Estudiantes de La Plata success in 1967 and 1968 respectively). The victory was largely celebrated by Independiente fans due to the importance given to that competition in Argentina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095717-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Intercontinental Cup, Aftermath\nThe victory was also the breakthrough of 19-year old Ricardo Bochini as a raising star. Bochini would continue and finish his career always playing for Independiente, becoming one of the greatest idols in the history of the club. On the other hand, the other keyplayer of the match, Daniel Bertoni, would then win the first FIFA World Cup with Argentina in 1978, also scoring the third goal v Netherlands in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 36], "content_span": [37, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095717-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Intercontinental Cup, In their own words\nThe following phrases are extracted from an interview to Ricardo Bochini, Daniel Bertoni and Francisco S\u00e1, three of Independiente players that won the Cup in 1973:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095717-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Intercontinental Cup, In their own words\nIt was a very important match in my career. The goal gave me the opportunity to be famous, not only for Independiente but for all people related with football in Argentina. It was because the match was aired by the RAI for several countries in the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095717-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Intercontinental Cup, In their own words\nNobody trusted us because nobody believed we could win the cup in a single match series. When we crowned champions, the only people supporting the team were the Fragata Libertad crew that were in Italy. They were our only supporters in the stadium", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095717-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Intercontinental Cup, In their own words\nThe Juventus players were very fast and strong, they had 3 or 4 players in the Italy national team and another in Brazil. Despite we had won the Copa Libertadores some months earlier, we were not in a good level and therefore it was very hard to win the match", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095717-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 Intercontinental Cup, In their own words\nTo achieve a victory in an only match and playing as visitor, the team had no low points. On the other hand, Bochini and Bertoni, were champions of the world at a very early age", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095717-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 Intercontinental Cup, In their own words\nIf we had played Ajax instead of Juventus, the match would have been so much complicated because Ajax was the best team in the world", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095717-0012-0000", "contents": "1973 Intercontinental Cup, The lost video\nAlthough the match was broadcast by Canal 7 in Argentina, it is believed that the video containing the images of the match could have been erased or stolen during the military dictatorship that governed from 1976. As those images were lost, the interest of Independiente fans and journalist in the match was increasing as years were by.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095717-0013-0000", "contents": "1973 Intercontinental Cup, The lost video\nOn the basis on some Independiente members (with then president of the institution Javier Cantero among them) initiative, the search for the video started. After some contacts with RAI (the Italian broadcasting company that had aired the match in 1973), they provided a copy of the film to musical producer (and Independiente fan) Mariano Asch, putting as condition it had to be returned after being used in Argentina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095717-0014-0000", "contents": "1973 Intercontinental Cup, The lost video\nIn 2009, the 3-minute long copy of the video was aired for the first time during a celebration in Teatro Roma of Avellaneda held to commemorate the 35th. anniversary of the victory. Independiente legend Ricardo Bochini (who scored the goal at the final in 1973) was the star guest attending the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095717-0015-0000", "contents": "1973 Intercontinental Cup, The lost video\nWatching the video was a huge surprise for me because I didn't know (the video) existed. I loved it because I didn't remember how the goal had been exactly. I did remember the goal had come from a wall-pass with (Daniel) Bertoni. To relive that experience was like completing the history of that match", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095718-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Intercontinental Cup (baseball)\nThe 1973 Intercontinental Cup was the inaugural edition of the long-running international baseball tournament. It was held in Italy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095718-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Intercontinental Cup (baseball)\nBruno Beneck, president of the Italian baseball federation (FIBS) was dissatisfied with the Latin American predominance of the worldwide governing body for the sport of baseball, the International Baseball Federation (IBAF, which was called FIBA at the time). Beneck formed a splinter group called FEMBA, which organized the 1973 tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095718-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Intercontinental Cup (baseball)\nThe two groups merged back together in 1976 and continued to play the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095718-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Intercontinental Cup (baseball), Notes\nThis article related to a baseball league, competition or tournament is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 43], "content_span": [44, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095718-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Intercontinental Cup (baseball), Notes\nThis article relating to baseball in Europe is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 43], "content_span": [44, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095719-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 International Seven-a-side Tournament\nThe 1973 International Seven-a-side tournament was the first rugby sevens tournament to feature national representative teams, predating the first official Rugby World Cup Sevens by twenty years. Held in Scotland as part of the Scottish Rugby Union's centenary celebrations, the tournament featured players from all eight of the members of the IRB. Although not sanctioned by the IRB as an official world cup the winners, England, were hailed by the press as the world seven-a-side champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095719-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 International Seven-a-side Tournament, Background\n1973 was the centenary year of the Scottish Rugby Union (\"SRU\") and as part of the centenary celebrations the SRU decided to hold an international Rugby sevens tournament. The president of the SRU at the time, A.W. Wilson, later wrote of the decision to hold a sevens tournament, \"It seemed most appropriate to us, in our Centenary Year, that we should pay some regard to a part of the game which has proved exhilarating and entertaining to us. One might say, a part of the heritage of Scotland and, of course, especially the Borders. An international Seven-a-side Tournament was the answer. All the countries taking part were and are thrilled at this prospect.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 717]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095719-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 International Seven-a-side Tournament, Background\nThe tournament was not advertised as a world cup but rather was styled \"The International Seven-a-side tournament\". It was held on 7 April 1973 in Edinburgh, and all the International Rugby Football Board countries were represented, with the exception of South Africa. There was, however, South African representation in the form of several players in the eighth side in the tournament, the President's VII.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095719-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 International Seven-a-side Tournament, Background\nAs in 1883 when the Scots invented Rugby Sevens, the tournament was to lead a trend. However, even though sevens had been established for 90 years, even the event program recognised its contemporary status by the inclusion in the inside front cover of an advertisement for Peter Scott Knitwear, featuring a man and woman in sweaters, looking amazed and accompanied by the caption: \"International Seven-a-sides. What next?\". The programme for the event also sported the new coat of arms of the SRU that was granted by the Lord Lyon King of Arms on 28 February 1973, for the centenary season. The coat of arms is still in use today, but in the main the SRU use the commercial thistle logo on jerseys and stationary. The coat of arms has the motto \"Non Sine Gloria\", meaning \"Not Without Glory\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 847]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095719-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 International Seven-a-side Tournament, Participating nations\nThe eight teams were divided into two pools of four as follows with each team playing each other within their pool once. The winners of each Pool went through to contest the final:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 65], "content_span": [66, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095719-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 International Seven-a-side Tournament, Squads\nThe eight teams were divided into two pools of four as follows:Source: The primary source for the squads below is the Official programme for the tournament. Wherever it is known that the players who played on the day differ from the programme details, this takes precedence, and is noted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 50], "content_span": [51, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095719-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 International Seven-a-side Tournament, Summary\nThe teams put forward by the various nations featured many names with test-status fifteen-aside careers. The Scottish side had a number of sevens specialists, many from the Gala club that itself had for a number of years previous had an excellent run of form. The three Browns, all unrelated, Frame and Gill all from the Gala club joined a former Galalean in Stan Davidson and Colin Telfer, as the main Scottish side. Another Gala player, Nairn MacEwan, was on the bench for the President's VII. In the group stages, the tournament had a huge upset when a star-studded Welsh team including Gareth Edwards, Gerald Davies, Phil Bennett, and JPR Williams were beaten by an England side that included a number of Loughborough Colleges students.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 51], "content_span": [52, 792]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095719-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 International Seven-a-side Tournament, Summary\nThe groups were dominated by Ireland and England who both emerged with a perfect 3 wins out of 3. The final was an extremely close affair and Ireland missed out on the title by the smallest of rugby margins. In injury time, Ireland were leading 18-16 and were in the England 22. Fergus Slattery needed only to hold on to the ball to preserve this lead but instead let loose an errant pass, which was intercepted and the England full international winger, Keith Fielding, was able to run in the long try. The England side was a strong one, with all players to be full internationals. Loughborough Colleges' Fran Cotton was the captain and in the final both Keith Fielding and Andy Ripley scored. Mike Gibson, of Ireland, was selected the tournament's outstanding player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 51], "content_span": [52, 821]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095719-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 International Seven-a-side Tournament, Status of tournament\nThe tournament was held twenty years before the first official world cup, yet in a number of quarters was referred to as a world championship. The SRU itself did not advertise it as a world cup but rather it was styled \"The International Seven-a-side tournament\". Additionally, it was not officially endorsed by the International Rugby Football Board as anything other than an international tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 64], "content_span": [65, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095719-0008-0001", "contents": "1973 International Seven-a-side Tournament, Status of tournament\nHowever, elements of the press referred to it variously as bestowing the World Sevens Crown or conferring the status of world sevens' champions or World Seven-a-side Champions, and even modern press reports, in the era of the fully sanctioned World Cup, have referred to the competition in comparable terms to modern World Cups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 64], "content_span": [65, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095720-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Intertoto Cup\nIn the 1973 Intertoto Cup no knock-out rounds were contested, and therefore no winner was declared.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095720-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Intertoto Cup, Group stage\nThe teams were divided into ten groups of four teams each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 31], "content_span": [32, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095721-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Iowa Hawkeyes football team\nThe 1973 Iowa Hawkeyes football team represented the University of Iowa in the 1973 Big Ten Conference football season. This was Frank Lauterbur's third and final season as head coach. It was the first season after Iowa Stadium was renamed to Kinnick Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095722-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Iowa State Cyclones football team\nThe 1973 Iowa State Cyclones football team represented Iowa State University in the Big Eight Conference during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. In their first year under head coach Earle Bruce, the Cyclones compiled a 4\u20137 record (2\u20135 against conference opponents), tied for sixth place in the conference, and outscored opponents by a combined total of 245 to 236. They played their home games at Clyde Williams Field in Ames, Iowa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095723-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Ipswich Borough Council election\nThe 1973 Ipswich Borough Council election was the first election to the new Ipswich Borough Council which had been established by the Local Government Act 1972 in England and Wales. It took place as part of the 1973 United Kingdom local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095723-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Ipswich Borough Council election\nThere were 14 wards returning between 2 and 5 councillors each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095724-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Irish Greyhound Derby\nThe 1973 Irish Greyhound Derby took place during July and August with the final being held at Shelbourne Park in Dublin on 28 August 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095724-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Irish Greyhound Derby\nThe Irish Derby winner's prize was doubled to \u00a310,000 by sponsors P.J.Carroll and Co. The winner Bashful Man won \u00a310,000 and was trained by Ger McKenna, owned by Deirdre Hynes and bred by Nancy Dirrane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095724-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Irish Greyhound Derby, Competition Report\nIn the first round, a leading bitch called Romping To Work won her race in a very fast time of 29.05, she would go on to win the Oaks later that year. Bashful Man recorded a win in 29.13 and Kilmac Chieftain in 29.23. Ante-post favourite Shara Dee who had won the English Derby consolation won in 29.55 and the Cesarewitch and recent TV Trophy winner Ritas Choice recovered from encountering trouble in running to finish second behind Moordyk Ringo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095724-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Irish Greyhound Derby, Competition Report\nEnglish hope Black Banjo took up the mantle of the new competition favourite following a second round victory in a heat that included both Ritas Choice and Bashful Man. Shara Dee and China Sea remained unbeaten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095724-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Irish Greyhound Derby, Competition Report\nBashful Man produced 29.01 victory in the quarter-finals propelling Ger McKenna's charge to the new favourite. Both Romping To Work and Shara Dee were eliminated but Ritas Choice won.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095724-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Irish Greyhound Derby, Competition Report\nIn the first semi-final Bashful Man recorded 29.15 when beating Ritas Choice and Kal's Daisy before Black Banjo wrapped up the second semi-final from Heavy Sleeper and Itsawitch in 29.58.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095724-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Irish Greyhound Derby, Competition Report\nThe final turned out to be one of the most memorable of all time because Bashful Man became the first greyhound to break 29 seconds in a final. He took a rails course at the first bend and overtook fast starter Kal's Daisy, before drawing clear of the field and winning in a time of 28.82, just two spots off the track record set by 1972 finalist Ballykilty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 46], "content_span": [47, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095725-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Irish general election\nThe 1973 Irish general election was held on 28 February 1973. The newly elected 144 members of the 20th D\u00e1il assembled at Leinster House on 4 March when the new Taoiseach and government were appointed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095725-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Irish general election\nThe general election took place in 42 parliamentary constituencies throughout Ireland for 144 seats in the lower house of parliament, D\u00e1il \u00c9ireann.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095725-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Irish general election, Campaign\nBy the time the general election was called in 1973, Fianna F\u00e1il had been in power for almost sixteen consecutive years. During that time the party had seen three different leaders: \u00c9amon de Valera, Se\u00e1n Lemass, and since 1966, Jack Lynch. As a result of this, much of the electorate believed it was time for a change of government. Lynch had hoped to dissolve the D\u00e1il in December 1972; however, events did not permit this, and the election was eventually called for February 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095725-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Irish general election, Campaign\nWhile Fine Gael and the Labour Party had pursued individual opposition policies since 1957, they now realised that the only way to oust Fianna F\u00e1il would be to join forces. Not long after the general election was called, both parties agreed to a pre-election pact to fight the election together on the issues that united them. The National Coalition, as it was known, offered the electorate the first credible alternative government in many years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095725-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Irish general election, Campaign\nWhile Fianna F\u00e1il actually increased its percentage of the vote, it lost seats. The increase in the percentage was remarkable considering the party had been in power for so long, and also because of the \"Arms Crisis\". A clever use of transfers between the National Coalition parties in the single transferable vote system enabled a change of government to take place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095725-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Irish general election, Campaign\nCoverage of the general election by the national broadcaster, Radio Telef\u00eds \u00c9ireann, also saw a unique event. Jack Lynch, in an interview with Brian Farrell on the programme, became the first Taoiseach to concede defeat live on Irish television. Although the full result was not yet known, Lynch was certain that the transfers between candidates would result in Fianna F\u00e1il losing the general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095725-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Irish general election, Court case\nThe Fourth Amendment of the Constitution, approved in a referendum in December 1972 and signed into law in January 1973, had reduced the voting age from 21 to 18. However, the electoral register would not be updated until 15 April, five weeks after the election date. A 20-year-old student, represented by Se\u00e1n MacBride, asked the High Court to postpone the election to vindicate his right to vote. He lost his case, although he was awarded his costs due to its \"public importance\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095725-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Irish general election, First-time TDs\nThe following 22 TDs were elected for the first time:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095726-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Irish presidential election\nThe 1973 Irish presidential election was held on 30 May 1973. The outgoing president \u00c9amon de Valera was ineligible for re-election after serving two terms in office. Former T\u00e1naiste Erskine H. Childers, nominated by Fianna F\u00e1il, was elected as president of Ireland, defeating Fine Gael deputy leader, Tom O'Higgins, who had come within 1% of defeating \u00c9amon de Valera in the 1966 presidential election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095726-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Irish presidential election, Nomination process\nUnder Article 12 of the Constitution of Ireland, a candidate for president could be nominated by:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095726-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Irish presidential election, Nomination process\nOn 25 April, the Minister for Local Government made the order for the presidential election, with noon on 8 May as the date for nominations, and 30 May as the date of polling.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095726-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Irish presidential election, Campaign\nO'Higgins was approved as the Fine Gael candidate on 31 January. Childers was approved as the Fianna F\u00e1il candidate on 6 April. George Colley was director of elections for Childers. O'Higgins was the early favourite to win, with odds of 1/2, against 6/4 for Childers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095727-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Isle of Ely by-election\nThe Isle of Ely by-election, 1973 was a parliamentary by-election held on 26 July 1973 for the British House of Commons constituency of Isle of Ely.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095727-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Isle of Ely by-election\nThe by-election took place during the 1970s Liberal Party revival. This seat and Ripon were gained on the same day, the third and fourth Liberal gains during the Parliament. This was the first time since 1899 that the Liberal Party had made two by-election gains on the same day, when it won both seats in a two-member constituency at the Oldham by-election. The last time the party had gained two seats, in different constituencies on the same day, was on 2 June 1896, at the Frome and the Wick Burghs by-elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095727-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Isle of Ely by-election, Previous MP\nThe seat had become vacant on the death of the constituency's Member of Parliament (MP), Major Sir Harry Legge-Bourke KBE (16 May 1914 \u2013 21 May 1973). Legge-Bourke, a Conservative, had gained the seat from the Liberal Party in the 1945 general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095727-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Isle of Ely by-election, Candidates\nThree candidates were nominated. The list below is set out in descending order of the number of votes received at the by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095727-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Isle of Ely by-election, Candidates\nThe Liberal Party candidate was Clement Freud. He was the grandson of Sigmund Freud and a well-known writer and broadcaster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095727-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Isle of Ely by-election, Candidates\nFreud won the by-election, in a seat which his party had not contested in the 1970 general election. He retained the constituency until it was renamed in 1983, with most of the territory incorporated into the constituency of North East Cambridgeshire. Freud retained that seat until he was defeated in the 1987 general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095727-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Isle of Ely by-election, Candidates\nThe Conservative candidate was J. B. Stevens, who had contested Birmingham Stechford in the 1970 general election. Stevens again lost to Clement Freud, in Ely, at the February 1974 general election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095728-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Isle of Man TT\nThe 1973 Isle of Man TT was a road racing event for motorcycles held in the Isle of Man on the 37-mile Snaefell Mountain Course. It was the fifth round of the 1973 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season (now known as MotoGP). The Australian rider Jack Findlay won the Senior (500\u00a0cc) event held on 8 June 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095729-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Israeli legislative election\nLegislative elections were held in Israel on 31 December 1973. Voter turnout was 78.6%. The election was postponed for two months because of the Yom Kippur War.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095729-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Israeli legislative election, Parliament factions\nThe table below lists the parliamentary factions represented in the 7th Knesset.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 54], "content_span": [55, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095729-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Israeli legislative election, Aftermath\nGolda Meir of the Alignment formed the sixteenth government on 10 March 1974, including the National Religious Party and the Independent Liberals in her coalition, with 22 ministers. Meir resigned on 11 April 1974 after the Agranat Commission had published its interim report on the Yom Kippur War.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 44], "content_span": [45, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095729-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Israeli legislative election, Aftermath\nThe Alignment's Yitzhak Rabin formed the seventeenth government on 3 June 1974, including Ratz, the Independent Liberals, Progress and Development and the Arab List for Bedouins and Villagers. The new government had 19 ministers. The National Religious Party joined the coalition on 30 October and Ratz left on the 6 November, by which time there were 21 ministers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 44], "content_span": [45, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095729-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Israeli legislative election, Aftermath\nThe government resigned on 22 December 1976, after ministers of the National Religious Party were sacked because the party had abstained from voting on a motion of no confidence, which had been brought by Agudat Yisrael over a breach of the Sabbath on an Israeli Air Force base.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 44], "content_span": [45, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095729-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Israeli legislative election, Aftermath\nDuring the Knesset term there were several defections from parties; In 1975 Aryeh Eliav left the Alignment and merged with Ratz to form Ya'ad - Civil Rights Movement. The new party broke up the following year when Eliav and Marcia Freedman left to set up the Independent Socialist Faction, whilst Shulamit Aloni and Boaz Moav returned to Ratz. In 1975 Benjamin Halevi left Likud to sit as an independent, whilst Shmuel Tamir and Akiva Nof left Likud to form the Free Centre the following year. In 1977 Hillel Seidel defected from the Independent Liberals to Likud, whilst Mordechai Ben-Porat broke away from the Alignment and sat as an independent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 44], "content_span": [45, 693]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095729-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Israeli legislative election, Aftermath\nIn February 1974 Progress and Development and the Arab List for Bedouins and Villagers merged into the Alignment (with which they were already associated), but both later broke away and then formed the United Arab List in 1977. In the build-up to the 1977 elections the Religious Torah Front broke up into Agudat Yisrael (three seats) and Poalei Agudat Yisrael in March 1977. On 10 April Mapam broke away from the Alignment, but rejoined it two days later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 44], "content_span": [45, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095730-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Israeli presidential election\nAn election for President of Israel was held in the Knesset on 10 April 1973. Ephraim Katzir was elected to the position in a secret ballot. Katzir's first term began on the day of the election. It would be characterized by the Yom Kippur War that took place later in that year. He would hold this position until 1978, when Yitzhak Navon would be elected as the new President.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095731-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Israeli raid on Lebanon\nThe 1973 Israeli raid on Lebanon (known as Operation Spring of Youth, Hebrew: \u05de\u05d1\u05e6\u05e2 \u05d0\u05d1\u05d9\u05d1 \u05e0\u05e2\u05d5\u05e8\u05d9\u05dd, Mivtsa Aviv Ne'urim) took place on the night of April 9 and early morning of April 10, 1973, when Israeli army special forces units attacked several Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) targets in Beirut and Sidon, Lebanon. The operation is generally considered to have been part of Operation Wrath of God, Israel's retaliation for the Munich massacre at the Summer Olympics in 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095731-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Israeli raid on Lebanon\nThe Israeli troops arrived at the Lebanese beaches on speedboats launched from missile boats offshore. Mossad agents awaited the forces on the beaches with cars rented the previous day, and then drove them to their targets and later back to the beaches for extraction.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095731-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Israeli raid on Lebanon\nDuring the operation, three of the highest-level PLO leaders, surprised at home, were killed, along with other PLO members. Several Lebanese security people and civilian neighbors were also killed, as were two of the Israeli soldiers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095731-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Israeli raid on Lebanon, Background\nIn February 1973, Ehud Barak, the then commander of the elite Sayeret Matkal unit, obtained photographs and precise information on the whereabouts of three senior PLO leaders:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095731-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Israeli raid on Lebanon, Background\nThe men lived in a pair of seven-story buildings in the fashionable neighborhood of Verdun in West Beirut. These buildings were residential housing for both British and Italian families along with Arab families. One building housed Al-Najjar, and a building across the street housed Adwan and Nasser.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095731-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Israeli raid on Lebanon, Background\nBarak and his team immediately began planning an operation to kill them. The final plan was to land operatives from navy ships on the Lebanese coast who would infiltrate into Lebanon disguised as tourists. Some of the commandos were to be disguised as women (Barak was disguised as a brunette woman). Before the mission, the forces trained using similar apartments in northern Tel Aviv. They also practiced cross-dressing and walking around disguised as lovers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095731-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Israeli raid on Lebanon, The operation\nOn April 9, 1973, Israeli Navy missile boats departed from Haifa naval base, carrying the commandos and Zodiac speedboats on board. When the missile boats reached the shores of Beirut, the Zodiacs were lowered into the water. To avoid being heard, they turned the motors off when they were a few hundred meters from land and rowed the rest of the way in. The commandos came ashore where Mossad agents were waiting for them with three cars. The agents drove them to their targets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 43], "content_span": [44, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095731-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Israeli raid on Lebanon, The operation\nThree Sayeret Matkal commando teams entered the buildings and planted explosive fuses at the apartment doors of their targets, while a backup team led by Barak remained outside and stood guard to repel PLO reinforcements or Lebanese Internal Security Forces (ISF) Gendarmerie units. When the fuses exploded, the commandos stormed the apartments, gunned down the three targets, and seized whatever documents they could find. Kamal Nasser, a Christian, was according to Palestinian reports, shot in front of his family, with his bullet wounds tracing the sign of the cross.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 43], "content_span": [44, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095731-0007-0001", "contents": "1973 Israeli raid on Lebanon, The operation\nAl-Najjar's wife was killed during the melee, as was an elderly Italian woman responding to the commotion. At the same time, the backup team engaged in a firefight with a few dozen Lebanese ISF gendarmes and PLO reinforcements. Two Lebanese policemen were killed. The responding forces were beaten back, and Mossad cars were used to extract the commandos. While driving to the beach, they encountered a Lebanese Army armoured personnel carrier (APC) as it scanned the shore. They were not confronted and continued on to the beach, where the commandos and drivers abandoned the cars and returned to the missile boats in Zodiacs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 43], "content_span": [44, 671]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095731-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Israeli raid on Lebanon, The operation\nAt the same time, 14 Israeli commandos, mainly Sayeret Tzanhanim paratroopers, raided a multi-story building that housed militants of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). The team was disguised as civilians and led by Amnon Lipkin-Shahak. The Israeli team met strong resistance early on from nearly 100 militants guarding it, and engaged in a close-quarters battle. Teams of PFLP gunmen on the building's upper floors repeatedly attempted to take the elevator to the ground floor and join the battle, but each team was wiped out by commandos waiting near the doors. The team managed to place a large explosive charge inside the building and detonate it, causing part of the building to collapse. Lipkin-Shahak then requested an air evacuation. The commandos were extracted by Israeli Air Force helicopters. Two Israeli soldiers and dozens of PFLP fighters were killed during the fighting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 43], "content_span": [44, 953]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095731-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Israeli raid on Lebanon, The operation\nTwo secondary forces attacked the Fatah headquarters for Gaza operations and a Fatah workshop in south Beirut. A third force of Shayetet 13 naval commandos landed in north Beirut and destroyed a small Fatah explosives workshop, while another paratroop unit raided and destroyed the PLO's main garage, located just south of Sidon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 43], "content_span": [44, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095731-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 Israeli raid on Lebanon, Reactions in Lebanon\nThe Israeli operation sharply polarized public opinion in Lebanon. The Muslim Prime Minister Saeb Salam tendered to the resignation of the cabinet. 250 000 people, 10 per cent of the Lebanese population, turned out for the funeral in Beirut of the slain PLO leaders and further tens of thousands attended demonstrations in other parts of the country. The opponents of the armed Palestinian presence, chiefly the army command and president Franjiyya, tried but failed to use the opportunity to restrict Palestinian freedom of movement. Two weeks of fighting between the army and Palestinian groups ended in stalemate. In the end, Franjiyya had to admit that the Lebanese army was unable to defend the Palestinian refugee camps and he therefore reluctantly allowed the PLO to bring in heavier weapons and build fortifications.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 50], "content_span": [51, 875]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095732-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Italian Athletics Championships\nThe 1973 Italian Athletics Championships was the 63rd edition of the Italian Athletics Championships and were held in Rome (track & field events).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095733-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Italian Athletics Indoor Championships\n1973 Italian Athletics Indoor Championships was the 4th edition of the Italian Athletics Indoor Championships and were held in Genoa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095734-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Italian Grand Prix\nThe 1973 Italian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Monza on 9 September 1973. It was race 13 of 15 in both the 1973 World Championship of Drivers and the 1973 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095734-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Italian Grand Prix\nThe 55-lap race was won from pole position by Ronnie Peterson, driving a Lotus-Ford, with teammate Emerson Fittipaldi second and Peter Revson third in a McLaren-Ford. Jackie Stewart suffered a puncture early in the race which dropped him to 20th, but charged through the field to finish fourth, which was enough to secure his third Drivers' Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095734-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Italian Grand Prix\nStewart's Tyrrell teammate Fran\u00e7ois Cevert finished fifth, scoring what would turn out to be the final points of his Formula One career. Carlos Reutemann completed the top six in his Brabham.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095734-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Italian Grand Prix\nThe race also saw Jacky Ickx's last drive for Ferrari, the Belgian returning to the team for its home race having left after the British Grand Prix. Ickx qualified 14th and finished eighth, a lap down on Peterson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095735-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Italian Open (tennis)\nThe 1973 Italian Open was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament that was played by men on outdoor clay courts at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy. The men's and women's tournament were part of the 1973 Commercial Union Assurance Grand Prix. It was the 30th edition of the tournament and was held from 2 June through 10 June 1973. The singles titles were won by Ilie N\u0103stase and Evonne Goolagong.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095735-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Italian Open (tennis), Finals, Men's doubles\nJohn Newcombe / Tom Okker defeated Ross Case / Geoff Masters 6\u20133, 6\u20132, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 49], "content_span": [50, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095735-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Italian Open (tennis), Finals, Women's doubles\nVirginia Wade / Olga Morozova defeated Ren\u00e1ta Tomanov\u00e1 / Martina Navratilova 3\u20136, 6\u20132, 7\u20135", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 51], "content_span": [52, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095736-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Italian regional elections\nRegional elections were held in some regions of Italy during 1973. These included:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095737-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Italy rugby union tour of Rhodesia and South Africa\nThe1973 Italy rugby union tour of South Africa and Rhodesia was a series of matches played between June and 1973 in South Africa and Rhodesia by Italy national rugby union team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095737-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Italy rugby union tour of Rhodesia and South Africa\nIt was the second time that the \"Azzurri\" toured outside Europe, after a short tour in Madagascar in 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095737-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Italy rugby union tour of Rhodesia and South Africa\nThe experience signed a turn in the story of Italian rugby: before of that, contact with the bigger union members was almost non-existent, and limited only to confrontations with France (between 1952 and 1967).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095737-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Italy rugby union tour of Rhodesia and South Africa\nThe tour was arranged by Italian federation and SARB, that sent coach Amos du Plooy to Italy to prepare the team. It was an historical tour, but the results were very poor: only a victory against the SARF Leopard selection.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095737-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Italy rugby union tour of Rhodesia and South Africa\nThe most important player of the last match, against Transvaal XV, was Rocco Caligiuri: the fly-half (but normally play ad full-back) scored three drops. It was the first time that a player scored three drops in an international match in South Africa. A plate was then put on the wall of Ellis Park Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095738-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Japan Open Tennis Championships\nThe 1973 Fred Perry Japan Open Tennis Championships was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts and took place in Tokyo, Japan. The tournament was held from 8 October through 14 October 1973. The men's events were part of the 1973 Commercial Union Assurance Grand Prix circuit and graded as B category whereas the women's competition was a non-tour event. Ken Rosewall won the men's singles title, earning him the $12,000 first prize, while Evonne Goolagong won the women's singles event and received $5,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095738-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Japan Open Tennis Championships, Finals, Men's Doubles\nMal Anderson / Ken Rosewall defeated Colin Dibley / Allan Stone, 7\u20135, 7\u20135", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 59], "content_span": [60, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095739-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Japan Series\nThe 1973 Japan Series was the 24th edition of Nippon Professional Baseball's postseason championship series. It matched the Central League champion Yomiuri Giants against the Pacific League champion Nankai Hawks. The Giants defeated the Hawks in five games to win an NPB-record ninth consecutive Japan Series title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095740-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Japan Soccer League, League tables, JSL First Division\nTanabe Pharmaceuticals was relegated, thereby becoming the first Japanese team to go straight back down one season after promotion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 59], "content_span": [60, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095740-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Japan Soccer League, League tables, JSL Promotion/Relegation Series\nSumitomo, at the time based in Osaka, would move to Kashima, Ibaraki in 1975 and become today's Kashima Antlers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 72], "content_span": [73, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095740-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Japan Soccer League, League tables, JSL Promotion/Relegation Series\nHitachi Ibaraki and Sumitomo promoted, Toyota Industries and Hagoromo Club relegated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 72], "content_span": [73, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095741-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Japan national football team\nThis page records the details of the Japan national football team in 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095742-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Japan rugby union tour of Wales, England and France\nThe 1973 Japan rugby union tour of England, Wales and France was a series of eleven matches played by the Japan national rugby union team in Wales, England and France in September and October 1973. The Japanese team won only of two of their matches and lost the other nine. Neither Wales nor France awarded full international caps for their games against Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095742-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Japan rugby union tour of Wales, England and France, In popular culture\nThe good-natured and friendly mood of the tour was captured by Max Boyce in the song \"Asso Asso Yogoshi\" on the album Live at Treorchy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 76], "content_span": [77, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095744-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 John Player League\nThe 1973 John Player League was the fifth competing of what was generally known as the Sunday League. The competition was won for the second consecutive year by Kent County Cricket Club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095746-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 KFK competitions (Ukraine)\nThe 1973 KFK competitions in Ukraine were part of the 1973 Soviet KFK competitions that were conducted in the Soviet Union. It was 10th season of the KFK in Ukraine since its introduction in 1964.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095746-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 KFK competitions (Ukraine), Promotion\nNone of KFK teams were promoted to the 1974 Soviet Second League, Zone 6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095746-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 KFK competitions (Ukraine), Promotion\nHowever, to the Class B were promoted following teams that did not participate in the KFK competitions:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095747-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France\nThe 1973 Kangaroo Tour was the thirteenth Kangaroo Tour, and saw the Australian national rugby league team travel to Europe and play nineteen matches against British and French club and representative rugby league teams, in addition to three Test matches against Great Britain and two Tests against the French. It followed the tour of 1967-68 and the next was staged in 1978.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095747-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France, The squad's leadership\nThe team was captain-coached by Graeme Langlands making his third Kangaroo Tour. Managers of the team were Albert Bishop and Charlie Gibson with Alf Richards as the team trainer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 70], "content_span": [71, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095747-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France, Touring squad\n1973 NSWRFL Premiers Manly-Warringah provided a record 6 players to the Kangaroos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 61], "content_span": [62, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095747-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France, Great Britain\nThe Ashes series against Great Britain saw an aggregate crowd of 36,567 attending the Test series", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 61], "content_span": [62, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095747-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France, Great Britain, Test Venues\nThe three Ashes series tests took place at the following venues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 74], "content_span": [75, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095747-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France, Great Britain, The Ashes series, First Test\nIn the first rugby league international played at Wembley since 1963, the Lions shocked the then unbeaten Australian's 21-12 in front of just 9,874 fans. The match had been moved to Wembley from the Central Park ground in Wigan at the request of the Australian team management.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 91], "content_span": [92, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095747-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France, Great Britain, The Ashes series, Second Test\nThe second test at Headingley in Leeds saw the Australian's tie the series at one game all with a 14-6 win in front of the tours largest attendance of 16,674.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 92], "content_span": [93, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095747-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France, Great Britain, The Ashes series, Second Test\nKangaroos captain-coach Graeme Langlands was ruled out of the second test with a broken hand. To replace him at fullback, Langlands selected Manly-Warringah's 19 year old dual premiership winning fullback Graham Eadie to make his test debut (Eadie, known affectionately as \"Wombat\", would turn 20 the next day). Eadie was also handed the goal kicking duties on the day and despite a very strong wind making conditions tricky for kickers, kicked 5 goals which proved vital in the Kangaroos 14-6 win over the Lions to keep The Ashes series alive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 92], "content_span": [93, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095747-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France, Great Britain, The Ashes series, Second Test\nAfter conceding 4 tries in the first test loss at Wembley, the Kangaroos kept their line intact with the Lions only scores coming from 3 goals by prop forward Terry Clawson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 92], "content_span": [93, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095747-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France, Great Britain, The Ashes series, Third Test\nThe Kangaroos won back The Ashes with a hard fought 15-5 win in trying conditions at Warrington. The pitch at Wilderspool was frozen which suited the Australians who were used to playing on hard grounds at home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 91], "content_span": [92, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095747-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France, Great Britain, The Ashes series, Third Test\nWith coach Graeme Langlands still out with a broken hand and looking on from the sidelines, the Kangaroos wrapped up the Ashes with a 15-5 win on the frozen ground at Wilderspool. Man of the match Ken Maddison crossed for two tries while Warrington born Bob Fulton, centre Geoff Starling and hooker Elwyn Walters also crossed for tries. For the Lions, their only score came from a try and goal from Hull Kingston Rovers halfback Roger Millward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 91], "content_span": [92, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095747-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France, France, French Tests, Second Test\nArthur Beetson became the first aboriginal player to captain Australia in a rugby league Test match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 81], "content_span": [82, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095748-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Kansas City Chiefs season\nThe 1973 Kansas City Chiefs season was the franchise's 4th season in the National Football League, the 11th as the Kansas City Chiefs, and the 14th overall. they finished with a 7\u20135\u20132 record and missed the playoffs for the second straight year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095748-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Kansas City Chiefs season\nThe defense kept the club in contention thanks to a nucleus that still included the bulk of the squad's Super Bowl IV starters. Quarterback Mike Livingston started in a 23\u201313 Opening Day loss against the Los Angeles Rams on September 16, but Len Dawson returned to rally the club for three consecutive wins to get the club off to a 3\u20131 start for a third consecutive year. The aging Len Dawson made his final start of the year in a 23\u201314 loss at Buffalo on October 29 and was replaced for the remainder of the year by Livingston, beginning a string of three straight seasons in which both players split time at the position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 654]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095748-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Kansas City Chiefs season\nLivingston led the club to another three straight wins, putting the team in first place in mid-November with a 6\u20133\u20131 record. A 1\u20132\u20131 ledger over the season's final month ended the club's post-season aspirations as the team finished the year in a second-place tie with Denver at 7\u20135\u20132. Len Dawson became the second Chiefs player in as many years to win the NFL Man of the Year Award. Following Super Bowl VIII, The AFC-NFC Pro Bowl was held at Arrowhead Stadium on January 20 with the AFC claiming a 15\u201313 win thanks to five field goals from Miami placekicker Garo Yepremian.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 605]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095749-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Kansas City Royals season\nThe 1973 Kansas City Royals season was their fifth in Major League Baseball. Jack McKeon replaced the fired Bob Lemon as manager and the Royals finished second in the American League West with a record of 88-74, six games behind the Oakland Athletics. Kansas City's 88 wins were the most in franchise history. Paul Splittorff (20-11) became the first Royals pitcher to win 20 games in a season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095749-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Kansas City Royals season, Regular season\nOn April 10, the Royals open their new park, Royals Stadium, with a 12\u20131 rout of the Texas Rangers. The game is attended by 39,464 fans braving 39-degree weather.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095749-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Kansas City Royals season, Regular season\nOn April 16, Steve Busby threw the first no-hitter in Royals history. The Royals beat Detroit by a score of 3\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095749-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Kansas City Royals season, Regular season\nOn May 15, in a game against the Royals, Nolan Ryan of the California Angels threw the first no-hitter of his career.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095749-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Kansas City Royals season, Regular season\nOn August 2, George Brett made his major league debut.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095749-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Kansas City Royals season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 75], "content_span": [76, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095749-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Kansas City Royals season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 68], "content_span": [69, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095749-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Kansas City Royals season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 73], "content_span": [74, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095749-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Kansas City Royals season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 70], "content_span": [71, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095749-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Kansas City Royals season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 71], "content_span": [72, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095750-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Kansas Jayhawks football team\nThe 1973 Kansas Jayhawks football team represented the University of Kansas in the Big Eight Conference during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. In their third season under head coach Don Fambrough, the Jayhawks compiled a 7\u20134\u20131 record (4\u20132\u20131 against conference opponents), tied for second place in the conference, lost to NC State in the 1973 Liberty Bowl, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 253 to 220. They played their home games at Memorial Stadium in Lawrence, Kansas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095750-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Kansas Jayhawks football team\nThe team's statistical leaders included David Jaynes with 2,349 passing yards, Delvin Williams with 788 rushing yards and Emmett Edwards with 840 receiving yards. Jaynes set six conference passing records and was named the Big Eight Offensive Player of the Year. Don Goode and John Bryant were the team captains. Quarterback David Jaynes, became the first and as of the 2017 voting, the only Jayhawk to be a Heisman Trophy finalist, finishing in 4th place in the voting receiving 65 first place votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095751-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Kansas State Wildcats football team\nThe 1973 Kansas State Wildcats football team represented Kansas State University in the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. The team's head football coach was Vince Gibson. The Wildcats played their home games in KSU Stadium. 1973 saw the wildcats finish with a record of 5\u20136 overall and a 2\u20135 record in Big Eight Conference play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095752-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Kecskem\u00e9t level crossing disaster\nThe 1973 Kecskem\u00e9t level crossing disaster occurred at Kecskem\u00e9t, Hungary on January 30, 1973. A commuter train smashed into a regular route bus which was weaving around the half boom barriers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095752-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Kecskem\u00e9t level crossing disaster\nAt least thirty-seven people were killed and eighteen people were injured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095752-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Kecskem\u00e9t level crossing disaster, Special circumstances\nMost of the trains on this line are stopping trains, and as the platform was located within the warning zone of the level crossing, the warning times were necessarily longer than would be the case of a level crossing located away from any station, say 90 seconds instead of 30 seconds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 61], "content_span": [62, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095752-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Kecskem\u00e9t level crossing disaster, Special circumstances\nLocal drivers knew this and many came to the conclusion that it would do no harm to weave around the barriers for the first period of warning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 61], "content_span": [62, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095752-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Kecskem\u00e9t level crossing disaster, Special circumstances\nOn the day of the accident, a train was running that did not conform to the normal pattern. It ran express without stopping at the station, so that the warning time was reduced to the standard 30 seconds. Some road traffic including the bus assumed that the longer 90 second warning time still applied, and was thus caught out when this did not apply.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 61], "content_span": [62, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095752-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Kecskem\u00e9t level crossing disaster, Level crossing predictors\nIdeally the level crossing warning times should be the same for all trains. This can be implemented with so-called predictor circuits which are made by a number of manufacturers. However predictors have certain limitations; they cannot always be installed where there is complicated pointwork, and sometimes where the lines are electrified. It may also be possible that the type of predictor available in 1973, and which may have had to be bought with hard currency, were less able to handle these problems.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095753-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Kent State Golden Flashes football team\nThe 1973 Kent State Golden Flashes football team was an American football team that represented Kent State University in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. In their third season under head coach Don James, the Golden Flashes compiled a 9\u20132 record (4\u20131 against MAC opponents), finished in second place in the MAC, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 300 to 131. Nick Saban was a graduate assistant on James' staff during the 1973 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095754-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Kentucky Derby\nThe 1973 Kentucky Derby was the 99th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. Secretariat won the Derby in a record time of 1:59+2\u20445, 2+1\u20442 lengths ahead of Sham, while Our Native finished in third position. Of the thirteen horses that entered and started the race, all horses completed the event. The event was viewed in person by a then-record crowd of 134,476, while also being broadcast both on television and over the radio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095754-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Kentucky Derby\nIn the days leading up to the race, Secretariat was seen as the favorite to win by many; however there were doubts about him following a third-place finish at the Wood Memorial Stakes two weeks prior to the Derby. In the wake of Secretariat's loss, Angle Light and, in particular, Sham were the horses that were seen as the most likely to win the Derby, aside from Secretariat. Many sportswriters believed that the horses in the field possessed great speed and thought the course record would be broken.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095754-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Kentucky Derby\nShecky Greene took the lead first and led for the majority of the first seven furlongs. Sham took the lead from Shecky Greene near the three quarter mile mark. As the horses entered the homestretch, Secretariat passed Sham in the final furlong and distanced himself to consolidate his lead. Secretariat would go on to win the Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes in the succeeding weeks, thus becoming the ninth horse to complete the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095754-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Kentucky Derby, Pre-race coverage\nThirteen horses entered the Derby, which could have at most twenty participants. Horse owners had to pay a final entry fee of $2,500 to have their horses officially entered. The field was larger than anticipated because of new entries following Secretariat's loss at the Wood Memorial Stakes in New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095754-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Kentucky Derby, Pre-race coverage\nThe Wood Memorial had been the last prep race for three year-olds before the Kentucky Derby. It was a 1+1\u20448 mile contest held two weeks prior at Aqueduct Racetrack. Angle Light, whom groom Edward Sweat called a \"very quiet horse,\" won the race by a length ahead of Sham, while Secretariat finished in third, four lengths behind. Secretariat's third-place finish led spectators and sportswriters to question his ability and health; but it was later thought that his performance in the Wood had been affected by a mouth abscess discovered prior to the race. It was his first defeat since he had finished fourth in his first race and had been relegated from first to second place because of an infraction during the Champagne Stakes, both of which occurred during his two-year-old campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 827]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095754-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Kentucky Derby, Pre-race coverage\nSecretariat was nonetheless the morning line favorite of the Derby entrants, despite losing the Wood. This was because he had been 1972 American Horse of the Year for a two-year-old campaign that featured seven victories in nine starts. Secretariat also won the two races he had entered prior to the Wood Memorial, the Gotham and Bay Shore Stakes. Sham's trainer, Frank \"Pancho\" Martin, stated that Secretariat was the horse to beat and the only way to \"knock\" the horse was to beat him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095754-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Kentucky Derby, Pre-race coverage\nSham, who had won the Santa Anita Derby, was seen as the most formidable challenger to Secretariat in the Derby because of his finish ahead of Secretariat in the Wood and his Santa Anita victory. Coming off the heels of his victory at the Wood, Angle Light was seen as a threat to win. Angle Light was also trained by Lucien Laurin along with Secretariat, and thus Secretariat and Angle Light were coupled for betting purposes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095754-0006-0001", "contents": "1973 Kentucky Derby, Pre-race coverage\nFlamingo Stakes winner Our Native finished first or second in seven of his nine starts during the 1973 season, causing him to be named as a contender. Blue Grass Stakes winner My Gallant and Shecky Greene, who won the Fountain of Youth Stakes, were both trained in Chicago by Lou Goldline, which also resulted in their odds being coupled. Goldline said the two horses were similar and would do well at Churchill Downs because they both liked fast tracks. Impecunious, who was victorious in the Arkansas Derby, was initially entered in the race, but withdrew two days before because of a bruised heel. None of the competing horses had been sired by a previous Derby winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 711]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095754-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Kentucky Derby, Pre-race coverage\nFlorida Derby winner Royal and Regal had been suffering some problems with his feet going into the race and was seen as a horse that could potentially be scratched before the race began. Shecky Greene, Angle Light, and Royal and Regal were thought to be the only horses in the field that had \"appreciable early speed\" and would challenge to be the leader out of the gates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095754-0007-0001", "contents": "1973 Kentucky Derby, Pre-race coverage\nMy Gallant was to be ridden by Angel Cordero, but Cordero was suspended for ten days starting the day of the Derby for a rules infraction on a race on May 2. Braulio Baeza was chosen to jockey My Gallant, after being dropped by the owners of Shecky Greene in advance of the race because they were unsure whether that horse would be entered into the Derby. Larry Adams was ultimately selected as the jockey for Shecky Greene. With the speed of the horses entered, many thought that course record of 2:00 would be broken.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095754-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Kentucky Derby, Pre-race coverage\nChicago Tribune writer David Condon chose Shecky Greene to win the race because he felt the course was suited for him and because his great grandfather was Bull Lea, who sired three Derby winners. Condon picked Warbucks as his second-place finisher because Warbucks' trainer, Don Combs, trained the 1970 Kentucky Derby winner Dust Commander and his jockey, Bill Hartack, was \"long overdue\" for a win and would have Warbucks near the front. Gerald Strine of The Washington Post believed Sham could win the race if he allowed Shecky Greene or Royal and Regal lead the majority of the race and made a move towards the end. Strine picked Sham to win and My Gallant to finish second.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 717]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095754-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Kentucky Derby, Event details\nDerby officials set the official post-time at 5:40 PM EDT. It was broadcast over television and radio through CBS and WCBS, respectively. Win Elliot served as the commentator for the pre-race coverage, while Ray Haight announced it for the third consecutive year. All horses competing weighed 126 pounds. The prize money for the race was set at $198,800. The first through fourth placed horses received $155,050, $25,000, $12,500, and $5,000, respectively. The weather during the Derby was clear and the course conditions were fast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095754-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 Kentucky Derby, Event details\nThe official attendance of the event was 134,476, of which 70,000 were estimated to be in the infield of Churchill Downs. This surpassed the previous Derby record of 130,564; however the record lasted only a year as the 1974 edition attracted 163,628 spectators. Dwight Chapin of Los Angeles Times and author Timothy Capps credited the increased attendance due to Secretariat's loss at the Wood.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095754-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 Kentucky Derby, Race summary\nTwice a Prince reared in the starting gate, which delayed the start. Out of the starting gate, Shecky Greene set the pace for the field, while race favorite Secretariat started in last place. Exiting the gate, Sham hit his mouth against the gate and subsequently bumped into Navajo before gaining proper stride. Sham briefly took the lead around the quarter-mile marker, but Shecky Greene quickly retook the lead. Beginning the first turn, Secretariat had moved ahead of only two horses; however, in the next quarter-mile Secretariat moved into sixth position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095754-0011-0001", "contents": "1973 Kentucky Derby, Race summary\nA half-mile in, Shecky Greene maintained a three length lead over Gold Bag, but his pace had slowed compared to the first quarter. Sham remained close to the front of the field within the top four for the first half of the race; he moved into second position as the field reached the half-mile post. At the three-quarters post, at the start of the homestretch, Shecky Greene began to fade and Sham overtook him to move into first going into the final furlong. Secretariat, who had passed his competitors on the outside throughout the race, overtook Sham in the final furlong and pulled ahead, finishing 2+1\u20442 horse lengths in front of Sham. Our Native took third and Forego, who went on to win multiple Eclipse Awards as an older horse, was fourth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 782]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095754-0012-0000", "contents": "1973 Kentucky Derby, Race summary\nSecretariat's winning time of 1:59+2\u20445 and last quarter mile in 23 seconds were both records for the Derby. In addition, he had run each quarter-mile faster than before, with times of 25+1\u20445, 24, 23+4\u20445, 23+2\u20445, and 23 seconds. Furthermore, Secretariat became the first horse in Derby history to run the race in under 2 minutes at the 11\u20444 mile distance. Sham maintained his stride and crossed the line in second place, eight lengths ahead of third-place finisher Our Native, who had lost ground on the final turn into the homestretch. Sham also broke the previous course record with a time of 1:59+4\u20445. Shecky Greene, who led for most of the race, finished in sixth position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 710]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095754-0013-0000", "contents": "1973 Kentucky Derby, Analysis\nThe win in the Kentucky Derby marked Secretariat's third win in the four races he had run as a three-year-old. After the race, jockey Ron Turcotte stated, in response to Secretariat's last place start, he \"just dropped my hand on him and let him run his own race.\" With Secretariat's victory, trainer Lucien Laurin had his second consecutive win in the Derby, as Riva Ridge won in 1972. Turcotte accomplished a similar feat as he had ridden Riva Ridge, marking the third time a jockey had won in the Derby in consecutive years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 29], "content_span": [30, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095754-0014-0000", "contents": "1973 Kentucky Derby, Analysis\nWhen Secretariat pulled alongside Sham, Sham's jockey, Laffit Pincay Jr., felt Sham had a lot left, \"but that other horse was just too much.\" Pincay stated that in future races, he planned to \"wait a little longer before making my move.\" Donald Brumfield, Our Native's jockey said Twice a Prince kicked Our Native in the hoof and body while rearing in the starting gate. This forced Brumfield to dismount and adjust the saddle, delaying the Derby's start. Despite this, Brumfield stated he did not \"want to make excuses, everything considered, my horse did fine.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 29], "content_span": [30, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095754-0015-0000", "contents": "1973 Kentucky Derby, Analysis\nBetting on the ten races held that day at Churchill Downs totaled to $7,627,965, breaking the previous single-day record for American horse racing events of $7,164,717. Off-track betting on the Kentucky Derby reached $3,050,194, which was included in the previous record total.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 29], "content_span": [30, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095754-0016-0000", "contents": "1973 Kentucky Derby, Analysis\nSecretariat went on to participate in the Preakness Stakes two weeks later, where he finished in first. Sham was second, again, by a margin of 2+1\u20442 lengths. Three weeks after the Preakness, the Belmont Stakes featured a five-horse field. Secretariat won by 31 lengths with a time of 2:24 for the mile and a half, both course records in their own right.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 29], "content_span": [30, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095754-0016-0001", "contents": "1973 Kentucky Derby, Analysis\nThrough his combined victories at the Belmont Stakes, Preakness Stakes, and Kentucky Derby, Secretariat became the ninth horse to complete the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing, and the first horse since Citation in 1948, ending a 25-year period without a Triple Crown winner. Secretariat's times in all three Triple Crown races were course records and still stand to this day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 29], "content_span": [30, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095755-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Kentucky Wildcats football team\nThe 1973 Kentucky Wildcats football team was an American football team that represented the University of Kentucky in the Southeastern Conference (SEC) during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. In their first season under head coach Fran Curci, the Wildcats compiled a 5\u20136 record (3\u20134 against conference opponents) and finished in a three-way tie for fifth place in the SEC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095755-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Kentucky Wildcats football team\nThis was Kentucky's first season playing at Commonwealth Stadium. The Wildcats christened the facility with a 31-26 victory vs. Virginia Tech in their season opener.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095755-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Kentucky Wildcats football team\nThe team's statistical leaders included Sonny Collins with 1,213 rushing yards and 78 points scored, Mike Fanuzzi with 572 passing yards, and Elmore Stephens with 282 receiving yards. Three Kentucky players received first-team honors from the Associated Press (AP) and/or United Press International (UPI) on the 1973 All-SEC football team: Sonny Collins (AP, UPI); and end Jim McCollum (UPI); defensive back Darryl Bishop (UPI).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095756-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Kerrier District Council election\nKerrier was a non-metropolitan district in Cornwall, England, created by the Local Government Act 1972. Elections were held to the new authorities in 1973, and they acted as \"shadow authorities\" until the handover date. Elections were held on 7 June. All 18 divisions were up for election, covering 42 seats across single and multiple-member wards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095756-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Kerrier District Council election, Results, By Ward\nThe electoral division results listed below are in alphabetical order, as described at the time, including numbered divisions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 56], "content_span": [57, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095757-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 1973 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship was the 79th staging of the Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Kilkenny County Board.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095757-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Kilkenny Senior Hurling Championship\nFenians won the championship after a 7-08 to 5-10 defeat of James Stephens in the final. It was their third championship title overall and their second title in succession.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095758-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 King's Cup\nThe 1973 King's Cup finals were held from December 16 until December 25, 1973, once again in Bangkok. This was the 6th edition of the international football competition. Some results are not clear of the outcome.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095758-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 King's Cup\nThe tournaments format was changed once again and reverted to two groups of three teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095759-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Kings Cross strippers' strike\nThe 1973 Kings Cross strippers' strike was a strike among strippers working in clubs in the Sydney, Australia suburb of Kings Cross. Strippers went on strike from October to December 1973 over poor wages and working conditions and the sackings of workers who protested. The strippers received some support from the wider trade union movement, and emerged successful, with the reinstatement of striking workers and improved wages and working conditions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095759-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Kings Cross strippers' strike\nIn October 1973, a number of strippers at two major Kings Cross strip clubs, the Pink Panther and the Staccato, joined the Actors Equity union. Janine Gair, a stripper who had been a union member for several years, discovered that the union had agreed to accept strippers and encouraged her colleagues to join. The strippers wanted to take action to improve their working conditions, but the union wanted to gather more information first, and the union organiser representing them, Colin Voight, went on leave for two weeks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095759-0001-0001", "contents": "1973 Kings Cross strippers' strike\nThe strippers, frustrated, contacted television program A Current Affair, for which four of them were sacked on 29 October. Another seven workers had gone out on strike demanding their reinstatement by 1 November, and by mid-November another five were on strike, for a total of sixteen. It was reported that the last group had walked out in the middle of the 11.30 show on a Friday evening. The union was initially dismissive of strippers' concerns about violence and the urgency of change, but subsequently changed their view. The clubs were owned by Peter Farrugia, who was rumoured to be a frontman for organised crime figure Abe Saffron. The clubs brought in non-union labour from Adelaide, reportedly from other clubs that Saffron owned; the move was met with a picket from the striking workers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 835]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095759-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Kings Cross strippers' strike\nThe strippers complained that they were working more hours for less pay than they had in the past, had dressing room and safety facilities that were \"almost non-existent\", were fined for calling in sick or if they refused to perform for the manager at the conclusion of a shift, and were fired for not working Christmas Eve or Good Friday. They drew up a log of sixteen claims sought, including a fee for extra performances, the ability to decline extra performances, and a ban on requiring strippers to perform in films. The clubs reportedly paid the lowest rates in Kings Cross.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095759-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Kings Cross strippers' strike\nOn 9 November 1973, Actors Equity organiser Voight was seriously assaulted by bouncers while attempting to enter the Pink Panther. The boyfriend of one of the strippers had also been assaulted earlier in the strike. By mid-November, with no progress three weeks into the strike, Actors Equity requested that the State Labor Council cut off all supplies, goods and services to the clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095759-0003-0001", "contents": "1973 Kings Cross strippers' strike\nThe State Labor Council approved the ban on 15 November, cutting off \"all services and goods, including mail, water, electricity, food, drinks, cigarettes and tobacco\", and seeking a meeting with Premier Robert Askin about violence in the entertainment industry. The council's acting secretary, John Ducker, a powerful right-wing Catholic unionist, released a statement that \"there is no place for this sort of business in Australia\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095759-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Kings Cross strippers' strike\nBy 20 November, it was reported that the clubs had offered an increase in wages to $150 per week and some improvements in working conditions, but had refused to re-employ all the strikers. The approach of the striking workers towards reinstatement was described at that time as \"one back all back\". Gair told media that she was \"delighted by the union movement's support\" and that \"it will force the club's management to realise that trade unions are not to be laughed at\". She stated that she believed they would get their jobs back and that the workers hoped for a management change.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 620]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095759-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Kings Cross strippers' strike\nOn 23 November, the striking workers held a protest march along Darlinghurst Road through Kings Cross to the El Alamein Fountain. A \"shoving duel\" between demonstrators and \"heavies\" took place as they passed the Pink Panther. The march was addressed by state Labor MP George Petersen, federal Building Workers' Industrial Union secretary Pat Clancy and the federal organiser of Actors Equity, N. Kirkpatrick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095759-0005-0001", "contents": "1973 Kings Cross strippers' strike\nClancy announced that he would request that the Australian Council of Trade Unions support the state black ban on the clubs, and Petersen told media that \"it is incredible that these clubs are allowed to operate under conditions that are illegal\". The Builders Labourers Federation leadership were also present at pickets and demonstrations during the strike.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095759-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Kings Cross strippers' strike\nOn 26 November, the Staccato club blew up in an explosion caused by petrol spread over the club's floor, which gutted the club. On 30 November, the Builders Labourers Federation put a work ban on reconstruction until both the strike and the assault on Voight had been settled. The fire was started by club and organised crime figure James Macartney Anderson, a friend of Farrugia's. Anderson claimed that he had seen two men \"acting suspiciously\", had stopped to investigate, and had not smelled petrol before he lit a cigarette, which started the fire. Farrugia supported Anderson's story, and police told a 1974 inquest that Anderson had \"inadvertently\" started the fire. Author Duncan McNab wrote that Farrugia \"had wanted to get out of that particular strip club, which was losing him money\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 831]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095759-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Kings Cross strippers' strike\nOn 7 December, strippers and supporters picketed outside the Pink Panther, at which Kirkpatrick read a message from state Opposition Leader Neville Wran criticising the lack of award wages for the strippers. Gair announced that, as spokesperson for the striking workers, she had received five death threats during the strike to that date. Kirkpatrick sought entry to the club under union entry laws with a police escort, but was refused, and announced an intention to prosecute the club for breaching the Industrial Arbitration Act. It was announced at that time that the State Labour Council would assist the striking workers in negotiating with the club to end the strike.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 709]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095759-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Kings Cross strippers' strike\nThe strike ended on 12 December 1973, when the Pink Panther agreed to reinstate the striking workers with improved working conditions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095760-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 LFF Lyga\nThe 1973 LFF Lyga was the 52nd season of the LFF Lyga football competition in Lithuania. It was contested by 26 teams, and Nevezis Kedainiai won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095761-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 LPGA Championship\nThe 1973 LPGA Championship was the 19th LPGA Championship, held June 7\u201310 at Pleasant Valley Country Club in Sutton, Massachusetts, southeast of Worcester.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095761-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 LPGA Championship\nMary Mills, the 1964 champion, won her second LPGA Championship, a stroke ahead of runner-up Betty Burfeindt. She entered the final round one stroke behind the three co-leaders; and carded a three-under 70 to gain her third and final major title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095762-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 LPGA Tour\nThe 1973 LPGA Tour was the 24th season since the LPGA Tour officially began in 1950. The season ran from January 4 to November 4. The season consisted of 34 official money events. Kathy Whitworth won the most tournaments, seven. She also led the money list with earnings of $82,864.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095762-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 LPGA Tour\nThere were four first-time winners in 1973: Jocelyne Bourassa, Mary Lou Crocker, Sharon Miller, and Carole Jo Skala. Mickey Wright won the last of her 82 LPGA events in 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095762-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 LPGA Tour, Tournament results\nThe following table shows all the official money events for the 1973 season. \"Date\" is the ending date of the tournament. The numbers in parentheses after the winners' names are the number of wins they had on the tour up to and including that event. Majors are shown in bold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 34], "content_span": [35, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095763-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 LSU Tigers football team\nThe 1973 LSU Tigers football team represented Louisiana State University (LSU) during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. Under head coach Charles McClendon, the Tigers had a record of 9\u20133 with a Southeastern Conference record of 5\u20131. It was McClendon's twelfth season as head coach at LSU.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095764-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 La Fl\u00e8che Wallonne\nThe 1973 La Fl\u00e8che Wallonne was the 37th edition of La Fl\u00e8che Wallonne cycle race and was held on 19 April 1973. The race started in Verviers and finished in Marcinelle. The race was won by Andr\u00e9 Dierickx of the Flandria team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095765-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Labour Party Shadow Cabinet election\nElections to the Labour Party's Shadow Cabinet (more formally, its \"Parliamentary Committee\") occurred in November 1973. In addition to the 12 members elected, the Leader (Harold Wilson), Deputy Leader (Edward Short), Labour Chief Whip (Bob Mellish), Chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party (Fred Willey), Labour Leader in the House of Lords (Baron Shackleton), and Labour Chief Whip in the Lords (Baroness Llewelyn-Davies) were automatically members. The Labour Lords elected one further member, Baron Champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095766-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Lady Gotham Tournament\nThe 1973 Lady Gotham Tournament was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts at the Felt Forum in New York City, United States. The event was part of the USLTA Circuit of the 1973 Virginia Slims WTA Tour and was held from March 28 through April 1, 1973. Only a singles competition was played. Second-seeded Chris Evert won the title and earned $8,000 first-prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095767-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Lafayette Leopards football team\nThe 1973 Lafayette Leopards football team was an American football team that represented Lafayette College as an independent during the 1973 NCAA Division II football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095767-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Lafayette Leopards football team\nIn their third year under head coach Neil Putnam, the Leopards compiled a 6\u20133\u20131 record. Thomas Kubler and James Nolan were the team captains.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095767-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Lafayette Leopards football team\nLafayette played its home games at Fisher Field on College Hill in Easton, Pennsylvania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095768-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Lamar Cardinals football team\nThe 1973 Lamar Cardinals football team represented Lamar University in the 1973 NCAA Division II football season as a member of the Southland Conference. The 1973 was the first season for the Cardinals to play in the new division created as a result of NCAA reorganization. The Cardinals played their home games at Cardinal Stadium now named Provost Umphrey Stadium in Beaumont, Texas. The Cardinals finished the 1973 season with a 5\u20135 overall record and a 3\u20132 conference record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095769-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Langbaurgh Borough Council election\nElections for Langbaurgh Borough Council took place in May 1973. The entire Langbaurgh Borough Council was up for election as it was the first election since its formation. The Labour Party won the most seats but there was no overall control of the council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095770-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Laotian coup d'\u00e9tat attempt\nThe 1973 Laotian coup d'\u00e9tat attempt was a final attempt to stave off a communist coalition government of the Kingdom of Laos. Exiled General Thao Ma returned from the Kingdom of Thailand on 20 August 1973 to take over Wattay International Airport outside the capital of Vientiane. Commandeering an AT-28, he led air strikes upon the office and home of his hated rival, General Kouprasith Abhay. While Thao Ma was unsuccessfully bombing Kouprasith, loyal Royalist troops retook the airfield. Shot down upon his return, Thao Ma was hauled from his airplane's wreckage and executed. The coalition agreement was signed 14 September 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 667]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095770-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Laotian coup d'\u00e9tat attempt, Overview\nPolitical factionalism within the upper ranks of the Royal Lao Army led to a series of coups in the Kingdom of Laos during the Laotian Civil War of the 1960s. When Phoumi Nosavan was forced into exile in February 1965, he could no longer use his influence to shield the officers in his rightwing faction. General Thao Ma, commander of the Royal Lao Air Force was one of those officers; he also went into exile in the neighboring Thailand, after his unsuccessful 1966 coup failed to take over the kingdom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095770-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Laotian coup d'\u00e9tat attempt, Background\nIn 1973, former Laotian General Thao Ma was living in exile in Bangkok, Thailand, where he worked as an air dispatcher for Air France for $270 per month. By the beginning of August, a deal was being thrashed out for a coalition government that would include the Laotian communist insurrectionists. Several Royal Lao Army officers traveled to Bangkok to keep Thao Ma posted on events. Rumors of a potential coup by Thao Ma began to surface in the Laotian capital of Vientiane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095770-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Laotian coup d'\u00e9tat attempt, The coup\nDespite the advance warnings, Thao Ma managed to surprise the populace of Vientiane. At 05:00 on 20 August 1973, he and about 60 of his followers boated across the Mekong River into the capital. Thao Ma was greeted enthusiastically by RLAF personnel at Wattay Airport, and began handing out blue and white scarves of allegiance to his followers. While Bounleut Saycocie took an armored car into town to secure the radio station, other rebels captured the bank and Prime Minister Souvanna Phouma's vacant house. At 07:00, Bounleut began broadcasting anti-communist communiques from the insurrectionists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 645]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095770-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Laotian coup d'\u00e9tat attempt, The coup\nWith his underlings attending to the seizure of Vientiane, Thao Ma commandeered an AT-28 fighter-bomber. Accounts disagree on the number of sorties flown by Thao Ma and his wingmen. While contemporary news accounts state Thao Ma flew at least three times, historians note only that he was accompanied by six loyal pilots. It is agreed that his principal target was a fellow general whom he hated, Kouprasith Abhay. Both Kouprasith's home and office were bombed by the AT-28s, but missed him. As Royalist troops began to rally against the coup, American colonel Al Degroote drove to the home of the commanding general of the Air Force. General Sourith Don Sasorith refused to come out of hiding, and lurked in his house with a blue and white scarf handy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 796]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095770-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Laotian coup d'\u00e9tat attempt, The coup\nEven with Sourith's refusal to fight against it, the coup began to unravel. Royalist troops promptly recaptured the airfield. A Royalist soldier manning a truck-mounted machine gun managed to hit Thao Ma's aircraft. He crash-landed his smoking plane on Wattay's overrun area. An Air America crash truck crew fished him from the wreckage. He was capable of sitting up on his stretcher and thanking his rescuers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095770-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Laotian coup d'\u00e9tat attempt, The coup\nBy 11:00, the coup was over. Thao Ma was tossed into a truck and taken to Kouprasith's headquarters where Kouprasith had his bodyguard shoot Thao Ma.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095770-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Laotian coup d'\u00e9tat attempt, Aftermath\nThere were ten killed on either side, and 14 insurrectionists captured. Bounluet Saycocie stole a helicopter to escape.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095770-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Laotian coup d'\u00e9tat attempt, Aftermath\nOn 14 September 1973, the agreement to establish the Third Coalition Government was signed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095771-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Larne Borough Council election\nElections to Larne Borough Council were held on 30 May 1973 on the same day as the other Northern Irish local government elections. The election used three district electoral areas to elect a total of 15 councillors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095771-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Larne Borough Council election, Districts results, Area A\n1973: 1 x Alliance, 1 x UUP, 1 x Loyalist, 1 x Independent", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 62], "content_span": [63, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095771-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Larne Borough Council election, Districts results, Area C\n1973: 4 x Loyalist, 2 x Alliance, 1 x Independent", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 62], "content_span": [63, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095772-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Latvian SSR Higher League, Overview\nIt was contested by 12 teams, and VEF won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095773-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Lebowan legislative election\nParliamentary elections were held in Lebowa on 11 April 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095773-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Lebowan legislative election, Electoral system\nThe election was made on the basis of 40 seats. In addition, there were 60 ex officio seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 51], "content_span": [52, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095774-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Leeds City Council election\nThe first elections to the newly created Leeds City Council were held on 10 May 1973, with the entirety of the 96 seat council \u2013 three seats for each of the 32 wards \u2013 up for vote. The Local Government Act 1972 stipulated that the elected members were to shadow and eventually take over from the predecessor corporation on 1 April 1974. The order in which the councillors were elected dictated their term serving, with third-place candidates serving two years and up for re-election in 1975, second-placed three years expiring in 1976 and 1st-placed five years until 1978.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 605]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095774-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Leeds City Council election\nAs well as replacing the County Borough of Leeds, the new council included:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095774-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Leeds City Council election, Election result\nThis result has the following consequences for the total number of seats on the council after the elections:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095775-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Lehigh Engineers football team\nThe 1973 Lehigh Engineers football team was an American football team that represented Lehigh University as an independent during the 1973 NCAA Division II football season. Lehigh lost in the quarterfinal round of the national playoffs, and won the Lambert Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095775-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Lehigh Engineers football team\nIn their ninth year under head coach Fred Dunlap, the Engineers compiled a 7\u20134\u20131 record (7\u20133\u20131 in the regular season). Kim McQuilken and Roger McFillin were the team captains.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095775-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Lehigh Engineers football team\nAlthough they did not appear at any point in the 1973 small-college AP or UPI national polls, the Engineers earned a share of the Lambert Cup, awarded to the best team from a mid-sized college in the East. Lehigh shared the honor with Delaware, which had started the year ranked No. 1 and ended at No. 10.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095775-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Lehigh Engineers football team\nBoth Delaware and Lehigh also qualified for the first-ever NCAA Division II national playoff. Lehigh lost a road game to No. 2 Western Kentucky.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095775-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Lehigh Engineers football team\nLehigh played its home games at Taylor Stadium on the university campus in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095777-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Liberty Bowl\nThe 1973 Liberty Bowl was a college football postseason bowl game played on December 17, 1973, in Memphis, Tennessee. In the 15th edition of the Liberty Bowl, the NC State Wolfpack defeated the Kansas Jayhawks, 31\u201318.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095777-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Liberty Bowl, Background\nThe Wolfpack went a perfect 6\u20130 in Atlantic Coast Conference play, winning their first ACC title since 1968. This was the first time the Wolfpack made bowl appearances in consecutive seasons. Kansas tied for second in the Big Eight Conference but was badly thinned by injuries to key personnel. This was their first bowl appearance since 1969. This was North Carolina State's third Liberty Bowl in 10 years (1963 and 1967 being the other two times).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095777-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Liberty Bowl, Game summary\nWith the game a 10\u201310 tie early in the third quarter, Kansas' Bruce Adams called for a fair catch on a punt, but in the midst of heavy traffic he fell down on the field, with the ball bouncing off him. NC State recovered the ball deep in Kansas territory. Adams' argument that he was tripped were ignored by the referees (television replay appeared to show that he, indeed, had been tripped). The Wolfpack soon scored two plays later, and with momentum in their favor, scored twice more. Stan Fritts went for 83 yards on 18 carries in an MVP effort.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 31], "content_span": [32, 581]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095777-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Liberty Bowl, Aftermath\nThe Jayhawks have not returned to the Liberty Bowl since this game. In the next 30 years, they went to bowl games only 5 times. While the Wolfpack also have not returned to the Liberty Bowl since this game, they played in 16 bowl games over the next 30 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 28], "content_span": [29, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095778-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Liechtenstein referendums\nThree referendums were held in Liechtenstein during 1973. The first was held on 11 February on introducing women's suffrage, but was rejected by 55.9% of voters. The second was held on 14 October on changing the electoral system to a candidate-based proportional system one, and was approved by 55.8% of voters. The third on 14 October was on reducing the electoral threshold from 18% to 8%, and was approved by 67.9% of voters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095779-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito season\nLiga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito's 1973 season was the club's 43rd year of existence, the 20th year in professional football and the 1st in the Segunda Categor\u00eda.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095780-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Limavady District Council election\nElections to Limavady Borough Council were held on 30 May 1973 on the same day as the other Northern Irish local government elections. The election used three district electoral areas to elect a total of 15 councillors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095780-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Limavady District Council election, Districts results, Area A\n1973: 3 x United Unionist, 2 x SDLP, 1 x Alliance", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095780-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Limavady District Council election, Districts results, Area B\n1973: 2 x United Unionist, 2 x SDLP, 1 x Independent", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095781-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 1973 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship was the 79th staging of the Limerick Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Limerick County Board.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095781-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Limerick Senior Hurling Championship\nOn 25 November 1973, Kilmallock won the championship after a 2-12 to 2-04 defeat of Killeedy in the final. It was their third championship title overall and their first championship title since 1967.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095782-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Lincoln by-election\nThe Lincoln by-election of 1 March 1973 saw the re-election of Dick Taverne as Member of Parliament for Lincoln as a Democratic Labour representative, after Taverne's pro-Common Market views saw him repudiated by the Lincoln Constituency Labour Party. The by-election led to considerable speculation, stoked by Taverne, about the formation of a new centre party, but Taverne was unable to make his victory last.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095782-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Lincoln by-election, Background\nDick Taverne had first been elected in Lincoln at a previous by-election in 1962. His selection then had been controversial as the shortlist had been restricted to three supporters of Hugh Gaitskell in order to stop a left-wing candidate winning; a group of left-wingers led by Leo Beckett had walked out of the selection declaring that the three were \"all of a kind\". The left-wing faction soon gained ground in the local party although no moves were made against Taverne.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095782-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Lincoln by-election, Background\nWhen the Labour Party went into opposition after 1970, tension between the Member of Parliament and his local party soon grew. In January 1971 Taverne threatened to denounce Don Gossop, district secretary of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers, if Gossop called for strike action against the Industrial Relations Bill.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095782-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Lincoln by-election, Background, European issue\nOn 5 July 1971 a committee of the local party voted to send to the annual Labour Party conference a motion highly critical of the application to join the European Communities which called upon all Labour MPs to oppose. At the conference, Leo Beckett called for a \"vote of no-confidence against Mr Taverne if he votes in the Tory lobby\"; however, less than a month later Taverne broke the Labour Party whip to vote in favour of accepting the terms and joining the European Common Market.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 52], "content_span": [53, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095782-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Lincoln by-election, Background, Moves to deselect Taverne\nAttention was drawn to the escalating row by Granada Television's World in Action which broadcast a programme on 25 October showing Taverne being confronted by his opponents; Leo Beckett and Don Gossop were said to have \"emerged with badly scarred reputations\". However, at a special meeting of the General Management Committee of the local party on 16 November a motion expressing lack of confidence in Taverne was narrowly passed. Taverne was briefly saved on 6 December when the motion (which had to be passed by two successive meetings) saw a tied vote and the party executive's motion to not take any further action was approved.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 63], "content_span": [64, 698]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095782-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Lincoln by-election, Background, Moves to deselect Taverne\nThrough 1972 the left gained further ground in the local party and in June they made another move. Taverne organised an opinion poll in the Lincoln constituency which found that 71% said he was right to have voted in accordance with his own views rather than those of his local party, and 79% approved of him as their MP. However, the poll failed to persuade the local party, and at a meeting on 19 June Taverne was \"asked to retire\" by a vote of 75 to 50. Taverne insisted that he would appeal to the Labour Party's National Executive Committee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 63], "content_span": [64, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095782-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Lincoln by-election, Announcement of resignation\nOn 6 October Taverne announced his intention to resign his seat and to stand in the resulting by-election as a \"Democratic Labour\" candidate. He was immediately backed by a poll commissioned by London Weekend Television which found 49% of Lincoln voters were most likely to vote for him, 16% for the Conservative Party, 14% for the official Labour Party candidate, with 2% for others and 19% undecided.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095782-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Lincoln by-election, Announcement of resignation\nTaverne's appointment as Steward of the Manor of Northstead did not take effect until 16 October. As he had been a Labour Party MP, the timing of the by-election was up to the Labour Party Chief Whip, Bob Mellish, who declared his preference to wait until the new year. Taverne appealed for a polling day before Christmas. Liberal Party chief whip David Steel considered intervening to 'move the writ' for the by-election, which provoked Mellish to threaten \"open warfare\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 53], "content_span": [54, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095782-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Lincoln by-election, Candidates\nAfter Taverne himself, the first candidate to declare was Reg Simmerson, chairman of \"Democratic Conservatives Against the Common Market\", who said that as Labour voters would have the choice of pro- and anti-EEC candidates, Conservative voters should have the same choice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095782-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Lincoln by-election, Candidates\nLincoln Labour Party shortlisted six candidates as part of the selection of official candidate. They were David Winnick, who had been MP for Croydon South, Gerald McNamara, brother of Hull North MP Kevin McNamara, journalist Max Madden, lecturer Joshua Bamfield, engineer Robert Dixey, and John Dilks, who was leader of Derby City Council and a management executive with the Derby Cooperative Society. The selection eventually went to Dilks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095782-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 Lincoln by-election, Candidates\nThe Conservatives considered three candidates: Desmond Fennell, a Lincoln-born barrister, Robert V. Jackson, a journalist, and merchant banker Hon. Jonathan Guinness who was chairman of the Monday Club on the party's right-wing. Guinness eventually won the selection, which helped the party neutralise the effect of Simmerson's candidature but caused difficulties. It was claimed in The Spectator that the local party regarded Guinness as tiresome and put little effort into campaigning, reasoning that a Taverne win would cause problems for the Labour Party, although doubt was cast on whether this was an accurate impression.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 664]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095782-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 Lincoln by-election, Candidates\nThere was a dispute within the Liberal Party over whether to stand. Senior members of the party sympathised with Taverne and wanted the party to withdraw in his favour. Peter Hain, chairman of the Young Liberals, demanded a Liberal candidate stand in opposition to Taverne \"who stands on the right of the Labour Party and whose record shows no signs of radicalism\". The party eventually decided not to fight, but its success at the Sutton and Cheam byelection in December 1972 led to increased pressure to stand. Eventually the local party's decision not to fight was endorsed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095782-0012-0000", "contents": "1973 Lincoln by-election, Candidates\nThe candidates list was rounded off with two minor candidates, Jean Justice and Malcolm Waller. Justice, son of a Belgian diplomat and a London property consultant, was chairman of the A6 Murder Committee. The committee's aim was to prove the innocence of James Hanratty who had been hanged in 1962 for the murder of Michael Gregsten. In the mid-1960s, Taverne had served as a Home Office Minister and rejected a plea for a public inquiry into the case.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095782-0012-0001", "contents": "1973 Lincoln by-election, Candidates\nMalcolm Waller formed the \"Majority Rule Party\" which argued that \"the will of the majority of the people shall prevail, even when it conflicts with the will of members of Parliament\". A Mr James Blackwell from Cheshire also telephoned the Returning Officer to ask for nomination papers but did not arrive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095782-0013-0000", "contents": "1973 Lincoln by-election, Campaign\nThe writ for the byelection was issued on 9 February, with polling on 1 March; two other writs for byelections in Labour-held constituencies were moved simultaneously. The Labour Party pulled in a large number of senior shadow cabinet members to speak in support of John Dilks, described by The Times as \"probably unequalled in any byelection\". Taverne, by contrast, organised only one meeting at which others spoke in his support, to which he invited the Bishop of Southwark Mervyn Stockwood and newspaper columnist Bernard Levin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095782-0014-0000", "contents": "1973 Lincoln by-election, Campaign\nDilks insisted that he would campaign on issues like inflation, the future of Lincoln, and the EEC, and predicted Taverne would come third. Guinness' campaign was marked by his maverick public statements, and he had to be \"protected\" by planted questions at a public meeting. He came to be treated as a joke figure by the media, being much quoted when he said that convicted murderers should be given razor blades in order that they could \"do the decent thing\" and save the state the cost of keeping them in jail.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095782-0015-0000", "contents": "1973 Lincoln by-election, Campaign\nThe campaign saw extensive coverage in the press and on broadcast media. On 22 February, The Daily Telegraph reported the results of an opinion poll which showed Taverne had a lead of only 2% over the official Labour candidate, well within the margin of error. However, two opinion polls published on the day of the byelection found Taverne had a substantial lead. Taverne also benefited from strong support from the Lincoln Weekend Chronicle, while the Lincolnshire Echo reported neutrally and did not make an endorsement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095782-0016-0000", "contents": "1973 Lincoln by-election, Results\nAfter such a highly publicised campaign, voter turnout was almost up to that in the previous general election. When the result was announced in the early hours of 2 March, it was clear Taverne had been vindicated:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095782-0017-0000", "contents": "1973 Lincoln by-election, Aftermath\nTaverne's majority was generally regarded as a shock, and was said to have shocked Taverne himself. In September 1973, he announced the formation of the Campaign for Social Democracy \"to play a truly democratic role in changing the course of British politics\". In the snap general election the following February, the Campaign managed to nominate five candidates, specifically targeting Labour left-wingers; they hoped that the Liberal Party would not stand, but this was in vain and the candidates performed poorly. Taverne himself only narrowly retained Lincoln in a close three-way result, and in the October 1974 election the seat was gained by Margaret Jackson for the Labour Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 723]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095783-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Lincolnshire County Council election\nLincolnshire County Council is a non-metropolitan county in the East Midlands of England. It was formed when the Local Government Act 1972 merged the counties of Holland, Kesteven and Lindsey, and held its first election on 12 April 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095783-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Lincolnshire County Council election\nThe Conservatives were the largest party, gaining 34 of the 74 seats. 22 independent candidates were returned, along with 10 Labour councillors, 5 Democratic-Labour nominees and 3 Liberals. The Democratic Labour seats were all won in Lincoln, where six weeks earlier the MP Dick Taverne had triggered a by-election by breaking away from Labour and forming the DLP; they comprised 5 of the 6 city seats, representing a swing from Labour, who had won all of the seats at the last local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095783-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Lincolnshire County Council election, Results by Division\nCandidates suffixed by an asterisk (*) are the winners in their seats, but the exact results of the poll are not included in the sources below.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 62], "content_span": [63, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095783-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Lincolnshire County Council election, Results by Division\nSource: \"Lincoln keeps up its Taverne revolution\" and \"The new Lincs Council\". Lincolnshire Echo. 13 April 1973. p. 9; . Elections Centre (Plymouth University). Retrieved 2 October 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 62], "content_span": [63, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095784-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Lisburn Borough Council election\nElections to Lisburn Borough Council were held on 30 May 1973 on the same day as the other Northern Irish local government elections. The election used five district electoral areas to elect a total of 23 councillors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095784-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Lisburn Borough Council election, Districts results, Area C\n1973: 2 x UUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Vanguard", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095784-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Lisburn Borough Council election, Districts results, Area D\n1973: 3 x UUP, 1 x DUP, 1 x Alliance", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095784-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Lisburn Borough Council election, Districts results, Area E\n1973: 2 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x DUP", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095785-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Little League World Series\nThe 1973 Little League World Series took place between August 21 and August 25 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. The Tainan City Little League of Tainan City, Taiwan, defeated the Cactus Little League of Tucson, Arizona, in the championship game of the 27th Little League World Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095785-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Little League World Series\nThe champions from Taiwan did not allow a run or a hit in the entire tournament, registering no hitters in each of their three tournament games. That feat has yet to be equalled in any other Little League World Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095786-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Liverpool City Council election\nElections to Liverpool City Council were held on 10 May 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095786-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Liverpool City Council election\nFollowing boundary changes, which reduced the number of wards from 40 to 33, three councillors were elected for each ward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095786-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Liverpool City Council election, By Elections\nLow Hill, Smithdown and Speke held on 21st March 1974, before the AGM of April 1st.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 50], "content_span": [51, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095786-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Liverpool City Council election, Council Leadership\nLeader of the Council and Chair of Policy and Finance Committee Cyril Carr", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 56], "content_span": [57, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095786-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Liverpool City Council election, Council Leadership\nDeputy Leader of the Council and Chair of Housing and Planning Committee Bill Smyth", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 56], "content_span": [57, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095786-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Liverpool City Council election, Council Leadership\nLeader of the Opposition and Labour Group John Hamilton (Liverpool)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 56], "content_span": [57, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095787-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Li\u00e8ge\u2013Bastogne\u2013Li\u00e8ge\nThe 1973 Li\u00e8ge\u2013Bastogne\u2013Li\u00e8ge was the 59th edition of the Li\u00e8ge\u2013Bastogne\u2013Li\u00e8ge cycle race and was held on 22 April 1973. The race started and finished in Li\u00e8ge. The race was won by Eddy Merckx of the Molteni team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095788-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Llanelli Borough Council election\nThe first election to Llanelli Borough Council was held in April 1973. It was followed by the 1976 election. On the same day there were elections to the other local authorities and community councils in Wales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095789-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Londonderry City Council election\nThe 1973 Londonderry City Council election took place on 30 May 1973 to elect members of Londonderry City Council in Northern Ireland. This was on the same day as other Northern Irish local elections. The campaign was significant in that, following changes to the election process and districts, Irish nationalist parties were able to take control of the council for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095789-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Londonderry City Council election, Background\nThe election was the first held since the Londonderry Corporation had been reorganised under the Local Government (Boundaries) Act (Northern Ireland) 1971 following accusations of gerrymandering from the Corporation. The vote was also the first to use the single transferable vote method of election for Londonderry council elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095789-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Londonderry City Council election, Background\nDuring the elections, the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), and Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party joined forces as The United Loyalist Group for the Londonderry City Council elections. The group also claimed the backing of the Loyalist Association of Workers, the Ulster Protestant Volunteers, and the Ulster Special Constabulary Association. It was jointly chaired by Gerard Glover, chair of the City of Londonderry and Foyle Unionist Association, and Gordon Hegarty, a parliamentary agent for the DUP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095789-0002-0001", "contents": "1973 Londonderry City Council election, Background\nIt was initially unclear whether the coalition had the backing of the UUP headquarters, but Jim Bailie, the party secretary, stated that \"I am sure whatever they are doing is all right by me\". The group had a four point programme: total defeat of the Irish Republican Army, control of the police to be given to the Northern Ireland Assembly, increased representation of Northern Ireland in the Westminster Parliament, and opposition to a Council of Ireland. The group took over the local headquarters of the UUP, on Kennedy Place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 581]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095789-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Londonderry City Council election, Background\nThe nationalist Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) contested Londonderry City Council elections for the first time since being established in 1970 in protest against abstentionism policies from the Nationalist Party. It stood 19 candidates, the most of any party in the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095789-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Londonderry City Council election, Background\nThe Alliance Party of Northern Ireland stood 15 candidates, while the Derry Republican Club, backed by the Official Irish Republican Army (OIRA) stood 12, as did the United Loyalists. The Nationalist Party stood 10, including Fergus McAteer, son of the party leader, while there was a single Northern Ireland Labour Party candidate. Independent candidates included Brendan Duddy, a local fish-and-chip shop owner, and Finbar O'Doherty, a law student.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095789-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Londonderry City Council election, Campaign\nDuring the campaign, the British Army reduced its foot patrols in the city, arguing that this would help create an atmosphere in which people would feel confident to go and vote. The Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) did not conduct any bombings in the week leading up to the vote, an unusually long lull for the period. The group also went door-to-door, calling for a boycott of the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095789-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Londonderry City Council election, Campaign\nThe day before the election, the PIRA and OIRA announced a surprising joint initiative of protest marches, strikes and the creation of \"no-go areas\" for police, in protest at internment, but coming at such a late point in the campaign, the Irish Times contended that it would have little effect on the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095789-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Londonderry City Council election, Campaign\nThe Republican Clubs published a half-page advert in the Derry Journal, claiming that both the SDLP and the Nationalist Party had broken pledges not to contest local elections until all internees had been released. John Hume, deputy leader of the SDLP, claimed that the party's pledge was specific to the period when the Parliament of Northern Ireland had existed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095789-0007-0001", "contents": "1973 Londonderry City Council election, Campaign\nThe Alliance Party accused Hume of having only visited Shantallow twice since he was elected to represent it in 1969, but Hume argued that he had visited it on numerous occasions, and had three volunteers running an advice centre in the district. Hume claimed that the Alliance Party's candidates were unionists and were \"yesterday's men\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095789-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Londonderry City Council election, Campaign\nThe Nationalist Party argued that the SDLP was standing too many candidates, risking splitting the nationalist vote and thereby allowing the unionists to win more seats. It campaigned for the council to work closely with tenants' and other community groups, and for the council to move away from party politics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095789-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Londonderry City Council election, Campaign\nHume claimed that the SDLP would do \"very well\", but would not be drawn on whether it would achieve a majority on the council, while Hegarty of the United Loyalists thought that it would win 10 seats. The Alliance Party focused its campaign on relieving unemployment and building new leisure, health, and community facilities, and believed it would win 7 or 8 seats. The Republican Club would not speculate on how many seats it would win, but Mickey Doherty claimed that it would take a \"fairly substantial vote and surprise a lot of people\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095789-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 Londonderry City Council election, Election results\nThe Irish Times reported the city as having particularly high turnout, initially estimated as between 65 and 70%. The count was the slowest in the whole of Northern Ireland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 56], "content_span": [57, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095789-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 Londonderry City Council election, Districts results, Area A\n1973: 3 x United Loyalist, 2 x SDLP, 1 x Alliance", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095789-0012-0000", "contents": "1973 Londonderry City Council election, Districts results, Area B\n1973: 3 x United Loyalist, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Alliance", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095789-0013-0000", "contents": "1973 Londonderry City Council election, Districts results, Area C\n1973: 3 x SDLP, 1 x Nationalist, 1 x Republican Clubs", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095789-0014-0000", "contents": "1973 Londonderry City Council election, Districts results, Area D\n1973: 2 x SDLP, 1 x United Loyalist, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Nationalist", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095789-0015-0000", "contents": "1973 Londonderry City Council election, Districts results, Area E\n1973: 2 x United Loyalist, 2 x SDLP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Nationalist", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095789-0016-0000", "contents": "1973 Londonderry City Council election, Aftermath\nEven though the United Loyalists won the most votes, the SDLP won the most councillors with ten being elected to the United Loyalists' nine. The nonsectarian Alliance Party of Northern Ireland won four, the Nationalist Party won three and one was won by the Republican Clubs. The result gave parties supported by the city's Catholic community a majority on the council for the first time. The SDLP were disappointed not to win a majority on the council. John Hume blamed this on transfers going to other parties, noting the United Loyalist voters in the Bogside had transferred to the Alliance Party, while Republican Club voters in Londonderry E had transferred to the Nationalist Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 738]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095789-0017-0000", "contents": "1973 Londonderry City Council election, Aftermath\nThe new council elected Raymond McClean of the SDLP as Mayor of Londonderry, only the second Catholic mayor in the city's history, while Jack Allen of the United Loyalists was elected as deputy mayor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095789-0018-0000", "contents": "1973 Londonderry City Council election, Aftermath\nFollowing the election, there had been disputes within the United Loyalists. Some members of the UUP once said to the DUP's Anna Hay, who had been elected to Londonderry B and was the mother of the future Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly William Hay, that they had only \"lent\" her her seat due to the UUP being historically the stronger unionist party at the time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 49], "content_span": [50, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095790-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Long Beach State 49ers football team\nThe 1973 Long Beach State 49ers football team represented California State University, Long Beach during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095790-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Long Beach State 49ers football team\nCal State Long Beach competed in the Pacific Coast Athletic Association. The team was led by fifth year head coach Jim Stangeland, and played the majority of their home games at Veterans Stadium adjacent to the campus of Long Beach City College in Long Beach, California. One game was played at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles. They finished the season with a record of one win, nine losses and one tie (1\u20139\u20131, 0\u20134 PCAA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095791-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Los Angeles Dodgers season\nThe 1973 Los Angeles Dodgers finished the season in second place in the Western Division of the National League with a record of 95-66.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095791-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095791-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 69], "content_span": [70, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095791-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 74], "content_span": [75, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095791-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 71], "content_span": [72, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095791-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Los Angeles Dodgers season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 72], "content_span": [73, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095791-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Los Angeles Dodgers season, 1973 Major League Baseball Draft\nThis was the ninth year of a Major League Baseball Draft. The Dodgers drafted 22 players in the June draft and nine in the January draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 65], "content_span": [66, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095791-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Los Angeles Dodgers season, 1973 Major League Baseball Draft\nThe most notable player from this draft class was Outfielder Joe Simpson, who played from 1975\u20131983 but made his mark primarily as a broadcaster for the Atlanta Braves. The Dodgers first round pick was catcher Ted Farr of Shadle Park High School in Spokane, Washington. He played 339 games from 1973\u20131977 in the Dodgers farm system, hitting .235.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 65], "content_span": [66, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095792-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Los Angeles Rams season\nThe 1973 Los Angeles Rams season was the team's 36th year with the National Football League and the 28th season in Los Angeles. The Rams were 7\u20130 at home for the first time since 1945. On the road, the Rams were 5\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095792-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Los Angeles Rams season\nThe Rams donned new uniforms, which remained in use until 1994, their final season in Los Angeles, and though they moved to St. Louis in 1995, the uniform tradition continued until 1999, where they won Super Bowl XXXIV, and wore them for Super Bowl LIII. Among these changes, the Rams converted from white helmet horns to yellow helmet horns. The uniforms would return for their home games in 2018 and 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095792-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Los Angeles Rams season\nThe Rams finished the season with a brilliant 12-2 record and won the NFC West and appeared in the playoffs for the first time in the post-merger era. However, in their first post-merger playoff game, they lost to the Dallas Cowboys 27-16. This would be the first of 7 straight division titles for the Rams, spanning from 1973-1979.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095792-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 6\nNewly acquired quarterback John Hadl, the NFC Player of the Year in 1973, and a stingy Los Angeles defense led the 6\u20130 Rams to a 10\u20130 lead in the first half on the way to a 24\u20137 victory over the 2\u20132\u20132 Green Bay Packers. After a scoreless first quarter, the Rams took the lead on kicker David Ray's 44-yard field goal. The next score came on a 46-yard touchdown pass from Hadl to former Eagles wide receiver Harold Jackson. Green Bay cut the deficit to 10\u20137 on wide receiver Barry Smith's 23-yard touchdown catch from MacArthur Lane on a halfback option pass.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 68], "content_span": [69, 627]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095792-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 6\nLos Angeles gained momentum in the third quarter on a 40-yard field goal by David Ray. A 1-yard touchdown run by running back Larry Smith in the fourth quarter put the Rams ahead 20\u20137. Later in the game, the Packers found themselves deep in their own territory. Moments later, Dryer came storming in from the right side of the defense and chased down Green Bay quarterback Scott Hunter, dropping him in the end zone for a safety. On the Packers' following possession near their own goal line, Dryer attacked again. He looped through the middle of the Packers' offensive line and dragged backup quarterback Jim Del Gaizo down for his second safety of the game, setting a new NFL record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 68], "content_span": [69, 754]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095792-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Los Angeles Rams season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 6\nFor his efforts, Dryer was named the Associated Press NFL Defensive Player of the Week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 68], "content_span": [69, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095793-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Los Angeles mayoral election\nThe 1973 election for Mayor of Los Angeles took place on April 3, 1973, with a run-off election on May 20, 1973. Incumbent Sam Yorty was defeated by Tom Bradley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095794-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Louisiana Tech Bulldogs football team\nThe 1973 Louisiana Tech Bulldogs football team represented Louisiana Tech University during the 1973 NCAA Division II football season, and completed the 71st season of Bulldogs football and their first as members of the reorganized NCAA Division II. The Bulldogs played their home games in at Joe Aillet Stadium in Ruston, Louisiana. The 1973 team came off an undefeated 12\u20130 record, and a College Division National Championship from the prior season. The 1973 team was led by coach Maxie Lambright. The team finished the regular season with a 9\u20131 record and made the inaugural NCAA Division II playoffs. They made the first NCAA Division II Football Championship Game with a 38\u201334 win over Boise State in the Pioneer Bowl. The Bulldogs defeated the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers 34\u20130 in the Camellia Bowl National Championship Game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 875]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095795-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Louisville Cardinals football team\nThe 1973 Louisville Cardinals football team was an American football team that represented the University of Louisville in the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. In their first season under head coach T. W. Alley, the Cardinals compiled a 5\u20136 record (3\u20132 against conference opponents) and outscored opponents by a total of 172 to 148.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095795-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Louisville Cardinals football team\nThe team's statistical leaders included Len DePaola with 808 passing yards, Walter Peacock with 1,294 rushing yards and 60 points scored, and Dale Kaminski with 262 receiving yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095796-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Louisville Open\nThe 1973 Louisville Open, also known as the First National Tennis Classic, was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Louisville Tennis Center in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. It was the fourth edition of the tournament and was held from 30 July through 5 August 1973. The tournament was part of the Grand Prix tennis circuit and categorized in Group A. The singles final was won by fourth-seeded Manuel Orantes who earned 80 Grand Prix points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095796-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Louisville Open, Finals, Doubles\nManuel Orantes / Ion \u021airiac defeated Clark Graebner / John Newcombe 0\u20136, 6\u20134, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095797-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Luhuo earthquake\nThe 1973 Luhuo earthquake struck near the town of Zhaggo in the Garz\u00ea Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan Province, China on February 6 with a magnitude of 7.6 Ms. The earthquake had a maximum intensity of X (Extreme) on the Mercalli intensity scale, resulting in 2,199 deaths and a further 2,743 injuries in Sichuan. Serious and widespread destruction to villages was reported in Luhuo County as a result of the earthquake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095797-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Luhuo earthquake, Tectonic setting\nWestern Sichuan is situated at the edge of the Tibetan Plateau in a vast zone of complex continental deformation caused by the collision of the Indian Plate with the Eurasian Plate. As the thrusting of the Indian Plate beneath the Eurasian Plate along the Himalayas continues, the continental crust within the Eurasian Plate is actively uplifted and thickened, forming the Tibetan Plateau. As there are no active thrust structures within the plateau, compression is accommodated by strike-slip motion along large structures including the Altyn Tagh Fault, Kunlun Fault, Haiyuan Fault and Xianshuihe fault system. Left-lateral strike-slip motion squeezes the crustal blocks of the Tibetan Plateau outwards, forcing it to move eastwards. Meanwhile, the strike-slip motion also results in east-west extension of the plateau, causing normal faults to break within the thickened crust.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 39], "content_span": [40, 920]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095797-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Luhuo earthquake, Earthquake\nThe Xianshuihe fault system is a 1,400-km-long active left-lateral strike-slip fault that accommodate the strike-slip motion in the Tibetan Plateau. The fault is one of the largest active intracontinental geological structure in the world. Beginning in 1893, at least 350 km of the fault length has ruptured in large successive earthquakes with magnitudes 6.5 or larger. Going back to the year 1700 to present-day, the fault has ruptured its entire 1,400 km length during large earthquakes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095797-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Luhuo earthquake, Earthquake\nA large aftershock of Ms\u202f 6.3 followed one day later, likely triggered by coulomb stress transfer due to the mainshock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095797-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Luhuo earthquake, Earthquake, Characteristics\nInitially, the earthquake registered 7.9 on the Chinese surface wave magnitude scale but further analysis and recalculation of the event brought the final revision to magnitude 7.6. This event was the result of pure left-lateral slip on the Luhou segment of the Xianshuihe fault system. During the earthquake of 1973, the Xianshuihe fault ruptured for a length of 90 km and produced a maximum slip of 3.8 meters in the shallow 0 to 5 km section of the rupture zone. Surface ruptures were well documented by scientists throughout the 90 km length extending from Renda to Kasu. The southeastern 10 km segment of the earthquake rupture overlapped that of the 1923 Kasu earthquake, another Ms\u202f 7.3 earthquake on the Xianshuihe Fault.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 50], "content_span": [51, 780]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095797-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Luhuo earthquake, Earthquake, Characteristics\nThe Luhuo segment of the Xianshuihe fault system was also the source of a magnitude 7.5 earthquake in 1816. Field research through trenching at the Luhuo segment however, revealed a record of earthquake history on the fault in the past 3,000 years. The first event identified in the exposed strata layers corresponded to the year 769 BC. Five additional events were also identified to have occurred in the years 318\u2013545 AD, 677\u2013833 AD, and 1008\u20131444 AD. A recurrence interval has been calculated at between 157 to 1,200 years for the earthquakes from 769 BC to 1973 AD.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 50], "content_span": [51, 620]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095797-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Luhuo earthquake, Impact\nThe earthquake caused extensive destruction throughout the 90 km of rupture. Almost all the homes near or in the path of the rupture were completely destroyed, amounting to at least 15,700. An estimated 2,867 buildings were also heavily damaged. Across two twns in Luhuo County, 4,600 of the 5,000 homes collapsed while another 880 suffered serious damage. A further 90 sustained cracks. China National Highway 318 or the Sichuan-Tibet highway was damaged by rockfalls, landslides and ground cracks at 17 locations. Other roads, bridges and telecommunication systems were damaged or disrupted as well. Some 40,427 livestock died and 2.01 million kilograms of food were lost in the disaster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 720]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095797-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Luhuo earthquake, Impact\nThe earthquake also triggered 40 to 50 landslides in the Xianshui River valley. Nearly all recorded landslide features were distributed within a 70 km by 2 km, or 409 km\u00b2 area within the valley. Field surveys observed 137 landslides all within the zone of VIII or greater.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095797-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Luhuo earthquake, Impact, Casualties\nThe earthquake claimed the lives of anywhere between 2,175 to 2,204 people in Sichuan Province. It also left 43 orphans in the aftermath.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 41], "content_span": [42, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095797-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Luhuo earthquake, Impact, Response\nA division of the People's Liberation Army was sent to the affected area to assist in rescue and recovery efforts. In the division were at least 668 medical crew from 49 groups which attended to injured survivors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 39], "content_span": [40, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095798-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Lynchburg Baptist Flames football team\nThe 1973 Lynchburg Baptist Flames football team represented Lynchburg Baptist College (now known as Liberty University) in the 1973 NAIA football season as an independent. Led by coach Lee Royer, the Flames compiled a 3\u20133 record in the school's first season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095799-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Macanese legislative election\nElections to a Legislative Assembly were held in Macau in March 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095799-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Macanese legislative election, Background\nOn 2 May 1972 the Portuguese National Assembly passed the Organic Law for the Overseas Territories, which provided for greater autonomy for overseas territories. The Assembly would have 13 members, one of which would be appointed by the Governor to represent the interests of the Chinese community.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095799-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Macanese legislative election, Background\nCandidates were required to be Portuguese citizens who had lived in Macau for more than three years and be able to read and write Portuguese. Voters were required to be literate. As the Portuguese constitution banned political parties at the time, the majority of candidates were put forward by the ruling People's National Action movement, although some civic associations were allowed to nominate candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095799-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Macanese legislative election, Results\nOut of a total population of 248,316, only 2,620 people registered to vote. A total of 1,765 people voted, giving a voter turnout of 67.7%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 43], "content_span": [44, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095800-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Maccabiah Games\nThe 1973 Maccabiah Games were held in Ramat Gan Stadium, Israel. Spain and Costa Rica made its debut in the games. The Games took place ten months after the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, where eleven Israeli athletes and coaches were slain during the events of the Munich Massacre.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095800-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Maccabiah Games, History\nThe Maccabiah Games were first held in 1932. In 1961, they were declared a \"Regional Sports Event\" by, and under the auspices and supervision of, the International Olympic Committee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 29], "content_span": [30, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095800-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Maccabiah Games, Opening ceremonies\n60,000 spectators packed Ramat Gan Stadium as Golda Meir and Abba Eban paid homage to the slain athletes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 40], "content_span": [41, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095800-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Maccabiah Games, Opening ceremonies\nTamara Metal was chosen as torch bearer, but Metal recited the Vow of the Maccabiah Games instead because she was pregnant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 40], "content_span": [41, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095800-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Maccabiah Games, Notable medalists\nSwimmer Anita Zarnowiecki from Sweden won seven gold medals and one silver medal, surpassing Mark Spitz's record of five gold medals in the 1969 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095800-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Maccabiah Games, Notable medalists\nIsraeli Olympian Shaul Ladany, who had competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics ( the year of the Munich massacre), won the 20-km and 50-km walks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095800-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Maccabiah Games, Notable medalists\nEsther Roth of Israel won the 100-meter race in 11.75, as well as the 200-meter. Maya Kalle-Bentzur of Israel was also a medalist at the Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095800-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Maccabiah Games, Notable medalists\nIn basketball, Ernie Grunfeld, who three years later won an Olympic gold medal, was the only high school student on the American team's starting five, and led the team in scoring with a 20-point average as the US took the silver medal. Grunfeld later played in the NBA, and became General Manager of the New York Knicks. In tennis, Ilana Kloss won gold medals in both the women\u2019s doubles and the mixed doubles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095801-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Macdonald Brier\nThe 1973 Macdonald Brier, Canada's national men's curling championship was held March 5\u201311 at the Klondike Gardens in Edmonton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095801-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Macdonald Brier\nThe event was memorable for having particularly bad ice conditions, considered by some as the \"worst (Brier ice) ever manufactured\". There was a great thickness of frost on the ice, which was also dotted by tiny pools of water. Team Saskatchewan, skipped by Harvey Mazinke proved to be best adapted at playing under these conditions, winning the event after posting a 9-1 record, despite not being considered the favourites. Team Ontario (Paul Savage) and Team Nova Scotia (Peter Hope) tied for second with a 6-4 record, the lowest ever record for a second place team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095801-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Macdonald Brier\nThe 1973 Brier was the first which allowed teams to concede games before all 12 ends were played (providing ten had been played).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095802-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Macdonald Lassies Championship\nThe 1973 Macdonald Lassies Championship, Canada's national women's curling championship was held February 26 to March 2 at the Charlottetown Curling Club in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095802-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Macdonald Lassies Championship\nTeam Saskatchewan, skipped by Vera Pezer won the title in a tiebreaker against Manitoba's Joan Ingram rink. It was the fifth straight title for Saskatchewan, and third straight for the Pezer rink. After the win, the team decided to retire from competitive curling.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095802-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Macdonald Lassies Championship, Teams\nSkip : Joan Ingram Third: Lorraine BradawaskiSecond: Dorothy RoseLead: Jackie Tinney", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 42], "content_span": [43, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095802-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Macdonald Lassies Championship, Teams\nSkip : Ann Bowering Third: Joan PopeSecond: Jean BurdenLead: Chris Cathcart", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 42], "content_span": [43, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095802-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Macdonald Lassies Championship, Teams\nSkip : Elizabeth HodginsThird: Faye ThornhamSecond: Marjorie White Lead: Shelaugh Thomson", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 42], "content_span": [43, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095802-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Macdonald Lassies Championship, Tiebreaker\nThe tiebreaker playoff game for the championship was held in the morning of March 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095803-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Magherafelt District Council election\nElections to Magherafelt District Council were held on 30 May 1973 on the same day as the other Northern Irish local government elections. The election used three district electoral areas to elect a total of 15 councillors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095803-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Magherafelt District Council election, Districts results, Area A\n1973: 3 x SDLP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Republican Clubs", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 69], "content_span": [70, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095803-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Magherafelt District Council election, Districts results, Area B\n1973: 2 x UUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Vanguard, 1 x Independent Nationalist", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 69], "content_span": [70, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095803-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Magherafelt District Council election, Districts results, Area C\n1973: 2 x SDLP, 2 x UUP, 1 x United Loyalist", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 69], "content_span": [70, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095804-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Maghreb Athletics Championships\nThe 1973 Maghreb Athletics Championships was the sixth edition of the international athletics competition between the countries of the Maghreb. Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco were the competing nations. Organised by the Union des F\u00e9d\u00e9rations d'Athl\u00e9tisme du Maghreb Uni (Union of Athletics Federations of the United Maghreb), it took place from 27\u201329 July in Agadir, Morocco. It was the third Moroccan city to host the event, after Rabat in 1967 and Casablanca in 1971. A total of 36 athletics events were contested, 22 for men and 14 for women.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095804-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Maghreb Athletics Championships\nThe event winners were distributed fairly evenly between the teams, with Morocco and Tunisia each taking thirteen gold medals and Algeria having the remaining ten. Tunisia topped the table by merit of having more silver medals. Track events were only officially timed to the tenth of a second.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095805-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Maine Black Bears football team\nThe 1973 Maine Black Bears football team was an American football team that represented the University of Maine as a member of the Yankee Conference during the 1973 NCAA Division II football season. In its seventh season under head coach Walter Abbott, the team compiled a 3\u20137 record (2\u20134 against conference opponents) and finished sixth out of seven teams in the Yankee Conference. Andrew Mellow, John O'Rourke Jr., and Jack Lamborghini were the team captains.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095806-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Major League Baseball All-Star Game\nThe 1973 Major League Baseball All-Star Game was the 44th midseason exhibition between the all-stars of the American League (AL) and the National League (NL), the two leagues comprising Major League Baseball. The game was played on July 24, 1973, at Royals Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri, home of the Kansas City Royals of the American League. The game resulted in a 7\u20131 victory for the NL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095806-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Major League Baseball All-Star Game\nRoyals Stadium had not even been open for four months when it hosted this, its first All-Star Game. The game had been hosted in Kansas City once before (1960) when the Kansas City Athletics had been the host team at Kansas City's Municipal Stadium. After this game was played, the Royals did not host another All-Star Game until they were awarded the 2012 All-Star Game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095806-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Major League Baseball All-Star Game\nArrowhead Stadium, which shares the same parking lot as part of the Harry S. Truman Sports Complex, hosted the 1974 Pro Bowl about six months after this game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095806-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Major League Baseball All-Star Game\nThis game marked the 40th anniversary year of the first All-Star Game in 1933. As a part of that recognition, some of the surviving stars from that first game, including Dick Bartell, Joe Cronin, Jimmie Dykes, Charlie Gehringer, Lefty Gomez, Lefty Grove, Bill Hallahan, and Carl Hubbell were in attendance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095806-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, National League roster\nThe National League roster included 11 future Hall of Fame players and coaches, denoted in italics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095806-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, American League roster\nThe American League roster included 11 future Hall of Fame players and coaches, denoted in italics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095806-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Starting lineups\nWhile the starters were elected by the fans, the batting orders and starting pitchers were selected by the managers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 58], "content_span": [59, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095806-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Scoring summary\nScoring began in the bottom of the second inning, with Rick Wise in his second and final inning of pitching for the NL. Reggie Jackson led off with a double, and came home when the next batter, Amos Otis, singled. This would be the beginning and end of scoring for the American League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095806-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Scoring summary\nThe National League wasted no time coming back, taking advantage of new pitcher, Bert Blyleven, in the top of the third inning. Darrell Evans, pinch hitting for Rick Wise, walked, and was forced out at second base when Pete Rose hit into a fielder's choice. Joe Morgan walked. C\u00e9sar Cede\u00f1o's single scored Rose, and sent Morgan to third base. Hank Aaron singled to Murcer who threw out Cede\u00f1o at third, but not before Morgan had scored to give the NL a 2\u20131 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095806-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Scoring summary\nThe NL added a single run in the top of the fourth inning, as Johnny Bench, the first hitter AL relief pitcher Bill Singer faced, hit a lead off home run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095806-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Scoring summary\nIn the top of the fifth inning, the NL scoring continued off of Bill Singer. Joe Morgan led off with a double. Three hitters later, with two outs, Bobby Bonds hit a two-run home run, bringing the score to 5\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095806-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Scoring summary\nIn the top of the sixth inning, Nolan Ryan came in to pitch in relief, though the outcome was virtually identical to the previous inning. Ron Santo led off with a walk. Two batters later with one out, Willie Davis, pinch hitting for the pitcher, Don Sutton, hit a two-run home run to extend the NL lead to 7\u20131, and closing out scoring for the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 57], "content_span": [58, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095806-0012-0000", "contents": "1973 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Game notes and records\nRick Wise was credited with the win. Bert Blyleven was credited with the loss. Jim Brewer was credited with the save.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095806-0013-0000", "contents": "1973 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Game notes and records\nThis was the 24th and final All-Star Game appearance for Willie Mays. Mays appeared in every game from 1954 to 1973. Only Hank Aaron and Stan Musial have played in as many All-Star Games as Mays.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095806-0014-0000", "contents": "1973 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Game notes and records\nJim Spencer became the first member of the Texas Rangers to appear in an All-Star Game. The Rangers were playing their second season in Arlington, Texas after moving from Washington, D.C., where they were the second incarnation of the Washington Senators from 1961 to 1971. Toby Harrah, Texas' lone representative in the 1972 game, was injured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095806-0015-0000", "contents": "1973 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Game notes and records\nCatfish Hunter was removed from the game in the second inning after Billy Williams hit a line drive that hit Hunter's right hand, breaking his thumb. He missed two weeks of the regular season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095806-0016-0000", "contents": "1973 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Game notes and records\nThis All-Star Game saw 54 players (28 for the NL and 26 for the AL) enter the game. This became a new All-Star Game record for participating players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095806-0017-0000", "contents": "1973 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Game notes and records\nBuddy Bell became the second son of a former All-Star (Gus Bell) to appear in an All-Star Game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095806-0018-0000", "contents": "1973 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Game notes and records\nIn total, there were 19 future hall of famers involved with the game. The non-players involved in the 1973 All-Star Game that have been inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame are Sparky Anderson, Dick Williams, Whitey Herzog, and Nestor Chylak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095806-0019-0000", "contents": "1973 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Game notes and records\nAs of 2020, Royals Stadium is the last facility to host the MLB All-Star Game in its first season of operation. Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium hosted the 1970 game 12 days after it opened, and St. Louis' Busch Memorial Stadium opened two months prior to the 1966 game. Pittsburgh's Three Rivers Stadium, which opened two weeks after Riverfront, hosted the 1974 game. Royals Stadium was scheduled to open for the 1972 season, but labor strife and bad weather caused long delays, forcing the Royals to spend 1972 at Municipal Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095807-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Major League Baseball draft, First round selections\nThe following are the first round picks in the 1973 Major League Baseball draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 56], "content_span": [57, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095807-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Major League Baseball draft, Background\nFive dominant players of the late 1970s and 1980s were selected in the June regular phase. Infielder Robin Yount (Milwaukee) and outfielder Dave Winfield (San Diego) were first-rounders, while outfielder Fred Lynn (Boston) was selected in the second round, infielder Eddie Murray (Baltimore) was selected in the third round and starting pitcher Mike Flanagan (Baltimore) was picked in the seventh round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095807-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Major League Baseball draft, Background\nWinfield stepped off the University of Minnesota campus\u2014where he lettered in three sports\u2014and into the Padres' outfield. He was one of three players from this draft to go directly into the bigs. Highly touted David Clyde was chosen by Texas as the nation's number one pick. He jumped from high school to the majors and won his first game as a Ranger shortly thereafter. But the hard-throwing left-hander developed arm problems and had a short-lived career. Besides Clyde and Winfield, Arizona State's Eddie Bane (Minnesota, 11th overall) went directly to the majors. Other selections of interest included, Jack Clark (San Francisco), who was drafted as a pitcher, and Lee Mazzilli (New York Mets). In the January secondary phase, Dick Ruthven (Philadelphia), Jim Sundberg (Texas) and Donnie Moore (Chicago Cubs), who was drafted as an outfielder, were chosen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 904]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095808-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Major League Baseball season\nThe 1973 Major League Baseball season was the first season of the designated hitter rule in the American League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095808-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Major League Baseball season\nAmerican League umpires began wearing red blazers with blue pants, a change from the navy blue coats and gray pants worn from 1968\u201372. The red blazers were worn through 1979.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095808-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Major League Baseball season\nCalifornia Angels ace pitcher Nolan Ryan broke Sandy Koufax's 1965 strikeout record of 382 when he struck out 383 batters during the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095808-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Major League Baseball season\nThe Oakland Athletics won their second straight World Series championship in seven games over the New York Mets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095808-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Major League Baseball season\nThe Kansas City Royals moved their home games from Municipal Stadium to the new Royals Stadium (adjacent to the Chiefs' football facility) and also hosted the All-Star Game on July 24 with the NL defeating the AL 7\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095808-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Major League Baseball season\nThe New York Yankees played their final season at the original Yankee Stadium before the stadium closed for remodeling during the 1974 and 1975 seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095808-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Major League Baseball season\nOn June 19, Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds and Willie Davis of the Los Angeles Dodgers both collect their 2000th career hit. It was a single for Rose against the San Francisco Giants while Davis hit a home run against the Atlanta Braves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095809-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Maldivian presidential election\nPresidential elections were held in the Maldives in September 1973. The election took the form of a referendum on the candidacy of incumbent President Ibrahim Nasir, who was re-elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095809-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Maldivian presidential election, Background\nNasir had originally been elected for a four-year term in 1968. However, in 1972 a constitutional amendment was passed by the Majlis to extend the presidential term to five years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095809-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Maldivian presidential election, Background\nThe constitution required that the President be selected by the Majlis and then their candidacy confirmed through a referendum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095810-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Manchester City Council election\nThe first elections to the new Manchester City Council were held on Thursday, 10 May 1973. The election created the entire 99-member council (three councillors to each ward), which shadowed its predecessor corporation before taking over its functions on 1\u00a0April 1974, as specified in the Local Government Act 1972. Each 1st-placed candidate was appointed to a five-year term of office, expiring in 1978. Each 2nd-placed candidate had a three-year term of office, expiring in 1976. Each 3rd-placed candidate served a two-year term of office, expiring in 1975.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095810-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Manchester City Council election, Election result\nAfter the election, the composition of the council was as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 54], "content_span": [55, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095810-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Manchester City Council election, Ward results\nDetailed below are the results for each ward. Successful candidates are highlighted in bold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 51], "content_span": [52, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095811-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Manchester Exchange by-election\nThe Manchester Exchange by-election of 27 June 1973 was held after the death of William Griffiths on 14 April of the same year. The Labour Party won the by-election in what had traditionally been a safe seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095811-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Manchester Exchange by-election\nDue to an administrative oversight, the by-election was held on a Wednesday, rather than the Thursday which had been usual since the mid-1960s. Only one by-election since has been held on a day other than a Thursday, the 1978 Hamilton by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095812-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Manitoba general election\nThe 1973 Manitoba general election was held on June 28, 1973 to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada. It was won by the social-democratic New Democratic Party, which took 31 of 57 seats to win government in its own right for the first time. The Progressive Conservative Party finished second with 21, while the Manitoba Liberal Party took the remaining five.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095812-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Manitoba general election\nA right-of-centre municipal organization known as the Independent Citizens' Election Committee convinced the Progressive Conservative and Liberal parties to avoid competing against each other in certain Winnipeg-area ridings, such that a single \"anti-socialist\" alternative to the NDP could be offered. This campaign was generally unsuccessful.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095812-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Manitoba general election, Riding results, Post-election changes\nWolseley (res. Israel Asper, March 1, 1975), June 25, 1975:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 69], "content_span": [70, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095812-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Manitoba general election, Riding results, Post-election changes\nCrescentwood (election declared void, February 20, 1975), June 25, 1975:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 69], "content_span": [70, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095812-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Manitoba general election, Riding results, Post-election changes\nSouris-Killarney (dec. Earl McKellar, April 18, 1976), November 7, 1976:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 69], "content_span": [70, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095813-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles season\nThe 1973 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles season was the 27th in the club's history since their entry into the then New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership in 1947. Manly went into the 1973 season as the reigning premiers having won the 1972 Grand Final defeating Eastern Suburbs 19-14.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095813-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles season\nAs they were in 1972, the 1973 Sea Eagles were coached by former Australian international and Manly fullback Ron Willey. Captaining the side was long serving hooker Fred Jones. The club competed in the New South Wales Rugby Football League's 1973 Premiership season and played its home games at the 20,000 capacity Brookvale Oval.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095813-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles season, Finals, Grand Final\nAfter Cronulla-Sutherland's 14-4 loss in the major semi-final, Manly-Warringah expected the Sharks would be fired up for the Grand Final. And they were. Ian Heads wrote in the Sunday Telegraph the next day that It was a Grand Final as tough and dirty as any bar-room brawl. Alan Clarkson wrote in the Sun Herald The fare served up in the first half belonged in the Colosseum. The first half was not how the game's administrators would have wished to show-case rugby league, every tackle was loaded with menace and meant to damage. But from the melee Bob Fulton emerged and showed his unrivalled skill. Heads and Clarkson wrote of his \"towering genius\" and \"football brilliance\" respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 59], "content_span": [60, 751]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095813-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles season, Finals, Grand Final\nManly's English import Malcolm Reilly, himself never one to take a backward step, was the first victim of the carnage. In the opening minute, Cronulla hooker Ron \"Rocky\" Turner set his sights on Reilly as the Englishman got an early kick away to take advantage of a strong breeze blowing towards the Bradman Stand (Paddington End). Turner missed Reilly the first time around, but didn't miss him a few minutes later. The Manly lock was left in agony from a badly bruised hip and had to leave the field for pain-killing injections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 59], "content_span": [60, 590]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095813-0003-0001", "contents": "1973 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles season, Finals, Grand Final\nKnowing he probably wouldn't last the first half he then returned to the field and created mayhem despite the injections he received failing to work properly. He set about doing as much physical damage to Cronulla players as he could, but bowed out in the 25th minute and was replaced by reserve forward John Bucknall, who had played in Manly's winning Reserve Grade Grand Final side earlier in the day. Bucknall didn't think he would be needed and actually had a full lunch and soft drink shortly before the first grade game began.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 59], "content_span": [60, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095813-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles season, Finals, Grand Final\nAfter a number of brawls in the first half, referee Keith Page eventually called in all 26 players twice for mass cautions, threatening that any more foul play would result in players being sent off. Despite his warnings the back-alley tactics continued from both teams, and Page didn't send anyone from the field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 59], "content_span": [60, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095813-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles season, Finals, Grand Final\nThen Fulton took over in the 29th and 58th minutes. 'Bozo' demonstrated power and pace in both tries. The first came from a brilliant Fred Jones flick pass which saw Fulton split Eric Archer and Steve Rogers just twenty-five metres from the line. Fulton ran around to touch down near the posts and give Graham Eadie an easier shot at conversion which he duly slotted through the posts. Manly took a 5-0 scoreline to the half time break.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 59], "content_span": [60, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095813-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles season, Finals, Grand Final\nThe second Fulton try came after Eadie took a pass from five-eighth Ian Martin, then looked for Fulton and set him up perfectly. Fulton raced for the Brewongle Stand corner and managed to put the ball down before being bundled into touch by Rogers and replacement fullback Rick Bourke. From out wide Eadie missed the conversion to make it 8-2 (Steve Rogers had kicked a penalty goal before Fulton scored his second try).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 59], "content_span": [60, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095813-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles season, Finals, Grand Final\nCronulla had to wait a long time before they dented the Manly line. It was in the 70th minute that the crack appeared. Trailing 8-2, the Sharks struck when lock Greg Pierce positioned Rick Bourke for a try (Bourke was flattened by Manly winger Max Brown as he scored, resulting in a broken thumb for Brown). Rogers easily kicked the conversion to reduce the deficit to just one point. Eadie stretched the lead to three points from a penalty kick and then the Sharks rallied and bombarded Manly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 59], "content_span": [60, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095813-0007-0001", "contents": "1973 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles season, Finals, Grand Final\nUltimately, the Manly defence of John Mayes, Terry Randall, Peter Peters, Eadie and Fulton were up to the task. It will, however, go down in Sharks folklore that a Tommy Bishop flick pass in the dying moments failed to go to hand with the Manly line wide open. It was a set move Cronulla had successfully played all year, but had adjusted for the Grand Final in anticipation of Manly's familiarity with the standard move. As expected, the Manly defence reacted to snuff out the set play, leaving a gap that Bishop's pass managed to pinpoint. But in the heat of the moment, Sharks second-rower Ken Maddison also played for the old move, ran the wrong line and the ball went to ground - and with it went the premiership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 59], "content_span": [60, 778]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095813-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles season, Player statistics\nNote: Games and (sub) show total games played, e.g. 1 (1) is 2 games played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 57], "content_span": [58, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095814-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Marshall Thundering Herd football team\nThe 1973 Marshall Thundering Herd football team was an American football team that represented Marshall University as an independent during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. In its third season under head coach Jack Lengyel, the team compiled a 4\u20137 record and was outscored by a total of 288 to 212. The team played its home games at Fairfield Stadium in Huntington, West Virginia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095815-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Maryland Terrapins football team\nThe 1973 Maryland Terrapins football team represented the University of Maryland in the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. In their second season under head coach Jerry Claiborne, the Terrapins compiled an 8\u20134 record (5\u20131 in conference), finished in second place in the Atlantic Coast Conference, and outscored their opponents 335 to 141. The team ended its season with a 17\u201316 loss to Georgia in the 1973 Peach Bowl. The team's statistical leaders included Al Neville with 554 passing yards, Louis Carter with 801 rushing yards, and Frank Russell with 468 receiving yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095816-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Masters Tournament\nThe 1973 Masters Tournament was the 37th Masters Tournament, held April 5\u20139 at the Augusta National Golf Club. Due to weather delays, the final round was played on Monday for the first time since 1961.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095816-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Masters Tournament\nTommy Aaron, age 36, won his only major title, one stroke ahead of runner-up J. C. Snead. Before this win at Augusta, Aaron was best known as the player who kept Roberto De Vicenzo's incorrect scorecard at the Masters five years earlier in 1968. Ironically, Aaron's final round playing partner in 1973, Johnny Miller, recorded a higher score when keeping Aaron's card, and Aaron caught the mistake. This was his third and last victory on the PGA Tour, and after this win, Aaron's best result in a major was a tie for 28th at the Masters in 1979.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095816-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Masters Tournament\nGary Player played in 52 Masters from 1957 through 2009; and missed only this one, to recover from leg and abdominal surgery. He returned in 1974 to win the second of his three green jackets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095816-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Masters Tournament\nGay Brewer won the fourteenth Par 3 contest on Wednesday with a seven-under 20. At the previous Masters, the 1967 champion was hospitalized in Augusta for ulcers on Wednesday night and missed the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095816-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Masters Tournament\nThis Masters was the last as competitors for two former champions: Gene Sarazen (1935) and Ralph Guldahl (1939).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095816-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Masters Tournament, Field\nGeorge Archer (8), Gay Brewer (10,11), Billy Casper (8,9,10,12), Charles Coody (8,12), Doug Ford, Bob Goalby (8), Ralph Guldahl, Jack Nicklaus (2,3,4,8,9,11,12), Arnold Palmer (9,11,12), Gene Sarazen, Sam Snead (10), Art Wall Jr.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095816-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Masters Tournament, Field\nDoug Ballenger (a), Ben Crenshaw (7,8,a), Vinny Giles (6,7,a), Charles Harrison (a), Mike Killian (a), Marty West (7,a)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095816-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Masters Tournament, Field\nHomero Blancas (9), Gardner Dickinson (12), Al Geiberger, Hubert Green, Paul Harney, Jerry Heard (10,11), Jim Jamieson (10,11), Jerry McGee, Steve Melnyk, Bobby Mitchell (11), Lanny Wadkins (11), Tom Weiskopf (9), Bert Yancey (9,11)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095816-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Masters Tournament, Field\nDon January, Don Massengale, Johnny Miller (11), Bobby Nichols, Chi-Chi Rodr\u00edguez (11), Cesar Sanudo, Jim Simons, Kermit Zarley (11)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095816-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Masters Tournament, Field\nBuddy Allin, Deane Beman, Jim Colbert, Bob Dickson, Rod Funseth, Lou Graham, Dave Hill, Mike Hill, Babe Hiskey, Grier Jones, Bob Lunn, John Schlee, J. C. Snead (12), DeWitt Weaver", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095816-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 Masters Tournament, Field\nBrian Barnes, Bob Charles (8), Gary Cowan (6,a), Bruce Crampton (8,9,11), Roberto De Vicenzo (8), Bruce Devlin (8,11), David Graham (11), Han Chang-sang, Trevor Homer (6,a), Guy Hunt, Tony Jacklin (2,3), George Knudson (11), Takaaki Kono (8), Lu Liang-Huan, Peter Oosterhuis, Masashi Ozaki, Bob Shaw (11)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095816-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 Masters Tournament, Round summaries, Third round\nHeavy rain on Saturday morning limited play to the first several pairs when the course was deemed unplayable. The third round was restarted in the late morning on Sunday from split tees.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 53], "content_span": [54, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095817-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Maureen Connolly Brinker International\nThe 1973 Maureen Connolly Brinker International was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor hardcourts at the Brookhaven Country Club in Dallas, Texas in the United States that was part of the 1973 USLTA Women's Circuit. It was the second edition of the tournament and was held from March 5 through March 11, 1973. Third-seeded Virginia Wade won the singles title and earned $12,000 first-prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095817-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Maureen Connolly Brinker International, Finals, Doubles\nEvonne Goolagong / Janet Young defeated Gail Sherriff / Virginia Wade 6\u20133, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 60], "content_span": [61, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095818-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Mawthengkut by-election\nIn May 1973 a by-election was held in for the Mawthengkut seat of the Legislative Assembly of the Indian state of Meghalaya. The election was won by the Independeant candidate RAISON MAWSOR, won obtained 2,111 votes, whilst the APHLC candidate MAYSALIN WAR got 1,953 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095819-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Max-Pax Coffee Classic\nThe Max-Pax Coffee Classic, also known as the Virginia Slims of Philadelphia, was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Palestra in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States that was part of the 1973 Virginia Slims World Championship Series. It was the second edition of the tournament and was held from April 3 through April 8, 1973. First-seeded Margaret Court won the singles title and earned $12,000 first-prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095819-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Max-Pax Coffee Classic, Finals, Doubles\nMargaret Court / Lesley Hunt defeated Fran\u00e7oise D\u00fcrr / Betty St\u00f6ve 6\u20131, 3\u20136, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 44], "content_span": [45, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095820-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Meath Intermediate Football Championship\nThe 1973 Meath Intermediate Football Championship is the 47th edition of the Meath GAA's premier club Gaelic football tournament for intermediate graded teams in County Meath, Ireland. The tournament consists of 21 teams. The championship starts with a group stage and then progresses to a knock out stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095820-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Meath Intermediate Football Championship\nThis year marked the birth of St. John's after the amalgamation of Intermediate clubs Garryowen and Kilberry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095820-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Meath Intermediate Football Championship\nNo team was relegated from the S.F.C. the previous year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095820-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Meath Intermediate Football Championship\nBallinabrackey and Dunsany were promoted after claiming the 1972 Meath Junior Football Championship title and runners-up spot respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095820-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Meath Intermediate Football Championship\nOn 14 October 1973, Bohermeen claimed their 1st Intermediate championship title when they defeated Moylagh 0-13 to 1-7 in the final in Pairc Tailteann, and thus returned the top flight of Meath club football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095820-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Meath Intermediate Football Championship\nRatoath and St. Peter's Dunboyne were relegated to the 1974 J.F.C. after 3 and 10 years in the middle grade respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095820-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Meath Intermediate Football Championship\nThe 1973 I.F.C. was rife with controversy due to the expulsion of Dunboyne parish side Flathouse from the championship and suspension from all activities for 5 years. In the final round of their Group C encounter with Castletown on 12 August, referee Joe Tormay from the Donaghmore club was attacked by Flathouse players with just 4 minutes of the match remaining. He was admitted to Navan Hospital and detained for several days. At a subsequent County Board meeting, it was proposed to ban the Flathouse club for a period of 2 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095820-0006-0001", "contents": "1973 Meath Intermediate Football Championship\nThe referee's report also stated that a Flathouse player had struck him at the beginning of the second half but play continued. Flathouse players and delegates were questioned by the County Board, however each player mentioned in the referee's report denied all charges. However a Castletown delegate present at the meeting came forward to verify the validity of the referee's report. This sparked uproar from the Flathouse contingent present and the meeting was threatened to be adjourned should any more outbursts occur.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095820-0006-0002", "contents": "1973 Meath Intermediate Football Championship\nThe Chairman of the County Board stated that it was the \"most scandalous\" report to ever come before the Board and banned Flathouse for 2 years from all club activities. Pandemonium from Flathouse ensued as they encroached upon the referee in the meeting room and the Garda\u00ed were called to the scene, which diffused the situation. Flathouse were subsequently banned for 5 years and soon dissolved. They re-formed again in 1974 in the Junior B ranks as St. Paul's Clonee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095820-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Meath Intermediate Football Championship, Team changes\nThe following teams have changed division since the 1972 championship season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 59], "content_span": [60, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095820-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Meath Intermediate Football Championship, Group stage\nThere are 3 groups called Group A, B and C. The top finishers in each group will qualify for the semi finals, with 2nd place in each group entering a playoff for the Semi-Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 58], "content_span": [59, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095820-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Meath Intermediate Football Championship, Knock-out Stages\nThe teams in the Quarter-Finals are the first and second placed teams from each group.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 63], "content_span": [64, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095821-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Meath Senior Football Championship\nThe 1973 Meath Senior Football Championship is the 81st edition of the Meath GAA's premier club Gaelic football tournament for senior graded teams in County Meath, Ireland. The tournament consists of 15 teams, with the winner going on to represent Meath in the Leinster Senior Club Football Championship. The championship starts with a group stage and then progresses to a knock out stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095821-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Meath Senior Football Championship\nThis season saw Summerhill's return to the top flight after claiming the 1972 Meath Intermediate Football Championship title, their 3rd period as a senior club and 3rd season altogether.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095821-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Meath Senior Football Championship\nSeneschalstown were the defending champions after they defeated Navan O'Mahonys in the previous years final after a replay, however, this season relinquished their crown at the Semi-Final stage when losing to eventual runners-up Ballivor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095821-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Meath Senior Football Championship\nBallinlough were relegated to the 1974 I.F.C. after losing the Relegation Final to Syddan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095821-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Meath Senior Football Championship\nOn 7 October 1973, Navan O'Mahonys won their 8th Meath S.F.C. title when they defeated Ballivor 1-9 to 1-7 in the final in Pairc Tailteann. Ronan Giles raised the Keegan Cup for the Hoops.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095821-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Meath Senior Football Championship, Team Changes\nThe following teams have changed division since the 1972 championship season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 53], "content_span": [54, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095821-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Meath Senior Football Championship, Knock-out Stages, Finals\nThe winners and runners up of each group qualify for the semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095822-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Medal of Honor Firecracker 400\nThe 1973 Medal of Honor Firecracker 400 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series race that took place on July 4, 1973, at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095822-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Medal of Honor Firecracker 400\nThis race - and the 1969 and 1971 runnings of this race - was actually called the \"Medal of Honor Firecracker 400\", in an effort to honor Congressional Medal of Honor winners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095822-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Medal of Honor Firecracker 400, Race report\nThis was the first race with new rules regarding carburetor restrictors. It was widely assumed that these ruled helped volume production wedge engines, especially that used by Chevrolet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 48], "content_span": [49, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095822-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Medal of Honor Firecracker 400, Race report\nThis race eventually became Marty Robbins' most iconic race during his career in NASCAR. While he would start in 36th place (out of the 40 drivers who made up the racing grid), he would finish the race in eighth place, seven laps down. J.D. McDuffie ended up being the last-place finisher of this race due to an engine problem on lap 2 of 160. It took more than 160 minutes and two caution flags for David Pearson to defeat Richard Petty in front of sixty thousand fans. Six car lengths was the distance between Petty and Pearson. Bobby Allison secured the pole position at 179.619 miles per hour (289.069\u00a0km/h) during qualifying.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 48], "content_span": [49, 679]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095822-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Medal of Honor Firecracker 400, Race report\nThe race averaged 158.468 miles per hour (255.030\u00a0km/h). Engine problems took numerous other drivers out of the race. All competitors (except for Canadian-born Vic Parsons) were born in the United States. Mercury, Dodge, and Chevrolet made up the majority of the grid. Bobby Allison, Cale Yarborough, Richard Petty and David Pearson were the only lap leaders. The Chevrolet vehicles dominated the race, but after Yarborough and Allison retired it was David Pearson's show.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 48], "content_span": [49, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095822-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Medal of Honor Firecracker 400, Race report\nNotable crew chiefs in the race were Tim Brew, Jake Elder, Travis Carter, Harry Hyde, Dale Inman, Tom Vandiver, and Bud Moore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 48], "content_span": [49, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095822-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Medal of Honor Firecracker 400, Race report\nVic Parsons scored his best NASCAR finish in seventh place. Gordon Johncock, fresh from his Indy 500 win, finished 4th at this race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 48], "content_span": [49, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095822-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Medal of Honor Firecracker 400, Race report\nThe winner of the race won $16,100 ($92,725.86 when considering inflation) while the last-place winner received $1,270 ($7,314.4 when considering inflation). All the prize winnings from this race were $105,080 ($605,194.63 when considering inflation).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 48], "content_span": [49, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095823-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Meistaradeildin, Overview\nIt was contested by 6 teams, and Havnar B\u00f3ltfelag won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095824-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Memorial Cup\nThe 1973 Memorial Cup occurred May 7\u201312 at the Montreal Forum in Montreal, Quebec. It was the 55th annual Memorial Cup competition, organized by the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association (CAHA) to determine the champion of major junior A ice hockey. Participating teams were the winners of the Ontario Hockey Association, Quebec Major Junior Hockey League and Western Hockey League which were the Toronto Marlboros, Quebec Remparts and Medicine Hat Tigers. Toronto won their 6th Memorial Cup, defeating Quebec in the final game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095824-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Memorial Cup, Teams, Medicine Hat Tigers\nThe Medicine Hat Tigers represented the Western Canada Hockey League at the 1973 Memorial Cup. The Tigers had a very solid regular season during 1972-73, earning a record of 39-20-9 for 87 points, and second place in the West Division. Medicine Hat was the highest scoring team in the WCHL, scoring 348 goals. Defensively, the Tigers allowed the fourth fewest goals against at 254. In the West Division semi-finals, the Tigers defeated the Calgary Centennials four games to two. In the West Division finals, the Tigers defeated the defending WCHL champions, the Edmonton Oil Kings, four games to two. The Tigers faced the Regina Pats for the President's Cup, and Medicine Hat defeated Regina three games to zero, as well as two games ending in a tie, to win the league championship and a berth at the 1973 Memorial Cup tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 45], "content_span": [46, 876]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095824-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Memorial Cup, Teams, Medicine Hat Tigers\nThe Tigers offense was led by Tom Lysiak, who led the league with 154 points, as he scored 56 goals and 98 assists in 67 games. Lysiak was awarded the Brownridge Trophy for leading the league in points. In 17 playoff games, Lysiak scored 12 goals and a team high 39 points. Lanny McDonald scored 62 goals and 139 points in 68 games to finish third in league scoring. His 62 goals led the Tigers and was the third highest total in the WCHL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 45], "content_span": [46, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095824-0002-0001", "contents": "1973 Memorial Cup, Teams, Medicine Hat Tigers\nIn the playoffs, McDonald led the Tigers with 18 goals and his 37 points were second on the team. Boyd Anderson scored 48 goals and 112 points in 68 games and Ed Johnstone scored 58 goals and 102 points in 68 games, as the Tigers had four players crack the 100 point plateau. Bob Gassoff led the defensive unit, scoring 11 goals and 62 points in 68 games, while accumulating 388 penalty minutes. The Tigers goaltending duties were split between Sam Clegg and Jerry Thomas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 45], "content_span": [46, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095824-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Memorial Cup, Teams, Medicine Hat Tigers\nThe 1973 Memorial Cup was the first time in team history that the Medicine Hat Tigers qualified to compete for the cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 45], "content_span": [46, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095824-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Memorial Cup, Teams, Quebec Remparts\nThe Quebec Remparts represented the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League at the 1973 Memorial Cup. The Remparts finished the 1972-73 with a 49-11-4 record, earning 102 points and the best record in the QMJHL. The club was awarded the Jean Rougeau Trophy as the best regular season team. The Remparts were a high scoring team, leading the league with 448 goals. Quebec also was the best defensively, allowing 230 goals. In the QMJHL quarter-finals, the Remparts swept the Trois-Rivi\u00e8res Ducs in four games, then swept the Sherbrooke Castors in four games in the QMJHL semi-finals. In the league finals, the Remparts defeated the defending league champions, the Cornwall Royals four games to three to win the President's Cup and earned a berth into the 1973 Memorial Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 808]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095824-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Memorial Cup, Teams, Quebec Remparts\nThe Remparts were led offensively by Andre Savard, who led the QMJHL with 151 points after scoring 67 goals and 84 assists in 56 games. Savard was awarded the Michel Bri\u00e8re Memorial Trophy as the Most Valuable Player in the league. Savard also won the Jean B\u00e9liveau Trophy as the league leading scorer. Savard continued his high scoring into the post-season, as he led the league with 42 points in 15 games. Jacques Locas scored a league high 68 goals, and finished the season with 143 points, the second highest total in the league, in 62 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095824-0005-0001", "contents": "1973 Memorial Cup, Teams, Quebec Remparts\nGuy Chouinard scored 43 goals and 129 points in 59 games as a sixteen year old, as he became a top prospect. Yvon Dupuis scored 50 goals and 126 points in 62 games, giving the Remparts four players with 126 or more points. Real Cloutier scored 39 goals and 99 points in 57 games, as he also became a top prospect. Jean Landry led the defense with 20 goals and 65 points in 63 games. In goal, Pierre Perusse earned a record of 32-6-4 with a 3.72 GAA and a .896 save percentage in 44 games. Perusse was awarded the Jacques Plante Memorial Trophy as the top goaltender in the QMJHL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 621]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095824-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Memorial Cup, Teams, Quebec Remparts\nThe Quebec Remparts had previously won the Memorial Cup in 1971 in their only other appearance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 41], "content_span": [42, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095824-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Memorial Cup, Teams, Toronto Marlboros\nThe Toronto Marlboros represented the Ontario Hockey Association at the 1973 Memorial Cup. The Marlboros dominated the 1972-73 season, earning a league best record of 47-7-9 for 103 points. The Marlboros scored a league high 416 goals, while they allowed the fewest goals in the league with 199 goals against. In the post-season, the Marlboros swept the St. Catharines Black Hawks eight points to zero in the OHA quarter-finals. Toronto remained hot in the semi-finals, as the Marlboros swept the Ottawa 67's eight points to zero. In the OHA finals, the Marlboros defeated the defending champions, the Peterborough Petes, eight points to six to win the J. Ross Robertson Cup and earn a berth at the 1973 Memorial Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 43], "content_span": [44, 761]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095824-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Memorial Cup, Teams, Toronto Marlboros\nThe Marlboros were led by Wayne Dillon, who led the team with 47 goals and 107 points in 59 games. Peter Marrin finished the season with 42 goals and 106 points in 59 games. Mark Howe scored 38 goals and 104 points in 60 games to lead the Marlboros defense. Paulin Bordeleau scored a team high 54 goals, and added 43 assists for 97 points in 56 games. Glenn Goldup scored 42 goals and 95 points in 54 games, while accumulating 173 penalty minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 43], "content_span": [44, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095824-0008-0001", "contents": "1973 Memorial Cup, Teams, Toronto Marlboros\nIn goal, the Marlboros were led by Mike Palmateer, who won the Dave Pinkney Trophy, which is awarded to the goaltender on the team that allowed the fewest goals in the OHA. Marlboros head coach George Armstrong was awarded the Matt Leyden Trophy as Coach of the Year in the OHA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 43], "content_span": [44, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095824-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Memorial Cup, Teams, Toronto Marlboros\nThe 1973 Memorial Cup was the Marlboros sixth appearance to compete for the championship. In their previous five appearances, the Marlboros had won the Memorial Cup. They won the Memorial Cup in 1929, 1955, 1956, 1964 and in 1967.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 43], "content_span": [44, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095825-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Memphis State Tigers football team\nThe 1973 Memphis State Tigers football team represented Memphis State University (now known as the University of Memphis) as an independent during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. In its second season under head coach Fred Pancoast, the team compiled an 8\u20133 record and outscored opponents by a total of 264 to 167. The team played its home games at Memphis Memorial Stadium in Memphis, Tennessee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095825-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Memphis State Tigers football team\nThe team's statistical leaders included David Fowler with 759 passing yards, Dornell Harris with 564 rushing yards, Bobby Ward with 744 receiving yards, and Bobby Ward and Cliff Taylor with 42 points scored each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095826-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Men of the Midlands\nThe 1973 Men of the Midlands was a professional invitational snooker tournament, that took place in January and February 1973 The tournament was won by Alex Higgins, who defeated Ray Reardon 5\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095826-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Men of the Midlands\nThe competition featured a round-robin group stage, with four world snooker champions, John Pulman, John Spencer, Reardon and Higgins each playing the other three once. Reardon finished on top of the group table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095826-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Men of the Midlands\nIn the final, Higgins won the first frame, making a break of 47, and Reardon won the next making a break of 45. Higgins won the next to lead 3\u20131. Reardon won the fifth frame, but Higgins achieved victory by winning the sixth frame with a break of 70 and going on to take the match 5\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095826-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Men of the Midlands\nThe tournament was sponsored by Mitchells and Butlers. Higgins earnt \u00a3500 prize money as champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095827-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Men's British Open Squash Championship\nThe 1973 Benson & Hedges British Open Championships was held at Abbeydale Park in Sheffield from 27 January - 2 February 1973. Jonah Barrington won his sixth title defeating Gogi Alauddin in the final. This sixth success took him to just one behind the record set by Hashim Khan, but it was also to be the last title victory for Barrington.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095828-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Men's Hockey World Cup\nThe 1973 Men's Hockey World Cup was the second installment of the Hockey World Cup. It was held from 24 August to 2 September at the Wagener Stadium in Amstelveen, Netherlands. The tournament was won by host nation the Netherlands, who defeated India 4\u20132 on penalty strokes after the final had finished 2\u20132. It was the first World Cup to introduce the 12 teams format which became the standard format of the FIH Hockey World Cup until the 1998 edition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095828-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Men's Hockey World Cup, Teams\nThe top eight teams from last year's Summer Olympics in Munich qualified automatically: England qualified in place of Great Britain from the Olympics spot as most of the players from that squad were from England, and England had a better record among the Home Nations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095828-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Men's Hockey World Cup, Teams\nAustralia, despite qualifying through the Olympics, withdrew because of lack of funds. Originally, four teams were to be invited for the World Cup, but after the withdrawal of Australia this was were increased to five. Spain, Malaysia, Belgium and Japan were all invited by the FIH for the event, while New Zealand was invited to replace Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095828-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Men's Hockey World Cup, Teams\nOther nations who showed interest in competing were Canada, France, Gibraltar, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Nigeria, Poland, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Rhodesia, South Africa, and the Soviet Union.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095828-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Men's Hockey World Cup, Final\nThe final was held on 2 September 1973 at the Wagener Stadium, Amstelveen. The hosts Netherlands defeated India on penalty strokes after the match ended 2-2 after extra time. The win gave Netherlands their first FIH Hockey World Cup title, becoming the second team to win it and the first from Europe and the first host nation to win it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095828-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Men's Hockey World Cup, Final\nSurjit Singh of India scored two early goals in the first eight minutes giving India a 2-0 lead. Surjit scored another goal in the first half for his hat-trick but it was disallowed by the umpire. India went into half time with two goals lead. In the second half Netherlands played more players forward and in result Ties Kruize scored two goals to equalize the match at 2-2. In extra time India got a penalty stroke but B.P. Govinda missed the chance in sudden death. The match was decided by penalty strokes where the Indian goalkeeper Charles Cornelius failed to stop a single penalty stroke as Netherlands won the shoot out 4-2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 667]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095829-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Men's South American Volleyball Championship\nThe 1973 Men's South American Volleyball Championship, the 10th tournament, took place in 1973 in Bucaramanga (\u00a0Colombia).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095830-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Men's World Team Squash Championships\nThe 1973 Men's World Team Amateur Squash Championships were held in Johannesburg, South Africa and took place from August 16 to August 26, 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095831-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Merseyside County Council election\nThe 1973 Merseyside County Council election took place on 12 April 1973 to elect members of Merseyside County Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095831-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Merseyside County Council election\nThere were 95 wards electing the 99 members between them. Two wards, (both in Wirral), were uncontested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095832-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Mestaruussarja\nThe 1973 Mestaruussarja, the premier division of Finnish football, was contested by 12 teams, and HJK Helsinki won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095833-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Mexican legislative election\nLegislative elections were held in Mexico on 1 July 1973. The Institutional Revolutionary Party won 189 of the 231 seats in the Chamber of Deputies. Voter turnout was 60.3%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095834-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Miami Beach firebombing\nThe 1973 Miami Beach firebombing occurred on February 2, 1973, when a man walked into the crowded Concord Cafeteria in Miami Beach, Florida. He poured gasoline out of a large jar, lit a match, ignited the gasoline, and ran out of the cafeteria. Three people were killed and 139 were injured, including many people who were severely burned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095834-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Miami Beach firebombing, Location\nThe Concord Cafeteria was located at 1921 Collins Avenue in Miami Beach. It was founded in 1947 by Morris Himelstein, who also owned and operated six Concord Cafeterias in New York City. It had 250 seats and served inexpensive, home style food to about 3000 diners a day, many of them retirees. It functioned as an informal social center as well as a restaurant.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095834-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Miami Beach firebombing, The attack\nOn the night of February 2, 1973, a man walked into the cafeteria which was crowded with diners, poured gasoline out a jar, ignited it with a match, and ran out of the restaurant. Intense flames spread very rapidly. People attempted to escape but were obstructed by the turnstiles used to control access to the restaurant. A witness who was a worker at an adjoining restaurant said that he had \"rushed out into the street and scores of old people were lying on the sidewalks and in the road moaning and screaming in lots of pain.\" Another witness said that he saw the interior of the restaurant in flames and \"all the glass was broken and the front was gone.\" Victims were taken to four different hospitals suffering from burns and smoke inhalation, and fourteen people were in critical condition two days later. Three people died.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 873]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095834-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Miami Beach firebombing, The aftermath\nTwenty-two minutes after the fire began, 49 year old Charles Reardon of Bal Harbour, Florida walked into a police station, and said, \"I've done something terrible. I've made a lot of people scream.\" After being questioned for 12 hours, Reardon was charged with arson and use of a destructive device. He was never prosecuted because he was found incompetent to be tried due to mental illness.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 43], "content_span": [44, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095834-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Miami Beach firebombing, The aftermath\nAfter several months of renovations, the Concord Cafeteria reopened. It was the last cafeteria in Miami Beach when it closed ten years later, in June, 1983.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 43], "content_span": [44, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095834-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Miami Beach firebombing, The aftermath\nMany lawsuits against the cafeteria were filed by victims, which were consolidated into a case called Concord Florida, Inc. v. Lewin. The trial court found the restaurant liable in 1975 and a district appeals court agreed in 1977, ruling that by \"failing to adequately protect its patrons from fire by providing proper safety measures such as emergency exits and signs indicating the location of said exits, appellant-Concord assumed the foreseeable risk that fire might someday trap its patrons leaving them without an escape route.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 43], "content_span": [44, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095835-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Miami Dolphins season\nThe 1973 Miami Dolphins season was the franchise's eighth season and fourth season in the National Football League (NFL). The team entered the 1973 season as defending Super Bowl champion following its undefeated 1972 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095835-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Miami Dolphins season\nIn week 1, the Dolphins extended their winning streak to 18 with a 21\u201313 win over the San Francisco 49ers. However, the following week, they would be defeated 12\u20137 by the Oakland Raiders to end the winning streak. The streak stood as an NFL record until it was broken by the New England Patriots in 2004 whose record of 21 consecutive wins still stands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095835-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Miami Dolphins season\nThe team won the AFC East, finishing with a regular season record of 12\u20132, and then defeated the Cincinnati Bengals in the Divisional Round, the Raiders in the AFC Championship game, and the Minnesota Vikings in the league\u2019s eighth Super Bowl. It was the Dolphins' second consecutive (and to date last) Super Bowl victory. With the Dolphins' combined records of 17\u20130 and 15\u20132 over the course of their 1972 and 1973 seasons, the Dolphins posted a 32\u20132 total record over 2 years, for a winning percentage of .941. The 1973 Dolphins' 10.7 points allowed per game in the regular season is the lowest in franchise history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095835-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Miami Dolphins season, Season summary\nAlthough the Dolphins were unable to match their 17\u20130 perfect season of 1972, many sports writers, fans, and Dolphins players themselves felt that the 1973 team was better. While the 1972 team faced no competition in the regular season that had a record of better than 8-6, the 1973 team played against a much tougher schedule that included games against the Oakland Raiders, Pittsburgh Steelers, and Dallas Cowboys (all playoff teams), plus two games against a resurgent Bills squad that featured 2,000-yard rusher O. J. Simpson. Miami finished with a 12\u20132 regular season, including their opening game victory over the San Francisco 49ers that tied an NFL record with eighteen consecutive wins. The Dolphins\u2019 streak ended in week two with a 12\u20137 loss to the Raiders in Berkeley, California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 834]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095835-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Miami Dolphins season, Season summary\nJust like the two previous seasons, Miami\u2019s offense relied primarily on their rushing attack. Fullback Larry Csonka recorded his third consecutive 1,000 rushing yard season (1,003 yards), while running back Mercury Morris rushed for 954 yards and scored 10 touchdowns, while leading the league with 6.4 yards per carry. Running back Jim Kiick was also a key contributor, rushing for 257 yards, and catching 27 passes for 208 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095835-0004-0001", "contents": "1973 Miami Dolphins season, Season summary\nQuarterback Bob Griese, the AFC's second leading passer, completed only 116 passes for 1,422 yards, but threw about twice as many touchdown passes (17) as interceptions (8), and earned an 84.3 passer rating. Wide receiver Paul Warfield remained the main deep threat on the team, catching 29 passes for 514 yards and 11 touchdowns. The offensive line remained strong led by center Jim Langer and right guard Larry Little. Griese, Csonka, Warfield, Langer, and Little would all eventually be elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095835-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Miami Dolphins season, Season summary\nMiami\u2019s \u201cNo Name Defense\u201d continued to dominate their opponents. Future Hall of Fame linebacker Nick Buoniconti recovered three fumbles and returned one for a touchdown. Safety Dick Anderson led the team with eight interceptions, which he returned for 163 yards and two touchdowns. And safety Jake Scott, the previous season's Super Bowl MVP, had four interceptions and 71 return yards. The Dolphins were still using their \u201c53\u201d defense devised at the beginning of the 1972 season, where Bob Matheson (#53) would be brought in as a fourth linebacker in a 3\u20134 defense, with Manny Fernandez at nose tackle. Matheson could either rush the quarterback or drop back into coverage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 717]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095835-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Miami Dolphins season, Season summary\nIn 2007, ESPN.com ranked the 1973 Dolphins as the eight-greatest defense in NFL history, noting that the team \u201cheld 11 opponents to 14 points or less, setting a record by allowing just 150 points in a 14-game season\u201d. Defensive end Bill Stanfill set a Dolphins\u2019 sack record that still stands, with 18.5. In the playoffs and Super Bowl, they allowed only 33 points against Cincinnati, Oakland and Minnesota. Stanfill, Manny Fernandez, Hall of Fame middle linebacker Nick Buoniconti, and safeties Dick Anderson (AP Defensive Player of the Year) and Jake Scott were all named to the 1973 All-Pro team. They also held record-breaking rusher O. J. Simpson to his lowest total yardage of the season, a mere 55 yards in Week Six.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 42], "content_span": [43, 765]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095835-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Miami Dolphins season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 2 at Raiders\nThe Raiders became the first team to defeat Miami since Super Bowl VI.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 77], "content_span": [78, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095835-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Miami Dolphins season, Postseason, Divisional\nThe Dolphins outgained Cincinnati in total yards, 400\u2013194, and first downs, 27\u201311, while also scoring on three of their first four possessions and shutting out the Bengals in the second half. The Dolphins racked up 241 yards on the ground, including 106 from Mercury Morris and 71 from Larry Csonka, while receiver Paul Warfield caught 5 passes for 95 yards and a score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095835-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Miami Dolphins season, Postseason, Conference Championship\nRunning back Larry Csonka led the Dolphins to a victory with 117 rushing yards and 3 touchdowns. Mercury Morris also ran for 86 yards. Bob Griese threw just six passes during the game, completing three.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 63], "content_span": [64, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095835-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 Miami Dolphins season, Postseason, Super Bowl\nLarry Csonka rushed for 145 yards on 33 carries, scoring two touchdowns, and was named MVP. Bob Griese threw just seven passes all game, completing six.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095836-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Miami Hurricanes football team\nThe 1973 Miami Hurricanes football team represented the University of Miami as an independent during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. Led by first-year head coach Pete Elliott, the Hurricanes played their home games at the Miami Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida. Miami finished the season with a record of 5\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095837-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Miami Redskins football team\nThe 1973 Miami Redskins football team was an American football team that represented Miami University during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. In their fifth and final season under head coach Bill Mallory, the Redskins won the Mid-American Conference (MAC) championship, compiled an 11\u20130 record (5\u20130 against MAC opponents), outscored all opponents by a combined total of 223 to 76, and defeated Florida, 16\u20137, in the Tangerine Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095837-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Miami Redskins football team\nThe team's statistical leaders included quarterback Steve Sanna with 927 passing yards, Bob Hitchens with 591 rushing yards, and John Wiggins with 414 receiving yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095837-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Miami Redskins football team\nAfter the 1973 season, coach Mallory left Miami to become head coach at Colorado.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095838-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Miami Toros season\nThe 1973 Miami Toros season was the first season of the new team, and the club's seventh season in professional soccer. It is also the first ever incarnation of the club's new name. Previously, there were known as the Miami Gatos. This year, the team finished in third place in the Eastern Division. They did not make the North American Soccer League playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095838-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Miami Toros season, Regular season\nW = Wins, L = Losses, T= Ties, GF = Goals For, GA = Goals Against, BP = Bonus Points, PTS= Total Points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095838-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Miami Toros season, Regular season\nPOINT SYSTEM 6 points for a win, 3 points for a tie, 0 points for a loss, 1 bonus point for each goal scored up to three per game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095839-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Michigan State Spartans football team\nThe 1973 Michigan State Spartans football team represented Michigan State University in the 1973 Big Ten Conference football season. In their first season under head coach Denny Stolz, the Spartans compiled a 5\u20136 overall record (4\u20134 against Big Ten opponents) and finished in a tie for fourth place in the Big Ten Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095839-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Michigan State Spartans football team\nDefensive Bill Simpson was the only Spartan to be selected by either the Associated Press (AP) or the United Press International (UPI) as a first-team player on the 1973 All-Big Ten Conference football team. Simpson received first-team honors from the UPI and second-team honors from the AP. Other Spartans received second-team honors, including defensive tackle John Shinsky, linebackers Ray Nester and Terence McClowry, and defensive back Mark Niesen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095840-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Michigan Wolverines football team\nThe 1973 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 1973 Big Ten Conference football season. In his fifth year as Michigan's head coach, Bo Schembechler led the team to a 10\u20130\u20131 record. It was Michigan's first undefeated season since 1948. The Wolverines outscored their opponents 330 to 68. Michigan was ranked No. 6 in both of the major post-season polls. Two other selectors, the National Championship Foundation and the Poling System, recognize Michigan as a co-national champion for the 1973 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095840-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Michigan Wolverines football team\nThe season ended with a 10\u201310 tie against Ohio State. Both teams were undefeated, with the winner to play the Rose Bowl. When the game ended in a tie, the Big Ten Conference athletic directors voted to send Ohio State to the Rose Bowl. Michigan athletic officials and fans were outraged, with even the Vice President of the United States speaking out against the decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095840-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Michigan Wolverines football team\nOn offense, the team was led by quarterback Dennis Franklin who completed 36 of 67 passes for 534 yards and rushed 101 times for 425 yards. Four Michigan running backs, Ed Shuttlesworth, Chuck Heater, Gil Chapman, and Gordon Bell, combined for 2,417 rushing yards. Shuttlesworth, Franklin, wing back Clint Haslerig, and offensive guard Mike Hoban were all selected as All-Big Ten Conference players. Tight end Paul Seal was selected for the team's Most Valuable Player award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095840-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Michigan Wolverines football team\nOn defense, the Wolverines held opponents to 68 points, an average of 6.2 points per game. Defensive tackle Dave Gallagher and defensive back Dave Brown were both selected as consensus first-team All-Americans. Middle linebacker Steve Strinko led the team with 77 solo tackles and 108 total tackles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095840-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Pre-season\nThe 1972 Michigan team had compiled a 10\u20131 record and were ranked sixth in the final Coaches and AP Polls. Important players from the 1972 team who were lost to graduation included offensive guard Tom Coyle, center Bill Hart, tight end Paul Seymour, defensive tackle Fred Grambau, and defensive back Randy Logan. Important players returning to the 1973 team included quarterback Dennis Franklin, fullback Ed Shuttlesworth, tailback Chuck Heater, tight end Paul Seal, wing back Clint Haslerig, defensive back Dave Brown, defensive tackle Dave Gallagher, and defensive end Don Coleman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 650]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095840-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Pre-season\nIn April 1973, Michigan's recruiting class for the incoming class of 1973 was finalized. The class of 24 recruits included running back Rob Lytle and wide receiver Jim Smith. Also in April, Michigan held its annual spring football game matching the \"blue\" and \"white\" squads against each other. Sophomore running back Gordon Bell reportedly \"sparkled\" with 75 rushing yards on 12 carries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095840-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Pre-season\nBefore the start of the season, head coach Bo Schembechler told the media that he was \"very, very high\" on Dennis Franklin and that he planned on using a \"balanced attack\" with two-thirds running plays and one-third passing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095840-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Pre-season\nSchembechler also stated that he took special pride in the 30 seniors on his 1973 team. Schembechler had recruited the senior class after suffering a heart attack following the 1969 season. He recalled, \"My assistant coaches would bring them to my house. I'd get out of bed and put on a coat and tie. Then after they left I'd go back to bed, but I wanted to talk to them myself. I wanted them to know that Bo Schembechler was going to coach them if they came to Michigan.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095840-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Pre-season\nIn the pre-season polls, Michigan was ranked No. 5 by the Associated Press (AP) and No. 6 by the United Press International (UPI) with Ohio State No. 2 in the AP and No. 3 in the UPI poll. USC was ranked No. 1 in both polls. Former Michigan State coach Duffy Daugherty predicted Michigan, based on its strong offensive and defensive backfields, would win the Big Ten Conference championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095840-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Iowa\nOn September 15, 1973, Michigan opened its season with a 31\u20137 victory over Iowa in front of a crowd of 52,105 at Kinnick Stadium in Iowa City. The Wolverines rushed for 440 yards against the Hawkeyes, led by tailback Chuck Heater (133 yards and a touchdown), fullback Ed Shuttlesworth (88 yards), Gil Chapman (69 yards and a touchdown), quarterback Dennis Franklin (62 yards and a touchdown), and Gordon Bell (50 yards). Franklin completed only two of eight passes for 26 yards and threw two interceptions. In the second quarter, Iowa's Earl Douthitt returned an interception 47 yards for Iowa's only touchdown. Mike Lantry also kicked a 39-yard field goal and converted all four extra point attempts. Linebacker Steve Strinko led Michigan with 10 tackles and three assists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 63], "content_span": [64, 838]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095840-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Stanford\nOn September 22, 1973, Michigan defeated Stanford, 47\u201310, in front of a crowd of 80,177 at Michigan Stadium. Michigan took a 21\u20130 lead in the first quarter and led 34\u20130 at halftime. Dennis Franklin rushed for 49 yards and completed five of eight passes for 50 yards, including a four-yard touchdown pass in the second quarter. Mike Lantry broke Dana Coin's Michigan record with a 50-yard field goal in the second quarter; Lantry then broke his own record later in the quarter with a 51-yard field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095840-0010-0001", "contents": "1973 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Stanford\nThe game was billed as revenge for Stanford's defeat of No. 3-ranked Michigan in the 1972 Rose Bowl. Chuck Heater scored Michigan's first touchdown, while Ed Shuttlesworth and Gil Chapman each scored two touchdowns. The Wolverines sacked Stanford quarterbacks Mike Boryla and Mike Cordova 11 times in the game. Stanford's only touchdown came on a 19-yard pass from Boryla to Reggie Ishman in the fourth quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095840-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Navy\nOn September 29, 1973, Michigan defeated Navy, 14-0, in front of a Band Day crowd of 88,042 at Michigan Stadium. Michigan's two touchdowns were scored by Chuck Heater on an eight-yard run in the first quarter and Ed Shuttlesworth on a one-yard run in the third quarter. Navy completed 17 of 30 passes for 173 yards and three interceptions, with a touchdown pass being deflected at the last second by Dave Brown. Navy out-gained Michigan with 320 yard of total offense to 285 for Michigan. Michigan completed only one pass for four yards on three attempts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095840-0011-0001", "contents": "1973 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Navy\nAfter the game, Michigan coach Bo Schembechler complained that he \"didn't see us block anybody\", that his team \"played the worst game I've ever coached in Michigan Stadium\", and added, \"I hope this is a humbling victory . . . if there is such a thing.\" Despite the shutout, Schembechler also ripped his defensive unit, complaining that they did not play pass defense and played \"the worst game our defense has ever played in shutting anybody out.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 60], "content_span": [61, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095840-0012-0000", "contents": "1973 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Oregon\nOn October 6, 1973, Michigan defeated Oregon, 24\u20130, in front of a crowd of 81,113 at Michigan Stadium. With Dennis Franklin out of action due to a broken finger, Larry Cipa made his first career start at quarterback for Michigan. Michigan scored 14 points in the second quarter on a short run by Bob Thornbladh and a short pass from Cipa to Paul Seal. In the fourth quarter, Michigan padded its lead on an 83-yard punt return by Gil Chapman and a Mike Lantry field goal. Michigan totaled 183 rushing yards and 93 passing yards against the Ducks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095840-0012-0001", "contents": "1973 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Oregon\nDespite the 24-point margin of victory, the press viewed Michigan's performance as sluggish. Joe Falls, sports editor of the Detroit Free Press, wrote of the team: \"It is sluggish on offense. It is making mistakes all over the place . . . This Michigan team isn't close to being the error-free Michigan teams we have come to know so well over these last four years.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095840-0013-0000", "contents": "1973 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Michigan State\nOn October 13, 1973, Michigan defeated Michigan State, 31\u20130, in a soaking rainstorm before a crowd of 78,263 at Spartan Stadium. It was the Wolverines' third consecutive shutout and their most one-sided victory over the Spartans since 1947. With the ball slippery due to the rain, Michigan recovered four Michigan State fumbles in the first quarter. Dave Brown scored Michigan's first touchdown on a 52-yard punt return. Gil Chapman scored on a 53-yard run around left end in the second quarter, and Michigan led 17\u20130 at halftime. In the third quarter, neither team scored as the rain became a \"deluge\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 73], "content_span": [74, 677]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095840-0013-0001", "contents": "1973 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Michigan State\nMichigan added two more touchdowns in the fourth quarter on a six-yard pass from Dennis Franklin to Paul Seal and a two-yard run by Ed Shuttlesworth. Mike Lantry kicked a 35-yard field goal and converted all four extra point attempts. Dennis Franklin played with a broken finger, leading coach Schembechler to praise his one-handed quarterback for \"a helluva job.\" On defense, the Wolverines held the Spartans to 40 rushing yards on 37 carries. Linebacker Steve Strinko had nine tackles, four of them for a loss, and recovered a fumble.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 73], "content_span": [74, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095840-0014-0000", "contents": "1973 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Wisconsin\nOn October 20, 1973, Michigan defeated Wisconsin, 35\u20136, in front of a homecoming crowd of 87,723 at Michigan Stadium. With 108 passing yards and 415 rushing yards, the Wolverines tallied 523 yards of total offense. Michigan opened the scoring in the first quarter with a 46-yard touchdown pass from Dennis Franklin to Paul Seal. Michigan's remaining touchdowns were scored by Gil Chapman (three-yard run in second quarter), Franklin (one-yard run in second quarter), Chuck Heater (four-yard run in third quarter), and Gordon Bell (seven-yard run in fourth quarter). Mike Lantry converted all five extra point attempts. Michigan's shutout streak ended after 15 consecutive quarters when Wisconsin scored on a freak play as a deflected pass resulted in a 65-yard touchdown in the fourth quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 860]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095840-0015-0000", "contents": "1973 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Minnesota\nOn October 27, 1973, Michigan defeated Minnesota, 34\u20137, before a homecoming crowd of 44,435 at Memorial Stadium in Minneapolis. The victory was Michigan's sixth in a row in the annual battle for the Little Brown Jug. Michigan rushed for 275 yards led by Gordon Bell with 73 yards and Ed Shuttlesworth with 69 yards. Shuttlesworth and Bell scored two rushing touchdowns each, and Mike Lantry kicked field goals of 27 and 29 yards and converted all four extra point kicks. Michigan took a 17\u20130 lead in the first quarter, including 10 points off early turnovers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095840-0015-0001", "contents": "1973 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Minnesota\nOn the second play from scrimmage, a Minnesota fumble was recovered by Michigan (Doug Troszak) to set up Lantry's first field goal. On Minnesota's next play from scrimmage, the Gophers fumbled again with Dave Brown recovering to set up a six-yard touchdown run by Shuttlesworth. After Bell scored in the second quarter, Michigan led 24\u20130 at haftime without having thrown a single pass. In the third quarter, Minnesota quarterback Rick Upchurch (later an All-Pro wide receiver for the Denver Broncos) threw a touchdown pass to a wide open Vince Fuller. Minnesota coach Cal Stoll played eight men on the line, but Michigan's defense held Minnesota to 142 yards of total offense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 68], "content_span": [69, 745]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095840-0016-0000", "contents": "1973 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Indiana\nOn November 3, 1973, Michigan defeated Indiana, 49\u201313, in front of 76,432 at Michigan Stadium. Michigan took a 42\u20130 lead in the second quarter before Indiana scored its first touchdown The Wolverines totaled 385 rushing yards and 96 passing yards. Chuck Heater was the game's leading rusher with 128 yards. After the game, Indiana coach Lee Corso praised both Michigan and Ohio State and predicted that the showdown between the two would be decided by a kicking mistake in the fourth quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 63], "content_span": [64, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095840-0017-0000", "contents": "1973 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Illinois\nOn November 10, 1973, Michigan defeated Illinois, 21\u20136, in front of 76,461 at Michigan Stadium. Late in the first quarter, Michigan moved the ball to near midfield on a 25-yard run by Chuck Heater when an Irish setter ran onto the field and delayed the game for several minutes. After the game, Bo Schembechler joked, \"When you're on offense, everything is momentum. We're standing in the huddle watching that dog and there goes our momentum.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095840-0017-0001", "contents": "1973 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Illinois\nNeither team scored in the first quarter, but Illinois took a 6\u20130 lead in the second quarter on two field goals by Dan Beaver, the second of which bounced off the left upright down onto the crossbar before falling across. Michigan took the lead late in the second quarter on a one-yard touchdown run by Ed Shuttlesworth. Michigan led, 7\u20136, at halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095840-0018-0000", "contents": "1973 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Illinois\nOn the opening drive of the second half, Gil Chapman scored on a 33-yard touchdown run off an option pitch from Dennis Franklin. In the fourth quarter, an option pitch by Franklin was deflected by Illinois. In the resulting scramble for the loose ball, Paul Seal recovered and ran 20 yards for a touchdown with Mike Hoban knocking over three Illini with a block to clear Seal's path. Mike Lantry converted all three extra point kicks for Michigan. In uncharacteristic form, the Wolverines fumbled six times in the game, resulting in four turnovers. After the game, coach Schembechler promised that he'd run the next guy who fumbled \"til his tongue hangs out.\" Michigan's defense held the Illini to 52 yards of total offense in the second half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 64], "content_span": [65, 808]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095840-0019-0000", "contents": "1973 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Purdue\nOn November 17, 1973, Michigan defeated Purdue, 34\u20139, before a crowd of 56,485 at Ross\u2013Ade Stadium in West Lafayette, Indiana. In a low-scoring first half, Michigan took the lead in the second quarter on a 41-yard touchdown pass from Dennis Franklin to Clint Haslerig, but Mike Lantry missed the extra point kick after the snap from center was bobbled. Purdue kicked a 27-yard field goal later in the quarter, and Michigan led 6\u20133 at halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095840-0019-0001", "contents": "1973 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Purdue\nIn the second half, Michigan's running game dominated as Franklin scored on touchdown runs of three and 12 yards in the third quarter, Bob Thornbladh scored on a pair of touchdown runs in the fourth quarter. Lantry converted all four extra point kicks in the second half. Michigan rushed for 310 yards in the game, including 84 yards by Chuck Heater, 66 yards by Ed Shuttlesworth, 64 yards for Gordon Bell, and 57 yards for Franklin. Franklin also completed three of seven passes for 70 yards. Purdue scored late in third quarter on an 18-yard pass from Bo Bobrowski to Herrick. Michigan's defense held Purdue to 119 yards (100 rushing and 19 passing).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 718]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095840-0020-0000", "contents": "1973 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, at Purdue\nOn the same afternoon, Ohio State defeated Iowa, 55\u201313, as Archie Griffin broke the Buckeyes' single game record with 246 rushing yards. The victories by Michigan and Ohio State left both teams undefeated with the winner of the following week's rivalry match advancing to the Rose Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 65], "content_span": [66, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095840-0021-0000", "contents": "1973 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Ohio State\nOn November 24, 1973, #4 Michigan and #1 Ohio State played to a 10\u201310 tie before a crowd of 105,223 at Michigan Stadium. Ohio State scored 10 points in the second quarter on a 31-yard field goal by Blair Conway and a five-yard touchdown run by fullback Pete Johnson. Michigan scored 10 point in the fourth quarter on a 30-yard field goal by Mike Lantry and a 10-yard touchdown run by Dennis Franklin. Franklin sustained a broken collarbone late in the fourth quarter. Michigan had 303 yards of total offense (204 rushing, 99 passing) to 234 yards (234 rushing and zero passing) for Ohio State. Archie Griffin rushed for 163 of Ohio State's 234 yards of total offense. Ed Shuttlesworth rushed for 116 yards for Michigan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 786]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095840-0022-0000", "contents": "1973 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Rose Bowl controversy\nWith the Michigan\u2013Ohio State game ending in a tie, Michigan and Ohio State tied for the Big Ten Conference championship with Michigan at 10\u20130\u20131 and Ohio State at 9\u20130\u20131. Under a conference rule, the conference's berth to the 1974 Rose Bowl was decided by a vote of the conference's athletic directors. Ohio State won the vote with six of ten athletic directors voting to send the Buckeyes to Pasadena. The injury to Michigan's starting quarterback Dennis Franklin was reported to be a significant factor in the vote of several athletic directors. The vote spawned a controversy, including public comments by the following:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 77], "content_span": [78, 699]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095840-0023-0000", "contents": "1973 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Post-season\nMichigan's undefeated season in 1973 was its first since 1948.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095840-0024-0000", "contents": "1973 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Post-season\nAt the end of the season, Paul Seal was voted as the recipient of the team's most valuable player award, then known as the Louis B. Hyde Memorial Award. At six feet, six inches, Seal caught only 14 passes for 253 yards, but he was described by Michigan coaches as \"the best blocking tight end ever to wear the maize and blue.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095840-0025-0000", "contents": "1973 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Post-season\nFour Michigan players received recognition on the 1973 College Football All-America Team. They were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095840-0026-0000", "contents": "1973 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Post-season\nFifteen Michigan players received honors from either the AP or UPI on their 1973 All-Big Ten Conference football teams. They Michigan honorees were: Dave Brown (AP-1, UPI-1), Dennis Franklin (AP-1, UPI-1), Dave Gallagher (AP-1, UPI-1), Mike Hoban (AP-1, UPI-1), Ed Shuttlesworth (AP-1, UPI-1), Clint Haslerig (UPI-1), Jim Coode (AP-2, UPI-2), Paul Seal (AP-2, UPI-2), Gil Chapman (UPI-2), Don Coleman (UPI-2), Gary Hainrihar (UPI-2), Chuck Heater (AP-2), Steve Strinko (AP-2), Donald R. Warner (UPI-2), Walt Williamson (AP-2)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095840-0027-0000", "contents": "1973 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Post-season\nTwo days after the Ohio State game, Michigan assistant coach Frank Maloney was hired as the head coach at Syracuse. Tom Reed, who had played for Schembechler at Miami (Ohio), was hired to replace Maloney.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095840-0028-0000", "contents": "1973 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Post-season\nOn January 3, 1974, the final AP Poll rankings were announced. Notre Dame took the No. 1 spot, edging Ohio State, which had dropped out of the No. 1 spot after playing to a tie against Michigan. Michigan, which sat idle despite its undefeated record, dropped from the No. 5 spot to No. 6 spot, as Penn State rose to No. 5 after defeating LSU in the Orange Bowl. Two other selectors, the National Championship Foundation and the Poling System, recognize Michigan as a co-national champion for the 1973 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095840-0029-0000", "contents": "1973 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Post-season\nOn January 6, 1974, Schembechler coached the East team to a 24\u201314 win in the Hula Bowl. Ed Shuttlesworth rushed for 88 yards on 22 carries for the East squad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095840-0030-0000", "contents": "1973 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Post-season\nIn the 1973 NFL Draft, held on January 29 and 30, 1974, the following Michigan players were selected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095840-0031-0000", "contents": "1973 Michigan Wolverines football team, Players, Offensive letter winners\nThe following players won varsity letters for their participation on the team's offensive unit. Players who were starters in at least half of the team's games, or who started the most games at a position, are shown with their names in bold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 73], "content_span": [74, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095840-0032-0000", "contents": "1973 Michigan Wolverines football team, Players, Defensive letter winners\nThe following players won varsity letters for their participation on the team's defensive unit. Players who were starters in at least half of the team's games are shown with their names in bold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 73], "content_span": [74, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095840-0033-0000", "contents": "1973 Michigan Wolverines football team, Players, Other players\nThe following players did not win varsity letters, but participated as backups or as members of the junior varsity (JV) or all freshman (AF) teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 62], "content_span": [63, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095840-0034-0000", "contents": "1973 Michigan Wolverines football team, Statistical leaders\nThe following players were Michigan's statistical leaders for the 1973 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 59], "content_span": [60, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095841-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Mid Bedfordshire District Council election\nThe first election to Mid Bedfordshire District Council was held on 7 June 1973, with the 49 councillors elected forming a shadow authority until 1 April 1974. Mid Bedfordshire District was formed on 1 April 1974 as part of a general reorganisation of local authorities in England and Wales carried out under the Local Government Act 1972. The district was formed by the amalgamation of five districts:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095841-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Mid Bedfordshire District Council election\nIn 1973 Mid Bedfordshire had 62,423 registered electors, of which 57,527 were in the 23 contested wards. The turnout in the contested wards was 49%. Two wards (Henlow & Langford and Wrest) were uncontested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095841-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Mid Bedfordshire District Council election, Ward Results\nFigures on turnout were taken from Plymouth University's Elections Centre, which gives the number of registered voters, and the percentage turnout for each ward. The number of ballots cast for each ward was calculated from these.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 61], "content_span": [62, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095841-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Mid Bedfordshire District Council election, Ward Results\nThe percentage of the vote for each candidate was calculated compared with the number of ballots cast in the ward. Note that in a ward with more than one seat, voters were allowed to place as many crosses on the ballot paper as seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 61], "content_span": [62, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095842-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Mid Glamorgan County Council election\nThe first election to Mid Glamorgan County Council and was held in April 1973. It was followed by the 1977 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095842-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Mid Glamorgan County Council election\nThe new authority came into effect from 1 April 1974 following the division of the former Glamorgan County Council into three new authorities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095842-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Mid Glamorgan County Council election, Candidates\nThe Labour Party fielded candidates in every ward. A significant proportion of seats were contested by the Conservative Party and Plaid Cymru with fewer candidates fielded by the Liberal Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095842-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Mid Glamorgan County Council election, Candidates\nNumerous members of the former Glamorgan County Council stood for election, notably for Labour. These included Alfred Bowen (Bridgend) and Bertie Rowland (Caerphilly).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095842-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Mid Glamorgan County Council election, Candidates\nFred Riddiford, former Labour councillor for Aberaman on the former Glamorgan authority, contested the seat for Plaid Cymru.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095843-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Milan\u2013San Remo\nThe 1973 Milan\u2013San Remo was the 64th edition of the Milan\u2013San Remo cycle race and was held on 19 March 1973. The race started in Milan and finished in San Remo. The race was won by Roger De Vlaeminck of the Brooklyn team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095844-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Milo International Tennis Classic\nThe 1973 Milo International Tennis Classic, also known as the Manila Open, was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts in Manila, the Philippines. It was the inaugural edition of the event and was held from 15 October through 21 October 1973. The tournament was part of the Grade C tier of the Grand Prix tennis circuit and was the third leg of the Asian circuit. Ross Case won the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095844-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Milo International Tennis Classic, Finals, Doubles\nMarcello Lara / Sherwood Stewart defeated J\u00fcrgen Fassbender / Hans-J\u00fcrgen Pohmann 4\u20136, 7\u20135, 7\u20136", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095845-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Milwaukee Brewers season\nThe 1973 Milwaukee Brewers season involved the Brewers' finishing fifth in the American League East with a record of 74 wins and 88 losses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095845-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Milwaukee Brewers season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095845-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Milwaukee Brewers season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095845-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Milwaukee Brewers season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095845-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Milwaukee Brewers season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095845-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Milwaukee Brewers season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095845-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Milwaukee Brewers season, Farm system\nThe Brewers' farm system consisted of four minor league affiliates in 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 42], "content_span": [43, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095846-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Milwaukee Panthers football team\nThe 1973 Milwaukee Panthers football team represented the University of Wisconsin\u2013Milwaukee in the 1973 NCAA Division II football season. The Panthers offense scored 251 points while the defense allowed 218 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095847-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Minnesota Golden Gophers baseball team\nThe 1973 Minnesota Golden Gophers baseball team represented the University of Minnesota in the 1973 NCAA University Division baseball season. The head coach was Dick Siebert, serving his 26th year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095847-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Minnesota Golden Gophers baseball team\nThe Golden Gophers lost the College World Series, defeated by the USC Trojans in the semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095848-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team\nThe 1973 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team represented the University of Minnesota in the 1973 Big Ten Conference football season. In their second year under head coach Cal Stoll, the Golden Gophers compiled a 7\u20134 record but were outscored by their opponents by a combined total of 295 to 260.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095848-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team\nEnd Steve Neils and offensive tackle Matt Herkenhoff shared the team's Most Valuable Player award. Neils and end Keith Fahnhorst were named All-Big Ten first team. Offensive guard Darrel Bunge and wide receiver Rick Upchurch were named All-Big Ten second team. Defensive lineman Jeff Gunderson was named Academic All-Big Ten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095848-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team\nTotal attendance for the season was 245,706, which averaged to 40,951. The season high for attendance was against Nebraska.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095849-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Minnesota Twins season\nThe 1973 Minnesota Twins finished 81\u201381, third in the American League West.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095849-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Minnesota Twins season, Regular season\nWith the American League's new designated hitter rule taking effect, on April 6 in Oakland, California, Tony Oliva became the first DH to hit a home run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095849-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Minnesota Twins season, Regular season\nOn July 3, Tony Oliva hit three home runs against the Kansas City Royals. The Twins-record feat was accomplished twice before, by both Bob Allison and Harmon Killebrew in 1963.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095849-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Minnesota Twins season, Regular season\nTwo Twins made the All-Star Game: second baseman Rod Carew and pitcher Bert Blyleven. 907,499 fans attended Twins games, the third lowest total in the American League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095849-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Minnesota Twins season, Regular season\nOn September 27, California Angels pitcher Nolan Ryan struck out sixteen Twins and set a major league season mark of 383 strikeouts. Minnesota's Rich Reese was Ryan's 383rd victim.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095849-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Minnesota Twins season, Regular season\nPitcher Bert Blyleven finished with a 20\u201317 record and set several team records: total innings pitched (325.0), complete games (25), shutouts (9), strikeouts (258).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095849-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Minnesota Twins season, Regular season\nRod Carew won his third AL batting title with a .350 average. Bobby Darwin continued to show potential as a hitter with 18 home runs and 90 RBI. Tony Oliva limped through the season, hitting 16 HR and collecting 92 RBI. Bert Blyleven won 20 games for the first time, and three other pitchers had double digit wins: Jim Kaat (11\u201312), Dick Woodson (10\u20138), and Joe Decker (10\u201310). Kaat also won his 12th Gold Glove Award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095849-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Minnesota Twins season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 72], "content_span": [73, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095849-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Minnesota Twins season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095849-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Minnesota Twins season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 70], "content_span": [71, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095849-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 Minnesota Twins season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 67], "content_span": [68, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095849-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 Minnesota Twins season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 68], "content_span": [69, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095850-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Minnesota Vikings season\nThe 1973 season was the Minnesota Vikings' 13th in the National Football League. With a 12\u20132 record, the Vikings regained the NFC Central title after having gone 7\u20137 the previous year. They started the season 9\u20130 and looked a threat to the previous year's Dolphins' record of a perfect season before losing to the Atlanta Falcons and Cincinnati Bengals in their next three games. Their narrow 10\u20139 win over the Los Angeles Rams constituted the last time until 1997 that the last two unbeaten NFL teams played each other.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 550]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095850-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Minnesota Vikings season\nThe Vikings defeated the Washington Redskins 27\u201320 in the NFC Divisional Playoff game at home and went on to upset the Dallas Cowboys 27\u201310 in Irving, Texas to win the NFC Championship, before losing 24\u20137 to the Miami Dolphins in Super Bowl VIII at Rice Stadium in Houston.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095850-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 11: vs. Chicago Bears\nThe day of this game was declared \"Karl Kassulke Day\" in honor of former Viking safety Karl Kassulke, who was left paralyzed in a motorcycle accident just before the beginning of training camp.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 89], "content_span": [90, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095850-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Minnesota Vikings season, Playoffs, Game summaries, NFC Divisional Playoff\nMinnesota scored 17 points in the fourth quarter to overcome a 13-10 deficit, including two touchdowns in a span of 1:05.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 79], "content_span": [80, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095850-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Minnesota Vikings season, Playoffs, Game summaries, NFC Divisional Playoff\nBoth offenses struggled in the first quarter. The Vikings were completely unable to move the ball, finishing the quarter without any first downs, while Washington kicker Curt Knight missed two field goal attempts. One miss was from 49 yards and the other from 17, spoiling an impressive drive that saw the Redskins drive from their own 14 to inside the Vikings 10-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 79], "content_span": [80, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095850-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Minnesota Vikings season, Playoffs, Game summaries, NFC Divisional Playoff\nMinnesota finally managed to get rolling in the second quarter, with a 50-yard completion from Tarkenton to running back Oscar Reed setting up Fred Cox's 19-yard field goal. But with 3:30 left in the half, Vikings defensive back Bobby Bryant fumbled a punt return that was recovered by Redskins running back Bob Brunet on the Minnesota 21-yard line. Billy Kilmer then completed a 17-yard pass to Charley Taylor before Larry Brown scored on a 3-yard touchdown run to give the Redskins a 7\u20133 lead. Minnesota responded with a drive into field goal range, but Mike Bass intercepted a pass from Tarkenton to maintain Washington's lead going into halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 79], "content_span": [80, 730]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095850-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Minnesota Vikings season, Playoffs, Game summaries, NFC Divisional Playoff\nThe Vikings then took the opening kickoff of the second half and marched 79 yards, including a 46-yard run by Reed, to score on fullback Bill Brown's 2-yard rushing touchdown. To make matters worse for Washington, star cornerback Pat Fischer suffered cracked ribs on the drive and was replaced by Speedy Duncan, an 11-year veteran who normally only played as a kick returner. Still, the Redskins managed to take back the lead with Knight's two third-quarter field goals, first tying a playoff record from 52 yards, and the second from 46 yards on the first play of the fourth quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 79], "content_span": [80, 664]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095850-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Minnesota Vikings season, Playoffs, Game summaries, NFC Divisional Playoff\nNow facing a 13-10 fourth quarter deficit, the Vikings stormed back with two quick touchdowns. First they drove 71 yards in 8 plays to score on Tarkenton's pass to John Gilliam, who beat single coverage by Duncan for a 28-yard touchdown catch. Then on the first play of Washington's ensuing drive, Nate Wright intercepted a pass from Kilmer and returned it 26 yards to the Redskins 8-yard line, setting up a 6-yard touchdown pass from Tarkenton to Gilliam that made the score 24-13.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 79], "content_span": [80, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095850-0007-0001", "contents": "1973 Minnesota Vikings season, Playoffs, Game summaries, NFC Divisional Playoff\nWith 5:28 left, Washington got back to within four points, getting good field position due to Ken Stone blocking a Vikings punt and converting it into Kilmer's 28-yard touchdown pass to Roy Jefferson. But the Vikings managed to burn up 4 minutes with their ensuing drive, finishing it off with a 30-yard Cox field goal that gave them a 27-20 lead. The Redskins had less than two minutes to drive for a tying touchdown, and ended up turning the ball over on downs at the Vikings 42-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 79], "content_span": [80, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095850-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Minnesota Vikings season, Playoffs, Game summaries, NFC Divisional Playoff\nTarkenton completed 16/28 passes for 222 yards and two touchdowns, with one interception. Reed had 17 carries for 95 yards and caught four passes for 76. Brown rushed for 115 yards and a touchdown, while also catching two passes for 13 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 79], "content_span": [80, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095850-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Minnesota Vikings season, Playoffs, Game summaries, NFC Divisional Playoff\n\"Sometimes they\u2019re not concentrating on me,\" said Oscar Reed, in reference to his big plays in the game. \"Since early in the season they've been keying on Chuck Foreman. I'm not the world's greatest pass catcher or runner, but given a little room, I'll use what I've got.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 79], "content_span": [80, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095850-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 Minnesota Vikings season, Playoffs, Game summaries, NFC Championship Game\nThe Vikings forced four interceptions and recovered two fumbles in the second half while also holding Dallas to 152 total yards en route to a 27\u201310 victory over the Cowboys.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 78], "content_span": [79, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095850-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 Minnesota Vikings season, Playoffs, Game summaries, NFC Championship Game\nWith the loss of running back Calvin Hill and defensive tackle Bob Lilly to injuries, Dallas' offense could not get anything going. Minnesota jumped to a 10\u20130 lead by halftime with a Fred Cox field goal and an 86-yard drive that ended with a 5-yard rushing touchdown by Chuck Foreman. The touchdown drive included Fran Tarkenton's completions to tight end Stu Voigt for gains of 16 and 7 yards, a 2-yard run by Foreman on 4th-and-1, and a 12-yard scramble by Tarkenton himself.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 78], "content_span": [79, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095850-0012-0000", "contents": "1973 Minnesota Vikings season, Playoffs, Game summaries, NFC Championship Game\nWhat followed would be an amazingly sloppy second half in which both teams combined for 10 turnovers. Three minutes into the third quarter, Dallas quarterback Roger Staubach threw an interception to Bobby Bryant on the Vikings 2-yard line. But the Cowboys defense forced a punt and Golden Richards returned it 63 yards for a touchdown, cutting the score to 10\u20137. Tarkenton quickly struck back, throwing a 54-yard touchdown pass to John Gilliam, who managed to outrun single coverage by Cowboys future Hall of Fame defensive back Mel Renfro. Dallas responded with Toni Fritsch's 17-yard field goal which cut the lead to 17\u201310.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 78], "content_span": [79, 704]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095850-0013-0000", "contents": "1973 Minnesota Vikings season, Playoffs, Game summaries, NFC Championship Game\nThen a wave of turnovers began. On the ensuing possession, Dallas got a huge opportunity to score when Charlie Waters forced a fumble from Foreman that safety Cliff Harris recovered on the Minnesota 37. However, the Vikings took the ball right back when Staubach threw a pass that was deflected into the arms of linebacker Jeff Siemon. An even better scoring chance awaited the Cowboys at the end of the Vikings' next drive, as Tarkenton threw an interception to Waters on the Minnesota 24.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 78], "content_span": [79, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095850-0013-0001", "contents": "1973 Minnesota Vikings season, Playoffs, Game summaries, NFC Championship Game\nBut Dallas fared no better this time, losing the ball again when Jim Marshall knocked it out of Staubach's hand as he wound up for a pass, and defensive lineman Gary Larsen recovered it. The offensive futility continued with Minnesota, as their next drive ended with a fumbled handoff exchange between Tarkenton and Foreman that Dallas lineman Larry Cole recovered on the Vikings 47-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 78], "content_span": [79, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095850-0014-0000", "contents": "1973 Minnesota Vikings season, Playoffs, Game summaries, NFC Championship Game\nA few plays later, Dallas faced 3rd-and-3 with 9 minutes left in the fourth quarter. Staubach attempted a pass to Bob Hayes near the right sideline, but Bryant intercepted the pass and raced 63 yards for a touchdown that put the Vikings up 24\u201310. Then on Dallas' next drive, Staubach tried to connect with Drew Pearson, but a devastating hit by Nate Wright caused the ball to bounce off his hands and into the arms of defensive back Jeff Wright, who returned the ball 13 yards to set up Cox's 34-yard game clinching field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 78], "content_span": [79, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095850-0015-0000", "contents": "1973 Minnesota Vikings season, Playoffs, Game summaries, NFC Championship Game\nBoth teams combined for a net total of just 163 passing yards. Tarkenton completed only 10/21 passes for 133 yards and a touchdown with one interception, while also rushing for 16 yards. Staubach had one of the worst postseason performances of his career, completing just 10/21 passes for 89 yards and throwing four interceptions, though he did rush for 30 yards. Foreman was the top offensive performer of the day with 76 rushing yards and four receptions for 28, while fullback Oscar Reed added 18 carries for 75 yards and an 8-yard catch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 78], "content_span": [79, 620]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095851-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Mississippi State Bulldogs football team\nThe 1973 Mississippi State Bulldogs football team represented Mississippi State University during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The team was led by head coach Bob Tyler, in his first year, and played their home games at Scott Field in Starkville, Mississippi. They finished the season with a record of four wins, five losses and two ties (4\u20135\u20132, 2\u20135 SEC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095851-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Mississippi State Bulldogs football team, Game summaries, Vanderbilt\nFullback Wayne Jones broke through Vanderbilt's defense for 117 yards and three scores in Mississippi State's rout of Vanderbilt and gave head coach Bob Tyler his first victory. Jones, a 215-pound senior, opened the scoring before the Commodores took charge with two scores. Jones then capped a 69-yard drive to pull State even. Jones' third touchdown came in the third after what turned out to be Vanderbilt's only score of the half. It was the Bulldogs' biggest win since 1952 versus Auburn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 73], "content_span": [74, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095852-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Missouri Tigers football team\nThe 1973 Missouri Tigers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Missouri in the Big Eight Conference (Big 8) during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. The team compiled an 8\u20134 record (3\u20134 against Big 8 opponents), finished in fifth place in the Big 8, and outscored opponents by a combined total of 219 to 152. Al Onofrio was the head coach for the third of seven seasons. The team played its home games at Faurot Field in Columbia, Missouri.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095852-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Missouri Tigers football team\nThe team's statistical leaders included Tommy Reamon with 610 rushing yards, John Cherry with 743 passing yards and 895 yards of total offense, Mark Miller with 256 receiving yards, and Greg Hill with 63 points scored.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095853-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Monaco Grand Prix\nThe 1973 Monaco Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Monaco on 3 June 1973. It was race 6 of 15 in both the 1973 World Championship of Drivers and the 1973 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095853-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Monaco Grand Prix\nThe race was held on a heavily revised circuit, with a longer tunnel, a new section of track around the new swimming pool on the harbour front, and the Gasworks hairpin replaced by the Rascasse and Antony Nogh\u00e8s corners, the latter named after the founder of the race. The pits were also moved back to the start-finish straight, on a wider pit lane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095853-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Monaco Grand Prix\nThe 78-lap race was won from pole position by Scotland's Jackie Stewart, driving a Tyrrell-Ford. In the process, Stewart equalled the record of 25 Grand Prix victories set by his friend Jim Clark. Brazil's Emerson Fittipaldi finished second in a Lotus-Ford, with Swedish teammate Ronnie Peterson third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095853-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Monaco Grand Prix\nThis was the first race for future World Champion James Hunt, driving a March-Ford entered by Hesketh Racing. Hunt suffered an engine failure in the closing stages of the race, but was classified ninth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095854-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Monegasque general election\nGeneral elections were held in Monaco on 4 February 1973, with a second round of voting on 11 February. The result was a victory for the National and Democratic Union, which won 16 of the 18 seats in the National Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095855-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Mongolian National Championship\nThe 1973 Mongolian National Championship was the tenth recorded edition of the Mongolian National Championship for football, with the first tournament taking place in 1955 and no tournament held in 1965. It would appear however that championships were contested between 1956 and 1963, as sources note that a team called Aldar, the Mongolian Army Sports Club, won the title on numerous occasions during that time. Nonetheless, the 1973 national championship was won by Tengeriin Bugnuud, a team from Bat-\u00d6lzii, a sum (district) of \u00d6v\u00f6rkhangai Province in southern Mongolia, their fourth title following their first victory in the 1967 championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 684]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095856-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Mongolian legislative election\nParliamentary elections were held in Mongolia on 24 June 1973. At the time, the country was a one-party state under the rule of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party. The MPRP won 282 of the 336 seats, with the remaining 54 seats going to non-party candidates, who had been chosen by the MPRP due to their social status. Voter turnout was reported to be 100%, with only 39 registered voters failing to cast a ballot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095857-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Montana Grizzlies football team\nThe 1973 Montana Grizzlies football team was an American football team that represented the University of Montana in the Big Sky Conference during the 1973 NCAA Division II football season. In their seventh year under head coach Jack Swarthout, the team compiled an 4\u20136 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095858-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Montana State Bobcats football team\nThe 1973 Montana State Bobcats football team was an American football team that represented Montana State University in the Big Sky Conference during the 1973 NCAA Division II football season. In their third season under head coach Sonny Holland, the Bobcats compiled a 7\u20134 record (5\u20131 against Big Sky opponents) and finished second in the Big Sky.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095858-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Montana State Bobcats football team\nThe team played its home games in the newly-constructed, 10,000-seat Reno H. Sales Stadium in Bozeman, Montana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095859-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Monte Carlo Open\nThe 1973 Monte Carlo Open, also known by its sponsored name Craven Monte Carlo Championships, was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Monte Carlo Country Club in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France. The tournament was part of the Rothmans Spring Mediterranean Circuit, a series of six tournaments held in France, Monaco, Spain and Italy from March to May 1973. It was the 67th edition of the event and was held from 16 April through 21 April 1973. Ilie N\u0103stase won the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095859-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Monte Carlo Open, Finals, Doubles\nJuan Gisbert / Ilie N\u0103stase defeated Georges Goven / Patrick Proisy 6\u20132, 6\u20132, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 38], "content_span": [39, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095860-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Monte Carlo Rally\nThe 1973 Monte Carlo Rally (formally the 42\u00e8me Rallye Automobile de Monte-Carlo), run in late January and hosted in the principality of Monaco, was the first rally on the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de l'Automobile's (FIA) new World Rally Championship (WRC) inaugural season, making it the first ever WRC event to be held.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095860-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Monte Carlo Rally, Report\nAt this time, the Monte-Carlo rally was structured as a concentration rally, with teams beginning competition in some nine different cities, with the first objective of the rally being to reach Monte Carlo, followed by two legs of competitive special stages around Monaco and southeastern France. Traditionally run on tarmac roads commonly covered in snow and ice, especially at higher altitudes, bad weather did force cancellation of two special stages in 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095860-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Monte Carlo Rally, Report\nIn 1973, and for several years afterward, only manufacturers were given points for finishes in WRC events. Alpine Renault dominated the event, a portent of their further success during the season with their Alpine-Renault A110 1800 car. They would take all three podium positions and five of the top six places.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095861-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Montreal Expos season\nThe 1973 Montreal Expos season was the fifth season in the history of the franchise. The Expos finished in fourth place in the National League East with a record of 79\u201383, 3\u00bd games behind the New York Mets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095861-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Montreal Expos season, Spring training\nAfter holding spring training at West Palm Beach Municipal Stadium in West Palm Beach, Florida, from 1969 to 1972, the Expos moved to City Island Ball Park in Daytona Beach, Florida, for spring training in 1973. They would train at City Island Ball Park through 1980 before returning to West Palm Beach Municipal Stadium for the 1981 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 43], "content_span": [44, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095861-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Montreal Expos season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 71], "content_span": [72, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095861-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Montreal Expos season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095861-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Montreal Expos season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 69], "content_span": [70, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095861-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Montreal Expos season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 66], "content_span": [67, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095861-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Montreal Expos season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 67], "content_span": [68, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095862-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Montserratian general election\nEarly general elections were held in Montserrat on 20 September 1973. The result was a victory for the Progressive Democratic Party (PDP), which won five of the seven seats in the Legislative Council. PDP leader Percival Austin Bramble remained Chief Minister.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095862-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Montserratian general election, Background\nFollowing the 1970 elections, the next elections were not due until March 1976. However, Bramble asked the Governor to dissolve the Legislative Council on 7 August, resulting in early elections. Bramble claimed that he required a new mandate to combat racism in the island's education system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095863-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Moyle District Council election\nElections to Moyle District Council were held on 30 May 1973 on the same day as the other Northern Irish local government elections. The election used three district electoral areas to elect a total of 16 councillors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095863-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Moyle District Council election, Districts results, Area B\n1973: 4 x UUP, 2 x Independent Unionist, 2 x Independent", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095863-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Moyle District Council election, Districts results, Area C\n1973: 2 x SDLP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Independent", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095864-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Mr. Olympia\nThe 1973 Mr. Olympia contest was an IFBB professional bodybuilding competition held on September 8, 1973, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in Brooklyn, New York. It was the 9th Mr. Olympia competition held. The prize money for this event went down from previous years, from $1000, to only $750. Arnold gave a short speech and complained about this after he won the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095865-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Munich WCT\nThe 1973 Munich WCT, also known as the German Professional Championships, was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts in Munich, West Germany. The tournament was part of Group A of the 1973 World Championship Tennis circuit. It was the inaugural edition of the event and was held from 2 April until 8 April 1973. First-seeded Stan Smith won the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095865-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Munich WCT, Finals, Doubles\nNiki Pili\u0107 / Allan Stone defeated Cliff Drysdale / Cliff Richey 7\u20135, 5\u20137, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095866-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Murphy raids\nThe Murphy raids on the offices of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) occurred on 16 March 1973. The purpose of the raids, instigated by Attorney-General Lionel Murphy, was to obtain terrorism-related information that the ASIO was accused of withholding. Murphy was operating without any permission from the Prime Minister at the time, Gough Whitlam or the Cabinet. No warrants were obtained from the judiciary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095866-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Murphy raids\nAlthough called \"raids\", the only raid carried out was on the Canberra office as this was by surprise whereas the investigation of the Melbourne office (ASIO's headquarters) was done hours after the Director-General had been informed of Murphy's intentions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095866-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Murphy raids, Background, Global terrorism and Australia\nThe Whitlam Government came to office shortly after the terrorist attacks at the 1972 Summer Olympics and the Sydney bombings involving Croatian separatist groups in Australia, including the Usta\u0161a. One of the first acts of the new government was to help US-led efforts in the United Nations General Assembly to counter the rise of 'political violence' to person and property around the globe. These efforts failed because the Non-aligned Movement states believed that political violence or terrorism was not inherently illegitimate, given resistance and revolutionary activities in the former colonies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 61], "content_span": [62, 665]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095866-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Murphy raids, Background, Global terrorism and Australia\nA planned visit by D\u017eemal Bijedi\u0107, the Yugoslavian Prime Minister, in March 1973 generated considerable angst within the government about the security situation and the safety of the visiting dignitary. There was also much concern in Yugoslavia, which was a member of the Non-Aligned Movement. The President of Yugoslavia Josip Tito said before the visit: \"We will send more agents to Australia. We will crush these people [Croatian separatists]. We will destroy them root and branch\". This indicated the possible presence of a Yugoslavian counter-terrorism operation in Australia. In 2016 it was shown that such an operation existed from at least the late 1970s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 61], "content_span": [62, 725]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095866-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Murphy raids, Background, Global terrorism and Australia\nLabor and the Whitlam government were highly suspicious of ASIO and perceived the organisation to be a partisan tool of the Liberal governments in the 1950s and 1960s. At the 1971 Federal Labor Party conference, only a single vote (22 in favour, 23 against) had defeated a proposed motion \"that ASIO be abolished.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 61], "content_span": [62, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095866-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Murphy raids, Background, The raids\nMurphy, with the help of his advisor Kerry Milte\u2014a former Commonwealth Police official and barrister\u2014gained entry to the Canberra office of ASIO, which was then a regional office, at midnight on 16 March. They located a document which implied that ASIO and \"the departments of Foreign Affairs, Attorney-General's and Immigration\" had conspired to withhold information from him about Croatian separatists in Australia. Murphy wanted to fly immediately to the ASIO headquarters in Melbourne but was delayed at Canberra Airport for several hours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 40], "content_span": [41, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095866-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Murphy raids, Background, The raids\nThe Director-General of Security (head of ASIO) Peter Barbour was informed of Murphy's intentions at 5:20am and arrived at the Melbourne headquarters of ASIO at 6:45am. 27 Commonwealth Police officers in plain clothes arrived \"with orders to seal all file containers\" at 7:40am in order to \"preserve and ascertain certain information\". Murphy arrived at 9:45am and instructed three officers with \"special acquaintance with matters of Croatian terrorism\" to assist him while the other officers waited outside. It was initially reported that ASIO's switchboard had been disabled or interfered with, however the government later denied these reports.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 40], "content_span": [41, 688]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095866-0006-0001", "contents": "1973 Murphy raids, Background, The raids\nVarious files were inspected by Murphy and his staff \u2013 without the police \u2013 until 12:40pm, when the inspecting party left. They replaced original documents but took \"Photostat\" copies with them. However, no evidence of conspiracy was found. Later on the 16th, Murphy explained that the reason for the raids had been the safety of the visiting Yugoslavian Prime Minister.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 40], "content_span": [41, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095866-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Murphy raids, Background, The raids\nAccording to Murphy the press had been alerted to the investigation of ASIO's headquarters by George Negus, who was then Murphy's press secretary. Footage was obtained of Murphy arriving at the building surrounded by plain clothed police officers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 40], "content_span": [41, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095866-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Murphy raids, Responses, Immediate reaction\nPolitically, the raids on ASIO are said to have ended the new government's 'honey-moon' period by throwing its competency into question. The raid also improved ASIO's image as it was shown that ASIO was not engaged in conspiracy. It also damaged the bilateral relationship between the United States and Australia because of the intelligence exchange between the two states.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 48], "content_span": [49, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095866-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Murphy raids, Responses, Immediate reaction\nThe Yugoslavian Prime Minister arrived in Australia five days after the raids. At around the same time the Prime Minister's office was fitted with bulletproofed glass and the pregnant wife of Attorney-General Lionel Murphy, Ingrid, went into hiding after a series of death threats. At a reception for the visiting Prime Minister held at The Lodge, Whitlam said:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 48], "content_span": [49, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095866-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 Murphy raids, Responses, Immediate reaction\nIt has taken regrettably long for the Commonwealth police force and ASIO to adjust themselves from such momentous activities as the pursuit of draft dodgers and Vietnam demonstrators to the new situation where we ought to provide our interest in terrorist activities in our midst.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 48], "content_span": [49, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095866-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 Murphy raids, Responses, Immediate reaction\nMurphy had indicated on 1 March that he was going to make a statement on the issue of terrorism in Australia. However, the raids delayed this until 27 March. In the Australian Senate he explained that the Whitlam Government saw political violence against persons and property as an illegitimate form of political expression the state has a right to pursue. The speech did not substantiate the raids nor did it discuss ASIO in depth. It was \"a statement on terrorism and a political attack on the previous government\" the same \"conclusion reached by the United States, which had followed parliamentary debates and press coverage closely\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 48], "content_span": [49, 686]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095866-0012-0000", "contents": "1973 Murphy raids, Responses, Immediate reaction\nIn Parliament, Whitlam and Murphy said that ASIO has made no official complaint about the raids. Under legal oath, before a Senate Committee erected by the hostile Senate to uncover more information about the raids, the Director-General said no complaint has been made. In August this was contradicted by a leaked letter revealing that the Director-General had made a complaint. This lie eroded the press' view of ASIO. In an interview with David Frost Whitlam said \"The greatest mistake the Government has made has been to take the police into ASIO headquarters\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 48], "content_span": [49, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095866-0013-0000", "contents": "1973 Murphy raids, Responses, Immediate reaction\nJames Jesus Angleton, the CIA's head of counter-intelligence at the time, was concerned by the raids. According to journalist Brian Toohey, Angleton sought to instigate the removal of Whitlam from office in 1974 by having CIA station chief in Canberra, John Walker, ask Peter Barbour, then head of ASIO, to make a false declaration that Whitlam had lied about the raid in Parliament. Barbour refused to make the statement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 48], "content_span": [49, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095866-0014-0000", "contents": "1973 Murphy raids, Responses, Longterm consequences\nThe Murphy raids meant that the Whitlam Government could not instigate the changes it wanted in ASIO in the short term. By September 1973 Whitlam indicated that an inquiry was likely to be commissioned. Labor took the policy of an inquiry to the election in 1974 and, after the controversy surrounding ASIO's leaked views on Deputy Prime Minister Jim Cairns, the Royal Commission on Intelligence and Security was launched. This would result in a lasting bipartisan consensus on ASIO.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 51], "content_span": [52, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095867-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Murray state by-election\nA by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Murray on 6 October 1973 because of the death of Joe Lawson (Independent). Lawson had represented the district since 1932, as a member of the Country Party until 1968 when he lost pre-selection. He ran as an independent, winning the seat at the 1968 and 1971 elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095867-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Murray state by-election, Candidates\nThis was the first election for all 3 candidates and each would again contest the electorate at the general election in November 1973 with similar results.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 41], "content_span": [42, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095868-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 NAIA Division I football season\nThe 1973 NAIA Division I football season was the 18th season of college football sponsored by the NAIA and the fourth season of the league's two-division structure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095868-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 NAIA Division I football season\nThe season was played from August to November 1973 and culminated in the 1973 NAIA Champion Bowl, played on December 8, 1973 in Shreveport, Louisiana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095868-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 NAIA Division I football season\nAbilene Christian defeated Elon in the Champion Bowl, 42\u201314, to win their first NAIA national title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095869-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 NAIA Division II football season\nThe 1973 NAIA Division II football season was the 18th season of college football sponsored by the NAIA and the fourth season of play of the NAIA's lower division for football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095869-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 NAIA Division II football season\nThe season was played from August to November 1973 and culminated in the 1973 NAIA Division II Football National Championship, played on December 8, 1973 in Huntington, West Virginia near the campus of Glenville State College.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095869-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 NAIA Division II football season\nThe Northwestern Red Raiders defeated . Glenville State in the championship game, 10\u20133, to win their first NAIA national title. As of 2015, this is the earliest NAIA championship won by a team that remains at the NAIA level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095870-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 NAIA Ice Hockey Championship\nThe 1973 NAIA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament involved six schools playing in single-elimination bracket to determine the national champion of men's NAIA college ice hockey. The 1973 tournament was the sixth men's ice hockey tournament to be sponsored by the NAIA. The tournament began on March 1, 1973, and ended with the championship game on March 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095870-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 NAIA Ice Hockey Championship\nThe 1973 tournament expanded the field from four to six teams. Gustavus Adolphus attended the tournament for the sixth straight year while Bemidji State and Lake Superior State each made the tournament for the fifth time. Boston State, Augsburg, and Lakehead all made the tournament for the second time. Lakehead hosted the tournament, bringing the NAIA championship tournament to Ontario for the first time. In a rematch of the 1971 championship, both Bemidji State and host Lakehead made their way through the expanded field to reach the title game. The Beavers defeated Lakehead 3-2 in overtime to win the program's fifth title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 665]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095871-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 NAIA Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 1973 NAIA Men's Basketball Tournament was held in March at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri. The 36th annual NAIA basketball tournament featured 32 teams playing in a single-elimination format. Valdosta State ended (3) Kentucky State's run to get 4 championship in a row by upsetting (3) Kentucky State in the first round by 9.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095871-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 NAIA Men's Basketball Tournament, 1973 NAIA bracket, 3rd place game\nThe third place game featured the losing teams from the national semifinalist to determine 3rd and 4th places in the tournament. This game was played until 1988.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 72], "content_span": [73, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095872-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 NASCAR Winston Cup Series\nThe 1973 NASCAR Winston Cup Series was the 25th season of professional stock car racing in the United States and the 2nd modern-era Cup season. The season began on Sunday January 21 and ended on Sunday October 21. 31 races were scheduled in the 1973 season. 28 were held.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095872-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 NASCAR Winston Cup Series\nBenny Parsons was crowned Winston Cup champion at the end of the season finishing 67 points ahead of Cale Yarborough. Lennie Pond was named NASCAR Rookie of the Year, succeeding Larry Smith, who was fatally injured in the year's Talladega 500. David Pearson dominated the season winning 11 of the 18 races he entered. Ten of Pearson's wins were on superspeedways, setting a NASCAR record for superspeedway wins that lasted until Bill Elliott broke it in 1985.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095872-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Pre-season changes, Rule changes\nRule changes made in late November 1972 adjusted maximum carburetor sleeve sizes depending upon the type of engine and manufacturer of a given car. As NASCAR President Bill France Jr. explained, the goal of the adjustments was to differentiate between engines manufactured specifically for racing, and \"volume production\" engines that came off a consumer assembly line. This was done \"...so the events next year can continue to be representative of the type of the extremely close competition that has been typical of NASCAR racing.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095872-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Pre-season changes, Rule changes\nIn 1973, the NASCAR points system was changed. In 1972, only the number of laps completed in a race (regardless of position) counted toward the accumulation of points. In 1973, points were awarded both for the number of laps in a race completed, and for a finish in the top 50 in a race, a higher placing receiving more points. Additionally, the first-place finisher received a 25-point bonus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095872-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Pre-season changes, Team changes\nBobby Allison left Richard Howard's racing team, and would drive his own Chevrolet in 1973. Bobby Allison's team would also furnish a car for his brother, Donnie Allison and the new DiGard Racing team. Taking Bobby\u2019s place on the Howard racing team would be Cale Yarborough, returning from the USAC Stock Car division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095872-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Pre-season changes, Team changes\nRichard Petty, driver and owner of Petty Enterprises, expected to be racing exclusively in Dodge automobiles in 1973 (rather than the mix of Dodge and Plymouth the team had been).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095872-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Pre-season changes, Team changes\nBuddy Baker, who took over at Krauskopf Racing after Bobby Isaac left that team after the 1972 Southern 500, now signed up with Krauskopf for the full 1973 season, driving Dodges.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 64], "content_span": [65, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095872-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Pre-season changes, Retirements\nFred Lorenzen, a NASCAR notable, ended his career with the end of the 1972 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 63], "content_span": [64, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095872-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Schedule\n31 Winston Cup races were scheduled for the 1973 season. In the end it had 28 races, as well as two exhibition races. The schedule also includes two 125 Mile Qualifying Races, which are the qualifying races for the Daytona 500.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095872-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Race recaps\nWinston Western 500 - Indycar and road racing star Mark Donohue drove an AMC Matador with a set of disc brakes - new for racing at the time - and led 138 laps en route to the win. David Pearson won the pole but never led and fell out with clutch failure, while Richard Petty started fifth and led 39 laps before his engine failed while leading on Lap 95. Bobby Allison finished second driving a self-fielded Chevrolet following a surprise divorce from the Richard Howard team. Cale Yarborough, new driver for Howard's team with the cars renumbered to #11, fell out with transmission failure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 635]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095872-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Race recaps\nDaytona 500 - Buddy Baker won the 500 pole in the Harry Hyde Dodge formerly driven by Bobby Isaac. Baker led 156 laps but was closely pursued by Cale Yarborough until his engine failure with 45 laps to go. Richard Petty, sporting a mustache called his Fu Manchu look, took up pursuit and grabbed the lead on a fast late pitstop; Baker blew his engine with six laps to go and finished a distant sixth as Petty grabbed his fourth 500 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095872-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Race recaps\nRichmond 500 - Petty and Yarborough combined to lead 378 laps at the Richmond Fairgrounds. Bobby Allison won the pole and led 66 laps but finished 49 laps down. Petty lost time when he ran into a backmarker's car under yellow and needed bumper repairs; he nonetheless rallied past Baker for the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095872-0012-0000", "contents": "1973 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Race recaps\nMiller High Life 500 - Ownership changes at Ontario Motor Speedway led to cancellation of NASCAR's annual race in 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095872-0013-0000", "contents": "1973 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Race recaps\nCarolina 500 - After two dismal races (he was not entered at Richmond) David Pearson began his record-setting assault on the 1973 season, leading 491 laps to easily win the Carolina 500.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095872-0014-0000", "contents": "1973 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Race recaps\nSoutheastern 500 - Cale Yarborough won the pole and then led all 500 laps for a two-lap win. Numerous crashes, notably a bad wreck to Buddy Baker's Dodge, thinned the field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095872-0015-0000", "contents": "1973 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Race recaps\nAtlanta 500 - David Pearson and Cale Yarborough combined to lead 309 laps in a close battle before Pearson broke away for a two-lap win over Bobby Isaac. Cale finished seven laps down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095872-0016-0000", "contents": "1973 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Race recaps\nGwyn Staley 400 - Bobby Allison and Richard Petty returned to the scene of their famed slugfest from the previous October, but this time Petty put the race away early, leading 387 laps and finishing at least four laps ahead of the field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095872-0017-0000", "contents": "1973 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Race recaps\nRebel 500 - Darlington Raceway's spring 400-miler was lengthened to 500 miles and David Pearson led the last 176 laps and grabbed his fourth career win in the event. Crashes permeated the race to where only twelve of forty entries finished. Second-place Benny Parsons was thirteen laps down, third-place Bobby Allison spent the last eighteen laps on pit road with engine failure, and seventh-place Richard Petty crashed out in a big melee in Turn One with 27 laps to go.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095872-0018-0000", "contents": "1973 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Race recaps\nVirginia 500 - The Wood Brothers once again were entered in the only short track on their schedule. David Pearson made up a lap with just over 100 laps to go when a yellow flew for an infield spectator needing transport to a local hospital; with no tunnel the track needed the yellow for an ambulance to leave. Cale Yarborough had led 311 laps but Pearson would lead almost the entire final 106 laps after the yellow; the yellow angered team manager Junior Johnson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095872-0019-0000", "contents": "1973 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Race recaps\nWinston 500 - The starting field of 50 was expanded to 60 by track management, and it proved controversial in the subsequent 500, as early in the race Ramo Stott blew his engine on the backstretch and two separate packs of cars hit the oil and crashed; Wendell Scott's car was blasted by several other cars and Scott suffered serious injuries; Buddy Baker and Cale Yarborough were eliminated;, and when they got out of their cars they had to dodge additional crashing cars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095872-0019-0001", "contents": "1973 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Race recaps\nBobby Allison ripped the track for the enormity of the field - \"They (filled the field) all right, all over the backstretch.\" David Pearson lost the lead draft (Baker saying Pearson fouled out the spark plugs on his Mercury and got them replaced under the lengthy yellow), and with all legitimate challengers eliminated he led 111 laps to an easy win, his fifth of the season and fifth in his consecutive starts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095872-0020-0000", "contents": "1973 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Race recaps\nMusic City USA 420 - The Nashville Fairgrounds track had come under fire for banking up its corners to 35 degrees, and following driver complaints plus collapsing asphalt in Turn One from the previous season management lowered the banking to roughly 20 degrees. Cale Yarborough led all but four laps to an easy win, only his second of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095872-0021-0000", "contents": "1973 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Race recaps\nWorld 600 - Buddy Baker and Richard Petty combined to lead 354 laps. Petty slid into the wall in Three and finished a distant 13th. Baker led the final sixteen laps and beat Pearson for the win, his first of the season and first since the end of the 1972 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095872-0022-0000", "contents": "1973 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Race recaps\nMason-Dixon 500 - Bobby Allison and Cale Yarborough led 175 laps between them but could do nothing about Pearson as he led all but three of the last 241 laps to yet another win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095872-0023-0000", "contents": "1973 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Race recaps\nAlamo 500 - The financially troubled Texas World Speedway hosted another Petty-Baker showdown as Buddy led 168 laps; the lead changed back and forth between the two before Baker lost power in the final 30 laps and finished a distant sixth behind Petty, who posted only his third superspeedway win in the last two seasons. Rookie Darrell Waltrip finished second. The track was unable to host its annual November 500-miler later that season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095872-0024-0000", "contents": "1973 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Race recaps\nTuborg 400 - Bobby Allison ended his season-long winless streak when Richard Petty hit a barrier at the Riverside road course and Cale Yarborough blew his engine. Allison led 85 laps to Petty's 57 and Cale's eleven for his first win since the 1972 American 500. Finishing third was Benny Parsons, and largely unnoticed was that Parsons was clawing into contention for the season championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095872-0025-0000", "contents": "1973 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Race recaps\nMotor State 400 - Once again Buddy Baker grabbed the lead at will, leading 119 laps, and once again it would not be enough as David Pearson led the last 23 laps for the fifth win for the Wood Brothers team (and Pearson's fourth, third with the #21) at Michigan International Speedway; but it was the combination's first Michigan win since Roger Penske took control of the speedway after the final collapse of Larry LoPatin's raceway empire. Finishing fifth was Ron Keselowski, whose nephew Brad would race for Penske in coming years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095872-0026-0000", "contents": "1973 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Race recaps\nMedal of Honor Firecracker 400 - NASCAR mandated restrictor plates for all tracks beginning at Daytona after nearly two seasons running carburator sleeves. Bobby Allison and Cale Yarborough swept the front row in their Chevrolets and battled for the lead in the first 65 laps before Cale crashed out, but from there David Pearson and February's 500 champ Petty took over; Allison fell out with engine failure and Pearson beat Petty for his second straight Firecracker win and eighth win of the season, his highest win total since 1969.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095872-0027-0000", "contents": "1973 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Race recaps\nVolunteer 500 - Lost amid the season's other drama was that Benny Parsons was in the thick of the points race despite not winning a race. That part of his ledger was checked off at Bristol amid brutal heat and humidity; John A. Utsman had to drive relief for Parsons as the combination led 320 laps. Early contenders Bobby Allison and Cale Yarborough crashed out while battling for the lead at Lap 331, leaving the #72 of Parsons and Utsman alone; runner-up L.D. Ottinger finished seven laps down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095872-0028-0000", "contents": "1973 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Race recaps\nNorthern 300 - Bobby Allison qualified on pole. The Sunday race at Trenton Speedway was rained out, first postponed to August 5, and later cancelled entirely, as the race promoter did not believe they had time to properly promote the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095872-0029-0000", "contents": "1973 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Race recaps\nDixie 500 - David Pearson's superspeedway roll continued as he broke out of a tight duel with Cale Yarborough and led the final 165 laps for the win at Atlanta. Richard Petty won the pole but blew his engine and hit the guardrail after 72 laps, while Bobby Isaac led 29 laps but crashed himself after 52 laps. Also falling out was Buddy Baker with a broken axle, his sixth failure to finish a race so far in 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095872-0030-0000", "contents": "1973 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Race recaps\nTalladega 500 - Tragedy blackened the fifth running of Talladega's summer 500-miler. Early in the race sophomore Larry Smith hit the wall in Turn One and did not survive what appeared to be a harmless crash. The race, held amid heavy Alabama heat, was a ferocious affair; the lead changed 64 times, a motorsports record for the time, among fourteen drivers. Bobby Allison won the pole while Donnie Allison for almost the first time all year had a strong run in the DiGard Racing Chevrolet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095872-0030-0001", "contents": "1973 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Race recaps\nBoth crashed on Lap 156 when Donnie blew his engine and the wreck swept up Bobby. Buddy Baker roared from 21st to the lead but even more dramatic was that Dick Brooks, driving the Crawford brothers Plymouth in a last-minute deal and starting 24th, roared through the field; he stormed to the lead when Baker broke a steering line and Pearson slowed, stealing the win in the biggest NASCAR upset in years. A bigger story developed as well; Bobby Isaac parked Bud Moore's Ford and said he was quitting racing (Coo Coo Marlin got into the #15 and finished the race).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 607]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095872-0031-0000", "contents": "1973 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Race recaps\nNashville 420 - Buddy Baker ended months of frustration at Nashville's Fairgrounds speedway. He took the lead from pole-sitter Cale Yarborough with 160 laps to go and beating Richard Petty by four laps. Cale faltered and finished 23 laps down in 14th. Bobby Allison blew another engine and finished 22nd.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095872-0032-0000", "contents": "1973 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Race recaps\nSouthern 500 - What was expected to be another David Pearson big track triumph after he won the pole instead became a runaway by Cale Yarborough as Cale led 277 laps for a runaway win. Finishing fifth was Benny Parsons, quietly surging to the points lead, while finishing eighth was rookie Darrell Waltrip, now driving the Bud Moore Ford.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095872-0033-0000", "contents": "1973 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Race recaps\nCapital City 500 - Richard Petty lead 429 laps to his first win since June, beating Cale Yarborough by two laps and pole-sitter Bobby Allison by three. Benny Parsons finished fourth, his eleventh top-five finish of the season to go with the mid-summer Bristol win; the consistency kept boosting him in the points race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095872-0034-0000", "contents": "1973 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Race recaps\nDelaware 500 - Parsons grabbed another top five (finishing fourth after leading seven laps; they were his first laps led since winning at Bristol in July) while David Pearson grabbed another win, his tenth of the season. Bobby Allison and Buddy Baker led 134 laps between them and finished behind Pearson in the top three, the only other cars on the lead lap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095872-0035-0000", "contents": "1973 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Race recaps\nWilkes 400 - A year after their vicious showdown in the same race, Bobby Allison got a measure of revenge on Richard Petty and he swept to the win on the final lap, only his second of the season. The two led 383 laps between them. Cale Yarborough led eight laps and finished third at team manager Junior Johnson's home track.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095872-0036-0000", "contents": "1973 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Race recaps\nOld Dominion 500 - A late yellow allowed Richard Petty to close up on Cale Yarborough and grab the win in the final 48 laps. Cale had led 366 laps to Petty's 108. Bobby Allison and Buddy Baker endured another frustrating day as they finished over 24 laps down but still together in the top four.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095872-0037-0000", "contents": "1973 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Race recaps\nNational 500 - Mounting frustration in several quarters spilled into an ugly weekend at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Charlie Glotzbach appeared to win the pole in Hoss Ellington's Chevrolet but NASCAR ruled he ran with an illegal sliding restrictor plate and Glotzbach had to start 34th; he later crashed with David Pearson 46 laps into the race and the two drivers nearly came to blows exiting their cars. Harry Hyde clashed with inspectors the entire week and finally parked Buddy Baker's Dodge 228 laps in and was officially disqualified.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095872-0037-0001", "contents": "1973 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Race recaps\nCale Yarborough led 257 laps and Richard Petty led 52 as the track paid $100 per lap led; with Cale the winner third-place Bobby Allison filed a protest demanding a re-inspection of the top two finishers. The inspection process on Cale's Chevrolet - owned by track president Richard Howard and wrenched by Junior Johnson - lasted an unusually long number of hours and NASCAR finally issued a statement that the results of the inspection of Cale's car would be sent to NASCAR headquarters for additional study.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095872-0037-0002", "contents": "1973 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Race recaps\nA furious Allison promptly filed a lawsuit against NASCAR but the suit was withdrawn after a closed-door meeting between Allison and Bill France Jr. of NASCAR, and the inspection process was changed at the next race. Robert Yates, the head engine builder for Junior at the time, stated some thirty years later to racing writer Tom Jensen (in his book CHEATING: An Inside Look At The Bad Things Good NASCAR Winston Cup Racers Do In Pursuit of Speed) that the engine was indeed illegal. Petty stated at the time that only three of his engine's eight cylinders were checked, and that they were of varying sizes that averaged out to the NASCAR-mandated limit of 431 CID.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 710]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095872-0038-0000", "contents": "1973 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Race recaps\nAmerican 500 - Amid the controversy Benny Parsons led the points race despite only one win. Prerace inspections all weekend were noticeably tougher than usual; Cale Yarborough had to requalify on the second day of qualifying and ran faster than on pole day; he started 18th. None of it could stop David Pearson from leading 396 laps to Cale's 85.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095872-0038-0001", "contents": "1973 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Race recaps\nParsons crashed hard into the lapped car of Johnny Barnes and the crash ripped out the right side of his Chevrolet; he felt his title hopes were over but his crew and other crews worked to rebuild the car to run enough laps to win the title; Parsons 28th, some 182 laps down, and won the title after Richard Petty broke a cam and finished 35th, Petty's eighth engine-related failure of the 1973 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095872-0039-0000", "contents": "1973 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, 1973 Winston Cup Championship, Manufacturers' Championship\nManufacturers would receive points for the highest placing driver with each manufacturer, from 9 points for a win, down to 1 point for a 6th-place finish. Points would be reduced if the highest placing driver placed lower than the corresponding manufacturer placing, or could be reduced by a penalty sanction.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 90], "content_span": [91, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095873-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 NBA All-Star Game\nThe 1973 NBA All-Star Game was played at Chicago Stadium in Chicago on January 23, 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095874-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 NBA Finals\nThe 1973 NBA World Championship Series was the championship series of the 1972\u201373 National Basketball Association (NBA) season, and the culmination of that season's playoffs. The Eastern Conference champion New York Knicks defeated the Western Conference champion Los Angeles Lakers 4 games to 1. The series was an exact reversal of the prior year, with the Lakers winning Game 1 and the Knicks taking the next four games. Knicks center Willis Reed was named as the NBA Finals MVP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095874-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 NBA Finals, Background, Los Angeles Lakers\nThe Los Angeles Lakers entered the 1973 NBA Playoffs as co-favorites in the West with the Milwaukee Bucks, but both teams faced inspired opponents in the first round. The Chicago Bulls gave the Lakers all they could handle before the Lakers came from behind in Game 7 to take the series. The Lakers next faced the Golden State Warriors for the Western Conference Championship (the Warriors had upset the Bucks in six games). In Game 1, the Lakers won by 2, and in Game 2 the Lakers won by 10. In Game 3 at Oakland, the Lakers routed the Warriors 126-70, but the Warriors won Game 4 to send the series back to Los Angeles. In the Forum, the Lakers took Game 5 and advanced to their fifth NBA Finals series in six seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 47], "content_span": [48, 768]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095874-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 NBA Finals, Background, New York Knicks\nOne year after their NBA Finals loss, the Knicks were back in the playoffs. For some of the Knicks, including Jerry Lucas and Earl Monroe, this was probably their last shot at an NBA title. In the first round they paired against the Baltimore Bullets. The Knicks won Game's 1 and 2 in New York, but lost Game 3 at Baltimore (in that game, the Bullets used a strange lineup of two centers and three guards). New York would take Games 4 and 5 Walt Frazier averaging 20 points per game in this series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 44], "content_span": [45, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095874-0002-0001", "contents": "1973 NBA Finals, Background, New York Knicks\nIn the Conference Finals, the Knicks faced the 68-14 Boston Celtics, who not only had the league's best record but also, to that point, the third-best won-lost record in NBA history. The Celtics routed New York, 134-108, Game 1 at the Boston Garden, but the Knicks returned the favor with a 129-96 rout in Game 2 at Madison Square Garden. The Knicks then beat the Celtics in Game 3 in Boston, and took a 3-1 series lead with a double overtime Easter Sunday win back in New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 44], "content_span": [45, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095874-0002-0002", "contents": "1973 NBA Finals, Background, New York Knicks\nBoston came back with two critical wins, winning 98-97 in Boston on two Paul Silas free throws, then regaining the home-court advantage with a 110-100 win New York in Game 6. For Game 7, however, the Celtics were without their star John Havlicek, who was nursing an elbow injury. In that Game 7, played in Boston, the Celtics unbeaten record in seventh games played in Boston Garden was snapped when New York won easily, 94-78.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 44], "content_span": [45, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095874-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 NBA Finals, Series summary\nAfter losing the first game, the Knicks reeled off four straight wins to reclaim the NBA title. This is the Knicks' most recent NBA Championship to date. New York would not make it back to the NBA Finals until 1994.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095874-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 NBA Finals, Series summary\nThis would also be the last Finals appearance of the decade for the Lakers. Their next appearance would be in 1980, which would be the first of nine Finals appearances in 12 years for the Franchise.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095874-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 NBA Finals, Series summary\nThis was the only NBA Championship for Jerry Lucas and Earl Monroe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095874-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 NBA Finals, Series summary\nGame 5 of the series was Wilt Chamberlain's last game played in the NBA. Chamberlain scored the last points of the game, and of his career, on an uncontested fast break dunk with one second remaining.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095874-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 NBA Finals, Series summary\nABC televised its last NBA Finals, until 2003. This is, to date, the last time a New York/Los Angeles NBA Finals of any combination has taken place, as well as the fifth-to-last championship series contested by both cities in any sport (the 1981 World Series is the last such matchup in the 20th century, and the 2014 Stanley Cup Finals is the latest).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095875-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 NBA draft\nThe 1973 NBA draft was the 27th annual draft of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The draft was held on April 24 and May 5, 1973, before the 1973\u201374 season. In this draft, 17 NBA teams took turns selecting amateur U.S. college basketball players and other eligible players, including international players. The first two picks in the draft belonged to the teams that finished last in each conference, with the order determined by a coin flip. The Philadelphia 76ers won the coin flip and were awarded the first overall pick, while the Portland Trail Blazers were awarded the second pick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095875-0000-0001", "contents": "1973 NBA draft\nThe remaining first-round picks and the subsequent rounds were assigned to teams in reverse order of their win\u2013loss record in the previous season. Prior to the draft, the Baltimore Bullets relocated to Landover, Maryland, and became the Capital Bullets. The Philadelphia 76ers were awarded an extra first-round draft pick as compensation when the Seattle SuperSonics signed John Brisker. A player who had finished his four-year college eligibility was eligible for selection. If a player left college early, he would not be eligible for selection until his college class graduated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095875-0000-0002", "contents": "1973 NBA draft\nBefore the draft, 11 college underclassmen were declared eligible for selection under the \"hardship\" rule. These players had applied and gave evidence of financial hardship to the league, which granted them the right to start earning their living by starting their professional careers earlier. The draft consisted of 20 rounds comprising the selection of 211 players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095875-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 NBA draft\nThis was the last NBA draft to last until any number of rounds, or until teams run out of prospects; from the next year's draft until the 1984 draft they were fixed to 10 rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095875-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 NBA draft, Draft selections and draftee career notes\nDoug Collins from Illinois State University was selected first overall by the Philadelphia 76ers. Jim Brewer from the University of Minnesota was second, taken by the Cleveland Cavaliers with a pick obtained from the Blazers in a trade. Ernie DiGregorio, from Providence College, was selected third by the Buffalo Braves, and went on to win the Rookie of the Year Award. George McGinnis, selected by the 76ers with the 22nd pick, is the only player from the 1973 draft who was selected to both the All-NBA Team and the All-Star Game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 57], "content_span": [58, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095875-0002-0001", "contents": "1973 NBA draft, Draft selections and draftee career notes\nCollins, 5th pick Kermit Washington, and 50th pick Larry Kenon, are the only other players from this draft who were selected to an All-Star Game. Collins's achievements include four All-Star Game selections. After retiring as a player, he went on to coach the Chicago Bulls, the Detroit Pistons and the Washington Wizards. Brewer was a member of the 1982 NBA champion Los Angeles Lakers. He later played basketball in Europe, earning the 1983 Euroleague championship with the Ford Cant\u00f9. McGinnis had already played in the American Basketball Association (ABA) prior to the draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 57], "content_span": [58, 638]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095875-0002-0002", "contents": "1973 NBA draft, Draft selections and draftee career notes\nHe left college after his sophomore year in 1971 to play with the Indiana Pacers for four seasons. He later played in the NBA with the Philadelphia 76ers, the team that drafted him, after the ABA\u2013NBA merger in 1976. He had one ABA Most Valuable Player Award, three ABA All-Star Game selections, three NBA All-Star Game selections, three All-ABA Team selections and two All-NBA Team selections. Kenon initially opted to play in the ABA, spending three seasons there before joining the NBA with the San Antonio Spurs when both leagues merged. He was selected to three ABA All-Star Games and two NBA All-Star Games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 57], "content_span": [58, 670]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095875-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 NBA draft, Draft selections and draftee career notes\nMike D'Antoni, the 20th pick, only played four seasons in the NBA and ABA before he moved to Italy with the Olimpia Milano. He played there for thirteen seasons and won five Italian league titles and two Euroleague titles. After retiring as a player, he coached Olimpia Milano and Benetton Treviso, leading the latter to two Italian league titles. He then returned to the NBA and coached three NBA teams. He won the Coach of the Year Award in 2005 with the Phoenix Suns and in 2017 with the Houston Rockets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 57], "content_span": [58, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095875-0003-0001", "contents": "1973 NBA draft, Draft selections and draftee career notes\nM. L. Carr, the 76th pick, earned two NBA championships with the Boston Celtics in 1981 and 1984 as a player. Carr later became the Celtics' head coach for two seasons in the 1990s. Two other players drafted also went on to have coaching careers in the NBA: 21st pick Allan Bristow and 66th pick George Karl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 57], "content_span": [58, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095875-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 NBA draft, Draft selections and draftee career notes\nIn the fifth round, the Los Angeles Lakers selected Kre\u0161imir \u0106osi\u0107 from Brigham Young University with the 84th pick. However, he opted to return to Yugoslavia after his college career. \u0106osi\u0107 had a successful career in Europe, winning numerous league and club titles, as well as six gold medals with the Yugoslavian national team. For his achievements, he has been inducted to the Basketball Hall of Fame. He has also been inducted by the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) to the FIBA Hall of Fame.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 57], "content_span": [58, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095875-0004-0001", "contents": "1973 NBA draft, Draft selections and draftee career notes\nThe Atlanta Hawks used the 79th pick to draft Dave Winfield, who starred at both baseball and basketball at the University of Minnesota. He was also drafted in three other major sport leagues; Major League Baseball (MLB), the National Football League (NFL) and the ABA. He chose baseball and played 22 seasons in MLB.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 57], "content_span": [58, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095875-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 NBA draft, Other picks\nThe following list includes other draft picks who have appeared in at least one NBA game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095875-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 NBA draft, Notes\n^\u00a01:\u00a0NBA commissioner Walter Kennedy originally awarded Seattle SuperSonics's fourth overall pick in the first round to the Philadelphia 76ers in compensation for John Brisker, who signed with the Sonics despite being on Philadelphia's negotiation list. However, the federal court invalidated Kennedy's decision, ruling that only the NBA Board of Governors had the power to do so. Subsequently, the Board decided to award the 76ers with an extra first-round draft pick and the Sonics' second-round pick as compensations. The Sonics maintained possession of the fourth pick. In addition, the date of the draft, which was originally scheduled for April 16, was postponed to April 24. ^\u00a02:\u00a0Mike D'Antoni was born in the United States, but he has represented the Italian national team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 21], "content_span": [22, 803]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095876-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 NBA playoffs\nThe 1973 NBA playoffs was the postseason tournament of the National Basketball Association's 1972\u201373 season. The tournament concluded with the Eastern Conference champion New York Knicks defeating the Western Conference champion Los Angeles Lakers 4 games to 1 in the NBA Finals. The Knicks won their second (and most recent) NBA title. Willis Reed became the first player to be named NBA Finals MVP twice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095876-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 NBA playoffs\nThe playoff format was modified, as only the divisional champions qualified automatically; two wild-cards were also added from each conference. Once qualification was determined, the four qualifiers were seeded 1\u20134 based on record; divisional position no longer mattered. The #1 seed then played #4, and #2 played #3. Because of this new format, New York, the Atlantic Division runner-up, had home-court advantage versus the Baltimore Bullets, the Central Division champion, since the Knicks had the better regular-season record. The Bullets had home-court advantage in the 1972 playoffs versus the Knicks and in the 1971 playoffs versus Philadelphia, even though their record was worse than New York's and Philadelphia's were those seasons, because they had won their division, while the Knicks and Sixers were runners-up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 841]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095876-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 NBA playoffs\nThis was the second straight time (and third in the last 4 years) that the Lakers and Knicks met in the Finals; the Lakers\u2013Knicks rivalry ended with two titles won by the Knicks and one by the Lakers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095876-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 NBA playoffs\nThis was the Lakers' last appearance in the Finals until 1980; It was New York's last appearance until 1994.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095876-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 NBA playoffs, Conference Semifinals, Eastern Conference Semifinals, (1) Boston Celtics vs. (4) Atlanta Hawks\nThis was the sixth playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Celtics winning four of the first five meetings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 113], "content_span": [114, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095876-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 NBA playoffs, Conference Semifinals, Eastern Conference Semifinals, (2) New York Knicks vs. (3) Baltimore Bullets\nThis was the fifth playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Knicks winning three of the previous four meetings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 118], "content_span": [119, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095876-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 NBA playoffs, Conference Semifinals, Western Conference Semifinals, (1) Milwaukee Bucks vs. (4) Golden State Warriors\nThis was the third playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Bucks winning the first two meetings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 122], "content_span": [123, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095876-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 NBA playoffs, Conference Semifinals, Western Conference Semifinals, (2) Los Angeles Lakers vs. (3) Chicago Bulls\nThis was the fourth playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Lakers winning the first three meetings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 117], "content_span": [118, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095876-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 NBA playoffs, Conference Finals, Eastern Conference Finals, (1) Boston Celtics vs. (2) New York Knicks\nThis was the ninth playoff meeting between these two teams, with both teams splitting the first eight meetings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 107], "content_span": [108, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095876-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 NBA playoffs, Conference Finals, Western Conference Finals, (2) Los Angeles Lakers vs. (4) Golden State Warriors\nThis was the fourth playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Lakers winning two of the first three meetings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 117], "content_span": [118, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095876-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 NBA playoffs, NBA Finals: (W2) Los Angeles Lakers vs. (E2) New York Knicks\nThis was the fifth playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Lakers winning three of the first four meetings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 79], "content_span": [80, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095877-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 NC State Wolfpack football team\nThe 1973 NC State Wolfpack football team represented North Carolina State University during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. The Wolfpack were led by second-year head coach Lou Holtz and played their home games at Carter Stadium in Raleigh, North Carolina. They competed as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference, winning the conference with a perfect 6\u20130 record. The Wolfpack were invited to the 1973 Liberty Bowl, where they defeated Kansas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095878-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA College Division Baseball Tournament\nThe 1973 NCAA College Division Baseball Tournament decided the champion of baseball at the NCAA College Division level for the 1973 season. This was the sixth such tournament for the College Division, having separated from the University Division in 1957. The UC Irvine Anteaters won the championship by defeating the Ithaca Bombers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095879-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA College Division Basketball Tournament\nThe 1973 NCAA College Division Basketball Tournament involved 42 schools playing in a single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA\u00a0College\u00a0Division\u00a0basketball as a culmination of the 1972-73 NCAA College Division men's basketball season. It was won by Kentucky Wesleyan College and Kentucky Wesleyan's Mike Williams was the Most Outstanding Player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095879-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA College Division Basketball Tournament\nThis was the last College Division basketball tournament. Effective with the next school year of 1973\u201374, the NCAA adopted the three-division setup that exists to this day. The top-level University Division was renamed Division I, while the College Division was split in two. College Division members that wished to award athletic scholarships were placed in Division II, while those that chose to remain non-scholarship were placed in Division III.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095880-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA College Division football rankings\nThe 1973 NCAA College Division football rankings are from the United Press International poll of College Division head coaches and from the Associated Press poll of sportswriters and broadcasters. The 1973 NCAA Division II football season was the 16th year UPI published a Coaches Poll and it was the 14th year for the Associated Press. Both polls used the term \"College Division\" in 1973, but many of the referenced publications continued to use the \"Small College\" terminology.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095880-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA College Division football rankings\nInstead of using the polls to crown a national champion, 1973 was the first year for the Division II playoffs. The final UPI poll was released before the playoffs, and the final AP poll was released after the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095881-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships\nThe 1973 NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships were the 35th annual cross country meet to determine the team and individual national champions of NCAA Division I men's collegiate cross country running in the United States. Held on November 19, it was hosted by Washington State University at Hangman Valley Golf Course, near Spokane, Washington.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095881-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships\nThe distance for this race was 6 miles (9.66\u00a0km), and the approximate average elevation was 1,900 feet (580\u00a0m) above sea level. The temperature during the race was 38\u00a0\u00b0F (3\u00a0\u00b0C).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095881-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships\nThe team national championship was won by the Oregon Ducks, their second title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095881-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships\nThe individual championship was won by Oregon's Steve Prefontaine, with a time of 28:14.80. This was Prefontaine's third individual title in four years. Along with Gerry Lindgren (1966, 1967, and 1969) and Henry Rono (1976, 1977, and 1979), both from Washington State, Prefontaine is one of only three Division I collegiate runners with three individual titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095881-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships\nWashington State hosted the championship again four years later in 1977, also at Hangman Valley, south of the city.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095881-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships, Qualification\nAll Division I members were eligible to qualify for the meet. In total, 22 teams and 210 individual runners contested this championship. This was the first championship after the NCAA rebranded the former University Division as Division I in 1973. On a related note, the inaugural NCAA Men's Division III Cross Country Championship was held this year at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 63], "content_span": [64, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095882-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship\nThe 1973 NCAA Division I tournament championship game was played at Franklin Field in Philadelphia in front of 5,965 fans. The undefeated Maryland Terrapins, led by coach Bud Beardmore and Hall of Fame midfielder Frank Urso defeated Johns Hopkins 10 to 9 in two overtimes, with Urso scoring the winning goal 1:18 into the second overtime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095882-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament overview\nThe top eight teams in the season-ending lacrosse coaches poll were selected to play in the 1973 tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 69], "content_span": [70, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095882-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament overview\nJohns Hopkins defeated Virginia 12-9 and Maryland beat Washington and Lee 18-5 to reach the national championship game. The win represented Maryland's eighth overall men's lacrosse National Title, but first under the newly instituted NCAA lacrosse tournament format. Bud Beardmore was named USILA Coach of the Year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 69], "content_span": [70, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095882-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament overview\nPrior to the Hopkins overtime win, the Terrapins closest game was a five-goal victory against UMBC. Maryland had beaten Hopkins 17 to 4 in the regular season about a month prior to the finals. In the Terps' ten games, they averaged 17 goals per game and held opponents to 6 goals per game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 69], "content_span": [70, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095882-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament overview\nJohns Hopkins used a possession game to counter the Terrapins' top rated offense, which resulted in over fifteen minutes of limited-shooting possessions by the Blue Jays in the first half. Maryland countered with patient and mistake-free defensive play to offset the stall tactic though Frank Urso was able to get free to score three goals. Hopkins held the ball for the first 10:45 of the game, with the first shot of the game not being taken until over eight minutes had passed. Hopkins' tactics worked initially as the Blue Jays took a 5-2 lead at halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 69], "content_span": [70, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095882-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament overview\nMaryland overcame Johns Hopkins' possession game in the second half, outscoring the Jays 8-4 in the second half, with the winning goal coming in the second overtime for the 10-9 victory. Urso scored the game-winner taking a solo run at goal and converting a 15-yard bounce shot. Since this was not a sudden-death overtime period, Maryland held for the final three minutes to win the contest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 69], "content_span": [70, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095882-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament overview\nThe Terps had encountered little resistance on their way to the title as they downed Brown 16-4 and Washington and Lee 18-7 in the first two rounds. Johns Hopkins had disposed of Army 11-5 and the defending national champion Virginia 12-9.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 69], "content_span": [70, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095882-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament overview\nWashington and Lee goalie Skeet Chadwick had 52 saves in two tournament games. Washington and Lee, a recent addition to the top tier of teams, beat Navy in a three overtime marathon 13-12 in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 69], "content_span": [70, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095882-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament outstanding players\nJack Thomas, Johns Hopkins, 14 pts (3g, 11a), leading tournament scorer", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 80], "content_span": [81, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095883-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA Division I Soccer Tournament\nThe 1973 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament was the fifteenth organized men's college soccer tournament by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, to determine the top Division I college soccer team in the United States. The Saint Louis Billikens won their tenth national title by defeating the UCLA Bruins for the second consecutive year in the championship game, 2\u20131 after one overtime period. The final match was played on January 4, 1974, in Miami, Florida, at the Miami Orange Bowl for the third straight year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095883-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA Division I Soccer Tournament\nStarting in 1973, the NCAA changed its classification system and the former University Division became Division I. At the same time, the College Division split into Division II and Division III.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095884-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA Division I football rankings\nTwo human polls comprised the 1973 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I football rankings. Unlike most sports, college football's governing body, the NCAA, does not bestow a national championship, instead that title is bestowed by one or more different polling agencies. There are two main weekly polls that begin in the preseason\u2014the AP Poll and the Coaches' Poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095884-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA Division I football rankings, Final Coaches' poll\nThis was the last season in which the final UPI Coaches Poll was released prior to the bowl games, in early December. Alabama received 21 of the 34 first-place votes; Oklahoma received nine, Ohio State two, Notre Dame one, and Michigan one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 59], "content_span": [60, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095885-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA Division I football season\nThe 1973 NCAA Division I football season was the first for the NCAA's current three-division structure. Effective with the 1973\u201374 academic year, schools formerly in the NCAA \"University Division\" were classified as Division I (later subdivided for football only in 1978 (I-A and I-AA) and renamed in 2006 into today's Division I FBS and FCS). Schools in the former \"College Division\" were classified into Division II, which allowed fewer athletic scholarships than Division I, and Division III, in which athletic scholarships were prohibited.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095885-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA Division I football season\nIn its inaugural season, Division I had two NCAA-recognized national champions, and they faced each other at year's end in the Sugar Bowl on New Year's Eve. The New Orleans game matched two unbeaten teams, the Alabama Crimson Tide (11\u20130), ranked No. 1 by AP and UPI, and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish (10\u20130), ranked No. 3 by AP and No. 4 by UPI.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095885-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA Division I football season\nWhile both wire services ranked Alabama first at the end of the regular season, the final AP poll was after the bowl games. By agreement with the American Football Coaches' Association, however, UPI bestowed its championship before the postseason bowl games, and Alabama was crowned champion by UPI on December 4. UPI ranked Notre Dame fourth: one coach had given the Irish a first place vote, compared to 21 for Alabama. (In the next season, the final coaches' poll was after the bowls.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095885-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA Division I football season\nIn a game where the lead changed six times, Notre Dame won by a single point, 24\u201323, to claim the AP national championship. During the 20th century, the NCAA had no playoff for major college football teams that would become Division I-A in 1978. The NCAA Football Guide, however, did note an \"unofficial national champion\" based on the top ranked teams in the \"wire service\" (AP and UPI) polls. The \"writers' poll\" by Associated Press (AP) was the most popular, followed by the \"coaches' poll\" by United Press International) (UPI).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095885-0003-0001", "contents": "1973 NCAA Division I football season\nIn 1973, the UPI issued its final poll before the bowls, but the AP Trophy was withheld until the postseason was completed. The AP poll in 1973 consisted of the votes of as many as 63 sportswriters and broadcasters, though not all of them voted in every poll. UPI's voting was made by 34 coaches. Those who cast votes would give their opinion of the ten best teams. Under a point system of 20 points for first place, 19 for second, etc., the \"overall\" ranking was determined.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095885-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA Division I football season, December\nElsewhere, Bluebonnet Bowl-bound Tulane defeated Orange Bowl-bound LSU 14\u20130 to end a 25\u2013year winless drought in the Battle for the Rag in the final meeting at Tulane Stadium, leaving both the Green Wave and Bayou Bengals 9\u20132. Also, the 4\u20137 Navy Midshipmen trounced the Army Cadets 51\u20130. As for the Cadets, they completed one of their worst season in their football program history, when they completed a season with an imperfect 0\u201310 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095885-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA Division I football season, December\nIn the final regular season poll, the top six schools were unbeaten. 1.Alabama (11\u20130) 2 . 2.Notre Dame (10\u20130) 3.Oklahoma (10\u20130\u20131) 4.Ohio State (9\u20130\u20131) 5.Michigan (10\u20130\u20131) and 6.Penn State (11\u20130). The other major college unbeaten, Miami (Ohio) (10\u20130\u20130), was No. 15. Oklahoma, however, was on probation for having used an ineligible player (Kerry Jackson) in three 1972 games, and was ineligible to play in a bowl game. No. 1 Alabama and No. 2 Notre Dame accepted invitations to play in the Sugar Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095885-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA Division I football season, Bowl games, Major bowls\nAlabama and Notre Dame had never met in a college football game before their encounter in the Sugar Bowl, which was played on New Year's Eve at Tulane Stadium, with kickoff at 7:15 pm CST. Two legendary coaches, Bear Bryant and Ara Parseghian brought their teams to New Orleans, and the game was a thriller. The Irish scored first, but missed the extra point. After Alabama took a 7\u20136 lead, freshman Al Hunter returned the ensuing kickoff 93 yards for a touchdown, and a two-point conversion put Notre Dame up 14\u20137.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 61], "content_span": [62, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095885-0006-0001", "contents": "1973 NCAA Division I football season, Bowl games, Major bowls\nAlabama went ahead 17\u201314 in the third, but a fumble on their own 12-yard line gave the Irish a chance to make it 21\u201317. In the fourth quarter, Bama got back the lead on a trick play, as quarterback Richard Todd handed off to running back, Mike Stock, who then fired a touchdown pass back to Todd; but Bill Davis, who had made 51 of 53 extra point attempts in his career, was wide right, and the score stayed 23\u201321. In the final minutes, Notre Dame's Bob Thomas (who had missed the earlier point after try) kicked a 19-yard field goal that gave the team the 24\u201323 win. Asked whether Notre Dame would be voted No. 1, Coach Parseghian replied, \"Certainly. What was the final score?\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 61], "content_span": [62, 741]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095885-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA Division I football season, Bowl games, Major bowls\nThe final AP writers' poll was split. Notre Dame received a majority of the first place votes, 33 out of 60, followed by No. 2 Ohio State (11 votes) and No. 3 Oklahoma (16 votes, but fewer points overall). The fourth spot (held by Notre Dame in the final UPI poll) went to Alabama. UPI, who crowned Alabama as national champion at the end of the regular season, would begin holding the coaches' poll after the bowl games beginning with the 1974 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 61], "content_span": [62, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095885-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA Division I football season, Heisman Trophy\nRunning back John Cappelletti had the third best year in Penn State history when he gained 1,117 yards rushing in 1972. As a senior in 1973, he had the second best year in school history rushing for 1,522 yards. In his two-year running career, he gained 100 yards in the thirteen games and had a career total of 2,639 yards and twenty-nine touchdowns for an average of 120 yards per game and 5.1 yards per carry. Cappelletti's acceptance speech on December 13 at the Heisman Dinner (with new Vice President Gerald Ford next to him on the dais) was considered the most moving ever given at these ceremonies, as he honored his 11-year-old brother Joey, a victim of leukemia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 52], "content_span": [53, 726]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095886-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA Division II Soccer Championship\nThe 1973 NCAA Division II Men's Soccer Championship was the second annual tournament held by the NCAA to determine the top men's Division II college soccer program in the United States. It was also the first to be branded as the \"Division II\" tournament, following the NCAA splitting its former College Division to create Divisions II and III. However, this tournament continued to feature D-III schools, as the NCAA did not establish a separate D-III championship until 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095886-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA Division II Soccer Championship\nMissouri\u2013Saint Louis defeated Cal State Fullerton in the final match, 3\u20130, to win their first national title. The final was played in Springfield, Massachusetts at Springfield College on December 8, 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095887-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA Division II football season\nThe 1973 NCAA Division II football season, part of college football in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association at the Division II level. The season began in September and concluded with the Division II Championship on December 15 at Hughes Stadium in Sacramento, California. This was the first season for Division II (and Division III) football, which were formerly in the College Division in 1972 and prior.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095887-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA Division II football season\nLouisiana Tech won their first Division II championship, defeating Western Kentucky 34\u20130 in the Camellia Bowl championship game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095887-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA Division II football season, Conference summaries\nBig Sky Conference \u2013 Boise StateEastern Football Conference \u2013 Central Connecticut StateFar Western Football Conference \u2013 UC Davis and Cal State ChicoGreat Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference \u2013 NorthwoodGulf South Conference \u2013 Troy StateLone Star Conference \u2013 Abilene ChristianMid-Eastern Athletic Conference \u2013 North Carolina CentralMissouri Intercollegiate Athletic Association \u2013 Southeast Missouri StateNorth Central Conference \u2013 North Dakota State and South DakotaOhio Valley Conference \u2013 Western KentuckyNorthern Intercollegiate Conference \u2013 Minnesota State\u2013MoorheadSouthern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (Division II) \u2013 Bethune-CookmanSouthland Conference \u2013 Louisiana TechSouthwestern Athletic Conference \u2013 Grambling and Jackson StateYankee Conference \u2013 Connecticut", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 59], "content_span": [60, 841]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095887-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA Division II football season, Postseason\nThe 1973 NCAA Division II Football Championship playoffs were the first single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division II college football. The inaugural edition had only eight teams; of the four quarterfinal games, three were played on campus and a fourth was in Atlantic City, New Jersey, the final edition of the Boardwalk Bowl. The semifinals were held at the Grantland Rice Bowl in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and the Pioneer Bowl in Wichita Falls, Texas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095887-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA Division II football season, Postseason\nThe championship game was the Camellia Bowl, held at Hughes Stadium in Sacramento, California. The Louisiana Tech Bulldogs defeated the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers 34\u20130 to win their first national title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095887-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA Division II football season, Rankings\nUnited Press International (UPI) and the Associated Press (AP) continued to rank teams in their College Division or \"small college\" polls, which had started in 1958 and 1960, respectively. In 1973, UPI published their final poll at the end of the regular season, while the AP waited until postseason games had been completed. Both wire services named the Tennessee State Tigers as the number one team; Tennessee State did not compete in the playoffs \"because five of its starters would not be eligible to play.\" The players in question had sat out their freshmen year (\"redshirt\") and then played four seasons; under NCAA rules at the time, such players were not eligible for postseason play as fifth-year seniors. During the regular season, the Tigers were undefeated (10\u20130) and had outscored their opponents 333\u201387.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 865]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095887-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA Division II football season, Rankings\nRecord includes NAIA Division I playoff games Record includes NCAA Division II playoff games Record includes NCAA Division III playoff games", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095888-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA Division III football season\nThe 1973 NCAA Division III football season, part of college football in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association at the Division III level, began in August 1973, and concluded with the NCAA Division III Football Championship in December 1973 at Garrett-Harrison Stadium in Phenix City, Alabama. This was the first season for Division III (and Division II) football, which were formerly in the College Division in 1972 and prior.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095888-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA Division III football season\nWittenberg won their first Division III championship, defeating Juniata in the championship game by a final score of 41\u22120.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095888-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA Division III football season, Postseason\nThe 1973 NCAA Division III Football Championship playoffs were the first single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division III college football. The inaugural edition had only four teams (in comparison with the 32 teams competing as of 2014). The championship game was held at Garrett-Harrison Stadium in Phenix City, Alabama. The Wittenberg Tigers defeated the Juniata College Eagles, 41\u22120, to win their first national title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 50], "content_span": [51, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095889-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships\nThe 1973 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships were contested March 9\u221210, 1973 at Cobo Arena in Detroit, Michigan at the ninth annual NCAA-sanctioned track meet to determine the individual and team national champions of men's collegiate indoor track and field events in the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095889-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships\nManhattan topped the team standings, the Jaspers' first indoor team title (and only NCAA championship in any sport).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095889-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships, Qualification\nUnlike other NCAA-sponsored sports, there were not separate University Division and College Division championships for indoor track and field until 1985. As such, all athletes and teams from University and College Division programs were eligible to compete.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 61], "content_span": [62, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095890-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans\nThe consensus 1973 College Basketball All-American team, as determined by aggregating the results of four major All-American teams. To earn \"consensus\" status, a player must win honors from a majority of the following teams: the Associated Press, the USBWA, The United Press International and the National Association of Basketball Coaches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095891-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA Men's Volleyball Tournament\nThe 1973 NCAA Men's Volleyball Tournament was the fourth annual tournament to determine the national champion of NCAA men's college volleyball. The tournament took place at Peterson Gym on the campus of San Diego State University in San Diego, California. Like the previous year, the format of this championship consisted of a preliminary, four-team round robin to determine seeding for a subsequent single-elimination tournament. The round-robin seeding games were played on Friday, May 25th at Peterson Gym on the San Diego State campus. The semi-final and championship matches were held at the San Diego Sports Arena on Saturday, May 26th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 680]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095891-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA Men's Volleyball Tournament\nOver 8,000 fans attended the championship match which, at the time, was the largest crowd ever to witness a volleyball match in the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095891-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA Men's Volleyball Tournament\nSan Diego State defeated Long Beach State, 3\u20131 (11\u201315, 15\u201313, 15\u20138, 15\u20136), in the championship match to win their first national title. San Diego State's Duncan McFarland was named the Most Outstanding Player of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095891-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA Men's Volleyball Tournament, Qualification\nUntil the creation of the NCAA Men's Division III Volleyball Championship in 2012, there was only a single national championship for men's volleyball. As such, all NCAA men's volleyball programs (whether from the University Division, or the College Division) were eligible. A total of 4 teams were invited to contest this championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 52], "content_span": [53, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095892-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship\nThe 1973 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship was the fifth annual NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship to determine the national champion of NCAA men's college water polo. Tournament matches were played at the Belmont Plaza Pool in Long Beach, California during December 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095892-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship\nCalifornia defeated UC Irvine in the final, 8\u20134, to win their first national title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095892-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship\nThe leading scorer for the tournament was Bruce Kocsis from USC (8 goals). The award for Most Outstanding Player was not given out this year, but an All-Tournament Team was named.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095892-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship, Qualification\nSince there has only ever been one single national championship for water polo, all NCAA men's water polo programs (whether from Division I, Division II, or Division III) were eligible. A total of 8 teams were invited to contest this championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 54], "content_span": [55, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095893-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA Skiing Championships\nThe 1973 NCAA Skiing Championships were contested at the Middlebury College Snow Bowl in Hancock, Vermont at the twentieth annual NCAA-sanctioned ski tournament to determine the individual and team national champions of men's collegiate alpine, cross country skiing, and ski jumping in the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095893-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA Skiing Championships\nDefending champion Colorado, coached by alumnus Bill Marolt, captured their fourth, and second consecutive, national championship, finishing 4.04 points ahead of Wyoming in the team standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095893-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA Skiing Championships\nThese were the first NCAA championships in which Denver did not finish in either first (fourteen titles) or second (five times).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095893-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA Skiing Championships\nRepeat champions were Colorado's Vidar Nilsgard (jumping) and Kim Kendall (skimeister) of New\u00a0Hampshire,", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095893-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA Skiing Championships, Venue\nThis year's championships were held March 7\u201310 in Vermont at the Middlebury College Snow Bowl in Hancock. Middlebury College, located in nearby Middlebury, served as hosts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 37], "content_span": [38, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095893-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA Skiing Championships, Venue\nThe twentieth edition, these were the second NCAA championships hosted by Middlebury (1961), third in Vermont (Northfield, 1955), and seventh in the East, all in New England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 37], "content_span": [38, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095894-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Baseball Tournament\nThe 1973 NCAA University Division Baseball Tournament was played at the end of the 1973 NCAA University Division baseball season to determine the national champion of college baseball. The\u00a0tournament concluded with eight teams competing in the College World Series, a double-elimination tournament in its twenty-seventh year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095894-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Baseball Tournament\nEight regional districts sent representatives to the College World Series with preliminary rounds within each district serving to determine each representative. These events would later become known as regionals. Each district had its own format for selecting teams, resulting in 32 teams participating in the tournament at the conclusion of their regular season, and in some cases, after a conference tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095894-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Baseball Tournament\nThe twenty-seventh tournament's champion was Southern California, led by head coach Rod Dedeaux, and Dave Winfield of Minnesota. was the Most Outstanding Player. He was the starting pitcher in two games, tossing 17\u2153 innings, allowing nine hits, one earned run, and striking out 29. In addition, Winfield batted .467 in the Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095894-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Baseball Tournament\nUSC became the first team to win four consecutive College World Series and was undefeated (5\u20130) in the double-elimination format. The final game drew 12,050, the sixth highest to date, and attendance for the fourteen-game Series was 65,356, a new record by nearly seven thousand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095894-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Baseball Tournament, Tournament\nThe opening rounds of the tournament were played across eight district sites across the country, each consisting of between three and six teams. The winners of each District advanced to the College World Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 61], "content_span": [62, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095894-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Baseball Tournament, College World Series, The Minnesota vs. USC semi final game\nRecalled each year as perhaps the most amazing game in CWS history, Minnesota faced a USC team that featured future major leaguers Rich Dauer, Fred Lynn, and Roy Smalley. Dave Winfield was the starting pitcher for Minnesota. In his first game vs. Oklahoma, he struck out 14 in shutting out the Sooners, 1-0. In the semi final vs. defending champion USC, Winfield had struck out 15 through 8 innings, allowing only an infield single as Minnesota built a 7-0 lead. USC's Rich Dauer said \"In my whole career, even facing the big boys in the majors, I have never seen anything like that,\" When Dave let go of the ball, it was three feet in front of your face and it seemed like it was going 110 miles an hour.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 110], "content_span": [111, 817]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095894-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Baseball Tournament, College World Series, The Minnesota vs. USC semi final game\nIn the ninth inning, USC opened with a base hit but the next batter grounded into what appeared to be a double play. Television replays indicated the batter was out at first base, but the umpire called him safe and Minnesota coach Dick Siebert was thrown out of the game arguing the call. Two more singles and a key error by the first baseman led to three runs and Winfield was relieved and went to left field. Two relievers allowed five more runs and USC won the game 8\u20137. \"I\u00a0have played in a lot of memorable big games during my career,\" Winfield said. \"World Series games, league championship games, all-star games, all kinds. But I will never forget that game against USC. Never.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 110], "content_span": [111, 795]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095895-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Basketball Championship Game\nThe 1973 NCAA University Division Basketball Championship Game was the final of the 1973 NCAA University Division Basketball Tournament and determined the national champion for the 1972\u201373 season. The game was held at the St. Louis Arena in St. Louis, Missouri, on March 26, 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095895-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Basketball Championship Game\nThe UCLA Bruins of the Pacific-8 Conference, who were seeking their seventh consecutive championship, were matched against the Memphis State Tigers (now known as the Memphis Tigers), who were playing in the national title game for the first time. The Bruins won 87\u201366 behind a 44-point effort by Bill Walton, who scored on 21 of his 22 field goal attempts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095895-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Basketball Championship Game, Background, UCLA\nThe Bruins were coached by John Wooden, who was in his 25th season with the team. UCLA entered the 1972\u201373 season as the six-time defending national champions, and the Bruins were coming off of an undefeated 30\u20130 season in 1971\u201372. Five players on UCLA's roster later played in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Center Bill Walton was the Bruins' top scorer and rebounder, averaging 20.4 points and 16.9 rebounds. Forward Jamaal Wilkes added 14.8 points and 7.3 rebounds per game, while forward Larry Farmer and guard Larry Hollyfield also averaged more than 10 points per game. Other players included centers Ralph Drollinger and Swen Nater, forwards Dave Meyers and Vince Carson, and guards Tommy Curtis, Greg Lee, and Pete Trgovich.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 76], "content_span": [77, 821]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095895-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Basketball Championship Game, Background, UCLA\nThe preseason Associated Press (AP) Poll ranked the Bruins as the number one team in the country. UCLA's first game was on November 25, 1972, against Wisconsin; the Bruins won by a 41-point margin. In each of their first six non-conference games, all of which were held at Pauley Pavilion, they won by double digits; during this stretch, Pittsburgh was the only team to lose against UCLA by less than 20 points. An 85\u201372 victory over Drake improved the Bruins to 7\u20130, before Illinois became the first team to keep the final score within 10 points, as UCLA claimed a 71\u201364 win in their game on December 30.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 76], "content_span": [77, 682]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095895-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Basketball Championship Game, Background, UCLA\nThe Bruins' first game in 1973 was their Pacific-8 Conference opener at home against Oregon, which they won 64\u201338 to move to 9\u20130 on the season. Three conference victories followed, before UCLA prevailed in four consecutive non-conference matchups to run their record to 16\u20130. The first two non-conference wins were over teams ranked in the top 10 at the time of the games; 10th-ranked San Francisco fell 92\u201364 on January 19, while number nine Providence was defeated by 24 points. On January 27, UCLA posted an 82\u201363 victory over Notre Dame.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 76], "content_span": [77, 618]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095895-0004-0001", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Basketball Championship Game, Background, UCLA\nIt was the school's 61st straight win in men's basketball, breaking an NCAA record that had been held by San Francisco. The Bruins returned to conference play with a 79\u201356 win at 20th-ranked USC, and the team continued its winning streak into March; a triumph over California improved its record to 24\u20130. On March 3, Stanford played the Bruins at Pauley Pavilion and held them to a season-low 51 points. In their closest game of the season, UCLA managed a 51\u201345 win. The Bruins then won their regular season finale against USC to finish at a perfect 26\u20130; with a 14\u20130 mark in Pacific-8 games; they won the conference championship. UCLA maintained its number one ranking in the AP Poll for the entire season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 76], "content_span": [77, 784]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095895-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Basketball Championship Game, Background, UCLA\nUCLA received an invitation to the 1973 NCAA Tournament and was placed in the West region. In their first game of the tournament, the Bruins faced Arizona State, winning 98\u201381 to advance to the regional final against San Francisco. There, they won by a 15-point margin to earn a berth in the Final Four. Indiana was UCLA's opponent in that round, and the Bruins jumped out to a 40\u201322 lead at halftime. Although the Hoosiers went on a 17\u20130 scoring run in the second half and pulled within two points of the Bruins multiple times, UCLA won 70\u201359 to reach the title game. The team shot 58.5% from the field, as Walton had 14 points and Wilkes added 13.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 76], "content_span": [77, 726]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095895-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Basketball Championship Game, Background, Memphis State\nGene Bartow was the coach of Memphis State, having been hired by the university for the 1970\u201371 season. The Tigers' leading scorer was guard Larry Finch, who averaged 24.0 points per game on 44.5% shooting. Future NBA player Larry Kenon, a forward, also averaged more than 20 points per game, on 52.5% shooting, and led Memphis State in rebounding with 16.7 per game. Center Ronnie Robinson had 13.5 points and 11.2 rebounds per game. Other regulars included center Wes Westfall, forwards Ken Andrews and Billy Buford, and guards Bill Cook, Bill Laurie and Doug McKinnie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 85], "content_span": [86, 657]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095895-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Basketball Championship Game, Background, Memphis State\nMemphis State began the season ranked 11th in the country, but the team lost three of its first five games. Following a season-opening win over Missouri Western, LSU defeated the Tigers 94\u201381 on December 5, 1972. A visit to fifth-ranked Marquette resulted in a three-point defeat, and an 80\u201379 loss to Texas left the Tigers with a 2\u20133 record. They evened their record at 3\u20133 on December 16, with an 80\u201351 victory over Navy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 85], "content_span": [86, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095895-0007-0001", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Basketball Championship Game, Background, Memphis State\nThat was the start of an extended winning steak; after wins against Arkansas, Cornell, and UC Santa Barbara, the Tigers traveled to Vanderbilt for a meeting with a top-10 opponent. With a 74\u201371 road victory, Memphis State extended its streak to five games before the start of Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 85], "content_span": [86, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095895-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Basketball Championship Game, Background, Memphis State\nDrake was Memphis State's first opponent in MVC competition. The Tigers were taken to double overtime by Drake, but earned a 97\u201392 victory. Subsequent wins against Bradley, Saint Louis, Louisville, and New Mexico State improved the Tigers to 5\u20130 in the conference. They were followed by the team's second contests of the season against Drake and Bradley, both of which they won; at this point the club's winning streak had reached 14 games. By late January, the Tigers had returned to being ranked in the AP Poll; in the February 6 ranking, Memphis State was listed at number 15.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 85], "content_span": [86, 665]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095895-0008-0001", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Basketball Championship Game, Background, Memphis State\nIn the Tigers' next game, on February 8, Louisville ended their winning streak by an 83\u201369 margin. Afterwards, the Tigers won their next five games, all against MVC opponents, before losing to Saint Louis, 70\u201356, in their regular season finale. The Tigers finished in first place in the MVC with a 12\u20132 mark in conference play, and were 21\u20135 overall. Their final national ranking was 12th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 85], "content_span": [86, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095895-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Basketball Championship Game, Background, Memphis State\nLike UCLA, the Tigers received a bye in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. They defeated South Carolina in the Midwest regional semifinals by 14 points. Memphis State then posted a 20-point win over Kansas State to gain their Final Four spot. In the national semifinals, Providence opposed the Tigers and took a double-digit advantage before one of their leading players, Marvin Barnes, was forced to leave the game due to a knee injury. After trailing at halftime by nine points, the Tigers rallied to win, 98\u201385, and secure their place in the national championship game. Kenon led Memphis State with 28 points, while Robinson had 24 and Finch added 21. It was the school's first trip to an NCAA Tournament final, having never made it past the first round in three previous appearances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 85], "content_span": [86, 878]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095895-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Basketball Championship Game, Game summary\nThe game was held on March 26 at the St. Louis Arena in St. Louis, Missouri, before a crowd of 19,301 fans. It was preceded by a contest between Indiana and Providence for third place. Behind a pair of 21-point efforts by Steve Downing and John Ritter, Indiana prevailed by 18 points, 97\u201379. The championship game was televised by NBC, which purchased the broadcasting rights to the 1973 NCAA Tournament for less than $1.2\u00a0million. Curt Gowdy provided play-by-play commentary for NBC, and Tom Hawkins worked alongside him as an analyst.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 72], "content_span": [73, 609]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095895-0010-0001", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Basketball Championship Game, Game summary\nHaving been held on Saturdays in previous years, the 1973 title game was moved to Monday. It was the first basketball national championship game to appear in prime time, and received a 20.5 Nielsen rating; an estimated 39 million people watched the broadcast, the most ever for an NCAA Tournament game at the time. The telecast garnered a 36.0 rating in the Los Angeles market.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 72], "content_span": [73, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095895-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Basketball Championship Game, Game summary\nMemphis State began the game in a man-to-man defense, in which Kenon was the primary defender covering Walton, playing behind him. The team's plan was to force Walton to play away from the basket, but his ability to use his strength to gain positioning rendered the strategy largely ineffective. Walton played a key role early on for the Bruins; of the team's first 10 points, he had six of them. Kenon led the Tigers in the first six minutes of the game, converting each of his first four field goal attempts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 72], "content_span": [73, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095895-0011-0001", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Basketball Championship Game, Game summary\nHowever, the Tigers' taller players were in the process of accumulating personal fouls. Kenon committed three fouls in the first 6:43 and was forced to the bench for an extended period. At this point, he had been responsible for 8 of Memphis State's 12 points. The Bruins built a lead as the first half progressed, taking a nine-point advantage at one time. Finch then helped the Tigers get back into the game with a stretch of eight consecutive points. Memphis State began utilizing a zone defense, and Kenon returned to the game; he was still positioned behind Walton defensively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 72], "content_span": [73, 655]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095895-0011-0002", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Basketball Championship Game, Game summary\nThe Tigers were helped by an accumulation of fouls by Walton, who picked up his third and came out of the game with 4:14 remaining in the first half as the Bruins retained a six-point lead. After his departure, the Tigers' offensive players found greater success, scoring eight of the next 10 points. After the first half, the teams were tied, 39\u201339.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 72], "content_span": [73, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095895-0012-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Basketball Championship Game, Game summary\nFinch opened the second half scoring for Memphis State with two free throws, which gave the Tigers the lead. Walton responded for the Bruins with three field goals in a row. UCLA frequently sought to take advantage of a size advantage Walton held over shorter Memphis State defenders by having Lee throw lob passes to him. Much of Walton's offense came from these lobs, which often led to tip-ins. His scoring, which primarily came from near the basket, also resulted from layups and short jumpers, including bank and hook shots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 72], "content_span": [73, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095895-0012-0001", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Basketball Championship Game, Game summary\nThe Tigers further varied their defense against him, at times putting a defender in front of Walton or covering him with two players, but were unable to keep him in check. Walton continued to be the focal point of the Bruins' attack, scoring all but 4 of their first 18 points in the half. Although the teams were tied 45\u201345 at one time, UCLA gradually gained control of the game as the second half progressed. The Bruins were up by four points with under 13 minutes left in the game when Walton drove to the basket for a shot attempt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 72], "content_span": [73, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095895-0012-0002", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Basketball Championship Game, Game summary\nWestfall fouled Walton, but was unable to prevent his shot from falling. His foul was ruled intentional, giving Walton two free throws that he made to extend UCLA's advantage to eight points with 12:24 remaining. Eight minutes into the second half, the lead had increased to 57\u201347. With 9:27 left, and the Bruins up 61\u201355, Walton committed his fourth foul. Instead of pulling him from the game, Wooden elected to leave him on the court and the Bruins subsequently extended their lead to 10.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 72], "content_span": [73, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095895-0013-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Basketball Championship Game, Game summary\nWith under eight minutes on the clock, and the Tigers' deficit at 65\u201357, Walton recorded three quick baskets to push the gap to 12 points. For the rest of the game, Memphis State never trailed by less than nine points. Having been up by 11 points 14 minutes into the second half, UCLA pulled away in the final minutes of the contest, scoring 14 of the last 18 points. Walton was forced to come out of the game with 2:50 remaining due to an ankle injury, but by this time the Bruins had a 15-point advantage. The Tigers' Finch helped him off the court, and Walton received a standing ovation from the crowd. The Bruins won by an 87\u201366 margin to clinch the school's seventh NCAA title in a row and its ninth in a 10-year span.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 72], "content_span": [73, 797]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095895-0014-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Basketball Championship Game, Statistical summary\nThe Bruins scored on 40 of their 62 field goal attempts, for a percentage of 64.5%. Walton contributed 44 points on 21-of-22 shooting from the field. His effort broke the record for the most points in an NCAA Tournament championship game, topping the 42 points that had been scored by Gail Goodrich in 1965. Four further shots by Walton that went into the hoop were ruled out by officials because of an NCAA regulation that banned dunking; these were not included in his official statistics, and were recorded as offensive goaltending violations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 79], "content_span": [80, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095895-0014-0001", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Basketball Championship Game, Statistical summary\nIn addition, he added a game-high 13 rebounds and two assists, along with seven blocks. Wilkes tallied 16 points; he joined Walton as the only Bruins players to finish with at least 10 points. Hollyfield had eight points and nine assists, and Lee topped both teams with a 14-assist performance. The Bruins' victory extended multiple winning streaks for the team. It was their 75th consecutive win overall; in the NCAA Tournament, they had a 36-game streak after their defeat of the Tigers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 79], "content_span": [80, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095895-0015-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Basketball Championship Game, Statistical summary\nMemphis State made 42.1% of its field goal attempts, shooting 24-of-57. Finch converted on nine of his 21 shots and 11 of his 13 free throw attempts, scoring 29 points to lead the Tigers. Kenon added 20 points, and had eight rebounds and three assists, both team-high totals. The Tigers committed nine fewer turnovers than the Bruins, but were outrebounded 40\u201321, and their 11 assists were 15 fewer than UCLA compiled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 79], "content_span": [80, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095895-0016-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Basketball Championship Game, Aftermath and legacy\nWith Walton still on their roster as a senior for the 1973\u201374 season, the Bruins extended their winning streak to a record 88 games before a 71\u201370 loss to Notre Dame. Despite that defeat and a two-game losing streak later in the season, UCLA qualified for the NCAA Tournament and made it to the Final Four. There, North Carolina State defeated the Bruins in a game that ended in double overtime, leaving UCLA without an NCAA title for the first time since 1965\u201366. The following season, which was Wooden's last as UCLA's coach, the Bruins again reached the NCAA Tournament and won the championship game over Kentucky.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 80], "content_span": [81, 698]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095895-0017-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Basketball Championship Game, Aftermath and legacy\nMemphis State finished 19\u201311 in 1973\u201374 and did not receive an NCAA Tournament invitation. That was Bartow's last season with the Tigers. After one year at Illinois, he succeeded Wooden at UCLA and his 1975\u201376 team reached the Final Four. That season, Memphis State returned to the NCAA Tournament; it took another nine years for the Tigers to make another trip to the national semifinals. Having played against UCLA in the Final Four, the 2007\u201308 Tigers participated in the 2008 NCAA Division I championship game, losing to Kansas in overtime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 80], "content_span": [81, 625]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095895-0018-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Basketball Championship Game, Aftermath and legacy\nWalton's 44 points remains the most ever scored in an NCAA men's national championship game. In 2016, Bryce Miller of The San Diego Union-Tribune said that he had given \"arguably the single greatest performance in NCAA history.\" Sports Illustrated writer Kelli Anderson listed his 1973 title game effort as one of the 10 greatest accomplishments in college sports. The magazine named it one of the \"100 Greatest Moments in Sports History\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 80], "content_span": [81, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095895-0019-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Basketball Championship Game, Aftermath and legacy\nBartow remarked after the game, \"We couldn't contain Walton.\" He added that he had \"never seen a player so dominating\". Walton later said that he recalled his missed field goal attempt, which he rebounded and scored from. Wooden reportedly told him, \"Walton, I used to think you were a good player ... until you missed that one shot.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 80], "content_span": [81, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095896-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Basketball Tournament\nThe 1973 NCAA University Division Basketball Tournament involved 25 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA University Division (now Division I, created later in 1973) college basketball. It began on Saturday, March 10, and ended with the championship game on Monday, March 26, in St. Louis, Missouri. A total of 29 games were played, including a third place game in each region and a national third place game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095896-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Basketball Tournament\nLed by longtime head coach John Wooden, the UCLA Bruins won their seventh consecutive national title with an 87\u201366 victory in the final game over Memphis State, coached by Gene Bartow, a future head coach at UCLA. Junior center Bill Walton of UCLA was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095896-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Basketball Tournament\nThis was the first year that the championship game was held on a Monday night, with Saturday semifinals. Previously, the championship game was on Saturday, with the semifinals on either Thursday or Friday. Also, this was the first year matchups in the semifinals rotated; previously, it was East vs. Mideast and West vs. Midwest every year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095896-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Basketball Tournament, Tournament notes\nThe UCLA \u2013 Memphis State championship game made USA Today\u2032s list of the greatest NCAA tournament games of all time at #18. Bill Walton set a championship game record, hitting 21 of 22 shots and scoring 44 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 69], "content_span": [70, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095896-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Basketball Tournament, Tournament notes\nThis tournament marked the first appearance of Bob Knight as coach of Indiana University.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 69], "content_span": [70, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095896-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Basketball Tournament, Tournament notes\nThe participation for this tournament, as well as the previous tournament, for Southwestern Louisiana (now the University of Louisiana at Lafayette) was vacated on August 5, 1973, when the NCAA Committee on Infractions ruled the university guilty of over 100 violations, including impermissible benefits and doctoring high school transcripts of players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 69], "content_span": [70, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095896-0005-0001", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Basketball Tournament, Tournament notes\nUSL's program was shut down for the 1973\u201374 and 1974\u201375 seasons, all other Ragin Cajun' athletic programs were placed on three years' probation and banned from postseason participation, and the university was stripped of voting rights at the NCAA convention until 1977 (the NCAA originally planned to expel USL from the organization, but that sanction was downgraded in January 1974).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 69], "content_span": [70, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095896-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Basketball Tournament, Schedule and venues\nThe following are the sites that were selected to host each round of the 1973 tournament:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 72], "content_span": [73, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095896-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Basketball Tournament, Schedule and venues\nRegional Semifinals, 3rd Place Games, and Finals (Sweet Sixteen and Elite Eight)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 72], "content_span": [73, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095896-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Basketball Tournament, Schedule and venues\nNational Semifinals, 3rd Place Game, and Championship (Final Four and Championship)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 72], "content_span": [73, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095896-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Basketball Tournament, Schedule and venues\nThe city of St. Louis became the 12th host city, and the St. Louis Arena became the thirteenth host venue, of the Final Four. The arena, home to the St. Louis Blues of the NHL and, at the time, the St. Louis Billikens basketball team, was the first of five straight venues to host the Final Four for the first time, and it was the first time the tournament was held in the city of St. Louis as well. Besides the St. Louis Arena, only one other venue made its debut in the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 72], "content_span": [73, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095896-0009-0001", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Basketball Tournament, Schedule and venues\nFor the second straight year, the tournament opened a new city in the state of Tennessee; this time, it was the capital city of Nashville. Memorial Gym on the campus of Vanderbilt University would go on to host the tournament four times overall before tournament games in the city were moved to the downtown Bridgestone Arena in 2000. Additionally, only one venue saw its final games in the 1972 Tournament, with William & Mary Hall ending its usage in the tournament. The tournament has come back to the state of Virginia twice since, both times being at the Richmond Coliseum in the capital city of Richmond.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 72], "content_span": [73, 683]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095896-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Basketball Tournament, Aftermath\nThe 1973 NC State Wolfpack team averaged 93 ppg, led the nation in win margin (21.8 ppg), and posted a 27\u20130 record, but was ineligible for postseason play because of NCAA probation. David Thompson, a two-time national Player of the Year, and All-America Tom Burleson, led NC State to a 30\u20131 record the following season, losing only to seven-time defending champion UCLA. The Wolfpack avenged its only loss during the two-year period by defeating UCLA in the 1974 Final Four and winning the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 62], "content_span": [63, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095896-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Basketball Tournament, Aftermath\nGene Bartow, the Memphis State coach, would be John Wooden's successor at UCLA after the 1974\u20131975 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 62], "content_span": [63, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095897-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Golf Championship\nThe 1973 NCAA University Division Golf Championship was the 35th annual NCAA-sanctioned golf tournament to determine the individual and team national champions of men's collegiate golf at the University Division level in the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095897-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Golf Championship\nThe tournament was held at the Stillwater Country Club in Stillwater, Oklahoma.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095897-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Golf Championship\nFlorida won the team championship, the Gators' second NCAA title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095897-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Golf Championship\nFuture Masters champion Ben Crenshaw, from Texas, won his third consecutive individual title. Crenshaw is one of only two players, alongside Phil Mickelson (1989, 1990, and 1992), to win three NCAA individual championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095898-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Men's Ice Hockey Tournament\nThe 1973 NCAA Men's Division I Ice Hockey Tournament was the culmination of the 1972\u201373 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey season, the 26th such tournament in NCAA history. It was held between March 15 and 17, 1973, and concluded with Wisconsin defeating Denver 4-2. All games were played at the Boston Garden in Boston, Massachusetts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095898-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Men's Ice Hockey Tournament\nAfter the tournament Denver's participation was vacated as a result of NCAA recruiting violations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095898-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Qualifying teams\nFour teams qualified for the tournament, two each from the eastern and western regions. The ECAC tournament champion and the two WCHA tournament co-champions received automatic bids into the tournament. An at-large bid was offered to a second eastern team based upon both their ECAC tournament finish as well as their regular season record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 75], "content_span": [76, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095898-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format\nThe ECAC champion was seeded as the top eastern team while the WCHA co-champion with the better regular season record was given the top western seed. The second eastern seed was slotted to play the top western seed and vice versa. All games were played at the Boston Garden. All matches were single-game eliminations with the semifinal winners advancing to the national championship game and the losers playing in a consolation game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 65], "content_span": [66, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095898-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Tournament bracket\nNote: * denotes overtime period(s)Note: \u2020 Denver's participation was later vacated due to NCAA violations", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 77], "content_span": [78, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095898-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, All-Tournament Team\n* Most Outstanding Player(s)\u2020 Recognition of Denver's D: Bruce Affleck and F: Peter McNab was vacated when Denver's participation in tournament was vacated", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [59, 78], "content_span": [79, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095899-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Outdoor Track and Field Championships\nThe 1973 NCAA University Division Outdoor Track and Field Championships were contested June 5\u22129 at the 51st annual NCAA-sanctioned track meet to determine the individual and team national champions of men's collegiate University Division outdoor track and field events in the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [67, 67], "content_span": [68, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095899-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Outdoor Track and Field Championships\nThis year's outdoor meet was hosted by Louisiana State University at the Bernie Moore Track Stadium in Baton Rouge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [67, 67], "content_span": [68, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095899-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Outdoor Track and Field Championships\nUCLA once again topped team standings, winning their third consecutive, and fifth overall, team national title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 67], "section_span": [67, 67], "content_span": [68, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095900-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Swimming and Diving Championships\nThe 1973 NCAA University Division Swimming and Diving Championships were contested in March 1973 at the University of Tennessee Student Aquatic Center at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee at the 50th annual NCAA-sanctioned swim meet to determine the team and individual national champions of University Division men's collegiate swimming and diving in the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095900-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Swimming and Diving Championships\nIndiana again topped the team standings, the Hoosiers' sixth consecutive and sixth overall title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 63], "section_span": [63, 63], "content_span": [64, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095901-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Tennis Championships\nThe 1973 NCAA University Division Tennis Championships were the 28th annual tournaments to determine the national champions of NCAA University Division men's singles, doubles, and team collegiate tennis in the United States. This was the final year before the NCAA changed the name of its University Division to its present-day moniker, Division I.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095901-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Tennis Championships\nStanford, the previous year's runners-up, captured the team championship, the Indians' first such title. Stanford finished five points ahead of USC in the final team standings (33\u201328).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095901-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Tennis Championships, Host site\nThis year's tournaments were contested at the Lenz Tennis Center at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 61], "content_span": [62, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095901-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Tennis Championships, Team scoring\nUntil 1977, the men's team championship was determined by points awarded based on individual performances in the singles and doubles events.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [52, 64], "content_span": [65, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095902-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Wrestling Championships\nThe 1973 NCAA University Division Wrestling Championships were the 43rd NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships to be held. The University of Washington in Seattle, Washington hosted the tournament at Hec Edmundson Pavilion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095902-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Wrestling Championships\nIowa State was took home the team championship with 85 points and two individual champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095902-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division Wrestling Championships\nGreg Strobel of Oregon State was named the Most Outstanding Wrestler and Chris Taylor of Iowa State received the Gorriaran Award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095903-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division baseball rankings\nThe following poll makes up the 1973 NCAA University Division baseball rankings. Collegiate Baseball Newspaper published its first human poll of the top 20 teams in college baseball in 1957, and expanded to rank the top 30 teams in 1961.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095903-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division baseball rankings, Collegiate Baseball\nCurrently, only the final poll from the 1973 season is available.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 68], "content_span": [69, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095904-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division baseball season\nThe 1973 NCAA University Division baseball season, play of college baseball in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) began in the spring of 1973. The season progressed through the regular season and concluded with the 1973 College World Series. The College World Series, held for the twenty seventh time in 1973, consisted of one team from each of eight geographical districts and was held in Omaha, Nebraska at Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium as a double-elimination tournament. Southern California claimed the championship for the fourth year in a row, en route to five consecutive titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 676]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095904-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division baseball season, Conference winners\nThis is a partial list of conference champions from the 1973 season. Each of the eight geographical districts chose, by various methods, the team that would represent them in the NCAA Tournament. 13 teams earned automatic bids by winning their conference championship while 19 teams earned at-large selections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 65], "content_span": [66, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095904-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 NCAA University Division baseball season, College World Series\nThe 1973 season marked the twenty seventh NCAA Baseball Tournament, which culminated with the eight team College World Series. The College World Series was held in Omaha, Nebraska. The eight teams played a double-elimination format, with Southern California claiming their ninth championship, and fourth in a row, with a 4\u20133 win over Arizona State in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 67], "content_span": [68, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095905-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 NFL Draft\nThe 1973 National Football League draft was held January 30\u201331, 1973, at the Americana Hotel in New York City, New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095906-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 NFL season\nThe 1973 NFL season was the 54th regular season of the National Football League. The season was highlighted by O. J. Simpson becoming the first player to rush for 2,000 yards in one season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095906-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 NFL season\nThe season ended with Super Bowl VIII when the Miami Dolphins repeated as league champions by defeating the Minnesota Vikings 24\u20137 at Rice Stadium in Houston, Texas. The Pro Bowl took place on January 20, 1974, at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri; the AFC beat the NFC 15\u201313.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095906-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 NFL season, Draft\nThe 1973 NFL Draft was held from January 30 to 31, 1973 at New York City's Americana Hotel. With the first pick, the Houston Oilers selected defensive end John Matuszak from the University of Tampa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 22], "content_span": [23, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095906-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 NFL season, Major rule changes, Jersey numbering system\nThe system would later be modified throughout the years to increase the available numbers to different positions due to increasing team rosters and teams retiring numbers (see also National Football League uniform numbers \u00a7\u00a0Post-1973 changes ).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 60], "content_span": [61, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095906-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 NFL season, Major rule changes, Television Blackout rules\nThrough December 1972, all NFL home games (including championship games and Super Bowls) were blacked-out on television in each team's respective city. The first exception was Super Bowl VII in Los Angeles in January 1973; the league changed their policy to black out home games only if tickets had not sold out. This expanded the league's television presence in teams' home cities on gameday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 62], "content_span": [63, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095906-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 NFL season, Major rule changes, Television Blackout rules\nThe policy was put into effect when, in 1972, the Washington Redskins made the playoffs for only the second time in 27 seasons. Because all home games were blacked-out, politicians \u2014 including devout football fan President Richard Nixon \u2014 were not able to watch their home team win. NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle refused to lift the blackout, despite a plea from Attorney General Richard Kleindienst, who then suggested that the U.S. Congress re-evaluate the NFL's antitrust exemption. Rozelle agreed to lift the blackout for Super Bowl VII on an \"experimental basis,\" but Congress intervened before the 1973 season anyway, passing Public Law 93-107; it eliminated the blackout of games in the home market so long as the game was sold out by 72 hours before kickoff.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 62], "content_span": [63, 829]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095906-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 NFL season, Major rule changes, Television Blackout rules\nWith the new rule, the NFL recorded over one million no-shows by ticketholders to regular season games in 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 62], "content_span": [63, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095906-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 NFL season, Division races\nStarting in 1970, and until 2002, there were three divisions (Eastern, Central and Western) in each conference. The winners of each division, and a fourth \u201cwild card\u201d team based on the best non-division winner, qualified for the playoffs. The tiebreaker rules were changed to start with head-to-head competition, followed by division records, records against common opponents, and records in conference play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095906-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 NFL season, Stadium changes\nThe Buffalo Bills moved from their original home at War Memorial Stadium and played their first season at Rich Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095906-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 NFL season, Stadium changes\nFrom October 7, the New York Giants moved from Yankee Stadium to the Yale Bowl in New Haven, Connecticut, where they would play the rest of 1973 and all of 1974. The Giants were forced out of Yankee Stadium after it closed to be renovated to a baseball-only venue. Also, a new Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey was already under construction by 1973, but it would not open until 1976.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095907-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 NHL Amateur Draft\nThe 1973 NHL Amateur Draft was the 11th National Hockey League draft. It was the first to be held on a separate day from other league activities on May 15, 1973, at the Mount Royal Hotel in Montreal, Quebec, so it would not overshadow the rest of the league meetings. Previously, the league had held the amateur draft in mid-June. It also marks the second time the meeting took place at the Mount Royal Hotel rather than the Queen Elizabeth Hotel. In 1972, when the World Hockey Association was beginning to take form, some teams were more focused on the amateur draft that they stopped paying attention to other issues (mainly the WHA raiding NHL rosters) and were spending their time preparing for the draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 733]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095907-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 NHL Amateur Draft\nWith the WHA having already operated for a full season, NHL teams realized they would have to fight to sign their top picks. This was especially important in a year when the draft was considered extremely deep and the WHA was scheduled to draft players just three days after the NHL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095907-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 NHL Amateur Draft\nThe top pick of the 1973 NHL amateur draft was Ottawa 67's star Denis Potvin who was projected to be the next Bobby Orr. The Montreal Canadiens, the most active team on draft day, re-positioned themselves by trading for several high picks and then offered the New York Islanders all types of packages for the first choice overall as they want to select Potvin for themselves. Islanders general manager Bill Torrey was not interested, however and held on to the top pick. He selected Potvin, who became a big part of the building block for the Islanders hockey dynasty between 1980 and 1983", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095907-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 NHL Amateur Draft\nAlthough the NHL had to compete hard with the WHA to sign these amateur players, they managed to sign all 16 of their first-round draft picks before the rival league could. The NHL-WHA competition was so fierce that the Toronto Maple Leafs offered a staggering, at the time, five-year $600,000 contract for right winger Lanny McDonald of the Medicine Hat Tigers, which kept the No. 4 pick from signing with the WHA's Cleveland Crusaders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095907-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 NHL Amateur Draft\nEligible for the draft were all amateur players born before January 1, 1954. The NHL paid a lump sum to the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association to support major junior hockey as a group. Teams could offer a player a contract at any time after the draft without risking re-entry in a future NHL draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095907-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 NHL Amateur Draft, Selections by round\nBelow are listed the selections in the 1973 NHL amateur draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 43], "content_span": [44, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095908-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 NSWRFL season\nThe 1973 New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership was the sixty-sixth season of the rugby league competition based in Sydney. Twelve district clubs from across the city, including six foundation clubs, competed for the J.J. Giltinan Shield and WD & HO Wills Cup during the season, which culminated in a grand final between Manly-Warringah and Cronulla-Sutherland. This season also saw the introduction of an Under-23s competition to replace the former \u201cThird Grade\u201d as well as a five-team finals series (rather than the previous four).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095908-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 NSWRFL season, Season summary\nThe 1973 NSWRFL season saw the introduction of the metric system to the playing field, and a five-team semi-final series. Twenty-two regular season rounds were played from March until August, resulting in a top five of Manly, Cronulla, St. George, Newtown and Canterbury who went on to battle it out in the finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095908-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 NSWRFL season, Season summary\nThe 1973 Rothmans Medal was awarded to Cronulla-Sutherland forward Ken Maddison. Rugby League Week awarded their player of the year award to Manly-Warringah's halfback Johnny Mayes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095908-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 NSWRFL season, Season summary\nThe 1973 season also saw the retirement from the League of future Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame inductee, Ken Irvine. A legendary speedster who started his career with North Sydney in 1958, Irvine finished his stellar career with two deserved premierships playing for Manly-Warringah. Irvine also finished his career as the highest ever tryscorer in the Sydney premiership (the record still stands as of 2020). He crossed for 171 tries in 176 games for Norths and 41 in 60 games for Manly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095908-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 NSWRFL season, Regular season\nBold\u00a0\u2013 Home gameX\u00a0\u2013 ByeOpponent for round listed above margin", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095908-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 NSWRFL season, Finals, Grand Final\nAfter Cronulla-Sutherland's 14\u20134 loss in the major semi-final, Manly-Warringah expected the Sharks would be fired up for the Grand Final. And they were. Ian Heads wrote in the Sunday Telegraph the next day that It was a Grand Final as tough and dirty as any bar-room brawl. Alan Clarkson wrote in the Sun Herald The fare served up in the first half belonged in the Colosseum. The first half was not how the game's administrators would have wished to show-case rugby league, every tackle was loaded with menace and meant to damage. Nevertheless, from the melee Bob Fulton emerged and showed his unrivalled skill. Heads and Clarkson wrote of his \"towering genius\" and \"football brilliance\" respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 39], "content_span": [40, 741]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095908-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 NSWRFL season, Finals, Grand Final\nManly's English import Malcolm Reilly, himself never one to take a backward step, was the first victim of the carnage. In the opening minute, Cronulla hooker Ron \"Rocky\" Turner set his sights on Reilly as the Englishman got an early kick away to take advantage of a strong breeze blowing towards the Bradman Stand (Paddington End). Turner missed Reilly the first time around, but didn't miss him a few minutes later. The Manly lock was left in agony from a badly bruised hip and had to leave the field for painkilling injections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 39], "content_span": [40, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095908-0006-0001", "contents": "1973 NSWRFL season, Finals, Grand Final\nKnowing he probably wouldn't last the first half he then returned to the field and created mayhem despite the injections he received failing to work properly. He set about doing as much physical damage to Cronulla players as he could, but bowed out in the 25th minute and was replaced by reserve forward John Bucknall, who had played in Manly's winning Reserve Grade Grand Final side earlier in the day. Bucknall didn't think he would be needed and actually had a full lunch and soft drink shortly before the first grade game began.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 39], "content_span": [40, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095908-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 NSWRFL season, Finals, Grand Final\nAfter a number of brawls in the first half, referee Keith Page eventually called in all 26 players twice for mass cautions, threatening that any more foul play would result in players being sent off. Despite his warnings the back-alley tactics continued from both teams, and Page didn't send anyone from the field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 39], "content_span": [40, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095908-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 NSWRFL season, Finals, Grand Final\nThen Fulton took over in the 29th and 58th minutes. \u201cBozo\u201d demonstrated power and pace in both tries. The first came from a brilliant Fred Jones flick pass which saw Fulton split Eric Archer and Steve Rogers just twenty-five metres from the line. Fulton ran around to touch down near the posts and give Graham Eadie an easier shot at conversion which he duly slotted through the posts. Manly took a 5\u20130 scoreline to the half time break.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 39], "content_span": [40, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095908-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 NSWRFL season, Finals, Grand Final\nThe second Fulton try came after Eadie took a pass from five-eighth Ian Martin, then looked for Fulton and set him up perfectly. Fulton raced for the Brewongle Stand corner and managed to put the ball down before being bundled into touch by Rogers and replacement fullback Rick Bourke. From out wide Eadie missed the conversion to make it 8\u20132 after Steve Rogers had previously kicked a penalty goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 39], "content_span": [40, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095908-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 NSWRFL season, Finals, Grand Final\nCronulla had to wait a long time before they dented the Manly line. It was in the 70th minute that the crack appeared. Trailing 8\u20132, the Sharks struck when lock Greg Pierce positioned Rick Bourke for a try (Bourke was flattened by Manly winger Max Brown as he scored, resulting in a broken thumb for Brown). Rogers easily kicked the conversion to reduce the deficit to just one point. Eadie stretched the lead to three points from a penalty kick and then the Sharks rallied and bombarded Manly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 39], "content_span": [40, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095908-0010-0001", "contents": "1973 NSWRFL season, Finals, Grand Final\nUltimately, the Manly defence of John Mayes, Terry Randall, Peter Peters, Eadie and Fulton were up to the task. It will, however, go down in Sharks folklore that a Tommy Bishop flick pass in the dying moments failed to go to hand with the Manly line wide open. It was a set move Cronulla had successfully played all year, but had adjusted for the Grand Final in anticipation of Manly's familiarity with the standard move. As expected, the Manly defence reacted to snuff out the set play, leaving a gap that Bishop's pass managed to pinpoint. However, in the heat of the moment, Sharks second-rower Ken Maddison also played for the old move, ran the wrong line and the ball went to ground \u2013 and with it went the premiership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 39], "content_span": [40, 763]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095908-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 NSWRFL season, Finals, Grand Final\nMan of the Match: Bob Fulton (Manly)Referee: Keith PageAttendance: 52,044", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 39], "content_span": [40, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095909-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Nantes mid-air collision\nThe 1973 Nantes mid-air collision occurred when two airliners travelling to London Heathrow airport hit each other over Nantes, France on 5 March 1973. They were an Iberia McDonnell Douglas DC-9 flying from Palma de Mallorca to London and a Spantax Convair 990 from Madrid to London. All 68 people on board the DC-9 were killed. The CV-990 was able to make a successful emergency landing at Cognac \u2013 Ch\u00e2teaubernard Air Base.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095909-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Nantes mid-air collision, Crash\nIberia flight 504, a scheduled service from Palma de Mallorca, and Spantax flight 400, a charter flight from Madrid, were both traversing France en route to Heathrow airport in London. They were guided by French military Air Traffic Control as the country's civilian air traffic controllers were on strike. The Iberia DC-9 was due to reach the Nantes VOR point at 12:52 at flight level 290 (29,000 feet) and the Spantax Convair CV-990 was scheduled to reach it at 13:00 at the same level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095909-0001-0001", "contents": "1973 Nantes mid-air collision, Crash\nBoth aircraft had received instructions from Marina sector Air Traffic Control at the French Air Force base in Mont-de-Marsan, who asked them to contact Menhir sector ATC at the French Air Force base in Brest. The Spantax aircraft was on the boundary between the sectors and had difficulty hearing Marina ATC, also receiving no reply to two requests to circle to avoid arriving at the Nantes VOR before 13:00 GMT. The crew decided to start the manoeuvre without ATC authorisation and while in cloud collided with the Iberia DC-9 at 12:52 GMT. The DC-9 lost control, exploded, and broke up in mid-air before crashing to the ground.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 667]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095909-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Nantes mid-air collision, Crash\nThe CV-990 managed to land at Cognac \u2013 Ch\u00e2teaubernard Air Base with damage to its left wing. A survivor, Betty Barrett, later recounted:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095909-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Nantes mid-air collision, Crash\nMy father was sitting in the aisle seat, and I was on the right hand side. And I turned around, and he's very British and very stoic, and I said \"daddy do you think we are going to make it?\". He said \"I rather doubt it darling\" and pointed to the other wing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095909-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Nantes mid-air collision, Crash\nAll 61 passengers and 7 crew of the Iberia flight were killed, including Michael Jeffery, the former manager of The Animals and Jimi Hendrix. 47 of the dead were British citizens. No-one aboard the Spantax flight was harmed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095909-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Nantes mid-air collision, Report\nThe accident was investigated by French air accident body, the Bureau d'Enqu\u00eates et d'Analyses pour la S\u00e9curit\u00e9 de l'Aviation Civile. Its report identified difficulties in communication between the flight crew of the Convair CV-990 and air traffic control as well as procedural errors from both parties. The crew's unilateral decision to turn the aircraft brought it into the path of the DC-9. ATC had assumed a time-based separation of the two aircraft at the same flight level.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095909-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Nantes mid-air collision, In popular culture\nThe event is briefly mentioned in the MSNBC/The Weather Channel documentary series Why Planes Crash, during the first season episode \"Collision Course\". The episode features an interview with survivor Betty Barrett and shows images of the damaged CV-990 on landing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095910-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 National 500\nThe 1973 National 500 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series racing event that took place on October 7, 1973, at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095910-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 National 500\nThe Yom Kippur war between Israel and the Arabs broke out the day before. The Arab oil embargo soon went into effect and resulted in cancellation of the Texas race and shortening of 1974 races by 10%. Charlotte Motor Speedway was already in financial trouble, and with the gasoline shortage that fall there was a very high likelihood that not enough fans would attend to cover costs; eventually reopening in 1976.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095910-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 National 500, Qualifying\nThe first driver to qualify for pole, Charlie Glotzbach, was found in a post qualifying inspection to have modified his restrictor plate in an illegal fashion. Glotsbach's team was fined $500 and the $1,000 pole bonus he was to receive was rescinded. Glotsbach was forced to re-qualify after changes were made to the car to make it legal, and qualified 34th. Pole was then awarded to David Pearson, who had qualified second.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095910-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 National 500, Qualifying\nDean Dalton, whose performance on Saturday did not qualify him for the race, was allowed into the race 41st on the grid, because of the above.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095910-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 National 500, Race report\n334 laps took place on a paved track spanning 1.500 miles (2.414\u00a0km) with two cautions given out for sixteen laps. However, the race took three hours and twenty-six minutes to finish with Cale Yarborough defeating Richard Petty by a time of 1.4\u00a0seconds. Yarborough and Petty would lap the field three times before retrieving the checkered flag. David Pearson won the official pole position with a speed of 158.315 miles per hour (254.783\u00a0km/h) - which was equivalent to 34.109\u00a0seconds. Sixty-four thousand people attended this live racing event. The race had a mobile home (driven by Tim Flock) to accompany the drivers and their vehicles on the opening parade lap; which was unusual back then by NASCAR standards and is still considered to be unusual in today's NASCAR.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 801]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095910-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 National 500, Race report\nHarry Gant would make his racing debut here; ultimately finishing in 11th place. Dick Trickle also made his debut here, finishing an impressive fifth. Wendell Scott would retire after this race; making a 12th-place finish in this event. Johnny Barnes' 15th-place run was his best in Cup competition. Wayne Andrews would pull out of the race on lap 5 due to engine problems.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095910-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 National 500, Race report\nBuddy Baker retired his car on lap 228, and team owner Nord Krauskopf refused to allow NASCAR to inspect the car after this was done. NASCAR disqualified the team, and therefore, Buddy Baker officially finished 41st. Baker was the last driver to be disqualified for technical infractions until 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095910-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 National 500, Race report\nWhat made this race extra important to drivers was that $100 was given out for every lap that a driver led ($582.98 when adjusted for inflation). Yarborough and Petty were said to have engines in their cars that exceeded the horsepower permitted by NASCAR during that era. Bobby Allison filed a complaint with Bill France, Jr. which resulted in a 6-hour meeting and \"satisfactory restitution.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095910-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 National 500, Race report\nWind speeds at this race would reach an average of 6.9 miles per hour (11.1\u00a0km/h). The race was held on a dry circuit; with no precipitation recorded around the speedway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095911-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 National Amateur Cup\nThe 1973 National Amateur Cup was the 49th annual edition of the national tournament open to amateur soccer teams affiliated with the United States Soccer Football Association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095912-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 National Challenge Cup\nThe 1973 National Challenge Cup was the 60th annual national open soccer championship held by the United States Soccer Football Association now known as the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095913-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 National Invitation Tournament\nThe 1973 National Invitation Tournament was the 1973 edition of the annual NCAA college basketball competition. It was won by Virginia Tech, which won the four games played in Madison Square Garden by a total of five points, including a 92\u201391 overtime victory over Notre Dame.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095913-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 National Invitation Tournament, Selected teams\nBelow is a list of the 16 teams selected for the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 51], "content_span": [52, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095913-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 National Invitation Tournament, Bracket\nFor years after the game, North Carolina hung a banner in the Dean Smith Center that read \"NIT 3RD PLACE 1973.\" The banner became the subject of ridicule from rival fans, and has since been removed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095914-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 National League Championship Series\nThe 1973 National League Championship Series was played between the New York Mets and the Cincinnati Reds from October 6 to 10. New York won the series three games to two and advanced to the World Series, where they lost to the Oakland Athletics in what was the second of three straight world championships for Oakland. The Mets set a record for lowest win percentage by a pennant winner, finishing the regular season with an 82\u201379 record. However, most of the season was plagued by the injury jinx to their key players. In September they finally got healthy and just in time for the playoffs. The Mets' victory has gone down as one of the greatest upsets in MLB history, as they dominated the heavily favored Big Red Machine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 767]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095914-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 National League Championship Series\nThe 1973 NLCS was marked by a fight that broke out in the fifth inning of the third game, beginning with a tussle between Cincinnati's Pete Rose and New York's Bud Harrelson at second base. Players from both sides joined in a general melee that lasted for several minutes and set off rowdy fan behavior at Shea Stadium in New York. Photographs of the fight, autographed by Rose and Harrelson, are now available at a number of Internet sites.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095914-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 National League Championship Series\nThis was the fifth National League Championship Series in all and the only NLCS between 1970 and 1980 not to feature either the Philadelphia Phillies or the Pittsburgh Pirates. In fact, from 1969 to 1980 the NL East champion was either the Mets, Pirates or the Phillies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095914-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 1\nThe starting pitchers, New York's Tom Seaver and Cincinnati's Jack Billingham, produced a classic pitchers' duel in Game\u00a01. The Mets threatened in the first, loading the bases with one out, but Cleon Jones grounded into a double play to end the inning. New York scored its run in the second when Seaver doubled home Bud Harrelson. Seaver was also in control of a normally potent Reds offense, holding the Reds scoreless through seven innings. In the eighth, Pete Rose homered with one out. Seaver yielded another homer in the ninth to Johnny Bench, and the Reds walked off with a 1\u20130 advantage in the series. Tom Seaver's 13 strikeout performance would be later matched by Jacob DeGrom in the Game 1 of the (2015 National League Division Series).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 811]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095914-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 2\nOnce again, pitching dominated Game\u00a02. New York leveled the series behind the superb pitching of starter Jon Matlack. Lefties Matlack and Reds' starter Don Gullett were near the top of their respective games as a Rusty Staub home run in the fourth inning was the only run through eight innings. After Gullett exited for a pinch hitter in the sixth inning, Clay Carroll shut down the Mets for three innings. The Mets put the game away with four runs in the ninth against Reds' relievers Tom Hall and Pedro Borb\u00f3n. Matlack completed his two-hitter (reserve outfielder Andy Kosco collected both hits, in the second and seventh innings) by retiring the Reds 1\u20132\u20133 in the ninth. In a postgame interview, the light-hitting Harrelson said, \"He (Matlack) made the Big Red Machine look like me hitting today.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 865]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095914-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 3\nDuring pregame warm-ups, Harrelson was confronted by Reds second baseman Joe Morgan, who told Harrelson that 1973 batting champion and eventual NL MVP, Pete Rose, didn't appreciate Harrelson's Game 2 post-game disparaging comments, saying Harrelson was finding more fault with the Reds rather than giving Matlack credit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095914-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 3\nThe Mets scored early and often in Game\u00a03, racing out to a 6\u20130 lead after just two innings. Rusty Staub hit his second homer of the series in the first inning, and the Mets erupted for five more runs in the second, highlighted by yet another homer from Staub, a three-run shot. The Reds scored their runs in the third on a Denis Menke homer and an RBI single by Joe Morgan off Mets starting pitcher Jerry Koosman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095914-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 3\nIn the top of the fifth with Pete Rose on first, Morgan hit a double play ball to Mets first baseman John Milner, Rose slid hard into Bud Harrelson as he tried unsuccessfully to break up the double play. Harrelson said something to Rose and they began to fight at second as both teams poured onto the field. Order was eventually restored and neither Rose nor Harrelson were ejected. But when Rose returned to his left field position in the bottom of the fifth, fans at Shea Stadium began showering him with debris.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095914-0007-0001", "contents": "1973 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 3\nReds manager Sparky Anderson then pulled his team off the field. After a whiskey bottle almost hit Rose, National League president Chub Feeney threatened to force the Mets to declare a forfeit, unless they could calm the fans. Yogi Berra, as well as Willie Mays, Seaver, Staub and Cleon Jones walked out to left field and persuaded fans to stop throwing debris. \"Look at the scoreboard!\" Mays told them. \"We're ahead! Let 'em play the game.\" The game was completed without any more incidents from either team and the Mets won to take a 2 games to 1 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 619]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095914-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 4\nThe Reds evened the series behind outstanding pitching and a clutch home run from Pete Rose. The Mets opened the scoring in the third off Reds starter Fred Norman, when F\u00e9lix Mill\u00e1n singled home Don Hahn. Norman with the help of seven shutout innings from the Reds bullpen, held the Mets to two singles for the rest of the game. The Reds tied the game in the seventh inning on a Tony P\u00e9rez home run. The Reds had scoring threats in the 10th and 11th innings, but couldn't score because of 2 outstanding catches by Rusty Staub.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095914-0008-0001", "contents": "1973 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 4\nThe latter unfortunately resulted in a severe injury to Staub's right shoulder when he crashed into the right field fence. Then In the 12th, much to the displeasure of the Shea Stadium crowd, Rose hit a tie-breaking homer off Met reliever Harry Parker to give the Reds a 2\u20131 lead. Pedro Borb\u00f3n came on to retire the Mets in the bottom of the 12th to even the series at 2\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095914-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 5\nA Game\u00a05 victory gave the Mets their second National League pennant in five years, as Tom Seaver pitched New York to victory. The Reds loaded the bases in the top of the first but couldn't score, the Mets took the lead on a two-run single by Ed Kranepool (playing in place of the injured Rusty Staub) in the bottom of the inning. Cincinnati tied the game with single runs in the third and fifth on a sacrifice fly by Dan Driessen and an RBI single by Tony P\u00e9rez.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095914-0009-0001", "contents": "1973 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 5\nThe Mets went ahead for good with four runs on four hits in the fifth, capped by a run-scoring single from Bud Harrelson. Seaver scored New York's final run in the sixth when he doubled and came home on a Cleon Jones single. Seaver kept the Reds off the board after the fifth, although closer Tug McGraw came on to get the final two outs for the save after the Reds had loaded the bases in the ninth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095914-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 National League Championship Series, Game summaries, Game 5\nThe Mets got just six more hits than the Reds in the series (37-31), but outscored them 23-8. The Mets hit just .220 but the great NY Mets staff held the hard-hitting Reds to a meager .186 team batting average.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095915-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 National Soccer League season\nThe 1973 National Soccer League season was the fiftieth season under the National Soccer League (NSL) name. The season began in May and concluded in late October with Toronto Hungaria defeating Toronto Croatia for the NSL Championship. Toronto Hungaria repeated their success by defeating Croatia for the NSL Cup, which marked the organization's first league double. Although Toronto Croatia was defeated in the postseason, they still managed to secure the regular season title and qualified for the Canadian Open Cup. In the Canadian Open Cup final Toronto successfully defended the title for the third consecutive season by defeating Challenge Trophy finalists Toronto West Indies United.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 725]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095915-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 National Soccer League season\nToronto Croatia was scheduled to participate in the 1973 CONCACAF Champions' Cup against Club Am\u00e9rica, but the series of matches failed to materialize. Stanley Park Stadium was employed for the final time as the Toronto clubs transferred their home venue to the CNE Stadium in 1974. The league experienced an increase in match attendance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095915-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 National Soccer League season, Overview\nThe National Soccer League (NSL) was embroiled in a dispute with the Toronto Indoor Soccer League over the usage of players during the offseason. The NSL teams forbade their contracted players in participating in the indoor league without the consent of their clubs. Despite the ban many NSL players ignored the decision and continued playing in the indoor league. The league increased in membership to 17 teams with the approval of additional teams in Toronto, and Montreal. The NSL expanded into Quebec with the return of Montreal Cantalia, and the Toronto representatives were Toronto Melita, and Toronto Polonia. Melita previously competed in the Toronto & District Soccer League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 729]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095915-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 National Soccer League season, Overview\nSeveral teams were rebranded with Hamilton Apollos becoming Hamilton City, and Toronto Olympia were renamed Toronto Homer. London City acquired the NSL franchise rights from London German Canadians, and Toronto Hellas had their franchise revoked. The league had an increase in match attendance with Serbian White Eagles, and Toronto Croatia averaging the most. The season also marked the final time the Toronto based clubs would utilize Stanley Park Stadium as their home venue as the municipal government decided to convert the field into a park. The league administration addressed the continuing fan violence throughout the NSL with league president Joe Piccininni committing to place stiffer fines the following season. The league table was modified after Ottawa Tigers was suspended in late August.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 848]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095915-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 National Soccer League season, Cup\nThe cup tournament was a separate contest from the rest of the season in which all seventeen teams took part. The finals for the cup was to consist of a two-legged match, but was scrapped after the first match was abandoned due to fan violence. The league decided to award the cup to Toronto Hungaria as they were leading the match before it was abandoned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 39], "content_span": [40, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095915-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 National Soccer League season, Canadian Open Cup\nThe Canadian Open Cup was a tournament organized by the National Soccer League in 1971 where the NSL champion would face the Challenge Trophy winners to determine the best team throughout the country. The 1974 edition served as a qualifier match to determine the Canadian representative to the CONCACAF Champions' Cup. Toronto Croatia were the NSL representative for the third consecutive year while their opponents were the Toronto & District League champions Toronto West Indies United. The Vancouver Firefighters were the 1973 Challenge Trophy winners and originally were invited to participate, but declined which allowed the Challenge Trophy runner-ups Toronto West Indies United to compete for the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 764]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095916-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 National Society of Film Critics Awards\nThe 8th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 4 January 1974, honored the best filmmaking of 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095917-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Nauruan parliamentary election\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by Number 57 (talk | contribs) at 23:16, 17 March 2020 (\u2192\u200etop: Ref wording). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095917-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Nauruan parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections were held in Nauru on 15 December 1973. As there were no political parties, all candidates ran as independents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095917-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Nauruan parliamentary election, Results\nThree incumbent MPs, Victor Eoaeo, Derog Gioura and David Dabwido, lost their seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095918-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Navy Midshipmen football team\nThe 1973 Navy Midshipmen football team represented the United States Naval Academy (USNA) as an independent during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. The team was led by first-year head coach George Welsh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095919-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team\nThe 1973 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team represented the University of Nebraska\u2013Lincoln in the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. The team was coached by Tom Osborne and played their home games in Memorial Stadium in Lincoln.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095919-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Roster\nAdkins, Ken #5 (So.) SEAlward, Tom #63 (Jr.) GAnderson, Dan #67 (Sr.) GAnderson, Frosty #89 (Sr.) SEAustin, Al #78 (Sr.) OTBahe, Ritch #24 (Jr.) WBBelka, Jim #47 (Jr.) FBBell, John #66 (Sr.) MGBenish, Randy #4 (So.) DBBonness, Rik #54 (So.) CBorg, Randy #19 (Sr.) DBBrock, Dan #00 (So.) DTBurns, Burton #49 (So.) FBBurrow, Jim #2 (So.) DBButterfield, Dave #34 (So.) DBCoccia, Tom #98 (So.) DECostanzo, Rich #77 (So.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095919-0001-0001", "contents": "1973 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Roster\nOTCoyle, Mike (So.) PKCrenshaw, Marvin #70 (Jr.) OTDamkroger, Maury #46 (Sr.) FBDavis, Tony #25 (So.) IBDoak, Mark #71 (Jr.) OTDuda, Rich #50 (Jr.) CDutton, John #90 (Sr.) DTEichelberger, Percy #44 (So.) LBEverett, Earl #9 (So.) QBFischer, Pat #33 (Sr.) DBGissler, Dean #97 (So.) DTGoeller, Dave #28 (Sr.) IBHegener, Stan #64 (Jr.) GHeiser, Tom #27 (So.) WBHenrichs, Dennis #75 (Jr.) OTHeydorff, Mark #22 (Jr.) DB", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095919-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Roster\nHill, Jeff #36 (Jr.) SEHoins, Steve #52 (So.) OTHumm, Dave #12 (Jr.) QBHunter, Ken #78 (Jr.) MGIverson, Dave #42 (So.) LBJohnson, Ardell #29 (Jr.) DBJohnson, Doug #92 (Sr.) DTJones, Chuck #35 (So.) DBKyros, George #18 (Jr.) DBLackovic, Tim #80 (Jr.) SELee, John #69 (So.) MGLemmerond, Rick #8 (So.) QBLeonardi, Chad #61 (Jr.) GLessman, Randy #6 (So.) DELingenfelter, Bob #73 (So.) OTLloyd, Jerry #99 (So.) MGLongwell, Brent #86 (Sr.) TELuck, Terry #11 (So.) QBManstedt, Steve #82 (Sr.) DEMartin, Bob #87 (So.) DBMazon, Frank #31 (So.) DBMills, George (So.) DTMonds, Wonder #26 (So.) DBMoran, Jeff #30 (Jr.) IBMushinskie, Larry #88 (So.) TENelson, Bob #57 (Jr.) LBNelson, Chris #37 (Jr.) TENorrie, Rod #94 (Jr.) DTOffner, Mike #95 (So.) DEO'Holleran, Mike #38 (Sr.) FBO'Leary, John #14 (So.) IBPanneton, Rick #81 (Jr.) TEPate, Tom #68 (Jr.) DEPavelka, Dennis #74 (Jr.) OT", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 918]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095919-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Roster\nPeterson, Matt #39 (So.) TEPillen, Clete #7 (So.) LBPowell, Ralph #41 (Sr.) FBPruitt, Ron #91 (So.) DTPumphrey, Jeff #3 (So.) SERay, Glen #10 (So.) QBRedding, Dave #96 (So.) DERevelle, Bob #84 (Jr.) SERogers, Terry #40 (Jr.) DBRunty, Steve #13 (Sr.) QBRutan, Bob #55 (So.) DERuud, Tom #45 (Jr.) LBSanger, Rich #43 (Sr.) P/PKSchmidt, Dan #51 (So.) GSchmit, Bob #23 (Sr.) LBSchneider, Jeff #1 (So.) DBSeeton, Jim #16 (So.) DBShamblin, Dave #85 (So.) SESledge, Jim #58 (So.) OTStarkebaum, John #48 (Jr.) DBStuberg, Wayne #59 (So.) CTalley, Chester #32 (So.) IBThomas, Tom #53 (Jr.) CThornton, Bob #17 (Sr.) DBThornton, Willie #65 (So.) MGVarner, Rich #56 (So.) CWestbrook, Don #21 (Jr.) WBWhite, Daryl #72 (Sr.) OTWied, Jerry #93 (So.) DTWieser, Steve #83 (Jr.) DEWolfe, Bob #76 (Sr.) OGYaralian, Zaven #15 (Sr.) DBZanetich, Nick #62 (So.) G", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 886]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095919-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, UCLA\nThe Tom Osborne era at Nebraska began in style, as the Cornhuskers exacted revenge for last year's loss to UCLA by beating the #10 Bruins in Lincoln 40-13. Nebraska jumped out to a 14-0 lead in less than 10 minutes, and though UCLA scored to come within 7, that was as close as they'd get for the rest of the game as the Blackshirts shut out the Bruins entirely in the 2nd half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 61], "content_span": [62, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095919-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, NC State\nIt was touch and go for Nebraska as the Cornhuskers fought to stay even with NC State until blowing the game wide open in the 4th quarter with three straight unanswered touchdowns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095919-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Wisconsin\nWisconsin fought Nebraska to a 7-7 tie entering the 4th quarter before pulling ahead by 3 on a field goal with 8 minutes to go. The Cornhuskers replied with a touchdown, which was promptly answered by a 96-yard Badger kickoff return to put Nebraska behind again. Nebraska again responded, marching 83 yards in just seven plays to score again for the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095919-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Minnesota\nMinnesota QB Tony Dungy managed to get a 1st-quarter touchdown, and that would be the last time the Golden Gophers saw the scoreboard, as the first Minnesota sellout since 1960 (with help from the numerous traveling Cornhusker fans) watched Nebraska dismantle the Gophers 48-7.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095919-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Missouri\nMissouri handed coach Tom Osborne his first career defeat as Nebraska's 2-point conversion for the win with 1:00 remaining was intercepted, marking the first time Coach Osborne decided to forgo the tie and take a shot at the win, an approach later repeated to much attention in the 1984 Orange Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095919-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Kansas\nKansas avoided the 1st half shutout on a recovered Nebraska fumble converted into a field goal. The Jayhawks then came out from halftime and continued to hold off Nebraska while putting in their own touchdown late in the 3rd to pull ahead, though the PAT was blocked. Less than five minutes later, Nebraska responded with a field goal to pull ahead by 1 point, where a tie would have existed had the previous Kansas PAT attempt been good. From there on out, the Blackshirts held on for the rest of the quarter to preserve the razor thin winning margin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 63], "content_span": [64, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095919-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma State\nWith 2:23 remaining in a fierce contest, no scoring since the previous quarter, and a 17-17 tie still on the board, Nebraska opted to forgo the easy field goal and instead attempted to go for it on 4th and goal inside the Cowboys' one yard line, but the attempt failed, and both teams were forced to settle for a tie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 71], "content_span": [72, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095919-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Colorado\nColorado never really had a chance in this game, as Nebraska rolled out to an early 28-3 lead by the half. The final Cornhusker touchdown was a change of plans, after a field goal setup was moved towards the end zone due to a Colorado penalty, and Nebraska instead decided to run one in. The 4th quarter Buffalo touchdown was made on a trick play against Nebraska reserves who had entered the game to mop up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095919-0012-0000", "contents": "1973 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Iowa State\nOnce again, Nebraska ran out to a substantial early lead and coasted in for the win, as the game was essentially decided when the Cornhuskers put in a 67-yard pass touchdown just before the half. Nebraska reserves entered the game in the 4th and put in a touchdown to further pad the win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 67], "content_span": [68, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095919-0013-0000", "contents": "1973 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Kansas State\nKansas State never was in this game, as the Cornhuskers blasted the Wildcats for a 23-0 1st half lead and never really slowed down, rolling up 612 yards of total offense along the way. The performances of Nebraska IB Tony Davis and IB John O'Leary on the day marked the first time two Cornhusker runners exceeded 100 yards in the same game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 69], "content_span": [70, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095919-0014-0000", "contents": "1973 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma\nOklahoma completely dismantled Nebraska in every way, as the Cornhuskers were shut out for the first time since 1968, an indignity that would not be repeated until Miami defeated Nebraska in the 1992 Orange Bowl eighteen years later. The Cornhuskers were held to just 74 ground yards and 174 yards of total offense as the Nebraska offense never crossed mid-field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095919-0015-0000", "contents": "1973 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Game summaries, Texas\nSWC champion Texas put up the first points early in the 1st quarter with a field goal, but never saw the scoreboard again as Nebraska fought back to a 3-3 tie by the half, and then shut down the Longhorns' efforts afterwards by blocking a field goal and recovering a Texas fumble along the way to creating a comfortable lead by the end of the 3rd quarter. It was the Huskers fifth consecutive bowl victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 62], "content_span": [63, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095919-0016-0000", "contents": "1973 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, 1973 Team Players in the NFL\nThe 1973 Nebraska Cornhuskers seniors selected in the 1974 NFL Draft:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 69], "content_span": [70, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095919-0017-0000", "contents": "1973 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, 1973 Team Players in the NFL\nThe 1973 Nebraska Cornhuskers juniors selected in the following year's 1975 NFL Draft:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 69], "content_span": [70, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095919-0018-0000", "contents": "1973 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, 1973 Team Players in the NFL\nThe 1973 Nebraska Cornhuskers sophomores selected in the 1976 NFL Draft:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 69], "content_span": [70, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095919-0019-0000", "contents": "1973 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, 1973 Team Players in the NFL, NFL and Pro Players\nThe following is a list of 1973 Nebraska playerswho joined a professional team as draftees or free agents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 90], "content_span": [91, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095920-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Nemuro earthquake\nThe 1973 Nemuro earthquake, also known as the Nemuro-Oki (Nemuro Peninsula Offshore) earthquake (Japanese: \u6839\u5ba4\u534a\u5cf6\u6c96\u5730\u9707, Hepburn: Nemurohant\u014d oki jishin) in scientific literature, occurred on June 17 at 11:55 local time. It stuck with an epicenter just off the Nemuro Peninsula in northern Hokkaid\u014d, Japan. It measured 7.7 to 7.9 on the moment magnitude scale (Mw\u202f), 8.1 on the tsunami magnitude scale (Mt\u202f) and 7.4 on the Japan Meteorological Agency magnitude scale (MJMA\u202f).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095920-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Nemuro earthquake\nThe earthquake had a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe) and measured level 5 on the JMA intensity scale. It also triggered a tsunami with observed heights of nearly 3 meters hitting the coastal regions of Hokkaid\u014d and causing damage. No deaths were recorded but twenty-seven individuals suffered injuries, mostly due to falling objects. Total damage from this earthquake is estimated to be US$5 million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095920-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Nemuro earthquake, Historical seismicity\nThe Nemuro-Oki earthquake itself refers to large historical earthquakes that have struck near the Nemuro Peninsula on the island of Hokkaid\u014d in Japan. Earthquakes here are of the megathrust type that occurr along subduction zones when the Pacific Plate dives beneath the Okhotsk Sea Plate along the Kuril Trench, located off the east coast of Hokkaid\u014d and Kuril Islands. Subduction rate along the trench is estimated at 8 cm/yr. An average recurrence interval of 72.2 years span between each large earthquake along this section of the subduction zone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 45], "content_span": [46, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095920-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Nemuro earthquake, Historical seismicity\nIn 1894, a large subduction megathrust earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 8.3 Mw\u202f ruptured a 200 km section of the subduction zone. It generated a tsunami with wave heights of up to 4 meters slamming into the coast between 20 minutes to one hour after the earthquake. Both the earthquake and tsunami damaged many homes and caused ground fissures. The waves washed away many homes, a few vessels and bridges. At least one person was killed and some residents were injured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 45], "content_span": [46, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095920-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Nemuro earthquake, Earthquake\nThe 1973 magnitude 7.9 earthquake stuck at a depth of 48 km beneath the Nemuro Peninsula. A rectangular rupture patch is located between that of the 1952 Tokachi and 1969 Kuril Islands earthquakes was the source area of the 1973 event. This section of the subduction zone was previously designated a seismic gap due to the lack of seismic activity throughout the last 80 years, and it thought to be capable of a magnitude 8.0 quake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095920-0004-0001", "contents": "1973 Nemuro earthquake, Earthquake\nBecause of its location, this event was believed to be a repeat of the 1894 earthquake, but was later discovered that the 1973 quake had only rupture the eastern half. Therefore, the 1973 event was a much smaller event than in 1894. An 80 km-long section in the subduction zone between the 1973 and 1952 rupture zones still exist, with the possibility of generating a large earthquake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095920-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Nemuro earthquake, Earthquake\nFocal mechanism analysis revealed that this earthquake was the result of thrust faulting along the subduction plate boundary. Waveform inversion on teleseismic seismographs show that the earthquake ruptured up, towards the trench, or in a south\u2013southeast direction. Maximum slip along the fault is estimated at 2.7 meters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095920-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Nemuro earthquake, Tsunami\nImmediately after the earthquake, at 13:06 local time, the Sapporo District Meteorological Observatory broadcast a tsunami warning to residents along the Pacific coast of Hokkaid\u014d. Residents of the T\u014dhoku region would receive a tsunami warning at 13:13. The tsunami with heights ranging from 2.81 to 5.98 meters struck the coast a few hours later at 15:20, causing damage to about 300 buildings. No deaths were reported from the tsunami.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 31], "content_span": [32, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095920-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Nemuro earthquake, Tsunami\nDue to the advanced tsunami warning systems in place and frequent tsunami and earthquake drills in the region, impact from the tsunami was minimal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 31], "content_span": [32, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095920-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Nemuro earthquake, Aftershocks\nSeven days after the mainshock, a magnitude (Ms\u202f) 7.1 earthquake struck west of the Nemuro Peninsula at a depth of 50 km. It had a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII or a JMA intensity of 5, lasting for less than a minute. In the community of Goryachiy Plyazh and Golovnino on Kunashir Island, it was felt stronger than the mainshock. Some frightened residents jumped from the windows of their homes. One person was injured and some minor damage was reported in Kushiro, Hokkaid\u014d.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 35], "content_span": [36, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095920-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Nemuro earthquake, Aftershocks, 1975 Kuril Islands earthquake\nThe 1975 Kuril Islands earthquake which struck on June 10, nearly two years after the 1973 event was also considered an aftershock. It ruptured the shallow interface of the Kuril Sunduction Zone with a focal depth of 15 km, between the rupture zones of the 1973 and 1969 earthquakes. Although it had a smaller surface wave magnitude and JMA magnitude of 7.1, it generated tsunami run-ups higher than the mainshock, at 5.5 meters. Further analysis of event data has enabled the calculation for the moment magnitude and tsunami magnitude of the earthquake. Two studies in 1978 and 1977 calculated the magnitude at Mw\u202f 7.5\u20137.6 and 7.7 respectively. Estimating the tsunami magnitude of the event using tsunami data places this event at Mt\u202f 7.9. The 1975 aftershock is considered a tsunami earthquake due to the disproportionately large tsunami that it generated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 66], "content_span": [67, 925]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095921-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Nemzeti Bajnoks\u00e1g I (women's handball)\nThe 1973 Nemzeti Bajnoks\u00e1g I is the 23rd season of the Nemzeti Bajnoks\u00e1g I, Hungary's premier Handball league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095921-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Nemzeti Bajnoks\u00e1g I (women's handball), Final list\n* M: Matches W: Win D: Drawn L: Lost G+: Goals earned G-: Goals got P: Point", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095922-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Nepal plane hijack\nThe 1973 Nepal plane hijack (also known as the Biratnagar Plane Hijack) was the first plane hijacking in the history of Nepal. Girija Prasad Koirala planned the hijack to steal money that the Nepal Rastra Bank was having transported from Biratnagar to Kathmandu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095922-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Nepal plane hijack\nThe main motive for this incident was to gather funds for an armed revolution to restore multi-party democracy by overthrowing the party-less Panchayat system headed by the King in Nepal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095922-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Nepal plane hijack, Aircraft\nThe aircraft was a DHC-6 Twin Otter (Registration: 9N-ABB) and was delivered to Royal Nepal Airlines in 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095922-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Nepal plane hijack, Hijackers\nGirija Prasad Koirala was the main architect of this hijack. He wanted an armed fight for democracy in Nepal, but did not have sufficient funds. He coordinated with another democratic fighter Durga Subedi. Subedi was recently released from prison, where he read about the hijacking of Japan Airlines Flight 351. He came up with the idea of a plane hijack to collect the funds by carrying out a similar hijack. They were tipped from Madan Aryal who worked at Nepal Rastra Bank in Biratnagar and knew that the bank would transport Indian currency by plane through Biratnagar. Nagendra Dhungel and Basanta Bhattarai joined the team to hijack the plane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 684]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095922-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Nepal plane hijack, Crew and passengers\nThree crew members and 19 passengers were on board the flight, including actress Mala Sinha.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095922-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Nepal plane hijack, Hijacking\nOn 10 June 1973, Nepal Rastra Bank planned to transport Indian Rupees from Arrariya, India to Kathmandu via Biratnagar. It was transported to Biratnagar by land, and was supposed then go to Kathmandu by air. At 8:30 NPT, the 19-seater Royal Nepal Airlines Twin Otter passenger aircraft took off for Kathmandu from Biratnagar. The three hijackers hijacked the within five minutes of take-off. They forced the pilot to land the plane in Forbesganj, Bihar, in a grass field and took 3 million Indian rupees that belonged to the Nepalese government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095922-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Nepal plane hijack, Hijacking\nThe hijackers who boarded the plane were Basanta Bhattarai, Durga Subedi, and Nagendra Prasad Dhungel. Girija Prasad Koirala and Chakra Prasad Bastola were involved in transportation of the loot to Darjeeling. They hid it in the house of B. L. Sharma, an acquaintance of BP Koirala. Ganesh Sharma, an Indian national, arrived with a jeep to the landing site. Other members involved who were at the field in Forbesganj were Binod Aryal, Sushil Koirala , Manahari Baral, Rajendra Dahal and Biru Lama. Three different vehicles were used in transporting the three boxes of cash to Darjeeling.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 624]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095922-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Nepal plane hijack, Weapons used\nThe pistols used were illegal and had no license. Two 32 revolvers and one 36 grenade bomb were used..", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095922-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Nepal plane hijack, Aftermath\nThe plane took off immediately with the passengers after the boxes of cash were taken out. The hijackers went first to Darjeeling, then to Banaras and finally to Mumbai. The hijackers occasionally made trips to New Delhi to meet BP Koirala, the then President of Nepali Congress. However, within a year all hijackers were arrested in India except Nagendra Dhungel. After the 1975 Emergency in India ended, they were released on bail.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095922-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Nepal plane hijack, Aftermath\nThe aircraft flew in Nepalese skies for 41 years, before the crash of Nepal Airlines Flight 183 in 2014. The parts of the aircraft were brought to Nepalganj and were put together again and are currently being exhibited in the BP Museum in Sundarijal, Kathmandu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095922-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 Nepal plane hijack, Aftermath\nIn 2017, a political and historical documentary about this incident titled Hijacking for Democracy was screened at the Nepal Tourism Board in Bhrikutimandap, Kathmandu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095922-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 Nepal plane hijack, Controversies\nIt has been alleged that the money, meant to be used in the struggle for democracy, was misused. BP Koirala himself suspected that the money was misused.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 38], "content_span": [39, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095923-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Nevada Wolf Pack football team\nThe 1973 Nevada Wolf Pack football team represented the University of Nevada, Reno during the 1973 NCAA Division II football season. Nevada competed as an independent. The Wolf Pack were led by fifth-year head coach Jerry Scattini and played their home games at Mackay Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095924-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 New Brunswick electoral redistribution\nThe 1973 New Brunswick electoral redistribution was the most radical redistribution of electoral districts in the history of New Brunswick, Canada. Under this redistribution, New Brunswick changed from a bloc voting electoral system to first past the post. As the number of members per district had been re-evaluated as recently as 1967, the number of members was not changed, and multi-member districts were simply subdivided to form single-member districts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095925-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 New England Patriots season\nThe 1973 New England Patriots season was the franchise's 4th season in the National Football League and 14th overall. The patriots ended the season with a record of five wins and nine losses and a third place finish in the AFC East Division. It was the first year under head coach and general manager Chuck Fairbanks, hired in January after six seasons as head coach of the Oklahoma Sooners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095925-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 New England Patriots season\nSelections in the 1973 NFL Draft included John Hannah, Sam Cunningham, Ray Hamilton, and Darryl Stingley. The assistant coaches on offense included future NFL head coaches Ron Erhardt, Sam Rutigliano,and Red Miller.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095926-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 New Hampshire Wildcats football team\nThe 1973 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 1973 NCAA Division II football season. In its second year under head coach Bill Bowes, the team compiled a 4\u20135 record (2\u20133 against conference opponents) and tied for fourth place out of six teams in the Yankee Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095927-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 New Jersey State Senate election\nThe 1973 New Jersey State Senate Senate elections were held on November 6. The result of the elections were large gains for the Democratic Party, which won control of the Senate. The party picked up twelve seats. This election marked the first time since 1967 that Democrats controlled the State Senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 341]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095927-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 New Jersey State Senate election\nThe election coincided with Brendan Byrne's landslide re-election over Republican Charles W. Sandman Jr. The election also took place amidst the height of the Watergate scandal, just weeks after the Saturday Night Massacre.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095927-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 New Jersey State Senate election\nThis was also the first New Jersey Senate election held using single-member districts, as the state completed its long transition following the 1964 Reynolds v. Sims decision. As of 2021, it remains the largest single change in seats since single-member districts were adopted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095927-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 New Jersey State Senate election, Background, Redistricting\nUntil 1965, the New Jersey State Senate was composed of 21 Senators, with each county electing one Senator. After the U.S. Supreme Court, in Reynolds v. Sims (more commonly known as One Man, One Vote), required redistricting by state legislatures for congressional districts to keep represented populations equal, as well as requiring both houses of state legislatures to have districts drawn that contained roughly equal populations, and to perform redistricting when needed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095927-0003-0001", "contents": "1973 New Jersey State Senate election, Background, Redistricting\nIn 1965, the Senate was increased from 21 members to 29 members, and larger counties were given more than one seat, and some smaller counties shared one or two Senators. The map was changed again in 1967, and again in 1971, as the state adjusted to the one man, one vote ruling.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095927-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 New Jersey State Senate election, Background, Redistricting\nFor the first time, the state was to be divided into 40 legislative districts, with each district electing one State Senator and two members of the General Assembly. The districts were drawn first to achieve a population balance (districts were drawn to be within +/- 4% of each other), and then to be as geographically compact as possible.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095927-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 New Jersey State Senate election, Background, Redistricting\nFor the most part, incumbent Senators were given their own districts in which to run, with one exception. Senators William J. Bate and Joseph Hirkala, both of Passaic County (District 14), were re-districted into the same district, numbered 34. Bate successfully ran for Assembly rather than challenge Hirkala.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 64], "content_span": [65, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095927-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 New Jersey State Senate election, Summary of results by State Senate District, Gains and Losses\nTwo incumbent Republican Senators were elected to Congress in 1972 and resigned their State Senate seats in January 1973 to take their seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. Both seats were won by Democrats:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 100], "content_span": [101, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095927-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 New Jersey State Senate election, Summary of results by State Senate District, Gains and Losses\nOne incumbent Republican Senator was defeated for renomination in the June primary and Republicans held that seat:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 100], "content_span": [101, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095927-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 New Jersey State Senate election, Summary of results by State Senate District, Open seats\nFive incumbent Republican Senators did not seek re-election in 1973, and Democrats won four of those seats:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 94], "content_span": [95, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095927-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 New Jersey State Senate election, Summary of results by State Senate District, Open seats\nFive incumbent Democratic Senators did not seek re-election in 1973. Democrats won four of those seats, and the fifth was one by an Independent:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 94], "content_span": [95, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095927-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 New Jersey State Senate election, District 3, Republican primary, Campaign\nTurner was removed from his seat on June 28 after his conviction for conspiracy to place 6,500 amphetamine tablets in the home of Kenneth A. Gewertz, the Democratic Assemblyman from the district. He was sentenced to five years in prison.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 79], "content_span": [80, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095927-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 New Jersey State Senate election, District 3, Republican primary, Campaign\nThe conviction barred Turner from holding or seeking any state office. Nevertheless, Turner remained in the race, saying \"I intend to win, and I expect the Senate to seat me.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 79], "content_span": [80, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095927-0012-0000", "contents": "1973 New Jersey State Senate election, District 3, Republican primary, Campaign\nBecause it was too late to remove Turner from the ballot, an appeal was made to remove him, which a judge denied. The Republican Party attempted to run a write-in campaign for Gloucester Sheriff Walter Fish instead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 79], "content_span": [80, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095927-0013-0000", "contents": "1973 New Jersey State Senate election, District 30, Democratic primary, Campaign\nThe campaign pitted the Hudson County Democratic Organization, which supported Castano, against the Essex County Organization, which supported Senatore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 80], "content_span": [81, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095927-0014-0000", "contents": "1973 New Jersey State Senate election, Leadership\nDemocrats chose Frank J. Dodd as the Senate President and Matthew Feldman as Majority Leader; Republicans named the outgoing Senate President, Alfred Beadleston as Minority Leader.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 49], "content_span": [50, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095928-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 New Jersey gubernatorial election\nThe 1973 New Jersey gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1973. Incumbent Republican Governor William T. Cahill ran for reelection, but was defeated in the Republican primary by Charles W. Sandman Jr. In the general election, Democratic nominee Brendan Byrne defeated Sandman with 66.67% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095928-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 New Jersey gubernatorial election\nAs of 2021, this remains the largest popular victory in the history of New Jersey by a Democratic candidate. Byrne carried 20 of New Jersey's 21 counties, with Sandman only winning his native Cape May. This is the most recent gubernatorial election in which the Democratic nominee won Morris and Sussex counties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095929-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 New Mexico Lobos football team\nThe 1973 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 1973 NCAA Division I football season. In their sixth season under head coach Rudy Feldman, the Lobos compiled a 4\u20137 record (3\u20134 against WAC opponents) and were outscored by a total of 287 to 257.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095929-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 New Mexico Lobos football team\nRich Diller, Don Woods, and Don Hubbard were the team captains. The team's statistical leaders included Don Woods with 869 passing yards, 971 rushing yards, and 66 points scored, and Paul Labarrere with 374 receiving yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095930-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 New Mexico State Aggies football team\nThe 1973 New Mexico State Aggies football team was an American football team that represented New Mexico State University in the Missouri Valley Conference during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. In their first year under head coach Jim Bradley, the Aggies compiled a 5\u20136 record. The team played its home games at Memorial Stadium in Las Cruces, New Mexico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095931-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 New Orleans Saints season\nThe 1973 New Orleans Saints season was the team's seventh as a member of the National Football League (NFL). They improved on their previous season's output of 2\u201311\u20131, winning five games. The team failed to qualify for the playoffs for the seventh consecutive season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095931-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 New Orleans Saints season\nNew Orleans made a disastrous trade in January, dealing the No. 2 overall selection in the 1973 NFL Draft to the Baltimore Colts for defensive end Billy Newsome. The Colts used the traded pick to select LSU quarterback Bert Jones, who guided the team to three consecutive AFC East division championships from 1975 to 1977.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095931-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 New Orleans Saints season\nJ.D. Roberts, who became the Saints' second head coach midway through the 1970 season, was fired August 27, two days after a 31\u20136 loss to the New England Patriots in the fourth exhibition game. Roberts was replaced by offensive backfield coach John North. Roberts ended his Saints tenure with a 7\u201325\u20133 mark.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095931-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 New Orleans Saints season\nThe Saints opened the year with a 62\u20137 loss to the Atlanta Falcons at home. The first quarter of that game was scoreless. Eight days later, they were destroyed on Monday Night Football by the Dallas Cowboys, 40\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095931-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 New Orleans Saints season\nThey did however hold O. J. Simpson to 74 yard on 20 carries in the team's first ever shutout, with a 13\u20130 win over the Buffalo Bills. Simpson went on to break the single season rushing record in yardage that year with 2,003.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095932-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 New Orleans mayoral election\nThe New Orleans mayoral election of 1973 resulted in the reelection of Moon Landrieu to his second term as mayor of New Orleans. The primary round of voting was held on November 10; no runoff was required.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095932-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 New Orleans mayoral election\nThe 1973 elections were the last municipal elections in New Orleans held using the closed primary system. In 1975, Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards signed a bill which changed all elections, except those for president, to an open primary system where all candidates regardless of party run on the same ballot. If one candidate does not receive an absolute majority (defined as 50 percent plus one vote), the top two finishers contest a runoff election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095933-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 New South Wales state election\nElections for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly were held in the state of New South Wales, Australia, on Saturday 17 November 1973. The result was a win for the Liberal-Country Party coalition under Sir Robert Askin, which had been in office since 1965. As of 2019, this was the last time the Coalition won a fourth-term in New South Wales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095933-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 New South Wales state election, Issues\nThe Legislative Assembly had been enlarged by three members to 99 adding the seats of Woronora, Penrith and Ku-ring-gai.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095933-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 New South Wales state election, Issues\nThe election was held just eleven months after the Liberal/Country coalition lost the federal election after 23 years in power. Askin called an early election to take advantage of the increasing economic issues which had been attributed to the Whitlam Labor government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095933-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 New South Wales state election, Issues\nLeader of the Legislative Council Neville Wran, who would become Premier at the next election moved from the unelected Legislative Council to the Legislative Assembly after the late retirement of Clarrie Earl in the seat of Bass Hill.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095933-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 New South Wales state election, Results\nThe Democratic Labor Party won its only lower house seat at the 1973 election following the Liberal Party's incumbent for the northern Sydney seat of Gordon \u2014 Harry Jago failed to nominate in time. Conservative voters were urged to vote for the DLP candidate, Kevin Harrold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095933-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 New South Wales state election, Results\nNew South Wales state election, 17 November 1973\u200aLegislative Assembly << 1971\u20131976 >>", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095934-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 New Year Honours\nThe New Year Honours 1973 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 1973 to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095935-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 New Year Honours (New Zealand)\nThe 1973 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 1972 and the beginning of 1973, and were announced on 1 January 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095935-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 New Year Honours (New Zealand)\nThe recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095936-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 New York City Marathon\nThe 1973 New York City Marathon was the 4th edition of the New York City Marathon and took place in New York City on 4 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095937-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 New York City bomb plot\nThe 1973 New York City bomb plot was a plan by the Palestinian militant group Black September to detonate three car bombs in New York City at the same time Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir arrived there in March 1973. The bombs failed to explode, but the main suspect, Khalid Duhham Al-Jawary, was not caught until January 1991. The attempted attack was the first such Black September operation within the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095937-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 New York City bomb plot, Background\nBlack September was formed in 1970, after the Black September conflict between Palestinians and Jordanians erupted in Jordan that same year. In September 1972 it caught world attention with the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes and coaches at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. Israel soon responded with the Wrath of God campaign. In early March 1973, the group attacked the Saudi embassy in Khartoum, killing the U.S. Ambassador and Deputy Chief of Mission as well as the Belgian Charg\u00e9 d'affaires.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095937-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 New York City bomb plot, Plot, Planning\nOn January 12, 1973, Khalid Duhham Al-Jawary, described in a federal warrant as a 27-year-old Iraqi linked to Black September but self-described as a Palestinian who grew up in Jordan, flew through Montreal to Boston, and then on to New York City. On January 17 the FBI, acting on a tip received in Tel Aviv, interviewed Al-Jawary about his activities. Al-Jawary claimed to be in flight training at Teterboro Airport, and would leave a month to become a commercial pilot in the Mideast. During his time in New York, Al-Jawary became friendly with a woman named Carol, and used trips to Manhattan with her son Todd in order to reconnoiter targets without arousing suspicion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 718]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095937-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 New York City bomb plot, Plot, Car bombs\nJust days after the Khartoum killings, around March 4, 1973, Al-Jawary took three rented cars rigged with explosives and placed them around various Israeli targets in the city; one at Fifth Avenue and 47th Street at the First Israel Bank and Trust company, another at Fifth Avenue and 43rd Street at an Israel Discount Bank, and a third at El-Al's cargo terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 45], "content_span": [46, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095937-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 New York City bomb plot, Plot, Car bombs\nThe bombs consisted of gasoline, propane tanks, and Semtex, as well as batteries and blasting caps. The two cars on Fifth Avenue had alarm clocks for timing the detonators, whereas the one at JFK, two times as powerful, utilized an advanced electronic timer known as an \"e-cell\". In addition to the explosives, someone had placed Black September propaganda in the cars, concealed in Hebrew language newspapers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 45], "content_span": [46, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095937-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 New York City bomb plot, Plot, Car bombs\nAccording to a Federal agent at the time, the explosives were supposed to detonate at noon on March 4 with the arrival of Prime Minister Meir in the city. However, the bombs never detonated, a failure which the FBI ascribed at the time to \"an error in the circuitry system.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 45], "content_span": [46, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095937-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 New York City bomb plot, Discovery\nAccording to an Associated Press investigation released in 2009, the National Security Agency had intercepted an encrypted message sent from official Iraqi diplomatic communications in the United States to the Iraqi foreign ministry in Baghdad (and then the Palestine Liberation Organization), which revealed the plot and the bombs' locations. At 7:15 pm on March 6, officials from the FBI and New York Police Department started a search for the car bombs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095937-0006-0001", "contents": "1973 New York City bomb plot, Discovery\nAll three cars were found: the two on Fifth Avenue had been towed and impounded at Pier 56 on March 5, and subsequently discovered on March 7 by their rental agency, while the car at the airport was found early in the morning on March 7 and disabled by NYPD bomb squad member Terence McTigue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095937-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 New York City bomb plot, Discovery\nAccording to the FBI, the detonation of one of the bombs by police caused a fireball 50 to 75 feet high and 25 feet wide, creating a potential fatality zone of 100 yards that could have killed hundreds. They soon issued a warrant for the arrest of the main suspect, Al-Jawary, but also stated publicly at the time, \"It would have been a pretty tough job for one man.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095937-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 New York City bomb plot, Aftermath\nIn the immediate aftermath of the failed attack the FBI launched a massive investigation for the case, codenamed Tribomb. Three hundred FBI agents took part, recovering 60 fingerprints identified as those of Al-Jawary and conducting hundreds of interviews. Despite immediately issuing a warrant for the arrest of Al-Jawary, he managed to escape the country, but in 1991, while flying from Iraq to Tunis for the funeral of Abu Iyad, he was detained in Rome for use of a false Jordanian passport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095937-0008-0001", "contents": "1973 New York City bomb plot, Aftermath\nA few months later Italian authorities handed over custody to the FBI, who flew Al-Jawary to stand trial in Brooklyn. In April 1993, he was sentenced to 30 years in prison. Al-Jawary was released on February 19, 2009 from the U.S. Federal prison system and handed over to U.S. immigration officials.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095938-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 New York City hostage incident\nThe 1973 New York City hostage incident was a 47 hour incident at John and Al's Sporting Goods after a botched robbery and murder of a New York City Police Department officer, lasting from January 19 to January 21, 1973. Eleven people were held hostage by four men in Bushwick, Brooklyn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095938-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 New York City hostage incident, Incident\nPolice responded to an attempted robbery by four Sunni Muslims looking for guns, rifles, pistols and ammunition for \"a holy crusade\". There was a three-hour shootout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095938-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 New York City hostage incident, Incident\nThe gunmen were Shulab Abdur Raheem, 24 years old; Dawd A. Rahman, 22; Yusef Abdallah Almussadig, 23, and Salih Ali Abdullah, 26.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095938-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 New York City hostage incident, Incident\nIn 1974, their court case went to the New York Supreme Court in Brooklyn. The defense contended that the four men held up the store in January because they feared attacks by their rivals, the Black Muslims, because the day before the robbery, seven Sunni Muslims were killed in a house in Washington.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095938-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 New York City hostage incident, Incident\nA jury found them guilty of 41 counts, including murder, kidnapping, and robbery.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095938-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 New York City hostage incident, Legacy\nThe hostage crisis was a turning point in the New York City Police Department's approach to hostage situations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095938-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 New York City hostage incident, Legacy\nInstead of brute force, the police used psychology, firearm discipline and patience to end the siege. These were techniques that were then codified in the department's hostage-negotiating training program.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095938-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 New York City hostage incident, Parole\nIn 1998, the New York State Board of Parole released Abdulah Almussudug. The public was not yet aware he had been released when he died in 2003.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095938-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 New York City hostage incident, Parole\nThe convicted killer, Shuaib A. Raheem, was released on parole from the Eastern Correctional Facility in Napanoch, N.Y., in 2010 after serving 35 years in prison. He was 60 years old at the time of his release.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095938-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 New York City hostage incident, Parole\nIn October 2020, Salih Abdullah died of a stroke he suffered at his 14th parole hearing. He was 71 years old and had served more than forty years in prison.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095939-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 New York City mayoral election\nThe New York City mayoral election of 1973 occurred on Tuesday, November 6, 1973, with the Democratic candidate, New York City Comptroller Abraham Beame winning the mayoralty with a decisive majority amongst a highly divided field.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095939-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 New York City mayoral election\nBeame, a Democrat, also ran on the Civil Service ballot line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095939-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 New York City mayoral election\nBeame received a decisive 56.49% of the vote citywide. Beame also swept all five boroughs, breaking 60% of the vote in Brooklyn, winning majorities in Queens and the Bronx, and winning with pluralities in Manhattan and Staten Island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095939-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 New York City mayoral election\nBeame's distant but closest competitor was the Republican nominee, state senator John Marchi, who received 16.07% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095939-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 New York City mayoral election\nFinishing in third was the Liberal Party nominee, Assemblyman Albert H. Blumenthal, who received 15.40%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095939-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 New York City mayoral election\nFinishing in a distant fourth was the Conservative Party nominee, Congressman Mario Biaggi, who received 10.96%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095939-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 New York City mayoral election\nBeame defeated his nearest competitor by a landslide 40.42% Democratic margin of victory and was sworn into office in January 1974, replacing outgoing Liberal Party Mayor John Lindsay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095939-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 New York City mayoral election, Results\nnote: All the candidates except Marchi had run in the Democratic primary. Candidates votes on their second ballot lines included above were: Beame-Civil Service & Fusion -67,277; Marchi-Integrity - 14,271; Blumenthal - Good Government - 29, 335; Biaggi - Safe City - 8,010. Other vote includes 8,818 Fran Youngstein - Free Libertarian Party; 3,601 Rasheed Storey - Communist; 2,282 Norman Oliver - Socialist Workers; 2,000 Anton Chaiken -Labor; 1,762 John Emanuel - Socialist Labor", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 44], "content_span": [45, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095940-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 New York Cosmos season\nThe 1973 New York Cosmos season was the third season for the New York Cosmos in the now-defunct North American Soccer League. In the Cosmos' third year of existence, the club finished 2nd in the Eastern Division and 3rd in the overall league table. In the playoffs, the Cosmos were defeated in their semifinal match by the Dallas Tornado.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095940-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 New York Cosmos season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095940-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 New York Cosmos season, Results, Regular season\nPld = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, D = Draws, GF = Goals For, GA = Goals Against, Pts = Points6 points for a win, 3 points for a draw, 0 points for a loss, 1 point for each goal scored (up to three per game).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095941-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 New York Film Critics Circle Awards\nThe 39th New York Film Critics Circle Awards, 27 January 1974, honored the best filmmaking of 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095942-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 New York Giants season\nThe 1973 New York Giants season was the franchise's 49th season in the National Football League (NFL). The season saw the Giants attempting to improve on their 8\u20136 record from 1972. However, the Giants suffered one of the worst seasons in franchise history, winning only two games, while losing eleven, and tying one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095942-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 New York Giants season\nThe two wins were against the Houston Oilers and the St. Louis Cardinals while the tie was against archrival Philadelphia in week two. That was the last Giants game at Yankee Stadium, which underwent a multi-year renovation, requiring a temporary move to the Yale Bowl in Connecticut. Palmer Stadium at Princeton University in New Jersey had also been considered.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095942-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 New York Giants season\nThe Giants' two wins in 1973 equaled the second fewest the team had ever posted and it was their worst record since 1966 (1\u201312\u20131). Traded after the 1971 season, former quarterback Fran Tarkenton led the Minnesota Vikings (12\u20132) to theNFC title; they defeated the Giants 31\u20137 in the Yale Bowl in the regular season finale.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095942-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 New York Giants season\nFifth-year head coach Alex Webster, a longtime Giant running back, was fired after the season, replaced in mid-January by Bill Arnsparger, the defensive coordinator of the two-time Super Bowl champion Miami Dolphins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095942-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 New York Giants season\nThe Giants were at the Yale Bowl again in 1974, moved to Shea Stadium in 1975 (co-tenant with the Jets, Mets, and Yankees), and to Giants Stadium in New Jersey in 1976.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095942-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 New York Giants season, Regular season\nWith Yankee Stadium undergoing refurbishment after the 1973 baseball season, the Giants played their final game there on September 23, against the Philadelphia Eagles, a 23\u201323 tie. The Giants played their final five home games that season at the Yale Bowl in New Haven, Connecticut. On November 18, they defeated the St. Louis Cardinals 27\u201313, their only victory ever recorded at Yale Bowl. They were winless in seven home games there in 1974, and moved to Shea Stadium for one season in 1975.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095943-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 New York Jets season\nThe 1973 New York Jets season was the fourteenth season for the team and the fourth in the National Football League. It began with the team trying to improve upon its 7\u20137 record from 1972 under head coach Weeb Ewbank. The Jets finished with a record of 4\u201310 in the final season under head coach Weeb Ewbank, with their only wins coming against division rivals New England and Baltimore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095943-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 New York Jets season\nThe memorandum of understanding signed by team original owner (as the New York Titans) Harry Wismer gave Shea Stadium\u2019s co-tenants, the New York Mets\u2019, exclusive use of the stadium until they had completed their season. The Jets were required to open 1973 with several road games. As the Mets had a long playoff run to the World Series, the Jets' first six games were on the road.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095943-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 New York Jets season\nThe 1973 season would be the last for legendary coach Weeb Ewbank.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095944-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 New York Mets season\nThe 1973 New York Mets season was the 12th regular season for the Mets, who played home games at Shea Stadium. Manager Yogi Berra led the team to a National League East title with an 82\u201379 record and the National League pennant, though they were defeated by the Oakland Athletics in the World Series. Their .509 winning percentage is the lowest of any pennant-winner in major league history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095944-0000-0001", "contents": "1973 New York Mets season\nHaving won only 82 games during the regular season, they, along with the 2005 San Diego Padres, qualified for the postseason with the fewest regular season wins since Major League Baseball expanded to a 162-game season in 1961, and the fewest of any team since 1885 (excluding the strike-shortened 1981 season and the 2020 season shortened by the COVID-19 pandemic). The season was well known for pitcher Tug McGraw's catchphrase \"Ya Gotta Believe!!!\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095944-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 New York Mets season, Regular season, Season highlights, Initial turmoil\nThe 1973 Mets were much improved from their \"miracle\" 1969 team. They had a group of young proven stars\u2014including Jon Matlack, Rusty Staub, John Milner, and F\u00e9lix Mill\u00e1n\u2014mixed in with veterans from the 1969 club, such as Jerry Grote, Cleon Jones, Wayne Garrett, and Bud Harrelson. Their pitching staff, led by Tom Seaver, was among the finest in baseball. But injuries hampered the Mets throughout the entire season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 77], "content_span": [78, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095944-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 New York Mets season, Regular season, Season highlights, Initial turmoil\nThe Mets got off to a 4\u20130 start to the season, and were still at first place by April 29 with a 12\u20138 record. But then, injuries to their key players caused turmoil. By July 26, the Mets were in last place, yet still only 7+1\u20442 games behind. On August 16, they were 12 games below .500, with 44 games to play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 77], "content_span": [78, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095944-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 New York Mets season, Regular season, Season highlights, Initial turmoil\nOn August 30, the Mets were in last place, with only a month left to play. However, the division was so tight-knit that the last place standing consisted of only a 6.5 game deficit. At the completion of August (one day later), the Mets were in fifth place, nine games under .500, but, in the balanced mediocrity of that year's Eastern Division, just 5+1\u20442 games out of first. The mathematical inequities of divisional play were beginning to show up. On September 11, the Mets were in fourth place, five games under .500, but just three games out. Ahead of them were the St. Louis Cardinals, Pittsburgh Pirates, and Montreal Expos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 77], "content_span": [78, 708]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095944-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 New York Mets season, Regular season, Season highlights, \"You Gotta Believe!!!\"\nWith Tug McGraw urging his teammates on and celebrating victories with what soon became the catch phrase of 1973, \"You Gotta Believe!!!\" the Mets kept zigging and zagging away from would-be tacklers, and taking an occasional side-swipe, headed for this most unlikely of pennants. Down the stretch, Yogi Berra, veteran of many a pennant race, ran four starters at the league: Tom Seaver, Jerry Koosman, Jon Matlack, and George Stone, with the suddenly unhittable McGraw coming out of the pen with boisterous - and justified - confidence. (For his last 19 games, the screwball-throwing lefty showed 12 saves, 5 wins, and an ERA of 0.88).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 84], "content_span": [85, 720]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095944-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 New York Mets season, Regular season, Season highlights, The unexpected clincher\nAfter sweeping a three-game series from the Pirates at Shea on September 21, the Mets' record stood at an even 77\u201377, but that .500 record was good enough for first place and a half-game lead. Illustrating just how dense the crowd was at the top, fifth-place Chicago was just 2+1\u20442 out. The Mets won five of their last seven to finish as National League East Division Champions. The clinching took place at Wrigley Field on October 1 as the Mets beat the Cubs 6-4 as Tom Seaver won his 19th game of 1973 and Tug McGraw make the save. The Cardinals finished second, 1+1\u20442 games behind, Pittsburgh third at 2+1\u20442, Montreal fourth at 3+1\u20442, and Chicago fifth, 5 games out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 85], "content_span": [86, 755]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095944-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 New York Mets season, Regular season, Season highlights, The unexpected clincher\nThis was the only NL East title between 1970 and 1980 not to be won by either Philadelphia Phillies or the Pittsburgh Pirates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 85], "content_span": [86, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095944-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 New York Mets season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 70], "content_span": [71, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095944-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 New York Mets season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 63], "content_span": [64, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095944-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 New York Mets season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 68], "content_span": [69, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095944-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 New York Mets season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 65], "content_span": [66, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095944-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 New York Mets season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 66], "content_span": [67, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095945-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 New York Yankees season\nThe 1973 New York Yankees season was the 71st season for the team in New York, and its 73rd season overall. The Yankees finished fourth in the American League East with a record of 80\u201382 under manager Ralph Houk, 17 games behind the division champion Baltimore Orioles. This was the last time that the Yankees finished the season below .500 until 1982. This was their last year in the \"old\" Yankee Stadium (on the south side of 161st Street), which was targeted for major reconstruction in 1974\u20131975. During this period, the Yankees shared a home field with a National League team for the third time in their history, moving into Shea Stadium for two years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 686]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095945-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 New York Yankees season, George Steinbrenner\nThe Yankees had been struggling during their years under CBS ownership, which had acquired the team in 1965. In 1972, CBS Chairman William S. Paley told team president E. Michael Burke the media company intended to sell the club. As Burke later told writer Roger Kahn, Paley offered to sell the franchise to Burke if he could find financial backing. Burke ran across Steinbrenner's name and veteran baseball executive Gabe Paul, a Cleveland-area acquaintance of Steinbrenner, helped bring the two men together.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 49], "content_span": [50, 560]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095945-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 New York Yankees season, George Steinbrenner\nOn January 3, 1973, a group of investors led by George Steinbrenner and minority partner Burke bought the Yankees from CBS for $10 million.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 49], "content_span": [50, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095945-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 New York Yankees season, George Steinbrenner\nThe announced intention was that Burke would continue to run the team as club president. But Burke later became angry when he found out that Paul had been brought in as a senior Yankee executive, crowding his authority, and quit the team presidency on April 29, 1973. (Burke remained a minority owner of the club into the following decade.) He handed in his resignation to the New York Yankees, so that he could become president of Madison Square Garden.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 49], "content_span": [50, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095945-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 New York Yankees season, George Steinbrenner\nIt would be the first of many high-profile departures by employees who crossed paths with \"The Boss.\" At the conclusion of the 1973 season, two more prominent names departed: manager Ralph Houk, who resigned and then signed to manage the Detroit Tigers; and general manager Lee MacPhail, who became president of the American League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 49], "content_span": [50, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095945-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 New York Yankees season, Regular season\nAfter the last game of the 1973 season on September 30th, fans ripped out parts of the stadium, including the seats, to take as souvenirs. The stadium would be remodeled, and reopen in 1976. On July 1st the Yankees were 45-33 and leading the American League East by four games, but were only 35-49 rest of the way.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095945-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 New York Yankees season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 73], "content_span": [74, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095945-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 New York Yankees season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 66], "content_span": [67, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095945-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 New York Yankees season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 71], "content_span": [72, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095945-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 New York Yankees season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 68], "content_span": [69, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095945-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 New York Yankees season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 69], "content_span": [70, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095946-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 New York state election\nThe 1973 New York state election was held on November 6, 1973, to elect the Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals. Besides, a $3,500,000,000 transit-bond issue was proposed by Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller, and rejected by the voters with 1,593,531 votes For and 2,210,907 votes Against it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095946-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 New York state election, Background\nChief Judge Stanley H. Fuld would reach the constitutional age limit of 70 years at the end of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095946-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 New York state election, Background\nFor the first time since the election of Frank H. Hiscock over Almet F. Jenks in 1916, the election for Chief judge was contested. For almost 60 years, all Chief Judges had been cross-endorsed by the two major parties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 40], "content_span": [41, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095946-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 New York state election, Nominations, Democratic primary\nThe Democratic State Committee met on March 12. No candidate received a majority, and the three contenders who polled more than 25% of the vote, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York Judge Jack B. Weinstein, Appellate Justice Francis T. Murphy and Supreme Court Justice Irwin R. Brownstein, were designated to run in a primary election for Chief Judge. Trial lawyer Lawrence D. Fuchsberg filed a petition to challenge the designees. The primary was held on June 5. The result was so narrow that the winner was known only after the release of the official result on June 21, Fuchsberg winning by a plurality of 755 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 61], "content_span": [62, 701]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095946-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 New York state election, Nominations, Other parties\nThe Republicans met on March 7, and nominated Charles D. Breitel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 56], "content_span": [57, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095946-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 New York state election, Nominations, Other parties\nThe Liberals met on March 10, and endorsed the Republican nominee Charles D. Breitel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 56], "content_span": [57, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095946-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 New York state election, Nominations, Other parties\nThe Conservatives nominated Supreme Court Justice James J. Leff, a registered Democrat, for Chief Judge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 56], "content_span": [57, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095947-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 New Zealand Grand Prix\nThe 1973 New Zealand Grand Prix was a race held at the Pukekohe Park Raceway on 6 January 1973. The race had 20 starters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095947-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 New Zealand Grand Prix\nIt was the 19th New Zealand Grand Prix, and doubled as the first round of the 1973 Tasman Series. Australian John McCormack won his first NZGP in his Elfin MR5 who finished ahead of Britons Allan Rollinson and Steve Thompson. The first New Zealand driver to finish was Graham McRae in the McRae GM1 who came in 4th place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095947-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 New Zealand Grand Prix\nAfter the fatal accident of Bryan Faloon the previous year, two chicanes were added to circuit in a bid to slow the cars down. One was placed down the back straight and the other was just before the main straight. These chicanes were very artificial, with them being made up of concrete kerbing, railway sleepers and tractor tyres.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095948-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 New Zealand National Soccer League\nThe 1973 New Zealand National Soccer League was the fourth season of a nationwide round-robin club competition in New Zealand football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095948-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 New Zealand National Soccer League, Promotion and relegation\nAuckland City finished last in the 1972 league, but did not enter the play-off series for a place in the 1973 league. Neither did any team from the Southern regional competition. As such, the play-offs became a simple home and away series between the winners of the northern and central regional leagues, Hamilton and Wellington Diamond United. When both ties finished in 1\u20131 draws, a replay on neutral venue was played to decide the tie. This took place at Wembley park in Wanganui, and saw WDU victorious by two goals to one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 65], "content_span": [66, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095948-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 New Zealand National Soccer League, Team performance\nChristchurch United became the first team from outside Auckland to win the title, which they did through their impressive home performance (eight wins, one draw, no losses), and amassing a league record number of points. The gap between them and second was a then-record eight points. Much of the season's excitement came immediately below Christchurch, with five teams being separated by a single point. Mount Wellington managed to just head off Auckland neighbours Blockhouse Bay on goal average. Gisborne City finally broke into the top four at the expense of Eastern Suburbs. Also on 20 points was newly promoted Wellington Diamond United, who produced the first real competitive showing in the league from a team from the capital.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 57], "content_span": [58, 793]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095948-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 New Zealand National Soccer League, Team performance\nThe long rivalry between Christchurch United and Mount Wellington was to the fore this season, but the loss of several Mount players to World Cup qualification matches hit hard, and they bwere unable to produce a performance to match the South Islanders. Blockhouse Bay's season was marred by a mid-season slimp, but they recovered well enough to finish in the top three. Gisborne left it to the last moment to record a fourth-place finish, via a controversial penalty in the dying moments of its last match of the season against Wellington City. The highlight of Gisborne's season was its away form, with only one loss on the road. Eastern Suburbs started the season very poorly and were in danger of relegation at the halfway mark with just six points. Their season was also marred off the pitch by financial problems.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 57], "content_span": [58, 878]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095948-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 New Zealand National Soccer League, Team performance\nThe bottom four teams were all strugglers from the previous season, but this time there was no Auckland City to keep them all off the bottom. Stop Out started the season and finished the season with a run of three wins at both ends of the season, but the twelve remaining matches produced only one win and three draws. Wellington City also had its moments near the top of the table, trailing Christchurch by just two points as the season neared the home straight. It then completed its campaign with a disastrous run of seven straight losses. Again New Brighton narrowly survived, but this year it would be Caversham who would go down; they had a far worse season than fellow South Islanders Christchurch United, netting a record low of just six goals in 18 matches and failing to pick up a single away point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 57], "content_span": [58, 867]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095949-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 New Zealand Open\nThe 1973 New Zealand Open, also known as Benson and Hedges Open for sponsorship reasons, was a combined men's and women's professional tennis tournament held in Auckland, New Zealand. It was an independent event, i.e. not part of the 1973 Grand Prix or 1973 World Championship Tennis circuit. The tournament was played on outdoor grass courts and was held from 8 to 14 January 1973. Onny Parun and Evonne Goolagong won the singles titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095949-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 New Zealand Open, Finals, Men's Singles\nOnny Parun defeated Patrick Proisy 4\u20136, 6\u20137, 6\u20132, 6\u20130, 7\u20136", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 44], "content_span": [45, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095949-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 New Zealand Open, Finals, Women's Doubles\nEvonne Goolagong / Janet Young defeated Pat Coleman / Marilyn Tesch 6\u20131, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 46], "content_span": [47, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095949-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 New Zealand Open, Finals, Mixed Doubles\nEvonne Goolagong / Ross Case defeated Janet Young / Dick Crealy 6\u20131, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 44], "content_span": [45, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095950-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 New Zealand rugby league season\nThe 1973 New Zealand rugby league season was the 66th season of rugby league that had been played in New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095950-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 New Zealand rugby league season, International competitions\nNew Zealand did not play any Tests after France cancelled their planned tour of New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095950-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 New Zealand rugby league season, International competitions\nThe Te Atatu Roosters played the first ever Australian Aboriginal side in February 1973, losing 13-17. The Aboriginal side then lost 37-6 to a Canterbury XIII.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095950-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 New Zealand rugby league season, International competitions\nAuckland sent an under-23's side on a three match tour of New South Wales. They lost to Cronulla-Sutherland 20-8 before beating the Australian Aboriginal team 23-5 in an electrical storm at Redfern Oval and then losing 14-11 to the Australian Capital Territory. The team included Dane O'Hara, John Smith, John Wright and Stan Martin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095950-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 New Zealand rugby league season, International competitions\nPonsonby defeated the New South Wales Rugby League's Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks 27-21 in front of 15,000 at Carlaw Park on 30 September.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095950-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 New Zealand rugby league season, International competitions\nJohn Hibbs won the New Zealand Rugby League's player of the year award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095950-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 New Zealand rugby league season, National competitions, Rugby League Cup\nWest Coast again held the Rugby League Cup at the end of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 77], "content_span": [78, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095950-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 New Zealand rugby league season, National competitions, Inter-zone competition\nSouthern Zone defeated Northern Zone 16-12. Southern Zone included Mocky Brereton, Eddie Kerrigan, Bruce Dickison, John Greengrass and Rodney Walker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 83], "content_span": [84, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095950-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 New Zealand rugby league season, National competitions, Inter-district competition\nAuckland won the Rothmans trophy, defeating Wellington 29-13 in the final. They had earlier defeated Northland 33-2 and Wellington 34-14 before losing to the West Coast 14-25.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 87], "content_span": [88, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095950-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 New Zealand rugby league season, National competitions, Inter-district competition\nAuckland were selected by Ray Cranch, Travers Hardwick and selector-coach Neville Denton and included Bob Jarvis, Tom Conroy, Dave Sorensen, Kevin Barry, Wayne Robertson, Lyndsay Proctor, captain Dennis Williams, vice-captain Murray Eade, Brian Tracey, Doug Gailey, Peter Gurnick, John O'Sullivan, Don Mann and Warren Collicoat. John Hibbs played for the West Coast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 87], "content_span": [88, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095950-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Auckland\nPonsonby won the Auckland Rugby League's Fox Memorial Trophy, Rukutai Shield and Stormont Shield. They defeated Otahuhu 15-5 in the Fox Memorial grand final. Mt Wellington won the Roope Rooster, Otahuhu won the Kiwi Shield, Te Atatu won the Sharman Cup and North Shore won the Norton Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 65], "content_span": [66, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095950-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Auckland\nTom Conroy (Ponsonby) won the Lipscombe Cup, Don Mann (Ponsonby) won the Rothville Trophy, Lyndsay Proctor (Ellerslie) and Dave Sorenson (Mt Wellington) won the Bert Humphries Memorial, Ashley McEwen (Mt Albert) won the Tetley Trophy, Ernie Wiggs (Mt Albert) won the Painter Rosebowl Trophy and Roger Bailey (Ponsonby) won the Hyland Memorial Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 65], "content_span": [66, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095950-0012-0000", "contents": "1973 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Auckland\nWarren Collicoat played for Mount Albert and Ponsonby were coached by Bill Telford and included John O'Sullivan, Brian Tracey and Wayne Robertson. Morrie Robertson coached Ellerslie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 65], "content_span": [66, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095950-0013-0000", "contents": "1973 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Canterbury\nPapanui won the Canterbury Rugby League's Pat Smith Challenge Trophy, defeating Marist Western Suburbs 22-17 in the Grand Final. Linwood won the Massetti Cup\twhile Addington\twon the Gore Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 67], "content_span": [68, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095950-0014-0000", "contents": "1973 New Zealand rugby league season, Club competitions, Canterbury\nWayne Beri (Marist-Western) won the D.V. Syme Rosebowl as Sportsman of the year while Phil Brown (Marist-Western) and Bruce Dickison (Eastern) shared the A.G.Bailey Challenge Cup and Cliff Leney (Linwood) won the Turner and Le Brun Cup. Rodney Walker played for Papanui.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 67], "content_span": [68, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095951-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Newcastle City Council election\nThe first elections to the newly created Newcastle City Council were held on 10 May 1973, with the entirety of the 78 seat council - three seats for each of the 26 wards - up for vote. The Local Government Act 1972 stipulated that the elected members were to shadow and eventually take over from the predecessor corporation on 1 April 1974. The order in which the councillors were elected dictated their term serving, with third-place candidates serving two years and up for re-election in 1975, second-placed three years expiring in 1976 and 1st-placed five years until 1978.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095951-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Newcastle City Council election\nThe election resulted in Labour gaining control of the council. Voter turnout was 32.0%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095951-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Newcastle City Council election, Election result\nThis result had the following consequences for the total number of seats on the council after the elections:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095952-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Newry and Mourne District Council election\nElections to Newry and Mourne District Council were held on 30 May 1973 on the same day as the other Northern Irish local government elections. The election used six district electoral areas to elect a total of 30 councillors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095952-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Newry and Mourne District Council election, Districts results, Area A\n1973: 3 x UUP, 2 x SDLP, 1 x Independent Nationalist", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 74], "content_span": [75, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095952-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Newry and Mourne District Council election, Districts results, Area B\n1973: 2 x SDLP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Independent Nationalist", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 74], "content_span": [75, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095952-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Newry and Mourne District Council election, Districts results, Area D\n1973: 3 x SDLP, 2 x Independent Unionist, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Republican Clubs", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 74], "content_span": [75, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095952-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Newry and Mourne District Council election, Districts results, Area E\n1973: 3 x SDLP, 1 x Republican Clubs, 1 x Independent Unionist, 1 x Independent Republican", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 74], "content_span": [75, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095953-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Newtownabbey District Council election\nElections to Newtownabbey Borough Council were held on 30 May 1973 on the same day as the other Northern Irish local government elections. The election used four district electoral areas to elect a total of 21 councillors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095953-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Newtownabbey District Council election, Districts results, Area B\n1973: 2 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x NILP, 1 x Loyalist, 1 x United Loyalist", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 70], "content_span": [71, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095953-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Newtownabbey District Council election, Districts results, Area C\n1973: 3 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x DUP", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 70], "content_span": [71, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095953-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Newtownabbey District Council election, Districts results, Area D\n1973: 3 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x DUP", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 70], "content_span": [71, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095954-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Nicholls State Colonels football team\nThe 1973 Nicholls State Colonels football team represented Nicholls State University in the 1973 NCAA Division II football season. The Colonels were led by second-year head coach Gary Kinchen. They played their home games at John L. Guidry Stadium and were a member of the Gulf South Conference. They finished the season 2\u20139, 2\u20137 in Gulf South play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095955-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Nippon Professional Baseball season\nThe 1973 Nippon Professional Baseball season was the 24th season of operation of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095955-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Nippon Professional Baseball season, Pacific League Playoff\nThe Pacific League teams with the best first and second-half records met in a best-of-five playoff series to determine the league representative in the Japan Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 64], "content_span": [65, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095956-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 North American Soccer League season\nStatistics of North American Soccer League in season 1973. This was the 6th season of the NASL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095956-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 North American Soccer League season, Overview\nNine teams took part in the league with the Philadelphia Atoms winning the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095956-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 North American Soccer League season, Overview\nDuring the season, Tiburones Rojos de Veracruz from Vera Cruz, Mexico, played each of the nine NASL clubs in exhibition games that counted in the league's final standings. The 1973 season would be the last season in which games from non-league clubs counted in league standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095956-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 North American Soccer League season, Overview\nIn a unique twist, the team with home field for the NASL Championship Game determined the date and time the game was to be played. When the Dallas Tornado won their semi-final, setting up the final with Philadelphia, they chose August 25 as the date of the game. They did this because the NASL loan agreements with players from the English First Division (the precursor to today's Premier League) expired before that date.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095956-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 North American Soccer League season, Overview\nBecause of this, Philadelphia's two leading scorers, Andy \"The Flea\" Provan and Jim Fryatt, were on their way back to England when the championship match was played on the 25th. Despite this, Philadelphia coach, Al Miller, put Bill Straub, a defender who had not played a minute for the club prior to the championship game, into the lineup at forward. The move paid off as Straub headed home the second goal in a 2\u20130 win with under five minutes remaining in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095956-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 North American Soccer League season, Regular season\nW = Wins, L = Losses, T= Ties, GF = Goals For, GA = Goals Against, BP = Bonus Points, PTS= Total Points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 56], "content_span": [57, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095956-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 North American Soccer League season, Regular season\nPOINT SYSTEM 6 points for a win, 3 points for a tie, 0 points for a loss, 1 bonus point for each goal scored up to three per game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 56], "content_span": [57, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095956-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 North American Soccer League season, Playoffs\nAll playoff games in all rounds including the NASL Final were single game elimination match ups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095957-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 North Carolina Tar Heels football team\nThe 1973 North Carolina Tar Heels football team represented the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. The Tar Heels were led by seventh-year head coach Bill Dooley and played their home games at Kenan Memorial Stadium in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. They competed as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference, finishing in sixth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 427]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095958-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 North Dakota State Bison football team\nThe 1973 North Dakota State Bison football team was an American football team that represented North Dakota State University during the 1973 NCAA Division II football season as a member of the North Central Conference. In their first year under head coach Ev Kjelbertson, the team compiled a 8\u20132 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095959-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 North Down Borough Council election\nElections to North Down Borough Council were held on 30 May 1973 on the same day as the other Northern Irish local government elections. The election used four district electoral areas to elect a total of 20 councillors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095959-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 North Down Borough Council election\nThe elections were the first following the reorganisation of local government in Northern Ireland, brought about by the Local Government (Boundaries) Act (Northern Ireland) 1971 & Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972, which replaced the previous FPTP ward system with a new system of proportional representation using multi-member district electoral areas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095959-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 North Down Borough Council election, Districts results, Area B\n1973: 2 x UUP, 2 x Loyalist, 1 x Alliance", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095959-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 North Down Borough Council election, Districts results, Area C\n1973: 2 x Alliance, 2 x UUP, 1 x Loyalist", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095959-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 North Down Borough Council election, Districts results, Area D\n1973: 2 x UUP, 2 x Alliance, 1 x Loyalist", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 67], "content_span": [68, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095960-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 North Indian Ocean cyclone season\nThe 1973 North Indian Ocean cyclone season was part of the annual cycle of tropical cyclone formation. The season has no official bounds but cyclones tend to form between April and December. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northern Indian Ocean. There are two main seas in the North Indian Ocean\u2014the Bay of Bengal to the east of the Indian subcontinent and the Arabian Sea to the west of India.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095960-0000-0001", "contents": "1973 North Indian Ocean cyclone season\nThe official Regional Specialized Meteorological Centre in this basin is the India Meteorological Department (IMD), while the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) releases unofficial advisories. An average of five tropical cyclones form in the North Indian Ocean every season with peaks in May and November. Cyclones occurring between the meridians 45\u00b0E and 100\u00b0E are included in the season by the IMD.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095960-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Depression One (01A)\nThis system formed in the Arabian Sea on May 27 and struck the Arabian peninsula on May 28, becoming the tenth system to affect the region since 1891.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 78], "content_span": [79, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095960-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Storm Twelve (12B)\nThis system formed on 3 November and intensified up to Severe Cyclonic Storm and to a high-end tropical storm by 8 November. On 9 November, the storm made landfall at Paradip in Odisha and dissipated rapidly within six hours after the landfall as the storm interacted with a trough. Paradip and Chandbali reported gust winds up to 110 kmph. This cyclone caused considerable agricultural damages to crops there but deaths are unknown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 76], "content_span": [77, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095960-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Storm Fourteen (14B)\nThis system formed as a tropical depression in the southern Bay on December 5, strengthening into a tropical storm as it turned north-northwest on December 5, then to near-hurricane strength on December 6. The cyclone recurved, striking Indian near Calcutta on December 9, though its main impacts were across Bangladesh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 78], "content_span": [79, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095961-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Northeast Louisiana Indians football team\nThe 1973 Northeast Louisiana Indians football team was an American football team that represented Northeast Louisiana University (now known as the University of Louisiana at Monroe) as an independent during the 1973 NCAA Division II football season. In their second year under head coach Ollie Keller, the team compiled a 3\u20135\u20132 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095962-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Northern Illinois Huskies football team\nThe 1973 Northern Illinois Huskies football team represented Northern Illinois University in the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. They were led by head coach Jerry Ippoliti, his third year with the team, and they played their home games at Huskie Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095963-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Northern Ireland Assembly election\nThe 1973 elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly took place following the publication of the British government's white paper Northern Ireland Constitutional Proposals which proposed a 78-member Northern Ireland Assembly, elected by proportional representation. The proposals for a Northern Ireland Assembly contained in the White Paper were put into effect through the Northern Ireland Assembly Act 1973 in May 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095963-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Northern Ireland Assembly election\nA cross-community coalition of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) under Brian Faulkner, the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) and the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland was agreed in November, and following the Sunningdale Agreement, a Power Sharing Executive was established from 1 January 1974. After opposition from within the UUP and the Ulster Workers Council Strike, the executive and assembly collapsed in May 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095964-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Northern Ireland border poll\nThe Northern Ireland border poll was a referendum held in Northern Ireland on 8 March 1973 on whether Northern Ireland should remain part of the United Kingdom or join with the Republic of Ireland to form a united Ireland. It was the first time that a major referendum had been held in any region of the United Kingdom. The referendum was boycotted by nationalists and resulted in a conclusive victory for remaining in the UK. On a voter turnout of 58.7 percent, 98.9 percent voted to remain in the UK.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095964-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Northern Ireland border poll, Party support\nThe Unionist parties supported the 'UK' option, as did the Northern Ireland Labour Party and the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland. However, the Alliance Party was also critical of the poll. While it supported the holding of periodic plebiscites on the constitutional link with Great Britain, the party felt that to avoid the border poll becoming a \"sectarian head count\", it should ask other relevant questions such as whether the people supported the UK's White Paper on Northern Ireland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095964-0001-0001", "contents": "1973 Northern Ireland border poll, Party support\nNevertheless, on 5 February 1973, the party's Chairman, Jim Hendron, stated that \"Support for the position of Northern Ireland as an integral part of the United Kingdom is a fundamental principle of the Alliance Party, not only for economic reasons but also because we firmly believe that a peaceful solution to our present tragic problems is only possible within a United Kingdom context. Either a Sinn F\u00e9in all-Ireland republic or a Vanguard-style Ulster republic would lead to disaster for all our people.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095964-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Northern Ireland border poll, Party support\nThe Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), however, called for a boycott of the referendum, urging its members on 23 January 1973 \"to ignore completely the referendum and reject this extremely irresponsible decision by the British Government\". Gerry Fitt, leader of the SDLP, said he had organised a boycott to stop an escalation in violence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095964-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Northern Ireland border poll, Violence\nThe civil authorities were prepared for violence on polling day. They had put in place mobile polling stations which could be rushed into use if there was bomb damage to scheduled poll buildings. Two days before the referendum a British soldier, Guardsman Anton Brown of the 2nd Battalion, Coldstream Guards was shot dead in Belfast as the army searched for weapons and explosives which could be used to disrupt the upcoming referendum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095964-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Northern Ireland border poll, Violence\nIn response to the referendum, the Provisional Irish Republican Army planted four car bombs in London that day, two of which went off, causing one death and injuring 200.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095964-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Northern Ireland border poll, Result\nThe vote resulted in an overwhelming majority of those who voted stating they wished to remain in the UK. The nationalist boycott contributed to a turnout of only 58.7% of the electorate. In addition to taking a majority of votes cast, the UK option received the support of 57.5% of the total electorate. According to the BBC, less than 1% of the Catholic population turned out to vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 41], "content_span": [42, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095964-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Northern Ireland border poll, Reactions\nThe Government of the United Kingdom took no action on receipt of the referendum result, as the result was in favour of the status quo (Northern Ireland remaining part of the UK). It was followed by an Assembly election on 28 June 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 44], "content_span": [45, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095964-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Northern Ireland border poll, Reactions\nBrian Faulkner, who had been the last Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, claimed the result left \"no doubt in any one's mind what the wishes of Ulster's people are. Despite an attempted boycott by some, almost 600,000 electors voted for the maintenance of the union with Great Britain\". He also claimed that the poll showed that a \"quarter of the [N.I.] Catholic population who voted ... voted for the maintenance of the union\" and that the result was a \"blow ... against IRA mythology\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 44], "content_span": [45, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095965-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Northern Ireland local elections\nLocal government in Northern Ireland was reorganised in 1973 by the Local Government (Boundaries) Act (Northern Ireland) 1971 and the Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972. The county councils, county borough and municipal borough corporations and urban and rural district councils were replaced by twenty-six local government districts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095965-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Northern Ireland local elections\nElections took place for all the seats on the district councils on 30 May 1973. Elections were by proportional representation, using the single transferable vote system. The district councils came into their powers on 1 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095966-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Northumberland County Council election\nLocal elections to Northumberland County Council, a county council in the north east of England, were held on 12 April 1973, resulting in a council with no party forming a majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095967-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Northwestern Red Raiders football team\nThe 1973 Northwestern Red Raiders football team was an American football team that represented Northwestern College of Orange City, Iowa s a member of the Tri-State Conference during the 1973 NAIA Division II football season a. Led by Larry Korver in his seventh season as head coach, the team compiled a perfect record of 12\u20130, winning the Tri-State Conference title with a 5\u20130 mark and the NAIA Division II Football National Championship with a 10\u20133 victory Glenville State in the championship game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095968-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Northwestern Wildcats football team\nThe 1973 Northwestern Wildcats team represented Northwestern University in the 1973 Big Ten Conference football season. In their first year under head coach John Pont, the Wildcats compiled a 4\u20137 record (4\u20134 against Big Ten Conference opponents) and finished in a four-way tie for fourth place in the Big Ten Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095968-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Northwestern Wildcats football team\nThe team's offensive leaders were quarterback Mitch Anderson with 1,224 passing yards, Stan Key with 894 rushing yards, and Steve Craig with 479 receiving yards. Four Northwestern players received All-Big Ten honors. They are: (1) tight end Steve Craig (AP-1, UPI-1); (2) linebacker Mike Varty (AP-1, UPI-2); (3) quarterback Mitch Anderson (AP-2, UPI-2); and (4) running back Stan Key (AP-2).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095969-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Norwegian Football Cup\nStr\u00f8msgodset won the Norwegian Cup by beating Rosenborg 1\u20130 on 21 October. The goal scorer for Str\u00f8msgodset was Steinar Pettersen who scored a penalty in the 78th minute. Rosenborg's Odd Iversen was sent off in the 90th minute. 23\u00a0209 spectators watched the game at Ullev\u00e5l stadion in Oslo. The referee was Svein-Inge Thime. This was the third time Str\u00f8msgodset won the Norwegian Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095969-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Norwegian Football Cup\nStr\u00f8msgodset's winning squad: Inge Thun, Per Rune W\u00f8llner, Johnny Vidar Pedersen, Tor Alsaker-N\u00f8stdahl, Svein Dahl Andersen, Odd Arild Amundsen, Finn Aksel Olsen, Bj\u00f8rn Odmar Andersen, Thorodd Presberg, Steinar Pettersen, Ingar Pettersen, Bj\u00f8rn Erik Halvorsen, Helge Widemann Karlsen and Runar Larsen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095970-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Norwegian parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections were held in Norway on 9 and 10 September 1973. The Labour Party remained the largest party, winning 62 of the 155 seats in the Storting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095970-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Norwegian parliamentary election, Results\nThe joint list of the Centre Party and the Liberal Party won seven seats, six taken by the Centre Party and one by the Liberal Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095970-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Norwegian parliamentary election, Results\nThe joint list of the Centre Party, Liberal Party and the Christian People's Party won three, two taken by the Centre Party and one by the Christian People's Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095970-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Norwegian parliamentary election, Results\nThe joint list of the Conservative Party and the Christian People's Party won no seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095971-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Norwich City Council election\nThe 1973 Norwich City Council election took place on 7 June 1973 to elect members of Norwich City Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections. Voting took place across 16 wards, each electing 3 Councillors. Following the Local Government Act 1972, this was the first election to the new non-metropolitan district council for Norfolk, which came into being on 1 April the following year. Labour took control of the Council after winning a comfortable majority of seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095972-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Norwich Union Open\nThe 1973 Norwich Union Open was an invitational snooker tournament which took place between 24 and 29 November 1973 at the Piccadilly Hotel in London. It was open to both professionals and amateurs and featured 24 players. John Spencer won 8\u20137 in the final against John Pulman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095972-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Norwich Union Open, Prize fund\nThe breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095973-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team\nThe 1973 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team represented the University of Notre Dame during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. The Irish, coached by Ara Parseghian, ended the season undefeated with 11 wins and no losses, winning the national championship. The Fighting Irish won the title by defeating the previously unbeaten and No. 1 ranked Alabama Crimson Tide in the 1973 Sugar Bowl by a score of a 24\u201323. The 1973 squad became the ninth Irish team to win the national title and the second under Parseghian. Although Notre Dame finished No. 1 in the AP Poll to claim the AP national title, they were not awarded the Coaches title, since Alabama was awarded the Coaches Poll title before the bowl season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 764]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095973-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Season\nAra Parseghian's second national title team was led by its relentless rushing attack. Fullback Wayne Bullock (750\u00a0yards), halfback Art Best (700\u00a0yards), halfback Eric Penick (586\u00a0yards) and quarterback Tom Clements (360\u00a0yards) comprised one of the fastest Irish backfields, with Peneck and Best clocking in under 10\u00a0seconds in the 100-yard dash. The Irish started the season strong, amassing large margins of victory over Northwestern, Rice and Army to set up a highly anticipated contest with No. 6 and unbeaten USC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095973-0001-0001", "contents": "1973 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Season\nUSC came into the contest riding a 23-game unbeaten streak, and USC's star tailback Anthony Davis ran over the Irish the previous year for 6 touchdowns in a 45\u201323 Trojan victory. Moreover, Parseghian had not outright beaten USC since 1966. The Irish defense responded to the challenge, limiting Davis to 55\u00a0yards on 19 carries. The star tailback of the day was Notre Dame's Penick, who ran for 118\u00a0yards, 50 more than the entire Trojan team. The Irish won the contest 23\u201314 and won their remaining games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095973-0001-0002", "contents": "1973 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Season\nAfter Notre Dame accepted the Sugar Bowl bid, the stage was set to determine the national championship. Alabama was awarded the UPI title before the bowl season, but it was Notre Dame that won it on the field, winning 24\u201323 in a thriller that had six lead changes. Notre Dame jumped to a 6\u20130 lead, but Alabama answered with a Randy Billingsley 6-yard touchdown run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095973-0001-0003", "contents": "1973 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Season\nAl Hunter then scored on a 93-yard kickoff return, and Clements completed a two-point conversion pass to Pete Demmerle to give the Irish a 14-7 (which would turn out to be the widest margin in the game). Alabama scored a field goal to close the halftime deficit to 14\u201310, and then went on a 93-yard touchdown march in the third quarter to regain the lead. Notre Dame answered with a 12-yard touchdown run by Eric Penick to go back in front, 21\u201317.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095973-0001-0004", "contents": "1973 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Season\nIn the fourth quarter, three turnovers occurred in 90\u00a0seconds, with Alabama coming out on top and capitalizing on a halfback pass from Mike Stock to quarterback Richard Todd for a 25-yard touchdown to take a slim 23\u201321 lead, but the Tide missed the crucial extra point. Notre Dame responded, with Tom Clements driving the Irish 79\u00a0yards in 11 plays and setting up a potential field goal on a clutch 15-yard pass to tight end Dave Casper. Irish kicker Bob Thomas kicked a field goal to give the Irish a slim 24\u201323 victory and the AP national title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 52], "content_span": [53, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095973-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team, Game summaries, Air Force\nThis is the only Thanksgiving Day game ever played at Notre Dame Stadium, and with students away on a week-long break, it also was the only official non-sellout for a Fighting Irish home football game between October 24, 1964, and November 16, 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 71], "content_span": [72, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095974-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Nottinghamshire County Council election\nThe 1973 Nottinghamshire County Council election was held on Thursday, 12 April 1973. The election resulted in the Labour Party winning an overall majority of seats on the council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095974-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Nottinghamshire County Council election\nThe election was the first to take place to the new non-metropolitan county council of Nottinghamshire as defined by the Local Government Act 1972, which had reformed local government in England and Wales. The council acted as a \"shadow authority\" until 1 April 1974, when it gained control from its predecessor county council, which had been established by the Local Government Act 1888.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095974-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Nottinghamshire County Council election\nWhilst previously the City of Nottingham was an independent county borough and therefore not included within the administrative county of Nottinghamshire or involved in the election of county councillors, the new administrative county included Nottingham for the first time as a non-metropolitan district. Nottingham would subsequently regain independent control over its affairs when it became a unitary authority in 1998.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095974-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Nottinghamshire County Council election, Results by division\nEach electoral division returned either one, two or three county councillors. The candidate elected to the council in each electoral division is shown in the table below. \"Unopposed\" indicates that the councillor was elected unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 65], "content_span": [66, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095975-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Oakland Athletics season\nThe 1973 Oakland Athletics season involved the A's winning their third consecutive American League West title with a record of 94 wins and 68 losses. The A's went on to defeat the Baltimore Orioles in the ALCS for their second straight AL Championship, and won the World Series in seven games over the New York Mets to take their second consecutive World Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095975-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Oakland Athletics season, Regular season\nThe 1973 A's had three 20-game winners in Jim (Catfish) Hunter, Ken Holtzman and Vida Blue.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095975-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Oakland Athletics season, Regular season\nThe A's were on the receiving end of some milestones as well. On July 3, Nolan Ryan struck out Sal Bando of the Athletics for the 1000th strikeout in his career. On July 30, Jim Bibby threw the first no-hitter in Texas Rangers history as he no-hit the Athletics. The Rangers won the game 6\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095975-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Oakland Athletics season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs scored; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting Average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; SB = Stolen bases", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 74], "content_span": [75, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095975-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Oakland Athletics season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs scored; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting Average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; SB = Stolen bases", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 67], "content_span": [68, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095975-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Oakland Athletics season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; BB = Bases on balls; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 72], "content_span": [73, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095975-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Oakland Athletics season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; BB = Bases on balls; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 69], "content_span": [70, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095975-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Oakland Athletics season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; BB = Bases on balls; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 214]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095975-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Oakland Athletics season, Postseason, ALCS, Game 1\nIn Game 1, the Orioles jumped on Oakland starter Vida Blue and reliever Horacio Pi\u00f1a for four runs in the bottom of the first inning. Jim Palmer pitched a 5-hit shutout as the Orioles won, 6\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095975-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Oakland Athletics season, Postseason, ALCS, Game 2\nIn Game 2, the Athletics hit three home runs off Baltimore starter Dave McNally, and won 6\u20133 behind Catfish Hunter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095975-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 Oakland Athletics season, Postseason, ALCS, Game 3\nIn Game 3, the Athletics won 2\u20131 when shortstop Bert Campaneris homered to lead off the bottom of the 11th inning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095975-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 Oakland Athletics season, Postseason, ALCS, Game 4\nIn Game 4, the Athletics held a 4\u20130 lead after six innings, but the Orioles scored four in the seventh off Blue to tie the game; the key blow was a three-run home run by catcher Andy Etchebarren. Baltimore second baseman Bobby Grich broke the tie with a solo home run in the 8th inning, and the Orioles went on to win, 5\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095975-0012-0000", "contents": "1973 Oakland Athletics season, Postseason, ALCS, Game 5\nIn Game 5, Hunter pitched a 5-hit shutout as the Athletics won, 3\u20130, and took the series 3 games to 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095975-0013-0000", "contents": "1973 Oakland Athletics season, Postseason, World Series\nThe Athletics' victory over the New York Mets in the 1973 Series was marred by Charlie O. Finley's antics. Finley forced Mike Andrews to sign a false affidavit saying he was injured after the reserve second baseman committed two consecutive errors in the 12th inning of the A's Game Two loss to the Mets. This would allow Manny Trillo, ineligible because he was not a member of the team on Sep 1, to be activated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095975-0014-0000", "contents": "1973 Oakland Athletics season, Postseason, World Series\nBy demeaning Mike Andrews, Finley brought on open rebellion, the logical progression for a team that has never deluded itself about being a happy ship. The A's worked out at Shea with Andrews' No. 17 taped to their uniforms as a sign of sympathy with him. By then he was back home in Peabody, Massachusetts. When other team members, manager Dick Williams, and virtually the entire viewing public rallied to Andrews' defense, commissioner Bowie Kuhn forced Finley to back down. Andrews entered Game 4 in the eighth inning as a pinch-hitter. As he walked to the on-deck circle the crowd of 54,817 at Shea Stadium spotted his No. 17 and commenced cheering. He promptly grounded out, and Finley ordered him benched for the remainder of the Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 799]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095975-0015-0000", "contents": "1973 Oakland Athletics season, Postseason, World Series\nAndrews never played another major league game. Williams was so disgusted by the affair that he announced his resignation as Manager while the Series was still being played. Finley retaliated by vetoing Williams' attempt to become manager of the Yankees. Finley claimed that since Williams still owed Oakland the last year of his contract, he could not manage anywhere else. Finley relented later in 1974 and allowed Williams to take over as manager of the California Angels.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095975-0016-0000", "contents": "1973 Oakland Athletics season, Postseason, World Series\nThe A's won the World Series in seven games after rallying from a three games to two deficit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095975-0017-0000", "contents": "1973 Oakland Athletics season, Postseason, World Series, Summary\nAL Oakland Athletics (4) vs. NL New York Mets (3)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095976-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Oakland Raiders season\nThe 1973 Oakland Raiders season was the team's 14th season, and fourth in the National Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095976-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Oakland Raiders season\nIn Week Two of the regular season, the Raiders defeated the Miami Dolphins, snapping Miami's 18-game winning-streak including a perfect season in 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095976-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Oakland Raiders season\nFor the third time in four seasons, the Raiders won the AFC West title. They exacted a measure of revenge by defeating the Pittsburgh Steelers in the AFC Division Round game, one year following the Immaculate Reception loss. But the Raiders failed to reach the Super Bowl as they lost to Miami in the AFC Championship Game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095976-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Oakland Raiders season, Regular season, Season summary, Week 2 vs. Dolphins\nThe Raiders became the first team to defeat Miami since Super Bowl VI.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 80], "content_span": [81, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095976-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Oakland Raiders season, Regular season, Season summary, Week 9 vs. Steelers\nSecond quarterPIT \u2013 Ron Shanklin 14-yard pass from Terry Hanratty (Roy Gerela kick). Steelers 7\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 80], "content_span": [81, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095977-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Oceania Cup\nThe 1973 OFC Nations Cup was the first Oceania-wide football tournament ever held. It took place in New Zealand from 17 February 1973\u201324 February 1973. All matches were held at Newmarket Park, in Auckland, and five teams participated: New Zealand, New Caledonia, Tahiti, New Hebrides (now known as Vanuatu) and Fiji.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095977-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Oceania Cup\nAt the time, the Oceania Football Confederation was not considered a full FIFA Confederation, and as such allowed national teams unaffiliated with FIFA to enter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095977-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Oceania Cup\nThe teams played each other according to a round-robin format, and the top two teams (New Zealand and Tahiti) played off in a final to determine the winner. New Caledonia and New Hebrides also played each other, on the same day as the final, to determine third place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095977-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Oceania Cup\nNew Zealand won the tournament with a 2\u20130 victory in the final, while New Caledonia retained third place by defeating New Hebrides.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095977-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Oceania Cup, Goalscorers\nThere were 37 goals scored in 12 matches, for an average of 3.08 goals per match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 29], "content_span": [30, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095977-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Oceania Cup, Tournament team rankings\nAs per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 42], "content_span": [43, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095978-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Oceania Cup Final\nThe 1973 Oceania Cup Final was a football match that took place on 24 February 1973 to determine the winners of the 1973 Oceania Cup. It was the final of the first Oceania Cup, a tournament contested by the senior men's national teams of the member associations of OFC to decide the champions of Oceania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095978-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Oceania Cup Final\nNew Zealand won their inaugural Oceania Cup, beating Tahiti 2\u20130. New Zealand's Dave Taylor opened the scoring before Alan Marley scored their second to clinch the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095979-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Oceania Cup squads\nThe following is a list of players used by each competing nation during the entirety of the 1973 OFC Nations Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095980-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Ohio Bobcats football team\nThe 1973 Ohio Bobcats football team was an American football team that represented Ohio University in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. In their 16th season under head coach Bill Hess, the Bobcats compiled a 5\u20135 record (2\u20133 against MAC opponents), finished in a tie for third place in the MAC, and were outscored by all opponents by a combined total of 231 to 156.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095981-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Ohio State Buckeyes football team\nThe 1973 Ohio State Buckeyes football team represented the Ohio State University in the 1973 Big Ten Conference football season. The Buckeyes compiled a 10\u20130\u20131 record, including the 1974 Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, where they won, 42\u201321, against the USC Trojans. The Ohio State Buckeyes were named national champion by the National Championship Foundation, Poling System, David Rothman (statistician) and the Sagarin Ratings, but this championship is not claimed by Ohio State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095981-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Ohio State Buckeyes football team, Game summaries, at Michigan\nCornelius Greene played with injured thumb (did not attempt a pass)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 67], "content_span": [68, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095981-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Ohio State Buckeyes football team, Game summaries, Rose Bowl (vs. USC)\nMVP - Cornelius Greene 174 yards total offense, rush TD", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 75], "content_span": [76, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095982-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Ohio State vs. Michigan football game\nThe 1973 Ohio State vs. Michigan football game was one of the most controversial games in NCAA history. In this game, both teams were undefeated, with Ohio State ranked first, and Michigan ranked fourth. A conference championship, Rose Bowl appearance, and possible national championship was on the line in this monumental game, part of the hotly contested stretch of the rivalry known as The Ten Year War. A then-NCAA record crowd of 105,233 watched the game at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095982-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Ohio State vs. Michigan football game\nWith heavy rain prior to the game, the battle was mostly fought on the ground. Michigan had 90 yards passing and Ohio State attempted only four passing plays in a defensive contest. Ohio State failed to make a single first-down in the first quarter, but took an early 3\u20130 lead in the second quarter, with a 31-yard field goal by Blair Conway. Gil Chapman, Michigan's punt returner returned OSU's ensuing kick-off all the way to the OSU 27-yard line. A significant clipping penalty was called on Michigan which subsequently gave Michigan bad field position. With the way the game had gone, field position proved to be a huge advantage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 677]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095982-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Ohio State vs. Michigan football game\nAfter a series of punts, Ohio State got the ball on their own 45-yard line. Back-to-back Heisman Trophy winner Archie Griffin rushed for 41 yards on 5 carries, to get to 100 yards rushing, and OSU to the five-yard line. Fullback Pete Johnson busted his way through the defense for a touchdown just before the half to extend OSU's lead to 10\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095982-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Ohio State vs. Michigan football game\nMichigan made defensive halftime adjustments in an attempt to crawl back into the game. The Wolverines outgained the Buckeyes 209\u201391 in total yardage in the 2nd half. Michigan took the 2nd half kick-off and marched all the way to the OSU 30-yard line. However, quarterback Dennis Franklin's pass was intercepted in the end zone ruining a productive drive. Midway through the third quarter, OSU faced a 4th and 2 on the Michigan 34-yard line, and decided to go for it. Their failed fourth down conversion gave Michigan new life, and much momentum. It is still looked on today as a controversial coaching call.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 651]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095982-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Ohio State vs. Michigan football game\nMichigan engineered an 11 play drive, using the rushing ability of fullback Ed Shuttlesworth. The Wolverines kicked a field goal to get on the board, and make the score 10\u20133. Midway through the fourth quarter, Michigan's defense held, and the offense was able to start the tying drive with great field position. Dennis Franklin threw a 35-yard post-out pattern to tight end Paul Seal to get inside the red zone. Three consecutive Michigan offensive plays failed to get them a first down, and they were now faced with a fourth and inches on the ten-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095982-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Ohio State vs. Michigan football game\nOhio State loaded the box with nine defensive players, and focused on stopping Shuttlesworth, who had burned them the entire game. Franklin faked the inside hand-off to Shuttlesworth, and then slipped through the tackles running ten yards for a touchdown, to tie the score at 10-10. Michigan got the ball back with over six minutes to go for the game-winning drive, but had to start at their own ten-yard line. After a couple of completions to Clint Haslerig and some nice runs by Chapman and Shuttlesworth, Michigan made it into OSU territory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095982-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Ohio State vs. Michigan football game\nFranklin then threw a seven-yard pass play to Shuttlesworth and was injured, breaking his collar bone with 2:23 left in the game. Three plays later, Michigan kicker Mike Lantry attempted a 58-yard field goal, but the ball missed the left goal-post by a few inches. Ohio State took over, but back-up quarterback, Greg Hare, threw an interception that was returned to the OSU 33 with 52 seconds left. Michigan moved the ball to the OSU 28 before settling for a field goal on 3rd and 5 with 28 seconds to go. For the second consecutive try, the field goal was missed and the game ended in a 10\u201310 tie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 641]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095982-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Ohio State vs. Michigan football game, Aftermath\nMichigan's coaches and players felt that although the game was a tie, that they were the better team and deserved to go to the Rose Bowl. Ohio State coach Woody Hayes said, \u201cWe had to win this one to go and we didn't. If they vote Michigan, Michigan deserves to go.\u201d. There was much to debate on who would play in the Rose Bowl as the best representative of the Big Ten Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 53], "content_span": [54, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095982-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Ohio State vs. Michigan football game, Aftermath\nOhio State had gone to the Rose Bowl the year before. The Big Ten, alongside the Pacific-8, at the time had a longstanding policy stating that only the conference champion would reach postseason, and that game was the Rose Bowl, and neither conference allowed other teams to appear in postseason games. The Big Ten also had a rule prohibiting teams from appearing in consecutive Rose Bowls until 1971, and had it still been in effect, Michigan would have gone to the Rose Bowl automatically, even if it had lost the game to Ohio State. With the latter rule abolished, the decision as to who would represent the conference would be left up to a telephone vote by the Big Ten's athletic directors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 53], "content_span": [54, 749]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095982-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Ohio State vs. Michigan football game, Aftermath\nAccording to Michigan coach Bo Schembechler's 1989 autobiography, the Big Ten was nervous because the conference had lost the previous four Rose Bowls, and Franklin's injury may have been a deciding factor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 53], "content_span": [54, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095982-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 Ohio State vs. Michigan football game, Aftermath\nOn the day after the game, following a conference call, it was announced that Ohio State would play in the Rose Bowl instead of Michigan. Schembechler was furious at the call, referring to it as \"an embarrassment to the Big Ten Conference\" and claiming \"petty jealousies\" were involved. Schembechler went on to demand changes to the Big Ten's policies regarding post-season play. Schembechler was particularly bitter because his 1973 team did not lose a game and was not rewarded with a bowl assignment, and remained angry at the vote until his death in 2006. Schembechler also claimed the Franklin injury was just an excuse, since Michigan's strength was a running game and not a passing attack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 53], "content_span": [54, 750]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095982-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 Ohio State vs. Michigan football game, Aftermath\nIt was rumored that Michigan State University voted for Ohio State in retaliation for Michigan's \"no\" vote in 1949 against admitting Michigan State to the Big Ten. There was also a rumor that Michigan State had voted for itself for the same reason. Neither of these charges were ever substantiated. For months afterward, Ohio newspapers would be flooded with letters from angry Wolverine fans, and threats of lawsuits.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 53], "content_span": [54, 472]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095982-0012-0000", "contents": "1973 Ohio State vs. Michigan football game, Aftermath\nSchembechler said he had spoken with Illinois coach Bob Blackman, who said his athletic director, Cecil Coleman, would vote in favor of Michigan. Yet following the vote, it was revealed that Coleman had voted for the Buckeyes. Even if the vote were tied at 5-all, Michigan would have been awarded the berth since Ohio State had gone the year before. According to Tiebreaker, a 2013 Big Ten Network documentary dedicated to the 1973 contest, the Buckeyes were supported by Illinois, Northwestern, Purdue, Wisconsin, and possibly Michigan State; the Wolverines were supported by Indiana, Iowa, and Minnesota.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 53], "content_span": [54, 660]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095982-0012-0001", "contents": "1973 Ohio State vs. Michigan football game, Aftermath\nFootage from the documentary had audio and printed admissions from Coleman, Iowa's Bump Elliott (Schembechler's predecessor at Michigan), Minnesota's Paul Giel, and Michigan State's J. Burt Smith, who told a crowd at an MSU football banquet on November 28, 1973 that he had voted for Ohio State because he felt they \"best met the definition of the most representative team.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 53], "content_span": [54, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095982-0013-0000", "contents": "1973 Ohio State vs. Michigan football game, Aftermath\nIt is unknown whether then Big Ten commissioner Wayne Duke had influenced the vote in Ohio State's favor or not, although a 1973 investigation by the Big Ten Conference Faculty Representatives determined he did not. Until his death in 2017, Wayne Duke continued to vehemently deny that he influenced the vote in any way, saying the athletic directors followed the procedure in place and that he was merely the messenger. Ohio State ended up winning the 1974 Rose Bowl over USC by a score of 42-21, the Big Ten's lone Rose Bowl victory from 1970 through 1980.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 53], "content_span": [54, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095982-0014-0000", "contents": "1973 Ohio State vs. Michigan football game, Aftermath\nThe next season, Ohio State defeated Michigan 12-10 at Columbus, necessitating a vote to determine the Rose Bowl participant. This time, there was no controversy when the Buckeyes prevailed. Ohio State lost the Rose Bowl 18-17 to USC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 53], "content_span": [54, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095982-0015-0000", "contents": "1973 Ohio State vs. Michigan football game, Aftermath\nMichigan went 30-2-1 over the 1972, '73 and '74 seasons, but had zero bowl appearances to show for it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 53], "content_span": [54, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095982-0016-0000", "contents": "1973 Ohio State vs. Michigan football game, Aftermath\nAmong the changes that were made in the Big Ten Conference was, by 1975, to open postseason bids to four teams (since expanded to any team with six wins). This would allow conference teams other than the champion to accept invitations to other bowls. Michigan would be the first team to receive such an invite, to the Orange Bowl following the 1975 season, where it lost 14-6 to national champion Oklahoma. Another change, which also took effect in 1975, was the dropping of the athletic directors' vote in the event of a tie for the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 53], "content_span": [54, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095982-0016-0001", "contents": "1973 Ohio State vs. Michigan football game, Aftermath\nThe new rule stated the team which had gone the longest without appearing in the Rose Bowl would go to Pasadena. Schembechler had pushed for that reform, claiming that the athletic directors were not qualified to decide which team would better represent the conference in the Rose Bowl. That rule was changed following the institution of the conference championship game in 2011. The tie-breaker for that game is the head-to-head result.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 53], "content_span": [54, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095982-0017-0000", "contents": "1973 Ohio State vs. Michigan football game, Aftermath\nThe tie denied Ohio State the national championship. Alabama vaulted the Buckeyes into the top spot in both polls, and the Crimson Tide finished the regular season 11\u20130 to earn the number one ranking in the UPI coaches poll, which did not conduct a post-bowl poll at that time. Notre Dame ended up as AP national champions by defeating Alabama 24\u201323 in the Sugar Bowl, leaving the Buckeyes second in both wire-service surveys.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 53], "content_span": [54, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095982-0018-0000", "contents": "1973 Ohio State vs. Michigan football game, Aftermath\nTo this day, the aftermath of the 1973 Michigan-Ohio State contest remains one of the biggest controversies in college football history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 53], "content_span": [54, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095983-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Oklahoma Sooners football team\nThe 1973 Oklahoma Sooners football team represented the University of Oklahoma in the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. Oklahoma participated as members of the Big Eight Conference and played its home games in Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium where it has played its home games since 1923. The team posted a 10\u20130\u20131 overall record and a 7\u20130 conference record to earn the Conference outright title under first-year head coach Barry Switzer. This would be the first of eight consecutive Big Eight Conference championships for the Sooners with Switzer as head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095983-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Oklahoma Sooners football team\nThe team was led by three All-Americans: Rod Shoate (Oklahoma's second three-time All-American) the oldest of the Selmon brothers, Lucious, and Eddie Foster. The Selmon brothers Lucious, Lee Roy and Dewey started on the defensive line. The team went undefeated on a schedule that included seven ranked opponents (In order, #1 USC, #17 Miami, #13 Texas, #13 Colorado, #10 Missouri, #18 Kansas, and #10 Nebraska). Five of these opponents finished the season ranked. The team tied with USC in the second game of the season before winning nine consecutive contests. It began the season ranked number 11 and steadily climbed in the polls as the season progressed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 694]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095983-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Oklahoma Sooners football team\nJoe Washington led the team in rushing with 1173 yards, Steve Davis led the team in passing yard for with 934 yards, Tinker Owens led the team in receiving with 472 yards, Davis led the team in scoring with 108 points, Shoate led the team in tackles with 126, and Randy Hughes led the team in interceptions with 5.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095983-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Oklahoma Sooners football team\nPrior to the season in August, the Sooners were put on probation by the NCAA, which included a two-year ban on bowl appearances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095983-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Game summaries, Texas\nThe most points Oklahoma had scored against Texas to date.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 58], "content_span": [59, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095983-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Oklahoma Sooners football team, Postseason, NFL draft\nThe following players were drafted into the National Football League following the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 58], "content_span": [59, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095984-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Oklahoma State Cowboys football team\nThe 1973 Oklahoma State Cowboys football team represented Oklahoma State University in the Big Eight Conference during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. In their first season under head coach Jim Stanley, the Cowboys compiled a 5\u20134\u20132 record (2\u20133\u20132 against conference opponents), finished in fifth place in the conference, and outscored opponents by a combined total of 303 to 186.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095984-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Oklahoma State Cowboys football team\nThe team's statistical leaders included Brent Blackman with 809 rushing yards and 602 passing yards and Reuben Gant with 447 receiving yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095984-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Oklahoma State Cowboys football team\nThe team played its home games at Lewis Field in Stillwater, Oklahoma.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095984-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Oklahoma State Cowboys football team, After the season\nThe 1974 NFL Draft was held on January 29\u201330, 1974. The following Cowboys were selected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 59], "content_span": [60, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095985-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Old Bailey bombing\nThe 1973 Old Bailey bombing (known as Bloody Thursday in Britain) was a car bomb attack carried out by the Provisional IRA (IRA) which took place outside the Old Bailey Courthouse on 8 March 1973. The attack was carried out by an 11-person active service unit (ASU) from the Provisional IRA Belfast Brigade. The unit also exploded a second bomb which went off outside the Ministry of Agriculture near Whitehall in London at around the same time the bomb at the Old Bailey went off.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095985-0000-0001", "contents": "1973 Old Bailey bombing\nThis was the Provisional IRA's first major attack in England since the Troubles began in the late 1960s. One British civilian died of a heart attack attributed to the bombing, estimates of the injured range from 180 to 220 from the two bombings. Two additional bombs were found and defused. Nine people from Belfast were convicted six months later for the bombing, one person managed to escape and one was acquitted for providing information to the police.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095985-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Old Bailey bombing, Background\nThe Troubles had been ongoing in Northern Ireland and to a lesser extent in the Republic of Ireland since the late 1960s. Rioting, protests, gun battles, sniper attacks, bombings and punishment beatings became part of everyday life in many places in Northern Ireland, especially in the poorer working class areas of Belfast and Derry. These events and others helped to heighten sectarianism and boosted recruitment into Irish republican and Ulster loyalist paramilitary groups and the security forces; mainly the newly created Ulster Defence Regiment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 587]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095985-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Old Bailey bombing, Background\nEngland had been relatively untouched from the violence up until the beginning of 1973, but the IRA Army Council had drawn up plans for a bombing campaign to take place in England some time early in 1973. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, loyalist paramilitaries had bombed Dublin and other parts of the Republic of Ireland a number of times before the IRA began its bombing campaign in England. These early loyalist bombings were carried out by the Ulster Volunteer Force and were small bombs aimed at destruction only, not injuring or killing anybody.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 590]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095985-0002-0001", "contents": "1973 Old Bailey bombing, Background\nFollowing the Dublin bombings in late 1972 and in January 1973 carried out by Loyalists which killed three people and injured over 150, the media attention these bombings received helped the IRA decide to take its campaign to Britain in return. Another reason the IRA brought their campaign to England Billy McKee explained to journalist Peter Taylor was that the IRA had decided to bomb England early if there was an emergency in the IRA and it began to weaken in Ireland. The arrest of top IRA personnel in both the Republic and Northern Ireland like M\u00e1ire Drumm, Se\u00e1n Mac St\u00edof\u00e1in, Ruair\u00ed \u00d3 Br\u00e1daigh and Martin McGuinness in late 1972 helped to convince the IRA to bomb England to take the heat off of the IRA in Ireland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 762]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095985-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Old Bailey bombing, Background\nThe IRA selected the volunteers who would constitute the ASU for the England bombing operation, which was scheduled to take place on 8 March 1973, the same day that a border poll \u2013 boycotted by Nationalists and Roman Catholics \u2013 was being held in Belfast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095985-0003-0001", "contents": "1973 Old Bailey bombing, Background\nVolunteers from all three of the IRA's Belfast Brigade Battalions were selected for the bombing mission, the team included 19-year-old Gerry Kelly, 24-year-old Robert \"Roy\" Walsh (an expert bomb maker from Belfast), Hugh Feeney (a Belfast-born IRA volunteer & explosives expert), and two sisters, Marian, 19, and Dolours Price, 22, from Belfast who were from a staunchly Republican family, along with five other lesser-known volunteers from Belfast: Martin Brady, 22, William Armstrong, 29, Paul Holmes, 19, William McLarnon, 19, and Roisin McNearney, 18.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095985-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Old Bailey bombing, Bombing\nSeveral days before the bombing, the leaders of the IRA ASU, which included sisters Marian and Dolours Price, went to London and picked out four targets: the Old Bailey, the Ministry of Agriculture, an army recruitment office near Whitehall and New Scotland Yard. They then reported back to their Officer Commanding in Belfast, and the IRA Army Council gave the go ahead. The bombs were made in Ireland and transported to London via ferry, according to Marian Price.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095985-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Old Bailey bombing, Bombing\nThe Royal Ulster Constabulary warned the British that the ASU was travelling to England, but were unable to provide specifics as to the target.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095985-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Old Bailey bombing, Bombing\nThe drivers and the volunteers who were to prime the bombs woke up at 6:00\u00a0a.m. and drove the car bombs to their various targets. Gerry Kelly and Roy Walsh drove their car bomb to the Old Bailey. It was planned that by the time the bombs went off at around 15:00, the ASU would be back in Ireland. The bomb at New Scotland Yard was found at 8:30 by a policeman who noticed a discrepancy in the licence plate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095985-0006-0001", "contents": "1973 Old Bailey bombing, Bombing\nThe bomb team started lifting out 5-pound bags of explosives and separated them, so that if the bomb did go off, the force of the explosion would be greatly reduced. The bomb squad eventually found the detonating cord leads, which ran under the front passenger seat of the car; Peter Gurney, a senior member of New Scotland Yard, cut the detonator cord leads, defusing the bomb.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 411]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095985-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Old Bailey bombing, Bombing\nHowever, at the Old Bailey the bomb exploded, injuring many and causing extensive damage. Scotland Yard stated it had warned the City of London police at 14:01 to search near the Old Bailey for a green Ford Cortina; the car was not located until 14:35 and exploded at 14:49 while police were evacuating the area. A shard of glass from the explosion is preserved as a reminder, embedded in the wall at the top of the main stairs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095985-0007-0001", "contents": "1973 Old Bailey bombing, Bombing\nSeveral more people were injured by the car bomb near the Ministry of Agriculture, which brought the total number injured to over 200. A British man, 60-year-old Frederick Milton, died of a heart attack. Dolours Price wrote in her memoir: \"There were warnings phoned in but people had stood about, curious to see... If people ignored the warnings and stood around gawking, they were stupid. The numbers of injured came about through curiosity and stupidity.\" The ASU was caught trying to leave the country at Heathrow Airport prior to the explosions, as the police had been forewarned about the bombings and were checking all passengers to Belfast and Dublin. All 10 gave false names that did not match their documents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 752]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095985-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Old Bailey bombing, Court and sentence\nThe IRA volunteers had to be tried at Winchester Crown court sitting in Winchester Castle as the Old Bailey was wrecked by the car bomb there. The trial took 10 weeks and was set amid extremely strict security. William McLarnon pleaded guilty to all charges on the first day of the trial. On 14 November 1973, a jury convicted six men and two women of the bombings. The jury acquitted Roisin McNearney in exchange for information and she was given a new identity. As her verdict was handed down, the other defendants began to hum the \"Dead March\" from Saul, and one threw a coin at her, shouting \"Take your blood money with you\" as she left the dock in tears. Six of the nine people convicted admitted to Provisional IRA membership.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 776]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095985-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Old Bailey bombing, Court and sentence\nAt the court, the judge sentenced the eight to life imprisonment for the bombings and 20 years for conspiracy, while 19 year old William McLarnon whose family was forced out of their home in August 1969 was sentenced to 15 years, when his sentence was read out he shouted \"Up The Provisional IRA\". As the eight were led to the cells below the court, several gave raised fist salutes to relatives and friends in the public gallery, who shouted \"Keep your chins up\" and \"All the best\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095985-0009-0001", "contents": "1973 Old Bailey bombing, Court and sentence\nThe Price sisters immediately went on hunger strike, soon followed by Feeney and Kelly, for the right not to do prison work and to be repatriated to a jail in Ireland. The bombers on hunger strike were eventually moved to jails in Ireland as part of the 1975 IRA truce agreed with the British. In 1983, Kelly escaped from Maze Prison and became part of an IRA ASU in the Netherlands; he was recaptured three years later by the Dutch authorities and extradited.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 43], "content_span": [44, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095985-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 Old Bailey bombing, Further IRA bombs in England\nThe Old Bailey bomb was the beginning of a sustained bombing campaign in England. The next major bombing by the IRA in England was the King's Cross station and Euston station bombings which injured 13 people and did widespread damage. Another significant attack that year was the 1973 Westminster bombing which injured 60 people. Two more people would die in England from IRA bombings in 1973, bringing the total to three for the year in that part of United Kingdom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 53], "content_span": [54, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095985-0010-0001", "contents": "1973 Old Bailey bombing, Further IRA bombs in England\nThe next year 1974, was the bloodiest year of the Troubles outside of Northern Ireland with over 70 people being killed in the Republic of Ireland and England combined. 34 were killed in the Dublin and Monaghan bombings, 21 from the Birmingham pub bombings, 12 from the M62 coach bombing and several people were killed by the IRA's Balcombe Street Gang.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 53], "content_span": [54, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095985-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 Old Bailey bombing, Further IRA bombs in England\nOne of the Old Bailey bombers Marian Price explained the IRA's reasoning for bombing England. \"It doesn't seem to matter if it's Irish people dying.\" So if the armed struggle was to succeed then it was necessary to \"bring it to the heart of the British Establishment\" Hence symbolic targets such as the Old Bailey: \"the targets were carefully chosen\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 53], "content_span": [54, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095986-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Ole Miss Rebels football team\nThe 1973 Ole Miss Rebels football team represented the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The team was led by head coach Billy Kinard, in his third year, for the first three games and then by Johnny Vaught, in his 25th year, for their last eight games. The Rebels played their home games at Hemingway Stadium in Oxford, Mississippi and Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium in Jackson, Mississippi. They finished the season with a record of six wins and five losses (6\u20135, 4\u20133 SEC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095987-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Omagh District Council election\nElections to Omagh District Council were held on 30 May 1973 on the same day as the other Northern Irish local government elections. The election used four district electoral areas to elect a total of 20 councillors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095987-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Omagh District Council election, Districts results, Area A\n1973: 2 x SDLP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Independent Unionist, 1 x Independent Nationalist", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095987-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Omagh District Council election, Districts results, Area B\n1973: 1 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Independent Nationalist, 1 x Independent Unionist", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095987-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Omagh District Council election, Districts results, Area C\n1973: 3 x UUP, 2 x SDLP, 1 x Nationalist, 1 x Alliance", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095987-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Omagh District Council election, Districts results, Area D\n1973: 1 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Independent Nationalist, 1 x Independent Republican", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 63], "content_span": [64, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095988-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Omloop Het Volk\nThe 1973 Omloop Het Volk was the 28th edition of the Omloop Het Volk cycle race and was held on 3 March 1973. The race started and finished in Ghent. The race was won by Eddy Merckx.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095989-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Ontario Liberal Party leadership election\nThe Ontario Liberal Party leadership election, 1973, was held on October 27\u201328, 1973 to replace Robert Nixon who had announced his retirement in 1972. After a change of heart he reversed his decision to retire and entered the leadership race to retain his position. He defeated Norman Cafik on the third ballot by 317 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095989-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Ontario Liberal Party leadership election, Background\nOn February 12, 1972, at a party annual meeting, Robert Nixon announced that he was resigning as party leader. Initially five names were presented as possible leadership contenders. Murray Gaunt, a farmer; Donald Deacon, MPP and investment dealer; James Bullbrook, lawyer; Vern Singer, MPP and lawyer; and Phil Givens, former mayor of Toronto. Nixon agreed to stay on as party leader until a leadership convention was held.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095989-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Ontario Liberal Party leadership election, Background\nDeacon was the first to announce his candidacy on May 15, 1973. He said he would reduce the sales tax to 5% and make up the revenue by taxing services that the wealthy use. He also said that he would work on proposals for a guaranteed annual income. He was endorsed by Margaret Campbell, Leonard Braithwaite and federal MP Barney Danson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095989-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Ontario Liberal Party leadership election, Background\nOn August 15, 1973, Nixon announced that he was reversing his earlier decision and would be a candidate in the October convention. Changes for the better in Liberal fortunes had figured into his decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095989-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Ontario Liberal Party leadership election, Background\nOther contenders to enter the race were Ted Culp, a teacher from Toronto (September 5), MPP Eddie Sargent (September 11), Michael Houlton, a promoter (October 1), and MP Norman Cafik (October 3). Culp later quit the race on October 18. Culp, who said he ran to highlight issues such as wage and price controls and school curricula found his efforts stymied by the other candidates. He said, \"Unfortunately, my purpose was largely obscured by the strange tactics of Deacon and Sargent, who seem to be preoccupied with knifing Bob Nixon in the back. Their performance fully explains why they are still backbenchers.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 673]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095989-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Ontario Liberal Party leadership election, Background\nAccording to Peter Oliver, the campaign was rather tedious until Vern Singer was found to have received a $25,000 retainer from a developer working for Ontario Hydro. Sargent accused Nixon of suppressing the information calling it 'hush money'. Singer resigned as Deputy Leader and sued Sargent for defamation of character. On the eve of the convention, Sargent withdrew from the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095989-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Ontario Liberal Party leadership election, Convention\nOn Saturday October 27, 2,081 Liberal delegates gathered at the Royal York Hotel. The speeches took place during the evening. Each contender was given 25 minutes to speak. During Deacon's address, party president Joe Cruden inadvertently cut him off five minutes early. Deacon continued to speak over shouts of \"time\". The mistake appeared to deflate his campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095989-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Ontario Liberal Party leadership election, Convention\nBalloting began on noon on Sunday, October 28. Houlton was eliminated on the first ballot with only 11 votes. On the second ballot, Deacon was eliminated. He then walked across the convention floor and offer his support to Nixon. While Cafik supporters were incredulous given Deacon's attacks on Nixon during the campaign, Deacon explained his move by saying, \"I know Bob, and I know I can count on his integrity.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095989-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Ontario Liberal Party leadership election, Convention\nOn the third and final ballot, Nixon defeated Cafik by 317 votes. Nixon continued as party leader. He appointed Deacon as Deputy Leader and Jim Breithaupt as House Leader.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 58], "content_span": [59, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095990-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Open Championship\nThe 1973 Open Championship was the 102nd Open Championship, played 11\u201314 July at Troon Golf Club in Troon, Scotland. Tom Weiskopf won his only major championship by three strokes over runners-up Neil Coles and Johnny Miller, the winner of the U.S. Open a month earlier. Weiskopf was a wire-to-wire winner and his four-round total of 12-under-par 276 matched the then-existing Open Championship record set by Arnold Palmer on the very same course in 1962.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095990-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Open Championship\nGene Sarazen, 71, made a hole-in-one in the first round at the famous 8th hole, a 126-yard (115\u00a0m) par-3 named the \"Postage Stamp,\" due to its small green. Lee Trevino's bid for a third straight Open fell short, thirteen strokes back in a tie for tenth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095990-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Open Championship\nThis was the course's last Open Championship under the name Troon Golf Club; it became Royal Troon Golf Club five years later in 1978, and next hosted in 1982.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095990-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Open Championship, Course\nOpens from 1962 through 1989 played the 11th hole as a par-5.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 30], "content_span": [31, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095990-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Open Championship, Round summaries, Second round\nAmateurs: Edwards (+6), Homer (+7), Russell (+7), Foster (+8),Stuart (+9), Milne (+10), Hedges (+13), Bonallack (+15), Sym (+15), Burch (+16), Eyles (+18), James (+24)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 53], "content_span": [54, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095991-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Orange Bowl\nThe 1973 Orange Bowl was the 39th edition of the college football bowl game, played at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida, on Monday, January 1. The final game of the 1972\u201373 bowl season, it matched the ninth-ranked Nebraska Cornhuskers of the Big Eight Conference and the independent #12 Notre Dame Fighting Irish, led by their respective hall of fame coaches, Bob Devaney and Ara Parseghian. Nebraska scored early and won 40\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095991-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Orange Bowl, Teams, Notre Dame\nNotre Dame opened with four wins, but lost by four points to Missouri at home. In the regular season finale, the Irish lost 45\u201323 at\u00a0rival\u00a0USC, the eventual national\u00a0champion. It was Notre Dame's first appearance in the Orange\u00a0Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 35], "content_span": [36, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095991-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Orange Bowl, Teams, Nebraska\nThe two-time defending national champion Cornhuskers started the season top-ranked, but were upset by a late field goal in the opener, late at night at UCLA. They later tied Iowa\u00a0State on the road and lost 17\u201314 to rival Oklahoma at home, their first loss on artificial turf. Nebraska was appearing in their third consecutive Orange\u00a0Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 33], "content_span": [34, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095991-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Orange Bowl, Game summary\nHeisman Trophy winner Johnny Rodgers scored on an 8-yard touchdown run as Nebraska took the lead. In the second quarter, Gary\u00a0Dixon scored from a yard out to increase the score to 14\u20130. I-back Rodgers then found split end Frosty\u00a0Anderson for a 52-yard touchdown pass and the Huskers led 20\u20130 at halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 30], "content_span": [31, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095991-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Orange Bowl, Game summary\nIn the third quarter, Rodgers scored on runs of four and five yards as Nebraska built a 33\u20130 lead. Quarterback Dave\u00a0Humm threw a 50-yard touchdown pass to Rodgers as Nebraska led 40\u20130 after three quarters. Notre Dame finally managed six points on a touchdown from Tom\u00a0Clements to Pete\u00a0Demmerle against the Husker reserves to avoid a\u00a0shutout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 30], "content_span": [31, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095991-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Orange Bowl, Aftermath\nAlthough 1972 was a letdown season after two consecutive national championships, the Huskers were the first to three-peat in the Orange Bowl and finished fourth in the final AP poll at 9\u20132\u20131. Rodgers scored four touchdowns and threw for another in his final collegiate game, and sat out the final twenty minutes. The final UPI coaches poll was released in early December, prior to the bowls, and had the Huskers ninth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 27], "content_span": [28, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095991-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Orange Bowl, Aftermath\nThe 1972 season also was the only three-loss season in Parseghian's eleven years at Notre Dame and they fell to fourteenth in the final AP poll; the Irish rebounded in 1973 to finish 11\u20130 and win the national championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 27], "content_span": [28, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095992-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Oregon State Beavers football team\nThe 1973 Oregon State Beavers football team represented Oregon State University in the Pacific-8 Conference (Pac-8) during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. In their ninth season under head coach Dee Andros, the Beavers compiled a 2\u20139 record (2\u20135 in Pac-8, tie for fifth), and were outscored 293\u00a0to\u00a0166. The team played four home games on campus at Parker Stadium in Corvallis, with one at Civic Stadium in\u00a0Portland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095992-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Oregon State Beavers football team\nWith their three-point road win over rival Oregon in the season finale, Andros' record improved to 8\u20131 against the Ducks in the Civil\u00a0War\u00a0game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095993-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Oregon Webfoots football team\nThe 1973 Oregon Webfoots football team represented the University of Oregon during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. In his second and final year as head coach, Dick Enright led the Ducks to a 2\u20139 record (2\u20135 in Pac-8, tied for fifth)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095993-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Oregon Webfoots football team\nSix weeks after the season ended, Enright was fired by athletic director Norv Ritchey in early January, with the university buying out the remainder of his four-year contract. He was immediately succeeded by assistant coach Don Read, who handled quarterbacks and receivers for the past two\u00a0seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095993-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Oregon Webfoots football team, All-conference\nThree Oregon underclassmen were named to the All-Pac-8 team: tight end Russ Francis, defensive back Steve Donnelly, and defensive tackle Reggie Lewis. Francis and Donnelly were juniors and Lewis was a sophomore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095993-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Oregon Webfoots football team, NFL Draft\nTwo Oregon seniors were selected in the draft; tackle Tim Guy (122nd) and defensive back Jack Conners (400th).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095994-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Orsz\u00e1gos Bajnoks\u00e1g I (men's water polo)\n1973 Orsz\u00e1gos Bajnoks\u00e1g I (men's water polo) was the 67th water polo championship in Hungary. There were ten teams who played two-round match for the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095994-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Orsz\u00e1gos Bajnoks\u00e1g I (men's water polo), Final list\n* M: Matches W: Win D: Drawn L: Lost G+: Goals earned G-: Goals got P: Point", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095995-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Ottawa Rough Riders season\nThe 1973 Ottawa Rough Riders finished the season in 1st place in the Eastern Conference with a 9\u20135 record and won the Grey Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095995-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Ottawa Rough Riders season, Postseason, Grey Cup\nEdmonton quarterback Tom Wilkinson was accused of using an unnatural head motion to draw the defence offside. Ottawa General Manager Frank Clair lobbied league officials to watch Wilkinson carefully at the line of scrimmage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 53], "content_span": [54, 278]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095996-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 PGA Championship\nThe 1973 PGA Championship was the 55th PGA Championship, played August 9\u201312 at Canterbury Golf Club in Beachwood, Ohio, a suburb east of Cleveland. Ohio native Jack Nicklaus won the third of his five PGA Championships, four strokes ahead of runner-up Bruce Crampton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095996-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 PGA Championship\nIt was the twelfth of Nicklaus' eighteen major titles as a professional. At the time, the holder of the most major titles was the late Bobby Jones, with thirteen. As a lifelong amateur, his majors were the Open and amateur championships in the U.S. and Britain. Including his two U.S. Amateur titles, Nicklaus now had 14 majors, surpassing Jones. With his 12th professional major win Nicklaus also usurped Walter Hagen's record of 11 professional major victories. As of July 2021 these records still stand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095996-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 PGA Championship\nSam Snead, age 61, shot even-par each day and finished in the top ten for the second straight year; he tied for ninth after a tie for fourth in 1972 and would improve on those in 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095996-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 PGA Championship\nThis was the third major at Canterbury, which hosted the U.S. Open twice in the 1940s, both decided in playoffs. Lawson Little was the champion in 1940 with a three-stroke win over Gene Sarazen. Following World War II in 1946, the first U.S. Open in five years was played at the course. Lloyd Mangrum won in the second 18-hole playoff round, one stroke ahead of major winners Byron Nelson and Vic Ghezzi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095997-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 PGA Tour\nThe 1973 PGA Tour season was played from January 4 to December 1. The season consisted of 48 official money events. Jack Nicklaus won the most tournaments, seven, and there were seven first-time winners. The tournament results and award winners are listed below.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095997-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 PGA Tour, Tournament results\nThe following table shows all the official money events for the 1973 season. \"Date\" is the ending date of the tournament. The numbers in parentheses after the winners' names are the number of wins they had on the tour up to and including that event. Majors are shown in bold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 33], "content_span": [34, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095998-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates\nThis is a list of the 1973 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095998-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates\nThe tournament returned to a 144-hole final. After three 72-hole regional qualifiers, their were 78 players in the final field. The first four rounds were played at Perdido Bay Country Club in Pensacola, Florida in mid-October and the final four at Dunes Golf Club in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina the following week. They changed courses because the tour was attempting to prepare participants what week-to-week life would be like if they graduated onto the PGA Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095998-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates\nBen Crenshaw won the event by 12 strokes. Recently one of the leading amateurs in the country, Crenshaw \"gave more credence to projections that he would become golf's next dominating player.\" Joe Inman, in his second attempt at Q-school, successfully moved on to the PGA Tour. He finished in a tie for sixth place. A total of 23 players earned their tour cards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095999-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Pacific Coast Open\nThe 1973 Pacific Coast Open, also known by its sponsored name Fireman's Fund International, was a men's tennis tournament that was part of the Grade B category of the 1973 Grand Prix circuit. The event was played on outdoor hard courts at the Round Hill Country Club in Alamo in the San Francisco Bay Area, United States. It was the 83rd edition of the tournament and was held from September 23 through September 30, 1973. Fourth-seeded Roy Emerson won the singles title and the accompanying $9,000 first-prize money and 40 Grand Prix points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00095999-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Pacific Coast Open, Finals, Doubles\nRoy Emerson / Stan Smith defeated Ove Nils Bengtson / Jim McManus 6\u20132, 6\u20131", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 40], "content_span": [41, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096000-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Pacific Conference Games\nThe 1973 Pacific Conference Games was the second edition of the international athletics competition between five Pacific coast nations: Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand and the United States. It was held on June 27 and 28 in Toronto. A total of 20 men's and 12 women's athletics events were contested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096001-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Pacific Southwest Open\nThe 1973 Pacific Southwest Open was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Los Angeles Tennis Center in Los Angeles, California in the United States. The tournament was classified as Grade A and was part of the Grand Prix tennis circuit. It was the 47th edition of the tournament and ran from September 17 through September 23, 1973. Jimmy Connors won the singles title and the $11,000 first place prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096001-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Pacific Southwest Open, Finals, Doubles\nJan Kode\u0161 / Vladim\u00edr Zedn\u00edk defeated Jimmy Connors / Ilie N\u0103stase 6\u20132, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 44], "content_span": [45, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096002-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Pacific Tigers football team\nThe 1973 Pacific Tigers football team represented the University of the Pacific (UOP) in the 1973 NCAA Division I football season as a member of the Pacific Coast Athletic Association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096002-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Pacific Tigers football team\nThe team was led by head coach Chester Caddas, in his second year, and played their home games at Pacific Memorial Stadium in Stockton, California. They finished the season with a record of seven wins, two losses and one tie (7\u20132\u20131, 2\u20131\u20131 PCAA). The Tigers outscored their opponents 279\u2013109 for the entire season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096002-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Pacific Tigers football team, Team players in the NFL\nThe following UOP players were selected in the 1974 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 58], "content_span": [59, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096003-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Pacific hurricane season\nThe 1973 Pacific hurricane season was an event in tropical cyclone meteorology. The most important system this year was Hurricane Ava, which was the most intense Pacific hurricane known at the time. Several other much weaker tropical cyclones came close to, or made landfall on, the Pacific coast of Mexico. The most serious of these was Hurricane Irah, which downed power and communication lines in parts of the Baja California Peninsula; the other landfalling storms caused rain and some flooding. No tropical cyclone this season caused any deaths.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096003-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Pacific hurricane season\nThis season had a quick start but a slow end. Overall activity was below average, with twelve named systems in total. Of these, five were tropical storms, seven were hurricanes, of which three were major (Category\u00a03 or higher on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale). Just one storm formed in August, one of the least active Augusts ever in the east Pacific. The season officially started May 15, 1973, in the eastern Pacific, and June 1, 1973, in the central Pacific, and lasted until November 30, 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096003-0001-0001", "contents": "1973 Pacific hurricane season\nThese dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northeastern Pacific Ocean. All tropical cyclones this season formed in the eastern north Pacific Ocean, often off the coast of Mexico. As is usual in the northern hemisphere, most traveled generally westward or northwestward, and two reached as far as the waters south of the Hawaiian Islands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096003-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Pacific hurricane season, Season summary\nThe season began with the formation of the pre-Ava tropical depression on June 2 and ended with the dissipation of Tropical Lillian on October 9. The season lasted a total of 129 days. No named storms formed in May, three in June, four in July, one in August, three in September, one in October, and none in November. Another six tropical depressions formed during the year, but data on them is unavailable. All of these tropical cyclones formed in the eastern north Pacific tropical cyclone basin, which encompasses the Pacific Ocean north of the equator east of 140\u00b0W. None formed in the central north Pacific, which is the remainder of the Pacific Ocean east of the international dateline.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 738]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096003-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Pacific hurricane season, Season summary\nOf the tropical cyclones that formed this year, were twelve tropical storms and seven were hurricanes. Of those hurricanes, three of them were major hurricanes because they reached Category 3 or higher on the Saffir-Simpson Scale. These totals are all below the long-term averages of thirteen tropical storms, nine hurricanes, and four major hurricanes. At the time, this season's total of twelve named tropical cyclones was exactly average, although at the time the climatology in this basin was weak because satellite coverage was spotty before 1966.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096003-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Pacific hurricane season, Season summary\nThis season, all advisories and tropical cyclone data were released and collected by two agencies, the Eastern Pacific Hurricane Center in Redwood City, California, and the Central Pacific Hurricane Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, both of which were coextensive with the National Weather Service Forecast Offices in their respective cities. The EPHC covered the area between the coast of North America and 140\u00b0W, and the CPHC the remainder of the area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096003-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Ava\nA tropical depression formed on June 2. It steadily strengthened and headed in a generally westerly direction. It moved slowly and became Hurricane Ava on June 4. Two days later, it became a major hurricane and it sped up. On June 7, it became a Category\u00a05 hurricane. It then started weakening and slowed down until it dissipated on June 12. No deaths or damages were attributed to Hurricane Ava.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096003-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Ava\nAva's minimum central pressure was 915 millibars, and its maximum sustained winds reached 140 knots (260\u00a0km/h). This made Ava the most intense recorded east Pacific hurricane at the time. Ava reached Category\u00a05 intensity on June 7, the earliest date in an east Pacific season that a hurricane has done so. It was also the second known Category\u00a05 storm in the east Pacific; (behind Patsy in 1959). Ava is the strongest June storm, the fifth most intense east Pacific hurricane, and was the only June Category\u00a05 on record until 2010.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096003-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Ava\nAva was also flown into by hurricane hunter aircraft in what was the first penetration of a Pacific hurricane by NOAA aircraft. During these flights, radars and other devices were tested, and wind speed, pressure, and wave heights were measured. This is the reason why Hurricane Ava's pressure is measured instead of estimated. Ava was also photographed from Skylab because it was visible during one of the missions. At that time, it was coincidentally on the surface of the Earth directly underneath the space station. All in all, these made Hurricane Ava one of the best-observed Pacific hurricanes at the time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 53], "content_span": [54, 667]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096003-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Bernice\nA nearly stationary disturbance in the Intertropical Convergence Zone spent three days organizing and finally developed into a tropical depression on June 22. The cyclone started heading northwest. After intensifying into a tropical storm, Bernice made landfall on June 23 at a location roughly 50\u00a0mi (80\u00a0km) southwest of Zihuatanejo. It dissipated later that day. Bernice exposed two ships to gales, but otherwise neither deaths nor significant impact was reported. At its peak, Tropical Storm Bernice had winds of 70 miles per hour (110\u00a0km/h).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096003-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Claudia\nA tropical depression formed June 26 from a westward-moving area of disturbed weather. The next day, it developed gale-force winds and was named Claudia. Claudia headed northwesterly and then northwards and made landfall on June 28 approximately 30\u00a0mi (50\u00a0km) east of Acapulco. It dissipated inland the next day. No deaths or casualties were reported due to this tropical cyclone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096003-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Doreen\nOn July 18, a tropical storm formed from a disturbance in the Intertropical Convergence Zone and was named Doreen. It steadily intensified, and became a hurricane on July 19. Doreen briefly reached Category\u00a04 strength on July 21 with a relatively high central pressure of 972\u00a0mb (28.7\u00a0inHg). It then weakened steadily as its path carried it on a direct path to the Big Island of Hawaii. Doreen weakened to a tropical storm as it entered the Central Pacific Hurricane Center's area of responsibility on July 25.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096003-0010-0001", "contents": "1973 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Doreen\nA frontal system stuck between two high-pressure areas weakened as the two areas merged, creating a larger high pressure area that turned Doreen to the southwest on July 27. The hurricane then turned back to the northwest and strengthened back into a hurricane. It became a major hurricane again before weakening. Doreen dissipated August 3. Its remnant vortex continued westward until it dissipated under a trough near the dateline. Doreen's sudden change of track and restrengthening was unusual.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096003-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Doreen\nFrom formation to dissipation, Doreen lasted 16.25 days and traveled a distance of 4,200\u00a0mi (6,760\u00a0km). This tied Hurricane Celeste's record for longest-lasting Pacific hurricane. Doreen was also the longest-lasting July tropical cyclone. Hurricane Fico broke both of these records in the 1978 season. Doreen remains the eighth-longest lasting Pacific tropical cyclone, tied with two other storms. Several ships encountered Doreen. The most serious incident involved a Greek ship called Cornelia which lost its rudder in 35\u00a0ft (10\u00a0m) waves, but managed to escape and continue on its way to Panama. On the afternoon of July 29, 9\u00a0ft (2.7\u00a0m) swells and 3.5\u00a0ft (1.1\u00a0m) waves were seen from Kapoho. Otherwise, no damages or deaths were blamed on this tropical cyclone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 56], "content_span": [57, 821]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096003-0012-0000", "contents": "1973 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Emily\nA depression formed July 21 from squalls in the Gulf of Tehuantepec and headed west-northwest and strengthened into a tropical storm. Emily continued moving nearly parallel to the coast before turning to the west while steadily intensifying. Emily eventually reached Category\u00a04 intensity on July 22. Emily then weakened as it turned to the northwest. It dissipated on July 28. Emily's wind field was large enough to bring gales areas 300\u00a0mi (480\u00a0km) east of the hurricane from July 22 to 24. This tropical cyclone caused no deaths or damage. Emily had a pressure of 972 mbar, which is unusually high for a hurricane of Category 4 strength.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 695]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096003-0013-0000", "contents": "1973 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Florence\nOn July 25, a depression formed off the coast of Guatemala. The storm made a close approach to the Mexican coast as a depression, but did not make landfall. Just after that, it strengthened into a tropical storm. Florence headed west and then west-northwest. It became a hurricane on July 29. It began weakening thereafter. Florence dissipated on July 30. No damages or deaths were reported.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096003-0014-0000", "contents": "1973 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Glenda\nA depression that had formed on July 30 from a tropical disturbance quickly strengthened into a tropical storm and was named Glenda. It took a path similar to both Florence and Emily, but further from the shore. Glenda dissipated August 5. At the time it still had winds of 40 knots (70\u00a0km/h), down from its peak of 60 miles per hour (97\u00a0km/h). No deaths, damage, or other impact was reported.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096003-0015-0000", "contents": "1973 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Heather\nThe only storm to form in August this year formed on August 31 from an area of circulation in the ITCZ over the Gulf of Tehuantepec. It became a tropical depression on August 30. After moving northwest for a bit, it became a tropical storm and headed almost due north towards Mexico. Heather dissipated September 1, just before making landfall. Tropical Storm Heather caused no deaths or damage to any location in the coastal area of the Gulf of Tehuantepec.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096003-0016-0000", "contents": "1973 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Irah\nA depression formed September 22. It became a tropical storm on September 23 and a hurricane on September 24. Irah took a northwesterly path and reached Category\u00a02 strength on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale, and then dropped back down to a 1 as it recurved. It made landfall on Baja California and entered the Gulf of California as a tropical storm, making landfall again in northwestern Mexico approximately 30\u00a0mi (50\u00a0km) northwest of Los Mochis. Irah's first landfall was the strongest of the season. The hurricane dissipated on September 27 while heading east-northeast over mainland Mexico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 653]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096003-0017-0000", "contents": "1973 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Irah\nIrah blew over some power and communication lines during its passage over the southern tip of the Baja California Peninsula. Heavy rain fell over parts of Mexico, with the highest total being 10.24\u00a0in (260\u00a0mm) at Sierra de la Laguna. One person was injured and at least ten houses were destroyed in Cabo San Lucas. No one was killed. There was some concern that the hurricane could disrupt splashdown procedures for astronauts at the end of Skylab 3; however, the return to Earth was not seriously affected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 54], "content_span": [55, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096003-0018-0000", "contents": "1973 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Tropical Storm Jennifer\nOn September 23, another depression formed. It took a northeasterly path, rotating around the southern periphery of Hurricane Irah as part of a Fujiwhara interaction. It strengthened into a tropical storm late on September 24. The peak windspeed of this tropical cyclone was 40 miles per hour (60\u00a0km/h). Jennifer then weakened to a depression and turned to the north-northeast. Jennifer brushed the Islas Mar\u00edas. The cyclone made landfall near just southeast of Mazatl\u00e1n and dissipated September 27. Tropical Depression Jennifer caused rain over several parts of Mexico. The highest total was 7.48\u00a0in (190\u00a0mm) at Navarette/San Blas. No one was killed and no damage was reported.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 63], "content_span": [64, 742]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096003-0019-0000", "contents": "1973 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Katherine\nKatherine became a tropical storm on September 29, just six hours after forming. It headed out to sea. On October 1, it became a hurricane category 5 . It peaked in windspeed the next day. After weakening to storm strength, it crossed 140\u00b0W and entered the central Pacific. Katherine continued its slightly south of westward track. It dropped to a depression on October 9, and dissipated shortly after that due to the influence of a cold trough", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096003-0020-0000", "contents": "1973 Pacific hurricane season, Systems, Hurricane Lillian\nA depression that formed October 5 reached storm strength the same day. It generally paralleled the coast of Mexico far offshore. Lillian reached minimal hurricane strength on October 7 and peaked the next day. The hurricane began to weaken immediately thereafter and dissipated on October 9. Through its life, Lillian at first traveled generally west-northwestward, and then westward. Lillian never threatened land, causing no known impact.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096003-0021-0000", "contents": "1973 Pacific hurricane season, Storm names\nThese names were used for storms that formed in the eastern Pacific during this season. It is the same list used in the 1969 season. Storms were named Katherine and Lillian for the first time this year. No names were retired, so this list was used again in the 1977 season. Names that weren't assigned are colored gray.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 42], "content_span": [43, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096003-0022-0000", "contents": "1973 Pacific hurricane season, Storm names\nThe Central Pacific used names and numbers from the Western Pacific's typhoon list. No systems formed in the area, and thus no names were required.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 42], "content_span": [43, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096003-0023-0000", "contents": "1973 Pacific hurricane season, Season effects\nThis is a table of all of the storms in the 1973 Pacific hurricane season. It includes their durations, peak intensities, names, landfall(s), damages, and death totals. Deaths in parentheses are additional and indirect (an example of an indirect death would be a traffic accident), but are still storm-related. Damage and deaths include totals while the storm was extratropical or a wave or a low.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096004-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Pacific typhoon season\nThe 1973 Pacific typhoon season has no official bounds; it ran year-round in 1973, but most tropical cyclones tend to form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean between June and December. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096004-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Pacific typhoon season\nThe scope of this article is limited to the Pacific Ocean, north of the equator and west of the international date line. Storms that form east of the date line and north of the equator are called hurricanes; see 1973 Pacific hurricane season. Tropical Storms formed in the entire west pacific basin were assigned a name by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center. Tropical depressions in this basin have the \"W\" suffix added to their number. Tropical depressions that enter or form in the Philippine area of responsibility are assigned a name by the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration or PAGASA. This can often result in the same storm having two names.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 716]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096004-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Pacific typhoon season, Systems\n25 tropical depressions formed this year in the Western Pacific, of which 21 became tropical storms. 12 storms reached typhoon intensity, of which 3 reached super typhoon strength.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096004-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Severe Tropical Storm Wilda (Atring)\nTropical Storm Wilda formed as a disturbance east of the Philippines. It traveled northwest and became a tropical depression as it made landfall on Luzon on June 30th. It crossed the island, and became a tropical storm as it entered the South China Sea on the 1st of July. It traveled north and made landfall in southern China on the 3rd. The remnants of Wilda dissipated inland a few days later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 74], "content_span": [75, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096004-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Billie (Bining)\nTropical Storm Bille, which developed on July 12 east of the Philippines, rapidly strengthened on the 14th and 15th to a 150\u00a0mph super typhoon. It tracked due north, fluctuating in intensity for the next 3\u00a0days. A building ridge over the Sea of Japan forced Billie to the northwest, where it weakened greatly, first to a tropical storm on the 18th, then to a tropical depression on the 19th as it passed over northeastern China. The storm dissipated on the 20th.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096004-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Dot\nTyphoon Dot struck Hong Kong causing sustained storm force winds, killing one person.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096004-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Marge (Ibiang)\nHainan, Qionghai Jiaji town recorded a minimum central pressure of 937.8 hPa when Marge landfall. Marge killed 903 people in Hainan. Marge made its final landfall in Thanh Hoa, Vietnam on September 15.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096004-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Nora (Luming)\nThe monsoon trough spawned a tropical depression east of the Philippines on October 1. Under weak steering currents, it meandered westward, where favorable conditions allowed for it to strengthen, first to a tropical storm on the 2nd, then to a typhoon on the 3rd. Nora continued to the northwest, and explosively deepened on the 5th and 6th to a 185\u00a0mph super typhoon. At the time, it had a minimum central pressure of 875\u00a0millibars, the lowest pressure on record at the time and currently tied for 9th. The typhoon weakened as it headed to the northwest, and struck northeastern Luzon on the 7th as a 115\u00a0mph typhoon. Nora continued to the northwest, weakening to a minimal typhoon as it hit southeast China on the 10th. The typhoon caused 18\u00a0fatalities, with over $2\u00a0million in damage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 59], "content_span": [60, 848]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096004-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Ruth (Narsing)\n27 people were killed when Typhoon Ruth crossed Luzon on October 15 and caused $5\u00a0million in damage. Ruth continued to the northwest, and hit Hainan Island and Quang Ninh, Vietnam on the 19th, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096004-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Typhoon Ruth (Narsing)\nRuth had the similar path to the Typhoon Sarika in the same time in 2016.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096004-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Severe Tropical Storm Sarah\nOn November 12 this system emerged in the Bay of Bengal and became Tropical Cyclone 37-73.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 65], "content_span": [66, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096004-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 Pacific typhoon season, Systems, Severe Tropical Storm Vera (Openg)\nOne of the strongest tropical cyclones to hit Visayas when it entered on November 20, although the system didn't reach typhoon status. Tropical Storm Openg affected around 3.4 million people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 72], "content_span": [73, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096004-0012-0000", "contents": "1973 Pacific typhoon season, Storm names\nWestern North Pacific tropical cyclones were named by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center. The first storm of 1973 was named Wilda and the final one was named Vera.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096004-0013-0000", "contents": "1973 Pacific typhoon season, Storm names, Philippines\nThe Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration uses its own naming scheme for tropical cyclones in their area of responsibility. PAGASA assigns names to tropical depressions that form within their area of responsibility and any tropical cyclone that might move into their area of responsibility. Should the list of names for a given year prove to be insufficient, names are taken from an auxiliary list, the first 10 of which are published each year before the season starts. This is the same list used for the 1969 season. PAGASA uses its own naming scheme that starts in the Filipino alphabet, with names of Filipino female names ending with \"ng\" (A, B, K, D, etc. ).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 757]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096004-0014-0000", "contents": "1973 Pacific typhoon season, Season effects\nThis table will list all the storms that developed in the northwestern Pacific Ocean west of the International Date Line and north of the equator during 1973. It will include their intensity, duration, name, areas affected, deaths, missing persons (in parentheses), and damage totals. Classification and intensity values will be based on estimations conducted by the JMA, however due to lack of information around this time sustained winds were recorded by the JTWC. All damage figures will be in 1973\u00a0USD. Damages and deaths from a storm will include when the storm was a precursor wave or an extratropical low.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 656]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096005-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Palanca Awards\nThe Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature winners in the year 1973 (rank, title of winning entry, name of author).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096006-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Palestine Cup of Nations\nThe 1973 Palestine Cup was the 2nd edition of the Palestine Cup of Nations, it was held in Libya between 11 and 26 August. Ten nations took part in the competition of which Tunisia won.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096007-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Palestine Cup of Nations squads\nBelow are the squads for the 1973 Palestine Cup of Nations, hosted in Libya, and which took place between 11 and 26 August 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096008-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Paraguayan general election\nGeneral elections were held in Paraguay on 11 February 1973. Alfredo Stroessner of the Colorado Party won the presidential elections, whilst the Colorado Party won 20 of the 30 seats in the Senate and 40 of the 60 seats in the Chamber of Deputues. Voter turnout was 77.4%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096009-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Paris Air Show Tu-144 crash\nThe 1973 Paris Air Show Tu-144 crash was the destruction of the second production Tupolev Tu-144 at Goussainville, Val-d'Oise, France, which killed all six crew and eight people on the ground. The crash, at the Paris Air Show on Sunday, 3 June 1973, damaged the development program of the Tupolev Tu-144.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096009-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Paris Air Show Tu-144 crash\nOne theory is that a French Mirage jet sent to photograph the aircraft without the knowledge of the Soviet crew caused the pilots to take evasive manoeuvres, resulting in the crash. Another theory is that in a rivalry with the Anglo-French Concorde, the pilots attempted a manoeuvre that was beyond the capabilities of the aircraft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096009-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Paris Air Show Tu-144 crash, Accident\nThe aircraft involved was Tupolev Tu-144S CCCP-77102, manufacturer's serial number 01\u20132, the second production Tu-144. The aircraft had first flown on 29 March 1972. This aircraft had been modified compared to the initial prototype to include landing gear that retracted into the nacelles, and retractable canards. The pilot was Mikhail Kozlov, and the co-pilot was Valery M. Molchanov. Also on board were G. N. Bazhenov, the flight navigator, V. N. Benderov, deputy chief designer and engineer major-general, B. A. Pervukhin, senior engineer, and A. I. Dralin, flight engineer. The crash occurred in front of 250,000 people, including designer Alexei Tupolev, toward the end of the show.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 731]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096009-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Paris Air Show Tu-144 crash, Accident\nDuring the show, there was a \"fierce competition between the Anglo-French Concorde and the Russian Tu-144\". The Soviet pilot, Mikhail Kozlov, had bragged that he would outperform the Concorde. \"Just wait until you see us fly,\" he was quoted as saying. \"Then you'll see something.\" On the final day of the show, the Concorde, which was not yet in production, performed its demonstration flight first. Its performance was later described as being unexciting, and it has been theorized that Kozlov was determined to show how much better his aircraft was.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096009-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Paris Air Show Tu-144 crash, Accident\nOnce in flight, the aircraft made what appeared to be a landing approach, with the landing gear out and the \"moustache\" canards extended, but then with all four engines at full power, climbed rapidly. Possibly stalling below 2,000\u00a0ft (610\u00a0m), the aircraft pitched over and went into a steep dive. Trying to pull out of the subsequent dive with the engines again at full power, the Tu-144 broke up in mid-air, possibly due to overstressing the airframe. The left wing came away first, and then the aircraft disintegrated and crashed, destroying 15 houses, and killing all six people on board the Tu-144 and eight more on the ground. Three children were among those killed, and 60 people received severe injuries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 754]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096009-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Paris Air Show Tu-144 crash, Aftermath\nThe crew of the Tu-144 were buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow on 12 June 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096009-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Paris Air Show Tu-144 crash, Aftermath\nFollowing the crash, Marcel Dassault called for the 1975 Paris Air Show to be held at Istres, which is situated in open country 40\u00a0km (25\u00a0mi) north west of Marseille.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096009-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Paris Air Show Tu-144 crash, Aftermath\nThe crash reduced the enthusiasm of Aeroflot for the Tu-144. Restrictions on the Tu-144 following the Paris Air Show crash meant that it only saw limited service during 1977 and 1978, and it was finally withdrawn following another crash in May 1978. The Tu-144's rival, the Concorde, went on to serve with British Airways and Air France for 30 years afterwards, being finally withdrawn from service in 2003 due to low passenger numbers following the crash of Flight 4590, rising service costs and the slump in the aviation industry following the September 11 attacks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096009-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Paris Air Show Tu-144 crash, Causes, Investigation\nThe accident was investigated by the DTCE, part of the French military, which was responsible for accidents involving prototype aircraft in France. The wreckage was recovered to a hangar at Le Bourget, with some of it being flown by an Antonov An-22 to the Soviet Union.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096009-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Paris Air Show Tu-144 crash, Causes, Theories\nOne theory is that the Tu-144 manoeuvred to avoid a French Mirage chase plane that was attempting to photograph its unique canards, which were advanced for the time, and that the French and Soviet governments colluded with each other to cover up such details. The flight of the Mirage was denied in the original French report of the incident, perhaps because it was engaged in industrial espionage. More recent reports have admitted the existence of the Mirage (and the fact that the Soviet crew were not told about the Mirage's flight) though not its role in the crash.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 621]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096009-0009-0001", "contents": "1973 Paris Air Show Tu-144 crash, Causes, Theories\nHowever, the official press release did state: \"though the inquiry established that there was no real risk of collision between the two aircraft, the Soviet pilot was likely to have been surprised.\" Howard Moon, author of Soviet SST: The Techno-Politics Of The Tupolev-144, stresses that last-minute changes to the flight schedule would have disoriented the pilots in a cockpit with notably poor sightlines. He also cites an eyewitness who claims the co-pilot had agreed to take a camera with him, which he may have been operating at the time of the evasive manoeuvre. The initial approach may have been an attempted landing on the wrong runway, which occurred due to a last-minute shortening of the Tu-144's display.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 768]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096009-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 Paris Air Show Tu-144 crash, Causes, Theories\nAn important contributing factor could be that control surfaces deflection had been de-restricted before the flight, perhaps to allow a more impressive demonstration, giving way for a bug of the electronics flight controls which deflected the elevons 10 degrees down after the retraction of the canards, causing the sudden dive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 379]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096009-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 Paris Air Show Tu-144 crash, Causes, Theories\nBob Hoover, a pilot on the supersonic Bell X-1 program, believed that the rivalry of the Tu-144 and Concorde led the pilot of the Tu-144 to attempt a manoeuvre that went beyond the abilities of the aircraft: \"That day, the Concorde went first, and after the pilot performed a high-speed flyby, he pulled up steeply and climbed to approximately 10,000 [feet] before leveling off. When the Tu-144 pilot performed the same manoeuvre he pulled the nose up so steeply I didn't believe he could possibly recover.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096010-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Paris Open\nThe 1973 Paris Open was a men's Grand Prix tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 4th edition of the Paris Open (later known as the Paris Masters). It took place at the Palais omnisports de Paris-Bercy in Paris, France, from 29 October until 4 November 1973. Ilie N\u0103stase won the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096010-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Paris Open, Finals, Singles\nIlie N\u0103stase defeated Stan Smith 4\u20136, 6\u20131, 3\u20136, 6\u20130, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096010-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Paris Open, Finals, Doubles\nJuan Gisbert, Sr. / Ilie N\u0103stase defeated Arthur Ashe / Roscoe Tanner 6\u20132, 4\u20136, 7\u20135", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096011-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Paris Open \u2013 Doubles\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by Wolbo (talk | contribs) at 00:02, 1 December 2020 (\u2192\u200eExternal links: Updated external link). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096011-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Paris Open \u2013 Doubles, Seeds\nChampion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated. All four seeded teams received byes to the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096012-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Paris Open \u2013 Singles\nStan Smith was the defending champion, but Ilie N\u0103stase defeated him 4\u20136, 6\u20131, 3\u20136, 6\u20130, 6\u20132 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096013-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Paris\u2013Nice\nThe 1973 Paris\u2013Nice was the 31st edition of the Paris\u2013Nice cycle race and was held from 11 March to 17 March 1973. The race started in Paris and finished in Nice. The race was won by Raymond Poulidor of the Gan team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096014-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Paris\u2013Roubaix\nThe 1973 Paris\u2013Roubaix was the 71st edition of the Paris\u2013Roubaix cycle race and was held on 15 April 1973. The race started in Compi\u00e8gne and finished in Roubaix. The race was won by Eddy Merckx of the Molteni team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096015-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Paris\u2013Tours\nThe 1973 Paris\u2013Tours was the 67th edition of the Paris\u2013Tours cycle race and was held on 30 September 1973. The race started in Paris and finished in Tours. The race was won by Rik Van Linden.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096016-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Parramatta by-election\nA by-election was held for the Australian House of Representatives seat of Parramatta on 22 September 1973. The by-election was triggered by the resignation of former Liberal Party long serving Attorney General and Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Honourable (and later Sir) Nigel Bowen who accepted an appointment to the NSW Court of Appeal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096016-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Parramatta by-election\nThe seat was retained by the Liberal Party, with Philip Ruddock defeating Michael Whelan, who contested the seat for the Labor Party. Ten other candidates from minor parties contested the seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096016-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Parramatta by-election\nThis was the first federal election in which eighteen-year-olds were eligible to vote, the voting age having been lowered from twenty-one earlier in the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096017-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Pau Grand Prix\nThe 1973 Pau Grand Prix was a Formula Two motor race held on 6 May 1973 at the Pau circuit, in Pau, Pyr\u00e9n\u00e9es-Atlantiques, France. The Grand Prix was won by Fran\u00e7ois Cevert, driving the Alpine A367. Jean-Pierre Jarier finished second and Tim Schenken third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096018-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Peach Bowl\nThe 1973 Peach Bowl was the sixth annual Peach Bowl, featuring the Georgia Bulldogs and the Maryland Terrapins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096018-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Peach Bowl, Background\nFour losses in six games in the middle of the Bulldogs season lead them to finish tied for fifth place in the Southeastern Conference (SEC), going 2\u20131 against ranked teams, beating #19 NC State and #11 Tennessee, but losing to #1 Alabama. After 17 years, the Terrapins made their first bowl appearance since the late 1950s Led by Jerry Claiborne, in his second year at the program, Maryland tied for second-place finish in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). This was the first Peach Bowl appearance for both teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096018-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Peach Bowl, Game summary\nJimmy Poulos gave the Bulldogs the lead on a touchdown catch from Johnson to break the scoreless tie in the second quarter with 5:27 in the quarter. Walter White caught a 68-yard touchdown pass from Carter to tie the game 23 seconds later. His reception proved to be Maryland's only touchdown of the day. Mayer and Leavitt traded field goals to make the game even at 10 at halftime. A Terrapin fumble gave the Bulldogs the ball in Maryland territory which culminated with an Andy Johnson touchdown run to give the Bulldogs a 17\u201310 lead with 4:24 in the third. The Terrapins narrowed the margin on two Mike Mayer field goals in the final quarter to make it a one-point game with seven minutes remaining, but they did not get any closer as Georgia held on to win consecutive bowl games for the first time in seven years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 29], "content_span": [30, 848]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096018-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Peach Bowl, Aftermath\nThe Terrapins created an ACC dynasty the following season, winning the next three ACC titles, culminating with an appearance in the Cotton Bowl Classic. The Terrapins did not return to the Peach Bowl until 2002. The Bulldogs did not win another bowl game for eight years following this game. Georgia returned to the Peach Bowl in 1989.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 26], "content_span": [27, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096019-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Penn Quakers football team\nThe 1973 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1973 NCAA Division I football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096020-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Penn State Nittany Lions baseball team\nThe 1973 Penn State Nittany Lions baseball team represented Pennsylvania State University in the 1973 NCAA University Division baseball season. The head coach was Chuck Bedlar, serving his 11th year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096020-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Penn State Nittany Lions baseball team\nThe Nittany Lions lost in the College World Series, defeated by the Oklahoma Sooners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096021-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Penn State Nittany Lions football team\nThe 1973 Penn State Nittany Lions football team represented Pennsylvania State University in the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. Penn State's third undefeated season under Joe Paterno was led by John Cappelletti who would become the first Penn State player to win the Heisman Trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096021-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Game summaries, Navy\nPenn State capitalized on a fumble and two short punts to score three second-quarter touchdowns and break the game wide open against Navy. The Nittany Lions opened scoring with just one second left in the first as QB Tom Shuman hit SE Gary Heyman for a touchdown to cap an 88-yard drive. On the first play after the ensuing kickoff, E Greg Murphy recovered a fumble by RB Bob Jackson at the Navy 41, and the Lions took two-and-a-half minutes and five plays to score again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 65], "content_span": [66, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096021-0001-0001", "contents": "1973 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Game summaries, Navy\nPenn State scored on two more quick drives of 60 and 51 yards following short punts into a stiff wind by John Stufflebeem. The Lions added a field goal by Chris Bahr midway through the third and backup QB John Clark capped a 56-yard drive with a keeper to put Penn State ahead 37-0. The final points of the contest came when a snap from Navy's center sailed over Stufflebeem's head and out of the end zone for a safety.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 65], "content_span": [66, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096021-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Penn State Nittany Lions football team, Post season, NFL Draft\nTen Nittany Lions were drafted in the 1974 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 67], "content_span": [68, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096022-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Penwith District Council election\nElections to Penwith District Council were held for the first time in 1973. All 40 seats were contested. Independent candidates won an overwhelming majority, gaining 37 seats. The Labour Party, the Liberal Party, and a Residents' Association candidate each won one seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096023-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 People's Republic of the Congo parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections were held in the People's Republic of the Congo on 24 June 1973, concurrent with a constitutional referendum. The country was a one-party state at the time, with the Congolese Party of Labour as the sole legal party. As such, it won all 115 seats in the People's National Assembly. Voter turnout was 83.2%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 389]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096024-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Philadelphia Eagles season\nThe 1973 Philadelphia Eagles season was the franchise's 41st in the National Football League. Although they improved upon their 2\u201311\u20131 record of the previous season, they failed to complete a winning record for the seventh consecutive season and failed to reach the playoffs for the thirteenth straight year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096024-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Philadelphia Eagles season, Offseason\nAt the end of the 1972 season, Eagles head coach Ed Khayat was fired. Mike McCormack, who had been a Washington Redskins assistant coach from 1965 to 1972, was hired in his place", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096024-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Philadelphia Eagles season, Offseason\nThe Eagles move training camp from Albright College in Reading, Pennsylvania, to Widener University in Chester, Pennsylvania, a short distance from Veterans Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096025-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Philadelphia Phillies season\nThe 1973 Philadelphia Phillies season was the 91st season in the history of the franchise. The team, managed by Danny Ozark, played their third season at Veterans Stadium and finished last in the National League East, 111\u20442 games behind the Mets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096025-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Philadelphia Phillies season, Regular season\nSteve Carlton, the highest paid pitcher in the game at $165,000, never recovered from a spring training illness and went 13\u201320. Pitchers Jim Lonborg and Ken Brett, both obtained in a trade with the Milwaukee Brewers, won 13 games each, as did Wayne Twitchell, whose 2.50 ERA was third in the league. Left fielder Greg Luzinski led the team with 29 home runs, 97 RBIs, and 76 runs, and hit .285. In his rookie season, Mike Schmidt hit just .196 and struck out 136 times in 367 at-bats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096025-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 78], "content_span": [79, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096025-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 71], "content_span": [72, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096025-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 76], "content_span": [77, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096025-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 73], "content_span": [74, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096025-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Philadelphia Phillies season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 74], "content_span": [75, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096026-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Philippine constitutional plebiscite\nThe Philippine constitutional plebiscite of 1973 ratified the 1973 Constitution of the Philippines.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096026-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Philippine constitutional plebiscite\nIn 1970, delegates were elected to a constitutional convention which began to meet in 1971. In September 1972, President Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law and arrested 11 members of the convention. The convention then re-convened and wrote a constitution in line with what President Ferdinand Marcos wanted, at least, according to many critics and victims of martial law.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096026-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Philippine constitutional plebiscite\nMarcos issued Presidential Decree No. 86 calling for the cancellation of the plebiscite and instituted barangays' citizens' assemblies to ratify the new constitution by a referendum from 10\u201315 January 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096026-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Philippine constitutional plebiscite\nOn 17 January 1973, Marcos issued Proclamation No. 1102 certifying and proclaiming that the 1973 Constitution had been ratified by the Filipino people and thereby was in effect.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096026-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Philippine constitutional plebiscite\nThese results were challenged by the Ratification Cases heard by the Philippine Supreme Court in 1973. The court upheld the results and the ratification of the 1973 Constitution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096026-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Philippine constitutional plebiscite\nFor this plebiscite to changes to voting requirements were implemented. The voting age was reduced from 18 to 15 years old and those who were illiterate, as described by the opposition, were allowed to vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096027-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Philippine martial law referendum\nThe 1973 Philippine martial law referendum was a national referendum in which the citizens' assemblies voted for:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096027-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Philippine martial law referendum\nThe referendum was set from July 27 to July 28, 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096027-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Philippine martial law referendum\nThis referendum was marred with controversy. It is contested that there could not have been any valid referendum held from January 10 to January 15, 1973. Observers noted that many of the claimed 35,000 citizens' assemblies never met and voting was by show of hands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096028-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Phillip Island 500K\nThe 1973 Phillip Island 500K was an endurance race for Group C Touring Cars, staged at the Phillip Island circuit in Victoria, Australia on 25 November 1973. Race distance was 106 laps of the 4.73\u00a0km circuit, a total distance of 501.38\u00a0km. The race, which was the fifth and final round of the 1973 Australian Manufacturers' Championship, was the third Phillip Island 500K.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096028-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Phillip Island 500K, Results\nNote\u00a0: As 47 cars were entered for this event, it is likely that there were additional starters not shown in the above table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 33], "content_span": [34, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096029-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Piccadilly World Match Play Championship\nThe 1973 Piccadilly World Match Play Championship was the tenth World Match Play Championship. It was played from Thursday 11 to Saturday 13 October on the West Course at Wentworth. Eight players competed in a straight knock-out competition, with each match contested over 36 holes. The champion received \u00a310,000 out of a total prize fund of \u00a330,000. In the final, Gary Player beat Graham Marsh at the fourth extra hole to win the championship for the fifth time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096029-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Piccadilly World Match Play Championship\nIn a close final, Player holed a 7-foot birdie putt at the 36th hole to tie the match after Marsh's second shot had found a green-side bunker and he was unable to get down in two more. Player had to get up and down from bunkers at the first two extra holes to extend the match. At the fourth extra hole, he holed from 9 feet and then Marsh missed from 3 feet to give Player the victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096029-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Piccadilly World Match Play Championship, Prize money\nThe winner received \u00a310,000, the runner-up \u00a35,000, the losing semi-finalists \u00a33,500 and the first round losers \u00a32,000, making a total prize fund of \u00a330,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 58], "content_span": [59, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096030-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Pioneer Bowl\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by KingSkyLord (talk | contribs) at 22:25, 28 March 2020 (\u2192\u200eReferences). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096030-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Pioneer Bowl\nThe 1973 Pioneer Bowl was a college football bowl game in Texas, played between the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs and Boise State Broncos at Memorial Stadium in Wichita Falls. The third edition of the Pioneer Bowl, it was one of two semifinals in the inaugural NCAA Division II playoffs played on December 8.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096030-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Pioneer Bowl, Notable participants\nNotable participants for Louisiana Tech include Fred Dean, Roger Carr, Pat Tilley, Roland Harper, Mike Barber, John Henry White, Billy Ryckman, Maxie Lambright, Mickey Slaughter, Pat Patterson, and Pat Collins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 39], "content_span": [40, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096031-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Pitcairnese general election\nGeneral elections were held on Pitcairn Island on 25 December 1973. Ivan Christian was elected as chair of the Internal Committee, with Thelma Brown and Carol Christian elected to the Island Council, becoming its first two female members. All three were elected unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096032-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Pittsburgh Panthers football team\nThe 1973 Pittsburgh Panthers football team represented the University of Pittsburgh in the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. The Panthers competed in the Fiesta Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096033-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Pittsburgh Pirates season\nThe 1973 Pittsburgh Pirates season was the 92nd season of the Pittsburgh Pirates franchise; the 87th in the National League. The Pirates finished third in the National League East with a record of 80\u201382.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096033-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 75], "content_span": [76, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096033-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 68], "content_span": [69, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096033-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 73], "content_span": [74, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096033-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 70], "content_span": [71, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096033-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 71], "content_span": [72, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096034-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Pittsburgh Steelers season\nThe 1973 Pittsburgh Steelers season was the team's 41st season in the National Football League. The team finished second in the AFC Central division, but qualified for the postseason for the second consecutive season. The Steelers got off to a terrific start winning eight of their first nine games. However, a costly three game losing streak would put their playoff hopes in jeopardy. The Steelers would recover to win their last two games, but had to settle for a Wild Card berth with a 10\u20134 record. The Steelers would lose in the playoffs to the Oakland Raiders 33\u201314 in Oakland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096034-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Pittsburgh Steelers season\nThe 1973 Steelers' pass defense is arguably the greatest in the history of the NFL. Their defensive passer rating\u2014the quarterback passer rating of all opposing quarterbacks throughout the season\u2014was 33.1, an NFL record for the Super Bowl era.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096034-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Pittsburgh Steelers season\nPittsburgh's pass-defense numbers that year were stunning. Opposing passers compiled the following stat-line:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096034-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Pittsburgh Steelers season\nThe figure that leaps screaming off the sheet is the amazing 37 picks in 14 games. The 2009 Jets, by comparison, allowed a puny 8 TDs in 16 games, but hauled in just 17 picks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096034-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Pittsburgh Steelers season\nPittsburgh's all-time best pass defense was an equal-opportunity unit: Mike Wagner led the team with 8 INT, but 10 other guys recorded at least one pick. Amazing. Eleven defenders boasted at least one INT for Pittsburgh that season. The entire starting secondary recorded 24 picks alone, and Hall of Fame cornerback Mel Blount was last on the list: Wagner (8), safety Glen Edwards (6), cornerback John Rowser (6) and Blount (4).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096034-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Pittsburgh Steelers season\nThe campaign was chronicled in Roy Blount Jr.'s 1974 book About Three Bricks Shy of a Load. The source of its title was Craig Hanneman whose endearing description of himself and his teammates after the regular season away victory over the Oakland Raiders was \"We\u2019re all about three bricks shy of a load.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096034-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Pittsburgh Steelers season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 4\nJohnny Unitas playing for San Diego is knocked out of the game after completing only 3 of 15 passes for 24 yards and three interceptions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 71], "content_span": [72, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096035-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Pittsburgh mayoral election\nThe Mayoral election of 1973 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania was held on Tuesday, November 6, 1973. The incumbent mayor, Pete Flaherty of the Democratic Party chose to run for his second full term.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096035-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Pittsburgh mayoral election, Primary Election\nCity Councilman Richard Caliguiri, a rising star in city politics (and future mayor) filed to run against Flaherty in the primary. Because Flaherty had long antagonized the remnants of the city's archaic Democratic machine, the aging party bosses endorsed Caliguiri, even though both Democratic candidates had similar legacies as a reformer. However, the popular mayor earned a moderate victory despite tepid support from insiders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096035-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Pittsburgh mayoral election, General Election\nNo Republicans filed to run in the primary; however, Flaherty won, by write-in, the Republican primary. The popular mayor received nearly 80% of his vote total on the Democratic line, which is in line with party registration in the city. A total of 67,550 votes were cast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096036-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Plymouth City Council election\nThe 1973 Plymouth City Council election took place on 7 June 1973 to elect members of Plymouth City Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections. Voting took place across 22 wards, each electing 3 Councillors. Following the Local Government Act 1972, this was the first election to the new non-metropolitan district council for Plymouth, which came into being on 1 April the following year. The Conservative Party took control of the Council after winning a majority of seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096037-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Point Mugu earthquake\nThe 1973 Point Mugu earthquake occurred at 06:45:57 local time on February 21 in the Point Mugu area of southeastern Ventura County of southern California. It had a moment magnitude of 5.8 and a maximum Mercalli Intensity of VII (Very strong). This oblique-slip shock resulted in several injuries and $1 million in damage. The epicenter was near the Oxnard Plain and the northern terminus of the Santa Monica Mountains, in the California South Coast region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096037-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Point Mugu earthquake, Intensity\nAt the most extreme points of its perceptibility along the coast, it was felt between intensity I and III (Not felt \u2013 Weak) at San Luis Obispo in the north and San Diego in the south. Inland, it was felt at McFarland in the central valley and Cantil in the western Mojave Desert, and to the southeast in Palm Springs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096038-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Polish Rally\nThe 1973 Polish Rally (formally the 33rd Polish Rally) was the seventh round of the inaugural World Rally Championship season. Run in mid-July in southern Poland, this marked to only year in which Poland (or any member of the Warsaw Pact) was part of the WRC calendar until 36 years later in 2009. This edition was also notable for the fact that of the 62 teams which began the rally, only three completed it, a record that stands today.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096038-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Polish Rally, Report\nIn 1973, and for several years afterward, only manufacturers were given points for finishes in WRC events. Despite the misfortune of most of the teams, Fiat was able to finally gain a win for their Fiat Abarth 124 Rallye. As no other major competitors were able to complete the rally, the win was by a substantial margin, the German driver outpacing the next finisher by nearly three hours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 25], "content_span": [26, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096039-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Portsmouth City Council election\nThe 1973 Portsmouth City Council election was held on 10 May 1973 as part of the first elections to the new local authorities established by the Local Government Act 1972 in England and Wales. 48 councillors were elected from 16 electoral divisions. Each division returned three councillors each by first-past-the-post voting for a three-year term of office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096040-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Portuguese Cape Verdean Legislative Assembly election\nElections to a Legislative Assembly were held for the first and only time in Portuguese Cape Verde in March 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [58, 58], "content_span": [59, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096040-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Portuguese Cape Verdean Legislative Assembly election, Background\nOn 2 May 1972 the Portuguese National Assembly passed the Organic Law for the Overseas Territories, which provided for greater autonomy for overseas territories. Cape Verde was to have a 21-member Legislative Assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 70], "content_span": [71, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096040-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Portuguese Cape Verdean Legislative Assembly election, Background\nCandidates were required to be Portuguese citizens who had lived in Cape Verde for more than three years and be able to read and write Portuguese. Voters were required to be literate. As the Portuguese constitution banned political parties at the time, the majority of candidates were put forward by the ruling People's National Action movement, although some civic associations were allowed to nominate candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 70], "content_span": [71, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096040-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Portuguese Cape Verdean Legislative Assembly election, Results\nOut of a total population of 272,071, only 25,521 people registered to vote. A total of 20,942 people voted, giving a voter turnout of 82.1%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 58], "section_span": [60, 67], "content_span": [68, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096041-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Portuguese Guinea Legislative Assembly election\nElections to the Legislative Assembly were held for the first and only time in Portuguese Guinea in March 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096041-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Portuguese Guinea Legislative Assembly election, Background\nA fifteen-member Legislative Council had been established in Portuguese Guinea in 1963. Most members were nominated by colonial authorities or business groups. A minority of its members were elected, but only a small proportion of the colony's population met the literacy and tax-paying requirements to register as a voter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 64], "content_span": [65, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096041-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Portuguese Guinea Legislative Assembly election, Background\nOn 2 May 1972 the Portuguese National Assembly passed the Organic Law for the Overseas Territories, which provided for greater autonomy for overseas territories. The Legislative Council was converted into a Legislative Assembly, with number of members increased to 17, of which five were to be elected by direct suffrage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 64], "content_span": [65, 386]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096041-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Portuguese Guinea Legislative Assembly election, Background\nIn late 1972 the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) held indirect elections to a National Assembly in the eleven regions of the territory that it controlled, with voting not taking place in the four still controlled by Portuguese forces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 64], "content_span": [65, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096041-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Portuguese Guinea Legislative Assembly election, Results\nDue to the restrictive conditions on registering to vote and more than half the country being under the control of the PAIGC, there were only 7,824 registered voters, less than 3% of the adult population.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 61], "content_span": [62, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096041-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Portuguese Guinea Legislative Assembly election, Results\nThe elections were carried out on a non-party basis, with 6,995 people casting votes, giving a voter turnout of 89.4%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 61], "content_span": [62, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096042-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Portuguese Mozambican Legislative Assembly election\nElections to a Legislative Assembly were held for the first and only time in Portuguese Mozambique in March 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096042-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Portuguese Mozambican Legislative Assembly election, Background\nOn 2 May 1972 the Portuguese National Assembly passed the Organic Law for the Overseas Territories, which provided for greater autonomy for overseas territories. Mozambique was to have a 50-member Legislative Assembly, of which 20 would be elected. The remainder would be nominated by public services, religious groups and business groups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 68], "content_span": [69, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096042-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Portuguese Mozambican Legislative Assembly election, Background\nCandidates were required to be Portuguese citizens who had lived in Mozambique for more than three years and be able to read and write Portuguese. Voters were required to be literate. As the Portuguese constitution banned political parties at the time, the majority of candidates were put forward by the ruling People's National Action movement, although some civic associations were allowed to nominate candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 68], "content_span": [69, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096042-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Portuguese Mozambican Legislative Assembly election, Results\nOut of a total population of 7,376,000, only 109,171 people registered to vote. Of these, 100,542 voted, giving a voter turnout of 92.1%. Of all the Portuguese colonies holding Legislative Assembly elections, Mozambique was the only one to have a non-white majority of its membership, with 26 of the 50 members being non-white. The 26 non-white members included 18 Africans, three coloureds, three Indians, one Goan and one Chinese.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 65], "content_span": [66, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096043-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Portuguese Timorese Legislative Assembly election\nElections to a Legislative Assembly were held for the first and only time in Portuguese Timor in March 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096043-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Portuguese Timorese Legislative Assembly election, Background\nOn 2 May 1972 the Portuguese National Assembly passed the Organic Law for the Overseas Territories, which provided for greater autonomy for overseas territories. The existing Legislative Council was expanded from 14 to 21 seats, with 10 members directly elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 66], "content_span": [67, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096043-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Portuguese Timorese Legislative Assembly election, Background\nCandidates were required to be Portuguese citizens who had lived in Portuguese Timor for more than three years and be able to read and write Portuguese. Voters were required to be literate. As the Portuguese constitution banned political parties at the time, the majority of candidates were put forward by the ruling People's National Action movement, although some civic associations were allowed to nominate candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 66], "content_span": [67, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096043-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Portuguese Timorese Legislative Assembly election, Results\nOut of a total population of 610,541, only 12,644 people registered to vote. A total of 11,052 people voted, giving a voter turnout of 87.4%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 63], "content_span": [64, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096044-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Portuguese legislative election\nParliamentary elections were held in Portugal on 28 October 1973, the last under the Estado Novo regime. After the only opposition party withdrew from the election, the People's National Action (ANP) was the only list to contest the election, winning all 150 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096044-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Portuguese legislative election, Electoral system\nThe electoral system, constitutionally amended in 1971, maintained the National Assembly to be elected through plurality voting with semi-open party list in 22 constituencies, with all seats of a constituency going to a sole victor. Voters were formally allowed to strike out individual names. The Chamber of Corporations, consisting of 200 members or more, was appointed by the government following its re-endorsement by the new National Assembly, the last to be before the Carnation Revolution next year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096044-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Portuguese legislative election, Electoral system\nAll natural-born nationals residing in Portugal for the past five years were allowed to stand for election, with all mature, literate citizens officially enlisted for the process. An additional 962,854 overseas citizens participated in an election to the National Assembly for the first time. Some scarcely populated remote countryside regions in the Portuguese overseas territories of Angola and Mozambique were infiltrated by pro-independence guerrillas. Most of Portuguese Guinea was under the control or heavy influence of the guerrillas at the time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 54], "content_span": [55, 609]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096044-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Portuguese legislative election, Campaign\nCampaigning began on 28 September under the supervision of the regime, while illegal rallies began as early as April. The governing People's National Action, constituted in 1970 from the former National Union, held its first and only congress in May, supervised by Prime Minister Marcello Caetano, who was considered a moderate reformist but who struggled to hold on to Salazar's authoritarian powers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096044-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Portuguese legislative election, Campaign\nFollowing the premature withdrawal of the Democratic Electoral Commission from the race on 25 October, due to complaints about its democratic legitimacy, the eligibility and rights of its 66 candidates were revoked for five years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096045-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Pot Black\nThe 1973 Pot Black was a professional invitational snooker tournament, which was broadcast in 1973. The tournament was held in the Pebble Mill Studios in Birmingham, and featured eight professional players. All matches were one-frame shoot-outs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096045-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Pot Black\nBroadcasts were on BBC2 and started at 21:00 on Tuesday 13 February 1973 The tournament this year was reverted to 8 players. The three ex-winners were in a Pot Black Champions group while the remaining five players were in a League of Champions group. The top two from each group qualified for the semi-finals. Alan Weeks presented the programme with Ted Lowe as commentator and Sydney Lee as referee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096045-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Pot Black\nThe tournament featured the TV debut of Alex Higgins who beat John Pulman in the first match of the series. Eddie Charlton retained the Pot Black title beating Rex Williams 93\u201333 shown on 29 May and also made the first century break making 110 against John Spencer which remained a record until 2005.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096046-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Prague Skate\nThe International Figure Skating Competition was held in November 10-11, 1973. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles and ladies' singles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096047-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Preakness Stakes\nThe 1973 Preakness Stakes was the 98th running of the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland held on May 19, 1973. Six horses entered, and Secretariat won by \u200b2\u00a01\u20442 lengths ahead of Sham in front of a record crowd of 61,657 spectators. The race was viewed on television and broadcast over the radio.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096047-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Preakness Stakes\nIn the period leading up to the Preakness, Kentucky Derby winner Secretariat was pegged as the favorite to win the race. Aside from Secretariat, Sham was named as the only other horse that could win the race or even challenge Secretariat. Initially seven horses officially enrolled to race in the event, but the field reduced to six after an owner scratched his horse. The entrants in the Preakness featured three horses that did not compete in the Derby. At the start, Secretariat broke last, but then made a huge, last-to-first move on the first turn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096047-0001-0001", "contents": "1973 Preakness Stakes\nAfter reaching the lead with \u200b5\u00a01\u20442 furlongs to go, he was never challenged, and won by \u200b2\u00a01\u20442 lengths, Sham finishing second and Our Native third. The victory led to the stallion being featured on several magazine covers. Secretariat would go on to win the Belmont Stakes in the succeeding weeks, becoming the ninth horse to complete the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing and the first in 25 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 423]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096047-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Preakness Stakes\nThe timing of the race was questioned, as the official clock malfunctioned and the official timer recorded a result slower than that recorded by clockers for the Daily Racing Form, who maintained that Secretariat had set a record. The dispute was not resolved until 2012, when newer technology allowed for a forensic review of the videotapes and an accurate calculation of the actual time, which was formally recorded as 1:53, a record time for the race still standing as of 2019.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096047-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Preakness Stakes, Pre-race activity\nBetween the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness, Mr. Prospector, Cup Bearer, Ecole Etage, Champagne Charlie, and Step Nicely, none of whom had run in the Derby, were all named as possible entrants. Three horses, Secretariat, Sham, and Our Native, all raced in the Kentucky Derby two weeks prior. On May 15, seven owners confirmed their intentions to enter their horses by paying a US$1,000 deposit. The horses officially registered that day were Our Native, Secretariat, and Sham, along with new runners Deadly Dream, Ecole Etage, The Lark Twist, and Torsion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096047-0003-0001", "contents": "1973 Preakness Stakes, Pre-race activity\nA day later, Deadly Dream's trainer stated that he was unsure about racing his colt because he felt the horse could not match Secretariat, Sham, or Our Native. In addition, The Lark Twist's owner Larry Boyce scratched his horse from the race because he received word that Our Native registered, dropping the total number of horses competing to six. However, on the 17th, Boyce attempted to re-enter The Lark Twist, but was denied under the Rules of Racing of Maryland which stated that the scratching of a horse was irreversible. An Associated Press article commented that the credentials of Secretariat and Sham could lead to the running being one of the smallest since 1964.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 717]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096047-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Preakness Stakes, Pre-race activity\nFollowing his record-breaking victory at the Kentucky Derby, Secretariat was the favorite. In the days between the Derby and the Preakness, groom Eddie Sweat noted that it was strange not having any rumors circulating about Secretariat's health. Sham and Secretariat were ridden by the same jockeys as in the Derby, Laffit Pincay, Jr. and Ron Turcotte, respectively. Sham was believed to have the best chance of beating Secretariat. Aside from Sham and Secretariat, Our Native was selected by Joe Nichols, a writer for The New York Times, as an outside contender for victory. In pre-race interviews, Deadly Dream's trainer Bud Delp believed he could challenge for third place as he had no \"illusions about beating Secretariat and Sham.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 777]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096047-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Preakness Stakes, Pre-race activity\nOf the remaining contenders, Deadly Dream had won the fourth race of his three-year-old campaign at Penn National, previously winning the Allegheny Stakes and the Militia Handicap. In total, he won seven races out of the 25 he had started. Ecole Etage had won two races in the 1973 season, prior to the Preakness, the General George Stakes and the Preakness Prep. Torsion entered the race with a most recent finish of fifth place in the Preakness Prep and two wins in twelve career starts, one as a two-year-old and one as a three-year-old.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 40], "content_span": [41, 581]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096047-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Preakness Stakes, Event details\nPost time for the race was 5:40 PM EDT. It was broadcast over television and radio through CBS. The television coverage lasted approximately an hour, while radio coverage ran twenty minutes. The horses entering the race all carried 126 pounds. The total purse for the Preakness was $182,400, with the first through fourth-place finishers to receive $129,900, $30,000, $15,000, and $7,500, respectively. The weather during the race was clear and the course conditions were fast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096047-0006-0001", "contents": "1973 Preakness Stakes, Event details\nThe day at the Preakness was dubbed \"Johnny Unitas Day\" in honor of the quarterback's seventeen seasons with the Baltimore Colts, following being traded to San Diego by owner Joe Thomas before the start of the 1973 season. Members of the Johnny Unitas fan club gathered in the infield of Pimilico, the Unitas Corral.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096047-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Preakness Stakes, Event details\nRace officials expected a record turnout in the days leading up to the Preakness, estimating over 50,000 people. They hoped that the possibility of Secretariat completing the Triple Crown and Sham attempting to foil Secretariat's run would lead to an increase in attendance. The official attendance for the event was reported at 61,657, which surpassed the previous record of 48,721 people set in 1972. The new record lasted until 1975 when 75,216 spectators were present at Pimlico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096047-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Preakness Stakes, Race summary\nOut of the starting gate, Ecole Etage took the lead, ahead of Torsion, while race favorite Secretariat exited last. Sham and Deadly Dream made contact exiting the gate. While Sham was able to successfully gain stride, Deadly Dream began to run towards the railing and collided with it when entering the first turn. Going into the course's first turn, Secretariat passed two horses on the outside and passed the remainder as the horses entered the backstretch. Sham was the only horse that was able to stay with Secretariat's acceleration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 35], "content_span": [36, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096047-0008-0001", "contents": "1973 Preakness Stakes, Race summary\nSecretariat held the lead for the remainder of the race and crossed the finish line in first position, \u200b2\u00a01\u20442 lengths ahead of Sham. Our Native placed third, eight lengths behind Sham. This was the first time in the history of the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes that the top three horses in the Derby finished in the same positions at the Preakness.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 35], "content_span": [36, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096047-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Preakness Stakes, Timing controversy\nUpon the finish of the race there was a dispute over the winning time of Secretariat. The electronic Visumatic timer on the field read 1:55, while Daily Racing Form clockers Gene Schwartz and Frank Robinson timed Secretariat at 1:\u200b53\u00a02\u20445, which would have broken the track record. The official fractional times were 25, \u200b48\u00a04\u20445, 1:12, and 1:\u200b36\u00a01\u20445, while the Daily Racing Forum timed the fractions at \u200b24\u00a02\u20445, 47, 1:\u200b10\u00a02\u20445, and 1:\u200b35\u00a03\u20445.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 41], "content_span": [42, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096047-0009-0001", "contents": "1973 Preakness Stakes, Timing controversy\nThe next day, Secretariat's trainer Lucien Laurin asked for the videotape to be reviewed because he felt that if Secretariat did run that fast, then \"he deserves the record.\" On May 21, race officials adjusted Secretariat's winning time to 1:\u200b54\u00a02\u20445, becoming the then second fastest time in race history. The time was changed to the time obtained by the official Pimilico timekeeper E.T. McLean per Rule 383 of the Maryland Rules of Racing, which stated the \"official timer's time is official.\" McLean's stopwatch was faster than the Visumatic by three-fifths of a second at each fractional.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 41], "content_span": [42, 635]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096047-0009-0002", "contents": "1973 Preakness Stakes, Timing controversy\nThat same day, a Visumatic official checked the timer and stated that the timer should have actually read 1:\u200b54\u00a04\u20445, rather than 1:55. It was determined that the chart for the Preakness would display McLean's time as the winning time, with the Daily Racing Forum time written next to it, in parenthesis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 41], "content_span": [42, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096047-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 Preakness Stakes, Timing controversy\nSecretariat's owner Penny Chenery and Maryland Jockey Club president Thomas Chuckas asked the Maryland Racing Commission to review the 1973 Preakness. On June 19, 2012, the commission announced their findings. During a three-hour meeting, the tapes of Secretariat's run and the three new record-holding runs were overlaid by three separate companies from which a total of five analysts reviewed the footage. Following all five analysts obtaining the time of 1:53, the commission unanimously voted to change Secretariat's time from 1:54\u200b2\u20445 to 1:53, which broke the then-course record of 1:53\u200b2\u20445. Altering Secretariat's time allowed him to actively hold the course record for all three legs of the Triple Crown. The overlaying method used by the committee was reported to be accurate to 0.03 of a second. A representative of Chenery stated that they were \"very pleased\" with the decision.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 41], "content_span": [42, 930]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096047-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 Preakness Stakes, Analysis\nBy winning the Preakness, Secretariat earned his fourth victory in five races as a three-year-old. This was the first victory for Lucien Laurin in his four attempts to win the Preakness. Jockey Ron Turcotte secured his second Preakness victory, having previously won with Tom Rolfe in 1965. It was Meadow Stables' second win at the Stakes as they were previously victorious with Hill Prince in 1950. Following the race, Laurin stated that \"Now, we're going to try and win the Belmont.\" Torsion's jockey Ben Feliciano said, in regards to Secretariat, \"He's the best.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096047-0012-0000", "contents": "1973 Preakness Stakes, Analysis\nBetting on the races held that day at Pimlico Stakes totaled to $3,792,076, which set the Maryland record for amount of money wagered for the day. Off-track betting on the Preakness Stakes reached $922,989, which was included in the previous record total.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096047-0013-0000", "contents": "1973 Preakness Stakes, Analysis\nThree weeks after the Preakness, the Belmont Stakes featured a five-horse field. Secretariat won by 31 lengths with a time of 2:24 for the mile and a half, both course records in their own right. Through his combined victories at the Belmont Stakes, Preakness Stakes, and Kentucky Derby, Secretariat became the ninth horse to complete the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing, and the first horse since Citation in 1948, ending a 25-year period without a Triple Crown winner. After his time in the Preakness was reviewed and found to be a record, Secretariat's times in all three Triple Crown races were stakes records and stand to this day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 31], "content_span": [32, 672]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096048-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Preseli District Council election\nThe first election to Preseli District Council was held in April 1973. It was followed by the 1976 election. On the same day there were elections to the other local authorities and community councils in Wales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096049-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 President's Cup Football Tournament\nThe 1973 President Park's Cup Asian Football Tournament (Korean: \uc81c3\ud68c \ubc15\ub300\ud1b5\ub839\ucef5 \uc7c1\ud0c8 \uc544\uc2dc\uc544\ucd95\uad6c\ub300\ud68c) was the third competition of Korea Cup. The competition was held from 22 to 30 September 1973. Burma and Khmer Republic played out a 0\u20130 draw and shared the trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096050-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Press-on-Regardless Rally\nThe 1973 Press-on-Regardless Rally (formally the 25th Press-on-Regardless Rally) was the eleventh round of the inaugural World Rally Championship season. Run at the outset of November in the State of Michigan in the United States, the rally was run entirely on gravel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096050-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Press-on-Regardless Rally, Report\nDue to a combination of scheduling and location, the event was not attended by most European competitors. Giving teams only two weeks following the preceding Sanremo Rally to travel across the Atlantic Ocean, and then giving even less time for a return to Europe for the following RAC Rally in England, proved unrealistic for most teams, and in the event, only a few teams from Poland made the trip with their domestic Polski Fiat 125p vehicles. As it turned out, the event was primarily a local affair, with a Canadian, Walter Boyce, taking the win ahead of a field of American drivers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096050-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Press-on-Regardless Rally, Report\nIn 1973, and for several years afterward, only manufacturers were given points for finishes in WRC events. With the teams focused on the prestigious RAC Rally upcoming, and with the year's championship already sewn up by Alpine Renault, the works teams did not make an effort to compete in the American leg of the championship. Toyota became the beneficiary as it was a Corolla that carried Boyce to victory, while other makes popular on the North American market filled out the ranks. Datsuns were particularly prevalent\u2014especially the locally popular Datsun 510\u2014and Polski Fiat was rewarded for their effort in making the trip by a finish in the points, but overall, the results factored little into the factory efforts for the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 782]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096051-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Primera Divisi\u00f3n de Chile\nThe 1973 Campeonato Nacional was Chilean first tier's 41st season. Uni\u00f3n Espa\u00f1ola was the tournament's champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096052-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Princeton Tigers football team\nThe 1973 Princeton Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Princeton University during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. Princeton finished last in the Ivy League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096052-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Princeton Tigers football team\nIn their first year under head coach Robert Casciola, the Tigers compiled a 1\u20138 record and was outscored 233 to 127. William G. Cronin was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096052-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Princeton Tigers football team\nPrinceton's winless (0\u20137) conference record placed last in the Ivy League standings. The Tigers were outscored 173 to 76 by Ivy opponents.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096052-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Princeton Tigers football team\nPrinceton played its home games at Palmer Stadium on the university campus in Princeton, New Jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096053-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe\nThe 1973 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe was a horse race held at Longchamp on Sunday 7 October 1973. It was the 52nd running of the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096053-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe\nThe winner was Henry Zeisel's Rheingold, an Irish-bred four-year-old colt trained in England by Barry Hills and ridden by Lester Piggott. Rheingold's owner, trainer and jockey were winning the race for the first time. Piggott went on to win two more Arcs on Alleged in 1977 and 1978.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096053-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe\nRheingold was the fifth British-trained horse to win the race after Comrade, Parth, Migoli and Mill Reef.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096053-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, The contenders\nThe leading French contender for the race was the American-bred three-year-old filly Allez France, the winner of the Crit\u00e9rium des Pouliches, Poule d'Essai des Pouliches, Prix de Diane, Prix d'Ispahan and Prix Vermeille. and Prix Ganay. The other French runners included Tennyson, the winner of the Grand Prix de Paris, Dahlia (Prix Saint-Alary, Irish Oaks, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes), Lady Berry (Prix de Pomone) and San San the winner of the race in 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096053-0003-0001", "contents": "1973 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, The contenders\nA five horse British entry was headed by the four-year-old colt Rheingold who had finished runner-up in the 1972 Epsom Derby but produced his best performances in France, winning the Prix Ganay and two runnings of the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud. The other British challengers were the Yorkshire Oaks winner Attica Meli, the Irish St Leger winner Parnell, the Great Voltigeur Stakes winner Buoy and the improving four-year-old handicapper Firefright. and the Prix de Diane and also included the Eclipse Stakes winner Coup de Feu and the dual Goodwood Cup winner Proverb.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096053-0003-0002", "contents": "1973 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, The contenders\nIreland was represented by the four-year-olds Bonne Noel (Ebor Handicap) and Miss Therese and the three-year-olds Ragapan (runner-up in the Irish Derby), Star Appeal and Hurry Harriet. The only challenger from outside Europe was the Argentinian four-year-old Unicornus. Allez France was made the 1.75/1 favourite ahead of Tennyson (5.75/1), Rheingold (7.7/1), Dahlia (8/1) and Lady Berry (8.75/1).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096053-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, The race\nThe outsiders Direct Flight and Authi disputed the early lead ahead of Unicornus, Bonne Noel, Miss Therese, Hard To Beat, Rheingold, Buoy, Balompie and Allez France. On the turn into the straight, Authi held the advantage from Direct Flight, Rheingold and Hard To Beat, with Balompie and Buoy well-placed on the outside and Allez France making progress along the inside rail. Early in the straight, Piggott sent Rheingold into the lead and the British-trained quickly accelerated at least three lengths clear of his rivals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096053-0004-0001", "contents": "1973 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, The race\nAllez France moved into second place and was the only horse to offer a serious challenge to the leader, but Rheingold stayed on strongly to beat the filly by two and a half lengths. Hard To Beat was four lengths back in third, two lengths ahead of Card King, with Lady Berry, Sang Bleu and Balompie the next to finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096054-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Prize of Moscow News\nThe 1973 Prize of Moscow News was the eighth edition of an international figure skating competition organized in Moscow, Soviet Union. It was held December 9\u201314, 1973. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating and ice dancing. The Soviet Union's Vladimir Kovalev, a world medalist, won the men's title for the first time, after three previous podium finishes. West Germany national champion Gerti Schanderl took the ladies' title ahead of Soviet skater Ludmila Bakonina. Soviets swept the pairs' podium, led by Olympic champion Alexei Ulanov and his second partner, Lyudmila Smirnova. The ice dancing title was won by Natalia Linichuk / Gennadi Karponosov, who would take the world bronze medal later in the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 787]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096055-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Pro Bowl\nThe 1973 Pro Bowl was the NFL's 23rd annual all-star game which featured the outstanding performers from the 1972 season. The game was played on Sunday, January 21, 1973, at Texas Stadium in Irving, Texas. It was the first Pro Bowl not to be played at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The final score was AFC 33, NFC 28. O. J. Simpson of the Buffalo Bills was named the game's Most Valuable Player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096055-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Pro Bowl\nAttendance at the game was 47,879. Chuck Noll of the Pittsburgh Steelers coached the AFC while the NFC was led by the Dallas Cowboys' Tom Landry. The game's referee was Dick Jorgensen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096055-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Pro Bowl\nPlayers on the winning AFC team received $2,000 apiece while the NFC participants each took home $1,500.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096056-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Provincial Armed Constabulary revolt\nThe 1973 Provincial Armed Constabulary revolt was a mutiny by three Battalions of Uttar Pradesh Provincial Armed Constabulary located in Bareilly, Meerut and Agra, in May 1973 in demand of better pay, work conditions, etc. The army was called in to control the mutiny, which resulted in about 30 policemen shot dead and other hundreds arrested. It led to the resignation of the Congress ministry headed by Kamalapati Tripathi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096058-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Purdue Boilermakers football team\nThe 1973 Purdue Boilermakers football team represented Purdue University in the 1973 Big Ten Conference football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096059-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Quebec general election\nThe 1973 Quebec general election was held on October 29, 1973 to elect members to National Assembly of Quebec, Canada. The incumbent Quebec Liberal Party, led by Premier Robert Bourassa, won re-election, defeating the Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois, led by Ren\u00e9 L\u00e9vesque, and the Union Nationale (UN).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096059-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Quebec general election\nThe Liberals won one of the largest majority governments in the province's history, with 102 seats. In the process, they reduced the opposition to just eight seats (six PQ, two cr\u00e9ditistes) in total. The Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois held its own, losing only one seat, and despite having fewer seats, became the official Opposition, although PQ leader Ren\u00e9 L\u00e9vesque failed to win a seat in the Assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096059-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Quebec general election\nThe Union Nationale, which had held power until the previous 1970 general election, was wiped off the electoral map, losing all 17 of its seats. It would be the first time since the UN's founding in 1935 that the party was without representation in the legislature. However, UN candidate Maurice Bellemare later won a seat in a 1974 by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096059-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Quebec general election\nThe popular vote was not as lopsided as the seat count would indicate, even though the Liberals won 54 percent of the popular vote. The Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois, for instance, won 30% of the popular vote, a significant improvement over their previous showing of 23% in the 1970 election. However, their support was spread out across the entire province, and was not concentrated in enough areas to translate into more seats. Quebec elections have historically produced significant disparities in seat counts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096060-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Queen's Club Championships\nThe 1973 Queen's Club Championships was a tennis tournament played on grass courts at the Queen's Club in London in the United Kingdom. The men's tournament was part of the 1973 Commercial Union Assurance Grand Prix circuit while the women's event was part of the 1973 Women's Grand Prix tour. It was the 74th edition of the tournament and was held from 17 June until 23 June 1973. Ilie N\u0103stase and Olga Morozova won the singles titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096060-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Queen's Club Championships, Finals, Men's Doubles\nTom Okker / Marty Riessen defeated Ray Keldie / Raymond Moore 6\u20134, 7\u20135", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 54], "content_span": [55, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096060-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Queen's Club Championships, Finals, Women's Doubles\nRosie Casals / Billie Jean King defeated Fran\u00e7oise D\u00fcrr / Betty St\u00f6ve 4\u20136, 6\u20133, 7\u20135", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 56], "content_span": [57, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096061-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Queen's Club Championships \u2013 Men's Doubles\nJim McManus and Jim Osborne were the defending champions, but did not participate this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096061-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Queen's Club Championships \u2013 Men's Doubles\nTom Okker and Marty Riessen won the men's doubles title at the 1973 Queen's Club Championships tennis tournament, defeating Ray Keldie and Raymond Moore 6\u20134, 7\u20135 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096062-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Queen's Club Championships \u2013 Men's Singles\nJimmy Connors was the defending champion, but lost in the third round this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096062-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Queen's Club Championships \u2013 Men's Singles\nIlie N\u0103stase won the men's singles title at the 1973 Queen's Club Championships tennis tournament, defeating Roger Taylor 9\u20138, 6\u20133 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096063-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 RAC Rally\nThe 1973 RAC Rally (formally the 22nd Daily Mirror RAC Rally) was the twelfth round of the inaugural World Rally Championship season. Run in mid-November in the County of Yorkshire in England, the rally was run primarily on gravel, with some sections of tarmac as well. The rally carried the name of its title sponsor, a popular British newspaper, The Daily Mirror.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096063-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 RAC Rally, Report\nIn 1973, and for several years afterward, only manufacturers were given points for finishes in WRC events. Britain was home terrain for the Fords and the RS1600 wrapped up all three podium spots. While both Alpine Renault and Fiat finished in the points, neither had their points applied to championship standings. This however didn't hurt either one's chances, as they still placed first and second respectively at the end of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 22], "content_span": [23, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096064-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Race of Champions\nThe 8th Race of Champions was a non-Championship motor race, run to Formula One rules, held on 18 March 1973 at Brands Hatch circuit in Kent, UK. The race included several entrants in Formula 5000 cars and was won by Peter Gethin in a Chevron-Chevrolet B24 '72-05'. This was the only race other than the poorly-attended 1969 Madrid Grand Prix in which a Formula 5000 car beat a Formula One car.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096065-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Ragay Gulf earthquake\nThe 1973 Ragay Gulf earthquake occurred at around 16:30 (UTC +8) recorded as a magnitude 7.0 Ms tremor on the surface wave magnitude scale and with a maximum intensity of IX (Extreme) on the MMI according to the National Geophysics Data Center, while according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology the tremor had an intensity of VIII (Very Destructive) on the PHIVOLCS Earthquake Intensity Scale. It killed 14 people, about 100 were injured and an estimated $2 million in damages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096065-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Ragay Gulf earthquake, Earthquake\nThe epicenter was located around 17 km East Northeast of San Andres on the Ragay Gulf with a depth of 33 km (20.5 mi). It was due to the movement of one of the Philippine's largest fault line the Philippine Fault with the focal mechanism most likely a Strike-Slip earthquake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096065-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Ragay Gulf earthquake, Earthquake, Surface rupture and fissures\nThe earthquake produced an onshore surface rupture 30km along the Guinayangan segment of the Philippine Fault. It also left a lateral offset on a beach line approximately 3.2 meters. There were also fissures one of them being 15 centimeters in width 2 other fissures were also found though with unknown lengths, lying along the foothills Northwest of the PNR terminal in the municipality Calauag. Close to the eastern bank of the Calauag River, multiple mudboils were spotted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 68], "content_span": [69, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096065-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Ragay Gulf earthquake, Damage, Calauag\nAccording to PHIVOLCS: in Calauag, Quezon, where it was worst hit, 270 houses were partially damaged 98 of them were completely destroyed, most of which were poorly built or entirely made of wooden materials. In Barrio Sumulong, also part of Calauag, 70% of school buildings were damaged.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 43], "content_span": [44, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096065-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Ragay Gulf earthquake, Damage, Lopez\nIn the neighboring town of Lopez, the concrete hollow blocks of the walls of a 5-room PTA building of the Lopez Provincial School collapsed, as well as a residential 3-story concrete building tilted to the north. The facade of the Sto. Rosario Catholic Church of Lopez suffered cracks. In Barrio Hondagua a theater which converted into a restaurant collapsed completely and a Chapel was partially destroyed. The concrete columns of the housings of the conveyer machines of the Philippine Flour Mills buckled down.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 41], "content_span": [42, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096065-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Ragay Gulf earthquake, Damage, Transportation\nThe earthquake caused damages to all forms of transportation linking to and from the Bicol Region. At least four highway bridges on the Manila South Road were reported to have suffered severe damage. A PNR bridge crossing the Calauag River and about 600 meters north of the highway bridge was badly damaged though fortunately it didn't collapse. Another PNR bridge in Morato Tagkawayan detected slight movement. It's ties were observed to have moved to 8 centimeters to the East, and the base plate of it's westerns abutment was moved to 5 centimeters to the south.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 50], "content_span": [51, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096065-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Ragay Gulf earthquake, Damage, Agriculture\nThe agricultural sector on the epicenter of the quake was mainly on coconuts. The tremor's effects on the industry were not immediately felt, however after a few months, coconut production was on a down low due to young nuts that were shaken by the earthquake. Furthermore the roots of some trees were situated in a distance of about a kilometer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 47], "content_span": [48, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096066-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Railway Cup Hurling Championship\nThe 1973 Railway Cup Hurling Championship was the 47th staging of the Railway Cup since its establishment by the Gaelic Athletic Association in 1927. The cup began on 28 January 1973 and ended on 17 March 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096066-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Railway Cup Hurling Championship\nOn 17 March 1973, Leinster won the cup following a 1-13 to 2-08 defeat of Munster in the final. This was their 14th Railway Cup title overall and their third title in succession.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096066-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Railway Cup Hurling Championship\nLeinster's Eddie Keher was the championship's top scorer with 1-15.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096067-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Rainier International Tennis Classic\nThe 1973 Rainier International Tennis Classic, also known as the Seattle International, was a men's tennis tournament staged at the Seattle Center Arena in Seattle, Washington in the United States that was part of the Grand Prix circuit and categorized as a Group C event. The tournament was played on indoor carpet courts and was held from September 10 until September 16, 1973. It was the second and last edition of the tournament and second-seeded Tom Okker won the singles title and earned $7,500 first-prize money as well as 20 ranking points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 590]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096067-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Rainier International Tennis Classic, Finals, Doubles\nTom Gorman / Tom Okker defeated Bob Carmichael / Frew McMillan 2\u20136, 6\u20134, 7\u20136", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 58], "content_span": [59, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096068-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Rally of Morocco\nThe 1973 Rally of Morocco (formally the 16th Rally of Morocco) was the fifth round of the inaugural World Rally Championship season. Run in mid-May between Morocco's two major cities, Rabat and Casablanca, the Rallye du Maroc was a very long stage rally covering more than 1200\u00a0km on both hard and soft surface roads.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096068-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Rally of Morocco, Report\nIn 1973, and for several years afterward, only manufacturers were given points for finishes in WRC events. Morocco represented a third win for the strong Alpine Renault A110 1800, though the Citro\u00ebn DS 23 also made a strong showing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096069-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Rallye Sanremo\nThe 1973 Sanremo Rally (formally the 11th Rally Sanremo) was the tenth round of the inaugural World Rally Championship season. Run in mid-October around Sanremo, Italy, the rally was a mixed surface rally, with some stages on tarmac and others on gravel. Sanremo would become a staple of the WRC calendar for many years until the Italian portion of the WRC was moved to the gravel stages of Sardinia in 2004.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096069-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Rallye Sanremo, Report\nIn 1973, and for several years afterward, only manufacturers were given points for finishes in WRC events. Italy marked the official sealing of the manufacturer title for Alpine Renault with their win, despite only needing three points to accomplish the task. Fiat also finished strong on their home event, all but ensuring their place in the final classifications as well. Strong presence in the top ten for both teams minimized the opportunity for other manufacturers to gather points in the event, with only Lancia and Opel picking up some crumbs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096070-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Rallye de Portugal\nThe 1973 Rallye de Portugal (formally the 7th TAP Rally of Portugal) was the third round of the inaugural World Rally Championship season. Run in mid-March in southern Portugal on a mixture of asphalt and gravel, the rally began with a concentration run from a number of European cities, covering about 4,600\u00a0km and ending in Estoril, Portugal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096070-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Rallye de Portugal, Report\nIn 1973, and for several years afterward, only manufacturers were given points for finishes in WRC events. As in the earlier Monte Carlo Rally, the Alpine A110s led the event, taking first and second place well ahead of other competitors. Fiat had a disastrous rally, with all three of its cars failing to finish, limiting Fiat to points gained from local entrants. Despite a significant number of international entries, only four non-Portuguese teams finished in the top 15 at the end.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096071-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Rebel 500\nThe 1973 Rebel 500 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series race that took place on April 15, 1973, at Darlington Raceway in Darlington, South Carolina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096071-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Rebel 500, Race report\nThree hundred and sixty seven laps took place on the paved oval track spanning 1.366 miles (2.198\u00a0km) for a total of 501.3 miles (806.8\u00a0km). The total time of the race was four hours and four minutes. Speeds were: 122.655 miles per hour (197.394\u00a0km/h) for the average and 153.463 miles per hour (246.975\u00a0km/h) for the pole position. There were eleven cautions for seventy-one laps. David Pearson defeated Benny Parsons by thirteen laps in front of forty-eight thousand people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096071-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Rebel 500, Race report\nEarly in the race on lap 2, a 5 car accident happened in Turn 2. Buddy Arrington, Richie Panch, Dave Marcis, Lennie Pond, and Dean Dalton were involved. Marcis and Pond would eventually go on to retire due to crash related problems. Cale Yarborough would suffer a spin also early in the race. Paul Tyler and Bobby Issac would also spin in the race. James Hylton would smash into the wall, causing a caution. Charlie Roberts would also suffer engine failures, causing another caution. The 10th caution would come out with an accident including Cale Yarborough and G.C. Spencer. With Pearson leading the next restart, it only took one turn to turn Turn 1 into a \"junkyard\", with a 7 car crash, including Parsons, Petty, Arrington, Mayne, Brooks, and more involved, causing the 11th caution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 816]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096071-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Rebel 500, Race report\nOnly twelve cars finished this race because of a massive 21-car crash.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096071-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Rebel 500, Race report\nThis race stands as the second largest margin of victory in Cup history, falling just short of Ned Jarrett and his 14 lap differential in the 1965 Southern 500.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096071-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Rebel 500, Race report\nNotable crew chiefs for this race were Tim Brewer, Jake Elder, Travis Carter, Harry Hyde, Dale Inman, and Bud Moore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096072-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Republic of the Congo constitutional referendum\nA constitutional referendum was held in the People's Republic of the Congo on 24 June 1973. The new constitution was approved by 76.7% of voters with an 83.1% turnout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096073-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Rhode Island Rams football team\nThe 1973 Rhode Island Rams football team was an American football team that represented the University of Rhode Island as a member of the Yankee Conference during the 1973 NCAA Division II football season. In its fourth season under head coach Jack Gregory, the team compiled a 6\u20132\u20132 record (4\u20132 against conference opponents), tied for second place out of seven teams in the Yankee Conference, and outscored opponents by a total of 213 to 177. The team played its home games at Meade Stadium in Kingston, Rhode Island.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096074-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Rice Owls football team\nThe 1973 Rice Owls football team was an American football team that represented Rice University in the Southwest Conference during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. In their second year under head coach Al Conover, the team compiled a 5\u20136 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096075-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Richmond 500\nThe 1973 Richmond 500 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series racing event that took place on February 25, 1973, at Richmond Fairgrounds Raceway (now Richmond Raceway) in Richmond, Virginia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096075-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Richmond 500\nThis race would essentially jumpstart what would become the \"year of the smaller engine\" while declining sponsorship interests for the drivers resulted in NASCAR keeping the bigger gas-guzzling engines from being abolished completely. Only manual transmission vehicles were allowed to participate in this race; a policy that NASCAR has retained to the present day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096075-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Richmond 500, Background\nIn 1953, Richmond International Raceway began hosting the Grand National Series with Lee Petty winning that first race in Richmond. The original track was paved in 1968. In 1988, the track was re-designed into its present D-shaped configuration", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096075-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Richmond 500, Background\nThe name for the raceway complex was \"Strawberry Hill\" until the Virginia State Fairgrounds site was bought out in 1999 and renamed the \"Richmond International Raceway\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096075-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Richmond 500, Race report\nFive hundred laps took place on a paved oval track spanning .542 miles (0.872\u00a0km) for a grand total of 271.0 miles (436.1\u00a0km). It took three hours and thirty-seven minutes for the race to reach its full conclusion in front of eighteen thousand audience members.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096075-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Richmond 500, Race report\nThere were nine notable crew chiefs that were a part of the race; including Herb Nab, Bud Moore, Lee Gordon, Vic Ballard, Dale Inman and Harry Hyde. Richard Petty defeated Buddy Baker by 13.6\u00a0seconds, bringing about Petty's 150th NASCAR Cup Series career win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096075-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Richmond 500, Race report\nEight cautions were given for seventy-eight laps. The other drivers in the top ten were: Cale Yarborough, Bobby Isaac, Dave Marcis, Bill Dennis, Lennie Pond, Cecil Gordon, James Hylton, and Benny Parsons. Though Lennie Pond made his debut four years prior, this was only his third career start, and it yielded his first top-10. Notable speeds were: 74.764 miles per hour (120.321\u00a0km/h) as the average speed and 90.952 miles per hour (146.373\u00a0km/h) as the pole position speed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096075-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Richmond 500, Race report\nCanadian driver Vic Parsons started in 27th place and ended the race in 30th place (out of 30 drivers). J.D. McDuffie would ruin his vehicle's engine on lap 54 while David Sisco would do the same thing on lap 110. Engine problems would also claim the vehicles of Dean Dalton on lap 126, Ray Hendrick on lap 151 and Donnie Allison on lap 162. Neil Castles' vehicle would suffer from terminal damage due to a crash on lap 210 while Tiny Lund would lose his vehicle's rear end on lap 229. Frank Warren's vehicles ran out of tires on lap 237 while a crash would cause terminal damage to Sonny Hutchins' vehicle on lap 254. Richard D. Howard would acquire the final DNF of the race due to engine problems on lap 349.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 742]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096075-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Richmond 500, Race report\nTotal winnings for this race were $35,600 ($205,034 when considering inflation). DiGard Motorsports would throw their collective hats into what would become their debut race as a NASCAR Cup Series team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096075-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Richmond 500, Finishing order\n* Driver failed to finish race \u2020 signifies that the driver is known to be deceased", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 34], "content_span": [35, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096076-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Richmond Spiders football team\nThe 1973 Richmond Spiders football team represented the Richmond College during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. The Spiders, coached by Frank Jones in his 8th season, compiled a 8\u20132 record (5\u20131 and 2nd in conference play), and outscored their opponents 298 to 112. They were ranked for one week in the AP poll before an upset loss against Louisiana\u2013Monroe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096077-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Ripon by-election\nThe Ripon by-election, 1973 was a parliamentary by-election held on 26 July 1973 for the British House of Commons constituency of Ripon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096077-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Ripon by-election\nThe by-election took place during the 1970s Liberal revival. This seat and Isle of Ely were gained on the same day, the third and fourth Liberal gains during the Parliament. This was the first time the Liberal Party had made two by-election gains on the same day, since winning both seats in a two-member constituency at the 1899 Oldham by-election. The Party had last gained two seats, in different constituencies on the same day, at the 1896 Frome by-election and the 1896 Wick Burghs by-election held on 2 June 1896.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 542]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096077-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Ripon by-election, Previous MP\nThe seat had become vacant when the constituency's Member of Parliament (MP), Sir Malcolm Stoddart-Scott (23 September 1901 \u2013 15 June 1973), died. Stoddart-Scott, a Conservative, had been MP for Pudsey and Otley from 1945 - 1950 and had represented Ripon from 1950.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 35], "content_span": [36, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096077-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Ripon by-election, Candidates\nFour candidates were nominated. The list below is set out in descending order of the number of votes received at the by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096077-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Ripon by-election, Candidates\n1. The Liberal Party candidate was David Austick. He was a bookseller and a West Yorkshire County Councillor. Austick was born on 8 March 1920 and died on 9 February 1997.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096077-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Ripon by-election, Candidates\nAustick won the by-election, in a seat in which his party had finished third in the 1970 general election. He lost the constituency to the Conservatives in the February 1974 general election. Austick subsequently contested Ripon in October 1974 and Cheadle in 1979. He also contested the Leeds constituency for the European Parliament, in the election of 1979.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096077-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Ripon by-election, Candidates\n2. The Conservative candidate was Keith Hampson, born on 14 August 1943. He was a former assistant to the Conservative Prime Minister, Edward Heath and a university lecturer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096077-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Ripon by-election, Candidates\nAfter losing the by-election, Hampson was the successful Conservative candidate who re-gained the seat in February 1974. The Ripon constituency was abolished for the 1983 general election, and Hampson was then elected for Leeds North West. At the 1997 general election he was defeated by Labour candidate Harold Best.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096077-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Ripon by-election, Candidates\n3. Representing the Labour Party was D.M. English, who also contested the seat in February 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096077-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Ripon by-election, Candidates\n4. R.E.G. Simmerson, the Chairman of a body called Democratic Conservatives Against the Common Market, contested the by-election. Craig classified him as an Independent Conservative candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096078-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Road Atlanta Can-Am\nThe 1973 Carling Can-Am was the second round of the 1973 Can-Am season. It was held July 8, 1973, at Road Atlanta in Braselton, Georgia. It was the fourth Can-Am race held at the track.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096079-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Romania rugby union tour of Argentina\nThe 1973 Romania rugby union tour of Argentina was a series of matches played between August and September 1973 by Romania national rugby union team in Argentina. The \"Pumas\" won both test matches against the European side.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096079-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Romania rugby union tour of Argentina\nRomania, then one of the best teams in Europe outside the Five Nations Championship, was called by Union Argentina de Rugby after the refusal of Rugby Football Union to send, as planned, the English national team, worried by political situation in Argentina, after the return of Juan Per\u00f3n and the Ezeiza massacre.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096079-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Romania rugby union tour of Argentina, Results\nSan Isidro Club: Arturo Rodr\u00edguez Jurado; M.Walther, F.Cirio, Roberto Matarazzo, J.Otaola; F.Gonz\u00e1lez Victorica, M.Cutler; Miguel Iglesias (capt. ), R.Lucke, Jorge Carracedo; A.D\u00edaz Manini, J.Rodr\u00edguez Jurado; Fernando Ins\u00faa, O.Rocha e I.Alc\u00e1zar. Romania: Radu Durbac; Ion Constantin, Petre Motrescu, Gheorghe Nica, Dumitru Teleasa; Mihai Nicolescu, Petre Florescu (capt. ); Enciu Stoica, Gheorghe Daraban, Constantin Fugigi; Nicolae Postolache, Alexander Atanasiu; Mihai Ciornei, Valeriu Iorguescu, Nicolae Baciu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 51], "content_span": [52, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096079-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Romania rugby union tour of Argentina, Results\nBuenos Aires: Martin Alonso; M.Walther, Eduardo Morgan (capt. ), A.Capelletti, G.P\u00e9rez Leir\u00f3s; A.Brown, R.Rinaldi; E.Miguens, R.Sanz, Miguel Iglesias; R.Castro, C.Bottarini; M.Giargia, G.Casas, O.Carbone. Romania: Radu Durbac; Ion Constantin, Petre Motrescu, Gheorghe Nica, Dumitru Teleasa; Mihai Nicolescu, Petre Florescu (capt. ); Constantin Fugigi, Nicolae Postolache, Alexandru Atanasiu; Gheorghe Dumitru, Gheorghe Darraban; Mircea Ciornel, F.Popovici, Constantin Dinu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 51], "content_span": [52, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096079-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Romania rugby union tour of Argentina, Results\nCombinado del Interior: J.Viders; M.Brandi.O.Terranova, R.Tarquini, C.Dora; C.Navesi, L.Chac\u00f3n; L.Lavesi, M.Chesta (capt. ), J.Nazasi; J.Mangiamelli, R.Pasaglia; R.Fariello, J.Costante, A.Furno. Romania: Radu Durbac; Ion Constantin, Andrei Hariton, Gheorghe Nica, Dumitru Teleasa; Mihai Nicolescu, Petre Florescu (capt. ); Constatnin Fugigi, Florin Constantin, Alexandru Atanasiu; Gheorghe Dumitru, N.Postolache; Nicolae Baciu, Valeriu Iorgulescu, Constantin Dinu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 51], "content_span": [52, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096079-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Romania rugby union tour of Argentina, Results\nRosario: A.Rodr\u00edguez; C.Garc\u00eda (capt. ), R.Rodr\u00edguez, C.Blanco, A.Knight; J.Escalante, R.Casta\u00f1eda; V.Macat, R.Covella, E.Mainini; M.Senatore, G.Todeschini; A.Risler, J.Costante, P.Sandionigi. Romania: Nicu Duta; Dumitru Teleasa, Gheorghe Nica (capt. ), Andrei Hariton e Ion Constantin; Radu Durbac, Vasile Tata; Constantin Fugigi, Florin Constantin, Alexandru Atanasiu; Gheorghe Daraban, Gheorghe Dumitru; Mircea Ciornei, Valeriu Iorgulescu, Constantin Dinu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 51], "content_span": [52, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096080-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Rome airport attacks and hijacking\nThe 1973 Rome airport attacks and hijacking were a set of Palestinian terrorist attacks originating at Leonardo da Vinci\u2013Fiumicino International Airport in Fiumicino, Lazio, Italy, and resulting in the deaths of 34 people. The attacks began with an airport-terminal invasion and hostage-taking, followed by the firebombing of Pan American World Airways Flight 110.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096080-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Rome airport attacks and hijacking\nPan American World Airways flight 110 was scheduled to depart from Rome, Italy and arrive in Tehran, Iran, by way of Beirut, Lebanon. On 17 December 1973, shortly before takeoff, the airport terminal and the flight aircraft were attacked and the aircraft was set on fire by armed Palestinian gunmen, resulting in the deaths of thirty persons on the plane and two in the terminal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096080-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Rome airport attacks and hijacking\nFollowing the flight 110 attack, the gunmen hijacked Lufthansa Flight 303 and killed two more people. They ended up in the custody of the Kuwaiti authorities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096080-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Rome airport attacks and hijacking, Background\nSince the ousting of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) from Jordan, following the Jordanian-Palestinian civil war, Palestinian military organizations made South Lebanon their headquarters and base of operations, enlisting militants from Palestinian refugee camps. South Lebanon was referred to as Fatah-land, due to the almost complete control of Fatah and other military Palestinian organizations over this -officially Lebanese- area, which they used to stage attacks against Israel, mainly targeting civilians, and to engage in armed operations abroad, termed \"acts of terrorism.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 51], "content_span": [52, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096080-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Rome airport attacks and hijacking, Terminal invasion and firebombing of Pan Am Flight 110\nOn 17 December 1973, Pan Am Flight 110 was scheduled to fly from Leonardo da Vinci International Airport in Rome to Beirut International Airport in Lebanon and then on to Tehran, Iran. At the controls of the Boeing 707-321B (registration N407PA, name Clipper Celestial) were Captain Andrew Erbeck, First Officer Robert Davison, and Flight engineer Kenneth Pfrang.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 95], "content_span": [96, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096080-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Rome airport attacks and hijacking, Terminal invasion and firebombing of Pan Am Flight 110\nAt approximately 1251 local time in Rome, just as Flight 110 was preparing to taxi, five Palestinian people made their way through the terminal building, armed with automatic firearms and grenades. The terrorists removed submachine guns from hand-luggage bags and began firing throughout the terminal, shattering windows and killing two people. Pilots and crew in the cockpit of the aircraft were able to observe travelers and airport employees in the building running for cover. Captain Erbeck announced over the plane's public address system that there was \"some commotion\" in the terminal and instructed all the people on board to get down on the floor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 95], "content_span": [96, 752]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096080-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Rome airport attacks and hijacking, Terminal invasion and firebombing of Pan Am Flight 110\nSeveral of the gunmen ran across the tarmac toward the Pan American jet, throwing one phosphorus incendiary and other hand grenades through the open front and rear doors of the aircraft. The explosions knocked crew and passengers to the ground, and the cabin filled with thick, acrid smoke from the resulting fires. Flight attendants were able to open the emergency exit over the wing on one side of the plane; the other exit was obstructed by gunmen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 95], "content_span": [96, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096080-0006-0001", "contents": "1973 Rome airport attacks and hijacking, Terminal invasion and firebombing of Pan Am Flight 110\nThe crew attempted to evacuate as many passengers as possible through the available exit, but twenty-nine passengers and purser Diana Perez died on the plane, including all eleven passengers in first class. Four Moroccan officials heading to Iran for a visit, and Bonnie Erbeck, wife of the plane's captain, were among the dead. Captain Erbeck survived the attack. Also killed were fourteen Aramco employees and employee family members. The aircraft itself was destroyed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 95], "content_span": [96, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096080-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Rome airport attacks and hijacking, Lufthansa hijacking\nDuring the same time, five other gunmen took hostage several Italians and Lufthansa ground crew members into Lufthansa Flight 303 Boeing 737 (registration D-ABEY) waiting to depart for Munich. An Italian customs officer, 20-years old Antonio Zara, was shot dead on the ground when he first arrived at the scene of the attack, after the general alarm had been sounded by the airport's control tower.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 60], "content_span": [61, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096080-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Rome airport attacks and hijacking, Lufthansa hijacking\nThe hijackers then forced the crew already on board to move the plane towards the runway in order to take off. For the first part of the plane's taxiing, the aircraft was chased by several Carabinieri and Guardia di Finanza vehicles, who abandoned the chase after the hijackers threatened to kill all the hostages on board. At 1332 hours, just over half an hour from the start of the action, the plane took off for Athens, Greece, where it arrived at 1650 hours, local Athens time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 60], "content_span": [61, 542]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096080-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Rome airport attacks and hijacking, Lufthansa hijacking, Athens stopover\nUpon landing in Athens, the terrorists demanded by radio the release of two Palestinian gunmen responsible for an attack on Hellinikon International Airport. They claimed to have killed five hostages, including the plane's first officer. The terrorists then threatened to crash the jet in the middle of Athens if their demands were not met. In reality, only one Italian hostage, Domenico Ippoliti, had been killed and one other hostage wounded. After failing to persuade the Greek authorities on releasing the terrorists, they limited their demands to just refuel and leave. The plane took off again from Athens after sixteen hours on the ground and after the gunmen had released the wounded hostage and dumped the body of the dead hostage onto the tarmac.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 77], "content_span": [78, 834]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096080-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 Rome airport attacks and hijacking, Lufthansa hijacking, Damascus stopover\nThe plane next headed for Beirut, where Lebanese authorities refused to allow its landing, and blocked the runway with vehicles. Cyprus also refused to allow landing. The terrorists on board ordered the plane to head for Damascus, Syria, allegedly because the plane was running low on fuel. After they landed in the Syrian capital's airport, Air Force Commander Major General Naji Jamil attempted to persuade the Palestinians to release the hostages, but they refused. The Syrians provided food to everyone on board and refueled the plane. They also treated one of the hijackers for a head injury. The plane took off again two to three hours after landing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 79], "content_span": [80, 737]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096080-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 Rome airport attacks and hijacking, Lufthansa hijacking, Landing in Kuwait\nThe commandeered jet headed for Kuwait, where Kuwaiti authorities refused to allow it to land. Captain Kroese was ordered by the terrorists to land anyway on a secondary runway. An hour of negotiations between the Palestinian gunmen and the Kuwaiti authorities ended with the release of all twelve remaining hostages in exchange for \"free passage\" to an unknown destination for the hijackers. The terrorists were permitted to retain their weapons and, upon leaving the plane, raised their hands to the cameras in a V-for-victory sign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 79], "content_span": [80, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096080-0012-0000", "contents": "1973 Rome airport attacks and hijacking, Aftermath\nIt was reported that Kuwaiti authorities later took the hijackers to an air base for \"interrogation purposes.\" Kuwait announced that it had no intention of putting the hijackers on trial, and initially considered releasing the hijackers to the PLO. In March 1974, President Anwar Sadat of Egypt agreed to allow them to come to Cairo \"under the responsibility of the PLO,\" and the Palestinian organization stated the men would be tried for carrying out an \"unauthorized operation\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 50], "content_span": [51, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096080-0013-0000", "contents": "1973 Rome airport attacks and hijacking, Aftermath\nThe five Palestinians were eventually released under negotiations during another hijacking that took place on 21 November 1974, and turned over to the custody of the PLO. It is unclear what happened to them after their return to the PLO.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 50], "content_span": [51, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096081-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Rose Bowl\nThe 1973 Rose Bowl was the 59th edition of the college football bowl game, played at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, on Monday, January\u00a01. It\u00a0matched the undefeated and top-ranked USC Trojans of the Pacific-8 Conference with the #3 Ohio State Buckeyes of the Big Ten Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096081-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Rose Bowl\nUSC running back Sam Cunningham scored four touchdowns in the second half and was named the Player of the Game, as the Trojans won 42\u201317. The Trojans were voted unanimously the number one team in both major polls, the first time in college football history. The attendance of 106,869 set the stadium record, as well as the NCAA bowl game record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096081-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Rose Bowl, Teams\nThe national championship was on the line for #1 USC, and likely #3 Ohio State. Although #2 Oklahoma already had defeated Penn State in the Sugar Bowl on New Year's Eve to finish their season 11\u20131, a convincing win in the Rose Bowl for the Buckeyes might well have swayed the voters to put Ohio State at #1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 21], "content_span": [22, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096081-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Rose Bowl, Teams, USC\nThe USC Trojans won all eleven games in the 1972 regular season. Their opener against #4 Arkansas propelled them to the top of the polls, where they remained throughout the season. They had help from new head coach Pepper Rodgers' UCLA Bruins, who had defeated #1 Nebraska to start the season, led by junior college transfer quarterback Mark Harmon. The Trojans' closest contest was a 30\u201321 defeat of #15 Stanford. In the UCLA\u2013USC rivalry game with the Rose Bowl on the line for both teams, the Bruins were outmatched by the Trojans 24\u20137. USC then soundly defeated Notre Dame 45\u201323 behind the six touchdowns of Anthony Davis. Quarterbacking duties were shared by Mike Rae and Pat Haden. The Trojans were favored by two touchdowns in this Rose Bowl, the first of three consecutive appearances, all against Ohio State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 26], "content_span": [27, 843]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096081-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Rose Bowl, Teams, Ohio State\nThis was the first year that freshmen were eligible for varsity football in the University Division (now FBS) due to the NCAA rescinding an earlier rule, and it was the first of four Rose Bowl appearances for freshman Archie Griffin. Ohio State had one loss at Michigan State, 19\u201312 on November 11. USC had demolished the Spartans 51\u20136 only five weeks earlier in a night game at the Coliseum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 33], "content_span": [34, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096081-0004-0001", "contents": "1973 Rose Bowl, Teams, Ohio State\nAgainst rival Michigan, the Rose Bowl was on the line for both teams; the Big Ten had rescinded its long-standing \"no repeat\" rule, so Michigan was eligible to play in the Rose Bowl for a second straight year, and the unbeaten Wolverines were a slight favorite over the Buckeyes in Columbus. However, Ohio State used a defensive goal line stand in the first half and another in the second half to beat #3 Michigan 14\u201311. The Buckeyes and Wolverines shared the Big Ten title, and the conference's athletic directors voted to give Ohio State the Rose Bowl bid. Because the Big Ten and Pac-8 did not yet permit teams to play in any postseason game except the Rose Bowl, the Wolverines stayed at home. The two conferences allowed multiple bowl teams starting with the 1975 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 33], "content_span": [34, 810]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096081-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Rose Bowl, Game summary\nAt the half, the score was tied at seven. USC running back Sam Cunningham exploded for four touchdowns in the second half and Anthony Davis added another as the Trojans coasted to a 32-point lead. Ohio State scored a touchdown in the last minute and the final score was 42\u201317. It was the fourth consecutive win for the Pac-8.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 28], "content_span": [29, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096081-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Rose Bowl, Aftermath, Rose Bowl records\nCunningham set three modern Rose Bowl records with four touchdowns in his final college football game. As of 2008, the records for touchdowns, rushing touchdowns and points scored have been matched by Eric Ball (1986), Ron Dayne (1999), and Vince Young (2006).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 44], "content_span": [45, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096081-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Rose Bowl, Aftermath, Rose Bowl records\nA Rose Bowl record for most points in a half at 45 was set in the second half (USC 35, Ohio State 10). This was later tied in 1999 (Wisconsin 24, UCLA 21) and surpassed by USC and Texas with 53 points in the second half in 2006.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 44], "content_span": [45, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096081-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Rose Bowl, Aftermath, Rose Bowl records\nThe record attendance of this year was later approached, but never be matched again in the Rose Bowl. In 1998, the Rose Bowl stadium was renovated and had its seating capacity reduced, and was no longer the largest football stadium in the United States. As of the 2008 Rose Bowl game, the Rose Bowl game still draws the largest crowds of any post-season college football contest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 44], "content_span": [45, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096081-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Rose Bowl, Aftermath, Ohio State\u2013USC\nThis was the first of three Ohio State-USC matchups in the Rose Bowl in the 1970s. It was the first of four consecutive Rose Bowl appearances for the Buckeyes under head coach Woody Hayes and two-time Heisman trophy winner Archie Griffin. Prior to the game contest, Hayes pushed a camera into the face of a local news photographer, screaming, \"That'll take care of you, you son of a bitch.\" Hayes was ejected and left California with a subpoena. The Buckeyes won the rematch the following year, the sole Rose Bowl victory for the Big Ten in the 1970s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 41], "content_span": [42, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096081-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 Rose Bowl, Aftermath, NFL players\nThe 1972 Trojans had 33 players selected in the next several NFL Drafts, including five first-round selections: Charle Young, Sam Cunningham, Pete Adams, Lynn Swann, and Steve Riley. The 1972 Trojan team was named one of the best teams of the Twentieth century. The Buckeyes had eight eventual NFL first round selections: Tim Fox, Archie Griffin, Kurt Schumacher, Doug France, Neal Colzie, John Hicks, Rick Middleton, and Randy Gradishar", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 38], "content_span": [39, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096081-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 Rose Bowl, Legacy\nSports announcer Keith Jackson identified the 1972 USC Trojans as the greatest team he ever saw. Sportswriter Beano Cook placed them at third of his all time teams on the basis of that assertion. The Sporting News ranked the 1972 Trojans in their top 25 greatest teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 22], "content_span": [23, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096081-0012-0000", "contents": "1973 Rose Bowl, Legacy, Quotes\n\"I never saw any team that could beat them,\" USC head coach John McKay said. Washington State head coach Jim Sweeney disagreed. \"USC's not the No. 1 team in the country,\" said Sweeney, whose Cougars endured a 44\u20133 loss to the Trojans. \"The [1972] Miami Dolphins are better.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 30], "content_span": [31, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096082-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Roseville Yard Disaster\nThe Roseville Yard Disaster was an accidental explosion and fire that occurred on 28 April, 1973, at a major Southern Pacific railroad yard located in the city of Roseville, California. The shipment of munitions bound for the Vietnam War originated at the Hawthorne, NV Army Depot. The explosions continued for a number of hours and the loudest could be heard as far as 40 miles away.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096082-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Roseville Yard Disaster\nSubsequent investigation pointed to a small fire in a box car caused by overheated brakes. The US military-owned box car was part of a train of military box cars carrying high explosive aircraft ammunition that had just arrived in the yard after descending from the Sierra Nevada into the Roseville Yard. The train would have been switched to an SP line in Sparks, NV before descending from Donner Summit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096083-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Rothmans 5000 European Championship\nThe 1973 Rothmans 5000 European Championship was a motor racing series for Formula 5000 cars. The series was organized in the United Kingdom by the British Racing and Sports Car Club but also incorporated European rounds. It was the fifth in an annual sequence of European Formula 5000 Championships, and the first to be contested as the Rothmans 5000 European Championship. The 1973 championship was won by Teddy Pilette, driving a McLaren M18 and a Chevron B24.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096083-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Rothmans 5000 European Championship\nThe championship was open to Formula 5000 cars, which were defined for this series as single-seater cars using production based engines. Significant changes to the technical regulations were made for 1973. Engines from 2750cc to 5000cc capacity were now permitted, regardless of the number of cylinders. Engines with a capacity of between 4000cc and 5000cc were still required to use pushrod operated valve gear, however engines of less than 4000cc capacity could use unrestricted valve gear and could be turbocharged.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096083-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Rothmans 5000 European Championship, Points system\nChampionship points were awarded on a 20\u201315\u201312\u201310\u20138\u20136\u20134\u20133\u20132\u20131 basis for the first ten places at each of the first seventeen rounds and on a 40-30-24-20-16-12-8-6-4-2 basis for the first ten places at the final round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 55], "content_span": [56, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096084-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Rothmans Canadian Open\nThe 1973 Rothmans Canadian Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Toronto Lawn Tennis Club in Toronto in Canada that was part of the 1973 Commercial Union Assurance Grand Prix and of the 1973 WTA Tour. The tournament was held from August 20 through August 26, 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096084-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Rothmans Canadian Open, Finals, Men's Doubles\nRod Laver / Ken Rosewall defeated Owen Davidson / John Newcombe 7\u20135, 7\u20136", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096084-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Rothmans Canadian Open, Finals, Women's Doubles\nEvonne Goolagong / Peggy Michel defeated Martina Navratilova / Helga Niessen Masthoff 6\u20133, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096085-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Rothmans International Tennis Tournament\nThe 1973 Rothmans International Tennis Tournament was a men's professional tennis tournament held on indoor carpet courts in the Royal Albert Hall in London, England. It was the third edition of the tournament and was held from 18 to 27 January 1973. The event was part of the 1973 World Championship Tennis circuit. Brian Fairlie won the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096085-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Rothmans International Tennis Tournament, Finals, Doubles\nTom Okker / Marty Riessen defeated Arthur Ashe / Roscoe Tanner 6\u20133, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 62], "content_span": [63, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096086-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Rothmans South of England Championships\nThe 1973 Rothmans South of England Championships was men's tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts at Devonshire Park Lawn Tennis Club in Eastbourne, England. The event was part of the Grand Prix circuit and was categorized as C class. It was the 79th and last edition of the tournament and was held from 18 June until 23 June 1973. Mark Cox won the singles title, his third at the event after 1963 and 1968.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096086-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Rothmans South of England Championships, Finals, Doubles\nOve Bengtson / Jim McManus defeated Manuel Orantes / Ion \u0162iriac 6\u20134, 4\u20136, 7\u20135", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 61], "content_span": [62, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096087-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Royal Air Maroc Sud Aviation Caravelle crash\nThe 1973 Royal Air Maroc Sud Aviation Caravelle crash occurred on December 22, 1973 when Sobelair Sud Aviation Caravelle SE-210 (operating for Royal Air Maroc) crashed near Tangier, Morocco. All 106 people on board were killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096087-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Royal Air Maroc Sud Aviation Caravelle crash, Aircraft\nThe aircraft was a 12-year-old Sud Aviation Caravelle SE-210 VI-N. Its maiden flight was on February 23, 1961 (its test registration was F-WJAN), and it was delivered to Sobelair five days later, where it was re-registered as OO-SRD.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 59], "content_span": [60, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096087-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Royal Air Maroc Sud Aviation Caravelle crash, Accident\nThe aircraft was leased to Royal Air Maroc to operate a passenger flight from Paris, France, to Casablanca, Morocco, with a stopover in Tangier. Most of the 98 passengers were Moroccan students and workers, as well as French tourists traveling to Morocco for Christmas. Nearly all of the eight crew members were Belgian, except for one Moroccan flight attendant. The aircraft approached runway 28 at Tangier-Boukhalef Airport at night in rainy weather. During the approach, the aircraft made a delayed turn and entered a mountainous area. The crew was assigned a safe holding altitude of 3,000 feet (910\u00a0m).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 59], "content_span": [60, 667]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096087-0002-0001", "contents": "1973 Royal Air Maroc Sud Aviation Caravelle crash, Accident\nThe flight was then cleared to land and the aircraft resumed its descent. At 10:10 pm (or 10:07 pm according to some sources, ) local time, the aircraft crashed into Mount Mellaline, located 20 miles east of Tangier-Boukhalef Airport at an altitude of 2,300\u20132,400 feet (700\u2013730\u00a0m), killing all 106 people on board. It was the deadliest aviation disaster to occur in Morocco until the Agadir air disaster in 1975. It remains the deadliest aviation disaster involving a Belgian airline and is the second deadliest accident involving a Sud Aviation Caravelle, behind Sterling Airways Flight 296.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 59], "content_span": [60, 652]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096088-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Rutgers Scarlet Knights football team\nThe 1973 Rutgers Scarlet Knights football team represented Rutgers University in the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. In their first season under head coach Frank R. Burns, the Scarlet Knights compiled a 6\u20135 record. The team outscored their opponents 245 to 208. The team's statistical leaders included John Piccirillo with 415 passing yards, J. J. Jennings with 1,353 rushing yards, and Tom Sweeney with 479 receiving yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096089-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Rwandan coup d'\u00e9tat\nThe 1973 Rwandan coup d'\u00e9tat, also known as the Coup d'\u00e9tat of 5 July (French: Coup d'\u00e9tat du 5 Juillet), was a military coup staged by Juv\u00e9nal Habyarimana against incumbent president Gr\u00e9goire Kayibanda in the Republic of Rwanda. The coup took place on 5 July 1973 and was considered by many as a betrayal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096089-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Rwandan coup d'\u00e9tat, Background\nWhile still under Belgian rule in the 1950s and early 1960s, resentment towards colonial rule and the ethnic Tutsi elite among the Hutu had increased, and led to the formation of the political party Parmehutu by Gr\u00e9goire Kayibanda in 1957, with aims to overthrow the monarchy and gain identical rights (\"emancipation\") for the Hutus. This was achieved following the 1961 election and referendum, but the absence of effective Tutsi opposition led to regional tensions between Hutu politicians. The central and southern politicians were opposed by those from the north.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096089-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Rwandan coup d'\u00e9tat, Background\nIn the months prior to Habyarimana's coup, the Army (mainly composed by northern soldiers) had intensified persecution of ethnic Tutsi through the formation of Hutu vigilante committees to ensure enforcement of the required ethnic quotas requested by Habyarimana. Kayibanda refused this policy of quotas and was then described by the Army as a 'weak' leader. Fake rumors and documents were produced by the Army against the President and Rwanda became isolated economically and diplomatically, especially from neighbouring Uganda (then under the rule of Idi Amin) which housed large numbers of Tutsi. This situation was regarded by the majority of the population as a betrayal from Habyarimana. Indeed, prior to the coup Habyarimana, who served as Army Chief of Staff, was also a friend of president Kayibanda.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 846]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096089-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Rwandan coup d'\u00e9tat, Aftermath\nImmediately after seizing power, Habyarimana established a totalitarian dictatorship and outlawed all political parties, but in 1974 created his own, the Mouvement R\u00e9volutionnaire National pour le D\u00e9veloppement (MRND), as the country's only legally-allowed party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096089-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Rwandan coup d'\u00e9tat, Aftermath\nWhile the coup itself was bloodless, fifty-six people \u2013 mostly former leaders \u2013 were killed by the security services between 1974 and 1977, with Kayibanda dying in detention in 1976, probably of starvation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096090-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Ryder Cup\nThe 20th Ryder Cup Matches were held at Muirfield in Gullane, East Lothian, Scotland. The United States team won the competition by a score of 19 to 13 points. For the first time, what had previously been the \"Great Britain\" team was called \"Great Britain and Ireland\", although golfers from the Republic of Ireland had played since 1953, and from Northern Ireland since 1947.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 391]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096090-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Ryder Cup\nMuirfield had hosted the Open Championship the previous year, won by American Lee Trevino.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096090-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Ryder Cup, Format\nThe Ryder Cup is a match play event, with each match worth one point. The competition format was adjusted slightly in 1973 from the format used from 1963 through 1971:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 22], "content_span": [23, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096090-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Ryder Cup, Format\nWith a total of 32 points, 161\u20442 points were required to win the Cup. All matches were played to a maximum of 18 holes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 22], "content_span": [23, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096090-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Ryder Cup, Teams\nDue to the rules of the PGA of America in place at the time, players with less than five years as a professional were not eligible for the U.S. team, which included reigning U.S. Open champion Johnny Miller and Lanny Wadkins. (These rules also kept Jack Nicklaus on the sidelines until 1969.) Miller made his Ryder Cup debut in 1975 and Wadkins in 1977.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 21], "content_span": [22, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096090-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Ryder Cup, Individual player records\nEach entry refers to the Win\u2013Loss\u2013Half record of the player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 41], "content_span": [42, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096091-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 SANFL Grand Final\nThe 1973 SANFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Glenelg Football Club and North Adelaide Football Club at Adelaide Oval on 29 September 1973. It was the 75th annual grand final of the South Australian National Football League (SANFL), staged to determine the premiers for the 1973 SANFL season. The match, attended by 56,525 spectators, was won by Glenelg by a margin of seven points, marking the club's second SANFL flag, breaking a 39-year premiership drought. It would be the last SANFL Grand Final held at Adelaide Oval until 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096091-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 SANFL Grand Final\nGlenelg has been the top team all year, losing only one game all season (to North Adelaide in Round 7). In a tight grand final, Graham Cornes famously took a mark and kicked a goal to give Glenelg 1 point lead in the dying minutes, and then Glenelg kicked one more goal after the final siren.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096092-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 SANFL season\nThe 1973 South Australian National Football League season was the 94th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096092-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 SANFL season\nGlenelg were the dominant team of the season. They lost only one game all season, to North Adelaide in Round 7.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096092-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 SANFL season\nGlenelg narrowly won the Grand Final against North Adelaide, 21-11 (137) to 19-16 (130). Graham Cornes famously took a mark and goaled to put them one point ahead in the final minutes, and they scored one more goal after the final siren to win by 7 points. It was their first premiership in 39 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096093-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 SCCA Formula Super Vee season\nThe 1973 SCCA Formula Super Vee season was the third season of the Sports Car Club of America sanctioned Formula Super Vee championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096094-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 SCCA L&M Championship\nThe 1973 SCCA L&M Championship was the seventh annual running of the Sports Car Club of America's professional open wheel racing series. The championship, which was open to Formula 5000 cars, was won by South African driver Jody Scheckter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096094-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 SCCA L&M Championship, Points system\nChampionship points were awarded on a 20-15-12-10-8-6-4-3-2-1 basis for the first ten positions in each race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 41], "content_span": [42, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096095-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 SMU Mustangs football team\nThe 1973 SMU Mustangs football team represented Southern Methodist University (SMU) as a member of the Southwest Conference (SWC) during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. Led by first-year head coach Dave Smith, the Mustangs compiled an overall record of 6\u20134\u20131 with a mark of 3\u20133\u20131 in conference play, tying for fourth place in the SWC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 376]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096096-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Sacramento State Hornets football team\nThe 1973 Sacramento State Hornets football team represented Sacramento State University during the 1973 NCAA Division II football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096096-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Sacramento State Hornets football team\nSacramento State competed in the Far Western Conference (FWC). The Hornets were led by head coach Ray Clemons in his thirteenth season. They played home games at Hornet Stadium in Sacramento, California. The team finished the season with a record of one win and nine losses (1\u20139, 0\u20135 FWC). Overall, the team was outscored by its opponents 106\u2013186 for the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096096-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Sacramento State Hornets football team, Team players in the NFL\nNo Sacramento State players were selected in the 1974 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 68], "content_span": [69, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096097-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Safari Rally\nThe 1973 Safari Rally (formally the 21st East Africa Safari Rally) was the fourth round of the inaugural World Rally Championship season. Run in mid-April in central Kenya, the Safari was a markedly different rally from the other dates on the WRC schedule. About 5300\u00a0km of gravel roads comprised the course, though there were not distinct special stages as in other rallies, but instead the course was uncontrolled. The rally was considered very punishing, and thus many of the successful teams were specifically focused on it, leading to a different set of front-runners than led most other rallies. The rally was won by a local driver, Shekhar Mehta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 671]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096097-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Safari Rally, Report\nIn 1973, and for several years afterward, only manufacturers were given points for finishes in WRC events. Like the drivers, the cars were different for Africa than for other rallies. As a result, the successful types did not mirror the results of other rallies on the circuit, and Datsun and Peugeot both made strong showings. Additionally, cars were not broken into separate groups or classes as in other rallies, so only overall results were classified. Time was not measured as the total elapsed through special stages as with other rallies, but instead a penalty was assessed at each time control for not meeting the target: total penalty time was the measure of who was in what place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 25], "content_span": [26, 717]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096098-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Saint John River flood\nThe 1973 Saint John River flood in late April 1973 was the most significant flood ever recorded on the Saint John River. The flood inundated many parts of the city of Fredericton, New Brunswick and its surrounding farmlands killing at least one person and causing nearly 12 million dollars (78 million adjusted to 2008 dollars) in damages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096098-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Saint John River flood\nThe flood was created by a combination of heavy rain in the watershed and snow melt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096098-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Saint John River flood\n\"Flooding occurred in several places along the St. John thatspring\u2014among them, Edmundston, Grand Falls, Perth-Andover,Hartland, Woodstock and parts of Maine. But by far the most dramaticeffects were in the lower valley. In Fredericton, the river level reached28.3 feet (8.6m), or 25 feet (7.6m) above its normal summer level. Water spilled intoolder residential areas, lapped against newer subdivisions, and welled up around public buildings.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 471]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096099-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Saint Louis Billikens men's soccer team\nThe 1973 Saint Louis Billikens men's soccer team represented Saint Louis University during the 1973 NCAA Division I men's soccer season. The Billikens won their record-breaking tenth NCAA title this season. It was the sixteenth ever season the Billikens fielded a men's varsity soccer team. This was the most recent season the Billikens have won a national title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096100-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Salta earthquake\nThe 1973 Salta earthquake occurred in the Province of Salta, in the Republic of Argentina, at a depth of 12 kilometres (7.5\u00a0mi), on 19 November, with a magnitude of 5.6 on the mb scale.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096100-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Salta earthquake, Damage and casualties\nThe destructive force of the 1973 Salta earthquake was measured at VII (Very strong) on the Mercalli intensity scale. It caused damage to communities towards the east of the provinces of Salta and Jujuy, particularly in Santa Clara (Jujuy).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 44], "content_span": [45, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096101-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Samita border skirmish\nFollowing the deterring effect of Operation Vantage (1961), Kuwait gained its recognition by Iraq in 1963. Both countries had ongoing border disputes throughout most of the 1960s, although often resolved and restrained within the history of Arab solidarity.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096101-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Samita border skirmish\nSince 1967 and during 1973, despite the unstable history between the Kuwaiti and the leadership of Iraq back then, the Kuwaiti military acted in alliance with the Iraqi military during the Six-Day War and participated with a token force during the 1973 October War of the same year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096101-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Samita border skirmish, 1973 border skirmish\nKnown and designated as \"Samita\" (Arabic meaning: \"quiet\") skirmish; however, the proper border post in reference was \"Sanita\" as it referred to a northern border area post on the Kuwaiti border with Iraq and accordingly the skirmish was designated as such.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 307]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096101-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Samita border skirmish, 1973 border skirmish\nOn December 26, 1972, Kuwait sent a delegation of members of the National Assembly of Kuwait to Iraq. The Kuwaiti delegation met with Saddam Hussein, then deputy President of Iraq, and discussed the border demarcation between Kuwait and Iraq and the need to resolve this conflict. The Kuwaiti delegation also met with Iraqi President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, who assured members of the delegation that the border situation would be resolved. Accordingly, on February 26, 1973, another Kuwaiti delegation headed by Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, then Kuwait's Minister of Foreign Affairs, visited Iraq and remained until March 2, 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 691]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096101-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Samita border skirmish, 1973 border skirmish\nKuwaiti and Iraqi authorities conducted several meetings in which Iraqi authorities claimed that Warbah Island and Bubiyan Island were part of Iraq due to their importance as major water channels for the trade of Iraq and significant geopolitical strategic points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096101-0004-0001", "contents": "1973 Samita border skirmish, 1973 border skirmish\nIn response, the visiting delegation stated that Kuwait would not cede any of its territories and if the territories were needed for joint economic development purposes, then Kuwait would spare no effort in realizing such an endeavor advancing exclusively humanitarianism through a concession from the Emir of Kuwait within the formalization of a just mission approach and that following the finalization of border demarcations. As the Kuwaiti delegation was set to leave Iraq on March 3, 1973, the Iraqi government proposed an agreement between Kuwait and Iraq which would enhance the capabilities of Iraq in expanding trade through Kuwait. The Kuwaiti delegation was willing to cooperate as long as its territories were not compromised unjustifiably. In response, the government of Iraq and the leadership at the time withdrew their proposal and started applying pressure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 924]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096101-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Samita border skirmish, 1973 border skirmish\nIn the meantime and due to the history of restrained and calm disputes, Kuwait border posts were rotated between soldiers of the Kuwait Armed Forces and the Kuwait Police. On March 20, 1973, at 0300, a crisis occurred between Kuwait and Iraq based on land demarcations that Iraq was claiming. Units of the Iraqi military advanced to a Kuwaiti border police station, secured by members of the Kuwait border guards, and asked the border guards to vacate the premises. When the officer in charge refused, Iraqi forces heavily combat engaged the lightly guarded border post. The border guards troops held their ground and battled the heavily armed Iraqi force throughout the night and morning. The skirmish wounded several and claimed the lives of the first lieutenant in charge and his corporal. As a result, Kuwait declared a state of emergency, and the borders were sealed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 922]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096101-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Samita border skirmish, 1973 border skirmish\nImmediately after, Mubarak Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and his deputy Brigadier General Sheikh Saleh Mohammed Al-Sabah mobilized the Kuwait Armed Forces and led the deployment towards the border with Iraq in preparation for the worst. The Kuwaiti combat quick reaction force contingent was led by a Kuwaiti colonel assisted by a lieutenant-colonel, consisting of elements of the Kuwait Army and the Kuwait Air Force.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096101-0006-0001", "contents": "1973 Samita border skirmish, 1973 border skirmish\nThe combat reaction force included a Commando force led by a Kuwaiti lieutenant colonel being combat supported by an armored tank brigade and two supersonic English Electric Lightning fighter aircraft who were tasked with engaging the area of conflict as required and remain acting as armed air vanguards patrollers and monitor for the area from Umm Qasr in the east to Safwan in the west.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096101-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Samita border skirmish, 1973 border skirmish\nIn response to the assembling of the Kuwait Armed Forces by Mubarak and Saleh, the Iraqi authorities issued a statement at 1300 on March 20, 1973, claiming that the Kuwaiti forces were the aggressors, which were intruding in Iraqi territory while Iraqi military units were conducting military drills and as a result, the Iraqi military responded with force. In response, Kuwait authorities issued a similar statement claiming that the assault on the \"Sanita\" post was an assault of Kuwaiti territory and subsequently an assault on Kuwait.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096101-0007-0001", "contents": "1973 Samita border skirmish, 1973 border skirmish\nIn addition, the Kuwaiti statement added that the assault occurred during the time when Kuwait was expecting an Iraqi delegation from Iraq to come to Kuwait and settle the demarcation of borders between the two countries, based on the agreement that Baghdad signed on October 4, 1963. The Iraqi government proposed that the Iraqi Military and the Military of Kuwait should pull back 10\u00a0km from the assaulted post.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096101-0007-0002", "contents": "1973 Samita border skirmish, 1973 border skirmish\nAccordingly, Kuwaiti authorities refused this proposition and requested the Arab League to demand from Iraq to pull back their forces to the demarcation line set by the Arab League Forces during Operation Vantage. Also, Kuwaiti authorities insisted on the withdrawal of all Iraqi military units from the \"Sanita\" border post and also demanded to settle the demarcation of borders between Kuwait and Iraq. Consequently, the border dispute was shaping to be governed by a political resolution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 49], "content_span": [50, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096102-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 San Diego Chargers season\nThe 1973 San Diego Chargers season was the franchise's fourth season in the National Football League (NFL), and its 14th overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096102-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 San Diego Chargers season\nThe team was coming off a season that ended with a 4\u20139\u20131 record. Although he was offered a five-year contract toward the end of the previous season, 1973 would prove to be Harland Svare's final season as the team's head coach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096102-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 San Diego Chargers season\nThe team obtained quarterback Johnny Unitas in a trade with the Baltimore Colts, but Unitas was a shell of his former greatness. In the middle of the season he was replaced at quarterback by a rookie Dan Fouts, the team's third-round pick in that year's draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096103-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 San Diego Padres season\nThe 1973 San Diego Padres season was the fifth season in franchise history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096103-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 San Diego Padres season, Regular season, Dave Winfield\nDave Winfield came to the Padres in 1973 from the University of Minnesota without having played a single game in the minor leagues. Winfield was also drafted by the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League, the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association and the Utah Stars of the American Basketball Association. Winfield made his Major League Baseball debut on June 19 against the Houston Astros. Winfield had 4 at bats and 1 hit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 59], "content_span": [60, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096103-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 San Diego Padres season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 73], "content_span": [74, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096103-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 San Diego Padres season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 66], "content_span": [67, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096103-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 San Diego Padres season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 71], "content_span": [72, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096103-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 San Diego Padres season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 68], "content_span": [69, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096103-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 San Diego Padres season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 69], "content_span": [70, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096104-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 San Diego State Aztecs football team\nThe 1973 San Diego State Aztecs football team represented California State University San Diego during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season as a member of the Pacific Coast Athletic Association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096104-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 San Diego State Aztecs football team\nThe team was led by head coach Claude Gilbert, in his first year, and played home games at San Diego Stadium in San Diego, California. They finished the season as Conference Champion for the second consecutive year, with a record of nine wins, one loss and one tie (9\u20131\u20131, 3\u20130\u20131 PCAA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096104-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 San Diego State Aztecs football team, Team players in the NFL\nThe following finished their college career in 1973, were not drafted, but played in the NFL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 66], "content_span": [67, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096105-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 San Diego Toreros football team\nThe 1973 San Diego Toreros football team was an American football team that represented the University of San Diego as an independent in the 1973 NCAA Division III football season. In their second and final season under head coach Andy Vinci, the Toreros compiled a 9\u20132\u20131, outscored opponents by a total of 455 to 169, and lost to Wittenberg in the NCAA Division III Semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096105-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 San Diego Toreros football team\nThe 1973 season was San Diego's first in the NCAA, having competed as a club program for the previous four seasons. In its first season of NCAA competition, the Toreros led Division III with averages of 441 yards of total offense, 231.7 passing yards, and 40.2 points per game, and advanced to the four-team Division III playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096105-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 San Diego Toreros football team\nWhen Coach Vinci came to San Diego in December 1971, he inherited a club program that had won only five games in the previous two seasons, operated on a $10,000 budget, and played on a field that was described as \"little more than a dirt bowl filled with gopher holes and a rut down the middle, no lights, insufficient parking and poor facilities for coaches and players.\" Vinci raised funds with a combination of loans and donations and rebuilt the program's facilities. Vinci said, \"I even learned how to run a bulldozer.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096105-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 San Diego Toreros football team\nDuring the 1973 season, four San Diego players broke school records on offense: 1) Rich Paulson set school records with 16 rushing touchdowns, 96 points scored, and an average of 6.3 yards per carry; 2) quarterback Bob Dulich led all players in Division III with an average of 231.2 yards of total offense per game, and broke the schools' single-season records with 2,538 passing yards, 2,773 yards of total offense, and 21 touchdown passes and the single-game record with 389 yards against USIU; 3) Ernie Yarbrough broke single-season receiving records with 1,102 receiving yards and 67 receptions; and 4) Doug Rothrock broke a single-season record with 49 successful extra point kicks and eight successful extra point kicks in one game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 775]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096106-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 San Francisco 49ers season\nThe 1973 San Francisco 49ers season was the franchise's 24th season in the National Football League and their 28th overall. They began the season hoping to improve on their previous years' output of 8\u20135\u20131, and looking to make the playoffs for the fourth consecutive season. However, the team finished 5\u20139 and failed to qualify for the playoffs. After the season, quarterback John Brodie retired after 16 years with the 49ers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096107-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 San Francisco Giants season\nThe 1973 San Francisco Giants season was the franchise's 91st season, 16th season in San Francisco and 14th in Candlestick Park. The team finished third in the National League West with a record of 88\u201374, 11 games behind the Cincinnati Reds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096107-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 San Francisco Giants season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 77], "content_span": [78, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096107-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 San Francisco Giants season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 70], "content_span": [71, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096107-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 San Francisco Giants season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 75], "content_span": [76, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096107-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 San Francisco Giants season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 72], "content_span": [73, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096107-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 San Francisco Giants season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 73], "content_span": [74, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096108-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 San Francisco State Gators football team\nThe 1973 San Francisco State Gators football team represented San Francisco State University during the 1973 NCAA Division II football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096108-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 San Francisco State Gators football team\nSan Francisco State competed in the Far Western Conference (FWC). The Gators were led by head coach Vic Rowen in his 13th year at the helm. They played home games at Cox Stadium in San Francisco, California. The team finished the regular season with a record of seven wins, two losses and one tie (7\u20132\u20131, 3\u20132 FWC). For the season the team outscored its opponents 263\u2013188.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096108-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 San Francisco State Gators football team, Team players in the NFL\nNo San Francisco State players were selected in the 1974 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 70], "content_span": [71, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096109-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 San Jose State Spartans football team\nThe 1973 San Jose State Spartans football team represented California State University, San Jose during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season as a member of the Pacific Coast Athletic Association. The team was led by first year head coach Darryl Rogers. They played home games at Spartan Stadium in San Jose, California. The Spartans finished the season with a record of five wins, four losses and two ties (5\u20134\u20132, 2\u20130\u20132 PCAA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096110-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Sandown 250\nThe 1973 Sandown 250 was an endurance race for Group C Touring Cars. It was staged at Sandown in Victoria, Australia on 9 September 1973 over 130 laps of the 3.1\u00a0km circuit, a total distance of 403\u00a0km (250\u00a0mi). The race was Round 2 of the 1973 Australian Manufacturers' Championship and was the eighth in a sequence of annual endurance races now known as the Sandown 500.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096110-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Sandown 250\nThe race was won by Peter Brock driving a Holden Torana GTR XU-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 82]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096111-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Sandown Park Cup\nThe 1973 Sandown Park Cup was the seventh round of the 1973 Tasman Series. It was a Formula 5000 race held at Sandown International Raceway. It was held on 18 February on the same circuit that would in November be used for the 1973 Australian Grand Prix. New Zealander Graham McRae won the race and went on to win the Grand Prix as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096111-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Sandown Park Cup\nThe race was promoted by the Light Car Club of Australia as the Chesterfield 100.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096112-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Scheldeprijs\nThe 1973 Scheldeprijs was the 60th edition of the Scheldeprijs cycle race and was held on 31 July 1973. The race was won by Freddy Maertens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096113-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Scottish League Cup Final\nThe 1973 Scottish League Cup Final was played on 15 December 1973 and was the final of the 28th Scottish League Cup competition. It was contested by Dundee and Celtic. Dundee won the match 1\u20130, with Gordon Wallace scoring the winning goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096113-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Scottish League Cup Final, Media Coverage\nIn Scotland highlights of the Scottish League Cup Final was shown on BBC One Scotland on their Sportsreel programme in the evening and also on STV and Grampian Television on the former's Scotsport programme the following day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096114-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Scottish local elections\nLocal elections were held in Scotland in May 1973, as part of that year's wider British local elections. The elections were the last to the local authorities created under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1929, and were replaced in 1975 by a uniform system of regions and districts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096114-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Scottish local elections\nElections to the 4 city corporations, 21 town councils of large burghs and 176 town councils of small burghs took place on 1 May 1973; elections to the 33 county councils took place a week later on 8 May 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096115-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Segunda Divisi\u00f3n de Chile\nThe 1973 Segunda Divisi\u00f3n de Chile was the 22nd season of the Segunda Divisi\u00f3n de Chile.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096116-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Semaphore state by-election\nThe Semaphore state by-election, 1973 was a by-election held on 2 June 1973 for the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Semaphore. This was triggered by the death of state Labor MHA Reg Hurst. The seat had been retained by Labor since it was created and first contested at the 1970 state election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096116-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Semaphore state by-election, Results\nThe Socialist Party, who contested the previous election on 3.7 percent of the vote, did not contest the by-election. Labor easily retained the seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096117-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Senegalese general election\nGeneral elections were held in Senegal on 28 January 1973 to elect a President and National Assembly. At the time the country was a one-party state, with the Senegalese Progressive Union (UPS) as the sole legal party, As a result, its leader, L\u00e9opold S\u00e9dar Senghor, was the only candidate in the presidential election and was re-elected unopposed. In the National Assembly election, voters were presented with a list of 100 UPS candidates (for the 100 seats) to vote for. Voter turnout was 93.0% in the parliamentary elections and 97% in the presidential election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 597]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096118-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Senior League World Series\nThe 1973 Senior League World Series is a baseball competition that took place from August 11\u201318 in Gary, Indiana, United States. Taipei, Taiwan defeated Oxon Hill, Maryland in the championship game. It was Taiwan's second straight championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096119-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Sheffield City Council election\nElections to Sheffield Council were held on 10 May 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 93]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096119-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Sheffield City Council election\nThe first elections to the newly created metropolitan borough council were held on 10 May 1973, with the entirety of the 90 seat council - three seats for each of the thirty wards - up for vote. The Local Government Act 1972 stipulated that the elected members were to shadow and eventually take over from the predecessor corporation on 1 April 1974. The order in which the councillors were elected dictated their term serving, with third-place candidates serving two years and up for re-election in 1975, second-placed three years expiring in 1976 and 1st-placed five years until 1978.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 623]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096119-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Sheffield City Council election, Election result\nThis result has the following consequences for the total number of seats on the Council after the elections:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 53], "content_span": [54, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096120-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Sierra Leonean general election\nGeneral elections were held in Sierra Leone on 15 May 1973. The result was a victory for the All People's Congress, which won 84 of the 85 elected seats. However, the main opposition, the Sierra Leone People's Party boycotted the election due to violence and alleged irregularities, and most APC candidates were elected unopposed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096121-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Sikkimese general election\nGeneral elections were held in Sikkim in January 1973. The Sikkim National Party emerged as the largest party, winning nine of the 18 elected seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096121-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Sikkimese general election, Electoral system\nThe State Council was established in 1953 by the Chogyal. It originally had 18 members, of which 12 were elected and six (including the President) appointed by the Chogyal. Of the 12 elected members, six were for the Nepali community and six for the Lepcha and the Bhutia communities. For the 1958 elections the number of seats was increased to 20 by adding one seat for the Sangha and an additional appointed member. In 1966 a further four seats had been added; one each for the Nepali and Lepcha/Bhutia communities, together with one for the Tsong and a scheduled caste seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 627]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096121-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Sikkimese general election, Electoral system\nCandidates for election to the Council had to be at least 30 years old, whilst the voting age was set at 21.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096121-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Sikkimese general election, Campaign\nPrior to the elections the Sikkim State Congress and the Sikkim Janata Party merged to form the Sikkim Janata Congress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096121-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Sikkimese general election, Results, Appointed members\nIn addition to the elected members, six members were appointed to the Sikkim State Council by the Chogyal on 5 March; Traten Sherba Gyaltsen, Madan Mohan Rasaily, Chhoutuk Tsering Pazo, Dhan Bahadur Chettri, Kali Prasad Rai and Atang Lepcha.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 59], "content_span": [60, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096121-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Sikkimese general election, Aftermath\nFollowing the election, the Sikkim National Congress and Sikkim Janata Congress claimed that vote rigging took place in the South Sikkim constituency. They demanded that officials involved were arrested, but these demands were not met, leading to protests. The unrest led to the signing of a tripartite agreement on 8 May between the Choygal, Sikkimese political parties and the government of India. The agreement provided for the establishment of a responsible government under the supervision of a Chief Executive nominated by the Indian government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 42], "content_span": [43, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096122-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Singapore Grand Prix\nThe 1973 Singapore Grand Prix was a motor race held at the Thomson Road Grand Prix circuit on 22 April 1973. It was the final Singapore Grand Prix before the cancellation of the event, which resumed in 2008 as a round of the Formula One World Championship. The race was contested over 50 laps and was won by Vern Schuppan driving a March. The race was run to Australian Formula Two rules.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096122-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Singapore Grand Prix, Report, Background\nJohn MacDonald had a brand new Brabham BT40 delivered to him for the race. However, his team ran into difficulty due to fuel pick-up problems with the new car.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096122-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Singapore Grand Prix, Report, Background\nIn the 1972 event, the 28-year-old Singaporean driver Lionel Chan was involved in an accident which saw his car roll into a ditch on the fourth lap after losing a wheel and hitting an official car. He was taken to hospital but fell into a coma and later died. The circuit was considered dangerous and the Singaporean Minister of Social Affairs, Encik Othman Wok, stated, \"I'll be the happiest man when we get a permanent circuit.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 45], "content_span": [46, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096122-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Singapore Grand Prix, Report, Race\nSchuppan was leading Malcolm Ramsay's Birrana when Schuppan's March kicked up some stones, puncturing Ramsay's fuel tank and covering him in petrol.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096122-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Singapore Grand Prix, Report, Race\nMalcolm soldiered on until the pain of the petrol burning his balls forced him to retire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 39], "content_span": [40, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096122-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Singapore Grand Prix, Report, Aftermath\nDuring a support race for touring cars, Swiss driver Joe Huber went off the track into a lamp post. He died six days later as a result of his injuries. The difficulty of implementing adequate safety measures, along with concerns that the Grand Prix was promoting reckless driving, led to motor racing being banned in Singapore after the 1973 Grand Prix. Other contributory factors have been suggested, including an increase in traffic, the inconvenience of having to close roads for the event and also a surge of oil prices stemming from the Suez Crisis. On average the Grand Prix saw one fatality per year, partly due to the nature of the circuit which featured monsoon drains and bus stops. Graeme Lawrence, a three-time winner of the Singapore Grand Prix, believed that the Thomson Road circuit was one of the most dangerous in the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 44], "content_span": [45, 886]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096122-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Singapore Grand Prix, Report, Aftermath\nA permanent track incorporating a sports complex was proposed as a replacement for the Thomson Road circuit, but this did not come to fruition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 44], "content_span": [45, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096123-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Skate Canada International\nThe 1973 Skate Canada International was held in Calgary, Alberta on October 25\u201328. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, and ice dancing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096124-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Sligo Senior Football Championship\nThis is a round-up of the 1973 Sligo Senior Football Championship. St. Patrick's regained the Owen B. Hunt Cup in this year after defeating Craobh Rua in the final. A new name appeared in the Championship entrants this year - Eastern Harps, an amalgamation of Keash, 1964 finalists and intermittent competitors at Senior level, and Gurteen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096124-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Sligo Senior Football Championship, Sligo Senior Football Championship Final\nTeam:T. CumminsE. RusheA. BolandJ. CuffeS. ClarkeP.J. KilcullenL. BolandM. Kearins (0-7)J. Kilgallon (0-2)P. McMunnR. BolandP. KearinsM. JamesT. TempanyJ. Kearins (1-1)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 81], "content_span": [82, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096124-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Sligo Senior Football Championship, Sligo Senior Football Championship Final\nTeam:J. DevittJ. McGuiganJ. FitzgeraldM. KearinsB. MurphyP. JoyceP. FitzpatrickG. SodenM. LaffeyK. DelaneyS. ConnellyM. Gorman (0-6)D. Kerins (0- 1)F. BrettP. McDermott", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 81], "content_span": [82, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096125-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council election\nThe first elections to the newly created Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council were held on Thursday, 10 May 1973, with the entirety of the 51 seat council - three seats for each of the 17 wards - up for vote. The Local Government Act 1972 stipulated that the elected members were to shadow and eventually take over from the predecessor corporation on 1 April 1974. The order in which the councillors were elected dictated their term serving, with third-place candidates serving two years and up for re-election in 1975, second-placed three years expiring in 1976 and 1st-placed five years until 1978.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 653]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096125-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council election\nThe election resulted in the Conservatives gaining control of the council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096126-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Solomon Islands general election\nGeneral elections were held in the Solomon Islands between 22 May and 12 June 1973. The following year, Solomon Mamaloni of the People's Progressive Party became the first Chief Minister.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096126-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Solomon Islands general election, Electoral system\nThe Governing Council was enlarged from 26 to 33 seats prior to the election. Of the 33 members, 24 were elected in single-member constituencies (increased from seventeen) and nine were appointed, including three ex officio members. The member representing Eastern Outer Island was elected directly for the first time, having previously been elected by an electoral college, although suffrage on the islands was limited to men by local chiefs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 55], "content_span": [56, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096126-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Solomon Islands general election, Campaign\nA total of 118 candidates contested the 24 elected seats. Campaigning in Honiara was reported to be unusually bitter, with posters being torn down and several complaints made to the police. Only one political party, the Solomons United National Party of David Kausimae, contested the elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 47], "content_span": [48, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096126-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Solomon Islands general election, Results\nOnly six of the MPs elected in 1970 were re-elected, and only one member of the Solomons United National Party. Voter turnout ranged from 42% in Honiara to 82%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 46], "content_span": [47, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096126-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Solomon Islands general election, Aftermath\nFollowing the elections, a new political party \u2013 the United Solomon Islands Party (USIP) \u2013 was formed by fourteen of the winning candidates. Benedit Kinika was elected chair of the new party, with Gideon Zoloveke as his deputy. The Solomons United National Party became defunct. In January 1974 another new party, the People's Progressive Party (PPP) was formed. Having become defunct late in 1973, USIP was also revived.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 48], "content_span": [49, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096126-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Solomon Islands general election, Aftermath\nLater in the 1974 constitutional amendments converted the Governing Council into a Legislative Assembly and introduced the position of Chief Minister, elected by the Assembly. Both USIP and the PPP attempted to win the support of the Independent Group led by Willie Betu before the vote on 27 August. Six rounds were required before a winner emerged. Solodia Funifaka dropped out after the fourth round, with the fifth round resulting in a tie between Kinika and Solomon Mamaloni. In the sixth round, Mamaloni won by 14 votes to 10 for Kinika. A government was subsequently formed by the PPP independent MPs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 48], "content_span": [49, 657]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096126-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Solomon Islands general election, Aftermath\nMamaloni appointed five ministers to his cabinet, keeping the Home Affairs portfolio for himself. David Kausimae became Minister of Agriculture and the Rural Economy, Willie Betu was Minister for Education and Cultural Affairs, Stephen Cheka was Minister of Health and Welfare, Peter Kerr Thompson was Minister of Trade, Industry and Labour and Gideon Zoloveke was Minister of Works and Public Utilities. Zoloveke was moved to the Ministry of Home Affairs in late 1974 and replaced as Minister of Works and Public Utilities by Solodia Funifaka. A cabinet reshuffle took place in 1975, with Peter Kerr Thompson sacked from the cabinet. Willie Betu took over as Minister of Trade, Industry and Labour, with Stephen Cheka taking over from Betu as Minister of Education and Cultural Affairs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 48], "content_span": [49, 836]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096126-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Solomon Islands general election, Aftermath\nMamaloni resigned as Chief Minister on 18 November 1975 over deal with an American firm to mint coins celebrating self-government. However, on 1 December he was re-elected as Chief Minister by the Legislative Assembly, defeating Allan Taki by 18 votes to 4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 48], "content_span": [49, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096126-0007-0001", "contents": "1973 Solomon Islands general election, Aftermath\nHe appointed a new cabinet with Jeriel Ausuta as Minister of Agriculture and Lands, Benedict Kinika as Minister of Education, Willie Betu as Minister of Finance, Pulepada Ghemu as Minister of Foreign Trade, Industry and Labour, Francis Kikolo as Minister of Health and Welfare, Jonathan Fiifii'i as Minister of Home Affairs, David Thuguvoda as Minister of Natural Resources and Ashley Wickham as Minister of Works and Public Utilities. Five of the nine ministers were members of USIP, two were from the PPP and one was an independent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 48], "content_span": [49, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096127-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 South African Grand Prix\nThe 1973 South African Grand Prix, formally titled the Seventh AA Grand Prix of South Africa, was a Formula One motor race held at Kyalami on 3 March 1973. It was race 3 of 15 in both the 1973 World Championship of Drivers and the 1973 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers. The race was won by Jackie Stewart driving a Tyrrell. Denny Hulme's pole position was the only one of his Formula One World Championship career.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096127-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 South African Grand Prix\nThis race marked Scuderia Ferrari's 200th start in a World Championship event as a team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096127-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 South African Grand Prix, Accident\nMike Hailwood was recognised for bravery when he went to pull Clay Regazzoni from his burning car after the two collided on the second lap of the race. Hailwood's driving suit caught fire, but after being extinguished by a fire marshal he returned to help rescue Regazzoni, an act for which he was awarded the George Medal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096128-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 South African Open (tennis)\nThe 1973 South African Open was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts in Johannesburg, South Africa that was part of the 1973 Commercial Union Assurance Grand Prix. It was the 70th edition of the tournament and was held from 14 November through 27 November 1973. Jimmy Connors and Chris Evert won the singles titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096128-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 South African Open (tennis), Finals, Men's doubles\nArthur Ashe / Tom Okker defeated Lew Hoad / Robert Maud 6\u20132, 4\u20136, 6\u20132, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 55], "content_span": [56, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096128-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 South African Open (tennis), Finals, Women's doubles\nLinky Boshoff / Ilana Kloss defeated Chris Evert / Virginia Wade 7\u20136, 2\u20136, 6\u20131", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 57], "content_span": [58, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096129-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 South American Open (tennis)\nThe 1973 South American Open, also known as the Argentine Open, was a men's tennis tournament that was played on outdoor clay courts in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The event was part of the 1973 Commercial Union Assurance Grand Prix circuit, categorized as Group B, and was held from 19 November through 25 November 1973. Guillermo Vilas won the singles title after first-seeded Bj\u00f6rn Borg had to retire in the final after injuring his hand when he ran into the umpire's stand. He earned $7,000 first-prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096129-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 South American Open (tennis), Finals, Singles\nGuillermo Vilas defeated Bj\u00f6rn Borg 3\u20136, 6\u20137, 6\u20134, 6\u20136(5\u20135) (Borg retired)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096129-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 South American Open (tennis), Finals, Doubles\nGuillermo Vilas / Ricardo Cano defeated Patricio Cornejo / Ivan Molina 7\u20136, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096130-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 South American Open \u2013 Singles\nGuillermo Vilas defeated Bj\u00f6rn Borg 3\u20136, 6\u20137, 6\u20134, 6\u20136 after Borg retired to win the 1973 ATP Buenos Aires singles competition. Karl Meiler was the champion but did not defend his title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096131-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 South American Rugby Championship\nThe 1973 South American Rugby Championship was the eighth edition of the competition of the leading national Rugby Union teams in South America.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096131-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 South American Rugby Championship\nThe tournament was played in San Paolo and won by Argentina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 99]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096132-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 South American Youth Championships in Athletics\nThe 1st South American Youth Championships in Athletics were held in Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina from November 2\u20134, 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096132-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 South American Youth Championships in Athletics, Medal summary\nMedal winners are published for boys and girls. Complete results can be found on the \"World Junior Athletics History\" website.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 67], "content_span": [68, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096132-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 South American Youth Championships in Athletics, Participation (unofficial)\nDetailed result lists can be found on the \"World Junior Athletics History\" website. An unofficial count yields the number of about 182 athletes from about 7 countries:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 80], "content_span": [81, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096133-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 South Australian state election\nState elections were held in South Australia on 10 March 1973. All 47 seats in the South Australian House of Assembly were up for election. The incumbent Australian Labor Party led by Premier of South Australia Don Dunstan won a second term in government, defeating the Liberal and Country League led by Leader of the Opposition Bruce Eastick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096133-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 South Australian state election, Background\nParliamentary elections for both houses of the Parliament of South Australia were held in South Australia in 1973, which saw Don Dunstan and the Australian Labor Party win a second successive term, against the Liberal and Country League (LCL) led by Bruce Eastick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096133-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 South Australian state election, Background\nIt was only the second time that a Labor government in South Australia had been re-elected for a second term, the first being the early Thomas Price Labor government. It would be the first five-year-incumbent Labor government however.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096133-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 South Australian state election, Background\nModerate Liberal Movement forces within the LCL broke away to form its own party led by Steele Hall after the election in 1973. The LCL became the South Australian Division of the Liberal Party of Australia a year after the election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096133-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 South Australian state election, Background\nThe Country Party also won a seat for the first time in Flinders, and finished second after preferences with no Labor candidate in five LCL seats \u2212 Rocky River, Mallee, Alexandra, Goyder and Victoria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096133-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 South Australian state election, Background\nA 1973 Semaphore by-election and a 1974 Goyder by-election were triggered. Labor and the Liberal Movement easily retained their respective seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 48], "content_span": [49, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096133-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 South Australian state election, Results, House of Assembly\nSouth Australian state election, 10 March 1973House of Assembly << 1970\u20131975 >>", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 64], "content_span": [65, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096133-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 South Australian state election, Results, Legislative Council\nSouth Australian state election, 10 March, 1973Legislative Council << 1968\u20131975 >>", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 66], "content_span": [67, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096134-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 South Carolina Gamecocks football team\nThe 1973 South Carolina Gamecocks football team represented the University of South Carolina as an independent team in the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. The Gamecocks finished the season 7\u20134 overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096135-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 South Glamorgan County Council election\nThe 1973 South Glamorgan County Council election was the first election to South Glamorgan County Council and was held in April 1973. It was followed by the 1977 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096135-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 South Glamorgan County Council election, Candidates\nConservative and Labour candidates contested the vast majority of seats. In contrast there were relatively few Liberal and Plaid Cymru candidates. In Cardiff, many members of the previous County Borough Council sought election to both the new South Glamorgan authority and the new Cardiff City Council (where the elections were held a few weeks later).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096135-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 South Glamorgan County Council election, Outcome\nGlamorgan was the only county to be divided as a result of local government re-organization in England and Wales from 1 April 1974. Previous proposals proposed by the Labour Party had envisaged a division into two new counties, East and West. However, the Conservatives favoured the creation of South Glamorgan given that they entertained hopes of winning control.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 53], "content_span": [54, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096135-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 South Glamorgan County Council election, Outcome\nThe first elections were in May 1973 and councillors would act in a shadow capacity for the next 11 months, setting up the various functions, until the new council came into effect. Labour won a small majority (though subsequently allocated themselves 15 of the 20 seats on the steering committee), largely as a result of winning most of the seats in Cardiff and also in the port of Barry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 53], "content_span": [54, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096135-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 South Glamorgan County Council election, Summary of results\nThis section summarises the detailed results which are noted in the following sections. This was the inaugural county election and therefore no comparison can be made with the previous elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 64], "content_span": [65, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096135-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 South Glamorgan County Council election, Summary of results\nThis table summarises the result of the elections in all wards. 80 councillors were elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 64], "content_span": [65, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096135-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 South Glamorgan County Council election, Ward Results, Barry, Illtyd (one seat)\nCouncillor Mackillican won by one vote after four recounts. This was the smallest majority in the country at these elections. Mrs Elsworth had won the Illtyd ward for the Vale of Glamorgan Borough Council in 1972 by only four votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 84], "content_span": [85, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096135-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 South Glamorgan County Council election, Ward Results, Whitchurch (three seats)\no indicates sitting councillor on Cardiff City Council prior to 1973 election", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 84], "content_span": [85, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096135-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 South Glamorgan County Council election, Ward Results, Whitchurch (three seats)\nA indicates sitting alderman on Cardiff City Council prior to 1973 election", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 84], "content_span": [85, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096136-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 South Korean legislative election\nLegislative elections were held in South Korea on 27 February 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096136-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 South Korean legislative election\nThe result was a victory for the ruling Democratic Republican Party, which won 73 of the 146 elected seats in the National Assembly. With one-third of seats appointed by President Park Chung-hee, the ruling party had a supermajority. Voter turnout was 72.9%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096136-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 South Korean legislative election\nThe election reconstituted the National Assembly after Park had dissolved it in the October Restoration self-coup four months earlier and pushed through a constitutional referendum which removed presidential term limits and gave him the power to appoint one-third of the National Assembly. The opposition New Democratic Party had also split in 1972 over a leadership dispute between the Yu Chin-san faction and an opposing faction led by Kim Dae-jung and Kim Hong-il. One month before the election, the latter formed the Democratic Unification Party. However, the DUP performed poorly and split the opposition vote, and in the aftermath the members expressed regret for their decision to run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 731]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096137-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 South Pacific Touring Series\nThe 1973 South Pacific Touring Car Series was an Australian motor racing competition for Group C Touring Cars. It was contested over four rounds, run in conjunction with the Australian rounds of the 1973 Tasman Series. The series, which was the third South Pacific Touring Series, was won by Peter Brock and his entrant, the Holden Dealer Team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096137-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 South Pacific Touring Series, Points system\nPoints were awarded on a 4-3-2-1 basis to the first four outright placegetters in each round and on a 9-6-4-3-2-1 basis to the first six placegetters in each class in each round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096137-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 South Pacific Touring Series, Points system\nPoints were only awarded conditional on the driver competing in the same make and model of car entered by the same entrant in all four rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096137-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 South Pacific Touring Series, Series results\nNote: The series winner was considered to be the driver and his/her entrant with each receiving equal recognition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096138-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 South Pembrokeshire District Council election\nThe inaugural election to South Pembrokeshire District Council was held in April 1973. Independent candidates won nearly all the seats. It was followed by the 1976 election. On the same day there were elections to the other local authorities and community councils in Wales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096139-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 South Vietnamese Senate election\nSenate elections were held in South Vietnam on 26 August 1973. The election was contested by a total of four lists, of which two would be elected and receive 15 seats each. Each voter had two votes. Voter turnout was reported to be 92.7%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096140-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Southeast Asian Peninsular Games\nThe 1973 Southeast Asian Peninsular Games, officially known as the 7th Southeast Asian Peninsular Games, was a Southeast Asian multi-sport event held in Singapore from 1 to 8 September 1973 with 16 sports featured in the games. This was the first time Singapore hosted the games. Singapore is the fourth nation to host the Southeast Asian Games after Thailand, Burma and Malaysia. The games was opened and closed by Benjamin Sheares, the President of Singapore at the Singapore National Stadium. The final medal tally was led by Thailand, followed by host Singapore and Malaysia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 617]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096141-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Southern 500\nThe 1973 Southern 500, the 24th running of the event, was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series racing event held on September 3, 1973, at Darlington Raceway in Darlington, South Carolina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096141-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Southern 500\nBud Moore would compete in his last NASCAR Cup Series as a driver after this event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096141-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Southern 500\nJackie Cooper was named honorary race marshal for the 1973 Southern 500.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096141-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Southern 500, Background\nDarlington Raceway, nicknamed by many NASCAR fans and drivers as \"The Lady in Black\" or \"The Track Too Tough to Tame\" and advertised as a \"NASCAR Tradition\", is a race track built for NASCAR racing located near Darlington, South Carolina. It is of a unique, somewhat egg-shaped design, an oval with the ends of very different configurations, a condition which supposedly arose from the proximity of one end of the track to a minnow pond the owner refused to relocate. This situation makes it very challenging for the crews to set up their cars' handling in a way that will be effective at both ends.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096141-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Southern 500, Background\nThe track is a four-turn 1.366 miles (2.198\u00a0km) oval. The track's first two turns are banked at twenty-five degrees, while the final two turns are banked two degrees lower at twenty-three degrees. The front stretch (the location of the finish line) and the back stretch is banked at six degrees. Darlington Raceway can seat up to 60,000 people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096141-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Southern 500, Summary, Before race weekend\nJim Vandiver, who was dealing with a child custody case with his first wife, was to appear in a Greenville, South Carolina court on Friday, August 31 for a hearing. He was assured by his lawyer that appearing would not be necessary because he was expected in Darlington. The judge at the hearing did not consider this grounds for absence, and found Vandiver in contempt of court. An arrest warrant was issued.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 47], "content_span": [48, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096141-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Southern 500, Summary, Qualifying\nPole position for the Southern 500 was taken by David Pearson, of Wood Brothers Racing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 38], "content_span": [39, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096141-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Southern 500, Summary, Race\nNeil Castles, who qualified 38th in a Dodge, withdrew before the race. First alternate Mel Larson took his place, 40th on the grid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 32], "content_span": [33, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096141-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Southern 500, Summary, Race\nTwo Greenville County sheriff's deputies arrived at Darlington on race day. In Darlington Raceway president Barney Wallace's office, they informed him of their intent to arrest Vandiver on the contempt charge. Wallace convinced them to make their arrest after the race. Neil Castles had been in Wallace's office at the time, overheard this conversation, and informed Vandiver before the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 32], "content_span": [33, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096141-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Southern 500, Summary, Race\nEarly in the race, Roy Mayne relieved Jabe Thomas in his car. NASCAR points structure meant that Thomas would receive the points for Mayne's finish. Other drivers took advantage of a relief driver, in part because of the very hot day. Richard Petty was one of these utilizing Lennie Pond to make it through the rest of his race due to his relatively stronger physical endurance and mental endurance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 32], "content_span": [33, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096141-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 Southern 500, Summary, Race\n40 drivers competed in this race; only one foreigner competed - Canadian-born Vic Parsons. This event took three hours and forty-four minutes to complete 367 laps. Richard Childress was credited as the last-place finisher due to a problem with his engine on lap 19. Frank Warren was the lowest-finishing driver to complete the event while being nearly 100 laps behind the lead lap cars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 32], "content_span": [33, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096141-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 Southern 500, Summary, Race\nJim Vandiver, who was already nursing a problematic engine, would deliberately spin his car on lap 223, on Darlington's backstretch. This caused a caution, and in a break in race traffic, Vandiver jumped the back fence and left raceway property. From there, he hitchhiked home to Monroe, North Carolina, and thus avoided arrest on race day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 32], "content_span": [33, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096141-0012-0000", "contents": "1973 Southern 500, Summary, Race\nJoe Frasson's problematic engine on lap 304 would force him to finish in the middle of the pack.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 32], "content_span": [33, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096141-0013-0000", "contents": "1973 Southern 500, Summary, Race\nCale Yarborough defeated David Pearson under caution in front 70,000 fans. Pearson would qualify for the pole positionat 150.366 miles per hour (241.991\u00a0km/h) during the solo qualifying sessions. Average race speed was 134.033 miles per hour (215.705\u00a0km/h) due to the seven yellow flags for 37 laps. Chevrolet and Ford were the dominant manufacturers at this race. Richard D. Brown quit this race on lap 30 for no apparent reason. Cale Yarborough made quite a comeback at the end of the race while Charlie Glotzbach was really strong during the middle of the race; he dropped out with vehicle problems on lap 152.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 32], "content_span": [33, 646]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096141-0014-0000", "contents": "1973 Southern 500, Summary, Race\nNotable crew chiefs in this race were Tim Brewer, Travis Carter, Harry Hyde, Dale Inman, Tom Vandiver, and Jake Elder.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 32], "content_span": [33, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096141-0015-0000", "contents": "1973 Southern 500, Summary, Race\nRace earnings ranged from the winner's portion of $23,140 ($133,272 when adjusted for inflation) to the last-place finisher's portion of $1,700 ($9,791 when adjusted for inflation) from a total prize of $126,725. ($729,856 when adjusted for inflation).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 32], "content_span": [33, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096142-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament\nThe 1973 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament took place from March 1\u20133, 1973 at the Richmond Coliseum in Richmond, Virginia. The Furman Paladins, led by head coach Joe Williams, won their second Southern Conference title and received the automatic berth to the 1973 NCAA Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096142-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Format\nAll of the conference's eight members were eligible for the tournament. Teams were seeded based on conference winning percentage. The tournament used a preset bracket consisting of three rounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 60], "content_span": [61, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096143-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Southern Cross Rally\nThe 1973 Southern Cross Rally, officially the Sun-Total Oil Southern Cross International Rally was the eighth running of the Southern Cross Rally. The rally took place between the 3rd and the 7th of October 1973. The event covered 3,245 kilometres from Sydney to Port Macquarie. It was won by Andrew Cowan and John Bryson, driving a Mitsubishi Lancer GSR.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096144-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Southern Illinois Salukis football team\nThe 1973 Southern Illinois Salukis football team was an American football team that represented Southern Illinois University (now known as Southern Illinois University Carbondale) as an independent during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. Under seventh-year head coach Dick Towers, the team compiled a 3\u20137\u20131 record. The team played its home games at McAndrew Stadium in Carbondale, Illinois.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096145-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Southern Miss Golden Eagles football team\nThe 1973 Southern Miss Golden Eagles football team was an American football team that represented the University of Southern Mississippi as an independent during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. In their fifth year under head coach P. W. Underwood, the team compiled a 6\u20134\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096146-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Southwestern Louisiana Bulldogs football team\nThe 1973 Southwestern Louisiana Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented the University of Southwestern Louisiana (now known as the University of Louisiana at Lafayette) in the Southland Conference during the 1973 NCAA Division II football season. In their thirteenth year under head coach Russ Faulkinberry, the team compiled an 0\u201310 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096147-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Soviet Cup\nThe 1973 Soviet Cup was an association football cup competition of the Soviet Union. The winner of the competition, Ararat Yerevan qualified for the continental tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096148-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Soviet First League\nThe 1973 Soviet First League was the third season of the Soviet First League and the 33rd season of the Soviet second tier league competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096149-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Soviet Second League\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by Jolicnikola (talk | contribs) at 13:35, 26 March 2020 (\u2192\u200eGroup I [Ukraine]). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096149-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Soviet Second League\n1973 Soviet Second League was a Soviet competition in the Soviet Second League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096149-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Soviet Second League, Qualifying groups, Group I [Ukraine]\nThe 1973 Football Championship of Ukrainian SSR was the 43rd season of association football competition of the Ukrainian SSR, which was part of the Soviet Second League in Zone 1. The season started on 31 March 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 63], "content_span": [64, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096149-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Soviet Second League, Qualifying groups, Group I [Ukraine]\nThe 1974 Football Championship of Ukrainian SSR was won by SC Tavriya Simferopol.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 63], "content_span": [64, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096149-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Soviet Second League, Qualifying groups, Group I [Ukraine]\nAt the end of the season all six teams from Eastern Ukraine withdrew from competitions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 63], "content_span": [64, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096150-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Soviet Second League, Zone 1\nThe 1973 Football Championship of Ukrainian SSR was the 43rd season of association football competition of the Ukrainian SSR, which was part of the Soviet Second League in Zone 1. The season started on 31 March 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096150-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Soviet Second League, Zone 1\nThe 1974 Football Championship of Ukrainian SSR was won by SC Tavriya Simferopol.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096150-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Soviet Second League, Zone 1\nAt the end of the season all six teams from Eastern Ukraine withdrew from competitions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096151-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Soviet Top League, Overview\nIt was contested by 16 teams, and Ararat Yerevan won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096152-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Soviet economic reform\nThe 1973 Soviet economic reform was an economic reform initiated by Alexei Kosygin, the Chairman of the Council of Ministers. During Leonid Brezhnev's rule of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), the Soviet economy began to stagnate; this period is referred to by some historians as the Era of Stagnation. After the failed 1965 reform Kosygin initiated another reform in 1973 to enhance the powers and functions of the regional planners by establishing associations. The reform was never fully implemented, and members of the Soviet leadership complained that the reform had not even been fully implemented by the time of the 1979 reform.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 677]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096152-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Soviet economic reform, Intentions\nThe reform was ratified in April 1973. Alexei Kosygin's intention with the reform was to indirectly weaken the powers and functions of the central Ministries by establishing associations at the republican and local level of government. The newly established associations were to increase co-operation between enterprises on such important matters as technology, innovation, and education. Each association was to be specialised. A typical inefficiency with Soviet planning was that each enterprise was burdened by excessive production.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096152-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Soviet economic reform, Implementation\nImplementation of the reform was slow. New associations were still being established in 1980s, a decade after the reform was initiated. High-standing Soviet officials commented on the problem when the 1979 reform was initiated. Local planners and economists in the 1980s still complained that they had too little power in the daily running of their local economies. Specialised literature proved that the reform's main goal had failed to meet the expected standards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096152-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Soviet economic reform, Implementation\nIf the reform had been fully implemented it would have given republican and local-level associations considerable more leeway in economic management. The central ministries lost influence via the abolition of the glavki, high-standing departments housing skilled administrators and planners, and the level below the central Ministries would have been strengthened; the merger of enterprises into associations would have given them a common spokesman with economic expertise. The reform would have increased the influence of the political leadership and the State Planning Committee (Gosplan). Historian Jan \u00c5ke Dellenbrant notes that an \"unofficial reason\" for the reform was to intentionally weaken the central Ministries, which had been accused of halting economic progress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 820]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096152-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Soviet economic reform, Implementation\nThe merging of enterprises into associations was accomplished by a highly controversial campaign by Soviet standards. The campaign was carried out in a spirit of derationalisation, which aggravated and even hurt the plan's highly rational goals. The industrial structure of the economy became even more derationalised and therefore more complicated. Central Ministries objected to the loss of enterprises by the setting up of associations, and enterprise managers disliked giving up most of their authority to association chairmen. Local party officials were skeptical of turning plants into local subsidiaries, because the plants' output would not be included in the republics' or regional yearly output statistics. Another problem was that local party cells claimed that they were informed too late about the reform's implementation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 879]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096152-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Soviet economic reform, Implementation, Failure\nThe reform had the side effect of weakening the powers of regional planners over industrial policy even further. By 1981, roughly half of Soviet industry had been merged into associations with an average of four member enterprises in each association. A problem was that an association usually had its members spread over different raions, oblasts, and even republics, which aggravated the State Planning Committee's localisation planning.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096152-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Soviet economic reform, Implementation, Failure\nThe newly established associations made the Soviet economic system even more complex. Many associations increased production amongst member enterprises, such as the Gor'kii automobile plant in Leningrad, which was used as a \"model example\" by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) to demonstrate a good association and a unified Primary Party Organisation (PPO). The Gor'kii plant did not share the same problems as some other associations, as all its members were located in the same city. The relations between an association and the PPO were much more strained if the association had members over a wide geographic area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 710]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096152-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Soviet economic reform, Implementation, Failure\nThe reform had the effect of disrupting the CPSU's traditional allocation of resources between territorial and industrial agencies. Kommunist, a Soviet newspaper, noted that PPOs that supervised associations with members over a wide geographic area tended to lose touch with the local party and factory organisations, which prevented them from working effectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 52], "content_span": [53, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096153-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Soviet nuclear tests\nThe Soviet Union's 1973 nuclear test series was a group of 17 nuclear tests conducted in 1973. These tests followed the 1972 Soviet nuclear tests series and preceded the 1974 Soviet nuclear tests series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096154-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Spanish Grand Prix\nThe 1973 Spanish Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Montju\u00efc circuit on 29 April 1973. It was race 4 of 15 in both the 1973 World Championship of Drivers and the 1973 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers. The 75-lap race was won by Lotus driver Emerson Fittipaldi after he started from seventh position. Fran\u00e7ois Cevert finished second for the Tyrrell team and Shadow driver George Follmer came in third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096155-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Speedway World Pairs Championship\nThe 1973 Speedway World Pairs Championship was the fourth FIM Speedway World Pairs Championship. The final took place in Bor\u00e5s, Sweden. The championship was won by the host country Sweden (24 points). The silver medal was won by Denmark who beat Poland after a run-off (both 21 points).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096155-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Speedway World Pairs Championship, Semifinal 1\nm - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022 t - exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022 x - other exclusion \u2022 e - retired or mechanical failure \u2022 f - fellns - non-starter \u2022 nc - non-classify", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 51], "content_span": [52, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096155-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Speedway World Pairs Championship, Semifinal 2\nm - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022 t - exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022 x - other exclusion \u2022 e - retired or mechanical failure \u2022 f - fellns - non-starter \u2022 nc - non-classify", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 51], "content_span": [52, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096155-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Speedway World Pairs Championship, World final\nm - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance \u2022 t - exclusion for touching the tapes \u2022 x - other exclusion \u2022 e - retired or mechanical failure \u2022 f - fellns - non-starter \u2022 nc - non-classify", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 51], "content_span": [52, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096156-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Speedway World Team Cup\nThe 1973 Speedway World Team Cup was the 14th edition of the FIM Speedway World Team Cup to determine the team world champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096156-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Speedway World Team Cup\nThe final took place at Wembley Stadium in London. The title was won by Great Britain for the third consecutive year and fourth time in total. The fourth win drew Britain level with Poland on four titles won but Sweden remained ahead on the number of titles won with six.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096156-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Speedway World Team Cup, World final\nPeter Collins - 12John Louis - 9Ray Wilson - 8Terry Betts - 8Dave Jessup - dnr", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096156-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Speedway World Team Cup, World final\nAnders Michanek - 11Bernt Persson - 9Bengt Jansson 6Tommy Jansson 5S\u00f6ren Sj\u00f6sten dnr", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096156-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Speedway World Team Cup, World final\nValery Gordeev - 7Vladimir Paznikov - 5Grigory Khlinovsky - 4Aleksandr Pavlov - 2Viktor Trofimov - 2", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096156-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Speedway World Team Cup, World final\nZenon Plech - 5Edward Jancarz - 2Pawe\u0142 Waloszek - 1Jerzy Szczakiel - 0Jan Mucha - dnr", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096157-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 St. Louis Cardinals (NFL) season\nThe 1973 St. Louis Cardinals season was the 54th season the team was in the league. The team matched their previous output of 4\u20139\u20131, finishing with that record for the third straight season. They failed to reach the playoffs for the 25th straight season (not counting an appearance in the Playoff Bowl following the 1964 season).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096157-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 St. Louis Cardinals (NFL) season\nThe game vs. the Oakland Raiders was the first between the teams, and the last until 1983, by which time the Raiders have moved to Los Angeles. It would be the last time the Raiders played at the Cardinals until 1998 in Tempe, Arizona, and the Raiders' last game in St. Louis until 2002 when they played the Rams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096157-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 St. Louis Cardinals (NFL) season\nTheir tied game, their first NFL game against the Denver Broncos, was the nearest they would come to beating that franchise until 2010, and the only time the Broncos would play at Busch Memorial Stadium (they would play at Edward Jones Dome in 2000).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096158-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 St. Louis Cardinals season\nThe 1973 St. Louis Cardinals season was the team's 92nd season in St. Louis, Missouri and its 82nd season in the National League. The Cardinals overcame an 8-23 start to finish with an 81\u201381 record during the season and finished second in the National League East, a-game-and-a-half behind the NL East and eventual NL pennant winners New York Mets. To date, this is the only season the Cardinals have finished at .500 instead of above or below it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096158-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096158-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 69], "content_span": [70, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096158-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 74], "content_span": [75, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096158-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 71], "content_span": [72, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096158-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 72], "content_span": [73, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096159-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 St. Louis mayoral election\nThe 1973 St. Louis mayoral election was held on April 3, 1973 to elect the mayor of St. Louis, Missouri. It saw the election of John Poelker and the defeat of incumbent mayor Alfonso Cervantes in the Democratic primary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096159-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 St. Louis mayoral election\nThe election was preceded by party primaries on March 6.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096160-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 St. Petersburg Masters Invitation\nThe 1973 St. Petersburg Masters Invitation was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor green clay courts at the St. Petersburg Tennis Center in St. Petersburg, Florida in the United States. The event was part of the USLTA circuit which in turn was part of the Grand Prix circuit. It was the third edition of the tournament and was held from April 16 through April 22, 1973. First-seeded Chris Evert won the singles title and earned $5,000 first-prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096160-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 St. Petersburg Masters Invitation, Finals, Doubles\nChris Evert / Jeanne Evert defeated Evonne Goolagong / Janet Young 6\u20132, 7\u20136", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096161-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Stanford Cardinals football team\nThe 1973 Stanford Cardinals football team represented Stanford University in the Pacific-8 Conference during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. Led by second-year head coach Jack Christiansen, the Cardinals were 7\u20134 overall (5\u20132 in Pac-8, third) and played home games on campus at Stanford Stadium in Stanford, California. The Pac-8 did not allow a second bowl team until the 1975 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096161-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Stanford Cardinals football team, Game summaries, California\nJunior running back Scott Laidlaw gained 132 yards on 23 carries while Rod Garcia finished his career with 42 field goals, and NCAA record, and 18 for the season, which tied the NCAA record. Stanford played most of the second half without starting quarterback Mike Boryla, who left the game with a bruised throwing arm.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 65], "content_span": [66, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096161-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Stanford Cardinals football team, All-conference\nFive Stanford players were named to the All-Pac-8 team: quarterback Mike\u00a0Boryla, wide receiver Bill\u00a0Singler, defensive tackle Roger\u00a0Stillwell, safety Randy\u00a0Poltl, and kicker Rod\u00a0Garcia; Singler and Stillwell were juniors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 53], "content_span": [54, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096161-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Stanford Cardinals football team, NFL Draft\nSix Stanford seniors were selected in the 1974 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 48], "content_span": [49, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096162-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Stanley Cup Finals\nThe 1973 Stanley Cup Finals was the championship series of the National Hockey League's (NHL) 1972\u201373 season, and the culmination of the 1973 Stanley Cup playoffs. It was contested between the Chicago Black Hawks and the Montreal Canadiens, a rematch of the 1971 Final. The Canadiens won the best-of-seven series, four games to two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096162-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Stanley Cup Finals, Paths to the Finals\nChicago defeated the St. Louis Blues 4\u20131 and the New York Rangers 4\u20131 to advance to the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096162-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Stanley Cup Finals, Paths to the Finals\nMontreal defeated the Buffalo Sabres 4\u20132 and the Philadelphia Flyers 4\u20131 to set up an \"Original Six\" final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 44], "content_span": [45, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096162-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries\nYvan Cournoyer and Jacques Lemaire would both have 12 points in the finals for the Canadiens. The Conn Smythe Trophy went to Cournoyer, who had six goals. It was Henri Richard's eleventh win of the Stanley Cup and Scotty Bowman's first.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096162-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Stanley Cup Finals, Stanley Cup engraving\nThe 1973 Stanley Cup was presented to Canadiens captain Henri Richard by NHL President Clarence Campbell following the Canadiens 6\u20134 win over the Black Hawks in game six.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 46], "content_span": [47, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096162-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Stanley Cup Finals, Stanley Cup engraving\nThe following Canadiens players and staff had their names engraved on the Stanley Cup", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 46], "content_span": [47, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096163-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Star World Championships\nThe 1973 Star World Championships were held in San Diego, United States in 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096163-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Star World Championships, Results\nLegend: DNF \u2013 Did not finish; DNS \u2013 Did not start; DSQ \u2013 Disqualified; WDR \u2013 Withdrew;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096164-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 State of the Union Address\nThe 1973 State of the Union Address was given to the 93rd United States Congress on Tuesday, February 2, 1973, by Richard Nixon, the 37th president of the United States. In the letter, Nixon wrote:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096164-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 State of the Union Address\n\"America continues to provide a better and more abundant life for more of its people than any other nation in the world. We have passed through one of the most difficult periods in our history without surrendering to despair and without dishonoring our ideals as a people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096164-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 State of the Union Address\nLooking back, there is a lesson in all this for all of us. The lesson is one that we sometimes had to learn the hard way over the past few years. But we did learn it. That lesson is that even potentially destructive forces can be converted into positive forces when we know how to channel them, and when we use common sense and common decency to create a climate of mutual respect and goodwill.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096164-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 State of the Union Address\nBy working together and harnessing the forces of nature, Americans have unlocked some of the great mysteries of the universe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096165-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Staten Island gas explosion\nOn February 10, 1973, a gas explosion occurred inside a Texas Eastern Transmission Pipeline tank storing liquefied natural gas in the Bloomfield neighborhood of Staten Island, New York City, while 42 workers were cleaning the tank. The tank had supposedly been completely drained ten months earlier, but ignition occurred, causing a plume of combusting gas to rise.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096165-0000-0001", "contents": "1973 Staten Island gas explosion\nTwo workers near the top felt the heat and rushed to the safety of scaffolding outside, while the other 40 workers died as the concrete cap on the tank rose 20 to 30 feet (6.1 to 9.1\u00a0m) in the air and then came crashing back down, crushing them to death.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096165-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Staten Island gas explosion\nThe incident was the worst industrial accident in Staten Island's history. It resulted in a moratorium on liquefied natural gas storage facilities in New York state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096165-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Staten Island gas explosion, Background\nAt the time of the incident, Rossville, Bloomfield, and other Staten Island neighborhoods had numerous liquefied natural gas storage tanks. In 1970, Distrigas had announced plans to build nine 37,800,000-US-gallon (143,000,000\u00a0l; 31,500,000\u00a0imp\u00a0gal) gas tanks in Rossville, of which two were built. Opposition to such tanks developed slowly, but by 1971, many Staten Island residents were opposed to the construction of gas tanks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096165-0002-0001", "contents": "1973 Staten Island gas explosion, Background\nGene and Edwina Cosgriff formed the group Bring Legal Action to Stop the Tanks (BLAST) to protest the tanks' construction after hearing about the theoretical negative effects of an oil spill within the nearby Arthur Kill waterway. Patrick A. Mercurio, BLAST's chairman, later said that according to scientists, \"an explosion of a tank filled with gas would extend to an area eight miles by one mile\u2014the equivalent of a small nuclear explosion\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096165-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Staten Island gas explosion, Background\nThe particular gas tank that exploded had a capacity of 660,000 barrels, and was 108 feet (33\u00a0m) tall with a diameter of 272 feet (83\u00a0m). The tank was owned by Texas Eastern Transmission Pipeline (TETCo) and had supposedly been drained in April 1972. However, the tank had a polyurethane lining, which enabled gas to be trapped inside the lining even after the liquid had been drained. At the time of the explosion, the men were sealing cracks in the plastic lining of the tank.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096165-0003-0001", "contents": "1973 Staten Island gas explosion, Background\nThe roof of the tank was designed to collapse in the event of an explosion. TETCo officials had been \"fanatical about safety\", and even on the day before the explosion, February 9, 1973, TETCo officials called Staten Island residents \"hysterical\" for raising concerns about the danger of storing gas near residential areas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 44], "content_span": [45, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096165-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Staten Island gas explosion, Incident\nThe explosion occurred on February 10, 1973, at about 1:00\u00a0p.m. EST. Jose Lema and Joseph Pecora, two survivors of the explosion, said that just before the explosion occurred, the space had heated up and a low \"woof\" could be heard from the ceiling. Pecora tapped Lema on the shoulder and the two workers escaped out of the stairway. Lema reported a loud explosion after the two men had escaped through an opening in the dome, though Pecora did not remember any sound. Another worker, John Carroll, had been on the roof and ran down the embankment around the tank, escaping with minor injuries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096165-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Staten Island gas explosion, Incident\nHundreds of first responders went to the site, including New York City Fire Department rescue companies 1 and 2, and found the bodies at about 1:00\u00a0a.m. EST on February 11. Rescuers developed a system to retrieve the corpses. Rescue and truck companies worked in shifts to recover the bodies, with one rescue company being assisted by several truck companies at any given time. Most of the bodies were retrieved quickly, with 28 victims having been extricated by February 12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096165-0005-0001", "contents": "1973 Staten Island gas explosion, Incident\nThe recovery process was stymied by the presence of debris on the site, including granite slabs from the roof of the tank. The last body was not retrieved until February 22. A few bodies were identified by artifacts such as \"rings, watches, and bracelets\". Some sources claimed that 43 workers were killed, possibly based on initial media reports that counted Lema, Pecora, and Carroll, though the final death toll was 40.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096165-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Staten Island gas explosion, Aftermath\nThe incident was the deadliest industrial accident in Staten Island's history. Investigators from the New York City Fire Department and from the United States Department of Labor found that natural gas pockets had been found both in the tank itself and in surrounding areas. Massachusetts Institute of Technology mechanical-engineering professor James A. Fay said that TETCo's storage of liquefied natural gas and naphtha, both volatile substances, was very dangerous. Experts from the gas industry disputed the fact that the explosion could have been caused by gas, saying \"a construction accident\" was the cause of the explosion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 675]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096165-0006-0001", "contents": "1973 Staten Island gas explosion, Aftermath\nIn response to TETCo's claim that the liner was not flammable, scientists at the United States Bureau of Mines built a model of the tank and set it on fire, observing that the model had burned in a similar manner to the real tank. After investigators suggested that the tank may have been sabotaged, two TETCo workers confessed to breaking the lining to extend the tenure of their jobs, and were fired.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096165-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Staten Island gas explosion, Aftermath\nPoliticians quickly took regulatory action. The New York City Council passed a bill imploring the New York City Department of City Planning to prohibit any gas storage tanks from being constructed. Mayor John Lindsay signed a bill on March 25 that prevented the New York City Board of Standards and Appeals from granting zoning variances for tanks, meaning that they could not be larger than 500,000 US gallons (1,900,000\u00a0l; 420,000\u00a0imp\u00a0gal). The explosion resulted in a moratorium on liquefied natural gas storage facilities in New York state. The construction of two under-construction tanks in Rossville was subsequently abandoned. The Public Service Electric and Gas Company attempted to store natural gas in the two tanks, but dropped these plans in 1984 due to opposition. The statewide ban was repealed in January 2015, except within New York City, where it remained active.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 925]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096165-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Staten Island gas explosion, Aftermath\nNumerous lawsuits were filed by the estates of the victims, the first having been filed in December 1973. TETCo was charged with 40 counts of negligent homicide in 1974. Two years later, courts reached settlements of a combined $11\u00a0million in 33 civil lawsuits related to the explosion. The tank's site was cleared in 1993 and bought by NASCAR in 2004; since then, it has lain unused.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096166-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Stevenage Borough Council election\nThe 1973 Stevenage Borough Council election were the first elections to the newly created Stevenage Borough Council took place on 7 June 1973 . This was on the same day as other local elections. The Local Government Act 1972 stipulated that the elected members were to shadow and eventually take over from the predecessor corporation on 1 April 1974. The election resulted in Labour gaining control of the council, which it has held continuously to the present day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096167-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Stockholm Open\nThe 1973 Stockholm Open was a tennis tournament played on hard courts and part of the 1973 Commercial Union Assurance Grand Prix and took place at the Kungliga tennishallen in Stockholm, Sweden. The tournament was held from 5 November through 11 November 1973. Total prize money for the event was $75,000, with the winner receiving $10,000, and a record 24,000 spectators attended the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096167-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Stockholm Open, Finals, Doubles\nJimmy Connors / Ilie N\u0103stase defeated Bob Carmichael / Frew McMillan 6\u20133, 6\u20137, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096168-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Stockholm Open \u2013 Doubles\nTom Okker and Marty Riessen were the defending champions, but lost in the semifinals this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096168-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Stockholm Open \u2013 Doubles\nJimmy Connors and Ilie N\u0103stase won the title, defeating Bob Carmichael and Frew McMillan 6\u20133, 6\u20137, 6\u20132 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096169-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Stockholm Open \u2013 Singles\nStan Smith was the defending champion, but lost in the quarterfinals this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096169-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Stockholm Open \u2013 Singles\nTom Gorman won the title, defeating Bj\u00f6rn Borg 6\u20133, 4\u20136, 7\u20136 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096170-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Stockholm municipal election\nA Stockholm municipal election was held on 16 September 1973 to allocate the 101 seats of the Stockholm City Council (Stockholms stadsfullm\u00e4ktige) amongst the various Swedish political parties using a party-list proportional representation system. The election was held concurrently with a Swedish parliamentary election. Voter turnout for the municipal election in Stockholm was 88.6%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096171-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Strabane District Council election\nElections to Strabane District Council were held on 30 May 1973 on the same day as the other Northern Irish local government elections. The election used three district electoral areas to elect a total of 15 councillors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096171-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Strabane District Council election, Districts results, Area A\n1973: 3 x UUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Independent Nationalist", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096171-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Strabane District Council election, Districts results, Area B\n1973: 2 x UUP, 1 x SDLP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x United Loyalist Coalition", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096171-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Strabane District Council election, Districts results, Area C\n1973: 2 x SDLP, 1 x UUP, 1 x Alliance, 1 x Independent Nationalist", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 66], "content_span": [67, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096172-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Sugar Bowl\nThe 1973 Sugar Bowl, part of the 1973 bowl game season, took place on December 31, 1973, at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans, Louisiana. The top-ranked Alabama Crimson Tide of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) met the independent Notre Dame Fighting Irish; both teams were undefeated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096172-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Sugar Bowl\nUnderdog Notre Dame won 24\u201323; the game received a 25.3 Nielsen rating, making it one of the highest-rated college football games in history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096172-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Sugar Bowl, Teams, Alabama\nAlabama completed the 1973 regular season with an 11\u20130 record, as conference champions and as national champions as determined by the final UPI coaches poll, released in early December. Following their victory over Auburn, university officials announced they accepted an invitation to play in the Sugar Bowl. The appearance marked the sixth for Alabama in the Sugar Bowl, their 27th overall bowl game appearance and their first all-time meeting against Notre Dame.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 31], "content_span": [32, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096172-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Sugar Bowl, Teams, Notre Dame\nNotre Dame finished the regular season with a 10\u20130 record. Following their victory over Miami, university officials announced they accepted an invitation to play in the Sugar Bowl. The appearance marked the first for Notre Dame in the Sugar Bowl, and their fifth overall bowl game appearance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 34], "content_span": [35, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096172-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Sugar Bowl, Game summary\nWith a cold rain falling, Notre Dame opened the scoring with a Wayne Bullock 6-yard touchdown run, and after a missed extra point took an early 6\u20130 lead. In the second quarter, Alabama took the lead on a 6-yard Randy Billingsley touchdown run, only to see the Irish go up 14\u20137 on the following play. On the ensuing kickoff, was returned 93-yards for a touchdown by Al Hunter. The Tide cut the lead to 14\u201310 late in the quarter on a 39-yard Bill Davis field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 29], "content_span": [30, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096172-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Sugar Bowl, Game summary\nIn the third quarter, the teams traded touchdowns with Alabama scoring first on a 5-yard Wilbur Jackson touchdown run and Notre Dame on a 12-yard Eric Penick touchdown run to make the score 21\u201317 entering the final period. After quarterback Richard Todd made a 25-yard touchdown reception from Mike Stock on a beautiful trick play, Davis missed the extra point to only put Alabama up 23\u201321. The Irish responded with a 19-yard field goal by Bob Thomas to take the lead 24\u201323 with 4:26 remaining in the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 29], "content_span": [30, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096172-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Sugar Bowl, Game summary\nLate in the fourth quarter, Alabama pinned Notre Dame back deep in Irish territory with a punt, hoping to get the ball back within easy range of a game-winning field goal. During the punt, the Alabama punter was run into and Notre Dame was flagged with a 15 yard roughing the kicker personal foul. In 1973, a personal foul wasn't an automatic first down in college football, so since it occurred on a 3rd and 20, accepting the penalty would have given Alabama a fourth and 5 on their own 45 yard line, only down one with mere minutes remaining.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 29], "content_span": [30, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096172-0006-0001", "contents": "1973 Sugar Bowl, Game summary\nCoach Bear Bryant, knowing even a safety would win the game, decided to decline the penalty and try and stop Notre Dame who had to start on their own 1 yard line. Bryant's strategy seemed ready to pay off when his defense stymied Notre Dame on two plays and forced 3rd and 10 on their 1 yard line. However, on third and long Irish QB Tom Clements connected with backup TE Robin Weber on a long pass that gave the Irish a first down and allowed them to run out the clock. With their victory, the Associated Press awarded the Irish the national championship in ranking them first in their final poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 29], "content_span": [30, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096173-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Summer Universiade\nThe 1973 Summer Universiade, also known as the VII Summer Universiade, took place in Moscow, Soviet Union.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096174-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Sun Bowl\nThe 1973 Sun Bowl was a college football bowl game that featured the Missouri Tigers and the Auburn Tigers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096174-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Sun Bowl, Background\nMissouri finish fourth in the Big Eight Conference. Auburn lost their final two games to #20 Georgia and #1 Alabama to finish eight in the Southeastern Conference (SEC) for the first time since 1966, although they were invited to a bowl for the sixth straight season. This was Missouri's first Sun Bowl and Auburn's first since 1968.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 25], "content_span": [26, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096174-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Sun Bowl, Game summary\nA Missouri fumble on their own 49-yard line gave Auburn great field position, with Roger Pruett kicking a 35 yard field goal to give Auburn a 3\u20130 lead in the second quarter. When Auburn got the ball back, Rick Neel fumbled at his own 35, giving the ball back to Missouri. Chuck Link took a pitch from quarterback Ray Smith, and he passed the ball 35 yards to tight end John Kelsey for a touchdown to make it 7\u20133 Missouri.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 27], "content_span": [28, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096174-0002-0001", "contents": "1973 Sun Bowl, Game summary\nOn second down of Auburn's ensuing possession, Wade Whatley fumbled the handoff, giving the ball back to Missouri again, this time giving it to them at the 24. Four plays later, Ray Bybee plunged in for a touchdown to make it 14\u20133. With 3:08 to go in the half, Missouri scored, this time on a Ray Smith touchdown pass to Kelsey to make it 21v3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 27], "content_span": [28, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096174-0002-0002", "contents": "1973 Sun Bowl, Game summary\nAuburn soon moved 80 yards in three minutes, culminating in a Phil Gargis touchdown pass to Thomas Gossom on 4th and goal at the 17 to make it 21\u201310 with 15 seconds remaining in the half. But on the ensuing kickoff return, John Moseley returned the ball 84 yards for a touchdown to make it 28\u201310 as the first half expired. A fumble by Gargis on a pitch was recovered at the 35 by Missouri, who responded with a Smith touchdown pass to Jim Sharp to make it 34\u201310. Auburn scored on a Gargis pass to Gossom from 32 yards out to make it 34\u201317, but neither team scored for the rest of the game. Ray Bybee rushed the ball 27 times for 127 yards in an MVP effort.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 27], "content_span": [28, 684]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096174-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Sun Bowl, Aftermath\nMissouri returned to the Sun Bowl in 2006, while Auburn has not returned since this game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 24], "content_span": [25, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096175-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Sunderland Metropolitan Borough Council election\nThe 1973 Sunderland Metropolitan Borough Council election was held on 10 May 1973 as part of the first elections to the new local authorities established by the Local Government Act 1972 in England and Wales. The entirety of the new 78-seat council was up for election, with each of the 26 new council wards returning three councillors by first-past-the-post.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096175-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Sunderland Metropolitan Borough Council election, Background\nThe election took place following the elections to the Tyne and Wear County Council in April. The Local Government Act 1972 stipulated that the elected members were to shadow and eventually take over from the predecessor corporation on 1 April 1974. The order in which the councillors were elected dictated their term serving, with third-place candidates serving two years and up for re-election in 1975, second-placed three years expiring in 1976 and first-placed five years until 1978.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 65], "content_span": [66, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096175-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Sunderland Metropolitan Borough Council election, Election results\nThe election resulted in a clear majority for the Labour Party, which won 56 of the 78 seats on the new Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 71], "content_span": [72, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096175-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Sunderland Metropolitan Borough Council election, Election results\nThe election resulted in the following composition of the Council:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 71], "content_span": [72, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096176-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Surinamese general election\nGeneral elections were held in Suriname on 19 November 1973. The result was a victory for the National Party Combination (an alliance of the National Party of Suriname, the Nationalist Republican Party, the Party for National Unity and Solidarity and the Suriname Progressive People's Party), which won 22 of the 39 seats. Voter turnout was 76.1%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096176-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Surinamese general election, Results\n1 The VHP bloc was an alliance of the VHP, the Indonesian People's Party and the Progressive Bush Negro Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096177-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Svenska Cupen Final\nThe 1973 Svenska Cupen final took place on 31 May 1973 at Stadsparksvallen in J\u00f6nk\u00f6ping. The match was contested by Allsvenskan sides Malm\u00f6 FF and \u00c5tvidabergs FF. The two clubs had faced each other just two years earlier in the 1971 Final . \u00c5tvidaberg played their fourth final in total, Malm\u00f6 FF played their ninth final in total. Malm\u00f6 FF won their seventh title with a 7\u20130 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096178-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Swedish Grand Prix\nThe 1973 Grand Prix of Sweden was a Formula One motor race held at the Scandinavian Raceway, Anderstorp on 17 June 1973. It was race 7 of 15 in both the 1973 World Championship of Drivers and the 1973 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers. The 80-lap race was won by McLaren driver Denny Hulme after he started from sixth position. Ronnie Peterson finished second for the Lotus team and Tyrrell driver Fran\u00e7ois Cevert came in third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096178-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Swedish Grand Prix\nRonnie Peterson's success with John Player Team Lotus was the catalyst for a Swedish Grand Prix and the race was held for the first time, at World Championship level, at the grandly-named Scandinavian Raceway in 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096178-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Swedish Grand Prix, Background, Entry\nA total of 29 F1 cars were entered for this event, however only 22 arrived for the race. The field was smaller than usual as there was no time for teams to repair damaged cars after the Monaco, as they had to be transported 1,200 miles from Monaco to Anderstorp.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096178-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Swedish Grand Prix, Background, Entry\nA number of drivers were missing from action; Arturo Merzario (Scuderia Ferrari), Chris Amon (Martini Racing Team Tecno), Andrea de Adamich (Ceramica Pagnossin Brabham)., David Purley (LEC Refrigeration Racing March) and James Hunt (Hesketh Racing March). Meanwhile, Nanni Galli had decided to retire, so Frank Williams Racing Cars entered Danish driver, Tom Bels\u00f8, however it became clear that there was no funding available from his sponsors for the race. Swedish driver, Reine Wisell had rented LEC's March 731.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 42], "content_span": [43, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096178-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Swedish Grand Prix, Qualifying\nRonnie Peterson did not disappoint his fans in qualifying, taking pole in his Lotus 72E from Tyrrell's Fran\u00e7ois Cevert. Cevert came close to taking pole, but Peterson took it by just 0.089 of a second. The World Championship contenders shared the second row, with Jackie Stewart ahead of Emerson Fittipaldi, while Carlos Reutemann and Denny Hulme made the third row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 35], "content_span": [36, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096178-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Swedish Grand Prix, Race\nThe race was held over 80 laps of the Scandinavian Raceway circuit, in front of a crowd of over 50,000 spectators. There was a delayed start caused by the Grand Prix Drivers' Association complaining about photographers in dangerous places around the circuit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096178-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Swedish Grand Prix, Race\nEmerson Fittipaldi made the best start and grabbed second behind local hero, Ronnie Peterson. The Tyrrell 006 of Fran\u00e7ois Cevert was third with teammate Jackie Stewart behind him. Carlos Reutemann and Denny Hulme completed the top six, although by lap four, the McLaren of Hulme had moved ahead of the Brabham. The order remained stable until Stewart passed Cevert and began to chase the two JPS Lotuses. By this time, Cevert was having trouble with his tyres and dropped back and was overtaken by Hulme on lap 62. Hulme then started close in on Stewart.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096178-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Swedish Grand Prix, Race\nFor 70 laps it looked like this was going to be a one-two for John Player Team Lotus with Peterson first and reigning World Champion, Fittipaldi second. However disaster struck when Fittipaldi retired with gearbox failure. With just three laps to go, Hulme overtook Stewart, when the Scot suffered a rear brake failure. Hulme quickly closed the gap on the leader, Peterson having major trouble with tyre wear and fighting to stay on the track.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096178-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Swedish Grand Prix, Race\nOn the 79th and penultimate lap Hulme was able to pass the local hero to snatch victory, the New Zealander's decision to run harder tyres on his McLaren-Cosworth M23 having paid off. Peterson was powerless to defend and eventually finished four seconds adrift in second place, that was as close as any Swede came to winning on home soil. Hulme expressed sadness to \"have taken that away from Ronnie.\" Cevert was a further 10.6 seconds behind Peterson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096179-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Swedish Open\nThe 1973 Swedish Open was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts held in B\u00e5stad, Sweden. It was classified as a Group B category tournament and was part of the 1973 Grand Prix circuit. It was the 26th edition of the tournament and was held from 8 July through 15 July 1973. Stan Smith won the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096179-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Swedish Open, Finals, Doubles\nNikola Pili\u0107 / Stan Smith defeated Bob Carmichael / Frew McMillan 2\u20136, 6\u20134, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 34], "content_span": [35, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096180-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Swedish Pro Tennis Championships\nThe 1973 Swedish Pro Tennis Championships was a tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts. It was the 2nd and final edition of Swedish Pro Tennis Championships, and was part of the 1973 World Championship Tennis circuit. It took place at the Scandinavium in Gothenburg, Sweden, from 23 April through 29 April 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096180-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Swedish Pro Tennis Championships, Finals, Doubles\nRoy Emerson / Rod Laver defeated Nikola Pili\u0107 / Allan Stone, 6\u20137, 6\u20134, 6\u20131", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 54], "content_span": [55, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096181-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Swedish Rally\nThe 1973 Swedish Rally (formally the 24th International Swedish Rally) was the second round of the inaugural World Rally Championship season. Run in mid-February around Karlstad, Sweden, the rally was the only snow and ice rally of the WRC calendar, a distinction it would keep as it remained a fixture of the WRC through the years. Only in 2007 would it finally be joined on the schedule by a second snow rally in Norway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096181-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Swedish Rally, Report\nIn 1973, and for several years afterward, only manufacturers were given points for finishes in WRC events. After the Alpine A110s dominated the earlier Monte Carlo Rally, Sweden was instead taken by Swedish drivers Stig Blomqvist and Per Eklund, both driving Swedish-built Saab 96 V4 cars. While Jean-Luc Th\u00e9rier did get an Alpine onto the podium in third place, it was the only such car to finish and he was one of only two drivers not of Scandinavian nationality to complete the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 26], "content_span": [27, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096182-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Swedish football Division 2\nStatistics of Swedish football Division 2 for the 1973 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096183-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Swedish general election\nGeneral elections were held in Sweden on 16 September 1973. The Social Democratic remained the largest party, winning 156 of the 350 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096183-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Swedish general election\nFor most of the campaign, the opposition parties had led the socialist parties in the polls. It has been speculated that several events influenced the outcome of the election in favour of the government: the death of King Gustaf VI Adolf the previous day, the Norrmalmstorg robbery and the 1973 Chilean coup d'\u00e9tat. Palme had delivered an impassioned speech on Salvador Allende's legacy on the eve of the election, in which he praised the democratic system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096183-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Swedish general election\nThe election instead produced a draw, with the socialist and liberal-conservative blocs each winning 175 seats. Since the opposition could not pass a motion of no confidence against Palme's government, he was able to remain in power. In order to pass legislation the Social Democrats had to draw lots or seek support from the opposition. To prevent this scenario from reoccurring, the number of seats in the Riksdag was adjusted to an odd number for subsequent elections. In the popular vote, while winning an equal number of seats the socialist bloc won 2,522,656 votes to the 2,518,858 for the liberal-conservative bloc, a net difference of 3,798 votes or 48.80\u00a0% versus 48.73\u00a0%, although the seats ended up being shared equally because of the narrow margin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 790]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096183-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Swedish general election, Results\nThere were 5,160,146 valid ballots cast in the election. Blank or invalid ballots were not counted towards the results.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096183-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Swedish general election, Results, By municipality\nVotes by municipality. The municipalities are the color of the party that got the most votes within the coalition that won relative majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096183-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Swedish general election, Results, By municipality\nCartogram of the map to the left with each municipality rescaled to the number of valid votes cast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096183-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Swedish general election, Results, By municipality\nVotes by municipality as a scale from red/Left-wing bloc to blue/Centre-right bloc.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096183-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Swedish general election, Results, By municipality\nCartogram of vote with each municipality rescaled in proportion to number of valid votes cast. Deeper blue represents a greater relative majority for the centre-right coalition, brighter red represents a greater relative majority for the left-wing coalition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096184-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Swiss League Cup\nThe 1973 Swiss League Cup was the second Swiss League Cup competition. It was played in the summer of 1973 as a pre-season tournament to the 1973\u201374 Swiss football season. It was won by Grasshopper Club Z\u00fcrich who defeated FC Winterthur 5\u20134 on penalties after a 2\u20132 draw in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096184-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Swiss League Cup, Final\nThe final took place on 10 October 1973 at Letzigrund in Z\u00fcrich.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 28], "content_span": [29, 93]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096185-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Swiss referendums\nEight referendums were held in Switzerland in 1973. The first two were held on 4 March on amendments to the Swiss Federal Constitution on education and promoting research. Whilst the education proposal was approved by a majority of voters, it failed to receive the support of a majority of cantons. The research proposal was approved by both. The third referendum was held on 20 May on another constitutional amendment, removing articles 25 and 52 regarding Jesuits and cloisters, and was approved.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096185-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Swiss referendums\nThe final five referendums were held on 2 December on price controls, the credit system, measures to stabilise the construction market, a reversal of the income tax write-off and a constitutional amendment regarding the protection of animals, all of which were approved.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096186-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Syracuse Orangemen football team\nThe 1973 Syracuse Orangemen football team represented Syracuse University during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. The team was led by head coach Ben Schwartzwalder, in his 25th and final year with the team, and played their home games at Archbold Stadium in Syracuse, New York. The team finished with a record of 2\u20139. At the conclusion of the season, Ben Schwartzwalder retired as Syracuse's all-time winningest coach with an overall record of 153\u201391\u20133.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096187-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Syrian General Staff Headquarters raid\nThe 1973 Syrian General Staff Headquarters Raid was an aerial strike carried out by the Israeli Air Force on October 9, 1973, the fourth day of the Yom Kippur War. Following a strike by Syrian surface-to-surface missiles against settlements and installations in northern Israel, seven F-4 Phantom IIs from 119 Squadron attacked the Syrian General Staff Headquarters (GHQ) and adjacent buildings in downtown Damascus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 461]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096187-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Syrian General Staff Headquarters raid, Background\nThe Israeli Air Force (IAF) had entered the Yom Kippur War confident that it could deal with the threats posed by enemy air defences and be able to provide Israeli ground forces with essential close air support. When war broke out, however, the desperate situation along the fronts forced the IAF to abandon its plans for the suppression of enemy air defences, and concentrate its efforts on halting Egyptian and Syrian advances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096187-0001-0001", "contents": "1973 Syrian General Staff Headquarters raid, Background\nThe comprehensive Arab air defences systems subsequently exacted a heavy toll from the IAF, with some 50 aircraft, 15 percent of its frontline force, lost on the first two days of the war. The worst blow had come on the second day, October 7, 1973, when six F-4 Phantoms were lost during Operation Doogman 5, a failed attempt to neutralize Syrian air defence on the Golan Heights. Israeli efforts nevertheless succeeded in turning the tide, especially in the north, where on October 8 Syrian advances were halted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096187-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Syrian General Staff Headquarters raid, Background\nAt 03:35 on October 9, Syrian FROG-7 Surface-to-surface missiles struck Israel's northern air base at Ramat David, killing one pilot and injuring several soldiers. Additional missiles struck civilian settlements nearby, including Migdal HaEmek and Kibbutz Gvat. The Israeli government decided to retaliate fiercely for the Syrian FROG attack, both to deter future strikes and to disrupt Syrian war efforts. The IAF was to destroy the infrastructure on which Syria's war-making capacity depended, targeting strategic targets in Syria such as its oil industry and electricity generating system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 648]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096187-0002-0001", "contents": "1973 Syrian General Staff Headquarters raid, Background\nThe first target was to be the Syrian General Staff Headquarters in the prosperous Abu Rummaneh district of Damascus. The raid was to disrupt Syrian command and control, but would also serve to deter Jordan from joining the war and would prove that despite the blows the IAF had suffered, it would not be deterred from taking the war to Syria.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096187-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Syrian General Staff Headquarters raid, Strike\nIn order to allow IAF aircraft to strike targets inside Syria without overflying the heavily defended regions around the Golan Heights, new attack routes through Lebanon had to be opened. The IAF therefore first attacked the Lebanese radar station at Barouk, which had been linked to the Syrian air defence network and was capable of supplying Syrian defenders with advance warning of Israeli strikes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 51], "content_span": [52, 453]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096187-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Syrian General Staff Headquarters raid, Strike\nThree IAF squadrons were assigned the task of attacking the Syrian GHQ in Damascus and each was to contribute 8 F-4E Phantom IIs. Leading the strike would be a formation from 119 \"Bat\" Squadron, led by squadron deputy CO Arnon Lavoshin (Lapidot). These were to be followed by 107 Squadron Phantoms led by squadron leader Iftach Spector, with a 69 Squadron 8-ship formation coming in last.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 51], "content_span": [52, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096187-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Syrian General Staff Headquarters raid, Strike\nHaving taken off from their bases in Israel, the three Israeli formations first headed out over the Mediterranean, before turning north towards Lebanon and then east towards Damascus. Shortly after take-off from Tel-Nof, one of the 119 Squadron Phantoms suffered a mechanical fault, forcing it to abort and leaving seven to carry on. Approaching their target, the Phantom formations encountered heavy cloud cover, obscuring their target and making low-altitude approach, essential for the surprise attack, difficult.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 51], "content_span": [52, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096187-0005-0001", "contents": "1973 Syrian General Staff Headquarters raid, Strike\nCommanding the leading formation, Arnon Lavoshin was contemplating calling off the strike, but broke radio silence to inform his formation that they would nevertheless continue. Eventually a break in the clouds over Damascus allowed the Phantoms to see the ground, re-orient themselves and head for their target, catching Syrian air defences off their guard. Only after the first bombs had already struck their targets did the air-raid sirens sound.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 51], "content_span": [52, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096187-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Syrian General Staff Headquarters raid, Strike\nOne after the other, the seven 119 Phantoms released their bombloads. The top floors of the Syrian GHQ were hit, as were the adjacent Syrian Air Force headquarters, a nearby TV station, a Soviet cultural center and several other structures in the city's diplomatic quarter. Having arrived unchallenged, the Israeli aircraft extricating themselves were now engaged by the dense air defence array guarding Damascus. Two aircraft were hit. One Phantom was downed outright, killing pilot Captain Dov Shafir. His navigator, Lieutenant Yaakov Yaakobi, fell into Syrian captivity where he was beaten and tortured. Another aircraft was heavily damaged and suffered an engine fire, yet its pilot, Major Omri Afek, managed to bring it to a safe landing in Ramat David.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 51], "content_span": [52, 810]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096187-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Syrian General Staff Headquarters raid, Strike\nUnlike Lavoshin's formation, the eight 107 Squadron Phantoms from Hatzerim were flying a slightly different route to the target. These failed to spot any opening in the cloud cover over the target and therefore requested an alternate target. The Phantoms were diverted to bomb Syrian armor near Hushniyah, on the Golan Heights. Their strike decimated a tank column and allowed Israeli forces to push Syrian forces back over the pre-war ceasefire lines. The trailing 69 Squadron aircraft, having heard the 107 strike called off, returned to base after dumping their bombs and excess fuel in the Mediterranean, a decision which would later lead to much criticism from fellow pilots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 51], "content_span": [52, 732]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096187-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Syrian General Staff Headquarters raid, Aftermath\nSyria reported 26 civilians were killed in the strike and 117 injured, while the Soviet Union reported 30 people killed in its cultural center. Among the dead were several foreign diplomats. The collateral damage caused by the strike earned Israel a sharp rebuke from the international community, with the Soviet ambassador to the United Nations condemning the raid as \"barbaric\". Syria claimed its air defences had shot down four of the attacking aircraft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 54], "content_span": [55, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096187-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Syrian General Staff Headquarters raid, Aftermath\nThe raid on the Syrian GHQ, as well as on other strategic targets, nevertheless prompted Syria to withdraw air defence assets from the front in order to protect its high-value assets, thereby thinning front line defences. Both the Syrian GHQ and Air Force headquarters were forced to relocate. Israeli POWs returning after the war revealed that several airmen had been held in the bowels of the air force command center at the time of the strike and that the Syrians had later questioned them about how the IAF had known to avoid hitting their quarters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 54], "content_span": [55, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096187-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 Syrian General Staff Headquarters raid, Aftermath\nMajor Arnon Lavoshin was awarded the Medal of Distinguished Service, Israel's third-highest wartime decoration, for leading the raid. His navigator, Lieutenant Elazar Lior, received an IDF Chief-of-Staff citation. Major Afek, leading 119's second four-ship formation, was also awarded the Medal of Distinguished Service for his role in the raid and for nursing his stricken aircraft to a safe landing, as well as for several other undertakings later in the war.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 54], "content_span": [55, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096188-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Syrian constitutional referendum\nA constitutional referendum was held in Syria on 12 March 1973. The proposed amendments were approved by 97.8% of voters, with turnout reported to be 88.9%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096189-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Syrian parliamentary election\nParliamentary elections were held in Syria on 25 and 26 May 1973. The result was a victory for the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, which won 122 of the 186 seats. They were also the first elections in which the Syrian-led Ba'ath Party ran for seats in parliament, the original Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party had been dissolved in 1966.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096190-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 S\u00e3o Paulo FC season\nThe 1973 football season was S\u00e3o Paulo's 44th season since club's existence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 101]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096191-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9an Legislative Assembly election\nElections to a Legislative Assembly were held for the first and only time in Portuguese S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9 and Pr\u00edncipe in March 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096191-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9an Legislative Assembly election, Background\nOn 2 May 1972 the Portuguese National Assembly passed the Organic Law for the Overseas Territories, which provided for greater autonomy for overseas territories. S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9 and Pr\u00edncipe was to have a 16-member Legislative Assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096191-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9an Legislative Assembly election, Background\nCandidates were required to be Portuguese citizens who had lived in S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9 and Pr\u00edncipe for more than three years and be literate in Portuguese. As the Portuguese constitution banned political parties at the time, the majority of candidates were put forward by the ruling People's National Action movement, although some civic associations were allowed to nominate candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096191-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9an Legislative Assembly election, Results\nOut of a total population of 73,811, only 5,881 people registered to vote. A total of 4,781 people voted, giving a voter turnout of 81.2%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 54], "content_span": [55, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096192-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 TAA Formula Ford Driver to Europe Series\nThe 1973 TAA Formula Ford Driver to Europe Series was an Australian motor racing competition open to Formula Ford racing cars. It was the fourth annual Australian national series for Formula Fords.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096192-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 TAA Formula Ford Driver to Europe Series\nThe series was won by John Leffler, driving a Bowin P4a and a Bowin P6F.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096193-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 TANFL season\nThe 1973 Tasmanian Australian National Football League (TANFL) premiership season was an Australian rules football competition staged in Hobart, Tasmania, over nineteen (19) roster rounds and four (4) finals series matches between 7 April and 15 September 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096193-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 TANFL season, Participating Clubs, State Grand Final\n(Saturday, 29 September 1973) 30 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 57], "content_span": [58, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096193-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 TANFL season, 1973 TANFL Ladder, Round 3\n(Saturday, 21 April. Monday, 23 April & Wednesday, 25 April 1973)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 45], "content_span": [46, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096193-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 TANFL season, 1973 TANFL Ladder, Grand Final\nSource: All scores and statistics courtesy of the Hobart Mercury and Saturday Evening Mercury (SEM) publications.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 49], "content_span": [50, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096194-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 TCU Horned Frogs football team\nThe 1973 TCU Horned Frogs football team represented Texas Christian University (TCU) in the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. The Horned Frogs finished the season 3\u20138 overall and 1\u20136 in the Southwest Conference. The team was coached by Billy Tohill, in his third and final year as head coach. The Frogs played their home games in Amon G. Carter Stadium, which is located on campus in Fort Worth, Texas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096195-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Taiyo Department Store fire\nThe Taiyo Department Store fire was a fire at the Taiyo Department Store, a department store in Kumamoto City, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. The fire started at 1:15 p.m. on November 29, 1973; 103 people died. After the fire, regulations pertaining to the construction of buildings were strengthened, one of which mandated external stairs on highrise buildings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096195-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Taiyo Department Store fire\nThe Taiyo Department Store had a basement floor and nine stories. Some areas were under construction. It was the most popular department store in Kumamoto City at that time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096195-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Taiyo Department Store fire, Description\nThe fire started on the platform of steps between the second and third floors, on which goods were placed. The cause of the fire was never determined. The fire sprinkler system did not work because of ongoing construction work. The fire was televised live and it was reported that the smoke, which was in various colors and odors, was poisonous. Many people were saved from the rooftop of the store. Some people jumped to the ceiling of a nearby arcade under construction and were injured.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 45], "content_span": [46, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096195-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Taiyo Department Store fire, Description\nThere were a total of 100 fatalities. Among the department store employees, 10 men and 36 women died, as well as three part-time female workers and three male construction workers. Among customers, 16 males and 32 females died. Causes of death included 70 deaths by carbon dioxide intoxication and 30 deaths by suffocation. Forty-three males and 77 females were injured. Seventy-one dead bodies were found: two on the third floor, 11 on the fourth floor, one on the fifth floor, 26 on the sixth floor, 30 on the seventh floor, and one on the eighth floor. The fire was one of the deadliest department store fires in Japan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 45], "content_span": [46, 668]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096195-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Taiyo Department Store fire, Analysis\nThe Kumamoto City Physicians' Association later pointed out that every physicians' association should prepare for such disasters and organize rescue teams with medical instruments. Injured persons should be saved and transferred as soon as possible. There should be a unified system which gives directions in such large-scale disasters. Practitioners should work as volunteers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096195-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Taiyo Department Store fire, Analysis\nSoon after the fire, a university professor observed the burnt department store and wrote the following comments.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096195-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Taiyo Department Store fire, Aftermath\nThe 1972 Sennichi Department Store Building fire and the 1973 Taiyo Department Store fire, both of which caused many casualties, finally led to amendments of the Construction Standard Law and the Fire Fighting Law. These amendments mandated steps to prevent smoke from hindering escape.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096196-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Talladega 500\nThe 1973 Talladega 500 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series race that was held on August 12, 1973, at Alabama International Motor Speedway in Talladega, Alabama (AIMS).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096196-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Talladega 500\nThe race, won by Dick Brooks, was his only NASCAR career win. It was also the last win recorded for Plymouth as a NASCAR manufacturer. A Plymouth car winning the 1973 Talledega 500 was considered an upset.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096196-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Talladega 500\nThe race set AIMS racetrack records (at the time of the race) for number of drivers leading in a race (15), number of lead changes in a race (64), and number of caution laps in a race (52). It also was the first race at the track in which a driver was fatally injured (Larry Smith).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096196-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Talladega 500, Legend\nThis race was is also remembered for Bobby Isaac retiring in the middle of the race, after the fatal accident of Larry Smith, because he stated \u201csomething told\u201d him to quit. Media accounts at the time claimed he stated heard a voice telling him to get out of the car immediately or he would die. Talladega Super Speedway is rumored to be \"haunted\" due to the rumor that Talladega was built on top of a Native American burial ground.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 26], "content_span": [27, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096196-0003-0001", "contents": "1973 Talladega 500, Legend\nAs soon as he got to a telephone after climbing from the car, he called his wife and told her about it. He said that everything got very quiet in the car. There was no wind noise or engine noise. He then heard a voice tell him to get out of the car and he did without hesitation. He did return to racing later in his life, in 1977, racing on short tracks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 26], "content_span": [27, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096196-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Talladega 500, Summary, Larry Smith fatal crash\nOn lap 13 of the race, the #92 car of Larry Smith (Carling Black Label Racing) struck the outside retaining wall of turn 1 at (by radio broadcast estimates) approximately 180 miles per hour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 52], "content_span": [53, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096196-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Talladega 500, Summary, Larry Smith fatal crash\nSmith was described on the radio broadcast as \"(the car) coasting to a stop\", and one commentator described the car being \"driven down to the inside of turn number two\" where the car was parked and track safety crews waited to meet it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 52], "content_span": [53, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096196-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Talladega 500, Summary, Larry Smith fatal crash\nTwo different commentators were under the initial belief that Smith had driven the car from the outside wall to the safety apron under his own power, and that the damage from the hit was sufficient to take him out of the race. Damage to the car was described as the right front wheel having been sheared off, and the front end significantly damaged, with the windshield smashed out and glass on the track.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 52], "content_span": [53, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096196-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Talladega 500, Summary, Larry Smith fatal crash\nA preliminary report, given during lap 18, indicates that Smith \"may have been injured\". The caution put in place by Smith's crash was released on lap 27, after Smith's car was towed away and windshield glass from the car was cleared from the track.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 52], "content_span": [53, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096196-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Talladega 500, Summary, Larry Smith fatal crash\nBy the end of the caution period, Smith's crash was described as a hard hit, with heavy damage to his car. Smith was taken by ambulance to the track's hospital on a stretcher, and further reports were awaited.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 52], "content_span": [53, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096196-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Talladega 500, Summary, Larry Smith fatal crash\nLarry Smith's death was confirmed to the race's radio broadcast audience at lap 51. He was described as having been dead on arrival to the track's hospital, after the hit his car took on turn 1 of the track. Smith's death was the first race fatality at Alabama International Motor Speedway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 52], "content_span": [53, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096196-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 Talladega 500, Summary, Larry Smith fatal crash\nTrack officials indicated that the headrest of Smith's car had been broken by the wall impact, and that he had died of massive head injuries. It was further reported that he had been running his car on a cut tire for two laps prior to the crash, with only the safety inner liner of the tire keeping the car rolling.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 52], "content_span": [53, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096196-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 Talladega 500, Summary, Lap 174\nAs a three way fight for the win between Dick Brooks, Buddy Baker, and David Pearson was in progress, Baker's car suddenly began smoking heavily. This was assumed to be a blown engine, and it brought out a caution. Baker circled to the pits and briefly stopped, to have a hole in his oil filter repaired, by having the filter replaced. Baker did not fall off the lead lap; at this point, only Brooks, Baker, and Pearson's cars remained on the lead lap.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 36], "content_span": [37, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096196-0012-0000", "contents": "1973 Talladega 500, Summary, Lap 180 and finish\nThe race resumed under green on lap 180, with Brooks and Pearson battling for the lead. Pearson's car appeared to be lagging as of the restart, and he quickly fell back behind lapped cars to be passed by a still-smoking Buddy Baker car for second position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 47], "content_span": [48, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096196-0013-0000", "contents": "1973 Talladega 500, Summary, Lap 180 and finish\nDick Brooks took the checkered flag for the win, with Buddy Baker keeping his heavily smoking car going to finish second. Pearson's pit crew reported that his car was 'missing badly', and he finished third on the lead lap, with a partially disabled engine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 47], "content_span": [48, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096196-0014-0000", "contents": "1973 Talladega 500, Race results\nDavid Pearson's third-place finish was sufficient to make him the second NASCAR driver to reach the $1,000,000 purse earnings mark. The first to do this was Richard Petty.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 32], "content_span": [33, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096196-0015-0000", "contents": "1973 Talladega 500, Aftermath\nPlymouth (which had not won a NASCAR race in all of 1973) taking a win was considered a shock by contemporaries and by racing fans. While all cars on track at Talledega had to use restrictor plates (the Crawford Brothers Racing #22 included), it was revealed years later by team co-owner Jimmy Crawford that there was a mechanical reason for the Plymouth's unusual speed and power. His brother, Peter Crawford, designed an induction system to maximize airflow to the car's engine despite the mandatory restrictor plate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 29], "content_span": [30, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096196-0016-0000", "contents": "1973 Talladega 500, Aftermath\nPeter Crawford's mechanical work resulted in a custom intake manifold which fit the rule specifications for 1973 parts, and was approved by NASCAR for the race as long as similar manifolds were made available to other participating Plymouth teams. Privately, testing performed by the team demonstrated that the Peter Crawford's intake manifold allowed their engine to produce in excess of 600 horsepower even with the restrictor plate installed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 29], "content_span": [30, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096196-0017-0000", "contents": "1973 Talladega 500, Aftermath\nAfter the race and the runaway result from the Plymouth, AIMS track owner and then-NASCAR president Bill France Sr. called a meeting with the brothers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 29], "content_span": [30, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096196-0018-0000", "contents": "1973 Talladega 500, Aftermath\nThe brothers were informed that Peter's intake manifold design was being outlawed according to the rule stating that \"All parts must be NASCAR approved\"; simply put, NASCAR was revoking their earlier approval to use it because of its raw effectiveness and the imbalance it introduced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 29], "content_span": [30, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096197-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Tampa Spartans football team\nThe 1973 Tampa Spartans football team represented the University of Tampa in the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. It was the Spartans' 37th season and they competed as an NCAA Division I independent. The team was led by head coach Dennis Fryzel, in his first year, and played their home games at Tampa Stadium in Tampa, Florida. They finished with a record of eight wins and three losses (8\u20133). Fryzel was hired on January 3, 1973, to serve as the replacement for Earle Bruce who resigned to become the head coach at Iowa State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096198-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Tangerine Bowl\nThe 1973 Tangerine Bowl was a college football postseason bowl game that featured the Florida Gators and the Miami Redskins (located in Oxford, Ohio and now nicknamed the RedHawks). Played in Gainesville, Florida, this game is the only time that the Tangerine Bowl (now the Citrus Bowl) was not played in Orlando.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096198-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Tangerine Bowl, Background, Teams\nMiami completed a perfect regular season with a Mid-American Conference championship, their first since 1965. This was their first bowl game appearance since the 1962 Tangerine Bowl. Florida's season started with two wins, but they lost their next four games (two to ranked opponents), before a five-game winning streak gave the Gators their first season over .500 since 1970. While they finished tied for fifth in the Southeastern Conference, they appeared in their first bowl game since the 1969 Gator Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096198-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Tangerine Bowl, Background, Venue\nIn early 1973, construction improvements were planned for the game's normal venue, the Tangerine Bowl stadium in Orlando, to expand from 17,000 seats to 51,000 seats. But construction was stalled due to legal concerns in the summer, with the improvements being delayed. Miami (of Ohio) and East Carolina were planned to be the two teams invite, but East Carolina declined their interests, and the officials decided to move the game to the University of Florida's stadium in Gainesville and invite them, which they accepted. The participants were greeted with a near-record low temperature on game day of 35\u00a0\u00b0F (2\u00a0\u00b0C) at kickoff and 25\u00a0\u00b0F (\u22124\u00a0\u00b0C) by the end of the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 708]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096198-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Tangerine Bowl, Game summary\nAfter little scoring, and with Miami ahead 6\u20130 late in the third quarter, Florida fumbled a kickoff, which Miami recovered deep in Florida territory. Two plays later, Miami had a touchdown, which proved to be the deciding score of the game. Chuck Varner of Miami rushed for 157 yards on 28 carries and was named the game's outstanding back, while his teammate Brad Cousino was named outstanding lineman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096198-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Tangerine Bowl, Aftermath\nThe Redskins went to three straight Tangerine Bowls while winning four straight MAC titles, going 42\u20131\u20131 in that 4-year span. The Gators began a bowl streak, qualifying for a bowl for the next three seasons. The Tangerine Bowl returned to Orlando the following year, with renovations approved.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 324]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096199-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Tanglewood International Tennis Classic\nThe 1973 Tanglewood International Tennis Classic was a men's tennis tournament held at Tanglewood Park in Clemmons, North Carolina in the United States that was part of the Grand Prix circuit and categorized as a Group C event. The tournament was played on outdoor clay courts and was held from August 6 until August 12, 1973. It was the third and last edition of the tournament and second-seeded Jaime Fillol won the singles title, his second at the event after 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096199-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Tanglewood International Tennis Classic, Finals, Doubles\nBob Carmichael / Frew McMillan defeated Brian Fairlie / Ismail El Shafei 6\u20133, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 61], "content_span": [62, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096200-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Tasman Series\nThe 1973 Tasman Series was a motor racing competition staged in New Zealand and Australia for cars complying with the Tasman Formula. The series, which began on 6 January and ended on 25 February after eight races, was the tenth Tasman Series. It was won by Graham McRae, driving a McRae GM1 Chevrolet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096200-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Tasman Series, Points system\nPoints were awarded at each race on the following basis:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 33], "content_span": [34, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096200-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Tasman Series, Points system\nAll races were counted towards the final totals for each driver.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 33], "content_span": [34, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096201-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Ta\u00e7a de Portugal Final\nThe 1973 Ta\u00e7a de Portugal Final was the final match of the 1972\u201373 Ta\u00e7a de Portugal, the 33rd season of the Ta\u00e7a de Portugal, the premier Portuguese football cup competition organized by the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF). The match was played on 17 June 1973 at the Est\u00e1dio Nacional in Oeiras, and opposed two Primeira Liga sides: Sporting CP and Vit\u00f3ria de Set\u00fabal. Sporting CP defeated Vit\u00f3ria de Set\u00fabal 3\u20132 to claim the Ta\u00e7a de Portugal for an eighth time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096202-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Temple City Rams football team\nThe 1973 Temple City Rams football team was an American football team that represented Temple City High School in the 1973 CIF Southern Section 2-A football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096202-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Temple City Rams football team\nThe Rams won 46 consecutive games from 1969 to 1973, setting the CIF Southern Section record for most consecutive wins. It also tied the California high school football state record originally set by St. Helena High School from 1960 to 1965. The streak was broken in a loss to Saint Francis High School on October 12, 1973, but Temple City still went on to win the Southern Section 2-A football championship for the fourth consecutive season. They beat North (Riverside) 21\u201313 in the 2-A championship game at Mt. San Antonio College's Hilmer Lodge Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096202-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Temple City Rams football team\nThe team returned 14 varsity lettermen from the 1972 team, and began training camp on August 27, 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096202-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Temple City Rams football team, Postseason honors\nFullback Rick Brown was selected CIF Southern Section 2-A Player of the Year on December 26, 1973, by the Citizens Savings Athletic Foundation. Brown, end Rich Mueller, tackle Ron Blankenbaker, linebacker Jeff Edwards, and defensive lineman Ross Malinowski received first-team CIF Southern Section 2-A Division honors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 54], "content_span": [55, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096203-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Temple Owls football team\nThe 1973 Temple Owls football team was an American football team that represented Temple University as an independent during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. In its fourth season under head coach Wayne Hardin, the team compiled a 9\u20131 record and outscored opponents by a total of 353 to 167. The team played its home games at Temple Stadium in Philadelphia. Dwight Fulton was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096203-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Temple Owls football team\nThe team's statistical leaders included Steve Joachim with 1,312 passing yards, Tom Sloan with 1,036 rushing yards, Randy Grossman with 683 receiving yards, and Henry Hynoski with 60 points scored.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096204-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Tennessee State Tigers football team\nThe 1973 Tennessee State Tigers football team represented Tennessee State University as an independent during the 1973 NCAA Division II football season. In their 11th season under head coach John Merritt, the Tigers compiled a 10\u20130 record and outscored all opponents by a total of 333 to 87. The team was also recognized as the 1973 black college national champion and was ranked No. 1 in the final 1973 NCAA College Division football rankings issued by both the Associated Press and the United Press International.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096204-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Tennessee State Tigers football team\nTennessee State did not compete in the playoffs \"because five of its starters would not be eligible to play.\" The players in question had sat out their freshmen year (\"redshirt\") and then played four seasons; under NCAA rules at the time, such players were not eligible for postseason play as fifth-year seniors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096205-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles football team\nThe 1973 Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles football team represented Tennessee Technological University as a member of the Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) during the 1973 NCAA Division II football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096206-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Tennessee Volunteers football team\nThe 1973 Tennessee Volunteers football team (variously \"Tennessee\", \"UT\" or the \"Vols\") represented the University of Tennessee in the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. Playing as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC), the team was led by head coach Bill Battle, in his fourth year, and played their home games at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, Tennessee. They finished the season with a record of eight wins and four losses (8\u20134 overall, 3\u20133 in the SEC) and a loss to Texas Tech in the 1973 Gator Bowl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096206-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Game summaries, Army\nCondredge Holloway set up Tennessee touchdowns with a 52-yard pass and a 48-yard run as Tennessee won its second straight while Army dropped its third consecutive season opener. Holloway fumbled at his own 12 on the second play of the game, which set up an Army field goal. The slippery QB came back to engineer two first-quarter field goals by Ricky Townsend. Midway through the second period, Holloway evaded the rush and found Emmon Love for a nine-yard gain to the 33. On the next play, he found Stanley Morgan deep down the left sideline for a long bomb to the Army 15.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 61], "content_span": [62, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096207-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Texas A&M Aggies football team\nThe 1973 Texas A&M Aggies football team represented Texas A&M University in the 1973 NCAA Division I football season as a member of the Southwest Conference (SWC). The Aggies were led by head coach Emory Bellard in his second season and finished with a record of five wins and six losses (5\u20136 overall, 3\u20134 in the SWC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096208-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Texas Longhorns baseball team\nThe 1973 Texas Longhorns baseball team represented the University of Texas at Austin in the 1973 NCAA University Division baseball season. The Longhorns played their home games at Clark Field. The team was coached by Cliff Gustafson in his 6th season at Texas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096208-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Texas Longhorns baseball team\nThe Longhorns reached the College World Series, finishing tied for third with wins over Georgia Southern and Oklahoma and losses to eventual champion Southern California and runner-up Arizona State.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096209-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Texas Longhorns football team\nThe 1973 Texas Longhorns football team represented the University of Texas at Austin in the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. The Longhorns finished the regular season with an 8\u20132 record and lost to Nebraska in the Cotton Bowl Classic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096209-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Texas Longhorns football team, Game summaries, Oklahoma\nThe most points Oklahoma had scored against Texas to date.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096210-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Texas Rangers season\nThe 1973 Texas Rangers season involved the Rangers finishing sixth in the American League West with a record of 57 wins and 105 losses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096210-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Texas Rangers season, Regular season\nOn July 30, 1973, Jim Bibby threw the first no-hitter in Texas Rangers history as he no-hit the Oakland Athletics. The Rangers won the game 6\u20130.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 41], "content_span": [42, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096210-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Texas Rangers season, Regular season, David Clyde\nDavid Clyde was a high school pitching phenom who was made the number one overall pick in the 1973 June draft. 22 days later, without having played in the minor leagues, Clyde made his MLB debut, the youngest player to play in an MLB game that year. Clyde won his first ever major league start (in front of a sellout crowd at Arlington Stadium, the first sellout in club history) and played in eighteen games (all starts) that season, finishing with a record of 4\u20138, with a 5.01 ERA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 54], "content_span": [55, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096210-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Texas Rangers season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position\nNote: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 70], "content_span": [71, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096210-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Texas Rangers season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters\nNote: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 63], "content_span": [64, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096210-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Texas Rangers season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 68], "content_span": [69, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096210-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Texas Rangers season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 65], "content_span": [66, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096210-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Texas Rangers season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers\nNote: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 66], "content_span": [67, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096211-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team\nThe 1973 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team represented Texas Tech University in the Southwest Conference during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. In their fourth season under head coach Jim Carlen, the Red Raiders compiled an 11\u20131 record (6\u20131 against conference opponents), finished in second place in the conference, defeated Tennessee in the 1973 Gator Bowl, were ranked No. 11 in the final AP Poll, and outscored opponents by a combined total of 342 to 187. The team's statistical leaders included Joe Barnes with 978 passing yards and 568 rushing yards and Andre Tillman with 428 receiving yards. The team played its home games at Clifford B. & Audrey Jones Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 723]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096212-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Texas\u2013Arlington Mavericks football team\nThe 1973 Texas\u2013Arlington Mavericks football team was an American football team that represented the University of Texas at Arlington in the Southland Conference during the 1973 NCAA Division II football season. In their third year under head coach John Symank, the team compiled a 4\u20136 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096213-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Thai popular uprising\nThe popular uprising of 14 October 1973 (Thai: \u0e40\u0e2b\u0e15\u0e38\u0e01\u0e32\u0e23\u0e13\u0e4c 14 \u0e15\u0e38\u0e25\u0e32, RTGS:\u00a0Hetkan Sip-Si Tula, lit. ' October 14 Event'; also \u0e27\u0e31\u0e19\u0e21\u0e2b\u0e32\u0e27\u0e34\u0e1b\u0e42\u0e22\u0e04, RTGS:\u00a0Wan Maha Wippayok, lit. ' Day of Great Sorrow') was a watershed event in Thailand's history. The uprising resulted in the end of the ruling military dictatorship of anti-communist Thanom Kittikachorn and altered the Thai political system. Notably, it highlighted the growing influence of Thai university students in politics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096213-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Thai popular uprising, Student activism in Thailand the 1950s\u20131970s\nStudent activism in Thailand grew during the 1950s, as many students became inspired by leftist ideology to mobilize and organize demonstrations and rallies against the pro-American policies of the ruling government. The rise of university students as a political force was also due to the increase in absolute numbers of university students. From 1961 to 1972, the number of university students increased from 15,000 to 150,000, while the number of universities increased from five to seventeen. Prior to 1968, student activity was confined to demonstrations of loyalty rather than demands for change or criticism of the political system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 72], "content_span": [73, 712]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096213-0001-0001", "contents": "1973 Thai popular uprising, Student activism in Thailand the 1950s\u20131970s\nThe death of Sarit Thanarat in December 1963 changed things as the government under Thanom was more tolerant of students and intellectuals. The publication of the Social Science Review in the 1960s was credited as being responsible for restarting intellectual thinking and debate in Thai politics. Discussion groups sprang up at major universities which developed into organized and important independent groups, e.g., the \"Sapha Na Dome\" and \"Sethatham\" and the \"SOTUS\" group. These independent groups in turn produced their own writings and the Social Science Review began to publish articles from them. Some of the writings were critical of the government. These groups also started to hold clandestine political seminars which encouraged students to be analytical and critical.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 72], "content_span": [73, 854]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096213-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Thai popular uprising, The National Student Center of Thailand\nThe student discussion groups were in many important ways different from the student unions already present on campus. They were radical and looked for new ways of interpreting Thai society and politics, often with a leftist slant. They did not organize themselves the same way the official student unions were run, i.e., on a hierarchical and politically conservative basis. These groups from different universities were able to transcend inter-university rivalry and build up contacts among themselves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 67], "content_span": [68, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096213-0002-0001", "contents": "1973 Thai popular uprising, The National Student Center of Thailand\nDevelopment programs, based on those of the United States Peace Corps, took students from various campuses to work in rural areas during their vacations and forced them to recognize the problems in the countryside. The programs also served to show the students how inadequate their university training had been, as they were not able to use any of their knowledge to improve the conditions which the majority of the rural population faced.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 67], "content_span": [68, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096213-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Thai popular uprising, The National Student Center of Thailand\nAs a consequence of the increasing collegial contact between students, the National Student Center of Thailand (NSCT) was founded in 1968. Its purpose was to represent and coordinate student action. The NSCT was to play a crucial role in the 1973 uprising. After several meetings between representatives from Thailand's universities, it was proposed that Thai students should have an inter-university organization, the NSCT.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 67], "content_span": [68, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096213-0003-0001", "contents": "1973 Thai popular uprising, The National Student Center of Thailand\nIt was to include two members from each of eleven institutions: Chulalongkorn University, Thammasat University, Kasetsart University, Silpakorn University, Mahidol University, Chiang Mai University, Khon Kaen University, Prince of Songkla University, Prasanmit Teachers College (now Srinakharinwirot University), Bangsaen Teachers College (now Burapha University), and Patumwan Teachers College (now combined with Srinakharinwirot University).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 67], "content_span": [68, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096213-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Thai popular uprising, The National Student Center of Thailand\nIn its early years, the NSCT was not particularly active, and did not organize any political activities. For example, the NSCT was not involved during the demonstrations against internal corruption at Chulalongkorn University in September 1970. Instead, it concentrated on areas such as community services, counseling new students, and producing a television show which praised the King, Bhumibol Adulyadej. This conservative, royalist outlook can be traced to the organization of the NSCT and the manner in which people were elected officers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 67], "content_span": [68, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096213-0004-0001", "contents": "1973 Thai popular uprising, The National Student Center of Thailand\nThe NSCT consisted of three committees composed of the presidents of the student unions, who were responsible for formulating NSCT policy and selecting the leaders of the divisions in the secretariat committee. This made it difficult for members of the more politically conscious groups to control or even influence the NSCT, as they were still viewed with suspicion by most students. As a result, activists were unable to win election to the campus student unions and thus to the NSCT. Many discussion groups found the NSCT to be conservative and unprogressive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 67], "content_span": [68, 630]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096213-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Thai popular uprising, The National Student Center of Thailand\nThis changed in 1972 when Thirayuth Boonmee, an engineering student from Chulalongkorn University, became secretary-general of the NSCT. He began the political activism of the NSCT. He was prudent in choosing issues to campaign against, allowing the NSCT time to mobilize and maintain political momentum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 67], "content_span": [68, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096213-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Thai popular uprising, The National Student Center of Thailand\nDespite the apparent unity of the student movement, there were noticeable splits among the students. While they were united in their aim to remove Prime Minister Field Marshal Thanom Kittikachorn and his clique from office, once Thanom went into exile the student movement split into two main factions: the moderate university students and the radical vocational students. The vocational students were marked by their propensity for violence and their demands for the right to study for degrees. Likewise, the NSCT was divided between two personalities, Sombat Thamrongthanyawongse and Seksan Prasertkul. Some scholars link this conflict to the traditional Thai personal clique power competition typical of Thai bureaucracy. However, others cite the cooperation between Seksan and Sombat in protesting the construction of a second international airport for Bangkok as evidence that it was possible for them to cooperate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 67], "content_span": [68, 988]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096213-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Thai popular uprising, NSCT actions leading to October 1973\nIn November 1972, the NSCT began a campaign to boycott Japanese goods. This was a strategic move as it avoided a direct attack on the Thanom government, but served to show the public the students' intentions. As well as handing out leaflets in shopping centers, proclaiming an \"Anti- Japanese Goods Week\" and presenting a ten-point economic plan to Thanom, the NSCT also organized a protest march. It was difficult for the Thanom government to crack down on the NSCT despite the ban on other political parties as the NSCT played up nationalistic sentiment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 621]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096213-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Thai popular uprising, NSCT actions leading to October 1973\nWith the success of the anti-Japanese goods campaign, the NSCT took a more obvious stance in December 1972 by responding to the government's National Executive Council Decree No. 299, which enabled the council to place the judiciary under direct bureaucratic control. This increased its powers vis-\u00e0-vis the judiciary. The NSCT organized an all-night sit-in at Thammasat University and a march from there to Chulalongkorn University. A protest rally was also held at Chiang Mai University. The NSCT was supported by the Lawyers Association of Thailand and by some members of the media. Three days later, the government backed down and retracted the decree.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 721]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096213-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Thai popular uprising, NSCT actions leading to October 1973\nIn June 1973, several university students from Ramkhamhaeng University were expelled for publishing a satire on the ruling government. The satire was related to the Thung Yai hunting scandal that took place in April 1973, when a military helicopter crashed with the loss of senior military officers, family members, wealthy businessmen, and a film star. The death of the highly popular film star, as well as of the prominent businessmen, could not be covered up. The satire made public some of the details, arousing nationwide public outrage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 607]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096213-0009-0001", "contents": "1973 Thai popular uprising, NSCT actions leading to October 1973\nThese activities were exposed at a time when the government extended the terms of office of Thanom and his deputy Praphas Charusathien for another year. The NSCT reacted by organizing rallies to call for the reinstatement of the students. Subsequently, the government decided to close the universities, which caused the rallies to grow in size, reaching 50,000. Eventually, the government relented in the end, with the students reinstated and the rector of the university forced to resign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096213-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 Thai popular uprising, NSCT actions leading to October 1973\nThrough these actions, the NSCT gained a reputation for being on the side of the people, helping to turn middle-class opinion against the military government. The NSCT also learned to organize effective rallies and demonstrations, showing their growing experience and resourcefulness as logisticians. By October 1973, they had earned themselves a political voice and, emboldened by their previous successes, took decisive action.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 64], "content_span": [65, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096213-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 Thai popular uprising, Events of 6\u201315 October 1973\nOn 6 October, Thirayuth Boonmee and ten other political activists were arrested for distributing leaflets in crowded places in Bangkok such as Bang Lamphu, Siam Square, and Pratunam, urging support for an early drafting of the constitution. The ruling government used a decree banning gatherings of more than five people to arrest them. The other arrestees were Thirayuth, Prapansak Kamolpetch, Boonsong Chalethorn, Bandhit Hengnilrat, Visa Kanthap, Thanya Chunkathatharn, Thawee Muenthikorn, Montri Juengsirinarak, Nopporn Suwanpanich, Preedi Boonsue, and Chaiwat Suravichai. They were taken to police headquarters and their homes were searched.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 55], "content_span": [56, 702]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096213-0012-0000", "contents": "1973 Thai popular uprising, Events of 6\u201315 October 1973\nOn 7 October, Kongkiat Kongka, accused of being a member of a group advocating early promulgation of the permanent constitution, was also arrested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 55], "content_span": [56, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096213-0013-0000", "contents": "1973 Thai popular uprising, Events of 6\u201315 October 1973\nOn 8 October, the twelve arrestees were denied bail and were also accused by Deputy Prime Minister Praphas Charusathien of being linked to a plot to overthrow the government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 55], "content_span": [56, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096213-0014-0000", "contents": "1973 Thai popular uprising, Events of 6\u201315 October 1973\nOn 9 October, more than 2,000 students from Thammasat University demonstrated at an anti-government rally. After the rally, the students held an all-night vigil, at which they were joined by students from Chulalongkorn University and several teacher training colleges. Khaisaeng Suksai, a former member of parliament, was also arrested, bringing the total number of those in custody to thirteen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 55], "content_span": [56, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096213-0015-0000", "contents": "1973 Thai popular uprising, Events of 6\u201315 October 1973\nOn 10 October, rallies in Bangkok swelled as more students from other student organizations joined the protests. The government prepared to react by quietly setting up a crisis control center with Praphas Charusathien as its director.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 55], "content_span": [56, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096213-0016-0000", "contents": "1973 Thai popular uprising, Events of 6\u201315 October 1973\nOn 11 October, Praphas agreed to meet with the students, who demanded the release of the 13 prisoners. He refused to meet their demands. By this time, the rally had moved to the grounds of Thammasat University to accommodate its growing size, with the number of protesters now reaching 50,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 55], "content_span": [56, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096213-0017-0000", "contents": "1973 Thai popular uprising, Events of 6\u201315 October 1973\nOn 12 October, the government announced that it would release the thirteen prisoners on bail, but the students rejected the offer, stating that they would only accept the unconditional release of the prisoners. Money was contributed by members of the public to support the protest.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 55], "content_span": [56, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096213-0018-0000", "contents": "1973 Thai popular uprising, Events of 6\u201315 October 1973\nOn 13 October, the crowd, which had swelled to more than 400,000 (including many members of the public), marched to Democracy Monument to demand the release of the prisoners. The government quickly agreed to the demands and promised that the permanent constitution would be in place by October 1974. With their demands met, the students agreed to go back to their universities. About 200,000 students refused to disband, however, and their leader, Seksan Prasertkul, decided to lead them to the palace to seek advice from King Bhumibol.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 55], "content_span": [56, 592]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096213-0019-0000", "contents": "1973 Thai popular uprising, Events of 6\u201315 October 1973\nOn 14 October, the students reached the palace and were met by the king's representative, who said that Bhumibol requested that the students disband. The students agreed to do so, and the assistant director of the police ordered barricades placed to disperse the students in an orderly, single direction. The large size of the crowd meant that many were not able to leave, but the police refused their request for another exit, which resulted in resentment among the students. It is not clear how it happened, but reports soon were heard about violence against the students as the crowd became restive. Early in the morning, bombs exploded near the royal palace and the police began attacking the students.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 55], "content_span": [56, 762]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096213-0020-0000", "contents": "1973 Thai popular uprising, Events of 6\u201315 October 1973\nBy late morning, there were acts of vandalism and violence by both sides as the situation spun out of control. The government brought in tanks, helicopters, and infantrymen to support the police. Seventy-seven deaths and 857 injuries resulted and many buildings near Ratchadamnoen Avenue were set on fire. The number of demonstrators quickly grew to more than 500,000, as other students and their sympathizers rallied to their defense. The soldiers finally withdrew in the evening, and about 19:15 the king announced on television and radio that Thanom's military government had resigned.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 55], "content_span": [56, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096213-0021-0000", "contents": "1973 Thai popular uprising, Events of 6\u201315 October 1973\nViolence continued on 15 October around the police headquarters, with students demanding that Thanom be removed as head of the armed forces. Only when it was announced that Thanom, Praphas, and Thanom's son, Colonel Narong Kittikachorn, who was married to Praphas' daughter, had fled the country did calm return to Bangkok. The end had come as quickly and unexpectedly as the violence had begun.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 55], "content_span": [56, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096213-0022-0000", "contents": "1973 Thai popular uprising, Aftermath\nThe uprising unleashed a range of political forces not seen in Thailand before, and the country gradually became more polarized. In the immediate aftermath of the uprising, there was a popular perception of promise and euphoria. However, things took a turn for the worse, as democracy took the blame for the consequences of the past dictatorships. There were a myriad of reasons for the widespread support for the students. For a majority of the people, the military government was a main reason to support the students because it failed to curb inflation and prevent rice shortages. Benedict Anderson, a Southeast Asia scholar, has argued that despite the power and credibility they lent to the movement, the Thai middle class were far less concerned about the students' goals than they were dissatisfied with social and economic changes affecting their lives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 899]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096213-0023-0000", "contents": "1973 Thai popular uprising, Aftermath\nIn its idealism, the NSCT decided to use the donations they had gathered during October 1973 to educate villagers about democracy and its processes. The Democracy Propagation Program began in earnest over the few months after the new regime was installed and \"democracy emissaries\" were sent to all 580 districts in Thailand. This lasted till 1974, when the realities of the difference in culture, resistance, and inertia forced the program to a halt. Student dissidence continued to emerge with grievances ranging from educational reform to Thailand's trade imbalance with Japan to the CIA's influence over the Thai military establishment. Strikes and sit-ins began in November 1973 and disrupted both businesses and private lives. The atmosphere of chaos continued as reports streamed from the northeast about the country's communist insurgency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 885]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096213-0024-0000", "contents": "1973 Thai popular uprising, Aftermath\nThe lack of strong leadership in the interim government meant there was little break from the past. Even under the new constitution and after the general elections, the deputies approached their legislative duties with caution, voting conservatively and rejecting any legislation that might threaten the entrenched and wealthy upper class. Furthermore, the new civilian leadership feared offending the military and would not curb the privileges of powerful officers. In the years after the uprising, riots and strikes took place with higher frequency and insurgency in the hills seemed commonplace while taxes rose.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 654]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096213-0024-0001", "contents": "1973 Thai popular uprising, Aftermath\nElectric power was intermittent and Bangkok at night was sometimes darkened. This was made worse as the international situation in Indochina deteriorated. Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia all fell to communist forces in 1975, and the threat of communist groups in neighboring countries led to panic among the Thai people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096213-0024-0002", "contents": "1973 Thai popular uprising, Aftermath\nThe presence of communist regimes on Thai borders, the abolition of the 600 year-old Lao monarchy, and the arrival of a flood of refugees from Laos and Cambodia swung public opinion in Thailand to the right, resulting in conservatives gaining far more support in the 1976 elections than they had the previous year. This right-wing shift would culminate in the 6 October 1976 massacre of student protesters at Thammasat University, which marked the end of the \"democratic period\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096213-0025-0000", "contents": "1973 Thai popular uprising, Analysis\nThe uprising was undoubtedly driven by the actions of the university students, but the role of other forces should also be mentioned. These include armed forces rivalries, especially between the army and the navy, and a series of wildcat strikes by common labourers and civilian workers in August and September 1973, both of which helped to create an atmosphere conducive to a change in the ruling government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 446]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096213-0026-0000", "contents": "1973 Thai popular uprising, Analysis\nWhile the uprising did not change the role of the monarch, it did emphasize his position as a final arbiter between opposing forces. On 14 October, King Bhumibol appointed the Thammasat chancellor and dean of the faculty of law, former Supreme Court Judge Sanya Dharmasakti, as prime minister by royal command. This established a precedent subsequently exercised only three times, of appointing Prime Ministers of Thailand. On 22 May 1974, Dr Sanya appointed a commission to draft a new constitution, and on 27 May tendered his resignation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096213-0026-0001", "contents": "1973 Thai popular uprising, Analysis\nA House of Representatives resolution called on him to serve a second consecutive term. In December 1973, the king appointed a 2,346-member National General Assembly that elected a new 299-member National Legislative Assembly to replace the old one. The king has remained a key reference point for the Thai people ever since.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096213-0027-0000", "contents": "1973 Thai popular uprising, Analysis\nThe role of the Communist Party of Thailand (CPT) within the student movement is unusual as it had no visible influence on the events in October 1973. The CPT also failed to incorporate the students into their struggle for a number of reasons. First, the nature of the students prevented their recruitment. The majority of the university students were from middle-class or lower-middle-class backgrounds and had enrolled in universities in hopes of finding work in the government bureaucracy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096213-0027-0001", "contents": "1973 Thai popular uprising, Analysis\nFurther, Gawin Chutima, an ex-communist, argues that students were firmly locked into the Sakdina ideology and were subordinate and obedient to older and socially superior persons. In addition, the CPT pursued a strict Maoist line, which called for revolution to take place in rural areas first. The CPT did not consider students the vanguard of a Marxist revolution. They saw the students as weak-minded and undisciplined, a view that did not change even after the crackdown in October 1976. Nevertheless, after the events of October 1973, the CPT began recruiting in the universities by publishing books and writing articles on campus. This was most evident in an article on the NSCT newspaper which called for armed struggle as the only way to change society for the better.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 814]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096213-0028-0000", "contents": "1973 Thai popular uprising, Analysis\nThe toppling of the regime by the student movement ushered in a period (1973\u20131976) in Thai politics termed \"democratic\". However, in hindsight the period was not democratic in most senses of the word. The strong resurgence of the right wing and the military in late-1974 began a program of politically motivated assassinations of prominent peasant, farmer, and student leaders. Ironically, after the end of the Thanom regime, the political repression that forced radical students to toe the NSCT line also dissipated. This led to the breakup of the student movement into disparate parts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 36], "content_span": [37, 624]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096214-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Thailand Regional Games\nThe 7th Thailand National Games (Thai: \u0e01\u0e35\u0e2c\u0e32\u0e40\u0e02\u0e15\u0e41\u0e2b\u0e48\u0e07\u0e1b\u0e23\u0e30\u0e40\u0e17\u0e28\u0e44\u0e17\u0e22 \u0e04\u0e23\u0e31\u0e49\u0e07\u0e17\u0e35\u0e48 7, also known as the 1973 National Games and the 1973 Interprovincial Games) were held in Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand from 23 to 29 February 1973, with contests in 14 sports and athletes from 10 regions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096214-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Thailand Regional Games, Emblem\nThe emblem of 1973 Thailand National Games was a brown circle, with the Phra Boromathat Chedi or Phra That Nakhon on top, the emblem of the Sports Authority of Thailand on the inside, and surrounded by the text", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096214-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Thailand Regional Games, Emblem\n\u0e2d\u0e2a\u0e01\u0e17 \u0e01\u0e35\u0e2c\u0e32\u0e40\u0e02\u0e15\u0e41\u0e2b\u0e48\u0e07\u0e1b\u0e23\u0e30\u0e40\u0e17\u0e28\u0e44\u0e17\u0e22 \u0e04\u0e23\u0e31\u0e49\u0e07\u0e17\u0e35\u0e48 \u0e57 \u0e08\u0e31\u0e07\u0e2b\u0e27\u0e31\u0e14\u0e19\u0e04\u0e23\u0e28\u0e23\u0e35\u0e18\u0e23\u0e23\u0e21\u0e23\u0e32\u0e0a \u0e52\u0e55\u0e51\u0e56SAT 7th Inter-Provincial Games, Nakhon Si Thammarat 1973", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096214-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Thailand Regional Games, Participating regions\nThe 8th Thailand National Games represented 10 regions from 71 provinces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 51], "content_span": [52, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096214-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Thailand Regional Games, Sports\nThe 1973 Thailand National Games featured 10 Olympic sports contested at the 1973 Southeast Asian Peninsular Games, 1974 Asian Games and 1976 Summer Olympics. In addition, four non-Olympic sports were featured: badminton, sepak takraw, table tennis and tennis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096215-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 The Citadel Bulldogs football team\nThe 1973 The Citadel Bulldogs football team represented The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina in the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. Bobby Ross served as head coach for the first season. The Bulldogs played as members of the Southern Conference and played home games at Johnson Hagood Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096216-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Thomas Cup\nThe 1973 Thomas Cup was the ninth edition of the Thomas Cup, the world championship of men's international team badminton (its female counterpart is the Uber Cup). The final set of ties (team matches) involving regional zone winners and the defending champion nation were held in Jakarta, Indonesia in late May and early June 1973. Beginning in 1948-1949 the tournament was held every three years until 1982 and has been held every two years thereafter. For more details on the format of Thomas Cup competition see Wikipedia's general article on the Thomas Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096216-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Thomas Cup\nIndonesia won its fifth title after beating Denmark in the Final Round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 87]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096216-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Thomas Cup, Teams\n23 teams from 4 regions took part in the competition. As defending champion, Indonesia skipped the qualifications and the first round of inter-zone competition, and played directly in the second round (effectively, the semifinals of the tournament).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 22], "content_span": [23, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096216-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Thomas Cup, Qualification (Intra-zone) summary\nEarly ties (team matches) in the 1972\u20131973 Thomas Cup series were marked by an unusual number of close contests; the winners of several of these were not determined until the final match. One such instance occurred in the Australasian zone final between India and New Zealand. Here Asif Parpia and seventeen-year-old prodigy Prakash Padukone edged their doubles opponents 15\u201312 in the third game to put India into the inter-zone playoffs for the first time since 1955.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 51], "content_span": [52, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096216-0003-0001", "contents": "1973 Thomas Cup, Qualification (Intra-zone) summary\nIn the Pan American zone a young Mexican team parlayed wins by their top two singles players, Roy Diaz Gonzalez and Victor Jaramillo Luque, with an upset win in doubles to defeat the USA 5\u20134. It thus overcame an estimable effort from 41-year-old Jim Poole who won all three of his matches, including his final Thomas Cup appearance in singles. In the zone final, however, Mexico was beaten 6\u20133 by a well seasoned Canadian team which included ex-Thai stars Channarong Ratanaseangsuang and Raphi Kanchanaraphi, both in their mid thirties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 51], "content_span": [52, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096216-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Thomas Cup, Qualification (Intra-zone) summary\nIn the European zone England was upset 4\u20135 by a solid West German squad which featured a world class singles player in Wolfgang Bochow who won both of his matches, as well as a world class doubles team in Roland Maywald and Willi Braun who won the last match of the tie to clinch the victory. Elsewhere in Europe a Scottish team that included Bob McCoig playing in his sixth Thomas Cup series gave Sweden unexpected difficulty but succumbed 4\u20135. The tendency toward close contests, however, did not extend to perennial European power Denmark which beat West Germany 7\u20132 and Sweden 8\u20131 respectively in the zone semifinal and final. Young Flemming Delfs made his Thomas Cup debut in these ties by handily winning his three singles matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 51], "content_span": [52, 789]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096216-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Thomas Cup, Qualification (Intra-zone) summary\nThe greatest drama at the highest level of play in the qualifying ties, came in two Asian zone battles, both involving traditional power Malaysia. In the first of these Malaysia and Japan alternated tight victories in perhaps the longest and closest tie in Thomas Cup history. Malaysia won the last doubles match in three games to advance to the zone final, but Punch Gunalan's 17\u201316 third game win over Japan's Junji Honma on the second night of play shows how narrow was the difference between victory and defeat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 51], "content_span": [52, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096216-0005-0001", "contents": "1973 Thomas Cup, Qualification (Intra-zone) summary\nIf Malaysia had snatched victory from the jaws of defeat against Japan, however, it proceeded to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory against its next opponent, Thailand. Up three matches to none, Malaysia's undoing began when Tan Aik Huang, who had played an earlier singles, suffered a cramp and was carried off the doubles court to end the first night's play at 3\u20131. Though Aik Huang played the next day he lost both of his matches, and Gunalan's win at third singles was offset by Tan Aik Mong's singles loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 51], "content_span": [52, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096216-0005-0002", "contents": "1973 Thomas Cup, Qualification (Intra-zone) summary\nIn the final and decisive match Gunalan and the veteran Ng Boon Bee, the world's top doubles team just two seasons earlier, seemed unnerved and were routed by veteran Sangob Rattanusorn and young star Bandid Jaiyen. The two Thais had also played singles and emerged as the heroes of an upset victory. Conversely, it was a sad Thomas Cup exit for three of Malaysia's \"greats,\" Ng Boon Bee, Tan Aik Huang, and Punch Gunalan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 51], "content_span": [52, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096216-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Thomas Cup, Inter-zone playoffs, First & Second round summary\nThe first tie of the inter-zone playoffs in Jakarta pitting Canada against India was another rousing 5\u20134 battle featuring numerous close matches. A few days shy of his eighteenth birthday, India's Prakash Padukone showed signs of future greatness by defeating both Jamie Paulson (climbing back from 6-14 down in the third) and Bruce Rollick in titanic three game struggles. Paulson, however, won his remaining singles and both of his doubles with the ebullient Yves Pare. Ex-Thais Raphi Kanchanaraphi and Channarong Ratanaseangsuang completed a sweep of the doubles allowing Canada to advance to the semifinal against Denmark.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 66], "content_span": [67, 693]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096216-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Thomas Cup, Inter-zone playoffs, First & Second round summary\nUnfortunately for spectators, the Canada vs. India tie was the last of the dramatic, issue-always-in-doubt team contests which had characterized much of the 72-73 Thomas Cup series. Canada, which needed to be at its best to be competitive against a typically talented Danish lineup, was flat instead and lost tamely 0\u20139. Svend Pri, playing both singles and doubles, won all of his matches in straight games. Kanchanaraphi and Ratanaseangsuang, each of whom had winning Thomas Cup records against the Danes in matches dating back to 1961 and 1964, found the going rougher in their mid thirties. Dropping only two games in the tie, Denmark advanced to the Thomas Cup final for the fourth time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 66], "content_span": [67, 759]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096216-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Thomas Cup, Inter-zone playoffs, First & Second round summary\nIn the other semifinal Thailand, an upset winner of the Asian zone qualifier, fought hard but was out-gunned by an Indonesian team that was perhaps the best yet in their then almost unbroken string of Thomas Cup success. Thailand's diminutive but highly talented Bandid Jaiyen wore down the veteran Muljadi in three games, but the Thais were unable to capture another match. Traditionally strong in doubles, the Thais dropped eight straight doubles games, only one of them close, to Indonesian pairs containing future \"legends\" Tjun Tjun, Christian Hadinata, and Ade Chandra. With Rudy Hartono winning all four of his matches for the fifth consecutive time, Indonesia advanced to play in its sixth straight final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 66], "content_span": [67, 780]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096216-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Thomas Cup, Inter-zone playoffs, Final round summary\nMuljadi for Indonesia and Henning Borch for Denmark were the only holdovers from the controversial 1964 final between the two nations (they had faced each other at third singles with Muljadi, then known as Ang Tjin Siang, winning). Both ended their Thomas Cup careers with this '73 final. It was a happy ending for Muljadi who outlasted Elo Hansen in three hard games in the first match of the tie, and then beat a jaded Svend Pri in straight games on the second night (thus completing a perfect 6\u20130 singles record in the championship rounds of Thomas Cup).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 57], "content_span": [58, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096216-0009-0001", "contents": "1973 Thomas Cup, Inter-zone playoffs, Final round summary\nPri was jaded on the second night largely because of his colossal effort on the first night in handing Rudy Hartono his first Thomas Cup singles loss. Smashing accurately in the first and third games and staving off several match points Pri threw his racket to the crowd at the conclusion of the battle. Sterling achievement though it was, it did little to spark a good Danish team against a generally better opponent on the opponent's home court. Hansen became ill and defaulted his second night's match to Hartono.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 57], "content_span": [58, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096216-0009-0002", "contents": "1973 Thomas Cup, Inter-zone playoffs, Final round summary\nBudding Danish star Flemming Delfs faded after the first game to lose the third singles match to Amril Nurman 4-15 in the third. The doubles matches were less competitive. 1970 All-England champions Tom Bacher and Poul Petersen, never at their best in the tropics, lost tamely to Christian and Chandra and to Hartono and Tjun Tjun. As for Henning Borch, the only Dane at that time to have competed in five inter-zone campaigns, it was a final disappointment. He and Svend Pri failed to score more than eight points in any of their doubles games. Indonesia won the tie 8\u20131, and with it their fifth Thomas Cup title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 57], "content_span": [58, 672]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096217-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship\nThe 1973 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship was the 83rd staging of the Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Tipperary County Board in 1887.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096217-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship\nRoscrea won the championship after a 3-14 to 3-08 defeat of Kilruane MacDonaghs in the final at Semple Stadium. It was their fifth championship title overall and their second title in succession.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096218-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Tirreno\u2013Adriatico\nThe 1973 Tirreno\u2013Adriatico was the eighth edition of the Tirreno\u2013Adriatico cycle race and was held from 13 March to 17 March 1973. The race started in Ostia and finished in San Benedetto del Tronto. The race was won by Roger De Vlaeminck.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096219-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Toledo Rockets football team\nThe 1973 Toledo Rockets football team was an American football team that represented the University of Toledo in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. In their third season under head coach Jack Murphy, the Rockets compiled a 3\u20138 record (1\u20134 against MAC opponents), finished in a tie for last place in the MAC, and were outscored by all opponents by a combined total of 288 to 229.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096219-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Toledo Rockets football team\nThe team's statistical leaders included Gene Swick with 2,234 passing yards, Herman Price with 595 rushing yards, and Don Seymour with 773 receiving yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096220-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Torneo Descentralizado\nThe 1973 Torneo Descentralizado was the 57th season of the Peruvian Primera Divisi\u00f3n and the ninth season of the Torneo Descentralizado. It was won for the first time by Defensor Lima. Sportivo Hurac\u00e1n, Atl\u00e9tico Torino, Jos\u00e9 G\u00e1lvez, and SIMA were relegated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096220-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Torneo Descentralizado, Competition modus\nEighteen teams competed against each other at home and away for a total of 34 rounds. At the end of the 34th round, four teams were relegated and the top six teams in the league table played an additional 5 rounds against each other at a neutral venue which was the Estadio Nacional. Once these 5 rounds concluded, the champions and runners-up qualified to the 1974 Copa Libertadores.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096221-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Torneo God\u00f3\nThe 1973 Torneo God\u00f3 or Trofeo Conde de God\u00f3 was a men's tennis tournament that took place on outdoor clay courts at the Real Club de Tenis Barcelona in Barcelona, Spain. It was the 21st edition of the tournament and was part of the 1973 Grand Prix circuit. It was held from 8 October until 14 October 1973. First-seeded Ilie N\u0103stase won the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096221-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Torneo God\u00f3, Finals, Doubles\nIlie N\u0103stase / Tom Okker defeated Antonio Mu\u00f1oz / Manuel Orantes 4\u20136, 6\u20133, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 33], "content_span": [34, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096222-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Torneo di Viareggio\nThe 1973 winners of the Torneo di Viareggio (in English, the Viareggio Tournament, officially the Viareggio Cup World Football Tournament Coppa Carnevale), the annual youth football tournament held in Viareggio, Tuscany, are listed below.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096222-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Torneo di Viareggio, Format\nThe 16 teams are organized in knockout rounds. The round of 16 are played in two-legs, while the rest of the rounds are single tie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096223-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Toronto Argonauts season\nThe 1973 Toronto Argonauts finished in second place in the Eastern Conference with a 7\u20135\u20132 record. They appeared in the Eastern Semi-Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096224-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Tour de France\nThe 1973 Tour de France was the 60th edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. It took place between 30 June and 22 July, with 20 stages covering a distance of 4,090\u00a0km (2,541\u00a0mi). Eddy Merckx, winner of the previous four editions, did not start the 1973 Tour, partly to avoid angry French fans and partly to please his sponsor; instead he rode and won the 1973 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a and the 1973 Giro d'Italia. In his absence, Luis Oca\u00f1a dominated the race by winning four mountain stages and two time trials. The end result being a margin of victory exceeding 15 minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 606]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096224-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Tour de France\nIn 1973, a new team classification was added: the team points classification, calculated by adding the three best stage rankings per team; it would be calculated until 1988.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096224-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Tour de France, Teams\nThe Italian teams did not join the 1973 Tour de France, because no top French cyclist rode the 1973 Giro d'Italia. The Tour started with 12 teams, each with 11 cyclists.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 26], "content_span": [27, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096224-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Tour de France, Pre-race favourites\nThe winner of the previous four editions, Eddy Merckx had changed sponsors to the Italian Molteni. His contract said that he had to start in the 1973 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a and the 1973 Giro d'Italia, and Merckx thought it was impossible to start in three grand tours in one year, so he stayed away from the Tour. Oca\u00f1a, who was in great shape, was now the main favourite, with Fuente, Poulidor and Th\u00e9venet as his biggest threats. Oca\u00f1a was not the clear favourite; he had already crashed out of the Tour three times, and he was seen as fragile. Zoetemelk had changed teams, because he did not have the full support of his team leader. Among the Italian riders absent were world champion Marino Basso and former Tour winner Felice Gimondi.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 774]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096224-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Tour de France, Route and stages\nAfter the 1972 Tour de France, there were rumours that the 1973 Tour would become easier, to suit French cyclist Cyrille Guimard better. However, when the 1973 Tour route was announced in December 1972, the organisation had included three more mountains compared to 1972. The race started on 30 June, and had two rest days, in Divonne-les-Bains and Bolqu\u00e8res Pyrenees 2000. The highest point of elevation in the race was 2,556\u00a0m (8,386\u00a0ft) at the summit tunnel of the Col du Galibier mountain pass on stage 8.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 37], "content_span": [38, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096224-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Tour de France, Race overview\nZoetemelk won the opening prologue, one second ahead of Poulidor. In the first part of the next stage, Teirlinck won and took over the lead. Oca\u00f1a and Herman Van Springel fell down when a dog crossed the road, but both suffered no serious damage. In the second part of that stage, Van Springel bridged the gap to Catieau, who had escaped. Van Springel did all the work to stay away, while Catieau did not help his team captain's rival. They stayed away until the end of the stage, where Catieau won the sprint, and Van Springel became the new race leader.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 590]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096224-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Tour de France, Race overview\nIn the third stage, a group with Guimard and Ocana escaped. Van Springel, Zoetemelk, Fuentes, Th\u00e9venet and Poulidor were not in that group, and had to chase them. The group stayed away, Guimard won the sprint and Catieau became the race leader. More important for the final result was that Oca\u00f1a won more than two minutes on Zoetemelk, and more than seven minutes on Fuente.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096224-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Tour de France, Race overview\nIn stage seven, when the first mountains were climbed, Oca\u00f1a attacked, and only Zoetemelk could follow. A few kilometers from the summit, Zoetemelk had to let Oca\u00f1a go, and Oca\u00f1a finished solo. Oca\u00f1a became the new race leader, almost three minutes ahead of Zoetemelk. In the eighth stage, Oca\u00f1a and Fuente both attacked. Oca\u00f1a and Fuente did not like each other, and when Fuente stopped working, Oca\u00f1a was angry, especially when Fuente passed him just before the top of the Izoard to steal the points for the mountain classification. When Fuente had a flat tire, Oca\u00f1a did not wait for him, and left him behind, beating him by one minute at the finish line. All the others were far behind: Th\u00e9venet and Martinez followed after seven minutes, the other pre-race favourites after twenty minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 829]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096224-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Tour de France, Race overview\nIn the thirteenth stage, Poulidor crashed, and was taken away with a helicopter. In the sixteenth stage, the cyclists were slower than expected, and finished one hour after the latest time schedule. The train that they should have taken had already left, and they had to use buses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096224-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Tour de France, Race overview\nIn the time trial in stage 17, Fuente lost his second place in the general classification to Th\u00e9venet. Fuente tried to take it back in the mountain stage 18, but he failed and even lost some time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096224-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 Tour de France, Race overview, Doping\nThree cyclists tested positive during the 1973 Tour de France: Barry Hoban, after the 9th stage; Claude Baud, after the 13th stage; and Michel Roques, after the 18th stage. All three received a fine of 1000 Swiss Francs, one-month suspension and ten minutes penalty time in the general classification.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 42], "content_span": [43, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096224-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes\nThere were several classifications in the 1973 Tour de France, three of them awarding jerseys to their leaders. The most important was the general classification, calculated by adding each cyclist's finishing times on each stage. The cyclist with the least accumulated time was the race leader, identified by the yellow jersey; the winner of this classification is considered the winner of the Tour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096224-0012-0000", "contents": "1973 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes\nAdditionally, there was a points classification, where cyclists got points for finishing among the best in a stage finish, or in intermediate sprints. The cyclist with the most points lead the classification, and was identified with a green jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096224-0013-0000", "contents": "1973 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes\nThere was also a mountains classification. The organisation had categorised some climbs as either first, second, third, or fourth-category; points for this classification were won by the first cyclists that reached the top of these climbs first, with more points available for the higher-categorised climbs. The cyclist with the most points lead the classification, but was not identified with a jersey in 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096224-0014-0000", "contents": "1973 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes\nAnother classification was the combination classification. This classification was calculated as a combination of the other classifications, its leader wore the white jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096224-0015-0000", "contents": "1973 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes\nThe fifth individual classification was the intermediate sprints classification. This classification had similar rules as the points classification, but only points were awarded on intermediate sprints. In 1973, this classification had no associated jersey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096224-0016-0000", "contents": "1973 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes\nFor the team classification, the times of the best three cyclists per team on each stage were added; the leading team was the team with the lowest total time. The riders in the team that led this classification were identified by yellow caps. For the first time, there was also a team points classification. Cyclists received points according to their finishing position on each stage, with the first rider receiving one point. The first three finishers of each team had their points combined, and the team with the fewest points led the classification. The riders of the team leading this classification wore green caps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 685]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096224-0017-0000", "contents": "1973 Tour de France, Classification leadership and minor prizes\nIn addition, there was a combativity award, in which a jury composed of journalists gave points after certain stages to the cyclist they considered most combative. The split stages each had a combined winner. At the conclusion of the Tour, Luis Oca\u00f1a won the overall super-combativity award, also decided by journalists. The Souvenir Henri Desgrange was given to the first rider to pass the memorial to Tour founder Henri Desgrange near the summit of the Col du Galibier on stage 8. This prize was won by Oca\u00f1a.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 63], "content_span": [64, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096225-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Tour de Romandie\nThe 1973 Tour de Romandie was the 27th edition of the Tour de Romandie cycle race and was held from 8 May to 13 May 1973. The race started in Geneva and finished in Lancy. The race was won by Wilfried David.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096226-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Tour de Suisse\nThe 1973 Tour de Suisse was the 37th edition of the Tour de Suisse cycle race and was held from 15 June to 23 June 1973. The race started in Z\u00fcrich and finished in Olten. The race was won by Jos\u00e9 Manuel Fuente of the Kas team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096227-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Tour of Flanders\nThe 57th running of the Tour of Flanders cycling race in Belgium was held on Sunday 1 April 1973. Belgian Eric Leman won the classic ahead of Freddy Maertens and Eddy Merckx. The race started in Ghent and finished for the first time in Meerbeke (Ninove). 37 out of 174 riders arrived.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096227-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Tour of Flanders, Course\nCycling icon Eddy Merckx was the pre-race favourite, but despite several attempts, he failed to distance Leman, Maertens and De Geest on the Muur van Geraardsbergen and the run-in to the finish. In a four-man sprint Eric Leman narrowly beat Freddy Maertens. Merckx was third. Leman became the third rider to win the Tour of Flanders three times, equalling the previous record of Achiel Buysse and Fiorenzo Magni.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096228-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Tour of the Basque Country\nThe 1973 Tour of the Basque Country was the 13th edition of the Tour of the Basque Country cycle race and was held from 9 April to 13 April 1973. The race started and finished in Eibar. The race was won by Luis Oca\u00f1a of the Bic team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096229-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council election\nThe first elections to Trafford Council were held on Thursday, 10 May 1973. This was a new council created to replace the following authorities: the Municipal Borough of Altrincham, the Municipal Borough of Sale, the Municipal Borough of Stretford, Bowdon Urban District, Hale Urban District, Urmston Urban District, and parts of Bucklow Rural District. This election would create the entire 63-member council (3 councillors to each ward), which would shadow its predecessor councils before taking over their functions on 1 April 1974, as specified in the Local Government Act 1972. Each 1st-placed candidate would serve a five-year term of office, expiring in 1978. Each 2nd-placed candidate would serve a three-year term of office, expiring in 1976. Each 3rd-placed candidate would serve a two-year term of office, expiring in 1975.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 886]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096229-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council election\nAfter the election, the composition of the council was as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096229-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council election, Ward results\nDetailed below are the three successful candidates for each ward, with number of votes received.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [53, 65], "content_span": [66, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096230-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Trans-Am Series\nThe 1973 Trans-Am Series was the eighth running of the Sports Car Club of America's premier series. It began on April 15 and ran for six rounds. Due to the decline of demand for muscle cars in the early seventies and the energy crisis that year, 1973 is considered to be the beginning of the decline of Trans Am. In contrast to American muscle dominating previous years, Porsche won the manufacturers' championship this year. 1973 also saw the rise of silhouette cars as a way of adapting to the decline of performance cars, ultimately making the cars interchangeable with IMSA GTO and GTU.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096231-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Transkei legislative election\nParliamentary elections were held in Transkei on 24 October 1973. The Transkei National Independence Party won 25 of the 40 elected seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096231-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Transkei legislative election, Aftermath\nBy-elections were held for the two vacant seats in 1974, both of which were won by the Transkei National Independence Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096232-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Trentino-Alto Adige/S\u00fcdtirol regional election\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by R'n'B (talk | contribs) at 12:55, 16 April 2020 (Disambiguating links to Republican (link changed to Italian Republican Party) using DisamAssist.). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096232-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Trentino-Alto Adige/S\u00fcdtirol regional election\nThe Trentino-Alto Adige/S\u00fcdtirol regional election of 1973 took place on 18 November 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096232-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Trentino-Alto Adige/S\u00fcdtirol regional election\nThe administration DC-SVP was expanded with the Democratic Socialists and the Republicans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096233-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Tuborg 400\nThe 1973 Tuborg 400 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series race that took place on June 17, 1973, at Riverside International Raceway in Riverside, California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096233-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Tuborg 400\nThe California 100 for Sportsman Cars was run on the day before this race, the winner was Hershel McGriff followed by Ron Hornaday Sr., Roy Bleckert, Ivan Baldwin, and James Sanderson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096233-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Tuborg 400, Race report\n153 laps were completed on the road course spanning 2.620 miles (4.216\u00a0km) per lap. The race was completed in exactly four hours with Bobby Allison picking up the second of his six career wins at Riverside against Richard Petty by one minute and thirteen seconds in front of 43,700 spectators. All of the other drivers were lapped by Bobby Allison and Richard Petty. Petty's second-place finish marked the first time that he finished a race at Riverside but didn't win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 28], "content_span": [29, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096233-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Tuborg 400, Race report\nDean Dalton would be credited with a last-place finish due to an engine problem on lap 7. Chuck Bown would receive his first top ten at the tender age of 19.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 28], "content_span": [29, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096233-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Tuborg 400, Race report\nThere were 40 drivers on the grid; 39 of them were American while Jack Simpson was the only Canadian. Four cautions slowed the race for 22 laps and the average speed was 100.215 miles per hour (161.280\u00a0km/h). Petty would earn the pole position with a qualifying speed of 110.027 miles per hour (177.071\u00a0km/h). Ron Hornaday, Sr. would retire from NASCAR after this race. George Behlman would make his NASCAR debut in this race. Other notable racers in this event include: Benny Parsons, J.D. McDuffie, Richard Childress, and Buddy Baker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 28], "content_span": [29, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096233-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Tuborg 400, Race report\nWinston West driver Jimmy Insolo turns in a nice run as he finishes a strong fourth against the big boys from the Southeastern United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 28], "content_span": [29, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096233-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Tuborg 400, Race report\nIndividual race earnings for each driver ranged from $12,750 for the winning driver ($73,431.97 when adjusted for inflation) to $1,125 for the last-place driver ($6,479.29 when adjusted for inflation). A grand total of $75,295 in prize money went to all the drivers. ($433,651.79 when adjusted for inflation).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 28], "content_span": [29, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096233-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Tuborg 400, Race report\nNotable crew chiefs in this race were Tim Brewer, Richard Elder, Tim Pearson, Travis Carter, Harry Hyde, Dale Inman, and Bud Moore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 28], "content_span": [29, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096233-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Tuborg 400, Race report, Qualifying\nFailed to qualify: Steve Vaughn (#73), Doug McGriff (#74), Frank Burnett (#36), Ed Sczech (#61), Marion Collins (#78)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 40], "content_span": [41, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096233-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Tuborg 400, Finishing order\n* Driver failed to finish race \u2020 signifies that the driver is known to be deceased", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 32], "content_span": [33, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096234-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team\nThe 1973 Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team represented the University of Tulsa during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. In their second year under head coach F. A. Dry, the Golden Hurricane compiled a 6\u20135 record, 5\u20131 against conference opponents, and won the Missouri Valley Conference co-championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096234-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team\nThe team's statistical leaders included Joe McCulley with 1,579 passing yards, Freddie Carolina with 540 rushing yards, and Steve Largent with 501 receiving yards. Largent went on to play 14 years in the National Football League and was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096235-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Turkish Senate election\nTurkey held (delayed) senate elections on 14 October 1973. In this election 52 members of the senate were elected. (50 members for 1/3 of the senate and 2 for empty seats)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096236-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Turkish general election\nGeneral elections were held in Turkey on 14 October 1973. The result was a victory for the Republican People's Party (CHP), who won 185 of the 450 seats. Voter turnout was 66.8%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096236-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Turkish general election\nHowever, 185 seats were not enough for CHP to form the government so they formed an alliance with the religiously-oriented National Salvation Party of Necmettin Erbakan on 26 January 1974. This controversial government could only last for ten months before its fall. The most important decision of the government was the Turkish invasion of Cyprus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096237-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Turkish local elections\nTurkey held local elections on 9 December 1973. In the elections, both the mayors and the local parliaments (Turkish: \u0130l Genel Meclisi) were elected. The figures presented below are the results of the local parliament elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096238-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Turkish presidential election\nTurkish presidential election was the election of the 7th president of Turkey in 1973 in the parliament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096238-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Turkish presidential election, Background\nThe duty term of the 6th president of Turkey Cevdet Sunay ended on 28 March 1973. The new president was to be elected among the parliament members (lower and upper houses). According to the Turkish Constitution of 1961, at least 423 votes (2/3 of the total) during the first two election cycles and at least 318 votes (1/2 of the total) during the later cycles were required. However, these figures were higher than the number of MPs of any single party. Thus the party leaders looked for a compromise on an impartial name. The candidate had to be a member of the parliament. Thus the most probable candidates were the members of a special group of 15 impartial senators appointed by the president known as Kontenjan senat\u00f6r\u00fc (\"The senator of the quota\").", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 806]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096238-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Turkish presidential election, Faruk G\u00fcrler, Tekin Ar\u0131burnu, Ferruh Bozbeyli\nFaruk G\u00fcrler the chief of staff resigned from his post on 5 March to enter the parliament as a member of the upper house. Cevdet Sunat appointed him as a senator and he became a candidate. But he couldn't get enough support. Because while most Republican People's Party (CHP) MPs boycotted the election, Justice Party (AP) supported Tekin Ar\u0131burun, a member of the party and Democratic Party supported its leader Ferruh Bozbeyli. None of the candidates could receive enough votes. On 20 March both G\u00fcrler and Ar\u0131burnu withdraw their candidature. Although Bozbeyli continued, he couldn't increase his support.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 81], "content_span": [82, 690]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096238-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Turkish presidential election, Second term for Cevdet Sunay\nFailing to reach a compromise, AP decided to amend the constitution to prolong the duty term of Cevdet Sunay and CHP agreed. But \u0130smet \u0130n\u00f6n\u00fc the second president of Turkey and the former leader of CHP as well as Turhan Feyzio\u011flu, the leader of the Republican Reliance Party opposed the amendment and the amendment was rejected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 64], "content_span": [65, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096238-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Turkish presidential election, Muhittin Taylan\nAnother proposed name was that of Muhittin Taylan, chief of the Turkish Constitutional Court. However, he was not an MP and Cevdet Sunay refused to appoint him to the senate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096238-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Turkish presidential election, Fahri Korut\u00fcrk\nS\u00fcleyman Demirel of the AP and B\u00fclent Ecevit of CHP met and Demirel proposed three names all of which were the senators of the quata. Among these names Ecevit agreed on the name of Fahri Korut\u00fcrk. Korut\u00fcrk, a former admiral and a diplomat, was a senator of the quata since 1968. Finally he was elected after the 15th cycle on 6 April by 365 votes. His sole competitor Bozbeyli received only a modest 51 votes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 460]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096239-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Tyne and Wear County Council election\nThe 1973 Tyne and Wear County Council election was held on 12 April 1973 as part of the first elections to the new local authorities established by the Local Government Act 1972 in England and Wales. 104 councillors were elected from 95 electoral divisions across the region's five boroughs. Each division returned either one or two county councillors each by First-past-the-post voting for a four-year term of office. The election took place ahead of the elections to the area's metropolitan borough councils, which followed on 10 May 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 584]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096239-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Tyne and Wear County Council election, Election results\nThe election resulted in a clear majority for the Labour Party, which won 74 of the 104 seats on the new Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 60], "content_span": [61, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096239-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Tyne and Wear County Council election, Election results\nThe election resulted in the following composition of the County Council:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 60], "content_span": [61, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096239-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Tyne and Wear County Council election, Results by district and electoral division, Gateshead\nThe Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead area was represented on the new Tyne and Wear County Council by 20 councillors from 15 electoral divisions. Five of the electoral divisions returned two councillors (Chester-le-Street, and Gateshead Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4), the remainder returned one councillor. Labour took the majority of the seats in the Gateshead area: returning 17 councillors, compared to two for the Conservatives and one Residents Association councillor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 97], "content_span": [98, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096239-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Tyne and Wear County Council election, Results by district and electoral division, Newcastle upon Tyne\nThe Newcastle City Council area was represented on the County Council by 26 councillors from 26 electoral divisions. Labour won 16 seats, to the Conservatives' 9. One Independent councillor was elected, in the new Jesmond division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 107], "content_span": [108, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096239-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Tyne and Wear County Council election, Results by district and electoral division, North Tyneside\nThe Metropolitan Borough of North Tyneside area was represented on the new County Council by 18 councillors from 17 electoral divisions. One of the electoral divisions returned two councillors (Tynemouth No. 2), the remainder returned one councillor. Labour took the majority of the seats in the area: returning 12 councillors, with the Conservatives winning four, and the Liberals and an Independent each winning one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 102], "content_span": [103, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096239-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Tyne and Wear County Council election, Results by district and electoral division, South Tyneside\nThe Metropolitan Borough of South Tyneside area was represented on the new Tyne and Wear County Council by 15 councillors from 12 electoral divisions. Three of the electoral divisions returned two councillors (South Shields Nos. 2, 3 and 4), the remainder returned one councillor. Labour took the majority of the seats in the area: returning 11 councillors, with the Conservatives taking four.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 102], "content_span": [103, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096239-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Tyne and Wear County Council election, Results by district and electoral division, Sunderland\nThe Metropolitan Borough of Sunderland area was represented on the new Tyne and Wear County Council by 25 councillors from 25 electoral divisions. Labour took the majority of the seats in the Sunderland area, returning 18 councillors, ahead of seven for the Conservatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 98], "content_span": [99, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096240-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 U.S. Clay Court Championships\nThe 1973 U.S. Clay Court Championships was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament held at the Woodstock Country Club in Indianapolis in the United States and played on outdoor clay courts. It was part of the men's Grand Prix and women's International Grand Prix. It was the fifth edition of the tournament and was held from August 13 through August 19, 1973. Second-seeded Manuel Orantes won the men's singles title and accompanying $16,000 prize money while Chris Evert took the women's title and the $6,000 first prize.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096240-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 U.S. Clay Court Championships, Finals, Men's Doubles\nFrew McMillan / Bob Carmichael defeated Manuel Orantes / Ion \u021airiac 6\u20133, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 57], "content_span": [58, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096240-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 U.S. Clay Court Championships, Finals, Women's Doubles\nPatti Hogan / Sharon Walsh defeated Fiorella Bonicelli / Isabel Fern\u00e1ndez de Soto 6\u20134, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 59], "content_span": [60, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096241-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 U.S. National Indoor Tennis Championships\nThe 1973 U.S. National Indoor Tennis Championships was a men's tennis tournament held in Salisbury, Maryland. The event was part of the 1973 USLTA Indoor Circuit. The tournament was held from February 19 through February 24, 1994, and played on indoor hard courts. First-seeded Jimmy Connors won the singles title and $9,000 first-prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096241-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 U.S. National Indoor Tennis Championships, Finals, Doubles\nJ\u00fcrgen Fassbender / Juan Gisbert, Sr. defeated Clark Graebner / Ilie N\u0103stase 2\u20136, 6\u20134, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 63], "content_span": [64, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096242-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 U.S. Open (golf)\nThe 1973 U.S. Open was the 73rd U.S. Open, held June 14\u201317 at Oakmont Country Club in Oakmont, Pennsylvania, a suburb northeast of Pittsburgh. In one of the finest performances in tournament history, Johnny Miller fired a record, 8-under-par 63 in the final round to win his first major championship, one stroke ahead of runner-up John Schlee.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096242-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 U.S. Open (golf)\nJack Nicklaus, the winner at Oakmont eleven years earlier, was the favorite entering the championship. Daily admission on the weekend was ten dollars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096242-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 U.S. Open (golf), Course layout\nBefore 1962, the first hole was played as a par 5.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 36], "content_span": [37, 87]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096242-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, First round\nUnderweight from recent surgeries, 1965 champion Gary Player shot 67 to lead by three strokes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096242-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, Second round\nPlayer shot 70 for 137 to lead by one at the midway point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 52], "content_span": [53, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096242-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, Final round\nFour players shared the 54-hole lead: Schlee, Jerry Heard, 1963 champion Julius Boros, and 1960 winner Arnold Palmer. After a 76 (+5) on Saturday, Miller started the final round six strokes back, in a four-way tie for 13th place at three strokes over par, and few gave him any chance of winning. Miller birdied the first four holes, but after a bogey at the eighth, it certainly did not appear like he was on the brink of the greatest round in U.S. Open history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096242-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, Final round\nBut he then birdied four of the next five holes, and after a par at 14 he was tied for the lead with Palmer, Boros, and Tom Weiskopf. At the 15th hole, Miller hit his approach to ten feet (3\u00a0m) and converted for birdie to take solo possession of the lead. After lipping out a twenty-foot (6\u00a0m) birdie putt at 18 (for a 62), Miller carded the first round of 63 in major championship history. Finishing over an hour ahead of the last pairing, Miller then waited to see if anyone would match him.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096242-0006-0001", "contents": "1973 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, Final round\nPalmer fell out of contention with three consecutive bogeys to finish in a tie for fourth. Boros and Heard both shot 73 and finished in a tie for seventh. Only Schlee had a chance to tie Miller, but his 40-footer (12 m) for birdie at the last stayed out; he opened his round with a double bogey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096242-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, Final round\nIn shooting 63, Miller hit all 18 greens in regulation and needed 29 putts. Ten of his approach shots wound up within 15 feet (4.6\u00a0m), while five were within 6 feet (1.8\u00a0m). His score was even more remarkable given that only three other players managed to even break 70 on the day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 51], "content_span": [52, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096242-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 U.S. Open (golf), Round summaries, Final round, Miller's final round\nJohnny Miller's 63: club selection and results - June 17, 1973", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 73], "content_span": [74, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096243-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 U.S. Pro Tennis Championships\nThe 1973 U.S. Pro Tennis Championships was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard court at the Longwood Cricket Club in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. The event was classified as a Group B category tournament and was part of the 1973 Grand Prix circuit. It was the 46th edition of the tournament and was held from July 16 through July 23, 1973. Unseeded Jimmy Connors won the singles title and the accompanying $12,000 first prize money. Due to a rain-delay the final was played on Monday, July 24.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 542]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096243-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 U.S. Pro Tennis Championships, Finals, Singles\nJimmy Connors defeated Arthur Ashe 6\u20133, 4\u20136, 6\u20134, 3\u20136, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096243-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 U.S. Pro Tennis Championships, Finals, Doubles\nStan Smith / Erik van Dillen defeated Ismail El Shafei / Marty Riessen 4\u20136, 6\u20134, 7\u20135", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096244-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 U.S. Professional Indoor\nThe 1973 U.S. Professional Indoor was a WCT men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Wachovia Spectrum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States. It was the sixth edition of the tournament and was held from February 6 through February 11, 1973. Third-seeded Stan Smith won the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096244-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 U.S. Professional Indoor, Finals, Doubles\nBrian Gottfried / Dick Stockton defeated Roy Emerson / Rod Laver 4\u20136, 6\u20133, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096245-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 U.S. Professional Indoor \u2013 Doubles\nArthur Ashe and Robert Lutz were the defending champions, but Ashe did not participate this year. Lutz partnered Stan Smith, losing in the semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096245-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 U.S. Professional Indoor \u2013 Doubles\nBrian Gottfried and Dick Stockton won the title, defeating Roy Emerson and Rod Laver 4\u20136, 6\u20133, 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096246-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 U.S. Professional Indoor \u2013 Singles\nRod Laver was the defending champion, but lost in the quarterfinals this year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096246-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 U.S. Professional Indoor \u2013 Singles\nStan Smith won the title, defeating Robert Lutz 7\u20136(7\u20132), 7\u20136(7\u20135), 4\u20136, 6\u20134 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096247-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 U.S. Women's Open\nThe 1973 U.S. Women's Open was the 28th U.S. Women's Open, held July 19\u201322 at the Country Club of Rochester in Rochester, New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096247-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 U.S. Women's Open\nDefending champion Susie Berning won the third of her three U.S. Women's Open titles, five strokes ahead of runners-up Gloria Ehret and Shelley Hamlin. After a three-under 69 in the third round, Berning was the co-leader with Pam Higgins, two strokes ahead of 36-hole leader Sharon Miller.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096247-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 U.S. Women's Open\nBerning was the third of seven to successfully defend the championship, following Mickey Wright in 1959 and Donna Caponi in 1970; it was the last of her four major titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096247-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 U.S. Women's Open\nThe championship was held at the course twenty years earlier in 1953, the first Women's Open conducted by the United States Golf Association (USGA). It was the second consecutive Women's Open played in the state of New York; the 1972 edition was at Winged Foot in Mamaroneck.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096248-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 UC Davis Aggies football team\nThe 1973 UC Davis football team represented the University of California, Davis in the 1973 NCAA Division II football season. UC Davis competed in the Far Western Conference (FWC). The UC Davis sports teams were commonly called the \"Cal Aggies\" from 1924 until the mid 1970s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 310]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096248-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 UC Davis Aggies football team\nThe Aggies were led by head coach Jim Sochor in his 4th year. They played home games at Toomey Field. UC Davis finished the season as champion of the FWC for the 3rd consecutive season and it was their 4th consecutive winning season. The Aggies finished the season with a record of seven wins and three losses (7\u20133, 4\u20131 FWC). The Aggies outscored their opponents 217\u2013153 for the 1973 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096248-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 UC Davis Aggies football team, NFL Draft\nNo UC Davis Aggies players were selected in the 1974 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096249-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 UC Riverside Highlanders football team\nThe 1973 UC Riverside Highlanders football team represented UC Riverside during the 1973 NCAA Division II football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096249-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 UC Riverside Highlanders football team\nUC Riverside competed in the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA). The team was led by second-year head coach Wayne Howard. They played home games at Highlander Stadium in Riverside, California. The Highlanders finished the season with a record of eight wins and two losses (8\u20132, 3\u20131 CCAA). Overall, the team outscored its opponents 317\u2013172 for the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096249-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 UC Riverside Highlanders football team, Team players in the NFL\nThe following UC Riverside players were selected in the 1974 NFL Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 68], "content_span": [69, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096249-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 UC Riverside Highlanders football team, Team players in the NFL\nThe following finished their college career in 1973, were not drafted, but played in the NFL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 68], "content_span": [69, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096250-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 UCI Road World Championships\nThe 1973 UCI Road World Championships took place on 2 September 1973 in Montjuich, Barcelona, Spain, with four events contested. Italian Felice Gimondi and Belgian Nicole Vandenbroeck took the individual open championships, while Poland's Ryszard Szurkowski won the men's amateur road race and helped win the men's team time trial.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096251-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 UCI Road World Championships \u2013 Men's road race\nThe men's road race at the 1973 UCI Road World Championships was the 40th edition of the event. The race took place on Sunday 2 September 1973 in Barcelona, Spain. The race was won by Felice Gimondi of Italy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 51], "section_span": [51, 51], "content_span": [52, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096252-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 UCI Track Cycling World Championships\nThe 1973 UCI Track Cycling World Championships were the World Championship for track cycling. They took place in San Sebasti\u00e1n, Spain from 22 to 28 August 1973. Eleven events were contested, 9 for men (3 for professionals, 6 for amateurs) and 2 for women.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096253-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 UCLA Bruins football team\nThe 1973 UCLA Bruins football team represented the University of California, Los Angeles during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. Members of the Pacific-8 Conference, the Bruins were led by third-year head coach Pepper Rodgers and played their home games at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096253-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 UCLA Bruins football team\nQuarterbacks Mark Harmon and John Sciarra ran the wishbone offense, and the Bruins were 9\u20132 overall and 6\u20131 om the Pac-8. After an opening loss at fourth-ranked Nebraska, the Bruins won nine straight, but lost again to USC in the season finale. UCLA repeated as conference runner-up, but the Pac-8 did not allow a second bowl team until the 1975 season. They were ranked twelfth in the final AP poll, ninth in the UPI coaches poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096254-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 UEFA Cup Final\nThe 1973 UEFA Cup Final was an association football match played over two-legs between Liverpool of England and Borussia M\u00f6nchengladbach of West Germany. The first leg was played at Anfield, Liverpool on 10 May 1973 and the second leg was played on 23 May 1973 at the B\u00f6kelbergstadion, M\u00f6nchengladbach. It was the final of the 1972\u201373 season of Europe's secondary cup competition, the UEFA Cup. Liverpool and M\u00f6nchengladbach were both appearing in their first final, although Liverpool had previously reached the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup losing 2\u20131 to Borussia Dortmund.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096254-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 UEFA Cup Final\nEach club needed to progress through four rounds to reach the final. Matches were contested over two legs, with a match at each team's home ground. The majority of Liverpool's ties were won by at least two goals, the exception was the semi-final against Tottenham Hotspur, which Liverpool won on the away goals rule. Borussia M\u00f6nchengladbach's ties were predominantly one-sided. The West German team won by at least four goals in all four of their ties, a 9\u20132 aggregate victory over 1. FC Kaiserslautern represented their biggest margin of victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096254-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 UEFA Cup Final\nWatched by a crowd of 41,169 at Anfield, Liverpool took the lead in the first leg when Kevin Keegan scored in the 21st minute. Another goal by Keegan in the first half, extended Liverpool's lead and a further goal by Larry Lloyd meant Liverpool won the first leg 3\u20130. Therefore, in the second leg at the B\u00f6kelbergstadion, Liverpool had to avoid losing by three clear goals to win the competition. A crowd of 34,905 watched Borussia take the lead in the 29th minute courtesy of a Jupp Heynckes goal, he scored again 11 minutes later to double Borussia's lead. Borussia were unable to find the third goal they needed to take the match into extra-time and won the second leg 2\u20130. Thus, Liverpool won the final 3\u20132 on aggregate to win their first European trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 779]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096254-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 UEFA Cup Final, Route to the final, Liverpool\nLiverpool qualified for the UEFA Cup as a result of finishing third in the 1971\u201372 Football League First Division. Their opponents in the first round were West German team Eintracht Frankfurt. Liverpool won the first leg at their home ground, Anfield, 2\u20130. The second leg at Frankfurt's home ground the Waldstadion ended in a 0\u20130 draw, which meant Liverpool progressed to the second round with a 2\u20130 aggregate victory. Greek team AEK Athens were the opposition. Liverpool won the first leg at Anfield 3\u20130, a 3\u20131 victory at AEK's home ground the Nikos Goumas Stadium ensured Liverpool won the tie 6\u20131 on aggregate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 50], "content_span": [51, 664]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096254-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 UEFA Cup Final, Route to the final, Liverpool\nThe opposition in the third round were Dynamo Berlin of East Germany. The first leg at Dynamo's home ground the Sportforum ended in a 0\u20130 draw. The second leg at Anfield was more eventful Liverpool took the lead through Phil Boersma in the first minute and Dynamo equalised six minutes later. Two further goals for Liverpool secured a 3\u20131 victory in the match and on aggregate. In the quarter-finals Liverpool again faced East German opposition, their opponents were Dynamo Dresden. Liverpool won the first leg 2\u20130 at Anfield, and they won the second leg 1\u20130 in East Germany, to beat Dresden 3\u20130 on aggregate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 50], "content_span": [51, 660]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096254-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 UEFA Cup Final, Route to the final, Liverpool\nReigning champions Tottenham Hotspur were the opposition in the semi-final. Liverpool won an attacking match at Anfield 1\u20130. The second leg at White Hart Lane was equally eventful. Tottenham took the lead in the second half when Martin Peters scored to give Spurs the lead. Seven minutes Liverpool equalised when Steve Heighway scored this levelled the match and gave Liverpool a 2\u20131 lead on aggregate. Tottenham went 2\u20131 up when Peters scored again, this levelled the aggregate score at 2\u20132, but Liverpool had scored an away goal, and would, therefore, progress to the next round as a result.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 50], "content_span": [51, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096254-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 UEFA Cup Final, Route to the final, Borussia M\u00f6nchengladbach\nBorussia qualified for the UEFA Cup courtesy of a third-place finish in the 1971\u201372 Bundesliga. The opposition in the first round were Scottish side Aberdeen. The first leg was held at Aberdeen's home ground Pittodrie, with Borussia winning 3\u20132. The second leg at Borussia's home ground the B\u00f6kelbergstadion was won 6\u20133 by the West German side, this meant they qualified for the second round courtesy of a 9\u20135 aggregate victory. Danish side Hvidovre IF were the opposition in the second round. A 3\u20130 victory in West Germany was followed by a 3\u20131 victory in Denmark to secure a 6\u20131 aggregate victory for Borussia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 65], "content_span": [66, 678]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096254-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 UEFA Cup Final, Route to the final, Borussia M\u00f6nchengladbach\nFellow West German side 1. FC K\u00f6ln were the opposition in the third round. The first leg at K\u00f6ln's home ground the M\u00fcngersdorfer Stadion ended in a 0\u20130 draw. Borussia easily won the second leg at their home ground 5\u20130 to win the tie by the same score on aggregate. They were again drawn against West German opposition in the quarter-finals, the team in this instance was 1. FC Kaiserslautern. The first leg held at Kaiserlautern's home ground the Fritz-Walter-Stadion was won 2\u20131 by Borussia and a 7\u20131 victory in the second leg at their home ground ensured they progressed to the semi-finals courtesy of a 9\u20132 aggregate victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 65], "content_span": [66, 694]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096254-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 UEFA Cup Final, Route to the final, Borussia M\u00f6nchengladbach\nDutch team Twente were Borussia's opposition in the semi-finals. The first leg was held in West Germany and Borussia won 3\u20130 to put themselves in a good position to reach the final going into the second leg in the Netherlands. Borussia won the second leg 2\u20131 to win the tie 5\u20131 on aggregate and progress to their first European final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 65], "content_span": [66, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096254-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 UEFA Cup Final, Background\nLiverpool were appearing in their second European final. They had previously lost 2\u20131 in the final of the 1965\u201366 European Cup Winners' Cup against West German team Borussia Dortmund. Borussia M\u00f6nchengladbach were appearing in their first European final, they had appeared in European competition but the furthest they had progressed was the second round of the 1970\u201371 European Cup and 1971\u201372 European Cup when they were beat by English team Everton and Inter Milan of Italy respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 522]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096254-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 UEFA Cup Final, Background\nLiverpool had won the 1972\u201373 Football League First Division, a 2\u20130 victory over Leeds United ensured they became champions. Their league success meant that whatever the result they would be competing in the European Cup the following season. As a result of their league success, Liverpool were looking to become the first English team to win a European trophy in the same year as winning the league. Borussia M\u00f6nchengladbach had finished fifth in the 1972\u201373 Bundesliga, however they won the 1972\u201373 DFB-Pokal, the German domestic cup competition. This meant they would be participating in the European Cup Winners' Cup in the following season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 31], "content_span": [32, 677]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096254-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 UEFA Cup Final, First leg, Summary, Abandoned game\nThere had been heavy rain in Liverpool in the week before the first leg. Nevertheless, Austrian referee Erich Linemayr decided that the first leg on 9 May would still go ahead. The rain had intensified following the kick-off and the players were unable to pass the ball to each other. The referee took the decision to abandon the game after 27 minutes with the match to be played the next day.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 55], "content_span": [56, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096254-0012-0000", "contents": "1973 UEFA Cup Final, First leg, Summary, Re-arranged game\nThe 27 minutes that had been played the previous day had given Liverpool manager Bill Shankly insight into how to beat Borussia. He noted that defender G\u00fcnter Netzer was suspect in the air, to exploit this he decided to omit Brian Hall in place of John Toshack, whom Shankly believed would exploit this weakness. The inclusion of Toshack had the desired effect. In the 21st minute his header across the penalty area from a Chris Lawler pass, set up the first goal for Kevin Keegan, who dived forward to head the ball into the far corner of the goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 57], "content_span": [58, 607]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096254-0013-0000", "contents": "1973 UEFA Cup Final, First leg, Summary, Re-arranged game\nKeegan nearly extended Liverpool's lead four minutes later when they were awarded a penalty for handball. Alec Lindsay put a high pass into the penalty area; Borussia defender Rainer Bonhof, under pressure from Toshack, handled the ball and Liverpool were awarded a penalty. However, Keegan's penalty was saved by Borussia goalkeeper Wolfgang Kleff who pushed the effort round the post. Borussia nearly made Keegan pay for his penalty miss a few minutes later, but Dietmar Danner's shot hit the post. Keegan made amends in the 33rd minute when he scored again. Emlyn Hughes headed the ball into the Borussia penalty area, Toshack who was facing away from the Borussia goal headed the ball back to Keegan, who volleyed the ball into the goal from ten yards to give Liverpool a 2\u20130 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 57], "content_span": [58, 843]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096254-0014-0000", "contents": "1973 UEFA Cup Final, First leg, Summary, Re-arranged game\nLiverpool extended their lead in the 60th minute when defender Larry Lloyd scored. Toshack won Liverpool a corner and with Borussia defender Netzer focusing on the striker, Lloyd was left unmarked to head in Keegan's corner and extend the English club's lead to 3\u20130. Despite Liverpool's goals, Borussia were presented with an opportunity to get back into the tie when they were awarded a penalty in the 65th minute. Steve Heighway's tackle on Henning Jensen was judged to be a foul by Austrian referee Linemayr.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 57], "content_span": [58, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096254-0014-0001", "contents": "1973 UEFA Cup Final, First leg, Summary, Re-arranged game\nJupp Heynckes took the penalty for the German team hitting it to Liverpool goalkeeper Ray Clemence's right, but Clemence dived the right way and saved the penalty, preventing Borussia from scoring an away goal. No further goals were scored and the referee blew for full-time with the final score 3\u20130 to Liverpool.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 57], "content_span": [58, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096254-0015-0000", "contents": "1973 UEFA Cup Final, First leg, Summary, Re-arranged game\nShankly was equivocal in his praise of the players after the match stating: \"It was an international-class game. Really tremendous. I am not making predictions about the second-leg, but we have a distinct advantage because we did not give away a goal.\" Shankly had Clemence to thank for Liverpool not conceding an away goal and the goalkeeper revealed that he had done his homework on the penalty taker Heynckes: \"I watched Heynckes take a penalty in the semi-final on television and decided to dive the same way. The save was a reward for my homework.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 57], "content_span": [58, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096254-0016-0000", "contents": "1973 UEFA Cup Final, Second leg, Summary\nLiverpool's 3\u20130 victory in the first leg meant that Borussia needed to score three goals to force the tie into extra-time. Liverpool employed a \"holding action\" against the \"attacking Germans\" in order to protect their three goal lead. Another bout of torrential rain affected the second leg, as a result the pitch was slippery, and with the onus on Borussia to attack this caused problems for the Liverpool defence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096254-0017-0000", "contents": "1973 UEFA Cup Final, Second leg, Summary\nKnowing the task in hand Borussia bombarded Liverpool in the first half, the architect was midfielder G\u00fcnter Netzer whose passing was instrumental to Borussia's play. Borussia's attacking brought their first goal in the 30th minute. Jupp Heynckes who had missed the penalty for Borussia in the first leg, scored from six yards after Bernd Rupp passed to him from the right hand side of the pitch. Heynckes extended the German side's lead in the 39th minute when he curled the ball into the Liverpool goal from left of the Liverpool penalty area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096254-0018-0000", "contents": "1973 UEFA Cup Final, Second leg, Summary\nBorussia needed one more goal to level the tie and take it into extra-time. However, despite an initial spell of dominance following the start of the second half they were unable to match the intensity that they had shown in the first half, Liverpool gained confidence from this and saw out the second half, losing the match 2\u20130, but they won their first European trophy as a result of a 3\u20132 aggregate victory. Liverpool's victory meant that they became the first English team to win a European trophy and league championship in the same season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096255-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 UEFA European Under-18 Championship\nThe UEFA European Under-18 Championship 1973 Final Tournament was held in Italy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096255-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 UEFA European Under-18 Championship, Teams\nThe following teams entered the tournament. Nine teams qualified (Q) and seven teams entered without playing qualification matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 47], "content_span": [48, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096256-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year\nThe 1973 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year was the 47th year of greyhound racing in the United Kingdom and Ireland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096256-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary\nThe annual National Greyhound Racing Club (NGRC) returns were released, with totalisator turnover at \u00a358,495,322 and attendances recorded at 6,101,704 from 5458 meetings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096256-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Summary\nThe 1972 Greyhound of the Year, Patricias Hope sealed a second English Greyhound Derby triumph. He became only the second greyhound in history, after Mick the Miller to claim a second title. The event was broadcast live on ITV's World of Sport and he won \u00a312,500, under new sponsors Spillers. John O'Connor had bought a share in the greyhound and trained him for the 1973 competition. He was later retired and returned to stud duties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096256-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Tracks\nTwo more Greyhound Racing Association stadia closed under their Property Trust, White City Stadium (Liverpool) which had only been purchased by them in 1972, closed on 6 October 1973 and Reading closed on 10 November. Portsmouth gained a reprieve because the GRA property bubble burst and greyhound racing became the only viable option again. The property boom would soon turn into a slump.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096256-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Tracks\nBobby Jack Enterprises purchased independent track Mount Vernon Sports Stadium, in Glasgow and invested heavily to update the facility.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096256-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, News\nThe Wembley kennels were demolished leaving some of the sport's most famous trainers without a base. Jack Harvey, Bob Burls and Jack Kinsley were all forced into early retirement. Jimmy Jowett and Sid Mann, two other major training names also retired. Jowett was probably unsettled by the threat of closure hanging over Clapton and Mann, GRA's longest serving trainer had earned a full trainers licence back in 1930 at Hall Green. Gloucester stadium trainer Leslie Carpenter died aged 79, he had trained for over 40 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 45], "content_span": [46, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096256-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, News\nJack Tetlow, the Wembley Racing Manager also retired after 40 year's service and Leicester Racing Manager George McKay died after a life in greyhound racing. Bob Rowe became the White City Racing Manager taking over from Charlie Birch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 45], "content_span": [46, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096256-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, News\nTrainers Stan Gudgin and Ron Jeffrey moved to Slough and Portsmouth respectively following the closure of Reading. The NGRC announced plans to revamp licences, the current licences were private racecourse or dispersed full licence, owner trainer licence and C-licence, this was done in the hope that many of the 62 independent tracks would join the NGRC banner and 46 NGRC tracks at the time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 45], "content_span": [46, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096256-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, News\nThe last McWhirter drag hare in use (at Oxford) was switched to an Outside Sumner, and a new world and national record for 525 yards was set at Brighton by Easy Investment who recorded 28.17. The end of year annual Duke of Edinburgh Cup was won by Wembley after a final victory of 64 to 56 over Hall Green and White City was used for a film called Steptoe and Son Ride Again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 45], "content_span": [46, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096256-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Ireland\nThe government legalised tote betting in Northern Ireland, a decision that came 45 years too late for Celtic Park (Belfast) who had started racing in 1927. The Irish Greyhound Derby sponsors PJ Carroll Ltd offered a single race prize of \u00a31,200 for Dundalk International and doubled the Derby winner's prize to \u00a310,000, which was won by Bashful Man.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096256-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Ireland\nLarry Kelly's Romping To Work was voted Irish Greyhound of the Year after winning both the Oaks and St Leger.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 48], "content_span": [49, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096256-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year, Competitions\nPatricias Hope stole all of the headlines but St Leger champion Ramdeen Stuart started his 1973 campaign by winning the Gold Collar at Catford Stadium. Case Money, a black dog trained by Ted Parker was voted Greyhound of the Year, he had won the 1973 St Leger and the Ben Truman Stakes, in addition to the Shelbourne 600 before arriving in the UK. This was a slightly strange decision based on the fact that Patricias Hope had emulated the achievement of Mick the Miller.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 53], "content_span": [54, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096257-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 UMass Minutemen football team\nThe 1973 UMass Minutemen football team represented the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the 1973 NCAA Division II football season as a member of the Yankee Conference in NCAA Division II. The team was coached by Dick MacPherson and played its home games at Alumni Stadium in Hadley, Massachusetts. UMass finished the season with a record of 6\u20135 overall and 4\u20132 in conference play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096258-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 UNLV Rebels football team\nThe 1973 UNLV Rebels football team was an American football team that represented the University of Nevada, Las Vegas as an independent during the 1973 NCAA Division II football season. In their first year under head coach Ron Meyer, the team compiled an 8\u20133 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096259-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 US Navy C-117D S\u00f3lheimasandur Crash\nThe 1973 US Navy C-117D S\u00f3lheimasandur Crash, commonly known as the S\u00f3lheimasandur Crash, is a crashed US Navy Douglas C-117D located in S\u00f3lheimasandur on the southern coast of Iceland. The remains of the aircraft - which crashed in 1973 - have remained relatively intact, leading to the crash site becoming a tourist destination.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096259-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 US Navy C-117D S\u00f3lheimasandur Crash, Accident\nThe accident aircraft was flying from Hofn Hornafj\u00f6rdur Airport to Naval Air Station Keflavik, after delivering supplies for the radar station at Stokksnes. En-route the aircraft encountered severe icing and the crew were forced to land on a frozen river at S\u00f3lheimasandur. All 7 crew members survived and were rescued by helicopter, but the aircraft was written off (surveyed in USN parlance). The unsalvaged remains of the aircraft were left at the scene.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096259-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 US Navy C-117D S\u00f3lheimasandur Crash, Aircraft\nThe aircraft serial number 17171, was designated C-117D and was based on the Super DC-3, first flown in 1944. Note that this R4D-8 was built as an R4D-5 (msn 12554) and converted to R4D-8 (msn 43309) in November 1951. All R4D-8 aircraft still extant were re-designated as C-117D in the tri-service designation system introduced from 18 September 1962.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 50], "content_span": [51, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096259-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 US Navy C-117D S\u00f3lheimasandur Crash, Summary\nForced to land due to severe icing, 17171 was written off and unsalvaged parts of the aircraft remained at the site.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096259-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 US Navy C-117D S\u00f3lheimasandur Crash, Summary\nAs of 2020, the fuselage of the aircraft remains relatively intact, leading to the site becoming a popular tourist destination. The wreck has accumulated superficial damage from graffiti, gunfire, and tourists over the years. Tours to the site are available and the trek back-and-forth, takes about four hours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096259-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 US Navy C-117D S\u00f3lheimasandur Crash, Summary\nIn January 2020, two Chinese tourists died of hypothermia near the wreckage after getting caught in a storm that went over the area. A month later, SAR units had to rescue several tourists that had ignored a warning from the police to not trek to the wreckage due to deteriorating weather in the area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 49], "content_span": [50, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096260-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 US Open (tennis)\nThe 1973 US Open was a tennis tournament that took place on the outdoor grass courts at the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, Queens, in New York City, United States. The tournament ran from 27 August until 9 September. It was the 93rd staging of the US Open, and the fourth Grand Slam tennis event of 1973. It was the first year the boy's championship was held. The 1973 US Open was the first Grand Slam offering equal prize money to both men and women.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096260-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 US Open (tennis), Seniors, Men's singles\nJohn Newcombe defeated Jan Kode\u0161, 6\u20134, 1\u20136, 4\u20136, 6\u20132, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 45], "content_span": [46, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096260-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 US Open (tennis), Seniors, Men's doubles\nOwen Davidson / John Newcombe defeated Rod Laver / Ken Rosewall, 7\u20135, 2\u20136, 7\u20135, 7\u20135", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 45], "content_span": [46, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096260-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 US Open (tennis), Seniors, Women's doubles\nMargaret Court / Virginia Wade defeated Rosemary Casals / Billie Jean King, 3\u20136, 6\u20133, 7\u20135", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 47], "content_span": [48, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096260-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 US Open (tennis), Seniors, Mixed doubles\nBillie Jean King / Owen Davidson defeated Margaret Court / Marty Riessen, 6\u20133, 3\u20136, 7\u20136", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 45], "content_span": [46, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096261-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 US Open \u2013 Men's Doubles\nCliff Drysdale and Roger Taylor were the defending US Open men's doubles champions, but did not defend their title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096261-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 US Open \u2013 Men's Doubles\nThird-seeded Owen Davidson and John Newcombe won the title by defeating first-seeded Rod Laver and Ken Rosewall 7\u20135, 2\u20136, 7\u20135, 7\u20135 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096262-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 US Open \u2013 Men's Singles\nJohn Newcombe defeated Jan Kode\u0161 6\u20134, 1\u20136, 4\u20136, 6\u20132, 6\u20133 in the final to win the Men's Singles tennis title at the 1973 US Open. Ilie Nastase was the defending champion but lost in the second round to Andrew Pattison.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096262-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 US Open \u2013 Men's Singles, Seeds\nThe seeded players are listed below. John Newcombe is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 35], "content_span": [36, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096263-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 US Open \u2013 Mixed Doubles\nMarty Riessen and Margaret Court were the defending champions but lost in the final 6\u20133, 3\u20136, 7\u20136 against Owen Davidson and Billie Jean King.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096264-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 US Open \u2013 Women's Doubles\nFran\u00e7oise D\u00fcrr and Betty St\u00f6ve were the defending champions but lost in the quarterfinals to Chris Evert and Olga Morozova.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096264-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 US Open \u2013 Women's Doubles\nMargaret Court and Virginia Wade won the title by defeating Rosemary Casals and Billie Jean King 3\u20136, 6\u20133, 7\u20135 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096265-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 US Open \u2013 Women's Singles\nMargaret Court defeated Evonne Goolagong 7\u20136, 5\u20137, 6\u20132 in the final to win the Women's Singles tennis title at the 1973 US Open. This was her record extending 24th and final grand slam singles title, a record she holds to this day. Billie Jean King was the two-time defending champion, but lost in the third round to Julie Heldman.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096265-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 US Open \u2013 Women's Singles, Seeds\nThe seeded players are listed below. Margaret Court is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 37], "content_span": [38, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096266-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships\nThe 1973 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships men's competition took place between June 15\u201317 at Memorial Stadium on the campus of Bakersfield College in Bakersfield, California. This was Bakersfield's third and last time to host the men's division in a sequence every three years since 1967. At this time, Memorial Stadium still had a finely crushed brick surface, the last time the championships was held on a dirt track. They would host the women's division the following year, as they had in 1971.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096266-0000-0001", "contents": "1973 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships\nThis was also the last time the men's division would compete at imperial distances (though the women would continue for another year). The women's division held their championships separately a little over a hundred fifty miles south at Anteater Stadium on the campus of University of California, Irvine in Irvine, California.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096267-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 USAC Championship Car season\nThe 1973 USAC Championship Car season consisted of 16 races, beginning in College Station, Texas on April 7 and concluding in Avondale, Arizona on November 3. The first race of the season, in Avondale, Arizona on March 17, was postponed by rain and eventually cancelled due to infrastructure damage caused by the rain and scheduling conflicts. Bob Criss was killed in a private test at Phoenix before he could enter another event. He was 35 years old. The USAC National Champion was Roger McCluskey and the Indianapolis 500 winner was Gordon Johncock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096267-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 USAC Championship Car season\nIn this tragic season, two drivers were killed at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Art Pollard died in an accident while practicing for the Indy 500 while Swede Savage, who crashed during the race, died by complications one month later. Another driver, Salt Walther, suffered serious burns surviving a crash at the start of the race. In response to those accidents, USAC revised the rules in time for the Pocono 500. The rear wing width was cut back from 64 inches to 55, fuel tank capacity was drastically reduced (from 75 gallons to 40) and the allowable fuel to be consumed in a 500-mile race was reduced from 375 gallons to 340.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 666]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096267-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 USAC Championship Car season, Final points standings\nNote: Sam Posey, Peter Revson, Mark Donohue, David Hobbs, Jerry Grant, John Cannon, Graham McRae and Bobby Allison are not eligible for points. The Rookie of the Year was not awarded, because every rookie was not eligible for points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 57], "content_span": [58, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096268-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 USC Trojans baseball team\nThe 1973 USC Trojans baseball team represented the University of Southern California in the 1973 NCAA University Division baseball season. The team was coached Rod Dedeaux in his 32nd season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096268-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 USC Trojans baseball team\nThe Trojans won the College World Series, defeating the Arizona State Sun Devils in the championship game, winning their fourth of five consecutive national championships, and the fifth in six years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096268-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 USC Trojans baseball team, Trojans in the 1973 MLB Draft\nThe following members of the USC baseball program were drafted in the 1973 Major League Baseball Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 61], "content_span": [62, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096269-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 USC Trojans football team\nThe 1973 USC Trojans football team represented the University of Southern California in the 1973 NCAA Division I football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096270-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 USLTA Indoor Circuit\nThe 1973 USLTA Indoor Circuit was a professional tennis circuit held in the United States from January until March that year. It consisted of 13 tournaments and was organized by Bill Riordan and sanctioned by the United States Lawn Tennis Association (USLTA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096271-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 USSR Chess Championship\nThe 1973 Soviet Chess Championship was the 41st edition of USSR Chess Championship. Held from 2-26 October 1973 in Moscow. The tournament was won by Boris Spassky. The final were preceded by semifinals events at Frunze, Kirovabad, Lvov e Voronezh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096272-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 UTEP Miners football team\nThe 1973 UTEP Miners football team was an American football team that represented the University of Texas at El Paso in the Western Athletic Conference during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. In their second year under head coach Tommy Hudspeth, the team compiled a 0\u201311 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096273-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 United Kingdom local elections\nThe first elections to the new local authorities established by the Local Government Act 1972 in England and Wales and the new Northern Ireland district councils created by the Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972 took place in 1973. Elections to the existing Greater London Council also took place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096273-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 United Kingdom local elections, England and Wales\nElections took place for all the seats on the councils. In the case of the new councils, they became shadow authorities, taking over from the existing local authorities on 1 April 1974. The elections for the new councils had been brought forward from an originally planned date in November 1973, to allow the councils more time to act as shadow authorities - the final dates were set in May 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 54], "content_span": [55, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096273-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 United Kingdom local elections, England and Wales, The April elections\nThe elections held on 12 April saw a very impressive performance by the Labour Party, which regained control of the Greater London Council and took control of all six of the new metropolitan county councils. In the rest of England, they won seven county councils, including two of the new \"estuary\" counties: Cleveland and Humberside. The party also won Gwent and the three Glamorgan county councils (West Glamorgan, Mid Glamorgan, South Glamorgan) in Wales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 75], "content_span": [76, 534]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096273-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 United Kingdom local elections, England and Wales, The April elections\nThe poor Conservative vote in London and the metropolitan counties was somewhat compensated by winning thirteen of the non-metropolitan counties. Failure to gain Essex or Hertfordshire were disappointments to the party, but taking control of Gloucestershire was a success. The party also failed to gain its only realistic Welsh prospect, South Glamorgan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 75], "content_span": [76, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096273-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 United Kingdom local elections, England and Wales, The April elections\nThere were no great successes for the Liberal party, which found itself in third place in all the metropolitan counties. They did however gain representation on the GLC for the first time, winning two seats at Sutton and Cheam and Richmond upon Thames. This followed the previous year's by-election success in winning the Sutton and Cheam parliamentary seat from the Conservatives.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 75], "content_span": [76, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096273-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 United Kingdom local elections, England and Wales, The April elections\nIndependents won two English counties outright: Cornwall and the Isle of Wight. They also formed the largest grouping on a number of other councils, and entered agreements with the Conservatives in the running of some of these. In Wales, Independents controlled three mainly rural counties.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 75], "content_span": [76, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096273-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 United Kingdom local elections, England and Wales, The May elections\nThe results of the elections in May saw an improvement in the performance by the Conservatives since the county council elections, and a slight fall back in the Labour vote. The Liberals had a notable success, becoming the largest group on Liverpool council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 73], "content_span": [74, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096273-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 United Kingdom local elections, England and Wales, The May elections\nThe Conservatives took control of five metropolitan districts, gaining seats in areas where they had been beaten in the elections to the county councils. They also gained one Welsh district, Monmouth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 73], "content_span": [74, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096273-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 United Kingdom local elections, England and Wales, The May elections\nThe Labour party declared it was pleased with the results, especially as opinion polls had shown them losing support. They took control of most of the metropolitan districts, making a clean sweep of councils in Tyne and Wear and South Yorkshire and important councils such as Birmingham, Coventry and Manchester. Labour also took control of most districts in South Wales including Cardiff. The party's organiser for Wales also pointed to the fact that official Labour candidates won rural seats in north and west Wales for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 73], "content_span": [74, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096273-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 United Kingdom local elections, England and Wales, The May elections\nApart from forming a minority administration in Liverpool, the Liberals were able to hold the balance of power at Leeds, Stockport and Wirral. They were however disappointed with their performance at Calderdale which was won by Labour.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 73], "content_span": [74, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096273-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 United Kingdom local elections, England and Wales, The June elections\nIn the June elections for 296 non-metropolitan districts, Labour won control of 71, the Conservatives 59, the Liberals 1, Democratic Labour 1, and Independents 67. 97 councils were under no overall control: in many of these councils Conservative and Independent groups formed an administration.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 74], "content_span": [75, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096273-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 United Kingdom local elections, England and Wales, The June elections\nThe Labour party won 4,327 seats, the Conservatives 4,286, Independents 3,534, and the Liberals 919; with the remaining 449 seats going to various other groupings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 74], "content_span": [75, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096273-0012-0000", "contents": "1973 United Kingdom local elections, England and Wales, The June elections\nIt was a good result for the Liberal party who took control of Eastbourne and became the largest group on Adur, Newbury, Pendle and Waverley councils. The other two main parties also had notable successes: Labour considered control of Cambridge, Dacorum, Ipswich and Oxford to be good results; while the Conservatives celebrated taking Gloucester, Great Yarmouth, Lewes and Warrington councils.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 74], "content_span": [75, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096273-0013-0000", "contents": "1973 United Kingdom local elections, England and Wales, The June elections\nThe break-away Lincoln Democratic Labour Association won twenty of the thirty seats on Lincoln District council. The group were supporters of Dick Taverne, member of parliament for Lincoln who had been expelled from the Labour Party. Taverne had earlier in the year resigned his seat to force a by-election in protest against his expulsion, which he won against the official Labour candidate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 74], "content_span": [75, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096273-0014-0000", "contents": "1973 United Kingdom local elections, England and Wales, Future elections\nFuture elections to Metropolitan District councils were to be by thirds, with the one third of seats being elected in 1975.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 72], "content_span": [73, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096273-0015-0000", "contents": "1973 United Kingdom local elections, England and Wales, Future elections\nThe next election of non-metropolitan district councils and Welsh district councils was to in 1976.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 72], "content_span": [73, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096273-0016-0000", "contents": "1973 United Kingdom local elections, Northern Ireland\nLocal government in Northern Ireland was reorganised in 1973 by the Local Government (Boundaries) Act (Northern Ireland) 1971 and the Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972. The county councils, county borough and municipal borough corporations and urban and rural district councils were replaced by twenty-six Local Government districts. Elections took place for all the seats on the district councils on 30 May, and the councils came into their power in 1 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 53], "content_span": [54, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096273-0017-0000", "contents": "1973 United Kingdom local elections, Scotland\nLocal elections were also held in Scotland in 1973. At the time of the election, Scotland was the only part of the UK in which local government had yet to be reformed, with the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 only receiving Royal Assent in October 1973. The election saw Labour maintaining their control of Aberdeen, Glasgow, and Dundee, although failing to make gains in Edinburgh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 45], "content_span": [46, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096274-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 United Nations Security Council election\nThe 1973 United Nations Security Council election was held on 15 October 1973 during the Twenty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly, held at United Nations Headquarters in New York City. The General Assembly elected the Byelorussian SSR, Cameroon, Costa Rica, Iraq, and Mauritania, as the five new non-permanent members of the UN Security Council for two-year mandates commencing on 1 January 1974. This was the first election of Cameroon, Costa Rica and Mauritania and the only election of Byelorussian SSR into the council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096274-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 United Nations Security Council election, Rules\nThe Security Council has 15 seats, filled by five permanent members and ten non-permanent members. Each year, half of the non-permanent members are elected for two-year terms. A sitting member may not immediately run for re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 52], "content_span": [53, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096274-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 United Nations Security Council election, Rules\nIn accordance with the rules whereby the ten non-permanent UNSC seats rotate among the various regional blocs into which UN member states traditionally divide themselves for voting and representation purposes, the five available seats are allocated as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 52], "content_span": [53, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096274-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 United Nations Security Council election, Rules\nTo be elected, a candidate must receive a two-thirds majority of those present and voting. If the vote is inconclusive after the first round, three rounds of restricted voting shall take place, followed by three rounds of unrestricted voting, and so on, until a result has been obtained. In restricted voting, only official candidates may be voted on, while in unrestricted voting, any member of the given regional group, with the exception of current Council members, may be voted on.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 52], "content_span": [53, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096274-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 United Nations Security Council election, Candidates\nSpeaking as Chairmen of the Asian and African Groups respectively, Mr. Sharaf of Jordan endorsed Iraq, and Mr. Ramphul of Mauritius endorsed Mauritania and Cameroon as the official candidates of their respective regional groups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 57], "content_span": [58, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096274-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 United Nations Security Council election, Result\nThe election was managed by then-President of the United Nations General Assembly Leopoldo Benites of Ecuador. The United Nations had 136 member states at this time (for a timeline of UN membership, see Enlargement of the United Nations). Delegates were to write the names of the five member states they wished elected on the ballot papers. Voting was conducted on a single ballot. There were 125 ballot papers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 53], "content_span": [54, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096275-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 United States Grand Prix\nThe 1973 United States Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on October 7, 1973 at the Watkins Glen Grand Prix Race Course in Watkins Glen, New York. It was race 15 of 15 in both the 1973 World Championship of Drivers and the 1973 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096275-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 United States Grand Prix\nThe 59-lap race was won from pole position by Ronnie Peterson, driving a Lotus-Ford. Peterson held off James Hunt in the Hesketh-entered March-Ford to take his fourth victory of the season, with Carlos Reutemann third in a Brabham-Ford.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096275-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 United States Grand Prix\nThe race was overshadowed by the death of Fran\u00e7ois Cevert during qualifying, in what was to have been the 100th and final Grand Prix for Tyrrell team-mate and triple World Champion Jackie Stewart. The Tyrrell team withdrew from the event as a consequence, handing the Manufacturers' Cup to Lotus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096275-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 United States Grand Prix, Summary\nRonnie Peterson ended his first year with Lotus by taking his fourth win of the season, as a thrilling two-man battle ended with Peterson beating James Hunt to the flag by the smallest winning margin in USGP history at that time. The Englishman finished less than a second behind in his Hesketh Racing entered March, but the normal celebrations were tempered by the death of Fran\u00e7ois Cevert during qualifying and the premature end of the career of three-time World Champion Jackie Stewart.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096275-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 United States Grand Prix, Summary, Death of Fran\u00e7ois Cevert\nStewart had already clinched his third World Driver's Championship when the teams came to Watkins Glen, and he intended the final Grand Prix of 1973 to be his swan song. \"I had decided in April that I would retire at the end of the season, win or lose,\" Stewart recalled. \"Watkins Glen was going to be my last race in a Formula One car. Fran\u00e7ois Cevert was going to be number one in the team for 1974, although he never knew it. Ken Tyrrell and I had kept it a secret that I was going to retire after that race. In fact, not even my wife, Helen, who was with me that weekend, knew.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096275-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 United States Grand Prix, Summary, Death of Fran\u00e7ois Cevert\nWith just a few minutes left in the Saturday morning qualifying session, however, the track suddenly fell quiet. Cevert had crashed violently in the uphill Esses heading onto the back of the circuit, between Turns Three and Four. Fighting the car as he went up the hill, Cevert ran too high on the kerbs and slid into the right hand guardrail. The car then lashed sideways across the track and struck the Armco on the left side of the track at 150 mph at an almost 90 degree angle. The nose of the car submarined into the ground, causing the car to flip upwards on over the barrier, coming to rest upside down on top of the Armco.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 695]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096275-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 United States Grand Prix, Summary, Death of Fran\u00e7ois Cevert\nJody Scheckter's McLaren was close behind, and he stopped and rushed over to help Cevert out of the car, but Cevert had died instantly. Ken Tyrrell had lost a great driver and Jackie Stewart an outstanding teammate at the circuit where Cevert had taken his only Grand Prix win. \"It was a horrendous accident which took the life of a wonderfully charming, personable, handsome young man, who was a tremendous friend to both Helen and me,\" Stewart said.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096275-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 United States Grand Prix, Summary, Death of Fran\u00e7ois Cevert\nWhen qualifying resumed, Peterson's time from the morning session stood up for his ninth pole of the year. The Tyrrells of Stewart and Chris Amon had earned the fifth and twelfth spots on the grid, but the team decided to withdraw in tribute to Cevert, and Stewart's driving career was over after 99 races and what was then a record 27 Grand Prix wins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 64], "content_span": [65, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096275-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 United States Grand Prix, Summary, Race\nOn Sunday, a huge crowd turned out on a cool, overcast day for the race. On the grid, in seventh spot, Peter Revson felt his car creeping forward as the flag was raised. Rather than hold it with the brakes, he took it out of gear just as the flag dropped. He waved his arms in the air and waited for the field to roar past, then set off in last place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096275-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 United States Grand Prix, Summary, Race\nThe front runners got away well, and at the end of the first lap, Peterson led Carlos Reutemann, Hunt, Emerson Fittipaldi, Mike Hailwood and Scheckter. On lap 4, Hunt passed Reutemann for second, and began his chase of Peterson's Lotus. To the surprise of everyone as the race progressed, Hunt was able to stay around one second behind Peterson. Occasionally the gap would widen slightly, but again and again, the extreme straightline speed of the Hesketh March would close it again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 528]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096275-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 United States Grand Prix, Summary, Race\nReutemann kept pace as well, two to three seconds behind Hunt, until he lost nine seconds attempting to lap Graham Hill. From then on, he ran a lonely race to a third-place finish.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096275-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 United States Grand Prix, Summary, Race\nRevson, meanwhile, was rocketing through the field from his last place start, and at the midway point, he had gone from twenty-third to seventh. He took sixth from Emerson on lap 40 when the Brazilian pitted to replace his front tyres that were flat-spotted when he had to avoid a spinning Scheckter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096275-0012-0000", "contents": "1973 United States Grand Prix, Summary, Race\nFor the last 15 laps, Hunt continued to follow Peterson, between .7 and 1.4 seconds behind. He pulled alongside at one point, but could not finish the pass. \"I looked over at Ronnie, and he looked fiercer than me,\" he explained after the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096275-0013-0000", "contents": "1973 United States Grand Prix, Summary, Race\nHunt had decided to bide his time until the final 10 laps, then make a bid to pass Peterson, but his car developed oversteer with a lightening fuel load. This kept him from taking the final corner before the back straight flat out, and effectively took away his speed advantage. He maintained the challenge to the flag, however, setting the fastest lap of the race on the penultimate lap. Peterson's winning margin of 0.688 seconds was the smallest in United States Grand Prix history until 2002.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096275-0014-0000", "contents": "1973 United States Grand Prix, Summary, Race\nReutemann had to weave to the line, virtually out of fuel, but held on to third; Denny Hulme ran a steady race to fourth; Revson made it up to fifth with his splendid drive from last place; and Emerson Fittipaldi took sixth after having to stop for tyres. Having already secured the Manufacturers' Cup following Tyrrell's withdrawal, Lotus finished ten points ahead, despite Stewart taking the Drivers' Championship for Tyrrell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 44], "content_span": [45, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096276-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 United States House of Representatives elections\nFour members of the U.S. House of Representatives were elected in special elections in 1973 to the 93rd United States Congress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096276-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 United States House of Representatives elections, Notes\nThis United States Congress\u2013related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 60], "content_span": [61, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096277-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 United States gubernatorial elections\nUnited States gubernatorial elections were held 6 November 1973, in two states.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096277-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 United States gubernatorial elections\nIn Virginia, former Governor Mills E. Godwin, Jr., who was elected in the 1965 gubernatorial election as a Democrat, ran and won as a Republican, defeating Howell, also a former Democrat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096277-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 United States gubernatorial elections\nIn New Jersey, the moderate incumbent Republican Cahill was defeated in the primary by Sandman. Cahill did not campaign for Sandman, and Byrne defeated Sandman handily.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096278-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 United States vice presidential confirmation\nIn 1973, Republican Vice President Spiro Agnew was forced to resign following a controversy over his personal taxes. Under the terms of the 25th Amendment, a vice presidential vacancy is filled when the president nominates a candidate who is confirmed by both houses of Congress. Republican President Richard Nixon thus had the task of selecting a vice president who could receive the majority support of both houses of Congress, which were then controlled by the Democrats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096278-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 United States vice presidential confirmation\nPresident Nixon considered selecting former Texas Governor John Connally, New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, and California Governor Ronald Reagan. However, Nixon settled on House Minority Leader Gerald Ford of Michigan, a moderate Republican who was popular among the members of Congress (in both parties) and who was good friends with Nixon. Ford won the approval of both houses by huge margins, and was sworn in as the 40th vice president of the United States on December 6, 1973. On August 9, 1974, Ford ascended to the presidency after the Watergate scandal led to the resignation of President Nixon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096278-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 United States vice presidential confirmation, Confirmation votes\nBy a vote of 92 to 3 on November 27, 1973, the Senate confirmed the nomination of Gerald Ford. The following week, on December 6, the House of Representatives gave its approval, 387 to 35.. 35 Representatives and three senators voted no. The three senators voting no were, Senators William Hathaway of Maine, Thomas Eagleton of Missouri, and Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 69], "content_span": [70, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096279-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 United States\u2013Soviet Union wheat deal\nIn July 1973, the Soviet Union purchased 10\u00a0million short tons (9.1\u00d710^6\u00a0t) of grain (mainly wheat and corn) from the United States at subsidized prices, which caused global grain prices to soar. Crop shortfalls in 1971 and 1972 forced the Soviet Union to look abroad for grain, hoping to prevent famine or other crisis. Soviet negotiators worked out a deal to buy grain on credit, but quickly exceeded their credit limit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096279-0000-0001", "contents": "1973 United States\u2013Soviet Union wheat deal\nAmerican negotiators did not realize that both the Soviets and the world grain market had suffered shortfalls, and thus subsidized the purchase, leading it to be dubbed the \"Great Grain Robbery\". The strategy backfired and intensified the crisis: global food prices rose at least 30 percent, and grain stockpiles were decimated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096279-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 United States\u2013Soviet Union wheat deal, Background\nDue to the Soviet agricultural system, the cold climate, and frequent irregular droughts, crop failure was common in the Soviet Union. The problem was heightened by the fact that much of the arable land in the USSR couldn't be farmed due to climate problems, so only some of the land in the black earth belt was suitable for agriculture.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096279-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 United States\u2013Soviet Union wheat deal, Background\nIn 1972, there was a drought across Europe. Soviet mismanagement of the situation led to catastrophic wheat crop failure. Additionally, the USSR had suffered an extremely hot summer with temperature comparable to the heat experienced during 2010 Northern Hemisphere heat waves. This caused the Soviet Union to look to the global market to meet their grain needs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 417]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096279-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 United States\u2013Soviet Union wheat deal, Event\nThe main negotiations for the deal took place on June 20, 1972 at The Madison hotel in Washington, D.C., with two Soviet teams, one led by foreign trade minister Nikolai Patolichev and the second led by Nicolai Belousov. The Americans were negotiated for by multiple businessman and U.S. government officials. This included Michel Fribourg, the CEO of grain trading firm ContiGroup Companies (formerly Continental Grain), and Carroll Brunthaver, the U.S. Under Secretary of Agriculture for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 49], "content_span": [50, 579]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096279-0003-0001", "contents": "1973 United States\u2013Soviet Union wheat deal, Event\nIn early July 1972, the U.S. government negotiated an arrangement that allowed the Soviets to buy up to $750 million of American grain on credit, over a three year timespan. However, the Soviets quickly exceeded their credit limit, spending the $750 million in only one month. By September 1972, the Soviets are thought to have spent up to US$1 billion on grain from companies in the United States, and more from other countries such as France, Canada, and Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 49], "content_span": [50, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096279-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 United States\u2013Soviet Union wheat deal, Event\nThe U.S. government spent $300 million subsidizing the grain purchases, still unaware that the Soviets had suffered massive crop shortfalls in 1971 and 1972. American ignorance of the situation was due in part that many officials, such as Earl Butz, were convinced that the Soviets were only purchasing the grain to feed their animals. By not realizing that global wheat stocks were low, and discounting reports of Soviet crop failure, the United States inadvertently contributed to domestic food prices rising, and lost significant revenue by choosing to subsidize the purchase instead of offering it at market price.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 49], "content_span": [50, 668]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096279-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 United States\u2013Soviet Union wheat deal, Aftermath and international consequences\nWeeks after the grain deal was announced, the Earth-observing satellite Landsat 1 achieved orbit. If the satellite had launched a few months earlier, the deal may have been reconsidered or never have happened at all, because American negotiators could have realized the scale of Soviet crop failures. The event helped lead the U.S. government to seek more information about global agricultural output via infrared satellite intelligence. After the deal, many Americans were concerned about businesses having advantages in similar situations due to their early access to information.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 84], "content_span": [85, 667]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096279-0005-0001", "contents": "1973 United States\u2013Soviet Union wheat deal, Aftermath and international consequences\nIn a ten-month span in 1973, global food prices rose by at least 30 percent and some sources claim up to 50 percent. In some British markets there was a reported 87 percent increase on the price of an 800 grams (28\u00a0oz) loaf of bread. Global wheat stocks decreased exponentially; Australia was hit the hardest with a 93 percent decrease by 1974 from 1971. Not all nations were equally hit; some, such as Canada, benefited from the great grain robbery. Canadian farmers had sold their wheat to the Canadian Wheat Board, which were able to pool stocks and sell as a collective.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 84], "content_span": [85, 659]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096279-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 United States\u2013Soviet Union wheat deal, Aftermath and international consequences\nContemporary U.S. media referred to the event as \"The Russian Wheat Deal\" or \"The Soviet Wheat Deal\". The term Great Grain Robbery is a pun referring to the 1963 Great Train Robbery and it is generally accepted that it was coined by Senator Henry M. Jackson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 84], "content_span": [85, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096280-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Uruguayan Primera Divisi\u00f3n, Overview\nIt was contested by 12 teams, and Pe\u00f1arol won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 41], "content_span": [42, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096281-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Uruguayan coup d'\u00e9tat\nThe 1973 Uruguayan coup d'\u00e9tat took place in Uruguay on 27 June 1973 and marked the beginning of the civic-military dictatorship which lasted until 1985.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096281-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Uruguayan coup d'\u00e9tat\nPresident Juan Mar\u00eda Bordaberry closed parliament, and ruled with the assistance of a junta of military generals. The official reason was to crush the Tupamaros, a Marxist urban guerrilla movement. The leftist trade union federations called a general strike and occupation of factories. The strike lasted just over two weeks. It was ended with most of the trade union leaders in jail, dead, or exiled to Argentina. As part of the coup all associations including trade unions were declared illegal and banned; the Constitution of Uruguay of 1967 was practically voided.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096281-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Uruguayan coup d'\u00e9tat\nUnions and political parties remained illegal until a general strike in 1984 forced the military to accept civilian rule and the restoration of democracy in 1985.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096281-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Uruguayan coup d'\u00e9tat, Antecedents\nOn September 9, 1971, President Jorge Pacheco Areco instructed the armed forces to conduct anti-guerrilla operations against the Movimiento de Liberaci\u00f3n Nacional-Tupamaros. On December 16, a Junta of Commanders in Chief and of the Estado Mayor Conjunto (Esmaco) (Joint Chiefs) of the Armed Forces was created. Following the presidential elections of November 1971 a new government took office on 1 March 1972 led by Juan Mar\u00eda Bordaberry. The role of the Armed Forces in political life continued to increase. On October 31, 1972, Defense Minister Augusto Legnani, had to resign for failing to remove a chief in charge of a mission of great importance for the ministry. Subsequently, military commanders made public statements indicting the President of the Republic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 39], "content_span": [40, 807]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096281-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Uruguayan coup d'\u00e9tat, Antecedents\nOn February 8, 1973, in order to control the buildup of military pressure, President Bordaberry replaced the Minister of National Defence, Armando Malet, by the retired general Antonio Francese. On the following day, the new minister met with the commanders of the three forces and only found support in the Navy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 39], "content_span": [40, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096281-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Uruguayan coup d'\u00e9tat, Antecedents\nAt eight o'clock of the same evening, the commanders of the Army and the Air Forces announced from state television they would disavow any orders by Francese and demanded that Bordaberry sack him. At 10:30 pm Bordaberry announced from the (private) Canal 4 that he would keep Francese in the Ministry and called on the citizens to gather in Plaza Independencia, in front of Government House (Casa de Gobierno).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 39], "content_span": [40, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096281-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Uruguayan coup d'\u00e9tat, Antecedents\nIn the early hours of the morning of February 9, Navy Infantry (Marines?) barricaded the entrance towards the Ciudad Vieja of Montevideo. In response, the Army pulled its tanks into the streets and occupied various radio stations, from which they exhorted the members of the Navy to join their initiatives (or propositions).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 39], "content_span": [40, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096281-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Uruguayan coup d'\u00e9tat, Antecedents\nDecree (Comunicado) No. 4 was issued, signed only by the commanders of the Army and Air Force, in which they proposed to achieve or promote socio-economic objectives, such as encouraging exports, reorganizing the foreign service (the subject of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs), eliminating the oppressive foreign debt, eradicating unemployment, attacking economic crime and corruption, reorganizing public administration and the tax system, and redistributing the land.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 39], "content_span": [40, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096281-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Uruguayan coup d'\u00e9tat, Antecedents\nOn Saturday 10 February, three ministers sought a rapprochement with the positions of the rebel commanders, so that the president would retain his position. At night, the commanders of the Army and Air Force issued a new Decree No. 7, that modified the previous statement. Several officers of the Navy ignored the command of Vice Admiral Juan Jos\u00e9 Zorrilla and supported the statements of the Army and Air Force. The next day, February 11, Zorrilla resigned from the Navy Command, while Captain Conrad Olazaba assumed this position, so that this force also abandoned its constitutional position.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 39], "content_span": [40, 635]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096281-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Uruguayan coup d'\u00e9tat, Antecedents\nOn Monday February 12, Bordaberry went to the \"Cap. Juan Manuel Boiso Lanza\" base and accepted all the demands of the military commanders and negotiated his continuation in the presidency, in what became known as the Pacto de Boiso Lanza. This \"agreement\" entrusted to the Armed Forces the mission of providing security for national development and established forms of military involvement in the political-administrative matters. It resulted in the creation of the National Security Council (Consejo de Seguridad Nacional) (COSENA), advisory body to the Executive Power, subsequently established by Decree No. 163/973 of 23 February 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 39], "content_span": [40, 680]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096281-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 Uruguayan coup d'\u00e9tat, Antecedents\nThe day after the agreement, N\u00e9stor Bolentini was appointed as Minister of Interior and Walter Ravenna as Minister of National Defense. This completed the slide into a civil-military government, which was formally ruled by civilians, but in fact the center of power had moved into the orbit of the military. It is considered that this episode amounted to a coup in fact.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 39], "content_span": [40, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096281-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 Uruguayan coup d'\u00e9tat, Events\nOn 27 June 1973, arguing that \"the criminal act of conspiracy against the country, in tune with the complacency of politicians with no national sentiment, is inserted into the institutions, so as to present formally disguised as a legal activity\", Bordaberry dissolved the legislature with the support of the Armed Forces, created a State Council with legislative, constitutional and administrative functions, restricted freedom of thought and empowered the armed forces and the police to ensure the uninterrupted provision of public services.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 578]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096281-0012-0000", "contents": "1973 Uruguayan coup d'\u00e9tat, Events\nIn a speech broadcast on radio and television on the same day of the coup, Bordaberry said:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096281-0013-0000", "contents": "1973 Uruguayan coup d'\u00e9tat, Events\nI affirm today, once again, in circumstances of extreme importance to national life, our deep commitment to democracy and our unreserved commitment to a system of political and social organization governing the coexistence of Uruguayans. And together with this, the rejection of any ideology of Marxist origin attempting to exploit the generosity of our democracy, to appear as a doctrine of salvation and end as a tool of totalitarian oppression.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096281-0014-0000", "contents": "1973 Uruguayan coup d'\u00e9tat, Events\nThis step that we had to take, does not lead (?) and will not limit the freedoms and rights of the human person.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096281-0015-0000", "contents": "1973 Uruguayan coup d'\u00e9tat, Events\nWe ourselves are here for this and for its surveillance; for this, furthermore, we have committed these functions to the State Council and beyond, and still above all, are the Uruguayan people who have never permitted their freedoms to be trampled (...).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096281-0016-0000", "contents": "1973 Uruguayan coup d'\u00e9tat, Events\nIn response to the coup d'etat, in the same morning that the coup was brewing, the secretary of the CNT (National Confederation of Workers) began the longest strike in the history of the country, which lasted 15 days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 34], "content_span": [35, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096281-0017-0000", "contents": "1973 Uruguayan coup d'\u00e9tat, The decrees\nDecree N\u00b0 464/973 of June 27, 1973, bears the signature of Bordaberry and his ministers N\u00e9stor Bolentini and Walter Ravenna. It expressed the following:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 39], "content_span": [40, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096281-0018-0000", "contents": "1973 Uruguayan coup d'\u00e9tat, The decrees\n1\u00b0 The Chambers of Senators and of Representatives are hereby declared dissolved.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 39], "content_span": [40, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096281-0019-0000", "contents": "1973 Uruguayan coup d'\u00e9tat, The decrees\n2\u00b0 Hereby is established a Council of State consisting of members that may be designated, with the following powers:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 39], "content_span": [40, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096281-0020-0000", "contents": "1973 Uruguayan coup d'\u00e9tat, The decrees\n3\u00b0 It is prohibited to disclose by the press orally, written or televised, any kind of information, comments or recording, which directly or indirectly, indicate or refer to the provisions of this Decree, attributing dictatorial intentions to the Executive Power.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 39], "content_span": [40, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096281-0021-0000", "contents": "1973 Uruguayan coup d'\u00e9tat, The decrees\n4\u00b0 The armed forces and police are empowered to take the necessary measures to ensure the continued provision of essential public services.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 39], "content_span": [40, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096281-0022-0000", "contents": "1973 Uruguayan coup d'\u00e9tat, The decrees\nAlso, by Decree No. 465/973 of the same date, it is considered included within the text of Article 1 of Decree 464/973 \"to all the Departmental Boards of the Country (art. 1\u00ba), the formation in each Departamento of a Board of Neighbours (Junta de Vecinos), that, where relevant, and at the Departmental level, will have powers similar to those granted to the State Council created by the art. 2 of the decree today\" (art. 2\u00ba).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 39], "content_span": [40, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096282-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Uruguayan general strike\nOn 27 June 1973 a coup was declared in Uruguay by the president, Juan Mar\u00eda Bordaberry, who closed parliament and imposed direct rule from a junta of military generals. The official reason was to crush the Tupamaros, a Marxist urban guerrilla movement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096282-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Uruguayan general strike\nWithin hours of the coup being declared, the leftist trade union Convenci\u00f3n Nacional de Trabajadores called a general strike. Factory occupations took place throughout the country, and many ports, banks and stores closed. On 2 July 1973 the CNT was officially dissolved, though many affiliated unions were allowed to temporary operate, and two days later the government gave all employers to dismiss workers who failed to return to work. The strike ended 15 days after it started, with nearly all unions busted and most of the trade union leaders in jail, dead, or exiled to Argentina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096282-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Uruguayan general strike\nUnions and political parties remained illegal until a general strike in 1984 forced the military to accept civilian rule and the restoration of democracy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096283-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Utah State Aggies football team\nThe 1973 Utah State Aggies football team was an American football team that represented Utah State University as an independent during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. In their first season under head coach Phil Krueger, the Aggies compiled a 7\u20134 record and were outscored by opponents by a total of 230 to 202.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096283-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Utah State Aggies football team\nThe team's statistical leaders included Tom Wilson with 1,177 passing yards, Archie Gibson with 1,150 rushing yards, Craig Clark with 495 receiving yards, Jerry Cox with 60 points scored, and Brian Longuevan with 80 total tackles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096284-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Utah Utes football team\nThe 1973 Utah Utes football team was an American football team that represented the University of Utah during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. In his sixth and final season as head coach, Bill Meek led the Utes to a 4\u20132 mark in the WAC and 7\u20135 overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096284-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Utah Utes football team\nFive weeks after the season ended, Meek resigned in early January 1974. Defensive line coach Tom Lovat, a 35-year-old alumnus from Bingham, was retained for the interim for recruiting continuation, and was promoted later that month.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096284-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Utah Utes football team, NFL draft\nFour Utes were selected in the 1974 NFL Draft, which lasted seventeen rounds (442 selections).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096285-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 VFA season\nThe 1973 Victorian Football Association season was the 92nd season of the top division of the Australian rules football competition, and the 13th season of second division competition. The Division 1 premiership was won by the Prahran Football Club, after it came from fourth on the ladder to defeat Oakleigh in the Grand Final on 23 September by 35 points; it was Prahran's fourth Division 1 premiership. The Division 2 premiership was won by Caulfield; it was the first and only premiership in either division won by the club after its move from Brighton to Caulfield in 1962.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096285-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 VFA season, Division 1\nThe Division 1 home-and-away season was played over 18 rounds; the top four then contested the finals under the Page\u2013McIntyre system. The finals were played at the St Kilda Cricket Ground.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096285-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 VFA season, Division 2\nThe Division 2 home-and-away season was played over eighteen rounds; the top four then contested the finals under the Page\u2013McIntyre system; all finals were played on Sundays at Toorak Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096285-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 VFA season, Division 2, Finals\nScores were level in time-on in the final quarter before Caulfield kicked four late goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096286-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 VFL Grand Final\nThe 1973 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between Carlton and Richmond at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 29 September 1973. It was the 77th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League (VFL), staged to determine the premiers for the 1973 VFL season. Although Carlton were the favourites to win, it was Richmond who would take the flag by 30 points, marking that club's eighth VFL/AFL premiership victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096286-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 VFL Grand Final, Background\nThis was the second consecutive year in which the two teams met in the premiership decider, with Carlton having won the 1972 VFL Grand Final by 27 points in a memorable high-scoring affair. The Tigers, who were clear favourites to win that game, were desperate to atone for that humiliating result.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096286-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 VFL Grand Final, Background\nAt the conclusion of the regular home-and-away season, Richmond had finished second on the ladder behind Collingwood with 17 wins and 5 losses. Carlton had finished third with 15 wins and 7 losses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096286-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 VFL Grand Final, Background\nIn the finals series, Richmond lost to Carlton by 20 points in the Qualifying Final before defeating St Kilda by 40 points in the First Semi-Final. They then defeated Collingwood by seven points in the Preliminary Final (a game in which they came back from a 45-point deficit) to advance to the Grand Final. Carlton, after their win in the Qualifying Final, defeated Collingwood by 20 points in the Second Semi-Final to advance to the Grand Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096286-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 VFL Grand Final, Background\nBoth sides had injury and illness concerns before the game. Richmond champion Francis Bourke and captain Royce Hart were not supposed to be playing on strict medical grounds, but such was their determination to play that they were selected anyway. For Carlton, Barry Armstrong and Trevor Keogh were ruled out, while Alex Jesaulenko and Neil Chandler were not fully fit. Carlton were forced to name Vin Catoggio in the Grand Final side for his first full VFL game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096286-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 VFL Grand Final, Background\nFor field umpire Ian Robinson, this was the first of a record nine Grand Finals which he would officiate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096286-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 VFL Grand Final, Match summary\nThe weather on the day was very warm (reaching approximately 24 degrees) and a blustery north-west wind made playing conditions less than ideal. The attendance figure of 116,956 spectators was the fourth-largest crowd in VFL/AFL history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 35], "content_span": [36, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096286-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, First quarter\nThe first key incident in the match occurred at the 4-minute mark of the quarter. Carlton captain-coach Nicholls, who had masterminded Richmond's demise in the previous year's Grand Final, had again stationed himself in the forward pocket and was coming out to mark a long kick from Jesaulenko when Richmond defender Fowler, who was running back with the flight of the ball, crashed into Nicholls with a high shirtfront. Fans and players were stunned at the sight of one of football's most imposing figures laying groggy on the ground and struggling to get up. Teammate David McKay reflected thus on the incident:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 50], "content_span": [51, 664]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096286-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, First quarter\nTo see someone who was a colossus knocked out like that really stung. He was such an enormous presence on the ground as a leader that we thought, \"Shit, what's going to happen now?\" [...] You could talk to any player from that day and they'd tell you we were stunned. I'm not saying that was the reason Richmond won on the day, but we were starting to think twice about what the hell was happening out there.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 50], "content_span": [51, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096286-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, First quarter\nThe impact of that incident still resonates decades later, and has been replayed on television many times since. As Fowler recalled of that incident a few years later:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 50], "content_span": [51, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096286-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, First quarter\nI was keyed up at the time and all I remember is that I had my eyes on the ball. If Nick had run through me the whole thing would have been forgotten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 50], "content_span": [51, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096286-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, First quarter\nNicholls was helped to his feet by the trainers, and managed to take the free kick set shot awarded by umpire Robinson. He kicked the first goal of the match, but it was clear that the bump had shaken him, and required ongoing attention from the trainers for several minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 50], "content_span": [51, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096286-0012-0000", "contents": "1973 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, First quarter\nThe incident set the tone for much of the quarter, as players from both sides went hard at the ball and the man. Tempers at times threatened to boil over, with several fiery clashes breaking out across the field, one notable exchange between Walsh and Crosswell captured on camera. With both forward lines struggling, it was Sheedy, who had been named on the half-forward flank, whose three goals for the quarter helped the Tigers capitalize on their work in the ruck and around the packs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 50], "content_span": [51, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096286-0012-0001", "contents": "1973 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, First quarter\nTwo minutes into time-on, Pinnell marked a pressured kick out of defence from Keane and was awarded a 15-metre penalty for interference after the mark. His long kick to the half-forward line was eventually gathered by McKay, whose quick snap out of a pack sailed through to bring the margin back to six points. The Tigers added further behinds in the remaining time to go into the first change with a nine-point lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 50], "content_span": [51, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096286-0013-0000", "contents": "1973 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Second quarter\nRichmond's other ruckman Michael Green\u2014whose form leading up to the Grand Final had fans worried\u2014opened the scoring in the second quarter when he scored a goal from a free kick at centre half-forward. Carlton hit back with goals to David McKay and Kevin Hall before big Richmond forward Neil Balme left his mark on the game. First he king-hit Carlton full-back Geoff Southby, and then moments later got a punch on Vin Waite. Southby was concussed by the blow and would not return to the field after half time. Carlton were still in the match until the time-on period of the second quarter, when Richmond took control - through goals to Bartlett, captain Royce Hart, Balme, Roberts and Ian Stewart - to lead at the main break by 26 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 51], "content_span": [52, 790]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096286-0014-0000", "contents": "1973 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Third quarter\nWith Southby deemed unfit to continue, Carlton brought on Chandler and made some position changes, including Jesaulenko to centre, Hall to full back and Crosswell to full forward. Hart kicked his third major to open the scoring for the second half, as Richmond began to slowly increase their lead. Stewart was moved to the half-forward line after injuring a leg, and kicked two goals for the quarter. Carlton was forced to make changes and brought on their second reserve, Bryan Quirk.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 50], "content_span": [51, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096286-0014-0001", "contents": "1973 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Third quarter\nShortly afterward, Phillip Pinnell, who had been doing well in defence, suddenly broke down with severe cramp, and hobbled to the forward pocket, further adding to Carlton's woes. Richmond's defense, led by Francis Bourke and Dick Clay, managed to restrict the Blues to just two goals for the quarter - one each to Chandler and Walls. At the last change, Richmond held a commanding 38-point lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 50], "content_span": [51, 447]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096286-0015-0000", "contents": "1973 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Fourth quarter\nCarlton refused to concede defeat. After making some positional changes, the Blues kicked the first three goals of the quarter - two to Garry Crane and one to Walls. By the 15-minute mark they had managed to cut the margin to 18 points, and if Nicholls had not missed a shot from the goal-square, the game would have been up for grabs. Richmond steadied after Tom Hafey replaced Noel Carter with Kevin Morris, and when Balme kicked truly before being substituted for Craig McKellar, the contest was effectively over.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 51], "content_span": [52, 568]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096286-0016-0000", "contents": "1973 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Aftermath\nKevin Bartlett was Richmond's best player, gathering 27 touches (all kicks, not surprisingly) and a goal. Kevin Sheedy's three goals in the first quarter were pivotal in helping the Tigers get a solid start, and he continued to be constructive throughout the match, ending up with 16 kicks and 7 handpasses. Michael Green shrugged off concerns over his lead-up form to assist Brian Roberts in subduing Carlton ruckman \"Percy\" Jones, and starred all around the ground, taking 8 marks and kicking a goal. And captain Royce Hart, despite a suspect left knee, was at his imperious best, kicking three goals and taking a series of strong marks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 46], "content_span": [47, 686]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096286-0017-0000", "contents": "1973 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Aftermath\nCrane was rated as Carlton's best, and experienced finals campaigners Robert Walls and David McKay also played well. Richmond's win completed a great day for the club; earlier in the day, the Tigers had already secured the flag in the Reserves, Under 19s and Under 17s competitions. As Francis Bourke wrote for The Age after the game:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 46], "content_span": [47, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096286-0018-0000", "contents": "1973 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Aftermath\nImagine how we would have felt if we hadn't won the big one. We couldn't have looked [our other teams] in the eye - it's not often a club gets the chance to set such a record. How do we feel now? Bloody terrific, that's how. I never realised how sweet revenge could be, especially when it is for such a humiliating defeat as ours 12 months ago. Twelve months is a long time to live with the memory of last year's Grand Final disaster. But now we have something much better to live with. Four flags and the reputation of the strongest and most successful club in League history, that's what.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 46], "content_span": [47, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096286-0019-0000", "contents": "1973 VFL Grand Final, Match summary, Aftermath\nRichmond would go on to win successive premierships for the second time in the club's history, defeating North Melbourne in the 1974 VFL Grand Final and cementing Tom Hafey's reputation as one of the all-time great VFL/AFL coaches. Carlton's next appearance in a premiership decider came six years later, when it won the 1979 VFL Grand Final against Collingwood.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 46], "content_span": [47, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096287-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 VFL season\nThe 1973 Victorian Football League season was the 77th season of the elite Australian rules football competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096287-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 VFL season, Rule changes\nOne of the most significant innovations that came into force in 1973 was the implementation of a painted centre diamond area with 45-metre long sides, with a maximum of four players from each team permitted to stand within the diamond at centre bounces. Following a long period of lobbying by the VFL to the Australian Football Council for its introduction, the centre diamond was initially subject to a 12-month trial period. The purpose of this innovation was to try and solve the problem of congestion at centre bounces, as well as giving skilled players more space to benefit their teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 29], "content_span": [30, 622]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096287-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 VFL season, Premiership season\nThe home-and-away season consisted of 22 rounds, with teams facing each other twice; matches 12 to 22 were the \"home-and-way reverse\" of matches 1 to 11.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096287-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 VFL season, Premiership season\nAt the conclusion of the home-and-away fixtures, the 1973 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the \"McIntyre Final Five system\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 35], "content_span": [36, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096288-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Valdostan regional election\nThe Valdostan regional election of 1973 took place on 10 June 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096288-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Valdostan regional election\nThe alliance of 1970 was initially confirmed, but the situation was later changed by the Valdostan Union and the Christian Democracy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096289-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Vanderbilt Commodores football team\nThe 1973 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represented Vanderbilt University in the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. The Commodores were led by head coach Steve Sloan in his first season and finished the season with a record of five wins and six losses (5\u20136 overall, 1\u20135 in the SEC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096290-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Venda legislative election\nParliamentary elections were held in Venda on 15 and 16 August 1973. The Venda Independence People's Party won 13 of the 18 elected seats in the Legislative Assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096290-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Venda legislative election, Electoral system\nThe Legislative Assembly consisted of 60 seats, of which only 18 were elected. The remaining 42 seats were reserved for 25 Chiefs, 2 Headmen and a further 15 members appointed by Chiefs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 49], "content_span": [50, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096291-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Venezuelan Primera Divisi\u00f3n season\nThe 1973 season of the Venezuelan Primera Divisi\u00f3n, the top category of Venezuelan football, was played by 9 teams. The national champions were Portuguesa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096292-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Venezuelan general election\nGeneral elections were held in Venezuela on Sunday 9 December 1973. The presidential elections were won by Carlos Andr\u00e9s P\u00e9rez of Democratic Action, who received 48.7% of the vote, whilst his party won a majority of seats in the Chamber of Deputies and Senate. Voter turnout was 96.5%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096293-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Veracruz earthquake\nThe 1973 Veracruz earthquake, also known as El Terremoto de Orizaba, occurred at 3:50\u00a0a.m. local time (9:50 GMT) on August 28, with the epicenter located in the vicinity of Serd\u00e1n in the Mexican state of Puebla. It registered 7.0 on the Richter magnitude scale and had a maximum perceived intensity of VIII (Severe) on the Mercalli intensity scale. The effects of the earthquake were felt in the Mexican states of Veracruz and Puebla in southeast Mexico.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 479]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096293-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Veracruz earthquake, Geography\nThe area that was damaged in Veracruz is tropical and mountainous; Pico de Orizaba, Mexico's tallest peak, is located there. The earthquake occurred during the rainy season, with heavy rain coming down before and after the event making search and rescue difficult. Serd\u00e1n is located in the rain shadow of the mountainous area and has a more arid climate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 35], "content_span": [36, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096293-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Veracruz earthquake, Past events\nMexico's southwest coast is much more seismically active than the southeast area near Orizaba. Earthquakes there have been relatively infrequent. The last prior strong event in the region was on June 17, 1928, when a magnitude-7.8 event occurred south of Serd\u00e1n. However, the area 100 to 300 kilometers south of Serd\u00e1n does see more very strong earthquakes, with three events over magnitude 7 in 1928 alone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 37], "content_span": [38, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096293-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Veracruz earthquake, Damage\nThere was extensive damage, leaving hundreds dead and widespread devastation, in several cities in Puebla. The death toll was at least 600, with as many as 1,200 dead, and 212 casualties alone in the small Ciudad Serd\u00e1n. Major cities affected were Ciudad Serd\u00e1n, Orizaba, Ixtaczoquitl\u00e1n, C\u00f3rdoba, Ciudad Mendoza, Zongolica, Rio Blanco, and Acutzingo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096293-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Veracruz earthquake, Damage\nIn Orizaba, a twelve-story apartment building collapsed as result of the earthquake. Many of the occupants, up to 100, were sleeping at the time, and this was the number proclaimed dead at that site.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096293-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Veracruz earthquake, Damage\nThis event was the most disastrous earthquake in Puebla until the 1999 Tehuac\u00e1n earthquake.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 32], "content_span": [33, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096294-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Vermont Catamounts football team\nThe 1973 Vermont Catamounts football team was an American football team that represented the University of Vermont in the Yankee Conference during the 1973 NCAA Division II football season. In their second year under head coach Carl Falivene, the team compiled a 3\u20136 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096295-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Victorian state election\nThe 1973 Victorian state election, held on Saturday, 19 May 1973, was for the 46th Parliament of Victoria. It was held in the Australian state of Victoria to elect the 73 members of the state's Legislative Assembly and 18 members of the 36-member Legislative Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096295-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Victorian state election\nRupert Hamer succeeded Henry Bolte as Premier of Victoria on 23 August 1972. In 1972 a federal Labor government was elected, the first Labor government in 23 years. The incumbent Liberal government in Victoria led by Hamer was returned at the election with an increased vote of about 5%, largely at the expense of the Democratic Labor Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096295-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Victorian state election, Results, Legislative Assembly\nVictorian state election, 19 May 1973Legislative Assembly << 1970\u20131976 >>", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096295-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Victorian state election, Results, Legislative Council\nVictorian state election, 19 May 1973Legislative Council << 1970\u20131976 >>", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096296-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Villanova Wildcats football team\nThe 1973 Villanova Wildcats football team represented the Villanova University during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. The head coach was Lou Ferry, coaching his fourth season with the Wildcats. The team played their home games at Villanova Stadium in Villanova, Pennsylvania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096297-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Virginia Cavaliers football team\nThe 1973 Virginia Cavaliers football team represented the University of Virginia during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. The Cavaliers were led by third-year head coach Don Lawrence and played their home games at Scott Stadium in Charlottesville, Virginia. They competed as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference, finishing in fourth. Lawrence was fired as head coach following the end of the season. He had a record of 11\u201322 at Virginia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096298-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Virginia Slims Championships\nThe 1973 Virginia Slims Championships were the second season-ending WTA Tour Championships, the annual tennis tournament for the best female tennis players in singles on the 1973 Virginia Slims circuit which was part of the 1973 WTA Tour. It was held from October 15 to 23, 1973 at the Boca Raton Hotel & Club in Boca Raton, United States. Both the top two qualifying players and top seeds Margaret Court and Billie Jean King had to withdraw from the tournament due to injury, although Court did compete (and win) in the doubles event. Fourth ranked Evonne Goolagong also defaulted. First-seeded Chris Evert won her second consecutive singles title at the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 696]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096298-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Virginia Slims Championships, Finals, Doubles\nRosemary Casals / Margaret Court defeated Fran\u00e7oise D\u00fcrr / Betty St\u00f6ve, 6\u20132, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096299-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Virginia Slims Championships \u2013 Singles, Seeds\nBoth the top two qualifying players and top seeds Margaret Court and Billie Jean King had to withdraw from the tournament due to injury, although Court did compete (and win) in the doubles event. Fourth ranked Evonne Goolagong also defaulted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 50], "content_span": [51, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096300-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Virginia Slims Grass Court Championships\nThe 1973 Virginia Slims Grass Court Championships, also known as the Virginia Slims of Newport, was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts at the Newport Casino in Newport, Rhode Island in the United States that was part of the 1973 Virginia Slims World Championship Series. It was the third edition of the tournament and was held from August 20 through August 26, 1973. First-seeded Margaret Court won the singles title and earned $7,000 first-prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096300-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Virginia Slims Grass Court Championships, Finals, Doubles\nFran\u00e7oise D\u00fcrr / Betty St\u00f6ve defeated Janet Newberry / Pam Teeguarden 6\u20134, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 62], "content_span": [63, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096301-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Virginia Slims of Akron\nThe 1973 Virginia Slims of Akron, also known as the Akron Tennis Open, was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the University of Akron Memorial Hall in Akron, Ohio in the United States that was part of the 1973 Women's Grand Prix Circuit (B class). It was the inaugural edition of the tournament and was held from March 19 through March 25, 1973. Chris Evert won the singles title and the accompanying $6,000 first-prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096301-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Virginia Slims of Akron, Start of Evert \u2013 Navratilova rivalry\nIn the first round of the tournament Chris Evert played and won against Martina Navratilova in straight sets, 7\u20136(5\u20131), 6\u20133, after Navartilova had failed to serve out the first set at 6\u20135 and 30\u20130. It was their first encounter on the professional tour and the start of their rivalry which would comprise 80 matches and last until 1988.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 66], "content_span": [67, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096301-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Virginia Slims of Akron, Finals, Doubles\nPatti Hogan / Sharon Walsh defeated Patricia Bostrom / Mich\u00e8le Gurdal 7\u20135, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 45], "content_span": [46, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096302-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Virginia Slims of Boston\nThe 1973 Virginia Slims of Boston, also known as the Virginia Slims Indoors, was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts in Boston, Massachusetts in the United States that was part of the 1973 Virginia Slims World Championship Series. The tournament was held from April 11 through April 15, 1973. Margaret Court won the singles title after a 59-minute final against Billie Jean King and earned $6,000 first-prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096302-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Virginia Slims of Boston, Finals, Doubles\nRosie Casals / Billie Jean King defeated Fran\u00e7oise D\u00fcrr / Betty St\u00f6ve 6\u20134, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096303-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Virginia Slims of Chicago\nThe 1973 Virginia Slims of Chicago was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Lake Shore Racquet Club in Chicago, Illinois in the United States that was part of the 1973 Virginia Slims World Championship Series. It was the second edition of the tournament and was held from March 8 through March 11, 1973. First-seeded Margaret Court won the singles title and earned $6,500 first-prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096303-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Virginia Slims of Chicago, Finals, Doubles\nRosie Casals / Billie Jean King defeated Karen Krantzcke / Betty St\u00f6ve 6\u20134, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096304-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Virginia Slims of Denver\nThe 1973 Virginia Slims of Denver, also known by its sponsored name Denver Majestic Tournament, was a women's tennis tournament played on hard court at the South High School in Denver, Colorado in the United States that was part of the 1973 Virginia Slims World Championship Series. It was the second edition of the tournament and was held from July 30 through August 5, 1973. First-seeded Billie Jean King won the singles title and earned $7,000 first-prize money. Total attendance for the event was 22,800 which made it the first women's-only tournament to have an attendance of more than 20,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096304-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Virginia Slims of Denver, Finals, Doubles\nRosemary Casals / Billie Jean King vs. Fran\u00e7oise D\u00fcrr / Betty St\u00f6ve 3\u20132 match abandoned due to rain, prize shared", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 46], "content_span": [47, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096305-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Virginia Slims of Detroit\nThe 1973 Virginia Slims of Detroit was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Cobo Hall & Arena in Detroit, Michigan in the United States that was part of the 1973 Virginia Slims World Championship Series. It was the second edition of the tournament and was held from March 1 through March 4, 1973. First-seeded Margaret Court won the singles title and earned $6,000 first-prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096305-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Virginia Slims of Detroit, Finals, Doubles\nRosemary Casals / Billie Jean King defeated Karen Krantzcke / Betty St\u00f6ve 6\u20133, 3\u20136, 6\u20131", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096306-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Virginia Slims of Fort Lauderdale\nThe 1973 Virginia Slims of Fort Lauderdale, also known as the S&H Green Stamp Tennis Classic, was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in the United States that was part of the 1973 Women's Grand Prix Circuit (A class). It was the third edition of the tournament and was held from February 26 through March 4, 1973. First-seeded Chris Evert won the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 452]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096306-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Virginia Slims of Fort Lauderdale, Finals, Doubles\nGail Sherriff / Virginia Wade defeated Evonne Goolagong / Janet Young 4\u20136, 6\u20133, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096307-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Virginia Slims of Houston\nThe 1973 Virginia Slims of Houston was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Net-Set (West Side) Racquet Club in Houston, Texas in the United States that was part of the 1973 Virginia Slims World Championship Series. It was the third edition of the tournament and was held from September 17 through September 24, 1973. Unseeded Fran\u00e7oise D\u00fcrr won the singles title and earned $7,000 first-prize money. The final was delayed by one day due to rain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 506]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096307-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Virginia Slims of Houston\nJust before the start of the tournament three of the four top-seeded players (Margaret Court, Evonne Goolagong and Chris Evert) pulled out and Billie Jean King became the new top-seeded player. King also played the \"Battle of the Sexes\" match against Bobby Riggs during the week of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096307-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Virginia Slims of Houston, Finals, Doubles\nMona Schallau / Pam Teeguarden defeated Fran\u00e7oise D\u00fcrr / Betty St\u00f6ve 6\u20133, 5\u20137, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096308-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Virginia Slims of Indianapolis\nThe 1973 Virginia Slims of Indianapolis was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor hardcourts at the Convention-Expo Center in Indianapolis, Indiana in the United States that was part of the 1973 Virginia Slims Circuit. It was the second edition of the tournament and was held from February 22 through February 26, 1973. Third-seeded Billie Jean King won the singles title and earned $6,000 first-prize money. In the semifinal King, coming back from a three months break, saved three match points against Margaret Court and ended Court's 12-tournament 54-match winning streak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 619]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096308-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Virginia Slims of Indianapolis, Finals, Doubles\nRosemary Casals / Billie Jean King defeated Margaret Court / Lesley Hunt 7\u20135, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096309-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Virginia Slims of Jacksonville\nThe 1973 Virginia Slims of Jacksonville, also known as the Jacksonville Invitational, was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Deerwood Club in Jacksonville, Florida in the United States that was part of the 1973 Virginia Slims World Championship Series. It was the second and last edition of the tournament and was held from April 16 through April 22, 1973. First-seeded Margaret Court won the singles title and earned $6,000 first-prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096309-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Virginia Slims of Jacksonville, Finals, Doubles\nRosie Casals / Billie Jean King defeated Fran\u00e7oise D\u00fcrr / Betty St\u00f6ve 7\u20136, 5\u20137, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096310-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Virginia Slims of Richmond\nThe 1973 Virginia Slims of Richmond was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor clay courts at the Westwood Racquet Club in Richmond, Virginia in the United States that was part of the 1973 Virginia Slims World Championship Series. It was the third edition of the tournament and was held from March 14 through March 18, 1973. First-seeded Margaret Court won the singles title and earned $6,000 first-prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096310-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Virginia Slims of Richmond, Finals, Doubles\nMargaret Court / Lesley Hunt defeated Karen Krantzcke / Betty St\u00f6ve 6\u20132, 7\u20136(5\u20134)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 48], "content_span": [49, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096311-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Virginia Slims of Washington\nThe 1973 Virginia Slims of Washington was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Linden Hill Racquet Club in Bethesda, Maryland in the United States that was part of the 1973 Virginia Slims World Championship Series. It was the second edition of the tournament and was held from January 29 through February 4, 1973. First-seeded Margaret Court won the singles title and earned $10,000 first-prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 465]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096311-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Virginia Slims of Washington, Finals, Doubles\nRosie Casals / Julie Heldman defeated Kerry Harris / Kerry Melville 6\u20133, 6\u20133", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 50], "content_span": [51, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096312-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Virginia Tech Gobblers football team\nThe 1973 Virginia Tech Gobblers football team represented Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in the 1973 NCAA Division I football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096312-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Virginia Tech Gobblers football team, Players\nThe following players were members of the 1973 football team according to the roster published in the 1974 edition of The Bugle, the Virginia Tech yearbook.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 50], "content_span": [51, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096313-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Virginia gubernatorial election\nIn the 1973 Virginia gubernatorial election, incumbent Governor A. Linwood Holton, Jr., a Republican, was unable to seek re-election due to term limits. Mills E. Godwin, Jr., former Democratic Governor of Virginia, was nominated by the Republican Party to run against Independent Lieutenant Governor of Virginia Henry Howell. The Democrats did not field a candidate, mostly choosing to support Howell's candidacy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096314-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Virginia lieutenant gubernatorial election\nThe 1973 Virginia lieutenant gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1973. Republican nominee John N. Dalton defeated Democratic nominee James Harry Michael Jr. with 53.96% of the vote.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096315-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Volta a Catalunya\nThe 1973 Volta a Catalunya was the 53rd edition of the Volta a Catalunya cycle race and was held from 12 September to 19 September 1973. The race started in Amposta and finished in Lleida. The race was won by Domingo Perurena.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096316-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Volvo International\nThe 1973 Volvo International was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Mount Washington Resort in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire in the United States. The event was part of the 1973 Commercial Union Assurance Grand Prix circuit and classified as C category. The tournament was held from July 23 through July 29, 1973. Vijay Amritraj won the singles title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096316-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Volvo International, Men's singles, Seeds\nA champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated. The top four seeds received a bye to the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 46], "content_span": [47, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096316-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Volvo International, Men's doubles\nRod Laver / Fred Stolle defeated Bob Carmichael / Frew McMillan 2\u20136, 6\u20133, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 39], "content_span": [40, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096317-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a\nThe 28th Edition Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a (Tour of Spain), a long-distance bicycle stage race and one of the 3 grand tours, was held from April 26 to May 13, 1973. It consisted of 17 stages covering a total of 3,061\u00a0km, and was won by Eddy Merckx of the Molteni cycling team. As Merckx had already won several editions of the Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia with his win in the Vuelta, he became the third cyclist after Jacques Anquetil and Felice Gimondi to win all three grand tours in his career.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 516]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096317-0000-0001", "contents": "1973 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a\nMerckx went on to win the 1973 Giro d'Italia and became the first cyclist to win the Vuelta-Giro double. Merckx also won the points classification and Jos\u00e9 Luis Abilleira won the mountains classification. With Merckx finishing first, Oca\u00f1a second and Th\u00e9venet third the podium of the 1973 Vuelta contained one previous winner and two future winners of the Tour de France making it one of the best podiums in the history of the race, according to the official race website. Merckx won six stages in this edition and Gerben Karstens won four.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096317-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Teams\nA total of eight teams were invited to participate in the 1973 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a. Each team sent a squad of ten riders, which meant that the race started with a peloton of 80 cyclists. 62 cyclists reached the finish in San Sebasti\u00e1n.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 27], "content_span": [28, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096317-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Classification leadership\nFour different jerseys were worn during the 1973 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a. The leader of the general classification \u2013 calculated by adding the stage finish times of each rider, and allowing time bonuses for the first three finishers on mass-start stages \u2013 wore a golden jersey. This classification is the most important of the race, and its winner is considered as the winner of the Vuelta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 47], "content_span": [48, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096317-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Classification leadership\nFor the points classification, which awarded a light blue jersey to its leader, cyclists were given points for finishing a stage in the top 15; additional points could also be won in intermediate sprints. The green jersey was awarded to the mountains classification leader. In this ranking, points were won by reaching the summit of a climb ahead of other cyclists. Each climb was ranked as either first, second or third category, with more points available for higher category climbs. The combination classification awarded a red jersey to its leader.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 47], "content_span": [48, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096317-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Classification leadership\nAlthough no jersey was awarded, there was also one classification for the teams, in which the stage finish times of the best three cyclists per team were added; the leading team was the one with the lowest total time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 47], "content_span": [48, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096317-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, Classification leadership\nThe rows in the following table correspond to the jerseys awarded after that stage was run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 47], "content_span": [48, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096318-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 WANFL season\nThe 1973 WANFL season was the 89th season of the Western Australian National Football League. It is most famous for Subiaco breaking the longest premiership drought in the history of the competition, winning for the first time since 1924 after having been a chopping block for most of the middle third of the century.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096318-0000-0001", "contents": "1973 WANFL season\nUnder the coaching of former St Kilda champion Ross Smith, the Lions, as they became christened in July, bounced back from two disappointing seasons to lose only two of their final sixteen home-and-away games for their first minor premiership since 1935, then in a low-scoring Grand Final comfortably defeated a much more hardened West Perth team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096318-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 WANFL season\nIn addition to Subiaco's premiership win, veteran goal machine Austin Robertson, Jr. broke Ted Tyson\u2019s record for most goals in a WANFL career late in the home-and-away season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096318-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 WANFL season\nThe season also saw 1972 Grand Finalists Claremont suffer the worst single-season fall in WAFL history, from only three losses to only four wins despite being pre-season premiership favourites, as Essendon\u2019s century goalkicker Geoff Blethyn proved an inadequate trade for champion ruckman Graham Moss. Eight losses by under two goals sunk Claremont further. Despite exceptional form from Barry Cable in his last season with the club, Perth also fell from preliminary finalists to their worst record for thirty-two seasons of only six wins. Perennial battlers Swan Districts looked like a first finals berth since 1965 during the autumn but won only two of their last thirteen matches as a rainy winter negated the strength in marking that won Swans their early victories.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 789]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096318-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 WANFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 1\nPerth hang on to win despite Tiger recruit Blethyn kicking a controversial last-quarter \u201csoccer\u201d goal that Demon defender Richard Peel believed he kicked himself.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 48], "content_span": [49, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096318-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 WANFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 2\nSwan Districts, after a clean-out by coach Jack Ensor, lead the Tigers 17.9 (111) to 4.9 (33) after three quarters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 48], "content_span": [49, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096318-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 WANFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 3 (Easter weekend)\nThirty-two-year-old Peter Senior leads South Fremantle to a convincing win, along with ten-goal forward Peter Troode.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 65], "content_span": [66, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096318-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 WANFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 4\nSwan Districts kick their highest-ever second quarter score and the highest for that quarter at Bassendean Oval.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 48], "content_span": [49, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096318-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 WANFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 5\nWith John Lewis brilliant at full-back, Claremont kick 9.17 (71) to 2.6 (18) after the first 22 minutes to with their first game in slippery conditions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 48], "content_span": [49, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096318-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 WANFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 7\nInjuries to Vernon Orr, David Mile and fullback John Lewis (who was thrashing Austin Robertson, Jr. and threatening to keep him goalless for the first time since 1965) deny Claremont a win despite playing their best football of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 48], "content_span": [49, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096318-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 WANFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 13\nThree goals from the previously outplayed Archie Duda win East Perth a thriller against the tailender despite a 70-metre shot from Bruce Duperouzel on the siren (which was punched clear).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 49], "content_span": [50, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096318-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 WANFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 17\nWest Perth lose top spot despite winning a game where tailender Claremont wins three quarters, and their injuries rocket Subiaco to premiership favouritism for the first time at this stage since 1935.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 49], "content_span": [50, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096318-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 WANFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 19\nBill Dempsey and reluctant defender Keith Miller help the Cardinals rebound to a thrilling win in a battle of defences. Austin Robertson kicked four goals to finish the match with 1,201, two behind former Cardinal Tyson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 49], "content_span": [50, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096318-0012-0000", "contents": "1973 WANFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 20\nAustin Robertson was chaired from the ground after three goals took him to the WANFL record which he has held since.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 49], "content_span": [50, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096318-0013-0000", "contents": "1973 WANFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 21\nEast Fremantle\u2019s desperation and determination gives them an unexpected finals place after rivals South lose.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 49], "content_span": [50, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096318-0014-0000", "contents": "1973 WANFL season, Finals, First semi-final\nEast Perth reverse the last round result with a dramatic team reshuffle, as East Fremantle fail to use a strong wind in the first quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 43], "content_span": [44, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096318-0015-0000", "contents": "1973 WANFL season, Finals, Second semi-final\nMel Whinnen\u2019s dominance of Peter Featherby in the centre and strong roving by Bill Valli and Shane Sheridan put the Cardinals in the Grand Final more comfortably than the score suggested.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 44], "content_span": [45, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096318-0016-0000", "contents": "1973 WANFL season, Finals, Preliminary final\nSubiaco win for the fourth time over the Royals in a match notable for a behind to East Perth being retracted after being placed on the scoreboard late in the second quarter (due to a Lion free kick).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 44], "content_span": [45, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096318-0017-0000", "contents": "1973 WANFL season, Finals, Grand Final\nSubiaco\u2019s superb defence win their first flag since 1924 on a very windy and damp afternoon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 38], "content_span": [39, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096318-0018-0000", "contents": "1973 WANFL season, Notes\nThe other two were by West Perth against Swan Districts in 1940 and the Cardinals against South Fremantle in 1966.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 24], "content_span": [25, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096319-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament\nThe 1973 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 14th conference playoff in league history. The tournament was played between March 5 and March 11, 1973. All games were played at home team campus sites, including each of the two regional final series. By winning the regional tournaments, both Wisconsin and Denver were invited to participate in the 1973 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096319-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament\nThough not official designations, Wisconsin is considered as the East Regional Champion\u2020 and Denver as the West Regional Champion\u2021.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096319-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format\nThe top eight teams in the WCHA, according to their final conference standings, were eligible for the tournament and were seeded No. 1 through No. 8. In the first round the first and eighth seeds, the second and seventh seeds, the third and sixth seeds and the fourth and fifth seeds were matched in two-game series where the school that scored the higher number of goals was declared the winner. After the first round the remaining teams were reseeded No. 1 through No. 4 according to their final conference standings and advanced to the second round. In the second round the first and fourth seeds and the second and third seeds competed in an additional two-game, total goal series with the winners of each being declared as co-conference champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 45], "content_span": [46, 798]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096319-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format, Conference Standings\nNote: GP = Games Played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 67], "content_span": [68, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096320-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 WCT World Doubles\nThe 1973 WCT World Doubles was a tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts in Montreal in Canada that was part of the 1973 World Championship Tennis circuit. It was the tour finals for the doubles season of the WCT Tour. The tournament was held from May 3 through May 7, 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 306]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096320-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 WCT World Doubles, Final, Doubles\nRobert Lutz / Stan Smith defeated Tom Okker / Marty Riessen 6\u20132, 7\u20136(7\u20131), 6\u20130", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 38], "content_span": [39, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096321-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 WCT World Doubles \u2013 Doubles\nThis was the first edition of the WCT World Doubles tennis tournament. The eight highest ranking teams qualified for the event. Third seeds, Robert Lutz and Stan Smith won the tournament in straight sets in the final against Tom Okker and Marty Riessen", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096322-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 WHA Amateur Draft\nThe 1973 WHA Amateur Draft was the first draft for the World Hockey Association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096322-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 WHA Amateur Draft, Selections by round\nBelow are listed the selections in the 1973 WHA Amateur Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 43], "content_span": [44, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096323-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 WTA Tour\nThe 1973 WTA Tour was composed of the third annual Virginia Slims Circuit and Commercial Union Assurance Grand Prix, a tour of tennis tournaments for female tennis players, sponsored by Virginia Slims cigarettes. It was also the year that the WTA Tour was officially formed by Billie Jean King following a meeting held in the Gloucester Hotel in London during the week before Wimbledon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 400]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096323-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 WTA Tour, Schedule\nThis is a calendar of all events sponsored by Virginia Slims in the year 1973, with player progression documented from the quarterfinals stage. The table also includes the Grand Slam tournaments, the 1973 Virginia Slims Championships and the 1973 Federation Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 23], "content_span": [24, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096323-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 WTA Tour, Grand Prix points system\nThe Grand Prix tournaments were divided into four groups. Group AA consisted of the Triple Crown \u2013 the French Open, the Wimbledon Championships and the US Open \u2013 while the other tournaments were divided into Groups A, B and C by prize money and draw size. Points were allocated based on these groups and the finishing position of a player in a tournament. No points were awarded to first round losers and ties were settled by the number of tournaments played. The points allocation is listed below:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 39], "content_span": [40, 538]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096323-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 WTA Tour, Statistical information\nThese tables present the number of singles (S), doubles (D), and mixed doubles (X) titles won by each player and each nation during the 1973 Virginia Slims Circuit. They also include data for the Grand Slam tournaments and the year-end championships. The table is sorted by:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 38], "content_span": [39, 313]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096323-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 WTA Tour, Statistical information\n1) total number of titles (a doubles title won by two players representing the same nation counts as only one win for the nation);2) highest amount of highest category tournaments (for example, having a single Grand Slam gives preference over any kind of combination without a Grand Slam title);3) a singles > doubles > mixed doubles hierarchy;4) alphabetical order (by family names for players).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 38], "content_span": [39, 435]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096324-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team\nThe 1973 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team was an American football team that represented Wake Forest University in the Atlantic Coast Conference during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. In its first season under head coach Chuck Mills, the team compiled a 1\u20139\u20131 record (0\u20135\u20131 against ACC opponents) and finished last in the conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096325-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Walker Cup\nThe 1973 Walker Cup, the 24th Walker Cup Match, was played on August 24 and 25, 1973, at The Country Club, Brookline, Massachusetts. The event was won by the United States 14 to 10.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096325-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Walker Cup\nGreat Britain and Ireland failed to win any foursomes matches, losing six and halving the other two. In first singles session Great Britain and Ireland won five matches but needing 6\u00bd points from the final 8 singles they could only win three, halve two while two of the lost matches went to the last hole.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096325-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Walker Cup, Format\nThe format for play on Friday and Saturday was the same. There were four matches of foursomes in the morning and eight singles matches in the afternoon. In all, 24 matches were played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 23], "content_span": [24, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096325-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Walker Cup, Format\nEach of the 24 matches was worth one point in the larger team competition. If a match was all square after the 18th hole extra holes were not played. Rather, each side earned \u00bd a point toward their team total. The team that accumulated at least 12\u00bd points won the competition. If the two teams were tied, the previous winner would retain the trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 23], "content_span": [24, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096325-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Walker Cup, Teams\nTen players for the United States and Great Britain & Ireland participated in the event plus one non-playing captain for each team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 22], "content_span": [23, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096326-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Washington Huskies football team\nThe 1973 Washington Huskies football team was an American football team that represented the University of Washington during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. In its 17th season under head coach Jim Owens, the team compiled a 2\u20139 record, (0\u20137 in the Pacific-8 Conference, last), and was outscored 376 to 218.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096326-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Washington Huskies football team\nThe Huskies dropped the Apple Cup for the second straight year. The 52\u201326 loss at Husky Stadium remains as Washington's worst home loss in the series; they rebounded and won the next eight, through 1981.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096326-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Washington Huskies football team\nJunior defensive lineman Dave Pear was selected as the team's most valuable player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096326-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Washington Huskies football team, NFL Draft selections\nOne University of Washington Husky was selected in the 1974 NFL Draft, which lasted seventeen rounds with 442 selections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 59], "content_span": [60, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096327-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Washington Redskins season\nThe 1973 Washington Redskins season was the franchise's 42nd season in the National Football League (NFL) and their 37th in Washington, D.C.. The team failed to improve on their 11\u20133 record from 1972, and finished 10-4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096328-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Washington Star International\nThe 1973 Washington Star International was a men's tennis tournament that was played on outdoor clay courts at the Washington Tennis Stadium in Washington, D.C.. The event was categorized as a Grade A tournament and was part of the 1973 Grand Prix circuit. It was the fifth edition of the tournament and was held from July 23 through July 29, 1973, and was the first event on the US Tour leading up to the 1973 US Open. Third-seeded Arthur Ashe won the singles title and $11,000 prize money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096328-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Washington Star International, Finals, Doubles\nRoss Case / Geoff Masters defeated Dick Crealy / Andrew Pattison 2\u20136, 6\u20134, 6\u20134", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 51], "content_span": [52, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096329-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Washington State Cougars football team\nThe 1973 Washington State Cougars football team was an American football team that represented Washington State University in the Pacific-8 Conference (Pac-8) during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. In their sixth season under head coach Jim Sweeney, the Cougars compiled a 5\u20136 record (4\u20133 in Pac-8, fourth), and were outscored 290 to 250.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096329-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Washington State Cougars football team\nThe team's statistical leaders included Chuck Peck with 1,023 passing yards, Andrew Jones with 1,059 rushing yards, and Tim\u00a0Krause with 384 receiving yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096329-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Washington State Cougars football team\nThe Cougars won their last four games, all in conference, which included a sweep of the three Northwest teams; the\u00a0season concluded with a second consecutive win in the Apple Cup over Washington, this time a 52\u201326 rout on the road in\u00a0Seattle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096329-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Washington State Cougars football team, All-conference\nThree Washington State players were named to the All-Pac-8 team: senior linebacker Tom Poe, junior guard Steve Ostermann, and junior center Geoff\u00a0Reece. Ostermann was a repeat selection; he and Reece returned to the first team the next\u00a0year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 59], "content_span": [60, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096330-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 West Bromwich by-election\nThe West Bromwich by-election of 24 May 1973 was held after the appointment of Labour Member of Parliament (MP) Maurice Foley to the European Commission. Held continuously by Labour since 1935 it was retained in this by-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 260]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096330-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 West Bromwich by-election, Campaign\nThe election campaign was noted for the refusal of Enoch Powell, MP for neighbouring Wolverhampton South West, to endorse Conservative candidate David Bell as he felt that Bell was too far removed from his own policies on immigration and United Kingdom membership of the European Community. Although Powell did not endorse any candidate the National Front claimed that Powell's refusal to support Bell represented tacit endorsement. As a consequence Martin Webster captured 16% of the vote, an all-time high for the NF to save its deposit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096330-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 West Bromwich by-election, Campaign\nIn common with a number of by-elections at the time the Liberal Party did not compete for this seat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096331-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 West Dorset District Council election\nThe 1973 West Dorset District Council election was held on Thursday 10 May 1973 to elect councillors to the new West Dorset District Council in England. It took place on the same day as other district council elections in the United Kingdom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096331-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 West Dorset District Council election\nThese were the first elections to the new district council, which would come into effect on 1 April 1974. Future elections would take place every three years, with the next election scheduled for 6 May 1976.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096331-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 West Dorset District Council election\nThe 1973 election saw Independent councillors take a significant majority on the Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096332-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 West Glamorgan County Council election\nThe first election to West Glamorgan County Council and was held in April 1973. It was followed by the 1977 election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096332-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 West Glamorgan County Council election\nThe new authority came into effect from 1 April 1974 following the division of the former Glamorgan County Council into three new authorities.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096332-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 West Glamorgan County Council election, Candidates\nThe Labour Party fielded candidates in every ward. A significant proportion of seats were contested by the Conservative Party and Plaid Cymru with fewer candidates fielded by the Liberal Party.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096332-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 West Glamorgan County Council election, Candidates\nNumerous members of the former Glamorgan County Council stood for election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 55], "content_span": [56, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096332-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 West Glamorgan County Council election, Results\no indicates sitting councillor on Glamorgan County Council or Swansea City Council prior to 1973 election", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 52], "content_span": [53, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096332-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 West Glamorgan County Council election, Results\nA indicates sitting alderman on Glamorgan County Council or Swansea City Council prior to 1973 election", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [45, 52], "content_span": [53, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096333-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 West Virginia Mountaineers football team\nThe 1973 West Virginia Mountaineers football team represented West Virginia University in the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. It was the Mountaineers' 81st overall season and they competed as an independent. The team was led by head coach Bobby Bowden, in his fourthyear, and played their home games at Mountaineer Field in Morgantown, West Virginia. They finished the season with a record of 6\u20135.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096334-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 West Yorkshire County Council election\nElections for West Yorkshire County Council were held in 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096335-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers football team\nThe 1973 Western Kentucky football team represented Western Kentucky University during the inaugural 1973 NCAA Division II football season. The team came off an 7\u20133 record from the prior season and was led by coach Jimmy Feix. They finished the regular season undefeated and won the Ohio Valley Conference championship. The Hilltoppers made the initial NCAA Division II Football Championship, winning their first two playoff games, including a win over Grambling in the Grantland Rice Bowl, before falling in the championship game to Louisiana Tech in the Camellia Bowl. Their rankings in the final polls were UPI 2 and AP 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 673]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096335-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers football team\nThis team was one of the best in school history, set a school record for victories, and finished ranked 1st in NCAA Division II in Scoring Offense. The roster included future NFL players Virgil Livers, John Bushong, David Carter, Rick Caswell, Clarence \u201cJazz\u201d Jackson, and Mike McCoy. Porter Williams and David Nollner were named to All American teams, Lonnie Schuster was named OVC Defensive Player of the Year, and Feix OVC Coach of the Year. The All OVC team included Bushong, Jackson, Charlie Johnson, McCoy, Bob Morehead, Nollner, Schuster, Aundra Skiles, and Williams. The coaching staff included future NFL coach Romeo Crennel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 682]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096336-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Western Michigan Broncos football team\nThe 1973 Western Michigan Broncos football team represented Western Michigan University in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. In their 10th season under head coach Bill Doolittle, the Broncos compiled a 6\u20135 record (1\u20134 against MAC opponents), finished in a tie for fifth place in the MAC, and were outscored by their opponents, 218 to 190. The team played its home games at Waldo Stadium in Kalamazoo, Michigan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096336-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Western Michigan Broncos football team\nThe team's statistical leaders included Paul Jorgensen with 718 passing yards and 476 rushing yards and Ted Forrest with 282 receiving yards. Fullback Larry Cates and linebacker Dominic Riggio were the team captains. For the second consecutive year, Riggio received the team's most outstanding player award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096337-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Western Samoan general election\nGeneral elections were held in Western Samoa on 24 February 1973. All candidates ran as independents and voting was restricted to matai and citizens of European origin (\"individual voters\"), with the matai electing 45 MPs and Europeans two. Following the election, Fiame Mata'afa became Prime Minister for a second term, having previously held the office between 1959 and 1970.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096337-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Western Samoan general election, Campaign\nPrior to the elections, candidates were decided upon at meetings of chiefs. If there was unanimity, only one candidate would be put forward; if there were disagreements, multiple candidates would be nominated. A total of 160 candidates contested the elections, with twelve seats having only one candidate (seven of whom were incumbents), who were returned unopposed. Former Prime Minister Mata'afa, who held one of the four highest chiefly titles, was challenged by Aupito Tulaniu, an opponent of the domination of Samoan society by chiefs. His candidacy was regarded by several chiefs as the 'work of the devil'.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 660]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096337-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Western Samoan general election, Campaign\nThe incumbent government led by Tupua Tamasese had become increasingly unpopular since taking office following the 1970 elections. An increase in import duties led to rising food costs and car prices, whilst cabinet infighting and perceived lack of work ethic of some ministers had also been issues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096337-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Western Samoan general election, Campaign\nThe Samoa Times reported that the election campaign saw candidates giving away food and money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096337-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Western Samoan general election, Results\nTwenty-eight of the forty-seven members were new to the Legislative Assembly, with only eleven incumbent MLAs in contested seats being re-elected. Minister of Education Tuala Paulo, Minister of Finance Tofa Siaosi, Minister of Justice Amoa Tausilia, Minister for the Post Office Fuimaono Moasope and the Speaker Magele Ate were all defeated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096337-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Western Samoan general election, Results\nIn Gaga'ifomauga No. 1 the result was a tie between Tiapili Filisi and Timu Kolio. The outcome was decided by drawing lots, with Tiapili declared the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096337-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Western Samoan general election, Results\nVoting in Satupa'itea constituency was delayed until May due to the death of Asiata Lagolago, one of the candidates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 45], "content_span": [46, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096337-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Western Samoan general election, Aftermath\nFollowing the elections, the victory of Mapuilesua Malo in Palauli-le-Falefa was challenged by losing candidate Le Tagaloa Pita, who alleged that ten matai should not have been able to vote in the constituency. A recount was ordered by Chief Justice Gaven Donne, with Pita subsequently declared the winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 47], "content_span": [48, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096337-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Western Samoan general election, Aftermath\nToleafoa Talitimu was elected Speaker with 28 votes, defeating Leaupepe Faimaala (12) and Teo Fetu (6). Fetu subsequently defeated Faimaala in the Deputy Speaker election by a margin of 27 votes to 18. Three candidates stood to be Prime Minister; incumbent Tupua Tamasese, former Prime Minister Fiame Mata'afa and Tufuga Efi. In the first round of voting, Mata'afa won with 23 votes; Efi received 13 and Tamasese 9. Mata'afa subsequently appointed a new cabinet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 47], "content_span": [48, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096337-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Western Samoan general election, Aftermath\nMata'afa died in May 1975, after which Tupua Tamasese was appointed as his replacement, also appointing a new cabinet. However, later in 1975 he sacked both Pinati and Saili. Minister for Works Aumua Ioane became the new Finance Minister, while Vaovasamanaia Filipo was appointed as the new Minister for Agriculture, and Tofaeono Tile as Minister for Works to replace Ioane.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 47], "content_span": [48, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096338-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Westhoughton by-election\nThe Westhoughton by election took place for the House of Commons of the United Kingdom in Westhoughton on 24 May 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096338-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Westhoughton by-election\nIt was won by Roger Stott who held the seat for Labour after the death on 1 February of the previous MP, Tom Price.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096339-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Westminster bombing\nThe 1973 Westminster bombing was a car bomb that exploded on Thorney Street, off Horseferry Road, in Millbank, London on 18 December 1973. The explosion injured up to 60 people. The bomb was planted in a car that was stolen, and it was parked in front of the Home Office building when it exploded on Tuesday morning. Two telephone warnings were given within half an hour before the blast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096339-0000-0001", "contents": "1973 Westminster bombing\nThe Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) was responsible for the attack, and was assumed to have been in retaliation to the jailing of the Provisional IRA Belfast Brigade members who bombed the Old Bailey earlier in the year. A day earlier, the IRA sent two parcel bombs that targeted two politicians.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096339-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Westminster bombing, Background\nThe Troubles had been raging for four years in Northern Ireland and to a lesser extent in the Republic of Ireland since the Battle of the Bogside in Derry in August 1969. Great Britain had been relatively untouched from the violence up until the beginning of 1973 when the IRA Army Council had drawn up plans for a bombing campaign to take place in England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 36], "content_span": [37, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096340-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Whitbread Awards\nThe Whitbread Awards (1971\u20132005), called Costa Book Awards since 2006, are literary awards in the United Kingdom, awarded both for high literary merit but also for works considered enjoyable reading. This page gives details of the awards given in the year 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096340-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Whitbread Awards, Children's Book\nPlomer adapted an 1802 poem by William Roscoe, The Butterfly's Ball, and the Grasshopper's Feast.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 38], "content_span": [39, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096341-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council election\nThe 1973 Wigan Council elections for the First Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council were held on 10 May 1973, with the entirety of the 72 seat council - three seats for each of the 24 wards - up for vote. It was the first council election as the newly formed metropolitan borough under a new constitution. The Local Government Act 1972 stipulated that the elected members were to shadow and eventually take over from the predecessor corporation on 1 April 1974. The order in which the councillors were elected dictated their term serving, with third-place candidates serving two years and up for re-election in 1975, second-placed three years expiring in 1976 and 1st-placed five years until 1978.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 744]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096341-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council election\nLabour won an overwhelming majority of sixty six seats to the Conservative's five and one Independent. Nine seats - for wards 13, 17 and 21 collectively - went unopposed and overall turnout was 34.5%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096341-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council election, Election result\nhis result has the following consequences for the total number of seats on the Council after the elections:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 65], "content_span": [66, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096342-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Wightman Cup\nThe 1973 Wightman Cup was the 45th edition of the annual women's team tennis competition between the United States and Great Britain. It was held at Longwood Cricket Club in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts in the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096343-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Wildwater Canoeing World Championships\nThe 1973 Wildwater Canoeing World Championships was the 8th edition of the global wildwater canoeing competition, Wildwater Canoeing World Championships, organised by the International Canoe Federation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096344-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 William & Mary Indians football team\nThe 1973 William & Mary Indians football team represented the College of William & Mary as a member of the Southern Conference (SoCon) during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. Led by Jim Root in his second year as head coach, William & Mary finished the season 6\u20135 overall and 3\u20132 in SoCon play to place third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096345-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Wiltshire County Council election\nElections to Wiltshire County Council were held on Thursday, 12 April 1973. The whole council of seventy-nine members was up for election, and the Conservatives came within a whisker of taking formal control.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096345-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Wiltshire County Council election\nThe Chairman of the Council since 1969, Sir Henry Langton, did not stand for re-election, and at the annual meeting later in April was succeeded by Frank Willan, who continued for the whole four years of the council's term of office.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096345-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Wiltshire County Council election, Election result\nThe Conservatives, with thirty-nine seats, took effective control of the county council. Labour ended with twenty-two county councillors, most of them in and around Swindon, while Independents ended the election with twelve seats and the Liberals six. The elections were not fiercely fought everywhere, with twenty-four of the sixty-seven divisions uncontested. Most of the uncontested seats, eighteen, went to Conservatives, five to Independents, and one to a Liberal, Jack Ainslie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 55], "content_span": [56, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096346-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Wimbledon Championships\nThe 1973 Wimbledon Championships was a tennis tournament that took place on the outdoor grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. The tournament was scheduled to be held from Monday 25 June until Saturday 7 July 1973 but rain on the final Friday meant that the women's singles final was postponed until Saturday and the mixed doubles final was rescheduled to Sunday 8 July. It was the 87th staging of the Wimbledon Championships, and the third Grand Slam tennis event of 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096346-0000-0001", "contents": "1973 Wimbledon Championships\nJan Kode\u0161 and Billie Jean King won the singles titles. King became the first player in the open era to claim the triple crown, the second time in her career she won all three titles open to women players. Her three victories necessitated playing six matches on the final weekend of the tournament: The singles final, the doubles semi-final and final and the mixed doubles quarter-final, semi-final and final, which was played on the extended Sunday schedule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 487]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096346-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Wimbledon Championships, ATP boycott\nIn May 1973 Nikola Pili\u0107, Yugoslavia's number one tennis player, was suspended by his national lawn tennis association, the Yugoslav Tennis Association, which claimed he had refused to play in a Davis Cup tie for his country against New Zealand earlier that month. The initial suspension of nine months, supported by the International Lawn Tennis Federation (ILTF), later was reduced by the ILTF to one month, which meant that Pili\u0107 would not be permitted to play at Wimbledon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096346-0001-0001", "contents": "1973 Wimbledon Championships, ATP boycott\nThe recently formed men's players union, the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), stated that none should compete if Pili\u0107 were not allowed to compete. As a result, 81 of the top players, including reigning champion Stan Smith, boycotted Wimbledon in 1973 to protest the suspension of Nikola Pili\u0107. Twelve of the 16 men's seeds had withdrawn. This resulted in a large number of qualifiers and lucky losers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 454]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096346-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Wimbledon Championships, ATP boycott\nThree ATP players, Ilie N\u0103stase, Roger Taylor and Ray Keldie, defied the boycott and were fined by the ATP's disciplinary committee. N\u0103stase unsuccessfully appealed the fine as he insisted that as a serving captain, he was under orders from the Romanian army and government to compete. Some contemporary press speculation and later biographies have suggested N\u0103stase contrived to lose his fourth round match as he supported the ATP boycott, but to have lost any earlier to a considerably less able player would have been too obvious. N\u0103stase never has commented on this speculation. Despite the boycott, the attendance of 300,172 was the second highest in the championships' history to that date.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 738]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096346-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Wimbledon Championships, Prize money\nThe total prize money for 1973 championships was \u00a352,400. The winner of the men's title earned \u00a35,000 while the women's singles champion earned \u00a33,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096346-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Wimbledon Championships, Champions, Seniors, Men's Doubles\nJimmy Connors / Ilie N\u0103stase defeated John Cooper / Neale Fraser, 3\u20136, 6\u20133, 6\u20134, 8\u20139(3\u20137), 6\u20131", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 63], "content_span": [64, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096346-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Wimbledon Championships, Champions, Seniors, Women's Doubles\nRosemary Casals / Billie Jean King defeated Fran\u00e7oise D\u00fcrr / Betty St\u00f6ve, 6\u20131, 4\u20136, 7\u20135", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 65], "content_span": [66, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096346-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Wimbledon Championships, Champions, Seniors, Mixed Doubles\nOwen Davidson / Billie Jean King defeated Ra\u00fal Ram\u00edrez / Janet Newberry, 6\u20133, 6\u20132", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 63], "content_span": [64, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096347-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Boys' Singles\nBilly Martin defeated Colin Dowdeswell in the final, 6\u20132, 6\u20134 to win the Boys' Singles tennis title at the 1973 Wimbledon Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096348-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Girls' Singles\nAnn Kiyomura defeated Martina Navr\u00e1tilov\u00e1 in the final, 6\u20134, 7\u20135 to win the Girls' Singles tennis title at the 1973 Wimbledon Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096349-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's Doubles\nBob Hewitt and Frew McMillan did not defend their title as they participated in the Wimbledon boycott of 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096349-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's Doubles\nJimmy Connors and Ilie N\u0103stase defeated John Cooper and Neale Fraser in the final, 3\u20136, 6\u20133, 6\u20134, 8\u20139(3\u20137), 6\u20131 to win the Gentlemen's Doubles title at the 1973 Wimbledon Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096349-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's Doubles, Seeds\nClick on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 51], "content_span": [52, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096350-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's Singles\nJan Kode\u0161 defeated Alex Metreveli in the final, 6\u20131, 9\u20138(7\u20135), 6\u20133 to win the Gentlemen's Singles tennis title at the 1973 Wimbledon Championships. The final included a tie-break played at 8\u20138 in the second set; it was the first ever Wimbledon singles final to include a tie-break.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096350-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's Singles\n81 of the top Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) players, including defending champion Stan Smith, boycotted Wimbledon in 1973 in protest against the suspension of Nikola Pili\u0107 by the Yugoslav Tennis Association, supported by the International Lawn Tennis Federation (ILTF). This resulted in numerous qualifiers and lucky losers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096350-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's Singles, Seeds\nClick on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 51], "content_span": [52, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096351-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's Singles Qualifying\nPlayers who neither had high enough rankings nor received wild cards to enter the main draw of the annual Wimbledon Tennis Championships participated in a qualifying tournament held one week before the event. Several players withdrew from the main draw after qualifying had commenced, leading to the highest ranked players who lost in the final qualifying round to be entered into the main draw as lucky losers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096351-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Men's Singles Qualifying\nThe 1973 Wimbledon Championships featured an abnormally large number of qualifiers and lucky losers because 81 of the top Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) players, including defending champion Stan Smith, boycotted the tournament in protest against the suspension of Nikola Pili\u0107 by the Yugoslav Tennis Association, supported by the International Lawn Tennis Federation (ILTF).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096352-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Mixed Doubles\nIlie N\u0103stase and Rosie Casals were the defending champions, but lost in the semifinals to Ra\u00fal Ram\u00edrez and Janet Newberry. Rain delays to the tournament necessitated matches from the fourth round, quarterfinals, semifinals and the final itself being completed on the last two days of the tournament. Davidson and King played three matches on the final day of the tournament to earn their victory, giving King the triple crown. No other player has won the triple crown at Wimbledon in the open era.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 542]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096352-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Mixed Doubles\nOwen Davidson and Billie Jean King defeated Ram\u00edrez and Newberry in the final, 6\u20133, 6\u20132 to win the Mixed Doubles tennis title at the 1973 Wimbledon Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096352-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Mixed Doubles, Seeds\nClick on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 51], "content_span": [52, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096353-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Women's Doubles\nBillie Jean King and Betty St\u00f6ve were the defending champions, but decided not to play together.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096353-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Women's Doubles\nKing and Rosie Casals defeated St\u00f6ve and Fran\u00e7oise D\u00fcrr in the final, 6\u20131, 4\u20136, 7\u20135 to win the Ladies' Doubles tennis title at the 1973 Wimbledon Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096353-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Women's Doubles, Seeds\nClick on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 53], "content_span": [54, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096354-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Women's Singles\nBillie Jean King successfully defended her title, defeating Chris Evert in the final, 6\u20130, 7\u20135 to win the Ladies' Singles tennis title at the 1973 Wimbledon Championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096354-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Women's Singles, Seeds\nClick on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section. For the first time since 1954, all eight seeded players reached the quarter-final stage of the tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 53], "content_span": [54, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096355-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Wimbledon Championships \u2013 Women's Singles Qualifying\nPlayers who neither had high enough rankings nor received wild cards to enter the main draw of the annual Wimbledon Tennis Championships participated in a qualifying tournament held one week before the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 57], "section_span": [57, 57], "content_span": [58, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096356-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Winston 500\nThe 1973 Winston 500 was the tenth round of the 1973 NASCAR Winston Cup Series held on May 6, 1973, at Alabama International Motor Speedway in Talladega, Alabama (AIMS).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096356-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Winston 500\nThe race was won by David Pearson. His was the only car on the lead lap by the end of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096356-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Winston 500\nAlso notable was a fourth-place finish by Clarence Lovell, This was Lovell's best career finish and his only finish in the top five of a NASCAR Cup race. Lovell would die five days later on May 11, in a single vehicle truck accident which occurred while he was trying to change a tape in a dashboard-mounted tape deck.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096356-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Winston 500\nEddie Yarboro fell out of this race with a mechanical issue in the opening laps before the \"Big One.\" This was Yarboro's only Cup start of the season and his last in the series overall, the self-owned independent had largely switched over to racing in NASCAR's more short-track focused Grand National East series for 1973 and made a few more starts there later in the summer before dropping off the national stage.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096356-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Winston 500, Background\nFor the 1973 Winston 500 race, the usual starting field of 50 was expanded to 60 by track management, and this would later prove controversial due to events in the race. Factions in the NASCAR management wanted to have a larger field that'd attract more fans to watch the races, and that a larger field with a bigger purse would catch the eyes of more teams. Of course, they were warned that starting 60 cars would be a strain at the track, and might be potentially hazardous for drivers (even when compared to NASCAR in the 21st century), but the NASCAR management ignored it, and, it resulted in this infamous race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 646]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096356-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Winston 500, Summary, Pre-race ceremonies\nThen Alabama governor George Wallace would be named the grand marshal for the event, while his wife Cornelia Wallace would drive the pace car. Before the race, George, who ten years earlier had tried to lead the Stand in the Schoolhouse Door, put out his hand to the only black driver racing that day, Wendell Scott. The two shook hands, and a photographer took a picture. According to Hard Driving: The Wendell Scott Story, Scott's expression on his face was \"inscrutable\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 46], "content_span": [47, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096356-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Winston 500, Summary, \"The Big One\"\nOn lap 9, Ramo Stott's engine let go, dumping oil onto the speedway's asphalt. Wendell Scott, behind him, spun out, and both cars skidded into Talladega's infield, creating a massive cloud of dirt and dust. The combination of oil on the track and suddenly limited visibility caused a massive pileup. 23 cars were involved.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096356-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 Winston 500, Summary, \"The Big One\"\nOne contemporary recorded film account called it \"The worst accident in NASCAR history\", in terms of the number of cars involved.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096356-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 Winston 500, Summary, \"The Big One\"\nAll drivers were able to leave their cars under their own power. Buddy Baker and Cale Yarborough were eliminated, and when they got out of their cars they had to dodge additional cars crashing around them. Some drivers did have injuries. Several received lacerations; Earl Brooks had a broken hand, Joe Frasson had shoulder injuries, and Slick Gardner suffered a knee injury.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096356-0008-0001", "contents": "1973 Winston 500, Summary, \"The Big One\"\nWendell Scott, who was covered in blood everywhere on his body, would suffer the worst injuries: a fractured left leg, fractured pelvis in numerous places, broke three ribs, ripped most of the skin from his left forearm, and would seriously injure his right kidney. His arm bone was also visible and poking out, according to Frank Scott, Wendell's son. The crash would ultimately lead to Scott's retirement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096356-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 Winston 500, Summary, \"The Big One\"\nBobby Allison, one of the drivers eliminated in the lap 9/10 wreck, later ripped the track's management for the field size of 60 set by track management - \"They (filled the field) all right, all over the backstretch.\" Joe Frasson, already bloodied said \"I hope to hell France is happy. NASCAR had no business starting 60 cars.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096356-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 Winston 500, Summary, \"The Big One\"\nCleanup from the wreck proceeded under 37 laps of a yellow flag, lasting one hour and five minutes. 19 cars were eliminated outright. A few others, including that of Richard Petty, were repaired and eventually ran more laps.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096356-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 Winston 500, Summary, \"The Big One\"\nDavid Pearson lost the lead draft (Buddy Baker saying Pearson fouled out the spark plugs on his Mercury and then got them replaced under the lengthy yellow).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096356-0012-0000", "contents": "1973 Winston 500, Summary, After the wreck\nOn lap 73, the engine of D. K. Ulrich's car dumped oil onto the track and caused another caution. Before this caution is over, Darrell Waltrip's car was retired due to a blown piston.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 42], "content_span": [43, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096356-0013-0000", "contents": "1973 Winston 500, Summary, After the wreck\nPearson's number 21 car was not left with much competition after the large lap 9 accident. He stretched out a very wide lead by the end of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 42], "content_span": [43, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096356-0014-0000", "contents": "1973 Winston 500, Summary, After the wreck\nOn lap 185, Vic Parsons's engine exploded, and his car slipped in the dumped oil, causing a crash. The race ended under caution, with Pearson taking the yellow and checkered flag. Pearson was the only car on the lead lap at the end of the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 42], "content_span": [43, 287]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096357-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Winston Western 500\nThe 1973 Winston Western 500 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series racing event that was held on January 21, 1973, at Riverside International Raceway in Riverside, California. There were 191 laps; which was very hardcore at a road course for the early-1970s. The time of the race was almost 5 hours long; which made it the equivalent of 2.5 regulation-length Formula One races.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096357-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Winston Western 500\nThe race was won by Mark Donohue. It would be his only win of the season. It was AMC's first win in the Grand National/Winston Cup series as a manufacturer since April 1, 1951.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096357-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Winston Western 500, Pre-race\nBefore race Sunday, there were concerns about the health of Bobby Allison (who had been ill with the flu). As the race began, a report from the pits stated that Allison was feeling 'much better' than he had been, and hoped to complete at least half the race (if not all of the race) on his own, without resorting to a relief driver in his brother, Donnie Allison.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 398]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096357-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Winston Western 500, Pre-race\nJohn Hren was the only driver who failed to qualify for the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096357-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Winston Western 500, Race\nFor the first five years of his NASCAR career Cecil \"Flash\" Gordon was a stalwart FoMoCo racer but for 1973 he made the big switch to General Motors. This race marked the debut for his brand-new #24 Chevrolet and while he went out with transmission failure here Gordon would remain in the GM stable throughout almost all of his remaining NASCAR starts. He'd race Chevrolets exclusively for the next six seasons before he started running a variety of different cars from GM.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 30], "content_span": [31, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096357-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 Winston Western 500, Race\nMark Donohue drove an AMC Matador featured a set of disc brakes \u2013 new for NASCAR racing at the time \u2013 and led 138 laps en route to the win. David Pearson won the pole but never led and fell out with clutch failure, while Richard Petty started fifth and led 39 laps before his engine failed while leading on Lap 95. Bobby Allison finished second driving a self-fielded Chevrolet following a surprise divorce from the Richard Howard team. Cale Yarborough, new driver for Howard's team with the cars renumbered to #11, fell out with transmission failure.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 30], "content_span": [31, 582]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096357-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 Winston Western 500, Race\nFinishing a respectable 15th was Gerald Thompson in a '73 Pontiac Grand Am. Unfortunately after losing a engine in their Daytona qualifier the following month, the team apparently packed it in due to lack of funding. If so, it was a shame, because the Grand Am made for a very cool looking stock car.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 30], "content_span": [31, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096358-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election\nThe 1973 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 10 May 1973 to elect members of Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096358-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council election\nThe election took place a year before the council formally coming into its powers and prior to the creation of the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, as a merger of the county boroughs of Birkenhead and Wallasey, along with the municipal borough of Bebington and the urban districts of Hoylake and Wirral.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096359-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Wisconsin Badgers football team\nThe 1973 Wisconsin Badgers football team represented the University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison in the 1973 Big Ten Conference football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096360-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Wolverhampton Metropolitan Borough Council election\nThe first elections to the Wolverhampton Metropolitan Borough Council were held on 10 May 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096360-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Wolverhampton Metropolitan Borough Council election, Background\nThe metropolitan district was one of the new authorities created by the Local Government Act 1972, which completely reorganised local administration in England and Wales. The new district, one of seven in the West Midlands, had an identical area to the existing County Borough of Wolverhampton. The first council was elected as a \"shadow authority\", with the reorganisation coming into effect in the following year on 1 April 1974. Subsequent to the election the shadow council successfully petitioned for a royal charter granting borough status, becoming Wolverhampton Metropolitan Borough Council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 68], "content_span": [69, 668]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096360-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Wolverhampton Metropolitan Borough Council election, Elections\nAt this first election all 60 councillors were elected, there being three councillors in each of the 20 wards. In an anomaly of the usual procedure for local elections, the candidate in first place was elected for 5 years, the candidate in second place for 3 years and the candidate in third place for 2 years. This was to allow for the \"shadow\" year of 1974 when the Metropolitan Borough Council was operating in shadow of the County Borough. From 1975 elections were by thirds with one councillor retiring in each ward.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 67], "content_span": [68, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096360-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Wolverhampton Metropolitan Borough Council election, Elections\nFollowing the election the Labour Party had overall control of the council with 40 councillors to the Conservatives 20. Following the final county borough election held in 1972 the two parties had held 40 seats each on the 80 member council.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 67], "content_span": [68, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096361-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Women's British Open Squash Championship\nThe 1973 Women's Open Squash Championships was held at the BP Club in Lower Sydenham, London from 2\u20138 March 1973. Heather McKay (n\u00e9e Blundell) won her twelfth consecutive title defeating Cecilie Fleming in the final. The final match lasted just sixteen minutes as McKay once again continued to easily outplay all opposition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096362-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Women's College World Series\nThe 1973 Women's College World Series was contested among 16 teams on May 17-20 in Omaha, Nebraska. It was the first series held under the auspices of the AIAW, which had recently been established by the Division of Girls' and Women's Sports (DGWS) for the purpose of conducting national championships.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096362-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Women's College World Series, Teams\nArizona State won its second consecutive WCWS championship, splitting the final two games with Illinois State, including the marathon final game that went 16 innings. Margie Wright pitched all 16 innings in that game for the Redbirds as they narrowly fell to Arizona State, 4-3. On the day of that final, Wright hurled 30 innings in three games. Ironically, for pitching too many innings in one day, a three-woman Illinois sports commission suspended her from pitching in any game in her upcoming senior season and also banned the softball team from post-season play in 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 40], "content_span": [41, 616]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096363-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Women's Cricket World Cup\nThe 1973 Women's Cricket World Cup was the first tournament of its kind, held two years before the first limited overs World Cup for men in 1975. The competition was won by the hosts, England. The competition was the brainchild of businessman Sir Jack Hayward, who contributed \u00a340,000 towards its costs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096363-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Women's Cricket World Cup\nEngland, Australia, New Zealand, Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica were joined by an International XI and a Young England side in a round robin league which saw the top team win the World Cup. England topped the group with 20 points from their six matches, including five victories and one defeat, while Australia were runners up posting 17 points with four wins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096363-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Women's Cricket World Cup\nThe final round robin match, held at Edgbaston on 28 July, was distinguished by a commanding century by Enid Bakewell of England, whose 118 formed the bedrock of England's imposing 279-3 in their 60 overs, with captain Rachel Heyhoe-Flint scoring 64. Australia were restricted by tight England bowling and fell well short of their target, scoring 187-9. The cup was presented by Princess Anne and the winning England team were hosted at a reception at 10 Downing Street by Prime Minister Edward Heath.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096363-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Women's Cricket World Cup\nBakewell, one of England's finest all time players, was the leading run-scorer in the competition with 264 runs while Rosalind Heggs, of Young England, headed the bowling aggregates with 12 wickets. The next World Cup was held five years later in 1978.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096364-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Women's World Allround Speed Skating Championships\nThe 34th edition of the World Allround Speed Skating Championships for Women took place on 24 and 25 February in Str\u00f6msund at the Str\u00f6msvallen Str\u00f6msund ice rink.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096365-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 World 600\nThe 1973 World 600, the 14th running of the event, was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series racing event that was held on May 27, 1973, at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096365-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 World 600, Summary\nThe grid consisted of 40 drivers. Alton Jones would finish in last place due to an engine problem on lap 2 out of the 400 laps that made up the race. Buddy Baker defeated David Pearson by 1.8 seconds in front of 85,000 spectators. Baker made history as he became the first driver to both win this race two years in a row and win the race three times. Six cautions slowed the race for 48 laps. There were 23 different leaders. The race lasted four hours and twenty-six seconds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 23], "content_span": [24, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096365-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 World 600, Summary\nBaker would qualify for the pole position with a speed of 158.051 miles per hour (254.358\u00a0km/h) while the average race speed was 134.890 miles per hour (217.084\u00a0km/h). Other drivers in the top ten included: Cale Yarborough, Bobby Isaac, Benny Parsons, Jim Vandiver, Darrell Waltrip, Cecil Gordon, Dick Brooks, and David Sisco. Ed Negre (#08), David Ray Boggs (#8) and Charlie Roberts failed to qualify for the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 23], "content_span": [24, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096365-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 World 600, Summary\nPeter Gregg had a terrible crash early in the race in the final race for Cotton Owens' famous red #6 Dodges, then Vic Parsons would have had hard crash later on in the race.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 23], "content_span": [24, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096365-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 World 600, Summary\nNotable crew chiefs in the race were Tim Brewer, Jake Elder, Travis Carter, Harry Hyde, Dale Inman, Vic Ballard, Tom Vandiver, and Bud Moore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 23], "content_span": [24, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096365-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 World 600, Summary\nOn the day of the race, 0.01 inches of precipitation would be recorded around the speedway. It would be enough rain to delay the race from lap 241 to lap 256.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 23], "content_span": [24, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096365-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 World 600, Summary\nCotton Owens would retire as a NASCAR race car owner after this race. David Pearson would be prevented from tying Richard Petty's record of ten consecutive wins at this race. Pearson would end up racking a 105 victories. Bobby Allison skipped this race to do the 1973 Indianapolis 500.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 23], "content_span": [24, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096365-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 World 600, Summary, Introductions to NASCAR\nPeter Gregg would make his only NASCAR Cup Series start at this event. Billy Scott-Union,S.C. BD 8/9/1935 and Charlie Blanton would start their respective NASCAR careers at this race and would race for several others.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 48], "content_span": [49, 266]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096366-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 World Allround Speed Skating Championships\nThe World Allround Speed Skating Championships for Men took place on 17 and 18 February 1973 in Deventer at the IJsselstadion ice rink.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096367-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 World Aquatics Championships\nThe first FINA World Championships in Aquatics were held in the Ta\u0161majdan Sports Centre in Belgrade, SR Serbia, Yugoslavia, from August 31 to September 9, 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096368-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 World Archery Championships\nThe 1973 World Archery Championships was the 27th edition of the World Archery Championships. The event was held in Grenoble, France in July 1973 and was organised by World Archery Federation (FITA). It was the first World Championships to be held since Archery became an Olympic sport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096369-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 World Championship Tennis Finals\nThe 1973 World Championship Tennis Finals was a tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts. It was the 3rd edition of the WCT Finals and was part of the 1973 World Championship Tennis circuit. It was played at the Moody Coliseum in Dallas, Texas in the United States and was held from May 7 through May 13, 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096370-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 World Championship Tennis Finals \u2013 Singles\nKen Rosewall was the defending champion but lost in the semifinals to Arthur Ashe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096370-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 World Championship Tennis Finals \u2013 Singles\nStan Smith won the singles title of the 1973 World Championship Tennis Finals after a 6\u20133, 6\u20133, 4\u20136, 6\u20134 in the final against Ashe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096370-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 World Championship Tennis Finals \u2013 Singles, Seeds\nA champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 54], "content_span": [55, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096371-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 World Championship Tennis circuit\nThe 1973 World Championship Tennis circuit was one of the two rival professional male tennis circuits of 1973. It was organized by World Championship Tennis (WCT). In April 1972 WCT signed an agreement with the International Lawn Tennis Federation (ILTF) as a result of which the 1973 men's tennis season was divided in a WCT section, which ran from January until May, and a Grand Prix circuit which was held from May onward. The WCT circuit divided the players into two groups of 32 players, with each group playing 11 tournaments of the 22 tournaments. The four highest ranked players from each group qualified for the season finals in Dallas. The total available prize money was almost $1,250,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 739]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096372-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 World Congress of Peace Forces\nThe 1973 World Congress of Peace Forces was held in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, October 25-October 31, 1973. At the congress over 3200 delegates from 143 countries, representing more than 1100 political parties, national organizations and movements. Representatives from 123 international organizations took part in the event.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096372-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 World Congress of Peace Forces, Opening session\nThe Congress was opened by Se\u00e1n MacBride, president of the International Peace Bureau and vice chairman of the international preparatory committee of the Congress. Romesh Chandra, the general secretary of the World Peace Council, was elected chair of the Congress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 317]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096372-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 World Congress of Peace Forces, Opening session\nOther speakers at the opening of the conference were Abdulrahim Abby Farah, representative of the UN Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim, Peter Onu, vice general secretary of the Organisation of African Unity, and Pierre Lebart, representative of the UNESCO Director-General Ren\u00e9 Maheu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096372-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 World Congress of Peace Forces, Opening session\nThe main speaker of the event was Leonid Brezhnev, general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. His speech was followed by a short intervention by Horace Perera, general secretary of the World Federation of United Nations Associations, who thanked Brezhnev for his contributions for the cause of peace.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 52], "content_span": [53, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096372-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 World Congress of Peace Forces, Commissions\nFourteen separate commissions, who held parallel meetings during the Congress, were formed. These were:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 48], "content_span": [49, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096373-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 World Cup\nThe 1973 World Cup took place 22\u201325 November at the Club de Golf Nueva Andaluc\u00eda in Marbella, Spain. The name of the club was later changed to Real Club de Golf Las Brisas. It was the 21st World Cup event. The tournament was a 72-hole stroke play team event with 49 teams. Each team consisted of two players from a country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096373-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 World Cup\nTeam Czechoslovakia of Jiri Dvorak and Jaromir Fuchs were notified, but withdraw from the tournament before it begun. Also before the tournament begun, notable player withdrawals were Peter Thomson, selected to the Australian team, replaced by Errol Hardvigsen, Peter Oosterhuis, selected to the English team, replaced by Peter Wilcock, Terry Kendall, selected to the New Zealand team, replaced by Simon Owen and Brian Huggett, selected to the Welsh team, replaced by David Vaughan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096373-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 World Cup\nThe combined score of each team determined the team results. The United States team of Johnny Miller and Jack Nicklaus won by six strokes over the South Africa team of Hugh Baiocchi and Gary Player. This was the 12th team victory for United States, six of them with Jack Nicklaus on the team, in the event, formerly named Canada Cup, since its inception in 1953.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096373-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 World Cup\nThe individual competition for the International Trophy, was won by Miller, three strokes ahead of Player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096374-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 World Fencing Championships\nThe 1973 World Fencing Championships were held in Gothenburg, Sweden.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096375-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 World Figure Skating Championships\nThe 1973 World Figure Skating Championships were held from February 26 to March 3 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, sanctioned by the International Skating Union. Medals were awarded in men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dance. It was the last year in which solid gold medals were awarded in figure skating.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096375-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 World Figure Skating Championships\nThe opening ceremony was held at the Philharmonic of Bratislava. The Chairman of the organising committee was Miroslav Cerveka.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096375-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 World Figure Skating Championships\nIrina Rodnina won her first World title with her new partner, Alexander Zaitsev after her previous partner, Alexei Ulanov, chose to skate with Lyudmila Smirnova. Rodnina / Zaitsev's music stopped during their short program, possibly due to a Czech worker acting in retaliation for the suppression of the Prague Spring.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096375-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 World Figure Skating Championships, Results, Ladies\nSonja Balun of Austria and Krisztina Homolya of Hungary withdrew before the opening ceremony.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 56], "content_span": [57, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096376-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 World Judo Championships\nThe 1973 World Judo Championships were the 8th edition of the Men's World Judo Championships, and were held in Lausanne, Switzerland from June 22\u201324, 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096377-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 World Modern Pentathlon Championships\nThe 1973 World Modern Pentathlon Championships were held in London, Great Britain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096378-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 World Outdoor Bowls Championship\nThe 1973 Women's World Outdoor Bowls Championship was held at the Victoria Bowls Club in Wellington, New Zealand, from 3\u201318 December 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096378-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 World Outdoor Bowls Championship\nElsie Wilkie won the singles which was held in a round robin format. The Pairs was won by Australia whilst the Triples, Fours Gold and Taylor Trophy all went to New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096379-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 World Rally Championship\nThe 1973 World Rally Championship was the inaugural season for the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) World Rally Championship (WRC) format. It consisted of 13 events, each held in a different country of the world. Many of the events would be staples of the series through to today, including Monte Carlo, Sweden, Tour de Corse, and the RAC Rally, while others would soon be replaced in the schedule. As with following seasons, gravel events formed the majority of the schedule. Two pure tarmac and one snow and ice rally were also included, as well as three events held on a mixture of soft and hard surface roads.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096379-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 World Rally Championship\nThe first award of the Championship for Manufacturers was firmly won by Alpine-Renault, which had already gained fame competing for the earlier International Championship for Manufacturers. Fiat successfully placed second ahead of challenger Ford, but could not seriously challenge the winning Alpine. However, this would also prove to be the last award for the Alpine, as it gave way in subsequent years to Italian firms Lancia and Fiat. A French manufacturer would not regain the Championship again until Peugeot successfully captured the 1985 World Rally Championship for Manufacturers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 619]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096379-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 World Rally Championship\nFrom 1973 to 1978, the WRC only awarded a season championship for the winning manufacturer. Scoring was given for the highest placing entry for each manufacturer. Thus if a particular manufacturer was to place 2nd, 4th, and 10th, they would receive points for 2nd place only. However, the manufacturer would still gain an advantage in scoring from its other entries, as the points for the 4th and 10th place entries would be denied to other manufacturers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 485]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096379-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 World Rally Championship, Calendar\nFor the first ever World Rally Championship, there were thirteen rallies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096380-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships\nVI World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships were held from 15 November to 18 November 1973 in Rotterdam, Netherlands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096381-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 World Sambo Championships\nThe 1973 World Sambo Championships were held in Tehran, Iran on September 6\u201311. It was the first World Sambo Championships. The participating teams were from Bulgaria, Mongolia, Iran, Spain, Japan, United States, USSR, Yugoslavia, etc. For the first time World Sambo Championships was part of the FILA World Wrestling Championships (1975 and 1983 editions also included Sambo contest.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096382-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 World Series\nThe 1973 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1973 season. The 70th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff played between the American League (AL) champion (and defending World Series champion) Oakland Athletics and the National League (NL) champion New York Mets. The Athletics won the series in seven games for their second of three consecutive World Series titles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096382-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 World Series\nThe Mets won the NL East division by 1+1\u20442 games over the St. Louis Cardinals, then defeated the Cincinnati Reds, three games to two, in the NL Championship Series. The Athletics won the AL West division by six games over the Kansas City Royals, then defeated the Baltimore Orioles, three games to two, in the AL Championship Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096382-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 World Series\nThis was the first World Series in which all weekday games started at night. This was the last World Series in which each team produced and sold its own game programs for its home games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096382-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 World Series, Background, New York Mets\nThe 1973 Mets' .509 season winning percentage is the lowest posted by any pennant winner in major league history. Injuries plagued the team throughout the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 44], "content_span": [45, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096382-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 World Series, Background, New York Mets\nThe team got off to a promising 4\u20130 start, and went .600 for the month of April. Before long, however, the team was soon beset with injuries and fell in standing, just as with their previous season. Stumbling through the summer in last place, the Mets got healthy and hot in September, ultimately winning the division with a mere 82 victories, 1+1\u20442 games ahead of the St. Louis Cardinals. This marked the only time between 1970 and 1980 that neither their rival Philadelphia Phillies, nor the Pittsburgh Pirates, won the division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 44], "content_span": [45, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096382-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 World Series, Background, New York Mets\nAt 82\u201379, the 1973 New York Mets had the worst record of any team to play in a World Series. They had only the ninth-best record in the 24-team major leagues, behind the Oakland A's, the Cincinnati Reds (who they beat in the National League Championship Series), the Baltimore Orioles (who were defeated by Oakland in the American League Championship Series), the Los Angeles Dodgers, the San Francisco Giants, the Boston Red Sox, the Detroit Tigers and the Kansas City Royals (none of whom made the postseason).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 44], "content_span": [45, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096382-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 World Series, Background, New York Mets\nThe 1973 New York Mets had the lowest winning percentage (now the second-lowest) of any postseason team (the San Diego Padres finished 82\u201380 in 2005). 1969 holdovers Bud Harrelson, Jerry Grote, Wayne Garrett, Tom Seaver, Jerry Koosman, and Tug McGraw and Cleon Jones joined forces with the Mets' farm-system alumni John Milner and Jon Matlack and trade-acquired Rusty Staub, F\u00e9lix Mill\u00e1n, and Willie Mays, now 42 years old. Don Hahn and Mays alternated in center field, although they both batted right-handed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 44], "content_span": [45, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096382-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 World Series, Background, New York Mets\nThe Mets' NLCS opponents, an imposing Cincinnati Reds squad that posted 99 victories during the regular season, were the favorite to return to the Series for a second consecutive year. (The Reds had fallen to the A's in the previous year's Series.) The 1973 NLCS went the full five games, and featured a now-famous brawl between Pete Rose and Mets shortstop Bud Harrelson. In the end, the Mets continued their improbable rise and bumped Rose and the rest of the mighty Reds from the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 44], "content_span": [45, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096382-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 World Series, Background, New York Mets\nWillie Mays recorded the final hit of his career in Game\u00a02. In four World Series (1951, 1954, 1962, and 1973), Mays did not hit a single home run. He hit only one in the postseason, during the 1971 NLCS. Mays also fell in the outfield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 44], "content_span": [45, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096382-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 World Series, Background, Oakland A's\nThe Oakland A's secured the pennant by overcoming the Baltimore Orioles in the 1973 ALCS. The A's, defending champions, still possessed a formidable lineup headed by a healthy Reggie Jackson, (.293, 32 HR, 117 RBI, 22 stolen bases) who would be named league MVP in 1973. Jackson was joined in the lineup by standouts like third baseman Sal Bando, the fine defensive outfielder Joe Rudi, the speedy shortstop Bert Campaneris, and the A's catcher, 1972 World Series hero Gene Tenace. The pitching staff featured three 20-game winners, Ken Holtzman (21\u201313), Catfish Hunter (21\u20135), and Vida Blue (20\u20139), with Rollie Fingers (22 saves, 1.92) serving as the A's ace relief pitcher.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 42], "content_span": [43, 718]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096382-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 World Series, Background, Oakland A's\nThe A's offered entertainment both on and off the field in 1973; their brightly colored uniforms were the perfect metaphor for a team notable for clashing personalities. The stars engaged regularly in conflicts with each other and with owner Charles O. Finley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 42], "content_span": [43, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096382-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 World Series, Background, Oakland A's\nWith the designated hitter rule in effect for the first time in 1973, American League pitchers did not bat during the regular season. They were, however, expected to take their turn at the plate during each game of this Series. So it was that a man who had played no offensive role during the regular season came to make a key batting contribution for the A's during the Series. With some extra batting practice, A's pitcher Ken Holtzman would stroke a double that helped the A's to win Game 1 \u2013 and another double that helped them secure the deciding seventh game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 42], "content_span": [43, 608]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096382-0012-0000", "contents": "1973 World Series, Background, Oakland A's\nThis Series was also notable for an incident where Finley attempted to \"fire\" second-baseman Mike Andrews for his errors in Game 2 (see below). Commissioner Bowie Kuhn would reinstate Andrews and fine Finley. Despite the hostility of the Oakland players toward the team's owner, the A's would be the first to repeat as World Champions since the 1961\u201362 New York Yankees. Oakland manager Dick Williams resigned after the Series was over, having had enough of owner Charles O. Finley's interference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 42], "content_span": [43, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096382-0013-0000", "contents": "1973 World Series, Background, Oakland A's\nOakland reliever Darold Knowles became the first pitcher to appear in every game of a seven-game World Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 42], "content_span": [43, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096382-0014-0000", "contents": "1973 World Series, Summary\nAL Oakland A's (4) vs. NL New York Mets (3)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 26], "content_span": [27, 70]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096382-0015-0000", "contents": "1973 World Series, Matchups, Game 1\nThe Mets and A's opened the Series in Oakland with Jon Matlack and Ken Holtzman as the Game\u00a01 starters (Matlack, with a 14\u201316 record during the 1973 season, is one of only four pitchers in history to start Game\u00a01 of a World Series after a regular season losing record). Willie Mays started in place of the injured Rusty Staub and batted third in what turned out to be his final big league start.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096382-0016-0000", "contents": "1973 World Series, Matchups, Game 1\nIn the third, pitcher Holtzman doubled and scored when Bert Campaneris hit a routine grounder that inexplicably bounced between Mets second baseman's F\u00e9lix Mill\u00e1n's legs. Campaneris then stole second and scored on a single to right by Joe Rudi. The Mets came up with a run in the fourth on an RBI single by John Milner that scored Cleon Jones. Holtzman, Rollie Fingers, and Darold Knowles then shut the door on the Mets offense; Knowles earned the save.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096382-0017-0000", "contents": "1973 World Series, Matchups, Game 2\nGame\u00a02, eventually won by the Mets 10\u20137 in 12 innings, set a new record for the longest game in Series history at four hours and 13 minutes. Along with blinding sunshine \"turn{ing} every fly ball into adventure\" (especially for a 42-year-old Willie Mays), Curt Gowdy described the contest in the official MLB 1973 Fall Classic highlight film as one of the \"longest and weirdest games in World Series history\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096382-0018-0000", "contents": "1973 World Series, Matchups, Game 2\nVida Blue opposed Jerry Koosman on the mound, but neither pitched well. In the first inning, the A's jumped on Koosman for two runs as the flyball adventures began. With one out, Joe Rudi reached second on a fly ball to left that Cleon Jones lost in the sun as he drifted to the warning track and the ball dropped in front of him. Rudi scored when the next batter, Sal Bando, hit a ball to right center that Don Hahn misplayed and allowed to bounce to the wall as Bando reached third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096382-0018-0001", "contents": "1973 World Series, Matchups, Game 2\nAfter Gene Tenace walked with two outs, Bando scored on a Jes\u00fas Alou double. The A's scored again in the second on Joe Rudi's single scoring the ubiquitous Bert Campaneris, who had tripled. The Mets got home runs from Cleon Jones and Wayne Garrett in the second and third innings, respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096382-0019-0000", "contents": "1973 World Series, Matchups, Game 2\nThe A's were still up 3\u20132 going into the sixth when things got even more strange. With one out and two on, Horacio Pi\u00f1a relieved Blue and promptly hit Jerry Grote with his first pitch, loading the bases. Don Hahn then drove home Cleon Jones with an infield hit and Bud Harrelson followed with an RBI single to put the Mets ahead 4\u20133. Jim Beauchamp then pinch-hit for reliever Harry Parker and hit a comebacker to the mound. Darold Knowles, who had relieved Pina, fielded the ball but lost his balance hurrying the throw home and threw wildly past Ray Fosse on the attempted force play. Two more Mets runs scored for a 6\u20133 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 663]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096382-0020-0000", "contents": "1973 World Series, Matchups, Game 2\nReggie Jackson had an RBI double in the seventh to make it 6\u20134. In the ninth, Deron Johnson, batting for Blue Moon Odom, lifted a fly ball to center that Willie Mays lost in the sun and fell down while chasing. Johnson reached second. Allan Lewis pinch-ran and scored on a single by Jackson after Sal Bando walked. Gene Tenace singled in Bando to tie it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096382-0021-0000", "contents": "1973 World Series, Matchups, Game 2\nThe Mets threatened in the 10th when Harrelson led off with a single. Tug McGraw bunted for a sacrifice and Rollie Fingers threw to second, but Harrelson ran with the pitch and was safe. McGraw was retired on the relay to first. Harrelson went to third when Garrett bounced a high grounder to Tenace at first and reached when Tenace's throw pulled Fingers off the bag. Harrelson then tagged and attempted to score on a F\u00e9lix Mill\u00e1n fly to left. Harrelson appeared to have sidestepped Fosse's tag at the plate (and replays from NBC's broadcast clearly showed Fosse missed him), but he was called out by umpire Augie Donatelli, prompting a heated outburst from Harrelson, on-deck batter Willie Mays, and manager Yogi Berra.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 757]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096382-0022-0000", "contents": "1973 World Series, Matchups, Game 2\nThe game stayed knotted at 6\u20136 until the top of the 12th. Harrelson led off with a double and went to third when McGraw reached first on a bunt that Sal Bando overran. With two outs, Mays drove in Harrelson with a single that would turn out to be the final hit and RBI of his storied career. It gave the Mets a 7\u20136 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096382-0023-0000", "contents": "1973 World Series, Matchups, Game 2\nAfter Jones walked to load the bases, John Milner grounded to second baseman Mike Andrews, but the ball went through his legs. McGraw and Mays scored to make the lead 9\u20136. The next batter, Grote, hit another grounder to Andrews, but his throw to first pulled Tenace off the bag (though NBC replays showed Tenace kept his foot on the bag). Jones scored to make it 10\u20136.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096382-0024-0000", "contents": "1973 World Series, Matchups, Game 2\nThe A's added a run in the bottom of the inning when Jackson reached third as Mays lost yet another fly ball in the sun and Alou singled him home, but Andrews' errors proved too much to overcome. McGraw, who pitched six innings total, earned the win, and George Stone the save and the Mets evened the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096382-0025-0000", "contents": "1973 World Series, Matchups, Game 2\nA's owner Charlie Finley was furious at Andrews' 12th-inning miscues; he proceeded to punish Andrews (and further alienate A's manager Dick Williams) by placing the infielder on the disabled list\u2014citing a fake injury that would have sidelined Andrews for the rest of the Series. Commissioner of Baseball Bowie Kuhn stepped in, reactivated Andrews, and disciplined Finley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096382-0026-0000", "contents": "1973 World Series, Matchups, Game 3\nGame\u00a03 matched up Tom Seaver and Catfish Hunter. Hunter had trouble early on when Wayne Garrett homered to right and F\u00e9lix Mill\u00e1n scored on a wild pitch, but then found his rhythm. Seaver kept the A's off the board until the sixth, when Sal Bando and Gene Tenace broke through with consecutive doubles that delivered a run and cut the Met lead to 2\u20131. Joe Rudi came up with another clutch hit in the eighth when he singled in Bert Campaneris to tie the game. In the tenth, Willie Mays would make his final appearance in an MLB game, unsuccessfully pinch-hitting for Tug McGraw. Campaneris delivered the game-winning RBI in the 11th when he singled off Harry Parker to score Ted Kubiak. Rollie Fingers got the save.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 750]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096382-0027-0000", "contents": "1973 World Series, Matchups, Game 4\nA's starter Ken Holtzman couldn't make it out of the first inning after Rusty Staub smashed a three-run homer to left-center. Blue Moon Odom relieved and gave up a two-run single to Staub in a three-run Mets fourth. Jon Matlack got the win by pitching eight innings of three-hit ball. Ray Sadecki pitched the ninth and got the save.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096382-0028-0000", "contents": "1973 World Series, Matchups, Game 4\nMike Andrews entered the game as a pinch-hitter in the eighth, prompting a standing ovation from the Mets' home crowd, in a display of defiance toward A's owner Charlie Finley. Andrews grounded out in what would be his last major league at-bat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096382-0029-0000", "contents": "1973 World Series, Matchups, Game 5\nGame\u00a05 was a rematch up of Vida Blue and Jerry Koosman. This time, both pitchers threw well. John Milner had an RBI single in the second, and Don Hahn's triple to center field scored Jerry Grote with the second Mets run in the sixth. Koosman pitched well and got the win, with a save from Tug McGraw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096382-0030-0000", "contents": "1973 World Series, Matchups, Game 6\nThe A's won, thanks to the clutch pitching of Catfish Hunter (who outdueled Tom Seaver), and the timely hitting of Reggie Jackson. Jackson doubled and drove in Joe Rudi in the first inning and doubled in Sal Bando in the third to give Oakland a 2\u20130 lead. In the eighth inning, the Mets threatened, knocking Hunter out of the game after Ken Boswell singled in a run. Reliever Darold Knowles put out the fire by striking out Rusty Staub on three pitches with two men on base. In the bottom half of the inning, the A's added an insurance run when Jackson singled, advanced to third on center fielder Don Hahn's error, and scored on Jes\u00fas Alou's sacrifice fly. Rollie Fingers got the save in the ninth inning to force a seventh game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 765]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096382-0031-0000", "contents": "1973 World Series, Matchups, Game 7\nKen Holtzman outdueled Jon Matlack in a rematch of the Game 4 starters. The third inning proved to be the difference, as Holtzman lined a one-out double off Matlack to left, his second of the Series after not batting at all during the season. Matlack then surrendered a two-run opposite-field homer to Bert Campaneris (Oakland's first home run of the series), and then another two-run blast to Reggie Jackson later in the inning, giving the A's a 4\u20130 lead and Holtzman all the runs he needed. The Mets came back with two runs after Oakland increased their lead to 5\u20130 in the fifth inning, but it was not enough. Campaneris snagged a Wayne Garrett pop fly to end the series; and Jackson was named the World Series MVP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 753]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096382-0032-0000", "contents": "1973 World Series, Matchups, Game 7\nIn the third inning, Gene Tenace walked for the 11th time tying the Series record set by Babe Ruth of the Yankees in 1926. In the seventh inning, Wayne Garrett struck out for the 11th time tying the Series record set by Eddie Mathews of the Milwaukee Braves in 1958 (later broken in 1980 when Willie Wilson of the Royals struck out 12 times). Darold Knowles got the save and became the only pitcher to appear in all seven games of a seven-game World Series until Brandon Morrow in the 2017 World Series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 539]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096382-0033-0000", "contents": "1973 World Series, Matchups, Game 7\nThe final out was recorded at 4:07 p.m. Pacific Time, making this the last World Series (through 2020) to end in daylight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096382-0034-0000", "contents": "1973 World Series, Matchups, Game 7\nVern Hoscheit, a coach with the A's in 1973, would win a World Series with the Mets as a coach in 1986.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 35], "content_span": [36, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096382-0035-0000", "contents": "1973 World Series, Composite line score\n1973 World Series (4\u20133): Oakland A's (A.L.) over New York Mets (N.L.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 39], "content_span": [40, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096383-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 World Series of Poker\nThe 1973 World Series of Poker (WSOP) was a series of poker tournaments held at Binion's Horseshoe. The 1973 series marked the first time a single player won more than one preliminary World Series of Poker event. The 1973 WSOP was the 4th annual poker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096383-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 World Series of Poker, Main Event\nThere were 13 entrants to the main event. Each paid $10K to enter the winner-take-all tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 38], "content_span": [39, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096384-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 World Snooker Championship\nThe 1973 World Snooker Championship (also known as 1973 Park Drive World Snooker Championship for sponsorship reasons) was a snooker tournament that took place between 16 and 28 April 1973 at the City Exhibition Hall in Manchester, England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096384-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 World Snooker Championship\nRay Reardon won in the final 38\u201332 against Eddie Charlton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096385-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 World Sportscar Championship\nThe 1973 World Sportscar Championship season was the 21st season of FIA World Sportscar Championship motor racing. It featured the 1973 World Championship for Makes and the 1973 Cup for GT Cars which were contested concurrently over a ten race series. The World Championship for Makes, which was open to Group 5 Sports Cars and Group 4 GT Cars, was won by Matra and the Cup for GT Cars, which was open only to Group 4 GT Cars, was won by Porsche.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096385-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 World Sportscar Championship, Schedule\nThe following races counted towards the 1973 World Championship for Makes and the 1973 Cup for GT Cars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096385-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 World Sportscar Championship, Schedule\n\u2020 - No GT entries were received for the \u00d6sterreichring event. The Buenos Aires 1000\u00a0km, scheduled to be held on 21 October, was canceled six weeks after the running of the Watkins Glen 6 Hours.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096385-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 World Sportscar Championship, Results, World Championship for Makes\nChampionship points were awarded to the top 10 finishers in the order of 20-15-12-10-8-6-4-3-2-1 but only for the highest placed car of each make. The 7 best results were retained for each make. Discarded points are shown in the above table within brackets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 72], "content_span": [73, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096385-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 World Sportscar Championship, Results, The cars\nThe following models contributed to the nett pointscores of their respective makes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 52], "content_span": [53, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096386-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 World Table Tennis Championships\nThe 1973 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Sarajevo from April 5 to April 15, 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096387-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 World Table Tennis Championships \u2013 Men's Doubles\nThe 1973 World Table Tennis Championships \u2013 Men's Doubles was the 32nd edition of the men's doubles championship. Stellan Bengtsson and Kjell Johansson won the title after defeating Istv\u00e1n J\u00f3nyer and Tibor Klamp\u00e1r in the final by three sets to two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096388-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 World Table Tennis Championships \u2013 Men's Singles\nThe 1973 World Table Tennis Championships \u2013 Men's Singles was the 32nd edition of the men's singles championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096388-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 World Table Tennis Championships \u2013 Men's Singles\nHsi En-ting defeated Kjell Johansson in the final, winning three sets to two to secure the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096389-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 World Table Tennis Championships \u2013 Men's Team\nThe 1973 World Table Tennis Championships \u2013 Swaythling Cup (Men's Team) was the 32nd edition of the men's team championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096389-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 World Table Tennis Championships \u2013 Men's Team\nSweden won the gold medal by virtue of winning the final group. Despite losing one of the matches against the Soviet Union they topped the group with a superior match record. China took silver and Japan bronze.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096390-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 World Table Tennis Championships \u2013 Mixed Doubles\nThe 1973 World Table Tennis Championships \u2013 Mixed Doubles was the 32nd edition of the mixed doubles championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096390-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 World Table Tennis Championships \u2013 Mixed Doubles\nLiang Geliang and Li Li defeated Anatoli Strokatov and Asta Gedraitite in the final by three sets to one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096391-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 World Table Tennis Championships \u2013 Women's Doubles\nThe 1973 World Table Tennis Championships \u2013 Women's Doubles was the 31st edition of the women's doubles championship. Maria Alexandru and Miho Hamada defeated Chou Pao Chin and Lin Mei Chun in the final by three sets to nil.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096392-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 World Table Tennis Championships \u2013 Women's Singles\nThe 1973 World Table Tennis Championships \u2013 Women's Singles was the 32nd edition of the women's singles championship. Hu Yu Lan defeated Alice Gr\u00f3fov\u00e1 in the final by three sets to nil, to win the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096393-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 World Table Tennis Championships \u2013 Women's Team\nThe 1973 World Table Tennis Championships \u2013 Corbillon Cup (Women's Team) was the 25th edition of the women's team championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096393-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 World Table Tennis Championships \u2013 Women's Team\nSouth Korea won the gold medal, China won the silver medal and Japan won the bronze medal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096394-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 World Taekwondo Championships\nThe 1973 World Taekwondo Championships were the 1st edition of the World Taekwondo Championships, and were held in Seoul, South Korea from May 25 to May 27, 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096395-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 World Weightlifting Championships\nThe 1973 Men's World Weightlifting Championships were held in Havana, Cuba from September 15 to September 23, 1973. There were 189 men from 39 nations in the competition. These were the first championships held since the elimination of the clean and press from competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096395-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 World Weightlifting Championships, Medal table\nRanking by all medals: Big (Total result) and Small (Snatch and Clean & Jerk)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 51], "content_span": [52, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096396-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 World Women's Handball Championship\nThe 1973 World Women's Handball Championship took place in Yugoslavia between 7-15 December 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096397-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 World Wrestling Championships\nThe 1973 World Wrestling Championships were held in Tehran, Iran. For the first and subsequently the last time Sambo wrestling was included as part of the World Wrestling Championships programme. U.S. National Team included Buck Deadrich, David Pruzansky and Wayne Baughman. Deadrich and Pruzansky both captured bronze medals", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096398-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Wrestling World Cup\nThe 1973 Wrestling World Cup was held from May 19 to 20 in Toledo, Ohio. This was the first World Cup edition, which was contested in the dual meet format instead of individual tournament. The competition drew four freestyle wrestling champion teams, representing Europe, Asia, and North America \u2014 Soviet Union, Japan, and Canada respectively, which had the best final standings at the 1973 World Wrestling Championships, and the host country, the United States team. As during the previous edition, the winner of the World Cup was the USSR National Team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096399-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Wyoming Cowboys football team\nThe 1973 Wyoming Cowboys football team represented the University of Wyoming in the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. The Cowboys were led by third-year head coach Fritz Shurmur and played their home games at War Memorial Stadium in Laramie, Wyoming. They finished the season with a 4\u20137 record overall and a 3\u20134 record in the Western Athletic Conference to finish tied for 4th in the conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096400-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Xavier Musketeers football team\nThe 1973 Xavier Musketeers football team was an American football team that represented Xavier University as an independent during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. In its second season under head coach Tom Cecchini, the team compiled a 5\u20135\u20131 record and was outscored by a total of 376 to 191.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096400-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Xavier Musketeers football team\nOn December 19, 1973, the Xavier University Board of Trustees voted 15 to 3 to discontinue the school's intercollegiate football program, effective immediately. The university's president, Rev. Robert W. Mulligan, attributed the decision to the \"spiraling costs of intercollegiate football\" which had led to a $200,000 deficit in 1973 despite the team having its most successful season in five years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096401-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Yale Bulldogs football team\nThe 1973 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1973 NCAA Division I football season. The Bulldogs were led by ninth-year head coach Carmen Cozza, played their home games at the Yale Bowl and finished tied for second place in the Ivy League with a 5\u20132 record, 6\u20133 overall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096402-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Yugoslav Cup\nThe 1973 Yugoslav Cup was the 26th season of the top football knockout competition in SFR Yugoslavia, the Yugoslav Cup (Serbo-Croatian: Kup Jugoslavije), also known as the \"Marshal Tito Cup\" (Kup Mar\u0161ala Tita), since its establishment in 1946.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096402-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Yugoslav Cup, Calendar\nThe Yugoslav Cup was a tournament for which clubs from all tiers of the football pyramid were eligible to enter. In addition, amateur teams put together by individual Yugoslav People's Army garrisons and various factories and industrial plants were also encouraged to enter, which meant that each cup edition could have several thousands of teams in its preliminary stages. These teams would play through a number of qualifying rounds before reaching the first round proper, in which they would be paired with top-flight teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 27], "content_span": [28, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096402-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Yugoslav Cup, Calendar\nUnlike most cup finals played since the late 1950s which had been traditionally scheduled to coincide with the end of the football league season and Youth Day celebrated on 25 May (a national holiday in Yugoslavia which also doubled as the official commemoration of Josip Broz Tito's birthday), the 1973 and 1974 cups were played over only four months, with finals played in November in capital Belgrade, to coincide with Republic Day on 29 November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 27], "content_span": [28, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096402-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 Yugoslav Cup, Calendar\nSince the final was always meant to be determined on or around a national holiday at the JNA Stadium in capital Belgrade, and to avoid unfair advantage this would give to Belgrade-based clubs, the Football Association of Yugoslavia adopted the rule in the late 1960s which said that the final could be played as a one-legged tie (in cases when both finalists are from outside Belgrade) or double-legged (when at least one of them is based the capital), with the second leg always played in Belgrade. This rule was used for all eight cup finals involving Belgrade clubs played from 1970 to 1985.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 27], "content_span": [28, 622]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096402-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 Yugoslav Cup, First round\nIn the following tables winning teams are marked in bold; teams from outside top level are marked in italic script.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 30], "content_span": [31, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096403-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 Zambian general election\nGeneral elections were held in Zambia on 5 December 1973. They were the first elections held since the country was formally declared a one-party state in August, with the United National Independence Party (UNIP) as the only legally permitted party. UNIP leader Kenneth Kaunda was automatically elected to a third five-year term as President, and was confirmed in office via a referendum in which 88.8% of voters approved his candidacy. UNIP also won all 125 seats in the National Assembly. Voter turnout was 39% of the 1,746,107 registered voters for the presidential election, and 33% for the National Assembly election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 652]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096403-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 Zambian general election\nPrior to the elections, primary elections were held to elect candidates for the 125 constituencies. Only UNIP members could vote in the primaries, and the top three candidates would be able to stand for the National Assembly election. In total, 532 people stood for election to the National Assembly.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096403-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 Zambian general election, Results, President\nKaunda was the sole candidate for president, and voters voted yes or no to his candidacy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096404-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 enlargement of the European Communities\nThe 1973 enlargement of the European Communities was the first enlargement of the European Communities (EC), now the European Union (EU). Denmark, Ireland and the United Kingdom (UK) acceded to the EC on 1 January 1973. Gibraltar and Greenland also joined the EC as part of the United Kingdom and Denmark respectively, but the Danish Faroe Islands, the other British Overseas Territories and the Crown dependencies of the United Kingdom did not join the EC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096404-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 enlargement of the European Communities\nIreland and Denmark both held referenda in 1972 in May and October respectively, and the United Kingdom held a referendum in 1975, on membership of the EC, all which approved membership of the EC. Norway planned to accede, but this was rejected in a referendum held in September 1972. In 1992 Norway again applied to join, but voters again rejected the proposal in a 1994 referendum.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096404-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 enlargement of the European Communities\nGreenland later withdrew from the EC on 1 January 1985 after a referendum in 1982. This was followed by the United Kingdom holding a referendum in 2016 on membership which resulted in the United Kingdom voting to leave the now EU.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096404-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 enlargement of the European Communities, Background\nThe United Kingdom was still recovering from the economic cost of the Second World War. The Republic of Ireland, while an independent state, was economically dependent on the UK, which accounted for nearly 75% of Ireland's exports, as codified in the Anglo-Irish Free trade agreement of 1966.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096404-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 enlargement of the European Communities, Background\nIn 1960 the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) was established and was formed by Austria, Denmark, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. These countries were often referred to as the Outer Seven, as opposed to the Inner Six of the founding members of the European Community (EC). The EFTA was founded by a convention known as the Stockholm Convention in 1960, with the aim of liberalisation of trade in goods amongst its member states. On 31 July 1961 the United Kingdom, Ireland and Denmark applied to join the EC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096404-0004-0001", "contents": "1973 enlargement of the European Communities, Background\nIn 1963, after negotiations, France vetoed the United Kingdom's application because of the aversion of Charles de Gaulle to the UK, which he considered a \"trojan horse\" for the United States. De Gaulle resigned the French presidency in 1969. In the 1970s, the EFTA states concluded free trade agreements with the EC.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [46, 56], "content_span": [57, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096405-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in Afghanistan\nThe following lists events that happened during 1973 in Afghanistan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096405-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 in Afghanistan, Beginning of 1973\nAfghanistan's internal situation is dominated by difficulties arising from three successive seasons of drought in the central and northern areas of the country. In Ghor province, the shortage is particularly bad; famine is widespread and there are many deaths from starvation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096405-0001-0001", "contents": "1973 in Afghanistan, Beginning of 1973\nAlthough massive Soviet and U.S. aid programs, supplemented by less ambitious efforts sponsored by China, Britain, France, India, and other countries, have done much to improve roads, power supplies, irrigation, and other essential elements of an economic substructure on which future progress could be based, the gap that divides Kabul from the outlying and backward areas shows little signs of closing. In those parts of the country the authority of the central government remains minimal, and small notice is taken of the men selected for parliament. Thus, the capital tends to be a world of its own, where governments change, where unrest is chronic, and where the country finds almost its only link with the outside world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 766]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096405-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 in Afghanistan, July 1973\nKing Zahir Shah, whose personality has for many years ensured an element of continuity, absents himself in Italy for eye treatment. While he is out of the country, on July 17, Daoud Khan, who has long resented his exclusion from power, takes advantage of some discontent over promotions in the armed forces, along with student unrest and resentment among the educated classes against unemployment, to depose the king in a virtually bloodless coup. The King's forty-year reign was ended within a matter of minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096405-0002-0001", "contents": "1973 in Afghanistan, July 1973\nLeftist military officers and civil servants of the Parcham faction, including the Air Force colonel Abdul Qadir, assist in the overthrow. Daud Khan abolishes the constitution of 1964 and establishes the Republic of Afghanistan with himself as president as well as foreign minister. He announces his adherence to Afghanistan's traditional policy of nonalignment, but is an acknowledged friend of the Soviet Union and a firm supporter of secessionist movements in the Pashto-speaking areas of Pakistan, the North-West Frontier Province and Balochistan - an outlook that seems likely to revive the friction with Pakistan that marked his earlier period of power. Zahir Shah formally abdicates on August 24, and remains in exile in Italy. Daud Khan attempts to introduce socioeconomic reforms, but gradually moves away from the socialist ideals his regime initially espoused.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 30], "content_span": [31, 902]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096405-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 in Afghanistan, September 20, 1973\nRadio Kabul announces the discovery of an allegedly Pakistan-backed plot to overthrow the new regime. A number of civilians and high-ranking military personalities are arrested, including former Prime Minister Mohammad Hashim Maiwandwal, who is later reported to have hanged himself on October 1 while awaiting trial. Five defendants are subsequently condemned to death and executed on December 25, while others receive long terms of imprisonment. A second attempted coup is foiled in December. The Kabul press accuses Pakistan of fomenting these conspiracies, but no solid evidence for the accusation is forthcoming. In view of Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's desire for friendly relations with Afghanistan, it seems more likely that the conspiracies were the products of domestic discontent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 39], "content_span": [40, 848]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096406-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in American television\nThis is a list of American television-related events in 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 89]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096408-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in Australia\nThe following lists events that happened during 1973 in Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 84]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096409-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in Australian literature\nThis article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096409-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 in Australian literature, Births\nA list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1973 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096409-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 in Australian literature, Deaths\nA list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1973 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 37], "content_span": [38, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096410-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in Bangladesh\n1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1973rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 973rd year of the 2nd\u00a0millennium, the 73rd year of the 20th\u00a0century, and the 4th year of the 1970s decade.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096410-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 in Bangladesh\nThe year 1973 was the second year after the independence of Bangladesh. It was also the second year of the first post-independence government in Bangladesh.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096410-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 in Bangladesh, Economy\nNote: For the year 1973 average official exchange rate for BDT was 7.85 per US$.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 27], "content_span": [28, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096410-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 in Bangladesh, Events, Awards and Recognition\nSeven freedom fighters killed in action during the Liberation War of 1971 were awarded Bir Sreshtho title on 15 December 1973:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 50], "content_span": [51, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096411-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in Belgian television\nThis is a list of Belgian television related events from 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 89]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096414-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in Brazilian football\nThe following article presents a summary of the 1973 football (soccer) season in Brazil, which was the 72nd season of competitive football in the country.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096414-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 in Brazilian football, State championship champions\n(1)Santos and Portuguesa shared the S\u00e3o Paulo State Championship title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 56], "content_span": [57, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096414-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 in Brazilian football, Brazil national team\nThe following table lists all the games played by the Brazil national football team in official competitions and friendly matches during 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 48], "content_span": [49, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096415-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in Brazilian television\nThis is a list of Brazilian television related events from 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 93]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096416-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in British music\nThis is a summary of 1973 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096416-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 in British music, Year-end charts, Best-selling albums\nThe list of the top fifty best-selling albums of 1973 were published in Record Mirror at the end of the year, and later reproduced in the first edition of the BPI Year Book in 1976. However, in 2007 the Official Charts Company published album chart histories for each year from 1956 to 1977, researched by historian Sharon Mawer, and included an updated list of the top ten best-selling albums for each year based on the new research. The updated top ten for 1973 is shown in the table below.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 59], "content_span": [60, 552]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096416-0001-0001", "contents": "1973 in British music, Year-end charts, Best-selling albums\nThe most significant changes from the original BMRB chart were that the album previously thought to be the year's best-seller, the soundtrack to the film That'll Be the Day, fell to tenth position, and Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Playerby Elton John moved up from number four to become the new best-selling album of 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 59], "content_span": [60, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096417-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in British radio\nThis is a list of events in British radio during 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 76]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096418-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in British television\nThis is a list of British television related events from 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 89]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096420-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in Cambodia\nThe following lists events that happened during 1973 in Cambodia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 82]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096422-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in Canadian television\nThe following is a list of events affecting Canadian television in 1973. Events listed include television show debuts, finales, cancellations, and channel launches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096423-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in Cape Verde\nThe following lists events that happened during 1973 in Cape Verde.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 86]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096424-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in Chile, Events, May\nNational Day of Voluntary Work, whose motto was Chile works for Chile, in which more than 3 million people participate in support of the government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 26], "content_span": [27, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096425-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in Croatian television\nThis is a list of Croatian television related events from 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 91]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096425-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 in Croatian television, Deaths\nThis Croatian television-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096427-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in Danish television\nThis is a list of Danish television related events from 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 87]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096429-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in Estonia\nThis article lists events that occurred during 1973 in Estonia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 79]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096430-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in Estonian television\nThis is a list of Estonian television related events from 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 91]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096430-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 in Estonian television, Deaths\nThis Estonian television-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096432-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in French television\nThis is a list of French television related events from 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 87]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096433-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in German television\nThis is a list of German television related events from 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 87]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096435-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in Greece\nThe following lists events that happened during 1973 in Greece.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 78]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096436-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in Iceland\nThe following lists events that happened during 1973 in Iceland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 80]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096437-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in India\nEvents in the year 1973 in the Republic of India.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 63]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096440-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in Irish television\nThe following is a list of events relating to television in Ireland from 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096441-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in Israel, Events\nM60 tank unloaded from a USAF C-5 Galaxy during Operation Nickel Grass", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 22], "content_span": [23, 93]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096441-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 in Israel, Events, Israeli\u2013Palestinian conflict\nThe most prominent events related to the Israeli\u2013Palestinian conflict which occurred during 1973 include:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 52], "content_span": [53, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096441-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 in Israel, Events, Israeli\u2013Palestinian conflict\nThe most prominent Palestinian Arab terror attacks committed against Israelis during 1973 include:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 52], "content_span": [53, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096441-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 in Israel, Events, Israeli\u2013Palestinian conflict\nThe most prominent Israeli military counter-terrorism operations (military campaigns and military operations) carried out against Palestinian militants during 1973 include:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 52], "content_span": [53, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096442-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in Italian television\nThis is a list of Italian television related events of 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 87]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096443-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in Japan\nEvents in the year 1973 in Japan. It corresponds to Sh\u014dwa 48 (\u662d\u548c48\u5e74) in the Japanese calendar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096447-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in LGBT rights\nThis is a list of notable events in the history of LGBT rights that took place in the year 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096448-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in Laos\nThe following lists events that happened during 1973 in Laos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 74]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096449-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in Libya\nThe following lists events that happened in 1973 in Libya.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 72]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096450-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in Luxembourg\nThe following lists events that happened during 1973 in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096451-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in Malaysia\nThis article lists important figures and events in Malaysian public affairs during the year 1973, together with births and deaths of notable Malaysians.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096453-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in Michigan\nThe Associated Press (AP) selected the top news stories for 1973 in Michigan as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096453-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 in Michigan\nThe AP also chose the state's top sports stories as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 77]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096453-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 in Michigan, Population\nIn the 1970 United States Census, Michigan was recorded as having a population of 8,875,083 persons, ranking as the seventh most populous state in the country. By 1980, the state's population had grown 4.4% to 9,262,078 persons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096453-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 in Michigan, Population, Cities\nThe following is a list of cities in Michigan with a population of at least 70,000 based on 1970 U.S. Census data. Historic census data from 1960 and 1980 is included to reflect trends in population increases or decreases. Cities that are part of the Detroit metropolitan area are shaded in tan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 36], "content_span": [37, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096453-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 in Michigan, Population, Counties\nThe following is a list of counties in Michigan with populations of at least 120,000 based on 1970 U.S. Census data. Historic census data from 1960 and 1980 are included to reflect trends in population increases or decreases. Counties that are part of the Detroit metropolitan area are shaded in tan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 38], "content_span": [39, 339]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096453-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 in Michigan, Music\nAlbums and singles by Michigan artists or centered on Michigan topics that were released or became hits in 1973 include the following:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 23], "content_span": [24, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096454-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in New Zealand\nThe following lists events that happened during 1973 in New Zealand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096454-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 in New Zealand, Incumbents, Government\nThe 37th New Zealand Parliament commences. Government is by a Labour majority of 55 seats to the National Party's 32 seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 43], "content_span": [44, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096454-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 in New Zealand, Arts and literature, Radio and television\nSee : 1973 in New Zealand television, 1973 in television, List of TVNZ television programming, Category:Television in New Zealand, Category:New Zealand television shows, Public broadcasting in New Zealand", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 62], "content_span": [63, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096454-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 in New Zealand, Arts and literature, Film\nSee : Category:1973 film awards, 1973 in film, List of New Zealand feature films, Cinema of New Zealand, Category:1973 films", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 46], "content_span": [47, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096454-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 in New Zealand, Sport, Horse racing\nFrom January 1973, all races are run at metric distances rather than imperial.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 40], "content_span": [41, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096456-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in North Vietnam\nThe following lists events that happened during 1973 in North Vietnam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096459-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in Norwegian football\nThe 1973 season was the 68th season of competitive football in Norway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096460-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in Norwegian music\nThe following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 1973 in Norwegian music.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096462-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in Portugal, Arts and entertainment\nPortugal participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 1973, with Fernando Tordo and the song \"Tourada\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 40], "content_span": [41, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096462-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 in Portugal, Sport\nIn association football, for the first-tier league seasons, see 1972\u201373 Primeira Divis\u00e3o and 1973\u201372 Primeira Divis\u00e3o; for the Ta\u00e7a de Portugal seasons, see 1972\u201373 Ta\u00e7a de Portugal and 1973\u201374 Ta\u00e7a de Portugal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 23], "content_span": [24, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096463-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in Rhodesia\nThe following lists events that happened during 1973 in Rhodesia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 82]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096465-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in Scottish television\nThis is a list of events in Scottish television from 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 86]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096466-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in Singapore\nThe following lists events that happened during 1973 in Singapore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 84]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096467-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in South Africa\nThe following lists events that happened during 1973 in South Africa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096467-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 in South Africa, Railways, Locomotives\nTwo new Cape gauge and one narrow gauge locomotive types enter service on the South African Railways:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 43], "content_span": [44, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096470-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in Swedish football\nThe 1973 season in Swedish football, starting April 1973 and ending November 1973:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096471-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in Taiwan\nEvents from the year 1973 in Taiwan, Republic of China. This year is numbered Minguo 62 according to the official Republic of China calendar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096472-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in Thailand\nThe year 1973 was the 192nd year of the Rattanakosin Kingdom of Thailand. It was the 28th year in the reign of King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX), and is reckoned as year 2516 in the Buddhist Era. It most significantly marked by the 14 October uprising, which toppled the military government of Thanom Kittikachorn.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 331]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096472-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 in Thailand, Incumbents\nThis Thailand-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 28], "content_span": [29, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096474-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in Wales\nThis article is about the particular significance of the year 1973 to Wales and its people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096475-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in Zaire\nThe following lists events that happened during 1973 in Zaire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 76]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096475-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 in Zaire, Sources\nThis year in Africa article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 22], "content_span": [23, 89]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096478-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in architecture\nThe year 1973 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096480-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in association football\nThe following are the association football events of the year 1973 throughout the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096482-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in baseball\nThe following are the baseball events of the year 1973 throughout the world.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096484-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in comics\nNotable events of 1973 in comics. See also List of years in comics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 82]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096484-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 in comics, Awards, Comic Fan Art Awards\n(Formerly the Goethe Awards) For comics published in 1973. Presented at the 1974 Comic Art Convention, held July 4\u20138, 1974, at the Commodore Hotel, New York City; and published in The Buyer's Guide to Comics Fandom #63 (Aug. 1, 1974).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 44], "content_span": [45, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096485-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in country music\nThis is a list of notable events in country music that took place in the year 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096486-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in film, Highest-grossing films, United States and Canada\nThe top ten 1973 released films by box office gross in the United States and Canada are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 62], "content_span": [63, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096486-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 in film, Highest-grossing films, Outside North America\nThe highest-grossing 1973 films in countries outside of North America.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 59], "content_span": [60, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096486-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 in film, Worldwide gross revenue\nThe following table lists known worldwide gross revenue figures for several high-grossing films that originally released in 1973. Note that this list is incomplete and is therefore not representative of the highest-grossing films worldwide in 1973. The worldwide revenue for The Sting, for example, is not known. This list also includes gross revenue from later re-releases.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [14, 37], "content_span": [38, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096487-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in fine arts of the Soviet Union\nThe year 1973 was marked by many events that left an imprint on the history of Soviet and Russian Fine Arts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096488-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in games\nThis page lists board and card games, wargames, and miniatures games published in 1973. For video games, see 1973 in video gaming.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096489-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in heavy metal music\nThis is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096489-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 in heavy metal music, Events\nLou Reed is bitten by a fan during a concert in Buffalo,New York", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 33], "content_span": [34, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096490-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in jazz\nThis is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 12], "section_span": [12, 12], "content_span": [13, 76]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096491-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in literature\nThis article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096492-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in motorsport\nThe following is an overview of the events of 1973 in motorsport including the major racing events, motorsport venues that were opened and closed during a year, championships and non-championship events that were established and disestablished in a year, and births and deaths of racing drivers and other motorsport people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096492-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 in motorsport, Annual events\nThe calendar includes only annual major non-championship events or annual events that had significance separate from the championship. For the dates of the championship events see related season articles.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 33], "content_span": [34, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096493-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in music, Biggest hit singles\nThe following songs achieved the highest in the charts of 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 34], "content_span": [35, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096494-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in paleontology\nPaleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. This includes the study of body fossils, tracks (ichnites), burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces (coprolites), palynomorphs and chemical residues. Because humans have encountered fossils for millennia, paleontology has a long history both before and after becoming formalized as a science. This article records significant discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096494-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 in paleontology, Archosauromorphs, Newly named birds\nA Rallidae, transferred to the new genus Mundia by Bourne, Ashmole et Simmons, 2003, it is the type species of the new genus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 57], "content_span": [58, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096494-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 in paleontology, Archosauromorphs, Newly named birds\nA Gruiformes, Idiornithidae Brodkorb, 1965, transferred to the genus Dynamopterus Milne-Edwards, 1892 by C\u00e9cile Mourer-Chauvir\u00e9, 2013.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 57], "content_span": [58, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096494-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 in paleontology, Archosauromorphs, Newly named birds\nA Psittacidae, transferred to the genus Psittacula\"\" by Julian P. Hume, 2007.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 57], "content_span": [58, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096494-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 in paleontology, Archosauromorphs, Newly named birds\nA Spheniscidae, not for sure a member of the genus Palaeospheniscus Moreno et Mercerat, 1891.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 57], "content_span": [58, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096494-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 in paleontology, Archosauromorphs, Newly named birds\nA\u00a0? Galbulae the species does not belong in Prinobucco, nor in Neanis, it was transferred to by Feduaccia, 1976, it needs a new genus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 57], "content_span": [58, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096494-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 in paleontology, Archosauromorphs, Newly named birds\nAn Enantiornithes Walker, 1981, Enantiornithidae Nessov & Borkin, 1983, known from a single humerus, this is the type species of the new genus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 57], "content_span": [58, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096495-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in poetry\nNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096495-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 in poetry, Works published in English\nListed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 42], "content_span": [43, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096495-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 in poetry, Works published in other languages\nListed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 50], "content_span": [51, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096495-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 in poetry, Works published in other languages, India\nIn each section, listed in alphabetical order by first name:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 57], "content_span": [58, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096495-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 in poetry, Deaths\nBirth years link to the corresponding \"[year] in poetry\" article:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 22], "content_span": [23, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096496-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in professional wrestling\n1973 in professional wrestling describes the year's events in the world of professional wrestling.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096497-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in radio\nThe year 1973 saw a number of significant events in radio broadcasting history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 93]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096498-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in rail transport\nThis article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096499-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in science\nThe year 1973 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096500-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in spaceflight\n1973 saw the launch of the first American Space station known as Skylab on a Saturn rocket.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096501-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in sports\n1973 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 73]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096502-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in television\nThe year 1973 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events in that year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096503-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Philippines\n1973 in the Philippines details events of note that happened in the Philippines in the year 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096504-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in the United Arab Emirates\nEvents from the year 1973 in the United Arab Emirates.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 87]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096506-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in the United States, Events, November\n\"People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I've earned everything I've got.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 43], "content_span": [44, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War\n1973 in the Vietnam War began with a peace agreement, the Paris Peace Accords, signed by the United States and South Vietnam on one side of the Vietnam War and communist North Vietnam and the insurgent Viet Cong on the other. Although honored in some respects, the peace agreement was violated by both North and South Vietnam as the struggle for power and control of territory in South Vietnam continued. North Vietnam released all American prisoners of war and the United States completed its military withdrawal from South Vietnam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 557]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War\nU.S. Congressional opposition to the Vietnam War forced the U.S. to cease bombing communist forces in Cambodia in August and in November Congress adopted the War Powers Resolution which limited the U.S. President's authority to wage war.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, January\nThe Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives voted 154 to 75 to cut off U.S. funds for the war in Vietnam once all U.S. forces were withdrawn and U.S. Prisoners of war (POWs) were released. As President Richard Nixon and most Republicans opposed the cutoff, the vote had only symbolic impact.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, January\nIn Beijing, Chinese leader Zhou Enlai told North Vietnam's peace negotiator, Le Duc Tho, that \"the U.S. effort to exert pressure through bombing has failed.\" He advised Tho to be flexible in peace negotiations with the Americans and to \"let them leave as quickly as possible\" and wait for the situation to change.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, January\nThe Democratic members of the United States Senate followed the lead of the Democrats in the House of Representatives in voting 36 to 12 to cut off funds for the Vietnam War once all U.S. military forces were withdrawn and the POWs released.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, January\nCanada's Secretary of State for External Affairs, Mitchell Sharp, said he found it difficult to understand the reason for the U.S. Christmas bombing (Operation Linebacker II) and that \"we deplore the action.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, January\nNixon wrote a letter to President Nguy\u1ec5n V\u0103n Thi\u1ec7u of South Vietnam asking for Thi\u1ec7u's cooperation in the Paris peace negotiations and stating that \"the unity of our two countries...would be gravely jeopardized if you persist in your present course.\" Thi\u1ec7u had scuttled a draft peace agreement reached in October 1972. Nixon pledged to respond with \"full force\" if North Vietnam violated the peace agreement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, January\nAs U.S. National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger prepared to resume peace talks with North Vietnam in Paris, Nixon told him that \"almost any settlement would be tolerable.\" Nixon expressed willingness to accept the draft agreement of October 1972 with a few cosmetic changes to make it appear the U.S. had gained something in the negotiations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 377]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, January\nKissinger and Le Duc Tho in Paris achieved a \"breakthrough\" in the peace talks with the main obstacle remaining the opposition of the South Vietnamese government to the agreement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, January\nWith most details of a peace agreement worked out, Kissinger and Tho reached secret agreements regarding cease fires in both South Vietnam and Laos, the release of American POWs and political prisoners in South Vietnam and the partial withdrawal of North Vietnamese forces from South Vietnam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, January\nThe Governor General of Australia Paul Hasluck proclaimed the cessation of hostilities in South Vietnam by Australian forces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, January\nNixon wrote a letter to Thi\u1ec7u which was delivered in Saigon by military adviser Alexander Haig. Nixon said he was \"irrevocably\" committed to sign the peace agreement and said he would do so \"alone, if necessary.\" The consequences if Thi\u1ec7u did not sign the agreement would be a cutoff in American military and economic aid. Nixon pledged to \"react strongly in the event the agreement is violated\" by North Vietnam and to continue aid to South Vietnam if Thi\u1ec7u cooperated.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 504]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0012-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, January\nAll bombing of North Vietnam by the United States was halted and would not be resumed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0013-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, January\nThi\u1ec7u responded to Nixon's letter with a long list of objections to the draft peace agreement, most importantly the fact that the withdrawal of all North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) forces from South Vietnam was not required.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0014-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, January\nOperation Phou Phiang III was the final offensive of the Royal Lao Army (RLA) in the Laotian Civil War. The RLA attacked PAVN positions on the Plain of Jars but failed to evict them before the ceasefire mandated by the Vientiane Treaty came into effect on 21 February.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0015-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, January\nNixon responded to Thi\u1ec7u's objections to the draft peace agreement. He attempted to reassure Thi\u1ec7u on the issue of PAVN soldiers in South Vietnam. He repeated that he would sign the agreement whether or not Thi\u1ec7u agreed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0016-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, January\nThi\u1ec7u notified the U.S. government that he would sign the Paris Peace Accords on behalf of South Vietnam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0017-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, January\nKnowing that the peace agreement called for a cease fire in place, Thi\u1ec7u ordered his armed forces to regain as much territory as possible prior to the ceasefire agreement. South Vietnamese forces established forward posts in communist-controlled areas to bolster their claim to the surrounding land. This was the beginning of what was called the War of the flags.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0018-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, January\nFormer U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson, whose presidency was marred by the Vietnam War, died.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0019-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, January\nNixon announced that a peace agreement had been reached in Paris which would end the Vietnam War and \"bring peace with honor.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0020-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, January\nWith the knowledge that the Paris Peace agreement called for a cease fire in place, PAVN and Viet Cong (VC) troops in South Vietnam attacked 400 villages attempting to expand their area of control before the cease fire took effect. Both North and South Vietnam struggled to gain control of more territory during the \"land grab.\" Within two weeks South Vietnam had regained control of all but 23 of the villages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 444]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0021-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, January\nPAVN rockets damaged two United States Marine Corps (USMC) F-4s as they rearmed at Da Nang Air Base.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0022-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, January\nIn the Battle of C\u1eeda Vi\u1ec7t, South Vietnamese forces attempted to recapture the C\u1eeda Vi\u1ec7t Base and its vicinity, in northeast Qu\u1ea3ng Tr\u1ecb Province. While initially successful, the PAVN eventually forced them to retreat with heavy losses in armored vehicles. Two U.S. aircraft were shot down while supporting the battle, resulting in one captured and three missing.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0023-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, January\nThe Paris Peace Accords, formally titled the \"Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam,\", intended to halt the fighting between North and South Vietnam and end U.S. military involvement in the war were signed in Paris. The governments of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam), the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) and the United States, as well as the Provisional Revolutionary Government (PRG) that represented the VC signed the agreement. The U.S. agreed to withdraw its remaining military personnel from South Vietnam within 60 days. North Vietnam agreed to a ceasefire and to return all American prisoners of war. North Vietnam was permitted to leave 150,000 soldiers and to retain the territory it controlled in South Vietnam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 798]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0024-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, January\nThe U.S. and North Vietnam also pledged to withdraw their military forces from Laos and Cambodia and cease military operations there.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0025-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, January\nThe ceasefire was observed in some areas, but South Vietnamese troops still fought to regain control of villages captured by PAVN/VC forces the day before.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0026-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, January\nLieutenant Colonel William B. Nolde was killed near An L\u1ed9c, the last American soldier to die prior to the ceasefire envisioned in the Paris Peace Accords.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0027-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, January\nUnited States Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announced that the draft of young American men into military service would be ended. A few men continued to be drafted until June 30, 1973, when the federal government's authority to induct expired.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0028-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, January\nThe PAVN 141st Regiment captured Sa Hu\u1ef3nh Base in southern Qu\u1ea3ng Ng\u00e3i Province. Despite the ceasefire coming into effect, given its strategic location the ARVN 2nd Division launched a series of counterattacks, forcing the PAVN out of Sa Hu\u1ef3nh by 16 February 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0029-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, January\nNorth Vietnam celebrated the signing of the Paris Peace Accords as a victory. \"The Vietnamese revolution has achieved several important gains, but the struggle of our people must continue to consolidate those victories [to] build a peaceful, unified, independent, democratic, and strong Vietnam.\" The U.S. media praised Nixon and Kissinger for their achievement of \"peace with honor.\" In South Vietnam few believed that the agreement would lead to a lasting peace.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0030-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, January\nElliot Richardson replaces Melvin Laird as U.S. Secretary of Defense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0031-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, January\nReports from American military advisers in the countryside of South Vietnam reported \"ceasefire or no, operations are continuing much as before\" and \"with the support of daily air strikes and heavy artillery barrages they [the South Vietnamese military forces] have finally begun to roll the VC back\" and more Republic of Vietnam Air Force (RVNAF) tactical air \"strikes were flown in Lam Dong in the three days after the ceasefire than had been flown in the previous six months.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0032-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, February\nThe U.S. and North Vietnam began implementing the secret portions of the Paris Peace Accords. North Vietnam handed over a list of 10 names of U.S. military and civilians who were prisoners in Laos. The U.S. said in response that it had records for 317 unaccounted for personnel. The U.S. had promised $3.25 billion in aid to North Vietnam in exchange for cooperation in determining the fate of missing and unaccounted for Americans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0033-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, February\nThe Khmer Rouge in Cambodia cut the highway link between the capital Phnom Penh and the country's only deep-water port, Kompong Som. Henceforth, the principal route for supplies to reach Phnom Penh would be the Mekong River from Saigon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0034-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, February\nBaron 52 a USAF EC-47Q was shot down on an electronic intelligence mission over Salavan Province, Laos killing all eight crewmen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0035-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, February\nOperation End Sweep to demine North Vietnamese harbors, coastline and inland waterways began.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0036-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, February\nWith the Khmer Rouge closing in on Phnom Penh, the United States resumed bombing of North Vietnamese military bases and supply routes (the Ho Chi Minh Trail) in Cambodia. The ceasefire in North and South Vietnam did not apply to Cambodia and Laos. Over the next six months the U.S. would drop a larger tonnage of bombs on Cambodia than on Japan in World War II.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0037-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, February\nKissinger visited Hanoi and met with Prime Minister of North Vietnam Pham Van Dong. The two men discussed the implementation of the U.S. aid program for Vietnam and the establishment of diplomatic relations between the U.S. and North Vietnam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0038-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, February\nOperation Homecoming resulted in the repatriation of 591 American prisoners of war held by North Vietnam. Three C-141A transports flew to Hanoi and one C-9A aircraft was sent to Saigon to pick up released prisoners of war. The first flight of 40 U.S. prisoners of war left Hanoi in a C-141A, later known as the \"Hanoi Taxi\" and now in a museum. From February 12 to April 4, there were 54 C-141 missions flying out of Hanoi, bringing the former POWs home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0039-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, February\nIn Laos the government and the Pathet Lao signed a cease fire agreement, the Vientiane Treaty. The agreement was violated frequently, but by the end of April most fighting had ceased.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0040-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, February\nThe International Guarantee Conference, set up to supervise the Paris Peace Accords, took place in Paris. The principal issue was violations of the in-place ceasefire called for in the accord. The PRG representative accused the South Vietnam of \"thousands\" of military sweeps to take control of additional areas; the South Vietnamese representative charged the VC with 4,595 violations of the ceasefire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0041-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, March\nThe official communist party publication of North Vietnam outlined two scenarios for the future: victory in South Vietnam through political struggle or victory through a military victory. The first alternative and the implementation of the Paris Peace Accords was preferred to protect areas in South Vietnam controlled by communist forces and to forestall the return of the U.S. to active participation in the war. The strategy would be \"revolutionary struggle\" to destabilize South Vietnam, with the possibility of avoiding a full scale resumption of the war.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0042-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, March\nThe PAVN began the Battle of H\u1ed3ng Ng\u1ef1 attacking the border town of H\u1ed3ng Ng\u1ef1 in Dong Thap Province in order to interdict supply convoys into Cambodia. The battle resulted in 422 PAVN killed, 94 ARVN killed and 36 missing and over 300 civilians killed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0043-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, March\nA disgruntled pro-Sihanouk Khmer Air Force (KAF) pilot flying a T-28D fighter-bomber attacked the Presidential Palace in Phnom Penh killing 43 people and injuring a further 35. The pilot then flew to Hainan Island. This incident led to the dismissal of KAF commander Brigadier General So Satto.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0044-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, March\nThe International Commission of Control and Supervision, created to supervise the Paris Peace Accords, reported that \"the cease fire [has] not... been effective\" with numerous violations by South Vietnam, North Vietnam and the Viet Cong. \"None of the Vietnamese parties wanted the kind of peace promised by the agreement\" was the conclusion of one scholar.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0045-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, March\nAn Air Vietnam DC-4 on a flight from Saigon to Bu\u00f4n Ma Thu\u1ed9t crashed 6.5km south of Bu\u00f4n Ma Thu\u1ed9t killing all 58 onboard after a bomb exploded in the cargo hold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0046-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, March\nThe PAVN began the Battle of Tong Le Chon besieging the Tonle Cham Camp. The defending South Vietnamese Rangers would eventually evacuate the camp.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0047-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, March\nThe last American combat troops left Vietnam as per the Paris Peace Accords. The U.S. military command in South Vietnam, MACV ceased to exist and was replaced by the Defense Attach\u00e9 Office (DAO) under the command of Major General John E. Murray. Fewer than 250 U.S. military personnel remained in Vietnam assigned to the DAO plus a few Marines for protection of the U.S. Embassy. About 8,500 civilians working for the U.S. government remained in South Vietnam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0048-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, March\nAn official publication of North Vietnam summed up the pluses and minuses of the peace agreement. On the positive side for North Vietnam, the U.S. had ended its military operations in both South and North Vietnam and had begun to remove mines from coastal waters of North Vietnam. On the negative side, the ceasefire had not been effective, although combat was not as intensive as before, and the U.S. continued to support South Vietnam by turning over its military bases and providing weapons and other military material to South Vietnam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0049-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, April\nThe last known American POW, Captain Robert White, was released by North Vietnam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0050-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, April\nThi\u1ec7u concluded a two-day visit to the United States. Nixon promised continued economic aid to South Vietnam, dependent upon U.S. congressional approval, and Thi\u1ec7u pledged to never ask the United States to reintroduce American troops into South Vietnam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0051-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, April\nTwo ICCS helicopters were fired on by the PAVN near Route 9, Qu\u1ea3ng Tr\u1ecb Province. One helicopter managed to land safely while the other was hit by an SA-7 missile killing all nine onboard including two Hungarian, one Canadian and one Indonesian ICCS observers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0052-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, April\nThe USAF began Giant Scale SR-71 reconnaissance missions along the periphery of North Vietnam, these continued on an average of once a week throughout 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 30], "content_span": [31, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0053-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, June\nThe PAVN began the Battle of Trung Nghia by capturing the village of Trung Nghia in the Central Highlands. The ARVN would eventually recapture the area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0054-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, June\nThe U.S. and North Vietnam issued a joint communique calling on all parties to observe the 28 January ceasefire agreement with effect from 15 June.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0055-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, June\nThe Case\u2013Church Amendment approved by the U.S. Congress and signed into law prohibited further U.S. military activity in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia after 15 August 1973. This ended direct U.S. military involvement in the Vietnam War, although the U.S. continued to provide military equipment and economic support to the South Vietnamese government.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 378]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0056-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, June\nGraham Martin was appointed as United States Ambassador to South Vietnam replacing Ellsworth Bunker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0057-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, June\nThe U.S. Embassy in Saigon reported that, in accordance with secret agreements between the U.S. and North Vietnam, the North Vietnamese had withdrawn 30,000 soldiers from South Vietnam. However, the Embassy warned that the military units had been refitted and could be redeployed back to South Vietnam.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0058-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, June\nThe last American, Dwight Elliot Stone, to be inducted in the U.S. armed forces as a conscript began his military service. Stone had been drafted in 1972, but his entry into service was delayed until this date.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0059-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, July\nU.S. aid to South Vietnam is projected to decrease from $2.2 billion in fiscal year 1973 (July 1972-June 1973) to $1.1 billion in fiscal year 1974 (July 1973-June 1974).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0060-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, July\nJames Schlesinger replaced Elliot Richardson as U.S. Secretary of Defense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0061-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, July\nSecretary of Defense James Schlesinger testified before the U.S. Congress that 3,500 American bombing raids had been carried out against Cambodia in 1969 and 1970. The raids had been conducted secretly and their extent had not been known until this testimony.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0062-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, July\nThe plenum of the Communist Party of North Vietnam recommended the escalation of political activity and military action in South Vietnam \"in response to Saigon's flagrant and continued violations of the ceasefire.\" However, the Politburo decided that all-out war was not feasible and that North Vietnam would continue to express adherence to the Paris Peace Accords.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0063-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, July\nOperation End Sweep ended. In accordance with the Paris Peace Accords, the U.S. Navy cleared all naval mines from North Vietnamese coastal waters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0064-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, July\nThe total U.S. military presence in South Vietnam, in accordance with the Paris Peace Accords, is now less than 250, excluding the marine guards at the U.S. Embassy in Saigon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 29], "content_span": [30, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0065-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, August\nThree B-52s accidentally bomb Neak Loeung, Cambodia killing or wounding over 400 civilians.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0066-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, August\nThe last bombing by American planes anywhere in Indochina took place when B-52s hit a target in Cambodia. The intense bombing of Cambodia since February 1973 by the U.S. prevented the capture of Phnom Penh by the Khmer Rouge. However, Phnom Penh remained encircled by the Khmer Rouge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0067-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, August\nThe 1973 Laotian coup was a final attempt to stave off a communist coalition government of the Kingdom of Laos. Exiled General Thao Ma returned from Thailand on 20 August 1973 to take over Wattay International Airport outside the capital of Vientiane. Commandeering a T-28, he led air strikes upon the office and home of his hated rival, General Kouprasith Abhay. While Thao Ma was unsuccessfully bombing Kouprasith, loyal RLA troops retook the airfield. Shot down upon his return, Thao Ma was hauled from his airplane's wreckage and executed. The coalition agreement was signed 14 September 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 629]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0068-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, August\nThe VC killed seven ARVN soldiers and wounded 20 government soldiers and civilians in the Shelling of Cai Lay schoolyard.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 31], "content_span": [32, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0069-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, September\nThe last Marine units leave Royal Thai Air Base Nam Phong.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 93]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0070-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, September\nThe PAVN 26th Regiment, 320th Division supported by artillery and tanks captured Plei Djereng Camp in the Central Highlands. 200 of the 293 Rangers at the camp were killed or captured during the battle. PAVN casualties are not known but the RVNAF claimed three T-54 tanks destroyed during the battle", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0071-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, September\nHenry Kissinger became United States Secretary of State replacing William P. Rogers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 34], "content_span": [35, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0072-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, October\nIn the Battle of Ap Da Bien ARVN forces attacked the PAVN 207th Regiment killing over 200 PAVN.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0073-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, October\nHenry Kissinger and L\u00ea \u0110\u1ee9c Th\u1ecd were jointly awarded the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts in negotiating the Paris Peace Accords. However, Th\u1ecd declined to accept the award, claiming that peace had not yet been established and that the United States and the South Vietnamese governments were in violation of the Accords.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0074-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, October\nIn the Battle of Quang Duc PAVN forces attempted to expand their logistical network from Cambodia into South Vietnam but were eventually force back by the ARVN.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0075-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, November\nA PAVN rocket attack on Bien Hoa Air Base destroyed three RVNAF F-5As.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0076-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, November\nThe U.S. Congress adopted, over the President's veto, the War Powers Resolution of 1973 (50 U.S.C. ) providing that the President can send U.S. armed forces into action abroad only by authorization of Congress or if the United States is already under attack or serious threat. The War Powers Resolution requires the president to notify Congress within 48 hours of committing armed forces to military action and forbids armed forces from remaining for more than 60 days, with a further 30-day withdrawal period, without an authorization of the use of military force or a declaration of war. The resolution was passed by two-thirds of Congress, overriding a presidential veto.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 708]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0077-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, December\nThe VC hit the Nh\u00e0 B\u00e8 fuel depot, the largest fuel storage facility in South Vietnam with approximately 80% of the nation's storage capacity, with rocket fire destroying or damaging 30 fuel tanks and igniting over 600,000 barrels of fuel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0078-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, December\nCaptain Richard Morgan Rees serving with Field Team 6, Control Team B, Headquarters, Joint Casualty Resolution Center was killed when VC forces ambushed a joint US-South Vietnamese team engaged on an MIA recovery mission 15 miles (24\u00a0km) southwest of Saigon. A South Vietnamese pilot was also killed in the attack and another four Americans were wounded. As a result of this attack all US MIA field recovery efforts were indefinitely suspended.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096507-0079-0000", "contents": "1973 in the Vietnam War, December\nOnly 50 U.S. military personnel remained in Vietnam. South Vietnamese armed forces totaled 1.1 million. 233,748 South Vietnamese have been killed in combat as of this date.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 33], "content_span": [34, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096508-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in the environment\nThis is a list of notable events relating to the environment in 1973. They relate to environmental law, conservation, environmentalism and environmental issues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096509-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 in video games, Best-selling arcade video games in the United States\nThe following titles were the best-selling arcade video games of 1973 in the United States, according to annual arcade cabinet sales estimates provided by Ralph H. Baer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 73], "content_span": [74, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096510-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 meat boycott\nThe 1973 Meat Boycott was a week-long national boycott in the United States to protest the rapidly increasing meat prices. It took place from 1 to 8 April 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096510-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 meat boycott, Background\nMeat prices began to rise in late 1972. The Consumer price index published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics attributed this price increase to poor weather conditions, which increased the price for grain and animal feed, rising domestic demand, and unusually high export demand for pork due to the dollar devaluation in mid-February. Meat prices had risen 5.4 percent in a month, poultry and fish 5 percent and all retail food prices 2.4 percent, and that all consumer prices had risen seven\u2010tenths of one percent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 29], "content_span": [30, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096510-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 meat boycott, Boycott\nThe boycott rose out of small, local organizations of consumers across the country as prices for meat rose dramatically. These groups were primarily female led, as women traditionally bought the groceries for their households, and these groups grew both from people that only joined together around this issue and already existing women's and community groups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 26], "content_span": [27, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096510-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 meat boycott, Boycott\nThe boycott included both abstention from buying and cooking meat as well as active protests. The protest was observed by more women than men, as men continued to eat meat that was bought before the boycott took effect.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 26], "content_span": [27, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096510-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 meat boycott, Lasting effects\nAccording to some, the boycott was successful in lowering meat prices for a short period of time, although the New York Times reported that there was \"no significant decline in meat prices.\" That being said, in the Time Magazine cover story for April 9, 1973, the boycott was called, \"the most successful boycott by women since Lysistrata,\" and the public pressure pushed President Nixon to enforce price ceilings on beef, pork and lamb. The leaders supported continued boycotts of meat, specifically by refusing to cook or eat meat on Tuesdays and Thursdays.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 34], "content_span": [35, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096510-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 meat boycott, Lasting effects\nRalph Nader wrote that consumers would become more aware of their ability to advocate for and control food policy. Others wrote that \"housewife activism\" and women's groups' power gained more recognition, and the boycott's primary lasting effect was as a \"consciousness-raising experience\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 34], "content_span": [35, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis\nThe 1973 oil crisis or first oil crisis began in October 1973 when the members of the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries led by Saudi Arabia proclaimed an oil embargo. The embargo was targeted at nations perceived as supporting Israel during the Yom Kippur War. The initial nations targeted were Canada, Japan, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States with the embargo also later extended to Portugal, Rhodesia and South Africa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0000-0001", "contents": "1973 oil crisis\nBy the end of the embargo in March 1974, the price of oil had risen nearly 300%, from US$3 per barrel to nearly $12 globally; US prices were significantly higher. The embargo caused an oil crisis, or \"shock\", with many short- and long-term effects on global politics and the global economy. It was later called the \"first oil shock\", followed by the 1979 oil crisis, termed the \"second oil shock\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Background, American production decline\nBy 1969, American domestic output of oil was peaking and could not keep pace with increasing demand from vehicles. The U.S. was importing 350 million barrels per year by the late 1950s, mostly from Venezuela and Canada. Because of transportation costs and tariffs, it never purchased much oil from the Middle East. In 1973, US production had declined to 16% of global output. Eisenhower imposed quotas on foreign oil that would stay in place between 1959 and 1973. Critics called it the \"drain America first\" policy. Some scholars believe the policy contributed to the decline of domestic US oil production in the early 1970s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 56], "content_span": [57, 683]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Background, American production decline\nWhen Richard Nixon became president in 1969, he assigned George Shultz to head a committee to review the Eisenhower-era quota program. Shultz's committee recommended that the quotas be abolished and replaced with tariffs but Nixon decided to keep the quotas due to vigorous political opposition. Nixon imposed a price ceiling on oil in 1971 as demand for oil was increasing and production was declining, which increased dependence on foreign oil imports as consumption was bolstered by low prices. In 1973, Nixon announced the end of the quota system. Between 1970 and 1973 US imports of crude oil had nearly doubled, reaching 6.2 million barrels per day in 1973. Until 1973, an abundance of oil supply had kept the market price of oil lower than the posted price.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 56], "content_span": [57, 821]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Background, OPEC\nThe Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), was founded by five oil producing countries at a Baghdad conference on September 14, 1960. The five founding members of OPEC were Venezuela, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Kuwait. OPEC was organized after the oil companies slashed the posted price of oil, but the posted price of oil remained consistently higher than the market price of oil between 1961 and 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 33], "content_span": [34, 458]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0004-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Background, OPEC\nIn 1963, the Seven Sisters controlled 86% of the oil produced by OPEC countries, but by 1970 the rise of \"independent oil companies\" had decreased their share to 77%. The entry of three new oil producers\u2014Algeria, Libya and Nigeria\u2014meant that by 1970, 81 oil companies were doing business in the Middle East.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 33], "content_span": [34, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0005-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Background, OPEC\nIn the early 1960s Libya, Indonesia and Qatar joined OPEC. OPEC was generally regarded as ineffective until political turbulence in Libya and Iraq strengthened their position in 1970. Additionally, increasing Soviet influence provided oil producing countries with alternative means of transporting oil to markets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 33], "content_span": [34, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0006-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Background, OPEC\nUnder the Tehran Price Agreement of 1971, the posted price of oil was increased and, due to a decline in the value of the US dollar relative to gold, certain anti-inflationary measures were enacted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 33], "content_span": [34, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0007-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Background, OPEC\nIn September 1973, President Nixon said, \"Oil without a market, as Mr. Mossadegh learned many, many years ago, does not do a country much good\", referring to the 1951 nationalization of the Iranian oil industry, but between October 1973 and February 1974 the OPEC countries raised by posted price fourfold to nearly $12.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 33], "content_span": [34, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0008-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Background, OPEC\nBecause oil was priced in dollars, oil producers' real income decreased when the dollar started to float free of the old link to gold. In September 1971, OPEC issued a joint communiqu\u00e9 stating that from then on, they would price oil in terms of a fixed amount of gold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 33], "content_span": [34, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0009-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Background, OPEC\nThis contributed to the \"oil shock\". After 1971, OPEC was slow to readjust prices to reflect this depreciation. From 1947 to 1967, the dollar price of oil had risen by less than two percent per year. Until the oil shock, the price had also remained fairly stable versus other currencies and commodities. OPEC ministers had not developed institutional mechanisms to update prices in sync with changing market conditions, so their real incomes lagged. The substantial price increases of 1973\u20131974 largely returned their prices and corresponding incomes to Bretton Woods levels in terms of commodities such as gold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 33], "content_span": [34, 646]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0010-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Background, The \"oil weapon\"\nArab oil producing countries had attempted to use oil as leverage to influence political events on two prior occasions\u2014the first was the Suez Crisis in 1956 when the United Kingdom, France and Israel invaded Egypt. During the conflict the Syrians sabotaged both the Trans-Arabian Pipeline and the Iraq\u2013Baniyas pipeline, which disrupted the supply of oil to Western Europe. The second instance was when war broke out between Egypt and Israel in 1967, but despite continued Egyptian and Syrian enmity against Israel, the embargo lasted only a few months. Most scholars agree that the 1967 embargo was ineffective.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 45], "content_span": [46, 657]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0011-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Background, The \"oil weapon\"\nAlthough some members of the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC) supported the use of oil as a weapon to influence the political outcome of the Arab\u2013Israeli conflict, Saudi Arabia had traditionally been the strongest supporter of separating oil from politics. The Saudis were wary of the tactic due to the availability of oil from non-Arab oil producing countries, and in the decades leading up to the crisis, the region's conservative monarchies had grown dependent on Western support to ensure their continued survival as Nasserism gained traction. On the other hand, Algeria, Iraq and Libya had strongly supported the use of oil as a weapon in the conflict. Arab newspapers like the Egyptian Al-Ahram, Lebanese An-Nahar and Iraqi Al-Thawra had historically been supportive of the use of oil as a weapon.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 45], "content_span": [46, 875]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0012-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Background, The \"oil weapon\"\nIn 1971, the US had information that the Arab states were willing to implement another embargo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 45], "content_span": [46, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0013-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Background, The \"oil weapon\"\nOn October 6, 1973, Egypt attacked the Bar Lev Line in the Sinai Peninsula and Syria launched an offensive in the Golan Heights, both of which had been occupied by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War. On October 12, 1973, US president Richard Nixon authorized Operation Nickel Grass, a strategic airlift to deliver weapons and supplies to Israel in order to replace its materiel losses, after the Soviet Union began sending arms to Syria and Egypt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 45], "content_span": [46, 493]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0013-0001", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Background, The \"oil weapon\"\nThe following day, on October 17, Arab oil producers cut production by 5% and instituted an oil embargo against Israel's allies: the United States, the Netherlands, Rhodesia, South Africa, and Portugal. Saudi Arabia only consented to the embargo after Nixon's promise of $2.2 billion in military aid to Israel. The embargo was accompanied by gradual monthly production cuts\u2014by December, production had been cut to 25% of September levels. This contributed to a global recession and increased tension between the United States and its European allies, who faulted the US for provoking an embargo by providing assistance to Israel. OAPEC demanded a complete Israeli withdrawal from all territories beyond the 1949 Armistice border.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 45], "content_span": [46, 775]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0014-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Effectiveness of embargo\nThe embargo lasted from October 1973 to March 1974. Since Israeli forces did not withdraw to the 1949 Armistice Line, the majority of scholars believe that the embargo was a failure. Roy Licklieder, in his 1988 book Political Power and the Arab Oil Weapon, concluded that the embargo was a failure because the countries that were targeted by the embargo did not change their policies on the Arab\u2013Israeli conflict. Licklieder believed that any long term changes were caused by the OPEC increase in the posted price of oil, and not the OAPEC embargo. Daniel Yergin, on the other hand, has said that the embargo \"remade the international economy\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 41], "content_span": [42, 686]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0015-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Effectiveness of embargo\nOver the long term, the oil embargo changed the nature of policy in the West towards increased exploration, alternative energy research, energy conservation and more restrictive monetary policy to better fight inflation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 41], "content_span": [42, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0016-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Chronology\nFor further details see the \"Energy crisis\" series by Facts on File.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 27], "content_span": [28, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0017-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Effects\nThe effects of the embargo were immediate. OPEC forced oil companies to increase payments drastically. The price of oil quadrupled by 1974 from US$3 to nearly US$12 per 42 gallon barrel ($75 per cubic meter), equivalent in 2018 dollars to a price rise from $17 to $61 per barrel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 24], "content_span": [25, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0018-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Effects\nThe crisis eased when the embargo was lifted in March 1974 after negotiations at the Washington Oil Summit, but the effects lingered throughout the 1970s. The dollar price of energy increased again the following year, amid the weakening competitive position of the dollar in world markets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 24], "content_span": [25, 314]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0019-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Effects, Impact on oil exporting nations\nThis price increase had a dramatic effect on oil exporting nations, for the countries of the Middle East who had long been dominated by the industrial powers were seen to have taken control of a vital commodity. The oil-exporting nations began to accumulate vast wealth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 57], "content_span": [58, 328]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0020-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Effects, Impact on oil exporting nations\nSome of the income was dispensed in the form of aid to other underdeveloped nations whose economies had been caught between higher oil prices and lower prices for their own export commodities, amid shrinking Western demand. Much went for arms purchases that exacerbated political tensions, particularly in the Middle East. Saudi Arabia spent over 100 billion dollars in the ensuing decades for helping spread its fundamentalist interpretation of Islam, known as Wahhabism, throughout the world, via religious charities such as the al-Haramain Foundation, which often also distributed funds to violent Sunni extremist groups such as Al-Qaeda and the Taliban.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 57], "content_span": [58, 715]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0021-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Effects, Impact on oil exporting nations\nOPEC-member states raised the prospect of nationalization of oil company holdings. Most notably, Saudi Arabia nationalized Aramco in 1980 under the leadership of Saudi oil minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani. As other OPEC nations followed suit, the cartel's income soared. Saudi Arabia undertook a series of ambitious five-year development plans. The biggest began in 1980, funded at $250\u00a0billion. Other cartel members also undertook major economic development programs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 57], "content_span": [58, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0022-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Effects, Oil weapon\nControl of oil became known as the \"oil weapon\". It came in the form of an embargo and production cutbacks from the Arab states. The weapon was aimed at the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Japan and the Netherlands. These target governments perceived that the intent was to push them towards a more pro-Arab position. Production was eventually cut by 25%. However, the affected countries did not undertake dramatic policy changes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 36], "content_span": [37, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0023-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Effects, Oil weapon\nThe risk that the Middle East could become another superpower confrontation with the USSR was of more concern to Washington than oil. Further, interest groups and government agencies more worried about energy were no match for Kissinger's dominance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 36], "content_span": [37, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0024-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Effects, Impact on United States\nIn the US production, distribution and price disruptions \"have been held responsible for recessions, periods of excessive inflation, reduced productivity, and lower economic growth.\" Some researchers regard the 1973 \"oil price shock\" and the accompanying 1973\u201374 stock market crash as the first discrete event since the Great Depression to have a persistent effect on the US economy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 49], "content_span": [50, 433]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0025-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Effects, Impact on United States\nThe embargo had a negative influence on the US economy by causing immediate demands to address the threats to U.S.\u00a0energy security. On an international level, the price increases changed competitive positions in many industries, such as automobiles. Macroeconomic problems consisted of both inflationary and deflationary impacts. The embargo left oil\u00a0companies searching for new ways to increase oil supplies, even in rugged terrain such as the Arctic. Finding oil and developing new fields usually required five to 10\u00a0years before significant production.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 49], "content_span": [50, 605]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0026-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Effects, Impact on United States\nThe average US retail price of a gallon of regular gasoline rose 43% from 38.5\u00a2 in May 1973 to 55.1\u00a2 in June 1974. State governments asked citizens not to put up Christmas lights. Oregon banned Christmas and commercial lighting altogether. Politicians called for a national gasoline rationing program. Nixon asked gasoline retailers to voluntarily not sell gasoline on Saturday nights or Sundays; 90% of gas station owners complied, which produced long lines of motorists wanting to fill up their cars while they still could.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 49], "content_span": [50, 575]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0027-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Effects, Impact on Western Europe\nThe embargo was not uniform across Western Europe. The UK, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and Norway banned flying, driving and boating on Sundays. Sweden rationed gasoline and heating oil. The Netherlands imposed prison sentences for those who used more than their ration of electricity. Of the nine members of the European Economic Community (EEC), the Netherlands faced a complete embargo. By contrast Britain and France received almost uninterrupted supplies. That was their reward for refusing to allow the US to use their airfields and stopping arms and supplies to both the Arabs and the Israelis. The other six EEC nations faced partial cutbacks. The UK had traditionally been an ally of Israel, and Harold Wilson's government supported the Israelis during the Six-Day War. His successor, Ted Heath, reversed this policy in 1970, calling for Israel to withdraw to its pre-1967 borders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 50], "content_span": [51, 941]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0028-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Effects, Impact on Western Europe\nThe EEC was unable to achieve a common policy during the first month of the embargo. It issued a statement on November 6, after the embargo and price rises had begun. It was widely viewed as pro-Arab, supporting the Franco-British line on the war. OPEC duly lifted its embargo from all EEC members. The price rises had a much greater impact in Europe than the embargo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 50], "content_span": [51, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0029-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Effects, Impact on Japan\nJapan was hard hit since it imported 90 per cent of its oil from the Middle East. It had a stockpile good for 55 days, and another 20-day supply was en route. Facing its most serious crisis since 1945 the government ordered a 10% cut in the consumption of industrial oil and electricity. In December it ordered an immediate 20% cut in oil use and electric power to Japan's major industries, and cutbacks in leisure automobile usage. Economist predicted the growth rate would plunge from 5 per cent annually down to zero or even negative territory. Inflation hit 9%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 41], "content_span": [42, 607]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0029-0001", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Effects, Impact on Japan\nSeeking to take advantage of the crisis, Japanese business called on the government to relax its controls on air pollution and water pollution. The government refused. Moscow tried to take advantage by promising energy assistance if Japan returned the Kurile islands. Tokyo refused. Instead it made $3.3 billion of dollars in loans to the Arab states and called on Israel to step back. Japan's defensive strategy was explained to Kissinger when he met with top leaders in Tokyo in November 1973. In the long run Japan never wavered in its determination to maintain very strong close ties to the United States, while in self-defense briefly providing the Arab powers with the rhetoric they demanded in return for resuming oil shipments in early 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 41], "content_span": [42, 791]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0030-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Effects, Impact on Japan\nTo assure future oil flows, Japan added suppliers outside of the Middle East; invested in nuclear power; imposed conservation measures; and provided funding for Arab governments and the Palestinians. The crisis was a major factor in the long-run shift of Japan's economy away from oil-intensive industries. Investment shifted to electronics. Japanese auto makers also benefited from the crisis. The jump in gasoline prices helped their small, fuel-efficient models to gain market share from the \"gas-guzzling\" Detroit competition. This triggered a drop in American sales of American brands that lasted into the 1980s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 41], "content_span": [42, 659]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0031-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Effects, Impact on Japan, Impact on United Kingdom\nDespite being little affected by the embargo, the UK nonetheless faced an energy crisis of its own\u2014a series of strikes by coal miners and railroad workers over the winter of 1973\u201374 became a major factor in the defeat of the Labour government. The new Conservative government told the British to heat only one room in their houses over the winter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 67], "content_span": [68, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0032-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Effects, Price controls and rationing, United States\nPrice controls exacerbated the crisis in the US. The system limited the price of \"old oil\" (that which had already been discovered) while allowing newly discovered oil to be sold at a higher price to encourage investment. Predictably, old oil was withdrawn from the market, creating greater scarcity. The rule also discouraged development of alternative energies. The rule had been intended to promote oil exploration. Scarcity was addressed by rationing (as in many countries). Motorists faced long lines at gas stations beginning in summer 1972 and increasing by summer 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 69], "content_span": [70, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0033-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Effects, Price controls and rationing, United States\nIn 1973, Nixon named William E. Simon as the first Administrator of the Federal Energy Office, a short-term organization created to coordinate the response to the embargo. Simon allocated states the same amount of domestic oil for 1974 that each had consumed in 1972, which worked for states whose populations were not increasing. In other states, lines at gasoline stations were common. The American Automobile Association reported that in the last week of February 1974, 20% of American gasoline stations had no fuel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 69], "content_span": [70, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0034-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Effects, Price controls and rationing, United States\nOdd\u2013even rationing allowed vehicles with license plates having an odd number as the last digit (or a vanity license plate) to buy gas only on odd-numbered days of the month, while others could buy only on even-numbered days.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 69], "content_span": [70, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0035-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Effects, Price controls and rationing, United States\nIn some states, a three-color flag system was used to denote gasoline availability at service stations\u2014green for unrationed availability, yellow for restricted/rationed sales and red for out of stock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 69], "content_span": [70, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0036-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Effects, Price controls and rationing, United States\nRationing led to violent incidents, when truck drivers chose to strike for two days in December 1973 over the limited supplies that Simon had allocated for their industry. In Pennsylvania and Ohio, non-striking truckers were shot at by striking truckers, and in Arkansas, trucks of non-strikers were attacked with bombs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 69], "content_span": [70, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0037-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Effects, Price controls and rationing, United States\nAmerica had controlled the price of natural gas since the 1950s. With the inflation of the 1970s, the price was too low to encourage the search for new reserves. America's natural gas reserves dwindled from 237 trillion in 1974 to 203 trillion in 1978. The price controls were not changed, despite president Gerald Ford's repeated requests to Congress.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 69], "content_span": [70, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0038-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Effects, Conservation and reduction in demand, United States\nTo help reduce consumption, in 1974 a national maximum speed limit of 55\u00a0mph (89\u00a0km/h) was imposed through the Emergency Highway Energy Conservation Act. Development of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve began in 1975, and in 1977 the cabinet-level Department of Energy was created, followed by the National Energy Act of 1978. On November 28, 1995, President Bill Clinton signed the National Highway Designation Act, ending the federal 55\u00a0mph speed limit which allowed states to restore their prior maximum speed limit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 77], "content_span": [78, 595]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0038-0001", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Effects, Conservation and reduction in demand, United States\nYear-round daylight saving time was implemented from January 6, 1974, to October 27, 1975, with a break between October 27, 1974, and February 23, 1975, when the country observed standard time. Parents complained loudly that it forced many children to travel to school before sunrise. The prior rules were restored in 1976.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 77], "content_span": [78, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0039-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Effects, Conservation and reduction in demand, United States\nThe crisis prompted a call to conserve energy, most notably a campaign by the Advertising Council using the tagline \"Don't Be Fuelish\". Many newspapers carried advertisements featuring cut-outs that could be attached to light switches, reading \"Last Out, Lights Out: Don't Be Fuelish\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 77], "content_span": [78, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0040-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Effects, Conservation and reduction in demand, United States\nAlthough not regulated by the new legislation, auto racing groups voluntarily began conserving. In 1974, NASCAR reduced all race distances by 10%; the 24 Hours of Daytona and the 12 Hours of Sebring race were cancelled.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 77], "content_span": [78, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0041-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Effects, Conservation and reduction in demand, United States\nIn 1975, the Energy Policy and Conservation Act was passed, leading to the creation of the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards that required improved fuel economy for cars and light trucks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 77], "content_span": [78, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0042-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Effects, Conservation and reduction in demand, United States\nIn 1976, Congress created the Weatherization Assistance Program to help low-income homeowners and renters reduce their demand for heating and cooling through better insulation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 77], "content_span": [78, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0043-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Effects, Conservation and reduction in demand, United States\nBy 1980, domestic luxury cars with a 130-inch (3.3\u00a0m) wheelbase and gross weights averaging 4,500\u00a0pounds (2,041\u00a0kg) were no longer made. The automakers had begun phasing out the traditional front engine/rear wheel drive layout in compact cars in favor of lighter front engine/front wheel drive designs. A higher percentage of cars offered more efficient four-cylinder engines. Domestic auto makers also began offering more fuel efficient diesel powered passenger cars as well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 77], "content_span": [78, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0044-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Effects, Alternative energy sources\nThe energy crisis led to greater interest in renewable energy, nuclear power and domestic fossil fuels. According to Peter Grossman, American energy policies since the crisis have been dominated by crisis-mentality thinking, promoting expensive quick fixes and single-shot solutions that ignore market and technology realities. He wrote that instead of providing stable rules that support basic research while leaving plenty of scope for entrepreneurship and innovation, Congresses and presidents have repeatedly backed policies which promise solutions that are politically expedient, but whose prospects are doubtful.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 52], "content_span": [53, 671]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0045-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Effects, Alternative energy sources\nThe Brazilian government implemented its \"Pro\u00e1lcool\" (pro-alcohol) project in 1975 that mixed ethanol with gasoline for automotive fuel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 52], "content_span": [53, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0046-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Effects, Alternative energy sources\nIsrael was one of the few countries unaffected by the embargo, since it could extract sufficient oil from the Sinai. But to supplement Israel's over-taxed power grid, Harry Zvi Tabor, the father of Israel's solar industry, developed the prototype for a solar water heater now used in over 90% of Israeli homes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 52], "content_span": [53, 363]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0047-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Effects, Macroeconomy\nWestern central banks decided to sharply cut interest rates to encourage growth, deciding that inflation was a secondary concern. Although this was the orthodox macroeconomic prescription at the time, the resulting stagflation surprised economists and central bankers. The policy is now considered by some to have deepened and lengthened the adverse effects of the embargo. Recent research claims that in the period after 1985 the economy became more resilient to energy price increases.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 38], "content_span": [39, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0048-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Effects, Macroeconomy\nThe price shock created large current account deficits in oil-importing economies. A petrodollar recycling mechanism was created, through which OPEC surplus funds were channeled through the capital markets to the West to finance the current account deficits. The functioning of this mechanism required the relaxation of capital controls in oil-importing economies. It marked the beginning of an exponential growth of Western capital markets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 38], "content_span": [39, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0049-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Effects, Macroeconomy\nIn the United States in 1974, seven of the 15 top Fortune 500 companies were oil companies, falling to four in 2014.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 38], "content_span": [39, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0050-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Effects, International relations\nThe crisis had a major impact on international relations and created a rift within NATO. Some European nations and Japan sought to disassociate themselves from United States foreign policy in the Middle East to avoid being targeted by the boycott. Arab oil producers linked any future policy changes to peace between the belligerents. To address this, the Nixon Administration began multilateral negotiations with the combatants. They arranged for Israel to pull back from the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 49], "content_span": [50, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0050-0001", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Effects, International relations\nBy January 18, 1974, US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger had negotiated an Israeli troop withdrawal from parts of the Sinai Peninsula. The promise of a negotiated settlement between Israel and Syria was enough to convince Arab oil producers to lift the embargo in March 1974. and again during the 1979 energy crisis.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 49], "content_span": [50, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0051-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Effects, International relations, United States\nAmerica's Cold War policies suffered a major blow from the embargo. They had focused on China and the Soviet Union, but the latent challenge to US hegemony coming from the Third World became evident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 64], "content_span": [65, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0052-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Effects, International relations, United States\nIn 2004, declassified documents revealed that the US was so distraught by the rise in oil prices and being challenged by under-developed countries that they briefly considered military action to forcibly seize Middle Eastern oilfields in late 1973. Although no explicit plan was mentioned, a conversation between U.S. Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger and British Ambassador to the United States Lord Cromer revealed Schlesinger had told him that \"it was no longer obvious to him that the U.S. could not use force.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 64], "content_span": [65, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0052-0001", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Effects, International relations, United States\nBritish Prime Minister Edward Heath was so worried by this prospect that he ordered a British intelligence estimate of US intentions, which concluded that America \"might consider it could not tolerate a situation in which the U.S. and its allies were at the mercy of a small group of unreasonable countries\", and that they would prefer a rapid operation to seize oilfields in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, and possibly Abu Dhabi if military action was decided upon. Although the Soviet response to such an act would likely not involve force, intelligence warned \"the American occupation would need to last 10 years as the West developed alternative energy sources, and would result in the 'total alienation' of the Arabs and much of the rest of the Third World.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 64], "content_span": [65, 822]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0053-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Effects, International relations, NATO\nWestern Europe began switching from pro-Israel to more pro-Arab policies. This change strained the Western alliance. The US, which imported only 12% of its oil from the Middle East (compared with 80% for the Europeans and over 90% for Japan), remained staunchly committed to Israel. The percentage of US\u00a0oil which comes from the nations bordering the Persian Gulf remained steady over the decades, with a figure of a little more than 10% in 2008.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 55], "content_span": [56, 502]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0054-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Effects, International relations, NATO\nWith the embargo in place, many developed countries altered their policies regarding the Arab-Israeli conflict. These included the UK, which refused to allow the United States to use British bases and Cyprus to airlift resupplies to Israel, along with the rest of the members of the European Community.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 55], "content_span": [56, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0055-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Effects, International relations, NATO\nCanada shifted towards a more pro-Arab position after displeasure was expressed towards Canada's mostly neutral position. \"On the other hand, after the embargo the Canadian government moved quickly indeed toward the Arab position, despite its low dependence on Middle Eastern oil\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 55], "content_span": [56, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0056-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Effects, International relations, Japan\nAlthough lacking historical connections to the Middle East, Japan was the country most dependent on Arab oil. 71% of its imported oil came from the Middle East in 1970. On November 7, 1973, the Saudi and Kuwaiti governments declared Japan a \"nonfriendly\" country to encourage it to change its noninvolvement policy. It received a 5% production cut in December, causing a panic. On November 22, Japan issued a statement \"asserting that Israel should withdraw from all of the 1967 territories, advocating Palestinian self-determination, and threatening to reconsider its policy toward Israel if Israel refused to accept these preconditions\". By December 25, Japan was considered an Arab-friendly state.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 56], "content_span": [57, 757]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0057-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Effects, International relations, Nonaligned nations\nThe oil embargo was announced roughly one month after a right-wing military coup in Chile led by General Augusto Pinochet toppled socialist president Salvador Allende on September 11, 1973. The response of the Nixon administration was to propose doubling arms sales. As a consequence, an opposing Latin American bloc was organized and financed in part by Venezuelan oil revenues, which quadrupled between 1970 and 1975.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 69], "content_span": [70, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0058-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Effects, International relations, Nonaligned nations\nA year after the start of the embargo, the UN's nonaligned bloc passed a resolution demanding the creation of a \"New International Economic Order\" under which nations within the global South would receive a greater share of benefits derived from the exploitation of southern resources and greater control over their self-development.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 69], "content_span": [70, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0059-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Effects, International relations, Arab states\nPrior to the embargo, the geo-political competition between the Soviet Union and the United States, in combination with low oil prices that hindered the necessity and feasibility of alternative energy sources, presented the Arab States with financial security, moderate economic growth, and disproportionate international bargaining power.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 62], "content_span": [63, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0060-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Effects, International relations, Arab states\nThe oil shock disrupted the status quo relationships between Arab countries and the US and USSR. At the time, Egypt, Syria and Iraq were allied with the USSR, while Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Iran (plus Israel) aligned with the US. Vacillations in alignment often resulted in greater support from the respective superpowers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 62], "content_span": [63, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0061-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Effects, International relations, Arab states\nWhen Anwar Sadat became president of Egypt in 1970, he dismissed Soviet specialists in Egypt and reoriented towards the US. Concerns over economic domination from increased Soviet oil production turned into fears of military aggression after the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, turning the Persian Gulf states towards the US for security guarantees against Soviet military action.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 62], "content_span": [63, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0062-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Effects, International relations, Arab states\nThe USSR's invasion of Afghanistan was only one sign of insecurity in the region, also marked by increased American weapons sales, technology, and outright military presence. Saudi Arabia and Iran became increasingly dependent on American security assurances to manage both external and internal threats, including increased military competition between them over increased oil revenues. Both states were competing for preeminence in the Persian Gulf and using increased revenues to fund expanded militaries. By 1979, Saudi arms purchases from the US exceeded five times Israel's.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 62], "content_span": [63, 643]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0063-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Effects, International relations, Arab states\nIn the wake of the 1979 Iranian Revolution the Saudis were forced to deal with the prospect of internal destabilization via the radicalism of Islamism, a reality which would quickly be revealed in the Grand Mosque seizure in Mecca by Wahhabi extremists during November 1979, and a Shiite Muslim revolt in the oil rich Al-Hasa region of Saudi Arabia in December of the same year, which was known as the 1979 Qatif Uprising. Saudi Arabia is a near-absolute monarchy, an Arabic speaking country, and has a Sunni Muslim majority, while Persian speaking Iran since 1979 is an Islamist theocracy with a Shiite Muslim majority, which explains the current hostility between Saudi Arabia and Iran.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 62], "content_span": [63, 751]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0064-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Effects, Automobile industry\nThe oil crisis sent a signal to the auto industry globally, which changed many aspects of production and usage for decades to come.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 45], "content_span": [46, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0065-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Effects, Automobile industry, Western Europe\nAfter World War II, most West European countries taxed motor fuel to limit imports, and as a result most cars made in Europe were smaller and more economical than their American counterparts. By the late 1960s, increasing incomes supported rising car sizes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 61], "content_span": [62, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0066-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Effects, Automobile industry, Western Europe\nThe oil crisis pushed West European car buyers away from larger, less economical cars. The most notable result of this transition was the rise in popularity of compact hatchbacks. The only notable small hatchbacks built in Western Europe before the oil crisis were the Peugeot\u00a0104, Renault\u00a05 and Fiat\u00a0127. By the end of the decade, the market had expanded with the introduction of the Ford Fiesta, Opel Kadett (sold as the Vauxhall Astra in Great Britain), Chrysler Sunbeam and Citro\u00ebn Visa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 61], "content_span": [62, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0067-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Effects, Automobile industry, Western Europe\nBuyers looking for larger cars were increasingly drawn to medium-sized hatchbacks. Virtually unknown in Europe in 1973, by the end of the decade they were gradually replacing sedans as the mainstay of this sector. Between 1973 and 1980, medium-sized hatchbacks were launched across Europe: the Chrysler/Simca Horizon, Fiat Ritmo (Strada in the UK), Ford Escort MK3, Renault\u00a014, Volvo 340 / 360, Opel Kadett, and Volkswagen Golf.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 61], "content_span": [62, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0068-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Effects, Automobile industry, Western Europe\nThese cars were considerably more economical than the traditional saloons they were replacing, and attracted buyers who traditionally bought larger vehicles. Some 15\u00a0years after the oil crisis, hatchbacks dominated most European small and medium car markets, and had gained a substantial share of the large family car market.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 61], "content_span": [62, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0069-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Effects, Automobile industry, United States\nBefore the energy crisis, large, heavy, and powerful cars were popular. By 1971, the standard engine in a Chevrolet Caprice was a 400-cubic inch (6.5\u00a0liter) V8. The wheelbase of this car was 121.5 inches (3,090\u00a0mm), and Motor Trend's 1972 road test of the similar Chevrolet Impala achieved no more than 15\u00a0highway miles per gallon. In the 15 years prior to the 1973 oil crisis, gasoline prices in the U.S. had lagged well behind inflation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 60], "content_span": [61, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0070-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Effects, Automobile industry, United States\nThe crisis reduced the demand for large cars. Japanese imports, primarily the Toyota Corona, the Toyota Corolla, the Datsun B210, the Datsun\u00a0510, the Honda Civic, the Mitsubishi Galant (a captive import from Chrysler sold as the Dodge Colt), the Subaru DL, and later the Honda Accord all had four cylinder engines that were more fuel efficient than the typical American V8 and six cylinder engines. Japanese imports became mass-market leaders with unibody construction and front-wheel drive, which became de facto standards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 60], "content_span": [61, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0071-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Effects, Automobile industry, United States\nFrom Europe, the Volkswagen Beetle, the Volkswagen Fastback, the Renault\u00a08, the Renault LeCar, and the Fiat Brava were successful. Detroit responded with the Ford Pinto, the Ford Maverick, the Chevrolet Vega, the Chevrolet Nova, the Plymouth Valiant and the Plymouth Volar\u00e9. American Motors sold its homegrown Gremlin, Hornet and Pacer models.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 60], "content_span": [61, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0072-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Effects, Automobile industry, United States\nSome buyers lamented the small size of the first Japanese compacts, and both Toyota and Nissan (then known as Datsun) introduced larger cars such as the Toyota Corona Mark\u00a0II, the Toyota Cressida, the Mazda\u00a0616 and Datsun 810, which added passenger space and amenities such as air conditioning, power steering, AM-FM radios, and even power windows and central locking without increasing the price of the vehicle. A decade after the 1973 oil crisis, Honda, Toyota and Nissan, affected by the 1981 voluntary export restraints, opened US assembly plants and established their luxury divisions (Acura, Lexus and Infiniti, respectively) to distinguish themselves from their mass-market brands.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 60], "content_span": [61, 749]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0073-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Effects, Automobile industry, United States\nCompact trucks were introduced, such as the Toyota Hilux and the Datsun Truck, followed by the Mazda Truck (sold as the Ford Courier), and the Isuzu-built Chevrolet LUV. Mitsubishi rebranded its Forte as the Dodge D-50 a few years after the oil crisis. Mazda, Mitsubishi and Isuzu had joint partnerships with Ford, Chrysler, and GM, respectively. Later, the American makers introduced their domestic replacements (Ford Ranger, Dodge Dakota and the Chevrolet S10/GMC S-15), ending their captive import policy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 60], "content_span": [61, 569]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0074-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Effects, Automobile industry, United States\nAn increase in imported cars into North America forced General Motors, Ford and Chrysler to introduce smaller and fuel-efficient models for domestic sales. The Dodge Omni / Plymouth Horizon from Chrysler, the Ford Fiesta and the Chevrolet Chevette all had four-cylinder engines and room for at least four passengers by the late 1970s. By 1985, the average American vehicle moved 17.4\u00a0miles per gallon, compared to 13.5 in 1970. The improvements stayed, even though the price of a barrel of oil remained constant at $12 from 1974 to 1979.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 60], "content_span": [61, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0074-0001", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Effects, Automobile industry, United States\nSales of large sedans for most makes (except Chrysler products) recovered within two model years of the 1973 crisis. The Cadillac DeVille and Fleetwood, Buick Electra, Oldsmobile 98, Lincoln Continental, Mercury Marquis, and various other luxury oriented sedans became popular again in the mid-1970s. The only full-size models that did not recover were lower price models such as the Chevrolet Bel Air and Ford Galaxie 500. Slightly smaller models such as the Oldsmobile Cutlass, Chevrolet Monte Carlo, Ford Thunderbird and various others sold well.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 60], "content_span": [61, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0075-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Effects, Automobile industry, United States\nEconomical imports succeeded alongside heavy, expensive vehicles. In 1976, Toyota sold 346,920 cars (average weight around 2,100\u00a0lbs), while Cadillac sold 309,139 cars (average weight around 5,000\u00a0lbs).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 60], "content_span": [61, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0076-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Effects, Automobile industry, United States\nFederal safety standards, such as NHTSA Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 215 (pertaining to safety bumpers), and compacts like the 1974 Mustang I were a prelude to the DOT \"downsize\" revision of vehicle categories. By 1977, GM's full-sized cars reflected the crisis. By 1979, virtually all \"full-size\" American cars had shrunk, featuring smaller engines and smaller outside dimensions. Chrysler ended production of their full-sized luxury sedans at the end of the 1981 model year, moving instead to a full front-wheel drive lineup for 1982 (except for the M-body Dodge Diplomat/Plymouth Gran Fury and Chrysler New Yorker Fifth Avenue sedans).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 60], "content_span": [61, 708]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0077-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Consequences, Decline of OPEC\nOPEC soon lost its preeminent position, and in 1981, its production was surpassed by that of other countries. Additionally, its own member nations were divided. Saudi Arabia, trying to recover market share, increased production, pushing prices down, shrinking or eliminating profits for high-cost producers. The world price, which had peaked during the 1979 energy crisis at nearly $40 per barrel, decreased during the 1980s to less than $10 per barrel. Adjusted for inflation, oil briefly fell back to pre-1973 levels. This \"sale\" price was a windfall for oil-importing nations, both developing and developed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 46], "content_span": [47, 657]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0078-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Consequences, Oil sources diversification\nThe embargo encouraged new venues for energy exploration, including Alaska, the North Sea, the Caspian Sea, and the Caucasus. Exploration in the Caspian Basin and Siberia became profitable. Cooperation changed into a far more adversarial relationship as the USSR increased its production. By 1980, the Soviet Union had become the world's largest producer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 58], "content_span": [59, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0079-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Consequences, Oil sources diversification\nPart of the decline in prices and economic and geopolitical power of OPEC came from the move to alternative energy sources. OPEC had relied on price inelasticity to maintain high consumption, but had underestimated the extent to which conservation and other sources of supply would eventually reduce demand. Electricity generation from nuclear power and natural gas, home heating from natural gas, and ethanol-blended gasoline all reduced the demand for oil.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 58], "content_span": [59, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0080-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Consequences, Economic impact\nThe drop in prices presented a serious problem for oil-exporting countries in northern Europe and the Persian Gulf. Heavily populated, impoverished countries, whose economies were largely dependent on oil\u2014including Mexico, Nigeria, Algeria, and Libya\u2014did not prepare for a market reversal that left them in sometimes desperate situations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 46], "content_span": [47, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0081-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Consequences, Economic impact\nWhen reduced demand and increased production glutted the world market in the mid-1980s, oil prices plummeted and the cartel lost its unity. Mexico (a non-member), Nigeria, and Venezuela, whose economies had expanded in the 1970s, faced near-bankruptcy, and even Saudi Arabian economic power was significantly weakened. The divisions within OPEC made concerted action more difficult. As of 2015, OPEC has never approached its earlier dominance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 46], "content_span": [47, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0082-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Graphs and charts\nGraph of oil prices from 1861 to 2015, showing a sharp increase in 1973 and again during the 1979 energy crisis. The orange line is adjusted for inflation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 34], "content_span": [35, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096511-0083-0000", "contents": "1973 oil crisis, Graphs and charts\nThe price of oil during the embargo. The graph is based on the nominal, not real, price of oil, and so overstates prices at the end.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 34], "content_span": [35, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096512-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 raid on Egyptian missile bases\nThe 16 October 1973 raid on Egyptian missile bases was an Israeli raid that took place during the Yom Kippur War. Conducted by the Israel Defense Forces' 421st brigade, its goal was the creation of a corridor in the dense Egyptian air defense array, thus allowing Israeli Air Force activity in the vicinity of the Suez Canal. Egyptian military forces were significantly weakened in the operation due to the destruction of several tanks and three missile bases. According to Israeli claims Israeli forces did not sustain any losses in personnel or equipment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096513-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 raid on al-Mazzah Airport\nThe 1973 raid on al-Mazzah Airport took place on October 13, 1973, and was one of a series of bombing raids carried out by the Israeli Air Force deep inside Syria during the Yom Kippur War.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096513-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 raid on al-Mazzah Airport, Battle\nIsraeli F-4s and Mirage IIICs approached Al-Mazzah airport to conduct a series of raids to neutralize the bases capable of launching attacks over Israeli airspace. Shortly after crossing into Syrian airspace, the Israeli formations came under heavy fire by Soviet-made Syrian Air Force MiG-21s. The Israeli pilots managed to shoot down two of the MiG-21s and then concentrated their attack on the airbase itself. Using the Mirage IIIC's bombing capabilities, they were able to crater the runways and inflict light ground losses.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096513-0001-0001", "contents": "1973 raid on al-Mazzah Airport, Battle\nDuring the raid a MiG-21 shot down an F-4 Phantom; both the pilot and the navigator survived, but they crashed on hostile ground near the airbase, and shortly after that were rescued by IDF forces. Another F-4 Phantom was severely damaged by anti-aircraft fire from the airbase; the plane was escorted back to Israeli airspace, and safely returned home.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096513-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 raid on al-Mazzah Airport, Aftermath\nFollowing the attack, a battle erupted between the IDF and Syrian forces, as the IDF attempted to rescue a pilot and a navigator who ejected from their F-4 Phantom II during the raid. One F-4 Phantom II was crippled during the engagement, but was escorted back to safety despite repeated efforts by the Syrian Air Force to shoot down the crippled aircraft. The raid was primarily an Israeli victory as they sustained minimal losses, compared to the losses of the Syrian Air Force, which lost the airbase and two MIG-21's.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096514-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 raid on the Iraqi embassy in Pakistan\nThe 1973 raid on the Iraqi embassy in Pakistan was an armed infiltration carried out by Pakistan in February 1973 at the embassy of Ba'athist Iraq in Islamabad. The raid, carried out by the Pakistan Rangers and the Islamabad Police, was launched after the interception of information by Pakistani intelligence that uncovered large-scale covert Iraqi involvement in the supplication of weapons and funds to militants waging an insurgency against Iran (then the Imperial State of Iran) and Pakistan in the Balochistan region situated between the two countries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096514-0000-0001", "contents": "1973 raid on the Iraqi embassy in Pakistan\nFollowing the embassy raid, an abundance of funds and Soviet armaments from Iraq that were meant for Baloch insurgents were seized by Pakistani forces, and the Iraqi ambassador to Pakistan as well as the embassy's staff were immediately expelled from Pakistan and declared personae non gratae.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096514-0000-0002", "contents": "1973 raid on the Iraqi embassy in Pakistan\nPakistan's findings in the embassy raid heightened tensions between Iran and Iraq, which, in 1974, escalated into armed clashes over the Shatt al-Arab, a river that was formerly subject to a territorial dispute between the two nations that later served as one of the key factors that propelled them into a full-scale and protracted war in 1980 following the Iranian Revolution. The event led to a severe deterioration in Iraq\u2013Pakistan relations and contributed to Pakistan's heavy backing of Iran during the latter's eight-year-long war with Iraq.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 590]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096514-0001-0000", "contents": "1973 raid on the Iraqi embassy in Pakistan, Background\nRelations between Baloch separatists and Ba'athist Iraq had historical roots and were strong up until the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. Following the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, Iraq had begun to collaborate with the Soviet Union in launching a covert operation to provide military aid to Baloch insurgents operating in Pakistan and Iran. The aim of this operation was to destabilize the two countries by helping dissident Baloch rebels in their fight against the Iranian and Pakistani states that were close allies with the United States.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 596]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096514-0001-0001", "contents": "1973 raid on the Iraqi embassy in Pakistan, Background\nThe operation remained modestly successful during the early 1970s, but ultimately failed when there was unrest amongst the Baloch nationalist leaders involved in the insurgency due to internal disputes. This disorder accompanied by an extremely tough crackdown by the Pakistan Army (supported by Iran) in its Balochistan province crippled the joint Iraqi-Soviet attempts to destabilize the two key U.S. allies in the region and pave the way for Iraq's dominance over Iran as well as more favourable circumstances for India against Pakistan, with the goal of the region completely falling under the Soviet sphere of influence. The disputes took place when Baloch politicians Ghaus Bakhsh Bizenjo and Ataullah Mengal of the National Awami Party refused to accept the demands of Akbar Bugti to establish himself as the Governor of the Pakistani Province of Balochistan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 54], "content_span": [55, 921]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096514-0002-0000", "contents": "1973 raid on the Iraqi embassy in Pakistan, Operation\nAt midnight on 9 February 1973, Akbar Bugti informed Pakistani authorities about a covert Soviet weapons shipment intended for Baloch insurgents that had been smuggled into the country with Iraqi assistance. He reported that the weapons were being kept at the Iraqi embassy in Islamabad. On 10 February 1973, Pakistani police and paramilitary forces began to prepare an operation to raid the Iraqi embassy. After a few hours of planning, a raid was conducted by the Pakistan Rangers, accompanied by the Islamabad Police to storm the embassy and seize any means of support for the rebels. The raid was a success, and Pakistani forces discovered 300 Soviet-made submachine guns with an excess of 50,000 rounds of ammunition and a large amount of funding intended for Baloch militants.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 53], "content_span": [54, 836]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096514-0003-0000", "contents": "1973 raid on the Iraqi embassy in Pakistan, Aftermath\nFollowing the raid, the Baloch nationalist leader Sher Mohammad Marri paid a formal visit to Baghdad. Newspapers widely reported that the Soviet arms were intended to be given to Baloch separatists in their fight against Pakistan and Iran to further fuel tensions between the dissident tribes against the two nations. Media outlets throughout Pakistan predicted that the discovery of these weapons would muster greater support for the government from other ethnic groups in the country. Supported by Iranian forces, Pakistan launched a large-scale military operation against Baloch rebels shortly after this incident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 53], "content_span": [54, 671]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096514-0003-0001", "contents": "1973 raid on the Iraqi embassy in Pakistan, Aftermath\nThis counter-insurgency operation finally ended in 1977 after the insurgency/rebellion was largely crushed and left disheartened. Despite this setback, Iraq continued to undertake covert activities to empower Baloch nationalists and attempt to destabilize Pakistan and Iran. The culmination of tensions between Iran (a key U.S. ally with a developed economy and the fifth-largest military in the world at the time) and Iraq would eventually reach an extreme point after the 1979 Iranian Revolution and subsequent Iran-Iraq War, in which Pakistan would provide the Iranians with covert support and inflict major losses on invading Iraqi forces.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [44, 53], "content_span": [54, 697]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096515-0000-0000", "contents": "1973 \u00darvalsdeild, Overview\nIt was contested by 8 teams, and Keflav\u00edk won the championship. Valur's Hermann Gunnarsson was the top scorer with 17 goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 26], "content_span": [27, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096516-0000-0000", "contents": "19738 Calinger\n19738 Calinger, provisional designation 2000 AS97, is a background asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 3 kilometers in diameter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096516-0001-0000", "contents": "19738 Calinger\nIt was discovered on 4 January 2000, by members of the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research team at Lincoln Laboratory's Experimental Test Site in Socorro, New Mexico, and named after DCYSC-mentor Manetta Calinger.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096516-0002-0000", "contents": "19738 Calinger, Classification and orbit\nCalinger is a non-family asteroid from the main belt's background population. It orbits the Sun in the inner asteroid belt at a distance of 1.9\u20132.7\u00a0AU once every 3 years and 5 months (1,260 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.18 and an inclination of 8\u00b0 with respect to the ecliptic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 40], "content_span": [41, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096516-0003-0000", "contents": "19738 Calinger, Classification and orbit\nThe body's observation arc begins almost 10 years prior to its official discovery observation, with a precovery from the Digitized Sky Survey taken at Palomar Observatory in May 1990.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 40], "content_span": [41, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096516-0004-0000", "contents": "19738 Calinger, Physical characteristics\nAccording to the surveys carried out by the Infrared Astronomical Satellite IRAS, the Japanese Akari satellite, and NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer with its subsequent NEOWISE mission, Calinger measures 3.272 kilometers in diameter and its surface has a high albedo of 0.314. It has an absolute magnitude of 14.1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 40], "content_span": [41, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096516-0005-0000", "contents": "19738 Calinger, Physical characteristics, Lightcurves\nAs of 2017, Calinger' rotation period and shape remain unknown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 53], "content_span": [54, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096516-0006-0000", "contents": "19738 Calinger, Naming\nThis minor planet was named after Manetta Calinger who mentored a finalist in the 2003 Discovery Channel Youth Science Challenge, DCYSC. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 10 October 2003 (M.P.C. 49772).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 22], "content_span": [23, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096517-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u20131974 Massachusetts legislature\nThe 168th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1973 and 1974 during the governorship of Francis Sargent. Kevin B. Harrington served as president of the Senate and David M. Bartley served as speaker of the House.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096518-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u20131974 Whitbread Round the World Race\nThe 1973\u201374 Whitbread Round the World Race, the first edition of the Whitbread Round the World Race, started off from Portsmouth, England on 8 September 1973. Seventeen yachts of various sizes and rigs took part. During the race three sailors were swept over board and died: Paul Waterhouse, Dominique Guillet and Bernie Hosking. Waterhouse and Guillet were never to be seen again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 422]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096518-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u20131974 Whitbread Round the World Race\nThe crew of the Mexican yacht Sayula II, a brand new Swan 65 owned and skippered by Mexican Captain Ram\u00f3n Carlin, won the overall race in 133 days and 13 hours. Her actual time was 152 days. In 2016, this adventure was presented in a documentary film called The Weekend Sailor.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096519-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u20131974 stock market crash\nThe 1973\u20131974 stock market crash caused a bear market between January 1973 and December 1974. Affecting all the major stock markets in the world, particularly the United Kingdom, it was one of the worst stock market downturns since the Great Depression, the other being the financial crisis of 2007\u20132008. The crash came after the collapse of the Bretton Woods system over the previous two years, with the associated 'Nixon Shock' and United States dollar devaluation under the Smithsonian Agreement. It was compounded by the outbreak of the 1973 oil crisis in October of that year. It was a major event of the 1970s recession.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 655]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096519-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u20131974 stock market crash, History\nIn the 694 days between 11 January 1973 and 6 December 1974, the New York Stock Exchange's Dow Jones Industrial Average benchmark suffered the seventh-worst bear market in its history, losing over 45% of its value. 1972 had been a good year for the DJIA, with gains of 15% in the twelve months. 1973 had been expected to be even better, with Time magazine reporting just 3 days before the crash began that it was 'shaping up as a gilt-edged year'. In the two years from 1972 to 1974, the American economy slowed from 7.2% real GDP growth to \u22122.1% contraction, while inflation (by CPI) jumped from 3.4% in 1972 to 12.3% in 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 665]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096519-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u20131974 stock market crash, History\nThe effect was worse in the United Kingdom, particularly on the London Stock Exchange's FT 30, which lost 73% of its value during the crash. From a rate of 5.1% real GDP growth in 1972, the UK went into recession in 1974, with GDP falling by 1.1%. At the time, the UK's property market was going through a major crisis, and a secondary banking crisis forced the Bank of England to bail out a number of lenders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 448]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096519-0002-0001", "contents": "1973\u20131974 stock market crash, History\nIn the United Kingdom, the crash ended after the rent freeze was lifted on 19 December 1974, allowing a readjustment of property prices; over the following year, stock prices rose by 150%. The definitive market low for the FT30 Index (a forerunner of the FTSE100 today) came on 6 January 1975, when the index closed at 146 (having reached a nadir of 145.8 intra-day). The market then practically doubled in just over 3 months. However, unlike in the United States, inflation continued to rise, to 25% in 1975, giving way to the era of stagflation. The Hong Kong Hang Seng Index also fell from 1,800 in early 1973 to close to 300.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 37], "content_span": [38, 667]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096519-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u20131974 stock market crash, Large daily price changes\nOut of the 20 largest percentage gains and losses in the DJIA, none occurred during this time period.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 55], "content_span": [56, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096519-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u20131974 stock market crash, Aftermath\nAll the main stock indexes of the future G7 bottomed out between September and December 1974, having lost at least 34% of their value in nominal terms and 43% in real terms. In all cases, the recovery was a slow process. Although West Germany's market was the fastest to recover, returning to the original nominal level within eighteen months, it did not return to the same real level until June 1985. The United Kingdom didn't return to the same market level until May 1987 (only a few months before the Black Monday crash), whilst the United States didn't see the same level in real terms until August 1993, over twenty years after the 1973\u201374 crash began.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 698]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096519-0005-0000", "contents": "1973\u20131974 stock market crash, Cultural references\nThe Hong Kong TVB series The Greed of Man storyline revolves around the market crash.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 49], "content_span": [50, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096520-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u20131975 recession\nThe 1973\u20131975 recession or 1970s recession was a period of economic stagnation in much of the Western world during the 1970s, putting an end to the overall post\u2013World War II economic expansion. It differed from many previous recessions by being a stagflation, where high unemployment and high inflation existed simultaneously.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096520-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u20131975 recession, United States\nAmong the causes were the 1973 oil crisis and the fall of the Bretton Woods system after the Nixon Shock. The emergence of newly industrialized countries increased competition in the metal industry, triggering a steel crisis, where industrial core areas in North America and Europe were forced to re-structure. The 1973\u201374 stock market crash made the recession evident.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 404]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096520-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u20131975 recession, United States\nThe recession in the United States lasted from November 1973 (the Richard Nixon presidency) to March 1975 (the Gerald Ford presidency), and its effects on the US were felt through the Jimmy Carter presidency until the mid-term of Ronald Reagan's first term as president, characterized by low economic growth. Although the economy was expanding from 1975 to the first recession of the early 1980s, which began in January 1980, inflation remained extremely high until the early 1980s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 517]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096520-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u20131975 recession, United States\nThe U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that 2.3 million jobs were lost during the recession; at the time, this was a post-war record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096520-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u20131975 recession, United States\nAlthough the recession ended in March 1975, the unemployment rate did not peak for several months. In May 1975, the rate reached its height for the cycle of 9 percent. (Four cycles have had higher peaks than this: the late 2000s recession, where the unemployment rate peaked at 10 percent in October 2009 in the United States; the early 1980s recession where unemployment peaked at 10.8% in November and December 1982; the Great Depression, where unemployment peaked at 25% in 1933; and the COVID-19 recession where unemployment peaked at 14.7% in 2020.)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096520-0005-0000", "contents": "1973\u20131975 recession, United Kingdom\nThe recession also lasted from 1973\u20131975 in the United Kingdom. GDP declined by 3.9%depending on the source. It took 14 quarters for the UK's GDP to recover to that at the start of recession.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096520-0006-0000", "contents": "1973\u20131975 recession, United Kingdom\nThe oil crisis was largely to blame for the downturn in the United Kingdom, just as it was for the similar crisis in the States, although the real crisis came in the form of the Three-Day Week, which was the result of fears over power shortages as a miner's strike was announced in December 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096520-0006-0001", "contents": "1973\u20131975 recession, United Kingdom\nThe three-day week was a state of emergency imposed by Conservative prime minister Edward Heath, which came into force on 1 January 1974, meaning that commercial users of electricity were limited to three specific consecutive days' consumption of electricity, and forbidden to work longer hours of those days, although services deemed essential were exempted from these regulations. Electricity blackouts across the country were widespread.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 476]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096520-0007-0000", "contents": "1973\u20131975 recession, United Kingdom\nThere was also double-digit inflation during this period, which peaked at more than 20%.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096520-0008-0000", "contents": "1973\u20131975 recession, United Kingdom\nEdward Heath's offer of a 13% pay rise was rejected by the miners, and he then responded by calling a snap election on 28 February 1974 in what he saw as an opportunity for the electorate to show the miners that the government \u2013 and not the miners or the unions \u2013 were responsible for running the country. Most opinion polls suggested that the Tories would be re-elected with a majority, but when the election results came through on the morning of 1 March 1974, no party had an overall majority.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096520-0008-0001", "contents": "1973\u20131975 recession, United Kingdom\nThe gap between Ted Heath's Tory government and the Labour opposition led by Harold Wilson (who had been prime minister for nearly six years until his surprise defeat by Heath's Tories in the 1970 election) was so narrow that the Tories received the most votes but Labour won slightly more seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 332]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096520-0009-0000", "contents": "1973\u20131975 recession, United Kingdom\nHeath fought to keep the Tories in government by attempting to form a coalition with the Liberal Party and offering a cabinet post to Liberal leader Jeremy Thorpe, but this attempt to remain in power proved unsuccessful for Heath and he was forced to resign as prime minister on 4 March, paving the way for Harold Wilson's Labour to return to power as a minority government before winning a second election on 10 October by a majority of just three seats.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096520-0010-0000", "contents": "1973\u20131975 recession, United Kingdom\nEconomic growth was re-established in 1975 as the recession's end was declared, but Britain's economy remained shaky. Inflation remained high, strikes continued to cripple manufacturing and public services, unemployment continued to rise above the 1,000,000 mark, and just after the resignation of Harold Wilson as prime minister in March 1976, his successor James Callaghan was forced to call on the International Monetary Fund for a multibillion-pound bail-out in an attempt to bolster Britain's flagging economy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 551]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096520-0011-0000", "contents": "1973\u20131975 recession, United Kingdom\nThe Labour government's tiny majority was wiped out by early 1977 as a result of by-election defeats, and Callaghan managed to form a coalition with the Liberals to hang onto power. The pact concluded in the summer of 1978, by which time economic growth had picked up (although unemployment now stood at a postwar high of 1,500,000), and opinion polls suggested that Labour could form a majority government if a general election was held. However, Callaghan ruled out an election in September 1978, and within weeks a series of strikes began which would spark the Winter of Discontent. In March 1979, a vote of no confidence issued by Tory opposition leader Margaret Thatcher sparked the collapse of the Labour government and in the election in May that year, the Tories returned to power.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 825]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096520-0012-0000", "contents": "1973\u20131975 recession, United Kingdom\nIn the first year of the Thatcher-led Tory government inflation rose to 15.3%, but then fell to 5% by the time of their election win in 1983. However, the monetarist policies designed to curb inflation caused a recession in 1980 and resulted in a steep rise in unemployment from 5.4% (1,390,46 people) to 11.5% (3,104,66 people). It was not until 2000, by which time Labour had been re-elected as New Labour under Tony Blair that unemployment fell to the level in 1979.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 35], "content_span": [36, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096520-0013-0000", "contents": "1973\u20131975 recession, Rest of the world\nThe oil crisis of 1973 also had similarly large negative effects on other countries that relied heavily on imported oil, such as France, Sweden, Japan, Finland, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Denmark.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096520-0014-0000", "contents": "1973\u20131975 recession, Rest of the world\nIn Sweden's particular case, the recession proved devastating to the shipping, ship-building, and logging and mining industries. The increase in oil prices caused export revenues from shipping to drop by 25% within a few years. Sweden at this time had the world's second largest ship building industry (after Japan), and the spillover effects devastated shipbuilders (Swedish shipbuilders lost some 3 billion SEK in 1974), which in turn led to problems in Sweden's steel industry. The loss of shipbuilding jobs devastated port cities such as Malm\u00f6, home to Kockums' shipyard, which would struggle for the next 20 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096520-0014-0001", "contents": "1973\u20131975 recession, Rest of the world\nFurthermore, the ripple effects also compounded issues in the iron ore mining industry, at a time when Swedish iron ore was experiencing rising mining costs and facing increased low-cost competition from new mines in places such as Australia and Brazil. The inflationary recession, combined with an expansionary government fiscal policy and a generous collective wage agreement among unions in 1974-1976, put Sweden on a highly inflationary path: the price index quintupled between 1972 and 1995. Between 1965 and 1979, the public sector's share of total employment rose from 12% to 30%, which greatly increased the total tax burden at a time of escalating costs and prices, which fed into wage settlements, competitiveness, and profitability, and contributed to a sharply deteriorated trade balance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 839]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096520-0015-0000", "contents": "1973\u20131975 recession, Rest of the world\nSome newly industrialized countries saw some diversionary benefits from the crisis, namely Spain, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Mexico, and Brazil, as their low-cost environments attracted new investments and gave their products a competitive edge over competitors in higher-cost, developed countries suffering from higher energy costs. These countries gained increased market share both in their domestic markets and abroad at accelerating rates during the 1970s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 499]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096520-0016-0000", "contents": "1973\u20131975 recession, Economic recovery\nIn the United States, the economic recovery from the 1973 to 1975 recession had many of the characteristics of a typical U-type recovery. GNP (the measure at the time) reached and exceeded its pre-recession level by first quarter 1976. Industrial production had recovered to its pre-recession levels by the end of 1976.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096520-0017-0000", "contents": "1973\u20131975 recession, Economic recovery\nThe major influence of the experience of the 1974 recession came in the form of the concept of stagflation, that is, inflation during a period of recession. The Federal Reserve adjusted its mandate as a result, believing that the inflation-unemployment tradeoff was much higher than previously thought, and established a 6% target as full employment. Thus, unemployment, which had reached a peak of 9% in May 1975, did not dip below 6% until June 1978. The pre-1974 recession level of 4.6% unemployment was not reached again until November 1997, when the Federal Reserve deviated from its prior policy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 641]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096520-0018-0000", "contents": "1973\u20131975 recession, Economic recovery\nThe interpretation regarding the cause of stagflation was and continues to be controversial. The oil embargo of 1973-74, which pushed prices of petroleum from $15 to $45 a barrel (2010 dollars) almost overnight, certainly contributed to inflationary measures during this period, taking a larger share of incomes (an \"oil tax\") at a time of falling consumer spending. The price of petroleum products continued to rise throughout the decade, reaching a peak of about $73 a barrel (2010 dollars) in 1979 as a result of the Iranian revolution, a price not exceeded until 2008 in the wake of dislocations due to the war in Iraq.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 662]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096521-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 1. Slovensk\u00e1 n\u00e1rodn\u00e1 hokejov\u00e1 liga season\nThe 1973\u201374 1. Slovensk\u00e1 n\u00e1rodn\u00e1 hokejov\u00e1 liga season was the 5th season of the 1. Slovensk\u00e1 n\u00e1rodn\u00e1 hokejov\u00e1 liga, the second level of ice hockey in Czechoslovakia alongside the 1. \u010cesk\u00e1 n\u00e1rodn\u00ed hokejov\u00e1 liga. 12 teams participated in the league, and \u0160K Liptovsk\u00fd Mikul\u00e1\u0161 won the championship. TJ AC Nitra relegated and TJ Slovan CHZJD Bratislava B ceased its activities and disappeared.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096522-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 1.Lig\nStatistics of the Turkish First Football League for the 1973\u201374 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [13, 13], "content_span": [14, 85]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096522-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 1.Lig, Overview\nIt was contested by 16 teams, and Fenerbah\u00e7e S.K. won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 13], "section_span": [15, 23], "content_span": [24, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096523-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 2nd Bundesliga (ice hockey) season\nThe 1973-74 2nd Bundesliga season was the first season of the 2nd Bundesliga, the second level of ice hockey in Germany. 10 teams participated in the league, and ESV Kaufbeuren won the championship, and was promoted to the Ice hockey Bundesliga as a result. EV Ravensburg was relegated to the Oberliga", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096524-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 A Group\nStatistics of Bulgarian A Football Group in the 1973\u20131974 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 81]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096524-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 A Group, Overview\nIt was contested by 16 teams, and Levski Sofia won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 25], "content_span": [26, 94]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096525-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 ABA season\nThe 1973\u201374 ABA season was the seventh season of the American Basketball Association. The New York Nets won the ABA championship, 4 games to 1 over the Utah Stars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096526-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 AHL season\nThe 1973\u201374 AHL season was the 38th season of the American Hockey League. The league renamed its divisions, and the \"East\" Division became the \"North\" Division, and the \"West\" Division became the \"South\" Division. Twelve teams played 76 games each in the schedule. The Rochester Americans finished first overall in the regular season. The Hershey Bears and won their fifth Calder Cup championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096526-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 AHL season\nThis was the final season for the Cleveland/Jacksonville Barons as well as for the Boston Braves.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096526-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 AHL season, Final standings\nNote: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; Pts = Points;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 35], "content_span": [36, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096526-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 AHL season, Scoring leaders\nNote: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalty minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 35], "content_span": [36, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096527-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Albanian Cup\n1973\u201374 Albanian Cup (Albanian: Kupa e Shqip\u00ebris\u00eb) was the twenty-second season of Albania's annual cup competition. It began on August 1973 with the First Round and ended on May 1974 with the Final match. The winners of the competition qualified for the 1974-75 first round of the UEFA Cup. KF Partizani were the defending champions, having won their tenth Albanian Cup last season. The cup was won by Dinamo Tirana.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096527-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Albanian Cup\nThe rounds were played in a two-legged format similar to those of European competitions. If the aggregated score was tied after both games, the team with the higher number of away goals advanced. If the number of away goals was equal in both games, the match was decided by extra time and a penalty shootout, if necessary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096527-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Albanian Cup, Second round\nIn this round entered the 16 winners from the previous round. First and second legs were played on January 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096527-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Albanian Cup, Quarter finals\nIn this round entered the 8 winners from the previous round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 36], "content_span": [37, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096527-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Albanian Cup, Semifinals\nIn this round entered the four winners from the previous round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 32], "content_span": [33, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096528-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Albanian National Championship\nThe 1973\u201374 Albanian National Championship was the 35th official season, or 38th season of top-tier football in Albania (including three unofficial championships during World War II). Dinamo Tirana were the defending champions. The season began on 16 September 1973 and concluded on 9 June 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096528-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Albanian National Championship\nVllaznia were crowned Albanian champions for the fourth time in their history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096528-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Albanian National Championship, League table\nNote: 'Labinoti' is Elbasani, 'Traktori' is Lushnja, \"Lokomotiva Durr\u00ebs' is Teuta, '17 N\u00ebntori' is Tirana", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 52], "content_span": [53, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096529-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Algerian Championnat National\nThe 1973\u20131974 Algerian Championnat National was the 11th season of the Algerian Championnat National since its establishment in 1962. A total of 16 teams contested the league, with JS Kawkabi as the defending champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096530-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Algerian Cup\nThe 1973\u201374 Algerian Cup is the 12th edition of the Algerian Cup. MC Alger were the defending champions, having beaten USM Alger 4\u20132 in the previous season's final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096531-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship\nThe 1973\u201374 All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship was the fourth staging of the All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship since its establishment by the Gaelic Athletic Association in 1970-71.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 258]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096531-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship\nNemo Rangers were the defending champions, however, they failed to qualify after being beaten by St. Finbarr's in the 1973 Cork County Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096531-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship\nOn 28 April 1974, University College Dublin won the championship following a 0-14 to 1-04 defeat of Clan na Gael in the All-Ireland final replay at Croke Park. It was their first ever championship title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096532-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship\nThe 1973\u201374 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship was the fourth staging of the All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship, the Gaelic Athletic Association's premier inter-county club hurling tournament. The championship began on 28 October 1973 and ended on 28 April 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 335]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096532-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship\nGlen Rovers of Cork were the defending champions, however, they failed to qualify after being defeated by Blackrock in the final of the Cork Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096532-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship\nOn 28 April 1974, Blackrock won the championship after a 3\u201308 to 1\u201309 defeat of Rathnure in the All-Ireland final replay. It was second championship title overall and their first title since 1972.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 249]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096532-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship\nDan Quigley of Rathnure was the championship's top scorer with 4-42.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [52, 52], "content_span": [53, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096532-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship, Format\nThe 1973\u201374 club championship was played on a straight knock-out basis. Each of the participating counties entered their respective club champions. The format of the competition was as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 60], "content_span": [61, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096532-0005-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship, Format\nThe Leinster, Connacht, Munster and Ulster championships were played on a straight knock-out basis. The four respective champions from these provinces advanced directly to the All-Ireland semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 60], "content_span": [61, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096532-0006-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship, Format\nSemi-finals: (2 matches) The Munster champions played the Ulster champions while the Leinster champions played the Connacht champions. The winners of these two games contested the All-Ireland club final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 52], "section_span": [54, 60], "content_span": [61, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096533-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Allsvenskan (men's handball)\nThe 1973\u201374 Allsvenskan was the 40th season of the top division of Swedish handball. 10 teams competed in the league. IFK Malm\u00f6 won the regular season, but IF Saab won the playoffs and claimed their third Swedish title. Redbergslids IK and HP Warta were relegated. IFK Malm\u00f6's regular season average attendance has been estimated between 3300 and 4000, the highest ever in Swedish handball until IFK Kristianstad in the 2010s.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096534-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Alpha Ethniki\nThe 1973\u201374 Alpha Ethniki was the 38th season of the highest football league of Greece. The season began on 23 September 1973 and ended on 22 June 1974. Olympiacos won their second consecutive and 19th Greek title. That was the last season in which Cypriot teams took part, while this season a new point system was introduced (Win: 2 points - Draw: 1 point - Loss: 0 points), replacing the corresponding 3\u20132\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096535-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Arsenal F.C. season\nDuring the 1973\u201374 English football season, Arsenal F.C. competed in the Football League First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096535-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Arsenal F.C. season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 34], "content_span": [35, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096536-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Aston Villa F.C. season\nThe 1973\u201374 English football season was Aston Villa's 74th season in the Football League, this season playing in the Football League Second Division. Under manager Vic Crowe Aston Villa won promotion and thus ended their two-year spell in the Third Division. By the end of the decade they would be firmly re-established as a First Division club. But Vic Crowe was sacked in April 1974. Ron Saunders was appointed manager in June 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096536-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Aston Villa F.C. season\nThe New Year's day fixture saw Villa draw 0-0 with Millwall before a home crowd of 20,905 leaving Villa in 13th position. Within the month, Arsenal fall at the feet of Sammy Morgan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096537-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Athenian League\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by WereSpielChequers (talk | contribs) at 10:05, 15 October 2020 (\u2192\u200eDivision Two: Typo fixing, replaced: 4rd \u2192 4th). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096537-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Athenian League\nThe 1973\u201374 Athenian League season was the 51st in the history of Athenian League. The league consisted of 34 teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096537-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Athenian League, Division One\nThe previous season Premier Division changed name to Division One before this season. The division featured 10 new teams:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096537-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Athenian League, Division Two\nThe previous season Division One changed name to Division Two before this season. The division featured 14 new teams:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096538-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Atlanta Flames season\nThe 1973\u201374 Atlanta Flames season was the second season for the franchise.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096538-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Atlanta Flames season, Playoffs\nThe Flames made the playoffs for the first time in franchise history in 1973\u201374, as they finished in fourth place in the West Division, setting up a first round playoff matchup against the first place Philadelphia Flyers. The Flyers finished the season with a 50\u201316\u201312 record, earning 112 points, which was 38 more points than Atlanta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096538-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Atlanta Flames season, Playoffs\nThe best of seven series opened up at the Spectrum in Philadelphia in front of a sellout crowd of 17,007, and the Flyers opened the scoring with four seconds remaining in the first period, when Gary Dornhoefer scored a shorthanded goal. The Flyers extended their lead to 2\u20130 in the second period after Tom Bladon scored on the powerplay. In the third period, Orest Kindrachuk gave Philadelphia a 3\u20130 lead, however, thirty seconds later, Bob Murray scored the first ever playoff goal for Atlanta, cutting the lead to 3\u20131. Orest Kindrachuk added a second goal later in the third to give the Flyers a 4\u20131 opening game victory. Bernie Parent made 31 saves for the victory, while Phil Myre took the loss for Atlanta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 751]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096538-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Atlanta Flames season, Playoffs\nIn the second game of the series, the Flyers took an early 1\u20130 lead on a goal by Terry Crisp. In the second period, Rick MacLeish scored a natural hat-trick, scoring three goals in a row, to give the Flyers a 4\u20130 lead. Rey Comeau broke the Flyers shutout bid in the third period, however, Jimmy Watson scored for Philadelphia, as the Flyers won the second game 5\u20131, taking a 2\u20130 series lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096538-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Atlanta Flames season, Playoffs\nThe series shifted to the Omni Coliseum for the third game, as the arena was sold out with 15,141 fans for the first ever playoff game in Atlanta. The Flyers opened the scoring with two quick goals in the first period, as Don Saleski and Bobby Clarke scored in the first 5:02 of the game to give Philadelphia a 2\u20130 lead. In the second period, Larry Romanchych responded for the Flames, cutting the lead to 2\u20131, however, the Flyers regained their two-goal lead when Rick MacLeish scored his fourth goal of the series. In the third period, Bill Barber scored for the Flyers, as they took the third game 4\u20131, and now had a 3\u20130 series lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 676]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096538-0005-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Atlanta Flames season, Playoffs\nIn the fourth game, facing elimination, and in front of another sold out crowd, the Flames opened the scoring 3:28 into the game, when Larry Romanchych beat Bernie Parent to give Atlanta a 1\u20130 lead, their first lead of the series. In the second period, the Flames took a 3\u20130 lead, after goals by Jean Lemieux and Rey Comeau, however, the Flyers Andre Dupont scored a late period goal to cut the Flames lead to 3\u20131. Early in the third period, the Flyers Gary Dornhoefer scored on the powerplay to make the score 3\u20132. On another powerplay, Tom Bladon scored for Philadelphia, tying the game at 3\u20133. The game went into overtime, and the Flyers completed the comeback, when Dave Schultz beat Phil Myre, as the Flyers won the game 4\u20133, and eliminated the Flames from the post-season", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 817]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096538-0006-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Atlanta Flames season, Player statistics, Skaters\nNote: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalty minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096538-0007-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Atlanta Flames season, Player statistics, Skaters\n\u2020Denotes player spent time with another team before joining Atlanta. Stats reflect time with the Flames only. \u2021Traded mid-season", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096538-0008-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Atlanta Flames season, Player statistics, Goaltending\nNote: GP = Games played; TOI = Time on ice (minutes); W = Wins; L = Losses; OT = Overtime/shootout losses; GA = Goals against; SO = Shutouts; GAA = Goals against average", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096538-0009-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Atlanta Flames season, Transactions\nThe Flames were involved in the following transactions during the 1973\u201374 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096539-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Atlanta Hawks season\nThe 1973\u201374 Atlanta Hawks season was the 28th season of the franchise, 60th in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Although \"Pistol\" Pete Maravich finished second in the league in scoring with 27.7 points per game, the Hawks missed the playoffs for the first time in 12 seasons. Following the season, the Hawks would trade Maravich to the expansion New Orleans Jazz in exchange for Dean Meminger, Bob Kauffman, and four draft picks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096540-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Australian region cyclone season\nThe 1973\u201374 Australian region cyclone season was the third most active tropical cyclone season in the Australian Region.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096540-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Severe Tropical Cyclone Ines\nOn November\u00a017, Ines formed offshore the Top End. Moving westward, the cyclone passed north of Bathurst and Melville islands. Thereafter, Ines curved southwestward and intensified into a 130\u00a0km/h (80\u00a0mph) cyclone while nearing Troughton Island. The storm made landfall in Kimberley, Western Australia on November\u00a019. Ines slowly weakened after moving inland and dissipated on November\u00a024.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 79], "content_span": [80, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096540-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Annie\nCyclone Annie developed northwest of Western Australia on November\u00a021. By December\u00a08, it dissipated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 73], "content_span": [74, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096540-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Severe Tropical Cyclone Beryl\nBeryl formed just south of the Lesser Sunda Islands on November\u00a026. The cyclone strengthened, peaking with winds of 125\u00a0km/h (75\u00a0mph) on December\u00a01. Three days later, Beryl made landfall near Carnarvon, Western Australia and quickly dissipated. Minor wind damage was reported.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 80], "content_span": [81, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096540-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Natalie\u2013Lottie\nCyclone Lottie struck Fiji's Southern Lau Group on December 10. High seas caused the ship Uluilakeba to capsize killing more than 85\u00a0people.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 82], "content_span": [83, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096540-0005-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Severe Tropical Cyclone Cecily\nThe next system, Cecily, developed near the Cocos Islands on December\u00a011. Cecily moved south-southwestward and peaked with winds of 125\u00a0km/h (75\u00a0mph). On December\u00a019, the cyclone dissipated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 81], "content_span": [82, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096540-0006-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Una\nUna formed southwest of Solomon Islands on December\u00a015. It struck Queensland before dissipating on December\u00a020.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 71], "content_span": [72, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096540-0007-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Severe Tropical Cyclone Deidre\u2013Delida\nCyclone Deidre developed in the vicinity of the Cocos Islands on December\u00a020. Moving generally west-southwestward across the Indian Ocean, it crossed the 80\u00b0E on December\u00a025.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 88], "content_span": [89, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096540-0008-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Erica\nTropical Cyclone Erica brought heavy rainfall to portions of Western Australia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 73], "content_span": [74, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096540-0009-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Vera\nOn January\u00a018, Cyclone Vera developed offshore Queensland. After moving northeastward, it then curved to the southeast. On January\u00a020, Vera crossed 160\u00b0E and entered the South Pacific basin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 72], "content_span": [73, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096540-0010-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Wanda\nThis cyclone existed from 24 January to 27 January 1974 and led to extensive flooding over southeast Queensland. Although this tropical cyclone was relatively weak, it dropped enormous quantities of rain on south-eastern Queensland and north-eastern New South Wales over the Australia Day (26\u201327 January) weekend, resulting in some of the worst flooding seen in a century. The Queensland state capital, Brisbane, fared particularly badly, with fourteen lives lost and parts of the city submerged under 2\u00a0metres of the Brisbane River. (See 1974 Brisbane flood.) In northern New South Wales, a further two fatalities were reported. The cyclone's final toll: 16 dead, over 300 injured; 56 homes destroyed, a further 1,600 submerged; 8000\u00a0people left homeless.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 73], "content_span": [74, 830]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096540-0011-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Severe Tropical Cyclone Pam\nDuring 4 February Severe Tropical Cyclone Pam moved south-westwards into the Australian region as a Category 5 severe tropical cyclone, with peak 10-minute sustained wind speeds estimated at 205\u00a0km/h (125\u00a0mph). Over the next couple of days, Pam passed about 500\u00a0km (310\u00a0mi) to the east of Brisbane, as it gradually weakened and recurved south-eastwards. The system was last noted during 7 February as it moved back into the South Pacific basin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 78], "content_span": [79, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096540-0012-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Yvonne\nCyclone Yvonne developed on February\u00a08 and struck the Cape York Peninsula.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 74], "content_span": [75, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096540-0013-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Severe Tropical Cyclone Helen\nOn February\u00a028, Cyclone Helen formed offshore Western Australia. Moving generally westward, it dissipated on March\u00a08.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 80], "content_span": [81, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096540-0014-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Severe Tropical Cyclone Zoe\nCyclone Zoe was named and detected on 9 March 1974 when it was northeast of Brisbane. In the following days it moved steadily southward and interacted with an already-exiting trough in the easterlies to produce sustained and very heavy rainfall all along the coast from Brisbane south almost to Sydney. In the four days between 10\u201313 March, Brisbane received 419.4 millimetres (16.51\u00a0in) and some places in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales received as much as 700 millimetres (28\u00a0in). With catchments already saturated by heavy January rains, record flooding occurred on the Richmond River, which reached a height of 12.17 metres (39.9\u00a0ft).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 78], "content_span": [79, 732]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096540-0015-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Severe Tropical Cyclone Isobel\nCyclone Isobel existed over the eastern Indian Ocean from March\u00a09 to March\u00a017.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 81], "content_span": [82, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096540-0016-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Severe Tropical Cyclone Jessie\nJessie developed between Indonesia and Western Australia on March\u00a016. Moving west-southwestward, it was last noted on March\u00a025.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 81], "content_span": [82, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096540-0017-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Australian region cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Alice\nThe final system, Cyclone Alice, existed offshore the east coast of Australia from March\u00a021 to March\u00a023.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 73], "content_span": [74, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096541-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Austrian Hockey League season\nThe 1973\u201374 Austrian Hockey League season was the 44th season of the Austrian Hockey League, the top level of ice hockey in Austria. Eight teams participated in the league, and EC KAC won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096542-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Austrian football championship, Overview\nIt was contested by 17 teams, and V\u00d6EST Linz won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 115]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096542-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Austrian football championship, Overview\nFrom 1973\u201374 season, Wiener AC formed a joint team with FK Austria Wien, which was called FK Austria WAC Wien until 1976\u201377 season when Austria Wien decided to revert to their own club's traditional name. The results of the joint team are part of the Austria Wien football history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096544-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Belgian First Division, Overview\nIt was contested by 16 teams, and R.S.C. Anderlecht won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096545-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Birmingham City F.C. season\nThe 1973\u201374 Football League season was Birmingham City Football Club's 71st in the Football League and their 40th in the First Division. After spending most of the season in the relegation positions, they finished in 19th place in the 22-team division, avoiding relegation by just one point. They entered the 1973\u201374 FA Cup at the third round proper and lost to Queens Park Rangers in the fourth, and were eliminated from the League Cup in the fifth round by Plymouth Argyle. They lost in the second round of the Texaco Cup on aggregate, after the first attempt to play the second leg of their match against Newcastle United had to be abandoned after 100 minutes when it became too dark to play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 731]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096545-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Birmingham City F.C. season\nThirty players made at least one appearance in nationally organised first-team competition, and there were twelve different goalscorers. Forward Bob Hatton played in 51 of the 54 first-team matches over the season, and the leading goalscorer was Hatton with 20 goals, of which 14 came in league competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096545-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Birmingham City F.C. season\nIn February 1974, by which time he had already scored 18 goals for Birmingham, centre-forward Bob Latchford signed for Everton in part-exchange for Howard Kendall, Archie Styles, and \u00a380,000. The whole package was valued at a British record transfer fee of \u00a3350,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096545-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Birmingham City F.C. season, Texaco Cup\nThe home leg of the quarter final match against Newcastle United finished as a 1\u20131 draw. Despite the ban on use of floodlights because of the fuel crisis, the League refused to allow an earlier kickoff time for the away leg on 28 November 1973. The match was abandoned at 1\u20131 after 10 minutes of extra time in almost total darkness. Keith Bowker scored Birmingham's goal, in his only appearance of the season and last outing for the club; neither appearance nor goal count towards his statistics. When the match was replayed, Birmingham lost 3\u20131 after Newcastle's Jimmy Smith was sent off in the first two minutes for a tackle that broke both bones in Tony Want's lower leg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 47], "content_span": [48, 722]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096546-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Blackpool F.C. season\nThe 1973\u201374 season was Blackpool F.C. 's 66th season (63rd consecutive) in the Football League. They competed in the 22-team Division Two, then the second tier of English football, finishing fifth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096546-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Blackpool F.C. season\nMicky Burns was the club's top scorer, with seventeen goals (fourteen in the league and three in the League Cup).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096546-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Blackpool F.C. season\nAlan Suddick scored his 100th League goal, a penalty, in Blackpool's 3\u20130 victory over Preston North End at Bloomfield Road on 23 March 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096547-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Boise State Broncos men's basketball team\nThe 1973\u201374 Boise State Broncos men's basketball team represented Boise State College during the 1973\u201374 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Broncos were led by head coach Bus Connor, in his first full season, and played their home games on campus at Bronco Gymnasium in Boise, Idaho.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096547-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Boise State Broncos men's basketball team\nThey finished the regular season at 12\u201314 overall, with a 6\u20138 record in the Big Sky Conference, fifth in the standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096547-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Boise State Broncos men's basketball team\nSenior guard Clyde Dickey was named to the all-conference team; junior forward George Wilson was honorable mention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096547-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Boise State Broncos men's basketball team\nThere was no conference tournament yet; it debuted two years later, and Boise State won\u00a0it.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096548-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Boston Bruins season\nThe 1973\u201374 Boston Bruins season was the Bruins' 50th season in the NHL. They made it back to the Stanley Cup finals, but lost to the Philadelphia Flyers in six games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096548-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Boston Bruins season, Playoffs, Stanley Cup Finals\nThe Bruins returned to the Stanley Cup, but were defeated by the Flyers in six games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 58], "content_span": [59, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096548-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Boston Bruins season, Roster\nForwards7\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Phil Esposito\u00a0\u20228\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Ken Hodge\u00a0\u20229\u00a0\u2013\u00a0John Bucyk\u00a0\u202211\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Andre Savard\u00a0\u202212\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Wayne Cashman\u00a0\u202214\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Dave Forbes\u00a0\u202216\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Fred O'Donnell\u00a0\u202216, 17\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Derek Sanderson\u00a0\u202217\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Bobby Schmautz\u00a0\u202218\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Rich LeDuc\u00a0\u202219\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Gregg Sheppard\u00a0\u202221\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Don Marcotte\u00a0\u202222\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Chris Oddleifson\u00a0\u202224\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Terry O'Reilly\u00a0\u202227\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Dave Hynes\u00a0\u202227\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Doug Gibson\u00a0\u202228\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Doug Roberts\u00a0\u202228\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Bob Gryp\u00a0\u2022", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096548-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Boston Bruins season, Roster\nDefensemen4\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Bobby Orr\u00a0\u20226\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Nick Beverley\u00a0\u20226\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Darryl Edestrand\u00a0\u202210\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Carol Vadnais\u00a0\u202220\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Dallas Smith\u00a0\u202223\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Al Sims\u00a0\u202225\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Gary Doak\u00a0\u202229\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Al Simmons", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096548-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Boston Bruins season, Roster\nGoaltenders1\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Gilles Gilbert\u00a0\u202230\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Ross Brooks\u00a0\u202231\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Ken Broderick", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 36], "content_span": [37, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096549-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Boston Celtics season\nThe 1973\u201374 Boston Celtics season was their 28th in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Celtics won their 12th title, as well as their division for the third consecutive season. This was their 13th finals appearance, and first since 1968\u201369.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096550-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Bradford City A.F.C. season\nThe 1973\u201374 Bradford City A.F.C. season was the 61st in the club's history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096550-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Bradford City A.F.C. season\nThe club finished 8th in Division Four, reached the 4th round of the FA Cup, and the 1st round of the League Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096551-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Brentford F.C. season\nDuring the 1973\u201374 English football season, Brentford competed in the Football League Fourth Division. A dreadful season, marred by infighting at boardroom level, resulted in a 19th-place finish, Brentford's lowest in the Football League since the 1925\u201326 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096551-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\nIn the wake of Brentford's relegation straight back to the Fourth Division at the end of the previous season, manager Frank Blunstone, who had come to the end of his contract, left Griffin Park to take over as youth team manager at Manchester United.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096551-0001-0001", "contents": "1973\u201374 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\nDespite the relegation, fan support for Blunstone was high and the finger of blame pointed at the board of directors, with one letter to the Middlesex Chronicle summing up the situation that the board's penny-pinching ways since 1967 were \"necessary for a couple of years or so, but timidity of this sort prompts me to believe that promotion last year was an unwelcome accident, which has now been rectified\". Brentford entered pre-season without a manager and training was taken by full back Alan Hawley and other senior professionals. Eventually former Wimbledon player-manager Mike Everitt was appointed as manager, just seven days before the beginning of the season. Everitt made no signings before the first match of the season and inherited a tiny 14-man squad, with backup goalkeeper Gary Towse being Brentford's only incoming transfer, signed two months earlier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 916]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096551-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\nWith Brentford one place above the re-election zone after seven league matches, manager Everitt began recruiting new players, including defender Gordon Riddick for a \u00a34,000 fee and loanees Michael Brown and Hughie Reed. The signings had no immediate impact and Brentford sank to the bottom of the Football League after a 4\u20131 defeat to Scunthorpe United at the Old Showground. The loss meant that Brentford became the first club to occupy both first and last places in the Football League, having risen to top position during the early months of the 1937\u201338 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096551-0002-0001", "contents": "1973\u201374 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\nBehind the scenes, the Brentford board had split into two factions, with one side pushing for a move to a new stadium and the other half wishing to stay at Griffin Park. Joint-chairmen Les Davey and Walter Wheatley were split on the matter and Wheatley became sole chairman of the club in January 1974, though he would be ousted two months later.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096551-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\nWith Brentford still struggling on the field, midfielder Stewart Houston was sold to Manchester United in December 1973 for a club-record \u00a355,000 fee, but the money was not immediately reinvested in the squad. The disharmony in the boardroom also spread to the playing squad, with Paul Bence, Alan Nelmes, Jackie Graham, Barry Salvage and Paul Priddy requesting moves away, though ultimately none would depart Griffin Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096551-0003-0001", "contents": "1973\u201374 Brentford F.C. season, Season summary\nA 10-match unbeaten run from mid-February through to early-April 1974 finally assured safety and youth products Richard Poole, Kevin Harding and Roy Cotton were able to be blooded, though none of the trio would make more than a handful of senior appearances for the club. Cambridge United forward Dave Simmonds and Bournemouth defender Jimmy Gabriel were brought in on transfer deadline day. Brentford ended the season in 19th place, the club's lowest finish in the Football League since the 1925\u201326 season. The average home league attendance of 5,063 was the lowest since the club joined the Football League in 1920.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 663]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096552-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 British Home Championship\nThe 1973\u201374 British Home Championship Home Nations football tournament was, like the two championships which preceded it, subject to rescheduled matches due to The Troubles in Northern Ireland. Scotland, who should have visited Belfast to play their match against Northern Ireland, instead hosted the game in Glasgow as the previous years solution of matches being played in Liverpool was not taken up. Bereft of home advantage, the Irish struggled to contain their opponents, although they did begin well with a narrow win over the Scots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096552-0000-0001", "contents": "1973\u201374 British Home Championship\nIn their first matches, England enjoyed their home advantage to claim victories over the Welsh and Irish while the Welsh crashed to defeat against England and Scotland. With the confusing schedule, by the final match England seemed to be favourites, only needing a draw with the Scots in Glasgow to claim the championship while a loss would still tie the series (goal difference was not at this stage used to calculate position). The Northern Irish, who could still have sneaked the championship themselves, lost a close game to the Welsh, leaving England and Scotland to battle for the final placements, the Scots reaching parity in the competition thanks to a 2\u20130 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 708]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096553-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 British Ice Hockey season\nThe 1973\u201374 British Ice Hockey season featured the Northern League for teams from Scotland and the north of England and the Southern League for teams from the rest of England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096553-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 British Ice Hockey season\nWhitley Warriors won the Northern League and Streatham Redskins won the Southern League. Whitley Warriors won the Icy Smith Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096554-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Buffalo Braves season\nThe 1973\u201374 Buffalo Braves season was the fourth season for the expansion Buffalo Braves franchise in the National Basketball Association and its Atlantic Division. It was the team's second season under head coach Jack Ramsay. The team's official home arena was Buffalo Memorial Auditorium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096554-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Buffalo Braves season\nBob McAdoo, who finished second in the NBA MVP Award voting, led the league in scoring; Ernie DiGregorio, who won the NBA Rookie of the Year Award, led the league in assists and free throw percentage, and every starter on the team was among the league's top ten in at least one statistical category.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096554-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Buffalo Braves season\nThe team finished third in the Atlantic Division and fourth in the Eastern Conference. After three consecutive 60-loss seasons, the team made the NBA playoffs for the first time and became the youngest team to have ever done so in terms of average player age. They lost in the first round of the playoffs to the eventual champions, the Boston Celtics.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096554-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Buffalo Braves season, Regular season\nMcAdoo had an outstanding second season and led the league in scoring with 30.6 ppg. The Braves led the league in team scoring (111.60) but were last in team defense (111.8). They totaled 427,270 in attendance in their 41 home games, ranking them 4th of 17 teams. The Braves played several home games at the Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto, in order to expand their fan base into Canada. This season was the first of three consecutive scoring titles for McAdoo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096554-0003-0001", "contents": "1973\u201374 Buffalo Braves season, Regular season\nMcAdoo also posted 15.1 rebounds per game and 3.3 blocked shots per game, which were each third in the league. It was the most recent time that one player averaged both 30 points and 15 rebounds in the same NBA season. In addition to McAdoo, the Braves were led by Ernie DiGregorio, who became the second straight Brave (following McAdoo) to capture NBA Rookie of the Year honors by leading the league in assists with 8.2 per game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 477]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096554-0003-0002", "contents": "1973\u201374 Buffalo Braves season, Regular season\n1974 NBA Rookie of the Year DiGregorio earned the first of two NBA free throw percentage championships (90.2%) and led the NBA in assists (8.2). That season DiGregorio set the NBA single-game rookie assists record (25), which still stands as unbroken (tied by Nate McMillan). Jim McMillan would finish fifth in the NBA in minutes played (3322) and tenth in free throw percentage (85.8%). He also finished second on the Braves in scoring (18.6). Heard went on to rank in the top ten in rebounds (11.7, 10th) and blocked shots (2.8, 6th) that season. Randy Smith, who was third on the team in scoring with a 15.5 average, finished third in the league in steals (2.5/game).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 716]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096554-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Buffalo Braves season, Regular season\nIn his October 9, 1973 NBA debut against the Houston Rockets, Ernie DiGregorio had 14 assists. DiGregrorio had 17 points but it was a 25-foot basket with two seconds left in overtime by McAdoo, who had 31 points and 21 rebounds, that earned the Braves a 107\u2013105 victory. An October 30 victory over the Seattle SuperSonics gave the Braves a half game lead over the Celtics in the Atlantic Division with a 6\u20134 record. The Braves only won one of their next nine games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096554-0004-0001", "contents": "1973\u201374 Buffalo Braves season, Regular season\nIt came on November 14 when McAdoo set the franchise single game rebound record with 28 against the Atlanta Hawks. That night, he also scored 31 points for the fourth game in a row. Two weeks later on November 28, the Braves lost when Pete Maravich, who entered the game in the second quarter and posted 42 points off the bench, led the Atlanta Hawks over the Braves by 130\u2013106.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 424]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096554-0005-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Buffalo Braves season, Regular season\nThe Braves' December 12 game against the Celtics was played in Providence, Rhode Island, making it a homecoming game for DiGregorio, the former Providence Friar. The Braves lost for the 20th consecutive time to the Celtics that night. Following a December 30 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers, the Braves fell to a 16\u201322 record at the end of 1973 but began the New Year with a season high seven-game winning streak. Heard set a career high with 22 rebounds in game five of the streak on January 8.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096554-0005-0001", "contents": "1973\u201374 Buffalo Braves season, Regular season\nThe fifth game of the streak set a new franchise record for consecutive wins and gave the team 21 wins, which matched their total of the prior season. The resulting 23\u201322 record following the January 12 victory over the Capital Bullets gave them their first winning record since their 6\u20135 start. McAdoo, who would go on to finish second in the NBA Most Valuable Player Award balloting, represented the team in the January 15, 1974 NBA All-Star Game. By the end of the month the Braves had fallen back to a 26\u201329 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096554-0006-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Buffalo Braves season, Regular season\nOn February 1, the Braves traded Kunnert and Wohl to the Rockets for Goukas and Marin. The team then went 10\u20135 in February. On February 27, the Braves earned their first victory over the Boston Celtics after 22 defeats. By late February, the team had the top scoring offense in the league. They clinched their first playoff experience in a victory at a home game held at Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens against the Portland Trail Blazers as McAdoo again had 28 rebounds as well as 29 points. The clinching game on March 10 was the Braves 74th game. The team reached five games over .500 three times following their 40th, 41st and 42nd wins but lost the last three games of a five-game western road trip to conclude the season at 42\u201340. The team made the playoffs by finishing in 3rd place in the Atlantic Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 45], "content_span": [46, 857]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096554-0007-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Buffalo Braves season, Playoffs\nIn the 1974 NBA Playoffs the Braves were matched up against the Boston Celtics. The Celtics had won 22 of 24 matches between the teams. However, the Braves had won the most recent two matches after 22 straight defeats, including 5 earlier that season. Through four games, the series was even at two games apiece. However the Celtics would pull away with two more wins to take the series in six games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 441]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096554-0007-0001", "contents": "1973\u201374 Buffalo Braves season, Playoffs\nWith rookie DiGregorio and 2nd year McAdoo leading the way, the team became the youngest NBA playoff team (24.42, using data going back to 1952) based on average age weighted by minutes played. The 1977\u201378 Milwaukee Bucks (23.82) would surpass this record. The Celtics went on to win the NBA championship in the 1974 NBA Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096554-0008-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Buffalo Braves season, Playoffs\nIn game 1, the Braves lost a 17-point lead as Dave Cowens led a fourth quarter rally despite five personal fouls. In game 2, the Braves evened the series 1\u20131 with a 115\u2013105 victory despite balanced scoring by the Celtics who had three 20-point scorers: Jo Jo White had 27, Don Nelson had 21 and John Havlicek had 20. McAdoo had 23 and DiGregorio had 18 for Buffalo. The Braves led most of game 2 and held on for the victory. In game 3, the Celtics scored 39 first quarter points on their way to a 120\u2013107 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096554-0008-0001", "contents": "1973\u201374 Buffalo Braves season, Playoffs\nHavlicek had 43 points (26 in the first half), and Cowens added 23 (17 in the first half). The Braves recovered from an early fourth quarter 10-point deficit to win game 4 104\u2013102. The game had a frenetic final 15 seconds as McMillian lost the ball on a drive resulting in a game-tying fast break by the Celtics. Then when a McAdoo shot rolled off the rim, McMillian tipped the ball in as time expired for the victory. The Braves had rallied from an 84\u201374 deficit to tie the score at 98 largely on the performance of McAdoo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 564]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096554-0008-0002", "contents": "1973\u201374 Buffalo Braves season, Playoffs\nIn the game the lead changed hands 9 times, and the Braves outrebounded the Celtics 62\u201338, including 20\u20133 offensive rebounds (11 by McMillian). The Celtics won game 5 by a 100\u201397 margin. Although McAdoo was held to 16 points on the night, the Braves led 89\u201385 with four minutes left. The Celtics won game 6 of the series when White sank two free throws after time expired in regulation play for a 106\u2013104 victory. McAdoo had tied the score at 104 with 7 seconds left, but he fouled White at midcourt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096554-0009-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Buffalo Braves season, Playoffs\nIn the playoffs, Heard bettered his regular season 15.3 points and 11.7 rebounds averages with 16.8 points and 14.7 rebounds. Likewise, McAdoo contributed 31.7 points and 13.7 rebounds. McMillian contributed 14.5 points and 8.8 rebounds. Following the season the team lost Bob Kauffman to the New Orleans Jazz in the May 20, 1974 NBA Expansion Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096554-0010-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Buffalo Braves season, Transactions\nPrior to this season the Braves had lost 60 games or more each year and failed to make the NBA Playoffs. Over the course of the season, the team made a series of player transactions that were part of the r\u00e9sum\u00e9 that earned Buffalo Braves General Manager Eddie Donovan the NBA Executive of the Year Award and put the team into the playoffs for the first time. Donovan's season bolstered his reputation as a wheeler and dealer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096554-0011-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Buffalo Braves season, Transactions\nThe Braves drafted four players in the 1973 NBA Draft who played for the team during the 1973\u201374 season: DiGregorio, Ken Charles, Mike Macaluso, and Jim Garvin. In addition, the team made two free agent signings. On September 11, 1973, the team signed Paul Ruffner. On September 17, 1973, the team waived Dick Garrett and Bill Hewitt. The other members of the 1972\u201373 team who were not traded or waived and did not play on the 1973\u201374 team were Howard Komives, Fred Hilton and Harold Fox. On November 24, 1973, the Braves waived Garvin. On November 27, 1973, the team signed Lee Winfield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 633]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096554-0012-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Buffalo Braves season, Transactions\nPrior to the 1973\u201374 NBA season, Gar Heard and Kevin Kunnert were traded from the Chicago Bulls to the Buffalo Braves for John Hummer, a 1974 NBA Draft 2nd round pick and a 1975 NBA Draft 2nd round pick. Also before the season, the Braves also traded Elmore Smith to the Los Angeles Lakers for Jim McMillian. The trade of Smith, who had been the team's leading scorer and rebounder the prior year, was controversial at first. Other trades during the season included the February 1, 1974, trade of Kunnert and Dave Wohl for Matt Guokas and 1973 NBA All-Star Jack Marin.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 612]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096554-0013-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Buffalo Braves season, Transactions\nThe Braves were involved in the following transactions during the 1973\u201374 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096555-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Buffalo Sabres season\nThe 1973\u201374 Buffalo Sabres season was the Sabres' fourth season in the National Hockey League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096555-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Buffalo Sabres season, Regular season, Death of Tim Horton\nEarly on the morning of February 21, 1974, while driving on the Queen Elizabeth Way from Toronto to Buffalo in his white De Tomaso Pantera sports car, (a gift from Sabres' GM George \"Punch\" Imlach), Horton was involved in what is now an infamous accident. He was negotiating a curve on the QEW where it crosses over Twelve Mile Creek in St. Catharines when he lost control and hit a cement culvert. The impact flipped the vehicle and Horton was thrown. He was not wearing a seat belt. Horton was reported dead on arrival at the local hospital, aged only 44. A police officer pursuing Horton's vehicle said that he had been travelling at over 160\u00a0km/h (100\u00a0mph).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 66], "content_span": [67, 728]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096555-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Buffalo Sabres season, Regular season, Death of Tim Horton\nThere were reports Horton had consumed a considerable amount of vodka, and was rumoured to have been taking pain killers due to a jaw injury suffered in practice the day before. An autopsy report released in 2005 showed Horton had a blood alcohol level of twice the legal limit. The blood test also showed signs of amobarbital, which was possibly a residue from the Dexamyl pills that were found on Horton's body. The autopsy showed no indication Horton was taking painkillers as previously thought.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 66], "content_span": [67, 567]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096555-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Buffalo Sabres season, Player statistics, Forwards\nNote: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalty minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096555-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Buffalo Sabres season, Player statistics, Defencemen\nNote: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalty minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096555-0005-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Buffalo Sabres season, Player statistics, Goaltending\nNote: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; SO = Shutouts; GAA = Goals against average", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096555-0006-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Buffalo Sabres season, Playoffs\nThe Sabres did not qualify for the 1974 Stanley Cup playoffs, despite qualifying the previous year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096556-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Bulgarian Cup\nThe 1973\u201374 Bulgarian Cup was the 34th season of the Bulgarian Cup (in this period the tournament was named Cup of the Soviet Army). CSKA Sofia won the competition, beating Levski Sofia 2\u20131 after extra time in the final at the Vasil Levski National Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096557-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Bulgarian Hockey League season\nThe 1973\u201374 Bulgarian Hockey League season was the 22nd season of the Bulgarian Hockey League, the top level of ice hockey in Bulgaria. Eight teams participated in the league, and HK CSKA Sofia won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096558-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Bundesliga\nThe 1973\u201374 Bundesliga was the 11th season of the Bundesliga, West Germany's premier football league. It began on 11 August 1973 and ended on 18 May 1974. FC Bayern Munich were the defending champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096558-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Bundesliga, Competition modus\nEvery team played two games against each other team, one at home and one away. Teams received two points for a win and one point for a draw. If two or more teams were tied on points, places were determined by goal difference and, if still tied, by goals scored. The team with the most points were crowned champions while the two teams with the fewest points were relegated to their respective 2. Bundesliga divisions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 37], "content_span": [38, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096558-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Bundesliga, Team changes to 1972\u201373\nEintracht Braunschweig and Rot-Wei\u00df Oberhausen were relegated to the Regionalliga after finishing in the last two places. Both teams were replaced by Fortuna K\u00f6ln and Rot-Weiss Essen, who won their respective promotion play-off groups.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 43], "content_span": [44, 279]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096558-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Bundesliga, Champion squad\nDefenders: Franz Beckenbauer (34 / 4); Hans-Georg Schwarzenbeck (33 / 7); Johnny Hansen (32 / 1); Paul Breitner (26 / 7); Gernot Rohr (3). Midfielders: Uli Hoene\u00df (34 / 18); Franz Roth (33 / 8); Rainer Zobel (28 / 5); Jupp Kapellmann (20 / 2); Erwin Hadewicz (12); Viggo Jensen (5). Forwards: Gerd M\u00fcller (34 / 30); Bernd D\u00fcrnberger (30 / 8); Conny Torstensson (16 / 1); Wilhelm Hoffmann (15 / 2); Bernd Gersdorff (12 / 2); Edgar Schneider (7); Herbert Zimmermann (1). (league appearances and goals listed in brackets)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096558-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Bundesliga, Champion squad\nOn the roster but have not played in a league game: Walter Modick; Hugo Robl; Georg Wei\u00df; Torben Hansen; Norbert Ivangean; Du\u0161an Jovanovi\u0107 .", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096559-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 CHL season\nThe 1973\u201374 CHL season was the 11th season of the Central Hockey League, a North American minor professional league. Six teams participated in the regular season, and the Dallas Black Hawks won the league title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096560-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 California Golden Seals season\nThe 1973\u201374 California Golden Seals season was the Seals' seventh season in the NHL. With the continuing depletion of talent due to the World Hockey Association and a lack of interest from owner Charles O. Finley who put the team up for sale, the Seals had a miserable season and sank to a franchise low 36 points. In January 1974, the NHL bought the Seals from owner Charlie Finley for $6.585 million. With the league takeover, the players immediately returned to wearing black skates. The Seals would conclude the season with the worst record in the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096560-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 California Golden Seals season, Player statistics, Skaters\nNote: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalties in minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 66], "content_span": [67, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096560-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 California Golden Seals season, Player statistics, Goaltenders\nNote: GP = Games played; TOI = Time on ice (minutes); W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; GA = Goals against; SO = Shutouts; GAA = Goals against average", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 70], "content_span": [71, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096560-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 California Golden Seals season, Transactions\nThe Seals were involved in the following transactions during the 1973\u201374 season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 52], "content_span": [53, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096561-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Cambridge United F.C. season\nThe 1973\u201374 season was Cambridge United's 4th season in the Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096561-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Cambridge United F.C. season\nAfter gaining promotion to the Third Division last season, Cambridge struggled to adapt to the tougher challenge and were relegated back to the Fourth Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096562-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Capital Bullets season\nThe 1973\u201374 Capital Bullets season was the team's first in Washington, D.C. area, southeast from nearby Baltimore. Prior to the 1973\u201374 season, the Baltimore Bullets relocated to Landover, Maryland, a suburb east of Washington, and became the Capital Bullets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096562-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Capital Bullets season\nThe Bullets finished with a 47\u201335 record and won the Central Division. Wes Unseld was limited to 56 games due to injuries. In the playoffs, the Bullets fell to the New York Knicks for the fifth time in six years, eliminated in seven games. Following the season, the team was renamed as the Washington Bullets.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 340]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096562-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Capital Bullets season\nThe new Capital Centre opened on December 2, 1973; the Bullets played their earlier home games this season at Cole Field House at the University of Maryland in College Park. They played several home games at Cole during their last seasons in Baltimore.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096563-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Cardiff City F.C. season\nThe 1973\u201374 season was Cardiff City F.C. 's 47th season in the Football League. They competed in the 22-team Division Two, then the second tier of English football, finishing seventeenth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096563-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Cardiff City F.C. season\nManager Jimmy Scoular, who had been in charge of the club for more than 9 years, left the club in November to be replaced by Frank O'Farrell.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096563-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Cardiff City F.C. season, Players\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 41], "content_span": [42, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096564-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Carlisle United F.C. season\nThis is the current revision of this page, as edited by CHICHI7YT (talk | contribs) at 23:52, 1 December 2019 (\u2192\u200eFA Cup). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096564-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Carlisle United F.C. season\nFor the 1973\u201374 season, Carlisle United F.C. competed in Football League Division Two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096565-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Carolina Cougars season\nThe 1973\u201374 Carolina Cougars season was the 5th and final season of the Cougars in the American Basketball Association. Billy Cunningham (who had been named the MVP the previous season), Dennis Wuycik, and Mike Lewis were hobbled by injuries through the season, which meant the team struggled to gain much ground in the Division, though they finished consistently enough to qualify for a playoff spot for the 2nd straight season. The Cougars finished 2nd in points scored, with 110.5 per game, but 6th in points allowed with 107.0 per game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096565-0000-0001", "contents": "1973\u201374 Carolina Cougars season\nThe team was 26\u201316 by the midpoint of the season (with a seven-game winning streak in the middle of it), while going 21\u201321 for the second half of the season. The biggest losing streak by the team was 6, done near the end of the season, but by that point they had clinched the third spot in the playoffs, finishing 19 games above Virginia, who they beat in their final regular season game at home, 99\u201391. Once again, the Cougars faced the Kentucky Colonels in the playoffs, but once again the Colonels prevailed, this time in a First Round sweep.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096565-0000-0002", "contents": "1973\u201374 Carolina Cougars season\nThis turned out to be the final game the Cougars played. Owner Tedd Munchak sold the team after the season ended to a group of New York businessmen, which included Harry Weltman, Donald Schupak, Ozzie Silna and Daniel Silna for $1.5 million. The team subsequently moved to St. Louis to become the Spirits of St. Louis, playing for two seasons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096565-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Carolina Cougars season, Awards and honors\n1974 ABA All-Star Game selections (game played on January 30, 1974)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096566-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Celtic F.C. season\nDuring the 1973\u201374 Scottish football season, Celtic competed in Scottish Division One.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096567-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Centenary Gents basketball team\nThe 1973\u201374 Centenary Gents basketball team represented Centenary College of Louisiana as an NCAA Division I Independent during the 1973\u201374 college basketball season. The team was coached by Larry Little and played their home games at Gold Dome in Shreveport, Louisiana. Led by sophomore center Robert Parish, future Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and College Basketball Hall of Fame inductee, the Gents finished with an overall record of 21\u20134.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096568-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Challenge Cup\nThe 1973\u201374 Challenge Cup was the 73rd staging of rugby league's oldest knockout competition, the Challenge Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096568-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Challenge Cup\nThe final was contested by Warrington and Featherstone Rovers at Wembley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096568-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Challenge Cup\nWarrington beat Featherstone Rovers 24-9 at Wembley in front of a crowd of 77,400.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096568-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Challenge Cup\nThe winner of the Lance Todd Trophy was the Warrington fullback, Derek Whitehead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096568-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Challenge Cup\nWarrington defeated Huddersfield, Huyton, Wigan and Dewsbury to get to the final against Featherstone Rovers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096568-0005-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Challenge Cup\nThis was Warrington\u2019s fourth Cup Final win in ten Final appearances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096568-0006-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Challenge Cup\nWarrington's full-back Derek Whitehead won the Lance Todd Trophy for man-of-the-match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096569-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Chester F.C. season\nThe 1973\u201374 season was the 36th season of competitive association football in the Football League played by Chester, an English club based in Chester, Cheshire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096569-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Chester F.C. season\nAlso, it was the 16th season spent in the Fourth Division after its creation. Alongside competing in the Football League the club also participated in the FA Cup, Football League Cup and the Welsh Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096570-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Chicago Black Hawks season\nThe 1973\u201374 Chicago Black Hawks season was the Hawks' 48th season in the NHL, and the club was coming off their fourth consecutive first-place finish in 1972\u201373, as they finished on top of the West Division with a 42\u201327\u20139 record, earning 93 points. The Hawks defeated the St. Louis Blues and New York Rangers in the postseason before falling to the Montreal Canadiens in the Stanley Cup final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096570-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Chicago Black Hawks season\nChicago started the season slowly, as they had a 2\u20134\u20134 record in their first ten games; however, the club then went on a nine-game unbeaten streak to push themselves over the .500 mark. The Hawks battled with the Philadelphia Flyers all season long for the top spot in the West Division, as Chicago finished with a record of 41\u201314\u201323, earning 105 points, which was their third-highest total in club history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 442]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096570-0001-0001", "contents": "1973\u201374 Chicago Black Hawks season\nIt was not enough though, as the Flyers dethroned the Black Hawks for top spot in the West, as they finished with 112 points thus ending Chicago's streak of four consecutive division titles. The 14 losses by Chicago was the fewest by the team in one season, while the 23 ties they recorded was a new team record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096570-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Chicago Black Hawks season\nOffensively, the Black Hawks were led by Stan Mikita, who had a club-high 50 assists and 80 points, while Jim Pappin led the team in goals for the second consecutive season, as he scored 32 goals, and finished with 73 points. Pit Martin scored 30 goals and 77 points, while Dennis Hull had 29 goals and 68 points. On defense, Dick Redmond emerged as the offensive leader, scoring 17 goals and 59 points, while Bill White recorded 36 points, while having a team-high +51 rating. Phil Russell had 10 goals and 35 points, while having a team-high 184 penalty minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096570-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Chicago Black Hawks season\nIn goal, Tony Esposito led the club with 34 victories and a 2.04\u00a0GAA, along with ten shutouts while appearing in 70 games. Rookie goaltender Mike Veisor backed up Esposito, going 7\u20130\u20132 with a 2.23 GAA in 10 games. Chicago tied the Philadelphia Flyers with the fewest goals against in the league at 164, as Tony Esposito and the Flyers Bernie Parent shared the Vezina Trophy for their achievements.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096570-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Chicago Black Hawks season\nThe Hawks opened the playoffs against the Los Angeles Kings, who had a record of 33\u201333\u201312, earning 78 points, while placing third in the West Division. The series opened with two games at Chicago Stadium, and the Black Hawks used their home ice to their advantage, defeating the Kings 3\u20131 and 4\u20131 to take a 2\u20130 series lead. The series shifted to The Forum in Los Angeles for the next two games, and the Hawks continued to shut down the Kings in the third game, shutting them out 1\u20130. Los Angeles avoided the sweep by easily handling the Black Hawks 5\u20131 to send the series back to Chicago. In the fifth game, the Hawks, led by Tony Esposito, shut out Los Angeles by a score of 1\u20130 to eliminate the Kings from the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 756]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096570-0005-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Chicago Black Hawks season\nChicago's next opponent was the Boston Bruins, who had finished the season with a 52\u201317\u20139 record, earning 113 points, and a first-place finish in the East Division. The Bruins swept the Toronto Maple Leafs in the first round. The series opened up with two games at the Boston Garden, but it was Chicago who struck first, doubling the Bruins 4\u20132 in the series opener. Boston responded in the second game, winning 8\u20136 to even the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096570-0005-0001", "contents": "1973\u201374 Chicago Black Hawks season\nThe next two games were played in Chicago, and the Black Hawks re-took the series lead, defeating Boston 4\u20133 in overtime; however, the Bruins rebounded, winning the fourth game 5\u20132 to even the series again. The fifth game was back in Boston, and the Bruins took their first series lead, dominating Chicago by a score of 6\u20132. Boston clinched the series in the sixth game, winning 4\u20132 on Chicago ice to eliminate the Black Hawks from the post-season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096570-0006-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Chicago Black Hawks season, Draft picks\nChicago's draft picks at the 1973 NHL Amateur Draft held at the Mount Royal Hotel in Montreal, Quebec.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 47], "content_span": [48, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096571-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Chicago Bulls season\nThe 1973\u201374 NBA season was the Bulls' 8th season in the NBA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 89]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096572-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Chicago Cougars season\nThe 1973\u201374 Chicago Cougars season was the Chicago Cougars' second season of operation in the World Hockey Association. The team qualified for the playoff and won two playoff series to make it to the Avco Cup Final before losing to the Houston Aeros.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096572-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Chicago Cougars season, Offseason\nThe Chicago Cougars revamped their lineup during the off-season in hopes of escaping the cellar. The Cougars strengthened their defense by signing National Hockey League all-star defenceman Pat Stapleton from the Chicago Blackhawks as a player-coach, Darryl Maggs from the California Golden Seals and goaltender Cam Newton from the Pittsburgh Penguins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096572-0001-0001", "contents": "1973\u201374 Chicago Cougars season, Offseason\nTo the forward line, the Cougars signed Ralph Backstrom, also from the Blackhawks, Eric Nesterenko, who had spent a season in Switzerland after a long career with the Blackhawks and Maple Leafs, and junior all-star Frank Rochon from the Sherbrooke Beavers, and acquired Joe Hardy from the Cleveland Crusaders and Duke Harris from the Houston Aeros.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 41], "content_span": [42, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096572-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Chicago Cougars season, Regular season\nThe Cougars scored 26 more goals than the previous season and reduced the goals against by 22 to post a 50% improvement in points and secure the final playoff spot in the East Division by a single point over the Quebec Nordiques.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 46], "content_span": [47, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096572-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Chicago Cougars season, Player stats\nNote: Pos = Position; GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/- = plus/minus; PIM = Penalty minutes; PPG = Power-play goals; SHG = Short-handed goals; GWG = Game-winning goals\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0MIN = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; GA = Goals-against; GAA = Goals-against average; SO = Shutouts;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 44], "content_span": [45, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096573-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Cleveland Cavaliers season\nThe 1973\u201374 Cleveland Cavaliers season was the fourth season of NBA basketball in Cleveland, Ohio. The Cavaliers finished the season with a 29\u201353 record, finishing last in the Central Division and 7th Eastern Conference. Austin Carr was named an All-Star and set the team record for points per game. The Cavaliers played, and won, their last game in Cleveland Arena.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096573-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Cleveland Cavaliers season, Offseason, Trades\nApril 24: Cavaliers trade center Rick Roberson and forward John Johnson and switch positions in the first round of the 1973 NBA draft with the Portland Trail Blazers in exchange for the Trail Blazers' first round choice and four other draft choices. The Cavaliers select forward Jim Brewer with Portland's first pick.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096574-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Cleveland Crusaders season\nThe 1973\u201374 Cleveland Crusaders season was the Cleveland Crusaders' second season of operation in the World Hockey Association. The Crusaders placed second in the Eastern Division, qualifying for the playoffs. The Crusaders lost in the first round to the Toronto Toros.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096574-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Cleveland Crusaders season, Player stats\nNote: Pos = Position; GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/- = plus/minus; PIM = Penalty minutes; PPG = Power-play goals; SHG = Short-handed goals; GWG = Game-winning goals\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0MIN = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; GA = Goals-against; GAA = Goals-against average; SO = Shutouts;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 48], "content_span": [49, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096575-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Clydebank F.C. season\nThe 1973\u201374 season was [ [ ] ]'s eighth season after being elected to the Scottish Football League. They competed in the Scottish League Division Two where they finished 10th in the table, Scottish League Cup and Scottish Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096576-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Colchester United F.C. season\nThe 1973\u201374 season was Colchester United's 32nd season in their history and their sixth successive season in the fourth tier of English football, the Fourth Division. Alongside competing in the Fourth Division, the club also participated in the FA Cup and the League Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096576-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Colchester United F.C. season\nJim Smith led his side to promotion to the Third Division in his first full season in charge, finishing in third position, five points behind winners Peterborough United. Colchester experienced first round cup exits in both competitions, coincidentally losing to both teams which finished above them in the league; a defeat to Peterborough in the FA Cup and a defeat at Gillingham in the League Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 437]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096576-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Colchester United F.C. season, Season overview\nManager Jim Smith brought in Watford pair Mike Walker and Mick Packer during the summer break and also spent \u00a38,000 on forward Paul Aimson from Bournemouth. While Aimson suffered a career-ending injury early in the season, Bobby Svarc found form and registered 25 league goals, including a record-equalling four goals at Chester in November.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 54], "content_span": [55, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096576-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Colchester United F.C. season, Season overview\nAt Christmas, Colchester led the Fourth Division table. Bobby Svarc's goalscoring waned, and Smith brought in Gary Moore on loan from Southend United. He scored seven goals in the U's eleven remaining games as Colchester sealed a promotion place. They finished in third position, five points behind Peterborough United and two adrift of Gillingham. The final home game of the season drew a crowd of 10,007, a game in which Gillingham won 2\u20130 and crept above Colchester in the league table. This would be the last time that Layer Road hosted a five-figure attendance in league competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 54], "content_span": [55, 643]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096576-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Colchester United F.C. season, Season overview\nIn the cup competitions, Colchester were knocked out in the first round of both the FA Cup and League Cup, coincidentally against their two biggest league title rivals, Peterborough and Gillingham. Gillingham beat United 4\u20132 at Priestfield in the League Cup in August, while Peterborough triumphed 3\u20132 at Layer Road in the FA Cup first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 54], "content_span": [55, 397]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096576-0005-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Colchester United F.C. season, Squad statistics, Player debuts\nPlayers making their first-team Colchester United debut in a fully competitive match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 70], "content_span": [71, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096577-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Connecticut Huskies men's basketball team\nThe 1973\u201374 Connecticut Huskies men's basketball team represented the University of Connecticut in the 1973\u201374 collegiate men's basketball season. The Huskies completed the season with a 19\u20138 overall record. The Huskies were members of the Yankee Conference, where they ended the season with a 9\u20133 record. They made it to the quarterfinals in the 1974 National Invitation Tournament. The Huskies played their home games at Hugh S. Greer Field House in Storrs, Connecticut, and were led by fifth-year head coach Dee Rowe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 570]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096578-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Copa del General\u00edsimo\nThe 1973\u201374 Copa del General\u00edsimo was the 72nd staging of the Spanish Cup. The competition began on 26 September 1973 and concluded on 28 June 1974 with the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096579-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Coppa Italia\nThe 1973\u201374 Coppa Italia was the 27th Coppa Italia, the major Italian domestic cup. The competition was won by Bologna.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096580-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Coupe de France\nThe 1973\u201374 Coupe de France was the 57th Coupe de France, France's annual national football cup competition. It was won by AS Saint-\u00c9tienne, who defeated AS Monaco FC in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096581-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Cuban National Series\nHabana won its second Cuban National Series, with a comfortable five-game cushion over Constructores.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096582-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Cupa Rom\u00e2niei\nThe 1973\u201374 Cupa Rom\u00e2niei was the 36th edition of Romania's most prestigious football cup competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096582-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Cupa Rom\u00e2niei\nThe title was won by Jiul Petro\u015fani against Politehnica Timi\u015foara.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 88]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096582-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Cupa Rom\u00e2niei, Format\nEach tie is played as a single leg on neutral ground.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 83]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096582-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Cupa Rom\u00e2niei, Format\nIf a match is drawn after 90 minutes, the game goes in extra time, and if the scored is still tight after 120 minutes, then the winner will be established at penalty kicks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096582-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Cupa Rom\u00e2niei, Format\nFrom the first edition, the teams from Divizia A entered in competition in sixteen finals, rule which remained till today.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 29], "content_span": [30, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096583-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Cypriot Cup\nThe 1973\u201374 Cypriot Cup was the 32nd edition of the Cypriot Cup. A total of 40 clubs entered the competition. It began on 6 March 1974 with the preliminary round and concluded on 23 June 1974 with the final which was held at GSP Stadium. AC Omonia won their 3rd Cypriot Cup trophy after beating Enosis Neon Paralimni 2\u20130 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 354]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096583-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Cypriot Cup, Format\nIn the 1973\u201374 Cypriot Cup, participated all the teams of the Cypriot First Division, the Cypriot Second Division and the Cypriot Third Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096583-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Cypriot Cup, Format\nThe competition consisted of six knock-out rounds. In all rounds each tie was played as a single leg and was held at the home ground of the one of the two teams, according to the draw results. Each tie winner was qualifying to the next round. If a match was drawn, extra time was following. If extra time was drawn, there was a replay at the ground of the team who were away for the first game. If the rematch was also drawn, then extra time was following and if the match remained drawn after extra time the winner was decided by penalty shoot-out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 577]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096583-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Cypriot Cup, Format\nThe cup winner secured a place in the 1974\u201375 European Cup Winners' Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 27], "content_span": [28, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096583-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Cypriot Cup, Preliminary round\nIn the preliminary round participated 4 teams of 1973\u201374 Cypriot Second Division and all 12 teams of 1973\u201374 Cypriot Third Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096583-0005-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Cypriot Cup, First round\n14 clubs from the 1973\u201374 Cypriot First Division and 12 clubs from the 1973\u201374 Cypriot Second Division were added.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 32], "content_span": [33, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096584-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Cypriot First Division\nThe 1973\u201374 Cypriot First Division season was contested by 14 teams, and AC Omonia won the championship. APOEL participated in the Greek championship as the previous year's champions. They finished in 14th position and were not relegated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096585-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Cypriot Second Division\nThe 1973\u201374 Cypriot Second Division was the 19th season of the Cypriot second-level football league. ASIL Lysi won their 2nd title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096585-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Cypriot Second Division, Format\nFourteen teams participated in the 1973\u201374 Cypriot Second Division. All teams played against each other twice, once at their home and once away. The team with the most points at the end of the season crowned champions. The first team was promoted to 1974\u201375 Cypriot First Division. The last team was relegated to the Cypriot Third Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 39], "content_span": [40, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096586-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Cypriot Third Division\nThe 1973\u201374 Cypriot Third Division was the 4th season of the Cypriot third-level football league. Iraklis Gerolakkou won their 1st title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096586-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Cypriot Third Division, Format\nTwelve teams participated in the 1973\u201374 Cypriot Third Division. All teams played against each other twice, once at their home and once away. The team with the most points at the end of the season crowned champions. The first team was promoted to 1974\u201375 Cypriot Second Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096586-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Cypriot Third Division, Format, Point system\nTeams received two points for a win, one point for a draw and zero points for a loss.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096587-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Czechoslovak Extraliga season\nThe 1973\u201374 Czechoslovak Extraliga season was the 31st season of the Czechoslovak Extraliga, the top level of ice hockey in Czechoslovakia. 12 teams participated in the league, and Dukla Jihlava won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096588-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Czechoslovak First League, Overview\nIt was contested by 16 teams, and \u0160K Slovan Bratislava won the championship. Ladislav J\u00f3zsa and P\u0159emysl Bi\u010dovsk\u00fd were the league's top scorers with 17 goals each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096589-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 DDR-Oberliga\nThe 1973\u201374 DDR-Oberliga was the 25th season of the DDR-Oberliga, the first tier of league football in East Germany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096589-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 DDR-Oberliga\nThe league was contested by fourteen teams. 1. FC Magdeburg won the championship, the club's second of three East German championships. During the season Magdeburg also won the 1973\u201374 European Cup Winners' Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096589-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 DDR-Oberliga\nHans-Bert Matoul of 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig was the league's top scorer with 20 goals, while Bernd Bransch of FC Carl Zeiss Jena won the seasons East German Footballer of the year award.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096589-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 DDR-Oberliga\nOn the strength of the 1973\u201374 title Magdeburg qualified for the 1974\u201375 European Cup where the club was knocked out by Bundesliga champions FC Bayern Munich in the second round. It was the second time the East and West German champions were drawn against each other in an UEFA competition, Bayern having eliminated Dynamo Dresden in the previous season in the same competition. Second-placed club FC Carl Zeiss Jena qualified for the 1974\u201375 European Cup Winners' Cup as the seasons FDGB-Pokal winners and was knocked out by Benfica in the second round. Third-placed Dynamo Dresden qualified for the 1974\u201375 UEFA Cup where it was knocked out in the third round by Hamburger SV while fourth-placed FC Vorw\u00e4rts Frankfurt lost to Juventus in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 777]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096589-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 DDR-Oberliga, Table\nThe 1973\u201374 season saw two newly promoted clubs BSG Stahl Riesa and BSG Energie Cottbus.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 27], "content_span": [28, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096590-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 DDR-Oberliga (ice hockey) season\nThe 1973\u201374 DDR-Oberliga season was the 26th season of the DDR-Oberliga, the top level of ice hockey in East Germany. Two teams participated in the league, and SG Dynamo Wei\u00dfwasser won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096591-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 DFB-Pokal\nThe 1973\u201374 DFB-Pokal was the 31st season of the annual German football cup competition. It began on 1 December 1973 and ended on 17 August 1974. 32 teams competed in the tournament of five rounds. In the final Eintracht Frankfurt defeated Hamburger SV 3\u20131 after extra time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096591-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 DFB-Pokal, Mode\nThe tournament consisted of five single elimination rounds. In case a game ended with a draw 30 minutes of extra time were played. If the score was still level the game was replayed with 30 minutes of extra time in case of another draw. If still no winner could be determined, a penalty shootout decided which team advanced to the next round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 23], "content_span": [24, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096592-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Danish 1. division season\nThe 1973\u201374 Danish 1. division season was the 17th season of ice hockey in Denmark. Ten teams participated in the league, and Gladsaxe SF won the championship. The Frederikshavn White Hawks were relegated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096592-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Danish 1. division season, Final round\nThe top six teams qualified for the final round, and Gladsaxe SF finished first.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 46], "content_span": [47, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096593-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Denver Rockets season\nThe 1973\u201374 ABA season was the seventh and final season for the Denver Rockets before their name change in preparation for the merger with the NBA, which had a team called the Rockets. They ended up with a 37-47 record, but it was not enough for a playoff spot, due to losing a one-game playoff to the San Diego Conquistadors on March 29, 1974, 131\u2013111. Subsequently, the team was rechristened the Denver Nuggets before the next season started.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 474]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096594-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Detroit Pistons season\nFollowing are the results of the 1973\u201374 season of the Detroit Pistons, the franchise of the National Basketball Association based in Detroit, Michigan. The 1973-74 NBA season was the Pistons' 26th season in the NBA and 17th season in the city of Detroit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 286]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096595-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Detroit Red Wings season\nThe 1973\u201374 Detroit Red Wings season was the franchise's 48th season of competition, 42nd season as the Red Wings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096595-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Detroit Red Wings season, Playoffs\nThe Red Wings failed to qualify for the playoffs for the fourth straight year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 121]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096595-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Detroit Red Wings season, Player statistics, Regular season\nNote: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/- = Plus-minus PIM = Penalty minutes; PPG = Power-play goals; SHG = Short-handed goals; GWG = Game-winning goals;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0MIN = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; GA = Goals against; GAA = Goals-against average; SO = Shutouts;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 67], "content_span": [68, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096595-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Detroit Red Wings season, Draft picks\nDetroit's draft picks at the 1973 NHL Amateur Draft held at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Quebec.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 45], "content_span": [46, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096596-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Divizia A\nThe 1973\u201374 Divizia A was the fifty-sixth season of Divizia A, the top-level football league of Romania.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096596-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Divizia A, Champion squad\nGoalkeepers: Paul Manta (12 / 0); Florin Oprea (23 / 0). Defenders: Victor Niculescu (28 / 0); Dragu B\u0103din (25 / 0); Petre Deselnicu (33 / 2); Ion Velea (14 / 1); Cornel Berneanu (23 / 0); Alexandru Boc (32 / 1); Nicolae Negril\u0103 (1 / 0); Mircea Chivu (1 / 0). Midfielders: Lucian Str\u00e2mbeanu (33 / 0); Nicolae Ivan (9 / 2); Ilie Balaci (27 / 3); Ion Constantinescu (1 / 0); Costic\u0103 \u0218tef\u0103nescu (20 / 0). Forwards: Iulian B\u0103lan (32 / 19); Ion Ni\u021b\u0103 (29 / 2); Ion Oblemenco (29 / 14); Teodor \u021aar\u0103lung\u0103 (31 / 11); Dumitru Marcu (24 / 7); Constantin Pan\u0103 (1 / 0); Ion St\u0103ncescu (3 / 0); Ioan Kiss (2 / 0). (league appearances and goals listed in brackets)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 33], "content_span": [34, 682]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096597-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Divizia B\nThe 1973\u201374 Divizia B was the 34th season of the second tier of the Romanian football league system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096597-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Divizia B\nThe format has been changed to three series, each of them having 18 teams. At the end of the season the winners of the series promoted to Divizia A and the last four places from each series relegated to Divizia C.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096597-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Divizia B, Team changes, Other teams\nCSM Sibiu and \u0218oimii Sibiu merged, the first one being absorbed by the second one.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 44], "content_span": [45, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096597-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Divizia B, Team changes, Other teams\nCFR Arad and Vagonul Arad merged, the new entity was named Unirea Arad.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 44], "content_span": [45, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096598-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Divizia C\nThe 1973\u201374 Divizia C was the 18th season of Liga III, the third tier of the Romanian football league system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096598-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Divizia C, Team changes, Renamed teams\nTextila Boto\u0219ani was renamed as CS Boto\u0219ani. Str\u0103duin\u021ba Suceava was renamed as Sportul Muncitoresc Suceava. Minobrad Vatra Dornei was renamed as Dorna Vatra Dornei. CFR Ro\u0219iori was renamed as Rova Ro\u0219iori. Minerul Rovinari was renamed as Energia Rovinari. Pandurii T\u00e2rgu Jiu and Cimentul T\u00e2rgu Jiu merged, the first one absorbed the second one and was renamed as Cimentul T\u00e2rgu Jiu. CFR Arad and Vagonul Arad merged, the new entity was named Unirea Arad and took the place of first one in Divizia B.Independen\u021ba Cisn\u0103die was renamed as Textila Cisn\u0103die. Hidroenergia R\u00e2mnicu V\u00e2lcea was renamed as Chimistul R\u00e2mnicu V\u00e2lcea. Constructorul Baia Mare was renamed as Gloria Baia Mare. Minerul Boc\u0219a Montan\u0103 merged with Metalul Boc\u0219a to formed AS Boc\u0219a", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 46], "content_span": [47, 793]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096599-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Drexel Dragons men's basketball team\nThe 1973\u201374 Drexel Dragons men's basketball team represented Drexel University during the 1973\u201374 men's basketball season. The Dragons, led by 3rd year head coach Ray Haesler, played their home games at the 32nd Street Armory and were members of the University\u2013Eastern division of the Middle Atlantic Conferences (MAC).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096599-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Drexel Dragons men's basketball team\nThe team finished the season 15\u20139, and finished in 5th place in the MAC University\u2013Eastern Division in the regular season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096599-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Drexel Dragons men's basketball team\nOn February 6, 1974, Greg Newman set the Drexel team record for most points in a single game, scoring 40 points against Franklin & Marshall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096600-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team\nThe 1973\u201374 Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team represented Duke University in the 1973\u201374 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The head coach was Neill McGeachy and the team finished the season with an overall record of 10\u201316 and did not qualify for the NCAA tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096601-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Duleep Trophy\nThe 1973\u201374 Duleep Trophy was the 13th season of the Duleep Trophy, a first-class cricket tournament contested by five zonal teams of India: Central Zone, East Zone, North Zone, South Zone and West Zone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096601-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Duleep Trophy\nNorth Zone won the title, defeating Central Zone in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 84]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096602-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Dumbarton F.C. season\nThe 1973\u201374 season was the 90th football season in which Dumbarton competed at a Scottish national level, entering the Scottish Football League, the Scottish Cup and the Scottish League Cup. In addition Dumbarton played in the Stirlingshire Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096602-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, Players\nFollowing the last day escape from relegation in the previous season, it was hoped that this season would show a vast improvement, and to this end Davy Wilson gave up his playing boots to become assistant to manager Alex Wright.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096602-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, Players\nMissing from the first XI was Charlie Gallagher who retired after 3 seasons at Boghead with 96 appearances and 40 goals. In addition Jake Bolton was given a free transfer after 3 successful seasons and 111 appearances in a Dumbarton shirt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096602-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, Players\nAmongst those joining up were goalkeeper John Taylor from Queen\u2019s Park, and full backs Peter McQuade and Don Watt from East Fife and Celtic respectively.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096602-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, August\nThe first game of season 1973-74 saw Dumbarton host a first round Stirlingshire Cup tie against Clydebank and easily triumphed 3-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096602-0005-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, August\nThe next day a 16 man squad left for a training camp in Spain \u2013 the first trip abroad for the club since 1922. During the trip they played a friendly match on 7 August against Spanish regional side LLloret de Mar, winning 5-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096602-0006-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, August\nOn their return it was straight into League Cup business where Dumbarton had been drawn in a tough section along with Ayr United, Morton and Hibernian. And so it was to prove as the first four matches yielded just one point - a 1-1 home draw against Morton was all that there was to show, against the loss of all three away games - 2-0 v Ayr United, 1-0 v Hibernian and 1-0 against Morton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096602-0007-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, August\nMeanwhile Dumbarton accepted a \u00a340,000 offer from Dundee for Tom McAdam, but left it up to the young striker to decide as to his future.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096602-0008-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, August\nOn 25 August Dumbarton played the return League Cup tie against Hibernian at Boghead, crushing the Easter Road side 4-1 and leaving the door still open for qualification to the next round. The subsequent 1-0 home win against Ayr United four days later confirmed this and a lucrative second round tie against Rangers. The good news continued as McAdam decided to remain at Boghead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 58], "content_span": [59, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096602-0009-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, September\nThe new league season commenced on 1 September with a home tie against Dundee United, but despite having the visitors under siege for most of the match, Dundee United won the match 2-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 247]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096602-0010-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, September\nThe following weekend it was a trip to Brockville to play Falkirk but this time the Dumbarton pressure was converted into goals with a 3-2 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096602-0011-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, September\nOn 12 September the first leg of the second round League Cup tie was played against Rangers at Ibrox. Dumbarton were missing John Cushley and Brian Heron, and the previous season\u2019s Scottish Cup winning side easily brushed the Sons aside 6-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 303]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096602-0012-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, September\nRoy McCormack joined Cushley and Heron on the injury list when Ayr United came to Boghead for the league fixture on 15 September and in a disappointing game the home side lost 2-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096602-0013-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, September\nThe bad results continued a week later at Gayfield when a one goal advantage and barrowloads of other chances were thrown away to lose 2-1 to Arbroath.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096602-0014-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, September\nThe final game of September however saw Dumbarton pick up their first home league win of the season with a deserved 2-0 win over Partick Thistle. On the same day Dumbarton signed teenager Iain Wallace from junior side Yoker Athletic \u2013 a player from whom much would be heard from in the future.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096602-0015-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, September\nSo at the end of the month Hearts led the way in the league with 8 points, a point ahead of Motherwell. Dumbarton were in 13th place on 4 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 61], "content_span": [62, 207]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096602-0016-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, October\nOn 6 October Dumbarton visited Bayview and Dumbarton came away with both points after an 88th minute Paterson goals secured a 1-0 league win over East Fife.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096602-0017-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, October\nFour days later, Rangers cruised through to the quarter finals of the League Cup by following up their first leg 6-0 win with a 2-1 victory at Boghead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096602-0018-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, October\nThe following weekend it was Aberdeen who came to Dumbarton in the league and after a closely contested game it was the visitors who left with the points after a Drew Jarvie goal was enough to complete a 1-0 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096602-0019-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, October\nUnbeaten Hearts hosted Dumbarton on 20 October. Hearts were frustrated by a Dumbarton defensive line up and the match ended in a 0-0 draw \u2013 although things could have been worse for Hearts as in the last 10 minutes a penalty claim was turned down as Roy McCormack was upended in the area and an unmarked Willie Wallace missed the target from eight yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096602-0020-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, October\nA week later the Sons travelled to Shawfield in the league to play Clyde and in a fast flowing attacking game Dumbarton achieved a comfortable 3-0 win. After the game Alex Wright\u2019s position as manager was made full time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096602-0021-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, October\nAt the end of October Celtic and Hearts led the way in the league with 13 points, while Dumbarton had climbed to 8th with 9 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096602-0022-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, November\nDumbarton celebrated Alex Wright\u2019s first game as full time manager on 3 November with a second successive 3-0 win this time against Motherwell at Boghead \u2013 and at the same time moved into 6th place in the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096602-0023-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, November\nHowever the unbeaten run came to an end a week later when Dundee held on to record a 2-1 win against the Sons at Dens Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096602-0024-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, November\nOn 17 November Dumbarton were back in winning ways when they came back from a half time 1-0 deficit to beat St Johnstone 2-1 at Boghead with two Brian Heron goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096602-0025-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, November\nThe following weekend saw Celtic visit a muddy Boghead and while silky football was little in evidence, goals from Kenny Dalglish and Bobby Lennox were enough for the visitors to see off the Sons.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 257]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096602-0026-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, November\nThis meant Celtic headed the league at the end of the month with 21 points from 12 games \u2013 3 points ahead of Hearts. Dumbarton were in 13th place with 13 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096602-0027-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, December\nBad weather caused postponements for a number of weeks meaning the next game took place on 15 December at Cappielow against Morton. A goal in the first half put Dumbarton ahead but two goals in quick succession early in the second half followed by the ordering off of a player from each sides turned the match on its head and eventually Morton finished as 3-1 victors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096602-0028-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, December\nThe following week Dumbarton entertained Rangers at Boghead and a powerful display by the visitors in the first half was enough to earn both points in a 2-0 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096602-0029-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, December\nOn 29 December Dumbarton were on the road again this time to Tannadice to face off against Dundee United and in a superb display topped off by four goals from teenager Andy Gray, the home team devastated the Sons by 6-0.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096602-0030-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, December\nThe same weekend long term utility player Kenny Jenkins announced his intention to emigrate to Australia. Over five seasons Jenkins had played 175 matches for Dumbarton and had scored 22 goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 254]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096602-0031-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, December\nSo 1973 ended with Celtic pulling further ahead in the league with 27 points from 16 matches played \u2013 6 ahead of Rangers, while Dumbarton had slipped to 13th still with 13 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096602-0032-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, January\nThe first game of 1974 brought winless Falkirk to Boghead, but it was to be Dumbarton who would suffer their fifth straight defeat with the Bairns breaking their duck in handsome fashion, 5-1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096602-0033-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, January\nOn 5 January Dumbarton visited Somerset Park to play Ayr United and the plan to stem the leaky defence appeared to work as a Ross Mathie goal was sufficient to take both points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096602-0034-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, January\nA week later Arbroath came to Boghead and in the first half it looked as if the previous defensive frailties had returned as the visitors led 2-0. However a freak goal by Colin McAdam where a free kick taken 5 yards inside his own half bounced on the penalty spot and over the goalkeeper followed by a Willie Wallace strike changed the whole complexion of the game. Thereafter it was all Dumbarton and a Ross Mathie hat-trick completed an amazing 5-2 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096602-0035-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, January\nAway from the domestic scene, Scotland had qualified for the World Cup finals and Dumbarton made an amazing offer to one of Scotland\u2019s future opponents Zaire to play a friendly. Current SFA rules prohibited club sides from meeting international teams but the plan was to play a select XI. As it was the proposal never came off.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096602-0036-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, January\nOn 19 January Dumbarton travelled to Firhill to play Partick Thistle but despite both teams playing attacking games the game finished in a 0-0 draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096602-0037-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, January\nThree days later Dumbarton paid a nominal fee to Norwich City for the transfer of Alan Black who had in fact left Dumbarton 11 years earlier on a free transfer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096602-0038-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, January\nThe following week Dumbarton headed north to Arbroath in the third round of the Scottish Cup. It was not however to be a repeat of the fine win a fortnight earlier as the home side recorded a 1-0 victory to advance to the next round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096602-0039-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, January\nThe top of the league at the end of January had Celtic still in front with 34 points from 19 games played \u2013 but it was now Hibernian who were the nearest challengers, 6 points behind. Dumbarton were in 11th with 18 points from 20 matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 59], "content_span": [60, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096602-0040-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, February\nAfter a free week Dumbarton travelled to Pittodrie to play Aberdeen in the league, While the game ended in a 3-0 defeat it was overshadowed by bad injuries to two players. During the game Dons young striker Bobby Street broke his leg and Sons goalkeeper Lawrie Williams suffered a fractured cheekbone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096602-0041-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, February\nOn 16 February East Fife were the visitors to Boghead and not for the first time this season the name of the ground was playing true to its name. Appropriately the goals were scored from headers and finished in a 1-1 draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 283]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096602-0042-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, February\nThe following weekend Hearts arrived on league business and while the playing surface continued to cause problems the visitors managed to leave with both points after a 1-0 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096602-0043-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, February\nAt the end of February Celtic continued at the top of the league with 36 points from 22 games played, still being chased by Hibernian, now 5 points behind. Dumbarton maintained 11th place with 19 points from 23 matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 60], "content_span": [61, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096602-0044-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, March\nThe Boghead surface continued to cause problems as Clyde arrived to play their league fixture on 9 March but it was the visitors who adapted quicker to the conditions and went into an early lead. Nevertheless a 16 yard strike from Wallace in the second half was enough to earn Dumbarton a point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 353]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096602-0045-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, March\nThe next match occurred on 23 March with an away tie against St Johnstone and it looked like Dumbarton were easing towards both points with a 2-0 lead. The home team\u2019s goal on 69 minutes seemed to be only a consolation as the game moved into time added. Then St Johnstone\u2019s Muir scored a quick double which turned the match on its head - only for Colin McAdam to mount a last gasp counter attack and score the equaliser in the 93rd minute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096602-0046-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, March\nIn midweek, Dumbarton took a rest from league business to visit Firs Park in a Stirlingshire Cup semi final tie against East Stirling \u2013 only progressing on penalties after struggling to a 2-2 draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096602-0047-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, March\nThe following weekend Dumbarton visited Celtic Park to take on the team going for their ninth title in a row \u2013 but it was the underdogs who shocked the Celtic crowd going in at half time 2-1 up. Kenny Dalglish levelled matters but back came the Sons with an 18 yard strike from Peter Coleman \u2013 only for Dixie Deans to equalise with 6 minutes to play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096602-0048-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, April\nOn 6 April Hibernian came to Boghead, and once again Dumbarton led the way at half time by 2-1. However Hibs fought back and were level by the 60th minute only for John Bourke to push Dumbarton ahead once more three minutes later. But for the third week in a row the result would finish as a 3-3 draw as Cropley scored a last minute goal for the visitors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096602-0049-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, April\nThree days later Dumbarton travelled to Motherwell and despite a spirited performance it was the Sons who left pointless in a 2-0 defeat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096602-0050-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, April\nDumbarton had now gone 9 league games without a win and relegation worries were not far away. On 13 April the Sons arrived at East End Park to play fellow strugglers Dunfermline, and despite taking an early 2-0 lead it was the Fifers who came back to snatch a 3-2 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096602-0051-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, April\nThings did not get any better four days later in a midweek match against Hibernian at Easter Road, with Hibs strolling to a comfortable 3-0 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096602-0052-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, April\nHowever on 20 April, relegation woes were finally dispelled with a 1-0 win over Morton \u2013 the first league success since 11 January.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096602-0053-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, April\nThis was followed up with a second successive 1-0 win at Boghead on 24 April \u2013 this time against Dunfermline.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096602-0054-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, April\nIn the final league game of April \u2013 and the seventh game in 3 weeks \u2013 Dumbarton travelled to Ibrox to play Rangers. The home side were easily the better side but had only a Fyfe goal to show for their superiority at half time. However two Scott goals early in the second half decided the tie, with Heron scoring a consolation goal in the 3-1 defeat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096602-0055-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, April\nFour days later Dumbarton took on Stirling Albion at Boghead in the final of the Stirlingshire Cup, with the home side just failing to retain the trophy after losing a penalty shoot-out following a 2-2 draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096602-0056-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, May\nThe final game of the league campaign presented Dumbarton with the opportunity to claim 10th spot in the league and a place in next season\u2019s Texaco Cup \u2013 and first half goals from Heron and Bourke were sufficient to beat Dundee 2-0. However as it happened the qualification rules were amended and the Texaco Cup dream was not to be.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096602-0057-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, Post Season Review\nWhile Celtic had scooped their record ninth title in a row, Dumbarton had their best league campaign since 1918.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096602-0058-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Dumbarton F.C. season, Story of the Season, Post Season Review\nDuring the season Roy McCormack made his 300th appearance for Dumbarton (on 23 February against Hearts). In addition Billy Wilkinson made his \u2018century\u2019 of appearances in a Dumbarton shirt against East Fife on 6 October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 70], "content_span": [71, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096602-0059-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Dumbarton F.C. season, Reserve team\nDumbarton competed in the Scottish Reserve League, and with 12 wins and 6 draws from 34 matches, finished 12th of 18 for the second successive season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096602-0060-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Dumbarton F.C. season, Reserve team\nDumbarton again entered the Scottish Second XI Cup, and again reached the third round where Celtic were to prove too good on the day by four goals to none.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096602-0061-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Dumbarton F.C. season, Reserve team\nFor the first time, Dumbarton entered the Scottish Reserve League Cup, and after qualifying from their section with 4 wins and a draw from 6 games, they eventually lost out to Partick Thistle in a two-legged semi final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096603-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Dundee F.C. season\nThe 1973\u201374 season was the 72nd season in which Dundee competed at a Scottish national level, playing in Division One, where the club would finish in 5th place for the fourth consecutive season. Domestically, Dundee would also compete in both the Scottish League Cup and the Scottish Cup, where they would get knocked out by Celtic in semi-finals of the Scottish Cup for the second straight year, but would defeat them to win the club's third League Cup. Despite the issues such as a miners' strike and blizzards causing attendances for games to be uncharacteristically low, a Gordon Wallace goal would give Dundee its fifth major title. Dundee would also compete in the UEFA Cup, where they would be knocked out by FC Twente in the 1st round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 770]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096604-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Dundee United F.C. season\nThe 1973\u201374 season was the 65th year of football played by Dundee United, and covers the period from 1 July 1973 to 30 June 1974. United finished in eighth place in the First Division and reached their first Scottish Cup final losing 3\u20130 to Celtic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096604-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Dundee United F.C. season, Match results\nDundee United played a total of 53 competitive matches during the 1973\u201374 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 48], "content_span": [49, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096604-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Dundee United F.C. season, Match results, Legend\nAll results are written with Dundee United's score first. Own goals in italics", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 56], "content_span": [57, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096605-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Edmonton Oilers season\nThe 1973\u201374 Edmonton Oilers season was the second season of operation of the Edmonton Oilers in the World Hockey Association. The Oilers' qualified for the playoffs, losing in the first round to the Minnesota Fighting Saints.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096605-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Edmonton Oilers season, Schedule and results\nLegend: \u00a0\u00a0Win (2 points)\u00a0\u00a0Loss (0 points)\u00a0\u00a0Tie (1 point)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 52], "content_span": [53, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096605-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Edmonton Oilers season, Player statistics\nNote: Pos = Position; GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/- = plus/minus; PIM = Penalty minutes; PPG = Power-play goals; SHG = Short-handed goals; GWG = Game-winning goals\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0MIN = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; GA = Goals-against; GAA = Goals-against average; SO = Shutouts;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 49], "content_span": [50, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096606-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Eerste Divisie\nThe Dutch Eerste Divisie in the 1973\u201374 season was contested by 20 teams. Excelsior won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096606-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Eerste Divisie, New entrants\nHVC changed their name to SC Amersfoort for this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 36], "content_span": [37, 93]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096606-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Eerste Divisie, Promotion competition\nIn the promotion competition, four period winners (the best teams during each of the four quarters of the regular competition) played for promotion to the eredivisie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 45], "content_span": [46, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096607-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Eintracht Frankfurt season\nThe 1973\u201374 Eintracht Frankfurt season was the 74th season in the club's football history. In 1973\u201374 the club played in the Bundesliga, the top tier of German football. It was the club's 11th season in the Bundesliga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096607-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Eintracht Frankfurt season\nThe season ended up with Eintracht winning the German cup for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096608-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Ekstraklasa\nThe 1973\u201374 I liga was the 48th season of the Polish Football Championship and the 40th season of the I liga, the top Polish professional league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 1927. The league was operated by the Polish Football Association (PZPN).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096608-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Ekstraklasa\nThe champions were Ruch Chorz\u00f3w, who won their 11th Polish title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 85]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096608-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Ekstraklasa, Competition modus\nThe season started on 25 August 1973 and concluded on 7 August 1974 (autumn-spring league). It was interrupted between the 27th matchday (May 12th) and the 28th matchday (July 31st) due to the 1974 FIFA World Cup. The season was played as a round-robin tournament. The team at the top of the standings won the league title. A total of 16 teams participated, 14 of which competed in the league during the 1972\u201373 season, while the remaining two were promoted from the 1972\u201373 II liga. Each team played a total of 30 matches, half at home and half away, two games against each other team. Teams received two points for a win and one point for a draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 38], "content_span": [39, 687]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096609-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Eredivisie\nThe Dutch Eredivisie in the 1973\u201374 season was contested by 18 teams. Feyenoord won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096610-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Eredivisie (ice hockey) season\nThe 1973\u201374 Eredivisie season was the 14th season of the Eredivisie, the top level of ice hockey in the Netherlands. Six teams participated in the league, and the Tilburg Trappers won the championship. H.H.IJ.C. Den Haag finished first, but the title was awarded To Tilburg, as Den Haag used an ineligible player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096611-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Essex Senior Football League\nThe 1973\u201374 Essex Senior Football League season was the third in the history of Essex Senior Football League, a football competition in England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096611-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Essex Senior Football League, Clubs\nThe league featured ten clubs which competed in the league last season, no new clubs joined the league this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 43], "content_span": [44, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096612-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 European Cup\nThe 1973\u201374 season of the European Cup football club tournament was won for the first time by Bayern Munich, beginning their own three-year period of domination, in a replayed final against Atl\u00e9tico Madrid. This was the first time the cup went to Germany, and the first European Cup final to require a replay after the first match was drawn 1\u20131 after extra time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096612-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 European Cup\nAjax, the three-time defending champions, were eliminated by CSKA September Flag in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096612-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 European Cup, Top scorers\nThe top scorers from the 1973\u201374 European Cup are as follows:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 33], "content_span": [34, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096613-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 European Cup (handball)\nThe 1973\u201374 European Cup was the 14th edition of Europe's premier club handball tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096614-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 European Cup Winners' Cup\nThe 1973\u201374 European Cup Winners' Cup football club tournament was won by Magdeburg in a final victory against defending champions Milan. It was the first\u2013and only\u2013win for an East German side in a European tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096615-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Everton F.C. season\nDuring the 1973\u201374 English football season, Everton F.C. competed in the Football League First Division. They finished 7th in the table with 44 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096615-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Everton F.C. season, Final League Table\nP = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; GA = Goal average; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096616-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FA Amateur Cup\nThe FA Amateur Cup 1973\u201374 was the 71st and last staging of England's principal cup tournament for amateur teams, the FA Amateur Cup. Bishop's Stortford won the competition for the first time, beating Ilford 4\u20131 in the final at Wembley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096616-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FA Amateur Cup\nMatches were scheduled to be played at the stadium of the team named first on the date specified for each round, which was always a Saturday. Some matches, however, might be rescheduled for other days if there were clashes with games for other competitions or the weather was inclement. If scores were level after 90 minutes had been played, a replay would take place at the stadium of the second-named team later the same week. If the replayed match was drawn further replays would be held until a winner was determined. If scores were level after 90 minutes had been played in a replay, a 30-minute period of extra time would be played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 661]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096616-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FA Amateur Cup, First round proper\nThe matches were scheduled to be played on Saturday, 5 January 1974, with four ties postponed to the next Saturday. For the first time in the competition's history, matches could be played on Sunday, and three clubs applied for a permission. There were seven replayed ties, of which one needed a second replay and another a third.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 373]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096616-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FA Amateur Cup, Second round proper\nThe matches were scheduled to be played on Saturday, 26 January 1974, but one tie was postponed to the next Saturday, and one was played on Sunday. Five replays were necessary (one of which was played on Sunday).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 43], "content_span": [44, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096616-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FA Amateur Cup, Third round proper\nThe matches were scheduled to be played on Saturday, 9 February 1974, but four ties were postponed to the next Saturday (including one due to delay in settling a second round tie. Four replays were necessary, as well as one second replay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096616-0005-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FA Amateur Cup, Fourth round proper\nThe matches were scheduled to be played on Saturday, 2 March 1974, with one tie postponed to the following Saturday, and one replay necessary.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 43], "content_span": [44, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096616-0006-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FA Amateur Cup, Semi-finals\nThe matches were scheduled to be played on Saturday, 23 March 1974, on neutral venues. There was one replay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 35], "content_span": [36, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096617-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FA Cup\nThe 1973\u201374 FA Cup was the 93rd season of the world's oldest football cup competition, the Football Association Challenge Cup, commonly known as the FA Cup. Liverpool won the competition for only the second time, beating Newcastle United 3\u20130 in the final at Wembley, London.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096617-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FA Cup\nMatches were scheduled to be played at the stadium of the team named first on the date specified for each round, which was always a Saturday. Some matches, however, might be rescheduled for other days if there were clashes with games for other competitions or the weather was inclement. In this season matches were allowed to be played on Sundays for the first time. If scores were level after 90 minutes had been played, a replay would take place at the stadium of the second-named team later the same week. If the replayed match was drawn further replays would be held until a winner was determined. If scores were level after 90 minutes had been played in a replay, a 30-minute period of extra time would be played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [14, 14], "content_span": [15, 733]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096617-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FA Cup, Results, First Round Proper\nAt this stage clubs from the Football League Third and Fourth Divisions joined those non-league clubs having come through the qualifying rounds. Matches were scheduled to be played on Saturday, 24 November 1973. Ten matches were drawn and went to replays.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 43], "content_span": [44, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096617-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FA Cup, Results, Second Round Proper\nThe matches were scheduled for Saturday, 15 December 1973. Five matches were drawn, with replays taking place later the same week.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 44], "content_span": [45, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096617-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FA Cup, Results, Third Round Proper\nThe 44 First and Second Division clubs entered the competition at this stage. The matches were scheduled for the weekend of 5\u20136 January 1974. Thirteen matches were drawn, of which one required a second replay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 43], "content_span": [44, 253]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096617-0005-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FA Cup, Results, Fourth Round Proper\nThe matches were scheduled for Saturday, 26 January 1974. Four matches were, however, played the day after. Eight matches were drawn, of which one, the tie between Portsmouth and Leyton Orient, required a second replay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 44], "content_span": [45, 264]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096617-0006-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FA Cup, Results, Fifth Round Proper\nThe matches were scheduled for Saturday, 16 February 1974 with one taking place the day after. Two matches were drawn and went to replays.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 43], "content_span": [44, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096617-0007-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FA Cup, Results, Sixth Round Proper\nThe four quarter-final ties were played on 9 March 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 43], "content_span": [44, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096617-0008-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FA Cup, Results, Sixth Round Proper, Newcastle United riot\nThe first Newcastle United\u2013Nottingham Forest game at St James' Park was won 4\u20133 by Newcastle. However, early in the second half Nottingham Forest went 3\u20131 up from a penalty awarded by the referee, Gordon Kew, who also sent off Newcastle's defender Pat Howard for protesting the decision. The Newcastle United fans in the Leazes End of the ground (now the Sir John Hall stand) invaded the pitch. Two Nottingham Forest players were injured in the debacle, but the referee waited until all players were recovered and received the permission of both managers to continue the tie.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 66], "content_span": [67, 642]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096617-0008-0001", "contents": "1973\u201374 FA Cup, Results, Sixth Round Proper, Newcastle United riot\nNewcastle managed to come back and win with a late goal by their captain, Bobby Moncur, in spite of the two-goal and one-player deficit. Up to 23 people were taken to hospital as a result of the pitch invasion, of whom two had fractured skulls; another 103 people were treated at the ground and 39 arrests were made.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 66], "content_span": [67, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096617-0009-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FA Cup, Results, Sixth Round Proper, Newcastle United riot\nFollowing the riot, a written protest was sent from Nottingham Forest to the FA on 11 March. In response, the secretary of the FA, Ted Croker, announced that a special four-man subcommittee of the Challenge Cup Committee who oversee the FA Cup competition were to investigate the incident, stating, \"Newcastle could be disqualified. We do not have the power to order a replay as the game was completed.\" On 14 March the subcommittee ruled that, in spite of Mr. Croker's comments, the match was to be replayed, at the neutral venue of Goodison Park on Monday 18 March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 66], "content_span": [67, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096617-0009-0001", "contents": "1973\u201374 FA Cup, Results, Sixth Round Proper, Newcastle United riot\nIf that match was drawn then extra time would be played and, if needed, another match at a neutral venue would be played the following Thursday. This decision was unprecedented at the time and the reaction was mixed, with Newcastle's defender Frank Clark suggesting that their comeback should have allowed them to go through outright. The Nottingham Forest captain Bob Chapman stated, \"we would have won it fair and square but for the trouble.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 66], "content_span": [67, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096617-0010-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FA Cup, Results, Sixth Round Proper, Newcastle United riot\nThe first replay was a nervous 0\u20130 draw after extra time, although Newcastle hit the woodwork three times. Newcastle finally won the tie through a single Malcolm Macdonald goal in the second replay, also at Goodison Park.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 66], "content_span": [67, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096617-0011-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FA Cup, Results, Semi-Finals\nThe semi-final matches were played on Saturday, 30 March 1974 with the Liverpool\u2013Leicester City game being replayed four days later. Liverpool and Newcastle United won their respective matches to go on to the final at Wembley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 36], "content_span": [37, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096617-0012-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FA Cup, Results, Third place playoff\nBetween 1970 and 1974, a third place playoff between the two losing semi-finalists was held.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 44], "content_span": [45, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096617-0013-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FA Cup, Results, Final\nThe final took place on Saturday, 4 May 1974 at Wembley and ended in a victory for Liverpool over Newcastle United by three goals to nil. Two goals were scored by Kevin Keegan and one by Steve Heighway. The attendance was 100,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 30], "content_span": [31, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096617-0014-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FA Cup, TV Coverage\nThe right to show FA Cup games were, as with Football League matches, shared between the BBC and ITV network. All games were shown in a highlights format, except the Final, which was shown live both on BBC1 & ITV. The BBC football highlights programme Match Of The Day would show up to three games and the various ITV regional network stations would cover up to one game and show highlights from other games covered elsewhere on the ITV network. No games from Rounds 1 or 2 were shown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096617-0014-0001", "contents": "1973\u201374 FA Cup, TV Coverage\nBurnley banned TV Coverage of the Quarter-Final tie v Wrexham which was due to be shown on BBC MOTD, they showed a League game instead between Derby County v West Ham United as well as the Queens Park Rangers v Leicester Quarter-Final. Burnley and Chairman Bob Lord also tried to stop the Semi-Final being covered by ITV but couldn't as the game was played at neutral Sheffield Wednesday.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 416]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096617-0014-0002", "contents": "1973\u201374 FA Cup, TV Coverage\nThird Round BBC Wolverhampton Wanderers v Leeds United, West Ham United v Hereford United, Manchester United v Plymouth Argyle, Hendon v Newcastle United (Midweek-replay played in the Afternoon at Watford), Hereford United v West Ham United (Midweek replay played in the afternoon) ITV Chelsea v Queens Park Rangers (LWT), Everton v Blackburn Rovers (Granada), Leicester City v Tottenham Hotspur ATV), Sheffield Wednesday v Coventry City (Yorkshire), Newcastle United v Hendon (Tyne-Tees), Peterborough United v Southend United (Anglia) Fourth Round BBC Queens Park Rangers v Birmingham City, Fulham v Leicester City, Manchester United v Ipswich Town ITV Arsenal v Aston Villa (LWT & ATV), Peterborough United v Leeds United (Anglia Yorkshire),Liverpool v Carlisle United (Granada), Newcastle United v Scunthorpe United (Tyne-Tees), Aston Villa v Arsenal(Midweek-replay shown in all regions) Fifth Round BBC Bristol City v Leeds United, West Bromwich Albion v Newcastle United, Liverpool v Ipswich Town ITV Luton Town v Leicester City (LWT & Anglia), Southampton v Wrexham (Southern & HTV), Coventry City v Queens Park Rangers (ATV), Leeds United v Bristol City ((Midweek-replay played in the afternoon shown in all regions) Sixth Round BBC Queens Park Rangers v Leicester City ITV Bristol City v Liverpool (LWT Coverage outside region on two non London teams), Newcastle United v Nottingham Forest (Tyne-Tees & ATV) Newcastle United v Nottingham Forest (Midweek rematch & replay shown in all regions) Semi-Finals BBC Leicester City v Liverpool, Leicester City v Liverpool (Midweek replay), ITV Burnley v Newcastle United (All ITV Regions)Final Liverpool v Newcastle United Shown Live on BBC & ITV.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 14], "section_span": [16, 27], "content_span": [28, 1729]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096618-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FA Cup qualifying rounds\nThe FA Cup 1973\u201374 is the 93rd season of the world's oldest football knockout competition; The Football Association Challenge Cup, or FA Cup for short. The large number of clubs entering the tournament from lower down the English football league system meant that the competition started with a number of preliminary and qualifying rounds. The 30 victorious teams from the Fourth Round Qualifying progressed to the First Round Proper.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 467]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096618-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FA Cup qualifying rounds, 1973\u201374 FA Cup\nSee 1973-74 FA Cup for details of the rounds from the First Round Proper onwards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096619-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FA Trophy\nThe 1973\u201374 FA Trophy was the fifth season of the FA Trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 78]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096620-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FC Barcelona season\nThe 1973\u201374 season was the 75th season for FC Barcelona.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 84]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096620-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FC Barcelona season, Results\n22-08-73 . Joan Gamper Trophy BARCELONA-BORUSSIA M. 2-2 /5-3/ PENALTY", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096621-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FC Basel season\nThe 1973\u201374 season was Fussball Club Basel 1893's 80th season in their existence. It was their 28th consecutive season in the top flight of Swiss football after their promotion the season 1945\u201346. They played their home games in the St. Jakob Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096621-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FC Basel season, Overview, Pre-season\nHelmut Benthaus was first team manager. This was his ninth season as manager. To the beginning of the season Urs Siegenthaler moved on to play for Xamax and Rolf Riner left to play for Servette. In the other direction Rudolf Wampfler joined from Sion, Arthur von Wartburg joined from Concordia Basel and Roland Paolucci returned from his loan to Winterthur.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096621-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FC Basel season, Overview, Pre-season\nBut the most notorious transfer was that of Te\u00f3filo Cubillas from Alianza Lima. The Basler entrepreneur and transport company owner Ruedi Reisdorfer paid the transfer fee of \u00a397,000. Cubillas scored two goals for Basel in the 1973\u201374 European Cup, the first of which in the 1st leg against Fram on 19 September 1973 and the second in the return leg on 20 September. He only remained at the club for six months, which was not long enough for him to show the extent of his talent. Later on, for the second half of the 1973\u201374 season he joined Portuguese club Porto for a fee of \u00a3200,000.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 631]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096621-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FC Basel season, Overview, Pre-season\nBasel played a total of 54 games in their 1973\u201374 season. 26 in the domestic league, four in the Swiss Cup, one in the Swiss League Cup, six in the European Cup and 17 were friendly matches. The team scored a total of 143 goals and conceded 91.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 45], "content_span": [46, 290]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096621-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FC Basel season, Overview, Domestic league\nThe Nationalliga A season 1973\u201374 was contested under 14 teams. These were the top 12 teams from the previous 1972\u201373 season and the two newly promoted teams Xamax and Ch\u00eanois. The championship was played in a double round robin. The champions would qualify for the 1974\u201375 European Cup, the second and third placed teams were to qualify for 1974\u201375 UEFA Cup and the last two teams in the table at the end of the season were to be relegated. Z\u00fcrich won the championship 12 points ahead of Grasshopper Club, 13 ahead of the Servette and FC Winterthur.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 601]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096621-0004-0001", "contents": "1973\u201374 FC Basel season, Overview, Domestic league\nBasel finished in fifth position and were 16 points behind the new champions. Basel won 13 of their 26 league games, drew three and lost ten games. They scored a total of 57 goals conceding 39. La Chaux-de-Fonds and Chiasso suffered relegation. Basel's striker Ottmar Hitzfeld was the league's joint top goal scorer with Ove Grahn of Lausanne-Sports who both scored 18 league goals. Basel's second top scorer was Walter Mundschin with seven goals, Ren\u00e9 Hasler and Karl Odermatt each scored six goals, Walter Balmer managed five and Te\u00f3filo Cubillas scored three league goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 626]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096621-0005-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FC Basel season, Overview, Domestic league\nBasel's highest scoring game was in the 24th round on 8 May 1974 as they sent Lausanne-Sports home with an 8\u20132 package from the St. Jakob Stadium. Karl Odermatt scored the first two goals in the 5th and the 11th minute, Ottmar Hitzfeld added the next two in the 15th and 17th minute before Walter Mundschin added the next two in the 20th and 25th Minute to make it six goals in 25 minutes. A penalty goal by M\u00fcller pulled one back for Lausanne-Sport, but despite this Basel led 6\u20131 at half time. Hitzfeld scored his personal third goal in the 57th minute and in the 75th Markus Tanner netted the final goal of the game. Roger Piccand had scored Lausannes second in the 71st minute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 50], "content_span": [51, 732]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096621-0006-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FC Basel season, Overview, Swiss Cup and League Cup\nIn the Swiss Cup Basel played the round of 32 on 22 September 1973 away against Biel-Bienne in the Gurzelen Stadion and won 2\u20131. In the round of 16 on 6 October 1973 they played away again against Mendrisiostar and won 4\u20131. In this game Cubillas scored two goals. The quarter-final was a two legged fixtures. The first leg played on 31 October 1973 in Stade Tourbillon was a 1\u20130 defeat against Sion. The second leg played on 4 November 1973 in the St. Jakob Stadium ended in a 2\u20132 draw, thus Sion won 3\u20132 on aggregate. In the 1973 Swiss League Cup Basel were drawn with an away game against Neuch\u00e2tel Xamax in the first round and were eliminated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 59], "content_span": [60, 706]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096621-0007-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FC Basel season, Overview, European Cup\nAs reigning Swiss Champions, Basel were qualified for the 1973\u201374 European Cup. In the first round, drawn against Iceland's champions Fram, Basel won with the aggregate score 11\u20132. In the second round they were drawn against Club Brugge. In the exiting second leg Basel won 6\u20134 and thus 7\u20136 on aggregate. In the quarter-final Basel won the first leg against Celtic 3\u20132 and in the second leg Celtic won by the same score. During extra time Scottish international Steve Murray scored the decisive goal in the 114th minute. Celtic continued to the semi-final but did not reach the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 47], "content_span": [48, 632]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096621-0008-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FC Basel season, Players\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096621-0009-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FC Basel season, Players\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 32], "content_span": [33, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096622-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FC Bayern Munich season\nThe 1973\u201374 FC Bayern Munich season was the club's ninth season in Bundesliga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096622-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FC Bayern Munich season, Review and events\nUdo Lattek led Bayern to their fourth German championship and won the European Cup final against Atl\u00e9tico Madrid 4\u20130 after a replay.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096623-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FC Dinamo Bucure\u0219ti season\nThe 1973-74 season was FC Dinamo Bucure\u0219ti's 25th season in Divizia A. The competition with Universitatea Craiova for the title repeated, but this time the Craiova side won the championship by one point. In this season, Dinamo brought Dudu Georgescu from CSM Re\u015fi\u0163a the player that will become the best scorer in history for Dinamo. In the European Cup, they surpass Northern Ireland's Crusaders Belfast (The 11\u20130 home game against Northern Ireland's team is still the biggest margin of victory in the history of the European Cup), but fail against Atl\u00e9tico Madrid (0-2 and 2-2), the team of Capon, Irueta, Heredia and Ayala.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 660]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096623-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FC Dinamo Bucure\u0219ti season, Squad\nDefenders: Florin Cheran, Augustin Deleanu, Cornel Dinu, Vasile Dobr\u0103u, Teodor Lucu\u021b\u0103, Mircea Marian, Gabriel Sandu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096623-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FC Dinamo Bucure\u0219ti season, Squad\nForwards: Alexandru Custov, Florea Dumitrache, Florian Dumitrescu, Dudu Georgescu, Mircea Lucescu, Alexandru Moldovan, Viorel S\u0103lceanu, Cristian Vr\u00eenceanu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096623-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FC Dinamo Bucure\u0219ti season, Transfers\nDudu Georgescu is brought from CSM Re\u015fi\u0163a. Cristian Vr\u00eenceanu is promoted from the youth team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096624-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FIBA European Champions Cup\nThe 1973\u201374 FIBA European Champions Cup was the 17th edition of the European top-tier level professional basketball club competition FIBA European Champions Cup (now called EuroLeague). The Final was held at the Palais des Sports de Beaulieu, in Nantes, France, on April 3, 1974. It was won by Real Madrid, who defeated Ignis Varese in the finals, by a result of 84\u201382. This was the 5th consecutive final for Varese, and the first of three consecutive finals played between these two teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096624-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FIBA European Champions Cup, Quarterfinals group stage\nThe quarterfinals were played with a round-robin system, in which every Two Game series (TGS) constituted as one game for the record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 62], "content_span": [63, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096625-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup\nThe 1973\u201374 FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup was the eighth edition of FIBA's 2nd-tier level European-wide professional club basketball competition, contested between national domestic cup champions, running from October 1973, to 4 April 1974. It was contested by 25 teams, one less than in the previous edition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096625-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup\nCrvena zvezda defeated Spartak ZJ\u0160 Brno in the final, held in Udine, to become the first Yugoslav League team to win the competition, after unsuccessful appearances by Crvena zvezda itself, and Jugoplastika, in the two previous finals. On the other hand, it was the last of three Czechoslovak League appearances in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096625-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup, First round\n*Originally, the Champion of the Israeli Cup was drawn to play against the Turkish Champion, but FIBA cancelled this match and awarded TED Ankara Kolejliler a victory by forfeit (2-0).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 51], "content_span": [52, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096625-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup, Quarterfinals\nThe quarterfinals were played with a round-robin system, in which every Two Game series (TGS) constituted as one game for the record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 53], "content_span": [54, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096626-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FIBA Kora\u0107 Cup\nThe 1973\u201374 FIBA Kora\u0107 Cup was the third edition of FIBA's new competition, running from 6 November 1973 to 11 April 1974. It was contested by 37 teams, twenty-five more than in the previous edition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096626-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FIBA Kora\u0107 Cup\nBirra Forst Cant\u00f9 defeated Partizan in the final to become the competition's first back-to-back champion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096626-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FIBA Kora\u0107 Cup, First round\n*Originally, AEK and 1.FC Bamberg were drawn to play against the Israeli teams Hapoel Tel Aviv and Maccabi Ramat Gan, respectively, but FIBA cancelled these match-ups and declared the former clubs winners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 35], "content_span": [36, 241]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096626-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FIBA Kora\u0107 Cup, First round\n* *Soma Wien withdrew before the first leg and HAN Thessaloniki received a forfeit (2-0) in both games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 35], "content_span": [36, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096626-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FIBA Kora\u0107 Cup, Round of 12\nThe round of 12 were played with a round-robin system, in which every Two Game series (TGS) constituted as one game for the record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 35], "content_span": [36, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096627-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FIBA Women's European Champions Cup\nThe 1973\u201374 FIBA Women's European Champions Cup was the fourteenth edition of FIBA Europe's competition for women's basketball national champion clubs, running from November 1973 to April 1974. Daugava Riga defeated Clermont UC in a rematch of the past edition's final to win its eleventh title in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096628-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FIBA Women's European Cup Winners' Cup\nThe 1973\u201374 FIBA Women's European Cup Winners' Cup was the third edition of FIBA Europe's second-tier competition for women's basketball clubs, running between 6 November 1973 and 10 April 1974. Defending champion Spartak Leningrad defeated Geas Basket in the final to win its third title in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 345]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096629-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FIRA Trophy\nThe 1973\u20131974 FIRA Trophy was the 14th edition of a European rugby union championship for national teams, and first with the formula and the name of \"FIRA Trophy\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096629-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FIRA Trophy\nThe tournament was won by France, with a Grand Slam. Romania finished in the 2nd place, with a single loss, and Spain in the 3rd place, with two wins and two losses. Italy won the Second Division, earning the right to return to the First Division for the following season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096629-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FIRA Trophy, Second Division\nPortugal withdrew from the tournament after playing only two matches due to the political situation after the Carnation Revolution.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 36], "content_span": [37, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096630-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup\nThe 8th World Cup season began in December 1973 and concluded in March 1974. Piero Gros of Italy won the overall title, denying the runner-up, countryman Gustav Th\u00f6ni, a fourth straight overall title. Annemarie Pr\u00f6ll of Austria won the women's overall title, her fourth of five consecutive.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096630-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup\nThe break in the schedule was for the 1974 World Championships, held February 3\u201310 at St. Moritz, Switzerland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096630-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup\nDue to the growth of the professional skiing tour (especially in the United States), which now featured World Cup winning stars such as Jean-Claude Killy, Karl Schranz, Patrick Russel, and Jean-No\u00ebl Augert, no World Cup races were held in North America for the first time in its history; the next time this happened was during the COVID-19 pandemic in the 2020-21 season. Instead, the entire 1973\u201374 season took place in Europe.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096630-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, Men, Overall\nThe Men's Overall World Cup 1973/74 was divided into three periods. From the first 6 races the best 4 results count, from the next 10 races (Race No 7 to No 16) the best 6 results count and from the last 5 races the best 3 results count. Four racers had a point deduction.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096630-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, Men, Downhill\nIn Men's Downhill World Cup 1973/74 the best 5 results count. Three racer had a point deduction, which are given in (). Roland Collombin won four races in a row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096630-0005-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, Men, Giant Slalom\nIn Men's Giant Slalom World Cup 1973/74 the best 5 results count. Four racers a had point deduction, which are given in ().", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 51], "content_span": [52, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096630-0006-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, Men, Slalom\nIn Men's Slalom World Cup 1973/74 the best 5 results count. No racer had a point deduction. Gustav Th\u00f6ni won the cup with only four results.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 45], "content_span": [46, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096630-0007-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, Ladies, Overall\nThe Women's Overall World Cup 1973/74 was most likely also divided into periods.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 49], "content_span": [50, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096630-0008-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, Ladies, Downhill\nIn Women's Downhill World Cup 1973/74 all 5 results count. No racer had a point deduction. After her 8 victories of the previous season Annemarie Pr\u00f6ll reached a total of 11 downhill victories in a row, still records for female single discipline serial winner and downhill serial winner (Ingemar Stenmark later won 14 giant slaloms in a row).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096630-0009-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, Ladies, Giant Slalom\nIn Women's Giant Slalom World Cup 1973/74 the best 5 results count. One racer had a point deduction, which is given in (). Hanni Wenzel won the cup with only four results. In 6 races there were 5 different winners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 54], "content_span": [55, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096630-0010-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, Ladies, Slalom\nIn Women's Slalom World Cup 1973/74 the best 5 results count. One racer a had point deduction, which is given in (). Christa Zechmeister won four races in a row. All 6 races were won by athletes from West Germany!", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096631-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FK Partizan season\nThe 1973\u201374 season was the 28th season in FK Partizan's existence. This article shows player statistics and matches that the club played during the 1973\u201374 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096631-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 FK Partizan season, Players\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 35], "content_span": [36, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096632-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Football League\nThe 1973\u201374 season was the 75th completed season of The Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 96]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096632-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Football League\nDon Revie marked his last season as Leeds United's manager by guiding them to league championship glory, before taking over from Sir Alf Ramsey as the England national football team manager, with England having failed to qualify for the 1974 World Cup. Revie's conquering side had a two-horse race with Liverpool all season but won in the end, taking the title for the second time in their history by five points. Newly promoted Burnley adapted well to life back in the top flight, finishing in sixth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096632-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Football League\nManchester United were relegated from the First Division just six years after winning the European Cup at the end of a traumatic season. Their 36-year stay at the top was finally ended by a 1\u20130 home defeat against Manchester City. Former United striker Denis Law scored City's winning goal. But Birmingham City's win on that same afternoon would have sent United down even if they had beaten City. Despite this the board kept faith in manager Tommy Docherty as the man to regain the club's top flight place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 531]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096632-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Football League\nJoining United in the Second Division were Norwich City and Southampton. This was the first season in which the League introduced three relegation places from the top division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096632-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Football League\nFormer Leeds player Jack Charlton had a fine debut in management by guiding Middlesbrough to the Second Division title and a place in the First Division. Second in the table were Luton Town, who finished 15 points behind the runaway champions. Third-placed Carlisle United, managed by Alan Ashman (who won the FA Cup with West Bromwich Albion in 1968), gained a place in the First Division for the first, and so far only, time in their history, completing a rapid rise from the Fourth Division to the First Division. Crystal Palace, Preston North End and Swindon Town were all relegated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096632-0005-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Football League\nPromotion from the Third Division was secured by champions Oldham Athletic, Bristol Rovers and York City, which at the time represented York's highest ever League finish. Cambridge United, Shrewsbury Town, Southport and Rochdale were all relegated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096632-0006-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Football League\nPeterborough United won Division Four and were promoted along with Gillingham, Colchester United and Bury. The league's re-election system voted in favour of the bottom four league clubs and there were no departures or arrivals in the league in 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096632-0007-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Football League, Final league tables and results\nThe tables below are reproduced here in the exact form that they can be found at website and in Rothmans Book of Football League Records 1888\u201389 to 1978\u201379, with home and away statistics separated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096632-0008-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Football League, Final league tables and results\nBeginning with the season 1894\u201395, clubs finishing level on points were separated according to goal average (goals scored divided by goals conceded), or more properly put, goal ratio. In case one or more teams had the same goal difference, this system favoured those teams who had scored fewer goals. The goal average system was eventually scrapped beginning with the 1976\u201377 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 440]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096632-0009-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Football League, Final league tables and results\nSince the Fourth Division was established in the 1958\u201359 season, the bottom four teams of that division have been required to apply for re-election.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 56], "content_span": [57, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096632-0010-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Football League, First Division\nIt was a successful final season at the First Division's two leading clubs for their long-serving and highly successful managers who had both transformed their clubs on and off the field during lengthy reigns lasting more than a decade. Don Revie guided Leeds United to the title before calling time of 13 years as manager at Elland Road to take charge of the England team. Bill Shankly announced his retirement as Liverpool manager after 15 years after they finished second in the league and triumphed 3-0 over Newcastle United in the FA Cup Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 589]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096632-0011-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Football League, First Division\nDespite the controversial resignation of manager Brian Clough in October, Derby County finished third after their former player Dave Mackay returned to the Baseball Ground as Clough's successor. Ipswich Town continued to thrive among the First Division's leading company by finishing fourth in their fifth campaign under Bobby Robson. Stoke City enjoyed another strong season, finishing fifth, with England goalkeeper Peter Shilton keeping opposition strikers at bay after his predecessor Gordon Banks retired due to an eye injury suffered in a car crash. Burnley enjoyed a strong return to the First Division after two seasons away by finishing sixth.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 692]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096632-0012-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Football League, First Division\nManchester United's 36-year spell in the First Division ended in relegation, while their cross-city rivals finished 14th and were beaten in the Football League Cup final by Wolverhampton Wanderers. Southampton's eight-year spell in the First Division ended in relegation despite 21 goals from the division's top scorer Mick Channon and a change of manager from Ted Bates to Lawrie McMenemy before Christmas. Norwich City's second season among the elite ended in relegation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 39], "content_span": [40, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096632-0013-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Football League, Second Division\nJack Charlton made a superb start to his managerial career by guiding Middlesbrough to the Second Division title - and a place in the First Division - by a margin of 15 points above runners-up Luton Town, who ended their 14-year exile from the elite despite financial difficulties. The final promotion place was snatched by Carlisle United, who reached the First Division for the first time in their history. Orient missed out on promotion by a single point. Other teams who just missed out on promotion included Nottingham Forest, Sunderland and West Bromwich Albion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 40], "content_span": [41, 609]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096632-0014-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Football League, Second Division\nCrystal Palace were relegated for a second successive season, while Preston North End went down in their first season under the management of the legendary Bobby Charlton, who then re-registered himself as a player in his efforts to reverse the decline of the once great Lancashire club. Swindon Town went down in bottom place after five seasons in the Second Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 40], "content_span": [41, 410]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096633-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Football League Cup\nThe Football League Cup 1973\u201374 was the 14th season of the Football League Cup, a knockout competition for England's top 92 football clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096633-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Football League Cup\nWolverhampton Wanderers won the competition by defeating Manchester City 2\u20131 in the final on 2 March 1974. This triumph gave them entry to the 1974\u201375 UEFA Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096633-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Football League Cup, First round\nThe 56 Football League clubs who had comprised the Third and Fourth Divisions during the previous season, plus the bottom eight of the Second Division, all competed from the first round. Ties were straight knockout games, with additional replays if required. The original games were staged on 28\u201329 August 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096633-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Football League Cup, Second round\nThe 28 first round winners were joined by the remaining clubs from the Second Division and all from the First Division. Ties were straight knockout games, with additional replays if required. The original games were staged on 2/8\u201310 October 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096633-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Football League Cup, Third round\nTies were straight knockout games, with additional replays if required. The original games were staged on 30\u201331 October and 6 November 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096633-0005-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Football League Cup, Fourth round\nTies were straight knockout games, with additional replays if required. The original games were staged on 20\u201321 and 27 November 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 41], "content_span": [42, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096633-0006-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Football League Cup, Fifth round\nTies were straight knockout games, with additional replays if required.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096633-0007-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Football League Cup, Semi-finals\nTies were two-legged affairs with the winners advancing to the final. Extra time and then penalties would be used in the second leg if required.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 40], "content_span": [41, 185]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096634-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Football League First Division\nStatistics of Football League First Division in the 1973-74 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 106]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096634-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Football League First Division, Overview\nLeeds United won the First Division title for the second time in their history. The title was confirmed on 24 April, after title challengers Liverpool lost 1-0 at home to Arsenal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096634-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Football League First Division, Overview\nRelegation was increased from two teams to three this season. Norwich City were relegated on 20 April, despite beating Burnley 1-0 at Carrow Road, Southampton's 1-1 draw with Manchester United sent the Canaries down. Manchester United went down on 27 April, after losing 1-0 at home to their fierce rivals Manchester City and Birmingham City's result going against them with a 2-1 win against relegated Norwich City at St Andrew's. Southampton were also relegated because of Birmingham City's result despite winning 3-0 at Everton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 580]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096635-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Four Hills Tournament\nThe 21st annual Four Hills Tournament was won by East German athlete Hans-Georg Aschenbach. After a dominating victory at the first event in Oberstdorf, and three more podium finishes, he ended up with a 43-point lead over second-placed Walter Steiner, who became the first Swiss to win a Four Hills event in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 362]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096635-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Four Hills Tournament, Results, Garmisch-Partenkirchen\nWalter Steiner became the first Swiss ski jumper to win an event at a Four Hills Tournament. After a second result that placed him far ahead of the main field, Hans-Georg Aschenbach left the New Year's event with a lead of 34 points to his closest rival, Hans Schmid.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 62], "content_span": [63, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096636-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 French Division 1\nAS Saint-Etienne won the 1973\u201374 edition of the French Association Football League Division 1 season with 66 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096636-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 French Division 1, Final table\nPromoted from Division 2, who will play in Division 1 season 1974/1975", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 38], "content_span": [39, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096637-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 French Division 2\nThe 1973\u201374 French Division 2 was the 33rd season since its establishment. It was constituted by two groups (A and B) with 18 clubs each. The winners of each group won promotion to the 1974\u201375 French Division 1. Additionally, the winners met in a two-legged championship play\u2013off. The victor was crowned champion and awarded the trophy. Meanwhile, the runners-up of both groups faced each other in a two-legged play-off, with the victor claiming the last promotion spot. On the other hand, the bottom three clubs of each group were relegated to the 1974\u201375 French Division 3, while Ajaccio abandoned its professional status and joined them.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 666]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096637-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 French Division 2\nThe season began on 1 July 1973 and ended on 5 June 1974. The winter break was in effect from 22 December 1973 to 12 January 1974. Two points were awarded for a win, with no points for a loss. If the match was drawn, each team received one point. Likewise, this season was the first time that bonus points were awarded: any team scoring three or more goals in a match received an additional point. During the play\u2013offs, if the aggregate score was tied after two legs, the match was decided by extra time and/or penalty shootout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 554]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096638-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 French Rugby Union Championship\nThe 1973-74 French Rugby Union Championship was won by B\u00e9ziers beating Narbonne in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096638-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 French Rugby Union Championship, Qualification round, Group A\nThe clubs classified in the six first places of each pool (24 clubs on 32) were qualified for the knockout stages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 70], "content_span": [71, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096638-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 French Rugby Union Championship, Qualification round, Group A\nThe team are here listed in ranking order, in bold, the team qualified.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 70], "content_span": [71, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096638-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 French Rugby Union Championship, Qualification round, Group B\nThe clubs classified in the two first places of each pool (8 clubs on 32) were qualified for the knockout stages.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 69], "content_span": [70, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096638-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 French Rugby Union Championship, Final\nNarbonnw started very well, with two tries, a drop by Henri Cabrol, but Walter Spanghero and his fellow lost the title in the last seconds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 46], "content_span": [47, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096638-0005-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 French Rugby Union Championship, Final\nB\u00e9ziers won the 3rd of six titles of a collection in the 1970s. Narbonne had to wait until 1979 to win his second \"Bouclier de Brennus\",", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 46], "content_span": [47, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096638-0006-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 French Rugby Union Championship, Final\nTo remark that this was the final playerd in the new Parc des Princes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 46], "content_span": [47, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096639-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Galatasaray S.K. season\nThe 1973\u201374 season was Galatasaray's 70th in existence and the club's 16th consecutive season in the Turkish First Football League. This article shows statistics of the club's players in the season, and also lists all matches that the club have played in the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096640-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team\nThe 1973\u201374 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team represented Georgetown University during the 1973\u201374 NCAA Division I college basketball season. John Thompson, coached them in his second season as head coach. The team was an independent and played its home games at McDonough Gymnasium on the Georgetown campus in Washington, D.C.. A young and inexperienced team, it played inconsistently, finished the season with a record of 13-13, and had no post-season play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096640-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap\nSophomore center Merlin Wilson had posted scoring and rebouding statistics unprecedented in Georgetown basketball history during his freshman year, drawing national attention. Opponents paid extra attention to defending against him this season, and foul trouble limited his performance in the early games. Thompson moved him to power forward in January 1974, and this allowed him to return to form, with 23 points and 16 rebounds against Chicago State and 23 rebounds each in games a week apart against Holy Cross and Penn State. He averaged 15.5 rebounds per game for the season, a school record still well beyond the average posted by any other Hoya.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 60], "content_span": [61, 713]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096640-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap\nSophomore guard Jonathan Smith led the team in scoring this season, finishing with 466 points, the third-highest total in a single season for a Georgetown player. He scored 20 or more points numerous times, averaged 25 points per game in the latter part of the season, and scored a season-high 32 points against Connecticut on February 16, 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 60], "content_span": [61, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096640-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap\nSophomore forward Bill Lynn had seen little action as a reserve the previous season, but a back injury to forward Mark Gallagher that ended Gallagher's Georgetown career gave Lynn more playing time this year. He finished the season second on the team in both scoring and rebounding with an average of 13 points and 8.1 rebounds per game, including 20 points and nine rebounds against 2nd-ranked Notre Dame and 28 points and 18 rebounds against Boston College.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 60], "content_span": [61, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096640-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap\nFreshman forward Larry Long scored a career-high 25 points against Boston College and finished the year averaging 7.1 points per game. He started every game, but an injury he suffered at St. Joseph's was the beginning of many injuries that would hamper him for the rest of his collegiate career.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 60], "content_span": [61, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096640-0005-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team, Season recap\nThe 1973-74 squad was not ranked in the Top 20 in the Associated Press Poll or Coaches' Poll at any time. It was the last Georgetown men's basketball team to finish a season without a winning record until the 1998\u201399 season. It also was the last one to have no post-season play in the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament or the National Invitation Tournament (NIT) until the 2001-02 team declined an invitation to the 2002 NIT, and the last one to receive no invitation to either the NCAA Tournament or the NIT until the 2003-04 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 60], "content_span": [61, 605]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096641-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Gillingham F.C. season\nThe 1973\u201374 season was the forty-second season in which football club Gillingham F.C. competed in the Football League, and the twenty-fourth since the club's return to the League in 1950. Gillingham finished the season as runners-up in the Football League Fourth Division, gaining promotion back to the Third Division three years after dropping down from it. Brian Yeo equalled the club record of 31 Football League goals in a season, set by Ernie Morgan 18 years earlier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 503]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096641-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Gillingham F.C. season, Football League\nManager Andy Nelson retained a largely unchanged squad from the previous season, making no new signings during the summer. The team began the season with a defeat to Crewe Alexandra, but then recorded four wins and three draws in the next nine games, including a 7\u20132 defeat of Scunthorpe United. After the 2\u20131 defeat to Exeter City on 6 October the team then went on a run of 20 games without defeat before losing 2\u20130 to Stockport County on 10 March.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 498]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096641-0001-0001", "contents": "1973\u201374 Gillingham F.C. season, Football League\nTwo further defeats followed in March but the team hung on to finish the season in second place, three points behind Peterborough United, and gain promotion. Striker Brian Yeo scored his 31st league goal of the season in the 2\u20130 win over Lincoln City on 24 April, equalling the club record set by Ernie Morgan in the 1955\u201356 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 380]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096641-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Gillingham F.C. season, Football League\nPld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; Pts = Points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 47], "content_span": [48, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096641-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Gillingham F.C. season, FA Cup\nAs a Fourth Division club, Gillingham entered the FA Cup at the first round, but were beaten 3\u20132 by Cambridge United of the Third Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 38], "content_span": [39, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096641-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Gillingham F.C. season, Football League Cup\nGillingham entered the League Cup at the first round stage and defeated Colchester United, but were knocked out in the second round by Carlisle United.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 51], "content_span": [52, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096641-0005-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Gillingham F.C. season, Squad statistics\nGillingham used only 19 players in total over the course of the season with two, George Jacks and Dick Tydeman, playing in all 49 competitive matches and five others making over 40 appearances.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096642-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Golden State Warriors season\nThe 1973\u201374 NBA season was the Warriors' 28th season in the NBA and 12th in the San Francisco Bay Area.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096643-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Gonzaga Bulldogs men's basketball team\nThe 1973\u201374 Gonzaga Bulldogs men's basketball team represented Gonzaga University during the 1973\u201374 NCAA Division I basketball season. Members of the Big Sky Conference, the Bulldogs were led by second-year head coach Adrian Buoncristiani and played their home games on campus at Kennedy Pavilion in Spokane, Washington. They were 13\u201313 overall and 7\u20137 in conference play, in fourth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 439]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096643-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Gonzaga Bulldogs men's basketball team\nSenior center Stewart Morrill was selected to the all-conference team and junior guard Ken Tyler was on the second team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096644-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Greek Football Cup\nThe 1973\u201374 Greek Football Cup was the 32nd edition of the Greek Football Cup. The competition culminated with the Greek Cup Final, held at AEK Stadium on 16 June 1974. The match was contested by PAOK and Olympiacos, with PAOK winning by 4\u20133 on penalty shootout, after a 2\u20132 draw between the two teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096644-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Greek Football Cup, Qualifying round\n*The match ended in a 4\u20132 Nestos Chrysoupoli win but it was awarded 0\u20132 to Pandramaikos.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 44], "content_span": [45, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096644-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Greek Football Cup, First round\n18 clubs from Alpha Ethniki and 32 clubs from Beta Ethniki entered the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 39], "content_span": [40, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096644-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Greek Football Cup, Round of 16\n*The match ended 1\u20131 in the regular time and Doxa Drama won 7\u20136 on penalties, but it was awarded 0\u20132 to Egaleo.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 39], "content_span": [40, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096644-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Greek Football Cup, Final\nThe 30th Greek Football Cup Final was played at the AEK Stadium. It was the first Final that was decided on penalty shoot-out.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 33], "content_span": [34, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096645-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Heart of Midlothian F.C. season\nDuring the 1973\u201374 season, Heart of Midlothian F.C. competed in the Scottish First Division, the Scottish Cup, the Scottish League Cup, the Texaco Cup and the East of Scotland Shield.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 223]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096646-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Hellenic Football League\nThe 1973\u201374 Hellenic Football League season was the 21st in the history of the Hellenic Football League, a football competition in England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096646-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Hellenic Football League, Premier Division\nThe Premier Division featured 13 clubs which competed in the division last season, along with four new clubs, promoted from Division One:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096647-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Hibernian F.C. season\nDuring the 1973\u201374 season Hibernian, a football club based in Edinburgh, came second out of 18 clubs in the Scottish First Division and reached the fifth round of the Scottish Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096648-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Honduran Liga Nacional\nThe 1973\u201374 Honduran Liga Nacional season was the 8th edition of the Honduran Liga Nacional. The format of the tournament remained the same as the previous season. C.D. Motagua won the title on 9 September 1973 in the 1\u20131 away draw against C.D. Espa\u00f1a and qualified to the 1974 CONCACAF Champions' Cup along with runners-up C.D. Marath\u00f3n.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096649-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Hong Kong First Division League\nThe 1973\u201374 Hong Kong First Division League season was the 63rd since its establishment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096650-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Houston Aeros season\nThe 1973\u201374 Houston Aeros season was the Houston Aeros second season of operation in the World Hockey Association (WHA). The season saw the debut of Gordie Howe and his sons in the WHA. The team would win the Avco World Trophy WHA championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096650-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Houston Aeros season, Regular season\nAt age 45, Howe scored 100 points during the season, and he was subsequently awarded the Gary L. Davidson Award for most valuable player. Two seasons after he won the award, it was renamed to honor his legacy. The Aeros won the Western Division for the first time in their history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096650-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Houston Aeros season, Playoffs\nThe Aeros defeated the Winnipeg Jets in the Division semi-final 4\u20130. In the Division final, the Aeros defeated the Minnesota Fighting Saints 4\u20132 to advance to the Avco Cup final. The Aeros would sweep the Chicago Cougars to win their first WHA championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096650-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Houston Aeros season, Player stats\nNote: Pos = Position; GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/- = plus/minus; PIM = Penalty minutes; PPG = Power-play goals; SHG = Short-handed goals; GWG = Game-winning goals\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0MIN = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; GA = Goals-against; GAA = Goals-against average; SO = Shutouts;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 42], "content_span": [43, 360]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096651-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Houston Rockets season\nThe 1973\u201374 NBA season was the Rockets' 7th season in the NBA and 3rd season in the city of Houston.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096652-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season\nHuddersfield Town's 1973\u201374 campaign was a season of new beginnings for Huddersfield Town as they experienced life in the 3rd Division for the first time. The season was not spectacular as Town finished in 10th place, behind fellow West Yorkshire club Halifax Town. At the end of the season, Ian Greaves resigned after 6 years as manager. The alarming slide down the Football League was temporarily halted, but the following season would see Town continue their perilous freefall to the basement of the Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096652-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Squad at the start of the season\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 73], "content_span": [74, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096652-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Review\nFollowing Town's second relegation in 2 seasons, Town had reached a division not seen by any previous Town team in their history. Town would visit 13 grounds for the first time in league football, although 4 of them had hosted Town in cup matches before. Town's start to the season was pretty mediocre with Town drawing 6 of their opening 12 games, losing only 2 of them, but it was a far cry from 1st Division football they were playing just 2 seasons earlier. The previous season's top scorer, Alan Gowling, continued with his goalscoring form scoring 24 goals in the league campaign.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096652-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Review\nTown eventually finished the season in a disappointing 10th place with 47 points, 2 points behind local rivals Halifax Town. However, at the end of the season Ian Greaves resigned as manager of the side. He became Jimmy Armfield's assistant at Bolton Wanderers. The next season would see Town get even further down the league ladder, so even though Greaves had halted the slide, it was temporary, not permanent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 47], "content_span": [48, 459]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096652-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Huddersfield Town A.F.C. season, Squad at the end of the season\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 71], "content_span": [72, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096653-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 IHL season\nThe 1973\u201374 IHL season was the 29th season of the International Hockey League, a North American minor professional league. Nine teams participated in the regular season, and the Des Moines Capitols won the Turner Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096654-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 IIHF European Cup\nThe 1973\u201374 European Cup was the ninth edition of the European Cup, IIHF's premier European club ice hockey tournament. The season started on October 13, 1973 and finished on September 2, 1975.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096654-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 IIHF European Cup\nThe tournament was won by CSKA Moscow, who beat Tesla Pardubice in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096655-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Idaho State Bengals men's basketball team\nThe 1973\u201374 Idaho State Bengals men's basketball team represented Idaho State University during the 1973\u201374 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096655-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Idaho State Bengals men's basketball team\nThe Bengals were led by third-year head coach Jim Killingsworth and played their home games on campus at the ISU Minidome in Pocatello. They finished the regular season at 19\u20137 overall, with a 11\u20133 record in the Big Sky Conference, as did the Montana Grizzlies, and the teams split their season series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096655-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Idaho State Bengals men's basketball team\nWith two years until the conference tournament was introduced, the Big Sky title was decided with an unscheduled one-game playoff at Missoula on Tuesday night. Before a record crowd at Dahlberg Arena, the visiting Bengals won 60\u201357 and advanced to the 25-team NCAA Tournament, their first appearance in fourteen years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 368]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096655-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Idaho State Bengals men's basketball team\nISU hosted the first round (subregional) of the West regional, and met #17 New Mexico (20\u20136) in the nightcap on Saturday night. The visiting Lobos, WAC champions, won by eight to end the Bengals' season at 20\u20138.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 261]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096655-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Idaho State Bengals men's basketball team\nSenior forward Jim Anderson was named to the all-conference team; senior center Dan Spindler and junior guard Kevin Hoyt were honorable mention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096655-0005-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Idaho State Bengals men's basketball team\nIdaho State returned to the NCAA Tournament three years later and advanced to the Elite Eight, which remains the best-ever showing for a Big Sky team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096656-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Idaho Vandals men's basketball team\nThe 1973\u201374 Idaho Vandals men's basketball team represented the University of Idaho during the 1973\u201374 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. Members of the Big Sky Conference, the Vandals were led by eighth-year head coach Wayne Anderson and played their home games on campus at the Memorial Gymnasium in Moscow, Idaho. They were 12\u201314 overall and 5\u20139 in conference play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 418]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096656-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Idaho Vandals men's basketball team\nNo Vandals were named to the all-conference team; senior forward Steve Ton, senior guard Tyrone Fitzpatrick, and sophomore guard Steve Weist were honorable mention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096656-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Idaho Vandals men's basketball team\nAnderson resigned shortly after the season, ending seventeen years in coaching at his alma mater. He returned to Moscow in 1982 and resumed duties as assistant athletic director, and retired in 1994.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096657-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team\nThe 1973\u201374 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team represented the University of Illinois.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096657-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team, Regular season\nThe 1973-74 Fighting Illini men's basketball team had done something that no other Illinois team in history had accomplished, finishing last in the Big Ten, tenth place. In the history of the school, Illinois has only had one worse finish, the 1998-99 season, where they ended the year in eleventh place. However, the 1998-99 team played for the Big Ten Tournament championship, losing to Michigan State in the championship game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 70], "content_span": [71, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096657-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team, Regular season\nThe 1973-74 season also witnessed the conclusion of a very difficult tenure at the position of head coach. Harv Schmidt, a former player turned head coach, finished his seventh season at Illinois with an overall record of 89 wins and 77 losses. Unfortunately for Schmidt, several situations contributed to his demise, most of the problems being not of his doing. He was a disciplinarian and demanded attention to detail. He worked his players hard yet he was fair and considerate of their needs. Schmidt had high expectations from his team and set a good example by working as hard as he expected his players to work.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [56, 70], "content_span": [71, 688]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096658-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Illinois State Redbirds men's basketball team\nThe 1973\u201374 Illinois State Redbirds men's basketball team represented Illinois State University during the 1973\u201374 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Redbirds, led by fourth-year head coach Will Robinson, played their home games at Horton Field House in Normal, Illinois and competed as an independent (not a member of a conference). They finished the season 17\u20139.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096659-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team\nThe 1973\u201374 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team represented Indiana University. Their head coach was Bobby Knight, who was in his third year. The team played its home games in Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Indiana, and was a member of the Big Ten Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096659-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team\nThe Hoosiers finished the regular season with an overall record of 23\u20135 and a conference record of 12\u20132, tying Michigan for first place in the Big Ten Conference. Due to the NCAA Tournament rules at the time which allowed only conference champions to participate, Indiana and Michigan faced off for a third game to determine which team would go to the NCAA Tournament. IU lost to Michigan, 75\u201367, and thus did not participate in the Tournament. Instead, the 1974 Collegiate Commissioners Association Tournament invited second-place teams from eight conferences to participate in their tournament. This was IU's only appearance in the CCAT; however, they did win the championship game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 731]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096660-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Indiana Pacers season\nThe 1973\u201374 Indiana Pacers season was Indiana's seventh season in the American Basketball Association and seventh as a team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096660-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Indiana Pacers season, Player stats\nNote: GP= Games played; MIN= Minutes; REB= Rebounds; AST= Assists; STL = Steals; BLK = Blocks; PTS = Points; AVG = Average", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 43], "content_span": [44, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096661-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Iowa State Cyclones men's basketball team\nThe 1973\u201374 Iowa State Cyclones men's basketball team represented Iowa State University during the 1973\u201374 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Cyclones were coached by Maury John, who was in his third season with the Cyclones. John was diagnosed with cancer early in the season and stepped away, with Gus Guydon taking over as interim head coach. They played their home games at Hilton Coliseum in Ames, Iowa.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096661-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Iowa State Cyclones men's basketball team\nThey finished the season 15\u201311, 6\u20138 in Big Eight play to finish in fifth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 129]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096662-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Iran 2nd Division\nThe following is the standings of the Iran Football's 1973\u201374 football season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096663-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Irish League\nThe Irish League in season 1973\u201374 comprised 12 teams, and Coleraine won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 111]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096664-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Israel State Cup\nThe 1973\u201374 Israel State Cup (Hebrew: \u05d2\u05d1\u05d9\u05e2 \u05d4\u05de\u05d3\u05d9\u05e0\u05d4\u200e, Gvia HaMedina) was the 35th season of Israel's nationwide football cup competition and the 20th after the Israeli Declaration of Independence.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 219]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096664-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Israel State Cup\nThe competition was won by Hapoel Haifa, who have beaten Hapoel Petah Tikva 1\u20130 at the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096665-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Isthmian League\nThe 1973\u201374 season was the 59th in the history of the Isthmian League, an English football competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096665-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Isthmian League\nIt was the first season in which the league was split into two divisions after sixteen new clubs joined the new Division Two. It was also the first season in which the Isthmian League used three points for a win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096665-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Isthmian League\nWycombe Wanderers won Division One, whilst Dagenham won Division Two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 93]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096665-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Isthmian League, Division Two\nIt was the first season of Division Two, fifteen clubs joined the Isthmian League from different divisions of the Athenian League, while Hertford Town were transferred from the Eastern Counties League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [25, 37], "content_span": [38, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096666-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Japan Ice Hockey League season\nThe 1973\u201374 Japan Ice Hockey League season was the eighth season of the Japan Ice Hockey League. Five teams participated in the league, and the Oji Seishi Hockey won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 222]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096667-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 KNVB Cup\nThe KNVB Cup 1973\u201374 (the 56th edition) started on September 26, 1973. The final was held on 1 May 1974 with PSV beating NAC 6\u20130 and winning the cup for the second time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096668-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Kansas City\u2013Omaha Kings season\nThe 1973\u201374 NBA season was the Kings 25th season in the NBA and their second season in the city of Kansas City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096669-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team\nThe 1973\u201374 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team represented the University of Kansas during the 1973\u201374 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 192]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096670-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Kentucky Colonels season\nThe 1973\u201374 Kentucky Colonels season was their seventh in the American Basketball Association. The Colonels finished in second place in the ABA's Eastern Division. They met the Carolina Cougars in the Eastern Division Semifinals and swept them in 4 games. They met the eventual champion New York Nets in the Eastern Division Finals, where they lost. McCarthy was let go after this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 421]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096670-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Kentucky Colonels season, Offseason, Preseason transactions\nOn July 31, 1973, the Kentucky Colonels were bought by future Governor of Kentucky John Y. Brown, Jr. and other investors. Famed college coach Adolph Rupp was hired as Vice President of the Board. General Manager Mike Storen resigned and was replaced by Gene Rhodes. Head coach Joe Mullaney left the team in order to become head coach of the Utah Stars and Babe McCarthy was hired as Mullaney's replacement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 67], "content_span": [68, 475]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096670-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Kentucky Colonels season, Offseason, Preseason exhibition games\nLike most ABA teams, the Colonels played several preseason exhibition games against NBA opponents. The first for the 1973\u201374 preseason came on September 21, 1973, on the Colonels' home court at Freedom Hall in Louisville against the Houston Rockets. Rudy Tomjanovich scored 32 points for the Bulls. Center Artis Gilmore had 22 points and 18 rebounds for the Colonels; his teammate, forward Dan Issel, scored 20. The Colonels won, 110-102.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 71], "content_span": [72, 510]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096670-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Kentucky Colonels season, Offseason, Preseason exhibition games\nThe next night the Colonels hosted the Kansas City\u2013Omaha Kings. Rick Mount scored 21 points for the Kings; his teammate Nate Archibald scored 19. Guard Louie Dampier led the Colonels with 22 points and Kentucky won 110-99.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 71], "content_span": [72, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096670-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Kentucky Colonels season, Regular season, Month by Month, October 1973\nThe Colonels opened their season on October 12, 1973, away from their usual home court at Freedom Hall in Louisville, playing instead in Lexington, Kentucky, where stars Dan Issel and Louie Dampier had played college basketball at the University of Kentucky. In front of 8,727 fans Issel scored 27 points to lead the Colonels to a 111-100 victory over the Denver Rockets. The next night in Louisville the Colonels hosted the Utah Stars and won 103-101 in front of 10,476 fans as Issel scored 36.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 78], "content_span": [79, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096670-0004-0001", "contents": "1973\u201374 Kentucky Colonels season, Regular season, Month by Month, October 1973\nIssel put in 33 points on October 17 as the Colonels won in front of 5,943 home fans against the Virginia Squires 116-106. October 19 brought a road win against the Carolina Cougars, 121-109 as Issel scored 30. The following night saw a rematch of the two teams in front of 7,026 fans in Louisville with the Cougars prevailing 105-102 despite Issel's 29 points. October 24 brought a 100-98 home win against the New York Nets. On October 26 the Colonels won on the road against the Virginia Squires; Louie Dampier's 21 points led Kentucky to a 104-99 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 78], "content_span": [79, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096670-0004-0002", "contents": "1973\u201374 Kentucky Colonels season, Regular season, Month by Month, October 1973\nThe next night in Louisville, Issel's 31 led the Colonels to a 90-87 win against the Denver Rockets in front of 7,223 fans. The Colonels closed out the month with a runaway win at home against the San Diego Conquistadors, 146-105; 7,412 saw Dan Issel lead all scorers with 25. The Colonels closed the first month of the season with 8 wins and 1 loss (.889).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 78], "content_span": [79, 436]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096670-0005-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Kentucky Colonels season, Regular season, Month by Month, November 1973\nOn November 2 the Colonels notched a road win against the New York Nets, 121-109; John Roche led all scorers with 41 points before 8,678 fans. The two teams met again the next night in Louisville and the Colonels prevailed again, 93-87; the 11,277 fans in attendance saw Roche and Dan Issel lead all scorers with 29 apiece. On November 7 the Colonels hosted the Memphis Tams; attendance was 6,834 as Kentucky won 113-89 behind Issel's 30 points. On November 9 the Colonels hosted the Carolina Cougars in Cincinnati; 6,194 saw the Cougars win 139-110. The next night in Louisville Issel's 31 points led Kentucky to victory over the Virginia Squires 111-107 before 7,988 fans. November 14 saw a rematch with the Carolina Cougars in Louisville and the Colonels again came out on the short end, 107-102, despite Issel's 27 points before 8,121 fans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 79], "content_span": [80, 924]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096670-0006-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Kentucky Colonels season, Regular season, Month by Month, November 1973\nNovember 17 saw the host Colonels defeat the rival Indiana Pacers 100-96; 13,766 turned out for the rivalry game as Issel put in 28 points. On November 21 the Colonels hosted the Virginia Squires in Lexington with 7,656 in attendance and Kentucky won 145-115 despite George Gervin's 31 points. On November 23 the Colonels lost 118-114 on the road to the Indiana Pacers as George McGinnis put in 37 points with 10,079 on hand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 79], "content_span": [80, 505]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096670-0006-0001", "contents": "1973\u201374 Kentucky Colonels season, Regular season, Month by Month, November 1973\nThe next night the Colonels held court in Cincinnati again and defeated the San Diego Conquistadors 124-121 before 3,421 fans; Dan Issel and Artis Gilmore each score 30 for Kentucky. On November 26 the Colonels' home court was in Bowling Green, Kentucky (in the home gym of Western Kentucky University) and 10,453 turned out to see Kentucky lose their third straight to the Carolina Cougars, 94-82, despite Issel's game-high 27. On November 28 the Colonels drew a capacity crowd (10,146) in the San Diego Conquistadors' home gym and though Issel led all scorers with 36 the Conquistadors won 104-99. The next evening saw the Colonels on the road again, squaring off against the Memphis Tams; Issel scored 32 in front of 5,106 fans and Kentucky won 102-92. The Colonels ended their month on November 30 before 3,116 fans in Cincinnati, losing to the Indiana Pacers 107-104 despite Issel's 31.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 79], "content_span": [80, 971]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096670-0007-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Kentucky Colonels season, Regular season, Month by Month, November 1973\nThe Colonels went 8-6 in November, making it the franchise's worst month in quite some time. Their record for the season dropped to 16-7 (.696).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 79], "content_span": [80, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096670-0008-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Kentucky Colonels season, Regular season, Month by Month, December 1973\nOn December 1 the Colonels lost in Charlotte, North Carolina, to the Carolina Cougars, 120-113; 6,231 attended and Dan Issel and Billy Cunningham led all scorers with 21 each. The Colonels returned to action on December 7, losing on the road to the Indiana Pacers 105-97 before 8,079 fans despite Issel's game-high 28. The next night in Cincinnati the Colonels lost to the New York Nets 102-87; 4,951 saw Julius Erving and Louie Dampier lead all scorers with 27 each.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 79], "content_span": [80, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096670-0008-0001", "contents": "1973\u201374 Kentucky Colonels season, Regular season, Month by Month, December 1973\nKentucky's next game was a road win against the San Antonio Spurs, breaking a four-game losing streak; Dan Issel had a game-high 28 before 7,674 spectators. The Colonels next hosted a game in Cincinnati on December 14, defeating the Memphis Tams 115-94 despite Johnny Neumann's 25; attendance was 2,164, a very low total for Kentucky. The next night in Denver the Colonels defeated the Denver Rockets 120-114; Dan Issel poured in 46 points before 3,890 fans. The next night, December 16, saw Kentucky win on the road 106-101 against the San Diego Conquistadors despite Stew Johnson's game-high 43 for San Diego before 1,764 fans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 79], "content_span": [80, 709]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096670-0009-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Kentucky Colonels season, Regular season, Month by Month, December 1973\nThe Colonels returned to action on December 19, losing a close one on the road to the New York Nets 83-82; Julius Erving led all scorers with 30 and 7,493 attended. December 21 saw the Colonels lose at home 86-85; Willie Wise put in 29 before 9,102 in Freedom Hall. The next night the two teams met again, this time in the Stars' home arena, the Salt Palace; Utah won again, 86-82 and Willie Wise had a game-high 25 before 6,341 fans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 79], "content_span": [80, 514]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096670-0009-0001", "contents": "1973\u201374 Kentucky Colonels season, Regular season, Month by Month, December 1973\nThe next night, December 23, saw Kentucky notch a road win against the San Diego Conquistadors, 123-120; 2,368 saw Dan Issel score 31. On December 26 the Colonels manhandled their rivals, the Indiana Pacers, 106-78 in Louisville before 10,811 as Issel put scored a game-high 28. The following evening Kentucky lost before 3,133 fans in Cincinnati to the Denver Rockets, 105-100, despite Artis Gilmore's game-high 29. December 29 saw the Colonels run away with an easy road win against the Memphis Tams, 145-101; Dan Issel had 30 points before a meager crowd of 1,885.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 79], "content_span": [80, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096670-0010-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Kentucky Colonels season, Regular season, Month by Month, December 1973\nThe Colonels split their December games evenly, with 7 wins and 7 losses, their worst month in quite some time. This left their season record at 23-14 (.622) heading into calendar year 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 79], "content_span": [80, 270]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096670-0011-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Kentucky Colonels season, Transactions, Drafts Special S and preseason signings\nThe Colonels drafted Ernie DiGregorio in the special circumstance draft but he signed with the NBA's Buffalo Braves. The Colonels also drafted M.L. Carr and Ron Behagen but Carr stayed in college and Behagen signed with the NBA's Kansas City-Omaha Kings. Prior to the season head coach Joe Mullaney left to coach the Utah Stars and was replaced by Babe McCarthy; at the end of the season McCarthy, despite being named ABA Coach of the Year, was fired and eventually replaced by Hubie Brown who went on to win the 1975 ABA Finals in his first season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 87], "content_span": [88, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096671-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team\nThe 1973\u201374 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team represented the University of Kentucky during the 1973\u201374 college basketball season. This team would finish with the worst record of any Kentucky team coached by Joe B. Hall.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096673-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 La Liga\nThe 1973\u201374 La Liga was the 43rd season since its establishment. It started on September 1, 1973, and finished on May 20, 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096674-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Lancashire Cup\nThe 1973\u201374 Lancashire Cup was the sixty-first occasion of the Lancashire Cup. Wigan won the trophy by beating Salford by the score of 19\u20139 in the final. The match was played at Wilderspool, Warrington. The attendance was 8,012 and receipts were \u00a32,750.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096674-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Lancashire Cup, Background\nThe total number of teams entering the competition remained at last season\u2019s total of 14 with no junior/amateur clubs taking part. The same fixture format was retained, but due to the decrease in the number of participating clubs, resulted in one \"blank\" or \"dummy\" fixtures in the first round, and one bye in the second round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 34], "content_span": [35, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096674-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Lancashire Cup, Competition and results, Round 1\nInvolved 7 matches (with one \"blank\" fixture) and 14 clubs", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 56], "content_span": [57, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096674-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Lancashire Cup, Competition and results, Final, Teams and Scorers\nScoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = two (2) points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 73], "content_span": [74, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096674-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Lancashire Cup, Notes and comments\n1 * The John Player Yearbook 1974\u201375 gives the score as 8-15 (4 goals to 3 converted tries) - The RUGBYLEAGUEproject gives the score as 2-152 * The John Player Yearbook 1974\u201375 gives the attendance as 8,522 (HT 7-4) - The RUGBYLEAGUEproject gives the attendance as 8,556 - Other sources including the Rothmans Yearbook of 1991-92 show it as 8,0123 * Wilderspool was the home ground of Warrington from 1883 to the end of the 2003 Summer season when they moved into the new purpose built Halliwell Jones Stadium. Wilderspool remained as a sports/Ruugby League ground and is/was used by Woolston Rovers/Warrington Wizards junior club. The ground had a final capacity of 9,000 although the record attendance was set in a Challenge cup third round match on 13 March 1948 when 34,304 spectators saw Warrington lose to Wigan 10-13.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 42], "content_span": [43, 873]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096675-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 League Cup (rugby league)\nThis was the third season of rugby league's League Cup competition, which for sponsorship reasons was known as the Players No.6 Trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096675-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 League Cup (rugby league)\nWarrington won the final, beating Rochdale Hornets by the score of 27-16 in the match played at Central Park, Wigan. The attendance was 9,347 and receipts were \u00a34380.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096675-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 League Cup (rugby league), Background\nThis season saw no changes in the entrants, no new members and no withdrawals, the number remaining at thirty-two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096675-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 League Cup (rugby league), Competition and Results, Round 2 - Second Round\nInvolved 8 matches and 16 ClubsNOTE - Matches in this round kicked off earlier to make maximum use of the daylightUse of Floodlights in sporting events was banned by government order from 15 November 1973 due to mining strikes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 83], "content_span": [84, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096675-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 League Cup (rugby league), Competition and Results, Final, Teams and Scorers John Player yearbook 1974\u201375\nScoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = one (1) point", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 113], "content_span": [114, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096675-0005-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 League Cup (rugby league), Competition and Results, Prize Money\nAs part of the sponsorship deal and funds, the prize money awarded to the competing teams for this season is as follows\u00a0:-", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 71], "content_span": [72, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096675-0006-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 League Cup (rugby league), Competition and Results, Prize Money\nNote - the author is unable to trace the rest of the award amounts. Can anyone help\u00a0?", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 71], "content_span": [72, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096675-0007-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 League Cup (rugby league), Notes and comments\n1 * RUGBYLEAGUEproject states that the match was played at Bradford, whereas it was played at Lawkholme Lane, Keighley2 * St Helens official archives give the attendance as 2,500 whereas RUGBYLEAGUEproject gives it as 3,0003 * Dewsbury Celtic are a Junior (amateur) club from Dewsbury, home ground is Crow Nest Park4 * The John Player Yearbook 1974\u201375 and the News of the World Football Annual 1974\u201375 give the attendance as 1,250 but RUGBYLEAGUEproject give it as 1,2765 * Millom are a Junior (amateur) club from Cumbria, current home ground is the Coronation Field ground6 * The highest score, to date in the competition against a Junior club7 * Widnes official archives give the result as a Wiidnes win8 * Wigan official archives show a score of 30-3 but RUGBYLEAGUEproject give it as 20-59 * Matches kicked off Earlier to accommodate daylight.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 909]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096675-0007-0001", "contents": "1973\u201374 League Cup (rugby league), Notes and comments\nUse of Floodlights was banned by government order from 15 November 1973 due to mining strikes. 10 * Wigan official archives give score as 28-3 but RUGBYLEAGUEproject give it as 28-211 * Wigan's hooker (Colin Clarke) and two Keighley players (Wilmot and Burke) were sent off during this second half of this match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 366]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096675-0007-0002", "contents": "1973\u201374 League Cup (rugby league), Notes and comments\n12 * The John Player Yearbook 1974\u201375 give the date as 9-12-1974 but RUGBYLEAGUEproject give the date as 29-12-197413 * The John Player Yearbook 1974\u201375 give the date as 9-12-1974 but RUGBYLEAGUEproject give the date as 30-12-197414 * The John Player Yearbook 1974\u201375, the News of the World Football Annual 1974\u201375 and Wigan official archives give the date as Saturday 5-1-1974 but RUGBYLEAGUEproject give the date as Sunday 6-1-197415 * The John Player Yearbook 1974\u201375 gives the attendance as 10,047 but RUGBYLEAGUEproject give the attendance as 9,34716 * Central Park was the home ground of Wigan with a final capacity of 18,000, although the record attendance was 47,747 for Wigan v St Helens 27 March 1959", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 53], "content_span": [54, 774]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096675-0008-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 League Cup (rugby league), Notes and comments, General information for those unfamiliar\nThe council of the Rugby Football League voted to introduce a new competition, to be similar to The Football Association and Scottish Football Association's \"League Cup\". It was to be a similar knock-out structure to, and to be secondary to, the Challenge Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 95], "content_span": [96, 356]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096675-0008-0001", "contents": "1973\u201374 League Cup (rugby league), Notes and comments, General information for those unfamiliar\nAs this was being formulated, sports sponsorship was becoming more prevalent and as a result John Player and Sons, a division of Imperial Tobacco Company, became sponsors, and the competition never became widely known as the \"League Cup\" The competition ran from 1971\u201372 until 1995-96 and was initially intended for the professional clubs plus the two amateur BARLA National Cup finalists. In later seasons the entries were expanded to take in other amateur and French teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 95], "content_span": [96, 571]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096675-0008-0002", "contents": "1973\u201374 League Cup (rugby league), Notes and comments, General information for those unfamiliar\nThe competition was dropped due to \"fixture congestion\" when Rugby League became a summer sportThe Rugby League season always (until the onset of \"Summer Rugby\" in 1996) ran from around August-time through to around May-time and this competition always took place early in the season, in the Autumn, with the final usually taking place in late January The competition was variably known, by its sponsorship name, as the Player's No.6 Trophy (1971\u20131977), the John Player Trophy (1977\u20131983), the John Player Special Trophy (1983\u20131989), and the Regal Trophy in 1989.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 95], "content_span": [96, 659]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096676-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 League of Ireland, Overview\nIt was contested by 14 teams, and Cork Celtic won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 35], "content_span": [36, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096677-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Leeds United A.F.C. season\nThe 1973\u201374 season was Leeds United's 10th consecutive season in the First Division and the second season in which they won the First Division. Along with the First Division, Leeds United competed in the UEFA Cup and the FA Cup during the 1973\u201374 season. The season covers the period from 1 July 1973 to 30 June 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 352]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096677-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Leeds United A.F.C. season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096677-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Leeds United A.F.C. season, Season summary\nHaving lost in the finals of the Cup Winners Cup and the FA Cup in 1972\u201373, manager Don Revie considered a move to Everton, but remained with Leeds after the move broke down due to a new law that prevented wage rises to curb inflation. Continuing with what was largely the same squad as during the previous season, he told them his aim was to go unbeaten throughout the season. Leeds started the season well, winning their first 7 league games. This run ended on 22 September when Leeds were held to a 0\u20130 draw by Manchester United.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 583]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096677-0002-0001", "contents": "1973\u201374 Leeds United A.F.C. season, Season summary\nOn 8 October, Leeds were knocked out of the League cup in the Second Round by Ipswich Town. After finding success in the first two rounds of the UEFA Cup, he played weakened teams to allow an early exit from the UEFA Cup, in order to allow his team to focus on the league. Leeds were knocked out in the third round by Vit\u00f3ria FC. At the start of 1974, Leeds were 8 points clear of second placed Liverpool with 19 games remaining and still remaining unbeaten.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096677-0002-0002", "contents": "1973\u201374 Leeds United A.F.C. season, Season summary\nOn 23 February 1974, Leeds lost their first league game, losing 3\u20132 away to Stoke. Leeds would lose 3 more times in the 1973\u201374 season, but they won the 1973\u201374 title going 29 matches unbeaten. This was still a record unbeaten start to a league campaign in the 20th century, and not bettered until Arsenal's 2003\u201304 campaign. In total Leeds lost just 4 league games and remained in first place for almost the entire campaign. At the end of the season, manager Don Revie left to manage the England national team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 562]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096678-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Leicester City F.C. season\nDuring the 1973\u201374 English football season, Leicester City F.C. competed in the Football League First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096678-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Leicester City F.C. season, Season summary\nThe 1973\u201374 season was a solid one for Leicester, starting the league well going eight matches unbeaten. There was also some entrancing entertainment served up but too many draws prevented the Foxes from challenging for a UEFA Cup place and had to settle for a creditable 9th place finish. Their main highlight was the FA Cup by reaching their sixth semi-final in their history, to set up an ensuing tie with favourites Liverpool. They held the Reds to a 0-0 draw at Old Trafford with a solid defensive display to set up an interesting replay at Villa Park but despite equalising through Len Glover after being 1-0 down, it ended in disappointment as the Foxes suffered a 3-1 defeat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 734]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096678-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Leicester City F.C. season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 41], "content_span": [42, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096679-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Libyan Premier League\nThe 1973\u201374 Libyan Premier League was the 10th edition of the competition since its inception in 1963.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096679-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Libyan Premier League, Overview\nIt was contested by 11 teams, and Al-Ahly (Tripoli) won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 39], "content_span": [40, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096680-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Liga Alef\nThe 1973\u201374 Liga Alef season saw Hapoel Acre (champions of the North Division) and Maccabi Sha'arayim (champions of the South Division) win their regional divisions, and qualify with the second-placed clubs, Shimshon Tel Aviv and Hapoel Marmorek for promotion play-offs against the bottom two clubs in Liga Leumit, Hakoah Ramat Gan and Maccabi Haifa. Shimshon Tel Aviv were the only promoted club from Liga Alef to Liga Leumit.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 445]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096680-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Liga Alef\nOn same basis, promotion-relegation play-offs contested between the bottom Liga Alef clubs and the top Liga Bet clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096680-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Liga Alef, Relegation play-offs, North play-offs\nBeitar Tiberias suspended from the play-offs due to crowd trouble against Hapoel Beit She'an.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 56], "content_span": [57, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096681-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Liga Bet\nThe 1973\u201374 Liga Bet season saw Hapoel Beit She'an, Maccabi Hadera, Beitar Jaffa and Hapoel Ashkelon win their regional divisions and qualify with the second-placed clubs, Beitar Tiberias, Hapoel Mahane Yehuda, Hapoel Kfar Shalem and Maccabi Yavne for promotion play-offs against the bottom two clubs of both North and South divisions in Liga Alef. Maccabi Hadera and Beitar Jaffa were the only Liga Bet clubs who achieved promotion to Liga Alef.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096681-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Liga Bet\nOn same basis, promotion-relegation play-offs contested between the bottom Liga Bet clubs and the top Liga Gimel clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096681-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Liga Bet, Promotion play-offs, North play-offs\nBeitar Tiberias suspended from the play-offs due to crowd trouble against Hapoel Beit She'an.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 54], "content_span": [55, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096681-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Liga Bet, Relegation play-offs, North A play-offs\nBeitar Acre withdrew from the play-offs and relegated to Liga Gimel.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 57], "content_span": [58, 126]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096682-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Liga Espa\u00f1ola de Baloncesto\nThe 1973\u201374 season was the 18th season of the Liga Nacional de Baloncesto. Real Madrid won the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096683-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Liga Leumit\nThe 1973\u201374 Liga Leumit season saw Maccabi Netanya win their second title. Benny Alon of Hapoel Haifa was the league's top scorer with 15 goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096683-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Liga Leumit\nThe bottom two clubs, Hakoah Ramat Gan (who had won the title the previous season) and Maccabi Haifa took part in a play-off group with the top four clubs from Liga Alef to decide promotion and relegation. The top two clubs would remain in/be promoted to Liga Leumit, whilst the bottom four would start the 1974\u201375 season in Liga Alef. At the end of the play-offs, Hakoah Ramat Gan retained their place in the top division, whilst Shimshon Tel Aviv were promoted with Maccabi Haifa being relegated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 518]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096684-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Liga Nacional de Hockey Hielo season\nThe 1973\u201374 Superliga Espanola de Hockey Hielo season was the second season of the Superliga Espanola de Hockey Hielo, the top level of ice hockey in Spain. Five teams participated in the league, and Real Socieded won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096685-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Liverpool F.C. season\nLiverpool F.C. won the FA Cup in Bill Shankly's 14th and final season in charge. Announcing his retirement two months after winning 3-0 against Newcastle in the Final, Shankly was hailed by the fans as a hero, when heading into retirement. Kevin Keegan scored twice in the final, further confirming his status among the Liverpool faithful. However, the club's second-place finished in the league saw them lose their defence of the league title to Don Revie's Leeds United", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 501]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096686-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Los Angeles Kings season\nThe 1973\u201374 Los Angeles Kings season was the Kings' seventh season in the National Hockey League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096686-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Los Angeles Kings season, Offseason\nForward Serge Bernier (22 goals, 46 assists) jumped to the Quebec Nordiques of the WHA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 43], "content_span": [44, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096686-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Los Angeles Kings season, Regular season\nAfter finishing strong in 1972\u201373 and barely missing the playoffs, the Kings had high hopes for the 1973\u201374 season. But the team started slowly and by the end of November, they were 5\u201314\u20133 and in last place. Then they made a blockbuster trade, sending their best defenseman Gilles Marotte to the New York Rangers for defenseman Sheldon Kannegiesser, forwards Mike Murphy, and Tom Williams, and speedy center Gene Carr. They improved a little, but were still 9 games under .500 at the end of February at 21\u201330\u201310 for 52 points and 7th place in the 8 team Western Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 620]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096686-0002-0001", "contents": "1973\u201374 Los Angeles Kings season, Regular season\nThe Kings then went 9\u20130\u20132 over the next 3 weeks and climbed into 3rd place, passing the Atlanta Flames, Minnesota North Stars, Pittsburgh Penguins, and St. Louis Blues. Going into the final game of the season, the Kings had clinched 3rd, but needed a win to finish .500 and needed to outscore the Vancouver Canucks by 8 goals to finish even in goal differential on the season, which was one of coach Bob Pulford's goals at the beginning of the season. Not only did the Kings win, they won 11\u20131 to finish .500 and with a plus goal differential for the first time in their history. The season also marked the debut of hall of fame broadcaster Bob Miller, who would broadcast Kings games until his retirement after the 2016-17 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 48], "content_span": [49, 780]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096686-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Los Angeles Kings season, Playoffs\nThe Kings were heavy underdogs against the Chicago Black Hawks but put up a strong showing. While Kings goalie Rogie Vachon was excellent, the difference was Chicago goalie Tony Esposito who was brilliant. Game one saw the Black Hawks score in the 3rd period to take a 2\u20131 lead and they added an empty net goal to win, 3\u20131. Game two was similar; this time Chicago led 3\u20131 when they scored an empty net goal late to make it 4\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 470]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096686-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Los Angeles Kings season, Playoffs\nGame 3 in Los Angeles was the Kings first home playoff game in 5 years and was one of the strangest games in post season history. Chicago scored goal in the first minute of the game and then went into a defensive shell, practically daring the Kings to try to beat Esposito. Almost the entire rest of the game was played in the Black Hawk zone with the Kings dominating the action. But try as they might, they could not get the puck past Tony Esposito.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 494]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096686-0004-0001", "contents": "1973\u201374 Los Angeles Kings season, Playoffs\nTheir best chance came midway through the 3rd period when Bob Berry pounced on a rebound and shot it over Esposito but the puck glanced off the cross bar. Despite totaling only 5 shots on goal for the game, the Black Hawks won 1\u20130 and had a commanding 3\u20130 series lead. Game 4 was played the very next day so both coaches rested their #1 goalies; the Kings played Gary Edwards over Rogie Vachon and Chicago went with Mike Veisor over Tony Esposito. The Kings were so relieved to have Esposito out that they dominated in a 5\u20131 win, their first playoff victory since a game 7 win over the Oakland Seals in the 1969 quarter-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 670]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096686-0005-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Los Angeles Kings season, Playoffs\nAnother defensive struggle ensued in game 5 with Vachon and Esposito back in the nets; both made a number of brilliant saves and the game was 0\u20130 midway through the 3rd period. The Black Hawks won when Cliff Koroll scuffed the ice on a slap shot; the puck acted like a knuckleball change up and fooled Vachon for the game winner.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 42], "content_span": [43, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096686-0006-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Los Angeles Kings season, Transactions\nThe Kings were involved in the following transactions during the 1973\u201374 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096686-0007-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Los Angeles Kings season, Draft picks\nLos Angeles's draft picks at the 1973 NHL Amateur Draft held at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Quebec.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 45], "content_span": [46, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096687-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Los Angeles Lakers season\nThe 1973\u201374 NBA season was the Lakers' 26th season in the NBA and 14th season in Los Angeles. Having lost to the New York Knicks in the previous season's NBA Finals, the Lakers would make it to the NBA Playoffs, posting a 47-35 record, only to lose to the Milwaukee Bucks in five games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 320]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096687-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Los Angeles Lakers season\nFollowing the season, Jerry West retired after 14 seasons with the Lakers. He would later return to the Lakers as the head coach from 1976 to 1979.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096688-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Los Angeles Sharks season\nThe 1973\u201374 Los Angeles Sharks season was the Los Angeles Sharks' second and final season in Los Angeles in the World Hockey Association. The club finished last in the WHA Western Division and missed the playoffs. They moved to Detroit, MI after the season and became the Michigan Stags.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 321]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096688-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Los Angeles Sharks season, Offseason\nThe Sharks lured promising left wing Marc Tardif from the Montreal Canadiens to jump to the Sharks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 44], "content_span": [45, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096688-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Los Angeles Sharks season, Regular season\nThe Sharks attempted to build on their first season by signing their first bonafide NHL star in the Montreal Canadiens' Marc Tardif. And while the offense featured five 20 goal scorers (Tardif with 40, Gary Veneruzzo with 39, Brian McDonald with 22, and J.P. LeBlanc and Steve Sutherland with 20 apiece), they still ranked last in the league in scoring. The defense was equally porous, falling from 3rd in the league to 11th (next to last).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096688-0002-0001", "contents": "1973\u201374 Los Angeles Sharks season, Regular season\nLast year's #1 goalie George Gardner played only 2 games due to injuries, and Russ Gillow suffered from injuries and the \"sophomore jinx\" as his GAA went from 2.91 in 1972\u201373 to 3.98 in 1973\u201374. The other goalies that were brought in didn't fare much better, with Ian Wilkie sporting an unimpressive 3.91 GAA, Jim McLeod at 4.27, and Paul Hoganson even worse with a 4.68 GAA. The special teams, which were solid the season before, also fell on hard times as the power play ranked 9th and the penalty killing went from 3rd in the league to last.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 594]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096688-0002-0002", "contents": "1973\u201374 Los Angeles Sharks season, Regular season\nThe Sharks ended up with the worst record in the league, and endured losing streaks of 9 and 6 games. The only noteworthy item was that they became the first team ever to have no ties (the WHA 10-minute overtime rule helped, but WHA teams still averaged 4 ties per season).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096688-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Los Angeles Sharks season, Player stats\nNote: Pos = Position; GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/- = plus/minus; PIM = Penalty minutes; PPG = Power-play goals; SHG = Short-handed goals; GWG = Game-winning goals\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0MIN = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; GA = Goals-against; GAA = Goals-against average; SO = Shutouts;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 365]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096688-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Los Angeles Sharks season, Transactions\nThe Sharks' decline in the standings and quality of play was poorly timed in that the NHL's Los Angeles Kings across town were beginning a resurgence that would see them make the playoffs for the next decade. The novelty of the WHA wore off, and attendance dropped measurably. After the 1973-74 season, the Sharks moved to Detroit, MI and became the Michigan Stags. After 43 games in Detroit MI, the Stags moved to Baltimore and finished out the season as the Baltimore Blades.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 525]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096688-0005-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Los Angeles Sharks season, Transactions\nTom Gilmore traded to Edmonton Oilers for Ron Walters, October, 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096688-0006-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Los Angeles Sharks season, Transactions\nGeorge Gardner & Ralph MacSweyn traded to Vancouver Blazers for Ron Ward, October, 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096688-0007-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Los Angeles Sharks season, Transactions\nRuss Gillow & Earl Heiskala traded to Jersey Knights for Jim McLeod, January, 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096688-0008-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Los Angeles Sharks season, Transactions\nDon Gordon & Jim Watson traded to Chicago Cougars for Bobby Whitlock, February, 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096688-0009-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Los Angeles Sharks season, Transactions\nRon Ward traded to Cleveland Crusaders for Ted Hodgson & Bill Young, February, 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096688-0010-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Los Angeles Sharks season, Transactions\nIan Wilkie traded to Edmonton Oilers for Wayne Zuk, March, 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096688-0011-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Los Angeles Sharks season, Draft picks\nLos Angeles's draft picks at the 1973 WHA Amateur Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 46], "content_span": [47, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096689-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Luxembourg National Division\nThe 1973\u201374 Luxembourg National Division was the 60th season of top level association football in Luxembourg.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096689-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Luxembourg National Division, Overview\nIt was performed in 12 teams, and Jeunesse Esch won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 46], "content_span": [47, 116]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096690-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 MJHL season\nIn Winnipeg on April 5, 1974, the Selkirk Steelers won the MJHL title claiming the Turnbull Memorial Trophy. There was no stopping the Selkirk Steelers on April 19, 1974, in Prince Albert, as the Steelers defeated the Prince Albert Raiders of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League winning the Anavet Cup. On May 1, 1974, with a 5-2 win over Kelowna Buckaroos of the British Columbia Hockey League in the seventh and deciding game, held in Kelowna, the Steelers captured the Abbott Cup and advanced into the national final for the Centennial Cup. In the seventh and deciding game, on May 14, 1974, in Ottawa, the Selkirk Steelers scored a dramatic 1-0 overtime victory over the Smiths Falls Bears of the Central Junior A Hockey League to capture the Centennial Cup, emblematic of junior A hockey supremacy in Canada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 835]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096690-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 MJHL season, League notes\nThe MJHL returns to Brandon, as the Brandon Travellers join the North Division. The Travellers were owned and operated by the Brandon Wheat Kings of the Western Canada Hockey League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096690-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 MJHL season, League notes\nThe 1974 Selkirk Steelers were inducted into the Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 33], "content_span": [34, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096690-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 MJHL season, All-Star game\nThe Manitoba Junior Hockey League All-Stars took a 3-0 lead in the first period and then received a lesson in the Finnish technique of playing hockey as the Finnish National Juniors skated away to a 6-3 victory at the Winnipeg Arena Thursday night, December 20.Carl Haney opened the scoring at the 0:31 second mark with an unassisted goal, John Mazur then made it 2-0 at 14:17 and 52 seconds later Don Hansford completed the Manitoba club's scoring.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096690-0003-0001", "contents": "1973\u201374 MJHL season, All-Star game\nFinland's Jarmo Haellfors scored a power-play goal at 18:24 and Jonni Rinne completed aneat three-way passing play 17 seconds later and the first period ended 3-2. Rinne scored his second goal of the game at 3:29 of the second period to tie the game and that's the way the second period ended. In the final period, the Finns dominated every aspect of the game, scoring three unansweredgoals. Kari Eloranta gave his club the lead and Haellfors completed his hat trick with a pair of goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096691-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Macedonian Republic League\nThe 1973\u201374 Macedonian Republic League was the 30th since its establishment. FK Teteks won their 3rd championship title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 155]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096692-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Magyar Kupa\nThe 1973\u201374 Magyar Kupa (English: Hungarian Cup) was the 34th season of Hungary's annual knock-out cup football competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096693-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Maltese Premier League\nThe 1973\u201374 Maltese First Division was the 59th season of top-tier football in Malta. It was contested by 10 teams, and Valletta F.C. won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096694-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Manchester United F.C. season\nThe 1973\u201374 season was Manchester United's 72nd season in the Football League, and their 29th consecutive season in the top division of English football. It was the first full season in charge for manager Tommy Docherty, who had been appointed the previous December following the dismissal of Frank O'Farrell. Only six seasons after winning the European Cup, United were relegated, meaning that they would be a Second Division club for the first time since 1938.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096694-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Manchester United F.C. season\nHaving been persuaded to return to the team after walking out during the previous season, the troubled George Best briefly returned to the side, but played his last game for the club on New Year's Day, and his contract was cancelled the following season after more than a decade at Old Trafford.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 333]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096694-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Manchester United F.C. season\nDocherty took the unusual step of appointing goalkeeper Alex Stepney as the team's penalty taker. After 12 games, Stepney had converted two penalties, which made him the club's joint top scorer, a position he held for ten matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 268]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096694-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Manchester United F.C. season\nUnited began the season with two victories in their first three games, but then recorded only four wins in twenty League games between September and March. A late-season run of victories raised the prospect of survival, but United stumbled as the season drew to an end. On the last full day of the season, United could survive only by winning their home game against Manchester City and then their rearranged game at Stoke City, provided that points were dropped by other relegation candidates, all of which had only one game remaining. In the event, United lost both games whilst their rivals' results meant that they would have been relegated anyway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 690]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096694-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Manchester United F.C. season\nThe scorer of what proved to be the winning goal for Manchester City in United's penultimate game was former United player Denis Law, who scored with a back-heel in the 81st minute. He did not celebrate the goal, and was substituted shortly afterwards. The goal triggered a series of pitch invasions by Manchester United fans, perhaps hoping to get the match replayed, that forced the referee to abandon the game in the 85th minute. After a review, the Football League decided that the result should stand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 544]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096694-0005-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Manchester United F.C. season\nThis was the season in which the Football League increased the number of relegation places from two to three, and it is sometimes incorrectly stated that by winning at Old Trafford Manchester City \"relegated\" United. In fact, it was Birmingham City's win over Norwich City and West Ham United's point against Liverpool that sealed United's fate, since, with a win still worth only two points, United could not have caught Birmingham and West Ham even if they had won their last two fixtures. However, City's victory and Southampton's win at Everton meant that United finished in 21st place, and would still have been relegated under the old system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 686]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096694-0006-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Manchester United F.C. season\nAlready relegated, United then lost their last game of the season, against sixth-placed Stoke City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096694-0007-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Manchester United F.C. season\nIn spite of the relegation to the Second Division, the club's directors decided not to sack Docherty, placing their confidence in him to restore the club's First Division status at the first attempt.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096695-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Mansfield Town F.C. season\nThe 1973\u201374 season was Mansfield Town's 37th season in the Football League and 5th in the Fourth Division, they finished in 17th position with 43 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 188]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096696-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Marquette Warriors men's basketball team\nThe 1973\u201374 Marquette Warriors men's basketball team represented Marquette University in NCAA Division I men's competition in the 1973\u201374 academic year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096696-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Marquette Warriors men's basketball team\nAt that time, Marquette was an independent school not aligned with any conference; it did not join a conference until 1988, when it joined the Midwestern Collegiate Conference, now known as the Horizon League; it would later move to the Great Midwest Conference and Conference USA before joining its current conference, the Big East, in 2005. Also, Marquette did not adopt its current nickname of \"Golden Eagles\" until 1994.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096697-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Memphis Tams season\nThe 1973\u201374 Memphis Tams season was the 2nd and final season of the Tams and 4th overall season of American Basketball Association basketball in Memphis. After the previous season had mercifully ended, doubt was put into if the Tams would stay in Memphis, as the phone lines and team office were closed. Charlie Finley tried to sell the team, with a Rhode Island group in discussion with Finley, but nothing came of it, with Finley subsequently dealing with a heart ailment for most of the summer, which rose a problem for the ABA, particularly with making schedules for the teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 609]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096697-0000-0001", "contents": "1973\u201374 Memphis Tams season\nThe league's attempts to reach Finley came in late August, with the schedules for the league being released on August 25 - just over a month before the season was due to start. The Tams hired Butch Van Breda Kolff to coach on September 11, two days before the Tams' first pre-season game. The team floundered, losing 63 games. They finished 9th in points scored per game, at 101.2, while finishing 8th in points allowed at 108.2 per game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096697-0000-0002", "contents": "1973\u201374 Memphis Tams season\nAt one point in the season (November 29-December 21), they lost 13 straight games, with a 12-game losing streak occurring later in the year. Their best winning streak was 2, which they did four times. After the season, the league took over operations of the team. On July 17, 1974, Mike Storen, Issac Hayes, Avron Fogelman, and Kemmonis Wilson bought the team, rebranding the team as the Memphis Sounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 431]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096697-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Memphis Tams season, Awards and honors\n1974 ABA All-Star Game selection (game played on January 30, 1974)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096698-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Mersin \u0130dmanyurdu season\nMersin \u0130dmanyurdu (also Mersin \u0130dman Yurdu, Mersin \u0130Y, or M\u0130Y) Sports Club; located in Mersin, east Mediterranean coast of Turkey in 1973\u201374. The 1973\u201374 season was the sixth season of Mersin \u0130dmanyurdu (M\u0130Y) football team in Turkish First Football League, the first level division in Turkey. They have relegated to second division at the end of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096698-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Mersin \u0130dmanyurdu season\nThe club address was \"Azakhan No: 4\", Tel. : 1321. Executive committee: Mehmet Karamehmet (president), Mahir Turhan, \u00dcnal \u015e\u0131hman, Atilla Ta\u015fp\u0131nar, Kayhan Okdar, Ayd\u0131n \u00d6zl\u00fc, Alptekin \u00dcrg\u00fcpl\u00fc, Yaman Atalay, Sad\u0131k Eliye\u015fil, Mehmet Emin Y\u0131ld\u0131z, Mustafa Elgin, Erol Tarhan, Re\u015fat \u00c7a\u011fl\u0131, Sungur Baydur, Kemal Sara\u00e7o\u011flu.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096698-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Mersin \u0130dmanyurdu season\nAt the start of the season Motrock Ivon was the coach. He managed the team for three games. He was followed by Naz\u0131m Koka. He managed the team for 17 games. After 20th round, Toma Kaloperovi\u00e7 became the coach on 14.03.1974. Kaloperovi\u00e7 finished the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 289]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096698-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Mersin \u0130dmanyurdu season, 1973\u201374 First League participation\nFirst League was played with 16 teams in its 17th season, 1973\u201374. Last two teams relegated to Second League 1974\u201375. Mersin \u0130Y finished 15th with 8 wins and relegated to second division next year. M\u0130Y finished first half at 14th place. Manager Koka set a target for second half for top ten teams, the team couldn't achieve it. \u015eeref Ba\u015fo\u011flu was the most scorer player with 5 goals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 68], "content_span": [69, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096698-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Mersin \u0130dmanyurdu season, 1973\u201374 First League participation, League table\nMersin \u0130Y's league performance in Turkey First League in 1973\u201374 season is shown in the following table.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 82], "content_span": [83, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096698-0005-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Mersin \u0130dmanyurdu season, 1973\u201374 First League participation, League table\nNote: Won, drawn and lost points are 2, 1 and 0. F belongs to M\u0130Y and A belongs to corresponding team for both home and away matches. Champions went to ECC 1974-75, and runners-up and second runners-up became eligible for UEFA Cup 1974-75.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 82], "content_span": [83, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096698-0006-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Mersin \u0130dmanyurdu season, 1973\u201374 First League participation, Results by round\nResults of games M\u0130Y played in 1973\u201374 First League by rounds:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 86], "content_span": [87, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096698-0007-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Mersin \u0130dmanyurdu season, 1973\u201374 Turkish Cup participation\n1973\u201374 Turkish Cup was played for the 12th season as T\u00fcrkiye Kupas\u0131 by 27 teams. Two elimination rounds and finals were played in two-legs elimination system. Top ten first division teams from previous season participated. Mersin \u0130dmanyurdu did not participate in 1973\u201374 Turkish Cup because they had finished previous season at 11th place. Fenerbah\u00e7e won the Cup for the 2nd time. Bursaspor (as the finalist) became eligible for 1974\u201375 ECW Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 67], "content_span": [68, 515]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096698-0008-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Mersin \u0130dmanyurdu season, 1973\u201374 squad\nStats are counted for 1973\u201374 First League matches. In the team rosters five substitutes were allowed to appear, two of whom were substitutable. Only the players who appeared in game rosters were included and listed in the order of appearance.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 47], "content_span": [48, 291]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096699-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Mexican Primera Divisi\u00f3n season\nStatistics of the Primera Divisi\u00f3n de M\u00e9xico for the 1973\u201374 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096699-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Mexican Primera Divisi\u00f3n season, Overview\nThis season was contested by 18 teams, and Cruz Azul won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096699-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Mexican Primera Divisi\u00f3n season, Overview\nUDG acquired Torre\u00f3n franchise to reach the Primera Division for the 1974-75 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096699-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Mexican Primera Divisi\u00f3n season, Overview\nSegunda Divisi\u00f3n semifinalists, UASLP-Pumas (re-branded to Atl\u00e9tico Potosino) and Uni\u00f3n de Curtidores were promoted to the Primera Divisi\u00f3n to increase the number of teams to 20 for the 1974-75 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 49], "content_span": [50, 251]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096699-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Mexican Primera Divisi\u00f3n season, Relegation Playoff\nLaguna won 2-0 on aggregate. San Luis relegated to Segunda Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 59], "content_span": [60, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096700-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Mexican Segunda Divisi\u00f3n season\nThe 1973\u201374 Segunda Divisi\u00f3n was the 25th season of the Mexican Segunda Divisi\u00f3n. The season started on 29 July 1973 and concluded on 19 May 1974. It was won by UANL.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 206]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096701-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team\nThe 1973\u201374 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team represented Michigan State University in the 1973\u201374 NCAA Division I men's basketball season as members of the Big Ten Conference. They played their home games at Jenison Fieldhouse in East Lansing, Michigan and were coached by Gus Ganakas in his fifth year as head coach of the Spartans. MSU finished the season 13\u201311, 8\u20136 in Big Ten play to finish in a tie for fourth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [53, 53], "content_span": [54, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096701-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team, Previous season\nThe Spartans finished the 1972\u201373 season 13\u201311, 6\u20138 in Big Ten play to finish in a tie for sixth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 53], "section_span": [55, 70], "content_span": [71, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096702-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team\nThe 1973\u201374 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team represented the University of Michigan in intercollegiate college basketball during the 1973\u201374 season. The team played its home games in the Crisler Arena in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and was a member of the Big Ten Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096702-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team\nUnder the direction of head coach Johnny Orr, the team tied with the Indiana Hoosiers for the Big Ten championship. The team earned the first of four consecutive NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament invitations.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096702-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team\nCampy Russell and C. J. Kupec served as team captains, with Russell earning team MVP honors. Russell, the Consensus second team All-American, earned the Big Ten scoring championship with a 24.0 average in conference games. He also won the Chicago Tribune Silver Basketball as Big Ten Most Valuable Player. Orr was named Big Ten Coach of the Year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096702-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team\nAlthough the team began the season unranked, it was in the Associated Press Top Twenty Poll for twelve of the eighteen weeks during the season, rising as high as number six, where it finished the season. The team ended the season ranked twelfth in the final UPI Coaches' Poll.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096702-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team\nThe team set a school record for single-game assists on February 23, 1974, against Purdue with 32. The record would stand until March 7, 1987. The team set the school single-game assists record of 32 on February 23, 1974, against Purdue. The record stood until March 7, 1987.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 325]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096702-0005-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team\nIn the 25-team 1974 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, Michigan reached the elite eight in the Mideast region by earning a bye and defeating the Notre Dame Fighting Irish 77\u201368. The team then fell to the Marquette Golden Eagles 72\u201370.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096702-0006-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team, Team players drafted into the NBA\nFive players from this team were selected in the NBA Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 84], "content_span": [85, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096703-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Midland Football Combination\nThe 1973\u201374 Midland Football Combination season was the 37th in the history of Midland Football Combination, a football competition in England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096703-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Midland Football Combination, Division One\nDivision One featured 17 clubs which competed in the division last season, no new clubs joined the division this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 50], "content_span": [51, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096704-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Midland Football League\nThe 1973\u201374 Midland Football League season was the 74th in the history of the Midland Football League, a football competition in England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 169]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096704-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Midland Football League, Clubs\nThe league featured 15 clubs which competed in the previous season, along with two new clubs:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 38], "content_span": [39, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096705-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Milwaukee Bucks season\nThe 1973\u201374 Milwaukee Bucks season was the sixth season for the Bucks. It would also be Oscar Robertson\u2019s last season in the league. This would be the most recent season that the Bucks clinch the best record in the league until the 2018\u201319 NBA season. It was also was the last time the Bucks would be conference champions until the 2020\u201321 NBA season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 382]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096706-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Minnesota Fighting Saints season\nThe 1973\u201374 Minnesota Fighting Saints' season was the Minnesota Fighting Saints second season of operation in the World Hockey Association (WHA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096706-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Minnesota Fighting Saints season, Player stats\nNote: Pos = Position; GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/- = plus/minus; PIM = Penalty minutes; PPG = Power-play goals; SHG = Short-handed goals; GWG = Game-winning goals\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0MIN = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; GA = Goals-against; GAA = Goals-against average; SO = Shutouts;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 54], "content_span": [55, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096706-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Minnesota Fighting Saints season, Transactions\nRob Walton was traded to Vancouver Blazers for Jean Tetreault, January 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [42, 54], "content_span": [55, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096707-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Minnesota Golden Gophers men's ice hockey season\nThe 1973\u201374 Minnesota Golden Gophers men's ice hockey team represented the University of Minnesota in college ice hockey. In its 2nd year under head coach Herb Brooks the team compiled a 22\u201311\u20136 record and reached the NCAA tournament for the fifth time. The Golden Gophers defeated Michigan Tech 4\u20132 in the championship game at the Boston Garden in Boston, Massachusetts to win their first national championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 469]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096707-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Minnesota Golden Gophers men's ice hockey season, Season, Stumbling Out of the Gate\nAfter a poor year in his first season as head coach, hopes were high for Herb Brooks in year two. In 1973 the NCAA had finally cracked down on teams importing over-aged players from Canada and had gone so far as to vacate Denver's participation in the national tournament. While the majority of Canadian players who were already on NCAA teams were grandfathered into the new policy and allowed to play, no incoming players were permitted if they had played in any top-tier Canadian Junior League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 91], "content_span": [92, 588]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096707-0001-0001", "contents": "1973\u201374 Minnesota Golden Gophers men's ice hockey season, Season, Stumbling Out of the Gate\nBecause Minnesota's team had been almost exclusively made up of native players for the past two decades the result of the renewed enforcement gave the Golden Gophers an advantage; because they had been actively recruiting players from Minnesota they were the primary destination for the best players in the state. However, because many NCAA teams were still made up of a majority of Canadians this advantage would not yet be realized.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 91], "content_span": [92, 526]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096707-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Minnesota Golden Gophers men's ice hockey season, Season, Stumbling Out of the Gate\nRegardless of the recruiting practices, Minnesota went into the season looking to recover from a losing season and returned many players from the previous year. Senior netminder Brad Shelstad was named team captain and led the Golden Gophers against an improving Minnesota\u2013Duluth squad in their season opener on the road. Minnesota dropped the contest 3\u20134 and then headed home to host defending national champion Wisconsin and dropped to 0\u20133 on the season after losing both games. The Gophers then welcomed another Big Ten rival in Michigan and ended the weekend with an 0\u20134\u20131 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 91], "content_span": [92, 676]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096707-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Minnesota Golden Gophers men's ice hockey season, Season, Recovery\nThis was a disaster for the Gophers, who were looking for more out of the young coach, but the next team up for Minnesota was North Dakota, who were in the midst of their second worst season since World War II. The Golden Gophers dominated UND, outscoring the Fighting Sioux 18\u20136 in the two games. The following weekend Minnesota hit the road and played Michigan State. While the series was closer in score Minnesota once again won both games and pulled their record back to even.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 74], "content_span": [75, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096707-0003-0001", "contents": "1973\u201374 Minnesota Golden Gophers men's ice hockey season, Season, Recovery\nThe golden Gophers returned home and played their first non-conference games of the season, taking another set of close matches against rising Saint Louis. After a week off Minnesota\u2013Duluth arrived in Minneapolis and the Gophers were able to just finish ahead of the Bulldogs, tying the first game before winning the second.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 74], "content_span": [75, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096707-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Minnesota Golden Gophers men's ice hockey season, Season, Recovery\nAt the end of December Minnesota played in the St. Louis Holiday Tournament. After opening with a win over Harvard, Minnesota faced the Billikens for the third time that season who were able to repay the Gophers with their 6\u20132 victory, leaving Minnesota as the runner-up. A day after the final Minnesota played the Czech National Team and through they lost the game 1\u20137 the contest was an exhibition match and did not count towards their record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 74], "content_span": [75, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096707-0005-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Minnesota Golden Gophers men's ice hockey season, Season, .500 Hockey\nMinnesota began the second half of their regular season at North Dakota, taking both games to improve to 10\u20135\u20132 in the WCHA despite being held to two goals in both games. The Gophers continued their road swing against Minnesota\u2013Duluth and lost both games, a trend that would mostly continue for the next month. After splitting two consecutive series Minnesota faced Wisconsin in mid-February with the Big Ten championship up for grabs. Despite the Gophers' bad start Wisconsin had faltered down the stretch and the two were now tied for the lead. The teams ended up tying both games to finish with identical 5\u20134\u20133 records.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 77], "content_span": [78, 700]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096707-0006-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Minnesota Golden Gophers men's ice hockey season, Season, .500 Hockey\nWith only WCHA games left on their schedule Minnesota had plenty of opportunity to finish atop the conference standings but they would need help. On February 14, Minnesota was behind Denver and Michigan Tech with Wisconsin trailing by one point. The Gophers, however, had an advantage in that they still had six conference games to play while Wisconsin had four and Denver had two. Michigan Tech was far in the lead with a 15\u20135\u20132 record and six WCHA games to play, but because the conference tournament would crown two co-champions Minnesota could ensure home ice so long as they finished in the top two spots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 77], "content_span": [78, 688]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096707-0007-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Minnesota Golden Gophers men's ice hockey season, Season, .500 Hockey\nMinnesota's played two series against bottom-feeding teams in Notre Dame and Colorado College, winning three games and tying the other. The seven points put Minnesota firmly in the 2nd spot with 33 points while Michigan Tech being 5 points ahead ensured the Huskies with the Conference title. because the two teams could not meet in the WCHA tournament the regular season finale between the two would be the only meeting other than possibly for the national championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 77], "content_span": [78, 549]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096707-0007-0001", "contents": "1973\u201374 Minnesota Golden Gophers men's ice hockey season, Season, .500 Hockey\nWith both team only playing for pride Michigan Tech used home ice to their advantage and easily defeated the Gophers, outscoring their opponents by 3 goals in each game. The poor end to the regular season, however would not put a damper on Minnesota's playoff hopes as they were set up to host each WCHA playoff round they could reach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 77], "content_span": [78, 413]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096707-0008-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Minnesota Golden Gophers men's ice hockey season, Season, WCHA Tournament\nMinnesota met Michigan in the opening round and got off to a good start in the first game, capturing the match 5\u20131. with a 4-goal advantage for the two-game aggregate series Minnesota had a comfortable lead but that did not stop them from winning the second contest, albeit with a much closer score. In the second round Minnesota welcomed Denver to Minneapolis. The Gopher's victory against the Pioneers in the regular season was their first since 1958 and Minnesota had to beat Denver once again if they wanted to make the NCAA tournament. The two heated rivals fought to a 3\u20133 tie in the first game leading to a decisive second game where Brad Shelstad held Denver to a single goal and gave Minnesota its third WCHA Tournament championship (shared with Michigan Tech).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 81], "content_span": [82, 852]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096707-0009-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Minnesota Golden Gophers men's ice hockey season, Season, NCAA Tournament\nThe NCAA had altered its classification system in the summer of 1973 making the 1974 tournament the first official Division I championship. The renaming, however, meant nothing as far as any of the teams were concerned. The format and selection remained unchanged and, with their #2 western seed assured, Minnesota faced ECAC champion Boston University. The Terriers had knocked Minnesota out in its last tournament appearance but this time the Gophers were up for the challenge and eked out a narrow 5\u20134 win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 81], "content_span": [82, 591]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096707-0009-0001", "contents": "1973\u201374 Minnesota Golden Gophers men's ice hockey season, Season, NCAA Tournament\nThe following night Michigan Tech won their game against Harvard in overtime to match the two WCHA teams in the final. While the Huskies had easily handles Minnesota two weeks earlier, the team had started to show cracks, tying once against the weak Notre Dame team and losing one of their games to Michigan State in the WCHA tournament. Even with the experienced John MacInnes at the helm Michigan Tech wasn't playing particularly well and Minnesota took advantage early. The Gophers outshot MTU 17\u201311 in the opening frame, with John Sheridan scoring the game's first goal in the 16th minute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 81], "content_span": [82, 675]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096707-0009-0002", "contents": "1973\u201374 Minnesota Golden Gophers men's ice hockey season, Season, NCAA Tournament\nJohn Perpich added a second marker early in the second but the two-goal lead seemed to wake up the Huskies who proved a much stiffer test in the middle period. George Lyle cut the lead in half and sent the match into the third with Minnesota clinging to a narrow margin. The Huskies, however, fell apart in the last 20 minutes, allowing Minnesota to outshoot them 14\u20133 and score twice more to gain a three-goal edge. High-scoring sophomore Mike Zuke netted MTU's second goal of the game but it came with less than a minute remaining and Minnesota won its first National Title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 81], "content_span": [82, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096707-0010-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Minnesota Golden Gophers men's ice hockey season, Season, NCAA Tournament\nTeam Captain Brad Shelstad was named as the Tournament MOP and found himself on the All-Tournament Team along with teammates Les Auge and Mike Polich. Minnesota had none of its players make the AHCA All-American West Team while Shelstad was the only member of the Gophers to make an All-WCHA Team, earning first-team honors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 81], "content_span": [82, 406]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096707-0011-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Minnesota Golden Gophers men's ice hockey season, Season, NCAA Tournament\nMinnesota had not been expected to compete for a national championship and even after the win Pat Phippen was at a loss for how to explain their surprise title. This was due in part to Minnesota being the first team since Boston College in 1949 to win a championship with a team made up of primarily American players and were one Eric Lockwood game away from playing an entire season with only native Minnesotans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 81], "content_span": [82, 495]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096707-0011-0001", "contents": "1973\u201374 Minnesota Golden Gophers men's ice hockey season, Season, NCAA Tournament\nThe All-American team was one of the most important wins for USA Hockey as it demonstrated that American players could compete with Canadians and gave professional teams one more reason why they should give US players a chance. The win by Minnesota was felt in the 1974 NHL amateur draft when Minnesota went from have no players taken in either of the previous two years to eight alumni selected in 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 81], "content_span": [82, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096708-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Minnesota North Stars season\nThe 1973\u201374 Minnesota North Stars season was the North Stars' seventh season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096708-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Minnesota North Stars season\nCoached by Jack Gordon (3\u20138\u20136) and Parker MacDonald (20\u201330\u201311), the team compiled a record of 23\u201338\u201317 for 63 points, to finish the regular season 7th in the West Division and failed to qualify for the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096708-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Minnesota North Stars season, Draft picks\nMinnesota's draft picks at the 1973 NHL Amateur Draft held at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Quebec.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 49], "content_span": [50, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096709-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Montana Grizzlies basketball team\nThe 1973\u201374 Montana Grizzlies basketball team represented the University of Montana during the 1973\u201374 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. Charter members of the Big Sky Conference, the Grizzlies were led by third-year head coach Jud Heathcote and played their home games on campus at Dahlberg Arena in Missoula, Montana. They finished the regular season at 19\u20137, with a 11\u20133 conference record, tied for the regular season title with Idaho State; the Bengals won the one-game playoff in Missoula by three points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 559]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096709-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Montana Grizzlies basketball team\nThe Big Sky conference tournament debuted two years later, in 1976.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096709-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Montana Grizzlies basketball team\nJunior center Ken McKenzie was a unanimous selection to the all-conference team; senior guard Robin Selvig and junior swingman Eric Hays were on the second team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 203]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096710-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Montenegrin Republic League\nThe 1973\u201374 Montenegrin Republic League was the 29th season of Montenegrin Republic League. Season started in August 1973 and finished in June 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096710-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Montenegrin Republic League, Season\nSecond time in two years, a number of participants is expanded, so on season 1973-74, in Montenegrin Republic League played 16 teams. Among the teams which didn't play on previous season were Lov\u0107en, Jedinstvo and Rudar (relegated from Yugoslav Second League) and three best teams from Regional leagues - Orjen, Mladost Lje\u0161kopolje and Tekstilac. After 30 weeks, the title won Lov\u0107en, with 11 points more than second and third-placed Jedinstvo and Zeta.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 43], "content_span": [44, 497]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096710-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Montenegrin Republic League, Higher leagues\nOn season 1973\u201374, four Montenegrin teams played in higher leagues of SFR Yugoslavia. All of them (Sutjeska, Budu\u0107nost, OFK Titograd and Bokelj) participated in 1973\u201374 Yugoslav Second League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 51], "content_span": [52, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096711-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Montreal Canadiens season\nThe 1973\u201374 Montreal Canadiens season was the 65th season in team history. The Canadiens qualified for the playoffs, losing in the first round to the New York Rangers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096711-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Montreal Canadiens season, Off-season\nKen Dryden shocked the hockey world as he sat out the entire 1973\u201374 season. He had won a Vezina Trophy and helped lead Canada past Russia in the dramatic Hockey Summit of 1972. Despite his bargaining power, most players in Dryden's position would have simply accepted what the Canadiens were giving him. Dryden bolted training camp, while general manager Sam Pollock fumed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 45], "content_span": [46, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096711-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Montreal Canadiens season, Regular season\nWayne Thomas replaced Dryden as the starting goaltender and appeared in 42 games. Frank Mahovlich led the team in scoring with 80 points, while Yvan Cournoyer led the team in goals with 40.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096711-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Montreal Canadiens season, Playoffs\nThe Canadiens qualified for the playoffs in second place, setting up a match-up with the third-place New York Rangers. The Rangers defeated the Canadiens twice at the Forum to win the series four games to two. Rookie goaltender Michel Larocque played all six games for the Canadiens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 43], "content_span": [44, 327]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096712-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Moroccan Throne Cup\nThe 1973\u201374 season of the Moroccan Throne Cup was the 18th edition of the competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096712-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Moroccan Throne Cup\nRaja Club Athletic won the cup, beating Maghreb de F\u00e8s 1\u20130 in the final, played at the Stade d'honneur in Casablanca. Raja Club Athletic won the tournament for the first time in their history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096712-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Moroccan Throne Cup\nRaja Club Athletic also won the first title in their history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 89]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096712-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Moroccan Throne Cup, Competition, Final\nThe final took place between the two winning semi-finalists, Raja Club Athletic and Maghreb de F\u00e8s, on 28 July 1974 at the Stade d'honneur in Casablanca.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 47], "content_span": [48, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096713-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NAHL season\nThe 1973\u201374 North American Hockey League season was the first season of the North American Hockey League. Seven teams participated in the regular season, and the Syracuse Blazers were the league champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096713-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NAHL season, Lockhart Cup-Playoffs, Qualification\nNote: Syracuse-Long Island game was ruled a no contest following a brawl.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 57], "content_span": [58, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096714-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NBA season\nThe 1973\u201374 NBA season was the 28th season of the National Basketball Association. The season ended with the Boston Celtics winning the NBA Championship, beating the Milwaukee Bucks 4 games to 3 in the NBA Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096714-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NBA season, Season recap\nThe NBA opened the year still very impressed with the New York Knicks' second-ever NBA title from a year ago. Much publicized, the team largely played this year as a victory lap, particularly after cornerstone Dave DeBusschere announced his pending retirement halfway through the season. Their opponent in three of the last four NBA Finals, the Los Angeles Lakers, also went through some key changes. Wilt Chamberlain had accepted an offer to be playing coach of the San Diego Conquistadors of the ABA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 32], "content_span": [33, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096714-0001-0001", "contents": "1973\u201374 NBA season, Season recap\nThe Lakers, however, sued Chamberlain to prevent his playing in the ABA while still owing Los Angeles the option year of his contract. Chamberlain never played professional basketball again, and left most of his coaching duties in the ABA to assistant Stan Albeck, who went on to be a head coach in the NBA. Jerry West played just 31 games due to injury, and that likewise spelled the end to his nearly peerless career at guard. These two teams, which had led the league from two huge cities and carried the NBA to new media heights, were now poised to decline, which now gave strong runners-up from a year ago their chance to ascend.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 32], "content_span": [33, 667]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096714-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NBA season, Season recap\nThere were no 60-win teams that season, but four teams did win over 50 games. Two of them, Milwaukee and Boston cast strong shadows all season long, each led by powerful individual forces determined to win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 32], "content_span": [33, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096714-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NBA season, Season recap\nMilwaukee won a league-most 59 of 82 NBA games, led again by superstar Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Kareem had not seen the NBA Finals since the controversial changing of his name, but now had no Wilt Chamberlain to prevent his return. He averaged 27 points per game, making more field goals, 948, than any player in the league. The Bucks were again the top shooting team in the NBA and led in average margin of points over opponents as well. Second in minutes played and in the new blocked shots category, Abdul-Jabbar was a peerless presence all season long. One player, Atlanta's high-scoring Pete Maravich, had more shots, but Kareem sank his tries at a 53.9% clip, the second best in the NBA. The rest of the Bucks lineup provided good support for Abdul-Jabbar, but age and injuries remained a concern into the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 32], "content_span": [33, 850]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096714-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NBA season, Season recap\nThe Boston Celtics cast a very determined shadow across the East with 56 wins, willed by 33-year-old team captain John Havlicek. The swingman star was again All-Defense while scoring 22.8 points per game. Hondo also leaked into the NBA's top assists category with six per game on average. More impressive than Havlicek, however, was the intensity and standout play of 6' 9 245-pound center Dave Cowens. Cowens added 19 points per game and was second in the NBA in rebounds, leading the best board team in the league. Like Milwaukee's Abdul-Jabbar, he was a fixture in minutes played. But he was a star with a solid team around him, including guard Jo Jo White.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 32], "content_span": [33, 694]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096714-0005-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NBA season, Season recap\nMilwaukee's 59 wins won the Midwest Division, but not by much. The Chicago Bulls and Detroit Pistons each again posted strong campaigns to finish second and third in the division, with the third and fourth best records in the entire league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 32], "content_span": [33, 273]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096714-0006-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NBA season, Season recap\nChicago, led by coach Dick Motta, followed the same formula of scoring from the forwards and strong defense overall. Forward Bob Love carried the team with an average of 21.8 points per game. The Bulls impressed all season long in being able to deny opponents easy shots with strong, clean defense that did not often foul. Cliff Ray stepped in for an injured Tom Boerwinkle and performed solidly. Jerry Sloan and Norm Van Lier were each in the top ten in the new steals category, Sloan ranking fourth in the NBA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 32], "content_span": [33, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096714-0007-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NBA season, Season recap\nDetroit's hard luck team showed some of its potential this year. Former player Ray Scott had taken over for Butch Van Breda Kolff's controversial mentorship and was now leading a winner. Bob Lanier emerged as the solid center with 22.5 points per game on 50% shooting and 13.3 rebounds with four assists per game. Bob also averaged three blocks a game. Former scoring champion Dave Bing was back, carrying his club with seven assists per game and adding 18.8 per game in scoring. Vision problems still dogged him, hampering what had once looked like a sure Hall Of Fame career. Detroit's 52 wins would have won the Pacific Division. Third in the Midwest, they simply hoped to be allowed into the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 32], "content_span": [33, 738]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096714-0008-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NBA season, Season recap\nFive other NBA teams won half their games to make a total of nine out of 17 total teams; there were no disasters like there had been a year ago. The playoff format took a closer look at records this year to answer criticisms of recent years past that had strongly tied playoff selections to the league's four divisions. It allowed some deserving teams to participate, which many were glad to see.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 32], "content_span": [33, 429]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096714-0009-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NBA season, Playoffs\nBoston met 42-40 Buffalo in Round One, the Braves finishing as a third-place team in the Atlantic Division. The Braves were led by self-promoting superstar Bob McAdoo, the NBA's most dangerous shooter at 30.6 points per game and 54.7% accuracy, both tops in the NBA. The Big Mac was also among the NBA's top five rebounders and shot blockers, an impressive feat. Jack Ramsay's club was well-balanced and deep, with Ernie DiGregorio as the pure point guard to lead his offense. The six-game series was very close, with the last three games decided by three points or less. But Boston's defense gave them a series win four games to two.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 663]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096714-0010-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NBA season, Playoffs\nThe aging Knicks had dropped to 49 wins to finish second in the Atlantic, and again drew the Bullets as their first playoff opponents --- the Capital City Bullets. Washington, D.C. was slyly and slowly taking over Baltimore's team. But the 47-win Bullets were still largely the same bunch. Elvin Hayes and Phil Chenier were the team stars this year, with Wes Unseld battling knee injuries. Hayes had stepped up to lead the NBA in rebounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096714-0010-0001", "contents": "1973\u201374 NBA season, Playoffs\nThe 6'10 240-pounder was also a leading shot blocker, while Chenier proved to be one of the league's best all around guards at both ends of the floor. The team, now coached by former Celtic K.C. Jones, gave the Knicks a tough full-seven game series, but the outcome was the same. Game Four went to overtime and Game Five ended 106\u2013105, both Knick wins. Boston and New York were now set for another huge East final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096714-0011-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NBA season, Playoffs\nMilwaukee met the 47-win Los Angeles Lakers, winners of the Pacific, in the first round, but these were now different Lakers. Elmore Smith had come over from Buffalo to lead the league in blocks. Connie Hawkins had come over from Phoenix, and Happy Hairston was back on the boards. Gail Goodrich continued to bewilder critics with a 25.3 scoring average, trying and making more free throws than any other NBA player at an 86% clip. Like the Knicks, the Lakers were deep and smart. And old. The Bucks blew them out for a 4\u20131 series win which signaled a clear change between the two teams in their rich rivalry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 638]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096714-0012-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NBA season, Playoffs\nChicago got to meet Detroit in a seven-game war, using their fourth home game to barely survive the Pistons. Five of the seven games were decided by five points or less, all hotly competitive. Bob Lanier tried mightily to make up for his forwards, but the all-star fell just short. Milwaukee and Chicago kept that Midwest theme alive in the second round for the West final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096714-0013-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NBA season, Playoffs\nBoston made it plain they would not play around with New York this year, with two big double-digit romps to start the series. The Knicks, clearly now led by their stellar backcourt of Walt Frazier and Earl Monroe, showed some heart by beating Boston in Boston in Game Three. But that proved a final parting shot for the New Yorkers who had been in three of the last four NBA Finals. Havlicek made sure of that almost single-handedly, leading a 4\u20131 series win.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096714-0014-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NBA season, Playoffs\nChicago's forwards and guards appeared to outplay Milwaukee for four games. But Ray was no match for Abdul-Jabbar at center, and coach Larry Costello's team got a good bench boost as well to pound the Bulls in four straight. Only Game Two in Chicago had been close. Kareem was just as determined as Havlicek.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096714-0015-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NBA season, Playoffs\nMilwaukee was favored in the NBA Finals, with Cowens looking up at the 7' 2 Abdul-Jabbar. But the Boston center conceded nothing, averaging 20 points and 13 rebounds in courageous play. The series would be a classic, going the full seven games. Kareem got some solid help in the shooting of Bobby Dandridge and the passing of 35-year-old Oscar Robertson. But the Celtics hung tough, even after losing 102\u2013101 in a legendary double-overtime affair at Boston Garden that saw Abdul-Jabbar throw in a 15-foot hook shot to win the game at the buzzer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 574]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096714-0016-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NBA season, Playoffs\nGame Seven in Milwaukee saw the Bucks poised to win their second title in four years. But Cowens turned in a huge 28-point game with aggressive defense to push the Celtics to a 102\u201387 upset. Havlicek had averaged 27 points and six assists in 18 playoff games to win his first NBA title ring without Bill Russell. But it was Cowens, who had saved his best game for last, who stood out most in proving he was in fact center enough to lead an NBA champion past the taller giants of the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 519]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096714-0017-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NBA season, NBA awards\nNote: All information on this page were obtained on the History section on", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096715-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NC State Wolfpack men's basketball team\nThe 1973\u201374 North Carolina State Wolfpack men's basketball team represented North Carolina State University. The Wolfpack were a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference. The team finished undefeated in the ACC regular season, then won the ACC Tournament. The Wolfpack then won the NCAA tournament, finishing the season as the national champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 393]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096715-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NC State Wolfpack men's basketball team, Season summary\nN.C. State had it all: a star high-jumping forward David Thompson, a towering center in 7-foot-4 Tom Burleson, a great point guard in Monte Towe and several excellent complementary players, including guard Moe Rivers and forward Phil Spence. The Wolfpack began the season ranked #2 in the nation, behind UCLA. On December 15, 1973, the two teams met in St. Louis, with UCLA beating NC State by 84\u201366 after trailing by one at halftime. It would be the only loss for the Wolfpack that season. NC State avenged that loss by beating the Bruins 80\u201377 in two overtimes in the NCAA Tournament semi-final game and ending their streak of seven straight national championships. Two nights later NC State captured its first NCAA championship by beating Marquette 76\u201364.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 63], "content_span": [64, 822]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096715-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NC State Wolfpack men's basketball team, ACC Tournament\nThe 1974 Atlantic Coast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was held in Greensboro, North Carolina, at the Greensboro Coliseum from March 7 to 9. North Carolina State defeated Maryland 103\u2013100 in overtime to claim the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 63], "content_span": [64, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096715-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NC State Wolfpack men's basketball team, ACC Tournament\nThe Final pitted two of the top teams in the country. It has been regarded by many to be the greatest ACC game in history \u2014 and one of the greatest college games ever. The game was instrumental in forcing the expansion of the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship to 32 teams, allowing more than one bid from a conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 63], "content_span": [64, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096716-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NCAA Division I men's basketball rankings\nThe 1973\u201374 NCAA Division I men's basketball rankings was made up of two human polls, the AP Poll and the Coaches Poll, in addition to various other preseason polls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096716-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NCAA Division I men's basketball rankings, AP Poll\nThe January 21, 1974 poll was the first where UCLA was not ranked #1 since the rankings on February 1, 1971 \u2013 a string of 46 consecutive AP polls that stretched across parts of four seasons. The Bruins would regain the top ranking for three more weeks before NC State would grab the top spot for the final six weeks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 58], "content_span": [59, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096717-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NCAA Division I men's basketball season\nThe 1973\u201374 NCAA Division I men's basketball season began in November 1973, progressed through the regular season and conference tournaments, and concluded with the 1974 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament Championship Game on March 25, 1974, at the Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, North Carolina. The North Carolina State Wolfpack won its first NCAA national championship with a 76\u201364 victory over the Marquette Warriors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 481]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096717-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NCAA Division I men's basketball season, Rule changes\nHolding or grabbing an opposing player away from the ball became fouls, as did illegal screens.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 61], "content_span": [62, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096717-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NCAA Division I men's basketball season, Season outlook, Pre-season polls\nThe top 20 from the AP Poll and UPI Coaches Poll during the pre-season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 81], "content_span": [82, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096717-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NCAA Division I men's basketball season, Coaching changes\nA number of teams changed coaches during the season and after it ended.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 65], "content_span": [66, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096718-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey season\nThe 1973\u201374 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey season began in October 1973 and concluded with the 1974 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament's championship game on March 16, 1974 at the Boston Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. This was the 27th season in which an NCAA ice hockey championship was held and is the 79th year overall where an NCAA school fielded a team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 419]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096718-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey season\nIn the summer of 1973 the NCAA changed the classifications of the tiers in each of their sponsored sports. The University- and College-divisions were done away with and replaced by numerical designations making this the first official Division I season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 301]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096718-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey season\nThe NIT held a competing ice hockey tournament for the first time. The tournament included NAIA champion Lake Superior State, ECAC 2 champion Vermont and two NCAA Division I schools (Minnesota\u2013Duluth and Saint Louis). Minnesota\u2013Duluth won the championship but the tournament was not renewed for a second season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096718-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey season, Player stats, Scoring leaders\nThe following players led the league in points at the conclusion of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 78], "content_span": [79, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096718-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey season, Player stats, Scoring leaders\nGP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalty minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 78], "content_span": [79, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096718-0005-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey season, Player stats, Leading goaltenders\nThe following goaltenders led the league in goals against average at the end of the regular season while playing at least 33% of their team's total minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 82], "content_span": [83, 239]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096718-0006-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey season, Player stats, Leading goaltenders\nGP = Games played; Min = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; OT = Overtime/shootout losses; GA = Goals against; SO = Shutouts; SV% = Save percentage; GAA = Goals against average", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [49, 82], "content_span": [83, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096719-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NCAA Division II men's ice hockey season\nThe 1973\u201374 NCAA Division II men's ice hockey season began in November 1973 and concluded in March of the following year. This was the 10th season of second-tier college ice hockey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096719-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NCAA Division II men's ice hockey season\nIn 1973 the NCAA changed to a numerical classification system. As a result, the College division of ice hockey was split into Division II and Division III.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096719-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NCAA Division II men's ice hockey season, Regular season, Standings\nWestern Michigan qualified for the CCHA Championship\u2020 indicates conference regular season champion", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [50, 75], "content_span": [76, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096720-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NCAA Division III men's ice hockey season\nThe 1973\u201374 NCAA Division III men's ice hockey season began in November 1973 and concluded on March of the following year. This was the 1st season of Division III college ice hockey.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096721-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NFL playoffs\nThe National Football League playoffs for the 1973 season began on December 22, 1973. The postseason tournament concluded with the Miami Dolphins defeating the Minnesota Vikings in Super Bowl VIII, 24\u20137, on January 13, 1974, at Rice Stadium in Houston, Texas.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096721-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NFL playoffs\nLike the previous NFL seasons, the home teams in the playoffs were decided based on a yearly divisional rotation, excluding the wild card teams who would always play on the road.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096721-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NFL playoffs, Participants\nWithin each conference, the three division winners and one wild card team (the top non-division winner with the best overall records of all remaining teams in the conference) qualified for the playoffs. The NFL did not use a seeding system until the 1975 season, and instead home teams during the first two rounds of the playoffs alternated by division. Thus it was possible for a team to host another club with a better regular season record. For the Super Bowl, the third and final round played at a neutral site, the designated home team was based on an annual rotation by conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 34], "content_span": [35, 622]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096721-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NFL playoffs, Schedule\nIn the United States, NBC broadcast the AFC playoff games, while CBS televised the NFC games and Super Bowl VIII.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096721-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, December 22, 1973, NFC: Minnesota Vikings 27, Washington Redskins 20\nMinnesota scored 17 points in the fourth quarter to overcome a 13-10 deficit, including two touchdowns in a span of 1:05.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 121], "content_span": [122, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096721-0005-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, December 22, 1973, NFC: Minnesota Vikings 27, Washington Redskins 20\nBoth offenses struggled in the first quarter. The Vikings were completely unable to move the ball, finishing the quarter without any first downs, while Washington kicker Curt Knight missed two field goal attempts. One miss was from 49 yards and the other from 17, spoiling an impressive drive that saw the Redskins drive from their own 14 to inside the Vikings 10-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 121], "content_span": [122, 496]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096721-0006-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, December 22, 1973, NFC: Minnesota Vikings 27, Washington Redskins 20\nMinnesota finally managed to get rolling in the second quarter, with a 50-yard completion from Tarkenton to running back Oscar Reed setting up Fred Cox's 19-yard field goal. But with 3:30 left in the half, Vikings defensive back Bobby Bryant fumbled a punt return that was recovered by Redskins running back Bob Brunet on the Minnesota 21-yard line. Billy Kilmer then completed a 17-yard pass to Charley Taylor before Larry Brown scored on a 3-yard touchdown run to give the Redskins a 7\u20133 lead. Minnesota responded with a drive into field goal range, but Mike Bass intercepted a pass from Tarkenton to maintain Washington's lead going into halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 121], "content_span": [122, 772]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096721-0007-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, December 22, 1973, NFC: Minnesota Vikings 27, Washington Redskins 20\nThe Vikings then took the opening kickoff of the second half and marched 79 yards, including a 46-yard run by Reed, to score on fullback Bill Brown's 2-yard rushing touchdown. To make matters worse for Washington, star cornerback Pat Fischer suffered cracked ribs on the drive and was replaced by Speedy Duncan, an 11-year veteran who normally only played as a kick returner. Still, the Redskins managed to take back the lead with Knight's two third quarter field goals, first tying a playoff record from 52 yards, and the second from 46 yards on the first play of the fourth quarter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 121], "content_span": [122, 706]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096721-0008-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, December 22, 1973, NFC: Minnesota Vikings 27, Washington Redskins 20\nNow facing a 13-10 fourth quarter deficit, the Vikings stormed back with two quick touchdowns. First they drove 71 yards in 8 plays to score on Tarkenton's pass to John Gilliam, who beat single coverage by Duncan for a 28-yard touchdown catch. Then on the first play of Washington's ensuing drive, Nate Wright intercepted a pass from Kilmer and returned it 26 yards to the Redskins 8-yard line, setting up a 6-yard touchdown pass from Tarkenton to Gilliam that made the score 24-13.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 121], "content_span": [122, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096721-0008-0001", "contents": "1973\u201374 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, December 22, 1973, NFC: Minnesota Vikings 27, Washington Redskins 20\nWith 5:28 left, Washington got back to within four points, getting good field position due to Ken Stone blocking a Vikings punt and converting it into Kilmer's 28-yard touchdown pass to Roy Jefferson. But the Vikings managed to burn up 4 minutes with their ensuing drive, finishing it off with a 30-yard Cox field goal that gave them a 27-20 lead. The Redskins had less than two minutes to drive for a tying touchdown, and ended up turning the ball over on downs at the Vikings 42-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 121], "content_span": [122, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096721-0009-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, December 22, 1973, NFC: Minnesota Vikings 27, Washington Redskins 20\nTarkenton completed 16/28 passes for 222 yards and two touchdowns, with 1 interception. Reed had 17 carries for 95 yards and caught 4 passes for 76. Brown rushed for 115 yards and a touchdown, while also catching 2 passes for 13 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 121], "content_span": [122, 357]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096721-0010-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, December 22, 1973, NFC: Minnesota Vikings 27, Washington Redskins 20\n\u201cSometimes they\u2019re not concentrating on me,\u201d said Oscar Reed, in reference to his big plays in the game. \u201cSince early in the season they\u2019ve been keying on Chuck Foreman. I\u2019m not the world\u2019s greatest pass catcher or runner, but given a little room, I\u2019ll use what I\u2019ve got.\u201d", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 121], "content_span": [122, 394]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096721-0011-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, December 22, 1973, NFC: Minnesota Vikings 27, Washington Redskins 20\nThis was the first postseason meeting between the Redskins and Vikings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 121], "content_span": [122, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096721-0012-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, December 22, 1973, AFC: Oakland Raiders 33, Pittsburgh Steelers 14\nThe Raiders outgained Pittsburgh in total yards 361 to 223, forced three turnovers without losing any on their side, and scored 16 unanswered points in the second half to defeat the Steelers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 119], "content_span": [120, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096721-0013-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, December 22, 1973, AFC: Oakland Raiders 33, Pittsburgh Steelers 14\nAfter forcing the Steelers to punt on the game's opening drive, Oakland drove 82 yards in 16 plays, including a 20-yard burst by running back Marv Hubbard, to go up 7-0 on Hubbard's 1-yard touchdown run. In the second quarter, Pittsburgh drove into Raiders territory, only to lose the ball when Terry Bradshaw's pass was deflected by Otis Sistrunk into the arms of linebacker Phil Villapiano for an interception.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 119], "content_span": [120, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096721-0013-0001", "contents": "1973\u201374 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, December 22, 1973, AFC: Oakland Raiders 33, Pittsburgh Steelers 14\nA 21-yard completion from Ken Stabler to receiver Mike Siani on the ensuing drive set up a 25-yard field goal by George Blanda, increasing the Raiders lead to 10-0 with 8 minutes left in the half. The Steelers were forced to punt on their next drive, but their defense subsequently forced the Raiders to go three-and-out. Then safety Glen Edwards returned Ray Guy's 40-yard punt 20 yards to the Oakland 45-yard line. On the next play, Bradshaw completed a 24-yard pass to running back Preston Pearson. Bradshaw eventually threw an incomplete pass on third down, but a 15-yard roughing the passer penalty gave the Steelers a first down on the Oakland 7. Following a 3-yard running play, Bradshaw finished the drive with a 4-yard touchdown toss to Pearson, cutting the score to 10-7 going into halftime.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 119], "content_span": [120, 921]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096721-0014-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, December 22, 1973, AFC: Oakland Raiders 33, Pittsburgh Steelers 14\nOakland dominated the second half with 16 consecutive points. After Clarence Davis returned the second half kickoff 30 yards to the Raiders 32, a 15-yard roughing the passer penalty against Pittsburgh and a 17-yard completion from Stabler to Hubbard led to Blanda's 31-yard field goal. The Steelers had to punt on their next drive, and George Atkinson returned the ball 13 yards to the Oakland 43, sparking a drive that ended with another Blanda field goal that gave the Raiders a 16-7 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 119], "content_span": [120, 611]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096721-0014-0001", "contents": "1973\u201374 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, December 22, 1973, AFC: Oakland Raiders 33, Pittsburgh Steelers 14\nPittsburgh seemed primed to respond when Frank Lewis caught a 17-yard reception that put them in Raiders territory, but on the next play, Willie Brown intercepted a pass from Bradshaw and returned it 54 yards for a touchdown. With the Steelers now facing a 23-7 deficit, the situation continued to unravel as Bradshaw was intercepted again on the next drive, this time by Atkinson, who returned it 8 yards to the Raiders 37. Oakland running back Charlie Smith then took off on a 40-yard run to the Steelers 22, setting up Blanda's third field goal that gave them a 26-7 lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 119], "content_span": [120, 695]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096721-0015-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, December 22, 1973, AFC: Oakland Raiders 33, Pittsburgh Steelers 14\nWith 9:12 left in the fourth quarter, Pittsburgh got one last chance to get back in the game as Bradshaw's 26-yard touchdown pass to Lewis cut the score to 26-14. But after a punt from each team, Oakland put the game away, mainly due to Hubbard, who rushed for gains of 16, 15, 9, and 2 yards before finishing the drive with a 1-yard touchdown run, giving the Raiders a 33-14 lead with 14 seconds left on the clock.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 119], "content_span": [120, 535]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096721-0016-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, December 22, 1973, AFC: Oakland Raiders 33, Pittsburgh Steelers 14\nStabler completed 14/17 passes for 142 yards. Hubbard rushed for 91 yards and two touchdowns, while also catching a 17-yard pass. Smith added 73 yards rushing and 10 yards receiving. Bradshaw was held to just 12/25 completions for 167 yards, with 2 touchdowns and 3 interceptions. Future Hall of Fame running back Franco Harris was held to 29 yards on 10 carries.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 119], "content_span": [120, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096721-0017-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Saturday, December 22, 1973, AFC: Oakland Raiders 33, Pittsburgh Steelers 14\nThis was the second postseason meeting between the Steelers and Raiders, with Pittsburgh winning last year's meeting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 119], "content_span": [120, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096721-0018-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Sunday, December 23, 1973, AFC: Miami Dolphins 34, Cincinnati Bengals 16\nThe Dolphins outgained Cincinnati in total yards, 400\u2013194, and first downs, 27\u201311, while also scoring on three of their first four possessions and shutting out the Bengals in the second half. The Dolphins racked up 241 yards on the ground, including 106 from Mercury Morris and 71 from Larry Csonka, while receiver Paul Warfield caught 5 passes for 95 yards and a score.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 115], "content_span": [116, 486]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096721-0019-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Sunday, December 23, 1973, AFC: Miami Dolphins 34, Cincinnati Bengals 16\nMiami dominated the game early on, scoring on their opening drive with Bob Griese's 13-yard touchdown pass to Warfield. Morris racked up 33 rushing yards on the way to Miami's next first quarter touchdown, a 1-yard run by Csonka. In the second quarter, faced with 3rd and 1 from his own 44, Griese completed a 48-yard bomb to Warfield that set up Morris' 4-yard touchdown run.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 115], "content_span": [116, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096721-0019-0001", "contents": "1973\u201374 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Sunday, December 23, 1973, AFC: Miami Dolphins 34, Cincinnati Bengals 16\nMiami's three touchdowns came on drives of 80, 80, and 73 yards, while all Cincinnati could manage in the first 26 minutes of the contest was 24-yard field goal by Horst Muhlmann on their first drive of the game. Even that drive caused a major setback for the team, as running back Essex Johnson, the team's leading rusher during the season with 997 yards, suffered a game-ending injury after picking up 14 yards on his first carry.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 115], "content_span": [116, 548]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096721-0020-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Sunday, December 23, 1973, AFC: Miami Dolphins 34, Cincinnati Bengals 16\nFacing the prospect of going into their locker room with a 21-3 deficit, the Bengals suddenly stormed back with 13 points in the final 3:26 of the second quarter. First, defensive back Neal Craig intercepted Griese's pass intended for Jim Mandich near the sideline and returned it 45 yards for a touchdown. Then the Bengals defense forced a punt and got the ball back on their own 33 with less than two minutes left.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 115], "content_span": [116, 532]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096721-0020-0001", "contents": "1973\u201374 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Sunday, December 23, 1973, AFC: Miami Dolphins 34, Cincinnati Bengals 16\nIt took nearly all of that time for the team to cross midfield, but quarterback Ken Anderson finally got them into scoring range with a 22-yard scramble to the Dolphins 38, where Muhlmann made a 46-yard field goal that cut the score to 21-13. Now with just 8 seconds left until halftime, Morris fumbled the ensuing kickoff, and Bengals linebacker Jim LeClair recovered on the Dolphins 3-yard line. On the next play, Muhlmann kicked a 12-yard field goal that sent both teams into their locker rooms with a score of 21-16.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 115], "content_span": [116, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096721-0021-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Sunday, December 23, 1973, AFC: Miami Dolphins 34, Cincinnati Bengals 16\nHowever, Cincinnati's hope of a comeback was quickly crushed in the second half. On the third play of the third quarter, Anderson tried to connect on a deep pass to tight end Bob Trumpy, but it was intercepted by Dick Anderson, who returned the ball 19 yards to the Bengals 28. Seven plays later, Miami went up 28-16 with Griese's 7-yard touchdown pass to Mandich. Dolphins kicker Garo Yepremian put the finishing touches on his team's victory with field goals from 50 and 46 yards.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 115], "content_span": [116, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096721-0022-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Sunday, December 23, 1973, AFC: Miami Dolphins 34, Cincinnati Bengals 16\nThis was the first postseason meeting between the Bengals and Dolphins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 115], "content_span": [116, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096721-0023-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Sunday, December 23, 1973, NFC: Dallas Cowboys 27, Los Angeles Rams 16\nThe Cowboys avenged a 37\u201331 regular season loss to L.A. as two Rams turnovers in the first quarter gave the Cowboys a 14\u20130 lead. Lee Roy Jordan's interception of a John Hadl pass on the first play of the game led to Calvin Hill's 3-yard touchdown run. Mel Renfro then recovered a Lawrence McCutcheon fumble on the L.A. 35-yard line to set up the Cowboys again which later resulted in Roger Staubach's 4-yard touchdown pass to Drew Pearson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 113], "content_span": [114, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096721-0024-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Sunday, December 23, 1973, NFC: Dallas Cowboys 27, Los Angeles Rams 16\nIn the second quarter, Toni Fritsch then added a 39-yard field goal to increase Dallas' lead to 17-0. However, a 40-yard reception by Rams receiver Harold Jackson set up David Ray's 33-yard field goal that made the score 17-3. Ray would miss three field goals throughout the game, but made two more to cut the score to 17-9 in the fourth quarter. Then Hill lost a fumble that L.A. converted into Tony Baker's 5-yard touchdown run, making the score 17-16 with 10 minutes left in regulation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 113], "content_span": [114, 603]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096721-0025-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Sunday, December 23, 1973, NFC: Dallas Cowboys 27, Los Angeles Rams 16\nEver since taking their 17-0 lead in the second quarter, the Cowboys had managed just four first downs and had not crossed midfield, as Staubach faced a relentless pass rush that sacked him seven times (2\u00bd by Jack Youngblood, 2 by Merlin Olsen).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 113], "content_span": [114, 359]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096721-0025-0001", "contents": "1973\u201374 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Sunday, December 23, 1973, NFC: Dallas Cowboys 27, Los Angeles Rams 16\nBut when faced with third down and long after an Olsen sack on the ensuing drive, Staubach threw a short pass over the middle to Drew Pearson, and as the Rams were about to stop Pearson for a short gain, defensive backs Dave Elmendorf and Steve Preece collided and fell, allowing Pearson to scamper untouched for an 83-yard touchdown that effectively clinched the game. Fritsch added another field goal for the 27\u201316 final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 113], "content_span": [114, 537]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096721-0026-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NFL playoffs, Divisional playoffs, Sunday, December 23, 1973, NFC: Dallas Cowboys 27, Los Angeles Rams 16\nThis was the first postseason meeting between the Rams and Cowboys.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 113], "content_span": [114, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096721-0027-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, December 30, 1973, NFC: Minnesota Vikings 27, Dallas Cowboys 10\nThe Vikings forced 4 interceptions and recovered 2 fumbles in the second half while also holding Dallas to 152 total yards en route to a 27\u201310 victory over the Cowboys.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 119], "content_span": [120, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096721-0028-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, December 30, 1973, NFC: Minnesota Vikings 27, Dallas Cowboys 10\nWith the loss of running back Calvin Hill and defensive tackle Bob Lilly to injuries, Dallas' offense could not get anything going. Minnesota jumped to a 10\u20130 lead by halftime with a Fred Cox field goal and an 86-yard drive that ended with a 5-yard rushing touchdown by Chuck Foreman. The touchdown drive included Fran Tarkenton's completions to tight end Stu Voigt for gains of 16 and 7 yards, a 2-yard run by Foreman on 4th down and 1, and a 12-yard scramble by Tarkenton himself.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 119], "content_span": [120, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096721-0029-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, December 30, 1973, NFC: Minnesota Vikings 27, Dallas Cowboys 10\nWhat followed would be an amazingly sloppy second half in which both teams combined for 10 turnovers. Three minutes into the third quarter, Dallas quarterback Roger Staubach threw an interception to Bobby Bryant on the Vikings 2-yard line. But the Cowboys defense forced a punt and Golden Richards returned it 63 yards for a touchdown, cutting the score to 10-7. Tarkenton quickly struck back, throwing a 54-yard touchdown pass to John Gilliam, who managed to outrun single coverage by Cowboys future Hall of Fame defensive back Mel Renfro. Dallas responded with Toni Fritsch's 17-yard field goal which cut the lead to 17\u201310.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 119], "content_span": [120, 745]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096721-0030-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, December 30, 1973, NFC: Minnesota Vikings 27, Dallas Cowboys 10\nThen a wave of turnovers began. On the ensuing possession, Dallas got a huge opportunity to score when Charlie Waters forced a fumble from Foreman that safety Cliff Harris recovered on the Minnesota 37. However, the Vikings took the ball right back when Staubach threw a pass that was deflected into the arms of linebacker Jeff Siemon. An even better scoring chance awaited the Cowboys at the end of the Vikings' next drive, as Tarkenton threw an interception to Waters on the Minnesota 24.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 119], "content_span": [120, 610]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096721-0030-0001", "contents": "1973\u201374 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, December 30, 1973, NFC: Minnesota Vikings 27, Dallas Cowboys 10\nBut Dallas fared no better this time, losing the ball again when Jim Marshall knocked it out of Staubach's hand as he wound up for a pass, and defensive lineman Gary Larsen recovered it. The offensive futility continued with Minnesota, as their next drive ended with a fumbled handoff exchange between Tarkenton and Foreman that Dallas lineman Larry Cole recovered on the Vikings 47-yard line.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 119], "content_span": [120, 513]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096721-0031-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, December 30, 1973, NFC: Minnesota Vikings 27, Dallas Cowboys 10\nA few plays later, Dallas faced 3rd and 3 with 9 minutes left in the fourth quarter. Staubach attempted a pass to Bob Hayes near the right sideline, but Bryant intercepted the pass and raced 63 yards for a touchdown that put the Vikings up 24-10. Then on Dallas' next drive, Staubach tried to connect with Drew Pearson, but a devastating hit by Nate Wright caused the ball to bounce off his hands and into the arms of defensive back Jeff Wright, who returned the ball 13 yards to set up Cox's 34-yard game clinching field goal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 119], "content_span": [120, 647]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096721-0032-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, December 30, 1973, NFC: Minnesota Vikings 27, Dallas Cowboys 10\nBoth teams combined for a net total of just 163 passing yards. Tarkenton completed only 10/21 passes for 133 yards and a touchdown with one interception, while also rushing for 16 yards. Staubach had one of the worst postseason performances of his career, completing just 10/21 passes for 89 yards and throwing 4 interceptions, though he did rush for 30 yards. Foreman was the top offensive performer of the day with 76 rushing yards and 4 receptions for 28, while fullback Oscar Reed added 18 carries for 75 yards and an 8-yard catch.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 119], "content_span": [120, 655]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096721-0033-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, December 30, 1973, NFC: Minnesota Vikings 27, Dallas Cowboys 10\nThis was the second postseason meeting between the Vikings and Cowboys, with Dallas winning the only previous meeting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 119], "content_span": [120, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096721-0034-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, December 30, 1973, AFC: Miami Dolphins 27, Oakland Raiders 10\nMiami threw only six passes during the game, completing just 3 for 34 yards, but gained 266 rushing yards (more than Oakland's total yards for the game) on 53 carries. Running back Larry Csonka led the Dolphins to a victory with 117 rushing yards and an AFC playoff record 3 rushing touchdowns.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 117], "content_span": [118, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096721-0035-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, December 30, 1973, AFC: Miami Dolphins 27, Oakland Raiders 10\nMiami scored on an opening 64-yard drive when quarterback Bob Griese's 27-yard run set up Csonka's 11-yard rushing touchdown. Csonka scored again late in the second quarter at the end of a 63-yard drive that took more than 8 minutes off the clock, finishing it with a 2-yard touchdown run to make the score 14\u20130 with 14 seconds left in the half.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 117], "content_span": [118, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096721-0036-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, December 30, 1973, AFC: Miami Dolphins 27, Oakland Raiders 10\nOakland managed to get on the board in the third quarter with a 21-yard George Blanda field goal, but this was quickly countered with a 42-yard Garo Yepremian field goal set up by Charlie Leigh's 53-yard kickoff return. Oakland then drove 78 yards and scored on Ken Stabler's 25-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Mike Siani, cutting the lead to 17\u201310. In the fourth quarter, after Griese's 17-yard run on a QB draw set up Yepremian's 26-yard field goal, the Raiders were faced with fourth down and inches on the Dolphins 42 and were forced to \"go for it\".", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 117], "content_span": [118, 676]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096721-0036-0001", "contents": "1973\u201374 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, December 30, 1973, AFC: Miami Dolphins 27, Oakland Raiders 10\nBut running back Marv Hubbard fumbled the ball while trying to get through the line. The ball bounced into the hands of Stabler, who was tackled for a loss by defensive back Dick Anderson, and the Dolphins used their running game to take time off the clock and set up Csonka's third touchdown to clinch the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 117], "content_span": [118, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096721-0037-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NFL playoffs, Conference Championships, Sunday, December 30, 1973, AFC: Miami Dolphins 27, Oakland Raiders 10\nThis was the second postseason meeting between the Raiders and Dolphins, with Oakland winning the only previous meeting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 117], "content_span": [118, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096721-0038-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NFL playoffs, Super Bowl VIII: Miami Dolphins 24, Minnesota Vikings 7\nThis was the first Super Bowl meeting between the Vikings and Dolphins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 77], "content_span": [78, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096722-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NHL season\nThe 1973\u201374 NHL season was the 57th season of the National Hockey League. The Philadelphia Flyers won the Stanley Cup championship, the team's first. The team was the first of the post-1967 teams to win the Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096722-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NHL season, League business\nWith owner Charles O. Finley unable to find a buyer, the league took over operation of the troubled California Golden Seals in February 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 35], "content_span": [36, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096722-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NHL season, Regular season\nThe Philadelphia Flyers, who developed the nickname \"Broad Street Bullies\" because of their physical style of play, dethroned the Chicago Black Hawks as the West Division champions behind the dominant play of Bobby Clarke and Bernie Parent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096722-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NHL season, Regular season\nIn the East Division, the Boston Bruins regained the top spot in the East and the league, behind an ongoing offensive juggernaut that saw Bruins' players finish 1\u20132\u20133\u20134 in NHL scoring (Phil Esposito, Bobby Orr, Ken Hodge and Wayne Cashman) for the second and most recent time in league history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 34], "content_span": [35, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096722-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NHL season, Playoffs\nThe playoffs began on April 9 with the first round, which was played between divisional opponents. The top teams all won their first rounds, with one mild upset, as the third-place New York Rangers defeated the second-place Montreal Canadiens, marking the third straight year that they had defeated the defending Stanley Cup champions in the first round. In the second round, the teams played an inter-divisional round to determine the finalists. The Eastern champion Boston Bruins took on the Western's second-place Chicago Black Hawks, while the Western champion Philadelphia Flyers took on the New York Rangers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 644]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096722-0004-0001", "contents": "1973\u201374 NHL season, Playoffs\nBoston won its series in six games to take one Finals spot, while Philadelphia won its series against the New York Rangers in seven games to make the team's first Finals appearance. With Philadelphia defeating the NY Rangers in the semi-finals, this marked the first time a post 1967 NHL expansion team had ever won a playoff series against an Original Six opponent.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 395]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096722-0004-0002", "contents": "1973\u201374 NHL season, Playoffs\nIn the Finals, the Flyers won the series in six games against the Bruins to win not only the franchise's first championship but also to become the first post 1967 NHL expansion team and thus the first non 'Original Six' NHL team to win the Stanley Cup since the Montreal Maroons in 1935.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096722-0005-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NHL season, Playoffs, Quarterfinals, (E1) Boston Bruins vs. (E4) Toronto Maple Leafs\nThe Boston Bruins finished first in the league with 113 points. The Toronto Maple Leafs finished fourth in the East Division with 86 points. This was the 13th playoff meeting between these two teams. Toronto lead 8\u20134 in previous meetings. Boston won their most recent meeting in five games in the 1972 Stanley Cup Quarterfinals. Boston won four of the six games in this year's regular season series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 92], "content_span": [93, 492]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096722-0006-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NHL season, Playoffs, Quarterfinals, (E2) Montreal Canadiens vs. (E3) New York Rangers\nThe Montreal Canadiens finished second in the East Division with 99 points. The New York Rangers finished third with 94 points. This was the 11th playoff meeting between these two teams with the teams splitting the ten previous series. They last met in the 1972 Stanley Cup Quarterfinals which New York won in six games. Montreal won four of the six games in this year's regular season series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 94], "content_span": [95, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096722-0007-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NHL season, Playoffs, Quarterfinals, (W1) Philadelphia Flyers vs. (W4) Atlanta Flames\nThe Philadelphia Flyers finished first in the West Division and second in the league with 112 points. The Atlanta Flames finished fourth with 74 points, the lowest points earned by any playoff team in 1974. The Atlanta Flames made their first playoff appearance in their second season after entering the league in the previous year. This was the first playoff series meeting between these two teams. The teams split this year's six-game regular season series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 93], "content_span": [94, 553]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096722-0008-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NHL season, Playoffs, Quarterfinals, (W2) Chicago Black Hawks vs. (W3) Los Angeles Kings\nThe Chicago Black Hawks finished second in the West Division with 105 points. The Los Angeles Kings finished third in the West Division with 78 points. This was the first playoff series meeting between these two teams. Chicago won this year's six-game regular season series earning eight of twelve points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 96], "content_span": [97, 402]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096722-0009-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NHL season, Playoffs, Semifinals, (E1) Boston Bruins vs. (W2) Chicago Black Hawks\nThis was the fourth playoff meeting between these two teams with Boston winning all three previous series. Boston won their most recent meeting in a four-game sweep in the 1970 Stanley Cup Semifinals. Chicago won this year's five-game regular season series earning seven of ten points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 89], "content_span": [90, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096722-0010-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NHL season, Playoffs, Semifinals, (W1) Philadelphia Flyers vs. (E3) New York Rangers\nThis was the first playoff meeting between these two teams. New York won this year's five-game regular season series earning six of ten points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 92], "content_span": [93, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096722-0011-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NHL season, Playoffs, Stanley Cup Finals\nThis was the first playoff meeting between these two teams. The Bruins made their thirteenth Finals appearance; winning in their last appearance in 1972 where they defeated the New York Rangers in six games. The Flyers made their first Finals appearance in their seventh season since entering the league in the 1967\u201368 NHL season. Boston won this year's five-game regular season series earning seven of ten points. Boston was the prohibitive favorite entering the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 48], "content_span": [49, 520]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096722-0012-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NHL season, Playoffs, Stanley Cup Finals\nHowever, the Philadelphia Flyers stunned the Bruins in six games to become the first non-Original Six team to win the Stanley Cup since 1935 and the first expansion team to do so since the league began expanding in 1967.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 48], "content_span": [49, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096722-0013-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NHL season, Awards\nA new award, the Jack Adams for the best coach, was introduced for this season. The first winner was Fred Shero of the Philadelphia Flyers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 26], "content_span": [27, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096722-0014-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NHL season, Player statistics, Scoring leaders\nNote: GP = Games played, G = Goals, A = Assists, Pts = Points, PIM = Penalties in minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 54], "content_span": [55, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096722-0015-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NHL season, Player statistics, Leading goaltenders\nNote: GP = Games played; Min \u2013 Minutes Played; GA = Goals Against; GAA = Goals Against Average; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; SO = Shutouts", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 58], "content_span": [59, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096722-0016-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NHL season, Debuts\nThe following is a list of players of note who played their first NHL game in 1973\u201374 (listed with their first team, asterisk(*) marks debut in playoffs):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 26], "content_span": [27, 181]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096722-0017-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NHL season, Last games\nThe following is a list of players of note that played their last game in the NHL in 1973\u201374 (listed with their last team):", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096722-0018-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NHL season, Last games\nNOTE: Frank Mahovlich would finish his major professional career in the World Hockey Association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 30], "content_span": [31, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096723-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NK Hajduk Split season\nThe 1974\u201375 season was the 63rd season in Hajduk Split\u2019s history and their 28th season in the Yugoslav First League. Their 8th place finish in the 1972\u201373 season meant it was their 28th successive season playing in the Yugoslav First League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096724-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NTFL season\nThe 1973/74 NTFL season was the 53rd season of the Northern Territory Football League (NTFL).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 113]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096724-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 NTFL season\nWaratah have won there 12th premiership title while defeating the Nightcliff Tigers in the grand final by 3 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096725-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 National Basketball League season\nThe 1973\u201374 Clarks Men's Shoes National Basketball League season was the second season of the newly formulated National Basketball League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096725-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 National Basketball League season\nThe league was sponsored by Clarks Men's Shoes and the number of teams increased to eight. The Avenue club moved from Leyton to Edmonton and the Sutton club merged with Crystal Palace. Four new teams appeared in the form of the Doncaster Panthers, the Manchester Giants and two more London based teams the Islington & London Latvian Embassy All-Stars and the London YMCA Metros.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 420]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096725-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 National Basketball League season\nThe Sutton & Crystal Palace team completed the double of National League and Cup beginning what would soon be a dynasty for the Crystal Palace team. There were no play offs for the League during this era and an American called Jim Guymon was the season MVP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096726-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 National Football League (Ireland)\nThe 1973\u201374 National Football League was the 43rd staging of the National Football League (NFL), an annual Gaelic football tournament for the Gaelic Athletic Association county teams of Ireland.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096726-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 National Football League (Ireland)\nKerry beat Roscommon in the final to complete a four-in-a-row.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 42], "section_span": [42, 42], "content_span": [43, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096727-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 National Hurling League\nThe 1973\u201374 National Hurling League was the 43rd season of the National Hurling League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096727-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 National Hurling League, Division 1\nWexford came into the season as defending champions of the 1972-73 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096727-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 National Hurling League, Division 1\nOn 5 May 1974, Cork won the title following a 6\u201315 to 1\u201312 win over Limerick in the final. It was their 10th league title overall and their first since 1971-72.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 204]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096727-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 National Hurling League, Division 1\nDublin's Pat Quigley was the Division 1 top scorer with 2-49.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 43], "content_span": [44, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096728-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Nationalliga A, Overview\nThe Nationalliga A season 1973\u201374 was contested under 14 teams. These were the top 12 teams from the previous 1972\u201373 season and the two newly promoted teams Xamax and Ch\u00eanois. The championship was played in a double round robin. The champions would qualify for the 1974\u201375 European Cup, the second and third placed teams were to qualify for 1974\u201375 UEFA Cup and the last two teams in the table at the end of the season were to be relegated. Z\u00fcrich won the championship 12 points ahead of Grasshopper Club, 13 ahead of the Servette and Winterthur. La Chaux-de-Fonds and Chiasso suffered relegation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 32], "content_span": [33, 631]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096729-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Nationalliga A season\nThe 1973\u201374 Nationalliga A season was the 36th season of the Nationalliga A, the top level of ice hockey in Switzerland. Eight teams participated in the league, and SC Bern won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 224]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096731-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 New England Whalers season\nThe 1973\u201374 New England Whalers season was the second season of the Whalers' franchise. The Whalers qualified for the playoffs for the second-straight season to attempt to defend their championship. They were defeated in the first round by the Chicago Cougars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 295]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096731-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 New England Whalers season, Draft picks\nNew England's draft picks at the 1973 WHA Amateur Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 47], "content_span": [48, 104]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096732-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 New York Golden Blades/New Jersey Knights season\nThe 1973\u201374 New York Golden Blades/Jersey Knights season was the second season of operation of the franchise in the World Hockey Association.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096732-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 New York Golden Blades/New Jersey Knights season\nThe club was known as the New York Raiders in the previous season. With a change in ownership, the financially challenged team was renamed the New York Golden Blades for the start of this season. The team drew as few as 500 ticket buyers to some home games, and the latest (of 18) owners folded operations. The league took over operations and moved the team to the Greater Philadelphia metropolitan area township of Cherry Hill, New Jersey on November 21, 1973, renaming the franchise the Jersey Knights.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 561]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096732-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 New York Golden Blades/New Jersey Knights season\nThis was the last season of operation in the Northeast megalopolis area, as the franchise relocated to San Diego, California, becoming the San Diego Mariners for the 1974\u201375 WHA season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [56, 56], "content_span": [57, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096732-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 New York Golden Blades/New Jersey Knights season, Player stats\nNote: Pos = Position; GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/- = plus/minus; PIM = Penalty minutes; PPG = Power-play goals; SHG = Short-handed goals; GWG = Game-winning goals\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0MIN = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; GA = Goals-against; GAA = Goals-against average; SO = Shutouts;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 70], "content_span": [71, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096732-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 New York Golden Blades/New Jersey Knights season, Transactions\nJim McLeod traded to Los Angeles Sharks for Russ Gillow & Earl Heiskala, January, 1974. Earl Heiskala refused to report and was suspended.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 70], "content_span": [71, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096732-0005-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 New York Golden Blades/New Jersey Knights season, Transactions\nBobby Sheehan to Edmonton Oilers for future considerations (Bob Falkenburg), March, 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 70], "content_span": [71, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096732-0006-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 New York Golden Blades/New Jersey Knights season, Draft picks\nNew York's draft picks at the 1973 WHA Amateur Draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 56], "section_span": [58, 69], "content_span": [70, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096733-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 New York Islanders season\nThe 1973\u201374 New York Islanders season was the second season for the New York Islanders franchise in the National Hockey League. During the regular season, the Islanders finished in eighth place in the East Division with a 19\u201341\u201318 record and did not qualify for the Stanley Cup playoffs for the second straight year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 350]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096733-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 New York Islanders season, Player statistics\nNote: Pos = Position; GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/- = plus/minus; PIM = Penalty minutes; PPG = Power-play goals; SHG = Short-handed goals; GWG = Game-winning goals\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0MIN = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; GA = Goals-against; GAA = Goals-against average; SO = Shutouts;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 52], "content_span": [53, 370]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096733-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 New York Islanders season, Draft picks\nThe 1973 NHL Amateur Draft was held on May 15, 1973, at the Mount Royal Hotel in Montreal, Quebec.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 46], "content_span": [47, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096734-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 New York Knicks season\nThe 1973\u201374 New York Knicks season was the 28th season for the team in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Knicks entered the season as the defending NBA champions, having defeated the Los Angeles Lakers in the 1973 NBA Finals in five games to win their second championship. In the regular season, the Knicks finished in second place in the Atlantic Division with a 49\u201333 record, and qualified for the NBA Playoffs for the eighth consecutive year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096734-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 New York Knicks season\nNew York opened the 1974 playoffs against the Capital Bullets. With a 4\u20133 series victory, the Knicks advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals, where they faced the Boston Celtics. The Celtics, who later won the NBA Finals, defeated the Knicks in five games, ending New York's title defense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 322]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096734-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 New York Knicks season, Draft picks\nNote: This is not an extensive list; it only covers the first and second rounds, and any other players picked by the franchise that played at least one game in the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096735-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 New York Nets season\nThe 1973\u201374 New York Nets season was the seventh season in the ABA basketball New York Nets franchise. The Nets won their first ABA Championship against the Utah Stars.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 197]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096735-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 New York Nets season, Offseason, Exhibition games\nOn September 18, 1973, the Nets opened the ABA vs. NBA exhibition season against the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers. Playing in Binghamton, New York, the Nets beat the 76ers 94\u201388. On September 28 the Nets again faced the 76ers, this time in Trenton, New Jersey. The Nets also won this matchup, 118\u2013100.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 57], "content_span": [58, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096735-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 New York Nets season, Offseason, Exhibition games\nOn September 29, in White Plains, New York, the Nets faced the Washington Bullets. Julius Erving scored a game-high 42 points as the Nets won 127\u2013121.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 57], "content_span": [58, 208]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096735-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 New York Nets season, Offseason, Exhibition games\nOn October 2, 17,226 fans showed up at Madison Square Garden to watch the Nets play the New York Knicks. Erving scored 27 points, 12 of them in the third quarter, as the Nets won 97\u201387.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 57], "content_span": [58, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096735-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 New York Nets season, Offseason, Exhibition games\nOn October 7 the Nets took their 4\u20130 streak against NBA teams into a contest with the Boston Celtics in Uniondale, New York. Erving scored 23 points, but John Havlicek scored 37 for Boston as the Celtics won, 121\u2013102.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 57], "content_span": [58, 275]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096735-0005-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 New York Nets season, Player stats\nNote: GP= Games played; MIN= Minutes; STL= Steals; REB = Rebounds; ASST = Assists; BLK = Blocks; PTS = Points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 42], "content_span": [43, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096736-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 New York Rangers season\nThe 1973\u201374 New York Rangers season was the 48th season for the team in the National Hockey League (NHL). The Rangers compiled 94 points during the regular season and finished third in the East Division. The team made the Stanley Cup playoffs, where New York defeated the Montreal Canadiens 4\u20132 in the quarter-finals. The Rangers then lost in a seven-game semi-finals series to the Philadelphia Flyers, who went on to win the Stanley Cup that season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096736-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 New York Rangers season, Player statistics\n\u2020Denotes player spent time with another team before joining Rangers. Stats reflect time with Rangers only. \u2021Traded mid-season. Stats reflect time with Rangers only.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096736-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 New York Rangers season, Draft picks\nNew York's picks at the 1973 NHL Amateur Draft in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096737-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Newport County A.F.C. season\nThe 1973\u201374 season was Newport County's 12th consecutive season in the Football League Fourth Division since relegation at the end of the 1961\u201362 season and their 46th overall in the Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 237]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096738-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team\nThe 1973\u201374 North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team represented the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during the 1973\u201374 men's college basketball season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096739-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Northern Football League\nThe 1973\u201374 Northern Football League season was the 76th in the history of Northern Football League, a football competition in England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096739-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Northern Football League, Clubs\nDivision One featured 20 clubs which competed in the league last season, no new clubs joined the division this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 39], "content_span": [40, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096740-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Northern Premier League\nThe 1973\u201374 Northern Premier League was the sixth season of the Northern Premier League, a regional football league in Northern England, the northern areas of the Midlands and North Wales. The season began on 11 August 1973 and concluded on 9 May 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 284]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096740-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Northern Premier League, Overview, Team changes\nThe following club left the League at the end of the previous season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 125]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096740-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Northern Premier League, Overview, Team changes\nThe following club joined the League at the start of the season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 120]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096740-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Northern Premier League, Overview, League table\nThe system of using goal average to separate two teams tied on points was used up until the 1976\u201377 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096740-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Northern Premier League, Cup results, Northern Premier League Shield\nBetween Champions of NPL Premier Division and Winners of the NPL Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 146]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096740-0005-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Northern Premier League, Cup results, FA Cup\nOut of the twenty-four clubs from the Northern Premier League, only three teams reached for the second round:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 52], "content_span": [53, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096740-0006-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Northern Premier League, Cup results, FA Trophy\nOut of the twenty-four clubs from the Northern Premier League, four teams reached for the fourth round:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 55], "content_span": [56, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096740-0007-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Northern Premier League, End of the season\nAt the end of the sixth season of the Northern Premier League none of the teams put forward for election received enough votes to be promoted to the Football League. Bradford Park Avenue folded.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096740-0008-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Northern Premier League, End of the season, Football League elections\nAlongside the four Football League teams facing re-election, a total of seven non-League teams applied for election, one of which were from the Northern Premier League. All four Football League teams were re-elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 77], "content_span": [78, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096740-0009-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Northern Premier League, End of the season, Promotion and relegation\nThe following club left the league at the end of the season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 76], "content_span": [77, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096741-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Northern Rugby Football League season\nThe 1973\u201374 Rugby Football League season was the 79th season of rugby league football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [45, 45], "content_span": [46, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096741-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Northern Rugby Football League season, Season summary\n1973-1974 saw two division rugby re-introduced. The Championship play offs were done away with and the league leaders were declared the champions. A \"Club Championship\" was played in place of the play offs but this was a one-off precursor to what became the end of season Premiership. It was a complicated format that involved sides from both divisions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 415]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096741-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Northern Rugby Football League season, Season summary\nOn 25 April, David Watkins of Salford scored the last of 929 points (41 tries, 403 goals) in a record run of scoring in 92 consecutive games for one club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 216]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096741-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Northern Rugby Football League season, Season summary\nKeith Mumby made his d\u00e9but for Bradford Northern this season as the club's youngest ever player, aged 16. In a match against Doncaster this season he scored 12 goals and a try. He went on to become the club's record appearance holder, playing 576 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 315]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096741-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Northern Rugby Football League season, Season summary\nSalford won their fifth Championship. Oldham, Hull Kingston Rovers, Leigh and Whitehaven were demoted to the Second Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 187]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096741-0005-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Northern Rugby Football League season, Season summary\nThe Challenge Cup winners were Warrington who beat Featherstone Rovers 24-9 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096741-0006-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Northern Rugby Football League season, Season summary\nThe Player's No.6 Trophy winners were Warrington who beat Rochdale Hornets 24-17 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096741-0007-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Northern Rugby Football League season, Season summary\nThe Club Championship was won by Warrington who beat St. Helens 13-12 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 145]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096741-0008-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Northern Rugby Football League season, Season summary\nBBC2 Floodlit Trophy winners were Bramley who beat Widnes 15-7 in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096741-0009-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Northern Rugby Football League season, Season summary\n2nd Division Champions were: Bradford Northern, and they York, Keighley and Halifax were promoted to the First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096741-0010-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Northern Rugby Football League season, Season summary\nWigan beat Salford 19\u20139 to win the Lancashire County Cup, and Leeds beat Wakefield Trinity 7\u20132 to win the Yorkshire County Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 61], "content_span": [62, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096741-0011-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Northern Rugby Football League season, Challenge Cup\nWarrington defeated Huddersfield, Huyton, Wigan and Dewsbury to get to the final against Featherstone Rovers. Captained by Alex Murphy, Warrington beat Featherstone Rovers 24-9 in the final played at Wembley in front of a crowd of 77,400.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 60], "content_span": [61, 299]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096741-0012-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Northern Rugby Football League season, Challenge Cup\nThis was Warrington\u2019s fourth Cup Final win in ten Final appearances. Derek Whitehead, Warrington's full-back won the Lance Todd Trophy for man-of-the-match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 60], "content_span": [61, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096741-0013-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Northern Rugby Football League season, Kangaroo Tour\nFrom September until December also saw the appearance of the Australian team in England on their 1973 Kangaroo Tour. Other than the three test Ashes series against Great Britain (won 2\u20131 by Australia), The Kangaroos played matches against club and county representative sides", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 60], "content_span": [61, 336]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096741-0014-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Northern Rugby Football League season, Kangaroo Tour\nThe 1978 Kangaroos were captain-coached by champion St George Dragons fullback Graeme Langlands who was making his third tour following from 1963\u201364 and 1967\u201368", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 45], "section_span": [47, 60], "content_span": [61, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096742-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Norwegian 1. Divisjon season\nThe 1973\u201374 Norwegian 1. Divisjon season was the 35th season of ice hockey in Norway. Ten teams participated in the league, and Hasle-Loren Idrettslag won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096743-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball team\nThe 1973\u201374 Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball team represented the University of Notre Dame during the 1973\u201374 season. The team was coached by Digger Phelps and was ranked in the Associated Press poll for the entirety of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 297]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096743-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball team\nForward John Shumate was the team's captain and leading scorer, averaging 24.2 points per game. After the season, Shumate was selected as a first-team player on the 1974 All-America team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096743-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball team\nThe team's sole loss was by a 77\u201368 score against Michigan in the NCAA Tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 55], "section_span": [55, 55], "content_span": [56, 138]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096744-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 OB I bajnoksag season\nThe 1973\u201374 OB I bajnoks\u00e1g season was the 37th season of the OB I bajnoks\u00e1g, the top level of ice hockey in Hungary. Four teams participated in the league, and Ferencvarosi TC won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096745-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 PAOK FC season\nThe 1973\u201374 season was PAOK Football Club's 48th in existence and the club's 15th consecutive season in the top flight of Greek football. The team entered the Greek Football Cup in first round, and also participated in the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup reaching the quarter-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096745-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 PAOK FC season, Players, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 38], "content_span": [39, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096745-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 PAOK FC season, Statistics, Squad statistics\nAppearances denote players in the starting lineup, with the numbers in parentheses denoting appearances as substitute.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 52], "content_span": [53, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096746-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. season\nThe 1973\u201374 season was Paris Saint-Germain's 4th season in existence. PSG mainly played their home league games at the Stade Municipal Georges Lef\u00e8vre in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, but occasionally at the Parc des Princes and the Stade Jean-Bouin (both in Paris) as well, registering an average attendance of 4,087 spectators per match. The club was presided by Daniel Hechter and the team was coached by co-managers Just Fontaine and Robert Vicot. Jean-Pierre Dogliani was the team captain.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 527]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096746-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. season\nParis Saint-Germain really took flight when fashion designer Daniel Hechter took over and offered his financial support to the club. Shortly before the start of the campaign, he replaced Henri Patrelle as president and named Francis Borelli as vice-president. Hechter then shocked the national game. He appointed French legend Just Fontaine as co-manager with Robert Vicot and signed several prestigious players like Jean-Pierre Dogliani, Jean Deloffre and Louis Cardiet.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 511]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096746-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. season\nThe Parisians finished second in Group B of the 1973\u201374 French Division 2 and qualified for the promotion playoffs. Valenciennes won 2\u20131 at home, but the capital club recorded an incredible 4\u20132 comeback in the second game, thus sealing its spot in the 1974\u201375 French Division 1 and regaining its professional status abandoned two years earlier. Since then, PSG have always played in the top flight. The club's tradition of brilliant Coupe de France runs also started in the 1973\u201374 edition. PSG reached the quarterfinals after beating Metz at Parc des Princes in front of 25,000 spectators, before being ousted by Reims.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 660]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096746-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. season, Players, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 55], "content_span": [56, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096746-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. season, Transfers, Arrivals\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 60], "content_span": [61, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096746-0005-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. season, Transfers, Departures\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 62], "content_span": [63, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096746-0006-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. season, Kits\nCanadian soft-drink brand Canada Dry was the shirt sponsor. French sportswear brand Le Coq Sportif was the kit manufacturer.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 45], "content_span": [46, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096747-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Philadelphia 76ers season\nThe 1973\u201374 NBA season was the 76ers 25th season in the NBA & 11th season in Philadelphia. The team improved from a league history worst 9 wins to 25 wins, thanks to a fruitful 1973 NBA Draft which yielded overall #1 pick Doug Collins. Eventual 76er mainstays George McGinnis and Caldwell Jones were also selected by the team, but both would opt for the ABA.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 392]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096747-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Philadelphia 76ers season\nFred Carter was the team's leading scorer who averaged over 20 points a game & Doug Collins was a rookie on this squad who was the #1 overall draft choice from Illinois State in the 1973 draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096748-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Philadelphia Flyers season\nThe 1973\u201374 Philadelphia Flyers season was the Flyers' seventh season in the National Hockey League (NHL). The Flyers became the first expansion team to win the Stanley Cup. Prior to this season, no post-1967 expansion team had either beaten an Original Six team in a playoff round or won a Stanley Cup Final game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 349]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096748-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Philadelphia Flyers season\nGoaltender Bernie Parent, an \"Original Flyer\", returned to the franchise in the off-season, and the Flyers proved that the expansion teams could challenge the Original Six in 1973\u201374. The Bullies continued their rough-and-tumble ways, led by Dave Schultz's 348 penalty minutes, and reached the top of the West Division with a record of 50\u201316\u201312. The return of Parent proved to be of great benefit as he established himself as one of if not the best goaltender in the league by winning 47 games, a record which stood for 33 years. Since the Flyers, along with Chicago, allowed the fewest goals in the league, Parent also shared the Vezina Trophy with Chicago's Tony Esposito.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 709]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096748-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Philadelphia Flyers season\nCome playoff time, the Flyers swept the Atlanta Flames in four games in the first round. In the semi-finals, the Flyers faced the New York Rangers. The series, which saw the home team win every game, went seven games. The Flyers had home-ice advantage as they advanced to the Stanley Cup Finals by winning Game 7. Their opponent, Bobby Orr and the Boston Bruins, took Game 1 in Boston, but Bobby Clarke scored an overtime goal in Game 2 to even the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 491]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096748-0002-0001", "contents": "1973\u201374 Philadelphia Flyers season\nThe Flyers won Games 3 and 4 at home to take a 3\u20131 series lead, but Boston won Game 5 to stave off elimination. That set the stage for Game 6 at the Spectrum. The Flyers picked up the lead early when Rick MacLeish scored a first-period goal. Late in the game, Orr hauled down Clarke on a breakaway, a penalty which assured the Flyers of victory. Time expired as the Flyers brought the Stanley Cup to Philadelphia for the first time. Parent, having shut out Boston in Game 6, won the Conn Smythe Trophy as the Playoff MVP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 556]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096748-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Philadelphia Flyers season, Regular season\nThe 1973\u201374 season opened on October 11, 1973, against the Toronto Maple Leafs. This was the first time Kate Smith performed \"God Bless America\" in person at a Flyers' game. The Flyers started strong to begin the season winning their first four games and only allowing their opponents to score three goals total while they netted 18. The Flyers were 29\u201311\u20136 heading into the All Star Game. The Flyers were represented in the All Star Game by Bobby Clarke, Bernie Parent, Ed Van Impe and Joe Watson. The Flyers finished 1st in the Western Division, seven points ahead of the second place Chicago Black Hawks.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096748-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Philadelphia Flyers season, Regular season\nThe team was led offensively by Bobby Clarke, who led the team in goals with 35, assists with 52 and points with 87. He finished fifth among scoring leader in points. Clarke was named a 2nd Team All Stars along with defenseman Barry Ashbee. Clarke was followed by Bill Barber in goals (34), and by Rick MacLeish both in assists (45) and in points (77).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 403]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096748-0005-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Philadelphia Flyers season, Regular season\nIn net, the Flyers were led by goaltender Bernie Parent, who went 47\u201313\u201312, posted a 1.89 goals against average (136 goals against on 2038 shots) and 12 shutouts. Parent's 47 wins was a record until Martin Brodeur won 48 games in the 2006\u201307 NHL season. It remains the record for most regulation wins by a goaltender in a single season as several of Brodeur's wins came in overtime and the shootout, neither of which existed in the 1970s. Parent was a co-winner of the Vezina Trophy, which was awarded at the time to any goaltenders who played 25 or more games for the team allowing the fewest goals against, with Black Hawks' goaltender Tony Esposito.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 50], "content_span": [51, 703]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096748-0006-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Philadelphia Flyers season, Playoffs\nThe Flyers opened the post season against the 4th place Atlanta Flames. The Flyers swept the Atlanta Flames in four games with a combined score of 17\u20136. Rick MacLeish led the Flyers with four goals during the series. He scored a natural hat-trick in Game 2.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 302]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096748-0007-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Philadelphia Flyers season, Playoffs\nThe Flyers headed into a grueling semi-finals match up against the New York Rangers, who had won the regular season series 2\u20131\u20132. The series opened up in Philadelphia at the Spectrum with the Flyers shutting out the Rangers 4\u20130 in Game 1 and taking Game 2 5\u20132. The series switched back to New York and the Rangers would take Game 3 5\u20133 and Game 4 in overtime 2\u20131. The Flyers won Game 5 at home 4\u20131. With the Rangers on the verge of defeat in Game 6 the Rangers won 4\u20131. In Game 7 Gary Dornhoefer scored the game-winning goal with 10:59 left in the third. Rick MacLeish again led the Flyers in scoring in this series with seven goals. The home team was the winner of every game in the series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 736]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096748-0008-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Philadelphia Flyers season, Playoffs\nThis set up a Stanley Cup Finals matchup against the Boston Bruins, who won the season series 3\u20131\u20131. The series opened in Boston at the Boston Garden with Boston winning Game 1, 3\u20132 and the Flyers winning Game 2, 3\u20132 in overtime on a Bobby Clarke goal. The series moved to Philadelphia where the Flyers won Game 3, 4\u20131 and Game 4, 4\u20132. The series returned to Boston and Bruins won Game 5, 5\u20131. The series returned to Philadelphia for Game 6. Kate Smith performed \"God Bless America\" to a sell out crowd of 17,007 prior to the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 576]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096748-0008-0001", "contents": "1973\u201374 Philadelphia Flyers season, Playoffs\nThe Flyers won their first Stanley Cup on the lone goal of the game by Rick MacLeish in the first period. With seconds left on the Clock Gene Hart, the Flyers play-by-play announcer, made his famous call \"Ladies and gentlemen, the Flyers are going to win the Stanley Cup. The Flyers win the Stanley Cup. The Flyers win the Stanley Cup. The Flyers have won the Stanley Cup!\". Bernie Parent was awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 484]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096748-0009-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Philadelphia Flyers season, Transactions\nThe Flyers were involved in the following transactions from May 11, 1973, the day after the deciding game of the 1973 Stanley Cup Finals, through May 19, 1974, the day of the deciding game of the 1974 Stanley Cup Finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 48], "content_span": [49, 269]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096748-0010-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Philadelphia Flyers season, Transactions, Signings, Free agency\nThe following players were signed by the Flyers via free agency.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 71], "content_span": [72, 136]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096748-0011-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Philadelphia Flyers season, Transactions, Signings, Internal\nThe following players were either re-signed by the Flyers or, in the case of the team's selections in the NHL Entry Draft, signed to contracts.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 68], "content_span": [69, 212]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096748-0012-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Philadelphia Flyers season, Transactions, NHL Intra-League Draft\nThe 1973 NHL Intra-League Draft was held on June 12, 1973. Each NHL team placed 18 skaters and 2 goaltenders on a protected list from which the other teams could not select. It cost $40,000 to make a claim. The Flyers were not involved in any selections during the draft.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 72], "content_span": [73, 344]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096748-0013-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Philadelphia Flyers season, Transactions, Departures\nThe following players left the team via free agency, release, or retirement. Players who were under contract and left the team during the season are marked with an asterisk (*).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 60], "content_span": [61, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096748-0014-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Philadelphia Flyers season, Draft picks\nPhiladelphia's picks at the 1973 NHL Amateur Draft, which was held at the Mount Royal Hotel in Montreal, Quebec on May 15, 1973.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 47], "content_span": [48, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096748-0015-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Philadelphia Flyers season, Farm teams\nThe Flyers were affiliated with the Richmond Robins of the AHL and the San Diego Gulls of the WHL. Rene Drolet led the Robins with 73 points and Richmond finished 4th in their division and lost in five games to the Baltimore Clippers in the first round of the playoffs. San Diego finished 3rd in the 6-team WHL's final season in existence. The Gulls also ceased operations once the Jersey Knights of the WHA moved to San Diego and became the San Diego Mariners.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 46], "content_span": [47, 508]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096749-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Phoenix Suns season\nThe 1973\u201374 Phoenix Suns season was the sixth for the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association. It was the first of 14 seasons head coach John MacLeod spent with Phoenix. The season would also be the last for former All-Star forward/center Connie Hawkins, traded to the Los Angeles Lakers after appearing in nine games for the Suns. Charlie Scott would repeat as an All-Star, but who missed 30 games due to injury despite his NBA career-high 25.4 points a game. The team went on to finish the season 30\u201352, a career-worst for MacLeod and the franchise's poorest record since their inaugural season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 637]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096749-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Phoenix Suns season\nDick Van Arsdale averaged 17.8 points on the season, while Neal Walk averaged 16.8 points and a team-high 10.2 rebounds per contest. Keith Erickson, obtained by the Suns along with a future second round pick in the Hawkins trade, enjoyed a career-high 14.6 points a game in his ninth year in the NBA and first with Phoenix.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 351]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096749-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Phoenix Suns season\nVan Arsdale was named to the NBA All-Defensive Second Team, while Mike Bantom, a rookie out of Saint Joseph's, was named to the All-Rookie Team.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096749-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Phoenix Suns season, Player statistics, Season\n* \u2013 Stats with the Suns. \u2020 \u2013 Minimum 560 field goal attempts. ^ \u2013 Minimum 160 free throw attempts. + \u2013 Minimum 70 games played.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 54], "content_span": [55, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096750-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Pittsburgh Penguins season\nThe 1973\u201374 Pittsburgh Penguins season was the franchise's seventh season in the National Hockey League. The 'Century Line' of Syl Apps Jr., Lowell MacDonald and Jean Pronovost was established this season. The trio took their name as a result of combining for more than 100 goals over the course of the year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096750-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Playoffs\nThe Penguins failed to make the playoffs for the second consecutive year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 44], "content_span": [45, 118]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096750-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Player statistics\n\u2020Denotes player spent time with another team before joining the Penguins. Stats reflect time with the Penguins only. \u2021Denotes player was traded mid-season. Stats reflect time with the Penguins only.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 53], "content_span": [54, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096750-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Pittsburgh Penguins season, Transactions\nThe Penguins were involved in the following transactions during the 1973\u201374 season:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 48], "content_span": [49, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096751-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Polska Liga Hokejowa season\nThe 1973\u201374 Polska Liga Hokejowa season was the 39th season of the Polska Liga Hokejowa, the top level of ice hockey in Poland. 10 teams participated in the league, and Podhale Nowy Targ won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 244]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096752-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Port Vale F.C. season\nThe 1973\u201374 season was Port Vale's 62nd season of football in the Football League, and their fourth successive season (tenth overall) in the Third Division. They finished in twentieth spot, though were seven points clear of relegation. Manager Gordon Lee left the club in January, and was replaced by club legend Roy Sproson.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 355]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096752-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Third Division\nThe pre-season saw Sammy Morgan sold to Aston Villa for \u00a322,222 (plus top-up fees). Gordon Lee drafted in tall young players David Harris and John Ridley from the youth set-up, as well as versatile Keith Chadwick from Crewe Alexandra. The club also erected a 2.5 feet high steel fence around the Bycars End to help combat hooliganism.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 390]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096752-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Third Division\nThe season opened with four games unbeaten, though Tommy McLaren soon damaged his ligaments, and the team suffered in his absence. On 1 October, Vale beat Wrexham 1\u20130 in an 'ugly' game that saw five players booked and Colin Tartt and opposition player Arfon Griffiths separated by police following a scrap in the tunnel. Later in the month Roy Cross badly injured his knee, and would later have to leave the professional game due to the injury. Vale slipped down the league, and by Christmas they were sixth from bottom, with only John Woodward in good form.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096752-0002-0001", "contents": "1973\u201374 Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Third Division\nLee then took out striker Keith Leonard on loan from Aston Villa, and bought left-back Neil Griffiths from Chester for a \u00a35,000 fee. He also changed the formation from 4\u20134\u20132 to 4\u20133\u20133, hoping to give Brian Horton more room in the centre of the park. After an upturn in form in the new year, Bill Summerscales broke his neck, and Lee departed for the management position at Blackburn Rovers. Lee had been seen to have done an excellent job with little money.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 512]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096752-0002-0002", "contents": "1973\u201374 Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Third Division\nIn his place club legend Roy Sproson was appointed as caretaker manager, who advocated an 'entertaining' style of play as opposed to battling for every point. Winning his first match 1\u20130 at Shrewsbury Town, he cracked his head on the concrete trainer's box after leaping up to celebrate McLaren's goal. On 17 February, 8,505 turned up at Vale Park to witness a 3\u20131 win over high-flying Bristol Rovers in an experimental Sunday game. Later Leonard returned to Villa Park at the end of his loan deal, and \u00a35,000 was not enough to tempt Villa to part with his services permanently.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 634]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096752-0002-0003", "contents": "1973\u201374 Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Third Division\nFrom mid-March Vale went eleven games without a win, and on 25 March they could have ended this run, but 'a shocking mistake' from Alan Boswell handed Walsall an equalizer as he palmed a header into his own net. The team continued to rack up yellow cards, and following a warning from The Football Association, Sproson arranged for local referee Roy Capey to lecture the players on sportsmanship. In the middle of April, Sproson was given the management job on a permanent basis, despite his team falling to fifth from bottom. Sproson stated that he was 'calculated' and 'controlled', compared to Lee who 'fizzes like a bottle of pop'. By the time they broke their poor run with a 2\u20131 home win over managerless Charlton Athletic, other results had already ensured their safety from the drop.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 847]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096752-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Third Division\nThey finished in twentieth position with 42 points, though this meant they were seven points clear of relegated Cambridge United in 21st place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 55], "content_span": [56, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096752-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Finances\nOn the financial side, an average home attendance of under 4,000 failed to prevent a profit of \u00a317,831. This profit came from the early sale of Morgan, and donations of \u00a316,443 from the Sportsmen's Association and the Development Fund. The club's total debt stood at \u00a3121,647, as Chairman Singer warned of more player sales to balance the books. Two players leaving for free at the end of the season were Bobby Gough (Southport) and Alan Boswell (Oswestry Town) \u2013 Boswell was described as 'capable of brilliant saves and conceding soft goals'.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 49], "content_span": [50, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096752-0005-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Cup competitions\nIn the FA Cup, Vale won away at Stockport County 1\u20130, before advancing past Northern Premier League Scarborough in the Second Round. After a 1\u20131 draw in Burslem with Second Division Luton Town, they lost the replay at Kenilworth Road 4\u20132.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 296]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096752-0006-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Port Vale F.C. season, Overview, Cup competitions\nIn the League Cup, Vale exited at the first stage with a 2\u20130 defeat at Edgeley Park to Fourth Division Stockport County.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 57], "content_span": [58, 178]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096753-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Portland Trail Blazers season\nThe 1973\u201374 season was the fourth season of the Portland Trail Blazers in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Blazers finished at 27\u201355, a six-game improvement from the previous season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096754-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Primeira Divis\u00e3o, Overview\nIt was contested by 16 teams, and Sporting Clube de Portugal won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [26, 34], "content_span": [35, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096755-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Purdue Boilermakers men's basketball team\nThe 1973\u201374 Purdue Boilermakers men's basketball team represented Purdue University during the 1973\u201374 college basketball season. They finished the regular season with a record of 17\u20139 and received an invitation to the 1974 National Invitation Tournament, where they won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 338]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096756-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 QMJHL season\nThe 1973\u201374 QMJHL season was the fifth season in the history of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. East and west divisions resumed with the addition of two new teams, the Hull Festivals and Chicoutimi Saguen\u00e9ens. Eleven teams played 70 games each in the schedule, up from the 64 games the previous season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096756-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 QMJHL season\nThe season sparked an offensive explosion, unmatched in Canadian Hockey League history. The Sorel \u00c9perviers finished first overall in the regular season, and set a CHL record of 620 goals scored as a team. Three Sorel players, Pierre Larouche, Michel Deziel and Jacques Cossette, had more than 90 goals and 200 points each. Sorel goalkeeper Claude Legris won the top goaltender award, despite posting a 4.50 goals against average; the highest GAA of any Jacques Plante Memorial Trophy winner to date.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 521]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096756-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 QMJHL season\nPierre Larouche set a Canadian junior ice hockey record scoring record for most points scored in a season with 251, that lasted until the 1983\u201384 QMJHL season when broken by Mario Lemieux. Three different players, Mike Bossy, Alain Daigle and Bob Sirois each scored 70 goals or more in the season, yet none were in the top ten league scoring leaders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 371]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096756-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 QMJHL season\nThe Quebec Remparts finished second place in the regular season despite scoring 531 goals as a team, the second highest in CHL history. Quebec won the President's Cup, defeating the first place Sorel \u00c9perviers in the finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096756-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 QMJHL season, Final standings\nNote: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; Pts = Points; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 143]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096756-0005-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 QMJHL season, Scoring leaders\nNote: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalties in Minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 37], "content_span": [38, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096756-0006-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 QMJHL season, Playoffs\nJacques Locas was the leading scorer of the playoffs with 51 points (18 goals, 33 assists).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 30], "content_span": [31, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096758-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Quebec Nordiques season\nThe 1973\u201374 Quebec Nordiques season was the Nordiques second season, as they were coming off a 33\u201340\u20135 record, earning 71 points, failing to qualify for the playoffs in their first season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 220]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096758-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Quebec Nordiques season\nThe Nordiques would replace head coach Maurice Filion in the off-season, and name recently retired NHL superstar goaltender Jacques Plante as head coach of the team. The club also acquired Serge Bernier from the Los Angeles Kings and Rejean Houle from the Montreal Canadiens of the NHL to try to spark the offense.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 346]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096758-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Quebec Nordiques season\nThe Nordiques would improve and finish over .500 for the first time in team history with a 38\u201336\u20134 record, however, they would once again come up short for a playoff berth, finishing only 1 point behind the Chicago Cougars for the final spot.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 274]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096758-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Quebec Nordiques season\nOffensively, Quebec was led by Serge Bernier, as he would post a team best 86 points, scoring a Nordiques record 37 goals along the way. Bob Guindon would have a very solid season, scoring 31 goals and 70 points, while Alain Coron would also score 31 goals while appearing in only 59 games due to injuries. Defenseman J. C. Tremblay would anchor the defense, scoring 9 goals and earning 53 points, while Pierre Roy supplied the team toughness, recording 137 penalty minutes in only 44 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 523]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096758-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Quebec Nordiques season\nIn goal, Richard Brodeur would lead the Nordiques in wins with 15 and save percentage at .901, while Michel DeGuise would post a team best 3.29 GAA, playing in a team high 32 games. Serge Aubry also had some playing time, winning 11 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096759-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 RFU Knockout Cup\nThe 1973\u201374 RFU Knockout Cup was the third edition of England's premier rugby union club competition at the time. Coventry won the competition for the second successive year defeating London Scottish in the final. The final was held at Twickenham Stadium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096760-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Rangers F.C. season\nThe 1973\u201374 season was the 94th season of competitive football by Rangers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096760-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Rangers F.C. season, Overview\nRangers played a total of 51 competitive matches during the 1973\u201374 season. This was the club's centenary season, however, the start to the league championship was poor with no goals in the first four home games which left the side with just seven points from their first six league matches. This early blip meant Rangers were always chasing the title and eventually finished third, five points behind champions Celtic.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 457]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096760-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Rangers F.C. season, Overview\nThe League Cup campaign saw an Old Firm semi-final. A 3\u20131 win for Celtic saw them through to the final. The Scottish Cup did not prove any better as the club exited the competition thanks to a 3\u20130 defeat to Dundee. The European Cup Winners' Cup run was ended in the second round at the hands of Borussia M\u00f6nchengladbach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 358]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096761-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Ranji Trophy\nThe 1973\u201374 Ranji Trophy was the 40th season of the Ranji Trophy. Karnataka ended Bombay's sequence of 15 consecutive titles by defeating them on first innings in the semifinal. They defeated Rajasthan by 185 runs in the final to win their first Ranji Trophy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 280]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096762-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Real Madrid CF season\nThe 1973\u201374 season is Real Madrid Club de F\u00fatbol's 71st season in existence and the club's 42nd consecutive season in the top flight of Spanish football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096762-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Real Madrid CF season, Summary\nDuring the summer, the Spanish Football Federation lifted the ban on foreign player transfers after eleven seasons, so, the club was able to buy Argentine forward Oscar M\u00e1s, German midfielder G\u00fcnter Netzer, teenage defender Jos\u00e9 Antonio Camacho and youngster Vicente del Bosque. The club finished in eighth place in the league. On 8 September 1973 the club announced plans to build a new stadium in Fuencarral, a project that was finally rejected by City Government. During the season Miguel Mu\u00f1oz was fired on 14 January 1974 after a bad streak of results, being replaced by Luis Molowny.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096762-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Real Madrid CF season, Summary\nIn June the team won the 1974 Copa del General\u00edsimo Final 4\u20130 against CF Barcelona.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 122]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096762-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Real Madrid CF season, Summary\nIn the UEFA Cup the squad were eliminated by Ipswich Town 0\u20131 on aggregate in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 38], "content_span": [39, 133]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096762-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Real Madrid CF season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 165]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096763-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Regionalliga\nThe 1973\u201374 Regionalliga was the eleventh season of the Regionalliga, the second tier of the German football league system. The league operated in five regional divisions, Berlin, North, South, Southwest and West. The five league champions and runners-up then entered a promotion play-off to determine the two clubs to move up to the Bundesliga for the next season. Northern German and Berlin champions Eintracht Braunschweig and Tennis Borussia Berlin were promoted.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096763-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Regionalliga\nIt was the last season of the Regionalliga as a tier two league, being replaced by two regional divisions of the 2. Bundesliga at this level from 1974\u201375. Apart from the two teams promoted to the Bundesliga, 38 clubs qualified for the new 2. Bundesliga while the remaining 43 dropped down to the third division Verbandsligas, Amateurligas and Oberligas. Qualification to the 2. Bundesliga took the previous five Regionalliga season into account to determine the qualified teams, rather than just the final tables of 1973\u201374.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 545]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096763-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Regionalliga, Regionalliga Nord\nThe 1973\u201374 season saw three new clubs in the league, Concordia Hamburg and VfL Pinneberg, both promoted from the Amateurliga, while Eintracht Braunschweig been relegated from the Bundesliga to the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096763-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Regionalliga, Regionalliga Berlin\nThe 1973\u201374 season saw two new clubs in the league, SC Westend 01 and BBC S\u00fcdost, both promoted from the Amateurliga, while no club had been relegated from the Bundesliga to the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 41], "content_span": [42, 227]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096763-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Regionalliga, Regionalliga West\nThe 1973\u201374 season saw four new clubs in the league, Rot-Wei\u00df L\u00fcdenscheid, Viktoria K\u00f6ln and OSC Solingen, all three promoted from the Amateurliga, while Rot-Wei\u00df Oberhausen been relegated from the Bundesliga to the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 39], "content_span": [40, 263]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096763-0005-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Regionalliga, Regionalliga S\u00fcdwest\nThe 1973\u201374 season saw two new clubs in the league, Eintracht Kreuznach and FC Ensdorf, both promoted from the Amateurliga, while no club had been relegated from the Bundesliga to the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 42], "content_span": [43, 234]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096763-0006-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Regionalliga, Regionalliga S\u00fcd\nThe 1973\u201374 season saw three new clubs in the league, FC Augsburg, VfR Mannheim and FSV Frankfurt, all three promoted from the Amateurliga, while no club had been relegated from the Bundesliga to the league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [22, 38], "content_span": [39, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096764-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Rheinlandliga\nThe 1973\u201374 Rheinlandliga was the 22nd season of the highest amateur class of the Rhineland Football Association under the name of 1. Amateurliga Rheinland. It was a predecessor of today's Rheinlandliga.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096764-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Rheinlandliga, Results\nRhineland champion was SV Leiwen. With the introduction of the two-division 2nd soccer Bundesliga this season, there were no newcomers from the amateur league. SV Leiwen represented Rhineland in the 1974 German Soccer Amateur Championship and lost in the first round to ASV Herzogenaurach (Bavaria).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 330]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096764-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Rheinlandliga, Results\nSV Speicher, VfB L\u00fctzel, Alemannia Plaidt and FV Engers had to move down to the 2. Amateur league. For the following 1974\u201375 season, Ahrweiler BC, TuS Bad Marienberg and FC Bitburg moved up from the 2. A mature league, as well as a descendants from the Regional league, TuS Neuendorf and Sportfreunde Eisbachtal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 30], "content_span": [31, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096765-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Rochdale A.F.C. season\nThe 1973\u201374 season saw Rochdale compete for their 5th consecutive season in the Football League Third Division. They finished in 24th and last position and were relegated into the Football League Fourth Division", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096766-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Roller Hockey Champions Cup\nThe 1973\u201374 Roller Hockey Champions Cup was the 9th edition of the Roller Hockey Champions Cup organized by CERH.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096766-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Roller Hockey Champions Cup, Teams\nThe champions of the main European leagues, and Barcelona as title holders, played this competition, consisting in a double-legged knockout tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 42], "content_span": [43, 194]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096767-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Romanian Hockey League season\nThe 1973\u201374 Romanian Hockey League season was the 44th season of the Romanian Hockey League. Eight teams participated in the league, and Steaua Bucuresti won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 213]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096768-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Rugby Union County Championship\nThe 1973\u201374 Rugby Union County Championship was the 74th edition of England's County Championship rugby union club competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096768-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Rugby Union County Championship\nGloucestershire won their 11th title after defeating Lancashire in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 117]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096769-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 S.L. Benfica season\nThe 1973\u201374 season was Sport Lisboa e Benfica's 70th season in existence and the club's 40th consecutive season in the top flight of Portuguese football, covering the period from 1 July 1973 to 30 June 1974. Benfica competed domestically in the Primeira Divis\u00e3o and the Ta\u00e7a de Portugal, and participated in the European Cup after winning the previous league.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096769-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 S.L. Benfica season\nAfter dominating the league the year before, Jimmy Hagan started his fourth season at Benfica. With only M\u00e1rio Moinhos and Ant\u00f3nio Barros as new additions, Benfica started their campaign on 9 September, losing in the opening day to Boavista. Two weeks later, Hagan unexpectedly resigned from his position because of interference of President Borges Coutinho to his job. Assistant Fernando Cabrita replaced him and within a month, Benfica was knocked-out of the European Cup by \u00dajpesti D\u00f3zsa. Despite that, Benfica's performance in the Primeira Divis\u00e3o remained good, with the team getting a point from the top on early December.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 656]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096769-0001-0001", "contents": "1973\u201374 S.L. Benfica season\nHowever a poor end of the month saw them lost the undefeated streak at home dating back to 1965, and fall to fourth place, four points from the top. In the second half of the season, Benfica collected consecutive wins and reached second place by early February, while also cutting their gap to Sporting to just one point. In March, a loss in Est\u00e1dio das Antas with Porto and a draw with Beira-Mar, put Sporting with a four-point lead again.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 468]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096769-0001-0002", "contents": "1973\u201374 S.L. Benfica season\nNonetheless, Benfica beat Sporting at their own home and three weeks later, they got back to a single point difference after their rival dropped points. That gap remained unchanged until the last match-day, when Sporting won the title. In the Portuguese Cup, Benfica reached the Ta\u00e7a de Portugal Final after beating Porto away, but lost the competition on extra-time to Sporting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 407]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096769-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary\nBenfica started the new season after having won their third consecutive league title in the past season. It was their first league undefeated, and they also broke a record for longest distance to second place, 18 points. In the transfer window, Benfica signed M\u00e1rio Moinhos and brought back Ant\u00f3nio Barros from loan. In the departures, they let go of Augusto Matine and Jo\u00e3o Alves. In his fourth year, Hagan's pre-season saw Benfica play in Angola and Mozambique, three games with Am\u00e9rica with three different results. Afterwards, they played the Trofeo Colombino in 18 and 19 August, losing the trophy for Dinamo Tbilisi. From 21 to 23 August, Benfica participated in the inaugural Trofeo Villa de Madrid, finishing fourth. The pre-season closed with the Thessaloniki Tournament, which Benfica won.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 843]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096769-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary\nBenfica started their title defence on 9 September against Boavista on Est\u00e1dio do Bessa. They lost 2\u20130, ending their undefeated streak in the competition that dated back to 26 March 1972. The team responded well and won their next three league matches. On 25 September, on a day of Eus\u00e9bio testimonial match, in a training session, Humberto Coelho, Toni and Nelinho did an exercise wrong and Jimmy Hagan lost it. He fined them, made them repeat an afternoon practise and miss the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096769-0003-0001", "contents": "1973\u201374 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary\nHagan back-tracked on the first two, but still did not call them for the game saying that \"Toni and Humberto will not play\". President Borges Coutinho overruled him and Hagan unexpectedly resigned the next day for interference to his job. He was replaced by Fernando Cabrita, his assistant. His first game was an away win against Olympiacos for the European Cup. On 7 October, Benfica drew 0\u20130 with Farense, adding another lost point in the campaign. In the league table, they sat in third place with 7 points, two shy of leaders Vit\u00f3ria de Set\u00fabal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 593]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096769-0003-0002", "contents": "1973\u201374 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary\nBut as Benfica resumed their winning path domestically, in the European Cup, the situation deteriorated, with Benfica being knocked-out by \u00dajpesti D\u00f3zsa in the second round. Now solely focused in the Primeira Divis\u00e3o, on match-day 9, Benfica dropped points on the road again, drawing 0\u20130 with Vit\u00f3ria de Guimar\u00e3es. That allowed Vit\u00f3ria de Set\u00fabal to increase their lead even further. On 2 December, Benfica defeated Sporting in the Derby de Lisboa to overtake them in the league. They also took advantage of the loss of Set\u00fabal to reduce their lead to a point.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096769-0003-0003", "contents": "1973\u201374 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary\nHowever, the following week, on the first away match of December, Benfica lost 2\u20130 against Acad\u00e9mica de Coimbra and was again three points down from leaders Set\u00fabal. The month closed with a home defeat against Vit\u00f3ria de Set\u00fabal, their first home loss since 17 October 1965. Losing by 3\u20132 in Est\u00e1dio da Luz pushed Benfica into fourth place with 21 points, four less than Sporting, who lapped the first half of the season in first place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 480]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096769-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary\nBenfica's first games in 1974 was much better overall. After winning all their matches in January, Benfica reached second-place ex-aequo with Porto on 11 February. Taking advantage of Porto's draw and Sporting's loss, Benfica won their match and cut Sporting's lead to just one point. In early March, Benfica surpassed Porto after their rival dropped points in Guimar\u00e3es. On 10 March, Benfica visited Est\u00e1dio das Antas to play Porto, losing 2\u20131. With this defeat, Benfica was now with 35 points, three less than Sporting.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 565]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096769-0004-0001", "contents": "1973\u201374 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary\nFollowing a home win against Guimar\u00e3es, on next match on the road, Benfica drew with Beira-Mar by 1\u20131. The draw allowed Sporting to open a four-point gap with five matches to go, practically ending any hope of Benfica renewing their league title. On 31 March, Benfica played Sporting in Est\u00e1dio de Alvalade and defeated them by 5\u20133, cutting their rivals lead to two points. Before the match, Sporting had requested a Spanish referee and issued an announcement asking for doping control on Benfica.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096769-0004-0002", "contents": "1973\u201374 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary\nFernando Cabrita replied that Benfica's players did not need to be drugged to be the best in Portugal, as they had shown in the match and with eight points in play, Benfica was not dead yet. On 21 April, Sporting dropped points with Beira-Mar, and witnessed Benfica get within a point with three matches to go. Four days later, Carnation Revolution occurred, bringing the country back to democracy. In May, in the last three matches with both teams separated by a point, Sporting won the title on 20 May after defeating Barreirense, while Benfica drew with Set\u00fabal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 609]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096769-0004-0003", "contents": "1973\u201374 S.L. Benfica season, Season summary\nBenfica finished with two points less, 47 to 49. On 2 June, Benfica secured their presence in the Ta\u00e7a de Portugal Final after a 3\u20130 win against Porto on Est\u00e1dio das Antas. Seven days later, Benfica met Sporting in the Final. A goal from Nen\u00e9 gave Benfica the lead which lasted until the 88th minute, when Sporting levelled. In extra-time, Marinho scored for Sporting which awarded them a double. It was Fernando Cabrita last match in charge, as he already knew he was being replaced with Milorad Pavi\u0107.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 43], "content_span": [44, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096769-0005-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 S.L. Benfica season, Player statistics\nThe squad for the season consisted of the players listed in the tables below, as well as staff member Jimmy Hagan (manager), Fernando Cabrita (assistant manager and later as manager).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 230]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096769-0006-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 S.L. Benfica season, Player statistics\nNote 1: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096769-0007-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 S.L. Benfica season, Player statistics\nNote 2: Players with squad numbers marked \u2021 joined the club during the 1973-74 season via transfer, with more details in the following section.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096770-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 S.S. Lazio season\nDuring the 1973\u201374 season S.S. Lazio competed in Serie A, Coppa Italia and UEFA Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096770-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 S.S. Lazio season, Summary\nBack to Serie A in 1973, Lazio immediately emerged as surprise challengers for the Scudetto to Milan and Juventus previous season, only losing out on the final day of the season, with a team comprising captain Giuseppe Wilson, as well as midfielders Luciano Re Cecconi and Mario Frustalupi, striker Giorgio Chinaglia who led the top Italian league in scoring with 24 goals, and head coach Tommaso Maestrelli. Lazio improved such successes this season, ensuring its first title in 74 years.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 34], "content_span": [35, 524]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096770-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 S.S. Lazio season, Summary\nIn UEFA Cup the team advanced to the second round. Then they faced English squad Ipswich Town in a bizarre series they never forget. Lazio came to Portman Road for the first leg. Coach Tommaso Maestrelli made changes to tighten his defence. They backfired. Ipswich established a 4\u20130 lead with Trevor Whymark scoring all four goals. The fourth was hotly disputed by the angry Italians who claimed that Whymark had handled the ball. It was a rugged match.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 34], "content_span": [35, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096770-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 S.S. Lazio season, Summary\nSightseeing in Rome went smoothly for the return leg. It was when Ipswich had their first training session in Rome that the flames of Lazio fury were ignited. A delegation from the AC Roma supporters, Lazio's big rivals, arrived to make a presentation with Press photographers present. Pietro Magliocchetti, their president, handed Whymark a trophy with the following inscription. \"To Whymark in recognition of Ipswich v Lazio 4-0. Il Roma Club FC 12\" Giallorossa, with affection and gratitude. There was an atmosphere of intimidation in the Olympic Stadium. Whymark took a blow to the head early on and Bryan Hamilton later admitted that he was \"genuinely scared\" by Lazio's physical and violent approach.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 34], "content_span": [35, 741]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096770-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 S.S. Lazio season, Summary\nLazio opened the scoring in 43 seconds and added another in nine minutes. A third goal after 26 minutes brought the Italians back into the game. They were pegged back after 73 minutes when Dutch referee Leo van der Kroft awarded what Lazio felt was a soft penalty after Clive Woods had been tripped. Colin Viljoen calmly converted the spot kick. Whymark went to congratulate him and was chased back into his own goalmouth by enraged Lazio players.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 34], "content_span": [35, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096770-0005-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 S.S. Lazio season, Summary\nGiorgio Chinaglia, the Lazio captain and super star, scored a penalty in the 82nd minute to set up a tense finish although the Italians had to score two more because of the away-goal rule. Johnson was on the bench. He was spat on by an Italian which made him determined to play his part on the field despite his injury which had not fully healed.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 34], "content_span": [35, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096770-0006-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 S.S. Lazio season, Summary\nIn injury-time Johnson scored for Ipswich to clinch a 6-4 overall success.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 34], "content_span": [35, 109]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096770-0007-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 S.S. Lazio season, Summary\nThe Lazio fans got onto the pitch despite a metal fence and a moat. They threw full beer cans and lighted rockets at the Police who used tear gas in a forlorn effort to maintain control. The Italian Press had a heading \"Thugs of the Olimpico\" and \"Madness at Stadio Olimpico.\"", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 34], "content_span": [35, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096770-0008-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 S.S. Lazio season, Summary\nThe riot proved ever so costly for Lazio. That season they went on to win the Scudetto but were banned by UEFA from playing in the European Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 34], "content_span": [35, 179]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096770-0009-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 S.S. Lazio season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 32], "content_span": [33, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096771-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 SK Rapid Wien season\nThe 1973\u201374 SK Rapid Wien season was the 76th season in club history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 98]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096772-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 SM-sarja season\nThe 1973\u201374 SM-sarja season was the 43rd season of the SM-sarja, the top level of ice hockey in Finland. 10 teams participated in the league, and HIFK Helsinki won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 23], "section_span": [23, 23], "content_span": [24, 205]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096773-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 San Antonio Spurs season\nThe 1973\u201374 San Antonio Spurs season was the first season for the newly named San Antonio Spurs, who had spent the past six seasons as the Dallas Chaparrals in the American Basketball Association. The Spurs made their debut on October 10, 1973, vs the San Diego Conquistadors in San Antonio, losing 121\u2013106. Afterwards, the Spurs would win just 6 of their next 13 games. By the end of November, they would be back to .500. By February the Spurs were at 34\u201333, but they would win 11 of their next 16 games to finish the season 3rd in the 3 team Western Conference, going to the playoffs. In the 1974 ABA Playoffs, the Spurs lost in the first round 4\u20133 to the Indiana Pacers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 706]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096774-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 San Diego Conquistadors season\nThe 1973\u201374 American Basketball Association season saw the San Diego Conquistadors acquire Wilt Chamberlain as a player and coach, finish tied for fourth place in the ABA's Western Division, defeat the Denver Rockets in a one-game playoff for that spot and then bow out to the Utah Stars 4 games to 2 in the Western Division Semifinals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [38, 38], "content_span": [39, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096774-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 San Diego Conquistadors season, Offseason, Draft picks, Undergraduate draft\nOn September 26, 1973, the Conquistadors signed Wilt Chamberlain to a three-year, $1.8 million contract as the team's player-coach. The Los Angeles Lakers promptly went to court and won a ruling that Chamberlain could only play professional basketball for the Lakers, but the court did allow Chamberlain to coach the Conquistadors. Stan Albeck was hired as the Conquistadors' assistant coach and as the team's Director of Player Personnel. As events played out, Albeck often acted as the team's head coach during Chamberlain's erratic absences.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 83], "content_span": [84, 628]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096774-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 San Diego Conquistadors season, Offseason, Draft picks, Undergraduate draft\nAlso during the preseason the Conquistadors signed Travis \"Machine Gun\" Grant to the roster.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 83], "content_span": [84, 176]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096774-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 San Diego Conquistadors season, Offseason, Draft picks, Undergraduate draft\nDuring the preseason the Conquistadors were an anomaly in that they, unlike other ABA teams, did not play any exhibition games against NBA teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 83], "content_span": [84, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096774-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 San Diego Conquistadors season, Regular season, Month by Month, October 1973\nThe Conquistadors opened the ABA season on October 10, 1973, with a road game against the San Antonio Spurs. 5,879 attended as the Conquistadors prevailed, 121\u2013106, behind Stew Johnson's game-high 38 points. The following night 5,013 fans saw the Conquistadors lose on the road to the Denver Rockets, 135\u2013111. The following night the Conquistadors played their home opener in front of 2,318 fans but lost to the Memphis Tams 118\u2013113 in spite of Stew Johnson's 34 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 84], "content_span": [85, 555]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096774-0005-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 San Diego Conquistadors season, Regular season, Month by Month, October 1973\nAfter a week off, the Conquistadors again faced the Rockets, this time on their home court in San Diego. The Conquistadors lost again to the Rockets, 113\u2013100. Stew Johnson scored 23 points in front of 2,468 fans. Two nights later, on October 21, the Conquistadors took to their home court in front of 2,261 fans and lost a double-overtime game to the Indiana Pacers, 112\u2013105. After another day off the Conquistadors hosted the Spurs and lost 112\u2013110 in front of 2,468 fans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 84], "content_span": [85, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096774-0006-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 San Diego Conquistadors season, Regular season, Month by Month, October 1973\nOn October 26 the Conquistadors, now 1\u20135, took the court in San Diego against the Utah Stars and their 4\u20135 record. With a crowd of 2,358 watching, Bo Lamar scored 36 points to lead the Conquistadors to a 122\u2013102 victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 84], "content_span": [85, 305]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096774-0007-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 San Diego Conquistadors season, Regular season, Month by Month, October 1973\nOn October 28 the Conquistadors took their home floor against Memphis and the teams set an ABA record for the most 2 point field goals in a single game by two teams (117). The Conquistadors won, 146\u2013133, in front of 1,906 fans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 84], "content_span": [85, 312]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096774-0008-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 San Diego Conquistadors season, Regular season, Month by Month, October 1973\nOn October 29 the Conquistadors signed Caldwell Jones as they traded Larry Miller to the Virginia Squires for Jones.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 84], "content_span": [85, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096774-0009-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 San Diego Conquistadors season, Regular season, Month by Month, November 1973\nThe Conquistadors took a 3\u20135 record into November. On November 1 the Q's and Tams met again, this time in Memphis, and the Conquistadors repeated as victors, 103\u2013100, in front of 6,273 fans. The following night in Salt Lake City the Conquistadors took their improved 4\u20135 record into the Salt Palace in front of 7,168 fans but lost to the Stars 126\u2013110.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 85], "content_span": [86, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096774-0010-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 San Diego Conquistadors season, Regular season, Month by Month, November 1973\nNovember 6 saw the Q's on the road at Denver, losing 110\u2013104 to the Rockets before a crowd of 2,058. The following night in San Antonio the Conquistadors managed only 9 points in the entire first quarter against the Spurs. A furious comeback led by Bo Lamar's 34 points made for a tight game but the Q's could not overcome their terrible first quarter and lost 105\u2013104 in front of 7,101 fans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 85], "content_span": [86, 478]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096774-0010-0001", "contents": "1973\u201374 San Diego Conquistadors season, Regular season, Month by Month, November 1973\nThat same day, November 7, brought bad news for the franchise: a ballot initiative to fund team owner Leonard Bloom's proposed 20,000 seat arena was defeated by the electorate. 19,000 ballots were cast in the referendum and the proposal lost by only 294 votes. As a result, attendance problems, which already were bad because the Q's were forced to play in tiny Golden Hall (3,200 seats) instead of in the San Diego Sports Arena, became worse as rumors swirled that the Conquistadors would move to Los Angeles at the end of the season. The league did, in fact, on November 10 order Bloom to begin investigating such a move.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 85], "content_span": [86, 709]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096774-0011-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 San Diego Conquistadors season, Regular season, Month by Month, November 1973\nThe Q's next took the court on November 10, facing the New York Nets in San Diego. Julius Erving scored 35 points for the Nets but the Q's prevailed 107\u2013105 in front of 2,369 fans. The following night the Q's took their home court again, with only 1,422 in attendance, and eked out a narrow 102\u2013101 victory against the Indiana Pacers to bring their season record to 6\u20138.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 85], "content_span": [86, 456]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096774-0012-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 San Diego Conquistadors season, Regular season, Month by Month, November 1973\nNovember 14 brought the Q's to Salt Lake City once again, where the Stars prevailed 129\u2013119 in front of 6,354 fans despite Stew Johnson's game-high 23 points. On November 16 the Conquistadors lost in overtime at home against the Denver Rockets, 130\u2013126; only 1,666 fans were reported for the game. The following night the Q's lost to the Spurs in San Antonio, 118\u201396; Stew Johnson scored 32 in front of 4,046 fans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 85], "content_span": [86, 500]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096774-0013-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 San Diego Conquistadors season, Regular season, Month by Month, November 1973\nOn November 21 the Q's took their home floor in front of 1,685 fans and defeated the Carolina Cougars 139\u2013125 behind Bo Lamar's game-high 36 points. A brief winning streak commenced for the Q's as they met the Cougars again on November 23 in Raleigh and came away with a 111\u2013107 overtime victory behind Stew Johnson's 30 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 85], "content_span": [86, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096774-0013-0001", "contents": "1973\u201374 San Diego Conquistadors season, Regular season, Month by Month, November 1973\nThe following night saw a close game in front of 3,421 fans in Cincinnati, Ohio as the Conquistadors played a tough game but lost 124\u2013121 to the Kentucky Colonels and that team's fearsome front line as Dan Issel and Artis Gilmore scored 30 points each for Kentucky. November 27 saw another Q's loss, this time in Indianapolis to the Pacers, 129\u2013117, before 8,018 fans. The Q's next game came on November 28 as they lost 134\u2013108 to the Nets in front of 6,884 fans in Uniondale, New York.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 85], "content_span": [86, 572]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096774-0014-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 San Diego Conquistadors season, Regular season, Month by Month, November 1973\nOn the 30th the Conquistadors took an 8\u201314 record into their final game of November, a home matchup against the Virginia Squires. The Conquistadors scored 86 points in the first half. Virginia's George Gervin put in 37 points but the Q's held on for a 145\u2013139 victory to close out the month at 9\u201314.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 85], "content_span": [86, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096774-0015-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 San Diego Conquistadors season, Regular season, Month by Month, December 1973\nOn the 2nd they opened the month at home against the Utah Stars and won 105\u2013100 before 1,230 fans. Another win came two nights later in Memphis as the Q's bested the Tams 112\u2013101 before 2,285 fans. The following night the Conquistadors took their improved 11\u201314 record to Denver but lost a lopsided game to the Rockets, 138\u2013108, in front of 3,773 fans. On the 7th came another loss, 121\u2013113, in front of 7,158 fans on the Utah Stars' homecourt. The following night saw a home loss to the Spurs, 95\u201385, with attendance at 1,624.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 85], "content_span": [86, 613]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096774-0016-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 San Diego Conquistadors season, Regular season, Month by Month, December 1973\nOn December 11 Wilt Chamberlain's bench role became final as an arbitrator ruled that, due to the option year on his contract with the Los Angeles Lakers (later thrown out in the Oscar Robertson suit), Chamberlain was bound to the Lakers for the season and could not play for San Diego.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 85], "content_span": [86, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096774-0017-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 San Diego Conquistadors season, Regular season, Month by Month, December 1973\nDecember 12 saw the Q's prevail 119\u2013113 on the Indiana Pacers' home court; Bo Lamar had 30 points, as did Indiana's George McGinnis. 6,831 turned up for the Pacers game; only 1,200 were announced the following night in Memphis as the Q's defeated the Tams 107\u2013104. One night later a 112\u2013104 road victory over the Nets followed, this time in front of 8,223 fans. The Conquistadors' three-game winning streak came to an end on their home court the following night in front of 1,764 fans as the Kentucky Colonels came away with a 106\u2013101 win despite Stew Johnson's 40 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 85], "content_span": [86, 658]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096774-0018-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 San Diego Conquistadors season, Regular season, Month by Month, December 1973\nOn December 19 the Conquistadors took their 14\u201318 record to Denver and defeated the Rockets 118\u2013113 before 3,031 fans. December 21 saw the Conquistadors pull out a 140\u2013130 win against the Carolina Cougars in front of 1,368 home fans. The following night in San Antonio the Q's earned an overtime victory in front of 8,769 Spurs fans; the final score was 129\u2013123 and the Conquistadors were now one game away from .500 with 17 wins and 18 losses. Once again, however, the Conquistadors had a three-game winning streak ended by the Kentucky Colonels, 123\u2013120 in San Diego. 2,368 fans were announced as Dan Issel led all scorers with 31 points. A 102\u201398 road loss to the Utah Stars followed, as 6,157 fans watched. One night later the Q's lost at home 104\u201376 to the San Antonio Spurs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 85], "content_span": [86, 866]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096774-0019-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 San Diego Conquistadors season, Regular season, Month by Month, December 1973\nDecember 29 saw the Conquistadors rebound with a 124\u2013119 home victory against the New York Nets. The Nets had a 22-point lead at halftime but the Conquistadors mounted a furious comeback to down that season's eventual ABA champions. Attendance improved to 2,511 for that game but dipped to 1,816 the following night as the Indiana Pacers managed a one-point win against the Q's, 109\u2013108. San Diego ended December and 1973 with an 18\u201322 record.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 85], "content_span": [86, 529]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096774-0020-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 San Diego Conquistadors season, Regular season, Month by Month, January 1974\nJanuary 1974 saw the Conquistadors trade Red Robbins and Chuck Williams to the Kentucky Colonels for Jimmy O'Brien and a future draft choice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 84], "content_span": [85, 226]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096774-0021-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 San Diego Conquistadors season, Regular season, Month by Month, January 1974\nOn January 4 the Q's opened the new year in front of 2,101 fans but lost to the San Antonio Spurs 112\u2013105. The next evening saw a loss on the road at Denver; the Rockets prevailed 146\u2013122 as Warren Jabali dished 19 assists in front of 6,183 spectators. The next evening saw the Conquistadors lose a home game in front of 1,329 fans to the Carolina Cougars, 120\u2013109; Mack Calvin scored 29 points and Caldwell Jones tied an ABA record with 12 blocked shots.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 84], "content_span": [85, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096774-0021-0001", "contents": "1973\u201374 San Diego Conquistadors season, Regular season, Month by Month, January 1974\nOn January 9 the Q's dropped a 115\u2013112 contest on the Utah Stars' home court; 5,784 were in attendance and Willie Wise scored 35 points. The next evening saw the Conquistadors notch their first win of 1974, prevailing 109\u2013107 against the Indiana Pacers in front of 5,016 fans in Indianapolis. Next was a home loss on January 12 to the Stars; 1,851 watched Utah prevail as Willie Wise put in 29 points. On January 13 Bo Lamar scored a game-high 50 points as San Diego won on its home court 141\u2013130 against the Indiana Pacers; attendance was 1,386 for the game. January 16 saw a road loss to the Virginia Squires despite Bo Lamar's 28 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 84], "content_span": [85, 725]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096774-0022-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 San Diego Conquistadors season, Regular season, Month by Month, January 1974\nOn January 17 the Q's dropped a matchup against the Spurs in San Antonio 101\u201397; 4,138 attended and Bird Averitt scored 35. The following evening 1,683 saw San Diego lose a home game to Denver, 120\u2013113. January 20 brought the Q's to Indianapolis for a one-point loss to the Pacers, 123\u2013122, as Bo Lamar and George McGinnis each scored 40 points in front of 9,164 fans. January 23 saw the Conquistadors, 2\u20139 in January so far, pull off an upset, defeating the Kentucky Colonels 106\u201399 in Louisville in front of 9,307 as Bo Lamar led all scorers with 25 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 84], "content_span": [85, 646]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096774-0022-0001", "contents": "1973\u201374 San Diego Conquistadors season, Regular season, Month by Month, January 1974\nThe next evening San Diego won its second road game in a row 125\u2013108 against the Virginia Squires despite George Gervin's 27 points. The Q's brief winning streak came to an end on January 25 with a 116\u2013104 road loss to the Carolina Cougars as Travis Grant scored 23. January 27 saw the Conquistadors lose a close one on their home court to the Kentucky Colonels 105\u2013103; attendance had improved to 3,011 but Dan Issel's 34 points were too much to overcome.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 84], "content_span": [85, 541]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096774-0022-0002", "contents": "1973\u201374 San Diego Conquistadors season, Regular season, Month by Month, January 1974\nThe next evening the Q's lost in Salt Lake City 120\u2013109 to the Utah Stars; 9,464 watched as Travis Grant scored 28 points. The Conquistadors ended January with a 4\u201312 record for the month; their overall record stood at 22 wins and 34 losses (.393). A high point came on January 30 as Stew Johnson represented the Conquistadors while playing in the ABA All-Star Game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 84], "content_span": [85, 451]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096774-0023-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 San Diego Conquistadors season, Regular season, Month by Month, February 1974\nThe Conquistadors opened the new month with a home win on its first day, defeating the Indiana Pacers 124\u2013119 despite George McGinnis' 38 points; San Diego's attendance problems continued as only 1,237 fans came to the game. February 3 brought another home victory for the Q's as they defeated the Virginia Squires 107\u2013104, with 1,058 in attendance. On February 6 the Conquistadors, in front of 1,236 fans, took their home win streak to three games by defeating the Memphis Tams 136\u2013120.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 85], "content_span": [86, 573]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096774-0023-0001", "contents": "1973\u201374 San Diego Conquistadors season, Regular season, Month by Month, February 1974\nThe streak went to four on February 8 as the traveling San Antonio Spurs lost 120\u2013105 as Bo Lamar put in 48 points in front of a crowd of 1,326. On February 10 the Q's, now 25\u201334, had their home win streak come to an end as the Utah Stars prevailed 120\u2013107 despite Bo Lamar's 30 points. On February 13 the Conquistadors lost at home to the Indiana Pacers, 128\u2013119; 1,066 attended.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 85], "content_span": [86, 466]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096774-0023-0002", "contents": "1973\u201374 San Diego Conquistadors season, Regular season, Month by Month, February 1974\nFebruary 17 saw another San Diego home win and improved attendance as the Conquistadors took down the Carolina Cougars 129\u2013123 in front of 1,866 as Travis Grant put in 41 points. Another home win came on February 20 as the Q's defeated the Utah Stars 109\u201397 in front of 1,184 fans. February 22 brought a road loss to the New York Nets, 121\u2013113; the Conquistadors' next game, on February 26, was a 126\u2013119 win on the Virginia Squires' home court as Travis Grant led all scorers with 32. The next evening brought another road win, 119\u2013117 against the Carolina Cougars. February was San Diego's best of the season with an 8\u20133 record, bringing the team to an overall record of 30\u201337.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 85], "content_span": [86, 765]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096774-0024-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 San Diego Conquistadors season, Regular season, Month by Month, March 1974\nSan Diego's solid February gave way to a bad stretch to start March. The Conquistadors faced the New York Nets on the road on the first day of the month and lost 138\u2013119 despite Stew Johnson's 35 points. March 3 saw the Conquistadors routed at Denver, 139\u2013112; five Rockets scored 20 or more points. Next on March 6 came a 123\u201397 road loss to the New York Nets, and March 8 saw the Q's lose on the San Antonio Spurs' court 115\u2013113 despite Bo Lamar's 39 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 82], "content_span": [83, 543]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096774-0024-0001", "contents": "1973\u201374 San Diego Conquistadors season, Regular season, Month by Month, March 1974\nThe next evening saw the Conquistadors' first victory of the month, a 100\u201396 home win against Denver as Stew Johnson scored 29 in front of 1,020 fans. San Diego repeated that feat the following night in Denver, winning 114\u201399 behind Bo Lamar's 33. March 13 brought a home victory against the Virginia Squires, 119\u2013103; Caldwell Jones scored 34 in front of 1,319. The Q's three game win streak ended on the road on March 15 as the Indiana Pacers won 145\u2013129, with Tim Bassett setting a record with 18 offensive rebounds.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 82], "content_span": [83, 602]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096774-0024-0002", "contents": "1973\u201374 San Diego Conquistadors season, Regular season, Month by Month, March 1974\nThe next evening brought a road win against the Carolina Cougars, 101\u201390; Bo Lamar had 26 points. The next night saw San Diego lose a close game at home to the Memphis Tams, 118\u2013115; 1,583 attended as Bo Lamar scored 34. March 20 brought a win for the Q's, 125\u2013122 at home against the Virginia Squires, as 2,598 \u2013 a great crowd for San Diego though not for the league \u2013 saw Stew Johnson pour in 45 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 82], "content_span": [83, 488]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096774-0024-0003", "contents": "1973\u201374 San Diego Conquistadors season, Regular season, Month by Month, March 1974\nMarch 22 saw a 111\u2013106 road loss to the New York Nets despite Caldwell Jones' 27; a 109\u2013101 road loss to the Virginia Squires came on the next night. On March 24 Caldwell Jones led all scorers with 30 points on the Kentucky Colonels' home court but Kentucky won 122\u2013111 in front of 9,115 fans. March 26 brought a 110\u2013105 road win against the Memphis Tams behind Bo Lamar's 33 points; the following night the Conquistadors defeated the Kentucky Colonels in San Diego 121\u2013108 as 3,006 fans saw Stew Johnson score 40 points.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 82], "content_span": [83, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096774-0025-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 San Diego Conquistadors season, Regular season, Month by Month, March 1974\nWith that upset and the two-game win streak the Conquistadors edged themselves into a tie with the Denver Rockets for fourth place in the Western Division as they finished the regular season with a record of 37\u201347 after going 7\u20139 in March. San Diego's average home attendance for the season stood at 1,843, a drop off of 404 from their average of 2,247 during the prior season, their first. Bo Lamar was named to the ABA All-Rookie Team as the Conquistadors headed for a one-game playoff with Denver for the right to enter the 1974 ABA Playoffs at fourth place in the Western Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 82], "content_span": [83, 668]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096774-0026-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 San Diego Conquistadors season, Playoffs\nThe Conquistadors and the Denver Rockets both finished the regular season with 37 wins and 47 losses and thus tied for fourth place in the Western Division. As a result, the two met for a one-game playoff to determine which of the two teams would claim the fourth and final playoff spot in the Western Division. The Rockets had won 8 of their 11 regular season games against San Diego.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 434]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096774-0026-0001", "contents": "1973\u201374 San Diego Conquistadors season, Playoffs\nThe two teams met in Denver on March 29, 1974, and the Conquistadors won, 131\u2013111, thus laying sole claim to the Western Division fourth place spot and a berth in the 1974 ABA Playoffs against the Western Division champion Utah Stars. The Stars had finished the regular season with a 51\u201333 record, 14 games ahead of the Conquistadors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 383]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096774-0027-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 San Diego Conquistadors season, Playoffs\nThe Western Division Semifinals began the very next day, on March 30, at the Salt Palace in Salt Lake City, Utah. The Stars won 114\u201399, and again on April 1, 119\u2013105.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096774-0028-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 San Diego Conquistadors season, Playoffs\nOn April 3 the teams met in San Diego and the Conquistadors won a close game 97\u201396 to cut the Stars' series lead to 2\u20131. The following night, April 4, the Conquistadors evened up the series at 2\u20132 with a 100\u201398 victory on their home court.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 288]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096774-0029-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 San Diego Conquistadors season, Playoffs\nThe teams then returned to Salt Lake City where, on April 6, the Stars won 100\u201393 to take a 3\u20132 series lead.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096774-0030-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 San Diego Conquistadors season, Playoffs\nOn April 8 the Stars and Conquistadors met in San Diego for Game 6 in the series. The Stars prevailed 110\u201399 to eliminate the Conquistadors and advance to the Western Division Finals against the Indiana Pacers. The Stars went on to defeat the Pacers 4 games to 3 before losing the ABA Championship to the Eastern Division champion New York Nets, 4 games to 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 48], "content_span": [49, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096774-0031-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 San Diego Conquistadors season, Transactions, Draft and preseason signings\nThe Conquistadors drafted Bird Averitt, who signed with the San Antonio Spurs, and Bo Lamar and Tim Bassett, both of whom signed with and played for the Conquistadors. In the undergraduate draft the Conquistadors drafted UCLA's star center Bill Walton, who opted to stay in school. On September 26, 1973 Wilt Chamberlain was signed to a 3-year, $1.8 million contract as the team's player-coach, but litigation with the Los Angeles Lakers kept Chamberlain off the court. Travis \"Machine Gun\" Grant was signed in the pre-season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 38], "section_span": [40, 82], "content_span": [83, 609]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096775-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Scottish Cup\nThe 1973\u201374 Scottish Cup was the 89th staging of Scotland's most prestigious football knockout competition. The Cup was won by Celtic who defeated Dundee United in the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 20], "section_span": [20, 20], "content_span": [21, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096776-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Scottish Division One\nThe 1973\u201374 Scottish Division One was won by Celtic by four points over nearest rival Hibernian. East Fife and Falkirk finished 17th and 18th respectively and were relegated to the 1974\u201375 Second Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096776-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Scottish Division One\nThis was Celtic's ninth title in a row, a record that would be equalled by Rangers in the 1996\u201397 season and again by Celtic themselves in 2019\u201320.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 177]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096777-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Scottish Division Two\nThe 1973\u201374 Scottish Second Division was won by Airdrieonians who, along with second placed Kilmarnock, were promoted to the First Division. Brechin City finished bottom.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096779-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Scottish Inter-District Championship\nThe 1973\u201374 Scottish Inter-District Championship was a rugby union competition for Scotland's district teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 44], "section_span": [44, 44], "content_span": [45, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096780-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Scottish League Cup\nThe 1973\u201374 Scottish League Cup was the twenty-eighth season of Scotland's second football knockout competition. The competition was won by Dundee, who defeated Celtic in the Final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096781-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Seattle SuperSonics season\nThe 1973\u201374 Seattle SuperSonics season was the 7th season of the Seattle SuperSonics in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Following the resignation of Lenny Wilkens as a head coach after the 1971\u201372 season and a poor campaign in the 1972\u201373 season that saw the departure of general manager Bob Houbregs, the Sonics hired Boston Celtics' stalwart Bill Russell as head coach and general manager. With Russell at the helm, the team finished in 6th place in the Western Conference with a 36\u201346 record. The Sonics' home court, Seattle Center Coliseum, was the venue for the 1974 NBA All-Star Game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 636]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096781-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Seattle SuperSonics season, Offseason\nThe Sonics made only one trade during the offseason that sent All-Star Butch Beard to the Golden State Warriors and brought back a member of the original SuperSonics team, Walt Hazzard to Seattle.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 242]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096782-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Segunda Divisi\u00f3n\nThe 1973\u201374 Segunda Divisi\u00f3n season saw 20 teams participate in the second flight Spanish league. Real Betis, H\u00e9rcules CF and UD Salamanca were promoted to Primera Divisi\u00f3n. CA Osasuna, Deportivo de La Coru\u00f1a, Levante UD and Linares were relegated to Tercera Divisi\u00f3n.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 293]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096783-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Serie A, Teams\nGenoa, Cesena and Foggia had been promoted from Serie B.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 22], "content_span": [23, 79]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096784-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Serie A (basketball)\nThe 1973\u201374 Serie A basketball championship was the 51st season of the Serie A, the highest professional basketball league in Italy.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096784-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Serie A (basketball)\nThe regular season ran from 4 November 1973 to 5 May 1974, with fourteen teams playing 26 games each. Defending champions Ignis Varese won the title anew (their second in succession and seventh overall) and qualified for the European Champions Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 277]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096784-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Serie A (basketball), Preseason\nOne of the major preseason transfers did not concern a player but rather a coach, as Ignis Varese replaced the successful Aca Nikoli\u0107 with Sandro Gamba, formerly assistant coach at fierce rivals Simmenthal Milano. Despite the league holders losing former captain Ottorino Flaborea, their team was just as strong as they still possessed American sharpshooter Bob Morse as their foreign import and Italian giant Dino Meneghin (generally seen as the best domestic player).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 509]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096784-0002-0001", "contents": "1973\u201374 Serie A (basketball), Preseason\nTheir rivals from Milan also saw a major off-court change with the departure of long-time sponsor Simmenthal who were replaced by car-maker Innocenti, with a subsequent uniform change from red to blue. Regardless of the overhaul, Innocenti Milano kept their coach Cesare Rubini and most of their major Italian players such as Giulio Iellini, Renzo Bariviera, Giuseppe Brumatti and Massimo Masini. However, they had replaced fiery American Art Kenney and Italian international Giorgio Giomo (respectively by unproven compatriot George Brosterhous and promising Vittorio Ferracini).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 621]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096784-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Serie A (basketball), Preseason\nComing off a season where they had won absolutely everything (the domestic league and cup, European cup and Intercontinental cup) Ignis were obvious favourites to retain their title. Their challengers were also obvious; Innocenti Milano, who had lost no ambition with the sponsor change and Forst Cant\u00f9. The ambitious Cant\u00f9 counted on American center Bob Lienhard and young dynamic Italians in the vein of Pierluigi Marzorati and Carlo Recalcati to upset the more established duo, and could afford to sell the promising Luciano Vendemini to promoted Brina Rieti for a then record 100 million lire. The other eleven teams in the league were seen as mostly evenly matched, with little hope of bothering the leading trio, though some, for example the rechristened Sinudyne Bologna coached by the brilliant Dan Peterson, hoped to.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 866]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096784-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Serie A (basketball), Preseason\nDue to league regulations mandating clubs to play in arenas holding at least 3,500 spectators, four clubs relocated for the season, with Forst Cant\u00f9, Canon Venezia, Sacl\u00e0 Asti and Brina Rieti respectively moving to arenas in Brescia, Vicenza, Turin and Rome.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 298]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096784-0005-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Serie A (basketball), Regular season\nThe first meeting between the undefeated top three sides took place in the sixth round as a red hot Forst Cant\u00f9 hosted a stop-start Ignis Varese. Form proved key as Marzorati's 31 points and good playmaking helped Cant\u00f9 comfortably overcome Varese 84-75 as the visitors offered little support to star Bob Morse's 35 points. The winners were joined with a perfect record at first place by Innocenti Milano.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 450]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096784-0006-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Serie A (basketball), Regular season\nIgnis and Innocenti met on 6 January 1974, with the latter then topping the league (Forst had lost in between). However it was the former that would prevail, toppling Innocenti 78-67 after dominating them in both offense and defence (with 42 rebounds to 29 for example). Though Morse (25 points) and Meneghin (23 points and 20 rebounds) stood out for the winners, it was a clinical team performance that overcame their rivals, who offered little resistance as shown by Brosterhous's poor showing (8 points). With this win, Ignis joined Innocenti and Forst as co-leaders.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 615]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096784-0007-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Serie A (basketball), Regular season\nThe status quo didn't last long as Cant\u00f9 were left behind after the Milanese beat them 80-75 later that month in the twelfth round as star player Marzorati was hampered by an ankle injury. On 17 February, Innocenti themselves were evicted from first place by a surprise 69-70 defeat to modest Brill Cagliari which left Ignis alone on top. With an injured Brumatti missing for Innocenti, Mauro Cerioni's 26 points were not enough as Brosterhous disappointed with 10 points compared to 20 for Brill's American John Sutter.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096784-0008-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Serie A (basketball), Regular season\nOnce again the match-up between Ignis and Innocenti, this time in Milan, had aspects of a league final, with the home team needing to win to join Ignis in first place. The Milanese managed to do just that, downing Varese 67-65 in a close-knit tie. Though the visitors led 46-37 at half-time in large part thanks to its star duo of Morse (25 points overall) and Meneghin, they had lost playmaker Aldo Ossola to a season ending knee injury earlier in the game and could not shake off their rivals. Innocenti put in an assured collective performance, with notable performances from Bariviera and Ferracini, clawing at Ignis' lead until Cerioni scored a long range basket with seconds left to take the game.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 749]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096784-0009-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Serie A (basketball), Regular season\nDespite this victory, Innocenti saw the first place slip away from them in the penultimate league round as they lost 76-68 away to a competitive Forst. Though they missed Lienhard to injury, Cant\u00f9 could count on the ever reliable Marzorati to answer Barivera's 24 points. The result virtually handed Ignis the title with only one round left to play against uncompetitive opposition and a two-point lead over Innocenti and Forst in second place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 489]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096784-0009-0001", "contents": "1973\u201374 Serie A (basketball), Regular season\nThis proved to be the case as Ignis Varese had a routine 94-74 win over Brill Cagliari to win the league outright and take home their seventh title. A more undecided competition saw Bob Morse and Brill's John Sutter face each other to determine the league's top scorer, with the first scoring 45 points to Sutter's 28 to take the crown.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 381]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096784-0010-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Serie A (basketball), Regular season\nInnocenti Milano finished second as Forst Cant\u00f9 surprisingly lost their final match against Sacl\u00e0 Asti to settle for third place, far ahead of the rest of the league. At the other end of the table, three teams on the same points would face each other in relegation playoffs to avoid joining the long since relegated Maxmobili Pesaro, namely Alco Bologna, Fag Napoli and Snaidero Udine.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096784-0011-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Serie A (basketball), Regular season, Individual scoring table\nSource: unofficial statistics compiled by the Giganti del Basket magazine (official statistics started from the 1975\u201376 season).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 70], "content_span": [71, 199]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096784-0012-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Serie A (basketball), Postseason, Relegation playoffs\nThe relegation playoffs were played on 24\u201326 May 1974 in Genoa. Alco Bologna lost their two games and were relegated to the newly created Serie A2, rendering Snaidero Udine's win over Fag Napoli in the final game anecdotal.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 61], "content_span": [62, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096784-0013-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Serie A (basketball), Italian Cup\nHolders and league champions Ignis Varese (missing both Ossola and Meneghin to injury) were upset by relegation contender Snaidero Udine 82-81 in the semi-final with Snaidero's Italian internationals Claudio Malagoli and Giorgio Giomo proving decisive (33 and 22 points respectively).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 326]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096784-0014-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Serie A (basketball), Italian Cup\nThe final, played in Vicenza on 12 May 1974, saw Sinudyne Bologna down Snaidero 90-74 to claim the cup (and a spot in the European Cup Winners' Cup). In an easy win, the Bolognese were led by American sharpshooter John Fultz as he scored 28 points in his last game for them, while Malagoli (16 points) could not repeat his heroics. In the match for third place, Ignis beat the other semi-finalist Sacl\u00e0 Asti 80-73 to close out their season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 41], "content_span": [42, 482]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096785-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Serie A (ice hockey) season\nThe 1973\u201374 Serie A season was the 40th season of the Serie A, the top level of ice hockey in Italy. 10 teams participated in the league, and SG Cortina won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096786-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Serie B\nThe Serie B 1973\u201374 was the forty-second tournament of this competition played in Italy since its creation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096786-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Serie B, Teams\nParma, SPAL and Avellino had been promoted from Serie C, while Atalanta, Palermo and Ternana had been relegated from Serie A.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [17, 22], "content_span": [23, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096787-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Serie C\nThe 1973\u201374 Serie C was the thirty-sixth edition of Serie C, the third highest league in the Italian football league system.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 15], "section_span": [15, 15], "content_span": [16, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096788-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Sheffield Shield season\nThe 1973\u201374 Sheffield Shield season was the 72nd season of the Sheffield Shield, the domestic first-class cricket competition of Australia. Victoria won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 202]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096789-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Shell Shield season\nThe 1973\u201374 Shell Shield season was the eighth edition of what is now the Regional Four Day Competition, the domestic first-class cricket competition for the countries of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB). The tournament was sponsored by Royal Dutch Shell, with matches played from 5 January to 28 February 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096789-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Shell Shield season\nFive teams contested the competition \u2013 Barbados, the Combined Islands, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago. Barbados were undefeated, winning two matches and drawing two to claim a fourth title. Jamaican batsman Maurice Foster led the tournament in runs for a third consecutive season, while Trinidadian slow left-arm wrist-spin bowler Inshan Ali was the leading wicket-taker.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 409]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096789-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Shell Shield season, Statistics, Most runs\nThe top five run-scorers are included in this table, listed by runs scored and then by batting average.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096789-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Shell Shield season, Statistics, Most wickets\nThe top five wicket-takers are listed in this table, listed by wickets taken and then by bowling average.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 53], "content_span": [54, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096790-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 South Carolina Gamecocks men's basketball team\nThe 1973\u201374 South Carolina Gamecocks men's basketball team represented the University of South Carolina during the 1973\u201374 men's college basketball season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096790-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 South Carolina Gamecocks men's basketball team\nThis is Frank McGuire's 10th season as a head coach. They finished the record of 22-5.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 141]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096791-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 South Pacific cyclone season\nThe 1973\u201374 South Pacific cyclone season was an inactive season. In tropical cyclones, it was an average season, but in strength, it was very inactive, with only two severe tropical cyclones.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 228]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096791-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 South Pacific cyclone season, Systems, Severe Tropical Cyclone Natalie-Lottie\nThis storm formed as Natalie, then moved into the Australian region the same day. Later it moved back into the SPac and was renamed Lottie. High seas caused the ship Uluilakeba to capsize killing more than 85\u00a0people. This makes Lottie one of the deadliest tropical cyclone in region in recent decades.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [38, 85], "content_span": [86, 387]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096792-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season\nThe 1973\u201374 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season was a below-average cyclone season. The season officially ran from November 1, 1973, to April 30, 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [46, 46], "content_span": [47, 201]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096792-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Moderate Tropical Storm Alice\nAlice was born around 80E, and reached its greatest intensity (Phase C plus) on September 20 to the north of Tromelin. but has resulted in some light to moderate rain over extreme northeastern Madagascar between 21 and 23, the winds not exceeding 55\u00a0km / h in the region of Diego-Suarez.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 86], "content_span": [87, 374]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096792-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Moderate Tropical Storm Bernadette\nBernadette, more active than before, has reached the stage of a tropical cyclone in the strict sense of the international classification, in the 26th October (minimum pressure estimated of 985 mb), moderate rainfall strong enough of have been recorded on the extreme north of Madagascar and off the cape of Amber, a boat noted a peak wind of 139\u00a0km/h.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 91], "content_span": [92, 443]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096792-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Moderate Tropical Storm Christiane\nModerate Tropical Storm Christian existed from December 13 to December 21.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 91], "content_span": [92, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096792-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Cyclone Deidre\u2013Delinda\nTropical Cyclone Deidre-Delinda existed from December 26, 1973, to January 4, 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 88], "content_span": [89, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096792-0005-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Moderate Tropical Storm Esmeralda\nModerate Tropical Storm Esmeralda existed from December 30, 1973, to January 5, 1974. The storm looped to the southeast of Madagascar, bringing several days of rainfall to R\u00e9union, reaching 222.2\u00a0mm (8.75\u00a0in).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 90], "content_span": [91, 300]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096792-0006-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Tropical Disturbance Fredegonde\nTropical Disturbance Fredegonde existed from January 19 to January 23.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 88], "content_span": [89, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096792-0007-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Moderate Tropical Storm Ghislaine\nModerate Tropical Storm Ghislaine existed from February 24 to March 3.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 90], "content_span": [91, 161]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096792-0008-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Systems, Moderate Tropical Storm Honorine\nModerate Tropical Storm Honorine existed from April 12 to April 23.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 46], "section_span": [48, 89], "content_span": [90, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096793-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Southern Football League\nThe 1973\u201374 Southern Football League season was the 71st in the history of the league, an English football competition.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096793-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Southern Football League\nDartford won the championship, winning their third Southern League title, whilst Burton Albion, Stourbridge, Bath City and Wealdstone were all promoted to the Premier Division. Six Southern League clubs applied to join the Football League at the end of the season, but none were successful.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 323]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096793-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Southern Football League, Premier Division\nThe Premier Division consisted of 22 clubs, including 18 clubs from the previous season and four new clubs:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096793-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Southern Football League, Premier Division\nAt the end of the season Guildford City, who lost its ground earlier, merged with Dorking to form a new club Guildford & Dorking United. Also, Folkestone was renamed Folkestone and Shepway.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 50], "content_span": [51, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096793-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Southern Football League, Division One North\nDivision One North consisted of 22 clubs, including 18 clubs from the previous season and four new clubs:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 158]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096793-0005-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Southern Football League, Division One North\nAlso, at the end of the previous season Lockheed Leamington was renamed AP Leamington.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 139]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096793-0006-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Southern Football League, Division One North\nAt the end of the season Bletchley Town was renamed Milton Keynes City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096793-0007-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Southern Football League, Division One South\nDivision One North consisted of 20 clubs, including 17 clubs from the previous season and three new clubs, relegated from the Premier Division:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 52], "content_span": [53, 196]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096793-0008-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Southern Football League, Football League elections\nAlongside the four League clubs facing re-election, a total of seven non-League clubs applied for election, six of which were Southern League clubs. All the League clubs were re-elected.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 59], "content_span": [60, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096794-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Southern Hockey League season\nThe 1973\u201374 Southern Hockey League season was the first season of the Southern Hockey League. The league was formed when the Eastern Hockey League split in two; the southern teams became the Southern Hockey League, and the northern teams became the North American Hockey League. Four of the six founding members of the SHL came from the EHL, including the Charlotte Checkers, Greensboro Generals, Roanoke Valley Rebels, and the Suncoast Suns. Two expansion teams were added to complete the league, including the Macon Whoopees, and the Winston-Salem Polar Twins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 600]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096794-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Southern Hockey League season\nSix teams began the season, but two did not complete the schedule due to financial trouble. The Suncoast Suns folded on December 19, 1973. The Macon Whoopees forfeited a game against Charlotte on January 17, 1974 when players refused to play because of not being paid. The team eventually folded on February 15, 1974. The remaining four teams made the playoffs, with the Roanoke Valley Rebels finishing as James Crockett Cup champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 473]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096794-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Southern Hockey League season, WHA/NHL affiliations\nSouthern Hockey League franchises were primarily affiliated with World Hockey Association teams, however some also had agreements with National Hockey League teams. Summary of WHA/NHL affiliation agreements:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 59], "content_span": [60, 267]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096795-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Soviet Cup (ice hockey)\nThe 1973\u201374 Soviet Cup was the 16th edition of the Soviet Cup ice hockey tournament. 29 teams participated in the tournament, which was won by Krylya Sovetov Moscow, who claimed their second title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 229]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096796-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Soviet League season\nThe 1973\u201374 Soviet Championship League season was the 28th season of the Soviet Championship League, the top level of ice hockey in the Soviet Union. Nine teams participated in the league, and Krylya Sovetov Moscow won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 265]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096797-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Spartan League\nThe 1973\u201374 Spartan League season was the 56th in the history of Spartan League. The league consisted of 18 teams.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096797-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Spartan League, League table\nThe division featured 18 teams, 16 from last season and 2 new teams:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [24, 36], "content_span": [37, 105]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096798-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 St. John's Redmen basketball team\nThe 1973\u201374 St. John's Redmen basketball team represented St. John's University during the 1973\u201374 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The team was coached by Lou Carnesecca in his sixth year at the school and his first since returning from coaching the New York Nets in the ABA. St. John's home games are played at Alumni Hall and Madison Square Garden.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 401]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096799-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 St. Louis Blues season\nThe 1973\u201374 St. Louis Blues season was the seventh for the franchise in St. Louis, Missouri. The Blues finished the season with a record of 26 wins, 40 losses and 12 ties for 64 points, placing them in sixth place. The Blues missed the playoffs for the first time in franchise history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096799-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 St. Louis Blues season, Playoffs\nThe Blues failed to qualify for the playoffs for the first time in franchise history, ending a six season playoff streak.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 40], "content_span": [41, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096799-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 St. Louis Blues season, Draft picks\nSt. Louis's draft picks at the 1973 NHL Amateur Draft held at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Quebec.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 43], "content_span": [44, 152]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096800-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Stoke City F.C. season\nThe 1973\u201374 season was Stoke City's 67th season in the Football League and the 43rd in the First Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096800-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Stoke City F.C. season\nThe season started well for Stoke as they won the short lived Watney Cup prior to the start of the new campaign. But their league form was poor and by January they were in the bottom six. But the signing of Alan Hudson from Chelsea sparked an upturn in results which accumulated in beating Leeds United 3\u20132 in February ending their 29 match un-beaten run. Stoke continued to climb the table and after remaining unbeaten in their final nine fixtures they took 5th position in the table and qualified for the UEFA Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 547]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096800-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Stoke City F.C. season, Season review, League\nStoke, with no major summer signings, kicked off the 1973\u201374 season with George Eastham as assistant manager and the team got off to a fine start, winning the Watney Cup by beating Hull City 2\u20130 in the final. The opening league form though, was poor although there was a glimmer of hope as Nantwich born Dave Goodwin made a goal-scoring debut against West Ham United. By January 1974 Stoke were struggling in 17th position and the home support was slowly falling and Tony Waddington decided to sell the promising Stewart Jump to Malcolm Allison's Crystal Palace for \u00a375,000 which raised a few questions from the supporters.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 677]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096800-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Stoke City F.C. season, Season review, League\nBut there was method to the manager's apparent madness as he pulled off another major transfer swoop when he paid \u00a3240,000 for Chelsea's Alan Hudson. Hudson was an instant hit with the Stoke fans and in his debut against Liverpool he was named as man of the match, helping Stoke to a 1\u20131 draw. Stoke's next home match against Hudson's old team Chelsea was the first League match to be played on a Sunday, Stoke winning 1\u20130 in front of 31,985. Another big attendance, saw City's next home match against high-flying Leeds United who had gone 29 matches without defeat.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 620]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096800-0003-0001", "contents": "1973\u201374 Stoke City F.C. season, Season review, League\nAt the time Don Revie's side were nine points clear at the top and they looked to be increasing their lead as they raced into a 2\u20130 lead, but Stoke rising to the challenge levelled before half time before Denis Smith grabbed the winner and Leeds' magnificent run was over, but they still took the First Division title. Stoke lost just twice in the final 23 matches and raised up the table to claim 5th place and so qualifying for next season's UEFA Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 507]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096800-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Stoke City F.C. season, Season review, FA Cup\nDespite scoring twice at Bolton Wanderers Stoke lost 3\u20132 in the third round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 53], "content_span": [54, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096800-0005-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Stoke City F.C. season, Season review, League Cup\nAfter narrow wins over Chelsea and Middlesbrough, Coventry City knocked Stoke out with a narrow victory of their own.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 57], "content_span": [58, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096801-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Sussex County Football League\nThe 1973\u201374 Sussex County Football League season was the 49th in the history of Sussex County Football League a football competition in England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 182]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096801-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Sussex County Football League, Division One\nDivision One featured 13 clubs which competed in the division last season, along with two new clubs, promoted from Division Two:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 51], "content_span": [52, 180]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096801-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Sussex County Football League, Division Two\nDivision Two featured nine clubs which competed in the division last season, along with two new clubs, relegated from Division One:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 51], "content_span": [52, 183]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096802-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Swedish Division I season\nThe 1973\u201374 Swedish Division I season was the 30th season of Swedish Division I. Leksands IF won the league title by finishing first in the final round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096803-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 S\u00e9rie A season\nThe 1973\u201374 S\u00e9rie A season was the 53rd season of the S\u00e9rie A, the top level of ice hockey in France. Sporting Hockey Club Saint Gervais won their second league title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 22], "section_span": [22, 22], "content_span": [23, 190]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096804-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Takht Jamshid Cup\nThe Takht Jamshid Cup's 1973\u201374 football season was the first season of Iranian national football league and the first season after the establishment of the Takht Jamshid Cup. Persepolis F.C. were champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096805-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Tercera Divisi\u00f3n\nThe 1973\u201374 Tercera Divisi\u00f3n season is the 40th since its establishment.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 24], "section_span": [24, 24], "content_span": [25, 97]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096806-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Texaco Cup\nThe 1973\u201374 Texaco Cup was the fourth edition of the tournament sponsored by Texaco. It was won by Newcastle United, who beat Burnley 2\u20131 in the only match in the final this season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 200]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096807-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Toronto Maple Leafs season\nThe 1973\u201374 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the 57th season of the Toronto NHL franchise, 47th as the Maple Leafs. The Leafs placed fourth to make the playoffs, but were swept in the first round by the Boston Bruins.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [34, 34], "content_span": [35, 250]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096807-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Toronto Maple Leafs season, Offseason\nThe Maple Leafs made several signings that would improve their team. At the entry draft, the Maple Leafs chose Lanny McDonald with the fourth-overall draft pick. He would play six and a half seasons with the Maple Leafs. Bernie Parent, who had left the team for the World Hockey Association (WHA) in 1972, made it known that he wanted to return to the NHL. The Maple Leafs still had his NHL rights, and they traded Parent to the Philadelphia Flyers for Doug Favell and a first-round draft pick, which the Maple Leafs used to choose Bob Neely. Neely would play four seasons for the Maple Leafs before being traded to the Colorado Rockies.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 683]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096807-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Toronto Maple Leafs season, Offseason\nIn a first for Toronto, the club signed players from Europe. Toronto signed Swedish defenceman Borje Salming and forward Inge Hammarstrom. Salming had made the all-star team at the 1973 world championships. Hammarstrom was one of the top scorers in Sweden. Both had played for Brynas of the Swedish League, and the Leafs had to pay the Swedish Ice Hockey Federation for their release. Salming would play with the Leafs until 1989, when he joined the Detroit Red Wings. Hammarstrom would play five seasons in Toronto before moving to the St. Louis Blues.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 45], "content_span": [46, 599]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096807-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Toronto Maple Leafs season, Transactions\nThe Maple Leafs have been involved in the following transactions during the 1973\u201374 season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 48], "content_span": [49, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096807-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Toronto Maple Leafs season, Draft picks\nToronto's draft picks at the 1973 NHL Amateur Draft held at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Quebec.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 34], "section_span": [36, 47], "content_span": [48, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096808-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Toronto Toros season\nThe 1973\u201374 Toronto Toros season was the team's first season in Toronto, as they spent their inaugural season as the Ottawa Nationals in 1972\u201373.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 174]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096808-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Toronto Toros season, Offseason\nThe Nationals were moved to Toronto and sold to John F. Bassett, son of former Toronto Maple Leafs part owner John Bassett. The new owner renamed team the Toros, as its short for Toronto, and it is also a Spanish bull. To attract attention, Bassett signed 18-year-old Toronto Marlboros star Wayne Dillon, and former Maple Leafs defenseman Carl Brewer to anchor the blueline. The Toros also thought they had a deal to sign Maple Leafs star player Darryl Sittler to a five-year, $1 million contract, however, Sittler decided to return to the Leafs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 586]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096808-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Toronto Toros season, Offseason\nThe Toros originally planned to move the team into a renovated CNE Coliseum, while Bill Ballard, the son of Maple Leafs owner Harold Ballard and was running Maple Leaf Gardens due to his father being in prison, was opposed of the renovation and wanted the team to play in the Gardens. The Toros decided to spend the season at Varsity Arena, which seated 4,860 fans.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 405]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096808-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Toronto Toros season, Offseason\nAs the Ottawa Nationals the previous season, the team finished in fourth place in the Eastern Division with a 35-39-4 record, losing to the New England Whalers in the first round of the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 39], "content_span": [40, 235]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096808-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Toronto Toros season, Regular season\nThe first game for the Toros was played on October 7, 1973, at Varsity Arena, with Toronto tying the Chicago Cougars 4-4. The Toros would get off to a sluggish start, going 0-2-2 in their first four games before defeating the Los Angeles Sharks 3-0 on the road. The team continued to slump, and through their first twelve games, sat with a record of 2-7-3. Toronto would break out of their slump though, and post a record of 17-11-0 in their next 28 games to go over the .500 for the first time.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 540]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096808-0004-0001", "contents": "1973\u201374 Toronto Toros season, Regular season\nThe Toros would keep up their great play, and end the season in second place in the Eastern Division, with a 41-33-4 record, earning 86 points, which was a twelve-point improvement over the previous season. Head coach Billy Harris won the Howard Baldwin Trophy, presented to the Coach of the Year.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 342]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096808-0005-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Toronto Toros season, Regular season\nOffensively, Toronto was led by Wayne Carleton, who finished with a team high 37 goals and 92 points and finished sixth in league scoring. Gavin Kirk had another solid season, earning 68 points in 78 games, while rookie Wayne Dillon earned 65 points in 71 games. The defense was led by Brian Gibbons, who had 35 points, while Carl Brewer chipped in with 25 points. Rick Cunningham led the Toros with 88 penalty minutes.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 464]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096808-0006-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Toronto Toros season, Regular season\nIn goal, Gilles Gratton had the majority of playing time, winning 26 games while posting a GAA of 3.53, along with two shutouts. Les Binkley backed him up, winning 14 games with a team best 3.27 GAA, and a shutout.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 44], "content_span": [45, 259]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096808-0007-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Toronto Toros season, Playoffs\nThe Toros opened the playoffs in a best of seven series against the Cleveland Crusaders, who finished in third place in the Eastern Division, three points behind Toronto. The series opened at Varsity Arena, with the Toros shutting out the Crusaders 4-0 in the series opener, followed by a close 4-3 victory in the second game to take a 2-0 series lead. The series shifted to Cleveland for the next two games, however, the Toros took the third game 4-2 to put the Crusaders on the brink of elimination. Cleveland managed to avoid being eliminated in the fourth game, winning 3-2 in overtime, however, the series returned to Toronto for the fifth game, with the Toros winning 4-1 to take the series in five games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 750]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096808-0008-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Toronto Toros season, Playoffs\nNext up for Toronto was the Chicago Cougars, who finished in fourth place in the Eastern Division, five points behind the Toros. The Cougars defeated the first place New England Whalers in seven games to advance to the Divisional Finals. The series opened in Toronto, and the Toros took an early series lead with a 6-4 victory in the first game. The Cougars would win the second game 4-3 to even the series up.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096808-0008-0001", "contents": "1973\u201374 Toronto Toros season, Playoffs\nThe series moved to Chicago for the next two games, and the Cougars took a 2-1 series lead with a 3-2 victory in the third game, however, the Toros won a wild fourth game by a 7-6 score to even the series up again. In the fifth game in Toronto, the Toros took care of the Cougars 5-3 to go up 3-2 in the series. Back in Chicago for the sixth game, the Cougars fought off elimination, easily defeating Toronto by a 9-2 score, setting up a seventh and final game at Varsity Arena. Chicago would upset the favoured Toros, winning the game 5-2 to advance to the Avco Cup finals, ending Toronto's season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 38], "content_span": [39, 638]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096809-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season\nIn the 1973\u201374 English football season, Tottenham Hotspur competed in the Football League First Division finishing in 11 place. Tottenham were eliminated in the early rounds of the League and FA Cups but reached the final of the UEFA Cup, to which they lost to Feyenoord.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [37, 37], "content_span": [38, 309]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096809-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Tottenham Hotspur F.C. season, Squad\nNote: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 37], "section_span": [39, 44], "content_span": [45, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096811-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 UC Irvine Anteaters men's basketball team\nThe 1973\u201374 UC Irvine Anteaters men's basketball team represented the University of California, Irvine during the 1973\u201374 NCAA Division II men's basketball season. The Anteaters were led by fifth year head coach Tim Tift and played their home games at Crawford Hall. The anteaters finished the season with an overall record of 14\u201312 and were not invited to a post season tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 432]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096811-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 UC Irvine Anteaters men's basketball team, Previous season\nThe 1972\u201373 UC Irvine Anteaters men's basketball team finished the season with a record of 15\u201313. They were not invited to a post season tournament.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 66], "content_span": [67, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096812-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team\nThe 1973\u201374 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team would be Bill Walton's final year with the school. During the season, the Bruins' 88 game winning streak would end. The defeat was a 71\u201370 decision to the University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish. Coincidentally, the Bruins' last loss was to Notre Dame and Austin Carr in 1971 by a score of 89\u201382.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 384]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096812-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team\nIn the postseason, UCLA's record streak of seven consecutive national titles was broken. North Carolina State defeated the Bruins 80\u201377 in double overtime in the NCAA semi-finals.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 221]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096812-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team, Pre-season\nThe team was ranked as the No. 1 team in the nation by both AP an UPI polls.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [43, 53], "content_span": [54, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096813-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 UEFA Cup\nThe 1973\u201374 UEFA Cup was the third season of the UEFA Cup since its inception in 1971. It was won by Dutch side Feyenoord who defeated English side Tottenham Hotspur 4\u20132 on aggregate after two matches.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [16, 16], "content_span": [17, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096813-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 UEFA Cup, First round, Second leg\n2-2 on aggregate, OFK Beograd won on away goals rule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 41], "content_span": [42, 95]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096813-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 UEFA Cup, Second round, Second leg\n4\u20134 on aggregate; Lokomotive Leipzig won on away goals rule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 42], "content_span": [43, 103]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096813-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 UEFA Cup, Second round, Second leg\n2\u20132 on aggregate, Vit\u00f3ria Set\u00fabal won on away goals rule.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 16], "section_span": [18, 42], "content_span": [43, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096814-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 United Counties League\nThe 1973\u201374 United Counties League season was the 67th in the history of the United Counties League, a football competition in England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [30, 30], "content_span": [31, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096814-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 United Counties League, Premier Division\nThe Premier Division featured 16 clubs which competed in the division last season, along with one new club:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 48], "content_span": [49, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096814-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 United Counties League, Division One\nThe Division One featured 18 clubs which competed in the division last season, along with 2 new clubs, promoted from Division Two:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 44], "content_span": [45, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096814-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 United Counties League, Division One\nAlso, Kettering Park Wanderers changed name to Burton Park Wanderers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 44], "content_span": [45, 114]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096814-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 United Counties League, Division Two\nThe Division Two featured 16 clubs which competed the division last season, along with 3 new clubs:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 30], "section_span": [32, 44], "content_span": [45, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096815-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 United States network television schedule\nThe following is the 1973\u201374 network television schedule for the three major English language commercial broadcast networks in the United States. The schedule covers primetime hours from September 1973 through August 1974. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series cancelled after the 1972\u201373 season. All times are Eastern and Pacific, with certain exceptions, such as Monday Night Football.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 490]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096815-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 United States network television schedule\nEach of the 30 highest-rated shows is listed with its rank and rating as determined by Nielsen Media Research.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 160]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096815-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 United States network television schedule\nPBS, the Public Broadcasting Service, was in operation, but the schedule was set by each local station.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [49, 49], "content_span": [50, 153]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096815-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 United States network television schedule, Sunday\nNote: 60 Minutes aired at 6:00-7:00 pm on CBS from January to June 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 57], "content_span": [58, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096815-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 United States network television schedule, By network, NBC\nNote: The * indicates that the program was introduced in midseason.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 49], "section_span": [51, 66], "content_span": [67, 134]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096816-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 United States network television schedule (daytime)\nThe 1973\u201374 daytime network television schedule for the three major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the weekday and weekend daytime hours from September 1973 to August 1974. All times are Eastern and Pacific. By 1974, the networks in the Pacific Time Zone would shift to a Central Time Zone schedule altogether.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 414]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096816-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 United States network television schedule (daytime)\nTalk shows are highlighted in yellow, local programming is white, reruns of older programming are orange, game shows are pink, soap operas are chartreuse, news programs are gold, children's programs are light purple and sports programs are light blue. New series are highlighted in bold.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 348]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096816-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 United States network television schedule (daytime)\nPBS, the Public Broadcasting Service, was in operation, but the schedule was set by each local station.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 59], "section_span": [59, 59], "content_span": [60, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096817-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 United States network television schedule (late night)\nThese are the late night Monday-Friday schedules on all three networks for each calendar season beginning September 1973. All times are Eastern/Pacific.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096817-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 United States network television schedule (late night)\nTalk/Variety shows are highlighted in yellow, Local News & Programs are highlighted in white.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 62], "section_span": [62, 62], "content_span": [63, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096818-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Utah Stars season\nThe 1973\u201374 Utah Stars season was the 4th season of the Stars in Utah and 7th overall in the American Basketball Association. The Stars were 8th in points scored at 105.1 per game and 4th in points allowed at 104.7 per game. From January 21st to February 18th, they won 14 straight games. A week later, they began a 5 game losing streak, but the team finished 18 games above .500. In the playoffs, the Stars went all the way to the ABA Finals for the 2nd time in four seasons. However, they lost to the New York Nets in five games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 558]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096818-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Utah Stars season, Awards and honors\n1974 ABA All-Star Game selections (game played on January 30, 1974)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 44], "content_span": [45, 112]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096819-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Vancouver Blazers season\nThe 1973\u201374 Vancouver Blazers season was the first year of operation of the Vancouver Blazers of the World Hockey Association (WHA). It was the second season of the franchise, which had operated in Philadelphia the season before. The Blazers did not qualify for the playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 308]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096819-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Vancouver Blazers season, Player stats\nNote: Pos = Position; GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/- = plus/minus; PIM = Penalty minutes; PPG = Power-play goals; SHG = Short-handed goals; GWG = Game-winning goals\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0MIN = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; GA = Goals-against; GAA = Goals-against average; SO = Shutouts;", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 46], "content_span": [47, 364]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096820-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Vancouver Canucks season\nThe 1973\u201374 Vancouver Canucks season was the team's 4th in the NHL. Vancouver finished 7th in the East Division for the third consecutive season, failing to reach the playoffs. Before the season started Bud Poile, the Canucks first general manager, left the team to become an executive with the World Hockey Association. Hal Laycoe, the first coach of the Canucks, was named Poile's replacement.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [32, 32], "content_span": [33, 428]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096820-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Vancouver Canucks season, Draft picks\nVancouver's picks at the 1973 NHL Amateur Draft. The draft was held at the Mount Royal Hotel in Montreal, Quebec.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 32], "section_span": [34, 45], "content_span": [46, 159]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096821-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 VfL Bochum season\nThe 1973\u201374 VfL Bochum season was the 36th season in club history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 92]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096822-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Virginia Squires season\nThe 1973\u201374 Virginia Squires season was the 4th season of the Squires in the American Basketball Association. The team finished 6th in points scored at 106.3 points per game and 9th in points allowed at 111.3 points per game. The team was 15\u201327 midway through the season, but they went 13\u201329 in the second half of the season. Their biggest losing streak was 6 games, with their highest winning streak being 3 games, done twice. Despite this, they clinched the fourth and final playoff spot by 7 games.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 533]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096822-0000-0001", "contents": "1973\u201374 Virginia Squires season\nThe Squires lost to Dr. J and the New York Nets in the Semifinals in 5 games. The money troubles that had troubled the franchise meant that the Squires were forced to trade away pivotal players of the franchise in order to provide short term stability. Julius Erving (along with Willie Sojourner) was traded to the New York Nets for George Carter and cash before the season started. Swen Nater was traded on November 21, 1973 to the San Antonio Spurs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 483]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096822-0000-0002", "contents": "1973\u201374 Virginia Squires season\nThe night of the All-Star Game, it was announced that the Squires sold George Gervin to the San Antonio Spurs for $225,000. Gervin's last game with the team was on February 1, but a court battle delayed his play with the Spurs, though it was all settled in favor of the Spurs by March 3. This was the last season the Squires made the playoffs as they went into a tailspin for the next two season, losing over 60 games each season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 462]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096822-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Virginia Squires season, Awards and honors\n1974 ABA All-Star Game selections (game played on January 30, 1974) at Norfolk Scope in Norfolk, Virginia", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 50], "content_span": [51, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096823-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 WCHL season\nThe 1973\u201374 WCHL season was the eighth season for the Western Canada Hockey League. Twelve teams completed a 68-game season. The Regina Pats won the President's Cup before going on to win the Memorial Cup.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 225]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096823-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 WCHL season, Regular season, Scoring leaders\nNote: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalties in minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 52], "content_span": [53, 142]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096823-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 WCHL season, All-Star game\nOn January 29, the West All-Stars defeated the East All-Stars 6\u20135 at Edmonton, Alberta with a crowd of 2,471.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 34], "content_span": [35, 144]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096824-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 WHA All-Star Game\nThe 1973\u201374 World Hockey Association All-Star Game was held in the just opened St. Paul Civic Center in St. Paul, Minnesota, home of the Minnesota Fighting Saints, on January 3, 1974. The East All-Stars defeated the West All-Stars 8\u20134. Mike Walton was named the game's most valuable player.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [25, 25], "content_span": [26, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096824-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 WHA All-Star Game, Team Lineups, West All-Stars\nG = Goaltender; D = Defenceman; C = Center; LW = Left Wing; RW = Right Wing", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 25], "section_span": [27, 55], "content_span": [56, 131]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096825-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 WHA season\nThe 1973\u201374 WHA season was the second season of the World Hockey Association. Twelve teams each played 78 games. The Philadelphia Blazers relocated to Vancouver, becoming the Vancouver Blazers. They were moved to the Western Division and Chicago moved to the East. The New York Raiders were renamed the New York Golden Blades and then moved to Cherry Hill, New Jersey to become the Jersey Knights after just 24 games. The Ottawa Nationals moved to Toronto and became the Toronto Toros. The Alberta Oilers changed their name to the Edmonton Oilers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 566]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096825-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 WHA season, Regular season, Final standings\nGP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against, PIM = Penalties in minutesTeams that qualifies for the playoffs are highlighted in bold", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 51], "content_span": [52, 240]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096825-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 WHA season, Regular season, Summary\nThe Houston Aeros lured 45-year-old Gordie Howe out of retirement by promising him that he could play with his sons Mark and Marty who were also on the team. Howe responded by having a 100 point season, leading the team in scoring and helping them finish with the best record in the league. The Aeros also received excellent goaltending from Don McLeod and Wayne Rutledge. The defending Western Division champion Winnipeg Jets slipped to 4th place with a sub-.500 record. The other playoff qualifiers in the West were Minnesota and Edmonton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 43], "content_span": [44, 585]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096825-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 WHA season, Regular season, Summary\nIn the East, defending Avco World Trophy champs New England won their second straight division title followed by Toronto, Cleveland, and Chicago.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 43], "content_span": [44, 189]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096825-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 WHA season, Player stats, Scoring leaders\nGP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalty minutes", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 49], "content_span": [50, 128]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096825-0005-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 WHA season, Player stats, Leading goaltenders\nGP = Games played; Min = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties, GA = Goals against; GA = Goals against; SO = Shutouts; SV% = Save percentage; GAA = Goals against average", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 53], "content_span": [54, 232]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096825-0006-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 WHA season, All-Star Game\nAt St. Paul Civic Center in St. Paul, MN, the East defeated the West 8-4.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 33], "content_span": [34, 107]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096825-0007-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 WHA season, Avco World Trophy playoffs\nThe West Division playoffs went according to form, with the top 2 seeds, Houston and Minnesota, easily disposing of Edmonton and Winnipeg respectively. In the east, Toronto won as expected over Cleveland, but Chicago shocked the WHA by upsetting the defending champion New England Whalers in 7 games, winning 3 of the 4 games in New England. In the division finals, favored Houston defeated Minnesota in 6 games, while Chicago pulled its second upset by beating Toronto in 7 games, outscoring the Toros 14-4 in winning games 6 and 7. They ran out of magic in the finals however, as Houston swept them in four straight, outscoring them 22-9.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 46], "content_span": [47, 687]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096826-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 WHL season\nThe 1973\u201374 WHL season was the 22nd and final season of the Western Hockey League. The Phoenix Roadrunners were the President's Cup champions as they beat the Portland Buckaroos in five games in the final series.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [18, 18], "content_span": [19, 231]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096826-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 WHL season, Playoffs\nThe Phoenix Roadrunners win the President's Cup 4 games to 1.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 18], "section_span": [20, 28], "content_span": [29, 90]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096827-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 WIHL season\n1973\u201374 was the 27th season of the Western International Hockey League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [19, 19], "content_span": [20, 91]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096827-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 WIHL season, Playoffs\nIn the \"Best of 7\" final series, the Cranbrook Royals defeated Spokane Jets 4 games to 2 (4-5 OT, 6-2, 5-4, 4-5, 3-2 OT, 7-4). The Cranbrook Royals advanced to the 1973-74 Western Canada Allan Cup Playoffs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 19], "section_span": [21, 29], "content_span": [30, 236]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096828-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Washington Huskies men's basketball team\nThe 1973\u201374 Washington Huskies men's basketball team represented the University of Washington for the 1973\u201374 NCAA college basketball season. Led by third-year head coach Marv Harshman, the Huskies were members of the Pacific-8 Conference and played their home games on campus at Hec Edmundson Pavilion in Seattle, Washington.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 375]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096828-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Washington Huskies men's basketball team\nThe Huskies were 16\u201310 overall in the regular season and 7\u20137 in conference play, fourth in the standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 48], "section_span": [48, 48], "content_span": [49, 154]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096829-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Washington State Cougars men's basketball team\nThe 1973\u201374 Washington State Cougars men's basketball team represented Washington State University for the 1973\u201374 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. Led by second-year head coach George Raveling, the Cougars were members of the Pacific-8 Conference and played their home games on campus at the new Performing Arts Coliseum in Pullman, Washington.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096829-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Washington State Cougars men's basketball team\nThe Cougars were 8\u201321 overall in the regular season and 3\u201311 in conference play, tied for last in the standings.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 167]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096829-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Washington State Cougars men's basketball team\nThe court surface at the new coliseum was tartan (polyurethane) for its first decade; a\u00a0traditional hardwood floor debuted in the fall of 1983.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 54], "section_span": [54, 54], "content_span": [55, 198]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096830-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Weber State Wildcats men's basketball team\nThe 1973\u201374 Weber State Wildcats men's basketball team represented Weber State College during the 1973\u201374 NCAA Division I basketball season. Members of the Big Sky Conference, the Wildcats were led by third-year head coach Gene Visscher and played their home games on campus at Wildcat Gym in Ogden, Utah. They were 14\u201312 overall and 8\u20136 in conference play.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 408]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096830-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Weber State Wildcats men's basketball team\nIn the previous six seasons, the Wildcats had won the conference title and advanced to the NCAA Tournament; their next appearance was in 1978.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096830-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Weber State Wildcats men's basketball team\nSophomore forward Jimmie Watts was named to the all-conference team; senior forward Steve Fleming was honorable mention.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 50], "section_span": [50, 50], "content_span": [51, 171]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096831-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Welsh Cup\nThe 1973\u201374 FAW Welsh Cup is the 87th season of the annual knockout tournament for competitive football teams in Wales.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [17, 17], "content_span": [18, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096831-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Welsh Cup, Fourth round\nNine winners from the Third round and seven new clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 17], "section_span": [19, 31], "content_span": [32, 86]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096832-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 West Ham United F.C. season\nIn the 1973\u201374 season West Ham United played in the First Division for the sixteenth consecutive season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [35, 35], "content_span": [36, 140]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096832-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 West Ham United F.C. season, Season summary\nThey made a poor start to the season, failing to win any of their first eleven League matches, and were bottom of the table at Christmas after losing at home to Stoke City. However, they rallied in the second half of the season and a draw with Liverpool in their last fixture left them in 18th place, just one point ahead of relegated Southampton.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 51], "content_span": [52, 399]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096832-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 West Ham United F.C. season, Season summary\nWest Ham were knocked out of the FA Cup in a third round replay by Third Division Hereford United. Hereford's team included Dudley Tyler, who had re-signed for them after leaving West Ham earlier in the season. West Ham had been within two minutes of defeat at home, before a solo goal by Pat Holland took the tie to a replay at Edgar Street, where Hereford came from behind to win 2\u20131.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 51], "content_span": [52, 438]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096832-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 West Ham United F.C. season, Season summary\nWest Ham's captain Bobby Moore, who had been dropped the previous autumn, played his last match for the first team in the first FA Cup match against Hereford before moving to Fulham. The 1973\u201374 season was also Ron Greenwood's last full season as West Ham's manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 35], "section_span": [37, 51], "content_span": [52, 318]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096833-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 West Midlands (Regional) League\nThe 1973\u201374 West Midlands (Regional) League season was the 74th in the history of the West Midlands (Regional) League, an English association football competition for semi-professional and amateur teams based in the West Midlands county, Shropshire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire and southern Staffordshire.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [39, 39], "content_span": [40, 347]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096833-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 West Midlands (Regional) League, Premier Division\nThe Premier Division featured 14 clubs which competed in the division last season, along with three new clubs:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 39], "section_span": [41, 57], "content_span": [58, 168]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096834-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Western Football League\nThe 1973\u201374 season was the 72nd in the history of the Western Football League.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 110]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096834-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Western Football League\nThe champions for the fourth time in their history were Welton Rovers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 102]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096834-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Western Football League, Final table\nThe league was increased from sixteen clubs to nineteen after Bristol City Colts and Torquay United Reserves left, and five new clubs joined:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 44], "content_span": [45, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096835-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Winnipeg Jets season\nThe 1973\u201374 Winnipeg Jets season was their second season in the World Hockey Association (WHA).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [28, 28], "content_span": [29, 124]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096835-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Winnipeg Jets season, Player statistics, Forwards\nNote: GP= Games played; G= Goals; A= Assists; PTS = Points; PIM = Points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 57], "content_span": [58, 130]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096835-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Winnipeg Jets season, Player statistics, Defencemen\nNote: GP= Games played; G= Goals; A= Assists; PTS = Points; PIM = Points", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 59], "content_span": [60, 132]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096835-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Winnipeg Jets season, Player statistics, Goaltending\nNote: GP= Games played; MIN= Minutes; W= Wins; L= Losses; T = Ties; SO = Shutouts; GAA = Goals Against", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 28], "section_span": [30, 60], "content_span": [61, 163]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096836-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team\nThe 1973\u20131974 Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team represented University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison. The head coach was John Powless, coaching his sixth season with the Badgers. The team played their home games at the UW Fieldhouse in Madison, Wisconsin and was a member of the Big Ten Conference.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 47], "section_span": [47, 47], "content_span": [48, 343]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096837-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Yale Bulldogs men's basketball team\nThe 1973\u201374 Yale Bulldogs men's basketball team represented Yale University during the 1973\u201374 men's college basketball season. The Bulldogs, led by 17th year head coach Joe Vancisin, played their home games at John J. Lee Amphitheater of the Payne Whitney Gymnasium and were members of the Ivy League. They finished the season 8\u201316, 5\u20139 in Ivy League play to finish in fifth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 43], "section_span": [43, 43], "content_span": [44, 426]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096838-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Yorkshire Cup\nThe 1973\u201374 Yorkshire Cup was the sixty-sixth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup Rugby competition had been held.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 137]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096838-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Yorkshire Cup\nLeeds won the trophy by beating Wakefield Trinity by the score of 7-2. The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 7,621 and receipts were \u00a33,728.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 209]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096838-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Yorkshire Cup\nThis was Leeds' fourth victory (and the second of two consecutive victories) in what would be eight times in the space of thirteen seasons. It was also the first of two consecutive Yorkshire Cup Final appearances by Wakefield Trinity, both of which would result in defeat", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [21, 21], "content_span": [22, 294]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096838-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Yorkshire Cup, Background\nThe Rugby League Yorkshire Cup competition was a knock-out competition between (mainly professional) rugby league clubs from the county of Yorkshire. The actual area was at times increased to encompass other teams from outside the county such as Newcastle, Mansfield, Coventry, and even London (in the form of Acton & Willesden).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 367]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096838-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Yorkshire Cup, Background\nThe Rugby League season always (until the onset of \"Summer Rugby\" in 1996) ran from around August-time through to around May-time and this competition always took place early in the season, in the Autumn, with the final taking place in (or just before) December (The only exception to this was when disruption of the fixture list was caused during, and immediately after, the two World Wars)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 425]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096838-0005-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Yorkshire Cup, Background\nThis season there were no junior/amateur clubs taking part, no new entrants and no \"leavers\" and so the total of entries remained the same at sixteen. This in turn resulted in no byes in the first round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 33], "content_span": [34, 238]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096838-0006-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Yorkshire Cup, Competition and results, Final, Teams and Scorers\nScoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = one (1) point", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 21], "section_span": [23, 72], "content_span": [73, 157]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096839-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Yorkshire Football League\nThe 1973\u201374 Yorkshire Football League was the 48th season in the history of the Yorkshire Football League, a football competition in England.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [33, 33], "content_span": [34, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096839-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Yorkshire Football League, Division One\nDivision One featured 12 clubs which competed in the previous season, along with four new clubs, promoted from Division Two:", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096839-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Yorkshire Football League, Division Two\nDivision Two featured nine clubs which competed in the previous season, along with seven new clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 47], "content_span": [48, 147]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096839-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Yorkshire Football League, Division Three\nDivision Three featured ten clubs which competed in the previous season, along with six new clubs.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 33], "section_span": [35, 49], "content_span": [50, 148]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096840-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Yugoslav First Basketball League\nThe 1973\u201374 Yugoslav First Basketball League season was the 30th season of the Yugoslav First Basketball League, the highest professional basketball league in SFR Yugoslavia.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 40], "section_span": [40, 40], "content_span": [41, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096841-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Yugoslav First League\n1973\u201374 Yugoslav First League (Prva savezna liga Jugoslavije, Prvenstvo 1973/74) competition was the 46th top league season since 1923 in various incarnations of Yugoslavia. It was won by Hajduk Split by the tightest of margins over second placed Vele\u017e. The two teams were tied on points at the end of the season, so the goal difference decided the title.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 385]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096841-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Yugoslav First League\nHad the current three-points-for-a-win system been in use instead of the standard two-points-for-a-win that was used at the time, Vele\u017e Mostar would have been champions with 64 points, while Hajduk would have been be second with 63.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096841-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Yugoslav First League\nThis was Hajduk's 7th league title overall (their 5th after the World War II).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [29, 29], "content_span": [30, 108]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096841-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Yugoslav First League, Teams\nA total of eighteen teams contested the league, including sixteen sides from the 1972\u201373 season and two sides promoted from the 1972\u201373 Yugoslav Second League (YSL) as winners of the two second level divisions East and West. The league was contested in a double round robin format, with each club playing every other club twice, for a total of 34 rounds. Two points were awarded for wins and one point for draws.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 449]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096841-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Yugoslav First League, Teams\nSpartak Subotica and Sutjeska Nik\u0161i\u0107 were relegated from the 1972\u201373 Yugoslav First League after finishing the season in bottom two places of the league table. The two clubs promoted to top level were Proleter Zrenjanin and NK Zagreb.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 29], "section_span": [31, 36], "content_span": [37, 271]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096842-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 Yugoslav Ice Hockey League season\nThe 1973\u201374 Yugoslav Ice Hockey League season was the 32nd season of the Yugoslav Ice Hockey League, the top level of ice hockey in Yugoslavia. 14 teams participated in the league, and Olimpija have won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 41], "section_span": [41, 41], "content_span": [42, 262]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096843-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 ice hockey Bundesliga season\nThe 1973\u201374 Ice hockey Bundesliga season was the 16th season of the Ice hockey Bundesliga, the top level of ice hockey in Germany. 10 teams participated in the league, and Berliner Schlittschuhclub won the championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 36], "section_span": [36, 36], "content_span": [37, 256]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096844-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 in Belgian football\nThe 1973\u201374 season was the 71st season of competitive football in Belgium. RSC Anderlechtois won their 16th Division I title. KSV Waregem won the Belgian Cup against second division club KSK Tongeren (4-1). The Belgium national football team finished their 1974 FIFA World Cup qualification campaign at the second place of their group behind the Netherlands, with the same number of points but a smaller goal difference. They thus did not qualify for the 1974 FIFA World Cup finals in West Germany. The Belgian Women's First Division was won by R Saint-Nicolas FC Li\u00e8ge.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 598]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096844-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 in Belgian football, Overview\nBelgium continued their qualifying campaign for the 1974 FIFA World Cup with a win over Norway and a draw against the Netherlands. They thus finished the qualifications with 10 points, level with the Netherlands. However, since the Netherlands had scored 24 goals for only 2 goals conceded, and Belgium had scored 12 goals (for 0 goals conceded), the Netherlands qualified for the World Cup finals instead of Belgium.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 455]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096844-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 in Belgian football, Overview\nAt the end of the season, the number of teams in Division I was increased from 16 to 20, and the Royal Belgian Football Association introduced the Belgian Second Division Final Round, a double round-robin tournament contested by 4 teams, the top 2 of which would qualify for the next season Division I. The bottom 2 teams of Division I (K Lierse SK and K Sint-Truidense VV) as well as the 4th and 5th-placed teams in Division II (KAS Eupen and KFC Winterslag) were invited to play this final round.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 536]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096844-0002-0001", "contents": "1973\u201374 in Belgian football, Overview\nK Lierse SK and KFC Winterslag finished respectively 1st and 2nd and qualified for the Division I, together with the top 3 teams in Division II (ROC de Montignies-sur-Sambre, ASV Oostende KM and KSC Lokeren) as well as R Charleroi SC (13th-placed team). The bottom 2 teams of the final round were relegated to Division II (K Sint-Truidense VV and KAS Eupen).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096844-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 in Belgian football, Overview\nThe last club in Division II (KAA Gent) was relegated to Division III, to be replaced by both Division III winners and runners-up as well as one of the two 3rd-placed teams (K Waterschei SV Thor Genk, VG Oostende, R Tilleur FC, R Albert Elisabeth Club Mons and RAA Louvi\u00e9roise).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 316]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096844-0003-0001", "contents": "1973\u201374 in Belgian football, Overview\nThe bottom club of each Division III league (AS Herstalienne, RCS Vervi\u00e9tois, R Dinant FC and RCS La Forestoise) were relegated to the Promotion, to be replaced by the winner and runner-up of each Promotion league (K Stade Leuven, VC Rotselaar, CS Andennais, RJS Bas-Oha, KAV Dendermonde, K Willebroekse SV, K Zonhoven VV and KFC Verbroedering Geel).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 37], "content_span": [38, 388]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096844-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 in Belgian football, European competitions\nClub Brugge KV beat Floriana FC of Malta in the first round of the 1973\u201374 European Champion Clubs' Cup (won 8-0 at home, 2-0 away) but lost in the second round to FC Basel of Switzerland (won 2-1 at home, lost 4-6 away).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 272]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096844-0005-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 in Belgian football, European competitions\nRSC Anderlechtois lost in the first round of the 1973\u201374 European Cup Winners' Cup to FC Z\u00fcrich of Switzerland on away goals (won 3-2 at home, lost 0-1 away).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096844-0006-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 in Belgian football, European competitions\nThe following clubs qualified to play the 1973\u201374 UEFA Cup: Standard Club Li\u00e9geois (2nd-placed in the championship), R White Daring Molenbeek (3rd) and K Beerschot VAV (4th). In the first round, Standard beat Ards FC of Northern Ireland (lost 2-3 away, won 6-1 at home) and RWDM beat RCD Espanyol of Spain (won 3-0 away, lost 1-2 at home), but K Beerschot VAV lost to Vitoria FC of Portugal (lost both legs 0-2).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 463]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096844-0006-0001", "contents": "1973\u201374 in Belgian football, European competitions\nIn the second round, Standard beat Universitatea Craiova of Romania (won 2-0 at home, drew 1-1 away) but RWDM lost to Vitoria FC on away goals (lost 0-1 away, won 2-1 at home). Standard were finally eliminated by Feyenoord Rotterdam of the Netherlands in the third round on away goals (won 3-1 at home, lost 0-2 away).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 50], "content_span": [51, 369]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096845-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 in English field hockey\nThe 1973\u201374 English Hockey League season took place from September 1973 until May 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 119]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096845-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 in English field hockey\nThe principal event was the Men's Cup (National Clubs Championship) which was won by Southgate.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 127]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096845-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 in English field hockey\nThe vast majority of the season consisted of regional leagues. The first National League tournament (The National Inter League Championship) would not be introduced until September 1975.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [31, 31], "content_span": [32, 218]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096845-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 in English field hockey, Men's Cup (Benson & Hedges National Clubs Championship), Final\nSouthgateDavid Owen, David Collison, David Whitaker, Anthony Ekins, Ian McGinn, Bernie Cotton, P J White (J V Knight sub), Michael Corby, Michael Crowe, John Walker, James NealeBedfordshire EaglesP K Ball, M W Blake, T J Machin, D Bunyan, Brajinder Daved, P Goodyear, P Ellis, K N Tubby, S Sharma, M Kavanagh, C M Hodge (G Player sub)", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 31], "section_span": [33, 95], "content_span": [96, 430]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096846-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 in English football\nThe 1973\u201374 season was the 94th season of competitive football in England. It is considered as the end of Leeds United dominance and the start of Liverpool's.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [27, 27], "content_span": [28, 186]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096846-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 in English football, Honours\nNotes = Number in parentheses is the times that club has won that honour. * indicates new record for competition", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 36], "content_span": [37, 149]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096846-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 in English football, Football League, First Division\nDon Revie marked his last season as Leeds United's manager by guiding them to the league championship, before taking over from Sir Alf Ramsey as the England national team manager, with England having failed to qualify for the 1974 World Cup. Revie's Leeds side beat Liverpool to the title by five points to win it for the second time in their history.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 412]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096846-0002-0001", "contents": "1973\u201374 in English football, Football League, First Division\nDespite the sensational dismissal of manager Brian Clough only 18 months after he won the First Division with the club, Derby County regrouped well under new manager Dave Mackay to finish third and qualify for the UEFA Cup, along with Ipswich Town and Stoke City. Newly promoted Burnley finished in sixth place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 372]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096846-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 in English football, Football League, First Division\nManchester United were relegated from the First Division just six years after winning the European Cup at the end of a season which had seen goalkeeper Alex Stepney as joint top scorer with two goals at Christmas. Manchester United's 36-year stay at the top ended after their penultimate game of the season, a 1\u20130 home defeat against Manchester City; former Manchester United striker Denis Law scored Manchester City's winning goal. Despite this, the board kept faith in manager Tommy Docherty as the man to regain the club's top flight place.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 604]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096846-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 in English football, Football League, First Division\nJoining Manchester United in the Second Division were Norwich City and Southampton. This was the first season in which the League introduced three relegation places from the top division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 248]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096846-0005-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 in English football, Football League, Second Division\nFormer Leeds United player Jack Charlton had managed Middlesbrough to the Second Division title and a place in the First Division. Second in the table were Luton Town, who finished 15 points behind the champions. Third-placed Carlisle United, managed by Alan Ashman, gained a place in the First Division for the first, and so far only, time in their history, completing a rapid rise from the Fourth Division to the First Division. Preston North End and Swindon Town were relegated along with Crystal Palace, who suffered a second successive relegation.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 614]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096846-0006-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 in English football, Football League, Third Division\nPromotion was secured by champions Oldham Athletic, Bristol Rovers and York City, which at the time represented York's highest ever League finish. Cambridge United, Shrewsbury Town, Southport and Rochdale were all relegated.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 60], "content_span": [61, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096846-0007-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 in English football, Football League, Fourth Division\nPeterborough United won Division Four and were promoted along with Gillingham, Colchester United and Bury. The league's re-election system voted in favour of the bottom four league clubs and there were no departures from or arrivals into the league in 1974.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 61], "content_span": [62, 319]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096846-0008-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 in English football, FA Cup\nThe FA Cup Final was won by Liverpool, who beat Newcastle United 3\u20130 with two goals from Kevin Keegan and one from Steve Heighway. Burnley beat Leicester City 1\u20130 at Filbert Street in the fifth and final third-place playoff, held five days after the final.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 292]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096846-0009-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 in English football, FA Cup\nSurprises in the earlier rounds included a first round defeat for Exeter City by Alvechurch F.C. and a 4\u20130 second round replay win for a Walton & Hersham team that included Dave Bassett over a Brighton & Hove Albion side managed by Brian Clough.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 35], "content_span": [36, 281]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096846-0010-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 in English football, League Cup\nBill McGarry's Wolverhampton Wanderers beat Manchester City 2\u20131 in the final at Wembley Stadium with Kenny Hibbitt and John Richards getting the Wolves goals and Colin Bell replying for City. It was a first-ever League Cup win for Wolves, and their first major trophy since the Stan Cullis era more than a decade earlier.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 361]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096846-0011-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 in English football, League Cup\nPlymouth Argyle of the Third Division reached the semi-finals before losing to Manchester City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 39], "content_span": [40, 135]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096846-0012-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 in English football, European football\nTottenham Hotspur reached the UEFA Cup Final but lost 4\u20132 on aggregate to Feyenoord. Tottenham Hotspur supporters rioted after the second leg in Rotterdam, following Feyenoord's victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 46], "content_span": [47, 233]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096846-0013-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 in English football, Diary of the season\n25 August 1973: Champions Liverpool begin the new league season with a 1\u20130 win at home to Stoke City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 150]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096846-0014-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 in English football, Diary of the season\n26 September 1973: England defeat Austria 7\u20130 at Wembley in their first international of the season, with Mick Channon, Allan Clarke and Tony Currie each scoring twice.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 217]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096846-0015-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 in English football, Diary of the season\n30 September 1973: Leeds United top the First Division at the end of September, leading Coventry City by three points having dropped one point from their first nine matches. At the bottom, Birmingham City and West Ham United are still looking for their first league wins of the season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 334]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096846-0016-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 in English football, Diary of the season\n15 October 1973: Brian Clough, the Derby County manager, and his assistant Peter Taylor, leave the club after a dispute with the club's directors.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 195]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096846-0017-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 in English football, Diary of the season\n17 October 1973: England fail to qualify for next summer's World Cup after Poland hold them to a 1\u20131 draw at Wembley in the last qualifying game, sending the Eastern European nation through at the expense of the 1966 world champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 282]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096846-0018-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 in English football, Diary of the season\n20 October 1973: Leeds United beat Liverpool 1\u20130 at Elland Road to move eight points ahead of the reigning champions.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096846-0019-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 in English football, Diary of the season\n23 October 1973: The eight-day saga of Brian Clough and Derby County, which has seen numerous protests by the club's fans calling for his reinstatement, ends when former Rams player Dave Mackay resigns as Nottingham Forest manager to take charge of his old club.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 311]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096846-0020-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 in English football, Diary of the season\n31 October 1973: Leeds United are five points ahead of Everton, newly promoted Burnley and Derby County at the end of October.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 175]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096846-0021-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 in English football, Diary of the season\n1 November 1973: Brian Clough and his assistant Peter Taylor return to the game after accepting an offer to take charge of Third Division club Brighton & Hove Albion.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 215]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096846-0022-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 in English football, Diary of the season\n30 November 1973: Leeds United, without a league title since 1969, are seven points clear at the top, and still unbeaten, at the end of November. Newcastle United, Burnley, Everton and Liverpool lead the chasing pack. Birmingham City and West Ham United remain at the foot of the table, and have been joined in the relegation zone by Norwich City.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 396]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096846-0023-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 in English football, Diary of the season\n31 December 1973: At the end of the year, Leeds United are still unbeaten in the league, and now lead nearest rivals Liverpool by eight points. Only goal difference keeps Manchester United, level on points with Birmingham City, out of the relegation zone.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 304]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096846-0024-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 in English football, Diary of the season\n31 January 1974: Leeds United remain eight points ahead of Liverpool at the end of January. An improved run of form has seen West Ham United move out of the bottom three at the expense of Manchester United.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 255]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096846-0025-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 in English football, Diary of the season\n2 February 1974: Ipswich Town thrash Southampton 7\u20130 at Portman Road in the biggest win of the First Division season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 166]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096846-0026-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 in English football, Diary of the season\n23 February 1974: After beginning the season with a 29-match unbeaten run, Leeds United finally suffer defeat when they are beaten 3\u20132 by Stoke City at the Victoria Ground. However, they remain eight points ahead of Liverpool, who have moved six points ahead of third-placed Derby County.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 337]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096846-0027-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 in English football, Diary of the season\n8 March 1974: A bad-tempered FA Cup quarter-final tie between Newcastle United and Nottingham Forest is halted mid-match when \"hundreds of fans\" invade the City Ground pitch, one of whom attacked Forest midfielder Dave Serella.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 276]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096846-0028-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 in English football, Diary of the season\n16 March 1974: Liverpool beat Leeds United 1\u20130 at Anfield to move six points behind the Yorkshire side with two games in hand. At the other end of the table, Manchester United's relegation problems continue as they lose 1\u20130 to Birmingham City, who also remain in the bottom three.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 329]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096846-0029-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 in English football, Diary of the season\n30 March 1974: Leeds United lose 3\u20131 at West Ham United, their third league defeat in a row, handing control of the title race to Liverpool, who are now four points behind with three games in hand.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 246]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096846-0030-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 in English football, Diary of the season\n8 April 1974: Liverpool's hopes of retaining their league title are hit by a 1\u20130 defeat away to Sheffield United.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 162]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096846-0031-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 in English football, Diary of the season\n20 April 1974: Liverpool draw 0\u20130 at home to Everton, allowing Leeds United to move to the verge of the title with a 3\u20132 win over Ipswich Town. Norwich City are relegated to the Second Division.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 243]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096846-0032-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 in English football, Diary of the season\n22 April 1974: In response to the events in Nottingham in March, Newcastle are banned by the Football Association from hosting home cup games during next season.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 210]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096846-0033-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 in English football, Diary of the season\n24 April 1974: Liverpool's 1\u20130 home defeat by Arsenal ends their double hopes and hands the league title to Leeds United.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 170]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096846-0034-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 in English football, Diary of the season\n27 April 1974: Manchester United go into the Manchester derby at Old Trafford needing to beat neighbours City to stand any chance of avoiding relegation, six years after winning the European Cup. They lose 1\u20130 with former club hero Denis Law scoring City's only goal, but would have been relegated even if they had won due to Birmingham City winning. Birmingham's win also relegates Southampton, despite the Saints' 3\u20130 win away to Everton. Leeds United end the season with a 1\u20130 away win over Queens Park Rangers.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 563]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096846-0035-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 in English football, Diary of the season\n30 April 1974: Sir Alf Ramsey is sacked after 11 years as England manager.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 123]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096846-0036-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 in English football, Diary of the season\n4 May 1974: Liverpool beat Newcastle United 3\u20130 in the FA Cup final at Wembley, with Kevin Keegan scored twice and Steve Heighway once.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 184]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096846-0037-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 in English football, Diary of the season\n11 May 1974: England's first match since the dismissal of Alf Ramsey ends in a 2\u20130 win over Wales in the Home Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 172]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096846-0038-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 in English football, Diary of the season\n19 May 1974: England are beaten 2\u20130 by Scotland at Hampden Park and finish second in the Home Championship.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 156]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096846-0039-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 in English football, Diary of the season\n29 May 1974: Tottenham Hotspur are beaten 4\u20132 on aggregate to Feyenoord in the UEFA Cup Final. Tottenham Hotspur supporters rioted after the second leg in Rotterdam, following Feyenoord's victory.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 245]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096846-0040-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 in English football, Diary of the season\n4 July 1974: Don Revie accepts The Football Association's offer to manage the England team, ending his 13-year reign as manager of Leeds United.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 193]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096846-0041-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 in English football, Diary of the season\n12 July 1974: Bill Shankly announced his retirement as manager after 15 years. He is to be succeeded by his 55-year-old assistant Bob Paisley.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 191]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096846-0042-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 in English football, Diary of the season\n30 July 1974: Brian Clough leaves Brighton & Hove Albion to become the new manager of Leeds United, but his assistant Peter Taylor remains at the Goldstone Ground and steps into the manager's seat there.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 27], "section_span": [29, 48], "content_span": [49, 252]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096847-0000-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 in German football\nThe 1973\u201374 season is the 64th season of competitive football in Germany.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [26, 26], "content_span": [27, 100]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096847-0001-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 in German football, DFB\u2013Pokal\nEintracht Frankfurt won the 1973\u201374 DFB-Pokal final by defeating Hamburger SV 3\u20131 on 17\u00a0August\u00a01974\u00a0(1974-08-17).", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 37], "content_span": [38, 151]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096847-0002-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 in German football, German clubs in Europe, European Cup, Bayern Munich\nBayern Munich won the 1973\u201374 European Cup defeating Atl\u00e9tico Madrid 4\u20130 in a replay of the 1974 European Cup Final. The replay was needed because the first match between the two clubs ended as a 1\u20131 draw.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 79], "content_span": [80, 285]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096847-0003-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 in German football, German clubs in Europe, European Cup Winners' Cup, Borussia M\u00f6nchengladbach\nBorussia M\u00f6nchengladbach were eliminated in the semi-finals of the European Cup Winners' Cup by A.C. Milan.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 103], "content_span": [104, 211]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096847-0004-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 in German football, German clubs in Europe, UEFA Cup, Fortuna D\u00fcsseldorf\nFortuna D\u00fcsseldorf were eliminated in the third round of the UEFA Cup by Lokomotive Leipzig.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 80], "content_span": [81, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096847-0005-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 in German football, German clubs in Europe, UEFA Cup, 1. FC K\u00f6ln\n1. FC K\u00f6ln were eliminated in the quarter-finals of the UEFA Cup by Tottenham Hotspur F.C..", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 72], "content_span": [73, 164]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096847-0006-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 in German football, German clubs in Europe, UEFA Cup, VfB Stuttgart\nVfB Stuttgart were eliminated in the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup by eventual champions Feyenoord.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 75], "content_span": [76, 173]}} {"id": "enwiki-00096847-0007-0000", "contents": "1973\u201374 in German football, German clubs in Europe, UEFA Cup, Wuppertaler SV\nWuppertaler SV were eliminated in the first round of the UEFA Cup by Ruch Chorz\u00f3w.", "metadata": {"title_span": [0, 26], "section_span": [28, 76], "content_span": [77, 159]}}